Credit for today’s select goes entirely to Economist Jared Bernstein. Last Tuesday he posted this on his twitter feed.
If you’re feeling forlorn behind the ascendance of venal, racism-spewing idiots, and all the other hate and dysfunction that abounds, I’ve got an antidote, or at least an essential vacation. Seriously.
Jared Bernstein
Enjoy, Jack
Pogo, Mrs. Pogo, and the Clintons, Mariah Carey turn out for Barbra Streisand concert […] The iconic singer performed a show-stopping concert Saturday night, receiving standing ovations from fans including Carey, who showed up to her seat as Streisand ended her first song of the night. Former New York City Mayor David Dinkins, U.S. Rep. Jerry Nadler and Rev. Al Sharpton also attended the show, where Streisand was backed by an orchestra with more than a dozen talented musicians. In characteristic fashion, Streisand brought politics into the concert, warning Republicans in the audience to cover their ears before… Read more »
more from variety: While a picture of Trump as a clown was projected behind the stage, Streisand crooned: He says he’s richMaybe he’s poor‘Til he reveals his returnsWho can be sureWho is this clown? Something’s amissI don’t approveNow that he’s running the free worldWhere can we move?Maybe a town!Just who is this clown? This is not a farceIt’s not just smokeIs this his “Art of the Deal” or some awful joke?You’ve got to admitThis fraudulent twitIs so full of … Next came another chilling number, “Children Will Listen” from “Into the Woods,” which took on new… Read more »
the guardian:
Dayton, Ohio shooting: nine dead in second US mass killing in 24 hours
Incident comes hours after at least 20 people died in another mass shooting in El Paso, Texas
Coulrophobia: The fear of Clowns
back to Yeol Eum Son for more music to cleanse the political palate
wiki: Jump to search Yeol Eum Son 손열음 Born May 2, 1986 (age 33)Wonju, South Korea Occupation(s) Classical pianist Instruments Piano Labels Decca Classics, Onyx Classics, Harmonia Mundi Website yeoleumson.com Yeol Eum Son (born May 2, 1986, in Wonju, South Korea) is a South Korean classical pianist. She first drew international attention when she appeared as a soloist with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Lorin Maazel in 2004. Her awards include the Silver Medal at the International Tchaikovsky Competition 2011, in which she also received the Best Chamber Concerto Performances and the Best Performance of the Commissioned… Read more »
She’s a brilliant artist from a frightfully cold place (I wintered in Wonju once). It is an unfortunate Anglicization of her family name; more properly it would be Sohn.
Has SFB said anything about the two massacres? Any TP from the greedy old perverts? Sometime, maybe soon or maybe later, one of those white nationalists will get confused about a venue and kill off “evangicals” or even republicans. Will TP help clean that up?
Nice work Jack I hope we don’t need a permanent vacation
Yahoo News’s Michael Isikoff has a great new podcast, “Conspiracyland,” on the origins of the Seth Rich conspiracy theory. It’s an interesting look at how Russian intelligence operatives, Fox News, internet trolls, and a variety of rival right-wing hucksters collided to create one of the 2016 election’s most enduring hoaxes — and terrorize Rich’s family.
Republicans are domestic terrorists
Ms Cracker,
Thanks for the Isikoff article. Maybe I should call the rippers RICOblicans. Waddya think ?
Thanks for the credit x-r but not me.
Patd, Thanks very much with your search. Saved me time going and trying to find the rewrite of send in the clowns. I wasn’t aware that Mariah Carey was at the concert. There was no buzz about that.Well Barbara was Pillorying Trump, the right wing idiots that were sitting all around us were sitting on their hands.
More likely they were sitting on their guns.
Ms Cracker, I’m always happy to give you credit.
Blue Bronc, what is SFB?
x-r
ok then you are welcome
Landmines don’t kill people,
People kill people.
Support the right to keep and bury landmines.
Nukes don’t kill . . . .
In case anyone has forgotten, it is still illegal to own a Thompson sub-machine gun. Also illegal are sawed-off shotguns. I think they were made illegal After having become a big problem in society.
“Landmines don’t kill people. People kill people. Support the right to keep and bury landmines.”
Another genius line, XRepub. Bravo!
I had to think long & hard to think up the most despicable thing in his own style. “There’s a lot of talk about it. I don’t know, but I’ve been told by many people. Ivanka’s baby daddy is really grand pa. We want to see the DNA results!” There are pictures and videos of his hands all over her, her sitting on his lap and interviews, with Howard Stern, that are just enough to support that. *gag* But that’s how he rolls!
Found it. *creepy*
Click to EditDelete
You go Tiptoe!
That’s just one of a number creepy Ivanka and Donald photos. yuck!
Our President has American blood on his hands.
“Guns don’t kill people, Republicans kill people”
KGC, that’s how the ‘fake’ news gets started …by THEM! Just a grain of truth…
tiptoe, SFB is an endearment coined by pogo (I think) which means sh*t for brains
Thanks for the explanation patd.
the hill: Democrats call for Senate to return to vote on gun reform after two deadly mass shootings […] Democrats are asking McConnell to call Senate, which is currently on a month-long recess, back to vote on a background check bill passed by the Democratic-controlled House in February. “El Paso, Dayton, one awful event after another. @SenateMajLdr McConnell must call the Senate back for an emergency session to put the House-passed universal background checks legislation on the Senate floor for debate and a vote immediately,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer tweeted Sunday morning. “Mitch McConnell should bring the Senate back into session… Read more »
Really the only way people won’t kill people with guns is if there are no guns…or people. Hope they come up with something that has teeth and makes a difference.
massmurder mcconnell won’t return to session, cuz not enough Dems have been nra-ed yet.
The very first bill that the republican Congress passed and trump signed in Feb 2017, allowed known maniacs to procure guns and ammo. These shootings were not accidental or roll-of-the-dice incidents. They were enabled, incited, expected, and intended by the republican party.
LOCK THEM ALL UP !
I read that one asshole’s manifesto and he employs the Trump-inspired phrase “send them back”, in it. He also invokes Trump directly while making his justification for trying to ethnically-cleanse America.
internet+Trump+white male= crazy
(Internet+Trump+white male)guns= you’re dead
Republicans politicians in America serve the same function that radical Islamist imams do in the Middle East- inspiring vulnerable, mentally-ill young men to engage in terrorism on their behalf to intimidate political opponents.
Hubris.
the chickens are coming home to roost.
karma.
wings of wax.
tide’s coming in.
feet of clay.
Every late evening you can sit on the pier and spy the more intelligent gop’s in a rat parade down the mooring lines.
tiptoe…. SFB can also stand for Stupid Fat Bastard… or as patd said… Shit For Brains. Whichever one suits you. And I think it was BlueBronc who coined it.
Remember the greedy old perverts of SFB cult want to have the anti-fascists labeled as terrorists and the white naziis not. It looks like the white SFB cult has killed hundreds of people without any backlash.
RR I like “Stupid Fat Bastard”.
Blue Bronc,
“Asked about El Paso shooter, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick issues warning to Antifa Instead”
I dunno. It seems that even the ‘establishment’ has ingested the party line. But Tejas is mostly the party line.
The Houston Chronicle continues, “The Anti-Defamation League has identified Antifa as a loose collection of groups, networks and individuals who believe in active, aggressive opposition to far right-wing movements.” No wonder ‘they’ don’t like Antifa.
Not sure whether I coined it or stole it. Either way I like it. Both names work. He’s both without a doubt.
Antifa. What bullshit. Racist white nationalists who believe what SFB says kill people because they know he wants them to. Let’s be clear and call out the bullshit.
Pogo, are you sure? Thinking of Germany and no one, hardly anyone, actively opposed. Maybe the underground. Doesn’t someone have to call out the SFB’s white nationalist bull? There’s the lingering question, what would you/we do if something like that happened now? It is happening now.
There were some of those stupid burned, Tiki torches in a dumpster nearby. It was genuinely creepy.
While Antifa may be a problem for a Texas politician to bring them up right now……….
I believe there is a bible quotation for that:
Jack
A reporter caught Beto in an unguarded moment.
So, i got this friend, and he used to say racist shit around me. You know- the usual. Without alienating him, i’d tell him that i wasn’t cool with it, and that every individual deserves respect until they demonstrated otherwise, while expressing that i understood the sentiment (sometimes that would be a lie). Anyway, and it took a while, he kind of stopped saying that stuff around me, and if he did, he would catch himself and apologize, to which i’d reply, “hey, don’t apologize to me…”. Point being, even if it doesn’t seem like there’s much you… Read more »