Ridge Cook
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"Blues were here when the world was born." JL Hooker @Ridge_Cook on other worlds or platforms.
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Joined July 2009
2/Before and during the deep Depression, US did not lose its optimism. Various World Fair offered an idea of what may be coming in World of Tomorrow or Cities of the Future displays.
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Good God, who else is going to do it?
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Hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving. Will be traveling tomorrow to be with extended family. Can't wait for the leftover Turkey sandwiches.
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"All actions flowing from Ms. Halligan’s defective appointment were unlawful exercises of executive power and are hereby set aside."
1/ Judge Cameron Currie dismisses the Comey prosecution because Lindsey Halligan was improperly appointed US Atty.
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Loved that Pete treated guitars as tools of expression, not things to be coddled and caressed. So against the ,then and now, common attitude.
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Replacing a crappy Fender HB on a MiM Strat with Epi Probuckers. Nice guitar with CTS pots and rosewood fretboard.
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Halligan fulfilled her assignment, get an indictment. That was page 1 and top story at Fox and in RW media. Even if dismissed with prejudice, that will be page 11 and 8th story in the broadcasts. And the indictment will be the only thing MAGA or Republicans care about.
After reading the government’s brief in the Comey case, I think the indictment is valid even if the grand jurors never actually saw the final version. Of course, there are still the other 11 (!) errors the judge identified in this case that could doom it before trial.  
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"That's why we had all the same think tanks that were writing Republican policy 20 years ago write our plan for governing now, but we also have included mass deportations as red meat for the base and more defense contracts for my friends in Silicon Valley."
.@VP JD Vance: "I do think that some of our folks in Congress — they want to go back to the Republican Party of 20 years ago. That Republican Party was a Republican Party that lost and it couldn't successfully govern the country."
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Absolutely agree. Lady Macbeth and the Calif Tech/Entertainment money mob stabbed him in the back because his policies were following the law by placing Americans above corporations. So he had to go. Pelosi was their tool just as much as Trump is.
👀"The Democratic Party lost its mind!" Pres. Biden's senior advisor Mike Donilon on Pres. Biden being pressured to drop out of the 2024 race: "I thought it was disloyal...an act of betrayal against the President...undemocratic...and...politically stupid." I spoke to Donilon
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Go to a local hardware store like this, with an old man who owns the place, and has done the same project a half dozen times. Do not go to Home Depot and expect some random employee in the latest in a long line of retail jobs to know the answers. Trust me on this.
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I'm intrigued by standing chimneys. Alone in fields or the forest. Houses gone. The ephemeral burned away leaving all that's important, the dream of hearth and home.
It’s always interesting to see these partial structures left behind from fires or other destruction. I always wonder what they looked like in their prime…
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"Dogtrot" cabin. From size of logs, later build (2nd growth?) not pioneer but before Civil War.
👀 If you came across this house in the woods, would you take a closer look or run the other way?
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It always amazes me how right-wing Catholics are able to blithly ignore the Pope, their church's longstanding social teachings, and the words of Jesus himself. Seriously, why don't they just become Protestant evangelicals?
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(RNS) — Those who hoped an American pope would be more supportive of unregulated capitalism will be very disappointed in Leo.
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Very interesting case being made that the year 1974 was the beginning of the trend leading to Trump & current GOP.
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Listening to- Yrs ago BBC 3 recorded all 9 symphonies of Beethoven with BBC Orchestra. It was available for download and I grabbed them. Interesting to listen in order or pick and choose. Heard 5th going to the hardware store today. Now the 9th.
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4/Turned the bass up to 10 and vol up to house shaking levels and sounded like a bass guitar/amp. Treble up to 10, very high. No distortion either. So yes, TL806/EVM 12L speaker/box combo can be close to a 4x12 cabinet in performance. End.
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3/Results-Electro-Voice claimed that the small cabinet design would be comparable to a large 4 speaker cabinet in performance. Is it? Bass & treble response was like that of a larger cab at volume.
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2/Now the real test would be with a high powered amp? For this I used my Fender Quad Reverb head (essentially a Twin Amp head) rated at a nominal 100 watts. Since it is 4 ohms out I used a Weber Z-Matcher to convert to 8 ohms of the EVM.
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🧵Guitar stuff-TL806/EVM 12L high powered test results 1/As I have posted, got a speaker cabinet designed specifically for a EVM 12L guitar speaker. Tested with low to medium powered modified Fender Blues Jr Amp (a nominal loud 15 watts).
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He doesn't care. Think of the hundreds of thousands of American deaths he is responsible for. No empathy, which is a sign of mental illness.
The Trump administration’s dismantling of USAID has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. — The New Yorker
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Exactly right. But will the DNC break its addiction to useless DC consultants who want all the campaign spending filtered through them in a "one size fits all" strategy?
I agree 100% with @AdamSchiff .
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