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29 జులై, 2026

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Jamie చెప్పారు...: We left Montreal today - off to Quebec City for a few days, then we'll split up for a bit to check in with California family, Pennsylvania friends, and our youngest, about to start his first post-college job in Austin. Our supposedly dying dog is still with us, still walking a brisk hour a day and eating everything in sight, though her lymph nodes are beginning to be palpable again and her urine might as well be water for how dilute it is - her steroid remission may be drawing to a close. The knee replacement weight I gained and then lost some of is back with me thanks to the many microbrasseries and cidreries we've been fortunate to find - had enough of poutine quite a few weeks ago, so the culprit is definitely the alcohol. We have three new sets of contacts in our phones from the wonderful conversations we've struck up in these places, though, so maybe the temporary (I hope) weight gain has been worth it.

And, in the town where we're staying right now: "The Jerusalem Cyclorama is the largest panorama in America and the only Canadian example of a circular historical panorama mounted on stilts." So we have that to look forward to!

Retirement travel is a mixed bag at present.; 29-07-26 7:56 PM
William50 చెప్పారు...: I love the muted guitar picking in this song. Makes me wonder if he did it in one take.

Johnny Come Home - FYC; 29-07-26 8:15 PM
tcrosse చెప్పారు...: A few days ago in Montrèal I had a wonderful banh mi, made with great French bread, comme il faut. Now at sea off Nova Scotia, Halifax in the morning.; 29-07-26 8:15 PM
DINKY DAU 45 చెప్పారు...: Watching the Josh Turek and Barack Obama ad on TV was so refreshing after the chaotic war,debt,affordability issues and inept people in charge of what th epicture looks like now with a guy in charge ata 32% approval rating and even white males (first time since NERO was King) are underwater on support for the old orange guy who is stuck in a neocon war He cant find his way out of after starting it with no clue. Its like stepping into another world Yup its not all drudge and hate and name calling and the pied piper syndrome everywhere, you can tend to forget that. Golden arches,refecting pool,the ballroom,,Kennedy center, and in mean time clusterf&^k elsewhere. These are the upcoming WIN bets to place,,1) comey case throw out,total horse crap,,,2) PIRRO case thrown out,,(fake pool story) Pirro should be sanctioned she is an incredible loser with a record to show that) ,trump always lies and his is immune from all so that don't count 3) Jack Smith just a plan wiin, like ABBREGO GARCIA AND THAT clusterf&%k that had to be dismissed for vindictive trying,, ah yes Barack and the special olympics wheelchair basketball star,,,how refreshing..flush the rest...; 29-07-26 8:17 PM
hanuman_prodigious_leaper చెప్పారు...: Please parse me difference between Union and Unity.

Chaingang shackles together is Union or Unity?; 29-07-26 8:20 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit చెప్పారు...: A touch of ‘American Psycho’ (2000) (link to video ); 29-07-26 8:36 PM
Michael Fitzgerald చెప్పారు...: I watched a wonderful movie that I'm sure some here would enjoy if they liked the Maurice Chevalier movies that Althouse recommended some months ago.
Title is Waltzes From Vienna aka Strauss's Great Waltz, a 1934 comic-opera directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It's so funny, clever, charming, and lovely to look at and the characteristic Hitchcock style and direction is evident, except it's employed in comic service instead of a thriller.
The subject is young Richard Strauss junior, Schanni, and his struggle to create his music against the wishes and criticisms of his father, the eminent Viennese composer. There is a romantic subplot involving Schanni and his girl, a baker's daughter, and an elegant and beautiful countess who supports Schanni and schemes to help him and help herself in the bargain.
The dialogue is worthy of an Oscar Wilde play, the sets and costumes are marvelous, and of course the music and soundtrack are great. The direction and camera work is so inspired, amusing, and original it could only be Alfred Hitchcock.
Charming and delightful, just an enjoyable movie. They don't make them like that anymore.
PS, I watched the colorized version because the occasional glitches and patches of green and blue don't bother me, and the sets and costumes are so enhanced by the color, and I'm someone who is a great fan of black and white films.
Highly recommend this old movie for sweet and elegant entertainment to watch with a spouse, paramour or older children.; 29-07-26 8:41 PM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ చెప్పారు...: US borrowing costs hit 19-year high as Fed defies inflation fears ~ FT

The Fed under its new chairman Kevin Warsh kept short-term politics steady while giving up control of long-term interest rates to the market. Probably is not going to work out.

Powell, in the background just letting Warsh get more rope

Bureau of Economic Analysis is altering how it measures several components of a price gauge watched by Fed ~ WSJ
"A statistical revamp Is about to lower inflation, at a critical time"

This is an attempt to tell people that inflation is not increasing. Housing, food, health insurance, and energy prices are in fact rising for consumers. Wages are not rising to compete with rising prices.

Why not design a new measure that always measures inflation as 2%? Then the Fed can start cutting rates. Who cares about reality anymore? Well, ordinary people standing at the meat counter in their local grocery store still might.; 29-07-26 9:27 PM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ చెప్పారు...: What we really learned today is that the GOP is flailing ahead of the midterms. They appear to have decided—somewhere in a back room—that their best shot at holding Congress is to reignite old conspiracies and COVID hysteria in order to distract from their failures on Iran, surging prices for basic goods, the end of Medicare subsidies, the Epstein files, and rampant corruption.; 29-07-26 9:47 PM
Howard చెప్పారు...: I'm sure many of you have already done this with great success. If you want to have a summary of an article that is locked up behind a paywall whether it be a newspaper article or in a peer reviewed journal, your AI advisor will dig through the articles and give you a clear and concise summaries.

I keep waiting for them to shut that down and say oh I'm sorry I can't tell you what's in there because they require a fee to read; 29-07-26 9:54 PM
Aggie చెప్పారు...: @Jamie, glad to hear that your dog is being blessed with more time with the pack, the most important thing in a dog's life.

My sister just told me she's picking up a used Airstream to pursue the joys of camping in style. Camping is something we grew up with as kids, and we all love it, even though what we experienced was basic tent trailer camping. She's going to hit the road and explore national parks with her recently-retired hubby.; 29-07-26 10:08 PM
Eva Marie చెప్పారు...: “I keep waiting for them to shut that down and say oh I'm sorry I can't tell you what's in there because they require a fee to read.” Enjoy free AI as long as it’s here. It will be over probably sooner than we expect, so have at it while it’s available.; 29-07-26 10:48 PM
Maynard చెప్పారు...: Just back from a Don McLean concert. What a bunch of old geezers! I might have been slightly below the average age.; 29-07-26 11:01 PM
Eva Marie చెప్పారు...: “What a bunch of old geezers!” . . . and those were the performers on stage!; 29-07-26 11:07 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit చెప్పారు...: Full moon early this morning and again early tonight.; 29-07-26 11:17 PM
hanuman_prodigious_leaper చెప్పారు...: Which was Bigger DUD?
Rand Paul Hearing
Trump Address to Nation; 29-07-26 11:51 PM
Josephbleau చెప్పారు...: Regarding Monreal I used to go to a great little French restaurant there called Bonaparte over in the cathedral area. Have not been there for years but I hope it is still there.; 30-07-26 12:34 AM
Josephbleau చెప్పారు...: “Please parse me difference between Union and Unity.
Chaingang shackles together is Union or Unity?”

Niether it was the punishment of criminals but we don’t do that anymore.; 30-07-26 12:43 AM
Kai Akker చెప్పారు...: @Original Mike

Some facts are more important than other facts, and carry more meaning, especially on this topic.; 30-07-26 3:21 AM
Kai Akker చెప్పారు...: Margin debt shows the extreme to which investor sentiment has attained.

https://www.gurufocus.com/economic_indicators/4266/finra-investor-margin-debt-relative-to-gdp; 30-07-26 3:38 AM
Kai Akker చెప్పారు...: Record Valuations:

https://currentmarketvaluation.com/models/buffett-indicator.php; 30-07-26 3:42 AM
Ann Althouse చెప్పారు...: "Title is Waltzes From Vienna aka Strauss's Great Waltz, a 1934 comic-opera directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It's so funny, clever, charming, and lovely..."

Thanks. I see it's in the public domain and easy to find on YouTube.; 30-07-26 4:02 AM
rcommal చెప్పారు...: Sounds like a movie I'll want to check out.; 30-07-26 4:12 AM
tim maguire చెప్పారు...: I’m off to Quebec City myself today. If you like art and have a sense of humor about it, check out the Museum of Bad Art. It’s free and all the art is found—sometimes in dumpsters. It’s mostly kitsch, but bad kitsch—like it tried and failed to be Dogs Playing Poker. It’s a fun 30 minutes and it’s near the old city, so if you’re doing tourist stuff, you’ll be in the neighborhood anyway.; 30-07-26 5:05 AM
tim maguire చెప్పారు...: It’s early. I forgot this part:

** Jamie said...We left Montreal today - off to Quebec City for a few days**; 30-07-26 5:06 AM
Humperdink చెప్పారు...: Not impressed with Sen. Bernie Moreno dropping the F-bomb during yesterday hearing. Unnecessary and childish.; 30-07-26 6:28 AM
Humperdink చెప్పారు...: I see the co-owner of Seattle’s WNBA team cursed out teenage fans carrying signs supporting Sophie Cunningham’s stance on keeping men from playing in women’s sports. The co-owner, who is the size of an armored personnel carrier, tried to intimidate the youngsters. She has been suspended for five games.; 30-07-26 6:37 AM
Humperdink చెప్పారు...: Powerline has posted a brief resume of Seattle Storm’s co-owner Celeste Keaton:

Feng Shui & Intuitive Consultant
Self-Employed Feb 2005 - Present - 21 yrs 6 mos
seattle, washington Also an ordained holistic minister, presiding over marriages & funerals. In addition, I am a Reiki Master, and
Karuna healer, Levels 1 & I1. Studied under James van Praagh, John Holland, and Sonia Choquette (Level I). As a clairsentient and clairvoyant, my main divination modality is through reading Tarot cards & by empathically tuning in to the
Client.; 30-07-26 6:47 AM
Jamie చెప్పారు...: Quebec City weather iffy for our entire stay 😕.

I've never been here before; my husband visited in college with a French family he met through living in the international dorm - in the dead of winter. It was his first time out of the country, besides TJ and Ensenada, and he was enchanted despite freezing his... ears off. I'll be interested to watch his reactions now.

We have been in Quebec for the entire month of July and have had zero issues with communication, even though the accent is apparently quite a challenge for the France-French-trained (the sum of my French instruction has been Duolingo beginning in June, but my husband has seven years of high school and university French plus a deep love of the language). We were in a very small village about 30 minutes from the outskirts of Montreal for most of the time and spent the majority of that time in the countryside, where we'd been warned by Torontans that, even if they spoke English, the residents would not deign to speak it with us - but the opposite has been true. Especially if they see the Texas plates on our car or ask us where we're traveling from, they are eager to speak as much English as they have with us, and give my husband a chance to work on his French too.

We've encountered no anti-American sentiment, at least that anyone has been "out" about. Yes, anti-Trump sentiment, but we're used to that... except for one older man in Montreal who accosted my husband as he was parking the car one day, demanding, "Are you really from Texas??" Then, "Are you Republican?" which my husband cautiously affirmed. The man exclaimed, "Thank God for Trump! And thank God for people like you who support him! That's what we need here!" My husband was... bemused.; 30-07-26 6:50 AM
Jamie చెప్పారు...: Humperdinck @6:47 - I'm having doubts that Ms. Keaton would have the ability empathically to tune in to me if I were (for some reason) her Client.; 30-07-26 6:52 AM
tim maguire చెప్పారు...: **Humperdink said...Powerline has posted a brief resume of Seattle Storm’s co-owner Celeste Keaton:
Feng Shui & Intuitive Consultant
Self-Employed Feb 2005 - Present - 21 yrs 6 mos**

I'm assuming she inherited or married her money...; 30-07-26 8:38 AM
tim maguire చెప్పారు...: **Jamie said...we'd been warned by Torontans that, even if they spoke English, the residents would not deign to speak it with us - but the opposite has been true.**

That is the Torontonian's experience. If they thought you were Canadian, they would have been less friendly. I'm American but I've lived in Toronto for a long time, so I'm not sure where I land on that divide.

Glad you're enjoying your trip.; 30-07-26 8:42 AM
Rustygrommet చెప్పారు...: hanuman_prodigious_leaper said...
Which was Bigger DUD?
Rand Paul Hearing
Trump Address to Nation

You. Posting here.; 30-07-26 9:00 AM
Rustygrommet చెప్పారు...: Thanks, Howard. That will come in handy.; 30-07-26 9:03 AM
Humperdink చెప్పారు...: @Tim. Yep, her female husband is/was a Microsoft executive.

Note: Every pic of this blowhard shows her in her pastoral robes. Laughable.; 30-07-26 9:11 AM
Leland చెప్పారు...: Holy margin call, Batman.; 30-07-26 9:15 AM
Lazarus చెప్పారు...: Lindsey Graham is still seriously dead.

"American Pie" was a surreal, psychedelic version of "We Didn't Start the Fire"?; 30-07-26 9:37 AM
Gospace చెప్పారు...: Were the Fauci hearings a dud? Prior to them there were still a lot of people who didn't understand that the whole covid hysteria was whipped up out of nothing. People who have no clue about things like statistics and mortality rates and, well, numbers.

They do understand that someone who received a presidential pardon who subsequently pleads the 5th amendment to all questions in a hearing is a liar who should never have been believed.; 30-07-26 10:03 AM
Lem Vibe Bandit చెప్పారు...: Shucks. My comments are going into spam.; 30-07-26 11:00 AM
Lem Vibe Bandit చెప్పారు...: Maybe not?; 30-07-26 11:01 AM
Lem Vibe Bandit చెప్పారు...: Let’s try this again then: Here is Fauci saying he’s got nothing to hide: https://x.com/imjulianassange/status/2082614322702754165?s=48; 30-07-26 11:02 AM
Lem Vibe Bandit చెప్పారు...: Oh. I see now what happened. I hadn’t refreshed this page since the last time I used it this morning. Althouse already caught this Fauci flub.; 30-07-26 11:06 AM

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