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Post by billhammond on Jul 22, 2024 13:16:17 GMT -5
Not content with digs at her articulacy or work ethic and with "DEI hire" sounding ever more like a way of swerving use of the n-word, odious Christian nationalist and bigot, Sebastian Gorka tells Newsmax viewers that Harris "very well might be the first DEI President". Sounds like he assumes she's gonna be elected. |
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Post by billhammond on Jul 22, 2024 10:56:39 GMT -5
Nikki Haley’s argument was that Trump couldn’t win a general election because too many people dislike him. that assumes there is an acceptable alternative. Harris will have to show that she is one. I think she will get a "Thank GAWD" relief bounce and do better than people think. I tend to agree, plus she will attract black voters, Asian voters and the pro-choice bloc. I think her age, 59, is just about perfect to ease everyone's minds. |
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Post by billhammond on Jul 22, 2024 8:04:57 GMT -5
I'm seeing quite a few references to Sen. Mark Kelly of AZ as a VP suggestion.
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Post by billhammond on Jul 21, 2024 17:05:01 GMT -5
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Post by billhammond on Jul 21, 2024 15:49:56 GMT -5
I thought Trump's response on his social media deal was quite gracious. “Crooked Joe Biden was not fit to run for President, and is certainly not fit to serve – And never was! He only attained the position of President by lies, Fake News, and not leaving his Basement,” Trump said in part. “All those around him, including his Doctor and the Media, knew that he wasn’t capable of being President, and he wasn’t – And now, look what he’s done to our Country.” |
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Post by billhammond on Jul 21, 2024 14:34:54 GMT -5
The Republicans now have the oldest nominated candidate to ever run for president in the history of the United States.
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Post by billhammond on Jul 21, 2024 10:10:32 GMT -5
I'm guessing that this old oak has stood sentinel on this country corner for well over a century. It saw the roads that corner there change from dirt, to gravel, to oil/tar, and finally to paved. There's a railroad not 100 yards away from it. In its youth the tree watched steam engines pass. It used to watch every field around it flood in the spring until the men and machines tiled and ditched the thousands of acres around it. It stood out away from the stand of trees to its north. Crops were planted all the way around it. It was a lone tree standing. I don't think I ever passed it without looking over to my right to see what it looked like each day, each season, through every storm and every kind of lighting. I've seen the sun come up behind it while running packages in the pre-dawn hours of winter (postal peak season), and I've seen it brilliant red-orange, lit by the setting sun of late, late afternoon. Great writing. So what happened? Hit by lightning? |
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Post by billhammond on Jul 20, 2024 17:57:19 GMT -5
Howard, you have a misunderstanding of rails-to-trails in the heartland. These are not rail lines that could become high-speed passenger routes. They are usually short, abandoned freight lines or stubs that have no public use whatsoever. Converting them to recreational trails is a good thing, not a bad thing. OK.
One example, which I have pedaled: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luce_Line_Trail |
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Post by billhammond on Jul 20, 2024 17:49:10 GMT -5
Howard, you have a misunderstanding of rails-to-trails in the heartland. These are not rail lines that could become high-speed passenger routes. They are usually short, abandoned freight lines or stubs that have no public use whatsoever. Converting them to recreational trails is a good thing, not a bad thing.
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Post by billhammond on Jul 20, 2024 16:14:37 GMT -5
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Post by billhammond on Jul 20, 2024 14:43:00 GMT -5
 Excerpt from GF Herald: EAST GRAND FORKS – A Nordic folk music duo is returning here to perform at 5 p.m. Monday, July 22, at the East Grand Forks Campbell Library. Admission is a freewill donation at the door. Vidar Skrede and Patrik Ahlberg, who perform as “Lynx Lynx,” play Norwegian and Swedish folk music. Native Scandinavians who have chosen to settle in the Midwest, Skrede and Ahlberg play a mix of music that includes their original and traditional Nordic fiddle tunes. They play a variety of stringed instruments, including the fiddle, Hardanger fiddle, guitar and mandolin. Ahlberg, a native of Sweden, lives in Chicago. Skrede, a Norwegian Hardanger fiddler, resides in Milwaukee. The pair has performed several times at the East Grand Forks library. |
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Post by billhammond on Jul 20, 2024 13:05:34 GMT -5
His B&B was formerly the Chester A. Arthur House. Were you ever there? I stayed there once, and Don and his wife could not have been more gracious, threw a big dinner party and invited journalist friends, including a couple with MN connections, so the conversation was sterling. |
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Post by billhammond on Jul 19, 2024 17:32:57 GMT -5
If I was a “Looper” I could work up some lead over chords. But I’ve avoided that gear/complexity so far. Hope you continue to avoid it. |
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Post by billhammond on Jul 19, 2024 9:13:09 GMT -5
I remember these days, from The Bob Newhart Show. And many of the boys had crushes on Suzanne Pleshette. (And how about those double-knit slacks?)
My crush was Julia Duffy on "Newhart." |
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Post by billhammond on Jul 19, 2024 7:10:53 GMT -5
I think I remember that routine, from a Bob Newhart record my folks had. I remember comedians having records, which seems strange these days. From AP: Newhart got into comedy after he became bored with his $5-an-hour accounting job in Chicago. To pass the time, he and a friend, Ed Gallagher, began making funny phone calls to each other. Eventually, they decided to record them as comedy routines and sell them to radio stations. Their efforts failed, but the records came to the attention of Warner Bros., which signed Newhart to a record contract and booked him into a Houston club in February 1960. ''A terrified 30-year-old man walked out on the stage and played his first nightclub,'' he recalled in 2003. Six of his routines were recorded during his two-week date, and the album, ''The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart,'' was released on April Fools' Day 1960. It sold 750,000 copies and was followed by ''The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back!'' At one point the albums ranked No. 1 and 2 on the sales charts. The New York Times in 1960 said he was ''the first comedian in history to come to prominence through a recording.'' |
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Post by billhammond on Jul 18, 2024 18:23:29 GMT -5
Add Lou Dobbs, 78, to the obit list.
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Post by billhammond on Jul 18, 2024 16:51:15 GMT -5
One of his best routines, I thought, was the driver instructor bit.
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Post by billhammond on Jul 18, 2024 15:13:58 GMT -5
Passed at age 94. One of the greatest comics ever.
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Post by billhammond on Jul 17, 2024 17:48:02 GMT -5
Reuters excerpt:
LAS VEGAS — U.S. President Joe Biden tested positive for COVID-19 while on a campaign trip to Las Vegas on Wednesday, July 17 and is experiencing mild symptoms, the White House said.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre announced the positive test for the 81-year-old Democrat after the president of UnidosUS, a Latino civil rights organization, said Biden would not be able to speak at a scheduled event due to the diagnosis.
"He is vaccinated and boosted and experiencing mild symptoms," Jean-Pierre said.
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Post by billhammond on Jul 17, 2024 9:14:35 GMT -5
Scarfing down a Supermom's egg/cheese/sausage/muffin sammy from Speedway, a guilty pleasure, chased by their house blend coffee. All for five bucks!
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