A Good Monday Morning

 

Your Sunday Soothingness

Just for you, because your Blog Editrix loves each and every one of you, another bit of Auditory Soothingness culled from your editrix own personals digs for your Sunday decompression. This day I give you a small taste of a collaboration between two amazing musicians, Jerry Goodman & Jan Hammer. This two part tune is from their very eclectic 1974 album that has come to be one of my favorite LP's of all time from that period. From "Like Children" this is 'Giving in Gently / I wonder.'

Enjoy Your Sunday!

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Bill Maher's Full 'book report' on his Meeting with Trump at the White House

"He laughs, including at himself. It's not fake. Believe me as a comedian I know a fake laugh when I hear one. I thank you for them." "I've had so many conversations with prominent people who were much less connected. People who don't look you in the eye, people who don't really listen. None of that with him."

There Simply Are No Words

 The New Face of the Democrat Party. 🙃

Rep. Jasmine Crockett: "Connect the dots. You cannot afford your home, groceries thanks to deportations" pic.twitter.com/sg8ggsp4sG

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) April 10, 2025

~ Thank You Larwyn's Linx@ Doug Ross Journal for the Linkage! ~

Here's Your Official Almost Semi-World Famous Irredeemable Mid-Week Big Ass Open Thread

Your Beloved Blog Editrix, Who Loves Each and Everyone of You, is just exhausted after watching the crazy train insanity of democrats and the hate filled obese middle-aged black women & testosterone challenged men of the media after all the news of things yesterday.  So she turns things over to you to espouse your words of wisdom or whatever you call it.

Just remember. Regular ground rules apply. Repeated violations will result in severe spankings. The floor is open, and use the coasters.

I Think We're Gonna Need a Bigger Book Shelf. 

Traversing Narrow Channels

It’s very telling that the White House has been inundated with so many requests for Official Diplomatic Meetings in the last week that they are being forced to prioritize the nations based on the importance of their economic impact. It’s not a question of who is wanting to talk about a new deal since DJT started implementing his Tariff promises, it’s only a question of how much those countries are willing to give up to avoid a trade embargo or other actions. While the unhinged left in this country still likes to underestimate DJT's ability to follow through on his intentions, the rest of the civilized world are beginning to understand that there is now a new order, America has retaken the Mantle and will once again be dictating terms.

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But:

"Many countries level tariffs under insidiously Machiavellian conditions such as falsely constructed health and safety barriers, excise and VAT taxes, and currency manipulation. But those complexities should be left for round two of negotiations since for now the public is most concerned with “do onto to others as they would do onto to you” reciprocity. 

Getting to zero or identical tariffs with a host of current mercantile trading nations would be an astounding accomplishment and one that the public needs to digest, appreciate, and savor — before in one fell swoop jeopardizing such historic corrections by trying to solve the entire half-century trade quagmire all at once — a task that will lose public support if countries are still tariffed after agreeing to zero or reciprocal tariffs with the U.S." - Victor Davis Hanson

 ~ Thank You Sarah Hoyt @Instapundit For the Linkage ~

Taibbi on the Recent New York Times Damning Exposé

Biden Lied About Everything, Including Nuclear Risk, During Ukraine Operation. 

"The people who quarterbacked the NATO side of the Ukraine war are so pleased with themselves, they can’t keep from boasting about things that will make the average American want to pitchfork the lot of them. Entous describes a tale told “through a secret keyhole” that reveals how America was “woven into the war far more intimately and broadly than previously understood.” (Translation: it was hidden from us.) Sources not only make it clear that the public was lied to on a continuous basis from the outset of the conflict, but they describe how we were lied to, apparently thinking the methods clever. Some are small semantic gambits the idiots wrongly believe exculpated their actions, but the main revelation involves one gigantic, inexcusable deception. From Joe Biden down, they all lied about the risk of World War III. 

They risked our lives and our children’s lives, knowingly, repeatedly, and for the worst possible reason: politics. Afraid to admit a mistake, they planned individual excuses while letting bureaucratic inertia expand the conflict. Worse, as was guessed at on this site late last year, the Biden administration after last November’s election increased the risk of global conflict by “expanding the ops box to allow ATACMS and British Storm Shadow strikes into Russia,” in order to “shore up his Ukraine project.” 

If you check this “secret history” against contemporaneous statements of American and European leaders, you’ll find the scale of the lies beyond comprehension...."

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