Monday, April 29, 2024

Flowers for a Working Girl (Disappearing Murder in New York)

Thursday, August 25, 2011

Flowers for a Working Girl
By Nicholas Stix

“Flowers for a Working Girl” was the original title this essay ran under on May 17, 1996

May 17, 1996
Straight Talk

As I write this, Gayle Hoffman is clinging to life in Jamaica Hospital’s ICU. Who is Gayle Hoffman? “Nobody.” Somebody.

On March 26th, Gayle gained four new orifices she hadn’t bargained on. According to detectives in Far Rockaway’s 101 Precinct, the holes were courtesy of an off-duty, drunken NYPD rookie who’d just graduated from the Academy five days before.

Officer Rolando Hernandez has since been charged with attempted murder and assault. The shooting occurred on Beach 28th Street and Seagirt Avenue, Gayle’s territory. Rolando Hernandez allegedly pumped four 9 mm slugs from his service weapon into Gayle’s neck, lung, arm and leg. On the street, a girl who claimed she was with her insists that Hernandez shot Gayle after she stole $600 in cash from him. She’ll never “stroll” again, and it’s a miracle she’s still alive.

I hadn’t known her last name. We first met early last fall. Coming from the subway late, I was heading down Beach 20th Street. Two big, young [Hispanic] men who seemed to have ideas of “getting paid” were closing in on me.

Having gotten my nose broken fighting off a Mutt-and-Jeff team on the A train just a couple of weeks before and been arrested for “possession of a noxious substance” for spraying “Jeff” with tear gas, I was feeling war-weary. Seeing a woman standing at the bus stop on the other side of the street, by the corner of Seagirt, I crossed over. Strength in numbers, and all that.

Cute and short, pale, but well-nourished with dark hair, Gayle introduced herself: “You are talking to the most notorious prostitute in Far Rockaway.”

The next time I saw her, she was in a less affable mood. At 3 a.m., I escorted my building’s security guard to a stairwell door on the top floor, where he rousted her out of the sleep of the dead. She cursed him, as he ushered her out of the building. Homeless and strung out, she was just looking for a nook or cranny to crash in.

How could she be homeless? She who bragged, “I don’t even talk about a b--- j— for less than $20”? Neighbors said she was a crackhead who gave everything to her muse.

The next time I saw Gayle she was in my building during midday, when there’s no security. She apologized, “I’m sorry for the way I spoke to you.” It might have only been good policy for a potential John, but hey, how many people in this town have even that much business sense? I responded, “No sweat.” I hadn’t taken her curses personally.

The last time I saw her was on Everdell Avenue, during Chanukah. I was taking the short cut to the subway by the most notorious crackhouse in town (though not the only one on the block), which was later cleaned out in the big spring sweep. I’ve often been approached by ladies on Everdell, trudging even through blizzards to fill an unquenchable need.

Gayle wished me a “gut yomtov” in passing. A funny duck, when she spoke she looked not at me, but at a street guy who didn’t look too Jewish. So, funny duck that I am, I didn’t return the greeting.

Better late than never. Sorry, Gayle. Gut yomtov.

Postscript, April 29, 2024

Another rumor I heard on the street in Far Rockaway, was that Rolando Hernandez had shot Gayle when she laughed at his inability to get it up, due to being extremely high. (I just confirmed this, via a newspaper report of her testimony at Rolando Hernandez’ trial.)

In any event, Hernandez was completely unfit to be a cop, and I’m sure had red flags that would have turned up during any sort of background check, like his street criminal friends he spent the days with between graduating from the police academy and shooting Gayle.

In March 1997, Rolando Hernandez was convicted of attempted murder, and sentenced to 20 years in prison. But he left Gayle a quadriplegic, unable to use any of her limbs.

She lived out her days in a nursing home, requiring constant care—diapering, being turned in bed, so as to protect her from bed sores, feeding, meds, everything.

She couldn’t even swallow, and required suction so that she wouldn’t choke to death on her own saliva or mucous.

Well, someone neglected her suction one night, while she was asleep. She choked to death.

I don’t know what it says on her death certificate, but Gayle’s cause of death was homicide, through Rolando Hernandez.

(I’ve known numerous murder victims over the years, whose cause of death didn’t match what it said on their toe tags. I’ve even kissed a couple goodbye on their foreheads.)

Queens DA Richard Brown spoke in 2004 of possibly re-opening Gayle’s case, and charging Hernandez with murder, but it was just talk. DA Brown let the matter drop, and the MSM forgot all about it. And the NYCPD got to maintain its pretty homicide stats.

Gayle’s parents had some money, and I read somewhere that they founded a charity in her name. (They sued the city of New York for letting Hernandez become a cop, but I have no idea how that suit panned out.)



Beyonce Knowles channels Sammy Sosa

monday, april 29, 2024 at 11:02:55 p.m. edt

Beyonce channels Sammy Sosa


What's with her country and western schtick?

She going to emulate Waylon and Willie?

I hope y'all enjoy Like & subscribe my Channel please
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"wealthy, White Louisiana residents win right to form their own city and split from poorer black neighborhoods in landmark court ruling after a 10-year battle"

By A Texas Reader
monday, april 29, 2024 at 10:13:32 p.m. edt

wealthy, White Louisiana residents win right to form their own city and split from poorer black neighborhoods in landmark court ruling after a 10-year battle
 
"the Louisiana supreme court ruled on friday that the new city of St George could move forward with plans to split off from the rest of baton rouge as critics claim the move is 'racist'."
www.dailymail.co.uk
 
Like a family member has always said to me:

"People vote with their feet."


“Get Back,” Re-written by GRA, Music by the Beatles (video)


[“‘Get back. Get back. I have a gun. Get back. Get back’: violent, new mexico hispanic breaks into White woman’s home, and eventually gets shot”]

By Grand Rapids Anonymous

sunday, april 28, 2024 at 3:00:00 a.m. edt

A latino man, he thought he had a woman,
That he could both rob and rape,
Pedro broke inside the home of a White woman,
Thought he’d make a big escape.

“Get back,
Get back,
Get back to stinking mexico.
Get back,
Get back,
Gotta gun, just want to let you know,
Get back, Pedro.”
(Instrumental break)

“Go home”

“Get back,
Get back,
Get back to stinking mexico.
Get back,
Get back,
Gotta gun, just want to let you know,
Get back—GO”

(Instrumental)

“Sweet Anissa Tinnin,
Home with her grand daughter,
Then her door was broken down,
All the cops around,
Were looking for this Pedro,
She shot him and he hit the ground.

“Get back,
Get back,
I told you not to stick around,
Get back,
Get back,”
Cops came,
That's how it all went down
Good job, Anissa

(Instrumental)

“Go home”

“Get back,
Get back,
Get back to stinking mexico,
Get back,
Get back,
Go off to your new prison home.”

Oooooh

(Spoken)
Get back, Pedro,
Your warden’s waiting for you,
With your brand new shoes
And a prison uni,

Go back,
Go back to where you now belong.

--GRA

“Get Back” (Remastered 2009)





Nelson Riddle discusses Frank Sinatra's two-octave vocal range (brief video)

By N.S.

N.S.: Two octaves? After his vocal chords hemorrhaged, circa 1951, and he needed surgery, there's no way he could have had a two octave range. Maybe during the 1940s, and even that's dubious. Harve Presnell sang in the opera as a baritone, and I ead that he had a 1.8 octave range in his prime.

2,024 views Apr 26, 2024
"In this short 1960s radio interview excerpted from DJ Paul Compton's 12-part radio special Project Sinatra, composer/arranger Nelson Riddle discusses Frank Sinatra's two-octave vocal range with specific reference to an April 1960 Capitol Records recording session which featured Sinatra recording the song 'River, Stay Away from My Door.

"The audio is from the RIC ROSS Frank Sinatra Collection."






Statement of legitimate texas gov. Gregg Abbott vs. fake president/real gangster Joe Biden

Re-posted by N.S.





In florida, four career super-predators, 14-16, dead after carjacking, and leading cops on chase at 111 mph (video)

Re-posted by N.S.



People are calling these thugs' deaths "unfortunate," but I beg to differ. Imagine how many innocent people they would have robbed, raped, maimed and murdered, had they lived. Their deaths were most fortunate.



Mass shooting of eight cops in Charlotte, n.C.—three dead; smells like blackie

By Grand Rapids Anonymous
monday, april 29, 2024 at 6:48:00 p.m. edt

GRA: This has the aroma of a nig shooter. nbc didn’t i.d. the perp, but talked to a black witness from the neighborhood.

“(abc news) three law enforcement officers were killed and five more were wounded in a shooting incident in Charlotte, north Carolina, on monday afternoon, police said.

“at the time of the shooting, the U.S. marshals task force was serving a warrant in an investigation ‘when they were engaged by active gunfire from a subject,’ police said monday.

“the suspect, who has not yet been identified, was also killed in the standoff.

“the three deceased officers served with the U.S. marshals task force. one of the five wounded is a U.S. marshal while the other four work for the Charlotte-mecklenburg police department, chief Johnny Jennings said in a press conference monday evening. one of the officers is in critical condition, he said.

“just before 5 p.m., about three hours after police said there had been a shooting, police said, ‘at least one shooting suspect was located deceased at the residence after clearing the scene.

“officers had suspected the individual of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.

“police are questioning two other people who lived in the home as persons of interest, Jennings said. one of them was a juvenile.

“photo: numerous law enforcement officers struck by gunfire in active situation in the 5000 block of Galway drive, Charlotte, according to the Charlotte-mecklenburg police department.

“Jennings said it was a ‘high-powered rifle’ that was used to shoot and kill officers.”

GRA: The cops in the video, who took the gunfire, look all White. The police chief—Johnny Jennings—is black.

Just thought I’d point that out.

--GRA



Truth vs. lies about sexual psychopaths and opportunists (videos)

Re-posted by N.S.





Barrymore and Astor in Don Juan (1926)

Re-posted by N.S.

"4,622 views Apr 22, 2024
"PizzaFLIX Presents classic movie monday

Stars: John Barrymore, Mary Astor, Estelle Taylor AND Myrna Loy

Director: Alan Crosland

"In Renaissance-era Italy, the world's greatest lover is pursued by many women, but Don Juan is haunted by the one he cannot possess. In the quest for her love, he runs afoul of Caesar, Lucrezia, and Count Donati of the tyrannical Borgia clan."

"The first feature-length film to use Vitaphone's sound-on-disc system which synchronized the musical score and sound effects to the film’s playback projection."






By N.S.

If you search for this as The Lethal Lure, you'll never find it. imdb.com lists it as Dick Tracy vs. Cueball.


1,120 views Apr 26, 2024

"In the heart of the city, beneath the glittering skyline, a daring heist unfolds, leaving a trail of stolen diamonds and shattered trust. When the thief meets a sudden and brutal end, the gems fall into [N.S.: not exactly] the hands of Cueball, a man with a dark past and a thirst for vengeance. As bodies pile up and suspicion grows, Dick Tracy, the city's stalwart detective, devises a risky plan involving his own beloved Tess. But when Tess becomes a pawn in Cueball's deadly game, Tracy's race against time takes a perilous turn, plunging him into a deadly game of cat and mouse where the stakes are higher than ever before."





The WEJB/NSU Theater, 1902-1981:

Georges Méliès’ A Trip to the Moon (1902);

The Great Train Robbery (1903);

C.B. DeMille’s The Squaw Man (1914);

D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation (1915);

D.W. Griffith’s Intolerance: Love’s Struggle Through the Ages (1916);

Harry Carey and John “Jack” Ford’s Straight Shooting (1917), the First Feature-Length, “Cheyenne Harry” Western;

Charlie Chaplin’s Shoulder Arms (1918);

The Outlaw and His Wife (1918), Starring and Directed by Victor Sjöström (Seastrom);

Starring “Jack”: See the 1920 Silent Picture Classic of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde;

Robert Wiene’s The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920);

Buster Keaton’s One Week (1920);

D. W. Griffith’s Way Down East (1920);

F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu (1921);

The Kid (1921), Charlie Chaplin’s First Feature as Director;

Fritz Lang and Thea von Harbou’s First Pictures Featuring the Evil Genius, Dr. Mabuse: Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler, Teil I (Dr. Mabuse, the Player, Part I); and

Dr. Mabuse, Teil II: Inferno
(Dr. Mabuse, Inferno, Part II, both 1922, released one month apart) with English subtitles;

James Cruze’s The Covered Wagon (1923);

John Ford’s The Iron Horse (1924);

Charlie, in The Gold Rush (1925);

Lon Chaney, in The Phantom of the Opera (1925);

King Vidor, Laurence Stallings, and Harry Behn’s The Big Parade (1925), Starring Gilbert and Adore!

Buster Keaton’s The General (1926);

John Ford’s 1926 Western, 3 Bad Men;

Barrymore and Astor in Don Juan (1926);

When a Man Loves (1927), Starring “Jack” and Dolores Costello;

Josef von Sternberg and Ben Hecht’s Underworld (1927), the First American Gangster Picture;

Alfred Hitchcock’s The Lodger (1927);

“Wild Bill” Wellman’s Restored, Classic Silent Picture, Wings (1927), One of the First Two Best Picture Oscar Winners;

F.W. Murnau’s Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927, One of the First Two Best Picture Oscar Winners);

Fritz Lang and Thea von Harbou’s Dystopian Science Fiction Epic, Metropolis (1927), the Greatest S/F Picture Ever, Plus Its Soundtrack Suite;

Frank Borzage and Austin Strong’s Seventh Heaven (1927);

Samson Raphaelson, Alfred A. Cohn, Jack Jarmuth and Alan Crosland’s The Jazz Singer (1927), the First-Ever Talkie, Starring Al Jolson, by Warner Brothers;

King Vidor's The Crowd 1928;

St. Louis Blues (talkie, short, 1929);

Fritz Lang & Thea von Harbou’s First Talkie: M: Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder (1931) (M: A City Searches for a Murderer);

Paul Robeson in Eugene O’Neill’s The Emperor Jones (talkie, 1933);

The Man Who Knew too Much (1934): The Original Version of the Early Hitchcock Classic;

The Fighting Westerner (1935);

John Ford’s Judge Priest (1934), Starring Will Rogers, with Hattie McDaniel;

Kate Hepburn in the Super Chief’s Quality Street (1937);

Cary Grant and Roz Russell in Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur, and Howard Hawks’ His Girl Friday (1940);

Zero’s Since You Went Away (1944);

Orson Welles' The Stranger (1946);

The Lethal Lure (1946);

William Dieterle’s A Portrait of Jennie (1948);

Jules Dassin, Albert Malz, and Malvin Wald’s The Naked City (1948), Plus Music;

Antonioni's Blow-Up (1966);

Lee Marvin as Sergeant Ryker (1968); and

Paul Newman, in Fort Apache, the Bronx (1981).



cRUMP in grand rapids—again

By Grand Rapids Anonymous
saturday, april 27, 2024 at 3:37:00 a.m. edt

(GRA) You’re right, the cops give you every chance—even a dangerous blackie. Screw with them, though (especially post-floyd), try to grab their taser or gun and your fambilee will be making a perfunctory call to “uncle ben” in the next few hours.

crump was in g.r. today for a meeting with the fambilee of the 25-year-old thug who was run over by a cop last week, visions of a settlement dancing in their empty heads.

“We wants justice (money),” they said.

“Maybe, I’ll just move my office here, y’all. Gots Lyoya and now this here one—whazzhiz name—Samuel Sterling?”

There was a meeting and presser, where five blacks, including crump, robert womack and the bereaved (drooling for money, blacks) let crump speak: “This was unfathomable,” he proclaimed.

“there are twelve letters in ‘unfathomable’—a million for each letter, adds up to 12 million.” (I’m imagining how crump’s thinking—that’s not his quote).

What’s unfathomable is the black was wanted for felonies, disappeared from meeting with his parole officer for two years and still ran when the cops caught him fair and square.

They never learn.

--GRA



What does it say?! (Graphic, very graphic!)

Re-posted by N.S.





Is npr ceo Katherine Maher cia—or worse?

By N.S.

Christopher Rufo writes:
wikipedia [which Maher ran] is important because it shapes perception and closes the circle of information production. wikipedia replicates left-wing news reporting, news reporting replicates left-wing wikipedia entries, and artificial intelligence replicates both. it’s a closed loop that operates surreptitiously, using its reputation for unbiased knowledge as a cover for its own disinformation.”
N.S.: According to Maher’s npr thumbnail bio, she ran wikimedia/wikipedia for seven years, but neither it nor anywhere else gives the exact years, perhaps because she has a history of running more than one totalitarian political organization at a time.
Rufo: “at npr, Maher has already been embroiled in controversy. longtime editor Uri Berliner, who has now resigned, accused her of left-wing bias and suppressing dissent. following these accusations, I did extensive reporting demonstrating that Maher has a troubling history of arguing against the notion of objective truth and supporting censorship in the name of democracy.”

“now I have gathered additional facts that raise new questions about Maher’s role as a regime-change agent, both foreign and domestic. she has brought the color revolution home to America.”
N.S.: Once upon a time, I was more interested in foreign affairs than domestic politics. I reversed myself on that matter, after I returned from my five-year-long exile to West Germany (1980-1985). One reason was that I grew homesick soon after arriving in West Germany. Another, though not a conscious one for many years, was that it is much harder to understand foreign than domestic affairs. However, domestic affairs are increasingly as opaque as foreign affairs. Inviting the world is a big part of that.

According to law, the central intelligence agency may not meddle in domestic politics. However, it has become clear that for an indeterminate number of years, it has done just that.

The old cia was bad enough, because it operated as a rogue agency, without any real congressional oversight. However, the “new” cia is even worse, because it criminally meddles in domestic, as well as foreign politics. New cia is worse than the old cia, but under the new normal, new cia is simply the cia.

While it would require subpoena power and torture to get to the bottom of what the agency has been up to for generations, we know enough to conclude that it must be shut down. We spend billions of dollars in taxpayer money per year for 16 intelligence agencies (not counting the office of director of national intelligence) that we can do without one or more.

“Katherine Maher’s color revolution

“The NPR boss is a symbol of regime change—foreign and domestic.”

https://christopherrufo.com/p/katherine-mahers-color-revolution

Wikipedia and Race

https://nicholasstixuncensored.blogspot.com/2023/01/wikipedia-and-race.html



hate crime: video of the usual racist suspects at Busch gardens yesterday

Re-posted by N.S.

If Whites gang up on a black this way, it's a "hate crime," but if racist blacks do this to a White, somehow it's not only not a racially-motivated hate crime, it's no crime at all.

And where are the cops? Security?

An "ally" will respond, "What did he say to provoke them?," but if the races are reversed, he'll make no such demands.





Psychic game show contestant


[“‘Get back. Get back. I have a gun. Get back. Get back’: violent, new mexico hispanic breaks into White woman’s home, and eventually gets shot.”]

[N.S.: Apparently, some readers and contributors had been itching to say something about new mexico, and the above-linked item was just the provocation!]

By Grand Rapids Anonymous
sunday, april 28, 2024 at 12:08:00 a.m. edt

Great story.

What country was this in, again?

I was watching a game show special, Dumbest Answers from Game Shows, this past week and they asked the question:

“Name a state of the USA that begins with the letter, ‘M.’”

The female contestant answered, “mexico”—which today would be correct. This show was from many years ago, so the woman was a psychic.

--GRA



california guv newsom wants to proclaim april as national arab heritage month

By Jerry PDX
monday, april 29, 2024 at 4:49:00 p.m. edt

california guv newscum wants to proclaim april as national arab heritage month:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/04/28/california-gov-gavin-newsom-proclaims-april-as-arab-american-heritage-month/

Why call April arab month? Let's move it back a couple months, and call it what it really is: june jihad month.



Sunday, April 28, 2024

"the uk home office will launch a nationwide sweep to detain illegal immigrants ahead of their deportation to rwanda..."

By R.C.
sunday, april 28, 2024 at 05:44:45 p.m. edt

"the uk home office will launch a nationwide sweep to detain illegal immigrants ahead of their deportation to rwanda, the guardian reported on sunday. the operation comes after parliament passed a bill allowing the scheme to go ahead."

N.S.: If they're illegals, why would parliament need to pass such a law?

"britain planning large-scale deportation raids" rt world news

https://www.rt.com/news/596730-uk-rwanda-deportation-operation/



exclusive: 'midtown Jane Doe' finally id'd -- thanks partly to eerie twist -- 20 years after remains found at former nyc hot spot

By N.S.

"Now we can start the next phase of the investigation -- finding the killer," nypd detective Ryan Glas recently told the post of the case, which had once shaken the..."

https://nypost.com/2024/04/28/us-news/midtown-jane-doe-finally-idd-20-years-after-remains-found-cemented-in-former-nyc-hot-spot/



"woman torches quran in eu state – media (video)"

By R.C.
sunday, april 28, 2024 at 08:25:43 p.m. edt

"woman torches quran in eu state – media (video) the desecration of the muslim holy book has reportedly once again taken place in sweden

https://www.rt.com/news/596716-sweden-woman-burn-quran/

Like Duran Duran.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg7QgkbwqpU



"Duran Duran" - Duran Duran full album

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duran_Duran_(1981_album)

www.youtube.com



"exclusive: 'guerrilla journalist' says he was beaten by anti-Israel rioters at cuny for waving American flag on campus: video"

By N.S.

https://nypost.com/2024/04/28/us-news/guerrilla-journalist-says-he-was-beaten-by-anti-israel-protesters-at-cuny-for-waving-american-flag-on-campus-video/



Breaking: arizona republican party declares covid-19 injections biological and technological weapons, passes ban the jab resolution!

By A Texas Reader
sunday, april 28, 2024 at 11:04:18 p.m. edt

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/breaking-arizona-republican-party-declares-covid-19-injections/



Watch a construction crew operate heavy equipment by remote control

By R.C.
sunday, april 28, 2024 at 11:29:15 p.m. edt

Watch a construction crew operate heavy equipment by remote control

https://www.thedrive.com/news/watch-a-construction-crew-operate-heavy-equipment-by-remote-control

https://www.thedrive.com/news/autonomy-is-coming-for-construction-vehicles-next-and-it-could-be-huge

https://teleo.ai/

Headquartered in Palo Alto.

https://www.teleo.ai/about/



Weinstein rushed to nyc hospital saturday night

By Grand Rapids Anonymous
sunday, april 28, 2024 at 4:16:00 p.m. edt

“(Breitbart) disgraced hollywood movie mogul Harvey Weinstein was rushed to hospital saturday night for a battery of tests on his return to new york after the city’s highest court overturned his 2020 conviction on sex crime charges.

“the 4-3 decision reversed one of the defining cases of the #metoo movement but Weinstein will remain jailed on a separate 16-year rape sentence handed down in california, as Breitbart news reported.

“the department of corrections determined that Weinstein needed immediate care.

GRA: Poisoned? I just remarked he might not last long.

--GRA



baseball reference: but everyone knows where guatire is!

By Nicholas Stix

I looked up Francisco Alvarez, the Mets' fat, slugging, but low-hitting catcher at baseball reference, oneof the Mets players who refuse to speak english.

The site used to give each player's date and place of birth at the top of the page, but stopped doing that a few years ago. God forbid it should make it easier for users to learn things.

Way down the page, we get rhetorical questions.

"Where was Francisco Alvarez born?

"Francisco Alvarez was born in guatire, miranda.

"How tall is Francisco Alvarez?

"Francisco Alvarez is 5-10 (178 cm) tall."

Alvarez isn't 5'10." He's 5'8" or 5'9." And where is "miranda"? That a country? I've never heard of it. Thus, baseball reference forced me to check a search engine, where I learned that miranda is a city in venezuela.

Why wouldn't baseball reference tell us that?

And what does that make miranda, his neighborhood? I'm not checking that one out. I already wasted enough time for one day.

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Guatire%2C+Miranda%22&client=firefox-b-1-d&sca_esv=1615eaa690fee334&ei=zdcuZoSHMfOj5NoPip-x2AU&ved=0ahUKEwjEoaCjhOaFAxXzEVkFHYpPDFsQ4dUDCBA&uact=5&oq=%22Guatire%2C+Miranda%22&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiEiJHdWF0aXJlLCBNaXJhbmRhIjILEC4YgAQYkQIYigUyBhAAGBYYHjIGEAAYFhgeMgYQABgWGB4yBhAAGBYYHjIGEAAYFhgeMgYQABgWGB4yBhAAGBYYHjIIEAAYFhgKGB4yBhAAGBYYHjIaEC4YgAQYkQIYigUYlwUY3AQY3gQY4ATYAQFI2RlQ-glY6xdwAXgBkAEAmAGXAaABlwGqAQMwLjG4AQPIAQD4AQGYAgKgAqYBwgIKEAAYsAMY1gQYR5gDAIgGAZAGBboGBggBEAEYFJIHAzEuMaAHqAg&sclient=gws-wiz-serp



Mail-in ballot fraud and the big steal (brief video)

Re-posted by N.S.





The Death of the "White Rat"

By N.S.

https://countenance.wordpress.com/2024/04/16/because-i-once-had-the-baseball-dream/



russians notice: iraq outlaws homosexuality

By "W"
sunday, April 28, 2024 at 07:58:07 p.m. edt

russians notice:iraq outlaws homosexuality

they want to save their boys from being molested. this will surely be a cause for war with the usa and eu

N.S.: Just now?!

https://www.rt.com/news/596733-iraq-bans-homosexuality-law/



Elsewhere: uk reportedly planning deportation of illegals

By "W"
sunday, april 28, 2024 at 08:02:34 p.m. edt

Elsewhere: uk reportedly planning deportation of illegals

https://www.rt.com/news/596730-uk-rwanda-deportation-operation/



The Lethal Lure (1946): A 62-Minute, RKO B-Movie Featuring Dick Tracy, and Introducing "Cueball" to Movies (Not at Red Eddie Muller's Noir Alley!)

By N.S.

If you search for this as The Lethal Lure, you'll never find it. imdb.com lists it as Dick Tracy vs. Cueball.


1,120 views Apr 26, 2024

"In the heart of the city, beneath the glittering skyline, a daring heist unfolds, leaving a trail of stolen diamonds and shattered trust. When the thief meets a sudden and brutal end, the gems fall into [N.S.: not exactly] the hands of Cueball, a man with a dark past and a thirst for vengeance. As bodies pile up and suspicion grows, Dick Tracy, the city's stalwart detective, devises a risky plan involving his own beloved Tess. But when Tess becomes a pawn in Cueball's deadly game, Tracy's race against time takes a perilous turn, plunging him into a deadly game of cat and mouse where the stakes are higher than ever before."





The WEJB/NSU Theater, 1902-1981:

Georges Méliès’ A Trip to the Moon (1902);

The Great Train Robbery (1903);

C.B. DeMille’s The Squaw Man (1914);

D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation (1915);

D.W. Griffith’s Intolerance: Love’s Struggle Through the Ages (1916);

Harry Carey and John “Jack” Ford’s Straight Shooting (1917), the First Feature-Length, “Cheyenne Harry” Western;

Charlie Chaplin’s Shoulder Arms (1918);

The Outlaw and His Wife (1918), Starring and Directed by Victor Sjöström (Seastrom);

Starring “Jack”: See the 1920 Silent Picture Classic of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde;

Robert Wiene’s The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920);

Buster Keaton’s One Week (1920);

D. W. Griffith’s Way Down East (1920);

F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu (1921);

The Kid (1921), Charlie Chaplin’s First Feature as Director;

Fritz Lang and Thea von Harbou’s First Pictures Featuring the Evil Genius, Dr. Mabuse: Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler, Teil I (Dr. Mabuse, the Player, Part I); and

Dr. Mabuse, Teil II: Inferno
(Dr. Mabuse, Inferno, Part II, both 1922, released one month apart) with English subtitles;

James Cruze’s The Covered Wagon (1923);

John Ford’s The Iron Horse (1924);

Charlie, in The Gold Rush (1925);

Lon Chaney, in The Phantom of the Opera (1925);

King Vidor, Laurence Stallings, and Harry Behn’s The Big Parade (1925), Starring Gilbert and Adore!

Buster Keaton’s The General (1926);

John Ford’s 1926 Western, 3 Bad Men;

Barrymore and Astor in Don Juan (1926);

When a Man Loves (1927), Starring “Jack” and Dolores Costello;

Josef von Sternberg and Ben Hecht’s Underworld (1927), the First American Gangster Picture;

Alfred Hitchcock’s The Lodger (1927);

“Wild Bill” Wellman’s Restored, Classic Silent Picture, Wings (1927), One of the First Two Best Picture Oscar Winners;

F.W. Murnau’s Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927, One of the First Two Best Picture Oscar Winners);

Fritz Lang and Thea von Harbou’s Dystopian Science Fiction Epic, Metropolis (1927), the Greatest S/F Picture Ever, Plus Its Soundtrack Suite;

Frank Borzage and Austin Strong’s Seventh Heaven (1927);

Samson Raphaelson, Alfred A. Cohn, Jack Jarmuth and Alan Crosland’s The Jazz Singer (1927), the First-Ever Talkie, Starring Al Jolson, by Warner Brothers;

King Vidor's The Crowd 1928;

St. Louis Blues (talkie, short, 1929);

Fritz Lang & Thea von Harbou’s First Talkie: M: Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder (1931) (M: A City Searches for a Murderer);

Paul Robeson in Eugene O’Neill’s The Emperor Jones (talkie, 1933);

The Man Who Knew too Much (1934): The Original Version of the Early Hitchcock Classic;

The Fighting Westerner (1935);

John Ford’s Judge Priest (1934), Starring Will Rogers, with Hattie McDaniel;

Kate Hepburn in the Super Chief’s Quality Street (1937);

Cary Grant and Roz Russell in Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur, and Howard Hawks’ His Girl Friday (1940);

Zero’s Since You Went Away (1944);

Orson Welles' The Stranger (1946);

The Lethal Lure (1946);

William Dieterle’s A Portrait of Jennie (1948);

Jules Dassin, Albert Malz, and Malvin Wald’s The Naked City (1948), Plus Music;

Antonioni's Blow-Up (1966);

Lee Marvin as Sergeant Ryker (1968); and

Paul Newman, in Fort Apache, the Bronx (1981).



Saturday, April 27, 2024

“Get back. Get back. I have a gun. Get back. Get back”: violent, new mexico hispanic breaks into White woman's home, and eventually gets shot

By A Texas Reader
saturday, april 27, 2024 at 03:01:56 p.m. edt

violent new mexico latino breaks into White woman's home, eventually gets shot

https://www.krqe.com/news/albuquerque-metro/albuquerque-grandmother-speaks-out-about-shooting-intruder-in-her-home/



"Yale professor accuses Columbia prez Shafik of plagiarism, ‘intellectual theft’"

By N.S.

"Yale professor accuses Columbia prez Shafik of plagiarism, ‘intellectual theft’ in resurfaced 1994 research paper"

"a management and economics professor at Yale university has slammed embattled Columbia university president Minouche Shafik for allegedly cheating a colleague out of credit on a research paper published 30..."

https://nypost.com/2024/04/27/us-news/yale-professor-accuses-columbia-prez-shafik-of-not-subtle-plagiarism-in-resurfaced-1994-research-paper/



"deputy caught with 100 pounds of fentanyl was working for el chapo’s cartel"

By R.C.
saturday, april 27, 2024 at 04:34:17 p.m. edt

https://ktla.com/news/local-news/deputy-caught-with-100-pounds-of-fentanyl-was-working-for-el-chapos-cartel-report-says/



"college students aren’t having enough sex — so they’re turning to anti-Israel protests: nyu professor"

By N.S.

“college students aren’t having enough sex — so they’re turning to anti-Israel protests: nyu professor”

“'I think part of the problem is young people aren’t having enough sex so they go on the hunt for fake threats,' Scott Galloway said.”

https://nypost.com/2024/04/27/us-news/nyu-professor-says-hamas-loving-students-need-to-have-more-sex/



"'southern california' woman pleads guilty in $150-million counterfeit postage scheme"

By R.C.
saturday, april 27, 2024 at 06:34:13 p.m. edt

"southern california [sic] woman pleads guilty in $150-million counterfeit postage scheme"

guess who?

usually bigger dollars involves asians

Postal Service trucks parked outside a post office.
"a southern california woman has pleaded guilty in a $150-million counterfeit postage scheme. pictured are postal service trucks parked outside a post office in january. (Nam Y. Huh / associated press)

By Melissa Gomez staff writer
april 27, 2024 3 am pt

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  • "a San Gabriel valley woman who was accused of using counterfeit postage on tens of millions of packages pleaded guilty friday to defrauding the United States postal service out of more than $150 million.

    Lijuan "Angela" Chen, 51, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to defraud the U.S. and one count of using counterfeit postage, according to a statement from the U.S. justice department.

    "Chen, a resident of walnut, has been in federal custody since she was arrested in may 2023. a co-defendant, 51-year-old Chuanhua "Hugh" Hu — who authorities say is considered a fugitive hiding in [red] china — has been charged with one count of conspiracy to defraud the U.S., three counts of passing and possessing counterfeit obligations of the U.S. and a count of forging and counterfeiting postage stamps.



    The Gong the Dong Show

    saturday, april 27, 2024 at 11:05:34 p.m. edt

    The Gong the Dong Show

    https://gab.com/RogueNation2/posts/112345182506537232


    A Carthaginian Peace? See The Stranger (1946), One of the Great Thrillers, Starring Orson Welles, Edward G. Robinson, and Loretta Young, and Directed by Welles--Not at Noir Alley!

    Re-posted by N.S.

    This is one of those pictures that led to the question, How was it possible that Edward G. Robinson was never up for an Oscar? He was even better than I remembered him.

    This was also the picture where I first heard of "a Carthaginian peace." (No, not the "Morgenthau Plan," though that was close.)

    Welles is Franz Kindler, a high-ranking Nazi who escaped with false identification and a new identitty, as a Swiss classics professor (alright, that takes a suspension of disbelief, but he couldn't be a Gerry or an Austrian).

    Robinson is the fed who is doggedly tracking down Kindler, come hell or high water.

    Young is Kindler's unwitting fiance.

    Director of photography Russell Metty has all sorts of wonderful stuff going on, and he had some kind of wonderful career going on. Mixed in with all manner of pictures you never heard of were classics (Wellman's The Story of G.I. Joe, 1945), masterpieces (Bob Montgomery's Ride the Pink Horse, 1947), and Top 50 masterpieces (Hawks' Bringing Up Baby, 1938).

    The Stranger has a clever, taut script by Anthony Veiller, who the same year scripted the Robert Siodmak masterpiece, The Killers.


    1,373,916 views Sep 28, 2012
    Director: Orson Welles
    Stars: Orson Welles, Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young

    "A Federal Agent poses as an antique dealer to snare a Nazi war criminal living in a small Connecticut town with his unsuspecting American fiancee. Best-known for Citizen Kane, this was Orson Welles’ most popular film at the box office"

    "Movie Class by PizzaFLIX: Orson Welles’ CITIZEN KANE (1941) is a cinema masterpiece that flopped at the box office. Shocking yes, but THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS (1942) fared even worse. Behind schedule and over budget, it was a critical success but a financial disaster. Welles needed to prove himself on his third project as director and star. THE STRANGER (1946) is a top-notch thriller and the only film he directed that was a bona fide box office hit!"






    Read the Investigative Report on O.J. Simpson, Published after He Murdered His Ex-Wife Nicole and Ron Goldman, but before His Trial

    By N.S.

    https://web.archive.org/web/20240412161103/https://www.esquire.com/sports/a60467694/oj-simpson-trial-family-friends-interview-retrospective/



    The Wheels of Life: Hear Liam Clancy, Then the Last of the Legendary Clancy Brothers, Sing "Shenandoah," Just One Year before He Left Us

    Re-posted by N.S.

    September 2, 1935-December 4, 2009

    Liam Clancy cut the album, The Wheels of Life, from which this cut comes, just one year before his death. Note that Donovan and Tom Paxton also worked on it. I'm so far unfamiliar with the other people.






    Friday, April 26, 2024

    past reflections: adl blasts VDARE for comments on muslims after boston bombings

    By "W"
    friday, April 26, 2024 at 11:35:01 AM EDT
    Subject: past reflections: ADL blasts VDARE for comments on Muslims after Boston bombings

    from 2013:


    As we know, it has only gotten worse, here and elsewhere.


    dusky organizer columbia uni protests wants to kill all zionists and White "supremacists"

     Friday, April 26, 2024 at 11:22:14 AM EDT
    Subject: dusky organizer columbia uni protests wants to kill all zionists and White "supremacists"

    chicongo: black female hacks up her white female landlord

    Friday, April 26, 2024 at 01:06:12 PM EDT

    chicongo: black female hacks up her white female landlord

    what w/ anti-discrimination laws, if she hadn't rented to her, she could have been hauled into court:

    An introduction to a nationwide, organized crime racket you will never have heard of from the msm, google, or the antiversity (video)

    Re-posted by N.S.

    I had to search and search for this video, even though I'd already watched it once, a few weeks ago. I punched in "false exonerations" both at google and duckduckgo, yet all they gave me were entries for "false convictions." Am I insinuating that the two aforementioned search engines are rigging results? No, I'm saying it! google and duckduckgo do not want readers to learn the truth about the false exoneration movement.

    The main criminal gangs leading this movement are the "innocence projects" spread around the country, the most infamous of which is the so-called "innocence project" at northwestern university's Medill school of journalism in Evanston, illinois. This gang was founded by professor David Protess (1946-) in 1999. Due to the Protess scandal, northwestern fired Protess, while allowing him to "retire" (2011), and re-branded his gang the "Medill justice project."

    Note that the "innocence projects" are only interessted in convicts who are guilty as hell.

    Roberta Glass and "Nadia" maintain that these gangs keep going through the profit motive. The criminal court part does not earn them money, but it is inseparable from the civil court part, in which after they get killers' murder convictions overturned, they sue, in order to get the murderers and their lawyers windfalls to the tune of millions of dollars.

    I was able to find this through the name Martin Preib, whose book Crooked City I'd bought a couple of years ago (but have yet to read more than a few pages of). I recently caught an interview by Roberta Glass of Preib, and so I found her through him.


    4,706 views Premiered Jun 5, 2023
    This is the first part of an interview Roberta gave her Ghislaine Maxwell trial buddy Nadia for her substack, "The Offbeat Effect."
    Subscribe to "The Offbeat Effect" - https://theoffbeateffect.substack.com
    Correction: The Central Park Five wanted 100 million. Got 40 million.

    [I have not been able to find Part II.]

    "innocence fraud: when the guilty are rebranded as innocent: part 1"





    secret service officer who battered colleagues and a superior officer while assigned to Kamala Harris once sued dallas for $1m claiming sex bias

    By N.S.

    "the indecent [sic] happened at joint base Andrews, where marine two drops off the vp so she can board air force two."

    [N.S.: The indecency was due to an illiterate post editor.]

    "secret service officer who fought colleagues while assigned to Kamala Harris once sued Dallas for $1M claiming gender [sic] bias"

    "Michelle Herczeg was removed from her duties on wednesday after displaying erratic behavior and assaulting a superior officer while awaiting Harris’ departure from joint base Andrews..."

    https://nypost.com/2024/04/25/us-news/kamala-harris-secret-service-officer-who-brawled-her-colleagues-previously-filed-1m-law-suit-citing-gender-discrimination/


    Michelle Herczeg




    Harvey Weinstein's me-too-hoax rape convictions have been overturned, and yet prison authorities are still holding him in a White guy cell; will he get a multimillion-dollar payout?

    By N.S.

    I recall Weinstein being convicted based on a "victim" asserting that he had "raped" her the first time, but that they then spent months have consensual sex.

    "Harvey Weinstein’s felony sex crime conviction overturned by ny’s highest court"

    "Harvey Weinstein’s conviction on felony sex crime charges was overturned by new york’s highest court on thursday. the 4-3 decision in the new york court of appeals found that the..."

    https://nypost.com/2024/04/25/us-news/harvey-weinsteins-felony-sex-crime-charges-overturned-by-nys-highest-court/

    "Harvey Weinstein cooling his heels in special Rikers cell after overturned rape conviction"

    "the fallen movie mogul is cooling his heels in a special cell unit at Rikers' west facility for inmates with medical issues"

    https://nypost.com/2024/04/26/us-news/harvey-weinstein-in-special-rikers-cell-after-overturned-rape-conviction/



    Kim Kardashian joins fake vp Harris to discuss further perverting the criminal justice system, on behalf of black criminals

    By Prince George's County Ex-Pat
    friday, april 26, 2024 at 09:59:28 p.m. edt

    Kim Kardashian joins vp Harris to discuss criminal justice reform

    https://wjla.com/news/entertainment/kim-kardashian-joins-vp-harris-to-discuss-criminal-justice-reform-reality-tv-star-president-joe-biden-white-house-nonviolent-drug-offenses-pardons-clemency-unjustly-imprisoned

    The Kardashians are big believers in whoring around with black guys.

    Besides, wasn’t it Kamala who sent many folks up the river for life?

    N.S.: I don't believe Kamala (who until recently, unlike yours truly, didn't even know how to pronounce her own name) ever passed the exam, any more than I believe that Michelle "Obama" did. They're both too stupid, and I am convinced that the bar exams are rigged for many blacks and hispanics. When I taught college, the feminists who dominated the grading of remedial composition exams graded them based on the name they saw on the exam "blue book."



    Big league pitcher died; he was known for his pitching

    Don't blame me!

    https://frontpagenewspaper.com/2024/04/baseball-legend-dead-at-78/



    TCM’s Film Noir of the Week Saturday Night-Sunday Morning at Midnight and 10 a.m. ET is Robert Aldrich’s The Big Knife (1955), with Jack Palance, Ida Lupino, Wendell Corey, Shelly Winters, Rod Steiger, Jean Hagen, Everett Sloane, Wesley Addy and Paul Langton

    By David in TN
    friday, april 26, 2024 at 6:04:00 p.m. edt

    TCM’s Film Noir of the Week Saturday Night-Sunday Morning at Midnight and 10 a.m. ET is Robert Aldrich’s The Big Knife (1955) with Jack Palance, Ida Lupino, Wendell Corey, Shelly Winters, Rod Steiger, Jean Hagen, Everett Sloane, Wesley Addy and Paul Langton.

    Film Noir Guide: “Palance, a popular Hollywood star, wants to quit the business to save his crumbling marriage to Lupino, but ruthless producer Steiger and his henchman Corey blackmail him into signing a new seven-year contract. With a possible jail sentence hanging over Palance’s head if it becomes known that the studio P.R. man (Langton) took the blame for his drunk driving accident, which killed a young girl the actor gives in to Steiger’s demands.”

    “Lupino, who’s considering running off with Palance’s best friend (Addy), isn’t thrilled with the prospect of seven more years in Tinseltown. Complicating matters, a dipso bit player (Winters), who was in the car with Palance on the night of the accident, has been babbling about the cover-up. When Corey decides that she should be shut up for good, the horrified actor feels he must take a stand.”

    “Hagen plays Langton’s libidinous wife, who can’t resist Palance, and Sloane is the actor’s sympathetic agent. Steiger gives his usual boisterous but enjoyable performance, and Palance is so compelling that noir icon Lupino is hardly noticeable as his indecisive wife.”

    “Based on the play by Clifford Odets, The Big Knife presents a grim look at the darker (albeit fictional) side of Hollywood life. The film wasn’t a big hit with audiences, who couldn’t drum up much sympathy for the pathetic life of an alcoholic, millionaire actor living in a Bel Air mansion. They also had difficulty accepting the hard-featured Palance as a sex symbol adored by millions of women.”

    I saw this picture over 50 years ago, and all I can remember of it is the ruthless studio mogul played by Rod Steiger, and yet I heartily recommend it. Why? It was helmed by Robert Aldrich, and has a brilliant cast.

    Aldrich’s movies (Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte, The Dirty Dozen, The Longest Yard, etc.) were characterized by brutality and intelligence. The story goes that as he lay on his death bed, when one of his friends asked, “Can we get you anything, Bob?,” he responded, “A good script.” He worked frequently with Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine and, late in his career, Burt Reynolds.

    Rod Steiger’s studio mogul, as I remember him, mixed with voluminous reading on the topic, is generic. However, people who have read very little on the topic, will simply protect their personal hatreds on him. The other day, I visited an old web page from a movie blog, where one such denizen cursed the memory of MGM founder Louis B. Mayer. Others will curse Columbia co-founder Harry Cohn. Or Warner Brothers chief Jack Warner. Or 20th Century Fox founder Darryl F. Zanuck. Steiger won one Oscar, out of three nominations, for Best Actor, for In the Heat of the Night (1967).

    Jack Palance was up for Best Supporting Actor three times, most famously as two-pistoled hired gun Jack Wilson in George Stevens’ Shane (1953). Palance won his Oscar for City Slickers (1991).

    Shelley Winters was up for six Oscars and won two (for a layered performance in which she stole the show, in The Diary of Anne Frank, 1959, and for an over-the-top one as a prostitute and racist mother-from-hell, in A Patch of Blue, 1965, with the star-crossed Elizabeth Hartman), shares the top spot on my list of the greatest movie character actresses with Claire Trevor, who was up for three Oscars, and who won one as a gangster’s moll (in Key Largo, 1948).

    Wendell Corey was a natural, who never seemed to play too high or too low. Unfortunately, he drank himself to death in his early fifties. The best directors always wanted him around (e.g., Hitchcock in Rear Window, 1954).

    Jean Hagen is most famous for playing the silent movie queen with the voice that is unfit for sound in Singin’ in the Rain (1954), which got her her one nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Early in her movie career, she delivered a series of brilliant supporting performances (e.g., Side Street, 1949). Although she got the role as the wife on The Danny Thomas Show, which fetched her three Emmy nominations, she quit after three years, complaining that there was nothing for her to do on the show. For several years thereafter, she was a busy TV guest star. And then her world fell in. Although she was still relatively young, her health completely collapsed, with one physical complaint after another, ending with death from esophageal cancer at the age of 54 (1923-1977).

    Everett Sloane is most famous as one of the triumvirate who all should have been up for Best Supporting Actor for Citizen Kane (1941)—King Cotten, George Colouris, and Sloane—none of whom was nominated. In middle age, with his hearing failing him, Sloane committed suicide.

    Ida “Crashout” Lupino was a whirlwind of talent. She started out at Warner Brothers, but got tired of waiting in line behind Queen Bette Davis, Olivia DeHavilland, and Ann Sheridan for good roles. Warners eventually released her to sign at RKO, which paid less, but let her do just about everything—write, direct, and produce, in addition to acting—in its cheapo productions. Lupino was never nominated for anything, not even for High Sierra (1941). When RKO went out of business, thanks to Howard Hughes’ mix of viciousness and incompetence, she busied herself with tv work, including a great deal of directing of episodic TV. As a director, she got episodes done on time and under budget.



    cops arrest emory profs at neo-nazi riot paid for and organized by George Soros (video)

    By N.S.

    "cops take down emory professor at anti-Israel protest that turned violent, wild video shows"

    "dozens of anti-Israel protesters were arrested at the atlanta university thursday in a violent clash with cops, including at least one professor seen being wrestled to the ground and handcuffed."

    https://nypost.com/2024/04/26/us-news/cops-take-down-emory-professor-at-anti-israel-protest-video/




    neo-nazi emory profs being arrested: above, economics prof. Caroline Fohlin resisting arrest; below philosophy chairman Noelle McAfee



    A couple of years ago, ringleader George Soros handed over control of his criminal empire to his son Alex

    Alex Soros and his Claudine Gay glasses; until 2016, celebrants of evil wore Hillary glasses; does this mean that Alex Soros is also a serial plagiarist?

    Chuck Schumer hobnobs with world criminals




    No men in women's sports: florida gov. Rick DeSantis rejects fake president/real gangster Joe Biden's move to pervert title ix (succinct video)

    By N.S.

    "Florida rejects Joe Biden's attempt to rewrite Title IX," said DeSantis. "We will not comply and we will fight back. We are not gonna let Joe Biden try to inject men into women's activities. We are not gonna let Joe Biden undermine the rights of parents, and we are not gonna let Joe Biden abuse his constitutional authority to try to impose these policies on us here in Florida."




    https://cbs12.com/news/local/gov-ron-desantis-tells-president-joe-biden-florida-will-not-comply-with-new-title-ix-changes-lgbtg-transgender-students-in-girls-sports-florida-news-april-26-2024



    The twins 😆 Jack s--t family tree

    By R.C.
    wednesday, april 24, 2024 at 10:18:02 p.m. edt

    The twins 😆 Jack s--t family tree

    https://gab.com/mollsnmills/posts/112327391168075929



    Thursday, April 25, 2024

    "a new elitist craze: fixing the public's 'perception of the economy'"

    Matt Taibbi <taibbi@substack.com>
    "add1dda@aol.com" <add1dda@aol.com>w wednesday, april 24, 2024 at 09:15:23

    "a new elitist craze: fixing the public's "perception of the economy"

    "a new elitist craze: fixing the public's 'perception of the economy'"

    "if you think you spent twenty years being ripped off while a generation of rent-seeking scam artists was showered with public subsidies, experts agree: your 'perception' needs correcting"

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    You only think eggs cost too much.

    "People are really tying Bidenomics and their perception of the economy to the inflation rate," said Matt Monday of Morning Consult, in a new Bloomberg story titled, "Biden's gains against Trump vanish against deep economic pessimism, poll shows." It's the latest entrant in an intensifying campaign to describe voters, especially in key electoral swing states, as morons and partisan haters who'll deny reality itself out of political spite.

    This campaign has been weirdly perverse in its mockery. Seattle Times cartoonist David Horsey recently tossed off a visual of the reality-denying swing voter, rendering him as a pudgy, confused hominid in the mode of Monty Python's duncelike Gumbys. Having negative feelings about "the best performing [economy] in the world" is equivalent to denying who won the Super Bowl:

    Left, the Swing Voter. Right, Gumbys.

    When the Wall Street Journal a few weeks ago ran "What's Wrong With the Economy? It's You, Not the Data," I thought the "It's not me, it's you" framing had to be ironic, a spoof of these increasingly numerous "perception of the economy" pieces. Nope:

    Noting that 74% of respondents in a recent poll said they felt inflation in the "past year" was going in the wrong direction, author Greg Ip noted flatly "it's not true," adding:

    I'm not stating an opinion. This isn't something on which reasonable people can disagree. If hard economic data count for anything, we can say unambiguously that inflation has moved in the right direction in the past year.

    Ip might be technically right about the last year of inflation, but I'm not sure how many finance writers want to be in the business of deciding who belongs in the "reasonable people" club, given the last twenty years of unpunished thievery on Wall Street. One could argue a reasonable person would have marched on Manhattan and started defenestrating bankers ten years ago:...