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@Peloni That was great. Kudos to your cousin. I think Israpundit really needs a laugh button. No?
I think I just smelled an old fart. Is Edgar around?
MICHAEL_
So…after showing your “snob” level, you admit that you are a “chicken plucker” with hearing problems
I could have guessed all that without a confession.
Iran’s most advanced warship just capsized while at port. My cousin amusingly suggests they may have been looking for their airforce.
Michael https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ain%27t_Nobody_Here_but_Us_Chickens
Hi, Michael
But, I recall reading or hearing it came from Jazz musicians because chickens are night owls, too! supposedly. Never dated one,
cheers
Hi, Sebastien
I’m afraid I never inherited my father’s talent with musical instruments; and years of working with power tools has made a mess of my hearing. The closest I’ve come to real appreciation of the art, is my fondness for George Handel’s “Messiah”. He seemed to be a master at “powering up” the choir, as needed, with kettle drums, etc. Tshaikovsky was also fabulous in this regard, in “1812 Overture”. I also love anything from John Phillip Souza, and Dvorak’s “New World Symphony”.
About 25 years ago, I was transporting some chickens for a friend in the back of my station wagon. The were all agitated, and sweating up a storm, when I played a cassette tape of Handel’s Messiah. Then they cooed and clucked calmly. Those were chickens after my own heart.
Poor Uncle Joe
https://youtu.be/BrlUSNisp7U?si=vubuBqFU9GyGYaBJ
@MIchael Your cornucopia of family tragedy reminds me of the old joke that goes:
Q: Did you know that a woman is assaulted every 8 minutes in the United States?
A: OMG! That poor woman.
picture of fire is pretty mindboggling. As well as pretty. I’ve always hated fire works except for the really distant professional ones that have no sound. Feels like I’m in a war zone.
@Felix Who sir? Me sir? Heaven forfend!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QD0cE8B5Dj0
Sebastien are you making fun of this?
@Felix
In fact, we shared two posts related to Ukraine on July 1, and another article the day before that on June 30.
Ukraine War Will End in Surrender (Posted on 2024-07-01 01:33:45)
Jeffrey Sachs on Ukraine & NATO (Posted on 2024-07-01 01:01:31)
Why Won’t the US Help Negotiate a Peaceful End to the War in Ukraine? (Posted on 2024-06-30 00:17:32)
Enjoy.
@Felix 2 editors now. Look at the masthead.
@Felix What do you meam? I just covered it..
Roger Stone’s election prediction
https://rumble.com/v55cn1i-kamala-cannot-possibly-be-this-self-unaware.html
I see that there is no coverage at all on Israpundit of the massive issue of Ukraine. Why is this? Addressed to those three editors.
Jerusalem Theatre, Henry Crown Hall, 10.1.23
https://youtu.be/9F5SyWIo41k?si=Y7qeY2E0FDbTntxf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGymQ5NuEJs
https://www.carnegiehall.org/About/Press/A-Short-History
“…In his capacity not only as the president of Carnegie Hall, but also as an adviser to the powerful ICM Artists management agency, the chairman of the America-Israel Cultural Foundation and chairman and music adviser of the Jerusalem Music Center, he was able to encourage and open doors for young musicians he considered exceptionally talented. Mr. Ma, Mr. Ax, the violinists Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman, Shlomo Mintz, Sergiu Luca, Joseph Swenson and Cho-Liang Lin and the pianist Yefim Bronfman were all given a crucial push by Mr. Stern early in their careers…”
“Violinist Isaac Stern Dies at 81; Led Efforts to Save Carnegie Hall
Share full article
By Allan Kozinn
Sept. 23, 2001”
https://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/23/nyregion/violinist-isaac-stern-dies-at-81-led-efforts-to-save-carnegie-hall.html
@Michael My personal favorite:
Rewind to beginning. I don’t know why it starts later in. Yes, the same Max Bruch who wrote Kol Nidre though he wasn’t himself Jewish. Bashmet is, though. “Yuri Bashmet was born in 1953 in Rostov-on-Don in Russia and spent his childhood in Lvov, Ukraine. He began his studies at the Moscow Conservatory when he was 18, first with Vadim Borisovsky, the violist of the Beethoven Quartet, and later with Feodor Druzhinin.” He also conducts the orchestra he founded, ‘Moscow Soloists.” The most important reason this damn war must come to an end is so that he can come back to Carnegie Hall.
https://youtu.be/IOtZUgQb1K0?si=qZT5F0ciRUW1KmtP
Israel to begin offensive in Lebanon later in July, report
@Michael I posted some cool viola stuff in the couple of days in chit chat.
PELONI-
It may be bad for Israel-UK relations, but I think Business dealings will continue.
Also A MAJOR good. Huge increase in Aliya from the U.K is likely. not certain but likely.
Hi, Peloni.
Nigel Farage’s Reform Party may have garnered 13 seats — not bad, for a weeks old party.
Sebastien, Here’s a recent pic of the Thompson Fire. Pretty impressive:
https://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BB1ppikN.img?w=1920&h=1080&q=60&m=2&f=jpg
Hello again, Sebastien.
2019-20:
1. premature heart attack
2. old age, kidney failure
3. old age, heart attack
4. premature heart attack
5. overdose
2022-23:
1. old age
2. premature heart attack
3. fall, broken neck
Those are just the close family members. Some close friends of long standing died during the same time period. This is just what it means, to be in your seventies. It’s a little like being in combat. You get “used to it”, but not really. Then you keep on going: You’re still in a war. My eldest brother-in-law lost his brother; he followed him, and my sister buried him. We went to the memorial service, and came back a couple of months later, when his brother-in-law died. We went to the memorial service. After we got back home, my widowed sister lost her son, then her grandson. The rest of the family got their affairs in order, during the next three years; then my sister died. We went to the memorial service and returned home. After getting here, we got the call that my niece’s husband died (We had just talked with him, two days before). A few months later, another brother-in-law broke his neck. Job had it much worse, long ago. That’s why those stories are in the Bible.
You’re a violist? Wow! When I was still getting about, we went to a small church that had a drummer, two violinists, a bass guitar, a keyboard, a lead guitar, a singer — and a cellist, who actually made his living playing for the local philharmonic. The cello’s a beautiful instrument. I don’t know if I’ve ever heard a viola in action. My father used to make his own violins, during the Depression. He used to play in the tavern, along with the man who would become the conductor of the Milwaukee Symphony. I didn’t get to know my father much, but I inherited two of his violins.
“Violin” is “kinnor” in Hebrew, but it looks like a lyre. The word for “harp” seems, ironically, to be “kittarh” (like “guitar”). There seems to be no end of variations.
https://youtu.be/y22bp6TPqvE
England falls to Labor in landslide election. This is going to be bad, very bad I would argue.
Hi, Sebastien. Latest on Biden (many hours ago):
Hunter Biden helping Dad make decisions in the West Wing?
So, he’s a coke addict. Should that matter? He fits right in!
I finally got around to asking Google if irrelevant and immaterial was redundant and this was the funniest of the answers on Quora, and the first that came up:
Who knew?
“Oh Crap, it’s due tomorrow?” – Thomas Jefferson July 3, 1776
– FB Meme from classical sarcasm and something group
@Edgar As I said, irrelevant. The point is it could happen again. Those tunnels have to go.
Google blocked Times of Israel
Down through the centuries, we have never forgotten the meaning of the words, I PLEBNISTA
https://youtu.be/uGO-SldLrNA?si=GDsNeeuo75kKrm1Y
FB meme somebody posted.
Omurice is a popular Japanese and Korean dish of early 20th century American origin consisting of a rice filled omelette with a smiley face in ketchup on top. I learned about it from watching Korean dramas and about Americanos (watered down espresso) from the Korean Church I used to play in that had a Starbucks-like coffee shop in the lobby.
Happy Fourth.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omurice
Happy Fourth, y’all.
@Michael So, Governor Gavin Newsome left a raging fire to attend a Biden function? Yes, well, in his place, I don’t think I would mention my stint as Governor on my resume if I were applying for a job as somebody’s baby sitter. Like, when I was randomly chatting with someone about how absurd I thought certain policies were in my home town and what policies I would suggest and this person said gushingly that he or she – I don’t remember – would vote for me if I went into politics – I said that if I ran for president, I would declare that if elected I would serve only on the understanding that I would sub out when gigs came up, particuilarly on the weekend – you know, as a violist in an orchestra or in a string quartet, for a wedding or something.
I will say one thing for winsome Newsome however, when Robert F. Kennedy Jr. insanely advocated for Sirhan Sirhan’s parole – incredibly along with half the Kennedy family – after meeting with him one time and saying he didn’t think the evil bastard was guilty
Newsome blocked it. He’s still in there, thank God. As is Major Hassan who murdered all those young unarmed soldiers 20 years ago in New Jersey because Allah told him to – himself a psychiatrist, right? – even though he was sentenced to death 20 years ago!
@Michael
All in the past five years? OMG! You must be still recovering. My mother never recovered from my sister’s death even after more than 30 years. That’s intense. How? In the same catacylsmic event?
https://www.worldtribune.com/whistleblower-fbi-revoking-security-clearances-of-conservative-agents/
https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2024/07/03/bbc-host-calls-biden-have-trump-murdered-scotus-presidential-immunity-decision/
These people are busy!
I’m with this guy:
https://x.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1808710794634268894
Happy 248th Birthday, America
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/07/03/gavin-newsom-leaves-california-mid-fire-to-stand-with-biden-at-governors-meeting/
There’s a safe fellow!
Hi, Sebastien
The fires out here are rather remarkable — as are the trees, the mountains, etc. The very things that make this a place of outstanding beauty, also make it quite dangerous to live in. This is where I sought a relationship with my Maker; and I found Him without need of a preacher’s presence, instructed by the power and vastness of a forest, whose canopy rose to over 250-300 feet above my head.
That said, I posted this news item out of a sense of duty, against the odd chance that one of the readers might be in some danger. Some four years ago, we had a similar inferno roaring down the river valley in a firestorm. I was alerted first by smell of smoke, then the red-black that filled the midnight sky, then the solid orange that filled and covered the entire landscape at sunrise, blocking out all detail. The “Leave Now!” evacuation orders came up to our city limits.
That;s a great loss. During the past five years, I’ve lost my oldest sister, as well as her husband, son, grandson, my second sister’s husband, and many friends and close relatives. These can be difficult times.
I’m glad we can connect somewhat in our life experiences. Actually, I don’t think I picked up much of the hippie lingo. My experience with the Movement was in the early 1970s. Before and after that, I was a blue-collar worker from a blue-collar family.
Seb-
I don’t understand this. Only 4,000 acres according to the report.
I’ve seen reports of 100 sq miles ablaze in the past , years ago, and many other close to it.
In Richmond, a suburb of Vancouver a massive peat bog sozens of miles sq has been smouldering and on fire for the past 60 years. I think it still is . Just like as if it was in a fireplace at home.
In Ireland we used to have coal fires until the WAR, then used peat from the Irish bogs. in much of the countryside.
Trains could not get up to more than abou 15 mls per hour.
I travelled to Cork City , 160 miles from Dublin took nearly 12 hours.
https://embassies.gov.il/san-francisco/Newsandevents/Pages/Firefighter_IL_US.aspx
articles about Fires caused by Hezollah rockets in Northern Israel and arson of a synagogue NOW in moderation.
https://www.israel21c.org/israeli-water-tech-flows-to-thirsty-california/
@Michael Since we were both ’70s American New Age babies before your “Great Awakening,” you can just say, “heavy, man, ” and let it go, or be, as the case may be.
@Michael A little personal anecdote: My big sister died in one of these right after all my pro-Pal activism in the late 80s. I met my mother’s first cousin who flew all the way from YESHA to attend her memorial concert and we bonded. Divine punishment through my family and a road to redemption is how I’ve always seen it. I may not buy into all the obsessive-compulsive religious traditions that I wasn’t brought up in, anyway, but I do perceive, however dimly, that there is somebody up there who does love Israel and doesn’t fuck around – even if
he/she/it/none of the above does have an absurdist and, at times, downright sardonic sense of humor, clearly.
And, also at times, perhaps just a wee bit hypocritical?
“Are trees people that you would besiege them?” -Deut 20
I was searching for the line that goes woe to the poor little children in order to changs children to trees – no, not Scott Joplin’s only opera, the ragtime, “Treemonisha” – and this amazing song lyric popped up. Chillingly relevant poetry, especially after Oct. 7
“O Children
Song by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
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Pass me that lovely little gun
My dear, my darling one
The cleaners are coming, one by one
You don’t even want to let them start
They’re knocking now upon your door
They measure the room, they know the score
They’re mopping up the butcher’s floor
Of your broken little hearts
Forgive us now for what we’ve done
It started out as a bit of fun
Here, take these before we run away
The keys to the gulag
Come on
Come on
Come on
Come on
Here comes Frank and poor old Jim
They’re gathering round with all my friends
We’re older now, and the light is dim
And you are only just beginning
Oh, children
We have the answer to all your fears
It’s short, it’s simple, it’s crystal-clear
It’s roundabout and it’s somewhere here
Lost amongst our winnings
The cleaners have done their job on you
They’re hip to it, man, they’re in the groove
They’ve hosed you down, you’re good as new
And they’re lining up to inspect you
Oh children
Poor old Jim’s white as a ghost
He’s found the answer that we lost
We’re all weeping now, weeping because
There ain’t nothing we can do to protect you
We’re happy, Ma, we’re having fun
And the train ain’t even left the station
And have you left a seat for me?
Is that such a stretch of the imagination?
I’m hanging in there, don’t you see?
In this process of elimination
We’re happy, Ma, we’re having fun (children)
It’s beyond my wildest expectation (oh, children)
We’re happy, Ma, we’re having fun
The train ain’t even left the station (oh, children)
(Hey, little train, wait for me)
(I once was blind but now I see)
Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: Nicholas Edward Cave”
https://www.oann.com/newsroom/thousands-evacuated-in-northern-california-following-fast-moving-wildfires/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGI16YGyP28
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aIyZnFbOu0