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December 18, 2024
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Snow's coming.
I'm in the middle of reading The Sleepwalkers - How Europe Went to War 1914, by Christopher Clark. The history podcast called "The Rest Is History" hosted by historians Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook, highly recommend it, although they disagree with the title. My American high school history class ended with the beginning of WWI, so this is all new to me. I find it utterly fascinating. WWI was entirely preventable, and the result was the most violent and deadly century we have ever known which resulted in WW II, Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and millions and millions of unnecessary deaths. What an unnecessary tragedy. It almost makes you want to cry.
Clyde's Top 15 Favorite "New" Songs of 2024 - Part 4 of 16
#13 Jennifer Trynin - "Better Than Nothing" - Cockamamie - 1994
This is another one that showed up as a gift of the algorithm. I listened to a lot of '90s rock and alt-rock this year, and Amazon decided that I needed to hear this song.
There were two versions on YouTube of the official video for this song, and although the picture here is of poor quality (especially the round ending), this is still the better of the two. I debated just putting up the audio but watching this may make you nostalgic for the simpler days of the mid-1990s, so here you go.
Jennifer Trynin - Better Than Nothing
(especially the rough ending)
https://x.com/Cernovich/status/1869533687664271591
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2024/12/18/matt-gaetzs-pistol-packing-response-to-news-house-panel-will-release-ethics-report-n2183376
"Crazy Joe's" DISCOUNT PARDON WAREHOUSE!
https://x.com/TheRicanMemes/status/1869534219975938066
I've just seen a NYT Ethicit's question at Twitchy which seems to beg for NYT junky Althouse' link
https://twitchy.com/amy-curtis/2024/12/18/jd-vance-nyt-neighbor-wont-stop-praying-for-me-n2405401
co president elect Elon Musk says shut down government till trump is elected. Stock market plummeting,41$ approval drop for trump trump says groceries too hard to reduce ad the 24 hour end to the Ukraine WAR too hard now .We know repubs cant govern(118th I believe least productive inept sine 1950s. and House Majority may be minority the way its going . And its just the beginning wait till tariffs start you think your paying more now.. So let the show begin this is what the palty voting population wanted and here it comes OLIGARCHY DELUXE with co president Musk and trump..YUP sometimes you do get what you deserve..As they say at the HOLD EM table "read em and weep" lets get all trumps inept picks in,he won he deserves to get who he wants and they sure aint working for you! Rollem......
Americans voted for government by tantrum, and they’re getting it early.
Trump joins Elon Musk in opposing House GOP’s government funding bill ~ CNBC
Once again, the absolutely stupidest possible way to run the most important economy on the planet. I must admit I got it wrong -- I didn't think the mayhem would start until next year but we've got it now for some pre Christmas excitement.
We've got 4 years of this, it's going to be so so much fun to watch in a schadenfreude kind of way.
Whenever I find myself missing Allen Ginsburg...
How often do you have to wipe the spittle off your monitor in order to see what you're typing?
Ginsberg was quite mad wasnt he
https://www.timesofisrael.com/meet-sara-funaro-the-first-female-and-first-jewish-mayor-of-florence-italy/
Trump joins Elon Musk in opposing House GOP’s government funding bill ~ CNBC
What power does Trump (or Musk, for that matter) have here? It's not like they currently hold office, right? Isn't J. Biden (D) the current president? What's he doing about this? Does it matter? Is that too many questions in a row?
BTW the market was due for a correction.
Clyde, love your music posts. Thank you.
Hey GOP, he bought you, he broke you. Good luck!
Very interesting to conflate buying a social platform for $44 billion, becoming its most followed user, and using that power to lobby a congressional vote with "the voice of the people"
Elon Musk fueled backlash to spending plan with false and misleading claims ~ Politico
Trump isn't even in office yet. This is gonna be a sh*t show
they cut rates, and it freaked the market out. But it also lowered the interest on the debt. crazy stuff
It’s been a hell of a week since Trump rang the opening bell at the Stock Exchange.
The Rest is History is fantastic.
Very interesting to conflate buying a social platform for $44 billion, becoming its most followed user, and using that power to lobby a congressional vote with "the voice of the people"
Who did that conflating? Not me.
But since you brought it up, Musk is a person, is he not? Lots of people agree with him, do they not? Nobody is forcing those people to follow Musk, are they? People have the right to make their views known to their elected representatives, do they not? And about using power- didn't Kamala attempt to use the power of the celebrities she hired to try to drag her across the finish line in the recent election?
To believe it was "preventable" is to overlook the geo-strategic dynamics that caused the war. It's like saying that the Chicago Fire was preventable, when the whole town, including its sidewalks, was built out of wood, and light and heat were provided by flames. Sure, you could have moved the lamp away from Mrs O'Leary's cow, but it was only a matter of time before some other spark lit the conflagration.
Broken trees with a smokestack in the background.
Where was our hostess mind traveling this morning. Had she read the MR post on discussing philosophy with ChatGPT o before talking her morning walk?
Fabulous!
If only Kamala was set up to save the economy and the stock market.
Sounds like a book worth checking out. Right around the centennial of WWI, there were a lot of book that came out. I read some of them. There's a kind of morbid fascination in reading about WWI. I don't think any war will ever top it for stupidity and utter futility.. In some battles, fifty thousand men were lost in a single day. The lucky ones got vaporized in artillery barrages, others got tangled up in barbed wire and bled out in no man's land. There were no real religious, class, or ethnic differences between the combatants. At the end of the war, they further fucked things up, and made the world safe for Lenin, Mussolini, and Hitler..........We're not further evolved than those combatants or peacemakers at Versailles. It could happen again. It happened again after the defeat of Napoleon.
Think of it another way- if the praying is having an actual effect on her- she doesn't like it!,/i>
Hmmm.. Why wouldn't she like it? Ask yourself that. No good answers come to my mind.
I do wish it were possible to edit replies...
Coyote and bear family in my yard a couple nights ago
As Althouse has pointed out, it is possible to edit replies—simply delete the comment and repost an edited version.
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