Saturday, August 13, 2016

Saturd80's -- Paul Weller

Paul Weller pretty much started the English Mod revival of the late 70's with his first band the Jam, but since I didn't hear of them until San Francisco got a new wave station in the early 80's, I'm counting them as an 80's band.












Then in 1983 he went in a whole new direction with Style Council, sounding like "Young Americans"-era David Bowie or maybe Culture Club?







Then embarked on a pretty successful solo career, sounding a bit like Imperial Bedroom-era Elvis Costello.



As far as I know, he's still recording and performing music, I've lost track of him completely.

There's a pretty good movie about the Jam called "About the Young Idea." I think I saw it on Hulu Plus when we had a free trial. Maybe it was Netflix. Here's a link, you might be able to stream it from here: http://www.sho.com/titles/3425369/the-jam-about-the-young-idea

Thursday, August 11, 2016

Is Hannity really this stupid?

Sean Hannity has a blog.
Or someone has a blog that Hannity puts his name on. I'm pretty sure that Hannity would have a hard time producing an actual blog by pounding his balled up fists into the keyboard


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Take that, liberal elite!

Anyway, here is some of the brilliant insight you'll get from Hannity's blog.


The mainstream media’s shameless pandering to the Clinton campaign has been on full display since the Muslim father of a fallen soldier gave a speech at the DNC, blasting Donald Trump for his stance on immigration and Islam.
According to MRC, In the four days following his speech, the network evening and morning news shows spent a whopping 55 minutes and 13 seconds covering the story….
Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for the news coverage for Pat Smith and her speech at the RNC.
Smith—who lost her son in Benghazi under Hillary Clinton’s watch—gave an emotional speech at the convention which was mainly ignored by the media.
In the 14 days after her speech, the network news shows dedicated just 70 seconds to her address.
ABC, CBS and NBC should be ashamed of themselves….



Hmmmm. . . the media spent more time talking about the father of a young man who gave his life for his country, a man whose name you can't bring yourself to mention, than they spent on "Benghazi mom" Pat Smith.

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I'll need to verify this photo.

Anyway, how could this be? How could this possibly have occurred? Hmmmmm. . . .

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Hmmm, maybe - and I'm just spitballing here, but maybe it might have something to do with the responses of the candidates? Maybe?

Okay, first Pat Smith literally said that she personally blamed Hillary Clinton for the death of her son. And Secretary Clinton opted to be a fucking grownup, say nothing, and not make the situation worse. So there wasn't much of a story other than "lady at RNC says a shitty thing about Hillary, followed by every other speaker at RNC saying shitty things about Hillary."

On the other hand, Kizhr Khan rightly pointed out that you have sacrificed nothing for this country and wondered whether you had ever read the Constitution. Which isn't exactly character assassination or slander or whatever. Most of us have not sacrificed for our country. I certainly haven't.  And I'm guessing most Americans have never read the Constitution. I was a history major and I managed to graduate without slogging through it.
But Donald Trump, ya boy, instead of mirroring Hillary's approach decided to go with the tried and true "5-year-old throwing a tantrum" tactic.


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 Hey, it's a classic for a reason, amirite?




 First he insinuated that Mr. Khan couldn't have written his own speech, then he talked shit about his wife.  Which is what made it a news story.
Then, when given the chance to clarify, Trump said the most preposterous, laughable, and just stupid nonsense about how he believed that having been successful and having :built great buildings" were sacrifices he had made for a grateful nation. Which made the story "Holy Shit, Can You Believe What a Delusional Buffoon Trump Is?"



So I'm not really sure that the networks are the ones who should be ashamed.





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Wednesday, August 10, 2016

Interesting Legal Approach



So two of the families of the people murdered in Benghazi are suing Hillary Clinton. I can't hold that against them. They're grieving, and they feel like they need someone to blame, I get that. But, considering that Secretary Clinton has been exonerated by about two thousand Republican investigations that were designed specifically to find a way to blame her, I don't see how they're going to find a lawyer willing to take this loser of a case.


Enter Larry Klayman.

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Wait, Larry Klayman hasn't been disbarred yet?

Not even after this?

Right-wing lawyer Larry Klayman announced in WorldNetDaily over the weekend that he was filing a lawsuit against President Obama, Black Lives Matter, Louis Farrakhan and Al Sharpton "for endangering not just my life, as a white law enforcement person of Jewish origin, but also for all Americans, white, black, yellow or brown, no matter what their race or religion.

 Shhh. . . no one tell him! He thinks he's a "law enforcement person!"


Or this?


Klayman Discusses Citizens Grand Jury to Seek Indictment of Justices Roberts and Kagan






Anyway, what novel legal approach is America's worst lawyer going to take, seeing as how even her greatest enemies have not been able to find a way to blame her for the tragic deaths?


Having used a secret private email server that we now know was used to communicate with Ambassador Christopher Stevens with confidential and classified government information, and which we now know was likely hacked by hostile adversaries such as Iran, Russia, China and North Korea aligning with terrorist groups, it is clear that Hillary Clinton allegedly negligently and recklessly gave up the classified location of the plaintiffs’ sons, resulting in a deadly terrorist attack that took their lives.


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Who else could have come up with such an innovative legal approach?

If Hillary Clinton hadn't used a private e-mail server, which we can just assume was hacked by everyone from Kim Jong Un to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the terrorists would never have known that there were US State Department employees in the, um, US Embassy. . . wait. I think I see a flaw in your case, Larry.

"Gosh," the terrorists would have said, "I'd sure like to kill some American infidels, but where could we find any?"
"How about that building with the American flag out front? The one with US Marines guarding it?"
"No, I'm pretty sure that's a Chinese restaurant. I got no beef with the Chinese."

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