This is the first Leonard Cohen song I can remember hearing, when it first came out, so I would’ve been 12 or 13. What’s a day late, after so many years?
From Songfacts ( http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=14129):
Cohen penned this song as a tribute to two girls that he shared a hotel room with during a snowstorm in Edmonton, Canada. In the April, 1993 issue of Song Talk, he explained: “That’s the only song I wrote in one sitting. The melody I had worked on for some time. I didn’t really know what the song was. I remember that my mother had liked it.
Then I was in Edmonton, which is one of our largest northern cities, and there was a snowstorm and I found myself in a vestibule with two young hitch-hiking women who didn’t have a place to stay. I invited them back to my little hotel room and there was a big double bed and they went to sleep in it immediately. They were exhausted by the storm and cold. And I sat in this stuffed chair inside the window beside the Saskatchewan River. And while they were sleeping I wrote the lyrics. And that never happened to me before. And I think it must be wonderful to be that kind of writer. It must be wonderful. Because I just wrote the lines with a few revisions and when they awakened I sang it to them. And it has never happened to me like that before. Or since.”…
Julia Felsenthal, at Vogue (http://www.vogue.com/13350897/leonard-cohen-birthday/):
… Last year, the week of his 80th birthday, Cohen released his 13th studio album, Popular Problems. The coincidence of dates “was a happy accident,” he said to journalists at a listening event, as reported by the Associated Press. “In my family, we have a very charitable approach to birthdays—we ignore them.” His only plan to celebrate the beginning of his ninth decade, he said, was to start smoking. “But quite seriously, does anyone know where you can buy a Turkish or Greek cigarette?” he asked the crowd. “I’m looking forward to that first smoke. I’ve been thinking about that for 30 years.”
Today Leonard Cohen turns 81. Wherever he is, we hope he’s found some European cigarettes and a light. And—uncharitable as it may be—we’d like to wish him a very happy birthday.
**********
Apart from remembering all the long years, what’s on the agenda for the day?
Morzer
Interesting little bit of news from the popular culture front:
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/christopher-moot-poole-sells-anarchic-imageboard-4chan-to-2channel-owner-hiroyuki-nishimura-10511765.html
NotMax
Robert Fisk is always worth checking out about the Middle East. Here’s a rare interview with him, well worth the time to peruse.
RK
Song isn’t showing for me. Don’t know much Cohen (I should I know) but I do love Suzanne.
RK
From Sisters of Mercy:
Well, they lay down beside me, I made my confession to them
They touched both my eyes and I touched the dew on their hem
If your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn
They will bind you with love that is graceful and green as a stem
raven
@RK: As the hooker stabs the John in McCabe and Mrs Miller. . .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-B9_kpIihg
eta it’s not in this video but Shelly is!
Baud
FYI: I could open this post on the mobile site. It says Page Not Found.
OzarkHillbilly
Anne! You’re back! We missed you. But don’t worry, we’ve reloaded.
NotMax
@Baud
Same thing on my non-mobile view. But then, videos on front page posts have always been wonky here.
Baud
@NotMax:
I can view this post on my phone in non-mobile view. The formatting is off, but I can see the content.
NotMax
@Baud
No prob viewing the post or the comments. 404 error on the video, though.
Baud
@NotMax:
Yeah, I think the glitch is in the video embed.
Anne Laurie
Can you see the embed (Sisters of Mercy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBFQg7P5YKw) now?
Baud
@Anne Laurie:
Everything looks normal now, including in the mobile site. Thanks, AL.
RK
@Anne Laurie: I can.
Kim Davis on GMA this morning if anyone is interested.
satby
@RK: nope, thanks,
Baud
Hey AL, here is a welcome back gift, since I know you are a Hillary supporter:
It’s early, one poll, statistical noise, and all the early caveats apply, of course.
Mustang Bobby
@RK: Let me guess, she’s going to carry on about being persecuted for persecuting. To quote Woody Allen, what I wouldn’t do for a large sock full of horse manure.
Schlemazel
First Cohen for me was Suzanne, on Judy Collins album. The lyrics really hit me so I looked who wrote it and found more of his stuff. I bet Shreck turned a lot of people on to him. I know many people that heard hallelujah for the first time then.
OzarkHillbilly
re the mess at VW:
“The US Congress also confirmed it is investigating the scandal. The House energy and commerce committee chairman, Fred Upton, and the oversight and investigations subcommittee chairman, Tim Murphy, announced that the oversight and investigations subcommittee will hold a hearing…. and during these hearings we will explore the ways in which industry is being hounded into bankruptcy due to excessive regulatory oversight by agencies like the EPA.”
OK, I added that last part but really, do Republicans think anyone is going to buy the idea that they are upset by VW’s actions here? More than once in these hearings I fully expect some numbnut from Tennessee or Alabama to opine about how this sort of thing (and the evil unions) is exactly what is destroying American jobs.
BillinGlendaleCA
Joe Scar is very upset that non of the Republican candidates have the balls(his word) to stand up to the demigods that are spouting off(tRump and Carson).
Hey Joe, this is the party that you and your “nice” conservatives have built. Y’all were fine with it when it just a dog whistle, now that someone is saying out loud(with a bullhorn) you’re offended. Fuck off, asshole.
raven
@BillinGlendaleCA: And now him and Fournier have decided the White House knows about the Afghan boy situation.
Baud
@BillinGlendaleCA:
The Dem candidates have the balls. Maybe Joe should praise them.
Baud
@raven:
“knows about” is much tamer than I would have expected from them.
Schlemazel
@raven:
Caveat, he is 10 years removed from the country. My son read the NYT story and called bullshit. I have no idea but he says he doesn’t believe the reporting. Given the recent history of the gray liar, er, lady I believe my son
BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: No, Mika says both sided do it.
raven
@Schlemazel: I saw that you mentioned that yesterday. The only thing I wonder about is that there were lot’s of installations and maybe somewhere he wasn’t?
BillinGlendaleCA
@raven: Just got there, sure the President knows about everything that goes on at every base. Sure, Joe and Ron.
And Ron says this would be a bigger deal under a Republican. Words fail.
Baud
@Schlemazel:
The story did feature a GOP congressman, which raised my suspicions.
@BillinGlendaleCA:
What’s the “it” that both sides do in this context?
OzarkHillbilly
@raven: Afghan boy situation, got a 5 word summation? I can’t find it at the Guardian.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: The Dems have tRump and Carson characters, I’m trying to think who they might be.
Baud
@BillinGlendaleCA:
Chaffee!?
Schlemazel
@raven:
He got around a lot because of his job and spent a lot of time with chieftains and even some Karzies. Still it would be possible but he thought some of the statements were just garbage.
I hope it is not true and I know he doesn’t want to believe it so keep that in mind too but we need more evidence.
RK
After Abu Ghraib why wouldn’t I believe the NYT report?
Baud
@RK:
It’s disturbingly plausible, but so is fabricating a story out of nothing. We’ll see.
Matt McIrvin
@BillinGlendaleCA: NOT ME and IDA KNOW.
Patricia Kayden
@RK: Yeah waiting for what she’s going to say about how she’s been Christian Persecuted.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: What, for promoting the Metric system? That doesn’t seem overly hateful of a group of people.
BillinGlendaleCA
They had an interesting report on the local news about a nuclear meltdown that occurred a few miles west of the San Fernando Valley in 1959. Seems to be a cluster of cancers over in the West Valley. They also used to test the Saturn 5 rocket engines over there.
Baud
@BillinGlendaleCA:
And even if it were, Trump and Carson are front runners in the deep bench that is the GOP field, while Chaffee to most Democrats sounds like a condition you see your doctor for.
Gimlet
@Patricia Kayden:
If the Pope were only a Christian! – Rep Gosar
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/09/18/1422666/–Proud-Catholic-Rep-Paul-Gosar-to-boycott-Pope-s-address-condemns-socialist-leftist-policies
Many believed, like I did, that this was an opportunity for the Pope to be one of the world’s great religious advocates and address the current intolerance of religious freedom. An opportunity to urgently challenge governments to properly address the persecution and execution of Christians and religious minorities; to address the heinous and senseless murders committed by ISIS and other terrorist organizations. An opportunity to address the enslavement, belittlement, rape and desecration of Christian women and children; to address the condoned, subsidized, intentionally planned genocide of unborn children by Planned Parenthood and society; and finally, an opportunity for His Holiness to refocus our priorities on right from wrong.
Media reports indicate His Holiness instead intends to focus the brunt of his speech on climate change–a climate that has been changing since first created in Genesis. More troubling is the fact that this climate change talk has adopted all of the socialist talking points, wrapped false science and ideology into “climate justice” and is being presented to guilt people into leftist policies.
If the Pope stuck to standard Christian theology, I would be the first in line. If the Pope spoke out with moral authority against violent Islam, I would be there cheering him on.
If the Pope urged the Western nations to rescue persecuted Christians in the Middle East, I would back him wholeheartedly.
But when the Pope chooses to act and talk like a leftist politician, then he can expect to be treated like one.
raven
@OzarkHillbilly:
Keith G
@Schlemazel: Maybe so. Still, I have to give some credence to guys who were there and are willing to go on the record and say these very explosive things.
Also, the response of the brass does not seem overly convincing. Sort of saying, “Yeah, that stuff was going on, but there’s nothing we can do about it.”
raven
@Schlemazel: Got it.
Baud
@BillinGlendaleCA:
I forgot about Webb, who is probably our most ethnocentric candidate. But he’s also practically invisible and no where near the GOP on the hate index.
OzarkHillbilly
@raven: Thanx.
RK
@Gimlet:
Republicans are nothing if not self-serving.
Baud
@Gimlet:
Pope to Gosar: Don’t care; I’m Pope.
debbie
@BillinGlendaleCA:
Probably Crazy Uncle Joe (at least in their estimation).
debbie
@OzarkHillbilly:
I know “boy play” was a plot point in the novel “The Kite Runner.” Practiced by the Taliban in the book, it was presented as a long-known fact of life.
ETA: Isn’t this basically the boy-equivalent of taking child brides?
Mustang Bobby
@Gimlet:
Then he must really be pissed about all that “love thy neighbor as thyself” and “do unto others as you would have them do unto you” leftist crap.
Patricia Kayden
So this morning on GMA, Ms. Davis claimed that the marriage licenses that she has altered may not be valid. I’m waiting for Judge Bunning to put her behind back in jail for violating his order not to interfere with the licenses. She’s not fit to hold a public office since she only answers to God.
JPL
@Patricia Kayden: Was she asked why she didn’t quit?
Patricia Kayden
@Gimlet: Rep Gosar doesn’t want a Pope, he wants a Rightwing puppet who will spew all the extremist Christianist crap that American Conservatives believe. In other words, he wants a Huckabee Pope.
Patricia Kayden
@JPL: Yes and she answered that she’s always done a great job. She should just admit that she loves the $$$ and is not qualified for another high paying job in KY.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Patricia Kayden: Guess these folk seem to think the “render unto Cesar and render unto God” only applies to taxes.
ETA: Then again, they don’t much like paying taxes either.
Baud
@Patricia Kayden:
Except, you know, for that one time she went to jail for refusing to do her job.
OzarkHillbilly
@debbie: I think it is the equivalent of trying to reform/educate a medieval society. When we invaded Afghanistan these were exactly the kinds of practices we were going to face all the way across the societal spectrum. It is abhorrent and I find the article entirely plausible. I also can’t get too terribly upset. After all, look at the nonrights of women there. If we did not want to accept the horrors of such a place and the fact that there is very little we can do to change it, well then, just add this to the huge stinking pile of reasons why we never should have invaded.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: Just the same logic as #HEKEPTUSSAFE. All except that one time(or two, or three…).
NorthLeft12
Good morning all! Not sure if this was asked or proposed by anyone else, but is it possible that Mr. Walker could get reborn as the VEEP candidate for whichever……..person gets nominated by the Repubs?
Seems to me that Walker has pretty much completely trashed himself and offers nothing to a potential ticket. I was thinking the Kochs might push him onto the winner, but it sounds like even they are tired of their puppet.
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly: I don’t think the problem was the decision to invade. The problem was that Bush starting lusting after Iraq and forgot about Afghanistan, so what should have been a relatively quick operation to get bin Laden became our longest war.
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@OzarkHillbilly: The BBC is reporting this morning that 11 M vehicles worldwide are affected.
If VW is to survive, they better be purer than Ivory Snow moving forward.
This could be a world-changing event, if it is handled properly. Destroying VW isn’t going to help. The world needs to make sure that the corporate culture that let this cheating be implemented is changed so that it never happens again. (Or, never to a good approximation, anyway.)
For those who were thinking about getting a VW – wait. It sounds like incentives are coming…
Cheers,
Scott.
Baud
@BillinGlendaleCA: Memes > evidence.
@NorthLeft12: I don’t see it happening. Walker thoroughly embarrassed himself on the national stage. He brings nothing to the ticket.
NorthLeft12
@Gimlet: That speech by Rep. Gosar was the most vile, hateful, and un-Christian rant I have heard in a long time……like maybe two weeks.
It is Catholics like him [and the previous few Popes] that convinced me that I have no place in the Catholic church anymore. He is just an odious human being.
Baud
@NorthLeft12:
I love how he casually admits that the way to deal with left-wing politicians is to not listen to them.
But if Obama had only invited Republicans to more dinner parties…
debbie
@Patricia Kayden:
Always? She was elected just last year.
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@raven: The BBC reported on such things in 2010.
Cheers,
Scott.
JPL
@Patricia Kayden: According to TPM, Carson was on Hannity last night clarifying his remark about the possibility of a Muslim President.. He said
“Now, if someone has a Muslim background, and they’re willing to reject those tenets and to accept the way of life that we have, and clearly will swear to place our Constitution above their religion, then of course they will be considered infidels and heretics, but at least I would then be quite willing to support them,”
It sounds like the same should apply to Kim Davis.
BillinGlendaleCA
@I’mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet: Already got one, I took delivery on my Jetta December 4, 1985.
Baud
@JPL:
Different religion, different rules.
debbie
@JPL:
Digging that hole deeper…
amk
@Gimlet:
why doesn’t this coward actually attend and yell YOU LIE on HH’s face?
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: Bin Laden was gone long before the invasion of Iraq. The thing is the Bush Admin was never going to invest the kind of money necessary to make the invasion of Afghanistan a success. Never. Just look at how the invasion was conducted, starting with covert CIA agents and suitcases full of cash, sowing chaos where ever they went.
Say what you want about how bad the Taliban are (and I could say plenty) the country was relatively stable under them (except for the north). I think it possible, and I could be wrong, that a bombing campaign and economic sanctions and possibly some other stuff that I can not imagine, might very well have persuaded the Taliban to turn over Bin Laden. And a more or less stable Afghanistan would have remained. Instead, well you know what we got.
Also, Obama’s been no better on this. His “surge” was doomed from the gitgo for the exact same reason: We were never going to invest sufficient resources.
amk
@JPL:
will swear to place
ourCarson’s Constitution above their religion/fixed.
OzarkHillbilly
@JPL: The total lack of self awareness is astounding.
BillinGlendaleCA
@amk: The Holy Father isn’t black.
amk
@BillinGlendaleCA:
but he is a
messicanargentinian.Baud
@OzarkHillbilly:
I’m skeptical about this, but agree with the rest.
RK
I see you have lingering doubts about Obama’s effectiveness as a deal maker. I know I don’t. :)
WereBear
I didn’t expect it to work this way… but I’ll take it, sure.
Welcome Anne Laurie! That was a long time without Internet… without it being on purpose (shudder)
PJ
@OzarkHillbilly: The Taliban was eradicated in Afghanistan by the end of 2001. It was never the intention of Bush or his policies to produce a stable Afghanistan bound by the rule of law, but rather to have a puppet state ruled by warlords who could do as they pleased, so long as they delivered “terrorists” to US forces to be interrogated and tortured. These “terrorists” could be anyone, whether it was a political rival, or someone who had worked in the Taliban administration (which had been the government of Afghanistan recognized by the US), or someone whose property or money the informer wanted. The US, by its liberal spreading around of dollars, and refusal to do anything about atrocities (including rape) committed by the allies/clients we supported and enabled, is directly responsible for this situation. So it’s no surprise that this produced an unstable country or that many supported a return of the Taliban, which, while deficient in many other areas, could at least provide law and order. I highly recommend No Good Men Among the Living by Anand Gopal for more on this subject.
rikyrah
Good Morning, Everyone :)
Morzer
@debbie:
She worked in the same office as her mother’s deputy for a fairly long time, IIRC.
rikyrah
Scott Walker’s Beltway boosting gives way to reality of low support
Wisconsin State Senator Jon Erpenbach talks with Rachel Maddow about Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker suspending his presidential campaign after lackluster debate performances, poll numbers approaching zero, and a string of gaffes that raised questions about how he ever got elected in the first place.
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/watch/walker-fails-to-live-up-to-hype-drops-out-529771587834
Yatsuno
@BillinGlendaleCA:
You have no idea.
Elizabelle
Welcome back, Anne Laurie.
How funny. TCM has counterprogrammed the Pope’s visit with … robots.
9:00 a — just started: The Day the Earth Stood Still. Prescient, WRT anticipated DC traffic today
10:45 Forbidden Planet. Shakespeare’s The Tempest set in space. Robby the Robot.
12:30 p The Invisible Boy. Sequel to Forbidden Planet. Moar Robby the Robot, although TCM viewers says it’s dreary and boring and a missed opportunity.
Later today: 2001. A robot gone bad.
linky to schedule: http://www.tcm.com/schedule/
Kay
@rikyrah:
It’s just gross how much they love people who hate labor unions. That’s what all these people they promote have in common.
“Speak truth to power! Take that third grade teachers!”
jake the antisoshul soshulist
My favorite Cohen
https://youtu.be/u5J2RgdZUPk
Here is first version I heard.
https://youtu.be/mT3RxOFoUR8
WereBear
@Elizabelle: Most awesome. Many favorites.
Are they doing The Colossus of New York? Always liked that one. Ross Martin nailed it and added a poignant element to a B-movie science fiction film that I’ve never forgotten, decades after first seeing it.
I was a pre-teen watching The Wild Wild West and I was a fan of Martin.
And since praise of Ross Martin is too thin on the ground, may I add that in an episode of Ben Casey (in reruns) he played a surgeon with mysterious temper tantrums, and then they zoomed in on him in the cafeteria, sitting there looking like a classic myasthenia gravis patient (which is not easy, it’s subtle) and I was right, and so so so was he…
Just an amazing Worker of the Craft.
/admirer
OzarkHillbilly
@PJ:
Than, pray tell, who are we fighting there? Everything else you say, I agree with, but the Taliban were deposed, not eradicated.
Elizabelle
@WereBear: No, but thanks for the head’s up. Never heard of “The Colossus…”
Other robot movies today are The Robot vs. the Aztec Mummy, from 1965, at 2:15 p, and Westworld at 6:15 p. (Yul Brynner as a robot?)
Other movie on my to watch list: Robert Wise’s “The House on Telegraph Hill” from 1951. Not on TCM, but read a little about it and it sounds great. Wise made so many exquisite movies. Will be on the lookout for more of his films.
WereBear
@Elizabelle: You haven’t seen Westworld? I like it very much. A poorer actor would have just gone with “expressionless” and it wouldn’t have worked, but Yul went with “menacing and expressionless” and it did.
The House on Telegraph Hill is a favorite! Enjoy!
OzarkHillbilly
@Kay: Well, if we allow 3rd grade teachers to organize they might organize 3rd graders and then all hell would break loose, there would be no stopping them.
skerry
@OzarkHillbilly: We never found Mullah Omar, head of the Taliban. He died of tuberculosis in 2013.
Tom
I’m taking my wife to her hydrotherapy this afternoon.
Apart from that, I plan on hacking around with Azure. I got a 12 month pass and I want to see if I can use it to deploy online course labs in the cloud.
I also need to nail down the deadlines for the course I’m currently developing.
Elizabelle
@Patricia Kayden:
@Gimlet:
Info on Gosar’s congressional district, the fourth, in Arizona. I am horrified by what he’s saying. Might be fun to write a letter or two to the major newspapers in his district. He has offices in Kingman, Prescott, Yuma, and Gold Canyon.
Poor little beautiful Cottonwood and Jerome are stuck in Gosar’s district. Home to more than a few hippies; they can’t be real happy about their congresscritter.
WereBear
@OzarkHillbilly: It’s become a Vietnam situation; unwinnable, yet just dropping it would result in scandalous political blowback.
I think President Obama is handling it as well as anyone can.
OzarkHillbilly
@skerry: Mullah Omar and a few tens of thousands of others.
Paul in KY
@JPL: She would just lie. There are 80 K real reasons why she won’t resign.
WereBear
And this post has led to me to pull up my Leonard Cohen channel on Pandora; it’s still a work in progress, but I do like what gets put up when I’m not monitoring it, as well.
Paul in KY
@NorthLeft12: If they really thought he could get them Wisconsin, he’d be on the list.
OzarkHillbilly
@WereBear: “How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?”
Thoughtful Today
It’s
Happy End of Scott Walker’s Presidential 2016 Candidacy Day!
Gin & Tonic
@Elizabelle: Every time I read Kingman I hear “Kingman, Barstow, San Bernardino…”
rikyrah
This is why I have no sympathy for them.
They voted for them…accept the consequences of their actions.
…………………
Independence hospital’s closing not enough to change Medicaid stance for Kansas conservatives
Speaker Ray Merrick: Problem is Obamacare
By The Associated Press
A southern Kansas hospital’s pending closure, which administrators blame on the state’s reluctance to expand Medicaid, hasn’t been enough to persuade Gov. Sam Brownback to soften his stance on the matter.
Mercy Hospital System plans to close its hospital in Independence, near the Oklahoma border, next month. Mercy spokeswoman Joanne Smith said expanding the program that provides health coverage to poor and disabled Kansans would have brought the hospital about $1.6 million in additional revenue.
“And that’s very significant for a small hospital like ours,” she told The Wichita Eagle
……………………….
Brownback said the hospital closure isn’t because the state won’t expand Medicaid. “They should blame it on Obamacare,” he said.
With a population of more than 9,000, Independence will be the largest community in the state without a hospital. The closest alternatives are in Neodesha, about 16 miles away, and Coffeyville, 20 miles away.
Rep. Sue Concannon, a Beloit Republican who is an outspoken supporter of expansion, said she worries that the Independence hospital’s closing is “just the tip of the iceberg.”
http://cjonline.com/news/2015-09-21/independence-hospitals-closing-not-enough-change-medicaid-stance-kansas
MomSense
Yay, the post is working now. When I looked earlier this morning the post title was above balloon-juice and there was no way to access comments.
Good morning, AL. We’ve all missed you.
Paul in KY
@OzarkHillbilly: Erm, maybe they didn’t actually want to capture/kill him at that point in their strategery?
satby
Politics in general has become overwhelmingly depressing to me lately, good thing becoming a new “mom” to two teenagers has kept me too busy to keep up. Because I just don’t want to live in the same country my fellow citizens who are Republican want to. And yet, here we all are.
I’ll snap out of it soon enough for the campaign.
Applying for a new job today, wish me luck.
maurinsky
RE: Leonard Cohen – I thought I would share a remake of his song “Everybody Knows” (true then, true now) by the Canadian band The Duhks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxHJL9e9l6A
The banjo player for The Duhks is named Leonard Podolak, and he covered this song at a show of just Leonard Cohen songs, covered by other people named Leonard.
Paul in KY
@Thoughtful Today: He’s a real evil dude. Would NEVER have wanted him as President. Like a Greg Stilton or a really, really evil Dick Nixon.
gelfling545
@Schlemazel: Suzanne was the first I had heard of Cohen. It must have made the top 40 stations as I’d have had no other way to hear it. Then I went looking for more of his work & found it fascinating. This was considered quite odd in my social set at the time.
Elizabelle
@satby: Wishing you luck with the job interview and in your house mother duties.
satby
@Elizabelle: Thanks! Fun, but really hectic! I totally forgot how much time chauffeuring back and forth to school eats up!
Keith G
The WP has a news story up about White House plans for a more aggressive military campaign in Syria. We wight be enabling the Kurds to take more of the fight to the bad guys.
Meanwhile, CNN is adding to the “Rape of Boys” reporting.
Yatsuno
@satby: LUUUUUUCK!!!
Paul in KY
@satby: Best wishes on job interview. Remember to make eye contact & to be confident as you tell them why hiring you would be a win for the company/person.
dedc79
I think Cohen is up there at the top lyrics-wise, but, for many of his songs, I can’t get past the music he pairs those lyrics with. His “The Future” is an example of what I mean.
A lot of people prefer covers of his music b/c they don’t care for his voice. I prefer covers, not because of his voice, but because it generally means the accompanying music will be better (less synth, less reliance on backing female vocals, etc…)
satby
@Yatsuno: @Paul in KY: Thanks! Only submitting my application and resume today, but it’s an IT position that matches my skills pretty exactly. I tend to do well in interviews, since what I do in my current job is to teach people how to interview better. (And OMG, the stuff people have said that I have to teach them not to say!)
boatboy_srq
@satby: Congrats (on the mom thing), condolences (on the chauffeur thing), and break a leg (on the job thing).
raven
Famous Blue Raincoat
Yes, and jane came by with a lock of your hair
She said that you gave it to her
That night that you planned to go clear
Did you ever go clear?
MomSense
@satby:
Wishing you good luck!
I find politics super depressing as well.
Paul in KY
@satby: Cool!
burnspbesq
@Patricia Kayden:
According to Marty Lederman at Balkinization, there are now at least two status reports on file with the court describing Davis’ apparent violations of the order that was entered when she was released from confinement.
I expect shit will get real within a reasonable amount of time.
raven
The Partisan
Oh, the wind, the wind is blowing,
through the graves the wind is blowing,
freedom soon will come;
then we’ll come from the shadows.
satby
@boatboy_srq: @MomSense: thanks. And now I’m off to go actually DO that!
Cervantes
You mean “(Belated) ‘Happy Birthday.'”
It’s not the birthday that’s belated!
boatboy_srq
Yeesh. Benen’s got a full plate today and it’s only 10 am:
RE: Carson:
So much for freedom of religion… And funny thing is that in ’08 and ’12 probably not more than a handful voted for a Muslim either – but just try explaining that to the proverbial crazy uncle…
RE: Kansas:
The GOTea: enabling Ahmurrcans to experience the freedumb and libertee to die of preventable, treatable medical conditions since 2009.
Cervantes
@satby:
Good luck, then!
Cervantes
@dedc79:
In that regard, what do you make of his “Closing Time”?
PurpleGirl
@Elizabelle:
Westworld at 6:15 p. (Yul Brynner as a robot?)
Yul Brynner was great as the robot in Westworld. One of his best portrayals. My personal favorite is General Sergei Pavlovich Bounine in Anastasia.
Thanks for posting this film schedule. I now have my TV watching plans for the day.
ETA: Although at 1 pm I’m going to the Seniors club at my development for a showing of Woman in Gold.
OzarkHillbilly
@Paul in KY: I doubt they ever wanted to. They just wanted a war because wars are good politics, at least for the first 3 years or so.
boatboy_srq
@OzarkHillbilly: Interesting, no, how the GOTea is fascinated with warmaking – except when it comes to resource allocation to ensure the war can be won? It’s almost like the want a perpetual war footing, and underfund offensives so they won’t be successful enough to end anything.
OzarkHillbilly
@Paul in KY: Also, I have to say it has long been obvious that they never had a strategy.
OzarkHillbilly
@satby: I’ll keep my fingers crossed.
bemused
@rikyrah:
I can’t fathom what Concannon thought was going to happen to hospitals. Deeply stupid people.
Elizabelle
@PurpleGirl: I loved “Woman in Gold.”
You won’t be missing anything on TCM — I read that the Aztec robot movie is schlock’s schlock. And dubbed into English; can’t even listen for Spanish.
raven
@PurpleGirl: Westworld is going to be and HBO series.
Paul in KY
@burnspbesq: I like it when you use a bunch of legal mumbo-jumbo!
Paul in KY
@OzarkHillbilly: If true, and it sure looks like it was, that right there should have landed several people in jail for rest of their sorry lives.
Paul in KY
@OzarkHillbilly: They had a strategy, it’s just that it had nothing to do with capturing Bin Laden, etc. etc.
The strategy was completely focused on a 1000 year Republican Reich.
Gimlet
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/22/gay-couples-want-kentucky-clerk-to-reissue-marriage-licenses
Gay couples in Kentucky are questioning the validity of altered marriage licenses issued by a defiant county clerk and have asked a federal judge to order her to reissue the licenses or close the office down.
when Davis returned to work last week, she confiscated the marriage licenses and replaced them. The new licenses say they were issued not under the authority of the county clerk, but “pursuant to federal court order”. Davis said this accommodation preserves her conscience while also granting licenses to same-sex couples.
But on Monday, lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union wrote that the validity of the altered licenses is “questionable at best”, and that the new licenses brought “humiliation and stigma” to the gay couples who receive them.
They asked Judge Bunning to order Davis’ office to reissue the licenses. If Davis interferes, the lawyers say the judge should place her office in a receivership for the purposes of issuing marriage licenses.
“The adulterated marriage licenses received by Rowan county couples will effectively feature a stamp of animus against the LGBT community, signaling that, in Rowan county, the government’s position is that LGBT couples are second-class citizens unworthy of official recognition and authorization of their marriage licenses but for this court’s intervention and order,” the lawyers for the couples wrote in a court filing.
raven
@OzarkHillbilly:
There’s a protest singer singing a protest song – he says
‘they wanna have a war to keep us on our knees
They wanna have a war to keep their factories
They wanna have a war to stop us buying Japanese
They wanna have a war to stop Industrial Disease
OzarkHillbilly
@Paul in KY: For that and many other crimes against humanity.
OzarkHillbilly
@Paul in KY: Heh!
debbie
@satby:
Good luck!
Paul in KY
@Gimlet: I just play a lawyer in my mind, but I would think Ms. Davis needs to start packing her jail jumpers.
OzarkHillbilly
NOT the Onion: George W. Bush to Lecture Intelligence Professionals. Really?
Love this part: Bush reportedly receives between $100,000 and $175,000 for speaking gigs, and recently he charged a hundred grand to appear at a charity fundraiser for American military vets wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Yeah, you read that right.
WereBear
@satby: Luck!
OzarkHillbilly
@raven: Gotta love Dire Straits.
“We didn’t understand Iraq at all, and we understood Afghanistan even less.”
-General Stan McChrystal
WereBear
@boatboy_srq: It’s a struggle I have: some of their stuff is fiendishly clever in terms of bringing out the mayham them seem to seek… and yet every Republican public life is not nearly bright enough to pull this, and the ones I know in private have no power whatsoever.
What windowless dungeon is hiding these sub-human geniuses?
Paul in KY
@boatboy_srq: They want the companies that make/sell military stuff to do well. One of the reasons is that the owners & the employees are generally Republican & can return some of their lucre to the GOP in form of campaign donations.
Matt McIrvin
@Elizabelle: “The Invisible Boy” isn’t a sequel to “Forbidden Planet”; the only thing it has in common is Robby.
“Forbidden Planet” obviously had a huge influence on the look of Star Trek (along with “This Island Earth”, maybe best known today as the movie they were riffing on in the “Mystery Science Theater 3000” feature film).
And, of course, the robot from “Lost in Space” was another creation of Bob Kinoshita, and has a clear family resemblance to Robby.
Paul in KY
@Matt McIrvin: The robot was the best character in that show (Lost in Space). Dr. Smith really hammed it up, but after awhile was sorta unbelievable (after his 1st few nasty, cowardly actions you would have had to send him out the airlock to ensure mission success).
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Did also like the ‘Crush, Kill, Destroy’ guys.
Gimlet
@Matt McIrvin:
And, of course, the robot from “Lost in Space” was another creation of Bob Kinoshita, and has a clear family resemblance to Robby.
Clearly a distant relative of the Michelin Tire figure.
WereBear
@Paul in KY: You HAD to have Dr. Smith. All the other characters were far too goody-goody to get into trouble, and thus create the conflict you have to have.
And someone has to get in the way of easily getting out of trouble, as well.
Dramatically speaking.
Paul in KY
@WereBear: Can’t the ‘trouble’ come from what freaky planet they land on & the aliens they encounter there?
Obviously, I am no Hollywood screenwriter :-)
WereBear
@Paul in KY: Yes, you can have trouble by accident, and no matter what they do they can’t get out of it, until suddenly, they do!
Which describes the world’s worst horror movies. No one finds that satisfying for long.
There has to be levers to pull, and someone to pull the levers, and someone the audience just can’t stand who gets in the way.
Or shows would last ten minutes, ya know?
boatboy_srq
@OzarkHillbilly: Hubris, defined.
Paul in KY
@WereBear: OK, I guess they had to have Dr. Smith (grumble, grumble, the 2nd-in-Command guy coulda flipped out & provided all sorts of ‘conflict’).
Matt McIrvin
@Paul in KY: Originally the show was trying to be serious science fiction, and Dr. Smith was the recurring villain, a saboteur who had stowed away on the ship and was trying to kill them all. When the show went to color it turned to intentional camp, and Dr. Smith became comic relief.
japa21
@boatboy_srq: Actually, there is a convoluted argument Brownback can make to justify his statement that the hospital closing is caused by Obamacare.
The government used to have support payments to hospitals that covered their losses from unpaid bills. This was dropped under the assumption that with Medicaid expansion these payments wouldn’t be necessary and was part of the way that any other increased governmental costs were covered.
The fact that Kansas did not expand Medicaid did not change the discontinuance of those payments.
So if the government was still using that support system, then the hospital would not have had to close.
Therefore it is all the fault of Obamacare.
At least that is the argument that could be made.
misterpuff
@I’mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet: VeeDub is Rolling Coal!
The HOT new GOP ride!
WereBear
@Matt McIrvin: Sadly, the leads were all sold on it as a serious science fiction project, and the camp turn did not make them happy.
jurassicpork
On the home front, things are moving fast in P’ville and the changes may not be all good. So, here’s a link to today’s post that goes into greater detail.
Paul in KY
@Matt McIrvin: That’s why the captain would have had to have a summary courts martial (in black & white) and sent him out the airlock.
True story: Was just in Krogers parking lot & was behind a Prius with this bumper sticker: ‘WARNING, driving under the influence of Leonard Cohen’.
Paul in KY
@jurassicpork: In the People’s Republic of Kentucky, the new landlord can’t just ‘invalidate’ a lease because they want to jack up the prices. You have to ride the lease out & then jack em up.
PJ
@OzarkHillbilly: You’ll note that I said “in Afghanistan.” They just walked over the border into Pakistan.
gus
That’s funny that you could go 30 years just waiting to start smoking again. I quite 13 years ago, and the smell now disgusts me.