The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
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    WHERE HAVE ALL THE COMEDIANS GONE?

     

     

    You know a friend of mine is a comedian and he had this gig in Vegas or somesuch and there were these Germans in the audience.

    And he told me that following a comedic presentation there some Germans came back to have a tete-a-tete with him.

    How come we do not have funny people like you in Germany.

    And he said:

    Cause you killed them all.

    A repub congressman to Josh.

    hahahahaahahahahah!

    (West Wing, Season 4, 19th episode. Comment from a repub Congressman to Josh Lyman. (with 3:42 left)

    WHY CANNOT REPUBS MAKE US LAUGH?

    Well, sometimes they can!

    MAYBE THROUGH IRONY?

    The largest coal company in the world, Coal India, is aiming to cut its own utility bills byinstalling solar photovoltaic panels at its facilities across the country. The coal giant is seeking proposals from solar energy companies to build a modular 2 megawatt solar plant on 9 acres of its own land. This plant could be scaled to export power to the grid.

     

    SPEAKING OF NAZIs

     

    (BERLIN) — A top commander of a Nazi SS-led unit accused of burning villages filled with women and children lied to American immigration officials to get into the United States and has been living in Minnesota since shortly after World War II, according to evidence uncovered by The Associated Press.

    Ha, and I thought Bachmann was the last NAZI left in Minnesota!
     

    EL RAPO

    I don’t understand why Republicans continue to offer up headlines like “GOP congressman: Rate of pregnancies from rape is ‘very low.’ ” It is terrible politics for them to focus the public’s attention on their justification for the fact that they don’t support an exception to abortion bans for rape victims. The view doesn’t have anything like majority support, and they come off as heartless, ignorant scolds. If I were an anti-abortion activist, I’d want to muzzle these people. But they are irrepressible. At a congressional hearing Wednesday, Rep. Trent Franks, a Republican from Arizona, argued against an exception for rape and incest victims from a ban on abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. He said, “Before, when my friends on the left side of the aisle here tried to make rape and incest the subject—because, you know, the incidence of rape resulting in pregnancy are very low.” He is of course following in the footsteps of former Rep. Todd Akin of Missouri, who said that women can stave off pregnancy after a “legitimate rape.” (He apologized but that didn’t save him from losing his next election.)...

    In the aftermath of Akin’s statement, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported on a 1972 essayby an obstetrician named Fred Mecklenburg, who cited a Nazi experiment in which women were told they were on their way to die in the gas chambers—and then were allowed to live, so that doctors could check whether they would still ovulate. Since few did, Mecklenburg claimed that women exposed to the emotional trauma of rape wouldn’t be able to become pregnant, either. (He also argued that rapists are infertile because they masturbate a lot.) The essay was published in a book financed by A.U.L."

    The Civil War was an example of Northern Aggression?

    The new president of the National Rifle Association, whose father was NRA president, is an Alabama attorney who has called President Obama a “fake president,” described Attorney General Eric Holder as “rabidly un-American” and jokingly refers to the U.S. Civil War as the “War of Northern Aggression."

    (JUST ONE DEM TO CLEAR THE BOARDS!)


    REPRESENTATIVE YARMOUTH (D-Kentucky)

    "I can be really brief tonight and just say, Mitch McConnell sucks,” Yarmuth said Thursday, according to the Washington Post.

    I live in Northern Minnesota for chrissakes, and now I have to move to Kentucky for chrissakes just so I can vote for Yarmouth!

    Hahahahaha

    I JUST LOVE THIS GUY! HAHAHAHAH

    REPUBLICANS HATE WOMEN!

    California teacher Carie Charlesworth was fired for the “crime” of being a victim of domestic violence, according to letters obtained by NBC San Diego.

     

    REPUBS HATE HISPANICS!

     

    Just ask Louis Gohmert (Gohmert is on the right?):

     

    "We know Al Qaeda has camps over with the drug cartels on the other side of the Mexican border," he said Wednesday on C-Span. "We know that people that are now being trained to come in and act like Hispanic [sic] when they are radical Islamists. We know these things are happening. It is just insane not to protect ourselves, to make sure that people come in as most people do ... They want the freedoms we have.

    MEL BROOKS

    When Ann Bancroft first introduced Gene Wilder to Mel Brooks, Gene remarked that Mel looked so handsome in his Marine Pea Jacket.

    Mel replied:They used to call them urine jackets, but they just did not nd there was h, they used to call them urine jackets but they didn't sell!'"

    sell!

     

     

    Sometimes, I just aint so fun anymore!

    Comments

    Well Sara Palin got her old job back at Fox.  So maybe she will get back into the swing of nuttery, and give everyone some laughs.   I can't even get into the NSA debate right now.  It is like I am suffering GOP fatigue.  We are having a special election today in my county to renew a half penny tax that has been around for years. It pays some of the county employee's wages and funds a health care fund for the homeless.  You should see all the mailers I have gotten on this from conservatives out side of this county.  I am taking 5 people to the polls today to vote for it because I got all those dam flyers.  What business is it of theirs? 


    Oh Momoe, you have to report the results!

    I can't wait!


    No it was defeated, but I did get my people to the poll.  I guess there will be more county layoffs.


    I first saw that clip from The Producers on the Mike Douglas show.  Mel Brooks was promoting the movie and they showed the whole "Springtime for Hitler" number.  Watching it on TV, I was laughing so loudly, I decided I had to see the movie by myself so as not to embarrass a date.  It's still one of my favorite comedies, and I think part of what makes it special is that remarkable first scene, which, even though it's the set-up, is an inspired mixture of comedy and pathos, with Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder playing off each other brilliantly.  About halfway through, in the midst of the back and forth dialog, Mostel has a throw-away line, which perfectly expresses his character's hard times and desperation; with great exasperation, he tells Wilder, "I'm wearing a cardboard belt."   What a line.  Is it any wonder the script won the Oscar for best original screenplay? 

     

     


    Mostel has always been a hero of mine.

    I mean 'zero'?

    Then I read a little about him and his relationship to McCarthy and McCarthyism!

    Gene is pissed off, he comes across now as an angry old codger. Just hit my link.

    I mean he will not watch a movie dated after 1991? I have read his thoughts for years and he talks about sexual and bathroom jokes and all I recall is that one scene where he keeps grabbing or punching his co-stars boobs. haahahah

    You make me laugh because I recall the cardboard belt. hahahahah

    Zero did not end up as an angry old codger. hahahahahah

    Zero had all the reasons in the world to end up an angry old codger...but he refused!

    Although, if I have to hear anymore from Palin and Bachmann....who the hell knows?


    I remember coming up beyond Zero Mostel one day while walking in NYC.  It was 1976 and he was doing a Broadway revival of his great role of Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof.  It took me a moment to realize it was him. He did not look well, he was heavier than I had ever seen him and he was struggling to walk; he must have been in a great deal of pain, but he kept going.  I didn't want to intrude on his personal space, so I did not approach him.  I think he passed away a few months later.

     

    You're right about Wilder.  He has become a codger. LOL

     


    This article was hard to follow.


    That's okay Orion.

    I have some problems following my logic myself!


    This is a bit off-topic, but I wanted to share it with you, DD ... I was just watching the movie "Holiday" with Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn on TCM.    There was a scene with the old codger playing her wealthy father, who, in a moment of frustration towards the end of the movie reveals that he's 58 years old ... and all I could think was FIFTY-EIGHT!!  DEAR GOD, I'M FOUR YEARS OLDER THAN THAT REALLY OLD GUY!!   hahahahaha