Don Caron

A new parody from Don Caron - The Parody Project, Environmentally Resigned:

From the posting notes:

Published on Sep 24, 2018

Parody of Gentle on My Mind by John Hartford

Every day Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is in office, he works to destroy our public lands and waters at the expense of our communities. He needs to be "environmentally resigned."

He proposed gutting Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments. He wants to massively ramp up oil and gas drilling off our coasts. And he’s trying to slash protections for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

There are already 14 federal investigations into Zinke’s decision-making, misuse of funds, and potential corruption.

Use the link below to sign the petition to fire Zinke now.

https://us.e-activist.com/ea-action/e...

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A Chestnut

...and I couldn't care less about that - it's great, and sadly it seems, there will never be a time when we don't need reminding of the universal theme of how individual toughness feeds into the cooperative effort necessary to make us all free.

Still I Rise --Maya Angelou

You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.

Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
’Cause I walk like I've got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.

Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise.

Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops,
Weakened by my soulful cries?

Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don't you take it awful hard
’Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines
Diggin’ in my own backyard.

You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I’ll rise.

Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I've got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?

Out of the huts of history’s shame
I rise
Up from a past that’s rooted in pain
I rise
I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.

Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.

I rise

I rise

I rise

hat tip = FB pal Vicki W-Eckhart

A Question

Mollie Tibbetts was murdered by an "illegal" and Cult45 started jumping and and down screaming, and otherwise losing their shit over it.

"Immigrant" Celia Barquin Arozamena is murdered by a white American-born guy, and  -

So, my question(s): 

Are we looking for balance here? 

Are we seeing something from the Press Poodles that points a finger at GOP cherry-picking? 

And if either or both of those is the case, what's the fuckin' difference?

Welcome to (hopefully) the height of The Propaganda War.

For what it's worth:

Short Term Thinking

Republicans have allowed their rat-fuckers so much leeway to do their thing, the results are starting to eat away at their long-con strategy.

The story of Ed Whelan is a case-in-point.

Politico:

Ed Whelan may have just crossed a line he can’t jump back over.

Yesterday, Whelan, the president of the Ethics and & Public Policy Center, a conservative think tank, and an assertive supporter of Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court, took to Twitter to lay out a Hardy Boys-inspired scenario, suggesting that Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who accused Kavanaugh of attempted rape in high school, might have been mistaken about the identity of her alleged sexual assaulter. Using a mash-up of yearbook photos, Zillow information, Google Maps and Facebook, Whelan laid out a “case” that another man, a former classmate of Kavanaugh’s at Georgetown Prep—whom he named and provided a current photograph of—might have been the person Ford has in mind. After his wild theory received widespread criticism, Whelan deleted the tweets, and tried to walk back the accusation this morning.

But, if it’s false, it’s already too late to protect him against a possible defamation claim.

The common law of defamation isn’t that complicated. To be liable, the defendant must make an intentionally or negligently false statement about the plaintiff that tends to cause reputational harm, and harm must actually ensue.

Desperate to fill the federal bench with guys like Kavanaugh, the Daddy Staters are throwing caution to the wind, and forgetting what their operatives are telling us thru their idiotic short-term tactics.

Ed Whalen's attempt to deflect from the Blasey-Ford issue isn't just stoopid on is face.

By mounting this bullshit Scooby-and-the-gang "defense", they signal that at least some of them know (or have reason to strongly suspect) that something did in fact happen. 

They're admitting to the allegation that Dr Ford was assaulted. Which is why it got swept under the rug almost before it got out. Almost.

And of course, it fits with all the other shitty things Republicans have been doing:

• Nothing happened - you're lying
• OK, maybe something happened but it's not illegal, and it happened too long ago to worry about
• OK, something happened and it was illegal, but it's not a big deal - everybody does it
• OK, Something illegal happened and it's a big deal, but

Today's Tweet

The Rude Pundit

Remind me of the crimes Democrats accused Gorsuch of, you lummox. Or Roberts. Or Alito. Go away, you fucking child. https://t.co/JGXOO1xA0g

— The Rude Pundit (@rudepundit) September 23, 2018

Quick Lesson

We stay because we believe
We leave because we're disillusioned
We come back because we're lost
We die because we're committed

Why I prefer my Revolution without the "R".

hat tip = driftglass

Today's Tweet

"...brain like a full voicemail box - you can call, but you can't leave a message."

If there was a nutrition label on Trump's ass it would say 35% Fat 65%
Narcissistic Personality Disorder. pic.twitter.com/Ca9y8ro81v

— Bill Maher (@billmaher) September 22, 2018

Whoa Momma

You're not necessarily an idiot just because everybody says you're an idiot, but one of things you have to consider is the possibility that you're an idiot.

Gonna needs lotsa ice for that kinda burn.

David Brill (D) AZ04

Today's GIF

So how's that diet-n-exercise thing goin', Mike?

The Podcast

Make the connections - because nothing scares the Daddy State more than a voter with a properly functioning memory.

• It's OK if the guy's a racist asshole - he'll keep the wrong people from voting
• It's OK if he advocates in favor of torture - we'll get a muscular foreign policy
• It's OK if he thinks Jews control all media- we'll get schools that teach the bible
• It's OK if he wants to short-circuit Due Process - we'll get law-n-order
• It's OK - boys will be boys
• It's OK - we'll get Roe v Wade overturned
• It's OK - we'll get tax cuts
• It's OK - we'll get back to a profit-taking healthcare system
• It's OK - we'll protect the rent-seeking bankers
• It's OK - thoughts & prayers

When all of that's been drilled into the heads of your voters, don't be so surprised when those voters begin acting like the assholes you've told them it's OK to be.

The Professional Left

Do the merch, bitches

Remembering others who've been where we are now
is how we move from despair to celebration
We will find each other in the darkness
and move the light to where we need it
--MJR

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“Nevertheless, in this sea of human wretchedness and malice there bloomed at times compassion, as a pale flower blooms in a putrid marsh.”
― Henryk Sienkiewicz, In Desert and Wilderness