Two pianists at this level are really incommensurable. On the one hand, crystalline transcendence and on the other accented energy, both superbly delivered.
Brian Wesbury tweets what I think is a good idea:
“I think
@GOPLeader
Kevin McCarthy should give a prime time address explaining what he thinks Republicans stand for…what is their reason for being? The noise is deafening, he now has a bully pulpit. He should take it. If he makes the case, then I don’t see how he could lose.”
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Mollie retweeted someone named Matt Beebe on the disaster on elections in Pa. Checking his twitter feed I saw this gem:
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Matt Beebe
@TheMattBeebe
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13h
Bottom line: for 30+ yrs the GOP has been the Capitulation Caucus; controlled opposition; the Washington Generals to the Harlem Globetrotters.
A dozen conservatives have put on a clinic in how to use leverage. Do you think more of that, or more of the Swamp Status Quo is better?
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YES!! Washington Generals vs Harlem Globetrotters is a perfect metaphor. Love it. The Capitulation Caucus.
Commentor “Frederick” has been using the “Globetrotters and Washington Generals” for at least a year on neo’s blog. “The Capitulation Caucus” may be a Beebe original.
Brahms, man.
Another pair: op. 118, no. 6 Intermezzo E-flat minor
It has been reported that the perp dropped his knife sheath at the scene of the crime and the investigators successfully lifted DNA from the snap of the sheath closure. But it was the DNA of the perp’s father, which was in a database.
It is certainly strange that this suspect was intelligent and trained in criminal matters, and had no doubt planned his deeds in detail, and yet … He avoided getting his own DNA on the knife sheath, but then dropped it at the scene? He had his cell phone with him and it was turned on?? (So they have his pings near or on the scene.)
I read that it was a gas station attendant who was bored and interested in the case that scoured his station’s own surveillance files and found Kohberger’s car around the time of the murders. Since the police had never contacted him, he took the evidence to the police. Naturally, all of this is being credited to some police officer and not the attendant.
In spite of Sokolov’s hand gestures striking me as an unnatural affectation, I like his very emotional and soulful performance. I do believe he is genuinely emotionally involved in the performance. Again, here is a piano great who works his mouth.
Even on my pitiful laptop speakers I can tell that the audio quality of the Sokolov recording is much better than the Horowitz. That impacts me, though often music professionals don’t seem to care. And I do like the visuals of the Sokolov video.
Horowitz’s signature emotion is aggressiveness in the crescendo or forte passages. It could be just my own state of mind, but I’ll take Sokolov’s soulfulness.
If you had any doubt that the Ontario College of Psychologists is run by intellectual and moral frauds, this article is instructive.
Naturally, all of this is being credited to some police officer and not the attendant.
By whom? It’s been known right along that the retail manager in question reviewed the tapes and volunteered them to law enforcement five weeks after the murders. I saw cutting remarks about the local police in fora like this when this was made public.
He avoided getting his own DNA on the knife sheath, but then dropped it at the scene? He had his cell phone with him and it was turned on?? (So they have his pings near or on the scene.)
His DNA was on the knife sheath. He was identified by it’s proximity to familial DNA on file.
Tommy Jay, I think the reports are that they had the suspect’s DNA on the knife sheath. When he got to Pennsylvania, they went through the family trash and came up with dad’s DNA, which tested as almost certainly the father of the suspect DNA. They took an actual DNA sample from the suspect after his arrest.
Bottom line: for 30+ yrs the GOP has been the Capitulation Caucus; controlled opposition; the Washington Generals to the Harlem Globetrotters.
Disagree. That’s not a fair assessment of the GOP House caucus under Newt Gingrich’s leadership; not sure it’s a fair assessment of the caucus under Dennis Hastert. (Defenders of Hastert have maintained that the modal scenario was that the House would pass a piece of reform legislation, which would then die in the Senate). Note, the leader of the GOP House caucus from 1981 to 1995 was Robert Michel, a Congressional lifer no one ever accused of being a militant in any way. The 30 year mark in his tweet makes little sense.
Speaking of potentially great basketball players ruined in their youth by crack cocaine, remember how we scoffed at the black communities conspiracy theory that CIA intentionally flooded ghetto with crack?
More difficult to smirk these days.
Tommy Jay, I think the reports are that they had the suspect’s DNA on the knife sheath. When he got to Pennsylvania, they went through the family trash and came up with dad’s DNA, which tested as almost certainly the father of the suspect DNA. They took an actual DNA sample from the suspect after his arrest.
That doesn’t make any sense. Why would they have him under surveillance unless they already had a familial DNA match from a database accessible to law enforcement? Absent a familial DNA match, he’s just some rando living 10 miles away (unless there are very few white Hyundais within commuting distance of Moscow, Idaho).
More difficult to smirk these days.
I’ll continue smirking. They can ‘flood’ slum neighborhoods with crack only if there’s an unmet demand for it.
Maybe Pele is unhappy with everything happening in the House…she decided to show her displeasure by having Kilauea spout some lava again. Confined to the caldera only. Hopefully like the mild eruption two months ago will stay confined there and not move into the rift zones.
Looks like the holdouts are getting smaller in number, but McCarthy is still lacking the 218. 12 failed votes, but plenty of time for more later today.
They had him under surveillance because of the car and the phone pings. He’d been stopped for speeding in the car before the murders, and had given police his cell phone number. Apparently he was very careful about DNA (except for the knife sheath). With the father’s DNA near-match, that was enough to get an arrest warrant.
I wonder if they will find traces of blood from victims in the car, now that they have it.
As a spanish speaker you would think portuguese would be a snap to learn but you would be wrong
Kate said: They had him under surveillance because of the car and the phone pings.
My understanding is that he was driving the same model car (a white Hyundai Elantra) that was seen near the home during the killings. Now, I don’t know how common white Hyundai Elantra’s around that specific area and time are, but I guess it was uncommon enough that they decided to surveil him as well as go through his dad’s trash in hopes of finding some DNA.
Yes, I got the two DNA’s mixed up. I’ll blame it on early reportage I heard, though it could have been my mix up.
I at least suspect Art D. is correct that they had a familial DNA match early on. They probably don’t want to advertise the access and utility of such searches. There may be legal advantages to the trash DNA, but it also allows them to skirt the non-criminal DNA database issue.
I have read, and it may be untrue, that the FBI used to routinely surf the NSA databases for crime case information illegally. Once they found pertinent information, they would then seek to confirm the connection through legal avenues.
C.I.A. is above reproach, as is F.B.I.
It’s been a day, and I can’t find offhand the summary of the police investigation of the Idaho case I read. If I recall it correctly, they did find the knife sheath the day the bodies were discovered, but DNA results, with blood everywhere and lots of people having been in the house, took a while. There was also an eyewitness who saw a man about 6′ tall with bushy eyebrows. (No explanation about why she didn’t call police immediately. Perhaps she thought it was a burglar.) The police kept these details quiet. Meanwhile, videos of security cameras on the dead-end street showed a white sedan going in and out, on the murder night. Later, they found that a car like this had been around the site on numerous nights before. They identified a probable make and model, and began a search of auto records. The police in Pullman, WA, did the same, on the theory that it might have been a student from there. In WA, they found a graduate parking lot with a car like that, and video showing it leaving and returning at the indicated times. They found out whose car it was, and discovered they had a cell phone number. Then the cell phone search revealed pings at the times and places the white car was seen on surveillance. Meanwhile, the suspect drove across country for Christmas break. They had him under surveillance, and got the near-match DNA from his father in the family trash. So according to this narrative, it wasn’t a long-winded genealogical search, but a short one with a paternal sample.
Meanwhile, the Governor of Florida ups his game another notch:
How about that. New College was the first college I attended.
It was an experimental college back then. Not long after I left, it ran into financial straits. To save the school, it was folded into the Florida University system, but still maintains something of its special heritage. It’s called an Honors College now.
Back on the China Covid front — infections are exploding.
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Minutes from an internal meeting of the National Health Commission revealed that as many as 248 million people — nearly 18% of China’s population — came down with the virus in the first 20 days of December, with a surge that began in Beijing spreading to rural regions
@ huxley – we never had a specific measles party, but it was considered polite to let people know if your kids were infected before hosting any event.
When I was around 8 or so, I came down with chicken pox just in time for my birthday party, so my mother passed the news and I still had a good showing of people who had already had it or weren’t worried about getting it.
Historically, there were indeed smallpox “parties,” where groups (mostly family) would gather and quarantine themselves while everyone endured the vaccination protocol.
Considering the regimen that John and his brother underwent, it looks like doctors were just as ignorant then as now, deliberately weakening their bodies (with mercury, no less), which could not have improved their development of antibodies to the pox, so I’m not sure what hypothesis they were pursuing.
Oddly, the Wikipedia entries for both cowpox and smallpox vaccinations don’t mention these early American events, but only Jenner’s introduction of his procedure in Britain quite a bit later in 1796. A few other sources I checked (CDC, Mayo) also pretend that immunization only started with Jenner’s “scientific” discovery of how to produce a vaccine – as opposed to just using infectious pus or something similar.
Medical organizations: spreading information bias since 1796.
@ TommyJay > “I have read, and it may be untrue, that the FBI used to routinely surf the NSA databases for crime case information illegally. Once they found pertinent information, they would then seek to confirm the connection through legal avenues.”
I have read something similar to that, maybe a couple of years ago or more recently. Possibly not using the NSA DBs, but other sources that are, shall we say, legally dicey.
IIRC, they slip clues to the local police of things to look for in a way that covers up their illicit participation in the investigation, because they really aren’t supposed to be doing those things, or not in that particular way.
@ Art Deco > “If you had any doubt that the Ontario College of Psychologists is run by intellectual and moral frauds, this article is instructive.”
I read a lot of posts about the Peterson case today, and the one you linked is the only one that includes most of the “offensive” Tweets.
(Note: the College is not a university, but more like the American Bar and Medical Associations.)
In addition to these complaints, Peterson said that other complaints include that he retweeted Pierre Poilievre and made critical comments about Justin Trudeau and Gerald Butts. Again, issues that have nothing to do with the practice of psychology, but Peterson said the College has made up its mind and is looking to sentence him for his supposed crimes.
“They have five levels of sanction and they’ve already put the second-highest level of sanctions upon me, and they see me as likely to reoffend,” Peterson said.
He said the politicization of the Colleges regulating professions in Ontario and across Canada puts the care and legal advice we all receive at risk because professionals will be afraid to give their best advice. /b>That was a sentiment backed up by one lawyer who emailed Wednesday to support Peterson.
“Every lawyer in Canada should be working pro bono on this case. It affects all of us. No matter one’s politics,” the lawyer said.
Of course, statements like that need to be made quietly to make sure the Law Society doesn’t come calling.
Jordan Peterson has decided to fight back by launching a court challenge. It’s a battle he needs to win and one everyone should back him on.
The Ontario College of Psychologists wants to retrain me to behave properly — and this should concern everyone
Author of the article: Jordan Peterson, Special to National Post
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The practice of psychology in Ontario, and in many other North American and western jurisdictions, is subject to regulation by “professional colleges” — essentially governmental organizations with a mandate to protect the public from misconduct on the part of physicians, lawyers, social workers, dentists, pharmacists, teachers, architects and many others, including (and most relevant to me) clinical psychologists.
Anyone anywhere in the world can levy a complaint to these regulatory bodies for any reason, regardless of whether the complainant has had any direct contact with the professional in question. The respective colleges have the responsibility to determine whether each complaint is serious and credible enough to warrant further investigation. Complaints can be deemed vexatious or frivolous and dispensed with. When the college decides to move forward, it is a serious move, essentially equivalent to a lawsuit. The Ontario College of Psychologists in fact recommends legal counsel under such conditions.
The Ontario College of Psychologists has levied a multitude of such lawsuits against me since my rise to public prominence six years ago (although none at all in the 20 years or so I practised as a psychologist before that). These have multiplied as of late, and now number more than a dozen. This may seem like a lot (and “where there’s smoke there’s fire,” or so people think), but I might point out that it is difficult to communicate with as many people as I do and to say anything of substance without rubbing at least a few of them the wrong way now and then.
For my crimes, I have been sentenced to a course of mandatory social-media communication training with the college’s so-called experts (although social media communication training is not a scientific and certainly not a clinical specialty of any standing). I am to do this at my own expense (some hundreds of dollars per hour) and for a length of time that is to be determined only by those retraining me and profiting from doing so. How will this be determined? When those very re-educators — those experts — have convinced themselves that I have learned my lesson, and will behave properly in the future.
If I agree to this, then I must admit that I have been unprofessional in my conduct, and to have that noted publicly, even as the college insists that I am not required to admit to any wrongdoing. If I refuse — and I have (of course) refused — the next step is a mandatory public disciplinary session/inquiry and the possible suspension of my clinical licence (all of which will be also announced publicly).
I should also point out that the steps already taken constitute the second most serious possible response to my transgressions on the part of the college. I have been placed in the category of repeat offender, with high risk of further repetition.
What exactly have I done that is so seriously unprofessional that I am now a danger not only to any new potential clients but to the public itself? It is hard to tell with some of the complaints (one involved the submission of the entire transcript of a three-hour discussion on the Joe Rogan podcast), but here are some examples that might produce some reasonable concern among Canadians who care about such niceties as freedom of belief, conscience and speech:
I retweeted a comment made by Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre about the unnecessary severity of the COVID lockdowns;
I criticized Prime Minister Justin Trudeau;
I criticized Justin Trudeau’s former chief of staff, Gerald Butts;
I criticized an Ottawa city councillor; and
I made a joke about the prime minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern.
I did all that “disrespectfully,” by the way, in a “horrific” manner that spread “misinformation”; that was “threatening” and “harassing”; that was “embarrassing to the profession.” I am also (these are separate offences) sexist, transphobic, incapable of the requisite body positivity in relationship to morbid obesity and, unforgivably of all, a climate change denialist.
Every single one of these accusations (and now accepted evidence of my professional misconduct) is independent of my clinical practice — which, by the way, has been suspended since 2017, when my rising notoriety or fame made continuing as a private therapist practically and ethically impossible. Every single accusation is not only independent of my clinical practice, but explicitly political — and not only that: unidirectionally explicitly political. Every single thing I have been sentenced to correction for saying is insufficiently leftist, politically. I’m simply too classically liberal — or, even more unforgivably — conservative.
For criticizing our prime minister and his cronies and peers, for retweeting Pierre Poilievre, the leader of the official Opposition in Canada, and for holding and for daring to express reprehensible political views, I have now been convicted by the College of Psychologists of “harming” people in some manner serious enough to justify my forced re-education. Now that I have refused, I will definitely face further exceptionally public, demanding, time-consuming and expensive disciplinary action, including the suspension of my licence. This, despite the fact that none of the people whose complaints are being currently pursued were ever clients of mine, or even knew clients of mine, or even knew or were acquainted with any of the people they claim I am harming. This, despite the fact (and please attend to this) that half the people who levied such complaints falsely claimed that they had in fact been or currently are clients of mine.
It may be of some interest to note that I wrote to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau this week, informing him of this situation. Here is the letter, for public consideration — which by necessity repeats some of what I have just covered in this introduction:
Dear Prime Minister Trudeau:
I thought it my duty to inform you and your office of the following proceedings against me.
The Ontario College of Psychologists, the provincial government-mandated and supported professional body charged with regulating the practice of clinical psychology, is requiring that I undergo a lengthy course of “media training” so that I “more appropriately” conduct my online communication. This is occurring, by the way, despite my 20 years as a research psychologist at Harvard University and the University of Toronto (with an unblemished behavioural reputation), my extensive clinical experience and my history of bringing psychological knowledge to people around the world.
Some 15-million people currently follow me on three main social media platforms, and the overwhelming majority of them appear to regard my words and the particular manner in which I formulate them as interesting, helpful and productive — some real evidence to the contrary with regard to the college’s accusations.
I have rejected this forced re-education request, and will in consequence soon be required to appear in front of an in-person “disciplinary hearing” to bring me into line — with the threat of the revocation of my clinical licence, and the public exposure and implied disgrace that would accompany that, hanging over my head.
It may be of interest to you to note that all of the complaints against me: (1) were brought by people with whom I had zero clinical contact; (2) have nothing whatsoever to do with my function as a clinical psychologist (except in the broadest possible public sense); and, most importantly with regard to this letter, (3) that half of them involve nothing more than political criticisms of you or the people around you (with all the remainder being complaints generated because I dared state some essentially conservative philosophical beliefs).
As the enclosed documentation indicates, I am being investigated and disciplined for, among a few other reasons not germane to my present communication with you:
retweeting Pierre Poilievre, the leader of Canada’s official Opposition;
criticizing you, your former chief of staff Gerald Butts, New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern and an Ottawa city councillor; and
objecting to the Ottawa police threatening to apprehend the children of the trucker convoy protesters.
I am not suggesting or even presuming that you or any of the people associated with you had anything directly to do with this. However, the fact that it is happening (and that physicians and lawyers have become as terrified as psychologists now are of their own regulatory bodies) is something that has definitely happened on your watch, as a consequence of your own conduct and the increasingly compulsion-based and ideologically pure policies that you have promoted and legislated.
I simply cannot resign myself to the fact that in my lifetime I am required to resort to a public letter to the leader of my country to point out that political criticism has now become such a crime in Canada that if professionals dare engage in such activity, government-appointed commissars will threaten their livelihood and present them with the spectacle of denouncement and political disgrace.
There is simply and utterly no excuse whatsoever for such a state of affairs in a free country.
Jordan B Peterson, PhD, C. Psych (for now)
Professor emeritus, University of Toronto
Why should Canadians who read this care? Perhaps those reading in this country (and elsewhere) might ask themselves the following questions — and in all seriousness, painful as it might be do so; requiring as it does the almost unbelievable admission that something has gone dreadfully wrong in our lovely country:
What makes you think that something similar won’t happen to you, or to someone you know and respect or even love?
What makes you think you are going to continue to be able to communicate honestly with your physicians, lawyers and psychologists (and representatives of many other regulated professions) if they are now so terrified of their regulatory boards that they can no longer tell you the truth?
What are your children going to be taught when all their teachers (that’s a regulated profession, too) are so afraid of the woke mob that they swallow all the ideological lies that are now required of pedagogues — regardless if they believe what they are saying?
Where are we going to be if we allow criticism of the public figures charged with the privilege of our governance to be grounds for the demolition of not only the critic’s reputation but their very livelihood?
How far are we willing to go down this road, without forthright resistance?
In any case: I’m not complying. I’m not submitting to re-education. I am not admitting that my viewpoints — many of which have, by the way, been entirely justified by the facts that have emerged since the complaints were levied — were either wrong or unprofessional. I’m going to say what I have to say, and let the chips fall where they will. I have done nothing to compromise those in my care; quite the contrary — I have served all my clients and the millions of people I am communicating with to the best of my ability and in good faith, and that’s that.
And to the College of Psychologists, I issue this challenge: I am absolutely willing to make every single word of this legal battle fully public, so that the issue of my professional competence and my right to say what I have to say and stand by my words can be fought in full daylight. I would and could post all the correspondence with and accusations levied by those who complained about me and the college itself public, and will do so, if the college agrees. But I can’t, on legal grounds justified in normal times but rendered specious by the dominion of the politically correct and radical. I can’t, because of this, and because it is not in the interest of the college or the complainants they are sheltering and abetting to allow it. They’ll cite confidentiality concerns for their refusal, because it’s 100 per cent OK for them to come after me publicly while they and those who complained hide cravenly and cowardly behind a wall of self-serving and self-protective silence.
And this of course does little but embolden those who have learned to weaponize college disciplinary processes, and to give the accuser and his or her lackeys the upper hand, practically and legally. And such weaponization risks placing all our once justly trusted institutions firmly in the hands of those willing and able to manipulate them for reasons both political and personal.
The sad and sorry state of this once-great Dominion at the dawn of 2023 … and it’s still going to get worse before it gets better.
It is obvious to me that the College has really not been paying attention to Dr. Peterson’s work, or to his public position in the world, or to his supporters.
And they haven’t really understood the principle that launched him into prominence in the first place.
The demands made by the College of Psychologists of Ontario of high-profile author and media personality Dr. Jordan Peterson are bizarre at best and disturbing in their overreach at worst.
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If the college is planning on using its regulatory powers as a blunt instrument to silence those members of its profession with whom it has a political disagreement, it augurs ill for free speech in this country.
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In a letter to Peterson, the college said if he doesn’t undergo social media training, it will go against him.
“The panel has yet to make a decision, but maintains its serious concerns about your professionalism in public statements,” the letter said.
There’s no question Peterson is provocative. His views can be uncomfortable at times and outrageous at others. Love him or hate him, he has the right to freedom of expression. More importantly, he has a right to make a living in the profession he’s practised for more than two decades.
Or has Canada become the dystopian world of Newspeak and thought police?
It seems to me that PM Trudeau already demonstrated the affirmative answer to that question; Tweeting about it is one of the things that has been charged against Dr. P.
The real question is: can the Canadian government be turned around, and will this be the pivot point?
For the record: “article content” gets thrown into every excerpt cut-and-pasted from the Sun; I missed deleting some of them.
Two years after the events of January 6, the Justice Department is preparing to accelerate its retaliatory, destructive manhunt for Trump supporters. More than 950 people have been arrested and charged so far, a figure expected to at least double by the time the dust settles. Last year, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Matthew Graves, the Biden appointee handling every January 6 case, hinted the total number of defendants could reach 2,000. [or just about everyone at the rally?- AF]
The newly-appointed head of the FBI’s Washington, D.C. field office warned this week the agency’s work on January 6 cases will continue for “months and years to come.” Attorney General Merrick Garland released a statement to commemorate the second anniversary of the “attack on the Capitol” with a similar sentiment. “Our work is far from over,” Garland said, boasting how the prosecution “continues to move forward at an unprecedented speed and scale.”
And why shouldn’t it? After all, 18 GOP senators voted to pass the $1.7 trillion omnibus bill last month, which included a $3.5 billion raise for the Justice Department, millions of which will be spent on hiring more government lawyers to prosecute January 6 cases. The FBI won a $570 million boost, bringing the bureau’s total annual budget to more than $11 billion.
Nothing like feeding the wolves eating your herd.
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Of course, January 6 propagandists have to lie about what happened to justify comparisons to Pearl Harbor, the Oklahoma City bombing, and 9/11. Their hope is to rally support around the new war on terror, one taking direct aim at Americans on the Right. If Trump supporters are truly America’s version of ISIS, as the regime and the news media insist, then no amount of funding is too much and no criminal prosecution is too excessive to defeat the sworn enemy. Any dissent is unpatriotic.
It’s a feat of political sorcery—fueled by lies, cover-ups, and careerism, not entirely unlike the first war on terror—to transform an unruly, four-hour protest into an act of domestic terror.
January 6 is a major Christian date, the Epiphany. I’m glad to get it back from politics.
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Two pianists at this level are really incommensurable. On the one hand, crystalline transcendence and on the other accented energy, both superbly delivered.
Brian Wesbury tweets what I think is a good idea:
“I think
@GOPLeader
Kevin McCarthy should give a prime time address explaining what he thinks Republicans stand for…what is their reason for being? The noise is deafening, he now has a bully pulpit. He should take it. If he makes the case, then I don’t see how he could lose.”
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Mollie retweeted someone named Matt Beebe on the disaster on elections in Pa. Checking his twitter feed I saw this gem:
”
Matt Beebe
@TheMattBeebe
·
13h
Bottom line: for 30+ yrs the GOP has been the Capitulation Caucus; controlled opposition; the Washington Generals to the Harlem Globetrotters.
A dozen conservatives have put on a clinic in how to use leverage. Do you think more of that, or more of the Swamp Status Quo is better?
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YES!! Washington Generals vs Harlem Globetrotters is a perfect metaphor. Love it. The Capitulation Caucus.
Speaking of the House Speaker aspirant,
McCarthy Warns Not Voting For Him Could Delay More Funds To Ukraine
“Come on folks, the very incomes of Raytheon lobbyists are at stake!”
stan:
Commentor “Frederick” has been using the “Globetrotters and Washington Generals” for at least a year on neo’s blog. “The Capitulation Caucus” may be a Beebe original.
Brahms, man.
Another pair: op. 118, no. 6 Intermezzo E-flat minor
Kempff (4:52): https://youtu.be/aQu9nEX8ANQ
Gould (5:59): https://youtu.be/TU3d8drDOgY
extra — Barry Douglas puts on his Usain Bolt shoes in 117 no. 2 (little surprise that Brahms wins nevertheless) (3:53): https://youtu.be/8jfmJvM08Ik
Re: Harlem Globetrotters
Meadowlark Lemon for Speaker!
Pity he is dead. He had a nice smile and knew some good tricks.
–“Meadowlark Lemon Highlights”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9GMHk9Bh04
Rumor has it McCarthy withdraws and will nominate David French since Frank Luntz refused the job.
Well President Trump only got one vote so why not David French, or Alex Jones?
One of these things is not like the others.
Thomas Lifson writes about the Idaho murders and he is both heartened by the investigators apparent success and dismayed by the increasing power of our surveillance state.
It has been reported that the perp dropped his knife sheath at the scene of the crime and the investigators successfully lifted DNA from the snap of the sheath closure. But it was the DNA of the perp’s father, which was in a database.
It is certainly strange that this suspect was intelligent and trained in criminal matters, and had no doubt planned his deeds in detail, and yet … He avoided getting his own DNA on the knife sheath, but then dropped it at the scene? He had his cell phone with him and it was turned on?? (So they have his pings near or on the scene.)
I read that it was a gas station attendant who was bored and interested in the case that scoured his station’s own surveillance files and found Kohberger’s car around the time of the murders. Since the police had never contacted him, he took the evidence to the police. Naturally, all of this is being credited to some police officer and not the attendant.
In spite of Sokolov’s hand gestures striking me as an unnatural affectation, I like his very emotional and soulful performance. I do believe he is genuinely emotionally involved in the performance. Again, here is a piano great who works his mouth.
Even on my pitiful laptop speakers I can tell that the audio quality of the Sokolov recording is much better than the Horowitz. That impacts me, though often music professionals don’t seem to care. And I do like the visuals of the Sokolov video.
Horowitz’s signature emotion is aggressiveness in the crescendo or forte passages. It could be just my own state of mind, but I’ll take Sokolov’s soulfulness.
https://torontosun.com/news/provincial/read-the-tweets-that-got-jordan-peterson-investigated-by-college-of-psychologists
If you had any doubt that the Ontario College of Psychologists is run by intellectual and moral frauds, this article is instructive.
Naturally, all of this is being credited to some police officer and not the attendant.
By whom? It’s been known right along that the retail manager in question reviewed the tapes and volunteered them to law enforcement five weeks after the murders. I saw cutting remarks about the local police in fora like this when this was made public.
He avoided getting his own DNA on the knife sheath, but then dropped it at the scene? He had his cell phone with him and it was turned on?? (So they have his pings near or on the scene.)
His DNA was on the knife sheath. He was identified by it’s proximity to familial DNA on file.
Tommy Jay, I think the reports are that they had the suspect’s DNA on the knife sheath. When he got to Pennsylvania, they went through the family trash and came up with dad’s DNA, which tested as almost certainly the father of the suspect DNA. They took an actual DNA sample from the suspect after his arrest.
Bottom line: for 30+ yrs the GOP has been the Capitulation Caucus; controlled opposition; the Washington Generals to the Harlem Globetrotters.
Disagree. That’s not a fair assessment of the GOP House caucus under Newt Gingrich’s leadership; not sure it’s a fair assessment of the caucus under Dennis Hastert. (Defenders of Hastert have maintained that the modal scenario was that the House would pass a piece of reform legislation, which would then die in the Senate). Note, the leader of the GOP House caucus from 1981 to 1995 was Robert Michel, a Congressional lifer no one ever accused of being a militant in any way. The 30 year mark in his tweet makes little sense.
Speaking of potentially great basketball players ruined in their youth by crack cocaine, remember how we scoffed at the black communities conspiracy theory that CIA intentionally flooded ghetto with crack?
More difficult to smirk these days.
Tommy Jay, I think the reports are that they had the suspect’s DNA on the knife sheath. When he got to Pennsylvania, they went through the family trash and came up with dad’s DNA, which tested as almost certainly the father of the suspect DNA. They took an actual DNA sample from the suspect after his arrest.
That doesn’t make any sense. Why would they have him under surveillance unless they already had a familial DNA match from a database accessible to law enforcement? Absent a familial DNA match, he’s just some rando living 10 miles away (unless there are very few white Hyundais within commuting distance of Moscow, Idaho).
More difficult to smirk these days.
I’ll continue smirking. They can ‘flood’ slum neighborhoods with crack only if there’s an unmet demand for it.
Maybe Pele is unhappy with everything happening in the House…she decided to show her displeasure by having Kilauea spout some lava again. Confined to the caldera only. Hopefully like the mild eruption two months ago will stay confined there and not move into the rift zones.
https://www.usgs.gov/volcanoes/kilauea
Looks like the holdouts are getting smaller in number, but McCarthy is still lacking the 218. 12 failed votes, but plenty of time for more later today.
They had him under surveillance because of the car and the phone pings. He’d been stopped for speeding in the car before the murders, and had given police his cell phone number. Apparently he was very careful about DNA (except for the knife sheath). With the father’s DNA near-match, that was enough to get an arrest warrant.
I wonder if they will find traces of blood from victims in the car, now that they have it.
As a spanish speaker you would think portuguese would be a snap to learn but you would be wrong
Kate said: They had him under surveillance because of the car and the phone pings.
My understanding is that he was driving the same model car (a white Hyundai Elantra) that was seen near the home during the killings. Now, I don’t know how common white Hyundai Elantra’s around that specific area and time are, but I guess it was uncommon enough that they decided to surveil him as well as go through his dad’s trash in hopes of finding some DNA.
Yes, I got the two DNA’s mixed up. I’ll blame it on early reportage I heard, though it could have been my mix up.
I at least suspect Art D. is correct that they had a familial DNA match early on. They probably don’t want to advertise the access and utility of such searches. There may be legal advantages to the trash DNA, but it also allows them to skirt the non-criminal DNA database issue.
I have read, and it may be untrue, that the FBI used to routinely surf the NSA databases for crime case information illegally. Once they found pertinent information, they would then seek to confirm the connection through legal avenues.
C.I.A. is above reproach, as is F.B.I.
It’s been a day, and I can’t find offhand the summary of the police investigation of the Idaho case I read. If I recall it correctly, they did find the knife sheath the day the bodies were discovered, but DNA results, with blood everywhere and lots of people having been in the house, took a while. There was also an eyewitness who saw a man about 6′ tall with bushy eyebrows. (No explanation about why she didn’t call police immediately. Perhaps she thought it was a burglar.) The police kept these details quiet. Meanwhile, videos of security cameras on the dead-end street showed a white sedan going in and out, on the murder night. Later, they found that a car like this had been around the site on numerous nights before. They identified a probable make and model, and began a search of auto records. The police in Pullman, WA, did the same, on the theory that it might have been a student from there. In WA, they found a graduate parking lot with a car like that, and video showing it leaving and returning at the indicated times. They found out whose car it was, and discovered they had a cell phone number. Then the cell phone search revealed pings at the times and places the white car was seen on surveillance. Meanwhile, the suspect drove across country for Christmas break. They had him under surveillance, and got the near-match DNA from his father in the family trash. So according to this narrative, it wasn’t a long-winded genealogical search, but a short one with a paternal sample.
Meanwhile, the Governor of Florida ups his game another notch:
Christopher Rufo appointed Trustee to Florida’s New College by Gov. DeSantis
How about that. New College was the first college I attended.
It was an experimental college back then. Not long after I left, it ran into financial straits. To save the school, it was folded into the Florida University system, but still maintains something of its special heritage. It’s called an Honors College now.
Back on the China Covid front — infections are exploding.
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Minutes from an internal meeting of the National Health Commission revealed that as many as 248 million people — nearly 18% of China’s population — came down with the virus in the first 20 days of December, with a surge that began in Beijing spreading to rural regions
https://nypost.com/2022/12/23/china-estimates-37-million-infected-with-covid-in-one-day/
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Chinese authorities are now encouraging citizens to get infected. O boy, measles parties!
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/kevindowneyjr/2023/01/06/about-face-china-now-pressuring-its-citizens-to-contract-covid-and-wow-are-they-ever-n1659337
Estimates of final death toll have steadily increased too — from 500,000 when the Chinese ended Zero Covid to 1.7 mil now.
I’d say that’s still a low ball estimate, off by a factor of ten.
Did you ever attend a measles party?
We managed the old-fashioned way. Just go about your life and let it happen.
Happy Patriots Day everyone! Fittingly, Tucker knocks tonight’s opening out of the park:
Tucker Carlson: Lies about Jan. 6 have been relentless
@ huxley – we never had a specific measles party, but it was considered polite to let people know if your kids were infected before hosting any event.
When I was around 8 or so, I came down with chicken pox just in time for my birthday party, so my mother passed the news and I still had a good showing of people who had already had it or weren’t worried about getting it.
Historically, there were indeed smallpox “parties,” where groups (mostly family) would gather and quarantine themselves while everyone endured the vaccination protocol.
The John Adams family were among those inoculated, or variolated, while General Washington encouraged vaccination of his troops (the first vax mandate?).
https://www.hhhistory.com/2015/05/john-and-abigail-adams-and-general.html
Considering the regimen that John and his brother underwent, it looks like doctors were just as ignorant then as now, deliberately weakening their bodies (with mercury, no less), which could not have improved their development of antibodies to the pox, so I’m not sure what hypothesis they were pursuing.
Abigail and the children, along with others in her “party” were not so afflicted, but that was some years later.
https://worldhistory.us/american-history/abigail-adams-smallpox-and-the-declaration-of-independence.php
An early pamphlet on the new procedure in 1721.
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fbeafifer.com%2Fsmallpoxcolman.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=3f558bf76c2668366ecc8b91c2a4cd14f4d4e03b295e09876bb02d413c374b8a&ipo=images
Oddly, the Wikipedia entries for both cowpox and smallpox vaccinations don’t mention these early American events, but only Jenner’s introduction of his procedure in Britain quite a bit later in 1796. A few other sources I checked (CDC, Mayo) also pretend that immunization only started with Jenner’s “scientific” discovery of how to produce a vaccine – as opposed to just using infectious pus or something similar.
Medical organizations: spreading information bias since 1796.
@ TommyJay > “I have read, and it may be untrue, that the FBI used to routinely surf the NSA databases for crime case information illegally. Once they found pertinent information, they would then seek to confirm the connection through legal avenues.”
I have read something similar to that, maybe a couple of years ago or more recently. Possibly not using the NSA DBs, but other sources that are, shall we say, legally dicey.
IIRC, they slip clues to the local police of things to look for in a way that covers up their illicit participation in the investigation, because they really aren’t supposed to be doing those things, or not in that particular way.
However, we do know they don’t like sharing unless it fits their agenda.
https://thefederalist.com/2021/11/11/sen-johnson-probes-fbi-aerial-surveillance-after-rittenhouse-defense-suspects-foul-play-in-kenosha-case/
@ Art Deco > “If you had any doubt that the Ontario College of Psychologists is run by intellectual and moral frauds, this article is instructive.”
I read a lot of posts about the Peterson case today, and the one you linked is the only one that includes most of the “offensive” Tweets.
(Note: the College is not a university, but more like the American Bar and Medical Associations.)
Most of the rest of the complaints are in this one.
https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/lilley-jordan-peterson-launches-court-challenge-as-college-of-psychologists-attempts-to-pull-his-licence-over-social-media-posts
Peterson give his own statement in this post.
I have copied the entire article, because his rants are so epic, and (as he says) he has no problem taking this situation public.
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/my-critics-have-weaponized-the-college-of-psychologists-disciplinary-process-for-political-reasons
It is obvious to me that the College has really not been paying attention to Dr. Peterson’s work, or to his public position in the world, or to his supporters.
And they haven’t really understood the principle that launched him into prominence in the first place.
They have swatted a bee hive.
They will get stung, bigly.
In the Toronto Sun editorial, they lay out the bottom line of the attack on Dr. Peterson.
https://torontosun.com/opinion/editorials/editorial-the-orwellian-re-education-of-jordan-peterson
It seems to me that PM Trudeau already demonstrated the affirmative answer to that question; Tweeting about it is one of the things that has been charged against Dr. P.
The real question is: can the Canadian government be turned around, and will this be the pivot point?
For the record: “article content” gets thrown into every excerpt cut-and-pasted from the Sun; I missed deleting some of them.
January 6 now has two reasons to be on the “historical” calendar.
Julie Kelly explains why the first one is still important.
https://amgreatness.com/2023/01/05/january-6-a-day-that-will-live-in-alchemy/
January 6 is a major Christian date, the Epiphany. I’m glad to get it back from politics.