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lonejustice ने कहा…: Photo #2 is another one that should hang in some museum of photography. Absolutely stunning.; 17/8/25, 5:42 pm
Aggie ने कहा…: #2 looks almost like the sunrise is leaving a wake.; 17/8/25, 5:48 pm
FormerLawClerk ने कहा…: Instapundit highlighted an X post today that says everything you need to know about the Democrat Party.

First: Washington DC is virtually 100% Democrat/Socialist. Only 6% of DC residents identify as Republicans.

Second: Blacks dominate in DC. They are the majority ... by far.

Finally: Trump is of course, trying to reduce crime in Washington DC and that has upset some of the residents. These residents took to the streets to protest Trump's move to reduce crime. Why?

According to Grok ... blacks suffer the majority of the crime in Washington DC, with 96% of murder victims being black.

So, to recap: White DC residents want the crime to continue, because as white Democrats, they are massively racist and want black people dead.; 17/8/25, 5:50 pm
FormerLawClerk ने कहा…: Oh, did I mention that they took photographs and video of all the protesters marching in DC today against Trump's measures to combat crime - the victims of which are largely black.

Not a single black person protested.

Not.

One.; 17/8/25, 5:51 pm
Peachy ने कहा…: Super-magic-Madisontastic.; 17/8/25, 5:52 pm
William50 ने कहा…: It was a good run but the Brewers win streak ends at 14, a single season record for them. After trailing for the entire game the Brew Crew tied it up with a 2 run homer in the 9th.
Going into extra innings the Reds pulled out the win scoring a run in the bottom of the 10th.

Next up, a double header with the Cubs, our arch enemy :).; 17/8/25, 6:00 pm
Jaq ने कहा…: I always knew that the COVID vaccine was experimental, and I agreed to take it under those terms, but the idea of forcing it on people who were young and healthy enough to be at low risk from COVID was always stupid to me, especially children. Well, the results are in on the booster, in Nature, no less, not some fly by night journal, and that match with personal experience. I never took the booster, and my partner did, and I only got COVID once, and she got it three times.

The good news is that the tendency to cause the receiver of the COVID booster to get sick lessens over time as it wears off. Plus, the flu shot seems to work as advertised.

In both analyses, we show that more SARS-CoV-2 vaccinations are associated with a higher risk of influenza-like respiratory illness and workdays lost. For influenza-like respiratory illness, the association is stronger with a more recent timing of the vaccination rather than the number of vaccinations, which suggests that the effect wanes over time. In contrast, seasonal influenza vaccination is associated with a decreased risk for both outcomes.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43856-025-01046-8; 17/8/25, 6:31 pm
Jaq ने कहा…: According to FLHSMV, Singh crossed the Mexico border illegally and had obtained a Commercial Driver's License in the state of California.

Made an illegal U-Turn on the Florida Turnpike in a semi and killed three. I wonder if the governor of California is going to testify on his behalf at the triple vehicular homicide trial, or offer him sanctuary.; 17/8/25, 6:38 pm
Lazarus ने कहा…: Watching Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, and Adam Driver pretending to be medieval French nobles.

Some things the Frenchies just do better than us.; 17/8/25, 6:59 pm
TickTock1948 ने कहा…: Lake has a roof. Cool.; 17/8/25, 7:06 pm
rhhardin ने कहा…: Matt Damon has a mouth thing that's a regular part of his act that's annoying once you notice it.

Other tics that are annoying - Pierce Brosnan acting angry, Sandra Bullock in a sudden soft voice register.; 17/8/25, 7:08 pm
Lem Vibe Bandit ने कहा…: The color mixture is back.; 17/8/25, 7:19 pm
RCOCEAN II ने कहा…: "Matt Damon has a mouth thing that's a regular part of his act that's annoying once you notice it."

Some of the old movies stars are like that too. I used to like Kirk Douglas and then noticed he had an "angry face" a "Happy face" a "concerned face" etc. And that's it. No real variation. He could get away with it, because he made 2 movies a year and DVD's hadn't been invented.; 17/8/25, 7:26 pm
RCOCEAN II ने कहा…: One ol' movie star that i've been impressed with the more I've watched him is Jimmy Stewart. that guy could do it all. Neuotic loner, tough cowboy, naive boy scout, romantic lead (when young), concerned scientist, etc.; 17/8/25, 7:30 pm
Dave Begley ने कहा…: इस टिप्पणी को लेखक द्वारा हटा दिया गया है.; 17/8/25, 7:33 pm
Dave Begley ने कहा…: The win streak of the Brewers is over.; 17/8/25, 7:34 pm
hawkeyedjb ने कहा…: First Caitlin Clark, now Sophie Cunningham is out of action. Looks like a knee injury. No further reason to watch WNBA.; 17/8/25, 7:35 pm
Lazarus ने कहा…: Woody Harrelson plays bad guy characters by screwing up his face and talking out of the side of his mouth. Actors have an array of tricks that they thought were clever, but that have gotten to be routine and tired.; 17/8/25, 7:38 pm
Sydney ने कहा…: “he stretches out the heavens like a tent and lays the beams of his upper chambers on their waters.” Psalm 104; 17/8/25, 7:39 pm
Lazarus ने कहा…: I didn't get why the WNBA was so nasty to Caitlin when Sophie was the pretty one.; 17/8/25, 7:39 pm
buwaya ने कहा…: My own analysis of Spanish mortality data seems to indicate that the Covid vaccine was effective in reducing mortality among the most vulnerable. Spain did not manage to do 100% of the population by the time of the second spike, but because of the priority system it did do all the aged/vulnerable, and so the second spike was minimal. US data is messy and its much harder to see a clear picture.; 17/8/25, 7:48 pm
Eva Marie ने कहा…: I just watched the Highway Men with Woody Harrelson which I didn’t think was very good.; 17/8/25, 7:48 pm
NorthOfTheOneOhOne ने कहा…: Lazarus said...

didn't get why the WNBA was so nasty to Caitlin when Sophie was the pretty one.

Caitlin was the one that was labelled as a female Michael Jordan.; 17/8/25, 7:48 pm
Lazarus ने कहा…: The NY Post's review of "The Last Duel": "Degreasing a stove is a more enjoyable way to spend your Saturday night."

The problem may have been letting Damon and Affleck write the script (with Nicole Holofcener for the "woman's viewpoint" and the guy who wrote the book). So of course, the film weighs in 152 minutes. They try to do a "Rashomon" like thing where the movie shows different characters' versions of what happened, so it's like the movie is rewound by 20 or 30 minutes and you have to sit through the same scenes all over again.; 17/8/25, 7:50 pm
Eva Marie ने कहा…: Kevin Costner was in it too. And Kathy Bates. Still not very good.; 17/8/25, 7:50 pm
Narr ने कहा…: Homegirl Kathy Bates is almost always good, at least in my limited exposure.

Costner is one of those actors who I don't even like to look at, so I have little basis to evaluate his acting chops.; 17/8/25, 7:58 pm
Jersey Fled ने कहा…: “ My own analysis of Spanish mortality data seems to indicate that the Covid vaccine was effective in reducing mortality among the most vulnerable.”

Yet they pushed vaccinations for even the least vulnerable, i.e. children as young as one year old, whose chances of death from the disease was essentially zero. And we found out later that no safety testing was done on children at all.

We don’t hate our government enough.; 17/8/25, 8:01 pm
NorthOfTheOneOhOne ने कहा…: RCOCEAN II said...

Some of the old movies stars are like that too. I used to like Kirk Douglas and then noticed he had an "angry face" a "Happy face" a "concerned face" etc. And that's it. No real variation.

What's really disgusting is when you watch a newer film with a couple of box office draws and you catch them doing the Kirk Douglas thing, or the Sinatra thing, or the Bette Davis thing.

He could get away with it, because he made 2 movies a year and DVD's hadn't been invented.

And during his heyday only the most rabid Kirk Douglas fans would see both. If anything good comes out of the streaming era it will be a understanding that it was a really good thing that Seinfeld came on once a week and you had to see it or you were stuck until summer re-runs. Media was not meant to be consumed via binge watching.; 17/8/25, 8:03 pm
Eva Marie ने कहा…: It’s the plots that are so bad. There’s just nothing to them.; 17/8/25, 8:05 pm
RCOCEAN II ने कहा…: Bates was great in Misery. Its no surprise that drunken cokehead like Stephen King would have nightmares about his No.1 fan being a female "Christian" out in the sticks.

Certain authors attract massive numbers of weirdos. Salinger with Catcher in the Rye was one. I'm sure King with his Horror fans is another.; 17/8/25, 8:07 pm
Peachy ने कहा…: On Acorn TV - watched "Irish Blood" & liked it.
Only 2 episodes so far. More please.; 17/8/25, 8:14 pm
Peachy ने कहा…: I recall all the Covid booster fanatics in my orbit- they all kept getting covid over and over.
(except for my gal pal who also suffers from a rare immune disorder. But she hid out and wore a mask all the time); 17/8/25, 8:19 pm
Kakistocracy ने कहा…: We spend a lot of time studying nature but not nearly enough time in wonder at it; for it is wonderful.; 17/8/25, 8:22 pm
Eva Marie ने कहा…: Knock on wood, I had the 3 shots and never had Covid though I had a lot of exposure to coworkers with Covid.; 17/8/25, 8:25 pm
Kakistocracy ने कहा…: "I recall all the Covid booster fanatics in my orbit- they all kept getting covid over and over."

In the future, wars won't be fought with guns and bombs. They will be fought with health misinformation.; 17/8/25, 8:31 pm
Kakistocracy ने कहा…: Nothing says "land of the free" like a president deploying the military against their own citizens.

Whatever's in those Epstein files must be really, really bad!; 17/8/25, 8:33 pm
FullMoon ने कहा…: Quick perusal of comments today.
Freder
Inga
Ward
lonejustice
Dinky

And not a single mention of Epstein.
Do better guys, do better.
Don't forget, you got him now!; 17/8/25, 8:37 pm
Peachy ने कहा…: Kak -
The military is there to protect citizens from out of control crime. Crime allowed by your corrupt party. Go troll on Blue Cry. please.; 17/8/25, 8:38 pm
Peachy ने कहा…: It was hilarious to watch the left scream about '"Trump's vaccine... Not gonna take it!!!" - (good bat-balls you people are lame) - and then embrace the untested trial covid vaccine - as soon as Crook Joe took over. You really got Soviet-like pushy about it, too. Obedient.; 17/8/25, 8:42 pm
Bob Boyd ने कहा…: Check this out.
Flying through the eye of Hurricane Erin
https://x.com/i/status/1956827623062962483; 17/8/25, 8:42 pm
Iman ने कहा…: I went to a party
It was jumping and I went for it hearty
I had on my bad suit
Started jigging to the one with the jazz flute

I told myself I wouldn't stay late
Just put my face 'round the door
Next time I looked it was coming on quarter to four
And my feet were getting sore

I went to a party
It was like an indoor safari
'Round a waterhole of Campari
And I feel alright, whoa
Yes, I feel alright now

I went to a party
I was circulating 'round pretty smartly
You could say it was high-tone
But I was representing the low zone
Yes, I was…

https://youtu.be/k_G9CVn5MXE; 17/8/25, 8:51 pm
Iman ने कहा…: ☝️Nick Lowe and Los Straightjackets☝️; 17/8/25, 8:54 pm
Peachy ने कहा…: FifY:
In the future, wars won't be fought with guns and bombs. They will be fought with lab created viruses from virology labs in China funded by American Leftists in search of ultimate Chi-Com-like power, buttressed with obedient lies about wet markets.; 17/8/25, 8:55 pm
buwaya ने कहा…: I took the Covid shot (Pfizer) in the US in 2021, and a booster in Manila in 2022, both in order to travel. I was technically high risk for Covid as I was over 60 and with diabetes and heart disease. I never got Covid.; 17/8/25, 9:02 pm
Aggie ने कहा…: @rhhardin: "Other tics that are annoying - Pierce Brosnan acting angry.....

I've always thought a lot more of Brosnan as a man, than I did for his acting. But there's one film where I thought he did pretty well, the Jackie Chan action movie, the Foreigner I think it's called. He plays a pretty cold-blooded IRA terrorist that's trying to become a politician, but is dragged back into the world and tries to extricate himself, with Chan bent on revenge. Pretty solid action pic, I thought, and Brosnan did a good character study.; 17/8/25, 9:04 pm
Narr ने कहा…: I took the first jab (Pfizer IIRC) and the first booster, but only after waiting many months to see what happened to the early takers. (I admit that I was weak--everyone was badgering me all the time and I eventually succumbed.) My wife got hers early and has had twice (or more) what I had

But to this day neither one of us knows for sure if we've had Covid.

I didn't think Trump had a clue about what was going on, and noted the quick change of opinion when Biden took over. It pisses my wife off when I tell her that she got snookered by Trump.; 17/8/25, 9:10 pm
hawkeyedjb ने कहा…: “…deploying the military against their own citizens.”

That’s like deploying the police against their own citizens. The criminal citizens.; 17/8/25, 9:15 pm
Gospace ने कहा…: All the liberals on X are making a big deal about 7, count them, 7 European leaders are accompanying Zelensky to his meet with President Trump. SEVEN!

And? So what? What difference will their presence make? Are they going to shut Zelensky up, make a deal, and tell Zelensky to accept it? Or are they going to order Trump to send US troops to Ukraine to die defending Ukraine's borders? Which, of course, Trump would ignore. What's their game plan? Moral support? Why didn't they meet with Putin instead of Trump? Seems direct negotiation for them would be better for them then working with a man they publicly disparage.

Trump understands something that T.C. Mits understands- war is bad for T.C. Mits. War is good for munitions makers. And some others. But bad for ordinary people and other living things.

Sometimes necessary, but always bad for ordinary people. Is the Ukraine-Russia necessary? Well, not for the USA. Maybe for Ukraine, but wasn't for Russia, that started it. Putin thought it was a good thing. No doubt in anyone's mind, particularly in anyone's military mind, he thought it would be a one month campaign and then a fait accompli that would ruffle a few European feathers, but about which they could and would do nothing. Didn't work out that way.

As far as I was concerned, we should have, from the beginning, as we sort of did, give Ukraine the equipment needed to destroy Russian war equipment. Which, TBH, they've done an excellent job of. Also, once it became clear Ukraine wasn't a pushover, every major player- whether supporting Russia, Ukraine, or neither, should have sent military observers just to watch what was going on. That's a long time military practice. The US Civil War was well observed by many foreign armies, who saw how railroads changed things. And saw the first ironclads in action. Warfare was being revolutionized. Same now in Ukraine. No one in the upper ranks prior to the lessons of Ukraine gave any though to drone hordes. Drones are rewriting where the front lines are. There is no real rear area for temporary respite and regrouping.

But anyhow, can anyone here give an opinion on just what 7, count them, 7 European leaders accompanying Zelensky plan to accomplish with their presence?; 17/8/25, 9:25 pm
Narr ने कहा…: Seven Nation Army?

Naah.; 17/8/25, 9:32 pm
Aggie ने कहा…: So, Zelensky's adult supervision is up to 7 now, huh? Wow, those guys really, really don't trust each other, do they? I'd like to see Trump make them sit in the waiting room, with a table full of out-of-date magazines. Ladies Home Journal, Southern Living, so forth.

Or maybe we'll get treated to another picture of Trump, seated with his arms folded, and the Magnificent 7 all lined up, standing in opposition - but still looking weaker.

I've been wondering since the war started, with all the smack talk of experts on both sides, I've been asking 'Where are the Peace Talks?' Well, they're here now, and one person brought them. Not the rest.; 17/8/25, 9:32 pm
historyDoc ने कहा…: Doubt the Brewers will get a Brad Pitt-starring Moneyball-like movie made about their 14 game win streak like the A's did, but keep trying.; 17/8/25, 9:35 pm
Eva Marie ने कहा…: According to Rubio, the 7 are coming to help iron out the many details. According to the lefties they are coming to make sure Trump doesn’t “bully” Zelensky. According to me they are coming to bully Zelensky. They don’t want to pay for more war.; 17/8/25, 9:44 pm
Eva Marie ने कहा…: So who’s betting Zelensky wears a suit?; 17/8/25, 9:45 pm
Yancey Ward ने कहा…: The case fatality rate bottomed for Covid on January 19th 2021 1.63%. It peaked again on March 10th 2021 at 1.82% and stayed there for several weeks and didn't return to the January low until the 2nd week of September of 2021. It started dropping significantly during the big Omnicron wave that started in late November of 2021. The rate fell to about 1.20 to 1.10% during all of 2022 and was still at the lower level on March 10, 2023 when I stopped collecting the data for the spreadsheets.

Now, I spent a lot of time looking over this and there is zero signal for vaccine effectiveness in that data. Vaccine coverage in the over 60 demographic in the U.S. was well over 90% by late Summer of 2021and if the vaccine were really effective at stopping death it should have provided a noticeable signal in the case fatality rate but it doesn't. Add in that the experts claimed Delta and Omnicron were less lethal versions of Covid-19, I don't think U.S. data provides any evidence at all that the vaccines worked- they certainly didn't stop people from getting COVID.; 17/8/25, 9:53 pm
Jaq ने कहा…: What Europe wants is to create the trip wire for WWIII. First it was the "unconditional cease fire" which would mean that Europe could put troops into Ukraine, preferably with US guarantees as a backstop, then as night follows day, there would be a "Sum of All Fears" style false flag, blamed on Russia, and the troops would be there, and the war would be on.

Europe can't stand that France, The UK, Italy, Germany, were all recently great powers, Spain and the Netherlands were once great powers, now they are lilliputians, vassals to the US, EXCEPT for Russia.

It's "structural realism" that says that for its own survival, no nation can assume the future goodwill of another nation, therefore if a country is powerful, it must be treated today as if it were already hostile. This is how ChatGPT describes the use of propaganda for these situations:

Policymakers and propagandists often translate structural uncertainty into moral narratives.

Since publics do not mobilize around abstract ideas like “uncertainty in future power distribution,” governments often cast rivals in terms of malign intent or evil leadership.

Example: U.S. propaganda about the Soviet Union framed not just the system but its leaders (Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev) as inherently hostile.

Similarly, contemporary rhetoric about China or Russia often assumes malevolence even when actions are ambiguous.

This bridges the gap between abstract realism and public perception: a “necessary evil” in communication strategy.

So basically, when people repeat the "Putin is evil" propaganda trope, it's because the powers that be have decided that those people were too stupid to understand the real arguments, so they threw them some red meat that their chimp brains could understand.

Putin is the leader of a rival country with a lot of resources, 6,000 nuclear weapons, and a powerful military, and is too big and rich to be bribed. We think that we can create regime change in Russia, break it up into smaller, more manageable countries, and so we could take those resources on our own terms, and not worry about them militarily, and not for nothing, leave China with no real allies.

When Putin says that Ukraine in NATO is an "existential threat" to Russia, he is right, that's why we are there. He is not telling the people who really make policy anything they don't know. So it must be pretty funny when Trump comes back and breathlessly reports to these people what Putin thinks we are doing, they already know.

Russia and China have figured out the game, and they are not going to just sit back and hope the crocodile eats them last. They are in a "We must hang together, or we will certainly hang separately" moment.

This isn't Russian propaganda, it's a structural realist analysis of our foreign policy. The first documented fight over the Black Sea was the Trojan War, it's been fought over ever since.; 17/8/25, 10:05 pm
Peachy ने कहा…: I wonder if Zelensky owns a suit.

Bob Boyd -that is amazing.
At the very end of the video, they start to re-enter the actual hurricane. Yikes!; 17/8/25, 10:06 pm
RCOCEAN II ने कहा…: Excellent analysis by John Mearsheimer of theTrump Putin Summit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q31nwnbNMmo

I've been listening to some UK podcasts and newscasts on the summitt. And damn are those Brits crazy. They got us into 2 world wars and helped us get into Iraq, Kuwait, and korea. And they'd love to get us into WW III with Putin. Goddamn, how they love war and imperialism. All under the guise of "Helping the underdog and fighting Aggression".

One guy from the UK spectator was almost in tears over Trump "normalizing" putin and how "poor little Ukraine" was being "Betrayed".; 17/8/25, 10:13 pm
Big Mike ने कहा…: Doubt the Brewers will get a Brad Pitt-starring Moneyball-like movie made about their 14 game win streak like the A's did, but keep trying.

Twenty is orders of magnitude harder than fourteen.; 17/8/25, 10:28 pm

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