Okay, I don't know what I'm reviewing this weekend. I just listened to an album that's coming out Friday. C.I. was listening to it and I walked in to ask her something. The album was jamming and I really liked the song. I said, "Who is this?" She said, it's _______. And I figured it was from the 90s or something but it's an album that's coming out Friday.
I like "Lucid Dreams" and "No Tomorrow" and the little girl vocals on "High Heels."
Anyway. I'm not sure what I'm going to review. I do promise to do at least one review but as I type this, I can hear some of you groaning, "Why did you promise? Now that you've promised, we know you won't do it."
I have the worst image and I am the first to admit that I have earned it. I procrastinate like crazy.
Okay. Please go read Elaine's "VANITY FAIR's Laurel Canyon article," I had missed the article until Elaine wrote about it. Bonnie Raitt burned all of her good will with me when I read her comments. I try to tell myself, she's a woman who boozed for years and now can't remember. But Grace Slick hit the bottle hard and she still has her memory.
I also think it was stupid to include Bonnie in the article to begin with. Laurel Canyon is a 'scene' from about 1966 through the end of 1972 -- if that long.
Bonnie's not part of that scene. She doesn't even get to Laurel Canyon until late 1972.
She needs to just shut up. Just shut up. She doesn't know anything and she's blathering around like she's an expert.
There are experts speaking in the article: Joni Mitchell, Michelle Phillips, David Crosby, Graham Nash, Stephen Stills and Lou Adler are experts and they demonstrate it.
Bonnie's just trying to get some publicity for herself.
I was embarrassed for her.
I just can't write another word about her, I can't stand her right now and I never had ill will towards her before.
After nearly three days of travel, the final leg for Air Force Senior Master Sgt. Viviana Molina was down a flight of stairs.
Molina,
back early from a six-month deployment in Iraq, surprised her husband,
Grand Prairie police Officer Edgar Molina, by interrupting him in the
lobby of police headquarters as he conducted an interview with the news
media.
The Molinas worked
together at the Grand Prairie Police Department until nine months ago,
when Viviana enlisted with the Air Force.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many U.S. servicemen and servicewomen deployed overseas have been delayed in returning home.
“I got lucky and got to come home a week early,” Viviana Molina said.
Baghdad had record breaking heat on Tuesday at 51.8C, today 49C is forecast, but for Basra in Iraq 53C is likely today, the all time record in Iraq is 53.8C
5:00 AM · Jul 30, 2020
RT's RUPTLY reported earlier this week on some how Iraqis attempted to stay cool by jumping into the Tigris River.
What
most can't do is step inside to cool off. That's because all these
years after the launch of the 2003 US-led invasion, all these years of
occupation, all these years of US-installed prime ministers have failed
to deliver reliable electricity. Matilda Coleman (UPNEWSINFO) observes, "With the state electricity grid failing, many households were relying on
generators to power fridges, fans or air conditioning units, the
machines adding a guttural hum to the city’s already-noisy streets." THE NATIONAL notes:
Iraqi men cool off under a public shower at a street in central Baghdad, Iraq. EPA
Baghdad experienced its hottest day on record on Wednesday, as protests against a lack of basic services continued. Power shortages, a common occurrence since 2003, led to the latest street protests as people struggled to keep cool. Temperatures climbed to 51.7°C on Wednesday, surpassing a record high temperature of 51.2°C in the capital. The protests began on Sunday night in Baghdad and several southern
cities, and turned violent in the capital. On Monday, two men died after
being struck directly by tear gas canisters that are typically fired in
arcs over protesters and on less powerful trajectories.
And to explain how serious this is, let's include GULF NEWS:
Chronic power outages combined with low oil prices threaten Iraq's
political stability, and Opec's second-biggest producer must act fast to
boost electricity supply or face a new crisis within the next two
months.
That's the conclusion of Fatih Birol, the head of the International
Energy Agency, which advises the world's richest economies on energy
policy.
Iraq faces a widening shortfall in electricity, due largely to a lack of
investment in ageing power plants and networks, and the plunge in crude
prices this year limits what it can spend to upgrade them. Baghdad must
slash red tape and prioritize maintenance and spending on power
facilities to stave off social and political turmoil, Birol warned.
'If there are not urgent and concrete steps taken for the electricity
sector, we may well have major problems in the next two months in terms
of electricity supply, he said in an interview. 'It may well lead to
unrest within the country.
In a grim sign of what could come, security forces in Baghdad opened fire Sunday on protesters complaining about power cuts.
Iraq is going through the summer heat (around 50 degrees) and the government decided to cut off the electricity for the people not to protest. Where’s the humanity? Families are suffering and the world is silent. All this in a country rich in oil... F**k the Iraqi government
Heartbreaking story! People in central and south of Iraq sleep inside their car to avoid the scorching heat as the #Iraqi government fails to provide electricity.
2:53 PM · Jul 29, 2020
In
the US, is there anything more disgusting than right-wing Senator Tammy
Duckworth. She started her political career pretending to be liberal
and knocking the actual leftist out of the Democratic Party primary.
But she lost the general because who the hell wants Tammy? Rahm and
others spent forever grooming her so she could appear 'electable.' She
votes like someone who was groomed and paid for. She talks like a
nutcase.
Maybe because she is one?
She's
spent the last years thinking up nicknames for Donald Trump -- I'm sure
the people of Illinois are happy with that hard work -- as opposed to
her working to improve their lives. She's spat on the presidency
because she's just trash.
That's all she's ever been and that's all she'll ever be.
Donald
Trump did not serve in Vietnam. Good. I wish no American had gone to
Vietnam. But because he did not serve in the US military, Macho Manly
Tammy has given him all these rude nicknames. They're beneath her and
they're beneath the office of the president.
It's
strange though, isn't it?, how she's trying to become Joe Biden's
running mate since Joe also avoided service in Vietnam. He had, you
understand, 'asthma.' Didn't stop him from playing sports in high
school or college.
Somehow, manly Tammy's not cupping her crotch, spitting on the ground and thinking up nicknames for Joe.
We bring up Freak Duckworth today because she went on ABC and started repeating claims about Russia putting a bounty on US troops in Afghanistan.
Long after the story has been discredited, there's Freak Tammy
screeching at the top of her lungs, hiding as always behind her military
time, and screaming that others are traitors. In better days, say the
1950s or 1960s, people would be drumming her out of the Sentate.
Instead, she gets to play Joe McCarthy in drag.
The Los Angeles Times reported
Thursday night that a complete withdrawal of U.S. troops from
Afghanistan, which Donald Trump had demanded, has been put off until
after the U.S. presidential election in November.
Maintaining
imperial interests in Afghanistan seems to be one of the main reasons
for the so-far uncorroborated, possibly cooked-up “scandal” known now as
Bountygate.
Other
motives appear to be the same twofer that was at the core of
Russiagate: first, unnamed intelligence officials meddling in domestic
U.S. politics, this time to undermine Trump’s re-election campaign; and,
second, to even further demonize and pressure Russia.
The
public has been subjected to daily morsels of supposedly factual
stories meant to further deepen the plot. The first item dropped online
on June 26 with The New York Times’ initial reporting on the say-so of “American intelligence officials.”
It
seemed yet another attempt to launder disinformation through big media,
giving it more credibility than if it had come directly from the
security services. A discerning reader, however, would want more than
the word of a bunch of spooks who make a living practicing deception.
The
“evidence” for the story that Russia paid the Taliban to kill U.S.
soldiers came from interrogation of Afghan detainees. If the
interrogations were “enhanced” the evidence is even more unreliable.
For the record, Consortium News
supports no candidate and has been a strong critic of Trump. But we see
intelligence agencies’ insertion into domestic politics to be a greater
threat than even eight years of Trump for the precedent it is setting.
As spooks like to say, “Administrations come and go. And we’re still
here.”
Tammy Duckworth is
becoming a public embarrassment. History will not look kindly on her
nor will it approve of the silence of other Democrats in Congress who
should have called her out long ago.
