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  • Monday Morning Links

    I don’t make the parade for the Astros on Friday because I was working. But I hear 1.6 million people had a good time with zero rioting.  Well done “most diverse city in America”.  You made me proud.  Which is more than I can say about my Buckeyes, who laid a gigantic, stinking egg against Iowa.  Everybody else that was supposed to win did (except Penn State). Seriously, what the fucking fuck?

    Soccer in Europe went mostly according to script with the exception of ManU(re) losing at Chelski.  Man City are about to run away with the EPL and we’re not even to Thanksgiving yet.  In my opinion, everybody else is already playing for second place. College basketball started with some exhibition games over the weekend. The real season is just around the corner. The NBA still won’t exist to me until the spring. And in hockey news, Detroit won, the Islanders topped the Avs, The Canadiens blanked the Blackhawks, and the Flames took down the Devils in a shootout.

    Gimme me some of that…yow…big payback. Confederacy ain’t gonna…lemme tell ya!…keep me down, Huh!

    I know y’all want to talk about real news instead of sports, so let’s jump right into…the links!

    I know a lot of you hate twitter, but I’m still gonna start the links with a little levity from there.

    Prominent Democrat Party operative goes off her meds. Party circles wagons, sharpens knives.

    Man described by acquaintances as a socialist went all WWF Hulk Hogan on Sen Rand Paul over the weekend. The physical assault broke five of the Senator’s ribs and left him pretty scuffed up.  The left rejoiced in the humor of it for a good day or so until…

    …a wife- and child-beating piece of shit opened fire on a Texas church, killing 26 and seriously injuring 20 others until a good guy with a gun chased him away and then chased him down. He was dead when the cops got there, and they’re not sure if he killed himself or if his good guy with a gun pursuer wasted him.  I guess we’ll find out that soon enough. But either way, this is just sickening.  I hope that asshole is burning in hell now and for all of eternity.

    Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the efficiency and customer service of the United States Postal Service. Seems to me their position can be summed up as the following: “we’ll get it done when we get it done.”

    A metaphor for something. I’ll figure out what in the comments.

    There’s really no good news coming out of the Hollywood sexual assault and harassment scandal that is enveloping the entire media industry.  I mean, if there was a silver lining, this might be it. But still, the bad so far outweighs the schadenfreude that I can barely elicit a chuckle at that sexist, homophobic child-berating buffoon disappearing from the tweets for a while.

    I know personal responsibility is out of fashion and collectivizing guilt in en vogue right now. But this is getting fucking ridiculous. Suicide being blamed on a school? How about “no, that’s a frivolous case and you can fuck off.”

    While the baseball fans were enjoying the parade, A bunch of bikers descended on Galveston. Some of them wearing scanty clothes. Some of them should not have been.

    There will be horns in the musical selections this week.

    Hope you get the week off on the right foot.

  • STEVE SMITH FAMILY GUEST POST SUNDAY EVENING LINKS

    STEVE SMITH OFTEN GET ASKED ABOUT FAMILY. FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN PEOPLE ASK IF YETI OR BIGFOOT IS RELATIVE. YETIS MIGHT BE DISTANT COUSINS, BUT FAMILY NO TALK ABOUT THEM….OLD ARGUMENT THAT STEVE SMITH NOT KNOW WHEN STARTED. BIGFOOT…HE NOT REAL, SILLY PEOPLE! STEVE SMITH REAL! AND DON’T GET STEVE SMITH STARTED ON “SASQUATCH”…STEVE SMITH DID LOOK UP FAMILY TREE AND SEE ONE BRANCH OF FAMILY IN SOUTH AMERICA:

    UNCLE MAPINGUARI

    BUT STEVE SMITH DO HAVE ONE RELATIVE WHO LIVE NEARBY:

    COUSIN SEA SMITH

     

    STEVE SMITH LET COUSIN SEA SMITH DO LINKS FOR FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN PEOPLE:

    SEA SMITH GLAD TO SEE YOU. HOW YOU TELL? HE RAPE ALL OF YOU! HA HA. BUT SERIOUSLY, SEA SMITH USUALLY RAPE FISHING BOAT CREWS – DEADLIEST CATCH…MORE LIKE RAPIEST CATCH! OR SEA SMITH MAKE DO WITH RAPING SEALS, SEA LIONS OR STRAY CRUISE SHIP PASSENGERS (COME TO LOOK AT THE GLACIERS, STAY FOR THE SEA RAPE!). SO, THAT A BIT ABOUT SEA SMITH.

    AND NOW SEA SMITH GLAD TO HELP COUSIN STEVE SMITH OUT. HE SAY YOU LIKE LINKS, SO SEA SMITH GIVE YOU LINKS AND SAY COME ON IN, WATER IS FINE! FINE FOR RAPE.

    • WHAT KIND OF PIRATES NO RAPE CAPTIVES?! BAD PIRATES, THAT WHO.
    • PIRATES, YOU SAY?
    • SEA SMITH THINK THEY NO HIT ROADS.
    • SEA SMITH WONDER WHO ELSE STRENGTHEN BONDS WITH JAPAN?

    SEA SMITH SEE YOU AROUND!

     

  • Yusef’s Musical Morning

    Disclaimer: I don’t claim to be good, but people tell me I’m better than I think I am, and I am good.

    What am I doing now. I usually play stringed instruments, guitars, basses and ukuleles, but I wanted to expand my horizons. And since I like EDM and Floyd, Jean Michel Jarre, and Pete Townsend’s Sequencing, I thought I would give it a whirl. Most of it it is live on the spot, no pre-recording, so the results are interesting.

    Instruments. Harmor to M-audio keystation 88

    Sawer (currently) to my Nectar Impact 25 LXi

    Yard sale Yamaha through Lexicon mpx200

    Behringer 502 preamps for each PC(2)

    SR16 drum machine(sometimes)

    Groove Machine on my Tablet

    And a Moog werkstatt 01, with Arduino arpeggiators, sometimes.

    Everything goes through a 1202 Behringer stand alone mixer.

    Pyle 160 watt amp (driver only)

    Old Kenwood 4 way speakers with old school Electronic bypasses.

    I love mixing old and new tech, and this is a blast; much more fun than playing guitar in a rock band, been there, done that. For those interested, my channel has quite a few different styles, but my current thing is TEPME3, trivia question to follow.

     I wrote this knowing there are many musicians here, and I thought we should share, Enjoy!

    Dyson Sphere, and I’m the star in the middle 😉

     

     

  • Sunday Morning Curated Links

    Those are the headlines, now the rumors behind the news.

    Rand Paul gets his clock cleaned, assailant gets bailed out. What we learned: Paul mows his own lawn. This makes him a better human being than about 99 other senators.

    Manafort offers a small fortune to be allowed to escape overseas, where he likely has a large fortune stashed. Not that I’m cynical… OK, I am, but as my unicorn SP likes to say, “Just because you’re cynical doesn’t mean you’re wrong.”

    One of the Pirates of the Caribbean seems to have yo-ho-hoed more than just a bottle of rum.

    I’m second to no-one in my contempt for Trump, but I have similar contempt for his predecessors. Bad enough that Obama won’t do the decent thing and go away, but jesus fucking christ, the ass-grabbing Cop-A-Feel Bush needs to join him. And his clueless son as well.

    Thicc alert!!!!!

    More Old Guy music, in this case, a wonderful cover of my favorite Magnetic Fields tune, played by one of the most interesting musicians I’ve ever met.

  • ZARDOZ SATURDAY EVENING LINKS

    ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. RECALL THAT ZARDOZ PREVIOUSLY SPOKE TO HIS CHOSEN ONES OF THEIR “COSTUMES” FOR THE BRUTAL CELEBRATION OF “HALLOWEEN”. ZARDOZ WAS MADE AWARE OF THIS BRUTAL CELEBRANT FAMILY’S “COSTUMES”:

    ZARDOZ AND ZED JR

     

    ZED JR HELPS ZARDOZ WITH CANDY GATHERING

    THE BRUTAL FAMILY SHOWS ZARDOZ THE PROPER DEFERENCE, AND THUS HAVE BEEN RAISED FROM BRUTALITY. ALL BRUTAL EXTERMINATORS ARE TO LEAVE THEM ALONE. ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.

    AND FOR HIS CHOSEN ONES HERE….ZARODZ GIVES YOU THE GIFT OF THE LINK. GO FORTH AND COMMENT! ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.

    • ZARDOZ IS UNSURE IF THIS IS RELATED TO GLIBERTARIAN EDIT FAIRY.
    • PERHAPS THIS BRUTAL COULD IMPROVE HIS SWORD SKILLS A BIT AND JOIN THE BRUTAL EXTERMINATORS?
    • THIS FAT BRUTAL SHOULD BE ENSLAVED TO GROW GRAIN FOR THE VORTEX.
    • WHO IS THAT BRUTAL?

  • With A Song In My Heart: NFL Week 9

     

    There’s the immortal “Take Me Out To The Ball Game”. Terry Cashman had “Talkin’ Baseball”. CCR frontman John Fogerty scored a solo hit with “Center Field”.  You can find “Van Lingle Mungo” in jazz fake books. As befits a game with 150+ years of history behind it, baseball has inspired many musical musings. Even basketball, a game with a much smaller historical footprint, has made something of a mark on the musical landscape: Grover Washington Jr.’s “Let It Flow (For Doctor J)”. Kurtis Blow’s “Basketball”. And…this thing.

    But football hasn’t had the same impact in the world of music as the other two major American team sports. Which is not to say there’s been no impact whatsoever. If we look closer, we can find some instances where gridiron and melody crossed streams in, shall we say, notable instances. So as we delve into the week nine picks, let’s look at the ways in which football and music have merged over the decades.

    AFC WEST

    Raise your hand if you’re excited to move to Las Vegas.

    Kansas City @ Dallas – the Zeke suspension finally rears its head

    Denver @ Philadelphia – I’d say take the under if this was played in Denver

    Oakland @ Miami – on the bright side, they’ll score some points this week

    “The Autumn Wind”. Maybe you didn’t know it by name, but if you grew up with NFL Films Presents, you know it by heart. It’s even more stirring with John Facenda’s narration setting the scene. Here, restart the music and read this passage, imagining it in Facenda’s voice:

    With February’s frigid chill in it’s full surge, Glibertarians.com entered the World Wide Web with a savage force equalled by few. Armed with world-class misanthropy and supported by a compliment of orphans, the Glibs contributors hit the ground running in their inaugural campaign. Swiss Servator’s signature narrowed gazes condemned rank punnery and facile jokes with ease. Sloopy’s sports linkage and fierce Ohio State fandom set a precise tone every morning. Heroic Mulatto’s YouTube finds seldom failed to shake the reader from his doldrums. And Sugarfree’s lurid, frank depictions of political pique and peccadillo shocked and appalled even the most jaded of readers.

    AFC NORTH

    Cincinnati @ Jacksonville – The Jags defensive front will rule the day

    Baltimore @ Tennessee – The Ravens can’t win on the road if the opponent is worth a damn

    The Steelers might have a bye this week, but by God’s grace, we’ll never have a bye from the musical stylings of Terry Bradshaw. If I’m being honest, I like his singing better than his play at QB. 212 TDs, 210 INTs, 51.9% completion percentage? Jeez.

    AFC SOUTH

    Indianapolis @ Houston – Apparently, Matt Schaub is destined to own the Texans’ QB records forever

    Cincinnati @ Jacksonville – The Jags formidable defense shines at home

    Baltimore @ Tennessee

    Before they were the Tennessee Titans, they were the Tennessee Oilers. Before that, they were the Houston Oilers. And they had a famous fight song. Being a creative musician-type myself, I can only marvel at the way the songwriter ingeniously crafted a sound so reminiscent of the Bayou City. The way the lyrics pull the listener into Harris County with a charm and specificity worthy of Arlen, Sondheim, Dylan…well, give it a listen and prepare to be amazed.

    AFC EAST

    Buffalo 21 @ NY Jets 34 (F – 11/2)

    Oakland @ Miami

    I’ve shared this before, but it’s definitely worth a repost. To the extent that I have a favorite team, it’s the Houston Texans; I don’t exactly live and die with the results of their games. But teenaged Junior definitely died with each of those four straight Super Bowl losses. That was the last time I could honestly say I had a favorite football team, and I miss those days.

    NFC WEST

    Arizona @ San Francisco – Into the win column, boys!

    LA Rams @ NY Giants – Your week nine upset special

    Washington @ Seattle – The Redskins’ weaknesses are starting to show

    Without any notable song I can connect to this division, this seems as good a time as any to discuss “Heavy Action”. It wasn’t even written for football, but for NFL fans it is inextricably linked to the gridiron game. “Heavy Action” has been a part of NFL TV broadcasts for 42 years and counting. Still don’t know what it is? Alright, here’s your link.

    I’m hosting a Super Bowl party at my apartment come February. Fair warning: “Heavy Action” will be playing on a continuous loop, and the party starts at 10 AM.

    NFC NORTH

    Detroit @ Green Bay – On the plus side, the Ravens matchup that our OMWC and SP will attend is looking up for the Ravens

    The year was 1985, and 1985 in the NFL was all about the Chicago Bears. For good and for…whatever this was. Honestly, “The Superbowl Shuffle” was such a masterpiece of cringe it deserves its own post. Perhaps later…?

    NFC SOUTH

    Atlanta @ Carolina – The Falcons’ slide continues…

    Tampa Bay @ New Orleans – …as does the Saints surge

    I’ll come clean and admit that I’m running out of songs. It’s not my fault; the teams in the NFC South don’t have much of a musical heritage. In Carolina, they bang a bass drum before games; the Atlanta Falcons had ties to MC Hammer in the early 90s, which is a much greater shame than their Super Bowl loss to the Patriots. Tampa Bay’s formative years were far too embarrassing to write songs about, and while New Orleans is world-famous for a distinctive style of jazz, it hasn’t really bled into the football team. So here’s some Super Bowl halftime music from Up With People to fill the void.

    NFC EAST

    Kansas City @ Dalllas

    Denver @ Philadelphia

    LA Rams @ NY Giants

    Washington @ Seattle

    In honor of the team with the best record in the NFL, here’s an appropriate song.

    PICKS

    Week 8: 10-2 (Yeeeeeaaah, boyeeee!)

    Total: 45-37

  • Review – Stouts Part 2: The Irish Stout

    You’d drink it, too, if she handed it to you.“Guinness is the best beer in the world.  Hands down.” – Me, 2003.

    Like anything else, the more you’re exposed to different things the more likely your attitudes will change over time.  I was first exposed to Guinness in college, when a friend of mine picked up an 8-pack of Guinness Draught cans.  His dad was an F-16 pilot stationed at Aviano AB, Italy so he was a product of DODS and traveled all over Europe during his formative years.  It made him an interesting person to converse with but somehow or another he wound up in China in his late 20s.  I hear from him once every two years now, possibly when the Chicom government lets him check Facebook.  At any rate, he was fresh off a trip to Ireland with his dad and at the time we all thought it was the coolest thing in the world.  The can contained a “widget,” that charged the beer with nitrogen and when opened, will release its charge, mimicking what the beer would taste like if it came off tap.  Who else but the Irish would be at the forefront of beer drinking technology?

    The problem is, at the time I didn’t know much better.  My exposure to beer was limited to Bud Light, Corona and the like.  I will credit my friend with forcing me to try something different from time to time, after all the beer is black and sometimes requires a spoon, when it’s supposed to be yellow, watery and sometimes requires a funnel and some surgical tubing. This lead to me drinking a Fat Tire, which lead to me drinking damn near everything else.

    If we rag on the InBev brands for the ubiquity, their marketing campaigns and their trivial associations with pop culture, it shouldn’t be too much of a leap to come to the same conclusion about Guinness as we do with them.  Need an example?

    Is Obama cool because Obama gets jacked on Guinness or is Guinness cool because Obama gets jacked on Guinness?

    But it’s different, because Guinness is tasty!  Okay, maybe it is.  It has a nice texture, the head is certainly something to be desired and it is definitely better than 90% of the mass produced beers on Earth, but that is a bar low enough to trip over.  Its ingredients are to a large extent, trade secret—except for fish bladder, until recently. Because of its popularity, there is probably no beer on Earth that has as many “secrets” and “insights” that are intended mainly to make people look cool drinking it.  Such as:

    Secret:  Tapping a spoon against the glass.  This is to determine whether the beer finished dissipating and the head has settled.  The glass should make a dull clacking sound when tapped with a spoon—now it’s ready!  This is silly, as the glass makes a similar sound when filled with almost any liquid.

    Secret:  It’s better in Ireland.  This is mostly designed as a segue to the, “Oh you’ve been to Ireland, are the comely lasses really that comely?” conversation.  The former is somewhat true and there are a few explanations as to why.  The first being that for most Irish, drinking is a social event therefore they drink it in pubs, so it isn’t bottled.  Bottling and canning beer often requires pasteurization which can alter the taste of beer by denaturing the proteins and enzymes that you might find tasty and otherwise not get out of the can.  Also, the Irish drink so much of the stuff that once it’s brewed it’ll get consumed in a few weeks, so they might not be too concerned about it spoiling and thus won’t sully it with preservatives.  I’m not certain of the veracity of this one, since I doubt Guinness wants a lawsuit from their beer getting people sick.  Another practice in Ireland is Guinness will send a worker out to pubs with a distribution contract to purge the lines at 21 day intervals.  This ensures the lines are clean and thus do not contain foreign contaminants.   That’s what this guy is doing.  

    It sounds like a good business practice on Guinness’ part to control quality but if I’m the pub owner I might question how much beer that wastes because depending on the length of the lines, there might be a gallon or more of beer in there that I can no longer sell which means its 17 gallons/tap/year—you do the math.  The beer is fresher in Ireland, pubs are required to let Guinness maintain their taps, it may or may not be safe for drinking, and it is almost always served off the tap.  Couple this with the fact that for most Americans, it’s a special occasion they find themselves in Ireland and therefore a novelty, it’s no surprise everyone says it’s better in Ireland.

    Secret:  Drinking Guinness is good for you. Apparently, Guinness contains antioxidants and polyphenols like red wine, and in moderation the benefits outweigh the alcohol content. This is also ridiculous, as anybody drinking Guinness, like the stereotypical red wine drinker, is not going to be drinking it in moderation.

    Secret:  The Perfect Pint.  This is a six-step process. 

    1. Use a Guinness Branded Glass.  Preferably a clean glass.
    2. Pour at a 45-degree angle, aim for the harp in the Guinness logo.  Pull aft on the tap.
    3. Stop pouring when it reaches about halfway across the harp in the Guinness logo.  
    4. Leave the glass to settle for 119.5 seconds.
    5. Once ready fill the remainder, pushing fore on the tap rather than aft, holding the glass plumb.
    6. Serve. The foam should be domed like the crystal on a well-made watch.

    Not only that, there is a specific way to drink a perfect pint of Guinness and that is by drinking it in quarters.  In other words, gulping it rather than sipping it, thus leaving three foam lines in the glass.  Order a whisky between gulps 2 and 3.  DO NOT drink the whisky before finishing the beer. This whole thing sounds ridiculous to a rational observer, but I’m not about to argue with it beyond not telling me how to drink my beer.

    In the end, Guinness benefits from a legend they realistically cannot live up to and a cultural status that seems to feed upon itself—like Harley-Davidson.  There are better, more flavorful stouts out there that also have the nitrogen charged widget.  Want me to name one?  Okay.

    I suppose the pedants among us will point out this isn’t an Irish Stout.

    Guinness Draught:  3.0/5 (If I’m being generous)

  • Saturday Morning Links: Handcrafted, Artisanal, 100% Organic

    It’s a beautiful crisp fall day out, so instead of getting exercise and fresh air, you should try to maintain your pallor and paunch by staying in and commenting on these gems of news stories.

    First up, a claque of civil servants, rent seekers, and true believers issued a “scientific” report confirming that Global Warming is HUGE and totally the fault of humans. Of course, they expected to have it suppressed, and seemed somewhat disappointed that this didn’t happen. It’s tough to prepare for martyrhood and then the vest-bomb turns out to be a dud. Now, how can we know that the report is bullshit?

    “This new report simply confirms what we already knew. Human-caused climate change isn’t just a theory, it’s reality,” said Michael E. Mann, a professor of atmospheric science at Pennsylvania State University. “Whether we’re talking about unprecedented heat waves, increasingly destructive hurricanes, epic drought and inundation of our coastal cities, the impacts of climate change are no longer subtle. They are upon us. That’s the consensus of our best scientists, as laid bare by this latest report.”

    There you go. Michael Mann confirms it. And also demonstrates that he doesn’t know the difference between a hypothesis and a theory. Someone gave him a Ph.D.? I actually read this trainwreck, and it boils (pun!) down to a combination of selective data picking and argumentum ad ignorantiam. Just what we expect from our government.

    In sports news, when Draymond Green isn’t busy kicking other players in the nuts, he’s showing off his remarkable ignorance, feigning indignation that the owners of teams are called… owners. Here’s a delightful takedown by Mark Cuban, who every now and then actually says something coherent.

    “Draymond can trash-talk on the court, but when he comes into our world, it doesn’t fly. … I guess it’s because he went to Michigan State and didn’t take any business classes, but you own equity. When you own a team, you own equity, shares of stock. That’s called ownership. Tell him if he wants to take classes at Indiana’s business school, I’ll even pay for his classes and we’ll help him learn that stuff.”

    Ouch, that’s gonna leave a mark.

    Speaking of which, the owner of Papa John’s continues to maintain that the drop in sales is due to NFL player protests, and that he may pull his sponsorship. The idea that his product sucks doesn’t enter into his calculus. But hey, if this means less of that annoying doofus Peyton Manning on TV (he rivals Hillary in his refusal to go away), I’m all for it.

    With the House GOP tax “reform” proposal out, the lobbying begins. I have to declare a conflict-of-interest: this proposal will nearly double my federal tax burden. Given who’s lobbying, that part is likely to stay and the parts with actual campaign money behind the opposition will go. Ah, politics. Well, I understand that cardboard boxes make great shelter, so I’m already shopping for one.

    And the obligatory Old Guys Music. This was punk long before punk, and truly one of the best American bands that birthed modern rock. They’re not unknown, but should be known much better than they are. Roky was a god.

  • Firearms Friday: Back From the Dead

    Missed me, didn’t ya? Since we haven’t one in awhile I’ll just do some gun links. Better to ease into it after a long absence.

    Remember the SHARE act? Remember how it was going to be the most awesome pro gun bill in history? Remember when Las Vegas got shot to shit? Well, good news! The SHARE act is back! Except it isn’t going to deregulate silencers anymore… it’s gonna ban bump stocks instead! Yay…. wait, WHAT?! What the actual fuck! What kind of stupid party bait and switch is this exactly? Do you want to get firebombed, DC? Cause this is how you get firebombed.

    See if you can guess which 17 states formally oppose national reciprocity. Most of these should be obvious but there were a few surprises mixed in. Put your guesses in the comments.

    Your weekly nut punch: Record expunged for ex-Tulsa cop acquitted in fatal shooting. Not only does she get to go home safely, but she can find a new job without all of that pesky negligent homicide business muddying up the waters! Still won’t save her from a 10 second google duckduckgo search.

    Along that tangent: Cops are corrupt? YOU DON’T SAY!

    For all my ATF haters out there, SB Tactical is feeling you. They just released two new products designed to work with their stock arm brace that makes it even better as a stock arm brace. Seriously, they aren’t even trying to hide it anymore.

    Status: Operator AF.

    See, this is why only police officers should have guns. They are the only ones calm, responsible, and trained enough to shoulder the burden of safe firearms usage.

  • Friday Afternoon Links

    Man is it afternoon links time already? Damn. Today has just flown by. It must be all those meetings. Nobody told 25 year old me (or even 30 year old me) that as you move up the ladder, you’re still responsible for your weekly output as well as 15-20 hours of meetings a week. I thought those meetings would count towards my output. Oh well. I don’t have to stay late or work over the weekend so let the fun begin!

    Damn, bro. Your lawyer should charge you triple for being a dumbass. Shut the fuck up, go your ass to jail, and give your lawyer a chance.

    Not how it works at all

    Global Warming — good for the Ozone Hole. And crops, and not freezing to death.

    For you TSLA shorts, if the market were rational, you’d make a killing. Don’t lose your ass thinking it will finally go rational. Of course, if the market were rational, the opportunity for such a huge short wouldn’t exist.

    It sure is nice to have visitors, part time residents, and renters carry 1/3rd of my tax burden.

    Donna Brazile must know there’s a note in her own handwriting saying something like, “Hillary, of course I’ll rig things to get you elected. — Donna”.  But right now, I’m really enjoying one of the least competent politicians in America getting pilloried by her former allies.

    A little friday pop groove.