For Ohio, re-rename Denali: Mount Strip-mine

Ohio Republicans dig into another paramount issue and state their indignation:

My full statement on @POTUS ignoring an Act of Congress and changing the name of Mount McKinley. pic.twitter.com/nsLLOiUBU8

— Rep. Bob Gibbs (@RepBobGibbs) August 31, 2015

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Ohio remains a leading coal-burning state so we must acknowledge their sedimentary sentiments:

"Mount Mountain-top Removal": (a/k/a Mt. Slag Heap)

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Build a wall around Scott Walker

(Brief commentary:) 

Preferably a padded one...

Per below: Kindly have Scott's zillionaire-oligarch handlers clue him in that the U.S.-Canada border is nearly 4,000 miles long....(Excluding Alaska.  Which, BTW, would add over 1,500 additional miles for wall-off.)
 (By the time even only a few sections were completed.......Talk about closing the 'barn door' after the fact. 
But no, let's spend ourselves to death on a ridiculous 4,000+ mile wall while U.S. roads and bridges crumble. (Etc.)   Hey, maybe those might fall on a terrorist or two...)

>>>Pertinent 8/20/15 article. Off-site link, new window opens: http://time.com/4016282/scott-walker-immigration-canada/


...You'd think Canada might have greater concern for walling-off the U.S., with its globe-leading gun-violence proclivities. Etc. (So perhaps we should keep scaring the Canadians into ponying-up to do that...? ...Scott? Anything?)

>>>'The Party of No's' immigration proposals. Have a read...(off-site link, new window opens): http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/08/donald-trumps-immigration-principles-wouldve-barred-his-own-grandfather/401600/


A 'blast from the recent past' re Scott Walker:


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It's August...and that means: Christmas!

Brought to you by: Walmart (off-site link to one article, new window opens)

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...Previous marketing actions by giant retailers debasing sacred U.S. holidays... have generated a certain interest.  ↓Shoppers enthusiastic!↓

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...It's all been done before. Note that these perps. had 'crazy' in their name:

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Donald Trump actually managed to offend Roger Ailes??

Gotta be pretty bad...again. (And/or there's an angle to it..)

....Off-site link to an 8/25/15 "latest-circus-news" (my phrase) article. New window opens. No affiliation: http://time.com/4010093/donald-trump-fox-news-megyn-kelly-roger-ailes/? 

(Background: One view, including reported Roger Ailes quotations-of-interest. Off-site link, new window opens, etc: http://thinkprogress.org/media/2012/02/21/429460/roger-ailes-quotes-the-fox-effect/)

(Commentary:)

Trump parallels? Rudeness, boorishness, vindictiveness, 'loose-cannon-ness', ↓'fanning-flames-of-the-angry-or-scared-  ness'↓...etc. etc. :



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.... A. Lincoln, G. Washington, the Roosevelts, etc:   Where are your modern-day candidate-counterparts, when so badly needed...? Our nation turns it's lonely eyes to you.
(One answer: Safely away from the ridiculous fray, on the sidelines, laughing/crying/gawking with the rest of us....
Maybe even writing blogs about it.)

BTW: North Korea-style invectiveness (etc.) probably won't 'play' too well in the saner parts of the U.S.A↓.:


(Source link: http://www.someecards.com/news/politics/election-infographic-shows-most-educated-states-voted-for-obama/)


...Exactly why would any reasonable, 2016 candidate wish to commit political suicide with women(/people) capable of reading(/viewing) and comprehension?? 
(Ref.: Off-site link, new window opens: http://www.theonion.com/article/female-trump-supporters-just-feel-more-comfortable-51166)


 ...Some of 'their' compatriots may be mobilizing, Donald.  I don't see ballots in their hands:


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Gawknation: Case #1

(Another occasional blog-series begins here....'Gawk-nation':)

Pertinent off-site article link, new window opens, no affiliation: http://ftw.usatoday.com/2015/08/wilmer-flores-crying-photos-sold-out?

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$140 (w/frame:) Currently sold out.

....Could it be the autograph?

Is it because there really is "no crying in baseball"??


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....Do people just love/feel sorry for Wilmer???


...Why would someone want to remember this?...



It's well-known but still might wish to take note: 

1) Everything is for $ale...for the right price, wrong price...whatever.

1a) Someone somewhere will pay money, as long as it's: Weird-enough and/or lurid-enough, awkward-enough, mawkish-enough, violent-enough, can't-look-away enough, etc. etc. etc. 



...Oh wait: Hollywood knew that eons ago...


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Frank Barone-land

...Not this guy again....(Group. Whatever.):


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(Commentary:)

...Doesn't it seem like a significant minority of the population -- mostly male? -- just is pining for it all to END? 

You know: A bit like Frank Barone, below. (Yeah, somewhat taken out-of-context.) 

(Link to source of excerpt. (I've included additional dialogue as it's representative of a lot of the show: People essentially trapped in the same house/relationships, yelling at/berating each other...) Highlighting added:)

"...Debra: My needing to get out of here every once in a while has nothing to do with my "lady days."
Ray: Ba-loney!
(after a very irritable Debra leaves the house, Gianni lets out a big belch)
Gianni: Man, I thought she would never leave!
Andy: Is Debra aware of how she's coming off to others?
Frank: She's in a bad mood, what, three days tops? Soon, it's gonna be five days. Then it's a week. Then what was once a bad mood takes over and becomes her only mood! And then... well then you become like me. Where not a day goes by that I don't wish there was a comet screaming towards Earth to bring me sweet relief!!!
Debra: (about the PMS pills that Ray bought for her) Oh, no, Marie, he's trying to help, see? These are magic pills. (pretends to swallow some, talks sarcastically) Oh, look! Ray's dirty clothes just flew right off the bed and into the hamper. These really work!
Marie: Let me have some. (takes bottle, pretends to swallow some) Oh! Frank's toenails just crawled right into the garbage can!
Debra: (on the tape recorder that Ray used) I told you 8 million times, when you empty the dryer you clean the lint screen! Look at all this lint! Do you like lint, Ray? How about I give you some for your birthday? Happy birthday, Ray, here's your lint!!!
Ray: I just wanted you to hear that, so you know what you sound like. Okay?
Debra: (long pause, starts crying) You are a gigantic ass! Ray: (talking into recorder) 10:32, "gigantic ass."
Ray: If they find me chopped up in the freezer, don't believe the suicide note.
Ray: Guys, could you quiet it down a little bit? Debra's not feeling too well hormonal-femininally.
Frank: Ah, got it. "The enemy within!"..."

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(...Oh no. And now we may have much of the same population segment possibly ensnared by Ashley Madison revelations (off-site article link)...)


Smarten-up and choose life, boys: http://gizmodo.com/nasa-no-there-isnt-a-deadly-asteroid-heading-right-fo-1725336364


>>>For you: Subject-matter science + technology video!



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Oh well...no one's perfect. Actually, re the seventh commandment: Is there anyone left 'in compliance'?

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Stressing bears: Bears got friends

(Commentary:)
Link to a recent npr.org article.... at moments arrogant-in-tone re inevitability of man's (oh-so-)superior-technology. (As presented.) Off-site link, new window opens:
 http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2015/08/13/431982136/drones-increase-heart-rates-of-wild-bears-too-much-stress?

Here's an excerpt (linked), as something of an example:

"...The study has left Ditmer with a lot of questions...

"We don't know if bears or other species can habituate to having drones flying over them," he says. "Right now, it's just getting started — but I guarantee you in five to 10 years it will just be commonplace to be using them for many aspects of research and conservation.""

Habituate this: We'll go ahead and side with the bears here.... As some other non-humans seem to have done: 
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(↓Starting off with the dawg who swam a stream to get after a drone:)

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↓...Bears' air force?


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↓...Which creature is superior here??


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Implementing airline flight weigh-in

Recent airline announcement:

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Just another ridiculous day in the USA?

(Commentary:)

Various media outlets jumping on every weird and/or 'celebrity' antic: Not helpful; and probably not representative....

Most/all 'headlines' on entire portal web-page -- image copy below -- are ridiculous/insane, to some degree.... 

But if the sample 'popular searches' (below) are authentic and accurate....All seems fairly hopeless. 

Donald Trump for president! Why not grant that 'popular' guy 'Commander-in-Chief' access to the nuclear launch codes.....: 

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From the Trump playbook? (Plus more..)

(Commentary. Warning: Portions of this post contain (lewd-) adult content. Viewer discretion advised.)

"[She] unhesitatingly let loose such malignant invectives as daring hurt the dignity of... [the] supreme leadership, fully revealing her true colours as a confrontation maniac..." 

"...What she uttered is nothing but a reckless provocation made by a mentally deranged person bereft of reason and face."

↑ ...Donald Trump v. Megyn Kelly?  (Or: Women in general...?)

Almost sounds like Trump bluster/ranting (while hiding behind Twitter etc.). But not quite...
Off-site link to source news article. New window opens:  http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-05-25/an-north-korea-slams-south-korean-leader-as-confrontation-maniac/4712834


...Could a North Korea prison camp viewing -- in the company of the mighty 'supreme leader' -- plus sham parade-viewing, be on a (Trump) "foreign-policy" tour agenda?

(One possible sample, from a nearby country. You better be "phenomenal to "the women"":
'They're' mobilizing, Donald. ↓:)


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Last note -- "Fair and balanced": In accordance with Fox 'news'/Newsmax.com devoid-of-any-real-substance"gotcha-'journalism'":
SHOCKER....Apparently Megyn Kelly might not be a pristine 'angel'...
...Off-site YT video link, new window opens, parental discretion suggested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IML_UGhXz2Q

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Donald Trump's hateful communication. (Cowardly too.)

(Commentary:)

8/9 update re the following:

Mr. Trump still doesn't 'get it'... and likely never will. (We know he's got a history...(off-site link).)

Almost none of the 'Party of No' candidates do, either....Off-site link to 8/9/15 article, new window opens:
http://time.com/3989907/donald-trump-women/?

(Previously written text, 8/8/15:) Violence often does not resolve issues and usually should be a last resort....(There are consequences.)

Life sometimes presents a few rare instances however, where a jerk just outright earns it...Is (at minimum) "deserving" of being punched in the mouth. (Or nose. Or slapped in the face...)

There's a wide difference between allegedly "telling it like it is" or supposedly eschewing "political correctness", and just plain hateful speech. ((Includes) Contempt. Slander. Rudeness. Boorishness...Etc.)
↓Note: This Twitter entry is the 'clarified' version....(i.e, reportedly not the original insult).

Re Megyn Kelly quote: "you could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever" (NOSE). Just got on w/thought

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 8, 2015

Donald Trump actually spoke these words in an interview, i.e., directly to a human being... 
...(Especially given his public profile; his 'reach') Trump should have been challenged on the spot. Physically, if necessary. (But make sure to report the story, too. So we all know...)





(This blowhard regularly hides behind Twitter. Hides via phone interviews. Etc.

That's not a 'man'.)

But we're playing the clown's game: A narcissist who will say anything to keep the spotlight shining on himself.

So enjoy the freak show; those who do. I have faith that it ultimately will not be accepted by the majority of U.S. citizens. (Even Republicans.)

...Maybe someone will get close enough to the big-mouthed Twitter-sissy to clock him a good one....He's more than earned it.

P.S. Ivanka Trump: (I definitely know I'm not read by the Trumps via this tiny blog...so this is rhetorical.)
We know that you have brains and more. You need to intercede, the best that you can.  Reign Dad in....He's damaging the family/family brand. (And more...)

P.P.S. Trump/Trump-campaign rhetoric increasingly seems borrowed from the North Korea-"Supreme Leader" playbook...

8/8/15 update: Hmmm...interesting -- though barely: 
Off-site link, new window opens: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/08/sources-roger-stone-quit-wasnt-fired-by-donald-trump-in-campaign-shakeup-121177.html

The Republican debate recap article that should be read

(Commentary. Warning on some 'salty' language slightly further below:)

It's too depressing to spend much time here on the Republican presidential candidates clown-show...That (bad) joke tells itself:

.@FrankLuntz, your so-called "focus groups" are a total joke. Don't come to my office looking for business again. You are a clown!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 7, 2015

...D.J. Trump and I using similar words...Currently re-booting my head.

>>>Suggested reading is the following AP fact-check article covering the 8/6/15 'debate'.
Lies exposed. Again. Off-site link, new window opens, no affiliation:
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_GOP_2016_DEBATE_FACT_CHECK?

>>>Try another published article link, same source: http://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2015/08/06/fact-check-a-look-at-gop-candidates-statements-in-debate


As its own public quasi-service, this site again has applied some extremely sensitive, highly-calibrated b.s.-o-meters to the spectacle last night...The entire debacle...debate-thingy:

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P.S. Megyn Kelly: Once again; my Fox 'news' heroine....Other (mostly-)sane-people's too, I'm sure. 

Think it's easy scoring 800x your pay??

Image capture of CEO (-- drawing 800 times the median worker's pay --)... puttin' in THE WORK:

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..Firing lame-ass bloggers:




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Flashback: 'Hello...[state your city]' playlist

Note: We'll take breaks here now and then, moving from the ridiculous... (at least) toward the sublime. Such as this:



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Especially for those of a certain age: Interesting curation. It's hilarious in a way: Praises of so many different (sometimes 'humble') places sung over and over.... via (essentially) the same song. 
...Perhaps a little 'cheesy' in that way (and maybe a couple of others)...(BTW: Brief explanatory note (re the retro-playlist) for (a few) present-day people: It was generally a 'kinder and gentler' time..)

If you enjoy music though -- and a good voice: It's an epic (if repetitive) showcase for the lovely pop soprano of Florence Warner, the woman who sang most of the American-location versions. (I.e., beginning with playlist song #2.  Florence really starts to "get going" with her 'Utah' version; song #4..)

..She rendered each version with professional skill. (Yes: I listened to the entire collection.) Though the videos vary in quality it's clear that all were sung beautifully. ↑Enjoy.

(For those who (as I do) appreciate the singing: She did well on all, but which ones(s) did Florence "nail"?  She seemed to really capture it for me on several of her midwest(erly)- (ref.: Indiana; also Pittsburgh) and southern- (ref.: Charleston and Oklahoma) locale renderings. But my vote is definitely for her (inspired) Iowa (KGAN) performance.  (Though it's a shame that the recording (found) of her live Nashville Symphony performance is such low quality...No problem perceiving that Florence has a lovely voice though.))

..More retro-Florence, slightly different promo-video:


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(↑Expanded version is here (off-site link, new window):  http://www.newsnet5.com/news/news-archives/video-vault-wews-promo-puts-florence-warners-face-to-the-angelic-voice-behind-catch-5)

Respecting fine art

lameish.blogspot acknowledges a master of lame fine art.. 

(From 'Lady Liberty': Is it what it seems, or not...?)


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