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An engineer died and went to Hell. When he got there, he looked around and said “Man, this place needs fixing up. Mind if I do a little work on it, Satan?” Satan said, “sure”, and the engineer went to work. First, he installed a big AC system. Next, he built a waterworks system. Ice cold water fountains everywhere.
He’d started on a sewerage plant when God looked down and saw all the work he was doing. He decided Heaven could use a little sprucing up and got to thinking maybe he’d sent the guy to the wrong place. He told Satan, “Look, this engineer got sent to the wrong place. Send him up here. Satan said, “No, he works for me. You can’t have him.” 

God said, “What do you mean, No? I am omnipotent. You can’t refuse me!”
The Devil said, “I’m not letting go of him”
God replied, “Fine. I’ll sue you and we’ll see who wins.
Satan chuckled as he said, “Where you gonna find a lawyer?”
 

That album by Freddie King I recommended, Burglar, has a song called “Sugar Sweet”.  Freddie’s rhythm guitarist on that one - Eric Clapton. Both Freddie and Lightnin’ Hopkins had an influence on a bunch of the later blues guitar greats.

Well, a playlist of his recordings would be incredibly brief. However, all of the guitarists of the later generations I’ve seen mentioned here stand on his shoulders.
 
 
 

I’m learning “Can’t Find My Way Home” on my guitar. Started playing in July ‘19, took lessons 8 mos., love it. Really turned out to be a fortuitous happening: Been a great distraction during COVID times.

Hon. Mention:  The Band

I would north what our parents and  grandparents thought about the government telling them how much sugar, gas, rubber, nylons, etc. they could buy back in WWII? Or was there maybe a shared sense on community in beating a common enemy? Stop stirring paranoia and start considering the task we must undertake as a nation to beat an invisible and totally indiscriminate enemy. You’re doing patriotism a disservice.

trump started out a few months ago saying we’re turning the corner on coronavirus. Then, when that didn’t happen we were “rounding the turn”. 
It’s not the turn into the home stretch he’s got us on. We rounding Deadman’s Curve on two wheels, and nobody’s driving!  Vote Democrat!

I think the voting stations allow display banners for any candidate running for office, and they follow the 100’ distance required by electioneering rules. 

I think the voting stations allow display banners for any candidate running for office, and they follow the 100’ distance required by electioneering rules. 

Big nothing burger according to Barr Justice Department.

I would have. Public money has no place in political races.

Gollum

Rumor is, the President said this.
The doctors said they’ve never seen a body kill the Coronavirus like my body.   They tested my DNA  and it wasn’t DNA, it was USA!
😄
 

There is a BIG difference in hatred borne out of fear and hatred borne out of superiority. If you can’t acknowledge that, no further exchanges are necessary. 
 
And no, I am not suggesting sixth grade is the same as it was. But, 400 years of thinking is not going to go away in 50 years. The change is slow, but it could accelerate with some basic acknowledgments.

Anybody ever read Richard III?

No, we shouldn’t have to be forced. We should all want to as a patriotic duty to protect ourselves, our fellow citizens, and the Republic. You know, like it says in the pledge, “indivisible”. We should want to work as one in crisis. When the leader is totally divisive, this s***storm is what we get.

Yeah, that was a little extreme on my part. Thanks for the call.

Silly ain’t a bad thing. Laughter is contagious, and it spreads good will with no side effects.

Silly ain’t a bad thing. Laughter is contagious, and it spreads good will with no side effects.

Even I appreciate a well placed period, regardless of it’s author.

He wasn’t a leader then. It was good PR. He does nothing that will not benefit him personally.

When I created this post, I stated I was looking forward to the defense of trump’s big lie.  Crickets on that one.  All any of you have done is throw the whatabouts, or deflect the question by ranting about abortion. That proves a rhetorical axiom:
You can’t defend the indefensible.

Never said that. Said I’d be back. I just had to get away from the acrimony. It poisons, don’t you know?

Hey guys. Just had to stop by a minute for a quick dose of apoplexy.  National crises demand national leadership. I ‘tol ya’ll that Donald Swamp’s total lack thereof would sink his sorry ass.  C-ya!

In Union There Is Strength
I have watched this week’s unfolding events, angry and appalled. The words “Equal Justice Under Law” are carved in the pediment of the United States Supreme Court. This is precisely what protesters are rightly de- manding. It is a wholesome and unifying demand—one that all of us should be able to get behind. We must not be distracted by a small number of lawbreakers. The protests are defined by tens of thousands of people of conscience who are insisting that we live up to our val- ues—our values as people and our values as a nation.
When I joined the military, some 50 years ago, I swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution. Never did I dream that troops taking that same oath would be ordered under any circumstance to violate the Constitu- tional rights of their fellow citizens—much less to pro- vide a bizarre photo op for the elected commander-in- chief, with military leadership standing alongside.
We must reject any thinking of our cities as a “bat- tlespace” that our uniformed military is called upon to “dominate.” At home, we should use our military only when requested to do so, on very rare occasions, by state governors. Militarizing our response, as we wit- nessed in Washington, D.C., sets up a conflict—a false conflict—between the military and civilian society. It erodes the moral ground that ensures a trusted bond between men and women in uniform and the society they are sworn to protect, and of which they them- selves are a part. Keeping public order rests with civil- ian state and local leaders who best understand their communities and are answerable to them.
James Madison wrote in Federalist 14 that “America united with a handful of troops, or without a single sol- dier, exhibits a more forbidding posture to foreign am- bition than America disunited, with a hundred thou- sand veterans ready for combat.” We do not need to mil- itarize our response to protests. We need to unite around a common purpose. And it starts by guarantee-
ing that all of us are equal before the law.
Instructions given by the military departments to our troops before the Normandy invasion reminded soldiers that “The Nazi slogan for destroying us . . . was ‘Divide and Conquer.’ Our American answer is ‘In Union there is Strength.’” We must summon that unity to surmount this crisis—confident that we are better than our politics.
Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people—does not even pretend to try. Instead he tries to divide us. We are wit- nessing the consequences of three years of this deliberate effort. We are witnessing the consequences of three years without mature leadership. We can unite without him, drawing on the strengths inherent in our civil society. This will not be easy, as the past few days have shown, but we owe it to our fellow citizens; to past generations that bled to defend our promise; and to our children.
We can come through this trying time stronger, and with a renewed sense of purpose and respect for one an- other. The pandemic has shown us that it is not only our troops who are willing to offer the ultimate sacrifice for the safety of the community. Americans in hospitals, grocery stores, post offices, and elsewhere have put their lives on the line in order to serve their fellow citizens and their country. We know that we are better than the abuse of executive authority that we witnessed in Lafay- ette Square. We must reject and hold accountable those in office who would make a mockery of our Constitu- tion. At the same time, we must remember Lincoln’s “better angels,” and listen to them, as we work to unite.
Only by adopting a new path—which means, in truth, returning to the original path of our founding ideals— will we again be a country admired and respected at home and abroad.
— Jim Mattis, former defense secretary under President Trump who resigned in protest in 2018
 
 Jump on it, acolytes of mayhem