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Archive of entries posted on 24th August 2019
She’s Always a Clinton To Me (Song Parody)
[To the tune of Billy Joel’s “She’s Always a Woman”]
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She concealed secret files
And she hired foreign spies
She ruined womens’ lives with her casual lies
And she’ll never reveal what she did with I.T.
Made up, like, out of whole cloth,
Her excuse for a clear felony.
She can’t lead the country
But she won’t take it or leave it
Said she wanted to be a minister
But no one believed it
And she’ll promise voters anything as long as it’s free
No commander-in-chief
But she’s always inhuman, to me
Oh
She takes care of herself
And her foundation grows on the taxpayers’ dime
Oh
And she never gives up, and she never gives in
What does it matter, this time?
She promised the muslims
The Garden of Eden
Then she took out Qaddafi
And laughed at his bleeding
At her best with Whitewater
At her worst, Benghazi
Blames it on someone else
‘Cause she’s always inhuman, to me
She is freakily unkind,
Habitually cruel
She does as she pleases
The press is her tool
But she can’t be convicted
Apparently
And the most she will do
Is throw shade at the truth
But she’s always inhuman, to me
♩♩♪
A Philosophy We Can All Embrace
For Those Who’ve Never Heard It Before
10 All-Female Movie Remakes Coming in 2020
“Deliverance” was pushed back indefinitely after producers realized that there’s no such thing as a female banjo player.
1) “City Slickers”
2) “Saving Private Ryan”
3) Stanley Kubrick’s “Apollo 11 Moon Landing” (1969)
4) “The Blues Brothers”
5) “First Blood”
6) “Home Alone”
7) “Bridge on the River Kwai” (with Betty White as “Lieutenant Colonel Nicholson”)
8) “The Longest Yard”
9) “Mulan” (technically not ALL female, so the gender-reveal scene is super awkward)
10) “Ghostbusters”, but this time with hot chicks
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Straight Line of the Day (Weekend Edition): When Harvey Returns From Vacation, The News He’ll Be Most Surprised To Hear Is…
If You Have To Deny It . . .
I always thought this article (from 7/27/18) was a perfect example of:
“If you have to deny it, you’re already toast.”
But now I’m wondering if sharing it will get me into trouble, since the article seems to be banned and scrubbed and now returns a note of “403 forbidden,” whatever that is.
You can still read one news-aggregator website’s comments on it, though.
But, mysteriously, that website seems to indicate it is “still loading” the whole time while you read this article. Hmm.
Well, here’s the synopsis:
Macron Denies Bodyguard Filmed Beating Protesters Is His Gay Lover
French President Emmanuel Macron has been forced to deny his disgraced ex-bodyguard was his gay lover and giving him the country’s nuclear codes.
Alexandre Benalla was sacked last week after video footage showed him hitting a male May Day protester and dragging away a woman while he was off duty and wearing a riot helmet and police tags.
He is not a serving police officer and detectives are now investigating how he came into possession of official equipment.
The scandal has gripped France, with police even raiding Macron’s official Elysee Palace as they investigate Benalla’s actions.
If I’m taken out in a Frenchified way tomorrow, tell Miss Kitty I was thinking of her.
And, uh . . . could we get back to that end of paragraph 1, again?
On This Day in History
One last note from the Constitutional Convention:
As it stood on August 24, 1787, Article X, Section 1 of the Constitution read:
The Executive power of the U. S. shall be vested in a single person. His style shall be “The President of the U. S. of America” and his title shall be “His Excellency.” He shall be elected by ballot by the Legislature. He shall hold his office during the term of seven years; but shall not be elected a second time.
Since everything was still on the table at this point, Daniel Carroll of Maryland proposed that the president be elected by the people, rather than by Congress.
Mr. Carroll moved to strike out “by the Legislature” and insert “by the people.” Mr. Wilson seconded him & on the question.
This proposal was— as we all know —
defeated.
N. H. no. Massts no. Cont no. N. J. no. Pa ay. Del. ay. Md no. Va no. N. C. no. S. C. no. Geo. no.
There was still a lot of work to do.
I don’t know if today’s citizens realize how much horse-trading went on.
A president with “one un-reelectable term of seven years” was traded for “reelectable terms of four years each” [along with other concessions on both sides, such as giving the president the ability to appoint justices — but then only with the consent of the Senate] in order to obtain a president elected by the people, not Congress.
The negotiations were very heated, and lasted for months . . . hot summer months, in a room with windows closed tightly to keep out the flies; with no air conditioning, no electric fans, no carpeting, heavy woolen clothing, and wooden chairs.
People tend to think of the “Miracle in Philadelphia” as more or less a given, when the outcome was anything but. Many states and representatives threatened to (and did) boycott the proceedings. Rhode Island never participated. Many then tried to block the ratification of the Constitution once it was hashed out. Was it worth all the effort?
The years since have rendered a verdict. And the Democrats are now voicing theirs.