Is he an emperor reincarnation conquering the world and amassing all wealth or is he just posing as one, scamming Putin in the process?
Attribution: Putin’s new bear by Christo Komarnitski, Bulgaria
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for example this by Pierson David Pierson covers Chinese foreign policy and China’s economic and cultural engagement with the world. He has been a journalist for more than two decades. Xi Jinping Embracing Vladimir Putin in Defiance of the West – The New York Times (nytimes.com) Days after returning from a trip to Europe where he was lectured about the need to rein in Russia, China’s leader, Xi Jinping, used a summit with President Vladimir V. Putin to convey an uncomfortable reality to the West: His support for Mr. Putin remains steadfast. Mr. Xi’s talks with Mr. Putin this week were… Read more »
@RonFilipkowski This new interview by Powell is interesting. It suggests that the purpose of the insurrection was to DELAY the electoral college certification to give Alito time to intervene on this legal challenge. But, Powell says they didn’t anticipate Pelosi reconvening Congress that day. ********************** These people were out for blood They deserve no sympathy and they deserve no mercy from the courts. What they do deserve is to be ground into the dust. Once again the steely resolve of Nancy Pelosi pulled our fat out of the fire and actually literally saved democracy. Talk about Medal of Freedom. Grace… Read more »
speaking of alito
Attribution: Alito and Thomas Trump Conflicts by Rick McKee, CagleCartoons.com
Justice Alito’s Upside-Down Flag – The Atlantic
Why Was Alito Flying the Flag Upside Down After January 6?
Justice Alito blamed his wife for the incident, but he did not disavow what the symbol stands for.
By Adam Serwer
Ruth (god love her) Buzzi:
I hear that maybe Disco is making a comeback.
At first I was afraid.
I was petrified.
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@Ruth_A_Buzzi
·Aug 2, 2021
Marriage is like a deck of cards. It all starts with two hearts and a diamond.
A few years later you wish you had a club and a spade.
BREAKING: MAGA world breaks into a cold sweat as Senator Richard Blumenthal demands major changes to the Supreme Court to crack down on the blatant corruption of Republican justices like Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas. This is way overdue… “I couldn’t be more worried. You know, the judicial system has no armies, has no police force,” Blumenthal said during an appearance on Morning Joe. “Its orders are obeyed because of its credibility, because people trust it. It has squandered that trust.” “The ones who have squandered it most irresponsibly are the highest court justices,” he continued. “We’ve worked for a… Read more »
Alex Cole:
Trump called women ugly, nasty, pigs, dogs, and many other horrible things, but Republicans are horrified because Jasmine Crockett said Marjorie Taylor Greene is built like Barney Rubble.
SNL tonight won’t have to rewrite or punch up much of this for a good comedy sketch Rep. Jasmine Crockett calls Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s ‘fake eyelashes’ comment a racist attack (msn.com) The Oversight Committee met Thursday to consider holding U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress for refusing to hand over audio recordings of President Joe Biden’s conversations with special counsel Robert Hur. The session had been scheduled for the morning but was postponed until late evening because some committee Republicans had traveled to New York to be in court with Trump during his hush money trial.… Read more »
not so sure MTG should be getting into it with AOC a former bartender who once told the New Yorker
” And so the day-to-day of my day job is frustrating. So is everyone else’s. I ate shit when I was a waitress and a bartender, and I eat shit as a member of Congress. It’s called a job, you know?”
seems like AOC knows it when she sees it and is apt to fling it back two-fold.
This is not the first time I’ve had cause to love Rep Crockett and AOC but it may be the best so far. I’m sure it won’t be the last.
That bleached blonde bad built butch body Georgia. cracker/bimbo better stay the hell out of THEM woods. She might draw back a nub as my dad used to say.
In Xanadu did Kublai Khan a stately pleasure dome decree —-
Little did we know that it would later be known as the White House
Run for the Black Eyed Susans that aren’t really Black Eyed Susans. Those don’t bloom until summer so the blanket is made from an earlier blooming look alike that need their centers painted black.
1. Mugatu 20 – 1
2. Uncle Heavy 20 – 1 – Ivy Green / Sturgeone
3. Catching Freedom 6 – 1 – Craig
Muth Scratched
5. Mystic Dan 5 – 2 – Jack / Patd
6. Seize the Grey 15 – 1 – Jamie
7. Just Steel 15 – 1
8. Tuscan Gold 8 – 1
9. Imagination 6 – 1 – Renee / Pogo
TheScottCharles
Rudy Giuliani getting served at his 80th birthday party within an hour of taunting Arizona officials in his fake electors case is the most Rudy Giuliani thing ever.
Sturg,
whenever someone plays the game of… if you were to be stranded on a deserted island and could take 5 books with you, which ones would you take? I know that ” Milagro Beanfield War” would definitely be one of mine.
She started it.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/turnabout_is_fair_play#:~:text=%2C%20British%2FIrish.-,Proverb,Taking%20turns%20is%20morally%20right.
B-B-B-B-B-B-Taylor-Greene
Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow and I’ll have to think about the other four.
I didn’t read RAGTIME but saw the movie I think if that’s the one with Cagney.
Putin must watch C-Span and just laugh and laugh…
I would take
BENET’S THE READER’S ENCYCLOPEDIA
VAN LOON’S GEOGRAPHY
ECCE HOMO, by FWN
THUKYDIDES
A DISTANT MIRROR Barbara w Tuchman
Tomorrow I might switch out one or two and then totally re-evaluate in 3 or 4 days, and of course I would bust my ass to smuggle several more.
Right after that I’d attempt to re-negotiate.
Catching Freedom looks good.
Cagney movie didn’t really get the essence of the book that was much more complex with all the interaction of historical events with various cultures. The musical came closer as each group had its own songs.
I was told something by a guy who did a lot of business with China (manufacturing); our long game is 5 years, theirs is at least 20 years.
Book of the Day
In re China:
James Clavell TAI-PAN. (Then NOBLE HOUSE)
Chinaman: (Steinbeck) Only one brave and beautiful boy of ten named Andy from Salinas ever crossed the old Chinaman. Andy was visiting in Monterey and he saw the old man and knew he must shout at him if only to keep his self-respect, but even Andy, brave as he was, felt the little cloud of fear. Andy watched him go by evening after evening while his duty and his terror wrestled. And then one evening Andy braced himself and marched behind the old man singing in a shrill falsetto, “Ching-Chong Chinaman sitting on a rail–‘ Long came a white man… Read more »
Okay BB. You’re up with Craig
Clavell’s Asian series is
I’ve always found movies to sometimes be kind of like the book in many ways.
That KING RAT was cool. A cast-iron human study.
Movies have a hard time squeezing a hundred years into an hour and a half movie, particularly one named in the top 100 books of the 20th century.
Letters from Earth, Mark Twain
Always Coming Home, Ursela LeGuin
Mother Night, Kurt Vonnegut
Cannery Row, John Steinbeck
and a book of poetry by Bukowski
I do either the book or the movie. I’m always disappointed if I do both.
I think it is because if I do the book first then I have my interpretation/impressions in my mind. These are mine alone. With the movie first I see someone else’s interpretation/impressions. There is something to be said for experiencing either one. But for me they get in each others way.
Jack
Jack
three of your five are among my favorite books. Trying to narrow my list down to five is almost impossible.
The “Happy Couple” at Barron’s graduation.
Poor old Sporkfoot can’t seem to catch a break…,,she thinks she’s got all the cover in the world for her crude remarks about a black lady’s appearance and all of a sudden she’s set upon like a pair of angry ducks on a June bug. I could hear her blathering at one point, “…I LIKE my body—I’m fifty years old I have a great body—I’m 50! Etc”
Bleach blonde bad built butch body
WHAM!!!! They knocked her dumbass into the middle of next month.
How the bullies quail before actual righteous anger.
Bit of trivia. Every horse in the Preakness today traces their lineage back to Northern Dancer. Any horse winning can blame it on Canada. Northern Dancer(May 27, 1961 – November 16, 1990) was aThoroughbredthat, in 1964, became the first Canadian-bred horse to win theKentucky Derby. After being retired from racing, he became one of the most successfulsiresof the 20th century. He is considered a Canadian icon and was inducted into theCanadian Sports Hall of Famein 1965. Induction into the Racing Hall of Fame in both Canada and the United States followed in 1976. As a competitor,The Blood-Horseranked him as one… Read more »
There ain’t a single person in that graduation picture running their mouth but him. lol
Thought balloon to her head: (“shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up)
Distant Mirror. We’re still in the 14th century.
Surprisingly modern times.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/18/politics/rudy-giuliani-served-arizona-indictment/index.html “Caroline Wren, a GOP operative and adviser to Arizona Senate candidate Kari Lake, told CNN she was hosting Giuliani’s 80th birthday party in Palm Beach, Florida, on Friday evening when the former New York City mayor was served.” “An attendee of the party told CNN that Giuliani was served papers by two agents of the Arizona attorney general’s office in the late hours of the birthday bash. “They stormed him on his way out,” the attendee said, adding that “many of the guests were visibly upset.” “On Friday evening, Giuliani tweeted a taunting message and photo of himself surrounded by smiling… Read more »
Ursula Ke Guin – The Lathe of Heaven The movie from the 1980s (which I probably saw 15 years later) creeped me out; it was filmed in Dallas. Katherine Dunn – Geek Love I lived the book so much that I just could watch the movie. I agree with Jack, the difficulty of one form matching another. I will say the the first Harry Potter movie followed the book; shot by shot, it’s a match. I read the book right before the movie came out, and never read the other books. Mark Twain’s Bible is fun. Vonnegut, anything by… Read more »
According to local news, Orange Adolf has been yapping away for 45 minutes and he’s still spewing filth and lies.
Outside the NRA convention, families of gun violence victims are protesting. The school in Uvalde, the mall in Allen, etc.
Protests that Project 25 will squash if he’s elected.
I love Rep. Jasmine Crockett! I hate Project 2025 and the petulant, little white boy who helped write it. Listen to this!
Project 2025: The Right’s Dystopian Plan to Dismantle Civil Rights and What It Means for Women “The authors of “The Conservative Promise” claim to support equality, while advocating for dismantling the government agencies that enforce laws ensuring equality, such as Title VII and Title IX of the Civil Rights Act.” “They claim to support freedom and liberty, while advocating for a total ban on abortion, rolling back the rights of LGBTQ people and closing the border.” “They claim to support free speech, while advocating for banning any mention of “critical race theory” and “gender ideology” from schools and other societal institutions.” “They… Read more »
Seize the Grey!!!
Congrats Jamie 🏇‼️
Congrats Jamie!
On to the Belmont!!!
Hope you put $2 on that horse, Jamie.
Sturge, Svengali is challenging the PC crowd tonight.
It was Jamie’s time. Very happy for you!