By Jace, a Trail Mix Contributor
Some beautiful singing for an equally beautiful Sunday morning.
Enjoy the music and as always enjoy your day!
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By Jace, a Trail Mix Contributor
Some beautiful singing for an equally beautiful Sunday morning.
Enjoy the music and as always enjoy your day!
More Posts by Jace
jace, your beautiful aria has a lesson for our present fury: If [we] are patient, the Romans will fall by their own doing…
“Casta Diva” Lyrics, Translation, and History
by Aaron Green
Sung in the first act of Bellini’s famous opera, Norma, the high priestess Norma is visited by a group of angry Druids. They beseech her to declare war on Rome after the Roman soldiers occupied the Druids’ land and began oppressing their citizens. Norma assuages their fury and convinces them that now is not the time to fight. If they are patient, the Romans will fall by their own doing; an intervention is not necessary.
Norma sings a prayer to the moon goddess asking her for peace. What is not known by the other Druids is that Norma has fallen in love with a Roman. She secretly hopes no war will be fought so that her lover will be safe.
Beautiful voice and lovely aria. Thank you Jace. Your weekly gift always starts us out on the right path.
Rolling Stone: It’s Time to Demand Donald Trump Resign
From June 6 and still terrifying
Very, very nice Jace
Patd,
The Romans did indeed fall by their own doing. As I recall, the problem was that they took every one else down with them and ushered in that glorious period of history known as the dark ages. Yikes?
Have tickets to see the Mariners and the Yanks today at 1:00. Temperature near 80. Gonna’ be a good day.?
Inspired to clean house. Started by doing the dishes, washing the kitchen sink and washing the bath tub. Next will be folding napkins. Avoid twitter and blogs. Updated geneaology chart with information about John White, Gentleman and Sheriff.
Good work Jace! Enjoy the game.
Thx Jace. Sundays are always better with your musical selections. The last time I saw the Mariners play they were still in the Kingdome. And, if you sat in the cheap seats in the outfield, which is all I could afford, you couldn’t see the player in your portion of the outfield as the walls where at least forty feet high off the ground. Lol!! Enjoy the game. I will look for the box score later.
Jace, another beauty. thanks. Enjoy your outing. David says, “At least you’re going to see one playoff team.”
Craig,Tell David that he is probably right, but hope springs eternal.?
Eprof,
Safeco is a good place to watch baseball. Very few if any bad seats.
Decent ballpark grub and great selection of Northwest micro brews.
Still partial to Chase Field however.?
Wow… what a beautiful voice!
Jace… here’s to hoping that the Mariners smite those evil Yankees! The Red Sox play them next… don ‘t think I have to tell you who I hope wins then… 🙂
I find this political story kinda interesting…
Russin Plot to Elect Trump Included Jill Stein
GOP house and senate.
It’s turtles…..all the way down…..
less than a minute this a.m. of the mooch and I already miss spicey
a nice unexpected editorial atta boy from the mercury news:
Conservative South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham’s sharp wit and straight talk have made him a breath of fresh air among Republican Party leaders in Washington who lack the first quality and, since Donald Trump’s election, seem unable to pull off the second.
We don’t always agree with Graham. But on the Dream Act — providing a path to citizenship for immigrants who were brought here as children and have embraced the American dream — he is our hero.
With an impassioned plea Thursday, Graham and Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., proposed an updated version of the Dream Act and framed it as a moral imperative for Congress and this president.
[…]
At a time when the president and GOP leaders are trying to remove health insurance from 20 to 30 million people and lower taxes for the rich, Graham is right: His party could use a touch of humanity. Start with the Dream Act.
Thank You Jace for this lovely selection.
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Thanks, RebelliousRenee, for that interesting story. #45 & Stein are the yin-yang of the 2016 election. I am biased here, never liked or trusted Stein. She is a user & has no conscience. For. Sale.
Her call to the disaffected Bernie followers outside the Democratic Convention may have been politics as usual but considering the magnitude of that election was disgusting & enabling to the dark side. I respect choice, making a statement, however when the clock strikes midnight you have to put pettiness aside & work for what is best for the whole. I was not a Secretary Clinton supporter as dedicated as so many here, but I’m not a moron either. HRC was the ONLY choice in that election. Damn Stein to the wrong side of history forever. She’ll look so purty in her shimmery silver wrap, counting the $7 million suckers donated to her “good cause.” Go to hell, enabling a-hole. May she be a cautionary tale, if anyone bothers to get that.
re: possible Stein Russia connection — bears repeating, main purpose of leaking the DNC emails was to show the bias against Sanders, drive his voters elsewhere, many to Stein.
Sorry to say, also bears repeating this would not have happened if the DNC had not actually been biased against Sanders and stupidly revealed it in unsecured emails.
“Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all.” Friedrich von Logau in 1694 mostly as translated by Longfellow
This saying evidently reflects the sentiments of the ancient Greeks who wanted to make the point that ultimate justice belongs to the gods no matter what might happen during a wheeler-dealer’s life.
So, Donald, pardon your damned ass off; it means naught.
perhaps, it would help if crowds at all his appearances would begin shouting “lock him up. lock him up” and protest signs proclaiming same visibly line his route to the week-end golf course.
Stein is to Democracy as Cathy Smith was to John Belushi.
All in a day’s work.
excerpt from another very nice editorial. this time from wapo “What we can all learn from John McCain”
Mr. McCain has displayed a forthrightness that stands out in the ugly atmosphere of disinformation, propaganda, spin doctoring and outright lying that now prevails. The senator, as a presidential candidate in 2000 and 2008, endeared himself to journalists with his openness aboard a campaign bus called the Straight Talk Express. It was refreshing and genuine.
In 2008, the presidential campaign turned nasty in the final weeks. Crowds were shouting epithets and pumping fists in anger upon hearing the name of Sen. Barack Obama, the Democratic nominee. On Oct. 10, campaigning in a suburb of Minneapolis, Mr. McCain grabbed back the microphone from an elderly woman who had begun to say that she didn’t like Mr. Obama because he is an Arab. “No, ma’am. No, ma’am,” Mr. McCain said. “He’s a decent family man, a citizen who I just happen to have serious differences with on fundamental questions.” He added, “We want to fight, and I want to fight, but we will be respectful. . . . That doesn’t mean you have to reduce your ferocity. It’s just got to be respectful.”
That’s an example for today. Basic civility and respect speak louder than name-calling, trolling, shaming and prevarication. It is not some kind of gauzy nostalgia to wish for a politics of forthrightness and decency, so lacking today and so embodied by Sen. John McCain.
“Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small;
Those mills must have started with his hands……
Spicer finally lets go
Sean Spicer resigns, Sarah Huckabee Sanders takes over as press secretary, and Anthony Scaramucci is the new communications director.
Columbia (SC) is on the trace of the full solar eclipse. Hotels have been sold out for months and private homes are going for rates paralleling those charged for the Masters weekend. I think it will probably be a grand disappointment for two or one reasons:
First, as soon as things start dimming, lights all over town will go, spontaneously, into illumination mode. The reality of darkness will be lost for the several minutes that peoples’ need to navigate Publix and Walmart’s parking lots overrides all other imperatives.
Second, idiots with their ubiquitous cellphones will be waving the damned things around incessantly searching for darkness amidst the sea of light that they have created.
Third, it will probably be raining.
my apologies for the length, but it was too good not to share at least some of her ode to spicey
Alexandra petri
The enchantment is finally broken. Sean Spicer has been set free.
For just over 180 days, he toiled under the watchful eye of the ogre, performing acts that made his whole soul shrink in revulsion. From the first day, when he had to come out and bear false witness to the numbers present for the inauguration, to the very last, when you could still hear his voice echoing dimly from far off camera, insisting that the Senate’s Better Care Reconciliation Act was an excellent idea, he was forced to spew one horrifying imbecility after another. Even his suits shrank in revulsion.
But he could not help it. They had his whole family in an hourglass, and whenever President Trump shook it, horrible things would happen. All his brothers had been transformed into swans.
And so his punishment was to go to the lectern each morning. The curse held him. He had to stand there and say nothing (in as many words as possible). He had to stand there pronouncing hateful phrases about how the House’s American Health Care Act was superior to its predecessor since it required fewer pages, and saying it was necessary to vet a five year-old because Who Knew Who Might Radicalize these refugee babies, and admitting that, after all, Even Hitler never used gas on his own people.
This was something he was doing under duress and certainly not of his own free will. Each morning the sun rose and the hideous transformation would once more seize him, accompanied by chants of “Maga, Maga.” He would be just plain Sean Spicer, and then he would step to the lectern and be transformed into Sean Spicer, Donald Trump’s Press Secretary.
Once he had been an enormous rabbit, but that transformation was not painful like this. They had not made him speak then.
Now, horrible half-statements came skittering out of his mouth on long spindly legs in response to even the simplest questions.
He could still remember the days when he would actually get back to people with information when they asked for him. There had been a time, once. Before the curse.
Once he caught sight of his reflection in the lens of a camera and fled to the bushes, but the bushes would not cover him. He lifted his eyes to the Hill, but no help came.
The nonsense that came out of his mouth began to matter less and less.
[…. here she describes more horrors under the spell…]
He would not have stayed there all that time and said all those things if he could at any time have gotten up and walked away. Especially not looking so miserable. He has more character than that.
He did not bring this suffering on himself. How could he have? Who would do such a thing? It is far more likely that it was an enchantment, and therefore we should pity him.
No, congratulations to Sean Spicer for finally breaking the enchantment.
There can be no other explanation for why he remained.
sean, we hardly knew ye
but one look too many at mini moocher and we already miss you
Director of Communication for the White House has announced that Pussy G will be visiting the Simmons mattress factory and that the West Wing is entertaining bids for a large number of mattresses
as the godfather advised “go to the mattresses”
“Sorry to say, also bears repeating this would not have happened if the DNC had not actually been biased against Sanders and stupidly revealed it in unsecured emails.”
The GOP capitulated to the moron-fringe on their side of the spectrum- look at the result. Sorry, but people that don’t vote won’t save the Democratic party.
“Director of Communication for the White House has announced that Pussy G will be visiting the Simmons mattress factory and that the West Wing is entertaining bids for a large number of mattresses”
Captain Chinese-Steel and Madame Sweatshop-Labor want YOU to buy American! Not them, though, unless it’s with your tax-dollars.
Thursday morning, Joseph Rago, 34, editorial writer, member of the Editorial Board and Pulitzer Prize winner at the Wall Street Journal didn’t show-up for work. Security was notified. In turn, they notified the police. He was found dead in his apartment. Cause of his death was not apparent and is, at this hour, not being reported if it is known.
Wiki reports, “Rago was investigating how the Russian Pharmaceutical firm (Veropharm in Voronezh – one of Russia’s largest medical manufactures) could have been purchased in 2014 by an American Pharmaceutical firm (Abbott Laboratories, Chicago, Illinois), while sanctions against Russia existed against such business transactions. The transaction was accomplished by a US shell company named Kew Garden Hills, LLC. Handling this transaction, was the investment bank Renaissance Capital, owned by billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov‘s Onexim Group.”
I believe this story will have legs that will straddle oceans.
mini mooch in another era
Back in the days when I had a UPI teletype in the office closet, it would have been ringing four or five bells when a report such as that about Joe Rago came across the wire. I believe it is of major importance.
Thanks, Flatus. A reminder that investigative journalism is dangerous work, and the efforts of people like Rago are something for which we should be thankful.
Once again, this was all to be expected- we’ve known who these people are, for a while.
Bernie is not and has never been a Democrat. The party allowed him to use the label to make a run since he had voted with them in the past. They were under absolutely no obligation to support him or anyone else deemed unlikely to win the election.
Since the election he has done nothing but continue to brag about himself, amass money from the deluded and run down the Democratic party while having the poorest attendance record at his day job. Working full time at anything has never been a Sanders hallmark. He is a lazy, loudmouthed fraud who helped cause the mess we are in currently while making himself richer.
Jamie, insulting Bernie and his supporters is a formula for losing the next election just like the last one. That’s the Putin playbook, divide and conquer Democrats.
Amen, Rev Crawford, Amen.
Without the Bernie Backers the Dem party is just repub lite.
Do they need to be enticed with donuts, or something? Where’s Sander’s leadership, now?
Hi xrepublican!
Bink,
Touche’, but where is the Democratic Leadership’s leadership? Who, What, Where, When, How?
There is a segment on BBC Radio overnight that investigates Lost Treasures of history. Perhaps they will do one on the 2016 Democratic F-up of not realizing the value of every vote. Hold your nose, don’t wear your good shoes, keep the plastic on the furniture but smile, smile, smile. A building can have a false front but at least it’s a building & at least it’s still standing.
Btw, enjoy your comments.
flatus, what you bet somehow they’ll blame his death on Obama for his stance against aca?
from ny times
Mr. Rago, a graduate of Dartmouth College, won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing in 2011 “for his well crafted, against-the-grain editorials challenging the health care reform advocated by President Obama,” his citation said.
I agree that the story has legs… maybe some of the one’s of that centipede sen. McCain spoke when he said “This is a centipede. I guarantee you there will be more shoes to drop, I can just guarantee it. There’s just too much information that we don’t have that will be coming out.”
Craig
I’ll keep insulting Bernie as long as the cable people continue to book him almost daily as the VOICE of a party he doesn’t belong to and has done everything possible to undermine. The man is a fraud. Not quite at the POTUS level but equally venal and deceitful.