By Jace, a Trail Mix Contributor
Some lovely dances for a beautiful Sunday morning. A nice break I think from a week that has been long on ugly news and even worse weather
Enjoy the music and as always enjoy your day!
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’tis liltingly lovely, jace. makes one wont to forget world worries, dance away our current cares, muffle ears to the mess…. la, la, la, la lahhh
Jace, Beautiful as always. Thank you for giving us a great start to Sunday:
In Greek mythology, Terpsichore (“delight in dancing”) was one of the nine Muses and goddess of dance and chorus. She lends her name to the word “terpsichorean” which means “of or relating to dance”.
From the sublime to Or Olivia Newton John as “Kira” in Xanadu
https://youtu.be/oWeJ9p42ufg
When the McCoy Friends y Amigos Reading Room is done, you might want to put a bench somewhere for Charles Stover – A Whisper In An Age of Shouting
your weekly carl Hiaasen:
Hey, who cut the eyeholes in Mar-a-Lago’s white tablecloths?
Wonderful, Jace. I admire Michael Praetorius, Thomas Tallis & William Byrd. Musicians from that Era dealt head on with the Protestant/Roman Catholic divide. Some of the loveliest music came out of recusancy code & early Lutheran support.
this might be worthy of an irate, unhinged twit tweet
garrison Keillor:
And now, a new anxiety that our history has not prepared us for, a fear that we have elected George III to the presidency and we may not survive three and a half more years of his madness. For the first time in our history we are looking to generals to save us from democracy.
[….]
And now we think about the man picking up the red phone instead of Twitter and ordering fire and fury like the world has never seen and the death of 10 million people. We trust the order will be disobeyed, a de facto military coup, and the man will be packed off to Walter Reed and what then?
We’ve never been here before. A fourth of the population will approve of anything the king does, including my cousin, a godly man who believes the king will safeguard Christians against a liberal elite that is out to confiscate their Bibles. On the paranoia spectrum, this is just below the fear that invisible beams from the microwave may force you to eat toilet cleanser. Evidently my cousin is not getting the uninterrupted sleep he needs.
I hope I am wrong. On Monday I was in the midst of people with protective glasses all excited by the so-called solar eclipse and what they actually saw was a brief celestial dimness. Any Midwestern thunderstorm is vastly more spectacular. Maybe George III is that sort of phenomenon. The mad king turns out to be the Queen of Hearts who is able to believe six impossible things before breakfast. The rabbit is there and a little girl named Alice. Enjoy the show.
the hill via msn:
Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) is warning President Trump’s allies that they shouldn’t expect a pardon in the ongoing Russia investigation should there be any convictions.
The Democratic lawmaker on Saturday tweeted that targets of the investigation should still feel compelled to testify.
“Any witness counting on a Russia investigation pardon should think again,” Blumenthal tweeted, linking to an earlier report from The Hill quoting Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), who said that Trump’s pardon of former Sheriff Joe Arpaio was a signal to those targeted by the Justice Department.
“Trump’s loyalty is limited, witnesses can still be compelled to testify, and the pardons apply only to federal crimes,” he added.
Jack
On the Contribution Page for the Reading Room, the donation levels end with “Gracious”. Did you mean to do that or should it be “Gracias”
https://www.ioby.org/project/reading-room-project
Harvey, as seen by the Space Station:
I-610 Houston this morning
Arizona Republic editorial:
“By pardoning Arpaio, Trump made it clear that institutional racism is not just OK with him. It is a goal.”
Trump Cabinet member’s daughter blasts transgender ban:
“This veteran says sit down and shut the f–k up, you know-nothing, never-served piece of s–t.”
Stunning Tillerson comment on FOX Sunday show just now..
Wallace asked if Trump represents U.S. values.
Tillerson: The president speaks for himself.
Craig,
It is even more interesting that she is the daughter of Zinke who is doing everything possible to open up our Parks and monuments to corporate raiding for lumber & fossil fuels. I don’t think I want to go to Sunday dinner at their house.
Tillerson doesn’t take responsibility for much of anything including his words. More and more cabinet members are taking the tack of the Press Secretary response, “The President’s words speak for themselves”. The non answer answer.
yep Jamie, & with Tillerson’s broadside Trump has more Cabineteers to tweet rip
“tweet rip”?
craig, another version would be “terror tweet” or “tweet-taunt” and a riff on those “tweetrage” or “tweeterr-ize”
I’ve never seen the situation where is ministration officials have to say that, Jamie. We can just add that to the list of things we have never seen in a president.
I like tweeterr-ize Pat. Good one
sounds like either Kelly or the communications office sent out a memo that standard response to any tweet question must be “The president speaks for himself” or “The President’s words speak for themselves” because the twit twists his words from day to day leaving any staffer trying to rephrase or interpret twisting in the wind.
if you were a staffer, aside from killing your self, what would you do?
agree Pat. It is so perverted. But these responses do not address how does the world tell the difference between when he’s speaking for himself and speaking for his administration? That’s the follow-up question. Or maybe he is never speaking for his administration and the world just pretends he’s not there.
and speaking of staffers, according to politico:
Ditching Trump’s White House can be a messy affair
Economic adviser Gary Cohn wrote resignation letters after Charlottesville, joining the ranks of aides who have threatened to quit or resigned — while remaining in the building.
[….]
Reince Priebus said he resigned in a private meeting with Trump earlier this summer after Anthony Scaramucci attacked him in comments to the New Yorker, but others believe he was dismissed on Air Force One. Priebus, these people said, told people he was staying around even after he publicly said he resigned and flew to Long Island on Air Force One, a strange move if one had already resigned. He “really wanted to make it a year,” one person said.
Regardless, he wandered around the halls of the Executive Office Building for days, taking occasional meetings, looking for other gigs and taking a vacation before his employment formally concludes at the end of August. Priebus declined to comment.
No one is exactly sure what Spicer is doing these days at the White House; he quit five weeks ago but is still there while negotiating his next gig and meeting with TV networks, while staying on the payroll.
The only clear departure seemed to be Scaramucci, who was ousted by new chief of staff John Kelly after accusing Bannon of performing sexual acrobatics on himself and accusing Priebus of being paranoid in profane terms.
“It’s hard to put together a stable team when you have such an unstable work environment,” said Ron Klain, who worked in the White House under Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton.
[….story continues….]
Jamie, Thanks for all the catches. lol obviously we are in need of an editor. . Mrs Jack ans I usually have a give and take process when we write these things and catch most of our problems but IOBY’s site is so clunky that she had to write everything on line. While I read everything over I missed that one. Fixed them
again, Muchas gracias mi amiga.
differing povs on tweet status re official policy of admin according to nbc
“The president is president of the United States,” Spicer said, “so they are considered official statements by the president of the United States.”
[….]
But while Spicer flaunted Trump’s millions of followers, other White House officials have sought to delineate the difference between the tweets and official forms of presidential correspondence.
White House national security advisor Sebastian Gorka told CNN one day earlier that there’s a difference between tweets and policy and @realDonaldTrump’s feed is the former, not the latter.
“It’s not policy, it’s social media,” Gorka said in a tense back and forth during which he accused the media of over-obsessing Trump’s tweets. “It’s not policy, it’s not an executive order, it’s social media. Please understand the difference.”
Spicer’s counterpart Sarah Huckabee Sanders also lamented the media obsession with the tweets and celebrated them as a way for Trump to speak directly and unfiltered to his followers, but regretting that the media obsesses “over every period, dot.”
“I think it’s just the obsession over every detail of the president’s tweets,” she said.
“The obsession with covering everything he says on Twitter and little of what he does as president” irked Kellyanne Conway during an interview NBC’s Today Monday. When faced with the platform as Trump’s preferred method of communication, Conway said “that’s not true.”
Tuesday, Spicer called Trump’s penchant for tweeting an example of his messaging prowess. “The president is the most effective messenger on his agenda and I think his use of social media … gives him an opportunity to speak straight to the American people, which has proved to be a very, very effective tool.”
course now, the above was reported 3 months ago. that’s like a few years in dog age, an eon in twitville.
nra putting reporters in the cross-hairs… looks like hunting season and nut balls crawling outta their mancaves with guns cocked ready to bag anything talking into a mic (that doesn’t have f-o-x on it) or holding anti-Nazi signs.
abcnews:
The election of President Donald Trump and Republican control of Congress meant the National Rifle Association could probably rest easy that gun laws wouldn’t change for at least four years. But the NRA has begun a campaign not against pending legislation but what it sees as liberal forces bent on undoing the progress it’s made — and the political powerhouse is resorting to language that some believe could incite violence.
Using the hashtags #counterresistance and #clenchedfistoftruth, the NRA has put out a series of videos that announce a “shot across the bow,” and say the gun-rights group is “coming for you” and that “elites … threaten our very survival,” terms that suggest opponents are enemy combatants.
“The times are burning and the media elites have been caught holding the match,” NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch says in one video aired on NRATV, the gun lobby’s web video site, as it shows footage of people fighting police, breaking storefront glass and burning the American flag.
Last night on the neighborhood social media site, Next Door I got very negative cynical response to our fund raising announcement. Some times in this neighborhood folks use cynicism as a shield because hope doesn’t work. So I replied to him and as a result got a $50 donation. It covered our beliefs and a bit about the current project. Probably as good as I get in trying to explain our dreams. So I thought I would share it with you.
Thanks to all for your support over the years We are awed by it and extremely grateful.
to support the reading room project
Mrs Jack is traveling for work today, Tampa, or she would also be sending her thanks.
Jack
http://imaginationforpeople.org/en/project/the-palaver-tree-and-social-connection/
http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/7349605-181/santa-rosa-toddler-mother-struck
I blame Donald Trump
Harvey looks like Katrina…watching all of the poor humans walking out-of-flood waters. How are supplies supposed to arrive? Everyone patting themselves on the back when this disaster is going to change things like Katrina did. All that pre-staging and how to move-in to a city under water? Too much water and destruction for hundreds of miles. Besides humans, wild life, domestic pets and farm animals are suffering, too. The gov of texas did say he would not ask immigration status at shelters…but, after sept 1st? Who knows? The cost of this storm will be immense.
trump is a lifetime racist…his voters turned a blind eye because it was thought he would make better deals on trade, health and taxes. It was a con…he wanted to promote the nazi social agenda. Humans of color are out along with any women that are not pure white and of child bearing age. Regression-du-jour. He is so awful, he makes pence almost look palatable.
Our AG, small man sessions, let trump, once again, corner the little peanut by wanting him to stop another Justice dept. investigation…this time into ole joe a’s criminal wrongdoings.
from yahoo news
When Trump allegedly asked Sessions this past spring whether it would be possible to drop the federal criminal investigation into Arpaio, Sessions told Trump such a move would be inappropriate, but that Trump could pardon Arpaio if he was convicted, The Post reported, citing three people familiar with the conversation.
it seems sessions is acting like trump’s own attorney…the AG who met with the ruskies as a trump campaign surrogate advised trump of pardoning ole joe a-hole. Who is protecting us citizens?
Thankfully, the norks even understand that trump frequently posts “weird articles of his ego-driven thoughts” and “spouts rubbish,” from Newsweek. It is what the generals say globally, not trumps tweets or his hate rally speeches that matter in the world arena.
trumps’ greatest nuclear threat is to American institutions, humans of color and non-breeding white women. And now the LGBT community, too. Pretty much 2/3rds of the US of AA.
Trump the worst of America and he is spawning hate every where he goes
more from the norks (I love the last line…trump getting on the nerves…something most sane Americans can agree with)
Kim accused Trump of spouting nonsense and said “sound dialogue” is not possible with a person “bereft of reason, and only absolute force can work on him,” which drew a fair bit of attention in the press.
But Kim also slammed Trump spending his time “on the golf links,” which showed the president did not “grasp the ongoing grave situation.” Kim also added Trump was “extremely getting on the nerves” of North Korean soldiers with comments that showed his “senility.”
However, Islamabad responds to trump’s official afghan speech not his tweets . Pakistan postpones US visit.
Sure sounds like Tillerson is signaling more than just repeating talking points:
asked whether Tillerson was “separating himself” from Trump’s remarks, Tillerson answered simply, “I’ve made my own comments as to our values.”
— Slate
The tax cheeto stands alone
ha KGC, the he-coon walks at dawn, lost in the swamp
With Ryan against the pardon, Hatch (pro tem) blasting Nazi sympathy & Tillerson grumpy today, the 2d, 3d and 4th in line of succesion off Trump’s page. Pence?
bw, wow.!
Kim accused Trump of spouting nonsense and said “sound dialogue” is not possible with a person “bereft of reason, and only absolute force can work on him,” which drew a fair bit of attention in the press.
it’s a case of our guy is crazier than their guy?
business insider: Trump’s decision to pardon Joe Arpaio could be a crucial piece of evidence in the Russia investigation
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When Trump allegedly asked Sessions this past spring whether it would be possible to drop the federal criminal investigation into Arpaio, Sessions told Trump such a move would be inappropriate, but that Trump could pardon Arpaio if he was convicted, The Post reported, citing three people familiar with the conversation.
Trump ultimately granted the pardon on Friday evening, sparking fierce backlash from liberals and some conservatives.
But some legal analysts also pointed out that Trump’s decision to pardon Arpaio, and the actions he took preceding that, may serve as an important piece of evidence to special counsel Robert Mueller, who is reportedly investigating the president for obstruction of justice.
Specifically, Trump’s decision to pardon Arpaio is key to determining his intent when he had the February conversation with Comey about dropping the Russia investigation before ultimately firing Comey after he refused to do so, said Renato Mariotti, a former federal prosecutor.
[….]
The main thing Mueller — who was put in charge of the Russia investigation after Trump fired Comey — would need to prove in an obstruction of justice case is whether Trump acted with corrupt, or unlawful, intent when he asked the FBI director to drop the Flynn investigation.
“[Trump’s] defense would be that he thought it was appropriate to end the Flynn investigation because it was meritless and that there was nothing wrong with him, as president, making that determination,” Mariotti told Business Insider.
But the president’s decision to pardon Arpaio demonstrates that “this has become a pattern of activity where he tries to end investigations of his friends,” he added. “Everything he said, did, and was told as to Arpaio is relevant to help us understand what he was thinking when he tried to end the Flynn investigation.”
Moreover, despite statements from his allies and administration officials who painted Trump’s comments to Comey as musings and not a direct order, Arpaio’s pardon suggests “that he was serious about ending investigations as to his friends” and it wasn’t “just idle talk.”
[….article continues….]
joe biden writes in the atlantic: ‘We Are Living Through a Battle for the Soul of This Nation’
The former vice president calls on Americans to do what President Trump has not.
[….]
…we saw the truth of this president: He won’t stop. His contempt for the U.S. Constitution and willingness to divide this nation knows no bounds. Now he’s pardoned a law-enforcement official who terrorized the Latino community, violated its constitutional rights, defied a federal court order to stop, and ran a prison system so rife with torture and abuse he himself called it a “concentration camp.”
You, me, and the citizens of this country carry a special burden in 2017. We have to do what our president has not. We have to uphold America’s values. We have to do what he will not. We have to defend our Constitution. We have to remember our kids are watching. We have to show the world America is still a beacon of light.
Joined together, we are more than 300 million strong. Joined together, we will win this battle for our soul. Because if there’s one thing I know about the American people, it’s this: When it has mattered most, they have never let this nation down.
It may not seem like it, but next weekend is the unofficial kickoff for 2018 elections. The time to start showing up at labor Day parades and events; ya-no, like just dropping in to say hello. . .
One of the best things in life is crawling into the berth on your boat and being rocked to sleep. And that is just for a quick nap. Gale has taken to sea life very well too.
Oh, and not bothering (too much) with electronic communications I have not much to add except FU SFB.
I also like to buy the local paper, especially where I spend a lot of time. You never know what news is important.
The effect of SFB coming out as and supporting nazis and kkk, there is a trailer park enclave of his supporters in the bowels of SE Virginia. Usually they are well behaved, such as flying a rainbow flag until they learned it was of six colors which happened to correspond to the LGBTQ flag. That was replaced with a Gadsden flag. Going by today they have installed a sighn. Hand painted by someone with similar hand control issues as me, it was terrible. The large lettering was something like: TWO HATE GROUPS CLASH, ONLY ONE IS BLAMED. The rest was scribbles of some type.
SFB has succeeded in making the nazis and kkk equal to those who oppose hate.
patd offers the Joe Biden article then the next comment is from Blue Bronc mentioning how this coming weekend is the unofficial kickoff for the 2018 election, which then leads naturally to 2020 …. 😉