If any of you Tiffany fans find yourself in Florida, I recommend the Morse Museum and the Flagler College tour.
The Morse Museum is in Winter Park, just north of Orlando. A beautiful city unto itself (don’t miss the boat tour) and the Morse Museum is right in the heart of its beautiful shopping district.
Flagler College is the former Ponce de Leon Hotel, built by Henry Flagler, John Rockefeller’s business partner at Standard Oil. I believe Louis Comfort Tiffany was directly involved with the installation there. (Some guy named Thomas Edison did the lighting.) Flagler College is in Saint Augustine, also a very unique and beautiful Florida city.
After almost of week of bed with bad back, no computer (writing) just iPad reading, I’m down to about 30% pain and have wanted to share these links.
My first thought of MLK day was the 40+ women he slept with, committed adultery with, that the FBI taped. Then the view of the statue was more like a turd, then a big ol’ dong.
Few talk about larger average erect male penis size of Blacks as part of the prejudice issue.
Tom Grey:
Maybe they have better things to talk about?
Hope your back is better soon. Watch out for that old age truck, it’s typically hit and run.
These reflections on MLK Jr’s personal failings, here and on the other thread, are true. However, he also led a movement which transformed our nation, for the better (unlike Obama, who changed us for the worse). A public memorial to King’s achievement should celebrate his accomplishments.
And, in my opinion, it shouldn’t be offensive to his wife’s memory and to her family, as her cousin’s comments point out.
Obvioiusly doomed to extinction, but how long will they last?
I recall that my grandmother had a small parlor table with a lamp on it that may have been a Tiffany or similar. No idea if it was a real Tiffany or what happened to it.
As a kid, the thing that intrigued me were the cool table legs with claws clasping glass balls. Her’s was done in a very dark possibly walnut wood and the whole thing had an ominous gargoyle feel to it.
Kate
I appreciate your intention to not speak ill of the dead.
But this claim, “he also led a movement which transformed our nation, for the better,” is arguable on its face.
King & Johnson were both political opportunists who used the necessary racial realignments of the Civil Rights Era in ways that have not always proven “better,” and likely have opened the door to a clearly self-inflicted worsening situation for black Americans today. And, the very nature of racial discourse in the 21st century has become a repudiation of King’s “content of their character” dream; it’s all “color of their skin” all the time among a professional class of race hustlers and an unceasing parade of victimhood narratives & “poor me” demands for reparations.
Bring back ALL the statues & I’ll grant him his that isn’t a giant “F you” from the artist.
You want to know why all aircraft in the U.S (and in the course of a few recent weeks the same thing just “happened” to happen to Canada, and to the Phillipines, whose air traffic control systems are each independent, and not linked to each other) were recently grounded for several hours?
Well, our feckless Secretary of Transportation, Howdy Doody, said it was just some sort of computer “glitch” (how about that! three such major glitches effecting the same critical transportation infrastructure in just a few weeks).
As the linked article also points out, it’s funny how the price of Bitcoins, usually used to pay off computer hackers who hold large critical computer systems for ransom and demand payment in Bitcoins, took a recent jump, sort of like someone, or some government, just bought a lot of Bitcoins.
Here is another and much more likely and more sinister explanation than just some “computer glitch.”
P.S.–This Administration has lied about practically everything.
It’s no stretch of the imagination, then, to think that they would never admit it, if some hackers had taken over our air traffic control system, held it for ransom, and the government had to pay them off to get back control.
Under these circumstances you might wonder if he might have gone even farther left like mandela or bishop tutu
This is one of my all-time favorite Antiques Roadshow encounters. How moved the daughters were. Truly beautiful. We enjoy watching the old shows from England on our Samsung TV. Plays on a reel. So much interesting history and architecture too. A nice thing to have on as background or when you are walking in and out of a room.
“…surprise-buyer…”
Heh, that “Biden” dude is such a kidder…
(As they say, gotta “get by with a little help from mah friends…”)
John Guilfoyle, I cannot agree. I am old enough to remember how segregated America was. This was not healthy for the country, for either side of the racial divide. The transformation of American from a closed, segregated society to one open to achievement for all was good.
The fact that the movement was hijacked by a large number of racist grifters should not detract from the ideal which King’s speeches and letters and the sit-in protests promoted.
Kate we can trade birth certificates if you like. I remember the bad old days of forced bussed integrated schools and what came before and after.
Realignment was necessary but Johnson used King as surely as King used Johnson and the grifters & opportunists were always part of the picture.
I would never argue that we should institutionally re-segregate…but there are those who do and they aren’t white like me and they’re the ones who supposedly were made better off by King’s dream.
I think black groups which are re-segregating are wrong, and seriously misguided, and acting against their best interests. And you won’t catch me defending LBJ.
Re: MLK
John Guilfoyle:
As you say, MLK is arguable and I agree worth arguing.
I land on Kate’s side of the fence. For all his failings and the failings of the movement which came later, MLK was a true and necessary moral leader for the time.
And he paid the price and he knew the price before it came due, yet he persevered.
Calculating the present (well, 1999) dollar value of $125 from 1969, that is about $568 for a commodity. In 2021 dollars, that is about $924.
$200 from 1905 in 2021 values is $6,350. In 1969, that was about $860.
$80K to $125K is incredible. Wow.
I love it, but I think I’d sell it. Insuring it would be a bear,
I was seeing that film about fred hampton and the police informant
Look at who came after jackson sharpton coates rogers nee kendi
According to the linked article below, the CDC was issuing phony COVID scare statistics.
As I understand it, by lumping in deaths and hospitalizations of those with some other primary injury or illness–but who happened to test positive for COVID (95%)–with those whose primary diagnosis was COVID, and who were hospitalized for and who died from COVID (5%).
I think we knew that early on, whether they admitted it or not. That’s where the expression dying of COVID versus dying with COVID came from. Very very early on I recall reading about someone who died in a motorcycle accident testing positive for COVID and being listed as a COVID death.
As I’ve commented here before, it is really a shame that many–perhaps almost all–of our primary institutions have proven themselves untrustworthy.
Can a country function well under these conditions?
If citizens can no longer trust their government, where does that–sooner or later–lead?
We are quickly devolving from being a very unique and rare “high trust” country that worked, into to a all too common low trust country–as–to one degree or the other– most of the rest of the world is, and that increasingly won’t work.
Peter Zeihan is not just the flavor of the month. His claims keep bobbing true to the surface in the news. He gets there first in a comprehensive way.
________________________
China’s population fell for the first time in six decades last year as the nation’s population of 1.4 billion declined by about 850,000.
Short term, this is just a blip on the radar. But China also is afflicted with a rapidly aging population, which means that China is very likely to get old before it gets rich.
“China’s demographic and economic outlook is much bleaker than expected. China will have to adjust its social, economic, defense and foreign policies,” said demographer Yi Fuxian.
Here’s an interesting one:
A whistleblower—a Florida Democratic Party election official—calling out ANOTHER Florida Democrat on Electoral fraud…
(Only in Florida, I guess…Sunshine State, Land o’ Gators ‘n Pythons…)
“Florida elections office has no oversight for ballots or chain of custody, whistleblower alleges;
“Orange County Supervisor of Elections office is in violation of state law governing chain of custody and transportation of ballots, alleges Brian Freid, former SOE Information Systems Director.”— https://justthenews.com/accountability/whistleblowers/florida-elections-office-allegedly-has-no-oversight-ballots-chain
Of interest because it contains ALL the systematic abuses, ALL the trimmings…though AZ seems to have come up with a few innovative ones…(convenient! So that ALL ye’ have to do is apply them to other states)!
And from the “Some People Will NEVER Get It” File:
“In Mexico Relationship, Biden Prioritizes ‘Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion’ Over Immigration and National Security;
“Meeting with Mexican president comes amid record migrant encounters and escalating cartel violence”— https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/in-mexico-relationship-biden-prioritizes-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-over-immigration-national-security/
Opening graf:
‘President Joe Biden passed up a chance last week to press his Mexican counterpart about the unprecedented border crisis and escalating cartel violence. Instead, he chose to discuss “diversity, equity, and inclusion” and “climate change” initiatives….’
“…passed up a chance…”?
Huh?
What kind of journalism be this?
(This writer of this OMIGOSH column really needs to get with the program…)
Yep, President Shiva is on a roll…doing what he does BEST!
Hunter’s $49,900+ “rental payment” revisited (and UNBOUND)!
” Hunter Biden’s $49,910 rent payment is the same exact amount of money he received from a rental deposit linked to his business venture with CEFC China Energy Co…..” https://twitter.com/CollinRugg/status/1615378067966562304
H/T Ron Coleman Twitter feed.
Glad things worked out for the Women. Sometimes they don’t.
Hohum
https://www.telegraphindia.com/business/indias-breaking-all-records-for-buying-russian-oil-but-who-is-the-surprise-buyer/cid/1910044
If any of you Tiffany fans find yourself in Florida, I recommend the Morse Museum and the Flagler College tour.
The Morse Museum is in Winter Park, just north of Orlando. A beautiful city unto itself (don’t miss the boat tour) and the Morse Museum is right in the heart of its beautiful shopping district.
Flagler College is the former Ponce de Leon Hotel, built by Henry Flagler, John Rockefeller’s business partner at Standard Oil. I believe Louis Comfort Tiffany was directly involved with the installation there. (Some guy named Thomas Edison did the lighting.) Flagler College is in Saint Augustine, also a very unique and beautiful Florida city.
The Morse Museum’s website: https://morsemuseum.org/
Antique Roadshow goes to Flagler College: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/season/18/jacksonville-fl/appraisals/flagler-tiffany-windows–201302F03/
2021 up to $250-$300k.
Lorenzo of OZ! Writing essays commissioned by Helen Dale (who is asking for cheques for more cash for more good stuff.)
https://helendale.substack.com/p/worshipping-the-future
https://helendale.substack.com/p/why-does-anyone-believe-marxism
https://helendale.substack.com/p/class-and-the-state
more (23?) to come.
After almost of week of bed with bad back, no computer (writing) just iPad reading, I’m down to about 30% pain and have wanted to share these links.
My first thought of MLK day was the 40+ women he slept with, committed adultery with, that the FBI taped. Then the view of the statue was more like a turd, then a big ol’ dong.
Few talk about larger average erect male penis size of Blacks as part of the prejudice issue.
Tom Grey:
Maybe they have better things to talk about?
Hope your back is better soon. Watch out for that old age truck, it’s typically hit and run.
These reflections on MLK Jr’s personal failings, here and on the other thread, are true. However, he also led a movement which transformed our nation, for the better (unlike Obama, who changed us for the worse). A public memorial to King’s achievement should celebrate his accomplishments.
And, in my opinion, it shouldn’t be offensive to his wife’s memory and to her family, as her cousin’s comments point out.
Such an odd species (emphasis mine):
Whenever Democrats boast about abortion or lodge accusations of ‘terrorists,’ ‘extremists,’ or ‘election deniers,’ it is an admission that they do not have the votes or a credible factual argument and that they are on the ropes; especially as they are genetically incapable of debating without carping about former President Donald Trump and referring to all Republicans as MAGA extremists as if it were an insult.
Obvioiusly doomed to extinction, but how long will they last?
I recall that my grandmother had a small parlor table with a lamp on it that may have been a Tiffany or similar. No idea if it was a real Tiffany or what happened to it.
As a kid, the thing that intrigued me were the cool table legs with claws clasping glass balls. Her’s was done in a very dark possibly walnut wood and the whole thing had an ominous gargoyle feel to it.
https://xpert.b-cdn.net/norcalonlineauctions/383/26738-415553.jpg?width=650
Kate
I appreciate your intention to not speak ill of the dead.
But this claim, “he also led a movement which transformed our nation, for the better,” is arguable on its face.
King & Johnson were both political opportunists who used the necessary racial realignments of the Civil Rights Era in ways that have not always proven “better,” and likely have opened the door to a clearly self-inflicted worsening situation for black Americans today. And, the very nature of racial discourse in the 21st century has become a repudiation of King’s “content of their character” dream; it’s all “color of their skin” all the time among a professional class of race hustlers and an unceasing parade of victimhood narratives & “poor me” demands for reparations.
Bring back ALL the statues & I’ll grant him his that isn’t a giant “F you” from the artist.
You want to know why all aircraft in the U.S (and in the course of a few recent weeks the same thing just “happened” to happen to Canada, and to the Phillipines, whose air traffic control systems are each independent, and not linked to each other) were recently grounded for several hours?
Well, our feckless Secretary of Transportation, Howdy Doody, said it was just some sort of computer “glitch” (how about that! three such major glitches effecting the same critical transportation infrastructure in just a few weeks).
As the linked article also points out, it’s funny how the price of Bitcoins, usually used to pay off computer hackers who hold large critical computer systems for ransom and demand payment in Bitcoins, took a recent jump, sort of like someone, or some government, just bought a lot of Bitcoins.
Here is another and much more likely and more sinister explanation than just some “computer glitch.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/woah-tucker-points-signs-sinister-forces-behind-last-weeks-faa-nationwide-ground-stop-video/
P.S.–This Administration has lied about practically everything.
It’s no stretch of the imagination, then, to think that they would never admit it, if some hackers had taken over our air traffic control system, held it for ransom, and the government had to pay them off to get back control.
Under these circumstances you might wonder if he might have gone even farther left like mandela or bishop tutu
This is one of my all-time favorite Antiques Roadshow encounters. How moved the daughters were. Truly beautiful. We enjoy watching the old shows from England on our Samsung TV. Plays on a reel. So much interesting history and architecture too. A nice thing to have on as background or when you are walking in and out of a room.
“…surprise-buyer…”
Heh, that “Biden” dude is such a kidder…
(As they say, gotta “get by with a little help from mah friends…”)
John Guilfoyle, I cannot agree. I am old enough to remember how segregated America was. This was not healthy for the country, for either side of the racial divide. The transformation of American from a closed, segregated society to one open to achievement for all was good.
The fact that the movement was hijacked by a large number of racist grifters should not detract from the ideal which King’s speeches and letters and the sit-in protests promoted.
Kate we can trade birth certificates if you like. I remember the bad old days of forced bussed integrated schools and what came before and after.
Realignment was necessary but Johnson used King as surely as King used Johnson and the grifters & opportunists were always part of the picture.
I would never argue that we should institutionally re-segregate…but there are those who do and they aren’t white like me and they’re the ones who supposedly were made better off by King’s dream.
I think black groups which are re-segregating are wrong, and seriously misguided, and acting against their best interests. And you won’t catch me defending LBJ.
Re: MLK
John Guilfoyle:
As you say, MLK is arguable and I agree worth arguing.
I land on Kate’s side of the fence. For all his failings and the failings of the movement which came later, MLK was a true and necessary moral leader for the time.
And he paid the price and he knew the price before it came due, yet he persevered.
Calculating the present (well, 1999) dollar value of $125 from 1969, that is about $568 for a commodity. In 2021 dollars, that is about $924.
$200 from 1905 in 2021 values is $6,350. In 1969, that was about $860.
$80K to $125K is incredible. Wow.
I love it, but I think I’d sell it. Insuring it would be a bear,
I was seeing that film about fred hampton and the police informant
Hmm
https://emeralddb3.substack.com/p/why-is-the-fbi-hiding-seth-richs
Look at who came after jackson sharpton coates rogers nee kendi
According to the linked article below, the CDC was issuing phony COVID scare statistics.
As I understand it, by lumping in deaths and hospitalizations of those with some other primary injury or illness–but who happened to test positive for COVID (95%)–with those whose primary diagnosis was COVID, and who were hospitalized for and who died from COVID (5%).
See https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/lie-cnn-political-hack-finally-admits-us-vastly-overcounting-covid-deaths-hospitalizations/
Snow on Pine:
I think we knew that early on, whether they admitted it or not. That’s where the expression dying of COVID versus dying with COVID came from. Very very early on I recall reading about someone who died in a motorcycle accident testing positive for COVID and being listed as a COVID death.
As I’ve commented here before, it is really a shame that many–perhaps almost all–of our primary institutions have proven themselves untrustworthy.
Can a country function well under these conditions?
If citizens can no longer trust their government, where does that–sooner or later–lead?
We are quickly devolving from being a very unique and rare “high trust” country that worked, into to a all too common low trust country–as–to one degree or the other– most of the rest of the world is, and that increasingly won’t work.
Peter Zeihan is not just the flavor of the month. His claims keep bobbing true to the surface in the news. He gets there first in a comprehensive way.
________________________
China’s population fell for the first time in six decades last year as the nation’s population of 1.4 billion declined by about 850,000.
Short term, this is just a blip on the radar. But China also is afflicted with a rapidly aging population, which means that China is very likely to get old before it gets rich.
“China’s demographic and economic outlook is much bleaker than expected. China will have to adjust its social, economic, defense and foreign policies,” said demographer Yi Fuxian.
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2023/01/17/demographic-crisis-looms-in-china-with-first-drop-in-population-in-six-decades-n1662449
huxley:
Can Do!
Here’s an interesting one:
A whistleblower—a Florida Democratic Party election official—calling out ANOTHER Florida Democrat on Electoral fraud…
(Only in Florida, I guess…Sunshine State, Land o’ Gators ‘n Pythons…)
“Florida elections office has no oversight for ballots or chain of custody, whistleblower alleges;
“Orange County Supervisor of Elections office is in violation of state law governing chain of custody and transportation of ballots, alleges Brian Freid, former SOE Information Systems Director.”—
https://justthenews.com/accountability/whistleblowers/florida-elections-office-allegedly-has-no-oversight-ballots-chain
Of interest because it contains ALL the systematic abuses, ALL the trimmings…though AZ seems to have come up with a few innovative ones…(convenient! So that ALL ye’ have to do is apply them to other states)!
And from the “Some People Will NEVER Get It” File:
“In Mexico Relationship, Biden Prioritizes ‘Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion’ Over Immigration and National Security;
“Meeting with Mexican president comes amid record migrant encounters and escalating cartel violence”—
https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/in-mexico-relationship-biden-prioritizes-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-over-immigration-national-security/
Opening graf:
‘President Joe Biden passed up a chance last week to press his Mexican counterpart about the unprecedented border crisis and escalating cartel violence. Instead, he chose to discuss “diversity, equity, and inclusion” and “climate change” initiatives….’
“…passed up a chance…”?
Huh?
What kind of journalism be this?
(This writer of this OMIGOSH column really needs to get with the program…)
+ Bonus:
“Biden touts rising wages, but misleads on the cost of inflation;
“Biden suggested food prices were falling in a recent tweet when they have actually soared since he took office.”—
https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/biden-touts-rising-wages-inflation-has-kept-workers-enjoying-benefits
Yep, President Shiva is on a roll…doing what he does BEST!
Hunter’s $49,900+ “rental payment” revisited (and UNBOUND)!
” Hunter Biden’s $49,910 rent payment is the same exact amount of money he received from a rental deposit linked to his business venture with CEFC China Energy Co…..”
https://twitter.com/CollinRugg/status/1615378067966562304
H/T Ron Coleman Twitter feed.
(Surely a coincidence….)
Compare and contrast!
Being Greta Garbo….
https://twitter.com/PaulHook_em/status/1615482039171424257
https://twitter.com/ClownWorld_/status/1615481917905960965