That’s me outside our Quonset hut, (half was ours) Soundview, Bronx, 1947.Today this is my sound view. “ Some of my best friends are gentiles” won’t save you. In the eyes of one side, the other, or both, you and your family are among the bad ones.
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Joan Hickson: Miss Marple : Season 1 Episode 8: includes the bloody ear trick employed by the murdering shooter on herself to divert suspicion. “You know, my dear, “said Miss Marple,” an ear bleeds very heavily when nicked by a blade.” Murderess even sports a plaster on her lobe.
It is disturbing and puzzling that they haven’t figured it out over the past 9 years.
They should. Of course. But what if the press looks the other way. Pritzker gets mighty little coverage in the NYT. Am I missing it but it seems to me that the main press outlets are quite uninterested in promoting evidence of resistance to authoritarian posturing, threats, and initiatives.
It sure seemed personal to Howell Raines.
The problem was, is, and will be a lack of major investment in education. Our fellow citizens think that public “investment in education” is giving their money to other people’s children.
But John Roberts doesn’t take all that statistical gobbledygook seriously. Remember Rucho v. Common Cause? A mere 6 years ago. Pretending to be an idiot to own the libs.
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Many years ago, I took in (until he managed to get himself deported) a vagabond Kiwi fencer and tunnel hog (Rex H.), who a friend of mine had met traveling in Europe. She had yet to return and gave him my address. I still have the telegram he sent to my wedding in ‘69 and some wonderful memories.
Well, it’s good to see that some of same values distinguish left and right even when they are upside down. Can’t figure out how I got here.
But doesn’t mean CA and NY should not gerrymander to maximize D seats.
True.
In my most humble layman’s view, Roberts is the single most destructive government officer of the past 77 years. He wins, in part, on persistence, dissemblance and vision. And he has outstripped some very,very strong candidates.
So these political social “scientists”exempt themselves from the class of experts. Inconceivably a good faith effort. Granted I’m only reading your characterization of the argument. …”as much …as was supposed”. Well quantified I’m sure . Must have Richard Epstein as their counselor.
On every level, from any rational, spiritual, biological, psychological, anthropological,sociological perspective Johnson’s statement is deranged. We are at the mercy of inhumane degenerates until this regime is gone.
Clear and definitive.
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How did they fail to understand John Roberts’ intentions? Grotesque.
Credentialism Perry? Scholars are sounding the alarm. Somewhat slow the thoughtful intellectuals who are looking way beyond “beyond a reasonable doubt” to credit their own eyes and ears. I guess they thought he was kidding and that they were hallucinating.So only now the shit’s on? Infuriating.
Our media is feverishly looking for the motive of a deranged school shooter while complacently accepting the self justifications of our deranged President. Too stupid for words.
There is reason to be concerned about the sizable minority, dull-eyed or otherwise, who are drawn to the violent expression of their opinions on other people’s bodies. We are seeing a proud army of thugs being assembled. And IMHO the Weathermen were regressive, even though I bailed one out in 1968.
IMHO….the greater concern is the blood lust of the vast army of power hungry self-righteous citizens…
Would that he were truly food for worms. His is a malevolence that far surpasses mere self serving.
It is truly harrowing. Most everyone I know is in the same state. Volcanic. Must admit I never expected evil to triumph here. I am entertaining outlandish ideas. I think it is time to reread Michael Kohlhaas.
I do not think John Roberts gets the credit he deserves. Nor do I think that DJT gets the credit he deserves for being our greatest interpreter of John Roberts’ oeuvre.
For dat we woulda broke his legs.
All it took was a cataclysmic half decade long war( and counting), a mismanaged natural disaster of biblical proportions, and the collapse of the housing and financial markets to get that “interlude.” Could have been a ham sandwich. Shoulda known better.
A minor station by any account.
79th street too.
Only 41% support is good news???You are kidding me.
Mocking mourning. It’s the way of the follow on monotheists.
And John Roberts looks upon his work and sees that it is good.
All good ideas.
He is eating it up. Methinks you overestimate him. Even at that bargain basement price.
That idea is, in my view from New York, utter nonsense. There are affluent New Yorkers who think it’s all good, say, for instance, Lutnick and his coterie. But most of my neighbors are paralyzed with impotent rage. And for good reason. We are outraged and impotent. Violated every day.
He need not fret. John Roberts is the dreamer whose dream is being realized. DJT is his tool. DJT has no vision. He has appetites. We are seeing Roberts idea of our nation being made real.
Trump walks nowhere. Every utterance is to establish a pretext. Argument is fatuous and ineffective. The only tactic is to attack. And a strategy requires coordination. And of that there is no apparent evidence. But perhaps the governors are getting it together.
It is a breathtaking proof of concept that the powers are making it all about Jews. But then, so are some Jews. Whatever happens to everyone else we are, as usual, and maybe terminally at risk.
An Athenian slave would like a word.
I didn’t bother. So did Robespierre. Also the Founders believed they did, n’est-ce pas? A different notion from me of who was human enough to deserve them. But so is it ever.
I’m of the opinion that it’s Roberts who is using this moment to achieve his goals. Barr gave him the court he needed by using Trump then handed him off to Roberts to complete the job when he decided to fade into the background. But again. It hardly matters.
I meant reverting to an 18th century understanding of human rights but at the same time rolling ignoring the deist beliefs of the founders and seeking instead to establish a dominant religion. It is unfounded in law altogether. But call it what you will. Roberts installed Trump.
With Gorsuch and Kavanaugh now on the offensive against the last shreds of respect for law in the judiciary, do you believe that Roberts is anything other than the architect of the constitutional revisionism we are undergoing? DJT is his chisel against the stone of the deist base of the republic.
It is a preposterous statement. We can try to understand a person’s behavior but all we can state as fact is what the person says. Stenography. As idiotic as it is slothful.
He seems quite well informed of the things that decent people value and he uses that knowledge to guide his “orders” to destroy or defile them. And he appears to be quite creative. Department of War. Genius.
Because “you” is a moron who doesn’t remember what happened between sleeps.
Just wow.
It takes a whole lot of character, To see vice in a person offering A fortune for your handshaking skills.
And, fwiw, I’m far from certain that DJTs rants don’t evince a thought disorder. But that has nothing to do with what I wrote. I have lived through and paid attention to every waking second of the last 8 decades. And for the last 7 of them I’ve been focused.
The point is that the times are out of joint. Of course this is the successful outcome of a long term project. Born in the response to FDRs activism, fully fledged in the response to LBJs Civil Rights Act. The psychotic transformation is that this age’s Fireside Chats are the press gaggles of DJT.
We were in a Great Depression. People were desperate and he was an activist President. In a psychotic transformation, this President, with the complicity of the craven media, is doing something very much like that with the aim of exciting his followers and torturing the rest of us.
Yes. And a specific kind.
Yes. I mostly get my news as curated by the folks I follow.
Roberts’ law.
And John Roberts looks upon his works and sees that it is good.
Yes yes yes. Amazing how straightforward the plot is.
They got Cooper and Brown to run. Got better ideas of how to try to get Senate seats? Share them. Anything they have the power to do that’s more important? Enlighten us.
Architect thereof. A necessary,if insufficient, condition for the crowning achievement which is coming into view. Perhaps, the most purpose driven man in our history.
Or annoyed.
Big bucks are coming. The does are excited.
I guess, Ms. Pitchbot, you were in the Schultz/Brown neighborhood diner.
Indeed. Don’t believe your own lying eyes. Don’t label a window. And be “Reason”able. It’s a pendulum not a window.
Actually they want people not to believe their own eyes. It’s the third way. Also it’s very “Reason”able and besides it’s labeling a window.
I think that Putin is smiling as the boob points his rent boy’s attention to the sexy golden tie clasp his master is sporting.
Seriously? Sachs? Isn’t he part of the brain trust that,as advisors, helped craft the post Soviet Russian state and economy? Still on the job.
That’s right, No. Spock says. “ They think the copycat is absurd. The original is, what they call, way kool. They are morons, Lieutenant .”
Hustling round Cambridge in their alligator shoes.
From David Tanis. NYT. Tomato Risotto.
The goons go mostly to touristed sites. The goons target people of color. What a surprise. White folk are willing and able to protest their predations.
Is that the crisis among boys out of which Reeves and Putnam are making an industry?
Spock says: Now, if they had a shred of awareness the joke would be on them. But they do not. Therefore the joke is on us.
The occupation of New York and Florida real estate is at least 30 years advanced.
"It's not MSNBC anymore, Lemon. It's MS NOW. We bought the name off of a defunct multiple sclerosis awareness organization. It wasn't cheap, but we were able to save some money by selling Brian Williams to a Saudi prince who wanted to expand his harem."
And John Roberts beholds all he has made and sees that it is good.
Truly flattered.
Make a band food: Buns and Dosas
Really hate this take! There’s nothing trial about it. Just because he wants to do more shit like this doesn’t make this a “trial run.” This is real.
They are pissing on the constitution, such as this, to achieve their own goals.
The New York Times frames these developments as a setback for “ Environmental Groups”. The rest of us are, I guess, gonna be just fine. Utter trash.
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Empathy for the devil. I bet, cause I won’t read that swill, that he means he understand what an asshole would do and understands what he hopes to gain or fears to lose. That is not empathy it’s sort of projection.
My guess: He means empathy as a form of projection. The guy understands people like himself. And by understand I do not mean insight into psychological underpinnings of behavior. I mean he understands what they would do and what they hope to gain or fear to lose. Empathy with the devil.
It’s a two-fer. Advancing the landlords long game and breeding seething resentment among neighbors. Like fighting “anti-semitism” within the Jewish community while stoking the real thing among the gentiles. Are the media being intimidated into being moronic fellow travelers?
They were bullshit before. They’d be bullshit now.
I do not believe for a second that they are wallowing in terror. They are asserting stand your ground prerogatives to annihilate stimuli offensive to their sensibilities even as they invade other citizens’ spaces.
That’s it. He’s a fucking hack.
New Yorkers are so terrified they need to sneak out under cover of darkness to take their children to the park in strollers.
When pigs fly bacon will be kosher. HRC is being sardonic. Besides where is it written that you can’t prosecute a Nobel prize nominee.
I think you may not understand the concern of many Jews who naturally align with much of Mamdani’s platform. I think that concern is valid and not trivial. The intensity of anti-semitism makes discussion of that concern impossible, as does the exploitation of that concern by our fascist regime.
For what it’s worth. It is my impression that Cuomo is playing the same hand in NYC as DJT played nationally. May his spleen explode, may a great misfortune happen in his personal life and may he be the talk of all Odessa.
They have the courts and the guns. So don’t get your hopes up.
Yes. Can you imagine what the sadistic thugs who run this country will do to New York after Mamdani is elected?
It can’t be a life enhancing environment if people are looking for catastrophes(personal, national,and global, financial, natural, and structural) to occur so that mean spirited ignoramuses can be convinced they’ve made a mistake the consequences of which will not be undone for generations if ever.
He rarely gets the credit due him.
Oh. But it is about crime Radley. It is about committing crimes with impunity. It is about demonstrating that we are powerless in the face of their criminality and without redress. Haberman has been a calculating shill for this regime for 9 years. She is no more infuriating now.
This is a picture of Keith Richards and his daughters. When they die, Keith will inherit their assets.
They are miracles.
Oh he is indeed. Was congressman representing the east end of Long Island. As sleazy as can be. Not crazy like his next door neighbor (western middle of Long Island) Santos. More presentable. Garbage in a suit.
I can imagine pigs flying too. Sort of fun. There is no answer for an imagined phenomenon save to stop imagining. My flying pigs are gone. ….miss them already.
Yes yes yes. One of us got good grades He is GOD. Richard Epstein got very very good grades too. Another gem.
How about unitary executivist?