“Silver Bells” is a classic Christmas song, composed by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans.
“Silver Bells” was first performed by Bob Hope and Marilyn Maxwell in the motion picture The Lemon Drop Kid, filmed in July–August 1950 and released in March 1951.[1] The first recorded version was by Bing Crosby and Carol Richards, released by Decca Records in October 1950.[2] After the Crosby and Richards recording became popular, Hope and Maxwell were called back in late 1950 to refilm a more elaborate production of the song.
“Silver Bells” started out as the questionable “Tinkle Bells.” Said Evans, “We never thought that tinkle had a double meaning until Jay went home and his [first] wife said, ‘Are you out of your mind? Do you know what the word tinkle is?'” The word is child’s slang for urination.
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/938540840640761857
https://twitter.com/TheRoot/status/938569020181278720
Best tweet of day
We have all seen this look
https://mobile.twitter.com/TatianaKing/status/938450315199774720
Forgotten in much of today’s reporting on Russia’s Olympic ban are the two Russian anti-doping officials who happened to die in the wake of the scandal https://t.co/k3zmDpZdQz
— Miriam Elder (@MiriamElder) December 6, 2017
Because their hypocrisy defines them.
https://twitter.com/jfreewright/status/938486709502722048
https://twitter.com/funder/status/938484957063757825
This is such a horrific idea. Just wrong anyway that you look at it.
@JustinWolfers
It looks like the GOP senate, by writing a bill at the last moment, accidentally passed a massive (>$300b) corporate tax hike.\
https://twitter.com/JustinWolfers/status/938254283727831042
https://twitter.com/axios/status/938497566752366594
It’s a start, and, it’s on the record.
JUST IN: Rosenstein: I’m satisfied with Mueller’s work on Trump-Russia investigation https://t.co/pLckexeMwy pic.twitter.com/xdO3Z6coGZ
— The Hill (@thehill) December 6, 2017
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/938496278970978304
https://youtu.be/Dj1Z4snpSaE?t=1m1s
John Kelly is said to click ‘ideologically’ and ‘personality-wise’ with the buffoon..
Doesn’t necessarily ‘encourage’ his incendiary language, but Loves his ‘hardline stance’..
Pray tell what’s the difference between not encouraging, but loves ‘hardline stance’..
There’s that awful breathing..
The one that suggests fear, panic, and whatever else the devil passes on to his spawn..
SG2,
can you retweet me to those female Senators, asking them…
WHY can’t they WAIT for the ETHICS investigation?
WHY, do they insist, on playing THE FOOL FOR REPUBLICANS EVERY DAMN TIME!!
Thank you..
Dems always, always fall for the trap …Always let the republicans outmaneuver them..
And in the end, there will be no awards or reward or praise for their faux-highmindedness and mostly aggrandizing and hollow grandstanding and showboating and preemptive throwing of their folk under the bus.. All while republicans mutter under their breath …duck and dodge until it all blows over and their worst pedophiles are greeted as heroes as they arrive in Congress in their numbers..
Listen, I’m all for cleaning house, but there’s just so much hypocrisy, double standards and ridiculousness going on right now …I just can’t..
I do still have a lot to say about this whole sexual harassment/#metoo thing..
But it’ll have to wait..
Re Franken:
Banana in the tailpipe.
EVERYTIME I read one of his ‘ incidents’, I go ‘ REALLY’?
Shyt don’t make sense.
Let me make this clear, in care you don’t see it.
THEY WANT FRANKEN TO RESIGN BECAUSE FRANKEN ASKED FOR AN ETHICS INVESTIGATION.
IFFFF Franken Resigns, then NO Ethics Investigation.
If there is a FRANKEN Ethics Investigation, then how the phuck you NOT gonna have a ROY MOORE ETHICS INVESTIGATION (if he gets elected)?
See the Banana in the Tailpipe, you craven, weak muthaphuckas!
Franken has been an irritation for the republicans for quite some time..
And clearly, for the Dem women nursing ‘presidential ambitions’.. one less ‘dark horse’ getting in the way of their ambitions..
Some of these mofos are straight up lying and Democrats are falling for it. Remember how they fell for James O’Keefe LIE about ACORN? ACORN GONE!
I will continue to say this : they’d sell their mothers to Lucifer for those tax cuts.
The politics behind the GOP’s reversal on Roy Moore
12/06/17 10:45 AM—UPDATED 12/06/17 11:13 AM
By Steve Benen
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TIL that John Mitchell’s wife was forcibly kidnapped and drugged after the Watergate break-in to keep her quiet. And the guy who had a tranquilizer needle shoved into her butt is now… Ambassador to the Czech Republic (!)— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) December 4, 2017
Hmmph
Trump tells confidants that a government shutdown might be good for him
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-tells-confidants-that-a-government-shutdown-might-be-good-for-him/2017/11/30/e5328328-d5f5-11e7-a986-d0a9770d9a3e_story.html?utm_term=.dedd644620df
From BJ:
Cheryl Rofer says:
December 6, 2017 at 11:11 am
This is a thread on the Jerusalem decision, and why the evangelical base loves Trump and moving the embassy to Jerusalem. They are looking forward to Armageddon and The Rapture.
Much chatter on news and online about WHY Trump wants to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
— Diana Butler Bass (@dianabutlerbass) December 6, 2017
And he gets all the ‘ideas’, encouragement and boost he needs by perusing twitter and the twitter accounts of those who flatter him …including the bots and Russian undercover folks ..
As long as he notices chatter, senses that something is ‘popular’ with the ‘base’ and the bots that outnumber them…he pounces, assuming it’ll score him brownie points, no matter how fleeting… he just dives right in..
#BREAKING: FBI confirms there is currently court authorized law enforcement activity in the DC region involving state and federal agencies.
No further information is being released at this time. The #FBI plans to release more information later this afternoon.
— WUSA9 (@wusa9) December 6, 2017
They planned on stealing democracy forever.
Lock them ALL up. https://t.co/zWFVm6PmZN
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) December 6, 2017
The government shutdown deadline is just two days away
12/06/17 10:09 AM
By Steve Benen
There’s never been a federal government shutdown when one party controls both the White House and Congress. That may change this week.
As Rachel noted on the show the other day, when there’s a possible shutdown looming, the political world is ordinarily fascinated by the drama. It’s a testament to just how frenetic the current environment is that the federal government will run out of money in two days, and much of the country probably isn’t aware of the pending deadline.
The first step in preventing the government from shutting down will be a spending bill in the House. Politico reports that Republican leaders appear to have settled on a plan.
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 12/5/17
Bannon pushes Alabama senate race as referendum on Trump
John Archibald, columnist for the Birmingham News, talks with Rachel Maddow about how Alabama voters are processing the Roy Moore schoolgirl scandal and the influence of Steve Bannon on the race.
https://twitter.com/keithboykin/status/938401778676191232
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 12/5/17
RNC quietly slips back into supporting Roy Moore in Alabama
Rachel Maddow reports on the Republican National Committee resuming its support for Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore after having previously pulled away from Moore over his schoolgirl scandal.
‘Quietly’..?
Nah ..they’re doing so quite boldly..
They know there’ll be no repercussions..
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 12/5/17
News of Mueller Deutsche Bank query triggers Trump team freak-out
Greg Farrell, investigative reporter for Bloomberg News, talks with Rachel Maddow about his reporting on the Robert Mueller investigation asking Deutsche Bank for information related to Donald Trump.
News anchor Sharon Reed responds on air to a viewer who calls her the N-word. This Atlanta Mayoral race has people fiesty tonight. pic.twitter.com/Vgri3oXnGN
— Billy Michael Honor (@BillyMHonor) December 6, 2017
Democrat Jen Jordan won a special election runoff in Georgia’s 6th Senate district last night, flipping the seat.
Jordan’s win breaks the Republican supermajority in Georgia’s state senate. pic.twitter.com/rfY7Qf0PB4
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) December 6, 2017
This has always been my suspicion. That Flynn lied because Trump told him too, and then Trump spent months trying to cover the whole thing up. https://t.co/5wvVD3IePU
— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) December 6, 2017
What the #GOPTaxScam is really about: a vast cycle of corruption rigged for the richest and most powerful Americans. pic.twitter.com/GG1WjyKOm4
— Senator Jeff Merkley (@SenJeffMerkley) December 5, 2017
If you need to apply for an absentee ballot for the Dec. 12 special election for the U.S. Senate, THURSDAY, December 7th, IS THE DEADLINE TO APPLY.https://t.co/peNAn4Sa8L
— Doug Jones (@GDouglasJones) December 5, 2017
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 12/5/17
Mueller looking at Deutsche Bank in Trump Russia probe: reports
Rachel Maddow looks at Deutsche Bank’s history with Russian money laundering, Donald Trump’s massive indebtedness to Deutsche Bank, and the news that Robert Mueller’s Trump Russia investigation is taking a closer look at the bank’s dealings
I was watching LarryO last night, and guess what….
Guess who’s had a change of heart since they voted FOR the GOP Tax Scam?
Those 11 or 12 GOPers from California.
They were all big and bad when they voted FOR it..
But. they went home and heard from their constituents.
I’ve said from the beginning..
These are not the folks that give two shyts about the Little Baby Jesus, or Abortion, or Guns..
They are the IGMFY Republicans.
They are Republicans because of TAXES.
And, rarely, if ever, can you attach something happening in your life DIRECTLY to a single vote.
Their constituents are like – Muthaphuckas, you best not even think about raising my taxes….
So now, they want to resinstate the state and local tax deductions..
Uh huh
Uh huh
https://twitter.com/Evan_Rosenfeld/status/938199919071977472
He’s a weasel.. a really scummy one..
I can’t decide who I detest more.. him or the buffoon..`
https://twitter.com/SInow/status/938253092658794496
Time’s Person of Year
https://mobile.twitter.com/brianstelter/status/938386178566492160
Good Morning, Everyone 😄😄😄
Happy HUMP day, 3 Chics Family!