Friday, August 31, 2018

Forever Young

Aretha Franklin, John McCain and the 1960s
"Hope I die before I get old," the Who sang at Woodstock as the 1960s hurtled to their end. Indeed, the decade and its echoes made premature legends of so many — Kennedy to King, Hendrix to Joplin to Morrison. They became emblems of an era, and the packaging of their virtues and vices has never really stopped...That's the crossroads where both Aretha Franklin and John McCain stood — shaped by the decade that reshaped so much of American life but propelled into the 1970s and all the way to 2018


So we have Bill Clinton jamming at Aretha Franklin’s funeral, Bush/Obama at John McCain’s funeral, Carter probably saving the world, and Trump is going to a rally for himself because he needs affirmation for a 60% disapproval rating. 

Remember this day.- Alt Dept of Labor tweet






The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam Trump

I'm sorry- when the McCain family requested that Trump not be at John McCain's Funeral
I dont think that Mike Pence should have even mentioned Trump's  name.
Pence said :"He will be missed. As  
President Trump said yesterday, we respect his service to the country"
Hypocritical. - Linda Rothwell


Pence Takes A Last Poke At McCain Saving Obamacare
Vice President Mike Pence said Thursday that Republicans plan to give another try to repealing and replacing ObamaCare if they do well enough in November’s elections.






Today would be a very good day for Mueller to drop an atomic f-cking bomb. - Jeff Tiedrich




If Trump died tomorrow, not one single living previous American president would attend his funeral. 
That’s kind of glorious. - Roland Scahill


Republican Shenanigans




Let me simplify this for you Texas...
Beto O’Rourke- Was in a band
Ted Cruz- Campaigned for a man who called his wife ugly
Who would you rather have? - Tony Posnanski






Trump Has Been Firing People He Doesn't Like. I'm Surprised He Hasn't Hired A Hitman Like Putin.
A senior Justice Department lawyer says a former British spy told him at a breakfast meeting two years ago that Russian intelligence believed it had Donald Trump "over a barrel," according to multiple people familiar with the encounter.
The lawyer, Bruce Ohr, also says he learned that a Trump campaign aide had met with higher-level Russian officials than the aide had acknowledged, the people said.






Please, everyone, never call him “President Trump.” It only encourages him. - Andy Borowitz

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Today's celebration of Aretha Franklin's life was like the lady herself: Joyful, profound, and full of song. Thank you to everyone who performed, spoke in remembrance, and made it a send-off worthy of her. - Hillary Clinton

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Putin Sure Has A Lot Of Bagmen
A former Paul Manafort associate who pleaded guilty to a lobbying crime admitted that he helped foreign donors give money to President Donald Trump’s Inaugural Committee.
In a plea agreement made public Friday, prosecutors outlined other crimes that the lobbyist, Sam Patten, admitted to but wouldn’t be charged with. Among them was “causing foreign money” to be paid to the Trump inaugural committee. Patten signed off on the allegation.






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Remember, if you let your toddler spend too much time looking at screens they might grow up to be a completely normal American adult. - John Fugelsang






NBC Threatened The Messenger
In 2017, NBC’s general counsel allegedly threatened to ruin Ronan Farrow if he didn’t stop reporting on Harvey Weinstein — even though he’d already left the network.







“It always seems impossible until it’s done.” - Nelson Mandela






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The Apennine Colossus. Florence, Italy.

Peace to all.


Thursday, August 30, 2018

Trump is paranoid for many reasons, so it seems...

Trump, Cohen wanted to buy decades of killed stories from National Enquirer
President Donald Trump and his then-attorney Michael Cohen devised a plan to purchase decades worth of unflattering stories from the National Enquirer's publisher, according to The New York Times.


Nixon: "I was a paranoid criminal."
Reagan: "I was an affable dunce."
George W Bush: "I destabilized the Middle East and crashed the world's economy."
Trump: "Hold my borscht."
- Jeff Tiedrich




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Now Trump’s saying Democrats are going to be “violent” if they win big in November? What are we going to do? Throw our PBS tote bags at them? - Bette Midler





Republican Racism Is Now Officially White On Rice
The GOP secretary of the Republican Committee of Beaver County, Pennsylvania called NFL players baboons for protesting the national anthem.


At this point, I think even Trump can smell Trump's fear. - Michael McKean




Republican Shenanigans

A friend of Mike Pence's came out to him at college; Pence called him "an abomination" and stopped speaking to him. Which makes me ask, "Wait - Mike Pence had a friend?" - Paul Rudnick


Betsy DeVos Strikes Again!


Fake billionaire with fake tan, fake hair & fake teeth,who ripped off Americans with a fake online U & spread fake racist smear about a fake birth certificate to a fake news channel of fake blondes & this week tweets fake poll #'s to fake bot followers decries fake stuff. - John Fugelsang


Trump Cancels Federal Pay Raises. Does That Include His Supporters?
President Donald Trump said Thursday that civilian employees of the federal government will not receive raises in 2019.
In doing away with the 2.1 percent across-the-board pay increase that was scheduled to take effect in January, Trump said he was working "put our Nation on a fiscally sustainable course."




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As the 5th of 7 kids — the first to graduate from high school & college— my family knows what it's like to see intergenerational poverty interrupted at the hands of a good public education.That’s why we are going to raise teacher pay and put more money into public schools. - Andrew Gillum



I Thought U. S. Citizens Have Rights. Nope.
On paper, he's a devoted U.S. citizen.
His official American birth certificate shows he was delivered by a midwife in Brownsville, at the southern tip of Texas. He spent his life wearing American uniforms: three years as a private in the Army, then as a cadet in the Border Patrol and now as a state prison guard.
But when Juan, 40, applied to renew his U.S. passport this year, the government's response floored him. In a letter, the State Department said it didn't believe he was an American citizen.


Over 500 children are still waiting to be reunited with their parents, five weeks after the administration's deadline to reunify families. Every day they are made to wait is a tragedy. - Hillary Clinton

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Trump called the numerical system “rigged” and noted that it was “invented by Arabs.” - Andy Borowitz





*Bang*Bang*
Smith & Wesson’s revenue from long-gun sales fell 50 percent this year, fed by a drop in AR-15 purchases, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.



It would be a fitting tribute if the US Navy's Blue Angels did a missing man formation while buzzing the White House. Ya know, one last goodbye.





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 A bird on the nose is worth two in the bush.

Peace.