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Re: Pardon Me
By the way, Gob (or any other native Brit-speakers out there), why is it that when British newspapers like the Guardian, the Independent, or even the Times itself use the abbreviations of 'Mr' or 'Mrs', they do not put the period at the end of the abbreviation? For some reason British style guides ...
- Tue Jan 26, 2021 2:50 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Impeachment redux
- Replies: 20
- Views: 232
Re: Impeachment redux
An excellent video from the WSJ about the Capitol breach and the actions of the police. Of course they are all commies over there at WSJ so you can't believe a word of it. Normally you need a subscription to read WSJ stuff beyond the first paragraph or two but this video appears to be on this side ...
- Tue Jan 26, 2021 2:35 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Impeachment redux
- Replies: 20
- Views: 232
Re: Impeachment redux
Good piece by David Graham in The Atlantic. The Riot Has Obscured Trump’s Other Impeachable Offenses The charges against Trump focus on January 6, but with each passing day, additional troubling evidence emerges. Nothing concentrates the mind, Samuel Johnson said, like an impending hanging. Perhaps...
- Tue Jan 26, 2021 3:03 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: How to know when the insurrection starts.
- Replies: 80
- Views: 948
Re: How to know when the insurrection starts.
Per Darren: I talked to an operator at a coal fired power plant that had to make adjustments due to the variances in power output from a neighboring wind farm. It wasn't simple. Large power plants were never designed to throttle up and down. Generators turn at a constant 1800 rpm. If they couldn't m...
- Tue Jan 26, 2021 1:54 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: He needs a good lawyer
- Replies: 7
- Views: 103
Re: He needs a good lawyer
Michael Mann's suit against the National Review and Mark Steyn is continuing. Because Mann is at Penn State, as was pedophile and sex criminal Jerry Sandusky, Mark Steyn published a piece calling Mann the Jerry Sandusky of climate science. SCOTUS has declined National Review's request to get involve...
- Mon Jan 25, 2021 9:26 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Impeachment redux
- Replies: 20
- Views: 232
Re: Impeachment redux
CNN is saying that Sen Patrick Leahy (D, VT) will preside.
- Sun Jan 24, 2021 4:17 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Trump's Grand Finale....
- Replies: 66
- Views: 621
Re: Trump's Grand Finale....
Darren told us: I'm reminded of a cult I briefly joined at the behest of a DC environmental lawyer. The details are unimportant. The us versus them found in many groups of self identifying believers is. Oh please, do tell. I think the details are very important. It might give us some clues about the...
- Sun Jan 24, 2021 4:05 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Impeachment redux
- Replies: 20
- Views: 232
Re: Impeachment redux
Alan Dershowitz (yes, yes, I know) has this to offer in The Hill : The Constitution provides, “When the president is tried, the chief justice shall preside.” But there is just one president of the United States, and his name is Joseph Biden. Donald Trump is no longer the president anymore. So it wo...
- Sun Jan 24, 2021 3:41 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Did Trump Incite the Erection?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 169
Re: Did Trump Incite the Erection?
Come again?
- Sun Jan 24, 2021 3:22 pm
- Forum: The Arts
- Topic: The Repair Shop
- Replies: 14
- Views: 113
Re: The Repair Shop
If you count the guy wielding the hammer, that's four.
- Sun Jan 24, 2021 3:19 pm
- Forum: The Arts
- Topic: The Repair Shop
- Replies: 14
- Views: 113
Re: The Repair Shop
I was in a plane once departing Pittsburgh - probably USAir - when the pilot announced that we'd have to go back to the gate. One of the overhead lockers kept opening as we taxied. The catch was broken. They were not allowed to take off with a malfunctioning locker door. We stayed in line. The cockp...
- Sat Jan 23, 2021 5:00 pm
- Forum: General stuff & Tabloids
- Topic: When memes collide
- Replies: 24
- Views: 303
Re: When memes collide
A nice late autumn day and I'd just cut the grass. Bernie decided to swing by and say hello. I've no idea why he was so bundled up.


- Sat Jan 23, 2021 4:53 pm
- Forum: Laffs!
- Topic: Timing is everything
- Replies: 20
- Views: 215
Re: Timing is everything
Unlike you, lib, both Meade and I have lived in Africa. So it's just possible that he and I know a little more about it than you do. But we all know, courtesy of the last four years, that uninformed opinions are worth the same as those based on experience, reason, logic and comprehension. So there's...
- Sat Jan 23, 2021 2:58 pm
- Forum: The Arts
- Topic: Final image
- Replies: 6
- Views: 73
Re: Final image
That's good of Hen. But has she OK'd the Macallan? Poor Digby must be very upset because if you threw a £££ camera at him (not a ££££££ camera) he must think that you are really, really, really pissed and he's wondering what he did to deserve it.
- Sat Jan 23, 2021 2:50 pm
- Forum: Laffs!
- Topic: Timing is everything
- Replies: 20
- Views: 215
Re: Timing is everything
According to an asshole I once knew who lived in South Africa, they live as well as anyone else on six and a half cents on the dollar. Their stores, even the little ones, are filled with razor blades, shampoo, soap, milk, wheat bread, and cheese. So what is all this crap about South Africa being po...
- Fri Jan 22, 2021 1:01 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Gee, seven?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 171
- Fri Jan 22, 2021 4:30 am
- Forum: The Arts
- Topic: Music recommendations
- Replies: 692
- Views: 88726
Re: Music recommendations
My favorite tenors are Bjorling and Domingo; and I can take quite a lot of Pavarotti. Domingo was wonderful on Verdi's Requiem (Bernstein; London Symphony Orchestra 1970) and of course Bjorling died in 1960 so his latest recordings suffer from the recording technology of the day. I have never manage...
- Thu Jan 21, 2021 5:49 pm
- Forum: The Arts
- Topic: Music recommendations
- Replies: 692
- Views: 88726
Re: Music recommendations
Jussi Bjorling can do no wrong. In Swedish - I don't know if he recorded it in German.
Edited to clarify.
Edited to clarify.
Re: Pardon Me
He commuted the sentence of Kwame Kilpatrick. Those two are birds of a feather. Including the fact that they (at least had) legions of followers that were able to ignore reality and support a con man. Clearly I hadn't been paying attention - the name Kwame Kilpatrick meant nothing to me. I had to l...
- Thu Jan 21, 2021 2:59 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: QAnon are devastated
- Replies: 16
- Views: 159
Re: QAnon are devastated
Of course Trump won't be living at Mar-a-Lago for more than seven days. And he has to have that heli-pad removed. Unless he puts Rudy on the case - he'll get it sorted. He may have a problem with Rudy though if Melanie is around because we all know how Rudy likes to 'tuck in his shirt' when Eastern ...