1/ By tomorrow the rapist drunk will probably be confirmed on the Supreme Court....
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The FBI investigation into Brett Kavanaugh has turned out to be a fig leaf. Multiple reports tell the same story: The White House has controlled the probe, ignoring the attempts by multiple witnesses to reach investigators and wrapping up its work well before its already-tight deadline.
In the meantime, however, significant new evidence has appeared from the news media. It demonstrates beyond a doubt that Kavanaugh’s emotional testimony was a farrago of evasions and outright lies.
2/ SNL had a two minute mini-movie on a frat party set in the 80's you probably haven't seen.....funny but serious considering this crazy week.....Kavanaugh was definitely at this party!
3/ White male rage is defining this moment in America.....an excellent, insightful column from Paul Krugman....
When Matt Damon did his Brett Kavanaugh imitation on “Saturday Night Live,” you could tell that he nailed it before he said a word. It was all about the face — that sneering, rage-filled scowl. Kavanaugh didn’t sound like a judge at his Senate hearing last week, let alone a potential Supreme Court justice; he didn’t even manage to look like one.
But then again, Lindsey Graham, who went through the hearing with pretty much the same expression on his face, didn’t look much like a senator, either.
There have been many studies of the forces driving Trump support,
and in particular the rage that is so pervasive a feature of the MAGA movement.
4/ Kate McKinnon as RBG on SNL last week.....a very funny four minutes....she's soooooo talented....
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Kate McKinnon’s Ruth Bader Ginsburg has big plans on her calendar for 2018.
5/ Roger Cohen with a very good column.....Kavanaugh failed the job interview.......
What America saw before the Senate Judiciary Committee was an injudicious man, an angry brat veering from fury to sniveling sobs, a judge so bereft of composure and proportion that it was difficult not to squirm. Brett Kavanaugh actually got teary over keeping a calendar because that’s what his dad did. His performance was right out of Norman Rockwell with a touch of “Mad Men.”
This is what you get from the unexamined life, a product of white male privilege so unadulterated that, until a couple of weeks ago, Kavanaugh never had to ask himself what might have lurked, and may still linger, behind the football, the basketball, the lifting weights, the workouts with a great high-school quarterback, the pro-golf tournaments with Dad, the rah-rah Renate-ribbing yearbook, the Yale fraternity, and the professed sexual abstinence until “many years” after high school
6/ John Oliver devoted his whole show to Kavanaugh.....some wonderful jokes as well as the scumbag's outrageous lies and evasions....29 minutes....
John Oliver broke the “Last Week Tonight” format and turned the entire show into “one long recap of one very long week.”
The main topic was the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination and the sexual assault allegations against him. But what really stunned Oliver was the fact that so many on the right were willing to support Kavanaugh even if he was guilty because they believed he will help overturn Roe vs Wade and restrict abortion rights.
7/ Jimmy Kimmel on the text everyone in the US got from Trump Wednesday.....a wryly funny two minutes....
8/ This is the viral Times article detailing Trump's criminal evasion of taxes and all of the money he got from his father.....long and informative....
The president has long sold himself as a self-made billionaire, but a Times investigation found that he received at least $413 million in today’s dollars from his father’s real estate empire, much of it through tax dodges in the 1990s.
President Trump participated in dubious tax schemes during the 1990s, including instances of outright fraud, that greatly increased the fortune he received from his parents, an investigation by The New York Times has found.
Mr. Trump won the presidency proclaiming himself a self-made billionaire, and he has long insisted that his father, the legendary New York City builder Fred C. Trump, provided almost no financial help.
But The Times’s investigation, based on a vast trove of confidential tax returns and financial records, reveals that Mr. Trump received the equivalent today of at least $413 million from his father’s real estate empire, starting when he was a toddler and continuing to this day.
9/ Seth Meyers with a good "A Closer Look"..........
Seth Meyers dug into President Donald Trump’s latest “surreal” press conference on Monday. The event was intended to focus on his new NAFTA deal, but “as multiple female reporters tried to ask him” about his embattled Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, Trump “shot them down in super-demeaning and sexist ways,” the Late Night host said.
“That’s OK, I know you’re not thinking. You never do,” the president told her. Later in the day, the White House actually edited the official transcript to soften the remark.
10/ A really interesting Times interview with Lady Gaga, almost a bio with lots of detail about her life......read this before you go and see "A Star Is Born"....
Lady Gaga did not so much arrive at the Venice Film Festival this August as she floated into it, a platinum Aphrodite borne on the waves, black stilettos skimming the sea foam. Which is to say, she took a water taxi.
An image of her zooming across the canal — perched precariously on the side of the lacquered motorboat in a little black dress, her legs elegantly entwined, her hair shaped into three victory rolls like a crown of croissants, holding a single red rose in one hand and blowing kisses with the other — immediately became a meme. Of course she couldn’t just walk up to the premiere of “A Star Is Born,” the first feature film in which she has a leading role, playing the titular supernova. Walking is for rubes. Sailing, on the other hand, is timeless.
11/ The Jimmy Kimmel and Stormy Daniels interview where she shows Trump's dick size....10 long minutes....
On Tuesday night, Stormy Daniels dished about her alleged affair with President Donald Trump as well as his private parts.
As described in her new book Full Disclosure, she says Trump didn’t use a condom, noting that he “wasn’t a germaphobe” when it came to their affair.
However, she blew up at Jimmy Kimmel after he said that she and Trump “made love.”
“Gross! What’s wrong with you?!?” Stormy exclaimed. “I laid there and prayed for death.”
12/ A summary of how we [but mainly Republicans] have destroyed Florida's environment....from the Miami Herald...
The ocean is brown, the crabs are dead and the smell is unbearable. Welcome to Florida
13/ Jimmy Kimmel with some people who SHOULD have got Nobel prizes for stupidity.....2 minutes, amusing....
14/ Eric Idle, one of the funniest Pythons, has a new book out.....
“I think I am an optimist by day and a pessimist by nighttime,” said Eric Idle, seen here at the Grafton on Sunset hotel in West Hollywood, Calif.
The fiftieth anniversary of Monty Python, which debuted on the BBC in 1969, is coming soon, but don’t expect Eric Idle, one of the comedy troupe’s founding members, to celebrate.
“Absolutely not,” Mr. Idle said with a laugh, when asked if the group had any plans to commemorate a half-century of dead parrots, cheese shops and silly walks. “There’s no reason we actually should.”
That doesn’t mean the Python spirit isn’t still alive inside Mr. Idle.
15/ Peter Travers review of "A Star Is Born", with Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga....."excellent" is the conclusion.....
One star soars; the other crashes and burns. It’s a tale as old as time, flattened and fatigued by constant repetition. So why in hell did Bradley Cooper choose to make his debut as director with the third remake of A Star Is Born? What could he bring to the role of the self-destructive headliner living in the shadow of the protégée he loves? And why did he have Lady Gaga, going out on a limb in her first starring role, to follow in the footsteps of the legends who previously aced the role of the newbie: Barbra Streisand (1976), Judy Garland (1954) and Janet Gaynor (1937)? Talk about walking a tightrope without a net.
The movie starts and you think, “Oh no, not again.” And then, boom: Cooper sneaks up and snaps you to attention. Though there’s no disguising the film’s dated origins, the actor-turned-
director’s defiantly fresh approach allows A Star Is Born to emerge as a skyrocket of soul-stirring music, drama and heartbreak
Todays golf jokes
#10 Golfer: "Think I'm going to drown myself in the lake." Caddy: "Think you can keep your head down that long?" #9 Golfer: "I'd move heaven and earth to break 100 on this course." Caddy: "Try heaven, you've already moved most of the earth." #8 Golfer: "Do you think my game is improving?" Caddy: "Yes sir, you miss the ball much closer now." #7 Golfer: "Do you think I can get there with a 5 iron?" Caddy: "Eventually." #6 Golfer: "You've got to be the worst caddy in the world." Caddy: "I don't think so sir. That would be too much of a coincidence." #5 Golfer: "Please stop checking your watch all the time. It's too much of a distraction." Caddy: "It's not a watch - it's a compass." #4 Golfer: "How do you like my game?" Caddy: "Very good sir, but personally, I prefer golf." #3 Golfer: "Do you think it's a sin to play on Sunday? Caddy: "The way you play, sir, it's a sin on any day." #2 Golfer: "This is the worst course I've ever played on." Caddy: "This isn't the golf course. We left that an hour ago." and the #1 best caddy comment: Golfer: "That can't be my ball, it's too old." Caddy: "It's been a long time since we teed off, sir."
Todays society joke
Two Beverly Hills women are shopping on Rodeo Drive when one of them notices a child in a baby carriage.
"Oh, look at that beautiful baby!" says the woman.
"Aww, how adorable," says her friend.
Then the first woman gasps.
"Oh my God, that’s my baby!"
"How do you know?"
"I recognize the nanny."
Todays corporate joke
A sales rep, an administration clerk, and a manager are walking to lunch when they find an antique oil lamp. One of them rubs it and a Genie appears from inside it. The Genie says, 'I'll give each of you just one wish.'
'Me first! Me first!' says the admin clerk. 'I want to be in the Bahamas, driving a speedboat, without a care in the world.'
Poof! He's gone.
'Me next! Me next!' says the sales rep. 'I want to be in Hawaii, relaxing on the beach with my own personal masseuse, an endless supply of Pina Coladas and three Playboy Playmates!' Poof! He's gone.
'OK, you're next,' the Genie says to the manager.
The manager says, 'I want those two slackers back in the office after lunch.'
Todays texting joke
From a Teacher - short and to the point.
In the world of hi-tech gadgetry, I've noticed that more and more people who send text messages and emails have long forgotten the art of capital letters. For those of you who fall into this category, please take note of the following statement:
"Capitalization is the difference between helping your Uncle Jack off a horse and helping your uncle jack off a horse."
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