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Among the poems lawmakers read, Pittenger said, was "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost.
"For we have promises to keep," Pittenger recited, "Miles to go before we sleep."

glad Frost doesn't know

xpost Bummer. I am the higher standard! That's like some sort of Sylvester Stallone movie retort.

Harvard math professor Noam Elkies wrote an a capella setting of "Stopping by Woods..." that you can here: http://www.math.harvard.edu/~elkies/mp3/Stopping.mp3

Morbz: http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_CONGRESS_HEALTH_OVERHAUL?SITE=VANOV&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2017-07-28-11-45-15

"Underscoring the House's view of where the fault lie, leaders opened a morning meeting of the chamber's GOP lawmakers by playing audio of Gordon Lightfoot's "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," which recounts the 1975 wreck of a freighter in Lake Superior. Several lawmakers said House deputy whip Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., told them the song was meant as a reference to the Senate."

It ain't real unless they cosplayed.

Anyone recite The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down?

Been reading a lot of "Trump's legislative agenda is dead" pieces/quips, but dude never had a legislative agenda. It's the GOP's agenda that is hurting, not least thanks to linking their train to the world's heaviest caboose.

Please tell me someone pulled out their acoustic and delivered a rousing rendition of 'Behind Blue Eyes'.

Mitch is da fool on the Hill, amirite

his rep as a "canny legislative operator" def took a hit last night. caucus isn't going to trust him to deliver shit moving forward

Peggy Noonan is very disappointed!

https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-is-woody-allen-without-the-humor-1501193193

Hope someone reads "Out, out-"

i think more people picking up the "weak and sniveling" thing w/Trump and going at him directly as opposed to the "destructive bigot" thing (though that is of course also true) would maybe good, perhaps even effective, he really is such a whining and pathetic figure.

Ha:

Why you never wear GREEN on TV🤗 pic.twitter.com/IsC8TuE3Ei

— Jesse McLaren (@McJesse) July 28, 2017

Peggy Noonan likes manly men

Hmm indeed (not the case, which was known, but what Buzzfeed is now doing):

https://www.buzzfeed.com/jasonleopold/putins-media-czar-was-murdered-just-before-meeting-feds

Mikhail Lesin’s battered body was discovered in his Dupont Circle hotel room on the morning of November 5, 2015 with blunt-force injuries to the head, neck, and torso. After an almost year-long "comprehensive investigation," a federal prosecutor announced last October that Lesin died alone in his room due to a series of drunken falls “after days of excessive consumption of alcohol.” His death was ruled an "accident," and prosecutors closed the case....

The FBI and the Department of Justice declined to comment. The US Attorney’s office for the District of Columbia said it had nothing to add beyond its statement last year calling Lesin’s death an accident. The DC medical examiner’s office said it is barred by law from releasing details of the autopsy so would not comment beyond the US Attorney’s statement and a brief summary of its own findings that it released in March. A spokesperson for the DC Metropolitan Police told BuzzFeed News that “we have no evidence to suggest this death involved foul play. However, we will certainly reinvestigate should additional evidence be brought to light."

Urgent questions remain about Lesin’s death. The government is withholding the FBI’s investigative file, which includes critical evidence ranging from surveillance tapes to witness interviews. So today, BuzzFeed News filed a lawsuit to pry that information loose.

A BuzzFeed News reporter submitted requests under the Freedom of Information Act for the FBI’s and the Department of Justice’s complete record of the investigation in 2016. But recently the FBI said that if they can release any documents, it may take as long as two more years to do so. The suit, filed in US District Court in Washington, DC, aims to speed up that process.

"weak and sniveling"

Attacking him on this front is a surefire way to get him to act out, but that could be terrible for everyone.

frankly surprised to see this from the NY Post:

NYC couple jump to their deaths because they "can’t afford" health care: https://t.co/69MIk75epY pic.twitter.com/NM8qVPyZhE

— Ash J (@AshAgony) July 28, 2017

I think that I will never care
To repeal or replace Obamacare

no coverage of healthcare bill failure on Fox News - lead story is "REPUBLICANS STRIKE BACK: GOP lawmakers press for special counsel on Clinton, Comey, Lynch"

not sure if the "strikes back" reference means what they want it to mean

Do I dare/
Disturb the stability of the healthcare insurance market?

On the "destructive bigot" front, let the triple assault on queer rights Wednesday sink in.

Administration officials insisted that the timing of the three actions was coincidental. Wednesday just happened to be the deadline for the Justice Department to submit briefs in the employment discrimination case, they said, and Mr. Trump’s tweets about transgender troops unexpectedly skipped past lawmakers and the military brass who were considering the issue.

But whether by accident or intent, the result was a striking reversal from Mr. Trump’s predecessor, who repeatedly used administrative actions and legal arguments to press for protections for gays and lesbians.

And taken together, the administration’s actions are a prize for religious conservatives who backed Mr. Trump during the 2016 campaign but were far more enamored of his vice-presidential pick, Mike Pence.

Tony Perkins, the president of the Family Research Council, a group that advocates socially conservative and Christian causes, applauded Mr. Trump’s decision to bar transgender people from the military. The president, he said in a statement, should be praised for “rescuing our troops from the grip of the Obama years and restoring a sense of true pride to a military devastated by two terms of social engineering.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/27/us/politics/white-house-lgbt-rights-military-civil-rights-act.html

American Christianity is so weird

just... totally divorced from Jesus' primary concerns

I posted that story on Wednesday here, a reminder that Sessions can do his job well.

American fundamentalist Xtianity, Shakey. There are other kinds.

just... totally divorced from Jesus' primary concerns

― Οὖτις, Friday, July 28, 2017 12:29 PM

Be assured that Catholics don't believe in Jesus or the Bible.

Catholicism isn't American

I'm talking our homegrown nutjob strains (yes I know their are exceptions, big ups to the Quakers)

there are

ah those Roman papists

It's my understanding that Christianity has been misused almost since its inception (since at least, what, Constantine?) by a number of people who practice basically zero of its tenets.

It's what Jesus would've wanted.

yeah that's true. this is a big topic, sorry for thread derail

Catholics don't believe in Jesus or the Bible.

C'mon. There's got to be a few of them who do.

The Trump administration is a complete, barbarous fuck up. In short, a success.

— Dennis Perrin (@DennisThePerrin) July 27, 2017

C'mon. There's got to be a few of them who do.

― A is for (Aimless), Friday, July 28, 2017 12:40 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

we believe in what our teachers and parents say the Pope says about them.

It's my understanding that Christianity has been misused almost since its inception (since at least, what, Constantine?) by a number of people who practice basically zero of its tenets.

― Chock Full of Love and Sexy Feeling (Old Lunch), 28. juli 2017 18:38 (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'd say Paul, basically.

Tony Perkins, what a psycho

Some Popes are better than others. Anyway, the last thing this thread needs to a religious debate. Save it for the North Korea thread.

Bannon: "I unequivocally deny Anthony Scaramucci's scandalous accusation. In fact, I can't even see my own genitalia." https://t.co/m56ubm7w0y

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) July 28, 2017

Reminder: It's only "social engineering" when it's lefties who want their moral principles reflected in how the nation is governed.

xp ha

Look closer, Bannon. Keep going, you're almost there...

More o' that locker room talk, eh.

I'd say Paul, basically.

agreed

although George was the most spiritual of the Beatles

meanwhile, in successful Trumpist murder news:

Estimates of civilian deaths from airstrikes range from the hundreds to the tens of thousands. Although the US government says that it has killed 603 civilians in airstrikes since the start of military operations in 2014, the monitoring group Airwars estimates that airstrikes have killed at least 4,500 civilians, including nearly 1,000 children.

Some of the strikes have been horrific. One attack in Mosul last March killed at least 100 civilians and injured countless more. “Dozens of Iraqi civilians, some of them still alive and calling out for help, were buried for days under the rubble of their homes in western Mosul after American-led airstrikes flattened almost an entire city block,” The New York Times reported.

Officials in Washington deny any wrongdoing. They insist that they are taking every precaution to protect civilians. They also argue that they are not intentionally killing civilians, despite the fact that President Trump promised during his presidential campaign to go after civilians. When it comes to terrorists, “you have to take out their families,” Trump said.

https://thewire.in/161612/rising-collateral-civilian-deaths-iraq-syria/

More o' that locker room talk.
Pray tell, what hangs beneath?
Thine eyes do search the unseen tail that wags the dog.
-Yeats