Link to video
This is a serious charge. Please watch the video in it's entirety.
Saturday, June 25, 2016
WestWord music festival
They set this up in the parking lot behind our residential parking lot. Don't even come down here, there's no parking. Parking is premium. Our building invites a tow company to sit and wait in the garage and have your car out within 15 seconds of parking abuse. And even that is hard to get into. They have rights to shut off half the alley so all traffic in and out goes the other way that is also clogged with their vehicles. The music is loud. There is no shutting it out. And it does violate city noise ordinance.
This is the setup. Nothing has started yet. The place will fill through the day.
This is the setup. Nothing has started yet. The place will fill through the day.
They'll give me free tickets downstairs to compensate for the nuisance. They will not all allow the camera although they will allow phone cameras, because, fidelity, I suppose and because everyone is progressive around here or else in their own world.
This camera prohibition caused a dispute. I was stopped by Barney Fife, stopped dead, and his opinion was backed up by another organizer. Later in responding to my verbal abuse Westword denied any proscription and offered me a job but I'm in possession of a very bad attitude and cannot accept offers from people who make such intrusive neighborhood noise assuming its all for the good and who hire Barney Fife types for their gatemen.
The noise modulation has just begun.
I'll show more later.
Not The Same, Ben Folds
I suppose you take your musical inspiration wherever you get it. This video has two good things, a good story in front of it and attractive harmonizing by the audience on a song you probably didn't know exists and by those two things the song might grow on you. (But not quite enough to add it to Amazon Cloud)
What a drag this SME is. I watched this on a British site so I don't know why SME singles us out. It's worth a view.
Democracy Now, timing
Tonight I clicked through Democracy Now three times and gave the channel a few seconds each time to hear what they're on about tonight. I'm curious to their guest's perspective on Brexit. Given two seconds each pass the seconds were used for the three separate guests to say, "xenophobic" and "racist" all three passes. Those are the only two words I heard from each of three guests on that channel on each pass.
Progressives vs racists. How simple.
Progressives vs racists. How simple.
Friday, June 24, 2016
Here is something I talked about five months ago....but they are bringing up as a Negative...because that is what these douchenozzles do
Trump considering Tom Cotton for VP
Hotair pOSTED AT 2:41 PM ON JUNE 24, 2016 BY TAYLOR MILLARD
Donald Trump may be zeroing in on his running mate: Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton. Via Fox 16:
In an interview today with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt, the host suggested Trump pick either Senator Cotton or New Jersey Governor Chris Christie as his running mate.Trump said he can’t reveal his thinking in considering his VEEP pick, but had positive things to say about Arkansas’ junior senator.“I’ve gotten very good, you know, very good statements from Senator Cotton, who is a, you know, who I know, whose parents I know and met,” Trump said. “I think that he is a very talented guy. He’s also very popular. He’s a very popular person. So these are two names that I have high on the list for something at least, that I can tell you.”Hewitt cited Cotton’s military experience as an asset to Trump’s campaign.
Across the pond.
It's not cute anymore. Please stop it. But you cannot stop it so I must bear with it for the rest of my life. A phrase so internalized that the ocean between England and the United States cannot be called the Atlantic Ocean anymore. It must be the pond instead.
Fine. You say pond and I'll think water. I'll translate each and every instance for now on, and that vague I'll be more clear than you.
No matter how many times you say it, no matter how fast or numerous the jets, it's still an ocean and not a pond, notwithstanding American's affection for British fondness for understatement. It's not cute anymore.
This is the pond of Henry the transmentalist's who lived in a hut and read Tarot cards.
The center blue on the globe below is the Atlantic ocean between the United States and Britain.
Fine. You say pond and I'll think water. I'll translate each and every instance for now on, and that vague I'll be more clear than you.
No matter how many times you say it, no matter how fast or numerous the jets, it's still an ocean and not a pond, notwithstanding American's affection for British fondness for understatement. It's not cute anymore.
This is the pond of Henry the transmentalist's who lived in a hut and read Tarot cards.
The center blue on the globe below is the Atlantic ocean between the United States and Britain.
Tiny, you could swim across it or drain it. ↑.
Quite large, you would die in it ↓.
Fire-Walking Event Gone Bad
Dallas: Dozens of people were burned Thursday night after walking over hot coals at a Tony Robbins motivational seminar in Dallas, and at least five of those hurt had to be hospitalized, officials said....
Robbins isn’t speaking publically about what might have gone wrong, but his organization, Robbins Research International, issued a statement that said, in part:
Robbins isn’t speaking publically about what might have gone wrong, but his organization, Robbins Research International, issued a statement that said, in part:
“In Dallas tonight, someone not familiar with the fire walk observed the event and called 911 erroneously reporting hundreds of people requiring medical attention for severe burns. While we are grateful to the quick and robust response from Dallas emergency services, only 5 of 7,000 participants requested any examination beyond what was readily available on site. We are pleased to have completed another successful fire walk for 7,000 guests and look forward to the remainder of an outstanding weekend with them.”People who have participated in previous fire walks at Tony Robbins events say it isn’t unusual for there to be some injuries. “From a numbers perspective that amount is negligible,” said fire walk participant Tish Bazil. “I don’t mean to diminish anything that’s happened to anybody, but there are some coaching techniques, really specific strategies, that he gives people.” (Link for more)
"Clinton's State Dept. calendar missing scores of entries"
AP: The AP review of Clinton's calendar — her after-the-fact, official chronology of the events of her four-year term — identified at least 75 meetings with longtime political donors and loyalists, Clinton Foundation contributors and corporate and other outside interests that were either not recorded or listed with identifying details scrubbed. The AP found the omissions by comparing the 1,500-page document with separate planning schedules supplied to Clinton by aides in advance of each day's events. The names of at least 114 outsiders who met with Clinton were missing from her calendar, the records show.
The missing entries raise new questions about how Clinton and her inner circle handled government records documenting her State Department tenure — in this case, why the official chronology of her four-year term does not closely mirror other more detailed records of her daily meetings. At a time when Clinton's private email system is under scrutiny by an FBI criminal investigation, the calendar omissions reinforce concerns that she sought to eliminate the "risk of the personal being accessible" — as she wrote in an email exchange that she failed to turn over to the government but was subsequently uncovered elsewhere. (Link for more)
The missing entries raise new questions about how Clinton and her inner circle handled government records documenting her State Department tenure — in this case, why the official chronology of her four-year term does not closely mirror other more detailed records of her daily meetings. At a time when Clinton's private email system is under scrutiny by an FBI criminal investigation, the calendar omissions reinforce concerns that she sought to eliminate the "risk of the personal being accessible" — as she wrote in an email exchange that she failed to turn over to the government but was subsequently uncovered elsewhere. (Link for more)
"David Cameron resigns as prime minister after Britain votes Brexit"
The prime minister, who backed a Remain vote, said Britain required "fresh leadership" to negotiate the country's exit from the EU.
"I do not think it would be right for me to be the captain that steers our country to its next destination," he said in a statement outside Downing Street.
Close to tears and with his voice breaking, Mr Cameron said: "I love this country and I feel honoured to have served it and I will do everything I can in future to help this great country succeed."
"I do not think it would be right for me to be the captain that steers our country to its next destination," he said in a statement outside Downing Street.
Close to tears and with his voice breaking, Mr Cameron said: "I love this country and I feel honoured to have served it and I will do everything I can in future to help this great country succeed."
Why Britain Joined the European Union
Thursday, June 23, 2016
Korean crunchy fried chicken
I want to share this because Maangchi is cute.
She tells us for crunchy chicken fry the chicken twice. She makes a hot candy sauce to coat them.
She tells us for crunchy chicken fry the chicken twice. She makes a hot candy sauce to coat them.
She writes on her ingredient list 1/2 cup mulyeot, a rice syrup, the main ingredient balanced with 1/4 cup soy sauce. So, heavy sweet and salty elements.
Mulyeot is actually corn syrup. Corn being an American commodity she can thank international trade for the misapprehension.
The dried chile pepper is not very hot. But this can be made a lot hotter. I notice she's using garlic but not ginger and she does not specify rice vinegar nor specific mustard.
"Jury finds Led Zeppelin did not steal intro to 'stairway to heaven'"
CNBC: The verdict in Los Angeles settles a point that music fans have debated for decades but didn't find its way to court until two years ago, when the trustee for the late Randy Craig Wolfe filed a copyright lawsuit.
Led Zeppelin's guitarist Jimmy Page and singer Robert Plant told CNBC they were grateful to the jury for confirming what they said they have known for 45 years.
"We appreciate our fans' support, and look forward to putting this legal matter behind us," Page and Plant said in a statement....
In trying to show the works were substantially similar, the trust had the tricky task of relying on sheet music because that's what is filed with the U.S. Copyright Office.
Jurors were not played the "Taurus" recording, which contains a section that sounds very similar to the instantly recognizable start of "Stairway." Instead, they were played guitar and piano renditions by musicians on both sides of the case. Not surprisingly, the plaintiff's version on guitar sounded more like "Stairway" than the defense version on piano.
Experts for both sides dissected both compositions, agreeing mainly that they shared a descending chord progression that dates back three centuries as a building block in lots of songs.I was goin to leave this story to ChickL if he wanted to post about it, but I could not resist passing up that story title. (Link)
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