Sunday, February 25, 2018

Stay out of our state election, Canadian-bot







Actually, Audrey Regan, why don't you go away?

Who the hell are you except some spoiled bitch that was once in charge of a gallery -- one that failed and that was more about politics than art -- seriously the way the world sees Bill Clinton as an art exhibit?

Grow the f**k up, you stupid poser.

You've done nothing with your life and all the make up in the world can't cover up the fact that you look like a waxwork ghoul -- presumably whatever money you did have was plowed into plastic surgery.

And that's fine.

It's even okay for you to live in New York.

But dear, this is a California primary, so butt the hell out you lying piece of trash.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Dianne Feinstein are not the spiritual leaders for you.  At your age, they're practically your contemporaries.  Nor did they fight for you.

Strange that you can't name Canadian women.

You are still Canadian.

So why the hell are you involved in this election?

It has nothing to do with you.

Go back to Hornepayne, if they'll still have you all these years later.

Your family left, when, 1952?

Return to Canada.

No one needs you here -- just like no one needed you in Canada.

You're the parsley of America, no one needs you.


Dianne Feinstein rode Harvey Milk's assassination to fame, that's the reality.

Her unethical ways have enriched her and her husband, that's reality.


But I was going to stay out of this race.

I have far more to do and far more important things to focus on.

But how dare some Canadian-bot -- don't like it when we use the term then don't popularize it -- butt in to my state's election..



Go back to your Honreypayne, make butter from hand or whatever it is you do, if they'll have you.


Kevin de Leon is a change.

And it's way past time that we had a change.

That's before you get into the fact that Dianne will most likely be able to serve a full term if re-elected.

She's 84-years-old.  She would be 90 before her term ended.

Is that what we need in the US Senate?

I don't think so.

Special elections cost We The Taxpayer money.  It's past time that these millionaires who refuse to give up their seats started being fined when they're not able to serve their full term.




That's Kevin de Leon.  Right now, he's behind Dianne in name recognition.

We can change that.

And we damn well should.

She voted for the Iraq War.

She's failed to call for an end to it.

She spewed lies about Ed Snowden at a Senate hearing I attended and she never bothered to correct the record.

She's a known liar as fake as that wig she wears.

Right now, gun control is in the news.  So Dianne rushes to insist we need to thank her for what she helped pass . . . in 1994.

Oh, I'm sorry, did she just work one year?

Is that all she has to do, one year of work and we have to vote for her forever more?

I was going to stay out of this.  I'd hoped that de Leon would win but that, even if Dianne won, de Leon would push her to the left.

But that was before Canadian-bot Audrey thought she had a say in my state's election.

I get it, Audrey, your gallery closed in 1998 -- it lasted what, a whole year?  And you've got nothing in your life these days.  You'd think with all that time, you'd do something about your facial hair or at least your sideburns.

But whatever you decide to do next, Audrey, stay the hell out of California's election.

And that goes for anyone else who can't vote in it.

Here, I do not make endorsements for any race I cannot vote in.

It's not my business if I'm unable to vote in the election.

And, here in California, we don't need outsiders trying to tell us what to do.  I believe we're far more progressive than Canadian Audrey's adoptive state of New York.  We don't need her advice -- we have art galleries that don't go under and that actually support artists.

I get that in NY, there's a need for make work projects for the likes of Audrey, untalented and aging dilettantes who have no accomplishments to their own names.

But we really don't have that problem here.  The actor who fails at an acting career reinvents as something else and moves on.  Part of the whole westward spirit.

Dianne voted for the Iraq War and did nothing to help bring it to an end -- it continues to this day.

Barbara Boxer stood up to the Obama White House on women's issues.  If women were getting betrayed, Barbara went face to face with Barack and said "No way."

That includes Iraqi women.

Dianne?

Dianne was too busy.  Dianne was making excuses for the spying on Americans by their own government.

Where's Dianne fighting for the women whose 'crime' was marriage?



REUTERS notes that the Iraqi 'legal' system has sentenced 16 women to death claiming they were ISIS fighters.

Spencer Feingold and Mohammed Tawfeeq (CNN) note:


Several women who surrendered to Iraqi forces alongside defeated ISIS fighters have already been sentenced to death or life in prison, according to Human Rights Watch. The humanitarian organization warns that these women are receiving unfair trials due to their perceived collusion with ISIS.
"In these cases, the women are getting the harshest possible sentences for what appears to be marriage to an ISIS member or a coerced border crossing. The Iraqi courts need to redirect their priorities," Belkis Wille, a senior Iraq researcher at Human Rights Watch, said in a statement released last week.
The Iraqi court said the death sentence of the 16 Turkish women can be appealed.




Kat's "The punch line is 'Joan Baez'" went up earlier today. 

The e-mail address for this site is common_ills@yahoo.com. 








Kat's Korner: The punch line is 'Joan Baez'

Kat: So phonie Joanie's retiring soon?

Can't happen fast enough.  In fact, it's way too late.


On Josh Ritter's "Be Of Good Heart," Joan Baez repeatedly sounds like she needs to stop singing and clear her throat.  But she never does.

So a strong song sounds really weak.

Or, when she tries to sing "the road stretched out before me," really bad as she makes a sound that suggests she's being strangled.

It will most likely send people running.

If we're lucky, it'll send them running to Josh Ritter's back catalogue -- I'd suggest you start with THE ANIMAL YEARS.

In the meantime, you're left with WHISTLE DOWN THE WIND, Joan Baez's latest album.

fake joan


The title track's being pushed hard right now and that's a smart move.

What's left of her voice is used fairly well on this song that really doesn't require much more than a whisper and three notes.

No surprise, it's a Tom Waits song -- written by Tom and Kathleen Brennan.  No surprise because he's a singer but not anyone's idea of a vocalist.  It's the difference between Billie Holiday (who could put a song across with great feeling) and Ella Fitzgerald (one of the most technically amazing vocalists of the 20th century).

Baez records another Waits and Brennan composition for the album, "Last Leaf."

Her voice sounds ravaged on every note and by the second line of the first verse she's making noises that are neither attractive nor musical notes -- is it a death rattle that's being recorded?  It's hard to believe this isn't a live album or that the producer didn't work to patch together lines from various takes to offer the pretense at least that Joan can still sing.

The arrangements on the song are harsh as well and seem about a key to high for the notes she's failing to reach.

If you think it can't get worse, check out her second Josh Ritter song "Silver Blade" which is testimony to the reality that she's also lost all breath control.


"Well," you say, "Joan's politics.  Her politics are what shine through."

Okay, what politics?

She tries to sing Zoe Mulford's unironic and insipid "The President Sang Amazing Grace."

See, right there, that's where it ends for fake ass Joan.

The woman who, in 2006, was caught on radio -- AIR AMERICA RADIO -- referring to African-Americans as "coloreds" and finding herself so 'naughty' she had to giggle**.  (By the way, radio host, I know you read the site and e-mail C.I. from time to time, I'm being kind by not naming you but I still marvel over the fact that you didn't call Joan on this but just quickly changed the topic.)


Two years later, as if to atone? (Joan never atoned for trashing Coretta Scott King, did she?), she slammed back more Obama Kool-Aid than anyone.

And to that I say, whatever.

She finally endorses a presidential candidate for the first time ever.

Whatever.

But then comes the election.

Then comes the continued Iraq War -- the war that was going on when he came into office and continued after he left and continues to this day.

Then came all the wars he oversaw and the fact that he became the first president ever to have every years of his two terms -- eight years total -- with war going on.

Then came his drone war.

Then came his attack on the press.

And his attack on whistle-blowers.

And fat and fluffy Joan called it out when?

Never.

Not even to this day.

It's a damn shame she didn't retire after 2005's live album BOWERY SONGS.

Back then, her image, like her voice, was still somewhat intact.

She hadn't been caught using the term "colored" or demonstrating how funny she thought it was to call African-Americans "colored."  Her attacks on Coretta Scott King were not as well known.  She stood for peace.

These days?

What does she stand for?

A lot is made of the fact that, a year ago, she was inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Why?

She's not rock.  She had no impact on popular music.

Put her in a folk music hall, sure.

But the answer to the lack of women in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame -- the refusal to induct Cher, Carly Simon, Melanie, Janet Jackson, Tracy Chapman, Tori Amos and so many others -- is not to induct the undeserving Joan.

Undeserving Joan.  Fake Joan.  Phonie Joanie.

She winds down what will most likely be her final studio album with "I Wish The Wars Were All Over" and there are some who will wrongly see it as Joan recording a song about today.


The song was first recorded by Tim Eriksen in November of 2000 (for his self-titled 2001 debut).  It has nothing to do with the Iraq War, the Afghanistan War, the war on Libya, the war on Syria . . .

It's got nothing to do with today.

Not in a world where women are just as likely to fight in war as men but the song's "Pretty Polly" (how tired) sits at home and frets that the "king" has sent her beau off to war.

It's garbage.

And in the end, that's all Joan Baez's latest -- and many say last -- album is.

What a sad, pathetic trip it's been.



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C.I. note, it was August 2005 when Joan Baez used the term "colored" to describe African-Americans on AIR AMERICA  -- she said it at least three times and giggled in self-amusement.