12 of 12

So I'm doing my 102nd 12 of 12.

Normally it is 12 pictures taken on the 12th of the month. Since I only post once per day, you get my images the following day. All pictures taken with my iPhone. Click images to enlarge, if you choose.

Created by Chad Darnell and picked up from, what I can tell, any number of random bloggers who then link back to him and vice versa. Chad is no longer doing this, nor is successor coordinating the linking of other 12 of 12'ers anymore. Now it's just Erik and myself - that I know of.....as it's the only blog post he's still doing......for now.  

I still continue to do this, because of all my consistent post topics, I actually like this one the most.

05:05.  Not even Shep's first pee on this walk. 

05:50.  Prepping my lunch. 

06:18.  Garbage day. 

07:04.  Running my fourth report of the day. ....and it's only 7:04. 

10:25.  Meeting.  Well....in 5 minutes. 

13:10.  Said lunch. 

13:50.  BRB. 

15:00.  Where the fudge is everyone ? 

17:30.  A fairly contentious faculty meeting. 

It turns out, I might not be that well liked.  Well, that would cost them extra. 

19:05.  Finally leaving work. 

19:17.   Don't judge. 

19:30.  Going home viewing downtown approaching sunset. 

Rock You Like a Hurricane

It looks like Florence, and not her machine, is gonna make landfall later this week. 

....and it looks like it's going to hit dead center of where we took our summer holiday this last July.

That is the problem with beachfront living, but it might be worth the risk.

I think the place we stayed could withstand a lot. It seemed solidly built, but oddly with no storm shutters. Maybe there was plywood in the pass through on the lowest level.

Being selfish, I hope any damage will be minimal, as we are probably returning next year as well.

The beach is wide and with a nice deep drop off to the ocean that might protect things.......for a while, but not at 140 mph, I'm guessing.

There isn't tons in "downtown", but I'd hate to see anything get damaged. It's all independent everything - not a chain store to be had.

Further inland, my sister-in-law and her daughter & son-in-law are hunkering down for the hit as well. They've stockpiled food and such and are expecting power outages. We'll be in contact as the storm approaches and then hits.

I have to love our government's pre-involvement:

The EPA!  Worried that the storm might hit nine sites that contain toxic chemicals and they'll be dispersed into the land of the living. 

Awwww......that's cute. But isn't that exactly what chemical companies wanted Scott Pruitt & Co paid lobbyists mucho dinero to relax those kind of safeties?  I feel bad for the citizens. I won't feel bad for the thousands of soon to be impending law suits. The storm is an act of g-d, reckless endangerment is not.

Then there is FEMA.  Does the government still fund that?  Wasn't Ted Cruz & "Friends" the ones who voted against an earmark to replenish FEMA funding (pssssst.......the answer is 'yes')?   Did he feel that way last year when Harvey hit Texas??  (psssssst.......the answer is 'no'.)

Save for  JJ Watt, I'm not sure what Texas would have done.  Since there is no Puerto Rican JJ Watt (no, not even Ricky Martin), it looks like if BLOTUS did such an "incredible unsung success" with the territory, well, the folks of North and South Carolina are f-u-c-k-e-d.

But here is where the folks about to get hit will prosper:  the GOP is going to fund everything and promise everything...........at least until the mid-terms.  It will be the legal way of buying votes.

Boom!


Song by: the Scorpions

Laughing

All-in-all this has not been the best two weeks for BLOTUS. His administration seems a bit, oh, put upon.

Rumour has it that the White House has again changed cell phone policy. All cellphones must be left in lockers before going into the West Wing, even if it's a WH-issued phone.  Before it was just the personal phones. Now it's anything that can record.

Thanks, Omarosa!

Seriously. It's her fault.  Her and her taping private conversations.

Still...........really, thanks, Omarosa.

She released another tape yesterday. BLOTUS, Sarah Fuckabee Sanders, and other aides laughing in the Oval Office about terrorists after four U.S. servicemen were killed in Niger.

I don't care the scenario or the probable excuse of "lightening the moment". It's vile and vulgar just like those in the room.

I remember when four U.S. folks were killed on Obama's watch...........in Benghazi. No one laughed. Not in the Oval, or at the 113 investigations they had to that situation.  I haven't heard anyone question this administration over those four deaths - not that BLOTUS met the bodies at Dover. I mean, I don't think there was a golf course close by.

While I think nothing of Omarosa, I'm ok with her releasing this shit so she can sell a few more books. Well, I don't care about the commerce part, but I like the peeling back the curtain on this asshole.

 I will say this - if there is a military man who voted for BLOTUS who hears shit like this and still supports him - well fuck them.  I do not want to hear a word from anyone about "respecting the flag or troops".





Song by: the Guess Who

My Music Monday

"It Dawned on Me" by the band Calla is more than a decade old. It doesn't seem that old, but I'll venture other than possibly Morty, none of my readers probably have ever heard the song.  To be honest, I have no idea how it ever hit my radar.

IF you click on their link, it doesn't look like the site has been updated since 2010, and have links to MySpace and Flickr. I'm guessing it's powered by Netscape or Alta Vista. I didn't check, but their contact email might be .aol.   

Better than Ever

I love all these social media tributes to Burt Reynolds.  Save for one scene in Silent Movie or the one time I saw Gumball Rally, I'm fairly sure I never saw him in anything ever.

Truth be told, four days ago, I couldn't have told you if he was alive or dead. I always found him skeevy - like Hugh Hefner skeevy.

But back in my younger days, my Sea World day, I worked with a pair of fraternal twins, Joe and John Mansfield. It was almost certain they had to be gay. I think.  To say they were over the top, would be the biggest understatement ever.

It was either a 'twins thing' or they rehearsed a LOT at home. They were always in sync (bye bye bye).  They jumped up on a stage at Geauga Lake once and immediately broke into Donny & Marie singing "A Little Bit Country / Rock and Roll".  They had an entire crowd laughing.

As this was the days before everyone had cable (yes, I know - don't say it), they had somehow had access to some station that had Grease 2, which is really the reason I know the movie. I saw them act out "Cool Rider" before ever seeing Michelle Pfeiffer straddle a ladder and sing it.

And on their laserdisk player (yes, I know!), they had Starting Over, "starring" Reynolds, Jill Clayburg and Candice Bergen.  I never actually saw the movie, just the two minutes that are below.

From my take is that Bergen and Reynolds has been married and she left to find a singing career, only that she's the only one who thinks she can sing. And now she wants him back...............and tries to accomplish it via song.  Naturally.

I know I'm me, so it doesn't surprise me that I know all the words.  The 87 times the Mansfield twins played it didn't help. And I haven't seen the clip in maybe a decade and a half.   ....and still know all the words.

Of course, Joe in particular, loved Candice's move at the 1:05 mark......and he did it to perfection.

I do wonder what ever became of them. I never felt they could survive separate from one another, but too much for many to take together.

Anyhoo.........this clip was the first thing I thought of when I heard Reynolds kicked it.






Song by: Candice Bergen

Razor

It was a lot of politics this week. And work. And Asians.  Now it's pets-time.

Shep and the fawns with which he seemingly has a problem. 

WHAT ???

My intro to Siggie: the razor toothed puppy. 

He's cute AF.  

A woman walked by and asked about him. David says to her, he says, he's kind of like Toto in the Wizard of Oz.  Her response was priceless:  "I don't know what that is". 

She's like 30+ and doesn't know the fickin' the Wizard of Oz. 

Sig is a fuzzy, bite-y little thing - all 4lbs of him. 

His cuteness let's him get away with it. 

Shep's Obama moment. 

Song by: the Foo Fighters

Fake

The lies started early.  Day 2, in fact.

Of course there were blatant fibs during the campaign, but I'm talking post-inaugural ones. Key word: 'inaugural'.

No surprise to anyone, who isn't a toothless, torch-bearing MAGA-er, the inaugural photos were doctored..............and ordered so by Mr. Insecure himself.

Because being president isn't all consuming with its regular job description, BLOTUS himself called the acting head of the National Park Service, and then Sean Spicer.  When they couldn't get more "flattering" photos of the crowds, they did what any normal, sane person would do:  faked it.

They had NPS doctor the photos by cropping out empty spaces, making the areas look more populated than they were.

Believe it or don't - but many-a-time, I can be fairly insecure - be it with my looks, my work smarts, my penis size.........

Noooooo.  I kid on that last one. I'm fine.........down "there".

I cannot for the life of me fathom shallowness and pettiness that can come from going that far to put out something so fake. I mean, it's not a Real Housewives show. That I get.

So BLOTUS requested it. Spicer lied about it. Nobody bought it anyways. I'd almost get it if someone else had ordered it and showed BLOTUS the fake and passed it off as real, but he knew it wasn't.

Is this a case of:  if you tell a lie enough people will believe it?  Including the lair himself?

He's adept to it:  University, Steaks, Vodka, Shitty property.

The real kicker?  The lie meant nothing. But it was a litmus test to see what the public would / could endure. ....and it was only Day 2.  He's kicked it up several notches since then - on a daily basis. He has acclimatized us to his deceit. We have so slowly gotten used to it, while he's ramped up the frequency and severity, I'm not sure we find them as offensive as we once would have.





Song by: the Cure

Fear

O. M. F. G.

The last few days of book blurbs have given me a metaphorical hard-on.

While I'd like 100% of Bob Woodward's book, Fear, to be true (or what said blurbs have been), I'd actually be ok with only 30% being accurate.  Even if less than 1/3 is true, what a fucking shit storm.   ......and I love it.

We might not have to worry about impeachment with BLOTUS. You just gotta figure he's about to have a fucking coronary.

I love that the Minister of Propaganda Press Secretary immediately dismisses the book as "pure fiction fueled by interviews with disgruntled former employees".

Really?  The conversation between Gary Cohen and John Kelly was just those two. Are we calling Cohen a 'disgruntled former employee'? He was a douche, for sure, but I don't think so. Of course, maybe the story didn't come from anyone former.

I mean, you did read the anonymous op-ed piece in the NYT, right?  The call is coming from inside the house.

Could the inside senior staff person be WH counsel McGahan who just gave his resignation, but not yet gone?  Kelly himself (though allegedly he's wanted to quit, but clearly too wussy to do so)?  It can't be Melania......she cannot write this well.  Jared and Ivanka?  No.  They have their pardons in the bag. Jeff Sessions could be pissed enough at the thrashings he's been taking.

Back to Woodward's book though. My g-d.......I love one of his staffers said BLOTUS had the understanding of a 5th or 6th grader.  They wish!

The names his staff use for him are the same ones we use!  "Fucking Moron", might be over-used, but it is just so on the mark.

And BLOTUS complaining about Woodward. Classic. Let's say that Bob didn't tell BLOAT he was actually writing a book. Why. The. Fuck. Would. You. Talk. To. Bob. Woodward?   He's the Ronan Farrow of the Baby Boomers. No good can come of either one showing up on your door.

I almost feel the need to purchase Fear.

I'm thinking of waiting for the audiobook version, as read by Sarah Fuckabee Sanders.




Song by: Sarah McLachlan

Do It

I"m assuming you all know I think Nike's new ad campaign is da bomb.

Oh yes. I just said that.

I said the majority of what I wanted to say regarding the matter over two years ago (!), except for the fact that I haven't.

The stuff about why not to stand still....well.....stands. But the reasons for kneeling - the protest and the why behind it is even more important than before.

Since - oh, let's say - Charlottesville, you've seen, on average a weekly basis, videos of people of colour being harassed and / or arrested by cops for opening their own store, working on their own car, keying into their own house, etc.

You've seen video of people of colour having the cops called on them for using coupons, barbecuing, selling water, using a study hall where they go to college, using a pool where they live, etc.

You get the idea.

Black people are being reported for being black.

That is why Colin & Co kneels.

It's not about the troops. It's not about the flag. Ironically, the troops and flag should be protecting the put-upon population. But you can't tell that to stupid fucks.

So, yes, what Nike is doing is risky, but important.  If these folks who are boycotting the company because they support Kaepernick are so upset that they're cutting up and burning their Nike gear, where was their outrage at the abuse of child labor?

Oh that's right.  They only care about in-utero.  What was I thinking?

Still, I like Nike's message:  Believe in Something. Even if it Means Sacrificing Everything.


Say what you will about Nike (though I think I've only owned one shirt by them), while the 49ers dropped Kaepernick and he was virtually black-balled by the NFL, Nike never dropped him as a spokesperson. Sure, they didn't use him - until now - but they didn't abandon him either.

I don't know the number of pro this campaign vs anti.  I'm guessing Nike does, or they wouldn't have done it. I hope the pro wins. I hope it is a precursor for November 2018.  I mean, I'm voting, but I'm still not buying anything Nike.



Song by: Nellie Furtado

Let's Go Crazy

Sunday evening, we took in the newest version of My Big Fat Greek Wedding.

Just swap out 'Greek' for 'Chinese'.

Yes, it seems that Crazy Rich Asians is the big summer hit.  Take that, Solo.

While I do want to see the new Nazi hunter movie with Oscar Isaac, he'll have to wait a week or two.

Crazy is fine for light fare. I don't know if get lots of critical praise (though Rotten Tomatoes says 93%), but I'd be there hasn't been a movie in 2018 that was #1 for three straight weeks.  Take that, Solo.

While the film has some very over the top moments, it has some heart too, mostly due to Constance Wu's performance.  There were other enjoyable performances as well - mostly the comic foils that are the gay/ stylist Asian and the female character's BFF.

Not surprisingly, I took issue with some of the story.

Yes, everyone in the movie is Asian. Some more Americanized than others. The main dude, Nick, looks more like he'd be a member of the Sharks, as he looks more Puerto Rican than Asian....and has a British accent.

I can understand not telling your girlfriend you're extremely wealthy - at first. But travel halfway across the globe to meet your boyfriend's family / go to a wedding and you don't prepare her for it? Or at family party and wedding, and you don't escort your girlfriend to either event and let her get herself there on her own?   Bullshit.

Or your "friends" gut a fish in/on her bed and write horrible things in her room about her and the bf basically shrugs and say says, "eh.....whatta gonna do?"

Run.  Flee.  As fast as you can.

In the end, I never felt that the major conflict of the movie was ever truly resolved.

Of course, this isn't a movie where one is supposed to think, let alone over think. But I am who I am.  All in all it was fine. It might be a blockbuster in terms of cash, but it is not going into the annals of one of the top 1000 best films of all time.  Take that, Solo.   Wait.  I'm not sure that works here.

Oh, and somewhere, you gotta believe that Lucy Liu, Jackie Chan, Margaret Cho, Ken Wantanabe and the maid/geisha who worked for Mr. Eddie's Father, have to feel the sting of being the only Hollywood Asians not in this movie.


2018 Movie Count / Goal:  13 of 12


Song by:  Prince & the Revolution

My Music Monday

These last few weeks, I've been all about Leonard Cohen's "You Want it Darker", from his final album of the same name.

From previous posts, you probably know I'm not a fan of Cohen's vocals. His writing is usually on point, but he's not what I'd call an easiest vocalist.  In this song, he talks. Just talks.

"You Want it Darker", is a tip of his hat to the end of his life. Cohen had to know the end  to his life was near, so his statement, "I'm ready, my lord" has a more profound meaning.

The album version is fine and good, but there is a "live" version out there, that I really like. It's still talking, but now there's a choir and cantor.

The attached version is the best I could find.

the Policy of Truth

As you have no doubt read earlier, I'm not a huge fan of John McCain. Yet, I ended up watching the funeral, mostly because 710 had it on. And you never know - the pall bearers might trip and the body might pop out of the casket.

Man - the service was way too long with way too many speakers or folks who had 13 second bible quotes to read, but took a minute and 43 seconds to walk up there and the same amount of time for the dismount.

The audience was a collective who's who of DC - past and present.  The usual suspects - three of the five ex-presidents, at least three ex-vice presidents. A butt load of senators - former and current - including Dole, Snow, Warren, Kasich, Lieberman, and McCain's "best friend in the Senate", Miss Lindsey Graham.  Oh, and Warren Beatty - naturally!

Poor Linds only got one of those 13 second bible versus. He seemingly had what looked like a name tag pinned on his suit that probably said Night Manager - HoJos: Lindsey.

I don't feel for Ms. Graham. He now parrots everything BLOTUS says. When the 2016 campaign was going on, he was quite vocal about many things, being anti-BLOTUS. Except he never quite went to bat for McCain (his "friend") when BLOTUS mocked him.  Fair weather, it seems.

I don't want to tell anyone how to grieve, but.....................you know I'm gonna.

Glioblastoma is fatal about 99.7% of the time. During the two year diagnosis / treatment time, how does a family not come to grips with this early on and work through the process?  They seem well educated and have the means to medical care that would give them the 4-1-1.  Even an internet search would provide that (thanks Al Gore!).

But you had Megan (?) up there teeter-tottering on being fierce or out and out blubbering. I was waiting for at least one of her fake eyelashes to come off.  I know I'm being petty. I just think her words (or whomever wrote them), were lost a bit with tears.

"We gather here to mourn the passing of American greatness, the real thing, not cheap rhetoric from men who will never come near the sacrifice he gave so willingly, nor the opportunistic appropriation of those who live lives of comfort and privilege while he suffered and served," 

And she made the comment on "America has always been great".  But why-oh-why were the hundreds of tv cameras not focused on Jared and Ivanka at that very moment???

I would have paid big $$$ to see their stupefied reaction.    .....and it was Saturday, so why wasn't Jared in Temple?  And better yet, why was he there at all?  Or his skanky wife?

Kissinger spoke (I know, right?). He mentioned how McCain barely ever talked about his POW days. No shit. He didn't have to. Everyone did it for him. Lord knows every single person did yesterday. You'd think he did nothing else in his life.  I loved how someone mentioned how it didn't define him - by defining him by the very fact.

Shrub talked too. It's amazing. Compared to the current president, in my walnut sized brain, I kind of thought he might not be so bad. But he is. The second I had to hear that voice, I cringed. And yes, by comparison, of course he seems "ok" - but then you think of all the horrible horrible things he did in office - and seeing Cheney in that front row made it all too real.  I listened to him speak and yet never heard to a word.

Then it was Obama's turn. He's everything Shrub and BLOTUS are not when it comes to oration. There are times when Obama plays it too cool, but it was a funeral, so I'm hoping others heard his words.  They were great if not at a very even cadence:

“So much of our politics, our public life, our public discourse can seem small and mean and petty, trafficking in bombast and insult and phony controversies and manufactured outrage. It’s a politics that pretends to be brave and tough but in fact is born in fear."

Perfect.

I'd say: "hear that BLOTUS?", but he didn't. He was on a golf course (shock!!!)  at one of his own properties (shock!!!).   I'm sure he'll hear it / about it and twat something at 03:25.

I almost typed - "he won't go after McCain's daughter.....the day of / after her dad's services", but the man has no tact, discretion, decency, so.........yeah, her take down is coming too.

Blobby hasn't listened to the commentary afterwards. I'm not sure I need to. Chuck Todd, the chinless wonder,  and his prattling during the event was more than enough.



Song by: Depeche Mode

Battle of the Dragon

Another Saturday.  Another Caturday.  And Dogday.

He's actually standing atop my chest, surveying the world, while I rest in the park.

Sophie doesn't always make preparing dinner easy. 

On a daily basis, Shep get so excited when I come home, that he brings his dragon down from his pied-à-terre.  It's seen better days, but I found an exact replacement on amazon, so I have two in my cart..........just i case. 

Pretty Kitty. 

My lord he's a dork.  But he's our dork. 

Song by: Stevie Nicks

Shout it Out Loud

Sure, Don McGhan "resigned" this week, but there was a better resignation. More to the point, there was a better resignation letter.

Of course, BLOTUS has said McGhan quit..........but then said something about his "decision" about McGahan.  So BLOTUS made a decision for McGahan to quit???

Anyhoo.....................

The top government official who oversaw the one TRILLION student loan market quit.  It's not just that he quit - it was the letter. It's a shame more folks didn't see this buried news item.

Besides Seth Frotman saying that the White House has "open hostility toward protecting the nation’s millions of student loan borrowers", he went on to say, “The damage you have done to the Bureau betrays these families and sacrifices the financial futures of millions of Americans in communities across the country.”

It isn't 100% clear if he was talking to BLOTUS or about BLOTUS via his budget director.  Either or.

The damage done to millions of Americans in communities across the country isn't just about Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. He's like King Midas - he ruins everything he touches. It's not all about you, Seth.  Geeeze.

Frotman alleges that the bureau buried the publication of data showing banks are ripping off college students with “legally dubious” debit card fees.

While unfortunate that Frotman isn't high ranking enough to get the press his thoughts deserve, I do hope that others who find themselves on the outs with this administration speak out publicly.


....and here's hoping McGahan spilled his guts to Mueller and his team.



Song by:  Kiss

Caring is Creepy

It has finally happened.

A mass shooting and almost no one cared.

Maybe it's because it happened on a Sunday, and folks were busy doing weekend things.  Maybe because it wasn't at a school.  Maybe it was because for eons "they've" said that video games causes violence and makes people kill people.

Or maybe, it's because it happens so often, no one truly cares anymore.

For g-d's sake, I didn't even hear anyone give phony "thoughts & prayers"™.    So you know it's bad.

And it was a Madden Football Video game tournament. It wasn't a shoot-em-up, Grand Theft Auto thingy.  The chances are, if anyone was gonna die at a Madden competition, it would have been from Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy.   .....or a DVT from sitting on their asses playing video games all day.

What do you do with white-on-white crime?  Politicians aren't engaged in that.  NRA ain't touchin' it.  Media didn't really overdo it like they do every other story. 

This is the numbing down of America.




Song by:  the Shins

the Emperor's New Clothes

Truth be told, I love how petty BLOTUS can be.

His crossing of the arms and refusing to answer questions about John McCain like the petulant child he is.

I mean, I don't know why people wanted BLOTUS to sing McCain's praises. Had he, it would have been phony and everyone asking him those questions would have said as much - so to BLOTUS' credit, why get caught in that?

But where he fails is in recognizing his years of service to the country. You don't have to say good or bad - just be factual. BLOTUS can't do that. Mostly because he can't even think of being so diplomatic, but that 'factual' thing will trip him up every. single. time.

The entire flag goes, flag goes down routine was a killer.  You just expected someone with a slide whistle standing outside doing the up and down sound effects to go along with it.

Allegedly there was some poll about Dems and GOPers liking McCain - and the Dems seemed to like him more - a lot more.  I only saw 'results', not the data source, so I immediately discounted the entire thing. But considering some senator I've never heard of before, or will again, though McCain should have been nice to BLOTUS.

I don't condone the BLOTUS-hate.  But McCain?  He was no gem.

The quote was about, and directed to, his wife.  In front of the press.  After she "joked" that he needed a little more hair on top of his head.

Yeah - that seemed like a proportionate response, no?


Then there is this misogynistic bon mot x 2.

FYI.  Chelsea was 18.  Ready to, or just had, graduate high school. So way to be a bully, John.  Oh and way to disparage women and transgendered folk.

I finally realize why McCain brushed off BLOTUS' crude comments about him and never fought back.  He couldn't.  He is just as dismissive, rude and disgusting as BLOTUS.

The emperor had no clothes, so to speak.



Song by: Sinéad O'Connor

Immune

As much as I enjoyed the Manafort - Cohen shit show last week, how delicious are the immunity deals going on with the head douche of the National Enquirer and (t)Rump Organization CFO?

The latter is especially worthy of note.

This is a man who has allegedly been privy to every single financial transaction in said organization (please, don't make me come that close to spelling out you-know-whose-name again).

To me - and I'm really just talking as a Law & Order expert, of course - immunity kind of more than implies knowing and doing something bad, but you're getting off scot free because that knowledge is worse for someone else.

So the inference would be that someone in law enforcement had enough on CFO Allen Weisselberg that spooked him enough to make a deal.  The true beauty of it is, of course, that aforementioned organization is not just BLOTUS' problem, but his ugly fucking kids too.    Oh oh oh - and he also handled all the household expenses for the family! SCORE!

Oh, it would be a shame to see them go to prison, which would most likely be on state charges. And if I'm not mistaken, state sentences are not pardonable by a president.  Oh no. So sad! 

The Enquirer could be interested, but his web if lies he publishes could raise reasonable doubt for just about anyone. But this isn't about what he's published, it's about what he has not. The stories he paid for (or someone did) only to kill them.

One is already out there.  BLOTUS had an affair and child out of wedlock.   </eyerollemoji></end eyerollemoji>.  Wouldn't the bigger surprise be if he only had one?  Still ir was 2015 if this happened. How much more humiliation can Melanoma take?

Are not the Enquirer's stories are usually about cheating, bastards and how celebrities are just like us?    Forgive me the cynacism, but is BLOTUS putting his dick in some chick's hole ever going to change anyone's mind about him?  The evangelical base has already supported him through Pussy Grabgate, Imprison Kidsgate  and Stormygate.  A few more dozen affairs will do nothing to sway that crowd.

No, our best hope lies with Weissleberg.  Maybe - just maybe - he's had enough of BLOTUS' anti-Semitism and will spill all the beans. Of course, that doesn't make up for the 38 years of being with this corrupt clan and his willingness to take on their degradation of the Jews.

Maybe a tide has turned. Maybe people will start flipping on these folks.  Now maybe we can find Kushner's achilles heel.



Song by: G-dsmack

My Music Monday

I was just scrolling through my music liberry - no even that randomly - looking for something to put up here for this week.

Raul Malo is one of those guys I just love. He's got a great voice, and he's a good songwriter, and the ones he doesn't write, well he's a good interpreter.

Malo's first solo album, after the temporary demise of the Mavericks, would be Today back in 2002.  It was a good solo disk, but it could have been great.

Today contains one of the best songs Malo has ever done solo or with his group.  I totally dig "I See You".   The horns.  The percussion.  The voice.

Yes, it's one of those songs, if left alone in a car (or anywhere) while it's playing, you might hear me belting it out.  And I probably hit 'repeat' as well.

This is who I am.

Dead

Well, I was just in final stages of drafting my blog post for today when John McCain died.  I guess that's another thing he did to annoy the fuck out of me.

Oh yes - - "don't speak ill of the dead", blah blah blah.  Yeah yeah. I'm having none of it.

If you're looking for a sympathetic post here today, you''re looking in the wrong place.

There is a good part of this current political mess that is the result of McCain and his idiotic pick of Sarah Palin for his running mate.

Civil and political discourse headed right for the drain once that team was set. He unleashed Palin, her massively fucked-up family, her built-up legion and the propaganda machine (FOX "news").  She pushed along the dumbing down of America - and yes, it's McCain's fault.

If not for him, she'd be an unknown ex-Alaskan governor still living in Alaska.

I will watch the news with their glow of him......speeding over his foibles and focusing on his positive attributes.

People will say how brave he was to vote against BLOTUS' healthcare bill. And in a way he was, but so few remember in the next go-round he voted FOR it.

And for the love of g-d, would someone please tell me what made him so 'maverick'-y?

He never really worked outside of the political norms. Yes, he teamed up with a democrat a time or two for bipartisan bills, but lots of people did back before he helped divide the country back in 2008.

Sure, he seemed like a voice of reason when Shrub was in office or with this current administration.

B.F.D.

In those two instances, Ted Kaczynski would be a voice or reason.  All you have to do is put two sentences together and you have all over both those guys.

Sorry for his families loss and all, but I'm not broken up by this by any means. And there is a silver lining. Without McCain, the GOP is down to 50 members in the Senate.  If all 49 Dems refuse to participate in roll call, there is no quorum, which means no votes. Which means, no supreme court nominee to go through.

Unfortunately, the Dems won't have the gonads to do such a thing.

Now we get to see what new fuck-up Arizona will elect to represent them. While I thought next to nothing of McCain, I can almost guarantee you their selection will be worse.

The only good thing I'll truly say about him is that he planned his own funeral and invited former, but not current, presidents.  Ya gotta love that rub. 



Song by: the Pixies

the Right Profile

It's been a busy week.  I might have even held back a few pics in case the animules are not cooperating.

A(nother) dat at the beach. 

Meeting of the minds. 

Ms. Grumpy Cat

My lord - those paws. 

No Dogs Allowed. 

I ignored the rules. 

Resting Bitch Face.   But I love her just the same. 

But most importantly - we have a new addition to the extended family. 

My cousin got a new puppy: Siggie (named by another cousin)

Those eyes........and those puppy teeth, I'm assuming. 

He is a handsome little dude........and seemingly attracted to the Apple Watch. 

I cannot wait to meet him. 

Song by: the Clash

Message

Brutal week at work.  Still have today to go.  And the next like 10 weeks.

I'm still riding the wave of the GOP cluster.  I just stole a few things to post.




My absolute favourite. 

Whomever these guys are, I want to be the Lola Heatherton to their Sammy Maudlin.  (honestly, you have to click on the link.

Time is kind of knocking it out of the park with their covers.  I'm guessing BLOTUS doesn't frame it and hang this one in any of his clubs.

 This sounds exactly right.

Oh the humanity.




Song by: Gene Loves Jezebel

Play the Game

Allegedly I should be outraged that Urban Meyer is suspended for three whole football games.

The nerve of me for not being so.

Of course some Ohio State friends don't know I feel this way - I mean, why walk into that hornet's nest?

The most I know of it - again, I don't really care - is that one of Meyers' coaches smacked his wife around and Urban and his wife knew of it for three years and did nothing. Allegedly.

Allegedly enough that an "investigation" got him suspended for three games. THAT has to put a huge dent in his $7.6 MILLION dollar salary. Looks like he'll be living on Ramen for a while. And nothing but trips to Aldi for him.

Facebook friends and OSU alumni are up in arms I tells ya.  The unfairness of it all. He couldn't have possibly known, says they . ......except that Urban himself said he "counseled" the couple.   Of course, they says, the victim (you know the wife...........not the fans),  is a known liar.  You know, because they all know her.

This is why my eye lids are black and blue. Not because Zach Smith beat me too.  No, it's because I roll my eyes so hard at this shit.

Replace the words "Urban Meyer" with "Joe Paterno" and I can guarantee you the same people defending Meyer would be denouncing Paterno.

I dare someone to make the argument that beating your wife is less worse than child rape.  I mean, when I write it, sure it sounds worse, but I'm not sure you can sell it to woman who has been beaten and lives in fear of it happening again.

Paterno's take down was the same as Meyers. They didn't rape boys or beat women (well, that we know of!), but they knew about it and let it slide for the "love the game", the roar of the crowd.   .....oh, and the $7.6 MILLION dollar paycheck.

In a past life, I worked enough with the Ohio State Athletic Department to know that things are not created equal.  Remind me to tell you of the basketball recruit who got a 12 (!!!) on his ACT, but on his second try got a 32!.  Yeahhhhhhh...........I guess he just had an off day.

I've never understood the devotion to this game of football - be it college or pro. It's just a game and in the end, unless you're getting that paycheck, it has very little baring on much of anything. 

.....except for one time when I got to see Mike Vrabel in the locker room.   TOTALLY worth it.



Song by:  Queen