“Old Trucker Nuts defended people like Flynn who were rooting for Russia to invade Ukraine for the third time,” Colbert said before rolling a clip of Carlson making the case.
“What do you say to someone who makes an argument that dumb?” Colbert asked.
He didn’t have to answer because Carlson’s own words did the job for him
President Biden’s hot mic moment revealed a man who has had enough of that reporter’s shenanigans, and there’s something strange about the way Tucker Carlson is promoting Russia’s side of the story when covering the crisis in Ukraine.
for all you doocy fans, be sure to catch the clip of him and sen. john mccain at 2:59 minutes in on above video.
Key words: “and his pals”
By the way, are tRUMPsky’s properties used for expecting mothers from Russia to hang out while waiting to give birth on American soil?
Ha! The Doocys, stupidity masquerading as journalism for deuce generations.
I love POTUS Joe!
When, exactly, did Fluffy become Vlad’s spokesmodel? I never took him very seriously when he was on MSNBC, which is why I started calling him Fluffy. He just seemed out of place.
Who is in his network of contacts and what, if any, are their ties to Rusher?
Fluffy is a great nick for Tfucker. He speaks in a manner that sounds very reasonable but C rarely follows from B, and B rarely follows from A, and B and C never both follow from A, and finally A and C are always bullshit. It’s Faux logic 101.
Some call him cur, some call him fyce. Sooner or later the truth will out.
as some say the wheels of DOJ grind slowly, maybe even grind exceedingly fine when they do. for others the AG is dragging his heels but at least the millstone is beginning to turn …
This is the first time that the Justice Department has commented on requests from lawmakers and state officials that it investigate the fake certifications.
The certificates contain the signatures of Trump supporters who falsely claimed to be the rightful electors in Georgia, Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Nevada and New Mexico — all states that President Joe Biden had won. Some of the certificates were sent by top officials representing the Republican Party in each state, according to the documents, which were obtained and made public by the watchdog group American Oversight.
In response to Monaco’s new comments, Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul told CNN in a statement that it was “critical that the federal government fully investigates and prosecutes any unlawful actions in furtherance of any seditious conspiracy.”
New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas, a Democrat, told CNN in a statement on Tuesday that he is “pleased the DOJ is looking into this matter, as these disturbing allegations require that federal authorities partner with state law enforcement agencies across the country to ensure integrity in the election process.”
[…]
In her interview with CNN, Monaco also touted the efforts the Justice Department has made to address the threats and harassment that election officials have faced.
“I’m concerned about the really disturbing nature of the threats that we’ve seen. They’ve been disturbingly aggressive, and violent and personal,” Monaco said. She pointed to an indictment unveiled by the Justice Department last week alleging that a Texas man had threatened to kill Georgia election officials. The indictment was the first to be brought after the formation of a department task force focused on the issue.
“Those charges were the first coming out of that task force but they will not be the last,” Monaco said.
Music & Lyrics by Stephen Taberner
Performed by The Spooky Men’s Chorale https://spookymen.com
Parody Project Executive Producers Don Caron and Jerry Pender
LYRICS by Stephen Taberner We do not speak your name Not whisper, not shout Not bandy it about We do not speak your name Because it hurts our mouths, like poison, like dirt We do not speak your name We do not advertise your brand We do not strengthen your hand There is a thunderous sound you love to hear Part made of worship, part of fear You wish to hear it all day long But we do not sing that song We do not speak your name
[click here for more of the verses and scroll down to read about the spooky men’s chorale]
another production from the spooky men’s chorale which is apropos given this is a mid-term election year predicted to be a goper sweep unless we insure the current gopers are kicked out and replaced by more dems and dem leaning indies.
BREYER RETIRING!!!
What is manchin’s short list?
White nationalists are the new Jehovah’s Witnesses……..they’re going door to door out there.
That’s one way to find out where the libtards live, I reckon.
I say pick Kamala
Poobah, Kamala would be a good pick, but the smart money is on Ketanji Brown Jackson. 51 years old, clerked for Breyer, 8 years on the federal bench, vetted in June 21 for the DC Circuit and got votes of 3 republicans (but don’t count on one of those (Lindsey) this time around). The other name being bandied about is Leondra Kruger. She’s currently a California Supreme Court Justice and is a former DOJ official who represented the government at the Supreme Court as deputy solicitor general. Both have their chops.
I worry about picking an unknown
craig, is it really because you don’t want her as veep, heir to the oval office and likely 2024 candidate anymore?
judge k. brown jackson got 3 goper votes last year when confirmed for circuit ct -lindsey being one of them. mitch almost has to vote for her or at least to offset his snafu about AAs not being americans.
anyway, picking kamala would open a prolonged can of worms about selecting a new veep in the midst of turmoil otherwise globally & domestically.
We are entering a profoundly uncertain time with regard to a potential Russian invasion in Ukraine. And one of the biggest uncertainties is in how united Americans will be behind a potential response.
Some prominent voices on the right — particularly Fox News’s Tucker Carlson, but also some of the more extreme members of the House GOP conference — are pushing the idea that the United States basically has no business getting involved in Ukraine, with military force or otherwise. This follows on years of portions of the right, including Donald Trump, building up Vladimir Putin and effectively rationalizing his actions and territorial ambitions.
[…]
Carlson often pretends as if nobody has offered any real justifications for siding with Ukraine in such a conflict. In doing so, he ignores the most obvious ones, such as its strategic importance as a barrier between Russia and the rest of Europe, as well the fact that the United States in 1994 literally gave Ukraine assurances that it would be protected if Russia were to invade. (It did so in exchange for Ukraine giving up the world’s third-largest nuclear arsenal, in what is known as the Budapest Memorandum.)
And however attractive that kind of dismissiveness toward our interests in Ukraine might be in some portions of today’s GOP, foreign policy is perhaps that one area in which the establishment wing of the party has shown some resolve in standing up to the loud, Trumpian portions of its base — and even standing up to Trump himself. Also, while Carlson has a significant following, this is otherwise something that’s being shouted largely from the rafters. Trump himself has used the Ukraine situation to criticize President Biden but hasn’t otherwise taken a position on what should be done moving forward.
Given the evolving GOP views of Russia we’ve seen in recent years, it’s possible we could see more of a split emerging. It’s too early to say whether it will with any certainty.
Behind closed doors, Justice Clarence Thomas’s wife is working with many groups directly involved in controversial cases before the Court.
[…]
Many Americans first became aware of Ginni Thomas’s activism on January 6, 2021. That morning, before the Stop the Steal rally in Washington, D.C., turned into an assault on the Capitol resulting in the deaths of at least five people, she cheered on the supporters of President Donald Trump who had gathered to overturn Biden’s election. In a Facebook post that went viral, she linked to a news item about the protest, writing, “love maga people!!!!” Shortly afterward, she posted about Ronald Reagan’s famous “A Time for Choosing” speech. Her next status update said, “god bless each of you standing up or praying.” Two days after the insurrection, she added a disclaimer to her feed, noting that she’d written the posts “before violence in US Capitol.” (The posts are no longer public.)
Later that January, the Washington Postrevealed that she had also been agitating about Trump’s loss on a private Listserv, Thomas Clerk World, which includes former law clerks of Justice Thomas’s. The online discussion had been contentious. John Eastman, a former Thomas clerk and a key instigator of the lie that Trump actually won in 2020, was on the same side as Ginni Thomas, and he drew rebukes. According to the Post, Thomas eventually apologized to the group for causing internal rancor. Artemus Ward, a political scientist at Northern Illinois University and a co-author of “Sorcerers’ Apprentices,” a history of Supreme Court clerks, believes that the incident confirmed her outsized role. “Virginia Thomas has direct access to Thomas’s clerks,” Ward said. Clarence Thomas is now the Court’s senior member, having served for thirty years, and Ward estimates that there are “something like a hundred and twenty people on that Listserv.” In Ward’s view, they comprise “an élite right-wing commando movement.” Justice Thomas, he says, doesn’t post on the Listserv, but his wife “is advocating for things directly.” Ward added, “It’s unprecedented. I have never seen a Justice’s wife as involved.”
Clarence and Ginni Thomas declined to be interviewed for this article. In recent years, Justice Thomas, long one of the Court’s most reticent members, has been speaking up more in oral arguments. His wife, meanwhile, has become less publicly visible, but she has remained busy, aligning herself with many activists who have brought issues in front of the Court. She has been one of the directors of C.N.P. Action, a dark-money wing of the conservative pressure group the Council for National Policy. C.N.P. Action, behind closed doors, connects wealthy donors with some of the most radical right-wing figures in America. Ginni Thomas has also been on the advisory board of Turning Point USA, a pro-Trump student group, whose founder, Charlie Kirk, boasted of sending busloads of protesters to Washington on January 6th.
Stephen Gillers, a law professor at N.Y.U. and a prominent judicial ethicist, told me, “I think Ginni Thomas is behaving horribly, and she’s hurt the Supreme Court and the administration of justice. It’s reprehensible. If you could take a secret poll of the other eight Justices, I have no doubt that they are appalled by Virginia Thomas’s behavior. But what can they do?”
[…]
A current member of the Conservative Action Project told me that Ginni Thomas is part of the group not because of her qualifications but “because she’s married to Clarence.” The member asked to have his name withheld because, he said, Ginni is “volatile” and becomes “edgy” when challenged. He added, “The best word to describe her is ‘tribal.’ You’re either part of her group or you’re the enemy.”
[…]
The White House meeting was held in the Roosevelt Room, and by all accounts it was uncomfortable. Thomas opened by saying that she didn’t trust everyone in the room, then pressed Trump to purge his Administration of disloyal members of the “deep state,” handing him an enemies list that she and Groundswell had compiled. Some of the participants prayed, warning that gay marriage, which the Supreme Court legalized in 2015, was undermining morals in America.
One participant told me he’d heard that Trump had wanted to humor Ginni Thomas because he was hoping to talk her husband into retiring, thus opening up another Court seat. Trump, given his manifold legal problems, also saw Justice Thomas as a potentially important ally—and genuinely liked him. But the participant told me that the President considered Ginni Thomas “a wacko,” adding, “She never would have been there if not for Clarence. She had access because her last name was Thomas.”
[continues]
John Cleese just tweeted that Murdoch is dead. Said it was just a rumor.
Breyer –
They got 11 months or we get to see Mitch sit on the process again, it worked once he’ll try it again.
Florida Shock Jock in Matt Gaetz Circle Pleads Guilty
CLOSING IN
The feds are closing in on Rep. Matt Gaetz for his alleged underage sex crimes with yet another criminal case, this time against a key witness: his wingman’s best friend.
…just read the tweet, seems to be a poorly-worded attempt at humor
Many of these not-so-very-bright people always seem to forget how bad-ass the Federal Government actually is when it gets its hackles up.
Rats. I was hopin’ like a hope machine.
From the “Bit in the Teeth File” –
Dominion says there’s no ‘realistic possibility’ that it’ll settle its lawsuits with Rudy Giuliani, Mike Lindell, or Sidney Powell given the ‘devastating harm’ they’ve done to the company
Alex Jones says he spoke to Jan. 6 committee and pleaded the Fifth ‘almost 100 times’
The radio host and conspiracy theorist said the deposition “was extremely interesting, to say the least.”
Well, they run thru the briars and they ran thru the brambles, and they ran thru the bushes where a rabbit couldn’t go……..they ran so fast that the hounds couldn’t catch ’em, on down the mississippi to the gulf of mexico.
.,
These people are going to be fighting each other trying to get back INTO the woodwork.
Haha……where ya going, uncle Jack? Why, I’m Going on down the Warshington DC to fuck with the Federal Government some…..
I’ve invested in corn bread this week, and am moving into pinto beans & buttermilk next.
My dad would mash his pintos with a fork and sprinkle vinegar on them. Then he would crumble his cornbread in his glass of buttermilk. I was appalled .
Later I found that the entire Meso-American web of cultures for thousands of years was based on corn and beans. They combine to form complete proteins .
Next up Mexican cornbread …………. dried green chilis and tomatoes.
That is why I visit , a big Johnny Horton fan base.
You gotta love that clip , Johnny wearing a yankee uniform singing about the War of 1812, with a blunderbuss as his prop.
Nobody told stories like him.
Why not put Ukraine on track for NATO membership?
Another great story teller from that ime –
Racist misogynist FOX “News” already on the move to demonize potential nomination of a black woman
Bobby played a 12 string –
And the third member of that golden time of Telecaster Troubadours –
–
New Nova tonight ……………….
Ancient Maya Metropolis
Explore ancient Maya cities and learn why their inhabitants abandoned them
Making plaster had a lot to do with it. They had to cut down a mind boggling amount of trees to roast the limestone to smear on all that city scape with plaster.
And trees help make rain.
I heard on NPR this morning there is one thing that is missing in the Russian satellite images around Ukraine .
Enough field hospital units, and personal to support an invasion.
20 % of the population in Ukraine are vets , and they like Dominion have the bit in their teeth.
Maybe the Chinese will will talk him down from kicking this hornets nest , or press their claims as well .
We have 2 aircraft carrier groups sailing in the South China Sea right now.
These age old pissing contests between men have become really obsolete , now that Nature is pissing on all of us.
.
Why not put Ukraine on track for NATO membership?
…because NATO member-states don’t want to be drawn into inevitable conflict
Then there is the USSR Russian media speaks up, they think the faux snooz perps are not believable any more. One of those things, eh? If your agent goes public with being a Russian agent it does not turn out very well.
The Cuban Missile Crisis –
After football practice I always stopped at the Owens Food Market walking home. They had a vending machine set just right , the root beer would form ice after you popped the crown cap. A slushy , and the bottle would sweat .
I would guzzle it and be on my way.
That day their little brown tube radio was repeating that JFK was going to address the nation that evening.
My blood ran cold as my root beer. And my eyes opened to a wider world.
The writing of the “Guns of August” was far in the future , but my education about the blunders of men had begun.
Shorty after that , I decided to drop football, and go home with the girls at 3:30 .
I was shitty football player , and the smell of a locker room held no romance for me, Marylin Miller a cheer leader was whole other ball game.
Old Man
That post reminds me of what I wrote about that day:
El Camino Real – beautiful as only Northern California can be in the October sun. The radio blared away with the Four Seasons’ “Sherry”. They were young, a baby on the way, and happy – at least on this day. The President interrupted the music, “Today I have ordered a blockade of Cuba!” Suddenly their bright world was dark. They waited. The world waited. Six days later the Russian ships turned around and the sun came out again, but for how long?
It ended ten months later with this
Her child was ten months old now, but for three days he slept almost constantly as if he understood that this was no time for a baby to cry. The tears fell uncontrollably from much older eyes. The drums of November marked a national tragedy. “Where were you when you heard?” would become the question a generation could answer. Kennedy dead and two days later his accused assassin died “live” on TV. On the television: the flag, the riderless horse, and the constant pictures of a nation stunned by grief. She hovered over the sleeping infant, her tears dropping on the blond curls. What have we done to you? What will become of you? Was there any hope left for the world or this new person? They would have to wait and see – together.
Chris will be 59 next month
Bob Dylan is playing the Buddy Holly Hall in March .
He nearly ran over me in his Excalibur in Estes Park …………. The “Rolling Thunder Tour”. They were playing Ft. Collins.
I can’t pop for tickets (They sellout this Friday) but I can plan to me meet him.
And my “Pickin’ With Buddy Idea” is just the idea to do it.
The printing game on guitar picks , you get above a thousand and they get really cheap .
Now we have the following –
His myth, his story , his grave, his center with the big glasses, and his hall , it is amazing.
All of witch needs a giant fish bowl of “Picking With Buddy” picks.
In his Lubbock High colors, Black with Gold printing . One side the phrase ,
The other side , the list of places with their GPS numbers.
I did this before with a fundraiser for my garden downtown .
This whole idea began 45 years ago when my friend Neil the bass player came by . He wanted to see the grave.
So I took him there , he knelled down and placed a pick on Buddy’s head stone.
“A group of fishermen is planning to peacefully disrupt Russia’s plans to hold a military exercise off the coast of Ireland in February.“
What in the hell is the Russian navy doing near Ireland?
POTUS Joe could pick Amy Klobuchar or Mayor Pete (or someone who had a chance of winning in 2024) for veep and nominate Kamala for SCOTUS.
peter principle in action
temper any of my criticism of Dems with the recognition that’s it’s hard to govern when obstructionist neo-nazi republicans use every fiber of their being to try to undermine any social progress, including basic infrastructure programs
Do a bus-tour through shit-town America, Mr. President, call it that, people in American shit-towns know what they are
…don’t call it that, you get the idea, though🥸
The UK has a public-transportation program called “Bus Back Better”: that’s our reach, the world still watches us, and regards President Biden as a legitimate world-leader
Also:
Financial markets and the “Street” want Build Back Better to pass, wait-out rethuglican obstruction is my advice cuz they do what their paymasters tell them to do
NEW THREAD
S. Sanders
The VP Harris could be nominated to the Supreme Court” chatter originated in right wing circles as a part of the narrative that the President wants to remove her from the ticket. So, we probably shouldn’t elevate the idea b/c it is right wing gossip with no basis in facts.
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so, what is Tucker
and what is the purpose of Tucker?
joe on the tucker
joe on the putie
stephen on the tucker, joe and the deuce
huffpo:
President Biden’s hot mic moment revealed a man who has had enough of that reporter’s shenanigans, and there’s something strange about the way Tucker Carlson is promoting Russia’s side of the story when covering the crisis in Ukraine.
for all you doocy fans, be sure to catch the clip of him and sen. john mccain at 2:59 minutes in on above video.
Key words: “and his pals”
By the way, are tRUMPsky’s properties used for expecting mothers from Russia to hang out while waiting to give birth on American soil?
Ha! The Doocys, stupidity masquerading as journalism for deuce generations.
I love POTUS Joe!
When, exactly, did Fluffy become Vlad’s spokesmodel? I never took him very seriously when he was on MSNBC, which is why I started calling him Fluffy. He just seemed out of place.
Who is in his network of contacts and what, if any, are their ties to Rusher?
Fluffy is a great nick for Tfucker. He speaks in a manner that sounds very reasonable but C rarely follows from B, and B rarely follows from A, and B and C never both follow from A, and finally A and C are always bullshit. It’s Faux logic 101.
Some call him cur, some call him fyce. Sooner or later the truth will out.
as some say the wheels of DOJ grind slowly, maybe even grind exceedingly fine when they do. for others the AG is dragging his heels but at least the millstone is beginning to turn …
Federal prosecutors looking at 2020 fake elector certifications, deputy attorney general says – CNNPolitics
Music & Lyrics by Stephen Taberner
Performed by The Spooky Men’s Chorale https://spookymen.com
Parody Project Executive Producers Don Caron and Jerry Pender
LYRICS by Stephen Taberner We do not speak your name Not whisper, not shout Not bandy it about We do not speak your name Because it hurts our mouths, like poison, like dirt We do not speak your name We do not advertise your brand We do not strengthen your hand There is a thunderous sound you love to hear Part made of worship, part of fear You wish to hear it all day long But we do not sing that song We do not speak your name
[click here for more of the verses and scroll down to read about the spooky men’s chorale]
another production from the spooky men’s chorale which is apropos given this is a mid-term election year predicted to be a goper sweep unless we insure the current gopers are kicked out and replaced by more dems and dem leaning indies.
BREYER RETIRING!!!
What is manchin’s short list?
White nationalists are the new Jehovah’s Witnesses……..they’re going door to door out there.
That’s one way to find out where the libtards live, I reckon.
I say pick Kamala
Poobah, Kamala would be a good pick, but the smart money is on Ketanji Brown Jackson. 51 years old, clerked for Breyer, 8 years on the federal bench, vetted in June 21 for the DC Circuit and got votes of 3 republicans (but don’t count on one of those (Lindsey) this time around). The other name being bandied about is Leondra Kruger. She’s currently a California Supreme Court Justice and is a former DOJ official who represented the government at the Supreme Court as deputy solicitor general. Both have their chops.
I worry about picking an unknown
craig, is it really because you don’t want her as veep, heir to the oval office and likely 2024 candidate anymore?
judge k. brown jackson got 3 goper votes last year when confirmed for circuit ct -lindsey being one of them. mitch almost has to vote for her or at least to offset his snafu about AAs not being americans.
anyway, picking kamala would open a prolonged can of worms about selecting a new veep in the midst of turmoil otherwise globally & domestically.
Replace Kamala with Hillary
back to the thread topic
How Trump’s and Tucker Carlson’s rationalization of Putin could play into views of the Ukraine standoff – The Washington Post
Clyburn’s pick probably frontrunner
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Michelle_Childs
Ha, so far Germany has only sent helmets to Ukraine, who’s foreign minister just said, “What’s next, pillows?”
Is Ginni Thomas a Threat to the Supreme Court? | The New Yorker
John Cleese just tweeted that Murdoch is dead. Said it was just a rumor.
Breyer –
They got 11 months or we get to see Mitch sit on the process again, it worked once he’ll try it again.
Florida Shock Jock in Matt Gaetz Circle Pleads Guilty
CLOSING IN
The feds are closing in on Rep. Matt Gaetz for his alleged underage sex crimes with yet another criminal case, this time against a key witness: his wingman’s best friend.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/florida-shock-jock-joe-ellicott-in-matt-gaetz-circle-pleads-guilty
…just read the tweet, seems to be a poorly-worded attempt at humor
Many of these not-so-very-bright people always seem to forget how bad-ass the Federal Government actually is when it gets its hackles up.
Rats. I was hopin’ like a hope machine.
From the “Bit in the Teeth File” –
https://www.businessinsider.com/dominion-wont-settle-with-giuliani-lindell-powell-over-conspiracy-theories-2022-1
“Dominion Pillows ” ?
She drew back, aghast, “You mean you’d actually hope for someone’s demise?”
“Lady,” I says, “I gotta list as long as your leg.”
Trump lawyer pleaded the fifth on 146 Capitol riot questions
Former professor and Trump lawyer John Eastman spoke at the Trump rally ahead of the insurrection
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-fifth-amendment-capitol-john-eastman-b2000259.html
Alex Jones says he spoke to Jan. 6 committee and pleaded the Fifth ‘almost 100 times’
The radio host and conspiracy theorist said the deposition “was extremely interesting, to say the least.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/alex-jones-says-he-spoke-jan-6-committee-pled-fifth-n1288002
Somewhere there is a clip of Trump ranting that only guilty
people take the fifth .
Heads up folks , get your ducks in a row –
A bomb cyclone with the power of a hurricane will unleash snow and blizzard-like conditions this weekend
https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/26/weather/noreaster-bomb-cyclone-weekend-storm/index.html
Well, they run thru the briars and they ran thru the brambles, and they ran thru the bushes where a rabbit couldn’t go……..they ran so fast that the hounds couldn’t catch ’em, on down the mississippi to the gulf of mexico.
.,
These people are going to be fighting each other trying to get back INTO the woodwork.
Haha……where ya going, uncle Jack? Why, I’m Going on down the Warshington DC to fuck with the Federal Government some…..
I’ve invested in corn bread this week, and am moving into pinto beans & buttermilk next.
My dad would mash his pintos with a fork and sprinkle vinegar on them. Then he would crumble his cornbread in his glass of buttermilk. I was appalled .
Later I found that the entire Meso-American web of cultures for thousands of years was based on corn and beans. They combine to form complete proteins .
Next up Mexican cornbread …………. dried green chilis and tomatoes.
That is why I visit , a big Johnny Horton fan base.
You gotta love that clip , Johnny wearing a yankee uniform singing about the War of 1812, with a blunderbuss as his prop.
Nobody told stories like him.
Why not put Ukraine on track for NATO membership?
Another great story teller from that ime –
Racist misogynist FOX “News” already on the move to demonize potential nomination of a black woman
Bobby played a 12 string –
And the third member of that golden time of Telecaster Troubadours –
–
New Nova tonight ……………….
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/
Making plaster had a lot to do with it. They had to cut down a mind boggling amount of trees to roast the limestone to smear on all that city scape with plaster.
And trees help make rain.
I heard on NPR this morning there is one thing that is missing in the Russian satellite images around Ukraine .
Enough field hospital units, and personal to support an invasion.
20 % of the population in Ukraine are vets , and they like Dominion have the bit in their teeth.
Maybe the Chinese will will talk him down from kicking this hornets nest , or press their claims as well .
We have 2 aircraft carrier groups sailing in the South China Sea right now.
These age old pissing contests between men have become really obsolete , now that Nature is pissing on all of us.
.
…because NATO member-states don’t want to be drawn into inevitable conflict
Then there is the
USSRRussian media speaks up, they think the faux snooz perps are not believable any more. One of those things, eh? If your agent goes public with being a Russian agent it does not turn out very well.The Cuban Missile Crisis –
After football practice I always stopped at the Owens Food Market walking home. They had a vending machine set just right , the root beer would form ice after you popped the crown cap. A slushy , and the bottle would sweat .
I would guzzle it and be on my way.
That day their little brown tube radio was repeating that JFK was going to address the nation that evening.
My blood ran cold as my root beer. And my eyes opened to a wider world.
The writing of the “Guns of August” was far in the future , but my education about the blunders of men had begun.
Shorty after that , I decided to drop football, and go home with the girls at 3:30 .
I was shitty football player , and the smell of a locker room held no romance for me, Marylin Miller a cheer leader was whole other ball game.
Old Man
That post reminds me of what I wrote about that day:
It ended ten months later with this
Her child was ten months old now, but for three days he slept almost constantly as if he understood that this was no time for a baby to cry. The tears fell uncontrollably from much older eyes. The drums of November marked a national tragedy. “Where were you when you heard?” would become the question a generation could answer. Kennedy dead and two days later his accused assassin died “live” on TV. On the television: the flag, the riderless horse, and the constant pictures of a nation stunned by grief. She hovered over the sleeping infant, her tears dropping on the blond curls. What have we done to you? What will become of you? Was there any hope left for the world or this new person? They would have to wait and see – together.
Chris will be 59 next month
Bob Dylan is playing the Buddy Holly Hall in March .
He nearly ran over me in his Excalibur in Estes Park …………. The “Rolling Thunder Tour”. They were playing Ft. Collins.
I can’t pop for tickets (They sellout this Friday) but I can plan to me meet him.
And my “Pickin’ With Buddy Idea” is just the idea to do it.
The printing game on guitar picks , you get above a thousand and they get really cheap .
Now we have the following –
His myth, his story , his grave, his center with the big glasses, and his hall , it is amazing.
All of witch needs a giant fish bowl of “Picking With Buddy” picks.
In his Lubbock High colors, Black with Gold printing . One side the phrase ,
The other side , the list of places with their GPS numbers.
I did this before with a fundraiser for my garden downtown .
This whole idea began 45 years ago when my friend Neil the bass player came by . He wanted to see the grave.
So I took him there , he knelled down and placed a pick on Buddy’s head stone.
Adios folks.
G’nite Bob
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60130486
“A group of fishermen is planning to peacefully disrupt Russia’s plans to hold a military exercise off the coast of Ireland in February.“
What in the hell is the Russian navy doing near Ireland?
POTUS Joe could pick Amy Klobuchar or Mayor Pete (or someone who had a chance of winning in 2024) for veep and nominate Kamala for SCOTUS.
peter principle in action
temper any of my criticism of Dems with the recognition that’s it’s hard to govern when obstructionist neo-nazi republicans use every fiber of their being to try to undermine any social progress, including basic infrastructure programs
fantastic PR, more of this, and often:
https://theweek.com/joe-biden/1009441/the-kamala-harris-mug-biden-purchased-during-a-shop-visit-yesterday-is-reportedly?amp
Do a bus-tour through shit-town America, Mr. President, call it that, people in American shit-towns know what they are
…don’t call it that, you get the idea, though🥸
The UK has a public-transportation program called “Bus Back Better”: that’s our reach, the world still watches us, and regards President Biden as a legitimate world-leader
Also:
Financial markets and the “Street” want Build Back Better to pass, wait-out rethuglican obstruction is my advice cuz they do what their paymasters tell them to do
NEW THREAD
S. Sanders
The VP Harris could be nominated to the Supreme Court” chatter originated in right wing circles as a part of the narrative that the President wants to remove her from the ticket. So, we probably shouldn’t elevate the idea b/c it is right wing gossip with no basis in facts.