A little change of pace this week. Who says you can’t do Dixieland first thing in the morning? Oh to have been in that room!
Enjoy the music and most especially enjoy your day.?
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jace, noticed king oliver mentioned as well as benny goodman in that. here’s the king oliver band in their heyday
King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band – The Gennett Sessions
April 5-6, 1923
ktla 5: With Boston Globe Leading the Way, U.S. Newspaper Editorials Will Battle Trump Admin’s ‘Assault on the Press’
“The dirty war on the free press must end.”
That’s the idea behind an unusual editorial-writing initiative that has enlisted scores of newspapers across America.
The Boston Globe has been contacting newspaper editorial boards and proposing a “coordinated response” to President Trump’s escalating “enemy of the people” rhetoric.
“We propose to publish an editorial on August 16 on the dangers of the administration’s assault on the press and ask others to commit to publishing their own editorials on the same date,” The Globe said in its pitch to fellow papers.
The effort began just a few days ago.
As of Saturday, “we have more than 100 publications signed up, and I expect that number to grow in the coming days,” Marjorie Pritchard, the Globe’s deputy editorial page editor, told CNN.
The American Society of News Editors, the New England Newspaper and Press Association and other groups have helped her spread the word.
“The response has been overwhelming,” Pritchard said. “We have some big newspapers, but the majority are from smaller markets, all enthusiastic about standing up to Trump’s assault on journalism.”
Instead of printing the exact same message, each publication will write its own editorial, Pritchard said.
That was a key part of her pitch: “The impact of Trump’s assault on journalism looks different in Boise than it does in Boston,” she wrote. “Our words will differ. But at least we can agree that such attacks are alarming.”
Journalists have noticed an uptick in Trump’s attacks against the news media in recent weeks. He has been using dehumanizing language like “enemy of the people” more often. He has also been speaking to reporters less often, limiting the chances for questions to be asked.
With Trump’s words and deeds as the backdrop, some media critics have urged the White House press corps to
engage in acts of solidarity. There were cheers last month when reporters in the briefing room deferred to rivals who were trying to ask follow-up questions, and when numerous outlets stood up for CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins after Collins was told she could not attend a Trump event.
The coordinated editorials may be another example of unity across the news business.
Although there’s a longstanding debate about the effectiveness of newspaper editorials, there is certainly strength in numbers — the greater the number of participants, the more readers will see the message.
Pritchard said she expects differing views from the editorials, “but the same sentiment: The importance of a free and independent press.”
If you are interested in a short, one hour, movie about LGBTQ life in the last 80 years, there is one available for free for a couple of days. Reel in the Closet
Jace, makes me want to wake up in N’awlins.
I’m ready for brunch. Jace, if only you could digitally serve Café du Monde beignets. I’ve got the chicory coffee.
Oh Brother!
this being sunday, might as well speak of preachers and bibles… well, let’s let omarosa speak of them from a guardian review of her new book:
Unhinged also posits that Trump may have received personal counseling from the Rev Paula White, the pastor of the New Destiny Church, a non-denominational megachurch in Apoka, Florida. According to Manigault Newman, White had blocked her from her job of choice at the White House, head of the Office of Public Liaison.
She was then warned by a Trump family member to “back off” on account of Trump and White enjoying a “special relationship.” Not content to let the story end there, Manigault Newman asks whether White’s position as Trump’s spiritual advisor “had ever been missionary”?
Disturbingly, but not surprisingly, we are also advised that Trump had initially asked to be sworn in over a copy of Art of the Deal, instead of the Bible.
a little introduction for the trail to rev paula, a story last year in Orlando sentinel:
Paula White preaches for Donald Trump, but not at Apopka church
On Friday, before Donald Trump takes the oath of office, Paula White is scheduled to become just the second woman to lead a prayer at a presidential inauguration.
But on a recent Sunday, White was in a less-visible and more familiar place — the pulpit of her church outside of Apopka.
And she was tired.
The praise band was belting out another high-energy hymn with drums and electric guitars as blue and green spotlights flashed across the darkened sanctuary.
But White, known for preaching the controversial “prosperity gospel,” said she was too worn down to deliver one of her trademark fiery-meets-super-sassy sermons that Trump reportedly first noticed more than 14 years ago while he was watching Christian television.
A snowstorm delayed her flight from Tennessee to Orlando and she didn’t arrive until 5 a.m.
She missed the 9 a.m. service and now, at the 11 a.m., she let her executive pastor, Doug Shackelford, do most of the preaching at New Destiny Christian Center, where a couple hundred people were in attendance.
“A good pastor knows when they can’t put two sentences together,” she said. “Thank goodness we are not a personality-driven ministry.”
Except now more than ever before, it’s White’s persona that is attracting attention as she’s become Trump’s chief defender in front of evangelical Christians.
[…]
On both Sundays, even the one where she said she was too tired to preach, she asked congregants for a special offering — she suggested perhaps as much as a month’s salary — to mark January as the first month of the year.
She called this financial contribution, which she said was separate from regular tithing, “first fruits,” a reference to Leviticus 23:10.
Politico reported that White owns a unit at a Trump property in New York and has faced criticism for flaunting her wealth.
Other clergy have called into question her teachings, namely the “prosperity gospel” or the belief that God rewards faith and giving to the church with financial blessings and good health.
White rejects that definition of her teachings, telling Politico last summer, “Do I recognize that I’ve been labeled as a prosperity preacher? I recognize that … Do I believe that God is a sugar daddy? Not at all.”
But during the two services I saw, there was a focus on money.
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the rev
So, that’s the arminianist church’s reverend mutha, whom trump thinks of as his favorite pilf. Does anyone believe that the pussygrabber sheds a tithe for her ? More likely, he just sheds a towel.
Okay, I’ve done my Salacious Sunday ‘Best’. Now, back to kremlin watching.
X-r, hold off on ending the salaciousness until you read this lengthy article from last November in wapo magazine lifestyle…. started to copy some of the more leading possible double entendre for you, but there were too many also you can now understand that snide remark omarosa made about her:
She led Trump to Christ: The rise of the televangelist who advises the White House
A very nice day proceeds fast, I just looked at a clock and it is 4:41, 1641, the day has sped by. A couple of hours shopping for neat things like a bore scope and three way light switches and wood cleaners helped the time passage. I have been watching a couple of youtube videos about boat repair, which for someone with boats, is fascinating, I would expect others to start pounding their foreheads on the walls after the first
fifteenthree minutes.For fun I just turned on the television and tuned in to MSNBC to see how the hate amerika first gathering is going. It does not look good for the haters. A couple dozen, maybe. A lot more greeters of the haters though.
Well – that was a dud. No show by SFB supporters.
A few of my jazz records, especially the 78’s, include talk in the studio. All of which makes the recordings even more exciting. People are there, in the studio. It adds to the humanity of the recording. I have a couple of recordings which were low budget, maybe two, three or four microphones, which would be one or two tape recorders. These were recorded in clubs, not studios. I love those records. You can feel and hear yourself in the club during the recording.
Well. Looks like SFB supporters could only get a dozen freaks to show up for the rally in DC. Spin is that the people against Naziis and soviet supporters could not win. eh? The freaks did not show up. Just because thousands of people against the naziis and Soviets showed up does not mean the naziis won.
BB I was out running around and heard at one point there were more press than protesters at one speech or something at the unite the white gathering. That’s pathetic (and encouraging).
Like golf, don’t like golf, quick–tune in the PGA
newsday:
The Latest on events marking the anniversary of the violent white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia (all times local):
6:20 p.m.
White nationalists who marched on Washington and rallied at a park near the White House have left the area in white vans under a police escort.
The demonstration led by the principal organizer of last year’s “Unite the Right” event in Charlottesville, Virginia, Jason Kessler, ended earlier than expected. Those marching with Kessler numbered only about 30, far fewer than the 100 to 400 he predicted in a permit for the demonstration.
Thousands of counterdemonstrators showed up to jeer and shout insults at the white nationalists as they made their way through Washington streets. Police kept the two sides separated during the march and the rally.
The white nationalists were commemorating last year’s Unite the Right event in Charlottesville, which turned violent and deadly.
if you get a chance, this documentary which came out earlier this year is view worthy imho. probably can watch it online. fascinating look at Russia back in the ’90s and how that might explain some of the twit’s activities even now.
here’s some of the background how the film came about in a march cbs story:
Filmmaker Tiller Russell on chasing the men who sold a submarine to a Colombian drug cartel for “Operation Odessa”
Not many filmmakers would embed themselves into a prison, let alone a Panamanian prison notorious for human rights violations, to hear a story. But when a DEA agent told Tiller Russell that it was one of the best stories he’d ever heard in his career, Russell knew he had to take his chances.
Russell’s journey ended up taking seven years, but eventually the filmmaker was able to tell the story of how three hustlers schemed to sell a Soviet submarine to a Colombian drug cartel for $35 million in “Operation Odessa.” The cartel wanted the submarine to transport drugs to the U.S. and Canada.
In 1997, mob enforcer and strip club owner Ludwig “Tarzan” Fainberg, luxury car dealer Juan F. Almeida and international fugitive and drug trafficker Nelson Yester made headlines when the DEA charged them in a 30-count Federal indictment for the scheme. Russell started chasing the story when he got a tip seven years ago.
“A narc, a DEA agent I knew, called me and said, ‘There is this true crime caper of a lifetime, one of the best I’ve heard in my career — there’s a crazy Russian gangster named Tarzan who once sold a submarine to a Colombian drug cartel. He’s locked up in a Panamanian prison and he has a BlackBerry. Do you want his phone number?'” says Russell. “And I told him ‘Hell yes.'”
But when Ludwig “Tarzan” Fainberg answered his phone, he told Russell he’d have to meet him in real life to hear the tale — inside the prison.
“I jumped on a plane to Panama with $10,000 taped to my legs knowing I’d have to peel off bribes to get into this prison,” explains Russell. “I went out to the prison — La Joya on the outskirts of Panama City — where Tarzan was locked up and I paid the guard $1,000 to smuggle me in.”
Russell says he had to sprint across a yard full of convicts in order to get to Tarzan’s cell.
“It sounded like the worst plan, but I’d come all this way,” he says. “I crossed the yard and pushed the door and there was a gregarious, larger-than-life, charismatic lunatic.”
Russell calls his few days in the prison “like it was out of ‘Mad Max.'”
“The weird thing about that prison is its inmates rule at night,” he explains. “The guards lock the gate and leave, so the inmates overtake the asylum and so there’s dead bodies and s**t of people who have been shanked at night.”
But in spite of all of his efforts, Russell says soon, Fainberg “clammed up” after Russian mobsters got wind that he was talking to a filmmaker.
“I said, ‘I smuggled myself into a f**king Panamanian prison. What do you mean?’ He told me to go to hell and we left on kind of bitter terms, but we stayed in touch over the years,” says Russell. Russell adds that Fainberg would send him videos of prison riots or new convicts coming in with texts like, “Merry Christmas from Tarzan.”
Years later, Russell says he got an email with the subject line “Jailbreak.”
“When I opened it, it said, ‘I busted out of prison in Panama, crossed into Costa Rica, caught a boat to Cuba, repatriated to Moscow. Let’s make a movie,'” he says.
For the documentary, Russell talked to Fainberg, Almeida and several DEA agents involved in the case, but was told by all parties that “never in a million years” would Yester, who was on the run from both other criminals and authorities, speak to him. But when Russell was in Moscow, spending time with Fainberg, who is exiled from the U.S., he got a mysterious text from Yester on WhatsApp.
“I got a crazy text on WhatsApp that said, literally, ‘You’ve met the waiters. You should come meet the chef. If you really want to talk about what happened, fly to Africa and meet me for a cup of coffee tomorrow.'” Russell boarded a flight the next day.
Russell says even he can’t believe the risks he took to make the film.
“When I look back, I think I’m a fool or lunatic myself,” he admits. “At the time, I was so entranced and riveted by the story and dying to hear what happened next and what really happened that I was chasing it to the end of the Earth because I knew it was one of the great true crime capers of the past 25 years.”
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Tiger did well. He may have come in second but had a remarkable last 3 rounds. Best he’s ever had in a major by 4 strokes.