Kittens are up!

-CW

***Dept. Of
Hypocrisy***

The Southern Baptist Convention issued this during the Monica Lewinsky scandal. I know that was 22 years ago but aren't the Christofacists** supposed to revere old wisdom?

“Be it finally RESOLVED that we urge all Americans to embrace and act on the conviction that character does count in public office, and to elect those officials and candidates who, although imperfect, demonstrate consistent honesty, moral purity and the highest character.

**To any reader who is sincerely Christian, I mean no insult!

**The term "Christofacist" applies only to those who want to jam their version of religion down everybody's throats. In the event that you are one of them please F.O.A.D. A.S.A.P. And please, do not have children, as we need to remove your cancer from the body politic. When you mix religion and politics, both are the worse for it.

Freedom of Religion is meaningless unless that includes freedom from other people's religion, amirite?

That's an intriguing comment. Please elaborate when you have a moment

Bob Dylan has sold the publishing rights to ALL of his songwriting catalogue.

Wow. Just, wow.

There are simply tons of Fellow Travelers trolling the Comments section at Fox & OANN, to wit:

Waiter, I'd like some evidence to go with my Conspiracy Salad.

We must suspend the constitution, declare martial law, suppress the vote and elect trump to a second term. You know, for Democracy.

Dogs are so much more interactive than cats, with characteristics like loyalty and fierce devotion, and I'm not sure I'd be alive right now if not for having a Furbaby or two that I had to be responsible for. For me, once you try dogs you never go back, period.

But when my girlfriend and I were moving into this cabin in Green Valley Lake, she told me the guy that was moving out said he was gonna take his dog Jack out in the woods and shoot him, unless we took him.

I recall looking heavenward and remarking to myself, "Self, I guess this is the start of my 'doggie phase!'"

Alas,

Dogs have Stewards
Cats have Staff

Maybe I'm splitting hairs here but I don't OWN my Furbabies, I'm here to take care of them, to steward our lives together.

What a disappointing FTPs column. And to think that I waited a whole two weeks for this?

2) Not even an attempt at the real talking points? I thought the point of this column was to provide 'talking points' to Democrats, either candidates or elected officials, for the coming week's 'action.'

Oh, cut the man some slack. I also greatly look forward to FTP columns, and sometimes run afoul of our Board Mother on Sundays because I wanna do politics when it's music time.

I gotta believe CW puts in way more than 40 hours a week (and I sincerely hope he's making a decent living grinding out such well thought out and voluminous content.) He's gotta be at least somewhat burned out, and we're still not out of the woods, with Trump in office for another six weeks.

I'm sure that (like me) he lives for this stuff. So give the man a little space, OK?

**Dept. of Missed Opportunities**

When the Dems regained control of the house in 2018 I wish that they passed a bill setting up an Escrow Account to deposit Mexico's payments for Trump's silly wall. It would truly be, er, Legislative Snark.

(sound of Mtn Caddy, cracking himself up on the Left Coast)

Just through the air and, guitar, too. Heh. You should see me!

Don't be sorry ... just play some of them next Sunday night!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxAP4VdtuLQ&list=OLAK5uy_mnsidQPM7J_Obaaa3lxCiJ6tUI6vmaU7Y

Here's a little Bad Horsie to lull you to sleep.

Sweet dreams, Miss Canada ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42E25GZooIM&list=RDmQQG9GUInM4&index=17

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYreEXVa9ss

Day-yam, Triumph is officially my new discovery of the month!

I love that EDS-1275 double-neck Gibson guitar (perhaps most famously used by Jimmy Page on Stairway to Heaven.)

Twelve strings on the upper neck for rhythm guitar and a six strings lower neck for the lead work.

I have GOT to get me one of these
--Will Smith character
Independence Day

BTW who is the second guitarist in this song?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usWQOPTORn8&list=RDmQQG9GUInM4&index=3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQQG9GUInM4

So are you a New Yawker?

BTW that's an impressive list of Jewish contributors to our holiday traditions. I had no idea...

Sign of the Gypsy Queen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYhz1db8ZuI&list=RDUhmtefhPkAc&index=23

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9X5Vbt4FYo&list=RDUhmtefhPkAc&index=16

Those are all great Christmas songs!

What did you think of 'Can You Make It Feel Like Christmas?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhmtefhPkAc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzDXsoNjIDM&list=RDCg32P-huFA4&index=12

Are you Canadian? I figured that from your "handle" that you are a New Yorker.

https://hillelontario.org/blog/10-christmas-songs-written-jews/

Have you ever played drums, my Dear? Going back to six years old I have years of experience on piano, violin, rhythm guitar and bass guitar. But I've fooled around on drums and it's way tougher to keep track of two hands/two feet equals four things to coordinate.

Triumph's Gil Moore playing drums and singing, too, is simply unfathomable to me!

Keep spinning the tunes!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry2HkU7rQzA&list=RDYlcY_enzwmI&index=8

Excellent! If this song gets enough attention it could become something approaching a "classic."

[We now return you to your regularly scheduled Sunday evening programming]

Ladies and Gentlemen, for your dining and dancing pleasure we offer TLC Waterfalls

If you haven't seen his performance of A Criminal Mind at the 2009 Canadian Music Week, then you are in for another treat! And, that's his sixteen year old son on drums - Dylan now plays in his own band.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ceiyHuW-JQ

I'd like to share a very, very special holiday treat - it's new music from a wonderful classic artist from Toronto, Gowan ...aka Lawrence Gowan of Styx since 1999 ... Styx was so lucky to nab this premiere showman after Dennis left the band ...

Anyway, just this past Friday, Gowan released this single with Stuck on Planet Earth and it is destined to become a classic (and Pandemic) Christmas tune and, I'd like to make a special dedication for our Don because I think he'll love it!

Here is Can You Make It Feel Like Christmas so, sit back and sing along if you like!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tpmRe2U5Oc&feature=emb_logo

And some Teahouse On the Tracks to get things going?

Trump tried to have his cake and eat it too. He spent over half of the two hours spouting "election was stolen from him" nonsense while urging Georgians to vote for the two GOP Senatorial candidates. I thought he did a halfway decent of that. "Stop the steal" was the most common crowd chant, and I could count the masked people on one hand.

Although he only gave the female candidate a couple minutes on the microphone, Trump really talked them up pretty graciously (for Trump.)

He claimed that the Democrats weren't going to just make America Socialist but were aiming at full-on Communism. And that Democrats were going to take away everybody's farms, jobs, guns and religion, free dangerous criminals, and make America a slave to China.

One thing Trump didn't do was mention Hillary (gasp!) and we didn't hear even one "Lock her up" chant.

FYI I just saw a poll showing John Ossoff up two points and Raphael Warnock up seven, so the Repugs are by no means a shoo-in to win.

All and all, a waste of two hours of my life.

Why would it need a soul, when it has 74,216,308 voters frothing for vengeance over an imaginary theft?

@don[37],

of biden's proposed nominees, who in particular was a lobbyist or a corporate consultant? if you can name specific names, i'll respect your opinion on the matter. here's the list:

https://www.chicagotribune.com/election-2020/ct-joe-biden-cabinet-20201123-6p6m62t5dnfixp3ovj2pumkyu4-list.html

have at it.

JL

What are you guys thinking, for Gawdsake?? At this time in history, "coronated" OUGHT to mean GOT THE (CORONA)VIRUS OF THE DAY", ought it not?

“But what’s the difference between Trump’s merch and ours? Ours is made in the US. (And for [Republicans] who joke that we should give for free, we actually do – just volunteer.)”'
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/dec/04/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-tax-the-rich-sweatshirt-critics

If nothing else, his swearing in this week is the nail in the coffin of a Trump nominee that even many Republicans find too extreme.
'Mr. Kelly’s induction all but dooms the already fraught nomination of Judy Shelton, President Trump’s nominee to the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors, whom the administration had hoped to confirm before the end of the lame-duck session.'
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/02/us/politics/senator-mark-kelly-arizona.html

“I do not have a legal degree, I have lawyers [who] report to me,” Mnuchin answered, with characteristic condescension.

Porter then turned to Fed chair Jerome Powell and, confirming he does have a law degree, told Mnuchin, “Okay, so Secretary Mnuchin, you are trying to tell Chairman Powell to send over any remaining funds right now, and you’re claiming falsely, in my opinion, that that is what the law says.” Mnuchin responded by asking Porter, who graduated from Harvard Law School magna cum laude and is a law professor at University of California, Irvine, “Are you a lawyer?”'
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/12/katie-porter-steve-mnuchin

And, Chris, Trump's antics already consume too much of the media's attention, which is of course a source of never- ending satisfaction to him. While this week's introductory essay was entertaining (and terrifying), I suggest that you could have dedicated a paragraph or two to what Joe Biden and other Democrats did this week.

1) Everyone wins - every time - if their bingo card had "Chris Weigant awards MIDOW for marijuana-related news".

2) The MDDOW to a California lawmaker who visits a restaurant? Srsly?

2) Not even an attempt at the real talking points? I thought the point of this column was to provide 'talking points' to Democrats, either candidates or elected officials, for the coming week's 'action'.

OK, I'm not even going to comment on that one...

:-)

-CW

OK, so what do you call what Napoleon did?

Autocoronation?

Heh...

-CW

OK, that "legal team on crack" was pretty funny...

And damn, I knew there was someone who flew out of the country, but I forgot it when writing (didn't save that particular link this week). You're right they both deserve MDDOTW awards, too. Hereby awarded retroactively...

(kittens Monday, if all goes well.)

"Dogs have owners, cats have staff."

Heh.

-CW

Man I am TOTALLY out of it today. The first one I answered from you (coronated) was [4], the second (his) was [5], and somehow I skipped over [6]. You're right, that was one powerful performance. I urge everyone to take the 12 min and watch it, if you want to see 100% total authenticity from a political figure.

-CW

I would have gone with legal team on crack vs. crack legal team, but that's just me.

I am just a bit disappointed that Newsome didn't get dragged in again as well as the Mayor of Austin for taking a private plane to Cabo for T-day, all the while telling people not to gather.

Looking forward to the annual kittens article...as my cat has informed me that I need to feed her for the umpteenth time today.

Monday, if I can get things together by then. Plan to put it all together this weekend.

And thanks for asking!

:-)

-CW

Personally, I've been waiting for a ripe opportunity to use "amn't I?" somewhere...

Heh.

-CW

Well, he is a Republican...

-CW

-CW

OK, first that previous reference was to [4]...

And THAT one I'll go back and change, thanks...

-CW

Thanks for the eagle-eye. This clears something up for me -- my word processor's spell check flagged it, then I went to search the word and found dictionary definitions... but didn't bother to read them, I was just trying to check the spelling.

Anyway, live and learn. I promise I'll never use it (MISuse it, I should say) again. And thanks for the heads-up!

-CW

Was he really making a case against Trumpism? Because, I'm pretty sure he said that he was supporting the two Retrumplicans running for the US senate ...

He had me right up to the point where he said he's supporting the two Republicans running for the senate and I thought, hmmm, he can't be too "pissed". ;)

I wish someone would have asked him why.

Yes! Exactly this! Absolutley, positively, unequivocally, even. :)

I won't be there until around 7pm but that certainly doesn't mean that y'all can't get things going earlier ...

Oh, right ... that modus operandi starts - officially - on January 20th, just after noon! I, for one, cannot wait!

Coronate:

adjective
having or wearing a crown, coronet, or the like.

verb (used with object), cor·o·nat·ed, cor·o·nat·ing.
to crown (a sovereign).

This is what the Grand Old Party, the Republican Party, has come to - not the whole country, not both sides, not we're all guilty, not the Dems do it too - the GOP.

"Senators, you have not condemned this language or these actions. ..all of you who have not said a damn word are complicit in this."

It's not just Trump who will be responsible. It's every high-ranking Republican who hasn't spoken out to acknowledge the truth of the election, and to call for peaceful acceptance of the truth, if God forbid some of these civic workers are actually harmed. Not that getting a noose sent to you isn't 'actual harm' as well.

One is crowned, king or leader or otherwise. The participle, following the admitted absurdities of English, is coronation, from 'corona' = crown, in Latin. But it only goes one way - going to ones coronation does not mean one is going to be coronated.

Hate the sound of saying instead that a presidential candidate will be crowned at inauguration day? Me too. So stop calling the event a coronation. (Ditto for political conventions, where the word is abused far more frequently.)

Well, you don't suppose that the speaker was listening to the sage advice of the Democratic nominee, do you? Heh.

Biden's a bit behind the curve on the drugs issue but, you know what, with all that was at stake, I'd have advised her in the same way. Call it cowardice or something else but there were way too many variables in this election that could have swung either way to take a chance on putting drugs on the table ... you know, along with 'defunding the police', for God's sake. :)

Unfortunately, for some, life comes to a screeching halt while Trump rages at the world, one soul every 30 seconds at last count.

This AWOL president is acting in a rather stunning way. More stunning still, no one is able to stop him.

Not many in my 'circle' and that includes Joe Biden. :)