Wonder why our hostess's algorithm sending her to various Acela corridor and worse "news" sites missed this one? https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/08/24/fingerclaps/
In high school we did a Grease show and a Beach Boys show. Of course we did stuff like Birdland, Sing, Sing, Sing, and Malagueña. I tried to get our director to let us do La Suerte de los Tontos, but it didn’t happen. I really like this performance by the Cory Band — the cornet soloist is very smooth: Cory Band – La Suerte De Los Tontos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyVIizKiJDY
Seems that everything that doesn't cause complete population race balances in any field is racism. It's popping up more and more- racism needs to be practices in order to end racist results...
Testing for positions, even if totally based on actual job requirements, leads to racial disparity. General knowledge tests leads to- racial disparities in hiring. As do IQ tests. Seems even in music. Orchestra tryouts behind curtains leads to a slight increase in female musician hiring- but not black or other minority hiring.
Seems to be no way to achieve sex or racial representation according to population numbers in any field without practicing outright discrimination.
And in some fields- if you had to hire one woman for every man as an electrical lineman- very soon it would take months to restore power after a serious windstorm or icing event. The field is self selected- women don't go into the field.
So- are you in favor of discrimination in hiring to achieve racial parity- or testing in hiring to ensure workers have the knowledge and skill to learn/do the job? Me? I'm 100% in favor of the latter. Strictly enforced in government jobs. If any kind of management latitude is given in government hiring for any trade or skillset, a good ol' boy network soon becomes established. No profit motive to hire the best.
I've seen several articles in different places on this lately. And dueling headlines on blind testing for orchestras. From 20 years ago- blind testing needed to get rid of racial bias, to today's headlines in the same publications- need to get rid of blind testing to reduce racial bias...
Trump says he’s going to allow 600,000 students from China to come to the US because he has a great relationship with President Xi and it’s very important to allow them to study here.
Which is the opposite of what they’ve been saying for months.
“Trump says he’s going to allow 600,000 students from China to come to the US because he has a great relationship with President Xi and it’s very important to allow them to study here.”
Two packages on the doorstep this AM, from Walmart. They contain some liquid that purports to be Dunkin' Donuts coffee in plastic soft-drink bottles. Does that actually exist? There are two different names, but no addresses. Apparently Walmart uses a system of codes with its delivery contractors, that does not involve printing addresses on packages. I managed, after considerable effort, to find a phone number on Walmart's web page, for the local delivery department. When I finally managed to explain to the person who answered it what was concerning me, he assured me that there was no problem. I could keep the merchandise, or discard it. Walmart had no interest in what became of these packages.
"Blind hiring is racist." GoSpace, figure it out. They want us gone. They hate us, because they can't help but recognize that they are inferior to us. Whenever push has come to shove, we have pounded them into the ground. They get it. They don't want to "get along" with us. Trying to "reason" with them, is futile. They want to kill our sons and own our daughters, so that they will never again have to contend with us. If that works for you, work for that. Like they do. If you have something else in mind for your offspring, quit whining about "racism". Reagan had it right. "We win. They lose." The only alternative is "they win, we lose". Take your pick.
"Trump has fired the black DEI Federal Reserve governor with a penchant for defrauding banks on mortgages."
As I understand the allegations here- she is accused of defrauding the government, not the banks. By claiming a home as a principle residence rather than a second home or rental unit, she qualifies for GSE backed mortgages.
Yancey: Here is the problem with you. Lisa Cook, is "DEI Black" to you which is a problem. She has been charged with no crime and she works works for the Federal Reserve, which is not part of the Federal Government. Demented Don doesn't own the world.
@Althouse: "The UW Marching Band is practicing “I Love Rock and Roll.” It’s so not a marching band song but that seems to be the point— to do it anyway."
I suspect it was chosen because it's easy to play and the melody line is distinctive. Also see Arthur Fielder and the Boston Pops many decades ago.
For quite a few years Deep Purple's "Smoke on the Water" has been a band song. It's very, very, very easy to learn and play, and often a beginner's first song:
How do you know she's DEI? Maybe she's Clarence Thomas. Just bringing up her skin color and labelling her DEI marks you as a casual racist. It's a major problem with DEI, actually, in that it validates racist assumptions like yours.
@Gospace: "And in some fields- if you had to hire one woman for every man as an electrical lineman- very soon it would take months to restore power after a serious windstorm or icing event. The field is self selected- women don't go into the field."
See air traffic control. It requires a combination of strong math skills, a multi-tasking and highly organized mind, and a calm temperament. Smart white guys dominated, and did so well on testing that Obama-Biden-Harris short-circuited. This effort may mark the start of blatant state wokism. Obama's minions released an infamous "qualification" exam that (1) valued biographical history, and (2) put people with a background in aviation at a disadvantage. We need more risk-takers and high-school failures in air traffic control! (see the exam at the link below). Then, see the 2025 staffing shortage and DCA airplane-helicopter collision.
Gadfly, it's FLC who used the racist term "DEI black," not Yancey.
Also, re-reading your post...
Your idea that the "Federal Reserve" is not a part of the federal government is kind of insane. Do you think it's under the state government? Under the U.N.? The name Federal Reserve is kind of a hint that it's in the federal government.
Trump would love to litigate the issue, and have the Supreme Court rule that the Federal Reserve is under Trump's Article 2 power.
If it's not in the federal government, it has no authority!
There’s a 50s musical for rent on Amazon Prime or YouTube called Meet Me In Las Vegas with Cyd Charisse. Bill Mahar and Barbara Eden talked about 60s Vegas. This movie is a portrayal of 50s Vegas with performances by Lena Horne and Frankie Lane. Charisse dances to Frankie and Johnny, sung by Sammy Davis Jr. There’s a sad little number “I refuse to Rock and Roll”. In the end of course audiences chose rock over musicals. No violence. Very enjoyable. If you visited Vegas in the late 80s there were remnants of this Vegas still there. Now it’s all gone.
***spoilers ahead*** The plot of Meet Me In Las Vegas revolves around a rancher (Dan Dailey) meeting a ballerina (Charisse). When they talk about marriage there is zero question that she would give up her career. It’s assumed they would spend 6 months ranching and 6 months ballet-ing. Surprising and very charming.
‘not part of the federal government’ is fable but the federal reserve system does have a unique place as it is not part of the executive and while formed and given authority by Congress it isn’t funded by them. It is part of government but independent of it in function, which is deliberate as a functioning fed is supposed to serve its mandates (or one mandate imo) not the will of congress or executive. I’m interested in watching the contortions invented to prevent Trump from the firing…and on cause, if she claimed two primaries that’s tax fraud unlike the Trump scenario of using more than one valuation method in two different circumstances is not, especially since one calculation method is prescribed by the tax authority…
Trump committed gross mortgage fraud by adding eight non-existent floors to an office building, tripling the square footage of commercial space and so forth.
You mean the accusations coming from the mortgage fraudsters Letitia James and psychotic Schiff? I smell cover-up, a RICO lawsuit, and huge payout to Trump...
I don’t recall any of those other claims- new to me. I do remember the unique valuation method scam by the judiciary back when they were burying Trump in lawsuits…
First song I learned in Junior High marching band was Chicago’s “25 or 6 to Four.” Also the SCOTUS has twice ruled that there is no such thing as an “independent” and untouchable agency. If it’s a Federal entity it is either Legislative, Judicial or Executive by definition. The Fed belongs under the Executive Branch. She was fired legally “for cause.”
I learned from AI that there exists an academic field known as "computational narratology." No kidding, you can get a PhD in it. The purpose is to reduce storytelling forms like novels, plays, and movies to their most basic abstract elements, with the idea that this makes them more comprehensible to computers, and maybe, one day, computers will be able to generate novels and movies that are emotionally resonant with, you know, humans. Alas, even as they have been working on this since the '70s, with an IBM program known as "Tale-Spin," they still are not there.
What has happened though is that people have found a way to sell AI generated books on Amazon, they simply steal the photo and bio of a respected author, and start selling their AI generated slop under that person's name. If you ask me, AI is not the problem, people are the problem.
…also suspiciously interesting, yesterday the wiki page for the board of governors had her firing listed in the gray boxes with all the over governors. This morning they removed the termination from the gray boxes and have the firing as a ‘pending appeal’ style footnote…the Hawaiian judges strike again…
This guy is sort of a spoilsport. He uses software to analyze vocal performances and then he tells you who is actually singing, and who is pitch corrected, and who is lip synching. I like Shania Twain as much as anybody, BTW. She brings her presence to her concerts, which is not nothing.
Shania Twain’s husband had an affair with her best friend. The emotional impact led to battle with a vocal condition that kept her from recording and an 8 year absence from performing. She came back as a performer with a residency at Caesar’s Palace in 2012 although the link above is to a 2014 performance. In the end the 2 couples traded partners. Shania is married to Frédéric Thiébaud and her ex is still with Marie-Anne Thiébaud.
Trump's mortgage fraud consists of his opinion that Mar a Lago is worth at least as much as private homes sell for on Ocean Blvd in Palm Beach, and the prosecutor's opinion that it is only worth a small fraction of the actual selling price of such homes.
The judge did not allow testimony from experts, either in real estate loans, or real estate valuation, and ruled that the prosecution could not be challenged on this point.
In the Soviet Union or Communist China, Kak would have called this a show trial.
Thx Jaq. You’ve destroyed that video for me! Not really. I’m a bit disillusioned. But that’s the reality. BTW Wings of Pegasus has a lot of great YouTube videos.
@Jaq: "He uses software to analyze vocal performances and then he tells you who is actually singing, and who is pitch corrected, and who is lip synching."
This practice has ratcheted up over time, such as with the Monkees, Milli Vanilli, etc. Every song released after Cher's "Believe" (1998) is deeply suspect. Many performers learned to love the tangy, twangy distortion of excessive processing. I don't.
See the Althouse post several days ago on old-school, vintage vocals. They used plenty of analog studio tricks back in the day (e.g., reverb plates, recording in rooms with echoes or high ceilings, amp tubes), but focused their efforts on vocalists who started out with actual talent.
BTW, I enjoy reading mysteries but I’ve stopped reading anything published recently (since about 2020) So many of the current mystery writers have written 50, 60 books under several pseudonyms. It’s all done with computer assistance. They acknowledge it. They add a little here and there and just churn them out. Of course if you enjoy the novel or the performance (in the case of Shania Twain) is that important?
Sig Sauer has been fighting an uphill battle refuting reports their P320 pistol and their variants have a tendency to fire “uncommanded”. That is, pistol shoots without a finger on the trigger. The resultant fallout has been devastating to Sig Sauer.
An Air Force airman was killed by an alleged uncommanded fire. Now a fellow airman has been charged with manslaughter. Sig Sauer proponents are not amused.
The guy who runs the Wyoming Gun Project (Youtube) found that the P320 experiences unintended discharges with about 1mm of trigger movement to the rear. His demo video went viral a month ago, and it makes the issue very clear:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOMQOtOQoPk
Sig put themselves in this trap from the very start, as they avoided a Glock-style trigger safety in favor of a flat trigger. When anything goes wrong with the mechanism (e.g., internal wear, dirt/grit from normal use, a broken trigger return spring, the trigger getting pinched back by a holster, or a slight finger touch to the trigger), they'll go off when bumped.
Many have concluded that the design is not fault tolerant and thereby unsuitable for hard field use. This led to many range bans, many attempts to sell, and a flooded used market. So far.
@Humperdink: The screw controls the position of the trigger. He explains it. This method is not different from any other form of lab testing such as controlled drops from 3 or 6 feet at a specific angle (versus real-world random drops). One could easily reproduce his findings with a finger, but not measure the movement.
The worst thing music companies are doing is going back in their libraries and "pitch correcting" old vocals. I even saw one where John effing Lennon was "pitch corrected.
Speaking of tweaked concert vocals, I saw Billy Idol wsg Joan Jett at Merriweather last weekend. Neither one used any processing. You could tell because Joan sounded, um, experienced, and Billy changed notes on some of his hit songs to compensate for his narrower range.
Of course, Billy always had a good voice (SNL spoofed him with the lyrics "cause I look like Sting/But I sing like Bing...."), so he knows how to use his diminished instrument. And Joan always deliberately tried to sound raw (the Runaways were the female Ramones), and now she does.
Trump committed gross mortgage fraud by adding eight non-existent floors to an office building, tripling the square footage of commercial space and so forth.
How about Trump resign?
You are saying that Trump using industry standard valuation techniques and completing a mortgage application which the bank accepted, funded the loan, and Trump paid off with the bank testifying that there was no harm is blatant mortgage fraud.
As a construct of Congress, the Federal Reserve definitely answers to the chief executive- the Constitution is absolutely clear on this issue, Dung Beetle. Also, Trump doesn't need to wait for Cook to be charged to fire her.
"Trump committed gross mortgage fraud by adding eight non-existent floors to an office building, tripling the square footage of commercial space and so forth.
…all the trendy Sig hate strikes me as internet urban legend on par with the cactus filled with spiders and the hermaphrodite cheerleader in the town next door. I can change my mind if there’s a product recall but so far none has happened. There was a ‘voluntary upgrade’ on I think 2017 and before 320 models…Full disclosure I have a P320 and one other Sig product, also Glock, maybe 100 hours at Sig Academy training, using both my 320 and borrowed from the facility, the borrowed ones occasionally in ‘been through heck’ condition, dirty and hundreds of rounds since a cleaning. Sig instructors are civilian le and retired military, often from elite units of both- including ‘that’ seal team 6. They are not obligated to promote Sig or Sig products in any way and often don’t use Sig products themselves in classes…nobody ever had negatives to say about the 320’s safety or otherwise, had no problems with them in class but if there were any reason to hesitate I can’t comprehend any of them not speaking out about it. These men and women are elite instructors, not run of the mill range rats…
…range bans are what they are, management can do what it wants. I don’t even comprehend the ‘flat trigger’ claim. My 320 has the stock trigger- it’s curved…
@rehajam: This is a very common product. There are many other uncommanded discharge cases and videos, plus numerous other reports about Sig P320 issues. If you look for them.
For super critical comments from an elite competitor and trainer, check out the numerous videos from Ben Stoeger.
"I don’t even comprehend the ‘flat trigger’ claim. My 320 has the stock trigger- it’s curved…"
Flat means no extra junk. See the skinny "dingus" on your Glock trigger or the pivoting half of an S&W trigger. It's very obvious if you look. Extra safety junk and secondary movements inside the trigger guard = not flat.
Yance, that’s not how the Fed was set up. Congress created it under its own Article I powers, not Article II, and governors don’t serve at the pleasure of the president like Cabinet secretaries do. They have 14-year terms and can only be removed ‘for cause’. Cook’s mortgage actions occurred before her appointment and were already vetted during her confirmation. That makes them highly unlikely to constitute valid cause. This is why this firing is being called unprecedented. If Trump’s power were as sweeping as you say, there would have been no need for Congress to write removal protections into the Federal Reserve Act in the first place.
Chair Powell has both the right and duty to challenge this. If the administration can't provide a valid legal justification, he can—and should—publicly affirm that, in his view, Cook remains a sitting governor.
It will then likely fall to a court to determine whether the removal is valid—but prevailing opinion suggests it is not. If Powell fails to push back, or if the Supreme Court ultimately upholds the firing, the implications for central bank independence would be in trouble, echoing authoritarian moves in nations like Turkey.
The frog of democracy in that metaphorical pot of water would likely be dead, if it has any life at all now.
This is a very common product. There are many other uncommanded discharge cases and videos, plus numerous other reports about Sig P320 issues. If you look for them.
Yah, I’ve looked and found maybe a half dozen, nearly all of them recent and they all look like guys messing around and to my eye…a bit staged…
I’ve decided I’m very disappointed in Shania Twain. If all her performances are lip syncing then there really is no value in seeing her in concert. In the Stanley Cup video she is even wearing the same outfit. So same outfit and a recording. They could have saved themselves some money by getting a no name performer to dress the part and mouth the words.
@rehajm: I could not care less what you do or who you believe. I'm sure all those G.W. Bush, Obama, and Biden officials got everything right with the P320. They are all super geniuses and super honest and super competent.
I'll send flowers to your widdow after you pass. I've never owned a Sig and have no horse in this race. Don't shoot the messenger for reporting the news.
No, Ronald- Congress cannot tie the executive's hands like that- the Supreme Court has already decided this issue with almost the exact same justices that sit there today. Whatever Congress creates must be overseen by the chief executive- the Constitution does not describe any fourth branch of government. As for you other bleatings about how Trump can't even fire her for cause- her mortgage declarations were most definitely not discussed during her confirmation hearings- they were only discovered in recent months and it simply doesn't matter whether or not they occurred before she was appointed. What kind of logic do you subscribe to, Ronald- you seem like an idiot.
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She had her supporters…
https://x.com/jayroo69/status/1959343697306300642?s=19
Wonder why our hostess's algorithm sending her to various Acela corridor and worse "news" sites missed this one?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/08/24/fingerclaps/
The UW Marching Band is practicing “I Love Rock and Roll.” It’s so not a marching band song but that seems to be the point— to do it anyway.
MikeD Check again.
MikeD, dude where have you been.
Trump has fired the black DEI Federal Reserve governor with a penchant for defrauding banks on mortgages.
In high school we did a Grease show and a Beach Boys show. Of course we did stuff like Birdland, Sing, Sing, Sing, and Malagueña. I tried to get our director to let us do La Suerte de los Tontos, but it didn’t happen. I really like this performance by the Cory Band — the cornet soloist is very smooth:
Cory Band – La Suerte De Los Tontos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyVIizKiJDY
I argue a case tomorrow in the NE S. Ct. Will contest. My opponent is a MENSA, but I won in the trial court.
Blind hiring is racist. As is blind auditions.
Seems that everything that doesn't cause complete population race balances in any field is racism. It's popping up more and more- racism needs to be practices in order to end racist results...
Testing for positions, even if totally based on actual job requirements, leads to racial disparity. General knowledge tests leads to- racial disparities in hiring. As do IQ tests.
Seems even in music. Orchestra tryouts behind curtains leads to a slight increase in female musician hiring- but not black or other minority hiring.
Seems to be no way to achieve sex or racial representation according to population numbers in any field without practicing outright discrimination.
And in some fields- if you had to hire one woman for every man as an electrical lineman- very soon it would take months to restore power after a serious windstorm or icing event. The field is self selected- women don't go into the field.
So- are you in favor of discrimination in hiring to achieve racial parity- or testing in hiring to ensure workers have the knowledge and skill to learn/do the job? Me? I'm 100% in favor of the latter. Strictly enforced in government jobs. If any kind of management latitude is given in government hiring for any trade or skillset, a good ol' boy network soon becomes established. No profit motive to hire the best.
I've seen several articles in different places on this lately. And dueling headlines on blind testing for orchestras. From 20 years ago- blind testing needed to get rid of racial bias, to today's headlines in the same publications- need to get rid of blind testing to reduce racial bias...
Trump says he’s going to allow 600,000 students from China to come to the US because he has a great relationship with President Xi and it’s very important to allow them to study here.
Which is the opposite of what they’ve been saying for months.
"Trump has fired the black DEI Federal Reserve governor with a penchant for defrauding banks on mortgages."
Falsifying loan documents? Maybe she’s in line to be the next Republican President.
More Epstein obfuscation for the cult followers.
Starship launch was scrubbed again, weather this time.
“Trump says he’s going to allow 600,000 students from China to come to the US because he has a great relationship with President Xi and it’s very important to allow them to study here.”
Please cite your source of this information.
"More Epstein obfuscation for the cult followers.
I think Trump was buddies with Epstein, but he's President now and controls all the evidence, so you'll never see it, Kak. Bondi is erasing it.
Biden had his chance to release it, but since that would have implicated both of the Clintons, he chose instead to protect everyone.
That's on ya'll's cult.
Two packages on the doorstep this AM, from Walmart. They contain some liquid that purports to be Dunkin' Donuts coffee in plastic soft-drink bottles. Does that actually exist? There are two different names, but no addresses. Apparently Walmart uses a system of codes with its delivery contractors, that does not involve printing addresses on packages.
I managed, after considerable effort, to find a phone number on Walmart's web page, for the local delivery department. When I finally managed to explain to the person who answered it what was concerning me, he assured me that there was no problem. I could keep the merchandise, or discard it. Walmart had no interest in what became of these packages.
@Jupiter: ..."Two packages on the doorstep this AM, from Walmart...."
Drone delivery ?
"Blind hiring is racist."
GoSpace, figure it out. They want us gone. They hate us, because they can't help but recognize that they are inferior to us. Whenever push has come to shove, we have pounded them into the ground. They get it. They don't want to "get along" with us. Trying to "reason" with them, is futile. They want to kill our sons and own our daughters, so that they will never again have to contend with us. If that works for you, work for that. Like they do. If you have something else in mind for your offspring, quit whining about "racism". Reagan had it right. "We win. They lose." The only alternative is "they win, we lose". Take your pick.
It just keeps getting worse!
https://x.com/TheKevinDalton/status/1960130457087164501
The state that sent Adam Schiff to the Senate may be sending Katie Porter to the Governor's House.
The most obvious explanation is that people think Katie Perry is running.
If Katie really is dating Justin Trudeau, her percentage will go down.
P.S. Remember when people thought Jennifer Aniston was marrying Justin Trudeau?
"Trump has fired the black DEI Federal Reserve governor with a penchant for defrauding banks on mortgages."
As I understand the allegations here- she is accused of defrauding the government, not the banks. By claiming a home as a principle residence rather than a second home or rental unit, she qualifies for GSE backed mortgages.
Yancey: Here is the problem with you. Lisa Cook, is "DEI Black" to you which is a problem. She has been charged with no crime and she works works for the Federal Reserve, which is not part of the Federal Government. Demented Don doesn't own the world.
She has been charged with no crime and she works works for the Federal Reserve, which is not part of the Federal Government.
She can be fired for cause. If she claimed two houses as primary residences, that would be an example of sketchy financial behavior.
@Althouse: "The UW Marching Band is practicing “I Love Rock and Roll.” It’s so not a marching band song but that seems to be the point— to do it anyway."
I suspect it was chosen because it's easy to play and the melody line is distinctive. Also see Arthur Fielder and the Boston Pops many decades ago.
For quite a few years Deep Purple's "Smoke on the Water" has been a band song. It's very, very, very easy to learn and play, and often a beginner's first song:
Duh-duh-duh
Duh-duh-doot-duh
Duh-duh-duh--duuuuuh--duh
the black DEI Federal Reserve governor
How do you know she's DEI? Maybe she's Clarence Thomas. Just bringing up her skin color and labelling her DEI marks you as a casual racist. It's a major problem with DEI, actually, in that it validates racist assumptions like yours.
@Gospace: "And in some fields- if you had to hire one woman for every man as an electrical lineman- very soon it would take months to restore power after a serious windstorm or icing event. The field is self selected- women don't go into the field."
See air traffic control. It requires a combination of strong math skills, a multi-tasking and highly organized mind, and a calm temperament. Smart white guys dominated, and did so well on testing that Obama-Biden-Harris short-circuited. This effort may mark the start of blatant state wokism. Obama's minions released an infamous "qualification" exam that (1) valued biographical history, and (2) put people with a background in aviation at a disadvantage. We need more risk-takers and high-school failures in air traffic control! (see the exam at the link below). Then, see the 2025 staffing shortage and DCA airplane-helicopter collision.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14399413/FAA-air-traffic-control-hiring-process-quiz-DEI-targets.html
Gadfly, it's FLC who used the racist term "DEI black," not Yancey.
Also, re-reading your post...
Your idea that the "Federal Reserve" is not a part of the federal government is kind of insane. Do you think it's under the state government? Under the U.N.? The name Federal Reserve is kind of a hint that it's in the federal government.
Trump would love to litigate the issue, and have the Supreme Court rule that the Federal Reserve is under Trump's Article 2 power.
If it's not in the federal government, it has no authority!
There’s a 50s musical for rent on Amazon Prime or YouTube called Meet Me In Las Vegas with Cyd Charisse. Bill Mahar and Barbara Eden talked about 60s Vegas. This movie is a portrayal of 50s Vegas with performances by Lena Horne and Frankie Lane. Charisse dances to Frankie and Johnny, sung by Sammy Davis Jr. There’s a sad little number “I refuse to Rock and Roll”. In the end of course audiences chose rock over musicals. No violence. Very enjoyable. If you visited Vegas in the late 80s there were remnants of this Vegas still there. Now it’s all gone.
Kak - Your daily FO.
I saw a performance of “I Love Rock and Roll" in Las Vegas. The performer was Brittney Spears and she straddled a giant bucking guitar as she sang.
***spoilers ahead*** The plot of Meet Me In Las Vegas revolves around a rancher (Dan Dailey) meeting a ballerina (Charisse). When they talk about marriage there is zero question that she would give up her career. It’s assumed they would spend 6 months ranching and 6 months ballet-ing. Surprising and very charming.
Looking forward to UW marching band doing this at halftime. I'm sure that will make ESPN highlights.
Enigma:
Pete Buttegig was in charge of air traffic control and he has not yet paid a price for his stupid decisions.
‘not part of the federal government’ is fable but the federal reserve system does have a unique place as it is not part of the executive and while formed and given authority by Congress it isn’t funded by them. It is part of government but independent of it in function, which is deliberate as a functioning fed is supposed to serve its mandates (or one mandate imo) not the will of congress or executive. I’m interested in watching the contortions invented to prevent Trump from the firing…and on cause, if she claimed two primaries that’s tax fraud unlike the Trump scenario of using more than one valuation method in two different circumstances is not, especially since one calculation method is prescribed by the tax authority…
This is hilarious.
Trump committed gross mortgage fraud by adding eight non-existent floors to an office building, tripling the square footage of commercial space and so forth.
How about Trump resign?
I suspect a non-Trump President would win a challenge to fire with cause. We’ll see in this case. Not sure I’ll live to see another…
@Kaki: "Trump committed gross mortgage fraud..."
You mean the accusations coming from the mortgage fraudsters Letitia James and psychotic Schiff? I smell cover-up, a RICO lawsuit, and huge payout to Trump...
If you live by lawfare you shall die by lawfare.
I don’t recall any of those other claims- new to me. I do remember the unique valuation method scam by the judiciary back when they were burying Trump in lawsuits…
"Just bringing up her skin color and labelling her DEI marks you as a casual racist."
No white Federal Reserve board members are accused of mortgage fraud.
First song I learned in Junior High marching band was Chicago’s “25 or 6 to Four.” Also the SCOTUS has twice ruled that there is no such thing as an “independent” and untouchable agency. If it’s a Federal entity it is either Legislative, Judicial or Executive by definition. The Fed belongs under the Executive Branch. She was fired legally “for cause.”
This is my favorite Vegas performance: Shania Twain
https://youtu.be/qtaiFcRFmVY?si=rpfQccmINv0MpslC
I learned from AI that there exists an academic field known as "computational narratology." No kidding, you can get a PhD in it. The purpose is to reduce storytelling forms like novels, plays, and movies to their most basic abstract elements, with the idea that this makes them more comprehensible to computers, and maybe, one day, computers will be able to generate novels and movies that are emotionally resonant with, you know, humans. Alas, even as they have been working on this since the '70s, with an IBM program known as "Tale-Spin," they still are not there.
What has happened though is that people have found a way to sell AI generated books on Amazon, they simply steal the photo and bio of a respected author, and start selling their AI generated slop under that person's name. If you ask me, AI is not the problem, people are the problem.
…also suspiciously interesting, yesterday the wiki page for the board of governors had her firing listed in the gray boxes with all the over governors. This morning they removed the termination from the gray boxes and have the firing as a ‘pending appeal’ style footnote…the Hawaiian judges strike again…
This guy is sort of a spoilsport. He uses software to analyze vocal performances and then he tells you who is actually singing, and who is pitch corrected, and who is lip synching. I like Shania Twain as much as anybody, BTW. She brings her presence to her concerts, which is not nothing.
Think of watching Shania Twain live?
Shania Twain’s husband had an affair with her best friend. The emotional impact led to battle with a vocal condition that kept her from recording and an 8 year absence from performing. She came back as a performer with a residency at Caesar’s Palace in 2012 although the link above is to a 2014 performance. In the end the 2 couples traded partners. Shania is married to Frédéric Thiébaud and her ex is still with Marie-Anne Thiébaud.
Trump's mortgage fraud consists of his opinion that Mar a Lago is worth at least as much as private homes sell for on Ocean Blvd in Palm Beach, and the prosecutor's opinion that it is only worth a small fraction of the actual selling price of such homes.
The judge did not allow testimony from experts, either in real estate loans, or real estate valuation, and ruled that the prosecution could not be challenged on this point.
In the Soviet Union or Communist China, Kak would have called this a show trial.
" In the end the 2 couples traded partners."
Johnny and June Carter Cash!
Like I said, I like Shania Twain. Maybe you should comment on the video and ask him to look at a more recent performance.
Thx Jaq. You’ve destroyed that video for me! Not really. I’m a bit disillusioned. But that’s the reality. BTW Wings of Pegasus has a lot of great YouTube videos.
Here she is in my favorite performance of hers, at the Stanley Cup Finals in Edmonton last year. Sound isn't great, though.
@Jaq: "He uses software to analyze vocal performances and then he tells you who is actually singing, and who is pitch corrected, and who is lip synching."
This practice has ratcheted up over time, such as with the Monkees, Milli Vanilli, etc. Every song released after Cher's "Believe" (1998) is deeply suspect. Many performers learned to love the tangy, twangy distortion of excessive processing. I don't.
See the Althouse post several days ago on old-school, vintage vocals. They used plenty of analog studio tricks back in the day (e.g., reverb plates, recording in rooms with echoes or high ceilings, amp tubes), but focused their efforts on vocalists who started out with actual talent.
…the Cook footnote also has a repeated error, calling it the ‘federal reserve boar’…
BTW, I enjoy reading mysteries but I’ve stopped reading anything published recently (since about 2020) So many of the current mystery writers have written 50, 60 books under several pseudonyms. It’s all done with computer assistance. They acknowledge it. They add a little here and there and just churn them out. Of course if you enjoy the novel or the performance (in the case of Shania Twain) is that important?
…the lovely, amazing Hannah Fry on the origins of jaywalking
Didn’t the Supreme Court just rule that the President does have the authority to fire people at these so called independent agencies ?
‘First song I learned in Junior High marching band was Chicago’s “25 or 6 to Four.” ‘
Nice, MJB Wolf! In junior high playing a song about drug use in the wee hours.
Sig Sauer has been fighting an uphill battle refuting reports their P320 pistol and their variants have a tendency to fire “uncommanded”. That is, pistol shoots without a finger on the trigger. The resultant fallout has been devastating to Sig Sauer.
An Air Force airman was killed by an alleged uncommanded fire. Now a fellow airman has been charged with manslaughter. Sig Sauer proponents are not amused.
https://share.newsbreak.com/epi58t7c?s=i4
@Humperdink on Sig Sauer:
The guy who runs the Wyoming Gun Project (Youtube) found that the P320 experiences unintended discharges with about 1mm of trigger movement to the rear. His demo video went viral a month ago, and it makes the issue very clear:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOMQOtOQoPk
Sig put themselves in this trap from the very start, as they avoided a Glock-style trigger safety in favor of a flat trigger. When anything goes wrong with the mechanism (e.g., internal wear, dirt/grit from normal use, a broken trigger return spring, the trigger getting pinched back by a holster, or a slight finger touch to the trigger), they'll go off when bumped.
Many have concluded that the design is not fault tolerant and thereby unsuitable for hard field use. This led to many range bans, many attempts to sell, and a flooded used market. So far.
@Enigma. The Wyoming Gun Project guy lost me when he installed a drywall screw in the trigger housing to partially push the trigger back.
MJB Wolf and Iman: where do you stand on whether Chicago stole the riff from Zep?
RR
JSM
@Humperdink: The screw controls the position of the trigger. He explains it. This method is not different from any other form of lab testing such as controlled drops from 3 or 6 feet at a specific angle (versus real-world random drops). One could easily reproduce his findings with a finger, but not measure the movement.
The worst thing music companies are doing is going back in their libraries and "pitch correcting" old vocals. I even saw one where John effing Lennon was "pitch corrected.
“Kashmir”, Mr. Mosby? Sort of “25 or 6 to 4” in reverse?
Speaking of tweaked concert vocals, I saw Billy Idol wsg Joan Jett at Merriweather last weekend. Neither one used any processing. You could tell because Joan sounded, um, experienced, and Billy changed notes on some of his hit songs to compensate for his narrower range.
Of course, Billy always had a good voice (SNL spoofed him with the lyrics "cause I look like Sting/But I sing like Bing...."), so he knows how to use his diminished instrument. And Joan always deliberately tried to sound raw (the Runaways were the female Ramones), and now she does.
RR
JSM
Here’s a singer what needed no correcting!
https://youtu.be/TXGhYRM_BNM
Kakistocracy said...
This is hilarious.
Trump committed gross mortgage fraud by adding eight non-existent floors to an office building, tripling the square footage of commercial space and so forth.
How about Trump resign?
You are saying that Trump using industry standard valuation techniques and completing a mortgage application which the bank accepted, funded the loan, and Trump paid off with the bank testifying that there was no harm is blatant mortgage fraud.
You are a truly stupid person.
As a construct of Congress, the Federal Reserve definitely answers to the chief executive- the Constitution is absolutely clear on this issue, Dung Beetle. Also, Trump doesn't need to wait for Cook to be charged to fire her.
Kakistocracy said...
This is hilarious.
"Trump committed gross mortgage fraud by adding eight non-existent floors to an office building, tripling the square footage of commercial space and so forth.
How about Trump resign?"
No he didn't.
Dave Begley said...
"I argue a case tomorrow in the NE S. Ct. Will contest. My opponent is a MENSA, but I won in the trial court."
Dave. One thing learned about MENSA people,(my wife is one), they ain't too bright.
Re Pitch Correction: THIS is why you'll NEVER hear a voice like Judy Garland’s again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDJF4lR3_eg
(same guy as the Shania Twain spoilsport)
"In the Soviet Union or Communist China, Kak would have called this a show trial."
No Sir, In the former Soviet Union or Communist China Kak would have called it justice.
…all the trendy Sig hate strikes me as internet urban legend on par with the cactus filled with spiders and the hermaphrodite cheerleader in the town next door. I can change my mind if there’s a product recall but so far none has happened. There was a ‘voluntary upgrade’ on I think 2017 and before 320 models…Full disclosure I have a P320 and one other Sig product, also Glock, maybe 100 hours at Sig Academy training, using both my 320 and borrowed from the facility, the borrowed ones occasionally in ‘been through heck’ condition, dirty and hundreds of rounds since a cleaning. Sig instructors are civilian le and retired military, often from elite units of both- including ‘that’ seal team 6. They are not obligated to promote Sig or Sig products in any way and often don’t use Sig products themselves in classes…nobody ever had negatives to say about the 320’s safety or otherwise, had no problems with them in class but if there were any reason to hesitate I can’t comprehend any of them not speaking out about it. These men and women are elite instructors, not run of the mill range rats…
…range bans are what they are, management can do what it wants. I don’t even comprehend the ‘flat trigger’ claim. My 320 has the stock trigger- it’s curved…
@rehajam: This is a very common product. There are many other uncommanded discharge cases and videos, plus numerous other reports about Sig P320 issues. If you look for them.
For super critical comments from an elite competitor and trainer, check out the numerous videos from Ben Stoeger.
"I don’t even comprehend the ‘flat trigger’ claim. My 320 has the stock trigger- it’s curved…"
Flat means no extra junk. See the skinny "dingus" on your Glock trigger or the pivoting half of an S&W trigger. It's very obvious if you look. Extra safety junk and secondary movements inside the trigger guard = not flat.
Yance, that’s not how the Fed was set up. Congress created it under its own Article I powers, not Article II, and governors don’t serve at the pleasure of the president like Cabinet secretaries do. They have 14-year terms and can only be removed ‘for cause’. Cook’s mortgage actions occurred before her appointment and were already vetted during her confirmation. That makes them highly unlikely to constitute valid cause. This is why this firing is being called unprecedented. If Trump’s power were as sweeping as you say, there would have been no need for Congress to write removal protections into the Federal Reserve Act in the first place.
Chair Powell has both the right and duty to challenge this. If the administration can't provide a valid legal justification, he can—and should—publicly affirm that, in his view, Cook remains a sitting governor.
It will then likely fall to a court to determine whether the removal is valid—but prevailing opinion suggests it is not. If Powell fails to push back, or if the Supreme Court ultimately upholds the firing, the implications for central bank independence would be in trouble, echoing authoritarian moves in nations like Turkey.
The frog of democracy in that metaphorical pot of water would likely be dead, if it has any life at all now.
This is a very common product. There are many other uncommanded discharge cases and videos, plus numerous other reports about Sig P320 issues. If you look for them.
Yah, I’ve looked and found maybe a half dozen, nearly all of them recent and they all look like guys messing around and to my eye…a bit staged…
I’ve decided I’m very disappointed in Shania Twain. If all her performances are lip syncing then there really is no value in seeing her in concert. In the Stanley Cup video she is even wearing the same outfit. So same outfit and a recording. They could have saved themselves some money by getting a no name performer to dress the part and mouth the words.
Am I supposed to take the yt videos of Ben Stoeger as an appeal to authority over the dozens of le and military instructors I’ve trained with?
@rehajm: I could not care less what you do or who you believe. I'm sure all those G.W. Bush, Obama, and Biden officials got everything right with the P320. They are all super geniuses and super honest and super competent.
I'll send flowers to your widdow after you pass. I've never owned a Sig and have no horse in this race. Don't shoot the messenger for reporting the news.
Ronald lying again, I see.
No, Ronald- Congress cannot tie the executive's hands like that- the Supreme Court has already decided this issue with almost the exact same justices that sit there today. Whatever Congress creates must be overseen by the chief executive- the Constitution does not describe any fourth branch of government. As for you other bleatings about how Trump can't even fire her for cause- her mortgage declarations were most definitely not discussed during her confirmation hearings- they were only discovered in recent months and it simply doesn't matter whether or not they occurred before she was appointed. What kind of logic do you subscribe to, Ronald- you seem like an idiot.
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