Here we are with the latest volume in this enduring series. I planned this for release months ago, but I kept bumping tracks, & replacing them. I hope you like where it ended up. I played the Love & Rockets for someone tonight & they broke out in tears. I interpret that as a good sign.
I tried to follow the "quick-quick-slow" formula which seems to have achieved it's entertainment function in helping the flow. I've found that too much intensity in a row can be off-putting, & even cause ones skin to slough off. Lol. The preview track, intended to aid your choice to obtain this collection, is ""
Outlands In My Mind" ( Love & Rockets vs The Orb ) .
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On this 14th IP comp, you'll find pairings like Billy Joel vs Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd vs The Orb, NIrvana vs AC/DC, & Journey vs The Vibrators. A lot of people wrote me asking for another volume in this series, & that really inspired me to oblige. I offered listeners to chance to suggest combinations, & as one might expect in this age of no comments, I recieved no requests. Three people did tell me they trusted my judgement. Ni-ice, eh?
For those of you who find this pleasing, don't hesitate to share the link with other humans. I also believe reptiles respond well to this type of bootleg music.
David Frum: Bernie Could Cost Democrats the House (The Atlantic)
If Sanders loses badly as moderate voters swing away from Democrats, he will take with him a big clutch of House Democrats and Democratic Senate hopefuls. It will be a loss up and down the ticket, a loss that could not only reelect Trump, but also enable him, by preserving his elected bodyguard in the Senate and restoring his majority in the House. The question to weigh before Super Tuesday is thus not only Sanders versus Biden or Sanders versus Bloomberg. It is whether you prefer Speaker Pelosi or Speaker McCarthy, and Chairman Schiff or Chairman Nunes. The hopes of congressional Democrats hang in the balance in the fateful week ahead.
Paul Krugman: Republican Cynicism May Win Trump Re-election (NY Times Column)
It may have slipped by you, but last week Donald Trump suggested that he may be about to give U.S. farmers - who have yet to see any benefits from his much-touted trade deal with China - another round of government aid. This would be on top of the billions in farm aid that Trump has already delivered, costing taxpayers several times as much as Barack Obama's auto bailout - a bailout Republicans fiercely denounced as "welfare" and "crony capitalism" at the time. If this sounds to you like a double standard - Democratic bailouts bad, Republican bailouts good - that's because it is.
Mark Green: "Op-Ed: Running against Bloomberg isn't easy. I know. I was his opponent in the 2001 New York mayoral race" (LA Times)
Bloomberg does have some solid liberal credibility - on climate, guns and public health - but on many core issues his record is a liability. He has called Social Security "a Ponzi Scheme." He opposed raising the minimum wage. He blamed the 2008 Great Recession, in part, on laws against predatory lending. He denounced Obamacare and Dodd-Frank. He enthusiastically endorsed the Bush-Cheney ticket in 2004, was an apologist for the Russian takeover of Crimea and has a long record of making demeaning comments about women. And, as late as last year, he was still advocating a "stop-and-frisk" approach and defending his record on the practice.
Danny Heitman: Dorothy Parker's Daring Wit (National Endowment for the Humanities)
Her jaundiced barbs about booze, love, and loss continue to decorate the pages of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. Here we find the obligatory "Men seldom make passes / at girls who wear glasses," along with her cynical proverb, "Scratch a lover, and find a foe." Given Parker's copious consumption of spirits, another one-liner attributed to her sounds eminently plausible: "One more drink and I'll be under the host."
The phrase one-eyed royals is jargon referring to the three face cards showing only one eye: the Jack of Spades, Jack of Hearts and King of Diamonds. The terminology results from the depiction of the face on the card as being shown in profile, so only one eye is visible (all other face cards show two eyes). The jacks are also referred to, separately, as one-eyed jacks: Jack of Spades, Jack of Hearts.
They are frequently used in home games of draw poker as wildcards. Because the King of Diamonds is the only king card bearing an axe (the others show swords), a common phrase for the one-eyed royals is "One-eyed Jacks, the Man with the Axe". Another common phrase is "One-eyed Jacks and Suicide King" denoting the King of Hearts bearing a sword through his head. These four cards are the only cards of differing rank and suit in a common deck that share an identifying trait. Apart from the bedside Queen (of Spades), of course. She is the only one with a symbol beside her which looks a little like an old-fashioned wooden bedpost.
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Randall was first, and correct, with:
Jack of Hearts, Jack of Spades, and the King of Diamonds
Alan J answered:
Three.
Mark. said:
Three: King of Diamonds, Jack of Spades, and Jack of Hearts.
Mac Mac wrote:
3
zorch responded:
There are four in the standard pack.
Roy, the One-Eyed Libtard in Tyler, TX replied:
I've been playing a variety of card games for well over 50 years, and, aside from one-eyed Jacks, the question of any others with a similar affliction has never entered my mind. I've been blind in my right eye since a terrible birthday party accident involving a spring-loaded rocket launcher, and have been called one-eyed Chip off and on over the years, so I should be an authority. But I had to look it up (since I don't have a deck on hand). The phrase one-eyed royals is jargon referring to the three face cards showing only one eye: the Jack of Spades (J ♠), Jack of Hearts (J ♥) and King of Diamonds (K ♦)
Jim from CA, retired to ID, said:
The phrase one-eyed royals is jargon referring to the three face cards showing only one eye: the Jack of Spades (J ♠), Jack of Hearts (J ♥) and King of Diamonds (K ♦).
Dave in Tucson wrote:
There are three one-eyed royals in a deck of cards. The King of Diamonds, the Jack of Spades and the Jack of Hearts.
One-eyed Jacks are not be confused with the 1961 Marlon Brando movie:
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• In order for Milton Ochieng' to go to the United States to attend college, he needed money. He got it: His neighbors in the Kenyan village (with a population of about 1,100 people in 2008) known as Lwala sold chickens and cattle to raise $900 for his plane ticket to the United States, where Mr. Ochieng' attended and graduated from Dartmouth College and then attended and graduated from Vanderbilt University Medical School. His brother, Fred, followed him to the United States. Together, they raised $150,000 to build a health clinic in Lwala. The Blood:Water Mission, a Nashville, Tennessee-based nonprofit that was founded by Christian rockers Jars of Clay, contributed money to help build the clinic. Its program director, Barak Bruerd, says, "It's not common to have a couple of village boys come to the U.S. and advocate for a clinic to be built in their country. The fact that they were able to bring so much support to their community is amazing." Dr. Milton Ochieng' remembers that when he was young he saw ill people being pushed in wheelbarrows to reach a paved road they could travel on to get medical treatment. In Africa, the American dollar goes far. In its first year of existence, the clinic treated 20,000 patients. Cost: just under $100,000. Dr. Milton Ochieng' says, "There's such a sense of love and people feeling they've gained so much from the health center. It keeps me going. … It makes you realize how great it is to be a doctor, how great it is to be serving humanity." The clinic is named the Erastus Ochieng' Lwala Community Memorial Health Centerin honor of the brothers' father.
• Sometimes it takes an older relative to teach a kid morality. When Ed Burke was a kid growing up in Chicago, he got a job mopping a small grocery store owned by an elderly black couple at the end of each workday. They kept their money in the bottom of a flour barrel in the back, and they were forgetful and did not keep good records, and so Ed figured that he could take a little money each night and they would not miss it. Therefore, he would reach down into the barrel each night and take some change or a bill or two, never looking to see what he had pulled out because he was so afraid of being caught. He then would put the money in the trashcan, take the trash out, and then take out the money from the trash can. One night, he pulled out two bills, and when he looked at them after taking out the trash, he was shocked to see that they were $20 bills - $40 was a lot of money in the 1920s. He was scared to have that much money on him because if people saw it, they would figure out that he must have gotten it illegally, but he was greedy enough that he did not want to return the money. Therefore, he rented a safe deposit box and put the money in it. A year later, the bill for the safe deposit box rental came to his house, and his aunt got it. Curious, she found out why Ed had a safe deposit box. She did a lot of yelling, she walked her nephew to the bank to take out all the money, and she walked him to the elderly black couple whose money it was and made him return it.
CBS starts the night with a FRESH'Survivor', followed by a FRESH'SEAL Team'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert are Jason Segel and Charlotte Alter.
Scheduled on a FRESHJames Corden, OBE, are Cedric the Entertainer, Dave Bautista, and Princess Nokia.
NBC opens the night with a FRESH'Chicago Med', followed by a FRESH'Chicago Fire' (runs 3 min. long), then a FRESHChicago PD'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are David Beckham, Guy Fieri, and Doja Cat.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are Nick Jonas, Travis Kelce, Finesse Mitchell, and Michel'Le Baptiste.
Scheduled on a FRESHLilly Singh are Beth Behrs and Tichina Arnold.
ABC begins the night with a FRESH'The Goldbergs', followed by a RERUN'The Goldbergs', then a RERUN'Modern Family', followed by a FRESH'Single Parents', then a FRESH'Shark Tank: Greatest Of All Time'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Bob Odenkirk, Iliza Shlesinger, and Soccer Mommy.
The CW offers a FRESH'Riverdale', followed by a FRESH'Nancy Drew'.
Faux has a FRESH'The Masked Singer', followed by a FRESH'Lego Masters'.
MY recycles an old 'Dateline', followed by another old 'Dateline'.
A&E has 'Live PD Presents: PD Cam', another 'Live PD Presents: PD Cam', followed by a FRESH'Live PD Presents: PD Cam', then a FRESH'Live PD Presents: PD Cam', followed by a FRESH'America's Top Dog', then hours and hours of 'Live PD Presents: PD Cam'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Book Of Eli', followed by the movie 'Ghostbusters', then the movie 'Ghostbusters II'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Chain of Command (Part 1)
[7:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Chain of Command (Part 2)
[8:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Ship in a Bottle
[9:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Aquiel
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Face of the Enemy
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Tapestry
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Birthright (Part 1)
[1:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Birthright (Part 2)
[2:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Starship Mine
[3:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Lessons
[4:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - The Chase
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Frame of Mind
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Suspicions
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Rightful Heir
[8:00PM] X-MEN: THE LAST STAND (2005)
[10:30PM] X-MEN: THE LAST STAND (2005)
[1:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Chain of Command (Part 1)
[2:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Chain of Command (Part 2)
[3:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Ship in a Bottle
[4:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Aquiel
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Face of the Enemy (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of NJ', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of NJ', then a FRESH'Summer House', followed by a FRESH'Watch What Happens: Live'.
Comedy Central has 3½ hours of old 'South Park', followed by a FRESH'Awkwafina Is Nora From Queens'.
Scheduled on a FRESHThe Daily Show is Kiley Reid.
Scheduled on a FRESHLights Out with David Spade are Guy Branum, Moshe Kasher, and Megan Gailey.
FX has the movie 'Baywatch', followed by the movie 'Daddy's Home'.
History has 'Forged In Fire', followed by a FRESH'Forged In Fire: Epic Weapons'.
IFC -
[6:00A] The Three Stooges - Back to the Woods
[6:05A] The Three Stooges - Fright Night
[6:30A] Halloween
[9:00A] The Devil's Rejects
[11:30A] Predator 2
[2:00P] Predator
[4:30P] Predators
[7:00P] Gladiator
[10:30P] Year of the Rabbit - Brick Man
[11:03P] Watchmen
[2:33A] Redemption
[4:48A] Year of the Rabbit - Brick Man
[5:21A] Pee-wee's Playhouse - Rebarella
[5:51A] The Three Stooges - Back to the Woods (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:20am] The Andy Griffith Show
[6:55am] The Andy Griffith Show
[7:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[8:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[8:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[9:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[9:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[10:00am] Sleepless in Seattle
[12:30pm] Maid in Manhattan
[3:00pm] Criminal Minds
[4:00pm] Criminal Minds
[5:00pm] Criminal Minds
[6:00pm] Criminal Minds
[7:00pm] Criminal Minds
[8:00pm] Criminal Minds
[9:00pm] Criminal Minds
[10:00pm] Criminal Minds
[11:00pm] Criminal Minds
[12:00am] Criminal Minds
[1:00am] Criminal Minds
[2:00am] Criminal Minds
[3:00am] Invictus (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Zombieland', followed by the movie 'Twister', then a FRESH'The Magicians'.
Greta Thunberg visited Malala Yousafzai at the University of Oxford, where the Pakistani activist is a senior. Thunberg is in the UK for a school strike planned for later this week.
"So … today I met my role model," Thunberg tweeted. "What else can I say?"
"She's the only friend I'd skip school for," Yousafzai quipped.
In a recent interview with Teen Vogue, the 22-year-old Yousafzai praised Thunberg and Emma Gonzalez, a gun violence survivor and founder of the March For Our Lives movement, for continuing her legacy of activism.
"Sometimes in rooms with decision-makers, they don't have any young people at the table; they don't even have women, let alone young people," she told the magazine. "So just to have the voices of young people present there, just to have women being present at those tables, I think it's a huge difference."
"Star Trek" actor Walter Koenig called out President Donald Trump (R-Grifter), his administration and his supporters in a new interview in which he described the current era as "a particularly heinous moment in American history."
"This is not only because of a few individuals who now have control of the government, but that there is so much support for them," Koenig, aka Pavel Chekov in the sci-fi show's universe, told Salon Monday.
"There's so much vitriol, discontent and anger," he said. "These people are willing to sacrifice the good things in our culture and in our life to support evil things. We as a country and a culture have not gotten to a positive place of progress from which we are not willing to retreat from."
Koenig said he believed America had "really turned a corner" with the election of former President Barack Obama in 2008.
"And then we have Donald Trump," he said. "There is a certain despair that follows me, that haunts me, because we're still doing the same things."
Santana will continue touring in celebration of the 20th anniversary of Supernatural, this time with Earth, Wind and Fire.
After the first round of their intimate Las Vegas residency in May, Santana will join Earth, Wind and Fire on a summer tour, kicking off in Chula Vista, California, on June 19th. They'll hit major cities, including the Pepsi Center in Denver, Colorado, on July 1st and New York's Jones Beach Theater on August 15th. They'll also make a stop at the original site of Woodstock (now Bethel Woods Center for the Arts) on August 23rd, where Santana performed more than 50 years ago.
"It is a great joy and honor to co-share music with the magnificent elements of Earth, Wind and Fire," Carlos Santana said in a statement. "We look forward to delight, joy and ecstasy!"
ABC is opening up the playing field of love to senior citizens.
During last night's episode of "The Bachelor," ABC aired a casting call for people over the age of 65 who are looking for love.
"Now casting Seniors Looking for Love! Are you entering your golden years and looking for romance? The Producers of 'The Bachelor' are looking for active and outgoing single men and women IN THEIR GOLDEN YEARS for a new exciting dating show!
Very few other details have been released in regards to the new senior-citizen spinoff, but let's hope there aren't too many stairs inside the Bachelor mansion.
The US conducted a military exercise last week which simulated a "limited" nuclear exchange with Russia, a senior Pentagon official has confirmed.
The war game is notable because of the defence department's highly unusual decision to brief journalists about the details and because it embodied the controversial notion that it might be possible to fight, and win, a battle with nuclear weapons, without the exchange leading to an all-out world-ending conflict.
The exercise comes just weeks after the US deployed a new low-yield submarine-launched warhead commissioned by Donald Trump, as a counter to Russian tactical weapons and intended to deter their use.
According to a transcript of a background briefing by senior Pentagon officials, the defence secretary, Mark Esper, took part in what was described as a "mini-exercise" at US Strategic Command in Nebraska. Esper played himself in the simulated crisis, in which Russia launched an attack on a US target in Europe.
"The scenario included a European contingency where you are conducting a war with Russia, and Russia decides to use a low-yield limited nuclear weapon against a site on Nato territory," a senior official said. "And then you go through the conversation that you would have with the secretary of defense and then with the president, ultimately, to decide how to respond."
An Italian man suffering from frostbite and four other tourists were rescued in the Alaska wilderness after visiting an abandoned bus that has become a lure for adventurers since it was featured in the "Into the Wild" book and movie.
Alaska State Troopers say the five Italians were rescued Saturday from a camp they set up after visiting the dilapidated bus on the Stampede Trail near the interior town of Healy.
The hikers were found 13 miles from the trailhead, Trooper spokesman Tim DeSpain said. He didn't know how far they were from the bus.
One of the hikers had frostbite to his feet and was transported to Fairbanks for treatment, DeSpain said. The hiker's injuries are not considered life-threatening. The other four hikers were picked up by friends in Healy.
Rescuers were alerted by the hikers with a satellite-based emergency device that notified the International Emergency Response Coordination Center of a medical emergency, troopers said. That international group then notified rescuers, who reached the site by snowmobile, DeSpain said.
The oldest green seaweed on record, the ancestor of all land plants, lived about 1 billion years ago, a new study finds.
Scientists have discovered the fossils of what may be the oldest green algae ever known. The newfound seaweed - called Proterocladus antiquus - lived about a billion years ago. And even though it was tiny, about 0.07 inches (2 millimeters) in length, the algae had a big role: It could produce oxygen through photosynthesis.
"Its discovery indicates that green plants we see today can be traced back to at least 1 billion years ago, and they started in the ocean before they expanded their territory to the land," study lead researcher Qing Tang, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Geosciences at Virginia Tech, told Live Science in an email.
Until now, researchers didn't have hard proof that green algae lived that long ago. Rather, computer models, including those based on molecular clocks, indicated that photosynthesizing plants arose between the Paleoproterozoic era (2.5 billion to 1.6 billion years ago) and the Cryogenian period (720 million to 635 million years ago).
Now that researchers have a fossil, they can confidently say that photosynthesizing plants, a group known as Viridiplantae, lived at least 1 billion years ago, and that they were multicellular, Tang said.
Chances are you read those three terms differently, but you know exactly how you think it should sound.
Jif and GIPHY have now teamed up to try and put a lid on the long-running pronunciation debate when it comes to the semantics between a hard g and a soft g.
"Jif, said with a 'soft G,' is America's number one peanut butter. GIFs, said with a 'hard G,' are the frequently shared looping videos that add humor, culture, and entertainment into people's daily conversations (of which GIPHY serves 10 billion each day)," the brands said in a joint press release.
"At GIPHY, we know there's only one Jif and it's peanut butter. If you're looking for all the GIFs, there's only one GIPHY," Alex Chung, founder and CEO of GIPHY, said in a statement. "If you're a soft G, please visit Jif.com. If you're a hard G, thank you, we know you're right. Whether you like your Gs hard or soft, let's all share some fun and let peanut butter unite us in saying GIF and eating Jif."
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