Weekend Leisure

I saw "The Little Things" with Denzel Washington and others. Solid cast, well done.

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[MissMarple2]

Snow started here a little over an hour ago. Fine snow, falling rapidly, no wind. Ground already covered.

Reminiscent of 1978.

[MissMarple2]

Just spoke to my son. Ne's northwest of me about 10 miles and already has 2 inches!

[henry]

Just a dusting so far. Rereading “The Artificial Kid”.

[jimmyk]

From the last thread:This is a good explanation of why we should try to instill a love of country in the younger generation.

Why one of SloJoe's first acts was to dismantle the 1776 Commission, which was created by Trump in response to the 1619 nonsense. Can't have that kind of patriotism.

[Melinda]

Wow!

John Harwood @JohnJHarwood
6h
“conspiracy theories” isn’t quite right

calling something a theory suggests it might be true

we’re talking about the sick delusions of psychologically-disturbed people

Doug Ross 🇺🇸
@directorblue
Replying to @JohnJHarwood
How Soviet of you.

Perhaps someone could, independently, review any claims for veracity. You know, perhaps a researcher with no hidden agenda.

You might call that person... a "journalist"?

https://twitter.com/directorblue/status/1355663749173157895

[Melinda]

Disclose.tv 🚨
@disclosetv
Redditors made it to a Times Square billboard. “$GME GO BRRR,” blared a digital ad on the corner of 54th and Broadway in Manhattan. The ad ran for an hour.

pic.twitter.com/Y8IXE8C075

https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1355617536029696001

Heheheheh.

[Narciso]

What kind of lizard is he?

https://www.wantedinrome.com/news/former-italian-premier-renzi-hails-saudi-arabia-as-future-centre-of-new-renaissance.html

[Jane]

I’m so happy to see us fighting back - and it seems to be growing!

[matt - deplore me if you must]

Diesel was $2.65 in SoCal 6 weeks ago. Now it's $3.40 - 50. Gas prices are also way up.

Diesel doesn't get changed here with the seasonal crap so it is a better gauge of actual change.

Thanks Joe, you douche.

[Melinda]

2 yr old article making the rounds again:

Empty half the Earth of its humans. It's the only way to save the planet
Kim Stanley Robinson

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/mar/20/save-the-planet-half-earth-kim-stanley-robinson

[henry]

Fine. Send all the commies to Mars. That’s about half.

[MissMarple2]

Melinda,

Spotted in Miami Beach (found it in the replies onTwitter to that post):

(If you can't enlarge, the sign the plane is pulling says "Buy Gamestop Stock".)

[MissMarple2]

Jack Posobiec
Flag of United States
@JackPosobiec
·
1h
Imagine thinking there aren’t anons in the Biden White House

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--I know of a number of "reset" buttons, none are pleasant, let alone the one Dear Leader Klaus is selling.--

The one reset which trumps all the others is called 'reality' and it's what all the other resets hope to replace with their own unrealities.
Reality don't play that.
Just ask Weimar, Robespierre, the USSR, Zimbabwe and all the others reset into their graves by the Great Reality Reset.
The modern world with its universal debt jamboree of the last 30 years is on a collision course with reality itself.

[Catsmeat]

Cheering, MM! The 13 inches we got last week are melting away, though of course with treacherous ice--I hope your heating holds up!

Spent the week reading Victorian fairy tales. Most interesting, the theory that the devil's "teing" or tithe makes fairies give the devil one of their own or a human every seven years. A very nasty idea probably promulgated by the Puritans wanting to tarnish fairies. Plus the story by Frances Hodgson Burnett (of Secret Garden fame) about a girl who goes behind a brick in the chimney to meet, among others, her baby sister who is full of complaints about diaper pins. Not sure I'd recommend it--in fact, not! But it's fun to read about a six-month-old sourpuss.

[MissMarple2]

https://nypost.com/2021/01/30/hunter-biden-now-laying-low-in-la-focusing-on-a-new-art-career/

This article has some interesting connections. (By the way, when did Hunter get a house in the Hollywood Hills?)

Seems to me this is another version of book advances and speaking fees.

[GUS]

Miss M. One of the really groovy URINALISTS, you know like John Harwood, might be a little bit curious???

Nah, he's licking Biden's ass and asking for MOAR.

[Neo]

Things not to buy on eBay
https://youtu.be/DbzbIGkPW-o

[MissMarple2]

Catsmeat,

When my sister and I were watching the "Great British Baking Show" (I think that's the name) I was surprised that in the final contest, the contestants were required to bake and decorate a birthday cake they had dreamed of in childhood and several based theirs on versions of fairies, fairy gardens, etc.

I don't think that would happen here. My only memories of fairies in children's literature are Tinkerbell from Peter Pan and "The Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy" from the Nutcracker Suite. That sort of underscores your explanation of the Puritan influence here.

I hope the furnace holds up as well. My space heater in my bedroom/office does pretty well. The dogs are already in here, (I think they are afraid they will be asked to go outside again.)

[Neo]

MissMarple2: Hunter is just getting into alternative way to launder money

[clarice]

I don't know why..and, in time, I may change my mind but the Game Stop story right now reminds me of "Seabiscuit".

[Jim Eagle]

Off to bed! slaapleker,tot morgen.

[sbwaters]

Willowed: On reading Markos on Solzhenitsyn:

What threads tie a multicultural society together? How are those threads validated? Who gets to decide what should be equal and how shall it be measured?

The difference between ideology and truth is that ideology never seeks to find reality and certainly can’t ask what is good because for them morality is relative.

The progressive ideology seeks progress to an unreachable end — progress, enforced through increasingly severe control, successively eating its own tail, increasingly centralized, brittle, and inflexible.

With no place for individuality, such a society kills its reason to exist. How sardonic that they justify attacks on individuals to rationalize further attacks on institutions crafted to protect the individuals they devour.

[GUS]

sbw, these full commies have NO HONEST and no MORALITY. Your description of IDEOLOGUES is spot on. Of course, the FULL COMMIES tell us we are WHITE SUPREMACISTS and WE are IDEOLOGUES.

Guilt can't be sublimated by pretending a LIE is the TRUTH,

[MissMarple2]

Daughter says a lot of money laundering goes on in the art world, given her connections to classmates and what she has learned.

[MissMarple2]

Hours of insider tape set to drop tomorrow from within Facebook... stay tuned... #ExposeZuck pic.twitter.com/NAHGJqHF1g

— James O'Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) January 30, 2021

Short video at link. I hope it drops at the same time as the Sunday news shows.

[MissMarple2]

Bernie Sanders
@SenSanders
· 8h
McDonald’s worker in the US: $9/hr

McDonald’s worker in Denmark: $22/hr, 6 weeks of annual vacation, a union, 1 year of paid family leave, life insurance and pension.

America must join the rest of the industrialized world and ensure that our working class can live with dignity.
=========================================
I want to know how much a cheeseburger costs in Denmark.

[MissMarple2]

Sky News Australia
@SkyNewsAust
·
35m
Sky News host @RitaPanahi
says the world has reached the point where “war is peace, freedom is slavery and BLM is nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize”.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Neo's 7:29 link was highly entertaining and a little bit horrifying.

[MissMarple2]

Melinda,

I believe this ad is a troll to take advantage of some people. What do you think?

Invesco US
@InvescoUS

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[Catsmeat]

Yes, MM, re all those fairies--I am rather afraid that the rot--the charm of fairies, with its late 19th c conception--is a very specific decadent movement that bodes ill--not that you will ever get any of the nice older ladies who indulge to admit it!

[Another Bob]

“ I want to know how much a cheeseburger costs in Denmark.”

Big Mac meal is about $12 in Copenhagen.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

This one's even better;
Building a fire death machine using soviet military tech

[MissMarple2]

Posted by Bloobemrg. Interesting thread. I wonder how many HK assets are already being moved.

https://twitter.com/b_judah/status/1355674272618983435

"The U.K. now expects 300,000 people to move to Britain from Hong Kong after London offered a pathway to citizenship to over 70 percent of the territory’s population. Clearly one of the least discussed decisions by Johnson relative to longterm impact."

[Melinda]

Look for the "Promoted" tag at the bottom of those ads. They're the only ones @jack gets, for the most part.

[henry]

Promoted equals mute. Surveys, I have never seen an ad on Twitter. Tempted as I am to drain $ from competitors, I mute them too.

[Melinda]

Oh, now this was epic stupid.

The Lincoln Project
@ProjectLincoln
The Lincoln Project’s legal response to the false and defamatory statements made by Rudy Giuliani.

https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1355618315570393090

[Melinda]

POLITICS
GOP Traitor Working With Dems on “Side Project” That’ll Disqualify Trump From Running For Office

Here, from Wayne DuPree.

[Melinda]

"Find The Red Queen"

Ed Markey tries his hand at Three Card Monte.

The Hill
@thehill
Sen. Ed Markey: "Right now is the moment to pass strong environmental justice legislation to protect frontline communities and reverse decades of environmental racism."

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1355335170837131269

[Melinda]

James O'Keefe
@JamesOKeefeIII
Hours of insider tape set to drop tomorrow from within Facebook... stay tuned...

#ExposeZuck

https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1355635112742948865

And I'm outa here....

[MissMarple2]

Ignatz,

I watched 2/3 of that kid making all sorts of scary electrical stuff from batteries, microwaves, etc.

Fascinating, but I bet Old Lurker wouldn't want him as a tenant!

[clarice]

https://taibbi.substack.com/p/suck-it-wall-street

[Narciso]

Is there any tweet too absurd for the hill to post?

[Narciso]

Well reasons

https://mobile.twitter.com/johncardillo/status/1355661741800230913

[Neo]

The actions of far-right groups like the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys, whose members allegedly featured heavily in the Capitol incursion, have been optically bad for Trump’s case. Paradoxically, indictments like these provide major evidence Trump didn’t incite the crowd.
https://www.westernjournal.com/doj-announcement-provides-huge-evidence-trump-didnt-incite-insurrection/

[rich]

of course trump didn't. it was fbi/splc plants and invited antifa who did.

[Narciso]

How go the tps reports rich?

[rich]

terrible.

[Pinandpuller]

Charles II once asked one of the most learned scholars that he knew why any intelligent person should waste time listening to the sermons of an uneducated tinker and Baptist preacher by the name of John Bunyan. “Could I possess the tinker’s abilities for preaching, please your majesty,” replied the scholar, “I would gladly relinquish all my learning.”

https://equip.sbts.edu/publications/towers/life-legacy-john-owen/

[Narciso]

Good question;

https://mobile.twitter.com/NiceDeb/status/1355615051013615620

[Narciso]

The denzel film i came acrosd was that leon israel esquire one, which won some awards but nothing special.

[Davod]

How would censoring Trump disqualify him from future office.

On a related matter, I don't remember his name, but many years ago an African American Judge was impeached and found guilty. I don't know whether he went to jail, but he went out and got himself elected to Congress. For all I know, he is still a member of the House. If the Constitution says one of the penalties for being impeached and found guilty is being banned from holding office, how was this guy able to get elected to Congress?

[Narciso]

Alcee hastings he was offered a bribe to fix a case for a drug dealer through thr atty william borders it was arranged by h paul rico who we later found out recruited whitey bulger.

[sbwaters]

Mel, the "GOP Traitor Working With Dems on “Side Project” That’ll Disqualify Trump From Running For Office" seems like an illegal Bill of Attainder crafted to apply to a single citizen.

Now, Susan Collins is dumb enough to craft such a bill, but I would think others would take her aside before it blows up in her face.

[Davod]

Narciso. That's the guy. Was he impeached, or just arrested, and processed through the courts?

[jim nj]

https://abc7ny.com/paper-plant-fire-warehouse-recycling-nj/10151279/

Firefighters battle 11-alarm recycling plant fire in New Jersey

Sounds like a big fire.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

These dopes still don't get something like that would incline enough people to vote for Trump they would have a hard time conjuring enough votes to cheat him out of the next one.

[Narciso]

Only the former, apparently that wasnt enough to warrant removal sarc.

[Narciso]

Is there something in the lansing water table

https://bigleaguepolitics.com/america-first-republican-tom-norton-rises-to-challenge-never-trump-rino-peter-meijer/

[Davod]

Neo. The Capitol riots were exactly the circumstances where those 400 ex intelligence service guys should be able to sift the open source data to support Trump.

[sbwaters]

If, some years from now, Mrs. sbw and I were to have a few days free in Italy, how would one choose between Bologna, Florence, Tuscany, and Rome?

[jimmyk]

If the Constitution says one of the penalties for being impeached and found guilty is being banned from holding office, how was this guy able to get elected to Congress?

It doesn't say that, though. The person can be convicted, and then there's a separate decision on whether to ban him from holding office. Hastings was convicted but not banned. Presumably because he's a Democrat.

[Davod]

Narciso. Might have been a case of Republican Hose and Democratic Senate.

[Davod]

House not Hose.

[Narciso]

Neither

Hastings filed suit in federal court claiming that his impeachment trial was invalid because he was tried by a Senate committee, not in front of the full Senate, and that he had been acquitted in a criminal trial. Judge Stanley Sporkin ruled in favor of Hastings, remanding the case to the Senate, but stayed his ruling pending the outcome of an appeal to the Supreme Court in a similar case regarding Judge Walter Nixon, who had also been impeached and removed.[8]

Sporkin was the company counsel that enabled the sham conviction of edwin wilson a few years earlier.

[jimmyk]

Bologna, Florence, Tuscany, and Rome?

Florence is part of Tuscany, or course. I would probably choose Tuscany, including Florence, Siena, and the countryside.

[Davod]

From the Asshole Consulting website:

"When you're sick and tired of paying people $400 an hour to spare your feelings and make you feel good, and you finally decide you want to start solving your problems, it's time to contact Asshole Consulting.

At Asshole Consulting we just plain don't have the patience to kiss your ass and guess what you want us to tell you. Instead, we're going to tell you what we think and don't give a shit if that pisses you off. And yes, we're going to charge you for it."

https://assholeconsulting.com/

[clarice]

sbw, I'd fly to Milan and go op to Lake Como. Rent a car and go visit the wonderful cities nearby--Sienna, Perugia, Bologna.The roads are good and the trips not very lengthy and those are the loveliest cities to see.Or, if you don't car to drive, there are trains, buses and ride shares between these cities.

[jimmyk]

That's cheating, Clarice, that wasn't one of the choices. But if you're up north Verona is also very nice. That's near Lake Garda.

[jim nj]

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/kamala-harris-tv-appearance-in-west-virginia-surprises-manchin-thats-not-working-together

Kamala Harris TV appearance in West Virginia surprises Manchin: 'That's not working together'
The vice president used local TV appearances this week to tout the Biden administration's nearly $2 trillion "American Rescue Plan"

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--President Biden
@POTUS

$600 is simply not enough when you have to choose between paying your rent and putting food on the table. That’s why my American Rescue Plan finishes the job of getting $2,000 to folks who need it most.--

Ok, that's January. So we're doing $2k per month? I prefer Yang.

[henry]

The answer is to reduce the soy fed to our youth. Not to bring in a bunch of illiterate gangsters seeking the dole.

@cnbc

The United states is running out of people. It is facing an aging population, falling birth rate and economic recession caused by the coronavirus pandemic. These issues will have huge implications on the size of the workforce and the consumer base. cnb.cx/396m7OL

[Davod]

I haven't got my $600 yet.

[henry]

I’m on the “no fed funds for you” list. Was the last time, too.

[clarice]

Yup. I'm cheating , Jimmyk, I've spent a lot of time in Italy, and if you're traveling I think these places are the most interesting sites, and the food in Bologna the best in Italy.

[MissMarple2]

https://www.tmz.com/2021/01/30/ufo-sighting-thousand-oaks-101-freeway-los-angeles-clear-shot/

Tried to bring the photos over here but couldn't. All we need are aliens to add to the nuttiness. Pretty interesting pics, though.

[Narciso]

Yes they are late, the wormhole must be backed up with traffic.

[rich]

Posted by: henry | January 30, 2021 at 10:13 PM

laying in the tracks for emptying out central america and quasi-amnesty ... and opening up ever more h class indentures.

good times.

[Davod]

Henry. Of course, the only answer is to import millions more people. You only need to read the Australian experience [See below] - where, because of exporting jobs to places like China, there were no more real jobs, the migrants mostly ended up on the dole.

My earlier Post: For those of you who like Australia, Instapundit links to a sobering article {I saw the start of this in the late 80s, but I didn't know about offshoring warship production]:

"THIS IS WHAT THE LEFT ENVISIONS FOR US: Every nation should learn Australia’s lessons."

https://www.bookwormroom.com/2021/01/27/every-nation-should-learn-australias-lessons/

[MissMarple2]

henry,

Does this mean that cnbc now is pro-life, supports traditional marriage, and wants to encourage larger families?

[rich]

Posted by: MissMarple2 | January 30, 2021 at 10:25 PM

the truth is out there.

[Narciso]

He did everything but wrap himself in saran wrap

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9205321/Rep-Stephen-Lynch-65-tests-positive-COVID-19-receiving-doses-Pfizer-vaccine.html?ito=push-notification&ci=73039&si=15732462

[Davod]

MM2. Only if the children are only taught Socialism in the public school sweat houses.

[Narciso]

Those words you are using

https://mobile.twitter.com/davereaboi/status/1355680081780355072

[henry]

Miss M 10:25, I have that frisbee.

[Narciso]

Settle down dude

https://mobile.twitter.com/Heminator/status/1355639022685724675

[jim nj]

https://amgreatness.com/2021/01/28/the-nature-of-the-chinese-threat/

Conrad Black

[Narciso]

And the dragons is wrapped all around this administration sigh.

[Narciso]

You think bond casting was strange enough

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=c1OS31YE1M0

[MissMarple2]

Conrad Black can be hopeful about this new administration, but I am not.

The Democrats and Uniparty creeps are inherently convinced of their own cleverness and disdainful of the Chinese as a threat; they are also easily lured by greed and a lust for power. I am certain that the Chinese are using all sorts of plots from financial to cultural, to gradually demonstrate their strength and superiority to the rest of the world.

Meanwhile, I just saw an article on The Hill that they are taking THERAPY DOGS to the National Guardsmen in DC. While that is all well and good, it does not demonstrate military strength for the international community and those Guardsmen would probably do better at home, rather than guarding a bunch of commies and crooks in DC.

Harumph! I think I had better get to bed before I work myself up.

[sbwaters]

Thank you for your experience. Love this blog!

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--and the food in Bologna the best in Italy--

What, bologna sammiches?

[jim nj]

https://amgreatness.com/2021/01/29/caught-with-their-hands-in-the-cookie-jar/

The Democrats stole the election, and it’s critically important we keep saying it.

[Narciso]

Is that where the bolognese soup comes from (i burnt my lip on a sample)

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--Conrad Black can be hopeful about this new administration, but I am not.--

CB has never grasped the nature of progressivism or progs. He thought FDR was just peachy.
They're totalitarians under the skin...and their skin is peeling off.
Cry havoc and let loose the therapy dogs of war!

[Narciso]

Well why would they:

https://m.jpost.com/breaking-news/iran-rejects-new-participants-any-talks-on-nuclear-deal-657246

[CCGirl]

Ugh, of course it’s Lynch from MA. So typical. At least I live in a beautiful area.

Like Miss M I will sign out. Too late for me to post too much nonsense.

Sleep well all!

[clarice]

https://www.zicasso.com/italy/cuisines/north/emilia-romagna/bologna

The food of Bologna

[Narciso]

Very good selections. Clarice.

[Narciso]

I know wheres shes coming from but shes not wrong

https://mobile.twitter.com/caitoz/status/1355671217064210432