Comments on: Open thread 5/18/23

By: R2L

R2L — Fri, 19 May 2023 03:27:31 +0000

A more positive view on the US retaining its reserve currency status; and that it would not be the end of our world if that status was lost:

https://americanmind.org/memo/dethroning-the-dollar/
Reserve Reservations
The dollar isn’t losing reserve status—but it wouldn’t be all bad news if it did.

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Thu, 18 May 2023 21:52:08 +0000

Default?
Well, it WILL certainly create a crisis.
And “Biden” LOOOOVES a crisis (especially when “he” can blame it on the Republicans—with all the fury of the corrupt media at his back).
Anyway, one view of the mechanism by which “Biden” will be able to impoverish more and more people and force them to be increasingly dependent on the government:
“Talk Is Cheap; What Will The Fed Actually Do?”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/talk-cheap-what-will-fed-actually-do

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Thu, 18 May 2023 21:26:45 +0000

An interesting account of the debt limit fight.
(Almost a “read it and weep” story—though one might weep for a variety of reasons).
The author believes that McCarthy has the over-confident “Biden” on his back leg…
Guess we’ll soon see what a “victory”—by either side—will mean.
“Speaker McCarthy’s secret weapon in the debt ceiling negotiations is paying off;
“Here’s what the movie ‘The Hustler,’ the 1913 US Open and the debt ceiling negotiations all have in common”—
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/speaker-mccarthys-secret-weapon-debt-ceiling-negotiations-paying-off

By: David Foster

David Foster — Thu, 18 May 2023 20:59:55 +0000

A remarkable set of color photos of the Czarist Russian empire was taken between 1907 and 1914 by Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii, using a process of his own design. That’s original color, not later colorization. The process worked by exposing 3 different plates with different color filters; for viewing, they were combined by perfectly aligning the images from 3 different projectors.

These are worth seeing and blowing up to full size.

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/search/?st=grid&co=prok

By: Chases Eagles

Chases Eagles — Thu, 18 May 2023 20:33:10 +0000

JohnTyler,
See this: https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/575722-the-us-has-never-defaulted-on-its-debt-except-the-four-times-it-did/

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Thu, 18 May 2023 19:48:12 +0000

Heh, the kids may be alright after all…. Or some of ’em…
(Not sure whether to label this a chat-bot hack…or a blow for honesty and openness.)
“Nebraska high school student goes off script after getting ChatGPT-written graduation speech approved;
“Grand Island Public Schools graduation ceremony takes unexpected turn”—
https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/nebraska-high-school-student-goes-off-script-getting-chatgpt-written-graduation-speech-approved
– – – – – – –
Speaking of a “blow for honesty”, you gotta admit those Democrats sure work hard to support their candidates…and pull the wool over everyone’s eyes.
(And no doubt they enjoy what they do!)
“John Fetterman’s office has doctored several of his quotes to make him sound more coherent, review finds”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/john-fettermans-office-has-quietly-doctored-several-quotes-make-him-sound-more-coherent-review-fin
(If they’re doing this for Fetterman, just imagine what they’re doing for President Fentanyl!)

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Thu, 18 May 2023 19:07:50 +0000

“…cathedral mind…”
Come to think of it, Sec. Pete HAS kinda’ reminded me of a rather sinister hunchback of Notre Dame.
That is when he’s not reminding me of Alfred E. Neumann, Esq.
(Though no doubt the stricken and suffering citizens of E. Palestine OH would like to forget about him entirely. Not that they’ll ever be able to…)
Cathedral mind.
Yeah, right.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0df0racc3vk

By: miguel cervantes

miguel cervantes — Thu, 18 May 2023 18:52:20 +0000

she was a tv reviewer for slate, majic eightball says no dice

https://www.wired.com/story/pete-buttigieg-interview-god-beer-electric-mustang/

By: Chuck

Chuck — Thu, 18 May 2023 18:47:02 +0000

How one generation first engages with the world may be quite different from that of people just five or six years different in age.

Or even three years. When I graduated high school in 1964 things were pretty much as they had been, the only new things were the twist and folk music, rock and roll had already arrived in the late fifties. When my brother graduated three years later, psychedelic drugs had spread through the whole school, the Beatles and Stones had landed, and sexual liberation was taking hold. It was a different generation.

By: om

om — Thu, 18 May 2023 18:29:50 +0000

Bruce Hayden:

Regarding the COVID 19 vaccines and excessive mortality in the young; try reading and remembering Neo’s many, many, many posts and comments about it. You be you.