The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
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    WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE!

    By Richard Day on Mon, 10/27/2014 - 7:54pm |

     

     

    WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE!

    Things are looking bad.

    'We' have already given up the 'House.'

    Now we lose the Senate?

    MY SS WILL GO DOWN FROM $1200.00 TO $600.00?

    I will lose $15.00 in food stamps?

    Well,

    The repubs are so ascared of SS reductions that I am not sure I will lose much. I think I will get another $20.00 raise in 2015 anyway.

    Three more 12 ounce packets of decent coffee and another jug of half and half will not destroy me.

    The bad guys could not increase my rent; at least in the next two or three years.

    I am getting far too old.

    But Cruz and Gohmert and Palin (who has no constituency) and Bachmann (who has no constituency in 2015) and all the other rotten bastards do not threaten me at all, only speak revolution.

    There will be a Department of Education as well as an EPA as well as the IRS as well as the SEC as well as.....

    First the Senate which is the sanest of the two houses of Congress, still has a type of filibuster.

    I am hoping of course, hope against hope, that Joe Biden will become our most important Senator again by Constitutional fiat. That is the VP will be forced to preside over the Senate like John Adams, who took the office as something of importance. 

    But this cloister thingy should keep the Senate in tow as it were.

    And our President, has a veto power that President Ford used every goddamn day, might keep us all from Armageddon.

    I am still contemplating a live chat next Tuesday.

    It looks really bad, so any wins will seem triumphant.

    I am worried for future generations.

    I am worried about voting rights.

    I am worried about women's rights (I have a daughter and two granddaughters and a daughter in law whom I adore).

    I am worried about civil rights.

    I am worried about a number of things.

    But I will survive.

    And so will my children and my children's children.

     

    ON THE OTHER HAND:

     

     

     

     

     

    Comments

    I guess we are on opposite side of this coin. I see the light at the end of the tunnel. Women, and minorities are fed up and turning out at the polls in states with competitive races. 

    The media and the campaigns needed this to be a close race in order to make and raise money. They won't be able to engineer much of a close one in 2016.  

    Please go read my last comment on my last blog. Things are starting to shape up for Florida and the momentum is with the Dems. 

    Wang and Silver both agree that the polling in the last couple of decades have under estimated the Dem turn out by 1.5 % on the average. The polling has been razor thin.

    I guess I am out here on a limb saying that enough of these close races will break for dems based on what I know to keep the Senate in the hands of the dems.   


    by trkingmomoe on Mon, 10/27/2014 - 11:05pm

    THE PEASANTS ARE REVOLTING.

    THE END.


    by barefooted on Tue, 10/28/2014 - 1:35am

    hahahhahhaahah

    No one except for Mr. Smith or Q ever quotes me.

    hahahahahah

    Oh and I hope you and Momoe are correct in your assessments.

    hahahah


    by Richard Day on Tue, 10/28/2014 - 1:45am

    Well, maybe the peasants find you revolting, as well. cheeky


    by Verified Atheist on Tue, 10/28/2014 - 9:30am

    Actually I prefer my Peasants Under Glass.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Leghorn_Blows_at_Midnight

    But we all have our own tastes, so to speak!


    by Richard Day on Tue, 10/28/2014 - 3:16pm

    Amazing ... Did you know that the cartoon you linked to is connected in two ways to radio comedian Fred Allen?   First in that the character of Foghorn Leghorn is a direct steal of a Southern character, Senator Claghorn, that appeared in the Allen's Alley segment of Fred Allen's radio show for many years and the second is the title of the cartoon is a play on a Jack Benny movie called The Horn Blows at Midnight.  Fred Allen, of course, had a famous fake feud with Jack Benny for many years and The Horn Blows at Midnight was often joked about as supposedly being one of the biggest bombs of all time. .    (I did a lot of research on Fred Allen, when I wrote a play about him many years ago .  But I couldn't get the rights, so it was never produced. )


    by MrSmith1 on Wed, 10/29/2014 - 6:31pm

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    by Richard Day on Wed, 10/29/2014 - 6:53pm

    Yeah I do or did.

    Foghorn/Leghorn is impressed into my rather bloggy memory.

    That is how come I ended up using this link as I yahooed or googled or whatever I was looking for.

    Why not, and this is just a suggestion, show us your play?

    \We get in no trouble here.

    I had one instant that I could not blog but the powers that be fixed that.

    Blog it in chapters at YOUR corner along with your haikus.

    Nobody loses nothing. ha

    Do this in chapters.

    No one loses.

    The  Mikes and Romana aint gonna steal nothing.

    It might be fun

    And no one will lose anything.

    I love scripts.

     

     


    by Richard Day on Wed, 10/29/2014 - 6:52pm

    First I have to see if I have it on my computer or on some diskettes.  I may have it now only in script form.   This was around 1978 and was the first play I ever wrote and I think I used a typewriter or a very basic word processor.   If I can't find it on my diskettes, I will make a copy of the final draft and send it to you. 

     

     


    by MrSmith1 on Thu, 10/30/2014 - 1:42pm

    Speaking for my fellow peasants ...

    While revolting can be revolting, both are instinctive reactions to Republican politicians.


    by barefooted on Tue, 10/28/2014 - 3:36pm

    Chris Christie, the supposed GOP moderate who can work with Democrats, made clear the GOP Governors have an obligation to suppress votes of minority groups.

    http://www.politicususa.com/2014/10/26/chris-christie-republicans-contro...

    What is amazing is that there are close races like in Kansas. Brownbeck used Classic GOP economics, slashing taxes on the wealthy to trash his state's economy, yet he is not losing by a landslide. I do not understand why the country. And the media takes the GOP seriously.


    by rmrd0000 on Tue, 10/28/2014 - 8:12am

    I do not understand why the country. And the media takes the GOP seriously.

    Lawyers, Guns, and Money.


    by moat on Tue, 10/28/2014 - 9:31am

    ....most of all it is adherence to an ideology, a mindset that reality, facts or personal experience cannot alter or diminish.


    by NCD on Tue, 10/28/2014 - 10:51am

    Or is it an adherence toward idiocracy?

     


    by Richard Day on Tue, 10/28/2014 - 3:18pm

    I think idiocracy is the problem. Recently the local community center had a group camp out on the land I caretake. Since about half  of them are friends I was hanging out at the campfire when one idiot decided to talk politics.While complaining about a friend from Canada who couldn't get a green card to work at his business he said, "The only way anyone can get a green card is if they go directly on welfare."

    People can have reasonable disagreements about the regulations for obtaining a green card but that statement is objectively false. Since it was clear in the conversation he was referring to Mexicans he was demonizing a whole racial group with a lie. Nothing I said could get him to admit that many of those who obtain green cards don't go on welfare.

    The dialog just spiraled down from there including the two cliches I hate and so many right wingers love. "Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one." That's just a passive aggressive way of calling some one an asshole. People may say "everyone" but they don't really mean I am an asshole and so are you. What they really mean is you are an asshole. Notice how no one ever says, Opinions are like brains or like hearts, everyone has one. That would imply the person is smart or compassionate.

    Than there was, "Everyone is entitled to their opinion." When people say that I think they mean: My opinion should be treated with deference and respect, I'm entitled. I think if a person decides to spout off in public they should expect to be challenged and they have a responsibility to defend their opinions with rational arguments. If they're unable to do that they should STFU. They're entitled to nothing more than rational arguments in return.

    I been around that circle often enough that I really don't think there's any purpose in entering a dialog with right wing tea party idiots. Its not  a discussion of differing views about where our country should go. Its a debate about the facts. They're misinformed and demagogic, and since they never check the facts they'll never change their minds.


    by ocean-kat on Tue, 10/28/2014 - 10:12pm

    Boy oh boy, man oh man, you just touched upon my entire life's experience.

    WOW

    I alluded years ago about my high school friend who ended up in the army during Vietnam and he  was lucky enough to end up in Germany.

    He reported that he was in  boot camp, somewhere in  SC prior to his papers sending him to Europe and one of his 'mates' had troubles with his diction.

    NOW THAT SOUNDS LIKE A COMMUNISM, I AINT SAYIN YOU ARE A COMMUNISM, JUST SAYING.

    And, David, my friend was speechless.

    I mean in this day and age, David is most probably a repub, but who the hell knows?

    No,  in my presence, everyone is not entitled to his or her own opinion; unless of course I am taking down notes for a novel or something. hahahahahaha

    That is all MSM.

    Is Gohmert entitled to his opinion?

    Sure.

    Is Gohmert entitled to have his opinion published to a million folks?

    No.

    But there you have it.

    I mean, my opinion is that Et's control our country.

    I mean, my opinion is that minorities, especially those minorities from down south of the border are ebola infected drug peddlers. 

    I mean all atheists love gays.

    I mean all atheists are gays.

    I mean....

    Who cares any more?

    Entitled means repub anxiety?

    Ocean, you have me thinking.

    Is there global warming?

    Well my opinion is that we suffer from pollution of our waters and our air.

    We can have a discussion if you disagree where I am at.

    That is OK.

    But if you deny global warming and pollution, you are an idiot.

    I have no idea as to how even to address you.

    Oh that is enough right now.

    GOOD POINTS

    THE END


    by Richard Day on Tue, 10/28/2014 - 10:31pm

    Wasn't that a rock band in  the 70's?


    by Richard Day on Tue, 10/28/2014 - 3:19pm

    It is a song:

     

     

    by Warren Zevon


    by moat on Tue, 10/28/2014 - 6:51pm

    Kansas has always been on the fringe, that is why we have the book Alice in Wonderland.

    Politically, Christie is a dead man walking. He is trying to salvage his career. Actually the GOP is in political trouble and here is why:

    Every 30 to 40 years our country realigns it's political ideology. This happens as generations age out. 

    1st period-Federalist Party and Democratic/Republican Party. Ending 1830's

    2nd period-Whigs Party and Democratic/Republican Party. Ending 1850's

    3rd period-Republican Party and Democratic Party. Civil War, Reconstruction and Jim Crow ending 1890's

    4th period-Republican Party and Democratic Party. Progressive, Women Suffrage and 1st Gilded Age ending 1930's.

    5th period- Democratic Party and Republican Party. New Deal, Civil Rights and Great Society ending 1970's.

    6th period-Republican Party and Democratic Party. Southern Conservative politics dominating the nation and 2nd Gilded Age ending 2008

    7th period-Democratic Party and  Republican Party. First African American President.

    This generation coming into dominance is social, economical and political liberal.  GOP doesn't seem to be adapting to the new reality of the shift because of the Supreme Court and the disconnect of the 1% trust fund babies from reality. They are enabling the crazy fringe on the right to try to prevent the shift. All it is doing is making an opportunity for the Democratic Party build a new coalition from this new generation. 

    It never dawned on the plutocracy that if there was no unions that communities and groups would organize politically to win elections in their best interest. They are pushing for pay raises, better access to health care, consumer rights, quality education and better jobs as a national issue instead of direct negotiations with corporations. The parts of society that has been bullied, fleeced and marginalized are finding their voices and realizing they have to be politically engaged to end this. 

    It is something to think about other then the tabloid 24/7 news. 

     


    by trkingmomoe on Tue, 10/28/2014 - 11:13am

    I thought you might be right because a little while ago the rural county courthouse in Texas where I just voted for Wendy Davis began to shake like the Devil. But I got out of there quick and made it back to my car safely.

    Talk about an uphill battle. But we can't give up. Change is slow to come.

    My first vote in Texas. I'll be long gone before this state turns blue.

    That's all I can think of right now.


    by Oxy Mora on Wed, 10/29/2014 - 2:53pm

    Here in North Carolina, it's a question of who the voters like the least. Not the individuals running for office, but what they represent -- the Democratic administration in Washington or the Republican legislature in Raleigh. Our US Senator vs our Speaker of the House.

    I truly hope that the disaster we've created in our state government won't bleed into Capitol Hill. We can't keep moving backwards.


    by barefooted on Wed, 10/29/2014 - 4:23pm

    Thanks. I understand your Senate candidate has a shot, at least.

    Here, Wendy doesn't have a real shot. But the reason i've been calling people to go vote is that it's important to show Democrats that the trend is up.

     


    by Oxy Mora on Wed, 10/29/2014 - 7:41pm

    Oxy don't despair. We started here in Florida right after the 2004-5 hurricane seasons. FEMA was a mess and many people was asked to give back the FEMA money that they were given because FEMA made a mistake.  This was after they had used the monies to make the repairs on their homes. It was not like they were trying to commit fraud. They filled out the paper work and that is what FEMA awarded them. This was a bridge to far for South Florida and people started to get politically active.  It took a few cycles of voter registration and GOTV to built up a base. OFA was a big help in training how to do GOTV.

    When I moved here there was only one Dem party organization that met each month in the county.  We now have 7 Dem groups that meet on a regular basis in this county. They turned out in 2012 and they are turning out for this election.  

    Texas will change faster then you think.  It takes a lot of attention to the AA and Hispanic population to win their support.  Battle Ground Texas knows this and has our model to work from.  It looks good in Georgia for the Democrats this year also.

    I am sure Wendy is glad to have your vote.  She has a good future even if she looses this one.   


    by trkingmomoe on Thu, 10/30/2014 - 3:44pm