John Boehner's Monster: How Irrational Racist Hatred For Obama Will Destroy The GOP
Saturday, August 2, 2014
Must-Read Headline of the Day
This is the best post I've read about one of the multiple paths the GOP is taking to oblivion/suicide/irrelevance, and believe you me I've read a lot of them. Far too many good quotes to choose from. Just go...
Saturday Emmylou Blogging
I love this song! I sing it in the shower. Now, Emmylou can do no wrong but I change one word - to "...smokin' OUTTA Texas with the hammer down...". The wiser choice of actions, I think.
Thanks to Bert van der Waal van Dijk.
Sunday, July 27, 2014
Quote of the Day
From "This is your brain on racism: Inside the mind of modern bigotry". Good article, quite long.
Karl Marx once quipped that “violence is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one.” Just as surely, however, prejudice is the midwife of violence.
Saturday, July 26, 2014
Saturday Emmylou Blogging
Uploaded on Jun 16, 2009Early 1990s. With The Nash Ramblers in Atlanta at The Fox Theater.
Thanks to bluegrassrootstv.
Monday, July 21, 2014
"Those who do not learn the lessons of history ... yada, yada ..."
Latinos Encounter a New ‘Grapes of Wrath’ Situation in CaliforniaSeventy-five years ago in The Grapes of Wrath, his classic 1939 Great Depression novel, John Steinbeck depicted a similar confrontation between Californians and down-and-out arrivals to their state. The difference is that in Steinbeck’s book the targets of widespread anger were not immigrants. They were migrants from the Dust Bowl of the South and Southwest who had come to California when drought made their lives as farmers impossible.“What happens when they come here with diseases and can overrun our schools? How much is this costing us?” a Murrieta protester was quoted as asking the town’s mayor this month.In The Grapes of Wrath Steinbeck has an angry Californian use almost identical language to say of the Dust Bowl migrants, “They bring diseases, they’re filthy. We can’t have them in the schools. They’re strangers.”
It's not they didn't learn the lessons of history, it's that they don't know or care about history. It's all me-me-me to the anti-Latino Teatard crowd.
Oh, the irony...
DEAR READER: Ironic Times is on hiatus. We will return on August 18th. Please enjoy this Special Edition featuring material from the first six months of the year. — The Editors
Saturday, July 19, 2014
Thursday, July 17, 2014
Tuesday, July 15, 2014
Monday, July 14, 2014
Oh, the irony...
Ironic Times
GOP Eyes Bill to Allow Denying Citizens Right to Vote
If denial based on religious beliefs.
Man in Horse Head Shakes Obama's Hand
Other end of horse says he should be impeached.
U.S. Drops to 46th in World Press Freedom Index
You may have read about this in Romania, which placed 45th.
Wal-Mart Very Sorry for Selling Nazi “Work Makes You Free” Poster
But the lampshades are still selling well.
GOP Eyes Bill to Allow Denying Citizens Right to Vote
If denial based on religious beliefs.
Man in Horse Head Shakes Obama's Hand
Other end of horse says he should be impeached.
U.S. Drops to 46th in World Press Freedom Index
You may have read about this in Romania, which placed 45th.
Wal-Mart Very Sorry for Selling Nazi “Work Makes You Free” Poster
But the lampshades are still selling well.
??? - News Quiz - ???
| The number of vets from Iraq and Afghanistan in the Disability Program: | |
| A ) | Is nowhere near the number from Vietnam, Korea, and World War Two. |
| B ) | Is a small fraction of the number from Vietnam, Korea, and World War Two. |
| C ) | Nearly equals the number from Vietnam, Korea, and World War Two. |
| Hint: But that’s only because wounded soldiers used to die on the battlefield, but now they survive and need medical care for the rest of their lives. | |
Saturday, July 12, 2014
Saturday Emmylou Blogging
Published on Jul 10, 2014
Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell performing "Pancho and Lefty" at Music City Roots Live From The Factory on 7.09.2014
Thanks to Music City Roots.
Two of my favorite tunes so y'all get a twofer.
Monday, July 7, 2014
Oh, the irony...
Ironic Times
2016 Presidential Race: Romney Ahead So Far With Republicans
Edging out McCain, Dole, Stassen.
EU to Start Counting Drug, Gambling, Sex Transactions as Part of GDP
Instantly transforming current “stagnant economy” into “robust era of prosperity and growth.”
Marijuana Food Trucks Begin Operating in Washington State
Drive up one street, down next playing “Everybody Must Get Stoned.”
Conservatives Outfit Trucks to Spew Black Smoke in Protest of Obama, Environmentalists
Next week will protest Clean Water Act by peeing in a reservoir.
Saturday, July 5, 2014
Saturday Emmylou Blogging
Published on Jun 29, 2014Lonely Street by Emmylou Harris - from 1989 - her haunting rendition of the song that was a top 10 hit record for the late Andy Williams in 1959
Thanks to Nipster songs1.
Monday, June 30, 2014
Oh, the irony...
Ironic Times
BENGHAZI TERROR SUSPECT AHMED ABU KHATALLAH PLEADS NOT GUILTYIssa would cream his jeans. Heh.
Claims it was all Hillary's fault.
Confusing Alliances in Iraq
We've joined forces with our former enemies to fight our current enemies who are fighting our former allies who are fighting our current allies who became our allies before we became their enemies.
Female Mormon Activist Excommunicated from ChurchLucky you...
Husband: “I'm ok with that, I have plenty of other wives.”
Pope Excommunicates Mafia
But says they can continue to pick up the garbage.
Saturday, June 28, 2014
Saturday Emmylou Blogging
Not much info on this performance. The Adrienne Arsht Center is in Miami-Dade FL.
Thanks to arshtcenter.
Monday, June 23, 2014
"You Can't Teach A Pig To Sing"
Today appears to be "Old Fart Monday".
...the right embraces ignorance because it's what gets them elected.
Thanks to oldfartrants.
Oh, the irony...
Ironic Times
China Announces New Crackdown on Press
Things improve immediately, says Beijing Times.
U.S. Denies It's Trying to Get Rid of Maliki
In fact, we just sent him a box of Havana cigars.
A "blast from the past", so to speak...
New Stonehenge Theory: Huge Rocks Were Played Like Instruments
Those who played them became, of course, huge rock stars.
Groooooan...
GM Adds 3.16 Million Vehicles To Recall List
Look, if you drive something they made, any model, any year, just bring the damn thing down to the dealership.
China Announces New Crackdown on Press
Things improve immediately, says Beijing Times.
U.S. Denies It's Trying to Get Rid of Maliki
In fact, we just sent him a box of Havana cigars.
A "blast from the past", so to speak...
New Stonehenge Theory: Huge Rocks Were Played Like Instruments
Those who played them became, of course, huge rock stars.
Groooooan...
GM Adds 3.16 Million Vehicles To Recall List
Look, if you drive something they made, any model, any year, just bring the damn thing down to the dealership.
Saturday, June 21, 2014
Dick Cheney, Iraq and the ghosts of Vietnam
Very good article at Salon.
It will not come until the last person who remembers Vietnam in their own lifetime is gone. Hell, WWI isn't over and they are gone, so maybe never. Please read the rest.
Cheney and his neocon cabal want to go back to Iraq – but they're really fighting Vietnam all over again
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What all those people shared, I believe, was the conscious or unconscious belief that a foreign war with a plausible-sounding excuse, and one that ended with a clean victory, would be good for America and might restore the sense of national unity and purpose we putatively lost in the ’60s. If it sounds insane to contemplate ordering the deaths of thousands of people as a form of national therapy, you’re beginning to understand the true costs of PVSD, as well as the infantile and solipsistic character of American patriotism. If we see that today in its most diseased form with the renewed warmongering of Cheney, Feith, Kristol et al., the responsible-grownup version is still with us as well, in the pro-imperal windbaggery of Niall Ferguson or in Robert Kagan’s recent New Republic essay arguing that America should reassert itself as the dominant global superpower, despite the obvious fact that we’re broke, politically paralyzed and lack the stomach for any further overseas debacles.
The Iraq war was specifically conceived as antidote to Vietnam – as a brief, low-intensity, high-impact military victory that would make us feel better about ourselves. Ultimately it became a distorted replica or parody of Vietnam instead, a set of familiar mistakes in a new setting. It was shockingly expensive, grotesquely mismanaged and politically divisive, and its biggest success lay in unifying and empowering a nationalist opposition and turning the civilian population of the invaded country against us. There was widespread surprise that it didn’t work; Cheney, Rumsfeld and their allies have more or less continued to insist that it did work and we just haven’t noticed.
We can debate whether Cheney and his neocon brain trust really believed their own moronic-utopian domino theory about bombing the entire Arab-Muslim world into a set of pseudo-democratic American satellite nations “floating on a sea of oil” (in Paul Wolfowitz’s phrase). I guess somebody must have believed it, but I see that as pure ideological superstructure out of the Leo Strauss playbook, or in plain English as hokum designed to draw the suckers into the tent. That prospect was about as realistic as all the virgins in Paradise that are promised to jihadist suicide bombers, or the Soviet leadership’s pronouncements that one day pure communism would conquer the earth and the state would wither away.
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We know who the dark wizard is who cast that spell, but it’s the rest of us who granted him his power. Dick Cheney yearns to fight the Iraq war over again – or fight another and another in Iran or Syria or somewhere else – in the vain hope that things will turn out differently, America’s virility will be restored and his legacy redeemed. That’s not going to happen; rancher togs or not, the Cheney of 2014 is an old and broken man with a fading constituency. But that’s small comfort to the rest of us, not to mention the people of Iraq. He destroyed their nation, bankrupted ours and did his damnedest to transmit the toxic effects of Vietnam to a new generation. One day we’ll be free of that past, presumably, but that day has not com
It will not come until the last person who remembers Vietnam in their own lifetime is gone. Hell, WWI isn't over and they are gone, so maybe never. Please read the rest.
A little Saturday bluegrass
This one goes out to bearsense. One of my favorite bands at the Father's Day Bluegrass Festival last weekend in Grass Valley CA at the other end of my county. Enjoy.
Thanks to Staninec.
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