patrick.net

Speaking of bass players, and since Jean-Luc Ponty was mentioned, listen to Ralphe Armstrong on the JLP record "Cosmic Messenger from 1978. Play track 1 first for some really melodic bass playing, then go to track 8 ,and at 33:50 to 35:05 there is one of the grooviest bass solos in the history of mankind. I saw this live in 1978 and will never forget. As good as on the album, the whole concert. Just incredible musicians and incredible musicality.

www.youtube.com/embed/ePMhJio8zT4

You are going to need some good speakers or headphones here. Lots of deep bass. I hope youtube does it justice, I was not able to check on my good setup.

"FACT: the federal workforce increased under obama.

whether or not you want to interpret spicer's comments of "recent" and "dramatic" as misleading (and intentionally misleading at that) is up to you, but it is certainly not worthy of a sensational press covering the issue (especially crowd size) while screeching "LIE!!!!!" while not even paying any attention to the race-baiting headline that had fired up spicer so much in the first place"

You've posted nothing to back that statement up. Your chart is too broad to tell. The only thing that can be said for sure is that there has been NO recent dramatic increase in government employees. That is a fact

You can try to spin it all you want, but it was just another example of Spicer lying. And lying about something so easily checked that you have to wonder about his motives.

landtof says

you are the worst troll on this board. no link, no chart, no nothing. just a bunch of dickbaggery. at least tim aurora posted a link.

You need a chart or link to know what the federal governments fiscal year is and when the budgets are done? Actually the more relevant question is whether or not you know that governments operate on a budget and hiring is done within that budget? It appears not.

If you are too dumb to look at the already posted chart and mentally overlay the fiscal years onto it then no amount of links or charts is going to help you. The FACT is the increase in federal employees happened in Bush's last 2 budgets.

Where is the Forbes article about how it's because of Trump?

They had no problem blaming him for even the tiniest slide...

APOCALYPSEFUCK_is_ADORABLE says

The diagnosis is in: Narcissistic Personality Disorder.

If you are against gun control, and then pardon drug dealers that had guns in their possession - you might be corrupt.

If you claim to support low income folks in the cities, and for 8 year do nothing to help the guns/drugs/violence - you might be a selfish Narcissist.

If you normalize relations with Cuba and Iran, and provide no requirement of equal rights of the citizens, but yet support Marches for Women in the US - you might have redfined the concept of bigotry.

Entitlemented says

against gun control

Correct: for gun control

So all of the Dudes are going to continue with the with circle jerk bachelor party even though the Whore got arrested on the way to the Gig.

bob2356 says

happened in Bush's last 2 budgets.

16 years later, it's ALL BUSH'S FAULT!!!!

"16 years later, it's ALL BUSH'S FAULT!!!!"

No, of course not. Nothing is Bush's fault.

https://twitter.com/potus

I bet Trump is quite aware that Forbes and the rest of the old media will be quick to blame him for random fluctuations in stocks, but will never give him the slightest credit.

How long can the press be 100% negative on Trump all day long no matter what happens or what he does? Don't they see that it undermines their credibility?

Just as a matter of strategy, the should at least give the pretense of being even handed now and then. It would make their criticism more effective, rather than look like insecure and bitter bleating.

Have you ever been to the DC national mall area when it's full of people? I have. There are so many fucking people everywhere it does look like there are millions of people there. Actual number might actually only be 100,000, and who the fuck knows, there is no way of counting.

"Have you ever been to the DC national mall area when it's full of people? I have. There are so many fucking people everywhere it does look like there are millions of people there. Actual number might actually only be 100,000, and who the fuck knows, there is no way of counting."

Here's a tip for you--just because you can't come up with an answer, doesn't mean solutions don't exist. There are ways of counting.

Speaking of lies.
http://www.breitbart.com/video/2017/01/25/abcs-nightline-issues-correction-after-misrepresenting-fleischer-to-make-him-seem-more-critical-of-spicer/

When a globalist like Ari Fleischer has to call out the MSM on some outright editing lies, you know they've lost all credibility. Yet these same dishonest reporters are the sources you give that Trump is always lying. Hmm.

For CIC;

www.youtube.com/embed/BUZaPCLJA3c

Iron--

Google--"how to estimate crowd size". There are several sources for you to peruse.

http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2017/01/24/michigan-man-whose-drug-sentence-commuted-by-obama-is-shot-dead/
On less of these thugs to worry about:
Michigan Man Whose Drug Sentence Commuted By Obama Is Shot Dead

A man whose drug-related prison sentence was commuted in November by President Barack Obama has been fatally shot at a federal halfway house in Michigan after two men with assault-style rifles sought him out, police said.

Two men wearing masks went into Bannum Place in Saginaw on Monday night with plans to kill 31-year-old Damarlon Thomas, a former Saginaw gang member. Lt. David Kaiser said Thomas was shot several times by one of the men as some of the roughly two dozen people at the home were held at gunpoint.

“One person watched over a group of them while another subject located the victim and executed him,” Kaiser told The Saginaw News. “They were looking for this person.”

Thomas was pronounced dead at the scene, WSGW-AM reported. No one else was injured and no one was immediately taken into custody.

“This was a very targeted individual, for whatever reason,” said Kaiser. “The people that shot this man knew who they were looking for and wanted him deceased.”

It's called viewing a different angle. You can't see the open space because you're looking almost directly horizontally at it, rather than from above.

joeyjojojunior says

There are ways of counting.

Not accurate ones. It's still always only a guestimate.

"The left is throwing a fit"??

That's hilarious. It wasn't "the left" that devoted an entire news conference to disputing the numbers that were put out. It wasn't the left that went on all the Sunday morning shows to continue the nonsense and coin a new term "alternative facts".

Try looking in a mirror.

If Trump is getting so much credit for the recent small stock gains, I'm assuming you must be a HUGE Obama fan. Look at the S&P under his 8 years.

Trump only needs a brick for every 5 lies he tells and the wall will be done by Easter.

landtof says

bob2356 says

happened in Bush's last 2 budgets.

16 years later, it's ALL BUSH'S FAULT!!!!

Bush left office 16 years ago? You learn something new every day on patnet.

Math wasn't your strongest subject was it?

Nothing special going on here.
The market only goes up,like real estate.
It's Happy Days from now on.
PROOF?
No market or economy has ever seen any negative figures much
less experienced a collapse.
No one has ever lost a dime,because they are brilliant investors but they don't have to be
because they can't ever lose.
Loss could never happen.
The tech bubble never happened. 2008 recession never happened.
The 1929 Depression never happened. Anyone saying anything different is spreading FAKE NEWS.
All investors know this.

A third of Californians support Calexit and withdrawing from the union. The other two thirds are American citizens.

Wow, I never thought ANYBODY remembered Brian Auger and Oblivion Express. That's my favorite band name. Have 6 LPs.

"Bumpin' on Sunset" is another good one.

Heraclitusstudent says

Are you kidding? All this would be recreated in an instant by the bureaucrats in Sacramento. With new found depth in zeal and assholeness.

If we're being even remotely serious, then we need to examine what happened the last time states tried to secede. If California was able to fight off the feds and win our states independence, I don't think any fed cronies would be left in Sactown. And if any were stupid enough to stick around, they would quickly find that the type of people capable of fighting for freedom also love defenestration.

Ironman says

Really think so???

See above reply, specifically as it relates to defenestration.

Quigley says

Now we have a servant of the people.

I see only a servant of his own ego, trying to play a game he knows nothing about.

Our allies are distancing themselves. Russia and China are delighted to fill that void. Watch for stories on country relationships to come in the next months. It's about to get ugly. "America first" is the position of a toddler with no patience, sense of community, or manners.

joeyjojojunior says

Trump only needs a brick for every 5 lies he tells and the wall will be done by Easter.

I just gave you a standing ovation, in the rain, but magically the clouds parted to bless us both. I think 1.5 million people saw it.

NuttBoxer says

defenestration

That is a great word.

I don't where you get the idea that the current denizens of Sactown have any inclination of releasing their parasitic grip?

https://www.eff.org/issues/tpp

Clearly the Nations' premier Electronic privacy and consumer rights organization has massive problems just one section of the TPP.

BOOM!
Continually increasing numbers under trump.
Can he grow the market as fast as he's growing the Natl.Debt?
http://www.usdebtclock.org/#

zzyzzx says

Not accurate ones. It's still always only a guestimate.

It happens to be the same guesstimate used at all recent inaugurations ... along with subway ridership and other ancillary measures ... we know turnout wasn't bigly.

Meanwhile, park services twitter accounts (now two of them) have had tweets scrubbed off them for climate science facts and crowd size facts.

As Teddy Roosevelt said:
"Free speech, exercised both individually and through a free press, is a necessity in any country where the people are free." 5/7/1918

indigenous says

I don't where you get the idea that the current denizens of Sactown have any inclination of releasing their parasitic grip?

They definitely do not. But it stands to reason that if California has enough freedom minded citizens to win state independence, they have more than enough to throw a few parasites off the capitol dome.

How can trump stop communism
when no one knows how many Republicans
are sucking the big govt. SOCIALIST teat or using the tax payer
supported infrastructure?
Which THEY DIDN'T BUILD!

bob2356 says

Bush left office 16 years ago? You learn something new every day on patnet.

Did I say Bush left office 16 years ago? By my recollection the blame began on day one...

landtof says

bob2356 says

Bush left office 16 years ago? You learn something new every day on patnet.

Did I say Bush left office 16 years ago? By my recollection the blame began on day one...

Bush wrote a budget that expanded the size of the federal government on day one? I never knew that. Learning more and more on this thread. Any idea why he did not use it until year 7?

NuttBoxer says

they have more than enough to throw a few parasites off the capitol dome.

Save some of that defenestration for me Clark