Mand'alor Dash

It's an in-character comment. IRL, I'm well aware that the first world war was futile.

May this have truly been the war to end all wars. Almost 40 million lives were lost these last 4 years, including 116,000 Americans. It shan't be for nothing. Charles Hart and Lewis James, Till We Meet Again.

Last year, I thought I had placed my vote for an anti-war candidate. Our fathers and our sons are crossing the Atlantic as we speak to help the Brits push back the Germans. May God bless every one of them, and may they come home soon. And... a special prayer for our allies in the Russian Empire. They seem to have taken the brunt of the war, and are facing the brink of civil war. Because that's all this world needs, another damn war. This is Nora Bayes, with Over There.

I was thinking about that Morton Harvey song I played last year. President Wilson, for all his faults, has always kept his promise to keep us out of war. None of us raised our sons to be soldiers, and God willing, we won't have to. Times like these make you ask who the real enemy is: the Germans, or the war itself. Think this over when election day comes. Until then, this is Stanley Kirkby with Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty.

They say this is the war to end all wars. In a hundred years, we'll have forgotten that there ever was war. Let's hope it's true. I Didn't Raise my Boy to be a Soldier. This is Morton Harvey

It is as we feared. Archduke Ferdinand of Austria has been assassinated by Serbian nationals. Austria has laid out demands for justice, but it seems highly unlikely that the Serbs will accept them. Some of these demands are not the least bit reasonable. As the nations of Europe begin to take sides, I am afraid this may mean war. Take your minds off the world with W.C. Handy's orchestra. This is his latest jazz standard, St. Louis Blues.

Something's brewing in Europe. So much tension between Austria and Serbia, and with Germany trying to claim territory to become an imperial power... It probably won't come to war. Lighten up with William J. Halley and You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want To Do It).

Election year once more. I swear, time passes so fast it's like we just had one last Monday. I must say, I've grown quite the fan of Taft and his outrageous mustache. Four more years, gentlemen? Not that it matters, of course. The world's ending in 100 years, just like the Mayans said. Just a simple tune today, no lyrics. Here's Cabaret Rag by Prince's Band. Sadly, I had to go back to the subreddit to locate this one after my own research proved fruitless.

If there's one thing I've learned doing this series, it's that Billy Murray was easily one of the most prolific artists of the era. So how did I manage this long without featuring him? Sheer force of will. This was the Billy Murray song I wanted to feature, and to that end, I had to search out alternative versions of several previous songs, and even outright refuse to feature some songs, including a couple that I really liked. But was it worth it? I'll leave that up to you, my listeners. As suggested by @, all the way back in 1901, this is Alexander's Ragtime Band

And drinking water also contains 666,666 parts per million of Hydrogen, going by that same logic. But of course, that's not how chemistry works at all. Vaccines USED TO contain thimerosal, a chemical compound that is part-mercury. Elements such as mercury lose all of their properties when they become part of a chemical compound, which is why we don't die of chlorine poisoning when we eat salt, or go up like the Hindenburg after ingesting all that hydrogen in water. There are some mercury compounds out there that have been linked to problems (there is one in tuna in FAR higher doses that was linked to birth defects), but thimerosal, at least in the dose given, is not one. Children should be children, not plague rats. I am of the mindset that you should be the master of your own body, but this has an extent. I believe you should be allowed to gorge yourself on fatty foods, booze, tobacco, marijuana, cocaine, and even methamphetamine if that is your wish. If you are only affecting yourself, then I believe there is no reason to ban or even fiercely regulate a practice. Vaccines not only affect you, they affect your children, your family, your friends, your neighbors, and everybody breathing your air. It is a deadly serious matter, and one which, if left to democracy, would be left to the stupidest individuals in the population. I'm not touching this. This may be true, but if people are going to act like sheep and bah at every discredited study and pseudoscience clickbait, then they might need to be herded like sheep. I know you don't trust government, and that's fine. It's a healthy attitude to be skeptical, but this goes both ways. Anti-government groups, more often than not, are far worse than the governing body they oppose. They prey on the gullible and easily validated, and use this misplaced trust to convince them of horrible, dangerous lies. I'm not saying you should eat up every word the government says. Be skeptical. The government has certainly lied in the past. But anti-government and conspiracy theorist groups lie nearly every time they open their mouths. They are, without compare, the greater of two evils. They are not to be trusted in any way.

Start of a new decade. We're already a tenth of the way there, and still climbing. Let's climb up to the sky with Blanche Ring. This is Come, Josephine, in My Flying Machine. Discuss flying machines and other crazy modern contraptions in the comments below.

Let the title of the song reflect my state of mind at the time I wrote this post. About 2:39, and all I could think of was finishing this first decade. Oh, the things I do for old music. This is Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland, a duet by Elizabeth Wheeler and Harry Anthony. Hope you enjoyed the part one of our Century in Song. Part two begins tomorrow as we dive into the 1910s. See you then, and please, comment and discuss. Even if all you have to talk about is Taft's mustache.

I got bored using Reddit to find my songs. This one I looked up and scavenged myself. Worth it. You have no idea how many songs from this decade are nowhere to be found on Youtube, let alone Reddit. Have some John McCormack, just in time for election season. What do you think of Taft? Does it strike anybody else as strange that both of our candidates have the same first name? Anyway, this is I Hear You Calling Me.

Thank you so much!