#clarence mcdonald

[asmuchasidliketo]

[m4dh4dcartoons-arg]

Hliii!

Name: July(Juliet) - but also call me Winny!!💚

Age: 24 yr old

Argentina🇦🇷 - Asexual 💜 - NonbinaryGirl🧡💛🧡 - ♈ - Christian - Fictosexual and Romántic💜 - Selfshipping - Multifandom - Artist - cartoonist traditional and digital - Cartoons 90s Style - Cartoons Fascination - My Ocs my Babis - Cosplayer.

Gnarly Skypleg My BF My Love💛💍💕💚🫶

My interests and fandoms:

Bluey - Smiling Friends/Frowning Friends - ATHF - Kiff - Kick Buttowski - Regular Show - Unikitty - Clarence - Rock, Paper, Scissors - Uncle Grandpa - Hanna Barbera - Gravitty Falls - TAWOG - Superjail - The Oblongs - Jellystone - Star Trek - Tim Burton movies - webseries - Nostalgicore - Frutic aero - 2000s era - 90s era - Emo Style -Gothic Style - Punk 70s, 90s Style - Vintage Style - Electro Pop - Soft Rock - Disco Music - Euro electo - McDonald's toys - 90s/2000s Retro collectible toys - Playmobil's

I also have my commissions open if anyone is interested. For my country Argentina as for the American public!! It's just that I have it very abandoned :'3

Have a good day/Que tengas un bello día bai bai�� :3

[cynsualc829]

The Cool Jazz Café and the 4th of July weekend continues showcasing a combination of classic RnB favs and today's Hottest Smooth Jazz. Today's show is a Rebroadcast coming to you via the Verde Canyon Railroad in Clarksdale, Arizona. Please join us as host Dave Oz serves us those flavorsome grooves. Today at 3pm - 5pm EST, 2pm - 4pm CST, 12pm - 2pm PST, 8pm - 10pm UK time.

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The Cool Playlist 😎

HOUR I

Movin' and Shakin' /@Vincent Ingala, No Lie (feat. Michael McDonald) / Lalah Hathaway, Take It Uptown (ft. Jason Jackson) / Gino Rosaria :: The Pianist, Telegram / D.S. Wilson, Still In Love / Marc Antoine, Slip Away / Clarence Carter, Goin' Up Yonder / Skinny Hightower, Que Mas Da (ft. Michael Lington) / José Antonio Rodríguez, Fool On The Hill / Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66, Morning Kisses / Rohan Reid Music, Moonlight Drive / Paula Atherton, You Show Me (ft. Najee Ali) / Tommy Davidson, Blu Girl / Soul Ballet, Sailing / Shawn Kingsberry

HOUR II

Gonna Be Alright / Four80EastFour80East, Big Sur / Charles Langford, Kiss From a Rose (Alternate Version) / Seal, Cool Summer (ft. Chieli Minucci) / Special EFX featuring Chieli Minucci, Happy (From Despicable Me 2) / Pharrell Williams, Dream Maker / Will Donato, Note of Levity / Will Compton, Kiss from a Rose / Debbie Spring, When God's In The Music / Abe LaMarca, Sandcastles 2.0 / Brian Culbertson, Ascending (ft. Richard Brookins) / Greg Minnick, Vibe / Thasaint, Hello Dolly! / Louis Armstrong, Fantasy / Kersten Stevens

[kwebtv]

Clarence Darnell Gilyard Jr.  (December 24, 1955 – November 28, 2022)  University professor, actor, and author. As a performer, he appeared in film, television, and stage productions, sometimes credited as Clarence A. Gilyard.

Gilyard was known for his roles as second private investigator and right-hand man Conrad McMasters to Ben Matlock (played by Andy Griffith) on the legal drama series Matlock from 1989 to 1993 and Cordell Walker's (played by Chuck Norris) Texas Ranger partner, James "Jimmy" Trivette, in the 1990s crime drama Walker, Texas Ranger. 

As a character actor, Gilyard made guest appearances on TV shows such as Diff'rent Strokes, The Facts of Life, 227, Simon & Simon, and Riptide. In 1982–1983, Gilyard was cast in the final season of the NBC TV series CHiPs as Officer Benjamin Webster, opposite Erik Estrada. He co-starred with Jim Carrey in the 1984 NBC sitcom The Duck Factory. He appeared in a commercial for McDonald's in 1987.

Gilyard was an associate professor in the College of Fine Arts – Department of Theatre at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

[adelleandlaura4ever]

Lovely Day !

When I wake up in the morning, love

And the sunlight hurts my eyes

And something without warning, love

Bears heavy on my mind

.

Then I look at you

And the world's alright with me

Just one look at you

And I know it's gonna be

A lovely day (lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

(Lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

A lovely day (lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

(Lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

.

When the day that lies ahead of me

Seems impossible to face

When someone else instead of me

Always seems to know the way

.

Then I look at you

And the world's alright with me

Just one look at you

And I know it's gonna be

A lovely day (lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

(Lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

A lovely day (lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

(Lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

.

When the day that lies ahead of me

Seems impossible to face

And when someone else instead of me

Always seems to know the way

.

Then I look at you

And the world's alright with me

Just one look at you

And I know it's gonna be

A lovely day (lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

(Lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

A lovely day (lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

(Lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

(Lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

(Lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

.

A lovely day (lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

(Lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

A lovely day (lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

(Lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

A lovely day (lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

(Lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

A lovely day (lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

(Lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

(Lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

(Lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

Songwriters: Bill Withers / Clarence Kermit Mcdonald / Skip Scarborough

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Laura,

My days are always Lovely,

with you in my life!

They are full of love and adventure,

Happiness and fun!

All it takes is the look in Your eyes

and the love in your heart.

I love you deeply, Laura ❤️❤️❤️

@dreamiingofher

@adelleandlaura4ever

[lboogie1906]

Clarence Darnell Gilyard Jr. (December 24, 1955 – November 28, 2022) was a university professor, actor, and author. As a performer, he appeared in film, television, and stage productions. He was known for his roles in Matlock, the Left Behind movie trilogy, Walker, Texas Ranger; Theo, Die Hard; and Top Gun. He was born into a military family in Moses Lake, Washington, the son of Barbara and Clarence Darnell Gilyard Sr., an Air Force officer. His family was from New Orleans, but he grew up on Air Force bases in Hawaii, Texas, and Florida. He spent a year as an Air Force Academy cadet before leaving the service to attend Sterling College. He played football and became a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity. He received a tennis scholarship, and he attended California State University, Long Beach, majoring in acting. He completed his BA at California State University, Dominguez Hills. He returned to school, receiving an MFA in theatre performance at Southern Methodist University. He made guest appearances on Diff'rent Strokes, The Facts of Life, 227, Simon & Simon, and Riptide. He was cast in the final season of CHiPs as Officer Benjamin Webster. He co-starred in The Duck Factory. He appeared in a commercial for McDonald's. His movie was as an F-14 Tomcat radar intercept officer, LT. (JG) Marcus "Sundown" Williams, in Top Gun. He was a military man in The Karate Kid Part II. He appeared in Die Hard as Theo. He appeared as Reverend Bruce Barnes in Left Behind: The Movie and its sequel, Left Behind II: Tribulation Force. He appeared in A Matter of Faith. He performed the role of Hoak Colburn onstage at the University of New Mexico's Popejoy Hall in the Neil Simon Festival's Driving Miss Daisy. In the 2018 edition of the football video game Madden NFL, he plays high school coach Devin Wade in the "Longshot" section of the game. He reprised his role as criminal gang member Theo from Die Hard, in a commercial for Advance Auto Parts' DieHard brand of car batteries. He was an associate professor in the College of Fine Arts – Department of Theatre at UNLV. He married Catherine Dutko; married Elena Castillo (2001 -). He had six children. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence https://www.instagram.com/p/Cmjmqnirqyu/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[cksmart-world]

SMART BOMB

The Completely Unnecessary News Analysis

By Christopher Smart

September 4, 2024

THE MOOCH: MELANIA WANTS KAMALA TO WIN

Nobody wants Kamala Harris to win the November election more than Melania Trump, the wife of Donald J. Trump and former first lady. That according to Anthony Scaramucci, aka “The Mooch,” who served as Trump's White House director of communications for 11 days. Melania hates her husband and is not keen on four more years in the White House, he told Alex Marquardt on CNN’s The Situation Room. “I judge hatred of Donald Trump by the Melania standard,” Scaramucci said. Melania has been absent from Trump’s campaign events and his criminal and civil trials. During the Iowa caucuses, Trump critics posted “Melania Missing” posters with the caption: “Have you seen this woman? Where is our First Lady? Why is Donald Trump hiding her? We miss her. Please call 561-832-2600 if found.” During Trump's hush-money trial earlier this year, porn star Stormy Daniels (real name Stephanie Clifford) testified that she had a sexual encounter with Trump in 2006, one year after he married Melania. On “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” comedian Martin Short sympathized with the former first lady. “When she entered into this marriage, she had a certain expectation,” he said, “that the average life expectancy for an American male is 76.3 years old."

TIME ONCE AGAIN TO TAKE OUR LAND BACK — FROM OURSELVES

This could be it. After suing the United States time and again to take control of federal tracts, Utah may now have a chance to get control of our land. We're not screwing around this time, we're going straight to the U.S. Supreme Court to get control of 18 million acres of “unappropriated” land overseen by the BLM. This could be great 'cause then we could drill and mine and graze where we want without a bunch of bureaucrats insisting on all kinds of environmental studies. And screw the backpackers. Our god-given lands could be put to good use. Imagine McDonald's and Taco Bell at Arches. Those lands could be making us taxes. Some people say the state of Utah will spend millions and millions of dollars — again — tilting at windmills. It's true that the state does get 50 percent of revenues from extractive industries on BLM land. But that's not the point. This is a battle of ideology: Government closest to the people is best — except when Salt Lake City wants to do one those crazy things like keeping McMansions out of historic neighborhoods or when voters pass an initiative aimed at doing away with gerrymandering. We have a duty to our rightwing power brokers to grandstand for freedom from ourselves. And it won't be over till Clarence Thomas sings Bizet's “Toreador.”

SPENCER AND THE WAFFLE HOUSE

For years Spencer wouldn't eat waffles. No sir, he insisted on pancakes. His Uncle Gary taught him that pancakes are good. True, pancakes can be boring but boring is, in the end, less than it's cracked up to be — and no one is offended. Pancakes, that's the ticket. But then something came over Spencer and one day when no one was looking he snuck off to Waffle House and ordered a classic waffle with butter and syrup. Ordinarily ordering a waffle in secret isn't that big of a deal in Utah, unless you get caught. But Spencer snuck off to Waffle House again and again. He really started to waffle — people wondered if it's because this is an election year. Then one day Spencer just came out and ordered a sickeningly sweet chocolate chip waffle. Next he got a trans bathroom waffle; and then it was a DEI waffle. Before you knew it, he had — wait for it — a Donald waffle. People were perplexed that Spencer could waffle so much. He was once a nice farm boy who was into pancakes. And then one day, Spencer found himself at the hallowed Arlington Cemetery waffling with Donald over the graves of fallen soldiers, grinning like a skunk eating garlic waffles with two thumbs up. Some waffles are just sickening. They may seem good at the time but that doesn't mean they'll go down so well.

Post script — That's a wrap for another week of anxiety here at Smart Bomb where we keep track of the realignment of college football so you don't have to. Listen to this Wilson, the PAC 12 is now the PAC 2. The Big 12 now has 16 teams. The Big 10 has 18 teams, including USC and UCLA. Two other west coast teams, Cal and Stanford, are now in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). What's it all about? M-O-N-E-Y. Each team in the Southeastern Conference (SEC) — 16 teams — and Big 10 will earn $21 million in TV revenue this season. Each Big 12 team, including Utah and BYU, will make $31.7 million in TV revenue. Washington Post columnist George Will put it this way: “Big-time college football has shucked off the accumulated hypocrisies that have encrusted it and now stands before us with an agreeable lack of pretense: It is an unembarrassable money machine, nothing more.” Will Leitch of New York Magazine had this observation: “[I]n the long term, when you pattern yourself after the NFL... when you jettison the traditions and orthodoxies that made people fall in love with the sport in the first place, you stop being college football: You simply become Minor League NFL. And no one cares about minor league anything.”

Well Wilson, you and they guys in the band don't know a helluva lot about football. Sure, you went to the games in college but you just sat up in the bleachers smoking weed. That said, you've got to have something up your sleeve to celebrate the pigskin season that is upon us. So, wake up the band and take us on outa here:

Backfield in motion, yeah I'm gonna have to penalize you Backfield in motion, baby You know that's against the rules

Offside and holdin', yeah You ought a be ashamed of yourself baby Offsides and holdin', yeah

Holdin' on to someone else And I caught you with Backfield in motion, yeah I'm gonna have to penalize you Backfield in motion, baby You know that's against the rules

First down you start cheatin' on me

Second down, I was too blind to see

Third down, you know I love you so

Fourth down, baby I got to let you go 'Cause I caught you with your Backfield in motion, yeah I'm gonna have to penalize you Backfield in motion, baby You know that's against the rules

(Backfield In Motion — Melvin Hardin and Timothy McPherson)

[krispyweiss]

Book Review: “Spirit of the Century: Our Own Story” by the Blind Boys of Alabama with Preston Lauterbach

The complete and unvarnished story of the Blind Boys of Alabama is finally told in “Spirit of the Century: Our Own Story.”

The resulting 320 pages contain the fullest accounting of the poorly documented Blind Boys the world is likely to ever get, rectifying a fate befalling many black American artists. “Spirit” fills in all the gaps in membership, the lean years and the Blind Boys’ 1980s renaissance and other facts that even long-time followers would’ve been unlikely to know about before diving in to the book.

Written by the band with “The Chitlin’ Circuit” author Preston Lauterbach, “Spirit of the Century” covers the Blind Boys’ 1939 beginnings as the Happy Land Jubilee Singers at the Alabama Institute for the Negro Deaf and Blind through to the present day. Along the way, the gaping holes in the group’s story are plugged with solid research, plenty of archival and contemporary interviews and strong writing.

The Happy Lands, as Lauterbach refers to the early group, turned professional in 1944, leaving behind one Jimmy Carter, who was too young to hit the road, but would come back in the 1980s after a two-decade stint with the Blind Boys of Mississippi to form a “holy trinity” with co-founders George Scott and Clarence Fountain. Carter ultimately became the group’s third leader, after Velma Traylor and Fountain. He retained that title until his 2023 retirement and the passing of the reins to Rickie McKinnie.

In a move described as akin to Mick Jagger leaving the Rolling Stones to join the Beatles, Fountain decamped the Alabama Blind Boys in 1969 and temporarily hooked up with the hard-drinking Blind Boys of Mississippi. It was here Fountain and Carter first reconnected before the former, who had girlfriends scattered around the country and six children he denied in his will, eventually moved on to a star-crossed solo career that found him touring with horny conjoined twins and participating in a stolen-car ring with a con-man manager before rejoining his original group in the 1970s.

Fountain’s life, Lauterbach writes, was “a maze of complications that make Sophocles seem like Dr. Seuss.”

Carter eventually transferred from the Mississippi to the Alabama Blind Boys and, after the band starred in 1983’s “The Gospel at Colonus,” found mainstream success as the musical “made the Blind Boys of Alabama white-people famous.”

This led to working relationships with Lou Reed, Ben Harper, Peter Gabriel and others. The Blind Boys of Alabama picked up Grammy awards and sung for presidents but never lost their taste for their beloved “Mack Donald’s,” where they stopped on the way to perform for George W. Bush.

“So we go into the White House with a guy named Jimmy Carter and all the rest holding McDonald’s bags,” BBA’s manager is quoted as saying in the book.

Lauterbach told the story just in time. Carter, the last surviving original member of the group, is 92 and retired and while the Blind Boys of Alabama plan to continue on indefinitely, their original era is over. That’s all the more reason to give thanks to Lauterbach for uncovering one of music’s most-important sagas and for “Spirit of the Century,” easily the most-informative music biography of the past decade.

Grade card: “Spirit of the Century: Our Own Story” by the Blind Boys of Alabama with Preston Lauterbach - A

4/29/24

[adelleandlaura4ever]

Lovely Day!!

When I wake up in the morning, love

And the sunlight hurts my eyes

And something without warning, love

Bears heavy on my mind

.

Then I look at you

And the world's alright with me

Just one look at you

And I know it's gonna be

A lovely day (lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

(Lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

A lovely day (lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

(Lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

.

When the day that lies ahead of me

Seems impossible to face

When someone else instead of me

Always seems to know the way

.

Then I look at you

And the world's alright with me

Just one look at you

And I know it's gonna be

A lovely day (lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

(Lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

A lovely day (lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

(Lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

.

When the day that lies ahead of me

Seems impossible to face

And when someone else instead of me

Always seems to know the way

.

Then I look at you

And the world's alright with me

Just one look at you

And I know it's gonna be

A lovely day (lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

(Lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

A lovely day (lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

(Lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

(Lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

(Lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

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A lovely day (lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

(Lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

A lovely day (lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

(Lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

A lovely day (lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

(Lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

A lovely day (lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

(Lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

(Lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

(Lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

Songwriters: Bill Withers / Clarence Kermit Mcdonald / Skip Scarborough

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Laura,

My days are always Lovely,

with you in my life!

They are full of love and adventure,

Happiness and fun!

All it takes is the look in Your eyes

and the love in your heart.

I love you deeply, Laura ❤️❤️❤️

@dreamiingofher

@adelleandlaura4ever

[mochapanda]

i miss movies and shows about broke people. i miss watching spiderman struggle to unlock his broken piece of shit apartment door. gumball and darwin complaining about all their stuff being cheap off brand garbage. clarence and his friends eating knock off mcdonalds in a dirty as hell parking lot. mordecai and rigby not being able to buy cake mix for $1.50. not like oh woe is me i have no monies more like bro why tf is our blender just an egg beater duct taped to a mixing bowl. phoenix wright used to have a nokia with the batteries taped in place

[theyoungturks]

SHOCKING Update to Justice Clarence Thomas Story, Harlan Crow Paid Tuition For Thomas' Grandnephew | McDonald's Franchises Fined For UNBELIEVABLE Violations of Child Labor Laws | Iowa Senate Approves Insane Child Labor Bill | Louisiana Politicians Give Themselves A Raise Then Kill Minimum Wage Hike | Proud Boys Leader Found GUILTY of Sedition 230504__TA by The Young Turks

[eva-knits12]

Yes. Teflon Don has to go. Project 2025 is basically 1930's Germany. This man idolized Adolf Hitler and echoes his sentiments. In fact, Trump's name appears over 300 in Project 2025, and we won't have a DOJ anymore. Every field of government will be replaced by MAGA loyalists. This was drawn up by Trump, JD Vance, and Trump Loyalists.

If you're a woman, LGBTQIA, an immigrant, a Native American, or a POC, then you don't exist. America was founded on religious freedom, and illegal immigration, if you think about it. If you're a White Nationalist Christian-aka a white supremacist-and a biologically born cis gender male, then you have the right to vote. If you're a woman, you don't, The right to have access to abortion and have access to contraception and reproductive care has already been taken, thanks to Trump filling the Supreme Court with Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Cohen Barrett, Clarence Thomas (he was there since the Bush Administration, if anyone remembers the whole Anita Hill case), and has now been left to the states. Now, there's states that have a total ban or near total bans for abortions and access to reproductive care. If that's not scary enough, it gets better. The 19th Amendment will cease to exist. For POC, it's back to Jim Crowe laws. We're already seeing several versions of this in several states, but they are calling it voter suppression, which is scary enough.

Basically, Project 2025 is The Handmaid's Tale, 1984, Fahrenheit 451, and Brave New World, all combined into one 900+ document.

So, do you want a convicted felon who is running to AVOID going to prison or do you want a former prosecutor/DA who worked at McDonald's when she was attending college, who PUT people like the convicted felon in PRISON?

Vote for Kamala, vote blue down the ballot.

The Harris campaign released a statement full of Taylor Swift references after Donald Trump declared he hates her:

''Mr. Not-at-all Fine has spent this week working through his feelings, whining about his Champagne Problems, and spending exactly none of his time addressing the issues facing the American people. His rambling, yelling, and constant conspiracy theories have many asking if The Man is ''too emotional'' to be president. Call It What You Want, but it's Nothing New for the Smallest Man Who Ever Lived. […] Voters know All Too Well how dangerous Trump and his Project 2025 agenda will be if he wins. This November, we can make sure this is The Last Time we have to deal with his End Game of jacking up taxes on the middle class and ripping away American's freedoms.''

(September 15, 2024)

[adelleandlaura4ever]

Lovely Day!!

When I wake up in the morning, love

And the sunlight hurts my eyes

And something without warning, love

Bears heavy on my mind

.

Then I look at you

And the world's alright with me

Just one look at you

And I know it's gonna be

A lovely day (lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

(Lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

A lovely day (lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

(Lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

.

When the day that lies ahead of me

Seems impossible to face

When someone else instead of me

Always seems to know the way

.

Then I look at you

And the world's alright with me

Just one look at you

And I know it's gonna be

A lovely day (lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

(Lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

A lovely day (lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

(Lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

.

When the day that lies ahead of me

Seems impossible to face

And when someone else instead of me

Always seems to know the way

.

Then I look at you

And the world's alright with me

Just one look at you

And I know it's gonna be

A lovely day (lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

(Lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

A lovely day (lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

(Lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

(Lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

(Lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

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A lovely day (lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

(Lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

A lovely day (lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

(Lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

A lovely day (lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

(Lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

A lovely day (lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

(Lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

(Lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

(Lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

Songwriters: Bill Withers / Clarence Kermit Mcdonald / Skip Scarborough

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Laura,

My days are always Lovely,

with you in my life!

They are full of love and adventure,

Happiness and fun!

All it takes is the look in Your eyes

and the love in your heart.

I love you deeply, Laura ❤️❤️❤️

@adelleandlaura4ever

@dreamiingofher

[yasbxxgie]

Z.Z. Hill That Ain't The Way You Make Love Keep On Lovin' You (United Artists / Hill, 1975) (arrang. McKinley Jackson) (bass: Gordon Edwards, guitar: Ray Parker, Jr., keyboards: Clarence McDonald, percussion: Ollie Brown, & synthesizer: Clark Spangler) (prod. Lamont Dozier) (vocals: Dennis Perry, Edna Wright, Julia Tillman, Michael Gray, Shirley Jones, & Tyron Hunter) (writ. McKinley Jackson & Reginald Dozier)

Lately, I don't know Where you're coming from Now you're acting strange I tell the world You seem to change (What's wrong with you, now mama? Tell me What's wrong with you, girl?).

[tanadrin]

To the best of my recollection:

The important cases here are the Slaughter-House Cases from 1873, which held that the privileges and immunities clause only protected "federal" citizenship rights, as distinct from "state" citizenship rights, and thus gave states much more license to discriminate among their citizens, since they weren't bound by the Bill of Rights or similar constitutional provisions (which was consistent with Supreme Court decisions from across the 19th century, starting with Barron v Baltimore in 1833). Incorporation, the process of creating a body of decisions that did indeed hold the states to be bound by the individual protections enumerated in the Constitution, starts in 1925 with Gitlow v New York, which requires states to protect freedom of speech, and remains incomplete.

The Slaughter-House cases are a funny animal, because they're a case about zoning and the right of states to create monopolies--specifically, the state of Louisiana passed a law to force slaughterhouses near New Orleans to be moved further away from the city, and to centralize their operations, because New Orleans was having problems with contaminated drinking water and cholera outbreaks. Other states and cities had done similar things around the same time, but the city's butchers sued, and six cases made it to the Supreme Court, where they were consolidated into one. The argument of the plaintiffs was that this was an unfair limit n the right of butchers to practice their trade, and that their rights as United States citizens under the due process, privileges and immunities, and equal protection clauses were being infringed. The Supreme Court held that this was nonsense--not because Louisiana had a legitimate interest in protecting the health of the people of New Orleans, but because the Reconstruction Amendments were basically only meant to end slavery and protect former freed slaves, and interpreting the privileges and immunities clause according to its plain meaning would mean the Court had overly-broad license to strike down state laws that infringed on the rights of their citizens. It's kind of a weird argument--"this amendment, as we read it, might force us to act to protect citizens' rights, and we don't want to do that, so we're going to read it in another, narrower way."

And all of this in a case where I think the appropriate response is "in fact your rights as citizens are not being infringed, because (as Hugo Black pointed out), there's no constitutional right which protects against a state establishing a monopoly, or zoning rules." Which is what they seemed to think anyway! Notably the problems with this decision were not lost on the dissenting justices: Field said it reduced the P&I clause to "a vain and idle enactment," Bradley said that even under the majority's reading, the "rights of citizens of the United States" should be interpreted much more broadly, and Swayne pointed out that Miller's reading of what the Reconstruction Amendments had been "meant" to do was flagrantly incorrect--these amendments had been ratified only eight years earlier! It was quite possible to walk over to the U.S. Capitol and talk to the people who had been involved in their passage through Congress.

And yet the Slaughter-House cases have never been formally overturned--even though now most major constitutional rights have been incorporated against the states, this is largely using other bits of the constitution, like the due process clause. Notably, Clarence Thomas (in the extremely rare W for him) has occasionally talked in his opinions about how rights formerly incorporated through, say, the due process clause should be re-incorporated through the P&I clause--although one of these was a concurring opinion in McDonald v Chicago, which is based on DC v Heller, which involves a flagrant misreading of the right the 2nd amendment actually creates, so unfortunately even here things are a bit of a mess.

could you elaborate on that bit about the 14th amendment, if you don't mind?

So I heard this from @necarion so he can probably fill in more details.

But my understanding is that after the US Civil War, Congress wanted to do a bunch of stuff to protect civil rights and kill off Jim Crow racism style laws. And the explicit purpose of the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments were to say that Congress could make those laws.

So the fourteenth amendment says

No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. ... The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.

And then the fifteenth says

Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude— Section 2. The Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

And these are really explicit claims that Congress can protect civil rights and voting rights by passing laws.

But the Supreme Court was much more racist and southern conservative than Congress was. So when Congress actually passed those laws, the Supreme Court said they were overreaches and exceeded Congress's power under the Constitution. Despite them passing actual amendments to say "we have the power to pass these laws."

In the process, SCOTUS basically read the Privileges and Immunities Clause out of the Constitution entirely. Which is why in the 1960s the incorporation had to work through "substantive due process", which is another example "good policy through kinda bullshit reasoning". But they wouldn't have needed to do it that way if they hadn't sworn up and down that the actual clause intended to have that effect meant nothing.

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August 2nd 2020