Here’s something to wash away the taste of last night’s DerpFest extraordinaire.
Kevin Sylvester says that when most people see a 6-foot-2-inch, 260-pound black man, they don’t expect him to also be a classically trained violinist. A recent exchange with a woman in an elevator, when he happened to have his instrument with him in its case, drove that point home.
“She’s like, ‘What do you play?’ ” he recalls. “I’m like, ‘I’m a violinist.’ And she was like, ‘Well, obviously you don’t play classical, so what kind of style do you play?’ ”
Sylvester says he explained that while he does have a degree in classical music, he plays all kinds of styles. “She didn’t mean it maliciously,” he says, “but I hope she gets to see us in concert and we can change her perception.”
A not altogether non sequitur. As I watched this video, I was reminded why I’m a member of the Democratic party. It’s got a lot of problems, lot of positions espoused by leaders at every level of government at which I wince. But the party that nominated and elected Barack Hussein Obama is one that can envision an America that looks like the country Sylvester and his co-conspirator in gut and horsehair, Wilner Baptiste, want to help create. I’ll leave the “and the other party….” half of the duology unmentioned…its would-be leaders said all that was necessary last night.
Plus, and for your early evening pleasure — these guys can play.
redshirt
Music knows no color, just soul.
Right to Rise
#HeKeptUsSafe, the new response to dynasty questions for Jeb that shuts down any and all criticism. Trump was dumbfounded last night.
Tom Levenson
@Right to Rise: Ur funy U no that rite?
Right to Rise
@Tom Levenson:
I bet you weren’t laughing on election night 2000 and 2004.
redshirt
@Right to Rise: This is probably not the best investment for a thread to troll.
JPL
@Tom Levenson: I didn’t notice who wrote the comment, until your response. I assumed someone started a hashtag to mock Jeb.
? Martin
Gonna leave this here as a personal tonic against the shit spewed last night:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/09/17/upshot/top-colleges-doing-the-most-for-low-income-students.html
Over half of the students at that top school are first generation – about equal immigrants from Mexico/Central/South America and from asia. Lots of Ahmeds as well.
Surreal American
@Right to Rise:
You definitely weren’t laughing in 2012, but I was. At you.
Right to Rise
@Surreal American:
I bet you thought you were rid of Bushes after 2008.
Think again, bitches. And after Jeb, it’s his son George P. Bush. He’ll be president some day as well.
Nothing seems to drive liberals up the wall like the thought of endless Bush presidencies.
redshirt
Sigh. Watch the troll fish. Come bite, little fishies!
Chyron HR
@Right to Rise:
You know, at least your boy Romney sincerely believed that he was the son of God and that it was his destiny to be Emperor of America.
What makes Fantastic 4% think he has a chance?
Surreal American
@Right to Rise:
I read your comments after Election Day, 2012. Your tears of unfathomable sadness were yummy!
Tom Levenson
What I love most about our resident troll is he seems to see magical superhero results in Bush gaffes that simply make the “kick me” sign on his person more insistent. #hekeptussafe just begs the litany of failure Charlie Pierce so elegantly laid out. It’s as if Jeb? wants to tell his opponents exactly where and how hard to hit his glass jaw.
Truly impressive. I’ve never seen such a touted candidate so thoroughly consume his own intestines. And I’m old enough (just) to remember that much better man than Jeb?, Ed Muskie, self immolate.
Right to Rise
@Tom Levenson:
Do you think the typical Ohio, Virginia or Florida swing voter gives a flying shit about Charlie Pierce’s Overwritten Midlife Crisis Blog?
All they remember is the warm fuzzy moments after 9/11–the arm around the firefighter, the bullhorn, “dead or alive”, “smoke them out”, the policeman’s badge solemnly held before the Joint Session as Bush pledges to bring the terrorists to justice and keep further attacks from happening. Even Trump knew it was fruitless to try to counterattack 9/11–Hillary will be portrayed as a calculating, heartless bitch scoring political points off of a national tragedy if she even tries.
Baud
@redshirt:
Right. Clearly, Baud! 2016! needs to hire a troll to help raise interest.
Brachiator
@Right to Rise:
I love the thought of endless bush.
But that’s just me.
randy khan
Well, back on topic, I have to say that it wouldn’t occur to me that someone carrying a violin case couldn’t be playing classical. Nearly everyone who plays violin (as opposed to fiddle, even if they really are the same thing, but it’s a different tradition) starts off doing classical because that’s where the repertory is.
joel hanes
Papa John Creach
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mua_DNvFwQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVS7LPY7MH4&list=PLna7__6O5G2ScbSdVYZKP-kyg-xNt742c
Thoughtful Today
“the Democratic party. It’s got a lot of problems”
Anti-democratic Superdelegates don’t help when you’re trying to claim ‘every vote counts’ tops my list.
Corporatism that can be right-wing economic nonsense on steroids doesn’t help.
(Obligatory: I vote (D)emocratic notice.)
joel hanes
@Right to Rise:
I bet you weren’t laughing on election night 2000 and 2004.
And, as it turned out, there was nothing funny about those outcomes.
Pure horror, most of it without the grace that might make it tragedy.
Calouste
@Right to Rise: I can really recommend to Bush3 that he keeps running on Bush2’s legacy.
Roger Moore
@? Martin:
I’m proud to see that 6 of the top 7 schools in that list- and all of the top 5- are campuses of the University of California. They’ve had a lot of trouble with adequate funding since the Great Recession started, so it’s good to see that UC is still tops at making post-secondary education available to as many people as possible.
Thoughtful Today
…
R2R reminds me why I vote for (D)’s.
So, uhm, thanks?
Kay Eye
I get this kind of comment about my granddaughter: “So nice she could get an athletic scholarship for college.” Well, no. She plays soccer for her school. She got academic scholarships. But, you know, black, can’t be that smart.
Yes she is.
SRW1
@Right to Rise:
And the family motto is still gonna be ‘Stay the course’, right? Oh, and maybe ‘A thousand points of light’?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_01LySbRnY
SteveinSC
I was about to dissolve in tears last night as Carly’s stories of triumph and tragedy tugged at my heartstrings, Well maybe not:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3156767/White-House-hopeful-Carly-Fiorina-s-claims-motherhood-secretary-CEO-rise-fire-ex-husband-ridicules-calculating-tragic-stepdaughter-s-mom-says.html
Brachiator
I don’t know. Beethoven’s Kreutzer Sonata was originally dedicated to a black violinist, George Bridgetower. They had an argument, and Ludie switched the dedication to Rodolphe Kreutzer.
Goblue72
@Right to Rise: What most Americans think when they recall 9-11, and George Bush, is “Dear god, what a complete fuck up.”
Fucked up in letting 9-11 happen.
Fucked up in finding bin Laden.
Fucked up Katrina.
Fucked up Iraq War.
Fucked up the economy.
Just a complete fuck up.
jl
@? Martin: Thanks. Interesting list.Nice to see California doing well in the rankings.
cckids
@Right to Rise:
You seem to harbor the illusion that the country is still in the same place we were in Sept 2001, still in shock & wanting to pull together & support each other.
Guess what? Now we know all the warnings ignored, the months spent chasing a new Cold War, Ashcroft telling his staff “no-one say the name Al-Qaeda to me again”, losing Bin Laden in Tora Bora, the determination to find a reason to attack Iraq, “I’m just not that worried about where Bin Laden is; I don’t spend time thinking about him”, the lies about WMDs along with the inexcusable jokes about not finding them (nope, not over here!), C-130’s flying pallet loads of billions in cash into Iraq to be pissed away along with the lives & health of so many of our military people, the appalling disregard for the needs of our returning vets and their families.
Add to that the complete meltdown of the economy, with Duh-bya conspicuously absent & unable to comprehend what was going on as people watched their savings, their homes, and their peace of mind disappear, some of us forever. Do you truly think when anyone sane thinks of the name Bush they remember the doofus on the rubble (the arm around the fireman, etc, till I gag)?? No, we remember that THAT rubble pile was only the first of many he caused. There’s no forgiveness for that clown.
JPL
@SteveinSC: She’s a well accomplished liar.
cckids
@Kay Eye: Oy, people can be f*ckers, can’t they?
ETA: and good for her! Smart AND talented!!
Renie
@Right to Rise: Yes he kept us so safe. I remember him clearly standing on the rubble saying he will get those responsible for the attack. Right after which he told us to go shopping
Never got OBL and destroyed our economy. I think it’s your bedtime.
? Martin
@Right to Rise:
All I remember is that in that photo Bush is literally standing on the remains of Americans killed just a few days prior under his watch. Based on Bush’s approval ratings, I think most people see what I see.
HumboldtBlue
It’s not just black violinists, 6-6 black male opera singers get a lot of sideways glances as well
Goblue72
@Right to Rise: She won’t need to. There will be two images plastered everywhere that will bury El Jeb!
Image 1: Bush reading My Pet Goat while the towers burned.
Image 2: SoS Clinton in the Situation Room when Obama got bin Laden.
Calouste
@JPL: Actually, I don’t think she is a very accomplished liar, because if you know a little bit about her you’ll notice that she is lying the whole damn time. She is more of a compulsive liar than an accomplished one.
MomSense
My grandmother was an accomplished pianist and got the same kinds of reactions from people.
redshirt
Keep trying, BJ’ers! Maybe you’ll be the one to convince the troll of the error of his ways!
David Koch
Anyone watching this Trump townhall? He looks exhausted/drained from campaigning. It’s not that easy to run for president and he’s only doing it part time.
FredW
Channeling Emily Litella, didn’t Republicans complain about “violins in the streets” last night in the debate?
Patricia Kayden
Agree so much with you, Tom. Whatever faults the Democratic Party has, I see no evidence of racism. It’s the party that supports marriage equality, women’s reproductive rights, and religious tolerance. I don’t even understand when people claim that voting for Democrats is the lesser of two evils since I don’t see the Democratic Party as evil. I was proud to vote for President Obama twice and look forward to voting for Secretary Clinton or Senator Sanders. It’s nice to be in a party which has the potential of going from the first Black President to the first woman or Jewish President with no fuss.
@David Koch: You mean it’s exhausting trolling the media and Republican suckers. I’m sure Trump will end his campaign before he loses any primaries. You know how he feels about losers.
Mnemosyne (tablet)
To keep to the musical theme, I’ve finally realized what Disney character R2R reminds me of:
http://youtu.be/wNlpuD42_BM
Hint: it ain’t the guy who’s covered in hair.
beltane
@SteveinSC: Yep, she falsely claimed ownership of her husband’s deceased daughter and then used the unfortunate woman’s corpse as a prop to score political points. Fiorina strikes me as one of those unredeemed Ebeneezer Scrooge types who go absolutely un-mourned at their passing.
raven
@David Koch: The fucknut runs his mouth about “I went to military school and I know more about the military than a a lot of vets”. He just said the fat drug addict taught him a new word, “INCOMING”. “I never heard that”.
benw
@efgoldman: Heckuva job, efgoldman.
Gimlet
Plenty of room at Jeb’s rallies RtR.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CPI-YIMVEAAulOR.jpg
JPL
CBSN is covering both Hillary and Trump…
Tenar Darell
That was great! Thanks for sharing.
@randy khan: Yeah. At least most of the early training is all classical, unless it’s country style fiddling, maybe.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@David Koch: and half of that part time over the phone
Just looked Chris Hayes’ twitter feed, apparently somebody at a Turmp town hall asked what we were gonna do about all the Muslims in this country, and Trump said “we’re looking at a lot of things”.
Also, Hayes will have the Irving TX police chief on tonight
David Koch
@raven:
/fixed
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@SteveinSC: damn, that would be the end of a Democrat
beltane
@Gimlet: But it’s standing room only! That’s what you get when you don’t provide chairs.
It looks like that rally took place in a storage closet.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Why would some clay of the new New Hampshire think Donald Trump would be receptive to birtherism?
trollhattan
@Right to Rise:
Looks like Bar is drunk-posting again. Somebody tell 41 to call for the help to wheel her away from the computer. .
Elizabelle
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
I hope the Irving police chief stops saying “hoax bomb.”
Mnemosyne (tablet)
@HumboldtBlue:
To be fair, the 6-6 black guy did a really good job of pretending to be part of the crowd — the cell phone was a touch of genius. Opera companies put a lot more emphasis on teaching acting than they used to.
There’s a baritone with the Metropolitan Opera who’s a (black) former football player, but I can’t remember his name. He plays a lot of villains because baritone.
trollhattan
@Renie:
“Now watch this drive.”
So very many heart-warming memories.
beltane
@efgoldman: Hopefully the door will hit him on his way out.
Roger Moore
@David Koch:
And the campaigning is the easy part; it’s just a warm up for the real job of being president.
Mike J
@Elizabelle:
The Boston cops will call the Mooninite incident a hoax bomb to this day.
redshirt
@efgoldman:
You don’t really think this is DougJ, right? Just a joke, right?
I ask because I am not sure. Its not DougJ. It also not a paid Jeb! operative. It’s just a troll, who’s “job” is to troll. He’s pretty good at it too considering the percentage of people who bite.
Booger
Black-on-black violins? Isn’t that a thing?
redshirt
@trollhattan:
I own Farenheit 9/11 – even saw it in theaters! – but have not watched it in over 10 years. Might be time.
Do we all remember that W.’s inaugural parade got egged and harassed?
Renie
@trollhattan: Oh its the pearl wearing Momma writing all this crap. That explains it all.
David Koch
Big winner of the debate = Hillary … who did a hilarious skit mocking Trump on the Tonight Show.
redshirt
@David Koch: Hillary gets better every week.
beltane
@redshirt: “Hail to the Thief.” I remember it well though I was not aware of the scale of the protest until I saw the movie. It’s not like the media wanted to show us this in real time.
Brachiator
@redshirt: Naw. Nobody takes the guy seriously or gets too wrapped up in his or her comments.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Tweety using the Trump muslim-racist-birther moment to fap to McCain talking to the bag lady in ’08. I want to tell me how proud as an American it made him when he sent Palin out to shriek about “palling’ around with terr-rissts”, and the time some lady in the audience shouted out “Kill him!” when McCain mentioned Obama, and McCain blinked and carried on with his speech.
redshirt
@beltane:
Great Radiohead album too.
SiubhanDuinne
@Mnemosyne (tablet):
Keith Miller.
redshirt
@Brachiator: He generates a 50% hit rate, which is excellent for a troll.
Believe me, I know trolls. BJ is one of the easiest sites on the internet to troll, if you were so inclined.
David Koch
@efgoldman:
Translation = he’s running out of
gasmoneyNotMax
@Right to Rise
No such person.
It is George P. G. Bush.
The second middle initial, for Garnica (his mom’s maiden name), was suddenly scrubbed and excised* from as much online material as possible** not long after he announced he was exploring running for office in Texas and before he filed as a candidate. Whether out of shame, embarrassment and/or expedience, who knows. But it doesn’t alter what his full name is, nor belie questioning the motivation for the sudden change.
*A very different thing from John Ellis employing a nickname and acknowledging it as such.
**One representative example: Wikipedia pre-filing, and after.
redshirt
@David Koch:
B.b.b.b.but the Kochs! UNLIMITED CORPORATE DOLLARS!
jl
@Gimlet:
” Plenty of room at Jeb’s rallies RtR. ”
I wonder what the energy level is. Not low, I hope. I looked for a video to find out, but “Jeb Bush greet” turns up nothing.
Found a couple for Kasich though. And about a billion for Bernie.
But, RtR is sadly correct. I see the truth now: Behold and despair:
Jeb Bush Unbuttons His Shirt Superman-Style, Reveals Political Hero Reagan-Bush during Miami Speech
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pprkRnnqCo
Roger Moore
@beltane:
Somewhere a lot more painful than the ass, also, too.
NotMax
@Roger Moore
Tough to avoid when one is ass head to toe.
;)
Elizabelle
Scotty Walker’s electoral future might be bleak. And what to do? He’s been an elected official forever. Might have to hit the private sector.
Good the Kochs will find a sinecure for him somewhere.
Doubly good it’s not the Oval Office.
benw
Anyone else watching the NFL game tonight?
JPL
@Elizabelle: Meet your newest lobbyist.
raven
@benw: I’m watching the Ville-Clemson.
Patricia Kayden
@efgoldman: So many Koch Brothers were supporting Walker though. What the hell happened to the Great Anti-union Hope from Wisconsin?
Patricia Kayden
@Elizabelle: Irving, TX doesn’t sound like a fun place to live for minorities, especially of the religious variety. I hope Ahmed gets a well deserved apology from authorities soon. They seem to be doubling down.
Omnes Omnibus
@Patricia Kayden:
People got to see him, his vacuousness, and his lack of charisma. I am not going to say I told you* so, but….
*You in the collective sense.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Good christ. I just saw Bush’s answer about picking a woman to go on the twenty. Besides him picking Margaret Thatcher, “what the heck, since it’s not gonna happen”. “What the heck”? What the fuck?
I wonder how a British audience would have reacted.
benw
@raven: @efgoldman: I don’t care about the college game, even though it’s ACC. I’m watching the NFL because AFC West. Can Payton’s defense carry him to a win?
Commenting at Balloon Juice since 1937
@joel hanes: thanks for that. I loved Hot Tuna with Papa John on fiddle. Those last Airplane records were cool too with the variety of genres they included
Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman: Angela Davis would be another good call.
Baud
@efgoldman:
I thought you were running my SuperPAC.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@efgoldman: @Omnes Omnibus: I’m surprised Walker, given his Reagan obsession and the chance to pander, didn’t go for Nancy Reagan, but she doesn’t really seem to share in the love the way, say, Eleanor Roosevelt does.
Steeplejack (tablet)
@benw:
I’ve got it on the DVR’s other tuner for look-ins and in case it heats up. Watching Person of Interest reruns on WGN.
MomSense
@Baud:
I’ve decided to support your candidacy after hearing that you propose to spend day 1 partying. Since I’m in pretty early, what do you think about me serving as chair of the National Endowment for the Arts? Either that. or ambassador to Belize. I should warn you that I have no money but I am multilingual.
Elizabelle
@ Tom Levenson:
Incidentally, I love the title of this blogpost.
SiubhanDuinne
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Besides, she’s still (if barely) alive.
HumboldtBlue
@Mnemosyne (tablet):
Yes he did, he played that perfectly.
NotMax
@Omnes Omnibus
Never, ever gonna happen but it would be too sweet to see heads explode if he said Caitlyn Jenner.
Or, other end of the spectrum, to pander to the fundies, Carrie Nation.
What with his penchant of going for the safe and white bread, though, expect (should it ever come up again) a choice such as Dolly Madison.
redshirt
Baud, I’d like to join your team.
Appoint me to the position you feel best, but I’d like to request Secretary of War.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@SiubhanDuinne: as is Mrs Huckabee, I don’t know about Mother Carson. And as Jeb? acknowledged his choice of Baroness Thatcher was probably illegal. But what the heck!
ETA:@NotMax: Hasn’t Susan B Anthony been adopted by the ‘wingers as a “pro-life” icon?
Corner Stone
Since we can’t get an NFL Open Thread around here to save my deflated balls, I’ll just put this here.
Denver Broncos will not make the playoffs this year and I have a solid feeling Manning will not be the starting QB by week 16.
Whatever football genius thought a Kubiak run/zone/cut block offense fit Peyton’s QB OCD is an idiot.
Mnemosyne (tablet)
@SiubhanDuinne:
I knew you would know! :-)
I think we’re going to buy tickets for the LA Opera’s production of “The Magic Flute” — it looks like a really cool combination of opera and silent film aesthetic. I’ll find the link …
Baud
@efgoldman:
I promised to give Rhode Island to you. You’ll be the beneficiary of all the corruption.
@MomSense:
How about National Endowment for the Arts of Belize?
NotMax
@Baud
Hey now, that’s getting dangerously close to “coordination.”
:)
redshirt
@Corner Stone: Manning is done.
JPL
@Baud: Hey I’ll vote for you, but I don’t want to be rewarded for that vote. Jeez, You’d probably make me Ambassador to Sudan.
jl
@Baud:
” Baud! 2016! needs to hire a troll to help raise interest. ”
Dammit. I just submitted the greatest troll comment utterly crushing and destroying Baud. The best troll comment ever.
And FYWP ate it up.
So, not too late for Baud to pay me money to troll for Baud 2016!
If my next troll post makes through, then Baud is finished, destroyed politically, forevah.
Baud
@redshirt:
As long as there’s no fighting in the war room.
Mnemosyne (tablet)
@SiubhanDuinne:
Here’s the LA Opera website for “Magic Flute.”
http://www.laopera.org/Flute
G is not excited, but I think he’ll end up liking it. If anyone can recommend a good (but not too expensive) recording of that one that would be a good introduction for someone who’s not an opera fan, that would be awesome.
Baud
@JPL:
And you’d probably improve the situation there.
Corner Stone
@redshirt: I’m on record here saying he was injured last season well before they announced it. He can’t plant and throw with any modicum of precision, much less roll out and try it on. Kubiak’s latter-day Mike Shanahan impersonation of offensive line zone blocking, where the O line pulls to one direction and the RB makes one cut against the grain and goes is nothing like what Manning is used to. Manning absolutely can not roll out anywhere and break down defenses. The front 7 of too many AFC teams are just balls out too fast for that now.
He’s fucked.
ThresherK
@efgoldman: Hey, if we’re picking among characters in “Ragtime”, I’ll go with Evelyn Nesbit.
Baud
@NotMax:
Then I’d better win or else I’ll be in trouble.
NotMax
@Baud
Arthritic fingers crossed for Secretary of Nostalgia and Cuisine.
SiubhanDuinne
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
@SiubhanDuinne:
To elaborate:
You gotta be dead to be on the money,
If you still alive, they gonna look at you funny.
You gotta be dead to show up on the bills,
If you still alive, the answer is “Nils!”
You gotta be dead to show up on the cash
If you still alive, gonna burn and crash.
You gotta be dead on a Treasury note
If you still alive, you Mickey Kaus’s goat.
You gotta be dead before you can be spent
Or credited or borrowed or pledged or lent.
You gotta be dead before you’re legal tender
If you don’t like this poem, just mark “Return to Sender.”
Right to Rise
@David Koch:
One campaign that will never run out of money: Jeb Bush.
His cash money is as bottomless as the breadbaskets at the Olive Garden.
It’s all about the Benjamins, baby…
POLITICO: Trump Fever Waning?
Corner Stone
Slow and late. The Peyton Manning 2015 Story.
Corner Stone
Sorry, Kubiak. C.J. Anderson is no Terrell Davis.
Omnes Omnibus
@SiubhanDuinne: Does having a dead soul count?
benw
@Corner Stone: Manning was obviously injured last year. By the playoffs he could barely throw downfield. The Broncos defense could be ferocious this year though. It would be funny if Kubiak’s running game + Denver’s defense carries the Broncos to the playoffs while Payton is the game manager.
SiubhanDuinne
@Mnemosyne (tablet):
I love The Magic Flute and this looks like a fun production. Thanks!
The Met are celebrating their 10th season of Live in HD broadcasts by showing a one-time-only encore of MF from
their 2005-06 season, on Dcmeber 21st.
Have you ever seen the Ingmar Bergman Magic Flute? It is an utter delight from beginning to end. It should be readily available on DVD, and might be a great introduction for G.
NotMax
@SiubhanDuinne
On a slim technicality, not quite so.
The head on the Indian head nickel was a composite of three living Native Americans.
Right to Rise
Peyton Manning is like the Clinton “dynasty”. One-and-Done in where it counts.
Schlemazel
@Elizabelle:
He is exactly the same as the old model, Tim Pawlenty. Destroyed a once prosperous decent state, ran as Koch whore but is duller than dish water, dumb as a post and has the looks and personality of moldy compost. He is dead politically so he will get a cushy job in some useless place while some Democrat tries to clean up the mess.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Right to Rise: and Brady is a Bush because he cheats to win?
(Sorry everybody, couldn’t resist)
MomSense
@Baud:
Deal!
Corner Stone
@benw: Not going to happen. They don’t have the run game to do it. That Ravens game was a gift, and most likely the last one they will win with that kind of offensively poor O showing.
The Denver D is vicious but they are in the same boat as the Bills.
Corner Stone
@efgoldman: Keep the sack count going, my man.
redshirt
Manning has made a few good throws. And many lame ones.
He’s a wounded duck back there. Anyone comes near him he has to collapse.
Compare that to rapist Ben Rothlessburger.
SiubhanDuinne
@Omnes Omnibus:
Soul-dead is no way to get on the paper.
Be totally alive if you expect to money-caper.
Roger Moore
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
It’s a remarkably inept response. On the one hand, it’s obviously crass pandering and a lame attempt to prove what a good conservative you are. On the other hand, it’s an implicit diss to all American women to suggest that we should ignore them all and put a British woman on our currency before any American. I would suggest that the best responses would be either to dismiss putting a woman on the $10 as the Democrats’ attempt to pander to women without providing them with anything concrete, or to pick somebody like Susan B. Anthony, who is a superficially inoffensive choice- she’s already been on currency for goodness sake- while actually dog whistling to the anti-abortion crowd.
Corner Stone
And now I have to get some Pho and there isn’t a damn thing any one of you can do about it.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Ima go ahead and guess– but not bet even any Romneybucks– that we have not, in fact, reached Peak Trump
benw
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: That’s cool – it was a good one.
NotMax
@Corner Stone
Fee, fie, pho, fum
Smell the aroma of something yum.
redshirt
@efgoldman: F’ing Englishman.
Omnes Omnibus
@redshirt: Wrong island.
Mike in NC
R2R gushes about 2000 and 2004, meaning the shit for brains troll totally missed the corrective elections of 2008 and 2012 (and next, 2016).
SiubhanDuinne
@NotMax:
It’s nice the U.S. Mint was feeling so creative
As to choose three living Indians to represent the Native.
But mostly We the People had rejected queens and kings,
We prefer a dead Amurrcan, or an eagle spreading wings.
NotMax
Picturing poor ‘netless Anne Laurie pining for the days of dial-up.
:)
Right to Rise
@Mike in NC:
And you “misundestimate” 2010 and 2014.
M31
@Mnemosyne (tablet):
The Bergman Magic Flute movie (made for Swedish TV in the 70s) is brilliant — to my mind an actual great movie as opposed to a filmed opera production.
My favorite recording is one done with early instruments by Drottningholm Court Theatre, on CD. Here it is on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xssOb9JCdA0
The Queen of the Night (in this recording) is a singer named Sumi Jo, who has made quite a career with this crazy role (it has among the highest notes ever written down for a singer), and Pamina (the princess) is Barbara Bonney, a great sweet-voiced singer.
The plot is hysterical, with strange Freemason imagery, plot twists, goofy sidekicks, and plenty of 18th-C sexism AND racism! (Where evil “Moors” lust after white girls, but everyone knows white girls need to be taken away from their mothers because they need a man’s guidance. Just not a swarthy man, can’t have that.)
Most modern productions cut out (wisely) a lot of the spoken dialog.
sukabi
@Right to Rise: what drives liberals up the wall is not the name “Bush”, it is the complete and utter failure they bring with them.
redshirt
@Omnes Omnibus: And the right is?
Omnes Omnibus
@redshirt: Rhode.
Chyron HR
I don’t know what’s funnier, that JEB! spent millions of dollars unsuccessfully trying to make #HeKeptUsSafe trend, or that the only people who ARE using it are making fun of the Bush boys.
SiubhanDuinne
@M31:
Yes, this. It is just a wonderful, wonderful movie experience.
I had forgotten that it was actually made for TV. I first saw it in the theatre, and (as I mentioned above to Mnem) have it on DVD. I try to remember to watch it at least every couple of years. It’s great!
Debbie
@SteveinSC:
God save the Brits!
redshirt
@Omnes Omnibus: A Rhodesman?
NotMax
@SiubhanDuinne
Leave us pause for a moment to recall the raised Walking Liberty half dollar which, hand in pocket, allowed one to surreptitiously rub a thumb across her bosom.
SiubhanDuinne
@NotMax:
Speak for yourself, you perv.
They also wait, who only stand and serve.
NotMax
@efgoldman
For luck, just for luck.
:)
M31
One of the great violinists of the late 18th Century was this guy named the Chevalier de St. George, who is sometimes called ‘The Black Mozart’
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevalier_de_Saint-Georges
His father was French and his mother was an enslaved black woman from the Carribbean. He was also the best fencer in Europe, and commanded an all-black regiment after the French Revolution, and was the concermaster of the orchestra that commissioned Haydn’s “Paris” Symphonies.
His music is really very very good, as well. It’s not Mozart, but no one’s is, lol, so that’s not fair.
Here’s some:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPP4FNhiKcI
Debbie
@Corner Stone: @? Martin:
Yes, he stood atop those bodies with the same disregard he had when running that flyover over New Orleans after Katrina.
Redshift
@Chyron HR:
Actually, I think the funniest thing is that it would have been really obvious to anyone with a clue that that’s exactly what would happen, and they still did it.
Corner Stone
Denver’s in a lot of F’ng trouble this season.
Holy shit, retract that. I just looked at the Broncos’ schedule this year. That is the softest BS I have seen in a while.
sukabi
@David Koch: Koch’s have told him he sucks, just not in the good way.
M31
@SiubhanDuinne:
Yes! I saw the Bergman Flute in the theatre back when I was 14 and my lustful infatuation with the middle one of the three ladies was immediate and profound.
Plus the best Dragon death scene of any movie ever made.
redshirt
@Corner Stone: Don’t worry the refs will give Peyton a cushion on which to fall.
NotMax
@Corner Stone
Enjoy the soup?
Or did you opt for the vegetarian Faux Pho?
Redshift
@Debbie:
Or when his people arranged to get the power back on so he could have lights to make a speech in Jackson Square in New Orleans — and then shut it off again when he left.
Corner Stone
Welp. Now what Kubiak?
redshirt
PEYTON IS DONE.
Corner Stone
That wasn’t because of a blitzer. That was just an awful fucking pass. He was late and behind.
Elizabelle
@Redshift: Jackson Square.
Yeah. That was classic.
Corner Stone
Holy shit, that was four feet behind his target. No defender was within 5 ft of touching him.
NotMax
@Redshift
Generators, IIRC.
With a large stopped clock prominent behind him on a tower.
redshirt
Brady has won the battles while Peyton wins the war (advertisements/franchises).
Corner Stone
@efgoldman: The KC offense is better than you think. Don’t worry about that WR TD BS stat. KC is going to be ok in the O stats this year, and make the playoffs again this year.
Corner Stone
@NotMax: Letting it set. It’s delicious after a little bit. I don’t like hot food, temp wise. I enjoy more room temp for almost all things. There are exceptions.
redshirt
He can’t throw!
Steeplejack (tablet)
God, Manning is throwing like shit.
Corner Stone
That floating duck should have been INT.
redshirt
@efgoldman: No doubt. Brady could probably be the biggest advertising star in the world if he wanted it. Maybe he will be once he retires.
redshirt
I fucking hate that Brady is a Trump fan and it makes me dislike him now.
redshirt
My hatred of Republicans easily outweighs my Patriots fandom.
One is real, one is fantasy.
NotMax
@Corner Stone
People blanch when I chill a bottle of red wine or else drop an ice cube into the glass.
“But you’re supposed to enjoy it at room temperature!”
Well, room temp in Hawaii is quite different from that in France.
Right to Rise
POLITICO: Donald Trump the “Low Energy Guy” in debate 2, and Jeb “smacked” Trump with a “strong” performance.
The Summer of Trump is over, baby,
Corner Stone
“A little underthrown”? That was 2 feet under thrown.
Corner Stone
HAHAHAHAHAHA!
Corner Stone
When do we think Peyton will fire Coach Kubiak?
Aleta
@Baud: Mr. Top Candidate Sir: I can help your administration Restore American Glory by taking charge of the Camp David Council for Swimming Spots and Picnic Initiatives. And I’d like to put in for a spot on the President’s Concert Advisory Board. I am also willing to serve my country as White House Movie Projectionist Person.
NotMax
@Right to Rise
Can’t argue with that, what with the autumnal equinox being less than a week away, baby.
Steeplejack (tablet)
@NotMax:
Not to mention room temp in the 17th century (no HVAC).
Right to Rise
@NotMax:
There will be no Autumn of Trump.
Trump is done after last night. The knives have come out.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I read something a while back, a wine guy arguing that room temp in a drafty stone chateau in northern Europe during the Little Ice Age was even more different.
NotMax
@Right to Rise
Shill, baby, shill.
Omnes Omnibus
@NotMax: @Steeplejack (tablet): This has something to say about that.
Steeplejack (tablet)
@NotMax:
Also, thanks for the Win10 privacy links the other day. Useful.
Corner Stone
Jeebus. How about not staring down that guy for 4 seconds? Ever think about that, Alex Smith?
Cervantes
@Right to Rise:
What? No Fall of Trump?
Morzer
@Baud:
In return for my uncountable donations, I expect to be Minister for Procurement and Orgies. But I’ll settle for Ambassador to Hentai and its associated dominions.
redshirt
As a Pats fan, watching your dumb ass other teams bumble through games is hilarious.
You have no idea what a well coached team looks like.
Right to Rise
So the question does remain: will the Democrats actually nominate a full-blown Marxist true believer?
Renie
@Right to Rise: The Olive Garden? That’s all JEB can afford now. It’s bedtime now for you! Tomorrow’s a school day and its Show And Tell Day!
Kathleen
@Baud: Ann Coulter might be available at a discounted rate. Quite a few younger, shinier Fascisistas are nipping at her heels and she may want to “rebrand”.
redshirt
@Right to Rise: I would vote for Marx himself if he were somehow to be resurrected. A Jesus Marx, perhaps?
Amir Khalid
@Right to Rise:
Let’s see what the weekend polls say before celebrating anything. Remember, if Trump stumbles it doesn’t necessarily mean that Jeb will be the one to gain on him.
Steeplejack (tablet)
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
True day.
Aleta
Baud in ’16
because
life’s but a dream.
redshirt
@efgoldman: I worship Harpo as the True Marx.
Morzer
@efgoldman:
Surely that post goes to John “Satan’s Little Helper” Cole?
NotMax
@Aleta
Sh-boom, sh-boom.
Renie
@Baud: Do you have any pets? I want to be in charge of the Presidential Pets. We can have RtR pick up all the dog $hit and clean liter boxes.
Amir Khalid
@Amir Khalid:
Especially when Jeb himself is stumbling.
Mike in NC
JEB! remains in Kennybunkport tonight. Licking his wounds, bleeding from the eyes, and feeding from the breast of the monster that bore him.
NotMax
@Mike in NC
Cthulhu is vacationing in Maine?
Who knew? :)
redshirt
@Mike in NC:
Right to Rise: And JEB!!! regains his Ancient power after his ritual exile.
Watch out Libs. JEB!!! is now fully armed and operational.
Schlemazel
@redshirt:
APOSTATE!!
Steeplejack (tablet)
@Omnes Omnibus:
Interesting site.
Morzer
@NotMax:
He’s been publicly governating there for the last half a dozen years.
Steeplejack (tablet)
@Steeplejack (tablet):
Dat, damn it!
It is humiliating to have to fix autocorrected slang.
Steeplejack (tablet)
@Mike in NC:
Trigger warning, for the love of all that’s holy!
Aleta
@efgoldman:
Sh-Baud (Life Could Be A Dream)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0T5W-xJWuPE
Mnemosyne (tablet)
@Mike in NC:
Will you please stop saying that? You’re making me spend way too much money on brain bleach.
SiubhanDuinne
@M31:
And Håkan Hagegård, quite possibly one of the best Papagenos ever.
NotMax
@Aleta
Well played.
Aleta
@NotMax:
should be
Sh-Baud!!
Life Could Be A Dream!
2016!
Morzer
@Aleta:
I think life is just one vast baudgame myself, but I admit that I don’t have a monopoly on that view, even though posting it does involve a degree of risk.
redshirt
All is Baud.
Be Baud.
Vote Baud.
NotMax
@Morzer
Nice that you have a clue rather than feeling sorry and are showing diplomacy and not scrabbling for easy money.
Steeplejack (tablet)
@Morzer:
You don’t have a clue.
@NotMax:
Damn it.
Aleta
@efgoldman:
Baud is Love
Aleta
Baud spelled backward is
daub/dôb/
verb
coat or smear (a surface) with a thick or sticky substance in a carelessly rough or liberal way.
Morzer
@Aleta:
Courtney or Davis?
RobNYNY1957
@SiubhanDuinne:
I recommend that video as well for the first-time opera goer. It’s just plain fun. I know it is available as a DVD from Netflix.
AxelFoley
@Right to Rise:
I bet your monkey ass wasn’t laughing on election night 2008 and 2012.
Cervantes
@beltane:
Sure, that’s your take. Here’s someone else’s:
Amy Davidson in the New Yorker, September 17, 2015.
Zinsky
I’m an amateur musician and jam with a lot of guys (and gals) who are black, Hispanic etc. When the music starts, there is no color to anyone’s skin, there is only the sheer joy of making music with other human beings. It’s the next best thing to sex. Music is the great equalizer!