I was bewildered as well.
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she musta heard about MTG and the lap dance…
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I need eye bleach!
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Still I kinda feel like the damn fascist got a bit of a spanking.
Less than a year of marriage. Poor poor Madison.
(can ya hear that tiny far away violin??)
Well behave like an asshat… expect to get treated like an asshat.
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That’s a shame. And she really swept him off his feet.
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That’s just the way he rolls.
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I guess she came to realize that he’s not a stand-up guy after all.
Or she got tired of his rolling along with everything?
Maybe she wanted one of those monster males he spoke of, yet found herself with a lamb.
Or she got fed up with his insisting that he chair every discussion.
Ok,ok, I’ll see myself out. I recommend the fish.
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Another stalking horse in all this mess. I am waiting for that other horse shoe to drop and not just with Flynn. It might explain some of the maneuvers some of them are taking.
What Flynn’s son is not in on this caper?
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Being a freshman, the general public shouldn’t even know his name. But since Twitter came along, know-nothing back benchers think their Congressional job is a side gig, and generating content is where it’s at.
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OT, but here’s hoping everything stays ok with @nicole_lafond, and many props for the Beacons of Gondor link. 
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(‘Mr. Ed’ voice on)…
Aww come on now Wilber, Ya don’t see Me throwing Your shoes around now, do ya?
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More like a rookie page. Doesn’t belong near any bench
Agreed. Sloppy headline & reporting.
His arguments for injunctive relief are also laughable. If he’s under investigation by non-Congressional probes, then those investigators likely already have most of his phone records… and if they don’t then subpoenas are coming. Maybe he’s afraid of criminal referrals to DOJ from the 1/6 Committee? If that’s the case, then it’s tantamount to saying “I probably broke the law”, in which case Justice should be able to net him w/o the 1/6 Committee (and the public records of the trial go back to the committee).
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Yep, speaking as a lawyer, that’s exactly right.
On the other hand, the tea leaves are good. The Judge immediately denied the motion out of hand without even bothering to direct the other side to respond. Like a duck on a June bug!
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Or the white sheet…
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Wheel, I’m ashamed to say I like this… 
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A certain local comedian refers to my soon to be former 11th district congressman, as he rolls out of the mountains to menace the eastern suburbs of Charlotte in new NC 13th, “Sitler”.
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On November 28, 1944, MGM released a movie starring Judy Garland, Margaret O’Brien, Mary Astor and Tom Drake, among others. The movie, Meet Me in St. Louis , takes place in 1903, a year before the St. Louis World’s Fair. The Smith family has just learned that they will be moving from St. Louis to New York City. Esther, 17 and played by Judy Garland, have fallen for the boy next door and is very unhappy about the move. During Christmas, Tootie, her much younger sister played by Margaret O’Brien, is also upset about leaving family behind and is also afraid Santa won’t be able to find her because of the move. Esther sings “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” to try and comfort her sister as much as herself.
When the song was first written in 1944 by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blaine for the movie, some of the lyrics were very not quite as heartwarming as the ones that we are most familiar with now, so they were rewritten. As you can see, there is quite a difference in meaning and sentiment:
Why the change? Well, the world was still at war and, according to *Ace Collins, Judy Garland had spent a lot of time entertaining the troops during the past three years as well as visiting, talking and reading their fan mail. She had a pretty good idea that a depressing song wasn’t what was wanted or needed by these courageous soldiers and so, with support from the movie’s director (and her future husband), Vincent Minnelli, she sent the song back to Martin and Blaine and asked for a rewrite. The new version was certainly more hopeful than the original."Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"was released as a single in time for Christmas 1944, and Collins writes, when Judy Garland “sang in to soldiers at the Hollywood Canteen, there wasn’t a dry eye in the place.”
The song only spent one week on Billboard’s charts in 1944. With its message of hope for a future, it was extremely popular with troops, particularly those still serving overseas. It seems that it wasn’t until later that “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” became a big hit with the general public.
In 1957, Frank Sinatra recorded it for an album called A Jolly Christmas . Thinking the line “Until then, we’ll have to muddle through somehow” wasn’t very jolly, he asked Martin to revise that lyric and so it became “Hang a shining star upon the highest bough,” which may the the lyric you are most familiar with, although both are still recorded by singers today.
The Children's War: Hit Parade #5: Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
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