The last SNL was one of the best for a long while, but look at their guests - Tina and Amy! All of these videos today are good, but "Meet Your Second Wife" is exceptional....go on, you've got the time - it's Christmas!
Nothing too heavy for this holiday season - enjoy folks....
Yeay - Congress just passed a budget bill, and there was no gub'mint shutdown! But now we get to see what the corrupt, bought-and-paid-for scum in both Houses stuffed into this omnibus bill......
Thanks to Bill Moyers for keeping us informed.....
There is an unwritten rule in Congress that before you do even a little for the working class you must do a lot for the donor class. So while the $1.1 trillion -- yes, that's a "t" -- budget bill now winding its way to passage contains some tax breaks for low-income workers, in reality, it's a bonanza for Big Business.
Congressional leadership actually split the bill in two with one devoted to spending and the other devoted to cuts. "That way," Paul Singer writes in USA Today, "Republican conservatives can vote against the spending bill, Democratic liberals can vote against the tax bill, and both bills still pass and a government shutdown is averted."
Tina Fey, Amy Poehler and Kate McKinnon in a wonderful five minute skit with New Hillary, 08 Hillary and Sarah Palin.......satire at it's best....
There is nothing better than “Saturday Night Live” during a presidential election season. If the insanity of Tuesday’s CNN Republican Debate and the crappy moderators at the ABC Democratic Debate have you ready to tear your hair out, you need only wait for “SNL” to make it all better.
This week’s hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler crushed it. Tina Fey, of course, reprised her role as Sarah Palin and Amy Poehler as 2008 Hillary Clinton stood alongside Kate McKinnon’s new Hillary Clinton for a Very Hillary Christmas. “You changed your hair!” 2008 Hillary exclaims seeing the new version of herself. The 2008 Clinton was able to impart a great deal of wisdom on 2016 Clinton, telling her not to get too confident because “someone named Barack Obama stumbled out of a soup kitchen with a basketball and a cigarette and ruined my life.”
Michael Pollan with a short interviewed he tells us all not just what to eat, but how......great common sense guidelines, but the bottom line is don't eat Big Food's chemical laden shit.....
Any day now, the US government will put out new dietary guidelinestelling Americans what we should be eating. These instructions come out every five years, and they're used by doctors and nutritionists to give diet advice, by schools to plan kids' lunches, and by manufacturers to calculate nutrition information on food packages.
But the process behind these recommendations is ... murky.
A panel of government-appointed science advisers crunch nutrition data for months and then hand that information to officials at the US Department of Agriculture and Department of Health and Human Services in the form of a 600-page report. That data is then argued over for months, with input from farm industry representatives and others. Eventually, guidelines emerge.
A panel of government-appointed science advisers crunch nutrition data for months and then hand that information to officials at the US Department of Agriculture and Department of Health and Human Services in the form of a 600-page report. That data is then argued over for months, with input from farm industry representatives and others. Eventually, guidelines emerge.
Not surprisingly, these guidelines don't necessarily reflect the best science — they are a result of lobbying and political compromises. And historically, they do a terrible job of giving Americans clear advice about how to eat better, usually overcomplicating simple things we know about how to be healthy
The years best TV News bloopers.....about 14 minutes......
Every now and the we have some old fashioned wisdom from our journalists, like this column from Paul Krugman - don't be surprised at the rise of Trump, he's a creation of the Republican party......
Very interesting, and enlightening.....
Almost six months have passed since Donald Trump overtook Jeb Bush in polls of Republican voters. At the time, most pundits dismissed the Trump phenomenon as a blip, predicting that voters would soon return to more conventional candidates. Instead, however, his lead just kept widening. Even more striking, the triumvirate of trash-talk — Mr. Trump, Ben Carson, and Ted Cruz — now commands the support of roughly 60 percent of the primary electorate.
But how can this be happening? After all, the antiestablishment candidates now dominating the field, aside from being deeply ignorant about policy, have a habit of making false claims, then refusing to acknowledge error. Why don’t Republican voters seem to care?
SNL had a mock Republican debate, and it was of course much better than the pathetic spectacle on Tuesday.....a good six minutes....
“The results are in and everybody lost,” Jon Rudnitsky as Wolf Blitzer said about the “kids table” on “Saturday Night Live”‘s parody of CNN’s Republican Debate. “Now let’s meet the candidates. Nine are here tonight. The five who actually have a chance are…” he said, announcing the rest of the faux field of candidates: Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Ben Carson, Marco Rubio and “poor, sweet Jeb Bush.” Adding, “The rest of you just wave so your parents know you’re here.”
Former “SNL” cast member (and current announcer) Darrell Hammond came out as Trump, brilliantly insulting the entire field and calling Blitzer “Papa Smurf.” He slammed Bush as a “lightweight” and told everyone that Jeb’s real name is actually Jebra. “Hey Jebra, losers say what?” Trump said. “Hey Jebra, shut your pinhole!”
"Meet Your Second Wife" is a TV show hosted by Tina Fey and Amy Poehler.....an edgy, biting but VERY funny four minutes......
The setup: Fey and Poehler played the hosts of a secret new show, revealing to the three unsuspecting married male contestants (Bobby Moynihan, Taran Killam, Kenan Thompson) that they were about to meet their future second wives. To each man's horror — as well as to their wives' in the audience — the women turn out to be inappropriately young. (Killam is going to marry someone who right now is five. Thompson, pleading to the gods, "Don't be white, don't be white," discovers that his second wife is currently an embryo.)
"Meet Your Second Wife" was a textbook example of how to squeeze everything out of a simple premise by playing the ridiculous conceit straight and without embellishment. The tiny details were what made it perfect:
Mexico is now building a huuuuuuuge wall across the border to keep out "American assholes"......an amusing two minutes in Spanish with subtitles from "The Onion"..........
In our last DDD we had a movie review of "The Big Short" - Paul Krugman saw the movie, and validates the underlying message of the movie in a good column.....
In May 2009 Congress created a special commission to examine the causes of the financial crisis. The idea was to emulate the celebrated Pecora Commission of the 1930s, which used careful historical analysis to help craft regulations that gave America two generations of financial stability.
But some members of the new commission had a different goal. George Santayana famously remarked that “those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” What he didn’t point out was that some people want to repeat the past — and that such people have an interest in making sure that we don’t remember what happened, or that we remember it wrong.
Many of you will see "Star Wars - The Force Awakens" over the holiday, and according to the Times you'll be seeing a pretty good movie....
The big news about “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” is — spoiler alert — that it’s good! Despite the prerelease hype, it won’t save the world, not even Hollywood, but it seamlessly balances cozy favorites — Harrison Ford, ladies and gentlemen — and new kinetic wows, along with some of the niceties that went missing as the series grew into a phenomenon, most crucially a scale and a sensibility that are rooted in the human. It has the usual toy-store-ready gizmos and critters, but it also has appealingly imperfect men and women whose blunders and victories, decency and goofiness remind you that a pop mythology like “Star Wars” needs more than old gods to sustain it.
Cool trailer!
Todays video - Mrs Brown handles a sticky situation.....British humor at it's best!
Todays marital joke.....
Todays college football jokes
COLLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYER INTELLECTOhio State's Urban Meyer on one of his players:"He doesn't know the meaning of the word fear. In fact, I just saw his grades and he doesn't know the meaning of a lot of words."_______________________
______________________How can you tell if a Clemson football player has a girlfriend?There's tobacco juice on both sides of the pickup truck._______________________What do you get when you put 32 Arkansas cheerleaders in one room?A full set of teeth._______________________University of Michigan Coach Brady Hoke is only going to dress half of his players for the game this week;The other half will have to dress themselves.______________________How is the Kansas football team like an opossum?They play dead at home and get killed on the road._______________________Why did the Nebraska linebacker steal a police car?He saw "911" on the side and thought it was a Porsche._______________________How do you get a former Illinois football player off your porch?Pay him for the pizza.
Todays golf joke
A man had two of the best tickets for the Masters down in Augusta, Ga.
As he sits down, another man comes along and asks if anyone is sitting in the seat next to him.
"No", he says, "the seat is empty."
"This is incredible!" said the man, "who in their right mind would have a seat like this, the biggest golfing event of the whole world, and not use it?
"He says, "Well, actually, the seat belongs to me. My wife always would come with me, but she passed away.This is the first Masters we haven't been to together since we got married.”
"Oh ... I'm sorry to hear that. That's terrible. I guess you couldn't find someone else? A friend or relative or even a neighbor to take the seat?"
The man shakes his head, "No. They're all at the funeral."
