This is a truly meaningless bit of trivia, but a teacher in my elementary school was married to a descendant of the Masons of Major Jar fame. Her name, of course, was Mrs. Mason. In the 60s, she was one of the first people I knew in an inter-racial marriage. (Which I did not learn until the 70s, but what a tale.)
One of my all-time fave Christmas specials is Will Vinson’s Claymation Christmas Special which aired in the late 80’s. I think I still have it on VHS somewhere. It features the California Raisins doing the Temptations version of “Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer”
Interest, especially in that there's a more in depth interview with a woman...
I'd say more than judging your own body against the actors, is that people now expect a unrealistic body type in reality. This setting up for failed relationships.
Also, not brought up...is the loss of jobs, because they can't resist using work computers/time to watch. Probably a bigger problem than is admitted...
Seems to me that the only way out is civil unrest of a scale reminiscent of the 1960s Sadly, I don't think enough people have the stomach for it, and there is NO MLK, Malcom X nor anyone to take up the leadership.
I'm enraged enough by a certain orange-body appointing knuckleheads and suck-ups knowing doom is on the horizon. But, the goal is to endure and survive the next 4. I'd like to say payback will be "something" but I already know the Dems will just "take it" with little repercussions. SOS!
If Democrats have half a brain, or have our best interests in heart, they will start focusing on the midterms NOW!! Midterms are historically not friendly to the sitting President. There exists the opportunity to gain the House and a super majority in the Senate, and cut Fatso off at the knees. Will they do it, or are they complacent in the "fuck you" to the American people?
I promise that you not only do major Democratic organizations possess a full brain, but that they've started focusing on the midterms already. With the razor-thin Congressional Republican majority and more Republican Senate seats up for re-election this cycle, "they BEEN working on it."
Face it, the slim majority of Americans are either to biased or too illiterate to cast a ballot that is not influenced by nonsensical social pressures. NOBODY with even half a brain, believed that Trump was the best choice. The question is, what to do about it? Voter literacy laws?
The election was a vote against reality. The cure is to be slapped silly by reality. Might take a while. Fortunately, the US has no neighbours in any shape to invade it.
Once the rule of law goes out the window shit can get real pretty fast. I could see the Mexican Narcos operating with impunity while the long arm of the law focuses on undocumented immigrants and That Guy's political opposition.
You are assuming that it will go out the window like a fat man in a comedy skit, all at once. I would be much less worried if so many people were not occupying themselves in thinking up ever more elaborate ways in which THEY will fail and be ineffective. Expect to lose and that's just what you will do.
Okay, WaPo, how fucking high are all of you? Just read the headline for an article or opinion piece of verbal shit or whatever it you’d call what WaPo does where the idiot — sorry, that should be asshole — no, fuck, slipped again — journamalist stated, supposedly in all seriousness, that maybe the Supreme Court would rein in Trump, provide the necessary guardrails. I assume the author of the piece just came out of a coma and was immediately fed all of the drugs, and a fifth of Wild Turkey, and then wrote that shit while under the influence.
They were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the idea that this SCOTUS might pump the brakes on a full slide to authoritarianism began to take hold.
Re mason jars, did you know that some people think you can use them as blender jars 'cause the thread is the same on some blenders? Of course, mason jars are glass and not designed for so much vibration, but using them that way is still smarter than voting for trump. (The groups may overlap.)
Stormfield was Twain's last home, built for him and his remaining daughters (his wife had died in Italy some years before from heart failure and his middle daughter, Susie, his favorite, from meningitis before that). Unfortunately, his older daughter, Clara, married and moved to Europe and Jean, who suffered from intractable epilepsy, died in her bathtub on Christmas morning. Before Clara left, she convinced Twain to fire his secretary, Isabel Lyon, the other significant woman in his life. Twain's last years were replete with sorrow and loneliness and the music on that Edison film is quite inappropriate. He was more of a raw persimmon, tart and biting, than a sugar plum.
Fascinating fact: when a young Hal Holbrook was creating his impersonation of Twain for the stage, he tracked down Miss Lyon, the only surviving member of the Twain household. She helped him improve his accent to mimic Twain's soft Missouri drawl.
Twain also suffered from the threat of financial insolvency due to poor investment choices. He thus began speaking engagements (I saw Hal Holbrook years ago, and he was marvelous) to earn money. He was, indeed, sorrowful from losing the beautiful and important women in his life. He never forgave himself for Jean’s death. It wasn’t unusual at all to send people with epilepsy to live in ‘medical’ facilities. There was very little known about it in those times, and no treatment.
This is a truly meaningless bit of trivia, but a teacher in my elementary school was married to a descendant of the Masons of Major Jar fame. Her name, of course, was Mrs. Mason. In the 60s, she was one of the first people I knew in an inter-racial marriage. (Which I did not learn until the 70s, but what a tale.)
"Soviet stop-motion animated cartoon"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2_dhUv_CrI&ab_channel=zioanza
https://bsky.app/profile/number10cat.bsky.social/post/3lc6b4xbijs2x
In honour of HeSavesBread's birthday and St. Andrew's Day in Scotland, Larry the Cat sends his best wishes on this Caturday.
I don't think this is how it works.
𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻-𝗜𝘀𝗿𝗮𝗲𝗹𝗶 𝗵𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝘂𝗿𝗴𝗲𝘀 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝘁𝗼 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗚𝗮𝘇𝗮 𝗰𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗼
Edan Alexander, who was taken prisoner on 7 Oct, asked Donald Trump to secure his freedom in a Hamas video condemned by the White House
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/01/american-israeli-hostage-urges-trump-to-free-gaza-captives-in-new-video
One of my all-time fave Christmas specials is Will Vinson’s Claymation Christmas Special which aired in the late 80’s. I think I still have it on VHS somewhere. It features the California Raisins doing the Temptations version of “Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer”
Don't forget Closed Mondays
https://youtu.be/XI9w9yNbrcM?si=thFTX81in3jUNUFA
YouTube must have it somewhere ...
Interest, especially in that there's a more in depth interview with a woman...
I'd say more than judging your own body against the actors, is that people now expect a unrealistic body type in reality. This setting up for failed relationships.
Also, not brought up...is the loss of jobs, because they can't resist using work computers/time to watch. Probably a bigger problem than is admitted...
Amazed that didn't inspire some kind of backlash back in the 80's, depicting Satan as a relatively chill dude.
Isn't that how we got Viggo Mortensen doing his part in Prophecy, though ...?
And that whole "Lucifer" series?
Seems to me that the only way out is civil unrest of a scale reminiscent of the 1960s Sadly, I don't think enough people have the stomach for it, and there is NO MLK, Malcom X nor anyone to take up the leadership.
I'm enraged enough by a certain orange-body appointing knuckleheads and suck-ups knowing doom is on the horizon. But, the goal is to endure and survive the next 4. I'd like to say payback will be "something" but I already know the Dems will just "take it" with little repercussions. SOS!
If Democrats have half a brain, or have our best interests in heart, they will start focusing on the midterms NOW!! Midterms are historically not friendly to the sitting President. There exists the opportunity to gain the House and a super majority in the Senate, and cut Fatso off at the knees. Will they do it, or are they complacent in the "fuck you" to the American people?
I promise that you not only do major Democratic organizations possess a full brain, but that they've started focusing on the midterms already. With the razor-thin Congressional Republican majority and more Republican Senate seats up for re-election this cycle, "they BEEN working on it."
May the Goddess hear your entreaties and apply a big, fuckin' clue-by-four upside the heads of the Democratic leadership.
Face it, the slim majority of Americans are either to biased or too illiterate to cast a ballot that is not influenced by nonsensical social pressures. NOBODY with even half a brain, believed that Trump was the best choice. The question is, what to do about it? Voter literacy laws?
The election was a vote against reality. The cure is to be slapped silly by reality. Might take a while. Fortunately, the US has no neighbours in any shape to invade it.
Once the rule of law goes out the window shit can get real pretty fast. I could see the Mexican Narcos operating with impunity while the long arm of the law focuses on undocumented immigrants and That Guy's political opposition.
You are assuming that it will go out the window like a fat man in a comedy skit, all at once. I would be much less worried if so many people were not occupying themselves in thinking up ever more elaborate ways in which THEY will fail and be ineffective. Expect to lose and that's just what you will do.
Okay, WaPo, how fucking high are all of you? Just read the headline for an article or opinion piece of verbal shit or whatever it you’d call what WaPo does where the idiot — sorry, that should be asshole — no, fuck, slipped again — journamalist stated, supposedly in all seriousness, that maybe the Supreme Court would rein in Trump, provide the necessary guardrails. I assume the author of the piece just came out of a coma and was immediately fed all of the drugs, and a fifth of Wild Turkey, and then wrote that shit while under the influence.
They were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the idea that this SCOTUS might pump the brakes on a full slide to authoritarianism began to take hold.
It's WaPOOP, Jake. Fahgeddabaddit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"Now here's Eastern Europe's favorite cat and mouse team, 'Worker and Parasite'."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2_dhUv_CrI
Re mason jars, did you know that some people think you can use them as blender jars 'cause the thread is the same on some blenders? Of course, mason jars are glass and not designed for so much vibration, but using them that way is still smarter than voting for trump. (The groups may overlap.)
Not even with the hand mixer / blender to make mayo?
I'm grateful you said that before I tried it
Still looking for the elusive Dixon jars.
A lttle to the south.
Threaded the other way.
Stormfield was Twain's last home, built for him and his remaining daughters (his wife had died in Italy some years before from heart failure and his middle daughter, Susie, his favorite, from meningitis before that). Unfortunately, his older daughter, Clara, married and moved to Europe and Jean, who suffered from intractable epilepsy, died in her bathtub on Christmas morning. Before Clara left, she convinced Twain to fire his secretary, Isabel Lyon, the other significant woman in his life. Twain's last years were replete with sorrow and loneliness and the music on that Edison film is quite inappropriate. He was more of a raw persimmon, tart and biting, than a sugar plum.
Fascinating fact: when a young Hal Holbrook was creating his impersonation of Twain for the stage, he tracked down Miss Lyon, the only surviving member of the Twain household. She helped him improve his accent to mimic Twain's soft Missouri drawl.
Twain also suffered from the threat of financial insolvency due to poor investment choices. He thus began speaking engagements (I saw Hal Holbrook years ago, and he was marvelous) to earn money. He was, indeed, sorrowful from losing the beautiful and important women in his life. He never forgave himself for Jean’s death. It wasn’t unusual at all to send people with epilepsy to live in ‘medical’ facilities. There was very little known about it in those times, and no treatment.
Any Fusion 360/3D printing folks here?