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LudwigPastorius's JournalGuitar Pioneer Alan Holdsworth Dies
http://ultimateclassicrock.com/guitar-pioneer-allan-holdsworth-dies/?trackback=tsmclipProgressive rock and jazz fusion guitar pioneer Allan Holdsworth, who Eddie Van Halen called the best, in my book, has died of unknown causes at the age of 70.
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Holdsworth is so damned good that I cant cop anything. I cant understand what hes doing, Van Halen raved in 2008. Ive got to do this [does two-hand tapping], whereas hell do it with one hand.
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Upon hearing of his death, Holdsworths guitar playing peers were quick to sing his praises on social media, with Totos Steve Lukather saying he changed the game and Peter Frampton describing him as brilliant, unique. You can see many more testimonials below.
More here: http://ultimateclassicrock.com/guitar-pioneer-allan-holdsworth-dies/?trackback=tsmclip
What a shocker!! Trump lied about graduating first in his class at Wharton
Actually, it's not that shocking.
Actually, it's not shocking at all.
Trump, who graduated from Wharton in 1968, has also never challenged the fact that he "graduated first in his class," which various publishers and news agencies such as The New York Times have reported.
Penn records and Trumps classmates dispute this claim.
In 1968, The Daily Pennsylvanian published a list of the 56 students who were on the Wharton Deans List that year Trumps name is not among them.
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No honors, no Dean's list...
Read all about it here: http://www.thedp.com/article/2017/02/trump-academics-at-wharton
One month in, Trump on pace to play nearly double the number of rounds of golf that Obama played.
...which would normally elicit a hardy "who gives a shit" from me, but the bloated orange meat dirigible made such a big deal out of it during his campaign, and even promised voters that he "wouldn't have time" to hit the links if elected.
The numbers so far Trump - 6 rounds in a month Obama - 306 rounds in eight years
What a hypocritical, lying sack of excrement.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/20/politics/donald-trump-golfing-presidency/index.html?eref=mrss_igoogle_cnn
The BBC Compares Trump's Rhetoric to That of Stalin and Mao
Under Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, out-of-favour artists and politicians were designated enemies and many were sent to hard labour camps or killed. Others were stigmatised and denied access to education and employment.
And Chairman Mao, the leader of China who presided over the deaths of millions of people in a famine brought about by his Great Leap Forward, was also known to use the phrase against anyone who opposed him, with terrible consequences.
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Gabriel Sherman, national affairs editor at New York magazine, called the phrase a "chilling" example of "full-on dictator speak".
More here: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39015559
This article is going to irritate that giant, rancid circus peanut.
3 Weeks in: Trump Gives Bannon, Conway, Spicer, and Priebus a Raise...Illegally Hires More Advisors
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White House aides who earn nearly $180,000 more than the basic salary paid most House and Senate lawmakers include Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, Counselor Kellyanne Conway, Chief Strategist and Senior Counselor Stephen Bannon, and White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer.
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The president, whose staff structure is notable for competing power centers and opaque lines of authority, named at least 27 assistants to the president, according to a White House spokeswoman. After verifying a staff list with a Trump deputy, RealClearPolitics counted 28 senior advisers. Despite repeated questions over several weeks, White House aides did not iron out the discrepancy as of Thursday.
By law, the nations chief executive can appoint 25 senior advisers at the top federal pay scale set annually in the White House Office.
More here: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/02/10/trump_pays_top_west_wing_advisers_180000_133048.html
Watch POS GOP official get owned by his town hall participants for lying.
Then watch him call them "children".

Bush/Cheney's ethics lawyer on Trump's Nordstrom tweets: "misuse of public office" "abuse of power"
After Trump's highly unusual move to use a White House platform to intervene in a commercial matter involving his daughter, Nordstrom reiterated that its action last week was based on declining sales of the Ivanka Trump products. But White House spokesman Sean Spicer characterized the move as a "direct attack" on the president's policies.
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"This is misuse of public office for private gains," Richard Painter, who served as Republican President George W. Bush's chief ethics lawyer, said in an email to Reuters. "And it is abuse of power because the official message is clear - Nordstrom is persona non grata with the administration."
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Bush ethics lawyer Painter, who has been critical of Trump in the past, said Nordstrom could have cause for legal action if the Trump administration takes any adverse action against it.
More here: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-nordstrom-ivanka-trump-trump-idUSKBN15N1YN?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FtopNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Top+News%29
No President Should Have Absolute Authority to Launch Nuclear Weapons -Union of Concerned Scientists
A compelling argument, especially considering the nut job now occupying the Oval Office
At that point, Trump inherited a deeply flawed system: one that gives sole and absolute authority to the president to launch U.S. nuclear weapons - and puts extreme time pressure on him to make that decision.
During the presidential campaign, the public seemed shocked to learn that the U.S. president has the authority to decide - on his or her own, for whatever reason - to launch nuclear weapons, and that no one has the authority to veto that decision. There are military and political experts in advisory roles, but the final authority rests just with the president.
It's time to change that policy. The reasons behind it are now outdated.
More here: http://www.ucsusa.org/aggregator/sources/24#.WJupWRiZMo8
The Case for Rosie O'Donnell as SNL's Donald Trump
This churlish, troglodytic behavior is said to have followed him all the way to the White House. According to an Axios report, Trump demanded that the women who worked for him during the campaign dress like women, and after Melissa McCarthy skewered his press secretary Sean Spicer in a popular Saturday Night Live sketch, the president allegedly recoiled in horror.
More than being lampooned as a press secretary who makes up facts, it was Spicers portrayal by a woman that was most problematic in the presidents eyes, according to sources close to him, reported Politico, which added that the unflattering send-up by a female comedian did not bode well for Spicers longevity in the grueling, high-profile job.
News that a gender-swapped parody constituted the ultimate insult to Trump prompted comedy fans to reach out to Rosie ODonnell, the former reality-show hosts archnemesis, about portraying either President Trump or his chief strategist, Steve Bannon, on SNL.
I am here to serve, tweeted Rosie. I would need a few days to prepareso if calledI will be ready.
That, naturally, piqued the publics interest even more.
Much more here: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/02/08/the-case-for-rosie-o-donnell-as-snl-s-donald-trump.html
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Ryan, McConnell, and Trump
and Bannon, that fat Nazi chump
the law they will rend
and soon they will send
our Constitution to the dump
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