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REVEALED - KOCHS BIRTHED MODERN PROGRESSIVES

A stash of shredded documents rescued from the garbage outside of Fred Koch's pool boy's mobile home, meticulously reconstructed by an Eagle Scout from Norman, Oklahoma for his Current Events merit badge, reveals that the Koch family has been funding the progressive movement within the Democratic Party for decades. Their successes on behalf of the Republican agenda have been stunning, resulting in the election of Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and George W. Bush. Here's what the documents reveal: 1. Nixon had become a political punchline. Ignored by Eisenhower, beaten by an upstart Kennedy, beaten again for the governorship of California two years later, the idea that Nixon could be elected President was ludicrous...until Koch-funded progressives branded Humphrey a turncoat and turned the Democratic convention in Chicago into a Marx Brothers movie. A wounded Humphrey and a fragmented Democratic Party never recovered. Enter President Nixon. 2. Reagan defeated the guy who

WHAT'S WITH DONALD TRUMP?

When we are visiting with friends here in the south of France, sipping pink and munching aperos, the question is inevitably asked. What's with you people and Donald Trump? We are, after all, the Americans in the room. As such, we are the de facto experts on the wacky world of American Presidential politics. Do you want truth, we reply? Are you ready for the truth? Can you handle the truth? OK. Pay attention. There will be a quiz. The Trumping of the Republican Party is primarily the result of two American political events. The first was the election of Ronald Reagan. You remember Reagan? Trees cause more pollution than automobiles? Ketchup is a vegetable? Those may sound silly to you today but Reagan was The Great Communicator. The disconnect between rhetoric and reality became irrelevant. I repeat in case you missed it. In American politics, the disconnect between rhetoric and reality is irrelevant. Thus, Reagan was able to preside over a huge increase in federal sp

THE BLEND #10 (Broadcast 24/4/2016) - PLAYLIST

The Blend #10 Broadcast 24/4/2016 Host: Ira Engineer: Wayne Allen For: ex-patradio.fr (You can see all of my playlists HERE .) In The Mood – The Glenn Miller Orchestra – Les Plus Grand Moments Du Jazz It Ain’t Necessarily So – Aretha Franklin – Les Plus Grand Moments Du Jazz Blue Moon – Lionel Hampton – Les Plus Grand Moments Du Jazz // Take Five – Dave Brubeck – Les Plus Grand Moments Du Jazz Ligia – Getz/Gilberto – Les Plus Grand Moments Du Jazz // If Ever You Should Leave – Ella Fitzgerald – Jazz & Blues Series I Want to Be Happy – Ella Fitzgerald – Jazz & Blues Series Hallelujah! – Ella Fitzgerald – Jazz & Blues Series // God Bless the Child – Billie Holiday – Ken Burns Jazz How Long – Jimmie Witherspoon – Ain’t Nobody’s Business A Change is Gonna Come – Aretha Franklin – I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You // Wade in the River of Jordan – Delaney & Bonnie – D&B Together Sanctified Blues – Satan & Adam –

THE BLEND #9 (Broadcast Week of 11/4/2016) - PLAYLIST

  The Blend #9 Broadcast Week of 11/4/2016 Host: Ira Engineer: Wayne Allen For: ex-patradio.fr Do Your Duty Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out – Best of the Blues: Bessie Smith // Unemployment Stomp Rider Rider Blues – Big Bill Broonzy: Whiskey and Good Time Blues // Boot That Thing Henry Ford Blues – Roosevelt Sykes – “44” Blues // C. C. Rider Worried Life Blues – Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee – East Coast Blues // Kingfish Blues Love with a Feeling – Tampa Red – The Guitar Wizard // My Babe Juke Boom Boom, Out Goes the Light – Little Walter – Best of the Blues: Little Walter // The Sky is Crying One Way Out – Elmore James – Best of the Blues: Elmore James // If Walls Could Talk Things I Used to Do – Little Milton – Stand By Me // All Night Long That Evening Train – T-Bone Walker – Best of the Blues: T-Bone Walker // See Lime Woman It’s Cold Out Here – Nina Simone – Best of the Blues: Nina S

THE BLEND #8 (Broadcast Week of 11/4/2016) - PLAYLIST

  The Blend #8 Broadcast: Week of April 11, 2016 Host: Ira Engineer: Wayne Allen For: ex-patradio.fr Stupid Texas Song – Austin Lounge Lizards – Employee of the Month Texas Top Hand – Don Walser – Texas Top Hand My Kind of Day in Padre – Gary P. Nunn et al – Totally Guacamole // The Dogs They Really Miss You – Austin Lounge Lizards – Employee of the Month Big Blue Diamonds – Don Walser – Texas Top Hand Can’t Get the Hell Out of Texas – Gary P. Nunn et al – Totally Guacamole // I Need Me (A Whole Lot More Than I Need You) – Miss Leslie – Wrong Is What I Do Best There’s Two of Us Not Talking Here – Miss Leslie – Wrong Is What I Do Best // Love and Texaco – Gretchen Peters – Gretchen Peters Offshore Blues – Roy Carrier – Zydeco Soul Roughneck – Johnny Cash – Blood, Sweat and Tears // Jungle Swing – Teddy Morgan What It Takes – Angela Strehli I’m Leaving You – Kim Wilson                                Antones’s 20 th Anniver