Happy Feet Friday

Uncle Josh Graves, who pioneered the use of the resonator guitar in bluegrass music, puts his Dobro to good use in this performance of "Carrol County Blues".

The road to hell, good intentions, some paving required

"The NGO Complex Is Irredeemably Corrupt".

I don't mean that the problems aren't real, although by now you should know that the way the problems are described has little relationship to reality, but there are abused and neglected children, women who need help to recover from abuse, and other crises, and people in need of help.

It's just that most of these nonprofits aren't so much helping people as farming them for money.

I put the question to you: should the CEO of a food bank be making a salary that is more than half again as much as the salary of the President of the United States? (And bear in mind that the current president is donating his salary to charity). Why, it's enough to make one wonder if the real motivation for these NGO executives has anything to do with "good intentions".

Val Kilmer, RIP

Val Kilmer passed away yesterday.

He put in many good performances over the years, but, to me, he will always be Doc Holliday.

Trump haters certainly don't have to wear sandwich boards proclaiming their political preferences

They're easy to spot in the wild because they all seem to look like this:

Context: "Florida Trump Hater Vandalized Tesla with ‘Large Wad’ of Gum".

Working-with-your-hands Wednesday

 

The law is not divine revelation...

...and Federal judges do not constitute a priesthood: "Judge Boasberg is not my president".

Update  Sen. John Kennedy nails it, as usual (as does "Rob Hood" in his comment, included in the post at the link: "Trump should simply write a letter to the SCOTUS, inform them of the practice, that it is unconstitutional, violates separation of powers, offends co-equality of the branches, and he will not recognize federal court jurisdiction to issue orders to the executive branch until they issue an opinion on the matter.")

Get the Hazmat suits ready

"Squad Member Rep. Pramila Jayapal Launches ‘Resistance Lab’ to Fight Trump’s ‘Dictatorship’".

Far-left squad member Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) has revealed she is part of a ”resistance lab” to fight the Trump administration.

In an interview with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, Jayapal was shown attending a training session where she warned that the country was facing the “crumbling of democracy.”

Let's look in and see how those anti-Trump secret formulas are coming along down at the resistance lab... 

 

"Yikes! I didn't know leftist tears were flammable!"