Do Something Already!

When I was in the army, whenever we were in "hurry up and wait" mode, often somebody would exclaim in frustration, "Let's do something even if it's wrong!"  They seem to be at that point in the gun control issue now.  All the legislators are under pressure to do something, and I suppose they will, but not with my vote.  That's okay, as soon as Trump gets back in the White House, he will undo everything that the Biden administration has accomplished anyway.  Then the next president will undo all of Trump's accomplishments, and so it goes.  

Merry month of May

The link to the songs of Mr. Beagles has been posted before but I can always use a reminder of the things that slip through the cracks.  I've already downloaded it but have only listened to a few bits and pieces so far but I'll get to it, I promise.

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It's nice to see green treetops again even though the past winter was mild, in my opinion.  Not much snow at all and not too many bouts of frigid weather but I can live with that.  Lots of flowers and plants are coming up nicely, especially the tulips.  There are some nice yards in my area and a quick trip to the store is never a quick trip, with me always stopping to gawk at the greenery.  Quite a lot of variety but except for a few flowers I have no idea what I'm looking at and I don't always carry a camera with me.  I could use the phone but it's camera stinks and it's a pain to get the pics into the computer.

The mangoes are alive but have slowed down their growth; they could be over watered. Or under watered, I dunno.  The surprise to me was the growth of the roma tomatoes.  The fruit never got big but I have a couple of plants still growing, albeit scrawny and spindly.  There's one bigger tomato that will turn red soon, I hope, and then I'll be sending the plants to glory.  They were planted in early October so they have lived more than twice as long as I expected.  I will attribute their strange growth to the likelihood of them being some kind of mutant GMO hybrids.

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I'm all for gun control; a one inch group at twenty yards sound good enough for me.  My opinion is that additional regulations will do little more than make things difficult for the responsible owner and I'll leave it at that.  As a society we are ill equipped to deal with the highly motivated nut case, regardless of their misguided philosophies.

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Speaking of misguided philosophies, I've gotten sucked into a new site that unravels Twitter threads, making one long post.  Some wacky stuff, to be sure, but good stuff also.  Check out threadreaderapp.com if you're curious.

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Late next month there is going to be a NASCAR race in Grant Park by Buckingham Fountain.  That is either going to be the worst idea ever, or the best.  I can't see a middle ground with such an epic experiment.  The course layout that I've seen indicates that a head-on collision is not impossible.  Such a race downtown is not without precedent; have either of you guys been to the stock car races in Soldier Field, way back when?

Bringing up an old and tattered discussion

 To be properly commie you have to have that from each according to their abilities, to each according to their needs thing.  Which to my knowledge is not going on in Russia or Red China.  To be fascist all you need is some dictator whose word is law.  Therefore I would call Putin a fascist, and as far as his calling the Ukes fascist, that's just to rally the Russkies in remembering The Great Patriotic War, and anyway the guy is just plain full of shit.  

And anyway these are just labels to be tossed about.  Uncle Ken's rule is you can call yourself whatever you want.  And the corollary is that everybody else can call you what they want.

But I want to talk about gun control today.  I have spoken of it before and it is the most intransigent issue I have ever encountered in these ivied halls.

But things are different now.  The reps have been so successful on the pro gun issue that now in many parts of the USA it is no big deal for a crazy teen with a criminal history to get an AR-15 and consequently there have been spates of mass killings like every week.  I mean what did the reps think would happen?  The thing has gotten so out of hand that republican reps in the state of Texas are saying well maybe we should not sell AR-15's to kids under 18.  Which is really just a baby step, but that there is a step at all is mind boggling.

I am currently engaged in a fb 'conversation' with a classmate of Beagles and I, Steve Hogan, who has an armada of superweapons because, because guns you know.  But as far as I know Beagles just has Old Betsy and all he wants to do is shoot a deer once a year and eat that sweet venison until it is all gone.  Mostly though he has been strongly against any gun control measure on the theory that this is one more hurdle the dems will have to go through before they do a Mar A Largo on the freehold and pry Old Betsy from his hands.

I am just wondering if, in the light of what is going on, if Beagles has softened his stance on any of the all weapons at all times to all people measures of the current GOP.

More on Names

 Just came across this tonight.  I am not familiar with the source, so I cannot judge the authenticity of the article.  Nevertheless, I thought it was of interest since we have recently discussed the subject.  It seems a self-described "anarcho-communist collective" in Russia considers the Putin regime to be fascist, although Putin himself has been quoted as calling the current Ukrainian regime "fascist", or maybe it was "nazi", I don't remember, but whatever.  How are we supposed to know what to call them when they can't even agree on what to call each other?

"BOAK is a Russian anarcho-communist collective inside Russia that have taken up arms and have organised a string of sabotage attacks that target government buildings and lay bombs on train tracks."

'“People understand that fascism cannot be overthrown by legal actions, and you need to take responsibility and stand up against it, even if it means breaking the law,” the spokesman stated."

Meet the Russian partisans fighting back against Putin’s regime (msn.com)

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 When I look up a something on youtube along the side of the screen it shows all these other things that it thinks I might be interested in, mostly Emmylou Harris and Nanci Griffith songs, and a couple days ago I was looking up a song and your, I think they are calling them ep's these days, showed up.

Oops wrong again.  They do not call them ep's.  I had seen the term around and I thought that the e stood for electronic and ep was the digital version of like what album was for vinyl and CD was for those things in those things that they called jewel boxes which it was a helluva a pain in the ass to get them out of that tightass cellophane.

I had a million dollar idea back in the days of CDs for a tool to open them, sort of like a tiny penknife, but the body would contain something about a famous artist and people could collect and trade them and wouldn't that be a blast?  Well maybe not.

When I say artist I mean musician, sometimes they call musicians artists.

Performing arts is acting/drama, vocalization, theater, etc. Art is a a term for the visual, auditory, or performing arts, expressing human expression and creativity. S singer is technically an artist. A musician is technically an artist.

Well fair enough.  But why do they call them albums?

Historically, the term "album" was applied to a collection of various items housed in a book format. In musical usage, the word was used for collections of short pieces of printed music from the early nineteenth century.

So I guess they are not records, 8 tracks, tapes, or CDs.  They are just digital albums.  

Anyway it seems like a stretch, but google owns both youtube and blogspot, so somehow it connected us on the blog to albums I might like to hear.  Maybe a little bit too much info?

I did another search for that same LP and Hold Back the Dawn did not come up in the feed.  But I have it on that Beaglestonian link for whenever I have a hankering for songs about paper mills.

Have you looked at it?  The guy has slipped in some old photos of you.

Heck's Angel?

Sounds Familiar

 Some time ago, this guy who is currently involved with Bliss Fest called me up and asked for permission to put my old tape on You Tube.  I thought I told you guys about it at the time, but apparently, I didn't. 

Nothing new to report, but I'm still here. 

Listen to This

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AN8MNDaeMzI&t=274s