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Thursday 8 August 2024 09:18:47 PM CDT

Rapture is from Autoamerican, the last Blondie album I bought. Maybe I should checked out the next one but it was a transitional time for me and I got busy with some other stuff. Anyway they broke up after that so there wasn't anything until they reformed in 1999 or so. They were classified as punk and new wave but weren't as bad-attitude as a lot of punk was. It seemed to be transitional for Blondie soundwise as ABBA with the changes with Voulez-Vous and the two final ones before their forty-year hiatus.

Debbie was a beautiful woman and great singer - before Auto-Tune and million-dollar production for those set up to be the next big thing and you didn't really have to be able to sing. I heard some interviews back in the day and she seemed pretty normal and laid-back. Rapture was one of a couple of hits on Autoamerican and the one I like best. It's said to be one of the earliest examples of rap. I suppose if you don't count narrative country songs inspired by the Norse deity Eric the Red Sovine or C.W. McCall later on.

Blondie would have a pretty huge hit in 1980 with Call Me done for the American Gigolo soundtrack. Yeah, I saw it, once. I was in the Air Force then in the UK and entertainment on base was kinda basic. They always had the latest movies though so between going downtown and fooling around or bowling or watching a movie we generally watched the movies. Saw the premiere of The Empire Strikes Back in a fancy theater in London. Plush reclining seats and all. Somewhere I've got a pic of the marquee with big X-wings and stuff in neon lights.

Many pop bands did the obligatory disco number or two as ABBA did on Voulez-Vouz but disco burned out by the 1980s. Unfortunately for civilization the psycho-warfare weapon known as rap has persisted. Blondies's contribution is charming and funny which is more than you can say for the product that followed.

On to business. I observe that the Jonestown paper puts pretty mediocre material in the editorial section but there is at least some variety of opinion. KAIT puts up Dissociated Press articles which are rival NPR in propagandist aspirations.

KAIT had a two-minute clip and the text of the article. Where the vid came from I have no idea - generic bimbo this one with long dark hair. Bubbleheads - bleached or natural - aren't all blonde. And they can be male or female. It had the usual garbage including the obligatory Jan 6 reference:

Trump again makes false claims on Jan. 6

Donald Trump falsely claimed during the press conference that 'nobody was killed on Jan. 6,' the date in 2021 when pro-Trump rioters breached the U.S. Capitol amid Congress' effort to certify Biden's 2020 election victory after Trump refused to concede.

Ashli Babbitt, a 35-year-old Air Force veteran from San Diego was shot and killed by a police officer as she climbed through a broken part of a Capitol door during the violent riot that breached the building. (Associated Press)

No you stupid bimbo. Two women were brutally murdered by Capitol Police. Rosanne Boyland was beaten to death while lying nearly unconscious on the ground. Trump was referring to the false reports of two - possibly more by now - Capitol Police being killed. Those were the false claims cupcake. BYKT.

OK, that wasn't about Northeast Arkansas except to the degree that NEA is located in the US. When that ship goes down we're gonna have to be able to swim because there's no come coming to rescue us?

Friday 9 August 2024 11:28:17 AM CDT

Beyond sending a message to the governor requesting she appoint a special prosecutor to investigate this there isn't much I can do. I know several people who have done the same. A daylight hit on an upstanding citizen is different from an old mentally ill Joe Nobody in Utah. I'd like to know why - was it to hit a high-profile target, someone with social status and money - to show that on one is safe? And where are the lectern-gate folks? Killing people is more serious than an alleged and disproven misuse of money. If I have time I'll grab some commentary from Arrakus.

The Dissociated Press feature today is the - what do they call those things? Ya know, felon shot by police while committing a crime and doesn't survive the experience and the usual suspects arrive to do their thing. This didn't develop into the Summer of Love that came later but practice makes perfect.

Weekend about to get going - let me check Left Memphis real quick... looks like nothing. Later.

Sat 10 August 2024 07:55:38 PM CDT

More fun and games with the Jonestown police. Seems the FBI is now gonna take a look. Dunno why, the victim wasn't special IYKWIM. You had to figure the cop would get fired though, video and all and it was pretty clearly inappropriate behavior. And the cop was in another affair that made some people unhappy. And there's an election coming up. That'll do it, get some serious law-and-order posturing for a few more months. And the FBI will have something better to do than arresting people for peacefully protesting without a BLM card.

What the cop shoulda done if he didn't want to get in so much trouble was drive his patrol car (while off duty and not responding to a call) through the narrow congested streets of Jonestown while on the phone and nail a citizen who wasn't even a perp of any kind, just someone in the wrong place at the wrong time. That dude had been a few scrapes before he left that poor woman permanently crippled.

The mayor... well someone anyway...

City of Jonesboro Communications Director Donna Malone released a statement from Jonesboro Mayor Harold Copenhaver. "I've watched the video and I'm appalled because the officer's actions in that video are inexcusable. I'm upset and disappointed because we expect more from our officers. I fully support Chief Elliot's prompt action to terminate the officer. This kind of behavior will not be tolerated and merits investigation." (KAIT)

Allow me to translate: I've got an election coming up and I don't need this. I expect you guys to tone it down until it's over. The Chief knows which side of his toast has the hydrogenated vegetable oil and Yellow #6 smeared on it. Get the FBI involved and you'll look really good.

OK, enough of that.

Sun 11 August 2024 11:05:31 PM CDT

Apparently this means bidding for construction of the proposed garish monstrosity that will replace the tornado-damaged Wynne High School is closed. Says two to three years to get it done. Something that looks like that I can wait another ten years. Most people I know that have kids homeschool them but if I had to consign my offspring to the government school I'd prefer to have them in metal buildings that cost about half as much to build and can be up in a year. Probably more durable too - I converted a thirty-something year old pole barn into a house and the repair cost to the original structure was negligible - not much if any over two thousand on a sixty-plus project. Energy cost is pretty much negligible as well.

But we're told by those who assure us they know (have the BS piled higher and deeper) that children learn better in whatever they tell us is an environment conducive to learning. Uh, they aren't learning much now in your overpriced schools, in the environment someone decided would be conducive to learning. I seem to remember commentating on that a while back. I shall say no more.

Another crop duster crash which happily the pilot survived. Less happy was the ambulance collision, sadly a motorist and paramedic perished. I suppose the modern ambulance is more practical than the old cargo vans and hearses (remember those?) but you have to be more careful. My one ride in an ambulance - well actually it was two in one and two another day but I was only cognizant of one) was recent and one of the truck types. Another Enak story here - some years back when the switch from vans to trucks was going on an ambulance company where I lived had one or two of them. The ambulance company was owned by a funeral home, something I found a tad unnerving. It made economic sense for the operator - someone doesn't make it they're gonna be a customer of a funeral home and you got a shot. There's another story there let me get this one first - I'm not getting any younger and neither is my memory.

Lemme set this up for ya - two highways about ten or miles from town, not far from the middle of nowhere. Intersection the usual 90-degree where north-south crosses east-west or whichever it is. Way back when I was a kid and the roads were gravel a local farmer was on one road and some other guy was on the other and they arrived at the intersection at the same time. I don't remember there was a stop sign on either road on those days (there is now) but anyway collided. The some other guy perished and the farmer was busted up good but lived and recovered.

OK, so it's 1980-something probably and both roads are paved and there's a stop sign at the intersection. Two vehicles collide in a manner similar to the event I just described. Bad but nobody dead. One is banged up pretty good - broken back as was determined later - and the funeral home ambulance is dispatched. Subject loaded up and head back to town.

Not that road runs straight as a ruler for miles but about a mile or so before it connects with the highway into town and the emergency room it does a rather nasty turn. An S-turn you could call it only it's like you took the ends of the S and pulled on them. It's also somewhere near off-camber and heading slightly downhill while turning right. Get all that. Forty years later I still tiptoe through there. Ambulance driver didn't and that big Chevy truck with that big box on the back went base over apex into the field beyond.

If you jokers don't settle down I'll tell the other story. In fact I've got a couple about that crook in the road. All right? OK, gotta go do some of the work I get paid for - later.

Mon 12 Aug 2024 11:54:01 AM CDT

I noticed KAIT had a bit on the X data center that's expected in Memphis, get to that later. Some stuff on the cop that beat up the guy, more fun on Race Street in Jonestown. They need to do something about that area. Wasn't there a killing over there lately? I remember a shooting or two. Seeya in a while.












































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And you don't stop Sure shot Go out to the parking lot And you get in your car and drive real far And you drive all night and then you see a light And it comes right down and lands on the ground And out comes a man from Mars And you try to run but he's got a gun And he shoots you dead and he eats your head Then you're in the man from Mars You go out at night eating cars You eat Cadillacs, Lincolns too Mercurys and Subarus Rapture (Blondie 1981)
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Prime Chuck Norris 52 minutes ago "Lashes out at Harris" ® The state-run media presumes the audience is as dumb as they are. I listened to the entire thing - Trump taking questions like an actual press conference - calling on reporters and responding to whatever the question was. No list of names to call on already knowing what the question would be and what he was supposed. He was relaxed and affable, not one scream or incoherent garbled anything. When I want your opinion, I'll beat it out of you. Reply +904 [-) Mack Bolan 43 minutes ago That is pretty ridiculous. Television and newspapers are dying and the owners have no idea how to keep them alive even a little longer. I looked at about a couple dozen Gray station websites (they have over 100) and found several with the AP article KAIT has. Some have no national news. Maybe the local management gets to pick the material? For every action there is a reaction, for every good an evil, for every strength a weakness, and for every injustice there is somewhere a final justice. Reply +5(+]-) Mandroid 22 minutes ago Jonesboro is run by loony liberals so maybe they're catering to their belief of what the audience is. How many people actually watch TV, even the videos they put on the website? I suspect in small markets they're relying on the continued revenue from local car dealers, business that robotically run ads because that's what they've always done. Electric eye, in the sky, Feel my stare, always there, There's nothing you can do about it, Develop and expose, I feed upon your every thought, And so my power grows. Reply +1(4+]-) Jessica Atreides Marshall 15 minutes ago The general population of what they call 'Region 8' is decidedly not lefty loons so probably not a big audience. I don't know what entertainment programming is these days or anyone who watches it. Everybody is streaming movies and binge-watching the cable shows. We have entered the time when all will turn against us and seek our lives. Reply 0G ]-)
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Twisted Mentat 45 minutes ago KS NEWS row death 30 yea change in Ferguson, Mo. sparked Any excuse will do to drag up a fake affront to the usual aggrieved constituency. I realize that the intention is to create more discord but do these people have no shame? It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the juice of Sapho that thoughts acquire speed, the lips acquire stains, the stains become a warning. It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. Reply 194 [-) Mandroid 32 minutes ago You're kidding, right. Look, these people are such strangers to the truth they - OK some of them - actually believe the fake news they're disseminating. Not all of them though, some of them are pure evil. Electric eye, in the sky, Feel my stare, always there, There's nothing you can do about it, Develop and expose, I feed upon your every thought, And so my power grows. Reply 83Gl-) Jessica Atreides Marshall 25 minutes ago That was the one where the kid stole cigars from a store, assaulted the clerk, ended up ina fight with a cop and got shot. I seem to remember he was a great big kid. We have entered the time when all will turn against us and seek our lives. Reply 83Gl-) Chemical Youth 19 minutes ago Pretty much, here's a link. That was when they had the "hands up don't shoot" thing and we all made fun of it saying "pants up don't loot" because... well because it was what it was. Someone called them race-hustlers as I recall. Some people are like Slinkies -- not really good for anything, but you still can't help but smile when you see one tumble down the stairs. Reply 42(+]-) KaliforniaDreamin 8 minutes ago Looking at Ferguson today, is it better off than it was ten years ago? What happened there was unfortunate but solely the fault of one miscreant, as was the Floyd affair. Many innocents suffered as a result. I would say I don't know what the answer is but Ido - saying it will only cause people to call you bad things and if you're an elected official not vote for you. So no one in positions to actually effect change don't say it. Life is a lemon and I want my money back. ~ Meat Loaf Reply 1Gl-) Remo Williams 32 minutes ago Ferguson had been in decline for a while. Somewhere around that time the tipping point was reached. Look at it now. That's mostly the result of white flight. That's the biz sweetheart. Reply 0G ]-)
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Twisted Mentat 57 minutes ago Phd (Chet: FBI investigating violent interaction between officer and inmate Nice of the mayor to notice. Who has been running the city for the past almost four years? This isn't the first or even second or third major incident. I wonder how many aren't making the news. It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the juice of Sapho that thoughts acquire speed, the lips acquire stains, the stains become a warning. It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. Reply 194 [-) Belushi Speedball 45 minutes ago Anyone remember him being appalled at the Tyner case or the Haley (Johnson) Boyd case? The city is fighting tooth and nail to keep from paying up. That is beyond disgusting. Those who are inclined to suffer fools gladly should plan to spend a lot of time suffering. Reply +3(+]-) DePloraBelle 39 minutes ago Election coming up. Had to do something. Maybe he should have done something a couple of years ago. The chief has been chief for ten years or so. Did they have these kinds of problems ten years ago? What difference, at this point, does it make? Reply 42(+]-) Sinanju Master 31 minutes ago They weren't quite as bad but Jonesboro has always kept most of it under the rug. Changing times caught up with them. Out-of-towners, miscreants are more mobile now. Jonesboro will soon be a little Memphis. Too bad, it was a nice town, shame this is happening to it. Before you can learn anything, you must know what you are studying Reply 1Gl-) Belushi Speedball 28 minutes ago The mayor may be worried. That city council guy could knock him off. The other two guys are some fellow who doesn't look to do anything and the guy they tried to keep out with the alleged hot check thing. I thought he was out but he's on the ballot. Any outsider would be good. Those who are inclined to suffer fools gladly should plan to spend a lot of time suffering. Reply 0G ]-) Mandroid 22 minutes ago Unfortunately if an outsider did win the entire city council would be against him and do everything they could to prevent him from being elected again. Like that Trump guy. © Electric eye, in the sky, Feel my stare, always there, There's nothing you can do about it, Develop and expose, I feed upon your every thought, And so my power grows. Reply +1(4+]-) KaliforniaDreamin 14 minutes ago It's a big club and he ain't in it. Life is a lemon and I want my money back. ~ Meat Loaf Reply HG
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