From Ron.

The first cut on Led Zeppelin’s first album. Had this album on 8 track and now I have it on CD. I think their first two albums are their best.

I couldn’t find a guitar version of his 26th sonata so we’re skipping to his 27th.

And now it’s on to Scott Ross who Claudia informed me had the temerity to dis Glenn Gould on his playing of Bach. (The things I learn from my readers.) The quote:

When I hear nutcases like Glenn Gould who do: [plays staccato version of J.S. Bach’s Partita no. 1, BWV 825, Allemande], I say he understood nothing of Bach’s music! I’ve listened carefully to his records: he didn’t understand. He was very brilliant; I respect him up to a certain point. For me, the fact that an artist doesn’t appear in public poses a problem. But at least he was a guy with the courage not to do things like other people. All the same, he was wide off the mark, so wide off the mark that you’d need a 747 to bring him back. I’m hard on Glenn Gould. Well, he’s dead now, so I won’t attack a colleague.

Which he just did.

He can be forgiven since his playing is superb and he recorded all 555 of Scarlatti’s sonatas. For a change, both the guitar version and the harpsichord version are at the same tempo.

From Pres. (more…)

Three worthy candidates this week.

First we have Letitia James the New York Attorney General who filed a lawsuit to dissolve the NRA. How many people has the NRA killed? None. How many people has her governor killed by sending Kung Flu patients into nursing homes?

Second, we have Moochelle who is suffering from depression because the country is so racist or sumpin’ like that. Boo freakin’ hoo! There is no other country on this planet where Moochelle could have done as well as she has. This racist country gave her an Ivy League education and elected her halfrican husband president. Go cry in one of your two mansions.

But the person who is the winner this week is Oprah. She is another African going on about how racist this country is. JHFC! Somehow, in this racist country, she managed to become one of the wealthiest women in the world and it is white women who helped make her so wealthy. How did that happen? STFU Oprah! Here’s your award.

A heartwarming story from the Midlands of South Carolina. Sent to me by my sister.

SUMTER, SC (Aug. 3, 2020) – One woman is dead and another in jail following an argument that led to a vehicle crash.

Shemika Oliver, 25, of Sumter died Sunday morning at Prisma Health Tuomey Hospital after she was injured in a vehicle crash following an argument and fight with another woman. The incident began after 8 a.m. in the Hoyt Heights mobile home park.

Witnesses said Oliver was hanging on to the side of a vehicle when the woman she was fighting with accelerated. Oliver was left lying injured near a mobile home as the vehicle drove off.

The vehicle, driven by Tomekia Moore, 39, also of Sumter, was located a short time later and stopped by Sumter County Sheriff’s Office deputies who reported Moore appeared to be incoherent and smelled of alcohol.

Ya think?

Moore is charged by the Sumter Police Department with felony driving under the influence resulting in death, leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death and failure to render aid.

Oliver’s next of kin were notified by the Sumter County Coroner’s Office, and an autopsy is scheduled for Wednesday.

Moore is being held in the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office Detention Center.

An investigation is continuing. The S.C. Highway Patrol’s Multi-disciplinary Accident Investigation Team was asked to assist. Results from a blood alcohol level analysis are pending.

I don’t know why they bothered to post a picture. The names say it all.

Ron rants.

Blocking streets . . . attacking police . . . toppling statues . . . breaking windows . . . I donno ‘bout the rest of ordinary Murkans, but I’m growing weary of protests, demonstrations, demands, demolition –

Most of what’s happening has nothing whatever to do with improving things for blacks, but a result of a perfect storm of lust for power, hate for Trump, and cabin fever from the media cheerleading the Chinese gleep.

Damn, if CNN and MSNBC had been there to report the Visigoth invasion and sacking of Rome in the early 5th century, they’d have said, “A basically peaceful demonstration occurred at the gates to the city.”

People are tired of quarantine, of self-isolation, of masks, of conflicting reports and advice from experts about a virus with a mortality rate of less than one percent for people with no chronic issues affecting their respiratory or cardio health.

Marchers and protestors and demonstrators don’t really want “justice” for blacks – they want excitement, danger, spotlights, television coverage, political power, freebies, and Orangeman out of office.

They’ve been taught by lefties that America never was a great country, that all white people are racists, that Democrats have always supported blacks and were the driving force behind the Civil Rights Movement, that the UN is a genuinely useful and important factor in keeping global peace . . . .

Their knowledge of history is warped, biased, anti-American and mostly just plain wrong. They don’t know exactly what it is they want, but they KNOW that when we can get a completely socialist government, everybody will be happier and healthier.

I, for one, am pretty much sick of it all . . . and I suspect that millions of people look at what’s happening pretty much the same way I do – less than 14% of the nation’s population is being touted as more important than the other 86%.

Blacks aren’t even the largest minority in the US – latinos are. And crime statistics indicate that the most loyal, honest, hard-working citizens are east Asians (Japanese, Chinese, Filipino, Koreans).

Part of the problem is that in many places people are afraid to declare their support for conservative political candidates or ideas because some left-wing nut job will vandalize their house or their car or cause trouble for them at work.

And John Lewis – what a farce! He’s getting more attention by dying than all those spoiled middle-class white libtards are getting by being public pains in the ass in major urban areas controlled by Dems. And what did he do? Nothin that I can find.

Basically he went to a voter’s rights demonstration in Selma in 1965 and disobeyed an order from a state police major telling the crowd of over 500 that they were engaged in illegal assembly and to turn around and go home.

The leader of the group, Hosea Williams, began arguing with the major, who then told the troopers to advance and clear the bridge. In the scuffle, Lewis got knocked on his ass and hit with a nightstick, very likely because he was runnin his mouth. And from that the press called the incident “Bloody Sunday” and overhyped it.

Lewis milked that event forever, establishing himself as some kind of folk hero exactly as Hitler did after he ran away from his failed coup when police fired on the troublemakers he was leading, but what really got to me was his refusal to accept the results of the 2016 election making DJT PotUS.

He also went to a tea party gathering to stir up trouble with Whitey so he could get some press coverage and claimed that he was called a “nigger” at least “13 times.” It was a lie deliberately issued to cause trouble and bring attention to himself.

John Lewis was as big a racist troublemaker as SoundByte Sharpton, and he has about as many credits for lying in state and having all kinds of foofarah on TV about him as David Duke or James Earl Ray. Hateful, bitter, racist old asshole who was never worth much to begin with and lost touch with reality decades ago.

I can only hope that this November 3rd people will remember how the left has gone all arsonist, obstructionist, and anarchist with black “leaders” playing the race card on every occasion and use their votes to express their disappointment, disillusion, and disgust with BLM, kneeling, and overhyped myths about police “murdering” black men when almost all blacks who get murdered were victims of other blacks.

It’s almost as if the entire black community got together and worked up a strategy for pissing people off and making guys like me full-fledged racists. They’re certainly not doing themselves any favors by acting like a bunch of chimpanzees wrecking the place and throwing feces at the people bringing them food.

From Jane Austen.

A Cowboy from Bedias, Texas walked into a bank in New York City and asked for the loan officer. He told the loan officer that he was going to Paris for an international festival for two weeks and needed to borrow $5,000 and that he was not a depositor of the bank.

The bank officer told him that the bank would need some form of security for the loan, so the old cowboy handed over the keys to a new Ferrari. The car was parked on the street in front of the bank. The ole cowboy produced the title and everything checked out. The loan officer agreed to hold the car as collateral for the loan and apologized for having to charge 12% interest.

Later, the bank’s president and its officers all enjoyed a good laugh at the cowboy from the south for using a $250,000 Ferrari as collateral for a $5,000 loan. An employee of the bank then drove the Ferrari into the bank’s private underground garage and safely parked it.

Two weeks later, the ole cowboy returned, repaid the $5,000 and the interest of $23.07. The loan officer said, ‘Sir, we are very happy to have had your business, and this transaction has worked out very nicely, but we are a little puzzled. While you were away, we checked you out on Dunn & Bradstreet and found that you are a Distinguished Alumni From Texas A&M, a highly sophisticated investor and a multi-millionaire with real estate and financial interests all over the world. Your investments include a large number of wind turbines around Sweetwater, Texas. What puzzles us is, why would you bother to borrow $5,000?

The good ‘ole Texas boy replied, ‘Where else in New York City can I park my car for two weeks for only $23.07 and expect it to be there when I return?’

Of course we know that this is a joke because why in the world would a “good ‘ole Texas boy” want to go to New York City?

Remember when organized crime in big cities ran protection rackets? Nice business you have here. Pay us a percentage of your profits are something will happen to it. Turns out the Black Lies Matter Mafia is doing that in Louisville Kentucky and they’re doing it in front of everyone.

A Cuban restaurant owner in Louisville is slamming Black Lives Matter activists for sending him and other small business owners a list of diversity demands that they were told to meet or risk repercussions like ‘having their store fronts ‘f****d with’.

This is known as extortion.

The letter went out to business owners in East Market District in Louisville, also known as NuLu, during a protest on July 24 that forced some of the businesses in the area to close.

It demanded that businesses employ at least 23 percent black staff, bought at least 23 percent of their inventory from black retailers or make a recurring donation of 1.5 percent of their net sales to a local black charity, and that they should display a sign showing their support for the movement.

And the “or else”?

It also listed a series of ‘repercussions’ if the businesses didn’t comply which included a boycott, social media shaming, and an ‘invasive reclamation’ whereby black owned businesses with competing goods of services would set up ‘booths and tables’ outside the store fronts.

And I’m sure that would not be all knowing the violence of the BLM movement.

[…]

Fernando Martinez, who owns La Bodeguita de Mima, claims that one of the activists warned him: ‘You better put the letter on the door so your business is not f*cked with.’

Now in a civilized city, this would be extortion which is against the law but it seems that in our cities, Africans are no longer held accountable. In fact, I’m sure that the city gummint in Louisville is behind this shit 100%.

Disgusting!

From Jane Austen.