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Martha Argerich and Nelson Freire, piano
By Jace, a Trail Mix Contributor
The music is amazing, but this one is as much about the performers as the music. Two of my favorites together. Consummate musicians both.
Enjoy the music and as always, enjoy your day!
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By Patd, a Trail Mix Contributor
A worthwhile hour and a half of bi-partisan, civil and warm conversation for your enjoyment (begins at 16:00 in the video):
President George W. Bush and President Bill Clinton participate in a conversation focused on leadership moderated by financier and philanthropist David Rubenstein at the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas.
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Isn’t Obamacare repeal simply dead and gone? I never thought GOP leaders thought they could pull this off, just wanted to deceive their voters looking like they tried. Even what they actually hoped to achieve has eluded them. It’s this simple: GOP is saying “if we can’t cut taxes for the rich we just don’t give a shit anymore.”
This just in …
Trump-Russia investigators probe Jared Kushner-run digital operation
McClatchydc.com: “Investigators at the House and Senate Intelligence committees and the Justice Department are examining whether the Trump campaign’s digital operation – overseen by Jared Kushner – helped guide Russia’s sophisticated voter targeting and fake news attacks on Hillary Clinton in 2016.”
Russian government officials were reportedly overheard discussing Trump associates months before he declared his candidacy
In light of Donald Trump Jr.’s recent disclosures about his contact with a Russian lawyer, US investigators are taking a renewed look at conversations Russian government officials had about Trump associates before the presidential campaign, according to The Wall Street Journal.
New details emerge on Moscow real estate deal that led to the Trump-Kremlin alliance (Michael Isikoff, Yahoo News)
While in Moscow for the Miss Universe pageant in November 2013, Donald Trump entered into a formal business deal with Aras Agalarov, a Russian oligarch close to Vladimir Putin, to construct a Trump Tower in the Russian capital. He later assigned his son, Donald Trump Jr., to oversee the project, according to Rob Goldstone, the British publicist who arranged the controversial 2016 meeting between the younger Trump and a Kremlin-linked lawyer.
Just sayin…
Kushner is the story, not Jr
Palace of Versailles
By Flatus, a Trail Mix Contributor
So, our president is in France, ostensibly to help M. Macron and the French people celebrate Bastille Day, that noble Day of Triumph when common men and women overthrew an entrenched monarchy.
Little do our European allies know that the Donald’s actual mission is to cheat them out of the Palace of Versailles by claiming he is there as a refugee seeking shelter from the Fake Press that has dogged his existence since assuming his exalted office. “Please, Monsieur le President, grant me use of your humble Palace until I, and my victimized family, get our feet on the ground.”
“Of course, Donald, we have just the place for you! Surprise! We rebuilt it just for you.”
The Bastille
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