"I don't care what people say ..."

   The full sentence from this song of my youth was, “I don’t care what people say.  Rock and Roll is here to stay.”  This song introduced in 1957 by Danny & The Juniors was an instant hit and a gold record.  There was obvious wisdom in the lyrics.  There was also a small unimportant untruth.  Two things can be true at the same time.  The small lie was, “I don’t care what people say.”  Danny’s group cared very much about the size of their concerts and the sales of their records.  They were professional entertainers.  Their prediction that, “Rock and Roll is here to stay” has proven to be correct.

   “Rock and Roll is here to stay,” I don’t see as a compliment to the listener.  The melodies of the music are not particularly pleasing.  The lyrics are simple, repetitive, not poetic and generally offer little message.  The instruments are more pounded on than played.  On occasion, a guitar is destroyed at the end of a song being performed.  I would guess that it is all about the beat.  It is easily danced to.  And that is a good thing.  Perhaps, the only good thing about it.  If one were only to listen to it and not dance to it, I would venture that it is to music what cage fighting is to sports.  Both are here to stay.

   Why am I writing this?  And better yet, why are you reading it?  Perhaps the basis for this blog is that the simple majority here in America has no taste.  The proof of this was in the presidential election of 2016, when they elected Donald Trump.  To be fair to the voters, the majority did not vote for him, but we do accept a system where it doesn’t require a majority to be elected.

Rock & Roll is here to stay, Old Buz               11/06/2023

 

Remember:

“One cannot fool all of the people all of the time … and that is why we have two political parties.” - Anon          

New Business

 

Bring Back New Business

(This blog is not an attack on Jeff Bezos or his company, Amazon PD, for their total destruction of New Businesses (Mom & Pop small businesses).

   One could drop the prayer at the beginning of a government legislative session and add a call for new business at the end.  This would add to the effectiveness and the honesty of their endeavor.  I remember student government in high school, sixty-five years ago, and that was our procedure.  We were learning parliamentary order.  The last section of the governing body meeting was always to ask, “Is there any New Business?”  This enabled any elected representative to present a bill to the group and in order for the bill to be brought to the floor for discussion and a vote, an “I second the motion” was also required.  Therefore, what came to the floor for discussion and was voted upon was not the sole discretion of the leader.  Under Robert’s Rules of Parliamentary Order, democracy was alive and well.  Not so in our government today.

   Fast forward to Mitch McConnell’s Senate Majority Leadership, during the Trump Administration.  As you know, Mitch effectively blocked over three hundred bills passed by the House of Representatives from being brought to the floor for discussion and vote.  Any bill must be passed by both legislative bodies before being signed by the President into law.  This effectively gave one man elected by one small state control over the legislation of an entire nation.   As a secondary action, Mitch would not allow a justice appointment to The Terrible Nine by President Obama, for Senate approval, because at eleven months, it was “too close to a presidential election.” While later, under Trump, Mitch ushered in a Supreme Court appointment for Senate review with only one month left in Trump’s term of office.

  If J. Edgar Hoover has earned the right to his name posted on the building housing The Federal Bureau of Investigation, certainly Mitch McConnell has earned the right to his name in large letters posted on the Senate Building.  Like other great Americans, perhaps Donald Trump’s Name should be displayed in large letters on The White House.  It could then be called “The House of Trump.”

Cheers, Old Buz     7/27/2023

“The loyalist follows the under tail scent of the lemming in front of him.” – Old Buz

(This is my humble opinion of employing loyalty as one’s primary moral guide.)