Bob Mould is back on the road in support of a new album, Beauty and Ruin. He gave a swell interview to Salon wherein he described playing at the Minnesota State Fair. I guess he’s now playing rock on a stick. Here’s the very amusing video for the first single from the album: Continue reading Tuesday Night Music: I Don’t Know You Anymore
I haven’t written much about the Gret Stet Senate race because it’s a rather depressing topic. Mary Landrieu, instead of subtly tacking to the right as is her usual pattern, has gone full blown blue dog on a wide variety of issues. We’ll see if it works, but my nose is sorer than usual from wearing a clothespin when I contemplate the race. The good news is that the other guy is much worse. He’s also a dumbass with limited knowledge of the history of the institution he wants to serve in: Rep. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) said Senate Majority Leader Harry … Continue reading Dr. Empty Suit Speaks
Is that any entrenched power structure, of any kind, is only ever interested in protecting itself. See also Church, The Catholic and State, Penn. A. Continue reading All You Need to Know About The World
It’s not that Republicans are all batshit crazy, of course: ●Would the inauguration of a new Democratic president change the behavior of recalcitrant hard-liners among the House Republicans, who have sought to block almost every major initiative from President Obama and whose tactics led to last year’s government shutdown? ●Would a Republican president be beholden to those hard-liners, or would he or she seize control of the conservative agenda to chart a different governing path? ●But above all, will the next president, whether Democrat or Republican, cultivate the kind of productive relationships with opposition-party leaders and others in Congress that … Continue reading Obama is a Failure at Relationships
Richard Nixon resigned the Presidency in disgrace on this date in 1974. His farewell speech to his cabinet and staff is the strangest Presidential speech in American history. I've watched it dozens of times over the years and it still creeps me out and *almost* makes me feel sorry for him. Almost. Continue reading The Fog Of History: 40 years ago today
I didn’t recap Season-4 of Boardwalk Empire, in part, because the first episode didn’t float my boat. But I was also in mourning for one of my all-time favorite characters, Gyp Rosetti. I was wrong about last season, it was extraordinary, with the introduction of a great villain in Dr. Narcisse and the dramatic departure of the world’s most lovable hit man, Richard Harrow. R.I.P. sweet homicidal prince:
That was a long way of saying that I’m recapping Season-5. The premiere episode, Golden Days for Girls and Boys, was a great set up for the final season. They’ve advanced the action to 1931, which was a momentous year for two of the real life characters, Charlie Lucky Luciano and Al Capone. It’s also the year that Nucky starts planning for the return of legal booze by corrupting a Senator and cutting a deal in Havana with the Bacardi people. Party on, Nuckster. Nucky is ready to go full circle and become legit again. I have the feeling that some of his old partners aren’t going to be very co-operative. He’ll probably have a Pacino in Godfather Three moment.
Continue reading “Boardwalk Empire Thread: Ever talk on the telephone?”
Why a second police shooting didn’t make waves in St. Louis: “Friends and I have batted this around,” replied Bill McClellan, the St. Louis Post-Dispatchcolumnist, when I e-mailed him asking why the Powell shooting had so little impact. “The city police chief, Sam Dotson, was pro-active. He was right there explaining things. Of course, it seems he overstated the police case. I did not think the video backed up his contention that the officers were in danger. “Sometimes it seems the media and the public have an attention deficit disorder problem. We can only concentrate on one thing at a time. … Continue reading Short Attention Span Journalism Theater
Morning, good people – no rest for the easily nauseated, so let’s turn the blowers way up and crack open some stinking storage drums of Freepitude!
First up – ISIS what you did there!
Imminent Terrorist Attack Warning By Feds on U.S. Border
Judicial Watch ^ | Friday, August 29, 2014Posted on 8/29/2014 1:09:07 PM by kristinn
Islamic terrorist groups are operating in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez and planning to attack the United States with car bombs or other vehicle born improvised explosive devices (VBIED). High-level federal law enforcement, intelligence and other sources have confirmed to Judicial Watch that a warning bulletin for an imminent terrorist attack on the border has been issued. Agents across a number of Homeland Security, Justice and Defense agencies have all been placed on alert and instructed to aggressively work all possible leads and sources concerning this imminent terrorist threat.
Specifically, Judicial Watch sources reveal that the militant group Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) is confirmed to now be operating in Juarez, a famously crime-infested narcotics hotbed situated across from El Paso, Texas. Violent crimes are so rampant in Juarez that the U.S. State Department has issued a number of travel warnings for anyone planning to go there. The last one was issued just a few days ago.
If ISIS is gonna fight the drug cartels for possession of Juarez, it would be the pay-per-view event of the season!
Intelligence officials have picked up radio talk and chatter indicating that the terrorist groups are going to “carry out an attack on the border,” according to one JW source. “It’s coming very soon,” according to this high-level source, who clearly identified the groups planning the plots as “ISIS and Al Qaeda.” An attack is so imminent that the commanding general at Ft. Bliss, the U.S. Army post in El Paso, is being briefed, another source confirms. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) did not respond to multiple inquiries from Judicial Watch, both telephonic and in writing, about this information.
I can’t imagine why….
The administration has also covered up, or at the very least downplayed, a serious epidemic of crime along the Mexican border even as heavily armed drug cartels have taken over portions of the region. Judicial Watch has reported that the U.S. Border Patrol actually ordered officers to avoid the most crime-infested stretches because they’re “too dangerous” and patrolling them could result in an “international incident” of cross border shooting. In the meantime, who could forget the famous words of Obama’s first Homeland Security Secretary, Janet Napolitano; the southern border is “as secure as it has ever been.”
These new revelations are bound to impact the current debate about the border crisis and immigration policy.
BTW – this ‘kristinn’ poster is the one that’s been trumpeting “militia action orders’ made up out of gossamer and moonbeams. Even the Freeperati are leery of her blathering by now. But we’ve replaced their Immigration coffee with new Folger’s Jihad crystals! Let’s see what happens!
To: kristinn
Finally a glimpse of the forest in spite of the trees … Thanks Kristinn!
3 posted on 8/29/2014 1:10:49 PM by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
To: mojitoI’m sure the Mexican authorities are offering their full support and cooperation. /s
To the Drug Cartels and ISIS.
To: maggief
Good fn grief. We are in gigantic trouble. 9/11 is just around the corner.
55 posted on 8/29/2014 1:37:02 PM by ColdOne (I miss my poochie… Tasha 2000~3/14/11)
You stains-for-brains have been hooting and hollering about the imminent comeback of Al-Queda and their anniversary attack every fucking 9/11 since 9/11. Hasn’t it penetrated your collective brain that Bin Laden is worm food, and his acolytes are too busy fighting each other over who’s in charge to attack anything that’s not right in front of them?
So – Jim Rob – do you have any orders for your Hoveround Brigade?
To: Jim RobinsonGeneral, am recommending each of us hold our Bibles and Firearms at the ready but wait.
68 posted on 8/29/2014 1:50:21 PM by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
To: kristinnBullshiite. Not saying the border should(sic) be secured, but this report is BS. They don’t need Mexico as an assembly area, and an unpredictable environment. They have Michigan, San Diego, Northern Virginia………and everywhere else.8 million Muslims in the US. What percentage are a threat if only 1% have a literal hermeneutic of the Qu’ran? I hate math, but isn’t that 8,000? Enough to paralyze the country. And we can safely assume its far higher than 1%. After all, it’s literal, and we are talking about eternal salvation.Watch our way of living change over night when a VBIED goes off at the College Game of the Week, or name your other venue.
I haven't chimed in on the "plagiarism" charges against Rick Perlstein's new book, The Invisible Bridge because my copy hasn't arrived yet. Hurry up, UPS. The reason I put the P word in quotes is that the charges by conservative historian/activist Craig Shirley are absurd: he's thanked in the book and cited in the footnotes. But horrors: they're on the interweb instead of making a very long hardback even thicker. Digby wrote a fine post about the virtues of this so I won't go into it here. The charge that bugs me the most about this book and Nixonland is … Continue reading A Brief Defense of Rick Perlstein
The idiocy in Mississippi continues with McDaniel supporters insisting that he, and they, are not racists. Their defense is a classic: some of my best friends are "them people." McDaniel's hometown paper is insisting that he cannot be a racist because he played basketball: It’s been frustrating to see so many people in the black community be convinced that Chris McDaniel was a racist just because someone they trusted told them he was. If they did a little research on their own, they would find out that McDaniel was a basketball standout at South Jones and Jones County Junior College. … Continue reading Variation on a classic theme
As you've probably already heard, my former Mayor C Ray Nagin aka the Walking Id aka the Shiny Headed fool was sentenced to 10 years in the slammer. He's required to serve 85% of the sentence, which is long time to be in the pokey. The Tweeter Tube is ablaze with criticism and icky jailhouse rape jokes. I thought he'd get 15 to 18 years but it's hard to argue with Nagin's passive role in the bribery scandal. Also, as I put it on da twittah: On reflection, not surprised by sentence. Berrigan a liberal judge, former ACLU honcho or … Continue reading Instant Analysis: C Ray’s Sentence
Roxy Music's early album covers had a formula: a gorgeous model reclining languidly. The apogee of this somewhat cheesy formula was 1975's Siren featuring a young Jerry Hall before she became the future ex-Mrs. Jagger. The album itself is, quite simply, smashing. It's the best thing Roxy or front man Bryan Ferry ever did and that's saying a lot. End Of The Line, Both Ends Burning, and Just Another High are some of the best written and performed rock songs of all time and they sound as fresh today as when the album came out. Here's the cover for the … Continue reading Album Cover Art Wednesday: Siren
Print is dead, first edition: That’s 1978. But hey, don’t let that get in the way of your dire predictions: Maybe 25 year olds will start demanding news from yesterday, delivered in an unshareable format once a day. Sigh. Kids today, who hate newspapers so much [pdf link]. Yet another piece that conflates “less money than we had before” with “not enough money for print journalism.” This is pretty par for the course, and at least touches on the fact that the death of your local main street has some impact (ya think?) on your local newspaper: CVS and Best … Continue reading The World is Ever Ending: Journalism in Decline
I hadn’t seen this 30 for 30 film until this week. It’s *really* good. All I knew about my countryman, Dimetrios Georgios Synodinos aka Jimmy the Greek Snyder, was his CBS sports gig, and how he lost it by saying something racist back in the days before Rushbo would turn you into a martyr for being a bigoted fuckstick. To his credit, Jimmy the Greek was devastated by what happened. Also, to his credit: he punched out Brent Musburger in a bar. Anyway, there’s much more to his story, it’s a good ‘un: Continue reading SMV: The Legend Of Jimmy The Greek
Morning, all! Let's get going – lots of mouldy oldies to rip through.
I haven't posted anything on what the Freeperati thought about Elliot Rogers and his Santa Barbara shooting spree. Lets start with the umpty-millionth false flag operation !
A Question for the Lawyers on FB about Elliot Rodgers
SelfPosted on 5/25/2014 1:43:31 PM by 7thOF7th
Can anybody intelligently answer this questions about how a British national who has a history with psychological issues and has received counseling, can legally obtain three semiautomatic pistols in this state or country?
Um – because of the efforts of you, and people like you?
To: 7thOF7thIf people with the capability to make that happen wanted him to.
2 posted on 5/25/2014 1:47:07 PM by PieterCasparzen (We have to fix things ourselves)
To: 7thOF7thSee: The Second Amendment to the US Constitution NRA.
5 posted on 5/25/2014 1:50:12 PM by Oliviaforever
To: OliviaforeverSee: The Second Amendment to the US Constitution
Felons aren’t allowed to own guns.
Mentally ill people need restrictions too.
To: 7thOF7thAm I the only one here that has his gaydar going off the map on this kid?
To: 7thOF7thBottom line: If someone wants to kill, he or she will find the means to do so. There are rocks, bats, andirons, kitchen knives, razor blades, hammers, and the list goes on and on.
No, the answer lies with the attacker, his family, total absence of religious upbringing, and a society that fosters narcissistic lazy, spoiled kids with overinflated egos who are showered by their parents with material trappings and nothing to do but play video games that fuel their egos until they literally get bored to death.20 posted on 5/25/2014 2:31:14 PM by iontheball
To: 7thOF7thThis was a false flag op to gin up political support for gun confiscation and gun registration.
Elliot was a sleeper assassin.
8 posted on 5/25/2014 1:54:54 PM by PieterCasparzen (We have to fix things ourselves)
To: PieterCasparzenDude, this is FreeRepublic. Take your nutty BS over to the ‘Truther’ forums.
I’m sick of ‘false flaggots’.
36 posted on 5/25/2014 5:20:10 PM by LittleBillyInfidel (This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
Continue reading “Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – Odds and Sods edition”
Kinks week has been a blast. I’m gonna be a bit lazy at this point and do what the title says and just post a few favorites.
I used to sleepwalk when I was a tadpole. I seemed to have outgrown it at some point but I’ll never outgrow the fabulous rocker that is Sleepwalker:
Yeah, I know they were lip syncing-n-miming but dig that psychedelic Mike Douglas show set. Crazy, Daddy-O.
I’m still in a roots rock mood, so here’s a rootsy, rocky tune from Jason Isbell: Continue reading Friday Night Music: Flying Over Water
I’m still in a roots rock mood, so here’s a rootsy, rocky tune from Jason Isbell: Continue reading Friday Night Music: Flying Over Water
I’m still in a roots rock mood, so here’s a rootsy, rocky tune from Jason Isbell: Continue reading Friday Night Music: Flying Over Water
I’m still in a roots rock mood, so here’s a rootsy, rocky tune from Jason Isbell: Continue reading Friday Night Music: Flying Over Water
I’m still in a roots rock mood, so here’s a rootsy, rocky tune from Jason Isbell: Continue reading Friday Night Music: Flying Over Water
“No matter how old you are, you’re always your mom’s kid.” Every year, a student will walk into my office and talk to me about something family-related and how things aren’t going well or whatever. They then some how come down to “And my mom said…” and then they pause and look away a little bit. The look always seems to say, “I’m a college student and I’m still dealing with my mom and what she thinks or says or feels… Could I be any more of a tool?” I always respond with the line above. I always mean it. … Continue reading Thanks, Mom
Sorry for Adrastos and the fact his state got the bad rap this week on the DOMA front. Looks like Wisconsin might be turning the corner on “acting right” when it comes to marriage equality. Apparently, the “better fed than dead” crowd is somehow ahead of the “show us your tits” groupings when it comes to marriages. Go figure. The bigger news, both literally and figuratively, that the state of Wisconsin should pay attention to is today’s report that almost 30 percent of the citizens here are obese. This is a far greater risk, a more wide-spread (pun unintended) problem … Continue reading Sex, pudge and rocky roads ahead
All roads lead to Muswell Hillbillies when it comes to my Kinks fandom. After writing an epic post that took Days, I decided to “cut out the struggle and strife, it only complicates your life” and do a Kinks week post with only one cover. Preservation Hall’s take on Complicated Life was all the rage in NOLA when it was released in 2007. I like it but definitely prefer the original. It’s hard to top Ray’s vocal and Dave’s slide guitar. Without further adieu, ladies and germs, the Kinks: Here’s the cover featuring Clint Maedgen biking-n-singing his way through the … Continue reading Kinks Week: Complicated Life
Oh HAI Bucky: A. Continue reading Friday Ferretblogging
For serious, why? “Help fight liberals by donating today.” Fight liberals how? And for what? I don’t get what we’re fighting about, and I pay pretty damn good attention to the Republican crazy on the Internets. How are people beyond the 27 percent supposed to connect with this? I can’t bring myself to get upset about Republican hypocrisy anymore (and for serious, this isn’t even this week‘s most egregious example), but their shitty strategy annoys me. I like my enemies more competent than this. A. Continue reading ‘Help Fight Liberals’
For serious, why? “Help fight liberals by donating today.” Fight liberals how? And for what? I don’t get what we’re fighting about, and I pay pretty damn good attention to the Republican crazy on the Internets. How are people beyond the 27 percent supposed to connect with this? I can’t bring myself to get upset about Republican hypocrisy anymore (and for serious, this isn’t even this week‘s most egregious example), but their shitty strategy annoys me. I like my enemies more competent than this. A. Continue reading ‘Help Fight Liberals’
For serious, why? “Help fight liberals by donating today.” Fight liberals how? And for what? I don’t get what we’re fighting about, and I pay pretty damn good attention to the Republican crazy on the Internets. How are people beyond the 27 percent supposed to connect with this? I can’t bring myself to get upset about Republican hypocrisy anymore (and for serious, this isn’t even this week‘s most egregious example), but their shitty strategy annoys me. I like my enemies more competent than this. A. Continue reading ‘Help Fight Liberals’
For serious, why? “Help fight liberals by donating today.” Fight liberals how? And for what? I don’t get what we’re fighting about, and I pay pretty damn good attention to the Republican crazy on the Internets. How are people beyond the 27 percent supposed to connect with this? I can’t bring myself to get upset about Republican hypocrisy anymore (and for serious, this isn’t even this week‘s most egregious example), but their shitty strategy annoys me. I like my enemies more competent than this. A. Continue reading ‘Help Fight Liberals’
The post title is self explanatory. Here’s a picture of Della Street in a basket. As far as she’s concerned, it’s a woven box made specially for her: Continue reading Friday Catblogging: Della In A Basket