From: joemahoney1950@gmail.com   
      
   My fellow "In Trump We Trust"ers, those nutcases on the left would have you   
   believe that there's something suspicious or even sinister in Trump's   
   friendship (that's all it is; who doesn't like a FRIEND?  Why Rush even   
   advocated "taking yourself a friend"    
   on their most musically and thematically ambitious album!) with Vladimir   
   Putin.  They would point out that any true conservative (or anyone with any   
   sense at all) would approach Putin warily, and point to the history of   
   US-Russia relations as a basis for    
   such suspicion.     
      
   If they knew anything about Rush, they might even point out that Neil Peart   
   himself as decried some Russian doings, as in the "Red Lenses" line "The   
   Soviets are the blues."   
      
   But this would be a gross misrepresentation.  Neil's line needs to be taken IN   
   CONTEXT.  And in context, Neil was talking about his MUSICAL INfLUENCES,   
   namely blues-rock, as manifested in such bands as Cream, who in turn were   
   inspired by the pure blues    
   of acts like Howlin' Wold, BB King, and Muddy Waters.     
      
      
   When Neil wrote that the Soviets are the "blues," he meant they were his   
   inspiration, his guiding light, his God -- just as Putin is to Trump.   
      
   Thank God for that,   
      
   Joe "spiritual not religious" M.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)