The Year Of Weird

Change we can believe in - in an Eerie Coincidence, the first US commemorative quarter of 2020 came out in February and features - I kid you not - a bat.

 

Too weird. 

 

Comments

[Jim Eagle]

OL,

Just out of curiosity, how big is the Ledge in Nantucket?

[Old Lurker]

:-) Jack

[Stephanie Nene Not Your Normal Granma]

I'm no longer on the ledge, I've moved to the parapet, with a sight over the edge. I will go down fighting.

[henry]

Thread:

@klasfeldreports

NEW:

The judge orders the parties to "proceed with unsealing the relevant materials," rejecting Ghislaine Maxwell's new bid.

"The Court is troubled--but not surprised--that Ms. Maxwell has yet again sought to muddy the waters as the clock ticks closer to midnight," she adds.

https://twitter.com/klasfeldreports/status/1288942824340283399?s=21

[Rocco]

Right JiB, I know what you mean. Not feeling very confident here either. They're running out the clock. The teachers will hold our kids hostage and close the schools. And the postal workers will steal the election. That's what I'm feeling now.

Sorry for the pessimism.

[henry]

Nice weekend distraction en route.

@jolberding01

Those delayed are having to do with her own deposition. Those of others ABOUT her and Epstein will be released now.

[MissMarple2]

pic.twitter.com/DzCU5kF6Mm

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 30, 2020

Video (new ad) at the link.

[Captain Hate]

I will go down fighting.

*fistbump*

[Stephanie Nene Not Your Normal Granma]

From a friend Bill Crane who is the political go to on WSB-TV and a long time friend of Herman Cain...

One last anecdote, as news outlets and particularly cable networks, will continue to insinuate that Herman caught COVID19 while attending a Trump campaign rally in Tulsa, sans mask, I think you should know that it was Cain's daughter who came home to be with Herman and his wife Gloria, experiencing several COVID19 symptoms. Herman later was takING her to be cared for at an area hospital. Herman having had multiple forms of chemotherapy as aggressive treatments against his prior cancers had a somewhat compromised immune system. As his daughter was being taken in to care, Herman stood up out of his car to check on her and collapsed at the door to the E.R. He was taken into the hospital as well, and unfortunately this virus did the rest...but even until the end, Herman was fighting back and I hear from those who did speak to or Email with him, he still had those jokes and that smile and high spirit with him until the end.

[MissMarple2]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-svQAiURBbY

President Trump holds a press conference.

[Stephanie Nene Not Your Normal Granma]

His full statement is shared on my FB page. ^^^

[Extraneus]

I want to know what people can do about a potential teachers' strike

Pull your kid out of public school is all I can think of.

[Dave (in MA)]

Howie Carr was playing a clip of a Lowell Sun reporter interviewing Anti-Biz Markey and talking in the present tense about some landmarks in his home district including a drive-in theater that closed in the 70s, just to show how out-of-touch he is.

[MissMarple2]

Thanks Stephanie.

President on now.

[Jim Eagle]

Neal Boortz had Herman on a lot and they were our version of Abbot and Costello. God love him. He was a special man.

[MissMarple2]

TK,

The President says they need plasma from those who have recovered for plasma therapy.

Go to coronavirus.gov and see what they need you to do.

[DrJ]

Does anyone have a good recent overview of Black Lives Matter?

The reason I ask is that I had a discussion with MrsJ, and she is convinced that the group is set up to oppose to racism against blacks in all forms. I spelled out my understanding, which is quite different.

A reference article would help. Organization, goals/manifesto, funding and so forth would help.

Thanks!

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Turns out Trader Jose has some cojones;
Trader Joe's Reverses Course, Refuses To Kowtow To Outrage Mob

[Captain Hate]

Here, DrJ

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/07/what_the_black_lives_matter_movement_really_is.html

[Jim Eagle]

If you remember the shooting of Trayvon Martin, then that is all you need to know about. BLM and their Marxist founders. They are since Jesse Jackson, the ultimate white guilt con job ever perpetrated on the American public.

[henry]

Trump is spiking the vote fraud question into the MSM’s privates. I suspect the other reporters are stupid enough to ask as well.

[Dave (in MA)]

Unrelated to anything else:

Whoever came up with the idea for the disappearing scrollbar should be taken out and punched in the junk.

[henry]

“Stupid people might not know it”. ROFL

[henry]

Boy the MSM wants mail fraud ballots.

[jimmyk]

—I would have changed "it's" to "it was" and "can" to "could have".—

Well, it’s never too late, but I’d have to agree that the odds of any real pushback are not looking great at this point.

[MissMarple2]

I noticed that, too, henry. And sure enough, here's another reporter asking a question.

[Rocco]

Here's a co-founder admitting the movements Marxist roots.

https://nypost.com/2020/06/25/blm-co-founder-describes-herself-as-trained-marxist/

[MissMarple2]

It's CHINA's fault, not the worker's fault.

[Melinda]

Justice Department
@TheJusticeDept
Researcher Pleaded Guilty to Conspiring to Steal Scientific Trade Secrets from Ohio Children's Hospital to Sell in China justice.gov/opa/pr/researc…

https://twitter.com/TheJusticeDept/status/1288950512931549187

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

The one thing that I am most certain Black Lives Matter is not in the least interested in is eliminating racism.
In fact since, other than the few nutjob powerless neo Nazi types, actual racism is pretty much a dead letter, they have had to invent it to pretend to fight it to advance their real goals, destroying the West and freedom.

[Gentlejim]

JiB,
Thanks.

My question about the ledge pertains to any potential increase in rent. I’m asking because I haven’t received any correspondence from the landlord. I also can’t recall any stipulations as to when music has to be turned down.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--I would have changed "it's" to "it was" and "can" to "could have".--

I'm sure glad that perspective didn't prevail in the 1770s...or 1812, or 1860, or 1912, or 1921, or 1932, or 1941, or 1950, or 1968, or 1973, or 1980, or 1992, or 2008, or 2012, or 2016, or...

I hope we both live long enough for me to say 'I told you so'.

[Gentlejim]

DrJ,

I forget who posted this link for BLM recently: https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/black-lives-matter-foundation/

Good luck

[DrJ]

Thanks all. The links, while helpful, are less complete than what I am looking for. I should do the searches myself, but I thought someone would have a convenient reference.

My understanding is that Black Lives Matters is solely about police brutality against blacks, and has nothing to do with general racism. They have said nothing about black-on-black violence. They are Marxist to the core. And they have raised a huge amount of money.

MrsJ does not believe this, and I'm afraid that the short articles so far won't change her opinion. She is reasonable, though, and responds to facts.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

And I spoke too soon on the Federal bureaucracy.
They sent my Smith and Wesson to the wrong Post Office; one that is in a suburb of Sacramento.
My local PO has an email in to them, so now I wait to see if the next tracking update is it being forward that last 50 miles up here or some goombah deciding it's undeliverable and next stop is back home to Ohio to start all over again.

[DrJ]

GentleJim,

That's a pretty good start. Thanks!

[Gentlejim]

Iggy,
Hopefully, the numbskull at the wrong PO doesn’t grab it and say Christmas came early.

[MissMarple2]

As the Wall goes up, illegal crossings go down. This past week we built over 10 miles of Wall at our Southern Border. We now have 256 miles of NEW Wall and we are on track to have 300 miles completed by the end of August! pic.twitter.com/AWl0dYfY1w

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 30, 2020

Photo at the link.

[henry]

Earlier, Rep Vos (AssemblyMajority leader) tweeted for the people to sue in the courts to stop it. By law, simple majority in each chamber ends it. Vos has a supermajority in theAssembly. The Senate is alsomajority R.

@sendavecraig

Once again, Governor Evers has exceeded his authority with his unlawful mask mandate. The legislature should act immediately to block this heavy-handed, illegal order.

See my full statement here: legis.wisconsin.gov/eupdates/sen28…

https://twitter.com/sendavecraig/status/1288950704954957824?s=21

[DrJ]

On another note, last night we had Bindi Marsala (Okra -- fresh); tonight we are having Chile Verde. I love MrsJ's cooking!

[Threadkiller]

I never thought The Ledgers were never going to fight. I think that is an impression created by Tom R’s lies.

[henry]

Thread

@senfitzgerald

Watch the media’s reaction to @realDonaldTrump's tweet this morning vs. their reaction to @GovEvers' attempts to UNILATERALLY move an election in April. If you don’t think media bias is real…

https://twitter.com/senfitzgerald/status/1288881447353294848?s=21

[Threadkiller]

Thanks for the plasma link, MM.

[henry]

Moar distraction

@ethefriend

BREAKING: Judge Preska rules against Ghislaine Maxwell appeal on redactions, stating current redactions by Giuffre team are appropriate and properly redacted.
Unsealing proceeds unabated!
Full ruling below:

https://twitter.com/ethefriend/status/1288944889779159045?s=21

[lyle]

I guess I should NOT be surprised by now that Gaylord continually reveals himself as a classless boor fraud who always sinks to the occasion but here we are...

[MissMarple2]

My Administration has been focused on finding treatments for Coronavirus. If you’ve recovered from Coronavirus, donate your plasma today to help SAVE LIVES! Together, we will beat the Virus!

🌐https://t.co/YLpBCgf837 pic.twitter.com/IyO4livTLm

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 30, 2020

Video at the link.

[henry]

Puerto Rico went lights out after the tropical storm hit. It’ll be a hurricane by the time it gets to JIB / Florida.

https://www.wesh.com/article/video-tropical-storm-isaias-puerto-rico/33472738

When the people you elect steal everything, the crap they build won’t last.

[jimmyk]

It was nice to see this on one of my strolls on the UWS today.

Had a nice laugh with the proprietor. I said, "I'm sure they'll find some way to make that illegal too." He said, "Probably! But until then we're going to run with it."

(In case I haven't complained about it enough here, Cuomo mandated that bars and restaurants have to serve food with drinks.)

[Old Lurker]

Sure Iggy. Like we are the same people who prevailed all those other times.

You havean actual point?

[MissMarple2]

lyle,

Classless boor, indeed. I hope that the voters react the way we do.

For all the complaining about how vulgar and classless President Trump is, he has NEVER had to sit on a milk crate like Obama did at a European meeting!

[lyle]

Buck Oh Five here temp-wise. If that isn’t pool weather, I don’t know what is. In honor of the heat, I made tower of ahi with lime avocado, sesame soy tomatoes, slivered scallions and sesame seeds. Next course is chilled Thai spiced watermelon soup with king crab and homemade croutons. Drinking a nice but inexpensive rose sparkling wine. Cheers!

[MissMarple2]

Sean Spicier
@sean_spicier
·
9m
Poor John Lewis, spent 60 years fighting for equality and gets a DNC campaign speech as a eulogy

[lurkersusie]

NBA of China

(2) Dinesh D'Souza on Twitter: "Every NBA player, coach, and even the refs take a knee during the national anthem. We are now divided into two countries, one that loves the traditional symbols of America and one that doesn’t. https://t.co/gJy2Ny1fMC" /...

[Captain Hate]

You can't spell class without clueless fatass

https://newsthud.com/ana-navarro-faces-backlash-after-tweeting-herman-cain-thought-covid-was-a-hoax-scoffed-at-wearing-a-mask-died-of-covid/

[Captain Hate]

Nothing personifies Failure Theater more than this

https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2020/07/27/i-would-fire-all-of-you-nrcc-brings-a-knife-to-a-gunfight-with-kurt-schlichter-over-their-annoying-af-text-messages-and-hoo-boy/

[MissMarple2]

Scott Adams has a Periscope up which points out that President Trump chose the treatment that a majority of doctors in the world would use (the one anonamom would use). If it works, great! If it doesn't work, no harm done.

However. if you believe CNN (Orange man isn't following science, HCQ will kill you, Trump is stupid!) and Trump is right and the use of HCQ and zinc works, by scaring people from taking it CNN could be responsible for killing tens of thousands of Americans.

[MissMarple2]

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
·
13m
Great to spend time with Mike Singletary while going to Texas. He’s one of the greatest football players ever — A strong man and a really good person. Great being with you Mike!

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--Like we are the same people who prevailed all those other times.--

There is a tendency for people to think their era is uniquely bad or uniquely corrupt or their fellow citizens uniquely weak.
Sometimes they're right. Usually they're wrong.
Do you think the people were all the same all those other times but now they're different?
Perhaps in those other times there were just as many or perhaps even more dopes and crooks and brigands. And perhaps now there are just as many or more strong, smart and heroic people of virtue who have yet to be tested as our ancestors were and who don't think in the past tense about our present circumstances.

In any event why the hostility just because I don't consider the country a dead loss full of parboiled frogs?

[Jane]

It’s not over you guys - although we lost a month. I hope Trump used it to plot. We need to see what effect - if any the Durham report has. If any. I refuse to become pessimistic - although I’ve been on the ledge since day one. (GentleJim, please remind me to get earplugs so you can play your music all night long)

A liberal friend who is a medical person just texted me: “if you do nothing else listen to Fauci”. I texted back: “Fauci is a moron”. End of conversation.

[MissMarple2]

#NEW!!

Flynn Developments. New Indictments from someone other than Durham. https://t.co/6H6hR3uLTe

— 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗮𝗱𝗼𝗿 🌮 (@theconservador) July 30, 2020

Video with Devin Nunes at the link.

[lyle]

A liberal friend who is a medical person

Besides a-mom, who isn’t a lib? Out of my three doc friends, only one is conservative.

[Captain Hate]

In any event why the hostility just because I don't consider the country a dead loss full of parboiled frogs?

Everybody's pissed off, myself included, because of the four year insanity provoked by the enemedia. I'll say it for the last time: trust the voters to make the right choice like they did in 2016. They didn't really have a good choice in 2012 and 2008; we just thought otherwise at the time.

[Captain Hate]

If I was a betting person I'd put money that my pcp is conservative, although there are very good reasons why I'm not a betting person. My cardiologist's assistant is a big MAGA person. I don't have a clue about any others which is probably a good thing.

[lyle]

I’d guess the lib/conservative ratio in the medical professions is 80/20.

[DrJ]

In yet another note, over the past few days I have been watching one of daddy's favorites: Perry Mason.

Overall it holds up pretty well. The scripts are solid, as is the acting. The cars are great. The show is entertaining.

What is striking is the difference in women's roles and fashion then and now. There are very few women of direct power and influence. Mostly they are secretaries, wives, or gold-diggers. Bras give torpedo-shaped boobs, and waist lines are tiny. Fashion styles are very out-of-date.

Men's fashion has not changed much. The PI garb is dated, but he is supposed to be cool, as opposed to Mason and the business folks.

Everyone wears hats. And there is a politeness and respect between people that has been lost.

The courtroom scenes of course are outrageously inaccurate.

Still, it is worth watching, if for nothing else than a snapshot into the time. Recommended.

[lyle]

BTW, I love my PCP but I wouldn’t for a second believe he is the slightest bit copacetic with my political views. But he never starts lecturing me on guns because he’s an avid bird hunter so I have that going for me. He lives next door to some of my oldest friends so I have socialized with him around the holidays several times.

[jimmyk]

Besides a-mom, who isn’t a lib? Out of my three doc friends, only one is conservative.

I don't see why doctors (in contrast with lawyers) would necessarily be more liberal than average. Maybe a little, but many of them are essentially business people who have had to put up with a lot of crap from government interference.

Those doctors from the censored video like Simone Gold, and lots of other like them, don't seem too liberal.

[MissMarple2]

Melissa Francis
@MelissaAFrancis
·
6h
My humble theory on the “postpone the election” tweet: @realDonaldTrump knew Dems would immediately scream “NO DELAY!” For some reason we have yet to understand, he wants every one of them *on the record* saying NO! to a delay (& himself on record as open to it) Watch.

[DrJ]

many of them [docs] are essentially business people

I disagree. Most docs these days are employees. There was a huge consolidation after Obamacare. The big hospital chains took over. Out here at least, few of the independent practices remain. There are some, but not many.

Still, the docs I have had are really irritated with the amount of paperwork they now have to do.

[sbwaters]

Most medical doctors are well-educated in their narrow field but even pre-med where I went to school shorted them on legitimate Liberal Arts.

History? Literature? Government? Nope.

[Gentlejim]

Jane,
I love your response to your libtard friend.

I also enjoy Perry Mason. I haven’t watched in quite some time. I’m trying to make it through the latest season of Fauda.

[lyle]

I think everyone remembers daddy as a yuge Perry Mason fan, DrJ.

[sbwaters]

Nike commercial on the Yankee game promoting unity was alienating.

[henry]

sbw, did the unity require surrender to the Nike Borg?

[Narciso]

Its noir era, isnt it dr. J well its set in the 30s, and it was more black and white

[jimmyk]

I disagree. Most docs these days are employees.

Yes, but that's the point. They had to give up being in private practice because of all the interference. I guess i should have said "frustrated ex-businessmen," but I thought it was clear.

[lyle]

What’s a “Yankees game”? 🤔

[jimmyk]

I should add, it's partly Obamacare and related issues that have forced doctors to become employees, but also the plaintiff bar, and huge malpractice premiums.

I have a cousin by marriage who bent my ear for half an hour on this. He's trying to stay in private practice, but says insurance companies will pay him something like $75 for a patient visit, while giving much larger amounts to hospitals per visit for the same services. He says he's being driven out of business, and when he's tried to negotiate with the insurance companies they won't budge. I don't really know what's behind that, but it's post-Obamacare development.

[MissMarple2]

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/micaelaburrow/2020/07/28/redfield-says-more-abovebase-suicides-than-covid-deaths-n2573278?3015

[Catsmeat]

I loved the Perry Mason theme music--very arresting and drew you right into whatever implausible melodrama was on tap that day--and I watched it every day as a kid, right after the Flintstones (a rather incongruous match, but kids don't really care). That show made me want to be a lawyer, but at some point I did figure out that to be a lawyer required memorizing a lot of dry stuff, just as I figured out that being an opera singer required several hours a day practice--so being lazy I went for being an English prof.

[Narciso]

Jerry goldsmith wrote it, yes its very distinctive

[Jane]

Amy’s wife Mary is a cardiologist, and a conservative, Imagine that!

[Narciso]

Noe this is a vety well thought argument against (didnr see any zinc being employed as a catalyst)

https://mobile.twitter.com/jpogue1/status/1288871272261328902

[jim nj]

https://legalinsurrection.com/2020/07/chicago-tribunes-john-kass-will-not-take-a-knee-to-cancel-culture/

[Narciso]

Indeed

https://youtu.be/HT4wkkkaFTc

[MissMarple2]

TheHuBLife
@GeneralDilley
·
5h
Imagine showing up to a funeral and then going into a lengthy diatribe about fractional reserve banking, the plight of the artic penguin and closed with a "get out in vote in November" request.

Who does that?

A Jihadi terrorist spreading propaganda... that's who.

[Narciso]

Versus this

https://youtu.be/cPZ0xkxCadE

[DrJ]

I loved the Perry Mason theme music

Me too.

Uncharacteristically, they used a triplet continuo, and had a typical doublet-based melody. So there is a lot of 2 against 3 action.

Unusual for TV, at least these days.

[MissMarple2]

I like the original (with the triplet)as opposed to the modern version.

[peter]

Mrs. -peter tells me that the bars in Huntington, NY also serve Cuomo fritos and Cuomo fries as a way of getting around the Draconianism.

[Narciso]

What fresh hell is a cuomo fry

[Narciso]

A rare crack in the wall:

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/07/youtube-throws-in-the-towel.php

[Rocco]

peter,

Thanks for making my day.

Good nite all

[DrJ]

MM,

I didn't realize that there is a modern version! I started with Season 1, Episode 1 so that is the original. I like to track shows through the years as actors and writers change.

One other thing that I forgot to note: nearly everyone smokes. This could not be done today.

[Dave (in MA)]

What fresh hell is a cuomo fry

My understanding is it was a tiny portion of french fries sold in bars in NY to get around the mandate by Gov. Catcher's Mitt Face that they have to serve food to be allowed to stay open.

[Narciso]

Its with the guy who used to be the dour soviet spy in the americans matthew rhys which unlike aaron burr, and it has to be prematurely woke.

[Buckeye]

When was the last time you heard a singer playing accompaniment on an auto-harp?

Grade school?

Worth a listen, Kami Maltz has a captivating voice.

https://youtu.be/08gb6Muy3jI

[Dave (in MA)]

crack in the wall

"I have no idea what there could be in
Heather’s presentation that is more unsuitable
for consumption by teenagers than most of YouTube’s
content."

They wanted goverment schools to have a crack at indoctrinating them without running across contrary ideas on youtube.

[Narciso]

As is my understanding being hbo. Della street cannot be conventionally oriented, if you get my drift.

[lurkersusie]

Doctor Simone Gold was on Tucker’s show tonight.
She was fired from Hospital After Attending
'White Coat Summit'. She has hired Lin Wood.

https://youtu.be/tynTVhyGxiI