"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.

Hidden Post

Wow. My previous post to this one was flagged and blocked by Blogger. I think that is the first time this has happened in my years on Blogger, and I'm sure I have cursed up a storm over that time. Never a hidden post, until now. At least, not that I can recall. I think the block was because I used an idiom to describe the act of fellatio. Starts and ends with a "b." I wonder if they will block fellatio. Now THAT would be tragic. Très tragique!

I have corrected what I believe is the offending word that caused the block, but I reckon they will be a lot slower updating something than it took the computer police to flag some horrid, filthy, nasty, exciting word. We'll see. 

Nov of 2018

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Post-WDFH

Notes:  

Post-WDFH (White Dudes For Harris). We raised over $4 million for Kamala's campaign. Somehow it's good to know that there are a lot of white guys in this country who are not racist, cannot stand Donald Trump, and support women. Intuitively, you know it. But it's something else to hear them actually talk. I tuned in for the entire 3hr and 20m program, and I think it was time well-spent. I can certainly think of worse ways to spend three hours than listening to a lot of energetic, occasionally inspirational white guys. 

There was a total of about 30 speakers, and my favorites were:

Jeff Bridges

Josh Groban 

Josh Gad

MN Gov Tim Walz

Sean Astin

Joseph Gordon Levitt

Scott Galloway

Doug Jones (ex-Alabama Senator)

Adam Conover

Here is a video replay of the event. The names above are in chronological order, so you can zip around in the file using the progress bar. 

So much good stuff.