pianogonzology: May 2019

Friday, May 31, 2019

Schedule . . .

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Thursday, May 30, 2019

Parties . . .

(from How The Hell Did This Happen? The Election of 2016 by P.J. O'Rourke)

". . . The reason that American political parties have no constitutional standing is that the framers of the Constitution hoped America would have no political parties. . . In Federalist Paper No. 9 Alexander Hamilton declares "domestic faction" to be "the cause of incurable disorder and imbecility in the government." . . . In Federalist Paper No. 10 James Madison inveighs against "the violence of faction," calls it a "dangerous vice," and warns that "the public good is disregarded in the conflictd of rival parties.". . . Madison . . . describes, with eerie prescience, our Democratic and Republican presidential primaries and caucuses 228 years in the future: "So strong is the propensity of mankind to fall into mutual animosities that where no substantial occasion presents itself the most frivolous and fanciful distinctions have been sufficient to kindle their unfriendly passions and excite their most violent conflicts". . . "

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Wednesday, May 29, 2019

More . . .

. . . impeccable logic, superior reasoning and formidable articulation . . .

(from https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/judge-denies-trump-bid-block-financial-records-n1007971)
". . . Trump attacked Representative Justin Amash as a “total lightweight” and “loser” . . . a day after the Michigan Republican said Mr. Trump’s behavior as president had reached the “threshold for impeachment.”. . ."

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Tuesday, May 28, 2019

Stuff . . .

. . . new music, a 'jam' based upon the changes of the composition Happy. (Note: See[andhear] Happy posted 5/15/2019]

Happy Stuff
©2019 Raymond M. Jozwiak

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Monday, May 27, 2019

Humor . . .

. . . and dangerous precedents . . .

(from https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/utah-judge-suspended-criticizing-trump-social-media-court-n1010331)

". . . A Utah judge has been suspended for six months without pay after he made a series of critical statements about President Donald Trump online and in his courtroom over the past few years. . . The Utah Supreme Court filed its court ruling this past week on Judge Michael Kwan’s actions. . . Kwan, who has served as a justice court judge in Taylorsville for 20 years, was cited for “improper use of judicial authority and his inappropriate political commentary,” the latter often involving President Trump. . . The court noted multiple times when Kwan had provided political comments that criticized Trump, as a presidential candidate in 2016 and as president on his Facebook page and in court. . . Three days after the 2016 election, Kwan wrote on Facebook, “Think I’ll go to the shelter to adopt a cat before the President-Elect grabs them all” — a reference to the "Access Hollywood" tape in which Trump was heard bragging about grabbing women's genitals without consent. . . Almost a month after Trump’s inauguration, Kwan said “welcome to the beginning of the fascist takeover” and questioned whether Congressional Republicans would be “the American Reichstag,” this time referring to the political body of Nazi Germany. . . Judge Kwan defended his online commentary by stating that he had a First Amendment right to share his views about elected officials' political and social stances, calling it “constitutionally protected speech” and describing his statements as “social commentary or humor.” . . . "

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Sunday, May 26, 2019

Prescience . . .

(from How Did This Happen: The Election of 2016 by P.J. O'Rourke)
". . . Trump is under the illusion that he's thirty-five time richer than he is. He thinks childhood vaccination caused the movie Rain Man. He believes Obama was born to the queen of Sheba in Karjackistan and raised by Islamacist wolves in the remote forests of Harvard Law School. Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, Ayatollah Khamenei, ISIS, the Taliban, and Hamas will be paralyzed with fear. Trump is crazier than all the other candidates put together. Who knows what this lunatic will do?. . ."

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Saturday, May 25, 2019

Less . . .

. . . or more? . . .

How can we ignore the fact
That they are them and we are us?
Neither is greater nor inferior
Both deserving the good and the just

We all are human
With wants and needs
Our differences- surface at best
Can we stop for moment
And think about this
Stop pretending that someone is less?

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Friday, May 24, 2019

Judge . . .

. . . says so . . .

(from https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/trump-s-house-investigations-tantrum-proves-pelosi-democrats-are-gaining-ncna1008866)
". . . “A congressional investigation to carry out an expressly delegated Article I function, in addition to any legislation that might be had relating to that function, is plainly valid. So, too, is an investigation to determine whether the President has any conflicts of interest. As already discussed, it lies within Congress’s province to legislate regarding the ethics of government officials,” (U.S. District Judge Amit) Mehta wrote in his decision. . ."

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Thursday, May 23, 2019

Rules . . .

. . . laws, regulations, CONSTITUTIONS . . .

. . . are devised FOR A REASON . . .

(from https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/judge-denies-trump-bid-block-financial-records-n1007971)
". . . "It is simply not fathomable that a Constitution that grants Congress the power to remove a President for reasons including criminal behavior would deny Congress the power to investigate him for unlawful conduct—past or present—even without formally opening an impeachment inquiry," (U.S. District Judge Amit) Mehta wrote. . . "Congress plainly views itself as having sweeping authority to investigate illegal conduct of a President, before and after taking office. This court is not prepared to roll back the tide of history," he added. . ."

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Wednesday, May 22, 2019

Corrected Performances . . .

by OHO . . .

Close But No Cigar
OHO (Jay & Ray) Live at Bourbon Street on the Beach May 2019

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Tuesday, May 21, 2019

Performances . . .

by OHO . . .

Close But No Cigar
OHO (Jay & Ray) Live at Bourbon Street on the Beach May 2019

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Monday, May 20, 2019

Listen . . .

(from https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/buttigieg-calls-out-democrats-playing-identity-politics-n1004706)

". . . “What I worry about is not the president’s fantasy wall on the Mexican border that’s not going to get built anyway,” Buttigieg said. “What I worry about are the very real walls that we are putting up between us as we get divided and carved up.” . . . Buttigieg offered the most pointed critique of his own party so far in the campaign, in a moment that had echoes of Bill Clinton’s “Sistah Souljah” moment in 1992 when he distanced himself from a black political activist who had made controversial comments about race. . . “When an auto worker, 12 years into their career, is no longer sure how to provide for their family, they’re not part of the country we think of ourselves as all living in together. That’s why we can’t seem to get on the same page,” . . . Such "divisive lines of thinking” have entered Democrats’ mindset, Buttigieg said, adding: “Like when we’re told we have to choose between supporting an auto worker and a trans woman of color, without stopping to think about the fact that sometimes the auto worker is a trans woman of color, and she definitely needs all the security she can get.”. . . “But I know … that real democracy means that the voice you have in our political process is gauged by the merits of what you have to say and not by the number of zeros in your bank balance.”. . . "

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Sunday, May 19, 2019

Insolent Music . . .

Adulatory panegyrics
Vituperary insolence
Commendatory highly glowing compilments
Enthusiastic lionizing
Discourteous ill-manneredness
Impertinence and disrespect
How will we be remembered?
Will our names live on?
Will the seeds that we sowed
Reap the glorious fruit we intended?

Insolence
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Saturday, May 18, 2019

Justice?. . .

(from The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell)

". . . I don't engage in any type of behavior that should place me in a cop's crosshairs. I don't live in "one of those neighborhoods" or hang out with a "bad crowd" (unless you count comedians). I am not involved in felonious activity. I'm not bragging. I'm just boring. And I'm not playing the game of "respectability politics" here. Because I know that not being a part of criminal activity is no assurance that you will go home safely after an interaction with a cop. Because "boring" is no assurance of safety when you are Black. What's more boring than shopping at Walmart? That's what John Crawford III was doing when police shot him in the back while he was on his cell phone talking to his girlfriend. What was his crime? He was carrying a gun. . . in Ohio, an open-carry state where people are legally allowed to carry guns. . . openly. Why did he have a gun in Walmart? Because Walmart sells guns. I think he was at the very least thinking about buying the gun. I don't really know, because a customer saw a Black man carrying a gun in the store and called 911. The cops showed up and shot him immediately, without warning, apparently finding him guilty of attempting to practice capitalism. And the thing that really sucks is that it was an air rifle. At most, he was in danger of putting his eye out. . . "

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Friday, May 17, 2019

Insolence . . .

Adulatory panegyrics
Vituperary insolence
Commendatory highly glowing compilments
Enthusiastic lionizing
Discourteous ill-manneredness
Impertinently disrespect
How will we be remembered
Will actions we took
Reap the fruit of the seed
We intended to sow

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Thursday, May 16, 2019

Aha . . .

. . . OHO . . .

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Wednesday, May 15, 2019

More happy . . .

Want to be happy
Listen here
What would you pay to
Have no fear
Fear of the raptor
Roaming free
Fear of a captor
You or me
Do you fear having your choices
All being taken away

There was a turmoil
We could see
Under the table
Had to be
Way far beyond us
In the fray
We wore the blinders
They slipped away
So many promises made
To a misguided parade of the innocent

Circumstances pushed so many over the edge
Sideways glances directed to drive in a wedge

Want to be happy
Bet you do
Want to be happy
In the things you do
All’s not the same as it used to be
Conscious effort will help us break free

Happy
©2019 Raymond M. Jozwiak

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