Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che tackle the week’s biggest news, like Marjorie Taylor Greene heckling Biden during his State of the Union address, Democrats criticizing Biden for calling migrants “illegals” and Republican Senator Katie Britt’s video response.
The Dualers are an eight-piece (or nine-piece) ska and reggae band from South East London. Initially comprising brothers Si and Tyber Cranstoun, and now led by Tyber following Si’s departure in 2010 for a solo career, they first developed a profile when the single “Kiss on the Lips” entered the UK top 30, peaking at 21, in October 2004 despite no industry backing.
The Dualers have supported Madness at their large outdoor concerts and played headline gigs at Indigo O2, Fairfield Halls in Croydon and the Churchill Theatre in Bromley.
The Dualers started out in 1999 as a busking duo of Si Christone and Tyber O’Neil (brothers Simon David Cranstoun and Jonathan Lloyd Cranstoun) who could be found on the streets of Bromley, Canterbury, Croydon, Kingston and Romford playing a mix of doo-wop, pop and ska.
[continues]
speaking of the dastardly daylight time change (this coming from a confirmed dyed-in-the-wool morning person who hates going to bed when it’s still daylight)
[…]
Many states have tried to pass bills to make permanent daylight saving time the norm or enacted resolutions that would allow the state to do so should Congress give them permission. At least 19 states have already enacted such legislation or resolutions, according to the NCSL. That includes Alabama, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Louisiana, Maine, Minnesota, Montana, Ohio, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, Washington and Wyoming.
Some of that legislation would also require one or more neighboring states to jump into permanent daylight saving time before the original state would. The bill introduced in Illinois earlier this year, for example, would put the state on permanent standard time only if Indiana, Iowa, Missouri and Wisconsin would do the same.
Last year, nearly 30 states considered legislation regarding daylight saving time, data from the NCSL shows. In most cases, those efforts were stalled or failed.
Bills introduced on the federal level have faced the same fate. That includes the 2023 version of Sen. Marco Rubio’s (R-Fla.) Sunshine Protection Act, a bill introduced by Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) to give states the power to stay on daylight saving time year-round, and a similar bill brought forth by Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.). All three were referred to committees, where they have remained since March 2023.
So as you grumble while you reset your manual clocks, just know you will — most likely — have to do it all again in early November when daylight saving time ends. At least then, you’ll gain that hour of sleep that you lost this weekend.
BTW a bill has been introduced in KY legislature to remain on standard time. probably won’t see daylight passing though. if so, can’t imagine how the western part which is on central time while the bulk of the state is on eastern will manage that. but worth giving a try due to the mischief the change causes such as more highway deaths and health effects on children to say nothing of trying to deal with animals who don’t wear adjustable watches about meal and bed times.
PatD, you got me thrown off yesterday with the SNL mixup. Thought it was Sunday all day and went looking for the Oscars last night. This morning I woke up, looked at phone and saw it was 6:41 — time to get up. Later I realized it was 5:41, could have slept another hour. Crazy!
PatD, on that Guardian article about what’s being called “double haters”, it’s true they exist and might be the deciding factor. But the good news: In 2020 and now, Biden comfortably leads among them. Sadly, this campaign is destined to be centered on who does the best job of making the other guy the most hated.
Compromise! It’s the American way. Run the clocks forward HALF AN HOUR and leave them that way until the end of time. History will stand up and applaud and will then sit back with a smug expression on its face.
Yeah that Saturday-Sunday thing almost got me too…..I thought I’d missed Svengoolie.
The payoff is voter turnout, so since the pundits and polls are such a mish-mash of muddled malarkey, brush that all away and concentrate on getting out the vote.
Thus Spake Sturgeathustra.
“A Moscow court has sentenced a Russianuniversity student to 10 days in jail for naming his Wi-Fi router with a pro-Ukrainian slogan, Russian media reported.”
”The Moscow State University student, identified by RIA as Oleg Tarasov, had changed the name of his WIFI network to “Slava Ukraine,” which translates to “Glory to Ukraine” in English…”
“The student was found guilty of propaganda and the “public display of Nazi symbols” by the Nikulinsky District Court of Moscow on Thursday, and authorities confiscated his router, state-run RIA reported.”
“Next week, a tightly-controlled election, in which the country’s only anti-war candidate has been barred from standing, will likely see Putin extend his rule into the 2030s.”
Good Morning & Slava Ukraine!
ps -I hope E Jean Carroll is having brunch with her attorney, and preparing for a third defamation charge against tRUMPsky.
Sturg – A compromise to your compromise. Ignore clocks and slowly migrate waking and sleeping time with the sun. Stay home if the weather is bad or not feeling well. Revert to acting like humans.
I love DST. Gives me time to do shit in daylight after work. Cutting grass, painting, bike riding, etc. – stuff that takes time and can’t really be done in the dark.
“I just posted a $91 million bond, $91 million on a fake story, totally made-up story,” he said, referencing the bond he posted this week as he appeals a defamation verdict against him.
“Ninety-one million based on false accusations made about me by a woman that I knew nothing about, didn’t know, never heard of, I know nothing about her,” he continued.
“She wrote a book, she said things,” Trump told the raucous crowd in Rome, about 70 miles northeast of Atlanta. “And when I denied it, I said, ‘It’s so crazy. It’s false.’ I get sued for defamation. That’s where it starts.”
Yep, it starts with your mouth and here you are, again.
The predecessor hoarded boxes and boxes of state secrets, trying his damndest to KEEP them for his own nefarious and likely traitorous ends, which effort almost certainly resulted in the “gift” to J Kushner of two billion dollars.
Two Billion Dollars.
bId – Hold grudges, you bet. He is too deep into his alternate universe now to understand much of anything. Ms. Carroll is living in his head and it is paying good money to keep her there. Karma is a rich payback, in this case sfb somehow thought getting others to pay his bond made him free of her. However, she has until 1100 March 11, 2024 to object to the bond. My calendar shows the orange idiot opened his big fish-like mouth a couple days early. Yup, I am sure her attorney and paralegal are huddled over the keyboard this day typing a nice reply for the judge to read tomorrow morning. I wonder how much it will cost to unravel that bond?
Not to put too far a point on it, but wouldn’t what President Biden was requesting in terms of additional judges, and more expedited processing of immigrant applicants help someone like the woman who is subjected to sex trafficking in Mexico?
Sturge
Ms Welker likes to believe she is a journalist who reports the news
Lies and the current rendition of the Republican party aren’t news, just normal behavior.
You know “dog bites man”
Jack
Yesterday a comment by Pilar demonstrated one of Biden’s problems. Where Biden gets all the blame for bad Trump policy outcomes that occurred in the first year of his presidency but none of the credit for having fixed them.
Pilar said that the price for lumber had doubled in the last year.
I’ve been slowly rehabbing this house and buying a bit of lumber in the last year. I hadn’t done any rehab work for sometime. When I did, I got used to the low post housing crises prices in the 10 years following the housing bust. So I will admit there is a bit of sticker shock as I price things. But it seemed that things had settled down and as this chart from the St Louis Fed shows they have. The price for hard wood lumber for January 23 and Jan 24 at about the same price. The wild price spike all occurred in the first months of Biden’s presidency when Trump policies were still in effect. Once Biden’s policies kicked in you saw a leveling of prices followed by a price decline as dramatic as the increase. When you look at the chart you will see a trend line for the last 50 years and current prices are right on that line.
Yeah, lumber is particularly sensitive to supply/demand and bounces around based on how active the construction sector is. While at $570 per 1000 bf it is almost double what it was in May – June last year at $344/1000, the price went from $344/1000 on 6/19/23 to $560.50 one week later on 6/26. peaking at $580 on 7/21, so the jump that led to Pilar’s comment took place during the third week of June last year, and with some fluctuations has remained close to what it is today. And to put it in a little perspective, lumber was $1670.50 per 1000 on 5/3/21, so today’s prices are 1/3 what the were just under 3 years ago. just before or at those peaks, construction was at very high levels, so the demand for lumber was high. Specifically related to the $1670 peak, that was 2 months after passage of the Covid recovery legislation.
“Good morning, Mark – I was actually referring to the bozo who wrote the article you are peddling. If I had been referring to you, I would have used the term “angry bozo”. Have a nice Sunday.”
Sturg – One of the Sunday programs mentioned Britt’s lie. They said her office is sticking with the lie, because if you repeat a lie often enough..
Loved the QVC cross bit in last night’s cold open.
The Stepford monstrosity is on Orange Adolf’s short list for VP. Governor Noem is probably happy Britt sounded like an idiot on Thursday night. Adolf will pick a woman to try to mitigate the fallout from Dobbs, but it won’t work. ROEvember is coming to hand him yet another loss.
Pogo,
Lumber pricing has been crazy for some time.
I think an interesting thing about the chart I posted was how steady it was for the first 50 years and how volatile it has been in the last 20. I suspect we have yet to deal with all of the repercussions of the 2008 financial crises and now we have the fall out of the pandemic on top of that.
The Oscars is starting earlier this year, so red carpet should start soon. Looking forward to Ryan Gosling singing “I’m Just Ken,” and wondering if it’ll be a huge production like in the movie, or a truncated and pared down edition.
lumber is volatile because production is always going to lag behind new construction demand and then be oversupplied when those booms end
woodworkers have been bitching about hardwood prices since the invention of the saw
hey, “some people are saying” that Biden’s strategic oil reserve play is one of the greatest trades in history, he sold most it off at historic highs and now it’s all restocked at a fraction of the price.
He lowered the cost at the pump for you AND made a huge profit for the government. i’ll wait patiently for conservatives to commend him
Why is there TijTokkers on the red carpet SS the Oscars? They didn’t make movies. Social media may have leveled the playing field by giving a lot of folks access to showcase their…whatever, but it really lowered the bar, too.
I wonder if Gaza will be given a mention?
All presenters and winners should call out Netanyahu and call for an immediate ceasefire and a two-state solution. Shout out to Putin for invading and killing Ukrainians. Shame, without naming, Orange Adolf. Make tonight mean something. If Ruffalo were to win, he’d definitely say something. Maybe Ironman, who’s more likely to win, would say something.
Folks need to remember that tRUMPsky promised another Muslim travel ban if he’s re-elected, and said nobody from Gaza could come to the US. The international community has failed to come together in a meaningful way, so don’t just keep yelling about Biden. He’s not the CIC of Israeli forces.
“Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he intends to press ahead with an invasion of the city of Rafah on the southern border of the Gaza Strip in defiance of U.S. President Joe Biden, who has warned such an offensive would be a “red line.”
“He also dismissed the idea of a cease-fire for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, saying while he would “like to see another hostage release,” he didn’t see any “breakthrough in the negotiations … Without a release there’s not going to be a pause in the fighting.”
“Israel’s prime minister also doubled down on his rejection of the possibility of a Palestinian state — a topic that pits Israel against most of the rest of the world.”
https://mashable.com/article/oscars-celebs-wear-ceasefire-now-red-button
“If you spy a small red button on the lapel or dress straps of Hollywood’s finest this weekend, know that it’s not a stylish accessory or Oscars red carpet necessity, but instead the latest attention-garnering symbol of a humanitarian outcry.”
“The pins, which feature the image of a red, outstretched hand holding a black heart in its palm, are the official ready-to-wear symbol of the Artists for Ceasefire initiative,…”
Pilar mentioned the influx of people from up north into his area of NC. That same thing has happened to my area, the so-called “low country”, the SC coast. This area began to change during WwII with the great influx of people from all over (including my dad from Alabam) whe re-located to the Charleston area to work at the Naval shipyard, most of whom remained after the war ended. The then locals who had had things pretty much all their way up till then did not receive the newcomers completely happily, as the newcomers began to agitate and alter the “established order”. So that change was still underway when the northerners began to arrive in the mid 70’s. They came in droves and they’re still coming. I
I welcomed them…….and I welcomed the change they’ve brought to the low country. (One aspect of that change was the low country voted largely for Nikki Haley over Stump in the past GOP primary while the rest of SC stayed mired in the past miseries. Haley in that respect represented a vast change from the mindset of the Stumpers )
Personally, I went from making cheap Formica countertop kitchens to very high-end and high tech (ergo high-dollar) ones, with nice stone countertops. I really hate Formica with a towering passion.
Change is not only inevitable, change is good
Welcome aboard, Yankee Clippers.
Those new bridges are GREAT.
As I occasionally do is to give links to things I find interesting, I have a great documentary of one day in 1969. The film has not been seen before. A music festival in Harlem! it is great. It brings back so many memories. I am from Detroit. Many of the people are from Detroit. Many are so beautiful. Fifty-four years ago, a wonderful event. It is on Hulu, Summer of Soul. So long ago, yet so wonderful yesterday.
A theater full of rich, pretty, famous folks laughed at Orange Adolf.
The documentarian from Ukraine got to speak to the atrocities of Putin.
Navalny spoke from beyond the grave.
Not a good night for a dictator and his wanna-be.
Congrats to Oppenheimer. Can’t wait until it hits Spectrum.
And congrats to the US women’s national team for their CONCACAF Gold Cup win over Brazil. USA, USA, USA!!!
thanks, jack, that should wake us up. new time grogginess blown (or bowed and plucked to be more precise) away.
no wonder I couldn’t get SNL yesterday. why didn’t someone tell me it was saturday and snl hadn’t happened yet?
well, here ’tis – ms katie and all re sotu
CNN covers President Biden’s (Mikey Day) State of the Union address and Republican Senator Katie Britt’s (Scarlett Johansson) response.
and it’s WEEKEND UPDATE!
Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che tackle the week’s biggest news, like Marjorie Taylor Greene heckling Biden during his State of the Union address, Democrats criticizing Biden for calling migrants “illegals” and Republican Senator Katie Britt’s video response.
here’s how the ‘toonsters covered the sotu
Attribution: State of the Biden by Christopher Weyant, The Boston Globe, MA
and
Attribution: Biden’s SOTU Speech by Dick Wright, PoliticalCartoons.com
but on the sadly serious side —that is, if you can believe the polls
‘Like choosing between a hedgehog and a porcupine’: US braces for presidential election no one wants | US elections 2024 | The Guardian
wakey wakey! it’s later than you think today
A Must watch, this is what happens when Tyber hits the streets……Croydon High Street 2.8.14
wiki about the dualers:
speaking of the dastardly daylight time change (this coming from a confirmed dyed-in-the-wool morning person who hates going to bed when it’s still daylight)
Daylight saving time: Which states want to stop changing the clocks? (thehill.com)
BTW a bill has been introduced in KY legislature to remain on standard time. probably won’t see daylight passing though. if so, can’t imagine how the western part which is on central time while the bulk of the state is on eastern will manage that. but worth giving a try due to the mischief the change causes such as more highway deaths and health effects on children to say nothing of trying to deal with animals who don’t wear adjustable watches about meal and bed times.
Wow that’s a lot of strings, Jack (as Joe might say).
Don’t think I’ve ever heard a String Dozentet or however many there are. Really enjoyable!
PatD, you got me thrown off yesterday with the SNL mixup. Thought it was Sunday all day and went looking for the Oscars last night. This morning I woke up, looked at phone and saw it was 6:41 — time to get up. Later I realized it was 5:41, could have slept another hour. Crazy!
PatD, on that Guardian article about what’s being called “double haters”, it’s true they exist and might be the deciding factor. But the good news: In 2020 and now, Biden comfortably leads among them. Sadly, this campaign is destined to be centered on who does the best job of making the other guy the most hated.
craig, yeah, nothing like the prior campaigns which were based on hope and which guy you most wanted to have a beer with.
me too about wondering where the oscars were last night. speaking of oscar
Attribution: The Oscar Goes To… by Christopher Weyant, CagleCartoons.com
Compromise! It’s the American way. Run the clocks forward HALF AN HOUR and leave them that way until the end of time. History will stand up and applaud and will then sit back with a smug expression on its face.
Yeah that Saturday-Sunday thing almost got me too…..I thought I’d missed Svengoolie.
The payoff is voter turnout, so since the pundits and polls are such a mish-mash of muddled malarkey, brush that all away and concentrate on getting out the vote.
Thus Spake Sturgeathustra.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/10/world/russian-student-jailed-renaming-wifi-ukraine-intl/index.html
“A Moscow court has sentenced a Russianuniversity student to 10 days in jail for naming his Wi-Fi router with a pro-Ukrainian slogan, Russian media reported.”
”The Moscow State University student, identified by RIA as Oleg Tarasov, had changed the name of his WIFI network to “Slava Ukraine,” which translates to “Glory to Ukraine” in English…”
“The student was found guilty of propaganda and the “public display of Nazi symbols” by the Nikulinsky District Court of Moscow on Thursday, and authorities confiscated his router, state-run RIA reported.”
“Next week, a tightly-controlled election, in which the country’s only anti-war candidate has been barred from standing, will likely see Putin extend his rule into the 2030s.”
Good Morning & Slava Ukraine!
ps -I hope E Jean Carroll is having brunch with her attorney, and preparing for a third defamation charge against tRUMPsky.
Sturg – A compromise to your compromise. Ignore clocks and slowly migrate waking and sleeping time with the sun. Stay home if the weather is bad or not feeling well. Revert to acting like humans.
NBCNews: Biden campaign raised $10m in the 24 hours following the State of the Union.
I love DST. Gives me time to do shit in daylight after work. Cutting grass, painting, bike riding, etc. – stuff that takes time and can’t really be done in the dark.
Pat, we figured you always know what you are doing and with good reason. 😉
https://apnews.com/article/haiti-gangs-violence-142c57f868c5f8b0cdf01627b3f5350b
“Why is Haiti so chaotic? Leaders used street gangs to gain power. Then the gangs got stronger”
“Gang leaders, surreally, hold news conferences. And many see them as future stakeholders in negotiations over the country’s future.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/found-liable-attack-trump-claims-e-jean-carroll-made-false-accusations-rcna142637
“Former President Donald Trump on Saturday reiterated his claim that writer E. Jean Carroll had levied “false accusations” against him, even as similar remarks have resulted in large court judgments against him.”
Wonder how much she’ll get for number three?
“I just posted a $91 million bond, $91 million on a fake story, totally made-up story,” he said, referencing the bond he posted this week as he appeals a defamation verdict against him.
“Ninety-one million based on false accusations made about me by a woman that I knew nothing about, didn’t know, never heard of, I know nothing about her,” he continued.
“She wrote a book, she said things,” Trump told the raucous crowd in Rome, about 70 miles northeast of Atlanta. “And when I denied it, I said, ‘It’s so crazy. It’s false.’ I get sued for defamation. That’s where it starts.”
Yep, it starts with your mouth and here you are, again.
The predecessor hoarded boxes and boxes of state secrets, trying his damndest to KEEP them for his own nefarious and likely traitorous ends, which effort almost certainly resulted in the “gift” to J Kushner of two billion dollars.
Two Billion Dollars.
Maga, please…..
bId – Hold grudges, you bet. He is too deep into his alternate universe now to understand much of anything. Ms. Carroll is living in his head and it is paying good money to keep her there. Karma is a rich payback, in this case sfb somehow thought getting others to pay his bond made him free of her. However, she has until 1100 March 11, 2024 to object to the bond. My calendar shows the orange idiot opened his
bigfish-like mouth a couple days early. Yup, I am sure her attorney and paralegal are huddled over the keyboard this day typing a nice reply for the judge to read tomorrow morning. I wonder how much it will cost to unravel that bond?SNL was able to point out K Britt’s lie about the sex trafficking story but K Welker on MTP couldn’t be bothered by mentioning it.
Unless it was so fleeting that I missed it
Not to put too far a point on it, but wouldn’t what President Biden was requesting in terms of additional judges, and more expedited processing of immigrant applicants help someone like the woman who is subjected to sex trafficking in Mexico?
Pat
Good catch on the dualers video, a little fun for a sleepy Sunday.
Here is some more
Pogeaux
It would if the magas were actually interested in solutions.
Sturge
Ms Welker likes to believe she is a journalist who reports the news
Lies and the current rendition of the Republican party aren’t news, just normal behavior.
You know “dog bites man”
Jack
today’s meme…
Yesterday a comment by Pilar demonstrated one of Biden’s problems. Where Biden gets all the blame for bad Trump policy outcomes that occurred in the first year of his presidency but none of the credit for having fixed them.
Pilar said that the price for lumber had doubled in the last year.
I’ve been slowly rehabbing this house and buying a bit of lumber in the last year. I hadn’t done any rehab work for sometime. When I did, I got used to the low post housing crises prices in the 10 years following the housing bust. So I will admit there is a bit of sticker shock as I price things. But it seemed that things had settled down and as this chart from the St Louis Fed shows they have. The price for hard wood lumber for January 23 and Jan 24 at about the same price. The wild price spike all occurred in the first months of Biden’s presidency when Trump policies were still in effect. Once Biden’s policies kicked in you saw a leveling of prices followed by a price decline as dramatic as the increase. When you look at the chart you will see a trend line for the last 50 years and current prices are right on that line.
More fun
…saw “Dune 2”, should have seen “Poor Things”, instead 😒
spoiler alert: they all get hooked on spice
…and why was Hugh Grant not nominated for his Oompa Loompa portrayal?? 😡
Yeah, lumber is particularly sensitive to supply/demand and bounces around based on how active the construction sector is. While at $570 per 1000 bf it is almost double what it was in May – June last year at $344/1000, the price went from $344/1000 on 6/19/23 to $560.50 one week later on 6/26. peaking at $580 on 7/21, so the jump that led to Pilar’s comment took place during the third week of June last year, and with some fluctuations has remained close to what it is today. And to put it in a little perspective, lumber was $1670.50 per 1000 on 5/3/21, so today’s prices are 1/3 what the were just under 3 years ago. just before or at those peaks, construction was at very high levels, so the demand for lumber was high. Specifically related to the $1670 peak, that was 2 months after passage of the Covid recovery legislation.
Look at import restrictions and tariffs, particularly of Canadian lumber. The orange blob was a big problem with his idiotic tariffs and restrictions.
Liz Cheney answers Mark Levin.
“Good morning, Mark – I was actually referring to the bozo who wrote the article you are peddling. If I had been referring to you, I would have used the term “angry bozo”. Have a nice Sunday.”
y’all just don’t appreciate how hard times are for people who own vast tracts of land and multiple homes
can you believe the nerve of some people that think they also deserve to live in small houses and ruin the view? They must be communists
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/10/europe/ukraine-pope-negotiations-russia-intl/index.html
“Pope Francis has sparked anger after saying Ukraine should have the “courage of the white flag” and negotiate to end the war with Russia.”
Negotiate with the aggressor??? F the Pope! Slava Ukraine!
Sturg – One of the Sunday programs mentioned Britt’s lie. They said her office is sticking with the lie, because if you repeat a lie often enough..
Loved the QVC cross bit in last night’s cold open.
The Stepford monstrosity is on Orange Adolf’s short list for VP. Governor Noem is probably happy Britt sounded like an idiot on Thursday night. Adolf will pick a woman to try to mitigate the fallout from Dobbs, but it won’t work. ROEvember is coming to hand him yet another loss.
Pogo,
Lumber pricing has been crazy for some time.
I think an interesting thing about the chart I posted was how steady it was for the first 50 years and how volatile it has been in the last 20. I suspect we have yet to deal with all of the repercussions of the 2008 financial crises and now we have the fall out of the pandemic on top of that.
BTW here is a link to a more interactive version of the chart I posted for hardwoods.
The Oscars is starting earlier this year, so red carpet should start soon. Looking forward to Ryan Gosling singing “I’m Just Ken,” and wondering if it’ll be a huge production like in the movie, or a truncated and pared down edition.
Happy Oscars to all who observe.
lumber is volatile because production is always going to lag behind new construction demand and then be oversupplied when those booms end
woodworkers have been bitching about hardwood prices since the invention of the saw
hey, “some people are saying” that Biden’s strategic oil reserve play is one of the greatest trades in history, he sold most it off at historic highs and now it’s all restocked at a fraction of the price.
He lowered the cost at the pump for you AND made a huge profit for the government. i’ll wait patiently for conservatives to commend him
Nice job, Biden Admin 🫡 🇺🇸 ✌️
Why is there TijTokkers on the red carpet SS the Oscars? They didn’t make movies. Social media may have leveled the playing field by giving a lot of folks access to showcase their…whatever, but it really lowered the bar, too.
I wonder if Gaza will be given a mention?
All presenters and winners should call out Netanyahu and call for an immediate ceasefire and a two-state solution. Shout out to Putin for invading and killing Ukrainians. Shame, without naming, Orange Adolf. Make tonight mean something. If Ruffalo were to win, he’d definitely say something. Maybe Ironman, who’s more likely to win, would say something.
Folks need to remember that tRUMPsky promised another Muslim travel ban if he’s re-elected, and said nobody from Gaza could come to the US. The international community has failed to come together in a meaningful way, so don’t just keep yelling about Biden. He’s not the CIC of Israeli forces.
https://www.politico.eu/article/israels-netanyahu-says-he-will-defy-bidens-red-line-and-invade-rafah/
“Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he intends to press ahead with an invasion of the city of Rafah on the southern border of the Gaza Strip in defiance of U.S. President Joe Biden, who has warned such an offensive would be a “red line.”
“He also dismissed the idea of a cease-fire for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, saying while he would “like to see another hostage release,” he didn’t see any “breakthrough in the negotiations … Without a release there’s not going to be a pause in the fighting.”
“Israel’s prime minister also doubled down on his rejection of the possibility of a Palestinian state — a topic that pits Israel against most of the rest of the world.”
https://mashable.com/article/oscars-celebs-wear-ceasefire-now-red-button
“If you spy a small red button on the lapel or dress straps of Hollywood’s finest this weekend, know that it’s not a stylish accessory or Oscars red carpet necessity, but instead the latest attention-garnering symbol of a humanitarian outcry.”
“The pins, which feature the image of a red, outstretched hand holding a black heart in its palm, are the official ready-to-wear symbol of the Artists for Ceasefire initiative,…”
Thoughts & Prayers? Sending enough of a signal?
Pilar mentioned the influx of people from up north into his area of NC. That same thing has happened to my area, the so-called “low country”, the SC coast. This area began to change during WwII with the great influx of people from all over (including my dad from Alabam) whe re-located to the Charleston area to work at the Naval shipyard, most of whom remained after the war ended. The then locals who had had things pretty much all their way up till then did not receive the newcomers completely happily, as the newcomers began to agitate and alter the “established order”. So that change was still underway when the northerners began to arrive in the mid 70’s. They came in droves and they’re still coming. I
I welcomed them…….and I welcomed the change they’ve brought to the low country. (One aspect of that change was the low country voted largely for Nikki Haley over Stump in the past GOP primary while the rest of SC stayed mired in the past miseries. Haley in that respect represented a vast change from the mindset of the Stumpers )
Personally, I went from making cheap Formica countertop kitchens to very high-end and high tech (ergo high-dollar) ones, with nice stone countertops. I really hate Formica with a towering passion.
Change is not only inevitable, change is good
Welcome aboard, Yankee Clippers.
Those new bridges are GREAT.
As I occasionally do is to give links to things I find interesting, I have a great documentary of one day in 1969. The film has not been seen before. A music festival in Harlem! it is great. It brings back so many memories. I am from Detroit. Many of the people are from Detroit. Many are so beautiful. Fifty-four years ago, a wonderful event. It is on Hulu, Summer of Soul. So long ago, yet so wonderful yesterday.
BB that show is a really great show. You’re right about the music and the memories.
Great speech by the documentary winner for “20 Days In Mariupol.” Cinema creates memories. Document the truth. Never forget.
Slava Ukraine!
Best Oscar acceptance line of the night, maybe ever:
The clip of Navalny leading the “in memorium” segment was…
Nice In Memoriam. Couldn’t pick a better song or artist to sing it. The visuals were a bit busy but…
Oppenheimer is on a roll. I had no idea this was Christopher Nolan’s first Oscar.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-rigged-oscars-kimmel/
“Isn’t it past your jail time?”
Did Orange Adolf throw a hamberder at the wall when Kimmel responded for all the world to hear?
Ha!
Kimmel and the ex.pres a rare bit of comedy gold.
He might not have tossed a hamberder but I bet he got a diaper full of covfefe.
A theater full of rich, pretty, famous folks laughed at Orange Adolf.
The documentarian from Ukraine got to speak to the atrocities of Putin.
Navalny spoke from beyond the grave.
Not a good night for a dictator and his wanna-be.
ps – Rita Moreno is 92!
Congrats to Oppenheimer. Can’t wait until it hits Spectrum.
And congrats to the US women’s national team for their CONCACAF Gold Cup win over Brazil. USA, USA, USA!!!
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