Tuesday, June 28, 2022

Blameless? . . .

(from https://www.huffpost.com/entry/paul-manafort-blameless-life_n_5c81bc3de4b08d5b785fc732)
". . . Judge Says Manafort Led An 'Otherwise Blameless Life.' His Resume Says Otherwise. . . Prosecutors had argued that under sentencing guidelines, Manafort, 69, should serve between 19 to 24 years in prison after he was convicted in August on eight counts of tax and bank fraud. “Manafort acted for more than a decade as if he were above the law, and deprived the federal government and various financial institutions of millions of dollars,” they wrote, stressing that “the sentence here should reflect the seriousness of these crimes.”. . . But Judge T.S. Ellis called a decades-long term in prison “excessive” on Thursday, saying Manafort had “lived an otherwise blameless life.”. . . "


Otherwise

from the newly-released album GRAINS



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Monday, June 27, 2022

There Goes . . .

 




My Hero

- Foo Fighters GRAINS


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Saturday, June 25, 2022

Instrumental . . .

. . . version of Ace of Hearts.  The lyrics are here should you feel the desire to sing along.


When I see that look upon your face
I know that I’ve been dealt an ace of hearts.
Something starts.
Pulse is pounding like a conga drum.
The blood goes rushing to and from my head,
Turns my face to red.

So ante-up and hit me once then hit me twice.
The stakes are high. 
You know I’ve got to keep as cool as ice.
This game we’re in together
Could end as quickly as it starts.
But I’ll just take my chances.
I’ll just take my chances
Cause I know that I have you
And you’re my . . . 
Ace of hearts.
I know that I have you and you’re my 
Ace of hearts.

Deal me in I’m staying for the course
And if I lose don’t feel remorse for me.
You will always be
In my every breath and in my soul.
When chips are down you take control and then
Bring me back again.




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Friday, June 24, 2022

To Whom . . .

. . . it may concern . . . 

(from Trumpocalypse: Restoring American Democracy by David From)
". . . Trump promised to raise taxes on rich people and to use the money to build roads and bridges. He denounced foreign wars and promised a foreign policy of nonintervention. He excoriated the trade deals you blamed for taking away your jobs. Maybe above all . . . he talked like you and like people you knew. . . Trump did cut taxes for the rich, and saying he would raise them. He did take away the health coverage of millions of people - and tried and failed to take away the coverage of millions more The roads and bridges never bot built. NAFTA's still there in all but name, but a new washing machine costs almost $100 more at Walmart because of Trump's tariffs on imports from China, South Korea, and other trading partners. . ."
 

P.S. I Love You

Bette Midler
     


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Thursday, June 23, 2022

Deluded . . .


Not alluded, 
Not colluded,
Not concluded, 
Not denuded,
Not disbudded, 
Not eluded, 
Not excluded, 
Not extruded, 
Not exuded, 
Not illuded, 
Not included,
Not intruded, 
Not obtruded, 
Not occluded, 
Not precluded, 
Not preluded, 
Not protruded, 
Not retruded, 
Not secluded, 
Not subtruded, 
Not transuded, 
It's Deluded.

 
   
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Wednesday, June 22, 2022

Critical . . .


(from Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy by Jamie Raskin )
". . . Donald Trump's outrageous lies about the 2020 election mirror the basic form of the Lost Cause myth. According to Trump, he won a landslide victory, but it was stolen from him and from his noble long-suffering supporters after he valiantly led the country to record prosperity and well-being - a claim that conveniently omits the tens of millions of people who lost their jobs and the hundreds of thousands who lost their lives under his administration's lethally reckless mismanagement of the COVID-19 pandemic. . . The lie that Republicans promoted that Trump and his mob were themselves working to stop an election from being stolen is merely propaganda designed to justify the new wave of vote-suppressing legislation the GOP is trying to pass all over the country. That's why the work of the Select Committee to investigate the January 6th Attack, and how we as a country interpret and act upon the committee's findings, becomes such a critical test for us. If we cannot get the past right, we will get future all wrong. . . "

Get It Right

- Aretha Franklin



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