it’s a great time to be a FAN of Philadelphia sports, the Eagles are doing well and amazingly, the Phillies are going to the World Series…thanks to Bryce Harper with the winning 2 run Homerun in the 8th Inning… we won 4-3 to win the National League Pennant, we took the series with the San Diego Padres 4 to 1… while they played Rocky music…
Trying hard now…it’s so hard now…trying hard now
Getting strong now…won’t be long now…getting strong now
Gonna fly now…flying high now…gonna fly, fly, fly…Go Phillies!!!
I want the Department of Justice to fly too!…we have Jennifer Rubin making us smarter!…from The Washington Post: “Opinion: Distinguished person of the week: This judge is holding Trump accountable: If you’re looking for a road map to hold former president Donald Trump accountable for his role in the attempted coup, turn to U.S. District Court Judge David Carter.
Carter, in a ruling back in March, wrote that Trump and his lawyer John Eastman “more likely than not” committed crimes in their scheme to reject certified electors and replace them with an alternate, phony slate. The potential crimes, he stated, included obstruction of an official proceeding and conspiracy to defraud the United States. As a result, he found that more than 100 emails from Eastman were not shielded by attorney-client privilege and must be released to the House Jan. 6 select committee.
On Wednesday, Carter held that eight more privileged documents fell within the crime-fraud exception to attorney-client privilege because Trump consulted Eastman “for advice that will serve [them] in the commission of a fraud or crime,” andthe communications themselves were “sufficiently related to” and made “in furtherance of” the crime. Carter explained, “There are four documents … in which Dr. Eastman and other attorneys suggest that — irrespective of the merits — the primary goal of filing [election-related lawsuits] is to delay or otherwise disrupt the January 6 vote.”
Carter took aim at one lawsuit that Trump and his attorneys filed before a court in Fulton County, Ga., in which they alleged the county’s vote total included 10,315 deceased people, 2,560 felons and 2,423 unregistered voters. But these numbers were false, Carter wrote, and Eastman told Trump as much. Nevertheless, they filed a suit repeating this false allegation in a sworn pleading. Carter explains:
President Trump and his attorneys ultimately filed the complaint with the same inaccurate numbers without rectifying, clarifying, or otherwise changing them. President Trump, moreover, signed a verification swearing under oath that the incorporated, inaccurate numbers “are true and correct” or “believed to be true and correct” to the best of his knowledge and belief.
The emails show that President Trump knew that the specific numbers of voter fraud were wrong but continued to tout those numbers, both in court and to the public. The Court finds that these emails are sufficiently related to and in furtherance of a conspiracy to defraud the United States.
In other words, just as the Jan. 6 committee showed over the course of its hearings, Trump knew he had lost in Georgia and knew the numbers of fraudulent votes he was throwing about were false. Yet he kept repeating these lies, including under oath in federal court.
Former federal prosecutor Joyce White Vance writes in a Substack post, “This is a civil case and the issue before Judge Carter is whether to enforce the subpoena the [Jan. 6 committee] sent to Eastman. . . . It doesn’t mean an indictment of Trump will automatically follow.” Still, Vance explains, Carter’s ruling amounts to a federal court judge arguing that there is sufficient evidence “from the mouth of his own attorney, that [Trump] knew the Big Lie was a Big Lie.”
Between this ruling and the voluminous evidence presented in the Jan. 6 committee hearings, the Justice Department would have a difficult time explaining a decision not to indict Trump. As Norman Eisen, who served as co-counsel for the House impeachment managers during Trump’s first impeachment, put it on Twitter, “The new documents that Eastman was trying to hide and [Carter] just released are so important. They prove that Trump knowingly lied under oath about his 2020 election claims.” Eisen adds, “That bolsters the already strong criminal case” that Trump attempted to defraud the United States in challenging Georgia’s results.
And remember, there is also audio of Trump’s phone calls with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, in which Trump tried strong-arming the election official to “find” just enough votes to flip the state’s election results.
The case against Trump also goes beyond Georgia. The Jan. 6 committee presented evidence about similar machinations in other states. Oh, and don’t forget the evidence of seditious conspiracy presented in the committee’s most recent hearing (i.e., that Trump had planned far in advance to disrupt a peaceful transfer of power, and that there were abundant indications that the mob on Jan. 6 would be violent).
Carter took aim at one lawsuit that Trump and his attorneys filed before a court in Fulton County, Ga., in which they alleged the county’s vote total included 10,315 deceased people, 2,560 felons and 2,423 unregistered voters. But these numbers were false, Carter wrote, and Eastman told Trump as much. Nevertheless, they filed a suit repeating this false allegation in a sworn pleading. Carter explains Carter’s ruling comes just in time for Bloomberg to report that federal prosecutors in the case regarding Trump’s hoarding of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago think there is enough evidence to charge Trump with obstruction. That may explain the latest reports that Trump wants to let the Justice Department come back for a further search. Alas, this kind of stunt will not obviate earlier alleged lies to federal investigators and apparent attempts to move documents after receiving a search warrant.
In other words, it seems there is ample ground ahead for prosecutors to hold Trump accountable for his actions. Evidence of potential crimes, and plenty of legal theories supporting state and federal prosecution, are piling up. For doing his part to uncover the truth, we can say, well done, Judge Carter.
and to continue with the wisdom of Jennifer Rubin…she speaks on the weakness of the GOP…who has everything wrong in regards to masculinity…when the most courageous Republicans are the women, Liz Cheney, and Cassidy Hutchinson…on the men’s side, let’s name Adam Kinzinger too…her “Opinion: Hawley is right that there’s a masculinity crisis. It’s inside the GOP: Cartoonish appeals to toxic masculinity are as much a feature of the MAGA movement as White grievance-mongering. Republicans whine about an emasculated, “woke” military. They insist on reducing women to second-class citizens without personal agency. They revel in Trumpian cruelty (e.g., manipulating unwary asylum seekers). It is a party consumed with “the thrill of cruelty and a juvenile boorishness meant largely to enrage others,” as the Atlantic’s Tom Nichols put it.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) has made a cottage industry in bemoaning the loss of masculinity. As David French explained in an interview with Vox in January, “It’s the logic of a movement centered around aggression divorced from virtue that indulges in apocalyptic rhetoric.” This “flipping upside down of morality, turning bullying into strength, turning restraint into vice,” he explains, “enables the Trumpists and the Trumpist world.” Bizarrely, the test of manliness is now measured in one’s subservience to a cult of personality.
Ironically, the loudest of the bully-boys displays none of the virtues typically characterized as “masculine”: courage, strength and self-discipline. Former president Donald Trump avoided military service, and his followers have been cowed into parroting his lies.
The strongest, most courageous and most honorable Republican — by a mile — is Rep. Liz Cheney (Wyo.), who refuses to knuckle under to Trump and his mob. She’s a singular truth-teller, whereas House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is the image of a cowering careerist who days after the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection was back to kissing Trump’s ring.
Cheney has repeatedly slammed McCarthy for his weakness, dinging him for failing to stand up for the Constitution. She mocked him for going to Mar-a-Lago to meet with Trump after the attack on the Capitol. Indeed, she has publicly lectured her party for sacrificing their honor. As she put it during one hearing for the House Jan. 6 select committee, “There will come a day when President Trump is gone, but your dishonor will remain.” She also contrasted the bravery of female witnesses such as former White House official Cassidy Hutchinson with the mealy-mouthed “50-, 60- and 70-year-old men who hide themselves behind executive privilege.” She has underscored that GOP leaders are cowering, “childish” flunkies — far from honorable, courageous and stalwart men.
The Republicans’ manliness deficit has been glaring in the recent midterm debates. Rep. Tim Ryan, the Democratic nominee in Ohio’s Senate contest, went after his Republican opponent, J.D. Vance, in their first debate for letting Trump take away his dignity at a recent rally. “I don’t know anybody I grew up with, I don’t know anybody I went to high school with, that would allow someone to take their dignity like that and then get back up onstage,” he declared. “We need leaders who have courage to take on their own party. And I’ve proven that. And he was called an a–kisser by the former president.”
Meanwhile, Rep. Val Demings, the Democratic nominee for Florida’s Senate seat, was the image of strength in her debate against Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), who seemed to personify the “Little Marco” put-down that Trump invented during the 2016 campaign. Demings declared, “Marco Rubio hasn’t run anything but his mouth.” She exuded pity for the man who twisted himself in knots to please the MAGA base. “I’m really disappointed in you, Marco Rubio, because I think there was a time when you did not lie in order to win,” she said. “I don’t know what happened to you.”
Put differently, far from displaying the masculine virtues they imagine are endangered, Republicans have become the party of fearful men afraid to stand on principle. By contrast, Democrats, who have long been accused of weakness or timidity, have seized the moment. Despite their historical wariness of talking about values, they have managed to do two things quite effectively.
First, Democrats in many cases have backed culturally appropriate candidates who sound and look like working-class voters (e.g., Ryan, John Fetterman in Pennsylvania) or who have proved their courage under fire (e.g., Demings, who served as Orlando police chief). And in backing independent Evan McMullin for Utah’s Senate seat, Democrats also found someone who risked his life for his country — a stark contrast to Republican Sen. Mike Lee, who violated his oath and dishonored his office by assisting Trump’s coup attempt.
Second, Democrats figured out that the “big lie” is not simply a constitutional outrage, but a sign of fear of telling the truth. They show real zeal in skewering opponents not only for policy positions but also for weak character. Republicans have certainly made themselves into easy targets. As Never Trumper Mona Charen observed in the Bulwark, in demanding that Republicans debase themselves, “Trump has emasculated every other Republican. He may look strong, but he demands that every other Republican become weak in his service.” None of their hysterical warnings about “woke-ism” or their bullying of pregnant women can conceal that.
Any voter not trapped in the right-wing media bubble can see that Republican politicians have sacrificed their manliness at the altar of Trump idolatry. Perhaps Hawley’s panic over lost masculinity isn’t so far-fetched.”…this from comment by Lionnair: “Hawley slavishly follows an unfit leader who readily put the national security of the American people at risk once he decided that stealing and retaining some of the nation’s most sensitive Top Secret national security documents might bring him some advantage.
Hawley dutifully follows a leader who has been a bully all his life, who brags about sexually assaulting women and when confronted with questions under oath, hides behind high-priced lawyers and the Fifth Amendment.
Hawley is intellectually unfit to represent his fellow Americans. He is morally unfit to speak for them in the United States Congress. He is simply trying to convince them that he represents some right-wing pop-culture version of masculinity.
It has been my honor to know men who showed enormous courage when their very lives were on the line in combat – when courage wasn’t spouting reactionary propaganda to supporters in order to please an unfit, cowardly bully.
Josh Hawley is about as far from courageous, principled masculinity we can imagine.”…Amen and Awomen to that!…
we have more wisdom from Jennifer Rubin…the repugnant Republicans will ruin the economy…lead us into a recession…gut Social Security and Medicare…Robin Hood in reverse…give, give, give to the rich and take away from the poor…from the dwindling the middle class…and have America default on its debt… this from Jennifer Rubin: “Opinion Democrats have a strong closing argument: The GOP would wreck the economy: Voters who follow the news closely will likely find it hard to believe that so many fellow Americans would even consider casting ballots for election deniers and Republicans who betrayed democracy. But“low information” Americans are the ones who will decide the midterm elections. Therefore, President Biden and his fellow Democrats must think carefully about their closing argument to win over these people.
Biden and other Democrats should follow the lead of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), whose messaging is designed to benefit members from all over the country in competitive races.
Here’s how she described the choice voters have in an interview with MSNBC on Tuesday: “We want to support and strengthen Medicare, Social Security, et cetera. [Republicans] want to use the debt ceiling to cut that.” She also noted that Republicans are willing to use the same tactic to reverse the Inflation Reduction Act’s provisions to lower prescription drug costs.
That’s a real threat: House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has threatened to use the looming deadline to raise the debt limit next year as a means to cut off aid to Ukraine and to roll back Biden’s economic agenda. House Republicans are also eyeing the debt limit deadline as a way to make cuts to hugely popular programs, such as Social Security and Medicare. At the same time, they are seeking to extend President Donald Trump’s tax cuts.
This is more trickle-down economics designed to make the rich richer, which would balloon the national debt and worsen inflation. As such, Democrats should describe the election for what it is: a faceoff between supply-side economics and Biden’s promise to build the economy from “the bottom up and middle out.” This would contrast the two parties as one for the little guy and one for billionaires, which has worked in the past to elect Biden and before him, Barack Obama and Bill Clinton.
Republicans like to label just about anything that doesn’t benefit the rich as “socialism.” That’s plutocratic economics, not populism. Highlighting the GOP’s core philosophy just might help Democrats retain support among Republican voters who crossed over in 2020 and low-information voters who are suspicious of Big Oil, Big Pharma and Big Business generally.
In that regard, Democrats can ding Republicans for opposing or resisting virtually everything Biden proposed that didn’t help the rich, such as protections against evictions during the pandemic; money to keep first responders working; expanded health care for sick veterans; measures to control prescription drug costs for seniors; and funding to create jobs in green energy, chip manufacturing and infrastructure. Here’s the message: “If you got help, Mr. and Mrs. Average Voter, Republicans want to take it away. If you’re rich, Republicans are going to make you even richer. And if Democrats don’t go along with the Republicans’ reverse Robin Hood policies, they are willing to burn down the economy with a default or paralyze the government to get their way.”
That’s the GOP inflation “plan.” Biden would be wise to use his time in the next few weeks highlighting it and making clear to working- and middle-class voters that Republicans’ idea of “progress” entails widening the gap between rich and poor.
He started down that road Friday when he bashed Republicans for threatening to crash the economy unless entitlements are cut and the wealthy can keep their “massive tax cuts”:
And at a Thursday fundraiser for John Fetterman, Democrats’ Senate nominee in Pennsylvania, Biden again made the case: “The threat came from McCarthy, the Republican leader, that if I were not willing to cut Social Security by the end of this year, then, in fact, they would not pay for the national debt and they would not extend the debt ceiling — meaning, for the first time in American history, we would in fact default on a debt and our credit as a nation would be demolished.”
So yes, while protecting democracy is an essential issue for those who rightfully fear the GOP’s assault on democratic institutions and values, Democrats must win over late-deciding voters, too. And there is nothing like a reminder that the economy could get a lot worse as Republicans revert to cutting taxes for the rich and starving government to motivate Americans to vote Democratic. Biden needs to keep that drumbeat going through Election Day.”…in our recent history, going back to Bush and trickle down economics, crashed the real estate market with their no down money mortgages…and caused a world-wide recession…the GOP, they will do again…they will always destroy our economy for the Democrats to clean up their mess once again…time after time…are we ready for another world-wide recession…and worst yet to cut funding for Ukraine…leave them out to dry against the cruel autocrat…and weaken the US worldwide…as well as our allies, NATO and the European Union…just what Putin wants…McCarthy would give it to him on a golden platter…we’re all screwed if the GOP gets power again…all they want, power…to reward their donors…and have the minority rule over the majority…and I would propose, breaking “norms” like Moscow Mitch…the “norm” that a sitting president can’t be indicted…it’s not a law…it’s like the filibuster…no constitutional anything describing law…and it can just as well be disregarded as Moscow Mitch and the Republicans as well as trump would, if it suited him…with not an eyelash batted…throw trump from the train, an indictment…now and forever…the man is a walking “felon, a crook”…
this afternoon I went to see the Exhibition On Screen: Hopper: An American Love Story…the documentary film directed by Phil Grabsky about Edward Hopper …as far as being the most recognizable art in America and as Robert Hughes writing in Time Magazine: “Hughes described Edward Hopper as “Along with Jackson Pollock… probably the most original American painter of the 20th century.”
Hughes also proposed that “no American painter has influenced popular culture more deeply,” a claim easily evidenced by the countless artists, writers, filmmakers, photographers, cartoonists, and musicians who have drawn inspiration from his artworks.
Defined by “a unique pictorial vocabulary, pioneering use of color, and mastery of light and shade” [Another Man, 2020], Hopper’s work is some of the most recognizable art in America, referenced and immortalized by such diverse creatives as Alfred Hitchcock, David Lynch, Wim Wenders, David Hockney, Mark Rothko, Norman Mailer, Paul Auster, Tom Waites, The Simpsons, and Banksy.”
I found the true story is behind every great man, in this case Artist, is a great woman…Edward Hopper’s wife, Josephine Nivison Hopper, a good artist in her own right, sacrificed her career to bring him to the head of the class…they were married for 43 years…she kept detailed diaries and when she had good things to say about Edward…she would write Edward such and such…but when she was “angry and resentful” she referred to him as E… and there were far more E’s than Edwards…from ARTPIL: “Exhibition on Screen launch their tenth season of art films with the release of Hopper: An American Love Story, in theaters across America from October 11, 2022. Written and directed by BAFTA award-winning director, Phil Grabsky, this fascinating documentary examines the life and legacy of one of America’s greatest artists, whose iconic streetscapes, and poignant portraits of American life continue to inspire and captivate audiences across the world.
Exhibition on Screen launch their tenth season of art films with the release of Hopper: An American Love Story, in theaters across America from October 11, 2022. Written and directed by BAFTA award-winning director, Phil Grabsky, this fascinating documentary examines the life and legacy of one of America’s greatest artists, whose iconic streetscapes, and poignant portraits of American life continue to inspire and captivate audiences across the world.
Writing for Time Magazine in 2011, Robert Hughes described Edward Hopper as “Along with Jackson Pollock… probably the most original American painter of the 20th century.”
Hughes also proposed that “no American painter has influenced popular culture more deeply,” a claim easily evidenced by the countless artists, writers, filmmakers, photographers, cartoonists, and musicians who have drawn inspiration from his artworks.
Defined by “a unique pictorial vocabulary, pioneering use of color, and mastery of light and shade” [Another Man, 2020], Hopper’s work is some of the most recognizable art in America, referenced and immortalized by such diverse creatives as Alfred Hitchcock, David Lynch, Wim Wenders, David Hockney, Mark Rothko, Norman Mailer, Paul Auster, Tom Waites, The Simpsons, and Banksy.
Yet for all their popularity, Hopper’s paintings remain as enigmatic today as when they were created, ensuring his place as one of the most intriguing artists of his generation.
Filmed on location in the USA and Paris, Hopper: An American Love Story takes audiences on a profound journey, shining a light on Hopper’s art, vision, eccentric lifestyle, and relationships. Central to the story is his enduring collaboration with fellow artist, Josephine Nivison Hopper, his wife of 43 years, who unwittingly sacrificed her own career to bring him to prominence.
The film features archival footage of interviews with Hopper, and insightful commentary from diverse international experts, interspersed with readings from Hopper’s and Josephine’s recently discovered diaries and letters.
Hopper: An American Love Story is released to coincide with the opening of the Whitney Museum’s major exhibition Edward Hopper’s New York (October 2022 – March 2023).”…if you’re a Hopper Fan…and who isn’t?…go see this documentary…you understand so much more about the artist and his work…he was a loner, who isolated himself from the start…and why we respond to his painting…it will be shown again at the Hiway on November 2…and for sure, if you can, go see the Whitney’s major exhibition…you have five-six months to see it…pretty sure they borrowed Nighthawks from the Chicago Institute of Art…it was already gone when Elissa was in Chicago last January…
there’s more to this painting from 1942 than this reproduction, I say today Hopper was also prophetic…haha…can you read “Phillies” at the top of the painting?…Jim spotted that…it’s referring to cigars but it doesn’t matter…it says Phillies!!!…we won the National League Pennant and that’s NO LIE!!!…it looks pretty good that we will be playing the Houston Astros…now ahead of the NY Yankees ( damn Yankees ) 3-0 in best of 7…( it is the Huston Astros…they won the American League Pennant )….
I walked around Jenkintown after the film…it was a nice brisk day, San Francisco weather…I’ll take it…discovered a new bakery to me…bought a slice of strawberry shortcake and a slice of carrot cake… and realized West Avenue Grille is only open until 3:00…Argana is closed, it looks like forever…on the corner on Greenwood across from the Fire Company…also the Fig Cafe…kaput!…and the Pergola is gone…they had great soup…but nasty and not accommodating…they lost my and Elissa’s business…not surprised they’re gone, now a restaurant called Lillys…authentic Indian Cuisine…and I’m always happy to know the building that was Woolworth’s is no longer Woolworth’s…for years now…it was still a Woolworth’s when I came here in 1966…they screwed their employees…my Mom included…firing her just before she was eligible for a retirement pension…she worked there 25 years…making Barbara Hutton, the Woolworth heiress, richer…Hutton was married seven times…for a little over 3 years to Cary Grant…the Media called them Cash and Cary…she inherited $Millions$ young…and was “dubbed” “Poor Little Rich Girl”…
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