When it comes to the arts, we live in a remarkable age. There is so much good music that can easily be accessed by the ordinary person. Todays selection:
Gustav Mahler, Symphony No. 1
Enjoy, Jack
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When it comes to the arts, we live in a remarkable age. There is so much good music that can easily be accessed by the ordinary person. Todays selection:
Gustav Mahler, Symphony No. 1
Enjoy, Jack
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jack, such a pleasure to find your post every sunday faithfully awaiting here so early in the morn. thank you.
wiki on “Titan”
hopefully our trail friend sturge saw this message from ms cracker last thread but just in case i’m reposting it for good measure:
“Please come back. It will be too sad without you. I know I’m on your naughty list but you are worth more to me then picking on Biden. Come home!”
for sturge, heartfelt from the Trail
o, brother mixer, where art thou?
Crazy day yesterday. Warm sunny morning building to hot sunny afternoon interrupted by an hour of rain and thunderstorms dropping temperatures 20 degrees into the lower 70s. Waking up to sun, geese going nuts and another hot sunny day on tap – 95 in East Bumfuck. Hydrate and stay cool, good people.
Sturg! POTUS Joe and I both need you here!
https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/23/media/murdoch-trump-jan-6-new-york-post-wall-street-journal/index.html
In case you missed this last night, the worm has turned.
“One of Donald Trump’s favorite newspapers — controlled by his media ally Rupert Murdoch — says Trump is “unworthy to be this country’s chief executive again.”
“…close viewers have also picked up on some signs that Fox might be souring on Trump.”
Of course, they’re setting up Pence as the savior of our democracy because he did not do what he could not do anyway…and, he refused to get in a car.
the voice of america spoketh:
Jul 23, 2022 Ukrainian President Zelensky has further emphasised the country needs to “de-occupy its territories” as he condemned Russia’s missile attack early on Saturday on Odesa’s Black Sea port. The strike happened only hours after an agreement was brokered in Istanbul to allow grain to be transported out of Ukraine. Part of the agreement involved Russia pledging not to attack any port which was involved in the transportation of grain, but on Saturday it struck Odesa with two missiles causing a fire.
I agree with sturge. BTW, Biden’s popularity or lack thereof and its influence on the outcome of the midterms will be evident in time. Incessant bashing because people don’t like their lives when gas and food cost a lot doesn’t help fix those problems or keep sane leadership in place in government.
Jack
Love the Mahler. A magnificent work for a Sunday morning. Thank you.
Add me to the sturg fan club. Love your one-liners
sturge more than likely is somewhere in the NY wilderness singing/playing lullabies to his new granddaughter or keeping hydrated with a brew watching the gulls come and go on a SC island. surely he’ll forgive us and come back if only to have another audience for his wicked ways with the mother tongue.
he’s not the only one however who’s missing (and terribly missed) in action. Tony, Solar, Blonde Wino et al.
has there been any info on who’s paying the private counsel just hired for SS Engel and Ornato?
the other day it was disclosed that maga PACs have footed the lawyer bills for some of the jan 6 witnesses – see
Trump PACs paid $2 million this year to law firms representing January 6 witnesses – CNNPolitics.
kinda hard to flip on the hand that feeds your mouthpiece. also somewhat of a conflict i would think for a guy who’s still on gov payroll in a supervisory capacity.
Liz Cheney: January 6 panel will subpoena Ginni Thomas if necessary | January 6 hearings | The Guardian
“The committee is engaged with her counsel”
leads me to also wonder and want to know more just who is paying the bills for Ginni’s lawyer?
Jack… wonderful!
I’m melting… thank the universe we put in a Mitsubishi split system a few years ago. The AC works great and it’s silent!
I reached out to Sturg on FB… hope it works…
couldn’t resist this one either…
“Marge Greene: “We need to be the party of nationalism. I’m a christian, and I say it proudly – we should be christian nationalists.”
verrry interesting since according to wiki‘s article on christian nationalism:
Brilliant! Austin Public Library is running a summer camp for teens featuring banned books
i greatly appreciate the sentiments expressed; they mean a lot.
But see, i just dont wanna be the guy who comes by here with bitching about what people want to write about. You know, fuck that guy.
So it is that if the mountain offends mohammad, then mohammad oughta stay the hell away from the mountain–at least till we see how this mess is gonna shake out. Anti-biden or harris rhetoric from democrats gives me a bad head and who needs that?
Anyway, i love you one and all. Like ive said, my life has been lived in the shadow of polically up one minute and down the next (insett list of presidents since 1950 here) and i see these coming midterms as maybe my last chance to see justice and the american idea prevail, and I’m heavily invested im the outcome. C’est la guerre, and Biden-Harris 100%.
And Mahler was a Flatis favorite.
so much for pipe dreams:
https://www.desertsun.com/story/opinion/contributors/valley-voice/2022/07/24/engineer-evaluates-idea-pumping-water-mississippi-west/10118039002/
Yo, Sturge.
tonyb39 update requested if anybody has one
That is all✌️
Yes, if anybody know how Tony is doing, please pass it along. If you have a good email addy, my emaile is whskyjack at yahoo
Sturge take a break, if you need it. Come back when you can.
btw the best thing happened to me was getting kicked off twitter. It is a low information, addictive, time suck.
Jack
Sturg… thanks for showing up! I’m of 2 minds… I’d love you to stay and bash the hell outta the repugs…. But I get the need to take a break. Do what suits you best, and stay well…
Bink
On that water pipeline, 250,000 g/sec. is over 1/3 of the average flow of the Mississippi river at New Orleans.
The amount of paper to just to do the environmental statement is mind boggling.
And for some reason I don’t think the gulf coast will support bailing out California.
Jack
Sturge –
Missed the comment in question , the intertubes is great for somethings mental hygiene, not so much.
Shiny side up , rubber side down.
Pumping 1/3 of the volume of the flow of the Mississippi halfway across North America to keep grass green and a/c on in Phoenix and Beverly Hills – not a terrific plan. Let’s assume it would primarily go to farms in the various valleys of CA and be a worthwhile endeavor – how would removing 1/3 of the volume of the MS affect boat traffic in the lower Mississippi and the constrained shipping channels between NO and the Gulf of Mexico? And the salinity of the Gulf? And the estuaries in the MS delta and Louisiana bayous? I’d bet we’d see a demonstration of the law of unintended consequences that would be almost beyond belief. Good thing the engineering is beyond our reach.
HIMARS ‘Game Changer’ in Ukraine War, Russia ‘in Dire Shape’: Ex-General
That announcement from the Biden administration came after a senior U.S. defense official told journalists Friday that Ukraine had utilized HIMARS to take out more than 100 “high value” targets. Those strikes effectively destroyed ammunition depots, long-range artillery positions, command posts, air-defense sites, and radar and communications nodes, the official said.
https://www.newsweek.com/himars-game-changer-ukraine-war-russia-dire-shape-ex-general-1727400
Sturg, as always you’re welcome to post your mind’s eye for a thread topic. Just email to me if you don’t want to bother with posting process
At 17.7 million Nielson says Thursday hearing one of the highest rated shows of the summer
Josh Hawley, senator who ran from Capitol mob, mocked by home paper | January 6 hearings | The Guardian
Saw yet another water plan yesterday. This one may get built . It’s about the Salton Sea, it’s drying up like the GSL, and Mono Lake . Like the other two , it has a nasty lake bed, in fact the nastiest one . It served as the sump for over 100 years of ag runoff from the Imperial Valley.
Now, there’s a plan to pump sea water from the Sea of Cortez to keep all that stuff in place, and not in the air.
Makes a lot of sense if one looks at a map.
Lots of solar power to run the pumps , no big mountains to cross and not a really long way to run it.
Anybody talking about tapping the Miss. to water the West has shit for brains. They have the Pacific Ocean , and the sunshine to distill the water . Leave the river alone.
Of course all of this should have started when Al Gore was president, Oh Wait ! I forgot the Supreme Court picked the 43 rd president.
I was dumbfounded by Meet the Press today.
Climate made it to the top of the rock, and there was Big Al , with grey hair, and bad teeth.
The BBC has a story up about a film on how the “Denier Industry Complex” got started over 30 years ago.
I started to read it , but I started to think about setting my hair on fire, so I stopped.
I’ll go get it , it’s a real deep dive.
A correct on the water pipeline. A mixup in units, Cubic feet and gallons. So it is 250,000 gallons which around 33000 cubic feet out of 600,000 cubic feet of flow that is 5.5 % of the river flow rather than a third. Still not anymore doable but a saner number.
But if there is any water pipeline, there are closer places with needs. I was thinking about that when I was out to Dodge City Kansas. They are dependent on an aquifer that is being pumped dry and at the same time they are creating wind energy that is being shipped out of state. A nice gentle slope with plenty of places to create the energy that runs the pumps.
Jack
The audacious PR plot that seeded doubt about climate change
Thirty years ago, a bold plan was cooked up to spread doubt and persuade the public that climate change was not a problem. The little-known meeting – between some of America’s biggest industrial players and a PR genius – forged a devastatingly successful strategy that endured for years, and the consequences of which are all around us.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-62225696
What spurred all this the election of Al Gore. as VP.
Hello Jack –
It’s a real problem for those folks there ain’t no ocean, and there ain’t no river. Just that sand, and gravel sponge of fossil water. With a lot of straws stuck in it.
One of the things as a child I remember was going to uncle “Doc’s Farm” 30 miles North of Lubbock to Hale Center. They were still picking cotton by hand , and hauling it to the gin in big trailers like a small train.
Anyway , it was the sound of the summer nights I’ve never forgot . The irrigation wells running flat out at night . Some near , some far away. It was the Detroit chorus .
We were sure it would last forever.
Big V-8’s with no mufflers. The soundtrack of the 20th century.
Sturge –
Please don’t leave us without your wisdom.
Colorado Bob.
” Keep it between the ditches ”
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As for me I’m on my 52 nd nervous breakdown.
Time to repost my theory of life –
” Life is a series of seemingly random events , some of which are designed to knock you on your ass.
The meaning of life is getting back up. ”
This applies from fungi to John Wayne.
Volume wise from the perspective of the Mississippi, 5.5% would be much more sufferable than 33%, but as you note, Jack, not gonna happen. Too expensive, not to mention the regulatory impediments.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/24/politics/texas-far-right-politics-invs/index.html
“Gun owners allowed to carry handguns without permits or training. Parents of transgender children facing investigation by state officials. Women forced to drive hours out-of-state to access abortion. This is Texas now…”
“…a major factor in the transformation can be traced back to West Texas. Two billionaire oil and fracking magnates from the region, Tim Dunn and Farris Wilks, have quietly bankrolled some of Texas’ most far-right political candidates — helping reshape the state’s Republican Party in their worldview.”
“Critics, and even some former associates, say that Dunn and Wilks demand loyalty from the candidates they back, punishing even deeply conservative legislators who cross them by bankrolling primary challengers.”
“…their influence has made Austin feel a little like Moscow. “It is a Russian-style oligarchy, pure and simple…”
“…their ultimate goal is to replace public education with private, Christian schooling. Wilks is a pastor at the church his father founded, and Dunn preaches at the church his family attends. In their sermons, they paint a picture of a nation under siege from liberal ideas.”
how about we pipe the water from Mars
Well, not Mars but just north of mars a bit. Meanwhile we can hook on to all of those ice sheets breaking off in the Antarctic and tow them to LA.
Jack
Time to invest in a new laptop. The keys keep sticking. Too many mornings with a PB&J in one hand and coffee in the other.
Jack
It is hot and it is dry but I’ve got money to pay the water bill. So supper was a salad with garden cucumbers, peppers and home grown tomatoes
Good to see you checking in, Mr. J 🫡
Oh i have a cheap HP laptop that i only use for work and leave in “S mode”, Jack. Very lightweight, do recommend if you’re not using it for A/V editing (has onboard bluetooth for listening to music, though 👍 )
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