... you can talk all night, but don't talk about the re-impeachment here. Go one post down for that. Keep Trump out of this one. This is a Trump-free safe space. Let's talk about safe spaces and other concepts that recently were big but have disappeared. A difficult topic, because who can remember what is forgotten. What's the most important thing you forgot recently? What's your favorite time of day? What songs can you think of that depict romantic love as a very casual, easy-going activity? Do those songs annoy you or were you hoping they'd influence potential partners not to be too demanding?
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«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 222 of 222Crack Emcee: Gab - home of Qanon conspiracies became famous in 2018:
The platform made headlines in October 2018 after a gunman opened fire in Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue and killed 11 worshipers. Robert Bowers, who is accused of the crime, spent years posting anti-Semitic rhetoric on Gab. His final post before the shooting read, “I can’t sit by and watch my people get slaughtered. Screw your optics, I’m going in.”
So now it is good because a certain person's lying tweets can all be found there? That person's failson-in-law would not seek family activation there - perhaps because said fail-son-in-law is Jewish.
Mozart’s Nozze di Figaro is the most delightful, elegant, gorgeous 3 hours of music ever written. My idea of perfection. I’ve been enjoying a newer recording: Rene Jacobs with Concerto Koln.
I think Michael K would say 12 who ruled pitched at a higher level than citizens.
"Mozart’s Nozze di Figaro is the most delightful, elegant, gorgeous 3 hours of music ever written."
Perhaps this is true. I am only familiar with some of that opera, from hearing it in the movie Shawshank Redemption when Andy plays it over the loudspeaker after locking the door. A great scene from a really good movie.
Platform or publisher?
Weirder than the predictable disappearance of soc media entities are the unspecified reasons for reinstatement.
"Hey. Just letting you know who's boss, ok?"
"As for not wanting him to post, you are in a place to fix that condition."
Only by manual deletion.
Dude gotta go.
In the words of YOUR VP/P.
(Oh..Gadfly might have opted out of election so as to preserve his China doll hands oh so clean)
Long cool woman in a black dress was a good tune tonight. Congrats AA, much appreciated
Take a hint Chuck(!)
Gentle On My Mind
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi. An absolutely riveting movie and true story.
Most Fleetwood Mac songs. Same with the Hollies.
gadfly said...
'So now it is good because a certain person's lying tweets,..."
How do you guys overlook the Clinton's THREE DECADES OF CRIMES to spew that garbage on a guy who's only been in politics for FIVE YEARS? Don't you know you sound insane?
I know how it happens: If Steve Jobs' gurus gave him a "Reality Distortion Field" (and they did) and Oprah got "The Oprah Effect" from hers (and she did) then Christopher Hitchens' 1998 description of Bill's "willingness to get really rough when changing the subject, and what I consider to be an eerie and unattractive ability to get liberals to keep their mouths tight shut. They've kept them shut, ever since, about that sort of calculation" is still spot-on.
From my experiences as a Postmaster:
1. Package delivery on Sundays: my tenure was 84-2000. For the longest time, only Express Mail was delivered on Sundays. Then, during December, all Priority Mail and many parcels, no matter the class, were attempted so as not to have a huge backlog on Mondays. Now, as far as I have been told, the Sunday deliveries also include all Amazon parcels, as it is required in the contract.
2. Delays in mail may indeed by due to sick calls in the USPS, but not necessarily sick employees. Postal employees get a very generous amount of Sick Leave time and a great majority of them use it willy-nilly. The day after Monday night football was a big sick leave day, any day before or after a three day Holiday weekend also, and stormy weather in South Florida would bring the calls in. We had carriers and clerks with 20 years plus of service with NO sick leave balances because as soon as they acquired 8 hours of leave, they would use it. When I resigned from the USPS, I lost $35,000 in unused Sick Leave. I didn't call in sick when I wasn't and I was blessed with good health. You also cannot take it with you, tho many employees, CRAFT and MANAGEMENT, would begin using their sick leave prior to retirement so as to leave the organization with a zero balance. Doctors went along
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“hours of waltzing elephants” is not a remotely accurate description of what Fantasia is. Give it a try.
"The wonder of Youtube, though, is the ability to listen to any performance of any concerto you want to hear."
Sure, but the audio quality will be terrible unless you want it for background music.
Mozart's greatest music is in the operas and quintets and piano concertos. Beethoven's is in the late quartets and the piano sonatas. Bach's is in the cantatas, passions, and keyboard music.
Listen to cantata 106, Actus Tragicus.
Don’t forget Schubert!
Morning! It's nice here today--mid-40s and partly cloudy. It has been too cloudy the last few evenings for me to see the trio in the SW, unfortunately.
Leaving aside the big symphonic and concerto repertory discussion (I'll have to come back), what has changed for me over the decades is my appreciation for chamber music and smaller ensembles.
There, kudos go to Beethoven's late quartets, Mozart trios, and Brahms' handful of the types. And the divine Bohemian, of course.
The Brandenburgs are beyond perfect; if that's all we had from Old Bach he'd still be one of the greatest that ever composed.
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There are other Beethoven 4th PC fans. Cool!
A new understanding of self-defense by the defenders of the killing of Ashli Babbett: If the shooter believes some or all people in the vicinity of the victim are carrying a concealed weapon, the shooter was justified in believing that the victim was carrying a concealed weapon. Therefore it was reasonable for him to fear he was in danger of being killed or seriously injured. The fact that the non-existent concealed weapon obviously could not be visible at the time is irrelevant.
You must be missing a qualifier like "credible". Otherwise a cop could just start picking off anyone thought to be concealing a weapon...which is sort of a conundrum in itself. Perhaps reaching into pocket, waistline etc.
>>Not sure how accurate it is, but The Scarlet Pimpernel is fun and also free.
Late (very late) to the party, as always.
Read the paperback book maybe 50 years ago. Don't think I have it any more. One of the losses in moving from Chicago to Cambridge at age 17 and never going back.
The movie versions are also fun.
The 1930s version with Leslie Howard (not a big fan in general) and Merle Oberon, plus Raymond Massey as the villain and Nigel Bruce as the clueless Prince of Wales.
Then the 1980s (TV?) version, with Jane Seymour (queen of TV movies at the time) and Anthony Andrews (most known at the time, probably, for Brideshead Revisited on PBS from Britain). And Ian McKellen as the villain! Have to admit I didn't remember that one until I looked it up.
And Julian Fellowes as the Prince of Wales! JF, whom I originally knew as a (blowhard) character on Monarch of the Glen. But also the force behind Gosford Park and Downton Abbey. An anti-American blowhard (as revealed by GP, DA, etc.), but still the producer of some great stuff.
--gpm
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