It’s been a while since you know who has graced this page.
Miss Hepburn advocated for and worked very hard for various children’s causes.
This is her favorite picture of herself:
Another:
Here’s a bonus one of her and some actor on the set of Sabrina:
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You can never go wrong with Audrey. I’m having my coffee and packing up to head out. But I’ll make one last walk to the pier before I go.
Mornin’ Gang
It’s FRIDAY! Unfortunately, I have to go to a memorial service for my children’s maternal grandmother.
Good morning Super Dave.
We were driving down to the Shrimp Basket last week and I pointed out the vacant lot where the Miracle Strip Amusement Park used to be. My son looked it up on his phone and commented that the Starliner Wooden Roller Coaster looked great. I’d not given it much thought but it was one of the better coasters that I’ve been on. A couple of friends and I rode it 11 times in a row one night, until our tickets ran out. Every time the coaster stopped we handed over the tickets without getting out. The next year they wouldn’t let us do that, you had to get out and get back in line. I figure that the teenager operating the coaster just didn’t know any better. Here is the vacant lot where the park used to be. It’s really sad that it’s gone now but PC Beach is no longer a family N kids kind of place it’s been taken over by big condo’s and apparently folks with lots of money. The park was in operation from 1963 until 2004.
OK I’m not believing this, but I slipped two links past the Goal Posts in my @ 6:03 AM. 😀
Back from the pier. 7:50 AM and Graveyard Dead. Can I kill a blog or what. 😀
There are two Audrey Hepburn Children’s Houses in America – one in New Orleans and one in Hackensack about 5 minutes from my house in the Hackensack University Medical Center. It is one of 23 buildings in the medical campus. Here is one of two exterior photos I could find and it’s on Google Maps with the NYC skyline in the background
The Audrey Hepburn Children’s House at Joseph M. Sanzari Children’s Hospital is a state-designated Regional Diagnostic Center for child abuse and neglect. We provide services for infants, children and adolescents who are suspected victims of abuse, as well as their families. This unique, private environment is designed to maintain confidentiality.
The Audrey Hepburn Children’s House addresses all aspects of child abuse while ensuring patients and families are treated with respect and compassion.
Kamala Harris says that she’ll fix the price/inflation problem on Day 1. SO! WTH has she been doing for the last 1300+ days? Asking for a friend. 😀
She is going to create massive shortages in everything she attempts to control. Wage and price controls always create shortages; it happens every time it is tried. When Trump is re-elected (please ELOHIM) we won’t likely have to be concerned with the Kackler anymore.
How about that? Texpat snuck in and saved the Blog while I was pecking away. 😉
Well, yesterday’s headache is disappeared. Yay me! I’ve made my morning rosary and listened to my podcasts, now think I’m going to listen to my rosary and pray it as I go out and water what’s left of my garden. I’ll see if the bugs have left me anything to harvest. I know I have some volunteer tomato plants coming up in one of my bins, since I compost in place. I have no idea what kind of tomatoes they are, or even if they’ll fruit true or not. They may be from hybrid seeds. Anyway, gardening for me is always an adventure. I never know what’s going to happen, or even if I’ll be able to finish, because of mosquitoes. And I’m feeling well enough today, and I think I have enough time too, to actually get on the treadmill and exercise today.
And it was spam, with mayo and American cheese product
It was August 6, 1762, when the Earl of Sandwich found himself hungry. He ordered meat between two pieces of bread, and you know the rest…
Good Morning Hamsters,
Sunny this morning and plenty of shade in the front pasture so spouse mowed that before the sun takes over for the day. Yesterday afternoon rain came close to us, but that was all. It stopped at the edge of the neighboring subdivision again. Must be an invisible wall there.
Our VP Harris talks a lot about doing things for Americans, but that’s as far as it gets. Meanwhile the Prez is conveniently in seclusion but has not been officially relieved of his duties. And our enemies wonder just what is going on right along with Americans. Difference is they’ve got spies and ours are apparently at lunch or something right at home.
Kamala’s long-time foreign policy guru, Phil Gordon, is a snake. He fraternizes with close friend, Ariane Tabatabai, who is a Pentagon official with top level security clearance. She’s an Iranian spy and everybody in the Pentagon and State Dept knows it.
Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) and Rep. Elise Stefanik (R., N.Y.) launched the inquiry last month into Harris adviser Phil Gordon’s longstanding relationship with Pentagon official Ariane Tabatabai, who was outed last year as an alleged member of an Iranian-run influence network that reported back to Tehran’s foreign ministry.
Cotton and Stefanik gave Harris an Aug. 9 deadline to provide detailed information about Gordon’s relationship with Tabatabai and links to pro-Tehran advocacy groups, which the lawmakers said raise questions about his eligibility to hold a top-secret security clearance. Harris did not reply.
Last September:
Ariane Tabatabai, a senior Pentagon official with top-secret security clearance, was outed in a Semafor report this week as an alleged member of an Iranian-run influence network that reported back to Tehran’s foreign ministry and helped push its policies among Washington policymakers. Tabatabai’s alleged links to the organization prompted a congressional probe and calls among Republicans for her security clearance to be yanked.
The Pentagon, in comments to the Washington Free Beacon Tuesday, defended Tabatabai, claiming she was “thoroughly and properly vetted as a condition of her employment.” But now the Defense Department says it is “looking into whether all law and policy was properly followed in granting” Tabatabai a security clearance.
The investigation was disclosed Thursday by Chris Maier, the assistant secretary of defense for special operations, during testimony before Congress. Tabatabai serves as Maier’s chief of staff.
Solid state potassium batteries have the potential to travel 1000 miles with the same weight as lithium batteries (that might go 300 miles) and be able to charge in 10 minutes. Further, they are far less likely than lithium batteries to catch fire. If Tesla makes the switch from lithium to potassium solid state batteries, it could be a game changer. 10 minutes to get an 80% charge is a big deal.
There were conservatives years ago who warned about Candace Owens and I kind of ignored them. I realize now how right they were.
Candace Owens, a social influencer whose antisemitic conspiracy theories have become infamous, claimed on her program that Stalin was Jewish and kabbalists are pedophiles.
Speaking on her weekly show with Tristan Tate, who, along with his brother Andrew, has been charged with human trafficking, Candace Owens focused on gender theory, the media, pedophilia, and historical figures.
but,
There is no evidence that Stalin was Jewish or that his wife was Jewish, but his daughter Svetlana did marry a Jew, something that became a bone of contention between her and her father.
Stalin’s son Yakov also married a Jewish woman, something that reportedly upset him because he disliked Jews.
In his memoirs, Nikita Khrushchev said Stalin had a “hostile attitude toward the Jewish nation.”
Owens and Tate also claimed that Germans were ethnically cleansed during WWII, something both felt was the fault of the Jews.
Owens said, “So many of the people who executed those crimes [against Germans] were then protected by the state of Israel.”
She then compared Jews who supported Israel “when they’re killing children” is similar to African Americans defending George Floyd and Black Lives Matter.
Finished with gardening. Not much out there except those dang leaf footed sap suckers and their progeny. They all got insecticided, but I hold no hope that they will disappear, even shortly.
My lamb’s ears have cratered. I wish I’d eaten more of them before they died. Something happened when Beryl came through; before that, they were quite healthy.
I put out my compost tea before watering everything. Rhet is quite full since we’ve been getting rain this year, so they all received a good, long drink. I’ve neglected them over the last few days. I’ll see who/how things perk up.
Or not.
In the end, it’s always the Jews fault.
Lesley Klaff explained this particular phenomenon in 2014. “What has been called ‘Holocaust Inversion,’” she wrote in Fathom, “involves an inversion of reality (the Israelis are cast as the ‘new’ Nazis and the Palestinians as the ‘new’ Jews), and an inversion of morality (the Holocaust is presented as a moral lesson for, or even a moral indictment of ‘the Jews’). … The Holocaust … is now being used, instrumentally, as a means to express animosity towards the homeland of the Jews.”
and,
While this phenomenon has been at play for at least a decade, it is now, disturbingly, going mainstream. When Sex and the City actress Cynthia Nixon appeared on The View in December, she told her hosts, to much applause, that her oldest child, “has been reaching out to my wife and I and asking us, imploring us really to say, use your voice to affirm as loudly as you can that never again means never again for anyone.” Never again, obviously, is a reference to the Holocaust, and Nixon’s analogy constructs Jews as the new Nazis. That the analogy was based on claims that were categorically false didn’t seem to register, to her or to anyone on The View.
plus,
The point of Holocaust inversion, of course, is to legitimize violence against Jews. After all, if they are Nazis, they must deserve it. This was made clear in June, when Within Our Lifetime founder Nerdeen Kiswani led those who gathered to protest an exhibit about the Nova music festival in a chant claiming the festival was “like having a rave right next to the gas chambers during the Holocaust.” Gaza, in her absurd analogy, was like the gas chambers. And the Israeli ravegoers, according to her logic, deserved what they got.
I’ve started my freeze drying coffee experiment. I made a full carafe of coffee and doctored it to my taste before pouring it into my silicone muffin cups. Seven of those will make one of my morning mugs of coffee. After they are FD’d, I’ll measure out the dry stuff from seven pucks and then I’ll know what the rehydration ratio will be.
Then, when I go on the road, all I need is hot water to have my coffee loaded with my favorite flavorings and my collagen, etc.
Again, I’ll never understand why the Jews get such global disdain and mistreatment.
Are they any worse than, say, the Taliban? The Muslims? The communists?
As far as I can tell, Jews are just like everyone else (except the tyrannicals listed above.) As I always say: people are people, no matter where (or for today’s liberals – when) they are. There are good ones and bad ones. Devout and not. I’m sure the Jewish community even has its share of Karens and also cops.
Their homeland is a tiny piece of dirt surrounded by people who’d rather see them dead, yet they treat them with respect within their boundaries. Muslims can worship the way they want. IIRC, there are even muslims in government. Christians, Muslims, and Jews are cared for in their hospitals.
What is the deal? Jealousy?
Every adult citizen of Israel can vote – Jew, Muslim, Christian, Druze – and there are a number of Arab members of the national legislature, the Knesset.
But…but…but….they are FASCISTS!!!
I just want a line up of all the liberal liars, so I can go down the line and slap the ever lovin’ wiss outta them.
Good morning, C&C, it’s Friday! Finally. In today’s dramatic, progressive roundup: we check in on the progress of the Proxy War, if ‘progress’ means a long, painful slide into abject failure; Middle East peace negotiations made progress yesterday, if ‘progress’ means they spent a lot of money and talked for a long time without agreeing on anything; progress in data security as all our social security numbers are in the wind after a massive data breach that ‘may’ have delivered our personal data to the Dark Web; and more good news for us, bad news for them, as financial and regulatory progress for covid shot makers salivating over fall combo shots ‘falters.’
It’s a good thing we spend trillions on national security and have a DHS otherwise we’d have millions and millions of illegal aliens coming across the border and being flown in, lawlessness in the streets and massive data breaches every other day that compromise hundreds of millions of American citizens sensitive information.
on the bright side at least we’re funding every Ukrainian in their country with trillions.
BTW, have I mentioned lately how much I’m enjoying my homemade mayo? It’s so easy to make, and so much more delicious than the store bought stuff. And no inflammatory seed oils, so there’s that.
I’m planning on making some tuna fish today. Guess what I’ll be mixing into it. 😉
Barack Obama, Kamala Harris and the end of Joe Biden. Lee Smith writes:
He the People
But last Wednesday’s pro-Hamas riots in Washington, D.C.—in which domestic left-wing extremists linked arms with Middle East terror supporters and other foreigners to burn the American flag, deface monuments, and brawl with police, all in the name of protesting Netanyahu’s speech before a joint session of Congress—was only the latest evidence that the crux of Biden’s Oct. 7 problem was not that Michigan and Minnesota’s voter rolls are swollen with advocates of Muslim and Arab terror. The issue was not a party constituency at all, but rather the party itself and its leader. Barack Obama fundamentally reshaped the party when he struck the 2015 deal legalizing the nuclear weapons program of Hamas’ sponsor, Iran. By legitimizing the apocalyptic foreign policy aims of the world power that embodies Jew hatred, Obama sidelined the Jews and other centrists and made the progressive, anti-Israel faction the party’s new center of gravity.
The media did yeoman’s work obscuring the details and purpose of the agreement, but the fact is, by putting Iran’s bomb under a protective American umbrella, Obama was arming an American adversary to make it his own ally. The Iran deal was the first clear sign that Obama was not a normal U.S. commander in chief. When Biden extended even half-hearted, halting support to Israel’s response to Oct. 7, he crossed the only real red line Obama has ever had. Harris—who, unlike Biden, has no foreign policy beliefs or instincts of her own—never will.
I usually skip the Ukraine stuff, but this caught my eye this morning:
At the risk of boring readers who, like yours truly, follow the daily inch-by-muddy-inch Proxy War news, we must first backfill a little. Last week, Ukraine sprang a dramatic surprise attack. Using around 14,000 of its last, best troops, and a vast array of critical, impossible-to-replace war equipment, Ukraine tried to flip the script by invading Russia in a quiet, remote, sparsely populated area on the northeast corner of the map.
In other words, bantam-sized President Zelensky boldy let slip the dogs of war. But in this case, the dogs of war were more like the miniature poodles of war.
The most rational explanation for this desperate gamble is that Ukraine sought by surprise to snatch a Russian nuclear power plant lying about 70 kilometers from the two countries’ shared border. Had it worked, Ukraine could have traded the power plant back, forcing major Russian concessions. But Ukraine denies this was its objective, and so the “real story” remains, like so much else these days, murky and unclear.
It looks a lot like the Russians knew they were coming. So Ukraine’s most experienced units are now, a week later, rattling angrily around inside a killing box inside Russia, scores of miles from the power plant, far from reinforcements or supply lines, trying to … something. We don’t know yet.
Ukraine may have just served up its last remaining fighting force to Russia on a silver salver.
The bigger problem, as the Journal’s article soberly informed readers, was that, to scrape together 14,000 effective soldiers, Ukraine had to take them away from other places on the immense frontline. The predictable result is that Russia, already grinding inexorably westwards through Ukraine, is now skipping westwards in a sort of military frolic.
I wonder if Zelensky will be brought up on some kind of war crimes charge later on, when the fad of Zelensky passes? He’s decimated his country’s population, and the cannon fodder he fed to the Russians will limit future population growth for decades to come. All of those war widows with kids will have to be cared for, and few men to do the manly work involved in the heavy industries that will be needed to rebuild.
Feminists, unite! Send your Amazons to Ukraine to lay concrete, build office buildings, plow the fields, drill oil wells! Burn your bras and weld up iron!
After discussing the massive SS number data snatch by hackers, and advising everyone to lock down their credit records with the big 3 credit reporting agencies
(go here to learn how: https://www.usa.gov/credit-freeze ) Mr. C goes on to mRNA news:
Last week, Bloomberg ran a very encouraging story headlined, “BioNTech’s Loss Is Wider Than Expected as Vaccine Sales Hurt.” Poor babies. I wonder what could be hurting vaccine sales? Probably those wily anti-vaxxers again, misinforming everybody.
BioNTech is the German pharma company that partnered with Pfizer to produce the unsafe and ineffective covid mRNA shots. According to the article, it lost $886 million dollars last quarter. Almost a billion bucks, in one quarter. That shocking shortfall was over four times as much as the company’s $208 million loss from the second quarter of 2023.
Things seem to be headed in the wrong financial direction. Baffling.
But don’t worry too much about BioNTech. They are sitting on cash reserves of $20 billion dollars, and have a new slew of safe and effective mRNA cancer drugs ‘in the pipeline.’ And it plans for a robust fourth quarter this year, since it partnered with Pfizer on a one-shot flu-covid combo jab. It’s almost there, but not quite. Whoopsies: [insert headline citing “faltering” double jab efforts]
Yeah. I’ll be sure to be first in line. /sarc off/ Actually, I share the sentiments of Mr. Childers:
Sure, there are a bunch of die-hard medical fetishists out there desperate to snap up a few doses, but as for me and my family, that is a hard pass. I would rather inject bleach.
Into my eyeball.
Doing that might be safer than taking the jab, actually.
Hubby woke me up this morning. I love my morning kisses. Anyway, he shared with me that his new baby is about ready to be birthed. We have a friend from our old parish whose trade is upholstery work; he used to work for airlines, as a matter of fact. A lot more goes into those airline seats than I knew.
He’s done headliners for Hubby before. This time, it’s the whole car, including the ragtop. The hood is being painted. Hubby has actually driven the car around the block a few times. It’s not running well and he thinks he over-pressed a steering wheel bearing when putting it together, but it’s running and drivable.
His first car show – the one he’s been working so hard for – is the weekend of August 23rd. I’m sure he’ll turn heads. This thing started out as a chassis and a VW bug body, chopped to lower the roof. Nothing else. I’ll try to post some pictures, because this will be one very unique vehicle. Chopped and cut out behind the front seats, with a “mailbox” (a very long sliding drawer behind the driver, suicide doors (they turned out to be much more difficult than anticipated), Subaru engine (water cooled, not air cooled – a common modification in the VW community), lift hatch in the back, rebuilt ragtop, etc. Everything on it is custom.
He sounded so happy this morning, so excited. This has been his dream for years. He’s not going to tackle the stiff steering now, but he’ll probably pay a guy to do the computer adjustment on his fuel injection system. He mentioned that College Buddy would have that adjustment done in no time, and I commented that it’s times like this that we really miss him. CB and Hubby shared a love of Volkswagen vehicles, and I can just see his grin in my mind now, if he were here to see what Hubby has wrought. CB would be so proud.
Fifth Circuit, Judge Ho, and the (in)validity of J6 geofencing warrants.
I wonder if/when folks will be freed? /not holding breath
I thought it was illegal to buy votes?!
When Vice President Kamala Harris unveils her economic policy proposals in Raleigh, North Carolina, on Friday, it will include a proposal to provide up to $25,000 in down payment support for first-time homebuyers, according to a campaign official.
The campaign is vowing that during its first term, the Harris-Walz administration would provide working families who have paid their rent on time for two years and are buying their first home up to $25,000 in down-payment assistance, with more generous support for first-generation homeowners.
Just WHERE is this money coming from? And wasn’t crap like this an underlying factor in the last housing crisis?
And dr Phil good’s diagnosis of the massive data breach that just happened
It was done to create more chaos before the 2024 election.
why was national public data allowed to have all that sensitive data centralized?
I still say it was an inside job.
when it comes to this totally corrupt government always think outside the box.
Dr. Malone’s Friday Funnies. Like the WIP, but a day earlier.
Wouldn’t it be real funny if Biden gets back in the race and challenges the Kackler for the D nomination at the convention?
This is what Big Corp always does. Instead of coming up with a better mousetrap and competing by invention amid improvisation, they use the “regulatory capture” route and try to sabotage the competition via cronies in the government.
AT&T and Verizon are urging telecom regulators to reject a key part of SpaceX’s plan to offer cellular service with T-Mobile, claiming the satellite system will interfere with and degrade service for terrestrial mobile broadband networks.
Filings urging the Federal Communications Commission to deny SpaceX’s request for a waiver were submitted by AT&T and Verizon this week. The plan by SpaceX’s Starlink division also faces opposition from satellite companies EchoStar (which owns Dish and Hughes) and Omnispace.
SpaceX and T-Mobile plan to offer Supplemental Coverage from Space (SCS) for T-Mobile’s cellular network using SpaceX satellites. As part of that plan, SpaceX is seeking a waiver of FCC rules regarding out-of-band emission limits.
This is why Hollywood and the movie industry is imploding. Even high level executives are getting laid off. A) Screenwriters are remarkably stupid these days and it is self-evident. B) Can Gal Gadot get any more beautiful ? Mercy !
That is hilarious! Probably not the best PR move if one wanted to improve relations; however it does send quite a clear message.
As Glenn Reynolds says: The last Republican mayor of Chicago left in 1931.
In 1920, Chicago had 2,700,000 people. In 1950, Chicago had 3,600,000 people. In 2022, Chicago had 2,660,000, less than a hundred years ago.
Houston has 2,320,000 today and given current trends it will pass Chicago soon and become the third largest city in America. In my lifetime, Chicago has lost almost 1,000,000 people in population. Half of them were shot and the other half ran for their lives.
Well, James, I take it back. You are a world class asshat.
Not only that, we now have the long reach of your ignorance. Nearly, two-thirds of Israeli citizens are “people of color”, you idiot.
Democratic strategist James Carville during a Thursday podcast said Republicans only characterize themselves as Israel supporters because Jews are more white than Palestinians.
Over 70% of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents report having a positive view of Israel, while only 44% of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents share this perception, according to Pew Research Center in 2022. Carville, on “Politics War Room,” said “racism” is what motivates the views of Israelis and Palestinians in response to a listener’s question regarding the Republican Party’s alleged embrace of “neo-Nazis,” which the listener suggested is inconsistent with the party’s pro-Israel stance.
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Israel has 9.2 million citizens.
Over two thirds are people of color. Among them are Sephardic, Ethiopian, Ashkenazi, Mizrachi and more !
Watch the hilarious video clip of all the White Colonizers in Israel !
We can’t get rid of these people fast enough.
Mark Christie, a top power grid regulator, is deeply concerned that the Biden administration’s aggressive power plant regulations will severely diminish energy reliability, he wrote in a letter to lawmakers this week.
Christie, who serves as a commissioner on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), warned that the power plant rules finalized by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in April could be “catastrophic” for the U.S. if they come into effect, according to his letter to three Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee. The EPA’s regulations, which have been challenged in court by Republican state attorneys general and a top utility trade group, will require existing coal plants to install carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology to capture 90% of their emissions by 2032 if they want to stay operate beyond 2039, and certain new natural gas plants will also have to slash their emissions by 90% by 2032.
Ditching Chevron makes the EPA much easier to sue and win against + this is a 10th Amendment winner. States set the emissions standards for what happens inside their boundaries. Tell the EPA to go suck on a dog’s rear end. When it goes to court discovery comes into play and the malfeasance of the feds will be known to all and the feds can’t risk the disinfecting effects of sunshine.
I want to get the hair extension and women’s high heel shoe contract for Fox News. If I could do that along with delivering the 55 gallon barrels of blonde hair color they buy, I would be living in Fat City.
How about having the contract for the dresser-upper guy, you know it’s a guy….
James Carville during a Thursday podcast said Republicans only characterize themselves as Israel supporters because Jews are more white than Palestinians
the left’s hatred of whites is off the charts.
here we see the Kamel mock and the last Putz, playing the ultra hip, white cuck, male communist liberal, who loves being beat up and trampled on by all the other races.
white communist liberals relish their own demise.
it’s all a reflection of their boss, the communist Kenyan, whose only talent is stoking racial hatred of whites and division amongst all.
the comments are quite good on this one.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/08/kamala-mocks-white-people.php
Welp it looks as all the not so young dudes and dudettes are out by 5:42pm.
holy jamolee.
geritol stock must’ve closed way down today.
I’m trying to put a VW car club patch on a shirt for Hubby.
My first two attempts to attach it didn’t work, so I’m on #3. My hands are busy.
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