‘Doomsday Clock’ Moves 30 Seconds Closer To Midnight
From the Barmen Declaration: 8.18 We reject the false doctrine, as though the Church were permitted to abandon the form of its message and order to its own pleasure or to changes in prevailing ideological and political convictions.
“I was a stranger and you did not welcome me.” and What the Bible Says About How to Treat Refugees
Christians’ Call to Speak Truth to ‘Alternative Facts’
Crowd statistics worldwide, 21 January 2017
If you’re looking for those climate change and LGBT rights and Native American pages on whitehouse.gov that disappeared on January 20, know that they are archived at https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/
The legitimacy and illegitimacy of 45 and A Guide to His Huge Debts—and the Conflicts They Present. Mr Brunelle explains it all
Inaugural speech was the most dreadful in history
This Is Our Most Dangerously Retrograde Government in 150 Years, including, but not limited to, intentionally lying to us and/or gaslighting us and attacks on the freedom of the press – Historically, tyrants have tried to control the press using 4 techniques and getting payments from foreign governments, though we have no idea what they are and Aides Keep Leaking Embarrassing Stories About How He Can’t Handle Embarrassment and struggles badly to pass a test of presidential maturity, while using the White House page for puffery
The “Muslim ban”, which these politicians fought, is “Immoral,” “Stupid,” and “Counterproductive” and excludes those countries from the ban that have killed Americans on US soil, while including those that have not. Quebec Mosque Terrorist Is White Christian Pro-Trump Fanatic
Not to mention: controlling Voice of America and silencing EPA and the cone of silence on USDA scientists. Is this a trial balloon for a coup?
Make of this what you will: his mother was a Scottish immigrant. And his father’s middle name was Christ, pronounced Krist, the surname of Fred’s mom; Fred said he was Swedish, when his parents were German.
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Kellyanne Conway on Donald Trump, BEFORE he hired her
I Was Trained for the Culture Wars in Home School, Awaiting Someone Like Mike Pence as a Messiah
Possibly the worst news of the month: Steve Bannon Gets A Seat At The NSC Table
Steven Mnuchin Unmasked By Samantha Bee – he’s the Treasury Secretary nominee
Joy Reid of CNN: “We have to think about how do we, a free press, operate with an increasingly authoritarian regime and change everything we’re doing. We can’t just report what he says and live on his Twitter feed.”
1984 climbs the bestseller list — almost 70 years after it was published
Out Here, No One Can Hear You Scream – The dangerous culture of male entitlement and sexual hostility hiding within America’s national parks and forests
Something Rotten (Boston Globe review) – When the Wife and I saw it at Proctors Theatre in Schenectady earlier in the run, we laughed uproariously.
PK Miller, an Albany original and colorful character, dies at an uncertain age – I’d see him often at our monthly concerts at my church, among other places. we’re FB friends, and a couple weeks after he died I got one of those cloned invitations to Friend him.
When I posted on Facebook that Miguel Ferrer had died of cancer at the age of 61, people kvetched about what shows Variety noted. NCIS: Los Angeles (his current gig, which I’ve never seen) and Crossing Jordan (which I watched regularly), as opposed to Twin Peaks and Robocop and Star Trek.
Della Street, er, Barbara Hale, R.I.P.
Dan Savage speaks frankly about Savage Love
Mark Evanier: Rejection – a wilderness guide for writers
John Oliver returns February 12
Historic Albany Foundation Inventory – An attempt to document the oldest structures in Albany, NY
News anchor sets off Alexa devices around San Diego ordering unwanted dollhouses
Now I Know: New Jersey’s Shockingly Dangerous Water Slide and How Pride Makes Basketball Players Worse
Fortune teller who uses ASPARAGUS to predict the future
NOT ME (guy in Australia) WHEN Roger Green was nominated for the Clarence Valley Local Hero Award, he had raised more than $64,000 in 12 years.
Music
“Kellyanne Conway” cover Chicago’s “Roxie” on SNL
I saw the Roches a couple of times and got several of their albums. So I was sad to hear about the passing of Maggie Roche, at the age of 65, from cancer. Listen to We and Hammond Song and Hallelujah Chorus and Keep On Doing What You Do/ Jerks On The Loose and about 100 more tunes. Also Was a Sunny Day – Paul Simon featured Maggie and Terre Roche; Liquid Days (Part I) – Philip Glass Ensemble has Maggie and Terre and Suzzy; Forgetting – Philip Glass Ensemble has Linda Ronstadt and the Roches.
Derrick Boudwin: For Utah Father, Music Eases the Pain of Going Blind
Jeanne Mitchell: America’s First Young Lady of the Fiddle
Butch Trucks, Allman Brothers Band Drummer and Co-Founder, Dead at 69
The passing of Soul Survivors vocalist Richie Ingui
Coverville 1156: The Warren Zevon Cover Story II – he would have been 70 this month
Paul McCartney sued Sony/ATV, the massive music publishing company that owns, among other things, all of The Beatles’ songs written by Lennon and McCartney. Paul wants his 50 percent share of the songs back.
Buddy Greco, Jazz Pianist, Vocalist and Las Vegas Mainstay, Dies at 90