M Is FOR MASHUP - June 29th, 2022
The Sun Shines On Summer Booty 2022
DJ Useo
Sure, I questioned whether I should ride shotgun over another volume in the long-running “Summer Booty The Summer Mashup” series. All it took was a fresh listen to last years version for me to determine a new one made sense. Then, Audioboots mashup forum owner Chocomang reminded me this is the 16th volume in the series, with 48 tracks by 26 mixers.
In addition, I had top mixers inquiring whether I wanted their new tracks. My policy has always been to never refuse a great mashup. Thus, with the decision made, the new “Summer Booty 2022 The Summer Mashup Album”
( audioboots.org/Albums/SB2022/ ) went through the usual process, resulting in another 3 “disc” collection being crafted & released.
Almost all of the past contributors returned, along with a handful of new bootleggers. You’ll find superb new tracks from home producers like DRA’man, DJ Giac, Instamatic, DJ Spider, & more who are well known internationally. The tunes all maintain the theme of “Eternal Summer”, as has been this comp’s manner since the beginning.
As a fine example of the content included, here’s a preview video from Voicedude -“Mirror Zone” ( Kenny Loggins vs. Li'l Wayne & Bruno Mars )
( www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnK_ubyI93M&t=140s )
Huge praise to all the contributors. The comp is wonderful, & portrays all the aspects of a Summer day. All of you made important contributions to the continued success of this series. Extra praise to Chocomang, & the Audioboots mashup forum for all they offered & delivered to make this happen.
Please to be enjoying the mixes featured in this edition. Handy mirror links are found here
( audioboots.org/Albums/SB2022/ ) Remember, all the contributors have many more creations beyond Summer to share, & links are included. Catch you again next year.
Have the day of good - DJ Konrad Useo
groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/
from Bruce
Anecdotes
Parents
• Trevor Mark Sage-EL is a bi-racial child growing up in New Jersey. His father is black, and his mother is white. When people ask Trevor what he is, he replies, “Human.” And when he thinks it is necessary, he asks, “What are you? Alien?”
Physicians
• Leila Denmark, born 1898, was still practicing pediatric medicine at age 100. Her advice often drew on her long experience in life. Once, a mother called Dr. Denmark after her two children had gotten pinworm. Dr. Denmark told her that it wasn’t anything to worry about and to bring the children to her clinic on Monday. Then Dr. Denmark asked why the mother was crying. After learning that she was crying because her husband was blaming her for the children’s contracting pinworm, Dr. Denmark made a prescription: “You go gather the family up, and everybody go on a picnic today.”
• A man was doing minor repairs around the house, and he decided to revarnish the toilet seat. Unfortunately, he forgot to tell his wife, and a short time later, he heard her calling from the bathroom, “I’m stuck!” Unable to free his wife, the man unbolted the toilet seat and carried both her and it to the bedroom, where he placed her face down on the bed, then called their physician. The physician arrived, surveyed the situation, then said, “I agree that it’s very pretty, but why did you decide to frame it?”
Practical Jokes
• When Al Gore was appearing on the TV program Larry King Live, his wife, Tipper, phoned in and, disguising her voice, said, “I just had to tell you — you’re the most handsome man I’ve ever seen.” Still disguising her voice, she asked him for a date. Mr. Gore didn’t recognize her voice, so he was embarrassed as he tried to stammer out an answer. Finally, Mr. King pointed out that Mr. Gore was a married man and so of course he wouldn’t be willing to make a date. Using her own voice, Mrs. Gore then asked, “Not even with his wife?”
• Comedian Robin Williams’ mother had a sense of humor. She once attended an invitational dance at the Lake Forest — Lake Bluff (Illinois) Bath and Tennis Club. She dressed extremely well, but she also blacked out her front teeth, making herself appear toothless. All around her, people were saying, “You’d think someone who could afford clothes like that could afford to get her teeth fixed.”
• Beatrice Kaufman once asked Alexander Woollcott to write a reference letter so her daughter could attend a certain school. As a joke, Mr. Woollcott sent to Mrs. Kaufman what she took to be a carbon copy of his reference letter, which began: “I implore you to accept this unfortunate child and remove her from her shocking environment.”
Prejudice
• As a bi-racial child, Trevor Mark Sage-EL is aware of racism. His father is black, and his mother is white. When his parents needed a loan to buy a house, they went together to a bank, where their loan application was turned down. So the next time his mother went alone to the bank, and this time their loan application was accepted. Trevor also is aware that his family is treated differently when he is alone with his father than when he is alone with his mother. Once, a woman thought that his father, who was eating a hamburger, was going to steal her purse. That kind of thing doesn’t happen when Trevor is alone with his mother.
• Families change. Two parents discovered that their young son was gay, and they took the news so badly that their son ran away for a year. They were overwhelmed with remorse and did their best to track their son down. Eventually, they discovered that he was in Portland, Oregon, so they went to the police there for help, but the woman police officer the father first contacted immediately told him that homosexuality is wrong. The father told her, “I don’t give a d*mn how you feel about it. This is my son and I need to find him — he’s 15 years old.”
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Track: "Living Your Life"
Album: RUMOURS OF LIGHT 2: A 60 SONG DIGITAL BOXSET IN SUPPORT OF THE DISASTERS EMERGENCY COMMITTEE AND THE PEOPLE OF UKRAINE
Artist: Edie O’Hara
Artist Location: California
Record Company: Aldora Britain Records (“The worldwide hub of independent and underground music since 2013.”)
Record Company Location: Rothley, UK
Info:
“Aldora Britain Records presents the second release in our 'Rumours Of Light' series. This album is a 60 song digital boxset in support of the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) and the people of Ukraine. Our first release has raised £157 so far and we hope to do so much more through using the power of music. This project features a further 60 artists from ten different countries and is specifically in aid of DEC’s Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal.”
"You know, I always tried to be a humanist, a pacifist. Even our music is soaked with peace and joy, but this whole situation makes me feel a lot of anger and hate. Not only this war, but also the fact that due to disgusting and lousy propaganda, 85% of Russians support this war. They honestly believe that they have a right to do this. Today, I read another propaganda article where they were saying that all Ukrainians who fought against Russia and supported resistance should be murdered. All intelligent and culture-related people should be repressed. The Ukrainian language must be banned, vanished and forgotten. You know why? Because they claim that Ukrainians are Nazis…
"THIS IS ABSURD!
"This is even worse than what Orwell wrote in 1984, ‘War is peace, freedom is slavery’. They are putting everything upside down.”
— Ukrainian psychedelic rock musician Art Dudko, of the band Straytones
Price: £8.15 (GBP) for 60-track charity-appeal album
“Living Your Life” also appears on Edie O’Hara’s album MOVE ON. Price: $15 (USD) for 11 tracks.
Genre: Singer-Songwriter. Various.
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Abortion
Ukraine
Is Putin winning? Hear secretary of state's response (CNN)
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Jeannie the Teed-Off Temp
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Current Events
Eastman video
Ah ha ha! John Eastman carries his phone in a fanny pack! There's video! And there's snark!
that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Shoulda bought more cookies.
Considering Run
Howard Stern
Howard Stern gave his thoughts after the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 case that protected a woman’s choice to have an abortion.
The radio host revealed during his Sirius XM show on Monday (June 27) that he is considering a presidential bid with the hopes of abolishing the Electoral College and adding five more Supreme Court justices, noting that his sole focus is to “make the country fair again.”
“I said to [co-host Robin Quivers], ‘I’m actually gonna probably have to run for president now,'” Stern said. “I am going to do the very simple thing that’ll set the country straight: One vote, one person, no more of this Electoral College, I’m getting rid of it.”
To “overturn all this,” if he were president, Stern said he’d add five more justices to the Supreme Court. “I’m really thinking about [running for president] — the only other thing I’m going to do is appoint five more Supreme Court justices,” he said. “I’m not afraid to do it. As soon as I become president, you’re gonna get five new Supreme Court justices that are going to overturn all this.”
Howard Stern
Prime Time Ratings
“60 Minutes”
During two daytime hearings last week, Fox averaged 727,000 viewers, the Nielsen company said. That compares to the 3.09 million who watched the hearings on MSNBC and the 2.21 million tuned in to CNN.
ABC won the week in prime time, averaging 3.6 million viewers. CBS had 3 million, NBC had 2.5 million, Fox had 1.6 million, Univision had 1.1 million, Ion Television had 1.04 million and Telemundo had 990,000 viewers.
Fox News Channel led cable networks with an average viewership of 2.17 million in prime time. MSNBC had 1.41 million, ESPN had 1.21 million, HGTV had 938,000 and Hallmark had 777,000.
ABC’s “World News Tonight” won the evening news ratings race with an average of 6.6 million viewers. NBC’s “Nightly News” had 6.1 million and the “CBS Evening News” had 4.5 million.
For the week of June 20-26, the 10 most-watched program in prime time, their networks and viewerships:
1. “60 Minutes,” CBS, 6.13 million.
2. “America’s Got Talent,” NBC, 6 million.
3. Stanley Cup Finals, Game 6: Colorado at Tampa Bay, ABC, 5.82 million.
4. Stanley Cup Finals, Game 5: Tampa Bay at Colorado, ABC, 5.15 million.
5. “60 Minutes” (Sunday, 8 p.m.), CBS, 4.8 million.
6. Stanley Cup Finals, Game 4: Colorado at Tampa Bay, ABC, 4.6 million.
7. Stanley Cup Finals, Game 3: Colorado at Tampa Bay, ABC, 4.1 million.
8. “FBI,” CBS, 3.82 million.
9. “The Price is Right” (Wednesday, 8 p.m.), CBS, 3.74 million.
10. “Stanley Cup Pregame” (Monday), ABC, 3.7 million.
“60 Minutes,”
Inadvertently Helped
Little Tucker
Hours after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade on Friday, Tucker Carlson took to the airwaves to rail against companies that would pay for employees' abortion-travel costs. "They're against families," the Fox News host said of the firms on "Tucker Carlson Tonight."
But as Carlson was offering his commentary, an image from his show was actually being put to a starkly different use: raising money for groups that facilitate abortion.
Anonymous online bidders in the digital space known as web3 were offering thousands of dollars in cryptocurrency for an NFT made out of a screen image of Carlson on the show last year in which he argued for body autonomy on coronavirus vaccines. The NFT would go on to sell Saturday for 12 eth - about $14,500 - with the creator, Jenny Holzer, saying she will donate the money she makes from the sale to groups including Planned Parenthood, the Center for Reproductive Rights and the D.C.-based advocacy group PAI.
On his May 11, 2021, program, however, Carlson talked to Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., about Johnson's decision not to receive a coronavirus vaccine. As Carlson agreed with Johnson - "Well of course; it's your body, your choice, as we've heard for almost 50 years," the Fox News host said - a chyron displayed the body-autonomy message. "Making an informed choice regarding your own body shouldn't be controversial," read the text at the bottom of the screen.
Little Tucker
Talks With Woody Allen
Alec Baldwin
Woody Allen told Alec Baldwin during a live interview Tuesday on Instagram that he is mulling ending his movie-making career, saying directing has lost its luster.
The two men — each facing significant controversies — steered clear of addressing either the abuse allegations against Allen or the shooting last year on Baldwin’s movie set.
The public comment options were turned off, and the 45-minute interview attracted a modest audience of between 2,400-2,700. The two men chatted about Allen’s writing, the use of profanity in films and the current state of Broadway. Allen lost his connection several times, with his screen freezing.
Allen, 87, said movie-making is not as exciting now that his films spend a few days in movie theaters and then directly go to streaming. “A lot of the thrill is gone,” he said. “It’s not as enjoyable as it was.” Still, he plans to make his next movie later this year in Paris. “I’m going to make another one, and I’ll see how it feels.”
Alec Baldwin
Slams Decision
Shelley Lynn Thornton
The woman whose conception sparked Roe v. Wade released a statement this week speaking out against the Supreme Court's Friday decision to overturn the 1973 landmark case which previously protected federal abortion rights.
Shelley Lynn Thornton, the biological daughter of Norma McCorvey, who used the pseudonym "Jane Roe" during litigation, told ABC News on Monday that she worries the SCOTUS ruling could portend future disquiet.
"Too many times has a woman's choice, voice and individual freedom been decided for her by others. Being that I am bound to the center of Roe v. Wade, I have a unique perspective on this matter specifically," Thornton told the outlet via a spokesperson.
"I believe that the decision to have an abortion is a private, medical choice that should be between a woman, her family, and her doctor," she added. "We have lived in times of uncertainty and insecurity before, but to have such a fundamental right taken away and this ruling be overturned concerns me of what lies ahead."
Thornton's identity was unknown for decades following Roe v. Wade, but she came forward last year and identified herself as the baby at the heart of the case. McCorvey never had the abortion she was fighting for as litigation in the case lasted long after she had given birth and subsequently given her child up for adoption.
Shelley Lynn Thornton
‘Establish Religion Within Their Borders’
States
America First Legal (AFL), a right-wing group whose team includes several former Trump administration officials, is urging the Supreme Court to do even more to shatter what’s left of the wall between church and state.
On Tuesday, June 28, the group issued a statement essentially calling for a total overhaul of the First Amendment’s establishment clause, a key provision separating church and state. The statement arrived one day after the Supreme Court cracked part of the clause’s foundation with its ruling in Kennedy v. Bremerton. In that case, the court’s far-right majority ruled that public school officials in Bremerton, Washington, violated the First Amendment rights of high school football coach Joseph Kennedy when they fired him following a controversy stemming from his ritual of praying at the 50-yard line during football games. The 6-3 decision effectively overruled a 1971 precedent for interpreting the First Amendment’s establishment clause.
While the establishment clause exists to keep the government from establishing an official religion in the United States, or doing anything that might favor one religion over another, the AFL is now hopeful that the Supreme Court will “eventually disincorporate” the establishment clause in a future case. Doing so, the AFL suggests, would allow states to “decide whether and to what extent they will establish religion within their borders.”
The AFL’s vice president and general counsel Gene Hamilton — a former Trump official in the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security, whose hits include axing DACA and helping create the infamous family separation policy — argued in a statement that the original intent of the establishment clause was to let the states decide just how much they want to separate church and state.
States
Atheist Worker Fired
Mandatory Prayer
A home repair company’s mandatory daily Christian prayer sessions for its employees were becoming “less tolerable” for an atheist construction manager who refused to continue attending — resulting in his firing in North Carolina, federal officials said in a lawsuit.
His boss told him “he did not have to believe in God, and he did not have to like the prayer meetings, but he had to participate” before the worker was fired in the fall of 2020, according to a complaint filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against the Greensboro-based business. This came after his pay was cut in half.
The worker was asked to lead a prayer session on one occasion, despite making his beliefs known, prior to losing his job with Aurora Pro Services, the EEOC said.
Now the company is being sued for religious discrimination and is accused of punishing workers who did not want to attend the meetings, which also involved Bible readings and roll call, the agency said in a Tuesday, June 28, news release. The meetings were mandatory from at least June 2020.
This comes after another worker, a customer service representative, was fired in January 2021 after she felt the meetings, which went on for nearly an hour, were becoming “cult-like” and stopped attending due to her agnostic beliefs, according to the lawsuit. An agnostic individual does not commit to any view regarding the existence of a higher religious power.
Mandatory Prayer
Strange Double Crater
The Moon
An unusual double crater has been spotted on the Moon after an object crashed to the lunar surface earlier this year. NASA says the twin crater is the result of a rocket body colliding with the rocky surface, but the precise identity of that rocket currently remains a mystery.
The images were snapped by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter near the northeast rim of the Hertzsprung basin, an enormous 536-kilometer-wide (333 miles) impact basin found on the far side of the Moon.
The overlapping craters, an eastern crater about 18-meters (59 feet) in diameter and a western crater about 16-meters (52 feet) in diameter, were created on March 4, 2022. The dual nature of the craters is surprising since they're like few other rocket body impacts that have scarred the Moon before.
Chunks of the Saturn V rockets used in the Apollo 13, 14, 15, and 17 missions created impact creators on the Moon during the 1970s, but these crashes resulted in a circular, albeit slightly irregular, single crater. This is because spent rockets have most of their mass towards the motor end, while the rest of the rocket is largely just an empty fuel tank, resulting in the rocket body hitting the ground vertically.
The double crater spotted near the Hertzsprung basin is unexpected because it suggests the rocket body had large masses at both ends and smashed into the Moon horizontally.
The Moon
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