M Is FOR MASHUP - June 26th, 2019
Summer Booty Perseveres!
By DJ Useo
DJ Petrushka originally suggested the concept of an album's worth of mashups that emote the vibe of eternal Summer. That was in 2007, only 7 years after music was invented back in the year 2000. ( lol ) That makes this 2019 edition the 13th volume in this enduringly popular series. She continues to provide momentum towards the released album, in fact I'm sure it wouldn't have appeared without her.
These types of projects can take on a life of their own. In Summer Booty's case, People send me tracks before I even announce there's going to be another volume. The eternal Summer attraction yields a big pay-off of mixing motivation for bootleggers, that often leads to plenty of unrelated tracks the rest of the year.
There's been a lot of changeover involving the contributors, but the quality always has remained high. This year the comp features Chocomang, AtoZ, rillen rudi, rappy, oki, Voicedude, DJ Spider & many others. Normally, the tracks flow in before I even start soliciting them. This year was different in that the tracks came in late, & slow, swelling into a 3-disc set only during the last few days.
My policy on accepting tracks is to invite previous contributors, & those who are currently posting new tracks. Aside from that I look for tracks that feel like Summer. I'm always impressed each year, with this year striking me as even more "Summery". I offer huge thanks to everyone who joined in. You all made this the large success I regard it as.
The Preview track from rappy
"Something In The Summer Booty ( as'st artists )" is here
( app.box.com/s/b1qlaann4went997zd0xjx5efkgugq20 )
The new volume & 3 streaming mixes available from mirror links here
( audioboots.com/Albums/SB2019/ )
( Plus a bonus Summer mix from Jesus Cadena )
You can still obtain all previous volumes from links down the page here
( djuseomashupalbums.blogspot.com/ )
or simply look down the page
( audioboots.com/Albums/SB2019/ )
This surely ought'ta be enough Summer mashups to last till Autumn, & longer.
I hope you enjoy the collection enough to share the link.
Huge thanks to all contributors.
Have the Summer of good -
DJ Konrad Useo
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Paul Waldman: Have we become numb to Trump's loathsomeness? (Washington Post)
When we look back on June 2019, we'll say that this was the time when a credible allegation of rape was made against the president of the United States, and he had already shown himself to be such a loathsome character that it was treated as a third-tier story, not worthy of much more than a passing mention here and there in the news.
Paul Krugman: Self-Inflicted Medical Misery(NY Times Column)
The simple fact is that the Republicans who run Tennessee and other "non-expansion" states have chosen to inflict misery on many of their constituents, rural residents in particular. And it's not even about money: The federal government would have paid for Medicaid expansion.
Philip Stallworth: "Let Me Tell You About The Very Rich. They Are Different From You And Me." (Tax Policy Center)
F. Scott Fitzgerald wasn't talking about the way they make their money, or the taxes they pay, but he could have been. According to a new Tax Policy Center analysis, while the vast majority of us make our livings almost entirely from wages, salaries, or other forms of labor compensation, the highest income 1 percent are the sole exception. Capital income accounts for around a third of their income, and that fraction increases as you go further up the income scale.
Adam Chandler: Fast Food Can Unite America (The Atlantic)
Americans have fewer and fewer spaces to gather. That's where nuggets come in.
Guy Lodge: The 10 best queer films you probably haven't seen (The Guardian)
In the month of Pride, LGBT cinema offers a great deal of hidden treasures beyond the more well-known landmarks.
Jemima Skalla: "Don't look now: in defence of trigger warnings at the movies" (The Guardian)
Calls for audiences to be alerted to potentially distressing scenes of sex, violence or drug use are under fire - but everyone has the right not to be upset at the cinema
Peter Bradshaw: "Peter Mayhew as Chewbacca: a charming and good-natured movie pioneer" (The Guardian)
The man inside Star Wars' Wookiee suit may not have been instantly recognisable, but his skills helped lay the groundwork for current blockbuster movies.
Poppy Noor: Judi Dench defends work of Kevin Spacey and Harvey Weinstein (The Guardian)
Actor condemns alleged behaviour but says stars' work should not be forgotten.
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Anecdotes
Sam Levenson was a stand-up comedian who appeared several times on The Ed Sullivan Show, but a joke at a dinner that Mr. Sullivan chaired nearly ruined his TV career. After Mr. Sullivan's introduction of him at the diner, Mr. Levenson said, "Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you, Mr. Sullivan. There is an old legend that says that just before a child is born the angels kiss him and, says the legend, that on whatever part of him the angels kiss him will determine his particular talent on earth. If they kiss him on the head he will be an intellect; on the mouth an orator; on the hands an artisan, maybe a pianist. No one can prove exactly where Mr. Sullivan got kissed, but he sure makes a helluva chairman." The audience liked the joke, but Mr. Sullivan did not. It was a year before Mr. Levenson appeared on his show again.
On October 19, 1932, Franklin D. Roosevelt had made a speech in Pittsburgh in which he promised to reduce government spending, but of course as President he greatly increased government spending. In his 1936 election campaign President Roosevelt was plagued by the use his political opponents were making of the speech, so he gave a copy of the speech to a ghostwriter, Judge Rosenman, and asked him to write a new speech "explaining" the old speech. However, after examining the old speech, Judge Rosenman told President Roosevelt, "Mr. President, the only thing you can say about that 1932 speech is to deny categorically that you ever made it."
Rev. M. Woolsey Stryker and two speakers were to dedicate a new church in Utica, New York. Because there were so many speakers, Rev. Stryker proposed that each limit himself to 20 minutes. The first speaker spoke for 30 minutes, but the second speaker spoke for 90 minutes. When it was his turn to speak, Rev. Stryker stood up, glared at the second speaker, then told the audience, "This congregation looks very much dedicated. So I will say nothing to you Uticans beyond suggesting that you all go home now and read that chapter in the New Testament which tells how Paul preached all night and Eutychus fell out of the window."
Winston Churchill found innovative ways of distracting other people's attention from speeches he disagreed with. Once, while Hugh Todd Naylor Gaitskell was giving a speech on economic affairs, Mr. Churchill suddenly sat straight up, looked around him, went through all his pockets, then started searching the floor, all the time pretending not to notice that everyone's attention was on him, not on Mr. Gaitskell. Finally, Mr. Churchill explained, "I was only looking for my jujube." (A jujube is a piece of candy.)
When he was Vice President, Walter F. Mondale used to tell a story about a woman being interviewed on the radio. She lived near Three Mile Island, and after being evacuated because of the disaster, she couldn't wait to go back home. The interviewer asked her if she wasn't afraid to go back. She replied, "No, not at all. The President was here the other day - if there was any danger, they would have sent the Vice President." At this point, Vice President Mondale would tell the audience, "Well, here I am."
In 1976, Bob Dole was nominated to run for Vice President with Jerry Ford. Very quickly, he found himself making an acceptance speech on national TV. He thought his speech was pretty good, especially considering the limited amount of time he had to write it, but when he asked his mother how he had done, she replied, "You usually do better."
Irving Howe wrote an important book titled World of Our Fathers about Eastern European Jews immigrating into the United States. At a question-and-answer session following one of his lectures, a woman in the audience criticized him for not titling the book World of Our Fathers and Mothers. He replied, "World of Our Fathers is a title; World of Our Fathers and Mothers is a speech."
Dr. Stephen S. Wise was once introduced in an African-American church by a minister who said, "I have the honor to introduce you to a man who is conceited to be America's greatest orator." When Dr. Wise related this story to his family later, they commented, "How well this minister knows you."
F.E. Smith, who later became Lord Birkenhead, was annoyed by a man who introduced him before his speech. The man talked on and on, and Mr. Smith grew angrier and angrier. When the man finally called on him for his address, Mr. Smith said, "It's Grosvenor Square, and I'm going there right now."
In 1986, Russell Johnson, who had played the Professor on the TV series Gilligan's Island, was invited to speak at Park College in Missouri. He got a kick out of the posters for his lecture: Underneath a picture of his face were the words, "See a real Professor speak."
James Stuart (1885-1931) once read a long, boring speech in the House of Commons while he was Secretary of State for Scotland. A Member of Parliament shouted at him, "Speak up," and he looked up and said, "Oh, I didn't know anyone was listening."
Franklin P. Adams once attended a dinner after being promised that he would not have to speak. However, the toastmaster asked him if, after all, he would like to say a few words. Mr. Adams stood up, said "No," and then sat down.
When Lord Robert Cecil was elected to Parliament, he paused to deliver a yawn while giving his maiden speech. Benjamin Disraeli approved, saying, "He'll do."
Hubert Humphrey was known for making very long speeches. Once he was asked to speak for only 12 minutes, and he said, "The last time I spoke for only 12 minutes was when I said hello to my mother."
In Parliament, A.P. Herbert made a very controversial first speech. Afterward, Winston Churchill congratulated him: "That wasn't a maiden speech; it was a brazen hussy of a speech."
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Current Events
They're paying $775 a day per child for those poor children in the baby concentration camps?! Which grifting cronies of Trump are profiting off this travesty?!
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Last Night
For the last few days there has been an ad during Jeopardy for an anti-medicare-for-all group.
Haven't seen the ad anywhere else - just Jeopardy.
WTF are the demographics for Jeopardy?
$775 Per Person Per Night
HHS Facilities
The cost of holding migrant children who have been separated from their parents in newly created "tent cities" is $775 per person per night, according to an official at the Department of Health and Human Services - far higher than the cost of keeping children with their parents in detention centers or holding them in more permanent buildings.
The reason for the high cost, the official and several former officials told NBC News, is that the sudden urgency to bring in security, air conditioning, medical workers and other government contractors far surpasses the cost for structures that are routinely staffed.
It costs $256 per person per night to hold children in permanent HHS facilities like Casa Padre in Brownsville, Texas. And keeping children with their parents in detention centers like the one run by U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement in Dilley, Texas cost $298 per resident per night, according to an agency estimate when it awarded the contract for the facility in 2014.
At those prices, the additional cost to operate a 400-bed temporary structure for one month at capacity would be more than $5 million. The average stay for separated kids is nearly two months.
HHS Facilities
Heading To Comic-Con 2019
Conan O'Brien
It wouldn't be Comic-Con without Conan O'Brien, and in case you missed it, or live under a rock, he's returning to San Diego next month. Guests are still TBA, but O'Brien always has scored A-grade names from platinum fanboy IP (read the cast of Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead) in the past.
Last year, O'Brien had a Breaking Bad reunion with Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul, Anna Gunn, Bob Odenkirk and more; the cast from 20th Century Fox's The Predator; the Glass cast with Samuel L. Jackson, James McAvoy, Bruce Willis, Sarah Paulson, Anya Taylor-Joy and writer-director M. Night Shyamalan; and Aquaman with director James Wan, and stars Jason Momoa, Amber Heard, Patrick Wilson and more.
This year, O'Brien has a lot to choose from, i.e., casts from the films of It: Chapter 2, Top Gun: Maverick, Game of Thrones and whatever films Marvel decides to bring down to Comic-Con, whether it's a Avengers: Endgame reunion, Black Widow or The Eternals.
Conan O'Brien
Union Shakeup
Disney Characters
Months after workers who play Mickey Mouse, Goofy and other characters at Walt Disney World threatened to leave the Teamsters union because of what they called "horrible misrepresentation," General President James Hoffa appointed two associates Monday to take over the local union.
A letter from Hoffa was posted to the doors of the Local 385 union hall in Orlando, Florida, saying he had begun a process known as trusteeship. Local 385 represents costumed character-performers, truck drivers and other Walt Disney World workers.
Separately, investigators with another, independent Teamsters office have said in court filings that they are scrutinizing allegations that Local 385's leaders created false records and committed embezzlement and obstruction. No charges have been filed.
The 9,000 members of Local 385 have key roles in central Florida's tourism and transportation industries. About half are Disney workers; the rest include UPS drivers, hotel employees, food service workers, rental car employees and other drivers across 20 Florida counties.
The costumed character-performers have been Teamsters members since the early 1980s. But nearly two-thirds of the 1,000 performers at Disney World signed a petition to the International Brotherhood of Teamsters earlier this year, threatening to leave.
Disney Characters
Eldorado Buys
Caesars
A casino juggernaut was formed Monday when Eldorado Resorts announced it is buying Caesars in a cash-and-stock deal valued at $17.3 billion.
The acquisition will put about 60 casino-resorts in 16 states under a single name, Caesars, creating the largest gambling operator in the United States. The deal - following pressure from activist investor Carl Icahn - is targeted to close in the first half of 2020 if approved by gambling regulators and shareholders.
It would open the doors of the Las Vegas Strip market to Eldorado.
Shareholders of Eldorado Resorts Inc. will hold about 51% of the company's outstanding stock, with Caesars Entertainment shareholders holding the remaining and 49%.
Caesars
Reproductive Matters
US Women
In Aid Access' first year of operation, 21,000 U.S. women reached out to the online organization launched in March 2018 that offers abortion pills internationally. Requests came from all over the country - especially states where abortion is tightly restricted.
After a string of states passed bans or limits in recent weeks, pushing the abortion debate in the USA to a fever pitch, abortion rights advocates said those numbers could climb.
In 2019, more than a dozen states have either passed or tried to pass more restrictive abortion legislation. Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky and others moved to ban abortion when a fetal heartbeat is detected, which is within six weeks of a pregnancy. Georgia's bill allows exceptions for rape and incest, but Alabama's does not.
Francine Coeytaux, co-director and co-founder of Plan C, a website geared to helping women understand abortion pills, said views on her site skyrocketed after the Alabama Senate passed its bill in May. Plan C has a report card ranking online abortion pill providers based on shipping time, physician oversight and product quality.
Medication abortion before eight weeks' gestation accounted for 24.6% of all abortions in the USA in 2015, according to the latest figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The FDA said taking the combination of pills in the first trimester has a success rate of 95% to 99%.
US Women
Planning New Port
Australia
Australia is planning to build a new deep-water port on its northern coast able to accommodate US Marine deployments as part of efforts to counter China's growing presence in the region, the ABC reported Monday.
The national broadcaster quoted multiple defence and government officials as saying the facility would be about 40 kilometres (25 miles) from Darwin, capital of the Northern Territory, which controversially leased its own port to a Chinese operator in 2015.
The Darwin port already includes military facilities and hosts visiting US ships, but the ABC said the new port would offer large amphibious warships a more discreet and less busy base of operations.
US Marine units of more than 2,000 troops regularly rotate through Darwin as part of the close military cooperation between the two allies.
Both Australia and the United States have been building up their military presence across the western Pacific to counter moves by China to gain influence across the strategically vital region, notably by creating armed outposts on disputed islands in the South China Sea.
Australia
Dosed Soldiers
Nazis
The remarkable endurance of German and Allied soldiers during World War II had a secret ingredient: performance-enhancing drugs.
During the 1940s, Nazi troops were liberally supplied with a methamphetamine called Pervitin, while American and British soldiers stayed alert with the help of the amphetamine Benzedrine.
Medical officers on both sides distributed these stimulants - and others, such as cocaine - to keep weary soldiers awake for days at a time; to enable troops to perform longer under punishing conditions; and to deaden the horrific and debilitating effects of shell shock and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), according to "Secrets of the Dead: World War Speed," a new documentary airing today (June 25) on PBS.
As this officially sanctioned "pharmaceutical arms race" unfolded, soldiers who took these drugs were pushed beyond the limits of their normal capabilities; but the long-term impacts of drug use were largely ignored by military medical officials, PBS representatives said in a statement.
Amphetamines (a group of stimulants that includes methamphetamines) affect the central nervous system, according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH). They induce a sense of euphoria, increase alertness and decrease appetite, the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) reported. For methamphetamines, more of the drug in a single dose directly floods the brain, compared with other amphetamines, meaning they are longer-lasting and are potentially more harmful to the central nervous system, according to NIDA.
Nazis
New Sea Pollution
'Plasticrust'
Researchers say they may have identified a new kind of plastic pollution in the sea and they're calling it "plasticrust."
Scientists working in Madeira, a volcanic Portuguese island off northwest Africa, have found small patches of what looks like melted plastic encrusted on rocks along the shoreline.
They first spotted the mostly blue and gray patches of various sizes in 2016. They are now reporting that the area the patches cover has increased substantially since then.
Tests showed the material is polyethylene, the world's most widely used plastic. The crusts, on a specific part of the shore, are exposed at low tide.
Scientists at Portugal's Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre say they don't know yet where the plastic comes from or how it could affect marine life.
'Plasticrust'
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for June 17-23. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. "America's Got Talent" (Tuesday), NBC, 10 million.
2. "60 Minutes," CBS, 7.1 million.
3. "60 Minutes," CBS, 6.2 million.
4. "The Bachelorette," ABC, 5.6 million.
5. "NCIS," CBS, 5.5 million.
6. "Highwire Live in Times Square," ABC, 5.3 million.
7. "Hannity" (Tuesday), Fox News Channel, 5 million.
8. "Holey Moley," ABC, 4.87 million.
9. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 4.86 million.
10. "American Ninja Warrior," NBC, 4.79 million.
11. "Amazing Race," CBS, 4.75 million.
12. "Young Sheldon," CBS, 4.6 million.
13. "Songland," NBC, 4.53 million.
14. "Tucker Carlson Tonight" (Tuesday), Fox News Channel, 4.52 million.
15. "Press Your Luck," ABC, 4.5 million.
16. "FBI," CBS, 4.4 million.
17. "Bluebloods," CBS, 4.14 million.
18. "Life in Pieces," CBS, 4.12 million.
19. "Dateline NBC" (Monday), NBC, 3.99 million.
20. "America's Funniest Home Videos," ABC, 3.91 million.
Ratings
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