Lee Remick (1935-1990)
American stage, film, and television actress
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Good morning, fellow insomniacs.
Ms. Remick with Orson Welles in The Long, Hot Summer (1958).
One of my favorites.
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Ms. Remick with Jack Lemmon in Days Of Wine And Roses (1962).
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Good morning gang; my lovely Mrs. and I are headed to Lake Oconee in Georgia for a few days of R&R. Try not to burn the place down.
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That is an odd lake in Georgia to head off to so I’m guessing that Golf might be involved in some way. Have fun and wave if you flt over L.A. 😀
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Third? Mmmm K I’d say Lee Remick is a pretty good choice for Blonde Friday, I approve. Well we got a little rain last night almost a half an inch (.48″) so we’ll take it.
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I had a boyhood crush on Lee Remick.
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You were a boy so….
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The Oreo Box surely doesn’t say 16 Oreos.…….. 😀
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The leftist mentality and arrogant attitude of these government employees makes me want to fire every single one of them. They don’t care if millions identify as long as get to keep their lab running.
Violations of safety protocol at the research facility were uncovered by Jeffrey Taubenberger on his first day as Acting Director of the NIAID, the NIH Institute formerly run by Anthony Fauci. Fort Detrick houses multiple government germ labs, including the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases. The Army’s lab was shut down in 2009 and again in 2019, both times due to safety concerns.
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Incidents in November and March occurred under the watch of NIAID Director Jeanne Marrazzo, who was let go last month during a round of federal cuts. The NIH also uncovered poor documentation of select agents, with logs not matching inventory, although all missing vials have apparently been accounted for.
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Gronvall has been an ardent supporter of dangerous gain-of-function virus research, much of which was ended yesterday with an executive order signed by President Trump.
Gronvall did not respond to questions asking if she felt a lab that studies deadly infectious diseases such as SARS-COV-2, the Ebola virus, Lassa Fever and Eastern equine encephalitis should be shut down following dangerous safety breaches.
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Attorney General Ken Paxton announced that his office has initiated legal proceedings against Austin Independent School District, accusing the district of violating state law by promoting Critical Race Theory in the classroom.
The legal action seeks to depose Austin ISD Superintendent Matias Segura and members of the district’s board of trustees as part of an investigation into what Paxton’s office alleges is an “unwritten policy” of advancing CRT through curriculum and instruction, despite a state ban.
According to a release from Paxton’s office, the move comes after officials received information that Austin ISD employees had referenced materials related to the controversial “1619 Project,” which has been explicitly prohibited in Texas classrooms.
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GJT, everybody’s getting on the bus to tariff Chinese junk man-lifts.
The European Commission said on Monday it had imposed duties of up to 66.7 percent on imports of Chinese machines that lift construction workers after concluding that the producers were benefiting from unfair subsidies and selling at artificially low prices.
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The extra duties on Chinese mobile access equipment (MAE) will range from 20.6 percent to 66.7 percent, the Commission said, as it sought to protect domestic producers in the EU market worth more than 1 billion euros [per] year.
The tariffs are the latest in a series of EU anti-dumping and anti-subsidy duties focused on Chinese imports, including a high-profile investigation into Chinese-built electric vehicles, which culminated last October.
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I’ve seen several Chinese manufactured aerial lifts. It’s infuriating to look them over and you see the mish mash of stolen technology from American made machines, you see the frame is an exact replica of this manufacturer’s design, the boom or scissor arms from another, control systems etc from yet another. Customers who purchased them are idiots as with equipment anymore being so digitized/computerized, tech support is crucial. Any support on them is virtually non existent.
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This the weird story of the week. Can somebody explain this to me ?
Rep. Cory Mills (R-Fla.), a rising star in Republican circles and on TV news, told Blaze News he was married by a radical Muslim cleric but did not realize it at the time.
Mills rocketed to the heights of political celebrity over the past four years, thanks to his television appearances, several high-profile rescues of Americans from Israel, Afghanistan, and Haiti, and the support of President Donald Trump. Mills was an Army medic from 1999 to 2003 and a private subcontractor in Iraq and the Middle East from 2005 to 2009. He has represented Florida’s East Coast 7th Congressional District since 2022, when he rode Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’ “red wave” into office.
Running on a pro-Christian, America First platform, Mills’ website says: “Cory is a father, patriot, combat veteran, entrepreneur, foreign policy expert, and true American conservative.”
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Popping in briefly as I take a quick break from packing (and leaving): I see that Fox News is interviewing every leftwing cardinal to discuss the seemingly leftwing Pope.
Anthony Stine discusses the new Pontiff. It’s a longer podcast than usual, but he covers what we know about his background and potential future decisions.
As Stine says, the graces of the office have changed Popes in the past, we can hope this again. But when folks like James Martin, Cupich, et al, were giddy over this choice, my skin started to crawl.
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The most rigorous academic investigation to date comes from a team at North Carolina State University. In a peer-reviewed study analyzing over 318,000 campaign emails sent during the 2020 U.S. election, the researchers created hundreds of fresh accounts across Gmail, Outlook, and Yahoo, subscribing equally to Republican and Democratic mailing lists. Their finding was straightforward and alarming: Gmail, the most widely used email service on earth, flagged as spam nearly 77% of emails sent by Republican campaigns. In contrast, just under 10% of Democratic emails were filtered. The disparity wasn’t marginal. It was systematic, and it worsened the closer the calendar crept to Election Day.
This sort of differential treatment might be defensible if it could be accounted for by differences in content, formatting, or compliance. It cannot. The researchers controlled for those variables. They found that the political affiliation of the sender, rather than any objective feature of the email, was the primary predictor of whether it would land in the inbox or the spam folder.
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Estimates from Republican digital operatives suggest that Gmail’s filtering cost GOP candidates more than $1.5 billion in lost contributions in 2020 alone. Add another $530 million in 2022. The figures are staggering, and they are not theoretical. They are drawn from internal data and campaign performance metrics. If Big Tech handed a $2 billion in-kind contribution to one party, the Federal Election Commission would rightly investigate. But when the mechanism is spam filtering, the silence is deafening.
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This owl in flight photo by Steve Woods Photography is as amazing as any I’ve ever seen.
HT: Ace
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The most secure pope election ever.
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My initial reaction was similar. Pope Leo IV spent years in South America as a missionary and has joint American-Peruvian citizenship. I thought this is not going to go well for Trump.
Daniel Greenfield:
Why pick the first American Pope now? Robert Prevost was made Pope Leo XIV as a counterweight to President Trump.
There’s been little ambiguity about the new pope’s politics and less about the overall agenda.
Pope Francis had all but rigged the process to assure another radical successor.
President Trump’s return represents an ongoing institutional crisis. The ideological battleground is going to be the border and Prevost has been chosen to lead the response in the largest sense possible.
Choosing an American Pope is supposed to raise the stakes and elevate a leader with the stature to rally opposition to Trump and more specifically to his immigration policies by invoking the familiar tropes about the need for welcoming in every single migrant.
That’s what this is about.
This is less about the long-term future and more about the next four years.
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If the new pope ends up being like the previous pope regarding illegal aliens and believing the USA needs to accept them all then I say deport all illegal aliens to the Vatican so he can lead by example.
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Just heard an interview by Leo’s bruh. The bruh said there is not much difference between Leo and Frank.
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Good Friday morning, Hamsters
We finally got some decent rain yesterday and some overnight, but a dribble 5/100th this morning. Windy again today with trees swaying.
Spouse got an email from his brother and wife who are visiting Utah’s wonderful parks early before the summer crowds come. They witnessed a dreadful injury and death of another early visitor who was on a motorcycle ahead of them. They came upon a cattle guard in the road, and the cycle’s front wheel got stuck in the space between the guard’s segments. Rider went flying over the front of the cycle and landed on his head. It was fatal.
Our kinfolk saw it all and immediately called for help, park ranger arrived quickly and called for help, but it was too late. What a ghastly thing for them to see.
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Mark Tapson at Frontpage on the new Pope.
It looks like Status Quo Ante for the Roman Catholic Church.
On social issues, Prevost is viewed as progressive, particularly in his embrace of “marginalized” groups such as the migrants Pope Francis championed. The New York Times notes that Prevost “resembles Francis in his commitment to the poor and migrants, and to meeting people where they are,” whatever that last bit means.
He also supported Pope Francis’ change to allow divorced and civilly remarried Catholics to receive Holy Communion. It’s too soon to tell how willing Prevost will be to curry favor with the Alphabet lobby, or how woke he may or may not be (he has rejected, for example, the idea of ordaining women as deacons, stating that “clericalizing women” doesn’t necessarily solve a problem, and might even create new problems).
There is no question, however, that he aligns closely with Pope Francis’ progressive environmental priorities. Prevost has been outspoken about the need for urgent action on climate change. He recently stressed that the Church must move “from words to action,” warning against the “harmful” consequences of unchecked technological development.
Progressives are already throwing their support behind Prevost, rejecting the idea of Catholic unity, and eager to marginalize the conservative faithful. In an appearance on CNN News Central, Left-wing Catholic writer Michael Sean Winters of National Catholic Reporter told conservatives who are less than thrilled with a pope who may prove to be Francis 2.0 that “if he’s teaching the gospel in a way that doesn’t cohere with your politics, as a Catholic, you have to ask yourself if your politics need to change.”
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The blondi chronicles.
nothing will come of it.
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I don’t trust this Steve Witkoff as far as I could throw him. He has already forced Israel into deals they did not want. He claimed at one point the Hamas leaders were really nice guys. Seriously.
Witkoff went into meetings in Moscow alone without experienced aides or American interpreters. He actually relied on Putin’s interpreters to translate the Russian for him. The man is in over his head.
The Trump administration is reportedly pressuring Israel to reach a hostage exchange and ceasefire deal before the president visits the Middle East, and is indicating that, failing this, Israel may be “left alone.”
Israel’s Channel 12 news suggests that Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff is the anonymous source, although Witkoff’s office denies the US is applying pressure on Israel to reach an agreement with Hamas.
“If until today, the hostages paid the price for not ending the war, then today the price will be much heavier for Israel, and not only the hostages,” the official reportedly said.
They added, “If Israel doesn’t come to its senses, the price of missing out will be higher than ever before.”
Who knows whether to believe any of these anonymous sources ? Their leaking may just be their personal astroturf efforts to undermine other officials.
Pete Hegseth cancels his Monday trip to Israel at the last minute without giving any reason and the US announces a US conducted humanitarian aid campaign to Gaza without involving Israel. Trump’s people are playing headgames with the Israelis and I think it is chickensh*t.
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Here’s your daily psa concerning the republican’t party.
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Dr phil Good believes tomp till-less knows j6 was an inside job the corrupt loser republican’t.
he didn’t want Ed Martin because he didn’t want his corruption brought to light.they don’t wanna win.
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In case you have not heard this about the Pulitzer board in the midst of all the other scandal.
Former Hamas hostage Emily Damari on Thursday condemned the Pulitzer board for awarding a prize to a Palestinian poet who publicly questioned her captivity and defended Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack on Israel.
“Imagine my shock and pain when I saw that you awarded a Pulitzer Prize to Mosab Abu Toha,” Damari, who was released this January after nearly 500 days in Hamas captivity, wrote in a post addressed to the Pulitzer board. “
“This is a man who, in January, questioned the very fact of my captivity. He posted about me on Facebook and asked, ‘How on earth is this girl called a hostage?’”
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Texpat
Beginnings of why I do not trust Trump. I translate this part of trend that ends with Trump throwing Israel under the busBenjamin Netanyahu Mike Waltz
The former national security adviser was reportedly coordinating with Israel to do it
Inside Waltz’s ouster: Before Signalgate, talks with Israel angered Trump
The fired national security adviser engaged in intense coordination with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about military options against Iran ahead of an Oval Office meeting between the Israeli leader and Trump, two people said.
Trump Says U.S. and Houthis Reached Agreement; Israel Fears Houthi Missile Attacks will Continue
Trump ditched Israel with surprise Houthi truce. That doesn’t bode well on Iran
Days after Yemeni group caused untold economic damage by hitting Ben Gurion Airport, the US president blindsided his allies; this has no doubt unsettled Jerusalem amid nuclear talks
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Agreed on all counts. I don’t like what is going down and it’s not only about Israel.
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Oh joy !
Moderate Republicans will likely be anti-abortion advocates’ biggest hurdle in their mission to ban federal funding from Planned Parenthood in a reconciliation package — and some are already voicing their opposition.
Defunding Planned Parenthood was brought up briefly in a Tuesday evening closed door meeting between Speaker Mike Johnson, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise and some moderate Republicans, where they were discussing potential Medicaid cuts, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
One of the sources said that Reps. Mike Lawler, Brian Fitzpatrick and Jen Kiggans were among the moderate Republicans who made it clear to House GOP leadership that they oppose adding a measure to cut federal funding to Planned Parenthood to a reconciliation bill.
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It looks like Texas is in the clear.
Stay on the lookout for the failed 1972 Soviet Venus lander Kosmos 482. The forecast date & time of reentry is May 10, 2025 06:26 UTC (08:26 CEST).
It has a titanium casing and can withstand the extreme acceleration, heat, and pressure of entering Venus’s atmosphere.
It weighs ~500 kg and measures 1 meter in diameter, it could survive and touch down intact.
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Can’t we get the Israelis to shoot it down?
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What a sad tragic life story for Eva Cassidy. Her fame and fortune came after she died at 33 from melanoma.
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Yes. I ran across her a few years ago and was impressed. Then discovered she was gone.
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This has always been a standard Marcia Ball barn burner.
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You may be cool, but you will never be as cool as this keyboard man playing an organ with one hand and piano with the other while singing harmony with Susan.
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Her Highness really loved this one. For some reason I finally got her to pay attention to Susan’s music tonight and she likes it.
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I bought this vinyl album of Steve Fromholz music in Austin way back in the early 1970s. He was from up around Waco in Bosque County and this was his first album.
Lyle Lovett covers it here better than Steve ever did. Beautiful song.
Texas Trilogy: Bosque County Romance
And cattle is their game
And Archer is the name
They give to the acres that they own
If the Brazos don’t run dry
And the newborn calves, they don’t die
Another year from Mary will have flown
Another year from Mary will have flown
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Well that’s depressing.We got back from the Oyster Shack up in Troy about 7:30 and a few minutes later the power clicked off an on 3 times and then no power. I looked up the road and saw the street light on the highway on and no lights at the Farm House so I knew it was our breaker up at the highway that cuts off this whole road. I got my Lap-Top out and checked out Pea River REA and in all of Dale county our road was the only place that there was an outage. 18 customers in the whole county and it’s us. We got in the truck about the time the REA dude came to trip the breaker and then we drove down the road and found the limb on the line just past uncle Henry’s house. As we were checking it out with a spot light the REA dude down came so we showed him where the problem was. OH WAIT! The power just came back on! Dang those guys are quick.
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I’m shocked, shocked, shocked the Super Dave compound doesn’t have whole-house standby electrical gensets sittin’ around everywhere on the place. I mean anybody that had Real ID drivers’ licenses years ago should be covered for all other kinds of backup…right…RIGHT ?
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HA! I’ve not pulled the trigger on that one since our power has only gone off three times in the last 6 years and it was never off more than an hour or so. BUT If I were still on the Texas Gulf coast I’d be sure to have a Generac, LP powered of course. 😉
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You don’t know how the RealID failure has worked in many states nor do most people.
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I’m headed west to F’burg in the morning. Baby Levi will be Christened on Sunday. I may work in my first visit to the Museum Of The Pacific War
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Get there early and stay awhile. It takes more than a day to see it all and I think I’ve pulled it off with three separate weekend trips.
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Do not leave Fredericksburg without seeing the Museum Of The Pacific War. And expect to spend much time in it. It takes several visits to see everything and read all the astounding information about WW2. Plus new items are discovered and added to the already overwhelming contents.
Spouse and I have been through there at least 5 times and still find something new each time. 🙂
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