Have an excellent weekend, stay cool, and see you bright and early Monday morning.
Friday, July 29, 2022
Poor Baby
In Buddhism there is discussion of a god realm. The god realm is great up to a point. At some point in the god realm when the good merit or good karma of the god runs out, that god is ostracized and begins to smell wretched to the other gods. Then eventually, the god descends to the hell realm, self booted from the realm of the gods. This story is playing out with Trump. Trump is beginning to stink to high heaven to the people that lavished praise on him. We always knew he stunk but in his realm he was a god. Now he is also beginning his descent to a hellish realm of endless indictments and lawsuits, endless ridicule as one of the most despised treasonous figures in American history.
There's another aspect of this too. On the descent, as the god is beginning to smell bad and the other gods begin to exclude the stinking god, the bad god does not quite get it, they don't understand. The god attempts to reclaim the lost territory, they try to get back into the good graces and they believe they are perfectly fine. Trump did this when he realized he was a loser to Joe Biden and he plotted his multi-pronged coup. Now Trump is scrambling even more and it's likely that he will do anything, including holding golf games with hated Saudis as Trump displays to them, illegally, the presidential seal. Expect Trump to hit lower and lower rungs as his descent gains momentum. He will do and say anything.
Mr. Trump has complained recently to aides that even Sean Hannity, his friend of 20 years, doesn’t seem to be paying him much attention anymore, one person who spoke to him recalled.
Lesson
Washington Post: Opinion - Rising GOP anger at Mitch McConnell offers a lesson for Democrats By Greg Sargent
Their (MAGA/GQP) claim: The West Virginia Democrat and his party double-crossed them by announcing a deal just after Senate Republicans helped pass industrial policy making us competitive with China.
Not
NY Times: How Goes the War on Inflation? By Paul Krugman
The U.S. economy is not currently in a recession. No, two quarters of negative growth aren’t, whatever you may have heard, the “official” or “technical” definition of a recession; that determination is made by a committee that has always relied on several indicators, especially job growth.
Miracle
Washington Post: Opinion - Joe Manchin’s climate deal isn’t enough, but it’s still a miracle By Eugene Robinson
A summary of the package released by its authors says it would “put the U.S. on a path” toward a 40 percent reduction in emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases by 2030.
Indeed
NY Times: Why Andrew Yang’s New Third Party Is Bound to Fail By Jamelle Bouie
On a more sinister note, the segregationist George Wallace won five states and nearly 10 million ballots in his 1968 campaign for president under the banner of the American Independent Party.
The Market On Friday
Good morning. At 6:20 a.m. ET DOW futures are +95, S&P futures are +31.75, and NASDAQ futures are +150.25. The market is poised to open significantly higher.
CNN: Are we in a recession? Yes. No. Maybe. Analysis By Allison Morrow
Thursday, July 28, 2022
Oz
NY Times: Finally, a Dr. Oz Show That I Really Want to Watch By Frank Bruni
...Oz, an accomplished surgeon, has spent decades enshrining himself as a trim, taut, manically energetic paradigm of peak health; I sometimes look at him and just see a big bowl of leafy greens and ancient grains dressed with low-fat yogurt.
Not A Secret
From November 29, 2018
Washington Post: How Donald Trump appeals to men secretly insecure about their manhood Analysis By Eric Knowles and Sarah DiMuccio
Whoa!
This is from March 25 and this is some crazy shite. The lady is totally in woo woo land.
The Daily Beast via MSN: If Ginni Thomas’ Big Lie Texts Don’t Shock You, Nothing Will Opinion By Matt Lewis
(Ginni Thomas texted to Mark Meadows) “[The] Biden crime family & ballot fraud co-conspirators…are being arrested and…will be living in barges off GITMO to face military tribunals for sedition.”
Climate Emergency
(A brief excerpt of just a few extreme changes) We cannot deny that Great Salt Lake is vanishing before our eyes into a sun-cracked playa of salt and toxic chemicals. Nor can we deny that Lake Mead is reduced to a puddle. In New Mexico a wildfire that began in early April is still burning in late July.
Deal
Yesterday, however, Manchin appeared to change his mind. He announced that he had agreed to include hundreds of billions of dollars for climate and energy programs in a bill that would also reduce prescription drug prices, raise taxes on the affluent and shrink the federal deficit.
Tried
NY Times: What Happened When 7 Trump Voters and 6 Biden Voters Tried to Find Common Ground
(Trump voter said), "It’s people in their 20s, 30s and even sometimes in their 40s — it’s become “If you don’t align with my viewpoint, then a lot of times, I don’t want anything to do with you.”"
The Market On Thursday
Good morning. At 6:30 a.m. ET DOW futures are -53, S&P futures are -12.25, and NASDAQ futures are -87.25. The market is poised to open moderately lower.
CNN: Ford earnings and revenue soar, helped by high car prices By Chris Isidore
Wednesday, July 27, 2022
Deluge
Washington Post: Opinion When it rains on Donald Trump, it pours. And the deluge is just beginning. By Jennifer Rubin
The question now is not whether Trump will be exposed to criminal investigations but how far along and how fast they are moving.
Media
Washington Post: Opinion Why do people believe the ‘big lie’? Because Americans don’t trust the media. By Marc A. Thiessen
It was because of their collective failure to report objectively for four years, that when Trump finally told the “big lie”— and Americans needed to know the facts — few trusted the media.
Never
NY Times: Red and Blue America Will Never Be the Same By Thomas B. Edsall
And Trump bled support in the suburbs, so that the country’s most populous and competitive areas now lean toward the Democrats instead of the Republicans.
The Market On Wednesday
Good morning. At 6:20 a.m. ET DOW futures are +137, S&P futures are +34.75, and NASDAQ futures are +177.75. The market is poised to open significantly higher.
Tuesday, July 26, 2022
Game On
...the Justice Department’s criminal investigation has moved into a more aggressive and politically fraught phase.
What
NY Times: What in the World Happened to Elise Stefanik? By Peter Wehner
Ms. Stefanik’s fealty to Mr. Trump is so great that some of his advisers are mentioning her as a potential vice-presidential candidate if he runs in 2024, which he and his advisers are strongly hinting he will do.
Hot
Washington Post: Opinion It’s hot and getting hotter. We need to find novel ways to keep cool. By Eugene Robinson
The first time I made a summertime visit to downtown Phoenix — the temperature was “only” 105 degrees — I was surprised and relieved to be occasionally sprayed by a cooling mist as I walked down the sidewalk.
Dystopian
NY Times: The Dystopian Myths of Red America By Paul Krugman
...noted that many Republican candidates are claiming that Democrats are deliberately undermining the nation and promoting violence against their opponents; some are even claiming that we’re already in a civil war.
The Market On Tuesday
Good morning. At 6:50 a.m. ET DOW futures are -174, S&P futures are -19.50, and NASDAQ futures are -74.75. The market is poised to open significantly lower.
CNN: GM earnings fall as it prepares for a possible recession By Chris Isidore
Monday, July 25, 2022
Comment
I just realized why the DOJ is not indicting Trump or is hesitant to indict Trump. It's because on the day of his indictment, Trump will call on his 'army' AKA QAnon, Proud Boys, 3 Percenters, etc etc etc to start shooting. The DOJ is concerned about how to counter the civil war that MAGA world wants.
Michelle Qureshi
In describing award winning composer and musician Michelle Qureshi's music we could start with there are many aspects to our shared human condition, many aspects to the soul of humankind. Michelle’s music reflects and expresses the softer, kinder side which seeks our underlying need for interconnection, healing, and freedom from society’s built in chaotic turbulence. This music almost insists that you be at ease, let the body settle, and begin to breathe again with comfort and thoughtfulness, it is a catalyst for experiencing some needed peace. Michelle’s main instrument is the guitar, she is classically trained and sometimes explores the family of guitar related plucked string instruments. "She's known to play a variety of instruments on her albums and in her sound immersions, such as nylon and steel string guitars, harp guitar, guitalele, ukulele, banjo, mandolin, cello, keyboards, synthesizers, Native American flutes, drone flutes, didgeridoo, singing bowls, gongs, and various percussion instruments." Her impressive discography has both solo and multi-tracked multi-layered work all performed by Michelle and produced to great effect and mastery.
In Michelle’s own words - “I've been in Central Indiana for about 20 years and for the last 10 I've been composing, recording and producing my music, releasing 15 albums and nine singles since 2012. My music ranges from solo guitar compositions to multi-layered instrumental ambient, new age and neo-classical pieces. I'm a Furch/Stonebridge Guitar Ambassador as well as a Timberline Harp Guitar Ambassador with support from Elite Acoustics, LaBella Strings, and others.”
Award-winning artist Michelle Qureshi is a composer, multi‐instrumentalist, and classically-trained guitarist who brings a contemporary yet timeless aesthetic to her music. She released her first of fifteen albums and nine singles in 2012. Her music is heard worldwide, with millions of streams on global platforms. Combining her formal training with intuitive and improvisational elements, she performs both as a solo guitarist and a presenter of sound experiences. Her Harmonic Sound Immersion™ is a transformative sound meditation created by the healing vibrations of ancient and modern instruments, which she describes as a kind of horizontal concert. In 2020 she became a myndstream artist, releasing the highly-acclaimed solo guitar album Within, and she continues to create and perform music in a wellness modality. Michelle graduated with Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from The Cleveland Institute of Music.
The Bubble
They have turned the Capitol Police into villains and alleged the existence of a government plot to criminalize political dissent.
Indict Him Already
“That’s because a central tenet of the way in which the Justice Department investigates and a central tenet of the rule of law is that we do not do our investigations in public.”
The Market On Monday
Good morning. At 6:30 a.m. ET DOW futures are +142, S&P 500 futures are 18.75, and NASDAQ futures are 66.50. The market is poised to open significantly higher.
CNN: 'Nope' is Jordan Peele's latest No. 1 film at the box office By Frank Pallotta
Friday, July 22, 2022
Accountability
“If there is no accountability for Jan. 6, for every part of this scheme, I fear that we will not overcome the ongoing threat to our democracy,” he said. “There must be stiff consequences for those responsible.”
Liz
Washington Post: Opinion - Liz Cheney’s devastating final question puts the GOP to shame By Greg Sargent
"Every American must consider this: Can a president who is willing to make the choices Donald Trump made during the violence of January 6th ever be trusted with any position of authority in our great nation again?"
Coward
NY Times: Josh Hawley cheered on Jan. 6. Then he fled. By Catie Edmondson
A never-before-seen pair of surveillance videos released by the panel — which drew hearty laughter from spectators inside the hearing room — instantly tore across the internet, with users overlaying various soundtracks, such as the theme songs to the movie “Chariots of Fire” and “The Benny Hill Show,” and Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill.”
Stunning
Washington Post: Opinion 5 things we learned in the Jan. 6 committee’s stunning hearing By Jennifer Rubin
Republicans can’t live down their conduct.
Watching the committee’s video compilation of Republicans initially condemning Trump’s behavior — only to later acquit him during his second impeachment and downplay or rationalize the attack — serves as a reminder of the GOP’s moral collapse.
Refused
...Mr. Trump could not be moved to act until after it was clear that the riot had failed to disrupt Congress’s session to confirm his election defeat.
Even then, the committee showed in never-before-seen footage from the White House, Mr. Trump privately refused to concede — “I don’t want to say the election’s over!”...
Takeaways
NY Times: Five takeaways from the eighth hearing of the Jan. 6 committee. By Michael S. Schmidt
Trump Never Made a Single Call to Law Enforcement or the Pentagon
The Market On Friday
Good morning. At 6:20 a.m. ET DOW futures are -2, S&P are -10.75, NASDAQ are -68; the market is poised to open lower.
Thursday, July 21, 2022
Whatever
NY Times: I Was Wrong About Trump Voters By Bret Stephens
For every in-your-face MAGA warrior there were plenty of ambivalent Trump supporters, doubtful of his ability and dismayed by his manner, who were willing to take their chances on him because he had the nerve to defy deeply flawed conventional pieties.
Have An Excellent Thursday
"Navajo 'Sun And Moon Basket' by Native American master weaver Elsie Holiday"
Glenn Kirschner - Steve Bannon Loves To Run His Mouth - Thursday Is His Big Day As He Gets To Testify - Will He?
Glenn posted this on Wednesday night so he is talking about what might happen today, Thursday.
Liz
“I don’t look at it through a political lens,” she said in an interview this week in between drafting statements for Thursday’s hearing. “I look at it through the angle of: People need to understand how dangerous he is and how unfit for office he is.”
Thursday At 8PM ET - Prime Time TV
I will be glued to the TV tonight.
The committee plans to demonstrate that Mr. Trump had the power to call off the mob but refused to do so until after 4 p.m. that day — and then only after hundreds of officers had responded to the Capitol to support the overrun Capitol Police force, and had begun to turn the tide against the mob, making it clear that the siege would fail, according to committee aides.
The Market On Thursday
Good morning. At 6:50 a.m. ET DOW futures are -52; the market is poised to open moderately lower.
Wednesday, July 20, 2022
'Africa'
Toto's classic covered by HSCC AKA The Hindley Street Country Club. Not sure who these guys are, they hail from South Australia and have a series of covers up on YouTube with millions of views.
Garland
Washington Post: Opinion - Merrick Garland doesn’t have forever By Richard Ben-Veniste
The toolbox of federal prosecutors is better equipped to ferret out testimony and documents from reluctant witnesses than the investigative powers of congressional committees.
Nonsense
What a joke. Courage. That's nonsense.
Axios: House Republicans praise Mike Pence for "courage" on Jan. 6 By Alayna Treene and Jonathan Swan
Have An Excellent Wednesday
Bands play cover tunes, that's what they do. Having said that, this particular song is a modern day 'Midnight Hour', a song that literally every band played back in the 70s and 80s.
REO Brothers 'Sultans Of Swing'
REO Brothers 'Sultans Of Swing'
Scene
I do not want to see anyone suffer in any way at all, but let's just say that if Trump is experiencing distress, then he has earned it.
The Palmer Report: Donald Trump is panicking behind the scenes By Bill Palmer
Obligation
Washington Post: Opinion Why we should care about the 187 minutes By Jennifer Rubin
If Trump, as president, failed to activate the armed services during a foreign attack on our homeland — or worse, put out tweets praising the attackers — it would be tantamount to treason. In the face of domestic terrorism, his obligation to act was no less clear.
Penguins
Species like the emperor penguin have overlapping layers of insulating plumage, tightly packed veins to recycle body heat and just enough paunch to weather wind chills that approach minus 80 degrees Fahrenheit.
The Market On Wednesday
Good morning. At 6:50 a.m. ET DOW futures are -73; the market is poised to open significantly lower.
Tuesday, July 19, 2022
Ari Melber - Trump On Track To Be Indicted In 2022, Says DOJ Vet Amidst 'Fire Hose' Of New Evidence
The media is playing us for fools. We are getting jerked around all over the place with these opinions about Trump being indicted. I call bullshit. Listen to all this stuff but with a grain of salt and for its entertainment value. The extreme surprise will be if Trump is even mildly connected to something illegal.
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