Ina Rosenberg Balin, American actress
She played opposite such leading men as John Wayne, Paul Newman, Stuart Whitman, Elvis Presley, and Ben Gazarra.
A regular on the USO circuit during the Vietnam War, during the fall of Saigon she helped spirit away 217 orphans on a plane to the Phillipines. And ended up adopting three of them.
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Knock knock, anyone home?
Second rat gets the cheese!
Couldn’t sleep hardly a wink for some reason, watched both Outlaw Josey Wales and Pale Rider.
I notice when you get to disliking somebody they aren’t around long neither.
Truck arrived with my son’s building yesterday, the framing did anyhow. Didn’t get there till about 3:30 so not much got done, now it’s raining.
There Y’all are. We made it to Moorpark about 8 PM PST and were greeted at the front door with hugs from granddaughters then guess who walked out of the living room? Daughter! She flew in Wednesday night on the spur of the moment to help me celebrate my 70th birthday on Saturday. I was shocked! If, I’d woke up with my head sewn to the carpet I couldn’t have been more surprised. ~Clark Griswold~ We’re all going to Disneyland today and truth be known that could have had helped daughter decide to show. We’ve never been to “Disneyland” but we made 4 family trips to the Mouse Kingdom when the kids were growing up. The boy and family goes every Christmas to their special show and fireworks. Oh and about Disney, I see some of you shaking your heads but I’m doing it for the granddaughters and well daughter also.
Mornin’ Gang
Oh and I got up yesterday at 3 AM CST, drove 2 hours to the airport in PCB, flew to Dallas, then Burbank and went to bed at 10 PM PST, midnight CST. I was dang TARRED!!! I woke up a little after 4 AM to make sure we can get out of here by 6:15 AM and I’m raring to go. 😉
Oh and Keurig Coffee is better than nothing.
GJT, so I guess the slab had already been poured? If you mentioned it I missed it.
BTW; I checked in about noon yesterday from the Florida Airport and 2 minutes later I was locked out with; WordPress has had a fatal error! Dang that sounded serious and I was sure that I’d caused it but I see it was something else. But you never know with me. 😉
Mr. Squawkerator: The link button that was not working yesterday is in the tool bar above the dialogue box that looks like a chain, to the right of the box with triangles innit.
Testing,1,2,3,…..You got sidetone?
#10 Bone, works for me, but then I’m using an ancient Laptop…
It’s fun watching oldest granddaughter get her waffles out of the freezer, climb up on the counter, plug in the toaster and toast her breakfast. 😉
Have fun with your family, Super Dave. It’s always a privilege.
Shannon said he went to Mike Satterwhite’s funeral yesterday. I knew Mike for 58 years since I was 14 and he was 16 at Spring Branch High School. We were FFA boys together under John Cooper.
Mike was a fine horseman and worked as a jockey in the Quarter horse racing program on the King Ranch while he was attending Texas A&I. He and his father raised and trained Appaloosas when I was a kid over off Britt Moore Road.
He was also one of the funniest men and talented storytellers I ever met. Mike could keep a roundtable of people laughing and falling out of their chairs.
Michael had a great heart and always had a smile. He was one of the special ones and my Old Friend.
I have to tell you. I almost laughed at the shocking stupidity of this woman and the amazing hubris of some criminal to run a huge scam on a high-profile “financial advisor”.
This is analogous to all the so-called experts in America today. Most of them are morons or frauds.
A financial advice columnist for New York Magazine admitted she was scammed out of $50,000 by a con man who claimed to be a CIA agent and ordered her to stuff a shoe box full of cash and hand it to a courier in a white Mercedes.
Charlotte Cowles, who pens a financial advice column for The Cut, the digital fashion news site that operates under the umbrella of New York Magazine, wrote a first-person account on Thursday titled “The Day I Put $50,000 in a Shoe Box and Handed It to a Stranger: I never thought I was the kind of person to fall for a scam.”
According to Cowles, a mysterious man called her one evening in October and got her attention after he knew her Social Security number, home address, the names of family members and that her two-year-old son was playing in the living room of her Brooklyn apartment.
Cowles wrote that the man “told me my home was being watched, my laptop had been hacked, and we were in imminent danger.”
“I can help you, but only if you cooperate,” the man is reported to have told Cowles, who was instructed that she was not to alert her husband, the police or a lawyer about the phone call.
She wrote that on a Tuesday evening this past October, she “put $50,000 in cash in a shoe box, taped it shut as instructed, and carried it to the sidewalk in front of my apartment, my phone clasped to my ear.”
According to Cowles, she told the strange man on the other line: “Don’t let anyone hurt me.”
“You won’t be hurt,” the man reportedly told Cowles. “Just keep doing exactly as I say.”
Moments later, a white Mercedes SUV pulled up by the curb. The man on the phone told her that she was to “put the box through the window, say ‘thank you,’ and go back inside” without looking at the driver.
The term Idiotocracy comes to mind when reading about #16 above. I think it properly describes about 80% of the Deep State.
Klaus Schwab Blofeld says zee smaller zee kvitchen zee better zee vugs vill taste.
Whenever I think of Klaus Schwab Blofeld this scene always comes to mind.
Mr. C. has amusing insights into the train wreck that is Fani Willis. Being a lawyer himself, you can imagine his take on her behavior on the stand.
I made two rosaries and one chaplet this morning. My rosary stash is low, after giving most of them away to the pregnant women and then the two purse rosaries to the young men at the store yesterday.
I told Hubby I think I’m making a dent in my bead pile. I still have a lot of them waiting to be turned into prayer.
I was slow getting up this morning, since I took one of my muscle relaxant pills last night. Still feeling a little foggy/groggy, even after being up for this long. Maybe next time I’ll split that thing and only take half of it.
Morning, gang! Looks like a rainy day at my place. That’s Ok with me, I had no outdoor plans anyway.
The Fani Willis/Natan Wade courtroom comedy show is probably the number one show on TV right now. Her Highness is fascinated with this meltdown although the only time I’ve watched was stopping while walking through the room where she is watching. Childers does a good job reviewing the whole drama for anyone who has been living in a cave and is unaware of current events. No need to rehash all of it.
From everything I’ve read, this quote from Coffee & Covid sums it up:
The problems for the prosecutors began almost immediately after Fani Willis took the stand. She made a horribly mistaken theatrical decision to play herself as an overinflated caricature of an entitled black woman — a black Karen — acting antagonistic, aggressive, abusive, and argumentative. She even argued with the judge.
For some reason, Fani spoke in an inner-city black patois rather than in normal English. For example, when asked how she knew how much cash to pay Nathan Wade, she answered, “He tells me how much it is and I gives him the money back… I don’t do my friends like that. So if you tell me it’s a G, then you gon’ get a thousand dolla’s.”
She did not sound like a hardworking, crime-fighting District Attorney of one of America’s biggest cities. She sounded like a moron.
Oh, and I did see this on the TV live. I’m glad I wasn’t drinking anything because it was a big spew moment.
“Where’s Belize? What continent? I’m not being funny. I don’t know. I been to Belize with him. I been to the Bahamas with him. I been to Aruba with him. Don’t embarrass me. I’m not sure what continents those are on.”
That is how thoroughly the George Soros manipulation machine vets their candidates.
Okay, I was looking at the IMDB page for Shannon’s Brunette, Ina Balin, when I came across this.
Who here remembers Stoney Burke with Jack Lord and Warren Oates in 1962 and 1963 ?
Bruce Dern was a minor, unknown character actor and the first rodeo champion to become a national celebrity, Casey Tibbs, both appeared on the show. Hal Needham also had a role.
You won’t remember his name, but he was a great character actor who played a lot of cops over the years, Edward Binns.
Bruce Dern and rodeo in the same sentence – who knew????
That must be one thick cord, that folks keep tripping over it!
Thanks, Squawk.
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I may have written the sentence in a confusing way, but the rodeo reference was to Casey Tibbs. He was a huge rodeo champ and I remember seeing him at HLS&R as a boy.
We’re going to try and see American Fiction in the next couple of days.
It is about a black writer who runs head-on into white, leftwing women in the publishing industry who want him to be “authentically” black. It is supposed to be funny and hurl plenty of mockery at the Left. Conservative writers I have read who saw it rave about it.
Watch the trailer at the link above.
Be sure to watch the short video at the end.
Have you noticed yet that America has turned into a Coen Brothers movie? Everywhere you look, you see madcap characters disgracing themselves while doing their bit to burn the whole country down. It’s a panoramic extravaganza of everything gone wrong, with slapstick overtones, driving toward an apocalyptic climax — civil war, nuclear war, economic collapse, maybe all three. And all because the people on-screen just can’t stop lying.
#27 I am not sure whether your sentence was confusing or not… And now I am disappointed to find that Bruce Dern was NOT a rodeo champion LOL
I don’t know who Amber Rose is but sounds like she got herself a new boytoy.
NFL star CJ Stroud spotted leaving event with Kanye West’s ex Amber Rose
NFL star CJ Stroud spotted leaving event with Kanye West’s ex Amber Rose (msn.com)
And now I am disappointed to find that Bruce Dern was NOT a rodeo champion LOL
Me, too, dammit.
Glad that I never got around to searching the net today for everything known about Dern’s rodeo career.
Will Chamberlain, attorney and legal counsel for the Internet Accountability Project and the Article3project.com on TwitterX:
Between the United States and Russia, one country just arbitrarily seized the assets of an oligarch opposed to the regime, and is trying to jail him.
The other country is Russia
Now I gotta go look around to find out about Dern’s non-rodeo life.
He’s been acting since 1960. He’s still hanging around at 87.
What a career.
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Now that’s a helluva quote.
Dern was one of the best portrayers of menace.
30 GJT
Uh oh.
Hope he can handle life in the fast lane with the dignity he has otherwise displayed.
Not easy at 22 years old. Whew.
Bruce’s daughter, Laura Dern, is 57 years old ?!?!
I thought she was some actress in her twenties.
What the hell happened ?
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LOL
No, wait.
You claim Laura is 57 years old?
I’m getting really tired of all these people getting old.
Now Dr. phil has more ammunition for his insensitive everyone-around-this-blog-are-a- buncha-geezers who can’t stay awake past nine memes.
🙂
Bite me, Dr Phil. We are survivors.
/ insert thumbs up here
Catching up this evening with the gang.
Have been putting things back where they belong in the house after our kinfolk headed for home on Wednesday. Then there is the hunt for a few items I had moved elsewhere to make room. Found most of those and put them back this afternoon. We’re thinking about going to see the kin in May, during the late and beautiful Wisconsin spring.
Winter returned again as the temp slid down to 62 on the way to the 40s tonight. Fortunately it won’t be cold enough to consider hauling the plants into the garage again. We are into the “wait 5 minutes and the weather will change” season. 🙂
We went to have a birthday dinner with old friends tonight. The wife has turned 77 and we were going to meet at the local, popular new Italian place at 5:15 because we would beat the evening crowd.
We showed up and the place was packed with old people. It wasn’t even dark outside.
We had to wait for 30 minutes for a table.
Old people, I’m telling ya’, they’re ruining the world.
We sympathetic, forgetful old people run this world and don’t you whippersnappers forget it.
Oh, wait.
Texpat, we took a road trip tp Maine with Squawk’s parents once… Saw lots of sites – and had dinner at 4:30 almost every nite – and we were hungry again at 9… LOL
I’m also not happy that I am watching the beginning of the end of Blue Bloods.
There’re about fifteen characters in that show whom I will miss.
Blue Bloods will live forever on Pluto TV.
Just ask Hubby.
39 years ago:
yo uncklus
she would’ve been a WHO groupie if she was the age she is now back when this was filmed.
she loves Daltry.
Waiting to see if it goes viral.
Now Dr. phil has more ammunition for his insensitive everyone-around-this-blog-are-a- buncha-geezers who can’t stay awake past nine memes.
you better talk to Jersey boss man Stan about that.
Bite me, Dr Phil. We are survivors.
As 0f 20:22, this little cold snap has not arrived in glorious Austin County.
Yet.
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She is surprisingly irresistible.
🙂
Well we did Disneyland and I’m plum wore out but the after dark roller coaster ride with oldest granddaughter was well worth it. It’s 9:30 here and we’re looking at the pictures we took today and since it’s after 11 there I’ll have a full report in the morning.
Nytol 😉
She is surprisingly irresistible.
and in this case she also recognizes musical genius when she sees and hears it.
The Who were just bada$$ musical phenoms in every way.
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