John Oliver

Raisins - fucking epic is all this is.

Sometimes A Troll

I gotta say - I expected a push-back that was more in line with the usual rabid attacks from the fetishists.  

Still early I guess - could be a lot more coming when everybody starts getting home from work tonite(?)

I'll update if anything interesting happens.

Today's Keith

Go to Olbermann's GQ Video page to see the other stuff too.

Good Cop, Bad Cop (updated 9-27)

There's a good reason Invisibility is considered the ultimate super power.  It removes all possibility of being held to account.  If there's no evidence, ie: if nobody can see what you're doing, there's no way to hold you responsible for what you've done.

So WTF, Danville cops?

I called the Danville (Virginia) Police Dept to ask for comment, and left a message. I'll try to update as soon as possible.

hat tip = FB friends MM-M & VW-E


Update:

Says purpose of lifting hood is to cool engine. Some cars have good vents, some don't. @ABC13News pic.twitter.com/pccPPVoWtz

— Valerie Bragg (@ValB_WSET) September 26, 2016

Seems more or less reasonable to me - the local citizens' bunch will continue to keep on eye on this stuff.  Way to go, guys.

Now We're Talkin'

Go get 'em, Dems.

HuffPo:

WASHINGTON ― Democrats are finally paying attention to state politics.

Over the past few years, major donors, national Democrats, the White House and state officials have begun organizing to win back state houses that have been dominated by Republicans since 2010.

And even as the presidential race tightens nationally, Democrats are increasingly confident the party will be able flip a significant number of state legislative chambers, riding a wave of disgust with GOP nominee Donald Trump. At least 14 state House or Senate chambers are well within reach, according to a Democratic memo circulated this week.

You can't elect a president and expect everything to be suddenly peachy.  We put Obama in the White House and it's like we just left him there, thinking he'd do what we elected him to do with no further help from us, ignoring the fact that the Repubs really were turning out to be as shitty as some were trying to tell us they were.

I'll take my share of the hit on that one - I spent a good 18 months calling the guy President Lawn Chair because I was pissed that he bailed on the Public Option without even trying, and made no move on Gitmo etc.  Criticism may have been warranted, but what we shoulda been doing is working to send him the support he needed in the various legislatures - national and state and local.

My bad.

Hopefully, that pendulum could be starting to swing back in favor of an honest majority.

Stay together

Work together

Get shit done

Today's Pix

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Today's Tweet

Trump's strategy for winning Monday's debate involves Rudy Giuliani distractin' Lester Holt while Trump hits Hillary with a foldin' chair.

— Tea Pain (@TeaPainUSA) September 25, 2016

Today's Deep Tho't

You can pray all you want, but if you expect that mountain to move, you'd best be figurin' out how carry some fuckin' rocks.

--mike

Today's Tweet

"My phone in the hotel room rings and it's the Attorney General... 'Who the hell is Diane Nash?'" #APeoplesJourney pic.twitter.com/x6ZRrhQAfX

— American Experience (@AmExperiencePBS) September 24, 2016

Is it possible that PBS is trying to make a comeback?

Yesterday's Podcast

Doin' the Lord's work.

My big take-away today - stop allowing the conversation to get hung up on the controversy of what Colin Kaepernick is doing, and insist the discussion stay focused on the reason he's doing what he's doing.

The Professional Left

Today's Tweet

Conservative commentator @TomiLahren lashes out at NFL star Colin Kaepernick for protesting the national anthem. https://t.co/rFDTK5EgDf pic.twitter.com/dmyBAclogk

— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) September 23, 2016

I Wonder

A while back, Donald Trump got some pretty good play by suggesting that if NATO allies don't pony up on their fair share, then maybe USAmerica Inc isn't required to come thru on its Article 5 commitments.

So, maybe someone should ask Mr Trump:  

• If American companies doing business overseas haven't paid their fair share of taxes in the US, shouldn't we make sure the US Military isn't used to protect their interests on foreign soil?
• Shouldn't they have to pay a tax for the maintenance and operations of the facilities at Ports Of Entry?
• Shouldn't they be considered unworthy of police and fire protection here at home?  
• Should they be allowed access to public roadways?
• How about Water and Sewer?
• Whenever they hire somebody, shouldn't they be required to pay a requisite amount to a school district to reimburse those schools for having educated those new employees for them?

If corporations are people (and if this isn't just one big Fuck-You-If-You-Ain't-Got-The-Juice proposition), then why do they get to play by a different set of rules?

It's a wonderment.

Today's Keith

Watch this video on The Scene.

The Closer with Keith Olbermann

Ignoring History

That woman is not saying anything we don't hear almost every day.  So I guess it's time for this one again:

Alex Nails It

Something about "the mouths of babes" maybe?

Your God Can Blow Me

Radical Christian shit is no better than radical Islamic shit, which is no better than radical Judaic shit or radical Hindi shit or or or.

Right-wing pastor advocating for the killing of homosexuals. Jesus and his message of love. pic.twitter.com/LDzXRziKQi

— Right Wing Talk (@RWTQuotes) September 22, 2016

Take away our belief in Imaginary Friends, and we take away that guy's power to get us to do stoopid things that he thinks our imaginary friend is commanding us to do.

 

Push for reasoning and logic and evidence, and bit by bit, we start to dismantle one of the main structural rationalizations for making people suffer.

Today's Tweet

“With guns you can kill terrorists—with education you can kill terrorism.” @Malala Yousafzai@MalalaFund pic.twitter.com/rmzIEviIGJ

— Bryan Dawson (@BryanDawsonUSA) September 21, 2016

Today's Pix

Tim Wise

Make the connections between Racism, Homophobia, Xenophobia, Misogyny, etc.  There're reasons we encounter these things (often) in the same places, and just as often expressed by the same people.

A take-away for me: It must really suck for you to have been told your whole life that the world belongs to you and you get to take whatever you want from it, only to find out that you were lied to, that the world is not really that way, and you won't be getting every little thing after all.

Today's Keith

Find Keith's new home at GQ

BTW - to reiterate - what Trump is doing comes under the heading of Stochastic Terrorism.

It's the shitty little thing that despots are always pulling - the dog whistle calling to the Lone Wolf who'll interpret it to mean he should do something the Strong Man's id wants to make happen while maintaining the necessary deniability.

It's the lowest political dirty trick ever.

And Keith's absolutely right to recall Hillary doing basically the same thing - although I hafta give her props for backing it off right away, which means to me that she may have stumbled into it not recognizing at the moment that it'd be taken the wrong way.  Point being, she fucked up; she owned the fuck up; she learned not to do it again.

And so to Trump - once can be an anomaly; twice could certainly be coincidence - but that second time, when it's Donald Trump, is just as likely to reveal a deliberate pattern.