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  1. When I grew up, ”Verve” was a name associated with jazz musicians recorded on 33, 45 or 78 RPM records.
    Many people remember Jackie Gleason as Sheriff Buford T. Justice chasing ”Bandit” (Burt Reynolds) in the movie ”Smokey and the Bandit.” and yelling ”Sum Bitch” at every missed opportunity. But long before he wore a Stetson and a star, he was an accomplished musician and led a concert orchestra of his own.
    Here’s Jackie Gleason performing ”I’ll be seeing you” on a Capitol LP.
    https://youtu.be/67iRZYjt0ck

  3. When I grew up, ”Verve” was a name associated with jazz musicians recorded on 33, 45 or 78 RPM records.
    Many people remember Jackie Gleason as Sheriff Buford T. Justice chasing ”Bandit” (Burt Reynolds) in the movie ”Smokey and the Bandit.” and yelling ”Sum Bitch” at every missed opportunity. But long before he wore a Stetson and a star, he was an accomplished musician and led a concert orchestra of his own.
    Here’s Jackie Gleason performing ”I’ll be seeing you” on a Capitol LP.
    https://youtu.be/67iRZYjt0ck

  6. This inspirational story was in the Legion magazine. Read it and say a prayer for this young army cadet.
    “A Portage la Prairie teen broke new ground as the first Canadian cadet to complete a gruelling, four-day military training march … while fighting cancer.
    Alex Wishart, 16, walked 40 kilometres a day for four days as part of the Nijmegen March, which started in 1909 as a military exercise and has become an annual event in the Netherlands that Canadian military teams take part in each year.
    Wishart was the first Canadian cadet to have ever marched alongside soldiers in this event. This year, the four-day march attracted 42,036 participants between July 18 and 21, and 38,409 completed the gruelling trek. This year, 6,000 other Canadian soldiers and civilians made the journey.”
    http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/teen-marching-cancer-military-1.4228358

  14. Stalin’s knock in the night.
    “When that 2 a.m. knock came, only one set of lights burned in an entire apartment building—that of the arrested man or woman.”
    …-
    “When citizens of Stalin’s Soviet Union climbed into bed at night, an uninterrupted sleep was never a guarantee. The secret police’s sharp 2 a.m. knock often launched an odyssey into the hellish depths of the Gulag. Many would never return alive.”
    http://gulaghistory.org/exhibits/days-and-lives/arrest/1/

  15. AGW RIP.
    Gorebull’s mcmillions-mcbillions not dead yet?
    …-
    “Gore has to make the case that climate dangers warrant so much human misery”
    “Unfortunately, Gore has given us a deeply biased picture that completely ignores fossil fuels’ indispensable benefits and wildly exaggerates their impact on climate.” (FP)
    …-
    “Coal is #1… again.
    Before Donald Trump came along, it was left for dead.
    Quick: what was the number one source of electricity production in the U.S. during the first half of 2017?
    If you answered renewable energy, you are wrong by a mile. If you answered natural gas, you were wrong by a tiny amount.
    According to the Energy Information Administration, which tracks energy use in production on a monthly basis, the single largest source of electric power for the first half of 2017 was… coal.”
    https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/08/01/coal-is-1-again/

  16. Indeed. Still have Verve vinyl as well as Riverside and about 1000 33’s.
    It was a great time in jazz.

  17. *
    pop quiz… where in the world can a woman “retain her honour”
    if she marries her rapist?
    yup… a real brain-teaser…
    “Such rape-marriage provisions continue to exist in Algeria,
    Bahrain, Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Palestine and Syria.”
    rape… violent criminal assault… or tindr substitute?
    *

  18. Stalin’s knock in the night.
    Years ago, PBS’s Nova showed a documentary about the German scientists and engineers who built Stalin’s first nuclear bomb. Apparently, they were pressed into service in the same manner. First came the knock on the door in the middle of the night. Next, they were on a train to the Soviet Union at its equivalent of Los Alamos.

  19. Stalin’s knock in the night.
    My great uncles kept packed suitcases under the bed just for that eventuality. They did get to use them, and both died in labour camps, as did most of their brothers-in-law.
    The natural ultimate result of socialism.

  20. The aforementioned Germans had it much easier than your relatives. Because they were working on the Soviet bomb, something that Stalin thought was important, they were treated well, being rewarded with better food and housing than the general population.
    According to that Nova documentary, though, one day in 1953, they were told “Stalin ist tod.” Those who wanted to go back to Germany were free to leave. Some of them, such as those of communist persuasion, chose to remain behind.
    As we know from the history of the last half of the 20th century, their departure didn’t harm the Soviet efforts.

  22. Mohammed the cannibal’s Hate Crimes.
    …-
    “Herat mosque blast kills dozens in Afghanistan” (bbc)
    “Attack on Shi’ite mosque in Afghan city kills at least 29” (rotters)
    …-
    “Jihad Report
    Jul 22, 2017 –
    Jul 28, 2017
    Attacks 44
    Killed 389
    Injured 218
    Suicide Blasts 7
    Countries 14”
    http://thereligionofpeace.com/

  23. “I saw it as the right kind of narrative, the right story to tell.” Boy Trudeau is a real “A” (ends with hole). How is it so many Canadians do not seem to notice.

  24. PET POT Cemetery Report.
    Justine Liberal say, Leave it in the ground.
    …-
    “Sprott Energy Fund joins exodus from Canada’s energy patch”
    “Foreign oil producers aren’t alone in beating a retreat from Canada’s energy sector. In an interview on BNN, Sprott Asset Management Portfolio Manager Eric Nuttall, who manages the $146.3 million Sprott Energy Fund, said the energy investment landscape in the United States is much more attractive due to fewer regulatory headaches.
    “We’ve taken our capital out of Canada, largely,” he said. “There’s such profound sentiment headwinds as a result of both provincial and federal government [measures.] Whether its carbon taxes, royalty regime changes and pipeline takeaway issues: we don’t get that in the U.S., we get the same commodity exposure, with equally good fundamentals without all that noise.”
    Nuttall said his fund is currently about 85 per cent weighted to the United States, the largest exposure in its 14-year history.
    “I just got sick of having to come on shows and talk about bloody pipeline takeaway capacity,” he said. “A company drills a great well, well great, are you going to have a pipeline [to] put the volume of oil or gas through?
    It was utter stupidity for us to not be able to build a pipeline after 12 years or 10 years of review, where in the U.S, in Texas, it takes you six to nine months to get a permit and get shovels in the ground.””
    http://www.bnn.ca/sprott-energy-fund-joins-exodus-from-canada-s-energy-patch-1.818272?hootPostID=dd8c4766fc5713f5634d5220b98f85ea

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