Born in Philly, will sort of root for Philly. I am still mad that I bet a drink on them to win the first time they went to the Super Bowl. They lost like a high school team that wandered on to the field by accident, and the always-drinks-beer guy I bet with ordered the the most expensive drink possible. Also still, quite illogically, am a bit pissed because I went to an employment agency in Philly a ridiculously long time ago, and the first thing I was told, after I took some tests and was interviewed, was that I had missed the opportunity to be a personal assistant to the secretary of the owner of the Eagles at the time, Leonard Tose. Or something like that. Missed by one day. I think that would have been a lot of fun.
Kudoes to your list, especially for the deer. I am somewhat paralyzed with WTF because, for me, a gold-plated pager as a gift to Trump is the biggest tasteless FU I can imagine, except perhaps a gold-plated cluster bomb, and not much was said about it.
Dem governor of Hawaii, Josh Green, wants to end all medical exemptions to getting jabbed. In case anyone thinks there is not another jab situation coming.
Leonard Tose. I remember him. Trucking fortune if I recall. I went to HS outside Philadelphia ‘64-‘68 when Tose was Eagles owner. Tose was the uncle of someone in my class—though I can’t remember which classmate.
Gold pager was an odd gift—-has anyone examined it for hidden explosives?/
This would have been sometime around '65-'66. I lived in a little town outside Chester. The bus and train to work would have been bad, but would have been worth it! My aunt, who lived with us, worked in downtown Philly at a huge bank, so a commute like that seemed ordinary.
I lived in Plymouth Meeting from 1960 to 1968 in a subdivision directly across Germantown Pike from the Plymouth Meeting Mall. Family moved the month after my HS graduation and only been back two or three days since. The town had a more rural character then…
Trump is in panic mode as he realizes the unipolar world dominated by the US is over and he is grabbing up all the low hanging fruit, Canada, Mexico, Greenland Panama and most notably Gaza. He is avoiding closure of the Ukraine war because he knows the Russians won’t be bullied or tolerate his nonsense.
I don't think Trump is panicking at all. After I wrote the post, I saw Steve Bannon saying Trump was engaged in a psyop war of maneuver, or something like that. IOW, his people are doing so much so fast that the opposition Democrats can't keep up, and when they do react they look stupid.
That "storming" USAID HQ and then politely leaving when they were politely asked to leave was a classic display of political incompetence, and that's just one example.
It's the Democrats and their allies in the permanent bureaucracy, and took too obvious a political side, who are panicking. Now they're getting a taste of Andrew Jackson's spoils system and they don't like it one bit.
Which is ironic, since Jackson is widely considered the first Democratic President.
I'll always honor a true fan, but the only way they'll prove the rest of the world wrong is to lose, I think. Everybody expects the refs to rig the game for them.
Don't worry, they said the same thing about the Patriots, Niners, Cowboys and Steelers before them.
"It's amazing how lucky you are when you're good."--John Madden
And then the game happened. It seems the Eagles came up with a new defense that worked against Mahomes. Well, that's SUPPOSED to happen every once in awhile.
Great read as always with the only good news the deer on ice....as American leadership(?) continues to amaze and embarrass. I just finished a long overdue read of Bruce Lincoln's THE ROMANOVS (1983) and am amazed at how I kept comparing the declining US empire to not the declining Soviet Union as many do but the declining Russian empire with its incompetent/irrelevant/out-of-touch leadership....the isolation from the rest of the world/their own people - comparisons are endless.
Thanks, OB... I was looking forward to you reflections, as I just ended my episode/watching of Due Diss and came in late on their show on a weird note regarding... uh, EVERYTHING, it seems. The pace of events and what Elon Musk is doing is too fast for me to get what Keaton Weiss was saying - what a fucking liar RFKJ was, and this while DOGE thing is a psy-op... I'm amazed that I understood ANYTHING that was being put forth.
I may be stunned with understanding what's real, but I get mixed signals, regardless of following Bannon on some of the decisions Trump has given to Musk. And, I'm further stunned, but underneath all this, glad that Bobby could help run a more honest HHS, but I think that was the lie Keaton was ranting about. Meanwhile, the stupid bowl is in the background as usual over what we are seeing from the empire. So, out of everything I've heard of today, the deer gets my respect the most.
Hope I have not missed Musk's ads. I read he spent a LOT of money for ads about USAID and DOGE.
The Super Bowl commentators are pretty much only talking about the Chiefs - even behind, they talk as if they are winning and the score is not important.
Oh my. Interception. Tay-Tay will not be pleased. And another interception. Okay, I am feeling sorry for the Chiefs. Should be an interesting locker room talk.
Back in the dark ages, my now ex-husband played semi-pro football, programmer by day, he was not quite big or fast enough for pro. Semi-pro in this case meant only the quarterback got money; no one else even got medical care. So one Saturday they played the KC Chiefs farm team. Who all looked like refrigerators. And ex-husband got his leg banged up so bad some veins popped and his boss told him to pick football or programming. Programming it was.
It's always heartwarming to see the refs make a bad call in favor of the Chiefs only to have it remedied by an interception. TWO pick-sixes for Mahomes!
Well, they call the NFC East the Beasts of the East for a reason.
Musk wasn’t born "with a blood-red emerald spoon in his mouth", he made part of his fortune by selling Zip2 to Compaq in 1999. He also co-founded PayPal with several others, one of which was Peter Theil. I was working in tech at the time, and saw that all unfold. You can fact check me. Musk is mad about his daughter. She caused him an ego injury by cutting contact and coming out as trans. You are adding to the disinformation by asserting the diamond mine rumor.
Also, Trump can’t easily overturn the constitution. Recruits swear an oath to the constitution, not the president, for a reason.
I think white South Africans are having their farms seized, or something like that. Only a good thing when sanctioned by the US. Evidently. Yes, sounds like a Musk personal interest thing.
FDR,in his first hundred days.INCREASED the level of social spending rather than cut it off and he did’t have a bunch of teenage stormtroopers Going in and occupy offices.He didn’t gut everything to pay for rich man’s tax cuts either.
Trump isn’t even the president.He’s just done another one of his licensing deals where he is the front man and someone else does the work.He isn’t president.Elon Musk is.
Good - great! one!
Born in Philly, will sort of root for Philly. I am still mad that I bet a drink on them to win the first time they went to the Super Bowl. They lost like a high school team that wandered on to the field by accident, and the always-drinks-beer guy I bet with ordered the the most expensive drink possible. Also still, quite illogically, am a bit pissed because I went to an employment agency in Philly a ridiculously long time ago, and the first thing I was told, after I took some tests and was interviewed, was that I had missed the opportunity to be a personal assistant to the secretary of the owner of the Eagles at the time, Leonard Tose. Or something like that. Missed by one day. I think that would have been a lot of fun.
Kudoes to your list, especially for the deer. I am somewhat paralyzed with WTF because, for me, a gold-plated pager as a gift to Trump is the biggest tasteless FU I can imagine, except perhaps a gold-plated cluster bomb, and not much was said about it.
Dem governor of Hawaii, Josh Green, wants to end all medical exemptions to getting jabbed. In case anyone thinks there is not another jab situation coming.
Leonard Tose. I remember him. Trucking fortune if I recall. I went to HS outside Philadelphia ‘64-‘68 when Tose was Eagles owner. Tose was the uncle of someone in my class—though I can’t remember which classmate.
Gold pager was an odd gift—-has anyone examined it for hidden explosives?/
This would have been sometime around '65-'66. I lived in a little town outside Chester. The bus and train to work would have been bad, but would have been worth it! My aunt, who lived with us, worked in downtown Philly at a huge bank, so a commute like that seemed ordinary.
I lived in Plymouth Meeting from 1960 to 1968 in a subdivision directly across Germantown Pike from the Plymouth Meeting Mall. Family moved the month after my HS graduation and only been back two or three days since. The town had a more rural character then…
Trump is in panic mode as he realizes the unipolar world dominated by the US is over and he is grabbing up all the low hanging fruit, Canada, Mexico, Greenland Panama and most notably Gaza. He is avoiding closure of the Ukraine war because he knows the Russians won’t be bullied or tolerate his nonsense.
I don't think Trump is panicking at all. After I wrote the post, I saw Steve Bannon saying Trump was engaged in a psyop war of maneuver, or something like that. IOW, his people are doing so much so fast that the opposition Democrats can't keep up, and when they do react they look stupid.
That "storming" USAID HQ and then politely leaving when they were politely asked to leave was a classic display of political incompetence, and that's just one example.
It's the Democrats and their allies in the permanent bureaucracy, and took too obvious a political side, who are panicking. Now they're getting a taste of Andrew Jackson's spoils system and they don't like it one bit.
Which is ironic, since Jackson is widely considered the first Democratic President.
The Democrats are neutered. Trump is a full blown demagogue with his pants on fire and very dangerously so.
You think Trump wrote those directives, or you just pulling my leg?
Good recap on the week as usual. Will be linking it today @https://nothingnewunderthesun2016.com/
With the help of every ref and NFL exec, my Chiefs have made it.
Now all they have to do is prove the world wrong, once again
I'll always honor a true fan, but the only way they'll prove the rest of the world wrong is to lose, I think. Everybody expects the refs to rig the game for them.
Don't worry, they said the same thing about the Patriots, Niners, Cowboys and Steelers before them.
"It's amazing how lucky you are when you're good."--John Madden
And then the game happened. It seems the Eagles came up with a new defense that worked against Mahomes. Well, that's SUPPOSED to happen every once in awhile.
I think it helped that the Eagles lost to the Chiefs by only a few points two years ago.
They played well, I'm not even sad. Chiefs shouldn't have been there; would have been a better game with the Bills.
Great read as always with the only good news the deer on ice....as American leadership(?) continues to amaze and embarrass. I just finished a long overdue read of Bruce Lincoln's THE ROMANOVS (1983) and am amazed at how I kept comparing the declining US empire to not the declining Soviet Union as many do but the declining Russian empire with its incompetent/irrelevant/out-of-touch leadership....the isolation from the rest of the world/their own people - comparisons are endless.
Thanks, OB... I was looking forward to you reflections, as I just ended my episode/watching of Due Diss and came in late on their show on a weird note regarding... uh, EVERYTHING, it seems. The pace of events and what Elon Musk is doing is too fast for me to get what Keaton Weiss was saying - what a fucking liar RFKJ was, and this while DOGE thing is a psy-op... I'm amazed that I understood ANYTHING that was being put forth.
I may be stunned with understanding what's real, but I get mixed signals, regardless of following Bannon on some of the decisions Trump has given to Musk. And, I'm further stunned, but underneath all this, glad that Bobby could help run a more honest HHS, but I think that was the lie Keaton was ranting about. Meanwhile, the stupid bowl is in the background as usual over what we are seeing from the empire. So, out of everything I've heard of today, the deer gets my respect the most.
Hope I have not missed Musk's ads. I read he spent a LOT of money for ads about USAID and DOGE.
The Super Bowl commentators are pretty much only talking about the Chiefs - even behind, they talk as if they are winning and the score is not important.
Oh my. Interception. Tay-Tay will not be pleased. And another interception. Okay, I am feeling sorry for the Chiefs. Should be an interesting locker room talk.
Back in the dark ages, my now ex-husband played semi-pro football, programmer by day, he was not quite big or fast enough for pro. Semi-pro in this case meant only the quarterback got money; no one else even got medical care. So one Saturday they played the KC Chiefs farm team. Who all looked like refrigerators. And ex-husband got his leg banged up so bad some veins popped and his boss told him to pick football or programming. Programming it was.
It's always heartwarming to see the refs make a bad call in favor of the Chiefs only to have it remedied by an interception. TWO pick-sixes for Mahomes!
Well, they call the NFC East the Beasts of the East for a reason.
Musk wasn’t born "with a blood-red emerald spoon in his mouth", he made part of his fortune by selling Zip2 to Compaq in 1999. He also co-founded PayPal with several others, one of which was Peter Theil. I was working in tech at the time, and saw that all unfold. You can fact check me. Musk is mad about his daughter. She caused him an ego injury by cutting contact and coming out as trans. You are adding to the disinformation by asserting the diamond mine rumor.
Also, Trump can’t easily overturn the constitution. Recruits swear an oath to the constitution, not the president, for a reason.
He inherited a fortune, which came from emeralds. He was born on third base and you're giving him credit for a home run?
That's what I call a peasant mentality. Please get rid of it. Musk never worked. Neither did Thiel. They just moved capital around. That's not work.
"And why white South Africans, FFS? "
Hmm, funny that. Maybe we should ask "President Musk" what he feels about this? *SIGH*
I think white South Africans are having their farms seized, or something like that. Only a good thing when sanctioned by the US. Evidently. Yes, sounds like a Musk personal interest thing.
FDR,in his first hundred days.INCREASED the level of social spending rather than cut it off and he did’t have a bunch of teenage stormtroopers Going in and occupy offices.He didn’t gut everything to pay for rich man’s tax cuts either.
Trump isn’t even the president.He’s just done another one of his licensing deals where he is the front man and someone else does the work.He isn’t president.Elon Musk is.
(sigh) Please read the disclaimer. I did say they had different objectives; the only similarity is in the tactics.
The US won our elections so this is either self-defeating or, more likely, leverage towards gaining something else.
PS: South African bobotie.