Coming event in PIttsburgh, Oct 4: The Festival of Combustion
at the site of the Carrie Blast Furnaces. Features an all-day iron pour from a mini blast furnace (‘mini’ = 15 feet tall), demonstrations by blacksmiths, welders, metal fabricators, and glassblowers, also music and fireworks.
What became known as “Russiagate” was the 2016 Clinton campaign smear that was directed at Republican candidate Donald Trump. However, “Spygate” preceded the deployment of the smear.
The Obama administration used Clinton’s Russiagate to hide Obama’s Spygate.
President Obama’s support for the dirty trick Hillary Clinton created, starts with his motive to hide the spying.
@ David Foster, interesting! But the combustion is surely a little bit secondary to the smelting and so on, no? The main point is not to burn the metal, after all. Still, it’s a fun-looking departure from most other family occasions, and for my taste, also beats the monster trucks and so on.
“Lawfare Operative Norm Eisen Is Lawyer for Embattled Fed Governor Lisa Cook”
Norm Eisen is a well-known Lawfare operative, second only to Mary McCord in his high visibility and connections to all of the anti-Trump efforts. Eisen, like McCord, is at the center of the leftist effort to stop the Trump agenda through the manipulation of the courts, ie. ‘Lawfare.’
Here’s a little trivia. The Sanitation Police of the NYPD had its start when the city required toilets to be installed in tenements, unscrupulous landlords world just run a pipe down and not connect it to the sewer. The Sanitation Police was to investigate these transgressions.
I lived in NYC in the late 90’s. Had a lot of young friends who shared apartments. Often a random wall was added to make an extra bedroom. So sometimes the layouts were a little… odd.
One friend lived with five other friends in a barely renovated Classic 6 on the Upper West Side. He had the maid’s room, which was the best room because it had its own bathroom. The only common room was the kitchen, so if one of the roommates had a friend over, the two of them sat in the kitchen. The roommates occasionally had a big shabbat dinner with guests and the roommate in the main parlor would clean up his room and they’d set up a table there. That apartment was like stepping back in time, with the layout and finishes…
I also had a friend who lived in an apartment in the East Village that had the bathtub (and shower) in the kitchen. The shower was actually a tiny, tiny stall next to the bathtub. They had a cover on the bathtub. The toilet was in a random closet.
Someone else I knew in the same area lived in an apartment that was actually three separate — and I do mean SEPARATE — spaces. There were two bedrooms off the public corridor that were considered part of this “apartment.” The third space was the main space and had a bedroom plus the common space: a kitchen and a bathroom. The kitchen had a little extra area that served as kind of a living room. I wondered what you did if you lived in one of the separate bedrooms and had to pee in the middle of the night…. And what about on a daily basis, did you just walk down the hall after your shower, wearing a towel? What if you had to pee and you forgot your keys?
I also knew someone who had a great loft on Bowery. This was one of the real Artists Lofts that still had an AIR sign on it. It was barely renovated into a living space from its previous condition. But it was very cool. Three people shared it. This was the mid-90’s, when things were changing. The Bowery hasn’t gone as upscale as SoHo, so the loft might still exist.
The brownstones that were chopped up into apartments were interesting in that it was the servants quarters that wound up being the best unit. I always wanted to live in one, but they were out of my price range.
Lee Also wrote “Here’s a little trivia….”
Interesting and funny!
Open Thread item:
I recently learned about the State Leadership Initiative (SLI) from this American Mind essay: https://americanmind.org/memo/why-red-states-cant-govern/
Why Red States Can’t Govern — Governors and legislators must cut through the web of managerial guilds.
Thomas Murray 08.27.2025 6 minutes
The essay includes links to two pdf files that SLI is publishing: an Index of their assessment of how well the states (Red or Blue) were doing against a set of conservative criteria; and a Report discussing the problems with even Republican led or red state governments being controlled via the processes and procedures advanced by the progressive set of agencies and guilds addressing various governance practices (procurement, finance, etc.), often with an undercurrent of DEI, etc.
Recognizing the real nature of this situation is both disheartening and probably a real challenge to redirect to more conservative practice. But getting our state governments back to an accountable status has to be the net goal of making the corrections they suggest. The Marxist marchers through the institutions need to be kneecapped. This is another battle space beyond the usually mentioned Hollywood, media, academia, globalist corporatists, and federal bureaucracy.
R2L, whoa that Thomas Murray article is sad and scary, but important!!
Thanks! I’ll be sharing it!
Neo, Thank you for that.
I’m a born and bred Southern Californian who’s spent a grand total of about 5 hours in NYC between flights.
Now that my daughter, a 9 year resident, is having a baby in the spring I think I will be seeing A LOT more of it!
As a fan of the Nero Wolfe mysteries I’ve educated myself a bit on the general layout of the city and of course, ‘The Old Brownstones’.
This guy did a good presentation, I’ll check out more of his stuff so as not to be a complete malihini when I get there.
DOGE Update – Laugh or Cry? More wasteful contracts cancelled by DOGE – some are a real dozy!!
Indeed, Trump is Mr. Anti-Coverup, which is just another reason why the Coverup-Extraordinaire—AKA Democratic—Party felt compelled to get rid of him by any means necessary.
(And still does.)
That being said, Mr. Anti-Coverup is, curiously, not beyond employing his own bizarre fantasists—replete with reckless rhetoric—to “help solve” seemingly intractable problems…
Extracting nuclear weapons from France and Britain ought to be an issue American strategists are working on post haste if they haven’t already, being as before we know it those weapons may fall into the hands of devoted Islamists by default, and an achievement of that possibility would be perilous for one and all across the globe.
Victor Davis Hanson is writing a sequel to “The Case for Trump.” Naturally, it has to have a rise-fall-rise drama that must be irresistible for him!
Hanson mentions this in his new interview with Sebastian Gorka, Special Counter-Terrorism Advisor to the President (IIRC), and National Security Counsel, like before either Trump.
The most interesting section has Hanson probing Gorka for insights into the back then versus now comparison’s…which VDH will no doubt be filling out! See 28m-46….
By popular vote, let’s talk Russian oil refineries, what makes the strikes this August different to past Ukrainian efforts, and also what might still be missing from Ukraine’s ability to maximise the impact on Russia’s economy and willingness to negotiate.
…
Timestamps:
00:00:00 — Opening Words
00:00:48 — What Am I Talking About?
00:03:07 — Ukraine’s Strategic Imperative
00:08:06 — Why Oil and Gas?
00:17:30 — Strikes So Far
00:31:41 — Estimating Impacts
00:39:55 — 2024
00:44:27 — the WW2 Precedent
00:50:44 — Missing Pieces
00:55:09 — Defender Lessons
00:59:17 — Conclusion
01:01:13 — Channel Update
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Coming event in PIttsburgh, Oct 4: The Festival of Combustion
at the site of the Carrie Blast Furnaces. Features an all-day iron pour from a mini blast furnace (‘mini’ = 15 feet tall), demonstrations by blacksmiths, welders, metal fabricators, and glassblowers, also music and fireworks.
https://riversofsteel.com/experiences/festivals/festival-of-combustion/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=22151755895&utm_content=174817927618&utm_term=&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=22151755895
Aw, I thought this was going to be Neo’s review of Physical Graffiti.
(ref https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Graffiti)
https://babylonbee.com/news/kamala-harris-last-seen-fleeing-dozens-of-international-assassins-after-trump-cancels-her-secret-service-protection?
Really now
https://notthebee.com/article/florida-sheriffs-office-busts-non-english-speakers-using-hidden-cams-and-earpieces-to-cheat-drivers-license-exams-this-is-happening-all-over-the-country
sharksauce; made me laugh. Love LZ.
Spygate -vs- Russiagate
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/08/30/spygate-vs-russiagate/#more-275517
@ David Foster, interesting! But the combustion is surely a little bit secondary to the smelting and so on, no? The main point is not to burn the metal, after all. Still, it’s a fun-looking departure from most other family occasions, and for my taste, also beats the monster trucks and so on.
“Lawfare Operative Norm Eisen Is Lawyer for Embattled Fed Governor Lisa Cook”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/08/30/lawfare-operative-norm-eisen-is-lawyer-for-embattled-fed-governor-lisa-cook/#more-275529
Here’s a little trivia. The Sanitation Police of the NYPD had its start when the city required toilets to be installed in tenements, unscrupulous landlords world just run a pipe down and not connect it to the sewer. The Sanitation Police was to investigate these transgressions.
I lived in NYC in the late 90’s. Had a lot of young friends who shared apartments. Often a random wall was added to make an extra bedroom. So sometimes the layouts were a little… odd.
One friend lived with five other friends in a barely renovated Classic 6 on the Upper West Side. He had the maid’s room, which was the best room because it had its own bathroom. The only common room was the kitchen, so if one of the roommates had a friend over, the two of them sat in the kitchen. The roommates occasionally had a big shabbat dinner with guests and the roommate in the main parlor would clean up his room and they’d set up a table there. That apartment was like stepping back in time, with the layout and finishes…
I also had a friend who lived in an apartment in the East Village that had the bathtub (and shower) in the kitchen. The shower was actually a tiny, tiny stall next to the bathtub. They had a cover on the bathtub. The toilet was in a random closet.
Someone else I knew in the same area lived in an apartment that was actually three separate — and I do mean SEPARATE — spaces. There were two bedrooms off the public corridor that were considered part of this “apartment.” The third space was the main space and had a bedroom plus the common space: a kitchen and a bathroom. The kitchen had a little extra area that served as kind of a living room. I wondered what you did if you lived in one of the separate bedrooms and had to pee in the middle of the night…. And what about on a daily basis, did you just walk down the hall after your shower, wearing a towel? What if you had to pee and you forgot your keys?
I also knew someone who had a great loft on Bowery. This was one of the real Artists Lofts that still had an AIR sign on it. It was barely renovated into a living space from its previous condition. But it was very cool. Three people shared it. This was the mid-90’s, when things were changing. The Bowery hasn’t gone as upscale as SoHo, so the loft might still exist.
The brownstones that were chopped up into apartments were interesting in that it was the servants quarters that wound up being the best unit. I always wanted to live in one, but they were out of my price range.
Lee Also wrote “Here’s a little trivia….”
Interesting and funny!
Open Thread item:
I recently learned about the State Leadership Initiative (SLI) from this American Mind essay:
https://americanmind.org/memo/why-red-states-cant-govern/
Why Red States Can’t Govern — Governors and legislators must cut through the web of managerial guilds.
Thomas Murray 08.27.2025 6 minutes
The essay includes links to two pdf files that SLI is publishing: an Index of their assessment of how well the states (Red or Blue) were doing against a set of conservative criteria; and a Report discussing the problems with even Republican led or red state governments being controlled via the processes and procedures advanced by the progressive set of agencies and guilds addressing various governance practices (procurement, finance, etc.), often with an undercurrent of DEI, etc.
Recognizing the real nature of this situation is both disheartening and probably a real challenge to redirect to more conservative practice. But getting our state governments back to an accountable status has to be the net goal of making the corrections they suggest. The Marxist marchers through the institutions need to be kneecapped. This is another battle space beyond the usually mentioned Hollywood, media, academia, globalist corporatists, and federal bureaucracy.
R2L, whoa that Thomas Murray article is sad and scary, but important!!
Thanks! I’ll be sharing it!
Neo, Thank you for that.
I’m a born and bred Southern Californian who’s spent a grand total of about 5 hours in NYC between flights.
Now that my daughter, a 9 year resident, is having a baby in the spring I think I will be seeing A LOT more of it!
As a fan of the Nero Wolfe mysteries I’ve educated myself a bit on the general layout of the city and of course, ‘The Old Brownstones’.
This guy did a good presentation, I’ll check out more of his stuff so as not to be a complete malihini when I get there.
DOGE Update – Laugh or Cry? More wasteful contracts cancelled by DOGE – some are a real dozy!!
https://commoncts.blogspot.com/2025/08/doge-update-laugh-or-cry-more-wasteful.html
FYI (FWIW)…
“From Blacklist To NIH Director: Jay Bhattacharya On Fauci, Bioweapons, And The Collapse Of Free Speech In Science”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/blacklist-nih-director-jay-bhattacharya-fauci-bioweapons-and-collapse-free-speech-science
Indeed, Trump is Mr. Anti-Coverup, which is just another reason why the Coverup-Extraordinaire—AKA Democratic—Party felt compelled to get rid of him by any means necessary.
(And still does.)
That being said, Mr. Anti-Coverup is, curiously, not beyond employing his own bizarre fantasists—replete with reckless rhetoric—to “help solve” seemingly intractable problems…
“Israel Sees Sykes-Picot Borders As ‘Meaningless’ & ‘Will Go Where They Want’: Trump Envoy”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/israel-sees-sykes-picot-borders-meaningless-will-go-where-they-want-trump-envoy
Extracting nuclear weapons from France and Britain ought to be an issue American strategists are working on post haste if they haven’t already, being as before we know it those weapons may fall into the hands of devoted Islamists by default, and an achievement of that possibility would be perilous for one and all across the globe.
Victor Davis Hanson is writing a sequel to “The Case for Trump.” Naturally, it has to have a rise-fall-rise drama that must be irresistible for him!
Hanson mentions this in his new interview with Sebastian Gorka, Special Counter-Terrorism Advisor to the President (IIRC), and National Security Counsel, like before either Trump.
The most interesting section has Hanson probing Gorka for insights into the back then versus now comparison’s…which VDH will no doubt be filling out! See 28m-46….
There’s no mention of the book on Amazon books. Thus, this is very fresh news! And a welcome bit, too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dz0Vk6goZ_w
Open Thread Sunday – Russian War on Ukraine comes home roost – Perun
Ukraine Strikes Russia’s Oil Refineries – The effects, politics & what next?
– Perun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxac0wODnGQ