God Bless the United States of Fedex, Exxon-Mobil, Koch, etc (sigh)...
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.
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)…
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…
..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? :-)
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.
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)...
...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).
