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.

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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.

Larry Flynt, Hustler founder, age 78
February 10, 2021

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

Two Star Wars: Mandalorian Actors Posted Nazi Analogies to Social Media, But Lucasfilm Only Fired the Conservative One
February 11, 2021

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.

MUST READ: Democrats Were ONLY Able to “Win” in 2020 By Breaking Chain of Custody Laws in EVERY SWING STATE
February 10, 2021

House Sergeant at Arms says Pelosi will not be fined for violating her own security rules
February 7, 2021

The Purge Continues: Biden To Oust Trump-Appointed U.S. Attorneys
February 9, 2021

Winston Churchill and JK Rowling to be dropped as building names of UK school following accusations of racism and bullying
February 10, 2021

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.

Psycho Ocasio Cortez Is Confronted on Her Exact Quote Accusing Ted Cruz of Attempted Murder — Then Openly Lies About It and Walks Away
February 9, 2021

Three Cast Members of Netflix Cheerleading Series Arrested for Sexual Misconduct With Minors
February 9, 2021

Democrats Pandemic Relief Bill Includes Temporary Obamacare Expansion
February 9, 2021

CAUGHT ON VIDEO: 70-Year-Old Grandma Assaulted and Robbed in Broad Daylight in Oakland, CA
February 8, 2021

UN Inspectors Uncover New Evidence of Iran’s Nuclear Weapons Program
February 7, 2021

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.

Pelosi fines two GOP congressmen $5,000 for alleged metal detector violation
February 7, 2021

Maxine Waters Denies She Ever Encouraged People to Harass Members of Trump Administration
February 8, 2021

White House Confirms Illegal Aliens Who are Convicted of DUI, Rape and Drug-Related Crimes Will NOT be Deported
February 8, 2021

Insurrection? Antifa Mob Threatens to 'Burn Down' Washington, D.C.
February 8, 2021

Biden Executive Order Recommends Fines from $250 to $1,500 for Violating TSA Mask Mandate
February 7, 2021

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.

Trying to figure out our betters is really difficult

Today John Lennon has been dead just as long as he was ever alive.  It's safe to say he wouldn't recognize the world he knew.

□ [“Government waste critic: Deceased will get stimulus checks under Biden $1.9T stimulus plan"]

I've assumed that people in government bribe their supporters pretty openly and this just sounds like more of that.  It's what the nomenklatura do.  We can see this is the purging of the military, they need to get rid of everyone who isn't 'one of them.'

But it is odd that the left in general isn't going with that.  The media's not declaring "We are All Socialists Now" and confidently predicting "Forty Years of Democratic Party Rule" like they did.  Beyond having men with guns impose his will and ignoring Congress, he's not acting like someone who won an election.  Maybe he knows something that the rest of us know too but we're not allowed to say.

There's the old line from Charles Krauthammer, "Conservatives think liberals are stupid, Liberals think conservatives are evil" which definitely has a sound of truth, but there's also the idea that it's not an actual leftist belief, it's 'proof' of superiority in social settings, a social badge.  Which does make sense, they are against the concept of the individual and this would be how to show that off to others in the know, not an actual belief to follow through good and bad times.  It's possible they aren't even capable of recognizing it because doing that would acknowledge the individual in themselves and, by extension, in other people that they hate so much.

□ [“Pelosi Under Fire For Breaking Her Own Rules, Evading Metal Detectors When Entering House Chamber"]

They're not even capable of noticing this, it's beyond their comprehension.  This could be why their own rules are irrelevant to them.  I think there's also a part of them that, both as individuals and as part of the in-crowd, they do enjoy showing off to their fellow elite/nomenklatura how special they are compared to the peons.

But even there they would be surrounded by informants and snitches.  Perhaps that's why they're so unhappy now.  As I said, Biden doesn't act like he won and none of his living supporters are either.  Time Magazine has even released an article about the conspiracy to steal the election, being pretty open about it aside from pretending it wasn't a fraud.  Is this showing off for their peers?  Is it believing their own nonsense and they're now a vast majority?  Is it desperately going to the left to try to win back an audience?  Some or all or none of the above?

“Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy”
- Winston Churchill, May 28, 1948

SOFREP: You may have been identified as an extremist within the ranks and have no idea
February 5, 2021

Trump impeachment lawyer says he'll use video of Dems' own remarks at trial
February 6, 2021

You Knew It Was Coming: AOC, Bernie, and Earl Introduce Bill to Declare National Emergency on Climate
February 6, 2021

“Burn it Down!” – BLM-Antifa Terrorists March Through DC, Assault Police Officers, Harass Outdoor Diners
February 6, 2021

TeslaCam Catches Highway Robbery in San Francisco in Broad Daylight
February 6, 2021

“Bait And Switch” – Leftists Hammer Biden Over Broken Relief Check Promise
February 6, 2021

Doddering Biden Boards Air Force One En Route to Delaware After CDC Tells Americans Not to Travel
February 5, 2021

Pelosi and Democrats Break Over 200 Years of Precedent and Ban Minority Party Member from House Committees
February 5, 2021

George Shultz, Reagan's secretary of state, age 100
February 6, 2021

Or blame Frank Sinatra for sending his stooges...

Everything in existence can be summarized to its fundamental equations, it's just that as mortals, we're not capable of doing that.  Not that we don't try though.  I do think that applies to everything but I suspect that's one reason every individual looks at different things in different ways.  Whatever we happen to be interested in would go back to the same basics if we were capable of perceiving it.

I don't know if examining famous people actually does a better job compared to some random person you saw once and never knew anything about, but it's obviously more interesting and has more information to consider.  There's more media to go through, more individuals who know them or share their own perceptions.  It's something I realized when I wondered why I had been going after Axl Rose all this time.  At least back when he was productive there could be understandable, but now?

Anyway, I'm writing this just to ponder how much wealth it requires to actually make a change.  I also cite the example of Joe Biden's son getting a $2 million advance for a book that I doubt will bring that much in.  If I got $2 million for a book, it would be enough to maintain the rest of my small cozy life.  I wouldn't stop working for a paycheck just because I don't think that way but I have no one else to pay for and my expenses are minimal.  I would probably invest in other people or businesses but nothing that would give up that huge pile of money.

So how do rock stars do it?  A hit song or album would bring in money but it's tough to imagine how it would be that much and even if it is, they have a lot more expenses.  They've got mansions and employees, they have expensive travel, I hear some of them even take drugs or chase women.  The women themselves would probably be pretty cheap but not the chase.  Then there's all the subordinates who probably wouldn't stay around for free.

An album can sell ten million copies and we can just assume that's profitable for everyone involved, but how much is it really?  Say it costs $15, that's $15,000,000.  The record store is going to take a big chunk of it, the record company would take an even bigger chunk.  They each have their own expenses, employees, promotion...  The rock stars would have their own accountants and lawyers who cost money, servants, maintainers of their home and equipment, bodyguards...  Everybody has to pay taxes.  Even if they get $2 out of every album sale - and I highly doubt more than a handful of any rock stars had ever gotten that high a percentage - that's still a lot of it going out, and that's only if they live sensibly.

Hopefully they get there at some point but almost nobody does that when they reach the big time and that's probably when they're having their biggest income.  Tours would be even more profitable but there would also be bigger expenses, lights and sound systems and large numbers of employees and transportation.  Then there's sharing the money with the other bandmates and manager, who each have their own staff being paid from what's coming in.

That's where I have to think investment comes in.  Sammy Hagar never expected to be as successful as he would be so as soon as he started bringing in money, he invested in businesses that didn't all hinge on a famous rock star because everything would be lost if he stopped having hits.  Despite his percentage of his Van Halen-era, he made his massive fortune by investing in a party-area down by the border and paying locals to produce tequila which became a big seller and eventually the rights were bought by a huge liquor corporation.

They're probably all doing stuff like that, at least if they have sensible managers and accountants.  So I guess that's what I'm trying to work out, what would they be investing in?  Sports and movies would probably be the most obvious options but not the only ones.  Whatever industry they go for, I have no clue how many failures there would be but I assume there'd be quite a few.

I do think the industries would turn inwards on the rockstars to focus on them.  If nothing else, that's human nature.  If you know you're working with a rich and famous person in a business, that's who you're going to pay attention to even if it has nothing to do with their record sales.  There would be internal organization to take advantage of secrets that others don't have access to and undoubtedly purging dissent from the process.

This would also apply to movie and tv stars.  There would be more, producers and directors, but this gets more into imposing their viewpoints on the world and less about making them fabulously rich.  That's where I'd like to think about as I do this.  I think we've seen this with the stolen election and the last four years of leftists pretending the election was stolen.  In a sense we've seen the media come in together to advance their power and now they're eager to shut down anyone who doesn't stay in line.  Is it conspiracies overlaid one over another or is there a main conspiracy controlling all the rest?

No way to know.  I have no expectation of ever figuring it out and probably wouldn't understand a bit of it if I did.  But I do think it's worth getting into.  If nothing else, we'll just blame Axl Rose.  He's one in a million, and there's a lot of millions out there.

And in the end, at least it's over, done with, caput.

Christopher Plummer, actor, age 91
February 5, 2021

□ [“Hunter Biden Writing Memoir Based On Drug Abuse – Gets A Cool $2 Million In Advance From Simon&Schuster"]

So this is a bribe or a payment that he has to give 10% to the "old man."  He's got nothing to say on the matter beyond 'if you do it, you get more money' and no one is going to be interested in reading it.  The media can't promote it because if they do, it will remind people of everything else which they are totally suppressing.  So it's a basic payoff by the media.

Joe Biden Revives Old, Dubious Claim He was “Shot At” Overseas
February 4, 2021

California Schools Will Cleanse Jews From History
January 27, 2021

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February 5, 2021

I'm not sure how or why this has happened, but I've watched all my episodes of Facts of Life except for the first one which obviously doesn't sound remotely interesting.  And I've watched a couple on Amazon, both from Season 3.  At this point I assume I won't stop there but it isn't clear why.

The episodes are ok.  The stories aren't that interesting, there's some humor but not much.  I will admit to getting a couple laughs on each episode but nothing sticks out as high quality.  Really it seems to all come down to the characters.  The foursome all have the same roles, students at a girl's school being punished, so only their personalities show any quality and even there I could see an argument that it's not high quality.

I don't know how much I'll continue watching.  I really don't want to buy the whole series but must admit that I'm surprised I hadn't bought it before.  I'm coming to the theory that it was a major step for something in pop-culture history and I am interested in what that might be, but that's just another one of my brilliant ideas...

Funny how Blair's the only one who had any catch-phrases.

Just keep going down, there's no bottom floor...

Not sure if I have anything to say today, it might all be headlines.

I would like to note as something to look into, that for all the leftists pretending to have a clue what terrorism is and accusing the right of it, they didn't do that with the 2009 Fort Hood shooting.  Despite Major Hasan killing 13 people and wounding another 32 after years of working with 
al-Awlaki and al-Qaida, this wasn't "terrorism," it was just workplace violence.

They've spent the last two decades insisting terrorism isn't terrorism and now they can only pretend something is terrorism when it was clearly their own people behind it.

Biden Defense Secretary Orders Military-Wide Stand-Downs to “Address White Nationalism,” Rid Military of “Extremists and Racists”
February 3, 2021

Biden EPA Pick Says Rest of the Country ‘Can Learn From’ California on Regulations
February 4, 2021

Muslim Brotherhood terror supporter and non-vet Denis McDonough just confirmed for new Secretary of the Veterans Administration
February 4, 2021

ER Doc Hailed by Biden Wishes Death on Lockdown/Mask Skeptics: "Let'em Die...Tired of These People"
February 4, 2021

Biden to Sign Executive Order Restoring and Expanding “Refugee Program” Despite Ongoing Covid Pandemic
February 4, 2021

City of San Francisco Sues Its School District for Not Even Having a Plan to Reopen Schools
February 4, 2021

New Mexico Democrat's bill could criminalize parents teaching kids how to shoot, according to gun group
February 3, 2021

Judge Dismisses Violent Hammer Attacker Case Because Victim Wanted to Wear Covid Mask and Judge Said She Must Face Her Accuser
February 3, 2021

You can't always get what you want, that's my job.

It's just more of the same and that's a bad thing.  I've seen articles that suggest a lot of people feel betrayed by Biden, particularly the ones losing jobs.  What were they expecting?  There's never any specifics that they voted for him in the first place and I do suspect that's the case, the vote fraud was probably a lot bigger than we know about now.  He's just going to obey leftist orders and it's starting to appear that China is the one benefiting the most.  That nonsense about "unity" was just to fool leftists, no one else would fall for it.

□ [“'On the 8th Day of Biden’s Coming to Power, the United States Officially Announced a Recession!' – China’s Yangtze River News"]

People are losing their jobs, government regulations are going to skyrocket.  I've heard that the price of gas is supposed to go up today, haven't checked yet.  We can start paying other countries for oil soon instead of exporting it.  Don't worry, the elites don't have to live by their own rules.

□ [“John Kerry Defends Taking Gas-Guzzling Private Jet to Accept Climate Award in Iceland, 'The Only Choice For Someone Like Me'"]

He could have used a telephone or internet.  He could have said 'mail me the award.'  He could have taken a sailboat to Iceland.  He could have said he's just doing his job and it's not worth an award.  But that wouldn't show his superiority to the human scum whose lives he gets to control.

But they can purge people, there was no hesitation about that.

□ [“Biden Defense Secretary Purges Trump Loyalists, Strips Several Hundred Appointees of Their Posts on Pentagon Advisory Boards"]

I have to wonder if the only thing that would stop them from destroying America would be is if it interfered with their elite lives.

□ [“Biden Signs Three Executive Orders Aimed at ‘Reforming US Immigration System’ – Refuses to Answer Questions From Reporters"]

The closest I can think of to an 'upside' is that suddenly turning everything around to demand everything end would be effectively unifying everyone else in opposition.  There's no way except tyranny to make that work and they're already there, just needing some time to be upfront about it.  The media won't question them, they're just focusing on Trump because that's all that matters.

□ [“Biden to Divert $30 Billion in Aid Trump Left For Farmers to Climate Change without Waiting For Congress"]

Grocery stores in California are already closing down in response to the sudden new rules on raising minimum pay.  Anybody who knows anything about business knows why this doesn't work but none of those people are the ones making the rules.

Perhaps we should start just calling him a "dictator" and they'll have to start forbidding people to say that like they way they don't permit anyone to point out the election was stolen.

□ [“San Francisco Schools Changes Art Department Name Because Acronyms are Racist"]

“The use of so many acronyms within the educational field often tends to alienate those who may not speak English to understand the acronym.  Our culture perpetuates racism when things continue to be written down in a certain way.”

They're not going to stop, they're only going to speed up.  Some of them will turn on each-other but they're generally obedient.  Other nations aren't going to invade because they've already got their pawns in place here.  At best someone will come in to demand a mansion and keep a close eye on things.  We work for them and they like their home nations.

So there's banning speech, they'll ban guns, one assumes religion will follow.  They've spent a long time making skin color the most important thing and they hate men.  Their goal is in sight.

Israeli TV Reports: Iranian Agents Caught Scouting Israeli, U.S. Embassies in East Africa for Terrorist Attacks
February 2, 2021

Wonder Woman stopped using her golden lasso on me because she didn't like the honest comment I made about her thighs

Can't stop doing this.  I noticed that today was 4,435 days since Axl had said the new G'n'R video would be out in a week or so, "'soon' is the word."  And of course he did nothing of the sort.  So of course who do I compare that to except Queen?

Queen didn't invent music videos.  It's a great video but wasn't remotely the first.  The Beatles had done "Strawberry Fields Forever" and "Hey Jude," I'm blanking on the song Bob Dylan made a video for.  Obviously bands that were recorded on tv could send the footage around on its own and one can argue that was the point of Elvis Presley movies.  But my understanding is that "Bohemian Rhapsody" was the first time that a video notably increased sales for the single.  It is a great video anyway.

So naturally I went back and counted how many videos Queen made, focusing on the last 4,435 days of Freddie Mercury's life.  Care to guess who wins that competition?  Freddie never even told us one would be out "soon."

A little over two weeks before the last 4,435 days Freddie had to live, Queen recorded the "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" video.  It's certainly fun but a fairly straightforward performance otherwise, just a bit of goofing around here and there.  Most early music videos were just a group of people playing instruments, or at least pretending to.  I would assume it came out early in the process that they should look as good as possible on film and if that means not remotely concentrating on the instrument, that's the way it goes.  Not a complaint, if I were involved in the video business I'd probably insist on it.

It was followed up with "Save Me" which I always liked a lot.  Most of the video is just the band playing but its interacted with animation that isn't very good itself but quite effective as far as I'm concerned, inventing a cartoon story that enhances the love song.  The next two videos from The Game were just band performances, "Play The Game" had simplistic video special effects behind them and interaction between the band members while singing/playing, little else.  "Another One Bites The Dust" was apparently filmed in concert, at least a few parts, and the rest was still the band playing.

I'm sure I've seen all of these videos many times but it's been a while so I'll look up what details I can but not actually watch them.  I do suspect I'll watch at least a couple before finishing this.

"Flash Gordon" was mostly the band playing and clips from the movie they were promoting.  Nothing special about that.  This was probably around the time Queen Ltd. was formed and, along with the advance of cable tv, they would soon start putting more effort into the videos.

They didn't start that way though, Hot Space had videos for its singles.  Queen didn't even appear in the "Under Pressure" video because they weren't able to work out a schedule with David Bowie so the director just put together a bunch of clips from various movies and things that had all drifted into public availability.  Still a great video though, better than the other two.  "Body Language" is Queen not playing as a band but instead promoting darkly-lit images of sexually attracted people, probably showing what Freddie's personal life was doing, "Back Chat" was a standard 'band performance' video and "Calling All Girls" remade clips from George Lucas' first movie, THX 1138.  What was that about?  Who in their right minds...?

I didn't even know there was a "Back Chat" video until I started typing this.  I may miss a few others too.  This was still Queen doing an album every year or so and they would obviously want to promote it.  It obviously worked.  They could have followed Axl Rose's example.

The Works was where they truly started making great videos, or at least really different from what people expected from most bands.  The variety alone was amazing.  Each member of the band wrote one of the singles and it's just an awesome example of knowing how the music business worked in the early-mid 1980s.

"Radio Gaga" is one of the best videos of all time, taking footage from the 1927 movie Metropolis and interacting it with the band as if they were filmed in that movie scene and including filming a family living in a disaster area.  "It's A Hard Life" was made up as if it were a party of French nobles and was really what Freddie wanted.  "I Want To Break Free" is just bizarre, the band dresses as women and they parody the British soap opera Coronation Street while the bridge shows Freddie, having shaved his beard - which he hadn't done for the dress-wearing scenes - and being part of a ballet group.    It's another one of those things that's so bizarre, why are they doing that?  Then "Hammer To Fall" was a straightforward video filmed all or mostly in-concert, something they hadn't done for a while.

By taking control, they were able to do innovative work that didn't fall into repetition.  If you're into music videos, it's about as good as it gets.

Then Freddie released his solo album, Mr. Bad Guy.  He had been working on it for a few years and I've said before that I don't think it's remotely as good as Queen, but it has its place.  They can't all be winners.  He made videos for "I Was Born To Love You" and "Made In Heaven" which are ok, I guess.  I haven't seen them in ages and only recall that they were less fancy than the recent Queen videos.  Gotta do something.

Queen were going to have taken another break but Live Aid made them change their minds.  They recorded "One Vision" and filmed the recording so the video is just footage of that.  It's certainly another twist from the standard.  That would be the first single from A Kind Of Magic which is kind-of a soundtrack for the first Highlander movie.  Also at some point Freddie appeared and sang "Time" in a video for the title track of a Dave Clark musical.

"A Kind of Magic" had another clever take, set in an old English building with bums sleeping there, Freddie walks in as a magician and brings them up as band members.  Animation dances around the band, it's a fun video, then the song ends, Freddie leaves and the bums go back to sleep.  "Princes of the Universe" continued to promote the movie, with the band performing amid special effects, movie clips and Freddie having a sword fight with the star of the movie in character.

"Friends Will Be Friends" was another performance video, this time played for an audience of Queen fanclub members who worked for free and, if I remember, were given a few extra songs to reward them for standing around through the filming.  That's a nice way to treat fans.  "Who Wants To Live Forever" is another performance video and one I love because they're playing with an orchestra in a very formal setting but designed for visual effect.  Another album, another batch of videos which were all noticeably different from each other and the rest.

The band took another break and Freddie finished his solo career, recording a video for "The Great Pretender" which even parodied previous Queen videos like "I Want To Break Free" and "Crazy Little Thing Called Love."  Roger even took part in some of the parody scenes.  This is where finishing work is shown as a positive thing, one can make references to previously finished work.  I'm not claiming Queen videos are artistic or intellectually brilliant but they're fun to watch and usually accompanies by songs that are good to hear.  An audience prefers that, especially when the alternative is getting nothing.

The Miracle had five videos, most of which were different versions of the band performing.  "The Invisible Man" wasn't, it showed a kid playing video games with then-current special effects and Freddie was one of the visuals.  The others probably were as well but it's not one of my favorites so I haven't even tried to see it in ages.  "Scandal" had them all changing clothes and playing on a set that looked like a newspaper page, "Breakthru" had them playing atop a moving train, "I Want It All" was just a great-looking performance and "The Miracle" is probably one of the favorite fan videos, it has four kids acting like one of the band members and is generally fun, then the adult versions show up halfway through for a nice ending.  The kid who played Freddie is probably still famous for it.

The Innuendo videos had to be different.  "Headlong" did try to have a performance or look like footage from the studio although I've never really thought it looked real.  The band was acting up for the camera and Freddie's trying to look healthy.  The band doesn't even appear in "Innuendo" except for old footage turned into animation but I think it's one of the best videos ever and for one of their greatest songs.  "I'm Going Slightly Mad" was just goofy fun, black-and-white to help Freddie look healthy and "These Are The Days Of Our Lives" was his last performance.  There are a couple different versions of the video, one with Disney animation as they had just given Queen a new recording contract.  I think the other version just replaced the animation with clips of old videos but I haven't seen it in ages and don't remember.  Obviously Freddie couldn't do any more and he was dead by the time "The Show Must Go On" video came out, just very well-edited clips of previous videos.

So...  Freddie didn't insist that his next work would be out "soon," he just lived the rest of his life productive and putting out new material for his fans.  Queen was a business and had to deal with more areas than just recording tunes, they had to promote their work in ways that promotion is accomplished.  I'm sure he wouldn't be remotely as productive today if he were still alive but he did what he could to finish as much as possible as we all should in our brief lifespans.

So that's 31 videos he specifically appeared in - not counting "Innuendo" or "Under Pressure" - or about one every 143 days for the last twelve years of his life.  That's not counting writing and recording songs for the nine albums he released in that time, plus non-album singles.  That's not counting working with his band-mates.  Roger appeared in some of his solo videos and during the filming of "These Are The Days..." Brian was in the USA promoting his upcoming solo album so they had to add him to the footage afterwards.  Then there's the rest of their company that needs to be overseen.  They did a lot of concerts through A Kind of Magic too.  And yes, he did take time off to party.

Maybe he should have followed Axl's example.

I'll never forget David Bowie, he still owes me twenty dollars.

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So this is still going on...

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And this is the goal.  It's all unified against society with no clue how anything works.  None of these people have to miss work and reproduction obviously isn't a factor.  Yet they somehow believe they know everything that matters.

It's like all the conspiracies got together and are just going for everything now.  Tearing everything down is all they can do.  They spent four years pretending the election was stolen so they could get away with stealing this one and forbid anyone to point it out.  The last year of burning down Democrat-run cities was all "peaceful protests" and now anything that isn't total obedience is "insurrection."  And "racist" and "sexist" and all that.  They hate whites.

They have huge tech companies silencing dissent, stole an election, they're opening the border to invaders, more is coming out about their insider trading scandals and one of the Never-Trump Republican leaders has been found to have really liked underage boys.  Well, that came out a while ago but leftist media sees nothing wrong with that so it's only now getting attention as other people have heard of it.

They're trying to destroy the records of history, believing they can make it any way they want, regardless of reality.  I really do think this is what has always been against humanity, this is the war.

This is a post I've had open for several days, just quotes of Democrats saying the same nonsense they say today, going back to 1964.  I haven't done anything with the quotes yet, this is just an excuse to keep track of a collection of them so I can close the window:
Democrats Want a 'Return to Civility'; When Did They Practice It?

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