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Hey! Good Evening!
Evening folks! Tonight's music is a collection of songs loosely based on the theme of home, I'll continue the theme tomorrow night since I came up with so much material.
Enjoy!
Bonnie Raitt - Coming Home
Down Home
Down home to-night the moonshine falls
Across a hill with daisies pied,
The pear tree by the garden gate
Beckons with white arms like a bride.
A savor as of trampled fern
Along the whispering meadow stirs,
And, beacon of immortal love,
A light is shining through the firs.
To my old gable window creeps
The night wind with a sigh and song,
And, weaving ancient sorceries,
Thereto the gleeful moonbeams throng
Beside the open kitchen door
My mother stands all lovingly,
And o'er the pathways of the dark
She sends a yearning thought to me.
It seeks and finds my answering heart
Which shall no more be peace-possessed
Until I reach her empty arms
And lay my head upon her breast.
-- Lucy Maud Montgomery
News
Police Brutality in Anaheim Sparks Outrage After 2 Latinos Shot Dead and Demonstrators Attacked
Police Killings of People of Color a Systemic Problem - Report finds one African American dies in extrajudicial killing every 36 hours
Mayor Menino on Chick-fil-A: Stuff it -
Vows to block eatery over anti-gay attitude
Mayor Thomas M. Menino is vowing to block Chick-fil-A from bringing its Southern-fried fast-food empire to Boston — possibly to a popular tourist spot just steps from the Freedom Trail — after the family-owned firm’s president suggested gay marriage is “inviting God’s judgment on our nation.”
“Chick-fil-A doesn’t belong in Boston. You can’t have a business in the city of Boston that discriminates against a population. We’re an open city, we’re a city that’s at the forefront of inclusion.”
Will Libor Indictments Fit the Scale of the Rate-Rigging Scandal? As US and European prosecutors prepared arrest warrants, will banks escape scrutiny as traders take fall?
US prosecutors and European regulators are close to arresting individual traders and charging them with colluding to manipulate global benchmark interest rates, according to Reuters.
Citing people familiar with a "sweeping investigation" into the rigging scandal, the report suggests that employees of Barclays, Citigroup, Credit Agricole, HSBC and Deutsche Bank are the focus of indictments. The focus of prosecutors will be on a "small group of traders" from the various banks and not, it seems, high-level bank executives in Europe or the US who may have known about or condoned such practices.
Some observers wonder if the targeting of low-level traders will allow for the systemic manipulation of Libor by big banking institutions to escape the necessary scrutiny.
US Poverty Rate Reaching 50-Year High
"The real tragedy is that this economic collapse was totally preventable before the fact and it could be quickly overcome even now with the right policies."
cool link:
Tracking American Poverty & Policy
Syria conflict: Aleppo bombed by fighter planes
The BBC's Wyre Davies says government forces have launched a co-ordinated attack on Aleppo.
Fighter jets have bombed eastern areas of Syria's second city Aleppo, a BBC reporter near the city says.
The attack, which followed an artillery barrage, is seen as a significant escalation in the conflict.
Rebels launched an offensive against Aleppo at the weekend in an attempt to wrest the city from government forces.
The Death of Evidence in Canada
Global Warming's Terrifying New Math
If the pictures of those towering wildfires in Colorado haven't convinced you, or the size of your AC bill this summer, here are some hard numbers about climate change: June broke or tied 3,215 high-temperature records across the United States. That followed the warmest May on record for the Northern Hemisphere – the 327th consecutive month in which the temperature of the entire globe exceeded the 20th-century average, the odds of which occurring by simple chance were 3.7 x 10-99, a number considerably larger than the number of stars in the universe.
Meteorologists reported that this spring was the warmest ever recorded for our nation – in fact, it crushed the old record by so much that it represented the "largest temperature departure from average of any season on record." The same week, Saudi authorities reported that it had rained in Mecca despite a temperature of 109 degrees, the hottest downpour in the planet's history.
Not that our leaders seemed to notice. Last month the world's nations, meeting in Rio for the 20th-anniversary reprise of a massive 1992 environmental summit, accomplished nothing. Unlike George H.W. Bush, who flew in for the first conclave, Barack Obama didn't even attend.
Blog Posts of Interest
Here are diaries and selected blog posts of interest on DailyKos and other blogs.
What's Happenin'
William deBuys: The West in Flames
Interactive: Mapping The U.S. Drought
A Little Night Music
Taj Mahal - Down Home Girl
Old Crow Medicine Show - Down Home Girl
The Coasters - Down Home Girl
Brother Jack McDuff - Down Home Style
Muddy Waters - Train Fare Home Blues
Melvin Taylor - Blues Comin' Home Baby
BB King - Ain't Nobody Home
Lightnin' Hopkins - Fan It
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