Oh What A Day…
Throughout history, much has happened on this day, 22 June. Here are a few events of interest: 1377 - 10-year-old Richard of Bordeaux, France, succeeds his grandfather Edward III as Richard II, King…
Monday Ménage: Small Nooks, Entire History, Bamboozled
Aurelius. Vowell. Sagan. Casting aside other things, hold to the precious few; and besides bear in mind that every man lives only the present, which is an indivisible point, and that all the…
Monday Ménage: American History, Today
Nixon. Berlet/Lyons. Nichols. The knock on the door in the summer of 1995 surprised the Rev. James Carter. He wasn't expecting company. It was a Sunday evening, and he'd planned to catch up…
Monday Ménage: It’s All True
King. Eisenhower. Mencken. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant. Martin Luther King, Jr.…
Monday Ménage: Number 33
Today there was another mass-shooting, mass-murder at a U.S. school. At a private Christian school in Nashville, Tennessee, 3 children and 3 adults were murdered by a 28-year old female shooter. Today's killings marks…
Monday Ménage, With A Plus-One: Politics and Politicians, Ya Gotta Laugh
Bruce. Sandburg. Twain. Truman. The American Constitution was not written to protect criminals; it was written to protect the government from becoming criminals. Lenny Bruce. All politicians should have three hats –…
Monday Ménage: Edition Crafting The Legs, Betterment of The World, Women and The Important Things
Sealy. Taryam. Valenti. Women have always had to be creative about making limited resources work to sustain themselves and their families. They understand what it means to make the hard decisions and to…
Monday Ménage: Edition ‘D’ and ‘R’ and Fantasies
Kennedy. Hart. Chase Smith. If by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the…
Monday Ménage: Edition Truth, Wisdom and Courage
Frederick Douglas Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade…
Monday Ménage: Edition Demagogue, Green Grass, and The Poor Bastards
Aristophanes. Pevernagie. Thompson. You possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful…
Monday Ménage: Edition Democracy, Voting, and Sitting On Your Blisters
Mahadani. Kassem. Lincoln. Last night I taught my daughter about democracy by asking her to vote for the pizza she wanted to eat and then I ordered fried rice because I am the…
Monday Ménage: Edition Broken Ribs, Fascism, and Cognitive Testing
Muscio. Wolfe. TFG. What happens to people living in a society where everyone in power is lying, stealing, cheating and killing, and in our hearts we all know this, but the consequences of…
Monday Menage: Edition Democracy, Morons, and The Constitution
Asimov. Mencken. Lincoln. There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political…
Monday Ménage: Politics, Imagery, and Living Without Food
Frank. McLuhan. Roberts. Vice-President Richard Nixon, speaking to members of California's Commonwealth Club, was asked if he'd like to see the parties undergo an ideological realignment - the sort that has since taken…
Monday Ménage: Edition Politics, Leaders, Elections
Rose. Kassem. Abrams. Politics: the art of using euphemisms, lies, emotionalism and fear-mongering to dupe average people into accepting--or even demanding--their own enslavement. Larken Rose. Pick a leader who will keep jobs…
Monday Ménage: Edition Information, Democracy, and Dancing Bears
de Bono. Isenberg. Pilger. There's a danger in the Internet and social media. The notion that information is enough, that more and more information is enough, that you don't have to think, you…
Monday Ménage: Edition Indigenous Peoples Day(s); Reflection With Honour
Red Cloud. Churchill. Sams. The white man made us many promises, but he kept only one. He promised to take our land, and he took it. Red Cloud, Oglala Lakota, 1882. The…
Monday Ménage: Edition Animals, Comedians, Politicians
Butler. Rogers. Carlin. Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature. Samuel Butler. Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.…
Monday Ménage – With A Plus 1: Edition Easy To Be A Puppet
Sagan. Herbert. Frank. Ochel. One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in…
Monday Ménage: Edition Presidential Farewells – Not All Hit The Mark
Washington. Obama. Trump. George Washington / 1 The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in…
Monday Ménage: Edition U.S. Fundamentalists and Russia, The Hyde Amendment and Reagan’s Court Packing, SCOTUS and The Same Tilt
Vanden Heuvel. Demause. Schwartz. Beyond the bloody events in Moscow last month that transfixed the world and jolted the country's political life, there is another, more subterranean battle going on for the Russian…
Monday Ménage: Edition Judging Judges Who Shouldn’t Be Judging
Over the objections of the United States Department of Justice, District Judge Aileen Cannon, nominated by Trump in 2020, granted a request by former President Donald Trump’s legal team to appoint a special master…
Labor Day 2022. Happy Happy
A History... Before it was a federal holiday, Labor Day was recognized by labor activists and individual states. After municipal ordinances were passed in 1885 and 1886, a movement developed to secure state legislation.…
Monday Ménage: Edition Cherish Freedom, Submissive People, Moving Offshore
Albright. Berry. Schweizer. We cannot, of course, expect every leader to possess the wisdom of Lincoln or Mandela’s largeness of soul. But when we think about what questions might be most useful to…
Monday Ménage: Edition Politics and Corruption; Corruption and Politicians
Sallust. Floyd. Hopes. Frequent mobs, seditions, and at last civil wars, became common, while a few leading men on whom the masses were dependent, affected supreme power under the seemly pretence of seeking…
Monday Ménage: Edition America. It’s The Culture, Stupid
Saunders. Bryson. Fry. Huck [Finn] and Tom [Sawyer] represent two viable models of the American Character. They exist side by side in every American and every American action. America is, and always has…
Monday Ménage: Edition Doesn’t Spread, Leaders, Dogged Strength!
Truman. Kassem. Du Bois. Republicans approve of the American farmer, but, they are willing to help him go broke. They stand four-square for the American home, but, not for housing. They are strong…
Politics & Policy
Constitutional America???
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Dead By Cop
Black, Native, Latino Americans Are Killed At A Much Higher Rate Than White Americans
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Hey, US Ed, History Calls
The invasion by Europeans of the ‘New World’ saw the First Nations population go from around 15 million in 1500 to just over 200,000 in 1900. (U.S. only. Does Not include data on First Nations Peoples of Canada).
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Project 2025 & The Military
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Shrewd, SlipUp, Or Just Plain Stupid …
In a meeting with hundreds of U.S. generals and admirals: “It’s unacceptable seeing ‘fat generals and admirals’ in the halls of the Pentagon, and leading commands around the country and the world. It’s a bad look.” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
Ebony McMorris, reporter for American Urban Radio Networks (AURN): “Mr. President, what are your plans for—” McMorris began (one of the few Black reporters in the WH Press Corps). “Quiet. You’re really obnoxious,” said Trump. “I’m not obnoxious, but I’m trying to ask you what about your plans for Memphis, Mr. President?” “You are really obnoxious,” said Trump (president of the USA).
“I think she’s a disgraceful person, you know, I think she’s a disgraceful person, a loser. It’s amazing the way people vote. I know it’s people from her area, maybe of the world, I don’t know. They got here and they vote her in. I don’t know. It’s hard to believe. But I think she’s a disgusting person.”
That’s the President of the United States of America making remarks about seated member of the House, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), to reporters in the Oval Office.
‘If Republicans don’t block voting rights, Democrats will allow “child molesters” and “illegal aliens” to vote and Republicans will be out of power for years’. Ted Cruz, Republican U.S. Senator from Texas. Same Ted Cruz who voted to force changing legal votes of Electoral College. Went so far as to incite an insurrection.
Simple Reminder
Stuff…
News Disorder, It’s A Thing I’m always tired because at night I can’t sleep unless I watch the news. Then I watch the news and can’t sleep.
Your Tingly Leaving You know that tingly little feeling you get when you like someone? That’s your common sense leaving your body.
Don’t Wanna Know It is possible to lead a cow upstairs – but – not downstairs. Question: Why in the hell would you want to take a cow upstairs? Wait, no, don’t tell me. I don’t want to know.
Kane’s Clinic
Wheel In The Sky
Journey From their album, Infinity – the first album with Steve Perry on lead vocals. Released January 1978.
Going Back Home
Sherman Robertson From the 1998 Rockin’ Blues album (CD) Going Back Home
Out Of The Rain
Etta James From her 1990 Soulful Blues album Stickin’ To My Guns
Dreams
Brandi Carlile * From WFUV LIVE CD (FM 90.7 in the Greater New York City area). Originally on her 2009 folk-rock album Give Up The Ghost.
Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)
Marvin Gaye Originally On His Landmark 1971 Album What’s Going On
Amigo De Verdad
Gipsyland from their album Viva La Musica. Recorded in Cancoon Studio Paris and DreamHouse Studios London.
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