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Kellys Mountain – 100CountryTrek.com

The area around Kellys Mountain is rich in Scottish history in Cape Breton

Over the bridge from Kelly’s Mountain

Visited here from Red Island

Source: Kellys Mountain – 100CountryTrek.com

♫ Sir Duke ♫ (Redux) | Filosofa’s Word

Stevie Wonder wrote this song as a tribute to music, specifically to Duke Ellington, who had died in 1974. Ellington was a jazz bandleader and composer who was a big influence on Wonder.

“I knew the title from the beginning but wanted it to be about the musicians who did something for us. So soon they are forgotten. I wanted to show my appreciation. They gave us something that is supposed to be forever. That’s the basic idea of what we do and how we hook it up.”

In addition to Ellington, musicians referenced in this song are “Satchmo” Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie and Sodarisa Miller.

This wasn’t the first song Wonder wrote in tribute to one of his musical inspirations: Bye Bye World from his 1968 album Eivets Rednow is about the guitarist Wes Montgomery. Wonder’s second album, released in 1962 when he was just 12 years old, was a tribute to ‘Uncle Ray’, which paid homage to Ray Charles.

This charted at in the U.S. and Canada, and in the UK.

Sir Duke
Stevie Wonder 

Source: ♫ Sir Duke ♫ (Redux) | Filosofa’s Word

GOP MAGA Ex-President’s Outrageous Lies Went Unchecked by CNN Moderators – Gronda Morin

Political Cartoon: Donald J. Trump’s allergy to the truthThis lack of real time factchecking on claims made on the debate stage by presidential candidates is disrespectful to voters who’re deciding who to hire for the job. If average Americans can’t apply for jobs with resumes full of distortions because business managers do fact checking, then why do presidential candidates get a free pass?

Source: GOP MAGA Ex-President’s Outrageous Lies Went Unchecked by CNN Moderators – Gronda Morin

Presidential Debate’s Climate Change Question Contrasts Biden Record with Trump Falsehoods | Scientific American

“I want absolutely immaculate clean water and absolutely clean air,” Trump said. “And we had it. We had H2O, we had the best numbers ever, and we were using all forms of energy, everything.” He said his presidency saw “the best environmental numbers ever,” a statistic he said his advisers had given him moments before he walked onto the stage. In truth, Trump rolled back more than 200 environmental policies during his four years in office…

Biden, for his part, said he enacted “the most extensive climate change legislation in history,” a reference to the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, which contained $369 billion in clean energy tax credits and funding for climate and energy programs. He also mentioned his administration’s creation of the American Climate Corps — a federal program to put young people to work on landscape restoration, renewable energy deployment, and other green projects — and reiterated the importance of keeping global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit).

Source: Presidential Debate’s Climate Change Question Contrasts Biden Record with Trump Falsehoods | Scientific American