January 31, 2019

Schultz presidential rollout ignites fury on left

The Hill
January 31, 2019


Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz is enduring a rocky presidential rollout.

Schultz, who announced Sunday that he is considering a White House run as an independent, has faced an onslaught of criticism by Democrats who have criticized his wealth and slammed him for offering a candidacy they say could hand President Trump another term in the Oval Office.

Critics from David Axelrod to The View's Joy Behar to political figures such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) have piled in, ripping Schultz for a sense of entitlement in announcing his intentions.

Schultz has had some public defenders as well, but they have been largely drowned out by his critics - some who saw in the Starbucks leader another billionaire businessman not ready for the political stage.

"Really? The coffee guy wants to be president?" HBO host Bill Maher tweeted.
"Just because you had one profitable insight - people will overpay for coffee - doesn't mean you can run the world. Government is a different animal, can we please get a pro in there?"

In fact, the criticism has been so vociferous , it has left some Democrats believing that Schultz, who is currently on a book tour, won't end up running for the White house.

"Democrats will not have to pressure Schultz to drop out of the race," said Robert Zimmerman, a prominent Democratic donor.
"When his books move to the $1 discount bin at bookstores, he will get the message."


Read more:
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/427860-schultz-presidential-rollout-ignites-fury-on-left

January 30, 2019

50 Years Ago Today: Beatles Perform Live For Last Time on Rooftop

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/the-beatles-rooftop-performance/


"I'd like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves, and I hope we passed the audition."

John Lennon - January 30, 1969





Note: During this last live performance by The Beatles, someone called the police to complain about the noise, and they arrived on the scene soon afterwards.

January 28, 2019

What are your favorite record albums?

Here are my favorites

1) "Sgt. Pepper" - The Beatles
2) "Tea for the Tillerman" - Cat Stevens
3) "Tommy" (1969) - The Who
4) "American Beauty" - The Grateful Dead
5) "Hand Sown..Home Grown" - Linda Ronstadt
6) "Stonedhenge" - Ten Years After
7) "Unhalfbricking" - Fairport Convention
8) "The Doors" - The Doors
9) "Abbey Road" - The Beatles
10) "Eagles" - The Eagles
11) "Muswell Hillbillies" - The Kinks
12) "Willie & the Poorboys" - CCR
13) "For Everyman" - Jackson Browne
14) "The Adventures of Panama Red" - New Riders of the Purple Sage
15) "Exile on Main Street" - The Rolling Stones

January 26, 2019

Great quote on civil disobedience

"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it."

Mark Twain

January 24, 2019

How do Mexicans feel about Trump's wall?

They'll get over it.

January 24, 2019

Curly or Shemp?

January 21, 2019

Post a line from a TV commercial & see if anyone knows the product without using Google..Part 6

1) 'When it rains it pours" (answered)

2) "Good to the very last drop" (answered)

3) "There's always room for ____"? (answered)

4) "Think different" (answered)

5) "Maybe she's born with it, maybe it's ______"? (answered)

6) "They're Grrrrrreat!" (answered)

7) "Beanz Means ____"?

8) "Have a break..Have a _____"? (answered)

9) "I'm lovin' it!" (answered)

10) "A __s encounter"

11) "Keep Walking!"

12) "Mama puts it in my milk for extra energy" (answered)

13) "Tuesday is __'s Tamale Day" (answered)

14) "Coffee at it's best"

15) "Butter, eggs, __ __ bread"

16) "What's the worst that could happen?"

17) "Probably the best beer in the world"

18) "Grace, Space, Pace"

19) "Biggest candy bar on reservation"

20) "It does exactly what it says on the tin"

21) "If you're not using ____, you're working too hard"

22) "Gentle as a lamb, so right for you"

23) "I'm not a doctor, but i play one on TV" (answered)




More unanswered TV commercial lines from Part 5:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10181166625

January 21, 2019

Post a line from a TV show & see if anyone knows the show without using Google..Part 22

1) "Say goodnight, Gracie" (answered)

2) "A gin & orange, a lemon squash, and a scotch & water, please!" (answered)

3) "There is no denying it...I'm dragging a bunch of fucking ghouls around with me and Mikey is their leader"

4) "I'm gorgeous!!"

5) "Newman!!!" (answered)

6) "Will you stop talking about the war?" (answered)

7) "I made a list of all the bad things I did to people" (answered)

8) (music) "Letters, we get letters..We get stacks & stacks of letters" (answered)

9) "I don't mean to panic anyone, but I'm afraid the calamari has been infested with baby squid"

10) "I just wanted to borrow your bible, Frank" (answered)

11) "Mary, there's something I have to tell you - I come from another world" (answered)

12) "You snobs!..You stupid, stuck-up, toffee-nosed, half-witted upper-class piles of pus!" (answered)

13) "Heck no, We won't go!!"

15) "We should have stopped at Roy Rogers"

16) "I only came downtown to have one of my suits serviced"

17) "Wakey Wakey, Eggs and Bakey!" (answered)

18) "How'd you like one across your lips?" (answered)

19) (From loud speaker) "News Beacon of the Ohio Valley!" (answered)

20) "Say the secret word & divide $100, it's a common word, something you see every day" (answered)

21) "What if you don't like duck?" (answered)

22) "Perhaps there's more to Newman than meets the eye" (answered)

23) "I'm the High Commander!" (answered)

24) "Uncle June, how was Boca?"

25) "Why don't you get a life, Rick? - Why don't you go to community college like Julian here?"

26) "AAAYYYY" (answered)

27) "The bomb is at the transmitter!" (answered)

28) "I'm in no position to drive! - Wait a minute, I don't have to listen to myself, I'm drunk!" (answered)

29) "Elvis is charging!!"

30) "Cigarettes could kill me, and so could Donnie Jones"

31) "Anybody touches my liquor'll get cut!"

32) "Eat your salad before it gets cold" (answered)

33) "We tried to poison you because you're an insane piece of filth, and you deserve to die!"

34) "Always bet on the black, Jack"

35) "I had a dream last night that a hamburger was eating ME"

36) "You're never going to leave home, are you?"

37) "Why don't you ever arrest some white drivers?"

38) "He's a popcorn!"

39) "That's a cool moped, Randy - It's like a motorcycle had sex with a bicycle" (answered)

40) "Wakey, Wakey, Hands off Snakey"

January 21, 2019

Post a line from a movie & see if anyone knows the movie without using Google..Part XXl

1) "It just doesn't matter!..It just doesn't matter!..It just doesn't matter!..It just doesn't matter!..It just doesn't matter!" (answered)

2) "How could this happen?..I picked the wrong play, the wrong director, the wrong cast....Where did I go right?" (answered)

3) "Do you mind if we dance with your dates?" (answered)

4) "The tall one wants white toast, dry, with nothin' on it!" (answered)

5) "Daphne got a proposal last night"

6) "Aunt Edna is dead, Clark!" (answered)

7) "You mean Douvier killed a wandering transvestite just to impress his godfather?" (answered)

8) "Can I have me paper back?"

9) "What do YOU think, Mr. Bloom?" (answered)

10) "You'll always be 'Shorty' to me"

11) "Put..the coffee..back in the cup!"

12) "You can smoke this?"

13) "As Wichita Falls, so falls Wichita Falls" (answered)

14) "My husband has three testicles - It's disgusting!" (answered)

15) "An erection is a flagpole on your grave!" (answered)

16) "That rug held the room together" (answered)

17) "Anyone who doesn't want to get shot, go out the back door!" (answered)

18) "I feel like I'm insane!"

19) "It says here that he used to run a health food restaurant called 'The Happy Carrot'"

20) "Is your granny spry?"

21) "We'll never find it, huh?...We'll never find it, huh?.. We'll never find it, huh?...We'll never find it, huh?"

22) "I've never seen that...I've never seen anybody drive their garbage down to the street and bang the hell out of it with a stick..I've never seen that"

23) "Well, I wasn't born with your hand in my bush!"

24) "Are you off your fucking meds or something?"

25) "Two Wongs don't make a white"

26) "Is that my phone?"

27) "Blanche, John, Grandma, talk to him, will 'ya?...Stay quiet!..Be quiet, will 'ya?"

28) "Don't be talking about the shit bucket in front of strangers!"

29) "I could tell you stories that would curl your hair, but it looks like you've already heard them"

30) (Pulls out credit cards from wallet) "Pick a card, any card!"

31) "Is everybody gay?..Is this a Twilight Zone?"

32) "Now you know the house rules...No bitches after eleven"

33) "What do you want to do tonight, Angie?"

34) "Where's my cake, Bedelia?" (answered)

35) "His entire body is bloodshot!"

36) "You're an Oriental!!"

37) "I got newsreels in my head!"

38) "Pass the celery"

39) "Sidney, give my favorite crooked lawyer here a drink"

40) "It's up to YOU to do the Ha-Cha-Cha" (answered)

41) "Roy Gillis is in town"



More unanswered movie lines from Part XX
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10181160244

January 20, 2019

Post a line from a song & see if anyone knows the song without using Google..Part 7

1) "As I went walking that ribbon of highway, I saw above me an endless skyway" (answered)

2) "I sit and watch the children play" (answered)

3) "I see earthquakes and lightnin'..I see bad times today" (answered)

4) "Slip the juice to me, Bruce" (answered)

5) "Woke up, got out of bed, dragged a comb across my head" (answered)

6) "I've been in my mind, it's such a fine mind" (answered)

7) "Your daddy's in the den, shootin' up the evening news..Mama's with a friend, lately she's been so confused" (answered)

8) "Everyone was there just a waitin' for me, there were plenty of Sting Rays and XKEs" (answered)

9) "Why don't you show me 'cause I've tried and I've tried and I'm still mystified" (answered)

10) "Laying out another lie.. Thinking 'bout a life of crime..That's what I'll have to do, to keep me away from you" (answered)

11) "I got my suitcase in my 'ha and'"

12) "Once they got you, Man they'll never let you go"

13) "Kris & Rita, and Marty Mull are playin' at The Troubadour..Get it on with the Joy of Cooking while the crowd calls out for more"

14) "Since she left me I haven't been the same"

15) "If you want to be somebody else, If you're tired of fighting battles with yourself..If you want to be somebody else..."

16) "Early in the morning we'll be startin' out, Some honeys will be coming along" (answered)

17) "Bah, bah bah bah, bah cum dap cum dap oom wa wa wa"

18) "No more cows, to be ropin'..No more strays, will I see..'Round the bend, she'll be waiting.."

19) "A little man walked up and down..He found an eating place in town..He read the menu through and through..To see what fifteen cents could do" (answered)

20) "She handles all the big ones every year in Makaha...And all the surfers know her from here to Baha"

21) "I've been on the road nearly all my life...Been 'round the world 'bout a thousand times...The knock on the door makes me nervous, "

22) "If you don't come soon, I'll be wearing a shroud"

23) "She's a melody in search of the words 'I love you,' She's a rose with no room to grow..She's a light in the night with nowhere to shine"

24) "Your body functions but your hair's a disgrace...You shouldn't let it hang all over your face" (answered)

25) "I wake up every morning about 7 O'clock...Catch the 9:02 and I make several stops"

26) "We could buy a trailer..If we bought a trailer, we could go to Vegas"

27) "Thought you're nearest to my heart...Please don't ever say we'll part"

28) Well, I love you so..And, I'll never let you go"

29) "What you gonna do tonight?..When you need some loving hands to hold you tight"

30) "You want my money, yeah, but you just won't treat me right.
You like to ball every morning...Don't come home 'till late at night" (answered)




More unanswered song lyrics from Part 6
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10181152339