(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
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