The Trump Canal in Panama says hello!

It's All over Now Baby Blue - Marianne Faithfull | The Girl on a Motorcycle (1968)

"Approximately 80% of people prosecuted and convicted of federal drug trafficking offenses were U.S. citizens, according to Tara McGrath, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California.

"They are people who have the ability to cross but also are going to be able to slip under the radar," McGrath said.

McGrath dismissed the idea that migrants and asylum seekers fleeing violence are the ones primarily bringing fentanyl into the country.

"That narrative is a dangerous misconception because that is not who we are seeing," she said."

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"Experts who study transnational crime also dismissed the popular narrative linking migrants to drug smuggling.

"Mexican drug cartels control virtually all drug smuggling along the border. Putting their product in the hands of desperate migrants risking life and limb to cross illegally is bad for business", said Cecilia Farfan Mendez, an expert on drug policy and organized crime at the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation.

"It would not make sense to put your merchandise in such a risky situation," Farfan Mendez said.

"Is this migrant going to cross, is he not going to cross, is he going to get stopped, what is going to happen?"

Using legal border crossings is much less risky - particularly in San Diego, she said."

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"The blonde, voluptuous Faithfull was a celebrity before turning 17, homeless by her mid-20s and an inspiration to peers and younger artists by her early 30s, when her raw, explicit "Broken English" album brought her the kinds of reviews the Stones had received.

Over the following decades, her admirers would include Beck, Billy Corgan, Nick Cave and PJ Harvey, although her history would always be closely tied to the Stones and to the years she dated Mick Jagger.

"I am so saddened to hear of the death of Marianne Faithfull," Jagger wrote on Instagram. "She was so much a part of my life for so long. She was a wonderful friend, a beautiful singer and a great actress."

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Jagger and Richards often cited bluesmen and early rock n rollers as their prime influences, but Faithfull and her close friend Anita Pallenberg, Richards' longtime partner, also opened the band to new ways of thinking.

Both were worldlier than their boyfriends at the time, and helped transform the Stones' songwriting and personas, whether as muses or as collaborators.

Faithfull helped inspire such Stones songs as the mellow tribute "She Smiled Sweetly" and the lustful "Let's Spend the Night Together."

It was Faithful who lent Jagger the Russian novel "The Master and Margarita" that was the basis for "Sympathy for the Devil" and who first recorded and contributed lyrics to the Stones' dire "Sister Morphine," notably the opening line, "Here I lie in my hospital bed."

Faithfull's drug use helped shape such jaded takes on the London rock scene as "You Can't Always Get What You Want" and "Live with Me," while her time with Jagger also coincided with one of his most vulnerable love songs, "Wild Horses."

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Rock in Peace!

"With China, I'm also thinking about something because they're sending fentanyl into our country, and because of that, they're causing us hundreds of thousands of deaths," Trump said.

"So China is going to end up paying a tariff also for that, and we're in the process of doing that."

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Open up your wallet, folks. Trump needed to change the subject from his idiotic DEI claims about the crash, so now you are going to pay for annoying him.

AND of course there's NO evidence that DEI had anything to do with the crash.

Trump is just lucky that his supporters don't need any evidence.

Trump's Secret Agenda

BJ prefers Voter Suppression to fair elections.

You'll never see anything, BJ, with your eyes closed.

Which is dangerous when you are running away so hard from posts like #28.

BUT I will say Bill that having a video made about you is pretty cool!:

- didn't we learn globalization

You support the first billionaire globalist Pres ever, who has been hired for 300 million by the richest globalist in the world to help build his global Nazi 4th Reich.

WTF are you talking about??

NPR's aviation expert:

NPR and PBS should have gotten Biden Pardons!

Apparently he should have handed out several million more.

This is the most important basic flaw in our democracy that needs to be fixed, as it effects all the other problems.

When money is speech, what you end up with is... exactly what we have right now; a billionaire President werking for himself and the richest men in the country, some of whom are Nazi sympathizers and all of which are now the Oligarchs that control the Gov... because they have almost all the money, therefore almost all the speech.

Trumpers sometimes pretend to agree with this, but that now means having to admit they were bamboozled, so it rarely happens.

They had one person doing two people's jobs.... BUT the Controller did his job in this case, informing the copter that the plane was above him, and got confirmation back that they saw the plane.

Whatever happened was going on inside the copter.

No wonder Herr Musk and Pres#2 get along so well; they are both thin-skinned bullies who throw little kid tantrums when things don't go their way.

Musk blames the Interviewer for his questions, then slaps him down for his, 'disloyalty', which his fat dog Donnie is a an expert at.

otoh...

Migrants, Prisoners, The Poor; No Conditions On Our Love

You know, the thing is... Trump reflects all the petty, cruel, and cowardly attitudes of his Base quite well.

I mean, it's true, some of them just aren't very bright, but actually there's a reason they adore their Cult Leader; he will do all the stupid, nonsensical things that they've whined about for years.

Of course, he laughs at them behind their backs when he's entertaining the Billionaire Oligarchs that bought him the Office and whom he actually serves.

Drill, baby, drill!

Shill, baby, shill, as well.

I'm sitting alone on a Saturday night, watching the late, late show
A bottle of wine, some cigarettes, I got no place to go
Well I saw your other man today, he was wearing my brand new shoes
And I'm down to seeds and stems again too

Well I met my old friend Bob today, from up in Bowling Green
He had the prettiest little gal, that I'd ever seen
But I couldn't hide my tears at all, 'cause she looked just like you
And I'm down to seeds and stems again too

Now everybody tells me, that there's other ways to get high
They don't seem to understand, I'm too far gone to try
Now these lonely memories, there all that I can do
And I'm down to seeds and stems again too

Oh, my dog died just yesterday, left me all alone
The finance company dropped by today, and repossessed my home
That's just a drop in the bucket, compared to losing you
And I'm down to seeds and stems again too
Got the down to seeds and stems again blues

Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: George Frayne / William C Jr Farlow
Down to Seeds and Stems Again Blues

#170

You are a BAD man, Mr. Agent!

#171

The Extreme Pettiness of Donald J. Trump

If one trait of Trump's stands out above all the others, it might be his extreme pettiness. How he is just SO consumed with trivial matters, that even the slightest insult brings out his spiteful nature. Here is the latest example, and believe it or not, it has to do with the Philadelphia Eagles and the Super Bowl.

So funny, so true.

Sample:

What is a man profited if he gain the whole world,
but lose his soul?
A lot, he is profited a lot.
One soul for the whole world? That is an amazing deal.

Truly I say unto you, whoever welcomes
one of these little ones in my name....
might be letting in a murderer or a drug.

Let's get her to a detention center, you know,
until we can figure out what's going on.

1Nut's English as a second language teacher has a lot of 'splainin' to do.... mostly to him.

#4

That's awesome.

We could try it with George Orwell, but he's already published Nineteen Eighty Four, which is like a history of Trump's America.

Too bad he wasn't in the plane or the copter.

Anyone that was is a better human being than him.