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Wow, I'm learning some fascinating stuff. Re: Reed/Velvet Underground: at that period in my life, I was just simply pointed in a very different direction. So, I came to appreciate SO MUCH STUFF much later. I'm thinking 10,000 Maniacs and Velvet Unde…
I can't sign-in to YouTube lately. Owned by Google. If I go to google to sign-in, a blank page appears. I must have blocked it. But you can never block them completely. Big Brother wants all of your shit. Every bit. Malwarebytes, CCleaner, Avira ant…
10,000 Maniacs doing the Patti Smith/Bruce Springsteen song: "Because The Night." Gawd, N.M. was so gorgeous. This version is HOT. Jane Scarpantoni is on the bass fiddle, and she gets credit for the same thing again with Lou Reed on "Sweet Jane," be…
What to do with maturing CDs? Oh, dear. DODLX at 4.43% yield? I'm still holding my junk, yielding over 7%. But share price has been very slowly falling... FALN yields 6.15%. "Break a leg."
Ya, it all seems plausible.
The chat agent wondered if the 2 missing pennies were in any way connected to the (literally) 2 cents sitting in wifey's cash section of her IRA. But I told him that I just never did anything with that account. So, the a…
Whack-a-mole. Shit. Nevertheless, the tariffs were instituted under an Emergency Declaration where no real emergency exists. It could be correctly asserted that is where the coup d'etat from within the government began. The "emergency" was manufactu…
I hope to Gawd SCOTUS doesn't lie down for this. The country and the world need these Orange suck-tariffs to be REVERSED. Bessent was crying on tv about what a mess it would be to attempt to correctly refund the companies. Of course, you and I get..…
FD has responded with nothing substantive to rebut much of anything in here for a very long time. Quoting Scott Galloway, in a back-and-forth between himself and Kevin O'Leary: "I find that people who use the term derangement directed at me, do so b…
If SCOTUS and the putz declare that it's ok for him to run I'd like to see Obama come back to run against him.
Barring that, I believe that the Dem's need an in-your-face fighter who will attack and call out and the lies and misinformation being sp…
This one goes way back. My son plays drums, performing. I did not know that fact until he told me. I like Boz Scaggs doing it: "Loan Me A Dime." Blues. A long, stretched-out version.
With Duane Allman, 1969: (Still over 13 minutes.)
Power changes hands between parties; that’s how democracy works. As Obama once said, “Elections have consequences.”
As ever, the obvious gets ignored. Trump is no Republican. He is unique, which is exactly why he produces so much antipathy and resi…
Big Brother, working for auntie Kristi Noem. "I used to spell it with a Y, but I changed it to an I, because nobody took me seriously."
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/03/palantir-pltr-q3-earnings-2025.html
Sometimes, things turn to shit in EVERY direction. The extended family has been severely affected by the Typhoon rampaging through the central Philippines today. Rooves blown off, severe flooding. Interim report: The new-ish house in the hills is s…
