The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age

    Does anyone pay attention to the media anymore?

    As everyone has heard, Tony Weiner has once again reared his head (or poked his nose into the tent) with predictable (I want to say disastrous; but apparently we're not there yet) results. But all of that...a digression and a sideshow to what appears to be missing in this. So, without any sort of preparation of a coherent timeline, the real story:

    It appears in "The Media" here :

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    It is mischief to hold a mirror up to ugly

    A heroic angel who permits us one of those occasional moments of pride in the species is currently charged with criminal mischief in Canada because she provided water to thirsty animals on the way to slaughter.

    Anita Krajnc gives pigs water near a slaughterhouse in Burlington, Ont. Krajnc is on trial charged with criminal mischief charge for her act.

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    Anthony Weiner-Insupportable opprobrium, the operational definition

     

    Glenn Thrush provides the most nuanced evaluation of the state of play as it currently exists, in the post surprise world of November

     

    .http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/five-takeaways-from-comeys-october...

    Along the way, he produces the finest  piece of writing I've seen an awhile--color me green-when he says

     

    Year of the Dick

    In the year that was primed to be either the Revolution or the Year of the Woman (aka Breaking the Glass Ceiling Part 2), we'd deviated into the Year of the Pussy - and lots of it - grabbing, bragging, bleeding, breeding - especially with the Republican candidates misadventures in misogyny coming up along with the expected parade of Bill's women brought to bear.

    And just when it seemed like both Michelle Obama and the alliance of Nasty Woman would reclaim the word, claim the higher ground, we get our delayed October Non-Surprise - once again, as promised, or "same as it always is", meet the Dicks.

    Stipulating Hillary's wrong,Huma's damn emails

    don't make her wronger.

    End of story.

    She admitted she made a mistake.. OK

    Comey  ruled it wasn't indictment- worthy. Doesn't become so because

    Abedin also participated

    Next question?

     

     

     

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    ELEVEN MORE DAYS, SHE'LL BE COMIN'

     

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    ATHENA; GODDESS OF WISDOM

     

    King David had 500 concubines for crying out loud!

    (Sean Hannity https://www.yahoo.com/style/sean-hannitys-defense-trump-now-060525089.html)

    PARADOX

    Campaign Thoughts (pt 2)

    Did Bill pave Hillary's way to the White House? His impeachment didn't help, nor overall did his affairs/accusers, triangulation along with NAFTA & the crime bill have haunted her as once did Whitewater and her failed attempt at health care. And then there's the Iraq vote & Libya invasion on her own. Thinking back on it, it's a bit hard to figure out how she even got here. (Hint: she's a process person)

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    Trump: My Mosul sneak attack advice was correct, because "cloaking"!

    When the steaming entrails of his slaughtered campaign are fully sorted through, I really hope that Trump's remarkably stupid critiques of the pending Mosul operation stand out as causing every US veteran to vote against him and every Republican on the ticket (on grounds of contagious stupidity...)

    Campaign Thoughts (pt 1)

    I got to thinking about Republicans being "strict constructionists" when it comes to the Supreme Court, and it seems true - by the time they finish obstructing Hillary's choices, the court'll be back down to its original 6 members.

    Much as I love Michelle's speeches and support and her example as a fun and instructive First Lady, she helps draw attention to one key problem we have with politics, where people confuse giving a great speech with being a great representative.or lawmaker or administrator. Our contests are largely about speechifying, about exciting the masses - while governing is largely a closed-off office matter. The only exceptions are that occasionally some actual policies slip through in the campaign speeches so the public can vet these (if the candidates aren't lying or hedging their bets, the usual assumption), as well as some of the clever positioning between candidates gives an idea how they might deal with world leaders in office. Despite Michelle's successful singing, dancing and health programs, these aren't success factors for President quite yet.

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    TRUMP & LINCOLN

    Trump shows up at Gettysburg.

    He feigns to stand in the shoes of Abraham Lincoln.

    We are told that this great man will speak of his first 100 days as President of the United States of America.

    It wasn't the performance he needed

    That was Nate Silver's comment.

    It'll do.

     

    Hillary's Watershed: Deplorables

    It's been a pretty uninspiring campaign season, waiting from the end of the primaries to the convention buildup, then watching Hillary fritter her lead away on Clinton Foundation questions until it looked like she might be a goner - and then video by video, confession after confession, Trump melted down. Or is that how it went?

    6 weeks ago Hillary let her "Deplorables" tag slip, and much of her fan base and hopefuls let out a collective gasp - it's one thing to attack Trump, but not his followers and independents she was trying to attract. After all, it was common knowledge that millennials were none too thrilled with her, so she'd be making good on that Republican Lite reputation - only here she was pissing in that stream too. And classic Hillary style - not "jerk", "low-life" or even "vulgarian" - she chose a word that half of America had to look up and the other half pondered whether it was even a noun. But most felt it was a way too risky move.

    Dagblog Tied to Hoouge International Conspiracy

    “They will attack you; they will slander you; they will seek to destroy your career and your family; they will seek to destroy everything about you, including your reputation,” “They will lie, lie, lie, and then again they will do worse than that; they will do whatever is necessary.” LINK

    THE EVIDENCE IMPLICATING DAGBLOG:

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    Can we have Michelle after Hillary? (It would help with the Bernie-Sads....)

     

    If we eat our meat, as it were, may we have the pudding?

     

    Michelle Obama has been setting off fireworks for a while, as far as I've been concerned, but it is painfully evident that the former first lady president we really need is Mrs. Obama

     

    Check her out:

     

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    TOUCHING, ISN'T IT?

    Drawing of a man with a pulled-up collar and pulled-down hat walking alone on a street watched by a group of well-dressed men behind him

    I have been blogging way to much lately, but I cannot seem to keep my fingers from touching keys.

    hahahahah

    Now we have a political Cosby-like scandal appearing,

    I checked and Jolly has 'touched upon' the Miss USA Teen peeping Tom scandal at In The News.

    But damn.....

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    The Presidential Election and an Aging Population

    Trump’s latest tweets are relevant. Hillary’s emails are relevant. Paid speeches? Financial ties to Moscow? Bitter, sexist remarks? All relevant.

    But for every news story that sheds light on these candidates’ characters, several more stories go unwritten — particularly about how this election will impact America’s aging population, and to what extent senior citizens will be cared for in either a Clinton or Trump administration.

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    Trump Gets Lynched

    Like most who probably are reading this, I tried during the ascent of Donald J. Trump to make sense of what on earth we were witnessing.

    First there was the idea that he was a Clinton plant (which may be partially true) - there to be the perfect candidate for Clinton to defeat as she finally gets the presidency she has wanted for so, so long. Clinton and Trump were friends for quite a long time - there are social pictures of the Clinton and Trump camps together going back almost as far as I have been alive.

    It was a tie

    or maybe 52/48 with Trump at 52.

    I don't expect it to move the needle  but we don't need it to do.

    So far so good. 

     

     

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    DONALD & HILLARY GO AT IT AGAIN!

    IT'S NOT OVER TILL ITS OVER!

    The Vikings became 5-0 by three PM today.

    So I streamed 8 hours of Netflix (before and after).

    But I kept checking in with Cable News foreshadowing the inevitable storm.

    Just about an hour ago Trump sends out this video with him setting with victims of Bill Clinton thrity and forty years ago.

    AMAZING

    It's Magic: Make America Grate Again

    In what looks like the most amazing Rick-Roll of all time, we have to come to grips with the possibility that Trump is creating his own October Surprise with the results he wants. While some have speculated it was his wife who gave up his 20-year-old tax form, it would be much easier for him to do it. The recording? Pull it out of his archive.

    Why would Donald go to such effort to self-destruct? Because he was never a real candidate to begin with. Everything he's done was a hyperinflated version of what a real stupid conservative Republican might do - turning up the IOKIYAR meme to 11 was sheer brilliance. Or at least good fun.. That's right, Donald Trump is the political equivalent of Spinal Tap - Spinal Trump, anyone? - compleat with little miniature stonehenges and a bizarre appearance at the Armory. And a tribute to fat bottom girls. 

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    Help Wanted: GoFundMe sponsor.."Pay Trump victims' penalties"

     

    I solicit herewith a civic minded troublemaker who would like to be sued by Donald Trump.

     

    Your assignment, should you accept it:

     

    To open a GoFundMe campaign the goal of which would be to raise cash to hold harmless any Trump victims who have settled their lawsuits under a nondisclosure clause.  

     

    Likewise, to indemnify any harm that might befall a person who is bound by one of his odious "Non disparagement" clauses.   

     

    The Trump "sex tape"

    Before we too enthusiastically condemn Trump's stupid remark let's be reasonably honest with ourselves. There are more than a few men, of both parties, who could have been taped at some time saying similar .

    Trump himself claims he heard Bill Clinton saying worse on the golf course. Could be.

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    THE MAELSTORM

    I dedicate this to Jolly. hahahahah

    He found this whilst I was napping.

    I even made a joke under Mike W's comment. hahahah

    Then I hit Huffpo and Politico and then Mediamatters.

    WOW

    This is a big frickin deal!

    Here is just a general MM link:

    http://mediamatters.org/

    MM has eight sections on this.

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