January 1, 2024

Sunrise — 7:30.

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50 comments:

narciso said...

https://twitter.com/Sultanknish/status/1741964357435859327

narciso said...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kCDMQqDUtv4

narciso said...

https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/1741835192614961173

narciso said...

https://www.instagram.com/p/C0bpOHni9w1/

Mike Sylwester said...

I have been browsing through the Mueller Report and through the Durham Report -- the two DOJ reports about RussiaGate. (I posted a comment about this on December 27.) To my own surprise, I find myself myself to be much more accepting of the Mueller Report and more critical of the Durham Report.

In regard to the Mueller Report, I now think that Soviet Intelligence indeed did hack the Democrat National Committee's computer system and then leak DNC documents to Wikileaks in order to affect the USA's 2016 presidential election. Furthermore, I think the DOJ investigated this hacking/leaking in a manner that was mostly proper.

However, a major shortfall of the Mueller Report is that it failed to explain sufficiently Christopher Steele's Dossier. Essentially, the Mueller Report ignored that Dossier as mostly irrelevant to the hacking and leaking that happened in the 2016 election race. In contrast, the Durham Report thoroughly exposes that Dossier as a political fraud.

The Durham Report does criticize the Mueller Report but on issues that are real but ultimately dismissible. For example, the DOJ should have the DOJ should have provided defensive briefings to the Trump campaign about Russian hacking rather than to launch a full-scale counter-intelligence investigation of the Trump campaign. However, I now find the DOJ's decisions in this situation to be cautious and defensible.

The Durham Report is wise in that it suggests that the Mueller Report was excessive in its length and intensity. The Mueller Report was basically justifiable, but it went on too long and too far. The Mueller investigation became an excuse to investigate Trump and his associates forever -- in a manner that became extremely partisan and abusive.

narciso said...

https://youtu.be/sR_oUXUCz_w?si=IPVMAHtK_VX56eIo

Clyde said...

I'm going to share links for some albums that I like. I mentioned several of them over the past couple of weeks, but this comment on the New Year's Day cafe post will make it easy to find them if you're looking for some new-to-you music this year.

Europe - Allo, Darlin'
Jangly indie pop

Off the Beatle Track - Apple Jam
Beatles tribute band playing Beatle-written songs recorded by other artists

Folksongs & Ballads - Tia Blake
Folk

A Tribute to George Harrison - Christine Collester
Self-explanatory, but I'll talk about this one in a separate comment

A Day in the Life of a Universal Wanderer - Gandalf's Fist
Prog-rock space opera. Bear with the dialogue interstitials, as the music is good

Juliana Hatfield Sings ELO - Juliana Hatfield
Really good cover album

Please Come Home - Lonely Robot
Another cool prog-rock album

Drastic Fantastic (Ultimate Edition) - KT Tunstalla
This contains the 11 songs on the original album, 4 more studio songs, a bunch of live songs and some remixes, and 8 instrumental versions of songs from the original album. On Amazon Music, you will NOT find this version of the album by searching KT Tunstall. You must search the album name to find it!

Clyde said...

Okay, so let's talk about why this particular album is so strange.

A Tribute to George Harrison - Christine Collester

A couple of weeks ago, I had been listening to some of the Apple Jam albums (there are more than one) and Amazon Music suggested that I might like this album, too. I gave it a listen and was impressed. Then things got weird. When I like an artist's work, I search to see what else they released, but in this case, it was the only album released by Christine Collester, and it was on streaming music only, no physical album or CD.

I did a search to find out who she was and ran into a blank wall. There is a Christine Collister (with an I, not an E) who is a folk singer and entertainer in the U.K. After this album came out on streaming services in December of 2011, Christine Collister posted on her Facebook account that she had been asked about the George Harrison tribute album that was out on Amazon Music, but it was NOT her work.

Another thing you'll note if you click on the link is that the album artwork is a black-and-white picture of George Harrison and the title Songs of George Harrison and A tribute to George Harrison with the track listing. No mention of the singer on the artwork at all, which is quite odd.

With all of this weirdness going on, you would expect some kind of low-quality knock-off, like a guy trying to sell you a fake Rolex on the streets of New York. Instead, what you'd expect to be a cheap Timex is actually a diamond-studded Rolex, because this is a damn good album.

"Christine Collester"'s vocals are excellent, as are the musicians playing on the songs. The dance version of "Love You To" and the delightfully funky version of "Taxman" show a lot of creativity. There is not a bad song on the album. In this case, I've just pushed the weirdness of it all to the side and enjoyed the music.

Narr said...

Almost 12 hours after my morning report, and I don't think I made any mistakes worth mentioning since then.

Our next door neighbors had some of their friends over for an open house, and invited us. It was great--lots of good food, and drink for those who like it . . . I think some partaking had been took by some (not there with kids around, of course).

They are mostly Boomer's early kids, with their own still in high school or going off to college. We talked a lot about real estate--not prices so much as the older buildings around going down and the redevelopment and infill taking place.

I actually tossed the football with the teenage boys; I haven't done that in decades, and still have some arm. Just don't ask me to rush.

gadfly said...

During the Maxwell trial, long-serving former Epstein pilot Lawrence Paul Visoski Jr. named passengers that included Trump, Clinton, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., former senator and astronaut John Glenn, Britain's Prince Andrew and actor Kevin Spacey.

Marjorie Taylor Greene: "Pedophiles belong in jail not on secret government lists."

gadfly said...

Sadly, Mike Sylwester, you spent far too much time comparing an honest investigation into Trump's cooperating with the Russians by Robert Mueller's team that actually indicted Trump's henchmen versus the fake investigation played by Billy Barr and John Durham on Trump's orders to make the Trump-Russia deal go away. Durham didn't even assemble enough evidence to connect the two individuals he took to trial to any actual criminal act and he spent more time and money than Mueller in compiling a bunch of lies for the MAGA crowd.

wendybar said...





David Burge
@iowahawkblog

Once again I am asking our 4th Estate to explain how they are "from Texas"


Face The Nation

@FaceTheNation
A plane carrying more migrants from Texas arrived in the Chicago area overnight, which @ChicagosMayor Brandon Johnson calls "a very dangerous task" by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and a matter of national security.

"Governor Abbott is determined to continue to sow seeds of chaos."

https://twitchy.com/brettt/2024/01/01/the-atlantic-trump-has-promised-the-largest-deportation-effort-in-american-history-n2391295

wendybar said...

"BREAKING:

Anti-Israel protesters launch a large balloon in front of JFK Airport, trying to shut down the airport.

They launched the ballon as planes were landing and taking off.

They were clearly willing to gamble with the lives of hundreds of people."


Lawrence Kiedrowski 🇺🇸✝️ 🇮🇱
@LKiedrowski

Replying to @visegrad24
Everyone there should be tracked down, jailed, convicted and imprisoned just like J6
6:36 PM · Jan 1, 2024

wendybar said...

"Green Day are the Muppet Babies of punk and always have been. They're a punk band if punk bands were exclusively designed and manufactured by corporate marketing departments."

Oscar Von Reuenthal
@OscarVReuenthal

Must be sad, being in your 50s, still trying to act like you're 24, and hoping that spouting political bullshit that only pleases the corporate establishment can still make you look like a "rebel."

CONSEQUENCE
@consequence
Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong altered the lyrics in “American Idiot” to sing, “I’m not a part of the MAGA agenda,” during the band’s performance on Ryan Seacrest’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve.

iowan2 said...

Mike Slywester
Thanks for doing the work, sharing your thoughts. How do you square with what I found out?

The DNC emails were never hacked. That's according to Crowdstrike congressional testimony, to Congress. They claim to have evidence that the files were organized, but never transmitted from the DNC server.
Wray/Comey testified to congress their report IS the Draft Report from CrowdStrike. While The FBI had a partial cloned DNC hard drive, the FBI NEVER did their own analysis of the data. Remember the DNC refused the FBI access to the server. Why the DNC refused to cooperate, fuels conspiracy speculation, but the DNC did refuse to cooperate.

To me we are back at a big Govt scam, helped by private entities like the DNC, Prekins Coi, CrowdStrike, Fusion GPS, etal.

Humperdink said...

Young female Israeli hostage hostage Mia Schem speaks out after being released. A frightening tale to put it mildly. She was held in Gaza by a family, including a mother and children. The takeaway quote? "“Everyone over there is a terrorist.” (Including family members. You know, the women and children thingy.)

https://nypost.com/2024/01/01/news/israeli-hostage-mia-schem-reveals-only-reason-hamas-captor-didnt-rape-her/

Humperdink said...

“I don’t need some half-white woman from Martha’s Vineyard telling me about being black,” responded the economist (Thomas Sowell), a longtime fellow at the Hoover Institution to Lani Guinier. (Via Power Line) *

Another current Martha's Vineyard resident comes to mind, but the name escapes me.

* https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/01/sowell-strikes-back.php

tim maguire said...

Mike Sylwester said...The Mueller investigation became an excuse to investigate Trump and his associates forever -- in a manner that became extremely partisan and abusive.

Became partisan and abusive? It was partisan and abusive long before the Mueller Report came along. The whole point of the Mueller Report was to be the next step in the harassment campaign, but there was so little there that it failed.

tim maguire said...

iowan2 said...The DNC emails were never hacked.

The evidence at the time pointed squarely at a leak, not a hack. But the hack story raises an interesting issue of its own that was never fully examined. Governments try to hack each other all the time. Russia probably did hack Clinton’s servers (even though they were not behind the leak). Lots of countries probably hacked her servers.

That she was hacked is not the real problem, the real problem is she was criminally negligent in making vital government secrets easy to steal, easy for America’s enemies to get. That's the problem that Mueller and everyone else in government and media was too cowardly to talk about.

The Crack Emcee said...

Clyde said...

"I'm going to share links for some albums that I like."

I've tried sampling your choices, but - except for Lonely Robot's "Airlock" - your tastes are waaaay too "lite" for me; nor do they reflect the 21st century's arrival at all. The covers are all "straight" - no variation whatsoever from the originals - so why bother? ELO's recordings are all better than Juliana Hatfield's, so I wonder why she made them? It can't be to honor Jeff Lynne because she just made his work derivative,...and limp. (I haven't had a reason to listen to ELO since well before the century changed, but that's another issue,...) Check out 801 covering The Kinks' 'You Really Got Me' to get an idea of how a cover is supposed to be done. I know about that because I listen to everything and everybody - not just black artists.

I know I sound harsh, but anytime a white American offers me to "check out my music" and I find there's no black people in the mix, I'm pretty sure the quality is going to be as sparse as the melanin, the instrumentation will ignore musical progress, and the subject matter will be as limited in scope as their appreciation of others. In that regard, yours did not disappoint.

I imagine - once this crew sees to it that everyone but whites are genocided - your tastes are gonna rule.

narciso said...

Specially ironic since trump denounced the iraq war in the 2016 primary

The Crack Emcee said...

Humperdink said...

Young female Israeli hostage hostage Mia Schem WAS BRUTALLY GANG RAPED BY HAMAS MILITIA MEN - no? No raping of a beautiful Israeli woman? But I thought that's what they do? Why isn't anyone asking her how she avoided that?

Could she be lying?

Could she be lying?

Could she be lying?

Could she be lying?

And where are those 40 decapitated babies?

As fas as "the takeaway quote" - here's people talking about how Zionists weaponize the Holocaust to seek advantage and a reason to keep genociding the Palestinians, whose land they stole to be kidnapped from, so Palestinians can get their family members back. Imagine: comparing a single woman's kidnapping to the mechanical slaughter of 6 million jews in ovens - only a craven idiot would say that or believe it. It definitely shows no appreciation, or respect for those 6 million deaths in Germany.

"Never again" does not refer to protecting one people but all people.

The Crack Emcee said...

wendybar said...

"Everyone there should be tracked down, jailed, convicted and imprisoned just like J6"


Or or OR - hear me out - Zionists could stop with this "final solution" nonsense. If not, you're only bringing chaos down on yourselves.

Americans were raised to fight Nazis to the death - and you're the Nazis now.

Jaq said...

On the subject of Teddy Roosevelt, I was visiting southern Vermont and we went to the homestead of Abe Lincoln's son, who was an executive in the Pullman corporation, and they had the Pullman car there that Teddy Roosevelt had used to campaign for the presidency. Let me tell you it was "bully." It was gorgeous inside, decorated with wide planks of Cuban mahogany among the other exquisite appointments. You also got to stand on the rear platform from which Roosevelt addressed crowds. I wish I had positioned someone outside to take a picture of me on it. It was worth the trip. The tour guide said that the car was discovered a couple of decades ago in the Carolinas and was being used as a "hunting and poker lodge" but it has been meticulously restored.

McKinley had also used the car when he was President, and it was the personal car of David Lincoln, who used his political connections to do very well for himself, apparently. Anyway, the "Lincoln Family Home" was very nice.

Next I want to visit the Calvin Coolidge homestead. This is what Chat said

"As of my last update in April 2023, no U.S. Presidents have been born in Vermont. "

Then I asked about Coolidge and it said: "Calvin Coolidge, the 30th President of the United States, was born in Plymouth Notch, Vermont, on July 4, 1872"

It's like it just can't make enough connections yet. It reminds me of an old movie comedy where they were experimenting with "sleep learning" on their son, and they played a recording that said "The Nile is the longest river in the world..." and when he was awake, the asked him the longest river, and he didn't know, then they said "What about the Nile?" and he said "The Nile is the longest river in the world..."

Jaq said...

Using and thinking about how ChatGPT works has given me a lot of insight into how the human mind actually works. Chat has modeled part of our mind, but our mind is more sophisticated, integrating more types of thinking than just associations with strings of words.

boatbuilder said...

The Mueller Report was basically justifiable, but it went on too long and too far. The Mueller investigation became an excuse to investigate Trump and his associates forever -- in a manner that became extremely partisan and abusive.


That is a pretty mild way of stating the obvious--the entire point and purpose of the Mueller investigation was to investigate Trump and his associates forever in an extremely partisan and abusive manner, in order to handcuff the Trump Administration.

narciso said...

https://accordingtohoyt.com/2024/01/01/cross-my-palm-with-silver-2/

The Crack Emcee said...

"Young female Israeli hostage hostage Mia Schem speaks out after being released. A frightening tale to put it mildly."

Because people who steal land - and rave next to concentration camps - deserve to be treated nicely. No one took the time to rape her in captivity. They only took the time to do rape when in the chaos of kidnapping people.

Totally believable.

Every time we talk to hostages directly - no rapes. ("It is forbidden for them to touch us." "For them, women are sacred.") Every time we're TOLD about hostages through third parties - hearsay - it's rape city. This is why you guys like getting your news from white third parties and never engaging with Palestinians directly. You WANT the racism. You live for the racism. You're Nazis.

iowan2 said...

with the Russians by Robert Mueller's team that actually indicted Trump's henchmen versus the fake investigation played by Billy Barr and John Durham on Trump's orders to make the Trump-Russia deal go away

Gadfly playing word games.
Henchmen? really? Name the names. If you mean dozens of Russians indicted, with zero chance of those indictments having to survive in pre trial hearing. OK I guess. But One Russian did show up in court. Mueller (Wiseman, Mueller was the dementia corroded puppet) was forced to abandon the case due to lack of facts.
Other henchmen on US soil? Nope. ZERO trials for Russia, Russia, Russia chorus of lies.

You dismiss Durham. You are forced to ignore the major finding. Mueller (Weiseman) had ZERO evidence the day he started. ie NOTHING was there to appoint a Special Counsel, and failed to add to that impressive number after almost two years.

The Crack Emcee said...

WORLD-WIDE PRO-PALESTINE PROTESTS: THE WORLD IS UNITED AGAINST PALESTINIAN GENOCIDE AND THE JEWISH NAZIISM OF ZIONISM

And America's killing itself by association.

narciso said...

https://unherd.com/2024/01/the-world-should-fear-2024/

The Crack Emcee said...

The US is the world's bully and the leading expert on double-speak, as it preaches restraint while supplying weapons.

This is NOT going to be a happy new year.

The Crack Emcee said...

Watch poor fish-lipped David Friedman have a public meltdown while trying to defend Zionist barbarism against someone knowledgeable of the issues. It's remarkable how often this happens when Zionists are challenged directly.

The Zionists either fold or flail, every single time, when they're - supposedly - telling the truth.

MadTownGuy said...

Cartel Gunbattle Just South Of U.S. Border

Courtesy of Lawrence Person's Battleswarm Blog.

"It looks like there was a running gunbattle between the Mexican National Guard and the Sinaloa drug cartel in Sonoyta, Sonora, just south of Lukeville, Arizona on the U.S. border, on December 29.

[snip]

I haven’t seen any news reports of this in American media, possibly because they think their primary goal is to avoid reporting anything on the border that the Biden Administration’s “pro illegal alien invasion” policies make them look bad with voters.

Indeed, there was a gun battle at a different crossing point earlier this month.

A federal law-enforcement source shared with FOX Business Network an internal officer safety alert dated December 13th that warns CBP agents to be vigilant after the Mexican military seized 10 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) at the border.

The IEDs were found by Mexican authorities after Tucson border patrol observed gunshots at the U.S.-Mexico border and a Tucson supervisory border patrol agent arrested an armed person on the U.S. side who had a loaded AK-47 rifle, two loaded AK magazines, loose rounds and a handgun.

Add “border danger” to “budget deficits” in the category of Things That Could Blow Up At Any Moment Our Chattering Classes Refuse To Talk About.
"

Clyde said...

One addendum on the list of links above: The 'Juliana Hatfield Sings ELO' link above is some kind of Chinese playlist and has some weird song thrown into the playlist where "Don't Bring Me Down" should be. I highly recommend finding the album on your favorite streaming music platform instead of listening to it via YouTube, which will also get rid of the annoying ads.

Rusty said...

There was a nice documentary on Netflix about Monte Python. I did not know that some of the skits were produced strictly for the American audience.

Leland said...

Trump's cooperating with the Russians, which never happened, but Hillary supporters will continue to lie about it despite all the DNC and Hillary did to make it easy for the Russians to hack them. Indeed, they made so it easy, one should wonder if they were the ones cooperating with Russia.

The Crack Emcee said...

Leland said...

Trump's cooperating with the Russians, which never happened, but Hillary supporters will continue to lie about it JUST LIKE THE RIGHT LIES ABOUT THE PALESTINIANS, SO, OH WELL.

I literally stopped caring who and what upsets American Nazis now.

You're all evil incarnate.

Jersey Fled said...

From the “So What” department:

https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/society/noto-peninsula-earthquake/20240101-159141/

Read the whole thing.

MadisonMan said...

You're all evil incarnate....You're Nazis.
No. Nazis take people into Gas Chambers and kill them for one reason: Their religion and scape-goatery. Nazis separate (jew) twins and do experiments on them. Jews did not attack Germany.
You should reframe your argument.

SteveWe said...

In other Japanese news:

https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/society/noto-peninsula-earthquake/20240101-159141/

A building falls onto its side.

MadTownGuy said...

Repairman Who Disclosed Hunter Biden’s Laptop Says His House Was ‘Swatted’
John Paul Mac Isaac says he was not present during the incident.


"The Delaware computer repairman who disclosed the contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop in 2020 said on Dec. 30 that his home was subjected to a “swatting” incident on Friday night.

John Paul Mac Isaac, who owned a computer store in Delaware at which the son of President Joe Biden was said to have dropped off his laptop years ago, said he was not present during the swatting incident.

“My home was swatted tonight, I was not home but the outstanding men and women of the Wilmington PD responded quickly and professionally,” Mr. Mac Isaac said on X.
"

The Crack Emcee said...

MadisonMan said...

"Nazis take people into Gas Chambers and kill them for one reason: Their religion and scape-goatery."

And the Palestinians aren't being murdered and scapegoated? Why is every org that matters calling it a genocide?

"Nazis separate (jew) twins and do experiments on them."

The list of terrible things Zionists have done to Palestinians, starting with stealing their land, is too long to list. Here's a Zionist bragging about kidnapping a Palestinian child for who knows what.

"Jews did not attack Germany."

Jews in the U.S. military did.

"You should reframe your argument."

Why? They don't accept Naziism, apartheid, displacement, ethnic cleansing, genocide, or any of the other terminology decent people have taken to describing this. Just like the Nazis, who did barbarous things by day and listened to Classical Music at night, they think they're some special breed, surrounded by disposable subhumans and "animals." They've said so. Repeatedly. And that's the same "thinking" that, apparentlyc and unfortunately, still animates whites here. They've said so. Repeatedly.

Hitler killed and enslaved Jews because he admired how Americans killed Indians and enslaved blacks. He learned about concentration camps from South Africa. Zionists supplied weapons to South Africa during apartheid, just as we're supplying weapons to Zionists for the Nakba. Hamas ripped the mask off the new Nazis.

And they are us.

FullMoon said...

I admire and enjoy the articulate mentally ill. Keeps me grounded.

Candide said...

I think it is quite clear by now that Crack doesn’t really care about Jews or Palestinians one way or another, just uses the opportunity to posture.

Iman said...

“And where are those 40 decapitated babies?”

If the juju works, they’ll visit you in your dreams.

The Crack Emcee said...

South Africa Files Case Against Israel at International Court of Justice over "Genocidal" Gaza War

South Africa has filed a case at the main judicial body for the United Nations, the International Court of Justice in The Hague, accusing Israel of committing genocide in Gaza. "I believe South Africa will win an order against Israel to cease and desist from committing all acts of genocide against the Palestinians," says Francis Boyle, an international human rights lawyer who won two requests at the ICJ,...on behalf of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina against Yugoslavia. Boyle says Israel has a history of listening to the United States' orders to stop its assaults on the Occupied Palestinian Territories. "We here in the United States of America have the power to stop this."

Our country will be condemned, with them, too.

The Crack Emcee said...

How Douglas Murray EXPOSED His HYPOCRISY in 2023

A perfect example of a proud conservative free speech advocate, who was admired by everyone, before he morphed into a fascist hypocrite on Oct 7.

The Crack Emcee said...

Candide said...

"I think it is quite clear by now that Crack doesn’t really care about Jews or Palestinians one way or another, just uses the opportunity to posture."

When asked to choose a side in the Ukraine war, Trump said he just wanted the killing to stop, and the right thought he was a genius. I seem to piss everyone off for NOT having a side - specifically with the Zionists - and that exposes THEM for being as hypocritical as they've exposed themselves to be.

Remember: just two months ago, the right were such free speech advocates they were aligned with Dave Chappelle - that's America - right down the middle. But now Dave's ashamed to be seen with conservatives. I imagine, if he feels half as bad as I do about killing a population of kids, he's repulsed by the right now. As a Muslim, he's GOT to despair, though many in the GOP don't ascribe such human emotions to anyone who claims God is named Allah.

I'm an atheist, so - if I'm posturing - it's for a good enough cause that I'll defend the people who think Muhammad went to Heaven on a winged horse, over the self-proclaimed Chosen People - out to rule the world with an Iron Fist - AND the people who insist Jesus walked on water before his death had something to do with saving my "soul."

n.n said...

Aziz Isa Elkun: ‘The Uyghurs Deserve to Live Free With Their Dignity and Cultural Heritage’

A Chinese pogrom of diversity, equivocation, and indoctrination, slavery, and genocide of Muslim Uyghurs.

Free Tibet!

I stand with Ukrainians, but not Kiev.

Some, Select [Black] Lives Matter (SS BLM)

Meanwhile, they celebrate murder, rape, torture... torture-torture, and abduction of Jews... Zionists in the old time socialist fashion.

South African end of "apartheid", remediation through native genocide, a sustained tribal conflict between Mandela's Xhosa and Zulu, the rape... rape-rape capital of the world... next to Oslo, a progressive constitution and economy, too. Forward!

We didn't start the conflagration...