Open thread 9/18/2024
Mark Knopfler looks so happy here. He wrote this song. The Everly Brothers are way past their prime, but boy do they still sound good. And Chet Atkins looks like George W. Bush to me:
Mark Knopfler looks so happy here. He wrote this song. The Everly Brothers are way past their prime, but boy do they still sound good. And Chet Atkins looks like George W. Bush to me:
I’ve already avoided a lot of Chinese electronic products—hard to do, but try. No Lenovo computers for me! Figured Chinese products could be used to spy on people. Now the Israelis have introduced exploding electronics!?!
Chinese Electric Vehicles Could Be ‘Weaponised’ by Beijing
China has made a big investment in EVs and would be nice to see it collapse on them.
David Muir’s ABC evening news program suffered significant viewership decline after the debate debacle.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3157552/abc-david-muir-hit-ratings-after-debate/
we have spent so much on these green energy geegaws, that we can’t refill our strategic reserves at the current low prices,
I would consider this a dereliction of duty, impeachable offense, yes in the 80s we and the Saudis flooded the market to collapse the price of Russian crude, but this only has made our adversaries stronger,
Elon Musk, “The governor of California just made this parody video illegal in violation of the Constitution of the United States.
Would be a shame if it went viral.”
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1836265669631053838
See the 1 min 59 sec video parody at the link. It’s funny, folks.
Are We Headed for an Energy Revolution?
from last nights thread
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tehranbureau/2011/08/a-darker-horizon-the-assassination-of-shapour-bakhtiar.html
I think heard about this from one of the few reputable historians about Iran, the one who wrote Nest of Spies, Amir Taheri, unlike the legend by Bani Sadr partisans, of course if you need to excuse the incoming regime, Lenin, Mao Fidel, Ortega Mugabe you need to blacken the preceding one, Romanov Chiang, Batista, Somoza, Smith, et al
I really hadn’t followed knofler since the early 90, so I didn’t know of his further collaborations,
so another hoax, re the springfield bomb threats, phoned in from over seas bites the dust, will the press bother to correct the record, as with the intercept editor and the punk kid from israel who did similar things in 2017
Michael McDonald on keyboard in the background
Gotta read the Instapundit. This morning: Who’s making money off the Haitian immigrant influx to Springfield, OH? The mayor, among others.
https://twitter.com/718Tv/status/1835831012644810864?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1835831012644810864%7Ctwgr%5Ee05086002845d7aec2899855680093cbd0e6124c%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Finstapundit.com%2F672999%2F
whenever they get on a jag, it’s about something else,
https://x.com/718Tv/status/1835831012644810864/photo/1
@Kate:Who’s making money off the Haitian immigrant influx to Springfield, OH? The mayor, among others.
I’m glad to see this at Instapundit. A lot of what we are told is ideology-driven is actually finance-driven. Start looking for things like that and you find it everywhere. Whatever ass-hatted thing the Party of Government is up to, somebody connected is making money from it.
If only there were a profession for people who could spend their days digging into things like this, asking questions about it, and writing about it for the public. Perhaps they could update daily, like a journal.
‘cover the story, with a pillow, until it stops moving,’
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-september-18-2024/
these bulk purchases are the bomb, so to speak
of course world controller hussain of the human rights council is concerned,
It would be hard to overstate the influence the Everly Brothers had on later groups e.g. The Bee Gees, The Beatles, CS&N, Simon & Garfunkel, etc. And they all readily acknowledged it. When Don passed a few years ago, Paul Simon wrote a heartfelt note about them and how he & Garfunkel practiced weeks on end to be like them. He referred to their harmonies as “pristine” and he talked about how they were a bridge from country and pop to rock&roll. Everybody liked them and they liked everybody except each other, and it could get ugly. I always found that curious.
My first introduction to Mark Knopfler was hearing the soundtrack to “Local Hero”. It is an excellent soundtrack to a very good movie. Worth a watch and a listen.
JNS, “More Hezbollah comms devices explode across Lebanon, killing nine“: https://www.jns.org/more-explosions-rock-beirut-southern-lebanon/
These are not pagers, but other comms system components!
Hezb operatives are going to be mighty jumpy after this week, if they’re still alive, that is.
Hezbollah Walkie-Talkies Blow Up Across Lebanon in Second Wave of Attacks
Guess getting rid of their cellphones was a bad idea. Just one at a time was being killed with those…
don’t purchase items in bulk
https://x.com/ClayTravis/status/1836387661025591568
what they say about familiarity breeds contempt
Replacement it is
toddstarnes @toddstarnes 17h
JUST IN: The feds dumped Haitian migrants in tiny Sylacauga, Alabama. Local leaders were not told in advance. This small Southern town does not have the resources to care for the migrants. Sylacauga is a deep red town in a deep red county. The Democrats are dumping illegals into small towns to cause chaos. They want to destabilize the nation.
now it would have made sense to place them in communities that already have cultural affinity, like South Florida, where is the joy in that though,
remember how the grandees of martha’s vineyard acted toward 50 newcomers, they had them sent back so fast, there was skidmarks sent by the van to the airport,
we were overwhelmed in 1980 with the bulk of 125,000 immigrants and south florida had cultural affinities, but the world controllers don’t care,
That’s from Daily Mail. Sinwar is responsible for them moving from cellphones to pagers and walkie-talkie – Hezbollah needs to have a sit-down with him, if the Israelis down kill him first.
Home Solar units also ???
Miguel
I’ve been beating on this drum for years. That this would end with violence. People don’t want to hear it. My give a f**k o meter is on zero.
Sinwar reportedly uses couriers only these days, but surely Hamas, what’s left of them, have phones, pagers, or walkie talkies. Possibly from a different purchase lot, though.
https://x.com/sentdefender/status/1836452103281144192
SpongeBob meme at link
On the video: Wonderful! It’s musical. The lyrics can be understood.
And Atkins does look like GWB.
that doesn’t make sense, he purposely eschews electronic communication, re the journal piece, which admittedly comes from the irishmen who fell for the Gaza hospital scam, but he is still employed on the pallywood beat
Re: Atkins / Knopfler
Story I heard was that one day Mark Knopfler just showed up at Chet Atkins’ door and introduced himself. Atkins wasn’t fazed at all. They hit it off which led to an album collaboration, “Neck and Neck,” which won two Grammy Country awards, and, I presume, this live performance with the Everly Brothers.
I love those moments when the Young Turks pay homage to the Old Veterans.
Chet Atkins is a god and he does look like George W. Bush. Here’s a cute track from “Neck and Neck”:
–Chet Atkins & Mark Knopfler, “Neck and neck — Yakety axe” (1990)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBK5AGFZWQ8
I think one can tell the difference by Knopfler’s pickless fingerstyle. Otherwise, those boys are in sync.
Perhaps Hezbollah should invest in Carrier Pigeons.
Interesting that the Iranian Ambassador to Lebanon was also injured. That says a lot.
If somebody ever perfects a true wireless Quantum Entanglement Communication System , how long would it take to figure out how to intercept the signal ? Whatever the ” signal” is .
Our current theories seem to prohibit the actual exchange of useable information superluminally via quantumn entanglement. The issue has to do with not being able to “know” the initial state of an entangled pair of particles without breaking the entanglement itself. In order to exchange actual information faster than light, you’d have to know or set the initial state (spin direction I think?) of at least one of the particles, but you can’t do that without breaking the very thing that allows the so called “spooky action at a distance”. At least, this is our current understanding at any rate.
how long would it take to figure out how to intercept the signal
The intended target of the signal would know it had happened.
Everly Brothers, always and forever wonderful. Those harmonies!
SHIREHOME
Not really. His injury simply repeats what is common knowledge: Hezbollah has been Iranian-funded for decades. Of course the Iranian ambassador was privy to Hezbollah’s inner workings. The Mullahs want to know how their money is being spent. If Iran supplies the rockets that hit Israel and the money that pays for the pagers….
A question is what tier of Hezbollah operatives were in the pager network, i.e., got injured. We certainly haven’t heard if anything happened to Nasrallah, the top dog.
Never bit by the Everly Brothers bug.
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Frieda Vizel, “Trump is rumored to visit my haunt in Hasidic Williamsburg tomorrow 9/19”, (39:24), a report: https://www.youtube.com/live/C-DmYN0ICPA
Gottlieb’s Deli is the “haunt”, what other estabishments Trump may visit I don’t know.
Hi, Richard Cook! How was Serbia?
Steph: Local Hero is a brilliant movie I’ve watched many times. But I had no idea Knopfler wrote the soundtrack.
Gordon: How great is Burt Lancaster in Local Hero? Just fantastic.
Knopfler also did the music for The Princess Bride.
Well reasoned free speech gains this New Hampshire man a visit by two likely G-men for exercising his rights. They refuse to identify themselves beyond a badge
His post on X:
“It’s weird that no one ever tries to assassinate the actual president.
“Isn’t that the guy in charge of everything?
4:58 AM · Sep 16, 2024
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Jeremy Kauffman posts 3m of video of his encounter here
https://x.com/jeremykauffman/status/1835782658091102608
It’s very instructive.
“Telegraph Road” always sounds like a movie to me.
Chet Atkins
Blue Angel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h507Q9G5U8w
I don’t play guitar, but DAAAAAMMMMN this is some amazing picking. His fingers just fly over both the strings and the frets. I cannot say for sure, but I think if you can play this well, you’ve mastered the guitar, or at least this very single song.
This is a live version (the best I could find 🙁 There have been better quality ones) you can see his fingers moving so smoothly and readily.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_sQ42aRkos
}}} My first introduction to Mark Knopfler was hearing the soundtrack to “Local Hero”. It is an excellent soundtrack to a very good movie. Worth a watch and a listen.
Yup. Great little performance by Peter Riegert and a small but lovely one by Burt Lancaster in one of his last films. A very “quirky” film. Everything is fairly normal, but every once in a while, you go, “What?” 😀
If you liked this, you might check out Bill Forsythe’s two earlier films, Gregory’s Girl and That Sinking Feeling. Very much in the same kind of “quirky” vein.
}}} now it would have made sense to place them in communities that already have cultural affinity, like South Florida, where is the joy in that though,
Actually, Central Florida — I know there is a significant Haitian community in the region of Apopka, an outlier of Orlando.
I know this, because a school there, about 20y ago, got the Florida Death Penalty.
Schools get rated each year, and getting a “F” rating is obvious bad. Getting three “F”s in a row means that parents at that school are allowed to enroll them in ANY school in the county. There was an elementary school in Apopka with a strong Haitian presence — they literally had classes that taught kids in Haitian. It got three ‘F’s in a row.
The response of the teachers there? They started wearing T-shirts that said “F for Fantastic”. Yeah, quite the surprise that they got an “F” three times in a row, huh?
The disgusting thing was, some of the parents were not going to take their kids to other schools, because …. they could get taught in Haitian there. SMH.
}}} In order to exchange actual information faster than light,
Theoretically, this is impossible, at least, according to Einstein’s theories. Mind you, this doesn’t mean they are correct in that, but one of the downsides to relativity is that you cannot transmit information any faster than light can carry it from A to B.
What impact this has on the idea of FTL drives, and such, being actually workable is… “interesting.”
This may make the idea of QE being used as a means of comms unworkable.
It was kind of lost in all the news of exploding pagers, but there was an explosion in Russia on the other end of the scale last night. A Russian ammunition storage facility 300 miles from the Ukrainian border was hit by a Ukrainian drone swarm. The resulting explosion measured 2.8 on the Richter scale and had an estimated explosive power of 1.8 kilotons. An estimated 30,000 **tons** of ammunition went up in flames.
The video is quite impressive, as is the increasing capability of Ukraine’s home-built drones. Check it out if you like big booms.
*WOKE* strikes again – this time against Beard oil company Wild Willies’ ad/commercial: Panty Dropper
Many TV channels pulled the ad/commercial so they went to YouTube:
Are only Libs & Progressives *WOKE*? Nope:
In the summer of ‘81, I was living next to the abandoned Milwaukee Road rail yard in Renton. I had just gotten cable and I was channel surfing when I can upon the strange startup called MTV. The first video I saw was Dire Straits Skateaway. I had no clue until then that rock videos even existed. I thought the lyric “she’s making movies on location” was clever since the album was Making Movies and the tour was the On Location tour.
As usual karmi, you get it wrong. The parents who object are not woke. They simply wish to preserve the dignity of their daughters. Big difference to being woke. I would wager that you do not have a daughter.
*WOKE* is *WOKE* no matter who is being *WOKE* – DEM, REP, Liberal, Progressive, Conservative, etc. – all wokes claim to be preserving or saving or protecting or etc. something or someone.
Heck, Xylourgos, loooonngg before *WOKE* was *WOKE*, Republicans created ‘Wide Awakes‘…
UPDATE: Wide Awakes
Woke means marxist idiot it means zombie brainless jackass
Soo sayy thee Politi-poli-poli-policey!