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April 16, 2020
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1 – 200 of 299 Newer› Newest»Suppose you're older and you have some of the risk factors for Covid-19.
What can you do?
There are a number of things you can do that will lower your risk other than avoiding all contact with other people.
(a) Make sure you're getting enough vitamin D.
(b) Make sure you're getting enough sleep. There's a study which I can link to if it's needed that that showed that someone sleeping 7.0 hours a night versus 8.5 hours a night is three times more likely to get a cold when exposed to a rhinovirus. Likely the odds are about the same for the coronaviruses.
(c) Learn how to trigger the heat-shock response in your body and do it four or so times a week. The easiest way to do this is probably a hot sauna followed by a cold shower. If you can trigger the heat shock response this will among other things increase your number of macrophages, dendritic cells, natural killer cells, and Tregs. All of these tend to be deficient in the elderly and the first three make it less likely that you'll end up
in a hospital. The last one reduces the odds of a cytokine storm as well as helping the other immune cells to work more efficiently.
(d) Spend an hour or so per day walking in the woods. Believe it or not your body is stimulated to make more natural killer cells when it smells some of the chemicals emitted by trees.
(e) Get in shape. People who are strong and healthy have an enormous advantage over those that are not. If you are elderly and not in shape, the simplest way to change that, and maybe all you need to do, is to walk an hour and half each day.
(f) Lose your fat.
If you do all these things you can probably cut your odds of dying from to just a tiny fraction of what it would be otherwise. But any one of these steps improves your odds all by itself.
Dr. Roger Seheult of MedCram has done a great job of documenting the evidence for this, amidst other things, in his Coronavirus Pandemic Update series on Youtube.
Limbaugh is going on about flattening the curve not reducing the number of deaths, just making them later.
That's not right, mathematically. The deaths cut off when the reinfection rate falls below 1.0, and social distancing moves that point towards fewer total deaths by making 1.0 closer to an existing lower reinfection rate.
Math is one of the topic Limbaugh can't handle. That doesn't affect his certainty, though.
The lesson, when we reopen, is continue social distancing. The compromise is how extreme social distancing the population can tolerate, not whether it works.
Don’t eat or reduce your sugar intake.
Good advice, man drew a. And those Medcram videos are fantastic.
Mandrewa, I’ve watched a few of the Medcram videos on YouTube, very informative!
Oh, I forgot something.
If you can get pre-approval from your doctor and a prescription to use hydroxychloroquine, so that at the first sign of illness you can take a standard course of hydroxychloroquine + azithromycin + zinc, you can probably cut your odds of ending up in a hospital by more than half right there.
old: Love In The Time Of Cholera
new: Liberty In The Time Of Covid
Things are looking bright in Madison.
"Limbaugh is going on about flattening the curve not reducing the number of deaths, just making them later."
Why is this a math problem? Flattening the curve only buys us time. If you assume the only way to stop deaths is through a vaccine or creating "herd immunity" then flattening the curve means fewer deaths before we get the vaccine. However, flattening the curve, delays "herd immunity". This of course, ignores that the fact that Delaying large numbers of CV patients gives us time to ramp up testing, find out the best way to treat the illness, and get adequate numbers of medical equipment, ICU beds, etc.
BTW I see Establishment hack Lynn Cheney is donating money to Massie's R Primary opponent because he forced the Congressmen back to DC to vote on 2 trillion dollars in aid.
Poor babies. These DC Republican Swamp creatures are worse than the Democrats.
I've been searching quotes from the nineties to see if anyone ever said that Biden's fingers always smelled like fishsticks.
No luck yet.
I am Laslo.
@mandrewa
For some reasons, being Fat/obese is a risk factor for, seemingly, every disease and medical condition known to man. You wonder how the 34% of Americans who are fat, survive till the next day.
"hydroxychloroquine + azithromycin + zinc"
This is the ticket. Has anyone read any medical studies where this specific combo hasn't worked? I have not found any yet. Some studies omitted one or the other ingredients (usually the zinc) and had bad results, but I consider those studies flawed since they're not using the correct combo.
The cure is known. Why are we debating how long to stay shut down? We should be stocking up on these meds and going about our day. And as others have pointed out, if someone can't take this combo there is also remsidivir, which has shown some promise as well. Maybe both work equally well - so much the better.
The economy needs to get moving again. I'm the optimistic sort who believes that the moment things reopen (restaurants, gyms, libraries, malls) people will be right back there. I know for a fact that I will. My family and I are gonna be putting smiles on the faces of servers and coat-checkers for the next month as an apology for having to go through this - and I'm one who DIDN'T wanna shut it all down.
I had to personally furlough an employee today. Her hours got cut from 40 a week (with occasional OT), to 15. I did it over the phone and thus I couldn't see her face, but I am certain she was crestfallen. This is becoming madness. And others in my company have had to let people go entirely. We're still very hopeful we can get them all back to work soon, but that hope is not going to sustain forever. Our Chicago branch manager sounded despondent on the phone over how much money the company is losing, and how this is affecting our people. We need to reopen before we're forced to talk people off fucking ledges.
BTW, reading Brando biography. He was a land whale for the last 30 years of his life, often 80-100 lbs overweight. Yet surprisingly healthy till the age of 75.
Anyone who wants to escape the nightly CoVid circle jerk and talk about something else...I'll be around. Not participating in the mental masturbation, though.
The replication pattern is now 10 days, but is that social distancing or as dr. Ben israel puts it? Part of the natural cycle.
"If you do all these things you can probably cut your odds of dying from to just a tiny fraction of what it would be otherwise."
But it sounds like so much work!
Better to shut down the whole economy and make the young and healthy suffer instead.
Anyway, some seniors can't get healthy. Goes with old age. Let's be prudent in isolating them, as the phased plan appears to provide, but recognize that we can't guarantee keeping Chinese Lung AIDS out of nursing homes--and of course, that we should not ruin the whole system trying in vain, for no appreciable gain.
PS - I told the owner of the local gym to keep my March/April dues and pass it on to an employee. She'd emailed me to let me know they would be refunding them and possibly April too. Screw it - it's $60 total and I have it budgeted anyway. Hopefully other members - or at least the ones who can afford it - are offering similar responses.
rcocean,
I loved the young Brando. On the Waterfront is one of my favorite movies. I have been known to wander around the house repeating random lines from Waterfront and Streetcar.
I'm looking at CNN's webpage.
I notice that the Chris Cuomo "Let's Infect random biker dudes before we take our wife and kids out" show isn't really trending.
Ive read more literature since i got out of college then i had when i was there, there was a phase in the 00s when i read tolstoy i skimmed through war and piece looked into resurrection, his short stories like hadji murad a little lermontov, some of the new wave latin writers like vazguez gomes and volpi,
“Better to shut down the whole economy and make the young and healthy suffer instead.”
Blame your President. He supported the governors mitigation efforts. He listened to the scientists and he believed them. He today thanked the American people for doing their part to mitigate Covid. He thanks the scientist, he even thanked the Governors. Why don’t you write Trump a letter and tell him he was wrong to make the young and healthy suffer and to shut down the whole economy. Who is to blame, your fellow Americans or your President who has presidential powers?
"For some reasons, being Fat/obese is a risk factor for, seemingly, every disease and medical condition known to man."
Any estimate of how much we were spending on avoidable obesity-related disease before the WuFlu hit?
"Our Chicago branch manager sounded despondent"
OMG, another "marginal business," as we've been told on this very blog. Tough luck.
He may have to shoot one of them to get back on CNN's front page.
Scientists Discover Alarming Coronavirus Mutation That Could Render Vaccine Useless
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/scientists-discover-alarming-coronavirus-mutation-could-render-vaccine-useless
dont forget to focus on mucus! improve the viscoelasticity, baby!
Protect that respiratory and GI tract defense.
Serrapeptase, NAC, digestive enzymes.
We need to reopen before we're forced to talk people off fucking ledges.
Shut-ins on fixed incomes just don't see or feel that. I work with both kind of people everyday.
The young Brando had lots of charisma, but it all seemed so narcissistic.
The way he would look up at the sky when he was saying something serious.
The way he slowed down between words, as if to show how smart he was to know how to put words together.
His self indulgent little mannerisms, fondling his hair, leaning to the left or right to be more comfortable, when a real man would have just said what he had to say without touching his hair and leaning to the left or right like a Siamese cat
while I imagine it is possible to be a good actor or actress, I have rarely seen it done.
A Month Past.
Winter sky but lately dawned
White and grey –
And on the horizon
Other colours.
A month past
And with it something else.
Little succulent meats
Rest on the tongue –
Nauseated I spit them out.
This chameleon age
Seems so solid,
Grand dowager
And eternal aether.
A skylark blown
Through nothingness
On a cold wind –
Gravity has eluded,
Broken rubble
Burning the stars.
@Inga: In my state it's Gavin Newsom who is keeping business in the state closed. Gavin Newsom (D).
I was listening to WI Senator Ron Johnson radio interview this morning and he was quite perturbed about the fact that HCQ was restricted to use in hospital. And that the stockpile of the drug is quite large and evidence shows that the earlier it is used the better.
I don’t know if restrictions are nationwide or state specific. Needs to be more readily available IMHO.
A good translator is paramount, the former with anne mclean reads better than the original language. Ive read some arabic translations like the yacoubian building one tale by abdal soief which takes place in the modern era and early colonial egypt, sansal who is an aspiring algerian novelist.
"He listened to the scientists and he believed them."
Gee Inga, it sounds like we need better scientists. Fauci and the other career deep staters fucked us over with shitty models and one-size fits all recommendations for the states. Hopefully after his reelection, Trump can find some honest and intelligent doctors and scientists from OUTSIDE the gov't who'd be interested in making sure the next pandemic goes better.
I have an interesting counterfactual to consider: Imagine everything about the COVID outbreak is exactly the same (Chinese lies, spread to Europe and US, NYC hard-hit, etc.), with one crucial difference: Hillary won. Discuss.
I don’t know what the experts say, but I wonder about the viral reservoir. Where is covid19 going to park itself in the US? If we all isolate after so long it will become inert, unless two things happen. First if there are “pangolins“ that don’t isolate who keep it alive in the wild and will bite humans to get it started again. Or people who have been infected still carry it around forever but don’t get sick but randomly infect people every now and then. Otherwise after 14 days of isolation it’s gone and we will have to wait until someone comes over from China again to restart it, kind of like Ebola.
I sure don’t know.
"while I imagine it is possible to be a good actor or actress, I have rarely seen it done."
Tom Hanks. Greatest actor of my lifetime.
Inga
It’s amusing watching them trash the very things Trump is doing (and doing right), isn’t it? But you point this out and they howl.
stephen cooper said...The young Brando had lots of charisma, but it all seemed so narcissistic.
I shall never forget seeing Brando on "The Tonight Show" late in life -- morbidly obese and trying to get Johnny to eat cookies with him.
, being Fat/obese is a risk factor for, seemingly, every disease and medical condition known to man.
You anorexics can dis us tubbies all you want; BUT consider this
Something comes up; don't know if it's a alien invasion, food store riots, or whatever...
But, for whatever reason it is: THE DAY COMES, when you (and I) have to go two or three weeks, with basically NO food. (we find water, Maybe some salt, but we're going to have to live on about 90 calories a day)
What happens to YOU?
What happens to ME (and my extra 120 POUNDS, of fat)?
Sure, food shortages aren't a common occurrence... BUT WHEN ONE COMES: I'll Be READY!
“don't forget to focus on mucus! improve the viscoelasticity, baby!
Protect that respiratory and GI tract defense.
Serrapeptase, NAC, digestive enzymes.”
I have some Serrapeptase sitting in my nightstand drawer, it’s supposed to dissolve fibrin, I’ve heard people say it helps a great deal with their allergies. I take digestive enzymes before every meal. But take serrapeptase on an empty stomach.
Ahdaf soiuef, a crack at mahfouz's palace series, yes alaswani and souef are out there politically, but too get a grasp on their society
Josephbleau
That’s how you eradicate diseases. But it’s very unlikely to happen because there is a lot of asymptomatic transmission, and isolation will be imperfect, and people come from abroad.
There are also cats getting it.
"Tom Hanks. Greatest actor of my lifetime."
Most pleasant on-screen persona, maybe.
Greatest actor? Gary Oldman.
When you can be Sid Vicious AND Winston Churchill....
I am Laslo.
“Inga
It’s amusing watching them trash the very things Trump is doing (and doing right), isn’t it? But you point this out and they howl.”
It is! I don’t understand why they rant against their fellow Americans while ignoring that Trump supported the mitigation efforts.
Oldman definitely has more range. I didnt see his sid vicious but i saw the professional as well his scenery chewing part in air force one,
Inga”I don’t understand why they rant against their fellow Americans while ignoring that Trump supported the mitigation efforts.”
I can help you there. Get one of the masks you made. Darkest material you have. Put it on, but across your eyes not your mouth. Once it is firmly attached and your hands are free, insert your index fingers firmly into your ears. Begin humming.
Then you'll understand how.
I am drawn to these photos that could be 2D or 3D. Not sure why. Living in betwixt and between, I suppose. Love this one.
I believe the IHME model will again reduce its total US mortality number. Maybe as early as tonight.
like doenton abbey in egypt
“Gee Inga, it sounds like we need better scientists. Fauci and the other career deep staters fucked us over with shitty models and one-size fits all recommendations for the states. Hopefully after his reelection, Trump can find some honest and intelligent doctors and scientists from OUTSIDE the gov't who'd be interested in making sure the next pandemic goes better.”
I suggest you write Trump and tell him he’s an idiot for believing Fauci and the others. He needs your good advice!
Gary Oldman, eh? I will have to cogitate on that one.
What do I think makes a great actor? The ability to inhabit a role and be a different person -- or very close- -- each time. It seems to be easier for actors in the beginning of their careers. Eventually, it seems the great ones become caricatures of themselves.
this one is more of a period piece, a bookend with mahfouz
Hogan's Heroes coming up: Newkirk gets a job in a munitions plant, to set up a sabotage, and ends up getting conscripted into the German Army. Whoops!
Sir Anthony Hopkins. Dame Judy Dench.
Maybe it is something to do with being to do stage as well as screen.
320
The IHME model is not a good one. But it’s only been around since late March .
narciso
The Automobile Club, eh? I will check that out.
Did you ever read "Cutting for Stone?" One of the most moving books I have ever read.
Classical training does have an advantage,
Helen mirren has a more posh patina now, but her atart in peter greenaways films among other fair.
“Michael Cohen will be released from prison due to pandemic”
America’s bad luck turned out to be his good luck.
When you can be Sid Vicious AND Winston Churchill....
Weren't those two peas in a pod?
Hugo Weaving is the best actor I remember seeing. The Matrix to Priscilla, Queen of the Desert to Lord of the Rings? Dang.
Also, Viggo Mortensen. His characters are all over the place. Plus, he’s a perfect human specimen. It’s possible I spontaneously ovulate when I see him. 😛
I read Cutting for Stone years ago; I recall enjoying the ride but thinking it could have used a bit of editing.
Ive heard of it, i cant say ive read it,
Souief was for jeremy corbyn, and was tecently arrested in some protest in egypt. I probably agreed largely with vargas llosa views but his books are very long.
“The IHME model is not a good one. But it’s only been around since late March .”
Covid Act Now
Here’s another site I’ve been checking daily.
narciso,
Funny to look back at some of the early stuff by actors I now find annoying. Meryl Streep in Sophie's Choice. So innocent. Mia Farrow in Rosemary's Baby. (I still find that movie terrifying.). Al Pacino in Serpico. He had that manic energy, way back then.
Anthony Hopkins is in a TV production of Lear. Modern setting, but with classical language. I need to watch it. Lear is my favorite Shakespeare play. I saw it in Stratford-on-Avon. Lear moves me--does he remind me a bit of my own dad? Maybe.
"Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life? And thou no breath at all?" Such a broken man.
My employer with a 3.5 B market cap is burning 600 to 650M a month. It’s gonna work out.
gilbar - we are brothers!
now let's talk, since we are talking about weight, about how Audrey Hepburn, the ballet dancer who dabbled in acting, was wrong for all those years in refusing to just drink a lot of beer and have three good meals a day and thereby obtain those feminine curves that
ANY ACTRESS WHO WANTS TO PLAY CLEOPATRA HAS TO HAVE
and yes, Elizabeth Taylor was pretty good, but Ava Gardner would have been better ....
y'all have no idea how good Audrey would have been playing Cleopatra if she had just had more womanly curves ....
Pants,
Hugo Weaving. I had to look him up, but dang, he does morph with each role, doesn't he? That is a gift.
My mom had a VHS copy of Hidalgo. She watched it over and over and over. She is in memory care now. Once she is out of the solitary confinement they keep her in, I will fly home to see her. I should take that movie and watch it with her.
https://iotwreport.com/severe-blood-shortages-continue-as-blood-drives-see-low-turnouts/
It's hard to beat Bugs Bunny. They said he couldn't do tragedy. They were wrong.
Speaking of Michael Cohen....
Catherine Herridge ✔ @CBS_Herridge
SCOOP @CBSNews obtains newly declassified footnotes IG report w/multiple warnings to FBI about dossier, Russian targeting, disinformation. Footnote 342 “two persons affiliated with (Russian Intel) were aware of Steele’s election investigation in early July 2016”
Read about it all on Catherine Herridge twitter
Quick summary: Hillary and pals paid Steele to launder illegally obtained info (thru FISA database queries; that's why the Michael Cohen mistake was made: the FISA database showed a Michael Cohen going to Prague and Nellie Ohr just assumed it was Trump's Michael Cohen).
These illegal database queries by the obama gang began heavily starting in 2012. Yep. 2012.
So Steele takes the FusionGPS/Nellie Ohr info, calls his pals in Russia, those pals in Russia are tied to Russian intel, russian intel feeds Steele a bunch of crap, Steele does a "voila" manuever and presto chango! We have the hoax dossier.
Absolutely the worst part of all. Comey and every single FBI leadership staff person under Comey knew it was all a lie from the beginning since the FBI was warned by multiple key sources it was all a lie, including from British intel.
But the FBI's used it to spy on Trump anyway. Like they had been doing since 2012.
And guess what? Steele's russian source loved Hillary! Yep. The Russian source wanted Hillary to win.
Meanwhile, we now have the Papadopolous transcripts from the spies Brennan ran against the Trump campaign and, yep, Pappadopolous confirmed to these hacks there was nothing going on....which the FBI "forgot" to include in the FISA warrants.
Unbelievable.
Inga, Covid Act Now was debunked as a bunch of democrat activists, not actual scientisty types. Look it up.
Team Slo-Jo has apparently created a way to make your own Biden meme
https://avatar.joebiden.com
hilarity ensues
Ever meet someone you saw a long time ago , on screen and years later you actually run into them, you realize they were acting because they are nothing like that in real life,
Why is this a math problem?
The presence of the 1.0 reinfection rate limit makes the times not scale. You get a different result if you do it fast or slow. In particular fewer total deaths if you do it slow.
no idea how good Audrey would have been playing Cleopatra if she had just had more womanly curves ....
she probably would have smelled better Too, if she'd JUST EATEN something!
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM: "Team Slo-Jo has apparently created a way to make your own Biden meme"
Speaking of Slow Joe, here he is from just today, unable to complete a sentence. It's so bad Jill tries to step in and save him.
Hard to believe Jill is letting this go on.
https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1250782520787992577
Anne-I-Am says no to mental masturbation. Is that platonic pleasuring?
Don't forget Oldman also played Beethoven and a great Dracula (IMHO). Brando never did that! But Brando has played Nazis. Has Oldman?
And on the theme of manly he-man macho actors, who is today's Rock Hudson? (IYKWIM&NTTAWWT)
Unless I've fallen for showbiz myth, Mirren is from the poshest stock--or they were, the Mirskys of Russia.
Narr
Neeson? (not the Rock Hudson thing, just as an actor)
Ah the classics as mr spock would say, what do kids have to inspire them today, jerry springers zounds. I also have mentioned some of the writers like camillieri and leon which have been brought to the small screen
320Busdriver, the hubs and I figured out who your employer is from your aircraft and your numbers. That’s a great airline and we wish we could fly it more often.
I miss flying, so much. I worry about whether aviation will recover before my daughter enters the job market. She has been obsessed with planes since she was a toddler and is a freshman in college studying aeronautical engineering. She’s planning on flight school after that, but now, 🤷🏼♀️
Ah dracula how did i forget that, he really sank his fangs into that one. He could save lost in space (sometimes you have to be a little more selective) of the newer generation mark strong has played villains like in aherlock holmes, and more complex figures like in body of lies and heroes in kingsman
He's gone now, but under rated Jerry Lewis was among top five. Nutty professor just a small sample of his range..
Delicate delinquent, King of comedy, the jerk.
The guy could also carry a tune.
<i.Unknown said...
It's hard to beat Bugs Bunny. They said he couldn't do tragedy. They were wrong.</i.
Hell of a dancer also. He can really pick 'em up and lay 'em down.
Brando played a oklahoma oilmam who made a deal with the nazis, in the forgettable adaptation of the formula, weaving really hasnt branched out much past villains though.
Fox News chyrons making bold accusations.
"These illegal database queries by the obama gang began heavily starting in 2012. Yep. 2012.
That was Bruce Hayden's theory from the outset: the collusion hoax started as a cover-up.
Of course, all of us cynics were onto the collusion hoax as hoax from day one. We knew that Steele was laundering Russian "info." But now we know that they all knew: the Russia collusion was on the Hill/Dem/Steele/FBI/Brennan side--the exact opposite of what prog media "reported" for three years.
Who do you think will apologize and do an honest mea culpa first--prog hoax peddlers for supporting the greatest scandal in American political history, or panicky alarmists for supporting the greatest manufactured disaster in American economic history?
Of course, in both cases the damage has already been done.
Its amazing isn't it?
For 4+ years the left accused DJT of being a russian asset, and now we have the proof that it was the democrats who were colluding with russian intel to spy on American citizens and try to remove a duly elected President.
I wonder if that should be a big story.
Now when the accent of my people is attempted well pacinos was terrible, rod steiger was worse maximilian schell was passible, it maybe they all played villains of a sort in that genre.
Inga,
After posting stats you felt support further lockdown through May, what statistical threshold do you feel would warrant easing?
IHMMP
Well we are in a very dark time so it can only get better. Hard to see how much smaller the industry is post covid. Today my ORD-LAX commute on AA was the fullest flight I’ve been on in weeks. Probably 30%. Great that your daughter is studying engineering. Solid future. I have one who’s a junior in Mechanical. Our baby is a HS senior and is planning on College & flight school. Needs a plan B though. He was born 3 weeks after 9-11.
We appreciate your business!
And if that wasn't bad enough, we now have the democrats working with the ChiCom's to sow disinformation in order to protect Xi and his pals while simultaneously undermining the administration.
I guess habits are hard to break when it comes to democrats colluding with hostile foreign powers against republican Presidents.
Important note: the democrats are also colluding with the Iranians pretty much in plain sight as well.
Given all that, no wonder the dems want to drive the US into a depression. Its the only story that would drive the other stories off the front page.
Narr,
Tom Cruise?
Its like alias where those that thought they were working for the cia were actually doing so for the otherside.
Lake Geneva cartoonist Joe Martin is retiring Cats With Hands.
This was never my favorite strip of his, but I really liked this one.
And I still recommend Shrink Wrapped as one of the all-time great comic-strip collections. (But try to get the original printing if you can).
narciso - well, i met several grandchildren of great men ....
President Taft's grandson was an impressive guy, and was always nice to me.
Orville Reddenbacher's granddaugher was very very hot, we went to grad school together in the 80s, she was probably the hottest woman who I ever met, sort of like that beautiful woman from the Bangles, but hotter and with much better moves
I met grandkids of a few WWII generals, too, they were all cool
Never met a famous person who disappointed me, but I have never really met many famous people (outside of the small worlds of the military, world literature, and the mathematical and sci-fi elites).
Schwarzkopf, who I met on the job, was much much better than his reputation, Colin Powell was very good at saying stuff, I have met a few guys who were "predicted" to be Nobel Prize Literature winners, they were what you would expect (sort of like Gordon Ramsey but without the charisma and without the cooking skills), and I know you will like this, I met a few of the Americans who are mentioned in books about the anti-Castro efforts in the 60s (would to God they had succeeded) - they were pretty cool, but not very charismatic.
I met James Bond Stockdale, he was a cool guy, and I met some of the famous Soviet dissidents, they were all cool.
One of my brother's best friends was a close friend of Greta Garbo's in her last years, apparently she was a wonderful person too.
You see I have nothing against celebrities, they are people just like us,
Drago,
Yes, you are right. What was the Russian collusion (on the Dems' part) hiding? And how deep in this was Obama?
They really are horrible people. They must have millions at stake--and figure that they will gain power and hold on to it forever.
More interesting questions: Who, precisely, in either our CIA or FBI directed Alexander Downer to meet with George Papadopolous with the frame up questions? And was this the same person or persons who coordinated the activities of Mifsud and Halper at Brennan's direction?
Should be interesting to get those answers, cuz those cats just didn't all of a sudden in late 2015 figure out all by themselves that it was time to do that.
BTW, records released showed Halper had been paid over $1M dollars by our intel services.
That's a nice tidy sum, wouldn't you say?
Decent action star cant really stand his dramatic turns though. Christian bale last seen in Ford vs ferrari has that intensity which isnt feigned. Bordering on manic
You met sakharov or bukosky soltzhenitsyn (he was too reclusive) ive read the first two volumes of the red wheel, the last is unavailable in book stores,
Anne-I-Am: "Drago,
Yes, you are right. What was the Russian collusion (on the Dems' part) hiding? And how deep in this was Obama?"
Pretty easy to answer really. We already have the reports from the FISA court which shows systematic abuse of the FISA 702 system (illegal queries by FBI/DOJ-NSD personnel) from at least 2012.
That's alot of illegal spying on domestic opponents conducted by the democrats that they needed to cover up.
And it was probably well before 2012. Probably as early as 2010. This is indicated by the very strange occurrence in 2010 where Eric Holder requested 1.1 million IRS tax records of tea party and other conservative tax exempt groups.
Very interestingly, Holder and Bob Mueller (FBI director at the time) wanted these records not sent over by the normal methods, but instead walked over in the form of 21 disks with 1.1 million pages of database info on these 501(c)(4) Tax Exempt Organizations....that were all opposition groups.
Gee, that's not strange or weird or anything, is it?
And who ends up as the cat investigating Trump? Little Bobby Mueller.
And every bit of what I've relayed is already in the public, officially documented, domain.
Christian Bale, yes has manic energy. Not a nice guy in real life, I suspect.
Edward Norton. Another one who plays psychopaths well.
Drago,
Yes, who was ordering the soldiers around? Brennan and Clapper don't seem quite smart enough to have directed it all. Cui bono, at the end?
Funny, how the Dems manage to keep their canaries from singing. Maybe Vincent Foster was an object lesson.
Real intelligence operatives try not to standout, howard hunt was probably an exception, oh re accents loggia and mureay abraham were equally bad in that film, ay dios mio. Like tom hanks in bonfire bad.
Tom Cruise, good one!
Actors--Day-Lewis, Branagh, Irons, Brody. The Krauts-- Kinsky, Ganz.
Ben Stein seemed like a very nice guy when I met him.
I'm getting old.
Narr
And sleepy! See you.
Drago,
Human scum, all of them. So drunk with power and the idea of themselves as little gods in charge forever. Every single progressive I have met thinks of themselves as righteous soldiers, but they are all egotistical despots hungry for power and control.
I could see it in Obama--he got visibly angry when the peons didn't obey him, didn't find him enthralling and compelling.
I wonder how it feels to see it all falling apart in front of him. No legacy at all, the pathetic, second-rate wannabe.
Anne: "Drago,
Yes, who was ordering the soldiers around? Brennan and Clapper don't seem quite smart enough to have directed it all. Cui bono, at the end?"
Well, given the time frames involved, from probably 2010 onward, the entire democrat party stands to gain....and this I'm afraid would have to be true as well. There is no way this could go on in the form that it did without significant numbers of establishment republicans aware as well.
Which goes a long way to explain why no movement in the House or Senate to really investigate this occurred. The one guy hot on this trail in the House was Devin Nunes, and they got him sidelined for the "crime" of actually looking at some records in a SCIF at the White House. Paul Ryan was the one who sidelined him and Paul Ryan would have been on point with other leaders who had been kept informed as to Intel committee information all along as one of the Gang of Eight.
Gee, I wonder if that's one reason Ryan made sure to kill as much of Trump's agenda as he could....right up until the moment he bailed out.
Meanwhile on the Senate side, you've got NC Sen Burr who has basically become the lap pet of Dem Mark Warner in putting out "report" after "report" for years now that backed up the intel community.....right up until now when its all been shown to be a lie.
Gee, I wonder if Burr has a reason to make sure this thing dies?
Oh he creeped me out the first time i saw him in primal fear, but of this new generation i think the pickings are slim on both sides of the atlantic. Benedict cumberbatch plays the same jackass two thirds of the time, its not acting
Narr,
Sleep well! May angels sing you to sleep.
Some player off screen is putting brennans strings, maybe in riyadh or doha. clapper i dubbed him general magoo,
narciso,
Yes. I like BC in Sherlock, but he has absolutely no range.
I really like Ryan Gosling. He always has that quiet watchfulness going on. And his ego in check. And he is HOT.
I was at a little motel in Eureka one time...called a nearby restaurant that would deliver room service. Asked for a glass of red wine and Ryan Gosling. The little gal who took my order started giggling and yelled out, "She wants Ryan Gosling!"
Sadly, I only got the glass of wine.
"I wonder how it feels to see it all falling apart in front of him."
When he skips those rocks on the water off his property, you can see the anger splash.
Helluva arm on that guy too. Dude lifts.
Awww, we have a little lovefest between the fat old crone Inga and that pinko fucking leaf Ken B. Two lefty pieces of shit locked in romance. I hope neither of you survive the rest of the year.
Did ValJar tag along to the vineyard?
Heh, you meant riesling, you reminded me he was in this film fracture with amthony hopkins he played a prosecutor and the latter an inventor with a murderous bent.who keeps beating him.
Lord, I think we drove off the Chinese Lung AIDS bores. Thanks be to God.
That was a pretty good movie. Anthony Hopkins is maddening. Like an intellectual Terminator.
Ah President Mom Jeans, you’ve been away too long.
Rosamonde pike was also in that one, as was embetz davis who was in schindlers lists with fiennes, whose uncle inspired the story behind the killer elite.
Rarely post, but I still like to see what people are saying amongst this crazy cast of characters after all these years, and to occasionally lob insults when warranted, even if its ultimately into the void.
Gee, I wonder if that's one reason Ryan made sure to kill as much of Trump's agenda as he could....right up until the moment he bailed out.
Paul Ryan turned out to be a real snake --a real demerit to the whole state of Wisconsin and specifically to the idiots in Janesville who supported him.
Christian Bale - he has such a great body of work but he’s an arsehole. There is a recording on the interwebs of him profanely chewing out, at length, some gaffer or whatnot for breaking his super important artistic concentration on the set of one of the Batman movies.
I was just thinking a few ago that we should watch Empire of the Sun at Casa Pants when we have time. Need to introduce my 14 year old to Swing Kids.
When the conversation no longer centers on the scab Ken B and the harpy wish to pick, they disappear. What does that mean? That they have no ability/interest to interact if they can't shame and scold? Ah well. I should pray for their well-being. Tomorrow morning, when I confess my failures, I will admit that I find those two difficult to stomach.
Disappointed in Paul Ryan.
I suspect it takes a monumental strength of character to enter Mordor and not become a loyal minion. Not necessarily for money, but for acknowledgement, for ego gratification as one of the important ones.
That's why I love Mike Pence. He just didn't sell out. He and his wife are still poor, by DC standards. He is a nerd. He didn't succumb to the succubus that is DC.
Oh Anne!! If you like Ryan Gosling, you MUST seek out a little movie called Drive if you haven’t seen it. Thank me later.
There is one scene which is rather violent but is also A. extremely sexy in a primal way (man protecting his woman) and B. A fantastic set piece and a reminder of why moviemaking is such a seductive art form.
Ryan apprenticed for jack kemp, but personality not rub off on him. He kept falling upward from congress to chairman to speaker to fox news board.
Anne I am said , at 10:22 pm --- Yeah Brennan converted, no? He is a useful idiot like the dumbass Americans who served the Soviets,
Proverbs 8, we were all born innocent
Fracture was a better film than some if the ones hes been awarded for, i havent seen laland but it seems cookie cutter, gangster squad was noir but with no light and it was another team up with emma stone. Now sean penn does reveal his true nature of mickey cohen.
Pants,
Loved Drive.
Stephen Cooper,.
I think I was a dog in a former life. I am not with you on the cockroaches, though. I really like snakes.
@rcocean:
BTW, reading Brando biography. He was a land whale for the last 30 years of his life, often 80-100 lbs overweight. Yet surprisingly healthy till the age of 75.
Does it discuss his sexual affair with Richard Pryor?
Ah, so you're with me on the elevator scene, then. MM HMMM
I think the actor with the greatest number of great roles in great movies has to be Humphrey Bogart: Casablanca, Maltese Falcon, Treasure of Sierra Madre, The African Queen, and The Caine Mutiny. That's a partial list. And all those characters he played were fundamentally different. He wasn't just playing Humphrey Bogart.....Brando was the actor that actors admired most. I don't think Streetcar holds up all that well,but that's the role that made him. On The Waterfront is what will carry him forward to posterity. Playing with established Shakespearean players in Julius Caesar, his Marc Anthony is the one that dominates the screen. For all his gifts and reputation, Brando's great film roles are kind of sparse.
Ah, Fracture was the one I was thinking of.
Maybe it is a blind spot, but I don't see any young female actors standing out.
J Farmer,
Brando had an affair with Richard Pryor? Seriously? RICHARD PRYOR? Well shut my mouth.
Richard Burton.
And on the theme of manly he-man macho actors, who is today's Rock Hudson?
The theater critic John Lahr once called Liam Neeson a "towering sequoia of sex."
William
Cary Grant was another, and Jimmy Stewart. I once tried to figure out which actor had the highest great to clunker ratio. One surprising name on the list was Joseph Cotten. In a shocking number of great movies.
In that case Anne, he had two affairs with him.
The IHME model is not a good one. But it’s only been around since late March
That's the Bill Gates organization.
And people around here were singing the praises of Bill Gates and saying we should listen to him because of his work in contagious diseases.
@Anne:
Brando had an affair with Richard Pryor? Seriously? RICHARD PRYOR? Well shut my mouth.
Quincy Jones first let the cat out of the bag, and Jennifer Lee (his widow) confirmed it. For what it's worth, Jones claimed that Brando also slept with Marvin Gaye and James Baldwin.
They keep talking kiera knightley but shes as bland as dishwater, take pirates which has a great score but puts me to sleep otherwise.
It's funny. In early Feb, I thought Prez DJT had one of the greatest political months I'd ever seen.
1. Dem Iowa caucus fuck-up
2. State of the Union - Nancy Pants rip up speech on tv
3. Impeachment - acquittal
He was on a roll. A lotta momentum.
And then it all went to shit.
But two rough, rough months later, after pushing and prodding Fauci, he just turned the corner.
We'll see how it plays out. I'm cautiously optimistic. Healthy folks want to work. They're not happy about being told to stay home, by well-meaning idjits who rely on bogus inflated models.
Not out of the woods yet. It's gonna take several months, if not years, to dig out of this financial hole caused by the rash lockdown. But, again, cautiously optimistic that the country can put the pieces back in place. Let's see how it plays out.
My ex-husband had a thing for Kiera Knightley. She has a severe case of lollipop head.
You're seldom disappointed after seeing a Tom Cruise movie. He knows how to make entertaining movies. He let the mask slip a few times. He might have a shallow personality and various other personality flaws but he knows how to consistently make entertaining movies.....Jimmy Stewart was apparently Jimmy Stewart in real life. That's encouraging. So many actors were radically different than their screen personas....Tom Hanks is said to be a good guy. Maybe, but that might be skillful pr. We won't know until twenty years or so after his death. Spencer Tracy was a drunk who used to slap around Katherine Hepburn. Who knew?
And she can die in a fire for her sins in having played Elizabeth Bennet, when no one can ever, ever top Jennifer Ehle* in that role. Ever. The role should be retired.
*and Colin Firth
Joseph Cotten was great. Mitchum and Cotten played the same sort of guy and they both were great at it.
Wayne and Stewart were always great. The absolute best black and white performance I have ever seen (leaving aside the amazing Stooges and W.C. Fields) was Jimmy Stewart and his friends in Harvey. And John Wayne in True Grit (and, to be fair, in the searchers, a little too intellectual but still really good) was a performance the likes of which none of us are likely to ever see again, but those were technicolor movies,
Elizabeth Taylor, in her youth, and Ava Gardner, in her youth, were forces of nature, and as they aged, they were still very good at portraying the sort of women that real men find it difficult not to love.
J Farmer,
Well, Marlon Brando and I have something in common.
I never know the gossip.
Well that escalated suddenly. Rosamonde pike has been in forgetable fare like doom ,
Interesting observation on Ava Cooper and Elizabeth Taylor. That is a great way to put it: the sort of women that real men find it difficult not to love.
J Farmer,
Liam Neeson may or may not be a towering sequoia, but he doesn't set off my gaydar. Leonardo diCaprio does. As does Orlando Bloom.
I think there's a song out there somewhere to the effect of "Joseph Cotten/The man Oscar has forgotten".
She got an early break in foyles war as did many actors well anthony kitchen the star is more of a character actor.
Funny Video. Drs. actually carry a ladder after dark to neighbors house to steal the old guys flag. Caught on security cam and arrested.Unhinged Trump-Hating Doctors Steal Senior’s Trump Flag While Their Own Children Watch in Horror.
Bay Area Guy said... gonna take several months, if not years, to dig out of this financial hole caused by the rash lockdown.
--
Those pesky "potential secondary side effects" and "inconvenience" Fauci speaks of.
Careful, Tinderers!
Brian Griffin is on Enterprise again.
Garbo and Rodeo Drive.
Search, interesting,
Did my taxes today. I owed nine dollars.
Christian Bale is really really good.
Gary Oldman is good, but you can always tell he's over-acting.
Kevin Spacey's like that too, only you can tell he's enjoying the hell out of it and want you to as well.
I'll go with Gene Hackman.
"Greatest actor? Gary Oldman."
My opinion, too. Unbelievably good.
I understand that Brando had sex with pretty much whoever he wanted. I knew a flight attendant back when they were stewardesses. She said that he was the terror of LA-NY flights. Not every stewardess considered it an honor to be groped by Brando, but I guess he just shrugged off the rejections and moved on to the next. No "metoo" complications back then. His grope to score ratio was probably much higher than Biden's....I never read anything beyond a magazine article about him, but he seems to have been a truly awful human being.
FullMoon,
And they are in jail now. Asshats. What is wrong with people? And they took their toddlers along. After they get sprung, I hope someone called CPS on them. Now THAT is a nightmare.
We also find out about a disease that swept through the Klingons to make them look normal, if a bit silly with the shoe-polish on their faces, rather than having the facial disfigurements they have otherwise when "healthy."
Well he portrayed sociopaths a little too convincingly going back to wiseguy anf usual suspects, real acting requires stretching.
who'd be best playing Hillary (now that Margaret Hamilton is deceased)?
Google Subpoenaed For Hillary Clinton Emails Believed To Contain Backup To Records Scrubbed With "Bleachbit"
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/google-subpoenaed-hillary-clinton-emails-believed-contain-backup-records-scrubbed
I know we are getting into Kultur now, but how about some sanity from . . . Vegas:
"While opening Wednesday’s City Council Meeting, Mayor Goodman said
that “this shutdown has become one of total insanity.” Adding, “For
there is no backup of data as to why we are shutdown from the start. No
plan in place how to move through the shutdown or how to even come out
of it.”
I dont know i thought ciaran hinds captueec bill clinton pretty well in one of this roman a clefs, even though hes irish.
Is she Oscar Goodman's wife? Oscar was mayor when we lived in Vegas.
The voice of one crying in the wilderness.
But we are out of the Chinese Lung AIDS circle jerk for now. Don't drag us back, bro.
William: "I understand that Brando had sex with pretty much whoever he wanted. I knew a flight attendant back when they were stewardesses. She said that he was the terror of LA-NY flights. Not every stewardess considered it an honor to be groped by Brando, but I guess he just shrugged off the rejections and moved on to the next."
I have heard that when you are famous they let you do it, or something like that.
@FullMoon: Gotta love the "smugshots" of that arrested pair. Of course they will get off with slaps on the wrist, but the internet is forever and I thank you for reposting that.
That's gonna be Lauri Metcalf. And, it will be perfect.
Captured, willem defoe has rarely played the hero, more antiheroes and villains
goops playing Hillary
Fullmoon,
Tale of two TDS Gynos.
That seems apt.
The weather here in Oaktown is perfect for running. Low 60s. A little sun, a little overcast. I am heading to Briones regional park to run around the reservoir on Saturday. I have it from a reliable source that everything is in bloom, and there are a myriad of birds, including owls.
My oldest son, when very young and afraid of owls, had a talismanic saying. "An owl's just a big ole bird." Indeed.
@Anne:
Liam Neeson may or may not be a towering sequoia, but he doesn't set off my gaydar. Leonardo diCaprio does. As does Orlando Bloom.
Could just be that "soft" looking men register as gay. Whether they are or not, being in the closet has never particularly bothered me, if done for personal reasons.
A person like Anderson Cooper actually makes me sick. Refusing to answer questions about your sexuality under a supposed principle of not discussing your personal life and then coming up the second the ratings for your daytime talk show go down the tube is the epitome of craven opportunism. Cooper was interviewing the Florida attorney general, Pam Bondi, over the Orlando nightclub massacre and basically took her to task over her gay marriage stance. He described her outrage over the massacre as a "sick irony" and described her as a "hypocrite" given her opposition to gay marriage. I wanted to come through the TV and wring his neck.
Sorry, got a little far afield there.
Willem Defoe does not have the face of a hero. He overacts at times, but I enjoy him.
"I have heard that when you are famous they let you do it, or something like that."
That gets at the still unexamined ire that so many American women feel towards DJT: He merely spoke truth to power and they assumed that he was a rapist. Fuckin' hag-losers -- all of them. Every last one of them.
No plan how to come out of it
That is the purpose of the White House's plan released tonight. Will the governors act under the plan's poltical cover? I don't know. I suspect the Republican ones will act and start ending the shutdowns in the counties were there are practically no cases of COVID-19, but they will be opposed at every turn by local Democrats. That sad thing is that a lot of these places shouldn't have been shut down in the first place. Reversing this stupidity isn't going to be easy politically- the Democrats are badly dug in. Even a place as bad as New York state only needed the NYC metropolitan area shut down, and there they didn't even shut down the one thing that spread the disease most efficiently.
Y'all are talking movies & TV?
My favorite show is Fauda on Netflix. Kick-ass Israeli Commandos going after Muslim terrorists. Really good - seems real.
So here's a fun fact: the Italian island of Ischia (accessible via ferry or hydrofoil from the port of Naples) has quite the storied history with the old school Hollywood types and was a welcome diversion from carrier life whenever we pulled into Naples for a port visit.
Plus I have extended family, by way of a brother in law, who have owned and operated a restaurant on the island for about 3 or 4 generations now.
Very reasonable rates in season, great beaches, unbelievable seafood, fun nightlife.
J Farmer,
Perhaps. With Orlando Bloom, I'll give you that. Damn, he was sweet in LOTR, though. Leonardo diCaprio got fat. And I get tired of his environmental posturing. Maybe we should wed him to Greta. That would be karma.
Anderson Cooper. Dweeb.
I don't understand why I need to know the sexual proclivities of people on TV doing things other than anything that has to do with sex. I just don't give a shit about them personally. I don't want to know whom they fuck, what their favorite color is, what they like to eat, anything. Just stop.
And since when does being opposed to gay marriage mean you want to see gay people shot down like dogs? Give me a fucking break.
BAY AREA GUY!!!!!
I AM LITERALLY WATCHING FAUDA AS WE SPEAK!!!!!! LOVE IT. Was thinking maybe I should learn Hebrew. Why not?
Anne-I-Am: "Willem Defoe does not have the face of a hero. He overacts at times, but I enjoy him."
Loved him in "Flight Of The Intruder".
He was just describing sop at nbc and cbs, it didnt surprise the bush whelp what he was saying.
Bonfire was such a great book a dickens or trollope for the modern age, di palma deserves his second fatwa for what he did.
Jay Vogt said...
goops playing Hillary
Gwineth "Vaj-candle" Paltrow as the Hildabeast??
. . . . I meant "goops"
Anne: "I AM LITERALLY WATCHING FAUDA AS WE SPEAK!!!!!! LOVE IT. Was thinking maybe I should learn Hebrew. Why not?"
My wife is in the second of 3 semesters of Hebrew after a year and a half of Greek.
Both the Greek and Hebrew are the "ancient" forms, not the modern.
Yes i was thinking of that one, a film that perished because it was too topical.
. . . mistype again!!!
I meant "oooops".
Yancey,
Wisconsin, not surprisingly in a way, says to NY "Hold my beer".
Earlier today my wife had PBS on during lunch, showing old episodes of “As Time Goes.By”, a British sitcom starring Judi Dench (before she became Dame Judith) and great character actor Geoffrey Palmer. I saw her do a comedy bit using just her eyes that left me amazed. The show ran for 167 episodes between 1992 to 2005.
The great ones make it look easy.
Goopy Gwyneth can't play Hilary. She is too soft and feminine. Glenn Close could play the old Hilary. Young one? Do we have a blond dyke-ish actress who is unsympathetic and laughs like a hyena?
Too topical. True.
Still, a really fun flat-hatting flight sequence into Subic Bay.
@Yancy
maybe not-- they can just blame Trump's 'poor, weak leadership and resulting hysteria' that caused them to 'go against their better judgement' to shut things down.
"Hell-- this crazy shutdown wasnt our idea-- it was that big Orange Buffoon!!"
The actors I like the best that are still alive today and acting:
(1) Gary Oldman
(2) Anthony Hopkins
(3) Denzel Washington
(4) Helen Mirren
(5) Bruce Willis
(6) Robert Downey Jr.
Yes, I have Willis in that list. Of course, all of them are now long in the tooth. I don't watch a lot of movies made in the last decade. What I have seen of Ryan Gosling (mentioned above in the comments) impressed me, but the truth is I have seen only 3 films he has been in.
Glenn Close could play the old Hilary.
Just started re watching Damages. You are correct. Glenn a bitch
When you realize that it was Yosemite Sam who played Jessica Rabbit, the question of best actor of all time gets simple.
@Anne I A
yes too delicate. Maybe a 'roided-up Ellen?
She has the cankles and the cackle down
Drago said...So here's a fun fact: the Italian island of Ischia
Ischia looks like a bigger version of Capri -- the undoing of Friedrich Krupp's suicide and the penultimate cause of Kaiser Wilhelm II's hold on Big Bertha and the holding company.
I wonder -- was Ischia or Capri the inspiration for Pleasure Island as portrayed in Pinnocchio?
My favorite show is Fauda on Netflix. Kick-ass Israeli Commandos going after Muslim terrorists. Really good - seems real.
Great series. Not being familiar with the actors in foreign film makes it more fun.
Easier to suspend disbelief.
Hell-- this crazy shutdown wasnt our idea-- it was that big Orange Buffoon!
If Impeachment 3.0 can't be Trump's under-reaction to COVID, then let's make it his over-reaction! Brilliant!!
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