51 thoughts on “PICTURE THIS”

  2. Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.

    Rings true any era, doesn’t it?

  4. Great picture, Mr Crawford. One of the best ever.

    Thank You & Sturgeone for today’s topics.

  8. the guardian:

    More than a dozen Ice agents call for agency to be disbanded

    In letter to Kirstjen Nielsen, 19 agents say immigration crackdown makes it difficult to investigate significant national security issues

  10. Dave Barry: Sorry, I’m not feeling funny today — my heart aches for slain journalists

    Five newspaper people were killed yesterday at the Capital Gazette in Annapolis. I can’t imagine how brutal that must be for the families. I met one of the victims, Rob Hiaasen, a few times; he was the brother of my close friend Carl Hiaasen. From all accounts Rob was a fine journalist and a wonderful man. My heart aches for his family, for all the families.
     
    My heart also aches, on this sad day, for the larger family of journalists, especially newspaper journalists. It’s a family of which I still consider myself a member. I started in this business in 1971, as a rookie reporter at the Daily Local News in West Chester, Pa., for (if I recall correctly) $93 a week. Since then most of my friends have been newspaper people. No offense to any other profession, but these are, pound for pound, the smartest, funniest, most interested and most interesting people there are. They love what they do, and most of them do it for lousy pay, at a time when the economic situation of newspapers is precarious, and layoffs are common.
     
    It’s also a time when the news media are under attack — for being biased, for being elitist and out of touch with ordinary Americans, for not caring about the nation. And I’ll grant that in some cases, some of these criticisms are valid…..

    […]

    But the news people I know are still passionate about what they do, and they do it remarkably well. And here’s the corny-but-true part: They do it for you. Every time they write a story, they’re hoping you’ll read it, maybe learn something new, maybe smile, maybe get mad and want to do something.

     
    That’s what the people were doing at the Capital Gazette when they were shot. And the survivors, God bless them, put out a paper the next day. Because that’s what we do in this business.
     
    So criticize us all you want; when we screw up, feel free to call us on it.
     
    But don’t say we don’t care.

  15. in case you’re wondering about the likelihood of another female sitting  on the scotus bench

    indy star:

    What we know about Trump Supreme Court candidate Amy Coney Barrett

     

     

    and here’s an oped at bloomberg by Ramesh Ponnuru [a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. He is a senior editor at National Review, visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and contributor to CBS News] 

    Kennedy’s Replacement Should Be Judge Amy Coney Barrett

  16. and this from Christian broadcast network:
    CBN’s Chief Political Correspondent David Brody says evangelical circles are buzzing about Amy Coney Barrett.
     
    “Many of my sources, evangelical in nature, love her. They believe that she is the one that if they had their dream pick that she would be the one,” Brody said on the 700 Club Friday. “Barrett has been very outspoken of her Catholic views and God.”
    […continues…]

     

  17. Life in the military creates an oversea bonding among serving members of any race. Whether this is brought about by shared living conditions, hardships, threats, common goals, worries; one thing is for certain, the bonding is transitory with things going back to “normal” once people return Stateside. What a shame.

  18. Back out to the yard. I was thoroughly exhausted by the time I finished yesterday. The temp outside was 105 with humidity in the high 80s. Heat index on our back porch was 124-deg. I’m still shaky, but I must get it done–shouldn’t take more than 2-hours. It’s a cool 85 with an index of 95 right now. Adios

  21. BB – It would be nice to see the big, orange, head done in by someone other than a an old, white, male…but whatever it takes…

     

    Separation of church  & state was a nice idea.   Even if this were an entirely Christian nation (it is not), not every Christian is a good representative of WWJD.   The so-called Christians like Sessions & Pence & Ryan have tarnished actual Christianity with their words and actions.  Anyone up for the position of SC Justice should be able to set aside their personal ideology to serve well.

  23. Once I thought that all I had to do was free myself from all the bullshit and hoo-doo……like getting over Santa Claus, or something…..then come to find out that that’s not enough, then you still have to free yourself from THEM—the purveyors of bullshit and hoo-doo…….and they’d set your ass on fire if they could get away with it…..

  26. Jennifer, of course, went on to other pursuits after her stint in “Hair”.

  28. click link to see chart and details

    fivethirtyeight:
    Let’s keep things simple this week: Morning Consult just released its latest edition of President Trump’s approval ratings by state. We know generally that Trump is less popular overall than at the start of his term. But there are pretty wide variations in how much his popularity has shifted by state.1

     

    1. Trump’s net approval has declined in all 50 states since he took office
    [….]

    2. Trump has seen big declines in some red states but not others

    [….]

    3. The Deep South is stable in its views on Trump

    [….]

  30. sturge, partners can’t get more interesting than Arlo Guthrie and Pete Seeger.  warning sound iffy at first, but by the end you won’t be able to help but sing along with them

    A great story about playing in Denmark with Pete and Tao. It’s great to see the visuals on this one. This is the first time Pete has heard Arlo tell this story and the live camera work and mix on this was magic.

    Live at Wolftrap, August 8, 1993

  31. I’ve used that song to good purpose more times than I could count…..from the time he recorded it……it falls into the Old Faithful category……

  33. they also use to sing this one…  sure would  fit in the twit’s sphere of today

     

    When something in my history is found
    Which contradicts the views that I propound
    Or shows that I perhaps am not the guy I claim to be
    Here’s what I usually do

    I lie
    I simply boldly falsify
    I look the other feller in the eye
    And just deny, deny, deny
    I lie

    I don’t apologize.
    Not me. Instead
    I say I never said the things I said
    Nor did the things some people saw me do
    When confronted by some things they know are true

    I lie
    I simply boldly falsify
    I look the other feller in the eye
    And just deny, deny, deny
    I lie

    I hate those weasel words some slickies use
    To blur their past or muddy up their views
    Not me. I’m blunt. One thing that makes me great
    Is that I’ll never dodge nor obfuscate

    I lie
    I simply boldly falsify
    I look the other feller in the eye
    And just deny, deny, deny
    I lie

  34. Sometimes when I find myself in a joint which happens to have a piano and I take a notion …..well, rather than fumbling around, I can sit at it, noodle around a bit, maybe “Shine on Harvest Moon ” in C or something….but then go into a polka roll in F and give them the old Take no Prisoners Medly…..

    They call the wind Mariah

    YMCA

    Ob-la-di

    then roll down to C again for  Five Foot Two, eyes of blue

    Then quick order the Air Force song, the army song, the marine hymn, the anchors aweigh song, and the Coast Guard Semper Paratus song, followed by Viva Las Vegas, I saw the light, and I’ll fly away song. And finally The Roll out the Barrel song.

    That way, see, nobody has a chance to stand around making a bunch of silly requests that I don’t know.   Before its over everybody be singing……making up words and whatnot…..and sometimes they appear in different order……depends on the beer situation sometimes…..

  35. That Mariah song……that’s just to let em know I’m feckin’ serious ova heah………..they’ll usually start singing on the Mariah part……

  36. You let em start making requests, next thing you know they’ll be wanting money.

  37. noteworthy excerpt in a wapo article about the twit’s “grandfather, who came to the U.S. as an unaccompanied minor”:
    In 1897, President Grover Cleveland vetoed legislation that would have restricted immigration by requiring a literacy test that would require immigrants to read five lines from the Constitution. In his veto message, he said:
     

    Heretofore we have welcomed all who came to us from other lands except those whose moral or physical conditions or history threatened danger to our national welfare and safety…. We have encouraged those coming from foreign countries to cast their lot with us and join in the development of our vast domains, securing in return a share in the blessings of American citizenship.

     

  38. I’m with grover.

    After all if it wasn’t for immigration  the good ladies at Iglesia Getsemani (Iglesia means church in Spanish) wouldn’t have immigrated to the neighborhood, they wouldn’t have put out the “tacos” sign and I wouldn’t  be eating street tacos right now. Something I don’t want to picture. But they did and I am, Tacos!!!

     

  40. This is what we call “sweltering” (one of ms Welty’s favorite words). I’m sitting in the shade of a nice oak tree, not eating a taco, couple hundred feet from the ocean and I’m sweating…. Makes me remember my old uncles down in Alabam, sitting around outside in the shade with their hats off and their handkerchiefs out, jawboning bout how dang hot it was…..

  42. it was Birmingham, under Vulcan’s torch, I heard for the only time in my life a genuine Air Raid Warning…..they must have bought some British surplus or something cause they had these giant sirens all over the city and those damn things rattled the walls….and scared us kids shitless

  43. It was in those years of mine when they bombed the church and killed those 4 little girls.in Birmingham…….

  46. Sturg,  as you know the bottom pic was from my home town, where I went to school with the nephew of Bull Conner, the police commissioner who ordered the use of dogs on black people, followed by going to college and being in a study group with George Wallace’s nephew and marrying a woman whose dad represented Robert Shelton – grand dragon of the KKK.

    And the Kent State killings were contemporaneous with CSNY, the Bham church bombings may have been a bit before their time artistically.

  47. I was finished with my own yard in the early afternoon then decided to go around the neighborhood to spray Round-Up where weeds were escaping between curbs and the roadway. I had two more houses to go before the heat finally put me down. Kindly neighbors covered me with ice blankets and then had me drink so much water that I thought I would float. Within an hour they released me to go home. 🙂

  48. Flatus – looks like you have neighbors who care.  Next time skip the last hour and get inside the A/C and chill out until the heat drops (not you).

    Having lived in the Deep South, I learned how to survive. Oh, wait a minute.  That was the place where we were acclimatized to heat and humidity to go to Vietnam.

  49. Well, I was being somewhat darkly humorous (to myself) with the CSNY.but they could have at least referred to it…..

  50. Hey Flate……what the hell ya try’na do ova dere…..you will cease such nonsense forthwith and henceforth take a more proactive stance as regards Ice Tea and sitting in the shade…..

    thus spake sturgeo-thustra…….

  51. too bad the judge didn’t include congress in this and  all the stuff the house has asked doj to turn over to them.  bet some of that finds its way to the ruskies.
    wapo:
    A federal judge has approved a request to tightly control how evidence is shared with a Russian company accused of funding an Internet trolling operation to mislead American voters in the 2016 election.
     
    The dispute over how to protect sensitive materials from disclosure had threatened to stall prosecution of the sole defendant to appear in court to face charges in the indictment of Russian entities under special counsel Robert S. Mueller III.
     
    U.S. District Judge Dabney L. Friedrich of the District of Columbia said Friday that federal prosecutors gave “ample good cause” that identifying sources in the probe could tip off Russian intelligence and other foreign services to ongoing national security investigations and undermine efforts to protect future elections from similar interference.
     
    Friedrich barred the U.S.-based attorneys for Concord Management and Consulting, which was indicted in February along with 13 Russian individuals and two other companies from sharing sensitive case materials from any foreign national without court approval.
    [….]
    Prosecutors have told Concord’s lawyers that they plan to turn over voluminous records, much of it related to hundreds of fake social media accounts but also some that includes “uncharged co-conspirators.”
     

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