Picture This

By Sturgeone, a Trail Mix Contributor

This garage my dad built in the 40’s achieved a second life in the 70’s, becoming known far and wide as “The Shack”, our band house, home to much music and many musicians.

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  1. wapo:  
    Former Trump adviser, the first charged in Mueller probe, asks judge to spare him jail time
    [….]
    Contesting prosecutors’ contention that he has provided little cooperation to the probe, Papadopoulos’s lawyers argued that he has volunteered information in an effort to help — such as describing a March 31, 2016, meeting he attended with Trump and then-Sen. Jeff Sessions where Papadopoulos announced soon after introducing himself that he could get Trump a meeting with Russian President Vladi­mir Putin.
    For the first time, Papadopoulos’s lawyers revealed that the young adviser felt encouraged by Trump to continue those efforts, writing in the court filing that “Mr. Trump nodded with approval and deferred to Mr. Sessions, who appeared to like the idea and stated that the campaign should look into it.”

    That account conflicts with what Sessions, now attorney general, testified to Congress.

    Sessions told the House Judiciary Committee in November 2017 that he remembered offering a “push back” when Papadopoulos raised the idea, suggesting he had shut down the young adviser’s proposal for a Trump-Putin meeting.

    Papadopoulos’s lawyers also asserted for the first time that the adviser detailed for prosecutors a discussion he had in late May 2016 with the foreign minister of Greece, where he told the minister about the claim that the Russians held dirt on Clinton. The meeting took place days before Putin traveled to Greece and met with officials there, Papadopoulos’s lawyers wrote.

    In a 16-page court filing, Papadopoulos’s lawyers said that despite the gravity of his offense, “he was just a small part of a large-scale investigation,” in over his head and “giddy” at the boost to his career from joining Trump’s team.

    “To say George was out of his depth would be a gross understatement. Despite being a young energy policy guru, he had no experience in dealing with Russian policy or its officials,” wrote attorneys Robert W. Stanley, Thomas M. Breen and Todd S. Pugh. They added the government “has not shown counsel nor the Court any evidence tending to show its investigation was actually hindered.”
    [….continues….]

     

  2. The term “Sugar Shack” has a connotation all its own, at least around here.

    Or did in the old days……not sure anymore, may be a thing of the past…….

  3. yeah, what’s the  equivalent for “sugar” nowadays?  a lot of sweet stuff in songs of yore like “sugar, sugar” ,”spoon full of..” , “sugar daddy”, and “sugartime” 

    mcguires sang in 1958
    Sugar in the mornin’Sugar in the evenin’Sugar at suppertimeBe my little sugarAnd love me all the time
    Honey in the mornin’Honey in the evenin’Honey at suppertimeSo by my little honeyAnd love me all the time
    Put your arms around meAnd swear by stars aboveYou’ll be mine foreverIn a heaven of love
     

  4. Sorry I can only post the link rather than the picture. The Slapout Produce House is where my aunt used to buy vegetables after she and my uncle retired from a USAF life to live at Jordan Lake near my cousin. If Slapout had welcome signs the “Welcome” and “Come Back Soon” signs would be on the same signpost.

  6. Ivanker & Jarred go home!   Well, at least she’ll know that her creep of a daddy, Space Cadet Bone Spurs, will never be memorialized like the good Senator.

     

    Trumpsky planning on holding a big rally for Tedious Cruz in October.   Some big venue with lots of rascists…prolly TX Motor Speedway.

  7. BiD, you don’t think that the bushes and the obamas wouldn’t like to speak at the twit’s funeral?

  8. Nope. He needs no more attention & how would anyone show respect?

    He will be memorialized by nasty tweet-storms & one-fingered salutes. There might be a nice wreath in Red Square.

  10. I sincerely hope the Governor of Arizona will appoint Cindy to her husband’s seat, but Meghan would certainly give the Senate hell.  She thoroughly roasted Trump without saying his name:

    “He was a great man. We gather here to mourn the passing of American greatness. The real thing. Not cheap rhetoric from men who will never come near the sacrifice he gave so willingly.”

     

  11. Craig,

    Not sure if it is me or the site, but it is running very slow in loading and processing comments.

  13. A friend’s son had something similar –they called it the “tin” and went out there to smoke pot

  14. Mr C is watching the funeral — really Henry Kissinger and then Shrub who should have apologized for his racist campaign against McCain.

  17. “…trampling out the vineyard where the grapes of wrath are stored…” Another message to Trump & the critters who prop him up.

  20. The Shack would have shriveled in shame had it gotten the idea somehow or another that there was any connection of any kind between its hallowed self and the “Sugar Shack” song…..it was no place for “bubblegum”.      lol

  21. Too bad they didn’t do the funeral before he died– he would have loved it.  Although I didn’t agree with many of his conclusions.   He loved America and was a patriot.

  22. I’m sure he played it over many times in his head and with his family in the planning of it.

    Lindsey with a bit part was a nice touch.

  24. I like the fact that he told Megyn to ” show them how tough you are” in her eulogy

  25. Speaking of pundits – especially lazy ones.    McCain is not a WWII guy – he was a Vietnam guy – and he was a modern man not a throwback.   There are many current politicians on both sides with similar values to John McCain.  For some reason, we no longer reward them as we should.   We reward instead slyness and cunning

  29. my favorite funny line (other than Lieberman telling McCain’s prison joke) was this from Obama:

    “After all, what better way to get a last laugh than to make George and I say nice things about him to a national audience. “

  30. W had some good lines… the best was poetic:  “Some lives are so vivid, it is difficult to imagine them ended; some voices are so vibrant and distinctive, it is hard to think of them stilled. A man who seldom rested is laid to rest and his absence is tangible, like the silence after a mighty roar.”

    and the subtle twit swipe:  “Perhaps above all, John detested the abuse of power. He could not abide bigots and swaggering despots.”

     

    the atlantic:   George W. Bush’s Eulogy for John McCain

  31. KTAR news:
    PHOENIX — A clear majority of Arizonans want Gov. Doug Ducey to appoint a replacement for John McCain in the mold of the longtime U.S. senator, and doing so would help Ducey’s re-election chances, according to a new poll.
    Sixty-one percent of Arizona voters wanted Ducey to pick a McCain-like senator to fill the seat, according to a Public Polling Policy poll conducted this week.
    “They don’t want another Trump clone,” Jim Williams, a polling analyst for the firm, told KTAR News 92.3 FM. “They would prefer to see more of a statesman in the McCain style.”

     
    Only 37 percent of those polled wanted Ducey’s pick to be more in the mold of President Donald Trump, who famously did not get along with Arizona’s six-term Republican senator.
    [….continues…]

  32. eulogy excerpts noted by the guardian:

    […]
    Delivering his eulogy from in front of McCain’s flag-draped coffin, Obama said: “So much of our politics, our public life, our public discourse can seem small and mean and petty, trafficking in bombast and insult and phony controversies and manufactured outrage.”
     
    In front of the thousands gathered, including leaders from both sides of the political aisle – but excluding Trump, who was expressly not invited, Obama continued: “It’s a politics that pretends to be brave and tough but in fact is born of fear. John called on us to be bigger than that. He called on us to be better than that.”
    […]
    Meghan McCain told the 2,500 invited guests: “We gather to mourn the passing of American greatness, the real thing, not cheap rhetoric from men who’ll never come near the sacrifice he gave so willingly, nor the opportunistic appropriation of those who lived lives of comfort and privilege while he suffered and served.”
     
    Trump received five deferments from the Vietnam war draft: four for university and one for “heel spurs”. As former presidents Barack Obama, George W Bush and Bill Clinton looked on from the front pew, McCain, echoing her father’s own blunt speaking of truth to power, insisted: “The America of John McCain has no need to be made great again because America was always great.”
     
    There was a momentary pause. Then, unusually on such a solemn occasion, the air under the cathedral’s high vaulted ceiling filled with the sound of spontaneous applause at the direct rebuke to the president’s campaign slogan of “Make America Great Again”.
    [….]

  33. Loved W’s shot across the bow at the orange bigot.  His laugh at Obama’s line about McCain getting him & W to say nice things about him to a national audience was better than the line itself.

     

  34. Well, the McCain family and National Cathedral sure know how to put on a great funeral. The notables present were Kissinger, the Clintons, … not sure any others a weren’t expected. The notable omoissios were Boehner, Hastert, Gingrich (all the speakers of the house except Ryan) in McCain’s congressional tenure, Palin… and yes, Meghan for Senate.

  35. If she doesn’t get appointed  I’m sure if she is inclined she can find an Az congressional seat to take.

  36. Watching The Fugitive and enjoying old time television.  Mood music, no laugh track, no strange noises, and a plot.

    SFB is going off into the wilds of his alternative universe, the one with the brown sky.  It is oddly fun to imagine how the old fool is cracking apart and yelling at the sky.

     

  38. “So much of our politics, our public life, our public discourse can seem small and mean and petty, trafficking in bombast and insult and phony controversies and manufactured outrage.”

    Just premiered at Telluride:  The Front Runner about Gary Hart’s presidential campaign downfall and the beginning of media gotcha journalism.  As it happens it is causing me a great deal of angst of the “might have been” sort as I just started reading Hart’s 2015 book “The Republic of Conscience”.  He covers the idea of a Republic from Athens to the present day.

    In his latest book, the former Colorado Senator and presidential contender describes ‘the increasing gap between purpose and performance’ in America, emphasizing how the sense of national interest has become distorted and diluted over time. Focusing on the years after World War II, Hart tackles major American institutions—the military, the CIA, Congress—and outlines how these establishments have led the country away from its founding principles, not closer to them.

     

  39. warning, foul language ahead

    wonkette:

    Cindy McCain To Inherit Senate Seat? That’d Be … Fine, Actually!
    After John McCain’s death Saturday, there was fulsome praise and warm remembrances of the senator from pretty much everyone but… you know… that guy, and maybe Wonkette. However, there’s now the practical matter of who will replace McCain in the Senate and continue fully supporting Donald Trump’s agenda (except for the occasional high profile vote that President Petulant will never get over).
    Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey will appoint someone to fill the open seat until the next general election in 2020. Ducey’s a Republican, but that doesn’t matter much because Arizona law requires that the senator’s replacement be a member of the same party. That’s not such a bad idea, I think. If Ohio and New Jersey had similar laws, we might’ve seen a Clinton/Brown or Clinton/Booker ticket in 2016. Ducey has said he’s not announcing his choice until after McCain’s laid to rest on Sunday. That leaves us a week of rampant speculation!
    [….]

    GeraldoRivera

    #CindyMcCain is well-qualified & should be appointed to fill Senate seat now vacated by death of hero husband #JohnMcCain

     
    Here I agree with imaginary Capone vault opener Geraldo Rivera. Mrs. McCain has put her best heiress foot forward in philanthropy, and she’s been a visible proponent for gay rights, appearing in the 2010 “NOH8” poster campaign against California’s Proposition 8 – a law banning same-sex marriage. She also probably totally voted for Hillary Clinton. John McCain’s official statement when he withdrew his endorsement of Trump asserted that “we will not for Hillary,” but the white pantsuit Cindy rocked to the polling place boldly declared, “What do you mean, we?”
    So, “we” are OK with Cindy McCain joining the Senate, but on the other hand, it’s not like she doesn’t have other stuff going on. She’s still the chair of one of Arizona’s largest privately held companies. When John McCain ran for president in 2008, Cindy refused to comment about her family’s business or release her tax returns.

    “I don’t think I’m very mysterious,” she said on ABC’s Good Morning America. “I’m not the candidate. I’ve never been front and center. I do the things I enjoy and that are important to me. And [I] do them in the way I like to do them.”

    Yeah, she really didn’t want to release those returns.

    “This is a privacy issue. My husband is the candidate,” Cindy McCain told NBC’s Ann Curry. “I’m not the candidate.”

    The point I think Cindy McCain wanted to make here is that she was not the candidate. She did eventually release a partial 2006 return that year, which had limited details other than she was rich as fuck. (I think she even took the standard “rich as fuck” deduction.)
    […shows a pro- arpaio tweet here….]

    Look at these assholes just a day after John McCain died. Why would Cindy McCain want to expose herself and her family to another two years of this shit? I’m sure she respected McCain’s devotion to public service, but that doesn’t mean she wants to personally jump into the maelstrom.
    Did we mention how rich she is? The relevant question is not whether she wants to replace her husband in the Senate but whether she likes piña coladas and getting caught in the rain.
    Let’s also not forget Tuesday’s Republican Senate primary, which Rep. Martha McSally is expected to win because she’s neither a convicted criminal that Trump recently pardoned nor a complete raving asshole. Ducey could pick one of the losers, but that seems unlikely given how comically awful they are. Dr. Kelli Ward especially seems like she’s not running for the Senate nomination but for the title of “candidate who’s actually worse than Sheriff Joe Arpaio.”
    […continues…]

  40. If Ducey makes the wrong choice, it’s gonna cost him.   This loss is fresh & the people of AZ will not forget in the next 60 days.

    If Cindy declines, I hope Meghan McCain will be the choice & accept.

  41. Trump is back from his golf outing and is tweeting up a storm about Clinton, no collusion, and MAGA garbage.  Only worth reading for the insulting responses to his comments

  44. this is a headline you don’t see often – in fact, it’s unique

    newsweek:

    Fox News Host: Trump Is To Blame For Mueller Probe
    “Remember though, that the recusal of Sessions did not lead to the special counsel, it was the firing of Comey, of James Comey the FBI Director that lead to the appointment of the special counsel,” Wallace said in a segment on Fox News on Friday.
    “The only person the president can blame for that is himself,” Wallace added.
     

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