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“Summertime Blues”, it is said, took Eddie Cochran and Jerry Capehart just 45 minutes to write. Three verses about a teenager cursed by the fact that instead of cruising with his girlfriend, he has to spend the summer working, set to one of rock music’s first great guitar riffs. It was just an E, an A and a B7, but three chords were all Cochran needed.
“Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. Even before there were large numbers of Negroes on our shore, the scar of racial hatred had already disfigured colonial society.”
“All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
on the day before his 45th birthday, Gaye was shot and killed by his father, Marvin Gay Sr., at their house in Western Heights, Los Angeles
Lennon’s work included music, writing, drawings, and film. His songwriting partnership with Paul McCartney remains the most successful in history.
https://youtu.be/zOTvm1i62Ys
Discovering John Lennon
The growing folkie first gained a notable reputation whilst going by the name of Elston Gunn as well as variations on his birth name such as Robert Allen. However, it was on Bob Dylan that he would eventually settle.
they can switch gears and work to create a prosperous but neutral Ukraine, one that does not threaten Russia and allows the West to repair its relations with Moscow. With that approach, all sides would win.
With the CIA attacks on Ukraine, finally Putin intervened to stop this carnage. Russia, the most attacked nation in history, had not forgotten.
“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious – the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”
― Albert Einstein
“Be kind. Always if you have a choice, be kind.”
― Anne Rice
the lobotomy had not only fallen out of favor by the 1950s but was being excoriated as a barbaric practice. The Soviet Union banned the surgery in 1950, arguing that it was “contrary to the principles of humanity.”
“The political system is broken. Over 60% of us now say the two-party establishment has failed us and we need a party that serves the people. I’m running for President to offer a better choice for the people. Join us!”
We need real change in American Leadership. Dr. Jill Stein has a vetted plan for shutting down 56 war and implementing peace!
… Early versions of fuel-air bombs and shoulder-launched thermobaric missiles have been in use since the 1970s. This included the propane-based fuel-air bomb known as the CBU-55, used by the U.S. in Vietnam
“Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it.”
Starvation wages have nothing to do with “new-workers.” They are about starving the poor to provide corporate welfare.
The Postal Board of Governors has cut out public comment (at their May 9th meeting in DC) and the Postmaster General is refusing requests for information from the Postal Regulatory Commission
Now the fifth daughter on the twelfth night
Told the first father that things weren’t right
My complexion she said is much too white
He said come here and step into the light, he says hmm you’re right
Let me tell the second mother this has been done
But the second mother was with the seventh son
And they were both out on Highway 61
I received this letter from Dr. Jill Ellen Stein today. She is spot on. And we can win this in November!
The Green Party can Win !
“Moderately thinking” it is OK to fund crimes perpetrated by an antisemitic lunatic in Israel are a huge part of the problems we face today.”
