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Friday’s Brunette Open Confabulation

Khatia Buniatishvili

Born in Georgia, Khatia Buniatishvili discovered piano at the early age of three. She gave her first concert with Tbilisi Chamber Orchestra when she was six and was subsequently invited to tour internationally with them. Throughout her career, she has performed at venues around the world…

Celebrating the great Zubin Mehta’s 80th birthday with the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra

Khatia With Placido Domingo

“Serenade Us, Khatia”

Khatia With Her Sister, Gvantsa, Playing a Duet in the Woods

Khatia’s Website here.

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61 responses to “Friday’s Brunette Open Confabulation”

  1. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Friday’s Brunette Open Confabulation?

    Yup, but for me it’s; Flex Fridat Baby!!!

    Mornin’ Gang

  2. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

  3. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    If you thought Rod Rosenstein was a smug, sanctimonious, obnoxious jackass, he was just the opening warm up act for Peter Strzok.

  4. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    The appropriate place for Srtxbok and company is in general population of a pmita prison for 30 years or life, whichever comes first.

  5. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Knowing nothing will ever really happen with these people I’d be happy with them simply losing their pensions. You’d like to think they at least suffer from the embarrassment of it all but I don’t think it bothers them.

  6. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I totally understand why Gohmert made the comment about the smirk. It drove me crazy. He and Comey think/know they’re above the law. To them, this is merely circus.

  7. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    On Thursday, the Trump administration announced that almost half of the children who were five years old or younger and separated from adults at the U.S. border couldn’t be reunited with them because many of the adults were violent criminals, and some of the adults weren’t even the children’s parents.

    According to the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security, 46 of the 103 children are “ineligible” to be reunited with the adults. The departments added that 11 of the adults have serious criminal histories, some of which include charges for child cruelty, kidnaping, murder, human smuggling, domestic violence and narcotics-related crime. One man is wanted for murder in Guatemala, according to Chris Meekins, Chief of Staff, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response at the Department of Health and Human Services; seven others were “determined not to be a parent” at all, three of whom were found out through DNA testing.

  8. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    U.S.—As the world came together to celebrate the rescue of 12 boys and their coach trapped in a cave in Thailand for over two weeks, the Huffington Post took the opportunity to call out the Thai Navy SEALs who performed the dangerous extraction mission for their “toxic masculinity.”

    In an article published on the site on Tuesday, the Post’s Toxic News Division criticized several elements of the SEAL rescue as showing “deeply ingrained, problematic heteronormasculinity.”

  9. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Chart of the Day from Mark Perry.

    2. Declines in CO2 emissions in 2017 were led by the US (-0.5% and 42 million tons, see chart above). This is the ninth time in this century that the US has had the largest decline in emissions in the world. This also was the third consecutive year that emissions in the US declined, though the fall was the smallest over the last three years.

    3. Carbon emissions from energy use from the US are the lowest since 1992, the year that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) came into existence. The next largest decline was in Ukraine (-10.1% and 28.1 tons).

    Look at China, India and, especially, the EU on the chart here.

  10. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Gee, I wonder why the elected Rs in the House can’t simply follow through??

    HEADLINE: Black Pastors Call for Maxine Waters to Be Censured for Inciting ‘Mob Rule’

    Isn’t it a federal crime to incite a riot or mob violence? Where is Jeff Snoozy McSnoozerson Sessions on this issue. There is no lack of evidence, is there?

  11. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #2 Texpat, Yup, from over yonder “The Demon”

  12. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    When Kelly’s latest report card revealed a number of failing grades, her parents felt compelled to act. They told Kelly early in the afternoon on the day the police were called that she would need to turn in her phone by 9 p.m. But when the time came, Kelly refused, and a pushing match ensued between her and her parents, concluding in the violent tantrum that led the girl to be hospitalized.

    because of this,

    What none of these parents understand is that their children’s and teens’ destructive obsession with technology is the predictable consequence of a virtually unrecognized merger between the tech industry and psychology. This alliance pairs the consumer tech industry’s immense wealth with the most sophisticated psychological research, making it possible to develop social media, video games, and phones with drug-like power to seduce young users.

    These parents have no idea that lurking behind their kids’ screens and phones are a multitude of psychologists, neuroscientists, and social science experts who use their knowledge of psychological vulnerabilities to devise products that capture kids’ attention for the sake of industry profit. What these parents and most of the world have yet to grasp is that psychology — a discipline that we associate with healing — is now being used as a weapon against children.

    This is evil.

    The Tech Industry’s War on Kids

  13. phil Avatar
    phil

    2

    Looks like Norman Bates peering through the peephole.

    One of many in Washington’s Demented of Columbia.

  14. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Robocalls have been received by voters in the Bay Area on behalf of a Republican congressional nominee claiming that Jews are taking over the world and “must be stopped.”

    California’s 11th District, represented by Mark DeSaulnier (D-Calif.), includes parts of Contra Costa County east of Oakland. John Fitzgerald was the only person to run on the Republican ticket, and received 20,354 votes in the jungle primary under which the top two finishers regardless of party go on to the general election.

    Fitzgerald openly denies the Holocaust and rails against Jews on his campaign website.

  15. phil Avatar
    phil

    12 Russian monkeys indicted by lead coup leader Monkey Rosenstain.

    Seth Rich is still unavailable for comment while Rip Van Sessions still gently sleeps on his weeping guitar.

    But the most important thing is the Newspeak Slimed Media can talk about the 12 Faux Russian monkeys forever as it will now supplant talking about the Norman Bates Strozk hearings.

  16. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I got a call from the DFPS guy assigned to our case this morning, regarding the post I made yesterday about the Huntington’s sufferer who’s been living on our property. He was very candid in our discussion about the upcoming events. He is going to try to get to our property today to confront “M” about her situation and see if he can persuade her to move to a facility where she can be cared for — but given her history of refusing to change and refusing help, we may have to evict her judicially. She may end up on the streets. Hopefully, if she doesn’t accept help today the eviction may force her into a care situation.

    There’s a word TERM for her. She’s a “chronic self neglector,” one who chronically refuses to care for herself. I think it’s sad that there’s such a term. Even more sad that the case manager treated it so matter-of-fact. He said multiple times that we don’t want her dying on our property. I guess he sees a lot.

    “If she refuses care, that’s her decision. Some people are bad decision makers, but that’s not your problem,” he said.

    Yep, that’s true, too.

  17. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    There’s a word for her. She’s a “chronic self neglector,”

    Not to pick nits but that’s three words 😉

  18. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BBHPvfAt5ow

  19. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Proper usage would be “term” instead of “word.” That is if we are gonna go all Emily Post and all.

  20. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    FIFY

  21. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Wow. 3D printing with titanium.

    Here is some bright shining proof that big things are happening in the small satellite industry: A large titanium dome for fuel tanks that Lockheed Martin is using in a major U.S. satellite program.

    Engineers finished testing the 4-foot-diameter cap this month, ending a multi-year development program. Two domes will seal giant, high-pressure tanks that carry satellite fuel. The company will now offer the tank as a standard option for its LM 2100 satellite buses.

    Engineers made these caps with 3D printing, a technique that’s becoming increasingly common inside aerospace companies. Lockheed has made thousands of flight components this way because it slashes time and expense from tooling and R&D prototyping. But as these giant companies get more comfortable with 3D printing, the tech is becoming a game-changer for manufacturing parts.

  22. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    If you are a poker player you will understand why The Queen won!!!

    Stormy Daniels and Queen Elizabeth went to the Pearly Gates on the same day. They both met with an angel to find out if they would be admitted to Heaven

    The angel said: “Unfortunately, there’s only one space available in Heaven today so I must decide which one of you will be admitted.”

    The angel asked Stormy if there was some particular reason why she should go to Heaven. Stormy took off her top and said: “Look at these, they’re the most perfect breasts God ever created and I’m sure it will please God to be able to see them every day, for eternity.”

    The angel thanked Stormy, and asked Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth the same question.

    The Queen walked over to a toilet, pulled the lever and flushed it without saying a word.

    The Angel immediately said: “Okay, your Majesty, you may go into Heaven.”

    Stormy was outraged and asked, “What was that all about? I showed you two of God’s own perfect creations and you turned me down. She simply flushed a commode and she got admitted to Heaven! Would you explain that to me?”

    “Sorry, Stormy,” said the Angel, “but even in Heaven, a royal flush beats a pair, no matter how big they are.”

  23. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Ok, this is VERY NSFW plus disgusting! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!

  24. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    I heard a blurb Stormy got into some trouble last night, or recent.

  25. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #23 M42: That really captures his essence.

  26. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    El Gordo, this one is for you. 😀

  27. fat albert Avatar
    fat albert

    #12 Texpat:

    Thanks so much for posting! I think, to some extent a lot of us have suspected something like this, even if we could put our finger on exactly what was wrong. As a number of commenters said (at the end of the article) “knowledge is power”. I’ve already forwarded it to several of our church staff as well as a number of other friends and co-workers. The more people know the less influence these vermin have.

  28. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I don’t know how this thing works but I’ve seen some fields around Kerrville that need it.

    https://youtu.be/XksKclL_cDw

  29. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I heard a blurb Stormy got into some trouble last night, or recent.

    ********

    An arrest report states that officers in the club witnessed Daniels “using her bare breasts to smack patrons,” notes 10TV News. “The officers also said they observed Daniels fondling the breasts of female patrons.”
    Daniels reportedly “held the face of the female officer between her breasts.” She also did this to a male officer. Further, Daniels allegedly “fondled the buttocks and breasts of another officer” during the performance.

    https://www.dailywire.com/news/32971/details-stormy-daniels-arrest-surface-held-face-amanda-prestigiacomo

  30. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Well, we got a little shower to cool things off, 78 degrees on the GMC truck thermometer. I noticed the dark cloud easing down from the north and took my towels and bedspread off the line just in time.

  31. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #28 Shannon, dang that is neat! I can understand how it works, crushing the stones and mixing them with the topsoil but what I don’t understand is how that tiny machine can do it in one pass. I’m guessing that the stones are Limestone and would be porous enough to make it somewhat easy to crush. That thing wouldn’t work worth a crap in New England.

  32. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I don’t understand is how that tiny machine can do it in one pass

    No kidding.

  33. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    That’d take a minute to do a whole field, guess it’d be worth it.

  34. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    FWIW; that first picture of Khatia Buniatishvili is stunning. 😉

  35. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #32 #33 y’all did notice that is was crawling along, just barely moving, but still, it did a great job.

  36. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #28, 31: I’m wondering how long the “teeth” in that thing last. . . .
    Does it actually grind the rocks into dust/powder/sand? If it were limestone, could grinding that fine cause it to turn to cement the next time it rains?

    Further down on the #28 link, right side, there is a rake type gizmo that flings the rocks into a hopper which when full, can be dumped from up to 7′ high or into the back of a small dump truck/big pickup.

  37. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I notice Squawk hasn’t made any snarky comments about Khatia….yet.

  38. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    27 fat albert

    You’re welcome.

    I thought about saving it for a featured header article. Might do it anyway because it deserves the exposure.

  39. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    34 Super Dave

    Yes, she has the whole diva thing going on, but she does it with a smile and seems to be having fun at it while not taking herself too seriously. Khatia isn’t just a brilliant artist, she’s a real performer.

    Watch the videos.

  40. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Well, Adult Protective Services has made their first contact with M. I think she knew what was coming as soon as she saw them standing there with me.

    She was polite and cooperative enough. She kept wobbling while talking to them. They asked her questions about her doctor, her doctor visits, and when they asked for her medications, she brought out 2 bottles – one was empty and the other expired. I think she gets her meds delivered, so if she was just being careless, it certainly didn’t help her cause. She allowed the case workers to enter the small trailer she’s been living in, so her ability to care for herself and eat properly was noted.

    The supervisor explained to her that without her medication, the course of her illness would progress to the point that she would lose the ability to speak clearly and then swallow, which would result in her starving to death. Indeed, he noted that her speech was already being affected.

    “Do you have a place to go?” she was asked, whereupon she said she was living there with her boyfriend. I was off to the side, out her eyesight, shaking my head and mouthing “No”. She gave them her sister’s contact info, but I found out from Hubby that her sister has Huntington’s as well, though she is in better condition than M. The older brother has already been institutionalized with it.

    “I’m staying here,” M told them. “Well, you may not have a choice. Do you own the property?” he asked her. “I’m staying here,” she repeated. I handed her a 30 day eviction notice. That’s when she realized she was up against the wall. She went inside the trailer for a moment to put the paper down, stepped back out, and asked me “Why did you do that?” “Because this is no longer a safe place for you,” I replied. She disappeared back into the trailer without a word, though she did open it to take a business card from the woman from APS. That was a hopeful sign.

    We can’t force her to take help, even though APS offered to pay her first month’s rent, or find a group home for her. She has money; she’s getting over $700/month in Social Security, and she has no bills other then her food and cigarettes. She just likes living off the charity of others, rather than paying for her own expenses.

    Next up, a visit from a doctor to evaluate her. I’m hoping the eviction notice will force her to accept help. That trailer is a mess, and there’s too much crap in our shop yard for her to trip on and get hurt.

    She is wissed off. She thinks our handy man is still her boyfriend (he’s not – she’s kind of abusive and he’s tired of her crap). I’ve warned him, so he can decide if he wants to talk to her or not. It’ll be interesting to see if she thinks he’s going to save her (he wants her to get help, too) or if she takes out her anger on him (she has a history of getting some pretty good wallops on him).

  41. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Apparently it’s ok to be a man pretending to be a woman but it’s a hate crime to be a woman pretending to be a man pretending to be a woman.

  42. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Psssst, Texpat.

    Here she is again. With Morgan James.

    https://youtu.be/wv_Xhzwvjyg

  43. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Apparently it’s ok to be a man pretending to be a woman but it’s a hate crime to be a woman pretending to be a man pretending to be a woman.

    I’m so damned confused, do any of y’all have a Secret Decoder Ring that I could borrow to try to keep up with all this Lunacy?

  44. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Decoder-Ring-Super-Version/dp/B00G4D726M

  45. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    So we have this 18 month long poop show of Manafart trying to pin some Rooskie Collusion on Trump and Associates in the 2016 election. Why is there no outcry when the JugEared Jackazz openly set up offices in Israel to collude with the opposition to Benjamin Netanyahu in that election? Isn’t foreign collusion a bad thing when it comes to elections? Why is it ok for Bronco Butthead to do it to Israel but not ok for Vladdie Poot Poot to do it to us? The whole thing reeks of political corruption and BS.

  46. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    41 Hamous

    The Left is going to learn quickly to really hate the new set of rules they laid down for this society, or at least their part of it. They thought only the Deplorables would have to abide. The Deplorables don’t even care, but now they have to live under their own dark cloud.

    The blowback burns like hell.

  47. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    42 Shannon

    They really have to stop carrying on like this.

  48. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    If any of you haven’t watched the Khatia Buniatishvili I posted, you really are missing something extraordinary. A child prodigy who grew up to be something even more special.

    There are piano players and then there are a few, very few pianists.

  49. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Heh heh. Looks like House Republicans have learned the fine art of trolling:

    House GOP leaders plan to bring a Democratic measure calling for the abolishment of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to the House floor, hoping to force Democrats into a difficult vote.

  50. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I need some help from you geeky, lovable, nerd types.

    My tablet has been factory reset. I was able to load a few apps, but now the Playstore won’t open. It is just a big white screen. I occasionally get the circular middle finger, but most of the time it just stares at me.

    I can get to some web sites (Hamous.org, FB, Breitbart) but Drudge won’t load. So I know it’s not an internet connection problem if some sites load.

    Any ideas?

  51. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    #49

    I saw that headline and thought “Be careful what you ask for.”

    Sometimes the attempt to fund raise on a cause can bite you in the butt.

  52. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Big Brother is testing your poop.

    http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2018/07/12/nc-town-battles-opioid-epidemic-by-using-robots-to-test-people-s-poop.html

  53. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    #50
    You’re getting Hambone, not sure what the problem is.

  54. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    “The highest level of special”.

  55. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    So I click on this stupid Drudge link for the story and come upon this.

    I’ve never heard of this company and it’s supposed to be valued at…wait for it….

    TWENTY BILLION DOLLARS.

    Co-working giant WeWork Cos. thinks it can save the environment quicker than Elon Musk.

    The startup has told its 6,000 global staff that they will no longer be able to expense meals including meat, and that it won’t pay for any red meat, poultry or pork at WeWork events. In an email to employees this week outlining the new policy, co-founder Miguel McKelvey said the firm’s upcoming internal “Summer Camp” retreat would offer no meat options for attendees.

    “New research indicates that avoiding meat is one of the biggest things an individual can do to reduce their personal environmental impact,” said McKelvey in the memo, “even more than switching to a hybrid car.”

    Individuals requiring “medical or religious” allowances are being referred to the company’s policy team to discuss options. A WeWork spokeswoman confirmed the contents of the memo.

    I go to Google and look them up. I don’t know what to tell you, but the world is full of far more phony, bullsh!t “companies” than there ever were during the “Dot.Com Bubble”.

  56. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    It’s probably best to just stay away from Macon, Georgia altogether.

    Curious tales from Possum Point Drive near Lake Sinclair in Putnam County have graced the Cop Shop before. Notably, a nuisance rooster that was poking around a woman’s flower bed. The latest odd encounter there was phoned in to the sheriff’s office on the evening of June 25. According to dispatch logs, a man informed authorities that he noticed a pair of his Hanes underwear lying by his bed, and that he also thought someone had taken a shower in his bathroom while he was out. Sheriff Howard Sills told the Cop Shop that the supposed “unauthorized entry and rearrangement of the victim’s personal underpants” was most unusual. That’s because the man, oddly enough, before leaving his house “had arranged his [undergarments] in a particular manner to enable him to detect any incursion that might have occurred during his absence,” the sheriff explained. “Long story short, the victim told the deputy that he suspects the intruder to be a hobo in the neighborhood, but also suspected the perpetrator was a ghost.” The deputy, ever eager in his duties to serve and protect, was said to have suggested that the homeowner paint various surfaces in the dwelling “Haint Blue” — a sky-colored hue known to ward off Southern specters.

    plus,

    Dispatches: A cashier at Cherry Street Scoops, a downtown ice cream shop, said a guy walked in June 24, stepped behind the counter and grabbed the remote control to the shop’s radio. It wasn’t clear why he wanted the remote, but the guy “couldn’t figure out how to turn the radio down so he got mad” and before marching out told the cashier to tell the shop’s owner “that he has the remote,” a sheriff’s report said…

    I learned about those “boogers and haints” when I was a kid.

  57. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #41 Hammy

    a woman pretending to be a man pretending to be a woman.

    Not quite. A woman (actress) pretending to be a woman pretending to be a man. The main character seems to be a transgender man. A biological woman pretending to be a man. A transgender who would be using the men’s bathroom, I suppose.

  58. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    https://youtu.be/FyM8NVl4yBY

  59. gtotracker Avatar
    gtotracker

    One for Katfish. Danielle just improves.

  60. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Having given you time to recover, Texpat, now try this French Canadian singer….

    https://youtu.be/_KVyorYFcXg

  61. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Oh phoo — First time this year I was up at 7 a.m. and no Weekend Couch cushion ready for me to lean back on…

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