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This week's contestant is Cynthia Sibitzky from Haslett, Texas. I don't get the sense that the hidden song is really all that hidden, and you get it in about three seconds -- and only that long because there's a bit of an introduction into the piece. Though it's very lovely. As for the composer style, I had a choice between three people who are somewhat similar. The contestant's first guess was mine, as well, but...we were wrong.
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I only just became aware of this. I don't know how it slipped under the radar.
It turns out that last year, President and Michelle Obama had a light-hearted "feud" with Prince Harry over the Invictus Games (an international Paralympic event), which Harry started after seeing a similar event in Colorado. He sort of challenged the First Lady who with her husband sent an "in your face" video in reply. And this was Prince Harry's response. (His response includes Michelle Obama's video, which is why I haven't included it.) This all came up because the 2017 Invictus Games are set to start soon, and the question has arisen if Melania Trump will renew the faux-feud and joking. The general consensus has been...er, no. Here's Prince Harry's reply. Read his note first before clicking on the video to start it.
John Oliver and Cookie Monster anchor the Action 7 News for station WORD on Sesame Street, along with some on-the-street celebrity reporters. Really cool speech today from Trump to policemen that advocated them being violent. I'm trying to track down if he or which of his staffers edited it from the original Mussolini. Okay, here's the most bizarre thing to keep in mind about Anthony Scaramucci (which is saying a lot, given all the bizarre things he's said, tweeted and done in just the past few days) - Scaramucci hasn't even been actually appointed to the job yet!
No, really. It was only announced that Trump plans to appoint him as communications director. While I understand the value of being "pro-active" and getting a running start, I know grasp the importance at time of being circumspect and not making a national idiot of yourself before your prospective boss has a chance to reconsider. I'm not suggesting that Trump will pull back his appointment. He may love how blustery Scaramucci is, for all I know. After all, he's surrounded himself with belligerent lawyers who go around telling off others and attempting to bully them. (And how well has that been working out in the White House...) But if you've already got the got the job, there's no need to keep trying to convince the guy in charge to hire you. You can't get "more hired," the only other way to go through the door is out. So, why risk it? Thank goodness the job has nothing to do with knowing how and when to communicate well... Y'know, just thinking in retrospect, after watching John McCain's vote to kill TrumpCare, but maybe Trump's whole, "I like people that weren't captured" line during the primaries wasn't such a great idea, after all.
And watching Lisa Murkowski's vote to kill TrumpCare, maybe when the Republicans wanted Lisa Murkowski out of the Senate and ran a Tea Party candidate against her in the Alaska primary and beat her -- only to have her run as a write-in candidate and win, that might not have been such a great idea either. And maybe having the Secretary of the Interior thrilled to be able to swagger with the awesome power of the presidency behind him and call United States Senator Lisa Murkowski up to threaten the entire state of Alaska, that doesn't seem all that great of an idea looking back. Who knew? The old bromide, "Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it" actually has a lot of truth to it. Go figure. By the way, I'm not saying that their remembering slams of the past is what caused anyone to vote the way they did. Though I suspect that if there was any uncertainty in a person's mind how to vote and "party loyalty" and "loyalty to the president" were being pushed on them, then my sense is that they weren't as strong arguments as might have been otherwise... Important and terrific as it was that the horrific TrumpCare bill didn't pass, it's critical to always keep in mind that it shouldn't have come this close. Forgetting even the damage that this bill would have done, to have almost passed a bill that wouldn't impact one-sixth of the U.S. economy and which pretty much no one knew what was even it is a shameful, reprehensible way for elected officials to act, whatever the bill was about. And it seems to have probably been done not because of the merits of the bill -- again, most senators didn't even know what was in the bill until just before, and even once they knew, hardly time to study it -- but rather out of spite against Barack Obama because he...well, who knows?, because he was Barack Obama. Perhaps being different is enough. Being different seems to be a scary thing in the very conservative Republican Party. Did the bill fail just because John McCain came down with a horrible, life-threatening diagnosis the week before and he faced mortality and the consequences of healthcare and voted "No"? Is that what saved healthcare of tens of millions of people? And saved the lives of unknown many? Would he have voted "No" anyway? Unless John McCain explains the answer, we don't know. All we know is that it came down to one vote, and that may well have been the vote. It seems that this ill-conceived action of pushing TrumpCare may well backfire profoundly on the Republican Party. On the one hand, the base will be furious that the party couldn't repeal that healthcare bill by the black guy, despite controlling the White House, Senate and House, after seven years of promising. And on the other hand, the 83% of the rest of the country who hated the TrumpCare bill will hate that the Republican Party tried to pass it and came within a vote of doing so. And I suspect that the GOP is still going to keep trying to pass it again, in same harmful form, for soul-crushing reasons known only to them. But at least for now, they lost. And all 46 Democrats, along with both Independents, and three Republicans were responsible, 49-51. The Tweetstorm awaits. Followed by the next Anthony Scaramucci meltdown. |
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AuthorRobert J. Elisberg is a political commentator, screenwriter, novelist, tech writer and also some other things that I just tend to keep forgetting. 
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