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WASHINGTON POST July 4 BY CLEVE R. WOOTSON JR THE VILLAGES, Fla. — Sharon Sandler was already irritated as she walked toward the growing line of golf carts preparing to parade around one of her retirement community's town squares for President Trump's birthday. Sandler, who is in her 60s, had spent ...

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Belle wrote:Americans are so shouty it becomes impossible.

'Shouty' and 'impossible' is how dynamic America strikes uncomprehending outsiders.

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WAPO Trump's Campaign of Resentment: As president amplifies racism, Republicans who have long enabled him are unnerved BY ROBERT COSTA & PHILIP RUCKER President Trump’s unyielding push to preserve Confederate symbols and the legacy of white domination, crystallized by his harsh denunciation of the r...

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The group raised only $2 million in the first three months of the year, according to Federal Election Commission filings, but received a fund-raising boost when Trump attacked them on Twitter in May. (A Lincoln Project spokesman would not reveal details of its fund-raising since then but said the a...

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As George W. Bush quipped after hearing Trump's inaugural address: "that was some weirdshit".

Did Stephen Miller write this crap?

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-st ... th-dakota/

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WASHINGTON POST https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washin ... utType=amp

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The Cone of Silence . . . Black Composers Series Columbia 1974-78. Reissued by SONY in 2019. Out of print and practically unobtainable in 2020. I've tried everywhere and cannot locate a copy to purchase at any price. https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-TrYtCVyHHDM/XF1UAD3fGvI/AAAAAAAALjE/BZn1HNJ_aRIiTdnfbDz...

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The language is outdated. These days, whenever Xi says Tiào!, Trump answers "How High"?.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUBAAeu ... =emb_title

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The original, not the 2015 BBC remake. Beautifully shot in Norfolk, sad, film. Dominic Guard gives a splendid performance as the 12-year-old Leo. Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Margaret Leighton and Michael Redgrave. Screenplay by Harold Pinter.

On Amazon Prime.

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Watched all three this week. Next up, the 1979 Broadway version with Len Cariou live and the 1936 film version with Tod Slaughter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISp5sjaSnl0 ISp5sjaSnl0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9j_yvsvVag e9j_yvsvVag https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/91RjJI9lm...

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On TCM's "Watch TCM" service.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xykmn6J2hcQ

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On Amazon Prime. An interesting film with echoes of Alfred Hitchcock. Sleazy remake as "Original Sin" in 2001 with Antonio Banderas and Angelina Jolie.

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I use Nomorobo, a free service, which works quite well to block more than half such calls after only one ring. Can't imagine life without it.

https://www.nomorobo.com

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Eloquence is preparing a box due out in the fall.

Tribute to Ida Haendel by music critic Rob Cowan: https://robccowan.com/2020/07/01/ida-ha ... ies-at-96/

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AP NEWS Hugh Downs, genial presence on TV news and game shows, dies https://apnews.com/3f689015ae9bca5394eb2b471d946ce5?utm_medium=AP&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter Tampa Bay Times, 2005: Hugh Downs, broadcaster, adventurer--and composer https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1997/10/26/hugh-d...

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Nationwide Polling Data: BIDEN 49.3 TRUMP 40
Betting Odds: BIDEN 59.1 TRUMP 36.6
Real Clear Politics https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epoll ... -6247.html

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barney wrote: ↑
Wed Jul 01, 2020 5:37 pm
both the CMG defenders seemed to be motivated more by dislike of the Democrats (or partisan journalists) than love of Trump.

Would they treat unsightly acne by getting a facelift and blame the surgeon when it came back worse than ever?

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Luminary Polish-born English violinist and teacher Ida Haendel has passed away, in Miami – aged 91. A student of Carl Flesch and George Enescu, Ms Haendel will be remembered as one of the preeminent violinists of the 20th Century. A recognised child prodigy, she was awarded 7th prize in the 1935 Wie...

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How I hope you are right. If it's a referendum on his totally absent leadership he should scarcely get a vote. But he won't want it to be on that; which is where dirty tricks come in handy. Yes, but one thing seems clear since March. Trump's defenders have lost some swagger; even on CMG, they have ...

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Another blast from conservatives on the bounty boondoggle. This election is clearly shaping up to be a referendum on Trump's leadership. The WH Situation Room should be rechristened the SNAFU Room. If Donald Trump ran unopposed, he might lose. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nytBEWbwOkw&feature=emb_...

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AP NEWS White House aware of Russian bounties in 2019 https://apnews.com/425e43fa0ffdd6e126c5171653ec47d1

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Louis Malle is one of my favorite French directors. Malle's first film. TCM on demand

See full movie here:
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2am6mf

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FOX NEWS Rough polling stretch has GOP operatives asking: Could Trump drop out? https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-polls-republican-gop-operatives-possible-drop-out If he dropped out would he resign and be pardoned by Pence or could he pardon himself? Regards, Len Donald could do what LBJ did i...

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FOX NEWS Rough polling stretch has GOP operatives asking: Could Trump drop out? https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump- ... e-drop-out

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First time viewing. TCM on demand. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_1D_JI593M z_1D_JI593M http://i.cdn.turner.com/v5cache/TCM/Images/Dynamic/i361/knifeinthewater_1962_mp_polish_1200_041720150448.jpg Knife in the Water (1962) by Margarita Landazuri QTD from tcm.com http://www.tcm.com/watchtcm/titles...

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Robert Mitchum & Charlotte Rampling in Dick Richards's Farewell My Lovely (1975)

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Trump struggles as furor grows over reported Russian bounty offer to kill U.S. troops https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/ ... u-s-troops

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On the Right end of the spectrum, culture warriors are often Trumpist fellow travellers. "Donald Trump is a cultural warrior. His politics depends on mining the fear and resentment of white, working class voters who feel they are on the losing end of economic and demographic change. Joe Biden is cul...

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Trump Promotes Video of His Supporters Yelling ‘White Power’. https://www.mediaite.com/tv/trump-promotes-video-of-his-supporters-yelling-white-power-great-people/ Facing a barrage of criticism, Trump deleted his tweet. Here's a screenshot of that now deleted tweet. https://am14.mediaite.com/med/cnt/...

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Anticipates the Lincoln Project. The author was very much in Trump's inner circle. And knows how to write. Trump comes across to Anonymous much as he does to the rest of us: stupid, vain, capricious, and vulgar. WAPO https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/book-by-anonymous-describes-trump-as-cruel-...

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New York Times, they're looking at you!! Well said. Its 5.8 million subscribers and millions of other daily readers doubtless would agree. More and more Republicans are deserting Trump, as the meteoric rise of the Lincoln Project PAC to popularity clearly demonstrates . . . . https://www.youtube.co...

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A tour de force of PSYOP ...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yoglNFN5-Js

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A moot point. In such a case, would he not, like a renaissance pope dispensing indulgences, "have the absolute right" to pardon himself?

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But I'm not sure of the point, inasmuch as no one can vote for Mattis. Is it just to demonise Trump? Again, not sure of the point. The aggregate point of this breakaway Republican PAC's ad campaign seems pretty clear:(1) Trumpism is un-American; (2) Trump is unworthy of high office. OUR MISSION Def...

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The most devastatingly effective ad campaign so far comes from Republicans in the Lincoln Project. Early in the election cycle, Trump, seemingly powerless to stem the tide, allows himself to be defined by insurgents in his own party.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oYa8mEr3sJA

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We are not talking about the Left, but somehow you drag it in again. Forget facts, forget arguments, forget values, let's just bash the Left. And let's identify anyone who doesn't agree with you as a Leftist. But surely there does exist a mob of extremists. It consists currently, in no particular o...

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The total number of world deaths is still less than half a million - a miniscule amount compared to a total population of 7.8 billion people. By that logic, one could argue that 78 million folks dead of the virus worldwide would constitute a "miniscule" 1% of the total population. When one compares...

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This is not only political extremism (and I thought you were supposed to be a 'moderate', Barney) but a projection of the Left's own perfidy - since they were after Trump BEFORE he was elected and never, ever let up. I'm thinking an item like this has been written in existential fear of an election...

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Acting US Attorney for the SDNY, Audrey Strauss is not likely to be sacked before the November election. And whoever her successor is would have to run the gauntlet of Schumer and Gillibrand. According to an arcane Senate protocol, home-state senators are afforded the courtesy of signing off on a no...

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Berman had obviously prepared for just such an event and Barr clearly had not. By refusing to resign, Berman forced Trump to fire him, in turn forcing Barr by law to name Berman's own deputy Audrey Strauss (said to be an incorruptible SDNY prosecutor in her own right) to succeed him as acting US Att...

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A judge has just ruled that Bolton's book's publication can go forward b/c the national security danger has already been done by its prerelease.

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NEW YORK TIMES “The Room Where It Happened” describes Mr. Bolton’s 17 turbulent months at President Trump’s side through a multitude of crises and foreign policy challenges. By Peter Baker June 18, 2020 John R. Bolton, the former national security adviser, plans to publish a damning book next week d...

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On TCM. Will be repeated this August.

1950's camp. Doesn't take filmic art too seriously. I laughed much of the way thru it. I can see now why The Big Lebowski alluded to it.

One of my favorite movies of all time.

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Reading it for the first time: came with the LP package of Solti's Ring which I still have. Listening to each opera as I read Culshaw's account of how it came to be recorded. The Culshaw recording is miraculous.

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Trump is the Mae West of US presidents, though bereft of her parodic talents.

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WALL STREET JOURNAL Trump Put Re-Election Prospects Ahead of National Interest, Bolton Alleges https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/trump-put-re-election-prospects-ahead-of-national-interest-bolton-alleges-11592423359 WASHINGTON POST Bolton says Trump didn’t just ignore human rights but encouraged Chin...

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85% of Republicans approve of him. It's mystifying. Libertarians may disavow Trump's antics yet support him simply b/c he is individualist and anti-institutionist. A disruptor. The 'Democrat' party's domestic and foreign policies run counter to their penchant for rugged isolationism. Populists appr...

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Trump Job Approval Slides to 39% https://news.gallup.com/poll/312572/tru ... lides.aspx

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barney wrote: ↑
Wed Jun 10, 2020 12:16 pm
Do you think he has mental health issues?

Trump suffers from a form of mongolism—clinical term—Aryan idiocy.

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As of little more than a week ago, a CMG Trump supporter pointed out that, though Trump was behind in the polls, betting odds-makers favored the President to win reelection in 2020. That's no longer the case, as the latest betting odds data show: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/elections/betting_o...

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