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I hadn’t watched The Last Waltz in enhanced HD format… wow even the music is much clearer. Sure miss these fellows.
I am still stunned by Althouse's position on the exposure of the criminal fraud behind the "Russiagate" hoax, and the ongoing criminal conspiracy to cover it up under the charade of "classification" of documents.
Why aren't you angered by the fact that they successfully abused the trust that the American people grant the political leadership and their intelligence officers, to kneecap the governance of the President and administration duly elected by the American people in accordance with the Constitution?
I certainly am.
Perhaps you can ask Grok to summarize the Durham Annex.
It's not that hard to understand. What is hard to understand is that people of good faith prefer to turn away rather than face the truth.
FIERCENESS ran out today at Saratoga IN THE Whitney 1 1/8 GRADE 1 RACE today. Not a good effort and no excuses. Sierra Leone was impressive in the win, slow start and powerful close. Big prices as longshot slugs up for 3rd .$20 exacta, $300 plus triple with short winner .I couldnt bet a 1-1 to win so i lost a bunch of gimmick wagers using FIERCENESS IN ALL 3 SLOTS. He ran out in a crapola effort. He's great when he is good and bad when off. I am hoping SOVEREIGNTY and LEONE hook up before BREEDERS CUP(at Del Mar this year in Nov.(Madge look up ticket prices to Cali in Nov.)Small hole in my Horse racing bankroll exclusive to just racing. A couple more GRADE 1 wagers and I'll start doping for the CUP ,THE WORLDS GREATEST RACES ALL DAY FRIDAY and SATURDAY( I USUALLY JUST CARD SATURDAY .Crowd was over 40.000 they said at 1230 today on a beautiful Fast and Firm racing day! When we were in New York my wife and friends would go to the track and stay at KOA outside of town for a week or so. Best of both worlds,drive back next day short distance. There is nothing like the old charm of SARATOGA .a step back in time..
…used to live in Saratoga. I worked at the Hall of Springs in high school. Would do catering everywhere in town or at the hall. Off at 8 and could walk out the back door on to the lawn at SPAC with a date. Loved the flat track- would always go Diana Handicap day for mom. I’d go see my friend lana at the harness track later…then gaffneys and or t&l with all the other white trash. There’s a booth at T&Ls with pics of Dylan sitting in the booth from bitd- says he wrote some Ann swoon diddy sitting right there. He played at cafe lena across the street but the he wrote that here stuff is bs…
It has become tedious; a media report on a weather event includes the obligatory "increase in extreme weather events due to global warming". But none other than the UN's IPCC, no squish when it comes to propagandizing anthropogenic catastrophic global warming, states that the data do not show an increase in fires, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, etc.
Tonight's example: 133 Years of Texas Hill Country Heavy Rainfall Data Show No Trends Look at the graph. The Guadalupe River flood was a tragedy, but there is no support to lay it at the feet of global warming.
The Guadalupe River flood was a tragedy, but there is no support to lay it at the feet of global warming.
Correct. That's why the left was blaming Trump's not-yet-enacted NOAA and NWS cuts instead.
"It has become tedious; a media report on a weather event includes the obligatory "increase in extreme weather events due to global warming"."
Messaging targeted at Democrats in order to confirm and comfort them in their near-religious beliefs. As you noted, anybody who bothered to look can see how things really are.
Mary Lou was old but still a peach. She’d make the obligatory evening at the patrons club with Sonny who was a veg by then…
Weather event? The last couple days Canadian wildfires have created dangerous air quality. Last Thursday, I swear I could taste the smoke inevery breeze. Talk about carbon footprint!
…zero smoke in Tahoe. That money the left paid to eco terrorists had dried up. Spending less is paying big environmental benefits…
Sherwood on Amazon is an excellent British drama if you like that sort of thing. Set in a former coal mining town with a slow and heavy plot tied to the 1984 mining strikes. Heavy on generational resentment and intra familial bitterness. Sounds terrible, no? It's actually very good. Usually I find flashbacks distracting and unhelpful, but in this they are just as good as the present. Few heroes, but loads of difficult dilemmas.
YUP looks like they 'PAVED PARADISE AND PUT UP A PARKING LOT" WH CONCRETE :(
On my way home I go down this narrow side street. When there are cars parked on both sides of the street there’s really only room for one car. Theoretically, there’s room for 2 cars to pass each other but we never do because it would be a tight squeeze. One car tucks in between the parked cars as the other car passes. Today as I turned in the car facing me was a Waymo. Had I seen it was a Waymo before I made my turn, I would have waited for it to exit before I entered. I was worried it would try to pass me and I was ready to back out so it could move freely. To my astonishment, it tucked into a free spot (I was about 3 car lengths away from it) and let me pass. That’s amazing. Truly amazing.
David Bernstein on X:
"The Arab League now officially has a more sensible position toward the Israel-Hamas conflict than about half of the Democrats in Congress."
Headline following: "Arab States Call For Hamas to Disarm Amid Push for a Palestinian State" (NYT)
"Last Thursday, I swear I could taste the smoke"
I'm sure you could. I do.
Saw Casablanca last week and was amazed, again, at what a fast paced, incredibly well done piece of film it is. Literally, there is not a dull spot in the entire movie. Boom - Boom -Boom. If someone's not saying something witty, or advancing the plot, or playing music or singing a song, someone is pulling a gun, or there's some action.
What a relief from many present day movies with their snails pace, the umming and awwing delivery, and the constant dull shots of people opening doors, walking into a room, or engaging in forgettable dialogue.
And Ingrid bergman looked wonderful in Black and White and could do some great acting with her eyes. Probably the only thing I didn't like was the constant shots of "Carl" played by S. Z. Sakall, beaming at Bogard as he helps a Bulgarian wife get money to leave Casablanca. But then I can only take so much S.Z. Sakall in any movie. He's like a rich, extremely sweet candy, only tolerable in very low doses.
@ Taibbi:
"Wow. “Contact with Russia.” And remember the time Trump’s spouse took a $500,000 check from a Moscow bank and met with Putin while he was in office? Oh, wait, that was Hillary… "
Big if true. The supremes are about to end race based congressional districting.
@Taibbi: Mother left a long reminder of Trump's rubbing up against the Russians.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/04/exhaustive-history-donald-trump-russia-scandal-timeline/
What is going on with the supreme court’s request for more briefing in the voting rights case? Are they really going to rule race based districts are unconstitutional?
Read it and weep, ‘fly:
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2025/08/02/former-rolling-stone-editor-reveals-what-really-motivated-the-russian-collusion-hoax-n2661299
Mother Jones?
Seriously???
Hahahahaha!
How did that Covington lawsuit go?
Did anyone catch the real job numbers from last month?
@boatbuilder, I'm not particularly surprised.
Our hostess is not wrong in suggesting your feelings towards politicians play a certain role in your conclusions about the evidence as presented. She just called out the wrong politician. If you look at any of the folks on the Left who have concluded the Trump-Russian Collusion claims are a scam, they are fairly uniformly folks that had developed a distaste for Hillary and/or Obama. This is also true, in reverse, for the commenters who come here to spout the DNC-approved talking points.
Trump wanted the story to be the sacking of the head of the agency, rather than the actual figures. And looking at some of the comment regarding this, he succeeded.
But the important point is that the US economy is beginning to reflect the tariff uncertainty. Companies are not hiring, not investing and not spending given the uncertainty, and that can very easily tip the US economy into recession.
Who is the leader of the Democrat party? A befuddled Harris responds: “Why everyone ….. er ….. no one”.
Permit me to offer up Spartacus Booker, marathon vacuous talker. The male version of Harris. Easily mockable. At least he’s doing the work …… in his own mind.
“It has become tedious; a media report on a weather event includes the obligatory "increase in extreme weather events due to global warming".”
It’s what they do. That’s why we hate them.
“ Big if true. The supremes are about to end race based congressional districting.”
They know they should. But do they have the balls?
Do they have the balls?
A quick review of the testicle inventory on the Supreme Court reveals a mere three sets.
---- Sierra Leone was impressive in the win, slow start and powerful close [DINKY]
Sierra's chart running line: 9 - 9 - 9 - 1 - 1
TEST winner Kilwin's running line: 8 - 8 - 5 - 1
Dirt track at Sar as anti-speed as it ever gets.
Boatbuilder 5:38 +1
They just don't want to know.
-- The New York Times went so far as to perpetrate a hoax, publishing a picture of an emaciated child and falsely alleging that it was due to Israel-induced famine. In fact, the boy suffers from a debilitating disease, not starvation, and the Times conveniently left out of the photo the boy’s perfectly well-fed mother and sibling
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/08/starvation-in-gaza.php
Kakistocracy, I think we’ve followed this Sharpie before. I get the firing distraction but we’re being told the numbers were “rigged” while we all know employers are scaling back while prices are going up.
Maybe the question isn’t whether the numbers were ‘rigged.’
Maybe it’s whether we’ve gotten too used to hearing everything is fake whenever it’s inconvenient.
@Romald J. Ward: It's unprecedented and it raises a lot of alarm bells about the data integrity of the United States going forward. In the short term, the good news if there is one, is that the deputy BLS commissioner will step in. He's been there over a decade in that role, and so I don't think we'll start questioning data integrity tomorrow. I mean -- there's going to come a point in the coming months when we start to see some good data, and everyone's going to be sitting there wondering, was this good data that was manipulated? And that doesn't help anyone.
It's important to say -- revisions are normal and they happen, and this is what you want because that's how you get verifiable and trustworthy data.
The BLS report completely flipped our understanding of the economy's health on its head. We have concerns going forward that we just didn't have last Wednesday. I wonder, had Chairman Powell had this news last Wednesday, that the rate cut decision might have been different?
Trump is now likely to get his rate cut in the September meeting. It probably won't be anywhere near what he wants. But he's going to get it for the wrong reasons.
He's going to get it because the economy looks weaker and no incumbent president wants a weaker economy. It looks now like there could be a September rate cut, an October rate cut, and a December rate cut.
I mean, we'll see. A lot can happen -- one of the things that stood out to me in the BLS jobs report, besides those revisions, was a lot of sectors are actually doing layoffs.
It's not just the federal government. Warehouses down, retail sectors down, professional business, even manufacturing sector, that we're having to revise as lost jobs in the last three months now. And that does really send a warning.
kakscheisser®
Gadfly - that's old and busted info from 2018. Are you that dumb?
Michelle Reid, the crooked, scandal-ridden head of the crooked, lunatic Fairfax Co. School system now makes more money than the President of the Unites States.
But we need to go after the rich! Except the "rich" are goverment leftists POSs. But that's (D)ifferent!
Trump is not levying tariffs on other countries. He is levying tariffs on Americans who import goods from those countries. There is a big difference between the two.
What Trump did with his tariffs -- they're a backdoor way of imposing a consumption tax on Americans.
kakscheisser®… the back door way
Kakistocracy said...
What Trump did with his tariffs -- they're a backdoor way of imposing a consumption tax on Americans.
To a large extent this is true (some significant part is also paid by foreign producers), and it is a good thing. A national VAT is politically impossible, and raising income taxes is suicidal. If some less thoughtful voters believe that it will all be paid by Johnny Foreigner, all the better. More revenue is needed, and this will also tend to push some industries to reshore. It has also proven to be very effective at opening up export markets. As a general rule I oppose tariffs, but politics is all about tradeoffs, and from where I'm standing, this one seems better than any of the alternatives.
“ they're a backdoor way of imposing a consumption tax on Americans.”
I pay 11% sales tax on my consumption now and democrats are fine with it, they forced them in. Typical double standard, but if I buy American stuff I don’t have to pay the tariffs. I have a choice. I do not want VAT at all, that is a dishonest tax that is impossible for the public to understand and that is it’s purpose, to hide how much the government is taking, it is a form of government consumer fraud. The only reason for it is to deceive.
Consumption tax is the most fair, if I don’t live like the rich and famous I should not have to pay like I do.
Trump is not levying tariffs on other countries. He is levying tariffs on Americans who import goods from those countries. There is a big difference between the two.
Ultimately these tariffs are a tax on the American consumer.
Consumers will pay more and buy less. The American economy will be impacted. Prices will rise and the economy will slow. In time every trading nation will try to find replacements for US trade or simply try to increase domestic demand.
China and India need to do this in any case as does Germany. The great rebalancing will happen with less trade with the US, a lower trade deficit, uncertainty on rates but definitely a slower economy and lower stock markets. In time we will call it the Trump economy.
Consumption taxes are quite fair. I rather have them than Democrats proposed estate or capital gain taxes. Capital gain taxes are often used to destroy family farms and other businesses. If you want to call tariffs a tax on consumption of imported goods; please go ahead.
Kak, you are repeating yourself while not addressing any of the responses to your first post about tariffs being a consumption tax. We understand the nature of tariffs, we just disagree about the conclusions you so confidently assert.
You Dems expressing deep concern for the American consumer having to pay taxes in the form of tariffs: Why do you never express concern that Americans are having to pay ever higher income, property and sales taxes to fund government? Why do you seek to increase corporate taxes, when the effect is the same--and is in fact more pervasive, as there is no way to avoid paying them by buying American. Why do never support cutting our ever more outrageous government spending?
Crocodile tears.
Kak’s your Back Door Man!
The free traders know, and the globalists understaaaaand….
(Not criticizing or supporting Kak - just giving in to my song lyric response syndrome…)
https://youtu.be/WTwNzhLvRGs?si=n0GBPxnW-r6xKeaU
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JSM
⬆️ Bottle of Red, Bottle of White
Critics say uptown girl Jeannine Pirro drinks more than Billy Joel—and they may be right—but she's good with her stiletto, and Captain Don has her movin' out from Fox to the US Attorney's office. Don't ask me why.
In a NY state of mind.
Honesty, is hardly ever heard.
A bottle of red, a bottle of white, perhaps a bottle of rosé instead.. F*ck it, I am drinking all three now ~ Jeannine Pirro
RIP (or QDEP) Loni Anderson.
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