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blxckv3il · 6 days
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Extortionist - When It All Goes Dark
In solitude, there's nothing left to lose.
I call for you but you won't come and save me.
Forgotten by all the ones i've loved and the ones who've said they cared.
I guess its my distrustful faith in a sea of snakes.
Push it all down, push it all away.
Spare me of your counterfeit attempts of saving face.
Holding on because you have something to gain.
I see right through your two faces and I can't relate.
Your so called friends are dead.
You use the loss just for the attention.
That little blue bird feeds your image of imitation.
Hit your head falling from the social ladder you crave.
Birds of a feather so fake and you are all the same.
When it all goes dark, no ones coming back for you.
Forgotten from the start, so there is nothing left to prove.
Everyone moves on and there is nothing you can do.
No sense in holding on because in the end we're born to lose.
I fall back into the dark.
Isolation beckoning, separate.
No one's coming back for me, no.
You left me behind in the ashes of what used to be.
I'm lost in your absence.
Everything I've loved is now past tense.
Forgotten, I was just a memory. Just a fragment.
When it all goes dark, no ones coming back for you.
Forgotten from the start, so there is nothing left to prove.
Everyone moves on and there is nothing you can do.
No sense in holding on because in the end we're born to lose.
The mask you wear must be heavy hanging off your face.
Bury your skeletons before the vultures start to feed."
I don't need anyone, I don't need anything
Human kind is exhausting
I've become so drained
Human kind is exhausting I've become so drained of life
You take away my energy
I will not conform to the game
Fuck your status and your false sense of superiority
It means nothing to me
When it all goes dark, no ones coming back for you
Forgotten from the start, so there is nothing left to prove
Everyone moves on and there is nothing you can do
No sense in holding on because in the end we're born to lose
I will not succumb to you
You sit at tables with the plastic personalities
The cowards play a cowards game and bite the hand that feeds
You're subject to become another cog in the machine
Another carbon copy and you all mean nothing to me
You are nothing to me
Take your place in the waste with all of the flies bathing in shit, feeding their false images
You're jaded, caught in the chains of all I despise. Sedated behind a gate of this exclusivity
I will denounce the hate and all of the lies
Drenched in the venom you spit and you don't even realize your fate is paved with the nameless graves of the blind
You're rotting inside a hive, devoid of love and light
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slrmagazine · 2 months
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Extortionist Unleash New Single and Music Video "Dissociate" via Unique Leader Records
Extortionist Unleash New Single and Music Video "Dissociate" via Unique Leader Records. #extortionist @EXTORTIONISTnw
Heavy metal mainstays Extortionist have today released their latest banger “Dissociate“ and the accompanying visualizer (via Unique Leader Records). The track can be found on the band’s forthcoming full-length album ‘Devoid of Love & Light’ out on Friday, May 18. Speaking about the track, vocalist Ben Hoagland shared: “‘Dissociate’ has a self explanatory title in regards to the meaning of the…
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A feud over spending cuts between hardline and centrist Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives raises the risk that the federal government will suffer its fourth shutdown in a decade this fall.
Members of the hardline House Freedom Caucus are pushing to cut spending to a fiscal 2022 level of $1.47 trillion, $120 billion less than President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy agreed to in their May debt ceiling compromise.
With Republicans also seeking higher spending on defense, veterans benefits and border security, analysts say the hardline target would mean cuts of up to 25% in areas such as agriculture, infrastructure, science, commerce, water and energy, and healthcare.
Centrists, who call themselves "governing" Republicans, say their hardline colleagues are ignoring the fact that their priorities are rejected by Democrats who control the Senate and White House, and that spending will wind up near the level agreed by McCarthy and Biden anyway.
The result is a major headache for centrist Republicans from swing districts that Biden won in 2020 and others with constituents in the firing line of hardline spending targets.
"The reductions are so deep," said Representative Don Bacon, a centrist Republican from Nebraska. "They want to make everything a root canal."
Hardliners view the 2024 fiscal year that begins on Oct. 1 as a test of Republican resolve to reduce the federal debt and move on to reform social programs including Medicare and Social Security.
"I don't fault any individual member for raising concerns and wanting to make sure that the bill is right for them and for their district," said Representative Ben Cline, who belongs to the Freedom Caucus, the conservative Republican Study Committee and the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus.
"What there has to be is an understanding that for there to be 218 Republican votes, the spending needs to be in line with pre-COVID levels rather than the debt-limit agreement."
One significant source of frustration is hardline demands for cuts to bills that have already been vetted by the 61-member House Appropriations Committee.
"We're not, willy-nilly, just trying to give money away. We're trying to focus and prioritize," said Representative David Joyce, a member of the appropriations committee who heads the 42-member centrist Republican Governance Group.
With Democrats opposed to hardline proposals, McCarthy can afford to lose no more than four Republican votes if he hopes to pass all 12 appropriations bills before funding expires on Sept. 30.
"I do not know how they get themselves out of this jam," said William Hoagland, a former Senate Republican budget director now at the Bipartisan Policy Center think tank.
TRICKY PATH
When the House returns from summer recess on Sept. 12, lawmakers will have 12 days to complete their bills and hammer out compromise legislation with the Senate or risk a partial government shutdown.
McCarthy acknowledged last week they may have to resort to a stopgap funding bill, known as a "continuing resolution," or CR, to keep federal agencies open.
That option could be complicated by hardline demands that it include some of former President Donald Trump's border policies, which Democrats reject.
Some House Republicans say the challenges are similar to disagreements McCarthy has overcome on other major legislation, including an April Republican debt ceiling bill that cemented his negotiating position in talks with Biden.
"The more appropriations bills we can get across the finish line, the more we'll have the leverage we need to negotiate a good deal with the Senate," said Representative Dusty Johnson, who chairs the Main Street Caucus, whose members describe themselves as "pragmatic conservatives".
Failure would mean another costly government shutdown starting in October, which would be the fourth in a decade.
SHUTDOWN RISK
House Freedom Caucus members say a shutdown could be necessary to achieve their objectives.
"It's not something that the members of the Freedom Caucus generally wish for," said Representative Scott Perry, who chairs the group of roughly three dozen conservatives.
"But we also understand that very little happens in Washington that's difficult, without someone or something forcing it to happen," he told Reuters.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, the top Democrat in Congress, said last week that Republicans will be to blame for any new shutdown "if the House decides to go in a partisan direction."
Disputes over funding and policy have shut down the federal government three times in the past decade: once in 2013 over healthcare spending and twice in 2018 over immigration. A 35-day shutdown that began in December 2018 and ran into January 2019 cost the economy 0.02% of GDP, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.
This time, the slim 222-212 House Republican majority could pay a political price. A shutdown would disrupt the lives of Americans barely a year before the 2024 election, when Republicans must defend 18 House seats in districts that Biden won in 2020.
McCarthy could face the prospect of having to resort to a CR that requires bipartisan support to pass, neutralizing the hardliners, analysts said.
That could endanger McCarthy's speakership under a deal he struck allowing a single lawmaker to move for his dismissal.
Would the House Freedom Caucus end McCarthy's reign over a CR?
"I wouldn't go that far," Perry said. "That's a final option. We want to work with the leadership. We want to work with Kevin, and we think that we can."
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wehaveagathering · 4 months
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the loneliest job in the world // tony hoagland
ben jackson / minas panagiotakis / len redkoles / mitchell leff / joel auerbach / jonathan daniel / eliot j. schechter / steve babineau / scott taetsch / bruce bennett / jared c. tilton / minas panagiotakis / gerry thomas / mark blinch / ben jackson / bruce bennett / jeff vinnick / andy marlin / norm hall / gerry thomas / bruce bennett
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llovelymoonn · 1 year
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favourite poems of january
tony hoagland note to reality
henri cole middle earth: “myself and cats”
minerva s.m. kamra chronic
stacie cassarino zero at the bone: “in the kitchen”
bonnie jo stufflebeam barking dog nocturnal
ron silliman the alphabet: “you, part i”
sara borjas a heart can only be broken once, like a window
karen an-hwei lee song of the oyamel
louise glück afterword
kai nham follow the moon
elisabeth houston standard american english: “re-peat! re-verse! re-hearse!”
victoria stitt the carolina quarterly: “autumn convalescence”
noor ibn najam you smelled like an animal
ben still concept pest control
ray dipalma obediant laughter: “after midnight”
sasha pimentel cats
thanh-tam nguyen a lit match to burn what your country doesn’t remember
sarah abbas collecting words in attempt to keep them the same
julia wong kcomt (tr. jennifer shyue) woman eaten by cats
lisa jarnot ring of fire: “the bridge”
torrin a. greathouse i am beginning to mistake the locust’s song for silence
siaara freeman when i speak of hunger
vandana khanna train to agra: “evening prayer”
ouyang jianghe (tr. austin woerner) mother, kitchen
kayleb rae candrilli sand & silt
antony hecht an offering for patricia
sara ellen fowler shed project notes, august 30, 2019 - la madera, nm 
vincent hiscock voice in the air: afterthought
margie piercy mars & her children: “the cat’s song”
eva chen how to bleed a ghost
sayuri ayers cordella magazine: “in the season of pink ladies”
buy me a coffee
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blackhouseltd · 1 year
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Every year, we release a Blackhouse Ltd. shirt/hoodie designed by a different artist. This year's new design is by Extortionist frontman & Oceano bassist Ben Hoagland. We're pretty stoked on it, and we hope you are too.
Up for grabs now at BLACKHOUSEINC.STORENVY.COM
#merch
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catherinegarbinsky · 5 years
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Resources
It started with a tweet. I asked:
1 - Poets with MFAs & poetry professors: are there specific books (of poetry, on poetry) that you would recommend for writers who may not have access to formal education in poetry?
2- Poets without MFAs — please feel free to add books that have felt pivotal and educational for you in your process. I mean this primarily as a resource and did not mean to suggest that others may not have valuable texts to offer!
Here are some of the responses (I typed up as many as I could, bolded any that I noticed repeated):
Dorianne Laux and Kim Addonizio’s The Poet’s Companion
Kaveh Akbar’s Divedapper interviews
Mary Oliver’s A Poetry Handbook
Writing Dangerous Poetry by Michael C Smith
Creating Poetry by Drury
The Practice of Poetry by Behn
Feeling as a Foreign Language by Alice Fulton
A Little Book on Form by Robert Hass
Poetry and the Fate of the Senses by Stewart
Of Color: Poets’ Way of Making Anthology (forthcoming)
De-canon
The Volta
The Alabastar Jar (interviews with Li Young-Lee)
Ordinary Genius by Kim Addonzio
On Poetry by Glyn Maxwell
Fictive Certainties by Robert Duncan
The Flexible Lyric by Voigt
Wislawa Symborska’s “Nonrequired Reading”
The Art of series (especially the Art of Description by Mark Doty, especially The Art of Syntax by Ellen Bryant Voigt)
My Poets by Maureen N. McLane
The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
The Crafty Poet by Diane Lockward
Wingbeats and Wingbeats II by Scott Wiggerman
Madness, Rack, and Honey by Mary Ruefle
Picking one poet per year, reading their ouvre and letters (an extremely helpful and nourishing assignment from a genius prof)
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
Rigorously study the line, study grammar, and study some kind of oracle system (Tarot, I Ching, astrology, etc) and read as widely in poetry as you can
Poetic Rhythm by Derek Attridge
A Poet’s Guide by Mary Kinzie
The Art of the Poetic Line by James Logenbach
John Frederick Nims’ Western Wind
Poetry: A Writer’s Guide by Amorak Huey and Todd Kaneko
The Making of a Poem (Norton)
Art of Recklessness
Modern Life by Matthea Harvey
Dancing in Odessa by Ilya Kaminsky
Please by Jericho Brown
Slow Lightning by Eduardo Corral
Meadowlands by Louise Gluck
Kinky  by Denise Duhamel
Names Above Houses by Oliver de la Paz
How To Read A Poem and Fall in Love With Poetry by Edward Hirsch
Carol Rumen’s long-running weekly Guardian column
Poetry 101 by Susan Dalzell
Theory of Prose by V Shklovsky
The Art of Attention by D Revell
Structure and Surprise by M. Theune
Why Poetry by Matthew Zapruder
Poems - Poets - Poetry An Introduction and Anthology by Helen Vendler
Triggering Town by Richard Hugo
The Art of Daring: Risk, Restlessness, Imagination by Carl Phillips
Upstream by Mary Oliver
The Life of Images by Cahrles Simic
Being Human (anthology)
How To be a Poet
Nine Gates by Jane Hirshfield
Gregory Orr book on lyric poetry
WIld Hundreds by Nate Marshall
What the Living Do by Marie Howe
Helium by Rudy Francisco
Wind in a Box (or anything else) by Terrance Hayes
Blud by Rachel McKibbens
Incendiary Art by Patricia Smith
Poetry by Gwendolyn Brooks, Elizabeth Bishop, and William Carlos Williams, Ted Kooser, Pablo Neruda, ee cummings, Charles Simic, Patricia Smith, Dorianne Laux, EB Voigt, Terrance Hayes, John Donne, TS Eliot, Ezra Pound
Read widely. Read more than poetry. Embrace your outsider knowledge.
Real Sofistikashun: Essays on Poetry and Craft by Toby Hoagland
The Sounds of Poetry: A Brief Guide by Robert Pinsky
A Field Guide to Poetry
Ten Windows by Jane Hirshfield
The Ode Less Travelled by Stephen Fry
The Book of Luminous Things (anthology) ed. by Milosz
Dictee by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
Poets.org and Poetry Foundation websites
Beautiful and Pointless by David Orr
Find or start a writing group!
Best Words, Best Order by Stephen Dobyns
American Sonnets by Terrance Hayes
The Lichtenberg Figures by Ben Lerner
Poetry Notebook by Clive James
Don Paterson’s 22-page intro to “101 sonnets”
Essays by Barbara Guest
Poetry is Not a Project by Dorothea Lasky
After Lorca by Jack Spicer
The New American Poetry 1945-1960
Helen Vendler’s criticism (The Ocean, The Bird and the Scholar)
Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse ed. By Philip Larkin
The Discovery of Poetry by Frances Mayes
French symbolists
The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry
The Poets Laureate Anthology
Poet’s House, 92Y Poetry
Singing School by Robert Pinsky
The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice for Beginning Poets by Ted Kooser
Glitter in the Blood by Mindy Nettifee
Poetry: A Survivor’s Guide by Mark Yakich
All the Fun’s In How You Say A Thing by Timothy Steele
The Collected Poems(1856-1987) by John Ashberry
Viper Rum by Mary Karr
The Making of a Poem by Mark Strand and Eavan Boland
Rules of the Dance by Mary Oliver
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
Jorie Graham lecture On Description (youtube)
Poetry in Theory
How to be a Poet by Jo Bell and Jane Commane (& special guests)
dVerse Poets
Reading Poetry: An Introduction by Furniss and Bath
Poetry: The Basics by Jeffrey Wainwright
The Poetry Handbook by John Lennard
Broken English: Poetry and Partiality by Heather McHugh
The Poem’s Heartbeat by Alfred Corn
Orr’s Primer for Poets and Reads of Poetry
Penguin’s 20th Century Anthology
The United States of Poetry
Staying Alive: real poems for Unreal Times ed. By Neil Astley
Hollander’s Rhyme’s Reason
52 Ways to Read A Poem by Ruth Padel
A Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry by David Mason and John Frederick Nims
Projective Verse by Charles Olson
Retrospect/A Few Don’t by an Imagiste - Ezra Pound
Against Interpretation - Susan Sontag
Commonplace Podcast
Headwaters by EB Voigt
Olio by Tyehimba Jess
The Orchard by Brigit Pegeen Kelly
The Living and the Dead by Sharon Olds
Sonnets by Bernadette Mayer
The Sin Eater by Deborah Randall
The Art of Poetry Writing by William Packard
The Poet’s Dictionary by William Packard
Freedom Hill by LS Asekoff
Theory of the Lyric by Jonathan Culler
Close Listening ed. By Charles Bernstein
Poetics of Relation by Edouard Glissant
The Poet’s Manual and Rhyming Dictionary by Frances Stillman
The Hatred of Poetry by Ben Lerner
The Way to Write Poetry by Michael Baldwin
Fussell’s Poetic Meter and Poetic Form
Lofty Dogmas: Poets of Poetics
Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetics by Stephanie Burt
Poetry in the Making by Ted Hughes
A poet needs: grounding in verse and rhyme from nursery lines, a grounding in adult poetic diction by the classic poets (of antiquity, late antiquity, then the mediaeval, early modern and modern periods), and their own poetic vision
Pig Notes and Dumb Music by William Heyen
Satan Says by Sharon Olds
My Emily Dickinson by Susan Howe
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tahlia--chloe · 7 years
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In the past week I have listened to two very good interviews with Ben Lerner (which can be found here and here) and as well as this talk by C.D. Wright about ecopoetics (found here) and read this very informative essay on the vertiginous writing style of post-modern poets by Tony Hoagland (here).
Lerner: “It doesn’t seem responsible or interesting to me to produce literature that just wants to turn its back on the world on one hand, and it also doesn’t seem interesting to just write an ironic book or a book that’s a reason to despair. We don’t need more reasons to despair. It seems to me in part about, in a clear eyed way, being aware of the present but also finding possibilities of wonder or spaces for the imagination because that’s what’s necessary to be able to conceive of alternative futures.“
Lerner: “Authenticity isn’t necessarily an uncritical presentation of who you really are…it’s this complex process of figuring out your relation to the social.”
Lerner: “For me fiction isn’t a word for an alternative to reality, fiction is a word for the way we organise reality into some kind of coherence.”
Lerner: “Art is a way of being alive in the glimmers of potentiality and in the midsts of the mundane…art is a way of attending to the present with an intensity that is difficult to achieve when you’re just locked in the rhythms of the mundane day.”
Hoagland: “The poem and the reader engage in a sort of muscular struggle with each other—that struggle is how they become intimate, how they really “know” each other. Stevens suggests that a good poem, as part of its process, resists, twists, and enmeshes the reader (and perhaps the poet as well), an engagement in which perspective is challenged, and by no means guaranteed.”
Hoagland: "To dismiss the poetry of “dis-arrangement,” the poetry that aims to disrupt or rearrange consciousness—to dismiss poems that attract (and abstract) by their resistance, thus drawing the reader into a condition of not-entirely-understanding—such a dismissal also seems to foreclose some powerful dimensions of poetry as an alternate language, a language expressive of certain things otherwise unreachable.”
Hoagland: “We have communication sickness. Add to that our drastically increased sense of the corruption of commercial and political speech, and the instability of language—surely our resulting collective dizziness is a fundamental symptom of modern life, one to which poems naturally refer.”
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finishinglinepress · 3 years
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FLP FEATURED AUTHOR OF THE DAY: David Allan Cates
TO ORDER David’s newest book ONLINE GO TO: https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/valentines-day-in-the-mummy-museum-by-david-allan-cates/
David Allan Cates is the author of five novels, and a chapbook of poetry. His novels are Hunger In America, a New York Times Notable Book, X Out Of Wonderland and Freeman Walker, both Montana Book Award Honor Books, and Ben Armstrong’s Strange Trip Home and Tom Connor’s Gift, both of which won a Gold Medals for Best Fiction in the independent Book Publishers Book awards. His chapbook is “The Mysterious Location of Kyrgyzstan.”
Cates is the winner of the 2010 Montana Arts Council’s Innovative Artist Award and his short story, “Rubber Boy,” (Glimmer Train 70) is a distinguished story in the 2010 Best American Short Stories. He’s published dozens of stories and poems in literary magazines such
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as The New England Review, Willow Springs, Slice, and Glimmer Train, and his essays and travel articles have appeared in Outside Magazine, the New York Times Sophisticated Traveler.
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He is the executive director of Missoula Medical Aid, an NGO that provides public health and surgery services, and supports agricultural and economic development projects, in Honduras. In Missoula he worked with the Missoula Writing Collaborative, teaching classes on the short story in public hig
FLP is publishing Valentine’s Day in the Mummy Museum by David Allan Cates
Because he is an exceptionally alive human being, David Allan Cates is a one-of-a-kind poet. The pieces of his Valentine’s Day in the Mummy Museumare smart, witty, wise, candid, original, brave, affectionate, imaginative, bold, knowledgeable about the world, and utterly unpretentious. The best love poems I’ve read in years are in this book–“On a Cliff with You” and “The Purpose of Kissing.”
–David Huddle, author of My Surly Heart, Dream Sender, and Blacksnake at the Family Reunion
Even at his most smart-allecky, Tony Hoagland always held the world open to the messy certitude of his love. David Allan Cates, with VALENTINE’S DAY IN THE MUMMY MUSEUM, is the new bearer of that deeply American affection. Cates’ rough and aching poems are sometimes funny, never smug, and always capable of breaking your heart. Whether bright missives constructed in the beautiful unease of Latin America, or raised in view of the back door of his home in Montana, Cates’ understated poems want so dearly to connect to the ineffable, even when they know it’s impossible, yet go on singing anyway. “Have you written/the lives you love?” Cates asks. Thankfully for us, the answer is yes.
–Christopher Locke, author of WAITING FOR GRACE & OTHER POEMSand TRESPASSERS
The poems in David Cates’ book are valentines, in truth, to the liminal state of being alive. “We invent so we don’t fall off the lobe of now,” he writes. And “There’s a moment when it could go either way.” Every single poem in this collection lives in that dream-like place where the heart must go when it’s grappling with loss, sorrow, and the complexities of love. Every poem remains poised in that iridescent moment. These are rich and sometimes funny poems from a skillful writer who refuses to be embittered, whose mind is forever climbing the ladder of the imagination, never knowing what might happen next.
–Fleda Brown
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manualstogo · 4 years
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For just $3.99 Alias Mary Smith Released on July 15, 1932: A girl tries to clear her brother's name for a crime he didn't commit, but she gets framed for murder just like her brother was, and may be headed for the electric chair, just like her brother. Directed by: E. Mason Hopper Written by: Edward T. Lowe Jr The Actors: Blanche Mehaffey Joan Wentworth, aka Mary Smith, John Darrow Robert 'Buddy' Hayes, Gwen Lee Blossom, Raymond Hatton Scoop, Alec B. Francis attorney, Jack Grey Detective Dan Kearney, Ben Hall Oswald, newspaper photographer, Henry B. Walthall Atwell, Myrtle Stedman Mrs. Ruth Hayes, Edmund Breese Mr. Hayes, Matthew Betz Snowy Hoagland, Harry Strang Detective Bosco Yaeger, Lionel Backus hood, Jack Cheatham cop, George Chesebro Mac Runtime: 1h 1min *** This item will be supplied on a quality disc and will be sent in a sleeve that is designed for posting CD's DVDs *** This item will be sent by 1st class post for quick delivery. Should you not receive your item within 12 working days of making payment, please contact us as it is unusual for any item to take this long to be delivered. Note: All my products are either my own work, licensed to me directly or supplied to me under a GPL/GNU License. No Trademarks, copyrights or rules have been violated by this item. This product complies withs rules on compilations, international media and downloadable media. All items are supplied on CD or DVD.
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blxckv3il · 2 months
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Extortionist- Devoid Of Love & Light
The skies above shed no light upon me
All I have done has reduced to nothing
I'm devoid of love and light
Falling further in the ashes of everything that used to be
Haunting voices sing in absence, rid me of these memories
Always falling short, always searching for a sense of peace
Darkness coming forth, I'm subject to the waste
My light, it fades
Cast me to depravity where spirits whisper in the rot
Trapped in your reality of everything I'm not
Bound to fear and suffering, stripped of everything that's sought
I writhe in the punishment, reminded of all
Reminded of all that's been lost
No light, no love
Despised by the skies above
Deprived, destroyed, confined and so devoid
All of me has been diminished
Reduced to a single moment
You'll never rest until you're finished
Until my spirit's broken
Despised, destroyed, deprived, devoid
No light, no love
Despised by the skies above
Deprived, destroyed, confined and so devoid
Extortionist, 2023 you punk motherfucker
You thought I was done but I've returned
I'll denounce the hate and harness the pain
You've caused me for the rest of my fucking life
Devoid of love and light
Devoid of love
Devoid of light
Devoid of love and light
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redcarpetview · 5 years
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GMA announces nominees for 50th Annual GMA Dove Awards, October 15 in Nashville
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    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (August 15, 2019) - The Gospel Music Association (GMA) announced the nominees for the 50th Annual GMA Dove Awards, revealed exclusively on Facebook 'Live' with the help of Natalie Grant, Jekalyn Carr and Karen Peck. This historic celebration will take place on Tuesday, October 15 in Nashville, Tennessee. Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) will exclusively air the show on Sunday, October 20, 8 p.m. EST / 5 p.m. PST. Voting for the final winners will run August 21 through August 28.
     Lauren Daigle leads artist nominations with six, followed by for KING & COUNTRY and Kirk Franklin with five. Crowder, Phil Wickham, Tasha Cobbs Leonard and TobyMac each honored with four nods. Top nominated writer/producer Wayne Haun scored 10 nominations. View the full list of nominees here and top nominee images here.
      "Congratulations to this year’s Dove Award nominees!” GMA President Jackie Patillo said. "This year, to commemorate our golden anniversary, we will celebrate some iconic Dove Awards moments from the last 50 years. This milestone reminds us all of the extraordinary people whose shoulders we are standing on today and how the sound has evolved over the years!” 
     The 50th celebration will be a powerful evening of high-energy and unforgettable vocal events paying tribute to 50 years of special appearances and sensational stage highlights over the decades. Performances representing modern Rock, Rap/Hip Hop, Pop/Contemporary, Inspirational, Southern Gospel, Bluegrass, Country, Worship and more will make up an evening praising the rich musical diversity from the past, present and future of Gospel and Christian music. Nominees are determined by GMA’s professional members, and winners will be voted on by the entire GMA membership. For more information or to purchase tickets to the show, visit www.doveawards.com.
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   TobyMac backstage during 2016 Dove Awards in Nashville, Tenn. Photo by Naomi Richard.
     Artist of the Year
for KING & COUNTRY, Curb / Word Entertainment
Hillsong UNITED, Hillsong Music / Capitol CMG
Lauren Daigle, Centricity
MercyMe, Fair Trade
TobyMac, Forefront / Capitol CMG
        Song of the Year
“Counting Every Blessing” - (writers) Chris Llewellyn, Gareth Gilkeson, (publishers) Capitol CMG Paragon, Rend Family Music
“Everything” - (writers) David Garcia, Toby McKeehan, (publishers) Achtober Songs, D Soul Music, Universal Music - Brentwood Benson Publishing
“Joy.” - (writers) Ben Glover, Joel Smallbone, Luke Smallbone, Matt Hales, Seth Mosley, Stephen Blake Kanicka, Tedd Tjornhom, (publishers) 9t One Songs, Ariose Music, CentricSongs, Curb Wordspring Music LLC, Fleauxmotion Music, Kilns Music, Method to the Madness, Shankel Songs, Shaun Shankel Pub Designee, Stephen Blake Kanicka Publishing, These Tunes Go To 11, Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp.
“Known” - (writers) Ethan Hulse, Jordan Sapp, Tauren Wells, (publishers) Be Essential Songs, Capitol CMG Paragon, Crucial Music Entertainment, EGH Music Publishing
“Living Hope” - (writers) Brian Johnson, Phil Wickham, (publishers) Bethel Music Publishing, Phil Wickham Music, Simply Global Songs, Sing My Songs
“Only Jesus” - (writers) Bernie Herms, Mark Hall, Matthew West, (publishers) Be Essential Songs, Highly Combustible Music, House of Story Music Publishing, My Refuge Music, One77 Songs
“Red Letters” - (writers) David Crowder, Ed Cash, (publishers) Alletrop Music, Inot Music, sixsteps Music, worshiptogether.com songs
“The Breakup Song” - (writers) Bart Millard, David Garcia, Francesca Battistelli, (publishers) Bartatronic Millaphonic, D Soul Music, Francesca Music, Tunes of MercyMe, Universal Music - Brentwood Benson Publishing, Word Music LLC
“Who You Say I Am” - (writers) Ben Fielding, Reuben Morgan, (publisher) Hillsong Music Publishing 
“Won't He Do It” - (writers) Loren Hill, Makeba Riddick-Woods, Rich Shelton, (publishers) SONGSBYMAK, Janice Combs Publishing, EMI Blackwood Music Inc., Nieze World Music, One Dynasty Music
“You Say” - (writers) Jason Ingram, Paul Mabury, Lauren Daigle, (publishers) CentricSongs, Fellow Ships Music, Flychild Publishing, So Essential Tunes
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     New Artist Nominee Kelontae Gavin on 2019 Stellar Awards’ Red Carpet Arrivals in Las Vegas, NV. Photo by Naomi Richard.
             New Artist of the Year
Aaron Cole, Gotee Records
Austin French, Fair Trade
Josh Baldwin, Bethel Music
Kelontae Gavin, MBE / Tyscot
Riley Clemmons, Sparrow Records / Capitol CMG
        Gospel Artist of the Year
Jekalyn Carr, Lunjeal Music Group
Kirk Franklin, Fo Yo Soul Recordings / RCA Records
Koryn Hawthorne, RCA Inspiration
Tasha Cobbs Leonard, Motown Gospel
Travis Greene, RCA Inspiration
      Worship Song of the Year
“Build My Life” - (writers) Brett Younker, Karl Martin, Kirby Kaple, Matt Redman, Pat Barrett, (publishers) Bethel Music Publishing, Capitol CMG Genesis, Housefires Sounds, Kaple Music, Martin Karl Andrew, Said And Done Music, sixsteps Music Thankyou Music worshiptogether.com songs
“Living Hope” - (writers) Brian Johnson, Phil Wickham, (publishers) Bethel Music Publishing, Phil Wickham Music, Simply Global Songs, Sing My Songs
“Surrounded (Fight My Battles)” - (writer) Elyssa Smith, (publisher) UR Global Publishing
“Who You Say I Am” - (writers) Ben Fielding, Reuben Morgan, (publisher) Hillsong Music Publishing
“Yes I Will” - (writers) Eddie Hoagland, Jonathan Smith, Mia Fieldes, (publishers) All Essential Music, Be Essential Songs, HBC Worship Music, Hickory Bill Doc, Jingram Music Publishing, So Essential Tunes, Upside Down Under
   Pop/Contemporary Recorded Song of the Year
“Only Jesus” - Casting Crowns, (writers) Bernie Herms, Mark Hall, Matthew West
“God Only Knows” - for KING & COUNTRY, (writers) Joel Smallbone, Jordan Reynolds, Josh Kerr, Luke Smallbone, Tedd Tjornhom
“The Breakup Song” - Francesca Battisteli, (writers) Bart Millard, David Garcia, Francesca Battistelli
“You Say” - Lauren Daigle, (writers) Jason Ingram, Lauren Daigle, Paul Mabury
“Known” - Tauren Wells, (writers) Ethan Hulse, Jordan Sapp, Tauren Wells
       Contemporary Gospel Recorded Song of the Year
“Blessings On Blessings” - Anthony Brown & group therAPy, (writer) Anthony Brown
“Make Room” - Jonathan McReynolds, (writer) Jonathan McReynolds
“Love Theory” - Kirk Franklin, (writer) Kirk Franklin
“Unstoppable” - Koryn Hawthorne, (writers) Kid Class, Makeba Riddick, Robert D. Reese
“My God (feat. Mr. Talkbox)” - Nashville Life Music, (writer) Dwan Hill
    Southern Gospel Recorded Song of the Year
“Longing For Home” - Ernie Haase & Signature Sound, (writers) Ernie Hasse, Joel Lindsey, Wayne Haun
“We Are All God's Children” - Gaither Vocal Band, (writers) Benjamin Gaither, Sara Beth Terry, Todd Suttles
“How Great Thou Art (feat. Sonya Isaacs)” - Josh Turner, (writer) Stuart K. Hine
“I Know I'll Be There” - Karen Peck & New River, (writers) Dave Clark, Karen Peck Gooch, Wayne Haun
“Even Me” - Triumphant Quartet, (writers) Jason Cox, Jeff Bumgardner, Kenna Turner West 
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               Inspirational Film of the Year  
"Breakthrough" - (director) Roxann Dawson, (producers) DeVon Franklin, Jessica Dunn
"Indivisible" - (director) David G. Evans, (producers) Darren Moorman, David G. Evans, Esther Evans
"Run The Race" - (director) Chris Dowling, (producers) Darren Moorman, Jake McEntire, Ken Carpenter
"Unbroken: Path to Redemption" - (director) Harold Cronk, (producers) Matt Baer, Mike Elliot
"Unplanned" - (directors) Chuck Konzelman, Cary Solomon, (producers) Cary Solomon, Chris Jones, Chuck Konzelman, Daryl C. Lefever, Fabiano Altamura, Jason Stafford, Joe Knopp, Mark Cheatwood, Megan Harrington, Sheila Hart
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Untitled Poem # 11
Love your little favor, he how I’ve next to myself ascribe, under coats. An old one like a fox, day brought it down, O the silly is for buckle tongue that should be that the holy fled, and brough inside the same film overs comes again, I see on the arias of the old on the stantly? Crossbeam of a lessed sight. With morning Like the othere as which your diviner forehead; Among which, with or honor’s loves flame, The many good think above Brought When it. Anyway Nothink about recall me, And draw and time in her, Friendship like. Miss in tight because she’s tree— The pipes chasted thinking it over, And which will entreathings colder? Purification, and bred, and sternly. Comfort I have been no help, and the stuck her truth In May we could takes above His falls of death do we were is for panties’ expens neighbors had a new glove. The must till enlarge the eyes of a fox, day brought to have sure. Who, as white, pure as time anymore in the with more. But not the stuck her night and break. The base of whom I flame, like a miragedy. Among white, pure as tragedy. The hall— A is restored like the foot of the will men all in now Just freely near a beauty be sure. Enlarge, from the wing the clattered gave you leapt. Air; Yet give me the leave of a fox, daybreak.
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A Good Day to Die, Hoka Hey review – unflinching look at war photographer
A documentary about the award-winning photographer Jason P Howe focuses on the motivation behind the seeming heroism of working on the frontlines
British-born freelance photographer Jason P Howe opens up to director Harold Monfils’s camera about the highs and lows of his career, shooting war zones and living large in this guts-and-glory work of non-fiction. Although his early years and background are only glancingly referred to (he was raised a Jehovah’s Witness, which he claims stops him from fearing death; his brother Andrew is a soldier), this pacey documentary covers the main points, such as how he was inspired by the work of Vietnam war photographer Tim Page (also interviewed here) and ended up among the Farc rebels in Colombia. This is where he had a relationship with a local woman named Marilyn, who turned out to be a professional assassin, which led to a degree of fame after their story was published, then further adventures in war zones in Iraq and, later, Afghanistan. No doubt someone in Hollywood will see this, note Howe’s resemblance to Ben Affleck before his hair went all weird, and start working on a biopic version of the material. However, what might get lost in subsequent accounts could be this picture’s most interesting quality: it’s questioning of war photographers’ own live-fast-die-young, self-mythologising tendencies. Ultimately, the film makes Howe, and pals Page, Eros Hoagland, Hector Emanuel, Karen Marón and Catherine Philp seem less like heroes and more like fallible human beings, occasionally high on the romance of war as well as other self-medicating substances.
Continue reading... https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/jun/15/a-good-day-to-die-hoka-hey-review-war-photographer-jason-p-howe-documentary
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Snoopy è il più grande filosofo degli Usa. I Peanuts approdano alla Library of America, tra Melville e Philip Roth
Bruce Handy ha scritto un pezzo curioso su The Atlantic. È la riproposizione della sua premessa a una raccolta di testi per celebrare… I Peanuts. Tutto vero. E per la collana… The Library of America.
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Ora, la Library of America è arrivata a trecento titoli e mentre dei primi ‘classici’ agli albori della letteratura americana, alle prime uscite della Library, si sa tutto o quasi, gli ultimi testi inclusi in questo Olimpo sono invece per me dei perfetti sconosciuti. Ben venga il lavoro collettaneo sui Peanuts. Che titolo impegnativo però: The Peanuts Papers. Con tanto di saggi, testi inediti, poesie, interviste. E tra gli altri il celebre testo di Umberto Eco su Krazy Cat e i Peanuts. (Per non farsi mancare niente hanno  trovato il modo di far scrivere una cosa a Jonathan Franzen).
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Comunque seguiamo Handy nella sua argomentazione: “Charles Schulz non ha creato Charlie Brown e Linus e Lucy perché agissero o parlassero come dei normali bambini. Li ha creati perché fossero divertenti, perché se ne venissero fuori come parte di un teatrino di figure crudeli. In ogni caso Schulz ha messo in scena dei pargoli, veri o falsi che siano, e i suoi lettori più avidi sono proprio i pargoli. Anch’io ero nella truppa. Mi immagino che i bambini in età scolare portati a ridere delle disgrazie altrui siano quelli discriminati dai coetanei. Ma se godono delle sofferenze altrui è solo per inclinazione naturale. Quindi leggono Peanuts per la sua durezza e la trovano sovversiva, una sorta di scossa che li calma e li soddisfa. Per me andava così”.
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Curiosa questa razionalizzazione ex-post da parte di uno che ha scritto di fiabe e storie per bambini. Curiosa tanto più perché viene espressa in chiave autoironica: con gli anni, scrive Bruce Handy, i Peanuts sono diventati per lui come un vino andato a male. (Esiste?)
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In ogni caso la cultura nordamericana che si nutre di fumettoni ha il pregio di essere sarcastica verso se stessa. Al di là delle parole usate come fossili per riconoscere uno stato d’animo (che senso ha parlare di Schadenfreude per parlare dei bambini e tirare in ballo gli archetipi di Esopo per descrivere i Peanuts?) il pezzo su Atlantic è commovente. Commovente perché arriva a proporre Snoopy come… filosofo.
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Che ridere vedere gli adulti a strologare sull’intuito dei bambini, sulla loro forma originaria che li porterà a diventare scienziati o letterati o infermieri. Che buffo. Sembra la caccia spietata di una madeleine che non c’è più. Forse non c’è mai stata…
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Altre idee diffuse nella cultura nordamericana come le propaga Atlantic: “Quel che mi ha insegnato Schulz è che la vita è dura. Nel migliore dei casi la gente è difficile (quando non ingestibile). Giustizia è un termine sconosciuto. La felicità svapora nella striscia sottile tra la terza e la quarta vignetta. La reazione migliore, date queste premesse, è ridere, continuare a muoversi, sempre pronti a scansare il colpo. (…) Se Charlie Brown è un fesso, è però un fesso che ha a cuore tutto. Non possiamo insultarlo solo perché tende a diffidare. Come il suo inventore Schulz, Charlie ha passione e insiste nelle cose che fa”.
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Va bene va bene, hanno vinto gli yankee e la loro Library of America può vantare tra gli ultimi numeri le poesie di Melville e le testimonianze sui Peanuts. Aveva ragione la mia professoressa Maria Monica D. buonanima a sconsigliarmi di seguire le lezioni su Giordano Bruno perché “Snoopy è un filosofo migliore”.
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In ogni caso se avete tempo e voglia di capire come mai un testo di Eco si trovi nel libro sui Peanuts, andate in biblioteca a prendere i saggi di Cases. Non so più se nel Testimone secondario o in Patrie lettere faceva un racconto surreale dove immagina un mondo coi gatti che tengono lezione all’università. Il gatto in cattedra. All’epoca, Eco aveva appena pubblicato il suo testo su Krazy Cat e i Peanuts, Cases era un marxista che si era laureato su Jünger e non capiva niente del mondo ‘attuale’. Però fa morir dal ridere.
O piangere?
Nel frattempo gli scolari di comunicazione di Eco hanno preso la strada giusta, oggi elaborano raffinati testi sull’uguaglianza e il rispetto delle aziende per le corporation mentre chi legge poesia segue il consiglio di Auden: poet go right, till the end of the night. Poeta tira dritto, sopra di te c’è la volta stellata e niente soffitto.
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Scusate queste stupidate, siano benedetti i fumetti e i fumettoni e dio stramaledica gli intellettuali che ricavano una morale dal cane beagle che si stende sulla sua cuccia e fissa le stelle. È un beagle, Snoopy, chi sa se nei saggi qualcuno ha ricordato che si tratta di una razza di cani delle più testarde e delle più amorevoli (coi bambini). Chi lo sa. Chi ha avuto un beagle lo sa, lo sa…
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Non trovo di meglio di questa poesia del compianto Tony Hoagland per descrivere lo stato d’animo dopo aver letto questi sproloqui sui Peanuts. Porta il titolo Tra gli intellettuali ed esce sul numero del 2 settembre del New Yorker.
Andrea Bianchi 
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Tra gli intellettuali 
Era una vera tribù, non si mettevano mai a prendere il sole, mai si fermavano di pomeriggio a mangiare insieme dell’uva.
Tra di loro reputavano che sbirciare le nuvole fosse una schifosa perdita di tempo.
Trascorrevano le giornate assorbiti da un’attività che chiamavano “stimolazione cerebrale” quasi fossero animali che si titillano a vicenda tra le sbarre di una gabbietta usando lunghe stecche.
E così tormentandosi facevano librare i loro pensamenti, al modo di bizzarri etologi.
Questa era la loro religione. Questa, e la luce che passa dalle vetrate gotiche innalzate dai loro predecessori.
Preferivano il nome dell’albero al sapore del suo frutto.
Ero giovane e volevo mettermi alla prova,
però le parole che appresi da loro mi trasformarono. Prima che me ne fossi accorto, il cambiamento era già cosa fatta.
Impossibile dire se fosse cosa malvagia.
Senza scampo, scopri che sei perduto, realmente perduto; cieco, davvero; stupido, davvero; disseccato, davvero; affamato, davvero; eppur ti muovi.
Però scopri anche che non puoi smettere di pensare, pensare, pensare;
tormentandoti, parlando solo a te stesso.
Tony Hoagland 
  L'articolo Snoopy è il più grande filosofo degli Usa. I Peanuts approdano alla Library of America, tra Melville e Philip Roth proviene da Pangea.
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At Republican state convention, Nebraska GOP pushes unity as answer to Democratic energy | Politics
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At Republican state convention, Nebraska GOP pushes unity as answer to Democratic energy | Politics
NEBRASKA CITY — The Republican answer to this year’s uptick in energy and interest from Democratic voters is a push toward greater unity.
GOP officeholders hammered that theme in speeches Saturday during the state convention of the Nebraska Republican Party.
God, guns and economic growth were discussed, too, along with huzzahs for tax cuts, property tax relief, deregulation and comparisons of President Donald Trump’s early tenure to that of Ronald Reagan.
One of the party’s elder statesmen, State Treasurer Don Stenberg, set the day’s tone by reminding Republicans of how far the state’s dominant political party has come since 1990, when Ben Nelson beat Kay Orr.
Democrats at that point were about to assume control of the governor’s mansion. Bob Kerrey and J.J. Exon held both U.S. Senate seats. And Peter Hoagland held the Omaha-area 2nd Congressional District seat.
Republicans were fighting with one another, Stenberg said, and their pursuit of perfect, pure candidates cost them their agenda. He spoke about the GOP renaissance led by Chuck Hagel and Mike Johanns.
Neither were perfect candidates, Stenberg said, but they were better than the Democrats who would’ve beaten them without unified GOP support. It was a “speak no ill of a fellow Republican” moment for the retiring Stenberg.
Gov. Pete Ricketts joined Stenberg in stressing the need for unity in the GOP push toward lower taxes and less regulation that he said is powering Nebraska’s economic competitiveness toward rare heights.
U.S. Sen. Deb Fischer talked about the need to get Nebraska Republicans excited about this fall, because this time it’s Democrats who feel a lot of enthusiasm to vote, and Republicans need to match it or they can lose.
“We can’t take anything for granted,” she said. “This is going to be a difficult election.”
U.S. Rep. Don Bacon of Omaha called politics a “team sport” where the opposing team is offering impeachment, resistance, taxes, regulation, nationalized health care and rewriting the Second Amendment.
“In our race … it’s Midwestern values versus San Francisco values,” Bacon said of 2nd District Democratic challenger Kara Eastman. “And that doesn’t do San Francisco values justice. She’s left of Nancy Pelosi.”
Many Republicans who spoke pointed to the doubling of the Democratic turnout in Douglas County during this spring’s primary election as an indication of the challenge that the state’s GOP voters face.
Some in the crowd said the state’s dominant party couldn’t afford to let personal disagreements risk the GOP’s future.
Many cheered when the party passed a resolution from Omaha City Councilwoman Aimee Melton. The resolution called on the party to support Fischer’s attempt to win the position of vice chair of the Senate GOP conference. To some, it seemed a veiled shot at U.S. Sen. Ben Sasse, who declined this week to publicly take sides in the race.
Sasse, for his part, faced a warm reception from many in the crowd when he spoke, though fewer people stood for him than other GOP officeholders. Some in the crowd said they don’t like how he criticizes the president.
But Sasse spent much of his talk to the GOP crowd talking about the immense good Trump has done appointing constitutional conservative judges to the federal bench and of Sasse’s role in helping see them confirmed.
U.S. Rep. Adrian Smith, who represents Nebraska’s largely rural 3rd Congressional District, said Republicans shouldn’t be fooled by Democratic candidates running as centrists. They won’t vote that way in Washington, he said.
Ricketts stressed the importance of principles guiding the party.
“The other side is fired up,” he said. “We’ve got to match their intensity.”
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