Here You Go
I heard this in the car and somehow it was just what I needed, and maybe you need it too: A. Continue reading Here You Go
Month: June 2020
Racism is for the Rich
https://twitter.com/AmandaMarcotte/status/1277565303216537600 The reddest parts of any purple state are its suburbs. Fight me. Suburbs, and exurbs, really. Not that there aren’t racist assholes in cities, she says, two blocks from the city that perfected redlining. But the white-flighters are something else, not just racial hatred but the very specific fear of a black invasion of “their” neighborhood. They’ve had stories handed down to them through two generations now about the beautiful places their grandparents and great-grandparents grew up in, that were “ruined” by “those people.” That those neighborhoods were ruined by deliberate and malicious government policies to devalue the property, … Continue reading Racism is for the Rich
Bountygate Nouveau
There ain’t no cure for the sommelier blues. Continue reading Bountygate Nouveau
Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – TL, DR edition
Well, THAT was fun. There was a dead rat in the electric rat-zapper lest Tuesday, so I went out into the alley to dump him where a hawk could find him and have some breakfast. Crossing the concrete-paved alley I stepped (barefoot) into a slick spot where the night’s rain runoff was flowing, slipped and fell backwards, landing on the back of my head. In the flowing water runoff. Lump – yes. Concussion – I don’t think so actually, a mild one. Gone in two days Pain – 7 on a 10 scale. Damned lucky I didn’t break anything. I … Continue reading Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – TL, DR edition
‘As Leadership on Virus Fails’
Jesus Christ, we STILL can’t name the problem: Coronavirus Live Updates: U.S. Cases Soar Past 2.5 Million as Leadership on Virus Fails With new cases of the coronavirus suddenly surging across multiple states that had low and manageable caseloads just months ago, confusion and anger is swirling among those who obeyed lockdowns and drastic social measures out of a sense of civic duty to help bring the U.S. outbreak under control. Nationwide, cases have risen 65 percent over the past two weeks. On Friday, the country reported more than 45,000 new infections, its third consecutive day of record new cases, … Continue reading ‘As Leadership on Virus Fails’
Not Everything Sucks
Labor is fighting like labor has always fought: On June 19, a group of workers plans to picket outside an unlikely location: Union Jacks strip club. It’s the only club out of nearly 30 Portland establishments that won’t agree to demands to ensure fair treatment of black dancers. “Who’s gonna cross a strike line of angry-ass strippers?” says Cat Hollis, a dancer who organized the Portland Stripper Strike. The picket line is a signal that the national movement for racial justice has extended to the quintessentially Portland institution of strip clubs. More than 100 dancers have issued the following demands … Continue reading Not Everything Sucks
Saturday Odds & Sods: Darkness On The Edge Of Town
The Saharan dust has arrived in New Orleans. The good news is that it’s a two-edged sword. It fucks up our air quality but hinders tropical development in the Gulf. So it goes.
Bruce Springsteen wrote this week’s theme song in 1978. It was the title track of his fourth studio album. It’s a winner, I tell ya
We have two versions of Darkness On The Edge Of Town for your listening pleasure: the studio original and a 2009 live version.
The rest of this week’s post can be easily found after the break.
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Willow Weep For Me
Frank meets Louis, Nancy, and Etta. Continue reading Willow Weep For Me
Confidence, Not Cockiness
If your opponent is destroying themselves, let them. Continue reading Confidence, Not Cockiness
Friday Catblogging: The Lookout
I have no idea why Paul Drake finds us so fascinating. We’re not. Continue reading Friday Catblogging: The Lookout
Bury Me In Willow
Songs Of Mortality. Continue reading Bury Me In Willow
Nuance Is Dead
Lee bad, Grant good. Continue reading Nuance Is Dead
Losing It
So, perhaps a little soon — it’s only June, there’s still almost five months before Election Day…Trump admittedly is like a movie villain with his feral survival instincts… Biden’s far from perfect, and lord knows the media is feckless and lazy…but recent news and punditry suggests, at long last, enough of the public is ready to can amateur hour. Sure, the lunatic base continues to be both. But you can only go so far with the crazies, particularly when some of them are peeling off (though Bolton’s more asshole than dumbass). It might also be a matter of reality. I … Continue reading Losing It
Pulp Fiction Thursday: Irv Docktor
I liked Irv Docktor’s cover art for Art Tatum’s Discoveries so much that I checked out his book covers. Docktor was particularly known for his work with Robert Heinlein so we begin with a pair of those covers followed by … Continue reading Pulp Fiction Thursday: Irv Docktor
The Scandal Tornado
Another day, another scandal. Continue reading The Scandal Tornado
Album Cover Art Wednesday: Discoveries
Art Tatum was one of the greatest and most influential Jazz pianists of the 20th Century. Players who he influenced include Count Basie, Oscar Peterson, Ray Charles, and McCoy Tyner among others. Discoveries is a compilation released in 1960, four … Continue reading Album Cover Art Wednesday: Discoveries
‘Aggravated Battery’
Of course he’s white, you knew that from the convention of referring to him as something other than a THUG or a TERRORIST: A judge has released the man accused of opening fire and shooting a protester. Police say Steven Baca is the man seen on video opening fire at last Monday’s protest regarding a statue of conquistador Juan De Oñate, sending one man to the hospital. Much of the District Attorney’s case was centered around 10 primary witness videos, one of which shows the moments leading up to Baca firing his gun. While Baca is most known for firing shots, he is … Continue reading ‘Aggravated Battery’
Not Everything Sucks
Did we know this was still a thing? I DID NOT KNOW THIS WAS STILL A THING! Parents: If this thread is taking you back to a simpler time, a time when you knew finishing a book meant free Pizza Hut pizza, BOOK IT! is still around! AND we just launched a new summer program this month. Head on over to https://t.co/rdFvRO2FN3 to sign up! — The BOOK IT! Program (@bookitprogram) June 21, 2020 I am a huge OLD who assumes everything good from my childhood, like making homemade IEDs in the woods out of coke bottles and firecrackers, is … Continue reading Not Everything Sucks
The Joke’s On Them
Adrastos on the Tulsa Trainwreck, Pandemic Denial, & Perry Who. Continue reading The Joke’s On Them
Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – Bolton out of the pack edition
SO.
MUCH.
WINNING!!!!
Ex-adviser John Bolton risks facing charges if he publishes book
DW ^ | 16 June 2020 | DWPosted on 6/16/2020, 5:21:26 AM by Cronos
Donald Trump said his former National Security Adviser John Bolton may face a “criminal problem” if he goes ahead with the publication of his book that is expected to be highly critical of the president.
US President Donald Trump said on Monday that his former national security adviser, John Bolton, could face criminal liability if he doesn’t halt the publication of his new book that is expected to provide an insider account of the Trump administration.
“I will consider every conversation with me as president highly classified. So that would mean that if he wrote a book and if the book gets out he’s broken the law,” Trump said. “That’s called criminal liability. That’s a big thing,” he said.
Bolton, who served as Trump’s national security adviser for about 18 months, is a controversial figure in Washington. He is a Republican policymaker known for his hawkish stance on foreign affairs. Bolton was fired by Trump in September 2019 over simmering differences on a range of foreign policy issues, most notably North Korea and Afghanistan.
‘Addicted to chaos’
In the book, titled “The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir,” Bolton writes that almost every decision by Trump was motivated by domestic politics, and that he committed impeachable offenses even beyond the charges related to Ukraine.
“I am hard-pressed to identify any significant Trump decision during my tenure that wasn’t driven by reelection calculations,” Bolton writes in the book, according to a statement by the publishers, Simon and Schuster.
The book describes Trump as “a President addicted to chaos, who embraced our enemies and spurned our friends, and was deeply suspicious of his own government,” the statement said.
Pre-publication review
Trump has accused Bolton of not completing the clearance process required for a book by former government officials who had access to sensitive information. While Trump admitted he had not read the book, he said the problem of revealing conversations with the president “becomes even worse if he lies about the conversation, which I understand he might have in some cases.”
“We’ll see what happens. They’re in court or they’ll soon be in court,” Trump said.
US Attorney General William Barr also raised concerns over the pre-publication review process, and added that the Trump administration was “trying to get them to go through the process and make the necessary deletions of classified information.”
Bolton’s lawyer Chuck Cooper has contradicted these statements, saying that his client had painstakingly worked with classifications specialists at the White House National Security Council to ensure classified material is not published.
“This is a transparent attempt to use national security as a pretext to censor Mr. Bolton, in violation of his constitutional right to speak on matters of the utmost public importance,”according to Cooper. “This attempt will not succeed, and Mr. Bolton’s book will be published June 23.”
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Bolton should stop this publishing action now. What is he trying to do??And look at Bolton’s lawyer pulling out nonsense from his hat
HEY ROCKY!!!
RINO ALERT!!!
To: Cronos
The Darnold ruined himself, a long time ago.
To: Cronos
The book describes Trump as “a President addicted to chaos, who embraced our enemies and spurned our friends, and was deeply suspicious of his own government,” the statement said.
Boltons’ book is a lying hit piece straight out. Bolton is a piece of shit who deserves a curb-stomping.
CURB-STOMPING ALERT!!
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Also, you can just say “shit” on Free Republic now?
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Cool.
To: Leaning Right
“John Bolton risks facing charges”
You mean like Strok and Paige or Comey or Brennan or Clapper or Schift or Rosenstien or McCabe? You mean that kind of risk? You mean because he stole pages of notes from meetings he attended with Trump and others and used them to write his book. Risks my ass, nothing will happen to him.
14 posted on 6/16/2020, 7:18:40 AM by abbastanza
To: Cronos
There was a time when
I likedevery Freeper worshiped John Bolton.
FIFY.
It’s discouraging how many public figures I believed in, only to find out that they were actually a globalist, a Leftist, and/or part of the Deep State.
20 posted on 6/16/2020, 4:29:54 PM by KittyKares (Drain the Swamp)
Well, since nothing (including his disastrous cabinet picks) can ever be The Darnold’s fault, whose fault IS it??
To: McGruff
Wait for it…
To: Armscor38
Wait for it…
To: McGruff
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Much much more, including The Revenge Of The Supremes!
Continue reading “Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – Bolton out of the pack edition”
Not Everything Sucks
Born in 1920, she’s still dancing: Rogers was twisting for her loved ones and neighbors who came out to celebrate her birthday Thursday. Born June 18, 1920 in Biloxi, Mississippi, Rogers has called her ranch house on the 6800 block of South Champlain Avenue home since the 1970s. A surprise parade and block party at the house was organized by members of Rogers’ Washington Park church, the Greater Bethesda Missionary Baptist Church, and the Andrew Holmes Foundation, whose “Club 100” throws grand celebrations for Chicagoans’ 99th and 100th birthdays. Dozens of attendees made the celebration “out of this world,” said Preston Allen, … Continue reading Not Everything Sucks
To Rally
We were planning on being in the parade until my husband dropped a whole ass IKEA shelf that weighed about 20 pounds and had a sharp metal edge directly onto his own head somehow. Two hours and seven staples and diagnosis of a mild concussion later, we decided he should not inflict his really gnarly head wound on a COVID-paranoid public. So, to still participate somehow in the local Juneteenth parade my neighborhood decided at the spur of the moment to throw, Kick and I got busy making signs and recruiting friends to come watch from the sidelines, masked and … Continue reading To Rally
Saturday Odds & Sods: Kid Charlemagne
It’s rally day in Tulsa for the Impeached Insult Comedian and his delusional supporters. After months of believing in the pandemic, he’s changed his mind, but his lawyers are still making attendees sign a disease waiver. That’s a wise idea because they’re cramming people in that arena like MAGA sardines. What could possibly go wrong?The term clusterfuck was created for moments like this. O is for Oklahoma and Oy, just oy.
This week’s theme song was written by Walter Becker and Donald Fagen for Steely Dan’s 1976 album Royal Scam. The studio original features a brilliant guitar solo by jazz man Larry Carlton.
We have two versions of Kid Charlemagne for your listening pleasure: the Royal Scam original and a live version by the Dukes of September a combo that Fagen formed with Boz Scaggs and ex-Danman Michael McDonald.
Now that we’ve gotten (gone?) along with Kid Charlemagne, let’s move along to the break.
Why Was I Born?
Ella meets Billie, Lena, Jimmy Smith, Kenny Burrell & John Coltrane, and Iggy Pop. Continue reading Why Was I Born?
Not Taking Sides Is Taking Sides
Of Juneteenth, masks, movies and Veep picks. Continue reading Not Taking Sides Is Taking Sides
Friday Throwback Catblogging: Basket Days
In Memoriam: Della Street, Continue reading Friday Throwback Catblogging: Basket Days
John Bolton Can Go Fuck Himself
Adrastos on the Mustache of War’s tell-all tome. Continue reading John Bolton Can Go Fuck Himself
Bayou Brief: American Roulette
My latest column for the Bayou Brief is online. The tagline is succinct and snappy: “The 13th Ward Rambler spins Fortuna’s Wheel, landing on Ignatius Reilly, Phase Two in NOLA, Slave Owner Statues, and the Nykvolution.” The Nykvolution refers to … Continue reading Bayou Brief: American Roulette
But Then Reality Screwed Up All His Plans…
So, in a grim reprise of the old line The Show Must Go On, DJT, at least for the moment, still insists on at least one episode of his perverse victory-lap-from-hell/dance-with-death…because, among other things, it’s all he really knows how to do. It’s not like his response to the actual crises reality delivered to his front door has been any different. Trump, in real time, has reacted with demented, free-association rantings, alternately insisting his haphazard, stumblebum performance is perfect, while whining about the unfairness of it all…to himself. I think once, maybe twice, he expressed some measure of sympathy before … Continue reading But Then Reality Screwed Up All His Plans…
Pulp Fiction Thursday: Murder By Contract
I’m a big fan of TCM’s Noir Alley with Eddie Muller. When Eddie speaks, I listen. Last week’s edition featured a tight little movie, Murder By Contract. The script was written in 1958 by blacklisted screenwriter Ben Maddow. I wonder … Continue reading Pulp Fiction Thursday: Murder By Contract