Wednesday, November 24, 2021

Stink . . .


. . . and stinkers . . .  

(from https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/16/media/steve-bannon-reliable-sources/index.html)
". . . the Bannon business model: Flood the zone. Stink up the joint. As Jonathan Rauch once said, citing Bannon's infamous quote, "This is not about persuasion: This is about disorientation.". . . So, with that in mind, here's what Bannon did: He streamed his arrival at an FBI field office, to turn himself in, on his GETTR account. He told his fans to "stay focused and stay on message" despite the "noise" of his indictment. He proclaimed that "we're taking down the Biden regime." He used the scene for all the publicity, and presumably political donations, that it was worth. . . Inside the courtroom, Bannon was "a lot different," according the CNN's Evan Perez, who added that he "answered respectfully to the judge when the judge advised him of his rights." But after his appearance in court, Bannon came back outside to the cameras; vowed to fight the criminal contempt of Congress charges; claimed that Democrats "took on the wrong guy this time;" and said "we're going to go on the offense." He told Vice's Elizabeth Landers that he "100 percent" plans to continue podcasting: "They'll never shut down The War Room.". . . That's how he floods the zone -- by spinning lies for his podcast "posse" on a daily basis -- and by attracting outside and outsized attention. Throughout the day on Monday, I noticed journalists and social media commenters wrestling with this issue. As Charlie Warzel said in 2019, "content creation and shamelessness" is a "potent combination." That's even more true today...". . . "


That Smell

- Lynyrd Skynyrd



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Tuesday, November 23, 2021

Imagine . . .

(from The Reckoning: Our Nation's Trauma and Finding a Way to Heal by Mary L. Trump)

". . . The lack of accountability continued into the twentieth century, in sometimes flagrant and shocking ways. . . President Gerald Ford is responsible for two the the worst pardons in American history. . . In 1975, after 110 years had washed away (Robert E.) Lee's sins and reinvented him as some kind of hero, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 407-10 to restore Lee's full rights of citizenship. A couple of weeks later President Ford signed the resolution in order to correct an "oversight." . . . I can only imagine how the descendants of the people he enslaved and the Union soldiers who died because of him must have felt. . ."


Imagine

- John Lennon
 


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Monday, November 22, 2021

Falling . . .

 


Falling short of adequately,
Or even microscopically,
To capture all the wonder
And the complex sumptuosity
In music's just plain daunting.

Results are rather tinny
Alongside the actual entity.
But the love inspires the effort
To present what's Harrissinny.






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Sunday, November 21, 2021

Fancy . . .

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Add a little curlicue,
A flower here,
A doily there,
And pretty soon a simple stew
Takes on a kind of savoir faire.
Listen hard for drums and trombo-
That I've added to Spencer's Mambo.



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Saturday, November 20, 2021

Dancing . . .

Spencer doesn't do the mambo,
Either when alone or with a combo.
He's a peaceful man
And he carries no ammo.
Doesn't like heat
But cares little for snow.
He's a healthy guy
From head to toe.
He's actually traveled to Mexico.
But now he plays a mean piano.



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Friday, November 19, 2021

Look . . .

 . . . before you buy

(from The Reckoning: Our Nation's Trauma and Finding a Way to Heal by Mary L. Trump, Ph.D.)
". . . It was all so unnecessary. Nobody would have bolted from Donald's base if he had embraced a commonsense approach to COVID. Tens of thousands of lives would have been spared, and the economy, after a short-term hit, would have bounced back. His most deranged supporters would have hailed him as a hero - and a lot of his detractors would have, too. But Donald is constitutionally incapable of leading. . . "


I Should've Known Better
- The Beatles



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Thursday, November 18, 2021

Us? . . .

(from The Reckoning: Our Nation's Trauma and Finding a Way to Heal, by Mary L. Trump, Ph.D.)
". . . He made the pivot to the Big Lie in the earl morning hours after Election Day, before the results were even announced. He completely believed that he could turn things around. There was no reason for him not to - he always had. And let's face it,  seventy-four million of us, if the 2020 election results are any indication, never felt that they'd been betrayed at all. Or, worse, those voters put the betrayal to the side because they understood the degree to which having g a white supremacist in the Oval Office benefitted them . . . "


Who Am I
- The O'Jays


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