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Carol Kaye talks about her famous (bass)guitar licks for Sam Cooke (Summertime), Ritchie Valens (La Bamba), Beach Boys (Good Vibrations) en Quincy Jones & Bill Cosby (Hikky Burr). A documentary by Top 2000 a gogo

"Here is a Hillary Clinton parody sung to the tune of "I am Woman" by Helen Reddy." LINK[This is 5 years old, but I hadn't seen it before. It just popped up today on my YouTube menu.]

Dr. John Robson investigates the unsound origins and fundamental inaccuracy, even dishonesty, of the claim that 97% of scientists, or "the world's scientists", or something agree that climate change is man-made, urgent and dangerous. LINK DR. JOHN ROBSON, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR John Robson holds a Ph.D. in American History from the University of Texas at Austin and has worked as a historian, policy analyst, journalist and documentary filmmaker for three decades. He has been examining the climate change issue for many years, including both the science and the policy debates.

It looks like Darrell Issa is back. Though votes are still being counted as of publication, Issa looks to have a solid second-place finish in Southern California's Congressional District 50 on Super Tuesday. A win means Issa makes it to the general election in California's "jungle primary." Issa came in second to Democrat Ammar-Campa Najjar in a field of five candidates, three Republicans and two Democrats, in California's contested Congressional District 50, vacated by disgraced Congressman Duncan Hunter, who pleaded guilty to one count of campaign fund misuse. Hunter will be sentenced later this month. CD 50 covers a portion...

The Bernie supporters are really upset about the results of the Super Tuesday elections. This is a meme that showed up on my Facebook page. It was posted by someone who made the comment: "This is why NEVER BIDEN." So I guess there are a lot of Never Bideners out there.

This is a clip from the 1992 movie "Stalin," with Robert Duvall in the starring role. In this clip, Stalin meets with the peasants and informs them of his "solution" to their problem. Of course, Stalin has a different accent and personal style than Bernie, but his policy sounds very similar. Stalin with the Peasants BTW, Duvall does an excellent job in his portrayal of Stalin. If any of my fellow Freepers are interested in seeing the full movie, it is available for free on YouTube: "Stalin" full movie (2:52:33)

Nothing illustrates the folly of our 18-year-long nation-building mission in Afghanistan better than the partial peace bought by a months-long negotiation breaking down after just 72 hours. #BREAKING Taliban ends partial truce, to resume Afghan 'operations': spokesman AFP also reports, "three killed, 11 injured in blast in east Afghanistan," so you know the Taliban wasn't kidding around. The "operation," as the Taliban likes to call it, or "savage terror attack," as any honest person would call it, was in response to confusion between the Trump White House and the Afghan central government over the release of up to 5,000 Taliban...

A Denver city councilwoman appeared to cheer on a message about spreading the coronavirus at one of President Trump's rallies. Councilwoman Candi CdeBaca, a Democrat, enthusiastically responded last week to a tweet that featured a graphic that said, “For the record, if I do get the coronavirus I’m attending every MAGA rally I can." Her quote tweet said, "#solidarity Yaaaas!!" along with five emojis, three of which were faces laughing so hard that they were crying. The councilwoman later responded to a reporter's tweet, saying, "1. Are you listening to ANYTHING Trump has said about the virus? 2. Do you...

Classic film fans will have something unique to celebrate this March, which will see the return of the original King Kong to theaters for a nationwide, one-day engagement for the first time since 1956. The 1933 film will screen at more than 600 theaters nationwide on Sunday, March 15 via Fathom Events, with tickets available now, as part of Turner Classic Movies’ Big Screen Classics series. The press release for the screening points out that the last time King Kong was re-released, back in 1956, “Dwight D. Eisenhower was President, the average movie ticket cost 59 cents, and not a...

Students who staged a demonstration in protest of a lecture on the legality of DACA called it an “intellectually cheap and morally affronting topic.” Students held posters that said, “No human being is illegal" and “Everyone is welcome here.” Stanford University law students, upset about a “morally affronting” discussion of the arguments for and against the legality of DACA, staged a walkout of the event in protest. On Feb. 10, Texas Solicitor General Kyle Hawkins spoke at Stanford Law School, sponsored by Stanford’s Federalist Society chapter. After Hawkins began his speech on the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)...

The EU has found itself assailed on both sides by challenges it cannot unilaterally overcome at a time when it is totally divided. Brexiteers predicted all of this.

Democratic lawmakers Thursday successfully blocked a GOP resolution condemning Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’s laudatory comments about the Castro regime. By a vote of 224-189 that fell along party lines, the House of Representatives on Thursday voted to block a resolution that not only condemned numerous human rights abuses that took place under the Castro regime, but also condemned recent instances where Sanders refused to fully denounce the late Fidel Castro’s dictatorial rule over Cuba. The resolution was introduced by GOP Florida Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, who represents a district in the state that has 335,000 residents of Cuban descent — roughly...

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is preparing a procedural vote that condemns Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders' praise of purported accomplishments by communist regimes. Majority House Democrats will be faced with three choices, reports LifeZette, "Kill it in the cradle, vote against it thus apologizing for communism, or vote for it and trash their front-runner." "Do they stand with Bernie or do they stand for freedom?" McCarthy asked. Democratic Rep. Tom Malinowski of New Jersey already has weighed in on the side of freedom. "Stalin doubled literacy in the Soviet Union, even as he murdered tens of millions of people,"...

President Trump will hold a news conference at 6:30 p.m. ET Wednesday with officials from his coronavirus task force a day after the Centers for Disease Control asked Americans to prepare for a spread of coronavirus in the United States.

#NamasteTrump #USPresident #DonaldTrump is embarking on his maiden two day visit to India from February 24 which will further cement the relations between the two nations. Trump official visit kickstarts with his arrival in the city of Ahmedabad which is the business nerve center of the western state of Gujarat. Soon on his arrival at the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport President Trump and Prime Minister #NarendraModi will hold a road show from the airport en route to the Sardar Patel stadium in #Motera. Over 1.2 lakh persons will participate in the participate in the ‘Namaste President Trump’ event on...

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A look back at Ben Shapirbro debating Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez during their college years.

Democratic California Rep. Maxine Waters said gang members have more integrity than President Donald Trump in a Thursday interview. The California representative spoke on an episode of Showtime’s “Desus & Mero” where she called the president a “street player” and compared him to Los Angeles gangsters, according to The Hill. “I have worked in some of the toughest communities,” Waters said. “I’ve worked with gangs, I’ve worked with Crips, I’ve worked with Bloods.” “And there’s more integrity in many of these young people in the hood than this man has,” she said.

A Shawnee State University philosophy professor's lawsuit over the pronoun he used to address a student has been dismissed. Professor Nicholas Meriwether, a “professed Evangelical Christian”, was confronted in January 2018 by student Alena Bruening. Bruening said identified as a transgender female and wanted to be addressed by the pronouns she/her/hers. When Meriwether refused to abide by the request, the lawsuit claims, Bruening “became belligerent” and said, “well I guess that means I can call you a c**t.” "the court’s decision opens the door for them to shift from being a marketplace of ideas to an assembly line for one...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — It’s the law that you need a license to drive. But, if you’re undocumented and driving without a license in Cambridge, police have been advised not to arrest you for that. It’s all part of a new law that passed unanimously in the city, which encourages police to summons unlicensed drivers instead of arresting them. The procedure has already been practiced for a while, but city leaders said they felt compelled to officially make it a law, in fear of what could happen to immigration laws should President Trump be re-elected. “We need to protect our community...