mopinko
mopinko's Journalwell, i traced my connection to the great michael dwyer.
his brother patrick was my gggrandpa. i thought there would be more greats than that.
pretty cool. i have a little book here about his life. i will be digesting it shortly.
here's a song about him.
well hell. woke to the news that a dear old friend is in hospice now.
his wife sent me a fb pm. i knew he was battling cancer, but he didnt talk about it much and last we talked he was optimistic.
he was my best friend's big brother by 10 yrs. he told me a story about my da that even my big sisters didnt know. and had pics from back in the day of the whole gang.
she was killed in a horrific accident long ago. he shared a pic of her great grandson a while back. spitting image of her.
he was the last of the 4 kids, and not that old. only in his 70's. there was another brother that was killed in ww2. i guess it's a good thing that neither of his folks are around to bury their last child. they outlived 3 of 4. i cant imagine.
this came on my local rocks station's hd channel. i was wtf?
soul and blues, mostly.
the familiar strains at the beginning had me thinkin, well, it's xmas eve. who knows.
then....
i just watched 'the trial of the chicago 7'
i know there have been a couple of threads about it already, but, well hell. i'm just sitting here stunned.
i was 14 when the riots happened. i lived in the burb at the end of the commuter line from chicago. my brother was already in the air force. my mom's best friend's son had been killed in the war. my best friend's brother was there. this wasnt a rich, bedroom burb. it was a blue collar small town. i knew no one who supported that war.
it hung over all the people i knew, my age, all the way up.
i've been proud to be a hippie since then, tho i wouldnt find weed for 2 more years. i thought this was my history and i knew it. i've protested. i've marched. i've organized. i've worked on campaigns. i thought i followed in their footsteps/
this is the first time i really looked at it, in all it's bloody gory, as an adult. in books, sure. conversations, talk. tv, radio, in person. and sure, i've seen the deer hunter, and full metal jacket, and i remember seeing cronkite report from the battle field.
i knew it was the cops that rioted, not the hippies.
but 2 hours of watching, first hand, this part of that story, the peace movement part? i never. i just never.
the 1st big gut punch was that i didnt realize fred hampton was killed DURING the trial. that the trigger for his assassination was his presence and his words in that courtroom.
i knew the cops killed fred, i just didnt know why.
the testimony from the undercover cops that infiltrated the group was both disgusting and irrelevant. to me, it made them look innocent. they had nothing on them. just their words. their opinions. that's it. i cant believe they were convicted on that.
and i knew the judge was nuts. but jesus. barking mad. it's hard to believe this shit happened in an american courtroom.
what i cant believe is that he gave vague orders to a couple of cops to- "deal w the defendant (bobby seals) as he should be dealt w" and a couple of cops took him into a side room and kicked his ass. i knew he had been shackled and gagged. but i didnt know about the beating, and i didnt know how easily the judge had made it happen.
tom hayden reading the names of the dead, instead of taking the judges blatant offer of leniency if he would just be a contrite, good boy, he read the names of the 4000+ people who he died in the war during the trial. well, shit. i was too awed to cry.
jesus. no wonder the rw has worked their asses off all these years to discredit those ppl in particular, but the whole generation, the whole antiwar movement, all these years.
because they were bad ass. because they threw everything they had at them, the surveillance, the infiltrators, the tear gas, the batons, the rifles pointed at them, and the full weight of the american justice system at them AND THEY DID NOT BEND.
i aint done shit, ya know that?
this question is so dumb, i cant find it on apple support- ipad.
so, i'm tryin to like this thing, but...
i dont know if i can live w/o the command key. like, no command z? i just cant.
also i get so much junk email, but i cant figure out how to delete them more than one at a time. w no keyboard up in that window, how do you select more than one? is there some kind of secret handshake?
also, is there a way to train the junk filter? some stuff i've deleted a dozen times and it still gets through. other stuff gets tagged junk even tho it is something i rarely get and likely never deleted. this was a thing i never got control of on my laptops, either.
i wouldnt care, but my icloud drive is full of mail. i dont want to dump it all, but it is piling up so fast.
sgt pepper like you've never seen it before.
so, half my life ago i worked in a pub, owned by an irish guy. not rly an irish pub. a show lounge.
the bands that played there not only had solid musical talent, they had great stagecraft.
this bunch was the best at that. it was 5 piece back then, 3 here, and this guy does a solo show now.
one of the funniest ppl i ever met. his dad was a stand up comedian, and had a dog act.
the family had a tumbling act that did the bozo show quite a few times.
dude used to do hand springs and cartwheels and play 2 saxes at the same time.
anyway, enjoy.
well, here's some sketchy shit.
so, one seller on ebay has a bunch of what have to be phony wedgwood rings.
i mean, rly? they put the figure crossways?
https://www.ebay.com/itm/OLD-STORE-STOCK-STERLING-SILVER-JASPERWARE-HORSE-EQUESTRIAN-CAMEO-OVAL-RING/291725879939?hash=item43ec37aa83:g:KfMAAOSwnTJW~ftH
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seller has a bunch of other kitchy items like this of obvious low quality.
should i report them?
can anyone recommend a good identity protection service?
i've been hacked hard. details here-
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10965188#post21
i didnt think my info was being used, but when i finally got into my bank accounts, seems someone is using my paypal to drain my accounts.
paypal was the first place that i got locked out so hard that even tech support couldnt get my back in. so, i havent used it in months.
my new bank account, which i never linked to paypal had 13 transactions, totaling almost $3k.
they reversed it all, but...
my old account, which is, got bit less hard, but the bank has caught on and started reversing them. i'll have to call them today. but damn.
so, lord knows what else they are doing in my name out there.
so, who is the best? i'm not a very trusting person, so putting stuff like this in someone's hands, knowing what an unscrupulous person could do w it, well, ugh.
about those kilts.
so, someone on fb asked why they wear kilts.
my reply- i dont know, but every time i hear about it, i think of this-
ppl. please dont post rawstory links.
i wont click them. many here wont.
the place is full of malware. but worse, it rips of the writers and the publications.
just click through to the original article, and post that.
please.
eta- it's not the malware i hate. it's the rip off of the writers and the original publishers.
it's flat out stealing.
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