I posted this incredible video once before, but just discovered it again today and was blown away all over again. The version of this song in the video is completely different from the one on the Blackstar album; the album version is much “rockier,” more guitar, more drums, much less emphasis on the horns. This one is like a big band in hell. The album version is great. But this one is way better.
To one up Obama, tomorrow Trump will dress as The Grinch and steal presents from an orphanage pic.twitter.com/Anmbycd2Wj
— Roland Scahill (@rolandscahill) December 20, 2018
Agree with Eric.
Young Turks chief @cenkuygur criticizes ad boycott against Tucker Carlson“I think the advertisers should not pull out of Tucker Carlson’s show … Let the audience make that decision.”https://t.co/tlc3WhuI6v pic.twitter.com/B91u6DtCTI
— Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) December 19, 2018
if a show is damaging a brand, as Tucker’s show likely is, advertisers have a responsibility to protect the brand and drop that show. I mean, advertisers should be stripped of choice?? https://t.co/f7DGS1evHk
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) December 20, 2018
Now north of 25,000 stupid racist shitheads have donated to this scam, for a total of $1.5 million donated. We’re so fucked.
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) December 20, 2018
A lot of people have donated *hundreds of dollars* with a smattering of folks donating *thousands of dollars*.
I was taking my evening walk when what to my unknowing eyes should appear? The launch of the #Vandenberg #DeltaIVHeavy rocket What is the purpose of this #topsecret #rocket? How about spending the $$ on the #GreenNewDeal instead? After all #Climatechangeisreal ! pic.twitter.com/GWlJRrXonu
— Emily Rose (@EmilyRose2468) December 20, 2018
“I need to get my boss something he’ll really like,” thought Trump. https://t.co/axZv4PNsHA
— Steve Marmel (@Marmel) December 20, 2018
re: #6 teleskiguy
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A lot of people have donated *hundreds of dollars* with a smattering of folks donating *thousands of dollars*.
On the other hand, a lot of Freepers are very suspicious of the practicality/honesty of this. So not everyone is quite that gullible.
BWS posted this on the previous thread:
In a surprise move, Ohio Gov. John Kasich just expanded an anti-discrimination policy to include gender identity. https://t.co/AZu1pb6qqz pic.twitter.com/Eg4bvBkUYc
— WCPO (@WCPO) December 20, 2018
Considering that most of the time Republicans are trying to hurt people, it looks downright heroic when one actually does something to help instead.
re: #7 Single-handed sailor
Wait, you mean the launch that was scrubbed left a contrail? Impressive.
re: #7 Single-handed sailor
The launch was scrubbed. Must be UFOs.
OK. Game over. Everybody go home.
In other news, Trump Administration offers stress reducing rooms at cut rate pricing.
People are paying to be put in fake prison in South Korea to escape the stress of daily life pic.twitter.com/F7nSxFpUYk
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) December 20, 2018
re: #9 calochortus
On the other hand, a lot of Freepers are very suspicious of the practicality/honesty of this. So not everyone is quite that gullible.
Someone is going to make a helluva lot of money off of this grift.
That arrangement still floors me. Maria Schneider (it’s her arrangement and her band on the track) was the one who hooked Bowie up with the band that played on Blackstar.
I, too, miss his incredible artistry. We may never see another like him.
re: #14 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Someone is going to make a helluva lot of money off of this grift.
Or not. I think GoFundMe takes a dim view of scams.
re: #9 calochortus
Freepers who think it costs a third of a million to run a 1990s chat site? This must be as big a scam as it looks.
re: #17 Skip Intro
Freepers who think it costs a third of a million to run a 1990s chat site? This must be as big a scam as it looks.
The very same.
re: #15 makeitstop
That arrangement still floors me. Maria Schneider (it’s her arrangement and her band on the track) was the one who hooked Bowie up with the band that played on Blackstar.
I, too, miss his incredible artistry. We may never see another like him.
The birth of Punk Rock. But we didn’t know it.
re: #13 nines09
OK. Game over. Everybody go home.
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That is a real sad commentary on the way the corporate culture utterly fails to take human needs into account. This is the future conservatives want.
*THUD*
GOP KY Sen Paul: The president has the courage to say, ‘We won in Syria, and we’re coming home.’ First president in my lifetime really to do that..that’s why I think President Trump is one that we should all look to for some changes and for some reform of the Deep State
— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) December 19, 2018
re: #17 Skip Intro
Freepers who think it costs a third of a million to run a 1990s chat site? This must be as big a scam as it looks.
A 1990’s chat site? You could put that In The Cloud (tm) for probably a couple hundred a month.
From the previous thread:
re: #295 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Sorry about that, Any. I think I’ve let holiday stress, mostly second hand, get to me. It’s not much of an excuse but it’s true. I shouldn’t let that happen but I did.
I am much better now.
That’s okay.
Sorry I didn’t acknowledge that right away; I had my neighbour over at my house. My wife and I were making arrangements with him to watch our house in January while we are in Chicago to help my mother move out of her apartment, and warning we might have to take an emergency trip there in the next few days over my step-father’s health.
The holiday is stressful here as well, though not because of the holiday itself.
re: #8 Backwoods_Sleuth
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The Chris Matthews theory that Trump will resign in a few weeks makes me see Trump tying up a bunch of loose ends lately, I am sure I am totally wrong but he sure seems to be going at an accelerated pace to pander to the folks who got him there.
re: #7 Single-handed sailor
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The local news is saying the bright wiggly whatever in the sky is likely a very bright meteor.
re: #16 calochortus
Or not. I think GoFundMe takes a dim view of scams.
They are allowing it to raise money. What are they going to do after the fact when most of the money has been siphoned off for salaries and expenses?
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re: #26 NO SMOCKING GUN!
They are allowing it to raise money. What are they going to do after the fact when most of the money has been siphoned off for salaries and expenses?
P.S. Wouldn’t surprise me if a Trump looked at this and thought, “Damn, we should’ve run this con!”
LOL pic.twitter.com/PaPEiJeLr1
— Chris Evans (@notcapnamerica) December 20, 2018
“2019 may well be the year when product-led media moves from the fringes to achieve true significance and maturity.” @alexislloyd + @MattBoggie #Predix2019 https://t.co/b2xuSZkaUn
— Nieman Lab (@NiemanLab) December 20, 2018
I don’t even know what this means but I hate it already. https://t.co/7oCyQScvuY
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 20, 2018
Rachel Maddow was commenting that as far as she can tell, the Pentagon has not figured out if they are going to withdraw from Syria.
They too were caught by surprise and there has been zero planning because who knew???
What a President. Winging it. Just don’t know why.
re: #26 NO SMOCKING GUN!
They are allowing it to raise money. What are they going to do after the fact when most of the money has been siphoned off for salaries and expenses?
I’m really not sure how it works, but most of the GoFundMe campaigns I’ve seen tend to accumulate the donations until the goal is reached. I know some pass the money through immediately, but what I saw earlier made me think it was the former type campaign. I could be totally wrong.
re: #21 Backwoods_Sleuth
*THUD*
GOP KY Sen Paul: The president has the courage to say, ‘We won in Syria, and we’re coming home.’ First president in my lifetime really to do that..that’s why I think President Trump is one that we should all look to for some changes and for some reform of the Deep State
— Chad Pergram
I forgot they threw George W. Bush out of the GOP after his “Mission Accomplished” stunt on an aircraft carrier.
What is that? Seen over Oakland’s Jack London Square. #abc7now #middaylive pic.twitter.com/vCzKJ828in
— Baraka (@BarakaBurks) December 20, 2018
@DrewTumaABC7 @abc7newsbayarea What is this in the Western sky? #abc7now pic.twitter.com/EIWoC1wYup
— Brian Huck (@Brian_C_Huck) December 20, 2018
re: #32 calochortus
I’m really not sure how it works, but most of the GoFundMe campaigns I’ve seen tend to accumulate the donations until the goal is reached. I know some pass the money through immediately, but what I saw earlier made me think it was the former type campaign. I could be totally wrong.
What is silly about all of this is that I doubt the executive branch of government can even do any old thing not authorized by law just because a bunch of citizens donate money to do it.
Happy Hundredth Birthday to Professor Longhair!
Pictured: WWII draft card and portrait by Michael P. Smith pic.twitter.com/OA6S5yXzIs— Michael Tisserand (@m_tisserand) December 19, 2018
🗣 This isn’t the America we want to live in.
It’s past time for members of Congress to do their jobs and make @CBP shut down its child jails. https://t.co/0YRfjWnrdG— ACLU (@ACLU) December 20, 2018
re: #34 Single-handed sailor
Either Elon Musk is having a bad day, or someone is recreating the movie Airplane!.
re: #30 Charles Johnson
An exciting new dystopia where you pay to get told the world functions exactly like how you assume it to, while companies pay middlemen for your information to create more perfect approximations of what you want to hear.
Reality as direct sales product.
re: #28 NO SMOCKING GUN!
P.S. Wouldn’t surprise me if a Trump looked at this and thought, “Damn, we should’ve run this con!”
It wouldn’t surprise if he was running it. He does need a couple of million for fines on his bogus foundation, and this appeared right after that.
Wait for it…….🤣🤣🤣pic.twitter.com/8egOSheKPE
— Hear Me Roar (@Stop_Trump20) December 19, 2018
re: #37 Backwoods_Sleuth
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The Democratic House needs to start investigations of these crimes day one.
— aagcobb (@aagcobb) December 20, 2018
A couple of threads ago there was discussion of life-changing albums. I would say the live albums “Beatles Live at the Hollywood Bowl” and the Stones’ “Get Yer Ya-Yas Out” each changed me—I thought: I have to do this. But incredibly, in the midst of punk and disco war, it was my brother’s Only Ones albums that did it for me. I I loved the CBS studio version of this first (over produced), but this is the best. And another Only One’s favorite with an amazing guitar solo by Glenn Tilbrook follows.
NWS doesn’t know either
Anyone else see this interesting cloud feature? We saw it here at the office. #cawx pic.twitter.com/nc8xdZ5jj4
— NWS Bay Area (@NWSBayArea) December 20, 2018
Rob Kelner-the Guy Who Signed Mike Flynn’s FARA Filings-Continued to Be Insubordinate in Yesterday’s Hearing (Goes to emptywheel):
Most of the focus in yesterday’s Mike Flynn sentencing hearing has focused on Judge Emmet Sullivan’s invocation of treason, which I addressed at length here. But — particularly since I have belatedly realized that Rob Kelner is one of the lawyers referred to in the Bijan Kian indictment who filed a FARA registration that, because of lies attributed to Flynn and Ekim Alptekin, ended up being a false statement, I want to look at two bullshit answers Kelner offered yesterday about his little ploy of introducing language on Peter Strzok and Andrew McCabe in Flynn’s sentencing memo.
Taking the second one first, Sullivan asked Kelner to explain why he chose to cite Peter Strzok’s August 22, 2017 302, which had some language about what a successful liar Flynn can be, and not Flynn’s own utterly damning January 24, 2017 302. This was a question directing counsel to explain why he tried to pull a fast one over on the judge. Any responsive answer would have to address that January 24 302 (and wouldn’t need to address the McCabe memo, at all).
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It’s probably an Aegis cruiser testing a SM-3 intercept of a ballistic missile.
Music is amazingly powerful
So if you enjoy playing Arrest The President (Ice Cube) and then I am a Man of Constant Sorrow (Soggy Bottom Boys) might it be a symptom of culture schizophrenia? Asking for a friend.
re: #46 Single-handed sailor
It’s probably an Aegis cruiser testing a SM-3 intercept of a ballistic missile.
Yup, I’ve seen similar contrails from anti-ballistic missiles.
re: #47 Unshaken Defiance
Music is amazingly powerful
So if you enjoy playing Arrest The President (Ice Cube) and then I am a Man of Constant Sorrow (Soggy Bottom Boys) might it be a symptom of culture schizophrenia? Asking for a friend.
No.
re: #47 Unshaken Defiance
I’ve been bouncing between “Louder Than A Bomb” by Public Enemy and “Talk About The Passion” by R.E.M. I know the feeling.
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Tucker Carlson ends b saying his show “says what we think is true whether they like it or not.”
He’s referring to his belief that immigrants make America “dirtier.” pic.twitter.com/uVZPvcdpS6— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) December 20, 2018
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re: #47 Unshaken Defiance
Music is amazingly powerful
So if you enjoy playing Arrest The President (Ice Cube) and then I am a Man of Constant Sorrow (Soggy Bottom Boys) might it be a symptom of culture schizophrenia? Asking for a friend.
Sign of having an eclectic taste.
Why Sharing Is the Future of Your City
Speaking of dystopia: it is super fucking creepy how actual sharing is being elided with a short-term-rental economy and its teratomic twin, the intermediary service that connects you to an (underpaid) independent contractor.
Just the way that the application and its infrastructure…and their profit motive…are removed from this discussion is sinister.
re: #50 teleskiguy
Music is my sage. At all emotional extremes I may run into, music gets me through. So far anyway.
re: #43 Barefoot Grin
A couple of threads ago there was discussion of life-changing albums. I would say the live albums “Beatles Live at the Hollywood Bowl” and the Stones’ “Get Yer Ya-Yas Out” each changed me—I thought: I have to do this. But incredibly, in the midst of punk and disco war, it was my brother’s Only Ones albums that did it for me. I I loved the CBS studio version of this first (over produced), but this is the best. And another Only One’s favorite with an amazing guitar solo by Glenn Tilbrook follows.
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For me it was when my mother took me to Abrams Planetarium at Michigan State University for a visual rendition of Issac Azimov’s short story “The Last Question.”
At the time, I was living with my grandparents and they prohibited listening to any modern music.
After the planetarium show, on the way out they were playing “Roundabout” by Yes. I was captivated by that and insisted to stay to listen to the whole song. (Shortly afterwards I got a copy of the LP Fragile from her and kept it hidden, only to be played late at night.)
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Provided to YouTube by Warner Music Group Roundabout (2008 Remastered Version) * Yes Fragile ℗ 1972 Atlantic Recording Corporation Drums, Percussion: Bill Bruford Bass Guitar: Chris Squire Backing Vocals: Chris Squire Producer: Eddie Offord Lead Vocals: Jon Anderson Keyboards, Synthesiser: Rick Wakeman Guitar: Steve Howe Backing Vocals: Steve Howe Producer: YES Writer: Jon Anderson Writer: Steve Howe
This dad wore an Upsee so his son with cerebral palsy could experience some sports look how happy the boy is 😭😭 pic.twitter.com/Ai6Y7jymHM
— Akki (@AkkiJ_) December 19, 2018
re: #47 Unshaken Defiance
Music is amazingly powerful
So if you enjoy playing Arrest The President (Ice Cube) and then I am a Man of Constant Sorrow (Soggy Bottom Boys) might it be a symptom of culture schizophrenia? Asking for a friend.
NO.
Example 101
Hi all.
A couple days ago several of you made suggestions for a change to my name after I complained that I cannot see Private Comments that others have addressed to me. Thank you all. As I mentioned, I believe my problem is that my name includes an apostrophe. I am hoping that Charles might be able to figure out a correction that would accept this name.
re: #50 teleskiguy
I’ve been bouncing between “Louder Than A Bomb” by Public Enemy and “Talk About The Passion” by R.E.M. I know the feeling.
Michael Stipe and Peter Buck came to my freshman comp class to talk about their approach to writing songs for the second LP.
re: #59 nines09
NO.
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I still remember when Bobby Darin died—damn that was a shock! He was a great guy….
re: #52 Backwoods_Sleuth
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“says what we think is true whether they like it or not it is or not.” Fixed it for Tucker.
re: #59 nines09
So what I find really funny is that the genres are different but “Mack the Knife” is pretty much about making bodies hit the floor….
On an unrelated topic I’ve just started watching Rory O’Connell’s cooking show on PBS.
It’s sort of the opposite of America’s Test Kitchen. You can tell your chicken is done by sticking a metal skewer in between the leg and the body for 5 seconds or so, then hold the skewer against the inside of your wrist to judge the temperature (should be really hot.) He also casually held a lemon in his bare hand while stabbing it with a knife to pierce the rind. Amounts of ingredients are vague, cooking temperatures and times aren’t really spelled out most of the time. It’s kind of refreshing.
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re: #65 Very Cool Very Legal Ghost Flea
So what I find really funny is that the genres are different but “Mack the Knife” is pretty much about making bodies hit the floor….
Yep.
Attitude.
— Andy Richter (@AndyRichter) December 20, 2018
re: #65 Very Cool Very Legal Ghost Flea
So what I find really funny is that the genres are different but “Mack the Knife” is pretty much about making bodies hit the floor….
re: #7 Single-handed sailor
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Gah. Tell Emily that a lot of the information that is going to save the planet, if it is to be saved, comes from those nasty expensive rockets.
You should really click on the photo view icon. It’s worth it to see the whole image
Face timing with the parents pic.twitter.com/uNdvx0Sl3M
— Geoff Ziezulewicz (@JournoGeoffZ) December 20, 2018
A 5-month-old girl, detained by Border Patrol & held in freezing cells, has been hospitalized with pneumonia. Mother: “I said I needed a hospital because her breathing was getting worse. The agents told me I wasn’t in a position to be asking for anything.” https://t.co/fhIJJZQ9rl
— The Appeal (@theappeal) December 19, 2018
Just noting, for those of us who are Christians, that the gospels requires us to welcome strangers. Somehow this seems a little short of the mark https://t.co/4pJC52zIHX
— Bill McKibben (@billmckibben) December 19, 2018
Still not 100% certain, but evidence is growing the object seen was a meteor. A meteor can create a very high level cloud called a noctilucent cloud. @NASA has a great webpage explaining the cloud formation. https://t.co/eDquECamLl #cawx
— NWS Bay Area (@NWSBayArea) December 20, 2018
Do we know who that godundme page belongs to? I mean, are they a known wingnut? I wouldn’t put it past some non-wingnut to put that up as a troll.
Brutal Carjacking caught on camera!😍 pic.twitter.com/LxN7tOZb4Y
— Puppiesworld (@Puppiesworld_) November 29, 2018
re: #76 GlutenFreeJesus
Do we know who that godundme page belongs to? I mean, are they a known wingnut? I wouldn’t put it past some non-wingnut to put that up as a troll.
Here’s dude’s Facebook page, he’s a true believer.
re: #71 Decatur Deb
Gah. Tell Emily that a lot of the information that is going to save the planet, if it is to be saved, comes from those nasty expensive rockets.
Also, spy satellites (after the U-2 became untenable) were the main thing that prevented the Pentagon from making up any threat or “missile gap” they wanted to and starting WWIII….
Dummy thinks 83 million people voted for Fuckface Von Clownstick. The actual number is 62,984,828.
— Meanwhile in Canada (@MeanwhileinCana) December 20, 2018
re: #80 teleskiguy
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Dummy thinks 83 million people voted for Fuckface Von Clownstick. The actual number is 62,984,828.
Details, details…
re: #80 teleskiguy
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Dummy thinks 83 million people voted for Fuckface Von Clownstick. The actual number is 62,984,828.
Hope he collects tens of millions and blows it on blackjack and hookers. That’s less for GOP yardsigns.
Some of the responses are pretty funny.
Joining @chrislhayes tonight: @emptywheel #GlennKirschner @nedprice @NatashaBertrand @mayawiley @dsamuelsohn @CharlesPPierce @rconniff @RepJeffries #inners
— All In w/Chris Hayes (@allinwithchris) December 20, 2018
I might’ve talking Stone on the teevee. What’s the word? Rascal? https://t.co/UvBjRHddB1
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) December 20, 2018
I’ve watched this about 10 times and have belly laughed every time. I now share it with you to do the same. 😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/gEj0FaNTV7
— Thomas J (@TJ_Hewitt) December 17, 2018
watching this controversy over boycotts play out my only thought is how the objection depends on classifying racism/white nationalism/white supremacy as just another category of political speech rather than something qualitatively different, and more dangerous, given our history.
— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) December 19, 2018
re: #43 Barefoot Grin
A couple of threads ago there was discussion of life-changing albums. I would say the live albums “Beatles Live at the Hollywood Bowl” and the Stones’ “Get Yer Ya-Yas Out” each changed me—I thought: I have to do this. But incredibly, in the midst of punk and disco war, it was my brother’s Only Ones albums that did it for me. I I loved the CBS studio version of this first (over produced), but this is the best. And another Only One’s favorite with an amazing guitar solo by Glenn Tilbrook follows.
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- it’s interesting that so many of us remember when where and how the enlightenment took place
- that we can actually point back to a specific album
re: #47 Unshaken Defiance
Not at all. I have amazingly eclectic music tastes. I can go from Gangsta Rap to Classic Rock to Country in a single listening session.
re: #63 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
I still remember when Bobby Darin died—damn that was a shock! He was a great guy….
I think my father wept.
re: #80 teleskiguy
Brian Kolfage
on Monday
LETS GET IT BUILT!We need 83 Million Trump voters to give $80 and the wall will be entirely funded.
Dummy thinks 83 million people voted for Fuckface Von Clownstick. The actual number is 62,984,828.
- if you actually collected all that money, the government dont own that money
- if you give it to the government it goes into the general treasury
- if it goes into the treasury, congress, not the president, decides how it’s spent
- oh, and government dont own the land anyway
Let the Bodies Hit the Floor is just It’s Raining Men from a different point of view.
Not yet. This is a chess match.
— Michael Avenatti (@MichaelAvenatti) December 20, 2018
Here’s a thought bubble for you 🇺🇸:
1. Stormy Daniels is not just a star of “adult” films, she’s a director.
2. What are the chances Dotard wanted to star in his own private porno, & Stormy made that happen for him?
3. For director fee, performers & crew, would cost be @ $130k? pic.twitter.com/9B4bgtx32m— Lincoln’s Bible (@LincolnsBible) March 11, 2018
K. Cuz this is one of the few things I’ve gamed on Trump that hasn’t yet come true. I could be wrong. But, then again…https://t.co/aQuLW5Hxqw
— Lincoln’s Bible (@LincolnsBible) December 20, 2018
Three years ago, we began a great journey to set our nation on a better path. Now, my season of service is coming to a close. Tune in live soon for my Farewell Address as Speaker of the House: https://t.co/RrNzrxPmYU
— Paul Ryan (@SpeakerRyan) December 19, 2018
Rat: I’m leaving the ship! Seeya, Chumps! https://t.co/Kw1IKyYrdy
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) December 20, 2018
re: #90 retired cynic
I think my father wept.
He was campaigning for Bobby Kennedy when it happened, and then… What a year!
re: #89 Eclectic Cyborg
Not at all. I have amazingly eclectic music tastes. I can go from Gangsta Rap to Classic Rock to Country in a single listening session.
add in some classical, opera, bach organ fugues and jazz and that could be one of my days
as long as it’s ‘country’ and not this modern nonsense (imo)
re: #95 Anymouse 🌹
Three years ago, we began a great journey to set our nation on a better path. Now, my season of service is coming to a close. Tune in live soon for my Farewell Address as Speaker of the House:
- ryan haz a sad he didnt get gutting “entitlements” done
- as if they are…
- who ran the house, senate and white house for the past 2 years?
- and you couldnt get it done?
- sad
re: #80 teleskiguy
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Dummy thinks 83 million people voted for Fuckface Von Clownstick. The actual number is 62,984,828.
HE IS TALKING ABOUT THE 83 MILLION PEOPLE WHO WILL VOTE FOR HIM IN 2020!
re: #94 gocart mozart
I bet “no” because Trump does not have even a tiny bit of creativity in him. Not even the thin little spark required to want his own sex tape.
— Kealoha (@Kealoha303) December 20, 2018
Well, scrolling through religious wingnut feeds on YouTube, it appears Ken Ham’s “Answers in Genesis” is going to livestream how atheists are bringing transgender bathrooms to Cincinnati on the 20th.
I wasn’t aware we were so powerful. Maybe we’re the “Deep State.”
re: #72 nines09
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I mentioned earlier that we ran a small opry for a while. We had a young woman who could sing like Patsy Cline, or Reba McIntyre, or Dolly Parton, or Martina McBride, and maybe do them better. She also could yodel, and she did an almost-pleasant version of Mule Skinner Blues. Not done for laughs, in other words.
re: #97 dangerman
add in some classical, opera, bach organ fugues and jazz and that could be one of my days
as long as it’s ‘country’ and not this modern nonsense (imo)
The modern stuff is more rock with a southern accent than it is country. But I can appreciate some of it for what it is, just like I’d enjoy a cheesy Poison song.
re: #99 bd(Redacted)
HE IS TALKING ABOUT THE 83 MILLION PEOPLE WHO WILL VOTE FOR HIM IN 2020!
He’s counting the 20 million ill eagles who each killed a tRump voter and then impersonated them at the polls to vote for Clinton.
re: #104 makeitstop
I swear country music twang is it own distinct thing, not an accent from anywhere.
re: #97 dangerman
add in some classical, opera, bach organ fugues and jazz and that could be one of my days
as long as it’s ‘country’ and not this modern nonsense (imo)
Oh hell no. Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson for life.
re: #97 dangerman
as long as it’s ‘country’ and not this modern nonsense (imo)
Sturgill fucking Simpson.
re: #106 Very Cool Very Legal Ghost Flea
I swear country music twang is it own distinct thing, not an accent from anywhere.
And the Bro Country guys really play it up. Some of it sounds almost like a parody of a country twang.
re: #2 Patricia Kayden
Cenk’s logic only works if he thinks the viewers were watching the ads instead of Carlson
re: #110 makeitstop
And the Bro Country guys really play it up. Some of it sounds almost like a parody of a country twang.
And 2014. And 2015. And 2016. Etc.
re: #78 teleskiguy
Here’s dude’s Facebook page, he’s a true believer.
Darn. That would have been an epic troll.
Lights of United States at night, as seen from space: #NASA pic.twitter.com/cuTCfcxMIl
— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) December 20, 2018
I can see my dot! Sort of.
Attacks on Tucker Carlson threaten US strategic supply of vacant stares, rhetorical questions, and self-satisfied smirking. pic.twitter.com/HnCpOVFfEt
— DPRK News Service (@DPRK_News) December 20, 2018
re: #116 teleskiguy
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I can see my dot! Sort of.
Someone with Photoshop skills could replace the black with red and the bright spots with blue.
re: #116 teleskiguy
The Bakken oil fields in North Dakota are striking.
re: #116 teleskiguy
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I can see my dot! Sort of.
Unfortunately so can I and I live in a rural area. Be nicer if we were less bright…
This guy tweets quality U.S. history. One of my favorite follows.
Earth as photographed by crew of Apollo 17, including last human beings to walk on moon, who splashed down today 1972: #NASA pic.twitter.com/yKTteG776J
— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) December 20, 2018
re: #121 teleskiguy
This guy tweets quality U.S. history. One of my favorite follows.
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How excited we were to see our bright blue marble from space!
re: #122 retired cynic
How excited we were to see our bright blue marble from space!
From this distant vantage point, earth might not seem of any particular importance.
But for us, it’s different.
Consider again that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us.
On it, everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives.
The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every “superstar”, every “supreme leader”, every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there — on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.
Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light.
Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate.
Visit? Yes.
Settle? Not yet.
Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience.
There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world.
To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.
re: #116 teleskiguy
I can see my dot! Sort of.
I live in the big black space in the High Plains that looks like North Korea at night.
re: #125 Anymouse 🌹
I live in the big black space in the High Plains that looks like North Korea at night.
I live in the black space directly north of St Louis.
A theory: All of Trump’s posturing on domestic issues is pure theater and a distraction. When he has serious conversations, it’s over the phone with foreign dictators, with no US translators present. Withdrawing forces from Syria and removing sanction from the Russian corporation are part of his real agenda, diminishing our influence in the world and damaging our foreign policy beyond recovery.
re: #119 teleskiguy
The Bakken oil fields in North Dakota are striking.
As are the shale fields in the arc south of San Antonio.
Stop the Stupid Tucker Carlson Boycott - POLITICO Magazine https://t.co/Ed0cP9EKxI
— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) December 20, 2018
Aaand she’s back! And defending.. the… bigot. Very on-brand! https://t.co/1AgbKJFUIA
— Soledad O’Brien (@soledadobrien) December 20, 2018
It continues pic.twitter.com/7RPPHQNGDu
— David B Larter (@DavidLarter) December 20, 2018
re: #129 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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Megyn doesn’t understand how marketing works. If the source of your advertising becomes toxic, you bail to avoid being identified with the source. This is basic capitalism, red in tooth and claw. This is how marketing works.
If Tucker fucks the dog and becomes a liability to his advertisers, he loses advertisers. This is dead simple.
Megyn appears to not understand basic economics.
Here’s my shocked face:
Richard Spencer’s liberal girlfriend says that “aside from Richard’s stances on racial identity and immigration, the majority of his positions on social politics are decidedly liberal”, calls for “friendship, care, and conversations aimed at understanding” https://t.co/EYvb7YdMdz pic.twitter.com/YQGkdUXAbi
— Heresy Labs (@heresysquad) December 13, 2018
THREAD Racism via
faux constructed patchwork of stolen snippets 4m “liberal” philosophical metaphysical psychological sociological anthropological concepts PURPOSELY twisted in2 Orwellian language 2 gaslight reality re: WHITE SUPREMACY is pathological beyond t/pale@docrocktex26 https://t.co/fVcwE0eE9a— Dr. Kate Shaw MA., MS., PsyD. (@katelovesneuro) December 20, 2018
Highly recommended.
The best essay of the year about Facebook. The Cost of Living in Mark Zuckerberg’s Internet Empire https://t.co/EScYaH2hVa
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) December 19, 2018
re: #129 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Sure. As soon as conservatives stop their boycotts of Starbucks, Wal*Mart, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Target, &c.
By the way, how are those boycotts going? Oh right, they are dismal failures.
Conservatives are just upset that liberal boycotts actually work.
re: #134 Anymouse 🌹
Sure. As soon as conservatives stop their boycotts of Starbucks, Wal*Mart, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Target, &c.
By the way, how are those boycotts going? Oh right, they are dismal failures.
Conservatives are just upset that liberal boycotts actually work.
Yeah, but those are corporate, rather than media boycotts: Megyn seems to be more upset over Carlson, probably because it hits closer to home.
I’m sure she understands economics, though: if someone was pressuring advertisers over some liberal pundit who might have offended the snowflakes, I’m sure she’d be all for it….
The list of companies with which Facebook shared your private information includes China’s Huawei and Russia’s Yandex — which is to say, companies regarded as partners of Chinese and Russian intelligence.https://t.co/PbFP9D4vTj
— Binyamin Appelbaum (@BCAppelbaum) December 19, 2018
re: #2 Patricia Kayden
Agree with Eric.
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re: #136 Jay C
Yeah, but those are corporate, rather than media boycotts: Megyn seems to be more upset over Carlson, probably because it hits closer to home.
I’m sure she understands economics, though: if someone was pressuring advertisers over some liberal pundit who might have offended the snowflakes, I’m sure she’d be all for it….
Exactly. She’s pissed it’s hitting her former employer and a friend of hers.
(Let’s all pause and consider that she thinks of Tucker as a friend of hers.)
She’s a classic example of the modern Conservative who truly believes that actions have actions have consequences in all cases until a Conservative screws the pooch and suffers consequences:
“But that doesn’t apply to us!”
re: #74 Anymouse 🌹
Put “Christ” back in “Christian” before you worry about “us” putting it back in Christmas.
Elections. Have. Consequences
- Cost of living, highest in 10yrs
- Gun deaths, most in 50yrs
- Hate crime, worst in 18yrs
- US deficit, $1 TRILLION
- December Market, worst since 1931
- 2018, 4th hottest year on record
Time to end this @GOP experiment for good. Literally— UnsilentMajority 🖤 (@The_UnSilent_) December 19, 2018
Some people build walls.
Others build ladders.
https://t.co/XNqHVOXsKZ— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) December 20, 2018
Late to the “what record led to your musical awakening” discussion….
I liked a lot of the pop and rock songs of my era, and appreciated instrumental versatility—still do—but what really speaks to me is singer/songwriter-type stuff, and what converted me was Danny O’Keefe’s Breezy Stories. Before that I liked Goodtime Charlie’s Got the Blues because it was a great song about the Boeing Depression, but I didn’t realize what an underrated songwriter he was—and how much I only knew from inferior covers.
On the disaster that is the Syria bugout, from CNN:
{Resistance to the move was strong among some in the administration. A senior administration official told CNN’s Jake Tapper that the President’s decision to withdraw US troops from Syria is “a mistake of colossal proportions and the President fails to see how it will endanger our country.”
“Senior officials across the administration agree that the President’s decision-by-tweet will recklessly put American and allied lives in danger around the world, take the pressure off of ISIS — allowing them to reconstitute — and hand a strategic victory to our Syrian, Iranian and Russian adversaries,” the official said.
Diplomatic sources from two countries in the region said their countries were not consulted or informed, and described the news of the planned withdrawal as a “total surprise.”}
In other words, State and the DoD were gobsmacked and think the POTUS is a fuckwit. Even Bolton is saying it’s wrong. Bolton!
They are right. This all came out of a conversation Drumpf had with Erdogan late last week. Erdogan wants to get US troops out of contact with the Kurds in northern Syria. He also wants American airpower out of the region. He wants to fuck the Kurds. Oh, and buy some US weapons systems. Winning!
And Drumpf seems to have agreed. So once again, US policy is trending toward fucking the Kurds, our true allies against ISIS, and the Iranians.
This is just as stupid a decision as we could possibly make. Once again, we throw the Kurds under the bus. It’s great for Erdogan, the Russians, Assad, and Iran.
It begs the question:
Just who’s side is Drumpf on? It doesn’t appear to be the interests of the US, Europe. and NATO.
That would mean he’s on the side of…
Well, for whatever it’s worth, I just had an article published in an obscure high-IQ society’s journal, a society of which I am not a member and which doesn’t publish articles from non-members.
Does that mean I have arrived as a writer, or they were looking for filler?
re: #147 Anymouse 🌹
Well, for whatever it’s worth, I just had an article published in an obscure high-IQ society’s journal, a society of which I am not a member and which doesn’t publish articles from non-members.
Does that mean I have arrived as a writer, or they were looking for filler?
Send them a letter and ask them.
Also, ask for royalties.
re: #149 austin_blue
Send them a letter and ask them.
Also, ask for royalties.
I don’t think they pay royalties. Like many groups which have newsletters, they mostly depend on submissions by members.
I’m going to look back through my E-mail to see if I gave someone permission to publish it (even if accidentally). It was an article I wrote on why atheists in the USA celebrate things such as Thanksgiving Day (originally to a closed Yahoo group I manage), and the history of that day in the USA.
Their newsletter is available for anyone to read, though.
re: #147 Anymouse 🌹
Well, for whatever it’s worth, I just had an article published in an obscure high-IQ society’s journal, a society of which I am not a member and which doesn’t publish articles from non-members.
Does that mean I have arrived as a writer, or they were looking for filler?
They would not have published it if they thought it didn’t meet their standards. So you have arrived as a writer — for the elite!
re: #151 Hecuba’s daughter
They would not have published it if they thought it didn’t meet their standards. So you have arrived as a writer — for the elite!
Exposure bux.
re: #143 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Late to the “what record led to your musical awakening” discussion….
I liked a lot of the pop and rock songs of my era, and appreciated instrumental versatility—still do—but what really speaks to me is singer/songwriter-type stuff, and what converted me was Danny O’Keefe’s Breezy Stories. Before that I liked Goodtime Charlie’s Got the Blues because it was a great song about the Boeing Depression, but I didn’t realize what an underrated songwriter he was—and how much I only knew from inferior covers.
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O’Keefe’s ‘She Said Drive On, Driver’ from that album is one of my favorite songs.
re: #153 Single-handed sailor
Gordon Lightfoot turned 80 last month while on tour.
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re: #156 William Lewis
Slightly younger but then weren’t we all then?
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I give a damn about trumpet-playing bands….
re: #153 Single-handed sailor
Gordon Lightfoot turned 80 last month while on tour.
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Fun fact: Sundown is the song I sung when I tried out for Canadian Idol.
re: #158 Eclectic Cyborg
Fun fact: Sundown is the song I sung when I tried out for Canadian Idol.
My favorite GL song, besides “If You Could Read My Mind”:
re: #158 Eclectic Cyborg
Fun fact: Sundown is the song I sung when I tried out for Canadian Idol.
You tried out for the show? That’s kewl. (I despise that song, but it takes quite a bit of guts to stick yourself out there to be judged on television.)
re: #127 Hecuba’s daughter
A theory: All of Trump’s posturing on domestic issues is pure theater and a distraction. When he has serious conversations, it’s over the phone with foreign dictators, with no US translators present. Withdrawing forces from Syria and removing sanction from the Russian corporation are part of his real agenda, diminishing our influence in the world and damaging our foreign policy beyond recovery.
Sounds solid.
I cannot reiterate, at any level, the rage I feel, and what a punch in the mouth is to the Kurds.
This is a complete abandonment of our fiercest and most trusted ally in the Middle East over the past 15 years of the war against Iraq/ISIS.
They were instrumental in liberating Mosul and driving ISIS out of their territory in Syria. They fought and died for us.
Not to mention that we allowed Saddam to gas them by the thousands after the 2001 war. We threw them under the bus before. We owe them a tremendous level of support now, and we have abandoned them.
This is just the stupidest thing we have ever done as a foreign policy decision that I can remember.
If I was the Kurdish government, I would do my best to burn the US down to cinders. We deserve it.
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