Comments on: Open thread 3/17/23 https://thenewneo.com/2023/03/17/open-thread-3-17-23/ A blog about political change, among other things Sat, 18 Mar 2023 06:19:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: AesopFan https://thenewneo.com/2023/03/17/open-thread-3-17-23/#comment-2671587 Sat, 18 Mar 2023 06:19:30 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=124628#comment-2671587 Every cloud has a silver lining for someone.
https://notthebee.com/article/russia-says-sanctions-are-protecting-it-from-the-banking-crisis-facing-the-west
“Our banking system has certain connections with some segments of the international financial system, but it is mostly under illegal restrictions from the collective West,” the spokesperson for Kremlin, Dmitry Peskov, said. “We are, to a certain extent, insured against the negative impact of the crisis that is now unfolding overseas.”

]]> By: AesopFan https://thenewneo.com/2023/03/17/open-thread-3-17-23/#comment-2671586 Sat, 18 Mar 2023 05:39:48 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=124628#comment-2671586 I mention this post because it misses one meme someone created in honor of The Day.
https://notthebee.com/article/there-are-a-thousand-memes-out-there-today-of-this-biden-pic-and-you-deserve-a-laugh-today-so-here-they-are

Top of the post:
https://ace.mu.nu/archives/403613.php

]]> By: AesopFan https://thenewneo.com/2023/03/17/open-thread-3-17-23/#comment-2671583 Sat, 18 Mar 2023 05:07:14 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=124628#comment-2671583 PA Cat mentions this on the Biden thread, but it is an example of how Democrats ruin everything, including St Patrick’s day.
https://nypost.com/2023/03/17/biden-jokes-hes-really-not-irish-because-sober-family-not-in-jail/

]]> By: AesopFan https://thenewneo.com/2023/03/17/open-thread-3-17-23/#comment-2671582 Sat, 18 Mar 2023 05:06:29 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=124628#comment-2671582 I celebrate St Patrick in honor of my forebears, the Kellys (Erin go bragh!) and the Jones (St Patrick was a Welshman! — let’s not quibble about the details).

Neo’s link on the wind farm post, to AceHQ, has an Irish song at the end of it.
https://ace.mu.nu/archives/403607.php

Songs of the Season

It’s St. Patrick’s Day!

I reckon that more than a few of you will be indulging in some Irish whiskey or some Guinness today. Enjoy!

Of course, I’m not one to celebrate or promote alcohol abuse, but I do believe that funerals should be more celebratory than somber, and with a little whiskey, so did Paddy Murphy’s friends.

Here is Tim Hicks and Alan Doyle with ”The Night Pat Murphy Died”.

]]> By: AesopFan https://thenewneo.com/2023/03/17/open-thread-3-17-23/#comment-2671581 Sat, 18 Mar 2023 04:39:10 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=124628#comment-2671581 Good movie to watch today “The Quiet Man” starring John Wayne in a non-cowboy role, and a spectacular Maureen O’Hara.

https://www.irishpost.com/entertainment/quiet-man-12-things-never-knew-iconic-irish-film-starring-john-wayne-maureen-ohara-157437

Scroll down to #12 for your laugh of the day.

]]> By: huxley https://thenewneo.com/2023/03/17/open-thread-3-17-23/#comment-2671575 Sat, 18 Mar 2023 02:43:23 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=124628#comment-2671575 OT, and all that…

I’m watching the old Harrison Ford/Peter Weir film, “Witness.” The barn-raising scene is just spectacular, moving cinema.

–Witness (1985) – Barn Raising
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BL_X7GelX5Q

]]> By: Art Deco https://thenewneo.com/2023/03/17/open-thread-3-17-23/#comment-2671573 Sat, 18 Mar 2023 02:22:43 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=124628#comment-2671573 https://celtichouse.net/

The chowder here is unbeatable. I think they only have it one day a week.

]]> By: huxley https://thenewneo.com/2023/03/17/open-thread-3-17-23/#comment-2671572 Sat, 18 Mar 2023 02:22:03 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=124628#comment-2671572 Since I’ve been on this French kick, people are going with it and asking me when I’m going to France.

Well, maybe, probably, someday, if I stick with French. However, I’m in no rush. Certainly not until I know the language better. I don’t see visiting France as necessarily a great idea for improving my French.

Before I visited Dublin, I went first to London. I could not get a conversation started there to save my life, and, in theory at least, I am a native English speaker.

However, I wasn’t even off the DART train from the Dublin airport and a deaf-mute Irish boy was engaging me in conversation using a sort of Ouija board for tapping words or spelling them out.

It was great. I flew four hundred miles and suddenly everyone was friendly!

My Irish friend cautioned me that the Irish are always friendly to outsiders, but Irish-to-Irish can be treacherous waters.

]]> By: huxley https://thenewneo.com/2023/03/17/open-thread-3-17-23/#comment-2671571 Sat, 18 Mar 2023 02:03:18 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=124628#comment-2671571 There’s actually a nice Irish pub-style place called “Two Fools Tavern” on Central in Abq. Fish’n’chips, Guiness, Harp’s, cottage pie, live Irish music.

It gets crowded easy. I wouldn’t think of going today. It’s the only restaurant I’ve been to in Abq which has a community feeling.

That’s what I noticed when I visited Dublin in the 90s. Pubs are not bars. Alcohol is served of course but there is a much more enjoyable, social feeling involved.

]]> By: Art Deco https://thenewneo.com/2023/03/17/open-thread-3-17-23/#comment-2671570 Sat, 18 Mar 2023 01:52:16 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=124628#comment-2671570 More gas from the denizens of Faculty Bubble World.

https://statement-by-leading-us-economists.net/

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