TRUMP - Some people think......... How do you feel?

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The ability to laugh rather than remain in a state of anger and/ or despair, is healthy.

Wisdom for the ages; because how much humour comes from our sorrow, as a way to help us through it?


(Originally, song was by Blind Willie McTell. Couldn't find an original version.)
 
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... and while McTell kept playing for anyone who would listen, the bitter realities of life had finally overtaken him, and he began drinking on a regular basis. He was rediscovered in 1956, just in time to get one more historic session down on tape. He left music soon after, to become a pastor of a local church, and he died of a brain hemorrhage in 1959, his passing so unnoticed at the time that certain reissues in the '70s referred to McTell as still being alive in the '60s.
Blind Willie McTell | Biography & History | AllMusic
A life of modest accomplishment, then, and not necessarily one that might warrant a biography ...

Hand Me My Travelin' Shoes is a vivid social and cultural history of the American South, a colourful account of Gray's own journeys in McTell's footsteps, and an absorbing study in the business of biographical detective-work that will engage even those with scant interest in McTell's music.

Much of the early part of the book offers a painstaking reconstruction of the world into which McTell was born - a Georgia impoverished by the Civil War and the uncertainties of Reconstruction, where life for many African-Americans was Hobbesian in its brutishness and lynchings were commonplace. Gray's efforts to research McTell's forebears and the particulars of his life pay eloquent testament to how blacks were effectively non-persons, often ignored in public records and censuses. No birth records exist for Willie McTell.

He was blind from birth but, as innumerable witnesses testify, he made extraordinarily light of his handicap. ....

... tenor of an encounter that speaks volumes about the relationship between black musician and white patron.
In search of Blind Willie McTell
 
Kimmio said:

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Another head hangs lowly
Child is slowly taken
And the violence caused such silence
Who are we mistaken

But you see it's not me
It's not my family
In your head, in your
Head they are fighting
With their tanks and their bombs
And their bombs and their guns
In your head,
In your head they are cryin'

Another mother's breakin'
Heart is taking over
When the violence causes silence
We must be mistaken

It's the same old theme since nineteen-sixteen
In your head,
In your head they're still fightin'
With their tanks and their bombs
And their bombs and their guns
In your head, in your head they are dyin'
 
Kimmio said:
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Canadian exports of military arms and equipment to Saudi Arabia jumped by 47 per cent to $142 million in 2016 as the troubled kingdom was intervening in next-door Yemen’s civil war and trying to suppress unrest among its own citizens.

A federal report shows the surge in exports from Canadian manufacturers — including munitions described as including “riot control agents” — took place even as the Canadian government was issuing an unusual statement of concern over growing violence in Saudi Arabia.

During the period military exports to Saudi Arabia soared, separate data gathered by Industry Canada and Statistics Canada show firearm industry exports of civilian semi-automatic rifles to Saudi Arabia exploded from zero exports in 2015 to $13.5 million worth in 2016.

Other recent data show civilian firearm exports to Saudi Arabia, under an Industry Canada and Statistics Canada category designating them as “rifles for sports, hunting or target shooting,” rose by 67 per cent from January through August this year compared to the first eight months of 2016. The 2017 rifle exports up to the end of August totalled $6.8 million and involved just over 7,000 rifles.

The Canadian government was on the defensive earlier this year over its approval of the sale of $15 billion worth of armoured personnel carriers to Saudi Arabia, a deal that had been brokered under the previous Conservative government.

The controversy intensified in July, when videos and photos showed Canadian-made armoured vehicles taking part in a clash with Saudi citizens in the country’s eastern province who are part of Saudi Arabia’s minority Shia communities.

Canadian military exports to Saudi Arabia exploded in 2016 - iPolitics
 
At the end of God's arms .. a heavy hand ... opposed by one lighter and left behind to observe in the light of what went wrong ... like Nero's Rome it smokes ... some take this a pyritic hand ... allows acrostic and down yah goest ... Lacrosse works much the same ... tis rough or ruah depending on tradition of the uprising in the pool ...

Breach of the piece ...
 
In his 1985 book Amusing Ourselves to Death, professor, media researcher, and author Neil Postman argues that 1985 realized not Orwell's but Huxley's dystopian vision: We live now in a society where politics, history, and culture are irrelevant and laughable because we have created a society of perpetual amusement through television (and, by extension, the internet). Television (and YouTube's) reduction of political discourse and reasoned argument to soundbites and video clips has made rational choice impossible; the commercial has become the new model for education and politics, relying on image and emotion to move rather than educate viewers; and televangelism has turned even religion into a spectacle without sanctity or meaning. The speed of television "news" floods our lives with irrelevant information that fragments our understanding and makes public discourse "essentially incoherent" (69).*
(Thanks George)
 
Kimmio said:
During the March for Life speech, Trump actually said..."...many states allow a baby to be born from - his, or her... mother's womb... right up to the 9th month. It is wrong. It has to change.":ROFLMAO:


Trump said he's against birth in the 9th month of pregnancy


Are those the words from Trump that you appreciated @Jae. Because, I appreciated them too. Lucky I wasn't drinking a beverage. I am sure the comedians will appreciate those words, too. It makes their jobs easier.

(I think he meant to say something else...but, wow, that was some goof-up.)
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I think he meant to say something else .... and then I kept thinking about it and it led me here ...
  • The case for “after-birth abortion” draws a logical path from common pro-choice assumptions to infanticide. It challenges us, implicitly and explicitly, to explain why, if abortion is permissible, infanticide isn’t.
  • What’s Wrong With “After-Birth Abortion”?

 
That already crossed my mind. However, if his words were intentional I don't think he knew it. So...I laughed and laughed at them.

There is a difference between satire and mindless entertainment. And Trump - in this role - satirizes himself. I'd be quite happy if he stepped down and went back into the field of mindless entertainment.
 
Kimmio said:
T And Trump - in this role - satirizes himself. I'd be quite happy if he stepped down and went back into the field of mindless entertainment.
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When did he leave that field?

It’s an honor to be here at Carnegie Hall,” Colbert said, noting, “It’s been a great year for Late Show,” and, giving credit where credit was due, added, “Thank you, Donald Trump.”

“It’s been an honor to be on stage and talk about that day’s Trump” rannygazoo, Colbert told the crowd of media buyers, network execs and reporters. “Unfortunately, the hour I spend on stage means often missing news of tomorrow’s scandal,” Colbert said, making it tough not to “sound as out of touch as Sean Spicer does.”

Speaking of Spicer, “I don’t know if you have seen him lately,” Colbert said, adding it “helps to have a pair of hedge trimmers around.”

And, like Spicer, Colbert said that, in making his appearance at CBS’s Upfront he will “say whatever my boss tells me to and then leave without having answered any of your questions.”

“There is only one word to describe this president – and the FCC has sked me not to use it any more,” Colbert said, happily.

“The president recently has had harsh things to say about me,” including a charge his language was not appropriate for Late Show “because kids are watching.”

“Who says only old people are watching CBS?!” Colbert beamed.

“Thank you, Mr. President! Were No.1 in 6-12 year old politically engaged insomniacs!”

President Trump and Colbert have things in common, the late-night host said, both being TV show hosts who spend most of their time talking about Donald Trump.

“But, unlike Trump, my guests know they’re being taped.”

The president is not a fan of Late Show “but, like his votes on Election day, he’s in the minority,” Colbert beamed, Late Show being the most watched late-night program these days.

But it’s not really so surprising, Colbert added, CBS being “full of No. 1 shows ...
 
Colbert is a witty and intelligent satirist, whereas Trump is not (Trump satirizes himself unintentionally and gives comedians material). What Colbert meant is "this stuff writes itself". But there is a subset of the general population (I'm not talking about the effects of policy) that misses the humour of Trump and the reason for humour, altogether. Sorry about that. It's really unfortunate.
 
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