America is kind of scaring the shit out of me
Where in the blue ass hell are these people at Trump rallies coming from? What hole did they crawl out of?
Even in the back hills of Kentucky if a family member runs their face in such a bigoted way it is made crystal clear to them very quickly that kind of idea is unacceptable. Flap your stupid pie hole in public with that kind of hate you'll be pretty much shunned by the community.
Oh they'll tolerate you disowning your daughter if she takes up with a black guy. But people in the small east Kentucky towns are appalled and offended anyone would harass, spit on or attack a woman simply because she's wearing Muslim religious garb - or threatening to bodily injure someone because they "look muslim" or "look gay".
WHY are we tolerating this from any political candidate? We sat around the let Turdblossom get away with his little whisper campaign about McCain's black daughter and tolerated the Quitter's yapping about Obama being a terrorist and now we are going to sit around and let Mr. Bankrupt prove to us this whole country has lost it's fucking mind.
Honest to gracious if my husband was not eyeball deep in chemo I'd be pulling together a bunch of women in the most severest black niqab or burqa or whatever you call it and hound Trump and his supporters everywhere they go doing zagareet as loud as possible.
We have to stop this craziness. Black kids are getting shot every 5 minutes. Woman in scarves are getting spit on and threatened........... We didn't learn anything when Gabby got shot...........
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but I've heard Lindsey Graham's moronic/repellent rant about wanting Bush back as president.
And the cheers that followed it.
If any one of those fools somehow manages to gain the White House...I 
to think.
And to the extent it's been successful, it's probably more than anything thanks to pig boy himself:
of intellectual hell where pretzel logic is the dominating philosophy and where trunptydumpty can be found castigating residents for being there because loooozers!
Most voting-age American citizens are so disengaged from political events that it's often difficult to find a bright side. I really do think this will prove an exception.
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You educated me as to the source of The Sorcerer's Apprentice. I've played the piece by Paul Dukas several times and of course we've all seen the Mickey Mouse cartoon. But I didn't know it was written by Goethe. As a musician, I come by these literary works in another form, music and opera, and often don't know the source of the story.
I know Goethe & Schiller wrote the bases for many great musical works, but have not studied German, so I didn't know the backgrounds. Romance languages are my thing. German tends to baffle me even though English is a Germanic language. I took Spanish and Latin in school and that showed me what logical grammar structures and easy to understand verb forms looked like.
Any German I picked up, I picked up through music, as in "Heilege Dankegesang"
Beethoven) and "Schicksalied" Brahms). In high school at music camp we played Also Sprach Zarathustra. I wondered why Strauss didn't put his tempo directions in Italian like normal people.
I remember being baffled by "Sehr langsam". Instead of "allegretto" or something I understood. Not to mention that Strauss loved all keys equally so wandered through them all. Or it seemed like it.
There are some German words that are essential in English, like "schadenfreude" and "zeitgeist". Every time I see Willie Geist on MSNBC I wonder if he knows he's a ghost.
And back on the subject of the Frankenstein monster created by Fox News, I saw editorial cartoons several years ago predicting this exactly. A Frankenstein monster that the powers that be could not control.
if I am considered good at writing then the bar has dropped pretty low indeed. Back in my schooling days I was considered average at best.
But the state of our educational system is another rant for another day.
but equally perturbing documentary on the very night of the latest Republican debate/hate-fest.
The resonances were uncanny. Title of the programme? "Mein Kampf, Manifesto of Hate",
The "founding document" of Nazism, written by Aldolf Hilter during his emprisonment after the failed putsch of 1923, is both autobiography and political manifesto. In its more than 700 pages, it exposes the spirit of revenge, the obsessive hatred of Jews and the desire for German expansionism of its author."
I was glued to the screen. The historical parallels with the political climate in the US are profoundly disquieting.
At the end of the film, one of the German researcher's conclusions just hit me right between the eyes:
We have nothing to fear but ourselves.
I think these idiots keep their mouths shut except when in packs.
I have felt for YEARS that right wing radio has long worked to make people's most hateful thinking seem acceptable to them and absolve them of any need for introspection. Then someone like Trump puts those views right out there where the corporate news can't even dress it up! The other Republicans would prefer a tad more subtle hatred. But some of these fools still want to make chunks of this planet "glow in the dark"!
Off topic, but I'm a Kentucky Woman too, born and raised in Paintsville, but I've lived in Lexington since I came down the Parkway to UK in '82.
