(I also posted here.)
Kudos to Thom Hartmann for giving it to Apple CEO Tim Cook and his pathetic whining about how antiquated the U.S. tax code is and that’s the supposed reason why he continues to stash money offshore (more here)…
…and kudos also to the U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations for this (and again, don’t expect our corporate media to care)…
…and while I was doing my seasonal music thing, a lady named Holly Woodlawn passed away (here), who was the inspiration for this song…
…and I guess this rings down the proverbial curtain on the seasonal stuff – see you next year, I think.
Saturday, December 26, 2015
Friday, December 25, 2015
Thursday, December 24, 2015
Thursday Stuff
Here is some more good "Obamacare" news...
...and here, the father of the British Muslim family that wasn't allowed to fly to Disneyworld tells us the story (what’s amazing to me is that this man still wants to bring his family here after we treated them like garbage, to our shame)…
…and yeah, those Syrians trying to come to this country sure are scary, aren’t they?...
…and just in time for the day before the big day, I give you Tim the Toy Man…
...and we're just about out of the seasonal selections, but here are some more (we lost this guy this year, by the way).
...and here, the father of the British Muslim family that wasn't allowed to fly to Disneyworld tells us the story (what’s amazing to me is that this man still wants to bring his family here after we treated them like garbage, to our shame)…
…and yeah, those Syrians trying to come to this country sure are scary, aren’t they?...
…and just in time for the day before the big day, I give you Tim the Toy Man…
...and we're just about out of the seasonal selections, but here are some more (we lost this guy this year, by the way).
Wednesday, December 23, 2015
Wednesday Stuff
(I also posted here.)
I submit to you that, during this holiday season, we should remember the courage of a young man named Zaevion Dobson, who left us way too soon (here)…
...and it looks like, according to daughter Patti, “Saint Reagan” would not approve of the GOP field (goes immediately to another video I chose not to watch, so I can't really say anything about it)…
…and I don’t have a clue as to whether or not “Breaking the Silence” is being funded by actual terrorist groups or not (kind of like the way I don’t know how our political candidates in this country are funded), but it’s been my experience (such as it is) that charges like those thrown against this group usually turn out to be baseless long after the news cycle has expired - of course, “Bibi” and his people could have an actual dialogue with this group to look more closely at the evidence (yeah, I know…if I ruled the world, every day would be the first day of spring)…
...and I would say that this is an idea whose time has come...
...and now, time for the seasonal stuff - always liked the quiet, contemplative mood of this one...when people think of great voices in song, it's easy to overlook this guy, but that would be a mistake...
...and I hope the estates of the respective singers in The Drifters get a cut of the royalties for this one...
...and I know the Cosby stuff has lost a bit of luster, but here it is anyway...
...and I just can't get enough of this band, at Christmas time and always.
I submit to you that, during this holiday season, we should remember the courage of a young man named Zaevion Dobson, who left us way too soon (here)…
...and it looks like, according to daughter Patti, “Saint Reagan” would not approve of the GOP field (goes immediately to another video I chose not to watch, so I can't really say anything about it)…
…and I don’t have a clue as to whether or not “Breaking the Silence” is being funded by actual terrorist groups or not (kind of like the way I don’t know how our political candidates in this country are funded), but it’s been my experience (such as it is) that charges like those thrown against this group usually turn out to be baseless long after the news cycle has expired - of course, “Bibi” and his people could have an actual dialogue with this group to look more closely at the evidence (yeah, I know…if I ruled the world, every day would be the first day of spring)…
...and I would say that this is an idea whose time has come...
...and now, time for the seasonal stuff - always liked the quiet, contemplative mood of this one...when people think of great voices in song, it's easy to overlook this guy, but that would be a mistake...
...and I hope the estates of the respective singers in The Drifters get a cut of the royalties for this one...
...and I know the Cosby stuff has lost a bit of luster, but here it is anyway...
...and I just can't get enough of this band, at Christmas time and always.
Tuesday, December 22, 2015
Tuesday Stuff
(I also posted here.)
Get a load of this, if you will – our neighbor to the north welcomed some Syrian refugees and nobody ran around with their heads cut off crying OMIGODSCARYMUSLIM! OMIGODSCARYMUSLIM! OMIGODSCARYMUSLIM! OMIGODSCARYMUSLIM! OMIGODSCARYMUSLIM!...
…and I have to admit that I’m having a bit of a hard time keeping up with all of the garbage related to Donald Trump (and it truly is that), but I think we need to dwell on this a little more, as TYT minus Ana and Jimmy Dore explain (and I totally agree with Ben – also, Cenk totally nails it at the end, sadly)…
...well, let's home these seasonal selections cheer us up a bit.
Get a load of this, if you will – our neighbor to the north welcomed some Syrian refugees and nobody ran around with their heads cut off crying OMIGODSCARYMUSLIM! OMIGODSCARYMUSLIM! OMIGODSCARYMUSLIM! OMIGODSCARYMUSLIM! OMIGODSCARYMUSLIM!...
…and I have to admit that I’m having a bit of a hard time keeping up with all of the garbage related to Donald Trump (and it truly is that), but I think we need to dwell on this a little more, as TYT minus Ana and Jimmy Dore explain (and I totally agree with Ben – also, Cenk totally nails it at the end, sadly)…
...well, let's home these seasonal selections cheer us up a bit.
Monday, December 21, 2015
Monday Stuff
(I also posted here.)
Rachel Maddow performs a great service here IMHO in her special report on the antics in Michigan under Repug Rick Snyder and how his awful judgment ended up ruining the water in the now-accursed city of Flint - her outrage is totally justified…
…and yes, there’s too much wiggle room here, if you will, on the question of a potential agreement with the butcher Assad in Syria, but as a certain former Prime Minister of Great Britain once said, “jar-jar is better than war-war” (and I don’t know why the hell the decision was made to try in sneak in a plug for Trump with Joe Scar, but kudos to former Russian Ambassador Michael McFaul for putting the whole Trump/Putin thing in the right context – sure, Putin hasn’t been convicted of killing a journalist, kind of like the way Chris Christie hasn’t been convicted of creating a traffic disaster on a certain bridge and lying about it and covering up).
(Oh, and one more thing – I really don’t have much to say about the whole “data breach” thing with the Bernie Sanders campaign, except to wonder why DNC chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz could not have found a way to get both camps to sit down and try to work something out behind closed doors instead of trying to cut off the Sanders campaign and make a public show, but then end up more or less retreating when the Sanders campaign quite rightly IMHO fought back on the right to access their own donor list…D W-S strikes me as generally being tone deaf on this stuff, and this to me is just another example...opposing points of view on this and everything generally are certainly welcome because I'm hardly an expert on this issue.)...
…and now, time for some more seasonal selections.
Rachel Maddow performs a great service here IMHO in her special report on the antics in Michigan under Repug Rick Snyder and how his awful judgment ended up ruining the water in the now-accursed city of Flint - her outrage is totally justified…
…and yes, there’s too much wiggle room here, if you will, on the question of a potential agreement with the butcher Assad in Syria, but as a certain former Prime Minister of Great Britain once said, “jar-jar is better than war-war” (and I don’t know why the hell the decision was made to try in sneak in a plug for Trump with Joe Scar, but kudos to former Russian Ambassador Michael McFaul for putting the whole Trump/Putin thing in the right context – sure, Putin hasn’t been convicted of killing a journalist, kind of like the way Chris Christie hasn’t been convicted of creating a traffic disaster on a certain bridge and lying about it and covering up).
(Oh, and one more thing – I really don’t have much to say about the whole “data breach” thing with the Bernie Sanders campaign, except to wonder why DNC chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz could not have found a way to get both camps to sit down and try to work something out behind closed doors instead of trying to cut off the Sanders campaign and make a public show, but then end up more or less retreating when the Sanders campaign quite rightly IMHO fought back on the right to access their own donor list…D W-S strikes me as generally being tone deaf on this stuff, and this to me is just another example...opposing points of view on this and everything generally are certainly welcome because I'm hardly an expert on this issue.)...
…and now, time for some more seasonal selections.
Sunday, December 20, 2015
Sunday Stuff
More seasonal stuff for today – good luck finalizing your holiday party plans, last-minute shopping and other mania for this time of year…hope you enjoy this
Friday, December 18, 2015
Friday Stuff
Thom Hartmann gives us economic and green news for the week (number of signatories on the climate deal as noted here is 190, for those keeping score at home)...
…and I give you a brief trip for “This Day In Doomsy History” going back about a year to 12/12/14; definitely a loss for us all when FAIR TV went down (though the site is here), and there’s no question that Rolling Stone didn’t follow best practices under any stretch of the imagination in the UVA story, but of course this gives the wingnuts the excuse to blow off the volumes of great work by that magazine, notably Matt Taibbi, Tim Dickinson, and the late Michael Hastings (and as noted previously, speaking of Rich Lowry)…
...and good for Judge Carolyn Walker-Diallo here (NSFW because of the wingnuts)...
...and anyone out there who wonders whether or not this country is slowly turning into a third-world autocracy should watch this video...
...turning to the seasonal stuff, I give you a bit of culture from Eugene Ormandy & The Philadelphia Orchestra ("O Come O Come Emmanuel" - works for Easter too)...
...and nothing like a little Friday soul...
...along with a jazzy take on another seasonal standard...
...and I offer the following without comment.
…and I give you a brief trip for “This Day In Doomsy History” going back about a year to 12/12/14; definitely a loss for us all when FAIR TV went down (though the site is here), and there’s no question that Rolling Stone didn’t follow best practices under any stretch of the imagination in the UVA story, but of course this gives the wingnuts the excuse to blow off the volumes of great work by that magazine, notably Matt Taibbi, Tim Dickinson, and the late Michael Hastings (and as noted previously, speaking of Rich Lowry)…
...and good for Judge Carolyn Walker-Diallo here (NSFW because of the wingnuts)...
...and anyone out there who wonders whether or not this country is slowly turning into a third-world autocracy should watch this video...
...turning to the seasonal stuff, I give you a bit of culture from Eugene Ormandy & The Philadelphia Orchestra ("O Come O Come Emmanuel" - works for Easter too)...
...and nothing like a little Friday soul...
...along with a jazzy take on another seasonal standard...
...and I offer the following without comment.
Thursday, December 17, 2015
Thursday Stuff
(I also posted here.)
It’s still beyond shocking to me that one of these life forms could potentially be elected president next year - we would be just as big a laughingstock on the world stage as we were during Dubya’s sorry reign, or maybe worse (and of course our ol’ buddy Vlad Putin would like to see this too – kudos to Rachel Maddow for speaking truth to stoo-pid…I’m also shocked that Hugh Hewitt asked such a good question, so I reluctantly have to give him kudos also…Trump’s answer should scare the hell out of everybody)…
…and this is the stuff of nightmares also…
…and this is difficult stuff as well; this video may be a bit upsetting; a Reuters report on mothers who take opioids and the effect it has on their offspring, and some of the penalties these mothers are facing as a result – yes, provide the proverbial stick when we have to, but provide carrots as well (I’d totally forgotten about our former Congressman Jim Greenwood, but it’s nice to see him as an advocate here – this is a step in the right direction, but not much more than that without any federal dollars for treatment of both mothers and their babies…where’s the “family values” crowd when you need them?)…
…fortunately, I can add something here that is a bit more upbeat; the latest in the fight against AIDS w/Bono (I pretty much completely hated Jesse Helms and felt only slightly less hostile to Dubya, and I never liked the way Bushco administered - for lack of a better word - PEPFAR, but again credit where it's due)…
…and now time for the seasonal stuff - I guess Harry is ready for his closeup…
…and I still think Pearl Bailey is on the right track here…
…and good for Dino for reminding us of more seasonal weather…
…and it’s not Christmas without this number, speaking only for myself of course.
It’s still beyond shocking to me that one of these life forms could potentially be elected president next year - we would be just as big a laughingstock on the world stage as we were during Dubya’s sorry reign, or maybe worse (and of course our ol’ buddy Vlad Putin would like to see this too – kudos to Rachel Maddow for speaking truth to stoo-pid…I’m also shocked that Hugh Hewitt asked such a good question, so I reluctantly have to give him kudos also…Trump’s answer should scare the hell out of everybody)…
…and this is the stuff of nightmares also…
…and this is difficult stuff as well; this video may be a bit upsetting; a Reuters report on mothers who take opioids and the effect it has on their offspring, and some of the penalties these mothers are facing as a result – yes, provide the proverbial stick when we have to, but provide carrots as well (I’d totally forgotten about our former Congressman Jim Greenwood, but it’s nice to see him as an advocate here – this is a step in the right direction, but not much more than that without any federal dollars for treatment of both mothers and their babies…where’s the “family values” crowd when you need them?)…
…fortunately, I can add something here that is a bit more upbeat; the latest in the fight against AIDS w/Bono (I pretty much completely hated Jesse Helms and felt only slightly less hostile to Dubya, and I never liked the way Bushco administered - for lack of a better word - PEPFAR, but again credit where it's due)…
…and now time for the seasonal stuff - I guess Harry is ready for his closeup…
…and I still think Pearl Bailey is on the right track here…
…and good for Dino for reminding us of more seasonal weather…
…and it’s not Christmas without this number, speaking only for myself of course.
Wednesday, December 16, 2015
Wednesday Stuff
Want to know why I didn’t waste my time with that farce in Las Vegas last night? I think the Young Turks crew minus Ana sums it up pretty well (again, Jimmy Dore makes this NSFW, but he’s right)…
…and leave it to John Oliver to offer seasonal re-gifting tips as only he can (here)…
…and this can be a great time of year, but it can also be a stressful one – I think James Pennebaker has some great ideas here…
…and Seth Meyers had a good segment here IMHO on the recent climate deal (typical for the Foxies and Not Your Father’s Republican Party to be utterly wrong, of course)…
…and turning to the seasonal stuff, I give you the sacred…
…and the secular…
…and what would Christmas be without the funniest math professor of all time?...
…and I don’t know of any other seasonal tune that quite captures the time of year like this one.
…and leave it to John Oliver to offer seasonal re-gifting tips as only he can (here)…
…and this can be a great time of year, but it can also be a stressful one – I think James Pennebaker has some great ideas here…
…and Seth Meyers had a good segment here IMHO on the recent climate deal (typical for the Foxies and Not Your Father’s Republican Party to be utterly wrong, of course)…
…and turning to the seasonal stuff, I give you the sacred…
…and the secular…
…and what would Christmas be without the funniest math professor of all time?...
…and I don’t know of any other seasonal tune that quite captures the time of year like this one.
Tuesday, December 15, 2015
Tuesday Stuff
(I also posted here.)
I applaud Newtown, Connecticut Police Chief Michael Kehoe here on trying to be smarter about guns, but unless cops take the lead on this issue, we’re never going to get anywhere (yes, we need a lot more players involved too, I admit)…
…and Thom Hartmann gives us economic and labor news for the week…
…and I don’t know what is going on in that Las Vegas mess tonight, but I think Cenk Uygur is typically spot-on to call out Les Moonves of CBS on his fawning support for “The Donald”…
…who turns out to be comic fodder for Jon Stewart once more here (bit runs a little long, though)...
…and time to return to the “teen idol” era for tonight’s seasonal selection…
…though leave it to Louis to ask the question that really matters…
…and it looks like Bing went all the way to our 50th state to get his damn figgy pudding…
…and it’s hard to believe that this version of this tune is 50 years old – sigh.
I applaud Newtown, Connecticut Police Chief Michael Kehoe here on trying to be smarter about guns, but unless cops take the lead on this issue, we’re never going to get anywhere (yes, we need a lot more players involved too, I admit)…
…and Thom Hartmann gives us economic and labor news for the week…
…and I don’t know what is going on in that Las Vegas mess tonight, but I think Cenk Uygur is typically spot-on to call out Les Moonves of CBS on his fawning support for “The Donald”…
…who turns out to be comic fodder for Jon Stewart once more here (bit runs a little long, though)...
…and time to return to the “teen idol” era for tonight’s seasonal selection…
…though leave it to Louis to ask the question that really matters…
…and it looks like Bing went all the way to our 50th state to get his damn figgy pudding…
…and it’s hard to believe that this version of this tune is 50 years old – sigh.
Monday, December 14, 2015
Monday Stuff
Kudos to Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Dem U.S. House Rep (and wounded vet) Tammy Duckworth for this - this video needs a lot more than 182 views, by the way...
...and do you want to know how an American should treat a Muslim (or anyone else regardless of their faith, or lack thereof)? Sen. Bernie Sanders shows us how...
…and of all of the utterly pointless anti-Obama obstruction going on on Capitol Hill, this may be the most pointless of all (God, I wish Number 44 himself would highlight stuff like this every week – I realize he has far better things to do, but shaming these idiots, at a minimum, is all they understand...and yes, Sen. Sherrod Brown's new grandson truly is adorable)…
...and speaking of stupid - this would actually be funny if these clowns weren’t so serious; sorry if you end up needing Pepto-Bismol after watching this (one response is here – “Savage hordes,” huh? Overdose on your angry pills, Dana? And “abandoning immigration law”? Really? “Where is the honest discussion” indeed? - click on Dana's angrily contorted mug to start and stop)…
...and boy, do I need some holiday videos after that one - first the guys who have left the treadmills far behind...
...and I keep forgetting to add this every time at Christmas, but I remembered for a change (goes immediately to the next tune)...
…and in the past I’ve featured Silver Bells from this guy, but this year I thought I’d change this up a bit here too..
...and I think these snowmen were watching Dana also.
...and do you want to know how an American should treat a Muslim (or anyone else regardless of their faith, or lack thereof)? Sen. Bernie Sanders shows us how...
…and of all of the utterly pointless anti-Obama obstruction going on on Capitol Hill, this may be the most pointless of all (God, I wish Number 44 himself would highlight stuff like this every week – I realize he has far better things to do, but shaming these idiots, at a minimum, is all they understand...and yes, Sen. Sherrod Brown's new grandson truly is adorable)…
...and speaking of stupid - this would actually be funny if these clowns weren’t so serious; sorry if you end up needing Pepto-Bismol after watching this (one response is here – “Savage hordes,” huh? Overdose on your angry pills, Dana? And “abandoning immigration law”? Really? “Where is the honest discussion” indeed? - click on Dana's angrily contorted mug to start and stop)…
...and boy, do I need some holiday videos after that one - first the guys who have left the treadmills far behind...
...and I keep forgetting to add this every time at Christmas, but I remembered for a change (goes immediately to the next tune)...
…and in the past I’ve featured Silver Bells from this guy, but this year I thought I’d change this up a bit here too..
...and I think these snowmen were watching Dana also.
Sunday, December 13, 2015
Sunday Stuff
(I also posted here.)
I think this report from Rachel Maddow speaks volumes about the disconnect between our Beltway courtier media and the Republican "base," frothing over every utterance from "The Donald," no matter how preposterous...
…and kudos to Fareed Zakaria for this…
...and it looks like the Foxies want to blow up everything that they can, and the hell with whoever they manage to take with them (here), something believed by this life form also apparently...
…and happy 90th birthday to the one and only Dick Van Dyke (I’ll go fall over an ottoman in his honor)…
...and turning to the seasonal stuff, I always liked the fact that this guy managed to come up with an original Christmas song before he left us...
...and particularly with the warmer weather in these parts, I guess we could even head to the beach for some sun n' surf too - cool, but a little weird too.
I think this report from Rachel Maddow speaks volumes about the disconnect between our Beltway courtier media and the Republican "base," frothing over every utterance from "The Donald," no matter how preposterous...
…and kudos to Fareed Zakaria for this…
...and it looks like the Foxies want to blow up everything that they can, and the hell with whoever they manage to take with them (here), something believed by this life form also apparently...
…and happy 90th birthday to the one and only Dick Van Dyke (I’ll go fall over an ottoman in his honor)…
...and turning to the seasonal stuff, I always liked the fact that this guy managed to come up with an original Christmas song before he left us...
...and particularly with the warmer weather in these parts, I guess we could even head to the beach for some sun n' surf too - cool, but a little weird too.
Saturday, December 12, 2015
Saturday Stuff
"I've Got You Under My Skin" (nobody knew how to swing quite like Sinatra and Nelson Riddle)...
..."It Was A Very Good Year" (gorgeous Grammy Award-winning orchestration from Gordon Jenkins)...
...and since it is that time of year after all, I offer the following selections.
Friday, December 11, 2015
Friday Stuff
To begin, kudos to Chris Hayes for blasting the typical right-wing political suspects and their media sycophants in the case of Saadiq Long (more here)…
…and I’m a little behind on my Rachel Maddow videos; here she is interviewing Dem U.S. House Rep Adam Schiff on why those utter wastes of space on Capitol Hill haven’t even taken up debate, let alone a vote, on the war with ISIS (Schiff comes perilously close to favoring ground troops here, though, which concerns me a great deal)…
…and I give the Rev. Rob Schenck credit for breaking from the “party of Lincoln” on guns (here), even though he and his fellow evangelicals were utterly played…he won’t admit that, though Schenck is being more honest here than the rest of that bunch (I’m glad this video includes that disgustingly smug commercial from The Sainted Ronnie R as well as Caribou Barbie’s equally repulsive remark about waterboarding)…
…and I gotta tell ya’ that this is one smart bird (the symbolism writes itself)…
…time for the holiday stuff – really like this number from John Legend in particular….
…and yeah, I still have to put up the Doomsy tree – hope all the lights work…
…and leave it to The King to hit just the right note on this, as they say…
…and if you have to fall down drunk somewhere, please do so responsibly and give the keys to somebody else – hugs.
Thursday, December 10, 2015
Thursday Stuff
(I also posted here.)
Point…
…Counterpoint (have to crank the volume a bit)…
Update: Somewhere, William Paley, Edward R. Murrow, Don Hewitt, Mike Wallace and others I'm sure are doing somersaults in their graves (here).
...also, Shep Smith opines on Trump here along with John Bussey of the Murdoch Street Journal; on the one hand, I'm happy to see Trump do his best to ensure that the Repugs utterly crash and burn, but on the other hand, to be honest, this really is't a good development for our democratic form of government...
…and I don’t know what’s more shocking; Bushco covering up one of these items for seven years, or the fact that The Daily Tucker actually broke a legitimate news story (though Number 44’s DoD has something to answer for on stuff like this also – I guess I’d take the pants-wetting admiral over the self-pleasuring VA guy, though)…
...and here are a couple of seasonal selections.
Point…
…Counterpoint (have to crank the volume a bit)…
Update: Somewhere, William Paley, Edward R. Murrow, Don Hewitt, Mike Wallace and others I'm sure are doing somersaults in their graves (here).
...also, Shep Smith opines on Trump here along with John Bussey of the Murdoch Street Journal; on the one hand, I'm happy to see Trump do his best to ensure that the Repugs utterly crash and burn, but on the other hand, to be honest, this really is't a good development for our democratic form of government...
…and I don’t know what’s more shocking; Bushco covering up one of these items for seven years, or the fact that The Daily Tucker actually broke a legitimate news story (though Number 44’s DoD has something to answer for on stuff like this also – I guess I’d take the pants-wetting admiral over the self-pleasuring VA guy, though)…
...and here are a couple of seasonal selections.
Wednesday, December 09, 2015
Wednesday Stuff
Ever heard of the so-called “Dickey Amendment” (here)? That’s the congressional mess that prevents the CDC from researching gun violence – yep, every bit as stoo-pid as it sounds (Thom Hartmann explains in an interview with Dr. Alice Chen)…
...and I thought this report was full of good advice from someone who escaped these ISIS crazies and gives us, I think, a better plan for defeating these lunatics than the one we have now (of course, it involves "soft power" and hard, difficult work that doesn't generate any headlines, which is why it probably won't be followed)...
…and like it or not, it’s time for another installment of “This Day In Doomsy History” in which we go back about eight years to 12/5/07; this video provides a cautionary tale of how we were lied into war with Iraq and very nearly into the same thing with Iran – basically, I don’t know of any credible network with initials for names (even though Robert Greenwald and Brave New Films quite rightly take aim at Fix Noise here) that we can trust given this sorry track record when it comes to issues of war and peace, something to consider in light of their opining on ISIS and also in light of this…
Update: Uh, yep.
..and kudos to Catholic Charities for this (and a pox on Mike Pence and Greg Abbott each – the vetting process to emigrate into this country takes TWO YEARS, unless you’re talking about the VISA Waiver Program; if you’re going to put restrictions into place anywhere, do it there first)…
..and turning to seasonal selections, I give you a bit of a bebop Christmas carol...
...as well as something that I'm sure we can all relate to - right? :-)
...and I thought this report was full of good advice from someone who escaped these ISIS crazies and gives us, I think, a better plan for defeating these lunatics than the one we have now (of course, it involves "soft power" and hard, difficult work that doesn't generate any headlines, which is why it probably won't be followed)...
…and like it or not, it’s time for another installment of “This Day In Doomsy History” in which we go back about eight years to 12/5/07; this video provides a cautionary tale of how we were lied into war with Iraq and very nearly into the same thing with Iran – basically, I don’t know of any credible network with initials for names (even though Robert Greenwald and Brave New Films quite rightly take aim at Fix Noise here) that we can trust given this sorry track record when it comes to issues of war and peace, something to consider in light of their opining on ISIS and also in light of this…
Update: Uh, yep.
..and kudos to Catholic Charities for this (and a pox on Mike Pence and Greg Abbott each – the vetting process to emigrate into this country takes TWO YEARS, unless you’re talking about the VISA Waiver Program; if you’re going to put restrictions into place anywhere, do it there first)…
..and turning to seasonal selections, I give you a bit of a bebop Christmas carol...
...as well as something that I'm sure we can all relate to - right? :-)
Tuesday, December 08, 2015
Tuesday Stuff
(I also posted here.)
I thought I’d change things up a bit and lead off with a holiday selection…
...and sorry to immediately bring things down, but here’s today’s science lesson on the coming global catastrophe, assuming we don’t manage to do something about in the meantime…
...also, I thought this was an interesting interview Alex Witt conducted with Steven Lee Myers of the New York Times on how ISIS is funded…
…and a hat tip to TCM’s Ben Mankiewicz for pointing out that today would have been the 100th birthday of legendary Hollywood screenwriter Ernest Lehman, who gave us a bunch of great movies; here is an excerpt from one in particular…
...and if it seems like I'm preoccupied with this topic, it's because I am (click on video to start and stop)...
...in no small part because of today's remembrance.
I thought I’d change things up a bit and lead off with a holiday selection…
...and sorry to immediately bring things down, but here’s today’s science lesson on the coming global catastrophe, assuming we don’t manage to do something about in the meantime…
...also, I thought this was an interesting interview Alex Witt conducted with Steven Lee Myers of the New York Times on how ISIS is funded…
…and a hat tip to TCM’s Ben Mankiewicz for pointing out that today would have been the 100th birthday of legendary Hollywood screenwriter Ernest Lehman, who gave us a bunch of great movies; here is an excerpt from one in particular…
...and if it seems like I'm preoccupied with this topic, it's because I am (click on video to start and stop)...
Monday, December 07, 2015
Monday Stuff
We may just finally have the debate on drones that we should have had all along; tragic that it took the sacrifices of these young men to make that possible, though (something to consider in light of this utterly revolting development)...
...and it looks like somebody spiked Tweety's Geritol again - kudos (though Trump isn't a "mixed bag" as far as I'm concerned - he offers NOTHING to indicate that he gives a damn about me or people like me; also, Obama really isn't a progressive, which shouldn't be a news flash to anyone...more here)...
Chris Matthews slams Donald Trump - Tells... by ewillies
...and yeah, I often can't believe it either (here)...
...and of course, since we're talking about Fix Noise, the network responsible for this, you can count on this hairdo named Angela whatever interrupting Joe Lestingi, who happens to be making a well-reasoned, legitimate point...oh yeah, liberals are responsible for crime...screw you, bitch...
…and I try to work in some new selections for this time of year, and here’s one – I probably shouldn’t like this little number, but I do; I think it’s a nice tune…
…and this will put a little spring in your step, I'm sure (a bit NSFW at end).
...and it looks like somebody spiked Tweety's Geritol again - kudos (though Trump isn't a "mixed bag" as far as I'm concerned - he offers NOTHING to indicate that he gives a damn about me or people like me; also, Obama really isn't a progressive, which shouldn't be a news flash to anyone...more here)...
Chris Matthews slams Donald Trump - Tells... by ewillies
...and yeah, I often can't believe it either (here)...
...and of course, since we're talking about Fix Noise, the network responsible for this, you can count on this hairdo named Angela whatever interrupting Joe Lestingi, who happens to be making a well-reasoned, legitimate point...oh yeah, liberals are responsible for crime...screw you, bitch...
…and I try to work in some new selections for this time of year, and here’s one – I probably shouldn’t like this little number, but I do; I think it’s a nice tune…
…and this will put a little spring in your step, I'm sure (a bit NSFW at end).
Sunday, December 06, 2015
Sunday Stuff
This number goes out to everyone celebrating the festival of lights, which begins tonight…
…and here is another seasonal selection.
…and here is another seasonal selection.
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