By Jace, a Trail Mix Contributor
No vocals with this Rossini, just high energy. A wonderful and lesser known work. Enjoy the music and enjoy your day!
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ashley wilkes plays the piano?
politico: The Senator and the Mogul: A 9/11 Diary
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump took different paths on that day. Their experiences shaped them and their campaigns.
….Clinton, meanwhile, was down in Washington, at her home on Whitehaven. She had CNN on as she talked on the phone with her legislative director when the first plane hit. Then the second. By the time she got to the Capitol, the Pentagon had been hit by a third plane. Capitol police were evacuating Senate office buildings. She dialed her daughter, who was in New York. She dialed her husband, who was in Australia. She and other senators received a briefing at the Capitol police station early in the evening. And after “a day indelibly etched in my mind,” and as nightfall approached, Clinton joined congressional colleagues on the steps of the Capitol, standing next to some of her fiercest political opponents, singing “God Bless America” with tears in her eyes.
But maybe the most surprising difference between Clinton and Trump on September 11 and in the nerve-racking days and weeks that followed: She, not he, sounded like the tougher talker.
In the immediate aftermath of the worst terrorist attacks in the history of the country, Trump talked publicly mostly about the buildings, and his buildings, and market ramifications and the character and resiliency of the citizens of the city where he’s lived almost his entire life. But reporters then had only so much reason to ask him about issues of national security or foreign policy.
In Clinton’s voice, though, in remarks in news conferences and TV interviews and on the Senate floor, there was an audible mixture of patriotism and hopes for bipartisanship—and vengeance, too. A full week before President Bush painted a stark divide of a new world—“Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists,” he said in an address to a joint session of Congress on September 20—Clinton expressed the identical idea, and in equally bellicose terms, on CBS Evening News. “Every nation has to be either with us, or against us,” she told Dan Rather. “Those who harbor terrorists, or who finance them, are going to pay a price.”
daily beast:
Raiders of the Lost Art
Rescuing the Lost Art of 9/11
How 9/11 spawned one of the most unusual art preservation efforts of the modern era.
some good interactive views and tours of 9/11 memorial and museum at the touch of a click
Published on Sep 10, 2016
A Memorial to those whose lives were lost or changed forever by 9/11
Jace, I’ve played the Rossini three times back-on-back and Howard still has not gasped for air! Once again, thanks for a fine find!
This morning’s “ah – what the splat is this?” came after reading the following list:
Fiction
1. THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN
(Riverhead, $9.99, $16). By Paula Hawkins. A woman witnesses a shocking crime. [8]
2. THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA
(Scribner, $12.99). By Ernest Hemingway. The story of an old fisherman and his triumph over loss. [1]
3. A MAN CALLED OVE
(Washington Square, $16). By Fredrik Backman. An old crank might just be softened by his new neighbors. [15]
4. THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS
(Scribner, $17). By M.L. Stedman. A baby washes ashore and changes the lives of a lighthouse keeper and his wife. [2]
4. THE GREAT GATSBY
(Scribner, $16). By F. Scott Fitzgerald. A classic American novel of love lost and fortunes gained in the Jazz Age. [80]
6. AFTER YOU
(Penguin, $16). By JoJo Moyes. Louisa Clark is struggling to cope with a life without Will Traynor, the paralyzed man she cared for in “Me Before You.” [6]
7. FAHRENHEIT 451
(Simon & Schuster, $15.99). By Ray Bradbury. The classic about a future war on books is a standard on back-to-school lists. [16]
8. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
(Grand Central, $8.99). By Harper Lee. The Pulitzer Prize-winning tale set in the Depression-era South. [86]
9. SEE ME
(Grand Central, $15.99)By Nicholas Sparks. A former criminal and a lawyer fall in love. [5]
10. THE ENGLISH TEACHER
(Penguin, $16). By Yiftach Reicher Atir. A Mossad agent tries to track a rogue spy. [1]
I did not figure out what was going on. Obviously not the banned books week, and the same for a major cut and paste failure. Then I realized what was happening. It was back to school time. Classics are classics forever.
The list is from the Washington Post Best Sellers list of 11SEP16.
Love them pye-anny players…….and the gee-tar players too…….
homer was an itinerant citharist
Kind of like the Greek Doc Watson.
As far as Fitzgerald I like more TENDER IS THE NIGHT, and The Pat Hobby stories.
Has Catcher slipped beneath the waves? I shudder to think it…….Que Lastima.
But then I was taught Catcher in 12th grade English by a batshit crazy but thoroughly enjoyable lunatic…….there was so much scribbling and lines drawn in my copy it looked liked the walls of those schizophrenic mathematicians in the movies.
APPEARING TONIGHT!
……..HOMER……….
AND HIS MAGICAL CITHARA
At The Palace of the King
Show begins Promptly at 10
Fillmore Seating
ahhh yes, back to school days. golden rule days. the smell of pencil shavings, mimeographed paper….. sounds of
oops, sorry sturge… here’s your cithara.
“Solon of Athens heard his nephew sing a song of Sappho’s over the wine and, since he liked the song so much, he asked the boy to teach it to him. When someone asked him why, he said: ‘So that I may learn it, then die.’ “ – Florilegium (3.29.58) of Stobaeus
meanwhile, back to politics and not-so-surprising from wapo https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-donald-trump-retooled-his-charity-to-spend-other-peoples-money/2016/09/10/da8cce64-75df-11e6-8149-b8d05321db62_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_trumpfoundation607pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory :
The Donald J. Trump Foundation is not like other charities. An investigation of the foundation — including examinations of 17 years of tax filings and interviews with more than 200 individuals or groups listed as donors or beneficiaries — found that it collects and spends money in a very unusual manner.
For one thing, nearly all of its money comes from people other than Trump. In tax records, the last gift from Trump was in 2008. Since then, all of the donations have been other people’s money — an arrangement that experts say is almost unheard of for a family foundation.
Trump then takes that money and generally does with it as he pleases. In many cases, he passes it on to other charities, which often are under the impression that it is Trump’s own money.
In two cases, he has used money from his charity to buy himself a gift. In one of those cases — not previously reported — Trump spent $20,000 of money earmarked for charitable purposes to buy a six-foot-tall painting of himself.
“Damned kids and their citharai, back in my day we blew through a reed, and liked it!”- Homer’s dad, translated from the original Greek
raw story: “Trump picked his bogus charity’s pocket to buy $20K painting of himself”
Who painted that, Frank Frazetta?
BREAKING NEWS! Hillary had to leave a 911 event early because she got overheated in the blazing sun and humidity at ground zero in New York. While she looked OK, the secret service had to help her into her fan. She then went to Chelsea’s house to cool down. All is now fine.
Batshit crazy media is covering this as if she had a heart attack and stoke at the same time. Bringing up Trumps charges that she isn’t fit to serve.
This is shameful!
I faint when I get hot
When I first met bunch of Mr.Crackers friends –we were picking grapes for a neighbor of his …and fainted . I also fainted on the day we moved up to Mr Crackers completely off the grid house. His friends were quite concerned that he had hooked up with a feeb. Worse case I start throwing up
But I am not a feeb. I have no other health problems. I just don’t react well to being overheated.
And Patd
I too thought Gone with the Wind
“ashley wilkes plays the piano?”
Oh Scarlet!
Jesus Alou. I don’t do good in the heat, especially East coast humidity and heat. I bet I look a lot worse than HRC right now, I mowed the weeds and it takes me an hour plus to stop looking like I am burning up and blowing an artery at the same time.
But, I am willing to bet she is in better condition than the bloater. He probably cons a kid into doing his situps for him.
or donating blood and urine sample for him
So it turns out Trump doesn’t donate any money to the Trump Foundation but some of the netowrks do — does that mean they bribed Pam Bondi?
I’ve always been heat sensitive even in the dry heat of CA & AZ. It was a running joke about getting me up to the mountains before I passed out. When back east, I kept telling people they didn’t put air in their air during the summer humidity.
The newscasters (AKA gossip monger readers & shills) & Trump trumpeters had Hillary on her last legs
I see no evidence that he is getting stronger in red states let alone picking up a blue state
he has to fight in Georgia and North Carolina — and he’s getting stronger?
Romney was talking about the general public
Clinton was talking about Trump supporters – and she was wrong probably not 50% more like 85%
I guess it’s better if she is talking about her health than the deplorables
which is worse deplorables or deportables
snippet from ny times re episode:
The following day on her campaign plane, Mrs. Clinton told reporters that her allergies flared up twice a year and that she was on antihistamines. “I just upped my antihistamine load to try to break through it,” she said. “It lasts a couple days, and then it disappears.”
A campaign spokesman didn’t immediately respond to questions about whether Sunday’s incident was related to her medication or allergies.
so a wobble or two for her. just a hint of antihistamines will knock me out. add in that she was surrounded by tall folks full of hot air. no wonder.
the drumpt prolly has air condition unit built in to his iron man suit. I still contend he’s much smaller and the suit’s inflated…. look at those little bitty hands 🙂
can’t you picture a diminutive donald as the upper half wearing the coat and gigantic tie standing atop of the bottom guy de jour in the pants… some days it’s newtie, some days it’s rudy and if it’s a sit down it’s chris (comfy like an overstuffed couch).
Out touring family sites, here is house built by my great great grandfather James Crawford (Broadhead KY)
and this snippet from wapo makes me wonder why media grouses about her unavailability but not about him:
Clinton travels with a small group of reporters and photographers representing broadcast and print outlets. The arrangement, called a “pool,” approximates the rotating group of press outlets that travel with the president.
Trump has no such pool, a break with past candidates. He had no reporters with him Sunday, when he appeared unannounced at the same memorial ceremony Clinton attended.
she has a travelling pool and he doesn’t? he’s even banned/blacklisted news orgs from public arenas and she hasn’t. that playing field isn’t level, guys.
nbcnewyork has a vid of her leaving Chelsea’s on her own, talking, waving, taking pic with a little girl… looks refreshed. prolly too many girdles, bullet proof vests and such that had to be loosened or lightened up.
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Being transgender is not easy. Lady Chablis died three days ago, and more famous, Alexis Arquette died a few hours ago. Both died of illnesses which were long term. Alexis , Christine Daniel, Terri O’Connell and I were featured in Newsweek May 14 2007 (three different links in this sentence). Christine Daniel, LA Times sports writer tried to go back to being a male and eventually killed herself. Terri O’Connell is still alive.
Early death is a reality for trans people. The pressures of being trans are often immense, there is frequently the effects of hate, and the initial high dose of hormones can cause problems, breast cancer is one nasty problem.
judy takes it home
Haha…..blowing on a reed……..old fogies grossly out of touch…….
BeeB you right about that……it’s a tough row…….keep rowing, eh?
Oh no Mr. Bill Hillary has pneumonia and had known since Friday
let’s go back to talking about deplorables
BB,
Thank you for trusting me enough to become part of our family. Kumcho and I used to joke that our family is like a good stew, some of this, some that, and that, and this, and that, and all mixed very carefully with love.
From The Economist that arrived yesterday. A truly important editorial. Fair use claimed.
Post-truth politics
Art of the lie
Politicians have always lied. Does it matter if they leave the truth behind entirely?
Sep 10th 2016 | From the print edition
CONSIDER how far Donald Trump is estranged from fact. He inhabits a fantastical realm where Barack Obama’s birth certificate was faked, the president founded Islamic State (IS), the Clintons are killers and the father of a rival was with Lee Harvey Oswald before he shot John F. Kennedy.
Mr Trump is the leading exponent of “post-truth” politics—a reliance on assertions that “feel true” but have no basis in fact. His brazenness is not punished, but taken as evidence of his willingness to stand up to elite power. And he is not alone. Members of Poland’s government assert that a previous president, who died in a plane crash, was assassinated by Russia. Turkish politicians claim the perpetrators of the recent bungled coup were acting on orders issued by the CIA. The successful campaign for Britain to leave the European Union warned of the hordes of immigrants that would result from Turkey’s imminent accession to the union.
If, like this newspaper, you believe that politics should be based on evidence, this is worrying. Strong democracies can draw on inbuilt defences against post-truth. Authoritarian countries are more vulnerable.
Lord of the lies
That politicians sometimes peddle lies is not news: think of Ronald Reagan’s fib that his administration had not traded weapons with Iran in order to secure the release of hostages and to fund the efforts of rebels in Nicaragua. Dictators and democrats seeking to deflect blame for their own incompetence have always manipulated the truth; sore losers have always accused the other lot of lying.
But post-truth politics is more than just an invention of whingeing elites who have been outflanked. The term picks out the heart of what is new: that truth is not falsified, or contested, but of secondary importance. Once, the purpose of political lying was to create a false view of the world. The lies of men like Mr Trump do not work like that. They are not intended to convince the elites, whom their target voters neither trust nor like, but to reinforce prejudices.
Feelings, not facts, are what matter in this sort of campaigning. Their opponents’ disbelief validates the us-versus-them mindset that outsider candidates thrive on. And if your opponents focus on trying to show your facts are wrong, they have to fight on the ground you have chosen. The more Remain campaigners attacked the Leave campaign’s exaggerated claim that EU membership cost Britain £350m ($468m) a week, the longer they kept the magnitude of those costs in the spotlight.
Post-truth politics has many parents. Some are noble. The questioning of institutions and received wisdom is a democratic virtue. A sceptical lack of deference towards leaders is the first step to reform. The collapse of communism was hastened because brave people were prepared to challenge the official propaganda.
But corrosive forces are also at play. One is anger. Many voters feel let down and left behind, while the elites who are in charge have thrived. They are scornful of the self-serving technocrats who said that the euro would improve their lives and that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. Popular trust in expert opinion and established institutions has tumbled across Western democracies.
Post-truth has also been abetted by the evolution of the media (see Briefing). The fragmentation of news sources has created an atomised world in which lies, rumour and gossip spread with alarming speed. Lies that are widely shared online within a network, whose members trust each other more than they trust any mainstream-media source, can quickly take on the appearance of truth. Presented with evidence that contradicts a belief that is dearly held, people have a tendency to ditch the facts first. Well-intentioned journalistic practices bear blame too. The pursuit of “fairness” in reporting often creates phoney balance at the expense of truth. NASA scientist says Mars is probably uninhabited; Professor Snooks says it is teeming with aliens. It’s really a matter of opinion.
When politics is like pro-wrestling, society pays the cost. Mr Trump’s insistence that Mr Obama founded IS precludes a serious debate over how to deal with violent extremists. Policy is complicated, yet post-truth politics damns complexity as the sleight of hand experts use to bamboozle everyone else. Hence Hillary Clinton’s proposals on paid parental leave go unexamined (see article) and the case for trade liberalisation is drowned out by “common sense” demands for protection.
It is tempting to think that, when policies sold on dodgy prospectuses start to fail, lied-to supporters might see the error of their ways. The worst part of post-truth politics, though, is that this self-correction cannot be relied on. When lies make the political system dysfunctional, its poor results can feed the alienation and lack of trust in institutions that make the post-truth play possible in the first place.
Pro-truthers stand and be counted
To counter this, mainstream politicians need to find a language of rebuttal (being called “pro-truth” might be a start). Humility and the acknowledgment of past hubris would help. The truth has powerful forces on its side. Any politician who makes contradictory promises to different audiences will soon be exposed on Facebook or YouTube. If an official lies about attending a particular meeting or seeking a campaign donation, a trail of e-mails may catch him out.
Democracies have institutions to help, too. Independent legal systems have mechanisms to establish truth (indeed, Melania Trump has turned to the law to seek redress for lies about her past). So, in their way, do the independent bodies created to inform policy—especially those that draw on science.
If Mr Trump loses in November, post-truth will seem less menacing, though he has been too successful for it to go away. The deeper worry is for countries like Russia and Turkey, where autocrats use the techniques of post-truth to silence opponents. Cast adrift on an ocean of lies, the people there will have nothing to cling to. For them the novelty of post-truth may lead back to old-fashioned oppression.
Medical records Clinton should release the same amount of info – that Romney, Shrub, Obamarama etc have done – only John McCain released his actual complete medical record. Then Trump would be on the hook
Here I am blithering on – when Sturge and Flatus had responded to BB in such a sweet way. This is why the Trail is so great. I’m glad to associate myself with their remarks.
Flatus and all – thank you. Family is dear to me. Like many LGBT people our new family is often not our old family. Friends we have after coming out are real friends. Much of our selves are steeped in distrust. Before coming out we are always on guard, for the wrong word, the wrong look at someone, a letter or email that was read by the wrong person, a drawer opened and a discovery of a blouse or underwear. And a million other things we hide. It is hard living in the closet.
Coming out does carry a lot of pain and agony. But, also a great relief and no matter what else happens, you are you. I reread my article (for some reason it carries my name not the reporter’s) for the first time in many years. So much has changed in almost ten years, and so much is still the same.
Live your life the best way you can. That is all we trans people wish.
If I had my way I would make sure that every single employee of MSNBC CNN & Fox developed Laryngitis after which there would be a massive feed failure knocking all cable news off the air.
Carpe diem
—some Roman
Enjoy every sandwich.
—-Warren Zevon and CBob
Ha…….something else CBob used to quote:
“You are all condemned men ….. We keep you alive to serve this ship …. so row well, and live.”—Ben Hur Movie?
http://colorado-bob.blogspot.com/
No, the general’s book
Flatus, everything past the first sentence of the Economist editorial is gravy.
Wasn’t no Board of Inquiry with the Romans…….it was <SQUIRK> with the sword and over the side you go……
BB, a well lived life ain’t necessarily easy. Like sturg said, keep rowing.
And yes, sturg, Ben-Hur.
And yes, sturg, Ben-Hur – Quintus Arrius. Kinda the ancient version of “This ain’t no party, this ain’t no disco, this ain’t no foolin’ around. No time for dancing, or lovey dovey, I ain’t got time for that now…”
bb, my blonde sister, thank you for the link…sharing about your friends. Life is so short and the vulnerable really show us how to live. Being open is incredibly difficult for most humans.
We sent five bucks to Hillary tonight…since she can’t get out there and beg for big money donations. get well, Hillary. Her smile when emerging from Chelsea’s apartment made me want to help her. She must feel like crap and continues to push and be kicked. I still think she is amazing.
BW
Your amazing too.. Sweet sending the donation.. Yes, Hillary is amazing and just keeps moving forward.. I look at the media and their response to her here and it makes my blood boil. Really, some headlines said, see Hillary stumble, wtf, Republican mean and nasty is everywhere.. Damn if it doesn’t change people for the worst..
“You are all condemned men ….. We keep you alive to serve this ship …. so row well, and live.”—Ben Hur Movie?
sturge, sounds more like Benita Her, queen of the bee colony
oops, new thread