Open thread 2/6/24
Astaire and Rogers were subsidiary characters in the movie Flying Down to Rio, where they danced together onscreen for the very first time:
The New Neo
A blog about political change, among other things
Astaire and Rogers were subsidiary characters in the movie Flying Down to Rio, where they danced together onscreen for the very first time:
Very nice! Were they in Rio at the time of that scene? The band is dressed more like they’re in Mexico.
Curiously i was watching notorious with cary grant and ingrid bergmann which was partially set there but it was shot in los angeles
The plot concerns ig farbin executives exiled in rio with claude rains as one of the villains
Similar to gilda with rita hayworth
Presidential Immunity is no longer a thing according to 3 appellate court judges.
Caroline Glick, JNS, “360 degrees of hostility: The Biden administration and Israel”:
https://www.jns.org/360-degrees-of-hostility-the-biden-administration-and-israel/
Biden betrayal coming soon. The House will vote on a stand-alone Israel support bill. If it were to pass the House and Senate, Biden says he’ll veto it.
What fun, so smooth. The first dancers were pure Sex.
I posted yesterday about a proposed Pet Tax here in CO. Well, the sponsor is backing off and letting it die in committee.
I hope the appeals court decision comes back and does a Harry Reid on some Dem. But, that is expecting too much.
Cocaine Mitch is backing away from the border bill. Urged his caucus to vote against it. Guess someone talked to him.
I am interested in the DC Court’s worry about presidents “selling pardons,” when I seem to recall a Democrat president doing just that (Bill Clinton, early 2001).
for mark rich and his gang, who proceeded to loot nigeria, for susan rosenberg, who fat nadler pressed to have released, the ma barker of occupy and antifa,
for the FALN butchers of Frances Tavern, yadda yadda,
“Presidential Immunity is no longer a thing…”
Just Presidential Family—or Former Secretary of State—Immunity, I guess…
– – – – – – – – – – –
Meanwhile in Argentina (and elsewhere, perhaps)…HOLY CARAMBA….
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javier_Milei
+ Bonus…
“Argentinian Pres. lights candle at Western Wall for Hamas victims;
“Newly-elected Argentinian President Javier Milei visits Western Wall in first stop during visit to Israel…”
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/384789
if you’re selling out your country to china, kazakhstan little bits to Russia and Mexico if you’re carving up Haiti and Nigeria, well do you have to ask,
“At Penn, Nothing Has Changed in Wake of Magill’s Defenestration”—
https://freebeacon.com/campus/at-penn-nothing-has-changed-in-wake-of-magills-defenestration/
H/T Poweline blog.
Key ideas:
“Asymmetric free speech”
Was anyone expecting anything to change?
(IOW, how does does one stop a freewheeling 18-wheeler going down a mountain?)
I thought it was unlikely that the film was shot in Rio, but in fact, parts of were.
The dancing scene in the video looked like a studio set to me, but I could be wrong.
cue the song from the who, ‘down with the new boss, same as the old’
Ahh…Notorius, one of the greatest films ever!
Gilda has a similar subplot, with hayworth in the bergmann role, holden as grant approximation,
https://melaniephillips.substack.com/p/anti-judaism-becomes-a-protected?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=77655&post_id=141432932&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=8svpq&utm_medium=email
even when they did anti nazi films at the end of the war, there is that orson welles one, the stranger, they were kind of a light touch in it, it was around the ebb of the hollywood left nearly at that point, the brazilian and argentine government were among some of the votes against the recognition of israel,
My favorite version of the music the band was playing.
DC Appeals Court, the Chaquita branch of the Federal judiciary.
(I accidentally put this on a page for yesterday.
I’ll put this comment here, as well. ):
This is just my view:
A mother in Michigan has just been found guilty of- “not stopping her 15 year old son”, from killing his classmates”, in a mass killing.
This court decision is nonsense.
Did she + the boy’s father, take classes in- [how to keep your children from killing or murdering people?]
I don’t think so.
Who would even offer classes like that?
This is all about the fact that this teen killer, killed people WITH A GUN.
OK…..what if he had killed them with- a car, with fire, or with a [sword he bought at a tag sale?]…would his parents be tried + arrested + found guilty, if he killed/murdered people with those items?
No.
This is all about: many of the people of Michigan, + some Michigan lawyers, [HATING civilians owning guns].
They hate it that [my words]- most US civilians can own guns…by their rights, so they want to make as many court convictions, + restricting laws,…as they can, to take gun-ownership-rights away from The people of the US.
Oh wait- a friend of mine is 30, and lives with his parents.
His parents had better watch out…if he shoots at people, then his parents could get 15-60 years in prison as well.
This court decision is a travesty.
This court conviction should never have happened.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68223118
https://www.theblaze.com/return/h-p-lovecraft-prophet-of-ai-doom?utm_medium=email&utm_source=premium-trending-ns&utm_campaign=20240206-Test-ActiveNS-Premium-Trending&tpcc=email-ns-premium-trending
Shot…chaser
https://twitter.com/paulsperry_/status/1754966341142896996
TR, think you’re right. There appeared to be plenty of evidence to convict those parents of child neglect. Manslaughter, no.
Thanks, Kate.
Could be
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13051739/metals-pacific-ocean-outside-solar-alien.html
Via an Insty link today on Toby Keith I arrived at this article and from there to a luminous Toby Keith song, which Eastwood inspired while the two were playing golf:
_________________________________
Out on the green, Eastwood shared [with Keith] that he’d be starting work on “The Mule” in two days, which also happened to be his 88th birthday. Struck by Eastwood’s relentless energy at an age when many are content to sit and reflect, Keith asked how he keeps going.
“He said, ‘I just get up every morning and go out. And I don’t let the old man in,’ ” Keith recounts. “And I thought, I’m writing that.”
–“Toby Keith Explains How Clint Eastwood Inspired ‘Don’t Let the Old Man In’ for ‘The Mule’”
https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/toby-keith-clint-eastwood-inspired-dont-let-the-old-man-in-the-mule-interview-8490429/
_________________________________
“Don’t let the old man in.” I don’t think about it exactly that way, but that’s the way I live. People think I’m in my sixties, but I’m 72 next week.
Here’s the Toby Keith song, which ended up in Eastwood’s film, “The Mule”:
–Toby Keith, “Don’t Let the Old Man In”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0gzHu786yoK
Toby Keith is one of the great singer-songwriters of the 21st Century.
Don’t let the old man in.
That was great! Thanks.
RE: The apparently extreme danger of EVs
Just happened upon this video, discussing the dangers posed by the large lithium ion batteries used in EVs, but also apparently the lithium ion batteries in items like electric scooters.
Not only can they catch fire—fires which burn so hot and fiercely that they require far more massive amounts of water to extinguish them than normal fires–but, says an expert in this video, such batteries can also apparently reignite at a later time.
These batteries can explode, and they can also put out massive quantities of toxic gases which, if they accumulate–particularly in a closed space—like say a house garage, or a parking structure–can ignite in a type of fuel air explosion (bombs which create fuel air explosions are one of the most powerful bombs in our military arsenal).
See the video of what happens when such batteries malfunction in this link.*
* See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnKm9-S0_UY
Spherules of an alloy not found or used on Earth, and they are extraterresterial, so therefore (Unicorn leap of faith) they must be Unicorn scat.
Otay.
Hard to cram a coal mine or grain silo (non military fuel air explosion sites) into your garage or typical parking structure.
I would think so
https://twitter.com/RealFinishes/status/1754759214549840150
who won the wars again, rhetorical question,
likewise
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-52234561.amp
Huxley – that is a great Toby Keith song! The flags are flying at half mast in OK, per the governor.
And have a happy birthday next week – I’ll be celebrating my 71st next week. I won’t let the old woman in.
@ huxley & Liz > remind us to sing Happy Birthday to both of you next week.
I am between the two of you, as my 72nd is not until June.
Old woman on the outside, still 39 and holding on the inside.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFD–pvOg5A
@ miguel > “Shot…chaser”
Linking Lovecraft to Sperry, and Cthulhu to Willis?
Pretty creepy, if true.
The flags are flying at half mast in OK, per the governor.
Liz: Geez, I didn’t realize Toby Keith died two days ago. 62. How can that be? What a loss. What a life!
AesopFan: Thanks. 39 is a good age on to which to hold. 🙂
____________________________
Look out your window and smile
Don’t let the old man in
–Toby Keith, RIP
OMG, looks like the Climate Hacktivist thugs have gotten to Phil….
“…Meteorologist Warns Of Winter’s Return Next Week”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/weather/enjoy-warmth-while-it-last-meteorologist-warns-winters-return-next-week
Opening graf:
“Punxsutawney Phil – the famous groundhog weather oracle – called for early spring last Friday, having not seen his shadow. However, a new forecast by Arcfield Weather indicates that the above-normal temperatures across the Central US and East Coast could end as early as next week, ushering in another vicious round of winter….” [Emphasis mine; Barry M.]
Don’t know how they did it, but it appears that Phil’s clearly compromised.
Is nothing sacred to these people???
(And could this be why his side-kick in Kentucky kicked it?)
om—I did relook at the video I linked to, and the expert called the explosion a VCE or Vapor Cloud Explosion, bad enough, but apparently not the same as a fuel-air explosion.