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Clearly, Self Destruction

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The dems are doing all they can to destroy families.

The dems are doing all they can to allow anyone and everyone into the country by whatever means they will. They do this while totally ignoring all immigration laws.

The dems are doing all they can to destroy the effectiveness of any and all law enforcement, local, state and federal.

The dems are doing all they can to punish everyone and anyone who tries to protect the people the country or our sovereignty.

Yup. That’s it. They are trying to destroy the nation and all it stands for.

A Question With a Two Sided Reply

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Daily writing prompt
What would your life be like without music?
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I suppose it was about a year ago. Maybe it was a little longer. My wife and I were sitting in a restaurant eating. She looked up at the speaker in the ceiling and said, “I can’t believe that she was actually paid to do that.”

I laughed. I knew exactly what her reference was. It would be very difficult to classify what it was as music. First, it was more noise than music. Second, it was repetitive. I guess that whoever wrote the lyrics was a person of few words.

It was truly one time I wish I had my noise canceling head phones. Even more, it did make me wonder about my wife’s remark. It made me wonder just how much the woman was paid to make that irritating noise. What’s worse, it was in a restaurant where people were eating, hopefully enjoying the food.

I do suppose it had one advantage. No one would linger; certainly not to listen to the music. Our table was available pretty quickly.

I guess a little over a decade ago we went to a Captain D’s, no longer there. The manager liked Elvis. I don’t. We went to the place three times before we figured it out. After that, we went elsewhere, even though my wife does like Elvis. However, even she was getting tired of hearing the same recordings repeatedly.

I think, in general, music during meals is supposed to be soothing. Nowadays, some folks don’t seem to think so. I mentioned that the reply does have 2 sides and there is a lot of music that I enjoy. It can be soothing, thoughtful, inspiring, and it can be just be simply something nice for listening.

Consider, On the Trail from the Grand Canyon Suite. I have hardly met a person who doesn’t like it the first time they hear it. The Overture of 1812 has sold Quaker Oats for years and is still played a lot, especially at fireworks displays. I could go through hundreds of songs that have been very enjoyable to me and so many others.

I was just in a place yesterday that played truly pleasant music over the loudspeakers and it did help me enjoy my meal. But now and then….

Free Trial

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When I bought the Chevy HHR, they provided a three month trial package of Sirious. I tried it. I decided I didn’t like it. I guess they had 4 or 5 channels of various kinds of jazz. I am not a fan of jazz or most of the contemporary channels they had. However they had one single channel they called easy listening. Guess what? They played jazz on that channel as well. It was about 30% jazz. Of course, if I wanted to listen to jazz, I could have listened to one of the channels reserved for jazz. Apparently, they could not reserve the one channel from jazz.

Therefore, when it came time to start paying for the service, I didn’t. Why should I pay for a service I didn’t use when was free?

When I bought the new electric car they told me, guess what, a three month free trial. Don’t think I will be going down that path a second time. I learned my lesson the first time. I have my recorded music, which I paid for, and I’ll be playing that, which, by the way, is likely not available on Sirious.

One nice feature about the Nissan is that it has a couple of USB connections and I can store a lot of music on one of the USB devices. Moreover, I can change it, should I want to, in a few seconds. Not that hard. Mostly, now that I’ve paid for it, I don’t have to pay anymore. I can play the selections over and over. And I never need to ask myself why in the world the artist were paid to produce such awful noise.