Tuesday, December 20, 2022

The Law . . .

(from https://boingboing.net/2022/12/12/trumps-bid-to-end-the-mar-a-lago-fbi-investigation-ends-in-humiliation-for-his-pet-judge.html
". . . Trump's very loyal appointee, Judge Aileen Cannon, has been repeatedly humiliated over her willingness to ignore the law in favor of her pal. Following orders from a federal appellate court, Cannon has been forced to dismiss Trump's lawsuit attempting to halt the FBI investigation into his hoard of stolen classified materials. Cannon's performance, in this case, has served as a stellar example of how packing the courts with inexperienced sycophants from the Supreme Court on down is slowly helping destroy the rule of law. . ."


I Fought The Law

- The Bobby Fuller Four



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Monday, December 19, 2022

Striving . . .


It never fails, just when it seems a song (or a project) is finished, you notice that it needs JUST ONE MORE THING. . . or sometimes a few more things. In any case, it just may happen again.  But here's the newest rendering of 'Fool' with some sonic additions. 





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Sunday, December 18, 2022

Freeing . . .

(from https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/06/sports/soccer/qatar-and-russia-bribery-world-cup-fifa.html)
". . . After years of investigations and indictments, the United States Department of Justice . . . said for the first time that representatives working for Russia and Qatar had bribed FIFA officials to secure hosting rights for the World Cup in men’s soccer. . . . Prosecutors made the accusations in an indictment charging three media executives and a sports marketing company with a number of crimes, including wire fraud and money laundering, in connection with bribes to secure television and marketing rights for international soccer tournaments. . . "

". . . the culture in and around sports at all levels is consistently one of violence without consequence. Players from high school through to the pros seem to have a much higher chance of committing an over-the-line personal foul against another player in a game and suffering a suspension for a game or two than they do of committing an over-the-law offense against another human being in the real world and suffering any kind of meaningful legal consequences. . . These weren’t problems with just my teams, they were problems with virtually all teams. . . Despite the fact that I had very personal reasons to find the abusive behaviors of so many in professional and college sports especially abhorrent and despite the fact that I had professional reasons to stop supporting institutions who made a mockery of academic integrity, I chose to look the other way for a very long time in the name of indulging my favorite pastimes. It didn’t matter. . . Not keeping up with sports and not watching games has been a tremendous freeing up of my time, a much needed boon to my intellectual and creative development, a benefit to my psychological and physical health, and an overall worthwhile decision at this stage in my life. . ."
 
 
Free

- Chicago
 


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Friday, December 16, 2022

Fool . . .

I can be a fool just as well as anybody can
Just a little rope and I'll hang myself like any other man
I'm not so different from the rest
So please don't put me to the test
I don't get my kicks when I hurt you or I make you cry
I can find the courage for anything I want to if I try
I know I have to take the risk
A strange dependency I guess

It's a simple case of matter over mind
It's a human race
There are winners all the time
Just a pretty face 
Such a pretty face

I go walking right in her general direction
I go talking without a fear of my detection
And I've been called every name in the book
But I don't care about it 
Some kind of crook may be remorseful
But if you take a look then you'll see
What kind of fool that I can be

You looked at the world your own way rose-colored spectacles
Only heard the things that you chose
Saw what you wanted to see
You didn't look too hard at me
Had no idea what I could be
On the other hand in my case I knew I wanted you
I could see the trust in your eyes
A trust so far out of place
You didn't see through my disguise
It hit you right between the eyes

Now the game I played is all over and done
Though it hurt you so
There's no way you could have won
So it wasn't fair
Do you think I care

I'll do anything to take advantage
Of a situation thrown my way
I'll move a mountain if I think I have to
I'm moving mountains every day

Call me anything that you want
That's your prerogative
Be as honest as you can be
Make sure you hold nothing back
I'll have to take it like a man
I'll do it any way I can
Odds I won't refute what you say
I've heard it all before
Yes I've heard it time and again
Because I've lived it and what's more
It's just of part of who I am

Do you think I'll change can an old dog learn new tricks
Turn my life around 
There's so much I'd have to fix
No it can't be done
I'll just have my fun







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Thursday, December 15, 2022

Smoke . . .

. . . and mirrors

Can you hear all that I say
Beneath all clever wordplay?
Don’t think that I’m insulting you
That I don’t want your point of view
Working from limited base
So easily losing your place
Why feign a blatant expertise
With no obvious philosophies?

Do you know
What you want
To accomplish here?
Will you go 
To the length you say you will
Or is this just all
Smoke and mirrors?

You may just set precedent
with every signal you’ve sent
Why don’t you learn the protocol
To no longer suffer this at all

Say what you mean if you mean it
Do what you feel in your heart
Make it real when you’re speaking your mind 

Impressions churning and spray
Like repairs flowing away
Pushing downstream ferociously
Uprooting each obstacle you see




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Wednesday, December 14, 2022

Grains . . .

Listen, buy, tell a friend . . . and thanks. 



Please, take a minute to  sample the entire album GRAINS






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