#Jim Folsom Jr.

[politicaldilfs]

Alabama Governor DILFs

George Wallace, Bob Riley, B.B. Comer, Don Siegelman, Chauncey Sparks, Fob James, Bibb James, Frank M. Dixon, Jim Folsom Jr., Guy Hunt, William W. Brandon, George S. Houston, Jim Folsom, Gordon Persons, Robert Bentley

[cardest]

San Francisco playlist

San Francisco  - my favorite city in the world! The bands, the music, the songs are all here, in this playlist I created. I threw in a bit of Sac and went south by San Jose, Monterrey and up past Sausalito. Can we make it to 250 songs? Let me know what bands/songs I left out.

Have I left out a song or a band in this San Francisco playlist? Let me know! Cheers! 

Play the songs here at this link: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-iHPcxymC1-HLG9q5rZLsqs8EYh6bhu- San Francisco

001 The Dillinger Escape Plan w/Mike Patton -  When Good Dogs Do Bad Things 002 Night flight Orchestra - California Morning 003 Quincy Jones - Call Me Mister Tibbs OST (Main Title) 004 James Taylor Quartet - Dirty Harry theme song 005 Faith No More - Seperation anxiety 006 Streets of San Francisco TV show theme song 007 Santana -  Evil Ways 008 High on Fire -  Electric Messiah 009 Metallica - Disposable Heroes 010 Hammers Of Misfortune -  Dead Revolution 011 Buddy Guy -  Hello San Francisco 012 Faith No More - Jungle 013 Isaac Hayes - Shaft 014 Orange Peels  - Back In San Francisco 015 Idris Ackamoor and the Pyramids - Message To My People 016 Thee Oh Sees - The Dream 017 Merle Haggard - Here In Frisco 018 Audrey Horne -  California 019 Journey -  Lights 020 Death Angel -  Hatred United / United Hate 021 Mel Tor Me - Got The Date On The Golden Gate 022 Duke Ellington -  Tourist Point Of View 023 Sons of Anarchy  - This Life (Sons of Anarchy Theme Song) 024 Larry Graham's Central Station - Earthquake 025 LARD - I Wanna Be A Drug Sniffing Dog 026 Machine Head -  California Bleeding 027 Neurosis -  The Doorway 028 KING WOMAN - Utopia 029 Lalo Schifrin - Magnum Force OST  Main Title 030 Forbidden -  Adapt Or Die 031 DBUK - In San Francisco Bay 032 Jack Name - Werewolf Factory 033 John Carpenter - Theme from "The Fog" 034 Khiis - Saboor 035 Richie Havens -  San Francisco Bay Blues 036 Metallica - Battery 037 Autopsy - charred remains 038 ExTREMITY_-_Crepuscular_Crescendo 039 The Otherside -  Streetcar 040 Quincy Jones - Ironside (TV Theme) 041 Megadeth -  Back in the Day 042 Sly and the Family Stone - Stand! 043 Faith No More -  From Out of Nowhere 044 Willie Hutch-Vampin (The Mack OST 045 Orchid -  Mouths Of Madness 046 Lalo Schifrin - Bullitt OST - On The Way To San Mateo 047 Vince Guaraldi - Woodstock's Dream 048 Fantomas -  4-11-05 049 Violation Wound - Fearmonger + State of Alarm 050 Primus - Those Damned Blue-Collar Tweekers 051 The Flower Pot Men - Let's Go to San Francisco (Part.1-2) 052 Bosse-de-Nage - Crux 053 Rod McKuen - The Beat Generation 054 Dionne Warwick - Do You Know The Way To San Jose 055 The Watchers - Sabbath Highway 056 Possessed - the eyes of horror 057 Scott McKenzie – San Francisco (Be Sure to wear flowers) 058 Tower Of Power -  Oakland Stroke 059 Big Trouble In Little China OST - Pork chop express 060 Vio-lence -  Calling In The Coroner 061 Black Oak Arkansas - The Big Ones Still Coming 062 Mr. Bungle - Love Is a Fist 063 VUUR -  The Fire - San Francisco 064 Testament - The Haunting 065 Electronicat - Frisco Bay 066 Y&T - Mean Streak 067 Thee Oh Sees -  Toe Cutter/Thumb Buster 068 Sweet - California Nights - Promo Clip (OFFICIAL) 069 Sadus - Swallowed In Black 070 Chuck Berry - San Francisco Dues 071 Sammy Hagar - Keep on rockin' 072 Fuzz -  Sleigh Ride 073 Otis Redding - Sittin' on The Dock of the Bay 074 Pleasure Leftits - The Gate 075 BL'AST - Sometimes 076 Santana - Samba de Sausalito 077 Acephalix - Upon This Altar 078 Sun Ra    - Lady With The Golden Stockings 079 Chris Isaak - San Francisco Days 080 Pointer Sisters - How Long (Betcha' Got A Chick On The Side) 081 High On Fire -  Carcosa 082 Will Haven -  When The Walls Close In 083 The Coup -  Laugh/Love/Fuck 084 King Khan - Teeth Are Shite 085 Deafheaven -  Irresistible 086 Glitter Wizard -  Blood of the Serpent 087 Jefferson Airplane -  It's No Secret 088 Cannonball Adderley - This Here 089 The Warlocks -  Can't Come Down 090 Squirmy Sax Man - I Still Believe 091 Acid King - Coming Down from Outer Space 092 George Duke - Sausalito 093 The Lost Boys - Cry Little Sister (Theme From The Lost Boys OST) 094 Betty Davis - [They Say I'm Different] He Was a Big Freak 095 Fever Tree - San Francisco Girls 096 The Dillinger Escape Plan w/ Mike Patton -  Pig Latin 097 Build Them to Break - Lucky Strike 098 Montrose - Rock Candy 099 PRIMUS - THE TOYS GO WINDING DOWN 100 Joe Satriani - Big Bad Moon 101 Sleater Kinney - Jumpers 102 GRUESOME - Dimensions Of Horror 103 Sly & the Family Stone - Everday People 104 Huey Lewis and the News - Back in Time 105 Hammers Of Misfortune - 2 17th Street 106 Jerry Fielding - Prologue _ Main Title (The Enforcer OST) 107 Metal Church - The Dark 108 Deftones - Ohms 109  John Lee Hooker - Frisco Blues 110 DRI - Go Die 111 16th & Valencia Roxy Music- Devendra Banhart, What We Will Be 112 MC Hammer - Too Legit to Quit 113 Dead Kennedys-Police Truck 114 Rancid - Adina 115 San Francisco's Shiver - Up My Sleeve 116 Bernard Herrmann - Vertigo OST - The Bay 117 Faith No More - Last Cup Of Sorrow 118 Blackburn & Snow -  Stranger In a Strange Land 119 The Doobie Brothers - What A Fool Believes 120 The Grateful Dead - Sugar Magnolia 121 Cab Calloway - San Francisco Fan 122 The Charlatans - codine 123 Buck Owens - Want To Live In San Francisco 124 Sleep - Dragonaut 125 Death Angel - 5 Steps Of Freedom 126 Neil Young - Heart of Gold 127 Vastum -  Reveries in Autophagia 128 Dead Kennedys -  Moon Over Marin 129 EchoBrain -  Colder World 130 Riz Ortolani    - Lombard Street   131 Waylon Jennings - San Francisco Mabel Joy   132 Con Funk Shun - Confunkshunizeya 133 Chic - Hes the Greatest Dancer 134 Peace Creep - Radio Free Alcatraz   135 ABBA - Santa Rosa 136 Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks - San Fransisco 137 Together Band - California Curl California Girl 138 The Hellers - It's 74 In San Francisco 139 Pat Todd - No Place Like Home 140 Nancy Wilson - I'm Always Drunk In San Francisco (And I Don't Drink At All) 141 Anathema -  San Francisco 142 Blue Cheer -  Fool 143 Exhumed - Gravewalker 144 Darondo - Let My People Go 145 Exodus -  Blood In Blood Out 146 Lalo Schifrin Dirty Harry OST - Scorpios Theme   147 Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues 148 Wild Light - California on my mid 149 Herbie Hancock - Man-child -  Hang Up Your Hang Ups 150 Fantomas -  Spider Baby 151 The Lord Weird Slough Feg -  Headhunter 152 The Animals - San Franciscan Nights 153 Twilight - Dance with Me 154 THE POINTER SISTERS - Yes We Can Can 155 Residents - Hello Skinny 156 CCR HEADCLEANER - Eat This Riff 157 LEON WARE  - Thats Why I Came To California 158 Creedence Clearwater Revival - I Put A Spell On You 159 Comorant - The First Man 160 Bosse-de-Nage  - The Trench 161 Hell Fire - Free Again   162 Riz Ortolani  - Golden Gate Bridge 163 Fleetwood Mac - You Make Loving Fun 164 Uther Pendragon - San Francisco Earthquake 165 Melvins - Zodiac 166 La Luz - California Finally 167 The Wyatt Act - Push 168 Santana - Soul Sacrifice 169 Cheap Trick - On the Radio 170 Electric Wizard -  Venus In Furs 171 Led Zeppelin -  Misty Mountain Hop 172 Tommy Castro - Callin' San Francisco 173 Viscious Rumors - Digital Dictator 174 Ghoul-Off With Their Heads 175 Diesel - Sausalito Summernight (Single Version) 176 Sheila E - A Love Bizarre 177 Starship - Nothings Gonna Stop Us Now 178 Jeffry Osboune - I Really Don't Need No Light 179 Nazareth -  Alcatraz 180 Freak of Nature - Rescue Me 181 Metallica - Crash Course In Brain Surgery 182 10000 Maniacs - Hey Jack Kerouac 183 Faith No More -  Get Out 184  URSA -  Wizard's Path 185 Jefferson Airplane - Aerie (Gang of Eagles) 186 Tower of Power - Just Enough and Too Much 187 Fred Hughes - san francisco is a lonely town 188 Mamaleek - Eating Unblessed Meat 189 Moby Grape - Naked If I Want To 190 Exodus - Metal Command 191 Pig Destroyer - Alcatraz Metaphors 192 the Donnas - You Make Me Hot 193 Hot Tuna - True Religion 194 Heathen - Opiate of the Masses 195 Fanny - Come and Hold Me 196 Sadus - Hands Of Fate 197 Negative Trend - Meathouse 198 Forbidden - Forbidden Evil 199 Spazz - Crush Kill Destroy 200 Testament - The Preacher 201 HEXX - Morbid Reality 202 Vio-Lence - Phobophobia 203 Dead Kennedys - One Way Ticket To Pluto 204 Tom Waits - Get Behind The Mule 205 CRETIN - It 206 RAMONES - Judy Is A Punk 207 Full House - Intro 208 Willie Alexander and the Boom Boom Band - Kerouac 209 Primus - Dirty Drowning Man 210 Wooden Shjips -  Motorbike 211 The Tony Williams Lifetime Ego - Clap City 212 Middle of the Road - Sacramento (A Wonderful Town) 213 Green Day - At the Library 214 Slayer -  Gemini 215 Tetema - Cutlass Eye 216 Defiance - Death Machine 217 Brisco County Jr theme 218 Doug McKechnie - Crazy Ray 219 Ulthar - Furnace Hibernation 220 Mr. Bungle -  ANARCHY UP YOUR ANUS 221 Dirty Ghosts  - Let It Pretend 222 They Might Be Giants - San Francisco (In Situ) 223 Metallica - The Shortest Straw 224 OM - Unitive Knowledge of the Godhead 225 Laaz Rockit - City's Gonna Burn 226 Autopsy - Skullptures 227 Mordred - Spectacle of Fear 228 Sly & the Family Stone - Luv N' Haight 229 Possessed - Seven Churches 230 Machine Head - The Rage to Overcome 231 Thelonius Monk - San Francisco Holiday 232 The Units - The Mission Is Bitchin 233 Del Tha Funkee Homosapien - Mistadobalina 234 Arnocorps - Dead lift 235 The Grateful Dead - The Golden Road 236 DRI - All for nothing 237 Jim Martin - Disco dust 238 Thee Oh Sees - I come from the mountain 239 Death Angel - Discontinued 240 Starship - We Built This City 241 Captured! by Robots - Endless Circle of Bullshit 242 Pins Of Light - My revenge 243 Sun Ra - We Travel the Spaceways 244 Faith No More - caffeine 245 David Lee Roth - Just like paradise 246 San Francisco Fog Horns by Golden Gate Bridge 247 Abscess - Tormented 248 Mortuous - Bitterness 249 Dead Kennedy's - California uber alles 250 Twitch Angry - San Francisco 666 Neurosis - Water Is Not Enough

So, hop on a cable car, grab ice cream at Swenson’s or bark back at the seals down by Pier 39. Catch a Bear’s game at Berkeley and do some squirmy sax moves in the Haight after you down some beers at the Toronado and play my San Fran playlist! Here are the songs in the link: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-iHPcxymC1-HLG9q5rZLsqs8EYh6bhu-

[papermoonloveslucy]

THE JIMMY DURANTE SHOW

“Women in Industry” ~ April 28, 1948

“The Jimmy Durante Show” aired on NBC from October 1, 1947 to June 30, 1950. It was a continuation of the NBC / CBS radio series “The Durante-Moore Show” after Garry Moore left when he was offered his own show on CBS Television. The series originally starred with recurring guest stars Peggy Lee and Florence Halop. In its last season, actor and personality Alan Young was brought in as Durante's straight man.  At the end of the 1947-48 season, the show was tied for the number 7 show on the air along with “Philco Radio Time” on ABC and “Dr. Christian” on CBS. The show managed to stay in the top ten throughout its entire run. The series ended in June 1950 after Durante made a move to television with a starring role on NBC's “Four Star Revue.” 

The program was televised at Club Durant. Each episode usually ended with Durante's catchphrase, "Good night, Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are!", an apparent reference to Durante's deceased first wife. This program was sponsored by Rexall Drugs. It was produced and directed by Phil Cohan.

Synopsis ~ Jimmy and guest Lucille Ball tour the country to see how women fit into American industry. 

CAST

Jimmy Durante (Host)  was a multi-talented performer who was distinguished by his bulbous nose. In “Lucy Meets Harpo Marx” (ILL S4;E28) Lucy Ricardo dons a novelty store mask and trench coat to impersonate Durante for a nearsighted Carolyn Appleby. His classic profile was featured on “I Love Lucy” when Lucy goes to the Hollywood Brown Derby, where his caricature takes up two frames above her booth. Lucille Ball has an uncredited role in his 1935 film Carnival. In “Lucy Goes to a Hollywood Premiere” (TLS S4;E20) on February 7, 1966, Durante makes a cameo appearance accompanied by his wife, Margie Little. 

Lucille Ball (Guest Star) had previously been on Durante’s radio show on October 29, 1947. She had played an uncredited role in his film Carnival in 1935.  Ball was just a few months from staring her radio series “My Favorite Husband,” which launched in July 1948.  Her film Her Husband’s Affairs was in theatres. At the time of this broadcast she was filming Sorrowful Jones with Bob Hope. 

Peggy Lee (Regular Cast) was a singer and actress who, like Lucille Ball, was also born in Jamestown - but in North Dakota, not New York.  Lee was a Grammy-winning singer and composer. 

Roy Bargy and his Orchestra (Music)

The Crew Chiefs (Singers)

Howard Petrie (Announcer) would appear with Lucille Ball in Fancy Pants (1950). 

Victor Moore, usually part of the cast, is not in this episode. 

EPISODE

Announcer Howard Petrie opens with a few bars of his signature songs “Inka Dinka Doo” and “You Gotta Start Off Each Day with a Song.”  Petrie and Durante talk about the wedding of the year: Lana Turner to Bob Topping. Durante says that he picked out her torso. Petrie corrects him saying her ‘trousseau’ cost her $30,000. Durante says he picked out her wedding gown, especially the train.    

DURANTE: “It wasn’t an ordinary train. Lana was wearing the Super Chief!” 

Lana Turner married Henry 'Bob’ Topping Jr. on April 26, 1948, just two days before this broadcast. He was her third husband, but she would marry four more times in her life! 

Durante jokes about President Truman throwing out the first ball at the Washington Senators first game. Durante sings the novelty song “I’ll Never Forget the Day I Read a Book.” 

After a Rexall commercial, Durante introduces Lucille Ball. Lucy talks about making Sorrowful Jones with Bob Hope. Durante is jealous of Hope’s nose!

LUCY: “When it comes to noses, he’s a retailer. You’re a wholesaler.”

Lucy wants to get down to the reason for her visit: woman in industry. They travel into the future to see how things might be different if women were captains of industry.

In the future, Lucy comes home from the office and Jimmy is doing housework. The banter is classic domestic role reversal. Lucy compliments him on his housekeeping.  

Back in the present, Lucy and Durante introduce Peggy Lee. Lucy says her gown is an original by Schiaparelli. Peggy says hers is by Hattie Carnegie. 

Before coming to Hollywood, Lucille Ball was a model for Hattie Carnegie in New York. 

LUCY: “The shoes are by Capezio, the handbag is an Evans creation, and the hat is by John Frederick.” DURANTE: “Notice they didn’t say anything about Adrian, who’s spending every moment whipping up my new spring halter.”

Peggy Lee sings “It’s the Sentimental Thing To Do”. 

After another Rexall commercial, Peggy and Lucy are still interested in pursuing women in industry.  Jimmy, Peggy, and Lucy sing “Any State in the 48″ as they take a magic carpet around the country.  

First stop: Milwaukee, Wisconsin to visit the Shultz Pickle Works.  Mr. Schultz mistakes Durante’s nose for a cucumber.  They are curious to know if the pickle industry would be good for women. Lucy tries a pickle to see if it will make her pucker. While she is puckered, the phones rings and it is Governor Folsom of Alabama asking Durante to keep Lucy ‘puckered up’ till he gets there! 

On March 3, 1948, Governor Jim Folsom's name was in headlines across the nation when the 30-year-old Christine Johnston, a widow who had met Folsom in late 1944 while she was working as a cashier at the Tutwiler Hotel in Birmingham, filed a paternity suit against the governor by alleging that he was the father of her 22-month-old son. Nine days after the suit was filed Folsom appeared on the sidewalk in front of the Barbizon Modeling School in New York City, where he kissed a hundred pretty models who had voted him "The Nation's Number One Leap Year Bachelor." Johnston dropped the suit for a cash settlement. Years later, he admitted that he was indeed the father of Johnston's child. On May 5, 1948, Folsom married 20-year-old Jamelle Moore, a secretary at the state Highway Department, whom he had met during his 1946 campaign and had been dating and seeing "almost daily" since then.

Next stop: Paris, Illinois. They are visiting the second largest perfume factory in the country, owned by Hot Breath Houlihan. 

DURANTE: “Now I know who set B.O. Plenty’s house on fire!” 

B.O. Plenty was a character from Dick Tracy comic strip by Chester Gould. In March 1948, his house mysteriously burned down and everyone feared the character was dead. Readers actually wrote to the newspaper begging Gould not to kill off B.O. Plenty and Gravel Gertie! 

Houlihan sells perfumes named Abandon, Yield, Retreat, and Surrender.

DURANTE: “Haven’t you got something with a bit more will power?” 

Houlihan says she became a success by developing a perfume called Go Away Henry Wallace.  

HOULIHAN: “When a girl is sitting on the sofa with her boyfriend, she don’t want a third party!” 

Henry Wallace was the 33rd vice president of the United States. He was also the presidential nominee of the left-wing Progressive Party in the 1948 election.

Last stop: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They visit a steel factory and talk to the head man (who is obviously voiced by a female).  She says that women have no place in the steel industry.  But Lucille convinces her otherwise, and they conclude their magic carpet tour of the USA.  

[backatthechickenshack]

Back at the Chicken Shack 10/16/19 Playlist

WFDU.fm

73rd show

10/16/19

Xterminator - Wild hare

Candye Kane - Gifted  in the Ways of Love

Oscar Brown Jr - Chicken Heads

Bobby Rush - What's Good for the Goose is Good for the Gander

Bobby Rush -  Gotta have Money

Bobby Rush -  Get Out of Here pt 1

Bobby Rush -  Mary Jane

Bobby Rush -  Nine Below Zero

Bobby Rush -  Bowlegged Woman, Knock kneed Man pt 1

the lancers - the moocher

Tic & Toc - Jibba jab

jessie mae - Dont Freeze on Me

Little Richard - baby Dont You tear my Clothes

Billy the Kid Emerson - Red Hot

Billy the Kid Emerson -  When it Rains it pours

Billy the Kid Emerson - satisfied

Billy the Kid Emerson -  Move Baby move

Billy the Kid Emerson -  Little fine healthy thing

Ronnie Earl - Travelin  Heavy

Johnny Cash - No Expectations

Jim Nesbitt - Working all my Life

Bob Dylan & the Band - Big River

Charlie Feathers - Folsom prison Blues

Pete Drake - Pedal Jumpin'

Gail Anderson -They're Laughing at Me

Malo - Suavecito

Bobbie Gentry - He made a woman out of Me

Terry Allen - Amarillo Highway

Luther Dickinson - Bang Bang Lulu

the Jinx - Come on Up

the Ramones - blitzkrieg Bop

Eddie & the Hot Rods - Do anything you wanna Do

James Chance & the Contortions - White Cannibal

http://wfdu2.streamrewind.com/bookmarks/listen/274220/back-at-the-chicken-shack

[yourpixiewrites-blog]

Supernatural Parody 2 - Review

Now I’ve been a fan of Hillywood for a couple of years now. I wouldn’t say I’m a superfan, but I really do enjoy their stuff, and I think they’re both incredibly talented. They’ve had their good stuff, and they’ve had their not so good stuff, but that’s not what we’re here for. Right now, we’re here to review their second Supernatural Parody.

Please remember that this review is based on my opinions, and my thoughts and feelings while watching/listening to this parody. I’ve seen it a few times now, so this isn’t my initial reaction, but I can tell you, my initial reaction was full of screaming, yelling, and disturbing the locals.

Possible spoilers below if you have not yet seen this parody!

So we start out with their usual intro with a collage of their supporters, the super-awesome blend of Supernatural title screen cards, and a request to not repost this anywhere. That’s REPOST, not share. Share the Hell out of it to get them the love they deserve, but don’t repost it and make it look like it’s yours or something, because that’s a douchebag move and you’re scum if you do it. As they say, help protect the work of online creators!

The first thing you hear is a phone ringing, and you see a short list of who stars. Upon seeing Osric Chau, I knew it was going to be good, because it’s Osric guys. And Hannah Hindi has phenomenal directing skills, so massive kudos to her for pulling this together the way she did alongside Hilly and the others.

When the screen finally comes to the start of the video itself, you get Misha. Misha Collins. Yes, that same Misha who plays the damn Angel that everyone – myself included! – is obsessed with. The same Misha who created GISHWHES. (more on that another time!) And he is playing a receptionist. If you don’t get this reference, you need to watch the movies, because seriously, that’s some good shit. I however got the reference, and this was my first screech moment. Misha Collins, playing the receptionist from Ghostbusters. YES! And my gosh, Misha does it so well. He just fits so naturally into the roll and he brings something to it that is just right. He answers the call, gets the information needed, and with a delighted yell, he hits the bell. Please welcome to the stage; Osric Chau and Hilly Hindi! And of course, Hilly’s lunch.

Osric, if you remember, was in the very first Supernatural Parody, so it’s fantastic to see him back reclaiming his role as Sam Winchester, our loveable Moose! Osric of course is not Jared, but he brings something of his own to the character of Sam and he does it incredibly well. He and Hilly work so well together. There’s a chemistry there that just makes them click, and everything they do throughout this parody is flawless and well-done. And this is when the music really kicks in, you hear the siren that makes you feel really nostalgic, and you see the beloved Impala with a bit of a makeover to fit the theme. I will forever envy that they get to use the Impala for these parodies, because holy hells bells, I would kill to have an Impala! The music has a much more rock feeling to it than the original does, so my inner Rockstar was thrilled. And instead of “Ghostbusters”, we have a call of “Winchesters!” This made me smile to no ends.

Immediately I felt that the lyrics fit so well that it’s not even funny, and the song is well re-written/parodied for this. They did a fantastic job on that front.

Insert my second screech of the day, Samantha Ferris and Chad Lindberg! Respectively, Ellen Harvelle and Ash, both of whom were amazing characters in the show, and I was so, so mad when they came to their ends. Following them, we had Alaina Huffman, known on the show as Abaddon, and the giant suicidal from that one episode where I imagine most if not all of us were wondering what the Hell was going on. She was my third screech, because I adore Alaina, and I was so, so glad she featured here. And, having watched the two hour long behind the scenes footage, I know that the guys behind moving the teddy did a really, really good job in making the movements fluid and alive.

Cue more epic dancing and acting from Osric and Hilly! Followed by a party in the Impala, and Jim Beaver. Good ole’ Bobby Singer himself! I screamed so loudly that the locals wondered if someone was being murdered or not. We will never not love Jim in this fandom, and we will always welcome him back with open arms no matter what the writers do to try and get rid of him. And damn it, Hilly, you’re so lucky that was a fake mirror!

On the verse talking about the hellhounds, we had Ruth Connell. An absolute Queen, and the perfect actress to have played Rowena in the show. Even in silk pyjamas with her hair in rollers, she was beautiful and graceful as ever. And she needs her beauty sleep don’t you know? Let’s get those Hellhounds out of here!

Hilly was disappearing through the mirror she’d broken, but it was a good thing Jim and Osric were there, because let’s be honest, would Bobby and Sam really, truly let Dean disappear like that? I don’t think so!

Another Impala party with lots of plaid. Every plaid fan is melting by this point because look at it all! And if you watch carefully enough during the Impala party scenes, you’ll see the appearances from Lauren Tom (Kevin’s mother), Tyler Johnston (Samandriel), Tahmoh Penikett (Gadreel), Adam Rose (Aaron Bass), Adam Fergus (Mick Davies), Michael Borja and Billy Moran of Louden Swain, Jason Manns (writer/performer of various episodes), and Clif Kosterman, who is not only Jared and Jensen’s personal bodyguard and driver, but also made an appearance as “Tiny” in Folsom Prison Blues from season 2, and also briefly as the wrestler Wrecking Ball Calhoon in Beyond the Mat in season 11. We also get another appearance from Sam and Chad (Ellen and Ash), because hey, who doesn’t want to see these two dancing in plaid?

I feel like I forgot to mention the scene recreated from “Changing Channels” because that was an amazing, funny episode, and was recreated very well in the various clips of it throughout this section of the parody.

Jake Abel is next to make his appearance, and finally, after 8 seasons, we get to see Adam Milligan getting his ticket right out of the cage in the form of a get out of hell free card! Monopoly reference anyone? But really, I’m so glad to finally see Adam getting out of there. It’s been too long, guys! Way too long!

Richard Speight Jr is back, but not as Gabriel this time. Instead, he claims the role of news channel host T. Rickster. D’you get it? Trickster? I thought it was a good joke… Rob Benedict follows as the on-site reporter instead of playing God, who to the fandom will always be known as Chuck. Both are hilarious in their own rights, and bring some bounce and joy to the reporting characters, so good casting call right there girls! And not only would I love to hear some of Rob’s ghost stories, but he referenced the thing! The saving people, hunting things! Did anyone else add the family business to the end of that line or was it just me?

I’m not going to continue to retell the whole parody like this, because honestly, you can see it for yourselves. Go and check it out on Hillywood’s YouTube page. Throughout the rest of this parody, just when you think they couldn’t possibly fit anymore guest star appearances into it, they do! We get to see Curtis Armstrong (Metatron), Alex Calvert (Jack the Nephilim), Briana Buckmaster (Sheriff Donna Hanscum), Kim Rhodes (Sheriff Jody Mills), Mark Pellegrino (Lucifer), Julian Richings (Death) and Stephen Norton, also of Louden Swain. Of course we have more scenes of Misha as the receptionist, and finally, the appearance of Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles, respectively, Sam and Dean Winchester.

I feel like Jensen and Jared had way too much fun pretending to be ghostbusters in this. They did a great job, as expected, and they really brought something to it, as did all the other stars appearing. You have to admit, Death himself enjoying some pizza is probably one of the best things we’ve seen on the internet in a while. It certainly was for me, and it definitely beats all the cat memes I’ve been watching! Adam Stuckey taking back his roll as Crowley was a massively well-made choice, because he just does it so well, from the facial expressions down to the mannerisms. I feel like Mark Sheppard would be proud!

All in all, this parody is one long video of screaming, getting excited, dancing along and yelling at your friends each time you see one of the actors show up to play their part. I thoroughly enjoyed everything from the music, right down to re-creation of some of the iconic scenes. And you can never get enough references, either! Yellow eyes, though, was probably one that made us all huff a little because look at all the trouble this guy caused! The music was a perfect choice, the dancing was flawless and the acting was on point. Another amazing parody from the Hillywood Show. Both girls are super talented, and did an amazing job with everything.

Please do check them out, I’ll add links below to both the parody, and the BTS video. Show the girls and their channel some love and support because they deserve every little bit of it!

 Parody: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nsy06n-omrg&t=481s

Behind the Scenes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQVirHo_y_Q

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Steven Reed (born 1973 or 1974) is the Mayor-elect of Montgomery, AL. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as a probate judge in Montgomery County. Steven Reed was born in Montgomery, AL to Joe and Mollie Reed as one of three children, including his siblings Irva and Joe Jr.; his father Joe served as one of the first class of elected members of the Montgomery City Council from 1975 to 1999. Steven Reed earned a BA from Morehouse College and a MBA from Vanderbilt University. He was a financial analyst, then changed careers and lobbied the Alabama legislature, and worked for Lt Governor Jim Folsom Jr. Reed was elected as probate judge in 2012, the first African American in that position. In February 2015 he was the first probate judge in the state of AL who started issuing same-sex marriage licenses after district judge Callie V. Granade struck the state's ban on same-sex marriage, defying Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore. In March 2015, after a ruling by the Alabama Supreme Court, he stopped issuing them. Reed ran for mayor of Montgomery in the 2019 election, and defeated his opponent David Woods in a runoff. Upon taking office, Reed will become the first African-American mayor of Montgomery since its incorporation in 1819. #365black #BlackExcellence #omegapsiphi #sigmapiphi (at Western Branch North, Chesapeake, Virginia) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3b-c68HDIaqiuqAHsybKZ-6qOmwCJWfNm2o_w0/?igshid=14jszn4iweyf

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The Hipster's Guide to Classic Country Music

The Hipster's Guide to Classic Country Music

Let’s face it…if your mountain man beard, microbrew fetish, and pipe collection are no longer enough, classic country music can help you get to the next level of hipster (so can a pair of Wrangler jeans). My name is DJ Staci, the Track Star, and I grew up on country music. I lived on a 5-acre llama ranch just outside of Seattle during the grunge era…do you see how there’s a hipster seed in there? I knew I was not your standard redneck when, at 14, my dad’s hunting drew me towards vegetarianism (celebrating 26 meat-free years now). At 18, I pierced my nose and moved to southern California where I could eat tofu, get feminism tattoos, and vote for democrats in a diverse, shame-free environment…but that country music seed definitely grew roots throughout my childhood. In fact, during my 20s, I escaped my days of drinking expensive juice and visiting organic farmer’s markets by honky tonkin’ every week. I would go line dancing at the Brandin’ Iron Saloon in San Bernardino (the biggest & best honky tonk a.k.a. country bar west of Gilley’s…and watch John Travolta & Debra Winger in “Urban Cowboy” if you don’t understand either of those references).

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  Unfortunately, country music withered up and died after the 2000s. After DJing at the world’s largest country music festival (Stagecoach–the country cousin of Coachella), I had to stop listening to country music on the radio. The so-called country you hear on the radio today is known as “pop country” by country music purists (those of us who prefer classic country or “real” country). The artists who “ruined” country music are people like Taylor Swift, Sam Hunt, Florida Georgia Line, Thomas Rhett, & Luke Bryant (and many others). Follow “We Hate Pop Country” on Facebook to learn more.

If you like “Wake Me Up” by Avicii, “Honey I’m Good” by Andy Grammer, “I Will Wait” by Mumford & Sons, “The Country Death Song” by the Violent Femmes, “Easy” by Sheryl Crow, “Wish I Knew You” by the Revivalists, “Wagon Wheel” by Old Crow Medicine Show, or Philip Phillips, classic country will be a great fit. If watching the movie Walk the Line turned you into a Johnny Cash fan, rest assured there is plenty more music like that out there. If you resonate as a defiant outsider or a feminist or a government-hating pothead, classic country music welcomes you with open arms! Classic country is outlaw music–pure and simple. It was created by people who knew they were on the outskirts of mainstream society and unshakingly flipped it the bird à la Johnny Cash at San Quentin (below).

  Johnny Cash after photographer Jim Marshall asked him to do a shot for the warden (San Quentin Prison – 1969)

  Did you know Loretta Lynn, who sang the feminist anthem “The Pill,” & Jack White from the White Stripes, who also has some killer bluegrass tunes, created an album together? Did you know Johnny Cash has covered songs by Nine Inch Nails and Depeche Mode? Have you heard Lady Gaga’s country roads version of “Born This Way?” Did you know Beyonce has a kick ass collab with the Dixie Chicks (the girl-power Texas band who was banned from country radio for saying they were ashamed that George Bush is from their home state) called “Daddy Lessons”? Did you know the black lead singer of Hootie & the Blowfish bailed on the band so he could start a solo country music career (country fans know him as Darius Rucker)? Did you know when I DJ classic country parties, I have to ask the client if swear words are OK?

Do I have your attention now? I thought so. Let’s continue 🙂 You’ll love the country artists as much as you love their music–I promise.

  Justin Timberlake & Chris Stapleton performing together at the 49th Country Music Association Awards

  THE KING OF COUNTRY MUSIC

First, let’s start with the forefather of all country music kick-assery: Hank Williams. Hank signed to MGM Records in 1947 and his twangy anthems changed country music forever. He was famously fired by the Grand Ole Opry in 1952 after one of many no-shows. He lived a turbulent life that his son Hank Jr sings about in his cornerstone song “Family Tradition.” In true rock star style, Hank Sr. died of heart failure brought on by prescription drug abuse and alcoholism in 1953. Hipster-friendly Hank Williams songs include:

I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry

Hey Good Lookin’

Jambalaya (on the Bayou)

Tear in my Beer

Your Cheating Heart

  TOP 125 CLASSIC COUNTRY SONGS FOR HIPSTERS

Pour yourself some Popcorn Sutton’s Tennessee White Whiskey (that’s legal moonshine for you city slickers) & get ready for some serious drinkin’ music free of “Friends in Low Places,” “Achy Breaky Heart,” “Boot Scootin’ Boogie,” “Old Town Road,” and “The Git Up.” I’ve includes lots of notes & trivia about the playlist songs because we hipsters can’t just enjoy music in a vacuum…we like to sound like a seasoned expert when putting on a playlist for friends, yes? I’ve included standards as well as a number of “B sides” that will even impress country music enthusiasts…you know the kind of people who still say “Country Western.”

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18 Wheels & a Dozen Roses, Kathy Mattea

9 to 5, Dolly Parton

A Boy Named Sue, Johnny Cash

All My Exes Live in Texas, George Strait

Amarillo by Morning, George Strait

Are You Ready for the Country, Waylon Jennings

Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way?, Waylon Jennings (Referring to Hank Williams Sr.)

Back Where I Come From, Kenny Chesney

Bed You Made for Me, Highway 101

Before Country Was Cool, Barbara Mandrell

Born to Boogie, Hank Williams Jr. (Hank Sr’s son)

Chattahoochee, Alan Jackson

Church on Cumberland Road, Shenandoah

Coal Miner’s Daughter, Loretta Lynn (Watch her biographical movie “Coal Miner’s Daughter” staring Sissy Spacek!)

Coat of Many Colors, Dolly Parton

Copenhagen, Chris Le Deux (Yep, chew killed this underground country singer with a cult following. His catchy, hilarious love song to Copenhagen chewing tobacco is like a country version of “Can’t Feel My Face” or “Mary Jane.”)

Copperhead Road, Steve Earle (Listen carefully…After coming home from war, this soldier gives up on the family tradition of making moonshine because he realized when he was in Viet Nam that he could just grow weed instead.)

Country Boy Can Survive, Hank Williams Jr.

Country Club, Travis Tritt

Country Roads, Take Me Home, John Denver (Lucky if I get through this one without tearing up…)

Cowboy Take Me Away, Dixie Chicks

Crazy, Patsy Cline (Sadly, the anthem of Battered Woman’s Syndrome…Patsy was in a violent marriage at the height of her fame. Written by Willie Nelson.)

Cripple Creek, Earl Scruggs & Lester Flatt

Devil Went Down to Georgia, Charlie Daniels Band

Digging Up Bones, Randy Travis

Dixieland Delight, Alabama

Down at the Twist & Shout, Mary-Chapin Carpenter

Dueling Banjos, Roy Clark & Buck Owens

El Paso, Marty Robbins (After writing this song, Marty Robbins was flying over El Paso & had a revelation that he was the cowboy in the song in a past life…so he wrote “El Paso City” about that experience.)

Elvira, Oak Ridge Boys

Elvira, Oak Ridge Boys

Every Little Thing, Carlene Carter (Yep, June Carter’s daughter…she called Johnny Cash “Stepdad.” Roseanne Cash’s “Tennessee Flat Top Box” is also a good one.)

Family Tradition, Hank Williams Jr (A proud nod to his famous father…”Put yourself in my position–if I get stoned and sing all night long, it’s a family tradition.” When you hear this song at a honky tonk, know the customs! When Jr sings, “Why do you drink?” The crowd shouts back “To get drunk!” When Jr sings, “Why do you roll smoke?” The crowd shouts, “To get high!” When he sings, “Why must you act out the songs that you wrote?” The crowd shouts, “To get laid!”)

Fancy, Reba McEntire

Fishin’ in the Dark, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

Flowers on the Wall, Statler Brothers

Folsom Prison Blues, Johnny Cash

Fool-Hearted Memory, George Strait (His first of SIXTY #1 hits–the most in country music history! Too many for this list but do check them out.)

Get a Rhythm, Johnny Cash

Guitars & Cadillacs, Dwight Yoakum (One of the few west coasters on the list…from Bakersfield, California — also a vegetarian!)

Have Mercy, Judds (A female country duo–mother & sister to famous actress Ashley Judd!)

Highway Man, The Highwaymen (The Highwaymen are Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, & Kris Kristofferson.)

Hillbilly Rock, Marty Stewart

Honky Tonk Man, Dwight Yoakum

Hooked on an 8-Second Ride, Chris Le Deux (Pronounced “Le Doo”)

Hot Rod Lincoln, Commander Cody

I Ain’t Livin’ Long Like This, Waylon Jennings

I Love a Rainy Night, Eddie Rabbitt

I Think I’ll Just Sit Here & Drink, Merle Haggard

I Walk the Line, Johnny Cash

I’m No Stranger to the Rain, Keith Whitley

If You’re Gonna Play in Texas, Alabama

If You’ve Got the Money, Willie Nelson

If Your Heart Ain’t Busy, Tanya Tucker

It Only Hurts When I Cry, Dwight Yoakum

Jackson, Johnny Cash & June Carter

Jolene, Dolly Parton

Jose Cuervo, Shelly West

Kaw-Liga, Hank Williams Jr. (Hank Sr also does this one.)

Lay You Down, Conway Twitty

Long Time Gone, Dixie Chicks

Louisiana Saturday Night, Mel McDaniel

Luckenbach Texas, Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson

Mama Tried, Merle Haggard

Maybe It Was Memphis, Pam Tillis

Meet Me in Montana, Dan Seals

Midnight Girl in a Sunset Town, Sweethearts of the Rodeo

Mountain Music, Alabama

Mud on the Tires, Brad Paisley

Mule Skinner Blues, Dolly Parton

My Kind of Girl, Colin Raye

Next to You, Shenandoah

No Time to Kill, Clint Black

Nobody Wins, Radney Foster

Norma Jean Riley, Diamond Rio

One Piece at a Time, Johnny Cash

Only Daddy That’ll Walk the Line, Waylon Jennings

Orange Blossom Special, Johnny Cash

Pancho & Lefty, Willie Nelson & Merle Haggard

Papa Loved Mama, Garth Brooks

Past the Point of Rescue, Hal Ketchum

Pick-Up Man, Joe Diffie

Play Something Country, Brooks & Dunn

Redneck Girl, Bellamy Brothers (During the corresponding Redneck Girl line dance, when the song says, “A redneck girl got her name on the back of her belt,” dancers shout, “Bullshit! Bullshit! F— you!” When the song says, “She’s got a kiss on her lips for her man and no one else,” dancers repeat, “Bullshit! Bullshit! F— you!” When the song says, “A coyote’s howling out on the prairie,” dancers howl. Finally, the song says, “First comes love, then comes marriage.” After “love,” dancers interject, “Then sex!!!”)

Ring of Fire, Johnny Cash

Rockin’ With the Rhythm, Judds

Rodeo, Garth Brooks

Rough & Ready, Trace Adkins

Saturday Night Special, Conway Twitty (Yes, the same guy they famously poke fun at on “Family Guy”–see below)

Sin Wagon, Dixie Chicks

Smoky Mountain Rain, Ronnie Milsap

Sold, John Michael Montgomery

Some Girls Do, Sawyer Brown

Song of the South, Alabama

Stampede, Chris Le Deux

Stand by Your Man, Tammy Wynette

Straight Tequila Night, John Anderson

Streets of Bakersfield, Dwight Yoakum

Sweet Dreams of You, Patsy Cline

Tempted, Marty Stuart

Tennessee River & a Mountain Man, Alabama

Thank God I’m a Country Boy, John Denver (He’s an outspoken vegan and & rep for P.E.T.A #MeatlessMondays)

That Kind of Girl, Patty Loveless

That’s My Story, Collin Raye

That’s What I Like About You, Trisha Yearwood (She’s married to Garth Brooks & is a celebrity chef with a reality cooking show.)

The Gambler, Kenny Rogers

The Pill, Lorettta Lynn (Also check out her cover of Nancy Sinatra’s “These Boots Were Made for Walking.”)

The Race Is On, Sawyer Brown (or any of the older versions)

The Thunder Rolls, Garth Brooks

Ticks, Brad Paisley

Tight-Fittin’ Jeans, Conway Twitty

Tonight We Ride, Tom Russell (We played this at my dad’s funeral…definitely a “b side.”)

Tougher Than the Rest, Chris Le Deux

Tulsa Time, Don Williams

Two Feet of Topsoil, Brad Paisley

Walkin’ After Midnight, Patsy Cline (Check out the Cyndi Lauper cover!)

What Was I Thinkin,’ Dierks Bentley

When You Say Nothing At All, Keith Whitley (Alison Krauss’ version might be more popular though…)

Whiskey, If You Were a Woman, Highway 101

Why Not Me, Judds

Wide Open Spaces, Dixie Chicks

Will the Circle Be Unbroken, dozens of versions

Wrong Side of Memphis, Trisha Yearwood

You Ain’t Woman Enough, Loretta Lynn

You Really Had Me Going, Holly Dunn

You’ve Never Been This Far Before, Conway Twitty

    There are a few current country artists with that classic country sound: Chris Stapleton, Brothers Osborn, some Miranda Lambert (try “Gunpowder & Lead” or “Little Red Wagon”), or Cody Jinks.

If you’re afraid country music is too white, straight, or conservative for you, check out Little Big Town’s “Girl Crush,” Maddie & Tae’s “Girl in a Country Song,” the Dixie Chicks’ “Goodbye Earl,” Los Lonely Boys’ “Heaven,” Kacey Musgraves’ “Follow Your Arrow,” Big & Rich’s “Love Train,” Garth Brooks’ “We Shall Be Free,” John Anderson’s “Seminole Wind,” or anything by Charlie Pride, Cowboy Troy, k.d. lang, or Freddie Fender.

If you enjoy a good DJ mix, I’m not the only one doing creative things with country music–check out DeeJay Silver, DJ Sinister’s Country Fried Mix, VDJ JD, DJ Bad Ash, or DJ Hish (who I was on the roster with at the Stagecoach Festival and the Moonshine Miles Festival).

Film enthusiast? In addition to watching Johnny Cash’s biographical Walk the Line, you can also try some of these country cult classics: Coal Miner’s Daughter (about Loretta Lynn), Urban Cowboy (with John Travolta & Debra Winger), Pure Country (starring George Strait), Sweet Dreams (about Patsy Cline), Eight Seconds (with Luke Perry)…as well as anything starring Dolly Parton (like 9 to 5 or Steel Magnolias) or Kris Kristofferson (like A Star Is Born or Blade). Dwight Yoakum has a few famous cameos as well (like Sling Blade or Crank). But the real question is: are they “acting” or just “acting natural”? Once you understand that reference, you officially get a gold star in the hipster country music Olympics!!! (Leave me your thoughts in the comments below.)

If you enjoyed the Hipster’s Guide to Classic Country Music, I urge you to explore bluegrass and folk music. And, yes, I know not every “staple” classic country jam is on the list (again, comment below). I also have my Guitar-Infused Country & Classic Rock Wedding Cocktail Hour Playlist and Ultimate Bluegrass Wedding Cocktail Hour & Dinner Music Playlist you can scope out. Some say “crank it up,” but, around here, we say “Hank it up!” Enjoy your hip classic country tunes! 

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Roosevelts Disastrous New Deal and How You Have Been Misled.  

Roosevelts Disastrous New Deal and How You Have Been Misled.

 This ACU show consists of 2 selections from The Tom Woods Show.

Selection 1- New Deal or Raw Deal?

Historian Burt Folsom joins Tom Woods to discuss Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal.

Read the original article at TomWoods.com. http://tomwoods.com/ep-97-new-deal-or-raw-deal/

  Selection 2- The Disastrous New Deal

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Every schoolboy learns that Franklin Roosevelt cured the Great Depression with his New Deal programs. This is false, as libertarians well know. But it's still taught, year after year. In this episode I take this narrative apart. Published on Mar 1, 2019

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Show 3100 The Great Depression, World War II, and American Prosperity, Part I

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  Show 3024 Learn Liberty Playlist. Ideological Robots, Cops Searching Your Cell Phone,  Myth Busting and More.  

  Show 1160 Burt Folsom on the Great Depression and New Deal

  Show 1156 Dr. Burton W. Folsom, Jr. New Deal Progressivism, the Jeffersonian Revival, and the Agrarian Tradition

  Show 690 Two segments. New Deal or Raw Deal and Is There Anything Good About Men? Prager talks to authors. Audio MP3, Radio Talk Show

  Show 681 Imprimis- The New New Deal by Charles Rl Kesler. Audio

  Show 380 FDR's Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression Author: Jim Powell

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A Rebirth for Alabama Democrats? Not So Fast.

https://uniteddemocrats.net/?p=8422

A Rebirth for Alabama Democrats? Not So Fast.

In the days after Mr. Jones’s victory, Don E. Siegelman, the last Democrat to serve as governor of Alabama, spoke for many Democrats when he said the state party was still “an organizational flop” that had “been of little or no value to candidates.” Another Democratic former governor, Jim Folsom Jr., said that the state party was “in shambles.” And Mr. Jones said last week that “the party infrastructure continues to be just stagnant.”

Yet even before the votes were cast in December, Democrats were boasting about how the Jones campaign would single-handedly modernize a party structure that had rotted, with fresh voter data and reconstituted and broadened networks of donors and volunteers. Now armed with a surge of energy, they also believe, as Democrats across the country do, that dissatisfaction with President Trump will help attract centrist voters.

Whether they can keep assembling the coalition that elected Mr. Jones is a more daunting and urgent question. Mr. Jones, who is expected to seek a full six-year term in 2020, earned resounding support from black voters in the state, as well as a much larger share of white voters than his party has generally attracted in recent years.

And he benefited from the reality that many Republicans simply stayed home rather than vote for Mr. Moore.

This year, officials in both parties believe that the strongest Democratic prospects in the state are three white men: Walt Maddox, the mayor of Tuscaloosa and the party’s nominee for governor; Joseph Siegelman, the former governor’s son, who is running for attorney general; and Robert S. Vance Jr., who nearly defeated Mr. Moore in a State Supreme Court race in 2012 and is again running for chief justice.

“There is energy and there is passion, and that’s the effect of the Doug Jones race, especially since he won,” Mr. Maddox said. “People, rightly so, felt like their efforts contributed to a win, and when you win, you want to do it again and again and again.”

Mr. Jones, for his part, is urging his party’s candidates to “be authentic, engage the voters and don’t take any voting segment for granted.” Democrats, he said, were “finally waking up to the fact that we have to play what I call long ball.”

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Lady Antebellum - Need You Now

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Disc 1 1 9 to 5 - Dolly Parton 2 That Don't Impress Me Much - Shania Twain 3 Need You Now - Lady Antebellum 4 Before He Cheats - Carrie Underwood 5 Rhinestone Cowboy - Glen Campbell 6 The Gambler - Kenny Rogers 7 Ring of Fire - Johnny Cash 8 Take Me Home, Country Roads - John Denver 9 Achy Breaky Heart - Billy Ray Cyrus 10 Dance the Night Away - the Mavericks 11 Let Your Love Flow - the Bellamy Brothers 12 All I Wanna Do - Sheryl Crow 13 The Devil Went Down to Georgia - the Charlie Daniels Band 14 Stand By Your Man - Tammy Wynette 15 Bless the Broken Road - Rascal Flatts 16 Body Like a Back Road - Sam Hunt 17 Wanted - Hunter Hayes 18 Cartwheels - Ward Thomas 19 Your Man - Josh Turner 20 Live Like You Were Dying - Tim McGraw 21 My Church - Maren Morris 22 When You're in Love with a Beautiful Woman - Dr. Hook

Disc 2 1 You're Still the One - Shania Twain 2 How Do I Live - Leann Rimes 3 Angel of the Morning - Juice Newton 4 Jolene - Dolly Parton 5 I Walk the Line - Johnny Cash 6 Your Cheatin' Heart - Hank Williams JR 7 Always on My Mind - Willie Nelson 8 By the Time I Get to Phoenix - Glen Campbell 9 Coward of the Country - Kenny Rogers 10 Help Me Make It Through the Night - Kris Kristofferson 11 I'll Be Your Baby Tonight - Bob Dylan 12 Ode to Billie Joe - Bobbie Gentry 13 Burning Love - Elvis Presley 14 Me and Bobby McGee - Janis Joplin 15 Rose Garden - Lynn Anderson 16 Lone Star State of Mind - Nanci Griffith 17 The House That Built Me - Miranda Lambert 18 Highwayman - the Highwaymen 19 Galveston - Glen Campbell 20 I Love You Because - Jim Reeves 21 He Stopped Loving Her Today - George Jones 22 The Most Beautiful Girl - Charlie Rich 23 A Little Bit More - Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show

Disc 3 1 Islands in the Stream - Dolly Parton & Kenny Rogers 2 Wichita Lineman - Glen Campbell 3 Annie's Song - John Denver 4 Green, Green Grass of Home - Elvis Presley 5 Crazy - Patsy Cline Feat. the Jordanaires 6 Only the Lonely (Know the Way I Feel) - Roy Orbison 7 Blanket on the Ground - Billie Jo Spears 8 It's Five O' Clock Somewhere - Alan Jackson & Jimmy Buffett 9 Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue - Crystal Gayle 10 Welcome to My World - Jim Reeves 11 I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry - Hank Williams 12 Abilene - George Hamilton IV 13 Jesus, Take the Wheel - Carrie Underwood 14 Gentle on My Mind - Glen Campbell 15 East Bound and Down - Jerry Reed 16 Hey, Good Lookin' - Hank Williams 17 Folsom Prison Blues - Johnny Cash 18 On the Road Again - Willie Nelson 19 Living Next Door to Alice - Smokie 20 Nashville Grey Skies - the Shires 21 I Hope You Dance - Lee Ann Womack Feat. Sons of the Desert 22 I Will Always Love You - Dolly Parton

Release Date: 1 Dec 2017

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James Alva Williams Jr.

Feb. 6, 1941 – April 12, 2018 James Alva Williams Jr., of Folsom, Calif., passed away on April 12, 2018. Born on Feb. 6, 1941, in Salt Lake City, Utah, he was the son of the late James A. and May Belle (Baldwin) Williams. He attended Olympus High School and the University of Utah. Jim has always ...

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Alabama Democrats Savor a Rare Win. Now It’s Back to Reality.

But it was leavened with an understanding that the win may have done little, for now, to change the beneath-the-underdog status of Democrats in a Deep South state still under near total Republican control.

“I don’t think we’re out dancing in the streets saying this is a totally new day,” said Jim Folsom Jr., who was Alabama governor from 1993 to 1995, when Democrats were near the end of their…

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Alabama Democrats Savor a Rare Win. Now It’s Back to Reality.

But it was leavened with an understanding that the win may have done little, for now, to change the beneath-the-underdog status of Democrats in a Deep South state still under near total Republican control.

“I don’t think we’re out dancing in the streets saying this is a totally new day,” said Jim Folsom Jr., who was Alabama governor from 1993 to 1995, when Democrats were near the end of their…

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San Francisco's Years of Terror

The early morning hour, August 28, 1971: Sergeant George Kowalski, a clear faced young man, with big owl like eyes, and a firm neck, is working the midnight watch for Mission Station. He stops his cruiser at a red light, at 16th and Folsom Streets. Today marks about five weeks for him as Sergeant in the San Francisco Police Department. The day also falls in the middle of one of the most violent periods the City has ever lived through.

Ahead Kowalski sees the headlights of a speeding car coming towards him, furiously sparkling like the eyes of a hungry animal. The car switches lanes and crosses the intersection, stopping about twenty feet away from the young Kowalski- a Mission high graduate, born in Chicago. Kowalski looks over. He can see two men in the neighboring car through their open window. Then he sees something else, pointing at him like a mocking tongue. It is the barrel of a sub machine gun.

Kowalski hits the floor of his cruiser; grabs his service revolver. Thirty five years old is no time to go. But it seems to be the way for San Francisco police officers these days. He is ready. Ready for his cruiser to be turned to Swiss cheese, ready for what that may mean for his life. Just maybe he can get off a few rounds in return.

But nothing happens. The would-be killers’ machine gun jams. Turns out the shell with Kowalski’s name on it is mutilated, and gums up the barrel. The car takes off. Kowalski follows. In the high speed chase, shots fire at Kowalski from a .38 caliber, bursting orange in the darkness as they pop. At 16th and Alabama, the suspect’s car collides with an innocent driver.

Kowalski and other officers arrive on the scene for a shoot-out. Kowalski fires his shot gun, blasting through the suspects’ window, lacerating their faces with glass shards. There is a struggle between one officer and an armed suspect. The officer raises his revolver and brings it down with a crack, breaking the suspect’s cheek bone.

The two men are taken in an ambulance to the Mission emergency Hospital and placed under arrest. The police officers search the smashed and shot up car, where they find a military sub-machine gun with a magazine containing 29 live rounds and a .45 caliber automatic. The officers also take a gun off one of the suspects; the .38 caliber. On the butt of the .38, they notice a stamp with the serial number and the letters, NYPD.

One of the suspects arrested that night was an Oakland kid named Anthony Bottom. He was young, only nineteen years old and quick to tell whoever would listen about his position with a radical group called the Black Liberation Army. Later, Bottom will admit to officers that on August 24, 1971, he went into the Ingleside Police Station to report a stolen bicycle. The report was a ruse. When Bottom walked out of the station, he did not leave the premises. Instead, he stood in the chilly air, observing the stations layout, making note of easy ways in, and quick ways out.

Night time, August 29, 1971: with Bottom sitting in a cell at the San Francisco City Prison, killers crawl through a hole cut in the fence between Ingleside Station and Interstate 280, loaded shotguns at their sides.

Inside Ingleside station, Sergeant John Young sits at his desk. Across from him, the office typist, busy patting the keys of her typewriter or shifting through the papers on her desk. The radio on the wall between them may murmur and blurt, reporting the day’s activity back to the station. Maybe one of them is drinking coffee; maybe the typist just lit a cigarette, or emptied the glass ashtray on the corner of her desk. What do people do before the last thing they expect to happen, happens?

Whatever they are doing, they are not ready when those who cut through the fence storm the station, poke their shotguns through the circular hole in the bullet proof glass separating office from front door and open fire. Sergeant Young is hit and killed. The typist injured.

Sergeant Young’s murder was never solved. When the killers fled, all they left behind was a dead man, and cracks looking like someone smashed an egg, and watched the yoke run down the smooth bullet proof surface of the glass there to protect him.

After the San Francisco Giants won the World Series this October, the streets were flooded with people. The celebrations took all forms. From the innocent- hugging, chanting, drinking beer with friends-, to outright destructive and violent-smashing a barricade through a Muni bus windshield, setting a Muni bus on fire.

On Haight Street, people set off fireworks and decorated telephone wires with toilet paper. The next day, when the photos began to service online, many people wondered why San Francisco residents celebrate joyous events by infusing the atmosphere with the nervous edginess of a war zone.

But for new transplants, young people who weren’t alive at the time, or older residents who may have forgotten, it is worth remembering through most of the 1970’s, San Francisco was the battle ground for something like a reign of terror, or an armed revolution, all depending on which side of the political telescope you choose to examine it through. Either way you see it though, there was an almost unimaginable amount of violence in the streets.

In 1970, four police officers were killed in the line of duty, including one Brian McDonnell, who was fatally injured by a bomb explosion at Park Station on Waller Street. As the 1970’s ticked on, violence wasn’t strictly targeted at police. From the fall of 1973, through spring ’74, more than a dozen people were murdered in a racially motivated killing spree called the “Zebra” murders.

Jump to 1976: While then Mayor Joseph Alioto, whose time in City Hall is today remembered for BART and the Transamerica Pyramid, was negotiating an agreement with the police union to end a strike, a pipe bomb explodes outside his home. Though his wife was upstairs at the time, nobody was hurt. Meanwhile, Supervisors were targeted that year too. Quentin Kopp and John Barbagelata received candy box bombs in the mail, and Diane Feinstein was sent a bomb in a flower box. None of them exploded.

It’s clear the era’s boiling frustrations spilled into the hearts and minds of many a San Franciscans, but the steadiest source of violence welled within radical groups like the Black Liberation Army and the Symbionese Liberation Army. In the name of revolution, these groups usually targeted the most immediate and accessible symbol of the status quo they could find; the San Francisco Police Department.

An explanation of how the American political left of the 1970’s slid from idealism to terrorism is complicated, but not unlike the rise of Maximelien Robespierre and the Reign of Terror after the French Revolution. In both cases, the push for a more free and equal society was eventually hijacked by impatience and the egos of a charismatic few, and morphed into a push for violence.

One way to explain it, is to say that activist groups from the mid 1960’s, such as The Student Left and the Civil Rights Movement, were fractured; The Student Left over the Vietnam war and the Civil Rights Movement over a guiding philosophy and direction; either follow Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s nonviolent doctrine or admit that nonviolence can only go so far before confrontation with the power structure becomes a necessity.

By the late 1960’s and early 1970’s, the country was on edge. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X had been assassinated. Jim Crow had been eliminated, yet his shadow still hung over the American South, and elsewhere examples of social and economic inequality between blacks and whites were as obvious as ever. Student demonstrations continued on college campuses with new intensity, and on May 4, 1970, the Ohio Army National Guard fired on students at Kent State, killing four and wounding nine.

As a result, activist groups fractured further, giving rise to The Black Panther Party, which then split over clashing philosophies between leaders Huey Newton and Eldridge Cleaver, with Cleaver calling for a more militaristic and guerilla approach in order to unify the black communities, ultimately founding the Black Liberation Army. Meanwhile what began as the Student Left also began to adopt a more militaristic approach as a way of showing solidarity with their black brethren. By 1972, the year after the death of San Francisco Police Sergeant John Young, The Student Left had dissolved into groups like Venceremos, led by Bruce Franklin and the Revolutionary Union led by Bob Avakion, whereas the more militant sects of the Black Panther party calcified as Eldridge Cleaver’s Black Liberation Army and The Symbionese Liberation Army, led by an escapee from Soledad Prison named Donald DeFreeze.

While the battle continued to rage on the streets of San Francisco, police officers here were able to connect the .38 caliber revolver used to fire on Sergeant Kowalski that late night in the Mission, to the body of a New York City police officer named Waverley Jones, who was killed with his partner Joseph Piagentini in Harlem, on May 21, 1971.

From there, the SFPD connected Tony Bottom to a string of terrorism and attempted terrorism throughout San Francisco. Like on February 21, 1971: members of the Black Liberation Army placed a booby trap at the front door of a vacant house at 1674 Hudson Street and called police officers to the scene, but officers avoided the trap by entering the house through the back door. Or March 30, 1971: the BLA planted dynamite on top of the Mission Police station, but a defective fuse kept the sticks from igniting. And August 25, 1971: BLA members stood on the grounds of the Horace Mann Middle School near 23rd and Mission Streets and pointed a .66 MM anti-tank gun, which looks like a cannon small enough to take on a cable car, at the Mission Police Station. Like so many other attempts by the BLA, this too failed, because BLA members didn’t know how to fire the weapon.

One attempt that did work however was the bombing of St. Brendan’s Church, on October 20, 1970. Bottom apparently told police officers that he and other members of the BLA placed a bomb in the shrubbery near the churches front entrance. On that day, a funeral was being held for Officer Harold Hamilton, who was killed in the line of duty after responding to a bank robbery at a Wells Fargo at Seventh and Clement Streets.

St. Brendan’s Church was built in 1929, in the California mission style. Its bell tower is just tall enough to tickle the fog blown in from the nearby ocean, like the outstretched arm of a child reaching to touch his mother’s necklace dangling above him. As guests filed into the church down the concrete walkway, the bomb went off, and the explosion’s blast twisted their bodies like spinning tops. Dirt and rocks leaped up into the morning’s fog. An iron guard over one of the church windows was easily splintered and broken, as if it were made of tooth picks. Nobody was killed, but several police officers were injured. After a bomb expert checked the scene the funeral continued as planned. Six badged officers of the San Francisco Police Department carried Harold Hamilton’s flag draped casket through the gray morning, passed his widow and three children, and into St. Brendan’s Church.

In 1971, a jury of four men and women found Tony Bottom and Albert Washington guilty of assault with a deadly weapon on a police officer, for their attack on Sergeant Kowalski, and they were sentenced to six years to life.

But New York City wasn’t satisfied. They wanted Bottom and Washington to stand trial for the murder of their officers, Jones and Piagentini. That wish came true. After sentencing in San Francisco, Bottom and Washington were put on a 747 at Oakland airport, and flown to New York City, where they found themselves again in court. On trial, not for assault, but murder.

And that is where this story here, the one you hold in your hands, ends. But it is not where the story of San Francisco’s unrest ends. By the end of the 1970’s, Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone were killed by Supervisor Dan White. In early October of this year, San Francisco Police arrested 22 people who hijacked the one year anniversary of Occupy Wall Street at California and Battery streets for vandalizing cars and a Starbucks. Just like the armed and bastardized groups that grew from the social movements of the mid 60’s, a more aggressive sect of Occupy is the result of frustrations at the thought of progress grown stale. But no one is considering that a revolution is judged as much by how it is done, as by the change it fosters.

Like Hemingway wrote at the end of “The Gambler, The Nun, and The Radio:” “Revolution is catharsis; an ecstasy which can only be prolonged by tyranny. The opiums are for before and for after.”