Piano Sonata No. 2 in B♭ minor, Op. 35 by Frédéric Chopin.
Performed on piano by Yuja Wang
This Sonata by Chopin just seems to reflect the late October mood, including the famous third movement “The Funeral March”. I really enjoy Ms Wang’s piano work too. She has become one of my favorites on the piano.
Enjoy, Jack
Jack, thanks
yes it does sound like October’s winds, falling swirling leaves, increasing darkness and at the end an all hallows eve funeral march with saintly skeletons on parade.
BiD, this one’s for you in regard to your comment last thread “I was afraid my ballot would get thrown out if I left any races unchecked, so I voted Repug in uncontested, local races (and there were many). Folks are probably afraid to run Dem.…”
Attribution: Partisan poll watchers by John Cole, Georgia Recorder, georgiarecorder.com
Bret Baier (Alec Baldwin) welcomes Kamala Harris (Maya Rudolph) for an interview on Fox News.
WOW, last night at a Las Vegas Harris/Walz rally Barack Obama dropped a bombshell that ought to be a game changer in this campaign: He detailed how Trump’s incompetence (and lying) killed nearly a half million people:
Video.. https://x.com/Acyn/status/1847840937990398319?t=MXvc4Q_RQ_hDsfljglPJ6A&s=19
READ MORE…
— PBS Newshour: Obama team left pandemic playbook for Trump administration, officials confirm
— Vanity Fair: How Trump Gutted Obama’s Pandemic-Preparedness Systems
— AP: Trump disbanded NSC pandemic unit that experts had praised
craig, why is it that the media never covered the story in full about trump throwing out the pandemic playbook?
given the length of the scourge when we were all in lock down with plenty of time, nothing much to do except zoom and people (surprisingly the otherwise healthy young) were needlessly dying in every state, seems like it would have been a no-brainer. heck, I bet they would have won the nobel forwriting it.
PatD, it was covered during the pandemic — the story that Trump White House ignored Obama’s plan made the rounds but why the hell it took Obama to bring it up in this campaign is beyond me
Pumpkin Head managed to top himself last night with a rally speech as nuts as ever.
Finally, the New York Times isn’t sane washing.
this may be an explanation for why mr. little mushroom man was so fixated on arnie palmer’s genitalia and as NYT says “spewed crude and vulgar remarks” yesterday: Why Foul Language Occurs in Dementia and How to Respond Many people with Alzheimer’s disease and other kinds of dementia follow a similar path as the disease progresses, yet not everyone exhibits the same symptoms. Cognitive changes such as memory loss are a hallmark of dementia, but challenging behaviors such as foul language can also develop. […] Dementia is a condition that affects the brain, and the brain controls language. That’s why people with dementia sometimes have difficulty finding the right words, or as the disease progresses into the later stages, they may not be able to speak at all. Another effect of dementia can be the loss of a filter of which words are spoken. Words that otherwise would be caught before they were spoken now may be uttered freely due to the loss of inhibitions and personality changes that sometimes develop as dementia progresses. A person who would never want to hurt others before developing dementia might call someone hurtful, offensive names now.2 Ringman, J., Kwon, E., Flores, D., Rotko, C., Mendez, M., and P. Lu. The Use of Profanity During Letter Fluency Tasks in Frontotemporal Dementia and Alzheimer Disease. Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology. 2010. 23(3):159-64. doi:10.1097/WNN.0b013e3181e11392 Dementia also can trigger frustration about the many cognitive losses and the need for dependence on others for help, and that frustration can all come flowing out—sometimes through swearing and name-calling. […] Common Behavioral… Read more »
Morning shows all over this
This is a podcast by two clinical psychologists who’ve been tracking Slump’s dementia. The guest at the end is fun.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/shrinking-trump/id1745797271
“…alludes to his genitalia.”
Isn’t that special.
PatD, I call your dementia and raise “an undiagnosed stroke presenting behavioral disinhibition: impulsive, tactless or vulgar behavior” — NIH: Post-stroke Behavioral Disinhibition (PSBD)
today’s meme…
Craig – WTOP kept playing that every hour all night long (bad night no sleep), I finally changed the radio to 90.9 classical music and got a couple hours sleep. Truly sfb has cracked, a friend had a grandfather who went vulgar as his brain turned to mush. Just like what the orange moran is doing this last week. Will faux snooze cut him off when he tells sex “jokes”?
Jake Tapper to Speaker Johnson: “If President Biden had gone on stage and spoke about the size of a [dead] pro-golfer’s penis, I think you would be on this show right now saying you were shocked and appalled, and you would suggest it was evidence of his cognitive decline.”
https://x.com/IanSams/status/1848004883221254597?t=Ey7k1YIYqJcFvnzJ4nn-rw&s=19
All of the MAGAt-Russo-Republicans are feeling their grip on power slipping, and they still can’t bring themselves to tell the truth about anything. It’s too late for them, anyway. God may forgive them, but folks will remember.
Just ran across this research article by Goldman Sachs:
An interesting rant:
He goes on to describe his irritation with how the media treats the “rock star” Tech billionaires and how they play along to get good stories.
It kinda reminds me of Trump and the national media. Are information outlets and journalism in particular irreparably broken?
Jack
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/trump-tries-troll-harris-serving-french-fries-mcdonalds-rcna176294
Nobody will ever want fries with that, again.
jack – Crypto is an energy vampire.
David Axelrod: Wonder if anyone ordered an Arnold Palmer?!?
journalism alive and well, legacy corporate media irreparably broken
Imagine a bunch of gop bring such cowards that they can’t even resort to treachery against him…….yet.
Stunts are tricky
the guy loves McDonalds, yet never saw fries put in the container before 🤔
the fry station is in sight of the counter in EVERY McDonalds
out of touch
I’d like to see McDonald’s fry sales plummet tomorrow.
McDonald’s confirmed Trump’s 34 felony convictions would prevent him from getting a job at McDonald’s.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-media-whistleblower-complaint-devin-nunes
“An internal Truth Social complaint reviewed by ProPublica calls for the firing of CEO Devin Nunes, alleging he has pursued an “America Last” hiring policy, “consistently lied” and made the company vulnerable to action by regulators.”
“The letter also accuses Nunes, a former Republican congressman, of hiring unqualified members of his inner circle and being dishonest with employees at the company, which runs the social media platform Truth Social.”
https://fortune.com/2024/10/18/trump-media-iran-russia-china/
“The company building Trump Media’s tech has historic links to Iran, Russia, and China”
”Earlier this year, two obscure companies from Northern Louisiana brokered a multimillion-dollar deal with former President Donald Trump’s Truth Social and walked away with a finders’ fee valued at $155 million.”
“The companies—WorldConnect IPTV and JedTec—formed a joint venture, named WorldConnect Technologies, which served as the middleman between Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) and Perception TV CDN, the company hired to build the tech infrastructure needed to power Truth Social’s foray into video streaming.”
“Perception has a convoluted corporate structure that spans three countries and two continents. A holding company called Perception Group is listed in Ontario, Canada. It includes two subsidiaries: one in London and another in Ljubljana, Slovenia…”
“Perception previously worked with at least two Iranian companies: the Iranian telco Baran Telecom and the IT firm Fanap…later Perception announced a joint venture with Fanap, called Perception Gulf, that aimed to sell the company’s services throughout the region, according to a press release. Fanap is part-owned by the semi-public Pasargad Bank, which the U.S. directly sanctioned in 2020 over fears money from the bank would be used to fund Iran’s nuclear program.”
“TV channels for Russia, China, and Islamic fundamentalists”
“A former employee told Fortune Vision247’s clients included Christian evangelist channels and adult networks, such as the popular U.K. soft porn channel Babestation.”
So much to unravel.
1) I quit mckieD’s after a $9 1/4 pounder, no cheese. This stunt confirmed it was a wise decision.
2) For the stunt I hope millions more join me and swear off the easy route to fast food.
3) You can add BK because they are still in russia.
4) I cannot think of anything more disgusting than an old delusional stinking dirty old man contaminating a restaurant, not even wearing a hat or hair net.
5) And, if it is still on going, the orange moran is doing a sit down “townhall”. All tuckered out from standing around in the way for fifteen minutes.
i won’t hold a stunt by one franchisee where he closed his location to the public and only served fake planted customers against the friendly, hard-working employees at my local joint
I forgot number 6: no information yet about any NDA’s to prevent the children (using magat term for people under zero years old or younger than fourteen if female, and anyone younger than forty if a magat, talking to anyone about the stench, the stupidity or the creepiness of mister orange hands.
I apologize for this one.
BB – Mark Cuban worked a Dairy Queen near my office many years ago. I went over at lunch to play the games set up in the empty field by DQ. When I saw the local news, Cuban was handing a cone to someone and he had a bandage on his finger, and he was handling money and food. Yikes!
reminds me of a staged bit he did earlier in the campaign season 🥸
Corey, Nobody wants that with their fries. lol
Okay for Cuban – no. Whoever is in charge needs to say “NO”.
One of the things those doing feedings in disaster zones, more than just Red Cross, does is keep contamination to a minimum. We may not have running water, what we do have are gloves, thermometers, sanitizer and over one hundred years of experience. We would never allow the idiot, entourage, cult, into the safe food zone. When in charge of feeding I have no problem stopping things from proceeding if unsafe. That store was unsafe.
and if it is not safe for most food, we have MRE’s. I have taught thousands of people how to “cook” their MRE meals. We have bottles, or cans (usually from breweries), of water and personal care kits so clean hands are possible.
But, anything out of that store is considered nasty.
It’s a Blue Train. Loaded with great blueness.
Layla, reimagined. Tedeschi Trucks Band.
the song Clapton stole for “Layla”:
I like the young rocker version of Layla but I also like the old man version too. It is hard to believe they are the same song.
that time of year again!
neighbors be like “it’s that time of year again 😒 “
My Dodgers are going to the World Series!😀
Jamie, cool, your dodgers have the best player in baseball, maybe in my lifetime.
Jack
someone told me that guy’s hitting stats and i replied “those are good stats but greatest ever?”
they were like “he’s a pitcher”. 😮
Re: “Arnold Palmer”
😆
From this laugh-a-minute article:
https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-arnold-palmer-rally-comments-dde882b5841a7f5ed7ffd0f306ddf732
conservative “rags” reporting trump “pulling ahead”, let’s just say it’s tied
HOW IS THIS RACE TIED???
NEW THREAD by Craig our fearless leader