Malaka Of The Week: Susan Collins
Runaround Sue endorses the Human Bowling Jacket. Continue reading Malaka Of The Week: Susan Collins
Category: Teabaggery
Life In TFC: The Summer Of Our Discontent
Mugged by reality in This Fucking City. Continue reading Life In TFC: The Summer Of Our Discontent
Yogi Terror?
Alan Hostetter is dumber than the average bear. Continue reading Yogi Terror?
The Bamboo Bamboozle
The crazy, it burns. Continue reading The Bamboo Bamboozle
The Dingbat Right
Take a tour of Dingbat Right Nation with your guide, Adrastos. Continue reading The Dingbat Right
Malaka Of The Week: Amanda Chase
Meet The Midlothian Malaka. Continue reading Malaka Of The Week: Amanda Chase
Gaetzgate: Blankety Blank
Pardon me boy, is that the Panhandle Pinhead? Continue reading Gaetzgate: Blankety Blank
Quote Of The Day: Boehner On Birtherism
The return of the artist formerly known as Speaker Boner. Continue reading Quote Of The Day: Boehner On Birtherism
The Curious Case Of The Tea Party Royalists
Tally ho, eh wot? Continue reading The Curious Case Of The Tea Party Royalists
CPAC 2021: Of Golden Statues & Odal Runes
CPAC’s weird worship of one dude. Continue reading CPAC 2021: Of Golden Statues & Odal Runes
The Greene Party
Untrustable in Congress: K-Mac blows it again. Continue reading The Greene Party
Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – “End of the beginning” edition
All right, good people – as promised yesterday, the wrap-up of the GOP’s Very Bad Week.
Let’s start with “Thank god and Greyhound he’s gone”!
President Trump Leaves the White House (Live Thread)
Fox Business | January 20, 2021 | Fox BusinessPosted on 1/20/2021, 7:10:30 AM by CedarDave
Fox Business and Fox News covering the President’s leaving the White House and he will remarks to the nation as he leaves and at Joint Base Andrews. Place comments and links here.
I think this one sums it up nicely :
To: CedarDaveTears…..
3 posted on 1/20/2021, 7:14:05 AM by DAVEY CROCKETT (Ec 1:2 The rest is, Vanity of vanities..vanity of vanities!All is vanity.)
Oh – and courtesy of Borowitz :
Trump Issues Alternate Inaugural Poem
Roses are red
Violets are blue
I won the election by a landslide
And everybody knows it
There were a lot of horrible things going on
That should never be allowed to happen
In our country
I’ve been treated
Very unfairly.
To: CedarDave
…when newsmax isn’t right-wing crazy enough for you…
To: CedarDave
Noticed that, did you?
To: Lurker
To: Lurker
To: CedarDaveAgony.
84 posted on 1/20/2021, 7:41:31 AM by jazminerose (NOW they like fences and guns)
To: DAVEY CROCKETT
Against my better judgement I started watching and now I’m stopping.
Why is he giving a stump speech? Should have just saluted and boarded the plane. Sorry.
90 posted on 1/20/2021, 7:42:54 AM by americas.best.days… ( Donald John Trump has pulled the sword from the stone.)
To: jazminerose
I’m blubbering
95 posted on 1/20/2021, 7:44:42 AM by EnquiringMind
To: EnquiringMind
I stopped crying weeks ago.
No it’s just some kind of weird, random sobbing gasp frequently.
Some things hurt TOO bad to merely cry.
109 posted on 1/20/2021, 7:47:14 AM by Salamander (We’re All Hamlet, Now….)
Good.
To: pnz1
I am crying.
123 posted on 1/20/2021, 7:50:03 AM by HypatiaTaught (president PingPong of the divided states of america)
Go for it.
To: mulligan
FIFY.
To: Peter W. Kessler
“We enter the dark days today.”
Yes we do. Our Republic – gone – our GREAT President – gone from office and I hope not gone to prison….that is what they want. Dark indeed. Mourning our once great nation!
155 posted on 1/20/2021, 7:58:55 AM by Freedom’sWorthIt
To: jersey117
To: CedarDave
I am so mad and sad at the same time. This should not be happening. Furthermore they are counting votes STILL in Arizona for one. This is just sickening.
And I’m tired of hearing about Jan 6th as if there was something more there than what was. The hyperbole is despicable. And the turncoats in Congress. I hope we do have a patriot party that I think we should call the Constitution party.
Sick of it.
Oh – glad you brought that up!
The wonderful idea to tear the GOP into two smaller parts after the break…
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The Disloyal Opposition
Republicans In Disarray. Continue reading The Disloyal Opposition
Cuckoo Cocoon
Cuckoo cocoon have I come to, too soon for you? Continue reading Cuckoo Cocoon
Of Red Dawns, Unreliable Narrators & Putrid Protests
” It’s unreal, the suffering There’s gonna be a showdown.” Continue reading Of Red Dawns, Unreliable Narrators & Putrid Protests
The Decayed Decade
Adrastos eschews Listomania in favor of a look at the big picture. Continue reading The Decayed Decade
Wicked & Cruel
How Can Anyone Be So Wicked & Cruel? Continue reading Wicked & Cruel
Tweet Of The Day: Grim Reaper Edition
Tea Party tycoon David Koch is dead. I was raised not to speak ill of the dead so I’ll let lawyer and pundit Elie Mystal do it for me: BREAKING: David Koch pays estate tax. https://t.co/vWi0rQPXJH — Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) August 23, 2019 The last word goes to Blue Oyster Cult: Continue reading Tweet Of The Day: Grim Reaper Edition
Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – The Oddfather edition
First up – take the MAGA – leave the cannolli !
Alleged mob boss killer Anthony Comello scrawls ‘MAGA Forever’ on his hand
NJ.com Advanced Media ^ | March 18, 2019Posted on 3/18/2019, 4:10:03 PM by SMGFan
Anthony Comello, the 24-year-old arrested in New Jersey Saturday for allegedly gunning down a mob boss in Staten Island last week, will return to New York to face the murder charge against him. Comello waived his extradition rights Monday during a hearing in Ocean County Superior Court before Judge Wendel Daniels. He is expected to appear in court in Staten Island next Monday, March 25.
“He willingly, knowingly and voluntarily returns to New York to face these charges,” Brian Neary, a New Jersey attorney representing Comello Monday, told reporters after the hearing. He described Comello, who said only “yes, sir” during the hearing, as “resolute.”
In the courtroom, Comello held his open handcuffed palm up to reporters, showing a symbol and several words scrawled in pen. “MAGA forever” and “united we stand” were some of the phrases he had printed, while others were not entirely legible.
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he will not die of old age.
To: SMGFanI imagine that most ‘mob’ guys are in a sense pro America.
The five stages of Freep :
Denial :
To: SMGFan
Anger :
To: SMGFanBy 2020, Trump will have been blamed for every single thing wrong in this world.I mean every single item… everything.
Bargaining :
To: Revel
This just in!
Police also found bleach and a rope at the crime scene.
Jussie Smollett was not available for comment.
3 posted on 3/18/2019, 4:14:43 PM by Responsibility2nd
Depression :
To: All
My inner WFB is saying, “well then, I suppose we should surrender to communism here and now, rather than taking even a chance on being associated, in any minor way, with this act of lawlessness by a young man barely out of his teens that we never met. I would say pack up western civilization, put it in storage, until perhaps these matters can be resolved to the satisfaction of everyone concerned.”
20 posted on 3/18/2019, 5:13:28 PM by Peter ODonnell (Take the next train to Marxville and I’ll meet you at the camp)
Acceptance :
To: SMGFan
Not surprising, I remember that someone in the Gambino Family stated that the Clintons are trash. On my former twitter account, I followed Angel Ghotti, who is John Ghotti’s daughter. She is very Pro-USA, Pro-Trump and strongly Prolife. Wow she is out there defending Trump against those who are against him, and she nails those who support murder of the unborn. She has a son who is serving in the military.
I guess some Mafia members are very patriotic. =)
23 posted on 3/18/2019, 6:13:49 PM by Patriot Babe
And, of course, the post of the thread!
Ba Dum Tss.
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More below the fold :
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Mississippi Goddam
Adrastos on the Espy vs. Hyde-Smith runoff. Continue reading Mississippi Goddam
Tweet Of The Day: Nancy Smash Challenge Edition
It’s no secret that we’re Nancy Pelosi fans here at First Draft. The first female speaker was also one of the most effective. It’s why she was targeted by Republicans in the 2010 teabagger wave election and in every subsequent campaign. It’s best when your boogieman (boogiewoman in this instance) can really boogie. Pelosi just led Democrats to their biggest gains in the House since the post-Watergate wave election way back in 1974. Instead of meeting with acclaim, she’s facing a challenge led by the #FiveWhiteGuys with support from the cats and kittens at Politico. Since none of them has … Continue reading Tweet Of The Day: Nancy Smash Challenge Edition
Saturday Odds & Sods: To Keep My Love Alive
The weird weather continues apace in New Orleans. Our fall tease lasted three whole days, followed by a warm-up and a mini-monsoon last Monday, Moday. No wonder John Phillips found that day untrustworthy. Dr. A drove us home from a krewe meeting during the deluge and engaged in some nifty puddle avoidance. It’s not supposed to rain that much or that hard in October. Climate change? What climate change?
This week’s theme song was written by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart in 1943 for a revival of their 1927 musical, A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur’s Court. To Keep My Love Alive is best described as a chipper murder ballad. Hart’s lyrics detail the manifold ways in which the protagonist bumped off her 15 husbands in order not to cheat on them. It was the last song Larry Hart wrote before his death later that year at the age of 48.
We have two versions for your listening pleasure: Ella Fitzgerald from the Rodgers and Hart Songbook and the preternaturally perky Blossom Dearie.
My favorite stanza is the final one:
Sir Atherton indulged in fratricide,He killed his dad and that was patricideOne night I stabbed him by my mattress-sideTo keep my love alive.
Larry Hart’s love of puns and word play is one reason why I prefer him to Rodgers’ other writing partner. Hammerstein could never have written those lyrics. I do, however, love his first name: Oscar.
Now that we’ve compared and contrasted Hart and Hammerstein, it’s time to jump to the break. Be careful which mattress-side you land on.
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The Insult Comedian’s Florida Man
The president* held one of his incoherent rallies yesterday in Tampa, Florida. He said one of the stupidest things he’s ever said and that’s saying a lot: Trump claimed Democrats were attempting to give undocumented immigrants the right to vote. “Which … Continue reading The Insult Comedian’s Florida Man
The Strzok Hearing: Shitshow Or Kangaroo Court?
The post title is a rhetorical question: that fakakta hearing was both. It was inevitable in the Trump era that a joint hearing of two Congressional committees would be a shitshow. I only watched a few hours of the Strzok … Continue reading The Strzok Hearing: Shitshow Or Kangaroo Court?
Quote Of The Day: Alternate Reality Edition
The truth is NOT Jim Jordan’s middle name. Continue reading Quote Of The Day: Alternate Reality Edition
Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with Compression – “Everything louder then everything else” edition
Well, folks – slim pickings for humour over at Freeperville this week. They’re celebrating too hard over 16-year olds being forced to carry to term.
So – an observation piece, and a blast from the past that I never got around to mentioning below the fold.
On “Producers”
In my studio days, we had a lot of bands come in to do demos, and occasionally, albums.
A lot of these bands had no producer, which meant that the engineer (me) had to help them through the sessions.
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Now a real producer’s job is to tell the band what songs to record, and which ones to ditch – and to ride herd over the recording of the keepers. As an engineer, my job was just to point out the obvious flubs and missed notes, and punch them in to fix them.
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However, some bands did have an actual producer, and some of them were – um – more enthusiastic than knowledgeable.
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Case in point – the “producer” who came in and decided that his boys were going to record EVERYTHING without any compression at all. None. “I don’t want any of that shit on our music – I want it RAW!”
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His rationale? “They’re going to compress the hell out of it when it’s played on the radio.”
So – no compression. For anything. Gotcha. So – everything with any dynamic range at all was either going to be alternately pegging the meters, and more or less inaudible.
(Keep in mind that this was a 1″ 16-track studio – all analog)
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He stopped me during playback of the rhythm tracks to complain about the drum sound : “Where is the ride cymbal? I can’t hear it!”
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“Well, sir – the crash is just a lot louder, and with no compression on the overheads, the ride’s going to get wiped out every time the drummer hits the crash.”
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He spent the rest of the sessions complaining about the drowning out of everything by everything else.
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Mama Mia.
The Latest Etiquette Food Fight
You’ve surely all heard about the latest Trump administration controversy. There was a leak of a bad “joke” by a communications staffer, Kelly Sadler, who said that what John McCain thought about the Haspel nomination was irrelevant because “he’s dying anyway.” The national knickers immediately went into a twist because of this latest example of bad manners by Team Trump. Hence the post title. Here’s the real question about the latest etiquette food fight: why is anyone surprised and why should anyone expect an apology from an administration headed by the vulgarian-in-chief? There’s a reason I call the president* the … Continue reading The Latest Etiquette Food Fight
Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – random vandals edition
Hi, all – a bunch of bits and pieces this week. Let’s get right into it with – Bimb? Oh No?
Ex-Playboy Model Karen McDougal Sues to Break Silence on Trump
New York Times ^ | 03/20/2018 | By JIM RUTENBERGPosted on 3/20/2018, 2:08:04 PM by SeekAndFind
A former Playboy model who claimed she had an affair with Donald J. Trump sued on Tuesday to be released from a 2016 legal agreement requiring her silence, becoming the second woman this month to challenge Trump allies’ efforts during the presidential campaign to bury stories about extramarital relationships.
The model, Karen McDougal, is suing the company that owns The National Enquirer, American Media Inc., which paid her $150,000 and whose chief executive is a friend of President Trump’s. The other woman, the adult entertainment star Stephanie Clifford, better known as Stormy Daniels, was paid $130,000 to stay quiet by the president’s personal lawyer, Michael D. Cohen. She filed suit earlier this month.
Both women, who argue that their contracts are invalid, are trying to get around clauses requiring them to resolve disputes in secretive arbitration proceedings rather than in open court. Mr. Trump has denied the affairs.
Ms. McDougal, in a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, claims that Mr. Cohen was secretly involved in her talks with A.M.I., and that the media company and her lawyer at the time misled her about the deal. She also asserts that after she spoke with The New Yorker last month after it obtained notes she kept on Mr. Trump, A.M.I. warned that “any further disclosures would breach Karen’s contract” and “cause considerable monetary damages.”
In an email to The New York Times, her new lawyer, Peter K. Stris, accused A.M.I. of “a multifaceted effort to silence Karen McDougal.”
To: DIRTYSECRET
What is the whole point, was there a rape or sexual assault committed, if not who cares.
11 posted on 3/20/2018, 2:12:48 PM by the_individual2014
To: SeekAndFind
To: SeekAndFind
Not guilty!
20 posted on 3/20/2018, 2:15:26 PM by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: albie
Ah, the Freeperati – always ready to forgive and forget.
Well, ALMOST always…
Let the Bimbo Eruptions Commence! Is Bill Clinton back in predatory mode? NY POST ^ | 10/13/06 | Richard Johnson Posted on 10/13/2006, 8:48:49 AM by MAD-AS-HELL
Hillary Fans Took No Chances
SAVVY Democrats pushing Sen. Hillary Clinton for president were so worried last year about a possible “bimbo eruption” involving Bill Clinton, they had his friend, former Democratic National Committee chairman Terry McAuliffe, confront him, according to a new book. In “The Way to Win,” authors Mark Halperin of ABC News and John Harris of the Washington Post report that rumors swept political circles last year that Clinton had resumed the wayward habits that nearly brought down his presidency in 1998. Concern among his allies grew so intense that McAuliffe was tapped for the delicate assignment of confronting him at his Chappaqua home, according to Democrats briefed on the awkward encounter. “The former president assured McAuliffe that there was nothing to the rumors, although Clinton had been known to make such promises in the past,” Halperin and Harris write. They add that others around the senator believe her husband “has learned from his errors” and is so determined that she become president that he’ll “bring only support and good behavior to a Hillary Clinton presidential campaign.”
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Oh how I would love to see an avalanche of woman come out and accuse Bill of unwanted advances
Yeah – that would really suck, wouldn’t it?
on the eve of the Democratic National Convention where Hitlery is to accept the nomination. Or even better, Hillary and her goon squad intimidating those same women in order to keep them quiet about the BENTONE.
Maybe Michael Cohen is available?
To: MAD-AS-HELL
“The former president assured McAuliffe that there was nothing to the rumors”
Yea, right. Once a whorehound, always a whorehound. Bubba is as addicted to chasing women as an alcoholic is to booze.
17 posted on 10/13/2006, 9:01:28 AM by Polyxene (For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel – Martin Luther)
Yeah – but is she hot?
To: MAD-AS-HELL
In the past Hillary was in charge of putting down “Bimbo Eruptions”. Now who’s going to do it?
40 posted on 10/13/2006, 10:26:31 AM by TruthWillWin
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More after the linky thing…
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Speaker Disconnected
The Zombie-Eyed Granny Starver tires of herding feral cats and retires. Continue reading Speaker Disconnected
America Held Hostage Day Three
If Yogi Berra were still with us, he’d say it was “deja vu all over again.” The last federal government shutdown was in 2013, which was when I inaugurated the first incarnation of this feature with this opening paragraph: I … Continue reading America Held Hostage Day Three