What an amazing story!

Especially your last sentence, which made me tear up when I got to that point in James’s post.

Today we happened upon this one:

https://open.substack.com/pub/jameslileks/p/everything-in-your-life-has-a-price?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

There were a few books by James Lileks on the piano—that’s when I started to suspect. Then I remembered the look of the place from the street, and, yeah, it matched my memories of his descriptions in The Bleat.

I now have a copy of Modern Library’s anthology of John O’Hara stories “signed” by James Likeks. And I feel bad about not buying one the books he wrote that had been there on the piano.

The Series is called “Dark Winds,” it is broadcast on AMC, or AMC+, it is based on Tony Hillerman’s well known series of novels set in the Southwest, and it follows two Navajo policemen as they solve crimes on the Navajo Reservation in the 1970s.

It’s very atmospheric, I find it’s look into Navajo beliefs and culture very interesting, the scripts are very well written, and above all, I find the acting done on a very convincing level.

You really “buy into” the characters and the situation, and hate to see each season of episodes end.

I’m really looking forward to next year’s upcoming season.

That would be the one, the only, the incomparable Professor Gilbert Strang!

Several years ago I did his MIT OpenCourseware in Linear Algebra. His lectures are delightful, clear and concrete. He approaches Linear Algebra with a missionary zeal. He really is out to change that corner of the world and any students willing to learn.

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/18-06sc-linear-algebra-fall-2011/

A beautiful man and still alive at 91.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Strang

While President Trump has essentially stopped taking in refuges from all over the world, in view of the increasingly imperiled situation of whites in South Africa, he has made it a point to admit thousands of white South African refugees.*

Linked below is a very interesting analysis by a very observant, informed, and articulate white South African clinical psychologist (Hard, given the UK interviewer’s accent, to get this psychologist’s name, but it sounded something like Yacoub/Yaku Fansai?) of how South Africa has—step-by-step–been transformed from the flourishing First World country that Nelson Mandela inherited/became head of, into the corrupt, decaying, and dysfunctional state it has become today.

Among other observations, this psychologist believes, based on his experience, that the South African government is taking incremental steps to build toward a genocide targeting whites.**

Interesting little fact, that South Africa exports more copper than it mines. Where does all this additional copper come from?

Well, of course, it’s from all of the copper wire used in municipal power, street lighting, and traffic light systems that South African thieves are ripping out of the ground (look on YouTube and you can see videos of them ripping out this copper wire in broad daylight, and walking away with thick strands of copper wiring over their shoulders) and selling it for scrap.

Just one little example of why South Africa is descending into chaos, decay, and decline.

• See https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-afrikaner-refugees-south-africa-b2963928.html

** See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J6_LGStf5g

A SHORT HISTORY OF THE SIXTIES

—Henri Coulette, “The Family Goldschmitt” (1971)
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Happily, very happily, the Bangs have not connected.

The repetition bothers me. And I know that the other side, not just the nuts, wants it.

Thanks for the link to the video from C-SPAN. The comments were an education. And this is at the C-SPAN YouTube channel, formerly known as an island of sanity in the swamp of Democratic Party lunacy.

Did that with Butler too. We don’t hate them enough. But for some reason still rely on them for news.

Wide Shot of Loud Bangs and President Trump Evacuation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIZh8nHZ4m4

Interesting that the legacy media doesn’t mention shots in the title of their youtube videos– just ‘President evacuated from room’.

The shooter appears to have been arrested, but, 48 hours and all that.

President Donald Trump said the suspect involved in the White House Correspondents’ Dinner security scare has been apprehended, praising Secret Service and law enforcement for their response.

“Quite an evening in D.C. Secret Service and Law Enforcement did a fantastic job. They acted quickly and bravely,” Trump posted on Truth Social.

“The shooter has been apprehended, and I have recommended that we ‘LET THE SHOW GO ON,’ but will entirely be guided by Law Enforcement,” he added.

Trump said a final decision on whether the event will fully resume is expected shortly.