Happy Fat Tuesday

Posted on February 9, 2016 by Fancy Jack

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“Madame Lily Devalier always asked “Where are you?” in a way that insinuated that there were only two places on earth one could be: New Orleans and somewhere ridiculous.”
― Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume

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  1. waverly says:
    February 11, 2016 at 6:30 am

    Last night’s (Feb 10) Stephen Colbert Show interview with Bernie Sanders

  2. waverly says:
    February 11, 2016 at 6:35 am

    Last night’s (Feb 10) Stephen Colbert show opening monologue

  4. bebe says:
    February 11, 2016 at 6:45 am

    World Music ..

  5. waverly says:
    February 11, 2016 at 6:46 am

    Oregon militia standoff: promise of surrender follows dramatic night of negotiations | US news | The Guardian

    “We are not surrendering, we’re turning ourselves in,” Sean Anderson, one of the remaining militia members at the site near Burns, Oregon, said on a phone call with mediators, which was live-streamed on YouTube on Wednesday. “It goes against everything we believe in, but we’re going to do it.”

    http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/11/oregon-militia-standoff-surrender-fbi-malheur-national-wildlife-refuge-michele-fiore-cliven-bundy

    • waverly says:
      February 11, 2016 at 6:48 am

      In another dramatic twist late on Wednesday, Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, whose 2014 standoff with the federal government inspired the occupation in Oregon, was arrested, apparently en route to Burns. The FBI said Bundy was taken into federal custody in Portland but declined to disclose the charges.

      Shortly before setting off to Oregon, Bundy, 69, had told the Guardian in a phone interview that he was heading to the standoff to protect the holdouts. “I hope I save some lives,” he said. “I guess if they wanted to murder somebody tonight, that’d be a good way to do it.”

  6. bebe says:
    February 11, 2016 at 7:07 am

    No coffee but cleaning lady day 🙂

  7. waverly says:
    February 11, 2016 at 7:39 am

    Bernie Sanders last night on Stephen Colbert

    “we are drifting into an oligarch society”

    • waverly says:
      February 11, 2016 at 8:12 am

      The media must find it increasingly difficult to not acknowledge Sanders. I see the NY Daily News had this story today.

      Bernie Sanders on ‘Late Show’ – NY Daily News

      The Vermont senator explained his allure for millennials, saying many agree with his questioning of the state of the world.

      “They think that, how is it that with all this technology and productivity in the economy, they’re still more likely to have a lower standard of living than their parents?” he asked.

      Sanders has his sights set on South Carolina and Colbert, a native of the state, gave him some tips.

      If the Democratic presidential hopeful can devour boiled peanuts and guzzle beer, he may have “a leg up in South Carolina,” Colbert advised.

      Sanders got a taste of South Carolina by following the host’s tips.

      “This wins me South Carolina?” he asked, taking a sip of his beer as the audience erupted with joy again.

      http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/bernie-sanders-interrupts-monologue-late-show-article-1.2527727

  8. waverly says:
    February 11, 2016 at 8:34 am

    The non-mainstream “Daily Beast” seems to have the most accurate account of last night’s Bernie Sanders appearance on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert”

    Stephen Colbert Grills Bernie Sanders: Isn’t This ‘Class Warfare?’ – The Daily Beast

    Bernie Sanders continued his New Hampshire victory lap Wednesday night by making his second appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. And while he was still a major underdog when he visited Stephen Colbert last September, this time he was riding high.

    The senator from Vermont began by crashing Colbert’s monologue. When the host protested that the show should begin with him alone standing on stage and telling jokes, Sanders replied, “That’s what the elites want you to think.

    “You’ve got to go your own way, follow your own heart, the revolution is possible,” Sanders told Colbert before delivering the final line of the monologue. “Last night, Bernie Sanders won the New Hampshire primary by 22 points. No joke!”

    When Sanders entered as Colbert’s guest later in the show, he quickly faced questions about how he managed to win 86 percent of voters 18-24 in New Hampshire. “By definition, young people are idealistic,” he said. “And they look at a world with so many problems and they say, why not? Why can’t all people in this country have healthcare? Why can’t we make public colleges and universities tuition-free?”

    Playing devil’s advocate in the vein of his former Colbert Report character, the host argued that Sanders was promoting “class warfare” and reasoned that the 1 percent is not going to give up their power and influence so easily. “And I’ll tell you how I know, I am in the top 1 percent,” he said.

    When Bill O’Reilly was on Colbert’s show earlier in the week, he said Sanders and Donald Trump were essentially the same person with different haircuts. While Sanders acknowledged that his and Trump’s supporters share a certain anger, he criticized the “false message” that Trump is pushing that discrimination will somehow lead to a better America. Sanders also noted that O’Reilly has said he will move to Ireland if he becomes president, an outcome he referred to as a “two-fer.”

    Moving on, Colbert challenged Sanders by bringing up Hillary Clinton’s critique that he is promising solutions to the country’s problems that can never be achieved, for example his plan to provide single-payer healthcare.

    The question is, do we have the ability to stand up to the private insurance companies and the drug companies?” Sanders asked the host, before answering his own question. “I believe that when people are aroused, when they’re organized, when they’re prepared to stand up and fight back, yes, we can take on the drug companies and the insurance companies.”

    As a South Carolinian, Colbert asked Sanders to explain how he plans to break Clinton’s alleged Southern “firewall.” At first, the candidate launched into what sounded a lot like a rehearsed campaign speech. “Why do we have more people in jail than any other country on earth, disproportionately black and Latino?” he asked. “Why is it that we have a system today where our campaign finance system is now corrupt, where billionaires are literally buying elections?”

    But when Colbert pressed him to provide an overarching solution to those troubling questions, Sanders came back to the “revolution” rhetoric that has driven his campaign. Asked how he plans to break up America’s “oligarchy,” Sanders said, “The only way that I know how to do it is the way change has always come about, in this country and in the world.

    “We used to have a segregated society,” he continued. “African-Americans couldn’t go to schools, couldn’t drink at water fountains. Millions of people stood together and said, ‘Hey, enough is enough. That is not what America is supposed to be about.’”

    Warning against the risks of revolution, Colbert quoted John F. Kennedy: “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable.” But Sanders resisted the idea that his revolution could go that way.

    What the goal of this campaign is about is to look at the Civil Rights Movement, look at the women’s movement, look at the gay movement, understand that when people come together we can accomplish enormous things,” Sanders said. “But I think what people are saying is enough is enough. We need fundamental changes in our political system and our economic system.”

    “Bernie Sanders, everybody, he’s running for president,” Colbert said by way of ending the interview. Not only is he running, but at this still early stage, he appears to be winning.

    http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/02/11/stephen-colbert-grills-bernie-sanders-isn-t-this-class-warfare.html?via=twitter_page

  9. waverly says:
    February 11, 2016 at 8:51 am

    Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders square off tonight in a debate as the fight to win Nevada looms. The Clinton campaign is rethinking its strategy after its double-digit loss to Mr. Sanders in New Hampshire.

    Here’s what to look for in the debate (9 p.m. Eastern, PBS, and streaming).

    While Chris Christie and Carly Fiorinahave dropped out of the race, the remaining Republican candidates are campaigning in South Carolina. Except for Donald J. Trump, that is, who is in Louisiana.

    http://www.nytimes.com

  10. Darth says:
    February 11, 2016 at 8:56 am

    I know this has been posted but this is so damn hilarious. This is the entire video. Johnny Depp nailed it.

    https://www.funnyordie.com/videos/ad38087bac/donald-trump-art-of-the-deal-movie?cc=d&_ccid=e8c9e23924bf5b4a

    They even had Kenny Loggins do the theme song.

  11. Darth says:
    February 11, 2016 at 9:20 am

    “Where to Invade Next” Is the Most Subversive Movie Michael Moore Has Ever Made https://theintercept.com/2016/02/10/where-to-invade-next-is-the-most-subversive-movie-michael-moore-has-ever-made/

    “On its surface, Where to Invade Next seems to be a cheerful travelogue as Moore enjoys an extended vacation, “invading” a passel of European countries plus Tunisia to steal their best ideas and bring them back home to America. For instance, French public schools have chefs who serve students hour-long, multi-course lunches on china, featuring dishes like scallops in curry sauce. I haven’t laughed harder at any movie this year than when the French 8-year-olds stare in perplexed horror at photos of American school lunches.”

    “By the end of Where to Invade Next — after seeing working-class Italians with two months paid vacation, Finnish schools with no homework and the world’s best test scores, Slovenians going to college for free, and women seizing unprecedented power in Tunisia and Iceland — you may realize that the entire movie is about how other countries have dismantled the prisons in which Americans live: prison-like schools and workplaces, debtor’s prisons in order to pay for college, prisons of social roles for women, and the mental prison of refusing to face our own history.

    You’ll also perceive clearly why we’ve built these prisons. It’s because the core ideology of the United States isn’t capitalism, or American exceptionalism, but something even deeper: People are bad. People are so bad that they have to be constantly controlled and threatened with punishment, and if they get a moment of freedom they’ll go crazy and ruin everything.”

  13. waverly says:
    February 11, 2016 at 10:26 am

    Good morning Jack, are you here this morning?

    • Jack Frost says:
      February 11, 2016 at 10:34 am

      I’m like the wind always around. Good morning Wave.

      • waverly says:
        February 11, 2016 at 10:37 am

        Hiya Jack, did you see last night’s Colbert

        • Jack Frost says:
          February 11, 2016 at 10:39 am

          Yes, it was a good show, Colbert tried to throw some bombs, Bernie answer without hesitation.

          • waverly says:
            February 11, 2016 at 10:45 am

            I think Colbert asked the questions on everyone’s mind. I agree, it was good, everyone should be given the opportunity to hear these answers. He makes sense and is quite clear.

            • Jack Frost says:
              February 11, 2016 at 10:50 am

              I’m just simmering with the bullshit comparison between Bernie and Trump, that’s a machination of the Clinton Camp to discredit Bernie.

              • waverly says:
                February 11, 2016 at 10:59 am

                Yes but this gives Bernie the chance to set the record straight. Not everyone is in as informed as you Jack. People need to hear it straight from Bernie’s mouth.

                • Jack Frost says:
                  February 11, 2016 at 11:29 am

                  He shouldn’t have to, people are “WILLFULLY” stupid, when it relates to the Rethuglicans it’s undeniable: bigotry, hate, xenophobia, misogyny, class inequality–all promoted by the 1% and championed by the very victims that not only vote for the abusers but advocated for them!

                  Then we have the “stay the course” Democrat voters, the ones I like to call OBAMALIBS, their establishment centric myopia threatens the very fabric of the party, they too are victims of the re-envisioning of the truth.

                  NONE are ready to hear Bernie’s message. I wonder IF Bernie supporters deep down understand what his presidency would mean.

                • waverly says:
                  February 11, 2016 at 11:46 am

                  I understand what you are saying

                • Jack Frost says:
                  February 11, 2016 at 12:15 pm

                  Well that makes one of us!

  14. waverly says:
    February 11, 2016 at 11:44 am

    Gravitational waves: discovery hailed as breakthrough of the century | Science | The Guardian

    Physicists have announced the discovery of gravitational waves, ripples in spacetime first anticipated by Albert Einstein a century ago.

    “We have detected gravitational waves. We did it,” said David Reitze, executive director of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (Ligo), at a press conference in Washington.

    The announcement is the climax of a century of speculation, 50 years of trial and error, and 25 years perfecting a set of instruments so sensitive they could identify a distortion in spacetime a thousandth the diameter of one atomic nucleus across a 4km strip of laserbeam and mirror.

    The phenomenon was detected by the collision of two black holes. Using the world’s most sophisticated detector, the scientists listened for 20 thousandths of a second as the two giant black holes, one 35 times the mass of the sun, the other slightly smaller, circled around each other.

    At the beginning of the signal, their calculations told them how stars perish: the two objects had begun by circling each other 30 times a second. By the end of the 20 millisecond snatch of data, the two had accelerated to 250 times a second before the final collision and dark merger.

    The observation signals the opening of a new window on to the universe.

    https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/feb/11/gravitational-waves-discovery-hailed-as-breakthrough-of-the-century

  17. fi says:
    February 11, 2016 at 12:59 pm

    Hi, anyone around?

  18. Haruko Haruhara says:
    February 11, 2016 at 1:27 pm

    Listening to this livestream from Oregon. They’re trying to talk this really suicidal guy into giving up.

  21. Haruko Haruhara says:
    February 11, 2016 at 2:01 pm

    And the last guy in Oregon gave up. He had been threatening to kill himself for the last hour.

  22. Darth says:
    February 11, 2016 at 2:35 pm

    looks like some intrigue afoot

    • Darth says:
      February 11, 2016 at 2:40 pm

      Hillary Clinton’s Congressional Black Caucus PAC Endorsement Approved By Board Awash in Lobbyists https://theintercept.com/2016/02/11/congressional-black-caucus-hillary/

      “the Congressional Black Caucus PAC is not the same thing as the Congressional Black Caucus, which is made up of 46 members of Congress. Indeed, Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., a Sanders supporter, made that point on Twitter:

      Ellison then said in another tweet that “endorsements should be the product of a fair open process. Didn’t happen.”

      Ben Branch, the executive director of the Congressional Black Caucus PAC told The Intercept that his group made the decision after a vote from its 20-member board. The board includes 11 lobbyists, seven elected officials, and two officials who work for the PAC. Branch confirmed that the lobbyists were involved in the endorsement, but would not go into detail about the process.

      Members of the CBC PAC board include Daron Watts, a lobbyist for Purdue Pharma, the makers of highly addictive opioid OxyContin; Mike Mckay and Chaka Burgess, both lobbyists for Navient, the student loan giant that was spun off of Sallie Mae; former Rep. Al Wynn, D-Md., a lobbyist who represents a range of clients, including work last year on behalf of Lorillard Tobacco, the makers of Newport cigarettes; and William A. Kirk, who lobbies for a cigar industry trade group on a range of tobacco regulations.

      And a significant percentage of the $7,000 raised this cycle by the CBC PAC was donated by white lobbyists, including Vic Fazio, who represents Philip Morris and served for years as a lobbyist to Corrections Corporation of America, and David Adams, a former Clinton aide who now lobbies for Wal-Mart, the largest gun distributor in America.”

  23. ALOE VERA says:
    February 11, 2016 at 3:19 pm

    Please read this, Realmsters. You could prevent someone from ending up like me ~ You could save a life.

    Bouquets and Bruises: This Valentine’s Day, Help Someone Experiencing Abuse
    https://www.usa.gov/features/bouquets-and-bruises-this-valentines-day%2C-help-someone-experiencing-abuse

  24. 4E Bern says:
    February 11, 2016 at 3:43 pm

    HRC: “You’re not going to find anybody more committed to aggressive campaign finance reform than me,” Clinton said, promising to “crack down on corporations that game the system.”

    “Only days later, Clinton’s campaign is launching a fundraising blitz that includes events with representatives of industries that have significant business interests before the federal government.”

    http://www.ibtimes.com/political-capital/hillary-clinton-plans-raise-money-industries-interests-next-president-2302757

    “In last week’s MSNBC debate, she criticized Sanders for what she said was his effort to “link donations to my political campaign, or really donations to anyone’s political campaign, with undue influence with changing people’s views and votes.”.. 🙄 ….8-)

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