Saturday Night Hootenanny

Going back to the forties, mostly, for tonight’s selections. We kind of lose the theme towards the end but I hope you won’t mind.

I need a favor though. If you like the music let me know what musicians you liked or types of songs so I can craft future Hootenannies that will be more enjoyable.

So, I Guess No Kamala Heiress?

Biden could’ve resigned to give her the historic slot (heh), but he suffers from Intention Deficit Disorder.

“You know what? Let me say something about this,” Harris said amid the disruption at the Reno event.

“We are here because we are fighting for a democracy,” the vice president fumed. “Fighting for a democracy.

“And understand the difference here, understand the difference here, moving forward, moving forward, understand the difference here,” Harris rambled.

“What we are looking at is a difference in this election – let’s move forward and see where we are because on the issue, for example, freedom [i.e., fweedom] of choice …” the Democratic nominee continued as the heckling intensified, interrupting her yet again.

“That’s OK. That’s alright. That’s OK,” Harris said as her supporters drowned out the protest.

Hours earlier, during a speech in Phoenix, the Democratic nominee for president was interrupted multiple times by anti-Israel protesters.

“Hey guys, you know what? Here’s the thing …“ Harris said, addressing the demonstrators.

“Let’s talk for a moment about Gaza,” she continued. “We all want this war to end and to get the hostages out, and I will work on it full-time when I am elected president.”

Cartoons and Memes : Saturday Night Special

“I have no words.”

“About time.”

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Lights! Comrades! Inaction!

Congressional hearings are a whole lot of use.

Postmaster General Covers Ears During Oversight Hearing
CSPAN via YouTube | 12/10/2024

Rep. Rich McCormick(R-GA) on Postmaster General Louis DeJoy: “I hope you got that on camera. This is the response that the Postmaster just gave Congress when he doesn’t like what he hears. Literally covered his ears and gives himself the grade of A.”

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Pete Hegseth asked to explain what a “jagoff” is at Senate confirmation hearing
CBS News | 14 January 2025

During Pete Hegseth’s Senate confirmation hearing Tuesday, Senator Jack Reed (D-Rhode Island) asked Hegseth to explain the term “jagoff.”

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Trump assassination attempt hearing devolves into a screaming match
Fox News | 5 December 2024 | Chris Pandolfo

The director of the U.S. Secret Service and a Texas congressman got into a screaming match Thursday during a hearing on the agency’s failures leading to two assassination attempts against President-elect Trump.

Acting Secret Service director Ronald Rowe shouted at Rep. Pat Fallon, R-Texas, after the GOP lawmaker lambasted the service for security lapses that made Trump a target of two failed shooting attempts.

“You’re out of line, congressman!” Rowe yelled at Fallon.

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DHS secretary, FBI director skip Senate Homeland Security hearing for the first time in 15 years
justthenews.com | November 21, 2024 | Charlotte Hazard

FBI Director Christopher Wray and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas didn’t show up or offer testimony at an annual Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing that took place Thursday.

Their absence marked the first time in 15 years that both heads have not attended the annual hearing, according to the committee’s chairman, Rep. Gary Peters, D-Mich.

Slip Biden Away

Slip Biden Away

Ship Biden Away

You know, that nearly-destroyed-nation thing?

The moron’s still hidin’ away

I know a woman

Became his wife

These are the very words she uses to describe her life:

She says “A good day’s when I got to reign”

She said “A bad day’s when I lie in bed and think of him watching Gentle Ben.”

Now, Obama knows

What Joe does to plans

“Disinformation’s unavailable to the mortal, man!”

They’re jerking our jobs

They’re jerking our pay

Believe we’re colliding down the highway, but for now I’ll just sip Chardonnay.

Stray Thought

Has anyone checked the supply closet for Basil lately?

Seems like we haven’t heard from him in a while.

Keep On Truckin’

California Ditches ‘Unachievable’ Scheme To Mandate Green Trucks
Daily Caller News Foundation | January 15, 2025 | Nick Pope

California regulators withdrew a proposal to mandate the sale of zero-emissions trucks over the next 20 years on Tuesday evening.

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) pulled back its request to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for a waiver that would have allowed the state to require massive increases in sales of electric or zero-emissions truck models over the coming decades. As of 2023, only 0.3% of all registered heavy-duty vehicles in the U.S. were zero-emissions models, according to the International Council on Clean Transportation.

CARB’s Advanced Clean Fleets rule would have mandated California’s truck fleet to move to zero-emission models starting in 2024, ending with the fleet going 100% zero-emissions between 2035 and 2042, according to Commercial Carrier Journal. The proposed regulations would have also required 100% of all new heavy-duty vehicles sold in the state to be zero-emissions models by 2036 if implemented.

Oh, Mandate

Well you came and you caved without taking

Though you wish you could stay all demand-y.

You can f*** off and stop all the faking

No one needs you today, oh Mandate

[Why didn’t Barry Manilow’s song “Mandy” come with a mandated trigger warning about violent imagery, when it references “a face through a window”?]

Straight Line of the Day: Can He Do That?

Biden Unilaterally Declares Changes To The US Constitution With Two Days Left In Office
Daily Caller | January 17, 2025

President Joe Biden released a statement Friday declaring that the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) “has become part of our Constitution.”

Biden asserted that as of 2020, 38 states have ratified the amendment and stated it should now be recognized as “the law of the land,” according to a White House press release. The amendment is meant to ensure equal rights for men and women in the U.S., but some interpretations of the text have implied it would erase gender distinctions and grant abortion protections.

“The American Bar Association (ABA) has recognized that the Equal Rights Amendment has cleared all necessary hurdles to be formally added to the Constitution as the 28th Amendment,” the White House statement reads. “I agree with the ABA and with leading legal constitutional scholars that the Equal Rights Amendment has become part of our Constitution.”

“As Archivist and Deputy Archivist of the United States, it is our responsibility to uphold the integrity of the constitutional amendment process and ensure that changes to the Constitution are carried out in accordance with the law,” Archivist of the United States Dr. Colleen Shogan and Deputy Archivist William J. Bosanko said in a statement in Dec. 2024. “At this time, the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) cannot be certified as part of the Constitution due to established legal, judicial, and procedural decisions.”

The amendment was passed by Congress in 1972 but failed to be ratified by the required three-quarters of states within the seven-year deadline.

What other constitutional changes can he magically make?

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