Recently I had technical problems with this blog. Day by day I'm getting it a little more back in order when I came across this I first posted back in 2017. It was a preview clip for PBS recorded at 'Caesar's Windsor Casino' located in Ontario, Canada in 2010.
Ye gads these guys are good !
Here's the orchestra with Dennis Polisky and some of the Maestro's Men
performing at The Hunter Mountain German Alps Festival on August 11, 2013.
Most definitely these are some of the finest musicians to ever come along. This is the kinda stuff I really enjoy. Hope you did too.
It keeps deleting my template format on the main page. I lost over 4,000 of my past posts plus the recent comments. I tried importing backups to no avail. I'll check back tomorrow. Not sure I can fix it. I suspect the IT guys futzed with the coding (again).
Odd thing is if I eliminate my last two posts the format returns. If I make a new one the template on the main pages messes up. Therefore I highly suspect coders screwed with the template I'm using. Will they fix it. Given their past history ..probably not.
UPDATE
OK I give up for now. Don't know why I bothered to export backups since blogger refuses to accept any one of them. Keeps saying I exceeded what is allowed. I do have texts backed up but if you think I'm going through 1,000's of them... ain't no way!
I've tried reinstalling various templates to no avail. The layouts in the settings say one thing but appear entirely different on the blog itself. Not to long ago blogger changed everything up. I'm assuming to accommodate mobile apps at the expense of being desktop friendly when composing. The pictures are now encoded differently making it impossible for me to provide outside links to other sites like I use to. Previously all I had to do with click on a link button while highlighting the picture. Now that's changed to a bunch of crap I don't understand.
So the bottom line is I've wasted more time screwing with this thing then composing. It is what it is (till the next time they recode) Frustrating to say the least.
UPDATE (12/01/2020)
I'm fully restored.
So "import" does work. Ya just gotta be patient and keep retrying. I'm grateful blogger is capable of doing this. Probably me.. not them. OOPS!
Forget so called reality TV shows. What's in it for the viewer. Lately the wife and I have been watching some of these older TV shows that make you think by playing along with them. Here's one of those all time classics.
Not only has my step son (an EMT) gotten Covid (along with his wife who works in the ER forced to isolate) but so too now my granddaughter. This after her husband ended up confined to a hospital bed with it. Compounding the problem she cannot drive and has a 6 year old autistic son. Meaning they have zero dollars income. Heaven help if she ends up in a hospital too!
UPDATE- 11/26/2020
Now her son (my great grandson) now tested positive too!
Another 14 days in isolation?
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My step daughter has now been assigned an additional 12 hours this week (so far) because of the increase in Covid patients in her ICU. I cannot imagine if she ends up also getting it how we'll deal with her kids whom we watch. Nor if her other half (a doctor at the same hospital) is forced to isolate.
"We have seen significant increases in COVID-19 activity across the entire region we serve in the last 2 to 3 weeks. In the last 10 days, we have seen an almost doubling of the number of patients admitted to our hospitals.."
3 million decided to travel on airplanes. A reported 7,000 Hassidic Jews in New York decided to attend a maskless wedding. This isn't a game What the hell don't you people get!!!!
I cannot begin to tell you how disgusted I am with people blowing this off. Frankly if were only you getting sick as hell because you wanted to be an idiot I could care less. But the fact is, if Covid gets really bad there'll be few left to save your sorry ass health wise. Go ahead, continue to dick around with Covid, see who wins.
This will be my last warning to those fools who most likely won't listen anyway. I'm seeing an ever increasing number of the deniers on Facebook and elsewhere. Keep in mind. Even though there will be innocents who tried to avoid it these ignoramuses will be the first to go. Nature has a way of doing away with stupid people. So I suppose there's some consolation in that.
Maddow: Don't get this thing. Do whatever you can to keep from getting it.
Rachel Maddow reveals that her partner, Susan, tested positive for Covid-19 and is still recovering, and implores viewers to consider their loved ones when they calculate their own Covid-19 risk. pic.twitter.com/oUz2DBLG63
Putting aside the altered funny sountrack it's an amazing robot. However not matter what they come up with they will never replace me. This because they have yet to find a financial incentive to invent a f&*Koff machine.
Check it out for yourselves on C-Span. The U.S. budget extension will expire on December 11th. The pandemic is causing small business to close. An untold number of people are in urgent financial need.
AND WHAT IS THE SENATE DOING? Spending 100% of it's time appointing judges and other officials Mitch deems will outlive Trump's term in office come January. The hell with the country. With Mitch it's all about party politics. All this while Trump is hunkered down tweeting, bitching, moaning about the election and doing little else. Sicking.
On one hand I fret over Donald Trump and his followers as to what appears as almost a complete disconnect with reality. They are willing to believe any kind of shit Trump puts out from what I consider a mentally disturbed mind so entrenched in his own narcissism there's no hope of escape.
While at the same time there's a ever growing storm to deny Covid posses a threat like none other I've seen in my lifetime. Meanwhile my step daughter indicated they are reestablishing a separate Covid section in the ICU at the hospital. One which she is assigned to every day she works her 12 hour shift. Not only does she have to go out into the world like everyone else but has to suit up beyond the idiots who refuse to even mask up and take the simple precautions necessary. Because of you aholes her two 7 year olds (my granddaughters) have now become at risk. They and her other half who is an oncologist with many patients who would be denied if he should become infected or forced to isolate. Then there's the wife and me. We both watch our granddaughters when they both work. I'm 72 with COPD. The wife is 68. For me it would be a death sentence almost for certain.
My stepson (an EMT) has now become infected. He works with several ambulance corps and a medical helicopter team. Because of that his wife who works in the ER is now forced to isolate herself as well.
Have any of you idiots ever thought what would happen if the medical community becomes so infected they can't provide the needed medical services if this keeps growing this way? Same with police, food workers and grocery store personnel.
I've been sincerely trying to refocus my attention away from this kind of stuff but it's becoming harder and harder to deny what's becoming increasingly apparent. Donald doesn't give a shit about this country or his followers unless they're shouting his praises. He wants those confrontations in the street. He spends his entire time focused only on himself. Not the duties of a president. It's also apparent Donald (backed by his supporters) will attempt to make things so miserable for Biden they're willing to do most anything. Everyone in this country voted. That should be the end of it... period.
Forget politics this has become personal for my family and me. Nobody has an excuse for not respecting other peoples' fears over becoming sick because of some selfish bastards who think only their rights matter when it comes to wearing a simple piece of cloth and distance themselves. My daughter nor son didn't sign up to save your sorry ass when you ignore the proper safety requests. They're no heroes. They are like everyone else, just trying to earn a living (along with the police). After all they have families too.
In short. There's a whole lot of people who need to stop acting like selfish assholes before taking down the whole country. Same goes with these asinine protests. They accomplish nothing. Go find something else to do like taking a walk, finding a job or just plain shutting the hell up already. This is really starting to piss me off.
There I got that off my chest. Now that that's said I'll try once again to refocus my attention elsewhere.
After recording companies turned down this song numerous times over two years Eddie Cantor offered to sing it on his radio show in 1934. If he hadn't we may never have come to know this Christmas classic.
Speaking of Eddy Cantor, here's one of his performances in the 1943 film.. "Thank Your Lucky Stars"
No doubt about it he had the most unique schtick few other performers at the time possessed. His moves made him a stand out.
Sen. Mitch McConnell and Sen. Harry Reid proposed renaming part of a bipartisan bill to speed government approvals of drugs and increase medical research after the vice president’s son Beau Biden, who died of cancer.
December 2016
NOTE: This was passed and approved before Donald came into office. (Although he likes to take credit for such things)
This offers me some hope that Mitch and Joe may once again find some commonality once Trump is vanquished. I tend to think these two may respect each other more then we might imagine. Time will tell what fate awaits the United States. Hopefully in a much more positive direction.
I know we all have opinions about how to deal with the pandemic. However what ever your opinion might be know that no matter what happens Covid is in charge. Save for effective vaccines and treatments it alone will determine how bad our economy will become. Who lives, dies or those left with lifetime afflictions. People can complain, argue, hate on leaders and their fellow citizens all they want but they are not the enemy. Covid is.
At the end of the day it all comes down to this. Covid infections are established science. No one can reason with this virus anymore then they could the wind, gravity or any other scientific fact. If you walk into a fire expect to get burned. No matter how people try to warn some will always argue and ignore what they are told. To be honest I don't care how reckless others are with themselves. It does concern me when it endangers people around them who have tried their level best who end up paying the consequences for those who are selfish and irresponsible infecting them needlessly.
Four years ago today Obama had Trump at the White House to begin the peaceful transition of power — to help ensure that the President-elect is successful... pic.twitter.com/wEGWMRG7zh
My CNN colleagues looked into 50 of the names on a viral MAGA list supposedly showing 14,000 Michigan cases of ballots being cast in the name of dead people.
Result: - 37 are dead, no vote cast - 5 are alive and voted - 8 are alive and didn’t vote https://t.co/2qvoVmRI3N
A couple of key differences between Biden's and Trump's rallies... * Everything was about everyone else except Biden. * Everyone was wearing a mask. * Nobody was left waiting for buses. * No chants of hatred against the media or others opposed to his ideologies. * The finale that Trump could never have imagined. All of Biden's and Harris's family and friends embracing one another. Great music, confetti, fireworks and drones like no other could have put together in the Trump camp. This is what happens when you leave it up to a great professional team of talented supporters who are dedicated to go beyond what people expect. Besides, Democrats have always been known to have a lot more fun then those cranky pants at Republican events.
This is from Bill Clinton's (January 1993) Inaugural Ball
Viola Smith, age 27, drummer, and her sister Mildred, sax/clarinet section, were the bands creators and owners. Apparently they hired Frances to front the band
If you're interested there's more information in the video's description on YouTube. Next to the 70's and 80's this is my second most favorite era of music.
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Extremely GUSTY Crosswind LANDING Boeing 737-400 Milan
Things look pretty busy up there.
Sometimes we forget the amount of dedication and skills involved when it comes to this job. I appreciate people who are willing to share themselves this way.
