Some days you run across something that can’t wait a week.
After listening for the 3rd time to Sunday’s selection I noticed You-Tube suggested this YO-YO-Ma video. Don’t just listen to the music, watch the video too. In a world where disunity seems to dominate it is inspiring to be reminded how we are all human. And it doesn’t hurt that Yo-YO Ma is playing Bach.
Enjoy. Jack
jack, good enough for a Tuesday too. maybe a whole week. thanks for the music et al.
here’s twain on jack’s word for the day
LAGNIAPPE
Ukraine and Russia resume peace talks with ‘no handshake’ | Reuters
Ukraine-Russia peace talks start in Turkey amid warnings they may again fail | Ukraine | The Guardian
Journalist Chris Wallace, who has interviewed Vladimir Putin in person, offers his analysis on what the Russian leader sees as possible end games in Ukraine. Chris’s new show, “Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace?,” launches this week on the CNN+ streaming service.
There’s no day that doesn’t improve with a YO-YO-Ma performance of Bach.
I like Joe’s message that he’s not walking his comment back and he doesn’t care what Putin thinks…it’s time for Putin to wonder what the US and NATO is thinking.
That was a lovely piece and a lovely video. More of life should be worthy of inclusion in that video.
Jack
Thanks for the “extra” and another chance to say “Ah! Bach”. Your contributions to our musical pleasure are always appreciated.
Just hear the “Winter War” mentioned during the news. If the result for Ukraine is the same, it would be a great solution. As with Finland, it would leave Ukraine free to join the EU while saving some face for Russia. At least rebuilding could begin.
The Winter War
So did SFB hire Rosemary Woods to keep his phone logs and daily diary on Jan 6?
jamie, thanks for bringing up the winter war. here’s a compilation produced last year with old film and new memes.
and here’s a song from that time:
https://youtu.be/Jl2_0OCwNbg
pogo, rose mary would’ve had to work overtime to get rid of 7 hrs instead of a measly 18.5 minutes
White House records reportedly show seven-hour gap in Trump’s phone logs | TheHill
good time to celebrate human spirit, the good kind. thanks Jack
patd, you might say it would take a supernatural effort.
Knowing what we know about SFB and his prolific telephone habits I’d hav eto say it’s not believable. From Wapo.
And he claims he’s never heard of burner phones. Again, not believable.
Jack… thanks!
The world needs more of that!
Pat
it looks like Lagniappe is a more complex word than I realized,
I became aware of it back in the nineties when the “Ragin’ Cajun” was on all the talk shows. I knew it was from New Orleans and kinda a fun sounding word. But didn’t know its total heritage
From Wiki.
The Anonymous group hacked the FSB files and let the world know names and ID material of a lot of FSB agents. So far today at least 43 Russians have been expelled immediately from several countries. A little earlier today another Anonymous group destroyed the files of the Russian airplane registry. Those identify aircraft and in normal times are used to verify flight worthiness, among other things. I expect the planes to fly without important data.
On Friday 130,000 Russian young men are scheduled to be drafted.
Craig
Cannon fodder.
Russia needs competent NCO’s not more cannon fodder.
I laugh about Russia doing a favor for Ukraine by withdrawing troops from around Kyiv. Fact is it was with draw them or lose them.
It is time to give Ukraine some serious offensive weapons, with Russia on the run keep after them until they start talking about real concessions.
Jack
zelenskyy still working the pols. today it was the danish parliament.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Tuesday the Russian siege of the port city of Mariupol constituted a “crime against humanity”. “What the Russian troops are doing to Mariupol is a crime against humanity, which is happening in front of the eyes of the whole planet in real time,” Zelensky told the Danish parliament in a video address. FRANCE 24’s International Affairs Editor Philip Turle tells us more.
click here for his entire address
Was this a good idea? Andrew escorted Queen to Phillip memorial today
Russian NCOs –
That electronic warfare unit the Kraines captured a few days ago points right to that .
One does not let that kind of hardware fall into enemy hands.
You blow it up . It’s shows a real lack of small unit thinking.
130,00 green troops isn’t going to be very effective if their second louies , and sargents are shot to pieces , or just plain lousy .
Jack, I’m with you on getting better offensive weapons to the Ukrainians. I don’t know about our goodies, or what the Ukrainians could quickly come to speed on, or what Eastern Europe has that is of Soviet lineage that the U’s have already trained on, but whatever is out there that could be gotten to them through the alliance, I say get it to them. I know they want ship sinking weapons – and I bet we have them to give.
Poobah, royal appearances aside, he is Phillip’s son and she is Andrew’s mom. My question (and I bet it’s yours too) is why Charles didn’t accompany his mom.
I donated my solar oven to these guys years ago, one hell of an operation. …..
https://www.everythinglubbock.com/news/lubbock-sending-1-million-meals-to-ukraine/
For some reason I am skeptical about the Covid case count per 100k in WV. Over the past week cases are reported at 5.7, 3.1 below the national average of 8.8 over the past week – sounds good, right? However, our deaths over the same period are .73, .5 above the national average (>3x the national avg.) and our hospitalizations are 9.6, 4.6 above the national average of 5.0. Just doesn’t seem to add up – unless testing is so far down that case counts just look good. Beats me.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/29/politics/desantis-vetoes-florida-congressional-map/index.html
“…DeSantis has pressed his party’s legislative leaders to pass an aggressive reapportionment of the state’s 28 congressional districts that would eliminate two districts where Black residents are a plurality. Republicans earlier this month defied DeSantis — who is used to getting his way — and passed its own map that maintains the same number of Black districts.”
So, we know the usual suspects. Wouldn’t their phone records fill in some of the 7 missing hours?
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