Sounds like “Skiffle” music. Like “Do You Put Your Chewing Gum on the Bedpost Overnight”
Anyone here do the WSJ crossword?
Today’s was strange. I was able to do it despite the rebus, but as I was filling it in I kept thinking there must be a third level pun or joke or visual effect I was missing. I got the obvious double meaning, but it was heavy handed and not particularly clever. When that happens I usually discover I’m not being clever enough and there is a hidden component I didn’t pick up on. I read the comments and didn’t see anyone pointing out anything I missed. Odd.
NPR this morning had its daily story about Trump legal troubles, but about the current President being accused in Congress of accepting bribes from other countries, with bank records to back it up? Why, not a word!
Simply amazing. This will not end well for anyone in America, but I hope it ends for NPR with particular nastiness.
Unnatural Immunity
I don’t know what species this is, but they seem to be immune to irony – unnaturally so.
It’s not just NPR, CNN has nothing today on its web site, and had a very small article buried waay down yesterday. As we’ve all said many times, if your typical D voter only gets their news from the MSM and left outlets, they don’t know what they don’t know. Biden family??? Well, pure as the driven snow of course!
And here you have it.
What was more than obvious before is now official…
A KINSLEY GAFFE https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/07/a-kinsley-gaffe.php
Key brainfart:
‘…Congressman Kweisi Mfume of Maryland denounces the Republicans’ criticisms of the Department of Justice, the FBI and the IRS. Why? Because it is the job of those agencies to “keep this democracy in check”….’
[Emphasis mine; Barry M.]
No doubt the same brilliant powers of analysis has brought this person of unique genius to uphold the principles of equity, BLM, reparations and white guilt…along with the unbridled, unprecedented levels of “Biden”‘s open-ended power grab and unmitigated corruption.
Yeah, physicsguy, l know it’s not just NPR, but that’s the only leftoid source I’m forced to be exposed to, because other family members want to have it on first thing in the morning. We don’t have cable and I don’t watch TV anyway.
It is a shame, regarding NPR. I have lived and worked in some remote areas of the country and there was almost always an NPR station on the dial. I thought it was great for bringing news and high brow culture to rural folks.
Not only does it fail to serve most communities in the U.S. (aside from coastal, liberal) it’s become unnecessary. Even remote areas have Internet and cable, satellite radio… I imagine 90+% of NPR’s listener base is now urban and quite wealthy. Why are we subsidizing programming for urban sophisticates?
Anyone noticing a sea change? Lifelong Jewish Democrat Dov Hikind Registers as Republican
Wisconsin Public Radio used to have Old Time Radio Drama, from 9 to 11 PM, on Saturday and Sunday nights.
In 2021, they stopped airing it, because of the racist nature of Old Time Radio. Instead, they would broadcast more inclusive programming. I stopped listening, due the racist nature of WPR’s programming
Greta Gerwig is directing 2 “Chronicles of Narnia” films?!
It seems to me that the comments and stories on today’s posts have more synergy than usual, what with the craziness of the left becoming more apparent even to Democrats.
On the Tracy Chapman brouhaha, I’m assuming that the critical replies to the WaPo author are coming mostly from Democrats and Washington Republicans, since conservatives long ago gave up on that outlet, except for the brave pundits who read it so the rest of us don’t have to.
I wonder if some of them will ask the same question as Neo and a lot of other changers: “If they are lying to us about Chapman’s career (and they are), what else have they been lying about?”
Another inflection point is that Muslims, Christians, and observant Jews, in addition to some otherwise-leftist non-religious parents, are all on the same page about transgender activism and grooming in schools: they are against it.
Tipping points are usually something small, rather than the major upheavals that political scientists and pundits look for, and there can be more than one. Get enough of them going at different points of the ideological Narrative, and the whole slagheap could come sliding down.
Another case of Republicans joining the Democrats for no apparent good reason, although I’m sure they had rationales of some kind.
This is why the GOP has been behind for the last century.
No unity on principles.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/07/20/establishment-republicans-block-bipartisan-effort-to-force-buttigieg-private-flight-transparency/
‘Ten House Republicans shot down the amendment, as it was two votes shy of being passed in the House. Three House Democrats voted for the amendment”
…
“Every day Americans face flight cancellations and long wait times because Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has completely mismanaged air travel,” APT Executive Director Caitlin Sutherland told the New York Post in December 2022. “Yet, he gets to avoid all that by taking taxpayer-funded private jets to destinations with readily available commercial airline options.”
I didn’t recognize the list of ten, so have no idea if they usually count as “establishment,” or if that’s just a catch-all epithet now for anyone dissenting from the GOP majority.
Former MSNBC Contributor and U.S. Rep. Daniel Goldman (D-NY) claimed that social media censorship of the New York Post’s Hunter Biden “Laptop from Hell” story in the lead-up to the 2020 election caused the report to “receive far more attention” than if there had never been “any controversy.”
His claim regarding the censorship, which he dubbed a “controversy,” came during his questioning of Breitbart News Politics Editor Emma-Jo Morris at the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government on Thursday.
Morris, one of several witnesses at the hearing along with Democrat presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., broke the “Laptop from Hell” story at the Post, which was heavily censored across mainstream social media outlets as the 2020 election approached. The publication’s Twitter account was even locked for a period.
“And there is no doubt that this article received far more attention because of the controversy than it would if it had ever, ever been published without any controversy,” he declared.
Not only does his opinion neglect the fact that censorship, in many ways, discredited the legitimate report in public perception, but it suggests that censorship, in this case, was more beneficial to the story’s scope than if Morris’s reporting was not stifled. Further undermining the argument, a December TIPP Insights polling survey revealed “half of respondents said they would have voted differently had they known the Hunter Biden’s laptop revelations were authentic,” the Daily Mail reported.
Morris testified at the hearing that the Federal Bureau of Investigation “knew” before December 2019 that the laptop was real:
It seems like every story I looked at today is relevant to the divide between “left” and “right” not being between “Democrats” and “Republicans” —
However, exemptions to the ordinance existed, including religious activity and other activities protected under both the United States Constitution and the Idaho State Constitution.
The city’s charges against the three were dismissed by a magistrate judge.
“Plaintiffs should never have been arrested in the first place, and the constitutionality of what the City thought it’s [sic] Code said is irrelevant,” according to District judge Morrison C. England Jr.
“It’s actually the city of Moscow that was defying the law,” Rench told Fox News Digital. “I was obeying the law. The political system doesn’t want to give away their power, and they think if they admit they’re wrong, they look at that as like they’re losing their political power.”
Rench says that Americans’ civil liberties — especially their religious freedom — is under attack.
“I’m in a conservative state, but I live in a liberal town, and the liberals had no problem arresting me for practicing my religious rights and my Constitutional rights,” Rench said. “But my [Republican] governor also didn’t defend me either.”
Greta Gerwig is directing 2 “Chronicles of Narnia” films?
Rufus T. Firefly:
Gerwig also directed and co-wrote the new “Barbie” movie, which is opening as we comment.
It looked like kicky, fun, summer escapism with a marvelous look and a great premise: there is a real Barbie world out there in the multiverse and Barbie and Ken make their way through a portal to our reality. Fish out of water hilarity ensues.
Except that Barbieland is a matriarchy. All the Kens are useless beefcake. Our reality is portrayed as hopelessly misogynist. Ken becomes an enthusiastic proponent of the patriarchy.
When they return to Barbieland, Ken organizes all the Kens to overthrow the matriarchy. But Barbie and all the other toys revolt and restore the matriarchy.
What’s interesting is that “Barbie” was marketed with its overt feminism and misandry intentionally concealed. A few cast members let the cat out of the bag, but most of the first weekend crowd won’t know. Bait and switch.
The first weekend box office is largely determined by marketing. The second weekend by word of mouth. It will be interesting to see where “Barbie” stands after the second weekend.
In a recent interview, Dr. Shaun Kirkpatrick, the head of AARO, conceded that while it would be “statistically unrealistic to believe that there wasn’t extraterrestrial life”… “We’ve interviewed almost 30 individuals who have come in to provide their testimony. And out of all of those, none of it has yet led to any verifiable information that substantiates the claim that the U.S. government has those ships or has a reverse engineering program either in the past or currently,”
But, nonetheless, in this interview he seemed to edge closer and closer to confirming that the top 5% of unidentified UFOs are possibly extraterrestrial, talking about guarding against possible “extraterrestrial technological supremacy.”
Dr. Kirkpatrick also said that, “The most common misconception is that (the possible phenomena) are all the same thing and they’re all extraterrestrial, and neither of those are true.” ( Now, what the hell did that mean?)
From cb’s two links above:
“At the outset, FedNow will have a maximum payment limit of $500,000, but banks can choose to lower that cap if need be.”
“The limit per customer credit transaction will be $500,000, but the initial setting of the transaction limit will be $100,000. The money can move from consumer to consumer, from consumers to businesses, or from business to business.”
So, Neo, here is an alternative way for us to pay you directly, and if you hurry to set it up for us, they might not drop the max limit below $100K, should any of us be able to be so generous. 🙂
10 second to 30 second response time is adequate for me. I don’t need the nanosecond response the big investors seem to desire while trading in the stock market.
But it is not yet clear to me how the banks will get their “vig” if they collapse the “float” so drastically. But we can rest assured they will find a way.
Look squirrel! A flying squirrel! In a saucer! Or was it in a bird feeder? Nevermind …
Regarding that terrorist incident in N. Dakota… (yes, N. Dakota). https://www.americanexperiment.org/last-man-standing/
H/T Powerline blog.
Could have been a lot of worse.
Should have been a lot of worse.
But an accident and a heroic police officer ensured that it wasn’t, though it was certainly terrible enough.
Hmm.
I wonder if this can shed a bit of light—finally—on the whys and wherefores of the Ukraine war?
OTOH, it may not tell us something that was not already highly suspected…
(Though it does add a fair amount of “color”…highlights…and accents…):
“‘My dog is smarter than Hunter’ — key quotes from secret FBI file”— https://nypost.com/2023/07/20/my-dog-is-smarter-than-hunter-key-quotes-from-secret-fbi-file/
(I guess that would make Zlochevsky’s dog the new “smartest guy I know” in town.)
But don’t stop at the canine quote; read ’em all…while wondering how “Biden” and his thugs are gonna muscle their way past this one (because you KNOW that’s exactly what they’ll do). Do we doubt that the whistleblower’s taxes from over the past 200 years are being thoroughly examined with a fine-tooth comb (or should that be with an 800-pound gorilla?)….
Or will “Biden” go the “distraction-to-end-all-distractions” route?
Stay tuned!
Anyway, those guys are true heroes. The genuine article.
wait thats just the desk manager that hired hunter, you can’t trust him, kolomoisky
is the Sydney Greenstreet character, central asian Mr Potter, they all came up in the era of Yeltsin’s brother from another mother, Leonid Kuchma,
huxley,
Just spoke with a co-worker in Armenia. Her and her friends are going to see “Barbie” when they get off work today. Sounds like a big opening weekend is highly likely.
From Christian Toto’s review the 3rd act is so mediocre it may even turn off people in line with its message.
they really want us to them to hate us, overseas don’t they, armenia’s already allied with iran
I liked her in the Yates treatment of Tarzan, as Jane, but everywhere else, Robbie can be cloying,
Margot Robbie was fantastic in “I Tonya.”
didn’t see that, so I can’t tell you,
RE: UFOs–
In a quote, above at 10:22, from Dr. Shaun Kirkpatrick, he mentions trying to guard against “extraterrestrial technological supremacy.”
Now why–if extraterrestrials as directing/operating UAPs were not even a likely possibility–would you even need to contemplate or to mention things like “guarding against extraterrestrial technological supremacy.”?
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Sounds like “Skiffle” music. Like “Do You Put Your Chewing Gum on the Bedpost Overnight”
Anyone here do the WSJ crossword?
Today’s was strange. I was able to do it despite the rebus, but as I was filling it in I kept thinking there must be a third level pun or joke or visual effect I was missing. I got the obvious double meaning, but it was heavy handed and not particularly clever. When that happens I usually discover I’m not being clever enough and there is a hidden component I didn’t pick up on. I read the comments and didn’t see anyone pointing out anything I missed. Odd.
NPR this morning had its daily story about Trump legal troubles, but about the current President being accused in Congress of accepting bribes from other countries, with bank records to back it up? Why, not a word!
Simply amazing. This will not end well for anyone in America, but I hope it ends for NPR with particular nastiness.
Unnatural Immunity
I don’t know what species this is, but they seem to be immune to irony – unnaturally so.
House Democrats Vote to Censor RFK Jr. During Hearing on Censorship
He might defend himself. Can’t let that happen.
Ray,
It’s not just NPR, CNN has nothing today on its web site, and had a very small article buried waay down yesterday. As we’ve all said many times, if your typical D voter only gets their news from the MSM and left outlets, they don’t know what they don’t know. Biden family??? Well, pure as the driven snow of course!
And here you have it.
What was more than obvious before is now official…
A KINSLEY GAFFE
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/07/a-kinsley-gaffe.php
Key brainfart:
‘…Congressman Kweisi Mfume of Maryland denounces the Republicans’ criticisms of the Department of Justice, the FBI and the IRS. Why? Because it is the job of those agencies to “keep this democracy in check”….’
[Emphasis mine; Barry M.]
No doubt the same brilliant powers of analysis has brought this person of unique genius to uphold the principles of equity, BLM, reparations and white guilt…along with the unbridled, unprecedented levels of “Biden”‘s open-ended power grab and unmitigated corruption.
Yeah, physicsguy, l know it’s not just NPR, but that’s the only leftoid source I’m forced to be exposed to, because other family members want to have it on first thing in the morning. We don’t have cable and I don’t watch TV anyway.
It is a shame, regarding NPR. I have lived and worked in some remote areas of the country and there was almost always an NPR station on the dial. I thought it was great for bringing news and high brow culture to rural folks.
Not only does it fail to serve most communities in the U.S. (aside from coastal, liberal) it’s become unnecessary. Even remote areas have Internet and cable, satellite radio… I imagine 90+% of NPR’s listener base is now urban and quite wealthy. Why are we subsidizing programming for urban sophisticates?
Anyone noticing a sea change? Lifelong Jewish Democrat Dov Hikind Registers as Republican
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4169331/posts
Another sea change? “This letter serves as a much-needed message from the states’ top law enforcers: end your racist practices, or we will.”
https://12ft.io/proxy?ref=&q=https://thefederalist.com/2023/07/20/13-ags-put-corporations-on-notice-after-affirmative-action-ruling-no-more-racial-discrimination/
Wisconsin Public Radio used to have Old Time Radio Drama, from 9 to 11 PM, on Saturday and Sunday nights.
In 2021, they stopped airing it, because of the racist nature of Old Time Radio. Instead, they would broadcast more inclusive programming. I stopped listening, due the racist nature of WPR’s programming
Greta Gerwig is directing 2 “Chronicles of Narnia” films?!
https://boundingintocomics.com/2023/07/20/barbie-director-greta-gerwig-provides-update-on-the-chronicles-of-narnia-films/
@ Banned Lizard > “I don’t know what species this is, but they seem to be immune to irony”
In more than one area.
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/victoria-taft/2023/07/20/holy-environy-scotland-cuts-down-forest-to-make-room-for-windmills-n1712075
It seems to me that the comments and stories on today’s posts have more synergy than usual, what with the craziness of the left becoming more apparent even to Democrats.
On the Tracy Chapman brouhaha, I’m assuming that the critical replies to the WaPo author are coming mostly from Democrats and Washington Republicans, since conservatives long ago gave up on that outlet, except for the brave pundits who read it so the rest of us don’t have to.
I wonder if some of them will ask the same question as Neo and a lot of other changers: “If they are lying to us about Chapman’s career (and they are), what else have they been lying about?”
Another inflection point is that Muslims, Christians, and observant Jews, in addition to some otherwise-leftist non-religious parents, are all on the same page about transgender activism and grooming in schools: they are against it.
Tipping points are usually something small, rather than the major upheavals that political scientists and pundits look for, and there can be more than one. Get enough of them going at different points of the ideological Narrative, and the whole slagheap could come sliding down.
Another case of Republicans joining the Democrats for no apparent good reason, although I’m sure they had rationales of some kind.
This is why the GOP has been behind for the last century.
No unity on principles.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/07/20/establishment-republicans-block-bipartisan-effort-to-force-buttigieg-private-flight-transparency/
‘Ten House Republicans shot down the amendment, as it was two votes shy of being passed in the House. Three House Democrats voted for the amendment”
…
“Every day Americans face flight cancellations and long wait times because Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has completely mismanaged air travel,” APT Executive Director Caitlin Sutherland told the New York Post in December 2022. “Yet, he gets to avoid all that by taking taxpayer-funded private jets to destinations with readily available commercial airline options.”
I didn’t recognize the list of ten, so have no idea if they usually count as “establishment,” or if that’s just a catch-all epithet now for anyone dissenting from the GOP majority.
Talk about out of touch with reality.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/07/20/goldman-claims-censorship-enabled-more-people-to-hear-of-hunters-laptop/
It seems like every story I looked at today is relevant to the divide between “left” and “right” not being between “Democrats” and “Republicans” —
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/07/20/faith-wins-moscow-idaho-pays-300000-to-christians-arrested-pandemic/
What could go wrong, everyone trusts ‘The Fed’:
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Fbusiness%2Ffinance%2Ffed-set-launch-long-awaited-instant-payments-service-modernizing-system-2023-07-20%2F
Greta Gerwig is directing 2 “Chronicles of Narnia” films?
Rufus T. Firefly:
Gerwig also directed and co-wrote the new “Barbie” movie, which is opening as we comment.
It looked like kicky, fun, summer escapism with a marvelous look and a great premise: there is a real Barbie world out there in the multiverse and Barbie and Ken make their way through a portal to our reality. Fish out of water hilarity ensues.
Except that Barbieland is a matriarchy. All the Kens are useless beefcake. Our reality is portrayed as hopelessly misogynist. Ken becomes an enthusiastic proponent of the patriarchy.
When they return to Barbieland, Ken organizes all the Kens to overthrow the matriarchy. But Barbie and all the other toys revolt and restore the matriarchy.
What’s interesting is that “Barbie” was marketed with its overt feminism and misandry intentionally concealed. A few cast members let the cat out of the bag, but most of the first weekend crowd won’t know. Bait and switch.
The first weekend box office is largely determined by marketing. The second weekend by word of mouth. It will be interesting to see where “Barbie” stands after the second weekend.
The 2,000 plus comments are worth looking at:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/fed-launches-new-payments-system-that-lets-you-send-money-in-seconds-140305052.html
RE: UFOs and AARO
In a recent interview, Dr. Shaun Kirkpatrick, the head of AARO, conceded that while it would be “statistically unrealistic to believe that there wasn’t extraterrestrial life”… “We’ve interviewed almost 30 individuals who have come in to provide their testimony. And out of all of those, none of it has yet led to any verifiable information that substantiates the claim that the U.S. government has those ships or has a reverse engineering program either in the past or currently,”
But, nonetheless, in this interview he seemed to edge closer and closer to confirming that the top 5% of unidentified UFOs are possibly extraterrestrial, talking about guarding against possible “extraterrestrial technological supremacy.”
Dr. Kirkpatrick also said that, “The most common misconception is that (the possible phenomena) are all the same thing and they’re all extraterrestrial, and neither of those are true.” ( Now, what the hell did that mean?)
* See https://abc7.com/ufo-news-2023-sightings-alien/13525637/
From cb’s two links above:
“At the outset, FedNow will have a maximum payment limit of $500,000, but banks can choose to lower that cap if need be.”
“The limit per customer credit transaction will be $500,000, but the initial setting of the transaction limit will be $100,000. The money can move from consumer to consumer, from consumers to businesses, or from business to business.”
So, Neo, here is an alternative way for us to pay you directly, and if you hurry to set it up for us, they might not drop the max limit below $100K, should any of us be able to be so generous. 🙂
10 second to 30 second response time is adequate for me. I don’t need the nanosecond response the big investors seem to desire while trading in the stock market.
But it is not yet clear to me how the banks will get their “vig” if they collapse the “float” so drastically. But we can rest assured they will find a way.
@ Snow on Pine: Something to look forward to:
https://www.foxnews.com/us/lawmakers-claim-ufo-cover-ups-from-pentagon-military-as-witnesses-head-to-congress
Look squirrel! A flying squirrel! In a saucer! Or was it in a bird feeder? Nevermind …
Regarding that terrorist incident in N. Dakota… (yes, N. Dakota).
https://www.americanexperiment.org/last-man-standing/
H/T Powerline blog.
Could have been a lot of worse.
Should have been a lot of worse.
But an accident and a heroic police officer ensured that it wasn’t, though it was certainly terrible enough.
Teeny boppers. Blech.
==
From 1963:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FN3n4oI2KgQ
Hmm.
I wonder if this can shed a bit of light—finally—on the whys and wherefores of the Ukraine war?
OTOH, it may not tell us something that was not already highly suspected…
(Though it does add a fair amount of “color”…highlights…and accents…):
“‘My dog is smarter than Hunter’ — key quotes from secret FBI file”—
https://nypost.com/2023/07/20/my-dog-is-smarter-than-hunter-key-quotes-from-secret-fbi-file/
(I guess that would make Zlochevsky’s dog the new “smartest guy I know” in town.)
But don’t stop at the canine quote; read ’em all…while wondering how “Biden” and his thugs are gonna muscle their way past this one (because you KNOW that’s exactly what they’ll do). Do we doubt that the whistleblower’s taxes from over the past 200 years are being thoroughly examined with a fine-tooth comb (or should that be with an 800-pound gorilla?)….
Or will “Biden” go the “distraction-to-end-all-distractions” route?
Stay tuned!
Anyway, those guys are true heroes. The genuine article.
File under: The Emperors’ nakeder.
Another piece of evidence, in case you needed one, that higher education is dominated by people of low character.
==
https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/07/intimidation-of-conservatives-at-arizona-state-u-documented-at-legislative-hearing/
wait thats just the desk manager that hired hunter, you can’t trust him, kolomoisky
is the Sydney Greenstreet character, central asian Mr Potter, they all came up in the era of Yeltsin’s brother from another mother, Leonid Kuchma,
huxley,
Just spoke with a co-worker in Armenia. Her and her friends are going to see “Barbie” when they get off work today. Sounds like a big opening weekend is highly likely.
From Christian Toto’s review the 3rd act is so mediocre it may even turn off people in line with its message.
they really want us to them to hate us, overseas don’t they, armenia’s already allied with iran
I liked her in the Yates treatment of Tarzan, as Jane, but everywhere else, Robbie can be cloying,
Margot Robbie was fantastic in “I Tonya.”
didn’t see that, so I can’t tell you,
RE: UFOs–
In a quote, above at 10:22, from Dr. Shaun Kirkpatrick, he mentions trying to guard against “extraterrestrial technological supremacy.”
Now why–if extraterrestrials as directing/operating UAPs were not even a likely possibility–would you even need to contemplate or to mention things like “guarding against extraterrestrial technological supremacy.”?