Sunday Serendipity

Clarinet concerto in A major K 622 by W A Mozart

From Wikipedia:

The work was completed a few weeks before the composer’s death. It was to be his last completed work, and has been described as his swan-song. The date of its first performance is not certain, but may have been 16 October 1791 in Prague.

The concerto was written to be played on the basset clarinet, which can play lower notes than an ordinary clarinet, but after the death of Mozart it was published with changes to the solo part to allow performance on conventional instruments. The manuscript score is lost, but from the latter part of the 20th century onwards many performances of the work have been given on basset clarinets in conjectural reconstructions of Mozart’s original.

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  2. 538 as of aug 3:

    Who’s ahead in the national polls?
    Updating average for each candidate in 2024 presidential polls, accounting for each poll’s recency, sample size, methodology and house effects. Harris 45.1% Trump 43.6%

    Grab Him By The Ballot SVG PNG, Funny Kamala Harris

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    The Lincoln Project
     
    @ProjectLincoln
     
    Who’s gonna tell him?
     
     

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  4. anthony scaramucci yesterday predicted trump might try stealing the limelight during the dem’s convention by calling his own semi-convention to replace vance. 

    sounds likely.  the MAGAt king will continue to do more and more outrageous stunts to win back the free media coverage that had been his since 2015 until kamala came along a coupla weeks ago.

  6. Thanks Jack. Did Mozart write any bad music?  If he did I haven’t heard it. 

    So Doug had an affair in his first marriage. Okay. That’s it. I’m not voting for him.

  7. VP campaign launches ‘Republicans for Harris’ in push to win over GOP voters put off by Trump (msn.com)

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign on Sunday is launching “Republicans for Harris” as she looks to win over Republican voters put off by Donald Trump’s candidacy.
    The program will be a “campaign within a campaign,” according to Harris’ team, using well-known Republicans to activate their networks, with a particular emphasis on primary voters who backed former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley. The program will kick off with events this week in Arizona, North Carolina and Pennsylvania. Republicans backing Harris will also appear at rallies with the vice president and her soon-to-be-named running mate this coming week, the campaign said.
    The Harris campaign shared the details of the program first with The Associated Press before the official announcement.
    Biden’s team is trying to create “a permission structure” for GOP voters who would otherwise have a difficult time voting for Harris. The effort will rely heavily on Republican-to-Republican voter contact, with the belief that the best way to get a Republican to vote for Harris is to hear directly from another Republican making the same choice.
    Trump’s “extremism is toxic to the millions of Republicans who no longer believe the party of Donald Trump represents their values” and will vote against him again in November, said Harris’ national director of Republican outreach, Austin Weatherford. He said the campaign would be “showing up and taking the time every single day to earn the vote of Republicans who believe in putting country over party and know that every American deserves a president who will protect their freedoms and a commander in chief who will put the best interests of the American people above their own.”
    Weatherford is a onetime chief of staff to former Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., who had endorsed the Biden-Harris ticket before President Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance against Trump. Kinzinger is backing Harris once more as part of the launch.
    “As a proud conservative, I never thought I’d be endorsing a Democrat for President,” he said in a statement. “But, I know Vice President Harris will defend our democracy and ensure Donald Trump never returns to the White House.”
    […]
    The Harris campaign’s effort includes former Govs. Bill Weld of Massachusetts and Christine Todd Whitman of New Jersey, former Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, former Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, and 16 former Republican members of Congress, including Kinzinger and Reps. Joe Walsh of Illinois and Susan Molinari of New York. All have been notable critics of Trump in the past.
    Former Trump press secretary Stephanie Grisham is also endorsing Harris.
    “I might not agree with Vice President Kamala Harris on everything, but I know that she will fight for our freedom, protect our democracy and represent America with honor and dignity on the world stage,” Grisham said in a statement.

  8. pogo, think the GOPers really want to talk about husbands who’ve cheated on wives when their cult leader is world-class prime example?

  10. Onliest thing I hope for Doug Emhoff is I hope he doesn’t have a brother named Jack.  

  11. Doug cheated on his first wife, not on Kamala.  Of coarse, they are trying to paint her as a home-wrecker; an adulterous husband is always the result of a wife who is deficient in some way and/or a woman who enticed him. It’s a misogynistic take on the world.

    The first wife put out a statement that there were many other reasons for the divorce and she’s happy with their blended family. 

    A lot of families look like theirs; multiple marriages and multi-racial.  

    Don-Old is a serial adulterer, gets way too handsy  with Ivanker and other young girls…and is overly-amorous with flags.   

    ps -MAGAts/Republicans want to talk about ANYTHING other than PROJECT 2025!  Do NOT let them pivot!

  12. Sherrod Brown is skipping the convention, further distancing himself from Harris.  He stated he won’t be campaigning for Harris, instead defining his own positions as he is in a helluva battle with crooked car salesman Bernie Moreno, a Trump coattail rider.  Sherrod Brown ads specify how he prefers working across the aisle and even sort of brag how he has agreed with Trump at times, more than is comfortable to Yellow Dog Democrats.  The backing away from the Harris groundswell is simply what Sherrod Brown must do to win in this state which gave the USA the wonderboy JD Dummschitt.

  13. And Gym Jordan?

    Hey Dex, do you recall a game among kids in the 50’s called “Hits or Cracks”?

  14. Sorry to hear that about Sherrod, Dex. Nice catch. But understandable if that’s what he needs to do. He was barely ahead under Biden, guess he figures it gets worse under Harris. Not unusual that sometimes congressional candidates have to distance top of the ticket.

  15. I’m Calling It Walz

    Shapiro stock falling. Fetterman opposition adds to a pile of in-house gripes that is too high to pick him. And unions are not going to accept Kelly. Walz made the top three for today’s VP mansion visits, he now has the clearest path.

    He knows how to answer the charge he’s too “Liberal”

    “What a monster. Kids are eating and having full bellies, so they can go learn, and women are making their own health-care decisions. And we’re a top five business state, and we also rank in the top three of happiness.
    Look, they’re going to label whatever they’re going to label. He’s going to roll it out, mispronounce names to try and make the case. The fact of the matter is, where you see the policies that Vice President Harris was a part of making, Democratic governors across the country executed those policies, and quality of life is higher, the economies are better, all of those things.
    Educational attainment is better. So, yes, my kids are going to eat here, and you’re going to have a chance to go to college, and you’re going to have an opportunity to live where we’re working on reducing carbon emissions. Oh, and, by the way, you’re going to have personal incomes that are higher, and you’re going to have health insurance.
    So, if that’s where they want to label me, I’m more than happy to take the label.” (CNN, 7/28)

  21. Walz is a dynamo, and a great choice.  I am hoping for Shapiro as I’ve been riding that horse for , well, weeks now.  
    Mount Pleasant, SC, where I spent many vacations, was the scene of a wedding.  And by gawd, if Trey Gowdy and Lindsay Graham were a couple of the witnesses, who would I be to call it a sham, a cover-up, a clown with a beard?   
    https://nypost.com/2024/08/04/us-news/sen-tim-scott-marries-interior-designer-mindy-noce-in-south-carolina-church-ceremony/

  22. Just received another do you like Kelly or Shapiro/donate now text.  

     I’m OK with Walz and he may draw some Nebraska/Kansas voters, too; they’ll trust him/he’ll feel familiar. 

    I’d like Pete or Kelly.   If not VP, Pete for Sec of State or Defense.   
     

  23. I’d want that Harris/Walz logo re-configured to not point downward.   Subliminally, logo orientation is important.

    All of those stars are a little bit confederate-y looking.  (Subliminally, was it meant to be a little stars & bars to make some southerners feel better?)
     

  24. This might make the difference. Nancy gets what she wants.

    AXIOS: Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) favoring Walz, with a source familiar with her thinking saying she “is always especially fond of former House colleagues.” Walz served six House terms.

  25. https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/04/uk/uk-riots-rotherham-southport-intl/index.html

     “This wave of riots and racist attacks is not centrally organised but rather has emerged out of decentralised far-right networks, many of which operate on X.”

    “A number of the most important figures spreading disinformation and exacerbating tensions, most notably Stephen Lennon (a.k.a. Tommy Robinson), had previously been de-platformed on X but have been given their accounts back since Elon Musk took control of the platform.”

    “This has resulted in far-right extremists once again being able to reach millions of people with their dangerous and divisive propaganda.”
     
    Maybe X shouldn’t be allowed to operate in the UK.  Maybe anything else Elon has his tentacles in should be monitored/restricted/held criminally accountable.

  26. Sturge, Gym Jordan is very popular as Republicans are tunnel-visioned here, personal history be damned.
    That game you mention…only thing remotely close we played was blasting cans and jars with Daisy pump BB guns and for us po’boys, Sears and Roebuck knock-off BB guns….now I gotta research who the hell Roebuck was.  
    We’re in trouble…Trump says Harris is a “low IQ individual”.  Ain’t NO-body buying that!
    Reverend Al is getting primed for the countdown to election, 92 days left, by getting his beautiful locks chopped off.  He looks marvelously mean and lean!
    James Carville says all VP choices are fine with him. It appears it is down to Walz and Josh, with Beshear in third but faded into oblivion. My nephew’s wife, a mover and shaker in Chicago with her politicians consulting firm, is pushing hard for her friend Pritzker. I am afraid she is going to be disappointed in mere hours.
    And whoa! WHAT? “I want to congratulate Vladimir Putin for a great deal…” Crickets, no applause, stunned silence, in a MAGA setting no less.

  29. Advisers to Democratic Sen. JOHN FETTERMAN, Shapiro’s longtime home-state rival, have reached out to Harris’ team to relay the senator’s concerns about Shapiro,our Holly Otterbein scoops. These concerns, notably, center not on electoral worries, but on the fact Fetterman thinks Shapiro “is excessively focused on his own personal ambitions.”
    The pair rose on parallel tracks in Pennsylvania —one as a relative centrist, the other as a progressive. But they especially butted heads while serving on Pennsylvania’s Board of Pardons, where Fetterman took a more lenient position than Shapiro in providing second chances to some convicts. (Though if we’re being honest here, and Harris truly wants to win over swing voters and Trump-skeptical Republicans, Shapiro’s tougher-on-crime position would likely be a benefit, not a drawback.)
    The knifing comes as progressive activists are increasingly vocalizing their concerns about Shapiro and Kelly, warning that selecting either could undercut Democrats’ newfound party unity, AP’s Will Weissert writes. Unions are making their discomfort with Kelly widely known over his resistance to policies favored by organized labor, while pro-Palestinian groups are pushing back on Shapiro for his handling of Gaza protests.
    Who stands to gain from the last minute second-guessing? Walz.

    https://www.politico.com/playbook

  30. As speculation swirls about whether Tim Walz will be the vice presidential choice of Kamala Harris, those who have known him for years have collected nuggets of information about the life and times of the second-term DFL governor.

    He and his wife since 1994, Gwen, have two children: Hope, who recently graduated from college in Montana, and Gus, who is in public high school in St. Paul.

    The couple met when both were high school teachers in temporary classrooms in Nebraska. The first lady said she was irked by his loud voice disrupting her classroom.

    Their children were conceived through IVF and fertility treatments — as Walz has said, “There’s a reason we named her Hope.”

    Walz doesn’t drink alcohol or coffee. His beverage of choice is Diet Mountain Dew, lots of it. He got a DWI in Nebraska in 1995 before he quit drinking.
     
    He is unfailingly punctual.

    https://www.startribune.com/dog-parks-diet-dew-and-car-sickness-a-collection-of-tidbits-about-gov-tim-walz/600766873

  32. Dex I was just trying to see if that was just a local thing….Hits or Cracks…… Used to be if we found an empty cigarette pack on side of the road or something if you peeled off the sealing tax tape over the middle of top of the pack you’d see underneath either an H or a C followed by a number.  Whoever finds the pack asks the other guy, “.Hits or Cracks?” And the other guy would choose one.  (H or C).   Then they peel off the seal and see if it’s H or C.   If he calls Hits and the H turns up he gets to punch the one who found the pack whatever the number was on the shoulder.    If he guesses Hits and it turns up C (cracks)  the one who found the pack gives the other guy the number of cracks, ( which is like a flat handed karate chop) on the shoulder.   
    We didn’t have Atari or cell phones.  lol

  33. if it does turn out to be walz, let the music begin:

    Download Colorful Music Clipart - Musical Notes Transparent Background ...

    well we’ll sing and we’ll watch ’til all the votes are in.

    who’ll go a walz-ing with harris and me?

    walz-ing with kamala.

    walz-ing with kamala.

    we’ll go a walz-ing, kamala and me.

    let’s sing and let’s watch when all those votes come in.
    you will go a walz-ing with harris and me.

  35. there’s a parody to be called “the Kamala Waltz” waiting here somewhere in this song too

  37. maybe works with words from a GOPer perspective losing his darling to the “Kamala Waltz”

  38. speaking of GOPers of a finer ilk

    Kamala Harris’s campaign launches ‘Republicans for Harris’ (thehill.com)

    Vice President Harris’s campaign launched “Republicans for Harris” with more than 25 GOP endorsements, including former secretaries Chuck Hagel and Ray LaHood, as well as former GOP governors and lawmakers.
    The campaign announced Sunday that Trump-era White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham and Olivia Troye, ex-national security adviser to former Vice President Mike Pence, also endorsed Harris.
    Hagel, a Republican senator from Nebraska and Defense secretary, and LaHood, a GOP congressman from Illinois and Transportation secretary, both served under former President Obama.
    Additionally, former Reps. Christopher Shays (R-Conn.), Joe Walsh (R-Ill.) and Susan Molinari (R-N.Y.) put their support behind Harris in November, along with Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), who had endorsed President Biden when he was still at the top of the ticket. The vice president replaced Biden after the incumbent stepped aside last month following a disastrous debate performance and multiple calls from Democrats to drop out of the race.
    “I encourage other Trump administration officials who saw the tyrant we worked for in office to speak out and stand with Kamala Harris this November to keep integrity in the White House and ensure democracy for our country,” Grisham said in a statement.
    Troye added, “The stakes are too high to let partisanship jeopardize our freedoms and the Constitution.”
    Republicans for Harris will focus on activating GOP voices “to speak to their friends and family about the importance of voting for the Vice President,” according to the campaign, which described the group as a “campaign within a campaign.” The group will have kickoff events Monday in battleground states Arizona, North Carolina and Pennsylvania.
    Other endorsements came from former GOP Govs. Bill Weld (Mass.), Christine Todd Whitman (N.J.) and Jim Edgar (Ill.), the campaign announced Sunday. It also highlighted that former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan (R) endorsed Harris after backing Biden.
    “Donald Trump’s MAGA extremism is toxic to the millions of Republicans who no longer believe the party of Donald Trump represents their values and will vote against him again in November,” Austin Weatherford, Harris’s national director for Republican outreach, said in a statement.
    He added, “Donald Trump said he doesn’t want these voters, but Vice President Harris and our campaign are working overtime to earn the support of my fellow Republicans who care about defending democracy and restoring decency — all of which would be torn away in a second Trump presidency.”
    Others who backed Harris include former GOP Reps. Alan Steelman (Texas), Claudine Schneider (R.I.), David Emery (Maine), David Trott (Mich.), Jack Quinn (N.Y.), Jim Greenwood (Pa.), John LeBoutillier (N.Y.), Tom Coleman (Mo.), Rod Chandler (Wash.), Peter Smith (Vt.) and Wayne Gilchrest (Md.).

  39. In trying to figure out whether North Carolina is more or less gettable under Harris I found this interesting, potentially encouraging. It will take a few weeks before we get a good look at the impact she is having on voter registration, but this first look is striking. Dem registration was actually dropping until the candidate change, at which point it began increasing. And a key thing about new voters is pollsters have a difficult time including them so this would suggest any polling is understating ultimate Democratic performance.

  42. Was Walz in the mix before his famous MSNBC appearance?
     
    That’d be one hell of an ascent to turn one short tv appearance into a VP selection, in a week

  43. Yep Bink, that would be a quick ascent. But his six terms in the House made him a known quantity in official Washington and his productive governorship has been a textbook for other Progressive governors on the policy front. But his recent TV appearances are certainly his first introduction to grassroots Democrats.

  45. Walz is an old-school 90’s-style pro-labor liberal, i appreciate his pro-education messaging
     
    He did make me zone-out discussing policy during one podcast he did, to be fair it was Ezra Klein’s 😴 
     
    The Pod Save guys asked him: “for someone who is such an ally of the LGBT community, why do you dress so poorly?” 😆

  46. Here is what put me over the top for Walz — this one-hour interview with super wonk Ezra Klein at New York Times. I had thought Walz might be a bit goofy but turns out he’s a deep thinker..

  47. lol yup that’s the one

    Walz on the ticket means a straight-up GoTV election, people, the good news is you don’t need to argue with trumpies, the trade-off is haranguing your grandkids to vote, annoy the shit out of them plz 🫡

    My concern is he doesn’t seem to affect the swing/electoral calculus at all, but that effect is unquantifiable

  49. Just about the best photo op I’ve ever seen in politics. Here,’s Gov. Walz signing a bill to provide universal free school meals to school children in his state.

  50. We’re going to have to become Tim Walz experts because only wonks likes us have heard of him
     
    i understand the assignment

  51. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/03/who-is-tim-walz-potential-vp-kamala-harris

    “… in a camo hat and a T-shirt, as an example of how he’s down-to-earth. The outfit caught attention online for not looking like a politician’s attempt to look like a regular person, but just like Walz’s regular clothes. “He might run for Vice President or he might clean the garage. It’s the weekend, anything can happen,” one tweet quipped.

    “Tim’s just a freaking down-home guy,” said Tim Ryan, a former Democratic US representative from Ohio who worked with Walz in Congress and worked out alongside him in the House gym.
     
    Ryan called to mind a recent clip in which Walz mentioned that Minnesota ranked in the top three for happiest states in the nation. “Isn’t that really the goal here? For some joy? When he mentioned that I was like, dang man, that’s really good. That’s really good, because it gets us out of the political space and into the human being space.”

    Happiness. Joy.

  52. Erick Erickson:

    The real problem with Trump mouthing off about Republicans is that there are still enough of them who will vote for him, but don’t like him, who will start to rationalize in their heads that they can survive 2 years of Harris and take back the House and Senate in 2026. Keep bullying and demanding unity and loyalty while showing none in return and you have a recipe for disaster.

  54. Funny post from USA Today reporter in the stakeout: Potential running mate Tim Walz spotted outside VP Kamala Harris’ residence “tweaking the lawn mower’s carburetor” because he “didn’t like that darn knocking sound it was making”

  55. Stunning number in this new CBS poll: Trump only at 55% of the white vote. He got 61% when he won in 2016 and 59% when he lost in 2020.

  56. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13668025/robert-kennedy-jr-dead-bear-central-park.html
     

    “In an unhinged video with comedian Roseanne Barr, Kennedy now claims he was there when the bear died and said he was responsible for it being located in Central Park.”

    ‘A woman in the van in front of me hit a bear and killed it, a young bear,’ he recalled. ‘So I pulled over, and I picked up the bear and put him in the back of my van because I was going to skin the bear, and it was in very good condition, and I was going to put the meat in my refrigerator.’

    ‘You can do that in New York state. You can get a bear tag for roadkill bear,’ he said.

    ‘I said let’s go put the bear in Central Park, and we’ll make it look like it got hit by a bike,’ Kennedy said as he and Barr laughed. ‘So everybody thought that’s a great idea.’

    What in the Hyannis Port…? Is any attention really good attention? Is he doing smoke and mirrors for tRUMPsky?

    Project 2025! The threat still looms.

    “Kennedy said he was worried because his prints were all over the bike. But Kennedy said the story died after a while and ‘it stayed dead for a decade.’

    “He said the New Yorker somehow found out about it and were going to do a big article on him.”

    “It appeared Kennedy was attempting to the story now because he is trying to get ahead of an article by the New Yorker.”

    Oh, some of his past idiocy is just catching up to him. Nothing to see here. Move along.

    PROJECT 2025! Never!

  57. Ok my “Tim Walz Awareness/Kelly’s Pretty Good, Too” friends and family PR campaign has begun, it inevitably ends with “if you love me like you say you do…” 😈
     
    no mercy

    yo become a Tim Walz expert before your peers and they’ll be like “damn this person knows stuff”, that’s influence!

    You also have this rare opportunity to define him before the media does, that’s people-power!

  61. Now he says, “I’ve learned when your country asks you to serve, you always answer the call.” -Kelly

    Honestly, I was kinda on board with Walz.
    Still, a Navy man and astronaut against Vance who ads nothing and admits to it.

  62. two distinct strategies: win the indies with Kelly or turn out the base with Walz
     
    good options imo

    my personal preference is the “win with indies” strat but half the indies are liars and not really indy, that’s wasted effort with no metric

  63. What is he doing??

    Captain Mark Kelly

    “Whether it was from my time in the Navy and at NASA, serving in the United States Senate, or visiting our troops overseas: I’ve learned that when your country asks you to serve, you always answer the call.”

    Posted 6:52pm

  64. Signaling he’s it? Red herring to drive MAGAts nuts? Can’t believe he’d show a hand without an OK or a reason.

  67. Mercury goes retrograde just after midnight; we are in its shadow phase.  Mercury retrograde is notorious for communication errors. 

  68. Candidate worm brain is holding a “rally” or something on YouTube right now.  The number watching was a stunning 813.  Well. I hope that does not cause campaign issues for Harris.

    I expect most of those would be media types ready to provide some analysis of what the guy mumbles. He is as off as sfb.

  69. If we’re flummoxed, imagine what the Rushins over at the orange scourge  must be thinking. 

    ps – I think RFKJ was just trying to out-weird JD & Babbling Adolf. You know, if you’re weird, stand next to someone weirder to make yourself look more normal.

    PROJECT 2025 Never!

  71. lol “Business Insider “ goes mainstream with a click-bait headline, how appropriate 
     
    Kamala, of biracial heritage, a concept racists understand so well they have specific slurs for it, was the first Senator with Indian heritage but not the first Black Senator, hence the headline wording
     
    Such smug disingenuousness with these  “republicans”

    Maybe their focus on race race race loses the election for them, obviously bankrupt on policy 🤷‍♂️

  73. Well this really clears it up… “An Arizona senator tweeting about being an Arizona senator is not news! Go back to your Sundays everybody!” Kelly spokesman Jacob Peters said.

    After the confusion they caused I think we deserved something other than a snarky statement as if we’re just silly for paying attention. If this is how he and his staff behave I hope he isn’t picked.

  76. Sorry for posting too much, it’s just that snap-Veepstakes is like nerd Superbowl, or maybe an impromptu mid-season playoff game or something, i don’t know, not great with sports metaphors 🤷‍♂️ 

  77. Let me welcome all RINOS and Republicans for Harris into the Harris for President campaign.  We accept cash and checks and Bitcoin, I guess.  Duffels of benjamins like Trump got from Egypt in 2016 are preferred…no, just write a check. No damn funny bizness. We seem to be stuck on only $310M.  Let’s double that this week!  
    Gotta milk the cow when she gives milk.  Craig, remember the old Imus bit with Jim Nance when he got Nance to say “just one more cow” during a football telecast?  I really miss the I Man.  Still.  The bit occurred when Imus had been sorta banished to the farm cable station before he went to Fox Business.  

  79. Pogo:  As Brandt said to The Dude (The Big Lebowski movie), “Well, Dude, we just don’t know, do we?”
    Ah hell, I don’t know about Tim Scott’s love life.  I wish him and his lovely ready-made family the best, and many more , uhhh, weeks to come.

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