Today’s Music: Oscar Peterson, “Sweet Georgia Brown” (1985) Plus

The Oscar Peterson Trio with Joe Pass on guitar, in a 1985 concert at the Bussoladomani, Lido di Camaiore, Italy. No drummer, but this track swings like crazy.

Plus, Oscar playing his own composition, “Hymn to Freedom in F”:

(‘Birthdays’ music will return soon.)

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Republican Crazy Talk

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Video: Issa Admits There is ‘No Evidence’ Linking White House to Fast and Furious

Worse than Watergate, when even Darrell Issa can’t provide any proof the Obama Administration has done anything wrong? Good luck with that, GOP.

GOP Oversight Chair Admits There Is No Evidence Of White House Involvement In Fast And Furious

By Josh Israel
Think Progress
June 24, 2012

Last week, Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) claimed that the White House decision to invoke executive privilege to prevent the release of some documents related to the “Fast and Furious” investigation indicated some sort of admission of a White House cover-up. Today, pressed by Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace, House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) admitted that there is absolutely no evidence to back up Boehner’s allegation:

WALLACE: Do you have any evidence that White House officials were involved in these decisions, that they knowingly misled Congress, and are involved in a cover-up?

ISSA: No, we don’t. And what we are seeking are documents that we know to exist, February 4 to December [2011] that are in fact about [murdered Border Patrol agent] Brian Terry’s murder, who knew, and why people were lying about it…

WALLACE: I want to be clear, because we’ve got to get out, no evidence that the White House is involved in the cover up?

ISSA: And I hope they don’t get involved.

Read the rest here.

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Video: Perry Accuses Obama of “I Don’t Know” What

Arguably the dumbest Republican governor in the nation makes scurrilous charges that he can’t back up.

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Today’s Quotes: Randomized

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Cartoons: Around the Horn for June 26, 2012

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Today’s Music: Big Bill Broonzy, Larry Taylor

Blues legend “>Big Bill Broonzy was born today in 1893 (or 1903) and passed away in 1958. Here is Big Bill doing three of his tunes in a film shot a year before he died.

Canned Heat, et al, bassist Larry Taylor thumped out into the world in 1942. Here’s Canned Heat’s most well-known song, “On the Road Again”:

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GOP Kool-Aid Meets Benjamin Franklin

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Weird Pix for June 25, 2012: Animal Farm

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Video: Bill Maher’s New Rules for June 22, 2012: Conserva-Kids

Why do the conservative kids at the end remind me of child evangelist Marjoe Gortner when he was a boy?

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