. . . which is why I pay a pro to manage my portfolio for me, keeping my mind free for finer things than vulgar money grubbing. In the unlikely event you ever accumulate enough to interest a wealth manager, you should try that yourself.
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- Mon Mar 25, 2024 9:25 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Biden bull market gores Magafa doom & gloomers
- Replies: 2
- Views: 140
Re: Biden bull market gores Magafa doom & gloomers
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 7:50 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: What Would You Have Israel Do to Defend Itself?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 282
Re: What Would You Have Israel Do to Defend Itself?
I don't see how Israel's continued existence is possible without a decisive military defeat of Hamas. Yes, but at issue is what "decisive military defeat" means in practice, and how and at what cost in human lives that is to be accomplished. Regarding solutions, I respect David Brooks highly but ha...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 7:52 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: What Would You Have Israel Do to Defend Itself?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 282
Re: What Would You Have Israel Do to Defend Itself?
As per usual, in lieu of an answer you offer bald denial. So tell us, when has Netanyahu taken responsibility for his own behavior? How has his refusal to do so not ceded the high moral ground to bloody Hamas murderers? How is it not “bleeding-heart liberalism” of the worst sort to see over 15,000 k...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 7:30 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: What Would You Have Israel Do to Defend Itself?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 282
Re: What Would You Have Israel Do to Defend Itself?
The political line toed by the Right runs something like this: “Oh, oh, oh my, how my heart is breaking for the children of Gaza, but Israel didn’t kill those babies, Hamas killed them, Hamas started it. You must understand, the ancestors of these kids are to blame for voting Hamas in.” So, a modern...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 8:52 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Notable contemporary composer & conductor Péter Eötvös has died at 80
- Replies: 2
- Views: 310
Notable contemporary composer & conductor Péter Eötvös has died at 80
Péter Eötvös, two-time Kossuth Prize-winning composer, has died at the age of 80 TELEX https://telex.hu/belfold/2024/03/24/eotvos-peter-meghalt-zeneszerzo-zenepedagogus-karmester Wikipedia https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/E%C3%B6tv%C3%B6s_P%C3%A9ter March 24, 2024 - 12:40 p.m Nikolett Halász Péter Eöt...
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 11:09 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: America Isn’t Nazi Germany, but It Looks a Little Like 1933
- Replies: 13
- Views: 531
Re: America Isn’t Nazi Germany, but It Looks a Little Like 1933
Magafa are noxious Know-Nothing nativist ninnies.lennygoran wrote: ↑Sat Mar 23, 2024 9:53 amYou must be talking about trumps good people on both sides? Regards, Lenjserraglio wrote: ↑Sat Mar 23, 2024 5:09 amWhite bourgeoisie and the fear that they will soon be "replaced" by undeserving brown-skinned immigrants.
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 9:27 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Maurizio Pollini, pianist who reveled in demanding music, dies at 82
- Replies: 19
- Views: 473
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 8:14 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Magafa is “boiling mad” after suffering a crushing defeat in Congress
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- Views: 324
Magafa is “boiling mad” after suffering a crushing defeat in Congress
The Far Right Lost Badly and Wants Its Revenge Bipartisan spending legislation approved by Congress represented a major defeat for ultraconservatives, who immediately turned on Speaker Mike Johnson. Speaker Mike Johnson on Friday pushed through a $1.2 trillion bipartisan package to fund the governm...
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 5:09 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: America Isn’t Nazi Germany, but It Looks a Little Like 1933
- Replies: 13
- Views: 531
Re: America Isn’t Nazi Germany, but It Looks a Little Like 1933
[The Germans] were voting for specific programs that they thought would benefit them, and for a year’s insurance against the people they feared..." That was very interesting to read thank you and confirms for me that those with the most to lose financially (could we call them the middle class?) wer...
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 8:19 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: America Isn’t Nazi Germany, but It Looks a Little Like 1933
- Replies: 13
- Views: 531
Re: America Isn’t Nazi Germany, but It Looks a Little Like 1933
the rump of 'deplorables' gather behind Trump. People who've been excluded from 'the American dream' by their own historic, and now former, political base! Your misconceptions about America are broader than the Mississippi and run deeper than Crater Lake!!! :lol: Trump’s base, the Deplorables, have...
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 2:35 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Magafa Marjorie files motion to oust Mike Johnson as House speaker
- Replies: 1
- Views: 80
Magafa Marjorie files motion to oust Mike Johnson as House speaker
NBC News Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene files motion to oust Mike Johnson as House speaker Johnson has served as speaker of the House for five months. Greene stopped short of forcing a vote to remove him, calling her motion a “warning.” Mar. 22, 2024, 11:49 AM EDT / Updated Mar. 22, 2024, 2:25 PM EDT ...
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 1:55 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: America’s Largest Minority Is Also Its Most Misunderstood
- Replies: 0
- Views: 317
America’s Largest Minority Is Also Its Most Misunderstood
America’s Largest Minority Is Also Its Most Misunderstood March 18, 2024 NYT Guest Essay By Marie Arana Ms. Arana is the author, most recently, of “LatinoLand: A Portrait of America’s Largest and Least Understood Minority.” She is Peruvian American. https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/03/21/opinio...
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 11:57 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Biden bull market gores Magafa doom & gloomers
- Replies: 2
- Views: 140
Biden bull market gores Magafa doom & gloomers
Investors Pour Money Into Wall St. as Stocks Set New Highs The influx of cash reflects optimism about the economy and company earnings despite high interest rates and stubborn inflation. NYT By Joe Rennison March 22, 2024 Updated 11:41 a.m. ET It looks like there is little that can trouble investor...
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 10:44 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: With an Eye on War at Home, a Ukrainian Conductor Arrives at the Met
- Replies: 3
- Views: 141
Re: With an Eye on War at Home, a Ukrainian Conductor Arrives at the Met
Thanks, I'll check it out.
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 8:34 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: With an Eye on War at Home, a Ukrainian Conductor Arrives at the Met
- Replies: 3
- Views: 141
Re: With an Eye on War at Home, a Ukrainian Conductor Arrives at the Met
Hi Lenny, I heard that Turandot broadcast last Saturday on my WQXR app thru bluetooth headphones and was mightily impressed by the two young principals and Maestra Oksana Lyniv's conducting. I'd love to see the video when and if it appears. BTW, thanks for all the other posts about opera. I try to r...
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 9:24 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: What Biden Needs to Tell Us
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1097
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 7:03 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: As children starve to death, Israel tightens its siege of Gaza
- Replies: 6
- Views: 322
Re: As children starve to death, Israel tightens its siege of Gaza
Who hates more, jserraglio or antisemitics [sic]? Yep, it's a difficult choice. By that wooly logic the 85% of Israelis who want Bibi out like yesterday would all be antisemites. :roll: Armchair warriors who have zero skin the game [sic] You’re joking, yes? A significant portion of my taxes paid ov...
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 6:38 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Top Dozen Symphonies
- Replies: 25
- Views: 988
Re: Top Dozen Symphonies
Top 10 :: For me, Bruckner is the greatest of them all. Followed very closely by Haydn & Beethoven, and at a greater distance by Mozart and the other usual suspects.
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 3:20 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: As children starve to death, Israel tightens its siege of Gaza
- Replies: 6
- Views: 322
Re: As children starve to death, Israel tightens its siege of Gaza
MAGAfa in Congress backs Bibicide to the hilt. https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-speake ... -congress/
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 2:44 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Deja vu all over again
- Replies: 3
- Views: 205
Re: Deja vu all over again
Isn't your thread subject tautological? All sayings QTD from Francis ‘Yogi’ Bacon, “The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral”: Of Those That Would Opine Upon America . . . They are so pitch perfect they talk nonsense. Of Terra Incognita . . . It gets late early out there. No one goes there nowadays,...
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 3:39 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Katie Britt is not the first right-wing johnny-come-lately to flunk a fact check
- Replies: 2
- Views: 173
Re: Katie Britt is not the first right-wing johnny-come-lately to flunk a fact check
Which pronoun does he, she, they or it go by??!!
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 6:46 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Another Righty sent to the slammer
- Replies: 3
- Views: 219
Re: Another Righty sent to the slammer
If ever there was a prolix, self-actualizing and grandiloquent narcissist it's KRudd, as we called him. He is Trump's Australian incarnation so it's interesting to see the Trumpster bagging somebody who is his psychological mirror image. That's projection and narcissistic injury for you.... “Prolix...
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 5:25 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: America Isn’t Nazi Germany, but It Looks a Little Like 1933
- Replies: 13
- Views: 531
Re: America Isn’t Nazi Germany, but It Looks a Little Like 1933
In Europe the people reacted to hoards of immigrants invited in by Merkel, tramping through their individual sovereign nations like they were going camping - and so entitled! The UK is a tinder-box with leaders who are self-interested and borders totally out of control . . . the Labour Party will c...
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 2:00 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Another Righty sent to the slammer
- Replies: 3
- Views: 219
Another Righty sent to the slammer
Trump’s Hall of Shame : Mike Flynn, Roger Stone, Michael Cohen, Paul Manafort, Steve Bannon, George Papadopoulos, Allen Weisselberg, Rick Gates, George Nader, Tom Barrack, Elliott Broidy, Sidney Powell, Jenna Ellis, Kenneth Chesebro, Peter Navarro, and counting . . . Peter Navarro Begins 4-Month Ja...
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 9:23 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Jimmy Kimmel Gets a Kick Out of Bothering Trump
- Replies: 0
- Views: 134
Jimmy Kimmel Gets a Kick Out of Bothering Trump
“Donald Trump has said I’m not talented so many times, Eric is starting to get jealous,” Kimmel said after the ex-president bashed him (again) on Fox News. https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/03/19/arts/19latenight/19latenight-jumbo.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp Jimmy Kimmel, in a black suit and blue t...
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 7:19 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Jimmy Kimmel to the Donald: ‘Isn’t it past your jail time?’
- Replies: 0
- Views: 125
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 5:30 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: We all have our "favorites." Whose "most recordings" do you have of SINGERS?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 306
Re: We all have our "favorites." Whose "most recordings" do you have of SINGERS?
Caruso’s the man. I have all his recordings.
I am currently exploring, as Maestrob suggests, the amazing Lucia Popp https://la-castafiore.blogspot.com/sear ... e=true&m=1
I am currently exploring, as Maestrob suggests, the amazing Lucia Popp https://la-castafiore.blogspot.com/sear ... e=true&m=1
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 5:12 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Top Dozen Symphonies
- Replies: 25
- Views: 988
Re: Top Dozen Symphonies
On the American front, besides the most worthy Copland & exciting Hansen (hey, what about Barber and Ives?) ... Harold Shapero Symphony for Classical Orchestra Bernstein/Columbia SO or Previn/LAPO: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7nI1N_HgXI0&list=OLAK5uy_m34-6o_dkpI3Qyy2XnzxhkNCMg99emn1I&pp=8AUB https...
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 4:17 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What I listened to today
- Replies: 3166
- Views: 2114949
Re: What I listened to today
It's also downloadable. https://archive.org/compress/am-cdmae-l ... ches14.zip
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 4:48 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Top Dozen Symphonies
- Replies: 25
- Views: 988
Re: Top Dozen Symphonies
My pick of fave Symphonic Cycles Nielsen Blomstedt Vaughan Williams Boult, or Previn, or Norrington live Haydn "London" cycle Szell & "Paris" cycle Leslie Jones Brahms Ansermet Shostakovich Rozhdestvensky Melodiya Schumann Szell Prokofiev Martinon Vox Simpson Handley 1-10, Matthew Taylor 11 Hyperion...
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 4:20 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What I listened to today
- Replies: 3166
- Views: 2114949
Re: What I listened to today
I'm wondering if there's a CD? Yes, on I.A. there is a 1994 Hispavox reissue on CD of that LP in lossless with full artwork. Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/am-cdmae-lmeches14 https://archive.org/compress/am-cdmae-lmeches14/formats=FLAC&file=/am-cdmae-lmeches14.zip https://archive.org/...
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 3:38 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Top Dozen Symphonies
- Replies: 25
- Views: 988
Re: Top Dozen Symphonies
Shostakovich 5 Bernstein
Nielsen 4 Martinon
Mahler 3 Horenstein
Mahler 4 Szell
Bruckner 7 Jochum
Simpson 3 Horenstein
Shostakovich 14 Britten/ECO
Bruckner 8 Horenstein
Mahler 2 'Resurrection' Bernstein/Cleveland live 1970
Khachaturian 3 Stokowski/CSO
Nielsen 4 Martinon
Mahler 3 Horenstein
Mahler 4 Szell
Bruckner 7 Jochum
Simpson 3 Horenstein
Shostakovich 14 Britten/ECO
Bruckner 8 Horenstein
Mahler 2 'Resurrection' Bernstein/Cleveland live 1970
Khachaturian 3 Stokowski/CSO
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 2:51 pm
- Forum: CMG Review of Books
- Topic: Tommy Orange (“There, There” 2018) visits South Bronx classroom
- Replies: 0
- Views: 423
Tommy Orange (“There, There” 2018) visits South Bronx classroom
A Bronx Teacher Asked. Tommy Orange Answered. When the author received an impassioned email, he dropped everything to visit the students who inspired it. Image Tommy Orange, in a sweatshirt, baseball cap and sneakers, sits in front of a high school classroom. Students are arrayed around him. The ba...
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 11:04 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What I listened to today
- Replies: 3166
- Views: 2114949
Re: What I listened to today
Music In Catalonia 1968 Hispavox CD 1994 {Coleccion de Musica Antigua Espagnola vol. 3} available in a good CD transfer at https://archive.org/details/lp_la-musica-en-catalua-hasta-el-siglo-xiv_capilla-musical-y-escolana-de-santa-cruz-d https://ia802803.us.archive.org/32/items/lp_la-musica-en-catalu...
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 10:05 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What I listened to today
- Replies: 3166
- Views: 2114949
Re: What I listened to today
Three masses by Adrian Willaert (1490–1562) by Dionysos Now!, all three made available free by the artists for streaming or download. https://www.evilpenguin.eu/dionysosnow https://static.wixstatic.com/media/4db9e2_fbc05190036c496eac70e4734621beb2~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_745,h_745,al_c,q_85,usm_0.66_1.00_...
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 10:23 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: British Piano Concertos
- Replies: 15
- Views: 647
Re: British Piano Concertos
Severe mental illness, possibly bipolar disorder. John Ogdon, the great British pianist who blazed fitfully in the musical firmament for a few short years before his mind gave way . . . https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/10816279/Piano-Man-a-Life-of-John-Ogdon-by-Charles-Beauclerk...
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 5:55 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Esa-Pekka Salonen to quit San Francisco
- Replies: 8
- Views: 386
Re: Esa-Pekka Salonen to quit San Francisco
You are only slightly more likely to die from a homicide in San Francisco than you are in a car crash there, but you are 70 times more likely to die before that of cancer, stroke and heart disease.
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 3:04 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Georgia judge tells Fani Willis: "Okay for you to stay, but the BF has to go"
- Replies: 3
- Views: 193
Re: Georgia judge tells Fani Willis: "Okay for you to stay, but the BF has to go"
The GA commission was set up to remove her if the opportunity arose. Now it will.
Prediction -- Trump and his minions will walk. This case will likely never come to trial.
Prediction -- Trump and his minions will walk. This case will likely never come to trial.
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 12:42 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Katie Britt is not the first right-wing johnny-come-lately to flunk a fact check
- Replies: 2
- Views: 173
Katie Britt is not the first right-wing johnny-come-lately to flunk a fact check
When Debuts Flop: Katie Britt Is the Latest in a Long Line of Botched Opening Acts The Republican senator, whose State of the Union response drew savage criticism, is not the first novice lawmaker from the South to see her introductory event veer off the rails. Senator Katie Britt, Republican of Al...
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 10:16 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: This man helped end affirmative action in the US
- Replies: 8
- Views: 814
Re: This man helped end affirmative action in the US
The Clarence Thomases, Thomas Sowells, Herman Cains, Tim Scotts, John McWhorters, Mark Robinsons, and Glenn Lourys have, willingly or otherwise, been appropriated by nattering nabobs of nativism for the trophy case of their own entitlement: "most of these critics are actually black!!!" https://www.y...
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 8:35 am
- Forum: CMG Review of Books
- Topic: Extraterrestrial by Avi Loeb
- Replies: 0
- Views: 383
Extraterrestrial by Avi Loeb
Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth – January 26, 2021 Liked it overall though it became somewhat repetitious. Next up for me Interstellar; Interstellar: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Our Future in the Stars https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81hNdWgqwYL._SY...
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 8:27 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Georgia judge tells Fani Willis: "Okay for you to stay, but the BF has to go"
- Replies: 3
- Views: 193
Georgia judge tells Fani Willis: "Okay for you to stay, but the BF has to go"
Judge Says Fani Willis Can Stay on Trump Case, but Only if Former Romantic Partner Leaves
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/03/15 ... mp-georgia
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/03/15 ... mp-georgia
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 8:20 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Composer and pianist Aribert Reimann has died, aged 88
- Replies: 2
- Views: 150
Composer and pianist Aribert Reimann has died, aged 88
https://www.gramophone.co.uk/classical% ... ed-aged-88
1978 world premiere performance of his opera Lear. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G52V7eNUWqc [audio only]
1978 world premiere performance of his opera Lear. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G52V7eNUWqc [audio only]
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 4:32 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What I listened to today
- Replies: 3166
- Views: 2114949
Re: What I listened to today
Carnegie Hall Live Vienna Philharmonic Franz Welser-Most G. MAHLER: Symphony No. 9 This concert was broadcast live on Sunday, March 3rd, 2024 at 2pm. Conductor Franz Welser-Möst calls Symphony No. 9—Mahler’s final completed symphony—“the strongest, most impactful farewell ever written in music.” The...
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 3:55 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Quashed Charges In Trump Georgia Case
- Replies: 9
- Views: 292
Re: Quashed Charges In Trump Georgia Case
Things like tape,s which are easily subject to alteration, cause problems in courts of law. I am not saying that the tapes were altered just that any prosecutor has to be very sure that they haven't been So. how likely is it that the Georgia Sec'y of State, an avid Trump supporter, would have docto...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 12:59 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Esa-Pekka Salonen to quit San Francisco
- Replies: 8
- Views: 386
Esa-Pekka Salonen to quit San Francisco
San Francisco Symphony’s Maestro to Step Down, Citing Split With Board Esa-Pekka Salonen, the ensemble’s music director, said that he no longer shared the same goals as the administration, which has been cutting costs. Esa-Pekka Salonen, the music director of the San Francisco Symphony, is stepping...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 10:25 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Quashed Charges In Trump Georgia Case
- Replies: 9
- Views: 292
Re: Quashed Charges In Trump Georgia Case
This might possibly be a case where what was initially reported by the media and what is actionable in law didn't match. What I'm suggesting is that the media have gone gung ho regarding the charges without bothering to fully check the actual facts. The most important fact which was that Donald did...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 6:54 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: I almost hate to read, see, or hear the NEWS any more!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 361
Re: I almost hate to read, see, or hear the NEWS any more!
The Players Championship is on the Golf Channel, NBC, ESPN+ and Peacock today through Sunday.
I’ll be watching it.
I’ll be watching it.
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 6:19 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What I listened to today
- Replies: 3166
- Views: 2114949
Re: What I listened to today
Stunning artwork. Rusalka - one of my faves, too. You have quite the collection of operas! Dvorak’s Rusalka Chalabala/Prague National Theatre 1963 https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music116/v4/4b/d8/ab/4bd8abde-398f-05d9-c599-88441f91e329/5905348206686.jpg/400x400cc.jpg I have this performan...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 6:15 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: White Liberal Rage
- Replies: 3
- Views: 211