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I think this bullying thing about Romney will have the reverse affect some may think. 18 yos, HS and bullying it is all part of life. Who hasn’t bully someone in one fashion or another? Bullying doesn’t necessarily have to mean physically picking on someone, you could be considered a bully if you demean someone, or snub/turn away someone because they don’t fit into your circle of friends, because they don’t meet your expectations, the dress different, they look different, their familes are as well off as your families. And what about fraternities and sororities? The list of thing that can be associated with bullying can go on and on. Bullying, who hasn’t at some time in their lives?
MO
It wasn’t what he did at 18. It was how he reacted to the information coming out now that he is a 65 YO man. Chewing out reporters for asking legitimate questions or snickering at very unfunny situations that would get empathy from anyone else. As I commented about him elsewhere: He just wants to be President. He doesn’t actually want to do what is necessary to handle the job.
I listened to the entire Trail Mix radio program and enjoyed it a great deal… I look forward to future broadcasts…
I have always felt that there is something creepy about the way Romney talks to people one on one… he seems to be disdainful to just about everyone… I bet Mrs. Romney regrets urging reporters to go back to high school days to find out what a great guy he was…
Apologies to Tylenol and Dexter for missing your calls. Radio site very glitchy today (or maybe it was the host). Still learning this thingie. We’ll try again next week.
Yeah, OK. I tried again at exactly 4:45 PM and the recording told me the show only had fifteen minutes left and also to call again later. I had no idea you had the ability to go way over what I thought was your alloted hour. At that point I walked the dogs and watched the cranes, ducks and Canadian geese (and their strutting babies) at our local watershed project ponds.
Yep Dex we had a tech meltdown and had to reset the taping for 5p but finally got ‘er done. I’ll get the hang of this thing eventually. That’s why i am taping first, so that i can edit the glitches out.
Dexter, they’re talking about putting Eastern Diamondback Rattlers on the endangered list down here in South Carolina. I don’t know what to think about that.
I have a friend in rural PA who has nesting spots for pygmy rattlers. Folks from the Univ of KY come to study them. He tried to show me some. I wasn’t interested.
Moved the giant tomato today .
The giant Japanese redwood tomato.
Cut the bottom out of the bucket, and planted it near the bird feeder, lost one tiny tomato.
It’s 8 months old, and covered with tomatoes.
http://www.facebook.com/#!/photo.php?fbid=10150957549874993&set=a.116473849992.111957.663574992&type=1&theater
Flatus, perhaps you recall my tale of the snake on the golf course in 2003 in the New Bern, North Carolina area. We were living with my daughter in her home on a golf course, my wife caring for daughter’s kids while daughter worked long hours fulfilling a nursing contract. I remember it well…a big ol’ fat man lost his golf ball inside a bush. He reached into the bush to retrieve it and BAM WHAM he was hit by an Eastern Diamondback. His play partners drove an SUV right up on the cart path and got him to a hospital right away. First aid at the local hospital and then he was rushed to Raleigh for intensive treatment. It’s common to lose some fingers, a hand, or if you were bitten back in the True Grit days, an arm…see the Jeff Bridges version if you missed it. (True Grit)
Once we had the local VFW picnic on a guy’s property near the St. Joseph River by Montpelier, Ohio. The guy had dug a pond and he had beaucoup gravel all around the pond. He also had those pygmy rattlers everywhere. It’s a damn shame!
I kinda halfway made it to the show…..called in, voice says “to speak to host press 1″. so i did and was connected to the show so i could hear it….heard the DixieDove/Diane Nine segment on the prep school and then had to get off….called back and heard Dave’s report on celebrity doin’s….
flatus and dexter, snakes do have their uses.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/06/0601_040601_tvsnakes1.html
http://www.besthealthsecret.com/snake-whose-venom-is-used-in-medicine/
interesting article on increase of lds
“Congress now counts 15 Mormon members, including Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, according to the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life. That means the 2% of the country that’s Mormon is slightly overrepresented on Capitol Hill.
Even many Latter-day Saints joke about Washington’s “Mormon mafia” – referring to the number of well-placed LDS Church members across town – though they cringe at the thought of being seen as part of some cabal.”
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/05/12/hfr-with-or-without-romney-d-c-a-surprising-mormon-stronghold/
any impact on election?
http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20120511/COLUMNISTS22/305110065/Catholic-Mormon-numbers-up-debate-wake-religion-survey
I could care less about the religious side of LDS.
The business, governmental affairs side, that’s another matter.
What Romney did was a physical act of aggression and unless you volunteered because of some odd frat ritual I think holding someone down and cutting off their hair is an assault and not a childish prank
it shouldn’t have been acceptable behavior then and it is not acceptable today
PatD
Snakes are marvelous critters--natures mousetraps, etc. And for the people who have lost fingers and limbs and lives to their venom, they should find solace in their value to society through their contributions to medicine.
I would just rather see them thriving in someone else’s backyard.
The growing religions seem to be the ones with a wider strain of “magical thinking” than even the traditional forms. There’s a lot more ignorance, lack of decision making, and loss of internal introspection … just believe and be saved. Even the political has a quality of selling the relics of saints to the gullible. You have to wonder how much has to do with loss of control over life or the general lack of intellectual development in society as a whole.
I have a combination Arizona, snakes, and guns story. As a teenager I went with family to visit friends in Arizona. The boys in the other family were almost Western caricatures in that they participated in rodeo, played country music, drove trucks, shot guns and spent time in the great outdoors. Naturally they talked my stepsister and myself into cave climbing. This involved climbing up a hollow tree easing up over pile of (non venomous) snakes to swim in a water hole and then passing by venomous snakes to enter cave. All of this was scary but went well despite every attempt to kill ourselves. What we didn’t bargain for was a rattle snake wrapping itself around a tire rim and taking a ride back to town. Needless to say we had one very dizzy and very angry snake in the middle of a supermarket parking lot. Hero cowboy to the rescue lifting gun from rack and committing snakicide. Teenage girls were suitably impressed.
Mean Boys
By CHARLES M. BLOW
EDITORIAL NYT
Harming the Troops
Sunday Sublime.
A birthday tribute, and a classic by any measure. Enjoy!
Happy, Happy Mother’s Day!
Haven’t listened to the radio program yet. I’ll do it later this afternoon. We’re leaving in few minutes to go to a craft fair. NO… I’m not a participant… I’m just gonna bang around and say Hi to fellow craft friends that are…
Dimon’s Disgrace is on Congress
by Taylor Marsh
The Average White Guy Vote
By Salena Zito
Well, this piece is filled with so much BS but i do agree with the quote..
So sorry I missed your call Sturgeone, woulda been fun. The system wasn’t displaying callers like is supposed to do, we’ll get this figured out. Thanks for trying tho.
Michael Tomasky on Mitt Romney, the Unlikable Presidential Candidate
by Michael Tomasky
Does the Black Political Class Actually Protect or Defend Black People? If Not, What Do They Do?
Wed, 05/09/2012 -- 14:43 — Bruce A. Dixon
Senate run by Mitt Romney’s mother.
Nebraska Woman Offers Graphic Homophobic Rant During Lincoln’s Anti-Discrimination Law Hearings (VIDEO)Huffpo
Wow, you guys have been on fire. I take off for a couple of days, and it takes me two hours to catch up. Great posts all up and down the line. It’s going to be a good Sunday.
Craig and David,
As promised, we opened a bottle of champagne in your honor. Sadly, I was forced to drink your share. I might add that it was very good.
Next time let’s open the bottle in person.
Tony
That poor woman is schizophrenic, residing in assisted living under a conservatorship. The truly sad part is that there are people in the world who will remove those facts and just circulate the video as a statement of truth.
Romney is a bully. Why is that surprising? His entire campaign thus far has been an example of bullying his opponents in one form or another.
What he accomplished with scissors in high school, he now accomplishes with attack ads by his super PAC. Like bullys through out history, he knows exactly when to stand back and let somebody else take the blame. There is less to admire about him with each passing day, and there was precious little to admire to begin with.
http://craigcrawford.com/2012/05/12/trail-mix-radio-gays-bullies-and-travolta/#comment-289286
Jamie,
Thanks for the back ground on that poor lady! I knew when i watched it that she must have horrible mental troubles. Also, your right there are many who will use this video to further their hate..
Congratulations again to Craig and DaveB. CNN’s “Reliable Sources” Host Howard Kurtz showed on national TV the “Marry Me” blog post with picture.
Having Mary Matalin on snuffy’s show to talk about the gay marriage issue is criminal --her pious craptastic spouting of baloney is ridiculous -(first of all she has been married three times and her defending “trditional marriage is stupid) and second she is the creep who went around to the gay community and said loudly proclaimed that Shrub was in favor of gay marriage etc etc etc but when the numbers changed and Shrub needed the lunatic christians instead -- she was no where to be found
the woman is lower than pond scum and to give her platform is the lowest form of propaganda pushing she is nothing but a liar and not even a very interesting one
she’s a pig
As for Obama — he did the correct thing but it was 100% a political calculation. The idiot christians (sic how can you call yourelf a christian but be filled with such hate) will never vote for him and if he waffled on the issue the gay community was going to get annoyed.
Maybe Biden will come out for legalized pot too
and Ralph Reed another liar spouting statistics that are untrue and snuffy sits there like a potted plant and never challenges the liars
matalin makes faces when other people are speaking
get rid of her
WaPo and Fox continue to promote lies as news
Ralph Reed should not be on the public airways he does nothing but spout crap
I don’t usually like people from politico but the woman on snuffy today certainly put the forzen face and ralph the professional christian in their places --even if snuffy wouldn’t she called them out on their nonsense
Eliott Spitzer is too smart to have to deal with the likes of those two clowns
he did defend Mittens being a bully though..makes me wonder whyhe did in high school
PIT
That’s great. I expected it to show up on Current that day and it didn’t. I’m taping RS while watching MHP on MSNBC so I’ll see it later.
Can’t the Republicans do any better? Really Ralph Reed- less boyish a lot dissipated — I’ll bet he has a real dark side
Where are the smart thoughtful Republicans who can do something besides repeat the lie of the day. Where is John Huntsman — he’s not a candidate any more you can go back to treating him like an adult.
And then to have these two — two of the biggest swiftboat offenders talk about the tone in politics
everyone sitting there head should have exploded when Ralph Reed started talking about the tone. That makes me think Mittens is in real trouble and this bully story isn’t helping him.
I hope Obama grinds him into the dirt
and speaking of tone I didn’t hear Ralph say anything bout the superpac for Romney stupid mother’s day ad which by the way won’t get them a single woman’s vote
or many married ones either
Congratulations again to Craig and DaveB. CNN’s “Reliable Sources” Host Howard Kurtz showed on national TV the “Marry Me” blog post with picture.
PIT,
can you link this I can’t seem to get to it?
Thanks
jace
I think depening on Ann Romney to save the day is a big mistake for Mittens
this is the woman who thought poverty was dipping into her stock portfolio
and she has faced health challenges but how many other women with ms can afford to keep and maintain a horse
After a while it is clear money matters and the Romneys don’t have much empathy for the poor
Was Obama’s position on gay marriage political?
Damn sure it was, like every breath every president takes is political.
Is it so hard to imagine that a relatively young man with school age daughters, who might well have been the object of discrimination or racism in their young lives
have a somewhat different perspective on the matter?
Our lives and our opinions are often influenced by the attitudes and priorities of our children. Why would President Obama be any different?
Political motivation, and doing the right thing are not always mutually exclusive, contrary to what the Mary Matlins and the Ralph Reeds of the world might believe.
another what-i-call a mother’s day song
solar, you might like this one
I watered diligently half the damned night and all we’re getting today are a few tentative sprinkles.
Jace,
Here’s the link to that Reliable Sources segment http://reliablesources.blogs.cnn.com/2012/05/13/media-embrace-gay-marriage-story/
Great fun Craig, thanks and Happy Mother’s Day to all!
Happy Mother’s Day, Trail Mixers!
Well, that was fun & so good to hear Tobie’s voice.
OMG… that story about you putting water in the car’s gas tank when you were a little kid is a hoot.
DixieDove… that was a really nice interview.
DaveB… like Craig, I gave up on Desperate Housewives a few yrs ago. But after hearing you, I just might consider watching the ending show tonight.
Kids 2day are a coddled bunch. No adult ever got involved when I was a kid. In fact, if you said anything, you were called a crybaby or a tattletale. I love the movie, “A Christmas Story,” and when Ralphie beats the snot out of Scut Farkus, I feel sad about that scene, even though bullying is an integral part of the story. It would be wonderful if society could evolve past bullying, but to teach kids how to cope without resorting to physical contact, not to buffer them with needing to deal with mean people at all. As long as there are humans, there will be bullies. What I don’t grasp about Mitt is why he felt the need to be a bully (he needed 2 feel bigger & more important?) and how he doesn’t feel bad about it now.
Dear Craig and David,
Hearty congratulations to you both!
Marriage is both a serious step, and an honorable estate. It closes the door on the past and might-have-beens, and opens other doors for joyous possibility. We are happy that you have chosen to become one.
May you always be glad for your decision. May your love deepen as the decades fly by. In your old age, may you both agree that this was the best decision of your lives.
Hugs and Kisses,
Sweetie and Xrepublican
XR,
Well said, I’m only allowed one thumbs up, but it deserves many more.
The Twin Cities Women’s Choir held its annual Spring concert. Sweetie was overly busy from pre-dawn until post dusk for a week, preparing for the event.
I was also busy, supporting the effort.
Thus it was not until this AM that I finally began to read the posts going back to last Thursday. Between that time and this, I posted a few times, but I wasn’t keeping up with, and didn’t know about the fantastic events that transpired here. On this very Trail.
Wow.
Anywhat, Happy! Happy! Joy! Joy!
Jamie,
Thanks for the link.
Hard to believe that doing the right thing could possibly require so much analysis. Go figure.
XR,
Does sweetie sing in the choir? What was the program?
Would love to know more about the group, as time permits.
“I watered diligently half the damned night and all we’re getting today are a few tentative sprinkles.”
Flatus,
Sorry to hear that, have you tried washing the car?
I prayed for moisture once. My prayer was answered in the form of large hail. After that I just left mother nature to her own devices.
DixieDove, my Mom was impressed with your radio interview, said you’re very smart. You have a new fan.
I grew up in WY. ‘Tentative sprinkles’ were considered a real soaker.
Flatus,
Have you tried making a golf date ?
Queer Talk: Newsweek Names Obama the ‘First Gay President’
by Joyce Arnold
Ha, boy how perfect this piece was written by Andrew Sullivan
..Can’t stand him! Comes to mind something Patsi said to Brian, ah but i’ll keep quiet! 
Jace,
Hmmm. I wasn’t smart enough to bring a program home….
The Twin Cities Women’s Choir formed as a welcoming, loving, healing, all female, inclusive choir -- there are quite a few couples. There are also women with some disabilities. TCWC does not audition applicants for membership. It began 15 years ago with Mary and 13 other women. Last year, more than 150 women participated in their 3 concerts. The TCWC is extraordinary and makes extraordinary music.
There were many songs about mother, home, love, growth, and all that mushy & uplifting stuff. The Artistic Director/Founding Mother Mary A. Bussman is leaving to pursue her doctorate in Ed. There was a good deal of salutation & praise for her.
The show opened with Another Op’nin’ Of Another Show -- Porter & Kern. The only other famous pop pieces were Proud Mary, done in honor of Ms Bussman, and Home from The Wiz. After the intermission, they sang the Star Spangled Banner, reminding us that Memorial Day is around the corner. In MN Mothers Day is also the Fishing Opener (Walleyes), so there was a fishing song, too.
TCWC regularly commissions & premiers works, and so much of what they sing is has not yet been heard outside of the Twin Cities -- for now. They usually have a Shubert piece also, but didn’t last night.
They also perform some a few African works. Last night they sang Imani.
When Sweetie comes back, I hope I can remember to get better info for you.
Apologies for the bandwidth violation.
Having watched Obama for 4 years now, I pay little attention to what Obama says. It is what he does that is important, after all I remember when he said he was all for the public option when in reality he yhad already traded it away. So , has Obama proposed repeal of DOMA? have any of his Senate supporters introduced a bill to that effect?
Just curious
Jack
In Honor of the Engagement of Craig and David
Beethoven IXth Symphony 4th Movement
Ode fuer die Freude
Berliner Philharmoniker
-Herbert Von Karajan -- Maestro
-Leila Cuberli -- Soprano
-Helga Müller-Molinari -- Alto
-Vinson Cole -- Tenor
-Franz Grundheber -- Baritone
-Wiener Singverein
-Helmuth Froschauer -- Chorus Master
Recorded September, 1983 in Berlin
http://craigcrawford.com/2012/05/12/trail-mix-radio-gays-bullies-and-travolta/#comment-289322
Jack,
I hear ya! Nope no repeal of DOMA from the President..I believe VP Biden forced his hand by accident but they started looking politically terrible with large gay donors hence the president finally evolving..Still President Obama did what NO Republican would ever do so i’m thankful…
XR,
That sounds absolutely marvelous. Please convey to your wife how great it is to be part of such an undertaking, even though I think that you both know that already.
I like groups that are willing to go out on a limb and perform and commission works by new composers.
My wife, Cheryl, teaches two all female choirs and they get some great sounds.
I would love to hear one of your wife’s concerts.
Thanks for the information and the Beethoven as well.
jace
Nobody believes me when I tell them that I have friends that I’ve never met. I really do.
It has been a great weekend, but busy. Some day Craig, I’m going to call in and dispense all my wisdom. It will probably be a good think as you will realise that I talk just like I write so maybe folks could understand me.
But this weekend the neighborhood association (not to be confused with my lowly block club) held their neighborhood wide clean up. I think they are getting a hang on how to do it. It was a great success.
Don’t tell anybody but they benefited with a little help from …….
So any way I had my camera and told them I would put together a blog for them. I will share when I get it going.
Mean while the wife and I did some gorilla gardening today for a neighbor who lost her husband last month.
Been a fun week end.
Jack
Tony
The Blacks had much the same problem with Kennedy, if not for his death , I’m not sure that blacks would have the rights they have today . It took the “Southern racist” Johnson to get the laws inacted.. We may have to drag them kicking and screaming to their salvation but if that is what it takes so be it I believe it was Thurgood Marshal that said something like “I’m getting sick and tired of saving the white mans soul”
No doubt you can understand .
Jack
We have no choice but to create political situation to make Obama do things he is the one who said its our job to make him do things….he isn’t going to act on his own
Jack,
If doing the ‘right thing’ had not mostly been a political calculation , we would never have had the Civil Rights Act, or the Voting rights act.
Johnson knew that there would be short term political gains to be had, and he knew just as well there would be long term political losses to be endured.
I think that he knew just as Ben Franklin knew , that history would be written long after his death.
Obama knows that as well.
Probably started off as a neighborhood bully…Kony has been captured.
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/05/14/world/africa/uganda-lra-capture/
If as a prank, youngster Romney held down a blonde woman and cut her hair…things would have been different. It surely was an assault at that prep school. But, as a student in public schools…I have seen many assaults. The lower class also fights…in my day it was ripping out pierced earrings. None of it is correct behavior. Blame it on hormones? Teenagers being teenagers?
It was the way Romney sleazed-out of the incident…not remembering. Just a coward still being a coward.
Mornin’ really not much time to chat -- sorry I couldn’t call in -- would have been fun having 3 guys with southern accents chatting -- but it’s hard to keep the book for a basketball game and talk on the phone (particularly when swearing because one team did not have numbers on the front of their jerseys).
Great show, Craig, and congrats on having Howie bring up the engagement blog on Reliable Sources.
At my prep school in the 50s (small coed eastern boarding--separate boys/girls campuses after classes) the term of derision was ‘fairy’.
An assault is an assault is an assault. As the ringleader, ‘young’ Mitt should have been summarily expelled and the remaining bullies either expelled or placed on probation depending on the circumstances.
Jace, I haven’t forgotten the reel-to-reel. I’ve decided to try it with ear phones as that will make things much simpler. I know I have an old-style headset somewhere.
XR, Your video of Karajan’s 9th sent me, this morning, to the record cabinet. And there it was, the boxed set of that Nazi’s 1962 recordings of the Beethoven symphonies. From my memory, they are magnificent performances. From the notes, the recordings were made in a church which sounds the perfect environment.
I can’t play them now because Stinky is resting on the couch next to the speakers. Remembering the performances is good enough.
Imus sliced and diced Romney this morning on his selective memory regarding the assault.
Village Voice. Mitt Romney -- American Parasite
Sorry about the glitch this morning. Network Solutions got it fixed, had to “refresh the server,” whatever that means. So consider yourselves refreshed.
from taegan’s political wire this morning
sounds like ole mitch is in trouble
patd…
with all the Republican moderates going down in defeat in primaries… and all the tea partiers getting elected not only nationally, but in local elections as well… I’d say it’s not just olde mitch in trouble. It’s our entire system of governance also. These right of righties don’t want democracy or a republic… which requires compromise… IMO, they want the equivalency of a dictatorship. I hope voters get sick of it fast and we can elect people who do want to solve our problems.
A sad day as we have lost Duck Dunn, bassist with Booker T and the MGs for so many years.
He passed in his sleep in Tokyo where he was playing.
You will remember him from his gig with The Blues Brothers Band. (He smoked a pipe while playing).
He was really a big-time bass player, working with Dylan, Clapton, CSN&Y, Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding, Albert King…so long Duck Dunn, 1941--2012.
Babwawa visiting us from the 18th century announced that it is ok to discriminate against gays because of other people’s religious views and that in a country that is founded on the principles of freedom of religion as well as freedom from religion -- some cocked up fake idea of christianity should reign supreme
And Elizabeth Hasslbeck — give it up Romney and Obama do not have the same views on gay marriage.
Suck on this Baba and Lizzy
Findings: Most Americans — 60 percent — say Obama’s backing of gay marriage won’t change whether they’ll vote for him. Even though it won’t change their vote, 51 percent approve of it.
Pollster: USA Today/ Gallup
Methodology: Survey of 1,013 adults nationwide on May 10.
Why it matters: Even though public opinion is quickly moving in favor of gay marriage, it’s still a controversial issue (see the Ohio race, below). Obama’s advisers were worried about the timing of announcing his support for gay marriage, especially given that the Democratic National Convention is in North Carolina, which just passed a gay marriage ban. Though only 13 percent say it makes them more likely to vote for Obama, the change has other political benefits: a whole bunch of campaign donations.
Caveat: We should wait to see how things shake out. “It is possible that the impact of Obama’s same-sex marriage position will ultimately be greater or lesser, depending on the attention paid to the same-sex marriage issue during the duration of the presidential campaign,” Gallup says.
In campaign where the winning will be in margins
13% is a nice addition
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/exclusive-wisconsin-dems-furious-with-dnc-for-refusing-to-invest-big-money-in-walker-recall/2012/05/14/gIQAj6lxOU_blog.html
http://theweek.com/article/index/227698/mitt-romneys-1981-arrest-and-4-other-times-he-lost-his-cool
people should be doing everything they can to annoy mittens
And I never want to see Ralph Reed on tv again
One of the biggest news stories of the day is the JP Morgan loss and he poopooed it as nothing
do they have him on because they hate the goopers and want to make them look as stupid as possible
from patd
Dr Dean would be supporting the 50 state strategy
Koch Brothers and their corporate cohorts are trying to buy Wisconsin for Scott Walker. The DNC should either back the state organization or just come out and say the national party is bought and paid for by the same corporate coffers and Democracy is dead.
Serfs Up
Jack
No submission of repeal of DOMA that I know of, but the Justice Dept has been told not to defend it. A great deal will hinge on the Supreme Court decision on California’s Prop 8. That decision will call into question virtually all other anti-gay legislation.
Jamie, I concur. The nationals will make a giant stride forward if they put their thumb on the scale in WI.
oh,bummer ought to take a week off and just travel around WI recruiting and FRing for the recall votes.
John Roberts takes the Supremes back to the Gilded Age
“No submission of repeal of DOMA that I know of, but the Justice Dept has been told not to defend it.” Jamie@1519
Absent a favorable SC decision, which seems unlikely, the Administration’s position is the best that can be done at this time. And, it has the added benefit of making the republican right crazy.
Flatus,
By the nazi recordings of Beethoven, do you mean those with Wilhelm Furtwaengler conducting ?
German Voters Reject Conservative Austerity, But Will America?
by Taylor Marsh
Oh, no, XR, Karajan. He was smart to a fault using the nazi system to advance himself during the 30s and during the War, and then after the War, throwing himself at the mercy of the court, so to speak, because his wife had an ounce of Jewish blood.
But, he made marvelous Beethoven.
Furtwaengler was a Berlin Orchestra man, not a conniver at the skill level of Karajan.
President Obama Has Been Bold:
The Healthcare Overhaul and his work on Gay Rights issues in the Military and the Civilian sectors have proven that. His standing beside the Arab Spring has proven
that, starting with the speech in Cairo. What other president would have stood beside the Arab Spring and Gay Marriage in his first term, or ever?
If Prez-O is re-elected I believe…He will Normalize Cuba relations and end the FDA drug war. That’s alot right there and both things can be done by the executive branch, but only in a 2nd Term.
It takes the gravitas and strength of a second term president to be this bold.
In a 2nd term, he can finish wars and do much more. For the good of this country and the world, please support him.
http://thedixiedove.com/
Flatus,
Go with the head phones. Grab your favorite score, perhaps a Norton, and conduct for all you are worth.
Sounds like you have some great recordings to listen to.
I may not be a great conductor, but I am on a first name basis with Walter Mitty.
Dixie Dove
What about the dea war on marijuana the single most wasteful government expenditure. Billions wasted
Dixie,
Enjoyed you on the radio show! Oh goodie, from your post I see “Hope and Change” is reborn! Good luck with that regarding President Obama! As far as President Obama being bold on gay issues well, not so much! The gay activists are the bold ones.. If you mean being bold is having a president that actually makes a difference regarding civil rights then yes, President Obama has done something very special..
Most presidents trip on their dicks during the second term.
I guess President Obama can assert that he spent most of his first term doing just that. Why change now?
Moved on the gutters today , the kid giving me the bid, ……… eyes got real wide when he heard my plan.
I liked his quote, and I liked him , every step I’ve taken this spring on this plan has been effortless.
Example “A” -
It rained 1.25 inches today .
the kid giving me the bid, ……… Has just moved his business downtown to Texas Ave. One block over , and one block south.
I made one phone call , and found an ally for the next phase of the work.
“every step I’ve taken this spring on this plan has been effortless. “
6 weeks ago I planted 8 kinds of seeds . One by one in tiny ass peat pots. Tonight I have a stand of 7 kinds , with 1.25 inches of rain on it today, one week out in the garden.
Now, I have a class room . To tell people about the Monarchs. Show them the plants they need.
In honor of Duck Dunn -
“We’re on a mission from God”.
Duck said this was the best part of his life :
Going to the “woolly headed stone cutter” tomorrow. That 2 tons of limestone I bought, has 2 flat sides .
I’ll get “TOOTER” cut into a one foot rock. , and see what it looks like. Then I haul it back to the garden , and get 6 more stones.
I’m running on like 4 or 5 levels here folks. And every step is paved with golden metaphors.
Nothing like this has ever happened to me, …….. Ever.
Good evening, C-Bob.
Watching economy cable and Play Misty for Me is the retro movie. I had forgotten how beautiful Roberta Flack’s voice is…to David and Craig.
Nothing like this has ever happened to me, …….. Ever.
What am about may seem crazy. But in 1990′s my mother told me a story how I was in Cactus with her, in the spring of 1949.
I was born in Sept. 1949.
The Cactus, was 11 years old when my mother sat in her seats.
As urban work gets graded , mine will pass the test. It’s only 400 sq. feet , but sure is pretty now.
Blonde -
Did you get rain ?
I always knew you had spine,C-bob.
Blonde -
I never spent so much money on any garden , as the one I have now, but I never saw a better one than yours.
Back to the death of “Duck” ….. not to be confused with the “Duke of Death”.
Sax Volt
It would seem we bury a great band once month now.
My potato patch is blooming and don’t panic it is organic. We finally got some rain…over an inch. The cacti are flowering and the cholla are prolific this year.
http://tinyurl.com/7zc4yko
Why didn’t I die at Strawberry , the steel was flying . I lived through that day.
Why did I get 33 years more ?
You have more than 33 years…
Why didn’t I die at Strawberry , ……. I was on my back in a snow bank on US 40. Looking up at the helicopter landing.
That pilot was convinced his work had killed me.
The biggest day of my life. I got out of the snow , and flew past Robert Redford, and another 100 miles into southern Utah. When I asked stop and look, we did.
A few weeks later some jack-ass threw spray cans in the trash . We set the sage on fire. Not the short low stumpy stuff. But Utah sage , 4 to 5 feet .
It was a 5 foot crown fire across the sage, the helicopter people came running. We saved the day.
If the shit fits…WEAR it.
—Duck Dunn, in “The Blues Brothers”.
One thing you never hear on “Law and Order” re-runs is the name “Jamie Dimon”.
“We’re on a mission from God”…
best movie line… ever…
or as I would say it…. eva…
Hey $1.7 billion Medicare fraud crook Governor Rick Scott and the veto proof Republican legislature great job on your assault on Public Education. Don’t forget the $1.3 billion cut in Public Education budget in 2011. “As you sow so shall you reap.” Going for 14 consecutive years of Republican state rule.
Parents outraged after nearly 75 percent of students fail writing portion of 2012 FCAT
By: Chris Trenkmann, May 15, 2012, 12:58 AM
Don’t forget the real reason for budget cuts and low scores; the assault on Public Education Teachers and, of course, the Teacher’s unions.
Teachers’ jobs may hinge on FCATs: results count for almost half of evaluation
By Colleen Wixon, April 17, 2012
ALEC members. Turn on the lights and they run like cockroaches
PIT
Republican legislators are purposefully changing scoring to eliminate teachers unions. That is the real scandal. There is a lot wrong with the unions but what Republicans are doing to the schools is criminal.
http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-02-23/news/30101220_1_union-battle-teachers-unions-test-scores
Jace,
Say hello to your buddy:
Jamie,
Thank you! My day is made. What a clip.
Walter and Danny Kaye on the same stage.
AZ. is a right to work for less state. As such unions hold little if any sway. This is especially true in education where teachers can be dismissed or reassigned at will. In point of fact most school boards do not even recognize the concept of tenure or continuing contract for teachers.
If teachers unions are such culprits in the lack of progress in public education, it would seem that Arizona would be a model for the rest of the union hating nation. Unfortunately our educational outcomes are very poor, so poor in fact that the only solution the legislature can come up with is to cut funding for schools and teachers.
Apparently the fewer teachers you have the better the outcomes will be. It must be working because more and more states adopting the same model.
Jamie,
I wish you could have heard my performance of the Brahms second piano concerto at Lincoln Center.
It was simply amazing. I was a legend in my own mind.
jace
aka Walt
LOL
If being dragged kicking and screaming toward something is being bold then Yeah, Obama is bold.
lol
Jack
Wonder what reassurances Obama is giving all the bankers as he hits them up for money. It is not Obama’s public statements that matter, as we learned with the healthcare debacle it is what he reassures in the back rooms that get enacted.
Remember when he came out in support of the public option?
Jack
oh,bummer daydreams about being bold. He is the Walter Mitty of pols.
Flatus,
I hadn’t heard the Von Karajan nazi recordings of Beethoven. Thanks.
Yes, he is the premier Beethoven interpreter, imo, and yes, he was a weasel during the nazi catastrophe. Apparently goebbells, himmler, and goering got tired of him by ’44, perhaps because they’d already gotten everything out of him that they could.
Jace,
I am a major Danny Kaye fan as well as all the patter songs written for him by his wife Sylvia Fine. As a team they were a once in a generation gift of talent.
The vessel with the pestle
The Chalice from the palace
The Flagon with a dragon
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/may/13/nation/la-na-rand-paul-gay-marriage-20120514
tony perkins said that?
mr. religious right wing rebuked rand?
pigs have taken wing.
School unions are an extremely positive force in Oregon and throughout the United States.
Just about all criticisms I’ve heard for many years are rooted in either malice or a seriious lack of information…
here’s a very apropos Christian Science Monitor cartoon…
Americans Elect Primary Bombs
by Taylor Marsh
Gallup: Majority of Americans expect President Obama to win re-election
Let’s hope they don’t stay home because they expect someone else to vote.
Vatican’s witch hunt for evil Girl Scouts -- prompted by claims coming from obscure Indiana rip up lican State Rep :
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/05/15/vatican-investigating-girl-scouts-for-links-to-safe-sex-education-groups.html
I expect that in a few more years, they’ll be burning people at the stake again. Just not Pro-Perv, Cardinal-On-The-Lam john law.
He’s a Law unto himself, and beyond the law, hiding out in his Vatican palace.
More from Nadeau about a Vatican kidnapping mystery.
Lots of gossip, and no co-operation.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/04/17/italian-police-probe-vatican-mafia-links-in-teen-s-disappearance-30-years-ago.html?obref=obinsite
Missouri honors Limbaugh There isn’t a barf bag big enough.\
I don’t know if Florida will survive 2 and a half more years of Rick Scott’s assault on Public Education.
Florida Board of Education reduces FCAT writing passing score
Columnist: Gov. Scott’s Panel Will Sell Out Higher Education
By John O’Connor, May 14, 2012 1:30 PM
George W. Bush endorses Romney, sort of, and Rob Portman continues to receive favorable looks in the veep-stakes.
Who says that Obama can’t run against Bush in 2012?
Jamie,
I thought Danny Kaye was one of the most talented and versatile entertainers to ever come down the pike.
He is sometimes over looked on the lists of really funny comedians but he was at or near the top.
Sing, dance, act, he could do it all.
Thanks for those great clips.
James Lipton instructions to Romney on How To act Human
I’ve noticed that Romney has been ramping up with the bucolic metaphors. Next up is cowboys boots and faux-flannel oxford shirts, as if he grew up on a farm.
That was Santorum’s most critical error: he broke out the sweater vest WAAAYYY too early. First you have to establish yourself as a legitimate candidate, THEN you can associate yourself with the commoners by wearing ridiculous clothes that you seem to think they wear.
If the GOP would like me to get Romney elected, I could offer my services. My fee? $100 million (after taxes), and immunity from whatever myopic and draconian legislation that gets passed by a Republican controlled government during that time. Post reply in comments section if interested.
Mr. exChamp,
Bullseye, sir.
rude red rudy boschwitz, the discredited former Senator from MN, pioneered the rip up lican flannel check & flannel plaid shirt tactic. A German who went to an Ivy League school, boschwitz made a mega fortune selling formaldehyde laden carpeting to unsuspecting Midwesterners. Formaldehyde is a first rate poison for inducing abortions. By putting on plaid flannel shirts, rudy got himself elected to the US Senate, where he fought tooth and nail to prevent unsuspecting Americans from avoiding formaldehyde poisoning in their homes or from suing his brother who made the carpets. rudy described his poison promoting political position as pro-life. The roobs loved rudy, because in his flannel shirts he looked like a roob, even if he sounded like an Ivy League educated German lawyer. This is called effective Political Camo.
Fellow pro-poison ripper lamar alexander of TN modeled himself after rudy, ditching his expensive redChinese silk ties and Italian silk suits. He adopted red-checked flannel shirts, and began to drawl like a Roob Breasted Tennessee Bullfinch. Since andrew jackson’s day, Tennesseans have believed that Washington would work much better if only it had a roob from Tennessee guiding things. They mistook lamar alexander for one of their own, because of his characteristic red checked fledging. Of course, alexander immediately won a seat in the US Senate. This was the beginning of the rippers takeover of the (now) Anti-volunteer State.
Ever since his election, alexander has worked tirelessly to avoid being seen or photographed while wearing a tie (unless it was a string tie), suit (unless it was a Nashvillian cowboy suit), or both. lamar alexander is not known for doing much more than that, except whining about taxes, of course.
As years rolled by, an entire wing of the reproblican Party evolved, one that disguises itself as roobs. This is the wing exactly opposite the one that dresses up like circa 1777 French naval officers and blathers against representation and taxation.
Only $100 M!LL!ON ???
Any man who can rescue willard’s campaign from defeat, deserves every penny of willard’s and his family’s, and his business associates’ money.
My friends, Mr. exChamp here is the very finest politician that money can rent.
Bask in it.
willard once described himself as unemployed. After the election, he can get a job as a barber.
Romney can wear a bollo tie for all I care. He will always be and Ivy league elitist who criticizes Obama for his similar education, but can’t get past that he, Romney, is one of the one percent who is continually advocating on behalf of the one percent.
He is nothing more than a prick with ears and an Ivy league degree.
Reading the fine print, we find another arrest in the murdoch crime family, this time for money laundering.
http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/cae69a7523db45408eeb2b3a98c0c9c5/Article_2012-05-15-Britain-Phone%20Hacking/id-737f95a958874fd08d79e0e31905be7b
! SATIRE ALERT !
It’s too bad the Pommies no longer have torture chambers with which to induce confessions. A few waterboardings could break this murdoch case wide open.
According to dick cheney, sleep deprivation and kicking are effective, too. The Brits should also try those techniques, just to be fair and balanced. I’d especially like to watch rupert get kicked -- with the sound turned off, of course. I don’t want to hear too much truth.
END SATIRE ALERT
you may now go about your business
“School unions are an extremely positive force in Oregon and throughout the United States.
Just about all criticisms I’ve heard for many years are rooted in either malice or a serious lack of information…”
OD,
Unions make concession after concession whether it be in the auto industry, the air line industry or in education. When concessions don’t solve the problem, critics are always first to claim that unions did not give enough. Apparently their business models are predicated on people working for nothing.
XR,
For a hundred million dollars, I expect to get a good deal more than Mitt Romney has to offer. But that’s just me. I hate a nickel and dime crook.
Jace,
Is the proper term for willard ‘entitled’ ? As in, “By virtue of his having fired thousands of Americans, willard is entitled to tax benefits that the peasants are not permitted to enjoy” ?
$100 million may be low-balling myself, but one has to get one’s foot in the door. Anyone who gets elected has to get RE-elected, eh? Eh?
Don’t kid yourself, though. Obama is very vulnerable as a candidate, and the townsfolk are angry.
XR,
Rachel Maddow presented it correctly last night when she was talking about Bain Capital. Privatize the gains, and socialize the losses.
Romney and his cronies think that this is the way of the world, and that they are in some way entitled to it.
My response to that is something along the lines of ‘f--k them and the horse they rode in on,’ but then I am a bit of a traditionalist.
Yes the townsfolk are angry, and the pitch forks and the guillotine are totally non partisan.
“I hate a nickel and dime crook.”
Sorry to break this to you, Jace. Any guy who considers $350K for a few speaking appearences to be chump change, is no nickle and dime crook.
This guy is Goldfinger with a pretty face. He’s a russian oligarch without the accent.
XR,
You may have a point there. In the day and age when a presidential campaign can cost a cool billion, Mitt is still playing for chump change. If he can be bought for a hundred million dollars, he is at best guilty of thinking small, and at worst of not thinking at all.
His business acumen is not quite as advertised.
I wish I could remember who wrote it, but the best characterization I’ve come across for willard and bain is the word parasite.
he/they produced no increase in goods and services, produced no extra value for customers, and created no jobs. In other words, there was no economic activity in what willard/bain accomplished. Everything remanied the same except the employees lost money or their jobs, and willard made fortunes.
Like the guy who stole the paintings from the Gardner Museum, willard merely achieved a transfer of loot.
Parasite is the perfect word. willard was a tapeworm in the American economy.
Dear Mitt and Republicans,
Please explain to me which cumbersome government regulation was responsible for JP Morgan’s recent two billion dollar trading fiasco? I have no doubt that absent any regulation, the trade(s) would have yielded riches beyond imagination. Please advise me on what must to be done to prevent a repeat of such an unnecessary turn of events in the future. Curious minds wish to know.
My warmest personal regards,
jace
“willard was a tapeworm in the American economy.”
XR,
If Obama doesn’t take that phrase and run with it, he does not deserve to be re-elected. Good on you many times over.
First there were caterpillars and now there are tapeworms. Can maggots be far behind?
If I had a nickle for every time Romney pretends to be a man of the people, I’d have an elevator for my Ford Ranger.
“Please explain to me which cumbersome government regulation was responsible for JP Morgan’s recent two billion dollar trading fiasco” -- Jace @ 1:14 am
Perfectly nuanced snidery. I am in awe.
“Don’t kid yourself, though. Obama is very vulnerable as a candidate, and the townsfolk are angry.” ExChamp @ 12:43pm
Ya. I agree. I think it’s oh,bummer’s to lose.
However, in order to pee this campaign away, I think oh,bummer would have to pull the unspeakable. By that I mean, act like larry craig, mark foley, john edwards, randy cunningham, or guvs blago, ryan, schwarzenegger, or sanford. People may not get war crimes or despotic behavior, but they understand corruption and betrayal, and they hate it. It would take the demonstration of corruption or betrayal to derail oh,bummer between now and November.
I guess mark foley is not an a great example of corrution and betrayal. He’s a great example of a pimp and predator. People hate those types of monsters, too.
In secret and abominable rites, behind locked and guarded doors, the State of misery abased itself, and honored the batrachian rush limbag for his eldritch ululations.
…acquired two long-range acoustic devices that can be used as “sound cannon” to disperse crowds. Critics say these devices can cause hearing damage. A police spokeswoman said they would be used to deliver messages to crowds.”
http://news.yahoo.com/chicago-braces-violence-nato-summit-021854168--finance.html
The message being that we live in a police state?
Soda Makers Scramble to Fill Void as Sales Drop
By STEPHANIE STROM
So Boner’s threatening another debt limit fight -- because it worked so well for him the last time? Brian Beutler has a piece at TPM that looks at it from an interesting perspective -- that the ‘can’ts aren’t confident that Obama will lose in November -- otherwise this creates a problem for President Romney as he starts office with a debt ceiling debacle on his hands. Obama’s bargaining chip is the expiration of the Bush tax cuts. This one will be interesting to watch.
Vulture Capitalism ala Bain. Take out huge loans, get all the tax breaks, fire people, grab the profits and run:
Jace
The maggots gagged during the last Limbaugh excretion.
champ. folks all know he’s a high-falutin’, scootin’, shootin’, son of a gun from michigan, ragtime cowboy mitt
oops, wrong cowboy.
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At Bain our motto is, “Screwing the public, one pension fund at a time.”
Baine Capital, where the customer always comes first, and ethics are an afterthought.
Patd,
Rag Time Cowboy Joe is practically the official song of my native Wyoming. We are very protective of it.
Please don’t associate it with Willard an any form,
it’s just so,so…… so wrong.
When it comes to sophisticates and western songs, no one did it better than Cole Porter
That Cole Porter he sure knew how to turn a phrase.
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