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- Tue Aug 20, 2019 8:49 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Lenny’s secret yet not so secret love affair
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4092
- Mon Mar 25, 2019 10:10 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Trump cheered Patriots to Super Bowl victory with founder of spa where Kraft was busted
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4860
- Mon Mar 25, 2019 10:09 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: “Trump Wins!”: Whatever is next, it’s not impeachment—at least not on Russia charges
- Replies: 13
- Views: 15121
- Sat Oct 06, 2018 3:47 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Fortress Trump is being undermined as Manafort pleads guilty, agrees to cooperate with Mueller
- Replies: 46
- Views: 412742
Re: Fortress Trump is being undermined as Manafort pleads guilty, agrees to cooperate with Mueller
much ado about nothing, msm's MO
- Sat Oct 06, 2018 3:45 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Great social commentary on sheeple and modern art
- Replies: 0
- Views: 4581
- Sat Oct 06, 2018 3:41 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Kavanaugh confirmed
- Replies: 30
- Views: 52505
Kavanaugh confirmed
For weeks MSM made it look like his confirmation was in severe jeopardy. And the sheep took the bait. Reality check.
- Wed Sep 19, 2018 9:43 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Fortress Trump is being undermined as Manafort pleads guilty, agrees to cooperate with Mueller
- Replies: 46
- Views: 412742
Re: Fortress Trump is being undermined as Manafort pleads guilty, agrees to cooperate with Mueller
We can go back to her dealings with GS and her failure as SecState too, but do we even need to go that far? Indeed, who would be so bold as to take issue with your restraint and fair-mindedness? If you want to play the game of speculation, she looks far worse. Sure, take all the circumstantial evid...
- Wed Sep 19, 2018 5:55 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Fortress Trump is being undermined as Manafort pleads guilty, agrees to cooperate with Mueller
- Replies: 46
- Views: 412742
Re: Fortress Trump is being undermined as Manafort pleads guilty, agrees to cooperate with Mueller
:( :( :( -collusion, cooperation, lying, corruption,sexual harrassment and maybe even rape- Hillary is no different in this respect. Sabotaging the Sanders campaign with the DNC through collusion, corruption, and lying. Talking through both sides of her mouth when we all know she's a pet of Goldman...
- Wed Sep 19, 2018 2:53 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Fortress Trump is being undermined as Manafort pleads guilty, agrees to cooperate with Mueller
- Replies: 46
- Views: 412742
Re: Fortress Trump is being undermined as Manafort pleads guilty, agrees to cooperate with Mueller
You bet I won't. What few replies I do post are a simple wake-up call to reality. Keep dreaming. See you at the reelection.jserraglio wrote: ↑Wed Sep 19, 2018 2:45 pmDon't like 'em? Don't read 'em.living_stradivarius wrote: ↑Wed Sep 19, 2018 2:38 pmIndeed, the number of "walls closing in on Trump" headlines posted by jserraglio here far outnumber anyone else's political opinions
- Wed Sep 19, 2018 2:38 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Fortress Trump is being undermined as Manafort pleads guilty, agrees to cooperate with Mueller
- Replies: 46
- Views: 412742
Re: Fortress Trump is being undermined as Manafort pleads guilty, agrees to cooperate with Mueller
Indeed, the number of "walls closing in on Trump" headlines posted by jserraglio here far outnumber anyone else's political opinions
- Wed Sep 19, 2018 2:29 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Fortress Trump is being undermined as Manafort pleads guilty, agrees to cooperate with Mueller
- Replies: 46
- Views: 412742
Re: Fortress Trump is being undermined as Manafort pleads guilty, agrees to cooperate with Mueller
Ask what Jeffrey Epstein's underaged girls saw, and got.
Oh look, Kevin Spacey's there too. A mighty fine cast of friends.
- Wed Sep 19, 2018 2:19 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Fortress Trump is being undermined as Manafort pleads guilty, agrees to cooperate with Mueller
- Replies: 46
- Views: 412742
Re: Fortress Trump is being undermined as Manafort pleads guilty, agrees to cooperate with Mueller
You know what, you're right. She's worse. Far more skeletons to hide in her closet. At least with Trump, what you see is what you get.jserraglio wrote: ↑Wed Sep 19, 2018 2:01 pmSmells like a load of crap. Come to think of it, it is a load of crap.
- Wed Sep 19, 2018 2:08 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Fortress Trump is being undermined as Manafort pleads guilty, agrees to cooperate with Mueller
- Replies: 46
- Views: 412742
Re: Fortress Trump is being undermined as Manafort pleads guilty, agrees to cooperate with Mueller
Good luck convincing more than half of all Americans of that with your CNN sky is falling headlines. The election will tell all.jserraglio wrote: ↑Wed Sep 19, 2018 2:01 pmSmells like a load of crap. Come to think of it, it is a load of crap.
- Wed Sep 19, 2018 1:20 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Fortress Trump is being undermined as Manafort pleads guilty, agrees to cooperate with Mueller
- Replies: 46
- Views: 412742
Re: Fortress Trump is being undermined as Manafort pleads guilty, agrees to cooperate with Mueller
-collusion, cooperation, lying, corruption,sexual harrassment and maybe even rape- Hillary is no different in this respect. Sabotaging the Sanders campaign with the DNC through collusion, corruption, and lying. Talking through both sides of her mouth when we all know she's a pet of Goldman Sachs. Y...
- Tue Sep 18, 2018 11:05 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Fortress Trump is being undermined as Manafort pleads guilty, agrees to cooperate with Mueller
- Replies: 46
- Views: 412742
Re: Fortress Trump is being undermined as Manafort pleads guilty, agrees to cooperate with Mueller
I am not optimistic. 2018 is not 1974. Most Republicans would die before they would give up Trump, if only because they are married to the party rather than the country. Not unlike people who can't get over differences of opinion over policy issues. If someone can't get over the fact that a person ...
- Mon Sep 17, 2018 5:46 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Does Content ID work for classical music?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 15087
Re: Does Content ID work for classical music?
But whereas Facebook's formal appeals process didn't work for Rhodes, public shaming seems to have done the trick. Rhodes' tweet on the topic got more than 2,000 retweets, and Rhodes also emailed senior Sony Music executives about the issue. Earlier this week, Sony finally released its claim to Rho...
- Mon Sep 17, 2018 5:44 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Two NY Phil players dismissed for unspecified misconduct
- Replies: 6
- Views: 9792
Re: Two NY Phil players dismissed for unspecified misconduct
One can only assume these 'misconduct' allegations are related to sexual harassment. But maybe it's something else (for once).
- Fri Sep 14, 2018 4:16 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Indiana U. Jacobs SoM webcast - (R)evolution of Steve Jobs - Mason Bates 7:30 PM 9/14-15
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5100
Re: Indiana U. Jacobs SoM webcast - (R)evolution of Steve Jobs - Mason Bates 7:30 PM 9/14-15
These kinds of operas just seem so odd and out of place.
- Thu Sep 13, 2018 6:52 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: In defense of libraries
- Replies: 16
- Views: 25201
Re: In defense of libraries
Petulant, passive aggressive children shall now be ignored
- Wed Sep 12, 2018 10:35 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Being Inundated with Unwanted Phone Calls
- Replies: 15
- Views: 18010
Re: Being Inundated with Unwanted Phone Calls
Are others experiencing similar calls on their phones. Is their anything that we can do about it. I fear that the Medicare system is being grossly taken advantage of. Does Medicare even KNOW that this is happening? I get these on my cell phone all the time. Which is why I use a Google Voice number ...
- Wed Sep 12, 2018 10:29 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Donald Trump's War on Workers
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4852
Re: Donald Trump's War on Workers
Meanwhile, Job Openings Exceed Unemployed Americans Again in July as Employers Feel the Pinch https://www.wsj.com/articles/job-openings-exceed-unemployed-americans-again-in-july-as-employers-feel-the-pinch-1536691533 I guess the stock market being at new all time highs and employers offering more jo...
- Wed Sep 12, 2018 10:03 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: In defense of libraries
- Replies: 16
- Views: 25201
Re: In defense of libraries
Which, to change the subject, explains why you are rather to the Right and don't even believe in Social Security. :roll: Sorry, Henry, but I know how to give it with both barrels when it is called for. I'm all for upward mobility for young people, and public libraries certainly facilitate this. So ...
- Wed Sep 12, 2018 4:29 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Was Suzuki a fraud?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7704
Re: Was Suzuki a fraud?
l don't know whether or not this, which I picked up from Facebook, will come across as a successful link or not, nor have I the competence to comment on it, but I thought people might find it interesting. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/11188226/Violin-teacher-Suzuki-is-the-bi...
- Wed Sep 12, 2018 3:25 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: In defense of libraries
- Replies: 16
- Views: 25201
Re: In defense of libraries
We have many libraries in large- and small communities. I see them being used regularly by all sorts of people, young and old and in-between. While I have, personally, had no need to visit a library in a long time, except to attend NYCON conventions, I have my own ever-expanding library in a variet...
- Mon Sep 10, 2018 6:26 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: In defense of libraries
- Replies: 16
- Views: 25201
Re: In defense of libraries
In other words, the author, Panos Mourdoukoutas, didn't know what he was talking about. Look at the twitter firestorm: https://twitter.com/pmourdoukoutas/status/1021139921271230464?lang=en He's a professor at a public university to boot. Panos Mourdoukoutas is Professor and Chair of the Department ...
- Mon Sep 10, 2018 11:11 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: In defense of libraries
- Replies: 16
- Views: 25201
Re: In defense of libraries
This summer, Forbes magazine published an article arguing that libraries no longer served a purpose and did not deserve public support. The author, an economist, suggested that Amazon replace libraries with its own retail outlets, and claimed that most Americans would prefer a free-market option. T...
- Fri Aug 31, 2018 9:11 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: For Trekkers only
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5690
Re: For Trekkers only
Meanwhile the Star Trek ip is floundering under CBS: Here's the latest https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2018/08/star-trek-discovery-plageriazed-a-2014-video-game-story-line.html I doubt Patrick Stewart's return to the franchise will be able to save it: https://www.cbs.com/shows/star-trek-discovery/news...
- Thu Aug 30, 2018 5:47 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: About "Cher," the singer
- Replies: 7
- Views: 10231
Re: About "Cher," the singer
I was recently invited to go to the movie "Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again," which is the sequel to the original "Mamma Mia." I never saw the original film. This is not usually the kind of movie I attend, but I must say it was entertaining, particularly musically . I have never collected any recordings...
- Thu Aug 30, 2018 5:45 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Microsoft pocket suggestions
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6695
- Sun Aug 26, 2018 7:36 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Black Tuesday — Cohen accuses Trump of criminal conspiracy as prosecutors move in for the kill
- Replies: 27
- Views: 31791
Re: Black Tuesday — Cohen accuses Trump of criminal conspiracy as prosecutors move in for the kill
Joe, if only that was fully true. Gerrymandering, lobbying, the electoral college, citizens united. We strive for a "more perfect union" even though we always fall short of that ideal. Preferable to Trumpista post-fascism or latter-day political defeatism which calls itself 'realism'. And what are ...
- Sat Aug 25, 2018 8:43 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Black Tuesday — Cohen accuses Trump of criminal conspiracy as prosecutors move in for the kill
- Replies: 27
- Views: 31791
Re: Black Tuesday — Cohen accuses Trump of criminal conspiracy as prosecutors move in for the kill
Going to be more realistic and say that's not going to happen (both).jserraglio wrote: ↑Sat Aug 25, 2018 8:40 pmThe nation'll soon be rid of the tyrant.
P.S. Barring war in the streets, he'll go before 2020.
- Sat Aug 25, 2018 8:38 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Black Tuesday — Cohen accuses Trump of criminal conspiracy as prosecutors move in for the kill
- Replies: 27
- Views: 31791
Re: Black Tuesday — Cohen accuses Trump of criminal conspiracy as prosecutors move in for the kill
Oh yes, because MSM has, time and again, completely ignored and underestimated the power the Trump constituency has over Congress. They won't give a damn about the porn star nonsense, so no, this is not going to be like what happened to Nixon. It hasn't been ignored at all-it's just unfortunate but...
- Sat Aug 25, 2018 8:11 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Black Tuesday — Cohen accuses Trump of criminal conspiracy as prosecutors move in for the kill
- Replies: 27
- Views: 31791
Re: Black Tuesday — Cohen accuses Trump of criminal conspiracy as prosecutors move in for the kill
There'll be plenty of concrete evidence of the Donald's perfidy before this 'circus' of his own devising de-tents, and the name Donald Trump may eventually efface Benedict Arnold's as a byword for treason. And if Mueller concludes (as John Brennan apparently already has) that the evidence points to...
- Sat Aug 25, 2018 11:29 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Black Tuesday — Cohen accuses Trump of criminal conspiracy as prosecutors move in for the kill
- Replies: 27
- Views: 31791
Re: Black Tuesday — Cohen accuses Trump of criminal conspiracy as prosecutors move in for the kill
I disagree. And in the end, without anything concrete on Russia none of this will amount to anything. The people who got him elected don't give a crap about MSM's nonstop coverage of what he does in bed with a porn star. Sure prosecutors will try to weave it into some kind of legal issue with campai...
- Fri Aug 24, 2018 5:53 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Black Tuesday — Cohen accuses Trump of criminal conspiracy as prosecutors move in for the kill
- Replies: 27
- Views: 31791
Re: Black Tuesday — Cohen accuses Trump of criminal conspiracy as prosecutors move in for the kill
To the contrary. The market's actually up this week at the prospect of the inevitable departure of the Lord of Misrule and Laughing stock -in-Chief. My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over... Our Constitution works; our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here th...
- Fri Aug 24, 2018 4:03 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Black Tuesday — Cohen accuses Trump of criminal conspiracy as prosecutors move in for the kill
- Replies: 27
- Views: 31791
Re: Black Tuesday — Cohen accuses Trump of criminal conspiracy as prosecutors move in for the kill
Stock market didn't flinch at all, so big money doesn't really seem to care.jserraglio wrote: ↑Fri Aug 24, 2018 3:41 pmOdds as of August 22 at MyBookie
Yes: +300
No: -500
WILL DONALD TRUMP LEAVE OFFICE VIA IMPEACHMENT?
Odds as of August 22 at BetOnline
Yes: +150
No: -200
- Fri Aug 24, 2018 6:59 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Black Tuesday — Cohen accuses Trump of criminal conspiracy as prosecutors move in for the kill
- Replies: 27
- Views: 31791
Re: Black Tuesday — Cohen accuses Trump of criminal conspiracy as prosecutors move in for the kill
Unless there's some concrete Russia connection here this will probably just go in circles the same way Ken Starr went with Clinton.
Speaking of which: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/22/us/p ... eport.html
Speaking of which: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/22/us/p ... eport.html
- Wed Aug 22, 2018 9:36 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Displacing the unwanted
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5187
Re: Displacing the unwanted
Why do they think atonal music will drive junkies away?
- Wed Aug 22, 2018 3:57 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Black Tuesday — Cohen accuses Trump of criminal conspiracy as prosecutors move in for the kill
- Replies: 27
- Views: 31791
Re: Black Tuesday — Cohen accuses Trump of criminal conspiracy as prosecutors move in for the kill
Which campaign finance laws are involved? It'd be nice if they were more specific so we know how deep this goes.
- Wed Aug 22, 2018 1:18 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Trump’s company approved $420,000 in payments to Cohen, relying on ‘sham’ invoices, prosecutors say
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5385
- Tue Aug 21, 2018 5:07 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Leonard Bernstein's Piano Sonata ( 1938 )
- Replies: 4
- Views: 7010
Re: Leonard Bernstein's Piano Sonata ( 1938 )
Was not aware Bernstein had written a piano sonata , recording here by pianist Alexander Frey. Very interesting , 20-minute work , bit Shoshtakovich -ian to my ear : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S4atnGxcws He was 20 years old then and probably had just begun his senior thesis at Harvard: https:...
- Mon Aug 20, 2018 5:48 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Latest on priest abuse of children
- Replies: 24
- Views: 27324
Re: Latest on priest abuse of children
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ-YjGmpO4Qjserraglio wrote: ↑Wed Aug 15, 2018 2:47 pmFinally and above all, don’t tell the police. Child sexual abuse, even short of actual penetration, is and has for all relevant times been a crime.
- Mon Aug 20, 2018 5:47 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: 'I was abducted by aliens', she said; now the Miami Herald is endorsing Rodriguez Aguilera for Congress
- Replies: 1
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Re: 'I was abducted by aliens', she said; now the Miami Herald is endorsing Rodriguez Aguilera for Congress
blond extraterrestrial beings kidnapped her when she was 7
Maybe we have one in the White House?
- Mon Aug 20, 2018 4:26 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Liszt on Beethoven
- Replies: 16
- Views: 13327
Re: Liszt on Beethoven
Alan Walker's 3-volume book about Liszt's life and music has a chapter devoted to Paganini in vol. 1. Paris heard Paganini again. It was April 1832,... and this time Liszt was present... The Paganini of the piano had still to appear. The galvanizing effect that this insight produced on Liszt is now...
- Mon Aug 20, 2018 9:38 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Liszt on Beethoven
- Replies: 16
- Views: 13327
Re: Liszt on Beethoven
Stasov brought to light a letter of Liszt’s that offers a creator’s perspective on Beethoven. Before media brought music into people’s lives one had to attend a concert or try your luck at home with sheet music. Liszt could not resist transcribing Beethoven’s nine symphonies and making a second arr...
- Sat Aug 18, 2018 1:45 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: My clothes dryer plays Schubert
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6261
Re: My clothes dryer plays Schubert
It was my turn to go down to the basement and bring up a load of towels from the (Samsung) clothes dryer. The cycle was just finishing and the dryer was playing a tune to announce that. It took me a couple of seconds to recognize the tune--I'm not used to hearing it in tinkly electronic format--but...
- Sat Aug 18, 2018 1:45 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Joshua Bell plays Saint-Saens VC # 3 at Proms
- Replies: 13
- Views: 10535
Re: Joshua Bell plays Saint-Saens VC # 3 at Proms
Thanks for posting
- Thu Aug 16, 2018 11:32 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Brennan Times editorial raises provocative question: What sort of animal needs a hogwash?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3711
Re: Brennan Times editorial raises provocative question: What sort of animal needs a hogwash?
He probably took out a loan from Russia and is refinancing
Ultimately not that different from the pet of Goldman Sachs which the DNC offered as their candidate. Pig with lipstick either way.
Ultimately not that different from the pet of Goldman Sachs which the DNC offered as their candidate. Pig with lipstick either way.
- Thu Aug 16, 2018 11:28 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Putting Conductors In Their Place: Sexual Harassment and the Death of the “Maestro Myth”
- Replies: 15
- Views: 11783
- Thu Aug 16, 2018 6:48 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: About pronouncing "steen" or "stine" ...
- Replies: 25
- Views: 26275
Re: About pronouncing "steen" or "stine" ...
I have known a Berstein family that uses "Steen" instead of "Stine". So yes, this gets very confusing :) On a somewhat unrelated topic, I belong to the camp that distinctly remembers the Berenstain Bears as the "Berenstein Bears" for some reason. I blame the Scholastic Book order magazines that must...