Sleigh Ride” is a popular light orchestral piece composed by Leroy Anderson. The composer had the original idea for the piece during a heat wave in July 1946; he finished the work in February 1948. Lyrics, about a person who would like to ride in a sleigh on a winter’s day with another person, were written by Mitchell Parish in 1950. The orchestral version was first recorded in 1949 by Arthur Fiedler and The Boston Pops Orchestra. The song was a hit record on RCA Victor Red Seal 49-0515 (45 rpm) / 10-1484 (78 rpm), and has become the equivalent of a signature song for the orchestra. The 45 rpm version was originally issued on red vinyl. This original mono version has never been available on CD, although the later 1959 re-recording is available in stereo. The orchestra has also recorded the song with John Williams, their conductor from 1979 to 1995, and Keith Lockhart, their current conductor.
Trumps language is insultig, offensive AND RACIST
Trump is no more offensive today than he was 3 years ago when he was on his birther ride, and many of the same folks now mad at him were cheering him on, praising him as a good guy, and telling the rest of us to lighten up.
Their selective outrage these days is not only disingenuous, agenda-driven and manipulative, it insults our intelligence.
I find myself unable to muster any more outrage at Trump on cue – as desired by those who in reality believe and support what he says, but are pushing for one of the other equally racist candidates in the queue and think they can unseat Trump with their faux-shock and outrage at his flippant racism.
The whole trick thing has worn so thin – as has most of the waggery that’s the hallmark of our politics today.
Hi ellihaas! Yes; and I’m still of the mind that The Clintons are 100% behind Trump’s shenaigans.
There’s a reason I laugh out loud every time I hear Hillary fake-admonishing Trump these days Ametia..
She and Bill were all gush-praising him for his friendship, kindness and generosity to them not long ago – and even 3 years ago in the thick of Trump’s birther media circus, Bill had no qualms defending Trump and regaling us with stories of their enjoyable golf outings together – and how he’s been such a great friend to him and Hillary..
It pains me to see the US media be complicit in pushing Trump’s offensive racist behavior by airing his vile hate. It’s so disturbing.
What U.S media SG..? You mean the same media that has mainstreamed right-wing hate outlets like Breitbart, The Daily Caller etc. and have them on as ‘journalists’ on so-called credible high-end networks and formerly high-profile news shows to opine..?
Trump doesn’t even come close to the sort of hate long peddled by some of the same media personalities and outlets that we want regulating him…Heck, he speaks their language, they only feign outrage because some of them have placed their bets on other equally offensive, but overshadowed racists running for president…
“Supreme Court revisits Texas affirmative action in new case”
http://www.star-telegram.com/news/state/texas/article48393620.html
https://twitter.com/ExtremeLiberal/status/673960147773952005/photo/1
https://twitter.com/lizzzbrown/status/673962893252157444/photo/1
Michael Oppenheimer, attorney for Ronald Johnson kicked a mud-hole in #AnitaAlvarez behind. Trying to sell us some bs story.
Attorney: Fatal Chicago shooting investigation ‘a joke’
Michael Oppenheimer, the attorney for Ronald Johnson’s family, spoke out against the investigation into Johnson’s shooting death by Chicago police, calling it “an absolute joke”
VIDEO:
http://www.cnn.com/videos/justice/2015/12/07/ronald-johnson-chicago-police-shooting-investigation-michael-oppenheimer-sot.wbbm/video/playlists/ronald-johnson-police-shooting/
Mayor Emanuel & the CPD need to GO DOWN.
they think folks are playing.
can we get it on youtube, SG2? Thanks
Let me check.
https://twitter.com/APEntertainment/status/673926793624215552?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
WUH? LOL
https://twitter.com/MsFab_MIASocial/status/673934779440590848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Amazon Prime Customers:
The Year Without A Santa Claus is on Prime Video!
When these MOFO cops shoot, they shoot to KILL. No questions asked.
I don’t think that the DOJ has any choice at this point, they HAVE to investigate the whole Chicago PD. And there will be a scathing report, then what?
“..And there will be a scathing report, then what?..” Exactly.
The DOJ has got to redeem itself at some point…get its act together. The precious lives of black children and adults alike depend on it. The sooner the better. A functioning, effective, unafraid DOJ tackling head-on the matter of corrupt and murderous police on a rampage against black lives, is long overdue. Enough of the madness and turning a blind eye – and the mealy-mouthed response to glaring injustices.
Anita Alvarez is the poster child for all that stinks about our justice system at local and State levels – and even at the DOJ. When corrupt police departments are given a pass every time because they are considered ‘partners’ by the attorneys charged with oversight – and curbing their excesses …And when the attorneys are just plain corrupt and pathetically evil as is the case with Ms Alvarez..
Hey, Ellihass. Missed your insightful comments. Yeah, without the Feds on board there will be no “criminal justice reform.” How is it even possible?
Brown University Professor Denounces ‘McCarthy’ Witch Hunts
As Brown University publishes a proposal for a ‘pathway to diversity’ and its protesting students ‘focus on being alive,’ a professor denounces the protest culture engulfing the institution.
It would be difficult to accuse Brown University of ignoring or dismissing the value of diversity on campus.
Brown’s president, Christina H. Paxson, recently oversaw the publication of a nearly 20-page draft proposal, titled Pathways to Diversity and Inclusion Plan: An Action Plan for Brown University, allocating more than $100 million to implement a “concrete set of actions to… confront the issues of racism, power, privilege, inequity and injustice.”
The specific recommendations of the plan, which was published on Nov. 19, include doubling the number of faculty and graduate students from “historically underrepresented groups” (which effectively means ethnic, racial, and sexual minorities) by the 2024-2025 academic year and establishing “professional development workshops on race, sexual orientation and gender identity.”
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/12/06/brown-university-professor-denounces-mccarthy-witch-hunts.html
AMERICAN JUSTICE AT WORK FOLKS
uh huh
prosecutors on camera using diagrams, pointers, and spewing their versions of the killing don’t prove shit.
I love this gif
http://www.vizionzfromthebottom.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/blank-stare.gif
I really like this one.
Is More Required?
ByJOSH MARSHALL
PublishedDECEMBER 7, 2015, 1:09 AM EST
I wanted to share with you TPM Reader BF’s take on my weekend post (“The Condundrum”) and the President’s speech. I want to do so not only because I think he makes good points that are worth considering but also because he captures a viewpoint I have heard from a number of people in recent days. In so many words, they agree with President Obama on the policy merits. But they do not believe his rhetoric and his policies are connecting with the public in a visceral way or reassuring them that he takes the threat seriously, appreciates their fears or has a plan on a scale to address the threat.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/is-more-required
Hillary: “As dark as it has been, we don’t want the light to go out completely, because bad things can happen in the dark”
DAMN, JUST DAMN.
Check out frame 40:00 minute mark where she flubs the Nuclear-military option QUESTION.
I read about the ‘gaffe’, Ametia.
Which is why she had to make a quick trip to the White House today to steal more of the President’s ideas to pass off as hers…
She’s run out of rehearsed lines and stolen ideas – and unbeknownst to Podesta, Jennifer Palmieri and the rest of them, you use up stolen and gleaned information quickly on the campaign trail, and you better be able to replenish, and come up with new material and ideas of your own fast or else…especially as the world situation keeps constantly changing…
So she returns to visit with the President to tap his brain, and run back to the campaign trail pretending the ideas she’s gleaned during lunch with him are hers – and that she’s got a plan – when she doesn’t really..
Hi rik, would you post to PBO Oval Office address thread too. Thanks!
George Lucas and Mellody Hobson last night at Kennedy Center Honors
Lovely & I just adore Melody’s gown!
Who is doing pushup while FLOTUS is watching?
Conan O’Brien…He traveled with FLOTUS on her trip to Qatar to entertain out troops with his band with some other musicians and entertainers…
I’ve got to share some incredible stuff I found on that Middle East trip FLOTUS made, the second half to Jordan was cancelled of course because of weird weather in Jordan… But some really interesting stuff happened…
https://twitter.com/HonestToddler/status/673884990296444928
https://twitter.com/theleanover/status/672169050005467136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
And Grandma, Robinson, ALSO TOO!
Let’s get the fuck outta DODGE, FAM., so done with this CRACKA-AZZ-CRACKA PLACE!
Nope! That’s exactly what the racists want – to frustrate them terribly and to run them out of town…
A better response is to stay put and enjoy every last perk of this office – They’ve more than earned it – and so much more…
https://twitter.com/dougmillsnyt/status/673637705700483072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Good Morning, Ametia and Everyone :)
http://www.allthingschristmas.com/pics1/decor.jpg
and Rikyrah and SG2
http://www.wilsoninfo.com/christmas-clipart/christmas-lights-3.jpg
I’m loving this so much, Yahtc. Thank you!
Love the season! :)
http://myaccount.nobleworkscards.com/mod_images/imageitem/5765-santa-stuck-funny-cartoons-merry-christmas-card.jpg
YO YO YOU, Yathzee! :))))
:)
Amelia, you had asked what was in your stocking on Saturday.
Answer is here:
http://3chicspolitico.com/2015/12/05/saturday-open-thread-holiday-music/#comment-456040
https://twitter.com/markknoller/status/673628404109955073?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
https://youtu.be/OFw8uZQIcUo
Here we go folks!
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Why can’t Freddie Gray’s MURDERERS on trial get an ALL BLACK JURY?
WHY?????????????????????????????????
Hillary Clinton: How I’d Rein In Wall Street
By HILLARY CLINTONDEC. 7, 2015
SEVEN years ago, the financial crisis sent our economy into a tailspin. Over five million people lost their homes. Nearly nine million lost their jobs. Nearly $13 trillion in household wealth was wiped out.
Under President Obama, our economy has come a long way back. Our businesses have created more than 13 million jobs. People’s savings are being restored. And we have tough new rules on the books, including the Dodd-Frank Act, that protect consumers and curb recklessness on Wall Street.
But not everyone sees that as a good thing. Republicans, both in Congress and on the campaign trail, are dead-set on rolling back critical financial protections.
Right now, Republicans in Congress are working to attach damaging deregulation riders to the must-pass spending bill. They’re attempting to defund the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. They want to roll back common-sense efforts to prevent conflicts of interest by financial managers. And they’re trying to undo constraints on risk at some of the largest and most complex financial institutions.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/07/opinion/hillary-clinton-how-id-rein-in-wall-street.html?_r=1&wpmm=1&wpisrc=nl_daily202
smgdh
Observe5
12/6/2015 11:34 AM CST
Jeb’s father was “Bush”, his brother, George, was “Shrub”, and now, it seems, Jeb is “Twig.”
BWA HA HA HA HA HAH A AH AH AH
Tee hee hee
Supreme Court won’t review laws banning so-called assault weapons
The Supreme Court Monday declined to review the ability of cities and states to prohibit semiautomatic “assault” weapons that can carry more than 10 rounds of ammunition and have been used in some of the nation’s most deadly recent mass shootings.
Read more » https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-wont-review-laws-banning-so-called-assault-weapons/2015/12/07/b562678e-96fb-11e5-94f0-9eeaff906ef3_story.html?wpisrc=al_alert-national
https://twitter.com/OFA_CA/status/673691401079545857?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
https://twitter.com/jonfavs/status/673676011876179968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
TRUTH! The Sunday talk shows and the Monday morning shows are continuing to distort, lie, deceive, by bringing on the circus of GOP candidates to beat the WAR
DRUMS.
Meanwhile, NRA-CONGRESS?
https://twitter.com/marykbruce/status/673673158902288384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
https://twitter.com/missambear/status/673671940968718336?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
https://twitter.com/markknoller/status/673712507345760257?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
https://twitter.com/HaroldItz/status/673673793005596675?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
https://twitter.com/Elverojaguar/status/673700959709696000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
h/t POU.
Read the twitter timeline of an actual foreign correspondent.
https://twitter.com/7im/timelines/673689270419230721
Thank you for this. The USA media ain’t worth a good SHIT.
https://twitter.com/TheDailyEdge/status/673675103197118464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
https://twitter.com/muckrakery/status/673849554685571076?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
PHUCK.OUTTA.HERE.
https://twitter.com/ZekeJMiller/status/673678387592826880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
For my Chicago folks who also happen to be Downton Abbey Fans:
Dressing Downtown-Changing Fashion for Changing Times
Driehaus Museum
Beginning February 9, 2016
http://www.driehausmuseum.org/dressing_downton
Look at the plans, people.
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The Isis papers: leaked documents show how Isis is building its state
Blueprint lays bare new contours of Islamic state, complete with civil service, regional government and Soviet levels of economic control
A leaked internal Islamic State manual shows how the terrorist group has set about building a state in Iraq and Syria complete with government departments, a treasury and an economic programme for self-sufficiency, the Guardian can reveal.
The 24-page document, obtained by the Guardian, sets out a blueprint for establishing foreign relations, a fully fledged propaganda operation, and centralised control over oil, gas and the other vital parts of the economy.Analysis The Isis papers: behind ‘death cult’ image lies a methodical bureaucracy
The manual, written last year and entitled Principles in the administration of the Islamic State, lays bare Isis’s state-building aspirations and the ways in which it has managed to set itself apart as the richest and most destabilising jihadi group of the past 50 years.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/07/leaked-isis-document-reveals-plan-building-state-syria
So glad this man is President.
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Obama is right: ISIS really does want US boots on the ground. Here’s how we know.
Updated by German Lopez on December 6, 2015, 9:55 p.m. ET
In a Sunday televised address on the San Bernardino shooting and terrorism, President Barack Obama restated his opposition to deploying ground troops in Syria and Iraq to fight ISIS. “That’s what groups like ISIL want. They know they can’t defeat us on the battlefield,” he argued. “ISIL fighters were part of the insurgency that we faced in Iraq, but they also know that if we occupy foreign lands, they can maintain insurgencies for years, killing thousands of our troops and draining our resources, and using our presence to draw new recruits.”
This point can seem a little counter-intuitive for those not closely watching the Syrian civil war and terrorism abroad. Luckily, Rukmini Callimachi, who has done extensive on-the-ground reporting on Syria for the New York Times, followed up the speech with a great explanation of why Obama — and many counterterrorism experts — believe that a ground war could do more harm than good:
http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2015/12/6/9859696/obama-isis-ground-war
https://twitter.com/5011x/status/673738657703075841?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
All well-served recipients… Ms. Tyson THO!
https://twitter.com/Carole_King/status/672960616731119616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
https://twitter.com/NASA/status/673641286700818438?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
https://twitter.com/eliasisquith/status/673838100443959297?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Good Morning, Everyone :)
Just so we’re clear, the GOP want to protect our homeland and keep Americans safe.
BUT NO GUN LAWS, PER NRA/SSECOND AMENDMENT RIGHTS, BLACK LIVES DO NOT MATTER, NO JUSTICE FOR POLICE KILLINGS, DOMESTIC TERRORISM OF WHITE SUPREMACIST GROUPS. MASS MURDERS IN USA AGAINST AMERCIANS BY AMERICANS
YES, I can see how the GOP & CONGRESS want to protect our homeland.
SG2,
please tweet this
Rikyrah, the amount of fear these folks can RILE UP, the more PROFIT$$$$$
In the scheme of things, NO LIVES MATTER, except those with the most MONEY & POWER
Good Morning, Everyone.