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1. So, right on schedule and as Lando and I predicted Nancy Pelosi Speaker of the House) announces formal Impeachment Inquiry into President Trump.
WASHINGTON — Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced on Tuesday that the House would begin a formal impeachment inquiry of President Trump, saying that he had betrayed his oath of office and the nation’s security in seeking to enlist a foreign power for his own political gain.
“The actions taken to date by the president have seriously violated the Constitution,” she said after emerging from a meeting of House Democrats in the basement of the Capitol. Mr. Trump, she said, “must be held accountable — no one is above the law.”
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2. A Reckoning for Our Species..
( excerpt )
3. Greta Thurnberg's Full Speech to the UN regarding Climate Change
I decided to follow her on Twitter...and made the mistake of checking out the comments, then began as one guy suggested, blocking all the trollish ones -- fifteen minutes doing it.
People may not listen until they have no choice -- which means a cataclysmic event.
Which she's fighting to stop -- at 13 years of age.
4. The History of Celebrity
( excerpt )
5. Ken Burns' Country Music - Episode 7 : Would Hank Williams Do it That Way?
This isn't as good as last night's episode. But here's a nice clip of Dolly Parton singing the song she wrote -- to get across to Porter Waggoner (her duet partner, and manager) that she really needed to break ties with him. (Because he wouldn't listen to her or let her go, so she got desperate and wrote a song.)
Parton Singing I Will Always Love You to Porter Waggoner
Ironically it became her best-selling song.
ETA: Also goes in depth on Willie Nelsen, Waylon Jennings, Emmylou Harris, Marty Stuart, Hank Williams Jr., and Rosanne Cash -- including Ricky Skaggs, Gram Parsons, and others.
Found out things about Willie Nelson that I didn't know -- such as he more or less founded the Austin Music Scene, and started Austin City Limits, and that Waylon Jennings was the first to start his own production studio. And made the first platinum record.
WASHINGTON — Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced on Tuesday that the House would begin a formal impeachment inquiry of President Trump, saying that he had betrayed his oath of office and the nation’s security in seeking to enlist a foreign power for his own political gain.
“The actions taken to date by the president have seriously violated the Constitution,” she said after emerging from a meeting of House Democrats in the basement of the Capitol. Mr. Trump, she said, “must be held accountable — no one is above the law.”
( Read more... )
2. A Reckoning for Our Species..
( excerpt )
3. Greta Thurnberg's Full Speech to the UN regarding Climate Change
I decided to follow her on Twitter...and made the mistake of checking out the comments, then began as one guy suggested, blocking all the trollish ones -- fifteen minutes doing it.
People may not listen until they have no choice -- which means a cataclysmic event.
Which she's fighting to stop -- at 13 years of age.
4. The History of Celebrity
( excerpt )
5. Ken Burns' Country Music - Episode 7 : Would Hank Williams Do it That Way?
This isn't as good as last night's episode. But here's a nice clip of Dolly Parton singing the song she wrote -- to get across to Porter Waggoner (her duet partner, and manager) that she really needed to break ties with him. (Because he wouldn't listen to her or let her go, so she got desperate and wrote a song.)
Parton Singing I Will Always Love You to Porter Waggoner
Ironically it became her best-selling song.
ETA: Also goes in depth on Willie Nelsen, Waylon Jennings, Emmylou Harris, Marty Stuart, Hank Williams Jr., and Rosanne Cash -- including Ricky Skaggs, Gram Parsons, and others.
Found out things about Willie Nelson that I didn't know -- such as he more or less founded the Austin Music Scene, and started Austin City Limits, and that Waylon Jennings was the first to start his own production studio. And made the first platinum record.