She just loves my big ten-inch record of her favorite blues. But nobody plays records anymore. :(

Just some unrelated thoughts:

How long until the alphabet is racist?  Blacks with names started with "y" or "z" always come in last and that's unfair.  I also wonder how long until parents aren't permitted to name their kids.  Either the government will do it or the kids will just be unnamed until they're old enough to self-identify with one.

After all, they've already gone after gender, skin color and now they openly hate Jews.  What's next?

I wonder if movies/tv are so leftist because they automatically disregard the individual.  It's easy to give all the attention to the individual actors on-screen, difficult enough to include directors and screenwriters, never mind the set-design, lighting, editing, sound, costumers, special effects...  Never mind providing all these people transportation, clothes, food, room&board assuming they aren't working in their home town, the business of arranging all these people, providing supplies and that's not even getting into distributing and advertising the finished work.  Yet the actors on-screen get all the attention.

It's not unique to film.  I would assume theater has done that for centuries, as has opera and probably classical music.  Then there's cartoons and comics which don't even include that much, the 'people' 'on-screen' literally don't exist, they're drawings put together by someone else to produce the story, usually multiple people, and it's still a legitimate question how much the business aspects are relevant.

At least classical music, for most of its history, has required seeing a (presumable) majority of the people involved, they're all sitting on stage.  One could pay attention to the individual instruments or the individuals playing the instruments but not without hearing all the others at the same time.  There was no other way to hear music back then without someone playing it live.

Judge Rules That Miss USA Has First Amendment Right to Only Accept Biological Female Contestants
February 28, 2021

Ivy League Cornell University Offers Rock Climbing Class — No White Students Allowed
February 28, 2021

NOTHING TO SEE HERE: Portland Antifa and Black Lives Matter Vandalize USCIS Federal Building
February 27, 2021

One and one and one is three, got to be a racist is you must disagree

□ [“Embarrassing excuse offered for Biden’s vanishing State of the Union Address"]

As far as I know, there's no rules to the State of the Union beyond the Constitution saying that the POTUS must occasionally brief Congress.  Biden did specifically say he'd lay out his plans to a joint-session of Congress on February 23, but that didn't happen.

The basic opinion is that he's just too feeble to stand up for a 90-minute speech with no teleprompters.  It would just be too obvious that he's not remotely capable of being President.  He doesn't speak that long to anyone else even with teleprompters and that's been going on for quite a while now.

But along with things like not flying Air Force-One and not bothering to deal with a Congress now ruled by Democrats after the stolen elections, I have to wonder if there's just no pretending we're still the United States.  They aren't working for the American people, they're serving someone else.  We don't know who, but they aren't part of an independent nation and won't pretend otherwise.

There's at least a little noise about the war against Syria.  Memes are coming out, I liked a Star Wars of the Death Star, "Iran is too remote to be an effective demonstration of our power."  Another movie parody has Biden saying "I'm here to sniff kids and blow up brown people - and I'm all out of kids."

Funny how nobody just cites Biden's campaign promise to do this since it started on his first day.  It's easy enough to find his June 22, 2019 tweet that “Trump’s erratic, impulsive actions are the last thing we need as Commander-in-Chief.  No president should order a military strike without fully understanding the consequences.  We don’t need another war in the Middle East, but Trump’s actions toward Iran only make that more likely."

Or they could cite Kamala Harris' report to Congress.  On April 14, 2018, she tweeted "The president needs to lay out a comprehensive strategy in Syria in consultation with Congress -- and he needs to do it now."  That's what they want, right?  That's what they said they'd do, right?

Press Secretary Jen Pseki tweeted on April 6, 2017 "Also what is the legal authority for strikes?  Assad is a brutal dictator.  But Syria is a sovereign country."

Did Syria stop being sovereign on January 20, 2021?  Assad is still there and is supported by Iran just as they were four years ago.  But there won't be any peace rallies.

Nor will they be complaining about the large cuts in Medicare and Farm Aid in Biden's stimulus plan.  Why should they, it's not like he complained about cuts before it was his job, right?  Well, ok, he did, but he's allowed to do what he opposed others doing.  Too bad if you don't like it.  He's gotta find money to pay $1400/week paid leave for 15 weeks to federal workers which is part of his stimulus. They still haven't gotten around to the one-time $2000 $1400 bonus he promised if people voted for him, but federal workers are a more important class of people.

Or as AOC said "we're in charge and you're just shouting from the cheap seats."

□ [“Boston Public Schools Remove Advanced Programs Because They Weren’t Diverse Enough"]

They're basically proving that there is a vast racial difference if they have to keep lowering the standards to allow certain skin-colors to pass them.  I noticed this a few weeks ago with the claim that 'math is racist.'  No, math is math.  2+2 equal 4 is just a basic fact and you're the racist if you think skin color is relevant.  They're not just reliving the famous 1984 scene, they're trying to prove certain skin colors uncapable of recognizing this and wasting everybody's time to focus on they're new '2+2=5' style because their skin color justifies it and they say so.

It's not like they have any principles.  A year ago, masks would do nothing to stop a virus.  Then masks became necessary for people who would sick.  Then for caregivers.  Then for anyone who dealt with others.  Then for anyone outside their home.  Then inside their home.  Now they're adding double-masks.  It's not like the virus can't get through just as easily.

Biden Admin Wants to Charge Reporters $170 For COVID Tests Every Time They Go to a Briefing
February 27, 2021

Virginia School District Cancels Dr. Seuss Themed ‘Read Across America Day’ for ‘Racial Overtones’
February 27, 2021

Massachusetts school board member calls Jew a ‘kike’ on live TV
February 26, 2021

Within 40 Days of Biden Inauguration: Terrorists Kidnap Another 317 School Girls in Nigeria
February 27, 2021

It’s Black History Month… Yet Amazon Removes Justice Thomas Documentary "Created Equal:  Clarence Thomas In His Own Word" From ‘Prime’ Video Store
February 26, 2021

Women Of Democrat Party Strangely Silent On Andrew Cuomo Sexual Harassment Scandal
February 27, 2021

We can still hurl. In fact, we probably should.

I'm wondering how long they were planning this coup.  It didn't just start last year with the election campaign although obviously the Virus was part of it.

I'm also wondering if privacy is a major aspect of the conflict.  The individual wants to keep things to himself, those who oppose individuality demand everyone else know about it and are offended by "society" not supporting whatever they're into.  Since they can't remove individuality, they still keep things private and that leads to further problems.

This facet might be what leads to (or leads from) them taking whatever viewpoint gives an advantage even if it directly contradicts previous viewpoints.  Less than two years ago, Kamala Harris insisted that the POTUS needed to consult Congress before doing anything with Syria and now we've invaded with Congress just sitting around.  Other leftists said the same thing about Syria, David French even warning against attacking Syria without Congressional approval (don't see a date on the tweet but probably the same time as Harris).

Maybe not the best example of opposition to individuality leading to leftist problems but I'm just getting around to the news and I had that available.  

□ [“New York Times Reports on a Female Black Smith College Student Who Lied About Being Racially Targeted at Smith College, Claims A Lie Is Just Someone's 'Deeply-Felt Sense of Personal Truth'"

Then why do they call other people liars?  They never cite any Republicans as having a "deeply-felt sense of personal truth."  Most likely the Times is just spouting leftist nonsense against Republicans.  The college shuts down its dorms to students in the summer, she broke in anyway and it's "racist" to disagree with her.  And that's what they teach her.

Biden Revokes Trump's Controversial Classical Architecture Order
February 25, 2021

Maryland Teacher Seen Masturbating During Zoom Lesson with 8th Graders – Says It Was “Dumb Luck” After He Is Caught
February 25, 2021

Wayne and Garth are back.  It's just a commercial for Uber but I have to admit, it's nice to see them again.  They may be doing more, there was a reference to an upcoming "big game" they weren't legally allowed to name so I may have to look into sportness [sportafying?] to see what's coming up.

They do look a little older, not a complaint since in reality they're a lot older, but I've watched the commercial several times and it's just enjoyable to see for its own sake.  I can't really think of any reason Wayne's World stuck out for quality but there it was.  At least it didn't make us want to hurl, not everything reaches that standard.

More of the same...

□ [“China Gave Biden Officials Anal COVID Swab Tests 'In Error'"]

That pretty much sums it up, doesn't it?  They want to be all up in your ass and you let them.  I'm half-expecting us to make this a victory celebration in sports when a female-with-a-penis beats a woman-with-a-vagina.  Gotta show that bitch who's boss and he she already wiped the floor with that pussy.  China's just taking this to a higher level.  That's why they're in charge.

How long before Biden apologizes and offers them money for this?

□ [“Female Athlete Shreds Biden Administration To Withdraw Lawsuit: We Deserve To Be The Best, Biological Males Are Taking It Away"]

Inferior woman-with-vagina whines like a sissy girl about strong women-with-penises.  What a ditz.

I have to wonder how actual women are reacting to this.  They demanded actual competition for decades, now they've got it and they're losing big time.  I'm blanking on the name of that chick who got to compete in a men's golf tournament several years ago, but I found it ridiculous that she got so much publicity.  I don't remember how it happened, but I even found myself watching the first few minutes of her big post-competition interview.  She was smiling and politeful and totally into the interview.  I would have forgiven everything if she'd been yelling something along the lines of 'leave me the fuck alone!  I just lost!'

I don't remember her name and I'm deliberately not looking it up, but I bet a lot of people do remember her name.  I also bet very few people can name a single one of the several dozen golfers who did better than she did.  They didn't get interviewed.  They weren't women.

And so now we've arrived here.  It's what you wanted, ladies.  I am wondering if the whole point of "leftism" is first and foremost about destroying men.  Children can be trained for it, women are generally always on that side, they've certainly gotten along with gay men and black men are still at the bottom of the ladder after all these years.  I also wonder if that's why Malcom X seems to have been pushed out of attention, his wife was the only woman he dealt with by choice.

It's something to think about.

□ [“Not Making Headlines: California Man Films Himself on Facebook Live with Two Dead Women on the Floor He Killed, Including Minor"]

And then I found this.  Yes, it's a black man.  I even looked it up to see if it was the same incident I reported a couple days ago and no, it's a totally different black man killing women and children.  It's what liberals want so why do anything about it?

They're all about celebrating their leaders who can do the exact opposite of what they order everyone else to do.

□ [“Bill Gates Defends Using Private Jets While Warning about Dangers of Climate Change"]

He could just not use the plane in the first place but that would be going along with his rules for everyone else so screw that.  He would rather the earth dies than give up his private plane, no two ways about it.

Of course we know he doesn't really believe in this global warming nonsense, it's just nonsense to fool the people who want him in control.  It used to be nuclear weapons and the space program that was causing global warming and, funny, liberals were against those too.  And they don't like anyone challenging them either.

There's an article I'm not even linking to but it covers the "Four Stages of Marxist Takeover":  Demoralization - Destabilization - Crisis - Normalization. The article was from last July so it's been seen for a while.  I'm just mentioning it as a note for the four stages.

□ [“Senate Parliamentarian Says Including $15 Minimum Wage in Democrats’ COVID Package Violates Budget Rules"]

Which breaks easier, Senate Budget rules or the Constitution?

In Final Days, Trump Gave Up on Forcing Release of Russiagate Files, Nunes Prober Says
February 25, 2021

Wenatchee High School Forces Kids in Band to Play in Bubbles and Only Half of Orchestra Can Practice At Once – Parents Do Nothing
February 25, 2021

Five Counties Are Trying To Leave Left Wing Oregon And Become Part Of Idaho
February 25, 2021

Democrats, Antifa Start New Racial Gaslighting Campaign to Portray Vicious Attacks on Asians Committed by Blacks As "White Supremacy"
February 23, 2021

Feds Keep Claiming January 6 an "Armed Insurrection." And They Keep Failing to Produce the Actual "Arms" Carried During It.
February 23, 2021

Biden Bombs Syria to Punish Iran for Attacks on US in Iraq
February 25, 2021

I was holding off on these two headlines a bit, just to make sure.  The photos were taken by the Obama administration and no-one cared, then they complained about the photos to blame the Trump administration, then Biden does what Obama did and no-one cares.  They really don't mind putting children in cages, not in the slightest.  It's just 'immigration detentions centers,' followed by 'cages,' followed by 'migrant child facility.'  Same difference.

Kids in Cages: Biden Opens Gated Compound for Illegal Immigrant Children — Democrats and AOC Silent
January 23, 2021

Psaki Gets Testy with Peter Doocy, Says Biden Admin Putting Kids in Cages is ‘Not Keeping Kids in Cages’ – Blames Covid
January 23, 2021

If I were getting paid for this, I'd be rich.

I've been working on the "History project" so hard, I've only just started looking at the internet.  Don't know how far I'll get on the news, but anyway...

□ [“Chickasha Oklahoma man released early from prison accused in 3 deaths"]

He was sentenced to twenty years in 2017, was released because of the Virus and murdered three people, including a 4-year old.

What are they doing?  Somewhere in the decision-making process, someone has to know this stuff will happen and they want to do it anyway.  That's who's taken over the world now.

□ [“St. Joseph University Professor Suspended After Tweeting Out Against Reparations for Slavery that Ended 156 Years Ago"]

And they're made up of people who can't think of anything else except skin-color and blame others for it.  Notice how they have no complaints about slavery taking place in the 21st century.

Democrats are also trying to get Biden to give up control of nuclear weapons.  He'll obey of course and will effectively end US nuclear power, leaving us vulnerable to anyone who does have it and doesn't listen to Democrats.

That's all for the time being.

Another Democrat Narrative Goes up in Flames – Ex-Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund Says He Had Intel Antifa Was Part of the January 6 Attack
February 23, 2021

California Bill Would Fine Stores $1,000 for Having Separate Boys and Girls Sections
February 24, 2021

Has anyone ever seen Donald Trump and Ted Turner together?

The "history project" continues, the book continues, the world continues to fall apart.

□ [“Biden Caught In Another Big Lie – Claims More Deaths from COVID than WWI, WWII and Vietnam Wars Combined – Simply Not True"]

What are they going to do to him?  He seems to be getting worse, he doesn't even know what executive orders he's signing and must be setting a record for executive orders.  This isn't going to be the end of it, it's going to get worse.  The government is the slave-owner, that's how whoever's really in charge wants it.  This is why I suspect China is most responsible, they've sure been adding slaves recently.

Whoever it is, they're obviously in a rush.  Having stolen all the elections, you'd think there'd be no need to work beyond Congress but they've obviously got plans in mind.  Perhaps Biden's going to drop dead any minute and that will leave Harris who even living Democrats didn't vote for.

□ [“Democrat Florida Official Refuses to Lower Flags to Honor Conservative Icon Rush Limbaugh Despite Gov DeSantis’ Order"]

We're falling apart.  The reds in blue states are resisting, the blues in red states are resisting.  Perhaps they'll be forming their own fiefdoms, or maybe this was already prepared for.  I half-expect to wake up one morning and find that China or Iran have nuked the US.  It's possible they'd invade, but I don't see much point to that.

Currently the "History project" has me looking at movies and tv.  I'm honestly amazed at how far I've been from them for quite a while now.  I'm noticing shows on cable networks I'm not sure I ever heard of and that was back when I had cable which was even longer ago than when I had a tv set.  I probably did, the only ones I notice were on cable channels I would have at least paid attention to, MTV or something, but it is so weird.

How does someone create those shows?  I stopped paying much attention to MTV when they stopped playing much in the way of music videos, but still, how does that happen?  Hiring a bunch of people and filming/editing them for ages can't be cheap, back in their early-reality tv days, even if it is cheaper than normal network shows.

And who's actually paying for them?  The cable companies are paying a certain fee for networks, advertisers pay for more, how the hell do they know how much money should be coming in?  On the rare occasions when I do pay attention to what's on tv, it boggles the mind that they make all these weird shows, who would possibly watch them?  Especially with this much competition and that's just what's on tv.  How many people will die wishing they'd watched more tv?

I am wondering if there's something in the form which does attract certain types of people.  It's aimed at children and is certainly easy to blame for what's gone wrong in the last few decades, but I'm not sure it's actually tv's fault, perhaps it's the "leftism" some people are born with and want to impose upon everyone else.  [I've gotta figure out a better term than "leftism."]

Anyway, this is what I think about.

Harry Shearer Steps Down from Voicing Black ‘Simpsons’ Character Dr. Hibbert
February 23, 2021

Another day gone...

San Francisco School Board Pauses Effort To Rename 44 Schools, Says Its ‘Only Focus’ Will Shift To Reopening Classrooms
February 22, 2021

Chicago mayor funneled hundreds of millions of city's COVID relief to police department
February 20, 2021

KERMIT CANCELED? Disney Slaps ‘Offensive Content’ Label On The Muppet Show
February 21, 2021

□ [“Central Park ice rinks to stay open for remainder of season following dispute with Trump Organization"]

It's insane that they would even consider it.  His only crime was doing what they had failed to do for at least six years, build an ice-skating rink.  They're not capable of it but they'll punish people who are.

□ [“Dem Rep. Ro Khanna: 'We Don't Want' Small Businesses That Can't Pay $15/Hour Minimum Wage"]

You wouldn't catch them running a business of any kind.  It was only a few years ago that Democrats talked about how much they supported small businesses.  No, they support giving orders and sending men with guns to impose their will on the people.  Communism may pretend that the government will vanish, but at least they openly forbid any individuals to run businesses.  Fascism recognizes that the state does better with business existing, they just put themselves in charge of the owners.

□ [“Wayfinding Academy College Offers Free Tuition - for Black and American Indian Students"]

Which connects with how they view race as the most important thing about an individual.

I'm not sure what else I have to say.  How much of this is just repeating myself?  It's not going to be fun to edit the next book.

They're not going to stop.  They have no clue what reality is like and live in a successful enough society that they can go their whole lives without having a clue about that.  So of course they want to destroy the society that made them possible.  If I could think of a place to go, I'd probably look into leaving as soon as possible.  Or pray for a speedy death.

This is the Beginning of the End of the Beginning's Halftime...

We seem to have gotten through last weeks' bad weather.  The Texas region wasn't full of mass-looting, who would have guessed that?

Reading a bit about the Romanian "children's homes."  "The state can take better care of your child than you can" was a long-standing signpost in Ceauşescu's leftist government and it strikes me how that's what leftists are saying nowadays.

All nations quickly realize they have to keep children coming or they'll fall apart but leftism is about destroying everything that makes children and raises them to adults, heterosexual marriage being the first thing on that list.  It took more time to move from pro-abortion to pro-gay marriage than it did to move from pro-gay marriage to 'now you're whatever gender you self-identify as.'  The movement has been going on for a long time.

It's also being noticed that it lines up with the Nation of Islam's insistence that white people people are devils.  And of course the Jews get blamed as well.  There's also a line-up with the Communist Manifesto which proclaims that society is always divided into two groups, the oppressors and the oppressed and funny how they're the ones who get to pick who's who.

All of it falls upon destroying the very concept of individualism and from that, basic biology, i.e. reproduction.  Gender is real, male is male, female is female.  They don't like that.  

Joe Biden Ends Trump Program that Targeted Sex Offenders in the US Illegally
February 21, 2021

Who is on first? John Galt is on first.

Today was just focusing on the "History project," I only just started looking at the internet and have no idea what I'm going to post about.

□ [“Democrats Push Bill that Forces All States to Count Ballots Received 10 Days After an Election"]

They're all in on stealing elections.  They don't even consider how it could work against them, they just assume they'll win.  Unfortunately they're probably right, only people who forge votes can expect to win an election if they're allowed to get away with it and that's what they're about.

□ [“Massive Crowd of Two Supporters Welcomes 81 Million Vote Recipient Kamala Harris Back to Her California Home"]

Well even Democrats wouldn't have voted for her.  We know this because she campaigned for President and lost very badly.  Biden could have picked a dead dog and wouldn't have gotten any fewer votes.

□ [“CNBC Writer Claims '$1,400 Stimulus Check Would Help Keep 20 Million Adults Afloat Through July'"]

How stupid does a person need to be to think this, to say it openly and totally support the rulers?  Assuming for the sake of argument that rent has already been paid for February, that won't pay more than $280 a month through July.  I always live in cheap apartments and it's been a couple decades since that would be a month's worth of rent.  It was the GWB tax cut that gave me enough to pay almost-one month of rent, I could pay two months and have enough change to buy a pizza.

Oh yeah, people will also need to buy food between now and July, that's not included in what she considers as an amazing benefit to the people.  Electricity, travel to and from work, internet...  It adds up but she can't do math.  She does not have a clue what she's talking about and that's who the government wants in media.

□ [“In an Act that NO ONE VOTED FOR, Biden Withdraws Trump’s US Sanctions on Iran"]

I've been doing some thinking about the War on Terror and what has happened in this century.  I don't have any conclusions yet, but one thing I'm sure of is that Biden is outright trying to overthrow the US, or at least the people who give him orders are.  Invading Syria, giving everything up to China and Iran, ignoring anything Congress has ordered...

I have been wondering what will be done about the US embassy in Jerusalem.  Congress flat-out ordered the embassy in that location and I haven't checked but I'm pretty sure Biden was one of those voting for that.  What more could Biden do except break his own rules for its own sake?

Australian Media Runs Segment on Joe Biden’s Dementia! — Something the Poisonous US Media Still Lies About
February 19, 2021

John Kerry Blames Frigid Temperatures and Record Cold on Global Warming, Says We have 9 Years Left to Save the Planet - Will he keep his mansions and private jets?
February 19, 2021

Journalist Nearly Has His Skull Bashed with Hammer by ANTIFA
February 19, 2021

California: Entire school board resigns after leaked video of mocking parents
February 20, 2021

This isn't much of a week. Or a month. Or a year. Or a decade...

Well, it looks like we got through the warmest winter week ever, at least what was promised by the NOAA and all the others predicting 'global warming.'  In reality we were covered with snow.  I live in a desert and it was a lot of snow.  Of course many people lost power because the government had insisted that they use windmills for energy, not oil or gas.  Some sources of energy work well in blizzards, some don't, guess which one leftists want.  Not for themselves but to force on others.

Still thinking about stuff which I'm not sure what to write.  I've been tempted to just make a post of random ideas I've been pondering just so I can keep track of it, but of course I haven't done that.

There are rumors that Diamond Comics Distributors will be purchasing DC Comics.  Obviously not owning the characters but they have the right of first refusal for publishing the comics.

I'm not sure how much to trust the report, but it was DC's attempt to move to other distributors besides Diamond that caused this.  It failed and Diamond sued, resulting in the first-refusal option.  I don't have a clue how they got this far, but apparently DC even tried to restore returning unsold books which was the whole point of the distribution market, that comics stores keep however many copies of a title they order.

DC has been firing some of its long-time employees and their corporate master wants more.  I think AT&T is now the official owner but I might be wrong.  It's also not clear why Marvel wouldn't try to get the rights although they may recognize that's taking too much and just looks iffy.  I was surprised to learn that there were any distributors other than Diamond because they were the only one in the business and got sued for having survived when every other distributor crashed.

And now DC's doing that as well.  Stay tuned...

Whistleblower: Coca-Cola Forces Employees to Complete Online Training Telling Them to “Try to be Less White”
February 19, 2021

Seattle ANTIFA Attack Live-Streamers and Press – Break Windows in the Name Of “Black Justice”.
February 19, 2021

Stanford prof: ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ is racist
February 18, 2021

Prof. Marc Lamont Hill: Goal of Black Lives Matter is to “dismantle the Zionist project”
February 17, 2021

Biden Team Moves to Restart Talks with Iranian Regime Three Days After They Bombed US Base and Killed Contractor
February 18, 2021

Poland Will Fine Big Tech $13.5 Million Per Case For Removing Ideological Content: “Poland spent 45 years under Communism…It taught us the value of free speech”
February 18, 2021

Government should abolish government! No one would question that.

□ [“Joe Biden Suggests Blacks and Hispanics Are Too Stupid to Figure Out How to 'Get Online'"]

The quote is long and tedious so I'm not going after it now but yes, he does specify that certain skin-colors are not capable of using this new-fangled "internet."  After all, they live in places that Democrats have run for decades.

□ [“They can't blame Trump for it: Media Ignores First UAE Ambassador to Israel Opens Official Embassy in Tel Aviv"]

That's fine, but why did they pick Tel Aviv?  Jerusalem would be a better location, one would think.  Or is Jerusalem going to be the new "Mecca" where only certain types of people are allowed entry?

□ [“Oakley, CA School Board Mocks Parents Who Support Reopening: 'They Want Their Babysitters Back'"]

They even admit they aren't essential workers.  If they were, they might think parents wanted them back, but they aren't and they full know it.  They won't lift a finger no matter what, they can't possibly think they're essential.  At least they can't be allowed near children.

□ [“Fauci: It’s 'Non-Workable' For Teachers To Demand Full Vaccination Before Reopening"]

We're starting to see this happen.  It's as old as Lenin, leftists in charge do not behave like leftists, they expect obedience and don't try pretending some nonsense is actual science, they'll ignore it anytime they want.  But at least they'll stay in charge.

□ [“'I will not make that happen': Biden declines Democrats' call to cancel $50K in student debt"]
□ [“AOC Isn't Happy With Biden After He Shot Down the Student Loan Debt Forgiveness Proposal"]

Leftists will start combating each other soon, I just don't think it'll be in time to save the rest of us.  I'm still trying to figure out how or why they avoid individuality so much but they always push pain outward to spare themselves until it's too late.  If he can order universities to return the money up to $10 thousand, why not $50 thousand?  Unless he has no interest in forcing universities to charge less money, in which case they can raise the prices all they want and no one will stop them.

These are basic observations that anybody who's had to live in the real world would notice but that's not what leftists do.

□ [“Joe Biden Skips Michigan Trip, Calls an Early 'Lid' at White House – Kamala Harris Takes Over All In-Person Events"]

They're not really even pretending he's in charge.  They're already starting to pretend she is.

Fake News: Politico Omits Joe Biden’s Racist Lines and Defense of China’s Uyghur Genocide in Report on His Town Hall Dumpster Fire
February 17, 2021

Dementia Joe Lies to CNN that US Did Not Have COVID Vaccine Before He Entered Office — Forgets About the 2 Shots He Had in December and January
February 18, 2021

Convicted Murderer Turned Activist in Baltimore Wants the City to Pay Criminals Not to Kill
February 18, 2021

Kroger to Close Two More Stores After Seattle City Council Mandates “Hazard Pay” for Grocery Workers
February 17, 2021

Facebook Shows Australia Who’s Boss: Cuts off News Down Under and Blocks Access to Health Departments, Charities, Emergency Services in the Process
February 17, 2021

Michigan Removed 177,000 Voters from Voter Rolls in January After Certifying Biden Won Michigan by 154,000 Votes in November
February 18, 2021

Ireland and The Netherlands Ended Electronic Voting After Finding Machines Untrustworthy and Failed Security Requirements
February 18, 2021

BLM Activist Working At Chattanooga, TN Library Fired After Allegedly Burning Library Books By Trump, Coulter. Now He’s Claiming Racial Discrimination.
February 17, 2021

Democrat Leaders in NY State Senate Move to Strip Governor Cuomo of Emergency Powers
February 17, 2021

Pigford 2.0: Radical Leftist Raphael Warnock Introduces Plan to Give $5 Billion to Black Farmers Due to Effects of Coronavirus
February 17, 2021

There's a problem when Michael Jackson looks more manly than you...

Rush Limbaugh, age 70
February 17, 2021

So the left gets to spend a few days showing off its hatred of others and the joy they get when people die.  Then they'll go back to claiming how compassionate they are and how they want unity.  Better obey them or else.

I've noticed a rumor that the aircraft Biden uses is not given "Air Force One" as a callsign when he's onboard.  If true, that makes sense, they only do that for the elected POTUS which certainly isn't him.  It also keeps being reported that the number of views on videos he sends out is far below views Trump gets now or before the stolen election.  I would like to think there's still something going on but I'm not hopeful.  Prove me wrong, I beg you.

I have a lot more headlines but I'm not sure of what else to write, so as you probably expected, I'll look at the last couple decades of Michael Jackson's output.  What?  Didn't you see this coming?

Not remotely a Jackson fan, I do like a few of his songs and recognize his talent in a few others.  That's about it.  He was obviously a major part of the changes in the music industry since the 70s but there's really no clue about how much he came up with and how much came from above.  His last record, Invincible, reportedly cost $30 million and has got to be the most expensive album ever.  There's no way that could remotely make a profit and my understanding is that it just put him deeper in the hole which already had his gigantic mansion and ridiculously-expensive lifestyle.

On the other hand, he definitely had a lot of income and I don't recall offhand details about them, but just owning most of the Beatles catalogue would be enough to bring in trainloads of money.  [George had ownership of the songs he wrote starting with the White Album, obviously the Beatles didn't own the songs they did covers of like "Twist and Shout" or "Rock'n'Roll Music" and I think one song, "Penny Lane," was given by the catalogue's then-owner to his daughter as a present.  The rest went to Jackson.]  It's obviously living on a much-higher financial level than the rest of us do.

So he may not be on Axl Rose's level, but that's not a bad thing.  Or a good thing, depending on how you look at it.  He obviously had to deal with far more problems than the rest of us do and as many as Axl always complained about.  He had his brothers but they didn't remotely have any success without him but they're still his brothers.  I've actually started wondering how much of any of this success was real, how much did Janet Jackson have in her career?  I'm iffy on it, they obviously had hits, I'm just not sure we can believe how big of a success they were, or anybody else for that matter.

Anyway, a month and ten days after Appetite For Destruction came out, Jackson released Bad which had 11 songs and 2 non-album B-sides.  G'n'R:  12     Jackson:  13

I'm not enough of a Jackson fan to really dig deeply into every song he did anywhere, so "Do The Bartman" is really the only one I'm counting.  At some point he did "Come Together" on stage, I know I've heard it but don't remember a thing, but it's unclear where or how it came out so I'm just giving up on it.  So I'm only counting one song regardless of any other work.  Meanwhile, G'n'R released Lies.

G'n'R:  20     Jackson:  14

In 1991, two months after G'n'R *finally* got an album out, Use Your Illusions I and II, Jackson released Dangerous.  He was releasing large numbers of singles, nine on this album, but there were no non-album B-sides.  Hell, there were rarely any other songs for the rest of his life, just remixes and different productions of the A-side.  I can't figure out why anybody would do that but that's what happened.

G'n'R:  50     Jackson:  28

In 1993, G'n'R released the Spaghetti Incident cover album.  In 1995, Jackson released HIStory, a greatest hits album attached to an album of new material, yammering about the media going after him for his treatment of children which by now everybody seems to admit that, yeah, he did that.

G'n'R:  63     Jackson:  43

G'n'R released two songs before Chinese Democracy, that's all.  In 1997, Jackson released the Blood on the Dance Floor remix album.  I'm still not willing to go into it enough to confirm, but apparently there were at least three new songs, including "Ghosts" which was the most expensive music video ever.  I know I've seen the video, written by Stephen King, and did not like it.  The song is meaningless and the only interesting thing about the video is how much makeup Jackson put on to play totally different people.  It was just a remake of "Thriller."

G'n'R:  65     Jackson:  46

G'n'R released Chinese Democracy in 2008, that's all.  In 2001, Jackson released Invincible, the mind-boggling $30 million disaster.  It had sixteen songs.  In 2003, he added a new song to a new greatest hits album.

G'n'R:  79     Jackson:  63

Jackson died several months after Chinese Democracy came out.  My understanding is that his family is basically impossible to get through so there has only been two albums released since, Michael and Xscape.  Neither of them had a lot of songs but to the best of our knowledge, two were recorded during the Bad sessions, two were recorded during the Thriller sessions and one was recorded in 1980.  The rest were fairly recent, the Invincible sessions or later.  For convenience sake, I'll just count them all.  Axl released old songs too, certainly Michael Jackson deserves that much credit.

G'n'R:  79     Jackson:  81

So Michael Jackson released more albums than Axl after Chinese Democracy came out despite being dead.  He released more albums before dying than Axl that took less time and also sold more copies, released more singles and videos despite costing more money and it's not like Jackson didn't have other things to worry about.  He had brothers he couldn't fire the way Axl got rid of his band members.  He had serious problems with his record company which, one would think, Axl could have learned from.  He had drug problems which Axl didn't.  He didn't make an album that he hoped a little boy would understand like Axl did for Stephanie Seymour's son, that would be so creepy.  Not like "My Michelle" which was about the one junior-high schooler who ever hung out with drug-addicted sex addicts.

And he did all this AFTER making an album bigger than anyone had ever seen before or since, all in less time than Guns'n'Roses entire existence.  And Thriller hadn't been his first album, Off The Wall was a gigantic hit too.  And he'd made solo albums before that.  And the Jackson Five have great hits that still get played to this day.

I don't know which one of them qualifies as a winner in this, hell, I don't even know which one qualifies as a bigger loser, but at least one of them was able to produce more music while living... that way.  The other one hasn't even come close.

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Rococo Coffee is all in the past now, I don't need it anymore, I have a REAL girlfriend!

I've seen an internet comment that the US government is reacting to the January 6 thing the way China did to the Tiananmen Square protests.  The difference being that Tiananmen Square was real, this January 6 event was a fake used to blame anybody who disagrees with the left.  Trump supporters didn't burn down any buildings, they didn't commit any violence, they'd behaved just like they did at every Trump rally, but all last year, leftists were doing exactly what they now accuse Trump supporters of doing.

I would agree that leftists are obeying China and how they treat dissidents, but that's just following orders.  They're going to stay focused on Trump, they know he has a much bigger chance of winning in 2024 than Biden does, assuming elections are still permitted by then.

It also looks like "Believe All Women" is coming back, there are attacks on Joss Whedon for his treatment of females in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.  The actresses openly want nothing whatsoever to do with Whedon, odd considering he's so "pro-feminist."  Safe to assume the women who were accusing Joe Biden have been silenced now, they came out just before that movement shut down.  Neat coincidence.

I don't know if it will go anywhere or means anything, but I suspect the gender difference is really coming out these days.  There's leftism which imposes its pretense that there is no difference and there's reality, which can most easily be seen by the women-with-penises setting record after record in sporting events now that they're able to take on those sissy women-with-vaginas after all these centuries.  Kick their asses, women-with-penises, kick their asses!

Anyway, Whedon is just an example of how this works in Hollywood which is atop the pop culture of society.  I've never seen Buffy but my understanding its was in the forefront of modern-feminism and obviously the Marvel Movies followed in that, building up to the picture of all the chicks in the climax of Avengers 4.  The effect is to perpetuate female insanity and get men to go along with it no matter what the cost.  That way lies disaster and we've been seeing it happen all along.  If it wasn't Whedon, it would have been someone else.

I am interested in the notice, which I'd never known, that Whedon is just following the family business.  I didn't realize he was just staying in the business.  His father Tom Whedon was a writer at the start of Captain Kangaroo and worked on developing puppet shows for kids tv, bringing in Jim Henson.  He later worked for the Children's Television Workshop as a headwriter for The Electric Company and later on wrote episodes of Alice and Golden Girls as well as others.  His father John Whedon wrote for Donna Reed, Dick Van Dyke, Andy Griffith and Leave it to Beaver.

Makes me wonder who else has been around Hollywood that long?  Like I said, if Whedon didn't follow their footsteps, someone else would have.  But this is what the left has been going after for a long time, all of history, really.

I've also been noticing recent references made to the Fabian Society, turn-of-the-century socialists who named their group after the Roman general who wore down Hannibal and the Carthaginian invasion, the goal was to defeat them in the long-run because they couldn't win in an actual battle.  The Fabian socialists followed that example with the goal of eliminating all their inferiors, eugenics or otherwise.

I'm not the only one who's been thinking about the Reichstag Fire, just after Hitler took office and used to control media, suspend freedom and arrest people who disagreed.  I might have said this before, but it's also a bit iffy, National Socialism is just Socialism not pretending it must destroy the nation, they had started from Communism and Russia was trying very hard to take over Germany at the time so there was more going on during that period than what the left now pretends in accordance with Russian propaganda.

There's also the "Thirty Tyrants" Sparta imposed on Athens after the Peloponnesian War ended in 404BC although I think that's a little iffier.  Athenian dominance and corruption was what caused the problem, the issue was that Sparta didn't have anything to replace it with and no way to maintain the system they had conquered, so Greece basically faded out until the Romans took over.  We could cite Democrats as the modern-day "Thirty Tyrants," that's fair.

They oppose any mention that the election was stolen.  They oppose looking into any of the voter fraud that is already known, much less investigating any more.  They have always been upfront about hating the nation they now control and have always wanted to destroy it, especially with the help of our enemies.  And now with the Time article, they've admitted to stealing the election which they pretend didn't happen and oppose anyone saying otherwise.

That's tyranny, that's evil, that can only cause disaster and suffering, that's exactly what they're after.  They don't care about "consent of the governed," they just expect obedience.

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□ [“Lee Smith Nails It, The Elites “Want Us To Know” They Hold all Power and Control"]
The question “do the elites care if we know” is accurately answered by “they want people to know.”  The outlook that elites are hypocritical is the wrong nuance to what is visible. Their openness about their untouchable constructs is part of their purpose.
“Elitism” in its most raw and brutal display is a system of people who are beyond reproach according to their own outlook.  They must not be questioned; they are in ultimate control of society, outcomes or (fill_in_the_blank) as an extension of their self-proclaimed magnanimity.  Essentially they are projecting their position inside a club and all those not in the club are outsiders who do not get to provide input or judgement on the club rules.
This might sound like a DUH statement from the literal definition of “elitism”; however, it must be accepted this outlook is one of consumption, not determination.  They believe they represent the ‘greater good’ and by extension control moral authority.  Thus, within their mind, they are above reproach.  The visible outcome is they operate outside the systems they push upon others who are not in the club.
Elites do not have to wear masks (Pelosi hair salon); or elites do not have to abide by group and social distance rules (Newsom at restaurant party); or elites do not have to concern themselves for carbon emissions (Kerry private airline travel); or elites do not have to worry about the justice system (Clinton emails, Comey FBI lies), etc.
This is NOT hypocrisy, this is a fundamental part of creating a classist society.
Those within the club, in this example the DC club, want those outside the club to accept there are two systems of rights and responsibilities.   The club members have all powerful rights and no responsibilities for consequences; the non club members have lesser rights and full responsibility for consequences.  This is the cornerstone of a tiered or classist society outlook.
“Rules for thee and not for me” is more than a catch phrase; it is an actual worldview with a history in political control.  They are not hypocrites, they are living out their creed.

We were promised that snow wouldn't exist by now, they were lying!

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□ [“Oregon promotes teacher program that seeks to undo 'racism in mathematics'"]

"The concept of mathematics being purely objective is unequivocally false, and teaching it is even much less so.  Upholding the idea that there are always right and wrong answers perpetuate objectivity as well as fear of open conflict."
 - Equitable Math toolkit

This is insane.  Mathematics exists to be objectively true and there is no conflict, open or closed, much less an emotion facing that conflict.  Notice they aren't including themselves in any possible way wrong.  The people who insist that nothing is totally right always leave themselves out of that claim and expect obedience.

□ [“'If white people were still here, this wouldn’t happen': the majority-Black town flooded with sewage"]

That's because whites prefer to live in places with working sewage which they know how to build and maintain it.  If they don't know, they're willing to learn.  It's safe to assume the people here only vote Democrat.  As LBJ said, they'll keep blacks where they are for 200 years and that's what liberals want.  And yes, of course the article quotes someone who blames "racism" but no-one will ever catch him repairing sewers and cleaning off mold.

□ [“ISIS: We're baaack!"]

And we're back to this.  Muslims know that victory may not be in their lifetimes, they are very capable of waiting.  And there's no protests, the infidel knows how to give in.

People who claim that voting is the most important thing should stop breathing, eating and using the toilet. But they can still vote Democrat.

I still haven't gotten around to looking at that Time Magazine article on the "well-funded cabal of powerful people" or even articles written about it, but in hindsight, it's obviously setting up for the impeachment.  Time would have needed weeks to prepare the article and they've been on top of the media scale for decades so that's where they were this would come out.

Even if I had studied the news reports, I doubt it would have been clear exactly why they were doing it.  Are they trying to get ahead of the news reports on the stolen election, "narrate" the events the way they want, possibly even sneak out some truths without being caught by their masters?  Russians had to do a lot of that using samizdat.  It seems unlikely but who knows anymore?

So apparently the impeachment failed again.  That's definitely a surprise, I wouldn't have thought they'd even try unless they had everything set up in advance.  I assume that's how they'll treat elections from now on so why would this be different?  Perhaps when it came down to it, there were Senators who just couldn't go through with unleashing the disaster that would follow.

Apparently the Senate voted to allow witnesses and then suddenly changed their minds, perhaps realizing what witnesses would be made public and they didn't want us to see that.  Some witnesses called to testify under oath would be Democrats, even Nancy Pelosi, and that couldn't be allowed.  They hadn't thrown out all the rules that would keep them from getting whatever they wanted.  They believed their own press but at some point they have to recognize that there was more and that the press covering this would be worse than actually getting on with their jobs.

I assume they'll try again some other way.  Who knows, perhaps Trump will be impeached a third time.  They'll definitely attempt state criminal courts run by Democrats so the "guilty" verdict is already written.  Don't need to face voters with that.  Stalin had to go after Trotsky supporters for many years after taking power.

The left is going to keep going bonkers.  They've made Trump the most acquitted POTUS in US history even after stealing the election from him and it's not like they're going to drop it and start focusing on the Chinese virus they pretend is so horrible to the country.  They aren't even going to figure out how to see if illegal immigrants have this virus, or any other kind, they won't look at the terrible economy, they won't see Iran or China doing anything.  At least the media won't turn against them, this will all be fought out in private.

They need authoritarianism if they ever hope to get socialism, they just never admit it until they've got total power.

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So if we get rid of Ruth, we'll be Ruthless?

Well, I've watched a movie.  I do that once in a while.  I think I've actually been doing it more in the last year or so although that's still not very many at all.  I haven't even seen anything from Avengers lately and that was most of what I did watch.

Anyway, Ruthless People was a fun movie in the mid-80s by the Zucker Brothers.  It had an actual plot and characters so it wasn't like the movies they're mostly known for, probably why it's been forgotten now.  I hadn't seen it in ages but for some reason I decided I must see it again so there it is.

Danny DeVito is an obnoxious rich guy who plans to murder his really-horrible wife, Bette Midler, only to find out she's been kidnapped by a goofy couple, Judge Reinhold and Helen Slater, who think he had cheated them in business.  The characters are all pretty believable just because they're so unlikable, but that's probably what inspired the title.  They aren't that deep but the actors do a good job fleshing them out and the plot is quite straightforward.  The ending falls a bit flat but there wasn't anywhere else to go.

I did like how there were bits of clever camera angles.  One thing I've been noting is how much movies are just really really expanded use of the comics medium and it's nice to see some of that although it's obviously way more difficult and time-consuming than an artist just sitting down and drawing that, then moving on.

I do have to wonder if there was some part of this trying to push through in the 80s, in pop culture if nothing else.  Mick Jagger performed the title track as he was trying to get away from the Rolling Stones, the Zucker Brothers were halfway between Airplane and The Naked Gun and this seems very time-specific even as there's a sense of timelessness about it.  Billy Joel threw in his "Modern Woman" song for the other biggest song on the soundtrack and an unseen/uncredited Phil Hartman was heard twice as a news caster.  Was this a specific attempt at something - which I'm starting to assume Hollywood does - or just throwing in more of their overall plans which they probably do anyway?

I am pondering movies a lot these days, probably why I'm watching (slightly) more than I have in the last few decades.

The toilet is racist again, it's overflowing all over the floor!

I did listen to the Led Zeppelin reunion album, Celebration Day, recorded on December 10, 2007.  It was enjoyable.  Only "Kashmir" was really noticeable as a great song but it was generally fun.  Plant's vocals are definitely not what they used to be but they probably never were in live performance.  I actually liked the bridge of "Whole Lotta Love" which surprised me, but they had a lot of time and practice to make it entertaining in concert.  Even the verses weren't as annoying as I always find the album version.

One thing that did stick out was just that It Was Zeppelin!  They didn't really stand out for me musically, not a complaint, just that I didn't hear much that blew me away but there was an almost-tangible sense of being in the presence of living legends doing what got them to this point.  Not many people were giving a thought to Ahmet Ertegun who this was in memory of.  The only mention of him on the album was Plant saying "Hey Ahmet, we did it!" at the end of "Stairway to Heaven."  Wonder if that was a reference to something private.

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□ [“UN Report: Iran, North Korea 'Resuming' Long-Range Missile Cooperation"]

I have to wonder how much of this is just these two nations being themselves and how much of it is a reaction to Chinese behavior.

□ [“Biden Makes History: First President in 40 Years to Punt on Contacting Israel; White House doesn't list Israel as American ally"]

So now we're in the position that Israel doesn't exist which Israel's neighbors had finally abandoned after all these decades.

□ [“Trump’s Defense Team ABSOLUTELY RUINS Democrats With 13 Minute Montage of Liberals Doing the Same Thing They Accused Trump of Doing"]

It's not going to stop them.  They're allowed to do things they pretend others did and oppose, that's what makes them special.  They don't even need to question it, they just obey.  I assume they're force their way through impeachment and if that doesn't work, they'll find some other way.

Forty years before Chinese Democracy came out...

Don't feel like going into politics since it's always depressing and I've been working on my "History project" too much to think about anything else.  So what will I do except listen to Led Zeppelin?

As I've said many times, I'm not a Zeppelin fan, I prefer bands that copied them.  Not that I haven't listened to the band enough in my lifetime.  I've been listening to some instrumental music, mostly classical, as I work on the "History project" and I was wondering if I could go for The Song Remains The Same since it's *mostly* instrumental.  I never cared for that album much and obviously I haven't uploaded it from cd to this computer so that's out.  I wasn't going to listen to the 2006 reunion concert, just didn't feel like it, and I'm not much of a fan of concert recordings anyway.

So what the hell, just go for the first album.  "Good Times Bad Times" has always been one of my favorites, it's short, it's fast, it's catchy.  One thing I've never liked about the band is how repetitive their songs are, seemingly always based around one guitar riff played over and over and over.  This song does that but it works well.  The bass and drums show off their part and the guitar solos are icing on the cake.

The rest of the side A is long songs, over six minutes each.  It does feel like it was the basic sound at the end of the 60s but that makes sense, it was recorded in 1968.  Essentially it was getting away from the Beatles-style for generic British blues-rock.  I do enjoy it, probably for that reason.  They're just riffing off whatever was going on at the time.  Plant is just throwing in vocals here or there and the rest of it is well-done jamming.  I notice all but the first song are now credited to other writers.  Who knows if they get paid?

Still, this was Led Zeppelin without any of its fame.  They had just finished their first tour which they played as the Yardbirds and had to pick the new name.  I've never thought Jimmy Page was a great guitarist but he did know how to use whatever talent he had as well as being the producer.  He and Zeppelin's manager paid for the recording process so there was maximum saving of time to make what they wanted before even getting a recording contract.  John Paul Jones was a total pro and knew how to accomplish the task.  Robert Plant and John Bonham were newbies who just went along.  And in 36 hours of studio time, they made just under 45 minutes of music.

I don't have any idea how long it's been since I've heard the B-side.  "You're Time Is Gonna Come" doesn't even sound familiar but it actually had a catchy chorus.  "Black Mountain Side" shows off Page on guitar and producing, then it cuts right into "Communication Breakdown" which is similar to "Good Times Bad Times," if less catchy.  There are only a few kinds of songs they go through here but they can take each one in different directions.  

One the one hand, it's definitely Led Zeppelin.  On the other, I don't know how they were particularly any better or different from any of their competitors.  There must have been awareness of what the fans wanted to hear - particularly in America - and it was definitely an advantage to have pros bring in a finished album, I just don't have a clue what any company would want to sell, Atlantic Records or anybody else.

But obviously it worked.  I'm just hearing the music, not remembering much of anything.  "How Many More Times" sounds like an album finally, that's about it.  But this isn't a complaint, it's where rock'n'roll was going and they were leading the way, even if they were following earlier examples.  I still like Page's guitar playing more than Eric Clapton's, make of that what you will.

I'm now listening to "Baby Come On Home," an extra track recorded and not released until 1993 as an extra track for their Boxed Set 2 and later added to the re-release of Coda.  It actually sounds neat because it's more pop-music than the rest of Zeppelin and I like Jones playing the organ.  We can see why they didn't go in that direction which is why it was probably never included on the album, I'm just surprised they even bothered to record it.  Quite possibly they were expecting to release singles and wanted to have something like this available for one.

"Sugar Mama" isn't as interesting.  The band is fine but there's no point in bothering with lyrics like that.  Couldn't they have written something else instead of using an established blues song?  No one would have known.  Oh well, it's easy to tell why this didn't make the album, one wonders why they even bothered on it?

Still, that's 11 songs in 36 hours, two of which wouldn't even be known for a few decades.  It's definitely one of the most productive moments in music history.  I may not be a Zeppelin fan but I'm not ignorant of what they accomplished and it started here.  The band had only formed in August and the Yardbirds had only broken up in July.  Now they already had work that would take them to the new era.  And we're still there.

And just a note, Plant has released eight albums with 96 songs since 1993, not counting bonus tracks, b-sides on singles or new songs written with Jimmy Page for their MTV reunion.  Ignoring all that other stuff, he's recorded and released more songs since the last real G'n'R album than G'n'R ever has.  Plant also released albums before that.

I haven't heard any new Plant album since Walking to Clarksdale and I didn't like that one.  I think I've heard some of his newer songs here or there but I don't recall them.  Actually I think I have Dreamland so I must have heard it but don't remember and am too lazy to check.  Fate of Nations is one of my favorite albums ever and he did a few good songs before that.  He was also in some popular band you might have heard of.

You can say Robert Plant's music is worthless but at least he has something to fall back on and at least he keeps working anyway.  He'd just turned 20 when Zeppelin recorded their first album and now he's 72 years old.  Led Zeppelin's career took less time than we've spent eager to hear the second part of Axl's "trilogy."  We're only alive for a brief moment and have to make what we can within that time.  Which example would you rather follow?

Funny how no one's asking to see the plan for the revolution, they just assumed they've won.

Democrats supported 275 riots last year, now they're all hissy about one.  Buildings burned down, people killed, then there's the one they're so offended about.

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□ [“Jeep Removes Bruce Springsteen’s Controversial Fake “Unity” Super Bowl Ad From Youtube After Learning Of His Recent DWI Arrest"]

They could have learned it before but then they wouldn't have given him a lot of money to tell his followers to buy a jeep.

□ [“They Really Hate Our Country: White House Says Mavericks’ National Anthem Ban Recognizes US Failings"]

Funny how no other nations make that complain.  China practices slavery and none of its people are allowed to say China has failed.

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I would have thought he was a lot older.  But then, I also would have thought he died ages ago.

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Time is ticking by, like we're all waiting for something to happen.  Of course the purge continues, one side was ready for that.

It would be nice to think that the good people will all be gone soon and the rest can suffer here in misery.  But that probably won't happen and we'll all have to suffer.

Peace has been pretty lousy all these decades, let's not give it any more chances.

Time to look up what's happened today.  I've heard they haven't finished the impeachment of the President yet, I assume they'll automatically find him guilty of whatever they can think of.  Did Trump's lawyer even cite all the Democrats demanding violence in the last few years?

□ [“Hand Recount Finds Dominion Voting Machines Shorted EVERY REPUBLICAN Candidate in Windham, New Hampshire, 300 Votes!"]

This stuff keeps coming out.  There will probably be more and I'm beginning to suspect they've done this for a long time.  I also wonder if it started when they started losing more than a few seats anywhere in the South.  GWB's Republican party won a lot more seats than Ronald Reagan's and Reagan won way more than Richard Nixon yet somehow they insist that all those KKK members magically went Republican in the 1960s and somehow the blacks have stayed right where they were all this time, the KKK party.  None of them ever question that.

□ [“Democrat Shill Bruce Springsteen Arrested for DWI, Reckless Driving in New Jersey Last November 14"]

You think someone that rich would just be having someone drive for him.  I guess if you're that rich, you can do whatever you want and no one can stop you.  Or punish you as long as you vote Democrat.

I'm still pondering the Time Magazine report and comparisons to the Reichstag Fire.  Notice that Antifa wasn't out protesting in DC on January 6.  They magically all found something else to do that day.  And, except for burning down buildings and killing people, Trump supporters magically started acting like all the leftist rioters did all last year which Democrats totally supported.

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Time just keeps on falling away. On the bright side, we won't have to put up with this much longer.

□ [“Trump Defense Lawyer Schoen Plays Compilation Video of Democrats Calling For Trump’s Impeachment Since Day One of His Presidency"]

I assume that won't make a difference.  They stole the election and control of Congress and didn't have any interest in the Constitution before that, I take it as a given they'll vote 'guilty' and won't be surprised if it's unanimous.

□ [“Cuba opens up its economy to private businesses"]

If there's any up-side to this at all, the rest of the world now has to have some good ideas since the USA will no longer look out for them.  Of course China's just going to move in but it's something.

The price of gas has jumped up 10 cents in the last day or so.  I assume it's not going to stop there.  Gotta take poor people's money, at least the rich can afford it and they support this.  Funny how that works.  It'll keep moving up like Joe Biden with a 12-year old girl, not gonna quit.

"Protestors should not let up."
 - Kamala Harris
"There needs to be unrest in the streets."
 - Ayanna Pressley
"If you see anybody from that cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gas station, you get out and create a crowd and you push back on them."
 - Maxine Waters
"I just don't know why there aren't uprisings all over the country.  Maybe there will be."
 - Nancy Pelosi

But only them.  No one else is allowed to do that or they'll be punished.  Just like using Molotov cocktails at the White House like rioters did in June 2020, that's ok when they do it.  Hillary was allowed to question election results, so were her supporters, but not the people who actually had the election stolen from them, that's totally different.

And now they've got their own Reichstag Fire to arrest anybody they don't like.

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I would rather none of them be Californian, if you don't mind.

This can't go on for long.  Leaving aside all the opposition, they can't keep their own people in line enough to not challenge anything and then either they have to punish their own people or openly throw the concept of law out entirely.

Or maybe they'll try both.  This is not a place I want to stay.

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For whatever reason, I've decided to listen to music, and not only that, something I haven't heard in ages.  An entire album no less.  Dennis Wilson, Pacific Ocean Blue.  He's not a great vocalist but very good at what he's doing.  The music is captivating soft-rock, the lyrics aren't great but they don't really stand out.  He's just singing what goes along with the melody.  It all sounds great and is nothing like the Beach Boys.

Oh, you didn't know who that is?  Yeah, he's one of those Wilson brothers.  He was the lunatic, devoted to Charles Manson until just before the murders, spent all his money on sex and drugs and died at the end of December 1983, falling off his boat and not coming back.  He made this album in the late-70s and didn't live long enough to finish the sequel.

It was a hit, surprisingly.  Not a huge hit but apparently it kept selling well for a long period of time, essentially outselling then-current Beach Boys records.  He was the first one to achieve something outside the band and it did give him more influence, for whatever that was worth.  Drummers aren't usually the ones to step out of the group first.

I've started off with the bonus tracks added to its 30th anniversary and those are immediately lovely.  There's not much in the way of pop music but it totally lives up to late-70s style.  "Tug of Love" and "Only With You" just leap out as sounding great.  The instrumental "Holy Man" is similar, the main problem is it's too short.  Wikipedia says there's a 2019-release of the song with lyrics and vocals added by Foo Fighters singer Taylor Hawkins and... Brian May and Roger Taylor???  How did that happen?  Why hadn't I heard of it before?  Anyway, "Mexico," the last bonus track is also an instrument and even longer, so that works nicely.  These were very nice to hear and only now am I starting the actual album.

"River Song" does have more of a Beach Boys-influence.  It's more pop-sounding in a good way, I don't think there was much in the way of drums on the earlier songs, this one definitely does.  The production is excellent, it's tough to hear different instruments or vocalists, they all play together and move around all over.  This is the sort of thing the recording studio was made for, there'd be no way to play this live without a giant band.  The mood changes for "What's Wrong" for something that sounds more like a 50s or 60s track although the instrumentation is still up-to-date.  If there's anything wrong, it's just that the production is so high on the level that the songs have no way to end, they just drop the volume suddenly and that's it.

"Moonshine" opens well but just carries along.  There also is a lot of songs that aren't catchy in and of themselves which would be helpful.  Then there's "Friday Night" which was always one of my favorites and has a powerful dramatic opening.  The lyrics are clearer than most of the songs.  They don't really put anything together but that's not always a bad thing.  I'm getting a theory about how lyrics are essentially meaningless and the point is basically to make them rhyme and sing them well.  He does a great job singing here although the track just ends again.

That's pretty much how it's going to go for the rest.  It all sounds great, I'm genuinely glad I'm hearing this again, but there's no sense of direction in any of the songs.  I might wind up following it with a few Beach Boys tracks just to remember how they crammed as much pop music as possible into three minutes.  I do assume I won't hear the unfinished tracks from the Bambu follow-up.  "Thoughts of You" is quite good, soft melody switching into loud orchestra tones.  It's a nice ending to side A.

Another thing that's worth mentioning was how good Wilson was with his voice.  He was possibly the weakest of the Beach Boys who had very high standards for singing and he had to learn how to work within his limitations to accomplish that much.  It is fantastic here.  "Time" actually ends well, slowly fading out.  "You and I" ends well too, even if it's just another song that sounds great but doesn't go anywhere.  It's obviously what this is about.  Then there's the title track which does even more and just ends.

Looking at the credits, there's a lot of people, but most are vocalists and most of the instrumentalists are only listed as playing on one or two tracks.  So most of this was Wilson and a few others.  Ok, most of the main instrumentalists came from Motown or the "Wrecking Crew" so that's probably a major reason it sounds so good.

Then there's "Farewell My Friend" which I've also always loved.  It starts out as definitely the best song on the album.  It's only 2:26 and all contained very well, that's probably why.  "Rainbows" is another one that sounds great and more like an actual song, then it just ends again and there's "End of the Show" as the finally and does sound a little too much like "Farewell My Friend."  Perhaps they were designed to end the album with a trilogy?  There have been worse ideas.  But we'll never know and the thing about music is that we can't really comprehend any of this, it's just vibrations between air molecules in a pleasant manner.

To change my direction, I went to California, at least the girls.  The opening was clever, a bit fancy but it certainly drags one in.  The first verse goes well and the chorus is great.  More instruments start playing in the background and the vocalists get a little more complex even as the lead singer gives us straightforward views on the girls.  It's just two verse/choruses, a brief bridge which is more like a pause, then choruses to the end.  It could be a little longer but anyway, that's how a song goes and it was immensely catchy.

Then I followed it with "Heroes and Villains" which isn't one of their best-known tunes.  I think it was a minor hit and basically their last one ever.  This is definitely an example of just moving from one piece of music to another without much connection between them although the individual pieces work well and there's a certain level of sensibility to keep it fairly decent pop.  Apparently it was made from an endless amount of recording work, similar to Chinese Democracy except for that endless work taking a fairly short amount of time, roughly starting it in July 1966 and release as a single in July 1967.

"Kokomo" isn't special but it is also a nice pop song with a fantastic chorus.  "I Get Around" is fantastic, vocals, basic instruments set very well and running barely two minutes, it still has a nice long fade-out.  This was their first #1 in the US and shows how good they could be at their peak.  I notice unlike Dennis' work, the lyrics come through and are very straightforward, that's a plus.

I'll give "Sloop John B" a listen and then I guess I won't listen to any more, I respect the Beach Boys and like some of their work but I'm not a huge fan.  Maybe some other time.  Or not.