T P O

T   P   O
The Patient Ox (aka Hénock Gugsa)

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** TPO **
A personal blog with diverse topicality and multiple interests!


On the menu ... politics, music, poetry, and other good stuff.
There is humor, but there is blunt seriousness here as well!


Parfois, on parle français ici aussi. Je suis un francophile .... Bienvenue à tous!

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Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts

Thursday, January 15, 2015

Everybody Plays the Fool - by TMI


Everybody Plays the Fool (EPTF)
by
The Main Ingredient (TMI)

               








Friday, January 9, 2015

The Vilja Song - by Renée Fleming


Renée Fleming
 The Vilja Song 
(from "The Merry Widow")
by
 Renée Fleming
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"The Merry Widow " by Franz Lehar

At her own party, Hanna (the merry widow) tells the story of a mountain sprite or a "Vilja" that roams the highlands of her homeland of Pontevedria and innocently tempts hunters with her beauty. 


Lyrics ... [English translation by Lea Frey (blfrey@earthlink.net)] .... The Vilja song.
There lived a Vilja, a woods-maiden,
A hunter spied her in a rocky cliff!
The fellow, became
So strangely affected,
He looked and looked
At the little woods-maiden.
And a never known shudder
Seized the young hunter,
Longingly he began quietly to sigh!
Vilja, O Vilja, you little woods-maiden,
Take me and let me   
Be your dearest true love!
Vilja, O Vilja, what are you doing to me?
Fearfully begs  a lovesick man!

Vilja, O Vilja, what are you doing to me?
Fearfully begs  a lovesick man!

The woods-maiden stretched
Out her hand to him
And pulled him into her cliff-dwelling.
The lad almost lost his senses, 

Thus loved and kissed no earthly child.
As soon as she was sated with kissing
She disappeared at that moment!
Just once did the poor lad wave to her:
Vilja, O Vilja, you little woods-maiden,
Take me and let me   
Be your dearest true love!
Vilja, O Vilja, what are you doing to me?
Fearfully begs  a lovesick man!

Vilja, O Vilja, what are you doing to me?
Fearfully begs  a lovesick man!

Vilja

Monday, August 18, 2014

"Black and Blue" - by TPO

 



Autopsy: Ferguson youth shot six times *
by Frances Robles and Julie Bosman
New York Times
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FERGUSON, Mo. -- Michael Brown, the unarmed black teenager whose death at the hands of police sparked protests around the nation, was shot at least six times, including twice in the head, a preliminary private autopsy performed Sunday found.

One of the bullets entered the top of Brown's skull, suggesting his head was bent forward when it struck him and caused a fatal injury, according to Dr. Michael M. Baden, the former chief medical examiner for New York City, who flew to Missouri on Sunday at the family's request to conduct the separate autopsy. It was likely the last of the bullets to hit him, he said.

Brown was also shot four times in the right arm, he said, adding that all the bullets were fired from the front.

"People have been asking: how many times was he shot? This information could have been released on Day One," Baden said in an interview Sunday after performing the autopsy.

"They don't do that, even as feelings built up among the citizenry that there was a cover-up. We are hoping to alleviate that." [Baden elaborated.]

Professor Shawn Parcells, a pathologist assistant based in Kansas, assisted Baden.

"You do this for the families," Parcells said.

The two medical experts conducted the four-hour examination Sunday at the Austin A. Layne Mortuary in St. Louis. Benjamin Crump, a lawyer for Brown's family who paid their travel expenses, hired them.

"The sheer number of bullets and the way they were scattered all over his body showed this police officer had a brazen disregard for the very people he was supposed to protect in that community," Crump said. "We want to make sure people understand what this case is about: This case is about a police officer executing a young unarmed man in broad daylight."

Baden stressed that his examination was not to determine whether the shooting was justified.

"In my capacity as the forensic examiner for the New York State Police, I would say, 'You're not supposed to shoot so many times,' " said Baden, who retired from the state police in 2011. "Right now there is too little information to forensically reconstruct the shooting."

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TPO's Note: - In spite of all the anger and other confused and irrational mindsets going on all sides, some matters have been accepted as incontrovertible facts.

1 - Michael Brown was unarmed.

2 - He was violently killed by an armed police officer.

At this point, post-fact  justifications for the killing do not appear to hold water from whatever angle you look at them.
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* Source - http://www.twincities.com/nation/ci_26355623 (08/17/2014)








Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Fred Astaire, Magnifique! - by TPO



Fred Astaire
Fred Astaire - A Class Act!
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An amazing Fred Astaire, age 71, was spry as ever at the 42nd Academy Awards (1970).



Tuesday, August 5, 2014

That's All Right - by Elvis





Well, that's all right, mama
That's all right for you
That's all right mama, just anyway you do

That's all right, that's all right.
That's all right now mama, anyway you do.


Well Mama she done told me,
Papa done told me too
'Son, that gal your foolin' with,
She ain't no good for you'

But, that's all right, that's all right.
That's all right now mama, anyway you do.


I'm leaving town, baby
I'm leaving town for sure
Well, then you won't be bothered with
Me hanging 'round your door

But that's all right, that's all right.
That's all right now mama, anyway you do.


Ah da-da, da, dee, dee-dee
dee, dee, dee-dee
dee, dee, dee-dee
I need your loving

That's all right.
That's all right now mama, anyway you do.