What a got damn shitshow. [warning politics]

[PonoBill]

There's healthcare, and then there's healthcare in Maui. The most important healthcare decision you can make in Maui sin to get the heck to the mainland. Doesn't matter who you are.  Another political battle from another time decided in favor of entrenched bucks.

[stoneaxe]

I hope you get on that new Naish soon Taut.

[SUP Sports ®]

Here is a long rant from Huffington Post. Ok might very well be a DEM leaning writing, but most of these aren't open to interpretation...they are factual pieces of information: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/an-update-for-trump-voters_us_58ed00d2e4b0ca64d9199c3b?

He said he wouldn’t bomb Syria. You bought it. Then he bombed Syria.

He said he’d build a wall along the border with Mexico. You bought it. Now his secretary of homeland security says “It’s unlikely that we will build a wall.”

He said he’d clean the Washington swamp. You bought it. Then he brought into his administration more billionaires, CEOs, and Wall Street moguls than in any administration in history, to make laws that will enrich their businesses.

He said he’d repeal Obamacare and replace it with something “wonderful.” You bought it. Then he didn’t.

He said he’d use his business experience to whip the White House into shape. You bought it. Then he created the most chaotic, dysfunctional, back-stabbing White House in modern history, in which no one is in charge.

He said he’d release his tax returns, eventually. You bought it. He hasn’t, and says he never will.

He said he’d divest himself from his financial empire, to avoid any conflicts of interest. You bought it. He remains heavily involved in his businesses, makes money off of foreign dignitaries staying at his Washington hotel, gets China to give the Trump brand trademark and copyright rights, manipulates the stock market on a daily basis, and has more conflicts of interest than can even be counted.

He said Clinton was in the pockets of Goldman Sachs, and would do whatever they said. You bought it. Then he put half a dozen Goldman Sachs executives in positions of power in his administration.

He said he’d surround himself with all the best and smartest people. You bought it. Then he put Betsy DeVos, opponent of public education, in charge of education; Jeff Sessions, opponent of the Voting Rights Act, in charge of voting rights; Ben Carson, opponent of the Fair Housing Act, in charge of fair housing; Scott Pruitt, climate change denier, in charge of the Environmental Protection Agency; and Russian quisling Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State.

He said he’d faithfully execute the law. You bought it. Then he said his predecessor, Barack Obama, spied on him, without any evidence of Obama ever doing so, in order to divert attention from the FBI’s investigation into collusion between his campaign and Russian operatives to win the election.

He said he knew more about strategy and terrorism than the generals did. You bought it. Then he green lighted a disastrous raid in Yemen- even though  his generals said it would be a terrible idea. This raid resulted in the deaths of a Navy SEAL, an 8-year old American girl, and numerous civilians. The actual target of the raid escaped, and no useful intel was gained

He called Barack Obama “the vacationer-in-Chief” and accused him of playing more rounds of golf than Tiger Woods. He promised to never be the kind of president who took cushy vacations on the taxpayer’s dime, not when there was so much important work to be done. You bought it. He has by now spent more taxpayer money on vacations than Obama did in the first 3 years of his presidency. Not to mention all the money taxpayers are spending protecting his family, including his two sons who travel all over the world on Trump business.

He called CNN, the Washington Post and the New York Times “fake news” and said they were his enemy. You bought it. Now he gets his information from Fox News, Breitbart, Gateway Pundit, and InfoWars.

Seems like we've heard this song before...;-)

You Haven't Done Nothin' - Stevie Wonder (1974)

We are amazed but not amused
By all the things you say that you'll do
Though much concerned but not involved
With decisions that are made by you
But we are sick and tired of hearing your song
Telling how you are gonna change right from wrong
'Cause if you really want to hear our views
You haven't done nothing

It's not too cool to be ridiculed
But you brought this upon yourself
The world is tired of pacifiers
We want the truth and nothing else, yeah
And we are sick and tired of hearing your song
Telling how you are gonna change right from wrong
'Cause if you really want to hear our views
You haven't done nothing

Jackson 5 join along with me say doo doo wop
Hey hey hey, doo doo wop
Wow wow wow, doo doo wop
Hm hm hm, doo doo wop
Co co co, doo doo wop
Bum bum bum, doo doo wop

We would not care to wake up to the nightmare
That's becoming real life
But when mislead, who knows a person's mind
Can turn as cold as ice un hum
Why do you keep on making us hear your song
Telling us how you are changing right from wrong
'Cause if you really want to hear our views
You haven't done nothing

Yeah, na, na, nothing
Jackson 5 sing along again say doo doo wop
Hey hey hey, doo doo wop
Oh, doo doo wop
Bum bum bum, doo doo wop
Sing it, baby, doo doo wop
Bum bum bum, doo doo wop
Bum bum bum, doo doo wop
Hm-mm, sing it loud now, for your people, sing doo doo wop
Bum bum bum, doo doo wop, better come and say doo doo wop
Co co co, doo doo wop
Oh, doo doo wop
Bum bum bum, doo doo wop
Doo doo wop
Doo doo wop
Doo doo wop
Doo doo wop
Doo doo wop



"You Haven't Done Nothin'" is a 1974 funk single by Stevie Wonder, taken from his album Fulfillingness' First Finale and featuring background vocals by The Jackson 5. The politically aware song became Wonder's fourth Number 1 pop hit and his tenth Number 1 soul hit.[1] In the UK the single spent five weeks on the chart, peaking at Number 30.[2]

The song was one of his angriest political statements and was aimed squarely at President Richard Nixon, who resigned two days after the record's release. The Jackson Five sing the words "Doo da wop!" repeatedly in the chorus, when Wonder sings "Jackson Five, sing along with me"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Haven%27t_Done_Nothin%27

[SUP Sports ®]

I also love the late great Joe Cocker's version "You Haven't Done Nothin'" released in 2007...
Joe was a quite famed musician and one time resident of Santa Barbara...as was MJ of the Jackson 5 who sang the doo wop in Stevie's version...

Joe Cocker recorded awesome music over a 50 year career...



Check out the Netflix doc "Joe Cocker: Mad Dog with Soul" (2017) now streaming on Netflix...once in a lifetime Woodstock performance...good stuff...historical context for the current resistance movement...

https://www.netflix.com/title/80164112

[tautologies]

I hope you get on that new Naish soon Taut.

You and me  both my friend.

[headmount]

This 'missile strike' pissed me off. We were shown missile launches and then told what the impact was, when the technology is there to show us missiles hitting planes and destroying runways. And now it appears they didn't show us any impacts because they have lied about what those impacts were.

I saw the videos of the gassed kids and could wholeheartedly agree with a strike against an air base. But... as we've found out .... first it was 20% of the Syrian air force, then 20 planes and finally we find out there were six Syrian air force planes undergoing repairs at the base that were destroyed and the runways were totally undamaged. The Russians were notified before the strike and all the viable planes were moved. This was a BS strike and expensive at that. From the Economist... guided missiles technology is one of the most expensive sectors in smart weaponry. A single medium to long-range subsonic Tomahawk cruise missile costs roughly $1.5m, whereas a 50kg air-to-ground Hellfire rockets cost an $115,000 each.  Times 59 equals an 80million savings.

Maybe they have a reason to use the most expensive weapon available but if they're the party of conservative spending then they need to inform us why they made that choice. As far as the decision itself being an 'excutive' one, that criterion is based on imminent threat to the U.S. otherwise congress is supposed to weigh in. This was one of the issues we also had with Obama. This guy ran on a ticket that said he was going to be different Obama but this is the same old.

In 1944 planes from the third fleet attacked Japanese airfields on Formosa. 175 planes were destroyed on the ground and the runway was rendered useless... with 1944 technology. I know this because my Dad participated. They knew how to take out a damn air field.

[TallDude]

Bill,
I was looking through a film archive, trying to find a movie I saw years ago at the San Diego Air & Space museum. It showed the staggering cost of maintaining a military 24/7 around the world. Just the fuel was in the hundreds of millions per day. And that was and a 20 year old movie. I never found the movie, but I did come across this...
Your dad may be in it.

[mrbig]

We just dropped the MOAB gadget in Afghanistan. Whopee we're all gonna die..

[Bean]

In that case, grab your board and let's surf!

Seriously, not very happy about this escalation...

[TallDude]

I guess we should blame Trump for this...... unless it turns out for the better. Then we can say the plan originated with the Obama administration.

[Subber]

Exactly.

If Obama/Hillary had done it, good.
If Trump did it, bad.

However, I think either would have done it,
rather than scaling the wars down.

[southwesterly]

I've posted this before but with Russia and North Korea and Trump about to blow up the world, it's a good time to visit it again.

Plus the soundtrack is bitchin'.

[southwesterly]

You can google it as:

Apocalypse Later, Surf Now.

It's a great clip.

[Bean]

Yea, like that

[Weasels wake]

We just dropped the MOAB gadget in Afghanistan. Whopee we're all gonna die..

Not only did ISIS feel that, but so did the N Korean Pillsbury dough boy.
Nukes can be so yesterday.