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Nice photos. Was able to watch 2 other "art" documentaries. The one about Lee Morgan was good it lead me to watch one about John Coltrane. Sadly, the one about Coltrane was the typical PBS style documentary about "Approved" art/music figures. We get famous people, in this case Bill Clinton, droning on about how great Coltrane was. And then quite a bit from his family and friends telling us what a fine person he was. Oh sure, he had some rough edges, but...
And then the critics/co-workers telling us what a genius the artist/musician was. Then interlarded is the standard political narrative. In the case of coltrane, we get the usual shots of the KKK burning crosses, the "Colored People arent allowed here" signs, the march on selma, the dogs attacking black people etc. etc. Followed by the standard, he was radicalized by the civil rights events, and started to play music blah de blah.
Anyway, his music his great, but his life doesn't make fascinating film. He did have a heroin problem and kicked it cold turkey, but this interesting part of his life is about 5 minutes.
President Trump has an opportunity to mediate the conflict between India and Pakistan concerning Kashmir, and should seek to work together with Xi and MBS (Pakistanis being over 80% Sunni) to bring peace to the region.
“ President Trump has an opportunity to mediate the conflict between India and Pakistan concerning Kashmir,”
Much easier said than done. Let’s concentrate on MAGA first.
Peace Prize worthy.
Tomorrow will be Trump's 100th day of his second presidency. He promised to end the Russia/Ukraine war within 24 hours. He seems to be a bit behind schedule.
"Rep. Gerry Connolly, the top Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, will step down from his leadership post on the panel and not run for reelection."
President Trump's poll numbers must be TRULY HORRIBLE,
if This Many long time congressmen are deciding Not to run for reelection!
Seriously! He is SO RADIOACTIVE that they are dropping like flies!
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/04/28/congress/connolly-to-step-down-as-top-oversight-dem-00312360
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/dick-durbin-replacement-candidates
lonejustice said...
He promised to end the Russia/Ukraine war within 24 hours.
when did he do That, Chuck? please provide a link
Connolly has cancer, gilbar.
I rise to recommend The Ivy Exile Substack. I've been enjoying his perspectives on working as a "PR flack" his words for progressive Democrats in various places.
I appear to have left out some parentheses.
Don't underestimate the power of David Hogg.
I'm only half joking.
The other documentary i watched was "what ever happened to Jack Keroauc?". Having read quite a bit about JK, this was quite disappointing. We get the usual suspects yapping, and a lot of footage from JK''s appearances on Steve Allen or WF Buckley's Tv shows.
One problem in reading ABOUT Keroauc is that many who write about him treat him as part of the Beats. That is their true interest, the beatniks, and how they were "Subversive" and "Leftwing" and led to blah de blah.
The true "King of the beats" was Allen Ginsberg. Ginsberg was Gay, a prompter of pot and LSD, and a leftist. He was the one who saw how to organize all these 50s "rebels" into a group and a cultural force.
Kerouac, OTOH, was just an apolitical guy who liked "Freedom". He disliked authority and rules and wanted everyone to "do their own thing" within reason. And he wasn't Gay - he was a drunkard. He disliked drugs. He didn't like Hippies. He liked jazz, not Rock'n'roll.
President Trump has an opportunity to mediate the conflict between India and Pakistan concerning Kashmir
“One war at a time,” as Abe Lincoln famously said during the Trent Affair. Zelenskyy has been a grade a a**h*le and Putin not much better. Wind down one war and worry about the next one later.
Tomorrow will be Trump's 100th day of his second presidency. He promised to end the Russia/Ukraine war within 24 hours. He seems to be a bit behind schedule.
Yeah. Let's blame Trump for Zelensky acting like a spoiled-rotten little bitch the last time he was at the White House. You know, that time he tried to publicly renegotiate a deal he'd already agreed to in private?
Once again - when it comes to leftist talking points - we can always count on 'three-time Trump voters' to step up to the plate.
“Don't underestimate the power of David Hogg.”
Can I misunderestimate him, or will he go nuklar?
That little turd blossom anyway…
And the photos are quite lovely.
CAVU High 70's with a breeze today in center mass. The bloom is accelerating.
“Let's blame Trump for Zelensky acting like a spoiled-rotten little bitch.”
Scott Adams theorizes Zelensky knows if he agrees to any deal which cedes territory to Russia, Ukrainians will administer rough justice. His only option is to keep fighting if he wants to keep living.
Trump's war against the Houthis just went up in price when ill-trained sailors aboard the Harry Truman dumped an F/A-18E Super Hornet overboard into the Red Sea which cost a mere $73 million to re-build these days even before Forrest Trump's tariffs come into play. Obviously, the sunken fighter jet will have to be destroyed as well. Run, Forrest, Run!
Trump's war against the Houthis just went up in price when ill-trained sailors aboard the Harry Truman dumped an F/A-18E Super Hornet overboard into the Red Sea which cost a mere $73 million to re-build these days even before Forrest Trump's tariffs come into play. Obviously, the sunken fighter jet will have to be destroyed as well. Run, Forrest, Run!
Neil Young: Lets Roll Again
Yay sun.
Beautiful fotos, as always. How far across is the lake from that vantage point?
I am Laslo.
Gilbar: Use Google. Probably his most famous campaign promise.
RCocean II: Allen Ginsberg was an out and proud pedophile, and a prominent spokesperson for NAMBLA, which advocated for legalizing "man-boy love" and engaged in mass gang rapes of little boys -- events Ginsberg spoke of with fondness. They published a manual instructing members how to evade prosecution -- titled "Rape and Escape." Some members tortured and dismantled their young victims. This did not dissuade Ginsberg from his sexual behavior and legal advocacy for the group. He should have been hung from a tree. Instead, he was a revered professor at Naropa Institute.
Connolly is also in a very safe dem district -- the richest in the country for many years due to the high numbers of lobbyists and federal workers.
At the fuzzy border of order and chaos is where the interesting stuff happens. A YouTube comment: "restriction breeds creativity". Often times we will struggle with being creative when we have a blank page, blank canvas, and can go in any direction. However, when we have a specific prompt, and/or multiple requirements that have to be met, we can actually come up with some extremely creative outcomes by comparison. I like that Rothko story.
"TOM HOMAN: I started in Border Patrol in 1984. I’ve been at this for over 40 years and have worked for six presidents, starting with Ronald Reagan. Every president I worked for took border security seriously because you can’t have national security if you don’t have strong border security.
Joe Biden is the first president in the history of this nation who came into office and unsecured the border on purpose. That’s just a fact. We handed the Biden administration, after President Trump’s first administration, the most secure border in my lifetime, and they unsecured it on purpose."
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/04/border-czar-homan-biden-is-the-first-president-who-unsecured-a-border-on-purpose/
The “interesting stuff” is the manifestation of the possible. It’s what makes cat videos, for example, addictive.
For everybody who is sad about the poor little illegal gang member loving judge...Always remember..in Progressives own words....
https://x.com/tomselliott/status/1668631581978947585?
Gadfly: “Trump's war against the Houthis just went up in price when ill-trained sailors aboard the Harry Truman dumped an F/A-18E Super Hornet overboard into the Red Sea …”
You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about.
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For those keeping score at home:
April 22nd: Spain brags about hitting 100% renewable power.
April 28th: Spain has the nation's largest blackout in history.
https://x.com/WillHild/status/1916953125992157668
Hey Gadfly, how much military hardware did Biden lose in his botched withdrawal from Afghanistan? Dumbass.
when ill-trained sailors
Have you thought about when their training would have occurred?
Even if you count the increase in recruitment after Trump won the election and before he took office, boot camp is 9 to 10 weeks (up per action by Trump). Before becoming an aircraft handler, the new sailor will attend the appropriate A School, which is a minimum of 4 weeks up to a year.
Why did Biden leave us with a poorly trained Navy, Gadfly?
Initial reports, even from CNN, indicate the Harry Truman was forced to engage in evasive maneuvers to avoid an attack, likely either missiles or drones from the Houthis.
I was thinking about Musk this morning as I was laying in bed and how much our lives have been improved by what he has built. The Nuralink itself is worthy of a Nobel Prize. And then I came here and read lonejustice and Gadfly and thought of Robert Heinlein's quote.
There is no difference between gadfly, lonejustice et al and the ignorant peasants that killed Hypatia.
ALL you can do is laugh at them, at this point. They are a joke, and still think we care what they think after lying to us for so many years.
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Left: photo of the year, according to the White House Correspondents’ Association.
Right: photo of the year , according to anyone with a functioning brain cell.
https://x.com/Legal_Fil/status/1916992468836294867
Trump is conducting trade negotiations with 200 countries; there are only 195 in the world (one of which is the U.S.). So there’s nothing to worry about.
Kak, no more to worry about than Obama visiting 53 states or whatever it was. I’m sure you’re better than such rank partisanship you always seem to display.
Those of us who have a bit of education immediately recognize that as round-off. Others, not so much.
The propaganda media does this all the time, always rounding in the direction they wish to skew their lies.
So correct, nothing to worry about.
Always interesting to note the little meaningless things that people seize upon when they can't make a cogent argument of any interest to others.
Tina - thanks for the info on Ginsberg. Yikes! I didn't know he supported NAMBLA (for civil liberties reasons wink wink). I also learned he was raised as a communist (his mother was a party member). And while Ginsberg didn't join the party he sympathized with communist goals and communist countries. He didn't start critizing communism until the late 60s when the USSR supported the Arab side in the 67 war.
A tariff is a tax, but a tax is not a tariff.
Are policymakers OK with tariffs because they’re avoiding another hard discussion? If so, about what?
The discussions being avoided by Republican lawmakers range from 'why am I facing a well-funded challenger in the primary?' through to 'why are there heavily-armed MAGA types turning up at my home?'
I doubt the economic theory behind different types of taxation comes into it much.
If we can’t cut entitlements or raise taxes, maybe we have to rely on tariffs?
A low % tariff (e.g. sub 10%) will raise money. 100% tariffs will not raise (much) money.
Even that, the deficits run into many trillions and 10% of $3T import = $300bn.
So, back to the drawing board -- cut spending or raise taxes.
kaKAW… kaKAW… kaKAWWWWWwwwww…
'why are there heavily-armed MAGA types turning up at my home?'
Really? Plenty of calls for violence and chaos, some being acted upon. But they're all coming from the opposite direction.
Stop making sh** up, dude.
“You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about.”
In other words, another day ending in “y” for teh ‘fly…
wasn't there Supposed to be, some HUGE stock crash over tariffs?
I thought they said that there was a Huge stock crash over tarriffs?
what ever happened to That?
just my IRA, it's down hundred and seventy-six dollars from March 30..
it's UP $3,124 from March 13th; and up about 26 THOUSAND for the last 365 days (not including my withdraws).
I'm not making much money right now, but i'm not losing Anything..
WHERE IS THIS HUGE CRASH????
WHERE?!?!?!?
I've recently started reading Instapundit again, although emphatically not the comments. This morning, I came across something about Brian Kemp's behavior as governor of Georgia during covid - how he opened the state very early, perhaps the earliest of any governor, and caught hell from Trump about it. And then it talked about Trump's vilification of Ron DiSantis for being later than Kemp.
I have thoughts. I'm actually surprised that none of our lefties here have seized on these particular examples as evidence that Trump is only out for himself, lies constantly, and is thin-skinned. It seems to me that all of these things are true to a greater or lesser extent of pretty much anyone in public life - look at Biden, whose increasing dementia certainly stripped away the mask that he had worn with more or less success for 50 years, even though plenty of his constituents and those who actually paid attention to him knew that he was just plain mean. Or Obama's stupid little middle finger scratch under his eye. Politicians are generally not very nice people.
And Trump came late to politics, though of course he'd been in the public eye for many decades.
But thinking about his response to Kemp and DiSantis, I'm also given to remember that he had been beleaguered from the first day of his presidency. As has been said many times before, there are not many people who can stand up to that level of personal opprobrium and institutional warfare for that long without having a strong emotional reaction to it. And, as a non-scientist, he was pretty much forced to base his policies on what the "experts" around him were telling him, which I'm sure included a good deal of suppression of opposing viewpoints - as we saw! So, although it wasn't great, I give him a bit of a pass, and in fact he did leave It to the states and did not attempt to force any governors to stay closed - only to influence them that way when he thought it was the right thing to do.
And then we have the Butler assassination attempt. One of Trump's great strengths is his willingness to stand firm in the face of opposition, but it's always been coupled with a willingness to change as conditions - not public opinion - warrant. And I think that assassination attempt added a dose of - if not humility, exactly, higher purpose. Not to say that he didn't have the desire to "make America great again" in his first term, but I do think that he both didn't expect to win and have to really deliver on that promise, and also retained that lifelong sense of self-importance that almost anyone who ends up a billionaire through his own efforts will have. Butler, I think, at least softened the edges of that self-importance.
As I've said before, I'm not a big fan of Trump as a person. But I do respect him warts and all
Good thoughts, Jamie.
RCoceanII: it's increasingly hard to find this stuff. The search engines ban it. But I studied poets in the 80's: it was well known then, and entirely accepted.
Academia is evil. It's that simple. Too many cruel neutralists letting little boys get raped, so long as they all have tenure.
Tina Trent: Although academia is evil, I think the Ginsberg thing is as much from the publishing world, particular the big magazines in the '60s and '70s, as from his academic affiliation. And many (most?) artists are absolute crap as people. To Ginsberg, add Samuel R. Delany. Babel-17 is a little gem of a space opera, with more creativity and love for humans in all the weirdness packed into 200 pages than you'll find in 20 other SF books. Why it hasn't been made into a film is a mystery. And yet Delany is another NAMBLA predator. Why isn't it enough for these people to just be gay? Why do they have to be child-molesting rapists or defenders and justifiers of child-molesting rapists?
North American Marlon Brando Look Alikes. Classic South Park.
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