Obviously, it was on the other side of the podium, but it was up there with Schiff's recent speech from the Chair of the Intel Committee ... you know the one.

You've been a US Senator for 21 years. And you were a Member of Congress for 18 years before that. You don't implore, plead, or beg. You fucking demand. You get up on the floor of the Senate or on TV and you be as passionate as Jon Stewart in support of the bill. You're a fucking US Senator from New York. It was your constituents who died, and it is your constituents in need. We don't need imploring, pleading, or begging. We don't need decorum. We need you to stand up and be at least half the man Jon Stewart was yesterday.

It means you don't get dip unless the majority decides you can.

Moral of story: Primary GOP officeholders*. Do not primary Dem officeholders. Elect Democrats.

* Someone floated a rumor that a certain popular freshman Congresswoman might primary Chuck Schumer in the next election. That's nice -- split the vote and lose the seat.

She is losing supporters in her own district. TPTB in Congress will withdraw their support as well. If she primaries him, she will have to come up with money. The party won't support her financially.

Noisy is not the same thing as effective.

Minority. I get it. But he’s still the senior senator from NY with 40 years in Congress. So, no, begging is inappropriate.

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Someone floated a rumor.

That’s trump speech for some people say. Can we just let AOC get through her first term without Dems in and out of Congress pissing all over her?

and it's obvious it was a topic that got to him and touched him from the start. It must be tiring fighting for it again and again whenever the funding runs out. It really must be like a burden being lifted if that fight isn't necessary anymore.

He's a good man.

...and a moment of genuine, spontaneous righteousness can spark change. God bless Jon Stewart.

the people he was fighting for. I perceived a genuine sincerity. If there were only more people in the world like him.

It makes many of the greedy, self-serving politicians in Congress look all the more loathsome by comparison.

If there was ever a no-brainer bill for your do-nothing Senate to vote on, it's this one.

And when asked about the continued funding he mocked it, saying gosh, he hadn't given it much thought. He's really is a truly awful human being.

Mrs R taught her how to knit on flights from DC to NY.
I have pics from a newspaper clipping.
I also have pics of mom and Will Rogers on the steps of a DC-2.

How cool is that??

I have on my wall a photo of FDR with his hand-written inscription "To (my grandfather) from his friend, Franklin Roosevelt."

Of course, I also have a photo of JFK with the inscription "To (DFW) with best wishes, John Kennedy." My dad knew Pierre Salinger, JFK's press secretary, and got Salinger to get JFK to inscribe this for my 11th birthday. That was in 1963.

I know from your many posts here, which I thoroughly enjoy and learn from. that you and your family have "been around."

In my case, my family is/was pretty much nobodies.

OKAY....my turn// I have a Micky Mantle autographed baseball that I got from him at Yankee Stadium. The REAL Yankee Stadium,.. and I was at one of the 2-3 games where he hit the right field upper deck facade !!

Although I was also in the original Yankee Stadium for a fingernail biter when I was a kid. Detroit was up 4-3, and the Yankees were up in the bottom of the ninth with one on. Mickey Mantle was up and hit one into the bleachers. Yankees win, 5-4. The place went wild.

And my friends in Dallas DID sell this item for $2.8 million (just in case you ever wondered if there are still people with more money than common sense): https://sports.ha.com/itm/baseball/1952-topps-mickey-mantle-311-psa-mint-9/a/50003-80477.s?ic4=GalleryView-Thumbnail-071515

Seems we are two peas in a pod....



OK.. I met Cozy Cole at THE METROPOLE when I was maybe 10.

And that same year, I think, heard both Maynard and Basie at the original Birdland...
Basie blew Maynard right off the stand !!

Your turn...

When I was 15, an older friend had done the sound system for the Ambassador Theater, the short-lived D.C. version of the Fillmore East and West. One time, he was driving 3/4 of my then-band somewhere, and he asked if we had time for him to stop and do a sound-check for the evening concert (it was a Saturday). We said OK. When we got there, he said it was not the safest part of town, so we should bring our stuff inside. We did.

We were in this empty hall with great acoustics, and he said, hell, why don't you guys set up and play so I can do a real sound check. We said, hell yeah! We can say we played at the Ambassador! Jimi Hendrix had just played there a couple of weeks before.

So, we set up, just the three of us. The lead guitarist, the drummer, and me on bass and keyboards (think Doors instrumentation). We sounded great, of course. Then this guy appears out of nowhere and asks who in the world we are. We tell him, and then we ask who in the word he is. "I own the place." Oh. Oops, VERY sorry, we'll get outta your sight, we were just helping with the sound check, we didn't realize, etc etc. He said, no, that's OK. What are you guys doing tonight? Ummm, as of that moment, NOTHING!!!

So we had our test gig that night, and ended up opening for Junior Wells and the Chicago Blues Band, the original Line-up of Canned Heat, and the Youngbloods. We had to stop because he was scared of running afoul of the Musicians Union. At 15, I was 3 years too young to join.

Later on, in 1970, at a rock festival in southern France, I was introduced to Johnny Winter, who saw a plastic electric guitar I had bought for $40 in Stockholm just to have something light to play on while I was traveling through Europe. He said he HAD to have it, and asked if he could give me the $40 I had paid for it. Well, SURE!! He was just a prince of a guy. There was a real asshole in his band, too. His name was Rick Zehringer. He later changed his name to Rick Derringer, but I never saw him again after that.

Oh, and I have played live for Gerald Ford (as President) and Bill Clinton (as former President), and once did a 45 minute duet of Russian songs with Theodore Bikel.

Do I at least get a consolation prize?

No way I can match that... :&gt )))




I mean I played several gigs with Lou Soloff and Dick Halligan, before.. ya know.....
And Pablo Casals..
And knocked a 38" gong off a stand in front of Pierre Monteux....
Went to JFK's funeral, but of course nobody knew I was there.. LOL

But. You da man !!!!

Plus a fair amount of friends of friends.