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Sunday Morning Book Thread 07-25-2021
St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, St. Johnsbury, VT
Pic Note: Founded in 1871, the Athenæum consists of an art museum and a library:
The library’s book collection, originally consisting of 8,000 finely bound volumes selected with the advice of the noted bibliographer W.F. Poole, has been expanded to include nearly 45,000 volumes. In addition to physical books, the library has magazines, newspapers, DVD movies, CD audio books, e-books and and audio books online, a complete set of the local newspaper on microfilm, pamphlets and paperbacks.(h/t to the lurking moron who sent me this)
Citing its remarkable architecture, well-preserved gallery of American paintings, and Poole’s original book collection, the United States Department of the Interior designated the St. Johnsbury Athenæum a National Historic Landmark in 1996. The Athenæum is one of the few libraries in the nation with this prestigious status.
It Pays To Increase Your Word Power®
(Accurate description of the comment section of pretty much any sites(except for this one, which is a classy joint)).
Félix Armand Heullant - Contemplation
A Wee Bit of Nostalgia I started rereading All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot because Mrs. Muse and I are watching the first season of the new adaptation that came out last year. When I first heard about it, I knew I would not be interesting to find out that the Yorkshire of the 1930s was filled with semi-closeted homos, shrieking feminists, feral animal-rights activists, and rat bastard commie union thugs. But one of my Twitter peeps said no, it's not at all larded up with 'woke', give it a try, it's actually quite good, and he was right. It's actually a bit enhanced a bit (gain of function?) from the books, i.e. more time is spent fleshing out the secondary characters, and it mostly works. The writers are careful to keep everything well within the spirit of the original story instead of injecting glaringly incongruous characters and plot element, and we're happy with it after seeing 6 episodes. But I haven't read the books in 20 years, and of course they are a delight, and it's been fun revisiting the 'Herriotverse', if you could call it that. I could hear the Yorkshire accents of the farmers just by how he spelled out the words on the page. And it's gread bedtime reading because the chapter are short, maybe 5-10 pages at most, so there are many natural stopping points if you get too sleepy. The trouble is, they're like potato chips, i.e. hard to stop eating once you've started, so for the past few nights, I've stayed up later than I wanted. Fortunately, Mrs. Muse is a sound sleeper and I can leave the light on.
Who Dis:
(this one is going to be tough)
(Last week's 'who dis' was Dame Judi Dench, in her younger days, before she was a 'Dame'. Well, she was always a dame, but not a 'Dame' dame.)
Moron Recommendations
124 I've been reading Standing Before Hell's Gate by moron author William Alan Webb. I really enjoy this series. Set in what's left of America, some 50 years after the collapse. Leftover Americans, resurrected Americans, bands of terrorists and bandits, Native Americans, Chinese invaders, Muslims--all competing for scare resources and control of populations.Standing Before Hell's Gate is book 4 of Webb's 'Last Brigade' Series, book 1 of which is Standing the Final Watch. Both are available for $4.99. Or you can take the plunge and buy the entire 5-book series for $24.95. ___________
These are entertaining reads, and I can usually finish a couple of chapters before bed.
Posted by: April -- dash my lace wigs! at July 18, 2021 08:39 AM (OX9vb)
201 In addition to "The Typewriter Revolution", Richard Polt has edited several books of short stories on the use and value of manual typewriters. Each book has a theme, horror/suspense, post-technical world, etc. Each story is shown in the machine's typeface the writer used which, for me, makes the reading easier. And the writing is excellent. Varied but creative and well written. I've been hopping through the books and reading stories as the title appeals.Searching through Polt's books on Amazon, he's also written quite a lot about the philosophy of Martin Heidegger. He also seems to be fascinated with the writer Harry Stephen Keeler, whom he refers to as "America's comic Kafka" and several of his books are collections of the newsletters of the Harry Stephen Keeler society, which, I suppose, he founded. But of the books JTB mentioned, here's one, Dead Keys: Typewritten Tales of Terror and it's available in paperback only. It's Book 4 of the 'Cold Hard Type' series. Looking through the Amazon sample of this collection of horror stories, it's fun to see the vintage typeface and a pleasure to read. If you are curious about the author Harry Stephen Keeler, there are a number of his novels available on Kindle for $2.99, among them (ahem) The Ace of Spades Murder, which is book 2 of Keeler's 'Screwball Circus' mysteries, The Man with the Magic Eardrums and
I'm not usually a fan of short fiction (essays are another matter) but these have been wonderful.
Posted by: JTB at July 18, 2021 09:15 AM (7EjX1)
The Case of the Two Strange Ladies. Even without the typewriter fanboi-ism, Polt seems like a quirky and eccentric fellow. ___________
182 One interesting book that investigates the nature of mankind uses copious references to classics in literature and its characters crossed with Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress and doggerel/poetry/singing.Silverlock was first published in 1949, and is still in print. The Silverlock wiki page has a concise plot description:
That book is John Myers Myers' Silverlock. Classic book and easy read if you skim. However, to get all the literature references, you will have to read a lot of canonical literature (or at least a summary of them.)
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2021 10:51 AM (pO7gM)
While on a sea voyage, a ship named Naglfar founders. One anhedonic passenger, A. Clarence Shandon (M.B.A., Wisconsin), is washed ashore in a fictional land known as "The Commonwealth of Letters". He is befriended by Golias, who nicknames him "Silverlock" and who becomes his guide. Silverlock and Golias encounter figures from history, literature and mythology.If you're curious, the wiki page has a list of all the characters he meets, including Job, Beowulf, Robin Hood, Hamlet, Faust, Becky Sharp, and many others. You can pick up the Kindle edition of Silverlock for the bargain basement price of $2.99. The the hardcover edition will cost you $26.00, but you might think it would be worthwhile to get the additional material that is included with it, which includes
...biographical and bibliographical material on John Myers Myers, who was also a notable historian of the American West; a sampler of his verse; and the melodies, with tablature, of song-settings of five more poems. Vastly enriching appreciation of the novel is a generous reader's guide to its characters, places, special vocabulary, and allusions.I have never heard of this fantasy novel despite it being around longer than I have been arrived. I can see why, though. In order to really understand it, you have to be familiar with the cultural knowledge it's built on. Most people knew that stuff in years gone by, But the elites of our culture, its supposed guardians, have spent the last several decades sneering at it, pissing on it, and burning it. I guess Silverlock is kind of like Umberto Eco's novel The Name of the Rose, which inspired the companion volume The Key To The Name of the Rose which explained all of the references and allusions on every page. And also included translations of all of the non-English passages.
Books By Morons Got an e-mail from a lurking moron author this week:
This is to let you know that I've re-released my military-science fiction novel "Cherry Drop" on 7/23. I'd be very grateful if you'd include it in the Books by Moron section of the Sunday Morning Book Thread. "Cherry Drop" is the first of a soon-to-be four novel series. Here's the blurb:Not much I can add to this, which is why I just cut-and-pasted it. "Cherry Drop" is available on Amazon. $4.99 Kindle e-book, or $14.99 paperback. ___________ So that's all for this week. As always, book thread tips, suggestions, bribes, insults, threats, ugly pants pics and moron library submissions may be sent to OregonMuse, Proprietor, AoSHQ Book Thread, at the book thread e-mail address: aoshqbookthread, followed by the 'at' sign, and then 'G' mail, and then dot cee oh emm. What have you all been reading this week? Hopefully something good, because, as you all know, life is too short to be reading lousy books.
"In the International Space Marine Corps, every new Marine is a cherry, raw and untested. Even the officers.
Second Lieutenant Abner Fortis is as cherry as they come. The ink on his commission is barely dry when he is ordered to make his first combat drop ship insertion, or "cherry drop." The mission is a training mission on the jungle planet of Pada-Pada, where the biggest challenge is how to avoid becoming a snack for the carnivorous bugs that lurk in the underbrush. Practically a vacation by ISMC standards.
When the mission goes awry and a dark secret is exposed, Fortis and his fellow Marines are forced to fight for their very survival against a vicious foe on a hostile planet."
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at July 25, 2021 08:00 AM (Dc2NZ)
Posted by: rhennigantx at July 25, 2021 08:00 AM (yrol0)
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 25, 2021 08:02 AM (oEn12)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 25, 2021 08:03 AM (PiwSw)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at July 25, 2021 08:03 AM (Dc2NZ)
No new books this week, but a discovery
As last night mentioned seeing A Woman in Berlin, a anonymous book printed in 1950s about a German woman trying to survive Russian takeover and occupation of Berlin 1945.
Well in looking for movie found
https://youtu.be/5nHX9750dIU
The audio book on YouTube
Are there more audio books on YouTube?
Posted by: Skip at July 25, 2021 08:03 AM (Cxk7w)
Posted by: Vic at July 25, 2021 08:04 AM (mpXpK)
Posted by: runner at July 25, 2021 08:04 AM (V13WU)
Posted by: Northernlurker, surgite at July 25, 2021 08:05 AM (cSyAR)
Posted by: ZOD at July 25, 2021 08:06 AM (xK9An)
Posted by: Skip at July 25, 2021 08:06 AM (Cxk7w)
Posted by: Zoltan at July 25, 2021 08:06 AM (kiyX4)
Posted by: CN at July 25, 2021 08:06 AM (ONvIw)
NESFA Press had a one-volume collection of John Bellairs' adult fantasy (he is best known for the YA Lewis Barnavelt series) called "Magic Mirrors: the High Fantasy and Low Parody of John Bellairs" which I snagged at their website:
https://www.nesfa.org/press/available-books/
This has one of my favorite stories of all time, "The Face in the Frost", and an incomplete previously unpublished prequel, "The Dolphin Cross".
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at July 25, 2021 08:07 AM (Dc2NZ)
Posted by: Biden's Dog at July 25, 2021 08:08 AM (yvLnI)
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 25, 2021 08:08 AM (oEn12)
Posted by: runner at July 25, 2021 08:04 AM (V13WU)
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Joan Collins.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 25, 2021 08:08 AM (llXky)
Posted by: ZOD at July 25, 2021 08:06 AM (xK9An)
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His sepuku ensemble and makeup were exquisite.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at July 25, 2021 08:08 AM (Dc2NZ)
Posted by: Muad'dib at July 25, 2021 08:09 AM (WLeoI)
Posted by: grammie winger at July 25, 2021 08:09 AM (45fpk)
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Looks more like "How can I read with Grandpa here snoring away!"
Posted by: Biden's Dog at July 25, 2021 08:10 AM (yvLnI)
Those pants.....going where men have not gone before.
The Who Dis is Empress Kojun on learning that her sneaky, backstabbing people have bombed Pearl Harbor.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 25, 2021 08:10 AM (R/m4+)
Posted by: runner at July 25, 2021 08:10 AM (V13WU)
The Herriot books were one of our family read-aloud series when I was a kid. There were five of us, and Mom read aloud to us in the evening a lot.*
We also had livestock, so could relate to a lot of the critter situations.
I think I'll put those on my re-read list. They are a delight.
*"Mom, what did you guys do before there was tv?"
Posted by: April -- dash my lace wigs! at July 25, 2021 08:10 AM (OX9vb)
I recently finished Elmore Leonard's book Pronto. It's the first of his works to feature Raylan Givens. The end of Pronto was adapted into the opening scene of the TV show Justified. Love Elmore Leonard.
Currently reading the 2nd book in the Fletch series from Gregory McDonald. Confess, Fletch is the title. There is a Confess, Fletch movie currently in the works. Jon Hamm will star as Fletch. Good read so far.
Posted by: Doof at July 25, 2021 08:11 AM (JNEIO)
Posted by: Northernlurker, surgite at July 25, 2021 08:05 AM (cSyAR)
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I've had my own reading momentum broken up last week. Hoping to finish Stanley G. Payne's Civil War in Europe 1905-1949 this week and then I'll pick up GK again.
This is the third book I've read by Payne, who focuses on Spain but also fascism (the actual thing, not the vague term for people the left doesn't like). He tends to write clearly and not at any great length, which is nice.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 25, 2021 08:11 AM (llXky)
Posted by: dantesed at July 25, 2021 08:11 AM (88xKn)
I can only read it for a little while before it gets irritating!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 25, 2021 08:13 AM (Q9lwr)
Posted by: Biden's Dog at July 25, 2021 08:14 AM (yvLnI)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 25, 2021 08:14 AM (NHBuF)
Posted by: Skip
if its not at your library they can probably get it through inter
library loan
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 25, 2021 08:14 AM (oEn12)
Posted by: Vic at July 25, 2021 08:14 AM (mpXpK)
Posted by: Vic at July 25, 2021 08:15 AM (mpXpK)
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 25, 2021 08:15 AM (oEn12)
Posted by: Skip at July 25, 2021 08:15 AM (Cxk7w)
Posted by: Captain Ned at July 25, 2021 08:16 AM (XIfux)
But still - I am working on finishing the next Luna City installment, and I started on the third volume of stories loosely based on the Lone Ranger, only historically accurate and racked back in time to the 1840s. I hope to have the "Lone Star Blood" collection of short adventures done in time for this years' Word Wrangler book festival in Giddings, Texas, in November.
Posted by: Sgt. Mom at July 25, 2021 08:16 AM (xnmPy)
Posted by: grammie winger at July 25, 2021 08:16 AM (45fpk)
Pants check! Pants check! Show a leg! While in the station, please refrain!
Posted by: The Conductor at July 25, 2021 08:17 AM (a3Q+t)
I've also begun "Helluva Town," a history of how NYC changed during the war years. I'm barely into it, but I'm learning interesting tidbits.
Posted by: Weak Geek at July 25, 2021 08:17 AM (Om/di)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin at July 25, 2021 08:18 AM (I58tH)
Posted by: CN at July 25, 2021 08:18 AM (ONvIw)
De gustibus non est and all that. "Love, Poverty and War" by the same author is easier sledding.
Posted by: ZOD at July 25, 2021 08:20 AM (xK9An)
Posted by: Skip
you should go - one of the few not totally evil things your tax dollars pay for
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 25, 2021 08:20 AM (oEn12)
Posted by: A Klingon at July 25, 2021 08:20 AM (Tnijr)
Posted by: Muad'dib at July 25, 2021 08:09 AM (WLeoI)
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I wanted to go! I missed you all. Sounds like you found a good venue.
One of the pleasures of a MoMee is the conversation, and some other venues made it difficult to hear all the wacky depraved stuff being uttered by the attendees.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at July 25, 2021 08:21 AM (Dc2NZ)
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 25, 2021 08:21 AM (oEn12)
Fyi, there's a special service with Jack Hibbs...Mike Pompeo will be featured.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulB1HgZ9iCk
Posted by: SMH at July 25, 2021 08:22 AM (lXPeG)
I can only read it for a little while before it gets irritating!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 25, 2021 08:13 AM (Q9lwr)
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Thomas Mann's "Rite of Pain" is better.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at July 25, 2021 08:22 AM (Dc2NZ)
Posted by: ZOD at July 25, 2021 08:22 AM (xK9An)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulB1HgZ9iCk
Posted by: SMH at July 25, 2021 08:22 AM (lXPeG)
Oh! Thank you!
Posted by: grammie winger at July 25, 2021 08:23 AM (45fpk)
Posted by: grammie winger at July 25, 2021 08:16 AM
One of my faves. If you haven't already, follow up with Murder Must Advertise and The Nine Tailors.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 25, 2021 08:23 AM (XsSlw)
Posted by: Weak Geek at July 25, 2021 08:23 AM (Om/di)
Posted by: Just a side note at July 25, 2021 08:24 AM (2DOZq)
The backstory: the student parish sanctuary is rectangular and used to have the altar on a narrow end like a conventional church. Sometime later, they rotated it 90 degrees so it had a more "stadium seating" feel and everyone was closer to the altar. Behind the new altar they have liturgically-colored abstract wall hangings. Off to the side, almost as an afterthought, was a large crucifix sculpted by the same guy who did the Sparty statue (with the result that Jesus is quite buff).
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 25, 2021 08:24 AM (llXky)
Posted by: grammie winger at July 25, 2021 08:16 AM (45fpk)
Heh, I'm like that at my job. I've told my supervisors as much--I'm getting old and I don't want to learn new things; I just want to do my job and be efficient and effective and I don't have any goals.
They give me good reviews anyway, so it's golden for now.
Posted by: April -- dash my lace wigs! at July 25, 2021 08:24 AM (OX9vb)
Posted by: Skip at July 25, 2021 08:25 AM (Cxk7w)
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Is it wrong that I laughed?
Is it worse that I'm contemplating Jesus with a six-pack?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at July 25, 2021 08:26 AM (Dc2NZ)
Posted by: MichiCanuck at July 25, 2021 08:26 AM (m3iaN)
They've now moved that crucifix to be squarely behind the altar and it utterly dominates the room. It is a very visible change and one that is reflected in the tone and content of the Masses as well. This used to be the archetypal liberal Catholic college parish, but that's no longer the case.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 25, 2021 08:27 AM (llXky)
Posted by: runner at July 25, 2021 08:04 AM (V13WU)
Wowee.
I was gonna say Sumako the Japanese actress, but I think this pic is Victorian
Posted by: CN at July 25, 2021 08:27 AM (ONvIw)
Posted by: 496 at July 25, 2021 08:27 AM (U1eOr)
usa men's just dribble team losing to France, Yeah that France, in the 3rd quarter by 4. LOL
I hope they lose.
Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 25, 2021 08:28 AM (Irn0L)
Cana after-party plan.
Posted by: ZOD at July 25, 2021 08:28 AM (xK9An)
Posted by: Trimegistus at July 25, 2021 08:28 AM (QZxDR)
Is it worse that I'm contemplating Jesus with a six-pack?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at July 25, 2021 08:26 AM (Dc2NZ)
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The sculpture does in fact have a six-pack. Muscular Christianity, I guess.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 25, 2021 08:29 AM (llXky)
"also his artwork sold pretty cheap, " sneered Hunter
Felix Heullant Armand is a French 19th Century painter who was born in 1834. Felix Heullant Armand's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from $309 USD to $6,875 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2007 the record price for this artist at auction is $6,875 USD for Char nuptial, Japon, sold at Bonhams New York in 2017.
https://tinyurl.com/56tbke3t
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 25, 2021 08:29 AM (oEn12)
Posted by: 496 at July 25, 2021 08:29 AM (U1eOr)
Posted by: JT at July 25, 2021 08:30 AM (arJlL)
Posted by: Northernlurker, surgite at July 25, 2021 08:30 AM (cSyAR)
Posted by: JT at July 25, 2021 08:30 AM (arJlL)
Posted by: JT at July 25, 2021 08:31 AM (arJlL)
Of course, I think he probably looked like Arafat.
Posted by: Weak Geek at July 25, 2021 08:31 AM (Om/di)
g'mornin', book-ish 'rons
"anhedonic" must be the secret double-word score word of the week....that's about the third time I've seen it used here the past couple of days
Posted by: AltonJackson at July 25, 2021 08:32 AM (DUIap)
Posted by: grammie winger at July 25, 2021 08:16 AM (45fpk
yeah!!!
my kinda people!
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 25, 2021 08:32 AM (oEn12)
Posted by: JT at July 25, 2021 08:31 AM (arJlL)
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Brian Dennehy. I watched "Silverado" last night, and I thought he did a great job not just playing the villainous sheriff but also the town itself.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 25, 2021 08:33 AM (llXky)
Posted by: Skip at July 25, 2021 08:33 AM (Cxk7w)
Posted by: JTB at July 25, 2021 08:34 AM (7EjX1)
Posted by: Skip
we are transtemporal
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 25, 2021 08:34 AM (oEn12)
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 25, 2021 08:34 AM (oEn12)
Eddies in the space-time continuum.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 25, 2021 08:34 AM (PiwSw)
Posted by: dantesed at July 25, 2021 08:35 AM (88xKn)
players are in loose tank shirts and baggy shorts
I guess they identify as non-female
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 25, 2021 08:35 AM (oEn12)
Posted by: Weak Geek at July 25, 2021 08:31 AM (Om/di)
Anthony Burgess' "Kingdom of the Wicked" (also a fine novel) notes that his oratory would've given him a solid core...enough to sustain sermons (and a lengthy, breath-stealing tenure on a crucifix...)
Posted by: ZOD at July 25, 2021 08:35 AM (xK9An)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 25, 2021 08:33 AM (llXky)
There is nothing he can't play!
Posted by: CN at July 25, 2021 08:35 AM (ONvIw)
Posted by: klaftern at July 25, 2021 08:36 AM (r4sI4)
Posted by: Northernlurker, surgite at July 25, 2021 08:36 AM (cSyAR)
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 25, 2021 08:34 AM (oEn12)
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DON'T CROSS THE STREAMS!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 25, 2021 08:36 AM (llXky)
Posted by: CN at July 25, 2021 08:37 AM (ONvIw)
born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor
eternity can bring diminution - this everlasting living soul, began. My
mind loses itself in these depths."
- Groucho Marx, all philosophizing and stuff.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Psychos Rule! No, really. They're in charge now. at July 25, 2021 08:37 AM (HaL55)
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 25, 2021 08:34 AM (oEn12)
Careful with that kind of language, that could be a thing these days.
Then again, if we claim to be out of place in time and go sack Constantinople, we could claim to be the oppressed minority now.
Posted by: Cato, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at July 25, 2021 08:38 AM (tCd6q)
Posted by: rhennigantx
I didnt either - been busy / tired
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 25, 2021 08:39 AM (oEn12)
Posted by: Northernlurker, surgite at July 25, 2021 08:36 AM (cSyAR)
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Yes, and contra the French Davidians, classical liberalism can only exist in a Christian society. Without it, you have a system that licenses moral depravity and economic exploitation.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 25, 2021 08:39 AM (llXky)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 25, 2021 08:27 AM (llXky)
So your parish is becoming *more* conservative over time? Well, that's a switch.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at July 25, 2021 08:39 AM (u/ndq)
Seems a strange way to write.
Posted by: Skip at July 25, 2021 08:40 AM (Cxk7w)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 25, 2021 08:39 AM (llXky)
Like the one we have now.
Posted by: CN at July 25, 2021 08:40 AM (ONvIw)
Posted by: Weak Geek at July 25, 2021 08:41 AM (Om/di)
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 25, 2021 08:41 AM (oEn12)
In other news, 'ette author Sabrina Chase has released a new book, Sky Tribe, in her Guardian's Compact series. I'm currently neck-deep in Mike Kupari's The Family Business otherwise I'd be eye-scanning that one.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at July 25, 2021 08:42 AM (CcOog)
Posted by: Trimegistus at July 25, 2021 08:43 AM (QZxDR)
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at July 25, 2021 08:44 AM (y7DUB)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 25, 2021 08:39 AM (llXky)
Like everything else that lead to America being exceptional, it hinged on a moral, lawful, interested people. Lose the morality and everything else goes with it.
"When the Way is lost, there is benevolence. When benevolence is lost, there is rectitude. When rectitude is lost, there is legalism." -Lao Tzu
And here we are, crushed under a pile of lopsided laws that land on some and exempt others...
Posted by: Cato, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at July 25, 2021 08:44 AM (tCd6q)
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor Social Distancing Professional at July 25, 2021 08:39 AM (u/ndq)
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Very much so, and it seems to be happening elsewhere. We stopped in on our old parish about a year ago for Mass and the new priest (the one from when we were there had retired) and there was a similar change - the modern decorations were gone and replaced by more traditional ones. The altar had been reversed so the priest faced away from the congregation while preparing the Eucharist - almost Tridentine (but in English).
I was at a Mass "up north" three weeks ago and they included the St. Michael prayer at the conclusion of the Mass ("protect us in battle").
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 25, 2021 08:44 AM (llXky)
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion
I never heard it called that before !
Posted by: JT at July 25, 2021 08:45 AM (arJlL)
Posted by: ZOD at July 25, 2021 08:20 AM (xK9An)
Thanks...
Hitchens is wonderfully well read, but I just wish he didn't insist upon proving it all the time!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 25, 2021 08:45 AM (Q9lwr)
I didn't read this week. Thinking about moving, stressing about moving, packing and moving.
Now done with that, no more excuses.
About 400 pages into Brandon Sanderson's second book in the series. Library automatically renewed it so now the pressure's off. Could have used the incentive.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 25, 2021 08:45 AM (Y+l9t)
I was at a Mass "up north" three weeks ago and they included the St. Michael prayer at the conclusion of the Mass ("protect us in battle").
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 25, 2021 08:44 AM (llXky)
That's interesting. The growing recognition that there IS a battle.
Posted by: CN at July 25, 2021 08:46 AM (ONvIw)
There is also a wonderful collection of art on display in the room at the back, including a wall sized mural of Bierstadt's Yosemite which was fully restored a few years ago. Worth a visit if in St. Johnsbury!
Posted by: Ziba at July 25, 2021 08:46 AM (S1hrL)
Posted by: klaftern at July 25, 2021 08:46 AM (r4sI4)
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 25, 2021 08:46 AM (oEn12)
Turns out he's a real guy: started as a common sailor, rumored to have been "flogged around the fleet" for desertion, got recommended for a commission later on, and worked his way up to a flag. Amusingly, the Wikipedia page about him has one source: the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography page on Mitchell . . .
. . . which is written by Patrick O'Brian.
Posted by: Trimegistus at July 25, 2021 08:46 AM (QZxDR)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at July 25, 2021 08:22 AM (Dc2NZ)
Well done!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 25, 2021 08:47 AM (Q9lwr)
I forget the author's name.
(its pretty good !)
Posted by: JT at July 25, 2021 08:47 AM (arJlL)
Posted by: CN at July 25, 2021 08:46 AM (ONvIw)
Maybe people are remembering that Satan exists.
And damn, he's been busy lately.
Posted by: Cato, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at July 25, 2021 08:48 AM (tCd6q)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 25, 2021 08:48 AM (llXky)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 25, 2021 08:48 AM (Irn0L)
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It's quite simple. If you don't get vaxed you're worse than Hitler but getting vaxed isn't enough to keep you from getting or spreading covid so you have to wear a mask but one isn't enough so you have to wear several and you still can't go anywhere.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at July 25, 2021 08:49 AM (d9FiS)
Posted by: Nevergiveup
Shoulda had the Olympics in Venezuela !
Posted by: JT at July 25, 2021 08:50 AM (arJlL)
Reminds me of the comics series "Planetary." The lead character's goal in his adventures was to explore the world's secret history.
That's description really doesn't do justice to the series. It was a fantastic read, especially for long-term comics readers. For example, the main villains were based on the Fantastic Four.
Yes, the book included people with super-powers, but the lead character used his brain more than his power (heat subtraction -- he could freeze things).
Posted by: Weak Geek at July 25, 2021 08:51 AM (Om/di)
Posted by: JTB at July 25, 2021 08:52 AM (7EjX1)
Bill Whittle had a show about that, "ACHIEVING THE IMPOSSIBLE: U.S. Women's Soccer Gets America to Root for Olympic Failure"
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at July 25, 2021 08:53 AM (CcOog)
Posted by: CN at July 25, 2021 08:46 AM (ONvIw)
Maybe people are remembering that Satan exists.
And damn, he's been busy lately.
Posted by: Cato, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at July 25, 2021 08:48 AM (tCd6q)
I have long since believed that the devil is beside himself with frustration and has nothing to do except scope out retirement condos in Boca because the democrats have taken over his work and have created more chaos and sown more evil than he could have ever hoped to.
Posted by: God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost at July 25, 2021 08:53 AM (l0Cy4)
usa men's just dribble team losing to France, Yeah that France, in the 3rd quarter by 4. LOL
I hope they lose.
Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 25, 2021 08:28 AM (Irn0L)
Popovich has really been unmasked since Kawhi Leonard chose to go elsewhere. Having talent like him and Tim Duncan at your beck and call can make ham and egger coaches look really really good.
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at July 25, 2021 08:53 AM (y7DUB)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 25, 2021 08:53 AM (Irn0L)
Second Empire craziness makes for good distraction from our own craziness.
Posted by: Ziba at July 25, 2021 08:53 AM (S1hrL)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 25, 2021 08:54 AM (Irn0L)
Posted by: CN at July 25, 2021 08:46 AM (ONvIw)
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Very much so. Our monthly diocesan magazine featured an article in June titled "Spiritual Warfare."
Every year the diocese sends out a liturgical calendar and it features a "saint of the month." October this year will honor Pope St. Pius V, who master-minded the Christian alliance that defeated the Turks at Lepanto. The anniversary of that battle is the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, aka Our Lady of Victory. As the fleet massed, St. Pius ordered the Church as a whole to pray the rosary so God would grant victory.
The story goes that as the sun was setting on the day of the battle, St. Pius looked out of his window and his face lit up with joy. He ordered the bells rung in Rome and said a Mass of thanksgiving because the Christian fleet had won a glorious victory. And it had, hundreds of miles away and long before any (earthly) messagers could have arrived.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 25, 2021 08:54 AM (llXky)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 25, 2021 08:54 AM (Irn0L)
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There is value in watching all of a football game.
There is no point in watching anything other than the last two minutes of a basketball game.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 25, 2021 08:55 AM (llXky)
rich appearance, and the detail of the lady's dress and the objects in
the room. A pleasure to look at.
The only thing it doesn't show is the title of the book she's reading: Obscure Poisons and How to Use Them.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Psychos Rule! No, really. They're in charge now. at July 25, 2021 08:55 AM (HaL55)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 25, 2021 08:54 AM (Irn0L)
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There is value in watching all of a football game.
There is no point in watching anything other than the last two minutes of a basketball game.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 25, 2021 08:55 AM (llXky)
Not watching. Can't. nbc in their infinite wisdom is not broadcasting the game live.
Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 25, 2021 08:56 AM (Irn0L)
Given how fearful they are, we might be able to start some subversive, hilarious, and profitable superstitions.
Wearing the color pink makes you less susceptible due to an odd quirk of Raylegh scattering killing the virus on your clothes? Start selling anti-COVID T-shirts.
That kind of thing. Bonus points for ridiculousness. Rub charcoal all over your face (then report them for blackface if they do.) Invent some kind of "Muslim Healing Crystal"? The possibilities are endless.
Posted by: Cato, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at July 25, 2021 08:56 AM (tCd6q)
Posted by: klaftern at July 25, 2021 08:56 AM (r4sI4)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 25, 2021 08:56 AM (Irn0L)
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at July 25, 2021 08:57 AM (y7DUB)
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 25, 2021 08:57 AM (R/m4+)
Posted by: callsign claymore at July 25, 2021 08:57 AM (S9c8K)
I have it in the physical edition and on Kindle. It's worth having it handy on the Paperwhite reader and in a format that can't be messed with.
Posted by: JTB at July 25, 2021 08:57 AM (7EjX1)
Hyperbole was over the top -- expect 200,000 new deaths by October! and so on and so on.
Masks will be coming back, sooner rather than later. I'm prepared to be shocked by how quickly the sheeple fall in line the second time around.
Posted by: Ziba at July 25, 2021 08:58 AM (S1hrL)
Apparently they can not shut up and dribble since they can't dribble or shoot
Go Woke, what could possibly go wrong
Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 25, 2021 08:58 AM (Irn0L)
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 25, 2021 08:59 AM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Cato, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at July 25, 2021 09:00 AM (tCd6q)
Posted by: Ziba at July 25, 2021 09:00 AM (S1hrL)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 25, 2021 09:01 AM (Irn0L)
Good morning, Skip,
YouTube has quite a few audio books as I learned to my surprise. Given the cost of some audio books, I find it a valuable resource.
Posted by: JTB at July 25, 2021 09:01 AM (7EjX1)
this week about Marcus Aurelius' "Meditations" translated by Gregory
Hays.
Posted by: JTB at July 25, 2021 08:57 AM (7EjX1)
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I was browsing at the book store the other day and it was really depressing. All the woke stuff everywhere, even military history. A few of the classics here and there, but most revisionist takes on how awful everything is. Oh, and the history section was dwarfed by the navel-gazing sexuality area. I can get that people are into odd things, but a hundred variations on "teh ghey is soo cool" is a bit much.
Anyhow, they did have lots of different editions of Meditations, which I thought was interesting.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 25, 2021 09:01 AM (llXky)
Posted by: klaftern at July 25, 2021 09:01 AM (r4sI4)
Posted by: Blacksheep at July 25, 2021 09:01 AM (6mvRv)
Posted by: klaftern at July 25, 2021 09:01 AM (r4sI4)
No but they allow tea bagging
Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 25, 2021 09:02 AM (Irn0L)
Posted by: Weak Geek at July 25, 2021 09:02 AM (Om/di)
Posted by: Ziba at July 25, 2021 09:02 AM (S1hrL)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 25, 2021 09:02 AM (Irn0L)
Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at July 25, 2021 09:02 AM (fTtFy)
Posted by: Ziba
Wasn't that a Prince song ?
Posted by: JT at July 25, 2021 09:03 AM (arJlL)
Posted by: Skip at July 25, 2021 09:04 AM (Cxk7w)
Posted by: Ziba at July 25, 2021 09:00 AM (S1hrL)
Me too.
Posted by: CN at July 25, 2021 09:04 AM (ONvIw)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 25, 2021 09:02 AM (Irn0L)
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Sounds like basketball minutes are even longer than football minutes. Who knew?
Posted by: IrishEi at July 25, 2021 09:04 AM (9GRhC)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 25, 2021 09:04 AM (Irn0L)
Posted by: JT at July 25, 2021 09:03 AM (arJlL)
Not very familiar with Prince. Was it?
Posted by: Ziba at July 25, 2021 09:05 AM (S1hrL)
WHAT A FUCKIN DISGRACE
Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 25, 2021 09:04 AM (Irn0L)
A well-deserved one
Posted by: CN at July 25, 2021 09:05 AM (ONvIw)
Posted by: Skip at July 25, 2021 09:05 AM (Cxk7w)
WHAT A FUCKIN DISGRACE
Posted by: Nevergiveup
Now, don't hold back Captain, tell us how ya REALLY feel !
Posted by: JT at July 25, 2021 09:05 AM (arJlL)
Posted by: Blacksheep at July 25, 2021 09:05 AM (6mvRv)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 25, 2021 09:05 AM (pcsoT)
Posted by: Skip at July 25, 2021 09:04 AM (Cxk7w)
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I'm enjoying the woke crowd slowly realizing that ripping on the US does nothing to earn them respect abroad, and in fact results in even more contempt being hurled at them.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 25, 2021 09:06 AM (llXky)
Posted by: Ziba at July 25, 2021 09:06 AM (S1hrL)
Posted by: JT at July 25, 2021 09:03 AM (arJlL)
Not very familiar with Prince. Was it?
Posted by: Ziba
It was When Doves Cry.
Posted by: JT at July 25, 2021 09:06 AM (arJlL)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 25, 2021 09:07 AM (Irn0L)
Posted by: CN at July 25, 2021 09:07 AM (ONvIw)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 25, 2021 09:04 AM (Irn0L)
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Poetic justice.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 25, 2021 09:07 AM (llXky)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at July 25, 2021 09:07 AM (d9FiS)
I visited a comics shop and a used-book store yesterday and left each empty-handed.
To be honest, I went to each just to get away from the "Glee" marathon in my house.
I did tag a few items in my mind for when I feel like spending money again.
Posted by: Weak Geek at July 25, 2021 09:08 AM (Om/di)
We're lucky the book is turned the right way up
Posted by: artemis at July 25, 2021 09:09 AM (AwPyG)
To be honest, I went to each just to get away from the "Glee" marathon in my house.
My wife and daughters were watching that also
Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 25, 2021 09:09 AM (Irn0L)
There's not a ton of money for most of these sports, and the patriotic types are probably going to balk. Liberals won't give money because they hate sports, so I guess they'll have to stomp on the flag in their parents' basement for the next 4 years.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 25, 2021 09:09 AM (llXky)
Posted by: Muldoon at July 25, 2021 09:09 AM (Xwt96)
Regarding Owen Barfield...his History, Guilt and Habit is a quick and interesting read.
I also enjoyed the Zaleski book called: the Fellowship, The Literary Lives of the Inklings.
Barfield was one of them, along with Tolkien and Lewis.
Posted by: squeakywheel at July 25, 2021 09:10 AM (H3YxZ)
I think I will start with Saving the Appearances: A Study in Idolatry.
Posted by: CN at July 25, 2021 09:10 AM (ONvIw)
.....
The "banality of evil" is one way to describe the Leftist communist revolution taking place right now in this country.
Posted by: Ziba at July 25, 2021 09:10 AM (S1hrL)
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 25, 2021 09:10 AM (R/m4+)
This is so against the natural order of things can be imagined, but this is how the wants it, and this is how they gets it.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 25, 2021 09:10 AM (tScf+)
Barfield was one of them, along with Tolkien and Lewis.
Posted by: squeakywheel at July 25, 2021 09:10 AM (H3YxZ)
I did know that part, which made him more interesting. Thanks for the recommendation.
Posted by: CN at July 25, 2021 09:11 AM (ONvIw)
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at July 25, 2021 09:11 AM (y7DUB)
I wonder how the athletes feel about that.
Posted by: artemis at July 25, 2021 09:11 AM (AwPyG)
Suck it BASEketballers! Suck it hard!
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 25, 2021 09:10 AM (R/m4+)
especially their uber woke self hating white coach popovich. Choke on it
Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 25, 2021 09:12 AM (Irn0L)
Posted by: Ziba at July 25, 2021 09:10 AM (S1hrL)
That phrase is overworked IMO. There is nothing banal about the corruption in the FBI and DOJ and their attempts to demolish the First Amendment.
Posted by: CN at July 25, 2021 09:12 AM (ONvIw)
Posted by: alien covenant was much worse at July 25, 2021 09:12 AM (hMlTh)
I wonder how the athletes feel about that.
Posted by: artemis at July 25, 2021 09:11 AM (AwPyG)
Go woke and suffer the consequences
Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 25, 2021 09:13 AM (Irn0L)
Posted by: artemis
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They brought this upon themselves.
Posted by: SMH at July 25, 2021 09:13 AM (hjWtA)
My wife and daughters were watching that also
Posted by: Nevergiveup
Why didn't you tell them that you were a Captain ????
Posted by: JT at July 25, 2021 09:13 AM (arJlL)
https://tinyurl.com/x94dnhsz
(but dont click on the booklinks - Amazon booted me off thgeir affiliate program so just buy through another site)
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 25, 2021 09:14 AM (oEn12)
Posted by: alien covenant was much worse at July 25, 2021 09:14 AM (hMlTh)
Posted by: artemis at July 25, 2021 09:14 AM (AwPyG)
Husband read the Comedy in high school in Italy and is currently listening to Hillsdale College lecture series on it. Thinks it is excellent and highly recommends.
Posted by: Ziba at July 25, 2021 09:14 AM (S1hrL)
Posted by: Ziba at July 25, 2021 09:10 AM (S1hrL)
More like the luridness of evil. Right about now I could do with a lot more banality.
Posted by: Ordinary American at July 25, 2021 09:15 AM (H8QX8)
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 25, 2021 09:16 AM (oEn12)
Posted by: Weak Geek at July 25, 2021 08:41 AM (Om/di)
Well, one cannot expect the chronological order of discovery of manuscripts tucked away in old tea-chests, bureaus and sewn into the stuffing of old chestertons, after all.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 25, 2021 09:16 AM (HG00O)
Posted by: Jean at July 25, 2021 09:16 AM (+YmEN)
Posted by: artemis at July 25, 2021 09:16 AM (AwPyG)
Posted by: Ziba at July 25, 2021 09:02 AM (S1hrL)
Hated it to the point of just stopped reading it. It's possible the translation was really terrible (a bad translation of Madam Bovary almost ruined it for me until a friend gave me a much better one; like night and day) or I was in the wrong state of mind to enjoy it. But it was sheer pointless torture.
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at July 25, 2021 09:17 AM (y7DUB)
It's after the Yalta conference and Churchill is in the position of "If only Comrade Stalin knew" sending worried telegrams to Stalin about how Molotov is breaking the agreements about the Poles, the Romanians, etc. without once considering that the only way Molotov would be doing such things was with Stalin's command. It's frustrating and infuriating, although Churchill does acknowledge at the time of writing the book that he and Roosevelt got badly rolled by Russia.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 25, 2021 09:17 AM (1lKRm)
Posted by: yara at July 25, 2021 09:17 AM (N7mou)
Posted by: Ziba at July 25, 2021 09:18 AM (S1hrL)
Posted by: Jean at July 25, 2021 09:16 AM (+YmEN)
one white guy and the white coach who is ashamed to be white
Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 25, 2021 09:18 AM (Irn0L)
After reading, I was curious if Arendt's take was the consensus. A little poking around on the internet showed me that there is a contingent that disagrees with her. One other thing that I noticed: Eichmann was a "joiner" and found comfort in groups... I do think Arendt was right that Eichmann was not a particularly gifted person in any way. He was not psychotic (if the psychiatrists who examined him in Jerusalem before the trial are to be trust, and I think they are).
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 25, 2021 09:19 AM (pcsoT)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 25, 2021 09:19 AM (PiwSw)
and possibly loise her shit publicly
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 25, 2021 09:20 AM (oEn12)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at July 25, 2021 09:20 AM (d9FiS)
Posted by: Ziba at July 25, 2021 09:18 AM (S1hrL)
And their evil used to be more workaday banal, now it's loud brash and in our faces with a splash of recklessness.
Posted by: CN at July 25, 2021 09:20 AM (ONvIw)
Posted by: Ziba at July 25, 2021 09:10 AM (S1hrL)
That phrase is overworked IMO. There is nothing banal about the corruption in the FBI and DOJ and their attempts to demolish the First Amendment.
Posted by: CN at July 25, 2021 09:12 AM (ONvIw)
Barnes has pointed out the Nazis came from the professional class, not the working class. Like Fauci...
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at July 25, 2021 09:20 AM (y7DUB)
Posted by: yara at July 25, 2021 09:20 AM (N7mou)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 25, 2021 09:21 AM (Y+l9t)
Yes, state of mind is everything when reading.
I had to try MM more than once before getting into it.
Posted by: Ziba at July 25, 2021 09:21 AM (S1hrL)
disturbing rumors about the Glee cast. Apparently an unusual amount of
them have died.
Posted by: artemis at July 25, 2021 09:16 AM (AwPyG)
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The first few episodes were quite funny and well done, but the show quickly degenerated into a celebration of teh ghey.
And yes, one of the cast members was busted for sex crimes and there were several suicides. A lot of Hollywood youth fare seems to be a recruitment mechanism for sexual predators and Glee seems to have been a prime example of it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 25, 2021 09:21 AM (llXky)
Posted by: yara at July 25, 2021 09:21 AM (N7mou)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 25, 2021 09:05 AM (pcsoT)
Daniel Goldhagen's "Hitler's Willing Executioners" is another good read...but depressing as hell.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 25, 2021 09:22 AM (Q9lwr)
Posted by: grammie winger at July 25, 2021 09:22 AM (45fpk)
Posted by: artemis at July 25, 2021 09:22 AM (AwPyG)
RIP Dale "Snort" Snodgrass
Posted by: Blacksheep at July 25, 2021 09:01 AM
another grim milestone for the biden administration
Posted by: AltonJackson at July 25, 2021 09:22 AM (DUIap)
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at July 25, 2021 09:17 AM (y7DUB)
I've been reading Nabokov's translation of Lermontov's "A Hero of Our Time," the first Russian novel, and delightful. But after reading the translator's notes and foreword I'm inspired to read Nabokov himself.
Posted by: Ordinary American at July 25, 2021 09:23 AM (H8QX8)
Posted by: SMH at July 25, 2021 09:23 AM (hjWtA)
discovery of manuscripts tucked away in old tea-chests, bureaus and sewn
into the stuffing of old chestertons, after all.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 25, 2021 09:16 AM (HG00O)
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The original Conan stories were purposefully written out of order - random memories around the camp fire...
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 25, 2021 09:23 AM (llXky)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 25, 2021 09:17 AM (1lKRm)
According to Jay Winik, Delano was the chief dumbass in dealing with the Georgian gimp.
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at July 25, 2021 09:23 AM (y7DUB)
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 25, 2021 09:23 AM (oEn12)
You mentioned that Ace was welcome to put up shelves at your place anytime.
Save him a trip and just throw the shelves on the floor !
Posted by: JT at July 25, 2021 09:23 AM (arJlL)
Hey-Ho!!! Book People of the Golden Horde!
Face the Dawn and Read!!! Read Now!
Read On to Victory or Doom!!!!
Now Re-e-e-ead!!!!
Posted by: naturalfake at July 25, 2021 09:24 AM (5NkmN)
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at July 25, 2021 09:20 AM (y7DUB)
Very good point, Captain.... the Fauci's of the world can do (and have done!) much more damage than a lone, psycho serial killer. To me, the phrase "banality of evil" doesn't lessen the evil, but rather is a caution to us all that there are lot of people (most humans?) who can get caught up in evil without necessarily first pursuing it (if that makes sense)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 25, 2021 09:24 AM (pcsoT)
Things the French Are Better Than Us At - a limerick
They take better care of their troops
They make better vichyssoise soups
Champagne and Bordeaux grapes
Can can dancing, Great Escapes
And to the list you can now add Le Hoops
Posted by: Muldoon at July 25, 2021 09:24 AM (Xwt96)
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at July 25, 2021 09:20 AM (y7DUB)
Nevertheless, there is nothing quotidian about the evil going on here today. It's stunning and meant to frighten people into submission.
Posted by: CN at July 25, 2021 09:24 AM (ONvIw)
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I'm reading the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow translation. Not for everybody in that there comments last week about disliking the King James' Elizabethan language and Longfellow is similar.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at July 25, 2021 09:24 AM (d9FiS)
ultimate meritocracy, but the woke folks will only promote their own.
so we wind up with unlikeable purple-haired soccer woman, who is
obviously past her prime, and we lose.
Posted by: artemis at July 25, 2021 09:22 AM (AwPyG)
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They are ultimately entertainment. You can run or jump all you like in your backyard, but if you want people to pay to watch you, it's helpful not to insult them.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 25, 2021 09:25 AM (llXky)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 25, 2021 09:25 AM (Y+l9t)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 25, 2021 09:19 AM (pcsoT)
Most people who gravitate towards government work, especially "law enforcers", fit that bill. They join up to be part of a group and the badge and gun make them believe they are in a "special" group, looking out for the rest of us, while having no talents whatsoever. If I remember right, most of the top leaders of the SS fit that bill nicely. Losers who found a home.
If Eichmann was in the FBI today, he would rise to a top position, like Comey and the rest of that scum.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 25, 2021 09:25 AM (R/m4+)
Posted by: JT at July 25, 2021 09:25 AM (arJlL)
Posted by: JT at July 25, 2021 09:26 AM (arJlL)
I'm one of those people who wants to read a series in order, so I don't like it when someone comes up with a prequel.
And if you're not sure of the order, there's a website called orderofbooks.com that lists every series
Posted by: artemis at July 25, 2021 09:26 AM (AwPyG)
Considering the news from Israel (their PM is mandating the 'rona "vaccine"), I am going to re-read the chapter about kapos (Polish Jews who did the dirty work at the extermination camps). Unlike the Israelis today willingly forcing their fellow citizens to participate in exterimental trials, I'm pretty sure none of the kapos in the Nazi era volunteered for that.
The people of Israel elected a freaking Nazi as PM. Unbelievable.
Posted by: Federal Agent #PiSquared2 at July 25, 2021 09:26 AM (u+nry)
Posted by: klaftern at July 25, 2021 09:27 AM (r4sI4)
Posted by: Humphreyrobot at July 25, 2021 09:27 AM (ptq0O)
Posted by: artemis
fantasticfiction is another good site for checking serieses (seria?)
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 25, 2021 09:27 AM (oEn12)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 25, 2021 09:24 AM (pcsoT)
I think you understand the point.
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at July 25, 2021 09:28 AM (y7DUB)
Posted by: artemis at July 25, 2021 09:26 AM (AwPyG)
Good for you the movie "Memento" was never a book then. You'd be a very confused reader.
Posted by: Federal Agent #PiSquared2 at July 25, 2021 09:28 AM (0asAR)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 25, 2021 09:17 AM (1lKRm)
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It's interesting to watch the tone of those books shift as Churchill goes back in time and relieves the various events. The Gathering Storm is full of frustration as he recalls how the war could have been prevented.
Then we get the heroics of Their Finest Hour, and he's having a ball. ("This was a time when it was equally good to live or die.") The mood brightens as the war expands and The Grand Alliance comes into being. The Hinge of Fate turns and the "broad, sunlit uplands" await! Alas, it was not to be, and by the end of the final volume you can sense his disgust with how things turned out.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 25, 2021 09:29 AM (llXky)
A neologism? I like it. That is, experimental trials in extermination.
Posted by: Ordinary American at July 25, 2021 09:29 AM (H8QX8)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 25, 2021 09:24 AM (pcsoT)
It makes sense, but I always thought "banality" meant the day to day evil activities that go under the radar, like filling out the forms for abortions or forced labor camps. The Fauci-type evil is not something he sort of got caught up in as a function of his job, he was a big fish, a big decision maker who deliberately worked with the CCP to alter viruses knowing that bio-warfare was a real possibility, and he believed a pandemic was worth the risk to achieve his research goals. Nah. And Wray is not in any way banal.
Posted by: CN at July 25, 2021 09:29 AM (ONvIw)
Who dis- Madame Chiang Kai-Shek. LOLOLOL
Posted by: sidney at July 25, 2021 09:30 AM (7/kmB)
Posted by: Federal Agent #PiSquared2 at July 25, 2021 09:26 AM (u+nry)
That's what I thought when I read his speech.
Posted by: Ordinary American at July 25, 2021 09:30 AM (H8QX8)
This is true. I've worked in a government bureaucracy before, and the workers tend to be people who would not do well in a competitive environment.
So some people quietly do excellent work, and some people are petty tyrants.
Posted by: artemis at July 25, 2021 09:30 AM (AwPyG)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 25, 2021 09:24 AM (pcsoT)
It's kind of a warning in a way.
Evil is often composed of a lot of small steps that seem pretty harmless, until you look at them in totality - in a "can't see the forest for the trees" sort of way.
Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at July 25, 2021 09:31 AM (xNrL5)
Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at July 25, 2021 09:31 AM (JVCkA)
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 25, 2021 09:32 AM (Y+l9t)
Posted by: artemis at July 25, 2021 09:30 AM (AwPyG)
And unfortunately, the petty tyrants tend to network, so once one gets promoted into a hiring position, they dominate the whole structure.
Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at July 25, 2021 09:32 AM (xNrL5)
Posted by: CN at July 25, 2021 09:33 AM (ONvIw)
Posted by: Vic at July 25, 2021 09:34 AM (mpXpK)
Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at July 25, 2021 09:34 AM (JVCkA)
Posted by: artemis at July 25, 2021 09:34 AM (AwPyG)
Not much to add re: books. Still working my way through Gary Taubes' "The Case Against Sugar." However, we watched "The Man Who Invented Christmas" based on the book of the same name about Charles Dickens' quest to write "A Christmas Carol." It was a charming, funny film and refreshingly free of SJW nonsense and anachronistic casting or social commentary. Christopher Plummer was great, as always. Highly recommend.
Posted by: Hoplite Housewife at July 25, 2021 09:35 AM (R1NI2)
Posted by: Nemo at July 25, 2021 09:35 AM (S6ArX)
And unfortunately, the petty tyrants tend to
network, so once one gets promoted into a hiring position, they dominate
the whole structure.
Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at July 25, 2021 09:32 AM (xNrL5)
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What happens is that the people who are there to work, work. They use their time to do the stuff they were hired to do. The ones who enjoy office politics put all their effort into that with the inevitable result that they run the show.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 25, 2021 09:35 AM (llXky)
Posted by: artemis at July 25, 2021 09:35 AM (AwPyG)
Posted by: CN at July 25, 2021 09:33 AM (ONvIw)
And for every one of those, there's a hundred slugs in the executive agencies that are pretty much completely normal. They go to work, they do normal people things, they go home.
Something stupid and evil comes down from above them, they rubber stamp it and pass it along, then go take a piss, hit on the secretary, or go for donuts.
Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at July 25, 2021 09:35 AM (xNrL5)
Posted by: artemis at July 25, 2021 09:14 AM (AwPyG)
I met a hot chick in a bookstore once. She was in the Patterson section, recommended I give him a try. I did. Read the thing, and thought maybe I got a bad one. So I went back and got another. I realized about 50 pages in it was just rehashed nonsense, and the guy was a hack.
So I never went back to the Patterson section ever again. No chick is THAT hot.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 25, 2021 09:36 AM (5ieoM)
Posted by: Ordinary American at July 25, 2021 09:23 AM (H8QX
As the unofficial Horde Nabokov pom pom waver, you're in for quite a treat although I've gotten strangely bogged down in his translation of Eugene Onegin. A Hero of Our Time is a uniquely Rooski approach to an anti hero which is almost a universe of one.
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at July 25, 2021 09:36 AM (y7DUB)
Posted by: CN at July 25, 2021 09:29 AM (ONvIw)
I totally absolutely agree with this point. Fauci and Wray (and Comey... and Biden-puppet-master-whoever-they-are) know exactly what they're doing. They're only banal in the sense that their talents are "ordinary".... every time I think of those people, my blood pressure goes up.
BTW, has everyone totally forgotten how "Judge" Sullivan smashed laws and the constitution to attempt a crushing of General Flynn??
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 25, 2021 09:37 AM (pcsoT)
Posted by: artemis at July 25, 2021 09:34 AM (AwPyG)
The history of every movement that believes in "the greater good" definitely confirms that.
Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at July 25, 2021 09:37 AM (xNrL5)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 25, 2021 09:37 AM (Irn0L)
disturbing rumors about the Glee cast. Apparently an unusual amount of
them have died.
Posted by: artemis at July 25, 2021 09:16 AM
There's a reason for that: https://youtu.be/Prhi3_Nvt3U
Posted by: Bert G at July 25, 2021 09:37 AM (UJh+r)
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at July 25, 2021 09:20 AM (y7DUB)
Wrong. The Nazis that tried to overthrow the German government in 1923 (Beer Hall Putsch) were mostly a gang of unemployed amateurs that used to be the working class. After the failed coup and spending time in jail, Hitler started recruiting pros as brownshirts, namely former police officers.
Posted by: Federal Agent #PiSquared2 at July 25, 2021 09:37 AM (6qlAy)
Posted by: CN at July 25, 2021 09:24 AM (ONvIw)
I disagree. It is becoming quotidian -- routine --and little/not enough is being done to stop it. There are myriad examples , too obvious to list, of the socially destructive evil behavior of individuals and groups overwhelming us and itis frightening, indeed.
Posted by: Ziba at July 25, 2021 09:38 AM (S1hrL)
The answer can be used to detect androids.
Posted by: Humphreyrobot at July 25, 2021 09:27 AM (ptq0O)
Ask a leftist what Stalin did that was bad. Or Mao. Or Castro. Or Pol Pot. Etc. Etc.
Posted by: Justsayin' at July 25, 2021 09:39 AM (Fs5vw)
Posted by: CN at July 25, 2021 09:40 AM (ONvIw)
However, he does note that WW II did share many elements of civil war, which are often more pitiless than conflicts between two states. He naturally does a deep dive in Spain, but his discussions of civil wars in Finland, Hungary and Russia are also very interesting. OM asked me to write a book on Russia, but Payne cites some books he says are good, so I will check them out before I go any further. I'm not quite finished, but it is a good, quick read.
Also timely, as he discusses how states break down.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 25, 2021 09:40 AM (llXky)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 25, 2021 09:25 AM (llXky)
Then along came ESPN who considered insulting the audience entertainment.
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at July 25, 2021 09:40 AM (y7DUB)
I think that's the most discouraging aspect of the overthrow of the government; everyone saw it was happening in real time, and none of the perpetrators--going back five years--has been truly punished.
Trump famously said "These people are stupid" but I have to disagree with him. They just keep steamrolling along--they definitely steamrolled him.
Posted by: artemis at July 25, 2021 09:40 AM (AwPyG)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 25, 2021 09:37 AM (pcsoT)
I hope one day we find out what the Deep State had on that prick. His behavior was totally deranged.
Posted by: Federal Agent #PiSquared2 at July 25, 2021 09:40 AM (6qlAy)
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 25, 2021 09:41 AM (Y+l9t)
Andrew Heaton has put out a book of poetry called Los Angeles is Hideous: Poems About An Ugly City. He is doing the rounds of podcasts and has his own description of it on his science fiction podcast, Alienating the Audience.
He moved to LA in February 2020 "for the networking available there" and left within a year to live in a travel trailer, referring to LA as "A cinderblock smeared with lipstick"
Posted by: Kindltot at July 25, 2021 09:41 AM (HG00O)
Posted by: JAS
Staying away from bacon and ham helped immensely.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 25, 2021 09:41 AM (6WCwE)
https://bit.ly/3BDby3k
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at July 25, 2021 09:41 AM (d9FiS)
Early days ESPN was so much fun. They had to search heard to find sports to fill up the 24 hour format, so we saw darts, and curling.
Posted by: artemis at July 25, 2021 09:42 AM (AwPyG)
I hope one day we find out what the Deep State had on that prick. His behavior was totally deranged.
Posted by: Federal Agent
I think he whitewashed (!?) his son's rapey crimes.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 25, 2021 09:43 AM (6WCwE)
The answer can be used to detect androids.
Posted by: Humphreyrobot at July 25, 2021 09:27 AM (ptq0O)
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They will answer that he was a racist, which is the worst thing ever. Stalin and Mao and Pol Pot killed more, but their enemies were (allegedly) selected on the basis of class, which made it okay.
I've had people argue this.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 25, 2021 09:43 AM (llXky)
So bizarre, that a sports team gets a "defensive" name like "guardians."
Must have been a committee of bureaucrats
Posted by: artemis at July 25, 2021 09:43 AM (AwPyG)
It's written in the Malice style, which is either a good or a bad thing, depending on your bent. I think he tried his best to create a "personality" for Kim Jong Il, and I don't know how accurate that is, but apparently the "facts" presented are what the people of North Korea are taught, with Malice's subtle way of letting the reader know how horrible these things are, as he's reciting them in Kim's matter-of-fact, megalomaniacal way.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 25, 2021 09:43 AM (5ieoM)
yes a good translation is key, diana mclean who has translated several latin american works, volpi and vasquez gomez, reads better then in spanish, one translation of denisovich, was just terrible, including the meaning of certain terms,
Posted by: alien covenant was much worse at July 25, 2021 09:43 AM (hMlTh)
Posted by: artemis at July 25, 2021 09:42 AM (AwPyG)
Dodgeball. The Ocho!
Posted by: Ordinary American at July 25, 2021 09:43 AM (H8QX8)
Posted by: artemis at July 25, 2021 09:42 AM
And roller derby.
Posted by: Bert G at July 25, 2021 09:43 AM (UJh+r)
Yesterday I was reading a few pages in Camille Paglia's "Sexual Personae." She says that homosexuality, as an identity (as opposed to just an act) is a fairly recent invention. She also says that humans are inherently hierarchical beings, an idea which matches up with Jordan Peterson's work.
Sorry for the randomness; the coffee hasn't taken effect yet.
Posted by: PabloD at July 25, 2021 09:43 AM (/1eYZ)
Posted by: artemis at July 25, 2021 09:40 AM (AwPyG)
He, and we, did not believe that the Justice system in the US was dead. We were wrong.
Some people still think it's all a big complicated scenario in which people are outing the bad guys and Steiner will come. The " if you doubt Durham, you doubt Trump, you crazy" is still alive and well on quodverum where we are still winning like never before
Posted by: CN at July 25, 2021 09:44 AM (ONvIw)
Posted by: Justsayin'
They cared too much.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at July 25, 2021 09:44 AM (d9FiS)
Fascinating look back at 1950's Vermont through the eyes of a 12 year old Shaker boy.
Posted by: Your Eminence at July 25, 2021 09:45 AM (8iyB1)
Any truth to the rumor of the MoMe roundup and Weasel and Bluebell we're leading everyone in a conga line thru the County lockup?
Posted by: Diogenes at July 25, 2021 09:45 AM (YGzpk)
Posted by: Insomniac - Zhou Bai-Den Is Not My Chairman at July 25, 2021 09:45 AM (II3Gr)
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at July 25, 2021 09:20 AM (y7DUB)
I've been watching a series on YouTube profiling Nazi leaders. Heinrich Himmler Martin Bormann, Joseph Goebbls.
Several of them came from the bureaucracy.
Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at July 25, 2021 09:46 AM (cSyAR)
Posted by: alien covenant was much worse at July 25, 2021 09:46 AM (hMlTh)
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at July 25, 2021 09:36 AM (y7DUB)
Pechorin is completely identifiable to me.
Posted by: Ordinary American at July 25, 2021 09:46 AM (H8QX8)
Posted by: Federal Agent #PiSquared2 at July 25, 2021 09:37 AM (6qlAy)
And then he discarded them. See: Night of The Long Knives.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 25, 2021 09:47 AM (Q9lwr)
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at July 25, 2021 09:36 AM (y7DUB)
That's a great book.
Posted by: CN at July 25, 2021 09:47 AM (ONvIw)
Posted by: Humphreyrobot at July 25, 2021 09:47 AM (ptq0O)
have to disagree with him. They just keep steamrolling along--they
definitely steamrolled him.
Posted by: artemis at July 25, 2021 09:40 AM (AwPyG)
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The thing is, he was correct. The problem is that there were so many of them.
The left can't win on its own terms, because it has no terms. Already they are turning on each other because only one hand can wield the Ring. Their policies are self-defeating, and by systematically smashing the various institutions they control, they're wrecking their own livelihoods. That's really stupid.
It's the classic good news/bad news paradox. The good news is are enemies are ignorant and self-absorbed, so they keep making bonehead mistakes. The bad news is that the consequences of those mistakes won't be limited to them and they're too stupid to stop.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 25, 2021 09:47 AM (llXky)
Posted by: artemis
The bad part is that good intentions paving costs so much.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at July 25, 2021 09:48 AM (d9FiS)
It's a head-scratcher that Devin Nunes, who I think is one of the few straight-shooters, said last week that the Durham report was indeed coming out, and that people would be indicted as a result.
So I don't know what to believe.
Posted by: artemis at July 25, 2021 09:49 AM (AwPyG)
Was reading "The Spanish Holocaust" last week but bailed on it a couple of hundred (of 500 or so) pages in. It read like the author had been trapped by trying to prove his title true and it read like an litanization of every bit of travesty that could be found. But when it got to "25 sheep were taken from a wealthy landowner", it was time to go.
However, and to be clear, I didn't doubt the author's veracity just his importance judgements. I'm going to give the same author's "The Spanish Civil War" a shot in the near future.
Posted by: 11B40 at July 25, 2021 09:50 AM (evgyj)
Did anyone get the who dis?
Posted by: CN at July 25, 2021 09:40 AM (ONvIw)
I have not seen the correct answer in any comment yet.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at July 25, 2021 09:50 AM (u/ndq)
So bizarre, that a sports team gets a "defensive" name like "guardians."
Must have been a committee of bureaucrats
Posted by: artemis at July 25, 2021 09:43 AM (AwPyG)
It really would be interesting (maybe) to find out the thought process. Is it an allusion to the Marvelle movie? Is it some sort of uniquely Cleveland thing?
Did it have anything to do with the legal concept of a guardian? I'm going with my first. Some millennial nitwits are fans of the comic/movie.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 25, 2021 09:50 AM (5ieoM)
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at July 25, 2021 09:50 AM (u/ndq)
Yoko's mama?
Posted by: BignJames at July 25, 2021 09:50 AM (AwYPR)
Just like the experimental vaccine.
Posted by: Federal Agent #PiSquared2 at July 25, 2021 09:51 AM (O2L4/)
Posted by: Humphreyrobot at July 25, 2021 09:52 AM (ptq0O)
author's veracity just his importance judgements. I'm going to give the
same author's "The Spanish Civil War" a shot in the near future.
Posted by: 11B40 at July 25, 2021 09:50 AM (evgyj)
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Who is the author?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 25, 2021 09:52 AM (llXky)
"Early days ESPN was so much fun. They had to search heard to find sports
to fill up the 24 hour format, so we saw darts, and curling."
Now sports media is 24/7 of morons screaming at each other about who is the best player playing or GOAT. We live in stupid times.
Posted by: lowandslow at July 25, 2021 09:52 AM (qH6FZ)
I dunno--they all seem to be in complete lock step, to me--which circles back to the fact that even athletes are toeing the leftist line.
So much so that the order went out to change the narrative to "vaccines are imperative" to "vaccines don't work, back to masks" and everyone turned on a dime.
Posted by: artemis at July 25, 2021 09:52 AM (AwPyG)
Speaking of which, one of the pressures brought to bear to force out Pope Benedict XVI was applied by international banking.
They turned off the faucet to the Vatican Bank.
It's alleged that the Obama administration also played a role. As Zero is a communist, I'm inclined to believe it.
Posted by: callsign claymore at July 25, 2021 09:52 AM (S9c8K)
I think that's the most discouraging aspect of the overthrow of the government; everyone saw it was happening in real time, and none of the perpetrators--going back five years--has been truly punished.
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this is why blood feuds should make a comeback
old ways are best ways
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 25, 2021 09:53 AM (oEn12)
Posted by: BignJames at July 25, 2021 09:53 AM (AwYPR)
So I don't know what to believe.
Posted by: artemis at July 25, 2021 09:49 AM (AwPyG)
With this DOJ? Ha!
Posted by: Federal Agent #PiSquared2 at July 25, 2021 09:53 AM (O2L4/)
Several of them came from the bureaucracy.
Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at July 25, 2021 09:46 AM (cSyAR)
I hear tell Yootoob demonetizes vids that have Nazis in them, cuz they're so committed to thwarting the greatest threat to mankind... white teenage screamo music fans.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 25, 2021 09:53 AM (5ieoM)
I've had people argue this.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 25, 2021 09:43 AM (llXky)
Stalin was just trying to redistribute wealth to help poor people, i.e. his intentions were noble and pure.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at July 25, 2021 09:53 AM (u/ndq)
Posted by: artemis
The bad part is that good intentions paving costs so much.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at July 25, 2021 09:48 AM (d9FiS)
And usually involves trillion-dollar federal "stimulus" bills, with the concomitant enormous amounts of grafting and grifting.
Posted by: Insomniac - Zhou Bai-Den Is Not My Chairman at July 25, 2021 09:54 AM (II3Gr)
Just like the experimental vaccine.
Posted by: Federal Agent #PiSquared2 at July 25, 2021 09:51 AM (O2L4/)
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You've got spunk. But that's not really how it worked. Everybody in Germany was not a Nazi.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 25, 2021 09:54 AM (EZebt)
The answer can be used to detect androids. Posted by: Humphreyrobot at July 25, 2021 09:27 AM (ptq0O)
We call this the "Voight-MeinKampff Test."
Posted by: ZOD at July 25, 2021 09:54 AM (xK9An)
307. Who is the author?
Paul Preston
Sorry Sunday am lazy. He's supposed to be one of the current best subject wise.
Posted by: 11B40 at July 25, 2021 09:54 AM (evgyj)
Churchill admits he thought the Russians meant the same thing he did by "peace", "democracy", " self government". To be sure, it didn't help that Roosevelt was actively dying so all his responses to Churchill's telegrams were actually from the State Department (and we now know that meant actual communists were involved in setting the policy).
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 25, 2021 09:55 AM (1lKRm)
Posted by: BignJames at July 25, 2021 09:53 AM (AwYPR)
Yes. Did you actually recognize her? "Hey, that's..."
No, don't tell me, I don't want to know.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at July 25, 2021 09:55 AM (u/ndq)
Posted by: PabloD at July 25, 2021 09:56 AM (/1eYZ)
Ann Barnhardt has excellent material on that.
To clarify re "force out" the Holy Father.
Posted by: callsign claymore at July 25, 2021 09:56 AM (S9c8K)
Posted by: alien covenant was much worse at July 25, 2021 09:56 AM (hMlTh)
Posted by: artemis at July 25, 2021 09:49 AM (AwPyG)
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That's why I stopped following the news. Stuff happens, and we deal with it. Better not to worry about what might happen because so many of the predictions have been wrong.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 25, 2021 09:56 AM (llXky)
I've been going through my accumulation of manual typewriters to see which ones I prefer to use for hammering out essays on whatever topic grabs my attention. It has been a LOT of fun. At the moment, the favorite is an Underwood Rhythm Touch from 1950. It's a standard machine and weighs about 40 pounds. It shows some use over the last 71 years but functions as well as the day it came from the factory. The current runner up is an Olympia SM4 from the late 50s. It's a portable and only weighs about 20 pounds.
Researching the various models, their growing popularity and the history of manual typewriters has been enjoyable and eye opening. Given the skill needed to design, manufacture and assemble these mechanical marvels, the cost of one today would be many thousands of dollars. They weren't inexpensive in their day but the users could count on decades of trouble-free use. That 'built to last' attitude is part of their appeal.
Posted by: JTB at July 25, 2021 09:56 AM (7EjX1)
Posted by: BignJames at July 25, 2021 09:56 AM (AwYPR)
Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at July 25, 2021 09:46 AM (cSyAR)
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And returned to the bureaucracy after.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 25, 2021 09:56 AM (EZebt)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 25, 2021 09:43 AM (llXky)
At the end of his life Stalin became very anti Semitic and had plans for a Jewish purge, He died before he could implement it and the plans were abandoned.
Posted by: Just a side note at July 25, 2021 09:57 AM (pnA/u)
Posted by: callsign claymore at July 25, 2021 09:52 AM (S9c8K)
So do I and I thought so at the time
Posted by: CN at July 25, 2021 09:57 AM (ONvIw)
Posted by: Braenyard at July 25, 2021 09:57 AM (Hk1yf)
Posted by: will choose a nic later at July 25, 2021 09:57 AM (bTQ72)
Posted by: callsign claymore at July 25, 2021 09:57 AM (S9c8K)
You are correct, sir! He started with the drastic lead shortage among the kulaks.
Posted by: pep at July 25, 2021 09:58 AM (ZsR3z)
you kid, but this is exactly how vigilantism gets started.
I think the main thing that's keeping the powder dry is the fact you get the sense that the left is hoping for just such a reaction, so they can claim another "emergency" upon which to suspend all first amendment rights.
Again.
Posted by: artemis at July 25, 2021 09:58 AM (AwPyG)
No, don't tell me, I don't want to know.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at July 25, 2021 09:55 AM (u/ndq)
Yeah, sure...tennis champ in the 1920s...
Posted by: BignJames at July 25, 2021 09:58 AM (AwYPR)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 25, 2021 09:47 AM (Q9lwr)
Indeed. Hitler was paranoid of being overthrown as much as Stalin. The difference is that Hitler surrounded himself with a small group of generals who were very loyal to him till the very end. Stalin had everyone "purged".
Posted by: Federal Agent #PiSquared2 at July 25, 2021 09:58 AM (m/D5i)
Posted by: PabloD at July 25, 2021 09:56 AM (/1eYZ)
Man, that it IS lame.
Around St. Louis lots of things are called "Cardinal" this and "Cardinal" that. But that's because the name of the basebol team has been around for over a century. Not the other way round.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 25, 2021 09:58 AM (5ieoM)
a Jewish purge, He died before he could implement it and the plans
were abandoned.
Well, you know those Joo doctors and their plots...
Posted by: pep at July 25, 2021 09:59 AM (ZsR3z)
I never would have guessed a sportswoman, and I didn't
Posted by: CN at July 25, 2021 09:59 AM (ONvIw)
Posted by: Ziba at July 25, 2021 09:59 AM (S1hrL)
Posted by: artemis at July 25, 2021 09:49 AM (AwPyG)
Nunes is listening to his cow
Posted by: Kindltot at July 25, 2021 10:00 AM (HG00O)
in Cleveland. They're called the Guardians of Traffic. It seems like a
lame reference, but it does relate to something specific to Cleveland.
Still, it beats their second choice, the Cleveland Bollards.
Posted by: pep at July 25, 2021 10:00 AM (ZsR3z)
Posted by: PabloD at July 25, 2021 09:56 AM (/1eYZ)
I recommended they be named the Hazards after on of their main statues and designated hero of Cleveland. Oliver Hazard Perry,
Posted by: Just a side note at July 25, 2021 10:00 AM (pnA/u)
you kid, but this is exactly how vigilantism gets started.
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yeah, I was kidding
*shifty eyes*
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 25, 2021 10:00 AM (oEn12)
Posted by: sidney at July 25, 2021 09:30 AM (7/kmB)
For some reason thats what popped into my head. No clue if its right or wrong. I just couldn't think of any other Asian lady of any importance in era of that photo. Educated in America, spoke english, had to translate for her husband, and referred to the AVG flying tigers as "her boys".
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 25, 2021 10:00 AM (VwHCD)
Posted by: klaftern at July 25, 2021 10:00 AM (r4sI4)
Posted by: artemis at July 25, 2021 10:00 AM (AwPyG)
Number three, the Cleveland Jersey Barriers, was right out.
Posted by: pep at July 25, 2021 10:01 AM (ZsR3z)
I never would have guessed a sportswoman, and I didn't
Posted by: CN at July 25, 2021 09:59 AM (ONvIw)
Or maybe...he cheated.
Posted by: BignJames at July 25, 2021 10:01 AM (AwYPR)
Posted by: artemis at July 25, 2021 10:01 AM (AwPyG)
operation sunrise and the like, and this is where the company got their operational culture from,
Posted by: alien covenant was much worse at July 25, 2021 10:01 AM (hMlTh)
Posted by: AnnaS at July 25, 2021 10:02 AM (l4l/z)
But comparing Fauci to Hitler is apt.
Just based on Jews, Fauci and the policies he set and funded have killed almost as many AIDS and COVID-19 Wuhan infected people. If India gives up an accurate death toll, Fauci is 1.3 Hitlers worth.
Remember, after the AIDS epidemic killed 700,000, Fauci was promoted, even though his policies failed utterly.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at July 25, 2021 10:02 AM (u82oZ)
stalin was not a big tough man
I thought he went into a fetal position and was not seen for 2 weeks after Hitler launched operation barbarosa
stalin was a comunist, which means he is a coward
Posted by: will choose a nic later at July 25, 2021 10:03 AM (bTQ72)
Sorry Sunday am lazy. He's supposed to be one of the current best subject wise.
Posted by: 11B40 at July 25, 2021 09:54 AM (evgyj)
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I didn't consult him for my book, but he seems to be the Standard MK I Republican apologist. (See also Anthony Beevor.)
If you want a book on the Spanish Civil War that I didn't write, Stanley Payne is your go-to guy.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 25, 2021 10:03 AM (llXky)
Posted by: BignJames
Can you imagine Jackie, Shecky Greene, Mel Brooks and Buddy Hackett all sitting around a table drinking with you?
Posted by: Tonypete at July 25, 2021 10:03 AM (6WCwE)
This is a misreading of what Nunes actually said, he said that he heard the report was coming out and that he had to believe that once it was released people would go to jail.
Nobodies going to jail and if a report actually comes out it will be an even bigger wet fart than the last 5 Horowitz IG reports were.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 25, 2021 10:04 AM (tScf+)
So I don't know what to believe.
Posted by: artemis at July 25, 2021 09:49 AM (AwPyG)
~~~~~
Kash Patel talked about it here:
https://tinyurl.com/2ben54as
"Here's what I tell people that always ask me, "Where's the accountability? Where's the prosecutions?" I say, "Look, let the man finish his job," the man being John Durham."
Posted by: IrishEi at July 25, 2021 10:05 AM (9GRhC)
What are we, chopped liver?
Posted by: Alan King and Jerry Lewis at July 25, 2021 10:05 AM (ZsR3z)
Posted by: BignJames at July 25, 2021 10:01 AM (AwYPR)
Well yeah, but that was up to you to disclose.
Posted by: CN at July 25, 2021 10:05 AM (ONvIw)
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at July 25, 2021 10:02 AM (u82oZ)
As I am fond of reminding people, Fauci was the chief of the agency when they funded a "study" of AIDS drugs... on infected orphans.
Nobody followed protocols to ensure the children's rights were protected, and so some of them died prematurely, from the drug trials.
Something like 400 kids in the study, I believe, a drop in the bucket for our bespectacled bureaucrat. Nevertheless, the man has been a monster for decades. Any country that treats him like a respected leader is morally bankrupt.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 25, 2021 10:06 AM (5ieoM)
Posted by: Muldoon at July 25, 2021 10:06 AM (Xwt96)
Posted by: Alan King and Jerry Lewis
Alan would be welcomed, and sit with, the gang. Jerry - not so much.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 25, 2021 10:07 AM (6WCwE)
Posted by: Tonypete at July 25, 2021 10:03 AM (6WCwE)
You wouldn't be able to swallow your drink.
Posted by: BignJames at July 25, 2021 10:07 AM (AwYPR)
Just like the experimental vaccine.
Posted by: Federal Agent #PiSquared2 at July 25, 2021 09:51 AM (O2L4/)
The Nazi party was an entity. The majority of Germans were not members but carried out the nazi creed. Most soldiers in the Wehrmacht were not members. Officers were.
It's much like we've seen in DC. Trump was not a member of the party. They had to get rid of him to keep the hierarchy pure. The party rules.
The same goes for the communist party.
Posted by: Justsayin' at July 25, 2021 10:07 AM (Fs5vw)
Posted by: IrishEi at July 25, 2021 10:05 AM (9GRhC)
That would be fine, if it were not for the four preceding years of nonsense and the refusal to even go after antifa and BLM. The JArndyce and Jarndyce pace is leacing me to believe they're just running the clock.
Posted by: CN at July 25, 2021 10:08 AM (ONvIw)
Posted by: Trimegistus at July 25, 2021 10:08 AM (QZxDR)
Posted by: CN at July 25, 2021 09:59 AM (ONvIw)
I thought it was an appropriate choice, what with the Tokyo Olympics starting up this weekend and all.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at July 25, 2021 10:09 AM (u/ndq)
I work in construction so I'm well acquainted with a contractor milking a job for all it's worth but damn nobody can milk a job better than John Durham.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 25, 2021 10:09 AM (tScf+)
Groan.
How is the drought treating you. We hear bad stuff is happening in CO. Here in Kansas, the corn farmers choose ... poorly. But the wheat harvest went well.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at July 25, 2021 10:09 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: BignJames
Can you imagine Jackie, Shecky Greene, Mel Brooks and Buddy Hackett all sitting around a table drinking with you?
Posted by: Tonypete at July 25, 2021 10:03 AM (6WCw
Jackie Mason will always be the cartoon aardvark to me.
Posted by: Just a side note at July 25, 2021 10:10 AM (pnA/u)
Nobodies going to jail and if a report actually comes out it will be an even bigger wet fart than the last 5 Horowitz IG reports were.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 25, 2021 10:04 AM (tScf+)
I tend to agree. If Sessions/Rosenstein/BArr didn't prosecute any of these donk miscreants, I have no belief in the idea that Garland will.
Posted by: CN at July 25, 2021 10:10 AM (ONvIw)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 25, 2021 09:54 AM (EZebt)
No, that is true, you could be a member of the opposition party. That meant in certain branches of the service you would not get that Fuhrer's Christmas gift, and promotions were harder.
it was doubly true after the war when everyone claimed they were not Nazi. One old guy commented, "when the Americans came everyone said they weren't Nazis. Our family was, it turned out the only Nazi's in Germany were me and Adolf, if only we could have had a talk!"
Posted by: Kindltot at July 25, 2021 10:10 AM (HG00O)
stalin was a comunist, which means he is a coward
Posted by: will choose a nic later at July 25, 2021 10:03 AM (bTQ72)
Basically, yeah. And given the system he set up, their defenses were not able to respond with any sort of effectiveness, because they would have had to wait around for his direction.
They say Stalin may have poisoned Lenin near the end, and I kinda hope that's true. It's also speculated that Stalin was done in too, but I don't think there's much evidence of that. The guy was able to die peacefully, more or less, in his own bed.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 25, 2021 10:10 AM (5ieoM)
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at July 25, 2021 10:09 AM (u/ndq)
It was a very good one and too tough for me.
Posted by: CN at July 25, 2021 10:11 AM (ONvIw)
Posted by: alien covenant was much worse at July 25, 2021 10:11 AM (hMlTh)
The corruption is on such a scale that only one member of congress is unhappy that witnesses are openly lying to congress.
Posted by: artemis at July 25, 2021 10:11 AM (AwPyG)
Posted by: Federal Agent #PiSquared2 at July 25, 2021 09:37 AM (6qlAy)
I think you're confusing the muscle used to make a name for themselves with how the people at the top viewed themselves as an unmongrelized cultural elite.
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at July 25, 2021 10:12 AM (y7DUB)
Nobodies going to jail and if a report actually comes out it will be an even bigger wet fart than the last 5 Horowitz IG reports were.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 25, 2021 10:04 AM (tScf+)
Right. The report isn't going to "indict" anyone. That's up to the AG/DOJ and there's no way the Biden/Obama cartel currently in charge of both offices are going to do anything.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at July 25, 2021 10:12 AM (u/ndq)
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at July 25, 2021 10:09 AM (u82oZ)
I think the Colorado drought is roughly the equivalent of east coast shark attacks.
Yes, it's happening, but it's a thing people like to talk about, more than it being a thing worth talking about.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 25, 2021 10:13 AM (5ieoM)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 25, 2021 09:54 AM (EZebt)
the incentives to be a party member were enormous: social, political, economic, and legal.
There is a lovely quote by Rothbard (that I can't remember fully) that says that people are not actually supporting the political process when their participation is solely based on self -defense and self preservation.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 25, 2021 10:13 AM (HG00O)
If anyone was going to be prosecuted it would have had to happen 3 years ago, that ship has sailed, in fact it never left dock.
Its all bullshit, nothing was ever going to happen.
And at the pace the junta is wrecking things we may not even have a country by 2024.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 25, 2021 10:14 AM (tScf+)
Here it is again
https://tinyurl.com/w3rps3y8
Posted by: Skip at July 25, 2021 10:14 AM (Cxk7w)
Posted by: NaCly Dog
******
Hey Salty-
Not feeling any drought here in the mountains, one our wettest years in a long time. It's rained probably 7 out of 10 days for the past 1-1/2 to 2 months. I can't speak to the situation on the eastern Plains part of the state. Western CO is dry and hot.
Posted by: Muldoon at July 25, 2021 10:15 AM (Xwt96)
Posted by: Infidel at July 25, 2021 10:15 AM (dYrVA)
He demanded a recording of her, so his men kidnapped her, and took her to a studio to record a record in the middle of the night.
The story is he was playing that record when he died.
Posted by: artemis at July 25, 2021 10:16 AM (AwPyG)
Posted by: Muldoon at July 25, 2021 10:15 AM (Xwt96)
Why, it's almost like it's a desert or something.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 25, 2021 10:16 AM (5ieoM)
Posted by: CN at July 25, 2021 10:17 AM (ONvIw)
Posted by: Duncan Macleod, The Highlander at July 25, 2021 10:17 AM (5bp/r)
and possibly loise her shit publicly
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 25, 2021 09:20 AM (oEn12)
Rapinoe has become the face of a progressive movement for that sport and she will forever be linked to that sport's decline.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 25, 2021 10:18 AM (YGzpk)
Lenin had at least one massive stroke that ended his ability to push back against anything Koba wanted to do. Stalin being a sick piece of shit thoroughly enjoyed that.
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at July 25, 2021 10:19 AM (y7DUB)
Thanks.
Thinking of driving around before the COMoMeet. Maybe the Indian Peaks ares. I think I have aged out of hiking even Humboldt Peak.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at July 25, 2021 10:19 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: alien covenant was much worse at July 25, 2021 10:11 AM (hMlTh)
I believe Himmler was formerly a Marxist. Or was that Goebbels ?
Posted by: Just a side note at July 25, 2021 10:20 AM (pnA/u)
Posted by: Muldoon at July 25, 2021 10:15 AM (Xwt96)
Yes, it's getting old. Humid like I haven't seen since I've been here for 46 yrs, but no rain in my AO. We're due for a hard winter. We may have to wait a few years for it to cycle through.
Posted by: Infidel at July 25, 2021 10:21 AM (dYrVA)
Posted by: JTB at July 25, 2021 10:22 AM (7EjX1)
Thanks.
Thinking of driving around before the COMoMeet. Maybe the Indian Peaks ares. I think I have aged out of hiking even Humboldt Peak.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at July 25, 2021 10:19 AM (u82oZ)
Keep an eye on I-70 closures. Mudslides through Glenwood Canyon are causing frequent problems, and I think it is closed right now.
If you have to detour off 70, the route is VERY long.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 25, 2021 10:22 AM (5ieoM)
Remember, after the AIDS epidemic killed 700,000, Fauci was promoted, even though his policies failed utterly.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at July 25, 2021 10:02 AM (u82oZ)
And I'll ask you. Where are you getting your stats? The CDC? WHO? Why are you suddenly believing governmentally prepared stats?
I don't think the Wuflu has killed a fraction of the people that governments say it's killing.
This is why we're losing.
Posted by: Justsayin' at July 25, 2021 10:22 AM (Fs5vw)
Posted by: Skip at July 25, 2021 10:22 AM (Cxk7w)
Yes, and this why people used to give a certain class of commenters rations of shit.
Dude we know how this shit works, we don't have to read dense esoteric reports or sit through ponderous boring testimony where the actors on one side play act tough guys and the actors on the other side lies and lies and lies with no consequence.
I'm over that shit. I was over that shit 3 years ago.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 25, 2021 10:22 AM (tScf+)
Posted by: CN at July 25, 2021 10:22 AM (ONvIw)
But Subway sandwiches, having just recovered from having a pedophile-spokesman, decided to make her their new spokesman.
Maybe these people really are stupid.
Posted by: artemis at July 25, 2021 10:22 AM (AwPyG)
Posted by: Infidel at July 25, 2021 10:21 AM (dYrVA)
I noticed the humidity this past week, but we're supposedly in a monsoon season now. Which just means it clouds over, then the sky sorta spits at you.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 25, 2021 10:23 AM (5ieoM)
Posted by: Trimegistus at July 25, 2021 10:24 AM (QZxDR)
I don't think the Wuflu has killed a fraction of the people that governments say it's killing.
This is why we're losing.
Posted by: Justsayin' at July 25, 2021 10:22 AM (Fs5vw)
I don't think we know. Surely the CCP is holding back stats. Either this is an op or the tru nature of the virus is being hidden and Chinese Lung Aids is closer to the truth.
Posted by: CN at July 25, 2021 10:24 AM (ONvIw)
Posted by: Skip at July 25, 2021 10:24 AM (Cxk7w)
Posted by: BurtTC
Yes, I'm hoping it's open by the mome or I won't be able to make it.
Posted by: Infidel at July 25, 2021 10:24 AM (dYrVA)
...which is especially odd for "Eat Fresh!" given that she looks like she was embalmed about four days ago.
Posted by: ZOD at July 25, 2021 10:26 AM (xK9An)
Posted by: ZOD at July 25, 2021 10:27 AM (xK9An)
I had not heard that. Maybe I'll go else where. The Spanish Peaks and their dikes were always an eye-catcher.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at July 25, 2021 10:27 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: CN at July 25, 2021 10:24 AM (ONvIw)
I do think it's possible governments around the world know something they're not telling us.
That, or they really are fascist monsters. Australia just closed down again, there was a video posted yesterday, a news report, saying something like a hundred or so people have tested positive, and 1 person died, a guy in his 80s. So the whole country is shutting down.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 25, 2021 10:28 AM (5ieoM)
Posted by: artemis at July 25, 2021 10:28 AM (AwPyG)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 25, 2021 10:31 AM (JN3xP)
I don't think we know. Surely the CCP is holding back stats. Either this is an op or the tru nature of the virus is being hidden and Chinese Lung Aids is closer to the truth.
Posted by: CN at July 25, 2021 10:24 AM (ONvIw)
All I know is what I see. I didn't see a pandemic. Did you? All I saw was a normal flu season with it's usual victims and death tolls.
Posted by: Justsayin' at July 25, 2021 10:31 AM (Fs5vw)
Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at July 25, 2021 10:31 AM (JUOKG)
I had not heard that. Maybe I'll go else where. The Spanish Peaks and their dikes were always an eye-catcher.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at July 25, 2021 10:27 AM (u82oZ)
There's plenty to see without needing to use 70 as your main route. If you are going south of the interstate, everything around U.S. 24 is worth seeing.
Except Aspen. Aspen can go to heck.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 25, 2021 10:31 AM (5ieoM)
Posted by: JTB at July 25, 2021 10:22 AM (7EjX1)
I play Elder Scrolls Online and "endgame" is to buy various houses and furnish them through crafted items and achievement awards. I've noticed that my houses all end up with bookcases everywhere and comfortable reading areas with a chair and side table that holds a drink, a snack, a light, and a book. I begin to suspect that says something about my habits.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 25, 2021 10:32 AM (1lKRm)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 25, 2021 10:31 AM (JN3xP)
It sure is. I have this stupid habit of, when I sit down into a chair with arms, I sorta lift up with my arms to more properly plant my seat in the seat.
Last week I kinked my neck and shoulders doing that. And then when I sit down at work, I STILL do it. Freakin' injured... from sitting down.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 25, 2021 10:34 AM (5ieoM)
As has been said, the virus was real everything else is bullshit.
The virus, as most respiratory viruses are, is deadly to a very specific population. This virus was very infectious because it is a manipulated virus and was designed so and so it affected a very specific population very badly.
I work in construction and have an acquaintance pool of roughly 5000 people, if this virus was super deadly to a general population it would have severely impacted the construction industry.
It had zero effect on the construction industry which never shut down.
Again, this was all bullshit.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 25, 2021 10:34 AM (tScf+)
Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at July 25, 2021 10:31 AM (JUOKG)
Primate angel dust.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 25, 2021 10:34 AM (YNtR8)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 25, 2021 10:35 AM (JN3xP)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 25, 2021 10:32 AM (1lKRm)
No liquor cabinet?
Posted by: BignJames at July 25, 2021 10:35 AM (AwYPR)
It's very similar to the comment upthread about the Colorado "drought". The news tells us of a catastrophe, and the people there all say on social media that there's no such thing.
Very similar to how California is always a wild fire inferno.
Or the India covid crisis from a few months ago--everyone on social media said they were "lucky" since it didn't seem to be affecting them, until people started realizing it wasn't affecting anyone, and was largely made-up
Posted by: artemis at July 25, 2021 10:35 AM (AwPyG)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at July 25, 2021 10:36 AM (vuisn)
Posted by: NaCly Dog
******
There's a real nice out-and-back hike from the trailhead at the top of Cordova Pass that goes out onto the shoulder of West Spanish Peak. If you are feeling jaunty you can continue on to the summit. Or make a shorter hike. Walsenburg to La Veta to Cuchara, turn left at the top of Cuchara and continue ~8-10 miles to top of Cordova Pass. Or you can get to it off I-25 at Aguilera.
Posted by: Muldoon at July 25, 2021 10:37 AM (Xwt96)
Did you? All I saw was a normal flu season with it's usual victims and
death tolls.
Posted by: Justsayin' at July 25, 2021 10:31 AM
Same here. Our County of 35,000 had 109 people they say died from covid giving us a covid death rate of 0.003%. We lose more people every year from the flu than that.
Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at July 25, 2021 10:37 AM (JUOKG)
one white guy and the white coach who is ashamed to be whiteposted by Nevergiveup
With an assistant coach who wants to ban Americans from owning guns because the Hezbollah used guns to assassinate his father
Posted by: Peter (My friends call me Pete) Zah at July 25, 2021 10:37 AM (jVHiJ)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 25, 2021 10:38 AM (tScf+)
Yes, one of the "tells" was that the construction workers just carried on like nothing was happening. No masks, no nothing.
Posted by: artemis at July 25, 2021 10:38 AM (AwPyG)
Nope, they're available but it didn't occur to me to use one. My wine glasses and beer steins just fill magically I guess.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 25, 2021 10:38 AM (1lKRm)
Posted by: Muldoon at July 25, 2021 10:38 AM (Xwt96)
I like the Sangre de Cristo Mountains a lot. And went partway up Uncompahgre Mountain in the San Juans.
I have big lung issues after a fire in the Navy. Bad day at work. So less oxygen hits me hard.
Maybe just the approaches to East Spanish Peak for now. It is a prominent summit.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at July 25, 2021 10:38 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 25, 2021 10:31 AM (JN3xP)
Damn! Hope you heal up YD!
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 25, 2021 10:39 AM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 25, 2021 10:39 AM (JN3xP)
various houses and furnish them through crafted items and achievement
awards. I've noticed that my houses all end up with bookcases everywhere
and comfortable reading areas with a chair and side table that holds a
drink, a snack, a light, and a book. I begin to suspect that says
something about my habits.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 25, 2021 10:32 AM (1lKRm)
I used to do that in Morrowind and Skyrym. I would collect books through out the game and pack all the shelves and make libraries. Also weapons rooms, had to have those. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 25, 2021 10:39 AM (VwHCD)
It's very similar to the comment upthread about the Colorado "drought". The news tells us of a catastrophe, and the people there all say on social media that there's no such thing.
Very similar to how California is always a wild fire inferno.
Or the India covid crisis from a few months ago--everyone on social media said they were "lucky" since it didn't seem to be affecting them, until people started realizing it wasn't affecting anyone, and was largely made-up
Posted by: artemis at July 25, 2021 10:35 AM (AwPyG)
I have a feeling there are propagandists, in their various propaganda offices, who come up with words they want on the public's lips, and every time someone says "Delta variant," whoever came up with the term gets a bonus and a handy from the hooker of his/her choice.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 25, 2021 10:40 AM (5ieoM)
Posted by: artemis at July 25, 2021 10:40 AM (AwPyG)
I'll look at my topos and start planning. Thanks.
I need to walk more, with a weighted backpack.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at July 25, 2021 10:40 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: HUNTER at July 25, 2021 10:40 AM (YK4Qh)
Posted by: Muldoon
Once t'was a moron named Muldoon,
Who, alas, was a certified loon ...
Crazy thoughts, he did write,
For edification and delight.
Ah well maybe we'll get the real answer sometime soon.
Posted by: Adriane the Bad Poetry Critic ... at July 25, 2021 10:40 AM (okV1R)
Posted by: Diogenes at July 25, 2021 10:41 AM (YGzpk)
Posted by: HUNTER at July 25, 2021 10:42 AM (YK4Qh)
If you look at Alex Jones (?) or @johnisheretohelp--I wish I could remember, it was pretty recent--they had a program showing the left's playbook for the covid pandemic, including the rise of the "delta" variant. The playbook was from years and years ago.
Very damning
Posted by: artemis at July 25, 2021 10:43 AM (AwPyG)
Posted by: Just a side note at July 25, 2021 10:43 AM (pnA/u)
Posted by: NCC at July 25, 2021 10:44 AM (PycON)
Posted by: Trimegistus at July 25, 2021 08:43 AM (QZxDR)
It's Fu Manchu, in one of his fiendishly clever disguises.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 25, 2021 10:44 AM (NyVQm)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 25, 2021 10:39 AM (JN3xP)
If you are a farmer, you might be "suffering" from a drought. If you aren't, you ain't. My experience has been Front Range douchebags are the ones who talk loudest about the drought.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 25, 2021 10:44 AM (5ieoM)
Posted by: REDACTED at July 25, 2021 10:45 AM (YK4Qh)
Large scale commercial projects in most locales required masks and other PPE, but being as masks don't do shit to protect against viral transmission in a general population, even if they did, the work force density and timelines for completion would render them substantially innefective.
If you havent seen trades racing to substantial completion on a commercial project, it's a thing to behold.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 25, 2021 10:45 AM (tScf+)
I need to walk more, with a weighted backpack.
Posted by: NaCly Dog
*****
I had forgotten about your lung issues. Cordova Pass trailhead is at 11,248 feet elev. The summit of West Peak is 13,626'. That's getting pretty thin.
Posted by: Muldoon at July 25, 2021 10:46 AM (Xwt96)
Posted by: Jak Sucio at July 25, 2021 10:46 AM (jvt6t)
Posted by: Weak Geek at July 25, 2021 10:47 AM (Om/di)
Looking at topo maps is not reading, but I do have guides to both 14teeners and 13teeners in CO. So I gots that.
I'll use them in conjunction.
May you all have fireworks in your life.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at July 25, 2021 10:47 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: artemis at July 25, 2021 10:47 AM (AwPyG)
Tokyo Rose??
Posted by: will choose a nic later at July 25, 2021 10:47 AM (bTQ72)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 25, 2021 10:45 AM (tScf+)
There are houses being built all around here. Amazing to look over and see the progress one day to the next.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 25, 2021 10:48 AM (5ieoM)
...
"Eichmann in Jerusalem"... it's the first heavy reading I've done in quit awhile (real life has been, for me, too depressing to dive into this kind of book)"
I had to look up anhedonic, and thought "gee, maybe that is me". But I have joy in outdoor activity.
So many groups have gone Woke, that "society" is kinda depressing. ... idk about Eichmann's history, but indeed it is people we think are "with us" that destroy us from within. (FBI/GOPe yes, but also many locals and smaller groups, or BRCC type people that play both sides, many churches fully submitted, etc.)
Posted by: illiniwek at July 25, 2021 10:48 AM (Cus5s)
Mexico? I don't no nothing about no Mexico....
Posted by: Jak Sucio at July 25, 2021 10:48 AM (jvt6t)
Posted by: Maxine Waters, Professional Looter and Wig Wearer at July 25, 2021 10:48 AM (R/m4+)
As far as The Magic Mountain goes . . . I quit halfway through. One of the most boring things I ever read.
Posted by: Linnet at July 25, 2021 10:48 AM (yy9Ma)
Still having to go through books to get rid of, but I keep buying more for some reason.
Posted by: notsothoreau at July 25, 2021 10:49 AM (YynYJ)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 25, 2021 10:31 AM (JN3xP)
I used to sprain my ankles all the time playing basketball, stretching the ligaments to the point that my foot would just curl under while walking down the street. I just stopped playing for a while to let them recover; then Nike and other shoe makers had more structural support than those canvas Converse pieces of shit (this was in the 70s). End of problem.
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at July 25, 2021 10:49 AM (y7DUB)
Posted by: BurtTC
And then there is the Big Straw.
Posted by: Infidel at July 25, 2021 10:50 AM (dYrVA)
Next, I plan on getting Sabrina Chase's new book. I've enjoyed alk of hers that I've read both for the writing and for the excellent jib Anachronda does of proofreading.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 25, 2021 10:50 AM (1lKRm)
Posted by: Diogenes at July 25, 2021 10:41 AM
On lace wigs gorilla dust is acceptable.
Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at July 25, 2021 10:51 AM (JUOKG)
Posted by: BurtTC
And then there is the Big Straw.
Posted by: Infidel at July 25, 2021 10:50 AM (dYrVA)
Big Straw? Explain please, I am not familiar with the term.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 25, 2021 10:51 AM (5ieoM)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 25, 2021 10:51 AM (63Dwl)
Yes because unlike the government, commercial projects have a schedule that is set in stone and fairly iron clad contracts.
You want your pay application approved and funded, you meet those milestones that have been established by you subcontractor contract.
You don't meet those deadlines you are not going to be paid and in if you fuck up real bad your going to get a charge back.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 25, 2021 10:52 AM (tScf+)
-'Tucker Carlson you are the worst human being known to mankind': Moment man confronts Fox News host at Montana fishing store and brands him a 'fascist' over vaccine 'misinformation'
of course the
MT lib hassles Tucker, politics is everything to the Ds
MT dud prolly does not even watch his show
ID and MT libs have to be some of the worst
Posted by: will choose a nic later at July 25, 2021 10:54 AM (bTQ72)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 25, 2021 10:55 AM (1lKRm)
The water pipeline!
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 25, 2021 10:55 AM (1lKRm
Blast! That was supposed to be a question.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 25, 2021 10:56 AM (1lKRm)
Years ago, probably in the early 90s, we went to dude ranch in Big Thompson Canyon. One of many highlights, including looking down on eagles flying, was having pointed out the various microclimates adjacent to each other on parts of mountains.
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at July 25, 2021 10:56 AM (y7DUB)
Posted by: will choose a nic later at July 25, 2021 10:54 AM (bTQ72)
Well, most are imports from Cal.
Posted by: BignJames at July 25, 2021 10:56 AM (AwYPR)
Posted by: artemis at July 25, 2021 10:56 AM (AwPyG)
Posted by: Infidel at July 25, 2021 10:56 AM (dYrVA)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 25, 2021 10:38 AM (tScf+)
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Careful! Potting soul is how you end up with an Audrey II.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at July 25, 2021 10:56 AM (CAJOC)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at July 25, 2021 10:57 AM (d9FiS)
The water pipeline!
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 25, 2021 10:55 AM (1lKRm
Blast! That was supposed to be a question.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 25, 2021 10:56 AM (1lKRm)
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Nothing like a freshly pressed and starched question mark!
Posted by: No One of Consequence at July 25, 2021 10:57 AM (CAJOC)
Asabuki Isoko (1889-1985) Showa era poet, 1926 Kanto Tennis Championships women's singles and doubles winner - Japan - 1905
No idea if that's accurate or not. If so, she's 16 years old in that image
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 25, 2021 10:58 AM (KZzsI)
I noticed a mention of "A Hero of Our Time" and anti-heroes.
If you're a fan of comedic novels with anti-heroes, give my novel : "Wearing the Cat" a whirl.
On dead tree and kindle from Amazon.
Posted by: naturalfake at July 25, 2021 10:58 AM (5NkmN)
==
that sounds like an interesting book
what are kurtis ? are they those tunics that Indian ladies wear?
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 25, 2021 10:58 AM (oEn12)
Posted by: Harry Reid at July 25, 2021 10:59 AM (bTQ72)
Posted by: Humphreyrobot at July 25, 2021 10:59 AM (ptq0O)
Posted by: Thai Milk Tea Boba ... at July 25, 2021 10:59 AM (okV1R)
Posted by: Infidel at July 25, 2021 10:56 AM (dYrVA)
Ah, thanks. I know it's been said most famines are caused by politics. I wonder how much one could say the same about droughts.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 25, 2021 11:00 AM (5ieoM)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 25, 2021 11:01 AM (kTF2Z)
Having grown up on the east slope I suspect that I have a different view of that particular dispute. The big thing on the Plains wss when one of the Denver suburbs bought a bunch of Weld county farms through intermediaries and took the water granted from their water rights. This means the farms shut down completely and destroyed a couple of small towns.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 25, 2021 11:02 AM (1lKRm)
Posted by: Infidel at July 25, 2021 11:02 AM (dYrVA)
Posted by: CN at July 25, 2021 11:02 AM (ONvIw)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at July 25, 2021 11:04 AM (d9FiS)
Posted by: Infidel at July 25, 2021 11:05 AM (dYrVA)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at July 25, 2021 11:05 AM (Dc2NZ)
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 25,
2021 10:58 AM (oEn12)
Yes. A lot of mine are about 5 years old and have been worn quite a lot so the side seam cloth is getting fragile and the washer or dryer seems to be causing holes in the front or back of the bodice occasionally.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 25, 2021 11:06 AM (1lKRm)
Posted by: Vic at July 25, 2021 11:06 AM (mpXpK)
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she's in The Death of Stalin, played by Olga Kurylenko
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 25, 2021 11:08 AM (oEn12)
That's not surprising, as Nabokov was emphasizing the literal meaning of the original Russian over the artistry of the meter and rhyme, so there is little poetic movement in the translation. Translations exist that attempt to replicate the Onegin stanza. I can't make a recommendation as I haven't read them. The original is very charming, with occasional surprising depths. The narrative includes some of the earliest fully realized characters in what would become Russian Literature as we know it, the mighty prose fictions of the 19th century. As it translates poorly, Westerners miss out on Russian poetry, which is the core and soul of the literature. Onegin combines the two, a "novel in verse."
Pushkin is like Mozart and Champagne, deft and intoxicating.
Posted by: Brett at July 25, 2021 11:10 AM (oP9aM)
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at July 25, 2021 11:27 AM (y7DUB)
I thought I WAS the 'internet tough guy', but I have so much competition that I'm gonna retire and open up a slot for a promising youngster from the minors.
Posted by: Sapwolf at July 25, 2021 11:29 AM (S4A66)
Posted by: April -- dash my lace wigs! at July 25, 2021 11:29 AM (OX9vb)
Posted by: April -- dash my lace wigs! at July 25, 2021 11:31 AM (OX9vb)
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at July 25, 2021 11:32 AM (y7DUB)
https://tinyurl.com/yekzf9qs
Posted by: DynamiteDan at July 25, 2021 11:36 AM (355sA)
Posted by: From that time at July 25, 2021 11:43 AM (4780s)
There aren't any wine moms here, are there?
Posted by: m at July 25, 2021 12:23 PM (6dJKT)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc.,etc. at July 25, 2021 12:28 PM (4EIFd)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc.,etc. at July 25, 2021 12:29 PM (SwCv8)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc.,etc. at July 25, 2021 12:29 PM (SwCv
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Some of us never do!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at July 25, 2021 12:31 PM (Dc2NZ)
Posted by: Weak Geek at July 25, 2021 12:33 PM (Om/di)
I've been unable to develop any enthusiasm for the BBC remake. The earlier actors were much more in touch with the time and place of the books, and it tells in their portrayal.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc.,etc. at July 25, 2021 12:34 PM (BvZkh)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc.,etc. at July 25, 2021 12:29 PM (SwCv
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Some of us never do!
Posted by: All Hail Eris
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Hold it...[scrambles into trousers]...you mean others are still here?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc.,etc. at July 25, 2021 12:36 PM (BvZkh)
Posted by: Weak Geek
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AI image matching. We do it all of the time.
Posted by: Bob, at the NSA at July 25, 2021 12:37 PM (BvZkh)
Posted by: Bob, at the NSA at July 25, 2021 12:41 PM (SwCv8)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at July 25, 2021 12:49 PM (Dc2NZ)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at July 25, 2021 12:49 PM (Dc2NZ)
Thanks for the info!
Posted by: CN at July 25, 2021 01:14 PM (ONvIw)
I've been unable to develop any enthusiasm for the BBC remake. The earlier actors were much more in touch with the time and place of the books, and it tells in their portrayal.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc.,etc. at July 25, 2021 12:34 PM (BvZkh)
Mostly. I thought the original Helen was too old for the role, but she did a great job with the 1930s feel
Posted by: CN at July 25, 2021 01:15 PM (ONvIw)
Posted by: Frankly at July 25, 2021 01:18 PM (4a5K+)
Posted by: Ben Sears at July 25, 2021 01:19 PM (AQEgU)
Posted by: CN at July 25, 2021 01:19 PM (ONvIw)
Yeah I agree that there are snooty people who show contempt for good books out there but... a lot of what is considered classics simply are not, upon further review
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 25, 2021 06:53 PM (KZzsI)
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