Sweet Jiminy!

OK, we are taking on the Tough Questions du Jour - why was Rod Stewart singing "Sweet Caroline" at the Queen's Platinum Jubilee Concert? Isn't that a Red Sox Nation thing?

Well, yes-ish, per the Times - Sweet Caroline is a fan favorite around the world and in many sports, and has been a thing in Northern Ireland for years, but... per the Times, the song came to Wembley in 2019 for the Red Sox-Yankees two game set and then took off during the Euro 2020 soccer tournament in 2021. LOTS more here, but I know you want to see Rod take a whack at it. Come in at the 1:55 mark, as Rod explains that the BBC made him sing this. Might want to think about turning down the sound and closing your eyes, but here goes...

Comments

[sbwaters]

If it’s for the Queen, it’s okay in my book.

[henry]

An annoying song whoever sings it.

Adds class to the Masshole Redsox fans, but who would and unwashed outhouse.

[henry]

So would.

Auto cucumber likes the UN.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Clarice ended this week's fine Pieces thusly;
--It will be a lot longer and harder to turn the country around than you might otherwise imagine.--

Maybe. The progs are the Establishment at this point and as they muck things up more and more will become an increasingly unpopular one until they are anathema.
Events have a way of turning loutish, unpopular Establishments out much quicker than they might otherwise imagine too.
A depreferencing cascade is often quicker, more tumultuous and more complete than the preference variety.

[clarice]

From your lips to God's ears, Iggy

[jimmyk]

Great Pieces, Clarice, one of your best. I wish I could be as optimistic as Iggy that something big will happen to topple the Deep State.

[Rocco]

Sweet Caroline is a tribute to Caroline Kennedy, and I loathe all things Kennedy.

[Neo]

Democrats Face Pressure on Crime From a New Front: Their Base
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/03/us/democrats-crime-gun-violence.html

Saturday’s article, written by Alexander Burns, focused on the reality that the progressive ideals of “police reform” have given way to the epidemic of violent crimes. The report notes that the most significant push for change comes “largely from people of color.”

Burns points out that nonwhite citizens have been “bearing the brunt of a national crime wave.” She also pointed out that most of the Democratic political candidates pushing for more policing are also nonwhite.

[clarice]

Thanks, Jimmy.

[Melinda]

Thank you, Clarice, for this week's Pieces. Sobering, but it needed to be said.

Victor Davis Hanson Suggests Biden’s Failures Are Paving The Way For Trump In 2024

https://americanlookout.com/victor-davis-hanson-suggests-bidens-failures-are-paving-the-way-for-trump-in-2024/

Dumb question: Durham wouldn't have let the Clinton donors slide on the jury because it increased the odds of tampering, would it? Her campaign would've definitely had all their personal contact information. Just seems like a nice big temptation.....

No idea, just wondering if that sort of thing's been done before with a jury pool, turning it into a honey trap. I know the Doj has done it with mob trials.

[Davod]

WATCH: Queen Elizabeth Charms in New ‘Tea Party’ Video With Paddington Bear.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1533171491512143874

[Buford Gooch]

I agree with Iggy, and said so when I posted Carice's article. The article is, as usual, very good. The conclusion on how much time is debatable. Preference cascades (which in reality are almost always depreference cascades) sometimes happen very rapidly. This looks to be one of those times.

[MissMarple2]

Clarice,

Good article. I spend a lot of time encouraging friends and sisters not to give up. We seem to be hanging on here - maybe because we are a large, close-knit family that are rooted in the Midwest.

A friend of mine has started speaking out at Kroger or when waiting in line at the drugstore, pointing out how prices are climbing and blaming Biden ( rightfully so). Not one person has contradicted her.

People who support the commie crooks aka the Democrat party should be shamed.

[Neo]

In a surprising development surrounding WikiLeaks and the fate of Julian Assange, who is still in London's Belmarsh prison awaiting awaiting a decision from UK Home Secretary Priti Patel on extradition to the US, a Spanish court has summoned former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to testify on whether the CIA planned to assassinate WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

[clarice]

Melinda, litigants get to strike a small number of potential jurors from the pool(preemptory strikes), and I assume Durham used up his strikes. Then any remaining members of the panel may be struck only at the discretion of the judge, and Judge Cooper refused to strike the three most likely biased jurors who remained.

[Melinda]

Thank yoooooou!

[clarice]

De nada.

[Melinda]

Scoop: Jan. 6 committee's private divide

https://www.axios.com/2022/06/05/january-6-committee-electoral-college-reforms

Looks like the Jan. 6 Committee has a parallel agenda for Uniparty, Inc. leaseholders.

[Neo]

Democrat Election ‘Winner’ Drops to 3rd Place after Hand Recount in Georgia, Voting Machines ‘Off by Thousands’
https://slaynews.com/news/democrat-election-winner-3rd-place-hand-recount-georgia-voting-machines/

never heard of this site before

[Davod]

This could be us

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/6%204%2022%20br0ught.jpg

[clarice]

I think I queen hosting Paddington Bear was one of the most adorable things I've seen in ages,

[Davod]

Neo.

"...However, Spears noticed that the results showed she received zero votes at most election precincts..."

[Davod]

Clarice. I agree. It also shows the queen has a sense of humor.

[Davod]

Clarice:

Do you remember this:

Daniel Craig reprises his role as British secret agent James Bond as he accompanies Her Majesty The Queen to the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games.

https://youtu.be/1AS-dCdYZbo

[clarice]

Yes, Davod, I do. Another clever work.

[MissMarple2]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10886007/Our-country-going-hell-Trump-launches-scathing-attack-former-Speaker-Paul-Ryan.html

Good. Too few people know what a weasel Ryan is.

[MissMarple2]

One of the funniest things I saw on Twitter yesterday was a long argument about why Paddington spoke with a British instead of Hispanic accent, whether there were brown bears in Peru, how he got to London, etc.

[MissMarple2]

https://nypost.com/2022/06/05/joe-biden-set-to-appear-on-jimmy-kimmel-live-wednesday/

I wouldn’t know except for this article. I won’t watch.

I also bet it is taped and edited.

[jim nj]

Two assessments of the Ukraine war:

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-june-5

https://militaryland.net/ukraine/invasion-day-102-summary/

[Melinda]

Joseph Zeballos-Roig
@josephzeballos
Scooplet: @RepDonBeyer (tax-writing Dem on Ways amd Means) is drafting a bill to impose a 1000% excise tax on the AR-15 style weapons at the center of the recent carnage in Texas, NY, and Oklahoma.

The measure is meant to bypass the GOP in reconciliation
businessinsider.com/democrat-ar-15…

https://twitter.com/josephzeballos/status/1533453529356066816

[clarice]

https://amgreatness.com/2022/06/05/the-sovietization-of-american-life/
VDH --a must read

[Melinda]

Michael Stumo
@michael_stumo
Build Back Beijing. Pulling the rug out from under recovering US manufacturers. Old style Clinton-Obama globalist move. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/exclusive-biden-use-executive-action-spark-stalled-solar-projects-amid-tariff-2022-06-06/

https://twitter.com/michael_stumo/status/1533774384535638018

[Melinda]

U.S. Department of Labor
@USDOL
We plan to engage in rulemaking on determining employee or independent contractor status under the FLSA, and we need to hear from workers and employers as we develop our proposal. https://blog.dol.gov/2022/06/03/misclassification-of-employees-as-independent-contractors-under-the-fair-labor-standards-act @WHD_DOL

https://twitter.com/USDOL/status/1533183057947250688

[Neo]

Cardi B @iamcardib
When y’all think they going to announce that we going into a recession?

When you have lost Cardi B ...

[MissMarple2]

That VDH article clarice linked is indeed, a must read.

That invocation of the Defense Authorization Act is upsetting. I bet those solar panels get built on Bill Gates’ newly-acquired farmland.

[Dave (in MA)]

How nice of Google to observe D-Day by commemorating the birth of the inventor of the espresso machine.

[MissMarple2]

Report from Bannon’s show:

Huge caravan of around 12,000 heading to the Mexican-US border.

Clip of Atlantic reporter carrying on about Steve Bannon and how dangerous he is on Joe and Mika’s show.

Steve Cortes pointing out that right before Obama left office the Energy Department shut down 3 gas-fired power plants in Florida, so it will probably result in rolling blackouts and higher electric bills for Floridians this summer.

Coming up: Rudy Guiliani.

[Neo]

There is a joke currently making its way through the internet. It goes something like this: Elon Musk has offered to buy the FBI for $100 million. No word on whether Hillary Clinton will sell.

[Melinda]

12,000 words on just one person? That's a LOT of pent up hate.

Michael Edison Hayden
@MichaelEHayden
SPLC is adding a long, long overdue extremist file later this week.

I think you’ll find the 12,000 words of evidence, including audio and video files, makes a very clear case.

https://twitter.com/MichaelEHayden/status/1533821403790712837

[MissMarple2]

https://mobile.twitter.com/TexasLindsay/status/1533628751115862018

X-Files, Season 10, 2016. Four minute video clip which really hit home. Recommend watching.

[MissMarple2]

From Paul Sperry on Twitter:

BREAKING: the House Select Committee on January 6, has failed to obtain a "smoking gun" proving top-down organization of the Capitol riot, Hill sources say, despite taking more than 1,000 depositions and subpoenaing more than 140,000 documents.

——————
This explains why they have hired a big shot TV producer to help them with their presentation. It also explains the hysteria and constant crises.

[Narciso]

well a german syndicate runs most of the planet, aliens look at the peanut gallery and judge for yourself,

when they brought the series back in 2017, they were unable to get the opportunity,

[Narciso]

understand the opportunity they were given,

[Narciso]

are most of the times readers 'the hearing voices' crowd, because their delusions are terminal,

[Catsmeat]

Hi, all--sorry to have been absent (have been at JOM2). But I had to say: what sillies to try to do natural history on Paddington Bear! One of the first things we learn is that his grandmother, who raised him, has had to go into a "home for retired bears," and so the various wild improbabilities which follow are all just fine for the child reader. Paddington comes to Peru fairly literate in English, and the Browns (his English adoptive family) and their speech patterns were sure to have rubbed off on him. Plus small brown bears are cute; we are reminded repeatedly that he's a "young" bear--who never grows up, thankfully (like the Brown children, Paddington gets an allowance, which he shepherds carefully). I thought the little video was completely charming.

[Davod]

Catsmeat. Paddington Bear having tea with the queen is surely a propaganda coup for the Royal family.

Imagine the millions of young kids watching the video now and in years to come.

[Davod]

Sunday image at Ace - Geese at dusk.

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/6%205%200nt%20.jpg

[Davod]

Posted on JOM2 by Dave(in MA)

Gas prices.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FUkbSK-XEAckzzM?format=jpg&name=small

[clarice]

The inspiration for Paddington Bear was the sight of some poor Jewish child refugees in Paddington station London, who arrived with small suitcases and name tags on their coats..

[Narciso]

on the 78th anniversary of d day, a crazy german has control over much of the world, through govt ministries, media, academia et al,

[Jim Eagle]

Clarice’s 5:46 reminds me I ran out of marmalade and need a new jar.

[Narciso]

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/twisting-truth-about-tinseltown-bruce-bawer/

[Catsmeat]

So good to learn that, Clarice--that was Michael Bond, the author, who witnessed that and was inspired, then. Gosh, that's a sanitized narrative--Paddington was happy and comfortable in Peru, was sustained with plenty of marmalade on his long journey, and was (almost) immediately taken into the Brown family once he arrived, into the comforts of the English middle-class. The stories of the Jewish children--well.

[Narciso]

a little joy and whimsy we need more of that, reality is nasty brutish and short, all too often, and they face those elements soon enough,

[Narciso]

jumping jiminy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvHHa_6zVxU

[Narciso]

here we go again,

https://computingforever.com/2022/06/06/sounds-like-lockdown-to-me/

[Davod]

Ace - D-Day picture

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/dday.jfif

[Davod]

Another

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/ddaylaterinday.jfif

[Davod]

Ace - "This account, Project '44, features letters and accounts from the men of Normandy, with some illustrative video to accompany their words. I believe their letters are read by actors, because the audio quality is sometimes very high, and sometimes they sound like actors. But the accounts are real.

https://twitter.com/project4_4/status/1533071069397098497

[Neo]

My Daf joined the Army before Pearl Harbor and was about to ship out with his company to the Philippines when a personal matter delayed him. His computer shipped out, most ended up in the Bataan Death March. By the time he got to the West coast, Pearl had happened and he ended up watching Japanese interns until he got shipped out to Iceland. He went into Normandy on D+6weeks, witnessed the Battle of the Bulge close up and eventually liberated a German winery.

[jim nj]

Funny how that works

https://qz.com/2173916/why-starbucks-is-closing-an-ithaca-store-that-voted-to-unionize/
TIMING IS EVERYTHING
Why is Starbucks shutting down a location that voted to unionize?

I'm sure it had absolutely nothing to do with the vote.

[Davod]

This is a better link

https://twitter.com/project4_4/

[Davod]

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

"A large crowd turned out Saturday to see a new landmark in Minneapolis — a giant pencil near Lake of the Isles.

John Higgins, a homeowner on East Lake of the Isles Parkway, commissioned an artist to turn his damaged bur oak tree into a 20-foot-tall No. 2 pencil. The work is called the “Loti Tree.”"

https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2022/06/04/dozens-gather-to-watch-sharpening-of-giant-no-2-pencil-near-lake-of-the-isles/?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark

[Davod]

"The execution was all wet. Genius Award Winner.

VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. — Deputies in Volusia County arrested a suspect for theft after he allegedly stole a jet ski on Sunday afternoon, the sheriff's office said on Facebook.

Authorities said Ronald Williams, 48, stole the jet ski around 12:30 p.m. and, unable to get it started, floated away on it."

https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/state/video-florida-deputies-borrow-boat-to-arrest-man-on-stolen-jet-ski?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark

[Davod]

Ace's "Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by Unique River Cruises."

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/6%206%20br0ughy.jpg

[Davod]

"Created as part of the research process for writer and war correspondent Cornelius Ryan’s 1st book The Longest Day, this box of 6x9″ index cards map out the events of #DDay. The cards are arranged chronologically from 00:00 to 24:00 hours."

https://twitter.com/AldenLibDigital/status/1533818469376049154

[clarice]

CISA REPORT ON DOMINION:https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ics/advisories/icsa-22-154-01

[Davod]

"A cow was on the loose on the highway in Oklahoma, so they brought in a Cowboy to take care of it."

https://twitter.com/barstoolsports/status/1533825264924475394

[jim nj]

One assessment of the Ukraine war:

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-june-6

[Neo]

Not far from me, the police found a pony on the road in the middle of the night. They put the pony in a nearby fenced field. The field owner woke to a pony and had no idea where it came from … until the police called later in the day.

[MissMarple2]

Sitting out here in the garage having my morning coffee and a couple smokes, I have seen a bunny rabbit, a squirrel, and a chipmunk saunter by, not to mention the chirping of various birds.

Quite a pleasant morning after the heavy thunderstorms last night!

[MissMarple2]

Four-minute interview with Wilbur Ross, former Commerce Secretary in the Trump Administration (scroll down to the bottom of the article for the video):

https://www.foxnews.com/media/wilbur-ross-biden-foreign-policy-iran-conflict

[Neo]

And it is becoming obvious that similar tyrannical moves against the people of the United States have been thwarted in advance or deterred - and only state by state — pretty much only because the people of the United States have the right to own and carry weapons, and because many do so.
https://naomiwolf.substack.com/p/rethinking-the-second-amendment?s=r

[MissMarple2]

Target stock down 40% since last November, according to Steve Bannon.

[Davod]

MM2. What a wonderful way to start the day. Rabbits are one animal I have never seen here.

PS. Grammarly suggests excellent or fantastic in place of wonderful. I still prefer wonderful.

[Melinda]

The Big Quit
Even tenure-line professors are leaving academe.

https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-big-quit

[Davod]

Important news from the antipodes:

How to Survive a Kangaroo Attack. How fast can they come after you?

https://www.facebook.com/What.If.scienc ... 4506402957

[Davod]

Correct link For kangaroos.

https://www.facebook.com/What.If.science/videos/417884506402957

[Neo]

“If we lose our democracy this year, we are unlikely to get it back during our lifetimes. I can't think of anything more important than that.”
https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1480177601071169536

[Neo]

Hey @Liz_Cheney, is it standard operating procedure on the Jan. 6 committee to ask subpoenaed witnesses for campaign contributions?
https://twitter.com/_MeganSmall/status/1533870710606675969

[MissMarple2]

Davod,

People think kangaroos are cute due to A.A.Milne’s characters Kanga and Roo and the illustrations by Ernest Shepard in the Pooh books. My late brother-in-law ran a bar in Sydney for a number of years before coming back to the US, and he alerted us to their danger.

[Davod]

"CNN analysis: This is the best the GOP has looked on the generic ballot since 1938
Allahpundit Jun 07, 2022 11:31 AM ET"

Did he allow for the computer vote?

[MissMarple2]

https://babylonbee.com/news/is-hillary-clinton-sending-hitmen-after-you-look-for-these-troubling-signs

[Melinda]

St. Louis, MO getting "blowed up real good" by the Feds this week. 3 Aldermen indicted, and now an ex-"assistant" (read fixer) for St. Louis County Councilwoman Rochelle Walton Gray has been indicted for 4 counts of wire fraud (bribes using wire orders). Meet "Tony" Weaver::

Eric Garland @ericgarland
3h
BREAKING: ST. LOUIS COUNTY GOVERNMENT EXECUTIVE INDICTED ON FOUR COUNTS OF WIRE FRAUD IN RAPIDLY EXPANDING PUBLIC CORRUPTION SCANDAL

MANY INDIVIDUAL IMPLICATED IN FUTURE INDICTMENTS 😈🔥⚖️⚖️⚖️ ecf.moed.uscourts.gov/doc1/107110408…

https://twitter.com/ericgarland/status/1534211671891271682

[MissMarple2]

https://pjmedia.com/columns/stacey-lennox/2022/06/07/was-seinfeld-psychic-during-pride-month-it-sure-seems-like-were-all-kramer-n1603695

This is worth reading just for the video clip of Kramer at an anti-AIDS walk.

[MissMarple2]

https://twitter.com/backtolife_2022/status/1534288571678457859

The problem of the administrative state. Two-minute video clip from Bannon’s War Room.

[Narciso]

dejavu,

https://www.israeltoday.co.il/read/from-washington-to-jerusalem-the-conspiracies-are-unraveling/

and they just discovered the backdoors into the systems now,

[Pinandpuller]

You can only sing Neil Diamond at the queen’s 50th.

[Pinandpuller]

“Take a large sifter full of bran hops to your taste-boil these three hours. Then strain out 30 gallons into a cooler, put in three gallons molasses while the beer is scalding hot or rather drain the molasses into the cooler and strain the beer on it while boiling hot. Let this stand till it is little more than blood warm. Then put in a quart of yeast if the weather is very cold, cover it over with a blanket, and let it work in the cooler 24 hours. Then put it into the cask. Leave the bung open till it is almost done working-bottle it that day, week it was brewed.”—George Washington

[Pinandpuller]

The only recipe Joe Biden has is for disaster.

[Narciso]

yes indeed,

https://t.me/Jack_Posobiec/12792

[bubarooni]

Had to mow grass on Sunday here in beautiful Southern Indiana.

Bitched that it was $4.89 and spent a bit over 10 bucks to overfill my 2 gallon plastic tank.

Okay, I filled the company vehicle first and tacked on the extra after filling up so the company payed for it.

Accounting will never catch it.

Stopped today to fill up the vehicle I drive to get to work.

$5.25 a gallon.

If I pull that stunt this weekend, Acct'ing is gonna get me.

How fortunate am I?

Very.

How many others can't obfuscate their fuel purchases?

Not many.

The 'not many' is the vast majority of the electorate I'm thinking.

I don't know where it'll stop but I'd wager on The Red Wave in 2022 and the The Red Tsunami in 2024 is gonna bring this current maladministration to an end.

[bubarooni]

btw, Sweet Caroline is De Rigueur at all Big Ten football games.

While we are at it, one of the greatest college basketball plays of all time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7N0Vmr4lz4

[Rocco]

UKRAINE Fires Propagandist Who Spread Fake Russian War Crime Stories

https://rumble.com/v179uie-ukraine-fires-propagandist-who-spread-fake-russian-war-crime-stories.html

[MissMarple2]

https://apnews.com/article/politics-john-r-allen-qatar-middle-east-united-arab-emirates-5c30827587d2295012549d5d65fc806e

Former Marine general working for Brookings. FBI seizes data related to lobbying.

[MissMarple2]

That video of Stabenow laughing and bragging about driving to DC in her electric car so she didn’t have to worry about gad prices should be played nationwide.

[MissMarple2]

Of course I meant GAS prices.

[MissMarple2]

More on General Allen:

https://mobile.twitter.com/Pimpernell13/status/1534352195218460673

[jim nj]

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/07/target-markdowns-plan-to-cut-inventory.html
Target expects squeezed profits from aggressive plan to get rid of unwanted inventory

"Target warned investors Tuesday that its profits will take a short-term hit, as it marks down unwanted items, cancels orders and takes aggressive steps to get rid of extra inventory."

Other retailers have similar problems. I was food-shopping at Walmart last week and they had over a hundred bicycles on display outside the store. Overstock?

Makes me wonder if a lot of stuff waiting to be unloaded at our western ports is now considered to be overstock too.

[jim nj]

Two assessments of the Ukraine war (I've reversed the order):

https://militaryland.net/ukraine/invasion-day-104-summary/

(better maps than ISW and less opinion)

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-june-7

All the sources I look at seem to have had the situation in Sieverierodonetsk incorrect over the last few days. Ukrainian counter-attacks, if they occurred, were overstated, in some cases, into fantasies.

ISW seems to correctly state the current situation, but I'm tiring of their creeping opinion-ism. To wit: Fred Kagan, one of the ISW analysts, has a Time op-ed:
https://time.com/6184437/ukraine-russian-offensive/
The New Russian Offensive Is Intended to Project Power It Cannot Sustain
https://time.com/6184437/ukraine-russian-offensive/

I'm not saying he's entirely wrong. I think the Russians are running out of steam myself, but when he starts advocating, instead of just reporting, with some insight, I think ISW becomes less useful for its predictions of what's next.