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I was watching an Otis Gibbs video on YouTube last week with this dude from Blackberry Smoke. Fella looks old, then I realized, I'm 4 years older than he is.

FML...

I just so happen to be reading this right now. Came out in 82. It's really well written. Not like your usual music bios. It's from a different time

I'm about a third of the way through it

Main takeaways so far are...

Everyone knows he married his 13 year old cousin (they say she was the adult in the relationship), but nobody ever talks about how his sister Frankie Jean got married at 12 years old.

He hated being called Killer but he begrudgingly accepted it because it was so ubiquitous as time went on. People had started calling him that because he was such a good performer in the bars and clubs around Natchez

He was married twice before he married his cousin, and he was a bigamist because he hadn't divorced his first wife before he married the second. The second marriage was a shotgun wedding. He'd knocked her up and her relatives haf come to town with evil intent. His uncle Lee Calhoun, (both Jerry and Jimmy share a middle name in his honor) the big boss man of that area, had smothered things over but couldn't stop them having to get married

He spent three whole months at a Pentacostall Bible college a little bit south of Dallas before being expelled. He had a serious aversion to schooling of any sort.

Mickey was relatively normal, but Jimmy was always conflicted about the religious stuff.

That's all I've got so far.

Morro Bay/San Luis Obispo or in the mountains between Saratoga, CA and Santa Cruz, like Scotts Valley.

On 2/23/23 I watched my mom die in my sister's arms as we went to turn her over in her bed to a different side so that she didn't get sores or clots. She was 81 and had been in hospice for about two weeks. She had three UTIs in quick succession in January, and the last one was the final straw. Her body just started giving up. But in reality, she had really been declining a lot over the previous year. She was always fastidious about her appearance, but then she just didn't care anymore. She had no desire to leave her room at the assisted living facility, didn't want to eat anything, and started to have episodes where she just wasn't there, basically. She'd have a good day every now and then, but those became a lot less common than the bad days.

She'd been completely comatose for two days at the point she died. She was just laying in bed, shallowly breathing. We would turn her every so often to keep sores and clots from forming. It was about mid afternoon when we went to do it again, and as soon as we moved her, she stopped breathing at all. No pulse l. She was gone. Watched it happen before my eyes. My sister was kind of unsure at first, but it was obvious. Felt for a pulse and there was nothing

I think her soul had already left her body a few hours before. I was sitting at her bedside, holding her hand, and I don't know how to explain it other than to say I felt something change. Something inside me told me that she was gone. Her body was just working on autopilot those last few hours

The corporate HQ is staying in California. The Tennessee location will be their eastern territory HQ as they finally start to expand rapidly.

Y'all so dumb.

Double double, grilled onions only. Best fast food burger by a mile.

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Nationalism was at the core of the National socialists. Nationalism itself is antithetical to Marxist communism.

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This. It was specifically anti-Marxist.

Anyone that doubts that needs to Google Rudolf Jung.

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Riseupfromtherubble

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And that wasn't even Hitler's "idea"

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Go read Mein Kampf. His intent is right there

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You know almost all of that was built after the war, right? Auschwitz was almost completely bombed out by the end of

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Completely false.

The amount of flat out bs you come across about that place is amazing.

The Sword at Chelsea's Live on 1/17

Can't say about anything else because I'm don't know yet if I'm spending the rest of the year in California or Illinois.

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Turned it off when I saw Dan Rather

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I'm glad. People like you didn't deserve to see great things like his interview series on AXE was.

He gets a level of feeling and honesty out of the interviewees that most others don't.