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Sunday, April 8, 2018

Bittersweet . . .

Good intentions
Blacktop and fire
Prices are paid
for things desired

Celebrate now
Celebrate always
Celebrate everything
From spark to blaze

I know you're really happy
And soon we have to fly
But we will be more together
So there's just no need to cry

Bittersweet
©2018 Raymond M. Jozwiak

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Saturday, April 7, 2018

Another . . .

(from https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/first-read/trump-ramps-it-yet-another-wild-day-claims-controversy-n863266)
". . . Trump repeated his unsubstantiated claim that millions of votes were fraudulently cast in the 2016 election. . . observed that women “are being raped at numbers never seen before” as an immigrant caravan heads towards the United States. . . broke his silence on Stormy Daniels, saying he wasn’t aware of the $130,000 payment made to her. . . which would mean neither party is legally bound by it, (their 'agreement'). . . released a statement saying he was considering $100 billion of additional tariffs on China. . . (and then there's) EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt . . . )

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Friday, April 6, 2018

Weapon . . .

(https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/27/retired-justice-urges-repeal-of-second-amendment.html)

". . . Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens is calling for the repeal of the Second Amendment to allow for significant gun control legislation. . . The 97-year-old Stevens says in an essay on The New York Times website that repeal would weaken the National Rifle Association's ability to "block constructive gun control legislation.". . . Stevens was on the losing end of a 2008 ruling in which the high court held that the Second Amendment gives individuals the right to own a gun for self-defense. He had previously called for changing the Second Amendment to permit gun control. . . Stevens says the decision in that case, District of Columbia v. Heller, "has provided the N.R.A. with a propaganda weapon of immense power.". . . "

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Thursday, April 5, 2018

Coming . . .

. . . soon

(from https://www.facebook.com/ohomusic/)
OHO
Published by Jay Graboski
Here is the sequence for the new OHO CD, "Gazebo" and half the credits; very close to 80 minutes of music spanning 1990-2018.

01. Ring In the Rightness (4:15)
02. Denial (3:24)
03. The One (4:38)
04. How Is Where We Go (4:48)
05. Third Hand Intelligence (6:15)
06. Plunge (3:54)
07. Baltimore (4:11)
08. Blood Brother (4:52)
09. Paleolithic Goddess Figurine (2:37)
10. Slough of Despond (4:31)
11. New Day (3:40)
12. Bleeding the Fifth (3:59)
13. Unique (4:58)
14. Limousine (4:01)
15. Out of Thin Air (4:23)
16. Ocean City Ditty (3:16)
17. Over, Under, Sideways, Down/It’s a Small World (5:43)
18. Taylor’s Lullaby (3:27)
-All songs composed and performed by OHO (1990-2018) with the exceptions of tracks 7 and 17 used with permission: “Baltimore” (Randy Newman, Six Pictures Music), “Over, Under, Sideways, Down” (Jeff Beck, Chris Dreja, Jim McCarty, Keith Relf & Paul Samwell-Smith, Sony/Atv Music) with “It’s a Small World” (Richard Sherman & Robert Sherman, Wonderful Music Company, Inc.)
--Sequence continuity by Michael M. Kennedy and Jerry Semler
-Produced by OHO and Bill Pratt at The Bratt Studio, Woodlawn, MD. Additional recording by David Reeve at Blue Balls Studio, Stewartstown, PA; P. Daly German at his Back Room Studio, Baltimore, MD; Steve Carr at Hit and Run Recording, Rockville, MD; and David Kelly at Luna Blue Studio, Severn, MD.
-Front cover illustration by Connell P. Byrne; on-CD art by David W. Wilcox; photography by Cameron Reeve and David Norbut; back cover and left inside panel background: “Well Tempered Drummer” by Lena Samsonova; OHO logo design by Jon Considine ©2018 OHO Music
This one’s for Connell.

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Wednesday, April 4, 2018

The Times . . .

. . . they are a-changing. . .

(https://www.npr.org/2018/03/05/590920670/from-fraud-to-individual-right-where-does-the-supreme-court-stand-on-guns)

". . . Former Chief Justice Warren Burger, a conservative, said the idea that there was an individual right to bear arms was "a fraud." If he were writing the Bill of Rights now, he said in 1991, "There wouldn't be any such thing as the Second Amendment." . . . He declared on PBS that the Second Amendment "has been the subject of one of the greatest pieces of fraud, I repeat the word fraud, on the American public by special interest groups that I have ever seen in my lifetime.". . . But that all changed with some scholarly work and cases brought by gun rights advocates. . . In 2008, in District of Columbia v. Heller, the court said there is an individual constitutional right to have a handgun in one's home for self-protection. Two years later, in a second case, the court made clear that its decision applied to the states as well as the federal government. . ."

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Tuesday, April 3, 2018

Sources . . .

(https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/easter-sunday-trump-threatens-end-daca-stop-nafta-n861826)

". . . Trump loosed a series of hard-line immigration statements on Sunday. . . (declaring) there would be "NO MORE DACA DEAL," . . . (he) added that "Border Patrol Agents are not allowed to properly do their job," blaming Democrats. He also claimed, without providing context, that "'Caravans' coming.". . . "Fox and Friends" aired a segment earlier Sunday with right-wing commentator Tomi Lahren that claimed onscreen: "CARAVAN OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS HEADED TO U.S. . . "They must stop the big drug and people flows, or I will stop their cash cow, NAFTA. NEED WALL!" he tweeted. . . (a Democratic spokesman said) "When an agreement to protect the Dreamers is reached, it will be despite this president rather than with his leadership.". . ."

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Monday, April 2, 2018

Roses . . .

. . . and garlic. . .

Never before had a vision beheld
Such rare exquisiteness
To my sheltered existence
The color of liquid sustaining all life

While a far-removed prospect
Opposed in all ways
Fills the cracks and the fissures
Of the concrete and flesh

And both remain etched
In my own very presence
Two different in aspect
Through vision and scent

But lovely
As equals

Roses & Garlic
©2017 Raymond M. Jozwiak

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