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Grandkids are wonderful! Just sayin’…
'No King's shooting death in Salt Lake City. Victim was an innocent bystander. Crowd Security was responding to a man pointing an AR-15 apparently making ready to fire at the crowd. The man was wounded, attempted to flee, was arrested.
https://www.heraldextra.com/news/local/2025/jun/15/man-dies-after-being-shot-in-chaotic-scene-at-salt-lake-citys-no-kings-protest/
Boy, nobody even bothers to black out cities under missile attack anymore.
Trying to decide on what Mass in B Minor etc. to record and put on my Walkman. Herreweghe seems to be the best bet, as he seems to abhor vibrato. You get opera singers. This in stead of this.
Also in the plan, Bach St Matthews Passion, Mozart Requiem, Mozart Mass in C Minor, Bach Christmas Oratorio. Avoiding St John's Passion.
Lucien: no point - GPS/INS systems render the.Mark 1 Visible Loght Eyeball superfluous...
Light. Phooey.
Grandkids are wonderful! Just sayin’…
@iman, damned right!
Lots of prescription med ads on tv. You know- "Ask your doctor if Zyphorilax is right for you." I'm wondering how that would go...
You: Dr. Crabtree, would Zyphorilax be good for me?"
Dr. "Well, I think so. Let's get you a prescription."
Don't you think if your doctor knew of something that would benefit you, he'd tell you about it without waiting to be asked? How much confidence would you have in him if it turned out he neglected to tell you about something that would help with your medical condition because you never asked him about it?
Aggie forgot to tell you that Crowd Security shot the innocent bystander. Not the guy with the AR-15.
Had 7 of the 13 grand kids over today. They pounded the hybrid bluegill at our pond.
You: "Dr. Crabtree, would Zyphorilax be good for me?"
Well, you have foot odor. Let's take a look at the side effects:
* May cause you to have suicidal ideation. If you suddenly want to kill yourself after trying Zyphorilax for the first time, ask your doctor if you should continue taking Zyphorilax.
* Also causes bad breath.
Dr. Crabtree: "Well, I got my consultation fee."
Humperdink should probably provide some additional detail about what constitutes pounding the hybrid bluegill in his part of the country.
In my part, you can get arrested for that if you get caught doing it in public.
Happy Fathers Day to all you dads and pops out there. My son texted me with good wishes and we plan to eat out one night this week. (We mostly text; he has inherited my distaste for consumerist holidays and phone convos.)
Other than hanging out here, that's the most important thing to happen to me today.
@FormerLawClerk: No: "Crowd Security was responding to a man pointing an AR-15 apparently making ready to fire at the crowd. The man was wounded, attempted to flee, was arrested..."
I didn't forget - I thought it was clear, and I provided a link for the readers who are curious.
Mason G said...
You: Dr. Crabtree, would Zyphorilax be good for me?"
Dr. "Well, I think so. Let's get you a prescription."
I tend to think a lot of those go more like:
You: "Dr. Crabtree, would Zyphorilax be good for me?"
Dr: "Zyphorilax is for vaginal dryness, Mr. Thompson. So in a word; no."
What are they running on Father’s Day?
Is it Patton? Midway? City Slickers? John Wick? Taken 1 2 or 3?
Nope, it’s the Barbie movie.
This seems to be the best Mozart Requiem though. Not Herreweghe.
Wrong Link @rhhardin.
bah the tenor and bass stink
For the uninitiated, “pounding” is a term we use in our area for catching fish in a repeated fashion.
Hybrid bluegill grow to twice the size of normal bluegill and fight like crazy. The downside is they struggle to reproduce as 80-90% are male.
Back atcha, narr!
bad link should be Mozart Requiem. Great before the male soloists come in. It even gives you subtitles in Latin.
Bad link came from youtube somehow playing Requiem with Matthews Passion in the address bar, from where I snarfed it.
For the uninitiated, “pounding” is a term we use in our area for ... uh ... something else in a repeated fashion.
"Boy, nobody even bothers to black out cities under missile attack anymore."
Blackouts do nothing other than impede defensive measures. Saddam ordered a blacked out of Baghdad to be initiated on the first sight of American aircraft over Iraqi territory. However, on the night of 16 January 1991 his blackout order was totally moot since the city had already been blacked out by U.S.-led attacks on the Iraqi power grid. Our forces created a more thorough blackout of Baghdad and most of Iraq's other large cities than Saddam's people could have ever implemented. Since the invention of precision satellite navigation darkness favors the attacker far more than the defender.
Vance Boelter is alive and in custody. Surprise surprise, perhaps we'll get some answers now.
https://x.com/thauserkstp/status/1934435483720847555
They finally found him. Through extensive investigation. An FBI reward was $50,000. It took thousands of man-hours of state and local police working the system for overtime.
Where did they find him, you ask?
At his house.
..."Vance Boelter, 57, was arrested near his farm in Green Isle, Minnesota. He was spotted on a trail via camera earlier Sunday and then taken into custody, sources said. "
Oh and BWV 106 which has a cool beginning.
"Where did they find him, you ask?
At his house."
Crafty reverse psychology...
Trying to decide on what Mass in B Minor etc. to record and put on my Walkman.
The Smithsonian called, the Walkman was supposed to be a loan.
It's good that the guy was caught. Now, maybe we'll find out more.
The things we know? He was appointed to two state boards by two Democratic governors.
Some sources say his wife did not intern for Walz when he was in DC. Whether she did or didn't doesn't reveal much. My wife worked - at a very high level - for one of the most despicable, leftist AGs in the entire nation. She's not a Democrat.
We don't know if he voted for Trump. It's hearsay. We don't know his motivation. It may be abortion related. It may not be.
We don't know the list of people targeted because it hasn't been released. That's an indicator.
We don't know what's in his manifesto, because it hasn't been released and we've been told it won't be released. That's an indicator.
We do know his social media was immediately taken down. That's another indicator.
The problem here - and continues to be - the different standard applied when it comes to releasing pertinent information.
It's a consistent pattern that causes some of us to draw our own conclusions.
Governor Walz (aka Sergeant Major Chickenshit) can come out of hiding now.
Foreigners have little patience for Newsom's bosom buddies.
Link to video
Link to video
This could be interesting. Teachers Union President Randi Weingarten and AFSCME President Lee Saunders are leaving the DNC. Apparently they did not see eye to eye with new DNC Chair Ken Martin. Add in the defenestration of David Hogg, who was (amazingly!) too masculine to be vice chair, and we’re looking at a lot of turmoil within the DNC.
(Give yourself up)
(This is the police, give yourself up)
(You are surrounded)
TV keeps saying that this was the biggest manhunt in MN history. I doubt that. The Northfield bank robbery manhunt for the James-Younger gang was bigger on a relative population basis. Special trains were scheduled from the Twin Cities for Rice County and the surrounding area.
Second picture is outright mesmerizing.
"Minnasota Hennepin County Sheriff Dawanna Witt was in tears as she confirmed the arrest of suspect Vance Boelter in a phone call with NBC News."
Sheriff's named Dawanna crying. That's 21st Century America.
The message of the past week is that the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty is a sucker trap for countries that don't have nukes. It's basically "We agree to leave ourselves vulnerable to whatever you guys want to dish out, and to let you choose our leaders."
How would you react, for example, if there was a protest in your downtown pushing the agenda of some country that just launched a huge attack on America in the middle of negotiations over some disagreement? Would you head downtown and support the people who attacked our country?
The amazing thing about the propagandization of Americans to me is how it keeps people from thinking of the next step. It's like "thought stopping clichés*" that cults use. It's obvious as soon as you think about it that these attacks are going to solidify support for the mullahs and turn those people pushing for their overthrow into just so many quislings. Instapundit is the worst for this, just pushing the war, war, war agenda and never looking at why the other side is acting the way they are because that's un-American! Well, we have the responsibility, as citizens of a democracy, to be informed if we are going to vote. "Propaganda is to the democracy as the truncheon is to the dictatorship." —Some Wag on Twitter
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If you want to be informed, your first step is to stop watching the news, and dive into a few history books. Because the real dynamics are eternal, the chessboard doesn't change, the motivations don't change, the Crimean War is still going on, and the players, Russia and The UK are the same.
"Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die.
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred." —Charge of the Light Brigade, Tennyson
In this case "they" are the Ukrainians though, who obtained Crimea only by the diktat of a Soviet dictator, Khrushchev. No Crimean was ever asked, they never are, it was never part of Ukraine before that piece of paper was signed by Stalin's successor.
rhardin, this is my go to Bach B Minor recording, Gardiner, Monteverdi Choir
Please help me with this. Why do politicians use signing interpreters on stage with them to interpret for the deaf when they could just as easily use subtitles. It drives me nuts.
went to downtown Iowa City last night for a concert..
of COURSE, there were tons of trans flags, and several
BLACK LIVES MATTER signs on the way to the Englert Theater
There were chalk drawings on the sidewalks that read:
NO KINGS
NO NAZIS
NO ICE
at the show, i counted three people still wearing masks;
an elderly lady that was working there, and a lesbian couple that were wearing matching designer masks.
I thought a LOT about the couple.
WHY?
WHY would you be wearing masks to a concert in the summer of '25?
WHY would you HAVE designer masks?
They weren't near me, so i didn't talk to them; but STILL..
Are there people in Madison that are (still) wearing designer masks?
is it a fashion statement? don't they realize that they're burkas?
Gilbar, I like to give the benefit of the doubt to elderly and frail people wearing masks, but a couple flounting masks for attention should at least escalate to blazoning them so the rest of us can at least enjoy the spectacle.
So true about AI
Please help me with this. Why do politicians use signing interpreters on stage with them to interpret for the deaf when they could just as easily use subtitles. It drives me nuts.
I won't go so far as to say it drives me nuts, but I have wondered at it! Why ASL and not, say, Spanish (here is Texas), for instance? I get that (1) the hearing impaired of the US are still considered to be fluent in English even if they use ASL exclusively and don't speak, because they read English - but isn't that another argument for subtitles? And (2) that simultaneous audio translation would be - yikes, chaos.
But we now have the ability to do simultaneous subtitles. So why don't we? Plus, subtitles eliminate mistranslations, because the words as written are exactly the words spoken (ahem, discounting the vagaries of auto-subtitling), whereas ASL is a translation by the interpreter.
We live in a world of auto-generated subtitles. They can come up with some silly words.
What if someone can't read fast enough to keep up with the speaker? Also, written words can't convey tone and expression. And if the words are coming fast, it's hard to simultaneously watch the speaker's face while reading.
I don't speak ASL, but I can see why citizens would request it over subtitles (assuming they're not attending in person).
“What About Bob”:
Bob Wiley: [telling a joke] The doctor draws two circles and says "What do you see?" the guy says "Sex."
[everybody laughs]
Bob Wiley: Wait a minute, I haven't even told the joke yet! So the doctor draws trees, "What do you see?" the guy says "sex". The doctor draws a car, owl, "Sex, sex, sex". The doctor says to him "You are obsessed with sex", he replies "Well you're the one drawing all the dirty pictures!"
See: “Pounding” above.
Lem Vibe Bandit said...
“The Smithsonian called, the Walkman was supposed to be a loan.”
They have some nice digital devices these days. I would suggest a Diamond Rio PMP-300 MP3 player.
Quip from Mark Steyn: “Bernie Sanders say their vision for America is not Venezuela but Denmark. Which has a king. As do its neighbours Sweden and Norway.”
I guess I'm in the minority on this one, but I watch some of these emergency press briefings ONLY because of the sign language interpreters. Their facial and hand contortions are awesome. They're really world-class expression athletes. They're also hilarious. We often purposely mute the audio and take turns saying what we believe they are interpreting, and neither of us knows ASL. (This is even more entertaining if you take shots of tequila periodically when you believe you got some expression right.)
Also Steyn: “Is this a new war? Lindsey Graham, member of the Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, seems to think so and is panting like Jeffrey Toobin on a Zoom call.”
I'm using a AM FM shortwave mp3 radio Retekess V115, which takes a micro usb card, has a fairly loud speaker, and picks up where you left off if you turn it back on. Fits in a large pocket snugly.
rhhardin, seeing from your blog icon that you are also a connoisseur of man-shorts, I would highly recommend a pair of "Men's Sonoma Goods For Life® 10" Flexwear Everyday Cargo Shorts" for your daily constitutional. They have extra large cargo pockets below both regular pockets so they can easily carry an AM FM shortwave mp3 radio Retekess V115 in each pocket simultaneously. Then you can listen to Bach-to-Bach recordings as you perambulate.
@Tina Trent, we were at the ballet Saturday and my wife noticed quite a few people with masks. I agree with you, with so many people using pharmaceuticals now, a lot of them depress the immune system. I have no problem with people wearing masks, even if some of them appear to be oddballs. I think the problem people have, is being commanded to wear masks.
I keep hearing the statements "this isn't who WE are! I dont get it OF course this is who we are . The trump birthday/Army parade(who WH claimed was attended by 250,000 people(another delusion of the right) and the millions who protested NO KINGS since 1776 were powerful but a day late and a dollar short. Where were they when they let trump get elected again by not turning out. Missed the boat folks. Yes this is exactly who we are ,police state, felons in charge graft and grift wide open , prices rising ,CORRUPT SCOTUS, an administration of total sycophants who have one goal,be loyal to the King or else. Yup it didn't take long but just about back where we began with King George and the BIG BEAUTIFUL add trillions to the debt from the company that brought you fiscal conservativity (umhuummm) fiscally destroying the serfs and wacking it up to the point of the 3 major credit agencies says" your credit sucks, down you go, pay billions daily in interest on the debt you keep wacking up FISCALLY CONSERVATIVE huh? Yes I guess there will always be cute sayings the people who are subservient always say but dont forget it THIS IS DEFINITELY WHO WE ARE ,,just open your eyes. BUT WE KNOW YOUR CANT DRAFT A NEW IDEA ON A CLOSED MIND SO THERES THAT...aldous YOU HIT IT A BRAVE NEW WORLD IT IS!
To be fair, most people nowadays wear masks if they feel a bit sick and don’t want to spread it to others. So if you feel a bit under the weather but still need to go to work or want to attend theatre, using mask is a commendable thing to do to protect other people around.
"So if you feel a bit under the weather but still need to go to work or want to attend theatre, using mask is a commendable thing to do to protect other people around."
If you care a little bit about making other people sick, but not enough to inconvenience yourself by staying home?
Love the sunrise photos, especially the one without the actual sun.
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