Travelin’ Music to carry us to the cheatin’ side of town
The first song ever written was a love song. You know, somebody pledging their ever-lasting love and fidelity to somebody else.
The second song ever written was a cheatin’ song, complaining about the lyin’ SOB who wrote the first song.
Given recent events, it’s time to pay homage to the second oldest song topic. I’ve invited the great Miss Kitty Wells to kick off the evening’s festivities, performing a song dedicated to Paula Broadwell and all the other honky-tonk angels out there, wherever you are.
– Jay Bookman
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Soothsayer
November 18th, 2012
7:53 pm
Well, it’s just another “Pleasant Valley Sunday” in mindless diversion land. The naive, gullible sheeple follow their “shepherd” into oblivion. Heaven forbid someone might interject an element of reality into their mindless pursuits.
Israel Military Implements Gaza War, Phase1 of Iran Nuclear Attack Plan
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, facing an election in January 2013 had clearly put the Gaza attack plans on low gear until after the US Presidential election, following which Israel virtually immediately embarked upon a series of military provocations including sending tanks into Gaza on November 8th that killed a Palestinian child, then 2 days later fired a number of shells into Gaza killing a 4 civilians and wounding 38 others. The trigger for Gaza retaliation was the targeted assassinations of Hamas military commander Ahmed Jabari who was killed by a missile that was followed by an extensive bombing campaign to inflame Hamas into retaliating with longer range rockets.
I invite all of you to read this article and see how closely Israel and Netanyahu follows this timeline.
Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
– George Orwell
josef
November 18th, 2012
8:07 pm
SOOTH
Good to see you back. How was Beirut? I hear it’s lovely this time of year.
Madge From Accounting
November 18th, 2012
8:11 pm
Recon @ 6:10: The supporters fall short when it gets down to putting theirs on the line.
So, you must be really upset at these following people:
Romney
All FIVE of his sons
Gingrich
Cheney
Rumsfeld
Chambliss
Perdue
Deal
Etc, etc., etc.
Correct?
josef
November 18th, 2012
8:13 pm
MADGE
Picky, picky…
Rightwing Troll
November 18th, 2012
8:14 pm
You must be really mad at Bush… after all he put the W in AWOL…
josef
November 18th, 2012
8:18 pm
RIGHTWING
Now you just hold on a minute…Bush was protecting Alabama from the Nashville-Jackson-Atlanta-Tallahassee axis of evil…
Tundra Dude
November 18th, 2012
8:20 pm
So, you must be really upset at these following people:
Romney
I give Romney some credit. A prof at Stanford said he demonstrated against anti-war demonstrators.
Plus, 2 years in the jungles of France , enduring endless wine/cheese tastings is nothing to sneer at.
Soothsayer
November 18th, 2012
8:26 pm
It is as if everyone knows, but will never acknowledge, that we may speak only in code, and that we may only utilize the safe, empty phrases that we have agreed are ‘acceptable’ — phrases and language that are safe precisely because they have been drained of all correspondence to facts.
It is as if everyone realizes, but will never state, that we are engaged in an elaborate charade, a pageant of gesture and indication, where substance and specific meaning have been banned. … [T]he truth is not merely unpleasant, an uninvited guest who makes conversation difficult and awkward. Truth is the enemy; truth is to be destroyed.”
Gaza is a concentration camp. It is not like a concentration camp. It is not a metaphorical or figurative concentration camp. It is a concentration camp. Our culture, our political leaders, and the cacophony of voices in the media have all agreed that this truth must never be spoken.
Imagine that, the Jews of Israel maintaining a concentration camp.
getalife
November 18th, 2012
8:29 pm
“CLOWN CHRISTIE GOES ON ‘SNL’ AS RESIDENTS SUFFER” drudgey.
Ouch, they eat their own on drudgey now.
josef
November 18th, 2012
8:29 pm
TUNDRA
Not to mention having to go to the ballet…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRp5nE0Hlsc
josef
November 18th, 2012
8:31 pm
getalife
best served with a light bernaise sauce and un bon vin blanc…white meat, you know…
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 18th, 2012
8:36 pm
More drudgey spam:
Obama Supporters Banned From Arizona Gun Shop…
As if they can tell just by looking.
Heh,heh, heh.
getalife
November 18th, 2012
8:37 pm
josef,
drudgey is mad at Christie for being nice to our President.
They told mitt to shut up too.
josef
November 18th, 2012
8:42 pm
getalife
Christie probably did more to redeem the GOP and (hopefully) put it back on the right track than anybody out there…
Tundra Dude
November 18th, 2012
8:44 pm
Josef:
Not to mention having to go to the ballet…
and the dancer is a Democrat…Rahm da mayor
Heheheheh…..
getalife
November 18th, 2012
8:48 pm
josef,
christie, rubio and jindal are already running for 16.
You don't say
November 18th, 2012
8:53 pm
Former Bush Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez said Sunday that he was shocked by Mitt Romney’s recent comments about President Barack Obama giving “gifts” to win re-election.
“I was shocked,” the former Romney adviser told CNN’s Candy Crowley. “And frankly I don’t think that’s why Republicans lost the election. I think we lost the election because the far right of this party has taken the party to a place that it doesn’t belong.”
Raw Story (http://s.tt/1tWTh)
josef
November 18th, 2012
8:54 pm
TUNDRA
If you ever get the chance, go see les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo,,it’s an evening’s entertainment you’ll never forget…!
Wa-do Del, I hear, is did his service, retiring as prima ballerina assoluta…that may just be a rumor…
getalife
November 18th, 2012
8:58 pm
“If we want people to like us, we have to like them first,” Jindal said on Fox News Sunday.
Duh.
I think the gop should stay the course with lying, insulting the voters and living in a different reality.
Madge From Accounting
November 18th, 2012
9:13 pm
Tundra: Plus, 2 years in the jungles of France , enduring endless wine/cheese tastings is nothing to sneer at.
Ah yes, I forgot about that. He should’ve gotten “The Golden Boot Medal” (Which is symbolized by a diagram of a boot kicking a replica of a fat azz); for his bravery and perseverance!
getalife: christie, rubio and jindal are already running for 16.
I don’t trust any of them. I trust a centrist like Charlie Crist — someone who put the needs of his constituents above partisan hackery.
However,someone like Crist, (ex florida governor), would be tarred and feather in today’s GOP.
Look before I leap...
November 18th, 2012
9:20 pm
I suspect he’s gone for the night, but just a thought on Recon’s chest thumpin stupidity:
We are a country of about 330M people.
There are about 3M people on active and reserve duty.
There are about 23M veterans who have served.
Does he honestly believe that 92% of the country’s populace is in fact NOT patriotic?
Madge From Accounting
November 18th, 2012
9:22 pm
Look – He probably does. He’s just that “special”.
Look before I leap...
November 18th, 2012
9:23 pm
“However,someone like Crist, (ex florida governor), would be tarred and feather in today’s GOP.”
St Ronnie would be tarred and feathered by today’s GOP.
Mr. T
November 18th, 2012
9:27 pm
Just got through watching a “semi porno” featuring the Octomom; she was doing “self fulfillment” episodes.
All I can say is, with that many kids, the only person who’s going to want to “play” with her is her little battery operated friend she keeps in the nightstand drawer.
I pity the fool who has 14 kids and 8 of them are under 4 years old………
Tundra Dude
November 18th, 2012
9:28 pm
He should’ve gotten “The Golden Boot Medal” (Which is symbolized by a diagram of a boot kicking a replica of a fat azz)
LOL!! Good Wun!
I’m waiting on his new book:
“Tax Avoidance for DUMMIES”
Madge From Accounting
November 18th, 2012
9:36 pm
Or his new song, (a la Sinatra)
Fly me to my Swiss Bank account……….
Madge From Accounting
November 18th, 2012
10:14 pm
Talk about sore loosers:
The clock ran out Sunday in Florida on a partial recount in Rep. Allen West’s House race. Officials were not able to finish by the deadline.
MIAMI – Tea Party-backed Republican Congressman Allen West said he was still not ready to concede defeat on Sunday, almost two weeks after the Nov. 6 election, when the clock ran out on a partial recount in South Florida.
Results showing West trailing Democratic challenger Patrick Murphy by 1,900 votes were now expected to be turned over to the state Division of Elections for official certification.
West was granted a recount of early ballots in St. Lucie county at the weekend, but officials were unable to complete the process before time ran out at midday on Sunday.
“Today at noon, it became clear Patrick Murphy will be officially certified as the next congressman from the 18th Congressional District,” said Murphy’s campaign manager Anthony Kusich. “It is beyond time to put this campaign behind us.”
Under Florida law in the event of an incomplete recount the original returns are automatically submitted for certification by the state.
“This election is far from over,” said West’s campaign manager, Tim Edson, in a statement calling the results “highly suspect.”
Translation — Whhhhiiiinnnnnneeeeee I can’t believe I lost!!!! WHINNNNEE Someone must’ve cheated!!! Whiiinnneeee!!!!
I thought they liked me!!!! Whinnnneeee!!
http://news.msn.com/politics/west-wont-concede-race-as-fla-recount-runs-out-of-time
Mick
November 18th, 2012
10:57 pm
madge
It’s florida, what else do you expect???
alex
November 18th, 2012
11:58 pm
crist is an opportunist, plain and simple…..nothing more nothing less; same as christie, as the people of NJ look for gas,water, power, twinkles ( he ate them all)
stands for decibels
November 19th, 2012
6:06 am
Susan rice getting roasted on MTP for her lies
For anyone dumb enough to believe Jm’s take on this, i give you the transcript:
http://moonshinepatriot.blogspot.com/2012/11/meet-press-november-18-2012.html
—-
Gregory: let’s talk about the most important
thing ever – whether the government sufficiently
described an attack as ‘terrorism’
or ‘just one of those things’
Rogers: it’s a semiotic scandal
Feinstein: Petraeus called it terrorism the
next day but Rice followed the CIA talking points
so she is being pilloried for no reason
Rogers: look our job in Congress is to look
as if we are doing something this and gain
political advantage however we can
Gregory: of course
Rogers: we must investigate what happened
but I can tell you without investigating that
the CIA is good and the White House is bad
Gregory: right
Gregory: Rice said the investigation
is ongoing – is that so terrible?
Rogers: yes – without snap judgments
how can ever know what we don’t think
USinUK - not very ladylike (and former Girl Scout)
November 19th, 2012
6:50 am
“The second song ever written was a cheatin’ song, complaining about the lyin’ SOB who wrote the first song.”
tardy to the party … but that was classic, Jay.
USinUK - not very ladylike (and former Girl Scout)
November 19th, 2012
6:56 am
“St Ronnie would be tarred and feathered by today’s GOP.”
RINO that he was
USinUK - not very ladylike (and former Girl Scout)
November 19th, 2012
6:58 am
hey … today’s London fun fact … the oldest public bust in London is the statue of Sekhmet outside of Sothebys
http://exploringlondon.wordpress.com/2012/11/19/wheres-londons-oldest-public-bust/
USinUK - not very ladylike (and former Girl Scout)
November 19th, 2012
7:10 am
Sooth – “Imagine that, the Jews of Israel maintaining a concentration camp.”
thanks for that post – people need to speak out against the atrocity.
the folks on the right LOVE to say “never again” … what they mean is “never again, unless the people are muslim, then it’s okay”
stands for decibels
November 19th, 2012
7:29 am
In the past decade or so, when I hear that Israel is launching a military offensive, I usually look at my watch and ask myself, “So what’s the time and death quota for this one? At what point have they killed a sufficient number of Pallies so Bibi can tell his peeps that ‘Ok, we’re up on the year’?”
Not that I’m cynical or anything.
Mick
November 19th, 2012
7:30 am
Turkey week, time kinda gets displaced, then the shopping begins…
stands for decibels
November 19th, 2012
7:33 am
h/t to Kyle (!), but wowser. Don’t know how I missed this one.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/abortion/54_are_pro_choice_38_pro_life
More voters than ever now identify themselves as pro-choice when it comes to abortion, and most rate the issue as important to how they vote.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely U.S. Voters shows that 54% describe themselves as pro-choice on the issue of abortion, while 38% say they are pro-life.
I guess the intelligent take-away is that these particular self-identifying terms are pretty fluid–even more fluid than I’d originally thought.
However, I’ve always asserted, with a fair amount of justification, that a solid majority of Americans, even if they call themselves “pro-life,” support legal access to elective abortion in the first trimester, i.e., they support Roe v. Wade, and they have for a very long time.
Republican Outreach Leaves Immigrants, Minority Groups Skeptical
November 19th, 2012
7:33 am
BALTIMORE, Nov 18 (Reuters) – Latinos, African-Americans and other minorities who helped President Barack Obama win a second term are skeptical about enhanced Republican outreach to their communities, but also say the future of the coalition that shaped the 2012 election may be fragile.
Top Republicans rushed to do damage control last week after Mitt Romney blamed his election loss on what he called an Obama strategy of giving “gifts” to blacks, Latinos and young voters – groups instrumental to the president’s re-election victory.
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, chairman of the Republican Governors Association, and other Republicans warned that the party could not broaden its appeal unless it stopped insulting the very voters its was trying to reach.
“We have to really question their motives and how they’re tokenizing these faces of color,” Jessica Gonzalez-Rojas, executive director of the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health, told activists and organizers at a conference on racial issues in Baltimore this weekend.
She said Latino voters and other minority groups remained on guard given the Republicans’ reluctance to embrace immigration reform and other substantive issues. She said it had not escaped notice that most delegates at Republican convention were white despite the inclusion of Latino speakers.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/18/republicans-minority-outreach_n_2156114.html
USinUK - not very ladylike (and former Girl Scout)
November 19th, 2012
7:35 am
“Not that I’m cynical or anything.”
don’t even … all my FB “friend of Israel” friends keep posting the Golda Meir quote, “Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us”
I keep wanting to ask them, “oh, you mean the children the Israelis keep BOMBING”
stands for decibels
November 19th, 2012
7:36 am
UnU, the bombings will continue until morale improves. Jeez, how hard is that to figure out?
alex
November 19th, 2012
7:38 am
” executive director of the national latina institute for reproductive health”——Huffington post. VERY impressive
stands for decibels
November 19th, 2012
7:38 am
…and UnU I could share some personal tales of what happened to a dear old college pal (and sometime-GF) who turned beyond-the-beyond Likudnik, which I happened to learn about only through some bored Googling a few years back.
Her blog has become for me this car crash I try not to look at, but can’t help myself, sometimes.
(tempting as it is to link it here, I really shouldn’t, so I won’t, so don’t ask!)
USinUK - not very ladylike (and former Girl Scout)
November 19th, 2012
7:38 am
“I guess the intelligent take-away is that these particular self-identifying terms are pretty fluid–even more fluid than I’d originally thought.”
exactly why I never pay attention to those polls. Just a few months, Gallup was parading around a poll that said exactly the opposite (although, when you dug into it, more than 70% favored abortion in one form or another) … the wingers here were crowing about how that meant the GOPpers were more in touch with Murica, would keep permanent majority, blahblahblah
http://www.gallup.com/poll/154838/Pro-Choice-Americans-Record-Low.aspx
USinUK - not very ladylike (and former Girl Scout)
November 19th, 2012
7:39 am
dB – 7:36 – bombings for peace.
it’s always worked out so well in the past.
7:38 – I used to engage, now I just grit my teeth and scroll …
stands for decibels
November 19th, 2012
7:45 am
Just a few months, Gallup was parading around a poll
oh, I remember that well.
stands for decibels
November 19th, 2012
7:47 am
…and if it makes you feel better, Kyle haz a sad about the polling.
my point about personhood being a political loser will, unfortunately, be truer than ever if one of the conservative Supreme Court justices or court swing vote Anthony Kennedy ends up leaving the bench during the next four years and President Obama gets to nominate his replacement. The question will truly be settled for another generation
One can only hope.
Jay
November 19th, 2012
7:51 am
“hey … today’s London fun fact … the oldest public bust in London is the statue of Sekhmet outside of Sothebys.”
The oldest public bust in Atlanta can be found at the Claremont Lounge.
USinUK - not very ladylike (and former Girl Scout)
November 19th, 2012
7:52 am
dB – 7:47 – one can only hope.
USinUK - not very ladylike (and former Girl Scout)
November 19th, 2012
7:53 am
Jay – I WAS going to say that the oldest public bust is not, in fact, Margaret Thatcher’s … but no, I was going to take the high road!
USinUK - not very ladylike (and former Girl Scout)
November 19th, 2012
7:54 am
side note: Christmas Eve, 2005, made my first trip to the Clermont – sadly, Blondie wasn’t working, but I did get to see the … um … charms of their other artists …
they looked about as engaged as people standing in line at the DMV.
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
November 19th, 2012
7:58 am
JAY
You just brought back memories that prior were safely tucked into the outer recesses of my cranium…Claremont Lounge…
Jay
November 19th, 2012
8:01 am
Sorry, USinUK had the spelling right: Clermont.
alex
November 19th, 2012
8:02 am
Us in UK, if Blondie wasn’t working, you missed the clermont,either way-you need testing done asap…….
Missed the Christmas eve part-clermont,Blondie,and christmas Eve, all in the same sentence:you may be the MOST Pathetic individual that has EVER existed, crawl back in your hole for disinfection…
Republican Outreach Leaves Immigrants, Minority Groups Skeptical
November 19th, 2012
8:04 am
alex, why the anger so early in the morning…go grab a cup of coffee and release some of that frustration.
stands for decibels
November 19th, 2012
8:04 am
Ok, I didn’t know about this, but all I can say is yuck.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/19/elena-kagan-antonin-scalia-hunting_n_1989567.html
USinUK - not very ladylike (and former Girl Scout)
November 19th, 2012
8:06 am
Alex – those were the days … I was in my (late) 20s … living in Little 5 … boozing it up on a Christmas Eve with my friends … we started the night at La Fonda … proceeded to Manuel’s … the Clermont was a brilliant way to end it. And all within stumbling distance.
(sigh) meeeeemoriiiiieeeeeeeessssss … light the corners of my miiiiiiiiiiiind … misty water-color meeeeeeeeemorieeeeesssssss …. of the waaaayyyyyyy we weeeeerrrrreeeee
stands for decibels
November 19th, 2012
8:09 am
go grab a cup of coffee and release some of that frustration.
In alex’s case, I suspect it ain’t a cup of coffee that needs grabbin’.
.
.
/cheep-shots-R-us
JamVet
November 19th, 2012
8:12 am
Margaret Thatcher’s bust?
Oy…
Looks like the old fool Rupert M went and did it again. – stuck his nasty feet in his nasty mouth vis a vis the “Jewish owned press”…
USinUK - not very ladylike (and former Girl Scout)
November 19th, 2012
8:14 am
JamVet – I WAS going to maintain some level of decorum … then Jay had to go and bring up the Clermont.
alex
November 19th, 2012
8:18 am
“those were the days”.. Christmas eve with Booze and the Clermont, if you don’t get the pathos of that (along with stands) you likely never will. I hope your future memmories contain more substance than Manuels on christmas Eve, Give Stands a call, perhaps you can create some wonderful experience at Grady on New Years Eve,…Sheesh..
Paul
November 19th, 2012
8:19 am
Morning, USinUK
Doing a Thanksgiving celebration this year?
Ordered a ham, delivered to my sister’s, have a turkey defrosting, started the breadbaking last night for the dressing (please let’s not reopen the Northern-Southern divide with ‘if it ain’t cornbread it ain’t real stuffing’ thing. People generally like the holiday foods with which they were raised), but having got that out of the way..
“I keep wanting to ask them, “oh, you mean the children the Israelis keep BOMBING””
Innocents die in war. It’s one of the horrible facts of life. A key point is, why do those deaths occur? By direct targeting, or not?
Israel is not risking their lives and resources by targeting children. They are targeting enemy leadership and missile/munition stores. Hamas knows storing munitions in urban areas will not deter Israel from attacking, so I’d have to say Hamas bears some responsibility in the deaths of their children and are willing to accept that to score propaganda points.
It also leads to the question of ‘at what civilian/casualty expected level do we not engage a military operation?”
Again, I think the key point is how the casualties occur, if they were the result of deliberate targeting and if procedures are followed that would minimize such casualties.
indigo
November 19th, 2012
8:21 am
Recon 0311 2533 – 5:58 “they haven’t even served one day”
Like Cheney, Rove and Romney.
TaxPayer
November 19th, 2012
8:22 am
Oldest public bust… Clermont… a Republican, no doubt.
USinUK - not very ladylike (and former Girl Scout)
November 19th, 2012
8:26 am
awwwww … bless it … evidently Alex never had any fun when he/she was young.
sad, that.
born middle aged and bitter, were you???
USinUK - not very ladylike (and former Girl Scout)
November 19th, 2012
8:29 am
Paul – “Doing a Thanksgiving celebration this year?”
no – it’s just not the same without the Macys parade and football … I’ll bop into work on Thursday and enjoy a blissfully quiet day with the US offices closed
when Israel is purposefully targeting people’s homes – Hamas leadership or not – they are deliberately killing civilians. Yes, innocents do die in war – the difference is whether or not they are deliberately targeted.
stands for decibels
November 19th, 2012
8:31 am
Give Stands a call
alex, I want her to, but I think I creeped her out I start talking about having her wear the Julie Christie wig.
get over it...reality check...
November 19th, 2012
8:31 am
。☆ 。☆。☆
★。＼｜／。★
Obama 4 MORE
–Deal with it TroIIs–
★。／｜＼。★
。☆。 。☆。
Mick
November 19th, 2012
8:31 am
Collateral damage is so much more antiseptic don’t you know???
indigo
November 19th, 2012
8:32 am
USinUK – 8:06 “all within stumbling distance”
And, for some of us, “those were the days” includes waking up in the Atlanta City jail.
OY VEY!!
Paul
November 19th, 2012
8:38 am
USinUK
I can see the point about targeting the homes. Wouldn’t exactly call the Hamas leadership ‘civilians’ in this context, though, and it’s reasonable to expect others will be killed in an urban setting if one particular building is targeted. I would say, though, that the Israeli calculation is probably along the lines of “We target the house, we run the possibility of killing x noncombatants but we may take out a leadership person. We don’t target the house, we don’t kill the leadership person and we’ve just ensured Y Israelis – including children – are killed in the future.”
We make the same calculation with drone strikes.
War is dirty, evil and the innocent suffer for the sins of others.
anyhow, I’m off to the gym to try to mitigate some of the indulgence I’ll engage in the next few days.
USinUK - not very ladylike (and former Girl Scout)
November 19th, 2012
8:44 am
” Wouldn’t exactly call the Hamas leadership ‘civilians’ in this context, though”
well, their 3- and 8-year old children are.
Brosephus™
November 19th, 2012
8:48 am
The oldest public bust in Atlanta can be found at the Claremont Lounge.
Glad I wasn’t drinking coffee when I read that…
alex
November 19th, 2012
9:02 am
In Kam’s word:
Clermont and Christmas Eve
There’s your sign..
As for Julie Christie: bring your “shampoo”
Jay,Your syncophants are ONE classy group..Clermont, City Jail,Julie Christie wig–Time to make some new memmories-off your knees and with your head out of the toilet……Well goodbye, I have a 17 year old, will probably have this type of discussion with him in the next few months, but NOT on Christmas Eve
another "cheating"song
November 19th, 2012
9:04 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tI3mgJvp0o
USinUK - not very ladylike (and former Girl Scout)
November 19th, 2012
9:04 am
poor alex.
must be uncomfortable to go through life with a stick that far up your backside.
Jerome Horwitz
November 19th, 2012
9:12 am
Lighten up Francis, er alex. Just because this isn’t your way of celebrating doesn’t make it wrong. Actually sounds like a good deal of fun. Spent many a CE singing hyms and the ones I recall most involved having fun with friends.
Maybe your judgemental posterior should have a little fun.
Please stay off Wingfield's blog .......Dems
November 19th, 2012
9:35 am
My 12 year old is smarter than Susan Rice!
Go BB, so proud of you for having a backbone to protect your people and God’s country! Too bad we don’t (the USA) have the same!