Just watched Frank Capra’s “You Can’t Take It With You” a couple of days ago, which features Ann Miller (who was said to have been untrained at it) giving pointe a go onscreen. There’s a tale that Jimmy Stewart found her backstage weeping at the pain she was experiencing while filming was underway.
First Lady fed up:
Kimmel’s hateful and violent rhetoric is intended to divide our country. His monologue about my family isn’t comedy- his words are corrosive and deepens the political sickness within America.
People like Kimmel shouldn’t have the opportunity to enter our homes each evening to spread hate.
A coward, Kimmel hides behind ABC because he knows the network will keep running cover to protect him.
Enough is enough. It is time for ABC to take a stand. How many times will ABC’s leadership enable Kimmel’s atrocious behavior at the expense of our community.
Speaking of focusing one’s body weight over a tiny area;
wearing stiletto heels can create very high stresses on flooring. These stresses can actually damage certain types of stone and wood flooring.
For a brief second or so, the entire body weight is confined to one tiny stiletto heel area (about 0.1 square inches). For a body weight of 120 pounds, the imposed stress on the flooring will be on the order of 1200 pounds per square inch.
Just another useless factoid that popped into my head.
I looked at Melania’s X post, sdferr, and there were already some really hateful replies.
@JohnTyler:Speaking of focusing one’s body weight over a tiny area;
wearing stiletto heels can create very high stresses on flooring.
Anyone with nice wood floors has to think about that.
The lovely Melania Trump expresses a good sentiment opposing Kimmel’s hateful & violent rhetoric.
We who oppose it need a more clear label, like the
Democratic Demonization Strategy.
The use hateful rhetoric, with half-truths and lies to justify the hate, as the Demonize Trump. Or Kirk, or Kavanaugh or Palin or Bush. The elected Dems, and those in media and academia are usually explicitly full of hate for their demonization target, but always implicitly when they silently accept lies they wouldn’t want to promote.
Demonization propaganda which works a little on almost all, and works a lot on quite a few. Of those, many become Deranged Dems, themselves spewing lies & untruths, that believe due to prior media lies.
Not Bush, not Trump, but it is Democrats who are Deranged and violent, like killer of Kirk or of the killer of the Health care rich company President.
Dem Derangement, not TDS.
Dem Derangement caused by prior Dem Demonization.
We must label the Dem Demonization Strategy, call Dems out on it, and both logically point out that their words promote violence, and laugh at them for being so easily led astray, being so gullible.
Taking away tax exemptions from partisan colleges who have been dishonestly calling themselves non-partisan is another legal enforcement step that should be taken.
@Huxley was correct about Linear Algebra prof Strang. So many good courses available.
Re: French fun
Mark Wolters and his wife run a travel service educating people to plan trips to foreign countries. They also run such trips. So two years go he dropped this YouTube:
Of course, I’m wondering by stereotype if France makes this list. Sure enough, the top-rated comment:
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@robertlamantin5088 I”m french : how dare you not to put my country in the first place ? How outrageous 🙂
____________________________
There follow 948 comments on the subject, most blaming the Parisians, many saying that a bit (un peu) of French language goes a long way, even just Bonjour and Merci.
huxley, I found even Parisians were pleased by my efforts to speak French.
Amit Segal:
It appears that Hamas’ latest bout of intractability has finally broken its patron’s back. After 20 years, Qatar is pulling its investment in the terror group. According to my sources, Doha will no longer play the role of host and negotiator, and most of Hamas’ leadership has already departed the country.
Seems like news to me. More, one might say Bibi and Trump are exposing their enemies to fire.
There’s more to Segal’s post at the link, which I recommend be read.
Turkey will pick up the slack.
Hamas is already welcome there and entrenched.
This will be problematic for several reasons, including Erdogan’s neo-Ottoman ambitions, his influence over the new regime in Syria and the recent rapprochement between Turkey and Egypt.
(One should assume that Lebanon will be just another domino.)
Related:
For those who rely on the MainStream Corrupt Media for their understanding (or lack, thereof) of what’s going on between Israel and Hezbullah…and WHY:
“Beyond the Buffer: Why South Lebanon demands a new strategic logic;
“An adversary that does not accept the permanence of the opposing state does not experience a ceasefire as a settlement. It experiences it as a reloading interval. Israel must act in accordance with that unpleasant truth…”— https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/425269
Even 39 weeks pregnant Karoline Leavitt brings FIRE to WH Press briefing! – Full Video
“Turkey will pick up the slack.”</i< –Barry Meislin
Exactly. While the Islamic Republic needs to be defanged, it naive to think a reign of peace will break out.
Something the Pope said during the recent kerfuffle stood out. He called for "Peaceful Coexistence with Justice". (caps. mine). He cite Algeria as an example, but he also cited Lebanon as another example of Muslims and Christians getting along. Well, when all the Christians have fallen under Dhimmitude or been driven out no doubt coexistence will be complete.
The Islamists would rather die in Iran than given up the ultimate weapon.
Hezbollah refuses to recognize the Israel/Lebanon ceasefire or disarm as called for by Lebanese government.
Hamas has continue to refuse to disarm in Gaza.
Even if the Islamic Republic is overthrown by the Iranian people at some time, the Islamists surrounding much of Israel will find new sources of funding, and Turkey is the likely candidate.
The heading for this Open Thread is 3/27/26. It is 4/27/26. Might create problems down the road.
A little commentary by an ex secret service agent.
JohnTyler, I was thinking about stiletto heels just the other night! Our church was having its first dinner-dance after having gotten the wood floor of the hall nicely redone. I observed one lady with such heels as you describe in the dance rounds. I wondered how she was remaining upright, but as you also point out, the pressure on those floorboards must have been considerable.
Neo: Open Thread 4/27?? not 3/27!! 🙂
Even if time is flying by, not every day in the past deserves a return via time machine.
Before Niketas mentioned it this a.m., I somehow missed the fact that Cole Allen’s mad sprint was *one floor above* the WHC dinner. It makes a difference! Seems that the reportage was lacking.
vv I did a quick scan to see if anyone else had noticed that date issue, but missed yours.
Sorry.
HHUUMMM 5 hours ago? Neo must be busy elsewhere.
“Nedra Talley Ross, the last surviving member of the 1960s bee-hived pop trio the Ronettes, dies”
@Selfy:It makes a difference! Seems that the reportage was lacking.
The actual articles usually have it somewhere after paragraph 20. The takes on articles never have it, usually just narrative with at best a link to the actual article and then quotes of or reaction to other takes that don’t mention it. Granted the actual articles don’t exactly put it front and center.
Yeah, dude was not going to shoot through the floor, even if he had a rifle.
John Tyler,
In 1970, when I was in my mid teens, my parents took the family on a European museum/cathedral tour. I remember spike heels being banned in many of these places, due to the stress they exerted on the floors – both marble and wood. And I made a special dress that had upper arm sleeves and a below the knee hem for the cathedrals. So dorky! You had to stop and get approved to enter the Vatican. Ten years later, on another trip, neither of these restrictions were in force.
@ Molly Brown:
with your comment about dress at the Vatican, I wondered where the physical and cultural prohibition against nudity initiated.
If humans (or pre-humans) of 300K to 500K years ago where not worried about nudity in a warm climate, perhaps it started with headdresses or other status adornments? And only seriously became near full body (or greater body area) covering as people moved to cooler/ colder climes?
No idea if this is valid, but I could believe that unless or until there was a society or culture that had or allowed or fostered multiple wives/mates per man/chief, etc., there would have been little compulsion to cover nudity to avoid sexual predation?
Re: Quality Learing
Well, it’s finally happening. I noticed it on some websites I didn’t know earlier, but PJ Media has verified:
____________________________
FBI and DHS Raid Dozens of Minnesota Fraudsters, Including ‘Quality Learing Center’
The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) are targeting more than 20 locations in their latest operation against the massive Minnesota fraud network, according to Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin, who said that he spoke with the Department of Justice (DOJ), the FBI’s parent agency.
The size and scope of the Minnesota fraud scandal, which is heavily linked to the Somali community there, but also implicates multiple Democrat politicians, including Gov. Tim Walz, Attorney General Keith Ellison, and Rep. Ilhan Omar, continues to astound patriotic Americans.
Just watched Frank Capra’s “You Can’t Take It With You” a couple of days ago, which features Ann Miller (who was said to have been untrained at it) giving pointe a go onscreen. There’s a tale that Jimmy Stewart found her backstage weeping at the pain she was experiencing while filming was underway.
First Lady fed up:
https://x.com/i/status/2048769128513585618
Speaking of focusing one’s body weight over a tiny area;
wearing stiletto heels can create very high stresses on flooring. These stresses can actually damage certain types of stone and wood flooring.
For a brief second or so, the entire body weight is confined to one tiny stiletto heel area (about 0.1 square inches). For a body weight of 120 pounds, the imposed stress on the flooring will be on the order of 1200 pounds per square inch.
Just another useless factoid that popped into my head.
I looked at Melania’s X post, sdferr, and there were already some really hateful replies.
@JohnTyler:Speaking of focusing one’s body weight over a tiny area;
wearing stiletto heels can create very high stresses on flooring.
Anyone with nice wood floors has to think about that.
The phenomenon gets even better: Pascal’s Barrel.
And even better: Roman hydraulic mining.
The lovely Melania Trump expresses a good sentiment opposing Kimmel’s hateful & violent rhetoric.
We who oppose it need a more clear label, like the
Democratic Demonization Strategy.
The use hateful rhetoric, with half-truths and lies to justify the hate, as the Demonize Trump. Or Kirk, or Kavanaugh or Palin or Bush. The elected Dems, and those in media and academia are usually explicitly full of hate for their demonization target, but always implicitly when they silently accept lies they wouldn’t want to promote.
Demonization propaganda which works a little on almost all, and works a lot on quite a few. Of those, many become Deranged Dems, themselves spewing lies & untruths, that believe due to prior media lies.
Not Bush, not Trump, but it is Democrats who are Deranged and violent, like killer of Kirk or of the killer of the Health care rich company President.
Dem Derangement, not TDS.
Dem Derangement caused by prior Dem Demonization.
We must label the Dem Demonization Strategy, call Dems out on it, and both logically point out that their words promote violence, and laugh at them for being so easily led astray, being so gullible.
Taking away tax exemptions from partisan colleges who have been dishonestly calling themselves non-partisan is another legal enforcement step that should be taken.
@Huxley was correct about Linear Algebra prof Strang. So many good courses available.
Re: French fun
Mark Wolters and his wife run a travel service educating people to plan trips to foreign countries. They also run such trips. So two years go he dropped this YouTube:
–Wolters World, “The 5 Most Unfriendly Countries I Have Ever Visited”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sudL0M1WRA
Of course, I’m wondering by stereotype if France makes this list. Sure enough, the top-rated comment:
____________________________
@robertlamantin5088
I”m french : how dare you not to put my country in the first place ? How outrageous 🙂
____________________________
There follow 948 comments on the subject, most blaming the Parisians, many saying that a bit (un peu) of French language goes a long way, even just Bonjour and Merci.
huxley, I found even Parisians were pleased by my efforts to speak French.
Amit Segal:
https://x.com/i/status/2048763978529001532
Seems like news to me. More, one might say Bibi and Trump are exposing their enemies to fire.
There’s more to Segal’s post at the link, which I recommend be read.
Turkey will pick up the slack.
Hamas is already welcome there and entrenched.
This will be problematic for several reasons, including Erdogan’s neo-Ottoman ambitions, his influence over the new regime in Syria and the recent rapprochement between Turkey and Egypt.
(One should assume that Lebanon will be just another domino.)
Cf.:
“Turkey’s economic takeover of Syria has already begun”—
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/425690
“How the Cairo-Ankara military rapprochement threatens Israeli energy security”—
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/424058
+ Bonus:
“Erdogan’s digital Iron Curtain”—
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/425023
Related:
For those who rely on the MainStream Corrupt Media for their understanding (or lack, thereof) of what’s going on between Israel and Hezbullah…and WHY:
“Beyond the Buffer: Why South Lebanon demands a new strategic logic;
“An adversary that does not accept the permanence of the opposing state does not experience a ceasefire as a settlement. It experiences it as a reloading interval. Israel must act in accordance with that unpleasant truth…”—
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/425269
Even 39 weeks pregnant Karoline Leavitt brings FIRE to WH Press briefing! – Full Video
https://commoncts.blogspot.com/2026/04/even-39-weeks-pregnant-karoline-leavitt.html
“Turkey will pick up the slack.”</i< –Barry Meislin
Exactly. While the Islamic Republic needs to be defanged, it naive to think a reign of peace will break out.
Something the Pope said during the recent kerfuffle stood out. He called for "Peaceful Coexistence with Justice". (caps. mine). He cite Algeria as an example, but he also cited Lebanon as another example of Muslims and Christians getting along. Well, when all the Christians have fallen under Dhimmitude or been driven out no doubt coexistence will be complete.
The Islamists would rather die in Iran than given up the ultimate weapon.
Hezbollah refuses to recognize the Israel/Lebanon ceasefire or disarm as called for by Lebanese government.
Hamas has continue to refuse to disarm in Gaza.
Even if the Islamic Republic is overthrown by the Iranian people at some time, the Islamists surrounding much of Israel will find new sources of funding, and Turkey is the likely candidate.
The heading for this Open Thread is 3/27/26. It is 4/27/26. Might create problems down the road.
A little commentary by an ex secret service agent.
Some surprise expressed at 3:55
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBUTmR6WExQ&t=258s
JohnTyler, I was thinking about stiletto heels just the other night! Our church was having its first dinner-dance after having gotten the wood floor of the hall nicely redone. I observed one lady with such heels as you describe in the dance rounds. I wondered how she was remaining upright, but as you also point out, the pressure on those floorboards must have been considerable.
Neo: Open Thread 4/27?? not 3/27!! 🙂
Even if time is flying by, not every day in the past deserves a return via time machine.
Before Niketas mentioned it this a.m., I somehow missed the fact that Cole Allen’s mad sprint was *one floor above* the WHC dinner. It makes a difference! Seems that the reportage was lacking.
vv I did a quick scan to see if anyone else had noticed that date issue, but missed yours.
Sorry.
HHUUMMM 5 hours ago? Neo must be busy elsewhere.
“Nedra Talley Ross, the last surviving member of the 1960s bee-hived pop trio the Ronettes, dies”
I didn’t realize they were sisters. Brian Wilson loved their music, as did Keith Richards.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/apr/27/ronettes-nedra-talley-ross-last-surviving-member-1960s-bee-hived-pop/
@Selfy:It makes a difference! Seems that the reportage was lacking.
The actual articles usually have it somewhere after paragraph 20. The takes on articles never have it, usually just narrative with at best a link to the actual article and then quotes of or reaction to other takes that don’t mention it. Granted the actual articles don’t exactly put it front and center.
Yeah, dude was not going to shoot through the floor, even if he had a rifle.
John Tyler,
In 1970, when I was in my mid teens, my parents took the family on a European museum/cathedral tour. I remember spike heels being banned in many of these places, due to the stress they exerted on the floors – both marble and wood. And I made a special dress that had upper arm sleeves and a below the knee hem for the cathedrals. So dorky! You had to stop and get approved to enter the Vatican. Ten years later, on another trip, neither of these restrictions were in force.
@ Molly Brown:
with your comment about dress at the Vatican, I wondered where the physical and cultural prohibition against nudity initiated.
If humans (or pre-humans) of 300K to 500K years ago where not worried about nudity in a warm climate, perhaps it started with headdresses or other status adornments? And only seriously became near full body (or greater body area) covering as people moved to cooler/ colder climes?
No idea if this is valid, but I could believe that unless or until there was a society or culture that had or allowed or fostered multiple wives/mates per man/chief, etc., there would have been little compulsion to cover nudity to avoid sexual predation?
Re: Quality Learing
Well, it’s finally happening. I noticed it on some websites I didn’t know earlier, but PJ Media has verified:
____________________________
FBI and DHS Raid Dozens of Minnesota Fraudsters, Including ‘Quality Learing Center’
The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) are targeting more than 20 locations in their latest operation against the massive Minnesota fraud network, according to Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin, who said that he spoke with the Department of Justice (DOJ), the FBI’s parent agency.
The size and scope of the Minnesota fraud scandal, which is heavily linked to the Somali community there, but also implicates multiple Democrat politicians, including Gov. Tim Walz, Attorney General Keith Ellison, and Rep. Ilhan Omar, continues to astound patriotic Americans.
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/04/28/fbi-dhs-raid-dozens-of-minnesota-fraudsters-including-quality-learing-center-n4952275
____________________________
Count me as an astounded patriotic American, partly to see follow-through on obvious fraud. I’ve read this is one reason Pam Bondi got the boot.
Hope the DOJ has its ducks in a row.
Not surprisingly, Walz is trying to pretend he was leading the raid, rather than ignoring the parade.
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/04/28/fbi-director-claps-back-at-walzs-new-mn-fraud-raid-credit-grab-n2201792