ADDED: I knew Daylight Savings had happened. I put it in the post title. But I wrote 6:09 — though I'd just looked at the info for the picture and seen that it was 7:09. At least I didn't miss any appointments.
March 12, 2023
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My minireview last night of The Fabelmans: did Blogger eat it or was it censored for some reason? It's gone now, but here goes a recreation.
It was not a bad movie. I was a little worried that Spielberg would go over the top with his usual sentimentality. The film really belonged to Michelle Williams, who played Spielberg's mother, not to the actor playing young Stephen.
Spielberg may be feeling nostalgic for his younger years, and his team did a good job of recreating the external appearance of the Fifties and Sixties, but somehow it didn't feel authentic. Spielberg drew on his childhood in so many of his pictures, that Fabelmans seems more like a visit to a timeless Spielbergland than a trip back 60 years. I didn't feel particularly nostalgic even though my father worked for the same company as Spielberg and our families lived not so far apart.
Where I walk along Lake Washington, there is significant beaver activity. A tree over-hanging the water like your photo, would be promptly dispatched.
@ Lurker21
Thanks for saying that. It and some other things did go into spam. I’ve released about 10 comments. That was very unusual!
I guess I need to check the spam
Trap and skeet this morning in the snow. Lost some in the snow. Still a fun time. Naturally it quit snowing on the way home.
So cold...
97 degrees in south Texas today.
Cold front coming through tonight. High of 73 tomorrow. I could send you some pictures, but they would not be nearly as nice as our hostess'.
Oscar prediction: (I don't believe they've started) At some point Matt damon will go onstage and slap Jimmy Kimmel.
So I've filled out 39 free brackets and I've got Duke winning all 39 of them.
Lately, I am bombarded with ads on every medium telling me that I can start betting on sports legally now.
Does anybody know anything about sports? Or betting?
Still dark at that time in Missoula. We really get screwed by DST.
As pleased as I am that so many people have been spared the misery of losing their livelihoods to the SVB debacle, you know there will be a price paid for the bailout in additional regulation. Moral hazard kept the government at bay. Now there will be no fence keeping them out. When it's their money, it's their rules.
Is there any reason why trans women don’t seem interested in playing women basketball?
Trans never seen interested in team sports.
It all seems highly irregular.
Not to nitpick, but it looks too light to be 6:09am DST. Maybe 7:09? Sunrise was 7:15am.
George Will threw nothing but strikes in his May 18, 2018 column, reminding us today exactly what Bible-thumping Mike Pence provided to America through the Trump Administration. Last Saturday Pence began searching for an argument that he could use to convince us that he should be the next president.
Donald Trump, with his feral cunning, knew. The oleaginous Mike Pence, with his talent for toadyism and appetite for obsequiousness, could, Trump knew, become America’s most repulsive public figure. And Pence, who has reached this pinnacle by dethroning his benefactor, is augmenting the public stock of useful knowledge. Because his is the authentic voice of today’s lickspittle Republican Party, he clarifies this year’s elections: Vote Republican to ratify groveling as governing.
Last June [2017], a Trump Cabinet meeting featured testimonials offered to Dear Leader by his forelock-tugging colleagues. His chief of staff, Reince Priebus, caught the spirit of the worship service by thanking Trump for the “blessing” of being allowed to serve him. The hosannas poured forth from around the table, unredeemed by even a scintilla of insincerity. . . . The vice president chimed in but saved his best riff for a December Cabinet meeting when, as The Post’s Aaron Blake calculated, Pence praised Trump once every 12 seconds for three minutes: “I’m deeply humbled. . . . ” Judging by the number of times Pence announces himself “humbled,” he might seem proud of his humility, but that is impossible because he is conspicuously devout and pride is a sin. . . . Pence is what he has chosen to be, which is horrifying.
Students of World War II history and the events leading up to it will remember the once-famous Oxford Union Society debate of 1933, at the end of which the proposition "This House will under no circumstances fight for King and Country" was passed by nearly a two-to-one margin. Churchill and other historians have claimed that news of the event emboldened the newly-elected Adolf Hitler, and contributed indirectly to the outbreak of war six years later.
Something I read tonight led me to wonder if we are currently seeing a similar inflection point in our national history, when an event that may have seemed trivial and ephemeral in the moment turns out to have crystallized a much more portentous shift in public opinion.
I saw a Twitter thread that began with a tweet posted a day or two ago by the current Secretary of the Army, who is not only an undistinguished ultra-woke mediocrity of the sort that makes up the vast majority of our civil service, but has never worn the uniform a day in her life. This post was exhorting the youth of America to join the Army for the "challenges" and "opportunity" it offered. Curiously for these days, the soldiers chosen for the accompanying photograph were predominantly white men, including the staff sergeant leading the squad.
It wasn't just the spectacular ratio that distinguished this thread. The thousands of comments that followed, a great number of which are from people who claim prior personal and family service in the military, were by my estimation 99% in opposition to young people joining today's Army. Of those, perhaps 80% were openly hostile and contemptuous, and at least a third of them expressed their vituperation with terms and sentiments that would have seen their authors immediately kicked off Twitter in the days before Elon Musk. Much of the invective made reference to the foolishness and immorality of sending our young people to die for the benefit of Israel, or "butt-sex in Botswana", or the profit margin of Raytheon, or the lucrative money-laundry that Ukraine provided for the Biden family and other DC Uniparty bigfoots for so many years.
Joe Biden and his myrmidons apparently think that they can persuade the young white men of Idaho and Alabama to patriotically sign up for a bloody war in Eastern Europe. It would appear to me that they are gravely mistaken. This thread should be required reading for the entire Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Flyover country is gearing up for a war, all right, but the target is a little closer to home.
As Bonchie at Redstate has noticed, David French ("True Conservative") has, as predicted, come out 100% for the radical, lunatic, far left trans agenda targeting America's children....to "conserve conservatism".
Given LLR-democratical Chuck's bizarre homosexual rape fantasy sexual meltdown yesterday (Sunday), Chuckles strong, sustained and passionate support for French's psychotic leftist policy positions over the years now makes alot more sense.
Biden will address the nation this morning on the banking crisis. Apparently he will assure the serfs the crisis is only "transitory'.
A second bank, Signature Bank, is being bailed out by the feds. One board member of the bank has an expertise in the financial world. That would be former house rep Barney Frank (D-Mass), famous for his quote: " "I want to roll the dice a little bit more in this situation toward subsidized housing."
They never go away, do they?
The Iditarod is finishing up and I didn't even realize it was running. I wish there were a way to showcase the event, it's so magnificent. You'd think with drones and youtube income the event would find a way.
Lurker21 said...Does anybody know anything about sports? Or betting?
As far as I can tell, it works like this: you find two teams that look like a mismatch (there are lots of sports sites that will help with game prognostication), where one team is basically a lock to beat the other and you place your bet accordingly. Then during the game something happens that you almost never see and no one expected and you lose your money.
It has been reported that Senator John Fetterman (D-Psych Ward) is working feverishly on the banking crisis from his hospital couch. Photos to follow.
"Signature Bank in New York once had a close business relationship with the Trump family with Ivanka serving on the bank’s board of directors from 2011-2013, but the bank severed ties with President Trump and closed his accounts in protest of the January 6, 2021 riot at the Capitol and called for his resignation. Two years later Signature Bank collapsed and was taken over by regulators."
Karma BABY!!
Just another Barney Frank collapse.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/03/trump-curse-signature-bank-fails-two-years-after-bank-closed-president-trumps-accounts-over-january-6-riot/
Blogger Hassayamper said...Joe Biden and his myrmidons apparently think that they can persuade the young white men of Idaho and Alabama to patriotically sign up for a bloody war in Eastern Europe. It would appear to me that they are gravely mistaken....
I believe you are correct. I have read several articles on the armed forces not meeting their recruitment goals and they pointed to this exact issue. Why would any straight white male want to be a part of this clusterfuck, especially ones from the South where they have done very well recruiting in the past?
GAdfly - none of that matters.
What does matter? When Trump was Pres - Life was good.
Now that Chi Com Corrupt Crook Joe and his marionettes have taken over - life sucks.
The Stanford mess gets even messier. What a joke. Time to shun these types of schools. They are NOT for free speech, unless it is speech they agree with.
"In what may constitute the most tone deaf response to an academic scandal in history, Stanford University is advising conservative students involved with the recently cancelled Federalist Society event that they can “reach out” to various resources, including DEI Dean Tirien Steinbach who helped shutdown the event. It is akin to the Oscars telling Chris Rock that Will Smith is available as an emotional support coach. You know what is emotionally therapeutic for those denied free speech? Free speech."
https://jonathanturley.org/2023/03/13/stanford-advises-law-students-that-they-can-seek-support-from-the-dei-dean-who-supported-their-denial-of-free-speech/#more-202013
I lived in Madison (Middleton to "commute to my classes in Madison") in the 1980s. I"m aware of the phenomenon of "ice on the lake --- no ice on the lake" . But I never had the time/inclination to explore this. Why does the ice disappear so quickly?
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