There was a big thunderstorm this morning, so I couldn't get out for the sunrise, but here are some photographs I took of flowers at sunrise on July 16th and 19th:
Yesterday, I was surprised to learn from a member of Ghislaine Maxwell's legal team that she has never been interviewed by either state or federal prosecutors. Despite news reports to the contrary, it appears that Maxwell may be an untapped source of information on the scandal... ` Jonathan Turley
Why do so many apps and sites give you a satisfaction survey RIGHT WHEN YOU HAVE FIRST LOGGED INTO IT????
Whew, sorry for the all caps. But come on, man.
And to clarify, I am not talking about the "will you take a survey when you're done?" popup. Those are annoying but at least make logical sense. I mean the ones that are the equivalent of a restaurant hostess saying "Welcome to Applebee's. How did you enjoy your visit?"
I suppose the remedy is to give them no stars, and in the comments say I am dissatisfied with their satisfaction survey.
There aren't that many Hawaiian politicians. It's so weird (but deserved) that Tulsi Gabbard is going after Obama. She must be losing some friends at home.
The explanations of what Tulsi is releasing are getting easier to follow. Here's Megyn Kelly. It starts off slow, but gets good when she brings on Matt Taibbi. What's striking here is the day after Obama directs Brennan and Clapper to bring him intelligence connecting Trump with Putin (intelligence he knew didn't really exist), WaPo and the NYT are headlining the "findings" of a report that will take another month for Brennen and Clapper to construct.
I have a "Mom's angst songs" playlist on Spotify, created by my entire family, of the songs I love to belt out during kitchen dance parties (which happen kind of a lot when everyone is home, and of course in the car, because that's when things get belted out). One of the songs reminded me of one of my favorite moments in music:
In 1986, when I was 20, the Big Country album The Seer was due to come out. I had been looking forward to it for months. The night before it's release date, my boyfriend and I went to Tower - and SOMEBODY had put it out early.
Heart pounding, I snatched it to my bosom, paid, and we left, and back at his place (which, let me be clear, was his room in his parents' house), he did his usual thing - clean the vinyl, clean the cartridge, clean the tape deck, put in a metal tape despite the wear on the recording heads, all in preparation to play the album ONCE (while recording it to the cassette), never to remove it from its sleeve again. But in contrast to his usual way, he let me wear his over-ear headphones and listen to it all by myself. I felt that I was privy to some kind of time traveling magic - enhanced by the crazy folky Celtic vibe of the music.
That album also introduced me to Kate Bush, which, who doesn't love a tiny little nut job witch, as long as she keeps it in the realm of the woo-woo and doesn't try to tell you how to love? (I'm looking at you, Marianne Williamson...)
I still love Big Country. Who had the idea to make a power trio sound like bagpipes?
Apologies in advance for typos; Blogger has decided to revert to the thing where I can only see maybe eight lines of a comment and can't scroll through it gradually - just "you can see the top eight lines" or "you can see the bottom eight lines." Which may indeed be aimed at me, to encourage me to keep it to eight lines. But whom are we kidding?
For those who have racket. I don't, but the first page is damning enough. Tulsi's phrase "manufactured intelligence" hits the bullseye. They hung the Russian collusion charge on absolutely nothing.
For readers that enjoy true crime, I suggest The King of Diamonds. About a jewel thief in late 50's to 1970 in high fallutin areas of Dallas and Fort Worth. Written by a fine reporter/writer, Rena Pederson.
In Monarch of the Glen, there's an episode where someone is lost on the estate. The guys get on ATV's to look for her, and find her near a swamp or loch or something. Great nod to the "In A Big Country" video, without ever saying it out loud. The Scottish-oriented audience was supposed to just get it.
I only attended one Big Country concert, but it was one of the top two concerts of my life. Small theater in San Francisco. The Seer tour - I didn't really know who they were until maybe a year before that (my then-boyfriend and sometime first husband did a lot of bad things, but he did have pretty great taste in music), so if they were touring when I was 18 or 19 I didn't know about them. Oh, I didn't want it to end.
The other great concert was Marillion, Misplaced Childhood tour (I e., the album that got Fish fired, but still a favorite of mine - my one personal playlist is called "Mom's angst songs" for a reason). Again, small theater in San Francisco. Fish had eschewed the Genesis-like makeup by that time but I was not the only person in the crowd who wore it - I painted multicolored flames all over my face. Again, oh, I didn't want it to end.
Jamie - wow, Marillion with Fish. I have only seen them with Steve Hogarth. And I saw Fish solo. Missed out on his farewell performance in Glasgow because of my legal troubles.
I have seen Hogarth/Marillion a bunch of times, in both small venues (930 Club in DC, Park West in Chicago) and in the Albert Hall.
Saw Fish at a very small venue in Pontiac, Michigan. He wore a kilt with this huge belt buckle that had a silver thistle flanked by the Scottish saltire flag and the royal Stuart lion-rampant standard. He is a huge Scottish nationalist. Part of why he couldn't stay in a band full of Englishmen.
Saint Croix: I don't understand how this works. Is Racket just Taibbi, or are there other writers? I have a similar question about Substack. There I know there are multiple writers, but do you subscribe to each of them separately or are they bundled together in a subscription?
A Matt Taibbi subscription to Racket News is the best bang for the buck, in my view. You get news articles regularly, they also clone them to audio versions, and you get two podcasts with Walter Kirn and Taibbi every week. Very much worth the money, top quality analysis and very enlightening.
And Fish was - and may still be, I don't know - a staggering drunk. Also immensely talented.
And Neil Peart loved the sound of his own lyrical voice; and he's dead of cancer, after having lost his first wife and his only daughter in a single year, if memory serves, which will leave a mark, I expect.
And Ozzy is dead at only 76, I suspect from the depredations of his life.
People may have great things and terrible things inside them at once, I think. I'm not hoping my daughter marries a Stuart Adamson, but I can recognize his gifts.
OM - Substack is... kind of like Blogger? Lots of people have "magazines" on it (they're not exactly like blogs). Some allow you to subscribe to their "magazine" for free; some charge a (usually pretty nominal) fee, and for many, they offer some content for free but have subscriber-only content too. Some are single-contributor; some have a team. Racket has a few writers but Taibbi is the big dog, and indeed, his podcasts with Walter Kirn are the best.
I also enjoy Coffee and COVID, which is (I believe) a single-contributor Substack that's free. Another good one is The Ivy Exile, another single-contributor that's free or mostly free. The Grumpy Economist is another.
Lots to explore these days! But if Substacks offer comment sections, I haven't engaged with them at all - this one is plenty.
Saint Croix: I don't understand how this works. Is Racket just Taibbi, or are there other writers? I have a similar question about Substack. There I know there are multiple writers, but do you subscribe to each of them separately or are they bundled together in a subscription?
Your subscription is to Racket news, so it's everything they put out. Taibbi and Walter Kirn do a weekly summation of the news which is a lot of fun.
I'm a (non-paying) subscriber to a few other people on Substack, including Dave Barry and Nate Silver. Sign up for free subscriptions, and then pay if you think it's worth it. Taibbi is worth it.
"n tweet after tweet, he calls for the end of the free market, for defunding the police, and for dismantling the prison system, which he describes as the “carceral state.” He champions communism (at least in one jokey photo), stans anti-Israel activist Linda Sarsour, calls cops “haram” (the Arabic term for forbidden under Islamic law),"
Thank you everyone. I am slow to sign up for things (especially if there's an App involved, which does not appear to be a requirement for Substack), but I probably should in this case.
Jamie et al - I'm on SubStack a lot and yes there can be comment sections. Some are pretty good (The Free Press, Bari Weiss's outfit, has a comment section that's usually better than the article teasers.) It varies by 'Stack. Some are open for all readers, others are only for paying subscribers. It can vary by post since even authors that are usually subscription-only can chose to make specific posts publicly viewable, with comments open or closed as they wish.
The open thread here has had discussions on AI. And seems Trump has issued an executive order on them. https://x.com/realchrisrufo/status/1948155276613550462 "the government will not purchase AI systems that default to black George Washington, refuse to celebrate the achievements of white people, or argue that misgendering someone is worse than a nuclear apocalypse". Seems reasonable to me.
On Ozzy- we think 76 is young to die. It wasn't when I was young. He made his biblical 3 score and 10. So he did all right. Had an appointment with my cardiologist today. Nice when your cardiologist, who deals with a lot of older people, says you don't look 70. I told him my goal was to be the healthiest 100 year old around when I die... He laughed.
@Peachy, I guess it is. I didn’t realize till you asked. Maybe I’m too accustomed to violence in movies but the movie doesn’t luxuriate in the violence (I don’t think). But it’s all dialogue. You can really listen to it and not look at the screen at all. Although worth looking because the acting is very good.
Eva - thank you for the explanation. At my age - for some reason, I find even small amounts of violence hard to take. that last violent show or movie i watched - and enjoyed - was Breaking Bad. I vowed to not watch any more violent shows after that. It's almost like I carry around PTSD from it. Not a problem for most people. I end up missing out on some good movies.
Oh, and The Liberal Patriot, with Ruy Texeira and others, is interesting too. (Thanks for the reminder about The Free Press!)
My husband hits the left mainstream media stuff so I don't have to, and engages a lot more with YouTube content. He is fond of The Young Turks. I myself have a hard time listening to Chenk Uyghur - too emotion-y. (FWIW, my husband also listens to Mark Levin and I don't like him either, for the same reason.)
IBad, was pretty violent, they did a Spanish version as well, I guess it served the purpose of his decline into this savage beast, from a mild mannered school teacher
you realize these apparatchiks like Brennan Comey to cite two examples don't really care about the things they say they care about, dame for those who echo them (I won't name any names) on the former's watch Islamic State metastasized when it could have been handled) same with the Ayatollah's regime,
same with economists like Krugman or Summers, they don't really care about economic growth or wage growth or antything real, same for economic inequality
re the outfit, it does have its violent moments, one might think that rylance is the wolf that hides as a timid lamb, in 30's chicago, an inversion of walter white,
Rylance has this skill of displaying menace with a placid facade, he did it in the whole Hilary Mantel arc as he faced off against Henry the 8th, who was a monstrous sovereign in ways small and large, similarly to the Mob boss who is an imminent threat to those around him
I thought the Outfit was a terrific movie. I happened to come across it about 15 minutes in, and was completely engrossed in the plot because of the twists. Won't give anything further away, except that Rylance is really superb. As he was in Bridge of Spies. Very understated, subtle acting.
Big Country… Stuart Adamson… I liked some of their music, the bagpipe sound of “In a Big Country”, for example. However, I wrote him off after reading an interview he did where he shared the usual 80’s Marxist take on America, how America was a land void of culture, etc.
I figured he should forget making money in America, stay in Scotland and stick his haggis where the Sun gains no purchase.
Peachy if you want to see a non violent movie with an intricate plot - A Big Hand for a Little Lady (1966) free with Amazon Prime. Also takes place essentially in one room. Western setting. Poker game. Actors: Henry Fonda, Joanne Woodward and Jason Robards. Other superb actors as well. It’s a grand movie.
Maxwell may be an untapped source of information on the scandal... ` Jonathan Turley
All that comes from unnamed sources at the UK Daily Mail. Because the Daily Mail's reporting relied on anonymous sources, there is no evidence that Maxwell is willing or able to provide pertinent information regarding new Epstein information. Fact of the matter, she didn't testify at her own trial.
She obviously wants freed from her 20 year sentence since she is asking for a new trial for what that isworth.
Bradley Edward's, Florida plaintiff lawyer who published 2020 book, Relentless Pursuit, about his work against Epstein for victims, was interviewed on cable news and said the lawyers for the Epstein estate have the now famous birthday book and will willingly respond to a subpoena for it. He added that at this point it should end up in the Smithsonian.
South Korea needs to start supplying man and materiel to Kukraine to pressure Russia to withdraw North Korean troops who are becoming battle tested, and stop supplying advanced military technology.
Trump’s personal attorney, Todd Blanche, is allegedly preparing to offer Ghislaine Maxwell a pardon in exchange for her lying about Trump’s association with Jeffrey Epstein. If this is widely anticipated, why isn’t anyone discussing it?
Though many doubted the wisdom of placing Tulsi Gabbard in charge of DNI, her revelations about Obama's role proves Trump's brilliance in doing so. Nothing brings transparency in government like a person wrongfully accused and damaged by it in the past. Tulsi is totally unafraid of what's going to be slung at her by desperate Democrats and their vile enemedia. She's going to be turning over every rock to finally uncover the truth. This is going to be very entertaining.
Personally I love how worked up Senator Mark Warner is over the whole Russia collusion thing. He was caught exchanging emails on Signal, I believe, with some Russian, when this whole thing started. I’ll bet there is a lot more on him and his involvement than we know at this time.
Trump’s personal attorney, Todd Blanche, is allegedly preparing to offer Ghislaine Maxwell a pardon in exchange for her lying about Trump’s association with Jeffrey Epstein.
Oh, is that how that works? Your lawyer tells random people that he's preparing to offer someone a pardon in exchange for that person's lying to clear his client?
Wow. I would imagine Trump is shopping for new lawyers, then.
Patience (2025) is an uglier people version of Astrid (still on Amazon Prime for a few days), also without Bach as constant Astrid comfort music at least so far. I haven't recognized the tune they use, or even what the tune is. It claims to be classical music but seems more like elevator music.
Whether they have the male-attracting gratuitous female frontal nudity in The Missing Link or not I don't yet know. Seems unlike PBS to copy that. Attracting males isn't their thing.
Yeah I'm just waiting for Althouse to post something on the Russians saying Hillary! was on heavy tranquilizers. Lol. The comments are going to be beautiful.
Tulsi Gabbard's willingness to make up charges against Barack Obama could delay by weeks, if not months, her eventual hiring as a network news contributor.
I didn’t think Trump would go after the Obama shills/ underlings/crooks and liars. He would move on. But I suppose if the aforementioned evil people rifled through your wife’s underwear drawer, charged you with every conceivable crime and shot you in the head, you might be a bit upset.
Sources close to Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump say that they do not approve of the president's rape of underage women. Well, first of all Monica Lewinsky was not underage, and second of all it was consensual.
Just above Taibbi in RCP: "Gabbard Doesn't Understand the Nuances of Intelligence" by Andrew McCabe, for CNN.
'Nuances'. Like the 'nuance' of doctoring evidence, lying on a FISA warrant to illegally obtain 4 wiretaps so that you can spy on the Trump administration? That kind of 'nuance', Andy? Like accepting hundreds of thousands from Hillary Clinton, directly, just a gift from a friend, you unnerstand, for your failed congressional campaign? That kind of 'nuance', you absolute disgrace? With a bit more panache, we could call you a 'hack'.
If this sounds familiar, its because Trump DOJ-appointed special counsel John Durham ran a four year investigation into this already. He charged 3 people and lost two of the cases. Here's his final report: https://www.justice.gov/archives/media/1381211/dl
For the good of the country, Senator @JohnCornyn and I urge Attorney General Bondi to appoint a special counsel to investigate the extent to which former President Obama, his staff and administration officials manipulated the U.S. national security apparatus for a political outcome. ~ Lindsey Graham
Exhibit A - for the callous uncaring pro-child abuse left: Leftists do not care about the child abuse hotline - amounted to the left's phone to nowhere. Leftists are vile uncaring a$$holes who are on board with child sex trafficking of illegals - you should be delighted that Epstein was at Chelsea Clinton's wedding.
It's astonishing how stupid Trump thought his base was by promoting the Epstein conspiracy for years—and allowing his MAGA allies to do the same—despite being the prime suspect himself.
When he ordered his supporters to stop caring, many ignored him, revealing his reckless decision-making. Driven by narcissistic energy, he believes he can gaslight or lie his way out of anything.
When Bondi informed him in May that his name appeared repeatedly in the reviewed files, his rampant narcissism led him to direct her to write a memo "ending the conspiracy." He assumed his base would be gullible enough to believe it.Key mistake: in MAGA culture, you can only amplify conspiracies, not diminish or end them.Now that Congress has subpoenaed all DOJ records, let's see him try to lie and gaslight his way out of this.
Bill Clinton may or may not have been the leader of the Jeffrey Epstein sex cult. But we may never know since Barack Obama fabricated the Epstein files. 🤣
The best part about not being a Republican or a Democrat is that I get to call out *both* Donald Trump and Bill Clinton for being on the Barack Hussein Obama Hoax List! 😂
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🤣 Like clockwork. What a shill.
Yesterday, I was surprised to learn from a member of Ghislaine Maxwell's legal team that she has never been interviewed by either state or federal prosecutors. Despite news reports to the contrary, it appears that Maxwell may be an untapped source of information on the scandal... ` Jonathan Turley
Why do so many apps and sites give you a satisfaction survey RIGHT WHEN YOU HAVE FIRST LOGGED INTO IT????
Whew, sorry for the all caps. But come on, man.
And to clarify, I am not talking about the "will you take a survey when you're done?" popup. Those are annoying but at least make logical sense. I mean the ones that are the equivalent of a restaurant hostess saying "Welcome to Applebee's. How did you enjoy your visit?"
I suppose the remedy is to give them no stars, and in the comments say I am dissatisfied with their satisfaction survey.
Sorry, had to tell someone.
RR
JSM
There aren't that many Hawaiian politicians. It's so weird (but deserved) that Tulsi Gabbard is going after Obama. She must be losing some friends at home.
Movie recommendation:
The Outfit (2022) for rent on Amazon Prime.
In the style of David Mamet. Complex plot. Very good acting.
The explanations of what Tulsi is releasing are getting easier to follow. Here's Megyn Kelly. It starts off slow, but gets good when she brings on Matt Taibbi. What's striking here is the day after Obama directs Brennan and Clapper to bring him intelligence connecting Trump with Putin (intelligence he knew didn't really exist), WaPo and the NYT are headlining the "findings" of a report that will take another month for Brennen and Clapper to construct.
I have a "Mom's angst songs" playlist on Spotify, created by my entire family, of the songs I love to belt out during kitchen dance parties (which happen kind of a lot when everyone is home, and of course in the car, because that's when things get belted out). One of the songs reminded me of one of my favorite moments in music:
In 1986, when I was 20, the Big Country album The Seer was due to come out. I had been looking forward to it for months. The night before it's release date, my boyfriend and I went to Tower - and SOMEBODY had put it out early.
Heart pounding, I snatched it to my bosom, paid, and we left, and back at his place (which, let me be clear, was his room in his parents' house), he did his usual thing - clean the vinyl, clean the cartridge, clean the tape deck, put in a metal tape despite the wear on the recording heads, all in preparation to play the album ONCE (while recording it to the cassette), never to remove it from its sleeve again. But in contrast to his usual way, he let me wear his over-ear headphones and listen to it all by myself. I felt that I was privy to some kind of time traveling magic - enhanced by the crazy folky Celtic vibe of the music.
That album also introduced me to Kate Bush, which, who doesn't love a tiny little nut job witch, as long as she keeps it in the realm of the woo-woo and doesn't try to tell you how to love? (I'm looking at you, Marianne Williamson...)
I still love Big Country. Who had the idea to make a power trio sound like bagpipes?
Apologies in advance for typos; Blogger has decided to revert to the thing where I can only see maybe eight lines of a comment and can't scroll through it gradually - just "you can see the top eight lines" or "you can see the bottom eight lines." Which may indeed be aimed at me, to encourage me to keep it to eight lines. But whom are we kidding?
For those who have racket. I don't, but the first page is damning enough. Tulsi's phrase "manufactured intelligence" hits the bullseye. They hung the Russian collusion charge on absolutely nothing.
For readers that enjoy true crime, I suggest The King of Diamonds. About a jewel thief in late 50's to 1970 in high fallutin areas of Dallas and Fort Worth. Written by a fine reporter/writer, Rena Pederson.
Cheers.
The Outfit - is it violent?
Jamie - Big Country rules!!!!
In Monarch of the Glen, there's an episode where someone is lost on the estate. The guys get on ATV's to look for her, and find her near a swamp or loch or something. Great nod to the "In A Big Country" video, without ever saying it out loud. The Scottish-oriented audience was supposed to just get it.
RR
JSM (ancestors from Fife)
OM, Taibbi is definitely worth the subscription. I've got one more freebie if somebody wants it.
I only attended one Big Country concert, but it was one of the top two concerts of my life. Small theater in San Francisco. The Seer tour - I didn't really know who they were until maybe a year before that (my then-boyfriend and sometime first husband did a lot of bad things, but he did have pretty great taste in music), so if they were touring when I was 18 or 19 I didn't know about them. Oh, I didn't want it to end.
The other great concert was Marillion, Misplaced Childhood tour (I e., the album that got Fish fired, but still a favorite of mine - my one personal playlist is called "Mom's angst songs" for a reason). Again, small theater in San Francisco. Fish had eschewed the Genesis-like makeup by that time but I was not the only person in the crowd who wore it - I painted multicolored flames all over my face. Again, oh, I didn't want it to end.
Jamie - wow, Marillion with Fish. I have only seen them with Steve Hogarth. And I saw Fish solo. Missed out on his farewell performance in Glasgow because of my legal troubles.
I have seen Hogarth/Marillion a bunch of times, in both small venues (930 Club in DC, Park West in Chicago) and in the Albert Hall.
But would have loved to see them with Fish.
RR (with a Heart of Lothian),
JSM
Jamie: btw, are you familiar with Runrig? If you like Big Country for the Celtic elements, you will love the 'Rig!
RR
JSM
I will listen to Runrig while making hot fudge sauce for my mother-in-law, this very night!
Oddly appropriate!
Bondi creates federal strike force to investigate Tulsi’s information.
Big Country - forgot about them.
The lead singer killed himself.
Stuart Adamson. 2001.
And btw, l second Saint Croix's assessment of Racket News. It's the one Substack I pay for.
Saw Fish at a very small venue in Pontiac, Michigan. He wore a kilt with this huge belt buckle that had a silver thistle flanked by the Scottish saltire flag and the royal Stuart lion-rampant standard. He is a huge Scottish nationalist. Part of why he couldn't stay in a band full of Englishmen.
RR
JSM
Brennan needs to be prosecuted and ruined.
Saint Croix: I don't understand how this works. Is Racket just Taibbi, or are there other writers? I have a similar question about Substack. There I know there are multiple writers, but do you subscribe to each of them separately or are they bundled together in a subscription?
A Matt Taibbi subscription to Racket News is the best bang for the buck, in my view. You get news articles regularly, they also clone them to audio versions, and you get two podcasts with Walter Kirn and Taibbi every week. Very much worth the money, top quality analysis and very enlightening.
Peach @8:29, I know. Very sad. He was talented.
And Fish was - and may still be, I don't know - a staggering drunk. Also immensely talented.
And Neil Peart loved the sound of his own lyrical voice; and he's dead of cancer, after having lost his first wife and his only daughter in a single year, if memory serves, which will leave a mark, I expect.
And Ozzy is dead at only 76, I suspect from the depredations of his life.
People may have great things and terrible things inside them at once, I think. I'm not hoping my daughter marries a Stuart Adamson, but I can recognize his gifts.
So many good ones gone.
OM - Substack is... kind of like Blogger? Lots of people have "magazines" on it (they're not exactly like blogs). Some allow you to subscribe to their "magazine" for free; some charge a (usually pretty nominal) fee, and for many, they offer some content for free but have subscriber-only content too. Some are single-contributor; some have a team. Racket has a few writers but Taibbi is the big dog, and indeed, his podcasts with Walter Kirn are the best.
I also enjoy Coffee and COVID, which is (I believe) a single-contributor Substack that's free. Another good one is The Ivy Exile, another single-contributor that's free or mostly free. The Grumpy Economist is another.
Lots to explore these days! But if Substacks offer comment sections, I haven't engaged with them at all - this one is plenty.
Saint Croix: I don't understand how this works. Is Racket just Taibbi, or are there other writers? I have a similar question about Substack. There I know there are multiple writers, but do you subscribe to each of them separately or are they bundled together in a subscription?
Your subscription is to Racket news, so it's everything they put out. Taibbi and Walter Kirn do a weekly summation of the news which is a lot of fun.
I'm a (non-paying) subscriber to a few other people on Substack, including Dave Barry and Nate Silver. Sign up for free subscriptions, and then pay if you think it's worth it. Taibbi is worth it.
What this country needs is an FBI leaker who calls himself Obama's Only Fan.
The truth is out there.
Move the flowerpot if it's safe to talk.
Also - check out The Free Press.
Much more balanced.
Someone dug into Mamdani's internet Trail.
It's not polished.
"n tweet after tweet, he calls for the end of the free market, for defunding the police, and for dismantling the prison system, which he describes as the “carceral state.” He champions communism (at least in one jokey photo), stans anti-Israel activist Linda Sarsour, calls cops “haram” (the Arabic term for forbidden under Islamic law),"
Thank you everyone. I am slow to sign up for things (especially if there's an App involved, which does not appear to be a requirement for Substack), but I probably should in this case.
Jamie et al - I'm on SubStack a lot and yes there can be comment sections. Some are pretty good (The Free Press, Bari Weiss's outfit, has a comment section that's usually better than the article teasers.) It varies by 'Stack. Some are open for all readers, others are only for paying subscribers. It can vary by post since even authors that are usually subscription-only can chose to make specific posts publicly viewable, with comments open or closed as they wish.
The open thread here has had discussions on AI. And seems Trump has issued an executive order on them.
https://x.com/realchrisrufo/status/1948155276613550462
"the government will not purchase AI systems that default to black George Washington, refuse to celebrate the achievements of white people, or argue that misgendering someone is worse than a nuclear apocalypse". Seems reasonable to me.
On Ozzy- we think 76 is young to die. It wasn't when I was young. He made his biblical 3 score and 10. So he did all right. Had an appointment with my cardiologist today. Nice when your cardiologist, who deals with a lot of older people, says you don't look 70. I told him my goal was to be the healthiest 100 year old around when I die... He laughed.
@Peachy, I guess it is. I didn’t realize till you asked. Maybe I’m too accustomed to violence in movies but the movie doesn’t luxuriate in the violence (I don’t think). But it’s all dialogue. You can really listen to it and not look at the screen at all. Although worth looking because the acting is very good.
Eva - thank you for the explanation. At my age - for some reason, I find even small amounts of violence hard to take.
that last violent show or movie i watched - and enjoyed - was Breaking Bad. I vowed to not watch any more violent shows after that. It's almost like I carry around PTSD from it.
Not a problem for most people. I end up missing out on some good movies.
Flow is my speed. I love that move.
Oh, and The Liberal Patriot, with Ruy Texeira and others, is interesting too. (Thanks for the reminder about The Free Press!)
My husband hits the left mainstream media stuff so I don't have to, and engages a lot more with YouTube content. He is fond of The Young Turks. I myself have a hard time listening to Chenk Uyghur - too emotion-y. (FWIW, my husband also listens to Mark Levin and I don't like him either, for the same reason.)
I can’t listen to Levin either. I like the content but just can’t stand the delivery.
Jamie at 925. Agree. Ruy is a good read, although he did come up with the demographically based "Emerging Democratic Majority".
IBad, was pretty violent, they did a Spanish version as well, I guess it served the purpose of his decline into this savage beast, from a mild mannered school teacher
you realize these apparatchiks like Brennan Comey to cite two examples don't really care about the things they say they care about, dame for those who echo them (I won't name any names) on the former's watch Islamic State metastasized when it could have been handled) same with the Ayatollah's regime,
same with economists like Krugman or Summers, they don't really care about economic growth or wage growth or antything real, same for economic inequality
re the outfit, it does have its violent moments, one might think that rylance is the wolf that hides as a timid lamb, in 30's chicago, an inversion of walter white,
Taibbi is more dead pan, and Kirn more quizzical in their stylings I would say
Rylance has this skill of displaying menace with a placid facade, he did it in the whole Hilary Mantel arc as he faced off against Henry the 8th, who was a monstrous sovereign in ways small and large, similarly to the Mob boss who is an imminent threat to those around him
I just Chunk just too wrong all of the time, and when he is righr, he is accidentally right, his former? Anna (lne) is capable of growth,
I thought the Outfit was a terrific movie. I happened to come across it about 15 minutes in, and was completely engrossed in the plot because of the twists. Won't give anything further away, except that Rylance is really superb. As he was in Bridge of Spies. Very understated, subtle acting.
as you say, in Bridge of Spies, he plays Rudolf Abel, the unasooming spy runner, traded for Gary Francis Powers
Big Country… Stuart Adamson… I liked some of their music, the bagpipe sound of “In a Big Country”, for example. However, I wrote him off after reading an interview he did where he shared the usual 80’s Marxist take on America, how America was a land void of culture, etc.
I figured he should forget making money in America, stay in Scotland and stick his haggis where the Sun gains no purchase.
We need an Army of Dicks in Calunicornia!
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Peachy if you want to see a non violent movie with an intricate plot - A Big Hand for a Little Lady (1966) free with Amazon Prime. Also takes place essentially in one room. Western setting. Poker game. Actors: Henry Fonda, Joanne Woodward and Jason Robards. Other superb actors as well. It’s a grand movie.
Maxwell may be an untapped source of information on the scandal... ` Jonathan Turley
All that comes from unnamed sources at the UK Daily Mail. Because the Daily Mail's reporting relied on anonymous sources, there is no evidence that Maxwell is willing or able to provide pertinent information regarding new Epstein information. Fact of the matter, she didn't testify at her own trial.
She obviously wants freed from her 20 year sentence since she is asking for a new trial for what that isworth.
That 2nd photo is so interesting. The sky matches the flowers. Striking.
Bradley Edward's, Florida plaintiff lawyer who published 2020 book, Relentless Pursuit, about his work against Epstein for victims, was interviewed on cable news and said the lawyers for the Epstein estate have the now famous birthday book and will willingly respond to a subpoena for it. He added that at this point it should end up in the Smithsonian.
Reminder that DNI Gabbard was raised in the Hare Krishna movement in Hawaii
Personally, I prefer the wildflower pictures to the sunrise pictures. Especially when I can identify (with some guessing) the plant species.
South Korea needs to start supplying man and materiel to Kukraine to pressure Russia to withdraw North Korean troops who are becoming battle tested, and stop supplying advanced military technology.
…oh, my, I’m beginning the day by learning the word Heimscheisser. Gonna be another strange one…
Holy cow. Sydney Sweeney in role of boxer Cristy Martin. hard to recognize in photos.
Trump’s personal attorney, Todd Blanche, is allegedly preparing to offer Ghislaine Maxwell a pardon in exchange for her lying about Trump’s association with Jeffrey Epstein. If this is widely anticipated, why isn’t anyone discussing it?
"If this is widely anticipated, why isn’t anyone discussing it?"
Because it's stupid bullshit and isn't widely anticipated.
Trump was friends and met with Epstein many, many times in his lifetime. Everybody knows this.
Speaking of DNI Gabbard...
Though many doubted the wisdom of placing Tulsi Gabbard in charge of DNI, her revelations about Obama's role proves Trump's brilliance in doing so. Nothing brings transparency in government like a person wrongfully accused and damaged by it in the past. Tulsi is totally unafraid of what's going to be slung at her by desperate Democrats and their vile enemedia. She's going to be turning over every rock to finally uncover the truth. This is going to be very entertaining.
When someone posts: “Everyone knows this”, you can it to bank, it’s BS. Or my favorite: “You can look it up”.
Personally I love how worked up Senator Mark Warner is over the whole Russia collusion thing. He was caught exchanging emails on Signal, I believe, with some Russian, when this whole thing started. I’ll bet there is a lot more on him and his involvement than we know at this time.
“Gonna be another strange one…”
Are we talkin’ “strange ones”? I give you kakscheisser.
Trump’s personal attorney, Todd Blanche, is allegedly preparing to offer Ghislaine Maxwell a pardon in exchange for her lying about Trump’s association with Jeffrey Epstein.
Oh, is that how that works? Your lawyer tells random people that he's preparing to offer someone a pardon in exchange for that person's lying to clear his client?
Wow. I would imagine Trump is shopping for new lawyers, then.
🙄
Tulsi Gabbard has some STONES. This I can tell you.
Patience (2025) is an uglier people version of Astrid (still on Amazon Prime for a few days), also without Bach as constant Astrid comfort music at least so far. I haven't recognized the tune they use, or even what the tune is. It claims to be classical music but seems more like elevator music.
Whether they have the male-attracting gratuitous female frontal nudity in The Missing Link or not I don't yet know. Seems unlike PBS to copy that. Attracting males isn't their thing.
Iman said...
“Tulsi Gabbard has some STONES. This I can tell you.“
100%!
Tulsi - thank you for your attention to this matter.
“Mamdani For Mom Dummies!”
what the Hamasian left call - free speech.
but then again - they think Molotov cocktails thrown at their enemies is - free speech.
Again - American neo-Marxist leftism and Hamas-lies = the same toxic soup
Yeah I'm just waiting for Althouse to post something on the Russians saying Hillary! was on heavy tranquilizers. Lol. The comments are going to be beautiful.
Turns out Russia wanted Hillary to win. they covered for her.
FLC writes: “Trump was friends and met with Epstein many, many times in his lifetime.”
We need a Benghazi style investigation into this matter.
Tulsi Gabbard's willingness to make up charges against Barack Obama could delay by weeks, if not months, her eventual hiring as a network news contributor.
Kak - LOL - you desperate leftists think you really have something.
"If this is widely anticipated, why isn’t anyone discussing it?"
Same reason you avoid making eye contact with crazy people on the street.
Kak - Epstein and Jizzlaine were at Chelsea Clinton's wedding.
10am and no post... uh oh. What's going on in Madison?
I didn’t think Trump would go after the Obama shills/ underlings/crooks and liars. He would move on. But I suppose if the aforementioned evil people rifled through your wife’s underwear drawer, charged you with every conceivable crime and shot you in the head, you might be a bit upset.
Gutfled, yesterday's episode, played old media clips of the media actually saying "THE RUSSIANS HACKED THE ELECTION."
Here is it is - Hillary and all the mass-Soviet Media - ALL Lying in unison saying "Russia hacked the election".
Watch the whole thing. Even Jimmy Falon said it.
It was all a lie. Bitter corrupt Hillary used the lie, in part - to deflect from her own Russian money whore connections.
Sources close to Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump say that they do not approve of the president's rape of underage women.
"Just because Trump gave Maxwell Ghislaine a full pardon after she defended him doesn't mean there was any explicit quit pro quo." ~ (mostly) Peachy
The collective liar left are a complete disgrace.
Sources close to Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump say that they do not approve of the president's rape of underage women.
Well, first of all Monica Lewinsky was not underage, and second of all it was consensual.
RCP Headline: “ McCabe: Gabbard Either Knows Her Claims Are "Absurd," Or She Doesn't Understand The "Nuances Of Intelligence"
“Nuances Of Intelligence?” We call them subversive lies Andrew.
Wheelchair accessible?
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2nd RCP Headline: “ Matt Taibbi: The Smoking Gun That Indicts Obama Is the December 10, 2016 Story In The NY Times And Washington Post”
Yo Andy, think Taibbi doesn’t understand nuance?
Just above Taibbi in RCP: "Gabbard Doesn't Understand the Nuances of Intelligence" by Andrew McCabe, for CNN.
'Nuances'. Like the 'nuance' of doctoring evidence, lying on a FISA warrant to illegally obtain 4 wiretaps so that you can spy on the Trump administration? That kind of 'nuance', Andy? Like accepting hundreds of thousands from Hillary Clinton, directly, just a gift from a friend, you unnerstand, for your failed congressional campaign? That kind of 'nuance', you absolute disgrace? With a bit more panache, we could call you a 'hack'.
Kak - You are no different than the cookie cutter loyal leftist liars who make shit up and lie.
Again - watch this to the end - and be reminded of the mass-lie event perpetrated by our Soviet media.
It just keeps trickling along, illusion by delusion!
All of the collective left/intelligence Pro-Hillary liars - are worming and squirming.
"but nuance!" .... &... "but our intentions were so noble!"
Hulk Hogan dead at 71 years old
Trump’s really working overtime getting us off the Epstein stuff!
'Nuance' is making a comeback? Wasn't that a John Kerry thing?
Kak creates conspiracy theories in real time.
as he irons his dress... and watches The View..
If this sounds familiar, its because Trump DOJ-appointed special counsel John Durham ran a four year investigation into this already. He charged 3 people and lost two of the cases. Here's his final report: https://www.justice.gov/archives/media/1381211/dl
For the good of the country, Senator @JohnCornyn
and I urge Attorney General Bondi to appoint a special counsel to investigate the extent to which former President Obama, his staff and administration officials manipulated the U.S. national security apparatus for a political outcome. ~ Lindsey Graham
Exhibit A - for the callous uncaring pro-child abuse left:
Leftists do not care about the child abuse hotline - amounted to the left's phone to nowhere.
Leftists are vile uncaring a$$holes who are on board with child sex trafficking of illegals - you should be delighted that Epstein was at Chelsea Clinton's wedding.
The Biden Admin setup a hotline so that unaccompanied minors could call if they had trouble with the strangers they were being placed with 65,000 calls to this hotline WENT UNANSWERED">
Chi Com(D) COVID killed millions of seniors.
Joe biden soros puppet let in millions of unvetted illegals.
but don't even think about that great replacement.
It's astonishing how stupid Trump thought his base was by promoting the Epstein conspiracy for years—and allowing his MAGA allies to do the same—despite being the prime suspect himself.
When he ordered his supporters to stop caring, many ignored him, revealing his reckless decision-making. Driven by narcissistic energy, he believes he can gaslight or lie his way out of anything.
When Bondi informed him in May that his name appeared repeatedly in the reviewed files, his rampant narcissism led him to direct her to write a memo "ending the conspiracy." He assumed his base would be gullible enough to believe it.Key mistake: in MAGA culture, you can only amplify conspiracies, not diminish or end them.Now that Congress has subpoenaed all DOJ records, let's see him try to lie and gaslight his way out of this.
Kak - we've heard you... and?
We all thought Epstein's death was suspicious. and?
We all knew Bill Clinton was involved. and?
Bill Clinton may or may not have been the leader of the Jeffrey Epstein sex cult. But we may never know since Barack Obama fabricated the Epstein files. 🤣
The best part about not being a Republican or a Democrat is that I get to call out *both* Donald Trump and Bill Clinton for being on the Barack Hussein Obama Hoax List! 😂
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