Bunch of "Dry Powder" blew out of the US Capitol Building Today...saw some drifting by here in NC...

[KoKo]

Anyone else seen any of that powder that's been kept dry since 2000 floating by their way?

[mmonk]

1. It blew away.

No more need to fight, no powder. It's called bipartisanship. Republicans and the administration stick to what they are doing and the democrats join them.

[KoKo]

6. Time for Springsteen's Seeger Sessions on "Blown Away!"

My Oklahoma Home as Blown Away. It's a good one to listen to in this dark time.... BLOWN AWAY! Bruce in Dublin:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCjFQL2YQKo&feature=related

[Individualist]

2. Yeah, the talcum powder is falling like snow here.

And we're starting to hear that "secret plan" meme again.

[KoKo]

7. ooooo.....noooo... not the "secret plan." I thought that was ditched in '04...

oh well...it helps to have a back up,now that the "powder has blown." :eyes:

[KansDem]

3. I did, and I happen to have my camera with me...

At first I thought a semi filled with snuff overturned on the highway...

This was in N.E. Kansas.

[KoKo]

4. lo sad laughs... That's quite a pix....Thanks! Helps to have some "gallows humor"

about this. :D

[KansDem]

5. Well, as my dear departed mom used to say...

"You can lose a lot of things, but once you've lost you're sense of humor (gallows or otherwise), you've lost everything."

KansDem's Mom (1917-1991)

:hi:

[leftofthedial]

8. was it gun powder, anthrax, wig powder, or talcum?

[KoKo]

10. "Wig Powder".....You mean the "Founding Fathers" blowing their wigs in Heaven...?

Yes...I could see that. As they look down...blowing their wig powder might just be what they are doing with the shredding of the Constution...and more importantly the "Bill of Rights."

Someone posted on DU something about what John Adams would think as he looked down. I can't imagine the wrath of Thomas Jefferson...in this. Maybe that's why there are so many UFO Sightings lately.

Sad...but funny...the Wig Powder raining down... Well...maybe just silly...don't know.

[leftofthedial]

13. that's exactly what I meant.

[ForrestGump]

9. I think it was the crumbled remnants of

the Constitution.

[KoKo]

12. If that's an "Evis Avatar" then you will enjoy this...on this sad day...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnltkXDM22A

You Tube...Elvis and MLK..remix of "If I Can Dream of a Better Place." That has always inspired me when I get "really, really...down."

If it's not Elvis, but Joe Biden before being "plugged" then I apologize for my eyesight and linking to Elvis.

[FourScore]

14. Love that link. Thanks.

Yep lots of dry powder. And no fire.

[ForrestGump]

15. Yep, it's the Memphis Flash

Thanks for that youtube link -- I've never seen it before and it's very nicely done.

Elvis admired MLK and his shock over the assassination was further exacerbated by shame that it happened in Memphis. Elvis and MLK were both sons of the South who ran afoul of the color barrier and both helped change the status quo in the segregated South -- MLK most overtly and vigorously with purpose, of course, but Elvis' music and cultural impact (and looking at contemporary newspaper accounts, as well as archival film, shows just how much he was HATED by many of his own ethnicity in this country back in the '50s) contributed to the climate of change and a blurring of racial lines that was no less significant for his not actually intending to be a 'rebel' or an agent and catalyst for change, musical or otherwise.

Elvis admired MLK for his convictions but also for the sheer oratory power at his command, the performance skill and charisma that King had in no short supply (and that probably in some part echoed the fiery preachers of Elvis' youth that, in turn, undoubtedly helped shape Elvis' stage style) and that Elvis admired in anyone who had 'It.' Apparently Elvis set up a meeting with Dr King at some point but it fell through and the two never met...I think Elvis was in California (fittingly enough, with a gospel song -- "You'll Never Walk Alone" -- on the charts or about to hit them right about then) when MLK died and two months later he recorded "If I Can Dream."

That was a song the Colonel did not want Elvis to do, let alone close his TV special with, but Elvis committed himself to it like few other songs, recording it in a darkened studio, falling to his knees while singing it, and singing it to the point of exhaustion. After it was over, he listened to the playback over and over again, more than with any other song, and said he never again wanted to record a song that he didn't believe in.

Although Elvis downplayed the significance of the few overt social-commentary songs he sang (most of them around this 1968-1970 period), saying that he was "just an entertainer" and that he didn't "want for every song to have to have a message," there's no doubt that Elvis put everything he had into making sure that "If I Can Dream" got the message across. I think Dr King would have approved.

Here's another one that's similar in its emphasis of common humanity:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEMbs9Zej1s

[KoKo]

16. Thanks for that "background on Elvis" and the link..."Walk a Mile in My Shoes."

Thanks for that "background on Elvis" and the link... Makes one wonder if he'd lived longer...what he could have been ...morphing into the true voice of his complicated Southern Heritage...doesn't it.

Sad...:-(...but good stuff he left behind...for music.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

11. Powdered chicken shit is on the table.