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May 21, 2023

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50 comments:

Owen said...: Beautiful. Makes me think of a steel bar heated in a forge: the gradation of colors, the symmetry of shapes. Austere but gorgeous.; 5/21/23, 10:48 AM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: NY Post: Justice Neil Gorsuch blasts COVID response as one of ‘greatest intrusions on civil liberties’.; 5/21/23, 11:16 AM
Political Junkie said...: Lovely photo.
I assume open comments post.

1. WSJ has a must read piece today by John Danforth on his friend Clarence Thomas and PBS. Danforth would have been a great U.S. president.

2. With top athlete salaries now passing 50 million, and with some at 100 million, I think R's should propose drastically raising the rate on high end income tax bracket. What are the downsides? A growing percentage of these folks are left of center, it will fight wealth and income inequality, help the deficit and fight inflation, and if we get less of this group, so what. Also this can hit the trial lawyers, investment bankers, media conglomerates, etc. The R's wont do it, we all know.; 5/21/23, 11:18 AM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Nobody is taking this back

It's as thou it never happened.; 5/21/23, 12:07 PM
Political Junkie said...: My final babble for the day. Work/chores await.

In reading Sleeping With the Enemy - Coco Chanel's Secret War, the number of German troops in Paris/France during the war was mentioned. I can't recall/find the number, maybe was a 1 million. While there are huge differences between the Nazi Germany invasion of France and what has happened along the southern U.S border over the last 40 years, consider that over that time period the number of illegal alien crossings is probably between 30 and 50 million.

One is viewed as an invasion, the other is viewed completely differently.

Demographics determine destiny.; 5/21/23, 1:14 PM
gilbar said...: do you ever think, about HOW SLEAZY our 'betters' are?
Jeffrey Epstein Appeared to Threaten Bill Gates Over Microsoft Co-Founder’s Affair With Russian Bridge Player
Jeffrey Epstein discovered that Bill Gates had an affair with a Russian bridge player and later appeared to use his knowledge to threaten one of the world’s richest men, according to people familiar with the matter.
The Microsoft co-founder met the woman around 2010, when she was in her 20s.
Epstein met her in 2013 and later paid for her to attend software coding school.

So, this was like, six years AFTER Epstein was charged (and convicted) for being a pedo pimp.

Sure, a girl in her 20's isn't a child, but in 2010, Gates was WHAT? 65? 70?
The ONLY word to describe that relationship is SLEEAZY; 5/21/23, 1:31 PM
gilbar said...: Political Junkie said...
With top athlete salaries now passing 50 million, and with some at 100 million, I think R's should propose drastically raising the rate on high end income tax bracket.

the Best Part, would be Forcing the dems to go On The Record supporting to Giga-Rich..
Because the dems, could NEVER allow this to happen. Not just the dem pols, either..
Let's Make Jennifer Lawrence go On The Record too!; 5/21/23, 1:34 PM
gilbar said...: Lem the misspeller said...
Nobody is taking this back
It's as thou it never happened.

one of our resident lefties was just Last Week saying, that "NO ONE" had "EVER" claimed that the 'vaccine' would prevent infections.. When people (including ME) posted evidence; he disappeared from thread.; 5/21/23, 2:06 PM
DINKY DAU 45 said...: MAGE just could not get there on a almost 24 and 49,114 pace, Johnny V never expected that, Blazing Sevens good run after very wide trip. Bob Baffert watches one of his horses break down and have to be euthanized and one win the Preakness ($900,000) Just a $30.00 exacta and $48.00 triple. I'll jump back in on the Belmont 1 1/2 with bunch new guys, possible value bets.NO TRIPLE CROWN winner again. Too many of these beautiful animals dying, time for a longer better look, like everything else its always about the Benjamins.; 5/21/23, 2:17 PM
Kai Akker said...: Someone asked a while ago if the Obamas were ever going to produce any movies. "Rustin" is expected out this year, maybe soon. Bayard Rustin is a fascinating figure in the civil rights movement, where his homosexuality forced the movement to keep him lurking just off the very front lines. There is an existing movie, "Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin," that came out in 2003 or so with great real footage from the '50s, '60s, and '70s of this charming, charismatic, contradictory character. The town of West Chester, PA, where Rustin grew up, sponsored a showing earlier this year that I went to. The mayor's family had known Rustin well back in his day, so she had a few points to add that made it seem particularly local and accurate. I strongly suspect that this documentary will tell you a lot more of the truth about Bayard than the Obamas' theatrical production will.; 5/21/23, 3:17 PM
Narr said...: Tax the pampered and perfumed elite jocks? Hmmm.

We could call it, IDK, a Windfall Profits Tax or something like that. Touchdown Tax. Slam-Dunk
Debit. The Give Back Act.; 5/21/23, 4:41 PM
Drago said...: Oh no! Meta announcing 10k more layoffs! Instagram announcing more layoffs and goes down globally!

Dumb Lefty Mark and readering will no doubt be along shortly to explain why Musk is the real culprit.; 5/21/23, 6:26 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Excerpt from Matt and Walter this week podcast about the Durham report.

Walter Kirn: It’s though somebody put up their hand in 2009 or so and said, “We’ve just investigated 9/11, and found out it didn’t happen. It was a video. It didn’t actually occur, but all of the wars and affluent activities that came from it are still in place and we need to protect them.”

It was the ultimate “Oh, that?”

And you talk about how the Durham report has landed to a silence. Well, what other option do people who’ve won Pulitzers for reporting on something that didn’t happen have but to be quiet?

I mean, they can’t really argue that it did happen now. And they can’t really argue that we should be able to report on things that didn’t happen as though they did, because the issues themselves are important. Getting Donald Trump was such an overriding concern that making stuff up was called for.

So they’re stuck. Everybody just has to troop on in this strange double-think way in which we know it didn’t happen, but it was very important anyway, and we had to change our system and our values around to accommodate this thing that didn’t happen.

Matt Taibbi: Even if they wanted to honestly, there would be no way logistically to handle this information. What would you do? Would you have have a special broadcast where Lawrence O’Donnell goes on the air and says, “In light of some new information, basically everything that we’ve talked about on this channel for the last seven years, we’re going to have to retract…”; 5/21/23, 6:27 PM
Big Mike said...: @giobar (1:31), have you forgotten so soon? When you’re rich and famous, they let you …

Damned few come richer, or more famous, than Bill Gates.; 5/21/23, 6:35 PM
Kai Akker said...: ---Too many of these beautiful animals dying, time for a longer better look, like everything else its always about the Benjamins. [Dinkster]

Yes, like how about the one that broke down in the first race, trained by Bob Baffert who a few hours later had one of his horses win the Preakness? Yes, it was the most lackluster field for the Preakness in at least 50 years, but the trophy and the check are still real. Without Mage in there, it wouldn't even have merited a Grade 1.

And Mr. Baffert, with so many dead horses in his wake over the years, found a way to get another over the finish line first. I couldn't listen to the interview once he started the poor-poor-pitiful-me act. Even the most charming horse-doper in the business has finally worn out his welcome, IMO. How many people see him, finally, as little more than an outlaw? But he still has owners, doesn't he? People who entrust him with their valuable racehorses.; 5/21/23, 6:53 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Could the back of mind talk me into the idea I might be "on the spectrum" so as to protect myself from what's coming? 🤔

Science powerhouse Sabine Hossenfelder womansplain, strike that, updates us on the latest on a rapidly evolving field of science. What does it mean (for now) to be on the spectrum? and Why is everyone suddenly neurodivergent?

Bonus video*: Graduate Student Terminated for Exposing Partisan Bias in Counselor Education?
(*from 6 months ago, full disclosure); 5/21/23, 7:02 PM
Kai Akker said...: This careful compilation of "the best" of all the Bob Dylan covers has so many good ones, both known and previously unknown to me, that it almost melted my cold, hard heart. Althouse may have missed it since it appeared on a blog she considers "right-wing."

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/05/not-dark-yet-13.php

The second part of the post, which has all the links to the covers, from Richie Havens to the Grateful Dead with a little Johnny Rivers and Dion in there for good measure.

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/05/not-dark-yet-contd-7.php; 5/21/23, 7:05 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: That's a perfect shot btw.; 5/21/23, 7:20 PM
gilbar said...: 7 Years after Obama Commuted His Life Sentence, Man Shoots Woman in Chicago
54-year-old Alton Mills walked free from prison after receiving a life sentence on federal conspiracy charges for dealing crack cocaine.

But Mills is now looking at another possible life sentence following the shooting, which is expected to be fatal.
The woman Mills shot is brain-dead and not expected to survive her wounds.
Illinois Democrat Sen. Dick Durbin pushed Obama to commute the sentence.
As their Ford Explorer neared the ramp to I-57, the driver pulled up behind Mills’ SUV at a red light, Assistant State’s Attorney Kathryn Morrissey said during Mills’ bail hearing this week.

Mills’ car didn’t move when the light turned green, so the Explorer’s driver pulled around and passed without screaming or honking, according to Morrissey. She said Mills sped to catch up to the Explorer, pulled up next to them, and fired shots from his driver’s window.
Multiple shots were fired into the victim’s vehicle from the suspect’s vehicle, striking the back seat passenger, according to police.

Thanks O'Bama! Thanx Dustbin! Without your work, this lady would be alive today!; 5/21/23, 7:45 PM
BUMBLE BEE said...: VDH laid it all out on the Mark Levin Show tonight.
What is next?
Discuss; 5/21/23, 7:53 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: A bank in London shut down a bank account for apparent political reasons

Deplatform, demonetised, cancel culture is real.; 5/21/23, 8:28 PM
Drago said...: If you get the chance, check out the SpaceX launch of the Axios Ax-2 manned mission to the Space Station.

Amazing isn't it? NASA and private space companies trust Musk's company, his creation with his revolutionary vision, to take humans to and from orbit in reusable rockets and capsules.

Strange.

LLR-democratical Chuck and readering and Dumb Lefty Mark assured me Musk was a nitwit, a clown, an idiot, a destroyer of companies.

Well, I guess we didn't need more proof of just who ISN'T a rocket scientist, did we?; 5/21/23, 8:50 PM
wildswan said...: I read the piece on Buttigieg but then got a stomach bug that is going around and fell out of the sequence. N.B. Reading puff pieces about Dems the whole way through may weaken the immune system. Anyhow, here I am late to the party. I believe Althouse was right when she sensed something strange about the writing. The money paragraph is the one in which Buttigieg says that the Biden administration has given billions for transportation projects and so Buttigieg can fly at any time to any county in the US to visit a transportation project and to meet with all the county leaders. In other words, build a political apparatus. And rest of the writing is intended to suggest that Buttigieg has a working brain. The unspoken thought is that Buttigieg is not like Fetterman, Biden, and Feinstein. Buttigieg is the future. But the subjects of the sentences aren't politics - we hear of Go, of Puritan historiography, of a vast cathedral-like mind, We do not hear of age, senility, denial, succession. Just this young man who is so intelligent that he only needs part of his mind to be smarter than ... than X.; 5/21/23, 8:50 PM
Mutaman said...: Blogger Lem the misspeller said...

"NY Post: Justice Neil Gorsuch blasts COVID response as one of ‘greatest intrusions on civil liberties’."

Far worse than slavery. I had to wear a mask to enter the local deli. What a moron!; 5/21/23, 9:02 PM
walter said...: Yeah..but Gates said Epstein's dead, so no issue. And Barr saw nothing of concern.

I hear Joementia's juice squad has a couple openings since his declared re-run.
Maybe Baffert could work some magic in there.; 5/21/23, 9:16 PM
walter said...: Re Vegas:
https://twitter.com/I_Am_JohnCullen; 5/21/23, 9:45 PM
n.n said...: 7 Years after Obama Commuted His Life Sentence, Man Shoots Woman in Chicago

Social justice.

She said Mills sped to catch up to the Explorer, pulled up next to them, and fired shots from his driver’s window.

Abortion.

The woman Mills shot is brain-dead

Not viable.; 5/21/23, 9:57 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Old video I never seen before: John Cleese plays a devils fundraising

link to video; 5/21/23, 10:10 PM
gadfly said...: Lem the misspeller said...
NY Post: Justice Neil Gorsuch blasts COVID response as one of ‘greatest intrusions on civil liberties’.

According to the NYT, when the Supreme Court justices met early last year to hear arguments about Biden’s vaccine mandate — all of the justices were wearing masks except Neil Gorsuch. No mask, no jab, would be my guess.

He could care less that medical personnel treating COVID patients always wore N95 masks and he didn't care that five of the justices were highly susceptible seniors over 65 including Stephen Breyer, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Sonia Sotomayor, and John Roberts. Only Sotomayor attended remotely because she sits next to Gorsuch and is also diabetic.; 5/21/23, 10:34 PM
Big Mike said...: @gilbar, her, plus a convoy bringing a wedding party to their ceremony that Obama decided met be terrorist-related so he blew it up with Hellfire missiles

Hey Norwegians! If I kill everyone in some wedding party can I have a Peace Prize too?; 5/21/23, 10:58 PM
Joe Smith said...: 'According to the NYT, when the Supreme Court justices met early last year to hear arguments about Biden’s vaccine mandate — all of the justices were wearing masks except Neil Gorsuch. No mask, no jab, would be my guess.'

Your guess?

My guess is he was vaccinated and boosted.

After all, Joe Biden, Dr. Fauci, and the entire United States health industry told him he couldn't then transmit the virus.

Why would he doubt them?; 5/21/23, 11:07 PM
gadfly said...: BUMBLE BEE said...
VDH laid it all out on the Mark Levin Show tonight.
What is next?
Discuss

Hanson was wrong, as usual, when he said that the Durham report implicates Clinton, not Trump.

There’s something grotesque and unethical about John Durham’s conduct that has gotten little attention. After getting his ass handed to him by two juries and one judge, Durham nevertheless repeated the allegations in his report against Michael Sussmann and Igor Danchenko on which they have been acquitted.

Conspiracy theories don't cut it when Durham spent four years trying to disprove what Mueller and the GOP Senate Intelligence Committee had already proven to be true. Russia wanted to help Trump win and he took all the help he could get and asked for more.; 5/21/23, 11:09 PM
wildswan said...: Through the mists that obscure everything about Bakhmut City in the Ukraine War it seems that Wagner Group, a Russian private Army which was doing the effective fighting in Bakhmut, has fought its way all the way across the city, suffering 10,000 casualties in the process of destroying the city. Having reached the other side a day ago, Wagner Group, incredibly, is now abandoning its prize. Having fought so hard to capture Bakhmut that a formerly thriving city now resembles the Warsaw Ghetto on its last day, Wagner is leaving in the next three or four days. The regular Russian Army will take Wagner's place on May 25. This allows less time for planning the changeover than went into the Afghanistan withdrawal.
It may be that the Ukrainians are advancing to the left and right of Bakhmut, enveloping it, and Wagner, in the center, knows something and is getting out of Dodge.
Maybe it's some kind of Russian trick, some 3-D chess alignment that we won't understand till the traps shut behind the UAR. Maybe something better.; 5/22/23, 2:01 AM
wildswan said...: Through the mists that obscure everything about Bakhmut City in the Ukraine War it seems that Wagner Group, a Russian private Army which was doing the effective fighting in Bakhmut, has fought its way all the way across the city, suffering 10,000 casualties in the process of destroying the city. Having reached the other side a day ago, Wagner Group, incredibly, is now abandoning its prize. Having fought so hard to capture Bakhmut that a formerly thriving city now resembles the Warsaw Ghetto on its last day, Wagner is leaving in the next three or four days. The regular Russian Army will take Wagner's place on May 25. This allows less time for planning the changeover than went into the Afghanistan withdrawal.
It may be that the Ukrainians are advancing to the left and right of Bakhmut, enveloping it, and Wagner, in the center, knows something and is getting out of Dodge.
Maybe it's some kind of Russian trick, some 3-D chess alignment that we won't understand till the traps shut behind the UAR. Maybe something better.; 5/22/23, 2:01 AM
Humperdink said...: When Gorsuch decries the loss of civil liberties during Covid and Mutaman responds sarcastically with: "Gee I had to wear a mask", it only amplifies the fact you cannot debate a liberal. It's a waste of time. Don't bother.; 5/22/23, 3:11 AM
farmgirl said...: Beautiful photo.; 5/22/23, 3:57 AM
walter said...: "He could care less that medical personnel treating COVID patients always wore N95 masks and he didn't care that five of the justices were highly susceptible seniors over 65 including Stephen Breyer, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Sonia Sotomayor, and John Roberts. Only Sotomayor attended remotely because she sits next to Gorsuch and is also diabetic."
No matter how much is revealed, Jabfly is never gonna understand. Gorsuch did.
Jabfly resents him for not being duped.
Understandable.; 5/22/23, 5:15 AM
wendybar said...: "What's going on now is, look at the meeting we had here today and yesterday of the Quad. I bet you, I would- maybe some of you thought it, but I doubt many people in this audience or any other audience would have said that two years after being elected I'd be able to convince India, Australia, Japan, and the United States to form an organization called the Quad to maintain stability in the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea."

BUT he is LYING again as usual.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/spencerbrown/2023/05/21/biden-claims-credit-for-quad-alliance-trump-reinstated-in-2017-n2623514; 5/22/23, 5:18 AM
walter said...: I was at a soccer game recently in Madison and saw a middle aged couple huddled next to each other wearing what looked to be double layer masks..outdoors.; 5/22/23, 5:19 AM
wendybar said...: "According to McFarland, the FBI, DOJ, and CIA have gotten away with it for two elections and will do it again in 2024 because there’s no consequence.

“The difference is, in 2024 the evidence is there,” she said. “We now have the Durham investigation. We have all the congressional investigations. There is now hard evidence that there was election interference by the US intelligence agencies and the Department of Justice.”

“Those individuals have to be terrified that a Republican president comes in in the 2024 election with a Republican Attorney general, investigates them and charges them all with the crimes they’ve committed over the last eight years,” she added."

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/former-deputy-national-security-advisor-claims-fbi-cia/; 5/22/23, 6:24 AM
Leland said...: As usual, Gadfly still believes the Steele Dossier was vetted and honest. One day, he'll produce that pee tape as evidence.; 5/22/23, 6:27 AM
Breezy said...: Rep. Byron Donalds demolished Chuck Todd in a Meet the Press interview yesterday. “That’s just salacious and you know it”.
He’s brilliant, thoroughly prepared, and just plain awesome.; 5/22/23, 6:29 AM
wendybar said...: Love VDH....Asking the questions, that nobody in congress (besides Matt Gaetz, MTG and a few others) have balls enough to ask....

https://amgreatness.com/2023/05/21/the-absurdities-of-our-age/; 5/22/23, 7:01 AM
Humperdink said...: Ever wonder why peace talks are off the table in Ukraine? Off the table by the US that is.; 5/22/23, 7:05 AM
Rusty said...: I would love to know what Gadfly is on. And maybe take a half CC less.; 5/22/23, 7:22 AM
Drago said...: Wildswan: "It may be that the Ukrainians are advancing to the left and right of Bakhmut, enveloping it, and Wagner, in the center, knows something and is getting out of Dodge."

The Ukrainians aren't enveloping anyone. Troop rotations are normal ops.

Maybe the Ghost of Kiev will lead a new counter-attack....flying an F-16.; 5/22/23, 8:45 AM
Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...: Republicans are F'ed with or without Trump.; 5/22/23, 9:01 AM
Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...: "Trump effectively concedes as much by singling DeSantis out for the most brutal treatment.

The name calling — “DeSanctimonious” — has been going on for months, along with claims that DeSantis is betraying Trump by running against him.

It’s silly, and Trump looked especially foolish when he said that Charlie Crist, as a Democrat, had been a better governor of Florida. "

Wait what?

A-hole EGO Billionaire fat frumpy old Trump said Crist was a better governor? oh yes.

Trump is a democrat - straight up.; 5/22/23, 9:04 AM
gilbar said...: Serious Question
Assuming, that the Ukrainians EVER Actually put Any F-16's into the air..
When the 1st one is shot down.. Will Any "News" reports report it?; 5/22/23, 11:57 AM
Drago said...: Flip-side Inga (Hunter Biden's tax payer funded Hooker): "Trump is a democrat - straight up."

Ponder what sort of drugs you would have to be on to offer that hot take.

Good luck convincing the republican base voters who have been screwed over time and again by your GOPe heroes working with dems that Trump is the democrat.; 5/22/23, 12:18 PM