Comics for Kamala

There is some pretty funny material in this 3 hr 11 min video of the "Comics for Kamala" fundraiser. You can scan thru the program using the progress bar. It's awesome to see people that you may already respect chipping in to help Kamala crush Trump. The audio might be a little low on this one. 

Put a Woman in Charge

This one from Keb Mo, "Put A Woman in Charge," even though about 6 years ago, is appropriate for today. VOTE BLUE up and down the ticket!

Lyrics:

Put a Woman in Charge (Kevin R. Moore, Beth Nielsen Chapman, John Lewis Parker)

Way back when

In the beginning of time

Man made the fire then the wheel

Went from a horse to an automobile

He said, “the world is mine”

He took the oceans and the sky

He set the borders - built the walls

He won’t stop till he owns it all

And here we are

Standing on the brink of disaster

Enough is enough is enough is enough

I know the answer

Put a woman in charge

Put the women in charge

Put a woman in charge

Put the women in charge

The time has come

We’ve got to turn this world around

Call the mothers

Call the daughters

We need the sisters of mercy now

She’ll be a hero

Not a fool

She’s got the power

To change the rules

She’s got something

that men don’t have

She is kind and she understands

So Let the ladies

Do what they were born to do

Raise the vibration

And make a better place for me and you

Put a woman in charge

Put the women in charge

Put a woman in charge

Put the women in charge

Hallelujah

We’re gonna feel the magic

When the girls take over

it’s gonna be fantastic

Put a woman in charge

Put the women in charge

Put a woman in charge

Put the women in charge

"Celebration"

This tune, "Celebration" by David Mallett, was posted online some 8 years ago and I didn't hear it back then. I suppose I would not have heard of  it, ever, if Heather Cox Richardson (or the Wiki page, if you prefer) had not posted and plugged it on her Facebook site recently. It's got a nice message in it that is appropriate even today, 8 years later. See what you think. Lyrics below.

Filmed and produced by: Roy Clark Additional photography by: Michael Burd Lyrics: sometimes you just dont feel like tryin too many politicians lyin too many hungry babies cryin too many random bullits flyin too much time spent in struggle too many little kids in trouble too many cities gone to rubble too many people talkin double This cant be our destination This could be a better nation time to set the big horse racin we can change the situation Trains a leavin from the station need a brand new generation This could be a celebration now now situations changin fast too much plastic too much trash too many smoke stacks spewing ash too many people with no cash too much waste not enough water too many abandoned sons and daughters too many lost and hopeless feelings too many lowdown shady dealings This can't be our destination This could be a better nation time to set the big horse racin need a brand new generation Trains a leavin from the station me i got no reservation This could be a celebration now now All this time i hear this roaring pavement steel and iron ore and people shouting all so sure that their side is the right side more and more i see abandoned stores and floors weary tired and poorer all the time folks they're just buried in the wine because they're all so bored and it's become unnatural the way we need the things without a reason feed the greed the weeds grow from the roots and we're all runnin from the truth we choose to fight instead of prove ourselves leave love and hope upon the shelf divided they're just free to sell us anything This cant be our destination This could be a better nation time to set the big horse racin need a brand new generation time to change the conversation Trains a leavin from the station This could be a celebration NOW too many people loooking down too many closed up factory towns too much high priced propaganda too much sadness in this land of dreams that once could all come true now its down to me and you tell me what you gonna do tell me what you gonna do This cant be our destination This could be a better nation time to set the big horse racin need a brand new generation Trains a leavin from the station This could be a celebration me i got no reservations This could be a celebration This could be a celebration this could be a celebration this could be a celebration now NOW NOW Copyright 2016 by David Mallett

prisoner swap

Joe Biden is a good man and has been a great president. And he is leaving the Democratic Party in good hands with Kamala Harris. 

Apparently Joe finalized this swap ONE HOUR before he announced he was stepping down from the campaign. Which makes me wonder if the deal was dependent in any way upon Biden dropping out of the race. Which, in hindsight, looks like a bonehead move because Kamala has been unleashed to a wave of enthusiasm and excitement across the Democratic Party. 

Joe is so sweet, he led the group in singing Happy Birthday to one of the young girls whose dad (or granddad?) was being held prisoner in Russia. And Joe's last line in response to one of the shouted questions from the viper press pool is classic. It's at the very end.