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  1. https://www.chordai.net

    I like electronic gadgets. I wanted to see if the chording for guitar is accurate. It is. 

    Its a phone app. Play any recorded song from Itunes, Spotify, You Tube etc and it gives key recognition, tempo, real time chord charting etc. There are chords constructed using many fingerings, but while I knew a lot of fingerings I sometimes don't know the chord names. And after a 40+ yr pause and losing a fretting joint it was helpful.  

    It made sense to me but we'll see if it can save money on tablature and print outs.

    There's this site https://www.hooktheory.com/hookpad. It also shows chord progressions for many popular songs. It was helpful after learning major/minor keys and how find complementary chords for song writing in western music.

  2. Its an interesting story that I think reflects on the single biggest aspect of his love lives (3 at once) and the turmoil they caused. Yes, of loving more than one woman, of carrying on simultaneous relationships with them and why and how he felt doing it, in fiction (?). He explores this, and perhaps the seemingly greatest emotional contradiction held by Ayn Rand too.

    Though now I see from his writing and can imagine as one becomes a different person over time how it is possible to hang on to a sentimental attachment and move towards another romantic partner while loving both.

    Its a powerful inside look at the complexities of Branden and what he considered worthy of retelling. About the stinging rebuke and the sorting that needed doing.

    What else could he write than something he perhaps knew more painfully and better than anyone could articulate?  

    "But in any event the worst of it for me was not the breach of my responsibilities as a psychotherapist; it was the betrayal of my marriage." 

    "I knew that I was taking the biggest gamble of my life.”

    “Look,” she said, “apart from the guilt, which I don’t feel, we’re in the same situation. I’m in love with XXX—want to spend my life with him. But here I am—and you know what I feel for you. Both feelings are real. And how it’s all supposed to fit together, I don’t know. You’re not the only one who’s confused. Maybe things are possible that most people don’t think are possible.” “Like being in love with two people at the same time.”

    Branden, Nathaniel . Layers. Kindle Edition. 

     

     

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  3. On 4/10/2021 at 12:54 PM, John V. said:

    Has anyone here read NB's novel Layers? It was published in July 2020.  I had heard he had written and completed at least one novel and that it had been submitted to publishers about 15 years ago.  But for some reason, it was never published.  I bought the Kindle version of Layers a couple of months ago and am in the middle of reading it for the second time.  I didn't know it had been published until I did a search on Nathaniel Branden books on Amazon.  The book has not been mentioned on any of NB's Facebook pages. It's not even listed in the store on nathanielbranden.com  I really like the book, and I think many others who are familiar with Nathaniel Branden and his work will also like it.  

    Here's a link to the Kindle edition of the book on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Layers-Nathaniel-Branden-ebook/dp/B08DTH71H1/

    John V. 

     

    Thanks for sharing. I'm enjoying reading it on many layers. eh

     

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  4. 1 hour ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

    You know, I've been looking around and it's even more bizarre.

    During the raid, Rudy offered the FBI agents the hard drives from Hunter Biden's laptop since they fell under the warrant and he could not get the FBI agents to take them.

    As Rudy said, the FBI agents relied solely on his word that these hard drives were from Hunter Biden's laptop. For all they knew, the hard drives could have belonged to anything, including President Trump. But they took Rudy's word for it and did not touch those Hunter Biden laptop hard drives with a 10 foot pole.

    I wonder why, I wonder...

    :)

    Michael

    Specifically attending to the warrant authorizations? Fruit of the poisonous tree too? Rudy so much better a lawyer than an agent but an agent sticks to his guns, you know?

  5. On 4/10/2021 at 6:45 PM, ThatGuy said:

    One more for the road:
    "Brooklyn woman gets COVID 3 weeks after Johnson & Johnson vaccine"

    She’s shot out of luck.

    A Brooklyn woman who managed to avoid catching COVID-19 throughout 2020 went down with the bug this month — three weeks after being vaccinated.

    Even after Allen was vaccinated, she was careful to always mask up when outside and wash her hands frequently.

    “On Wednesday, March 31, I started feeling like a scratch, a tickle in my throat of some sort. It was super dry,” she recalled. “Then I kept having this dry cough. It kinda felt like I had allergies.”

    As her cough persisted, debilitating fatigue set in.

    As Allen recuperates, she is unable to pinpoint where she was exposed. “Not a single clue,” she said. “If I had to take a wild guess, and still not sure, I think Target. At Atlantic Terminal, in the elevator.”

    ---

    “The vaccine does not necessarily prevent you from getting COVID. It prevents you from being hospitalized or dying from it,” Dr. Kris Bungay, a Manhattan primary care physician, told The Post. “That is why we all still have to be careful.”

    “It was not common in the clinical trials for patients to be symptomatic after getting vaccinated.” Bungay added.

    Moderna’s and Pfizer’s two-dose vaccines are 94% and 95% effective, respectively, at preventing new coronavirus infections, according to the Centers for Disease Control. And while it’s more convenient, the single shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine only provides 66% protection.

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    Sporadic cases of post-vaccine horror stories have popped up in local news around the country, but it remains unclear how many people have come down with COVID after receiving the shots, known as “vaccine breakthrough.”



    https://nypost.com/2021/04/10/brooklyn-woman-gets-covid-3-weeks-after-johnson-johnson-vaccine/

    Outliers. Fear mongering. Exceptions to "rules".

  6. 12 hours ago, Peter said:

    Or it means the vaccinated mingle a lot more with other humans, and/or the vaccine really didn't work well with them. I got the Pfizer double dose but I am still hesitant to go shopping or dining.    

    Coved won't survive sunlight. Outdoor eateries!

    Sorry, its sooo depressing that some are maintaining this attitude. "Vaccinated", masked and still....

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  7. 4 minutes ago, Peter said:

    I looked back a ways and saw I was HIGHLY skeptical and very derogatory of Donald Trump until near the end of 2015. However, I did vote for him and I became a great admirer of President Trump. Biden is 78 and will be 79 in November so he will be 82 in 2024. Trump is 74 years old now, so in 2024 he will be 77 I think. Time will tell! Peter   

    Just as there is a minimum age requirement for becoming President, prudence could have determined a maximum age. Its very strange to consider colonists thinking at the time of the Constitutions writing that dementia's role wasn't seen beyong the 25th amendment. A man who seemingly can't stop from saying President Harris certainly is already subjected to the vagaries of the toll age takes.

    This article suggests American independence might have taken a different form if not for the "Mad King".

    https://goinggentleintothatgoodnight.com/2015/09/08/profiles-in-dementia-king-george-iii-1738-1820/ 

    The potential impact and prophesizing of political fallout with the inconsequential vote of one has been a time suck. 

  8. 2 hours ago, Peter said:

    If you are ever in need of a pick me up or just some good watching and listening, type in Gene Kelly dancing in "Singing in the Rain." Gee. Who was that girl he kisses?

    Debbie Reynolds? “Gene definitely hadn’t wanted me as his costar,” she wrote. “But Louis B. Mayer [cofounder of MGM] himself had chosen me to play Kathy Selden, and there was nothing Gene could do about it, even though he was MGM’s biggest star at the time.”

    Reynolds, who died in 2016, described her body’s automatic reaction to an on-screen kiss with Gene Kelly, that left her disgusted and Kelly furious.

    “The camera closed in. Gene took me tightly in his arms…and shoved his tongue down my throat. ‘Eeew! What was that?,’ I screeched, breaking free of his grasp and spitting.

    “I ran around frantic, yelling for some Coca-Cola to cleanse my mouth. It was the early 1950s, and I was an innocent kid who had never been French-kissed. It felt like an assault. I was stunned that this 39-year-old man would do this to me.

     

    Ha ha

  9. "So, anyway, part of their (inaudible) was various types of attacks on the Supreme Court, to take down as many judges as they could,....F. Dennis Saylor, a federal judge in Massachusetts; Martha Coakley; Lisa Monaco and her family" (all democrats)

    3 pages later at the behest of the interviewer,

    "Do you believe the death of Antonin Scalia was a part of this same plot,"

    He remembers upon being asked "He was their biggest threat being the most conservative justice" that AS was assassinated.

    Horse Hockey. RR (the only Obama DOJ survivor, knows who he is, JohnHereToHelp knows "everything".. the live bodies/dead bodies, names, intricacies.

    Parting words, "But good luck with them.· I mean, they're going to be admitting to what?· Murder?

     INTERVIEWER:· · · · Uh-huh.

    Lets check a premise. Why is he alive? Just here to help? Uh-huh. 😉

  10. China knows how to play the guilt game, camps(reservations?) etc. Its hard to argue how the US, in this instance at least, can take the moral high ground. Biden doesn't attempt it. Meaning no us vs them. And boom goes the dynamite. 

     

  11. You might be thinking of Austin City Limits. But no I think MTV. It comes and goes but not forgotten. I saw it the other night with Ben Folds. But not all is lost. https://www.livefromdarylshouse.com/archive.html

    ACL is back live. But Joe Bonamassa is streaming a concert there April 1st and On Demand for 1 month. Its really quite a deal, for $35. I saw him at Royal Albert Hall in '19, followed his career for 15 yrs.

    Talk about blues, live music has been decimated. Now that's sad.

  12. I saw Beck playing with Clapton at a Crossroads concert. Virtually. I have seen him at the Blues Club in Orlando. Legendary. Anyway I saw him play an old favorite, Cause We've Ended as Lovers. He uses volume and vibrato on a Strat like no one I've seen. Actually makes Clapton (god) look human dressed in Granddad clothes. It was written by Stevie Wonder and sung by his wife on the way out. She had a wonderful voice. Syreeta Wonder, a beautiful piece that would have felt like home in a James Bond film.

    Apple iTunes is maddening. 21,744 songs and its crapping on them. Apple is leaving it behind as it moves to Catalina. No mac for me.

    Best Daryls' House episode was with Smokey Robinson. They did Tears of a Clown and Sara Smile.

  13. 9 hours ago, Peter said:

    If I survive my second shot on March 19, I will report the facts. joke. Now a family member who has gotten two shots has said the immunization is only good for two months. Say it isn't so.        

    1-800-hell-ova-x? CCP operators are standing by.

  14. On 3/5/2021 at 12:57 PM, Peter said:

    We will get our second covid-19 shots in a couple of weeks, and our mortality and hospitalization rates will sink to five or ten percent . . . or less. Just curious. Does anyone dispute that? Peter

    I should add, our mortality rate will lower "if we get the coronavirus."

    Are saying owing to the "vaccination" you are at lower risk of......SARS-CoV-2? I'd wrestle with that dubious number for a while. Think of it like this. The effective rates were said to be high 90 percentile, yes? Except for J&J's. Did that include those in the higher risk cases such as co-morbidities, age etc? I wouldn't read, into the effectiveness level, more than is there. Do you think the efficacy was proven on elderly and co-morbid folks? I wouldn't think they would qualify and even if they did I'd wonder how many in those categories would "risk" an untested "vaccine".

    This is the best drilling down information I saw: The vaccine appeared to be more or less equally protective across age groups and racial and ethnic groups.

    Additionally the Moderna and Phizer "vaccines" required extreme temperatures. Were there fail safes to guaranty temps were steady? J&J's can be in standard refrigeration for 3 months.

    https://www.statnews.com/2021/02/02/comparing-the-covid-19-vaccines-developed-by-pfizer-moderna-and-johnson-johnson/

    Once you're in the hospital for other causes (you didn't say mortality due to things other than SARS-CoV-2) all bets are off. If the Dr doesn't kill ya there are high rates of infections due to the lowered immunity.

    From NIH:

    Most methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections are contracted in hospitals and other health care facilities. Antibiotic use, patients' weakened immune systems, close contact among people, and open wounds all make hospitals prime breeding grounds for these bugs

  15. 6 hours ago, Peter said:

    Well said. I see no reason to "force" people to do what "the government" thinks is right. If you don't want to wear a mask don't, and if you do, then wear it. State mask mandates are a bit iffier. I don't want to be harassed or arrested so I will wear in it if a store has a state sign on their door. 

    However, private property is different. If Walmart says you need a mask to enter, so be it. How to get around the problem of finding it hard to breath? I arrange the medal strip on my mask to move it away from my nose to allow air in and out. If I am in a store aisle and alone I may pinch and pull my mask up enough to easily breath.     

    I know for you it'd be a bit much but really.... 

    Who's fooling who? All of the stores I've gone into, without exception, do nothing to enforce state mandates. Its not as if they say no trespassing, violators will be shot upon finding no masks on their person. Its a fools errand to to have an employee designated to confront customers. The vast majority wear masks and the few who don't, eh. Shops need/want buyers. They don't want a scene either and they feel as the majority feels, if you take precautions yourselves that is good for most everyone. Yes, the legal system has seen fit to legalize governors mandates with penalties but there exists other penalties for not following HIPPA, where you cant know if a person is unable to wear a mask, so shop owners roll the die but risk a penalty greater than what the state might impose. Many stores had originally posted that the issue was up to the customer as in "enter at your own risk".  

    Its one of the strangest things I've seen about human nature and its contemptible. When i think of the vast majority I see chickens roosting on an open pyre. ha ha 

     

  16. On 3/3/2021 at 12:24 PM, Peter said:

    Reason leads me to think  the opposite. You are gullible and easily "fooled" into believing "claims" and not I. Ask any doctor if they recommend a Covid vaccine. I think you know what they will say. "Get it!" And I think somewhere within your line of thinking you have your doubts about denying the truth. You have been brainwashed.

    Drs recommend it not because they see the affects of the "vaccine". But relief. Fear is the compelling factor, once sparked it can't be put out, not like fire. I will lie about it. What I see are eyes registering fear because I cant see disapproving faces. I'm going to lie because folks can be nazi like in their zeal for feeling protected. They don't ask for proof, they want submission. As long as I display submissive behavior its acceptable.

    A couple of weeks ago I was early to pickleball. Lacrosse hadn't yet let out and as we assembled en masse suddenly I was called out for being mask-less. I ignored them until the most confident among them waved a mask in my face. Substituting my shirt was not enough. Its easily my favorite past time. I can't turn on them and I won't submit. Not to bs, and certainly not bullies. So for now I put a mask to my lips and discard it after 15 steps into the gym where surprisingly all masks come off. 25-30 heavily breathing mouths accept the concept of freedom for 2 hrs is more important than mandates. Those same folks then move to their cars in masks. Symbolism at its worst.

    When asked its an array of concerns for others not themselves. Mostly abiding to "rules" when in public. I go everywhere the same way I always have. Early on 1 man commented "get away from my wife". I told him to shove it.

    I put up with arbitrary rules, until I was 14, from a parent, a snake eater. A man who once likened children to mice in mazes. Unbelievable what these people get away while in medaled uniform. Its not dissimilar to how people react with Drs.

    As news of 15 mandate free states travels (more than 25% now) folks register new feelings about their own lock down states. It will be based on envy, which is as bad as any other emotionally based argument. 

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  17. 5 hours ago, Peter said:

    Well said. I have no hesitation in saying I know what ThatGuy and Ellen will NOT do and that is, get the shot! "How am I doing," you didn't ask? Still a bit sore and I was restless in my sleep last night. I bravely peeled the bandaid off this morning and I could find no trace of swelling.

    I go back to receive my booster shot in 3 weeks and that is the dose that might cause more of a reaction. I am now vaccinated against measles, chicken pox, shingles, pneumonia, flu, etc., etc., etc. I follow "it" but I am not "blinded by the science."  There are several reports of new strains coming out of Britain, Brazil, etc., too. The shot was for me, like lifting your foot off the gas pedal when you see the light ahead turn yellow. And for those of you who are "yellow" towards shots, it was nearly painless with a very small needle and not like you see in the re-enactments where they jab you with a large spear. joke. Peter  

    "I bravely peeled the bandaid?

    Ouchless for the not so brave.

    I watched Army Drs give my Europe bound Mom a booster as a needle broke off in her arm. She was brave.

    Fyi, DTP is now recommended for those in the presence of infants. 

    Mask mandates to be withdrawn as life opens up?

    Don't hold your breath.

  18. 2 hours ago, Brant Gaede said:

    Just beware it's not a true vaccine. I'd rather take on the virus directly than be part of the greatest medical experiment in history.

    -+Brant

    +1.

    That makes me a Brant booster. 

    Better than a like. One leads to another then another. Keep it up.

     

  19. On 2/25/2021 at 10:20 AM, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

    Ellen,

    I received an email about a lady named Catherine Austin Fitts. She voted for Trump and she was the Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for Housing under George Bush the senior. She's huge into banking and is a major thorn in the side of the Deep State.

    The following video of hers from a December 20 interview last year received 2.7 million views before YouTube banned it. The link goes to her site, where there are two copies at different video sites. The copy below the link is at Brighteon, a third video site.

    Planet Lockdown Interview

     

    Catherine Austin Fitts - Planet Lockdown (on Brighteon)

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    If anything happens to that video or account, go here on Brighteon. There are a bunch of copies of this interview posted there. Or go here for a bunch of copies on BitChute.

     

    Here is a PDF of the transcript. This is one hell of a video.

    Planet Lockdown Interview PDF transcript

     

    You know, I never thought of the Antifa and BLM riots as a real estate acquisition project, but that makes a lot of sense seeing how there were riots in 34 of the 37 cites that had a Federal Reserve bank in them and all the damage was in high-value real estate locations. It's a simple process for the bad guys. Use the virus to declare a lot of the small business (especially restaurants) as "nonessential," thus hampering the income of the owners, stage riots to trash the buildings, then swoop in and buy up the real estate at degraded prices.

    That being the case, we have two sets of bad guys using the "magic virus" (to user her term) as a Marxist pretext to loot, pillage and take over: the oligarchy and the CCP.

    I agree with her. The bad guys are going to lose.

    See this quick 5 minute clip from the full documentary, Planet Lockdown, which is to be released shortly: Catherine Austin Fitts_ Those Manipulating the Takeover of Humanity Will Fail.

    Michael

    So much for speaking truth to power. CAFs' firm was crushed by the very people she'd worked for in government and the court system after getting on the wrong side of the bid riggers and insiders trading after saving taxpayers $2.2 B, circa '97. She underestimated the infernal mechanisms she counted on for justice. However dubious, I like a come from behind story, though at 70 she appears unlikely to live to see it through to fruition. 

    https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0202/S00013/enemy-of-the-state-the-catherine-fitts-story-1.htm

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  20. 20 minutes ago, Ellen Stuttle said:

    Michael,

    Thanks for the backstory.  However, I'm not interested in joining any social media platform, and I remain of the opinion that it’s a really stupid policy to restrict the reading of comments to subscribers.  Doesn’t Torba want the site to be read as widely as possible?

    Ellen

    It may be the server capacity that limits ops to subscribers. 

    There is another choice, Voice. It has a wait list. ( I know you're not interested) Its a model using digital currency and up voting consensus to get you a platform. The TOS, eligibility are steep. But superficiality is unlike FB model.

    No account needed.

  21. 8 minutes ago, Brad Anderson said:

    11:59am EST, and still nothing by silence from the Emergency Broadcast System.

    What happened to all those wonderful predictions of a last-minute return to reality?

    Blowhards predict, doers do.

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  22. On 12/17/2020 at 1:36 PM, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

    To be fair re Deep State and SCOTUS, this looks really Deep Statey, plenty enough Deep Statey to qualify calling part of SCOTUS Deep State.

    and 

    I don't know who the source of this is, but I can take an educated guess.

    There is a lot of news around that Julian Assange formally asked President Trump for a pardon and, before that, a rumor was circulating that President Trump was going to pardon him.

    Or, maybe something from from Jeffrey Epstein archives that no one knows where they are (except maybe Ghislaine)? After all, Epstein did record his guests without their knowledge.

    Either that, or this is a show of muscle about the DNI's surveillance capabilities.

    Or maybe something else I haven't thought of.

    One thing is for sure. I find the idea that Lin would put this out without having a credible source impossible.

    Once the audio becomes available, this is going to be like the Access Hollywood audio was for candidate Trump. Let's see if Roberts and Breyer figure out how to deal with it the way Trump did his headache. I don't think they have the talent to pull it off.

    Man, talk about a perfect-fit-with-no-daylight pretext for martial law...

    Michael

     

    EDIT: Later tweet.

     

    Pardons are out for Assange and Snowden. Being fixated on the Deep State I'd have thought he could have rejoiced in Snowden's efforts to uncover the massive lies and Assanges' to publish. It was within his power to see justice served. 

  23. 14 hours ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

    This kind of stuff keeps popping up more and more. Not necessarily pictures like in this case, but open links between US politicians (and other notable people) and the CCP.

    Michael

    My, how the mighty have fallen!