Saturday Stuff

This story from CBS News marks the 6th anniversary of the Sandy Hook gun slaughter which I alluded to yesterday (and this tells us what has transpired since - of course, as we know, there has been no action on the federal level...but plenty of this, of course)...



...and by including this video, my intention isn't to go for a cheap laugh in response, but, among other things, to point out the utter idiocy of those who resist us the most on this issue (Dan Bongino was dropped by NRA-TV, as Sam Seder tells us...womp-womp)......



...also, Hosni Mubarak Walker signed off on all of that garbage in Wisconsin, which I guess should surprise exactly no one (here and here...and this "new tradition" is coming from one side only, let's not forget)...



…and John Iadarola and Brett Erlich tell us the horrible story of the 7-year-old girl who died in border patrol custody (and yeah, I think this about says it…I glanced at the YouTube comments per John’s request, and many were thoughtful but many were also the typical “bot” hate dreck BS, which isn’t surprising I know...do you honestly think, however, that we'd be having a discussion like this if she were white and well-to-do in, say, Norwich, CT?)…



...and here are a couple of more seasonal tunes ("palate cleanser" time again).

Friday Stuff

Lawrence O’Donnell tells us that the Gropenfuhrer will have to tell more lies to his utterly deluded followers who are still left about the debt – again, if our corporate media with initials for names had held this utter fraud of a presidential candidate to account two years ago, it would have been plain to the entire world that he was nothing but a narcissistic maniac who was in waaay over his head…but…



…and Cenk and Ana of TYT tell us about Fix Noise host Marie Harf who held that moron Jason Chaffetz to account recently (here), and was slapped down for her commendable effort by this life form named Harris Faulkner…



…and Kyle K. (NSFW) tells us about the 5 U.S. House Dems who recently voted against the resolution to stop our involvement in the Yemen massacre on behalf of the Saudis, and their failure ended up being critical since the final vote count was 206-203…and check this out – the maneuver to block consideration of Ro Khanna’s commendable effort to end our cooperation with the Saudis on this slaughter was buried in a farm bill, and in case you’re wondering, Bri-Fi voted in favor of continuing this insanity (here)…this may end up as the final legislative move by Mr.-Puppy-Dog-Eyes-With-The-Shiv as U.S. House speaker, and it is every bit as disgusting, foul, fetid…and yes, deplorable…as you would expect from someone who claims to be a Roman Catholic (here) – at least the Senate did the right thing, and I GUARANTEE you this will be revisited when the Dems take over in January, and Khanna’s bill will pass (of course, more people including kids will die in the meantime...if Ryan had a molecule of humanity, maybe he would ponder that while he attends Sunday services - naaah)…



…and I know when I do the holiday music thing like right now, I kind of skip new tunes and musical milestones, but as far as the latter goes, I DEFINITELY did not want to miss this one…happy belated 75th birthday to Dickey Betts of The Allman Brothers Band (and speaking of milestones, I know today is an important one for a particular news event - I think we all know what it is - and I'll have something on that soon)…



...and speaking of seasonal tunes, here are four more (well, the last one is open to interpretation I guess :-).

Thursday Stuff

I had some videos about climate change yesterday, and for the alternative STOO-PID point of view in support of dirty energy (or maybe "dirti-est"), I give you this from The Majority Report (at COP24, which apparently was the forum where the latest Trumpster BS was exposed..."clean fossil fuels" is a ridiculous lie even for them)…



…and Ali Velshi filled in here for Chris Hayes on “All In” about the Google CEO testifying before some of those knuckleheads in the U.S. House, including Goober Gohmert and Steven Arnold King (heckuva job, you numbskull voters who keep returning these clowns to Congress every two years…and yeah, I think Ted Lieu nailed it – not sure exactly why Zoe Lofgren said what she did…I am the LAST PERSON to defend the Gropenfuhrer, but I have MUCH BIGGER issues with Number 45 than what comes back from search results)…



…and “Pap” and Farron Cousins tell us about CEOs using tax cuts to boost their pay, and of course to stick it to their workforce – an example is here, even though the layoffs were reported to be voluntary…GREAT point about the Boards of Directors rubber stamping the CEO pay raises…they’ve talked about McKesson and the opioid epidemic before, and I know they need to keep beating that proverbial drum…



...and Cenk and Ana of TYT tell us about Chuck Todd and his typical “both sides” BS about the Repug garbage in Michigan and Wisconsin with incoming Dems…



...and here are more seasonal selections.

Wednesday Stuff

Seth Meyers tells us about the White House dustup yesterday between Generalissimo Trump, incoming U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer about that stoo-pid wall (and yeah, it looks like you-know-who said he would own the shut down – figures; this is what happened the last time we had a shut down in January)…



…and just upon some kind of perfunctory reading, I think there is a bit of a back story with Jazmine Headley, the mother in this video (apparently there is an outstanding warrant for credit card fraud that her lawyers are trying to get dismissed), but you know what? As Ana and the other panelists point out here, maybe the go-to move by the people working in this office SHOULD NOT BE TO CALL THE POLICE if you think she is making a disturbance for some reason, and you NEVER, EVER take her child from her unless she is threatening the child, which CLEARLY wasn’t the case as shown (an update is here)…



…and NYC Council Member Rafael L. Espinal Jr. tells us of the importance of fighting climate change…yeah, man…



…and with the prior clip in mind, Kyle K. tells us about Repug (!) Mayor Dale Ross of Georgetown, TX who is taking his town to 100 percent sustainable energy (talking with Bernie Sanders…NSFW…don’t know about Thorium; wind turbines are in MA which has Repug Gov. Charlie Baker, just to let you know…I don’t quite see eye-to-eye with Kyle on the comparison to recreational pot since I think there are a bit more sides to that issue…yeah, it should be legal for medical purposes definitely but still restricted also IMHO…probably more I could say about that)…



...and here are more seasonal tunes.

Tuesday Stuff

It seems James Fields will go to the slam for life for running over and killing Heather Heyer during the neo-Nazi march in Charlottesville, VA (here); not sure why he isn’t getting a date with the needle - I guess he pled guilty to avoid a trial; as far as I know, the death penalty is still in force in that commonwealth…



…and speaking of unruly mobs, Hasan Piker tells us more about the French riots – an update is here (it looks like President Macron, wisely, is listening and watching)…



..and Mike Papantonio and Farron Cousins tell us about former DHS under-secretary Suzanne Spaulding, who criticized the two for being dupes of Putin, or whatever (I think the “Hillary-bot holdover” remark was a little stoo-pid, though – SHE ISN’T IN GOVERNMENT ANY MORE!!! And yes, Pap, we know what “Wag The Dog” is all about…I’m automatically leery of anything from “The Putin Network” also, though, to be fair, a lot of their reporting has held up as far as I’m concerned)…



…and I now give you the latest installment of “This Day In Doomsy History” from 12/11/15…a lot of times, when I present these old clips, I’m trying to update them to some other story or context that is a little more current, but I’m not doing that this time – I’m just giving you the clip once more of the Gropenfuhrer being almost-attacked by the eagle in the photo-op for Time Magazine, and I think the symbolism of that speaks for itself (and I love Cenk’s reaction too...and speaking of "flipping the bird," you might say, to Number 45, it seems that this is noteworthy - huzzah!...oh, but let's cue the "corporate Dem" caterwauling from the usual suspects in response...GMAFB!)…



...and here are more seasonal selections.

Monday Stuff

I thought this was a terrific segment by Ari Melber pointing how just how terrible Mr.-Puppy-Dog-Eyes-With-The-Shiv was at his role as U.S. House Speaker; in keeping with other predecessors from his party, though, they (including “Man Tan” Boehner) were pretty pathetic also…of course, Ryan and the “young guns” sold themselves as allegedly something different, but they’re all part of the same collective “con” to pile tax cuts for the rich upon each other, blow up our ridiculous defense budget even more and, all the while, steal from everyone else including those who can afford it the least…



…and today is the 70th anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the U.N. General Assembly…



…and to show just how far we have to go on that score, this tells of the brutal repression by the Chinese of the Uyghurs and their efforts to lobby the world for justice on their behalf…



…and sticking with world stuff, Kyle K. tells us about the back-and-forth between Jeremy Corbyn & Theresa May in “question time” during a session of the British Parliament about the effects of British austerity (NSFW – and I agree with Kyle that we should have “question time” here too – not just for the presidents, but the House Speaker and Senate Majority Leader too; definitely not trying to pass myself off as an expert in overseas politics, but as I’ve said before, when we traveled to the U.K. a couple of years ago right after the Brexit vote, it struck us as a little fishy that the black cab drivers all supported Brexit for the same reasons – certainly not saying they were dumb at all, but just that the same propaganda campaign had apparently worked on all of them…an update is here)…



...and here comes more seasonal stuff.

Sunday Stuff

In the latest edition of “The Damage Report,” John Iadarola and Michael Shure tell us how some Fix Noise talking heads are finding out now that, gee, the Gropenfuhrer’s tax cuts really suck after all – just a little late on this I would say…



…and we have yet another humanoid from the Republican Party Propaganda Network being tapped by Generalissimo Trump for a government job, and this time it’s Heather Nauert named as UN Ambassador (and as noted here, this hairdo once cited D-Day as some kind of a milestone in U.S./German relations – were my father still alive…like many men of his era, he served in the European theater in World War II…I’m sure he would communicate his response to that in no uncertain terms)…



...and I'm not really concerned about the back-and-forth on the other NJ news stories involving Dem Gov. Phil Murphy - not saying they're not important also, just saying I'm not focusing on them - but I wanted to include this clip because of the upcoming 12/15 health care enrollment deadline in the Garden State as well as nationwide (kind of dovetails a bit into this, this and this as far as I'm concerned)...



…and RIP Pete Shelley of The Buzzcocks…



…and I alluded to this on Friday, and you can consider my inclusion of this as my response…



...and here is another seasonal tune.