Displaying 271 To 300 Of 466 Comments The Weekend Music Thread-Soundtracks and Theme Songs The X-Files » Posted By jjgravitas On January 18, 2014 @ 9:49 pm Xena Warrior Princess » Posted By jjgravitas On January 18, 2014 @ 9:48 pm Chuck Theme » Posted By jjgravitas On January 18, 2014 @ 9:46 pm Batman Theme Song » Posted By jjgravitas On January 18, 2014 @ 9:45 pm Courtship of Eddie’s Father » Posted By jjgravitas On January 18, 2014 @ 9:45 pm JUST IN: The Nominees For The Republican Academy Awards! BEST CASTING: The Republicans and the Tea Party in Dumb and Dumber » Posted By jjgravitas On January 17, 2014 @ 1:43 pm Good job Adlib. The GOP is made up entirely of self deluded morons. It doesn’t help that they surround themselves with conservative media that is equally full of lies. » Posted By jjgravitas On January 16, 2014 @ 4:47 pm Chris Christie’s Implausible Deniability The link works fine … for me, since I have a Twitter account. Others who don’t have a Twitter account may not be able to see it. Before I signed up I was unable to get past the sign in page. » Posted By jjgravitas On January 13, 2014 @ 9:42 pm Bang Zoom! » Posted By jjgravitas On January 13, 2014 @ 9:18 pm A figure Zero. :0 » Posted By jjgravitas On January 13, 2014 @ 9:13 pm Ralph Kramden for President? To the moon, Alice! » Posted By jjgravitas On January 13, 2014 @ 7:39 pm Who would trust Christie with the keys to the White House now? He’s either a vengeful snake who would wreck the lives of thousands of innocents for political payback, or he’s a clueless fool whose subordinates commit all sorts of mayhem without his knowledge. Either way, he is the opposite of presidential material. Responsible or irresponsible. » Posted By jjgravitas On January 13, 2014 @ 7:04 pm The Weekend Music Thread – Life, The Universe and Everything For the Cheddar Wheel of Life — The Rutles – Cheese and Onions (Yellow Submarine Sandwich) » Posted By jjgravitas On January 13, 2014 @ 8:39 pm The Brains of Climate Change Deniers Are Frozen Even Niagra Falls is partially frozen over. http://news.yahoo.com/niagara-falls-freezes-photos-142401177.html » Posted By jjgravitas On January 9, 2014 @ 10:53 am Anyone who would argue seriously that carbon is not bad for you has never been stuck in gridlocked traffic in a tiny car in the middle of summer with the windows open. I have. Breathe in all those thick heavy carbon emissions. Mmmmmmmmmmmm, choke-ey! That says a lot for how privileged the global warming naysayers are. » Posted By jjgravitas On January 8, 2014 @ 8:15 pm When I was in middle school back in the 1960’s I learned how the glaciers and polar ice caps helped keep the Earth’s temperature mediated, kept the temperature from going to extremes. Now that the glaciers and caps are receding, we are seeing how true that is. There are no quick fixes for this one, just gradual common sense (how ironic that term seems today) ones. » Posted By jjgravitas On January 8, 2014 @ 8:00 pm Well said, Adlib. The melting of the glacial and polar icecaps has led to the extreme weather we have today. This year it happens to be extreme cold. Earth is beginning to feel like an entirely different planet, a less hospitable one. This year’s winter is beginning to feel like the one in this movie: The Day After Tomorrow (trailer) On the plus side I recently read an article on ThinkProgress that claims that there has bee a lot more progress on clean energy than has been reported. A lot of good news in this article, which you can read it at http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/01/05/3120311/60-minutes-cleantech-hit-job/ Good news to be sure. The thing to remember is the clean energy investments today could be as ground-breaking as the investments 100 years ago in electricity and the internal combustion engine. » Posted By jjgravitas On January 6, 2014 @ 8:56 pm The Weekend Music Thread – Let The Good Times Roll Harry Nilsson Joy » Posted By jjgravitas On January 4, 2014 @ 2:38 pm Delicious! by Jim Bakus and Friend » Posted By jjgravitas On January 4, 2014 @ 2:27 pm Happy New Year! Make Your Predictions For 2014 and Resolutions For President Obama I’d like for President Obama to make a resolution to take on the issue of Income Inequality in the USA. That’s one he hasn’t had a chance to tackle yet. People are writing about this issue, seemingly wishing that someone in power would take this on – a perfect time for the President to take it on, now that the ACA is underway, we will be leaving Afghanistan soon. Start by using the bully pulpit: make it a talking point in his speeches, to get people thinking about it and discussing what can be done, how to turn it around, or even if it should be turned around. The republicans are guaranteed to counter that it isn’t a problem since they are already in the pocket of the super-wealthy (that’s actually true for the left as well, though not nearly as much … if your super-rich and you are throwing gobs of money at the democrats, you are not doing it to protect your bank account). » Posted By jjgravitas On January 3, 2014 @ 8:26 pm Republicans Reject Evolution in Favor of Devolution PPO, I think the only way to “fix” the GOP is to vote them so far out of power that they no longer have a voice in national politics. I know that’s rather pie-in-the-sky considering their very large gerrymandered base. But the base will eventually change. This is why the GOP has fought tooth and nail against immigration reform. A large influx of newly legal Latino citizens will probably not result in that group voting for the GOP in its current form. I also wonder about the youth in the Midwest, how they will affect the demographic. » Posted By jjgravitas On December 31, 2013 @ 3:04 pm Adlib, great article. Yesterday while browsing Twitter I followed a link to Washington Post’s report on this issue. I left a comment wishing that the data had been broken down by state so I could get a sense of where the science deniers were gaining strength. Upon posting it I saw that the report was fresh and that a live debate was occurring in the comments section. I spent the next several hours in a very weird conversation with conservatives, moderates and liberals. Its a strange experience to see how conservatives justify their arguments. On evolution they argue that its not a valid concept because our information isn’t complete (IOW we don’t know everything ergo we know nothing and are free to fill that void with the most ridiculous claptrap imaginable). Its a little scary to see that ignorance play out in front of your eyes. » Posted By jjgravitas On December 31, 2013 @ 2:04 pm The Weekend Music Thread-Father Time and Baby New Year The Chambers Brothers – Time Has Come Today » Posted By jjgravitas On January 3, 2014 @ 9:00 pm “Happy New Year!!” (Spike Jones & The City Slickers, 1948) » Posted By jjgravitas On January 3, 2014 @ 7:42 pm Harry Nilsson – The Most Beautiful World In The World » Posted By jjgravitas On December 28, 2013 @ 11:17 am A PlanetPOV Christmas Carol – 2013 Pee Wee’s Christmas Special (1988) » Posted By jjgravitas On December 25, 2013 @ 11:52 am The Capitalism That Stole Christmas – The Anti-Materialism Theme of Classic Christmas Films Fred Astaire’s Drunken Dance in Holiday Inn » Posted By jjgravitas On December 23, 2013 @ 11:49 pm Despite being a Bill Murray fan, I haven’t seen “Scrooged” yet. Maybe this year. 🙂 » Posted By jjgravitas On December 23, 2013 @ 9:37 pm Adlib, thanks for another nice article. There aren’t many holiday films I can watch aside from the classics you covered. Just as you can’t have a hero without also having a villain, Christmas films have more bite when they include a really bad guy. I’d like to mention a couple of films I like this time of year. Holiday Inn (1942): Starring Fred Astaire and Bing Crosby, at the top of their game, featuring songs written by Irving Berlin, including the first incarnation of the classic “White Christmas”. Bing quits the song & dance duo to pursue his dream, buying a farm with a mansion of a farmhouse, dreaming of being a gentleman farmer. Bing quickly changes course and turns it into an inn with a theatre where he can showcase live performances. Fred Astaire is the “villain” of the piece, stealing Bing’s girls at every opportunity. It’s all very light and Astaire is at his best with several routines that have shown up on documentaries of his work, the best of which is the “drunk dance”. Holiday Inn hasn’t appeared on TV for decades, probably due to some stereotypical black characters and a black-face routine that is in really poor taste. Even so, it is still much better than the cleaned-up remake “White Christmas”. Bad Santa (2003): Stars Billy Bob Thorton as a drunken criminal who robs a department store every Christmas, posing as a department store Santa so he can thoroughly case the joint. This is definitely not for children. The story climaxes as Thorton, dressed as Santa, is gunned down by police as he is trying to deliver a stuffed toy to a young boy who befriended him, to the horror of the neighborhood children. Strangely enough, it all works out. Contains profanity, grossness, sexuality, violence, meanness, and gut-wrenching comedy. A unique way to tell the true meaning of Christmas. Also stars Lauren Graham, John Ritter and Bernie Mac. My favorite! Merry Christmas one and all! » Posted By jjgravitas On December 23, 2013 @ 4:28 pm The Weekend Music Thread-Part 2 Harry Nilsson: The Coconut Song » Posted By jjgravitas On December 15, 2013 @ 5:58 pmComments Posted By jjgravitas
That is a great tweet though.
Photos and coverage are Here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cs56_GqTyIQ
Income inequality is an extremely complex issue, mainly because it is caused by policies that have been in place for a decade or more. But it is doable. in the ’90’s, Clinton did it by raising taxes on the super-rich to eliminate the deficit and the national debt. But to make this happen, we will first have to get a democratic majority in both houses of congress. Which brings me to me second resolution for the president. He needs to pay close attention to the congressional elections that will be taking place this year. Get people thinking about who we are putting in power. Does the Midwest really want to re-elect the greedy ideologues that have been doing everything in their power to destroy our government at every level? What will it take for the Midwest to seriously question the leaders they elect to office?
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