Comments on: So I underestimated how long it would take to write Part II of the Sullivan post https://thenewneo.com/2020/05/26/so-i-underestimated-how-long-it-would-take-to-write-part-ii-of-the-sullivan-post/ A blog about political change, among other things Thu, 28 May 2020 00:30:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: AesopFan https://thenewneo.com/2020/05/26/so-i-underestimated-how-long-it-would-take-to-write-part-ii-of-the-sullivan-post/#comment-2496967 Thu, 28 May 2020 00:30:27 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=96383#comment-2496967 Richard Saunders on May 27, 2020 at 3:48 pm said:
Best musical ever! Followed by Music Man.
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I’d put them in the other order, but otherwise in agreement.

]]> By: neo https://thenewneo.com/2020/05/26/so-i-underestimated-how-long-it-would-take-to-write-part-ii-of-the-sullivan-post/#comment-2496919 Wed, 27 May 2020 20:14:18 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=96383#comment-2496919 Amadeus 48:

Nicely done.

I’m a big Knopfler fan.

]]> By: Richard Saunders https://thenewneo.com/2020/05/26/so-i-underestimated-how-long-it-would-take-to-write-part-ii-of-the-sullivan-post/#comment-2496911 Wed, 27 May 2020 19:48:56 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=96383#comment-2496911 Best musical ever! Followed by Music Man. I have no idea why people think Oklahoma is better. Of course, when I was a kid, my dad knew a lot of guys like those gamblers, so maybe I’m prejudiced.

]]> By: DNW https://thenewneo.com/2020/05/26/so-i-underestimated-how-long-it-would-take-to-write-part-ii-of-the-sullivan-post/#comment-2496910 Wed, 27 May 2020 19:16:30 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=96383#comment-2496910 There is much going on, and much of that is complex.

One thing I have seen that has gotten only moderate notice in the press is the apparent weakening of the earth’s magnetic field (at least in some areas) and the seeming hastening of the field toward a reversal.

If I were a blogger in these deranged times, I’d keep an eye out for the first public commentator to try and polemically link these phenomena to something to do with Trump. LOL

If this were April 1st you could do it yourself.

]]> By: Amadeus 48 https://thenewneo.com/2020/05/26/so-i-underestimated-how-long-it-would-take-to-write-part-ii-of-the-sullivan-post/#comment-2496904 Wed, 27 May 2020 17:54:50 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=96383#comment-2496904 I think stan at 1:42 is right. Let’s see what happens.

]]> By: stan https://thenewneo.com/2020/05/26/so-i-underestimated-how-long-it-would-take-to-write-part-ii-of-the-sullivan-post/#comment-2496903 Wed, 27 May 2020 17:42:37 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=96383#comment-2496903 Sullivan has no choice but to recuse himself. In addition to the obvious evidence that he’s not impartial, there is the fact that the appellate court — by ordering him to respond — has made him a combatant in the legal arena. He can’t possibly remain as the judge in this case. He’ll be removed, the new judge will dismiss, and it will be over. And he can’t possibly be stupid enough to try to issue a contempt order or some other nasty hail mary before the removal hits his clerk’s office.

]]> By: Ray Van Dune https://thenewneo.com/2020/05/26/so-i-underestimated-how-long-it-would-take-to-write-part-ii-of-the-sullivan-post/#comment-2496897 Wed, 27 May 2020 15:47:51 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=96383#comment-2496897 Here’s a question: is Flynn a loose cannon? I know he was portrayed that way by the MSM back in the day, when he was tossed from DIA. But there seems to be a whiff of gunpowder around his opening days in the Trump Admin, FBI dirty work aside.

OTOH, you don’t get to 3-stars by being a loose cannon!

One of my favorite quotes (roughly): “People often confuse having a bad attitude with the ability to think clearly.” – Joseph Heller

]]> By: Sarah Rolph https://thenewneo.com/2020/05/26/so-i-underestimated-how-long-it-would-take-to-write-part-ii-of-the-sullivan-post/#comment-2496894 Wed, 27 May 2020 13:54:23 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=96383#comment-2496894 One of my dad’s wise maxims was “never give a writer a real deadline.”
(One gives a deadline that’s a few weeks earlier than the real one.)

]]> By: Amadeus 48 https://thenewneo.com/2020/05/26/so-i-underestimated-how-long-it-would-take-to-write-part-ii-of-the-sullivan-post/#comment-2496891 Wed, 27 May 2020 13:14:35 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=96383#comment-2496891 The crowd turns ugly: “There won’t be any Part II. We’ve been scammed! Neo gets her money for nothin’ and her clicks for free!” (Cue Mark Knopfler and Dire Straits)

Listen here, now that ain’t workin’ that’s the way to do it
You play behind the apple. Will Flynn walk free?
That ain’t workin’ that’s the way you do it
Money for nothin’ and your clicks for free
Money for nothin’ and the clicks for free
Get your money for nothin’ and clicks for free

]]> By: Richard Aubrey https://thenewneo.com/2020/05/26/so-i-underestimated-how-long-it-would-take-to-write-part-ii-of-the-sullivan-post/#comment-2496886 Wed, 27 May 2020 11:27:54 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=96383#comment-2496886 Used to live where the nearest high school did the old standards; Camelot, West Side Story, Showboat, Bye-Bye-Birdie, Sound of Music. Others. They were always first-rate productions with fabulously talented young folks.
Went to a touring company of Les Miz with a professional cast. The urchin looked like Little Annie, bright, chubby and, for heaven’s sake, cheerful. Broke the willing suspension of disbelief.
Our local choral organization convinced a twelve-year old girl to take a week off soccer. She had a different bone structure from the professional. With a bit of makeup, she did look like a kid on the edge in the midst of chaos. Knocked it out of the park. Half a dozen years later, she did the same as Guinevere.
The guy wondering if he’d be a good father (in Showboar?) got me to tears…
Point is, I had no idea who he was. Not one of our kids’ friends, so I didn’t know anything about him. He wasn’t FRANK SINATRA singing a song some guy you never heard of would be singing, or at least thinking, while it’s being sung by FRANK SINATRA. He was a young guy, of an age when–in the Showboat world and time–might have been pretty close to the actuality. He wasn’t old enough to be confident. He would wonder, and worry. And it wasn’t FRANK SINATRA we’re sitting there watching sing it.
Loved the whole experience, year after year. It was multiplied by the fact that we had no known stars.

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