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Tony Hawk with a cane & broken femur is interesting.

I like his response to complaints that he an inappropriate choice-- to introduce a tribute to James Bond movies...

"If being in every Jackass movie, xXx, Police Academy 4, and Sharknado 5 doesn’t qualify me to present at the Oscars, then your taste in movies needs readjusting,” he tweeted.

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Service Dog wrote: Tony Hawk with a cane & broken femur is interesting.

I like his response to complaints that he an inappropriate choice-- to introduce a tribute to James Bond movies...

"If being in every Jackass movie, xXx, Police Academy 4, and Sharknado 5 doesn’t qualify me to present at the Oscars, then your taste in movies needs readjusting,” he tweeted.
Well, Twitter seems to be the appropriate place to hash out matters of this import.

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Matt Cavanaugh wrote: The Road to Wigan Pier nailed it and, unfortunately, continues to nail it.

https://archive.org/details/roadtowigan ... 1/mode/2up
Thanks for the link - been on my "To Read" list for some time. But how's the quality? Many there at the archive are rather spotty at best.

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MarcusAu wrote: matters of this import
Agreed.
Matt Cavanaugh wrote: Dog sees this wacky shit on a regular basis... complete freaks.
As I scrolled thru-- I didn't have much feeling of connection to those people, but I went-back & intentionally looked-for any.

FWLIW...

Laverne Cox -- I know this is a famous tranny. This videographer guy a Queens dog run was s/h/it's best friend & would motormouth about her to me... as-if xie was the bravest, most famous, important person in the world. Whether I wanted to hear it or not.

Rosie Perez-- More than a few mornings spent in a Brooklyn park, standing with her & other dog owners, as dogs played off-leash. In real life she is soft-spoken, shriveled & wrinkly like your favorite grade school teacher, now retired.

Uma Thurman-- when she & Ethan Hawke first came to Manhattan in the early 90's... they hung-around college-student parties, because that's normal for young-people going-out... back in Austin. They rocked-out to my band at a coed 'progressive' frat house at Columbia U. Then Uma rode on subway with my bandmates, sitting on the lap of our nerd keyboard player. He flirted with her confidently, because he didn't know she was in movies. The train ride ended at Norman Mailer's apartment (maybe his daughter went to Columbia or Barnard?). The toilet paper ran out & a bandmate took a washcloth out of a bathroom closet, wiped his ass with it, folded it back-up & put it back in the middle of the pile of washcloths. My brother was in college Austin at the time & he said Ethan Hawke never bathed & smelled terrible.

Zoe Kravitz-- I think she was one of several children of famous people jamming together in a thrown-together kareoke-ish band, at the launch party for a small trendy hotel-- which I worked-on. I think a grandchild of Bob Marley & a Mellencamp offspring were others involved.

Queen Latifah-- She was one of several chubby older female rappers in the VIP couch-area at a VH1 Music Awards afterparty I worked on-- when Missy Elliot got a Lifetime Achievement award.

Dolce & Gabbana-- I've met Mr. D & Mr. G during work 6 days of their fashion shows (in one week). Might be the most lavish thing I've ever worked-on.

______ Jenner & ________ Kardashian-- Jenners & Kardashians are commonly at fashion shows I work. I've never seen their TV show & I can't tell them apart.

Hallie & Chloe Bailey-- These were two young sisters who performed cute renditions of Beyonce songs on YouTube. Beyonce noticed them & made them stars. They were the entertainment at an exclusive Cartier afterparty... which I spent 21 days prepping/working/striking. Their mother & father wore sweatpants & rumpled tie-dye t-shirts & looked like people who would be hired to mop the floor... and thus they were overlooked & treated rather inhospitably by the ass-kisser glad-handler middle-managers producing the show.

Dior-- they launched a coffee table book of photos of models & I hung all the photos in the art show/ launch party.

Valentino-- they have a cosmetics line I worked a video shoot featuring some mexican twink make-up artist celeb blah blah blah.

Michael Kors-- I've worked his runway shows. He's tan & looks like a non-fashion exec who races sailboats.

Chanel-- I hung the art for a 'gentleman's club for women' event they-did. One little suite of 2 armchairs & props & framed watches hanging on a wall... was photographed & published in Architectural Digest. During the party, someone stole a $25,000 watch off the wall.

Pamela Rowland-- I've worked her fashion shows. And Tori Burch's. And dealt directly with them both. But have no idea which-is-which.

Wesley Snipes-- waaay back around '90... he & I were the only straight guys in the audience of a small dance recital at the Martha Graham school. We smoked cigs at intermission & he told me that he started-out as a dancer.

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fafnir wrote: Who in the hell gets into a train carriage with a homeless man camping in it? Is this normal somewhere?

Also, that man has an impressive rack.
See that the post has apparently been deleted.

Though - not being a biologist ... ;-) - I kinda gathered that, in some circles at least, having "a rack" is sufficient to qualify one as a woman.

Lotta confusion on the topic - much of it created by "feminists" who, as even Kathleen Stock admits, have been peddling "risible absurdities" ("sex is immutable!!", "infertile women are women!! [IWAW]", etc :roll: ) - and no more evident than in "politicians" of various stripes who apparently argue or seem to think that having a penis is no prima facie evidence or guarantee of not being a woman; who knew? ... :roll:



(at about 32:30 in the interview)

But largely why I argue - even if my arguments fall on deaf ears or those with fingers in them ... - that the only way out of that transgender clusterfuck is to define exactly what is meant by "woman", what trait uniquely defines all females - of all sexually-reproducing species. (Hint for those not paying attention: functional ovaries).

In any case, it is maybe a welcome sign, some justification for hoping that saner heads will prevail, that so many are championing or touting the definition for "woman" as an "adult human female" as the only way to separate wheat from chaff. Even if so many are reluctant to grapple with the standard definition for "female" and its logical consequences.

But for instances, "feminists" - AKA narrow-minded and quite dogmatic ideologues - Kathleen Stock and Jane Clare Jones are rather desperate to engage in special pleading by which structure or form are the necessary and sufficient conditions to qualify as female whereas the standard biological definitions are based on quite transitory function; no tickee, no washee:

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https://kathleenstock.substack.com/p/en ... 747183?s=r

Suck it up buttercups.

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Service Dog wrote: Wesley Snipes-- he told me that he started-out as a dancer.
And last night he apparently was auditioning for The King & I.


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Fact-check: False. Same room at the same time.


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Steersman wrote:
Matt Cavanaugh wrote: The Road to Wigan Pier nailed it and, unfortunately, continues to nail it.

https://archive.org/details/roadtowigan ... 1/mode/2up
Thanks for the link - been on my "To Read" list for some time. But how's the quality? Many there at the archive are rather spotty at best.
It's now in the public domain, IIRC, so there should be oodles of decent PDFs around.

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This is a problem:

The Russians wrote:2014 – Hunter Biden joins the Board of Directors of Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian energy company.

2014 – Metabiota, a private commercial organisation specialising in the study of pandemic risks is detached from Global Viral. Neil Callahan and John DeLoche, employees of Hunter Biden’s company Rosemont Seneca Partners are appointed to the board of Metabiota. Global Viral and Metabiota begin to get funding from the US Department of Defence.

2014 – Metabiota shows interest in Ukraine and invites Hunter Biden to “assert Ukraine’s cultural & economic independence from Russia”.

2014 – Metabiota and Burisma Holdings begin cooperation on an unnamed “science project in Ukraine”.

2014 – Metabiota, Global Viral and Black & Veatch Special Projects begin full-fledged cooperation within the US DoD programmes.

2014-2016 – Implementation of Metabiota and US DoD contracts, including a $300,000 project in Ukraine.


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CNN

“Not only that, Jake, you have to actually understand this on an even deeper level than that. For black women, we watched confirmation hearings with Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, right? We saw everything that she went through, saw how she was really lambasted in the public eye. And we saw all the things she had to deal with, and she was often lauded for keeping cool and collected. Sometimes when things happen, people don’t feel that way. For black women, in particular, I saw Tiffany Haddish as well, where she felt very encouraged, if you will, by the fact Will Smith, in this very public setting, was standing up for his black wife. That’s a protection black women often aren’t afforded. Like you said, it was obviously wrong. Chris Rock shouldn’t have told the joke. Will Smith’s response can’t be to go up and slap another man in public at the Oscars.”



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Those Finns are out of control.

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Lsuoma wrote:
Steersman wrote:
Matt Cavanaugh wrote: The Road to Wigan Pier nailed it and, unfortunately, continues to nail it.

https://archive.org/details/roadtowigan ... 1/mode/2up
Thanks for the link - been on my "To Read" list for some time. But how's the quality? Many there at the archive are rather spotty at best.
It's now in the public domain, IIRC, so there should be oodles of decent PDFs around.
Ah, that's right - should be well outside of copyright protection.

But quite a good site - have even thrown a few shekels into the pot there myself. Though, as suggested, the quality seems a bit spotty. Seem to recollect downloading Sagan's Demon-Haunted World from there - bit surprising as one would think a publication date of 1997 or so would mean copyright protection. But also seem to recollect the quality was poorish - though I expect it depends on the format - and had to get a copy elsewhere.

In any case, in other news - to kill the proverbial two birds with one stone - Kathleen Stock apparently abandons any pretense to intellectual honesty - though maybe the jury is still out - by, in effect, saying, "don't confuse me with facts, my mind is made up". My parting shot:

https://kathleenstock.substack.com/p/en ... nt/5772550

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Matt Cavanaugh wrote: This is a problem:

The Russians wrote:2014 – Hunter Biden joins the Board of Directors of Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian energy company.

2014 – Metabiota, a private commercial organisation specialising in the study of pandemic risks is detached from Global Viral. Neil Callahan and John DeLoche, employees of Hunter Biden’s company Rosemont Seneca Partners are appointed to the board of Metabiota. Global Viral and Metabiota begin to get funding from the US Department of Defence.

2014 – Metabiota shows interest in Ukraine and invites Hunter Biden to “assert Ukraine’s cultural & economic independence from Russia”.

2014 – Metabiota and Burisma Holdings begin cooperation on an unnamed “science project in Ukraine”.

2014 – Metabiota, Global Viral and Black & Veatch Special Projects begin full-fledged cooperation within the US DoD programmes.

2014-2016 – Implementation of Metabiota and US DoD contracts, including a $300,000 project in Ukraine.
https://docs.yandex.ru/docs/view?url=ya ... arova.docx
Kinda looks that way - maybe everything is on the up-and-up, but not sure all of that passes the smell test.

ICYMI, couple of other articles, posts on the same issue:

https://drjessesantiano.com/pentagon-bi ... n-ukraine/

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... raine.html

But, in other news and ICYMI, "Full text: Putin’s declaration of war on Ukraine":

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/ful ... on-ukraine

Paywalled but opening the link in an incognito window seems to work.

One almost has a bit of sympathy for the devil, for Putin's claims. Though many seem rather self-serving at best:
It is well known that for 30 years we have persistently and patiently tried to reach an agreement with the leading Nato countries on the principles of equal and indivisible security in Europe. In response to our proposals, we constantly faced either cynical deception and lies, or attempts to pressure and blackmail, while the North Atlantic Alliance, in the meantime, despite all our protests and concerns, is steadily expanding. The military machine is moving and, I repeat, is coming close to our borders. ....

What I am talking about now concerns not only Russia and not only us. This applies to the entire system of international relations, and sometimes even to the US allies themselves. After the collapse of the USSR, the redivision of the world actually began, and the norms of international law that had developed by that time – and the key, basic ones were adopted at the end of the Second World War and largely consolidated its results – began to interfere with those who declared themselves the winner in the Cold War. ....

You don't have to look far for examples. First, without any sanction from the UN Security Council, they carried out a bloody military operation against Belgrade, using aircraft and missiles right in the very centre of Europe. Several weeks of continuous bombing of civilian cities, on life-supporting infrastructure. We have to remind these facts, otherwise some Western colleagues do not like to remember those events, and when we talk about it, they prefer to point not to the norms of international law, but to the circumstances that they interpret as they see fit. ....

In general, one gets the impression that practically everywhere, in many regions of the world, where the West comes to establish its own order, the result is bloody, unhealed wounds, ulcers of international terrorism and extremism. All that I have said is the most egregious, but by no means the only examples of disregard for international law. ....

As for our country, after the collapse of the USSR, with all the unprecedented openness of the new modern Russia :roll: , the readiness to work honestly with the United States and other Western partners, and in the conditions of virtually unilateral disarmament, they immediately tried to squeeze us, finish off and destroy us completely. This is exactly what happened in the 90s, in the early 2000s, when the so-called collective West most actively supported separatism and mercenary gangs in southern Russia. What sacrifices, what losses did all this cost us then, what trials did we have to go through before we finally broke the back of international terrorism in the Caucasus. We remember this and will never forget.

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This afternoon I went to the event venue for the eyewear fashion label job. Every time I mentioned something on my to-do list... like hang a decorative sailboat-sail across the ceiling... this dyke-ish facilities manager lady would aggressively say, "No! I'll do that!" or "I'll get my guys to do it!" She thinks she's saving a ton of money by cutting hours & days off my workload. She doesn't know I'm paid a flat rate for the entire job, not hourly or dayrate. And I can't enlighten her... or she'll switch tactics & work me like a slave... to get their "money's worth" out of me.

When we arrived onsite-- a minivan-sized wooden prop was in the middle of the space. She had taken the initiative to have it built by 'her guy' from leftover scrap plywood. She didn't tell anybody she was doing this. She saw that we were renting a similar prop-- for $900 per day-- and she thought she could have this one built/ then cancel the rental order. Save $. But it's too late to the cancel the rental... we already paid. And the entire thing is going to be covered with a decorative vinyl wrap... which is custom-ordered to fit the rental unit. Not the one she built.

And yet-- I like her. I think on some animal level-- my mind regards her as a big, hyperactive, slightly-clever/mostly-dumb... possibly dangerous... dog. Like an aging pitbull who thinks she's the boss of the entire farm.




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After a 3 hour workday on that job... I went (with GF & the guy who hired us) to a meeting with a prospective client.

It was in a charmingly run-down midtown office building, not renovated since the 50's or 70's. Or the 1930's! The kind of place where Broadway Danny Rose would have a cramped office...



The 4 storey building once housed a camera repair shop. And a sad little chandelier factory. And a leather-processing & shoe manufacturer... whose owner testified before Congress-- in 1934-- about being shaken-down by Communist-affiliated unions-- in a hearing on "Investigation of Nazi Propaganda Activities and Investigation of Certain other Propaganda Activities". (This was 4 years before the HUAAC "House Un-American Activities Committee" began investigating Communists... culminating in Joseph McCarthy's 1950's hearings). The shoe factory owner's testimony: https://tinyurl.com/2ekdat7s

The narrow building lobby is still stuck in the heyday of Henry Kissinger. The awkward elevator emanates Walter Cronkite. And then... reaching the client's floor... a steampunk-looking door with brass-fittings opens...

To an intensely-elegant retro-moderne office interior. And room after room of more and more of the same.

The only thing I can compare it to... is the otherworldly office complex in the Loki tv show...



The clients are in the design & decor business. All their employees physically resemble crewmates from The Life Aquatic. (But their personal attire is the only category where their style is a little dated. Fraying infinity scarves & danish combat boots & geometric tattoos & black-leather fetish pants. They dress like faculty teaching 3-d printing at a design college in Denver... who are wearing the same clothes as the year they interned in Berlin... in 2003.)

But... I'm tellin' ya... their office and showrooms are fucking stunning.

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They're throwing a series of parties, to showcase their wares, for their peers in the design industry. They're hiring the-guy-who-hired-gf&me... to 'produce' the parties. The insane part is... they're treating their stunning space... as-if it's just a ho-hum interior which needs an extra layer of party-furniture & scenery & lighting & decoration... super-imposed on-top. And then-- 3 days later-- the party decor will all be dismantled in 48 hours... & the anything-but-normal normal decor will be restored.

The theme of the party is... basically Nat King Cole flying into Idlewild airport, picking-up a stewardess in a mod miniskirt, & inviting her to the Rainbow Room. They just wanna evoke the era of Breakfast at Tiffany's.


Despite their undeniable expertise in retro-style-- they're just too young to really 'get' it. They've seen Mad Men, so they think they get it. However: they can't get it. They're too far removed. Their party will be impressive, but it won't be 'correct'.

I'm intimidated by this job. I'm very qualified to play a lesser role... but under-qualified for the level of responsibility I'm assigned. And the guy who hired me is half Joe Biden's age... But... he has quirky space-out moments like Biden. He's probably mixing antidepressants & adderal, or something.

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and that's

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.


the mushroom clouds will solve all the party planning problems.


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You got this dog. You can read their minds... just like you do with all your clients. Ask yourself what they are thinking and what their guests are thinking. You are not making an "authentic" party. You are making an "I think this is authentic" party.

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Dog - maybe try the jazz theme.


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https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ukraine ... mp-1693210
In a comment suggesting who Russia would prefer in the White House, Popov said on Channel One on Tuesday: "It's time for us, our people, to call on the people of the United States to change the regime in the U.S. early, and to again help our partner, Trump, to become president."
But Russia never helped Trump get into power. How could they help him again?

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free thoughtpolice wrote:
Wed Mar 30, 2022 7:32 am
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ukraine ... mp-1693210
In a comment suggesting who Russia would prefer in the White House, Popov said on Channel One on Tuesday: "It's time for us, our people, to call on the people of the United States to change the regime in the U.S. early, and to again help our partner, Trump, to become president."
But Russia never helped Trump get into power. How could they help him again?
That horse died a long time ago. You can stop beating it now.

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ThreeFlangedJavis wrote:
free thoughtpolice wrote:
Wed Mar 30, 2022 7:32 am
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ukraine ... mp-1693210
In a comment suggesting who Russia would prefer in the White House, Popov said on Channel One on Tuesday: "It's time for us, our people, to call on the people of the United States to change the regime in the U.S. early, and to again help our partner, Trump, to become president."
But Russia never helped Trump get into power. How could they help him again?
That horse died a long time ago. You can stop beating it now.
Speaking of dead horses, the Russians say that Hunter Biden took a bribe through his firm Rosemont Seneca Thornton when the has no association with that firm. The firm he cofounded is Rosemont Seneca Partners. It seems if Russian propaganda outfits publish anti-Biden BS the radical rightwingers like the Fox News crowd hungrily lap it up, but if they admit their partnership with Trump it's all old news that was disproven long ago.
The Fox believers eagerly lap up recycled long debunked lies about Biden but studiously ignore any negative news about Trump.
By the way, I'm not a fan of Hunter Biden. He is a loser crackhead that profited off his name unethically. To date, however he has not been shown to have committed a crime, much less one that his father was involved in. He is a piece of shit but the Trumpers had to go further than his misdeeds, as cringeworthy as they were and make stuff up.
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ThreeFlangedJavis wrote:
free thoughtpolice wrote:
Wed Mar 30, 2022 7:32 am
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ukraine ... mp-1693210
In a comment suggesting who Russia would prefer in the White House, Popov said on Channel One on Tuesday: "It's time for us, our people, to call on the people of the United States to change the regime in the U.S. early, and to again help our partner, Trump, to become president."
But Russia never helped Trump get into power. How could they help him again?
That horse died a long time ago. You can stop beating it now.
Um: you, Cavvers, or Doggy telling anyone to stop beating a dead horse?

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Lsuoma wrote:
Wed Mar 30, 2022 10:21 am
ThreeFlangedJavis wrote: That horse died a long time ago. You can stop beating it now.
Um: you, Cavvers, or Doggy telling anyone to stop beating a dead horse?
I personally would never use that idiom. But I recognize there's more than one way to skin a cat.

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free thoughtpolice wrote:
Wed Mar 30, 2022 9:54 am

Speaking of dead horses, the Russians say that Hunter Biden took a bribe through his firm Rosemont Seneca Thornton when the has no association with that firm. The firm he cofounded is Rosemont Seneca Partners. It seems if Russian propaganda outfits publish anti-Biden BS the radical rightwingers like the Fox News crowd hungrily lap it up, but if they admit their partnership with Trump it's all old news that was disproven long ago.
The Fox believers eagerly lap up recycled long debunked lies about Biden but studiously ignore any negative news about Trump.
By the way, I'm not a fan of Hunter Biden. He is a loser crackhead that profited off his name unethically. To date, however he has not been shown to have committed a crime, much less one that his father was involved in. He is a piece of shit but the Trumpers had to go further than his misdeeds, as cringeworthy as they were and make stuff up.
You know who else has a loser crackhead for a son?
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New York Post wrote: Less than a year after opening Rosemont Seneca’s doors, Hunter Biden and Devon Archer were in China, having secured access at the highest levels. Thornton Group’s account of the meeting on their Chinese-language website was telling: Chinese executives “extended their warm welcome” to the “Thornton Group, with its US partner Rosemont Seneca chairman Hunter Biden (second son of the now Vice President Joe Biden).”
So no association there then!

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ThreeFlangedJavis wrote:
free thoughtpolice wrote:
Wed Mar 30, 2022 9:54 am

Speaking of dead horses, the Russians say that Hunter Biden took a bribe through his firm Rosemont Seneca Thornton when the has no association with that firm. The firm he cofounded is Rosemont Seneca Partners. It seems if Russian propaganda outfits publish anti-Biden BS the radical rightwingers like the Fox News crowd hungrily lap it up, but if they admit their partnership with Trump it's all old news that was disproven long ago.
The Fox believers eagerly lap up recycled long debunked lies about Biden but studiously ignore any negative news about Trump.
By the way, I'm not a fan of Hunter Biden. He is a loser crackhead that profited off his name unethically. To date, however he has not been shown to have committed a crime, much less one that his father was involved in. He is a piece of shit but the Trumpers had to go further than his misdeeds, as cringeworthy as they were and make stuff up.
You know who else has a loser crackhead for a son?
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New York Post wrote: Less than a year after opening Rosemont Seneca’s doors, Hunter Biden and Devon Archer were in China, having secured access at the highest levels. Thornton Group’s account of the meeting on their Chinese-language website was telling: Chinese executives “extended their warm welcome” to the “Thornton Group, with its US partner Rosemont Seneca chairman Hunter Biden (second son of the now Vice President Joe Biden).”
So no association there then!
It wouldn't be the first time th NY Post got things wrong. Typically this story was reported as "the company linked to Hunter Biden" which apparently is like "many people are saying".

From Biden's lawyer:
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Trump claimed that Biden's son Hunter Biden got a $3.5 million payment from the wife of the former mayor of Moscow. "Why is it, just out of curiosity, the mayor of Moscow's wife gave your son $3.5 million?" Trump said.

This needs context
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Hunter Biden denies the allegation. His lawyer, George Mesires, told CNN that Hunter Biden was not an owner of the firm Senate Republicans allege received the $3.5 million payment in 2014.

“Hunter Biden had no interest in and was not a ‘co-founder’ of Rosemont Seneca Thornton, so the claim that he was paid $3.5 million is false,” Mesires said.

A partisan investigation conducted by Senate Republicans, whose report was released this month, alleged that Elena Baturina, a Russian businesswoman and the wife of late Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov, sent $3.5 million in 2014 to a firm called Rosemont Seneca Thornton, and that the payment was identified as a “consultancy agreement.” The report did not provide any further details about the transaction.

Hunter Biden was a co-founder and CEO of the investment firm Rosemont Seneca Advisors. But Mesires said Hunter Biden did not co-found Rosemont Seneca Thornton. It’s not clear what connection exists between Rosemont Seneca Advisors and Rosemont Seneca Thornton.

Neither the Senate report nor Trump have provided any evidence that the payment was corrupt or that Hunter Biden committed any wrongdoing.

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John D wrote: Dog - maybe try the jazz theme.
Yeah-- that's the centerpiece. You enter this weird run-down building with a pathetic elevator (are we in the right place?), then that opens into the main lobby for the design firm ... which is on a par with Jacques Tati's Play Time. Drinks are offered (clear beverages only: stains would be costly)... then the sound of live jazz indicates which-way you should proceed... thru the maze of beautiful rooms... to a grammy-nominated band playing. The band is more grown-up & tastefully boring than I'd prefer. Serious business... like Yo Yo Ma at Obama's funeral, someday. (I'd prefer more grit in the elegance, like the music scenes... in the Luke Cage tv show.) But, ok, fine. The client won't say it-- explicitly-- but they're picturing a band of tasteful negroes performing for an audience of hep whites. The actual attendees will be international & mixed. But the reference-point is J.D. Salinger & pert, young Lee Radziwill squarely-appreciating Ella Fitzgerald & Count Basie.
read their minds/what they _think_ is authentic
Thanks for the words of support. That's a good way to think about it.





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Good thing Chris Rock didn't make any yo yo ma jokes, or he'd have been slapped by every black man in the audience.


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Matt Cavanaugh wrote: Good thing Chris Rock didn't make any yo yo ma jokes, or he'd have been slapped by every black man in the audience.
I volunteered at a charity years ago stripping down old computers to go to the third wold. Got friendly with the black guy who often stood next to me. We'd listen to the radio and talk shit. I told a yo mama joke and he told me that the only reason he didn't hit me was that he knew me and to never do that to a black guy again. Different cultures are different.

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Yo mama so bow-legged, Yo Yo Ma and his cello fit between her thighs.

Yo mama so ugly, Beethoven wish he was blind instead of deaf.

Yo mama so fat, Henry Mancini write the Elephant Walk for her.

Yo mama so dumb, she think the Boston Pops is a soft drink.

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BREAKING NEWS!
Woman of the year and ex Kardashian Caitlyn Jenner lands job at Fox News.
https://deadline.com/2022/03/fox-news-s ... 234991712/

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Matt Cavanaugh wrote: Yo mama so bow-legged, Yo Yo Ma and his cello fit between her thighs.

Yo mama so ugly, Beethoven wish he was blind instead of deaf.

Yo mama so fat, Henry Mancini write the Elephant Walk for her.

Yo mama so dumb, she think the Boston Pops is a soft drink.
:-) Yo mama so old, she not even a woman ... ;-)

But seem to recollect an amusing scene with "yo moma" jokes in The Last Boy Scout - great movie:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Boy_Scout

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free thoughtpolice wrote: BREAKING NEWS!
Woman of the year and ex Kardashian Caitlyn Jenner lands job at Fox News.
https://deadline.com/2022/03/fox-news-s ... 234991712/
:-) Likely to cause some serious "cognitive dissonance" among the woke and transgendered ...

Comfort the afflicted, afflict the comfortable.

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Yo mama so old, she dated ENIAC in high school.

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Matt Cavanaugh wrote: Yo mama so old, she dated ENIAC in high school.
:-) Ah, those were the days when men were adult human males, and real programmers (tm) used only machine language and front panel switches for programming ... ;-)

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Yo mama so ugly, even the tide wouldn't take her out.

Yo mama so ugly, she wakes up at frat parties with more clothes on.

Yo mama so ugly, she can't even get a date off the calendar.

Yo mama so ugly, she could get a part time job haunting houses.

:P

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Yo Yo Ma so fat, he has to play his cello like a violin.

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Yo! Yo Yo Ma! Yo' po' ho mama so so-so yo' yo-yo no go to kokomo no mo.

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Dr Bob seems to be getting in trouble again for expressing his views...

Copious background detail in the following (starting at the 21 min mark)...






Though I'm sure some will enjoy Pinecreek's shorter vids more:


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Lsuoma wrote:
Wed Mar 30, 2022 10:21 am
ThreeFlangedJavis wrote:
free thoughtpolice wrote:
Wed Mar 30, 2022 7:32 am
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ukraine ... mp-1693210
In a comment suggesting who Russia would prefer in the White House, Popov said on Channel One on Tuesday: "It's time for us, our people, to call on the people of the United States to change the regime in the U.S. early, and to again help our partner, Trump, to become president."
But Russia never helped Trump get into power. How could they help him again?
That horse died a long time ago. You can stop beating it now.
Um: you, Cavvers, or Doggy telling anyone to stop beating a dead horse?

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Do you expect that this will work?

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MarcusAu wrote:
Do you expect that this will work?
Soap pads, pshaw. In olden times, an actual nigrah chile stood next to the sink and you used their head for scouring pots & pans on.

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Matt Cavanaugh wrote:
Fri Apr 01, 2022 7:44 am
Soap pads, pshaw. In olden times, an actual nigrah chile stood next to the sink and you used their head for scouring pots & pans on.
Fucking Australians...


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Time to admit that Matt is right to question the veracity of Robert Barnes. I always got that Barnes is wont to over-egg the pudding and can overstate the strength of evidence, but now I am beginning to question the honesty of his legal opinions and certainly doubt the integrity of the sources he quotes. I'm noting too many instances of him reeling off a list of media sources and "facts" with absolute confidence when they are at the least highly dubious. He is very forceful in his opinions and I think it leads a lot of listeners to accept is opinions as fact. He's very clearly intelligent and knowledgeable so I suspect that he might be aware of what he is doing. I know that a lot of what he says is very solidly fact-based but I am sure now that he has no qualms about presenting the not-so-fact-based with equal certitude. I'm a little concerned about his influence over Viva Frei, who I regard as well intentioned, because I think he's going to get burned by what I see as his naivete about Barnes. Every now and then he will note a contradiction or flaw in Barne's rhetoric but he is almost apologetic about pushing back. It all came to a head for me with Barnes pushing the full suite of allegations of Ukrainian atrocities in the Donbas. He gave a list of so-called independent sources, but the first one I checked was Patrick Lancaster who turned out to be an obvious Russian mouthpiece who hangs around with DPR types and frequently works with a Russian mercenary in the DPR.

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Over the last few weeks, I leaned toward the same conclusion about Barnes.

And, listening earlier today, I thought, "This guy was so clear-headed against Lin Wood, Sindey Powell, QAnon... and in this moment he IS the equivalent to them."

My one caveat in Barnes' favor-- is that I don't mind hearing one-sided versions of the truth-- as long as I've got something to balance it against.

(But I'm not following Ukraine-stuff closely-enough to catch every lopsided opinion Barnes' sneaks-in as fact.)

I don't view Frei as an innocent victim of Barnes. Frei seems like a normal well-rounded dude... but then he displays quirks... infrequent-but-pronounced... which suggest to me that his bubbly, normie onscreen persona is not the whole story. I think he's more a 'crank' than he first appears. (Sort of like Eric & Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying.) I'm not saying he's full of shit. I'm saying he leads-with his easy-to-like side/ & keeps his harder-to-like side close to the vest.

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I've been seeing headlines for at-least 2 months, that Jen Psaki has been negotiating with 5 of the television networks in her briefing room, arranging an on-air golden parachute job for herself, after she leaves government service.

Finally, someone asks whether that's a conflict of interest.


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Service Dog wrote: Over the last few weeks, I leaned toward the same conclusion about Barnes.
Caca Dau, VC?

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More video game clips from the Ukrainian General Staff:

https://fb.watch/c7rIbLAjlI/

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Brilliant:


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Lsuoma wrote: Brilliant
Indeed.

Just got back from my morning hobble (sans hounds, it's just not the same) and am sat with my first brew of the day. Yup, morning walk, coffee and a good shit-post! Life is good...

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Dawn chorus:



This band should have been much, much bigger.

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Started following a Youtube girl solo-ing the AT. Announcement video. Gear acquisition. Practice runs. And then into it.

27 days in she’s off trail in tears because there’s nothing on track she hasn’t got at home - but a whole lot less. 🤷‍♂️

Ok. Switch to another girl who seems to be solo killing it at day 15. Binge all the context videos and then catch her up to day 23. I see on day 10 she had a mini breakdown. 🤷‍♂️ Rocks on.

Day 23 and her 15 year old cat threatens to pull the plug. More 😭 🤨

Day 24 she’s back home and the cats dead.

Fuck me. It’s a 160 day hike which seems to attract mentally broken women desperate to prove they are strong and whole. And failing.

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Nothing to see here.


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Brive1987 wrote: Fuck me. It’s a 160 day hike which seems to attract mentally broken women desperate to prove they are strong and whole. And failing.
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What are these "women" you speak of?

#NotABiologist

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So - yeah. Sometimes Peterson goes in a strange direction... and sometimes his stories are "just so" kind of explanations. But, IMHO, when he gets on a roll he is pretty inspirational. I am going to see him tomorrow in Detroit with some friends at the Filmore Detroit.

Maybe it is just me... but I think I am not alone. This little rant helps me focus on improving my behavior. LISTEN! I fail at this far too often. LISTEN!


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