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Mar 2021
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So, lets have some fun. 'I'm in the mood for love.'

I originally became exposed to this song, when I was a little kid watching The Little Rascals.
There was one episode called 'Pinch Singer'. In it Alfala sang a tune (off-key).

It was 'I'm in the mood for love', (originally written by Jimmy McHugh & saxophonist James Moody).

Of course since then, I've heard a number of people sing the song,
including Sara Vaughn, Nat King Cole, Sam Cooke, Frank Sinatra, Barbara Streisand, Rod Stewart, Peaches & Herb, and many others.

It's also been used as a jazz standard to innovate with, most notably by the great alto saxophonist Charlie Parker;

and piano great Art Tatum;

But, you know the lyrics, or at least the beginning.

"I'm in the mood for love, simply because you're near me."

Wonderful. But, this is 2021 and perhaps it's time for an update more in tune (pun intended)
with the current century.

So, starting with the opening, "I'm in the mood for love, simply because"........

lets have fun adding our own suggestions to update the tune.

To get us started I'll suggest;

I'm in the mood for love simply because....... of Viagra.

or ....simply because.... quarantine ended.

or .....simply because .... of your D cups.

or.............. add your own suggestions, if you like.

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Mar 2021
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I wonder why no one is focused on the real important stuff these days.

You know. The life or death issues like;

How many times an obese person needs to flush a toilet if they overeat on KFC & McDonalds

or

How the new light bulbs make you look off color when you spray your face with spray-on tan products

or

How we can make the middle class and poor pay a greater share of the taxes instead of the rich

or

Which brand of beans we should buy

or

Who stole something that wasn't stolen.

I just don't know how these crucial subjects somehow just disappeared without anyone putting most of their time focused on them.

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Mar 2021
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I got stabbed today

I was downtown and a man, who I've never seen before stabbed me.
He got me right in the shoulder, while I wasn't looking.
Lots of police were there and everything.

I mean, it wasn't that big a deal. I just got my first dose of Moderna. That's all.
I didn't even feel it. I still don't. They must be using very thin needles.

I had to pay extra to get the Gates microchip though.

I got an Intel Core i7-10700K It features 8 cores and 16 threads, with an impressive base clock speed of 3.8GHz. The unlocked CPU can be boosted up to 5.1 GHz with Turbo Boost Max 3.0.

Yeah, I'll be doing some fantastic number crunching now, and be able to run down fly balls in the outfield
like the 10 Million dollar man.

Wait until you see the blog output in the next few months.

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Mar 2021
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Heard tonight on 'Comics Unleashed'

"You know you've gotten old, when your favorite candy is.....Tums."

Also,

"I don't see what the problem with gays is. It makes it a lot easier for me.
It eliminates most of the pretty guys and the dyke-ish women from the dating pool."

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Mar 2021
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It's a real lethal problem

In response to:

making sense of America’s gun violence problem turns out to be a fairly straightforward proposition.

393 million: That’s how many guns the United States has, according to a 2018 Small Arms Survey, more than one gun per American and about 46 percent of all civilian-owned firearms in the world. And it’s the only variable that can explain America’s high rate of mass shootings: As my colleagues Max Fisher and Josh Keller pointed out back in 2017, an ever-growing body of research consistently reaches this same conclusion.
The same can be said for gun deaths in general, of which mass shootings account for only a tiny fraction. As German Lopez has explained in Vox, “When researchers control for other confounding variables, they have found time and time again that America’s high levels of gun ownership are a major reason the U.S. is so much worse in terms of gun violence than its developed peers.”

While debatable what the best methods for change are, to prevent further slaughter of innocent people, children & adults, it definitely needs change, not resistance to change.
Change is inevitable. Growth is possible. "Lead, follow, or get out of the way."

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The tyranny of the minority

There are other reasons policy doesn’t follow public opinion, and some of them are inherent in the very structure of American government. The Senate, for example, by giving equal representation to every state, militates against majority rule. As Harry L. Wilson writes in The Conversation, “California and New York, the first and fourth largest states and ones that favor stricter gun laws, comprise about 18 percent of the population of the United States but only 4 percent of the senators.”

Already a counter-majoritarian institution, the Senate was made even more so by the rise of the modern filibuster in the 20th century, which allows a minority to block majority-supported legislation. That means most substantive legislation must get 60 votes in the Senate to pass — often an exceedingly difficult threshold to reach.

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Mar 2021
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Today

Glen Close turns 73

Bruce Willis turns 65

Dodgers Pitcher Clayton Kershaw turns 32

and model Arabella Chi turns 29

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Mar 2021
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In honor of St. Patricks Day

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Mar 2021
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Once again, Putin attempted to influence election - spread misinformation about our US president

Today in The New York Times;

In response to:

Putin authorized extensive election influence campaign, intelligence report says.

President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia authorized election interference operations that aimed to benefit former President Donald J. Trump’s campaign.

President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia authorized extensive efforts to interfere in the American presidential election to denigrate the candidacy of Joseph R. Biden Jr., including intelligence operations to influence people close to former President Donald J. Trump, according to a declassified intelligence report released Tuesday.

The report did not name those people but seemed to be a reference to the work of Mr. Trump’s former personal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani, who relentlessly pushed allegations of corruption about Mr. Biden and his family involving Ukraine.

“Russian state and proxy actors who all serve the Kremlin’s interests worked to affect U.S. public perceptions in a consistent manner,” the report said.

The declassified report represented the most comprehensive intelligence assessment of foreign efforts to influence the 2020 vote. Besides Russia, Iran and other countries sought to influence the election, the report said. China considered efforts to influence the presidential vote, but ultimately concluded that any such operation would fail and most likely backfire, intelligence officials concluded.

A companion report by the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security also rejected false allegations promoted by Mr. Trump’s allies in the weeks after the election that Venezuela or other foreign countries defrauded the election.

The reports, compiled by career officials, amounted to a repudiation of Mr. Trump, his allies and some of his top administration officials. They categorically dismissed allegations of foreign-fed voter fraud, cast doubt on Republican accusations of Chinese intervention on behalf of Democrats and undermined the allegations that Mr. Trump and his allies spread about the Biden family’s work in Ukraine.

The report also found that there were no efforts by Russia or other countries to change ballots themselves, unlike in 2016. Efforts by Russian hackers to probe state and local networks were unrelated to efforts by Moscow to influence the presidential vote.

Some of the information in the intelligence report was released in the months leading up to the election, reflecting an effort by the intelligence community to release more information about foreign operations during the campaign season after its reluctance to do so in 2016 helped misinformation spread.

— Julian E. Barnes

Interesting, how those who claim to "think for themselves" are actually the ones who
are most easily misled to think, as other notorious negative influencers want them to think. At some point it is crucial to actually think, whether you are making America great by your actions, or quite the opposite. It's time to think things through, rather than to be continually misled by having your emotions manipulated. It's time to face reality and change for the better.

Due to (deleted) comments which attempted to turn this intelligence report summary into a political discussion, I have blocked comments. So, feel free to inform yourself of the intelligence findings and the news story about it. In my comments I even included a link directly to the declassified intelligence report so you can "read it for yourself".

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Mar 2021
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Great Blue Heron at the local winter sashimi bar

While it is chilly with blustery winds today, the ice & snow is almost completely gone now, as spring gets even nearer.
The following photos were taken by me several weeks ago, when temperatures were much more frigid albeit less windy.

The initial 5 photos below are of a Great Blue Heron standing on a mostly frozen pond to get dinner through the only unfrozen area of that pond.

The last two shots were taken while taking crunching walks into the woods to find
stream 'winter wonderland' scenarios. I hope you enjoy them.

By the way, clicking on the photo will restore it's original clarity.
This site seems to reduce that when I post them here.

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Mar 2021
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Parts of Colorado & Wyoming about to get hit with up to 2 feet of snow this weekend

A big snow storm, Xylia, is brewing in the Rockies Mountain area. It may give about 2 feet of snow in some areas this weekend, which would likely result in downed trees and power outages. While the area affected will be much larger in general, if you live in, or near, the triangle formed by connecting the dots of Denver, Casper and Rapid City, it will likely be especially heavy with snow. If you live there or know someone who does, please have them prepare for the storm now.

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