Wednesday, September 11, 2024
1959 Composer and jazz orchestra leader Duke Ellington won NAACP's Springarn Medal for his musical achievements
1973 Chilean President Salvador Allende, the 1st elected Marxist president of a South America country, wadeposed in a military coup led by general Augusto Pinochet
1998 Independent counsel Ken Starr sent a report to the U.S. Congress accusing President Bill Clinton of 11 possible impeachable offenses.
2001 Two passenger planes were hijacked by Al Qaeda terrorists and crashed into New York's World Trade Center towers, causing the collapse of both and the deaths of 2,977 people
In bed by 10:30, awake at 5:59, up at 6:19, let Lilly out at 6:40 and again at about 8.
Prednisone, day 120, 10 mg., day 27/28. Prednisone at 6:38. Two slices of Dave's Bread and morning meds later.
She and her team figured it out, and today they played the former president brilliantly. He took the bait, and tonight he self-destructed. In a live debate, on national television. . . .
From then on, he continued to produce rally stories full of wild exaggerations and attack Harris with lies in what CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale called “a staggeringly dishonest debate performance from former president Trump.” "No major presidential candidate before Donald Trump has ever lied with this kind of frequency,” Dale said. “A remarkably large chunk of what he said tonight was just not true. This wasn't little exaggerations, political spin. A lot of his false claims were untethered to reality." As Harris spoke directly to the American people, growing stronger and stronger, Trump got wilder and angrier and told more and more crazy stories.
And then, about ten minutes into the debate, Harris baited him. She invited the American people to go to one of his rallies, where “he talks about fictional characters like Hannibal Lecter, he will talk about ‘windmills cause cancer.’ And what you will also notice is that people start leaving his rallies early out of exhaustion and boredom.”
Trump lost it. He defended his rallies, said Harris couldn’t get anyone to attend hers and has to bus in attendees (in reality, her rallies are packed and he is the one who reportedly hires attendees), and then, in his fury, repeated the lie about immigrants eating pets. When a moderator fact-checked that story, he fought back, saying he heard it on television.
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Then things got even worse for Trump.
Music phenomenon Taylor Swift endorsed Harris, telling her 283 million Instagram followers that she felt she had to because of Trump’s earlier reposting of an AI image of her seeming to endorse him. That, she said, “brought me to the conclusion that I need to be very transparent about my actual plans for this election as a voter. The simplest way to combat misinformation is with the truth. I will be casting my vote for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz in the 2024 Presidential Election.”
After explaining why she was supporting Harris and Walz and urging her fans to do their own research, Swift signed off: “Taylor Swift, Childless Cat Lady.”
Agreed. David Muir and Linsey Davis did a terrific job moderating the program.
Eugene Robinson on Morning Joe: "It was just the most comprehensive beat-down I have ever seen on a debate stage, including the Trump/Biden debate where Biden beat himself."
PT exercises. I did the first set of all three between 12:15 and 12:45. Again around 2 p.m. and again at 4:30.
Anniversaries thoughts. First, my all-time favorite song, Ellignton's Sophisticated Lady. They say into your early life romance came / And in this heart of yours burned a flame / A flame that flickered one day and died away / Then, with disillusion deep in your eyes / You learned that fools in love soon grow wise / The years have changed you, somehow / I see you now. / Smoking, drinking, never thinking of tomorrow, nonchalant / Diamonds shining, dancing, dining with some man in a restaurant / Is that all you really want? / No, sophisticated lady / I know, you miss the love you lost long ago / And when nobody is nigh you cry.
Second, the military coup against Chile's democratically elected government was supported by Nixon and Kissinger. So much for American respect for democracy and the Rule of Law. So much for our moral superiority over Putin and the Russians. We are so hypocritical. Rules apply to others, not to us.
Third, Starr's report was a best seller because of its salacious content. Reading it left me with little respect for either Clinton or Starr, who later became dean of Pepperdine Law School in Malibu, CA.
Fourth, the World Trade Center towers, the Pentagon, and Shanksville, PA. chickens coming home to roost. I was in North Port visiting my Dad. My flight home was cancelled and ended up taking an almost empty 'redeye' flight a few days later, maybe 6 regualr passengers plus a number of pilots and flight crews moving around to match up with aircraft that had been grounded. 9/11 lead to a period of widespread fear islamophobia in the country, the Patriot Act and increased surveillance activities in the country, renditions, the use of torture by the CIA, 'black hole' detention facilties in complicitous foreign countries, and Guantanamo. It also led to the invasion and 20 year war in Afghanistan and to the invasion and disastrous war in Iraq.
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