Nanna's Lied Translation

Found Here:

Nanna's Song:

Gentlemen, with seventeen years of age under my belt
I came up on the Love Market,
and I have learned much.
Much of it gave evil,
yet that was the game,
but, I have a lot to be blamed for.
(When all is said and done, I'm only a human being, too.)

Thanks be to God that it all goes by so quickly,
the love as well as the grief, too.
Where are the tears of yesterday evening?
Where are the snows of yesteryear?

As one goes through the years
it is easier in the Love Market, to be sure,
and you embrace the multitudes there.
But feelings
become astonishingly cool
when one doesn't ration them.
(When all is said and done, each reserve must come to an end.)

Thanks be to God that it all goes by so quickly,
the love as well as the grief, too.
Where are the tears of yesterday evening?
Where are the snows of yesteryear?

And even when one learns the trade really well
in the Fairground of Love:
to change desire into small change
is never easy.
Now, it is achieved.
Yet meanwhile, one grows older, as well.
(When all is said and done, one can't stay seventeen forever.)

Thanks be to God that it all goes by so quickly,
the love as well as the grief, too.
Where are the tears of yesterday evening?
Where are the snows of yesteryear?

Authorship
Translation from German to English copyright © 2004 by Sean Mabrey

Wednesday Weekly Weill

Nanna's Lied/Kurt Weill/Bertolt Brecht - Tiziana Sojat

Another FEMA Fuck-up Gets A Promotion

Via Think Progress:

FEMA official involved in fake press conference resigns.
On Tuesday, while “wildfires raged” in California, FEMA staged a live press conference at which agency staffers posed as journalists and asked softball questions. One of those staffers, Director of External Affairs John “Pat” Philbin, has now resigned. He has instead landed an “amazing opportunity” to head public affairs at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

What does it take for anyone in the FUCKED-UP administration to be actually held accountable. This is the party of "personal accountability".

Update: The offer was withdrawn and he didn't get the job. An absolute first, for these jerks.

Sunday Sondheim

Simply Sondheim - You Could Drive A Person Crazy

How To Rant

Go John Cole!!!!

I have had a couple drinks, so let’s be blunt (pardon the pun)- and this goes out to anyone, of any political persuasion, anywhere, who had a problem with this woman using marijuana to alleviate her pain (especially the alleged “conservative” federalists who can’t handle the thought of states making their own drug laws):

Go fuck yourself. To death.

I am tired of being patient with you nannies and your stupid self-serving rules and your slippery slopes and your bullshit and your need to be tough on crime and your earnest concerns about society. Mind your own business, get your own house in order, stop fucking interns and little boys and cheating on your wives and on your taxes and being found dead wearing two wetsuits with a dildo shoved up your ass. Just mind your own damned business, and let people do what they must to deal with their own screwed up lives, and let people handle their pain the best way they can.

OH . . . STEVE O . . . YOU DO SURPRISE ME!

Historically, I've been of the opinion that Steve O of "Jackass" fame was, at his very best, unsavory, uninteresting, and smarmy. Yes, those were the "best" adjectives I could find to describe him. My apologies, Mr. O. You've shown a side of yourself I've never seen (NO . . . not THAT side!).





Steve-O put it perfectly in his interview with PETA: "Abuse yourself all you want," he says, "just leave animals out of it. Don't wear fur." He encourages fans to "be comfortable in your own skin and let animals keep theirs."

Finally, a spokesperson for animal rights who can actually appeal to trailer trash. The only problem is . . . how many trailer trashites own real fur???? Hmmmm . . .

In other animal rights news, The Humane Society of the United States has been busy rescuing animals from the fires in California, and yes folks, they ARE accepting donations (of course!).

What The Hell Is Obama Thinking

Enlisting a "Pray Away The Gay" nutjob like McClurkin is a primary season deal breaker for me.

These people are dangerous as they do great harm to youth, struggling with coming to terms with their sexual orientation.

This is not a two-sided issue. It's non-negotiable. And although McClurkin may have publicly prayed away his gay, there are hints now that he is now on the "down low".

But then again, maybe Obama's reaching out for votes from the Reverend Daddy Dobson set. I bet the whackjobs are all running over to kiss Obama's ring even as we speak. After all, they did say they would split from the Republican party, if that serial marrier Rudy Nine Eleviani got the the GOP nod.

Maybe Obama can now try to get the Dixiecrats back in the fold. You remember them. They were the southern Democrats until they bolted the party due to President Johnson's "Great Society" civil rights reforms in the sixties, that enabled blacks to avoid poll taxes and "steal their wimmin".

If, Obama gets the nomination, I will support him, 'cos the alternative is far too horrendous to even consider. I'll just be the guy in the voting booth with the clothespin on my nose.

OUCH!!! It Burns!!!!!

It's not just Republicans who don't know how to play with the Internets:

This summer the House Judiciary Committee launched an effort to collect tips from would-be whistleblowers in the Justice Department. The U.S. attorney firings scandal had shown that much was amiss in the Department, and with the danger of retaliation very real, the committee had set up a form on the committee's website for people to blow the whistle privately about abuses there. Although the panel said it would not accept anonymous tips, it assured those who came forward that their identity would be held in the "strictest confidence."

But in an email sent out today, the committee inadvertently sent the email addresses of all the would-be whistleblowers to everyone who had written in to the tipline. The committee email was sent to tipsters who had used the website form, including presumably whistleblowers themselves, and all of the recipients of the email were accidentally included in the "to:" field -- instead of concealing those addresses with a so-called blind carbon copy or "bcc:".

Oh, and one of the "cc's'" was the Vice President.

Idiots.

Take The Quiz

Here: http://www.fightconservatives.com/Inside-the-Book/What-Breed-of-Liberal-Are-You.html:

My Liberal Identity:

You are a Peace Patroller, also known as an anti-war liberal or neo-hippie. You believe in putting an end to American imperial conquest, stopping wars that have already been lost, and supporting our troops by bringing them home.

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Just a thought

Why has it been harder to find a decent roommate then it is to find a date as a divorced single mom (ok, kids are gone), over 45 and not a petite flower?

I cook, I clean and I am totally cool...........I don't get it.

Maybe I should run for president. Then the house would be full of ghosts and I wouldn't have to worry about paying the rent or getting the heat cut off. They do accept pets so Miss Kitty could join me.

Good Night

Mrs. Calabash, Wherever you are....

And you too, Jimmy D.

Wednesday Weekly Weill

September Song Jimmy Durante 1955
It'a a day and a half late. and 4 weeks late, and 52 years ago...

VOTE FOR PORTIA DaCOSTA!

Val and I know someone who is competing in the Night Owl Romance award competition in the category of best eBook Contemporary Erotica. Anyone and everyone is allowed to vote (from a particular ISP) once a day. If you have internet access at home and office, you can vote twice, etc.

The writer is Wendy Portia, but her pen name is Portia DaCosta.

Click here to go to the awards site.

Scroll down to her category (next to last) of Best eBook Contemporary Erotica, and vote for Portia DaCosta (for Wild In the Country). Vote early! Vote often!

MANY, MANY THANKS IN ADVANCE!

-SnarkAngel-

Sonday Sondheim

Not A Day Goes By - Merrily We Roll Along - Bernadette Peters

Spines

There's help out there to grow some:

http://www.markfiore.com/spineocrat

Or keeping polling worse the the lowest polling president, ever.

Keeping a List

Somebody been keeping a list of the party of family value's sex offenders:

http://www.republicansexoffenders.com/

I guess there's something that snaps when one spend their lives bottling up their own sexuality while invading the bedrooms of others, that results in extreme perversity when the bubble finally breaks.

Let's Start Off The Weekend With a Good LAUGH!

Hilarious . . .



I love Craig Ferguson when he does shit like this . . .

Translation of Complainte de la Seine

Found one here:
Lament Of The Seine

At the bottom of the Seine
there is gold,rusting boats,jewels, weapons...
At the bottom of the Seine
there are dead bodies...
At the bottom of the Seine
there are tears...
At the bottom of the Seine
there are flowers;
in their vase of mud
they are nourished by silt...
At the bottom of the Seine
there are the hearts
that greatly suffered for living life...
And then the rocks
and the grey beasts...
The pipes of the sewers,
blowing out poison...
The rings thrown away
by misunderstood lovers,
feet that a propeller cut off from their trunk...
And the cursed fruits of sterile wombs,
the innocent abortions that no one loved...
The vomit of the big city...
At the bottom of the Seine,
it is there...
Oh, lenient Seine where the cadavers go,
oh, bed with the sheets made from silt,
river of losses without beacon,
nor haven,
singing a lullaby to the morgue and the bridges,
welcoming the poor one,
welcoming the woman,
welcoming the drunkard,
welcoming the crazy one,
mixing theirs sobs to the sound of your blades,
and carrying their hearts among the rocks...
At the bottom of the Seine
there is gold,rusting boats,jewels, weapons...
At the bottom of the Seine
there are dead bodies...
At the bottom of the Seine
there are tears...

Authorship
Translation from French to English copyright © 2004 by Sean Mabrey , a text in French by Maurice Magre (1877-1941) , copyright ©

I've Said It Once

and I'll say it again.

I saw this head-scratchingly asinine exchange between Dickhead and Dickhead II, Cliff May, on Tucker yesterday:

Transcript Via Digby:

CARLSON: I'm not saying women shouldn't vote for Hillary at all. I'm merely saying the obvious: that you shouldn't vote for her because she's a woman. Here's what the Clinton campaign says: "Hillary isn't running as a woman. As Hillary says, she's not running as a woman candidate. The only reason to vote for her is that you believe she's the most qualified to be president."Well, that's actually completely false, considering the Hillary campaign -- and I get their emails -- relentlessly pushes the glass ceiling argument. "You should vote for her because she's a woman." They say that all the time. She just said that on The View. I mean, that's like their rationale.

MAY: At least call her a Vaginal-American, as opposed to --

CARLSON: Is that the new phrase?

MAY: I think that is, yeah.

CARLSON: Boy, that's nasty. I don't think I can
say that.

No, NO, NO, NO, NO!

The reason people are leaning Hillary is because she is STRONG, INTELLIGENT, COMPETENT, POISED TO RESTORE OUR CONSTITUTION, WELL-VERSED IN HANDLING THE REIGNS OF GOVERNMENT, FULLY CAPABLE OF REHABILITATING AMERICA'S IMAGE ON THE WORLD STAGE,, AND STANDS READY TO CLEAN UP ALL THE OTHER MESSES THAT YOUR NEO-CON PUNDIT-ENABLED, DELUSIONAL, FRAT-RAT, C-STUDENT, EXTRA-CONSTITUTIONAL WARRIOR-BOY-KING, CREATED

And...

Becuz' both of you (especially you, Tucker,) and every single one of your moronic, bed wetting, fear-mongering GOP boys now running, ARE FIGURATIVELY, IF NOT LITERALLY, SEXIST DICKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Something From Boston Betty ...

. . . who must not have yet received the unexpired invitation to blog direct . . .

Thanks, Betty! Enjoy your trip!