Today we lost the legendary Chuck Berry. Probably the greatest writer of rock and roll songs and one of the greatest American songwriters in any genre. I put him in the same league as Hank Williams, John Prine, Townes Van Zandt, etc.
What makes this especially sad is the fact that he had recently announced plans to release his first new recordings in over 30 years. Hopefully the recordings were completed and can be released posthumously.
Chuck Berry will always be remembered for the "duck walk" and the signature riff, but he never does get enough credit as one of the all-time great songwriters.
That's why EVERYONE covers Chuck Berry:
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“If you had to give rock’n’roll another name, you might call it Chuck Berry” -John Lennon
“Why should I write songs when Chuck Berry wrote them all?” -George Thorogood
Maricopa County burnished its reputation as the Trumpiest in America last weekend as hundreds of locals, including heavily armed militamen, white nationalists and even a few elected officials, gathered to support the 45th president.
"If she's Jewish, she should go back to her country," a 13-year-old Trump supporter said of a protester. "This is America, we don't want Sharia law," one attendee explained. "Christian country," he added.
Quite right, sir! We do not want to live in a country whose laws are based on the Quaran. We want to live in a country governed by the Book of Leviticus! Less boning, more stoning I always say!
One man insisted that Senator John McCain was a "secret communist."
Oh, Senator McCain! Aren't you glad that you thrust Sarah Palin into the national spotlight and enabled and emboldened these cousin-fuckers? Aren't you proud?
"I think there's a lot there," another said of Pizzagate, a deranged
right-wing conspiracy theory claiming that Clinton's campaign chairman
John Podesta ran a child prostitution ring out of a Washington, D.C.
pizzeria. "Definitely enough to warrant an investigation."
I just want to let them know that I can't wait for the liberal
genocide to begin," an Oath Keeper shouted at a small group of
protesters. "That's the way to make America great again," he later told Cohen.
So I'm expecting someone from the Drumpf Administration to publicly condemn this sort of violent, eliminationist rhetoric any day now.
Oh, and this happened in Ohio, which used to be one of our saner states:
Ohio bill to make marital rape illegal gets no support from state Republicans
Loophole means prosecutors seeking rape convictions must prove 'force or the threat of force' if a spouse is attacked
Wait, that can't possibly be right, can it?
A proposed law that would make it illegal for husbands to drug and rape their wives has found no backers among Republicans in Ohio. The bill is the second introduced by Democrat state representative Greta Johnson to address the “unacceptable” loophole in Ohio law
that means prosecutors must prove there was “force or the threat of
force” for a sexual attack by a husband or wife to be considered rape. Cases in which the spouse is drugged do not qualify for prosecution, Ms Johnson said.
SO you support a bill that would allow any woman to claim a man
drugged her and raped her (keeping in mind women already have numerous
advantages when it comes to making accusations), creating a scenario
where it would be virtually impossible for any man to adequately defend
himself, but would then get to go to Family Court with the word “rapist”
hanging around his head?
No, seriously, how does one defend against such an accusation? Her: “He gave me wine and then we had sex…” Him: “Well, that’s true you’re honor, but we’ve had date nights for the past fifteen years…” Judge: “That will be 20 years in prison for you, fucking rapist, and now she owns everything you’ve ever earned.” You: *smugly nods* “Justice is done.” Me, not a fucking psychopath:
Because, from what I can see on the internet, there are a lot of men out there who sincerely believe that women just go around making false rape accusations all the time, whenever a man pisses them off, and the justice system just takes these women at their word and jails the men who have been falsely accused instead of what actually happens, which is pretty much the exact opposite.
What else?
Oh, a sitting Congressman directly threatened the free press.
Because there's nothing fascisty at all about threatening the fourth estate.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman—and Trump transition team member—Rep.
David Nunes (R-CA) gave a press gaggle Thursday a not so subtle warning
to the press about pursuing the Trump-Russia connections.
"I'm sure some of you are in contact with the Russian embassy so be
careful what you ask for here, because if we get —if we start getting
transcripts of any of you or other Americans talking to the press, then
we can, do you want us to conduct an investigation on you or other
Americans because you were talking to the Russian embassy? I just think
we need to be careful."
How delightfully Cheney-esque!
Hey, you better not do any reporting on Russia or we'll fire up the old HUAC machine so fast, it'll make your head spin!
Rep. Devin Nunes says the Intelligence Committee won't look into discussions between Trump and Flynn, citing executive privilege
Executive privilege, which wouldn't apply since the contacts between the Russians and administration officials took place prior to Drumpf taking office. And also, the Administration would be the one to claim executive privilege, not Congress. You can't claim executive privilege on behalf of the executive. That's like a prosecutor claiming attorney-client privilege on behalf of the accused. It makes no sense.
1. Did not brag about the size of his penis. Or hands.
2. Was not escorted to the podium by a showgirl on each arm.
3. Did not once mention how much he'd like to bang his daughter.
4. Did not take time out to tweet insults at Rosie O'Donnell
5. Got through entire speech without lapsing into Russian.
6. No racial slurs.
7. Did not grab a single woman by the crotch the entire time.
8. Was not attacked by any birds or other wild animals.
9. Managed to get through entire speech without calling Senators "losers."
10. Nothing. He did nothing but manage to read a speech off a teleprompter without falling down and the press decides that this is the perfect reason to further normalize him.
CNN reports Trump successfully manipulated anchors for positive coverage
“Maybe we shouldn’t believe what they say.”
On Wednesday, CNN’s Sara Murray reported that President Trump manipulated a team of CNN anchors into providing him with hours of positive coverage ahead of his first speech to Congress on Tuesday night.
No explanation was given for the entire year of positive coverage given to Trump leading up to the election when CNN fluffed him like a gay-for-pay pornstar on his third shoot of the day.
“He had this meeting with the anchors, he talked about a path to legal status,” Murray, a D.C.-based political reporter,
said.
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Woah, woah, woah. Hold on a second.
Why the hell are your anchors having meetings with Il Douche? How are you sitting down with the person whose feet you're supposed to hold to the fire and discussing what your coverage of him should look like?
“Basically they fed us things that they thought these anchors would
like, that they thought would give them positive press coverage for the
next few hours. A senior administration official admitted that it was a
misdirection play.”
How many times?
How many times are you going to fall for this bullshit? You know he lies. I mean, you know that every politician lies, but you have to know by now that nobody has ever spewed out the sheer volume of lies or more obvious lies than Cheeto Mussolini. Why would you for one second believe that anything he's telling you might possibly be true?
He lies about crowd size when you can see the crowd with your own eyes. He lies about sex tapes that don't exist when you can find out that they don't exist in two minutes on Google. He lies about receiving letters from the NFL when the NFL denies ever sending such a letter and the letter wouldn't have made any sense anyway. I mean, asking one of the candidates to unilaterally postpone a debate? How would that even work? You'd have to get both campaigns, the host network, the host venue, the Secret Service all onboard at the least. and you'd do all this because the NFL is afraid that people won't tune into a game if they have the option of watching the 2 most disliked candidates in history debating each other? Anyway, the point is, he's the biggest liar in the history of liars and you actually believed him when he said he wanted to come up with a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants? The group that he railed against all during his campaign? The people that he insists are rapists and murderers? A path to citizenship goes against everything he stands for.
Pictured: What he stands for.
Murray went on to note that “when the president was actually out there
speaking to the American public, he didn’t talk about a path to legal
status.”
Of course he didn't! No one thought he would! Well, no one with any sense. I mean, you know, no one who doesn't work for CNN.
Host John King responded by observing that “it does make you wonder, so
we’re not supposed to believe what the senior-most official at the lunch
says… maybe we shouldn’t believe what they say.”
Bra - Vo! Well done. You've finally figured it out. You've finally figured out that when a compulsive liar tells you something, it's probably a lie.You're a regular Sherlock Holmes, you are.
Oh, here's something else that you'll probably figure out on your own in another year or two, but I'll save you a little time: No matter how much you kiss his ass, no matter how shinily you polish his apples, he is never ever going to love you the way you love him. He is always going to call you "fake news" and the "Clinton News Network." He is always going to accuse you of lying about him. It doesn't matter what you say - it doesn't matter if your coverage is positive or negative, completely true or totally made up, he has to hate you. The entire Republican Party has to hate you.
It's like me and the Los Angeles Dodgers. I don't care if their players spend the off-season giving adorable kittens to needy orphans. I don't care if team management donates all proceeds to cancer research. As long as they have that "LA" logo on their caps, I will always hate them. Is it rational? Probably not. I'm sure many fine upstanding gentlemen have played for the Dodgers over the years. But the Los Angeles Dodgers are the personification of evil, so it doesn't matter how kind or generous or loving they are. I will always hate each and every last one of them.
Anyway, you guys are supposed to be journalists, you're not supposed to take anyone's word for anything. You should expect people to lie to you. That's why you corroborate stories with multiple sources, and do this thing called "investigation." And for God's sake, you call a lie a lie!
Okay, fine. Hundreds. Not anywhere near the tens of thousands of people who showed up in every city in America for the Women's Marches, but still. 
