Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

Presumably, Ted Cruz does have a price.

http://www.npr.org/2016/09/23/495211...k-donald-trump

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

Yes. I will now concede that Ted Cruz is a self-interested unprincipled prick.

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

But is he still on your laminated list?

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

No. He is not.

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

Politicians never stay on laminated lists long.

And there is no way in hell it took him this long to search his conscience. That thing can't be bigger than a skittle.

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

So much for the idea that Cruz doing something self-promoting and strategically questionable was merely a caricature.

Consider me disappoinTED.

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

George Bernard Shaw was at a party once where he was introduced to the starlet du jour. They conversed for a bit and Shaw asked her if she would sleep with him for a million pounds.

"For a million pounds! Of course!" she replied.

Shaw asked if she would sleep with him for a shilling.

"Mr. Shaw! What sort of lady do you think I am?"

"That, my dear, has already been established; all that remains is to agree on a price."

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

I wish I heard this live - http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...dorsement.html .

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

Speaking of funky white dudes, Dennis Coffey was the first white dude to play on Soul Train thanks to this instrumental funk tune, today's Daily Dose, "Scorpio":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dZtm2uMwcs

Sampled by many, but I always remember it from this weird Queen Latifah/De La Soul tune:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdPYm3zjGNo

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

Something I didn't know: Buckwheat Zydeco (may he RIP) started in a funk band. I have not been able to find Buckwheat funk, though.

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

I looked for it too. Nothing. Could not even find the "hit single" discussed in Wikipedia. RIP, indeed. He always put on a high energy fun show.

Re: I took a little risk
 

So now he's got the Kremlin, Klan, and Kastro all supporting him!

I hope we get some Cuban funk today!

Re: I took a little risk
 

Ask and you shall receive. Kind of. Not really funk, but definitely funky, Boogaloo was a music that sprung up in Spanish Harlem in the 60s, influenced by latin music of the time, including heavy Cuban influence, and also funk and R&B. A great document of this music is found on Secret Stash, which is just a fantastic local record label. Their Boogaloo album is great, and turned me on to this music. I also just love the album cover.

http://shop.secretstashrecords.com/c...-live-boogaloo

One of the biggest Boogaloo hits is not on the above album. It is by Joe Cuba (who was Puerto Rican). It is, to say the least, infectious. Today's Daily Dose is "Bang Bang":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MenO...=RDMenOmqIBmIM

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

I guess I'm impressed how well HRC handled the debate, and how little difference it will make. Hope I'm wrong about the latter.

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

I don't know, but my hope for the debate is that Trump would say something to motivate women voters, and she definitely got that out of him with the Alicia Machado stuff. And as usual, rather than letting it die with a facile apology, he's doubled down.

Hillary's actually out-performing Obama in the polls among white people. If she can get anywhere near similar turnout among POC (definitely an if) and/or women, it won't be close.

Re: KC Jones, you better watch your speed
 

I'm just surprised we aren't seeing more comparisons between coke-head Trump behavior and stoner Johnson behavior. Is it only people who lived through the 80s who can easily spot this stuff?

Re: KC Jones, you better watch your speed
 

Instead we scold Dean for asking a rather obvious question. And Trump just denies he was sniffling and/or asserts it was a mic.

Re: KC Jones, you better watch your speed
 

I think it's actually kind of humiliating for him get into a rage like last night without the excuse of coke.

Re: KC Jones, you better watch your speed
 

I am simply amazed that we are at a point in our collective history where the possible President of the United States is fucking rage-tweeting in the middle of the night about a sex tape of a woman who he already humiliated when she was 18 years old.

Can you imagine what the press would have done to any other candidate, any other year for behavior even remotely like this? Howard Dean's candidacy ended when he yelled, "Rowr!" Donald Trump is fucking 70 years old and a multi-millionaire who has spent the last week talking about how Rosie O'Donnell deserved to be insulted in a Presidential debate and complaining about a beauty pageant winner who he thinks is being mean to him.

Where are we? What is this place? What the actual fuck?

TM

Re: KC Jones, you better watch your speed
 

An alleged sex tape.

Is there anyone left who is not on a political payroll who will defend the Republican party? It's not just a clown car. It's a broken down clown car.

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

He passed very recently, I would guess within the last month or so.

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

I understand all Republican elected officials have been asked to report to Dick Cheney's bunker for the duration. THERE WILL BE NO MORE PRESS INTERVIEWS.

Re: KC Jones, you better watch your speed
 

The world is upside down. The center cannot hold. But we can still get down with a little blaxploitation soundtrack flute funk. What? Yup. Today's Daily Dose is "Lay It On Your Head" by Don Julian from the Savage! movie soundtrack. I like that the entire Wikipedia entry for the movie is:

"Savage! is a 1973 American blaxploitation film directed by Cirio H. Santiago. The film deals with a strapping young black mercenary blowing things up in the jungle.

The soundtrack is by Don Julian."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4UUFYtCGVw

Re: KC Jones, you better watch your speed
 

TM needs to come to Boston: https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/mov...hpM/story.html

Re: KC Jones, you better watch your speed
 

doubly posting

So it's not about saving his kids $1,000,000,000 by geting rid of the estate tax?
 

I saw what you did there!:D

Re: So it's not about saving his kids $1,000,000,000 by geting rid of the estate tax?
 

I am increasingly convinced he has a negative net worth, and it's all about the float.

Re: This is the end....
 

It's all fun and games and then the Russians call in the loans.

Re: KC Jones, you better watch your speed
 

Glad she's being honored, but what the fuck does this mean?: "gorgeous without quite being beautiful"

TM

Re: KC Jones, you better watch your speed
 

That is what is known in the business as honkey talk. Total BS.

Woman had the best hair of the 70s. No contest.

Re: KC Jones, you better watch your speed
 

If any of you are looking for a good target for a securities fraud case - how about a board member who says he's only looking out for himself while sucking over $40M from a failing public company?

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

New theory: Trump knew tax scams and all his other crimes would come out and he would get an effective pardon. Hillary cannot prosecute.


Edit- my daughter, who is considering law school, suggests Obama pardon Trump a week before the election.

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

I was thinking the same thing yesterday. Only problem is that those things probably wouldn't have come out if he wasn't running for president.

Nonetheless, it's hard to see him being meaningly prosecuted for this stuff (not even sure any of it is actually a crime, but still).


Why?

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

To fuck w him.

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

Would a federal pardon absolve him of state crimes?

Right now Cuomo seems like Trump's biggest problem.

Though I suspect his friendly IRS auditor may be considering a criminal referral based on some of the foundation stuff.

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

Protip: Don't say "I never said that" when there's tape of you saying that.

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

From what I could see there was near unanimity in giving the night to Pence on style points - he was just less annoying than Kaine - but this next week to Kaine on substance and set up. I think that's right, but we'll see as it plays out.

But think of what this means: last night was Pence's try-out for leadership of the conservative core of the Republican Party in a post-Trump world, and he did well - very well - by showing them that he could deny reality with a straight face. That is what they have come to; it is what they want.

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

No.

Perhaps Trump has dirt on Cuomo: http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/...e-transactions

Too easy to perceive as nakedly political. Also, too much work. (And they probably know he can't pay any huge assessment and fines anyway.)

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

Isn't that kind of what it's always been? It's not false equivalence to assert denying facts with a straight face is a job requirement of every politician, from school board hack to POTUS.

But, as Adder noted, Pence may have won the battle for the TV audience and lost the war for the much larger digital audience.