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Art in Newport
Newport Beach, California
Last survivor of ancient Atlantis (just kidding, there's a few others.)
Interests: [redacted], [expurgated], [censored]
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Merry Christmas to all from rainy Newport.
This past year has been as hard as I can remember.
Many times I found refuge here.
Here's to a Happy New for us all.
Happy Holidays!
Merry Christmas all! I just want to share my Christmas Earworm: the late, great Jim Croce's "I Got A Name", specifically "Like the pine trees linin' the windin' road I've got a name, I've got a name..." Pine tress typically have names? Who names their pine trees? And what is the name of the one ...
Packing and preparation are done. Now to load up the car and hit the road. Two-day drive to Newport, to spend Christmas and New Years with the family still there.
30-degree delta in daytime highs. I can deal with that.
Real Men of Genius
Per the NY Times, Biden's advisers want him to continue talking up our robust economy, even though polls show lots of people aren't feeling it. Out-of-touch and confused - yeah, that's the ticket! How’s the Economy? Biden Sees a Boom. Many Americans Don’t. The president has struggled to sell str...
Many did feel the same
Real Men of Genius
Per the NY Times, Biden's advisers want him to continue talking up our robust economy, even though polls show lots of people aren't feeling it. Out-of-touch and confused - yeah, that's the ticket! How’s the Economy? Biden Sees a Boom. Many Americans Don’t. The president has struggled to sell str...
.. freeze dried meal ..
Well, if you're going to pick on every little thing..
Seen the Eternals? What did you think?
Real Men of Genius
Per the NY Times, Biden's advisers want him to continue talking up our robust economy, even though polls show lots of people aren't feeling it. Out-of-touch and confused - yeah, that's the ticket! How’s the Economy? Biden Sees a Boom. Many Americans Don’t. The president has struggled to sell str...
.. motherships ..
At least the Visitors were intelligent beings, Narciso. Sane and rational, in their own way.
At this point, Newsom and the rest of the prog PTB seem little better than maniacs.
Real Men of Genius
Per the NY Times, Biden's advisers want him to continue talking up our robust economy, even though polls show lots of people aren't feeling it. Out-of-touch and confused - yeah, that's the ticket! How’s the Economy? Biden Sees a Boom. Many Americans Don’t. The president has struggled to sell str...
.. new mask mandate ..
They just suck the joy out of everything
Real Men of Genius
Per the NY Times, Biden's advisers want him to continue talking up our robust economy, even though polls show lots of people aren't feeling it. Out-of-touch and confused - yeah, that's the ticket! How’s the Economy? Biden Sees a Boom. Many Americans Don’t. The president has struggled to sell str...
I can take the cold if I have to, but really looking forward to two weeks in Newport. Driving out Thursday and Friday.
Real Men of Genius
Per the NY Times, Biden's advisers want him to continue talking up our robust economy, even though polls show lots of people aren't feeling it. Out-of-touch and confused - yeah, that's the ticket! How’s the Economy? Biden Sees a Boom. Many Americans Don’t. The president has struggled to sell str...
Good morning, Jack.
33 and snowing here in Boise
Real Men of Genius
Per the NY Times, Biden's advisers want him to continue talking up our robust economy, even though polls show lots of people aren't feeling it. Out-of-touch and confused - yeah, that's the ticket! How’s the Economy? Biden Sees a Boom. Many Americans Don’t. The president has struggled to sell str...
41 and clear in Boise
[Art, formerly in Newport]
The Emerging Democrat Debacle
Ezra Klein on David Shor and why the Dems face a looming disaster in the House and Senate. Writing in Politico, Ian Ward also covers the David Shor phenomenon. After describing the eternal Dem enthusiasm for youthful idealists, he notes this: At its most basic, Shor’s theory goes something like ...
Miss Marple - and a left-handed slap at Pence.
Have You Herd?
'Herd immunity' for COVID probably won't happen, per the NY Times. Variants plus vaccine hesitancy mean we'll have COVID as background noise for a while: Now, more than half of adults in the United States have been inoculated with at least one dose of a vaccine. But daily vaccination rates are s...
.. Idaho makes history ..
Been quite busy of late, but one of the items on my 'in process' list is a move to Idaho. Have a son and DIL in Boise, as of last December. They give the town and state high marks.
Oh, Yeah, A Speech
Last night Joe Biden gave his big speech on his vision for this and that. Per CDC guidelines I maintained proper social distancing by watching the Yankees trounce the Orioles. WaPo coverage here. When its big news that both the VP and the House Speaker are women, well, we have known that for mon...
.. a nice part of Santa Monica ..
In the late '50s, all of SaMo, hell, the whole west side, was nice.
.. I hear parts of Florida are nice.
Longing For a New Front In The Race Wars
Its very important to progressives that Asian-Americans feel themselves to be threatened by whites. Far too important an agenda item to be left to mere facts and fate. From a different direction, Slate chatted with a properly progressive prof who was intent on explaining that any notion of Asian...
Jane, Narciso ...of course :D
Metaphor Alert!
Bite me. From CNN: Biden German Shepherd has aggressive incident and is sent back to Delaware "Aggressive behavior incident"? And what was the ABI? Major, who was adopted by Biden in November 2018 from a Delaware animal shelter, had what one of the people described as a "biting incident" with a ...
Thanks, MM.
Was wondering if I had somehow forgotten how to do a simple internet search :/
The number who watched Biden must have been so low that to reveal it would have cast doubt on the election in the minds of some of those currently fooled. And convinced others who were already wondering.
Metaphor Alert!
Bite me. From CNN: Biden German Shepherd has aggressive incident and is sent back to Delaware "Aggressive behavior incident"? And what was the ABI? Major, who was adopted by Biden in November 2018 from a Delaware animal shelter, had what one of the people described as a "biting incident" with a ...
Could not google the ratings for Biden's SOTU speech.
Ratings for Trump's SOTU's came up, Biden's personal approval ratings.. nothing about ratings for Thursday's SOTU.
Were they that bad? Has anyone seen them?
Metaphor Alert!
Bite me. From CNN: Biden German Shepherd has aggressive incident and is sent back to Delaware "Aggressive behavior incident"? And what was the ABI? Major, who was adopted by Biden in November 2018 from a Delaware animal shelter, had what one of the people described as a "biting incident" with a ...
Effect of the first Pfizer shot was fatigue for a day or so, plus a strange upper arm pain that came and went in about a minute.
Getting the second one Wednesday, will see what happens.
Yet Another Cuomo Accuser
A third former Cuomo aide, Ana Liss, becomes his fourth accuser: [AND Then There Were Five, below] ROCHESTER, N.Y.—A former aide of Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he asked her if she had a boyfriend, called her sweetheart, touched her on her lower back at a reception and once kissed her hand when she ro...
I had to look it up ... an actual rock!
'Strange new respect' for Ms Kennedy if she opposes this new take of Favreau's, as I hear.
Yet Another Cuomo Accuser
A third former Cuomo aide, Ana Liss, becomes his fourth accuser: [AND Then There Were Five, below] ROCHESTER, N.Y.—A former aide of Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he asked her if she had a boyfriend, called her sweetheart, touched her on her lower back at a reception and once kissed her hand when she ro...
New
Back At It
My loving wife and I got our first round of shots yesterday. Pfizer. So far the only side effect is I won't be throwing fastballs with my left arm. Which, being right-handed, is not a big deal.
GUS, had one of those. Had to stop it in the middle to get my mind right. Brrr!
Sunday at CPAC
Trump reprised his greatest hits at CPAC.
Thanks, Jane, Narciso.
Sunday at CPAC
Trump reprised his greatest hits at CPAC.
That's great, Matt. So much complicated work, such complex organization, to make these modern systems function..
Sunday at CPAC
Trump reprised his greatest hits at CPAC.
.. Claustrophobia ..
I know what you mean, MM. The last part of the training was in a decommissioned sub with a live reactor. People who can't deal with that go to the Carriers.
Sunday at CPAC
Trump reprised his greatest hits at CPAC.
GUS, take heart. There were never more than a few, the shepherds, the guard dogs.
As long as we are ready to do our work when the time comes, all will be well.
For my granddaughter's part, wherever the Michigan goes, the reactor will be online.
Sunday at CPAC
Trump reprised his greatest hits at CPAC.
Thank you, Miss Marple
Sunday at CPAC
Trump reprised his greatest hits at CPAC.
Personal note
My granddaughter had finished the last of her 2 years of training for the Navy, and is a newly-minted 'Machinists Mate - Nuclear'.
She just got her orders: for the USS Michigan, Ohio Class submarine, out of Puget Sound.
The Michigan is one of the boats modified for cruise missiles and special ops support.
It's a great assignment. She is over the moon.
Sunday at CPAC
Trump reprised his greatest hits at CPAC.
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