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It alleviates pain in joints and it’s actually legal to administer it, but it has to be out of the horse’s system within two weeks of a race. That’s a stipulation Medina Spirits’ trainer, Bob Baffert, should be familiar with since Medina Spirit is the fifth horse of his in one year to have failed a post race drug test. A POSTCARD FROM THE UNEMPLOYMENT LINE There's been a lot of talk in the past months about how Americans don't want to go back to work. I say bunk. Americans want to work. They need to work. Not just for the paycheck, but for the pride of accomplishment and the upward mobility it provides. It's ingrained inour DNA, all those
ALBUM COVER ART WEDNESDAY: CELLOPHANE SYMPHONY 1 day ago · You learn something new every day. I had no idea that Tommy James and the Shondells recorded an experimental album in 1969. They were better known for their bubble gum hits such as Mony Mony and Hanky Panky but they were also among the first rockers to use the Moog synthesizer.. The experimental phase lasted for one album, Cellophane Symphony.I wish I could say there was a colorful PULP FICTION THURSDAY: SPACE CAT 23 hours ago · Can children’s books be pulpy? Sure, why not? Ruthven Todd was a Scottish poet who moved to America to make a living as a writer. It paid off. His crime fiction pen name was RT Campbell. He wrote the Space Cat series for under his own name from 1952-1958.. Here are the books in chronological order.TEACH ME TONIGHT
Nat King Cole Dinah Wahshington: PLAN B FROM CAPITOL HILL Plan B From Capitol Hill. Aliens capture Tor Johnson in Plan 9 From Outer Space. The MSM and the Twitterverse were agog over the Dipshit Insurrection Commission vote in the Senate last week. For different reasons, they ginned up drama over the first filibuster of the Biden administration. The MSM loves a “Democrats in disarray story” even IT’S A YELLOW STAR, NOT A GOLD STAR The gold star has another meaning in American culture. It’s used to honor mothers who lost a child in combat. My yiayia was a Gold Star Mother. She lost her son in World War II. You know, the war in which we fought Nazism. That’s a detail that seems lost on MTG and her ilk. The gold star is a badge of honor. The yellow star is a badge of FRIDAY CATBLOGGING: TABLE CATS A takes most of the cat pictures I post at First Draft. She specializes in pictures of our cats sitting in my chair at the table when she’s eating breakfast. I am not an early riser but Dr. A is. These shots of the late, great Paul Drake and the current incumbent Claire Trevor are quite similar. Oddly enough, PD does not look twiceas big as
MALAKA OF THE WEEK: STANFORD LAW FEDERALIST SOCIETY The Stanford Law Federalist Society does NOT have a sense of humor. And that is why it is malaka of the week. On Jan. 25, Nicholas Wallace, a third-year student at Stanford Law School, sent a satirical flyer to a student listserv reserved for debate and political commentary. The flyer promoted a fake event, “The Originalist Casefor Inciting
THEY DON’T MAKE REPUBLICANS LIKE JOHN WARNER ANYMORE They don’t make Republicans like the two Johns anymore. Former Virginia Senator John Warner died on Tuesday at the age of 94. He served five terms in the United States senate and made many friends and few enemies except those on the lunatic fringe of his own party. Warner was a senator out of central casting: charming, genteel,handsome and
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It alleviates pain in joints and it’s actually legal to administer it, but it has to be out of the horse’s system within two weeks of a race. That’s a stipulation Medina Spirits’ trainer, Bob Baffert, should be familiar with since Medina Spirit is the fifth horse of his in one year to have failed a post race drug test. A POSTCARD FROM THE UNEMPLOYMENT LINE There's been a lot of talk in the past months about how Americans don't want to go back to work. I say bunk. Americans want to work. They need to work. Not just for the paycheck, but for the pride of accomplishment and the upward mobility it provides. It's ingrained inour DNA, all those
ALBUM COVER ART WEDNESDAY: CELLOPHANE SYMPHONY 1 day ago · You learn something new every day. I had no idea that Tommy James and the Shondells recorded an experimental album in 1969. They were better known for their bubble gum hits such as Mony Mony and Hanky Panky but they were also among the first rockers to use the Moog synthesizer.. The experimental phase lasted for one album, Cellophane Symphony.I wish I could say there was a colorful PULP FICTION THURSDAY: SPACE CAT 23 hours ago · Can children’s books be pulpy? Sure, why not? Ruthven Todd was a Scottish poet who moved to America to make a living as a writer. It paid off. His crime fiction pen name was RT Campbell. He wrote the Space Cat series for under his own name from 1952-1958.. Here are the books in chronological order.TEACH ME TONIGHT
Nat King Cole Dinah Wahshington: PLAN B FROM CAPITOL HILL Plan B From Capitol Hill. Aliens capture Tor Johnson in Plan 9 From Outer Space. The MSM and the Twitterverse were agog over the Dipshit Insurrection Commission vote in the Senate last week. For different reasons, they ginned up drama over the first filibuster of the Biden administration. The MSM loves a “Democrats in disarray story” even IT’S A YELLOW STAR, NOT A GOLD STAR The gold star has another meaning in American culture. It’s used to honor mothers who lost a child in combat. My yiayia was a Gold Star Mother. She lost her son in World War II. You know, the war in which we fought Nazism. That’s a detail that seems lost on MTG and her ilk. The gold star is a badge of honor. The yellow star is a badge of FRIDAY CATBLOGGING: TABLE CATS A takes most of the cat pictures I post at First Draft. She specializes in pictures of our cats sitting in my chair at the table when she’s eating breakfast. I am not an early riser but Dr. A is. These shots of the late, great Paul Drake and the current incumbent Claire Trevor are quite similar. Oddly enough, PD does not look twiceas big as
MALAKA OF THE WEEK: STANFORD LAW FEDERALIST SOCIETY The Stanford Law Federalist Society does NOT have a sense of humor. And that is why it is malaka of the week. On Jan. 25, Nicholas Wallace, a third-year student at Stanford Law School, sent a satirical flyer to a student listserv reserved for debate and political commentary. The flyer promoted a fake event, “The Originalist Casefor Inciting
THEY DON’T MAKE REPUBLICANS LIKE JOHN WARNER ANYMORE They don’t make Republicans like the two Johns anymore. Former Virginia Senator John Warner died on Tuesday at the age of 94. He served five terms in the United States senate and made many friends and few enemies except those on the lunatic fringe of his own party. Warner was a senator out of central casting: charming, genteel,handsome and
ALBUM COVER ART WEDNESDAY: CELLOPHANE SYMPHONY 1 day ago · You learn something new every day. I had no idea that Tommy James and the Shondells recorded an experimental album in 1969. They were better known for their bubble gum hits such as Mony Mony and Hanky Panky but they were also among the first rockers to use the Moog synthesizer.. The experimental phase lasted for one album, Cellophane Symphony.I wish I could say there was a colorful CULT OF THE SAVVY SUCKS UP TO … MITCH The punditry can't get enough of this reptile Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has never minded playing the villain. While most politicians are desperate to be loved, what matters to the Kentucky Republican is power, and his is not based on people loving him McConnell’s plan is coming together almost perfectly. In McConnell’s perfect world, PULP FICTION THURSDAY: SPACE CAT 23 hours ago · Can children’s books be pulpy? Sure, why not? Ruthven Todd was a Scottish poet who moved to America to make a living as a writer. It paid off. His crime fiction pen name was RT Campbell. He wrote the Space Cat series for under his own name from 1952-1958.. Here are the books in chronological order. THE GHOST OF ROY COHN The Don McGahn quest finally succeeded last week. The right-wing former White House counsel who looks like a liberal was subpoenaed two years ago but fought it and kicked the can down the road until it wasseriously dented.
THE SLAP HEARD ROUND THE WORLD It’s unclear if the incident had anything to do with misdirected rage over the atrocious final season of Game Of Thrones.. On a more serious note, as much as I may have wanted to slap W or the Kaiser of Chaos, I would have never acted on such an impulse. SATURDAY ODDS & SODS: CARRY ON The featured image is a photograph by Diane Arbus who was an extremely interesting and deeply weird photographer. Her motto was: “Take pictures of what you fear.” Words to live by. I’d amend that to say: Deal with what you fear. TWEET OF THE DAY: NAOMI WOLF EDITION The last words I’d use to describe Belfast in the 1970’s are calm, still, peaceful. Haven’t you ever heard of The Troubles?Try watching Derry Girls for a comedic take on the pre-Good Friday Agreement days in Ulster. They were anything but restful and natural. THE DEVIL MADE ME REVIEW IT I’m not sure who Martha is but I love the carnival style organ on that song. You’re probably wondering if I ventured out to see The Conjuring 3: The Devil Made Me Do It on the big screen.I did not. OF SCAMS, PERFECT PHONE CALLS & NOMENCLATURE It’s time to put on my lawyer hat. It’s too hot to wear a fedora and I’ll skip Rudy’s favorite tinfoil hat. I don’t want toattract lightning.
TODAY ON TOMMY T’S RANDOM RUMINATIONS Something a little different on this week’s RR. They even got the “bell chord” effect right. Barbara laughed as hard as I’ve ever heard her laugh when she saw it. Best commeFIRST DRAFT
It alleviates pain in joints and it’s actually legal to administer it, but it has to be out of the horse’s system within two weeks of a race. That’s a stipulation Medina Spirits’ trainer, Bob Baffert, should be familiar with since Medina Spirit is the fifth horse of his in one year to have failed a post race drug test. ALBUM COVER ART WEDNESDAY: CELLOPHANE SYMPHONY 1 day ago · You learn something new every day. I had no idea that Tommy James and the Shondells recorded an experimental album in 1969. They were better known for their bubble gum hits such as Mony Mony and Hanky Panky but they were also among the first rockers to use the Moog synthesizer.. The experimental phase lasted for one album, Cellophane Symphony.I wish I could say there was a colorful PULP FICTION THURSDAY: SPACE CAT 10 hours ago · Can children’s books be pulpy? Sure, why not? Ruthven Todd was a Scottish poet who moved to America to make a living as a writer. It paid off. His crime fiction pen name was RT Campbell. He wrote the Space Cat series for under his own name from 1952-1958.. Here are the books in chronological order. A POSTCARD FROM THE UNEMPLOYMENT LINE There's been a lot of talk in the past months about how Americans don't want to go back to work. I say bunk. Americans want to work. They need to work. Not just for the paycheck, but for the pride of accomplishment and the upward mobility it provides. It's ingrained inour DNA, all those
TEACH ME TONIGHT
Nat King Cole Dinah Wahshington: PLAN B FROM CAPITOL HILL Plan B From Capitol Hill. Aliens capture Tor Johnson in Plan 9 From Outer Space. The MSM and the Twitterverse were agog over the Dipshit Insurrection Commission vote in the Senate last week. For different reasons, they ginned up drama over the first filibuster of the Biden administration. The MSM loves a “Democrats in disarray story” even IT’S A YELLOW STAR, NOT A GOLD STAR The gold star has another meaning in American culture. It’s used to honor mothers who lost a child in combat. My yiayia was a Gold Star Mother. She lost her son in World War II. You know, the war in which we fought Nazism. That’s a detail that seems lost on MTG and her ilk. The gold star is a badge of honor. The yellow star is a badge of FRIDAY CATBLOGGING: TABLE CATS A takes most of the cat pictures I post at First Draft. She specializes in pictures of our cats sitting in my chair at the table when she’s eating breakfast. I am not an early riser but Dr. A is. These shots of the late, great Paul Drake and the current incumbent Claire Trevor are quite similar. Oddly enough, PD does not look twiceas big as
MALAKA OF THE WEEK: STANFORD LAW FEDERALIST SOCIETY The Stanford Law Federalist Society does NOT have a sense of humor. And that is why it is malaka of the week. On Jan. 25, Nicholas Wallace, a third-year student at Stanford Law School, sent a satirical flyer to a student listserv reserved for debate and political commentary. The flyer promoted a fake event, “The Originalist Casefor Inciting
THEY DON’T MAKE REPUBLICANS LIKE JOHN WARNER ANYMORE They don’t make Republicans like the two Johns anymore. Former Virginia Senator John Warner died on Tuesday at the age of 94. He served five terms in the United States senate and made many friends and few enemies except those on the lunatic fringe of his own party. Warner was a senator out of central casting: charming, genteel,handsome and
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It alleviates pain in joints and it’s actually legal to administer it, but it has to be out of the horse’s system within two weeks of a race. That’s a stipulation Medina Spirits’ trainer, Bob Baffert, should be familiar with since Medina Spirit is the fifth horse of his in one year to have failed a post race drug test. ALBUM COVER ART WEDNESDAY: CELLOPHANE SYMPHONY 1 day ago · You learn something new every day. I had no idea that Tommy James and the Shondells recorded an experimental album in 1969. They were better known for their bubble gum hits such as Mony Mony and Hanky Panky but they were also among the first rockers to use the Moog synthesizer.. The experimental phase lasted for one album, Cellophane Symphony.I wish I could say there was a colorful PULP FICTION THURSDAY: SPACE CAT 10 hours ago · Can children’s books be pulpy? Sure, why not? Ruthven Todd was a Scottish poet who moved to America to make a living as a writer. It paid off. His crime fiction pen name was RT Campbell. He wrote the Space Cat series for under his own name from 1952-1958.. Here are the books in chronological order. A POSTCARD FROM THE UNEMPLOYMENT LINE There's been a lot of talk in the past months about how Americans don't want to go back to work. I say bunk. Americans want to work. They need to work. Not just for the paycheck, but for the pride of accomplishment and the upward mobility it provides. It's ingrained inour DNA, all those
TEACH ME TONIGHT
Nat King Cole Dinah Wahshington: PLAN B FROM CAPITOL HILL Plan B From Capitol Hill. Aliens capture Tor Johnson in Plan 9 From Outer Space. The MSM and the Twitterverse were agog over the Dipshit Insurrection Commission vote in the Senate last week. For different reasons, they ginned up drama over the first filibuster of the Biden administration. The MSM loves a “Democrats in disarray story” even IT’S A YELLOW STAR, NOT A GOLD STAR The gold star has another meaning in American culture. It’s used to honor mothers who lost a child in combat. My yiayia was a Gold Star Mother. She lost her son in World War II. You know, the war in which we fought Nazism. That’s a detail that seems lost on MTG and her ilk. The gold star is a badge of honor. The yellow star is a badge of FRIDAY CATBLOGGING: TABLE CATS A takes most of the cat pictures I post at First Draft. She specializes in pictures of our cats sitting in my chair at the table when she’s eating breakfast. I am not an early riser but Dr. A is. These shots of the late, great Paul Drake and the current incumbent Claire Trevor are quite similar. Oddly enough, PD does not look twiceas big as
MALAKA OF THE WEEK: STANFORD LAW FEDERALIST SOCIETY The Stanford Law Federalist Society does NOT have a sense of humor. And that is why it is malaka of the week. On Jan. 25, Nicholas Wallace, a third-year student at Stanford Law School, sent a satirical flyer to a student listserv reserved for debate and political commentary. The flyer promoted a fake event, “The Originalist Casefor Inciting
THEY DON’T MAKE REPUBLICANS LIKE JOHN WARNER ANYMORE They don’t make Republicans like the two Johns anymore. Former Virginia Senator John Warner died on Tuesday at the age of 94. He served five terms in the United States senate and made many friends and few enemies except those on the lunatic fringe of his own party. Warner was a senator out of central casting: charming, genteel,handsome and
CULT OF THE SAVVY SUCKS UP TO … MITCH The punditry can't get enough of this reptile Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has never minded playing the villain. While most politicians are desperate to be loved, what matters to the Kentucky Republican is power, and his is not based on people loving him McConnell’s plan is coming together almost perfectly. In McConnell’s perfect world, ALBUM COVER ART WEDNESDAY: CELLOPHANE SYMPHONY 1 day ago · You learn something new every day. I had no idea that Tommy James and the Shondells recorded an experimental album in 1969. They were better known for their bubble gum hits such as Mony Mony and Hanky Panky but they were also among the first rockers to use the Moog synthesizer.. The experimental phase lasted for one album, Cellophane Symphony.I wish I could say there was a colorful A POSTCARD FROM THE UNEMPLOYMENT LINE There's been a lot of talk in the past months about how Americans don't want to go back to work. I say bunk. Americans want to work. They need to work. Not just for the paycheck, but for the pride of accomplishment and the upward mobility it provides. It's ingrained inour DNA, all those
THE SLAP HEARD ROUND THE WORLD It’s unclear if the incident had anything to do with misdirected rage over the atrocious final season of Game Of Thrones.. On a more serious note, as much as I may have wanted to slap W or the Kaiser of Chaos, I would have never acted on such an impulse. SATURDAY ODDS & SODS: CARRY ON The featured image is a photograph by Diane Arbus who was an extremely interesting and deeply weird photographer. Her motto was: “Take pictures of what you fear.” Words to live by. I’d amend that to say: Deal with what you fear. OF SCAMS, PERFECT PHONE CALLS & NOMENCLATURE It’s time to put on my lawyer hat. It’s too hot to wear a fedora and I’ll skip Rudy’s favorite tinfoil hat. I don’t want toattract lightning.
TWEET OF THE DAY: NAOMI WOLF EDITION The last words I’d use to describe Belfast in the 1970’s are calm, still, peaceful. Haven’t you ever heard of The Troubles?Try watching Derry Girls for a comedic take on the pre-Good Friday Agreement days in Ulster. They were anything but restful and natural. THE DEVIL MADE ME REVIEW IT I’m not sure who Martha is but I love the carnival style organ on that song. You’re probably wondering if I ventured out to see The Conjuring 3: The Devil Made Me Do It on the big screen.I did not.QUEEN | FIRST DRAFT
Posts about Queen written by Tommy T. Something a little different on this week’s RR. They even got the “bell chord” effect right.Barbara laughed as
TODAY ON TOMMY T’S RANDOM RUMINATIONS Something a little different on this week’s RR. They even got the “bell chord” effect right. Barbara laughed as hard as I’ve ever heard her laugh when she saw it. Best commeFIRST DRAFT
Once upon a time there was a writer for the San Francisco Chronicle (that was a newspaper) named Herb Caen. His column ran in the paper six days a week, but his Friday column was called the Friday Fishwrap. A convenient reminder that that morning’s paper would be used in the evening to wrap up and dispose of the remains of the no meat on Fridays throw aways. ALBUM COVER ART WEDNESDAY: CELLOPHANE SYMPHONY 3 hours ago · You learn something new every day. I had no idea that Tommy James and the Shondells recorded an experimental album in 1969. They were better known for their bubble gum hits such as Mony Mony and Hanky Panky but they were also among the first rockers to use the Moog synthesizer.. The experimental phase lasted for one album, Cellophane Symphony.I wish I could say there was a colorful THE SLAP HEARD ROUND THE WORLD It’s unclear if the incident had anything to do with misdirected rage over the atrocious final season of Game Of Thrones.. On a more serious note, as much as I may have wanted to slap W or the Kaiser of Chaos, I would have never acted on such an impulse. PLAN B FROM CAPITOL HILL Plan B From Capitol Hill. Aliens capture Tor Johnson in Plan 9 From Outer Space. The MSM and the Twitterverse were agog over the Dipshit Insurrection Commission vote in the Senate last week. For different reasons, they ginned up drama over the first filibuster of the Biden administration. The MSM loves a “Democrats in disarray story” even A POSTCARD FROM THE UNEMPLOYMENT LINE 1 day ago · There's been a lot of talk in the past months about how Americans don't want to go back to work. I say bunk. Americans want to work. They need to work. Not just for the paycheck, but for the pride of accomplishment and the upward mobility it provides. It's ingrained in our DNA, all those IT’S A YELLOW STAR, NOT A GOLD STAR The gold star has another meaning in American culture. It’s used to honor mothers who lost a child in combat. My yiayia was a Gold Star Mother. She lost her son in World War II. You know, the war in which we fought Nazism. That’s a detail that seems lost on MTG and her ilk. The gold star is a badge of honor. The yellow star is a badge of A POSTCARD FROM THEIR CHEATING HEARTS Look, cheating in sports is a time honored tradition. The line you will hear in any locker room is “if you ain’t cheatin’ you ain’t tryin'”. Mostly that’s put away when you reach the pinnacle moment of any particular sport. Most Americans can’t nametheir local track
IGNORING THE LOSER
1 day ago · Recent Posts. Ignoring The Loser; Well I got nothin’ ‘gainst the press/They wouldn’t print it if it wasn’t true; Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – Suspension ofdisbelief edition
THEY DON’T MAKE REPUBLICANS LIKE JOHN WARNER ANYMORE They don’t make Republicans like the two Johns anymore. Former Virginia Senator John Warner died on Tuesday at the age of 94. He served five terms in the United States senate and made many friends and few enemies except those on the lunatic fringe of his own party. Warner was a senator out of central casting: charming, genteel,handsome and
TODAY ON TOMMY T’S OBSESSION WITH THE FREEPERATI Did someone say “suspended”? Facebook suspends former U.S. President Trump’s account for two years Reuters ^ | June 4, 2021 l Posted on 6/4/2021, 11:45:31 AM by Coronal. Facebook on Friday suspended former U.S. President Donald Trump from its platform for two years, a decision that has been watched closely for signals on how the company will treat rule-breaking world leaders in the future.FIRST DRAFT
Once upon a time there was a writer for the San Francisco Chronicle (that was a newspaper) named Herb Caen. His column ran in the paper six days a week, but his Friday column was called the Friday Fishwrap. A convenient reminder that that morning’s paper would be used in the evening to wrap up and dispose of the remains of the no meat on Fridays throw aways. ALBUM COVER ART WEDNESDAY: CELLOPHANE SYMPHONY 3 hours ago · You learn something new every day. I had no idea that Tommy James and the Shondells recorded an experimental album in 1969. They were better known for their bubble gum hits such as Mony Mony and Hanky Panky but they were also among the first rockers to use the Moog synthesizer.. The experimental phase lasted for one album, Cellophane Symphony.I wish I could say there was a colorful THE SLAP HEARD ROUND THE WORLD It’s unclear if the incident had anything to do with misdirected rage over the atrocious final season of Game Of Thrones.. On a more serious note, as much as I may have wanted to slap W or the Kaiser of Chaos, I would have never acted on such an impulse. PLAN B FROM CAPITOL HILL Plan B From Capitol Hill. Aliens capture Tor Johnson in Plan 9 From Outer Space. The MSM and the Twitterverse were agog over the Dipshit Insurrection Commission vote in the Senate last week. For different reasons, they ginned up drama over the first filibuster of the Biden administration. The MSM loves a “Democrats in disarray story” even A POSTCARD FROM THE UNEMPLOYMENT LINE 1 day ago · There's been a lot of talk in the past months about how Americans don't want to go back to work. I say bunk. Americans want to work. They need to work. Not just for the paycheck, but for the pride of accomplishment and the upward mobility it provides. It's ingrained in our DNA, all those IT’S A YELLOW STAR, NOT A GOLD STAR The gold star has another meaning in American culture. It’s used to honor mothers who lost a child in combat. My yiayia was a Gold Star Mother. She lost her son in World War II. You know, the war in which we fought Nazism. That’s a detail that seems lost on MTG and her ilk. The gold star is a badge of honor. The yellow star is a badge of A POSTCARD FROM THEIR CHEATING HEARTS Look, cheating in sports is a time honored tradition. The line you will hear in any locker room is “if you ain’t cheatin’ you ain’t tryin'”. Mostly that’s put away when you reach the pinnacle moment of any particular sport. Most Americans can’t nametheir local track
IGNORING THE LOSER
1 day ago · Recent Posts. Ignoring The Loser; Well I got nothin’ ‘gainst the press/They wouldn’t print it if it wasn’t true; Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – Suspension ofdisbelief edition
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Once upon a time there was a writer for the San Francisco Chronicle (that was a newspaper) named Herb Caen. His column ran in the paper six days a week, but his Friday column was called the Friday Fishwrap. A convenient reminder that that morning’s paper would be used in the evening to wrap up and dispose of the remains of the no meat on Fridays throw aways. THE SLAP HEARD ROUND THE WORLD It’s unclear if the incident had anything to do with misdirected rage over the atrocious final season of Game Of Thrones.. On a more serious note, as much as I may have wanted to slap W or the Kaiser of Chaos, I would have never acted on such an impulse. TWEET OF THE DAY: NAOMI WOLF EDITION The last words I’d use to describe Belfast in the 1970’s are calm, still, peaceful. Haven’t you ever heard of The Troubles?Try watching Derry Girls for a comedic take on the pre-Good Friday Agreement days in Ulster. They were anything but restful and natural.TEACH ME TONIGHT
Teach Me Tonight was written in 1953 by Gene De Paul and Sammy Cahn. The latter is better known for his work with Chet Babcock DBA Jimmy Van Heusen. Teach Me Tonigh t is an oft recorded tune so if I miss your favorite you’re SOL. We begin with Nat King Cole and Billy May. SATURDAY ODDS & SODS: CARRY ON The featured image is a photograph by Diane Arbus who was an extremely interesting and deeply weird photographer. Her motto was: “Take pictures of what you fear.” Words to live by. I’d amend that to say: Deal with what you fear. THE DEVIL MADE ME REVIEW IT I’m not sure who Martha is but I love the carnival style organ on that song. You’re probably wondering if I ventured out to see The Conjuring 3: The Devil Made Me Do It on the big screen.I did not.IGNORING THE LOSER
1 day ago · Recent Posts. Ignoring The Loser; Well I got nothin’ ‘gainst the press/They wouldn’t print it if it wasn’t true; Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – Suspension ofdisbelief edition
TODAY ON TOMMY T’S OBSESSION WITH THE FREEPERATI Did someone say “suspended”? Facebook suspends former U.S. President Trump’s account for two years Reuters ^ | June 4, 2021 l Posted on 6/4/2021, 11:45:31 AM by Coronal. Facebook on Friday suspended former U.S. President Donald Trump from its platform for two years, a decision that has been watched closely for signals on how the company will treat rule-breaking world leaders in the future. WELL I GOT NOTHIN’ ‘GAINST THE PRESS/THEY WOULDN’T PRINT After a few weeks of relative quiet, The Senator You Love To Hate ™, Joe Manchin of West Virginia, was back on Sunday with a new op ed in the Charleston Gazette-Mail. It spawned a bunch of trending social media hashtags, the expected negative responses from the usual suspects, and a few people asking me SUNDAY MORNING VIDEO: THE BLASTERS ROCKPALAST LORELEY 1985 Loreley seems to be the name of the outdoor stage for the German Rockpalast teevee show. Pour yourself a beer and enjoy the music.FIRST DRAFT
Once upon a time there was a writer for the San Francisco Chronicle (that was a newspaper) named Herb Caen. His column ran in the paper six days a week, but his Friday column was called the Friday Fishwrap. A convenient reminder that that morning’s paper would be used in the evening to wrap up and dispose of the remains of the no meat on Fridays throw aways. A POSTCARD FROM THE UNEMPLOYMENT LINE 12 hours ago · There's been a lot of talk in the past months about how Americans don't want to go back to work. I say bunk. Americans want to work. They need to work. Not just for the paycheck, but for the pride of accomplishment and the upward mobility it provides. It's ingrained in our DNA, all those PLAN B FROM CAPITOL HILL Plan B From Capitol Hill. Aliens capture Tor Johnson in Plan 9 From Outer Space. The MSM and the Twitterverse were agog over the Dipshit Insurrection Commission vote in the Senate last week. For different reasons, they ginned up drama over the first filibuster of the Biden administration. The MSM loves a “Democrats in disarray story” even MALAKA OF THE WEEK: VAN MORRISON The reason that the British government is downplaying the pandemic is because of Trumpy Prime Minister and past malaka of the week, Boris Johnson. Now that the Labour Party has a credible leader, Boris is under immense pressure to take it more seriously. He has a hard time with serious. The best response to Van the Man’s egregiousmalakatude
POCKET PARDONS?
The Impeached Insult Comedian regards his presidency* as an exercise in disruption so it’s possible that today’s pardon list will be incomplete. He may hold back announcing any preemptive pardons for his kinfolk and/or Rudy so they can use them like an immunity idol on Survivor or a get out of jail free card in Monopoly. FRIDAY COCKTAIL HOUR: BLUE GARDENIA The song Blue Gardenia was introduced by Nat King Cole in the 1953 movie of that title. It’s a Fritz Lang film with a helluva cast including Anne Baxter, Richard Conte, Ann Southern, Raymond Burr, George Reeves, and Nat King Cole. The song was written for the movie by Lester Lee and Bob Russell. It’s a much loved and oft performedtorch song.
THEY DON’T MAKE REPUBLICANS LIKE JOHN WARNER ANYMORE They don’t make Republicans like the two Johns anymore. Former Virginia Senator John Warner died on Tuesday at the age of 94. He served five terms in the United States senate and made many friends and few enemies except those on the lunatic fringe of his own party. Warner was a senator out of central casting: charming, genteel,handsome and
TUCKER RHYMES WITH FUCKER Tucker Rhymes With Fucker. I was busy following the Louisiana-Second Congressional runoff (I’ll be writing about it this week for Bayou Brief) so I completely missed the latest Tucker Carlson controversy: Perhaps this is the story that @TuckerCarlson was trying to get ahead of. In his college yearbook, he listed himself as a member of the FRAT BOY TANTRUM IN THE HOUSE The GOP’s only answer was a frat boy tantrum in the House. It’s a gross process argument that insults the public’s intelligence; much like Trumpism and Teabaggery. Allow me to put my lapsed lawyer hat on again. In the impeachment process, the House THE FALL OF THE FLYING CLOUD, AND CAPTAIN BURKE’S DREAM The fall of the Flying Cloud, and Captain Burke’s dream. Something a little different this week – just to show that there are things I can write about that aren’t Freeper-oriented: Back in the 90s, I only had one vacation dream – to go on a Windjammer Barefoot Tour. This company had a small fleet of tall ships, and they weren’t theFIRST DRAFT
Once upon a time there was a writer for the San Francisco Chronicle (that was a newspaper) named Herb Caen. His column ran in the paper six days a week, but his Friday column was called the Friday Fishwrap. A convenient reminder that that morning’s paper would be used in the evening to wrap up and dispose of the remains of the no meat on Fridays throw aways. PLAN B FROM CAPITOL HILL Plan B From Capitol Hill. Aliens capture Tor Johnson in Plan 9 From Outer Space. The MSM and the Twitterverse were agog over the Dipshit Insurrection Commission vote in the Senate last week. For different reasons, they ginned up drama over the first filibuster of the Biden administration. The MSM loves a “Democrats in disarray story” even MALAKA OF THE WEEK: VAN MORRISON The reason that the British government is downplaying the pandemic is because of Trumpy Prime Minister and past malaka of the week, Boris Johnson. Now that the Labour Party has a credible leader, Boris is under immense pressure to take it more seriously. He has a hard time with serious. The best response to Van the Man’s egregiousmalakatude
POCKET PARDONS?
The Impeached Insult Comedian regards his presidency* as an exercise in disruption so it’s possible that today’s pardon list will be incomplete. He may hold back announcing any preemptive pardons for his kinfolk and/or Rudy so they can use them like an immunity idol on Survivor or a get out of jail free card in Monopoly. FRIDAY COCKTAIL HOUR: BLUE GARDENIA The song Blue Gardenia was introduced by Nat King Cole in the 1953 movie of that title. It’s a Fritz Lang film with a helluva cast including Anne Baxter, Richard Conte, Ann Southern, Raymond Burr, George Reeves, and Nat King Cole. The song was written for the movie by Lester Lee and Bob Russell. It’s a much loved and oft performedtorch song.
THEY DON’T MAKE REPUBLICANS LIKE JOHN WARNER ANYMORE They don’t make Republicans like the two Johns anymore. Former Virginia Senator John Warner died on Tuesday at the age of 94. He served five terms in the United States senate and made many friends and few enemies except those on the lunatic fringe of his own party. Warner was a senator out of central casting: charming, genteel,handsome and
TUCKER RHYMES WITH FUCKER Tucker Rhymes With Fucker. I was busy following the Louisiana-Second Congressional runoff (I’ll be writing about it this week for Bayou Brief) so I completely missed the latest Tucker Carlson controversy: Perhaps this is the story that @TuckerCarlson was trying to get ahead of. In his college yearbook, he listed himself as a member of the TED YOHO’S DAUGHTERS Ted Yoho is a dick, okay, and everything that could be said about AOC pretty much has been, except that I kept thinking about this story: Christine’s own parents and siblings — the Blaseys — have not released any similar statement of support. As their daughter and sister has become the country’s most talked-about woman THE FALL OF THE FLYING CLOUD, AND CAPTAIN BURKE’S DREAM The fall of the Flying Cloud, and Captain Burke’s dream. Something a little different this week – just to show that there are things I can write about that aren’t Freeper-oriented: Back in the 90s, I only had one vacation dream – to go on a Windjammer Barefoot Tour. This company had a small fleet of tall ships, and they weren’t the FRAT BOY TANTRUM IN THE HOUSE The GOP’s only answer was a frat boy tantrum in the House. It’s a gross process argument that insults the public’s intelligence; much like Trumpism and Teabaggery. Allow me to put my lapsed lawyer hat on again. In the impeachment process, the HouseBOOKS | FIRST DRAFT
May is a month for themes at First Draft. Yesterday, I declared it Cole Porter month at the Friday Cocktail Hour. Today, I declare May to be Beatles month since Tell Me Why was last week’s theme song.I do declare. Stop me before I turn into Scarlet O’Hara.TEACH ME TONIGHT
This week’s featured image is of Billy May conducting as Nat King Cole sings. We’ll return to those two estimable gentlemen in a moment. Teach Me Tonight was written in 1953 by Gene De Paul and Sammy Cahn. The latter is better known for his work with Chet Babcock DBAJimmy Van Heusen.
A POSTCARD FROM THE UNEMPLOYMENT LINE 12 hours ago · There's been a lot of talk in the past months about how Americans don't want to go back to work. I say bunk. Americans want to work. They need to work. Not just for the paycheck, but for the pride of accomplishment and the upward mobility it provides. It's ingrained in our DNA, all thoseQUEEN | FIRST DRAFT
Posts about Queen written by Tommy T. Something a little different on this week’s RR. They even got the “bell chord” effect right.Best comment?
IGNORING THE LOSER
1 day ago · Recent Posts. Ignoring The Loser; Well I got nothin’ ‘gainst the press/They wouldn’t print it if it wasn’t true; Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – Suspension ofdisbelief edition
TRUMP’S EPIC BLOG FAIL & OTHER BAD JOKES Al Capp was a right-winger but he was right about self-fulfilling prophecies. I’m not sure how you pronounce Joe B’s name. He was the Coach K of his day. Back to Rachel M. She had former Obama administration deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes on her showthe other day.
TODAY ON TOMMY T’S OBSESSION WITH THE FREEPERATI 1 day ago · Did someone say “suspended”? Facebook suspends former U.S. President Trump’s account for two years Reuters ^ | June 4, 2021 l Posted on 6/4/2021, 11:45:31 AM by Coronal. Facebook on Friday suspended former U.S. President Donald Trump from its platform for two years, a decision that has been watched closely for signals on how the company will treat rule-breaking world leaders in the future. TODAY ON TOMMY T’S RANDOM RUMINATIONS Something a little different on this week's RR. They even got the "bell chord" effect right. Best comment? "Well done! My wife and I both laughed. Then she yelled at me." Dave Simmons SUNDAY MORNING VIDEO: THE BLASTERS ROCKPALAST LORELEY 1985 Loreley seems to be the name of the outdoor stage for the German Rockpalast teevee show. Pour yourself a beer and enjoy the music. THEY DON’T MAKE REPUBLICANS LIKE JOHN WARNER ANYMORE They don’t make Republicans like the two Johns anymore. Former Virginia Senator John Warner died on Tuesday at the age of 94. He served five terms in the United States senate and made many friends and few enemies except those on the lunatic fringe of his own party. Warner was a senator out of central casting: charming, genteel,handsome and
FIRST DRAFT
Once upon a time there was a writer for the San Francisco Chronicle (that was a newspaper) named Herb Caen. His column ran in the paper six days a week, but his Friday column was called the Friday Fishwrap. A convenient reminder that that morning’s paper would be used in the evening to wrap up and dispose of the remains of the no meat on Fridays throw aways.IGNORING THE LOSER
1 day ago · Recent Posts. Ignoring The Loser; Well I got nothin’ ‘gainst the press/They wouldn’t print it if it wasn’t true; Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – Suspension ofdisbelief edition
PLAN B FROM CAPITOL HILL Plan B From Capitol Hill. Aliens capture Tor Johnson in Plan 9 From Outer Space. The MSM and the Twitterverse were agog over the Dipshit Insurrection Commission vote in the Senate last week. For different reasons, they ginned up drama over the first filibuster of the Biden administration. The MSM loves a “Democrats in disarray story” even MALAKA OF THE WEEK: VAN MORRISON The reason that the British government is downplaying the pandemic is because of Trumpy Prime Minister and past malaka of the week, Boris Johnson. Now that the Labour Party has a credible leader, Boris is under immense pressure to take it more seriously. He has a hard time with serious. The best response to Van the Man’s egregiousmalakatude
POCKET PARDONS?
The Impeached Insult Comedian regards his presidency* as an exercise in disruption so it’s possible that today’s pardon list will be incomplete. He may hold back announcing any preemptive pardons for his kinfolk and/or Rudy so they can use them like an immunity idol on Survivor or a get out of jail free card in Monopoly. FRIDAY COCKTAIL HOUR: BLUE GARDENIA The song Blue Gardenia was introduced by Nat King Cole in the 1953 movie of that title. It’s a Fritz Lang film with a helluva cast including Anne Baxter, Richard Conte, Ann Southern, Raymond Burr, George Reeves, and Nat King Cole. The song was written for the movie by Lester Lee and Bob Russell. It’s a much loved and oft performedtorch song.
THEY DON’T MAKE REPUBLICANS LIKE JOHN WARNER ANYMORE They don’t make Republicans like the two Johns anymore. Former Virginia Senator John Warner died on Tuesday at the age of 94. He served five terms in the United States senate and made many friends and few enemies except those on the lunatic fringe of his own party. Warner was a senator out of central casting: charming, genteel,handsome and
TUCKER RHYMES WITH FUCKER Tucker Rhymes With Fucker. I was busy following the Louisiana-Second Congressional runoff (I’ll be writing about it this week for Bayou Brief) so I completely missed the latest Tucker Carlson controversy: Perhaps this is the story that @TuckerCarlson was trying to get ahead of. In his college yearbook, he listed himself as a member of the FRAT BOY TANTRUM IN THE HOUSE The GOP’s only answer was a frat boy tantrum in the House. It’s a gross process argument that insults the public’s intelligence; much like Trumpism and Teabaggery. Allow me to put my lapsed lawyer hat on again. In the impeachment process, the House THE FALL OF THE FLYING CLOUD, AND CAPTAIN BURKE’S DREAM The fall of the Flying Cloud, and Captain Burke’s dream. Something a little different this week – just to show that there are things I can write about that aren’t Freeper-oriented: Back in the 90s, I only had one vacation dream – to go on a Windjammer Barefoot Tour. This company had a small fleet of tall ships, and they weren’t theFIRST DRAFT
Once upon a time there was a writer for the San Francisco Chronicle (that was a newspaper) named Herb Caen. His column ran in the paper six days a week, but his Friday column was called the Friday Fishwrap. A convenient reminder that that morning’s paper would be used in the evening to wrap up and dispose of the remains of the no meat on Fridays throw aways. A POSTCARD FROM THE UNEMPLOYMENT LINE 10 hours ago · There's been a lot of talk in the past months about how Americans don't want to go back to work. I say bunk. Americans want to work. They need to work. Not just for the paycheck, but for the pride of accomplishment and the upward mobility it provides. It's ingrained in our DNA, all those PLAN B FROM CAPITOL HILL Plan B From Capitol Hill. Aliens capture Tor Johnson in Plan 9 From Outer Space. The MSM and the Twitterverse were agog over the Dipshit Insurrection Commission vote in the Senate last week. For different reasons, they ginned up drama over the first filibuster of the Biden administration. The MSM loves a “Democrats in disarray story” even MALAKA OF THE WEEK: VAN MORRISON The reason that the British government is downplaying the pandemic is because of Trumpy Prime Minister and past malaka of the week, Boris Johnson. Now that the Labour Party has a credible leader, Boris is under immense pressure to take it more seriously. He has a hard time with serious. The best response to Van the Man’s egregiousmalakatude
POCKET PARDONS?
The Impeached Insult Comedian regards his presidency* as an exercise in disruption so it’s possible that today’s pardon list will be incomplete. He may hold back announcing any preemptive pardons for his kinfolk and/or Rudy so they can use them like an immunity idol on Survivor or a get out of jail free card in Monopoly. FRIDAY COCKTAIL HOUR: BLUE GARDENIA The song Blue Gardenia was introduced by Nat King Cole in the 1953 movie of that title. It’s a Fritz Lang film with a helluva cast including Anne Baxter, Richard Conte, Ann Southern, Raymond Burr, George Reeves, and Nat King Cole. The song was written for the movie by Lester Lee and Bob Russell. It’s a much loved and oft performedtorch song.
THEY DON’T MAKE REPUBLICANS LIKE JOHN WARNER ANYMORE They don’t make Republicans like the two Johns anymore. Former Virginia Senator John Warner died on Tuesday at the age of 94. He served five terms in the United States senate and made many friends and few enemies except those on the lunatic fringe of his own party. Warner was a senator out of central casting: charming, genteel,handsome and
TUCKER RHYMES WITH FUCKER Tucker Rhymes With Fucker. I was busy following the Louisiana-Second Congressional runoff (I’ll be writing about it this week for Bayou Brief) so I completely missed the latest Tucker Carlson controversy: Perhaps this is the story that @TuckerCarlson was trying to get ahead of. In his college yearbook, he listed himself as a member of the FRAT BOY TANTRUM IN THE HOUSE The GOP’s only answer was a frat boy tantrum in the House. It’s a gross process argument that insults the public’s intelligence; much like Trumpism and Teabaggery. Allow me to put my lapsed lawyer hat on again. In the impeachment process, the House THE FALL OF THE FLYING CLOUD, AND CAPTAIN BURKE’S DREAM The fall of the Flying Cloud, and Captain Burke’s dream. Something a little different this week – just to show that there are things I can write about that aren’t Freeper-oriented: Back in the 90s, I only had one vacation dream – to go on a Windjammer Barefoot Tour. This company had a small fleet of tall ships, and they weren’t theBOOKS | FIRST DRAFT
May is a month for themes at First Draft. Yesterday, I declared it Cole Porter month at the Friday Cocktail Hour. Today, I declare May to be Beatles month since Tell Me Why was last week’s theme song.I do declare. Stop me before I turn into Scarlet O’Hara.TEACH ME TONIGHT
This week’s featured image is of Billy May conducting as Nat King Cole sings. We’ll return to those two estimable gentlemen in a moment. Teach Me Tonight was written in 1953 by Gene De Paul and Sammy Cahn. The latter is better known for his work with Chet Babcock DBAJimmy Van Heusen.
QUEEN | FIRST DRAFT
Posts about Queen written by Tommy T. Something a little different on this week’s RR. They even got the “bell chord” effect right.Best comment?
IGNORING THE LOSER
1 day ago · Recent Posts. Ignoring The Loser; Well I got nothin’ ‘gainst the press/They wouldn’t print it if it wasn’t true; Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – Suspension ofdisbelief edition
TRUMP’S EPIC BLOG FAIL & OTHER BAD JOKES Al Capp was a right-winger but he was right about self-fulfilling prophecies. I’m not sure how you pronounce Joe B’s name. He was the Coach K of his day. Back to Rachel M. She had former Obama administration deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes on her showthe other day.
SPACE CAT-2
Liberal Politics, Media Criticism & General Mayhem. Recent Posts. Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – Suspension ofdisbelief edition
WELL I GOT NOTHIN’ ‘GAINST THE PRESS/THEY WOULDN’T PRINT After a few weeks of relative quiet, The Senator You Love To Hate ™, Joe Manchin of West Virginia, was back on Sunday with a new op ed in the Charleston Gazette-Mail. It spawned a bunch of trending social media hashtags, the expected negative responses from the usual suspects, and a few people asking me TODAY ON TOMMY T’S OBSESSION WITH THE FREEPERATI 1 day ago · Did someone say “suspended”? Facebook suspends former U.S. President Trump’s account for two years Reuters ^ | June 4, 2021 l Posted on 6/4/2021, 11:45:31 AM by Coronal. Facebook on Friday suspended former U.S. President Donald Trump from its platform for two years, a decision that has been watched closely for signals on how the company will treat rule-breaking world leaders in the future. SUNDAY MORNING VIDEO: THE BLASTERS ROCKPALAST LORELEY 1985 Loreley seems to be the name of the outdoor stage for the German Rockpalast teevee show. Pour yourself a beer and enjoy the music. TODAY ON TOMMY T’S RANDOM RUMINATIONS Something a little different on this week's RR. They even got the "bell chord" effect right. Best comment? "Well done! My wife and I both laughed. Then she yelled at me." Dave SimmonsFIRST DRAFT
Once upon a time there was a writer for the San Francisco Chronicle (that was a newspaper) named Herb Caen. His column ran in the paper six days a week, but his Friday column was called the Friday Fishwrap. A convenient reminder that that morning’s paper would be used in the evening to wrap up and dispose of the remains of the no meat on Fridays throw aways.IGNORING THE LOSER
21 hours ago · Recent Posts. Ignoring The Loser; Well I got nothin’ ‘gainst the press/They wouldn’t print it if it wasn’t true; Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – Suspension of disbelief edition PLAN B FROM CAPITOL HILL Plan B From Capitol Hill. Aliens capture Tor Johnson in Plan 9 From Outer Space. The MSM and the Twitterverse were agog over the Dipshit Insurrection Commission vote in the Senate last week. For different reasons, they ginned up drama over the first filibuster of the Biden administration. The MSM loves a “Democrats in disarray story” even MALAKA OF THE WEEK: VAN MORRISON The reason that the British government is downplaying the pandemic is because of Trumpy Prime Minister and past malaka of the week, Boris Johnson. Now that the Labour Party has a credible leader, Boris is under immense pressure to take it more seriously. He has a hard time with serious. The best response to Van the Man’s egregiousmalakatude
POCKET PARDONS?
The Impeached Insult Comedian regards his presidency* as an exercise in disruption so it’s possible that today’s pardon list will be incomplete. He may hold back announcing any preemptive pardons for his kinfolk and/or Rudy so they can use them like an immunity idol on Survivor or a get out of jail free card in Monopoly. FRIDAY COCKTAIL HOUR: BLUE GARDENIA The song Blue Gardenia was introduced by Nat King Cole in the 1953 movie of that title. It’s a Fritz Lang film with a helluva cast including Anne Baxter, Richard Conte, Ann Southern, Raymond Burr, George Reeves, and Nat King Cole. The song was written for the movie by Lester Lee and Bob Russell. It’s a much loved and oft performedtorch song.
FIRST DRAFT
Once upon a time there was a writer for the San Francisco Chronicle (that was a newspaper) named Herb Caen. His column ran in the paper six days a week, but his Friday column was called the Friday Fishwrap. A convenient reminder that that morning’s paper would be used in the evening to wrap up and dispose of the remains of the no meat on Fridays throw aways.IGNORING THE LOSER
21 hours ago · Recent Posts. Ignoring The Loser; Well I got nothin’ ‘gainst the press/They wouldn’t print it if it wasn’t true; Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – Suspension of disbelief edition PLAN B FROM CAPITOL HILL Plan B From Capitol Hill. Aliens capture Tor Johnson in Plan 9 From Outer Space. The MSM and the Twitterverse were agog over the Dipshit Insurrection Commission vote in the Senate last week. For different reasons, they ginned up drama over the first filibuster of the Biden administration. The MSM loves a “Democrats in disarray story” even MALAKA OF THE WEEK: VAN MORRISON The reason that the British government is downplaying the pandemic is because of Trumpy Prime Minister and past malaka of the week, Boris Johnson. Now that the Labour Party has a credible leader, Boris is under immense pressure to take it more seriously. He has a hard time with serious. The best response to Van the Man’s egregiousmalakatude
POCKET PARDONS?
The Impeached Insult Comedian regards his presidency* as an exercise in disruption so it’s possible that today’s pardon list will be incomplete. He may hold back announcing any preemptive pardons for his kinfolk and/or Rudy so they can use them like an immunity idol on Survivor or a get out of jail free card in Monopoly. FRIDAY COCKTAIL HOUR: BLUE GARDENIA The song Blue Gardenia was introduced by Nat King Cole in the 1953 movie of that title. It’s a Fritz Lang film with a helluva cast including Anne Baxter, Richard Conte, Ann Southern, Raymond Burr, George Reeves, and Nat King Cole. The song was written for the movie by Lester Lee and Bob Russell. It’s a much loved and oft performedtorch song.
THEY DON’T MAKE REPUBLICANS LIKE JOHN WARNER ANYMORE They don’t make Republicans like the two Johns anymore. Former Virginia Senator John Warner died on Tuesday at the age of 94. He served five terms in the United States senate and made many friends and few enemies except those on the lunatic fringe of his own party. Warner was a senator out of central casting: charming, genteel,handsome and
BOOKS | FIRST DRAFT
May is a month for themes at First Draft. Yesterday, I declared it Cole Porter month at the Friday Cocktail Hour. Today, I declare May to be Beatles month since Tell Me Why was last week’s theme song.I do declare. Stop me before I turn into Scarlet O’Hara.TEACH ME TONIGHT
This week’s featured image is of Billy May conducting as Nat King Cole sings. We’ll return to those two estimable gentlemen in a moment. Teach Me Tonight was written in 1953 by Gene De Paul and Sammy Cahn. The latter is better known for his work with Chet Babcock DBAJimmy Van Heusen.
QUEEN | FIRST DRAFT
Posts about Queen written by Tommy T. Something a little different on this week’s RR. They even got the “bell chord” effect right.Best comment?
IGNORING THE LOSER
21 hours ago · Recent Posts. Ignoring The Loser; Well I got nothin’ ‘gainst the press/They wouldn’t print it if it wasn’t true; Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – Suspension of disbelief edition TRUMP’S EPIC BLOG FAIL & OTHER BAD JOKES Al Capp was a right-winger but he was right about self-fulfilling prophecies. I’m not sure how you pronounce Joe B’s name. He was the Coach K of his day. Back to Rachel M. She had former Obama administration deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes on her showthe other day.
SPACE CAT-2
Liberal Politics, Media Criticism & General Mayhem. Recent Posts. Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – Suspension ofdisbelief edition
WELL I GOT NOTHIN’ ‘GAINST THE PRESS/THEY WOULDN’T PRINT After a few weeks of relative quiet, The Senator You Love To Hate ™, Joe Manchin of West Virginia, was back on Sunday with a new op ed in the Charleston Gazette-Mail. It spawned a bunch of trending social media hashtags, the expected negative responses from the usual suspects, and a few people asking me TODAY ON TOMMY T’S OBSESSION WITH THE FREEPERATI 1 day ago · Did someone say “suspended”? Facebook suspends former U.S. President Trump’s account for two years Reuters ^ | June 4, 2021 l Posted on 6/4/2021, 11:45:31 AM by Coronal. Facebook on Friday suspended former U.S. President Donald Trump from its platform for two years, a decision that has been watched closely for signals on how the company will treat rule-breaking world leaders in the future. SUNDAY MORNING VIDEO: THE BLASTERS ROCKPALAST LORELEY 1985 Loreley seems to be the name of the outdoor stage for the German Rockpalast teevee show. Pour yourself a beer and enjoy the music. TODAY ON TOMMY T’S RANDOM RUMINATIONS Something a little different on this week's RR. They even got the "bell chord" effect right. Best comment? "Well done! My wife and I both laughed. Then she yelled at me." Dave SimmonsFIRST DRAFT
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THE WORLD IS EVER ENDING This fucking week, honestly. > “Maybe next time we have a week, they can try not to pack it > completely to the fucking brim with explosions, mutilations, death, > manhunts, lies, weeping, and the utter uselessness of our political > system,” said basically every person in America who isn’t > comatose or a complete sociopath. “You know, maybe try to spread > some of that total misery across the other 51 weeks in the year. > Just a thought.”>
> “Gotta hand it to this week, though,” added the entire American > populace, laughing and crying at the same time. “It’s a> motherfucker.”
Members of the press, what the fuck: > “What do you think? You know the shit he’s been saying,” > O’Rourke said.> “He’s
> been calling Mexican immigrants rapists and criminals. I don’t > know, like, members of the press, what the fuck? Hold on a second. > You know, I — it’s these questions that you know the answers to. > I mean, connect the dots about what he’s doing in this country. > He’s not tolerating racism; he’s promoting racism. He’s not > tolerating violence; he’s inciting racism and violence in this > country. So, you know, I just — I don’t know what kind of > question that is.” This is the only reasonable reaction to things right now. It really is. To say to them, why are you asking questions you know the answers to? Why are you asking me to lie? For that matter, why are you asking me to tell the truth? You know the truth. If you won’t speak it, if you won’t use your voice and hands, your microphone, your words, to tell the truth in this moment, how on EARTH is that my job? That’s the core of the frustration right now, among those of us who aren’t in the Trump cult or so horny for complacency we refuse to talk about anything at all. We see the truth in front of us and we see the people who’ve told us for decades that they’re the ones who proclaim it —righteous leaders, the sacred Fourth Estate, all our protectors of truth and democracy — pretending to a helplessness that would humiliate an infant. You know the truth and you won’t say it and WHY, why on earth, do you know how many people _dream_ of having the power you have? My yelling on Twitter is still a fraction of the reach of any city TV station, why are you standing there? You could push a button and save the world and you sit here asking if someone should push the button. YOU PUSH THE FUCKING BUTTON. Don’t ask me to tell you it’s okay, don’t ask me to give you cover, don’t make this my problem. Is the president a racist, what the fuck indeed. You know the truth. And when you know the truth a lie should be intolerable. If you’ve never carried an intolerable lie inside you I hope to God you never have to but how can you not, in the world we walk in? Do you know how much I WISH I could be a person at a party who says things like “yes, we need to return to civility in politics” instead of yelling NO IT’S ABOUT TIME WE WERE UNCIVIL ABOUT BEING KILLED, do you know how easy it is to go along to get along? The only time anyone raises their voice is when they can’t stand it anymore. Whole swaths of us can’t stand it anymore, whole swaths of us never could and never should have had to, and if you get hot for the Civil Rights movement in the history books but can’t stand it in your cul-de-sac don’t you dare ask me to make that okayfor you.
And I’m sorry, scene-bros for whom things aren’t revolution-y _enough _to get you to put the Xbox away. I saw this stupid shit going around again earlier this week and coupled with the “why don’t Americans in Tulsa protest like they do in Puerto Rico” it made me want to put my fist through the whole internet. Sure, nothing’s ever gonna change. Good God, but have you been paying attention? Moms Demand and Everytown are out here shouting louder than the NRA, than the NRfuckingA, did you think 10 years ago this was even a pipe dream? Ten years ago everybody was still stuck under their desks shaking in fear that the NRA would target them and now a bunch of pissed off women have them on their backs. Republican congressman who can resign are resigning because they see the fire coming and they don’t want to burn. Old men who’ve had their jobs forever are packing up their shit and running for the door. And the pedophiles are burning, too. I’m glad Jeffrey Epstein is dead and I hope every person named in his sordid messy indictment dies off, too, and that we as a species come together around the entirely uncontroversial notion that child rape is bad and if girls are not saying yes to you then they’re saying no. I’m glad all the disgusting #MeToo dudes are out of jobs and I don’t care one whit about any of them, we’ve managed to carry on without Charlie Rose and Al Franken. If any of my faves go down in this I feel confident in the ability of young women to handle their jobs and then some. The world is busy being born and armchair chaossexuals are like, mad it’s not happening fast enough and I don’t know what to tell you people, I really don’t. What the fuck, maybe. History looks like it happened in a hurry because that’s how we have to remember it to move faster next time. To motivate a few more people to get off their asses and name the things in front of them for what they are. To stop waiting for somebody else to fix things and fix them already. Maybe this is what it looks like inside the tornado, maybe it’s slower inhere.
I don’t know. What the fuck. This fucking week.A.
Aug 10 2019
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SATURDAY ODDS & SODS: MEET ON THE LEDGE RAIN, STEAM, AND SPEED BY JMW TURNER. It’s the final day of one of the greatest musical festivals in the world: Fairport’s Cropredy Convention. Dr.
A and I attended the event’s 40th anniversary in 2007. We actually took a tour, which gave us insider access including a chance to hang out with the super-nice members of Fairport Convention: Dave Pegg, Simon Nicol, Ric Sanders, Chris Leslie, and Gerry Conway. Nancy Covey’s Festival Tours organizes tours for people who don’t like tours. It was the trip of a lifetime and we formed many friendships that still endure. End of travelogue. This week’s theme song was written by Richard Thompson in 1968 for Fairport’s _What We Did On Our Holidays_ album. _Meet On The Ledge_ is a song about death that is somehow life-affirming. It’s often played at funerals and is typically the last song played at every Fairport Convention show. At Cropredy, a cast of thousands joins the band onstage for an epic sing-along. We have three versions for your listening pleasure: the Fairport original with Sandy Denny on lead vocals; a solo acoustic version by Richard Thompson, and Fairport and friends closing Cropredy in 2017 with Simon Nicol and Iain Matthews on lead vocals Now that we’ve met on the ledge and seen all of our friends, let’sjump to the break.
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UNDER MY THUMBS UP
We all know that the Insult Comedian was raised by wolves. He whines endlessly about his own suffering but is incapable of even synthetic empathy. He had a helluva time at the hospital in El Paso bragging about the size of his rally 6 months ago. Then there’s this: None of the adult victims of the Trump-inspired terrorist attack would meet with him so an orphaned baby was brought back to the hospital to pose with Trumpberius and his Slovenian Julia the Elder. Missing from the
scene are his Caligula (Don Jr.) and Nero (Jared). Life once againimitates
_I,
Claudius. _The Trumps are certainly fiddling while America burns. It’s all smiles and thumbs up from the Trumps. Worst photo-op ever. The last word goes to the Who: Surprised you, didn’t I? The Who covered _Under My Thumb_ in protest when the Rolling Stones were bustedin 1967.
Aug 09 2019
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TRUMPISM IS HATRIOTISM THE HATRIOT-IN-CHIEF HUGS A FLAG. You may have noticed that I love language, nicknames, and slang. I agree with Samuel G. Freedman that it’s high time to revive a venerable word that he stumbled into whilst researching right-wing populist demagogue Gerald LK Smith: > In an episode that anticipated Trump’s recent rhetoric treating > representatives Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, > and Ayanna Pressley as disloyal foreigners and telling them to “go > back home” – even though all are American citizens and all but > Omar were born here – Smith told a whooping crowd, “If the Jews > don’t like our country, they can go back where they came from!”>
> As I slogged through such muck, I found a 1945 article from the New > York Herald Tribune. It recounted Smith and similarly minded > demagogues trying to crash a United Nations conference in San > Francisco. Describing Smith’s crew, both the headline and the > story used the word “hatriots”.>
> That term, a pithy conflation of “hate” and “patriots”, > struck me as perfectly suited to our current moment. Read in the > context of Smith’s divisive career, the word clearly referred to > people who wrap toxic intolerance in the perfumed cloak of> patriotism.
Freedman goes on a hatriotic journey to find the origin of the word and traces it to a 1941 editorial in a small-town Hoosier newspaper. It was fairly common journalistic parlance used to describe figures with Nazistic tendencies until some time in the 1950’s. Another compound word that came up in Freedman’s piece is Ratzis. It was coined by the voice of _The Untouchables_,
Walter Winchell. Ratzis: I like it so much that I’ll use it in a sentence, Trumper hatriots are Ratzis. That felt good. I plan to work hatriotism and its hatriotic derivations into my writing as much as possible. Let’s make it a hat trick and use hatriot to describe individuals who worship the Insult Comedian andhis invective.
Repeat after me: Hatriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. Trumpism is Hatriotism.Aug 09 2019
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Aug 08 2019
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“TRUMP HAS DRAGGED US INTO THE GUTTER”Charles Blow
> We are forced to look on in horror as the power of the federal > government is deployed in the service of racism: the Muslim ban, the > family separation policy, children in cages, trying to build a wall, > efforts to restrict even legal immigration and talk of invasions and> infestations.
>
> It is still unfathomable to me that the federal government took > children away from their parents without a system for reunification, > that some of those children may never see their parents again.>
> Even if this were only one child it would be outrageous and > egregious. Unfortunately, it is more than one.>
> I stay stuck on this point. There is a new outrage every day, but I > try to remember children. If I were one of them, away in a strange > place, all alone, surrounded by strangers, and my mother or father > or both were taken away, how could I possibly cope? If I were the > father of a child taken away from me to who knows where, and I had > no idea if I would see my child again, how could I continue to> function?
Meanwhile, Trump, no lie, insists his “rhetoric brings peopletogether.”
If he really believes that, he’s bugfuck nuts.Also, too. Biden
isn’t my first, second, or third choice to be the Democratic nominee, but there’s no arguing with this. And if he does get the nod, he’ll get my vote.Aug 08 2019
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, Pulp Fiction Thursday PULP FICTION THURSDAY: SALOME You’re not seeing double. This _Salome_ is Oscar Wilde’s play with illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley. You know, the book that provided the book for the Strauss opera featured yesterday.
The mind still reels.Aug 07 2019
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WHAT DO YOU SAY, DEAN BAQUET? The tweet below is the first thing I saw this morning. It was shared by Picvocate columnist Stephanie Grace and she found the whole thing asbaffling as I did:
Here’s the deal: Edwin Edwards was a corrupt pol whose greed brought him down. But his “inflammatory comments” were nothing like those of the Insult Comedian. The one above is self-deprecating: does anyone recall Donald Trump ever mocking himself? That’s because the joke is *always* at the expense of someone he’s out to attack and smear. And he usually kicks down, not up. One of the harshest things Edwin Edwards ever said about an opponent was in 1983: “Dave Treen is so slow that it takes him an hour and a half to watch _Sixty Minutes_.” That’s a far cry from calling people crooked, traitors, and the other stuff that comes out of Trump’s big fat bazoo and pops up on his twitter feed. That’s why I call him the Insult Comedian. Edwin Edwards was the first Gret Stet Governor to treat black folks as full citizens. They were his electoral base, not red-hatted racists. In fact, Trump is more like the man Edwards defeated in 1991: DavidDuke.
Perhaps Dean Baquet has been away from Louisiana so long that he “misremembered” the nature of Fast Eddie’s outrageousness. I suggest that he read John Maginnis’ brilliant account of the Edwards-Duke race from hell: _Cross To Bear_. Hell, Baquet should talk to fellow Gret Stet native and Timesman Charles Blow. He gets it. Donald Trump is a boorish crooked racist. Edwin Edwards is a charming crook but not a racist. Dean Baquet should be ashamed of this lame excuse for his paper’s disgusting headline about Trump’s perfunctory white supremacy speech. Baquet can and should do better.Aug 07 2019
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DEADBEAT ASSHOLE IN EL PASO The Insult Comedian loves being an uninvited guest in places where he’s not wanted. What’s reality teevee without conflict? Boring, that’s what. The people of El Paso will be extras on Trump’s whirlwind “message I care” tour. He does not: he’s all hat andno cattle
.
Team Trump has stuck the citizens of El Paso with a bill of over $500K for security costs associated with one of his hate fest ralliesa mere six
months ago. The president* should have had the decency to pay up but his entire life is a string of unpaid bills and broken promises. Why should he do the decent thing now? He’s never done it before. He’s all hat and no cattle. Teleprompter Trump’s muted critique of racism and white supremacy endured almost a whole day but, predictably, Twitter Trump is back in the saddle. The MSM bought into his “moderate” rhetoric because they’re desperate for him to be normal so they can resume covering politics as a horse race. He’s not normal. He’s already back to sowing the seeds of division and grievance like a one-man Festivus: It’s scary that Donald Trump makes Frank Costanza look like a niceguy.
It’s folly for the MSM to expect the Insult Comedian to be the consoler-in-chief when he’s really the despoiler-in-chief. Repeat after me: Donald Trump is all hat and no cattle.Aug 07 2019
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ALBUM COVER ART WEDNESDAY: SALOME There ain’t no femme more fatale than Salome. I posted Aubrey Beardsley’s take last Saturday.
Let’s get operatic with a trio of covers for recordings of the Richard Strauss opera, _Salome, _whose libretto is a German translation of Oscar Wilde’s play. The aformentioned Beardsley illustration was done for the book of the play but not for the opera.The mind reels.
Aug 06 2019
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FREE SOMEBODY ELSE
In honor of Toni Morrison,who never
stopped working, who published a book this year, who kept looking straight at a world that hates and polices black women’s bodies and telling that world what she saw, for God’s sake, do something today to make somebody else free. > “I tell my students, ‘When you get these jobs that you have been > so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that > if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some > power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a > grab-bag candy game.’>
> “This is the time for every artist in every genre to do what he or > she does loudly and consistently. It doesn’t matter to me what > your position is. You’ve got to keep asserting the complexity and > the originality of life, and the multiplicity of it, and the facets > of it. This is about being a complex human being in the world, not > about finding a villain. This is no time for anything else than the > best that you’ve got.”A.
Aug 06 2019
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HEY CONGRESS, DO SOMETHINGI just:
> During the goal celebration after he scored in today’s D.C. > United-Philadelphia Union match, Union midfielder Alejandro Bedoya > picked up a pitch-side microphone and said into it,“Hey Congress, > do something, now! End gun violence!” “Congress” isn’t going to do shit. THE DEMOCRATS have been passing bills and urging action since THE DEMOCRATS banned assault weapons in the first goddamn place.
Republicans are holding hearings about how anime porn makes you violent or something, this morning, about how mental illness is to blame, like my crazy ass can shoot you with a trigger lock on. Hey Congress. Are you kidding me. If you want “Congress” to do something, what you really want is REPUBLICANS to do something. To pass the bills in the Senate that Dems have passed in the House. To support the prevention of gun violence through common sense shit like “let us perhaps not give you a gun if you hit your wife” and “until you can legally smoke and be drafted no ammo for you,” like really radical stuff there, chief. I don’t want to bag on this sportsball fellow who I never heard of until this moment and don’t know at all, because what he’s saying — that “Congress” needs to act — is what he’s been told by our irresponsible, lazy, clueless, cowardly national press, led by the nose by Republican partisans and pundits. “Congress” is the problem, “government” is broken, and once more and for all the marbles BOTH SIDES ARE TO BLAME. By refusing to name and shame Republicans for this, by perpetuating the myth that somehow our government just magically polarized its own damn self, by never once naming and shaming the assholes who are responsible for every single day of gridlock since 2010 (straining to remember who was president then, and what that might have had to do with this) they’ve made sure that while both sides are not equally at fault, they’re equally blamed. Shit, even supposedly smart people get this wrong. Jon Stewart came and lambasted “Congress” for not protecting 9/11 first responders, as if Mitch McConnell wasn’t holding up the bill. Every goddamn totebagger on the planet, who listens to NPR and thinks Trump of course is just the worst, will still shake their head and lament the lack of civility and comity in “government” as if the Tea Party rallies never happened. As if Sarah Palin never said Obama “palled around with terrorists.” As if those Purple Heart Band-Aids appeared by magic.
People get this wrong, and get frustrated and angry at the wrong people, because they’re never told in plain language what the holdup is or who is causing it. They’re enraged at inaction and the perception of paralysis without knowing why there’s no action, no movement. They feel powerless because they can’t exercise power without knowledge, and the information the press could be providing them about who is blocking gun law reform would give them power. It would also upset some wingnut screamers and Very Reasonable Sensible People, which I guess is what really matters. For God’s sake, though. Asking “Congress” to do something about this when half of Congress would love to do something about this is just enraging. Half of Congress and 2/3 of the country wants to move on this, and instead of saying, “you could if not for these six people” we’re watching TV shows about how everything is terrible but nothing can ever change.A.
Aug 05 2019
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STILL NUMB
It’s been awhile since I wrote about an American mass shooting. The reason is genuinely horrible: they’ve become so commonplace that we’re *almost* getting used to them. That’s an appalling place to find ourselves in, but that’s how things stand in the summer of2019.
The El Paso shooting is particularly horrific: the shooter went to that Walmart because so many people cross the border to shop there. It’s what happens when Mexicans are demonized by a sitting president* for his short-term political advantage. As always, the GOP is offering thoughts and prayers without informing the public what will happen when they stop thinking and praying. We all know the answer to that: nada, bupkis, nothing. It’s not just the ascendancy of white nationalism that’s causing this. It enjoyed a comeback in after Bill Clinton’s election victory in 1992 as well: Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh was a white nationalist. The difference is that 1994 saw the last piece of major gun control legislation passed: the assault weapons ban, which was allowed the expire during the Beavis-Duce administration, We keep hoping that there will be an inflection point in the ongoing gun violence crisis. This could be the beginning of one: the NRA is imploding because of internal strife and drama. It’s unclear if they will have the resources to be a major player in the 2020 electioncycle.
It’s time for another full-court press to restore the assault weapons ban. It won’t pass Moscow Mitch’s Senate but it could prove to be a powerful issue in 2020. The right is fond of talking about American exceptionalism. Is this what they have in mind? As long as there are military-style assault weapons in the hands of civilians, I’ll keep writing the Still Comfortably Numb series: 2015: Still Confortably Numb. 2016: Still Comfortably Numb Revisited.
2017: Still Comfortably Numb Revisited. 2019: Post Mayhem Rituals.
I’m not sure how I missed 2018. I must have been numb. I still am. UPDATE: I did write a mass shooting post in 2018. It was one of my better efforts: Kristallnacht In Broad Daylight.Aug 05 2019
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TODAY ON TOMMY T’S OBSESSION WITH THE FREEPERATI – I HAVE NOWORDS EDITION
Since it was a day that ended in “y”, yet another mass shooting : FREEPERS ARE ON THE CASE! > BREAKING: GILROY SHOOTER IDENTIFIED AS IRANIAN-AMERICAN WITH ISLAMIC > IMAGERY ON INSTAGRAM>
> LAURA LOOMER ^>
> | 07-29-2019 | Peter M. D’Abroska>
> Posted on 7/29/2019, 2:03:27 PM by Kevin in California>
>
> The shooter who killed three people and wounded at least 11 more has > been identified as Santino Willian Legan, a described Iranian> American.
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> Legan had an Instagram account on which he shared only three photos. > One of the photos depicted Ali Asghar Vahabzadeh, Legan’s maternal> grandfather.
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> posted on 7/29/2019, 2:03:27 PM by Kevin in California>
You’d think that by this time, the Freeper predilection for blaming the dirty mooslimes for everything would have collapsed under the weight of its own stupidity..
Right?
> To: Kevin in California>
>
>
> AND, THE LIBERALS ARE GOING TO IGNORE THE RAGHEAD ASPECT and focus > on the gun control cult.>
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> posted on 7/29/2019, 2:08:35 PM by LouAvul>
Aaaand – we’re off! > To: Kevin in California>
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> don’t know about you, but I heard that Ilhan Omar put him up to it > . . . must be true.>
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> posted on 7/29/2019, 2:09:28 PM by RatRipper>
> To: Kevin in California>
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> They’re still flooding into USA too. It’s long past time to > repatriate the Muslims to their own wonderful peaceful civilized> krapistans.
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> posted on 7/29/2019, 2:11:20 PM by faithhopecharity > ( “Politicians > are not born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to> 43 BCE))
> To: Kevin in California>
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> AND………..IT’S A MOSLEM.>
> Again.
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> He killed an 8 year old.>
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> posted on 7/29/2019, 2:11:27 PM by combat_boots > (God bless Israel and > all who protect and defend her! Merry Christmas! In God We Trust!) > To: Kevin in California>
>
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> SO WAS THIS GUY A MUSLIM OR NOT?>
> THAT’S THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS.>
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> posted on 7/29/2019, 2:21:20 PM by Neanderthal > (As you import the third > world, you become the third world) The only. Thing. That. Matters. > To: Kevin in California>
> _Islamic imagery?_>
> Well, that’s that!>
> ROUND UP ALL THE MUZZIES IN THE COUNTRY AND DEPORT THEM.>
> EVERY LAST ONE OF THEM.>
> If every gun in America is a potential mass murderer, and is guilty > of all the shootings across the nation, then every last muslim in > the country is responsible for the murders and terrorism of this> terrorist.
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> posted on 7/29/2019, 2:22:56 PM by skimbell>
And if it turns out to be a white gun nut?.
One of the Freeperati errs on the side of caution : > To: Kevin in California>
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> IRANIANS NAME THEIR CHILDREN SANTINO?>
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> posted on 7/29/2019, 2:25:01 PM by angcat > (THANK YOU LORD FOR PRESIDENT> TRUMP!!!!!)
Shut up-a you face!
> To: angcat
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> ITALIAN-IRANIAN?
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> posted on 7/29/2019, 2:45:40 PM by rktman > ( #My2ndAmend! —– > Enlisted in the Navy in ’67 to protect folks rights to strip my> rights. WTH?)
And then, of course : > To: Tennessee Conservative>
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> FOX RADIO NEWS AT THE TOP OF THE HOUR CALLED THE SHOOTER A WHITE> SUPREMACIST.
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> posted on 7/29/2019, 3:22:39 PM by JohnnyP > (Thinking is hard work (I > stole that from Rush).) (this is my shocked face).
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Aug 04 2019
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EVEN NOW
Even today. Even now things are being done: I saw it again, this stupid dumbass tweet being shared by people Irespect
,
and I can’t tell you how angry it makes me on behalf of the people who are fighting and working and busting their asses every day to change this. I can’t tell you how angry I am to see them — us — erased. That we haven’t won the war doesn’t mean we’re not fighting it. Stop saying it’s over. That’s WHAT THEY WANT. Good God, do we really have to point this out? Now, today, in 2019, do we really have to point out that all anybody who’s trying to get you to lie down is trying to do is get you to lie down? Stop making it easy for them with your goddamn fucking sophomore year cynicism. Hope isn’t a plan, goes the criticism, but guess what? Despairisn’t either.
Despair isn’t a plan and it isn’t an excuse and it doesn’t make you look one iota smarter than anybody currently out in the fucking streets. It doesn’t even HELP, good god, have you tried sitting with that feeling, all it does is poison your mind and rot your heart fromthe inside.
Get up, make some phone calls, get out there, feel foolish, and lose lose lose lose lose until you die if you have to but don’t just sit there talking to yourself about how nobody could ever do anything to change anything and it’s all hopeless, God, it’s so small and sadand gross.
People are fighting. Even now. Even after 24 hours and another 30 dead and do you HEAR yourselves, saying there’s no point. What if it was you and yours tomorrow? Would there have been a point to fighting,today?
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Aug 03 2019
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This week’s theme song was written by a very young John Hiatt for his 1979 album _Slug Line_. It was so long ago that he had a full head of hair as well as a unibrow. We have two versions of _Washable Ink _for your listening pleasure: the Hiatt original and a cover by the Neville Brothers. Let’s check if this spilled ink is really washable. Color me skeptical: black, red, or blue. Do they still call newspaper reporters ink-stained wretches? Probably not but it was swell slang. Time to ink up and jump to the break. I’m not sure what ink up means in this context, but I’m always talking shit. Y’all should knowthat by now.
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Nary a scinitilla in Cincy. This incident shows how dangerous it is for the president* to conflate attacks on him with attacks on the country. His rallies consist of non-stop incitement speech. It needs to stop but we all know it will not. That’s why incidents like this are not incidental and must becalled out.
The idiot who jumped out of the truck is named Dallas Frazier. I guess he confuses himself with former heavyweight champion Smokin’ Joe Frazier. Probably not: Joe was black and most Trumpers are as racist as the day is long. Besides, Joe was a genuine bad ass whereas Dallas Frazier is a coward who picks on men twice his age. I’m glad the cops arrested him immediately. It’s a pity that the Trumpers in the crowd did not chant; LOCK HIM UP. It works in thiscase.
Repeat after me: Dallas Frazier is a pussy. He should grab himself.Aug 02 2019
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Adrastos , Catblogging FRIDAY CATBLOGGING: THE TWO PAUL DRAKES First came _The Two Mrs. Carrolls_. Then, _The Two Jakes_. Now it’s time for _The Two Paul Drakes_:Aug 01 2019
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A SALUTE TO JERRY GARCIA Today would have been Jerry Garcia’s 77th birthday. I don’t believe in astrology. I do, however, get a kick out of sharing a sign with Jerry. Us Leos have to stick together, dead or alive. The only fitting salute to Jerry is to post his music. We’ll do the Spotify playlist thing with 20 of Jerry’s best tunes; 19 of which have lyrics by Robert Hunter:Aug 01 2019
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NON-DEBATE MOSCOW MITCH THREAD The debate — yawn — skipped it for the most part. Like Adrastos, I think life is too short, it’s
too early in the cycle. At this point debates are cheap content for cable news. Fill between ads hawking garbage. Besides, if/when it comes to it, I’ll vote for ANY Democrat over the lying sack of shit that’s DJT. Any of them. Even a minor/lower tiercandidate.
I’d even for for an actual sack of shit — lesser of evils — because a sack of shit lying on the ground is preferable to the lying sack of shit occupying the Oval Office. So, in place of any debate reaction, I saw Moscow Mitch is allbutthurt
about being called Moscow Mitch.
Well, if that’s the case, let’s hope it catches on (and if we can do anything to help)… Moscow Mitch…Turtleneck? Turtlenik…
And because I did end up catching some debate news and comments, let’s applaud Julian Castro (hahaha, “America needs Castro!”) for working it into last night’s three-hours-of-content.
Good for him.
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