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- 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: 2
- Views: 18
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 6:32 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: India’s PM Narendra Modi: What makes this Islamophobic strongman tick?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 53
Re: India’s PM Narendra Modi: What makes this Islamophobic strongman tick?
Strongmanophilia sits deep in Right Field. Orbán, Duda, Erdoğan, DeSantis, Trump, Netanyahu, and now Modi.
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 12:45 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: The US still the indispensable power
- Replies: 3
- Views: 69
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: 224
- Views: 119324
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
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 6:28 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: PM Albanese calls Elon Musk an ‘arrogant billionaire’ after Musk accused Australia of censorship
- Replies: 3
- Views: 53
Re: PM Albanese calls Elon Musk an ‘arrogant billionaire’ after Musk accused Australia of censorship
Got it via iPhone, however …. FORTUNE TECH ·AUSTRALIA Australia’s prime minister calls Elon Musk an ‘arrogant billionaire’ after the X owner accuses the country’s government of censorship BY NICHOLAS GORDON April 23, 2024 6:44 AM EDT Elon Musk, owner of social media platform X and the world’s third-...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 4:29 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: PM Albanese calls Elon Musk an ‘arrogant billionaire’ after Musk accused Australia of censorship
- Replies: 3
- Views: 53
Re: PM Albanese calls Elon Musk an ‘arrogant billionaire’ after Musk accused Australia of censorship
sorry, suddenly now, that's behind a paywall for me too. here's an alt source: Australia’s Prime Minister Berates ‘Arrogant’ Elon Musk—Escalating Feud Over X’s Handling Of Church Stabbing Videos https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2024/04/23/australian-prime-minister-berates-arrogant-elon-musk...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 1:55 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: New US civil war film
- Replies: 10
- Views: 338
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: 3
- Views: 53
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 8:36 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Picture Donald in the slammer, or out on probation. How would that work?
- Replies: 0
- Views: 50
Picture Donald in the slammer, or out on probation. How would that work?
COMMENT: On its face, Trump in stir might seem like a delightful prospect, but it would result in a logistical nightmare. Better to slap an ankle-bracelet on the S.O.B., restrict his movements, and prohibit him from making any public statements about the trial while he is on trial. Could Trump Go t...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 8:06 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Reptiles of a scute — Former President Donald Trump met in New York with Polish President Andrzej Duda
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- Views: 30
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 7:09 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Some mirth
- Replies: 224
- Views: 119324
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: 2
- Views: 53
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 10:20 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Do men belong in the YWCA women's changing rooms?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 157
Re: Do men belong in the YWCA women's changing rooms?
“Have you never read, ‘Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants You have perfected praise’?”
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 9:28 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Andrew Davis RIP
- Replies: 11
- Views: 142
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: 224
- Views: 119324
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: 224
- Views: 119324
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: 3147
- Views: 1951233
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: 157
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: 157
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 7:42 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Immigrants in the long run are an asset to the U.S. economy with its aging population
- Replies: 2
- Views: 156
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 6:40 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Some mirth
- Replies: 224
- Views: 119324
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: 3147
- Views: 1951233
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 6:48 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Fastest-growing state in U.S. is becoming G.O.P. heaven — unlike Fla. or Tex., redder, not bluer
- Replies: 0
- Views: 109
Fastest-growing state in U.S. is becoming G.O.P. heaven — unlike Fla. or Tex., redder, not bluer
Sick of Your Blue State? These Real Estate Agents Have Just the Place for You. Agents in South Carolina, the fastest growing state in the country last year, say that many newcomers are Republicans eager to leave the Northeast and West Coast. The New York Times By Eduardo Medina Reporting from Green...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 6:24 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Left wing racism in British public schools
- Replies: 6
- Views: 224
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 4:33 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Some mirth
- Replies: 224
- Views: 119324
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: 376
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 5:31 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Grocery store closures in California
- Replies: 16
- Views: 376
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 1:21 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Toxic jock — Boxing Australia head coach, banned from Olympics for sexual misconduct, is sentenced to retraining
- Replies: 0
- Views: 120
Toxic jock — Boxing Australia head coach, banned from Olympics for sexual misconduct, is sentenced to retraining
From the excellent ABC.net.au SPORT Boxing Australia coach Jamie Pittman withdraws from Olympics after admitting to 'disgusting' sexual misconduct Posted 10 hours ago The National Sports Tribunal found Pittman's misconduct was "part of an overall pattern of behaviour". — In short: Boxing Australia h...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 10:36 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Some mirth
- Replies: 224
- Views: 119324
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: 161
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: 161
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: 6
- Views: 224
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: 6
- Views: 224
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...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 6:23 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Cotton is King: Arkansas senator tells vigilantes to attack pro-Palestinian demonstrators
- Replies: 2
- Views: 110
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 11:05 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Lehrmann vs Higgins
- Replies: 7
- Views: 273
Re: Lehrmann vs Higgins
More asinine commentary from the giant chip on the shoulder. Infantile, narcissistic comments. As I said, bitterness has a long tail and is very very resilient - especially when there are zero friendships in the real world to temper extremist views. In my experience on music boards all the trolls -...
- 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: 161
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: 2
- Views: 110
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: 7
- Views: 273
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: 148
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: 148
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: 2
- Views: 156
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...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 3:22 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Grocery store closures in California
- Replies: 16
- Views: 376
Re: Grocery store closures in California
What these tax dodgers were doing was to exploit a loophole that allowed them to effectively shelter their wealth by moving it out of state after having employed their home state as a stepping stone for accumulating that wealth. It is a ploy similar to moving one's money to an offshore tax haven. Ca...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 7:15 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Bishop Is Stabbed During Live Streamed Service in Sydney
- Replies: 3
- Views: 152
Re: Bishop Is Stabbed During Live Streamed Service in Sydney
Just like you, we're all celebrating cultural enrichment and diversity!! And, god, it feels so good!! Exactly! Just like the U.S., you’ve clearly hit the skids, rioting in the streets of Sidney, but unlike us, you don’t even know it yet. :shock: Doah!! Hundreds of people gathered outside the Assyri...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 6:52 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Grocery store closures in California
- Replies: 16
- Views: 376
Re: Grocery store closures in California
I would not, Lance. The modest exit tax allows Cal (1) to recoup some of its investment in businesses and individuals who have enjoyed the unique dynamic economic environment offered by the state & used it to accumulate wealth; and (2) to close a loophole that allows wealthy people to avoid paying t...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 5:51 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Grocery store closures in California
- Replies: 16
- Views: 376
Re: Grocery store closures in California
The economy of the State of California is the largest in the United States, with a $3.89 trillion gross state product (GSP) as of 2023. It is the largest sub-national economy in the world. If California were a sovereign nation (2024), it would rank in terms of nominal GDP as the world's fifth larges...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 5:38 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Many Patients Don’t Survive End-Stage Poverty
- Replies: 21
- Views: 876
Re: Many Patients Don’t Survive End-Stage Poverty
The non - profit hospital tax scam: https://www.statnews.com/2024/04/14/nonprofit-hospitals-turn-profit-charity-care-tax-exempt-status/?utm_campaign=daily_recap&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_jDHbC2-cNZ-Ij4JVAlNMVbLzHHCpQhRfGbN5ltGdgBze3oRYlpihmgXXJQEGPb4QzBXwc_vSsgsl_AE_FlKmx9FVyvg&_hsmi=3027569...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 5:35 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Bishop Is Stabbed During Live Streamed Service in Sydney
- Replies: 3
- Views: 152
Re: Bishop Is Stabbed During Live Streamed Service in Sydney
What’s going on Down Under? Australia; beautiful one day, horrendous the next.
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 5:32 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Many Patients Don’t Survive End-Stage Poverty
- Replies: 21
- Views: 876
Re: Many Patients Don’t Survive End-Stage Poverty
The non - profit hospital tax scam: https://www.statnews.com/2024/04/14/nonprofit-hospitals-turn-profit-charity-care-tax-exempt-status/?utm_campaign=daily_recap&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_jDHbC2-cNZ-Ij4JVAlNMVbLzHHCpQhRfGbN5ltGdgBze3oRYlpihmgXXJQEGPb4QzBXwc_vSsgsl_AE_FlKmx9FVyvg&_hsmi=3027569...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 5:20 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Dozing Donald caught sundowning during hush-money-to-porn-star trial
- Replies: 0
- Views: 109
Dozing Donald caught sundowning during hush-money-to-porn-star trial
Newsweek Former President Donald Trump appeared to be "sleeping" during the first day of his criminal trial for charges of falsifying business documents, according to a report from The New York Times. Jury selection in the trial trial surrounding whether Trump falsified business documents by allege...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 4:44 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Many Patients Don’t Survive End-Stage Poverty
- Replies: 21
- Views: 876
Re: Many Patients Don’t Survive End-Stage Poverty
The non - profit hospital tax scam: https://www.statnews.com/2024/04/14/nonprofit-hospitals-turn-profit-charity-care-tax-exempt-status/?utm_campaign=daily_recap&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_jDHbC2-cNZ-Ij4JVAlNMVbLzHHCpQhRfGbN5ltGdgBze3oRYlpihmgXXJQEGPb4QzBXwc_vSsgsl_AE_FlKmx9FVyvg&_hsmi=3027569...