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TeamProg's JournalJohn Stewart on Crossfire with Carlson & Begala 2004
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|12:20 You know whats interesting though? Stewart replied. Youre as big a DICK on your show as you are on any show.
The Damned - Alone Again Or (1987) ( Love cover)
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|Nice sound, pretty much a smoother, glossier version of the original.
A little more adventure would've been nice.
"Libertarianism" sounds good, sounds like 'freedom'. And it is sort of:
* Freedom for corporations to bilk you with no legal remedies for you.
* Freedom for corporations to buy up and privatize beach front land - sorry, um, what's a surfboard?
* Freedom for corporations to build enormous hotels in the middle of a high elevation, pristine meadow (say Tuolumne?).
* Freedom for corporations to track your every online movement, it's for the good of business and the economy of course. (see Ebay and Facebook).
* Freedom for corporations to buy up competing businesses and monopolize control of a single market. (Yes, I know, it's already happening with the GOP Congress we've had.)
* Freedom for your crazy neighbor to own as many firearms as he wants - ah, but you get to shoot him with your AR-15 after he's already killed your kids, yay, revenge is so sweet!
* Freedom for doctors not to treat an emergency patient because they don't have the right insurance, or enough, or no cash, no credit card, no house to seize.
* Freedom to sue the person who has no auto insurance and no money who hits your car because your insurance no longer offers "uninsured motorist coverage" because under a libertarian government no one is legally required to buy liability insurance - yay!
* No EPA to slowdown the installation of a furnace to burn all of your garbage when someone elses' house is downwind. This is especially great news for the hazardous waste creators like chemical factories, forges, tire dumps and hospitals.
* No messing with any unions!
* "Stand your ground" will the be the law of the land. But, okay, most of the land will be owned by mega-corporations.
* No maternity leave pay!
* Privatize courts will always let you win as long as you're supplying the payroll.
* Privatized police forces will keep you safe from the other privatized police forces. You need "protection", right?
* Rand Paul looks really good with a Hitler mustache, don;t you think?
Circus jet crashed in the Amazon jungle. One cannibal says to the other
'Does this clown taste funny to you?'
Story of the Jack-O-Lantern from Natural History magazine in the 1980's.
(Version I read in a Natural History magazine Halloween issue in the '80s.(reciting by memory)Jack was a Blacksmith. He wanted to be the best of the best of the best at his profession.
He made a deal with the Devil that made Jack the world's best Blacksmith.
One of St. Peter's angels was buzzing around the aether and saw the sign that Jack had now displayed:
"Master of all Masters of my trade".
The angel reported the oddness to St. Peter and Peter thought it looked like the work of the Devil.
Peter went to Jack and asked him to renounce the devil and Jack's new found skill.
Jack said, 'no thanks' and Peter went on his way but not before granting Jack three wishes.
"May you use these wishes wisely" and then Peter went on his way.
Jack died somehow, accident, heart attack or something, and the Devil came to collect Jack's soul.
"Not so fast" Jack said. Then Jack used one of his wishes to wish the Devil into his coin purse.
The Devil was stuck until Jack negotiated for many more decades of life.
Two more times Jack would die and Devil would comoe to collect Jack's soul, but Jack still had two more wishes.
Jack used the wishes to force the Devil into Jack's chair until Jack got more years, Jack died again, then Jack forced the Devil up Jack's pear tree until Jack, again, got more years.
Jack finally died his last death while eating a turnip. He was immediately beamed up to Heaven's Gates.
St Peter was there to greet him and told Jack "I granted you three wishes, you should have wished for eternal peace in heaven and I cannot let you in".
Jack then ended up at Hell's Gate where the Devil was there to meet the newbees.
Devil yelled "You harassed me on earth, I will not allow you to harrass me in my own domain"! and the Devil slammed the gates closed.
Jack was able to quickly gather one the brimstones with his half-eaten turnip to light his way through eternal purgatory.
I love this story.
Let's make it a National Holiday: April 9th, 1865, the end of the Civil War for Gen. Robert E. Lee
https://www.nps.gov/apco/learn/historyculture/the-surrender-meeting.htm
April 9th, 1865, was the end of the Civil War for General Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. For Lt. General Ulysses S. Grant and tens of thousands of Federal and Confederate troops fighting further south, the war stretched out for several more months. After Appomattox, however, only the most zealous and desperate could pretend the Union was not already victorious and the Confederacy was destined to end.
As the sun rose on April 9th in Appomattox, General Lee still clung to the belief his war was not over. 8,000 men from Maj. General John B. Gordons Second Corps, along with Lees nephew Fitzhugh Lee and what remained of the Confederate cavalry, were lined up for battle just west of the village of Appomattox Court House. Robert E. Lee hoped there was only a thin line of Union cavalry ahead of him that he could smash through, find supplies and rations, and then turn south to march to North Carolina to continue the fight. For a week Grant thwarted Lees plans to turn south. He actively blocked Lees movements and tried to surround his forces. As a result of these efforts, Grants forces had finally gotten ahead of Lee at Appomattox. Lee was in the middle of the fight, his headquarters was east of the village near the center of his army. Gordons Second Corps and the Cavalry were west of the village readying for a fight, and Longstreets command, the First Corps and Third Corps of the ANV, were in the east guarding the rear. Lee knew more Federal troops were approaching from the east and perhaps the south, and he hoped he could move his army before the Federal reinforcements arrived. Lees hopes were dashed by the arrival of thousands of Union infantry, including United States Colored Troops, who had marched most of the night to block the way. By 8:00a.m., Gordons men retreated toward the village, Fitzhugh Lees cavalry was fleeing toward the west, and Lee knew his war was over.
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Stupid then, stupid now.
Bring A Little Lovin' - Los Bravos - ROCKIN' !!
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|Three Spaniards and a German.
Hearing this in the Once Upon A Time In Hollywood movie reminded me of this song from long ago.
Limbomaniacs - "Shake It" - Heavy FUNK influence Music Video (1990)
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Drummer "Brain"'s first label signed band.
Limbomaniacs
Stinky Grooves 1990
Praxis
Transmutation 1992
Sacrifist 1994
Metatron 1994
Live in Poland 1997
Transmutation Live 1997
Warszawa 1999
Tennessee 2004 2007
Profanation 2008
Bullmark
Interstate 76 soundtrack 1996
Giant Robot
Giant Robot 1996
Godflesh
Songs of Love and Hate 1996
Tom Waits
Bone Machine 1992
Mule Variations 1999
Real Gone 2004
Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards 2006
Primus
Brown Album 1997
Rhinoplasty 1998
Antipop 1999
Buckethead;
I Need 5 Minutes Alone (as Pieces) 1997
Colma 1998
Monsters and Robots 1999
The Cuckoo Clocks of Hell 2004
Kevin's Noodle House 2007
A Real Diamond in the Rough (tracks 2, 4, & 7) 2009
Best Regards (with Melissa Reese) 2010
Brain as Hamenoodle 2010
Kind Regards (with Melissa Reese) 2010
El Stew
No Hesitation 1999
No Forcefield
Lee's Oriental Massage 415-626-1837 2000
God Is an Excuse 2001
Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains
The Big Eyeball in the Sky 2004
Serj Tankian
Elect the Dead 2007
Imperfect Harmonies (track 10) 2010
Guns N' Roses
Chinese Democracy 2008
"Absurd" 2021
Science Faxtion
Living on Another Frequency 2008
Travis Dickerson
The Dragons of Eden (with Buckethead) 2008
Iconography (with Buckethead) 2009
Music Machine - 'Talk Talk'
The 'one-gloved band'.. Also funny how the singer towers over the others..
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Will Trump Get Gag Order In Manhattan DA Case? Here's What That Would Mean--And Why It Could Land Him
In Prison
Updated Apr 3, 2023, 09:00am EDT
Topline
Former President Donald Trump is set to be arraigned Tuesday after he was indicted by the Manhattan district attorneys officeand the court could impose a gag order that would cut him off from publicly discussing the case and impose legal consequences if he does, as the ex-president has already lashed out over his indictment and reportedly plans to ramp up his attacks.
Key Facts
A gag order is an order imposed by a judge in a criminal or civil case that blocks a party (including attorneys or witnesses) from publicly talking about the case, though the exact terms of the order and what can and cannot be said vary.
If a gag order is violated, the party could be held in contempt of court, which in New York carries a punishment of a $1,000 fine and/or up to 30 days in prison.
Legal experts cited by Insider and Bloomberg said its possible and even extremely likely the court could impose a gag order on Trump, particularly given security concerns arising from his attacks on prosecutors or other figures in the case, though there are First Amendment issues given that hes running for president that could make any broad restrictions on his speech legally problematic.
Any gag order would likely be narrowly tailored to only cover certain kinds of information about the case, Katie Townsend, deputy executive director and legal director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, told Bloomberg.
Its most likely a gag order would be put on Trump when hes arraigned Tuesday as a condition for his release from custody, former federal prosecutor Duncan Levin told Insider, and the former presidents attorneys could also be barred from publicly discussing the case so as to not taint the jury pool ahead of a trial.
The order would be issued by New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan, the judge presiding over the casean absolutely no-nonsense judge, according to Levin, whom Trump has already attacked on social media.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2023/04/03/will-trump-get-gag-order-in-manhattan-da-case-heres-what-that-would-mean-and-why-it-could-land-him-in-prison/?sh=3fd6b85412d9
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TFG is a sick, dangerous "man".
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