Friday Stuff

RIP Omar Sharif – kind of funny that, as he recounted in an interview with somebody at some point, he really didn’t consider himself as a candidate for the lead role in “Dr. Zhivago,” but was thinking more along the lines of the scoundrel Komarovsky, the role that went to Rod Steiger in the movie, but director Sir David Lean wanted Sharif in the lead all along…liked the depiction of what it’s like to be a writer in the movie…Sharif also once recounted what a tough time he had getting his hair straightened for the role – thought he was great as Sherif Ali in “Lawrence of Arabia” too…



…and hey, pick up your damn trash, my fellow Pennsylvanians (here), or else you might get a visit from this guy (heh)…



…and leave it to our corporate media to immediately rush to the aid of the “party of Lincoln” in the wake of the massive federal employee data breach (Jason Chaffetz is a damn idiot) – yeah, maybe the resignation of OPM’s Katherine Archuleta is a good idea, but do you want to hear another good idea? HOW ABOUT GETTING RID OF THE DAMN SEQUESTER ALREADY AND FUNDING OUR GOVERNMENTAL AGENCIES THE WAY THEY SHOULD BE FUNDED (and I call this a good first step)…



...and while everyone is now beating up the FBI for supposedly being responsible for allowing the maniac Dylann Roof to purchase the handgun he used to (allegedly, let's not forget) murder nine people in Charlestown, SC (here), how about if we ask why South Carolina has not yet required a "permit to purchase" from law enforcement before anyone buys a weapon of death (here) - doing so might have disallowed Roof from orchestrating his evil (once again, allegedly)...

...and on this subject, get a load of the following quote from some asswipe named Gary Marbut, president of the Montana Shooting Sports Association (from HuffPo here)...

..."People need to assume personal responsibility for their own welfare, including personal safety, rather than expecting society or others to provide that for them."

Cenk at TYT responds...



…and whether you’re ready for it or not, here comes another installment of "This Day In Doomsy History" from about two years ago (kind of a bit of foreshadowing for the arrival of Pope Frank, to be honest...surprised this great clip from John Fugelsang is still available, actually)…



…and this song has a bit of a religious reference; haven’t put it up for a while – the wild T-storms last night cleared everything out for some nice weather including today – hope it’s a good weekend for you also.

Thursday Stuff

Don't look now, but there's more NSA spying going on - I think our corporate media overlords don't want us to know this and focus on the Republican presidential primary clown show instead...



...and I thought this was an interesting interview that Rachel Maddow conducted with Kelly Evans of CNBC in which we learn, among other things, how ultimately inconsequential the NYSE is for most of the time it is trading, except for the pricing that occurs at the end of every session (and I'm sorry, but I don't consider the stock exchange to be vital infrastructure)...



...and so Dubya's brother wants us to supposedly work longer hours (here)? What a POS (NSFW)...



...and I can't believe this great tune had only 1 view when I found it.

Wednesday Stuff

It looks like Subway's Jared Fogle has more problems (and yes, I know the charges he faces here aren't amusing in any way, and all “alleged” of course)...



…and hey, here’s an idea; maybe there should be a “stress test” of sorts for governors who decide that they want to run for president…you know, your state has to meet certain benchmarks, such as not having 8 credit downgrades (here), having economic growth among, say, the top 10 states (uh, no), and maybe that governor has to have an approval rating higher than 50 percent (once again – uh, no) – yeah, I know, that’s just liburuul “crazy talk”…



…and (if this is to be believed), it seems that PA Democrats are in a bit of a quandary about former PA-07 U.S. House Rep Admiral Joe Sestak as the presumptive nominee to run against “No Corporate Tax” Pat Toomey in 2016 – I guess there are a lot of “inside baseball” reasons why Sestak is considered persona non grata in some quarters (not saying the reasons aren’t important, just saying that the voters might not actually care).

Well, I saw a few names mentioned in the Daily Kos post, but I didn’t see this guy anywhere. Anybody out there want to ask him about taking a shot?...



…and the teenaged one is trying to get me to expand my musical horizons a bit outside of time-warped moldy oldies and "message" tunes (what a whippersnapper he is :- ). Given that, I have to say that I think this is kind of catchy (“house” music is what this is, I guess – not bad).

Tuesday Stuff

I give you yet another installment of “This Day In Doomsy History,” brought to us by Dem U.S. House Rep Joe Crowley of New York from about July 6th, 2011 (and I suspect things have not changed much since this clip)...



..and now I can rest easy, knowing that there's an official voice in our media for all of the poor, oppressed billionaires out there (here)...



...and today marks a grim 10-year anniversary in the annals of terrorism for our friends across the pond, as noted here (the video explains more about the “Mike's Place” bombing)...



...and speaking of the U.K., happy 75th birthday to Mr. Starkey.

Monday Stuff

Yeah, how dare those breast-feeding moms nourish their babies the way nature intended (here: yeah, I'm overdoing it with the snark lately - sorry)...



…and if the prior clip was an intentional parody, then what follows is definitely an unintentional one (from here).

And in case anyone who reads this blog doesn't know this by now, then let me point out that I am an honest-to-goodness Roman Catholic. And it’s hard for me to communicate how truly offensive this video is to me.

Oh, please spare me how much Teh Gay Iz Destroying My Marriage (and it actually scares me a bit to realize that, say, about five years ago or so, I wasn’t that far removed from these people – not saying that to pat myself on the back, but only to point out how truly clueless I was on this subject).

This is a typical wingnut maneuver, of course. Basically use cowardly code language (“some of my best friends are gay”), then fake crocodile tears telling the world how oppressed you are because Teh Gay Iz Ruining Your Sexytime.

It’s a human rights issue. Gays and LGBT individuals want the same legal protections through marriage that straights have. They want to love without someone wagging their finger at them telling them that they’re going to hell and they’re going to take the straights with them. And they want to adopt kids. And hold down jobs and homes and basically live what was once euphemistically called The American Dream.

The end…



(P.S. – I can’t wait for the official parody.)

...and I LOVE this guy's response to "The Donald" on how horrible illegal (undocumented - whatever) immigrants supposedly are in about a minute and never stops working (here)...



…and happy belated 65th birthday to Michael Monarch of Steppenwolf (this goes out to the people behind the second video in this post).

Sunday Stuff

The egomania of "Governor Bully" truly knows no bounds, people (here)...

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...but at least our corporate “betters” can rest easy (here)...



...though I'm sure there are a hell of a lot of Dawn Hugheys out there (here)...



...and I intend this to be a gender-neutral selection, for what it's worth.