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Post by james on Jul 11, 2022 21:44:17 GMT -5
Bom diddy bom bom, bom bom bom, bom diddy bom bom, bom bom bom.
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Covid
Jul 11, 2022 21:35:58 GMT -5
Post by james on Jul 11, 2022 21:35:58 GMT -5
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Post by james on Jul 11, 2022 21:19:08 GMT -5
Have really enjoyed it. I think I might drop Netflix after it finishes. Mubi is tempting me now. If you haven't seen it watch Longmire before you drop it. It's not on UK Netflix. Thanks for the suggestion though. I'll mentally file the name in case it appears elsewhere. I remember looking for it before and discovering Brockmire by accident. That amused and entertained me for a while. A comedy series with Hank Azaria as a baseball commentator who has had a fall from grace.
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Post by james on Jul 11, 2022 17:07:54 GMT -5
Better call Saul starts again tonight ! Have really enjoyed it. I think I might drop Netflix after it finishes. Mubi is tempting me now.
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Post by james on Jul 9, 2022 18:16:34 GMT -5
Where is North American Guitar located? Not North America I presume. They started out in London but now have a showroom in Nashville. They have fairly recently joined forces with (?) Carter vintage guitars. thenorthamericanguitar.com/pages/about-the-north-american-guitarThey sell non-American guitars sometimes. Frequent nice instrument demos on YouTube. Carl Miner makes up lots of pleasant little ditties.
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Post by james on Jul 9, 2022 12:56:45 GMT -5
A short bit of melodious twanging on an old Martin from Carl Miner. A reminder that I should perhaps try standard tuning one of these days.
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Post by james on Jul 7, 2022 19:49:02 GMT -5
A moving essay that Rebecca Solnit shared on Facebook. Solnit wrote - This great essay is hilarious and heartbreaking, about the loss of a beloved spouse, about grief and the hardwired habits of presence as they persist in the face of absence, and the things we do to get through what cannot be gotten through. Thank you Debra Gwartney.
From the introduction - "In “Siri Tells a Joke,” Debra Gwartney writes about her grief following the death of her husband, the writer Barry Lopez, in late 2020. Lopez was a renowned author of nearly twenty books of nonfiction and fiction, who traveled to eighty countries and often wrote about remote and exotic places. His work was grounded in a deep reverence for nature. Margaret Atwood writes that he spoke “the language of our inseparable connection with the natural world,” and Bill McKibben says, “No one has worked harder to make sense of our present civilization.”
Lopez and Gwartney lived in the McKenzie River Valley of Western Oregon, about forty miles from Eugene. Three months before he died, the Holiday Farm wildfire swept through the area, destroying more than seven hundred homes and buildings and burning more than 173,000 acres. Though their home was spared, the couple lost an archive building that contained decades of Lopez’s work. The area was so devastated, they were forced to move to a house in Eugene, where Lopez died on Christmas Day. The family washed his body with water from the McKenzie River." Essay at link. www.thesunmagazine.org/issues/559/siri-tells-a-joke
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Post by james on Jul 7, 2022 15:56:53 GMT -5
Hugh Grant helpfully explains what happens now. 🙂
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Post by james on Jul 7, 2022 8:28:37 GMT -5
I think it has for some time generally been assumed that he would be replaced a good while before the next election. I am not entirely sure why it has been thought expedient that it should happen now rather than previously. He has lied repeatedly and shown a lack of good judgement or integrity for years.
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Post by james on Jul 7, 2022 8:05:13 GMT -5
I had a look at the betting odds on his potential successors. I don't really know what to make of the contenders and at this point don't have any particularly strong inklings. Guessing who Tory MPs might pick* is a bit like guessing what winner the judges might pick at a dog show when I'm more of a cat person.
One name I hadn't realised had come to the fore is Trade Secretary, Penny Mordaunt. That seems plausible.
*For the selection process, MPs eventually narrow the candidates down to two and then rank and file party members nationally pick from those. (I think).
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Post by james on Jul 6, 2022 16:25:34 GMT -5
Nitpicky point. Whilst boer is a Dutch word for farmer, when capitalised it refers to the (generally) Afrikaans speaking settlers/colonists and their descendants in South(ern) Africa, mostly of Dutch origin.
Intensive factory farming in the Netherlands is on an extreme scale.
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Post by james on Jul 6, 2022 15:29:48 GMT -5
BIG Oops!
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Post by james on Jul 6, 2022 13:49:47 GMT -5
Oops...
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Post by james on Jul 5, 2022 16:56:27 GMT -5
Quotation marks. ETA - Bruce has repeated variations of the the following many times over the years... "Please review your plans to "Fundamentally change the country", as Obama said he would"
For context, I'll once again give a link to what Obama said on a campaign stop in 2008. "Now, Mizzou, I just have two words for you tonight: five days. Five days. After decades of broken politics in Washington, and eight years of failed policies from George W. Bush, and 21 months of a campaign that's taken us from the rocky coast of Maine to the sunshine of California, we are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.
"In five days, you can turn the page on policies that put greed and irresponsibility on Wall Street before the hard work and sacrifice of folks on Main Street. In five days, you can choose policies that invest in our middle class, and create new jobs, and grow this economy, so that everyone has a chance to succeed, not just the CEO, but the secretary and janitor, not just the factory owner, but the men and women on the factory floor."Bill O'Reilly's later, related Superbowl interview exchange with Obama is also at.... www.politifact.com/article/2014/feb/06/what-barack-obama-has-said-about-fundamentally-tra/
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Post by james on Jul 5, 2022 16:44:43 GMT -5
Please don't block quote me.
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Post by james on Jul 5, 2022 16:07:02 GMT -5
The 'liberal world order' has been with us since WWII. President's of either stripe and leaders of democracies the world over have supported and built up it's institutions. With the United States as a lynchpin for 70 or 80 years, it has not been especially welcoming/friendly to or popular with fascist and authoritarian states. warroom.armywarcollege.edu/articles/liberal-world-order/
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Post by james on Jul 4, 2022 20:55:07 GMT -5
A cathartic indulgence. Sufjan Stevens wrote some songs after his mother died. One was called 4th of July. He has done some new versions. Here's one of them.
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Post by james on Jul 3, 2022 10:20:12 GMT -5
Crinan Canal Scotland. Rhine-Rhone Canal France
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Post by james on Jul 3, 2022 9:14:40 GMT -5
'Nuther explainer from Kate Aronoff.
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Post by james on Jul 2, 2022 18:52:28 GMT -5
To my rescue, phew! Heather Cox Richardson (HCR) elaborated on her "constitutional crisis" comment which I posted earlier, in this YouTube talk. The part where she explains the wider significance of the West Virginia Vs EPA ruling and the nondelegation and major questions doctrines etc. starts at approx 37:00min. Prior to that she discusses Stare Decisis and the Dobbs ruling a bit and quite a lot besides. Stick with it for Moore v Harper and the independent state legislature doctrine then, if needed, have a stiff drink before maybe continuing.
For some fuller and broader historical context (which you may well already know), it might help to watch the whole video. Feel free to shout at the screen but I think her observations merit some consideration .
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