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Tuesday Stuff

Tue, 22 Sep 2026 16:17:46 +0000

I don’t know if you can trust the polling here either, but it appears that the Repugs are forced to defend seats that you would assume are safe with Don The Con dragging down their prospects, as Sam Seder of The Majority Report tells us...and I would agree with Sam’s analysis on what Jon Tester said; yet another case of Chuck Schumer screwing the metaphorical pooch (I also think the Dem should get out in Montana and endorse Seth Bodnar, the independent, who has a better shot of taking out Repug Kurt Alme)...that polling number in Idaho absolutely blew my mind, and that Matt Loesby guy should pack it in there also to try and help out Indie Todd Achilles...by the way, as noted here about Kansas U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, he sued about 700 patients in his OB-GYN practice who had unpaid bills and it wasn’t directly related to C-sections (though Marshall apparently charged 18 percent interest on those debts, which is pretty usurious on his part I think)...

...and Robert Reich lets us know how Fix Noise mocked him for being right about egg prices...I think we have a case of TMI with Senator Foghorn Leghorn on this one, with avian flu blamed as the initial reason for high egg prices, even though egg producers received about $1 billion in bird flu bailouts while the supply didn’t drop commensurately...you can also chalk this up to monopolization of the egg market and producers dictating their prices...I think Reich’s snark here is called for given the messages among the egg producers, especially that one “we need to bid like they vote in Chicago – early and often”...and I guess we should be grateful that Cal-Maine, one of the producers, got any punishment at all...

...and Thom Hartmann informs us that Greenland and Antarctica have lost about 11 trillion metric tons of ice, enough to bury this country about five feet deep, according to a recent study,...also, apparently Trumpist Fish and Wildlife Director Brian Nesvik reinterpreted the Endangered Species Act so that only “intentional” killing counts as illegal (and good luck trying to sift through the legalese as to what “intentional” means)...additionally, it looks like Interior Secretary Doug Burgum wants to hand a wide swath of Yellowstone to a developer from another damn private equity firm (and OF COURSE the CEO who benefits from this is a Trump donor)...we also have two more measles deaths in PA that will be ignored by Bobby Brainworm, bringing the total thus far to four...and I don’t know if anybody out there is ready for bird flu, but that might be on the way also – terrific...I knew book reading was good, but I didn’t know how much especially for older folks (“a country that stops reading is a country that’s easy to fool” indeed)...

...and Brittany Page discusses the recent appearance of Paul Webster of The Cicero Institute before a House subcommittee in which he was grilled pretty ferociously (almost to the point of obnoxiousness, to be honest) by Dem Rep Rashida Tlaib...listen, I’m fundamentally on the same side as Tlaib, and this Webster guy is truly a guttersnipe (and Tlaib is right to point out that the people pulling strings for Cicero are making bank from private prisons, which should be illegal – here), but I just think she took it a bit far, that’s all (and this Joe Lonsdale is another member of the “pay no price, bear no burden” bunch of course)... looks like this Brendan Gill so-and-so of Texas realized he was out of his depth and bailed when trying to confront Samantha Batko of The Urban Institute...didn’t know the Gropenfuhrer increased his net worth by about $2 bil, but that figures too...hearing was geared to demean Housing First, without empirical evidence of course, led by this Jonathan Choe guttersnipe of The Discovery Institute...good point about having an actual homeless person at that hearing – what a concept!...

...and America’s Finest News Source tells us that we can all rest a little easier now that Congress has addressed the pressing matter of a minimum wage for billionaires (dancing on that razor’s edge when it comes to satire yet again)...

...and I like this newer tune – looks like this guy might be trying to pick up the mantle of Tom Petty...we’ll see...

...and with that, I take my leave of you for a little while – I’ll plan to get back to this in about ten days or so.

Friday Stuff

Fri, 18 Sep 2026 23:09:05 +0000

This is your periodic reminder that our PA-01 U.S. House Rep Brian Fitzpatrick continues to evade public scrutiny over his failure to debate his Dem challenger Bob Harvie, which, again, makes sense in a weird way since Fitzpatrick also refuses to hold face-to-face town halls.

This clip from The Independent shows Dem U.S. House Rep Sean Casten of Illinois trying to pin down Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on how much dough is allegedly coming into this country (and to who in particular) from #47’s decision to take over Venezuela however many months ago that was, with Bessent offering a whole lottta “Gee, I dunno” in response (our Trumpist regime is full of incompetent liars of course, but Bessent isn’t even very good at that task I think)...

...and Chris Hayes tells us that, with all of the ongoing misery led by #47, he continues to obsess over vanity projects at the expense of real-world crises he has initiated (the Iran war, doing his best to allow “Bibi” to continue destroying the Middle East, wrecking our economy, allowing gas prices to soar through the roof, gutting any clean energy initiatives, etc.)...I didn’t know he was planning to build a golf course on federal land, but that fits also unfortunately...and apparently, Bill Pulte never passed out of a Comp 50 class in college either...and yeah, trying to steal the honor of renaming an arts venue (or threatening to destroy it) named after our slain 35th president is demented even for a life form like Combover Caligula (glad to see Hayes paying particular attention to this...as soon as Our Treasonous Orange Yam started yapping about this, a crew of reporters should have toured inside the facility and made recordings to demonstrate what appears to be the immaculate state of the center, despite Don The Con’s idiotic blathering about that)...

...and John Iadarola and Jackson White of The Damage Report tell us that “Disappointed” Susan Collins recently cast a vote to advance Mathew R. Byrne, another product of The Federalist Society (pretty much run by Leonard Leo of course) and an anti-choice nut job...typical for Collins, since, as John tells us, she played a big role in bringing us “I Like Beer” Kavanaugh, he of the “Kavanaugh stops” also...this Byrne guy doesn’t believe in the right to abortion in the event or r*pe or incest, but only to save the life of the mother (which is pretty much always a dodge for these characters as far as I’m concerned)...on the subject of women’s reproductive freedom, the family of Tierra Walker is suing the thoroughly corrupt Ken Paxton and the doctors responsible for the death of this woman (here)...apparently she was afflicted with preeclampsia about four months into her pregnancy and her doctors said, “hey, the fetus is OK and that’s all we care about” (allegedly of course)...and 90 people were involved in Walker’s case, BUT NOBODY OFFERED HER AN ABORTION??!! And oh yeah, the fetus died anyway along with the mom...heckuva job!...and I would call this “the lethal confluence of all of their bigotries” also...

...and J.T. Cestkowski of Status Coup tells us about a massive heat dome descending over this country primarily affecting the Midwest, with record-high temps of course...part of me isn’t sympathetic to Texas enduring only 3 days since August 3rd with temperatures below 100 degrees, but part of me is because we’re all in this together and the “divide and conquer” nature of our politics has a lot to do with how we got to this wretched state...at least there’s an attempt to hold some of these energy criminals to account in Oregon with a $50 billion lawsuit...oh, and Repugs in BOTH chambers of Congress introduced legislation giving dirty energy companies immunity from lawsuits; there are MANY reasons to vote these characters out of office, but that’s a pretty damn big one IMO (and the utterly odious Leonard Leo pops up again here, along with Chucky Koch and ALEC, no doubt coordinating with the just-as-wretched State Policy Network to try and get “model bills” passed across states to gut environmental regulation)...slightly NSFW/H...

...and yesterday marked the 15th anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street protest in lower Manhattan at Zuccotti Park (here), which spawned worldwide protests...the goals of the protests were laudable IMO, given the utter failure to hold the banksters to account for the Big Casino crash in 2008, but I believe it ended up ultimately being a missed opportunity in that the group couldn’t translate their activism into a political movement...still, the effort was commendable I think – better to at least try than to sit on your couch held captive by “doomscrolling”...

...and tomorrow marks what would have been the 85th birthday of “Mama” Cass Elliot (oh, and speaking of those nutty '60s, we also just lost another icon of that era).

Thursday Stuff

Thu, 17 Sep 2026 20:45:56 +0000

Jesse Dollemore informs us that, apparently, Uday Trump Jr. got some Russian oligarch to bankroll his ridiculously over-the-top, three-day (!) wedding celebration at two exclusive private islands last May, with Umar Kremlev spending “hundreds of thousands of dollars” on the events (here)...as Dem U.S. House Rep Robert Garcia said, the issue is what Kremlev got as a payback for this largesse (I wouldn’t give a fig about Trump Jr.’s latest wedding if it weren’t for that...and oh yeah, the “OMIGOD, WHAT DID HUNTER BIDEN DO NOW??!!” nonsense looks even more ridiculous)...that said, I have to admit that it’s news to me that Biden The Younger has apparently gone big into crypto, which is a pretty rank way to build clout IMO, and I don’t give a damn which party we’re talking about...glad to hear that utterly worthless Senate minority “leader” Schumer get taken to task yet again, and I’m not surprised Chris Murphy stepped up on this...oh, and I guess Anna Paulina Luna-tic doesn’t think the Trump Jr. stuff matters because a laptop isn’t involved – yeah, that figures from her...mildly NSFW/H...

...and Tennessee Brando lets us know that Thomas Massie introduced an impeachment resolution against “I’ll Drink To That” SecDef Kegseth, and as a result, “MAGA Mike” Johnson shut down the U.S. House (here), presumably so he’d have more time to watch p*rn with his son (here)...so glad to hear Brando acknowledge the Gropenfuhrer refusing to put his hand on the “good book” when he was sworn in, which should indeed have been a tipoff to anyone previously not paying attention...also, not the biggest fan of Massie on most issues, but credit to him for standing tall here...Brando is also right that we need something like a Nuremberg Trials 2.0 for all of this misery, but don’t expect a single Repug to support that of course (NSFW/H also)...

...and Kyle Kulinski tells us that, apparently, Israel is running out of water because an algae bloom in the Mediterranean is affecting 5 of their 6 water desalination plants, with the algae bloom caused by refuse from Gaza sewage treatment plants that Israel has bombed back beyond the Stone Age...interesting exercise in karma, I must say...also, apparently the IDF is running out of ~~victims~~ ~~suckers~~ individuals to serve in Israel’s military, with some exempt for religious reasons...”a hallmark of right-wing governance is incompetence” indeed...definitely NSFW/H also...

...and this CBC News report by Alexandre Silberman tells us that folks in Montreal have called for more in the way of gun legislation 20 years after the Dawson College shooting...Louise De Souza, mother of the girl who was killed, has worked tirelessly to combat gun violence, and Hayder Kadhim, one of the shooting survivors, has done his best to raise community awareness...one of the reasons I’m highlighting this is to point out that Quebec took action right away and banned guns in public places and created a firearm registry, which are steps we should have taken long ago but for the pernicious influence of the gun lobby, of course...

...and Josh Johnson of The Daily Show gives us a rundown on the latest news...and I can just hear it now; “oh, you dastardly lib with your ‘Weekend at Bernie’s’ memes about Mitch McConnell...well, don’t you feel dumb now?”...actually, no, I don’t – name for me ANY OTHER EMPLOYER who would allow an elderly employee to COMPLETELY DISAPPEAR FOR ABOUT THREE MONTHS WITH NO EXPLANATION while he recovered, collecting a paycheck and bennies the whole time, not to mention the fact that the employee in question has done MORE THAN ANYONE ELSE over the last couple of decades to make the U.S. Senate VIRTUALLY USELESS...and I don’t have a clue about what’s going to happen with AI, and I don’t have the bandwidth to care at this moment (but OF COURSE this story provides an opportunity for A Certain Treasonous Orange Egomaniac to tell the world how smart he thinks he is) – God willing he’ll be gone one way or the other someday (and define “gone” however you want), and I’m getting to the point where I don’t care how or when that happens (and what’s the deal with his hairpiece anyway?)...NSFW/H also...

...and I suppose we’re getting closer to the holiday shopping season, so some acts/performers are going to be issuing commemorative recordings of sorts with that in mind...this tells us that Bob Dylan has a 39-disc set scheduled to come out, which is a little “over the top” as far as yours truly is concerned...recordings were with the Rolling Thunder Review 50 years ago so they’re likely to be good, but I would probably need a cosigner to get the dough I’d need to make a purchase like that (I’ll just remain content with the vinyl that I’ll try to transfer to disc one day).

Tuesday Stuff

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 20:33:08 +0000

Brian Tyler Cohen tells us about a recent debate in Kansas between incumbent Repug U.S. Senator Roger Marshall and his Dem challenger Adam Hamilton, in which Marshall heard it from the crowd over the ruinous economic policies of the head of Marshall’s party...I thought this was a good description by Cohen of the “doom loop,” if you will, of trying to appease Our Sweaty Orange Bronzer Boy, losing your credibility in the process, and then hearing it from your constituents in response when you decide to make a public appearance...but just to show that I’m going to TRY and comprehend what Marshall is saying, according to him, Kansas lost 1700 manufacturing jobs over two decades but are getting 100 back, as it that’s supposed to be a win; funny that Marshall doesn’t mention those ridiculous tariffs against Canada, which could lead to Kansas manufacturing not buying planes from Canadian company Bombardier, putting 1,000 Kansas jobs at risk, to the point where Marshall and his fellow Senate Repug Jerry Moran told the head of their party to back off against Bombardier as noted here (as if #47 will listen)...I don’t know anything about the cost of soybeans or whatever that was that Marshall was saying (not trying to dismiss matters important to farmers – just saying that I’m not going to try and move Heaven and earth checking Marshall’s claims on that)...slightly NSFW/H...

...but the big story on Action News, you might say, is the SCOTUS stopping the Gropenfuhrer’s attempt to block states from sending out mail-in ballots (24 states plus D.C. sued in response)...this nonsense started in late March with another bogus executive order telling states to create a “state citizenship list”; that idiocy was blocked by a lower court, so of course the appeal went up immediately to the High Court of Hangin’ Judge JR...also tells you something that the online portal that the Feds need to manage in order to upload voter info from the states still isn’t operational (elect a clown, expect a circus)...oh, and OF COURSE, Strip Search Sammy Alito and Almost Silent Clarence Thomas thought the order from the Gropenfuhrer was just peachy (and maybe “I Like Beer” Kavanaugh also)...Maddow speaks with Marc Elias, who, for my money, knows more about how Republicans continually try to “ratf*ck” elections than anyone else (some really clear-eyed commentary from Elias on this that we all need to hear, reinforcing the fact that Don The Con is the most unrepentant scumwaffle on the face of this planet)...I’m sure Maddow and Elias are 100 percent correct that the next move from our ruling regime will be to yell “WAAAH! THE SUPREME COURT WON’T LET ME DO WHAT I WANT!! THE ELECTIONS ARE RIGGED!!!”...

...and I now have a bit of a “compare and contrast” exercise coming up...I know I’ve said I’ll be careful with clips of TYT, and you’ll have more information on that shortly – first, Ana Kasparian lets us know about some Israeli settler named Yona Schreiber, who was just acquitted in an attack on a French nun – this monster apparently pled an insanity defense and it worked...good point to mention that these anti-Christian attacks from Jews also happen in Armenia...I definitely want to see a follow-up report as to whether or not this Schreiber person actually ends up in a psychiatric hospital for six years in accordance with the sentence; my guess is that he’ll be discharged as soon as this story fades from the headlines...and 88 incidents of harassment and assault from settlers against Christians in this year alone? I DEFINITELY would call that a trend...and even vandalizing graves??? Pretty damn strange behavior IMO from a country that is supposed to be an “ally”...I’m objecting here to what Israel is doing against Christians, but what they’re doing against Muslims is pretty damn vile also...

...and with the prior clip in mind, I would ask that you watch the following from Brittany Page...I think TYT occasionally deals with important issues such as the one in the above video, and I agreed with them in the clip above, but it also looks like they’re playing footsie, you might say, with The Swanson TV Dinner Heir, spouting his schtick with more than a bit of racism and white supremacy thrown in (and I remember that pic of Cenk Uygur laughing and holding hands with Charlie Kirk)...unintentionally hilarious to hear Tuckums claim that institutions created by whites are more benevolent (with this Peter Brimelow character, who created the VDARE website as noted) – yeah, maybe to OTHER WHITES...use that Google thingie and look into “redlining” housing districts and related discriminatory practices by Our Ochre Abomination and his family, including his dad in the real estate biz – you can find examples all over the place in this country...and oh yeah, whites are supposedly being eliminated, which ISN’T A THING...glad to hear Page resurrect William F. Buckley, who was one of the people long ago who wrote the conservative grievance playbook, constantly whining about the “liberal media” when his idiot theories were disproven (if you want to dive in really deep on this topic, read McGeorge Bundy’s critique of Buckley’s “God And Man At Yale”)...also, I know TYT has cozied up to Joe Kent for some ungodly reason, he being the guy who lost to Marie Gluesenkamp Perez in Washington State in a U.S. House election; MGP is absolutely NO BETTER than Kent IMO...”clout chasing drama goblin” – good one...unpleasantly surprised to hear about Ryan Grim, and Saagar Enjeti is just another useful media idiot...and I also knew about the fascist party winning in Germany, of all places, with King Elon’s help – not sure I need to point out how awful that is...I often don’t include videos this long because I just don’t have the time to pick them apart as much as I want, but I think this is an important (and particularly well done) clip from Page – it’s obvious that she knows what she’s talking about on this, though she does on her other topics also IMO...NSFW/H also...

..and Tennessee Brando tells us that “I’ve been talking with Tennessee voters, and this shocked me”...and of course, we have a big-time example in PA-01 of a Repug politician deciding not to face his constituents, which I’ve tried to point out at this site recently (and Tim Burchett is another example in Brando's "holler," if you will)...in a weird way I’ll admit, I admire the directness of preachers in Brando’s world wearing their “R” party allegiance on their sleeve, you might say, even though they‘re utterly wrong to do that of course, as opposed to this area, where that advocacy is treated with a bit of a wink, implying that you’re either “in the club” or you’re not...so glad to hear Brando invoke the TVA, one of the transformative New Deal programs that genuinely impacted people’s lives for the better...”politics is talking to you every day” indeed...mildly NSFW/H also...

...and I have a hard time saying no to just about anything from Walter Trout, including this tune from within the prior year.

Monday Stuff

Mon, 14 Sep 2026 15:51:35 +0000

This is your periodic reminder that our PA-01 U.S. House Rep Brian Fitzpatrick won’t stick his head out of his shell and debate Dem nominee Bob Harvie. In a weird way, that makes a bit of sense since Bri-Fi refuses to hold in-person town halls also.

I know I said I’d be careful about clips from TYT, but I thought this was a good one from Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discussing gas prices continuing to skyrocket, with oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz pretty much shut down at this point, with the lowest amount of traffic since May (I would call 4.9 million barrels per day versus 21.6 million quite the dropoff)...as AAA tells us, gas had never been about $4 a gallon on Labor Day, but IT IS NOW, TRUMPERS (so much winning!)...and it looks like Trumpist DOE Secretary Chris Wright can’t even spin the propaganda correctly, blaming governors in “Democrat”-run states for keeping prices up...wrong, you asshat - as Ana Kasparian points out, energy futures are NOT going down according to a benchmark for that, despite Wright’s lying about it...also, I’m not mad at Ana for saying Ukraine attacking Russia’s oil infrastructure is contributing to this; I think anyone who’s sane understands why Ukraine needs to do that, but it’s just a fact, and now the Houthis (no doubt with Iran’s help) are ratcheting everything up in that area of the world also, which could have been foreseen by any adult with an actual brain...additionally, Iran’s ballistic missile capability is concerning for sure, and since there are no actual adults in this administration, I KNOW they’re not prepared for the economic shock of ever-increasing prices combined with Canada’s retaliatory tariffs (and not blaming Canada, but just mentioning a fact...I’m not surprised to hear Cenk go off on Israel, but guess what? I think HE’S ABSOLUTELY GODDAMN RIGHT...and I have to admit that I can do without the T-shirt promo for Hasan Piker, but I’m not going to get too bent out of shape over it)...

...and related to that, Belle discusses #47 pushing Iran to get a nuke...important to note that, based on our intelligence (which has probably been degraded to some degree by virtue of the knuckleheads we have in this administration in critical roles related to this, like Crazy Eyes Kash Patel), it doesn’t look like Iran is looking to get a nuke at this time (which makes this ridiculous war even more unjustifiable), but we can’t rule that out 100 percent of course, especially with Combover Caligula basically telling Iran to build a nuke to be taken more seriously (SMDH)...

...and Farron Cousins brings us the story of ICE taking over a Maryland town for a couple of days and beating up protestors (tracking someone to a neighborhood called Tasker’s Chance) – so a guy flees an ICE stop (not good, but I don’t completely blame the person either), and the ICE goons descend en masse on this neighborhood, and some charge the house and others beat up protestors I guess because it’s a day of the week with a “y” in it...oh, and no arrests, since apparently the main goal here was for a bunch of rednecks to pretend to be actual law enforcement and bust heads...yep, just because TikTok is probably using an AI to decide which videos to upload (and keeping out anything it thinks is controversial), that doesn’t mean ICE’s garbage isn’t still going on...

..and former 60 Minutes Managing Editor Guy Campanile decided to “spills the beans” on what that program has become under Bari Weiss...oh, and Campanile had worked at the network for 34 freaking years...as John Iadarola says, there’s definitely a plan behind “the Epstein class” buying up the media, and that goes for social networks also; Lord knows they have the money to do it, absent any kind of government intervention (and normally I wouldn’t automatically say that we need that, but I think that’s unavoidable here)...as one example, this tells us what Hungary is doing to dismantle the apparatus set up by Viktor Orban to control the media in that country...we need to pass meaningful reform when it comes to corporate ownership of our media (e.g., if you own a TV station, you can’t own a newspaper or radio station either) that includes devoting an approximate amount of time/space to opposing/minority points of view, as well as consulting with media representatives for other reforms...basically, we need to replace the “guardrails” that were abolished under The Sainted Ronnie R (equal time rule, the Fairness Doctrine), and I realize there is zero appetite from the frauds and charlatans in charge now for that...

...and David Shuster of Rebel HQ informs us that Texas Republicans are not shy about sharing their dislike of Ken Paxton...gee, what’s not to like? The marital infidelity, the kickbacks to support AI data centers in locations Paxton doesn’t live, and speaking of which, there’s Paxton’s 15 houses on his six-figure-a-year salary...yep, it definitely paints a contrasting image between 20,000 pounds of food to be donated and the $20-$25K minimum for the “have mores” to be included to attend the “Trump-a-palooza” last week...and yes, I give James Talarico props for handling that question about gender too, but for future reference, do you know how you handle that? You say there are two genders but multiple gender identities, because that’s how corporations look at it (to say nothing of the fact that it’s ridiculous to be preoccupied with that with another forever war vs. Iran and a cratering economy, and a continually warming planet also)...and I suppose you need to present that speech excerpt from the hero of The Great Unwashed, though I wanted to vomit in my mouth as I watched it (another “sir” story, the damn accordion hands...jumping Judas H. Priest on a pogo stick!)...

...and happy belated 80th birthday to Dennis Tufano of The Buckinghams.

Friday Stuff

Fri, 11 Sep 2026 14:31:45 +0000

Jimmy Kimmel explains why his interview with Dem U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico of Texas had to go right to YouTube and could not be aired on TV (referencing that BS "convention" that just ended also - more here...seems that a certain rotund, sweaty orange sack of trans fats and his FCC minion objected and Kimmel didn’t want to cause problems for any ABC affiliates in “the land of the yellow rose,” as Kimmel tells us...wonder if Our Ochre Abomination will go crying to Natalie over it?...

...and Robert Reich explains How Trump Made America Expensive Again...the damn Iran war, his stinking tariffs, the Big Beautiful Clusterf*ck which gutted health care among its other travesties, cuts to renewable energy which will increase out utility bills, trying to cram these disgusting AI data centers down our throats, and all the while, the “pay no price, bear no burden” bunch continues to “live large” at our expense...

...and Jordan Chariton of Status Coup informs us that a Trumpist federal court judge recently ruled that the residents of Jackson, Mississippi don’t have a constitutional right to clean drinking water (oh, and they don’t have a right to reliable information from public officials either)...Jackson residents have apparently been boiling their water for some time to protect themselves, some for 10-15 years believe it or not...the numbskull responsible for this ruling is Judge Kurt Engelhardt...for background, it should be noted the suit had to do with the “bodily autonomy” of the residents, who pretty much have been poisoned for decades by the city of Jackson, which has not upgraded its water infrastructure (and did I mention that the population of Jackson is majority black?)...sounds like Engelhardt was definitely splitting legal hairs here, saying that the statute in question applied to cases of sexual assault but not poisoned drinking water (imagine being in a position where you have to rely on bottled water and somebody tells you “you have too much water”)...I honestly don’t know the latest on the Flint water crisis; Gretchen Whitmer inherited it from Rick Snyder, but if the water is indeed still messed up after all this time, she owns that now by default (NSFW/H)...

...and I realize I’m a little late with this next item, but I wanted to get to it anyway...Steve Harness of Really American informs us that the Spider-Man guy who tried to keep wingnuts from attacking peaceful protestors in Minneapolis is going to be prosecuted, while Jake Lang who started all the trouble with his idiocy is going to walk away...looks like counter protestors siding with Lang drove their vehicles onto the sidewalk in protest...my spider sense is telling me some wingnut asshats got some hurt fee-fees, because nothing says you want to peacefully resolve differences more than trying to ram someone with about 2,000 pounds of steel, right?...I have to admit that “prior communication” between Lang’s goons and the cops is an interesting excuse to let Lang off...whoever this Lubuc guy with the Minneapolis cops is should end up permanently behind a desk, since he doesn’t belong interacting with the public (fist bump emoji)...NSFW/H also...

...and these next two clips are timely for this day also of course - hard to imagine it's been 25 years (I once expounded on this topic here long ago, for what it's worth...related items are here and here...oh, and this is typical for Our Orange Pustule-In-Chief also...and I thought this was also a timely reminder).

Update 1: More here.

Update 2: In the immortal words of David Huddleston in "Blazing Saddles," "Now who can argue with that?" (here).

Update 9/12/22: Important related info is here.

Update 9/12/23: And this needs to be remembered also.

Update 9/13/24: As we know, there is truly no bottom with this treasonous egomaniac (here).

Thursday Stuff

Thu, 10 Sep 2026 22:18:30 +0000

Lawrence O’Donnell talks about that ridiculous mini “Trump-a-Looza” convention, or whatever that was, which mainly wasn’t attended by a few incumbents of the Trump Party, though there were exceptions (two of them from PA will be noted in a minute)...oh yeah, oil prices are going to be “tumbling downward” right after the election, huh? And his cruel and stoo-pid war of choice versus Iran will end also after November 3rd? Says the failed casino owner, real estate developer, steak and vodka salesman, crypto boss, and on and on and on...Alaska Repug U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan, in a race with Dem Mary Peltola, didn’t attend Trump’s little party because Sullivan knows what the numbers are and he’s not an idiot (though he likely is a crook)...and “the Hormone Strait”?? God, what a delusional nut case Our Sweaty Orange Boy truly is...

...and Dem U.S. House Rep Madeleine Dean is interviewed here on C-SPAN responding to that traitor John Fetterman’s recorded speech at that sham “convention”...good for Dean to point out not only Fetterman’s ridiculous words, but his actions by rubber stamping the wretched nominees from Mango Mussolini to cabinet positions and heading government departments...the two Repug U.S. House Reps from PA who Dean is referring to are Ryan Mackenzie and Rob Bresnahan (and of course, pretend “moderate” Bri-Fi passed on showing up, though he would have been right at home if he did)...apparently, Fetterman praised #47 for supposedly helping steelworkers (uh, no)...

...and David Shuster of Rebel HQ points out how Cantaloupe Capone is sinking GOP candidates nationwide, including Texas, with #47 having the worst record on inflation ever recorded by an incumbent prez...and yeah, the Charlie Cook stuff is good news, but what matters is what happens on November 3rd; rosy forecasts have gone wrong before as we know...didn’t know Dems hadn’t won a statewide election in “the land of the yellow rose” in 38 years, but with all of the voting games that go on down there (what The Eternal Molly Ivins once called “the national laboratory for bad government”), I’m not totally surprised (disgusting that the political punditry on elections centers around money, but once more, love and kisses to the High Court of Hangin’ Judge JR for Citizens United...and what a big spender Bronzer Beelzebub is to fork over $10 million to Ken Paxton; maybe Paxton won’t have to steal any pens for a little while)...and yeah, we know what Turd Blossom is, but I hate to admit it; he knows how to win elections, and I trust his explanation on how far the Super PAC dough goes versus the spending by a candidate’s campaign...

...and Brittany Page reminds us that it looks like “Dr. Crudité” wants up to keep working until we’re just about ready to die all for the sake of growing the economy his idiot boss is doing his best to utterly wreck, which would suit the purposes of the “R” party pretty well actually...when I listen to this fraud speak about what he thinks is best for our end-stage capitalist economy. I wonder what his definition of “work” truly is...I mean, it can’t be someone trying to cobble a living together working two or more crappy service jobs including gig work like Grub Hub or Door Dash deliveries on top of Walmart and/or Amazon, for example; I would imagine anyone doing that is trying to hang on until they can somehow retire early, which at this stage they can’t do unless they’re about 62..oh, but if someone can somehow endure that for an additional year, Oz thinks that could help contribute an extra trillion dollars (and as Page says, despicable frauds like OZ NEVER say that about SNAP benefits, ACA credits, extending the child tax credit, or other stuff that would actually do some good)...good discussion IMO from Page about what you could call the multiplier benefit of funding SNAP and how that helps local businesses providing food assistance and how those using that benefit can use their savings to aid our economy in other ways, with every dollar spent on SNAP results in $2 of economic activity (something Trumpist wingnuts will never understand)...you would think Repugs would embrace something that increases GDP with a great return on investment, but you’d be wrong of course because the punishment is the point (and I LOVE his Philly health care worker example, which I think is a damn lie anyway; see my earlier comment about someone working in a gig economy job in addition to another service job, with this example in health care...and no, I don’t condone criminal behavior either, again, assuming that even happened...tripe like that is nothing but a sop to the suburban conservative boomer audience watching that business channel...”it’s those damn minorities stealing from hard working white people again, Gertrude!”)...also, I think it’s particularly rich for Oz to site COVID as an example of people running scams, since companies in which he owned stock received forgivable PPP loans, as noted here (and why the hell should he be allowed to receive earnings from those companies while those loans are outstanding, then?)...

...and what would a Trumpist enterprise be without yet another lying scam? I’ll let Jonathan Pie take a shot at answering that (NSFW/H of course)...

...and I guess it's about time for this tune, with autumn closing in, as the other song goes.

Wednesday Stuff

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 21:07:08 +0000

This is your occasional reminder that our PA-01 U.S. House Rep Brian Fitzpatrick still refuses to debate Dem challenger Bob Harvie, along with the fact that Bri-Fi hasn’t held a face-to-face town hall with constituents for-freaking-evah.

To begin, Thom Hartmann speaks with Robert Greenwald of Brave New Films about How Billionaires Are Controlling All Of Our Media...apparently, Greenwald has a new production called “Murdering 60 Minutes,” which actually mimics the format of the show before it was trashed by Bari Weiss...Greenwald draws the line from the Ellisons (David in charge of CBS, and trying to acquire CNN) right to the IDF, which for my money is a terror organization in its own right...we learn that 12 state Attorneys General have filed suit to prevent Paramount/Skydance from taking over Warner Brothers, with a March court date coming up...sounds like the Ellisons over-leveraged themselves to try and make this awful acquisition, and yeah, that means that still more people will lose jobs to try and make up for that...and as Greenwald says, social media is by no means immune from the pressure of oligarchs who want only their message to get out...

...and Jesse Dollemore lets us know that Cantaloupe Capone and SecDef Kegseth intend to steal $$ from the NIH for the Iran War...yeah, who needs research into studying allergies and infectious diseases when it’s time to kill brown-skilled people on the other side of the world?...Rosa DeLauro is frequently the target of wingnut umbrage, mainly because she doesn’t take any sh*t, and she demonstrates that again here...good point that, given the obscene funding of the DoD, imagine what kind of mismanagement is going on that apparently the Trumpers think it’s necessary to steal dough from elsewhere in our government to wage yet another damn pre-emptive war launched by a Repug *preznit...

...and Logical Leftist Jeff Waldorf tells us about another judge blocking #47’s birthright citizenship order, the latest in a series of legal smackdowns on this issue...even the High Court of Hangin’ Judge JR said, “naaah...this violates the 14th Amendment of the Constitution,” so Combover Caligula ignored that and tried again, and Judge Deborah Boardman (judge for the U.S. District Court of Maryland) blocked it again, citing the SCOTUS ruling...leave it to this gaggle of idiots to come up with the term “birth tourism,” as if an expectant mother risks her life to come here to book a cruise on Royal Caribbean...as Waldorf says, it’s so far beyond pathetic that this wretched administration keeps wasting time and money on losing causes like this while ignoring the issues that matter most to the majority of this country...

...and Farron Cousins brings us some data to tell us that Gen Z voters are done with Trump...31 percent of those who supported him now regret it, with 28 percent of millennials feeling that way also, along with 20 percent of Gen X’ers and 10 percent of boomers, which is still way too low for that latter cohort IMO...also, 93 percent of Gen Z’ers (about 49 million) plan to vote in the election (you paying attention, Dems? You plan to give these folks a reason to support you??)...

...and heading “across the pond,” Jonathan Pie presents the latest on The Reform Witch Hunt, with Nigel Farage and “loose pub talk”...looks like Farage got a bare minimum of scrutiny and then started crying like a little bitch over what the UK “Reform” party is up to (more here) – sound familiar??...NSFW/H...

..and I think the title of this song should be our mantra as we move ever closer to November 3rd.

Tuesday Stuff

Tue, 08 Sep 2026 14:48:36 +0000

(The individual who took this Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of a returning POW during the Vietnam War passed away a short time ago as we learn here, and as wonderful as the moment is that he captured...well, let’s just say there was more to the story, and I’ll leave that there.)

To start, Josh Gay of Ring of Fire tell us that the Department of Labor for Mango Mussolini is eliminating a report/spreadsheet used to investigate potential hiring discrimination based on race and sex, because of course...”whoever controls that data controls what you can prove” indeed, and Trumpette Andrea Lucas, chair of the EEOC, decided to stop collecting the data...oh, but Lucas is apparently running a case against Nike, saying the company discriminates against white employees (and if you believe that, I have a bridge to one of the five New York boroughs to sell to you)...I didn’t know this came from that accursed Project 2025, but that tracks too, I have to say...also didn’t know the EEOC processed 88K worker complaints, winning $660 million for over 17K workers (and when it comes to Labor Day and the Trumpers, this isn’t surprising I know)...

...and John and Yasmin Khan of The Damage Report inform us that a Canadian pollster has found that there’s push back not only against #47, but other Repugs running for Congress, with Dem U.S. Senate candidates leading in 4 of 5 races, and yes, I know this is just one poll...the only one where a Repug is up is in South Carolina, where Darline (“Don’t Know Much About Foreign Policy”) is ahead...and once again, it’s independent voters pushing back the hardest in this poll...God blees the Canadians in that poll who still have a favorable opinion about this country (around 74 percent) despite all the Trumpist bullsh*t (and by the way, the Canadian tariffs are due to kick in today)...

...and sticking with our neighbors to the north, David Shuster of Rebel HQ tells us that it looks like Don The Con’s name change of Lake Ontario to Lake America was every bit the mistake you can imagine it to be with the “MAGA faithful”...and oh yeah, that goes for the stinking tariffs also (63 percent opposed according to the poll cited here, separate from the one in the Damage Report clip I believe)...and oh yeah, Apple Maps and Google Maps (which went along with this idiotic name change) have been deleted by “hundreds of thousands” – serves them right...and the inverse applies to MapQuest IMO...good job in this report to show the economic impact to this typical idiocy from Bronzer Beelzebub on both sides of the border (and I sincerely hope that Canadian town renames the streets and gets rid of the New York references because we deserve it)...

...and this is another typically well-done IMO report from More Perfect Union, this time from Salwa Shameem who tells us what’s really going on with this “Board of Peace” grift, led by Wonder Boy Jared Kushner...looks like they want to glass Gaza and the people and turn it into another playground for the ultra-rich...oh, and the World Bank Fund that was supposed to contain funds for Gaza’s reconstruction is completely tapped out, with some of the dough going to J.P. Morgan...oh, and it looks like the U.N. Security Council is another rubber stamp on behalf of the corporations trying to make bank out of all of this despicable suffering (author Casey Michel is interviewed)...oh, and it looks like every member country trying to join this board has to pay a billion up front (and as luck would have it, the board is approved before the charter is finalized, which is NOT how this stuff is supposed to work, to my knowledge)...also, Our Treasonous Orange Pustule remains as chairman of the board even after he no longer resides in An Oval Office (so many levels of grift going on here...someone, or a group of folks, are going to have to try and investigate this at some point, including hidden bank accounts)...no mention of Gaza in the charter, as we also learn...and apparently, Kushner’s “Affinity Partners” is the group making inroads overseas to other shadowy outfits for funding (and it links back to those damn West Bank settlements)...one of my questions is what kind of military involvement this country may get roped into to preserve this scam operation (I don’t think private contractors by themselves will “cut it,” at least not without help); if anybody thinks there WON’T be some kind of “intifada” in response, then you haven’t been paying attention...also, “Little Marco” is trying to dismantle the ICC, which could hold all of the miscreants mentioned here accountable (I can’t help but recall how much our supposedly august members in “the world’s greatest deliberative body” were in such a rush to confirm Rubio as Secretary of State because they thought he was “in the club”...the phrase ”so-called international law” is another typical F-U from the Trump regime)...”war will always be a money maker” – sadly, I think that’s about right...

...and America’s Finest News Source is on the beat again with another timely clip (just kidding...this is a repeat, but I think it’s pretty spot-on for now)...

...and happy belated 75th birthday to Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders...this tune was the lead-in to Flush Limbore’s radio show and he used it without permission of course, so Hynde quite rightly took him to court...I believe the terms of the settlement were that he could continue to use it as long as it didn’t include Hynde’s vocals and Limbaugh made a contribution to PETA (a favored Hynde charity), which I though was a good way to take care of the matter FWIW.

Monday Stuff

Mon, 07 Sep 2026 13:56:06 +0000

Here is a clip reminding us of the importance of today's holiday, as well as of the labor movement overall (more here , here, here, here, and a true relic is here...and as noted here, the beat goes on, you might say)…

...also, this story tells us about the Chicago Labor Day March, with the theme of workers over billionaires (rallying at Haymarket, which is a storied location in the history of organized labor, as noted in the first video)...

...and this tells us about the nurses’ protests at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, highlighted by a one-day strike followed by a four-day lockout by management in July...the core issues are wages and cost-of-living adjustments along with nurse/patient staffing ratios and charges of unfair labor practices...my understanding is that negotiations are ongoing...more here...

And as long as I’m including a clip about vitally important health care workers, I have to add something.

A very dear and beloved family member works in health care (taking care of an elderly population), and it is an absolute horror show at her employer, who generally is good (and this scenario is replaying itself with other facilities of this type). The reason is the cut in Medicare/Medicaid funding from The Big Beautiful Clusterf*ck; all of these places are scrambling to make up the lost revenue (and that’s why situations occur where LPNs show up for work and they’re definitely needed for the type of adult population which is prone to accidents such as slips and falls, but these LPNs are told to go home because there’s no funding for them). Oh, and facilities of this type are cited by the state which regulates this business (oh, excuse me...in PA, it’s the ”commonwealth), so there’s added pressure to comply if they fall short (and again, they’re falling short for staffing reasons because the reimbursement from the government was cut out). I sincerely hope you don’t have a family member receiving care at one of these places that is experiencing issues of this type, but if they are, I likely just stated the reason.

If you’re reading this, I realize you’re not likely to vote for a Republican. But if somehow you’re inclined to do so, because of that horrible bill alone (which is catastrophic for health care for all of us and just rewards the ”pay no price, bear no burden” bunch yet again), I just have one question: Are you out of your f*cking mind???!!!!

...and here is a report on the Long Island Railroad workers strike last May...a tentative agreement was reached after three days...

...and Robert Reich tells us about 5 ways to strengthen labor and the middle class of this country...video is 12 years old, but it still has some good points about leveling the playing field, you might say, for workers...and I’m pretty sure the minimum wage adjusted for productivity and inflation is around $15 an hour now (what the federal minimum wage should be, I mean)...good idea about increasing the Earned Income Tax Credit also (and let's not forget this, by the way)...

Update 9/2/24: Well said.

Update: For Bluesky folks, I offer this.

...and here is a tune for the holiday.

Dueling Grumpy Cats!

Mon, 15 Sep 2014 03:24:00 +0000

A little "Calling it a Night", mood music! - Sam Smith - "Stay With Me"

Mon, 15 Sep 2014 03:07:09 +0000

Nightly News in a Minute!

Mon, 15 Sep 2014 02:59:16 +0000

Hillary and Bill Clinton in Iowa, "We are Back!", just not officially running for president yet. Unofficially, game on!

Powerful, "Hurricane Odile", looming for a direct hit on Mexico's resorts region!

Team USA slam dunks home a epic win, with a rout of Serbia, winning the Basketball World Cup Championship!

White House, we are ready to arm Syrian rebels like yesterday, Congress, please vote, so we can spend more money we don't have!

Scottish aid worker David Haines beheaded by ISIS, brother Mike Haines mourns, condemns continued evil and vile acts of murder and violence!

The Queen of England, "Think very carefully about the future!", Kind of sounds like a thin veiled threat aimed squarely at the Scottish people voting for independence!

The "Real Truth" about Kanye West's wheelchair rant? Does this guy like to cause his own pain? Seriously?

YouTube video of the Kanye West wheelchair incident!

You are living under a rock if you haven't noticed Hillary Clinton is the Queen Incarnate or President-Elect frontrunner if she chooses to run!

Mon, 15 Sep 2014 03:23:20 +0000

Hillary is once again putting her name and face out in the public's eye. The (non) candidate (cough, cough) was welcomed to a mixed reception of DNC loyalists.

Bill and Hillary Clinton were the keynote speakers at the final Harkin Steak Fry on the hot-air balloon grounds outside Indianola, south of Des Moines. The event served as an emotional commemoration of Harkin's 40 years in Congress and a rallying cry for Democrats in the 2014 midterm elections.

Hillary Clinton has not been in Iowa since her 2008 caucus loss to now-President Barack Obama. Harkin dubbed the Clintons the "comeback couple," though he has not said if he would endorse Clinton if she runs, saying he wants her to make her decision first.

Clinton played coy on her 2016 plans, telling the crowd, "I am thinking about it." She concluded by saying, "It's really great to be back, let's not let another seven years go by."

Politically-wise, I really wish she would come out in the open and say what is really on her mind.

She's going to run, and the whole world expects this.

She's a Clinton, a political mastermind, a pitbull that stood face to face with moronic tools on Congress who tried to embarrass her in well-staged, choreographed congressional inquiries, and she held her ground and embarrassed every Congressional RNC windbag that tried to come after her.

I think those like Karl Rove forget whom they are dealing with.

This woman smoothed the road for Bill Clinton's 1st and 2nd presidential races and electoral stints, even with a president-elect who could not keep his penis in his pants or stay away from Big Macs at McDonald's.

At one point, she had to do the political equivalent of the Hail Mary in saving Bill's legacy and ass, and she did it with the precision of a razor-sharp brain surgeon, quickly shutting down the whole Lewinsky debacle.

For every low blow or quick punch you sneak in, she has 5 lined up for the return blow, knocking you out, from her colleagues and closest allies.

She is very well-networked, and she has reach and influence expanding beyond our naturalized borders thanks to her stint as the "Secretary of State," or "President for dummies, foreign policy dry run" as I like to call it.

I truly believe it's not "will she run," but "when will she finally make the 'official' announcement," pushing her deep into the presidential race mode 24/7, and her losing the freedoms she enjoys as a private citizen doing high-priced speeches and helping lesser knowns, saving their political asses.

On a personal level, I don't have a horse in this race as I am a non-affiliated, independent voter that both sides will spend millions to woo, but at the end of the day, she is a Clinton, and that alone speaks volumes over what I could ever say.

I'm pretty confident that the term President-Elect Hillary Clinton could be spoken in the very near future, and I honestly feel very sorry for the sacrificial lamb the RNC totes out to be mangled and utterly destroyed.

It will be amazing and explosive political theater to watch, and I will enjoy my seat from the sidelines, taking it all in.

Again, I repeat this: she's a Clinton, enough said.

Do you really know what is going on? Do you really care? (Op-ed)

Mon, 15 Sep 2014 03:05:39 +0000

I really love the meaning of this quote and meme. There are so many important things going on this world that people don't either care to educate themselves about or speak up when they see something unethical or illegal going on. It's this lack of care or lack of using energy for things like activism and supporting an important cause that those with evil intentions feed off.

If the populace is going to keep happily living in the shadows, there is no need for those who purposely do nefarious things to ever worry about accountability or being outed in the public.

Quite simply, by lack of action, the masses are giving their seal of approval, supporting things they most likely wouldn't if they had all of the facts in front of them and knew how the deeds would be effecting them, be it short term or long term, good or bad.

One of my favorite REM songs kind of sums it up: "It's The End Of The World As We Know It." The lyrics kind of summarize what I'm saying here.

People are either scared, told that if they speak up or out they will be labelled terrorists in this post 9-11 era, or they are so involved in their vices -- alcohol, sex, tv, drugs, and technology -- that their attention is diverted from the crimes going on around them, that they don't even notice a travesty happening right in front of their noses.

It's by design, I believe.

If you are entranced in this digital age --Facebook, text messaging, YouTube, your favorite TV shows; all at the minimalist ground level -- you aren't being observant about your civil liberties, privacy, or the things in your bedroom that no one should legislate or have intimate knowledge of which are being violated, legislated, or actively being spied on (NSA).

I learned one thing a long time ago, that still rings true even today: perception is not always reality.

What if the perception you have has always been forcefed since birth, so the reality you believe that is real is just a forced reality that does not exist, but you are in too deeply conscious-wise to tell the difference?

Basically, what you read in the papers, what you see on the evening news, even what is tought in your pre-approved history books (remember, the victors always write history!) is almost all a complete mirage or mental pre-conditioning to breed a civil and controllable society.

You have this false notion that everything is hunky dory or just about as good as it will ever be, so you pretty much never question anything and by design, you are extremely controllable and subservient.

I tend to subscribe to the above theory.

Think about it; certain segments in our society growing up match up perfectly here.

You go to a public school, and the goal of the entire system is conformity and establishing the class system.

You are taught to be quiet and do your work, but stay with the flow and do your expected work.

You quickly are a part of the social circles; the wealthy, the athletes, the geeks, the goths, and the reclusive people (the loners) start to form.

You go to college or straight into the work force and those divisions and classifications further cement themselves.

You go to college, you get student loans, and you are stuck with $80,000 in student loans; debt that hangs over your head like a 100 pound weight.

You have to make every payment regardless of other needs, or the system designed to help you get into and pay for college will destroy you and your credit. No filing bankruptcy, no getting away from it; they practically come after you.

If you go the straight-to-work route, you are stuck in a menial food service/sales job or a factory job where you are living paycheck to paycheck, barely making ends meet, and the fact you need the job(s) to survive is held over your head like a guillotine. Fairness, decency, and even a living wage are denied to you, Joe Q. Public, with the thought by management that there are 10

other Joes there who are unemployed who would love your job.

You have an innate fear of being homeless, of losing your vehicle(s) you cannot really afford and the house that you are not upside down on because of several vulturous refinances of your loan by banks who are slowly killing you financially like a cancer, simply because of their greed.

It's all stacked up against you.

Remember, he who controls your debt, the ability to put you in debt or a moment of living crisis, controls you.

Please, repeat after me: I love my country, and I'm free?

What I'm saying is this: since birth, you have no way to really win in this life, and it is all done by design. Unless you went to school with a chauffeur dropping you off to a school system that is very private, only the world's best-off attend, you never had a chance.

It was that way on purpose, and it will always be that way.

You will always tread water in one way or another, while those with so much will laugh and mock you from their golden perches way above you, enjoying the sight of you struggling but never getting ahead.

You will be the butt of their jokes, the memes they pass around on their invite-only Facebook-like networks for them and their über-wealthy friends.

My final thought is this:

There is no American dream; the often famed story of that guy who was another "rags to riches story," who went from being penniless to an overnight millionaire.

This is the real, cold, harsh world, and that shit just doesn't happen here.

"By the sweat of your brow will you have food to eat until you return to the ground from which you were made. For you were made from dust, and to dust you will return." - Genesis 3:19.

The above bible verse sums it up nicely.

You were poor, made from dust, and you will return to the ground poor, as dust once again. Never really had a chance, and when gone, you or your lineage moving forward won't either.

And like I said before, this is all by design.

You're welcome....

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Sun, 31 Aug 2014 16:17:17 +0000

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Dennis Williams, a homeless friend, used and abused by a bad church!

Fri, 08 Aug 2014 02:11:58 +0000

A decent guy in my opinion and a guy possibly set up for a crime he did not commit was most likely used and abused by our former church, and then sent back to prison by the very same people that used him as a pawn in their evil schemes.

I first met Dennis during a cold early March drive to a food bank in New Albany, Graceland Baptist.
He was wearing a heavy coat, very quite and reserved as many homeless people I have met are and was a man kind of quiet and to himself.

As I later became more involved in church activities, and volunteer work, I got to meet and see Dennis more and more.

He wasn't a bad guy in my mind, just a guy who had made a ton of bad choices and no one really gave him a chance to get back on his feet.

He lived under a bridge by the #4 Clarksville exit of I65 and never really came around people other than hanging out at McDonald's, helping with church tasks going to Exit O stops for food or hanging around with me when I'd run places.

His biggest problem is the fact I think he tried to be a people please and please everyone. He was the atypical homeless guy, afraid to tick off those who were helping him, for they might cut him off or not help him get to the things he needed.

I guess he did a hard, long job search and people would use his criminal status against him. He would tell me over and over again about people being rude or abrasive telling him they don't hire his type there.

I guess his therapy group leader at his court ordered therapy would attack and threaten him and he'd hold the line and give it back.

The threat of sending him back to prison did nothing against a guy like Dennis who had been in the rotten system for 10 years. He would say, over an over again, that he'd rather go back than wear the stupid bracelet and deal with the constant harassment that comes along with it.

After I had came out of the hospital, I had heard that Dennis was now in prison, to serve out the remainder of his term.

I don't know 100% for sure, but I bet this is how his screw job unfolded.
They (Blair Birge or others involved) offered him help with staying out, maybe a guarantee and food, something of value or money in turn for his false testimonies.
He took there deal as he is a homeless guy with nothing often and it sounded like a win, win.

He was an active participant in the 3-4 deliberate false DCS complaints, backing up their already made up and evil lies, meant to hurt me and my family.

When they thought they had delivered the death blow and our world was going to end, so sad it didn't, they sent him packing to prison.
Who is going to believe the tales of a guy in prison trying to tell people how a supposedly great church put a loving family through Hell on purpose for speaking out?

I don't fault Dennis in all of this.
I fault Blair Birge

, any pastors or elders at the Southeast Indiana Campus,

a satellite church of Southeast Christian Church in Louisville, who had a hand in this evil scheme.

(http://www.southeastchristian.org/ , they worship Neo-conservative Republican Jesus there.)

I liken their motivations and lack of Christian values to the actions of the Pharisee's, scholars/ elders and Sudacee's who tried time and time again to lure Jesus into a trap with false witness and lies.

God knows my heart, the father of the victims family, the heart of my wife and our desire and willingness to serve and walk with the Lord.
We aren't going to stop being disciples or helping others because of the works of evil men, no, just the opposite, we are going to pick it up another notch.

We are going to warn the masses though about the hidden dangers of huge mega churches and what certain Hell does ensue if you do the right thing and speak out.

Together | LeBron James

Sat, 01 Nov 2014 01:51:27 +0000

Get a Special Look at Marvel's "Avengers: Age of Ultron"

Sat, 01 Nov 2014 01:50:56 +0000

Пореченков в донецком аэропорту

Sat, 01 Nov 2014 01:50:29 +0000

The Colbert Report: Gamergate - Anita Sarkeesian

Sat, 01 Nov 2014 01:49:58 +0000

Sam Smith/Ed Sheeran - Stay With Me (Manchester Albert Hall 29/10/14)

Sat, 01 Nov 2014 01:49:25 +0000

Microsoft Band: Live Healthier

Sat, 01 Nov 2014 01:48:26 +0000

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 Final Trailer – “Burn”

Sat, 01 Nov 2014 01:47:01 +0000

Daniel Radcliffe Raps Blackalicious' "Alphabet Aerobics"

Sat, 01 Nov 2014 01:24:03 +0000

T-Pain: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

Sat, 01 Nov 2014 01:23:40 +0000

Iraqi Pershmerga arrive in Kobani to fight ISIL!

Sat, 01 Nov 2014 01:11:24 +0000

Ohio Governor Kasich pretends that oppenent doesn't exist - The video Kasich tries to suppress!

Sat, 01 Nov 2014 01:09:48 +0000

Halloween 2014 Light Show. Queen, Bohemian Rhapsody. Thomas Halloween Ho...

Fri, 31 Oct 2014 23:57:28 +0000

4 Psychological Terms That You're Using Incorrectly

Fri, 31 Oct 2014 23:35:34 +0000

Get a Special Look at Marvel's "Avengers: Age of Ultron"

Wed, 29 Oct 2014 21:38:26 +0000

Epic, can't wait to see this movie! -

Minority Report like FBI computer system is now a reality and out in the wild!

Mon, 15 Sep 2014 22:28:09 +0000

Minority Report was a sci-fi thriller that showed how future law enforcement would possible use precognition software to arrest people for future crimes and track citizens pretty much anywhere in the US or the world even, with a vast network of high tech cameras watching your every move.

It seems life has immitated art once again:

The FBI's Next Generation Identification (NGI) system is now fully operational, after more than three years of development. The bureau announced today that development on the project is complete, and it would be rolling out new features for ongoing criminal notifications as well as a controversial facial recognition feature called the Interstate Photo System, or IPS. IPS will serve as "an image-searching capability of photographs associated with criminal identities," according to the release.

The facial recognition system has come under fire from privacy groups for mixing traditional mug shot photos with non-criminal faces pulled from employment records and background check databases. The system is expected to collect as many as 52 million faces in total.

My only questions are these.
Who is watching the watchers and guaranteeing that the data and images collected are used properly and not abused for malicious purposes. (NSA)
And isn't the idea of being tracked from point A, to point B, to point C, not a democratic society ideal, but something more likened to Communists, Warlords or Dictaitors?
The possibilities and implications for abuse are just overwhelming and too numerious.

Google bring the Android One ultra-cheap smartphone to the developing world!

Mon, 15 Sep 2014 21:54:13 +0000

Google bridges the gap Android wise between the west, and the rest of the developing world...

Google has unveiled the first smartphones to run on its Android One platform, a standard designed to help push affordable smartphones in the developing world.

Android One devices will ship with support for more languages, including Hindi, and feature more local publications in Google Play Newsstand. Google is also making a special version of YouTube available which will allow Indian users to download videos and re-watch them multiple times without incurring excessive data charges. The first phones are expected to retail for 6399 rupees ($105).

I have to say that I am very impressed, and even though I'm sure profit motives are partially behind this push to reach into the mulit-million strong untapped market, many in the developing world will get to enjoy their first android phone expereince with a phone that actually has pretty good specs.

The initiative kicks off in India, where Micromax, Spice, and Karbonn are all selling phones with 4.5-inch screens, 1GB of RAM, 5-megapixel main and 2-megapixel front cameras,1.3GHz quad-core MediaTek processors, dual-SIM slots, microSD expandable storage, and FM radios.

The future smartphone wise is very bright for those in developing nations , and those users will even get to enjoy the much anticipated Android L operating system experience.
I'm very happy to see this push regardless the motivation, as knowledge truly is power, and those in these regions will now get a chance to view media and cultures they have been previously shut out from.

Nice, a win, win in my book....

Insulting, but funny!

Mon, 15 Sep 2014 03:26:34 +0000

I'm a religious guy, and I found this funny!

Mon, 15 Sep 2014 03:25:33 +0000

Friday Stuff

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 15:14:30 +0000

Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian of TYT bring us up to date on the latest nonsense with this “Freedom Fuel” scam from Dementia Donnie (and yes, I realize Ana knows Philadelphia isn’t a state, so I’ll overlook that for now)...also, I have no issue with her snark about Israel because I think she’s right...and the price of gas at these shyster outfits has gone back to the market rate, huh? Figures...sooo, according to the inevitable-in-this-case lawsuit, somebody named Syed Kazmi and his brother purchased $4 million in fuel and then his company, KRSM, proceeded to stiff the outfit he bought the gas from (Mansfield Energy), allegedly of course; hard to root for anybody here I’ll admit...an “accounting dispute” over misplaced invoices, huh? Interesting euphemism for theft I’ll admit (again, allegedly)...I think Cenk goes off the rails a bit here when talking about the Kochs (more on what he’s talking about is here), though I’m sure he has a point in another context...also, the Kazmis have a history of pulling stuff like this, as we learn (whoopsie!)...

via GIPHY

...and when it comes to financial nonsense from the “party of Lincoln,” Repug U.S. Senator Ashley Moody of Flori-DUUH! was caught skimming about $10 mil from a children’s health fund (here) – also allegedly of course...maybe I’m more sympathetic than I should be towards the grand jury that found so much damn corruption between Moody and outgoing governor #DeathSantis and his wife that they couldn’t sort through all of it to file charges; what a goddamn cesspool!...but oh, “Governor Fancy White Boots” predictably shows his ire towards the leaker of the report to the grand jury, as opposed to admit getting caught red handed (yeah, a naïve thought on my part I’ll admit about #DeathSantis showing anything approximating contrition)...definitely an opportunity to get a word in here for Angie Nixon, and yeah, I know it’s Flori-DUUH!, but we need to fight as best we can anyway...

...and David Shuster of Rebel HQ brings us more sordid tales of financial mismanagement from the regime of Bronzer Beelzebub – it’s really a shame that we apparently don’t have actual, honest-to-goodness adults in this administration who know what the hell to do about the bond market (here)...definitely above my pay grade, but as noted, higher bond yields makes lending/borrowing more difficult (in response to inflation and debt, by both countries and corporations...and oh yeah, Our Tiny-Handed Egomaniac’s war of choice versus Iran isn’t helping either)...oh, but the stock market is doing great, so everything is fine, except for the fact that the stock market is riding the ”sugar high,” if you will, of the AI bubble, and when that pops, it will be everyone for themselves...also no insight on whether or not Vlad The Butcher will try to nuke Ukraine, God forbid, which would also impact neighboring countries covered under NATO’s Article V...is it time to start drinking heavily yet?...

...and Josh Gay of Ring of Fire tells us that there’s nothing to see here, just the Gropenfuhrer’s DOE posting a video equating Our Ochre Abomination with a certain German Nazi guy from the 1930s and 40s (from that Gary Oldman move about Churchill); of course, since we’re talking about the regime of Our Treasonous Orange Pestilence, they were too dumb and/or too arrogant to care...I’d forgotten that the ruinous plan for the DOE was to shut down the whole damn agency (yeah, who needs an educated and trained workforce to compete for jobs in the 21st century, amirite?)...

...and David Doel tells us that it looks like Fix Noise shill Maria Bartiromo is out of a job, though I have no doubt that our cretinous ruling regime will find a spot for her somewhere...well, at least Mike Huckabee has praise for him/her (???)...and I guess we need to revisit Our Sweaty Orange Bronzer Boy whining for the zillionth time about the 2020 election – God willing, one day we won’t have to be inflicted with this nonsense any more...looks like Oliver Darcy got the lowdown on all of this; regardless of who you are, you can’t violate the policy of your employer as Bartiromo did in sharing internal information, especially with THIS White House (slightly NSFW/H)...

...and RIP Gloria Steinem; Willie Geist hosts a look back at her life and career...among her many accomplishments was advocacy for the Equal Rights Amendment, which guaranteed equal legal rights regardless of sex (will always remember how that privileged, insulting harpie...and I could think of worse names for her...Phyllis Schlafly sabotaged it)...with Susan Page, Eugene Robinson and Jonathan Lemire (good point about the ridicule Steinem endured from the usual wingnut suspects, and I’m sure they’ll still have the “knives out” even though Steinem has passed)...

...and I have to admit that I’m liking these little musical numbers from Jesse Welles more and more...

...and since we’re heading into the Labor Day weekend, it’s time once more for some “Friday with Frank.”

Wednesday Stuff (updates)

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 14:20:40 +0000

This is your periodic reminder that our PA-01 U.S. House Rep Brian Fitzpatrick won’t come out of hiding and debate his Democratic challenger Bob Harvie running in this fall’s election.

Update 9/3/26: And what is Bri-Fi focused on? Inflation? Our disintegrating economy? Health insurance? Ensuring that our elections proceed fairly without interference? The damn Iran war?

No. He voted to make sure the SCOTUS justice count remains at 9, as noted here (the procedural motion failed).

Update 9/4/26: Oh, and I thought this was a pretty damn interesting little nugget from our PA-01 U.S. House Rep (about why he plans to pass on the “Trump-a-looza Repug Mid-Term Convention” as noted here)...

“I’m not a party guy,” said Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) said in an interview Tuesday, explaining why he won’t be in Texas next week. “I believe in ending the two-party system. Get back to our roots as a country.”

Oh really, Brian? You’re making it known that you have a problem with conflicting opinions and points of view and arriving at a mutual consensus? “L’etat c’est moi,” you might say?

Typical for a Trumpist lickspittle like you to feel that way.

And just to briefly go “meta,” I’ll point out that I try to include videos here about issues that affect people’s lives, though sometimes I know I get caught up in the political circus, you might say...however, this clip from Rachel Maddow falls into a whole other category as far as I’m concerned...she discusses the Gropenfuhrer dishonoring those who helped us in wartime by deporting these brave individuals to the Central African Republic (people who were promised that they could come to this country, but have now been deported to where a civil war is ongoing and naturalized citizens of this country are told to stay away from...we tell anybody going there to have a DNA sample on file so they can be identified after they’re dead, as we learn)...oh, and those deported to that awful place may end up going back to the countries from which we took them, which could likely be a death sentence – basically, if our military needs to rely on intelligence from folks on the ground in the future, the locals will never trust us again because we didn’t keep our word...kudos to Marine Col. Zachary Schmidt for standing up and doing the right thing here...and oh yeah, we’re also doing this to Iranians who helped us (and letting the Iranian government “hand pick” the people they want sent back, even though we’re bombing the crap out of their country, which is a whole other atrocity we’re committing for Israel)...hard to contain my rage towards our disgusting ruling regime over this to tell you the truth...

...and speaking of deportations, “Logical Leftist” Jeff Waldorf informs us that ICE recently deported MAGA troll Milo Yiannopoulos, who cheered in mass deportations – I realize I’m probably a little late on this... would be apropos if he were shipped off to CECOT or the Central African Republic (such a benign sounding name for a place of horrors), but sending him back to the U.K. will do for now I guess...not surprised that Loopy Laura Loomer was one of the first people to do the “happy dance” over this...

...and turning from shameful cowardice by our vile ruling regime in the first video to merely idiocy on the part of those who share the same party affiliation, David Doel (definitely not him) informs us that it looks like Darline Graham (running for her dead brother’s U.S. Senate seat) stepped on the metaphorical rake again, saying her parents never had any of that dadgum “big gumint” health care, I reckon...typical for this provincial nitwit to say her Dem opponent Dr. Annie Andrews backs abortion up until birth, which ISN’T A THING BECAUSE IT’S FREAKING MURDER...good point that Graham should be forced to reject her government-provided health care if she ends up elected to the U.S. Senate (I’m sure Andrews is excellent and God bless her, but I’m tired of trying to advocate for common sense and watching life forms who obviously don’t know better continue to press the “R” button on election day)...and yes, medical debt is indeed the number one source of bankruptcy in this country (and the Big Beautiful Clusterf*ck has made the problem of trying to obtain a bare minimum of coverage MUCH worse)..NSFW/H...

...and Brian Tyler Cohen brings us another demented tweet from Combover Caligula, saying that if you don’t want a data center, then you’re “backwards and poor” according to Don The Con...sooo, as Cohen says, if you oppose jacked-up utility rates, loss of water and a constant hum 24 hours a day, particularly when trying to sleep, then you dig Uncle Ho (you can Google him) and Chairman Mao or something??? And I can’t believe I’m turning to “Kristol Mess” as the voice of reason on this, but when you’re right, you’re right...

...according to the chart Cohen presents, I think it’s pretty damn conclusive that nobody wants these damn data centers in their backyard...and oh, along comes “Couch Boy” to parrot whatever nonsense his boss comes up with, and that goes for Trumpist Jon Husted also (and Fix Noise is unintentionally hilarious...”Mamdani’s Socialist Agenda”...OOOGA BOOGA!! SCARY MUSLIM SCARY MUSLIM SCARY MUSLIM SCARY MUSLIM SCARY MUSLIM!!!!)...and when it comes to this supposed 17-year campaign starting under Obama to raise energy prices (nonsense spouted by Trumpist DOE Secretary Chris Wright), I give you this.

Here's the BTC clip...

...and I really don’t have common cause with departing Repug U.S. House Rep Thomas Massie on much of anything (I recall when he tried to own former Secretary of State John Kerry and got his lunch handed to him), but I have to give him credit for this – makes me recall this clip from The Onion...

...and we’re in the “dog days” of summer for sure – please be careful with the heat.

Tuesday Stuff

Tue, 01 Sep 2026 14:32:55 +0000

David Pakman tells us that Our Ochre Abomination wants potential Repug voters to “pretend I’m on the ballot” in November – WORKS FOR ME!!...I can’t imagine what kind of a mental defective you have to be to ONLY vote if Combover Caligula is running (which he can’t now), but we know there are millions of life forms that fall into that category...also, I’d forgotten about that beyond ridiculous mid-term convention the “party of Lincoln” is planning for Dallas in a couple of weeks – you know what? They should go for it and keep reminding everybody how entitled and out of touch they really are...Pakman is right that the strategy that makes sense is to “localize” everything – of course, that also brings up the question to me of “why the $#@! haven’t you idiots actually addressed our problems” (directed towards the party in power), but that’s just me I guess.

And of course, when Pakman talks about vulnerable Repugs, that includes this guy...

...and this report from CBC News tells us that those stinking tariffs could put Canadian liquor producers “on ice,” including one company part owned by Dan Aykroyd...as one producer notes, a 50 percent tariff basically reduces its profit to zero...we learn that more bottles of Crown Royal are sold in Texas than all of Canada, which isn’t surprising to yours truly (I’d be drinking heavily also if, God forbid, I resided in the Lone Star State)...

...and when it comes to our cattle ranchers, it looks like this scheme to import beef from God knows where is backfiring (big surprise – not!), with ranchers claiming that beef prices aren’t the biggest issue; the big problem is the price of fuel that gets passed down to consumers (I would also say a big problem is voters in farm country casting their ballots for Repugs, but that’s another matter I know)...Our Ochre Abomination’s decision to import “mystery meat” is basically stabbing our cattle ranchers in the back...this also encourages looking at other nutrition options besides beef, which, for the consumer, isn’t a bad idea I believe, though I don’t think we should tell our ranchers to kick rocks, despite what were likely some wrong-headed votes by those people...the rancher interviewed is probably spot-on about Brazilian meat packer JBS calling the shots (and apparently, our dairy industry is also getting hammered since they feel the effects of all this trade madness also)...

...and while we rightly pay tribute to Dolly Parton and her legacy of giving selflessly, Belle reminds us about the “R” team cutting funds for Parton’s book program, where free books were sent to kids under 5, particularly in Indiana and Missouri (more here)...

...and I thought this was another catchy little number from Jesse Welles...

...and I’m still deciding how much I actually like this newer tune...I wouldn’t recommend dancing like this around 12th and Norris and a lot of other spots in Philly, and probably a lot of spots in NJ as well.

Monday Stuff

Mon, 31 Aug 2026 14:36:10 +0000

Jesse Dollemore informs us that Repugs are abandoning Don The Con as they seek re-election...color me (not) shocked, but it looks like the sheeple in the Repug rank and file are FINALLY realizing just how much they’ve been played by Our Treasonous Orange Pustule...glad the men in Iowa and Texas came around, but it definitely should not have taken this utter mess to get them to vote for their self-interest (or act like they will) instead of “oh, we have to keep the gays and the trannies out of women’s sports” (which basically isn’t a thing) and “we have to make sure kids don’t get bottom surgery to change their gender” (which DEFINITELY isn’t a thing); I know there are other dog whistles out there, but I’m not going to acknowledge them because there’s no point...Jesse is spot-on in saying that elections are won and lost by independents; I wish it were by the “D” team, but that’s just the reality...he’s also right that the “party of Lincoln” knows these godawful polling numbers for sure (NSFW/H)...

...and speaking of polling, Kyle Kulinski lets us know that voters were asked about our support of Israel (is “Bibi” and his awful regime committing a genocide, should the U.S. sanction Israel, and the numbers are as bad as you’d expect...and yes, I know Dems, for the most part, were polled, so these results aren’t that surprising)...I’ll be honest; there are times I could do without some of Kyle’s hyperbole (that’s what I think it is anyway), but when it comes to Hakeem Jeffries, I’m there for all of it...I’m afraid Kyle is also right about the act we’re going to get from these centrist Dems about “oh, Netanyahu has to be reined in”...yeah, he’s PART of the problem, but it’s MUCH BIGGER than that (and I have a problem when I see Christian priests and nuns knocked down and spat upon by West Bank settlers)...NSFW/H again...

...and this Majority Report clip features NY Repug Mike Lawler bragging about kicking people off healthcare...oh, Lawler’s party “strengthened” Medicaid by – all together now – “rooting out waste, fraud and abuse”...also, as far as that nematode Jesse Watters is concerned, I realize, being a millionaire TV pundit, he doesn’t give a damn about the debt incurred by doctors, but I’m sure they’re comped to some degree by pharma companies to help pay that off in order to push certain meds (and no, that shouldn’t be happening, and I’m not trying to criticize doctors, just acknowledging the “through the looking glass” health care system in this country)...also, the “employer pays for health care” model is a dinosaur from post-World War II that we’re leaving behind, which on balance may be a good thing (but not if there’s no reliable substitute)...not familiar with the “functional unemployment” issue; I’ll have to look into that...to be honest, I get a little fed up with these people at TMR and their lazy takes at times; Lord knows I have issues with the national Dems, but the ONE THING I’ll give them credit for is that they’re pretty consistent about wanting to restore ACA credits and Medicare (totally not acknowledged by Matt Lech...I’d like to see M4A also, but whining about it won’t get anything done)...I also believed it was proved awhile back that the “Somali Medicare fraud in Minnesota” thing was utter BS, which, again, is rich coming from the political party behind this.

Oh, and here are a couple of other notes:

Anyone here illegally is unable to get SNAP or Medicaid as noted here (Lawler’s first lie).

Also, 10 million people may lose Medicaid coverage because of work requirements as noted here (oh, and the requirements are due to go into effect next January, when the elections will be over – how con-vee-nient)...

On top of that, I realize jackals like Lawler don’t care if people have medical conditions that don’t allow them to “work, volunteer or go to school” (here).

Here is the clip (also NSFW/H)...

...and I know the ICE shooting in Biddeford, Maine is behind the news cycle a bit, but I still think the fallout matters, and John Iadarola at Demcoracy Watch tells us about it...apparently there are protests also aimed at “Disappointed” Susan Collins over it as well (about freaking time)...definitely like John’s sarcasm aimed at Collins as “the woman that trusted Brett Kavanaugh”...good also for John to remind everyone that Collins voted to give ICE $38 billion, with a “b”...on a somewhat related matter, I guess we’ll see actual charges filed against Graham Platner (over the admittedly bad allegations that forced him to drop out) at around the same time that we’ll see proof of life from “Weekend at Bernie’s” McConnell...more ICE garbage is here...

...and it looks like our northern neighbors are continuing to stand up to that lumpy orange sack of trans fats, prejudice and idiocy...

...and RIP boomer-era one-hit wonder and TV star Shelley Fabares.

Friday Stuff

Fri, 28 Aug 2026 13:20:13 +0000

This is your occasional reminder that our PA-01 Repug U.S. House Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick still refuses to stick his head out of the sand and agree to debate Dem challenger Bob Harvie.

To begin, John and David Shuster bring us more nonsense from Big Hair Blackburn in Tennessee; it seems that she wants to hold onto her U.S. Senate seat until she likely wins the governor’s election (love to be wrong, but I’m probably not), so SHE gets to name her replacement, not the current Repug governor Bill Lee...a truly cosmic level of entitlement here...I mean, at least in Kentucky (where “Weekend at Bernie’s” McConnell allegedly still resides in this dimension), Gov. Andy Beshear is a Dem, so there’s at least SOME twisted logic going on with that, but Blackburn’s stunt turns the corruption meter to 11, you might say...and oh yeah, another actual, for-real election notwithstanding this nonsense would be 2030...I didn’t realize the Trumpian level of extortion going on here from Mad Marsha, but kudos to Shuster for pointing that out...

...and I thought this was an interesting report from CBS News and Aaron MacLean about why the Army is apparently turning its back on drone warfare...reading between the lines a bit, I think we got our heads metaphorically handed to us on this by Ukraine when we participated in exercises with that nation, so our “Department of WOOOAAARRR” decided, in a fit of pique, to overturn the checkboard in a huff, pick up its toys and go home...not sure how this snuck by Bari Weiss because you can be sure she would have made this sound as flattering to our ruling regime as possible...

...and Robert Reich gives us more details on the reason for high electricity bills (and it’s not just data centers)...private utility companies apparently have to rely on venture capital to build up their infrastructure – I’m old enough to remember that governmental budgets would take care of stuff like this instead of these financial vultures trying to pick us apart...utilities are supposed to submit to tight regulation to keep from price gouging, with rates set by a public utility commission (good luck with that I know)...private utilities demanded a total of $31 billion in rate increases in ’25...good idea to have a federal law banning public utilities from using ratepayer dough for political activities (again, good luck with that – not surprised to hear that we HAD a law against that that was repealed under Dubya)...another good reason here to have utility commissioners appointed rather than elected (should be the other way around I know) because of corruption to curry political favors for those running for these positions...good idea to cap utility profits and ban them from using customer dough for political activities again... as we learn, a bill tied to this in Connecticut has saved customers about $10 million...more on the Lowering Utility Bills Act is here...

...and Belle tells us more about Cantaloupe Capone threatening to tear down the Kennedy Center (and don’t expect to hear a peep out of Bri-Fi on THAT either...I know I had a reference to this in that Lawrence O’Donnell clip yesterday)...you know what my answer is? GOOD. DISPLAY TO THE WHOLE FREAKING WORLD WHAT A MENTAL PATIENT THIS GUY TRULY IS!!! And oh...now this lunatic thinks he’s an architect who can determine when a building is “structurally unsound”? Is that what I’m hearing now?...On top of that, I hadn’t paid much attention to Don The Con trying to slap his name on that carrier and ban the Navy from naming it after the more deserving African American service member (here), not because it isn’t outrageous also, but only because I have only so much time and so many hours on the day to opine on this stuff... I think commenting on all of this madness is dragging Belle down a bit – it would for me anyway – but good for her to keep going (and she doesn’t hold back at the end, nor should she)...

...and Steve Harness of Really American tells us more on Bronzer Beelzebub hated on in plenty of places here and around the world, including a sculpture of him in a trash bin in Ireland (he’s scheduled to fly there for another damn golf outing on September 12)... that piece of art from Iran looks like that Nirvana album cover, though I’m sure they could care less about copyright infringement...and with all due respect to the good people in Iowa, you made your Trumpist bed (and you’ve voted for awful Republicans for years), so go lie in it...and a negative approval rating in 47 out of 50 states for Cheetoh Hitler? It’s not like people weren’t warned (surprised by 3 that are actually positive; can’t imagine what drugs they’re taking...briefly NSFW/H)...

...and I haven’t included a clip from The Lincoln Project for a little while, but I thought this was pretty spot-on; we’re living with the awful reality I know and don’t need much of a reminder, but I still think the reminders are important from time to time...

...and RIP Tim Curry – I realize this clip is about both Curry and Eddie Murphy, which is fine (I just was never into “Rocky Horror,” but I thought Curry was great in the “Muppet Treasure Island” flick – just a matter of preference I know...I also saw him in an arty movie called "The Ploughman's Lunch" years ago, which was different to say the least)...

...and RIP also Janie Bradford, who was also a co-writer on Motown’s first hit by Barrett Strong, covered by The Beatles, among others.

Thursday Stuff

Thu, 27 Aug 2026 14:58:42 +0000

John and Aida Rodriguez tell us that Fix Noise is apparently sinking in ratings, losing about 43 percent of their key ad demographic (25-54) in a year; pass the popcorn...looks like The Roger Ailes BS Factory is learning the hard lesson that Everything That Trump Touches Dies...gee, let’s see how many reasons why their sheep-like viewers can be fed up: 1) The Iran war, 2) Our wretched economy and those stinking tariffs, 3) The general incompetence, people losing heath insurance and related facilities closing down because of the Big Beautiful Clusterf*ck, 4) The corruption, including this “meme coin” garbage, etc...I have a feeling those numbers will pick up for that channel as the elections heat up, but we’ll see...good for Rodriguez to say that you should check out information you get form any source, but you don’t have to do that for me because I’m infallible (#joke)...

...and it looks like 2 kids have died of measles in our beloved commonwealth (here), with Gov. Shapiro trying to be tactful IMO on communicating to Bobby Brainworms that, SEE, LOOK WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU SPREAD PROPAGANDA ABOUT VACCINES AND TRUSTING DOCTORS, YOU NITWIT!!! Oh, and I’m seeing some stuff online about Jr. allegedly saying that Shapiro refused help from the CDC, which 1) is something I want to see confirmed from a reputable news site, and 2) would make sense in a way since God only knows what Jr. has done to that vitally important agency...

...and Lawrence O’Donnell tells us to remember the names of Brett Shumate, Eric Hamilton and Brantley Mayers; these are the Trumpist toady DOJ lawyers that threatened to potentially tear down the Kennedy Center unless Diaper Donnie gets his name plastered on it (here and here)...Lawrence gets the reality perspective from Andrew Weissmann on the latest garbage from our ruling regime about mail-in voting from our Philistines in robes...good point by Weissmann that our six judicial lunatics referenced the Trumpist garbage language about securing elections in their ruling, which indeed is a bad sign (the High Court of Hangin’ Judge JR screws the metaphorical pooch once again)...

...and Josh Gay of Ring of Fire brings us an update on the Gropenfuhrer’s typically idiotic trade war with our northern neighbors...I’m surprised he didn’t want to rename Lake Ontario to Lake Mar-a-Lago, but give him time I guess...didn’t know about the American Indian derivation of the name; something else we appropriated from another culture...oh, and I guess, for the hell of it, #47 decides to invoke the dead brother of Ontario premier Doug Ford who also was addicted to crack cocaine – yeah, why resist behind a stupid assh*le to the fullest extent possible (and I’m not referring to Ford)...I don’t know exactly what it says about Our Treasonous Orange Pustule that he said something in a tweet that was the EXACT OPPOSITE of what his negotiators are saying (about protesting French Canadians actually speaking French), except to emphasize further that we’ve been in 25th Amendment territory for-freaking-evah...

...and with the prior video in mind, I give you the following (nicely done)...

...and if you’re looking for a mellow newer tune to help wind down the week, well, here it is.

Tuesday Stuff

Tue, 25 Aug 2026 20:35:29 +0000

Farron Cousins brings us the news that a PA Democrat won a state house seat that had been held by Repugs for 30 years – an individual named Brandon Dukes emerged as the winner (and that included Butler, Pa., where Our Treasonous Orange Pestilence was allegedly shot in the ear that time)...I’ll grant Cousins’s point that something big may indeed be going on, but 1) Dems need to know how to capitalize on that, and I think many do (but others don’t), and 2) We have a looong way to go until November, and you just KNOW that the “party of Lincoln” is going to be pulling every lowdown trick in the book to try and hang onto power, so we just need to keep up our efforts until after the election is said and done...

...and Thom Hartmann tells us about the Gropenfuhrer trying to get himself a bank for his crypto scam...important that Thom points out that crypto isn’t currency by itself so its valuation could literally be anything...good discussion by Thom IMO about this “meme coin” garbage from Great Orange Satan and how the valuation is determined by how popular it is among the rubes and suckers, and also by the UAE in order to get computer chips from NVIDIA...and since enough is never enough, #47 goes to his comptroller of the currency to try and print his own money (Judas H. Priest, what a freaking nightmare!)...if this garbage infiltrates world financial markets somehow, the ’08 Recession will look like a picnic (and do you seriously trust these jackals in charge to prevent that?)...also, when it comes to the nuts and bolts of our elections, I think Greg Palast is pretty good about covering that stuff...Thom turns to this idiocy with Hakeem Jeffires at about 7:25...according to a Yale University study, M4A (opposed by Jeffries) would save 114K lives a year as Thom points out, and when even the freaking CATO Institute says it would save us $1 trillion a year, what else do you need to know for God’s sake??...also, I’m often OK with incumbent Dems losing in primaries in order to shake things up, but U.S. House Rep John Larson in Connecticut was pretty good IMO...

...and this New York Times clip includes an interview with Erika Vandermeer, the mother of a sailor onboard the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln...mercifully, the ship will be relieved by the U.S.S. George Washington, though God only knows when...it’s hard for me to be judgmental towards these fine individuals who have family members placing themselves in harm’s way for this country, but I don’t think that absolves them of the duty to follow current events and process that information to make intelligent decisions (which they plainly didn’t do when supporting Bronzer Beelzebub)...

...and Rachel Maddow informs us that “Moms For Liberty” is apparently losing its grip on politics in Flori-DUUUH...among other infamies, this is the group that fought against COVID vaccines and mask mandates at the height of the pandemic; they’re also big into book bans...maybe their most frequently used tactic was to run for school boards and win, unfortunately, particularly in Sarasota County...apparently, two Democratic candidates ran for positions on that school board, and both won, in a county where registered Repugs outnumber Dems 2-1...Maddow speaks with Megan Tennimon, one of the Dem schoolboard candidates who won their election...good sign to hear about all of the involvement of young people in the Dem campaigns here; that clueless bunch of election losers in our Beltway political/media/industrial complex for the DNC should pay attention to this and realize how important it is to build policy and a platform for future generations and forget about trying to win over these unicorn “moderates” in suburban bedroom communities who will never support you anyway...

...and as far as I’m concerned, Jesse Welles “hit it out of the park” again with this one...

...and I’ll admit that there have been plenty of other artists I paid more attention to than Dolly Parton, mainly because country music, for the most part, isn’t my thing, though I always respected folks like Patsy Cline, George Jones, Hank Williams and Loretta Lynn (and probably some others who escape me)...also, you can be sure I was put off by folks like Toby Keith who tripped over themselves trying to climb the Republican bandwagon when it was fashionable (he never did apologize to the Dixie Chicks as near as I could tell)...Dolly Parton, though, always took the opportunity to be above all that and come across as a kind, decent person (some of her philanthropy is noted here - she also donated "tens of millions" on behalf of disaster relief and medical and educational causes); that also doesn’t take into account her stature as an accomplished performer and composer...I can’t help but feel the lights dimming a bit at this moment with her passing (and once again, we lose someone in August, which seems to be a bad month for that)...RIP.

Monday Stuff

Mon, 24 Aug 2026 14:07:58 +0000

This is your occasional reminder that our PA-01 Repug U.S. House Rep Brian Fitzpatrick still refuses to stick his head out of his shell and agree to debate Dem challenger Bob Harvie.

To begin, David Pakman lets us know that it looks like Darline Graham (Repug nominee for U.S. Senator in South Carolina) can’t stop setting on that metaphorical rake...after her cosmic “duuuh” moment on the question about Taiwan and the South China Sea in that debate before she invoked her dead brother Huckleberry and her dad (and again, consider what would have happened if an answer like that had come from the mouth of a Democrat), she goes on Sean Inanity and goes all “oh, I HATE BOYS IN GIRLS’ SPORTS, so it’s all good” (like that’s an actual thing...spoiler alert: IT FREAKING ISN”T because her state, in their utter stoo-pidity, already bans trans athletes)...and again, she talks about her constituents concerned about making ends meet or whatever...REMIND ME AGAIN WHICH POLITICAL PARTY HAS COMPLETE CONTROL OF OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT!!!...and I know Pakman makes a good point about Graham likely being right about what Repug South Carolinians truly care about, which is a more damning indictment of those life forms than anything I can come up with...

...and David Shuster of Rebel HQ informs us that it looks like the AI bubble is about to burst, according to Michael Burry, the investor profiled in “The Big Short” (terrific)...didn’t know that tech stocks account for a third of the S&P credit ratings – yep, not feeling warm and fuzzy about valuations of companies like NVIDIA that are taking off basically due to speculation (over-leveraged to the hilt)...have to admit that “Human Capital Stock” Kevin Hassett does a better job of plastering that insipid smile on his face in order to lie and cover up bad news that anybody else I’ve ever seen...

...and Brittany Page takes a look at the typically cruel and ridiculous plan by Bronzer Beelzebub to keep the poor from college, beginning with a discussion of the “caste” system in India, which our ruling oligarchy very much wants to impose here also...Don The Con wants to only “comp” college students for loans based on how much money they would make in a chosen field, which has to be illegal AF, but since laws apparently don’t apply anymore, who the hell knows?...Page is spot-on to point out that the Trumpers are doing the EXACT OPPOSITE of what they SHOULD be doing, which is making education more affordable...speaking only for myself, I was once in a situation where I was between jobs and I worked part time at a bookstore; well then, since that was definitely below the projected earnings for the degree I graduated with, then would I have been ineligible for a student loan??? And oh yeah, our plutocrats in power are also changing the amount of loans that can be taken out (usurious as our student loan process is anyway) based on the course of study...and leaving off advanced nursing programs since they apparently aren’t considered as a “professional” degree? Who the hell is going to take care of the ever-aging population of this country? A CPA (and no disrespect to that profession)???...

...and checking out political stuff “across the pond,” Jonathan Pie gives a typically spot-on commentary on how our ruling gaggle of idiots plays the “blame Canada” card at every opportunity when things aren’t going well, which is all the time any more basically...what I would give for our beyond useless corporate media to say straight up that Cantaloupe Capone makes bank out of the chaos he creates (and again, that’s one of the reasons #47 hates renewable energy so much, because he can’t game the market, unless he cancels fully funded projects such as wind turbines of course)...Pie once again hits the nail on the head when it comes to the gut-churning corruption of our ruling gangster regime (NSFW/H)...

...and harking back to the Pakman clip, I give you the following from Mr. Newberger...

...and here is another seasonal selection.

Friday Stuff

Fri, 21 Aug 2026 16:25:25 +0000

Josh Gay of Ring of Fire informs us that there’s a backlog of about 121K applications for Canadian citizenship, with a surge fueled by folks in this country (big surprise), many of whom have been able to trace their ancestry back to our northern neighbor...looks like it could take two years to sift through the applications at this point...”never bet against Americans fleeing a problem we created” indeed...1,500 record requests in Quebec in a month versus 43 in the same month a year ago (I don’t think we’re going to hear another ridiculous “sir” story over THAT one...and by the way, I think Tim Horton’s coffee is really good)...

...and here’s a story on CBC News that you likely won’t find on our bought-and-paid-for corporate media, and it’s that of Loui Ridi, a Palestinian American man who returned home to defend his property from attack by Jewish settlers on the occupied West Bank, with our “ally” “Bibi” encouraging settler violence...shocked to hear Mike Huckabee refusing to rush in and defend All Things Israel, but yeah, good luck trying to put measures into place to try and prevent attacks such as those described in this clip...

...and returning to this country, Robert Reich asks “Who’s The World’s Worst Billionaire” (lots of competition here), and the nod goes to Jeff Bezos – so many reasons I know, but one is Amazon punishing other websites such as Walmart or Target by forcing them to raise prices to ensure Amazon’s competitiveness for the same product (Price Fixing 101)...we’re also reminded of Bezos contributing $1 mil to the inauguration of Cheetoh Hitler 2.0 while shelling out $75 mil for that ridiculous “Melania” alleged documentary...Bezos, along with other plutocrats of course, has chipped in on that ridiculous ballroom and emasculated the once proud WaPo...I didn’t know Bezos had also picked up $65 mil from our regime of grifters and bottom feeders for AWS, but that tracks also unfortunately...and 30K job cuts since last October, huh? Also typical...didn’t know about the man who went into cardiac arrest and died while the manager told other Amazon warehouse employees to keep working (allegedly)...I had heard about the $26 mil spent on union-busting consultants, though...

...and Jesse Dollemore brings us more polling data from CNN’s Harry Enten to indicate just how much Our Ochre Abomination is sinking among the electorate – 31 points underwater at this moment, and 47 points down with independent voters (I admit that I get steamed at the latter group from time to time because I think their voting judgment is basically “feels over reals,” if you will, but the undeniable fact is that they decide our elections)...also, when it comes to the “I” word, yes, I think you need to follow where the facts go (again, assuming Dems are in charge, and we need to work to ensure that outcome), but there is SO MUCH CORRUPTION that needs to be winnowed through that we can’t get totally bogged down in it – a tough task to be sure (and once again, thanks to idiot voters in ’24 who saw to it that we were stuck with all of this)...

...and with everything doing the “big swirl in the hopper,” you might say, the true face of MAGA and the Repug Party is showing itself, meaning that it is a hate movement above all else (in case we didn’t somehow know that already) aimed at liberals, leftists and minorities first and foremost...and right on cue, we have Joel Webbon joining the fray once more, telling “modern feminist pagan women” that they need to starve (I can recall an era when Mel Brooks would make jokes about this, but tragically, this really is the worst timeline we’re living through)...God, what a mental and emotional sewer this Webbon guy must be living in to throw out all of this judgmental garbage...I must have missed the reading in sacred Scripture where Our Lord told the destitute “you starve, glory be to God”...and oh yeah, let’s bring settler colonialism back to Africa while we’re at it, and if you oppose it, we’ll kill you...yep, using what they imagine to be Christianity to fuel their own hatred for sure...also, let’s not forget the racism and intolerance of anyone whose skin is too brown for Webbon’s liking (won’t defend Vivek R. for any other reason, I hasten to add...I hate to acknowledge that Webbon is correct about how Ramaswamy “made bank,” but he is...and “suicidal empathy”; I have to admit that that’s a new one)...Kyle Kulinski tells us about it (NSFW/H)...

...and I need to catch up a bit on my summer selections, and I definitely didn’t want to forget this one.

Thursday Stuff

Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:30:57 +0000

I was actually going to pass on the whole Darline Graham matter where she said foreign policy wasn’t her thing, or whatever, in that debate (and started wrapping herself around the memory of her dead brother, who was no great shakes either IMO, and her dad), but I thought Brian Tyler Cohen’s take on that was pretty important...as he says, this fits into the typical pattern of the Gropenfuhrer surrounding himself with people as dumb as #47 is (good commentary towards the end by Katie Porter on CNN...and once more, the corporate media double standard is on display here – does anyone seriously believe that a Dem would have received the “kid gloves” treatment if they had stepped into it like Graham did here?)...

...and speaking of double standards, David Pakman lets us know here that “President Deals” was caught using the same “cheat sheet” that Biden apparently once used (leading to weeks of ridicule for #46, but of course, since our current *preznit has “the magic R” after his name, it’s time for our corporate media to go into snooze mode)...I know Pakman knows that it’s not possible for anyone associated with Not Your Father’s Republican Party to actually be embarrassed about a damn thing, and this is more evidence of that (as if we needed it, I know)...I may look into Pakman’s book – probably an interesting read...

...and the “Logical Leftist” tells us that it looks like the typical DNC Beltway centrist election losers are back to pretend to be the adults in the room, or something, over Abdul El-Sayed’s Dem U.S. Senate primary win in Michigan, to the point where they’re actually backing a Trump Repug (including this Michael Horowitz character)??...beyond belief (well, maybe not really) that AIPAC spent $32 million to try and defeat El-Sayed (once more, love and kisses to the High Court of Hangin’ Judge JR for Citizens United)...oh, and Horowitz (along with others I’m sure) objects to El-Sayed’s endorsement from Hasan Piker (the outrage against Piker has elevated his profile more than he could ever do on his own)...glad to hear Jeff Waldorf bring up 2016 and how we more or less held our noses and “voted for Hillz” even though we supported Bernie Sanders in the Dem primary...the double standard on display here from the supposedly elite political insider class is enough to make me retch (and I seem to recall Carville saying there was no room for both him and Piker in the party or something, but if Carville has come around to supporting El-Sayed, then good for him)...hard to overstate how important it is that we hold Michigan; no chance on getting the Senate if we don’t (a related item is here)...

...and speaking of corporate insider Dems, Tennessee Brando (definitely not him) tells us about that utter train wreck of an appearance on “Meet The Press” by Hakeem Jeffries where he repeatedly said that Medicare For All isn’t a priority for him, with M4A supported by – gee, I dunno – ABOUT 65 FREAKING PERCENT OF THIS COUNTRY!!! Brando is right for sure about everyone needing to be unified against Our Ochre Abomination, especially since our corporate media will be inflicting all of their “Dems In Disarray” narratives whether they’re actually warranted or not...if somehow the projected “blue wave” turns into a “blue trickle,” though, it will be because of garbage like this from Jeffries...this tells us that Jeffries has received about roughly $1.4 million in donations from health care-related companies and individuals – yet another reason to get damn dirty corporate money out of politics, as if we needed another one (nice ROI from Jeffries to make his bundlers happy, though)...Brando gets revved up at about 7:30, and he’s about 150 percent correct (NSFW/H)...

...and with the Brian Tyler Cohen clip in mind, I give you this from Mr. Newberger...

...and the weather is going to be a bit dreary in these parts, so I thought I’d include this seasonal tune as a bit of a pick-me-up.

Wednesday Stuff

Wed, 19 Aug 2026 16:53:32 +0000

Gee, I’m old enough to remember when a Senate Majority Leader would find out if a senior member of that body from his party EVEN STILL HAD A PULSE – I’m also old enough to remember the old “Saturday Night Live” joke that Generalissimo Francisco Franco was still dead (the joke being that the guy held on for months and the reporting centered around that with nothing new until Franco finally croaked – the same definitely applies to Sen. Mr. Elaine Chao as far as yours truly is concerned)...Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear is asked to comment (and yes, this is my periodic reminder that our “Weekend At Bernie’s” senator still shares this mortal space on earth, allegedly)...

...and Sam at The Majority Report informs us that #47 wants ICE to intimidate midterm voters at polling places, based on comments from his consigliere and AG Todd Blanche...Sam cites the two U.S. laws prohibiting harassment of voters at polling places (above), which Blanche obviously doesn’t know or care about (the whole “keeping illegals from voting” being the harassment excuse of course)...GREAT point by Matt Lech that the Trumpers supposedly caring about “election integrity” is rich given that THEY TRIED TO OVERTURN THE 2020 ELECTION!!...I wish Sam hadn’t included that clip at the end of Don The Con, but I suppose attention must be paid (oh, but first he says he won’t mention a country, but you can see, given the immature child he is, that he REALLY DOES want to mention a country, so OF COURSE he blurts out “Somalia”)...

...and Farron Cousins lets us know that Cantaloupe Capone’s insanity is triggering supply chain shortages, including food banks in red states...also, the strategic petroleum reserve is at its lowest level in 45 years, with fuel released to artificially keep gas prices from soaring through the roof; are you tired of the winning yet?...and oh yeah, as Cousins says, our utterly cowed Fourth Estate refuses to hold Our Demented Toddler of a *preznit to account on his deadline for supposedly wrapping up his Not-So-Excellent Adventure in Iran...

..and Mike Figueredo of The Humanist Report discusses DSA member Angie Nixon winning her primary in Flori-DUUH over Alex Vindman to challenge Repug Ashley Moody for Moody’s U.S. Senate seat...a couple of big caveats here; 1) Corpora-Dems Jared Moskowitz and Debbie Wasserman Schultz won also, and 2) We’re talking Flori-DUUH, people – we need to keep that in mind...also, this tells us more about the Repug primary for the 6th Congressional district in that state, which truly was a race to the bottom as noted between the incumbent (the utterly misnamed Randy Fine) and the challenger, Daniel Bilzerian, who allegedly isn’t a neo-Nazi, but walks and talks like one...sounds like FL-06 Repugs had a choice between an anti-Muslim nut (Fine) and an anti-Jewish one (Bilzerian), so of course they went with the anti-Muslim one...sounds like Oliver Larkin, running in the primary against Moskowitz, put up a good fight, but there are all kinds of cautionary political lessons out there of candidates losing the first time but then coming back and getting it done (NSFW/H)...

...and leave it to Mr. Newberger to give us another musical response to our current nightmare (NSFW/H also)...

...and RIP drummer Frank Beard of ZZ Top.

Tuesday Stuff

Tue, 18 Aug 2026 19:32:53 +0000

Belle of the Ranch gives us her take on how Combover Caligula blew it with his Not-So-Excellent Adventure in Iran...good point about how the stoo-pidity of using precision guided munitions all the way through instead of to finish off the opponent undercut the mission (and no, I’m not a war expert), which further enforces my belief that #47 and SecDef Kegseth thought this would be over quick...I mean, I’m glad they really didn’t send in ground forces, but they never should have engaged our military AT ALL...”there comes a point where you’re just making the rubble bounce” indeed...particularly good job on the shirt, btw...

...and this clip from TYT with Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian tells us about military families ripping Combover Caligula on his aformentioned Iran debacle (and I know I already included that clip of him next to the jet saying that our military personnel on the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln hadn’t been deployed long enough)...I applaud the family member saying that Bronzer Beelzebub needs to redeem himself, but sadly, that ship has sailed, no pun intended...we also hear from the family of the 13-year vet who tried to jump ship, literally...and of course, leave it to Fix Noise to give cover for our utterly incompetent ruling regime, quoting people like Repug U.S. House Rep Pat Fallon and SecDef Kegseth of course (and retired General Jack Keane)...and oh yeah, here comes the leader of Cult 45 again with another of his idiotic “sir” stories (yet another lying “tell”)...I’m loathe to give credit to these two hosts to be honest, but to be fair, Ana makes a good point that the criminal neglect of our carriers isn’t just limited to the Abraham Lincoln...good catch by Cenk I have to admit also on Keane wearing both the U.S. AND Israeli flags on Keane’s jacket lapel (and nice to get in another shot at the completely execrable Mark Levin)...I start to lose Ana at about 15:28; yes, there are plenty of Dem sellouts on Israel, but tell me what chance in hell there is of Repugs actually supporting someone like Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan (Section 224 of the ’27 NDAA needs to be utterly destroyed, which relates to this)...didn’t see the connection here with potentially more ruin in Gaza with Wonder Boy Jared Kushner– ugh (and I wonder how many days/weeks of Repug and corporate media outrage there would have been if a DEMOCRAT had actually met with Hamas)...I detest Kushner of course, but calling him “the new Epstein” is a typical stretch for these two...I will give Ana credit for adding the historical context on prior naval deployments...and the “populist right”?? Cenk, WHAT PLANET DO YOU LIVE ON???...otherwise, I think there’s a lot of good commentary in this clip...

...and sticking with global matters, Joe Scar gives us his take on Dementia J. Trump deciding to cut off military exercises with South Korea...calling our *preznit’s policy on this “jagged,” IMO, is typical corporate media understatement...I would say “insane, delusional, dangerous,” etc.; try connecting the dots here – there’s a reason why Our Tiny Handed Would-Be Dictator is tearing down everything built after WWII, and that’s because that’s exactly what his Russian operative in charge wants...with reporter David Rohde...

...and returning to matters in this country, Sam and Emma of The Majority Report comment on someone named Lydia Moynihan at Rupert The Pirate’s vanity rag, who is apparently shocked at the increased popularity on NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani...I mean, I get it that NYC is an enclave unto itself, you might say, but how about giving Mamdani a speck of credit for seeing which way the political wind is blowing? And oh yeah, Moynihan is in charge of “business” for that scandal sheet, or something...”charisma doesn’t matter if you’re not delivering on your promises” indeed, though I agree with Emma’s assessment that voters will respond to you if they see you fighting for them even if you fall short (also agree with Sam’s take that our corporate media views anyone working government successfully as a threat)...

...and I should probably include more tunes here from Jesse Welles, but I thought it was time to feature one now (NSFW/H, I guess)...

...and The Doors signed with Elektra Records on this day in 1966 – this is a tune from their debut release.

Monday Stuff

Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:55:35 +0000

Oh, gee...Cadet Bone Spurs doesn’t think our sailors and personnel on the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln have been deployed long enough (here and a related utterly brainless, and costly, idea is here)...

...and Kenny Hesse of Really American gives us the latest on the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool BS, among other f*ckups from our “Justice” Department under the Gropenfuhrer...looks like Judge Winebox couldn’t make a case against this David Hearn guy after all – womp womp...I definitely did not grow up on Scooby Doo cartoons, but I thought that wasn’t too bad of a parody...John Oliver’s clip of the sandwich thrower is funny in a Stanley Kubrick “Dr. Strangelove” kind of way I think (NSFW/H)...

...and Brian Tyler Cohen gives us some current polling numbers on the U.S. Senate contests...tells you something that the info cited here is from Fix Noise, but take nothing for granted here, people; I guarantee you that these contests will tighten up in the fall...it looks like this bad data for the “R” team got the attention of Meth Head Bannon, as well as that pissant Jesse Watters (in the case of Ken Paxton, who’s lucky that #47 is as big of a crook as he is, because otherwise, that title would go to “Mr. 9 Million and 15 Homes On a $153K-A-Year Salary”)...

...and Dan Lieberman of More Perfect Union tells us how much data centers in the west are soaking up precious water...and no, I don’t trust a word on this subject from Microsoft’s Satya Nadella...meanwhile, individuals like pecan farmer Roberto Roque in New Mexico wonders how the hell he's going to make a living under these conditions, and he definitely isn't alone...also, this Project Jupiter monstrosity beckons also (“who meters their water” indeed)...ok, so the shareholders are told “don’t worry, be happy,” but meanwhile, residents such as those in El Paso (where Meta is building a data center) have seen water rate increases for 11 straight years, including a double-digit one this year (funny, but when this issue comes up, I don’t hear any wingnut chest thumping over how great it is to move from one of those supposedly awful blue states to “the land of the yellow rose”)...so indirect water usage could be ten times higher than direct usage, according to an individual who has studied this issue? Peachy...as we learn, eight states have introduced bills requiring water use reporting – that should be the standard across this country (get these thieving corporate bastards on the record FWIW)...

...and with all of the completely predictable madness reigning at the moment, Mr. Newberger tells us what’s most important to Our Ochre Abomination...

...and I think the title of this newer tune is an appropriate response (his name that is, not the building itself).

Friday Stuff

Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:25:11 +0000

(For what it's worth, I was able to post for all five days this week, but that will probably be the exception going forward and not the rule.)

Lawrence O’Donnell informs us that Trumpette short-time spokes-liar Karoline Leavitt is at it again, telling us to ignore reality and give her boss credit for our supposedly booming economy (sorry to mention her on consecutive days)...according to a USA Today survey in June, 30 percent of those polled said they use a credit card to pay for groceries and other essentials, and if that isn’t a blaring siren, I don’t know what is (along with the destruction of needed services such as Medicare/Medicaid, SNAP, etc.)...I know Nicholas Kristof is kind of hit-and-miss when it comes to reporting, but when he’s on the mark he really nails it IMO, as he does here meeting with people victimized by our end stage capitalist economy, including Latoya Foster in Pine Bluff, Arkansas...more on “The Other America” by Michael Harrington is here...

...and I’ll turn to TYT once more for the story of sailors on the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln deployed in the Gulf apparently trying to throw themselves overboard...in addition to the ridiculous over-extension of the deployment of our military, some are also racked with guilt over the bombing of civilians; wonder when we’re going to hear about this on Fix Noise? I would guess at half past never...I realize Cenk Uygur is being tongue-in-cheek asking why Israel doesn’t help out our military, but even though there’s likely no practical way to do that, he has a point (oh, riiiight – I forgot about this)...I didn’t know about the suicides by our cyber personnel, on top of all of this misery...I would respectfully remind everyone that one of the first things our utterly lawless regime did when they seized power in ’25 was to fire scores of our senior military officers overseeing our service branches, which rated hardly a mention in our beyond useless corporate media, and I would argue that we now get sucking up to Israel at the expense of our own safety as a result...I remembered the ’83 bombing of our Marine barracks in Beirut (which we responded to by attacking Grenada), but I’d forgotten about Israel bombing the U.S.S. Liberty...good commentary IMO from Elliot Morgan also...additionally, the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln was where Dubya had his “Mission Accomplished” moment – a bit tangential I know, but just pointing that out...

...and in today’s chapter of “gee, how can our rotten regime find a new way to piss off another one of our allies?”, this report from CBC News lets us know that 60,000 Canadians have signed a petition to expel Pete Hoekstra as U.S. ambassador to Canada...maybe it wasn’t a good idea for Hoekstra to retweet that “51st State” garbage, huh?...

...and I stumbled across this clip a day or so ago...it looks like Arkansas farmers are having a particularly tough time along with farmers across the country...energy costs from #47’s war of choice in Iran along with Ukraine/Russia are ultimately eating into whatever profitability they’re eking out (not much it seems), along with impact from those stinking tariffs...I would also include the effects of the climate crisis as a factor affecting how successful a season our farmers have (though I’m not an expert on farm policy I admit)...I realize no political party is blameless on this issue, but I cannot imagine why anybody would think Republicans, particularly in Arkansas, give a damn about them...more here (and you KNOW how they voted two years ago, right?)...

...and speaking of hard labor, Mr. Newberger gives Not Your Father’s Republican Party the shot they deserve over their obedience to Our Ochre Abomination...

...and here’s some good news – we’ve got a fall recording to look forward to from this guy ("Hippies, Thugs and Heroes")...here is the first single.

Thursday Stuff

Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:59:13 +0000

Kenny Hesse of Really American gives us the latest on Mango Mussolini’s plane switch– OK, so I want to make sure I have this right...so the Gropenfuhrer was due to leave a summit in Turkey last month on AF One, but ended up escaping with the aid of a catering cart and taking a secret plane instead, with the press assigned to cover him being potentially exposed to attack from Iran if that country decided to take a shot at the presidential jet (which I definitely DO NOT condone of course)...and oh yeah, that Laura Loomer bit is funny for all of the wrong reasons of course...also, I don’t know if that Lego video came from Iran or not, but if it did, I definitely have to give them props for turning around so fast on this (though I really don’t want to, but I guess I have to)...former Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall weighs in also; Kendall indeed has sued our outlaw administration to restore his security clearance...glad Hesse ends this clip with a comment on that ridiculous statement from #47 about Communism...more here (looks like Little Marco ended up not making the cut and was exposed on AF One to a potential attack along with everyone else – normally I would just be snarky about this, but even though I detest these people, I won’t make a joke about endangering people’s safety...more here)...NSFW/H...

...and Brittany Page talks about all the ways Cheetoh Hitler is screwing over kids, starting with proposed cuts to SNAP causing more of them to go hungry, with the dough used to fund yet another forever Mideast war and cover monuments in D.C. with gold leaf...lines grow ever longer at food banks with more and more families having to choose between food and medications in what purports to be the richest country on earth...oh, and it looks like #47 will skate on a proposed IRS penalty of $100 million...and did I mention that Dementia J. Trump is going after Head Start also (taking a page out of Project 2025, yet another reason to excoriate that contemptible Russell Vought)...glad that Page went through the proposed awful changes from the Trump gang – with all of the outrages from these cretins, I temporarily forgot about trying to withhold Medicaid payments to blue states...“Nazi sh*t” indeed...slightly NSFW/H also...

...and John of The Damage Report discusses the proliferation of Flock cameras, gathering all kinds of data whether we want them to or not...looks like those fine words about unnecessary surveillance were spoken by a gentleman at a town hall meeting in Findley, MN...and 90K cameras across 6K communities, huh? I must have missed the robust public debate that preceded this grotesque invasion of our privacy...apparently, Flock is turning over info to government and law enforcement, leading to misidentification of people and subsequent arrest – I’m sure there will be lawsuits aplenty over this madness...oh yeah, it looks like cops have also been using Flock cameras to track their former relationship partners, just for sh*ts and giggles I guess...also, this leads back to the plague of VC investment run amok (to the tune of $1 billon), which shouldn’t surprise anybody either...fortunately, it looks like 60 municipalities have forced their local governments to cancel Flock contracts – just need to keep up the fight here...

...and when even Sen. Foghorn Leghorn of Louisiana says that the scam SAVE Act is dead, I think you can believe it (though the Gropenfuhrer will continue to play his stoo-pid games up until and after the election of course...and leave it to some Fix Noise hairdo to laughably call it “an election integrity bill”)...and I realize characters like Sean Inanity don’t give a damn about the hardship this creates for workers at the polls, who FREAKING CHECK TO MAKE SURE YOU’RE REGISTERED ANYWAY BY YOUR SIGNATURE (at least, that’s the way it works in Doomsy-land)...as David Shuster of Rebel HQ says, non-citizen voting is extremely rare and is caught by the poll workers (along with the fact that those trying to game the system this way are usually Republicans – one example is here)... and “Manhood Meltdown” when referring to James Talarico at the Roger Ailes BS Factory? Yeah, that attack line will work...SMDH...

...and I’m not sure how I missed this from Jimmy Kimmel, but I’ll add it now (YouTube seems to have an issue with Kimmel’s clips for some reason – I’ll see if this gets some kind of TOS violation also)...

...and here is another seasonal number.