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Sunday, December 18, 2016

Pressure . . .

(https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-last-shot-bid-thousands-urge-electoral-college-to-block-trump-at-monday-vote/2016/12/17/125fa84a-c327-11e6-8422-eac61c0ef74d_story.html?utm_term=.d95a5451f716)
". . . Pressure on members of the electoral college to select someone other than Donald Trump has grown dramatically — and noisily — in recent weeks, causing some to waver but yielding little evidence that Trump will fall short when electors convene in most state capitals Monday to cast their votes. . .
Carole Joyce of Arizona expected her role as a GOP elector to be pretty simple: She would meet the others in Phoenix and carry out a vote for Trump, who won the most votes in her state and whom she personally supported. . . But then came the mail and the emails and the phone calls — first hundreds, then thousands of voters worrying that Trump’s impulsive nature would lead the country into another war. . .“Honestly, it had an impact,” said Joyce, a 72-year-old Republican state committee member. “I’ve seen enough funerals. I’m tired of hearing bagpipes. . . . But I signed a loyalty pledge. And that matters.” . . . Such is the life these days for many of the 538 men and women who are scheduled to meet Monday across the country to carry out what has traditionally been a perfunctory vote after most every presidential election. . ."

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Saturday, December 17, 2016

Selling . . .

Sales Persons don't sell products. They sell themselves. They can disregard as many facts as they desire to accomplish their goal - making a sale. They know how to stir emotions. They take advantage of the emtional beings we humans are. They say all the right things to us. They promise to help. There is no desire on their part to sincerely help us. They want to sell. When caught up in their siren's song we feel understood and that we will soon be made happy by this person and her 'wares.' If we are not careful, and whether or not their product is what we need or actually everything they tell us it is . . . WE WILL BUY IT!

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Friday, December 16, 2016

Thin Air . . .

When I woke up today I had all that I want
Everything that I did brought desired results
How could this be? All the rules have been changed
In the pool where I drowned I am swimming again.

But of course I am wrong. How could I understand
When my society tells me how tall I stand?
Then I take it inside and wait for life’s kiss
Which is sure to arrive ‘cause I’m riding my bliss.

What did I do? The world holds me up
Invisible hands grant the nourishing cup
Have I found a way that has always been there?
It seems to me it came out of thin air.

The child waking up brings the old crone to tears
Pushing through my disguise see the tips of my ears
How could this be all the rules have been changed
In the pool where I drowned I am swimming again.

When I blindly reach out to what I cannot see
Grace reappears and it rescues me
I’m not what I feel, I’m not what you think
I’m only what is and what isn’t in sync.

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Thursday, December 15, 2016

A Story . . .

(from https://theintercept.com/2016/11/09/donald-trump-will-be-president-this-is-what-we-do-next/)
". . . We need a story. . . The core belief of the technocrats who run the Democratic Party is that people rationally evaluate facts and then make decisions. . . In reality, humans all have an emotional, internally consistent story running inside them all the time about the world and their place in it – and if they encounter any “facts” that contradict this story, the facts just bounce right off. Ironically, this is demonstrated by how Democratic technocrats emotionally reject all the evidence for this. . .Trump succeeds at telling a story – and while it’s hateful and bogus, any story always beats no story. Clinton never tried to tell a competing story, making her blizzard of facts meaningless to non-technocrats. Part of Trump’s story was “Muslims are lunatics who want to slaughter your children, we can’t let them in!” Clinton would respond, “An intriguing Harvard School of Government study found our circa-2014 immigration vetting procedures were able to measure radicalization by five benchmarks that [audience loses consciousness].”. . . By contrast, a progressive story would say: “We’ve been bombing the Middle East for 60 years. People there are mad about it just like we were mad about 9/11. Until we stop bombing them a small number of Muslims will always want to retaliate, and some will pull it off no matter what we do to prevent it.”. . . "

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Wednesday, December 14, 2016

Basic . . .

Basic human decency is being polite, courteous, civil, thoughtful, and using tact and diplomacy when with others, thus treating them as you wish to be treated. . . the proverbial 'placing of yourself in someone else's shoes.'

. . . pretty simple huh? (Why do so many just NOT get it?)

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Tuesday, December 13, 2016

Be Thinking . . .

I used to own one of these babies. Tremendous sound, and I was only pushing a Farfisa Fast IV through it. Played a B3 with a Leslie at a dive in Curtis Bay for a brief period with my current OHO bandmates in the mid-seventies. It was a (sonic) blast.

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Monday, December 12, 2016

Mysterious . . .

(from https://www.revolvy.com/main/index.php?s=Buzzy%20Linhart&item_type=topic)
". . . In 1963, he moved to New York City and became friends and roommates with John Sebastian. He also became a protégé to the senior guitarist and folk singer Fred Neil. . . released a series of solo albums from the late 1960s to the mid-1970s . . His prowess on the vibraphone found him performing as a session musician on recordings by Buffy Sainte-Marie, Richie Havens, Carly Simon, Cat Mother & the All Night Newsboys, and Jimi Hendrix (on the Cry of Love album and he is credited on Electric Ladyland). . . is joint composer of "(You Got To Have) Friends," a collaboration with Mark "Moogy" Klingman, which became singer Bette Midler's de facto theme song. . . continue(s) to write, record, sing and compose music to this day. . .had significant visibility as an actor in the mid-1970s. He also achieved some notoriety from his appearance in the opening sequence of the cult movie The Groove Tube, as a hippie hitchhiker. He was also a regular on the 1976 television show Cos, starring Bill Cosby. . . "

Why isn't this man better known?

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