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Paul Whelan and Lee Harvey Oswald have a lot in common.
For instance, neither one killed JFK
Brittney's Back! And Two Men Left Behind...
Brittney Griner is swapped for Viktoe Bout, the Merchand of Death. The Times writes on The Other Guys - two Americans known to be stuck in Russia. Paul Whelan's saga could be titled The Accidental Spy. The US insists he's just a tourist caught in a web of Soviet lies but his life reads like the ...
The Herschel Walker Campaign was about as sincere and organic as the Gretchen Whitmer Kidnapping Plot.
Gettingg WAAAY Too Ready For Some Football
When the smoke clears, Georgia will have beaten Michigan for the national title. I just hope the Big Ten doesn't embarass themselves.
I know you’re pretty hip on things mr henry, but note that when Yoel Roth stepped down, Elon managed to take down most CSAM. That’s the real scandal. Certain ‘individuals’ were using Twitter as their own degenerate hook up site. Hunter Biden just happens to fit inside that particular Venn Diagram.
Yoel sounds like what an atheist Spaniard would call himself.
Back In China With Xi Riding The Lockdown Tiger
The lockdowns in China may have made sense in the early days of flattening the curve while the world developed therapeutics, vaccines, expertise and facilities. But China can't figure out how to quit and ease back into the world- COVID isn't going away, their population has relied on less-effect...
“Tipping is just a holdover from prohibition. Restaurants used to make a lot of money from alcohol, and when that became illegal their solution was just to stop paying wait staff and tell customers to pay them directly. This extended to delivery drivers, and eventually to bar staff when alcohol became legal again.
Generally those are the only 3 jobs that need tips, it's implicit that you the customer pay them for their time. Some places have tried to break the custom by actually paying their wait staff and reminding customers not to tip, but it's just too lucrative to hire a ton of employees for 2-3 dollars an hour, and if you're skilled, and it's a good restaurant, you can make a LOT as a waiter (a LOT that you don't always need to accurately report on your taxes...)”
Back In China With Xi Riding The Lockdown Tiger
The lockdowns in China may have made sense in the early days of flattening the curve while the world developed therapeutics, vaccines, expertise and facilities. But China can't figure out how to quit and ease back into the world- COVID isn't going away, their population has relied on less-effect...
Jonathan Greenback is trying to choke out Twitter like he thinks that Elon Musk works in his pencil factory.
Another Wild Weekend
Away we go.
“Make Actium Greek Again.”-Mark Antony’s failed campaign promise
That Went Well
Democrats keep the Senate, may even keep the House. One of the many things that will make 2024 interesting - Republicans probably know by now that they have a problem and may even try to fix it. Democrats, on the other hand, may think their party has it all worked out. IMHO (and that of George W...
If Tom Brady can’t get any of his FTX money back they should at least give him naming rights.
I like the Tom Brady Democrat National Committee.
Barring that, they could give him a couple of AA batteries, if his neighbors aren’t Poles.
That Went Well
Democrats keep the Senate, may even keep the House. One of the many things that will make 2024 interesting - Republicans probably know by now that they have a problem and may even try to fix it. Democrats, on the other hand, may think their party has it all worked out. IMHO (and that of George W...
God didn't need 6 days to create 150,000 votes ex nihilo.
That Went Well
Democrats keep the Senate, may even keep the House. One of the many things that will make 2024 interesting - Republicans probably know by now that they have a problem and may even try to fix it. Democrats, on the other hand, may think their party has it all worked out. IMHO (and that of George W...
Hershel Walker could have won his race had he secured the crucial (Herschel Walker’s Illegitimate) Children’s Vote.
Election Day!
What with all the extended voting rules Election Day is now the end of the beginning. Brookings has background on the various timetables states have adopted for processing and counting absentee ballots. Close races are likely to lead to delayed results in, eg, Pennsylvania. Captain Ed reprises a...
Hey miss clarice, I didn’t mean to blithely pass over your comment about Livia. I’m a big fan of I, Claudius. I grew up watching a lot of BBC programs. I actually pulled up the audiobook not long ago: https://youtu.be/PrqBWT_HVTc
I think Kabbalah Ha’aretz is a pretty good analog of Messalina.
I was kind of wondering if you’d like to weigh in on the speculation that Poppea was a proselyte Jew, speaking of the wives of Caesars. And if you’d rather not, that’s fine as well.
Welcome To Portland
Welcome to Portland, and be sure to drive your Clown Car: An ‘Army’ of Volunteer Sleuths Are Out Hunting for Your Stolen Car In Portland, Ore., vehicle thefts have soared, and the police say they are focused on other crimes. Now victims are helping each other track down their own cars. The polic...
Mr Rocco
Hey, do you remember the Nick Cannon Experience? Do you remember Nick Cannon apologizing to White people for his comments? Do you remember him being pressured to go to the Smithsonian Museum, the Air and Space Museum, the Louvre, the British Museum? To be confronted by all the accomplishments of the European Christian peoples?
Why the double standard?
And you suggest that Ye is a bigot, as is your right. Is it just a coincidence that he develops this particular bigotry after working for a bunch of Jews? Did you see the tweet from his Jewish trainer?
Wikipedia has totally scrubbed that guy’s page of all references to him being Jewish. People seem really intent on proving Messers Belloc and Sobran correct.
Welcome To Portland
Welcome to Portland, and be sure to drive your Clown Car: An ‘Army’ of Volunteer Sleuths Are Out Hunting for Your Stolen Car In Portland, Ore., vehicle thefts have soared, and the police say they are focused on other crimes. Now victims are helping each other track down their own cars. The polic...
“Inside [Paul Pelosi] are many a Marius.”— Lucius Cornelius Sulla
Welcome To Portland
Welcome to Portland, and be sure to drive your Clown Car: An ‘Army’ of Volunteer Sleuths Are Out Hunting for Your Stolen Car In Portland, Ore., vehicle thefts have soared, and the police say they are focused on other crimes. Now victims are helping each other track down their own cars. The polic...
Nancy Pelosi, definitely not an Italian:
“In 63 BC Caesar was elected to the position of the Pontifex Maximus, the chief priest of the Roman state religion, which came with an official residence on the Via Sacra. In 62 BC Pompeia hosted the festival of the Bona Dea ("good goddess"), which no man was permitted to attend, in this house. However a young patrician named Publius Clodius Pulcher managed to gain admittance disguised as a woman, apparently for the purpose of seducing Pompeia. He was caught and prosecuted for sacrilege. Caesar gave no evidence against Clodius at his trial, and he was acquitted. Nevertheless, Caesar divorced Pompeia, saying that "my wife ought not even to be under suspicion". This gave rise to a proverb, "Caesar's wife must be above suspicion", meaning that if one is romantically involved with a famous or prominent figure, one must avoid attracting negative attention or scrutiny.”
Welcome To Portland
Welcome to Portland, and be sure to drive your Clown Car: An ‘Army’ of Volunteer Sleuths Are Out Hunting for Your Stolen Car In Portland, Ore., vehicle thefts have soared, and the police say they are focused on other crimes. Now victims are helping each other track down their own cars. The polic...
Mr Rocco
Ye was at least half correct, but “Individual” music managers and executives apparently don’t discriminate against Blacks:
“Albert Grossman managed Bob Dylan from 1962 to 1970. Albert Grossman would invite Bob Dylan to his house in Woodstock and Bob Dylan liked it so much that he bought a house there. Some say that “Dear Landlord” was about Albert Grossman. The straw that broke the camel’s back was when Bob Dylan realised that one of the terms in the contract that he hastily signed said that his manager got half of his song publishing rights. He then cut ties.”
“Grossman’s management style was aggressive and overcharging. He would charge his clients 25%, which is 10% more than the standard rate, justifying his overcharging by claiming that his clients get 10% smarter every time they speak to him, saying that he’s smarter than the other “dummy” managers. One of his tactics he would use in negotiation was awkward silence – suddenly going quiet, saying nothing, have the client keep talking until they go crazy and in the end the negotiations favoured him.
His other clients include: Janis Joplin; Peter, Paul, and Mary; The Band; Todd Rundgren; Richie Havens; and Gordon Lightfoot.”—(courtesy of angiemoonthemod).
Bob Dylan-Dear Landlord (WJOM) https://youtu.be/0hkVJ5FRdDs
Welcome To Portland
Welcome to Portland, and be sure to drive your Clown Car: An ‘Army’ of Volunteer Sleuths Are Out Hunting for Your Stolen Car In Portland, Ore., vehicle thefts have soared, and the police say they are focused on other crimes. Now victims are helping each other track down their own cars. The polic...
Does anyone remember when John Fogerty got sued by Saul Zaentz for plagiarizing another song written by John Fogerty that Saul Zaentz owned the copyright on? It's surprising how many 'Individuals' there are in the Record Business:
Zaentz felt that “The Old Man Down the Road” was simply “Run Through the Jungle” with different words. In other words, John Fogerty had plagiarized a John Fogerty song to which he didn’t own the copyright.
Zaentz felt he had a case, so he sued Forgerty in federal court for copyright infringement.
(It’s worth noting that Zaentz and Fogerty weren’t on the best of terms in the first place. The same 1985 album that featured “The Old Man Down the Road,” Centerfield, also included the tracks “Mr. Greed” and “Zanz Kant Danz.” Critics and fans saw these songs as pointed attacks on Zaentz, and the label head initiated a separate $144 million defamation lawsuit that claimed Fogerty portrayed him as “a thief, robber, adulterer, and murderer.” The two sides settled that suit out of court.) (Courtesy of Ethan Trex).
WJOM: John Fogerty-Mr Greed https://youtu.be/l2Y11MldqOs
Sunday Evening
I'm waiting for the Yankees to close this up... they are trailing 6-5 in the 8th.
French women are relieved to learn that Colored Yankees are out of the World Series:
“Most Frenchmen speak of the correctness of the German Army’s behavior. They seem particularly impressed that German soldiers were shot for incivility to women and compare this with the American troops’ bad behavior toward women. Unfortunately most of these undisciplined acts were caused by colored troops.”—Captain BH Liddell Hart
Sunday Evening
I'm waiting for the Yankees to close this up... they are trailing 6-5 in the 8th.
‘Extubating’ means removing the trachea tube, it does not mean you murdered the trachea tube.
Sunday Evening
I'm waiting for the Yankees to close this up... they are trailing 6-5 in the 8th.
Yankees Go Home:
“I saw absolutely no evidence of German abuse of the population…The attitude of the French was sobering indeed. Instead of bursting with enthusiasm they seemed not only indifferent but sullen. There was considerable cause for wondering whether these people wished to be ‘liberated.’”—John Eisenhower
Sunday Evening
I'm waiting for the Yankees to close this up... they are trailing 6-5 in the 8th.
Hey mr matt, it took a while for the French to look upon America’s “liberation” and defense as beneficial. Except for the French communists who went wild after the war murdering people and seeking vengeance themselves. Didn’t they murder 100,000 people? I’m sure your schoolbooks skipped over that:
“The French population did not seem in any way pleased to see us arrive as a victorious army to liberate France. They had been quite content as they were and we were bringing war and desolation to their country.”—Sir Allen Brooke, British Army Chief of Staff
Jan 6 Hearings - Mission Accomplished?
The WSJ editors tell us what they think the Jan 6 hearings accomplished: The House Jan. 6 committee voted 9-0 on Thursday to subpoena former President Trump, but the clock is ticking. If Republicans take the House, they’ll shut down the inquiry posthaste in early January. If he wants to avoid th...
What’s supposed to be nefarious about the Proud Boys? Other than the fact that they appear in public displaying the wrong opinions.
Jan 6 Hearings - Mission Accomplished?
The WSJ editors tell us what they think the Jan 6 hearings accomplished: The House Jan. 6 committee voted 9-0 on Thursday to subpoena former President Trump, but the clock is ticking. If Republicans take the House, they’ll shut down the inquiry posthaste in early January. If he wants to avoid th...
Every time Lizzo runs up and down a scale, she breaks it
Water, Water Everywhere... But Not Enough And Not Where We Need It
The Colorado River situation is just part of the US and the global water management problem oppportunity. But things coud be worse! We haven't hit "Worst Year EVER!" status, where 536 AD may be the reigning champ.
Why are flags at half staff today?
Did America’s Gay Disco finally die?
Timing Being Everything...
Putin's 'special military operation' in the Ukraine is looking extra-special after the rout around Kharkiv. And now he gets to meet hat-in-hand with Xi, who may be having revised thoughts about Putin as his ride-or-die. Not Putin's best week. MORE: In the Times.
Not a lot of people know this, but the real reason the Founding Fathers went to war against the first King George was disgusting anti-German bigotry.
Winter Is Coming
However much the US has suffered from higher energy prices, it is far worse in Europe and Britain. Can pro-Ukraine unity survive a cold, gas-free winter? Putin aims to find out.
Sounds like Biden is going to cancel my student loan.
Thanks Mr. Putin!!! Couldn’t have done it without you!
Dog Days Open Thread
Woof.
Speaking of multiculturalism, I’d like to buy Jim Acosta a gift certificate to Denny’s: https://youtu.be/ZGZYeD3BBYI
Officing Alone
Peggy Noonan makes a point about the breakdown of community that could have been lifted from 'Bowling Alone'. But she talking about remote work and the end to office-time: The primary location of daily integration in America—the coming together of all ages, religions, ethnicities and political t...
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