Seldom Balanced – Usually Fair
From Música para Despertar:
Read more about Marta C. González Saldaña (Marta Cinta)
It turns out that much of the story of her past does not check out.
Records, if they still exist, have been difficult to locate.
Certainly Marta C. González Saldaña was a dancer.
The video is genuine. The power of music in her life remains apparent.
But she was a woman with a mysterious personal history.
From Bill Formby at MadMikesAmerica:
How likely would it be to get hundreds of thousands of people from Philadelphia to conspire with a similar number of people from Pheonix and Las Vegas? Probably like throwing a dog, a cat, and a rabid raccoon into a bag and expecting them to become instant friends. In other words, ain’t going to happen. Even Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh can figure that out. Maybe they can explain it to Amy Coney Barrett.
But, Trump’s true followers are still at about 43 – 45%. Why? I don’t know. They seem to think he has done things for them of which the rest of us are unaware.
He will not concede defeat of course. Because anything that contradicts his reality is wrong. I do believe that even most Republicans will press for him to concede, I will be surprised if he does. However, he will be leaving the White House on January 20, 2021.
But, my friends, let me tell you now as a warning. Donald Trump is not through with us yet. He will continue to create havoc in America as long as he can still breathe.
From The Journal of Improbable Research:
• Most people tend to walk with their elbows slightly bent.
• Most people tend to run with their elbows acutely bent.
• No-one knows why.
There is however, a(n) hypothesis.
From libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara:
When Florida Ron DeSantis won the Republican gubernatorial primary in 2018, he said,
The last thing we need to do is to monkey this up by trying to embrace a socialist agenda with huge tax increases bankrupting the state. That is not going to work. [my emphasis]
DeSantis was referring to the socialistic policies of his Democratic counterpart, Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum. Dennis Prager, quoting from the South Florida’s Sun-Sentinel, reported
“Gillum is an unabashed champion of his party’s most progressive ideas — including things like Medicare-for-all single payer health system, abolishing the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency and impeaching President Donald Trump.”
Gillum is part of the far Left self-described socialist wing of the Democratic Party, it seems accurate to say. Well, Gillum’s supporters jumped all over DeSantis for his remarks critical of his policies. “Monkey up,” it turns out, is a “racist dog whistle” according to the far Left.
Really?
From Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger:
Millions of Americans voted early this year, both in person and through the mail. One thing we have learned is that some states need to change their laws on counting those early votes. I am writing this three days after the election, and six states are still counting those votes (Alaska, Pennsylvania, Georgia, North Carolina, Arizona, and Nevada).
The public is getting tired of waiting for the final results. This same exit poll showed that 84% of Republicans and 90% of Democrats say they just want the election counting to be over.
They are right.
From Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged:
I’m not, by any stretch of the imagination, a “Suzy Silverlinings”, so in the wide-branched tree of my heart, a heavy little bird still sits, cooing over the ways the evil clowns are going to steal my joy. In the meanwhile, they are evil, but they are still clowns, so I might as well laugh at them. And Rudybot throwing a cog at the idea that the networks are calling the election (over the vote totals for Biden being more favorable) before the courts get involved (because so far, they’ve been throwing out the weaksauce arguments from Team Trump left and right) is pretty on target.
He’s in front of the Four Seasons Total Landscape building because, depending on who you ask, it was either in a NE Philly neighborhood where the singing and dancing of happy Democratic voters were unlikely to intrude (situated between the Fantasy Island sex shop, where the patrons are quiet out of habit, and the crematorium, where the patrons are quiet by nature) or Trump wanted the upscale Four Seasons hotel, but couldn’t book it. Either reason is hilarious.
From Dave Dubya:
Let’s celebrate our limited victory, but be clear in this perspective.
We need to understand the Right will never stop their voter suppression. They will never surrender in their war on democracy. Fascism is always lurking in the resentments and anger of white nationalism. Corporate interests will always try to dominate our government. Hatred and division will always be stoked by Republicans and the far Right. As long as the Senate is controlled by Republicans we will have nothing close to a representative republic.
“Consent of the governed” is in the Declaration of Independence. The founders blew it with their compromise with slave states that produced the electoral college.
The Phantom Zone
I was barely old enough to be dimly aware that Presidents are elected and that there is a difference between a democracy and a democratic republic. But I was old enough to be entranced by the candidate.
As the years since have become decades, and decades have become measurable as generations, John F. Kennedy has remained a sort of standard, for me, by which others are to be measured.
Democrat John Kennedy and Republican Richard Nixon were not antagonists in the couple of years during which they were both in Congress. Some accounts had them as friends who enjoyed each other’s company. Nixon was elected Senator from California in 1950 after an extraordinarily vicious campaign against incumbent Helen Gahagan Douglas. If Douglas was not a communist, the Nixon campaign held, she was at least a fellow traveler. “Pink right down to her underwear” became part of that year’s ugly narrative.
In private, Kennedy defended Nixon when most observers held the new Senator in distain for his dirty tactics. The friendship continued through most of the 1950s as Richard Nixon became Eisenhower’s Vice President and John F. Kennedy was elected the junior Senator from Massachusetts.
Somewhere along the line things soured. It may have been in 1960 as both won party nominations for President and campaigned against each other.
A steady pattern of small incidents seemed to demonstrate a lack of Nixon class. The candidates held the first televised debates in American history. They talked with each other casually as television preparations occurred around them. Kennedy noticed that, at odd moments, Nixon’s demeanor would suddenly change for a few seconds. He would scowl and point his finger at Kennedy’s face while talking about some personal triviality. The pattern became clear. It happened whenever Nixon noticed some photographer about to snap a picture. He wanted to look tougher than his opponent.
Continue reading “60 Years and No Class Ago –
Compared to Today”