By Jace, a Trail Mix Contributor
A wonderful work to set the tone for our own decidedly unroyal fireworks this week. Handel’s Music for Royal Fireworks performed on period instruments.
Enjoy the music and as always enjoy your day! Have a wonderful 4th of July!
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“At some point in the future, we’re going to look back and say how did we do it without space?” Trump then said, causing Buzz Aldrin’s eyebrows to shoot up.
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“Our journey into space will not only make us stronger and more prosperous, but will unite us behind grand ambitions and bring us all closer together.
“Wouldn’t that be nice? Can you believe that space is going to do that?”
‘Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated‘
the hill:
Four more House Democrats have signed on to a bill to begin impeachment proceedings against President Trump after his Twitter rampage against MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski.
Yahoo News reported Saturday that 25 House Democrats are now working on the bill, which has been in the works since April. The bill’s primary sponsor is Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD).
The bill would create a congressional “oversight” commission that could declare the president incapacitated, leading to his removal from office under the 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
[….]
“I assume every human being is allowed one or two errant and seemingly deranged tweets,” Raskin said. “The question is whether you have a sustained pattern of behavior that indicates something is seriously wrong.”
[….]
“The question is, where are we going to be six months, 12 months, 18 months from now?” Raskin asked.
“The presidency is considered extremely stressful for people with the strongest mental health. We need to be prepared for all eventualities.”
don’t usually quote them, but this time they’re post worthy, friday’s ny post editorial in its entirety:
Stop. Just stop
a little more on the serious side
Published on Jun 30, 2017
Richard A. Clarke – former U.S. National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure Protection, and Counterterrorism – joins Bill to discuss his latest book: Warnings: Finding Cassandras to Stop Catastrophes.
As always Jace the college of musical knowledge is open for the Sunday session.
We here at the house of 7 Sundays love it.
More and more of our acquaintances are banishing any mention of Pussy G and the current situation at parties.
“This is infinity here. It could be infinity. We don’t really don’t know. But it could be. It has to be something — but it could be infinity, right?”
A great brain works in mysterious ways. An empty brain is very strange.
I heard an interview between Tweety and the two guys at SNL who do the news program.
They travel around and do comedy shows and their take was that people voted for BIG CHANGE because whatever is not working for them. The only one offering big change was Pussy G.
A very nice selection, Jace.
It’s the indoor version of the Royal Fireworks. The outdoor was played by a military band without strings–the strings were added when Handel brought it into the concert hall. One of the instruments of the period was the ‘serpent’. Yes, it was named that because of its shape. I don’t know what a python would sound like it you gave the struggling reptile a massage
The story is that three WH aides, one being Jared Kushner, threatened MoJo with a Nat’l Enquirer story.
Sleep (which Trump seems to do little of) clears out plaques from the brain. Lack of sleep leads to early dementia.
If his underlings are supporting his obsessive behavior, and even aiding him,do they not realize he may be incapacitated in some way?
If folks from Trump’s camp did this, honestly, that worries me more than whatever twit sh/+ he’s spewing at the moment.
From what is he/are they trying to divert our attention?
Love the music, but praying the teenage idiot-vandals taking over my neighborhood don’t have fireworks…or worse to shoot off this week.
Maybe there is a WH office pool on what day, hour and minute he rips off all his clothes and goes running around the grounds, drooling and howling at the moon. The pot could be good enough to let him do whatever he wants, eat whatever can be shoveled in and all the televisions tuned to MSNBC and CNN.
Flatus,
Here is a bigger bolder version. As much as I like it and I do, I still enjoy the chance to hear works performed on instruments of the period. It gives me an even greater respect for the talents of both composers and musicians.
Stroking a serpent even for musical effect is a bad idea. I fear they always sing a Siren’s song.
Looks like the idiot tweeted again:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBRbc05wUM4
Anyone who continues to support him is someone to avoid at all costs
not greatest selection music-wise, but gives you a good idea how it’s played
looks like the spawn of an alto sax and a bass clarinet
Ana Navarro! Fearless!
Was Trump smart enough to superimpose that CNN logo on that old video clip? Did he have help?
bbronc, thanks for adding the infinity line for us. here’s a recap by drvoke:
Either Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin had a bad meal or he was as confused as we were about President Donald Trump’s comments on space and security Friday in the Oval Office.
The astronaut was at Trump’s side as the president announced a new executive order reestablishing the National Space Council — 24 years after it was last active — to direct space policy in his administration.
Trump’s remarks began with the president’s usual boasting: “We’re going to lead again like we never led before.” But he then appeared to claim all of space for the U.S., calling it the “next great American frontier.”
Trump also referred to space “providing the security that we need to protect the American people.” And he sent Aldrin’s eyebrows shooting up when he added, inexplicably, “At some point in the future, we’re going to look back and say, ‘How did we do it without space?’”
“We know what this is, space. That’s all it has to say: space,” Trump said as he prepared to sign his executive order. He then turned to Aldrin and asked, “There’s a lot of room out there, right?”
“To infinity, and beyond,” Aldrin quipped as others laughed. But Trump apparently didn’t get the reference to Buzz Lightyear’s catchphrase in “Toy Story.”
“This is infinity here. It could be infinity,” Trump answered in a rambling response. “We don’t really don’t know. But it could be. It has to be something — but it could be infinity, right?”
Jesus effing Christ. What a dope. LMAO!
Jace and Pat, we’re on a roll!
I think this version of the Handel done for the Proms a couple of years ago fully captures the British pride through its almost frenetic takeoff. It, too, has a number of period instruments. Whatever one does, don’t get off on the wrong foot with the most energetic kettle drummer I’ve yet seen.
Such a nice contrast between the three performances
Flatus,
Thank you. Ever the emprasario and showman, Handel would have much approved of this performance. Very musical and muscular at the same time.
Patd,
Very nice serpent horn. Thanks for posting. It appears that I have done serpents a disservice.
so enjoying today’s tunes, especially i’m taking another Trump holiday. He’s worn me out again.
This is the most awesome thing that I’ve seen in a really long time. You should check it out.
http://www.cc.com/shows/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah/trump-twitter-library/tour
patD – ? re: his infinity comment.
Was that real or from The Onion?
It reminds me of the pageant contestant who said, “like” and “such as” sprinkled in with assorted nonsense. She got a pistachio commercial out of that gibberish.
BiD = the Infinity quote is real. Absolutely real. Stunning in its complexity real. It takes a real smart man, one proud to be smart, “I’m, like, a smart person”, to spew out words so immense. Intelligence is not needed in his world.
yes, bid, there really is a nut job in the wh.
as Stephen Colbert said a couple of days ago, it’s refreshing that we can still be shocked. looking on the bright side, we haven’t become immune from this inane insanity and our souls reduced to calcified cynicism.
the hill:
CNN commentator Ana Navarro on Sunday criticized President Trump for a tweet featuring a modified video showing him body-slamming CNN at a wrestling match.
“I think that is unacceptable. I think that is the president of the United States taking things way too far,” Navarro said on ABC’s “This Week.”
“It is an incitement to violence. He is going to get somebody killed in the media.”
and one of the 1st things at the constitutional convention they keep calling for, his followers will amend freedom of the press from the 1st amendment
That reminds me of a line from a book, the name of which I can’t remember: “The insidious crabs of cynicism…”
I thought that would be a good name for a band.
🙁
nice little tribute not only to engineers but (in rest of article not quoted below) also to “Norwegians. They’re dignified, self-effacing, endlessly kind….”
Garrison Keillor: Partying with the engineers
Back in college days, my cohort and I looked down on engineers. They wore plaid shirts with plastic pocket protectors and combed their hair with hair oil. We dressed like vagabonds and wrote unintelligible stories and exhaled cigarette smoke very stylishly and were cool, which they were not. And now, decades later, we look around at a digital world that they designed, laptops, Google, Facebook, and a gizmo the size of a skinny sandwich that is telephone, video camera, compass, encyclopedia, weather monitor, newspaper, calendar, pinball machine, flashlight, and hundreds of apps. And what did we do with our lives? We created little blips and blats of sensibility, like hanging wind chimes out in the woods.
Too late I learn that people who dress up as radicals turn out to be showmen. The real radicals are the ones who love to work puzzles and solve problems and that includes a lot of short-haired people in Sears Roebuck outfits.
That reminds me of another book:
I Am The Cheese
creepy
Patd – I don’t know about from which Garrison speaks.
Okay – I am a geek, I started programming an obsolete computer in high school, it had plug boards, and have continued doing so since. As one who thinks computers are just tools to help humans do difficult tasks easier I find less doom and gloom in the things than my co-workers. I tend to intimidate current “computer” people as they usually know less about the electronics and deep programming than I do. In the old days we wrote everything including the drivers to make computers “communicate” with things like keyboards, modems, printers and even the graphic monitors.
The hard part for those of us who did this for a living was knowing someone with more brass had gone out on his own, yes the male pronoun is correct as very few women were “allowed” into the brotherhood. That person who left, went on to sell for millions of dollars what we were grinding away for a few ten thousands. You heard of them, no need to list their names.
Not all of us are awkward socially, just a majority. There are numerous studies about us. We tend to not think of ourselves as “brainiacs”, but I have learned we do tend to be above the one hundred IQ thought of as the norm.
This current era, we are the ones who make your watch work, your refrigerator remember to remind you to change the filter, your coffee maker to make coffee, your car to start, what the weather will be in twelve hours, why you can watch cable television and where you are on your GPS.
“It is not difficult”, I tell my co-workers, “it is all ones and zeroes”.
Oh, I never carried a slide rule, it was too hard and slow, I would rather “guess” at the results if I could not run it through a computer first. That is what the things are supposed to do, math.
A pleasant day, with the exception of an initial hour or so of waking to WaPo I stayed the hell away from politics, political blogs, political shows, etc. somehow my brain feels a little lighter and cleaner than normal. From that I gathered that “our” president is still doing stoopid shit and his idiot supporters still think stoopid is smart. Who needs that shit?