Displaying 271 To 300 Of 4,640 Comments Weekend Music Thread – Something to Talk About MELISSA MANCHESTER – YOU SHOULD HEAR HOW SHE TALKS ABOUT YOU
» Posted By SallyT On March 9, 2013 @ 1:53 pm Thank you, KT, for the dedication to me with Yakety Yak! And, Kes, thank you for seconding that notion! » Posted By SallyT On March 9, 2013 @ 1:39 pm And, no matter how long you talk, in the matter of things, it is just an 8 Second Ride. 8 Second Ride by Chris Ledoux
» Posted By SallyT On March 9, 2013 @ 1:21 pm Okay, Rand Paul, you got Crazy on Me! Heart – Crazy On You (live 1977)
» Posted By SallyT On March 9, 2013 @ 1:12 pm Killing Mitt Romney Softly With Our Votes If Mitty honestly thought he was going to be elected President clear up to the election day, boy oh boy, are we lucky he isn’t President! This guy is delusional. He obviously surrounded himself with people that tell him only things he wants to hear or they are just as delusional as he is. Perhaps they are just not good at their jobs but Mitt being the guy who “loves to fire” people wasn’t smart enough to do that! I am sure that the Romneys have found people willing to fall all over them and their money and that has lead them to believe they are entitled to everything they set their little heart desires. This desire to occupy the White House should have just come to them in their thinking. People around them have enabled this thinking. This includes FOX News and their polling errors. But, it couldn’t be the Romney’s fault for not looking or listening to any other sources. (Keeping close to only those that agree with you is typical of Mormons. Except when they are out spreading the word on their missions that they know the truth and you don’t.) » Posted By SallyT On March 5, 2013 @ 1:20 am Weekend Music Thread-Mountains and Molehills Where did my Chris LeDoux CD go to? I did like him. Died too young! Chris LeDoux – Little Long-Haired Outlaw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBg6LANYTZc Chris LeDoux & Charlie Daniels – Even Cowboys Like A Little Rock And Roll
» Posted By SallyT On March 2, 2013 @ 4:28 pm Maybe I need to stop. I have gone to country and this isn’t me! Chris LeDoux – Little Joe the Wrangler
» Posted By SallyT On March 2, 2013 @ 4:16 pm Don’t ask me why in the hell I thought of this! Roy Rogers : Git Along Little Dogies ( 1940 )
» Posted By SallyT On March 2, 2013 @ 4:11 pm The Beatles – With A Little Help From My Friends
» Posted By SallyT On March 2, 2013 @ 3:53 pm Okay get this song out of your head. Its a Small World -Sing Along & Video (Disney Land Paris)
» Posted By SallyT On March 2, 2013 @ 3:48 pm Mr. Big Stuff Sung by Jean Knight
» Posted By SallyT On March 2, 2013 @ 3:41 pm Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6AdUMHazNo Tell me you don’t love this one, KT. I know you do! » Posted By SallyT On March 2, 2013 @ 3:35 pm VAWA – There Should Never Have Been a Debate On It’s Merits You did good, Sherlock! I understand your frustration and I have a lot to say on this, also. I will add more later if I can but I just wanted you to know I read your post and agree with you, which isn’t too much of a surprise. 🙂 » Posted By SallyT On March 11, 2013 @ 3:11 pm Supreme Irony- Roberts Undone by Scalia AdLib, looks like Roberts has his own problems with his mouth running off and cherrypicking numbers. Is Massachusetts more racist than Mississippi, as Chief Justice Roberts hints? While Congress handily reauthorized the VRA in 2006 for another 25 years, conservative justices on the Supreme Court, including Chief Roberts, zeroed in this week on whether Section 5 has itself become discriminatory, since many indices suggest that blacks vote at equal or even higher rates than whites in the covered jurisdictions. » Posted By SallyT On March 2, 2013 @ 7:51 pm Just bringing this matter before the Supreme Court is justifiable enough to show we still need VRA. Why do you need to change the voting rights unless you are trying to change someone voting. The past several elections show what is really going on. And, the trouble with changing it and then saying: “Roberts stated that discriminatory voting systems in most of the country could only be barred when discrimination could be shown to be intentional. This would require the kind of intensive investigation into motivation….” THIS IS ALL AFTER THE FACT! After the voting has been done. The results aren’t changed. See GORE VS FLORIDA And, we know the kind of help the Supreme Court was then! People turned away from the polls, names on lists that weren’t correct or expanded to pick up more people to disqualify, and ballots lost or misplaced. Long lines at the polls. Voting machine malfunction. Oh, in Wisconsin, there was a typing error. You can show it all happened but it doesn’t change anything after the election is closed and a winner/cheater is declared. Letting the States decide who, when, where, and how to vote is allowing the gerrymandering that is going on right now. Voting is a right giving to us under the Constitution and some of us had to wait a long time to get that right (men of color even got it before women!). VRA protects all people, of all colors, of all standards of living, both sexes, regardless if married or not and to whom, no matter where they live, or religious affiliation or no religious affiliation, or educated or not, the elderly, and all those that qualify with age. No one has a right to take it away now! It should be federally regulated to guarantee those people get their vote made and counted. No Horse Meat in the voting! And, get that old nag, Scalia, off the bench and out to pasture. He’s no stud, he was gelded along time ago. He is to old and bitter to realize it! » Posted By SallyT On March 2, 2013 @ 3:26 pm Bob Woodward Feels Threatened By Girl Scouts and Puppies Thanks, CL!! 🙂 » Posted By SallyT On March 2, 2013 @ 2:37 pm AdLib, they remind me of Marlon Brando in the movie On The Waterfront except with a little play on words. I replace the “coulda been’s” with “once”: “You don’t understand. I once had class. I once was a contender. I once was somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am, let’s face it.” » Posted By SallyT On March 1, 2013 @ 12:00 am [img]http://cdn.crooksandliars.com/files/vfs/2013/02/stop%20threatening%20bob.jpg[/img] » Posted By SallyT On February 28, 2013 @ 10:41 pm CL, Woodward sounds like he is suffering from the same illness as John McCain. They just can’t stand that they aren’t the center of attention anymore or thought of as the smartest in their fields now. Their opinions should be kept more to themselves and they might still be respected. Well, that may be too late. » Posted By SallyT On February 28, 2013 @ 10:26 pm Oscar Night- When “not boring” is high praise Murph, I think Steven Spielberg has won three Oscars, and nominated 12 times. He won two Academy Awards for the film “Schindler’s List” and one for “Saving Private Ryan.” And was honored with a fourth Academy Award when he received the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 1987. Maybe they feel he has enough?? » Posted By SallyT On February 26, 2013 @ 10:38 pm Not really, Murph, I have seen TCM give memory to stunt people, writers, agents, composers, makeup, designers and much more than just actors and directors. Maybe the year you view there wasn’t but that is not true for all. » Posted By SallyT On February 26, 2013 @ 10:27 pm The Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture have been very closely linked throughout their history. Of the 85 films that have been awarded Best Picture, 62 have also been awarded Best Director.[1] Only four films have won Best Picture without their directors being nominated: Wings (1927/28), Grand Hotel (1931/32), Driving Miss Daisy (1989), and Argo (2012). » Posted By SallyT On February 26, 2013 @ 10:20 pm Murph, I saw it in October and that is why I felt the timing was bad. However, it didn’t make any impact in the voting, thank goodness. But, I did have a conservative “friend” say to me something to the effect that I stated above. Murph, do you remember after Katrina and old lady Mrs. Bush saying about all those people crammed in that stadium, “These people never had it so good.” Or something like that. It made me think of her! » Posted By SallyT On February 25, 2013 @ 11:50 pm Thank you for those links. I guess they needed more time for jokes that fell flat, so, these had to be given out earlier. I don’t think they are playing the TCM Remembers 2012 now. They usually start it in Dec and end in Jan. But, I think it might be on YouTube later. I looked but only found 2011 and older. You might like watching those to get an idea how good they handle this issue. I am having a bad day, so, maybe tomorrow I will have a better opinion of the Oscars. My opinion can change with the weather. So can my taste in movies. Sometimes I like a good drama and sometimes a comedy. But, I usually can find time for a good old movie mystery. » Posted By SallyT On February 25, 2013 @ 11:41 pm Okay, Murph, I am not picking on you, please believe me on that! And, it is not so much that I disagree with you but have a different view. And, there is nothing that says I am right and you are wrong. No way, please trust me on that. I am sorry to say that I did not care for Beast of the Southern Wild. To me it was the glorification of a completely disfunctional kind of living (beyond just poverty), and the villianization of the state welfare people (mostly white) who are trying to help them. It gave the the notion that poor people didn’t want or need help during disasters; the sort of “they like living that way” dogma where people tell you homeless people don’t want to go to shelters, don’t want your help so there’s no point trying. A justification for doing nothing. Very satisfying for fiscal conservatives to point to people in this movie and say, well, there you go, you can’t do anything for those folks. And, another thing that turned me off on this film was that it came out during President Obama’s re-election and the thing for which he has been most excoriated, was increased access to healthcare (“Obamacare”). And this film which implicitly asks audiences to vote against healthcare. Wink doesn’t want treatment; Wink wants his freedom. Better to die early than spend time constrained by the steel chains of middle class mores? And, at a time when two lovely young African-American girls are growing up in The White House, audiences are asked to cheer instead for an African-American girl who lives in a shack? These two girls are the daughters of the first African-American First Lady, a highly-educated woman with a BA from Princeton and a JD from Harvard. Michelle Obama is a fashion icon as well as one of the most beloved people on the entire planet; Hushpuppy’s absent Mama has abandoned her daughter, leaving her with tatters. But, Michelle Obama loves this movie and recommended it. So, she wasn’t as critical as I am. However, I was watching from a different view point after growing up as I had. Thank goodness I got beyond that! Hushpuppy’s father is guilty of child abuse. Hushpuppy is mostly left to fend for herself, eating cat food and living in total squalor. Though her father, complains that he has to worry about her “all the damn time,” mostly he drinks, trashes his shack, and fires his rifle for the hell of it. “I’ma bust your ass,” he shouts, and then does just that—smacking his daughter hard across the face. I am sorry to be someone that can’t find as you do the beauty of the picture except for the photography. But, I think it is the first point I made that it gives justification to those that say, “the homeless are that way because they choose to be.” Again, this is just my view on this particular picture. I probably like many that you could tear down just as much and you have every right to do just that. This is just one of those few times, Murph, we are not on the same page but we are still in the same book! 🙂 » Posted By SallyT On February 25, 2013 @ 10:45 pm Sherlock, there are so many awards show now, you can’t keep up with all of them. But, i have continued to watch the Oscars. I love to see all the older actors but there weren’t many this time. Or is it that I am getting old and the actors are getting younger? I don’t watch the Red Carpet shows either. I wait for Yahoo to put them in order the next day if I want to see the dresses. You check out the Sunday Funnies this coming Sunday and there is a cartoon that covers pretty much everything you said. That one is dedicated to you from Watson! » Posted By SallyT On February 25, 2013 @ 8:42 pm The news itself has shown that there have been problems with pilots. My pilot friend (yes I have one, too.) says that there will be more because of the airlines pressuring these pilots to work longer with fewer rest periods in between. And, the smaller airlines that work in connection with the larger airlines are not union and they are just pushing to make money. Also, there was a very good Frontline program about this subject. You should watch that if you haven’t. Of course Flight was not true but I think the addicttion issue was and the drama of dealing. None were true, including ARGO and of course Life of Pi. But, they are the movies and not documentaries. That has its own category. As far as the Bond Tribute, it is my understanding that neither Connery or Brosnan agreed to participate and that made planning difficult. But, I think they could have at lease named all the Bonds along with the pictures. 50 years of an on going theme and one that makes a lot of money desired a little more in my opinion. Ii is an award show for the industry. And, there was no special Oscar given this year for life time achievement. Wonder why? Also, maybe they should use TCM to do their Memorial for them. They do a much better job of it each year and get many more covered with a touching tribute in a length of a commercial break. (Theirs did include all the ones that many are not happy that the Oscar missed. TMC includes all that the Oscars did plus those missed and more that weren’t actors, too.) Obviously you are much more pleased with this years show than I was. I thought it was alright but not my favorite. Go back to Billy Crystal’s ones. I remember many of those even after all this time. However, they can’t make everyone happy, so if they made you, there you go, I am happy. But, Michelle was pretty! » Posted By SallyT On February 25, 2013 @ 8:34 pm I thought Michelle Obama reading the winner of the Best Picture was a total surprise but a nice one. I don’t know if I would say this was one of the best Academy Awards show but I stayed tune and online with Yahoo coverage. That was fun to see the comments live and I made several that actually got published. My main complaint was the so called James Bond Tribute. That wasn’t much of a tribute after all the hype it had been getting. I did love seeing and hearing Shirley Bassey sing Goldfinger. At 76 she sounded great. But that was it except for a few fast clips from past movies. I thought that was a real let down. I have no complaints on the winners and liked how they were really spread out with many different pictures getting honored. Why they left Andy Griffin out of the memorial is beyond me. A Face In The Crowd is a classic and who can forget No Time For Sergeants. That was a big overlook. I loved Life of Pi and I did enjoy Django and was so happy Waltz won since I thought he did an excellent job. A very good film that was overlooked was Flight. I don’t think it got the attention it deserved and Denzel was just fantastic as the pilot with a drug and achcohol addiction. And, of course, who couldn’t enjoy seeing Barbra Streisand singing Memories. Wonderful! I agree with you, Murph, on having the presenters do a stand up act before reading the names. Just read the names and give the award to the winner and let them speak. That is a lot of waste of time and they usually aren’t that funny. McFarland did his best at trying to keep it rolling and entertaining. I thought he fell flat at times but that has to be a very hard job. How do you make people laugh when so many in the audience are nervous and anxious for you to just get to the awards! Finally, I thought there were some very good movies this year and I saw all of them except Amour. Hope next year will at least be as good if not better! » Posted By SallyT On February 25, 2013 @ 3:28 pm The Oscar for Appealing to People’s Basest Instincts Goes To…Pistorius Coverage! KT, you are right, this has been around way before Cold Blood. Cold Blood stands out in our memory but I watched a PBS special on the Real Billy the Kid and it was just the same back then. He wasn’t really as bad as he was depicted but that didn’t sell, so, they embellished and increased the number he killed when in fact he wasn’t even there. In looking at his story now, he actually started out on the right side of the issue at hand. » Posted By SallyT On February 22, 2013 @ 6:07 pm The other people there called the young girl rude. (Did you notice that most of the people there were white?) Hillary turn the girl around to see the sign and immediately wished she hadn’t. She told the girl she would get back to her but we know she wouldn’t have and so did the girl. So, she pressed for an answer, any answer but Hillary didn’t have one and certainly didn’t want to discuss it. Hillary got a little aggressive in her come back claiming that was the first time she was asked that question regarding her “bring them to heel” and “they are predators” comments but it certainly wasn’t. There is film of that, too, and I am sure someone will dig it out. Once the girl was removed, Hillary said, “Now back to the issues.” I will be interested to see if this gets much play on the MSM. I would say that Hill messed up there at her suppose “firewall”. » Posted By SallyT On February 25, 2016 @ 2:00 amComments Posted By SallyT
Naturally Ann has to blame the media because everyone around them know how perfect they are and the media wasn’t allowing everyone else to see this. Silly girl, everyone else saw too much of how you and Mitty are even without your tax returns.
Going on FOX now and saying all this shows how important they think they still are and they have to let all the rest of us know how stupid they think we are. They have enough money to ride off into the sunset and never look back but where’s the fun in that unless we are chasing after them yelling, “We made a mistake! It should have been you!”
Well, why don’t you two hold your breath until you hear that from us!
Massachusetts officials came out swinging this week after Chief Justice John Roberts argued in a hearing on the constitutionality of a part of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that Mississippi may be more sensitive to black voting rights than Massachusetts.
Justice Roberts pointed out as proof that Massachusetts, for example, has “the worst ratio of white voter turnout to African-American voter turnout.”
“The concept of black communities in Massachusetts not voting is an old slur, and it’s not true,” Secretary of State William Galvin said. “I guess the point [Roberts] is trying to make is Mississippi is doing so much better they don’t need the Voting Rights Act. He can still relay that conclusion, but he shouldn’t be using phony statistics. It’s deceptive, and it’s truly disturbing.”
As it is, Roberts is reading Census figures that partially support his contention, but he failed to include margins of error that could, also technically, put Massachusetts ahead of Mississippi when it comes to minority participation versus white.
Interestingly, some political scientists also argue that Roberts’ assessment didn’t take into account the context of specific elections in the Bay State, and whether blacks were specifically courted – a question that would be awkward to defend if they were talking about white voters in the South.
On top of that, Roberts’ jab at the Bay State is extra-prickly because Massachusetts has played a historical role as anti-slavery, anti-Jim Crow, and pro-Civil Rights in the historic struggle over America’s slave-holding legacy. Well into the 1950s and 1960s, meanwhile, Southern states like Mississippi resisted mightily attempts to restore the full franchise to blacks.
Mississippi’s history is instructive, however, to those who support extending Sec. 5. Even though 37 percent of Mississippians are black, the state didn’t have a black member of Congress until 1986. Today, however, 49 of 204 state legislators are black, and the state has a black congressman – a testament, most experts agree, to the success of Sec. 5.
Indeed, even the state’s attorney general, Jim Hood, argued in a friend of the court brief that Section 5 still plays a “vital role” in ensuring minority voting rights in Mississippi.
Guess we would have to add Lizzie Borden to this, too. Now that was double murder, of the parents no less, and trial of the century. It has been going on forever, huh KT.
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Nirek, did you read that article above that Kes posted? What do you think of that?
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