Sunday Serendipity

By Jace, a Trail Mix Contributor

A Sunday morning waltz from the Waltz King. Too good not to share.

Enjoy the music ? but above all enjoy your day!?

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  1. what they used to say about the wicked waltz according to wiki:

    In the 1771 German novel Geschichte des Fräuleins von Sternheim by Sophie von La Roche, a high-minded character complains about the newly introduced waltz among aristocrats thus: “But when he put his arm around her, pressed her to his breast, cavorted with her in the shameless, indecent whirling-dance of the Germans and engaged in a familiarity that broke all the bounds of good breeding—then my silent misery turned into burning rage.”

    and

    Almack’s, the most exclusive club in London, permitted the waltz, though the entry in the Oxford English Dictionary shows that it was considered “riotous and indecent” as late as 1825. In The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, by Anne Brontë, in a scene set in 1827, the local vicar Reverend Milward tolerates quadrilles and country dances but intervenes decisively when a waltz is called for, declaring “No, no, I don’t allow that! Come, it’s time to be going home.”

  3. the wrap  reported snl re-running McCain hosting back in 2002, but I prefer this one in a 2008 opener with him, wife cindy and tina’s half-gov

    On the eve the presidential election, John McCain and Sarah Palin (Tina Fey) address the nation on QVC, and sell some campaign merchandise too. [Season 34, 2008]

     

  4. wapo editorial board:
    NEWS WEBSITE Axios reported Aug. 26 that Republicans are “getting ready for hell” in the form of wide-ranging congressional investigations of President Trump should the Democrats take the House in November. That is one way to describe the legislative branch finally taking its oversight responsibilities seriously.
     
    According to the article, a senior House Republican’s office compiled a spreadsheet of more than 100 investigative requests Democrats have made, a document that has circulated on Capitol Hill and “churned Republican stomachs.” ….
    […]
    The full spreadsheet is not public. But the highlights would not incite fear among self-respecting members of Congress. They would compel lawmakers to switch on hearing-room lights and order staff to start digging. Every reported item on the list should already be the subject of sustained congressional inquiry. Some of them should have produced new laws. ….
    […]
    If the spreadsheet seems shockingly long, that is because the Trump administration’s behavior has been unusually erratic and suspicious. The sizable list of legitimate matters requiring investigation underscores that the GOP Congress has largely abdicated its responsibility to oversee the executive branch at a time when oversight is more necessary than it has been since the Nixon years.
     
    Yet, instead of serving a reminder of shirked responsibility, the spreadsheet appears to be intended to raise alarms that House Republicans might no longer be able to protect the president from reasonable congressional inquiries. That mind-set says all one needs to know about the quality of this Congress.

  5. the elephant waltz

    El Carnaval dels animals. El Carnaval de los animales. El Elefante Camile Saint Saens.  Le Carnaval des animaux.
    El elefante.

  8. business insider:
    Former Sen. Joe Lieberman and Sen. Lindsey Graham said they were happy Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner attended Saturday’s memorial service for the late Sen. John McCain.
    Graham and Lieberman, who with the six-term Sen. McCain were known as “The Three Amigos“, appeared on CNN‘s “State of the Union” a day after 2,500 gathered in the Washington National Cathedral to pay their respects.
    Host Dana Bash said she was “surprised” to see Trump and Kushner in the crowd, and asked Graham if he was responsible for extending an invitation to them, but he said it was the decision of McCain’s family.
    “Nobody that was at the funeral didn’t get invited by the family,” Graham said. “Ivanka said nice things about Senator McCain after his passing, and it was not unnoticed by the family.”
    [….]
    Graham said the guest list was carefully selected by McCain’s family, because “if you wanted to invite everyone who loved John McCain you could have filled up Yankee Stadium.”
    Lieberman said the couple sat right behind him and when he spoke to them after the ceremony, he thanked them “as John’s friend,” and they seemed to have enjoyed the service.
    “They felt the whole service was a great tribute to him and elevating,” Lieberman said. “Hopefully everybody is elevated by what happened there in the cathedral yesterday. And hopefully it will make the country better.”
    […continues…]

  9. cnn via msn:
    Two former friends of Sen. John McCain say his daughter Meghan McCain’s pointed criticism of President Donald Trump in her speech at the Arizona Republican’s memorial service on Saturday reflected the character of her late father.
    “She is her father’s daughter,” South Carolina GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “If you say something bad about her dad, you will know it, whether you’re the janitor or the President of the United States. She is grieving for the father she adored. I think most Americans understand that.”
    Former independent Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman, who joined the program with Graham, said he was a “proud uncle” watching McCain’s speech at the memorial service.
    “She was direct … the way John was,” Lieberman said.
    […]
    Graham and Lieberman were two of McCain’s top allies in the Senate, and their praise for his daughter came after she posted a photo of herself with them online reflecting that bond, calling the two senators her “uncles forever.”
    During Sunday’s interview, the pair looked back fondly on their memories of McCain and their travels together.
    “His own attitude, the way he faced death with characteristic fearlessness and perspective, really comforted me,” Lieberman said. “But you know, we’re going to miss him. He’s irreplaceable.”
    […continues…]

     

  10. HOUSEKEEPING: Working with our server company today to tweak several things hopefully to speed up the site. Might be some glitches here and there as we fiddle around.

  11. Each time I hear a beautiful creation such as this waltz I’m taken back to my junior high days when I was sent off to very proper dancing classes held in one of Cleveland’s Victorian mansions. I hated every minute of them…this is how we hold our cups,,,fill out your dance cards with many different partners—gentlemen bow and ladies curtsy. Thank your hostess as you leave

  13. I fear that Lindsey’s balls were interred, too.   He does not seem to have the moral fortitude of McCain.

    Soooo many signs for Beto O’Rourke!  He’s within 4 points of Tedious Cruz, which is why Cheeto is holding a rally for Cruz at the biggest venue that will have him.

    I still say he’s headed to TX Motor Speedway, as his base are prolly big into NASCAR…but some think Jerry Jones will  let him use AT&T Stadium.  Would AT&T be able to distance themselves from that?  There would be a mass exodus customers.

    Instrad of anything Trumpsky, I will envision the crackers waltzing around the house.   Thanks Jace.

  14. Dancing lessons…..brings to mind an old jr high school prank….Bob and Ed are in cahoots……Ed goes to Jim, the mark, and says, ” Hey, Bob’s little brother is taking dancing lessons and everybody’s ribbing him about it.”   So Jim goes up to Bob and says, “Haha, I hear your little brother is taking dancing lessons.”  And totally poker faced, Bob says, ” My little brother’s got the polio!”

    kids are weird.

  16. the hill:  Avenatti to hold ‘resistance rally’ in Texas the same night as Trump’s campaign rally for Cruz

     
    Michael Avenatti announced Sunday that he plans to hold an event countering President Trump’s campaign rally for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) in Texas next month.
    Avenatti, the lawyer representing adult-film star Stormy Daniels in her lawsuit against Trump, called on his supporters to “fight fire with fire.”
    “I am excited to announce that I will be leading a large resistance rally in Texas at the exact same time of Trump’s (details tba),” he tweeted. “All groups are welcome to join. We must fight fire with fire and we must send a message that we will fight to make America America again.”
    Trump said Friday that he will hold a “major rally” for Cruz ahead of midterms, and that he is “picking the biggest stadium in Texas we can find.”
    Cruz is facing a surprisingly tough challenge for his Senate seat from Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-Texas), a rising Democratic star who has pulled within single digits of Cruz in recent polls.
    […continues…]

  17. AUSTIN (KXAN) — The race for U.S. Senate in Texas seems to keep getting closer — with a new poll showing the tightest margin so far.
    The Emerson College poll puts Republican Ted Cruz just one point ahead of Democrat Beto O’Rourke. The poll of registered voters shows 21 percent still have not decided who to support.
    “It’s not really all that different from some of the other polls we’ve seen,” said Jim Henson, with the Texas Politics Project at the University of Texas. While the 1-point margin in the Emerson poll is unique, several other recent polls have shown the race within single digits.
    […continues…]

  20. Today was, and still is, a hot and miserable day. Did not follow any politics, Captain Senator McCain’s smack down tour has left me smiling. His thumbs down made up, almost, for his decades of often hard right voting. Party line was him.

    The horse race starts now. Take back America is not a slogan, it is an act of resistance.

     

     

     

     

  21. more on maria butina

    ny times:

    […]
    Ms. Butina’s efforts to deal in Russian jet fuel, detailed in hundreds of pages of previously unreported emails, were notable not just for their whiff of foreign intrigue but for who they involved: David Keene, a former president of the National Rifle Association and a prominent leader of the conservative movement, who has advised Republican candidates from Ronald Reagan to Mitt Romney. They also involved Mr. Keene’s wife, Donna, a well-connected Washington lobbyist, and Ms. Butina’s boyfriend, Paul Erickson, who ran Patrick J. Buchanan’s 1992 presidential campaign and who moved in rarefied conservative circles despite allegations of fraud in three states.
    Their attempt to secure the fuel deal illustrates a reality that investigators have had to navigate in bringing a federal case against Ms. Butina. During her time in the United States, she surrounded herself not only with high-profile American conservatives but also with dubious characters who seemed bent on making a fast buck — and it was not always easy to tell one from the other.
    In the emails, and in interviews with people involved in the fuel negotiations, Ms. Butina seems as naïve as she is cunning. She had no experience in the oil business, yet jumped into a scheme that hinged entirely on her securing a supply of huge amounts of jet fuel — nearly double what all of Russia’s refineries export in a month.
    […]
    Russia has used oil and gas deals to build influence, deploying companies like Gazprom to cut sweetheart deals for pro-Moscow politicians in other countries. But Ms. Butina did not connect with the likes of Gazprom or other major Russian oil companies. Instead, she relied on a Russian coffee bean trader and a public relations consultant with loose ties to the political party of President Vladimir V. Putin.
    All of them seemed out of their depth, each projecting confidence and deep knowledge of the jet fuel business while seeming not to grasp the basics. None appeared to have any idea how to pull off the deal they were negotiating — or the money with which to do it.
    It did not take an expert to spot serious flaws in the plan.
    “I knew they didn’t have any clue, because there’s no port in the world that could hold the amount of oil they were saying they could sell,” said Yoni Wiss, the Israeli-American who briefly met with Ms. Butina and Mr. Erickson in June 2017.
    Later that summer, Mr. Erickson seemed to acknowledge the absurdity of it all. “It might be a novel someday,” he wrote to Ms. Keene, the wife of the former N.R.A. president.
    […]
    They had at least one more meeting in mid-August with another set of potential partners. Again, it was Ms. Keene who used her Washington contacts to make the connection.
    But a person familiar with the meeting said the potential partners feared it was some kind of scam. Instead of dealing with the couple, they reported them to the F.B.I., which by then was already tracking Ms. Butina’s dealings in the United States.

  22. Video of Slim sitting by  a campfire singing Waltzing Matilda, interspersed with shots of a swaggie.

  23. wiki:

    A swagman (also called a swaggie, sundowner or tussocker) was a transient labourer who travelled by foot from farm to farm carrying his belongings in a swag (bedroll). The term originated in Australia in the 19th-century and was later used in New Zealand.

    [also from wiki:
    “Waltzing Matilda” is Australia’s best-known bush ballad, and has been described as the country’s “unofficial national anthem”.
    The title was Australian slang for travelling on foot (waltzing) with one’s belongings in a “matilda” (swag) slung over one’s back. The song narrates the story of an itinerant worker, or “swagman”, making a drink of billy tea at a bush camp and capturing a stray jumbuck (sheep) to eat. When the jumbuck’s owner, a squatter (landowner), and three mounted policemen pursue the swagman for theft, he declares “You’ll never catch me alive!” and commits suicide by drowning himself in a nearby billabong (watering hole), after which his ghost haunts the site.
    The original lyrics were written in 1895 by Australian poet Banjo Paterson, and were first published as sheet music in 1903. Extensive folklore surrounds the song and the process of its creation, to the extent that it has its own museum, the Waltzing Matilda Centre in Winton, in the Queensland outback, where Paterson wrote the lyrics.]

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