I say YES. YOU say NO....Numero Tre! Enjoy!
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I have gone back and forth with myself over this, but even though my son was not taken with it, I sometimes listen to this Faith Hill version of Janis Joplin's - Piece Of My Heart. I'm very taken with both versions.
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Powerful memes with some powerful messages and some humorous ones. Hmm, Bobert on her knees doesn't conjure up some one praying, more like someone preying….
Loved your comment on Janis Joplin and wholeheartedly agree. Also, I am not livestock nor is any woman that I know. Can't speak for those conservative Christians but don't understand why they do not have a house full of children either?
Go, Joe. The world admires you and supports you.
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Fun to hear 'Piece of My Heart' in a Country version!
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I had never heard that Faith Hill cover! Interesting, and very brave of Hill to take on such an iconic Joplin song, but something about Joplin’s raw emotions put her version in a class by itself, IMO.
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Listened to Faith Hill cover and while she has great pipes, not a fan of her version. Janis had that raspiness to her voice that cannot be mimicked and which made the hairs on my arms standup. I agree with you exbrnxgirl. Covers don't always match the greatness of the original.
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The meme about dress code is spot on. I don't remember Steve Jobes wearing a suit and yet he was well-respected. So MTG who has mocked John Fetterman for his dress code doesn't get that he places his constituents before his clothing which works for me. Kristen Synema dresses like a clown on some days and this counts as professional dress? Ted Cruz shows up in workout clothes to vote off the floor? Business casual has been around for at least 15 years, why can't the clothing code be more relaxed.
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I hear a lot about Josh Shapiro’s governing since we often listen to a Pittsburgh news station, and I really like him. Fetterman as well. I could see Shapiro running for President one day.
I’m a huge fan of Faith Hill, too, and have been since she arrived on the country scene years ago with her single, “Wild One”. So I know her version of Piece of My Heart and love her take on it. I remember hearing that she’d never listened to Janis Joplin’s version before she recorded her own. I prefer Janis’s passionate rendition; but Faith’s works, too, on a country level.
Nkb, lucky you for experiencing San Fran and Haight Ashbury in its heyday!
Rurh, haha! Great story about you and a former fling. I know all the words to Me and Bobby McGee and sing along every time I hear it.
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To love very much is to love inadequately; we love--that is all.
Love cannot be modified without being nullified.
Love is a short word but it contains everything. Love means the
body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel
the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe the air,
we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more
exists for us. Love is not a word; it is a wordless state
indicated by four letters.
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Thanks to all for the music comments. I appreciate hearing how you feel. Being a fan of C & W along with what I listened to in the 60's (more rock and roll) and enjoying both suits me. I do agree though that Janis Joplin had the voice and the presence for all of her music. Such an original and there won't be a copy for her I don't believe.
I still listen to all sorts of music. I'm also a Josh Groban fan along with Celine Dion and yes, Vince Gill and Alan Jackson are in there too. Back later.
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The great thing about music is that it is all in the ear of the beholder! One song (and each version of a song) gets a different reaction from each person. I imagine if you followed a singer and went to many of their concerts, you'd find they interpret their own songs a little differently every time they perform them.
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Not a C&W fan by any means so that is why I don't follow Faith Hill or others. As you said it's up to each individual ear as to what is pleasing. I like opera and I am sure some of you would avoid that like the plague but that's why we are individuals.
Josh Shapiro is trying to reach across the aisle to unite parties in PA. He is stymied by a rabid Republican state congress but the senate is now Democrat. We have some state reps who clearly are followers of the Loon and spout conspiracy theories like they were the truth. They are for the most part in the western and upper sections of the state which have low population numbers so think along the lines of his base. So far he has done a decent job especially with the hasty repairs to I-95 after the tanker fire. Now if he could just get the rest of the roads in decent shape.
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He is such a loser. As someone said — even his suitcoats don't want to hang out with him. I turned off the hearing because I got so tired of this one and his shit.
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I did hear today that Ms. Hutchinson has a book out where she describes an incident with R. Guiliani. I may read a description of it as I thought she was quite brave and very articulate during her testimony.
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Kevin McCarthy’s Fellow GOP Colleagues Are Growing “Fed Up” With The Speaker For Allowing Right-Wing Extremists In Congress To Hold The Entire Republican Party “Hostage” For a guy who already had one of the rockiest starts to his House Speakership we’ve ever witnessed, Kevin McCarthy certainly isn’t doing himself any favors by allowing some of the most unhinged extremists the GOP has to offer to dictate agenda and policy, basically running McCarthy’s whole show for him. According to reporting from POLITICO, moderates within the Republican Party are beginning to threaten Kevin McCarthy’s newfound leadership as they’re quickly growing sick and tired of seeing the likes of Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene running the whole show into the ground. POLITICO reported, “Interviews with more than two dozen GOP members and aides reveal that it would take only a few rogue lawmakers hell-bent on his downfall to risk McCarthy’s fate in an entirely new way, sending their party spiraling into a new period of chaos."“More centrist Republicans, too, are increasingly fed up with McCarthy’s efforts to placate the far right. They want him to stop giving ground to lawmakers they see as holding the party hostage to unrealistic demands.” Individual House representatives have also begun to publicly speak out against their tumultuous speaker. Rep. Don Bacon warned, “There’s at least 180 of us that will vote for the speaker 15 more times if we’ve got to. So we just can’t be held hostage to a threat …We’re talking about a small minority who want to control the conference.” It certainly seems that if Kevin doesn’t get his head out of Marjorie’s rear end, that Speakership he was so desperate for is going to be embarrassingly short-lived.This is no real surprise. Right from the get-go McCarthy was making huge concessions to the extremists in his party. Obviously he is not gifted with long range sight. Welcome to the real world that will let reality in when you allow constant degradation of it Kevin.
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Another money maker for the Loon. Who will he sell it to.
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BREAKING: Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis drops a HUGE bombshell in the Georgia criminal case against Donald Trump and his cronies and reveals that MAGA lawyer Lin Wood has turned "witness for the state."
This is something straight out of a mob movie. In the end, criminals will always turn on the boss to save their own skin...
This huge revelation came in a new court filing from the district attorney's office that raised potential conflicts of interest for six defense attorneys due to their prior representation of witnesses or other defendants in related proceedings.
"Lin Wood is a witness for the State in the present case," reads the court filing.
As a witness, Wood would be open to cross-examination. While he was never a formal member of Trump's legal team, he played a central role in a series of sham lawsuits that attempted to to overturn the 2020 election.
This man knows where the bodies.
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BREAKING: The fallout from MAGA Representative Lauren Boebert's Beetlejuice sexual misconduct scandal spreads — and now her date is paying the price for their disgusting behavior.
The man in question, who was seen groping Boebert's breasts on surveillance footage, is named Quinn Gallagher and owns the Hooch Craft Cocktail Bar in Aspen. Since the scandal erupted, his business has been hit hard.
Negative reviews have flooded the establishment's Yelp page en masse. The influx of scathing reviews has gotten so bad that the website has temporarily disabled feedback.
It turns out that publicly associating with deranged fascists is bad for business.
"Been there often. Won’t be back. The owner has disreputable friends," wrote one customer, adding that the owner is "disruptive & disrespectful in public places."
"The owner is doinking 36 year old Grandma Boebert, who supported an insurrection against America!" reads another review.
"This place sucks unless you admire an owner that dates Boobert and causes a ruckus at a theater play," wrote another person.
"I wouldn't even stop to take a crap if I had to. Lauren Boebert will ruin this business as well," reads another, presumably referencing Boebert's own failed gun-themed bar and grill.
Brutal.
What do you think? Does this man deserve it for getting frisky with a fascist?File under LEARNING THE HARD WAY.
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Hilarious.
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Not even close, Loon. Maybe you can still dress yourself, maybe.
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Painful — thank God we have Pres. Biden.
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Meme full of truth.
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I was just looking through a few of my newsfeed articles and noticed a piece by George Conway. Although I feel for the family unit, I think it has done him a lot of good to be done with Kellyanne. He appeared far too calorie laden and now appears slim and fit.
With his feelings about Trump I just envision that he could have been so full of stress. Especially when he got into being a part of the Lincoln Project.
These were just some of my random thoughts that I have from time to time. I also have the feeling that he is not changing his ways to attract anyone but more just wanted to improve his overall health.
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Goodness is the only investment that never fails. -Henry David Thoreau
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The fight over how we conceive of our federal government was on full display today.
The Biden administration announced the creation of the American Climate Corps. This will be a group of more than 20,000 young Americans who will learn to work in clean energy, conservation, and climate resilience while also earning good wages and addressing climate change.
This ACC looks a great deal like the Civilian Conservation Corps established by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the Democrats in 1933, during the New Deal. The CCC was designed to provide jobs for unemployed young men (prompting critics to ask, “Where’s the She, She, She?”) while they worked to build fire towers, bridges, and foot trails, plant trees to stop soil erosion, stock fish, dig ditches, build dams, and so on.
While the CCC was segregated, the ACC will prioritize hiring within communities traditionally left behind, as well as addressing the needs of those communities that have borne the brunt of climate change. If the administration’s rules for it become finalized, the corps will also create a streamlined pathway into federal service for those who participated in the program.
In January, a poll showed that a climate corps is popular. Data for Progress found that voters supported such a corps by a margin of 39 points. Voters under 45 supported it by a margin of 51 points.
While the Biden administration is establishing a modern version of a popular New Deal program, extremists in the Republican Party are shutting down the government to try to stop it from precisely this sort of action. They want to roll the government back to the days before the New Deal, ending government regulation, provision of a basic social safety net, investment in infrastructure, and protection of civil rights.
Extremists in the House Republican conference are refusing to acknowledge the deal worked out for the budget last spring by President Biden and Republican speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA). Instead, in order to pass even a continuing resolution that would buy time for Congress to pass an actual budget, they are insisting on cuts of up to 8% on discretionary spending that Senate Democrats, as well as Biden himself, are certain to oppose.
The White House has noted that the cuts the Republicans demand would mean 800 fewer Customs and Border Protection agents and officers (which, in turn, would mean more drugs entering the United States); more than 2 million women and children waitlisted for the WIC food assistance program; more than 4,000 fewer rail inspection days; up to 40,000 fewer teachers, aides, and key education staff, affecting 26 million students; and so on.
House speaker McCarthy cannot corral the extremists to agree to anything unless they get such cuts, which even other Republicans recognize are nonstarters (those cuts are so unpopular that Jake Sherman of Punchbowl News reported today that Republicans are somewhat bizarrely considering changing their messaging about their refusal to fund the government from concerns about spending to concerns about border security).
Meanwhile, the extremists are threatening to throw McCarthy out of the speakership. There are rumors that Republican moderates are considering working with Democrats to save McCarthy’s job, but Democrats are not keen on helping him when he has just agreed to open a baseless impeachment inquiry into the president in order to appease the extremists.
“If you’d asked about two months ago I would have said absolutely,” Representative Dean Phillips (D-MN) told Manu Raju, Lauren Fox, and Melanie Zanona of CNN. “But I think sadly his behavior is unprincipled, it’s unhelpful to the country,” he said.
As a shutdown appears more and more likely, even Republicans acknowledge that the problem is on their side of the House. Until the 1980s, funding gaps did not lead to government shutdowns. Government agencies continued to work, with the understanding that Congress would eventually work out funding disputes. But in 1980 a fight over funding the 1,600-employee Federal Trade Commission led President Jimmy Carter to ask Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti if the agency could continue to operate when its funding ran out. Civiletti surprised participants by saying no.
Four years ago, Civiletti told Ian Shapira of the Washington Post that his decision was about a specific and limited issue, and that he never imagined that politicians would use shutdowns for long periods of time as a political weapon. And yet, shutdowns have become more frequent and longer since the 1990s, usually as Republicans demand that Congress adopt policies they cannot pass through regular procedures (like the 34-day shutdown in 2019 over funding for the border wall former president Trump wanted).
Many observers note that “governing by crisis,” as President Barack Obama put it, is terribly damaging and that Civiletti’s decision should be revisited. Next month’s possible shutdown has the potential to be particularly problematic because there is no obvious solution. After all, it’s hardly a surprise that this budget deadline was coming up and that the extremists were angry over the deal McCarthy cut with Biden back in May, and yet McCarthy has been unable in all those months to bring his conference to an agreement.
Republicans appear resigned that voters will blame them for the crisis, which, honestly, seems fair. “We always get the blame,” Representative Mike Simpson (R-ID), a senior appropriator, told Katherine Tully-McManus and Adam Cancryn of Politico. “Name one time that we’ve shut the government down and we haven’t got the blame.”
Meanwhile, the House extremists continue to push their vision for the nation by undermining the institutions of the government. The House Judiciary Committee, chaired by Representative Jim Jordan (R-OH), today held what normally would have been a routine oversight hearing focused on policy, law enforcement, and so on. Instead of that business, though, Jordan and the hard-right Republicans on the committee worked to construct a false reality in right-wing media by attacking Attorney General Merrick Garland over his role in the investigation of President Biden’s son Hunter, begun five years ago under Trump.
Glenn Thrush of the New York Times noted drily that “[m]any of the claims and insinuations they leveled against Mr. Garland—that he is part of a coordinated Democratic effort to shield the Bidens and persecute Mr. Trump—were not supported by fact. And much of the specific evidence presented, particularly the testimony of an investigator who questioned key decisions in the Hunter Biden investigation, was given without context or acknowledgment of contradictory information.”
Instead, Jordan and his extremist colleagues shouted at Garland and over his answers, producing sound bites for right-wing media. Those included the statement from Representative Victoria Spartz (R-IN) that the rioters at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, were actually “good Americans” who brought “strollers and the kids.” Even as both Biden and Garland have prioritized restoring faith in the Justice Department after Trump’s use of it for his own ends, the extremist Republicans are working to undermine that faith by constructing the false image that the Department of Justice is persecuting Trump and his allies.
Their position was not unchallenged on the committee, even within their own party. Representative Ken Buck (R-CO) defended Garland from their attacks, while Democrats on the committee went after the Republicans themselves. Representative Adam Schiff (D-CA) accused Jordan of making the Judiciary Committee into a “criminal defense firm for the former president.”Garland, who is usually soft-spoken, pushed back too. “Our job is not to take orders from the president, from Congress, or from anyone else, about who or what to criminally investigate,” he told the committee. “I am not the president’s lawyer. I will add I am not Congress’s prosecutor. The Justice Department works for the American people.”
“We will not be intimidated,” he added. “We will do our jobs free from outside influence. And we will not back down from defending our democracy.”
This is from Heather Cox Richardson and for Sept. 20th. 2023
I also note here in listening to what was said (reported) on tv when they showed an excerpt of AG Garland is sounded (every time I heard it) like for all the world that the AG was saying he wouldn't be the Congress's prostitute when as you can see above the word was prosecutor.
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