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- Fri May 10, 2024 11:43 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Hard-right Trump whisperer Steve Bannon loses appeal; could soon be headed to prison
- Replies: 0
- Views: 24
Hard-right Trump whisperer Steve Bannon loses appeal; could soon be headed to prison
Federal Appeals Court Upholds Bannon’s Contempt Conviction Stephen Bannon, a longtime ally of Donald Trump, had been found of defying a subpoena from the House Jan. 6 committee. He now faces a four-month prison sentence. The New York Times By Alan Feuer May 10, 2024, 12:16 p.m. ET A federal appeals...
- Fri May 10, 2024 10:43 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Biden to Bibi: You’re not going to get our support if you go after these population centers
- Replies: 4
- Views: 116
Re: Biden to Bibi: You’re not going to get our support if you go after these population centers
The Debate Over Rafah A look at the conflicting views of President Biden and Benjamin Netanyahu. By David Leonhardt May 10, 2024 Updated 10:04 a.m. ET At the heart of the dispute between President Biden and Benjamin Netanyahu over invading Rafah is a larger disagreement about what Israel can reason...
- Fri May 10, 2024 8:10 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Biden to Bibi: You’re not going to get our support if you go after these population centers
- Replies: 4
- Views: 116
Re: Biden to Bibi: You’re not going to get our support if you go after these population centers
A contrary view . . . OPINION BRET STEPHENS President Biden Just Made His Biggest Blunder May 9, 2024 In announcing that the United States will pause delivery of 3,500 bombs to Israel, President Biden has the laudable motive of wanting to spare innocent Palestinians from the military consequences of...
- Fri May 10, 2024 6:28 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: How Trinity College Dublin’s spunky ‘brats’ got their university to divest
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- Views: 26
How Trinity College Dublin’s spunky ‘brats’ got their university to divest
How Pro-Palestinian Students Pushed Trinity College Dublin to Divest A surge of attention hit Ireland’s most prestigious university over protests that involved Israel, Gaza and the famed medieval Book of Kells. By Isabella Kwai and Ed O’Loughlin May 10, 2024 Discontent over the war in Gaza had been...
- Thu May 09, 2024 2:54 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Biden to Bibi: You’re not going to get our support if you go after these population centers
- Replies: 4
- Views: 116
Re: Biden to Bibi: You’re not going to get our support if you go after these population centers
I'm sure Biden's assessment of Netanyahu is correct. He should do more than just threaten to withhold US aid. He should go ahead and do it Yes, but hasn’t Biden already done it? Publicly, by putting a hold on a weapons-system delivery to Israel for the first time since Reagan withheld F-16s from Is...
- Thu May 09, 2024 9:21 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Biden to Bibi: You’re not going to get our support if you go after these population centers
- Replies: 4
- Views: 116
Biden to Bibi: You’re not going to get our support if you go after these population centers
Excerpts from today's New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/08/us/politics/biden-bombs-israel.html “ I’ve made it clear to Bibi and the war cabinet, they’re not going to get our support if in fact they go on these population centers ,” the president said in an interview with CNN’s Erin Burn...
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 10:45 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Some mirth
- Replies: 246
- Views: 130453
Re: Some mirth
Neither do I, but once outsiders declared open season on the U.S., I, to somewhat even the score, resolved to invoke the law — of talion. I watched Lucille Ball’s I Love Lucy Show every week for years, along with Bob Hope, Milton Berle, Jack Benny, and Sid Caesar; and on the radio I listened to the ...
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 7:04 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What I listened to today
- Replies: 3173
- Views: 2283333
Re: What I listened to today
Bizet, Carmen (original version, 1874) - Soloists, Choeur de Chambre de Namur, B'Rock Orchestra/René Jacobs (period instruments) (live, March 2024)
Audio: https://classicalmusicinconcert.blogspo ... acobs.html
Video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5B_JvFm4IxE&vl=en-US
Audio: https://classicalmusicinconcert.blogspo ... acobs.html
Video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5B_JvFm4IxE&vl=en-US
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 1:13 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Some mirth
- Replies: 246
- Views: 130453
Re: Some mirth
I could mention all the comedies of Billy Wilder but that was essentially a European sensibility. I agree with that and everything else you wrote. Billy Wilder. European sensibility. You bet! Thumbs up to non-PC humorists. Norman Lear too. If you live in America and love comedy, even if you’re Cath...
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 11:31 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Some mirth
- Replies: 246
- Views: 130453
Re: Some mirth
In contrast, Australian humor is like dark matter: we know it has to exist somewhere, but good luck finding it. Somehow I suspect you've put the usual effort that Americans do into Australia - none whatsoever. Or you wouldn't say anything quite so ill-conceived. May it please the Court to enter Exh...
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 10:39 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Some mirth
- Replies: 246
- Views: 130453
Re: Some mirth
where are the developing situations and characters Sid Caesar & Imogene Coca, George Burns & Gracie Allen, Jackie Gleason & Audrey Meadows, Lucille Ball & Dezi Arnez, to name some hubby/wife TV sitcoms. There really doesn't have to be a one-liner every 45 seconds One liners? Were not both Harold Ll...
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 5:32 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Some mirth
- Replies: 246
- Views: 130453
Re: Some mirth
Stewart is just another activist hack who thinks ridicule is funny. Yes, well so is having my ears sawn off. C’mon, admit it, doing THAT bit, you’d knock ‘em dead!!! 😁 We agree about Bob Hope though, that bloke was an immigrant who grew up in my hometown. Hope was really funny and a decent guy, lik...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 1:41 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Another set-back for #Metoo
- Replies: 13
- Views: 395
Re: Another set-back for #Metoo
She wants sex offenders back out on the street after serving shorter sentences. Inevitably then, there is going be a slew of toxic ’s for the ’s to be ’ing out for! 🫤
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 8:19 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: I’m a Columbia Professor. The Protests on My Campus Are Not Justice.
- Replies: 14
- Views: 343
Re: I’m a Columbia Professor. The Protests on My Campus Are Not Justice.
Reminiscent of college campuses in the late sixties early seventies. The more disgraced war-monger old-farts like Greg Abbott and Mike Johnson try to quash student protests, the more there will be for them to deal with, like playing Whack-A-Mole.
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 4:15 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Another set-back for #Metoo
- Replies: 13
- Views: 395
Re: Another set-back for #Metoo
They all did this because they thought they could have "careers". Well, their lives certainly 'careered' out of control. Women have a responsibility to behave with decorum, discretion, personal responsibility and dignity - otherwise certain types of men will pounce. And they don't even have to be w...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 7:27 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Another set-back for #Metoo
- Replies: 13
- Views: 395
Re: Another set-back for #Metoo
Meantime, just maybe, it's time for the girls to demonstrate some discretion and personal responsibility in keeping away from KNOWN sex predators - whether for career reasons or anything else. Right, Weinstein is a KNOWN sex predator who just got off in one state, the unanimous jury guilty verdict ...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 11:06 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Marjorie Taylor Greene — so Right she looks Left
- Replies: 4
- Views: 178
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 9:10 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Marjorie Taylor Greene — so Right she looks Left
- Replies: 4
- Views: 178
Marjorie Taylor Greene — so Right she looks Left
The Humbling of Marjorie Taylor Greene https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/04/24/multimedia/24cottle1-jmbg/24cottle1-jmbg-mobileMasterAt3x.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale&width=1200 April 24, 2024 The New York Times OPINION By Michelle Cottle Ms. Cottle writes about national politics for ...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 4:42 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Former Professor Boghossian says college cannot be saved
- Replies: 6
- Views: 300
Re: Former Professor Boghossian says college cannot be saved
they're all hugely intelligent and speaking out. If they were, they wouldn’t. That's a very dichotomous statement. Should they not speak out because they might be pilloried or is there another reason? It’s pretty clear who is being “pilloried” here and it ain’t the Woke-hunting tag team. Three crea...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 7:03 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Arizona indicts Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows and a slew of others for trying to overturn 2020 election
- Replies: 1
- Views: 194
Arizona indicts Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows and a slew of others for trying to overturn 2020 election
Arizona Charges Giuliani and Other Trump Allies in Election Interference Case Those charged included Mark Meadows, the former White House chief of staff, and the fake electors who acted on Mr. Trump’s behalf in Arizona after the 2020 election. The New York Times By Danny Hakim Danny Hakim covers st...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 6:55 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Former Professor Boghossian says college cannot be saved
- Replies: 6
- Views: 300
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 6:39 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: I’m a Columbia Professor. The Protests on My Campus Are Not Justice.
- Replies: 14
- Views: 343
Re: I’m a Columbia Professor. The Protests on My Campus Are Not Justice.
Bibi blaming American students for protesting against what his own actions have brought about. Netanyahu Calls Student Protests Antisemitic and Says They Must Be Quelled “What’s happening in America’s college campuses is horrific,” the Israeli prime minister said in a televised statement. “Antisemit...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 12:45 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: The US still the indispensable power
- Replies: 5
- Views: 255
Re: The US still the indispensable power
Ditto! And the U.S. just did this. U.S. Secretly Shipped New Long-Range Missiles to Ukraine Ukrainian forces for the first time used a longer-range version of weapons known as ATACMS, striking an airfield in Crimea and Russian troops in southeastern Ukraine. NYT By Eric Schmitt Reporting from Washin...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 6:35 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Some mirth
- Replies: 246
- Views: 130453
Re: Some mirth
The unrivalled comedian, Jon Stewart weighs in on the media’s overblown coverage of Trump’s criminal trial, from sketch-artist interviews to following his motorcade via helicopter... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zqkf2U5jcE0
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 1:55 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: New US civil war film
- Replies: 10
- Views: 504
Re: New US civil war film
And then there was the cadaver trade in enslaved people … Beyond the Slave Trade, the Cadaver Trade By Daina Ramey Berry Feb. 3, 2018 NYT OPINION The topic of slavery features prominently in each February’s reflections on African-American history. But when it comes to this darkest time in our countr...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 10:21 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: PM Albanese calls Elon Musk an ‘arrogant billionaire’ after Musk accused Australia of censorship
- Replies: 1
- Views: 195
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 7:09 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Some mirth
- Replies: 246
- Views: 130453
Re: Some mirth
https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod/images/trump-golf-2-1554229284.png?resize=1024:* He who has the fastest golf cart never has a bad lie. —Mickey Mantle Donald Trump Never Cheats at Golf. His Caddy Does That for Him. https://www.esquire.com/sports/a26454538/donald-trump-rick-reilly-commander-in-c...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 5:36 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: India’s PM Narendra Modi: What makes this Islamophobic strongman tick?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 196
India’s PM Narendra Modi: What makes this Islamophobic strongman tick?
Why Did Modi Call India’s Muslims ‘Infiltrators’? Because He Could. The brazenness of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vilification of India’s largest minority group made clear he sees few checks at home or abroad on his power. Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India was criticized by the opposition fo...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 9:28 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Andrew Davis RIP
- Replies: 11
- Views: 328
Re: Andrew Davis RIP
Vaughan Williams: 5. Sinfonie ∙ hr-Sinfonieorchester ∙ Sir Andrew Davis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsQGFlcqUmA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsQGFlcqUmA
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 7:44 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Some mirth
- Replies: 246
- Views: 130453
Re: Some mirth
I'm criticising the credulous simplicity of Americans who think it's really clever and funny to find a news clip then introduce it by asserting the opposite. Even I could do that. And a lotta folks have tried ever since Jon Stewart basically invented parodic "fake news" as a comedy form some 28 yea...
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 10:17 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Some mirth
- Replies: 246
- Views: 130453
Re: Some mirth
Jon Stewart 10 Years Ago: The Daily Show, 2014
We Need to Talk About Israel https://m.youtube.com/watch?time_contin ... e=emb_logo
We Need to Talk About Israel https://m.youtube.com/watch?time_contin ... e=emb_logo
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 10:16 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What I listened to today
- Replies: 3173
- Views: 2283333
Re: What I listened to today
I am a huge Herrmann fan nonetheless.
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 10:10 am
- Forum: CMG Review of Books
- Topic: Commander in Cheat, by Rick Reilly
- Replies: 2
- Views: 531
Re: Commander in Cheat, by Rick Reilly
Joseph I've seen him commenting on among other TV stations MSNBC-he was on with Lawrence O'Donnell and they spoke about trump cheating at golf! In the Reilly 📕 🤓 … Stephen Colbert asked Tiger Woods which presidents he had played golf with. Bush, Clinton, and Obama, Tiger answered. Whatabout Trump? ...
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 8:06 am
- Forum: CMG Review of Books
- Topic: Commander in Cheat, by Rick Reilly
- Replies: 2
- Views: 531
Commander in Cheat, by Rick Reilly
The most revealing book about the Donald, with the possible exception of Mary Trump’s.
Certainly it’s the funniest; and yet after reading it, I loathed Trump no less.
Reilly can really write!
Certainly it’s the funniest; and yet after reading it, I loathed Trump no less.
Reilly can really write!
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 6:40 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Some mirth
- Replies: 246
- Views: 130453
Re: Some mirth
I'm criticising the credulous simplicity of Americans who think it's really clever and funny to find a news clip then introduce it by asserting the opposite. Even I could do that. And a lotta folks have tried ever since Jon Stewart basically invented parodic "fake news" as a comedy form some 28 yea...
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 6:37 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What I listened to today
- Replies: 3173
- Views: 2283333
Re: What I listened to today
Bernard Hermann's "The Planets" I do not own. How does his compare with so many others? Ones I have including Karajan [2] (I thought excellent), Bernstein, Stokowski, various ones with Boult, one conducted by Holst, Levine, Mehta, C. Davis, Steinberg, Sargent, Maazel, Ormandy, Barbirolli (live exce...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 4:33 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Some mirth
- Replies: 246
- Views: 130453
Re: Some mirth
Jon Stewart 15 April — Talking World War III Blues, Trump’s dementia, his drooling at his trial, the “Is he Jesus or Mandela?” debate, etc. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NgeLRtpC2WI I don't really understand why this guy is so popular. His technique seems to be find a bit of news coverage, say the ...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 8:04 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Grocery store closures in California
- Replies: 16
- Views: 769
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 5:31 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Grocery store closures in California
- Replies: 16
- Views: 769
Re: Grocery store closures in California
You think so, Lance? "Tax dodgers", "wealth", "hiding". Hardly the badinage of the Algonquin Round Table and typically laced with bitterness and bile, sans facts. Good on you, dear 🔔 , standing tall for and making common cause with your own cohort!! :D I must say I played very hard ball when it cam...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 10:36 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Some mirth
- Replies: 246
- Views: 130453
Re: Some mirth
Jon Stewart 15 April — Talking World War III Blues, Trump’s dementia, his drooling at his trial, the “Is he Jesus or Mandela?” debate, etc. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NgeLRtpC2WI
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 8:05 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Lady of the Lake: Arizona Senate hopeful tells Deplorables to don the ‘armor of God’ and ‘strap on a Glock’ pistol
- Replies: 6
- Views: 345
Re: Lady of the Lake: Arizona Senate hopeful tells Deplorables to don the ‘armor of God’ and ‘strap on a Glock’ pistol
She’s a monster without being a myth, which is rather unfair (Oscar Wilde). Shouldn’t we feel shortchanged?
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 7:01 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Lady of the Lake: Arizona Senate hopeful tells Deplorables to don the ‘armor of God’ and ‘strap on a Glock’ pistol
- Replies: 6
- Views: 345
Re: Lady of the Lake: Arizona Senate hopeful tells Deplorables to don the ‘armor of God’ and ‘strap on a Glock’ pistol
Kari Lake Urges Supporters to Arm Themselves Ahead of Election Joseph did she steal the idea from Rossini's great opera! Regards, Len [fleeing] Thanks I was actually thinking of the Lady in Tennyson’s Idylls of the King that gives the sword Excalibur to Arthur. By contrast, Kari is a Lake, but in n...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 6:42 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Left wing racism in British public schools
- Replies: 5
- Views: 324
Re: Left wing racism in British public schools
this explains A LOT. ALL CAPS TODAY, PARODIC of the sounding brass of a tediously tinkling 🛎️. Again, no argument, no facts Yes, but composing a ma’amsplaining missive, more elongated and discombobulated than an ayatollah’s fatwa or a Pettersson symphony — That's clearly Your Highness’s forte, not ...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 6:33 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Left wing racism in British public schools
- Replies: 5
- Views: 324
Re: Left wing racism in British public schools
Dr. Boghossian describes American schooling as rubbish and it's not 6 degrees of separation distant from Australia either. Whatever America lacks in formal education — her universities being the envy of the world and attracting thousands of students and faculty from abroad — she more than compensat...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 10:48 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Lady of the Lake: Arizona Senate hopeful tells Deplorables to don the ‘armor of God’ and ‘strap on a Glock’ pistol
- Replies: 6
- Views: 345
Lady of the Lake: Arizona Senate hopeful tells Deplorables to don the ‘armor of God’ and ‘strap on a Glock’ pistol
Kari Lake Urges Supporters to Arm Themselves Ahead of Election https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/04/16/multimedia/16pol-swiper-kari-lake-glock-mvbh/16pol-swiper-kari-lake-glock-mvbh-mobileMasterAt3x.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale&width=1200 “We are going to put on the armor of God,” th...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 10:24 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Cotton is King: Arkansas senator tells vigilantes to attack pro-Palestinian demonstrators
- Replies: 1
- Views: 162
Cotton is King: Arkansas senator tells vigilantes to attack pro-Palestinian demonstrators
Cotton Urges Citizens to Forcibly Confront Pro-Palestinian Protesters https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/UK25kMR5qkdtSRMhdwjvcQ--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTY0MDtoPTQyNw--/https://s.yimg.com/os/creatr-uploaded-images/2024-04/21d4a4f0-fc19-11ee-bbff-2879fccf47fd On Monday on social media, Mr. Cotton, ...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 8:38 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Lehrmann vs Higgins
- Replies: 6
- Views: 368
Re: Lehrmann vs Higgins
https://independentaustralia.net/_lib/slir/w750/https://independentaustralia.net/sc/tours_800px.jpg The only thing that never changes is change itself. :lol: Oh, what a tragic!! A biased left wing organization like the ABC prints something to cover its own backside when they were up to their eyebal...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 3:37 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: In Australia, ‘Cats Are Just Catastrophic’
- Replies: 5
- Views: 250
Re: In Australia, ‘Cats Are Just Catastrophic’
Here, Kitty, Kitty, Kitty …
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 1:43 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: In Australia, ‘Cats Are Just Catastrophic’
- Replies: 5
- Views: 250
Re: In Australia, ‘Cats Are Just Catastrophic’
Thanks. These critters are one of the unfortunate byproducts of British colonialism, causing the extinction of many native species.
If they can’t be culled, they should all be caged.
If they can’t be culled, they should all be caged.
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 10:01 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Immigrants in the long run are an asset to the U.S. economy with its aging population
- Replies: 1
- Views: 274
Immigrants in the long run are an asset to the U.S. economy with its aging population
Immigrants in Maine Are Filling a Labor Gap. It May Be a Prelude for the U.S. A wave of rapid immigration is taxing local resources around the country and drawing political ire. But it might leave America’s economy better off. The New York Times By Jeanna Smialek April 12, 2024 Maine has a lot of l...