Tuesday, August 26, 2014
New Classic Rock Songs That I am Starting to Love
The list will be updated when I add more of my newest favorite songs........
"Child In Time" (Deep Purple)
"Foreplay/It's Been a Long Time" (Boston)
"Lazy" (Deep Purple)
"Life During Wartime" (The Talking Heads)
"Mona Lisa" (Sheila E.)
"Money For Nothing" (Dire Straits)
"Smokin'" (Boston)
"The Sultans of Swing" (Dire Straits)
"Welcome Back My Friends" (Emerson, Lake and Palmer)
Friday, August 22, 2014
My Notes from "A Solo Song For Doc" (by James Alan McPhearson)
PART A
He's 63, and in the Union; he knows the business well. The railroad business seems to be on its demise.
He build the railroad, as well as Sheik Beasley, Uncle T. Boone, and Danny Jacson.
The old school died with Doc Jer (Jerry Ewald was "the unexpected inspector"). He knows how to get people.
Doc was already a man. He had no skills and was Black. He wondered on December 25, 1916 into a dining car in Chicago to get to San Francisco.
Chips Magnusson on leads Doc into the waiter business. His real name (Doc) was Leroy Jackson.
The Sheik was impressed, but Doc is scorned by him for failing to pay tips for him.
PART B
He came from the war, but this was 1941. He says that being on the road is safer. He knows that the Polacks and redneck boys have gone to war.
The Depression still lingers, so everyone tries to rob someone. There were no company or work rules, so lots of stealing in the waiter's business.
Doc used the drink-bootlegged booze to the soldiers, and Casper and him were the best moneymakers.
The farm people in their towns hated Blacks.
No one wanted a stiff, swelty farm girl.
He remembers being in a bar in one racial town, and while he was getting a joint, he tried to get a team job. But he was spat upon and was refused.
Willie Joe is most feared by him for he started something bad with her girl.
He liked getting drunk with the boys at Andy's (bar) and not being married to some bad girl. But Doc knew how to handle women.
The war ended (1945), and the farm boys coming home did not want to spend money on the way.
Things turn different. Casper gets caught for a bad shock; new rules are now written.
They (the trains) are losing passengers due to the airplanes.
After the General J. Freed case, he starts a KKK group.
The Sheik was pulled off the train for stealing.
The union was established and the stealers stopped their acts.
They are warned about the rules, but they got seniority in return for rule following.
Doc turns 65 years old and drunk hard. He has now wife, relatives or even a hobby.
He warns Doc that there is a downsizing of employees on trains.
Freight trains are much more in demand. He warns Doc to get another job but the Doc refuses.
Doc might have been crippled by arthritis and a bad heart.
Trisdale was now the general superintendent.
It was determined that bad service will cause Doc to suffer the demise of his job.
The Commissary went out and sent spotters to detect Doc's bad service.
Boone tried to attack Doc for his good manners.
Boone said that Doc and such blacks like him lack humility for such jobs like these.
Then, the author tells to ignore Boone's harrassment.
PART C
Jerry Ewald got on in the next day after lunch, and Crusoe looks at Doc.
Doc handles the silver soup to Jerry as if a Jew talks handles a needle.
Jerry is impressed with Doc's good service.
Doc is warned about the new rule for proper iced tea services (on July 9, 1965)
Jerry warned Doc that he broke two rules already.
Doc refuses to give in to Jerry's request.
Jerry warns Doc that waiter work on trains will all be over.
No one said anything to Doc.
PART 4
Doc was forced to retire because of the rule book.
Doc got a good pension and took it to Andy's.
Doc died about 5 months later at 73, of severe frostbite and excessive drinking.
He's 63, and in the Union; he knows the business well. The railroad business seems to be on its demise.
He build the railroad, as well as Sheik Beasley, Uncle T. Boone, and Danny Jacson.
The old school died with Doc Jer (Jerry Ewald was "the unexpected inspector"). He knows how to get people.
Doc was already a man. He had no skills and was Black. He wondered on December 25, 1916 into a dining car in Chicago to get to San Francisco.
Chips Magnusson on leads Doc into the waiter business. His real name (Doc) was Leroy Jackson.
The Sheik was impressed, but Doc is scorned by him for failing to pay tips for him.
PART B
He came from the war, but this was 1941. He says that being on the road is safer. He knows that the Polacks and redneck boys have gone to war.
The Depression still lingers, so everyone tries to rob someone. There were no company or work rules, so lots of stealing in the waiter's business.
Doc used the drink-bootlegged booze to the soldiers, and Casper and him were the best moneymakers.
The farm people in their towns hated Blacks.
No one wanted a stiff, swelty farm girl.
He remembers being in a bar in one racial town, and while he was getting a joint, he tried to get a team job. But he was spat upon and was refused.
Willie Joe is most feared by him for he started something bad with her girl.
He liked getting drunk with the boys at Andy's (bar) and not being married to some bad girl. But Doc knew how to handle women.
The war ended (1945), and the farm boys coming home did not want to spend money on the way.
Things turn different. Casper gets caught for a bad shock; new rules are now written.
They (the trains) are losing passengers due to the airplanes.
After the General J. Freed case, he starts a KKK group.
The Sheik was pulled off the train for stealing.
The union was established and the stealers stopped their acts.
They are warned about the rules, but they got seniority in return for rule following.
Doc turns 65 years old and drunk hard. He has now wife, relatives or even a hobby.
He warns Doc that there is a downsizing of employees on trains.
Freight trains are much more in demand. He warns Doc to get another job but the Doc refuses.
Doc might have been crippled by arthritis and a bad heart.
Trisdale was now the general superintendent.
It was determined that bad service will cause Doc to suffer the demise of his job.
The Commissary went out and sent spotters to detect Doc's bad service.
Boone tried to attack Doc for his good manners.
Boone said that Doc and such blacks like him lack humility for such jobs like these.
Then, the author tells to ignore Boone's harrassment.
PART C
Jerry Ewald got on in the next day after lunch, and Crusoe looks at Doc.
Doc handles the silver soup to Jerry as if a Jew talks handles a needle.
Jerry is impressed with Doc's good service.
Doc is warned about the new rule for proper iced tea services (on July 9, 1965)
Jerry warned Doc that he broke two rules already.
Doc refuses to give in to Jerry's request.
Jerry warns Doc that waiter work on trains will all be over.
No one said anything to Doc.
PART 4
Doc was forced to retire because of the rule book.
Doc got a good pension and took it to Andy's.
Doc died about 5 months later at 73, of severe frostbite and excessive drinking.
Wednesday, August 20, 2014
The Decapitation of James Foley: What Can We Do Next in Regards to Iraq?
The best way to deal with this shocking death of Mr. Foley is for President Obama to back down on any further bombing action against ISIS militants in Iraq indefinitely. This is probably the only way that we can save face from this pretty awful news of the beheading of James Foley now, because I found out that ISIS captured another American and threatened to decapitate that American unless America stops bombing operations against ISIS militants.
I myself did not want to see the decapitation video myself because it was too scary. Youtube took that execution video down very quickly. Too scary for virtually anyone to see.
Most news companies regard the execution as extremely graphic and hence won't show it.
I did see something similar to the taken-down video in the movie "Fahrenheit 9-11", directed by Michael Moore, where in the middle of the movie, there is a scene where a condemned man is fatally butchered by a beheading in public in the town of Jeddah, in Saudi Arabia. The one executed was not James Foley, but a Saudi. But I was imagining being in James Foley shoes as I saw the executioner in the movie raise his long sword high over the victim's head, and then slash through the victim's head twice--the second attempt successfully slicing his head off. The results would not be pleasing for me. Nothing funny at all about it!!!
But what can we do? What can we do about what happened to James Foley?
It is so hard for me to figure out what would happen in this new Iraq that we are hearing about.
Before the first Iraq invasion, I thought things would be hunky-dory when Saddam Hussein was in power in Iraq. Then we hear about what he did to the Kurds in Iraq, and then, about 1992, the First Gulf War came. The war was successful and I thought everything in Iraq would be better again.
Then, in 2001, the 9-11 attacks happened to our country! President Bush orders another Second Gulf War because there were educated guesses that Al-Qaeda--the ruthless terrorist group led by Osama Bin Laden--may have been behind the attacks and probably such terrorists may have been in Iraq. Saddam was captured, convicted, and hanged after the war but America's eyes was on Public Enemy no. 1--Osama bin Laden.
Then, as the war ended, the price we paid was very heavy even after the official war was over. Iraqi insurgents got very mad and decided to do guerilla warfare on us!! The tricks were scary and this definitely smacks to what the Vietnam War was with guerilla warfare. Mechanical bobby traps and land mines were the guerrilla tactics in the Vietnam War--but in post-war Iraq, it is modernized through a new type of land mine---roadside bombs and improvised explosive devices. So with these scare tactics, America finally pulled its troops out of Iraq recently. But before the American troops were pulling out of Iraq, America got its most ruthless terrorist--Bin Laden--in a commando raid in his home in Pakistan by special forces--and then the special forces killed Bin Laden. I was thinking to myself, "Why did the special forces decide to not capture him, but kill him?" Well, that question is likely going to be unanswered for a very long time, because the exact names of the special forces soldiers in that mission to kill Bin Laden still generally remain top-secret.
Then, for reasons I still do not know about, a new terrorist group called ISIS made its presence in Iraq. Their tactics are almost like the Taliban--but because of the James Foley beheading, most likely they are a bit worse than the Taliban. All of the "shariat" laws that educated Islam people know are completely thrown out, and humanity is dropped to the lowest abyss, causing things like hostage-taking and post-kidnapping beheadings.
With that, James Foley will be missed, surely. There needs to be profound amends for this senseless execution, but retaliatory military action is not the answer at this time.
I myself did not want to see the decapitation video myself because it was too scary. Youtube took that execution video down very quickly. Too scary for virtually anyone to see.
Most news companies regard the execution as extremely graphic and hence won't show it.
I did see something similar to the taken-down video in the movie "Fahrenheit 9-11", directed by Michael Moore, where in the middle of the movie, there is a scene where a condemned man is fatally butchered by a beheading in public in the town of Jeddah, in Saudi Arabia. The one executed was not James Foley, but a Saudi. But I was imagining being in James Foley shoes as I saw the executioner in the movie raise his long sword high over the victim's head, and then slash through the victim's head twice--the second attempt successfully slicing his head off. The results would not be pleasing for me. Nothing funny at all about it!!!
But what can we do? What can we do about what happened to James Foley?
It is so hard for me to figure out what would happen in this new Iraq that we are hearing about.
Before the first Iraq invasion, I thought things would be hunky-dory when Saddam Hussein was in power in Iraq. Then we hear about what he did to the Kurds in Iraq, and then, about 1992, the First Gulf War came. The war was successful and I thought everything in Iraq would be better again.
Then, in 2001, the 9-11 attacks happened to our country! President Bush orders another Second Gulf War because there were educated guesses that Al-Qaeda--the ruthless terrorist group led by Osama Bin Laden--may have been behind the attacks and probably such terrorists may have been in Iraq. Saddam was captured, convicted, and hanged after the war but America's eyes was on Public Enemy no. 1--Osama bin Laden.
Then, as the war ended, the price we paid was very heavy even after the official war was over. Iraqi insurgents got very mad and decided to do guerilla warfare on us!! The tricks were scary and this definitely smacks to what the Vietnam War was with guerilla warfare. Mechanical bobby traps and land mines were the guerrilla tactics in the Vietnam War--but in post-war Iraq, it is modernized through a new type of land mine---roadside bombs and improvised explosive devices. So with these scare tactics, America finally pulled its troops out of Iraq recently. But before the American troops were pulling out of Iraq, America got its most ruthless terrorist--Bin Laden--in a commando raid in his home in Pakistan by special forces--and then the special forces killed Bin Laden. I was thinking to myself, "Why did the special forces decide to not capture him, but kill him?" Well, that question is likely going to be unanswered for a very long time, because the exact names of the special forces soldiers in that mission to kill Bin Laden still generally remain top-secret.
Then, for reasons I still do not know about, a new terrorist group called ISIS made its presence in Iraq. Their tactics are almost like the Taliban--but because of the James Foley beheading, most likely they are a bit worse than the Taliban. All of the "shariat" laws that educated Islam people know are completely thrown out, and humanity is dropped to the lowest abyss, causing things like hostage-taking and post-kidnapping beheadings.
With that, James Foley will be missed, surely. There needs to be profound amends for this senseless execution, but retaliatory military action is not the answer at this time.
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