I had a small business right next door to "The Chin's" social club on Sullivan Street in Greenwich Village in the 1990's. He was rarely around, but once he and I made eye contact for about a second, then he went into his googly-eyed look. That's when I thought he was faking the crazy.
Joe Rochefort was...a bit eccentric. He was also a brilliant intelligence officer who headed the code breaking team that discovered and then confirmed Japan's coming attack on Midway, which was aimed less at taking the island than drawing America's remaining carriers into a trap and sinking them. Forewarned, we were able to turn the tables on them and sink all four carriers committed to the strike force, shortening the Pacific war by at least a year.
I've been unable to find anything but official photos of the real Joe Rochefort in his dress uniform and disappointingly bathrobe free. But he was played by Hal Holbrook in all his bathrobed glory in the good movie about Midway!
I love Bette for many, many reasons. From her willingness to speak up, to one of my favorite Simpsons moments ever - she once owned a racehorse with Krusty - Kruddler, to her duet with Tom Waits. Especially the first and last ones.
Bathrobes are fine. But I am a union suit myself. [Although… always here for some bathrobe appreciation? I believe I could become fond of the fanciest non-secondhand thing you own.]
I own two bathrobes, one a good all-year black terry number (sleep mask and slippers in a complementary pattern from the same place), one an enormous fluffy white thing, the very lap of luxury, which was given to me as part of the Experience by my surgeon when I had my tits taken out and my chest remodeled. If you ever have the opportunity to take to your bed for a week, swaddled in a fuzzy-lined robe, to nap and dream painkiller dreams and only emerge to eat small high-calorie low-sodium meals (chocolate mousse fits the bill), I highly recommend you take it.
For me personally, pajamas are the new bathrobes (even though I have two of the latter, one for winter and one for summer). I now have two pairs of flannel pajamas with bottoms that have pockets and everything, which I wear inside all day.
My sister, whom I gifted a pair of similar pajamas for Xmas, says she even wears her outside the house, as regular pants. And I've seen others in stores do that too. That's kind of a bridge too far for me, but they are coming in super-handy for a non-lounging reason: I'm undergoing radiation therapy, and these are the only long pants I own with no metal. (Even my sweatpants have metal grommets.) So I keep one pair in the car and change into it every day for my treatment.
there is a very funny story by Larry Charles about the time Bob Dylan asked him to help with a TV comedy show he wanted to do, it also involves pajamas. you can check it out on You Tube!
"Private Groups Work To Identify And Report Student Protesters For Possible Deportation
The push to identify masked protesters using facial recognition and turn them in is blurring the line between public law enforcement and private groups.
"Software was also used to review images taken during months of pro-Palestinian marches at U.S. colleges. A right-wing Jewish group said some people identified with the tool were on a list of names it submitted to President Donald Trump’s administration, urging that they be deported in accordance with his call for the expulsion of foreign students who participated in “pro-jihadist” protests. Other pro-Israel groups have enlisted help from supporters on campuses, urging them to report foreign students who participated in protests against the war in Gaza to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency. The push to identify masked protesters using facial recognition and turn them in is blurring the line between public law enforcement and private groups. And the efforts have stirred anxiety among foreign students worried that activism could jeopardize their legal status."
"Following World War II, U.S. officials under President Harry Truman sought an American military base on the island and offered to buy the territory due to “the extreme importance of Greenland to the defense of the United States,” the Associated Press reported.
The U.S. offered Denmark $100 million in gold at the time (about $1 billion today), a bid that Danish officials turned down. The countries instead signed a long-term agreement for the U.S. to have a military base on the island.
Only 33% of Americans were in favor of the purchase at the time while 38% disagreed with the potential buy, per a 1947 poll shared by Harry Enten of CNN.
A recent Fox News poll showed 70% of Americans who don’t agree that the U.S. should take control of Greenland compared to 26% of others who do. “That is more Americans who were for the impeachment and removal of Richard Nixon by the end of his presidency. This is uniformly unpopular, even only half of Republicans support it,” Enten stressed.
Enten pointed to a January poll showing 85% of Greenland residents responded “no” when asked if the territory should become part of America. 6% of respondents, meanwhile, answered “yes” to the same question. “To give you an idea of how low 6% is, if you took a poll of Americans and say, ‘Do you believe we actually landed on the moon?’ About 10% of Americans think we faked the moon landing,”" Enten noted. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cnn-harry-enten-americans-trump-greenland_n_67e7256fe4b0b1cf1ccbfdab
I remain an unabashed Nixon supporter. If anyone in American politics was ever treated unfairly it was Nixon. NO he wasn't perfect, but he was at least 1000X better than Truimp
Chica attains fame and fortune via Wonkette! She is pleased to be heavily pro-bathrobe and shuffling around the neighborhood. If you see her, no matter how she is dressed, she would like pets and worship.
This photo was taken her first winter with us, when she felt entirely offended that she had been adopted into a frigid tundra of a state. She claimed my new quilt and has never relinquished it. She likes to form it into spiral shaped huts like this and snuggle into it.
So, there's big doings planned for April 5th in DC. I have no doubt that TFG is hungering to order police and military troops to open fire on the demonstrators, and the only question is, will they obey?
I think there's obey and then there's *obey*. I would imagine that some of them at least would be like when I had to play baseball (or any other sport) in elementary school. Technically I'm there, and I try to look involved, but I'm in the outfield way over there accidently nowhere near where the ball is.
I don't have any exact numbers to display but I would hazard to guess that the vast majority of people in Gaza did not support the attack on Israel by Hamas. So, how can we say it is right to punish them all? They are powerless victims of the Israeli response.
WE may find ourselves in exactly the same position soon. The vast majority of Americans, even those who may have voted for Trump, do not support most of the actions being taken by the Trump administration and the MAGA Party (formerly the GOP), but we will likewise all be punished by the rest of the "Free World"
And for EXACTLY the same reason. When you do nothing to overturn a malignant government, the rest of us view that government as speaking for all of you (on the world stage).
Republicans win races by the slimmest of margins and control the Federal government by the slimmest of margins all due to influence of "Dark Money":much of it coming from Elon Musk, who is quite effectivly buying the United Stayes and turning it into an authoritarian Hell. What do you propose we do? Take to the streets in violent protest? Trump would like nothing better It wpould give him the excuse to declare martial law and cancel ALL elections.
I had a small business right next door to "The Chin's" social club on Sullivan Street in Greenwich Village in the 1990's. He was rarely around, but once he and I made eye contact for about a second, then he went into his googly-eyed look. That's when I thought he was faking the crazy.
Poor Robyn. All she can find is a bathrobe villain. But have no fear, I have a Bathrobe Hero!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Rochefort
Joe Rochefort was...a bit eccentric. He was also a brilliant intelligence officer who headed the code breaking team that discovered and then confirmed Japan's coming attack on Midway, which was aimed less at taking the island than drawing America's remaining carriers into a trap and sinking them. Forewarned, we were able to turn the tables on them and sink all four carriers committed to the strike force, shortening the Pacific war by at least a year.
I've been unable to find anything but official photos of the real Joe Rochefort in his dress uniform and disappointingly bathrobe free. But he was played by Hal Holbrook in all his bathrobed glory in the good movie about Midway!
https://youtu.be/ehzzzlIZ5C8?si=zbd_1kR0L_dV7xdJ
(It's free on YouTube, by the way, if anyone wants to watch it)
I love Bette for many, many reasons. From her willingness to speak up, to one of my favorite Simpsons moments ever - she once owned a racehorse with Krusty - Kruddler, to her duet with Tom Waits. Especially the first and last ones.
Bathrobes are fine. But I am a union suit myself. [Although… always here for some bathrobe appreciation? I believe I could become fond of the fanciest non-secondhand thing you own.]
Gigante is also the guy who shot Frank Costello.
"Hey, Frank...!"
I own two bathrobes, one a good all-year black terry number (sleep mask and slippers in a complementary pattern from the same place), one an enormous fluffy white thing, the very lap of luxury, which was given to me as part of the Experience by my surgeon when I had my tits taken out and my chest remodeled. If you ever have the opportunity to take to your bed for a week, swaddled in a fuzzy-lined robe, to nap and dream painkiller dreams and only emerge to eat small high-calorie low-sodium meals (chocolate mousse fits the bill), I highly recommend you take it.
For me personally, pajamas are the new bathrobes (even though I have two of the latter, one for winter and one for summer). I now have two pairs of flannel pajamas with bottoms that have pockets and everything, which I wear inside all day.
My sister, whom I gifted a pair of similar pajamas for Xmas, says she even wears her outside the house, as regular pants. And I've seen others in stores do that too. That's kind of a bridge too far for me, but they are coming in super-handy for a non-lounging reason: I'm undergoing radiation therapy, and these are the only long pants I own with no metal. (Even my sweatpants have metal grommets.) So I keep one pair in the car and change into it every day for my treatment.
there is a very funny story by Larry Charles about the time Bob Dylan asked him to help with a TV comedy show he wanted to do, it also involves pajamas. you can check it out on You Tube!
Okay I am inspired to walk or do yoga or something. Tomorrow. Well, maybe Monday.
Long read, but I think an important issue:
"Private Groups Work To Identify And Report Student Protesters For Possible Deportation
The push to identify masked protesters using facial recognition and turn them in is blurring the line between public law enforcement and private groups.
"Software was also used to review images taken during months of pro-Palestinian marches at U.S. colleges. A right-wing Jewish group said some people identified with the tool were on a list of names it submitted to President Donald Trump’s administration, urging that they be deported in accordance with his call for the expulsion of foreign students who participated in “pro-jihadist” protests. Other pro-Israel groups have enlisted help from supporters on campuses, urging them to report foreign students who participated in protests against the war in Gaza to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency. The push to identify masked protesters using facial recognition and turn them in is blurring the line between public law enforcement and private groups. And the efforts have stirred anxiety among foreign students worried that activism could jeopardize their legal status."
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/private-groups-identify-report-student-protesters-possible-deportation_n_67e81e05e4b051cf99eab086
"Hey, if they could do it to the J6 patriots, we can do it to the terrorist scum!"
--Their idea of "turnabout is fair play," part one million
Damn! I had no idea that concert footage existed. Thank you!
"Following World War II, U.S. officials under President Harry Truman sought an American military base on the island and offered to buy the territory due to “the extreme importance of Greenland to the defense of the United States,” the Associated Press reported.
The U.S. offered Denmark $100 million in gold at the time (about $1 billion today), a bid that Danish officials turned down. The countries instead signed a long-term agreement for the U.S. to have a military base on the island.
Only 33% of Americans were in favor of the purchase at the time while 38% disagreed with the potential buy, per a 1947 poll shared by Harry Enten of CNN.
A recent Fox News poll showed 70% of Americans who don’t agree that the U.S. should take control of Greenland compared to 26% of others who do. “That is more Americans who were for the impeachment and removal of Richard Nixon by the end of his presidency. This is uniformly unpopular, even only half of Republicans support it,” Enten stressed.
Enten pointed to a January poll showing 85% of Greenland residents responded “no” when asked if the territory should become part of America. 6% of respondents, meanwhile, answered “yes” to the same question. “To give you an idea of how low 6% is, if you took a poll of Americans and say, ‘Do you believe we actually landed on the moon?’ About 10% of Americans think we faked the moon landing,”" Enten noted. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cnn-harry-enten-americans-trump-greenland_n_67e7256fe4b0b1cf1ccbfdab
I remain an unabashed Nixon supporter. If anyone in American politics was ever treated unfairly it was Nixon. NO he wasn't perfect, but he was at least 1000X better than Truimp
Not a supporter, yet he was nowhere as crooked as Trump. Or cruel.
And Nixon was one hugely corrupt motherfucker. From someone who knew him:
"Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning." - Hunter S. Thompson
Pith Helmet Lady sings and marches and also shops! Go, Pith Helmet Lady! Go!
Chica attains fame and fortune via Wonkette! She is pleased to be heavily pro-bathrobe and shuffling around the neighborhood. If you see her, no matter how she is dressed, she would like pets and worship.
This photo was taken her first winter with us, when she felt entirely offended that she had been adopted into a frigid tundra of a state. She claimed my new quilt and has never relinquished it. She likes to form it into spiral shaped huts like this and snuggle into it.
Happy Spring from the Chihuahua of Magnificence!
Chica!
People are saying that Hegseth should not have taken his wife into high level meetings, but I
disagree. I mean ...somebody has to get the drinks.
Also, who knows when another guy might slash her tires for a date if he leaves her alone?
(I think she's the one he picked up by slashing her tires, right?)
That's known as a Fox swipe in the on-line dating business.
FWIW, I don't think Watters slashed the tires. I think he just let all the air out of them.
That was Jesse Watters, but it does seem like something Pete would do.
So, there's big doings planned for April 5th in DC. I have no doubt that TFG is hungering to order police and military troops to open fire on the demonstrators, and the only question is, will they obey?
I think there's obey and then there's *obey*. I would imagine that some of them at least would be like when I had to play baseball (or any other sport) in elementary school. Technically I'm there, and I try to look involved, but I'm in the outfield way over there accidently nowhere near where the ball is.
I don't have any exact numbers to display but I would hazard to guess that the vast majority of people in Gaza did not support the attack on Israel by Hamas. So, how can we say it is right to punish them all? They are powerless victims of the Israeli response.
WE may find ourselves in exactly the same position soon. The vast majority of Americans, even those who may have voted for Trump, do not support most of the actions being taken by the Trump administration and the MAGA Party (formerly the GOP), but we will likewise all be punished by the rest of the "Free World"
And for EXACTLY the same reason. When you do nothing to overturn a malignant government, the rest of us view that government as speaking for all of you (on the world stage).
Republicans win races by the slimmest of margins and control the Federal government by the slimmest of margins all due to influence of "Dark Money":much of it coming from Elon Musk, who is quite effectivly buying the United Stayes and turning it into an authoritarian Hell. What do you propose we do? Take to the streets in violent protest? Trump would like nothing better It wpould give him the excuse to declare martial law and cancel ALL elections.
But..but... so unfair!!