Perhaps, someday, the meme below will be more funny than it is now as I am going to a wake (Sunday) and funeral (Monday) for Isaac Wiltgen. See his obituary here: https://prhmusic.blogspot.com/p/isaac-j-wiltgen-may-24-1994-july-23.html
This is one of the last posts I will have for July 2023 because today is Friday, July 28, 2023, I don't have the Blogger app on my cell phone (my choice), and I am on vacation on Monday, July 31, 2023.
Death sucks!
https://blabbermouth.net/news/rushs-alex-lifeson-teaches-you-how-to-play-limelight-solo-in-first-episode-of-shred-with-shifty - RUSH's ALEX LIFESON Teaches You How To Play 'Limelight' Solo In First Episode Of 'Shred With Shifty' - BLABBERMOUTH.NET
https://youtu.be/ ZiRuj2_czzw - Rush - Limelight
https://youtu.be/ d3A21NtrKNE - Kiss Live In Cedar Rapids 4/20/1997 Full Concert Reunion Tour
https://youtu.be/ fIuTUEYeAKA - KISS in Cedar Rapids on 1992-11-15
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https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34602813/zipping-files-with-7z-exe - Zipping files with 7z.exe
https://youtu.be/ 64mhQrjA0zY - The Idea that RT could be so Close to Me gives me Goosebumps
From: Erick-Woods Erickson
Date: Jul 6, 2023 6:49 AM
Subject: Decline is a Choice
Decline is a Choice
ERICK-WOODS ERICKSON
JUL 6
The California panel reviewing reparations has made several policy choices. Those choices indicate California, like much of the urban progressive core in America, has chosen to decline. Among the matters for which the panel has voiced support is an end to police enforcement of public nuisance laws such as public urination, minor trespass, sleeping on the streets, etc. Individually, they may seem like no big deal. In their totality, failing to enforce the small things will cause the big things to fester.
After Daniel Penny saved the passengers on the New York subway and, for his efforts, was indicted, one prominent progressive commentator tweeted that one does not expect to die on the subway, but one should expect to get accosted by crazy people. It was, after all, part of living in the city. Except it did not used to be that way.
The left has worked very hard to vilify the “broken window theory” of crime. The idea is that enforcement of the law on small things prevents big things from festering. Despite the left’s adamant conviction that the theory is bad, one need only look at New York under Rudy Giuliani and New York today to see that the theory works. The basic gist of the theory is that if one sees a building with a broken window and that the broken window remains for some time, it signals that the building is vacant and unattended. Criminals will move in. What had been just an abandoned building becomes a headquarters for criminals, and crime takes hold. Therefore, enforce the laws on minor things to keep the major things from taking root. Pull up the poison ivy or fight kudzu.
Decline is a choice, and the left has decided to decline. They do so in the name of fighting racism. They’d prefer black families in the inner city live in crime-infested hell holes than young black gang members go to prison. They scream racism while demanding we not address the south side of Chicago because we are not black.
Republicans could offer up a law and order solution. I fear, however, they have become so obsessed with the gender side of the woke wars now the GOP is not speaking clearly on crime generally or on the economic blight of areas affected by progressive policies.
Progressives have made the choice that the small things should fester into the large things, and we should let our cities collapse in the name of social justice. The GOP can and should respond. To the extent they are, however, they are doing it badly. As much as we might want to argue at an intellectual level against transgenderism, the wokes, and intersectionality, the American people just want someone to tell them they’ll fund the police, lock up the bad guys, and get the urban campers off the streets.
Not everything needs to be an intellectual exercise, Republicans. Sometimes, you just have to talk to people like people and point out that decline is a choice, and our side does not choose to decline, unlike the left.
© 2023 Erick-Woods Erickson
PO Box 28978, Macon, GA 31210
https://youtu.be/ qU00W7BcIVI - Rock This Town
When I heard "Fortunate Son", it took me back to the Spring of 1992 when I was playing drums in a band I've mentioned in the past - Old Stew - and how this tune was sometimes our first song of the night. Playing at Bonehead's on Center Point Road in Cedar Rapids was probably not as glorious as my mind likes to think it was, but that's okay, right?
The building Bonehead's was in had been Dale's Fruit Market, which I remember the huge walk-in cooler with the automatic doors, before it was transformed into a bar - I don't recall the name of the first bar that opened in the building - before it eventually became Bonehead's, before that closed and was replaced by a Pioneer Food Store. Next to Bonehead's was a bar called "King Tut's Lounge" and it was the first place I heard a band play the Roy Orbison / Van Halen tune "Pretty Woman", though the name of the band is long gone from my memory. Sorry for the side step into the history of that building on Center Point Road in Cedar Rapids, but it felt relevant.
https://youtu.be/ YQjPZPKr1Qs - Fortunate Son
When "Raiders of the Lost Ark" was released in the early 1980s, I saw the movie in the theater and wanted to be an archaeologist. I wanted to travel the world, especially Egypt, whose pyramids always fascinated me. It wasn't until several years later that I understood that archaeology is not about going out and fighting the Nazis and retrieving artifacts described in the Bible or having poisonous darts shot at you as you run through a jungle before escaping in a plane with both "Reggie" and the pilot of the plane carrying you to safety. Upon learning that I wouldn't be brandishing a whip and fighting a guy prior to him being slaughtered by a plane propeller, I decided to not be an archaeologist. I also remember seeing the movie for the first time and detecting the bullshit coming out of the government officials who assured Jones that "top men" would be analyzing the Ark of the Covenant that he had risked his life to retrieve.
I will be honest about one aspect of that first movie and seeing it for the first time: I didn't know who the Nazis were or, for that matter, why they were bad dudes. I was only on the earth for 4208 days [11 years, 6 months, 1 week, 1 day] and had just completed the 5th grade. In our American History class, we had talked about the settlers who crossed America to California, not the horror of World War II. I was only able to just see the Nazis as bad guys, not as the murderous regime they truly were.
https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/indiana-jones-real-archaeologist - As Dr. Jones returns to the big screen, a real archaeologist acknowledges the movie franchise's shortcomings while espousing its merits
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjXG_oFSi6pHiwBz8Y_yF-3eDqJL17mpt - Pod Meets World
From: Ben Shapiro <daily@mailer.dailywire.com>
Date: Jul 5, 2023 10:00 PM
Subject: Supreme Court Strikes Down Affirmative Action in College Admissions. Good. It Never Worked.
In a historic decision, the United States Supreme Court struck down affirmative action in college admissions as a violation of the 14th Amendment. The 14th Amendment includes the equal protection clause, which suggests that all human beings, regardless of their race, are to be treated equally under the law.
Affirmative action is deeply unfair on every level. It doesn't matter what race you are talking about. If one race is able to get into college with scores that are 200 points below another race, that is obviously racist and it's obviously discrimination under the equal protection clause.
That's exactly what was happening when it came to Harvard University and the University of North Carolina; both of those particular colleges were the ones named in this lawsuit. The statistics cited in the actual Supreme Court opinion showed Harvard's attempts to boost minority enrollment demonstrated the disparity between performances for the groups that got in and the groups that did not get in.
Let's say you're among the top performing people in your particular group, in the top 10%. If you were a top 10% performing Asian, you had a 12.7% chance of getting into Harvard. If you were a top 10% performing white student, you had a 15.3% chance; if you were a top 10% Hispanic student, you had a 31.3.% chance of being admitted to Harvard.
And if you were a top 10% black student, you had a 56% chance of being admitted to Harvard.
What's even more astonishing is that if you performed better than 40% of people and were white, you had less than a 2% chance of getting in. If you were Asian, less than 1%. Hispanic, less than 5%. But if you were black, you had a 12.8% chance of getting in.
That 12.8% for blacks and 12.7% for Asians meant that you had a better shot of getting into Harvard if you were a black student who performed better than only 40% of the population than if you were an Asian student who performed better than 90% of the population.
That's insane. That disparity is obviously racist.
Affirmative action is a massive failure. The idea that affirmative action is the rung to climb up, that it is the pathway to success for black students in America, is just not true. Sometimes the students who get into places like Harvard or Yale through affirmative action are the top performing black students, but they're also performing in the middle of the pack in terms of overall student body. They often wind up dropping out.
Richard Sander and Stuart Taylor Jr. noted in The Atlantic in 2012 that black students who got into college through significant affirmative action were twice as likely to be derailed from pursuing a doctorate and an academic career. Black law school grads were four times as likely to fail the bar as their white counterparts.
If you compared them to other students in terms of test scores, black students were underperforming. That's why they required affirmative action.
There is this idea that the best way to remedy historic injustices is to treat people as groups and then give them a "leg up." But there is no other context in which you would consider this good policy.
New polls show that many Democrats are wildly unenthusiastic about America, so we ask what they're celebrating on July 4th; a judge issues an order stopping the Biden administration from pressuring social media companies; and cocaine is found at the White House.
Take Major League Baseball as an example. Major League Baseball had a color line for the first half-century of its existence. It was evil that black players were not allowed to play; that was why the Negro Leagues got started with their amazing black players.
Imagine for a second that Major League Baseball had said, "We need a quota of black players. But we're not going to use the same standards for them as we do for others, whether they can hit, field, or run. In order to rectify past imbalances, we need an affirmative action program: Black pitchers only need to throw two strikes to strike somebody out and black hitters get four strikes before they strike out."
Would that improve black performance or would that be lowering the standard? Would it heighten or lower ethnic tensions in Major League Baseball if black players only had to throw two strikes and got four strikes at the plate?
That's what we are doing with affirmative action programs. They are racist.
They also happen to be racist against blacks because the assumption in America today is that it is impossible for them to succeed.
There are only two possible arguments here. One is that black Americans are somehow lesser or inferior, which is just pure racism. It's not true.
The other is that America is so inherently racist that black Americans will never be able to get ahead because of the color of their skin. That's not true either.
But those are the left-wing arguments that support affirmative action.
Ben Shapiro
Editor Emeritus,
The Daily Wire
Copyright 2023, The Daily Wire, LLC
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https://youtu.be/ vjzk0yrG2Mo - America's Got Talent 2023 All AUDITIONS & Performances | Week 1
https://youtu.be/ AddSEHko_sk - America's Got Talent 2023 All AUDITIONS & Performances | Week 2
https://youtu.be/ iJl3a8KLirQ - America's Got Talent 2023 All AUDITIONS & Performances | Week 3
https://youtu.be/ n_NfxUQCoXE - America's Got Talent 2023 All AUDITIONS & Performances | Week 4
https://github.com/frederikb/videosplit - GitHub - frederikb/videosplit: videosplit is a command line application for splitting video files based on timestamps
https://youtu.be/ KgidbFSgSBg - 2023-06-02-Set-1-Bad-Rumor-at-Checkers
https://youtu.be/ zKT5slJyIUg - Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny - Spoiler Review
Back in December 2022, a band from NYC called Cinemartyr posted the following link: https://chicago.craigslist.org/chc/muc/d/elk-grove-village-nyc-touring-band/7554884998.html
Because I know that post is likely dead today on 7-5-2022, here is the text in their post:
Hey - my band Cinemartyr is coming through Chicago in the summer. If you can help us book a local show we will return the favor by helping you out with a show in NYC.
It's our first time through Chicago so any help at all is very MUCH APPRECIATED.
Recent music video:
https://youtu.be/gIQjNGyrfVs
Date needed for show: Wednesday 7/12/23
Cheers,
Shane
https://youtu.be/ gIQjNGyrfVs
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https://youtu.be/ lxGh4BZ81yY - FALLING IN REVERSE LIVE IN NYC AT MSG ON 6.23.23
https://youtu.be/ OmojbYEzGv4 - 5 Fun and Easy Songs for Drums in 10 Days
This article - You Can’t Actually Blow Up the White House-An Oral History of Independence Day - was published two years ago. I love the tagline:
As the beloved film turns 25, director Roland Emmerich, writer Dean Devlin and stars Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman, Vivica A. Fox, Randy Quaid and more look back at the battle to cast Will Smith, concerns over that famous Super Bowl ad, and a last-minute reshoot to save the ending.
July 2, 2021 6:30am
