From YouTube’s rachelle9876
Song: “Dancin’ The Boogie”
composed and performed by Swiss pianist Silvan Zingg.
Dancing: French couple William Mauvais and Maéva Truntzer.
Bass: Nuno Alexandre from Portugal.
Drums: Simon Boyer from France
Author: Burr Deming
Boogie Woogie
Jussie Smollet Brings Back Morton Downey, Jr.
A famous actor files a false report of a brutal attack right wing by rignt wing fanatics.
Nobody can quite understand why.
Why would Morton Downey Jr., vicious enemy of liberals, do such a thing?
A famous television actor is attacked in a public restroom by two MAGA-hat-wearing thugs, who scream racial and homophobic slurs, beat him, pour bleach over him, and leave him bleeding on the floor with a noose around his neck.
Celebrities, television personalities, and presidential candidates, and Donald Trump all issue support for the victim and decry the attack.
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REAL Vote Fraud, Hiding the Report, Weak President, Revenge on SNL
- This week’s note in Alternative Facts comes from FactCheck.org as President Trump boasts that deficits seem to be coming down. Anyone want to take that bet?
- Green Eagle gets a bit irate at a Washington Post account of vote fraud that manages to both side a one sided story.
- News Corpse tracks calls by Fox News personalities for making the Mueller report a secret document, never to be seen by any of us.
- tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors reacts to a revelation as the then future President unwittingly introduces his son to said son’s future ex-wife multiple times. Good punchline.
- Is my president getting weaker each day? Jonathan Bernstein finds examples even of staff members and executive agencies ignoring questionable Trump orders.
- Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit doesn’t get the Trump humor as my President wants retribution against Saturday Night Live for unfairly laughing at him.
- Trump Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta gave a pedophile of great wealth a sweetheart sentencing deal. Professor PZ Myers seems irritated at having to explain that sex trafficking that includes molesting kids is something other than an alternate lifestyle.
- Dave Dubya takes a look at domestic terrorism and the chief political cheerleader.
- Iron Knee at Political Irony takes a cartoon look at those white Americans who can’t seem to assimilate into American society.
- Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged gazes upon hate crimes, a mass assassination plot, and lots and lots of ultrabrave war talk, and suggests the real national emergency is some of those already here.
- Jack Jodell at The Saturday Afternoon Post finds more American examples of socialism that everybody loves.
- The Journal of Improbable Research finds and documents the plagarism. I had no idea that any serious research had ever been done in breast massage as a way of preventing pregnancy, much less that it was copied word for word in the Medical Journal of The Islamic Republic of Iran.
When Your Mom Is the Coolest Mom Ever
Remind Me – Röyksopp
Remember where you heard this?
Lyrics
It’s only been a week
the rush of being home and rapid fading
Failing to recall
when I was busy all that time in England
Has sent me aimlessly
on foot or by the help of transportation
to knock on windows where
a friend no longer live, I had forgotten
and everywhere I go
there’s always something to remind me
of another place and time
of a love that traveled far and found me
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Feelin’ Good by Norman
Lyrics
[Found at Musicbed]
I’m feeling good
I’m feeling good
Slow down, just for a minute
Hold up, take your time
You and me, we’re getting in it
I think you know whats on my mind
I’m feeling good
Just like it should
I’m feeling good
Just like I knew would
I’m feeling good
And I’ve tried- I can’t forget it
Yeah you always burn me up
Take me right up to the limit
I can never get enough
I’m feeling good
Yeah- I’m feeling good
Just like it should
I’m feeling good
Just like I knew would
I’m feeling good
I do my best to quit you- it gets me every time
I know that I’m addicted- can’t get you off my mind
And when you hit my lips it feels just like it should
I’m feeling good
The Fixx – Saved By Zero
This from a generation ago (1983) was inspired by a Buddhist mantra.
The song was written from the point of view of the release you get when you have nothing left to lose.
– Band Member, Cy Curnin
The Lies Professor Dunning taught Northam, Clinton, and Me
We hope for our best judgment when it is necessary to judge the ignorant, the flawed, and those who have done wrong. Not all ignorance is willful. Not all evil is done by evil people.
The man was about to board the flight from Los Angeles to Greenville, Mississippi when he heard the news. Senator Robert Kennedy, brother of President John F. Kennedy, strong civil rights advocate, candidate for President, had been shot and killed.
The passenger nodded to the stranger next to him and exchanged pleasantries as he sat. The Southern accent told him he had found a regional compatriot. Two good old boys could while away the travel time on the way home.
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Emergency, Explaining Jesus, Tables, Walls, Witch Hunt, Stacey Abrams
- This week’s note in Trumpian ‘Alternative Facts’ comes from The Hill where Glenn Altschuler takes a look at President Trump’s explanations for his new emergency and compares them with facts and figures published by President Trump’s own administration.
- At The Onion, the Trump base is in awe as my President bravely stands up to the Constitution
- Green Eagle takes on conservative, Trump supporting evangelical Christians by explaining Jesus to them. Well, somebody had to. Pastor John can’t do everything.
- Speaking of which: North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz watches two sides: those who would build an expanding American table to welcome desperate people fleeing oppression, and others who would build a wall to keep them out. The table makers are winning. I dunno. We can hope he’s right.
- Andy Borowitz reports that a recently convicted drug cartel king is learning from my President as El Chapo insists he is a victim of a phony witch hunt. Yeah, yeah, I already know it’s satire.
- Frances Langum watches Stacey Abrams explain how she prepared for the best ever SOTU response and tell us the best way to avoid validating bad Presidential behavior.
- Yellow Dog at Blue in the Bluegrass rages at Republican plans to eliminate the meager pensions of Kentucky state employees, while expanding their own.
- So the owner of the National Inquirer tried to blackmail Jeff Bezos. Bezos turned the tables by publicizing the attempt. Some legal opinion holders think freedom of speech or the press is at stake. At The Moderate Voice Evan Sarzin examines those arguments and suggests blackmail is not one of our freedoms.
- At MadMikesAmerica Neil Bamforth considers Liam Neeson’s flirtation with racism 40 years back.
- John Scalzi at Whatever celebrated romantic love this week by posting step-by-step photos on how to put together the ideal Valentine burrito.