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To: Snowshoe who wrote (472)	9/9/2017 10:11:24 PM
From: John Pitera	Respond to of 13775

LOL That is excellent.... I love that song "Ring of Fire" by Johnny Cash I have seen that song used maybe a dozen times in movies and TV shows as part of the sound track.... That has got to be in his top 10 songs, He had a lot of them. The MAN IN BLACK!!!!!!! Outlaw country with Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash , Merle Haggard....... etc. they had a band and put out a couple of albums...... I loved growing up with those guys as part of the sound track..... when we moved to Houston from the NorthEast.....and I started my Freshman year at Memorial High school... My Willie was really popular as he still is. ..... My dad loved to play Willie Nelson's live edition of "on the Road Again" When we Lived in London when I was was in the the 6th grade ..... we were renting a 3 story townhouse at 38A Astell street in Chelsea... in 1976 my Dad had gotten a really nice component stereo system with some really nice Advent speakers........ We had bought the Beatles White Album and would really crank it up really loud..... we were on the end and the townhomes had really thick walls... between each other.. My younger brother Pete and I would walk a hundred feet down to Britten... hang a right and go by this little Tobacconist/Newspaper/Candy shop and then make a left on Sydney street and within 5 or 7 minutes we were on Kings road.... We went to the American School in London in Saint John's Wood and the school had this really groovy bus that played music that all the kids really loved...... the second song on the most popular soundtrack was Chuck Berry's 1972 track.... "My Ding-a - ling"....... It was really fun. London was a lot of fun in the 1970's. In 1976 the very first wave of the punk rockers in groups of 4 could be seen on Kings Road .... with the hair spiked straight up with Glue.... metal studs glued on their foreheads. The bus would pick us up as well as a few other students maybe 18 to 20 in all and drive us up to the school and bring us back...... The ONLY time I ever took a bus to school anywhere I lived. when I lived in Mendham,NJ... the schools did not bus any students who lived less than miles from the School.. which was Hilltop..for grades 1 -3 ....... It was on top of the big hill just a block or 2 from Main street and rt 24 the only stoplight within 7 miles in any direction was there at main and 24......... John

To: Snowshoe who wrote (472)	2/26/2018 9:51:38 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 13775

Long Live the Emperor Xi ! New Chinese Dynasty starts now.

To: Snowshoe who wrote (472)	4/26/2018 6:22:12 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 13775

No more Dilmagrad Brazil’s Right Comes Roaring Back as Lula Starts Prison Sentence By Samy Adghirni and Simone Preissler Iglesias April 11, 2018, 1:00 PM GMT+3 Updated on April 11, 2018, 10:31 PM GMT+3 Rightwing parties have seen numbers swell in recent weeks The number of Democratas federal deputies has almost doubled Less leftie friends for China... Further political upheaval is on its way in Brazil, if recent party-swapping by lawmakers is any guide to October’s elections. After years on the ropes, the right is poised to come roaring back, based on the sharp rise in legislators joining conservative parties as shown in a Bloomberg tally of their own reports. And with former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva now in jail, and likely barred from standing in the elections, the left is starting to fragment. Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on April 7 Photographer: Heuler Andrey/AFP via Getty Images Longstanding, implacable opponents of Lula’s Workers’ Party, the center-right Democratas party has seen its number of federal deputies almost double in recent weeks -- from 21 to 41 -- as legislators take advantage of Brazil’s pre-election transfer window to find a party likely to boost their prospects. Around 60 federal deputies, or almost 12 percent of the lower house, have swapped political parties over the past month with right-wing parties proving the big winners. What’s not clear is whether this surge merely represents a backlash to 13 years of PT rule or a deeper shift in Brazilian attitudes toward the role of the state. "The left is going to face a big challenge in the 2018 elections, especially if Lula remains in jail for a long time," said Rafael Cortez, a political analyst from Tendencias. "There’s been a much greater mobilization of organizations linked to the right." Once one of the largest parties in Congress, representing around one fifth of the lower house, the DEM had been in decline since Lula’s victory in the 2002 elections. Now, it senses an opportunity. "It’s a conservative party, which maintains social and moral values and defends private initiative," said DEM lawmaker Alberto Fraga. "The collapse of the PT shows that our approach was right." Other right-leaning parties, whose candidates have been advocating a leaner state, tougher policing to combat crime and a more business-friendly environment, have also seen a dramatic rise in their members. Four years ago, the Podemos party did not exist and now it has 18 deputies. The PSL, aided in large part by the affiliation of presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro, has grown from one to ten. Brazil Pivots RightLegislators join right-wing parties ahead of October's elections...