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Tuesday, July 14, 2026
Mick wants rockers to get off of your cloud
Mick Jagger says what we are all thinking.
Click to read: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/07/mick-wants-rockers-to-get-off-of-your-cloud/
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Mick Jagger has a message for his fellow rockers: Stay out of politics. Fans don’t wanna hear it. Mick wants them to remember that song about leaving people alone, i.e., “Hey (hey), you (you), get off of my cloud, get off of my cloud.”
It’s refreshing, and a realistic message from a man who’s performed before, thousands of times. Let’s check it out:
Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger says concertgoers want to escape from politics and everyday worries rather than sit through political speeches.
Jagger made the remarks during an interview on The New York Times podcast after being asked about Bruce Springsteen, who has repeatedly used his current tour to lambast President Trump.
Host David Marchese noted that Springsteen ‘clearly sees his job as engaging in a meaningful back and forth’ with audiences before asking Jagger what his own relationship with fans means to him.
Jagger said his priority is giving audiences a break from the outside world.
‘The bottom line of my thing really is that my job in the live music world is [for] those people that come is to [sic] have the best time they possibly can,’ Jagger said.
Advertisement‘For two hours or whatever it is, to forget all their problems and the problems of the world and their mortgages and whatever, just to give them the best time they can have.’
Forget their problems? Yes, that’s true; fans don’t spend a lot of money to hear someone “virtue signal,” or whatever they call it. In my case, I want politics out of musical concerts and sports. Furthermore, I paid for a ticket to hear you sing, not hear your political views. Who cares what Mick Jagger or Bruce Springsteen have to say anyway?
Another big problem is going overseas and taking a shot at the American president. Remember the (former) Dixie Chicks, who took a shot at President Bush in London over Iraq? It didn’t work out well, especially in the country music world.
Last, but not least, the real problem with many of these artists is that they can’t control themselves. They feel like you need to know their valuable opinion, then they can’t handle the reaction when fans say that they don’t care about their opinions. Again, the Dixie Chicks.
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July 1958: "Patricia" by Perez Prado was # 1 for 3 weeks
Damaso Pérez Prado was born in Matanzas, Cuba, on December 11, 1916. In the 1950's, he was "The King of Mambo" with hits like "Mambo # 5" & "Mambo # 8".
In July 1958, Perez-Prado competed with Elvis for the # 1 song in the US.
"Patricia" is one of his greatest tunes.
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In July 1958, Perez-Prado competed with Elvis for the # 1 song in the US.
"Patricia" is one of his greatest tunes.
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1970 All Star Game: Rose and Fosse crashed at home
The 1970 All Star Game was played in Cincinnati.
The starters were Jim Palmer of the Orioles and Tom Seaver of the Mets. By the end of the game, no one was talking about the two future Hall of Famers. Instead, it was a collision at home to end the game in extra innings.
In the bottom of the 12th, Jim Hickman of the Cubs hit a single, Pete Rose of the Reds ran home and Ray Fosse ot the Indians waited to make the tag.
My guess is that no one thought that Pete Rose would crash into Fosse! It was the most bizarre ending to an All Star Game ever!
The NL won 6-5!
Speaking of Ray Fosse, he had a great year in 1970: .307, 18 HR & 61 RBI. Ray played 12 seasons with Cleveland, Oakland, Seattle and Milwaukee. Fosse was a part of the great A's who won 3 straight World Series and caught 22 post season games. It's unfortunate that he will be always be remembered for that collision.
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The starters were Jim Palmer of the Orioles and Tom Seaver of the Mets. By the end of the game, no one was talking about the two future Hall of Famers. Instead, it was a collision at home to end the game in extra innings.
In the bottom of the 12th, Jim Hickman of the Cubs hit a single, Pete Rose of the Reds ran home and Ray Fosse ot the Indians waited to make the tag.
My guess is that no one thought that Pete Rose would crash into Fosse! It was the most bizarre ending to an All Star Game ever!
The NL won 6-5!
Speaking of Ray Fosse, he had a great year in 1970: .307, 18 HR & 61 RBI. Ray played 12 seasons with Cleveland, Oakland, Seattle and Milwaukee. Fosse was a part of the great A's who won 3 straight World Series and caught 22 post season games. It's unfortunate that he will be always be remembered for that collision.
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July 14 and # 500 for Aaron and Matthews
We remember two great teammates: Henry Aaron and Eddie Matthews. They played together with the Milwaukee Braves.
On July 14, 1967, Matthews hit # 500, now with the Houston Astros.
On July 14, 1968, Aaron hit # 500, now with the Atlanta Braves.
Aaron & Matthews ended up with 863 home runs in their 13 years together with the Braves.
Matthews retired after the 1968 season. He was traded by the Braves to Houston and then to Detroit. He had 4 at-bats in the 1968 Word Series and picked up another championship ring.
Aaron returned to Milwaukee in 1975 and played until 1976.
Matthews came up with the Boston Braves but enjoyed his biggest years in Milwaukee. He led the National League with 47 home runs in 1953, the team's first year in Milwaukee.
Aaron came up in 1954 and hit 755 career home runs.
Aaron & Matthews played in the World Series in 1957 & 1958. It was Matthews who made the last out to beat the Yankees in 1957.
Great teammates!
On July 14, 1967, Matthews hit # 500, now with the Houston Astros.
On July 14, 1968, Aaron hit # 500, now with the Atlanta Braves.
Aaron & Matthews ended up with 863 home runs in their 13 years together with the Braves.
Matthews retired after the 1968 season. He was traded by the Braves to Houston and then to Detroit. He had 4 at-bats in the 1968 Word Series and picked up another championship ring.
Aaron returned to Milwaukee in 1975 and played until 1976.
Matthews came up with the Boston Braves but enjoyed his biggest years in Milwaukee. He led the National League with 47 home runs in 1953, the team's first year in Milwaukee.
Aaron came up in 1954 and hit 755 career home runs.
Aaron & Matthews played in the World Series in 1957 & 1958. It was Matthews who made the last out to beat the Yankees in 1957.
Great teammates!
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July 14, 1913: President Ford was born
President Ford was born on this day in 1913. He died in 2006.
The 38th president spent much of his post presidency enjoying a well deserved retirement. He made a few appearances but generally stayed home and enjoyed his wonderful wife and family.
Yes, President Ford often smoked a pipe in public. He may have been the last president to smoke in public.
Who remembers this from the day he became president:
The 38th president spent much of his post presidency enjoying a well deserved retirement. He made a few appearances but generally stayed home and enjoyed his wonderful wife and family.
Yes, President Ford often smoked a pipe in public. He may have been the last president to smoke in public.
Who remembers this from the day he became president:
"I am acutely aware that you have not elected me as your President by your ballots. So I ask you to confirm me as your President with your prayers."I remember Pres. Ford making that statement. I think that it went over very well with much of the country.
2008 All Star Game: The Josh Hamilton Show!
Hamilton gave us the most unbelievable home run derby performance ever: 28 HR's, 3 HR's over 500 feet including one for 518 feet, and 13 consecutive HR's in the first round.
In the end, Morneau, another wonderful young hitter, won the final round.
Yet, it was a great night to see Josh do his thing!
Yet, it was a great night to see Josh do his thing!
Monday, July 13, 2026
A replacement for Senator Graham. We remember Disco Night 1979, another ICE incident in Maine, we remember Jack Kemp (1935-2009).
A replacement for Senator Graham. We remember Disco Night 1979, another ICE incident in Maine, we remember Jack Kemp (1935-2009).
Saturation was Frankie Avalon singing 'Disco Venus'
It was quite a summer of disco saturation and "malaise," a word that defined everything.
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f you remember the summer of 1979, then you remember your father complaining that the car radio was saturated with disco. Disco here, disco there, disco everywhere. It was enough to drive a lot of people to go to a White Sox-Tigers doubleheader and burn their disco LP's and 45s between the games. Let's remember the night that it happened:
As the 1970s came to an end, the age of disco was also nearing its finale. But the public backlash to the genre reached its peak on July 12, 1979 with the infamous “Disco Demolition” night at Chicago’s Comiskey Park. That incident, which led to at least nine injuries, 39 arrests and the cancellation and forfeit of a Major League Baseball game, is widely credited with signaling the end of disco's reign.
The event was the brainchild of Steve Dahl and Garry Meier, popular disc jockeys on Chicago’s WLUP “The Loop” FM. Dahl had only recently moved to WLUP from rival station WDAI when that station switched to an all-disco format -- a relatively common reformatting trend in American radio in 1979. But however many other rock DJs were displaced by disco, only Dahl was inspired to launch a semi-comic vendetta aimed at “the eradication and elimination of the dreaded musical disease.”
It was a night to remember, and I happened to be there, sort of. I was a young banker on a business trip with my senior partner. He knew that I was a baseball fan so he bought tickets to catch the game. We got to Comiskey as the first game was over and the "burning" began. As we walked to the stadium, a Chicago police officer told us to go back because the game was cancelled. Then we went back to the hotel and watched the darn thing on TV.
Everything went wrong that night:
The first mistake organizers made on Disco Demolition night was grossly underestimating the appeal of the 98-cent discount tickets offered to anyone who brought a disco record to the park to add to the explosive-rigged dumpster. WLUP and the White Sox expected perhaps 5,000 more fans than the average draw of 15,000 or so at Comiskey Park. What they got instead was a raucous sellout crowd of 40,000-plus and an even more raucous overflow crowd of as many as 40,000 more outside on Shields Avenue. The second mistake was failing to actually collect those disco records, which would become dangerous projectiles in the hands of a crowd that was already out of control by the time Dahl detonated his dumpster in center field during warm-ups for the evening’s second game.
What followed was utter chaos, as fans by the thousands stormed the field and began to wreak havoc, shimmying up the foul poles, tearing up the grass and lighting vinyl bonfires on the diamond while the stadium scoreboard implored them to return to their seats. Conditions were judged too dangerous for the scheduled game to begin, and the Detroit Tigers were awarded a win by forfeit.
A few weeks later, we got a check from the White Sox with an apology from Bill Veeck. The bad news is that I did not make a copy of the letter and check for our family history.
Disco saturation was inevitable that summer of '79. Even Frankie Avalon jumped on the disco scene and update his classic "Venus" for dancing. Radio stations were changing format from whatever to disco. You could find "disco" up and down the line.
It was crazy everywhere, and Iran had not entered our embassy yet. That happened a few months later. It was just a rough summer where it felt, fairly or unfairly, that President Carter had no backbone. Even a "wild rabbit" attacked the President when he was taking some time off at Camp David. Talk about a bad day and rough year for the man from Plains, GA.
It was quite a summer of disco saturation and "malaise," a word that defined everything.
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We remember Jack Kemp (1935-2009)
We remember Jack Kemp who was born in Los Angeles on this day in 1935. We got the news of his death in May 2009: Jack Kemp is dead of cancer.
From the 1970's until his untimely death, Jack Kemp was one of my favorite politicians. He was also a pretty AFL-NFL quarterback: 21,218 passing yards & 114 TD's.
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