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@edgarblythe,

And some of the Los Angeles area smog is via China (don't remember how they can tell that). Mixed thing, though, since we sent a lot of our manufacturing offshore to save expense.

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Not surprised.

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This week I may get iced in. Sprig it. I used to look forward to winter. Now I am partial to the baking summer weather.

In case you wondered - No, I did not get a Grammy, last night.

Getting ready for work.

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The storm is moving in this morning. They backed off on the severity of it, but we still must be prepared.

Today comes the State of the Union by President Obama. I don't always agree with his approach and/or policies, but the opposition is so unreasonably critical that I often find myself forced to overlook his faults in defense against the onslaught. Much like with President Clinton.

Pete Seger is gone. If a living person might be a saint, he would have qualified.

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@edgarblythe,

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Pete Seger is gone. If a living person might be a saint, he would have qualified.

The D.A. would have brought up the scene when Bob plugged in at Newport and that would have ended all talk of sainthood. And thinking he owned Bob!!

He was useless anyway. Having us all on with his sanctimonious, half-baked sentiments.

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I used to like Seeger's protest songs til I found out he was a commie-
Wiki- In 1942 he became a member of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) itself. He eventually "drifted away" (his words) from the Party in the late 1940s and 1950s
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Seeger

And I lost interest in him even more when I found out he was a member of a wishy-washy Unitarian Universalist church-
Wiki-The theology of individual Unitarian Universalists ranges widely, including Humanism, Atheism, Agnosticism, Pantheism, Deism, Christianity, Judaism, Neopaganism, Buddhism, and many more.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitarian_Universalism

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@spendius,

I may not agree with what you say, spendi, but I will defend unto the death my right to dismiss it.

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@edgarblythe,

You can dismiss it all you like ed. But he called us all ticky-tacky and our houses, in which most of us had pride, little boxes made of ticky tacky.

Didn't he. ******* snob. Probably fancied a castle or a palace himself.

What was up with "breeding hutches"? His nerve?

He was okay for moping to though. I'll grant him that. A dying fire to gaze into and Seeger on the turntable and you could really get a good mope going.

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@spendius,

You're just miffed because he and Dylan didn't always hit it off smoothly.

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@edgarblythe,

Come off it ed? Bob was never going to hit it off with a guy like that.

Bob blew them all away. I've read about it all from many different pens.

They had no idea where the stuff Bob was writing was coming from. Look at the Byrds doing Tambourine Man for the "sweet pretty things" after taking all its teeth out. The world's best ever song said Philip Larkin. I rate it joint with Barbara Allen.

Have you heard Dolly Parton sing that? I checked the song out and there are hundreds of versions.

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@spendius,

I am a big Dylan fan, as you know. But I am also a big Seger fan. Seger had a stability in his vision and character that came through everything he did, not just his songs. Nothing can diminish him in my eyes.

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@Romeo Fabulini,

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I used to like Seeger's protest songs til I found out he was a commie-

You mean you couldn't tell from the songs?

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@edgarblythe,

Bob fought his own family over his music. Seeger had musicians for parents. It was a job. With Bob it was love.

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@spendius,

How drunk do you have to be to spew such tripe?

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@edgarblythe,

Not much at all ed.

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@edgarblythe,

The very last thing we need ed is to "overcome".

When "we have overcome" what's next?

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Romeo said: I used to like Seeger's protest songs til I found out he was a commie-
Spendius said: You mean you couldn't tell from the songs?

The only song of his that I know well is 'Little Boxes' and I used to think it was great the way it poked fun at society's mindless production line of good little robot citizens.
But when i heard he was a commie the thought crossed my mind that the song might have been aimed at undermining kids desire to study at college, so I lost interest in him.
I mean, many college grads go on to become scientists and enter the weapons technology industry (planes, warships, tanks, guns etc), and anti-US commies don't want kids to do that stuff..

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@Romeo Fabulini,

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I mean, many college grads go on to become scientists and enter the weapons technology industry (planes, warships, tanks, guns etc)

What would we do with them if they didn't?

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Well, it's 32 degrees in Houston, not the 24 predicted. This is important to me, because they may give an extra day of work, cleaning sand off of the stairways today. Not confirmed, as yet.

I didn't watch the President's speech, so I will need to catch up this afternoon.

The nearby Walmart was stormed by a gang of owlhoots, who took as much money as they could get and then vamoosed. It happened about midnight. I hope there are enough clues to catch them. There were plenty of innocent bystanders in there.

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@edgarblythe,

You really didn't miss much; many promises that won't amount to a hill of beans. The best part of the whole speech was when he recognized Cory Remsburg, a vet of the Afghanistan war who was almost killed, and who Obama has befriended. That's when the whole gallery applauded for what seemed like at least five minutes.

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