tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48771566853477777442024-03-15T18:58:04.495-05:00Max's DadMax's Dadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10279218439042723141noreply@blogger.comBlogger1437125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4877156685347777744.post-32094187969910165462024-03-10T09:41:00.001-05:002024-03-10T09:41:57.016-05:00Oscar Night!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9VEpAmIh8bWT9rfBQwITEtqE3cBYkBBIOSRcWtSxZOS_aoKpTBzkJ7u60BVgIh5SR2M6ZSgxnW8fQ8c3XiascEkzSRyxZ7FQQzuV2WHYNJ48YHWVPBVw9LeHOpc24V6E2ymAvDvwodfcM-Kp0sGinfoYHgctizKKQ-YIgodcaxAOsPwnp_dEyOsN3WkI/s681/oscars%202024.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="383" data-original-width="681" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9VEpAmIh8bWT9rfBQwITEtqE3cBYkBBIOSRcWtSxZOS_aoKpTBzkJ7u60BVgIh5SR2M6ZSgxnW8fQ8c3XiascEkzSRyxZ7FQQzuV2WHYNJ48YHWVPBVw9LeHOpc24V6E2ymAvDvwodfcM-Kp0sGinfoYHgctizKKQ-YIgodcaxAOsPwnp_dEyOsN3WkI/s320/oscars%202024.webp" width="320" /></a></div><br /> Its Oscar night. At least it starts early, huh? I've seen all 10 of the Best Picture nominees all of which were a pleasant experience and though I enjoyed some more than others, at least I come from experience in rating them. So, let's go.<p></p><p>Oppenheimer is brilliant as is virtually all movies made by Chriostopher Nolan. The story of Robert Oppenheimer, the man who pushed America to develop the atomic bomb before the Nazis, ya know bac when America hated Nazis. It covers it all, his youth, his relationship with Einstein, his personal life, his black listing and his regrets. It truly is a masterful work.</p><p>Poor Things features acting chops from Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo and Willem Dafoe. Unfortunately, I found the actual story to be lacking like every other film made by weirdo director Yorgos Lanthimos. The story of a highly sexualized sort of Frankenstein's monster becomes a story of yeah yeah I get it. And yes, a guy gets turned into a goat. But Emma Stone is fantastic in it.</p><p>Barbie was a pleasant surprise. The Greta Gerwig directed story of a doll was so much more. Featuring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, it's a real feminist screed. Much like Taylor Swift, young girls loved this movie and for that I'm fine with. Girls need role models like Barbie, Caitlin Clark and Taylor Swift. What they don't need is Katie Britt.</p><p>Zone of Interest is a Holocaust movie without the Holocaust. No violence takes place onscreen. The story of the camp commandant and his family simply going thru life as millions die within yards of their house. The indifference and the utter disdain for Jews (the house maids are ignored as if they didn't exist). It's all in German and after a while you realize how important that is. And it features a black lab in virtually every scene. The dog deserves a Canine Oscar.</p><p>Anatomy of a Fall is the story of a dead husband, a wife suspected of his murder, a marriage in deep trouble and the resulting effects on a deaf child. Did she kill him, did she not? You have to decide. And yet another dog stealing scenes. Doggie Oscar 2.</p><p>American Fiction is the story of an unsuccessful black writer who on a lark writes a script with every black stereotype imaginable. It becomes a hit much to his chagrin. The white condescension is really the point as the white liberals kiss his ass. The point is basically hammered home. Jeffrey Wright is wonderful as aways. </p><p>The Holdovers is Alexander Payne's best film. Story of a bitter private school professor stuck looking after the holdovers during Christmas break. The holdovers being the kids with no hime to go back to, much like him. Paul Giamatti should get a lifetime achievement Oscar as well as an apology for not being nominated more often. The guy is fucking great in anything he does. But Da'Vine Joy Randolph as the grieving mother of a dead kid killed in 'Nam who comes to bond with them all is a godsend.</p><p>Killers of the Flower Moon is important to see as its a little-known history of white men breaking promises to the Native Americans of Oklahoma. Put em on the dead ass unfarmable land and when oil is discovered move in, kill them and steal the oil. The story of America. Lili Gladstone as the wife of Leonardo DiCaprio and her obvious pain is brilliant. Does he love her or is she simply there to murder her and take her money? She's Oscar bound.</p><p>Maestro isn't nearly as important as it thinks it is. Yes, it's a good story of the conflicted Leonard Bernstein, but it's also self-important and over the top. Bradley Cooper has made a good movie here, but not a great one.</p><p>Past Lives is one of those human stories that everybody can love. The story of a Korean immigrant who left her childhood friend behind and moves on with her life. Marrying a man and living a new life. But her childhood buddy can't let her go. When he finds her online, they begin the relationship in a new light, and he decides to visit her. What results is jealousy, heartbreak, self-doubt and finality. The ending is heartbreaking. This movie was my favorite of the ten.</p><p>Ok that's it. But what were my Top Ten of 2023? Presented without comment.</p><p>10) Dumb Money</p><p>9) You Hurt My Feelings</p><p>8) Killers of the Flower Moon</p><p>7) American Fiction</p><p>6) Anatomy of a Fall</p><p>5) The Holdovers</p><p>4) Oppenheimer</p><p>3) Zone of Interest</p><p>2) Past Lives</p><p>1) Godzilla Minus One</p><p>Yes, Godzilla was a masterpiece that I enjoyed more than any of them. Past Lives I've watched 3 times. It's this year's Moonlight. </p><p>Honorable Mention.</p><p>Quiz Lady, Somewhere in Queens, Taylor Swift the Eras Tour, Rustin, Yogi, Freedoms Path, The Starling Girl , The Blackening, Reality, and The Beekeeper. </p><p>Google em and watch.</p><p>Onward to tonight.</p>Max's Dadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10279218439042723141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4877156685347777744.post-51952256955836822002024-03-08T09:09:00.003-06:002024-03-08T09:09:38.236-06:00Killer Joe!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-mk5eFE5ah79Ol5lfqPdF6aDy_qUdqA-CP8zLCmyj0-r78iEarjcsnoD1irertB_8Vh-FyAU1AyqpMkXGnfdK7c8du0PYMeE65KPUqUjr1xly8NJ_QQ3QnItvL8kfIdH9oqZFyWBJdcc6nX4WWv724PJfERw6NdFr9xbHliQlPzPyitj7Yi_pJmJxG2c/s660/sotu.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="440" data-original-width="660" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-mk5eFE5ah79Ol5lfqPdF6aDy_qUdqA-CP8zLCmyj0-r78iEarjcsnoD1irertB_8Vh-FyAU1AyqpMkXGnfdK7c8du0PYMeE65KPUqUjr1xly8NJ_QQ3QnItvL8kfIdH9oqZFyWBJdcc6nX4WWv724PJfERw6NdFr9xbHliQlPzPyitj7Yi_pJmJxG2c/s320/sotu.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> Sleepy Joe became the Scranton Slugger last night. Dodging and countering, handling the Republican hecklers like a professional standup comedian, speaking for 68 minutes without a breath. Senile my ass. Cognitively impaired my ass. Joe is sharp and determined and ready to take on the Florida Fraud in a phone booth if necessary.<p></p><p>In fact he was so on target, the Republicans were taken aback. Thus, the talking point became instead of Dementia Joe, he became Drug Addict Joe. What's he on? Did he let Hunter coke him up? In fact, down at Bed Bug A Lago, the Defendant said in full caps as usual, "THE DRUGS ARE WEARING OFF!" Now I have no idea if the Mar A Lago Moron meant he needed more Adderall, was shouting out to Captain Doctor Ronny Jackson to refill his prescription, or simply had a senior moment.</p><p>Joe Biden won the night right at the beginning. No not because he joked he should leave, but walking down the aisle shaking hands he suddenly came upon the sight of a red hatted clown named Marge. Marge was dressed like a carnival barker running a con on the rubes. Red MAGA hat, Say Her Name button, red jacket over a white t shirt, Marge tried for attention so hard that Biden looked at her and reacted like he just saw a clown which of course he did.<a href="https://twitter.com/BaileyCarlin/status/1765926761798275532?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1765926761798275532%7Ctwgr%5Ebd0a6937546c3cd69407184b862040113795beca%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsweek.com%2Fjoe-biden-reaction-marjorie-taylor-greene-viral-state-union-1877165"> A whoaaaaa look</a>, and she turned back into a loudmouth pumpkin knowing she lost that one. It was over. Disarming the screeching baboon from NW Georgia aint easy for much younger people since she just keeps screaming, but Old Joe took her ammo away and shoved it up her ass.</p><p>Fightin Joe took on the GOP and without naming him once, Trump (which I'm sure really triggered the old rapey bastard). Ukraine, drug prices, tax cuts for billionaires, the border bill the House GOP killed, democracy, NATO, Putin, MAGA, Jan 6th, Israel, Gaza, and abortion. Looking straight the Supreme Court Trump hacks, he addressed presidential immunity and Roe V Wade. The Republicans screeched he "threatened" the Court. Oh, my stars, he's senile, no he's a thug, no he's on drugs, no no no. GOP heads exploded.</p><p>Scrappy Joe ended the speech with an age joke that even cracked up Lindsey Graham (and I saw you grin, Mike Lee). </p><p>Now the hecklers. <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/4123626-gop-congressman-curses-out-teenage-senate-pages/">Wisconsin House drunk and teenager harasser</a>, Derrik Van Orden screamed "lies". Ok not real clever, but classy as always. Then came Marge, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAiEe_JmJBE">who hollered "Say Her Name"</a>, in reference to Laken Riley, an unfortunate young woman murdered by some guy who was here illegally in Georgia. Comic Joe said her name, offered his condolences, and offered to speak with the family. Large Marge was put in the corner with a dunce cap replacing her red MAGA hat. Some maniac in the gallery screeched about Afghanistan. And Lame Duck Lauren Boebert was surprisingly silent much to everybody's relief.</p><p>It was a great speech. It disarmed the old sleepy Joe crowd. They got nuthin. </p><p>Then came the GOP response. Some Senator from Alabama named Katie Britt, <a href="https://www.ktvu.com/video/1422791">live from her kitchen</a> back in Bama. Looking like a middle school chick running for class president, smiling a lot, pretending to get emotional. losing her breath, real Tracey Flick shit. Britt was atrocious with her audition for the lead in the GOP musical. Over the top. Bad actor. I was hollering like a theater director watching some kid trying too hard, thank you, we'll be in touch and rolling my eyes. But she kept going. Get the fucking hook for chrissakes. Britt was the worst responder since <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf5fG311EXU">Marco Rubio about drowned himself.</a> But she's purty and looks about 18 and Republicans think that wins arguments. Sorry folks, she's a dunce. But at least she truly can claim to be the smartest Senator from Alabama since Tuberville exists. The whole kitchen thing was also appropriate since that's where MAGA thinks all women should stay.</p><p>Way to go, Killer Joe. You kicked MAGA, the House GOP, and SCOTUS right in the nuts. They may never recover.</p><p>And oh yeah Mike Johnson. We all saw you applauding underneath your desk at times. We all saw you attempt to keep that smug look on your face for 68 minutes. It's all an act. We know that you probably wont survive the Speakership long. But for chrissakes, show some guts once in a while. Don't go down a wimpy lil homophobic Christian Nationalist. Go down fighting. Like Joe showed you.</p><p><br /></p>Max's Dadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10279218439042723141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4877156685347777744.post-83836803011130365532024-03-06T15:17:00.007-06:002024-03-06T15:17:42.551-06:00Super Duper Tuesday!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA8Yzf6DHA9U4yxvxcDReVPbRqseAn9KU3-f66o9rSQuGrHztmXIWyp2cHavLvF_AiN2ovCnsIp5V3x82hZraC93Vj_mpvx2TahZShYc1Gs1fWZVx6n_G6B-m6YJeSzJ_9prv-4vJFTbZHYpNgh7j8nxmoW2JmsgxCg_EvoQSKu-kq0QupENqctUVL1_4/s300/nikki%20donnie.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" height="168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA8Yzf6DHA9U4yxvxcDReVPbRqseAn9KU3-f66o9rSQuGrHztmXIWyp2cHavLvF_AiN2ovCnsIp5V3x82hZraC93Vj_mpvx2TahZShYc1Gs1fWZVx6n_G6B-m6YJeSzJ_9prv-4vJFTbZHYpNgh7j8nxmoW2JmsgxCg_EvoQSKu-kq0QupENqctUVL1_4/s1600/nikki%20donnie.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /> It was Super Duper Tuesday yesterday and the "liberal" news media couldn't have had a bigger stiffy pantingly reporting that Trump destroyed Haley and that Joe Biden lost Samoa by a total of 50-41. Not percentage, that's the total number of votes but wow they'll tell you how that is a fatal blow to Biden cuz he's old and feeble and lost Samoa, the 54th state or whatever. <p></p><p>Now back here on Earth, Biden won everything and so did Trump and that is going to be your matchup in November despite the dreamers who see Michelle Obama and Nikki Haley facing off cuz Trump will be in prison and Biden will be at deaths door. Nikki Haley won a primary again. She took Vermont but who cares cuz all that live there are tree hugging commies. Haley is through, officially. But as of yet hasn't returned to cowardly form and endorsed the Defendant (oh she will at some point if for no other reason than to stop death threats from the culty goons). So, it's all over, despite the crushing death blow that Joe Biden suffered in American Samoa by losing to (check notes) Jason Palmer? It's gonna be a long 8 months.</p><p>In other states.</p><p>California decided to nominate Adam Schiff and human stud Steve Garvey to be on the ballot for the US Senate to replace Diane Feinstein, who passed away I think in about 2017 or so. Now Katie Porter dropped the whiteboard by underperforming so badly she finished 3rd by a lot. Porter blamed Schiff for pumping up Garvey in ads cuz he seemed easier to beat than her. Yeah ok. Hell, if Garvey's children got together and voted in a bloc, he'd win easily but I'm sure there's a few out there who have no idea who Daddy Steve is. Thus, congratulations to Senator Adam Schiff.</p><p>Meanwhile, in North Carolina, Republican voters nominated a goddamned loony bird as their party candidate for Governor. It's like GOP voters walk into a voting booth and say, who's the worst human being on the ballot that will hurt me, but it'll make the libs so mad I will have joy for a minute or two. Mark Robinson is that man. A jumbo-sized yeller of crazy shit, he appeals directly to assholes who also support the other jumbo-sized yeller. Robinson calls gays "filth" wants trans genders arrested, calls Michelle Obama a man, baby, quotes Hitler on social media, thinks the rainbow flag is a "spit in the face of God", called Stoneham mass shooting survivors "spoiled little bastards", and admits to his poor suffering wife had an abortion but nobody else should be allowed to do the same. In other words, he's a typical MAGA goon. And oh yeah, he's an anti Semite which makes it sweet because Democrats nominated the state's attorney general, Josh Stein, to be his opponent. So yeah North Carolina rednecks, you have the choice between a black bootlicker and a Jewish guy. Congrats on the progress you never intended. Also, congrats to Governor Josh Stein.</p><p>In Texas, Colin Allred was nominated to take on Ted Cruz. I have very little hope that Texas will actually send Cruz packing to Cancun whenever he wants, but Colin Allred, an ex-NFL player, and current congressman, has a shot. But, like Beto O'Rourke, there may just be too many Latinos unwilling to vote and rural whites beating down the door to vote. So I believe Cruz loses when I see it. And I hate Ted Cruz and want him to lose so bad I'd become a Cowboys fan if it meant he loses.</p><p>So now we face 8 months of insanity and Democratic fingernail chewing. My advice to counter the authoritarianism I always knew a certain portion of America truly wanted is to attack attack attack! Fuck that Michelle Obama go high bullshit. Its rolling in the gutter time fellow democracy lovers. Abort the GOP in November by screeching abortion right in their faces.</p><p>Courage!</p>Max's Dadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10279218439042723141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4877156685347777744.post-52879910772053037922024-03-04T14:01:00.007-06:002024-03-04T14:01:59.045-06:00Squealing for Elvis Trump!!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFeA-pBqyD_TEUK7J7AJ5vsDeyutNfQZ1s6rYSS2Xqbx7xLAL-WQs5RR0eQZqK_cQQ0m-TTquwhBsjuOk4kq5x6a25339eZOQ3Lqj42ivMqjNAGjmEkg7rd039RunVtFDDoxb1NRnZgipLju1ReSp13-7QkRU7-GL9Bg1vecQK-D1l0p54Jy71EgGmJJI/s1500/2022_Roberts_Court_Formal_083122_Web.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1500" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFeA-pBqyD_TEUK7J7AJ5vsDeyutNfQZ1s6rYSS2Xqbx7xLAL-WQs5RR0eQZqK_cQQ0m-TTquwhBsjuOk4kq5x6a25339eZOQ3Lqj42ivMqjNAGjmEkg7rd039RunVtFDDoxb1NRnZgipLju1ReSp13-7QkRU7-GL9Bg1vecQK-D1l0p54Jy71EgGmJJI/s320/2022_Roberts_Court_Formal_083122_Web.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> It was unanimous. In true reality show tradition, once one person said overturn Colorado, the rest of the cowards jumped onboard to tell Colorado you are evicted. In a surprise to absolutely nobody, The United States Supreme Court voted 9-0 to tell Colorado to put The Defendant back on the ballot so the cult members could mark their X and show all the libs they will burn down the building just to make you mad. <p></p><p>Thus, the 14th Amendment is basically meaningless. I would expect the ghost of Jefferson Davis to file for ballot access where he would get 100% of the MAGA vote. Like the true fraidy cats they are, SCOTUS said that whoaaaa there Colorado, we don't really have anything against you throwing an insurrectionist off the ballot, but NOT this insurrectionist cuz Congress needs to blah blah blah. So Trump goes on the ballot in Colorado no matter what because states have no power to enforce Section 3 of that pesky 14th Amendment. They can only act in regard to State offices. So if Trump decides to move to Colorado and run for something, yes you can tell him to go take a long trip on a short ski jump, but not if he runs for a federal office. Yep makes sense. In what world Im not sure.</p><p>The Trumpster took to the TV to gloat. Showing his normal restrained humility, Trump went off on "Deranged " Jack Smith, tried to figure out how to pronounce Fani, yapped about ISIS, called out Obama for killing an American citizen, mentioned ISIS again, border talk, and threw his hands around a lot. In other words, absolutely nothing to do with what had happened. He just rambled on making his cult happy with non sequiturs and craziness.</p><p>Meanwhile, today was the day that the Defendant was supposed to go on trial in DC before Judge Chutkan on his insurrection charges but of course he whined to the Supremes that he had immunity and for some reason the court of bought and paid for whores said yeah sure we will hear it on April 22 and then make a ruling whenever we feel like it because we are here for life, suckers.</p><p>This court gives not one fuck what you think any longer because they have no ethics rules (well they do but it's strictly voluntary). They don't care what you think if a justice fails to recuse himself when his nutter wife helped plan to send Democrats to Gitmo and cried on her I'mCrazy phone to Mark Meadows to stop the certification at any cost. They don't care if you disapprove of their trips to Alaska with billionaires on private planes because they never bother to report it so therefore, it didn't happen. In fact, go suck the tail pipe of a giant RV if you got a problem with gifts from well-known Nazi memorabilia collectors that also happen to be billionaires. In fact, if on April 22 a gigantic dump truck full of money shows up at the back door for distribution, you can just fucking wait until its divvied up.</p><p>Suck it, peasants. We live here until WE say we don't. </p>Max's Dadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10279218439042723141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4877156685347777744.post-17148927525846647782024-02-26T14:51:00.001-06:002024-02-26T14:51:29.970-06:00Life Begins At Conception!! No Wait!! <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNX1V9OtKxUz8IeWQfOUBt5fIRmUMOR11raVaZhGmjBiyJAAYqkRp2AjHqB_6i2OeUdDK37RYxpNQ81rbx4kpJ1kMVqjW54U1yQqc3GhUFdHrYQ_alcckynGK81X5P5p9BCCkzaXsRrSA752EqrS-oKknvCl9DwV0BI0ULqS3Jct7wDHuZXPfZUgIyGl0/s300/eggPose05.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="206" data-original-width="300" height="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNX1V9OtKxUz8IeWQfOUBt5fIRmUMOR11raVaZhGmjBiyJAAYqkRp2AjHqB_6i2OeUdDK37RYxpNQ81rbx4kpJ1kMVqjW54U1yQqc3GhUFdHrYQ_alcckynGK81X5P5p9BCCkzaXsRrSA752EqrS-oKknvCl9DwV0BI0ULqS3Jct7wDHuZXPfZUgIyGl0/s1600/eggPose05.png" width="300" /></a></div><br />The Alabama Supreme Court, with law degrees from the Dukes of Hazzard School of Law, has thrown the Republicans into a scrambled egg bowl with the ruling that embryos are human beings every bit as much as the 20 some kids murdered in Uvalde. For 50 years the GOP was screeching about "life begins at conception" and introducing bills in every red state to ban abortion with draconian measures knowing full well these bills wouldn't pass and if they did, no court would find it constitutional thus freeing the GOP up to never having to pay a price. <p></p><p>Then came the US Supreme Court and its new justices appointed by a rapist fraud deciding to overturn Roe V Wade and throw the abortion issue back to the states. Red states started banning abortion, banning leaving the state to have an abortion where its legal, forcing women with fetuses that will not live to give "birth" cuz ya know there's them there "miracles" that the Guy in the Sky performs. </p><p>Alabama, whose Chief Justice is actually named <strike>Colonel </strike> Tom Parker, wrote an opinion that since embryos have the "face of God" that they are people with rights. I assume also a frozen embryo can now legally carry a gun around the lab. </p><p>What this has done given the GOP a real problem. The whacko fetus lovers, the base of the Republican Party, has a real problem. The Alabama decision has caused IVF clinics to suspend operations because when IVF occurs, some of the lil eggs are disposed of which in Alabama is now first-degree murder. Hey, Tommy Boy said its so. </p><p>Republicans have caught the car and now have no idea what to do with it. The GOP blastocyst believers already have pissed off women all over with the support for Dobbs, and NOW its IVF that's in deep shit. IVF is how a lot of children, including some children of Republicans, are hatched. Thus, the scramble to spin this by the GOP is hilarious to watch. There are 136 GOP sponsors of a life begins at conception bill in the House with no exceptions for IVF. The race to be more MAGA than anybody has backfired even if phonies like Nancy Mace (Harpy-SC) and Elise Stefanik (Soulless-NY) express support for IVF which is clearly untrue. The Defendant, who caused this shitstorm with his appointments to the Supremes of fully owned subsidiaries of Harlan Crow and the Kochs, shuffled about expressing his support for IVF because hey, while the wifey is knocked up anything goes. </p><p>This is a major problem for the Party of Life. Once again, the bullshitters who make up most of MAGA, have let unforeseen circumstances bite them in the ass. Women shall let them know in November how much it hurts.</p><p>You broke the eggs, now you own them.</p>Max's Dadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10279218439042723141noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4877156685347777744.post-72585465111482255092024-02-23T09:25:00.001-06:002024-02-23T09:25:12.632-06:00Bye Jack McCoy!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMV5zH8Iba8mfoaNef74Jdj6ejtWmauZLNuqkCKV8_EtmFkYL-j4UFNcvAYUlwZ3kcV6s8W66lWgqzp5RlWqtYzC2xqe5HrkjJzngCmTBdhqvlAT-s46Km5lG7QoVt9J58dwIahWx8rPzVaB8dwocDL9RWVTVjCBnpRbGljT7NX4iFuT0m7kurz5nhKhQ/s400/jack-mccoy-promoted.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="291" data-original-width="400" height="233" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMV5zH8Iba8mfoaNef74Jdj6ejtWmauZLNuqkCKV8_EtmFkYL-j4UFNcvAYUlwZ3kcV6s8W66lWgqzp5RlWqtYzC2xqe5HrkjJzngCmTBdhqvlAT-s46Km5lG7QoVt9J58dwIahWx8rPzVaB8dwocDL9RWVTVjCBnpRbGljT7NX4iFuT0m7kurz5nhKhQ/s320/jack-mccoy-promoted.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> So long to one of TV's best characters. Jack McCoy left Law & Order because he had the sense to know at age 83 it was time to go. Hold on I mean Sam Waterston, who IS Jack McCoy. <p></p><p>I love Law & Order and I make no apologies for it. It's an old school procedural in which 99% of the time, by the end of the 60 minutes, it's all wrapped up. For some of us, that's just fine. I never really needed to know if Jack was screwing ADA Claire Kincaid (Jill Hennesey) or Defense Attorney Danielle Melnick (Tovah Feldshuh) though he at least bent the law to save them both at one point. </p><p>Jack McCoy could be infuriating to old school liberals like me as he refused often to see that what he was doing to convict someone was not justice but stubbornness. But Jack could also stand up to the weird casting of Fred Thompson as the conservative cynical DA Arthur Branch , who seemed to just be an extension of Thompson himself and there to argue conservative politics.</p><p>Law & Order has gone on for 30 some years and once the morally superior Ben Stone (Michael Moriarty) left for personal reasons, McCoy jumped right in. With Jack's comradery with Adam Schiff (Steven Hill) who played the DA with such reality (Make this go away Jack) and his fellow DA's , the doomed Claire Kincaid (why just why did they kill her?), the professional Texan, Abby Carmichael (Angie Harmon), the crusader Connie Rubirosa (Alana De La Garza)and the voice of reason, Serena Southerlyn (Elizabeth Rohm, wow what an exit!) Jack got along with all. </p><p>405 episodes as one character is unheard of. Waterston pulled it off week after week. The great S Epatha Merkerson pulled off 391 episodes as Lt Anita Van Buren (dont ask me her character's name in Chicago Med cuz she's just Lt Van Buren to me forever) and of course, the legend himself, Lenny Briscoe played by the consummate New Yorker, Jerry Orbach.</p><p>I can and do watch the L&O reruns religiously because I can't remember what happened 80% of the time and it's all new to me. Actors who are now famous both in film, TV and Broadway all appeared on this show <a href="https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4i29cx">(remember the great Tony Awards bit where they showed all the L&O actors, some in more than one episode) .</a></p><p>Farewell Jack McCoy, you Irish bastard. But you'll never leave me alone, not with reruns on 24/7 somewhere.</p>Max's Dadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10279218439042723141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4877156685347777744.post-32548879659974285092024-02-20T10:46:00.003-06:002024-02-20T10:46:41.435-06:00Cash & Chicago!!!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdmQDIZodljEujCwGt7_RWSutKRcG3hQGa0jy9opCHHx46nSEWQJnlNT8ELWt_vXTOIoPYyYsndnwGFm0dNkYhZsLKWAmxOD1gXl-ShkC7N9mjkEKbN5apgZPLhPEooD7sd9rY8ByOhUsrxO3RHsjJCrGRyso3itnLGzcXnTdqQ9IaICmXXV2c2ro3T-4/s300/brass%20transit.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="300" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdmQDIZodljEujCwGt7_RWSutKRcG3hQGa0jy9opCHHx46nSEWQJnlNT8ELWt_vXTOIoPYyYsndnwGFm0dNkYhZsLKWAmxOD1gXl-ShkC7N9mjkEKbN5apgZPLhPEooD7sd9rY8ByOhUsrxO3RHsjJCrGRyso3itnLGzcXnTdqQ9IaICmXXV2c2ro3T-4/s1600/brass%20transit.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCB9C19Fw78ccIUInaPMBtqkRqV3eYTvRN3JHXcuXA0vsmXFyxc2maa32fEmuizoAXchjFmO1SL8wCwyHzIFo8OvZWN_tgJ0TfXBGBKx9Zw9BC_GKWxEEsZ0jh6V7jpwSlbq9RU5BN14XRGfT_80r5x8S0R4kLjQPsTOnh7dTOFsQ93zh78KjN9RiqZ-A/s920/cash.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="920" data-original-width="736" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCB9C19Fw78ccIUInaPMBtqkRqV3eYTvRN3JHXcuXA0vsmXFyxc2maa32fEmuizoAXchjFmO1SL8wCwyHzIFo8OvZWN_tgJ0TfXBGBKx9Zw9BC_GKWxEEsZ0jh6V7jpwSlbq9RU5BN14XRGfT_80r5x8S0R4kLjQPsTOnh7dTOFsQ93zh78KjN9RiqZ-A/s320/cash.jpg" width="256" /></a></div><br /> A couple of events this past week need to be commented on. No politics, no rants, nuthin...except praise for The Johnny Cash Concert Experience and Brass Transit.<p></p><div>First, Johnny Cash. Now I dont care who you are, and I'm a rocker, but Johnny Cash was the man. He was cooler than 99% of his fellow artists, he had something to say, and he was a champion of the downtrodden. I never had the pleasure of seeing Johnny Cash live, I thought about it once when he and his band were at some high school in Council Bluffs but I had no idea where that high school was so I missed my opportunities. </div><div><br /></div><div>The Johnny Cash Concert Experience features a live band of great musicians, including the "only woman who ever played lead guitar for Johnny Cash", Debbie Horton. What you get is the live band and a giant video of Johnny singing songs from his TV show. So, you get it all, Ring of Fire, Walk the Line, Boy Named Sue, Folsom Prison Blues. all from the horse's mouth. The band takes over on some songs that no video exists for and it's still great. The thump thump train like guitar is there, the solos are there and also video of Johnny's son, John Carter Cash, telling stories of his father and mother. </div><div><br /></div><div>If you love Johnny Cash as much as I do, it's well worth the money and effort to see.</div><div><br /></div><div>Now Brass Transit, a Chicago tribute band. They consist of 3 horn players, a bassist and a guitar and a lead singer who sounds exactly like Peter Cetera. Now Terry Kath cannot possibly be replaced, and his songs are sung by a guy doing the best he can and it's still great.</div><div><br /></div><div>Being a believer that Chicago from 1968-1978 is one of the greatest runs any band had in the 1970's and after that was pure unadulterated crap from a classic band going all Air Supply in an attempt to appeal to whom exactly, I worried that post 1978 Chicago and its lousy "hits" would dominate. But it did not. It was heavily concentrated on the early greatness. Oh yeah a couple of the wimpy stinkeroos got in there, but the concert was spot on musically. The horns were a carbon copy, the guitar solos were Kath-like and the vocals from Ian Jutsun, were Cetera-like. Though they left out my favorite Chicago tune, Dialogue Parts 1 and 2 (the contrast of Kath and Cetera's voices is unreal), the rest of the early hits were all there. It ended with a rocking 25 or 6 to 4 that had gray haired old ladies up and dancing like the teenaged dancing queens they were back in 1972.</div><div><br /></div><div>Brass Transit is younger than the current version of Chicago, who I've seen twice in the last 5 years, and I hate to say but they are just as good. It's a good time if you get a chance to see them. </div><div><br /></div><div>Is a symphony orchestra necessary to play with this band? Absolutely not. In fact, the symphony often got in the way. But it was a small price to pay. The opening notes of I'm a Man and Make Me Smile made me forget there actually was a symphony orchestra also playing (don't get me wrong, I love the Omaha Symphony when it stays in its own lane).</div><div><br /></div><div>If you love Chicago, you'll love Brass Transit.</div>Max's Dadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10279218439042723141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4877156685347777744.post-38455429782704272162024-02-17T10:08:00.000-06:002024-02-17T10:08:07.403-06:00Spare Change?<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXqLX75WfE6y3JQoYp5cssiNQQR211B5peLvMqlozlP_0yeI24_0eapzl0TyT_qUdpwlpcDeDeewwNl5neMqs9xcXchfXZd0_74X0aJvJmYv9BpktR38EuuO4BhMv-LTIqh7mMivlUH9lOVVYXw-ThyLfOddxN-GRFw8V3mvQ91KTLjumZBntRc3KIeV4/s498/begging-begging-money.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="498" data-original-width="498" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXqLX75WfE6y3JQoYp5cssiNQQR211B5peLvMqlozlP_0yeI24_0eapzl0TyT_qUdpwlpcDeDeewwNl5neMqs9xcXchfXZd0_74X0aJvJmYv9BpktR38EuuO4BhMv-LTIqh7mMivlUH9lOVVYXw-ThyLfOddxN-GRFw8V3mvQ91KTLjumZBntRc3KIeV4/s320/begging-begging-money.gif" width="320" /></a></div>Anybody have an extra $400 or so million laying around? On Friday afternoon Judge Arthur Engoron slapped The Defendant with a $364 million judgement for being a fraud and a liar about his business, a business with so many unpaid creditors it could fill Yankee Stadium. The MAGA crowd of yes men and just plain dumb screeched how there was no "victim" here from The Donald lying about his worth, lying about his real estate, his apartment size, his cash on hand and mushroom size to get banks to lend him more money than they would have had they known the truth about the phony billionaires actual worth. <p></p><p>Not only the massive fine but the 3 years suspension forbidding this real estate mob boss from conducting business in New York. Not only that but also forbids his sons, Zeppo and Shemp, from conducting business for 2 years. This is so sweet. </p><p>The reaction from the 3 miscreants was predictable as hell. Eric Shemp called the judge "cruel" because he dragged poor Eric thru the mud just to get his crooked father, in effect saying no no HE did it not me.Junior was upset he had to pay $4 million in fines and dip into his coke money. Trump came out front of Moldy a Lago and ranted about everything. The standard rally speech. Witch hunt, Bidens old, America is done, racist AG, corrupt judge, blah blah blah..</p><p>This guy is getting his ass kicked by so many women you'd think he'd just stop. E Jean Carroll, Letitia James, Fani Willis, Stormy Daniels have all beat him in court. Perhaps one of them will lend him some dough?</p><p>Meanwhile over in the GOP paradise, Russia, Tucker Carlson, Russian useful idiot (heavy on the idiot) found a Moscow grocery store where prices are lower than in America thus Tuckums has become even more pro-Russia and is "radicalized" against the American government. He left out that the average Russian spends 50-65% of their income on groceries because he's a rich prick with a trust fund who lies regularly about everything. He interviews Putin, throwing softball questions and letting Putin throw around "history" lessons that really impress airheads who watch Fox and Newsmax. </p><p>Putin the war criminal had his opponent murdered Friday. Alexei Navalny, braver than any GOP addict ever thought of being, took a walk and dropped dead. Well at least he wasnt near a window. Or playing with a live grenade on a plane. Putin is a butcher, a murderer and the darling of the Republicans who not so secretly wish for a Putin type (gee I wonder who) to really own the libs with mass arrests, camps for brown folks, and sharks with freakin laser beams in the Rio Grande. We already have Putin apologists in this country comparing Navalny's murder with Trump being charged with doing crimes like rape, fraud, subversion, stealing elections, and inciting an insurrection. The devotion to thugs is something that needs to be explained with hast by a psychiatric experts. I think we all know the answer. Mommy and daddy issues, misogyny, radical Christianity, racism, and owning the libs because they make fun of how goddamned dumb they are. Not that the libs aren't correct but still, stop pointing it out you elitist Ivory Tower smart people. </p><p>In the meantime, <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/trump-supporters-start-gofundme-page-355m-fine-1870880#slideshow/2350521">explain this.</a> Proof of MAGA denseness.</p>Max's Dadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10279218439042723141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4877156685347777744.post-12120424421134315252024-02-12T12:04:00.000-06:002024-02-12T12:04:05.938-06:00Merrick Garland!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1Vme0F91sMFqTXbLx1sisWbJYDiiodOseMsn8UXk7DNC5cnsc0dGTg2F7f-S9bBmL-8uiGsv1DXOg0RsMFcsAUajDJ_5EtDLpvifrnbI3GEiUhmsQyBYJY65aSHDXB-4dj8tufEtsiPqL41Xv8RLOY5pPd22GRtJLtWdXsCn6F7qhHP59ULr3jRTT70o/s300/garland.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" height="168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1Vme0F91sMFqTXbLx1sisWbJYDiiodOseMsn8UXk7DNC5cnsc0dGTg2F7f-S9bBmL-8uiGsv1DXOg0RsMFcsAUajDJ_5EtDLpvifrnbI3GEiUhmsQyBYJY65aSHDXB-4dj8tufEtsiPqL41Xv8RLOY5pPd22GRtJLtWdXsCn6F7qhHP59ULr3jRTT70o/s1600/garland.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /> Ok I've hung around long enough. As others I know have been sour on this guy for years, I hung with Merrick Garland, figuring he was patient and knew what he was doing. Yeah, he waited and waited to do anything about the thug Trump and wasted years letting the guy get away with whatever he wanted. It emboldened the cult leader from Florida. It emboldened his whackadoodle MAGAts and here we are. Meanwhile, there are numerous Congresspeople running around screeching and throwing shit at the walls knowing they may never be charged for helping the Jan 6 scum rip the Capitol apart. Why? <p></p><p>Well, its Attorney General Merrick Garland and his DOJ that are slow tracking this threat to democracy. I don't get it any longer. Patient? No, it's just an unwillingness to do anything at all. Pass the buck to Jack Smith two years too late. Pass the buck to Robert Hur instead of having the guts to just dismiss the whole classified docs in a garage bullshit.</p><p>Garland is bending over backwards to appear fair. This is the Democratic Party playbook. Try and please the very people who hate you and would gladly hang you from the nearest tree if given the word from Bedbug A Lago. Same as the mainstream media, bending over to appear fair while the other side just lies and lies and keeps Gramps in a constant tizzy. Just fucking stop. Say what you will about the previous regime, but Bill Barr got out front of the Mueller Report and castrated Mueller on behalf of the Defendant. Garland just lets a hack like Robert Hur say that no charges are warranted, BUT Biden is an old man with a shitty memory and needs to be sent to a home to eat pudding. Barr would never have allowed an irrelevancy like that come out publicly had it called out Trump for being a lazy asshole who cared only about hearing his name on TV and eating fast food and Diet Coke and throwing ketchup against the wall. Never. But Garland either didn't read the report or read it and bent over yet again to let the bullshit fly. It makes me wonder what kind of Supreme Court Justice he'd have been had Mitch McConnell not made up a new "rule" and killed the nomination.</p><p>I have had it. Allowing Hur to not only declare Bidens innocence and then spend hundreds of pages catering to the GOP shit throwing monkeys and the Mar A Moldo Don in his hammering Biden's mental capacity and thus "normalizing" more talking points is unforgivable. At some point this quest for "fairness" by the Democrats will bite the entire country in the ass. The other side doesn't give a damn about "fairness". Why should old school boomers like Garland? When they go low, we go lower. Thats my advice.</p><p>Thanks for your service, Merrick Garland. Don't let the door cause you any trouble as you limbo out of the DOJ. Get lost.</p>Max's Dadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10279218439042723141noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4877156685347777744.post-26137139927928207262024-02-09T10:00:00.002-06:002024-02-09T10:00:51.321-06:00Ballots and Biden!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTHw8t2Z9fEU9a11mAyko7csLcgXU0SFC75MlDJN1aV5egMVeH0jbEy2zpoq_odQWrWeUn3J7N1mtlejoTSK-eP1FFiX7mzkuid3uNDWUSNNSV-XzJtzc6ctRVpNRak4cH0ndQFrfSqkhbgYORCc-ZqJa3PtLcrYlW0u7YrufapMtW7jOwYOZtps-QPcE/s1200/ballot.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="1200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTHw8t2Z9fEU9a11mAyko7csLcgXU0SFC75MlDJN1aV5egMVeH0jbEy2zpoq_odQWrWeUn3J7N1mtlejoTSK-eP1FFiX7mzkuid3uNDWUSNNSV-XzJtzc6ctRVpNRak4cH0ndQFrfSqkhbgYORCc-ZqJa3PtLcrYlW0u7YrufapMtW7jOwYOZtps-QPcE/s320/ballot.webp" width="320" /></a></div><br /> The total semantics that permeated the Supreme Court yesterday in the case of keeping Trump off the Colorado ballot because he's a fucking insurrectionist was unlistenable. It was like the high school debate class where a guy who knows he drew the short straw and has to argue that the Holocaust never happened. Trumps lawyers were playing that game of "officer <b>under</b> the United States" as opposed to "office <b>of</b> the United States" and if the 14th Amendment applies to the President or Vice President because it doesn't actually say those words. Well Holocaust is such a vague word and perhaps it's more of a genocide so therefore the Holocaust really didn't happen. Look, the 14th Amendment was meant to keep the slavery enthusiasts and defeated Confederates from holding office because the voters would probably put them into office because of northern aggression or some such shit. Is Trump a defeated Confederate? Of course he is. No different than Jeff Davis.<p></p><p>But to be honest here, I don't give a damn if that Florida scumbucket is n the ballot or not. I would actually prefer he is on the ballot in Colorado because if he isn't then Nebraska and South Dakota and Iowa and every other red state with gerrymandered legislatures will move to ban Biden from the ballot for being old or something. Hell, they may do that anyway because Republicans have thrown the rule book in the dumpster long ago. The Supreme Court will overturn Colorado 9-0 because they don't want the death threats and Swatting and the Trump goons gathering outside their houses. Probably just as well. </p><p>Now to the 388 page special report on NOT charging Joe Biden for keeping classified documents in his garage and then turning them over to the Archives and the FBI. 388 pages that BEGIN with "we conclude that no criminal charges are warranted in this matter". Yet 387 pages then go into irrelevant Comey like sabotage of a presidential campaign. Special Counsel Robert Hur, a Trump hack, decided to say no jury in the country would convict Biden of anything since he turned over all documents when asked and had his lawyers scrounge around to find even more. As opposed to Mar A Dumpo where we had special rooms full of documents, destruction of evidence by the Defendant, refusal to turn over said documents when asked, and a bathroom used as a doc dump room, not to mention Saint Reagan did the exact same thing Biden did and was never prosecuted. So, no charges. The End.</p><p>But nooooooooooo, it's not the end because Robert Hur cannot possibly serve his Orange God without talking about Joe Biden being a doddering old man, nice guy, but with a failing memory and would probably offer a mint or two to the jury and talk about an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6Dc7W6jXCo">onion on his belt</a>. Hur goes on and on about how Joe forgot when he was Veep and when his son croaked from burn pit cancer and how he had a mental state not fit for conviction. Well, well, Robert Hur can go fuck himself. This report is more for the Fox News crazies and the shit flinging baboons in the Congress who of course, jumped on the memory stuff like flies on shit. Did Robert Hur get pats on the head? Oh yeah. Who's a good boy? You are that's who! </p><p>Joe Biden has no more memory lapses than the guy from Bedbug A Lago who told Robert Mueller he couldn't remember more than 30 times and that was 5 years ago. No more memory lapses than the cro- magnon Rep from Northwest Georgia, cross fit nitwit MTG, who said she "couldn't recall" over and over on her questioning on her 14th amendment hearing. No more memory lapses than Jesse Waters, the sexually harassing Bill O'Reilly bitch, who thinks Kristi Noem is Governor of South Carolina. No more memory lapses than closet case, Mike Johnson, who confused Iran with Israel. And certainly, no more memory lapses than Senator Marsha "Bag O Hair' Blackburn who has no idea where she is due to her brain being rotted out by excess Aqua Net fumes.</p><p>Joe Biden is old. Yeah, big whoop. Is he my favorite candidate? Nope. But he is the candidate, and I will vote for him to save democracy from that rabble of Trump trash that thinks the 2020 election was "stollen" cuz of Italian spy satellites and dead Venezuelans changing votes. Mental illness is far worse than being old. Give me the "doddering old man' over the "syphilis brained maniac" who scares the entire Senate, House and Supreme Court into kowtowing to his insanity because they don't want death threats and ridiculously obscene voice mails from the Trump BrainTrust.</p><p>Meanwhile, Joe took to a news conference to show us how fucking old he is. And like the bad ass he is, the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuQunX2Oyl8">Scranton Scrapper murdered Fox News Peter Doocy.</a></p><p>Boom!</p>Max's Dadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10279218439042723141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4877156685347777744.post-6628278456217247252024-02-06T11:24:00.005-06:002024-02-06T11:24:58.092-06:00Border Bill!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPwIs5UkmVLfqFg84uIgVgacoNEa3M6Nj245dGvXdePK7md6KPGc9F1ghbgztg7scB5DgLuZ6qxQq8XZreXL3MOgr5_-L6fvBIJt-mxP-1KA1CdnxR1W70iQBiz8YDKtgMhPcX_-Cz_pFX1VhS508Aw1jtY-gLYDmRYkvcnNZtzW8YstctvcviBogXeg8/s700/border%20killer.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="525" data-original-width="700" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPwIs5UkmVLfqFg84uIgVgacoNEa3M6Nj245dGvXdePK7md6KPGc9F1ghbgztg7scB5DgLuZ6qxQq8XZreXL3MOgr5_-L6fvBIJt-mxP-1KA1CdnxR1W70iQBiz8YDKtgMhPcX_-Cz_pFX1VhS508Aw1jtY-gLYDmRYkvcnNZtzW8YstctvcviBogXeg8/s320/border%20killer.webp" width="320" /></a></div><br />Republican Senator James Lankford (R-Ok) apparently is naive enough to think his party actually wants to fic the border, which of course is 180 degrees from the truth. After Lankford wasted his time negotiating with "Democraps" about finding a compromise on the border, the powers that be, and by that it means The Indicted One in Chief put a big machete in the bills back. Why? Make America Great Again? Because with the news the economy is kicking ass, the stock market has hit record highs, unemployment is at an all-time low, inflation has subsided, and Harriet Tubman is still not on the $20 bill, the GOP has nuthin. Nothing but the border. Misleading tape of hordes of furriners walking around in various countries scares the white people more so than if the mayo has expired. It's all they have.<p></p><p>The border bill sucks. It sucks for the exact opposite reasons the water carriers for Orange Mussolini say it does. It virtually gives the GOP what they wanted. Well, most everything except their desire to station machine gun nests on the border and holding a lottery to let white supremacist gun humpers shoot all them furriners as they cross the river. The bill contains another $60 billion to aid Ukraine in repelling the Russian butchers, actual invaders of a sovereign nation. But since the GOP is loyal only to two people, The Defendant and his boss Vlad the Impaler Putin, thats gonna be dead also. </p><p>The Republicans NEED this issue to not go away. It's an issue that the GOP has used ever since the black Kenyan guy took the oath of office on the Book of Satan or something. Furriners are bad. Especially the ones of a darker shade of pale. The GOP Senate held a meeting where an aide to Senator Mike Lee, an absolute kook, began screaming about "betrayal" and stormed out of the room to much laughter. And then, Mitch McConnell got scared by something, a giant Florida parasite perhaps, and withdrew his support of the bill he helped negotiate.</p><p>This is course madness, not only because of the bending of the knee to the 91 times charged felon and his death threatening base of goons, but because they fucking negotiated it. Yeah yeah, in the House where the brain rotted nutters live, the Coward of the House, Mikey Johnson, has dropped to his knees and declared the bill DOA. Why? Because the lunatics will string him up from the gallery if he even allows a vote and takes away Der Fuhrer's lies about the border. Johnson is a nutter himself, but because he was elected Speaker, I assume there's some sort of sense of duty there but guess not. There is no honor or duty among vandals and shit throwers. </p><p>What Joe Biden needs to do is address the nation and spell it out. I'd sign this shitty border bill in a second, but you GOP clowns won't let me. Americans, contact your Senators and House people and demand this issue be solved. It aint my fault, its them and the future felon to blame for this. period. The bill is right fucking there, and that fucking sick fuck is ordering the GOP around like an undocumented worker at Bedbug A Lago.</p><p>Return the volley, Joe. Ignoring it and thinking Americans understand is dangerous. It's insane. Americans are getting dumber by the minute, thinking the Orange Rapist had a secure border just because he says so and Fox News backs him up. Attack Joe!</p><p>Or it may be Hasta La Vista.</p>Max's Dadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10279218439042723141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4877156685347777744.post-26049575732772203032024-02-02T10:44:00.004-06:002024-02-02T10:44:55.460-06:00Jesus Christ Superstar! <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFhC1mttl8-bJs7q60wQ4t4OZ2CJViB3wmaijbk1g1vYD4DQLNaQEy-JNioLyALiRnsjkuqsMgBJtAsvtHI30jlCtcFzhg05m-h_MtD2orhukq5VDW4veuTAGx8g_P_FqLlBkK5h87xHZyHBAS6rYblehFnIMpPJReNhj0JIWyExB3uwh0e73gxfRAooc/s900/Jesus-Judas.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFhC1mttl8-bJs7q60wQ4t4OZ2CJViB3wmaijbk1g1vYD4DQLNaQEy-JNioLyALiRnsjkuqsMgBJtAsvtHI30jlCtcFzhg05m-h_MtD2orhukq5VDW4veuTAGx8g_P_FqLlBkK5h87xHZyHBAS6rYblehFnIMpPJReNhj0JIWyExB3uwh0e73gxfRAooc/s320/Jesus-Judas.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> I've seen Jesus Christ Superstar at least 8 times, from community theaters to Broadway touring shows , the movie from 1973 and even that horrid version they showed live on NBC years ago. I will never miss it if its close because it is my favorite musical of all time, and I don't apologize for it. The first time I heard the album I was fascinated as it challenged the years and years of Catholic propaganda that I found not only boring but also reeked of bullshit. I often say I learned more about the New Testament in 90 minutes listening to that album than all the years of antisemitic Catholic dogma blaming the "Jews" for killing Christ. <p></p><p>I've seen the legendary Ted Neeley as Jesus many times and the late OG Carl Anderson as Judas. I've seen In Living Color lead singer Corey Glover as Judas. I've seen understudies, community theater actors and singers all of whom knock it out of the park. Last night at the Lied Center in Lincoln, a non-union touring company began a 4-night run. No idea what to expect. On one hand the non-union cast is hungry and scrappy to get a SAG card, yet they are basically still amateurs. What to expect?</p><p>Greatness is what we got. A minimal stage taking no attention away from the music. A band onstage in the rafters. Dancers onstage making moves I didn't think possible. And a cast with a classic musical in their hands. They did not disappoint.</p><p>I won't go over the plot as everyone knows it. The last few violent days of Jesus' life. You may think of Jesus as the Messiah, the Lord, your savior, good for you. To me he's one of the most radical political figures of all time. A man of the people taking on the establishment for the common good. And of course, they killed him for it.</p><p>The musical shows Jesus' doubts, his struggle with being human, his willingness to stare the oppressors in the grill and not back down. As Caiphas says "one thing I'll say for him Jesus is cool". The coolest.</p><p>The cast is brilliant. Jack Hopewell as Jesus has a voice range that has to be seen to be believed. He's a mini Neeley. Elvie Ellis as Judas has that same range and the emotional chops to make his rage believable. Jaden Dominique as Mary Magdalene can also do her thing and crushes I Don't Know How To Love Him to wild applause. Alex Stone as Pilate, Alec Diehm as the flamboyant Herod, Sherrod Brown as Simon the Zealot all shine in their moments to solo. But the 4 priests, led by Grant Hodges as Caiaphas and Mekhi Holloway as Annas, are phenomenal. When they march down the ramp onto the stage you know something special is about to happen. And it does.</p><p>Go see this if you can. The violence of the 39 lashes, the actual crucifixion and the betrayal of Jesus by Judas and Peter are hard to watch. But watch you must. </p><p>These kids are fantastic. It's as good as it can possibly be.</p><p>Just give them their SAG cards.</p>Max's Dadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10279218439042723141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4877156685347777744.post-3115682578051137402024-01-30T23:41:00.003-06:002024-01-31T08:23:06.341-06:00Beetlejuice!!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg68tJ6jwbb-C8z0kb0hwJ_2f9AC2waIHqnOchBteLSxQVyE3EvNFoBHXtULvbmgzvFBiVbLzMpqcjfwYjPeGdOVWZFab4Xj1ByhgBkcIw_mqjEW-IhknE2K-fxXNRMKUieSIL3bu6Vxwx-TLwM9Sxxy1RNaJe9WnYAXIHuonp7qMPdm8_5khnFSc5s1as/s1108/beetlejuice-2.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="737" data-original-width="1108" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg68tJ6jwbb-C8z0kb0hwJ_2f9AC2waIHqnOchBteLSxQVyE3EvNFoBHXtULvbmgzvFBiVbLzMpqcjfwYjPeGdOVWZFab4Xj1ByhgBkcIw_mqjEW-IhknE2K-fxXNRMKUieSIL3bu6Vxwx-TLwM9Sxxy1RNaJe9WnYAXIHuonp7qMPdm8_5khnFSc5s1as/s320/beetlejuice-2.webp" width="320" /></a></div><br /> I've never seen the movie Beetlejuice. I just know nobody who likes it. So when the Broadway musical Beetlejuice was on the bill in the season, I really didn't expect much. In fact, I debated not going. Man am I glad I went.<p></p><p>Beetlejuice isn't for kids though there were quite a few in attendance in a packed house at the sound challenged Orpheum Theater here in Omaha. It's a play about death. Beetlejuice says that right from the get-go. It's also a bit PG-13 even at times R with the language and the sexual innuendo. Beetlejuice asked a kid in the audience how old are you? When the kid said 10, the character looks shocked and says, "you are about to learn a lot of stuff".</p><p>The play is about Lydia. Lydia has lost her mother and is grieving while her dad continues on with a new house, a new girlfriend, a plot to make money on the house and a seeming indifference to his daughters' sadness. Enter Beetlejuice, a bitter and lonely demon looking for chaos in the human world. The Maitlands, Barbara and Adam, used to own the house, died in the house and want it back from Lydia's father. In cahoots with Lydia, who can see the invisible ghosts due to her gloominess and desire to die, Beetlejuice and the Maitlands haunt the house. And hilarity ensues. Lydia just wants to see her dead mom again and takes huge chances to do so before realizing she really doesn't want that. She wants her dad to acknowledge the death of her mom and his wife. Eventually we get closure. Beetlejuice is foiled and happiness is achieved. </p><p>The musical has lots of catchy tunes, none of which I'd heard other than Day-O of course. Stand outs included Dead Mom, Home and really fun Creepy Old Guy.</p><p>The cast is flawless. Justin Collette has a blast being the creepy lecherous lead character, Beetlejuice, interacting with the audience, making side cracks about other plays (Fuck Brigadoon yeah I said it) and politics (I feel as powerless as a gay Republican!). He is an energetic force of nature. Then there's Isabell Esler as Lydia, She's 18 and has the powerful voice of a pro. She belts out Home with a power 18-year-old kids aren't supposed to have developed yet. Megham McGinnis as Barbara Maitland, a mousy timid dead woman and Will Burton as Adam, a mousy timid dead man are wonderful in their transition from scaredy cats to Beetlejuice hunting tigers. Jesse Sharpe as Lydia's dad, Charles, has a great voice and a great stage presence. The rest of the cast knocks it into the balcony also. Abe Goldfarb as a fraudulent guru, Otho, has a small role but damn you know he's up there cuz he's impossible to ignore.</p><p>Sometimes you attend an event expecting nothing and you end up with something. Something great in fact. Beetlejuice is one of those things. It's not going to win any Tonys, but its fun fun fun. I won't remember this in a month or maybe 2 days (JC Superstar comin up), but the 2 1/2 hours we spent in the theater was well worth it and enjoyable. </p><p>It's the best show of the Omaha Broadway season so far. Yeah, go see it.</p>Max's Dadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10279218439042723141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4877156685347777744.post-20756154271877539262024-01-30T09:36:00.002-06:002024-01-30T09:36:15.040-06:00Taylor And Travis!!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9Q9HV2XivMetWDmLJ_eT2A8AEoJyjsUJRuO84BdgOj1iInxdr2huCORnT-1FQcpLMysNIObEsBdlrLXUQCvs3akJMnVv8dPgdJoJczfC0iC1exIRY_Zn39WTnKRPaTQ4jGZ2wH4lEwym6s7D4j77Sj1208vLCLoxzAJlB0Ce3xz9kRrkwjC7_Os6zwOw/s681/travis-kelce-taylor-swift-chiefs-super-bowl.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="383" data-original-width="681" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9Q9HV2XivMetWDmLJ_eT2A8AEoJyjsUJRuO84BdgOj1iInxdr2huCORnT-1FQcpLMysNIObEsBdlrLXUQCvs3akJMnVv8dPgdJoJczfC0iC1exIRY_Zn39WTnKRPaTQ4jGZ2wH4lEwym6s7D4j77Sj1208vLCLoxzAJlB0Ce3xz9kRrkwjC7_Os6zwOw/s320/travis-kelce-taylor-swift-chiefs-super-bowl.webp" width="320" /></a></div><br /> A year ago I was somebody who was pissed as Travis Kelce went all WWE after beating the Eagles in Super Bowl XXXXXXLLLLLXXXX or whatever. What a clown. And Taylor Swift? She was still a talentless goofball in my eyes.<p></p><p>Oh, what a difference a year makes. I went to see the Taylor Swift Eras Tour movie to see what the hype was all about and realized that this woman is a fucking national treasure. She works her ass off, has a lot of tunes you can't get out of your head and lyrics that are meaningful and true to life. Unlike my demo, which involves great music but insipid lyrics like "Lick It Up, its only Right Now" and "She told Me to Come, but I was already there."</p><p>Then came Travis Kelce, doing ads for the jab, with a twinkle in his eye, an attitude of fuck you if you don't like it and a famous feud with the " smartest guy in the room" a true living example of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect">Dunning Krueger Effect</a>, Aaron Rodgers. </p><p>Then came the merger of Swift and Kelce. Rumored to be a publicity stunt that became an obvious real relationship. The NFL and the TV networks couldn't stop showing Tay Tay in the suite cheering on her newfound love. It annoyed the shit out of the Alpha Male Girl Hating Club but secretly thrilled them as they had the opportunity to express their woman hatred with a legitimate subject.</p><p>We got to see such garbage as:</p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/ScottMGreer/status/1751783541141021132">"To Those who might say the right needs its own Taylor Swift to look up to. I answer we already have that . Her name is Lauren Boebert.</a></p><p>The conspiracy theorists crawled out. The incels that dominate social media anytime a woman gets the spotlight. The NFL is rigged. The Chiefs will win and then Kelce and Taylor will publicly endorse Joe Biden. And then comes the former presidential candidate for the GQP and current Trump ass kisser, Vivek Ramaswamy, who never met a dumbass idea he didn't like. </p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/VivekGRamaswamy/status/1751944730114498838">"I wonder who's going to win the Super Bowl. And I wonder if there's a major presidential endorsement coming from an artificially culturally propped-up couple this fall. </a></p><p>Look, I don't like the Chiefs at all. Mahomes is a crybaby, their fans are drunken racist hillbillies, and every time I've been there rooting on my team, you dont want to lose. Their fans are even meaner and fight inclined when they win. A certain event in which Chiefs fans attacked two women in the opposing team's jerseys comes to mind and we left the game early to get away from them. </p><p>But come Super Bowl Sunday, I will be rooting for the Niners. But if the Chiefs pull it out, I won't be pissed like last year. I'll be happy as hell that the misogynists and MAGA lunkheads will be madder than hell and I'll be happy for those crazy kids, Travis and Taylor. </p><p>Who knew that an obvious love story would piss off the entire miserable incel MAGA misogynist community?</p><p>Everyone.</p>Max's Dadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10279218439042723141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4877156685347777744.post-63351813255972631392024-01-25T17:32:00.000-06:002024-01-25T17:32:26.467-06:00Mess With Texas!!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG5B24EAJQ4JKaSzolg9UVYVaVid0c4ud2SWvZqcUhi9pjCyBroqEaDiAeNbejYQPqsK1ifn2cdZl7MaZe-IZXt-PJbYBDi7Fhm0tDl_TrwisA6s-VQS_W7ihoWvuYJmf1XZ4-UoUHr_HR4-oGB63NEboiTOEsmV1jCmU771u0cEvI_AXNyMgJKZox2d0/s4831/abbott2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3225" data-original-width="4831" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG5B24EAJQ4JKaSzolg9UVYVaVid0c4ud2SWvZqcUhi9pjCyBroqEaDiAeNbejYQPqsK1ifn2cdZl7MaZe-IZXt-PJbYBDi7Fhm0tDl_TrwisA6s-VQS_W7ihoWvuYJmf1XZ4-UoUHr_HR4-oGB63NEboiTOEsmV1jCmU771u0cEvI_AXNyMgJKZox2d0/s320/abbott2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> What the hell is wrong with Texas? They keep electing this guy as Governor for some reason and he just continues to defy the federal gubmint in some sort of weird way to impress Tex out in Lubbock. Abbott is perfectly fine with drowned women, men and children washing up on the shore of the Rio Grande. As long as they're brown that is. Despite being ordered to stand down and remove razor wire in the water Abbott has decided to go all <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orval_Faubus">Orval Faubus</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Barnett">Ross Barnett</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Wallace">George Wallace </a>in, what year is this, 2024. The Confederacy is alive and well as Republican governors like Jim Pillen (Child Starver-Ne), Kristi Noem (Eye Batter-SD) Kim Reynolds (Screecher-Ia) Mark Gordon (Who?-Wy) and others from Deep South Confederate states like North Dakota, Idaho and Montana jump on the Confederate bandwagon. Hell, maybe next Pillen and Noem can stand in the schoolhouse door to keep the transgenders and gays out. <p></p><p>As long as Abbott refuses to allow the Border Patrol to do their job and mobilized the Texas National Guard to keep the Border Patrol out, he's breaking the law. Oh, I know that there's a certain number of wingnuts who think the 10th Amendment gives states the right to defy federal law, but those people are not serious people. </p><p>What should happen? Joe Biden needs to nationalize the Texas Guard as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Rock_Nine"> Eisenhower did in 1957</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand_in_the_Schoolhouse_Door">JFK did back in 1963 </a>and make them stop breaking the law. There's no doubt that MAGA has infiltrated police forces, the Border Patrol and the various Guards and they may not take kindly to defying their orange hero but if they refuse arrest their asses, including Wheels Abbott, a truly loathsome individual.</p><p>Do it Joe. This is your time.</p>Max's Dadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10279218439042723141noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4877156685347777744.post-83093794240670451122024-01-24T10:43:00.002-06:002024-01-24T10:46:12.949-06:00Nikki Haley!<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmqttHrgCMsly4yKKx2mp1hxcFOQo8R1s-aZKxYGlDpqeI1LRvMHgHM-kB-dSn8ulwWKvlOuBZe9KPF4eMarjzc1G_8FCegmwZrlpff_Te-8stWvPNhMWDirErfBh-uEEiwXD7L3oFCRlMQYXaGX59X7rRD56Jr0l7A_uO0dFOo-oUAeumRtUyZaJT_ng/s275/nikki.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmqttHrgCMsly4yKKx2mp1hxcFOQo8R1s-aZKxYGlDpqeI1LRvMHgHM-kB-dSn8ulwWKvlOuBZe9KPF4eMarjzc1G_8FCegmwZrlpff_Te-8stWvPNhMWDirErfBh-uEEiwXD7L3oFCRlMQYXaGX59X7rRD56Jr0l7A_uO0dFOo-oUAeumRtUyZaJT_ng/s1600/nikki.jpg" width="275" /></a></div>She isn't quitting, Donnie. At least not yet. Nikki Haley is going to drive Donald F Trump crazy, at least for another week or so. She is a thorn in his flabby side. She is going to call him old, a has been, the past, and he is going to attack her because how dare you challenge the alpha male with the orange bronzer and the ill-fitting suits.<p></p><p>Look, Haley isn't going to win, or even get close. Independents and Democrats fueled her 43% of the vote. But as long as she refuses to quit, she is going to drive Trump nuts. A woman named Nimrata is the worst nightmare for Trump, who stated he "gets even" and threatened to weaponize the DOJ against her if he wins in November. He claimed there were "5 things" she didn't want to talk about and then in typical Trump fashion, he just dropped it. He has no idea what those 5 things are, but like Joe McCarthy, he just spews diarrhea out of his tiny mouth and the cultists cheer. </p><p>I have no love for Nikki Haley. She's just as terrible as the rest of them. Ever since she went too far for MAGA when she took down the Confederate flag from the statehouse in response to a white supremacist murdering 9 black church goers in South Carolina, Nikki Haley has been shifting to knuckle dragging conservative. She said she would sign a national abortion ban, probably support government shutdowns, doesn't care for the LGBTQ folks, and is terrible on immigration. But at least she believes in democracy, I think. Haley is more of the traditional Republican, a believer in tax cuts for the wealthy, trickle down nonsense and a strong national defense as opposed to these MAGA America First nuts. </p><p>Haley is going to stay in, despite the South Carolina rats like Tim Scott and Lindsey Graham supporting Trump. Every second she stays in will take its toll on The Election Denier. He hates opposition but what really hates is women standing up to his bullying ways. Trump gave his "victory speech" with a venom unlike any other "winner". He called former tabs keeper, press secretary and liar Kayleigh McEnaney a RINO which has become a term for anybody calling out Trump. He is supposedly upset with Arkansas hillbilly and Governor Sarah Sanders for dragging her feet on endorsing him. He hates women unless they are letting him grab their pussy.</p><p>As long as Nikki Haley denies reality and continues her doomed quest for the Republican nomination, I'm right there. Watching Trump take a win and turn it into a screed filled bitter rant makes me very happy.</p><p>But as they say in the South. Bless her heart.</p>Max's Dadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10279218439042723141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4877156685347777744.post-80328589343571040452024-01-22T10:39:00.004-06:002024-01-22T10:39:49.561-06:00DeSantis!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqHrPPia0qALbaPuBDUwHQjn8a4zscFTkl14TdxYwxymko0z7Y_XnZ-n4i2GC0yIdsSeMzMJmDYQDXO3G1g8QV3hyCeqo0HPjMzBLoELDpOj099-JzN9Kpb6g-eN4rW9D91MiylC3hx4eYJCVxzX1jNiMW8cOAOAjqp98cYZbQVgzdx5XwTtHtXfesxWw/s680/desantis%20mickey.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="680" data-original-width="656" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqHrPPia0qALbaPuBDUwHQjn8a4zscFTkl14TdxYwxymko0z7Y_XnZ-n4i2GC0yIdsSeMzMJmDYQDXO3G1g8QV3hyCeqo0HPjMzBLoELDpOj099-JzN9Kpb6g-eN4rW9D91MiylC3hx4eYJCVxzX1jNiMW8cOAOAjqp98cYZbQVgzdx5XwTtHtXfesxWw/s320/desantis%20mickey.jpg" width="309" /></a></div>The Never Back Down guy backed down yesterday and like Ted Cruz before him, Ron DeSantis dropped to his knees to kiss the boots of The Defendant. The guy who couldn't finish a sentence without the word "woke" fell asleep in the campaign. The tough guy Governor of Florida, the "Free State of Florida", the guy who banned books, took on the Mouse, sent vulnerable migrants to Martha's Vineyard, got into bum fights with the press, arrested black voters, licked his lips constantly, smiled like early onset A.I., let Casey take over any speech he felt uncomfortable doing, and on a national basis was even less popular than Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush, pussed out and quit. Like most bullies he got punched by an even bigger bully and crawled away, hat in hand, and expressed his admiration for the other bully. A Profile in Courage.<p></p><p>Ron DeSantis, if nothing else, proved that outside of Florida, the Villages, and Alabama South, he is just another asshole. He bacame even less likable as he went along. From beating Trump in some polls early on, he fell way behind as people got to know him. He's awkward. not nice, and a misanthrope. His attempts to talk with average Iowans were cringy. He basically hates people and unless he can stand-in front of gang of press, with sycophants standing behind him, and bait one into asking him a tough question so he can appeal to his fellow assholes by throwing a tantrum and denying reality, Ron DeSantis is a bad national candidate. Trump's an asshole too, a misanthrope who hates people, but he has a charisma I cannot explain. He gets crowds to not realize he's in utter contempt of them and makes people laugh for some reason. The old punch down comedy so many dickheads like. DeSantis isn't funny in the least, he hates people outwardly, and he has a disdain for his voters that he doesn't even attempt to hide. </p><p>Thus, Iowa said hey fuck off. We prefer the evil we know. At least he's entertaining. You're just a stiff. New Hampshire was about to say fuck off as was South Carolina and the guy and his minions in Never Back Down who spent $150,000,000 fucked off. In his concession speech he quoted Winston Churchill with the famous words Churchill never said, "Success is not final, failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts." I don't know if he saw that quote on a towel at Cracker Barrel or if he figured MAGA would never google it much less google Churchill, but DeSantis, like his conqueror, just cannot tell the truth.</p><p>Remember back when people were saying DeSantis is just like Trump, but smarter.</p><p>Wrong!</p>Max's Dadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10279218439042723141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4877156685347777744.post-81344972696418722892024-01-18T12:07:00.000-06:002024-01-18T12:07:44.168-06:00Toddler Trump!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7OfZKJ2BMjFjCWUNf7AQivOUlWQVoPMilBLFgNScfA8khVOPV28Qikn7ROExVEosRQ990bhC0URtNcfwA4iS9iO_KPVDxGRiG3yr9xOPe0DXiC55LVl25t3GfLu78ySIk2S6C8ar0zqs32nQObNIr2nti8Zojinl8esKxE0KsCh_2ErSFW9_QDffqAdA/s760/carroll%20trump.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="380" data-original-width="760" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7OfZKJ2BMjFjCWUNf7AQivOUlWQVoPMilBLFgNScfA8khVOPV28Qikn7ROExVEosRQ990bhC0URtNcfwA4iS9iO_KPVDxGRiG3yr9xOPe0DXiC55LVl25t3GfLu78ySIk2S6C8ar0zqs32nQObNIr2nti8Zojinl8esKxE0KsCh_2ErSFW9_QDffqAdA/s320/carroll%20trump.webp" width="320" /></a></div><br /> The "trial" of convicted sexual assaulter and defamer, Donald F Trump, has been going on all week. The Defendant has chosen to appear in the courtroom to roll his eyes, thump the table, heckle the judge, and make an attempt to persuade a New York jury that he should not pay E Jean Carroll half his fucking worth. Or is he?<p></p><p>Trump continues to play helpless victim, claiming he's being pursued by Joe Biden and the Democrats in numerous jurisdictions, but what Fulton County Inmate P01135809 is really doing is pandering to his base of lunatics, mentally ill MAGAts, violent insurrectionists and white supremacists. He does not have to be in the courtroom despite what his eye candy alleged lawyer says. But there he is claiming how grief stricken he is over his mother in laws death though odds are 11,780 to one he could even remember her name. </p><p>As this "trial" goes on, and Alina Habba Esquire continuously fucks up his defense by openly sparring with a Judge who has no fucks left to give, Trump is there for one reason. He wants to be barred from the courtroom so he can go outside and whine to the complicit media how he isn't allowed to defend himself, how he's the victim of a witch hunt, and how its election interference. Meanwhile his rube base will plant in their diseased minds the upcoming 2024 "rigged" election where Trump will lose by 11 million votes and plots accordingly to launch Jan 6, The Sequel. </p><p>Yesterday when the 80-year-old Carroll took the stand, the Toddler in Chief went full tantrum. Any other defendant would be sitting in a jail cell overnight to think about his juvenile behavior. The convicted defamer sat at the table saying just loud enough for the jury to hear, "false statements" "con job", shaking his head, and hitting the table with his sore laden fist. Judge Kaplan, a patient man indeed, threatened to exclude Florida Fats from attending the trial to which Mobby Bossy Trump exclaimed "I would love it" while shaking his hands in the air like a middle school jazz dancer. Judge Kaplan said, "I know you would because you cant control yourself...."</p><p>Look, Judge Kaplan, throw this petulant kindergartener in the cooler, even if for only an hour. That's what you'd do to 99% of any other Defendants who acted like Dennis the Menace in front of you.</p><p>Next thing you know, between posting even more defamations of E Jean Carroll on his failing Truth Social, Trump will claim it's just his deep grief and desire to attend his mother in laws funeral that has fueled his rage. </p><p>Then he will run off to New Hampshire for more talking about "debanking" and "rifle bullets".</p>Max's Dadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10279218439042723141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4877156685347777744.post-82720025247112612202024-01-16T10:13:00.003-06:002024-01-16T10:13:46.911-06:00Iowa Caucus Supports Rapist!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0Y6_AHNGXRMqFgcoFqtamMt3NMwYDtXjb3OVhzLXskRt7b3xiq714Mwa2EVPH0YOxT_KGHPT4NTuTQniDCehThI8YLtI2W-vxDclmBhHm8UQUcXIK_ekGFbpwUTIirZKUk9jYfBxRikyhlNlafHcwsKaoa5UV7cyKhFd2baPyj2RYhF_dn4K6C9nKhWs/s1600/iowa%20caucus.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1066" data-original-width="1600" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0Y6_AHNGXRMqFgcoFqtamMt3NMwYDtXjb3OVhzLXskRt7b3xiq714Mwa2EVPH0YOxT_KGHPT4NTuTQniDCehThI8YLtI2W-vxDclmBhHm8UQUcXIK_ekGFbpwUTIirZKUk9jYfBxRikyhlNlafHcwsKaoa5UV7cyKhFd2baPyj2RYhF_dn4K6C9nKhWs/s320/iowa%20caucus.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> Last night a very "diverse" crowd of Iowans gathered together in school buildings they hate, socialist fire stations, and commie social halls to stick a vote into a hat or a popcorn box and then have it counted by partisan precinct "captains". This crowd of election deniers held their own little "secure" election and anointed a convicted rapist, a traitor and a guy facing 91 felonies and real-life jail time. Donald F Trump picked up 51% of the white vote. Ron DeFascist finished second with 22% and Nimrata Haley. who spend millions annoying the shit out of Nebraskans with her tedious television ads, stumbled home in the show position with 19%. The resident fast talking kook, Vivek Ramaswamy, only managed to fool 7% of Iowa Republicans and he be gone now. Kowtowing his miniscule support to the Traitorous Rapist, Ramaswamy now can continue to lick Trump's boots and get love from dummies who think a monorail is feasible. <p></p><p>Iowa is irrelevant yet is treated like some sort of soothsayer when for months, candidates who wouldn't be caught dead in that midwestern hellhole show up to eat corndogs, lick up butter and step in cow shit while wearing flannel. But the media plays right along cuz they need to fill 24 hours of crap every single day. Look, in a past life I was right in the middle of this process, a media member, and talked to a lot of candidates and a lot of rubes for months prior to the caucus. I didn't get it then and I don't get it now. I stood in a classroom, observed both parties' bicker at each other, and stared open mouthed as people moved to corners of the room and stood there. It's a ridiculous way to nominate a candidate for President. Not to mention Iowa gets it wrong a lot. Ask President Pat Robertson, President Rick Santorum, President Ted Cruz and President Mike Huckabee. You notice a pattern here? Yep, Iowa Republicans are white religious nationalists more so than the rest of the country. Again, it is nonsense.</p><p>The fact Trump was rejected by 49% of these "Christian" nationalists is a bigger deal than him "winning" 51%. A full 33% of Republican voters say if the Defendant is convicted of a felony, and he WILL be convicted, they arent voting for him. Thats significant at least for now. Yes, if Trump is nominated, a lot of that 33% will end up voting for him, but a lot will not. Thats still significant.</p><p>Iowa has 788,000 registered Republicans. The Perp got 56,000 votes. That's 7% of the GOP vote. So again WHY does anybody care about this state and its 94% white population? It is skewed. And it is truly an economic fraud that this caucus is. Millions are pumped into the state's economy every 4 years, and this is why Iowa will protect this at all costs. It's too bad anybody cares anbout this.</p><p>The winner of the Iowa caucuses is one man.</p><p>Joe Biden. </p>Max's Dadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10279218439042723141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4877156685347777744.post-40220801493289258202024-01-10T09:23:00.003-06:002024-01-10T09:23:45.934-06:00Mamma Mia!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaAPXBz6b3DNRWSLPZZdZlQp3vxa7aLP_ykXBOg84XEKFdrNKvs20aDluBSZionZIwOCE7daKo6kmKKjtgztsBQ9pCooCNYXW39P9DnoU3A3fVZ6xVUR5dbPNevsRjlR_llX1vQfnBXNr0rrCZe8gzAnIB1x3fqupqDe9ZdSiKn2kfkcFvSKec5Us9WS8/s1200/mammamia_pdp_desktop_1200x686.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="686" data-original-width="1200" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaAPXBz6b3DNRWSLPZZdZlQp3vxa7aLP_ykXBOg84XEKFdrNKvs20aDluBSZionZIwOCE7daKo6kmKKjtgztsBQ9pCooCNYXW39P9DnoU3A3fVZ6xVUR5dbPNevsRjlR_llX1vQfnBXNr0rrCZe8gzAnIB1x3fqupqDe9ZdSiKn2kfkcFvSKec5Us9WS8/s320/mammamia_pdp_desktop_1200x686.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> Way back in the 70's when I was just a kid with long hair and a taste for drug induced rock music like Pink Floyd, The Doors, The Airplane/Starship, Uriah Heep, Status Quo and Deep Purple, there was a group of corporate musicians more of a business than a band lurking on AM radio and getting lots of press from Casey Kasem. That was ABBA, the Swedish conglomerate of two men and two women who cranked out tune after tune of non-nutritious candy bar rock. Hit after hit after hit and this guy right here couldn't help but love it. Ear worms that even 50 years later I cannot get rid of in my memory bank. Yeah, it's against everything I stand for, but I couldn't help it. And I still cannot help it. The shit I took over the years from fellow rockers after I admitted that Knowing Me and Knowing You was a fucking great song is still a memory also. LOL.I still love ABBA.<p></p><p>With that in mind, here we go on Mamma Mia. </p><p>There are two kinds of jukebox musicals. There are musicals like Get on Your Feet, the Motown Story, Million Dollar Band, Tina, The Temptations, or even Beatlemania. These are musicals with familiar tunes, a story behind the band/singers, and some substance. Then there are jukebox musicals like Rock of Ages and Mamma Mia. These are an excuse to play familiar hit songs with absolutely no story anyone could possibly care about and have nothing to do with the bands they profess to love.</p><p>Mamma Mia. Its a "story" about Donna, a woman living on an island with her daughter who is about to be married. Ya see 20 years ago Donna got down with 3 different dudes in a short period of time, became pregnant with Sophie, and to this day has no idea who the father is. Cool. Sophie wants to know who her Dad is and invites all 3 to the wedding and the hilarity ensues. Thats about it. And oh yeah, they play a lot of ABBA music which saves it.</p><p>The cast is great. See the above picture to see when Mamma Mia knocks it out of the park. Mom Donna and her two friends. Tanya and Rosie are a freaking hoot to watch. And damn can they act AND sing. It's no wonder all 3 have been in TV, movies and Broadway. Christine Sherrill as Donna is captivating and as she belts out The Winner Takes It All this candy cane offering becomes 5 star Michelin. Jaylyn Steele as the thrice married Tanya singing Does Your Mother Know (very underrated ABBA song) gets a chance to shine as a singer and a dancer, Finally, Carly Sackolove as Rosie, the definite comedian of the bunch, gets to take her chops to the sky with Take A Chance On Me attempting a seduction of world traveler Bill.</p><p>The men are also right up there. Victor Wallace as Sam, one of the possible fathers, blasting Knowing Me and Knowing You to Donna is also masterful. There's a lot of talent up there with not much to work with as far as story goes,</p><p>Sophie. played by Alisa Melendez, is the weak link. Her voice is not strong enough to be heard over the live band. It was a chore to interpret what she was singing (tho yeah ABBA songs are easily remembered).</p><p>I didn't hate it. It just has nothing to offer other than great music. I've never seen the movies, and probably never will, despite the presence of Meryl Streep and Christine Baranski. Sorry, but I like a story that teaches me something about the music. Mamma Mia doesn't. Great music, lousy story just distracts us.</p><p>Go see an ABBA tribute band. I've seen two of them. No story just music. Fun Fun Fun. </p>Max's Dadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10279218439042723141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4877156685347777744.post-62535594214483443082024-01-08T13:51:00.001-06:002024-01-08T13:51:06.745-06:00Iowa TV Ads!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTW5TtuasM7GgdAct4GWB0yBqt3TpxxeF7i7HAJILj9CV997o-lUbuRzzCsSLi7cvGN6vW2DjcdjIYUz9_0eTaRcUa18eVqHZSXtMX0TY5a5x6niFfBEeJp_eMEr0UT-Nd2klLH6JRlXRNII9ippJMQO_36vRxAIeFRLGcyXLIgSZMVQ_kU3Sy12qziaI/s992/iowa%20caucus.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="558" data-original-width="992" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTW5TtuasM7GgdAct4GWB0yBqt3TpxxeF7i7HAJILj9CV997o-lUbuRzzCsSLi7cvGN6vW2DjcdjIYUz9_0eTaRcUa18eVqHZSXtMX0TY5a5x6niFfBEeJp_eMEr0UT-Nd2klLH6JRlXRNII9ippJMQO_36vRxAIeFRLGcyXLIgSZMVQ_kU3Sy12qziaI/s320/iowa%20caucus.webp" width="320" /></a></div><br /> Being in the 73rd largest media market in America and on the border of Iowa. for some reason still the first say the nation has in determining the nominee of the Republican Party, we have been inundated with political ads since last summer. Usually airing during national and local network news and Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune, these ads get tiresome quickly. Not only filled with bullshit, but outright lying on behalf of various candidates, these ads are aimed at old people, yeah that's about it (who else watches network and local news?). They began in the summer of 2023 and were exclusively made by PACS (thanks Supreme Court), generally for Ron DeSantis, the lip licker from Florida with the I want to be a real boy grin. The way these ads went, DeSantis is the future because he turned Florida into a fascist paradise, hates woke (whatever that is), and "won" every battle he ever waged. He was turned into a war hero (serving as a military lawyer and torture advocate) with a picture of Ron the Con holding a weapon. DeSantis' PAC spent a lot of money last summer and fall to not take the lead. <p></p><p>When the Koch Brothers took on the Nikki Haley campaign as the so called "moderate" polite candidate, the ads became the same old bullshit, fascism with a smile and a bony finger point. Haley was that nice lady who had a stern voice when she was challenged. Kind of that school principal who tells you how disappointed she is in you. Haley surged into double figures. barely.</p><p>Now that the main event is within striking distance, enter the Sasquatch candidate, Donald Trump, Without a positive bone in his flabby body, Trump immediately went on the attack in his ads. Ron DeSantis copies me, DeSantis would be a nobody without me. DeSantis is lame. Aways ending with a slo mo shot of the lumbering Bigfoot with his thumbs up, Trump's ads became monotonous. </p><p>He then shifted to attack Joe Biden in more ads. Lots of brown people in crowds. all assumed to be terrorists. then shit blowing up as they're not only terrorists they are Hamas and look to explode a bunch of stuff. Ya know, vote for Joe and your pickle ball court will go up in flames. BOOM!</p><p>Nikki Haley attacks DeSantis and Biden in her ads. Biden is too old. Nikki is the new generation. Again, same old fascist shit with a younger face, but her finger pointing looks better than a thumbs up? And she doesn't rumble like a 1916 tank on the Western Front. Haley also cites a poll showing her beating Biden by 14 points (best part is the Fox News moron exclaiming 14 points that's not even close...gee really Einstein?) She wants cognitive tests, age limits. term limits and whatever the Kochs want I guess. Not one of which has even a zero percent chance of being law. But Haley and her alleged genteel manner is supposed to appeal to who exactly? I am not sure.</p><p>The one common denominator here among Haley and DeSantis is their utter cowardice in passing on attacking the Iron Giant. They refuse to attack Trump. They attack each other. I'm not sure why this race for 2nd place is so appealing to them. By not attacking the staggering elephant these two are showing two things. A lack of seriousness and utter fealty to a dictatorial wannabe. And of course, the unwillingness to subject themselves, their families, their staffers, their friends to the death threats and violent rhetoric of the MAGA morons. I get it, but c'mon now, you aren't slaying the lumbering diaper shitter without putting up with return fire, as stupid as it may be.</p><p>But it's almost over. In a little more than a week, white Iowa "Christians" will gather at schools and churches and anoint their orange God. Then it will be over, and the ads will move on to New Hampshire and Iowa can go back to being the provincial insecure Midwesterners they always are.</p><p>Then it's also back to TV ads for boner pills, stair lifts and life alerts. Normal.</p>Max's Dadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10279218439042723141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4877156685347777744.post-23816756020520685222023-12-19T11:53:00.006-06:002023-12-19T11:53:55.854-06:00Der Furor!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAi1_N9AoVaSj-g4uReruvrluzrob6QyMF2icSkGZpSEAIhEEXIAD8cEPZ6m1oGsB6Ay-4e_NkFvAaBecs2udnyCSDAqEAqKQYmHxA5Bj6Xp9uSaLS2MadFlB6LWpYY9sAYtjRqjijyUin0CzHR-SZfySxDssH_E8gTvEsrokhdI-lVWnX3Nf_cIL6Djw/s1200/trump%20fuehrer.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="630" data-original-width="1200" height="168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAi1_N9AoVaSj-g4uReruvrluzrob6QyMF2icSkGZpSEAIhEEXIAD8cEPZ6m1oGsB6Ay-4e_NkFvAaBecs2udnyCSDAqEAqKQYmHxA5Bj6Xp9uSaLS2MadFlB6LWpYY9sAYtjRqjijyUin0CzHR-SZfySxDssH_E8gTvEsrokhdI-lVWnX3Nf_cIL6Djw/s320/trump%20fuehrer.webp" width="320" /></a></div><br /> "They're poisoning the blood of our country...... They're coming into our country, from Africa, from Asia, all over the world". <p></p><p>"All great cultures of the past perished only because the originally creative race died out from blood poisoning."</p><p>The frontrunner in the nominating process for a major political party in the United States said one of these things over the weekend up in New Hampshire/ The other was written in a book called Mein Kampf. Don't really see the difference?</p><p>In Iowa, home of the white rural Christo fascist, the frontrunner of a political party called his opponents "radical leftist thugs who live among us like vermin". A recent poll in the Des Moines Register confirmed that supporters of Trump love him even more because of these statements. Scary shit? Well maybe that America Firsters and so called "patriots" don't actually believe in America has been a pet peeve of mine for all of my life. Too many people have stated authoritarian bullshit in my lifetime that it concerned me even as a teen. Many in America has a strongman fantasy of crushing their opponents as long as its their side. This covers both sides of the spectrum by the way. I've seen leftists screaming at speakers they don't like, shouting them down, calling for their imprisonment, acting like assholes. I've seen right wingers doing the same. But leftists never have had a political candidate who leads the pack and says crazy shit to the delight of a majority of voters. </p><p>Meanwhile though Trump is literally quoting Hitler, giving his primary opponents more than enough ammunition to hit back, I mean for crissakes its fucking Hitler, none of them have the courage to even slightly criticize Der Furor for his Nazi rhetoric. </p><p>Ronda Santis said something like I dont talk like that (yeah ok) but its all the media's fault for reporting it...Nikki Haley, the school marm voiced "moderate" that former Republicans (yeah right, former) try to portray as normal, wouldn't say shit about it other than well shoot, he says some crazy stuff. Lindsey Graham, the noodle spined closet case, doesn't give a damn as long as Trumps concentration camps and police state get done. Vivek Ramaswamy, the motor mouthed maniac, just keeps talking and ignores any question cuz ya know he's Vivek Ramaswamy, genius. Congresswoman Nicole Malliotakas , an Elise Stefanik wannabe from New York, simply denied he said it and even if he did, he meant "poisoning" the country with Democratic policies, not people from Africa or Asia. Oh no he didn't mean anything like that. he just likes the white countries better.</p><p>Republicans are cowards when it comes to Trump. He has a base of mouth breathing fascists who crawled out from under the rock they had hidden out in before 2015 or so. Those people ARE the Republican party 2023, because the sane people left and only the cowards stayed. The cowards who treasure power more than good. Treasure money more than what is right. Treasure ego over the common good. The Elise Stefaniks, the Nancy Maces, the Ted Cruzs, the Lindsey Grahams (who knows what they have on him wink wink) all will fall in line to get that base vote. It's so fucking easy to get that vote and they know it. Next thing you know it's a dictatorship owning the libs. And the ignorant will be run over just like the rest of us.</p><p>But it can't happen here, right? Hitler used to be a deal breaker, not any longer.</p><p>Arbeit Macht Frei.</p><p>Right Lindsey Graham?</p><p><br /></p>Max's Dadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10279218439042723141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4877156685347777744.post-11818199288031714632023-12-13T11:08:00.001-06:002023-12-14T11:54:57.740-06:00Andre Braugher!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO9CntrEwsHKVckPM-NhFJx0CqtssSh0JS3nvzk81iLXecu1yEuLLF-wiiB-YnfC8gX-Z5ukMpZjGF9fUwAtL63wwTZhl3KcCdj-VXvmbgyXoW5vQJq6iXgpwu84-_-L4FOMC_eQIGkdZlnyi64NlOqTb8OL8Q1rp0wSNSCnJv0wyMKeoNcDJ_nbHF6fg/s299/andre.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="299" height="168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO9CntrEwsHKVckPM-NhFJx0CqtssSh0JS3nvzk81iLXecu1yEuLLF-wiiB-YnfC8gX-Z5ukMpZjGF9fUwAtL63wwTZhl3KcCdj-VXvmbgyXoW5vQJq6iXgpwu84-_-L4FOMC_eQIGkdZlnyi64NlOqTb8OL8Q1rp0wSNSCnJv0wyMKeoNcDJ_nbHF6fg/s1600/andre.jpg" width="299" /></a></div><br /> Man, this hit me hard. Andre Braugher, an actor and a man who commanded whatever screen you saw him on, passed away at age 61. I was stunned. How is this man no longer here? <p></p><p>First saw him as this bespectacled upper class educated black man in <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097441/characters/nm0105672">Glory</a>, the movie that also starred an up-and-coming Denzel Washington and a legend named Morgan Freeman as men of the Massachusetts 54th fighting the Confederacy that had enslaved them. Though Washington won the Oscar, deservedly so, it was Braugher who left the wow who's that guy impression on me. I searched him out before the days of streaming. The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson for one. What a force.</p><p>Homicide: Life on the Street is still one of the greatest ensemble casts of all time. But who knew that it was <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8vK_SpHz8o">Frank Pembleton</a> who would be such a lasting character. Braughers scenes in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLyLM7k3jkE">"the box"</a> interrogating people he thought were guilty, his awkward interaction with his coworkers, and his unabashed Catholicism (played so perfectly) made Pembleton a character that will never fail to impress.</p><p>We would watch virtually anything if he was in it because he made everything better for having been in it. Get on the Bus, Hack, Thief, Men of a Certain Age, even Last Resort, the wayward submarine drama that didn't last. The arch nemesis of Olivia Benson, a defense lawyer on<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FALVejF4jMQ"> Law and Order SVU</a>, the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDlBjJkRscg">therapist </a>of the fucked-up Dr Gregory House, the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54_os-u0I-M">showboat lawyer on the Good Fight</a>, man there are so many. </p><p>But in 2013, a show called Brooklyn 99 was about to debut. Maxs Mom and I both wondered what in the hell was Andre Braugher doing being in a show with a clown like Andy Samberg. But we watched it and goddam, we were totally off base about both of them. Captain Holt, a gay black cop with a husband named Kevin and a corgi named Cheddar. dominated the screen. And he was hilarious playing the intellectual stuck up by the book in life as well as policing Captain Holt. He hated the word<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyUqV9I_lb8"> Bone</a> , he thought nothing of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BCXJ3yC65o">dentists</a> , his<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ6HaIP5uwg"> prediction expertise</a> , <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO9WuPX_is0">eating marshmallows</a>, or <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3poLlDk6bI">Holt and Cheddar</a>.</p><p>He was a such a joy. I will miss him.</p>Max's Dadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10279218439042723141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4877156685347777744.post-14238117062000647862023-12-04T14:21:00.000-06:002023-12-04T14:21:25.936-06:00Jayskers!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7AIS23V1kBoH1pNhVkzGO96ufilybAZXWZp9ZQlG8uNFIgNM9YBsqc2T-7rhEo_tw_WOR6OIxPtlsxOS3V4DnnIUEaseCnuBONNTjDiuSEntcjpaxlalDFHKSumjPaRLVoqRG6OIersKtl6ItFR_NIHn1MogIYChYlNRlzgPTJ_Stu5vMXvsTgn7X8rs/s750/jaysker.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="750" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7AIS23V1kBoH1pNhVkzGO96ufilybAZXWZp9ZQlG8uNFIgNM9YBsqc2T-7rhEo_tw_WOR6OIxPtlsxOS3V4DnnIUEaseCnuBONNTjDiuSEntcjpaxlalDFHKSumjPaRLVoqRG6OIersKtl6ItFR_NIHn1MogIYChYlNRlzgPTJ_Stu5vMXvsTgn7X8rs/s320/jaysker.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> Allow me to be provincial here. There's a creature here in Nebraska called a Jaysker. What's a Jaysker you may ask? Well, a Jaysker is generally a fan who in the fall supports Nebraska football with a fervor and once that is over, generally on Black Friday, they turn their attention to basketball. Nebraska basketball? Oh hell no. It's all Creighton basketball. Why? Well to a certain degree it's because Nebrasketball is a lifelong frustration of mediocrity at best and Creighton is a national power and Jays fans are the type of people who think paying $40K a year for a private Catholic college somehow makes it better than a state school you can attend for half that. Jays fans tend to be wealthier (lots of doctors and lawyers) than us unclean state school grads who weren't egotistical enough to bankrupt our parents because we are so special. I don't like Jayskers at all. They are disloyal and without any sports fan ethics. They are the type of fans who state they are Lakers fans, Yankees fans, Cowboys fans and Manchester United fans. In other words, they admire money, religion and phoniness. I would bet most Jays fans are MAGA, not because they are stupid like most MAGA but because they, as white wealthy people, they know whatever happens, they will be just fine. Its selfishness. It's being a Jaysker.<p></p><p>I first encountered Creighton basketball when my Dad had season tickets in the late 60's and early 70's and would take me to games at the old Civic Auditorium. Sitting in the seats that now would cost hundreds of dollars right behind the bench, I witnessed a Creighton student section that was in a constant frenzy. Not supporting their team but hating the other team, the referees and anybody else that that didn't act like an asshole. The sight of an entire section of young people constantly swearing and flipping the bird at refs and other teams (keep in mind this is a Catholic University) was appalling to me. This continued year after year until my Dad gave up his tickets somewhat due to the craziness and somewhat due to the fact money became tight in the 70's. He used to say how lawyers he knew acting like nutjobs was kind of embarrassing and he really didn't want to think of his acquaintances that way.</p><p>Nebrasketball never played Creighton when I was a kid for some reason but resumed the rivalry in the mid 1970's. The first game was in 1977 and it came in Lincoln, Creighton was better than Nebraska at the time. Friends of mine from Creighton came down to see the game. They trashed my apartment, got drunk and we went to the game. Nebraska won that game somehow and many of those Creighton fans were in tears. I never felt better. The arrogance was kicked in the nuts.</p><p>Then came 1978 and the 2nd game in Omaha. Creighton students dressed in overalls, chewed on straw, and danced around like the assholes they are. Again, the arrogance. Creighton won that game because the officiating decided that Nebraska was unworthy, threw out the Husker Coach, a Nebraska player and sent the Jays to the free throw line constantly. Yeah, they may have been better but at least give us a chance.</p><p>Throughout the years, the Nebraska-Creighton series became kind of mundane because Creighton sucked and lost year after year. The "crowds" at Creighton games dwindled to the hundreds because after all, bandwagon jumpers jump off as often as on. Nebraska was actually better for 15 years and then like all Nebrasketball mojo, it ended because of a firing of a coach. Then Creighton got a brand-new arena, and the Jaysker fan felt important again. Creighton got better, Nebraska got worse and the Jaysker fan sat in their luxury boxes feeling like the big shots they perceive themselves to be.</p><p>Yesterday the annual battle occurred in Lincoln and was supposed to be competitive. It wasn't. As a long-time Husker season ticket holder (loyalty, man), we were there surrounded by Jayskers in blue. The asshole-ness was still in full force. As Creighton continued to kick our ass, like KC Chiefs fan, they became even nastier. The very people who sat in the freezing cold the prior week watching Nebraska football, now became Nebraska haters. Taunting us about lack of football success, the perceived better education they received, the long hairs and foreigners who play for Nebraska, and the arrogance of yelling at the end of the national anthem "home of the FUCKIN JAYS". Infuriating to the point when we left the blowout and a Jaysker sarcastically yelled at me where I was headed, he got two birds from me. I despise them. They make me lose my mind. Like the time at a St Johns-Creighton game, we were in the top row of the upper deck. Being a St Johns fan since the heyday of the 1980's Big East, clad in a St Johns t shirt, after the Johhnies lost after missing a last second shot, an old Creighton fan, stuck in the nosebleeds same as me, growled in a not nice way, "enjoy the flight back to Newwwwwww York" like it was beyond his comprehension anyone from Omaha could hate Creighton, to which I replied "see ya next fall in Lincoln, Jaysker". Baffled.</p><p>It's just a game, right? Nope, it's a war against disloyalty and arrogance. Fuck Creighton1</p>Max's Dadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10279218439042723141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4877156685347777744.post-25348215120316261772023-12-01T09:24:00.002-06:002023-12-01T09:24:31.920-06:00Bush!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiomAKuMbDE4A0RBZkiCdpWZN6ZrIrRsEOWhBoz6CBPcpS2OqyBS68ndAcRFWN_4jxXbteTvvLgk5O7uB_6cP4u1xCX5bLuv5GGYeSBO3_LdTm52KGGdKQ0U24mHg5vsbug1DSZNithj61ISm5MqsbkX377G2EwrMhe5986ooQPtDePxIMucBJKa-gd52Y/s4032/IMG_5269.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiomAKuMbDE4A0RBZkiCdpWZN6ZrIrRsEOWhBoz6CBPcpS2OqyBS68ndAcRFWN_4jxXbteTvvLgk5O7uB_6cP4u1xCX5bLuv5GGYeSBO3_LdTm52KGGdKQ0U24mHg5vsbug1DSZNithj61ISm5MqsbkX377G2EwrMhe5986ooQPtDePxIMucBJKa-gd52Y/s320/IMG_5269.HEIC" width="320" /></a></div><br /> Damn I still love "grunge". The style of hard rocking music from the 90's that put the hair metal bands out of business and thank gawd for that. Bush appeared at the new venue in Omaha called the Steelhouse last night and they still have it going on.<p></p><p>Opening act was something called Bad Wolves, a generic screeching metal band that was fine if you're into that cookie monster growling style of rock. I am not thus it was me looking at their setlist hoping for the end. </p><p>And now a pet peeve of mine. Lead singers who call the crowd "motherfuckers" constantly. I know its schtick and its part of the identity, but I really don't like being called that from a stage because the crowd isn't making enough noise for the singer's taste. I first heard a lead singer calling us that during a Rob Zombie concert and it made me hate the guy forever. The lead singer of Bad Wolves even apologized for his constant motherfucker talk but then he kept going. LOL..I'm "offended" by stupid shit, indeed, and what does he care what a geriatric grunge fan thinks, but hey dude there was only one "motherfucker" in that venue, and it wasn't the crowd.</p><p>Bush took the stage and launched right into Everything's Zen sending the crowd into an immediate frenzy, Machine Head was the 2nd song and quite frankly they had gotten the songs I definitely wanted to hear out there immediately and for that I was happy. Newer songs then began to dominate the show as they were obviously saving the Sixteen Stone songs for the end. Their new stuff was good, much like the 90's grungy stuff but they lost the crowd as most people were not familiar with it. Lots of us olds were leaving early. It picked back up and the crowd came back. </p><p>Gavin Rossdale is 58 years old, looks like he's in his 30's, and still has it going on. In fact, after he told the audience "Omaha you look great" a guy in his 50's next to me exclaimed "you look great too, Gavin, you son of a bitch". Classic old guy envy. Rossdales's voice is deeper, growlier, and seasoned to the point he sounds better than ever. His stage demeanor is very English and very subdued. It was a great show.</p><p>I first saw Bush in 1995 with Toadies (how's that for grunge) at the old Omaha Music Hall, an old dump with horrid sound mercifully torn down in the 2000's. The new venue, the Steelhouse in downtown is rather new (opened in July of 2023) and it is wonderful. The sound is crisp, you can understand the performers, the "motherfuckers" were crisp and clear and the lyrics of the songs were understandable. It's the best arena for rock I've been to maybe anywhere. I plan to return.</p><p>My Fair Lady and Bush all in two days. Yes, I am very diverse.</p>Max's Dadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10279218439042723141noreply@blogger.com0