Please provide a similar list of those balancing out the partisanship of the above names.

The claim that NED is bipartisan is false. Trump ended that. The list of very partisan individuals associated with the organization includes board member Anne Applebaum, former NED president Carl Gershman, Robert Kagan, Larry Diamond, and board member Rachel Kleinfeld.

"Andrew for now the fifth time and almost word for word you repeat the same mealy-mouthed statement “NED did not fund GDI’s activities in the U.S.” This is a devious obfuscation of reality." Sorry the truth is so painful. Somebody who hides his name clearly cannot even accept the truth about himself.

The cast alone would get me into the theater. Greer was also great as a jealous werewolf in "Cursed," and as a drunken and horny straight woman who thought she was taking a walk on the wild side and being picked up by a lesbian couple when the mom and daughter team of Allison Janney and Anna Farris tried to keep her from driving and get her into AA on "Mom."

Beautiful essay. I was also a youngest child and had a prolonged bedridden illness while very young, so the movie always brings back memories. When I scanned the weekly printed TV listings (that came with the Sunday paper in the 70s and 80s), this is one of the movies I would always circle.

I watched the whole series and I saw something very different. First every show is about a gay issue, and one could ask if high school students, even in English classes, should always be invited to think about sex and sexuality in every class. As to discrimination, more than one episode involves super woke "radical" queer and trans students giving this unpierced, untattooed teacher grief for not paying attention to their ever-changing jargon and concerns as a CIS male gay. The show is much more about gay jokes and gay life than about teaching, with the constant on again off again ex-lover and the new love interest who he can't date because he too is a teacher.

Pete was 12 and Joe was 17. I'd imagine there were a number of places to fish in the Bronx in 1932, a lot of land still undeveloped. My grandfather got out of the market before the crash, so his family wasn't hit that hard.

Where do you think they would have fished back then? It would have been quite a bounty during the great depression. How old were they in this picture? Always hard to tell going back so many generations.

I'll have some white meat.

A still of Peter Lorre from a great film: M?

Andrew for now the fifth time and almost word for word you repeat the same mealy-mouthed statement "NED did not fund GDI's activities in the U.S." This is a devious obfuscation of reality. What NED did do was fund GDI with full awareness that GDI was running a censorship operation in the U.S media market. This amounts to a distinction without a difference. I have given numerous links on this thread that exposes the NED/GDI/Censorship connection and here is another link " https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/house/3148525/embattled-state-department-office-funding-censorship-groups/. The following sentence is an excerpt from this link "Moreover, the report argues the National Endowment for Democracy, a State Department-funded nonprofit group that awarded hundreds of thousands of dollars to GDI, “violated its international restrictions by collaborating with fact-checking entities in assessing domestic press businesses’ admission to a credibility organization." The report referred to is the The Congressional report titled "Instruments and Casualties of the Censorship-Industrial Complex" . The report stated the following "The NED grant documents show that the NED was aware of the GDI’s work in the U.S. media market at the time of funding." Here is the House Committee report in full. https://smallbusiness.house.gov/uploadedfiles/house_committee_on_small_business_-_cic_report_september_2024.pdf...At this point Andrew it is clear that no amount of evidence that I provide will sway you because truth is obviously not your main priority nor does it appear to be a central part of your value system. This is perhaps the primary distinction between us. To the best of my abilities I always try to reach my conclusions based on facts and evidence regardless of my own personal ideology or agenda. It is quite clear that you reach your conclusions based on your own personal ideology or agenda regardless of the facts and evidence. This is the biggest take away from our exchange on this thread.

NED did not fund GDI's activities on the U.S. There is zero evidence of that. This exchange demonstrates, yet again, that MAGA thinking is unAmerican and that people who hide behind fake names are cowards.

https://www.newsweek.com/ice-illegal-ideas-border-security-social-media-post-2058217 >> "That post was sent without proper approval and should not have been shared," Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary for public affairs, said in a statement. "'Ideas' should have said 'intellectual property'." <<

It appears so. But it was reproduced various places eg https://www.reddit.com/r/ABoringDystopia/comments/1jw2ay7/ice_promises_to_stop_illegal_ideas_from_crossing/?rdt=43609

Looks like they deleted it? I just get a "page does not exist."

Will 80% of the public believe the deportees are all "gangsters"? Not if they start reading what's going on, eg.: "A disgraced former Milwaukee cop with credibility issues helped seal the fate of a gay Venezuelan makeup artist sent to El Salvador's notorious prison, according to documents reviewed by USA TODAY." https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2025/04/10/fired-milwaukee-police-officer-report-gay-stylist-salvadoran-prison/83005721007/

Very nice, I like the poem. Speaking of springs and poems, I had to memorize Wordsworth's daffodils poem in 4th grade (almost 60 years ago) and it has stayed with me. Somehow Philip Larkin's Spring (which I've read and admired many times since) has not. Maybe all I retain is simple rhyme and meter. In a poem about April, Delmore Schwartz said "May memory restore again and again, The smallest color of the smallest day."

I see that ICE has a poster including "Ideas" among the illegal things it'll stop at the border. I thought this was a joke/hoax when I saw it on Bluesky, but here it is on ICE's X feed: https://x.com/ICEgov/status/1910332583256240596

This was a more abstract policy suggestion Ken. Maybe for South African refugees then, since Obama and Biden ended the special status for Cuban refugees.

With Cuban, Iranian and Chinese refugees currently being deported, the idea of US tariffs to help them is rather theoretical.

My question for libertarians and also for Democrats and other pretenders to classical liberalism: Should you be free to sell Zyklon B to a Nazi regime? A funny aspect of free trade theory: besides the gains of trade, based on the division of labor and increased productivity as everyone produces what they have a comparative advantage in, classical liberal free trade theorists also said it promoted world peace. And it does or did to a great degree, as countries don't want to go to war with countries they have investments in or that are markets for their goods. But Putin was emboldened to take chunks of Ukraine because Democrats made Putin rich by raising the price of Russian fossil fuel exports when they curtailed American energy production. And a rich Chinese Communist Party will find it easier to risk WWIII and annex Taiwan or the Philippines if the U.S. continues to import Chinese slave labor produced goods. The Trump tariff policy that has reduced the Chinese stock market by 12% in 4 days could be viewed as a foreign policy move, especially as country by country other nations enter no tariff reciprocal agreements with the U.S. As a libertarian I've always had a problem with free trade with unfree countries - e.g. shouldn't their be a tariff on Cuban or Iranian imports to go into a fund for refugees from the same country? Likewise, should one allow trade that enriches war-mongering, totalitarian, imperialist, or genocidal countries? Should one be free to sell Zyklon B to a Nazi regime?

Perhaps Taibbi's tipping point was getting #metoo heat for something so flimsy. That'll do it.

You could trace it all the way back to his reporting on Occupy Wall St., I'd say. That's when the Left starting to attack him, even though he was a reliable member of the Left. But it didn't seep into the consciousness of Democratic pols until the Twitter Files, because that's when it hit them.

Re: the “due process” claim Garcia received - Immigration courts don’t provide due process like state and federal courts do, and immigration law doesn’t have a clear definition of what constitutes gang involvement. There are some things Fox News won’t tell you, so you have to do the work yourself.

A loving/moving biography of Les Baxter: https://lesbaxter.com/pages/biography

This is great. please add a blusky link one of these days.

Just saw it yesterday. She was terrific.

Kamala Harris makes a surprise SNL cameo appearance on the weekend before the election and gets rewarded with a slobbery kiss from SNL and their informal endorsement. Unlike the SNL portrayal of Kamala from early in October where she was humorously mocked this appearance was a cringe inducing fawning over her by SNL which came across as contrived and particularly unfunny ..https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff-rqlU4ZWw...I'm sure this Kamala SNL appearance and portrayal by Maya Rudolph got Howard Sterns full approval though.. .For a minute there I thought SNL was getting back to it's roots of prioritizing comedy and being funny but I guess I jumped the gun on that. For SNL it is back to their primary objective of being left wing propagandists..

There was a time when the politically incorrect Howard Stern tested the social boundaries with his unique and edgy form of humor. In recent years Howard Stern has become a tyrannical establishment weasel. During the Covid-19 epidemic he said "When are we gonna stop putting up with the idiots in this country and just say it's mandatory to get vaccinated? F--- 'em. F--- their freedom. I want my freedom to live," He said this months after the data proved that the Covid vaccine did not prevent people from getting infected or from becoming infectious... In this recent butt kissing interview with Kamala Harris he criticized SNL comedian Maya Rudolph"s mocking portrayal of Kamala saying " I hate it. I don't want you being made fun of." How dare comedy get in the way of his political agenda. What a sad pathetic stooge Howard Stern has become.

Their best album. I will never stop listening to it.

Decades ago, I was at a party in my uncle's Manhattan high-rise apartment when the building suddenly filled with smoke and we had to evacuate down the stairs. My uncle grabbed a Picasso lithograph, and I grabbed a big tray of roast beef.

Great pic of Riverrun. Really miss that place!

In college I had a bartending job at Steak and Ale. Tips were good so I always had a couple hundred bucks in my wallet. It felt good to be a student and be able to walk into any restaurant that I felt like dining at. I rarely did that, but it was still a good feeling to know that I could.

As former Friendly's waitress of the year, Friendly's is always a yes. Wattamelon roll FTW

Loved Friendly's growing up in NJ. Fribble, hot-dog on toasted buttered roll, and fries was a great way to go. I also miss the diners with jukeboxes. After a night of drinking, your party could get anything from breakfast to a hot open-faced turkey sandwich at one place at 2 AM. Diners are considered a theme restaurant here in Texas and a poor facsimile at that. I like Five guys fries but they obviously don't compare to Nathan's fries. I always thought Roy Rodgers was best quality of those chains but haven't seen one in decades and good riddance to Arthur Treachers! If you're going with fried food, why choose fish? Last time I had Ritz crackers was when my girls were young, and they would suck/drool them soggy while in their car seats. Good cracker though, when dry

Oh I see it's Booker. Is that another child? How big is your tribe?