Today's News: When the waves turn the minutes to hours

 

"Does any one know where the love of God goes 

When the waves turn the minutes to hours?" 

Here is a great thread about a great song:

47 years ago today the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior.
In this thread I'm going to discuss a few things:
- The actual story
- The Gordon Lightfoot song
- The different roles of an artist/storyteller and an educator
- Why it's ok to say we were wrong

— Ada McVean M.Sc. (@AdaMcVean) November 10, 2022

But Gordon had artistic license, and he used it, and we got a better ballad for it.
He once said that he agonized over inaccuracies in the song until his producer advised him to just tell a story.
Nonetheless, since its release, Gordon has altered 2 lyrics when he performs live.

— Ada McVean M.Sc. (@AdaMcVean) November 10, 2022

At some point, a parishioner from the Mariners' Church of Detroit reached out to him and reported that their hall was not "musty" as he had sung. Lightfoot changed the lyric to "In a rustic old hall".

— Ada McVean M.Sc. (@AdaMcVean) November 10, 2022

And yet he made those changes.
But he made them as a mark of respect. It's his song, yes, but it is a tale of real people, real places and real events.
Gordon Lightfoot never claimed to be a historian, and holding him to the standard of one is ludicrous.

— Ada McVean M.Sc. (@AdaMcVean) November 10, 2022

I was front row at the 2010 Lightfoot concert, where he explained that he was about to change the line "At 7 p.m. a main hatchway caved in". He said he had only recently learned that what he had understood to be the facts were not accurate, and the crew was owed an honest tale.

— Ed's Edits (@waddington_ed) November 11, 2022

Thanks for a great thread.
I want to share this cool noaa site for those on here who may be interested.https://t.co/3PdPObqSdJ

— Todd Silas (@tsilas) November 10, 2022

This is a beautiful version, too:

If you've never seen it, I'd like to share the cover of the song done by the group Cadence. Both music and video are beautifully done. https://t.co/BgylIak5gc

— Marla Kishimoto (@MarlaYuriko) November 11, 2022

In other news:

Trudeau does it again! The Canadian right may froth and scream but Trudeau doesn't care, he just keeps on reaching out and leading Canada to become a happier and more inclusive place - sunny days:

We have a PM the right calls 'divisive' but reaction to his appearing on the much watched, highly successful show demonstrates who the divisive people really are. Looking at you, Pieerson.

— Mike Morris (@1MikeMorris) November 9, 2022

At a time when right-wing populists are targeting drag queens as a front in the American culture war, it’s actually a pretty big statement that a world leader is not joining that particular pile-on, and is visiting a global drag franchise like this. https://t.co/4op5YFEGyu

— Dale Smith (@journo_dale) November 9, 2022

Today's News: #TRE45ON is trending tonight

Here's some cartoons I saw today about the Mar-A-Lago raid -- the warrant and document lists are out, and its bad for Trump. 

Very bad.

NBC has obtained the Mar-a-Lago search warrant. It shows Donald Trump is under investigation for potential obstruction of justice and violations of the Espionage Act

— Chris Jansing (@ChrisJansing) August 12, 2022

MSNBC confirms that the “Espionage Act” being used in the warrant means that there was evidence that Trump had transferred information to a third party (foreign gov’t or organization).

This is a whole new level of treachery.

— Harvey Bobrow (@Hbobrow1Hbobrow) August 12, 2022

CNN analyst says the intel Trump stole are so sensitive that FBI agents will begin FINGER PRINTING each document to find out who actually touched them.

— Brian McBride (@BrianDMcBride) August 12, 2022

I think everyone is sleeping on the fact that before they got the warrants the DOJ was given surveillance footage of the rooms in which the documents were stored.
They got video of who looked at them THEN went in.
Chew on what that implies for a second. It tastes like treason.

— Fred Wellman (@FPWellman) August 12, 2022

So Republicans are running on unlimited price-gouging of insulin, ending Social Security and Medicare, and forcing ten year old rape victims to give birth. That is some platform. Please pay no attention to the former president who committed espionage #TRE45ON

— Miz Anthrope (@jenaglez) August 12, 2022

What in the world would Trump be doing with top secret classified information about nuclear weapons? There is absolutely no reason why an ex-president should take that out of the White House, except one. That kind of info would be worth A LOT OF MONEY!

— Cenk Uygur (@cenkuygur) August 12, 2022

A major FUCK YOU to every trumper who told me if I didn't like "X" I should leave the country, you're defending a traitor who sold nuclear secrets to our enemies -- YOU leave the country.

— BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ (@mmpadellan) August 12, 2022

Once again I expect there will be a determined effort on the part of GOP leadership to throw Trump overboard, but Fox News and MAGA will not permit it. The only possibility for change now is absolute electoral defeat of Republicans in 2022, 2024, 2026 and 2028 -- with gerrymandering and corruption all the way up to the SCOTUS, I don't know if it is still possible:

Central question in US politics now is how much damage will Trump, massive conspiracy to overthrow an election, extremist abortion restrictions do to the GOP brand and how long will that damage last.

My take - a lot of damage, and it will last for many many years. https://t.co/Z6XjUQI4Ma

— Simon Rosenberg (@SimonWDC) August 12, 2022

It’s going to be tough to ButHillary or ButHunter their way out of this one but they’re going to give a shot

— Acyn (@Acyn) August 12, 2022

They have now figured out the new line -- that Trump had "declassified" all the documents before he took them out of the White House so, by definition, he's good!

I mean, the “it was just an accident, didn’t mean to keep them, and also declassified them” is deeply humiliating, but Trump has just the people to carry that water. https://t.co/0lcmSZmF1S

— 18Hat793 (@Popehat) August 12, 2022

michael scott declaring bankruptcy https://t.co/Sg8lEJrp7l

— Amy (@lolennui) August 13, 2022

Yeah, sure.