Did you know that GoFundMe has suspended the site supporting the Canadian Truckers (many of whom are Sikhs, a Canadian minority group) but has left up a site for Darrell Brooks who drove a truck into the Christmas Parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin in 2021? Brooks killed six people with his truck and injured 62, including many children.
Any Oregonians out there? We are considering a trip to eastern and south-coastal Oregon in the summer, with unvaccinated friends, and they (especially) don't want to deal with masking the way we would in Portland. What's it like in the Oregon "heartland," so to speak?
@rocean I saw BB King for the first time as the opening act for Marshall Tucker Band in Cleveland in 1981. Opening act... Opened a whole new world of blues to me. Saw him 3 or 4 more times over the years last in about 2001. Incredible career
Jamie @ 7:42. Drift down into northeastern California's Modoc County. Warner Mountains, friendly, beautiful, etc. No masks. Nobody in Sacramento even knows where it is.
Jamie @ 7:42. Drift down into northeastern California's Modoc County. Warner Mountains, friendly, beautiful, etc. No masks. Nobody in Sacramento even knows where it is.
rcocean - try albert king and stevie ray vaughan. even i - who am not easily impressed - was impressed the first time i heard those two performing together.
I appeared on a Webex call this afternoon with Omaha Public Power District. They claim they can achieve net carbon zero and only increase rates by 0.3-0.6% per year for the next 30 years. I used OPPD’s own numbers and that of the Iowa utility and figured OPPD will have to borrow $ 20 billion and double or triple rates.
Do not crucify OPPD ratepayers on a cross of wind turbine blades!
"ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - Less than three months after a similar procession was held for fallen officer Michael Chandler, law enforcement agencies across the commonwealth came together Thursday to hold a procession along 81 North for Officers Vashon “JJ” Jefferson and John Painter. Other than the sound of rain hitting cars and the pavement, it was a silent affair.
Before the hearses rounded the curves of the Medical Examiner’s parking lot in Roanoke, family members of John Painter cried and hugged, gearing up for what might be the hardest 100 miles of their lives. The family for Officer Jefferson was too emotional to come to Roanoke."
Marking Breyer's (upcoming) retirement by watching First Monday in October. The country has changed a lot in forty years. Apparently, everybody back then was White. There was less political polarization even in a movie about politics. The first big issue -- pornography -- isn't one anymore. The second -- getting beyond the the oil economy and the internal combustion engine -- is superficially more relevant, but not really.
Our sense of humor has also changed a lot. What people laughed at in 1981 isn't so funny anymore. What was once clever banter comes across as only mildly droll, and the rest of the dialogue doesn't seem very realistic nowadays. For me at least, it's not easy to sit through the whole thing.
It doesn't look like Walter Matthau's best curmudgeonly work. It's nice to see Jill Clayburgh in her prime. There may have been a sense that she was doing something new back then, but it's hard to recapture it now. James Stephens from television's The Paper Chase plays Matthau's clerk reminding us that The Paper Chase set off a wave of interest in lawyers and law schools in the Seventies.
My husband and I saw B.B King in 1995 at Humphreys Concerts by the Bay (an outdoor summer theater in San Diego). It was a fantastic evening. One of the best concerts I’ve been to.
I got drunk in BB kings bar in Memphis once. Elvis's house the next morning. Then on to Disneyworld. The year the Northwestern Football team went crazy and won the conference. It was the same week as the Florida St-Florida game. Quite a few asked about Northwestern. Sillinois plates. 1996ish.
The country has changed a lot in forty years. Apparently, everybody back then was White. There was less political polarization even in a movie about politics.
Indeed. In 1980, the white working class was about 2/3 of the US population. That share has decreased every year since while the share of whites with college degrees and non-whites with or without degrees has increased. Today, the white working class is less than 40% of the US population. Their share of total income and total wealth declined even more dramatically. The Democratic support for desegregation, civil rights, and voting rights initiated a realignment and ideological sorting of the two political parties that was underway at the time and would probably reach a tipping point by the 1994 election. It's been the Hatfield's and the McCoy's ever since.
Finally cleared the house of hillbilly relatives this week. It’s been a revolving cast of characters since Thanksgiving. I can now sit and enjoy The French Dispatch without wrecking the experience with questions and excessive judgement…
I thought it was good but not high on Wes best. Reviews had made it out as his masterpiece.
I think for critics it’s a case of: movie about famous writers > movie about badgers
Remember when Bill Clinton was getting into a little political trouble due to his predilection for diddling the help? Remember when he launched those two cruise missiles into a sovereign Afghanistan to bounce some rocks around, you know, to change the subject? That turned out great in the long run. Turned out that you could turn an airliner into a cruise missile with a box cutter; who would have guessed?
Anyway, I am sure that Biden's adventure in Ukraine will turn out great for America.
Anybody else grow up watching Fireball XL5? They just named a near Earth asteroid XL5, and I don't like where the writers of the simulation are going with this.
As I finally made my way back home, after talking to dozens of truckers into the night, I realized I met someone from every province except PEI. They all have a deep love for this country. They believe in it. They believe in Canadians. These are the people that Canada relies on to build its infrastructure, deliver its goods, and fill the ranks of its military in times of war. The overwhelming concern they have is that the vaccine mandates are creating an untouchable class of Canadians. They didn’t make high-falutin arguments from Plato’s Republic, Locke’s treatises, or Bagehot’s interpretation of Westminster parliamentary systems. Instead, they see their government willing to push a class of people outside the boundaries of society, deny them a livelihood, and deny them full membership in the most welcoming country in the world; and they said enough. Last night I learned my new neighbours are not a monstrous faceless occupying mob. They are our moral conscience reminding us – with every blow of their horns – what we should have never forgotten: We are not a country that makes an untouchable class out of our citizens.
The Washington Commanders ..Commander of Health ..Commander of Education ..Commander of Housing ..Commander of Transportation ..Commanders of Security ....Commander of Border Security ....Commander of Internal Security ....Commander of Prosecutions ....Commander of Intelligence Gathering
I’ve seen BB in concert at least four times. Listening to The Thrill is Gone live is indescribable. I generally don’t care for Christmas music but BB’s Christmas album is amazing
Thank you for that link Tim in Vermont. My liberal sister in CO was bemoaning that there were no scheduled hockey games for the next (a couple of days ago) eight days. I sent her a clip of street hockey in Ottowa and she replied that since 90% of the truckers were vaxxed they ought to break it up and get back to work. It is such an upside down world in which actual violent protests are applauded and actual peaceful ones scorned. I've been watching for an Althouse blog on the worldwide (or any) trucking protest effort. Have I missed it? Is she really that disinterested?
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Did you know that GoFundMe has suspended the site supporting the Canadian Truckers (many of whom are Sikhs, a Canadian minority group) but has left up a site for Darrell Brooks who drove a truck into the Christmas Parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin in 2021? Brooks killed six people with his truck and injured 62, including many children.
You know, I HAD IT. I had a TWO -- only to be denied on that last letter.
Ended up muffing the resulting two inch putt and ended up carding a FOUR.
Never saw the movie attraction of George Raft.
And I've read that he was the first choice for a lot of big movie roles that he turned down.
Any Oregonians out there? We are considering a trip to eastern and south-coastal Oregon in the summer, with unvaccinated friends, and they (especially) don't want to deal with masking the way we would in Portland. What's it like in the Oregon "heartland," so to speak?
No brown fat for you!
listening to B.B. King. How did I ever miss this guy? Great music.
I had some hope for the new mayor of NYC, especially considering who he was replacing.
But I am not impressed. I'm so tired of mediocrities when we need real leadership.
And Biden, while visiting him, makes a fool of himself again.
What a sad spectacle our country has become.
That sucks, wildswan. What a degenerate outfit GoFutzMe is.
Wordled in four today.
rcocean, a world of pleasure awaits. B. B. King was one of America's greatest artists.
@rocean I saw BB King for the first time as the opening act for Marshall Tucker Band in Cleveland in 1981. Opening act...
Opened a whole new world of blues to me. Saw him 3 or 4 more times over the years last in about 2001. Incredible career
'listening to B.B. King. How did I ever miss this guy? Great music.'
I met him once...he was a nice, friendly guy.
Jamie @ 7:42. Drift down into northeastern California's Modoc County. Warner Mountains, friendly, beautiful, etc. No masks. Nobody in Sacramento even knows where it is.
Jamie @ 7:42. Drift down into northeastern California's Modoc County. Warner Mountains, friendly, beautiful, etc. No masks. Nobody in Sacramento even knows where it is.
rcocean - try albert king and stevie ray vaughan. even i - who am not easily impressed - was impressed the first time i heard those two performing together.
"they call it stormy Monday but Tuesday's just as bad"
I appeared on a Webex call this afternoon with Omaha Public Power District. They claim they can achieve net carbon zero and only increase rates by 0.3-0.6% per year for the next 30 years. I used OPPD’s own numbers and that of the Iowa utility and figured OPPD will have to borrow $ 20 billion and double or triple rates.
Do not crucify OPPD ratepayers on a cross of wind turbine blades!
Carthage must be destroyed!
rcocean said...
listening to B.B. King. How did I ever miss this guy? Great music.
You're either 24 years old or you grew up Amish?
The workers of the world are arising — and the targets of their rage are the Marxists. I love it.
Saw police and fire vehicles lined up on the overpasses on I-81 in Virginia today. This is what it was about: Hundreds of First Responders Line Interstate for Procession of Fallen Officers
"ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - Less than three months after a similar procession was held for fallen officer Michael Chandler, law enforcement agencies across the commonwealth came together Thursday to hold a procession along 81 North for Officers Vashon “JJ” Jefferson and John Painter. Other than the sound of rain hitting cars and the pavement, it was a silent affair.
Before the hearses rounded the curves of the Medical Examiner’s parking lot in Roanoke, family members of John Painter cried and hugged, gearing up for what might be the hardest 100 miles of their lives. The family for Officer Jefferson was too emotional to come to Roanoke."
Raft outfit ny
Too cold for photos? I feel your pain. Down here in Little Rock, AR, it never got above 25 degrees today. Colder than a mother-in-law’s kiss.
Marking Breyer's (upcoming) retirement by watching First Monday in October. The country has changed a lot in forty years. Apparently, everybody back then was White. There was less political polarization even in a movie about politics. The first big issue -- pornography -- isn't one anymore. The second -- getting beyond the the oil economy and the internal combustion engine -- is superficially more relevant, but not really.
Our sense of humor has also changed a lot. What people laughed at in 1981 isn't so funny anymore. What was once clever banter comes across as only mildly droll, and the rest of the dialogue doesn't seem very realistic nowadays. For me at least, it's not easy to sit through the whole thing.
It doesn't look like Walter Matthau's best curmudgeonly work. It's nice to see Jill Clayburgh in her prime. There may have been a sense that she was doing something new back then, but it's hard to recapture it now. James Stephens from television's The Paper Chase plays Matthau's clerk reminding us that The Paper Chase set off a wave of interest in lawyers and law schools in the Seventies.
My husband and I saw B.B King in 1995 at Humphreys Concerts by the Bay (an outdoor summer theater in San Diego). It was a fantastic evening. One of the best concerts I’ve been to.
I got drunk in BB kings bar in Memphis once. Elvis's house the next morning. Then on to Disneyworld. The year the Northwestern Football team went crazy and won the conference. It was the same week as the Florida St-Florida game. Quite a few asked about Northwestern. Sillinois plates. 1996ish.
All that from BB King. I'm my own internet.
@Lurker21:
The country has changed a lot in forty years. Apparently, everybody back then was White. There was less political polarization even in a movie about politics.
Indeed. In 1980, the white working class was about 2/3 of the US population. That share has decreased every year since while the share of whites with college degrees and non-whites with or without degrees has increased. Today, the white working class is less than 40% of the US population. Their share of total income and total wealth declined even more dramatically. The Democratic support for desegregation, civil rights, and voting rights initiated a realignment and ideological sorting of the two political parties that was underway at the time and would probably reach a tipping point by the 1994 election. It's been the Hatfield's and the McCoy's ever since.
John Mayall is still alive. Godfather of the British Blues.
Finally cleared the house of hillbilly relatives this week. It’s been a revolving cast of characters since Thanksgiving. I can now sit and enjoy The French Dispatch without wrecking the experience with questions and excessive judgement…
I thought it was good but not high on Wes best. Reviews had made it out as his masterpiece.
I think for critics it’s a case of: movie about famous writers > movie about badgers
Nice cameo by one of the guard beagles…
Pealosi to US Olympians: "Shut up and dribble". Shame she didn't have the same mindset for Colin Kaepernick.
B.B. King was legitimate great. I wish I had seen him in concert.
Remember when Bill Clinton was getting into a little political trouble due to his predilection for diddling the help? Remember when he launched those two cruise missiles into a sovereign Afghanistan to bounce some rocks around, you know, to change the subject? That turned out great in the long run. Turned out that you could turn an airliner into a cruise missile with a box cutter; who would have guessed?
Anyway, I am sure that Biden's adventure in Ukraine will turn out great for America.
Anybody else grow up watching Fireball XL5? They just named a near Earth asteroid XL5, and I don't like where the writers of the simulation are going with this.
Big Mike said...
"The workers of the world are arising — and the targets of their rage are the Marxists."
And the workers are finding out just how much Their Betters hate them.
via SmallDeadAnimals
As I finally made my way back home, after talking to dozens of truckers into the night, I realized I met someone from every province except PEI. They all have a deep love for this country. They believe in it. They believe in Canadians. These are the people that Canada relies on to build its infrastructure, deliver its goods, and fill the ranks of its military in times of war. The overwhelming concern they have is that the vaccine mandates are creating an untouchable class of Canadians. They didn’t make high-falutin arguments from Plato’s Republic, Locke’s treatises, or Bagehot’s interpretation of Westminster parliamentary systems. Instead, they see their government willing to push a class of people outside the boundaries of society, deny them a livelihood, and deny them full membership in the most welcoming country in the world; and they said enough. Last night I learned my new neighbours are not a monstrous faceless occupying mob. They are our moral conscience reminding us – with every blow of their horns – what we should have never forgotten: We are not a country that makes an untouchable class out of our citizens.
https://maybury.ca/the-reformed-physicist/2022/02/03/a-night-with-the-untouchables/
Maybe the bolded stuff is ironic and intended as sarcasm.
https://twitter.com/Powdered_ET/status/1489359971510800386?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1489359971510800386%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Face.mu.nu%2F387713
What’s this about?
From Bari Weiss's Substack this AM:
BLM is the Theranos of social justice.
The Washington Commanders
..Commander of Health
..Commander of Education
..Commander of Housing
..Commander of Transportation
..Commanders of Security
....Commander of Border Security
....Commander of Internal Security
....Commander of Prosecutions
....Commander of Intelligence Gathering
"listening to B.B. King. How did I ever miss this guy? Great music."
I listen to Blues almost exclusively now. So much more than just BB King.
I’ve seen BB in concert at least four times. Listening to The Thrill is Gone live is indescribable. I generally don’t care for Christmas music but BB’s Christmas album is amazing
Mike Bloomfield played lead guitar on "Like a Rolling Stone." As he was warming up, Dylan told him "I don't want any of that BB King stuff."
There's a time and place for everything, I guess.
Thank you for that link Tim in Vermont. My liberal sister in CO was bemoaning that there were no scheduled hockey games for the next (a couple of days ago) eight days. I sent her a clip of street hockey in Ottowa and she replied that since 90% of the truckers were vaxxed they ought to break it up and get back to work. It is such an upside down world in which actual violent protests are applauded and actual peaceful ones scorned. I've been watching for an Althouse blog on the worldwide (or any) trucking protest effort. Have I missed it? Is she really that disinterested?
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