RT @b_keating: youtu.be/g4cqTBA6L44 @b_keating

@Henriksen_M_ In 1980 NATO and the Russian Empire were arrayed against each other along the border dividing Germany. The 2 blocs were about equal. Today looking to the east we find only the rump state of the former USSR, pop. 140 million; economy the size of Italy’s. The war’s over. NATO won.

“Christmas Will You Stay”
Composer Michael Mott. Vocalist Laura Osnes. Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops instagram.com/reel/DRr1FYeES…

This is Kelli O’Hara. She is the current queen of Broadway Musicals, who is also the kindest and most generous woman in New York City. Here she is singing Cole Porter’s “So In Love” from the musical Kiss Me Kate. A list of her grand roles would take several premium memberships.

The F-35 Is Now The Frankenstein Stealth Fighter - nationalsecurityjournal.org/the-f-35-is-no…

The scary part here is not that the Air Force may be stuck with a lemon for years, but that the author assumes another great power war, even with our population wide open to air attack for the first time.

The Batcheller Mansion, 1873, Saratoga Springs, New York

Answer:

Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife,
Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray;
Along the cool sequester'd vale of life
They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.

Question:

Who are those who never had a Twitter account?

@cwebbonline Diversity is just another word for affirmative action, which Americans have completely rejected, even in California. Someone should not be selected over someone better qualified due to race or ethnicity. This only generates lifelong hate among those who think they were bypassed.

@NinaTotenberg Any trans laws or practices that exclude or override the role of the parents is a hot potato that the Democrats should run from. A Gallup poll found that 70% of adults disagreed with letting trans male compete against females. If they
had just asked parents, it would’ve been 90%.

@RBReich Beware the Oligarch, my son!
  The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
     The frumious Bandersnatch!

And hast thou slain the Oligarch?
     Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!
He chortled in his joy.

Good for Biden. He should pardon him. He doesn't care what the Republicans say or if it embarrasses his party. Joe is still sore that the Democrats forced him to walk the plank after one screwed up debate.

Biden thinks that if he had run he would have won. And he may be right.

I'm Old Fashioned - Fred Astaire & Rita Hayworth - You Were Never Loveli... youtube.com/clip/Ugkxcl0Se… via @YouTube

They are wrong about the Post. It's financial, not political. In May the publisher revealed losses of $77 million and 50% of readers. Bezos had made the Post into a liberal tabloid. Here they publicize a return to Katharine Graham's Post. If it keeps losing money it will be sold.

Laugh about it, shout about it

When you've got to choose

Every way you look at this, you lose

The Bard speaks:

"A Plague o' Both Your Houses"
Romeo and Juliet

Biden has the blood on his hands of all those killed and maimed in Ukraine. Just as in Vietnam we said we were there to bring freedom but we brought only death to over a million. Ukrainian negotiators say they had an acceptable peace in April 2020. Who chose war instead?

The President of the United States informs his fellow Democrat, the Speaker of the House, that he does not want her to visit Taiwan for reasons of foreign policy and national security, and she just ignores him. How dysfunctional is this administration?

I just learned the outcome of the Pelosi visit: China's military leaders cut off communications with the United States. They were just partly resumed.