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Dec 10 2018

The Breakfast Club (Blue Wave)

By arlethamaselli0 in Community

Welcome to The Breakfast Club! We’re a disorganized group of rebel lefties who hang out and chat if and when we’re not too hungover ~~we’ve been bailed out~~ ~~we’re not too exhausted from last night’s (CENSORED)~~ the caffeine kicks in. Join us every weekday morning at 9am (ET) and weekend morning at 10:00am (ET) (or whenever we get around to it) to talk about current news and our boring lives and to make fun of LaEscapee! If we are ever running late, it’s PhilJD’s fault.

This Day in History

Martin Luther King, Junior accepts Nobel Peace Prize; Women get the right to vote in Wyoming Territory; America’s first domestic passenger jet flight takes off; Soul singer Otis Redding, General Augusto Pinochet die.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

Too many people fought too hard to make sure all citizens of all colors, races, ethnicities, genders, and abilities can vote to think that not voting somehow sends a message.

Luis Gutierrez

Open Thread, That Group, The Breakfast Club

Dec 09 2018

Not A Rant (Good Guys With Guns)

By rustymancuso581 in News

Cody Johnston

Chances are you’re going to want to play that Harmonica.

Life is as depressing as hell.

ek Politics

Dec 09 2018

Mostly Christmas

By rustymancuso581 in News

Not so Jolly Old St. Robert III

From The Makers Of Empire

Be Best

A New Vagina For Christmas

Extra

Normalizing Surveilance

Shopping

Home For The Holidays

Not Christmas

I will kill the men in the iron suits and tear down their stone houses!

Not the movie you think it is. No, really.

Oh, you want news

ek Politics

Dec 09 2018

House

By rustymancuso581 in News

All You Need Is Cash

Subtitulada en español.

The numbers all go to eleven. Look, right across the board, eleven, eleven, eleven and…

Oh, I see. And most amps go up to ten?

Exactly.

Does that mean it’s louder? Is it any louder?

Well, it’s one louder, isn’t it? It’s not ten. You see, most blokes, you know, will be playing at ten. You’re on ten here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you’re on ten on your guitar. Where can you go from there? Where?

I don’t know.

Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do?

Put it up to eleven.

Eleven. Exactly. One louder.

Why don’t you just make ten louder and make ten be the top number and make that a little louder?

These go to eleven.

The directors of the firm hired to continue the credits after the other people had been sacked, with it to be known that they have just been sacked.

The credits have been completed in an entirely different style at great expense and at the last minute.

With George “Llama” Harrison as The Interviewer.

House

Dec 09 2018

The Breakfast Club (Fake Banjo)

By adelaidecarandin in History, music, News

Welcome to The Breakfast Club! We’re a disorganized group of rebel lefties who hang out and chat if and when we’re not too hungover ~~we’ve been bailed out~~ ~~we’re not too exhausted from last night’s (CENSORED)~~ the caffeine kicks in. Join us every weekday morning at 9am (ET) and weekend morning at 10:30am (ET) to talk about current news and our boring lives and to make fun of LaEscapee! If we are ever running late, it’s PhilJD’s fault.

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AP’s Today in History for December 9th

Britain’s Prince Charles and Princess Diana announce they are separating; The Charge of the Light Brigade – is published in Britain; Solidarity union leader Lech Walesa is elected president in Poland; Actor Kirk Douglas is born.

Breakfast Tune Western+Music: Man Without a Star 1)And the Moon Grew Brighter- Homme qui n’a pas d’étoile (Lyrics)

Something to think about, Breakfast News & Blogs below

Falling for “Les Fake News,” Trump Spreads Lie French Protesters Chant His Name
Robert Mackey, The Intercept

DONALD TRUMP is so vain he really thinks the protests in Paris are about him. As about 8,000 anti-government protesters wearing yellow safety vests dodged tear gas in the French capital on Saturday, the president of the United States fell for a social-media hoax, claiming that the demonstrators were chanting his name.

Writing on Twitter, the president claimed, falsely, that the protests had been inspired by his opposition to the Paris climate accord and the phrase “We want Trump” rang out on the streets.

In fact, the president was misled by a viral hoax, in which video of British white supremacists chanting his name last year was posted on Twitter this week with a false caption, incorrectly describing the scene as one unfolding in France.

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Can the Nation’s First Charter School Strike Transform the Industry?
Candice Bernd

Wall Street’s Corruption Runs Deeper Than You Can Fathom
Robert Scheer

What if Osama bin Laden Had Legitimate Grievances?
Maj. Danny Sjursen

Naomi Klein on the Urgency of a ‘Green New Deal’ for Everyone
Naomi LaChance

Marriott strike yields 40 percent pay hike for Westin housekeepers
Lori Weisberg

Something to think about over coffee prozac

Man, woman drive from Arizona to Wyoming with kids in trunk

CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — A man and woman admit in court they drove from Arizona to Wyoming with two children in the trunk of their car.

Sixty-three-year-old Michael J. Fee and 31-year-old Amber L. Freudenstein each pleaded guilty Thursday to two misdemeanor counts of child endangerment.

The Casper Star-Tribune reports Circuit Judge Steven Brown sentenced each to 30 days in jail. Fee is from Peoria, Arizona, and Freudenstein is from Tempe, Arizona.

Sheriff’s officials say a third party told them the children reported riding in the trunk for much of the 900-mile drive while two German shepherds sat in the back seat.

Fee said in court there was not enough room for everyone so the children were relegated to the trunk. Court documents show the children are about 6 and 10 years old.

Banjos, blogs, Coffee, History, News, Prozac, The Breakfast Club, Tunes

Dec 09 2018

Pondering the Pundits: Sunday Preview Edition

By arlethamaselli0 in Opinion

“Pondering the Pundits” is an Open Thread. It is a selection of editorials and opinions from around the news medium and the internet blogs. The intent is to provide a forum for your reactions and opinions, not just to the opinions presented, but to what ever you find important.

On Sunday mornings we present a preview of the guests on the morning talk shows so you can choose which ones to watch or some do something more worth your time on a Sunday morning.

Follow us on Twitter @StarsHollowGzt

The Sunday Talking Heads:

This Week with George Stephanopolis: The guests on Sunday’s “This Week” are: Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL); and Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT).

Discussing the the latest revelations in the Mueller and Southern District of New York investigations are ABC News Chief Legal Analyst Dan Abrams; former Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ); and former New York Division FBI Special Agent Asha Rangappa.

The roundtable guests are: ABC News Senior National Correspondent Terry Moran; Republican Strategist Alex Castellanos; Associated Press Washington Bureau Chief Julie Pace; and Vice News Washington Bureau Chief Shawna Thomas.

Face the Nation: Host Margaret Brennan’s guests are: Sens. John Thune (R-SD); Marco Rubio (R-FL); Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA); U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer; IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde.

Meet the Press with Chuck Todd: The guests on this week’s “MTP” are: Governor-Elect Tony Evers (D-WI); Sen Angus King (I-ME); and Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY).

State of the Union with Jake Tapper: Mr. Tapper’s guests are: Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY); and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL).

His panel guests are: Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL); Democratic strategist Nina Turner; former Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D-MN); and otherwise unemployable former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA).

Open Thread, Opinion, Pondering the Pundits, Pondering the Pundits: Sunday Preview Edition, TMC Opinion

Dec 08 2018

Manafort And Cohen

By rustymancuso581 in News

Grr… The enablers are out in full force this morning. You can’t indict a sitting President. Unproven! It all hinges on intent, maybe he was just too dumb. No it doesn’t!

And this is on MSNBC.

Donald John Trump is guilty, guilty, guilty of Campaign Finance Fraud and Conspiracy to commit the same.

By Paul Waldman at WaPo–

Prosecutors explicitly state that Cohen coordinated with President Trump on hush money payments to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal over his alleged affairs with them: “as Cohen himself has now admitted, with respect to both payments, he acted in coordination with and at the direction of Individual-1.” That’s Donald Trump.

We knew this already — and we knew that Trump lied about it, claiming not to know about the payments — but this says that prosecutors believe that Trump ordered Cohen to commit a crime.

Max Bergmann and Sam Berger at Daily Beast–

Mueller may still be only showing us part of his hand, but it’s a damn good hand. He has signalled to us he’s found collusion. He has shown us that the president is compromised. He has told us that he has gathered information important to his investigation about contacts with people in the Trump Organization, the campaign, the transition, and even the White House. That’s everyone Trump has been connected with since he started running. And given all the redacted information in his filings and all that he’s been told by cooperating witnesses, we can be confident that Mueller will show us even more.

Mueller is coming. And he is clearly coming for Trump. Not simply for obstructing justice but for conspiring with a hostile foreign power to win an election. This is a scandal unlike any America has ever seen.

From now on it will be our policy never to refer to Trump without the words “Unindicted Co-Conspirator”.

        Unindicted Co-Conspirator The Donald.
        Unindicted Co-Conspirator Donald
        Unindicted Co-Conspirator Trump
        Unindicted Co-Conspirator Donald Trump
        Unindicted Co-Conspirator Donald J. Trump
        Unindicted Co-Conspirator Donald John Trump

Unindicted Co-Conspirator Donny Boy Sr.

Last night’s Rachel Maddow is required watching. She really encapsulated the meaning of each of the 3 reports released yesterday and how they all fit together.

Not as required but still worth a schadenfreud chuckle, Lawrence O’Donnell.

ek Politics

Dec 08 2018

Health and Fitness News

By arlethamaselli0 in Community, News

Welcome to the Stars Hollow Gazette‘s Health and Fitness News weekly diary. It will publish on Saturday afternoon and be open for discussion about health related issues including diet, exercise, health and health care issues, as well as, tips on what you can do when there is a medical emergency. Also an opportunity to share and exchange your favorite healthy recipes.

Questions are encouraged and I will answer to the best of my ability. If I can’t, I will try to steer you in the right direction. Naturally, I cannot give individual medical advice for personal health issues. I can give you information about medical conditions and the current treatments available.

You can now find past Health and Fitness News diaries here.

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What To Cook

Baby, it’s cold outside and some places across the country are already buried in snow. Christmas is around the corner, so it’s time to dig through the cookbooks for cookie recipes either for your family to eat or to give as gifts. Here are a few new ones for your repertoire.

Watercolor Christmas Ornament Cookies

Using a simple watercolor painting technique, it’s easy to brush and splatter these cookies with unique patterns.

Apple Fritters with Spiced Sugar

Cinnamon, cardamom, and freshly ground black pepper lend warm spice to these sweet fritters. Any firm apple works well here.

Pistachio-Rose Shortbread Squares

Freeze-dried raspberries are available at many grocery and health food stores; if unavailable, omit and use more sanding sugar for the coating.

Molasses Sandwich Cookies with Coffee Cream

Adding ground coffee to both the cookie dough and the filling turns these cookies into something deeply more interesting than your average holiday spice treats.

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