caucus99percent

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Good morning everyone.
Cool temps moving in to greet the official end of summer. Harvesting is pretty much done. A few more tomatoes and some late corn waiting to be picked.
Still have that 100' of potatoes to dig up. Will start next weekend on it. E2 is still recovering from back surgery, so it's on me.

It’s not enough the humans will not leave off killing the planet with their clinically insane koyaanisqatsi commutes to and from The Job, where they snail along slow as slugs for many many miles, day after day week after week month after month year after year decade after decade, they also have to further kill the planet filling the skies with helicopters and other aircraft, to Look at the koyaanisqatsi, and Report on it, for the radio, and the television.

So we’ve learned that back in the spring a robot was doing some roboting, and then it spake unto people involved in Operation Bomb Iran Bigly, and it sayeth: “Hey! Guess what? There’s a Chinese ship headed for the land of bad melanins, and it’s got all this nuke bomb shit aboard.”

In these days in 2001 winger behemoth Clear Channel was circulating a memo identifying Songs That Have Become Wrong, that should no longer be played on the radio, because those airplanes did not follow their flight path there on September 11.

You can just picture these people, scraping away at the frontal lobe with a hatpin, until they’ve got the higher brain functioning sufficiently reduced, to where this seems like a good idea.

I can't get the link to work, but I have seen a blog that interviews several truck drivers organizing a general strike on October 1.

This is the first example of practical resistance that I have seen, as opposed to gloom and doom.

The blog piece does not mention the Teamsters Union, which tells me a lot. This is a true grass roots campaign.

A long way between blog posts and shutting down truck traffic.

A long shot is infinitely better than no shot.

Historical Perspectives

We have no concept of the history of the countries we attack and coup. This week the Don declared Iran as the most evil country on Earth. Sorry Don, the most evil country is your BFF, Israel, with the US in a close second. We're about to send Israel thousands of 4000 pound bombs to finish destroying Gaza. That's evil. We consider Yemen as a primitive culture, but it is a 5000 year civilization and is the culture which spread Islam around the world. Someone this week defined Hubris as a mix of ignorance and arrogance. That's pretty descriptive of the US.

Afternoon folks!

There's some interesting stuff to listen to this weekend here, starting off with what is arguably Jimmy Witherspoon's best album followed by a great compilation of recordings of Chicago Jazz and blues outfit, The Harlem Hamfats with vocalist Rosetta Howard - give it a shot. After that is a zydeco album from Boozoo Chavis and then it's on to blues rock with albums from Canned Heat and Roy Buchanan. Finishing off is a really solid album from The Radiators.

Enjoy the tunes and have a great weekend!