A Musical Review and a few
The Loser continues to lose Dept:
”In a 46-page ruling issued in Thursday, U.S. District Court Judge Donald Middlebrooks hit out at attempts by Habba and Trump to use the courts to target dozens of defendants who the former president claimed conspired to damage his chances of winning the 2016 election by pushing his campaign's alleged ties to Russia.
Middlebrooks sanctioned the pair for their abuse of the judicial process, ordering them jointly to pay nearly $938,000 in legal costs for the 31 defendants which include the Democratic National Committee, Hillary Clinton, and former FBI director James Comey.
In his scathing ruling, Middlebrooks said that the dozens of lawsuits were part of a "continuing pattern of misuse of the courts" by Trump and his lawyers, and that the defendants in each suit were "needlessly harmed in order to dishonestly advance a political narrative."
Middlebrooks questioned why Habba would go ahead and work in these cases knowing they have no legal standing.
"This case should never have been brought. Its inadequacy as a legal claim was evident from the start," Middlebrooks said.
"No reasonable lawyer would have filed it. Intended for a political purpose, none of the counts of the amended complaint stated a cognizable legal claim."
A decorated general, a president’s most knowledgeable military adviser, the Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, weighs in on critical race theory and being woke.
The theocracy that some consider a state honors traitors and slavers but not that terrible guy, Abe Lincoln.
Note that for the President’s Day holiday, they eliminated Lincoln and substituted Jefferson whose birthdate is in April. Also the Rosa Park’s Day isn’t a day-off-from-work holiday, so it’s more of a reminder to ‘celebrate how you want to if you want to.’
Because several great musicians have died recently, this’ll be a tribute to a couple of them. First guitar maestro Jeff Beck, playing with Lizzie Ball (violin) and Tal Wilkenfeld (bass guitar). Beck was 78.
This bluesy number makes it clear he still had it all going 2 months ago (Nov 9). His last gig was Nov 12 in Las Vegas.
And David Crosby passed at 81 yesterday. This was when he was 68, with Steven Stills and Bonnie Raitt.
And here he is when the CS&N harmonies were at peak.
David, Graham Nash and David Gilmour
Now enjoy a much newer group, the multi-talented Walk Off The Earth doing a great cover of a Cee Lo hit.
One more for the road:
Volume is at bottom right corner on the Instagram screen: these two guys are finger whizzes. After one turn each, it loops, so you only watch twice if you wanna.