Things You Don’t See Everyday…
Aerial View of a Tire Dump One of many around the country, around planet Earth
America: Looking Back, Looking Forward
I have been accused of being too negative, too doom and gloom, about America. So, let's compare America, with images, for the years 2016-2020, 2021, and what we can expect in this new year…
Friday Serenade: Say Goodbye. Party In Wonderland. Then Hold On.
Say Goodbye To 2021 And Forget That Shit Hole Of A Year. Party For A Few Hours Tonight Then Hold On Tight For What's Coming In 2022. (more…)
A Press Statement. Well, That’s Something…
Stand News Arrests and Closure Press Statement Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State The Hong Kong government’s December 29 raid and arrest of seven senior staff at Stand News have forced yet another…
Never Forget. Massacre At Wounded Knee Creek
The ongoing federal, state, local and territories policy of genocide in the United States led to one of the most violent massacres of Native Peoples 131 years ago on 29 December 1890 when U.S.…
Wednesday WayBack: Covid Surges, They Usually Mean More People Die
New Record For Daily Covid Cases In U.S. Once again the United States set a new record for daily infections of Covid-19 after reporting almost half a million positive cases as the surge of…
An Image: Only In America
Is this a Great Country or What???
Monday Ménage: Edition Truth, Justice, Activism
West. Wilson. Davis. When faced with a choice between an incriminating truth or a flattering lie, America's ruling class has been choosing the lie for four hundred years. White Americans hunger for plausible…
Desmond Tutu RIP
Statement of The Desmond and Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation: ARCHBISHOP EMERITUS DESMOND MPILO TUTU HAS PASSED AWAY South Africa and the world have lost one of the great spirits and moral giants of our age.…
Stand Down
Military Suicide Rates Are At All-Time High Suicide rates among active-duty military members are currently at an all-time high since record-keeping began after 9/11 and have been increasing over the past five years at…
Friday Serenade: Story Of The Year – Democracy In Crisis
Democracy Crisis in the Making Report Update: 2021 Year-End Numbers Research identifies at least 262 bills were introduced in 41 states this year with the intent to hijack the election process As 2021 draws…
Unguarded Moments
The Resemblance Is Uncanny ~~ Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell: I am "100 percent" focused "on stopping" President Joe Biden's administration
Wednesday WayBack: Insecure Domestic Tranquility; The Road To America’s Ruin
As part of his long-game manifesto to disrupt America's domestic tranquility, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell openly urges the current unhinged disruptor having his moment, coal multimillionaire Corporate-Democratic Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia,…
All You Need To Know About Phony Joe And His ‘NO’
Corporate donations to Sen. Joe Manchin’s PAC surged as he fought President Biden’s agenda West Virginia Democratic Senator Joe Manchin’s political action committee saw a surge in corporate contributions this fall, ahead of…
Monday Ménage: Edition Politics Politicians Pundits And Arrogance
Wylie. de Maupassant. Trotsky. The first tool of authoritarian regimes is always informational control—both in the gathering of information on the public through surveillance and the filtration of information to the public through…
Manchin Once Again Tells Us Who He Is. It’s Really Time To Believe Him
POS DINO Manchin – The Senator Who Doesn't Give A Fuck About Anyone But Himself, And His Corporate Sponsors After months of negotiations, after months of promising he was negotiating in good faith, coal…
And The Rest Is History…
They Seem Nice On 18 December 1620, the British ship Mayflower docked at modern-day Plymouth, Massachusetts. Dubbed Pilgrims, 102 passengers begin their new settlement, Plymouth Colony. ~ And, as History reveals, First Nations…
Friday Serenade: Bipartisan Replay Replay, Part Infinity
Joe Biden Tells Joe Manchin and NoChin McConnell About The Real Meaning of Bipartisanship And What A Story It Is! Really, Just SO. DAMN. PATHETIC. ~~ And In Related News... 'Act of Cowardice': Biden…
Treason. Sedition. Insurrection. Attempted Coup. Yeah, It’s All Of That.
Names. Dates. Times. Places. We already knew that a large number of Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives had tried to overturn the free and fair election of 2020; and some continue this…
Wednesday WayBack: Press Freedom ——— End To The Allusion
Entering A New Reality Upon the ruling by U.K.'s High Court to allow the extradition to the U.S. of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, questions about a free press in the United States of America…
The Real Joe Manchin: Shafting American Workers
Joe Manchin illustrates that the real division in American politics is no longer left versus right, conservative versus liberal, even Democrat versus Republican. The real division is democracy versus the moneyed interests. It's…
Monday Ménage: Edition Proud, Struggling, Surviving. Success
Akwesasne Notes. LaDuke/Churchill. Alfred. The Hau de no sau nee, People of the Longhouse, who are known to many Europeans as the Six Nations Iroquois, have inhabited their territories since time immemorial. During…
It’s In The Book
And Read The Fine Print A priest offered a Nun a lift. She got in and crossed her legs, forcing her gown to reveal a leg. The priest nearly had an accident. After…
Williams Signs Off
Anchor ends his nightly Show “The 11th Hour” with a look back on his time with the network ~ After 28 years of peacock logos on much of what I own, it is my…
Friday Serenade: Repubs Playing With Their Ding-A-Lings
208 Republicans Playing With IT, They're Not Protecting Our Democracy It seems simple enough – you want to protect our democracy or you don't. Unfortunately, but not surprising, 208 House Republications voted they do…
President Joe Biden Warns That U.S. Democracy In Decline
THEN DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!!! At Thursday's virtual Summit for Democracy, President Biden repeated warnings from the International Institute of Democracy and Electoral Assistance that the United States is among the growing number of…
I’m OK. Really…
Health Advocates Sue to Force FDA Decision on Petitions to Ban Phthalates in Food ~ While FDA delays, children and adults consume dangerous levels of endocrine-disrupting chemicals in foods. Health advocates represented by Earthjustice…
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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