Cocker’s first experience singing in public was at age 12 when his elder brother Victor invited him on stage to sing during a gig of his skiffle group. In 1960, along with three friends, Cocker formed his first group, the Cavaliers.
I saw him in his first big US gig at the first Atlanta Pop Festival.
He appeared near the end of the event, and a lot of folks had left, so the gag I was with moved as close as possible to the stage and we were blown away by his performance.
I saw him again the next year at Woodstock, and even as drunk and high as he was, he put on a great show.
Elections have consequences. The Congress was and is the right place to address gerrymandering. What the New York legislature and Governor did is entirely within the rulebook. If the GOP wants to change this behavior, the should get on board the For the People Act, because the door swings both ways in politics and there are more progressives one side of that door than there are conservatives on the other. “Leave the gun, take the cannoli”, is the best and only advice I can give my ReThug friends.
It’s wrong when we do it, too. But why are we the only ones who care about “wrong”? This is why federal action is needed. Fuck Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema.
Oh sure. As President, he would have access to the finest legal minds attuned to every nuance of the law, full documentation of each individual’s crime, the course of their trial, and their behavior post conviction with information regarding any regret, sorrow, or a “come to Jesus” moment. But why bother when you can do a focus group of idiots, morons, and neandrathals?
I’m old enough to remember when pardoning Mark Rich was the biggest scandal ever.
Simply exercising his constitutional right to petition the government for a redress of grievances. While the Legislative Branch fiddles you go to the Supreme Court to rewrite the laws and overturn the decisions you don’t like.
The delegations in Congress should roughly match the party split in the country…That is a higher moral imperative than seeing that all blue states and only blue states have impeccably fair districts. Living in a blue state which for a long time had a red delegation I’m not seeing a problem given how Republicans have gerrymandered elsewhere.
That’s it. That’s it exactly. As long as a bad practice benefits R’s exclusively, they’ll fight like dogs to keep it. (While coming up with some doublethink explanation as to why their doing it is awesome.)
