I’ve been up all night wallowing in the dregs of American “humanity”, IOW, reading headlines and comments on various internet sites. Right now I don’t even want to think about what a despicable, bigoted, uncaring, brutish devolution of a formerly (somewhat) civilized society we’ve become.
So, since I’ve blown right through sunrise here in the east, missing it completely, I’m putting up someone else’s glorious and unusually-tinted sunrise photo as an antidote to the darkness in my mind and soul. I hope it soothes your souls, too.
This is our daily Open Thread – talk about whatever you want.
‘She has to be kept to these positions’ after she’s ELECTED. That’s the reason I’m voting for Bernie. I have no expectation she will do what we want done if she becomes President.
If she does get elected after having been pushed further to the left by Bernie, then I know that both Bernie and Elizabeth Warren will hound her to at least attempt to “do the right things.”
She’ll just tell them to ‘cut it out’.
Interesting Bernie endorsement in one of this morning’s emails:
Bill Maher rips into latest GOP debate: ‘It was a new low’ and the ‘clear loser was America’
Jane, in reference to the tint of the sunrise. I recently saw a video about the Sahara where scientists used layers of dust blown from the sands into the Atlantic to determine the age of the desert. It is the dust from the Sahara Desert that causes the brilliant sunrises we see on the east coast.
FYI they gave the age – the time when the area first desertified – as 3 million years ago. Since then, they determined the region has cycled between being desert and lush tropical paradise about every 100,000 years. They also theorized that the transformation only takes about 200 years and that a desertification event about 20,000 years ago is what led people to leave the area, spreading across Asia and Europe.
Nah, couldn’t happen. Not possible since the “desertification event about 20,000 years ago is what led people to leave the area” hasn’t happened. Yet. Man wasn’t even created until 9:00 AM on Friday, Oct 23, 4004 BC; Bertrand Russell explains:
The hashtag was “#DrugAMovie.” So I did “The Sound Of Pink Floyd Music”. And David Gilmour (THE David Gilmour of Pink Floyd) liked my tweet. So I got THAT going for me. Which is nice.
I don’t understand a fucking thing you wrote ❓
However, it is only fair to inform you that my perception is somewhat impaired 🙄
On the Twitter, we like to play what are called hashtag games. You come up with a short phrase to describe a category of something or a situation, put a pound sign in front of it (the kids today have co-opted our pound sign and call it a hashtag now), and give examples of things meeting that category. This one was #DrugAMovie, which is interpreted to mean take a film title and turn it into a drug reference that is hopefully amusing when applied to that film. My entry was to take “The Sound Of Music” and make a drug reference out of it. So I added “Pink Floyd” in front of the word Music. “The Sound Of Pink Floyd Music.” If that isn’t a drug reference, what is?
People on Twitter can currently respond by “Liking” a tweet (with the Heart) or Re-tweeting it to others. It’s a way of letting the author of the tweet know you liked it. David Gilmour, one of the co-founders of Pink Floyd, was one of the four people who liked my tweet.
Now that you understand it, I think you can see why I’m excited. 🙂
Was Floyd always pink?
Yes. Their song “Have A Cigar” is supposedly almost verbatim what the record executive said to them when he was trying to sign them up, or had just signed them up. Including the line, “Oh, by the way, which one’s Pink?”
How would you #DrugAMovie “Altered States?”
That’s a challenge. How about “Chemically Altered States”?
A classic…
It sounds like the “librul” MSNBC has managed to get rid of another person who wants to speak the truth. It would be very interesting to see a long talk with Cenk and MHP on TyT.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/melissa-harris-parry-unlikely-return
Looks like I’m going to be watching a lot more westerns on Encore, this election season.
At least Randi Rhodes’ Show is coming back.
It’s official. She told CNN that third parties were in talks about her severance package, not reconciliation. Too bad.
MSRNC is showing Bernie live in Rochester, Minnesota. He sounds nearly exhausted.
Al Sharpton just signed off saying ‘I’ll see you next Sunday’. He’s a real optimist.
Nicole Sandler is right! Looking straight at him, Ted Cruz DOES have a penis nose!
After all the pointing out to Trump that he keeps retweeting white supremacists and neo-nazis, you’d think someone on his staff would have explained who these people are. Apparently not.
“Ignorance of the KKK” is extremely doubtful, given that his father was a dedicated white supremacist. Trump came by all those endorsements honestly, I’m sure.
Another reason Trump isn’t believable is the simple assumption, though reasonably reliable,that if you ever heard of David Duke, it’s because of his being a former KKK Grand Wizard. And if he wasn’t a former Klansman, there’s no reason why we ever would have heard of him.
Donald Trump: ‘It would be very unfair’ to disavow KKK and David Duke until I ‘do research on them’
Yeah, right. OK. Sure. I get it. Uh huh. Say no more.
“I know nothing about white supremacists.”
Do you know what the fucking words mean?
Look for the video of Ed Schultz squaring off with Hillary supporter David Brock on Reliable Sources. Ed puts Brock so much on the defensive, all Brock could do was try to keep talking over him, just like a Republican, which he used to be.
Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard: ‘I’m resigning from the DNC so that I can support Bernie Sanders’
Donald Trump is 15 minutes down I-565 from my house. 😯
Trump thinks he should be able to sue the media if he doesn’t like their crowd estimates. He’s apparently never heard of the first amendment principle of prior restraint.
Trump is a free trader, but he’s against the TPP.
If you’d like a sneak peak at tomorrow’s Watering Hole, you can see it at my blog now. No lines, no waiting.
https://pickwaynesbrain.wordpress.com/2016/02/28/leap-of-science-day/