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  • ICE CUBE TO APPEAR ON ‘REAL TIME’

    ICE CUBE TO APPEAR ON ‘REAL TIME’

    The rapper was already scheduled to appear on the June 9 episode of HBO’s “Real Talk With Bill Maher” and has no intention of backing out now.

    “Ice Cube will still appear on Bill Maher this Friday as scheduled to talk about the release of ‘Death Certificate: 25th Anniversary edition,’ an album that was recorded in the wake of the Rodney King beating in 1991, which sadly, speaks to many of the same race issues that we as a society are still dealing with today,” a representative for Ice Cube told The Times in a statement Tuesday morning.

  • Finding your best defense with someone else’s worst offense..

    Finding your best defense with someone else’s worst offense..

    Early in the week Kathy Griffin thought it would be humorous to be showcased in a photo shoot raising the severed head of Donald Trump.

    Later in the week.. Bill Maher uttered the N word during his HBO REAL TIME live broadcast..

    Anger online!

    Twitter repudiates!

    This morning, Bill Maher is facing widespread calls that he should be fired for his joke!

    Maher was talking to Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Nebraska) about the senator’s book, “The Vanishing American Adult,” which explores why today’s young people are unable to survive in a competitive global economy. The conversation drifted to Halloween and how dressing up is no longer just a children’s tradition. Sasse said adults don’t do that quite as much in his state because it’s frowned upon. In response, Maher said he should visit Nebraska more.

    “We’d love to have you work in the fields with us,” Sasse said.

    “Work in the fields? Senator, I’m a house n—–,” Maher said, raising both of his hands up. “No it’s — it’s a joke.”

    At this time, there has not been a public response from Bill Maher. It will undoubtedly come.

    But we did have a response from Griffin, who late in the week blamed Donald Trump and family for attempting to take her career down.

    At this time, people including Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson and Jack Posobiec, a Trump supporter who writes for the right-wing site Rebel Media, have called for Maher to be fired. #FireBillMaher is circulating on Twitter.

    The rest.. rest.. the rest may be history.

    This has been an awful year for fake outrage over things that don’t matter. Like when the Late Show host Colbert had a nasty joke about Trump.. Or when people wanted Sean Hannity fired for being political opposed to them.. or when Steve Martin had to say sorry for calling Carrie Fisher beautiful shortly after she passed away.

    This is tiring.. This is getting to be a drag on freedom of speech. And unfortunately, as the whole mess of 2017 continues, this nonsensical tripe will most likely keep occurring.

    Should Kathy Griffin say sorry? Sure if she wants to. Same for Bill Maher. But should they be fired? ….I suppose the private companies who employ them can only decide after reading the tea leaves.. But my God.. my God.. jokes are over. In the new age, everyone can take offense at what they choose..demand repercussions for their agony.. and then at the end of the day still demand the termination of whatever person said something to offend them.

    Conservative.. Red states.

    Blue state liberals.. All the same.

    In the end, the middle of the roaders–all of us–have been forced into a giant mess of madness.

    Welcome to the modern age. Pop culture may have to slice and dice the MIC in favor of the duct tape. Over the mouth. Not a word to be uttered in the 21st century breakdown.

  • Politically incorrect or culturally inappropriate ?

    Politically incorrect or culturally inappropriate ?

    The latest from pop culture:

    Bill Maher, the HBO late-night host of “Real Time,” was criticized widely on social media after an interview with a Nebraska senator that aired Friday night where the host joked that he is a “house [expletive].”

    Maher was having a back-and-forth with Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., and the senator invited the liberal talk-show host to visit his state.

    “We’d love to have you work in the fields with us,” Sasse joked.

    Maher responded, “Work in the fields? Senator, I’m a house [expletive].”

    Some in the audience groaned and a few clapped. Maher appeared to quickly reassure the audience and said, “No, it’s a joke.”

    Sasse did not address the comment and the two moved on to another subject. Sasse faced some criticism on social media for not quickly condemning the host’s comments.

    The word was not cut from the Midnight rebroadcast on HBO..

  • KATHY GRIFFIN ‘ABOUT FACE’

    KATHY GRIFFIN ‘ABOUT FACE’

    PR stunt today attempts to turn tables as pendulum swung against her.. CNN fired her. And the President questioned her mental health.

    Today..
    Tears… for fears..

    “That apology absolutely stands,” Griffin said at the packed morning news conference held at her attorney’s office in Woodland Hills. “I apologized because it was the right thing to do and I meant it.”

    “Then I saw the tide turning,” she continued, adding that she has received death threats. “I saw what was happening. It was a mob mentality pile-on.”

    Public outrage over the photo was immediate on Tuesday, and Griffin apologized soon after, but the damage had already been done.

    President Trump and family speculated on Twitter about Griffin’s mental health, saying that she should be ashamed and calling for CNN to fire her from her New Year’s Eve hosting gig, which the cable news network did.

  • Reviewer writes that she is Haunted By ‘Get Out’ — But Not Because It’s A Horror Film

    Reviewer writes that she is Haunted By ‘Get Out’ — But Not Because It’s A Horror Film

    Reviewer writes that she is Haunted By ‘Get Out’ — But Not Because It’s A Horror Film:

    GET OUT continues to garner media praise and reviewer praise alike.. while not at 100% on Rotten Tomatoes at this point, the film is still scoring above 97% and is widely loved by professional and amateur reviews alike..

    The latest interesting perspective comes from Shira Hirschman Weiss. She wrote this in the HUFFINGTON POST, linked above:

    Without spoiling Get Out, I will say that as a woman whose skin is pale, I came away pensive. In the resulting week, I’m more perplexed. The movie was incredibly powerful, but it highlighted for me how we can all make buffoons of ourselves in the face of diversity. In an ultra-PC environment ― that Donald Trump notoriously seems to shun ― there are several types of Americans. Among them are the blatant racists and of the other extreme, those who want to prove how un-racist they are that they end up overdoing it.

    GET OUT is a prime example of horror done right: Elements of fear coupled with the modern societal horrors of a generation.. without being spoken, it can be a commentary on our world. Truly done well.

    Expect a long term ramification from GET OUT.. long term results with more movies like it to follow. Especially during the hyper-political era of Donald Trump..

  • Horror movies during the Trump years

    Horror movies during the Trump years

    W MAGAZINE has a very good article running: Why horror movies will be the best art during the Trump Administration..

    Author Max Lackin writes in part,

    Get Out subverts the home invasion genre’s classics like Friday the 13th and Scream—here, the menace is what’s already residing inside the white suburban house—while going further. Its first scene, of a young black man out at night alone walking through suburbia, goes from a feeling of unease to something deeply sinister with the appearance of a car that stalks him. “When this man anxiously looks for a way out, the scene grows discordantly disturbing because you may, as I did, flash on Trayvon Martin,” wrote Manhola Dargis in the New York Times.

    And more..

    “Social thriller” is Peele’s nomenclature, but it’s a good descriptor of the swell of recent films that wear horror’s cowl loosely, masking their progressive messaging just beneath genre makeup. The class commentary of The Purge franchise is more emphatic, but heavy-handedness doesn’t make its point any less true. Set in a near future in which a national holiday of state-sanctioned anarchy has yielded record-low crime and a one-percent unemployment rate, it’s a dystopia masquerading as utopia, thanks to a few hours of cathartic bloodletting—and a warning about where a few missteps could land us. The first installment came out in 2013, when the heft of the monthly unemployment rate carried weight.

    IT FOLLOWS was also a societal commentary.. the overriding sense of dread came less from the invisible sexual monster but more the poverty and desolation in Detroit..

    While I’d agree that GET OUT was social commentary, I am not sure it is truly about Trump.. same with PURGE ELECTION YEAR, this was released before Trump’s win. That said, the movies seem relevant ..

    One point that seems to be missed–and one I stress all of the time, hence my study of horror movies–horror has always been social commentary. FRIDAY THE 13th was not just about teenage dreams being slashed, but actually the religious right that rose during the Reagan years.. Other films, like NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, were all about race relations..  and even the SAW films were a response to the torture and warfare of the post 9/11 years..

    Movies have gone there before..and they will again. To be truly effective they need to have somewhat concealed.. somewhat overt. A mixture of both succeeds on all audience levels.

  • The strange death of the Vitaly Churkin

    The strange death of the Vitaly Churkin

    FROM NBC NEWS

    [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkAUgKG4XhQ]

    It is not surprising that most are considering this death to be quite suspicious.. quite strange.. quite bizarre.

    Adding a bit of intrigue of the injury of his sudden heart attack in New York City, this tidbit of information has been gaining speed on social networks: Wikileaks exposed that John McCain had a strange quest for campaign cash from the same ambassador who is now dead.. 

    Since his death tensions are now evident between Russia and Ukraine.. 

    His body has been delivered back to Russia.. 

    An autopsy was done earlier this week..

    City medical examiners concluded Churkin’s death needed further study, which usually includes toxicology and other screenings. Those can take weeks.

    The medical examiner is responsible for investigating deaths that occur by criminal violence, by accident, by suicide, suddenly or when the person seemed healthy or in any unusual or suspicious manner. Most of the deaths investigated by the office are not suspicious…

  • Witches brew: Are you casting a spell on Trump at Midnight?

    Witches brew: Are you casting a spell on Trump at Midnight?

    The popular website ELLE is the first on this feed:

    Starting at midnight on Friday, witches around the country are calling for a mass spell to be cast on Donald Trump every night of a waning crescent moon until he’s driven from office.

     The spell was publicized by Michael M. Hughes, who told ELLE.com that it was tweaked from multiple spells he saw going around private witchcraft groups. He published it on Extra News Feed because he felt “it would be very welcome to a lot of people.” It quickly spread, with events being formed around the country and support on social media.
    Matt Drudge also linked the ELLE article and caused a worldwide flurry of activity from witches and others who want to take part in the paranormal play..
    According to further reporting from Jaya Saxena:
    The ritual itself is pretty standard magic working, binding Trump from doing harm to others and to himself, rather than asking any forces to do harm to him. There are objects to represent the elements and to represent Trump himself. The tarot card of the Tower represents ambitions built on lies, which are struck down by a lightning flash of truth. For those who believe in witchcraft, it looks to be an effective spell.
    Various media organizations have given the story press, including the Huffington POST, USA TODAY, and the Associated Press.
    The #Resistance has gone to the dark side..
    There is now also a Facebook page dedicated to people’s photos and detailed info on what happened during the binding..

    A Spell to Bind Donald Trump and All Those Who Abet Him (version 2.0)

    To be performed at midnight on every waning crescent moon until he is removed from office. The first ritual takes place Friday evening, February 24th, at the stroke of midnight. This binding spell is open source, and may be modified to fit your preferred spiritual practice or magical system — the critical elements are the simultaneity of the working (midnight, EST—DC, Mar-a-Lago, and Trump Tower NYC time) and the mass energy of participants.

    See below for the upcoming dates. Some lodges/covens are doing a variation of this as a group working, while a number of solitary practitioners are planning to connect and livestream via Facebook, Twitter, and other social media.

    Components:

    • Unflattering photo of Trump (small); see below for one you can print
    • Tower tarot card (from any deck)
    • Tiny stub of an orange candle (cheap via Amazon)
    • Pin or small nail (to inscribe candle)
    • White candle (any size), representing the element of Fire
    • Small bowl of water, representing elemental Water
    • Small bowl of salt, representing elemental Earth
    • Feather (any), representing the element of Air
    • Matches or lighter
    • Ashtray or dish of sand

    Optional:

    • Piece of pyrite (fool’s gold)
    • Sulfur
    • Black thread (for traditional binding variant)
    • Baby carrot (as substitute for orange candle stub)

    Preparation:

    • Write “Donald J. Trump” on the orange candle stub with a pin or nail
    • Arrange other items in a pleasing circle in front of you
    • Lean the Tower card against something so that it’s standing up (vertically)
    • Say a prayer for protection and invoke blessing from your preferred spirit or deity. Reading the 23rd Psalm aloud is common in Hoodoo/Conjure/Rootwork traditions. Experienced magicians may perform an appropriate banishing ritual.

    RITUAL

    (v. 2.1)

    (Light white candle)

    Hear me, oh spirits
    Of Water, Earth, Fire, and Air
    Heavenly hosts
    Demons of the infernal realms
    And spirits of the ancestors

    (Light inscribed orange candle stub)

    I call upon you
    To bind
    Donald J. Trump
    So that he may fail utterly
    That he may do no harm
    To any human soul
    Nor any tree
    Animal
    Rock
    Stream
    or Sea

    Bind him so that he shall not break our polity
    Usurp our liberty
    Or fill our minds with hate, confusion, fear, or despair
    And bind, too,
    All those who enable his wickedness
    And those whose mouths speak his poisonous lies

    I beseech thee, spirits, bind all of them
    As with chains of iron
    Bind their malicious tongues
    Strike down their towers of vanity

    (Invert Tower tarot card)

    I beseech thee in my name
    (Say your full name)
    In the name of all who walk
    Crawl, swim, or fly
    Of all the trees, the forests,
    Streams, deserts,
    Rivers and seas
    In the name of Justice
    And Liberty
    And Love
    And Equality
    And Peace

    Bind them in chains
    Bind their tongues
    Bind their works
    Bind their wickedness

    (Light the small photo of Trump from the flame of the orange candle stub and hold carefully above the ashtray)

    (Speak the following loudly and with increasing passion as the photo burns to ashes)

    So mote it be!
    So mote it be!
    So mote it be!

    (Blow out orange candle, visualizing Trump blowing apart into dust or ash*)

    (Pinch or snuff out the white candle, ending the ritual)

    Grounding and Disposal

    Afterward, ground yourself by having a good, hearty laugh, jumping up and down, clapping your hands, stomping your feet, and having a bite to eat. Grounding is very important—don’t neglect it. And remember—he hates people laughing at him.

    Finally, bury the orange candle stub or discard it at a crossroads or in running water.

    VARIANTS

    Alternate Closing: After you’ve visualized Trump’s energy dissipating, gaze at the white candle flame for a few moments, close your eyes, and imagine a bright light emerging from the darkness and gradually being revealed as the flaming torch of the Statue of Liberty. The light from the torch then brightens intensely, expanding into infinity and burning away all darkness. After a few moments, open your eyes, ground yourself, and pinch or snuff out the white candle, closing the ritual. You can also leave it burning until it is fully extinguished.

    Traditional Binding Variant: This variant was contributed by a rootworker, and incorporates a more traditional form of binding magic. In place of burning the photo, the magician ties the photo to the orange candle with black thread. As you are wrapping the thread around the photo and candle, say “I bind you” three times. You may also tie knots in the thread. Then the whole package is buried or, as the contributor suggested, “Leave it outside a Trump hotel.”

    The Use-His-Pet-Phrase-Against-Him Variant: In place of “So mote it be,” instead say, “You’re fired!” with increasing vehemence. This should be particularly beautiful as the flames consume his image.

    Baby Carrot Substitution: For those who can’t acquire an orange candle stub, Frater SHUF suggests using a baby carrot (and lighting the photo from the white candle).

    Waning Crescent Moon Ritual Dates:

    February 24th (Midnight, Friday evening); March 26th; April 24th; May 23rd; June 21st (especially important as it is the summer solstice); July 21st; August 19th; etc.

    Trump photo for ritual (print and cut)

  • Lady Gaga in a bra, a sneak peak of the new Super Bowl Pepsi…

    Lady Gaga in a bra, a sneak peak of the new Super Bowl Pepsi…

    Lady Gaga in a bra, a sneak peak of the new Super Bowl Pepsi commercial .. set to start a stir.
    By the time the halftime show rolls, we will wonder if we are shaken or stirred..

    There is a high degree of attention being paid or the show this year. Hollywood and showbiz has taken to the airwaves to protest every move Donald Trump makes. If things go as some hope, Gags will make a political statement. In that light, there is already online petitions asking her to be BANNED> Because we have become frightened of FREEDOM OF SPEECH in Amurica…?

    Regardless, I am intrigued as well by whether the LADY will make her appearance political in nature.

    I predict this: We will hear some old songs..we will hear Poker Face.. we will see Patriots fans dancing (before and after the game, I predict as well) …and we will get a covert statement. Nothing overt.

    But that’s just me.. and my little zany prediction…
    The game time is coming. We will see soon.

  • Trump demands apology from ‘Hamilton’ after cast’s message to Pence

    Trump demands apology from ‘Hamilton’ after cast’s message to Pence

    Trump demands apology from ‘Hamilton’ after cast’s message to Pence:

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    The next four years are going to continue like this. So as long as Donald Trump has a Twitter account, he is going to use it like the millions of others who do: Nonstop barrages of commentary on mundane events.

    The President-Elect is normally busy building a team of rivals, or friends, or whatever type of cabinet he wants to.. this year, Donald Trump is using his time to frequently go to Twitter to attack the cast of Hamilton–a broadway show that most likely most of Americans don’t care one bit about. This is not inside the beltway, but instead inside the big apple.. high above the lofty lofts of NYC are penthouses filled with people chattering about this. But the rest of the American people are scratching their heads at ..why..

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    Donald Trump is going to make just about everything about him over the next four years. No doubt people will bite every time. Why change now.

    He will utilize Twitter to keep the masses who voted for him faithful to the cause, while silently changing policy opinions on world events and Obama care.. yes, the Hamilton attack only gives more red meat to those who have not had any since the last Trump rally.

    By Saturday morning, both #NameAPenceMusical and #BoycottHamilton were trending on Twitter. There was a pro-Trump flash mob on Saturday night on Broadway. By Sunday, morning AM Trump again went to Twitter to slam Hamilton.

    This is unprecedented.

    Is it unpreseidential-elect?