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Any truth to the rumor of a Black Friday special when using the donate button? Or is that far right disinformation?
On June 29, the actor Alan Arkin died.
Within a few days, this Althouse blog published an article about Arkin. I wanted to comment on that blog article, but I still had not recovered enough to comment until now.
In the summer of 1966, Arkin starred in the movie The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming. This movie played an important role in my life.
That summer, I was a 13-year-old boy living in Seward, Nebraska (about 25 miles from Lincoln). My mother had grown up with a classmate, Marion, who was essentially abandoned by her own parents and who therefore became a quasi-sister to my mother. After I was born, Marion became essentially my aunt and formally my godmother. Although Marion remained in Oregon and I grew up in Nebraska, I remained emotionally close to Marion through her entire life.
Anyway, in 1966, Marion was married, and she and her husband Hal came to visit our family in Nebraska. I adored Hal, who was a nice and friendly man.
Hal had previously served in the US Air Force, and there he had been taught the Russian language. He was assigned to record numbers and letters from intercepted Russian radio transmissions.
So, when Hal and Marion came to visit us in Nebraska, they took us to a movie theater in Lincoln to watch that movie. (Just going to Lincoln was a special treat for me.) I was amazed that Hal said he could understand some of the Russian dialogue in the movie. I enjoyed the movie very much.
(Since then, I've watched the movie a half-dozen times in my life.)
During the following Christmas season, my family went Christmas shopping in Lincoln, and I found a Berlitz teach-yourself-Russian book in the bookstore, and I bought it as a present for myself.
During the following years, I continued to teach myself Russian as an eccentric hobby. During my senior year of high school, I began to attend Russian-language college classes part-time at the University of Oregon (where my father was now teaching).
So, by the time I graduated from high school and began attending the University of Oregon full-time, I already was in third-year Russian. Eventually I earned a Masters Degree in Slavic and Germanic Languages at the University of Oregon.
A few years later, I joined the US Air Force, where I served as a linguist for 14 years, until the Soviet Union fell apart. After that, I worked as a contract translator for the US Justice Department, translating mostly war-crime documents from German.
I enjoyed an interesting career and got to live and travel in Europe a lot.
However, devoting my life so much to the Russian language turned out to be a mistake. During the 1980s, the Soviet Union allowed a huge number of highly educated Russian Jews to emigrate the the USA, and so I was not able to establish a successful career in that competitive academic field.
I never should have started studying Russian! I could have become rich if I had pursued my previous idea to study computer science instead!
Going to watch that movie The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming in 1966 diverted my entire life in a wrong direction.
Saw “Napoleon.” Not nearly as good as my “Frankenstein, Part II.”
What did Napoleon see in Josephine? According to the movie, she wasn’t great in the sack. And she wasn’t a great beauty.
Cillian Murphy wins Best Actor.
Not one memorable line in “Napoleon.”
"The Illustrated Field Guide to Vintage Trailers"?
I'm ALWAYS the first one to realize cabin fever. No thank you!!
In the Colorado case seeking to bar Trump’s candidacy, was the judge’s language stating that Trump incited or participated in an insurrection anything more than dicta? The legal questions of whether the presidency is an office under the United States or an officer of the United States seem analytically anterior to the insurrection issue, do they not?
Beating Trump is like beating Hamas. Upon further review.
In the eyes of the eyes.
I was at a wedding in Boston this weekend, and Ubered up to Logan to return home tonight. I had very little conversation with my driver, until I noticed a billboard LED sign on the side of 90 (?). It was a sports gambling advertisement that literally said "It's a rush even if it's a pass." I said Oh Wow! My driver asked me what I was reacting to, and I pointed out the billboard. I said that they're just flat out advertising that they are marketing the product as if it is a drug to make you feel high. He told me that his grandfather makes a good life for himself, but has lost most of his wealth to compulsive gambling. I told him that I understand a lot of things, that I I drink more than I should, and that I did a lot of drugs when I was a young man, but I just don't get it. I told him that my GF's son has almost lost his life to gambling, and needs a lot of financial support from his family now even though he has a good job with the VA that he loves his work with sight impaired veterans.
On my way back home to so called civilization. Where a professor has to fear for her life because she took a stand and had the temerity to post it to her social timeline.
a video from the tumultuous scene at the school I referred to above
Althouse posted news about the incident earlier yesterday.
"Any truth to the rumor of a Black Friday special when using the donate button?"
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"It's a rush even if it's a pass."
my brother drank too much, and smoked a LOT of dope (he died of lung cancer at 52)
his son (who was 13 when his dad died), is CONVINCED that his dad was a alcoholic drug abuser..
so the son has NEVER had a drink of alcohol or Any drugs because he is CONVINCED that it's a family thing
BUT! the son plays poker (for money) EVERY saturday, and bets on sporting events ALL THE TIME.
He's as big an addict as i've Every seen in my life, and i knew (and sold to*) a LOT of coke heads
sold to* needless to say, IF gilbar has Ever sold Anything; it was past the statue of limitations
"The media endlessly reinforced that narrative. The FBI engaged in the biggest manhunt in American history. Almost three years later, many of those arrested are still languishing in prison, uncharged and untried. The House, under Nancy Pelosi’s control, and with help from a couple of NeverTrump Vichy Republicans, engaged in the farcical January 6 Committee investigation and hearings, complete with weeping cops.
At 3 p.m., footage shows people peacefully wandering through the Rotunda. No one appears to be committing acts of violence against persons or property. Two minutes later, Capitol police storm in from the Rotunda’s south side and begin shoving and grabbing protesters. (Keep in mind that many of these protesters were elderly.) The masked police also seemingly used chemical gas.
Three minutes after that, D.C. officers stormed the room, again physically assaulting people who, minutes before, had simply been standing there or wandering peacefully around. The police didn’t seem interested in arresting anyone or guiding them to leave the building. They were just pushing them around and corralling them in a corner of the rotunda."
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/11/yes_there_was_violence_inside_the_capitol_on_j6_but_the_police_committed_it.html
"Do the right thing. Not what your (ahem) advisers advise you to do."
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/11/how_ron_desantis_saves_face.html
Flatten out a globe of the world into a map. Pretty much dead center is this tiny piece of real estate called Israel. The only democracy in the ME. And their one true ally has been the US, at least prior to the latest occupant of the White House. This will not bode well for the US. Those that have turned against Israel have not fared well, to put it mildly.
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