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April 16, 2020 | 8,672 Comments »

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  1. SEB-

    I apologise for the typos which I just now noticed. I meant to say “Funny Ha-ha”

    I don’t know why you google Scott Joplin. He certainly is on Youtube.

    In fact I have ofren seen different rags the screens just sowing the scores and sometimes piano keyboards moving….Player Pianos.
    Very sharply disciplined tempos and not many dotted crotchets.

    Jimmy Durante in his early days was a ragtime player, not very good but improved by his funny stuff.

    I’ve heard Victor Borge play Ragtime as part of an act. I think every pianist has some in thr repertoire. even Liberace…
    Have you ever heard Winifred Atwell or Eubie Blake??

    Jelly Roll Morton, in his early days but not with his Red HOT PEPPERS..

  3. SEB-

    Looking damned funny 9Ha0ha) but ….it is NOT a rag. Rag timing is completely different. This is more like barrel-house, but not much of even that.

    BUT< again,….NOT a RAG….!!

  10. @Ted, or Peloni, or E. Rowell,

    Just a suggestion: So many times I read an article or a post and just want to express my feelings, without writing a full comment. Would it be feasible to append some sort of check-box poll at the end of each story? How about, “Strongly Agree, Agree, Whatever, Disagree, or Strongly Disagree.” One other category… WTF?

    Not only would this give people a way to indicate their feelings on any particular topic, but it might also provide you with some useful polling data about your followers. (Of course anyone who responds would need to be logged in.)

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  11. Wickie-Wackie-Michael…!!

    An old song of Sophie Tucker’s, a collector’s item-which I have
    “Making Wickie-Wackie down at Waikiki.”……

    YOU should learn it Mikey, at least the first 3 words. You do a lot of it.

  13. @Honeybee “So Marx, Lenin and Trotsky walk into a bar. Marx argues the punchline is inevitable. Lenin has a five-year plan. Trotsky flirts with a woman. Later, Stalin orders Trotsky removed from the original joke and inserts himself instead. Decrees punchlines are a bourgeois indulgence.”

    My comment: “Eureka!” – Septuagint (apocrypha)
    https://eurekarestaurantgroup.com/

  14. Mikey-

    You really DO mix your metaphors…signs of a disturbed mind. You are still shovelling out that drek about Acts even though I’ve already disposed of it’s fake “evidence. Is it such a strong (obsessive)compulsion for you. There are meds for it I’m sure.

    For your information, assuming your head is balsa and not oak, Acts is regarded by experts (meaning that you can look them up for confirmation) to have been written as a fake piece after 100, On
    ly Mark has support for being written aroun 75.

    If you’d directed your dwindling reading and comprehension skills to the book by Ehrman , that I’d recommended, it would all have been explained to you, in a moderately technical, but totally logical form.
    He even quotes F.F. Bruce and Remy.

    But you were AFRAID. Pah.

    *****as a 10 stone “featherweight” you are still “off the board”.
    Of course 126 lbs could be th REAL you, and the extra 14 lbs,. the weight you carry inside your head………..???

  15. @Honeybee

    ” @Michael “What is wrong with yawl Darlin??? You can’t distinguish between a Marxist, Stalinist, or a Troskiet. xoxoxo”

    So, I googled:

    A Marxist, a Stalinist, and a Trotskyist walk into a bar

    Some gags came up, some funny, some not so funny, couldn’t find that one exactly.

    http://www.karlremarks.com/p/three-dictators-walk-into-bar.html

    https://www.google.com/search?q=a+marxist%2C+a+stalinist%2Cand+a+trotskyist+walk+into+a+bar&oq=a+marxist%2C+a+stalinist%2Cand+a+trotskyist+walk+into+a+bar&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIGCAEQRRhA0gEJMTg3NDJqMGo3qAIIsAIB&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

  16. @Edgar Oh, how cool. R U a Drekkie, as well?

    What does “you have the Conn” mean in Star Trek?

    Conn is an old naval term, and it means to control the movements of a ship at sea. The large structure on a ship where the bridge is located is called the conning tower.

    Starfleet for the most part adopted English naval terms for ships in space. When the senior officer leaves the bridge, he designates who then has control of the ship. Thus, “Saavik, you have the conn” in Star Trek II.

  17. Little Eddie,

    I’ve never seen someone more in the dark, while at the same time putting on a pretense of knowing something, as you. FYI.

    Acts 11:
    26] And when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch. And it came to pass, that a whole year they assembled themselves with the church, and taught much people. And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch.

    Antioch was actually one of the first cities the gospel spread to. The Book of Acts was also completely written before 70 AD, which was considerably before the “2nd Century”

    Since Josephus was the ONLY Jewish writer to give a contemporary account of the 70 AD Jewish Rebellion Against Rome, and he makes mention of the followers of “Christ”, your arguments are reduced to blithering foolishness. Every time you open your mouth, it seems, you look like more of a fool.

  18. SEB-

    Stop your con. “Chosen” is English an term “Joseon” is a Korean Name.

    And I’m a kosher Korean and don’t eayt that drek.

    It was very popular in Ireland; the butchers of Chazar used to hang long huge sausage type strings outside their shops. I passed one a frw times every dy and always hrel my breath….Sickening stuff

  19. @Edgar The Koreans are next on the Muzzies’ menu, you know. Firstly, they are the Choson people.

    In 1392, a new dynasty established by a military coup revived the name Joseon (??, ??, Chos?n), after the ancient state Gojoseon. The alternative name for this nation could have been Hwaryeong, but in the end, Taejo of Joseon decided to go with Joseon.

    Names of Korea – Wikipedia

    and Secondly, the Muzzies are always saying, you know, First the Saturday people, then the Sundae people.

    Sundae (??) is a Korean blood sausage that’s a popular street food in both North and South Korea. It’s made by steaming pig or cow intestines that are stuffed with various ingredients, such as marinated glutinous rice, glass noodles, vegetables, blood, and spices. Sundae can be chewy and savory, with a dark color and a tangy flavor from the rice.

    😀

  20. Michael-

    With all your quoted rubbish you don’t seem to know that the term “Christian was not used until well into the second century. Other than the fake New Testament Acts. When a half looney guy is also self brainwashed, there’s nothing can be done with him.

    And that means YOU…….!!

    {The original Jewish Christians were reputed to have been The Jerusalem Church and they called themselves Ebionim, and existed for several centuries}.

    Also until the Bar Cocheba War the first 9 “popes” were all Jews…….

  23. Michael.

    Just about everything you’ve said is untrue.

    But allow me to commiserate with you on your illnesses which I sincerely are NOT fatal as you say.

    Apropos nothing; a featherweight is 126 lbs, 10 stones are 140 lbs wnd known in the boxing world as Super-lightweights (rightweight135 lbs) or Junior Welterweights Welterweight 147 lbs)

    As for age I think you recently said you are 75 years old…I am older, not that I like it.
    but T.G healthy….so far.

  24. SE

    The 4 Gospels are written anonymously, as was common in that period. It was only at the very end of the 2nd cent that those names were arbitrarily given to them by crazy Christian loonies,who picked the names from the Pauline Letters, never mind that half of them are proven fakes and forgeries.

  27. Edgar,

    You seem to have forgotten who the ten stone featherweight is here. It is true, I have some terminal health issues; but you are probably in worse shape than me, even though at least ten years my junior.

    I’ve had enough of your unscholarly nonesense. Find someone else to bother.

  28. Little MIkkele-

    It doesn’t take much to set you off…these days…Alzheimers??? Maybe the Capone ailment…………..????

    And such RUDE language.
    Our little bandy legged pot bellied Beaky nosed scientist is not very scientific after all.

    Por, twisted little soul. Shoton awaits you, little guy.

    I bow to yout superiority in the New Testament, but I thought you’d be interested in what rationalists are saying about it. And it’s a great, full of knowledge volume, Deeply researched, including “Believers”……….And yes, 6 Pauline Letters are fakes, possibly 7-8…

    You are AFRAID to read Ehrman a very famous New Testament scholar. AFRAID.

    Not surprised with you sitting in your 100 ft deep hole surrounded by bales of toilet paper.

    No control over your outbursts….definitely Dementia of a violent sort..

    So solly-me jump over Niagara to p/lease you.
    Acts 26. No wonder they gave it the “hook” …..Lousy actors.
    You know I don’t read any of your reeled off crap, vicarious satisfaction though it gives you.

    To conclude ..I didn’t know that Seb had combined with you against me. Surprised. !!

  29. Edgar, you liar, maligner and fool.

    Yes, I have read a considerable amount — mostly from Torah, but from other sources as well — usually by first-hand informants. Is this “Errorman” a first-hand informant? He must be very, very old!

    Sebastien said your book concerned the Apostle Paul’s sanity. The eyewitness account reads thus:

    [21] For these causes the Jews caught me in the temple, and went about to kill me.
    [22] Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come:
    [23] That Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first that should rise from the dead, and should shew light unto the people, and to the Gentiles.
    [24] And as he thus spake for himself, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad.
    [25] But he said, I am not mad, most noble Festus; but speak forth the words of truth and soberness.
    [26] For the king knoweth of these things, before whom also I speak freely: for I am persuaded that none of these things are hidden from him; for this thing was not done in a corner.
    [27] King Agrippa, believest thou the prophets? I know that thou believest.
    [28] Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian.
    [29] And Paul said, I would to God, that not only thou, but also all that hear me this day, were both almost, and altogether such as I am, except these bonds.
    [30] And when he had thus spoken, the king rose up, and the governor, and Bernice, and they that sat with them:
    [31] And when they were gone aside, they talked between themselves, saying, This man doeth nothing worthy of death or of bonds.
    [32] Then said Agrippa unto Festus, This man might have been set at liberty, if he had not appealed unto Caesar.

    — Acts 26

  30. Arcivescovo Carlo Maria Viganò
    @CarloMVigano
    (art. 2 SST; can. 1364 CIC)

    The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith has informed me, with a simple email, of the initiation of an extrajudicial penal trial against me, with the accusation of having committed the crime of schism and charging me of having denied the legitimacy of “Pope Francis” of having broken communion “with Him” and of having rejected the Second Vatican Council. I have been summoned to the Palace of the Holy Office on June 20, in person or represented by a canon lawyer. I assume that the sentence has already been prepared, given that it is an extrajudicial process.

    I regard the accusations against me as an honor. I believe that the very wording of the charges confirms the theses that I have repeatedly defended in my various addresses. It is no coincidence that the accusation against me concerns the questioning of the legitimacy of Jorge Mario Bergoglio and the rejection of Vatican II: the Council represents the ideological, theological, moral, and liturgical cancer of which the Bergoglian “synodal church” is the necessary metastasis.

    Complete text of the announcement:
    https://exsurgedomine.it/240620-attendi

    I don’t trust anyone who hasn’t been impeached, imprisoned or excommunicated.

  31. Michael,

    Has it caught up with you, a reading disability???? I thought you would appreciate being guided to that book I mentioned since you are obsessed with religiosity.

    It explains clearly just how the New Testament was formed-and mostly forged.
    After all it’s your specialty…..??

    But, as I originally said, you might be afraid to read it. Do you read ANY books at all???

  32. Edgar, I don’t think you’re seriously trying to start a “Book of the Month Club”. If you have something to say, then say it! Don’t hide behind authors and books I have no interest in.

    BTW, this from the real world:

    Breaking News – Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano has been summoned to the Vatican to be Excommunicated by Red Pope Francis.

    — https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/06/exclusive-archbishop-carlo-maria-vigano-summoned-vatican-be/

    Carlo’s a good man.

  33. Michael It’ll likely take a couple of days to read, maybe more. It’s full of very relevant references, thoroughly researched showing astonishing scholarship, that the writer deprecates, nevertheless the massive amount of references he must have delved into, contradict this.

    The one thing I didn’t mention, and meant to, was that the differences in Paul’s reputed letters may have been from his weird and unstable mind, especially say, after an epileptic fit, and not from forgeries.

    So far, and I may be about half through the book, the writer may mention this, but so far, not a ward.

  35. MICHAEL-

    DO I HAVE A BOOK FOR YOU………. Double-double. I think you’ll be afraid to read it, but if you do, I’ appreciate your impressions.

    Key in ” Read any book” and in the slot write “Bart D. Ehrman”. He wrote many books, a convinced Evangelical Christian-originally. He is a famous Biblical scholar.

    The name of first book to read is “FORGED” .

    With your well arranged scientific mind, you will easily be able to categorise an conclude.

    Good Reading….!!

  37. EDGAR Not sure what you are referring to, Haaretz? They publish frequently and the IDF should outlaw them. They definitely stink to high heaven, however. 😀

  41. Serge Klarsfeld, the famous Nazi hunter, has announced that he will vote for Le Pen’s party in the coming snap election in France, stating that

    “The only victory over anti-Semitism, which is a disease, is that extreme parties right in Europe have renounced anti-Semitism and understood that the Jews are a factor of progress, of development, unlike the 1930s when these parties considered the Jews as harmful. Today, after a long evolution, they consider them as positive. .”

  42. “I’m a Jew and no amount of money in the world will tempt me to go against Israel” ~

    Actress Scarlett Johansson who has refused to sign a big contract with a company that asked her to boycott Israel.

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  43. Biden’s stolen classified documents scandal is way worse than we thought.

    Mark Zwonitzer told the special counsel’s office that Joe Biden knowingly shared highly classified information with him and took him to his Wilmington garage where classified materials were stored in boxes.

    MAJOR COURT WIN

    Late last night we forced Garland’s DOJ to cough up the transcript of Special Counsel Hur’s interview with Biden ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer

    We are reviewing now but wanted the American People to have it as soon as possible

    Link below pic.twitter.com/XuMpeD8nj7

    — Oversight Project (@OversightPR) June 13, 2024

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/06/transcript-special-counsel-hur-interview-biden-ghostwriter-mark/

    Sebastien, I don’t like how Biden is running his dogs.

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  44. @Michael

    Reagan’s joke.
    Two men, an American and a Russian were arguing. One said,

    “in my country I can go to the white house walk to the president’s office and pound the desk and say “Mr president! I don’t like how you’re running things in this country!”

    “I can do that too!”

    “Really?”

    “Yes! I can go to the Kremlin, walk into the general secretary’s office and pound the desk and say, Mr. secretary, I don’t like how Reagan is running his country!”

    😀

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  45. Smotrich transferred a large sum of money to the victims of terrorism. This money was according to the USA supposed to got to the PA. Since they use the money to encourage terrorism Smotrich thought it was much more warranted that the money go to the victims!

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  47. @Peloni the Federal Election Commission is NOT in charge of the CNN debate so at this point it is only Trump versus Biden. Biden ala Hillary is planning on spending 10 days prepping for the debate at Camp David.

    Trump will be campaigning instead of over prepping for a debate.