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THIS IS AN OPEN THREADNothing is Off the Table
But PLAY NICE!
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#BadNews Music MondayI wrote something last night about what’s going in at Chez Angie, and don’t wish to get into it again, see the link if you are curious.
That being said, its #BadNews Monday, for me and poor Michelle Wolf (whose standup I’ve seen before, and she does real life jokes mostly, not politics), as well as the other 319,999,999 people in the United States. Why? Me and Michelle have our own issues, but for the rest of them it’s easy: Trump is still occupying the chair beneath the Resolution Desk.
On to the music and one of my long-time favorite tunes, whose lyrics, if you watch, sounds like CCR was thinking of the Trump Era when they wrote this song.
Bad Moon Rising by CCR (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
x xYouTube VideoUp next, from a band filled to the brim with more talents than most anyone, anywhere, ever.
Handle With Care by the Traveling Wilburys which tells the story of someone who sees just how bad it is out there and still believes that LOVE WINS when you handle it with care.
Oh and the band?
Tom Petty (RIP) Roy Orbison (RIP) George Harrison (RIP) Jeff Lynne (still a member of ELO) Bob Dylan (still kicking) x xYouTube VideoIn response to the very #BadNews which The Dixie Chicks got after lead singer, Natalie Maines, apologized to a British audience for George Bush being from Texas; they wrote and published “Not Ready to Make Nice” which, as it turns out is quite the anthem for the era of #MeToo. You go, Chicks!
x xYouTube VideoAs I said, my weekend and what happened over that endless couple of years months weeks days is in this story from yesterday. Enter at your own risk, because I keep crying when I do.
Remember to check your Voter ID in the month of May. Contact your county voting and elections board to check your status. I had to fix mine! The last time I had to renew my Driver’s license, I had it mailed to my sister’s PMB (postal mail box) at the local LetterBox instead of my open to looter’s MailBox on the street here, for safety’s sake. Apparently, the clerk at the DMV (dept of motor vehicles) didn’t actually listen when I asked them to send it to the PMB as a MAILING address only.
But they notified the Voting and Elections department that I had a new address.
So I got a notice in the mail. But when it said I had moved, and for about five minutes (how long it took to find the number for & then call the Voting & Elections dept) after all I could think was, “holy shit, now I’ve been Identity Thefted”. But no, they had the data about which agency had notified them and it hit me about the PMB, so I asked, “Was it the DMV, I think I had them mail my renewed License to my sister’s PMB for security.”
So check your voter status, even if you’ve been faithfully voting, year after year. It might have a problem.
How was your Weekend?