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I feel like this frequently…
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I feel that way right now. I think I’ll go to sleep.
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Sweet dreams, stella.
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“Guide us waking, O LORD, and guard us sleeping, that awake we may watch with Christ and asleep we may rest in peace.”
(from the Book of Common Prayer)
Wishing Sunday blessings to all.
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Thank you Mary. I’m still awake, watching a documentary about Loretta Lynn.
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Morning Mary, Stella! So am I, wide a wake.
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Evening, Col !
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Righteous rant by Judge Jeanine Pirro, Saturday night:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VMZSXzy7O0
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I’m stunned. She is always good, but this rant sent chills down my spine. 😯
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Best I have EVER heard.
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More about private colleges associated with Romney and Rubio:
http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/romney-and-rubio-attack-trump-university-both-are-tied-predatory-colleges
But both Romney and Rubio are tied to for-profit colleges that fleeced not just many U.S. students, leaving them with substandard educations and overwhelming debt, but also ripped off U.S. taxpayers, who foot the bill for student Pell grants and defaulted student loans.
For-profit colleges are desperate to keep up friendships with Washington politicians, because they have been getting as much as 90 percent of their revenue, and as much as $32 billion a year, from federal student aid.
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Marco Rubio has been eager to respond. In summer 2014, Rubio wrote to the Department of Education on behalf of one of the worst for-profit colleges, Corinthian. In a letter to the Department’s Deputy Secretary and Under Secretary, Rubio stated that the Department had “recently placed extreme financial constraints on Corinthian Colleges, Inc. by restricting the company’s timely access to federal financial aid.” He called on the Department to “demonstrate leniency” to Corinthian. Corinthian has since shut down, as its extensive frauds and abuseshave been exposed, and many Corinthian students are demanding that their loans be cancelled. Potentially as many as 350,000 students could be considered victims of the Corinthian fraud, with claims rising into the billions.
But in going to bat for Corinthian, Rubio appeared to see not a greedy company but a generous one. Between 2010 and 2015, Rubio’s political operationsreceived $27,600 in contributions from Corinthian.
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As the 2012 GOP nomination contest neared the critical Iowa caucuses, Romney was asked by the Ames Tribune’s editorial board what he planned to do about higher education. Romney’s response was crystal-clear: He liked for-profit colleges, including the University of Phoenix, and especially a Florida school called Full Sail University, which, he said, knew how to “hold down the cost of their education.”
In fact, Full Sail only knew how to hold down the cost of education for its owners; for students, it was the third most expensive college in America.
It also turned out that Full Sail’s owners, the principals of a private equity firm called TA Associates, were among Romney’s top donors. The Romney Super PAC Restore Our Future received $329,900 from TA executives Kevin Landry and P. Andrews McLane, and another $135,000 from Bill Heavener, the CEO of Full Sail University. Landry also donated $89,900 to American Crossroads, the pro-Romney Super PAC founded by Karl Rove.
In praising Full Sail, Romney never mentioned that TA executives had contributed heavily to his campaign effort. Nor did he disclose that he was actually in business with them.
And lots more. I’m still digging.
P.S.: Alternet also has bad things to say about Trump U.
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Wow.
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Jenzabar and For-Profits
That could be good news for one of the top donors to a political action committee supporting Romney: Jenzabar, Inc., a company based in Boston that sells administrative software to colleges and universities.
So far, Jenzabar has donated $250,000 to Restore Our Future, a “super PAC” that under new campaign finance laws can raise unlimited donations from corporations, unions and individuals. Like many top Romney donors, the company has links to Bain Capital, the private equity firm Romney helped found. Robert Maginn, Jenzabar’s chief executive officer, worked at Bain with Romney in the 1990s. In 2008, he was a finance co-chairman of Romney’s bid for the Republican nomination.
All but two of Jenzabar’s eight top executives have donated the maximum $2,500 personal contribution to Romney. They did the same in 2008, when Maginn served as Romney’s finance co-chairman. (Among those who have not donated is Maginn’s wife and Jenzabar’s chief operating officer, Chai Ling.) For most, the two Romney donations are the sole political contributions they have made since 1990, although one executive donated $250 to Obama in 2008.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/02/29/republican-candidates-record-higher-education
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From 2012, NYT:
At a town-hall-style meeting in New Hampshire last month, listeners pressed Mitt Romney on the soaring cost of higher education. His solution: students should consider for-profit colleges like the little-known Full Sail University in Florida.
A week later in Iowa, Mr. Romney offered another unsolicited endorsement for “a place in Florida called Full Sail University.” By increasing competition, for-profit institutions like Full Sail, which focuses on the entertainment field, “hold down the cost of education” and help students get jobs without saddling them with excessive debt, he said.
Mr. Romney did not mention the cost of tuition at Full Sail, which runs more than $80,000, for example, for a 21-month program in “video game art.”
Nor did he mention its spotty graduation rate. Or, for that matter, that its chief executive, Bill Heavener, is a major campaign donor and a co-chairman of his state fund-raising team in Florida.
That team, Mr. Romney said last fall when he appointed Mr. Heavener, “will be crucial to my efforts in Florida and across the country.”
Beyond his fund-raising role, Mr. Heavener has committed his own resources to the cause. He and his wife have each given the maximum $2,500 to the campaign, and he gave $45,000 to Restore Our Future, a “super PAC” run by former Romney aides to bolster his campaign. The chairman of the private equity fund that owns Full Sail University — C. Kevin Landry of TA Associates — gave $40,000 to Restore Our Future, records show.
Mr. Romney has received financial support from other segments of the for-profit college industry as well, and he was quick to praise the industry as an affordable alternative to traditional colleges.
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I am swooning over the Judge. 😀
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Tex, she likes Men like us! Real Men who can ride, rope and shoot! She is a Babe!!
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Real women like real men.
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This is amazing. This column was written by Ben Shapiro five years ago, about Donald Trump. I wonder what made him change his mind?
The Magic of Donald Trump
http://townhall.com/columnists/benshapiro/2011/04/13/the_magic_of_donald_trump
In the last several weeks, that ideal Republican candidate has materialized.
His name is Donald Trump. His slogan is ready-made: “You’re Fired.” He does not give a damn what the media thinks of him — he steamrolled Meredith Vieira during his NBC interview with her last week. He can self-fund to the tune of $1 billion.
And what’s more, he can win.
Pay no attention to the recent polls showing Obama crushing Trump by 20 points in a head-to-head matchup. That disparity is attributable to the public perception that Trump is a loudmouth with no true interest in running. The moment he declares in earnest and gets on the campaign stump, his numbers will rise dramatically.
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Wonder who got to him. Blackmail?
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I think what is happening is everyone wants change, big change, but once it starts happening they are too afraid to follow into the unknown, the uncharted waters. They only know how to live in their miserable comfort zones.
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The elites got too him…..no White House Christmas invitations, corespondents dinners, no insider tips, stories, columns nor printed, not with the in crowd…………
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Stella, that photo made me start sneezing, lol!
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Mornin’ glories! 😀
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LOL
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Good morning. 🙂
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Mornin’ Mom!
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Good morning, WeeWeed!
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P.S.: I’m awake right now, but I can’t promise how long that will last. The damned dog and cat woke me up, after 3 hours of sleep.
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Mornin’ Stella!
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Good morning WeeWeed and all 🙂
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Mornin’ Lovely!
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Mornin’ all. Slept in today………….til almost 6:30 and been workin’ since. Headin’ off to do some Tulsa time manana. Sorry I didn’t get the java jumpin’. 🙄
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Mornin’ T! You’re flying, I hope??? Hell of a drive…..
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Yes’m. I don’t mind drivin’, but I’ze afraid if’n I take my wheels north of the Red. 😆
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Mornin’ Miss Wee. Always a ray of sunshine, of one sort or another. 😆
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😀
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Ooh Wee, custom made just for you!
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😀 Mornin’ Menage!
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Morning Ms.WeeWeed! Just what I need! Brings a smile……….
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Afternoon Colonel!
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I didn’t make it this morning Wee, so I waited until night to say good night. 🙂
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Evenin’ Michelle!
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Our friend, Clarice (usual Sunday morning commentary):
Dynasty 2016 Episode 2: Romney v. Trump
Once again my online friend “Ignatz Ratzkywatzky” more accurately and succinctly explained why this was so that has anyone else:
Let’s see; Trump is surging among those who detest insiders and the elites. How do we end this surge?
I know, I know! Let’s have the buttoned down, slicked back scion of a politically connected family who made hundreds of millions on Wall Street denounce him.
It’s GOTTA work!
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/03/dynasty_2016_episode_2romney_v_trump_.html
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She also quotes Peggy Noonan:
Party leaders and thinkers should take note: It’s easier for a base to hire or develop a flashy new establishment than it is for an establishment to find itself a new base.
[snip]
The GOP elite is about to spend a lot of money and hire a lot of talent, quickly, to try to kill Trump off the next two weeks. There will be speeches, ads — an onslaught. It will no doubt do Mr. Trump some damage, but not much.
It will prove to Trump supporters that what they think is true — their guy is the only one who will stand up to the establishment, so naturally the establishment is trying to kill him. And Trump supporters don’t seem to have that many illusions about various aspects of his essential character. One of them told me he’s “a junkyard dog.”
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And this very interesting tidbit:
In a little-noticed story “Guccifer”, the Romanian who hacked Sidney Blumenthal’s email account and first informed us of Hillary’s private email accounts is on his way here, undoubtedly to face FBI questioning about the unsecured nature of her emails.
Romania’s top court has approved a request by U.S. authorities to extradite a convicted hacker known as Guccifer, a source within Romania’s DIICOT anti-organized crime and terrorism unit told Reuters on Friday.
“The court approved an 18-month temporary extradition to America for the hacker. This follows a request made by U.S. authorities,” the source said.
A Romanian justice ministry spokeswoman said details of the extradition request had not yet been made public.
The short term of the “temporary extradition” would suggest that he’s here to testify, not to be prosecuted, although he was indicted in 2014 on charges of wire fraud, unauthorized access to a protected computer, aggravated identity theft, cyberstalking and obstruction of justice.
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Please…..please…..pleeeeeeeeeze……..
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Sounds like a big cry for “Help me MR. Wizard!!!”.
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Did you hear Glenn Beck talk about stabbing Trump?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CFVPZIlbHw&app=desktop
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And, The Righteous Ted, the “called by kings to be king”, the only one God can use DID NOT IMMEDIATELY disavow Glenn back. In contrast Mr. Trump when asked about David Duke endorsing him, he immediately disavowed the guy.
Ted will take help from whomever, even a guy like Glenn Beck.
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Taqi posted a link to some comments about this yesterday and someone else in the comments over in a CTH thread posted the audio. Beck was being over the top sarcastic (again). It was a joke. Not one I liked, but a joke nevertheless. Beck did not honestly state he would, or call for the attempted assassination of Trump. His demonizing of Trump is exactly why I don’t listen to his show any more.
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The Secret Service has questioned people for less. Being a public figure, it’s just the sort of thing that would inspire some nut case. I don’t think it’s very funny.
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I don’t think it is funny either. As far as someone misinterpreting his comment as a directive, there is only personal responsibility. Beck the entertainer, is not responsible for what his fans do under the premise that he hosts an opinion show.
I would be interested to hear a comparative of law from the first 20 years of our country to the last 20 on this subject. People could say whatever extreme thing they wanted if they were US citizens, but non citizens were deported for speech.
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I listened to it too, nyet. When I said I didn’t think it was funny, I meant that literally. I don’t think it was a joke.
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Really? Perhaps it’s because I listened to it every day for a number of years. He goes into commercial break like that saying some non-realistic extreme shocking statement. It’s a habit or style.
Maybe I’m wrong. I do tend to think people in general are not evil right off the bat.
I know he doesn’t like Trump, but I’ve been extremely confused as to the level of demonization from the beginning.
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It’s easy for someone like Beck to plant an idea. Nothing he says is unintended, whether it’s played for comedy, or not. That’s true about any talk jock, btw, not just Beck.
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Yeah, that is a good point. Just because I don’t think before speaking/writing doesn’t mean everyone is like that. The more I think about it, the more I can picture that as a rehearsed line.
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I think it was on Gateway Pundit where I read they did pay him a visit. I’ll see if I can find it.
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Found it, but he says he threatened his producer.
Thanks to yellow journalism, Dallas Secret Service visited The Blaze HQ about the false stabbing story.
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) March 4, 2016
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/03/breaking-secret-service-visits-the-blaze-studios-following-glenn-beck-stabbing-comments/
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That’s not what it sounds like. I’m sure the Secret Service thought the same thing.
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I thought so as well.
Beck has some nutty followers, some I’ve read on FB who truly sound like they have more than a few screws loose who are likely to hear this and try to act on it.
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Dang dogs and cats, though it looks like they put a giddyup in your step this morning Stella. Great posts, I am now in LOVE with the Judge, wow!. US govt. saying “uncle”, we won’t prosecute, just please come help us! Now I’m a bit fired up myself.
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I think it’s a firecracker with a short fuse, derk. I only slept 3 hours last night, so I see a nap in my future.
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Mornin’ stella! (Smiter of those that ought to be smote) 😎 🍸 (Classic Daiquiri)
(Jack Daniels)
(Mortlach)
(Roy Rogers)
(B52)
Mornin’ WeeWeed! (Master Mixologist Extrodinare) 😀 🍸 (Old Fashioned)
Mornin’ Menagerie! 😎
Mornin’ Ad rem! (Queen Felis catus) 🐱 🍸 (Flaming Lamborghini)
Mornin’ ytz4mee! 🙂 🍸 (earthquake)
Mornin’ partyzantski! 🙂
Mornin’ texan59! 🙂
Mornin’ ZurichMike! 🙂 🌯 (It’s a bacon breakfast burrito)
Mornin’ Col.(R) Ken! (hand salute) 🙂
Mornin’ letjusticeprevail2014! 🙂
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Mornin’ whiners and complainers! ⭐
Mornin’ to people posting that I missed. 😳
Mornin’ to all you lurkers! 😕
Breakfast!
Cinnamon rolls for coffee!
⭐ = Unprintable phallic symbol
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I just love this breakfast. I think it is my favorite. But, I am wanting to go to the ocean again. I miss the breakfasts on the water.
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Are you referring to last year’s tour of breakfast at tropical resorts? I think I was sick of it being cold and wet over here.
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Yes. I loved being transported to the tropical resorts from my tropical home. 🙂
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Good morning Nyet 🙂 Beautiful breakfast, I had grapes, mango and pineapple this morning 🙂
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Mornin’ Nyet,
Stellar breakfast, Lovely spread with Wee bit of everything in this Menagerie. Howie you do it,day after day, I Salute you. A Party for Mee. Any Mom, Auntie or Mama ( even my ex Jacqueline) would proud as a Texan. I’d cross the Tundra or the Alps or the Marin headlands, 50 times and I’m an OldGuy. Waltzing with a Smiley, whilst posting to FB, to Prevail and taste “EmAll. Not to Taqyia you, think you are truly a Ziggi guy. Definitely Varsity level, no jv here, Sha! Always more, never Les. Thank you 50 times over, etCetera….
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Excellent job, derk!
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What, no barbacoa for us close to the border. 😆 😉
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Hey! He made us egg tacos the other day. 🙂
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Good morning, Nyte and all! I finally found you, mister. You can run but you can’t hide. 😉
Have a great day!
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Good to see you Sweet Margaret-Ann 🙂
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I’m glad your here Margaret-Ann!
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Thank you Colonel … have missed YOU the most (shhhhh!). 😉
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Nye!!! Brunch!! Thank you, ZM just went through the line, kind sir that he is left a few slices of Bacon!!!
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I missed breakfast this morning as well.
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‘I believe that the evidence that the FBI is compiling will be so compelling that, unless [Lynch] agrees to the charges, there will be a massive revolt inside the FBI, which she will not be able to survive as an attorney general. It will be like Watergate. It will be unbelievable,’ he said.
http://www.allenbwest.com/2016/01/bombshell-former-federal-prosecutor-predicts-this-will-happen-to-hillary-within-60-days/
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Old but update. I think they will give her the mother of all plea bargains.
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They were probably told
to give her a plea deal or
they might make the list.
http://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/BODIES.php#axzz429Jzwd4M
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Especially for Lovely: I saw this on FB, because someone tagged is a friend of mine.
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malicious intent vs. protest…….. hmmmmmmm…..
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It’s not illegal. Just malicious, and the fact is that they will let others in who are waiting in line, if there are empty seats. I didn’t point that out to them, however.
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I don’t agree with their view that it is protesting. I understand the courts have made rulings, but I disagree with the decisions. It’s malicious intent. What if this was done at a Beyonce, Jay-Z concert? If I bought all the tickets so fans couldn’t enjoy their “music”.
The artist still got paid, what law was broken? If they refuse to sell to me again, I’ll say I was self identifying as a woman that day and it’s discrimination. I’ll use the courts to get my money back and put them out of business too.
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I think is is why Trump always over books. (By the way when you register they ask for a valid email, phone# and name) all that can be faked but it is still a minor obstacle because at the very least the SS can get the point of origination of any requests for tickets.
I have a very bad feeling about the UIC rally. It is too big of a temptation for the GOP to just let if go unmolested. They have too many willing minions on the front line, I don’t even know how the Secret Service is going to sweep the pavilion at UIC before the Trump rally takes place.
Trump is going to be the nominee. Trump is going to receive majority control of the delegates from the required number of states. Trump is going to receive 50% plus 1, nothing but an outright high noon robbery can wrest the nomination away from Trump.
This cold fact is the sword of Damocles hanging over the head of every GOP elite and Trump is holding very sharp, very shiny scissors.
I do believe that there are events that can change this trajectory. One is an event dubbed a race riot that is blamed on Trump and this is exactly what the MSM and RNC are pushing for in my opinion. 1) We have the nonsense that just keeps getting put out as truth that Trump refuses to disavow Duke and the KKK 2) We recently had a small group of BLM protesters escorted out of a Trump rally and that was/is being portrayed as evidence of the violence and racism being promoted at Trump rallies 3) the incident of an SS agent stopping an aggressive foul mouthed reporter (Chris Morris ) from going outside the press box is being portrayed as an act of violence prevalent at Trump rallies 4) December 11th is just days before a huge vote on the 15th.
Trump for some reason is holding a rally in the heart of the BLM beast. I’ll trust he knows what he is doing.
Those folks who are getting tickets are going to show up, it may still be evolving but I predict UIC is chaos.
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“This cold fact is the sword of Damocles hanging over the head of every GOP elite and Trump is holding very sharp, very shiny scissors”.
Yes lovely and “WE” handed the sword too Trump! Stand back! It’s swinging time!!!
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Afternoon Col. Ken 🙂
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Here is a good chart to follow the progress of the delegates. Trump is under budget and ahead of schedule.
http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/election-2016/delegate-targets/
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They just said Nancy Reagan died. She was 94.
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Sad. Now she has joined her Ronnie (I hope).
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No hop about Stella, she is there with Ronnie……..
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Prayers for her hand her family.
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Just came to post that.
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Prays for Nancy and the Reagan family.
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😦 😦 😦
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STATEMENT BY JOANNE DRAKE, SPOKESPERSON,
ON THE DEATH OF FORMER FIRST LADY NANCY REAGAN
Los Angeles – Nancy Davis Reagan, former First Lady of the United States, died this morning at her home in Los Angeles at the age of 94. The cause of death was congestive heart failure.
Mrs. Reagan will be buried at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, next to her husband, Ronald Wilson Reagan, who died on June 5, 2004. Prior to the funeral service, there will be an opportunity for members of the public to pay their respects at the Library. Details will be announced shortly.
In lieu of flowers, Mrs. Reagan requested that contributions be made to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Foundation at http://www.reaganlibrary.com.
For continuous information on the week’s events, please visit the Reagan Library’s web site at http://www.reaganlibrary.com.
A biography of Nancy Reagan is attached.
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Contact: Joanne Drake
805-522-2977
Click to access First_Statement_to_be_Distributed.pdf
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Thanks stella as well as others, this saddens me. I always liked Nancy as she was such a lady, petite in stature, & I adored her husband as well.
This news saddened me today, I guess my mind was drifting off & thinking about losing both my parents/only sibling. Then I snapped out of it to think about one day we will all be reunited with family and our Lord in heaven. I too said a prayer for the Reagan family, and thanked God for my adult children.
God is good, God has a plan for all of us, I remind myself of this often when a birthday/Xmas rolls around for those I’ve lost, I thank God for the years I had them.
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I really like your place, Stella! Been lurking, decided to join in.
Lovely, I have really missed your insightful comments and glad you mentioned Stellas Place.
To all ~ have a fabulous day. 🙂
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Welcome to the party, Margaret-Ann!
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Thanks so much, Stella. 🙂
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Yippie! Happy you decided to take the plunge Margaret 🙂
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Thank you, friend! LOL You’ll have to put up with me mostly weekends, drive-bys during the week … until after the move. 😉
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Beautiful photos of California wildflowers:
That’s one benefit of El Nino! Stunning pictures of rare ‘super bloom’ of wildflowers in the California DESERT
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3478137/That-s-one-benefit-El-Nino-Stunning-pictures-rare-super-bloom-wildflowers-California-desert.html#ixzz428yDzoMk
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THX. I peeked at this earlier,.. gorgeous photos. And I learned so much I never knew about wildflowers. Sent to my g-daughter and told her there’d be a quiz soon. 😉
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Not sure if he’s correct about increasing Trump’s electoral support, but this is a very powerful analysis of the attacks on Trump.
Gang Rape
Why the attacks on Trump are increasing his support.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/262051/gang-rape-david-horowitz
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Stella, great find, and I do agree with David’s pov.
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Are they ganging up on him? Sure, he is the front runner. But I wouldn’t call it rape. That bothered me, but not the point of your comment.
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Now for the dark side – Lame Cherry is accusing Ted Cruz of voter fraud yesterday:
http://lamecherry.blogspot.com/2016/03/proof-of-ted-cruz-vote-fraud-in-kansas.html?spref=fb&m=1
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From the above link:
“In 2012 in Kansas, 30,000 Kansans participated in the election to give Rick Santorum the state. Yet in 2016 Ted Cruz somehow garnered 35,000 votes ALONE.”
Kansas experienced an Alice
voter population explosion. 😉
2012 # voters = 30,000.
2016 # voters = 72,253 (Cruz, Trump, Rubio, Kasich).
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That just HAS to be looked into. It makes no sense at all.
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Report: Bus loads voted twice for Ted Cruz
http://redstatewatcher.com/article.asp?id=9506
Re Kansas. Video at link.
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I heard stories but couldn’t verify them about busloads of Cruz voters in Oklahoma as well. I just saw the stories on FB, but no pictures so I don’t know if there is any truth to it. I just figured they were rumors, but now it makes me wonder?
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Proof in the pudding about Kansas being preset to steal and cheat the numbers?
http://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article17139890.html
WSU statistician sues seeking Kansas voting machine paper tapes
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I saw that earlier – it’s from last April, regarding an actual election. I wonder if they will/can sue for a caucus. After all, it’s run by the state party organization; they make the rules, and I wonder how the procedure works. Is it a paper ballot of some kind, that is tabulated by party officials? Do they require I.D.?
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It looks like you do need an ID but who knows, this is the latest information I can find;
Starting January 1, 2012:
Kansas voters must show photographic identification when casting a vote in person; and
Kansas voters must have their signature verified and include a copy of an acceptable form of photographic identification or provide a full Kansas driver’s license or nondriver ID number when voting by mail.
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Didn’t Sundance have a link to a story about them not making people show an ID?
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I thought that was in Iowa.
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It was actually a link to a tweet, I just went back and found it. It’s on the Politics is a Business post.
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I just found this and it sounds ripe for fraud. They can go to any caucus and it’s only encouraged that it be in their county. I can’t believe people come up with these stupid rules.
http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article63197947.html
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People who are willing to exploit the rules come up with rules like this.
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New Grandbaby.
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You got one? 🙂
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Yep, and all went well. The family was nervous because last baby in family was stillborn, fullterm. Overwhelmed with thankfullness.
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So happy for you. 🙂 Congratulations.
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Well, let’s hear all the details!
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Baby Boy, almost nine pounds, lost of hair which is cool as bald babies are the norm with our dna. Born blue. Oxygen administered. All pink and just fine day later. Have not got to see or hold. So much flu and sickness in family that we decided to not risk getting new parents and baby sick. Some hospital around here have even banned visiting hours and visitors must have proof of flu shot, also nobody under twelve in. So, even though they are not at that hospital, too many of us in different stages of flues and stuff that we are holding back. Yes, it is practically killing me. First baby for this son and wife. Wish could show pic but no go permission from parents to do so (guess they actually do as I say and not as I do about internet safety)
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They are right – we don’t need to see the pictures, and will just imagine how beautiful he is. 9 lbs is a big baby! How long is he?
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Only twenty inches so a chubby.
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Internet Safety First.
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Congratulations, facebkwallflower!
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Congratulations! He sounds like a little chunk. I hope you get to love on him soon.
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Congrats. That’s one of life’s best things ever! Like Stella said, we need details. 😀
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WooT!
Congrats, FBWF!
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https://mtc.cdn.vine.co/r/videos/55D537F7881314446423659540480_55fcac3b2fb.3.0.7399482626115004599.mp4?versionId=iMbJfL8cczV._I_Cfx9H0E3gbabthX0.
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[video src="https://mtc.cdn.vine.co/r/videos/55D537F7881314446423659540480_55fcac3b2fb.3.0.7399482626115004599.mp4" /]
Always look for the file extension (in this case, mp4), and then truncate everything after it.
Sometimes it’s “jpg”, sometimes it’s “gif”, sometimes “mp4”. With Vine videos it’s mp4. So delete everything from the question mark on.
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Never mind. I didn’t insert all that html code.
Anyway, the video works if you copy what you pasted, and delete everything after “mp4”.
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Cruz Knew Justice Roberts Was No Conservative When He Supported Him In 2005
In 1999 Ted Cruz went to work for George W. Bush as a domestic policy advisor on his 2000 campaign. He had responsibility for anything that was related to the law. When the Florida recount debacle came about, it was his job to assemble a legal team. The second call he made and the second person he recruited was the future Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts. The same Roberts who Cruz has dismissed his support of in presidential debates, the guy who many American conservatives feel completely betrayed them. Cruz said, “John had been a friend and a Rehnquist clerk—I’ve known John a long time.”
He applied that longtime knowledge to an endorsement made in the National Review in an article promoting Roberts titled The Right Stuff on July 20 of 2005.
Cruz said of Roberts, “There are some who have raised complaints that his two years on the bench provide insufficient record for them to assess (and attack) his jurisprudence. That complaint misses the mark for three reasons. First, his judicial record would have stretched 14 years, had Senate Democrats not delayed its consideration twice, in 1991 and again in 2001. When his nomination did finally make it to the Senate floor, in 2003, he was confirmed by unanimous consent. Second, many distinguished jurists, such as Chief Justices William Rehnquist and Earl Warren and Justices O’Connor, Souter, and Thomas, similarly had very limited experience on the federal bench prior to ascending to the Court. And third, although two years on the bench provides a limited number of opinions, he has a far longer record that is relevant: his professional career as a Supreme Court litigator.
http://rickwells.us/archives/26942
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Cruz is a package not a person. Just my opinion, he is a stale bill of goods who never lived up to the guaranty.
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Eventually if it quacks like a duck and walks like a duck people have to face the fact that it’s a duck.
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And, try to avoid the piles of duck stuff they leave behind on the sidewalks.
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Here is his latest on Trump.
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/271975-cruz-media-is-sitting-on-bombshells-about-donald-trump
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What a sour grape Cruz is. He should be embarrassed. Really, there are bombshells all over Trump if you ask Cruz or Romney 🙄 In fact the whole GOP is a bunch of sour grapes.
Cruz is hysterical, if all the stations are showing all of Trump’s speeches why do we all have to watch on the internet?
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Rightly so, most conservatives were angry and disgusted and said what a POS Harry Reid was when he did the, “there might be something in his taxes, like he hasn’t paid his taxes, blah, blah.”
Yet, I know for a fact that some of those same conservatives have no issues with Cruz acting like Reid and now Romney.
I have never went from liking someone as much as I once liked Cruz to disliking them as much as I now dislike Cruz.
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Cruz is a package, alright.
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Yeah, I went there.
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I absolutely love this young lady’s voice:
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Another one:
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We are, I said before, in a music renaissance right now. I could list fifty, a hundred, (and more!) artists that are currently making incredible music. Gotye. Imagine Dragons. Of Monsters and Men. Bjork. Highasakite. Twenty One Pilots. Mumford and Sons. And not idiotic, corporate nonsense like was produced from 1970 to 2005. Actual, really good music, in every sense of the word “good”. Meaningful. Not the intentional nonsense of Stairway to Heaven and Hotel freakin’ California. Not the angry, ugly music that Seattle and MTV forced on us in the 90s.
No, the pendulum, thank GOD, has swung back to Beauty and Love and Goodness and Skill, from the extreme end it got to in the interim.
You won’t hear these artists on radio. Radio’s just not into good music. They never have been. Radio, like all mass (airwave) media, is into telling you what to like, and exposing you to what they want you exposed to, only.
But music is flourishing right now, like perhaps not since the Enlightenment.
Two words: Alt Rock.
That’s where the best music in the world is being made right now. Strong points in this genre include the promotion of beauty and love and goodness, and with skill.
On the blues side? Joe Bonamassa. Makes Hendrix look like a piker.
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And don’t get me wrong: I dig a whole lot of music from those decades I derided.
There’s a current artist, you would call it “pop” for style now, not because the gatekeepers have allowed it to be Popular, but because it sounds poppish…
“The 1975”.
That’s the name of the band. Unbelievable skill at making music. Lots of Peter Gabriel influence. So good it should be famous. Like Highasakite.
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My profuse apologies for posting that video.
I always dug the song. Never seen that garbage.
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Y’all should in fact go ahead and memory hole that thing. I don’t mind.
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I will remove it.
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Artists are starting to understand, I think, that love songs are going to be remembered forever, and hatey-angsty songs aren’t. And that means royalties.
People like beauty, love and goodness in their music, generally.
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😯 You don’t like the Eagles and Led Zeppelin? If you had insulted U2 as well you would have done irreparable harm to our friendship. Trust me on this and be silent if you don’t like the guys from Ireland.
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It’s not that I don’t like the Eagles and Led Zeppelin.
I do appreciate their genius. Same with The Who. And The Doors.
I’m just tired of hearing their same songs, for my whole life. On repeat.
There’s so much else available. And most of that stuff was hedonistic and nihilistic anyway, and not pushing a good philosophy at all.
And everything pushes a philosophy.
But why do I need to hear Riders on the Storm every day on every single classic rock brand™ station in America at least twice a day?
Tens of millions of recordings, and that has to be played each day? And Hotel California? Really? We need to hear that five times a day on a construction site? Just because advertisers think people feel comfortable only hearing what they are familiar with? GAH!
Throw me some stuff I haven’t heard! I’m actually more uncomfortable around all the crapola I’ve been soaked in for the last three decades. Why do I need to hear anything by Pink Floyd again? It’s all been engraved on my brain by MSM radio! Give me new music.
I bet new sales in FM radio antennae aren’t peaking right now.
Because nobody wants to spend good money to hear Tears For Fears sing “Shout”, yet again. And again tomorrow.
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Sh*t, Hotel California is the the American Construction Site Islamic Call To Prayer.
Five times a day. At least.
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That’s how bad radio is in America.
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I love Bono. i do. Can’t really stand him, but I still love him, because yeah… that’s what we do. Love. I mean, what else can we do for idiot hippie billionaires? Just love them. Even if they’re completely idiotic. You wouldn’t hate the retarded kid on your favorite TV show, would you? Then don’t be hating on Bono. He’s got a good voice.
Of Monsters and Men are also of northern European origin, and also current, and also amazing at music and the performance thereof.
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Bono Vox: good voice.
I would duck, but I won’t. I’ll take that punch.
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(*He’s still an idiot hippie billionaire, tho.)
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Palette cleanser:
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@1:44 I usually reflexively reach for the volume knob.
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I was born 20 years after this one was recorded. Still listening to it.
Q: Why can’t radio stations play this, instead of the 9 billionth play of “Piano Man”?
A: “Because $crew you people. You listen to what we want you to listen to.” — Ageing, Decrepit, Fully Irrelevant Radio Industry.
Tens of millions of recordings exist. Tune into a radio station, you get five hundred songs, all year, with a dice roll as to when they’re played.
If even that large number.
I once heard an FM station in Vermont that would play anything. It was my dream station. They would play Billie, they would play Hank Jr., they would play Sergei Rachmaninoff followed by Michael Jackson’s Billie Jean, and then some Louis Armstrong for good measure, followed by a spot of Megadeth.
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1:44 Trump!!!!!!!!
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One more for the evening, goodness all around:
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One of the most beautiful videos and songs I’ve seen and heard.
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Their live performances are unparalleled.
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Taqi, you have such a rich and varied taste in music. Most of what you post I would never have heard anywhere else. Some of it I like a lot, some not so much, but thank you for the exposure to it all. 🙂
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Like I said above, I mainly listen to music.
When I post vids here, occasionally I never saw it, and just wanted you listening to the music, and it’s complexity. The one I asked Stella to delete I never saw, but have heard and liked for the musical goodness of it all.
I guess the best vids for songs, if you’ve never seen them (advice to self), are ones which contain no video.
All Mumford and Sons videos are Safe For Work, and even beneficial to kids.
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I could sing James Taylor’s Greatest Hits in Karaoke. The whole thiing. Every note. Except Mexico. I’m right-wing like that. Can’t stand that song.
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I sure wouldn’t “like to go”, James. I’d like to make a lot of other people “go”.
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Thank you, aus.
If I ever decide to do anything with my WordPress blog, it’ll be mainly me being a DJ, with occasional conservative social commentary.
I know I do. Music permeates me. It enlivens me. Give me an aborigine with a didgeridoo, I don’t care. Or Bobby McFerrin, banging his chest and controlling a crowd.
I hope God pours it all out of me some day.
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And I’m sure He will.
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Deadman “Take Up Your Mat And Walk”
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Very cool, Lovely. 🙂
That’s the goodness, right there!
I think, in this life, Live Music is the one of the best things.
If I had to choose to lose my eyes or my ears, I would gouge them out myself. With lobster forks. Get me a cane, and a chocolate Lab with a handle on his back. And I can still make music.
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I’m happy that you like it Taqiy, they are one of newly acquired favorites. Love Of Monsters and Men :).
Music cheaper than therapy and has a better batting average!
Deadman “If I Lay Down in the River.”
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Music is cheaper than therapy. Quoted. Saved.
Watching this one now, after I hit “post”.
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I could watch that fifty times and not get tired of it.
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Okay, just one more.
Music renaissance. Right now.
Acoustic version:
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Beautiful.
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Tell you what.
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BTW I don’t know if anyone is talking about this or not but once again Trump is 5 laps ahead of the pack. It is good for Trump if Rubio stays in until the 15th, it is good optics for Trump to win Florida from Rubio and it is bad for the GOP if Rubio stays in the race.
The unemployed Rubio has to know he is over and done with.
There was talk of a unity ticket between Rubio and Cruz. But what does Trump do? He pressures Rubio, who despises Trump to drop out of the race, effectively putting the egotistical Rubio between a rock and a hard place. If Rubio drops out, Trump says. “I’m glad Little Marco took my advice.” 😀 If Rubio stays in he risks becoming even more irrelevant and any sliver of goodwill that might remain between Team Rubio and Team Cruz.
Well done Mr. Trump.
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