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Life goes on! Thanks for sharing this. Good for your son and his friends.

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I really liked that...couldn't stop tapping my foot!

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Thank you Professor for posting this...it is uplifting and renewing to see young talented musicians...such as these.

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Great news thanks for sharing. He and they sound quite talented. Good to know someone else who writes here has signer songwriters about the house.

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Thanks for sharing your son's music. It's very good, stylistically, melodically and etc. Good dynamic variation, another one of my criteria for skilled muscianship. Good luck to him! As a longtime musician myself, I offer my congratulation to him and wish him good luck in this particularly unfortunate time for working musicians.

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Just what I needed! Thank you. You must be so happy for your son and friends. I'll pass it along. Thank you very much.

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Off topic I know, but its a current thread...What is the best book or article that catalogues the problems with US election integrity? What would you recommend, Mark? Thanks.

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If you focus only on material concerning the 2020 race, your knowledge will be incomplete, and also slanted by partisanship. For example 2000 Mules includes not one word on electronic voting or vote-counting, but does include the old canard about JFK stealing the 1960 election. (That there was Democratic theft in that race, in Cook County, Illinois, is quite true; but there was just as much Republican theft downstate and in DuPage County, which is why Nixon said nothing about it.)

The first book that everyone should read is Votescam, by Kenneth Collier and James Collier, published back in the early Nineties, about those two brothers' long and dangerous efforts to get the media to report their solid evidence of election fraud in Florida back in the early Seventies. From that book (which should be made into a movie) we learn the crucial lesson that it's NEITHER party that determines who "wins" and who "loses," but the CIA. (On the CIA's long history of "election work" worldwide, I recommend the Pike Report, but good luck finding a copy.)

On the theft of the 2000 election, there's an excellent collection of primary documents edited by Lance DeHaven-Smith. On 2004, there's my own Fooled Again, and Was the 2004 Election Stolen? by Steve Freeman & Joel Bleifuss, as well as Richard Hayes Phillip's meticulous audits of the ballots in Ohio. The best book on the threat posed by computerized voting and vote-counting is Code Red by Jonathan Simon. Another book I recommend is my own Loser Take All, a collection of essays on various races, put out in 2008 by IG Publishing.

As one who fully agrees that 2020 was stolen, I can't say that there's much out there that really does the subject justice, as it tends to be distorted by the tribalist conviction that ONLY Democrats have stolen votes, which is ridiculous. ANY party whose agenda has no real majority support MUST steal its way to power, which was just as true of the Republicans in 2000 and 2004 as it was (and still is) of the Democrats in 2020; and since they're just as warped as they were then, they're bound to steal still MORE elections, unless sane people on both sides FINALLY demand radical reform of the US voting system (which would actually be quite easy to accomplish).

That reminds me of an excellent analysis of the "voter fraud" presumably committed by the Democrats in past elections: Lorrie Minnite's The Myth of Voter Fraud. (I don't know what Lorrie would make of 2020.)

And, for a more detached work on the history of the franchise in America, I recommend Alexander Keyssar's The Right to Vote (which shies away from the issue of election _theft_, since, according to "our free press," that's all "conspiracy theory" (except for Putin's imaginary efforts to elect Trump in 2016).

I hope this is helpful. There are many good documentaries on the theft of elections past, but their titles are not in my mind right now.

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What a thoughtful reply. Thank you.

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Now worse, more blatant and obvious then ever. Many more people know and the Demonrats don’t even care to hide it.

At least the Republicans have some shame and try to hide it still.

😊

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I'd like help, please. Not a US citizen (Canadian) but tried to research Trump?

I came across a lengthy article that outlined Trump's very corrupt past. Unfortunately this article is long gone and done YEARS ago.

It seemed(?) without animus. It outlined a 17 YEAR business arrangement with Epstein using wanna be models, at Largo del Mar,

until 2004 when Trump '*crewed over' Epstein on a piece of real estate and Epstein sued, ending the relationship. Then I saw

his picture with Ghislane Maxwell, Prince Andrew, Epstein.

Then saw his involvement with Deutsche Bank.

Then, more recently, I read that no one would loan him money:

he didn't pay it back, found flaws, loopholes. So, the article said

Trump took out a personal loan, using his assets, which is

payable May, 2024. The writer wondered what would happen if he

defaulted.

I have no opinion on Trump, but I've seen him able to be a nasty piece of work. I've seen the opposite also.

Does anyone else know about this at all? Other articles said he was a liar, thousands of lies, some which were cataloged.

I also definitely believe the election was stolen because Joe Biden said so, and nobody listened.

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Young one, first understand the Canadian gov and the US gov turn out propaganda hourly.

99 percent of Lame Stream Media is lies. Also the BBC etc. I don't know where to start to help you other then there. You are reading propaganda. The Evils intended for Hilary to win, she had it bought ( from DNC , Soros etc.) and paid for.

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Exactly. The more one hates trump the more one needs him.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, I/we know that !

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Read Dr. mercola today April 1, 2023 will explain it all to you.

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Dominion changer machines ( Linkton showed resumes of mostly foreign workers particularly Serbia running elections ) and Eric Croomer. ( PhD Comp Sci and Satanist )

Zuckerbucks, 2000 Mules

Many other Documentaries including one from an election Manager in Colorado ( whose son died in the military ). Sorry can't recall name.

Sorry I don't have the links handy. This was a long time ago.

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Apr 1, 2023·edited Apr 1, 2023

This is pretty good. From Behind the Curtain Election Integrity Conference held in Franklin, TN on 11 March.

https://accfei.org/events/tennessee-01/

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I love music. Thankyou for sharing your sons song. Good for him. Music has the ability to transcend all.

I was fortunate to be raised by two parents that loved music passionately. My father played piano and my brother is very proficient with the guitar.

For me music has always played an incredible part in my life. It's where I go to seek solace or peace in my life. I wish your son all the best in the world of music. It's not the worst place to be right now. What a wonderful creative place for him to be in right now.

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awesome

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They're fantastic...

Reminds me a bit of the Dave Matthews Band.

Thanks for making me aware.

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I was thinking Michael Kiwanuka. I did know a woman who played strip poker with Dave though

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Saw them in concert 12 times but never had the opportunity to play strip poker with him.😆

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You have so much to be proud of! Making culture, observing ritual respect for life is how we win. Thanks for lifting my heart today.

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Bravos !!!! to the young musicians for a new release well-done-- an' may they have blossom'in careers! (and'a nod too ta the proud papa, a good musician in his own right y'are)-- mebbe there'll be a father-son duet in the works one'a these daze???? either way--keep on playin' all've ya's!!!!

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Thank you for that - really enjoyed it. Trying to figure out which one is your son by comparing your photo and theirs and I just can't decide 😄😄😄 Well done to them !

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The kid in the shopping cart.

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listening now! good stuff! good luck to them...i'll follow on spotify!

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Really nice!!!

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Sweeet!

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