Urgent message for both Americans and their allies, from the Hon. Paul T Hellyer

The NDAA Explained in 3 Minutes

Yup.. Luxury and then some!

What can I say?

A "My Stuff" Megapost...

OK  I had no idea that they've killed all audio plugins - so for a year it's been defective.. so now I've put it as a soundcloud video. more to come. Till they kill this format too...
First up is one of a few songs I sent in  for a Foghat audition,, Mid to late 80s, I think, I may have sent t to the wrong Foghats management

The death of honor in Japan..

Japan.. Oh.. why did you not fight harder
Atrocious law
Is it really worth making me a terrorist criminal if I "offend" you?
Is "imposing my opinion on you" REALLY worth 5 years in prison?
And telling the truth about Fukushima, is the real target.
Imposing my opinion? How about "being offended by the truth"?
Isn't the fact that your country is responsible for the death of every man woman and child in the world. by hiding the truth about the radiation output, because of this new secrecy law, not FAR MORE OFFENSIVE???

So FIGHT this ! Write every chance you have ,. to tell people about this disaster!!!

Here's my bit:

Latest Headlines: http://enenews.com/

07:35 PM EST on December 9th, 2013 | 

"Weird things" happening on California coast: Previously unknown toxic algae blooms proliferating; Unprecedented mass of oxygen-poor water near shore — TV: Mystery strandings of large squid covered miles and experts baffled... "essentially killing themselves, it's just really weird" (VIDEO)

04:06 PM EST on December 9th, 2013 |

Nuclear Expert: Plutonium in water leaking into ocean is "the most dangerous thing" at Fukushima, it can be carried around world and end up on a beach or in fish — Researcher: Plutonium contamination "a serious threat to environment and human health" (AUDIO)

12:46 PM EST on December 9th, 2013 | 

SF Chronicle: Fukushima radiation possible culprit in huge starfish die off from Mexico to Alaska — Potential catastrophe, it's extremely virulent "going on up and down coast... It's going to change what's out there pretty fundamentally"

10:48 AM EST on December 9th, 2013 | 

Director: We saw plutonium from Fukushima out in New Mexico desert — "Local and regional contaminations of plutonium in environment have resulted from nuclear accident"

07:10 PM EST on December 8th, 2013 | 

Report reveals highest level of radioactive xenon-133 to hit Canada after Fukushima over 6,000% more than gov't website claims

04:13 PM EST on December 8th, 2013 |

Record radiation level in underground water well near ocean at Fukushima — Tepco: "Rise in radiation readings is an obvious concern" — 1.4 billion Bq/m³ of strontium/beta emitters

01:18 AM EST on December 8th, 2013 | 

Canadian officials estimated Fukushima cesium-137 release almost double Chernobyl — Based on the "most conservative and credible" projections

07:01 PM EST on December 7th, 2013 | 

BBC: Work at Fukushima Unit 4 a "distraction"; The "real nightmare" is coming from 3 molten cores — NYTimes: Melted fuel is "all over the place... First goal is simply to stop uncontrolled releases of radioactive material" (AUDIO)

02:32 PM EST on December 7th, 2013 | 

Gundersen: When the radioactive plume hits West Coast in a few months "it's not like it's going to end" — Fukushima still pumping contamination into Pacific Ocean 1,000 days after disaster began (AUDIO)

11:02 AM EST on December 7th, 2013 | 

TV: Highest ever radiation levels detected outside reactor buildings at Fukushima — People exposed to it would die in 20 minutes

01:02 AM EST on December 7th, 2013 | 

California town passes Fukushima resolution: "Urgent international rescue" needed at site — "Poses health and safety concerns to America's West Coast" — "Much greater contamination is likely"

05:49 PM EST on December 6th, 2013 | 

Japan enacts state secrets law late Friday night amid revolt — "It criminalizes investigative journalism" — Terrorism defined as "imposing one's opinions on others"

On pickin a new "blues" name:

On pickin a new "blues" name:

By Ano Nymo Use…

The  Ho Use blues band had just finished playing… and...

Ol Sam Hopkins were talking to one of the ol blooz cats at "Peppers" lounge, and he were asked "Hey what you callin youself when you play, boy?" 

   "Why.. Samuel Hopkins… sir.."

"Hey , that just aint no good, boy!. You got to have a bloooz name.. he breathed just mighty slowly..

" Like T-Bone Walker.. or Howlin' Wolf.  An look at ol Muddy here? He gestured over at the lone figure standing at the bar,  who just turned and growled "please don't"  after a disappointingly quiet gig..

"think he wer *born* Muddy?

(a loud yell from the other table shouted "hey his mama say he were from the day he popped outa her" folowed by peals of laughter). I mean, boy, would you go see any blues cat name "McKinley'.. Sam replied forcefully" I don't think sso, sir.. soud like a classical folk aertist to me. More peals of laughter from the table on the corner, to which Mussy turned around "You all fired" "Hey you just done finish firing us last week, and the week before" "Ok y'aint fired . Just no more cracks.. tonight anyways". Muddy turned back to scratchin his head while trying to figure out some contract or another. Word was Peppers was gonna hire him full-time and wanted something on paper..

  "hey I gotta catch te bus here" Sam pointed out hurriedly"

" I just be in the middle of a real important thing for you playing and you just shootin off like lightnin' ? What you want?"

  "OK fine. Call me lightnin' then.. Still gotta go"

"Hey where that young cat you be talking to run off to all like that?"

 "Aw you mean young 'Lightnin' there? had a bus to catch"

 "Be here next jam session?'

 " Yeah"

Amazing what old newspapers used to write!

Unbelievable! The SF chronicle?! stated in 1908 "The woodsheds are still extremely hot, some 700 may not come out where the faggots are still flaming in what shall surely be remembered historically as the great San Francisco fire. "
And in a wee little book I have.. I swear.. you can't make this stuff up.. and these guys didn't have to, it was "already" there i.e. "all ready" there for them!

Philippines disaster just breaks my heart..

And what have these people done, to deserve this? If a Divine judgement indeed is coming, we are all going to be called to account, so it's noyt as if we're going to be spared. but why start out with the poorest people, instead of the monsters in some other parts of the world? I ask myself...
To all the Filipinos,  my prayers are with y'all..

A placque...

Should be self explanatory...

Welcome to Babylon

It occurred to me that I have discovered a "purity of purpose" about the internet, that I hadn't really identified before. Usually, nothing is really all good, or all evil.
 The wordlwide web, however, deserves a prize, though. It has managed to transcend averages, and become absolutely, totally, evil. PURE evil.
 Case in point.  A typical scenario:
While browsing one of these million and a half blogs operated by Google ,where people host commercial programs with "cracks" for free, so they can collect revenue from Google ads, I twice had to click off a "Free pxrn" popup, which was then followed by Russian bikini clad ""Get a Russian chick" ads, which are really operated by Russian mobsters who either ship away a female member of the mob to obtain American access to rob their "marks" blind, or just rip off the martks by mail for the access fees. Clicking past another "free" iPad ad (just send in 99 bucks to "register") was a news article about how the government secretly had installed "mini bombs" in everybody's food so they could knock you off from a distance. Followed by an ad for "Win friends! Influence people" Free witchcraft book  shows you how! (free with every purchase of hypno-tapes)"
 And... more p*rn.. diguised as a "Become rich with this secret nobody tells you" ad.. Good thing I have my safety settings high on my browser.. I would hate to see if I had them off...
 Excuse me while i vomit..

Part 2 later....

Apparently repeated and abusive threats are "not a violation of community guidelines"

Someone who's YT channel I follow has had hundreds of nasty and threatening posts made to them, and this commenter also targets anyone who leaves comments on the channel that they're attacking. I made the mistake of leaving a comment, and immediately got an abusive reply. Because this person can somehow delete their comments you only ever see them in your inbox. Finally i got a grnuinely threatening one, and *tried* to report to Google..

Here is their reply...
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Action Taken

We’re unable to identify a violation of our Community Guidelines within your recent report to our Safety and Abuse Tool.

Copyright © 2013 YouTube, LLC

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 It does seem they only give a damn if you upload material they "don't agree" with, but it's perfectly OK to threaten anyone whatsoever as long as you delete your comments after. Having 20 different accounts is OK, apparently too, it seems, such as this person has, always opening a new one to continue the threats .. so if it is for the purposes of threatening others, they seem perfectly OK with multiple phony accounts. There is NO possible way that these names could EVER be confused wiyth "real" names

Google, you are a sham.. and a bunch of hypocrites. Claiming to be against internet harrasment and doing NOTHING when a legitimate case appears

...It was a dark and stormy night..

OK, it IS a dark and stormy night,,
'Perfect for Vincent Price's Twice Told Tales...

Is Google knowingly profiting from malware?

Lately, when using chrome, and accessing blogger pages containing google monetizing ads, I got a warning that these very ads are malware providers and could "infect my Mac". OK first of all, a PC virus CANNOT infect a mac.. All the HTML mac viruses are accounted for , and protected against, in the latest Apple updates, so it is simply NOT true.
 But, worse than that, Google is responsible for the ads they support on Blogger, and if they KNOW it's a virus hazard, why give a *warning* that their own site (Blogger) is harboring it, instead of FIXING the problem?
 Lastly, this post may not even see the light of day for very long after it's been posted, at least on blogger, as they have been very active latelty in censoring *anything* critical of certain large corporations, certain areas of government, and You Tube comments and posts, and comments on blogs themselves. Since censored items do not leave any trace once removed, it's a very invisible assault on the population. Comments that mention Christianity are often censored as well.
This world has gone to hell....

Welcome to blazing hot New Mexico!

Nuff said!

Back online!

It has been hell being without internet for six months..
In the meantime, things have changed.. as soon as I got back online, all the programs updated.. Some were not improvements., iTunes , especially, was ruined..
So bad in fact, that I went on a search or alternate audio players. Never found another cataloging app that didn't suck, but I DID discover a mind blowing player - Audirvana.. I have NEVER heard digital audio this good...I cant get enough.. I am currently listening to all my BB King stuff and it is incredible!

Ok.. this *was* a music blog.. but

 OK I have updated this post.. meaning I have Up DATED this post:...........
 This was so that I can add a really good link for the real diehard Fleetwood Mac fans..
 here's a direct lift from my other blog:

This is an astounding album.. and it is such a shame that it is the only one that has NEVER been reissued on CD. Nor have the two standout tracks on it, one of which is the studio rendition of "World In Harmony". Although other takes have since come out, this is by far the best one.. The second is "Purple Dancer".. and the back story is pretty much the same. Other takes have surfaced.. mostly live however.. but this is the superior one by far. Both of these tracks came out only on singles, until they appeared on this German compilation in 1972..

 I got lucky finding a pristine tape source.. Judge for yourself if you don't think it is the under-appreciated gem that I think it is. As it is out of print in any format, and at this late stage, likely to remain that way, I don't expect many chances to hear it come up...

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 Furthermore, i am officially going to add music downloads also, soon.. (no commercially sensitive stuff, but rather, quality bootlegs, and choice unavailable rare tracks.. ) Now,  officially, I am turning this into a "truth and music" blog.. meaning, you are just as likely to get a rock and roll post, "my music" post, a "collectors corner", or a "current events" post..
As a musician myself., the last thing I want to do is cou off someone's meal ticket.. but, if you as a musicvian, see anything here that gets your goat, pleez don't do the official "complaint" BS, JUST ASK ME!!!!! , and I will accede to your request..  OK?
There are people that do complaints for fun, though, which is why I have been hesitant to post before..

 Also, change of subject.. Watching the news today.. TONS of car accidents today from the first rain in half a year.. WOW!
110 millimeters? WHOA..  no rain since May (our really cool lightning st0rm) and our rivers are all dried up.. considering we get ALL our power from Hydroelectric.. also a "strong" wind warning of 110 kph ( everywhere else they call it a hurricane ;-) we cal them "gales"

 That's life on the extreme west coast.. hyuk!

PS WOW it's SNOWING in Australia!!!!! It is almost SUMMER THERE!!!!

A repost of the Foghat demos..

Seems it was Google who deleted all my tunes.. apparently they retired the old google player and didn't bother to tell anyone ;-) So here's a repost of my repost ;-) with the new player... Thought i'd just repost this as i've been ill and haven't been able to do much with this blog for a while..
I'll be back folks!
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In an attempt to throw my hat into the ring for a possibility of getting a gig with Foghat i made a couple demos.. sent them into what i thought was the only Foghat.. i had no idea that there was gonna be TWO Foghats after the dust settled (but not for long, either).. so i don't know if they even got this... But here they are.. I did post em much earlier, but they're remixed and cleaned up..keep in mind they're 20 years old , and on ferric  tapes (it's all i had left).. P.S. For best results have a good stiff drink and crank it LOUD!!!!!!!!!!!!
 I've removed it for the moment because I just discovered that all my auddio is disabled and simply downloads all the audio to whoever opens the page. Not intended. That is Google's fault.. not mine.

Missing music?

Well, it looks like somebody has attacked my blog ;-(
 ALL the music posts are gone.. or more correctly, all my links with the google player are gone.. when checking my page to see what was up, i noticed that they had been erased from the HTML script.. Now who would go and do a thing like that?

Honky Tonk Popcorn!

OK i spent several HOURS trying to find Bill Doggett Junior's post on YT where he replied to me on a comment.. I seem to have misplaced it, so if he sees this, I'm asking him here , now, if he minds I post this

.. It's important because likely only diehard JB fans, or perhaps King records fans (i am a Freddy King diehard, which is where I learnt about Bill Doggett) would even know about this.... See, it may be seriously obscure, but it will show how "hip" this old cat was .. he weren't "old" , ever!
My Upload of popcorn

You HAVE to hear this....

Soundcloud

Here's a new site I joined.. after "Audiocandy" bit the dust..
 If you never visited  Audiocandy, it was a real cool site.. I got to share a website with Fleetwood Mac's Bob Welch, Jethro Tull and Blodwyn Pig's Mick Abrahams, Billy Sherwood (Yes, etc) and a whole lot of other HUGE profile artists.. I was very proud to have been allowed to associate with these artists, and the management of the site were even my biggest fans (some connections last till today, even)..
 However, the site, after well over a decade, bit the dust..
A lot of these guys are gone now, too.. most notably Fleetwood Mac's Bob Welch (unfortunately, by suicide.. if you pray, please pray for his soul)..
 But..........
 Somehow, I got hooked up with what appears to be one of the most.. er.. "hip" (OK so I'm old) websites.. called "soundcloud" .. and at the very same time, I got access to the digital master tapes of "The Catch".. so, I put 2 and 2 together..
 I am carefully uploading only one tune per month.. but anyone can listen, and even download my 320 KB files..
 Check it out.. more and more name artists are joining every day...

My page at Soundcloud

 PS If you are a SERIOUS collector, especially regarding rare formats (in my case , cassettes) You OWE it to yourself to check out my CASSETTE COLLECTORS LIBRARY.. just recently, I uploaded all the Steve Miller releases, as FIRST ISSUES (that is, from 1968) on cassette.. mint, too.... and of course, I have all the Capitol oval logo tapes , mint.. and more every day....