30 thoughts on “It’s Too Darn Hot!”

  1. the whole youtube caption on above group:

    Jazz from Gallus Hall 2016 series. Ljubljana Academy of Music Big Band strikes again. This is one of the best youth jazz groups ever existed. They play as kings of jazz music, although they all play in classical programs. Behind this magic is conductor Matej Hotko, who leads this orchestra as nobody else. Music from this group is pure enjoyment, pure magic and just awesome poetry of life itself. I invited them again on incredible musical journey on Gallus Hall, Cankarjev dom, Slovenia elite set. I recorded them also with cinema cameras in film prime lenses. I recorded and produced small portraits of our best slovenian youth musicans, superbly led by conductor Matej Hotko. Profesor Jaka Pucihar was this year assistant director. Behind cameras are talented kids of my Gimnazija Kranj Film Crew. I hope you will enjoy this jewel of art and music. You can even hire this amazing group for your most elite corporate events.

  2. but on the other hand (thanks to bidenomics and reluctantly to the Fed)

     

    Attribution: Finally Cooling Down by Christopher Weyant, CagleCartoons.com

  3. hurd heats up i-o-way GOPers with the truth about donald and they can’t take the heat.

    daily kos:

    GOP Presidential Candidate Will Hurd showed some spine few have shown. He told a hostile #MAGA audience at the Iowa GOP Lincoln Dinner that #DonaldTrump is not running to Make America Great Again but to stay out of prison.
    Will Hurd continues his necessary crusade against Donald Trump. He got booed for telling the inconvenient truth.
    “One of the things we need in our elected leaders is for them to tell the truth, even if it’s unpopular,” Will Hurd said. “Donald Trump is not running for president to Make America Great Again. Donald Trump is not running for president to represent the people that voted for him in 2016 and 2020. Donald Trump is running to stay out of prison. And if we elect.”
    The boos started to a crescendo.
    “I know,” Hurd would not be deterred. “I know. I know. I know. I know.”
    And then he finished with an admonition as he continued to receive a hail of boos.
    “Listen, I know the truth,” Hurd continued. “The truth is hard. But if we elect Donald Trump, we are willingly giving Joe Biden four more years in the White House. And America can’t handle that. God bless you, and God bless America.”
    Hurd is on a Kamikaze mission like Chris Christie. Will they open a door for a newcomer, or will some faction coalesce around them as a reward? Time will tell.

  6. another truthteller in today’s news

    the hill:

    Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) opened up about his first six months in Congress and did not hold back about how the institution functions.
    “There’s a fixation on a lot of dumb s—. Bad performance art is really what it gets down to,” Fetterman said in an interview with The New York Times.
    The freshman senator said everything in Washington is turning into a “culture war,” adding that not everything “has to be a think piece.”
    Specifically pointing to the debt ceiling, he claimed in the interview that here shouldn’t have been drama.
    “The fact that we’re playing with something like that is antithetical to the stability of our democracy,” he argued, calling everyone in Washington “cynical.”
    [continues]

  7. remember the drained pool incident at mal an ego?  guess who was involved.

    Who Is Carlos De Oliveira? Mar-a-Lago Staffer Allegedly Flooded Server Room (newsweek.com)

    […]
    According to court documents, De Oliveira asked the Mar-a-Lago IT director how long surveillance footage was being held, insisting the conversation “should remain between them.” He allegedly then said “the boss” wanted the footage to be deleted.
    Several months later, De Oliveira flooded the room where video surveillance logs were being stored, while draining the Mar-a-Lago swimming pool.
    [continues]

  12. Jack…  thanks for that link about Ohtani…
    he’s a pleasure to watch on the baseball field!

  13. patD – That article says what Pool Boy did, but not who he is, background-wise. I hope tRUMPsky loses, because he will continue running democracy into the ground like a mob boss lowlife. 

  14. It’s kind of like how Charles 1 just kept talkin and talkin until they finally had to chop his fool head off just to shut him up.   
     

  15. What I find interesting about this latest indictment is just how inept Trump is. Conspiring with minimum wage workers is a sure way to have plenty of witnesses for the prosecution at your trial. It may be one of those rich people problems where the minions around you are thought of as furniture. So they say all kinds of stupid things in front of them.
    Jack

  16. Sturg
    Trump is rich and senile so he gets away with shit that would put the rest of us in the home.
    Jack

  17. Riddle me this: if they took away his passport, and then he decides that he must  flee and then cranks up his big old jumbo jet and is headed toward Saudi Arabia and does not acknowledge any radio transmissions…………What then? 
     
    I bet old father of his country George Washington never envisioned anything like THAT scenario  
     
     

  18. I am still wondering what went to the other resorts as the photos show it leaving the Florida place.  And, for grins why did ex need six big men to carry a casket of her ashes?  Has a search warrant been served for those? Has the search been executed?  Are these questions in the next steps of the big squeeze by Jack?
     
    In almost every case involving spy stuff, like listening to the Kremlin phones and people in the U.S., nothing is presented due to the possible outing of people and tools.  I keep thinking that if sfb did give up people someone might what a few kilos of orange fat to pay for those lives and something might be presented in court.

  19. BB, what do you think was the going price on the current dictator market for a copy of that war plan document he was waving about at Bedminster (who knows where else and to whom)?   also any likelihood he made a few more copies before they sent* it back to nara?

    *reportedly found in that first 15 box load that was returned

  20. george conway:

    “People are making a big deal about what we saw in the superseding indictment yesterday, but the fact of the matter is that it’s just icing on a very, very large cake of mind-bogglingly inculpatory evidence against Donald Trump. He’s like a never-ending, bottomless pit of illegality.”

  21. patd – It is hard to say what something like that would go for. My guess is a lot less than sfb thought.  It would be flashy for saying “War Plans” on the inside pages.  My first view of something like that, many decades ago, was like “eh, is this all?  What the hell?”.  What he possibly had was rather slim because it was a plan. It would contain possible scenarios and what would be the response.  Like a lot of things classified it would be due to a few words or sentences. 
     
    A few things I worked on were highly classified, but you could walk into Radio Shack and pick up something similar, but with one big difference, the stuff I had in my hands actually had specific ways to operate.  It might be frequencies, or range of listening, and how it all worked.  The big thing is not the specific document he was showing off there, it has always been what he would tell them like the first meeting in 2017 when he gave up the Israeli spy. If there is ever a listing of everything he took or told puttie it would be comparable to what many spies have done in the past.  I am sure there are plans on how to make him pay for that, but we may not know them in our lifetimes.

  22. lincoln project latest ad

    All Trump and his MAGA imitators have to offer America is a path of lawlessness, chaos, disorder, and division. Right now, we still have a choice – democracy or destruction. Which side will you be on

  23. https://www.npr.org/2023/07/27/1190578572/how-an-alabama-town-without-ballot-boxes-has-two-mayors

    “Braxton, who is Black, says he has been obstructed from assuming office by the previous mayor, who’s white, this whole time. And there’s another thing to note. Newbern hasn’t had a local election in years.”

    “Well, no one there can remember there ever having been an election. I mean, it is a small town. The town is about 80% Black, about 20% white, just slightly fewer than 200 people. And for as long as anybody can remember, control of this town has sort of been handed down like a family heirloom. And, you know, because of the history of this place, that’s been mostly white people handing control to white people. The previous mayor, who’s still claiming to be mayor, Woody Stokes – he’s actually Woody Stokes III. The previous mayor before him was Woody Stokes Jr.”

    “…Patrick Braxton is the only candidate to qualify in any of the elections for town council or for mayor. And he is recognized as the mayor. Well, typically, when there’s a vacancy on a town council, the mayor gets to appoint someone to fill that vacancy. Well, this lame duck council – they call a special election in which they all qualify this time. But curiously, neither Patrick Braxton nor anybody else heard of this election, knew there was going to be an election. And all of those four candidates claim to have won by default.”

    “There’s not a lot of dispute over the facts. There is some dispute over the law and whether their special-called election was legal or not. You know, the hardest thing outside of this town is why does something like this matter, right? And, you know, we understand voting rights as something that affects presidential races, but it also affects whose streets get cleaned up first after a storm, whether your trash pickup is working appropriately. Those are concerns, frankly, that affect people more directly sometimes than who the president of the United States is. And, you know, voting rights matter.”

  24. Glad to see LP ramping up for 2024, since tRUMPsky can keep running, even from prison, and then pardon himself if, heaven forbid, he were to be elected.  The MAGAts probably won’t even pay attention to this, and if they do, they won’t believe it.   They are drunk on Kool-Aid. 

    What happened to that soccer ball Poo-tin gave to tRUMPsky? Aren’t gifts from foreign leaders property of the US government? Was it stuffed with cash? Coke for junior and his gargoyle? A listening device? What did he do with it?

  25. Atlanta getting ready.

    Barricades just put up around courthouse. Fulton County Sheriff: “We are proactively coordinating with local, state and federal agencies to enhance security during high profile legal proceedings at the Fulton County Courthouse. Some of the measures we are deploying, such as barriers that will limit parking near the courthouse, will be obvious to the public. For security reasons, other measures being deployed will not be as obvious.’

  26. https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/29/europe/wagner-poland-suwalki-intl/index.html

    “More than 100 troops from the Russian mercenary group Wagner are moving towards a thin strip of land between Poland and Lithuania, Poland’s prime minister says, who warned they could pose as migrants to cross the border.”

    “Morawiecki repeated allegations that Belarus, a key ally to Russia, has been sending migrants westward in an attempt to overwhelm Polish border forces.”

    “They will probably be disguised as Belarusian border guards and will help illegal immigrants to enter Polish territory, destabilize Poland, but they will also probably try to infiltrate Poland pretending to be illegal immigrants and this creates additional risks,” he said.

    “So far this year, there have been about 16,000 attempts by migrants to cross the border illegally, “pushed to Poland” by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and Russian President Vladimir Putin, Morawiecki said.”

    “Though just 60 miles long, the corridor is strategically important to NATO, the EU, Russia and Belarus. The border region connects the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad to Belarus and it is the only overland link between the Baltic states and the rest of the EU.”

    “…deploying Russian-allied forces near the Suwalki corridor would represent an escalation that could rattle NATO and EU members.”

    “Lukashenko then asked Wagner to help train his country’s military. The two plan to hold joint military exercises near the border with Poland, a move likely to further raise tensions.”

  28. So, in the clip i watched, Hurd was applauded by as many or more than those who booed, it’s the loud idiots driving the agenda

  29. https://prospect.org/politics/how-republican-rep-john-rose-found-his-wife/

    “In March 2007, 17-year-old high school senior Chelsea Doss (now Chelsea Brooke Rose), traveled four hours from Eagleville to Gatlinburg, Tennessee, to participate in the state’s 79th annual Future Farmers of America convention.”

    “Among the convention attendees was her future husband, the then vice chairman of the board of the Tennessee FFA and current Tennessee congressman John Rose.”

    “…it is newsworthy that a powerful conservative Tennessee politician married someone less than half his age, after several connections between the two when the young woman was in high school and college, including the granting of a scholarship to her named after Rose’s parents.”

    “They possibly met even earlier. A Tennessee Future Farmers of America press release from 2014 notes that Doss “began her involvement with FFA in 2003,” as a high school freshman.”

    “Not long after her triumph at the 2007 FFA convention, Doss received the Jerry and Betty Williams Rose Scholarship, named after Rose’s parents, to attend Tennessee Tech after graduating high school. She was very grateful for that support in a 2010 interview with the Murfreesboro Post, from before the two were married.”

    “John has made everything possible that I’ve done in FFA beyond high school. Through the scholarship that he provides, I’ve not had to have a job through college,” Chelsea said, indicating that the scholarship was secured before she arrived on campus as a freshman. “I’ve been able to train, improve, focus on FFA and focus on school. That scholarship has made all the difference,” she continued. “[John] has also coached me during my preparation, which has been extremely helpful.”

    “Chelsea wouldn’t turn 18 until August of her freshman year. At the same time, Rose was also sitting on the board of Tennessee Technical University. He was named chairman of the Board of Directors in April 2007, one month after the 2007 Tennessee FFA convention, and served in that role throughout the entirety of Chelsea’s time at TTU…”

    “In addition, Republicans in the Tennessee state legislature recently introduced a bill to create a special privileged class of marriage only available to straight couples with no age requirements—thus quietly legalizing child marriage. (The bill was amended after a media backlash, though gay couples are still excluded.)”

    Groomers –

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