Monday, March 18, 2024

Women in the United States weigh--on average--a lot (second heaviest in the world)

By Grand Rapids Anonymous
sunday, march 17, 2024 at 12:41:00 p.m. est

"(very well.com) in the United States, the average height and weight of children and adults is tracked by government entities such as the national center for health statistics (nchs).

"more than 5,000 adult females were included in a study published in 2021. the study determined the mean weight by age group and ethnicity. for all females over the age of 20 included in the study, the mean weight was 170.8 pounds (lb), which equals 77.5 kilograms (kg).

"mean weight was also tracked by age range. For females of the following ages, the average weights were:

20 to 29 years: 165 lb (74.9 kg)
30 to 39 years: 174.9 lb (79.3 kg)
40 to 49 years: 178.1 lb (80.8 kg)
50 to 59 years: 173.5 lb (78.7 kg)
60 to 69 years: 172.4 lb (78.2 kg)
70 to 79 years: 164.6 lb (74.7 kg)
80 years and over: 149.7 lb (67.9 kg)
GRA: Breaking it down by race:

Hispanic: 168 lb (76.2 kg)
Mexican American: 172 lb (78.0 kg)
Non-Hispanic Asian: 135 lb (61.2 kg)
Non-Hispanic Black: 188.5 lb (85.5 kg)
Non-Hispanic White: 170.9 lb (77.5 kg)


And by country:
France: 145.5 lb (66 kg)
Mexico: 155.9 lb (70.7 kg)
Israel: 156.7 lb (71.1 kg)
Argentina: 157.4 lb (71.4 kg)
Germany: 158.1 lb (71.7 kg)
Canada: 159.6 lb (72.4 kg)
Australia: 160.1 lb (72.6 kg)
United Kingdom: 160.3 lb (72.7 kg)
Lebanon: 161.8 lb (73.4 kg)
Greece: 162.5 lb (73.7 kg)
United States: 170.0 lb (77.1 kg)
Egypt: 177.5 lb (80.5 kg)


GRA:The United States woman is FAT. blacks and mex are OBESE,but White's weight has gone up too. Look at old game shows from the 1960s and 70s and compare what you see then-- to now. What happened in a generation?

--GRA



"The Wandering Scholar": The First Issue of Richard Mitchell's Underground Grammarian




By N.S.

Richard Mitchell (1929-2002) taught English literature and classsics at Glassboro state university in Glassboro, New Jersey, during the previous century.

I am quite sure that I read his book, The Graves of Academe thirty-odd years ago, and still own it somewhere here, but can't remember a thing about it, except that I greatly enjoyed it. During the mid-1990s, I called him up, as I was writing an article on the philosophy of religion (and possibly political philosophy, regarding the relationship of the church to university to state, "Trinmity") for the journal known as The Religious Observer/DEOLOG, and briefly discussed The Graves of Academe. Someone was reprinting the book for him, and he spoke of his fans as a small group of "fanatics." I don't think I would speak of my readers in the manner. Then again, I suppose he was engaging in self-deprecating humor.

In any event, Mark Andre Alexander has apparently re-posted Mitchell's samizdat, The Underground Grammarian online. Alexander announced that he had published an essay in appreciation of Mitchell at Quillette. However, when I sought to read said essay, Quillette declared that it was not blocking my access with a paywall, and yet, that is exactly what it was doing.

https://sourcetext.com/grammarian-newslettersv01-html/



Scholar of islam: iran may use al qaeda to launch islamic attack to disrupt 2024 election

By N.S.

The article, by J.M. Phelps, while brief, is a bloody mess. I summarized it in my hed.

The terrorist group I'm most concerned will disrupt the 2024 election is the democrat party, the same terrorist group which disrupted the 2020 election.

https://www.wnd.com/2024/03/terror-expert-jihadists-may-try-disrupt-november-election/



Guess the race? "violent vagrant has terrorized nyc neighborhood for a decade — but somehow remains free"

By N.S.

"violent vagrant has terrorized nyc neighborhood for a decade — but somehow remains free"

"Christopher Boissard, 33, a registered sex offender, has been terrorizing his Greenpoint neighborhood for the past 10 years but remains free despite constant complaints from…"

https://nypost.com/2024/03/18/us-news/violent-vagrant-has-terrorized-nyc-neighborhood-for-a-decade-but-somehow-remains-free/

Christopher Boissard




two bystanders shot in manhattan's Tompkins square park

By N.S.

“Hardly a day goes by, you know, that some innocent bystander ain’t shot in New York City. All you got to do is be innocent and stand by and they’re going to shoot you.

The other day, there was four people shot in one day—four innocent people—in New York City. It’s kind of hard to find four innocent people in New York. That’s why a policeman don’t have to aim. He just shoots anywhere. Whoever he hits, that’s the right one.”


(Will Rogers, quoted in The New York Times, June 21, 1992.)

https://local.newsbreak.com/new-york-city-ny/3370285508317-2-innocent-bystanders-shot-in-manhattan-park-nypd-says



The get-Trump law finally gets the right guy: woman sues illegally elected, nation of islam "mayor," saying he sexually assaulted her

By Nicholas Stix

Circa 2008, an ex-cop told me that when Eric Adams was a supervisor in a brooklyn precinct house, a police person who worked there used to bring her little child while she worked her shift. Her supervisor, Adams, had no problem with that, until he learned that the child's father was White, at which point he ordered the woman to immediately cease and desist.

Eric Adams was the racist cop from hell, and he made no secret of that fact. And yet, nobody did anything about him.

The post "thing" refers to the black supremacist cop group Adams ran, the guardians, as fighting for black cops who suffered discrimination. That's nonsense on stilts. Already when Lewis Billups ran it, the guardians sought to give black criminals carte blanch to commit crimes. In 1996, Billups told black cops to intervene whenever they saw blacks suffering from racial discrimination at the hands of cops. English translation: Billups was ordering black cops to be accessories to black criminals, and to routinely commit obstruction of justice. nycpd commissioner Howard Safir ordered cops NOT to follow Billups' "orders." Meanwhile, Adams had founded his own black supremacist, noi front, "100 black men in law enforcement who care." He later changed the name to "100 blacks in law enforcement who care."

The post's gauleiter has blocked me from commenting. "LOG IN TO COMMENT."

"Eric Adams accuser shares graphic details of alleged sexual assault in new suit, calls mayor a 'predator'"

"'mayor' Eric Adam’s sexual assault accuser on monday detailed in new court papers allegations of the [sic] hizzoner seeking a sexual favor from her when he was cop in 1993 in exchange for..."

https://nypost.com/2024/03/18/us-news/eric-adams-accuser-details-alleged-sexual-assault-in-new-suit/



black irish celebrate black break by shooting up Jacksonville beach; daily mail editorial violence erupts against story, and its Gauleiter has blocked and/or deleted almost all reader comments

By A Texas Reader
monday, march 18, 2024 at 05:35:49 p.m. edt

"one dead & three injured in Jacksonville beach shootings" "police are investigating three separate shootings erupted [sic] within an hour in the beachfront bar district at Jacksonville beach in florida on sunday night"

"sergeant Tonya Tator with the Jacksonville beach police issued an appeal for witnessing [sic] to come forward."

"the department said [sic] first shooting was reported around 7.50 p.m. when two individuals started firing guns near the best western hotel.

"an innocent bystander and both shooters, who police referred to as 'victim-suspects,' were injured in the incident. they are in serious condition.

"a second shooting broke out in the parking lot outside the ritz bar. [N.S.: The hell, it did.] a man wearing a ski mask fired shots while running in front of businesses at 8.13 p.m., before dumping the pistol."

https://mol.im/a/13210561



illegal alien "from lebanon caught at border admitted he’s a hezbollah terrorist hoping ‘to make a bomb’ — and was headed for ny"

By Prince George's County Ex-Pat
sunday, march 17, 2024 at 03:01:45 p.m. edt

"illegal migrant [sic] from lebanon caught at border admitted he's a hezbollah terrorist hoping 'to make a bomb' — and was headed for ny"

https://nypost.com/2024/03/17/us-news/illegal-migrant-from-lebanon-admitted-terror-ties/



"illegal migrant from lebanon caught at border admitted he's a hezbollah terrorist hoping 'to make a bomb' — and was headed for ny"

"when asked what he was doing in the US, the hezbollah member replied: "I'm going to try to make a bomb."

nypost.com

I'll give him 100 bucks to go to my hometown of D.C. instead.



Sunday, March 17, 2024

Louisville cops turning down modest $$ incentive to live where they work

By "W"
sunday, march 17, 2024 at 03:41:56 p.m. edt

Louisville cops turning down modest $$ incentive to live where they work

I recall the Presbyterian (weren't they?) seminary students picketing the hotel. And attending a performance of Bruckner's Third Symphony by the local symphony.

https://www.lpm.org/news/2024-03-11/louisville-has-failed-to-entice-more-officers-to-live-in-the-communities-they-police

https://notthebee.com/article/apparently-its-a-mystery-of-some-kind-as-to-why-louisville-police-officers-dont-want-to-move-their-families-to-crime-ridden-neighborhoods-for-5000



Happy St. Patrick's Day ☘️ 🍻

sunday, march 17, 2024 at 04:42:10 p.m. edt

Happy St. Patrick's Day ☘️ 🍻

https://gab.com/Carole63/posts/112111243426318547

Looks like shot glasses full of Bailey's being dumped into glasses of Guiness.

And the bartender must be black Irish.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Irish_(folklore)



st. patrick's day parade, dublin, 2024

By "W"
sunday, march 17, 2024 at 10:01:44 p.m. edt

about 1.47 into the march, a White guy is on our left, holding the green banner and a very african-looking congoid holding the right side. BS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GH6Q4oQ5mJs



Suspect on loose after 47-year-old man fatally stabbed inside NYC apartment

Suspect on loose after 47-year-old man fatally stabbed inside NYC apartment Cops couldn’t say if the victim was killed in his own home, but a handful of people were grieving outside 58 East 132nd Street Sunday afternoon with investigators on the... https://nypost.com/2024/03/17/us-news/man-47-fatally-knifed-inside-nyc-apartment-as-suspect-on-lam/

RFK Jr. throws a curveball--chooses unknown asian female (with money)

By Grand Rapids Anonymous
sunday, march 17, 2024 at 8:25:00 p.m. edt

"(zh) after previously thinking ny jets quarterback Aaron Rogers might be the right person to be a heartbeat away from the presidency, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is now planning to select 38-year-old Nicole Shanahan, the wealthy ex-wife of google co-founder Sergey Brin, as his running mate. this according to a saturday mediaite report that cited 'a source close to the campaign.'"

"Shanahan is a bay area lawyer and tech entrepreneur who's been a democratic party benefactor and donated to Biden's 2020 campaign. in a february times profile, she described herself as a 'progressive through and through.' aside from opening her wallet, she has no political profile whatsoever, seemingly not even having spoken out or written about issues of the day.

"'the country is going to fall in love with her,' he said."

GRA: Like HE did--or what? (Sounds like "little RFK" made the decision.)

--GRA

By Grand Rapids Anonymous
sunday, march 17, 2024 at 8:30:00 p.m. edt

The comments on rfk's pick are vicious--even for zh, chuckle.

"He's done," "to "expensive whore," etc.

--GRA



The After-Life Quiet Man: Transfer The Duke and Miss O’Hara to chicago 2024 to understand the difference of 72 years and 1800 miles


“The Kiss: John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara in Ford’s The Quiet Man (1952).”

By Grand Rapids Anonymous
sunday, march 17, 2024 at 10:42:00 p.m. edt

Transfer The Duke and Miss O’Hara to chicago 2024 to understand the difference of 72 years and 1800 miles.

Mary Kate: Well, Mr.Thornton, make yourself scarce, I’m going to clean your house.

Thornton: Thank you, ma’am.

Mary Kate: Why are there bullets on your floor and in your walls, sir?

Thornton: There was a drive-by last night. blacks are as crazy with guns as indians are with bows and arrows.

(rap music starts blasting outside.)

Mary Kate: What, pray tell, is that horrible noise, Mr. Thornton?

Thornton: nig music—if you want to call it music, ma’am.

Mary Kate: I DON’T. Does it ever stop, Mr. Thornton?

Thornton: If you have enough ammo and good aim—yes ma’am.

Mary Kate: I’ll clean this up, but what's the point? There’ll just be more shell casings in here tomorrow.

Thornton: Probably, so why don’t you just kiss me instead?

(Duke plants one on Miss O’Hara).

Mary Kate: I must admit, that DOES beat doing housework, Mr.Thornton.

END SCENE



I Wish All of My Readers a Happy St. Patrick’s Day, and Heartily Invite Them to Join WEJB/NSU’s Virtual St. Patrick’s Day Parade!

Last updated on Monday, March 17, 2013, at 10:23 p.m.

(2013 version): Well, I almost missed my annual St. Patty’s Day posting altogether.

We had our local St. Patrick’s Day Parade on March 1 [2013], with many of the same organizations that march down Fifth Avenue in Manhattan every year. Only this year was better than ever.

In recent years, most of the groups—the transit workers, correction officers, firemen, cops, the county organizations, etc.—had settled into the habit of playing military themes more befitting Memorial or Veteran’s Day. Traditional St. Patrick’s Day music was getting very scarce.

Well, this year, only one or two groups played military service themes, and just about everyone else played something traditional and Celtic-sounding. Granted, I couldn’t identify most of the music, but at least it had the right sound.

And while it was very cold at the beginning, the sun soon came out, things warmed up, and we enjoyed the Rockaway St. Patrick’s Day reprieve we’d gotten used to.

By the way, the city’s biggest hater of Irishmen, Mayor Bill (Wilhelm) deBlasio refused to show up. For several years, I had had the pleasure of turning my back on his predecessor whenever he passed us. Mayor Bloomberg would wave as if he weren’t being regaled with boos and one-finger salutes.

Wilhelm-deBlasio, by contrast, attended the anti-St. Patrick’s Day Parade elsewhere in Queens, marching with his allies, the militant homosexualists. He also boycotted the big parade today. He will only march in St. Patrick’s Day Parades that reject Catholic teachings. Will he treat Moslems with such contempt? Of course, not!
 


Notes from Sunday, March 3, 2013, at 1:10 a.m.

The official St. Patrick’s Day doesn’t arrive for another 15 days—on a Sunday this year—but we on the “Irish Riviera,” as my West End Rockaway community is known, celebrate the holiday twice. Today was our annual parade, the second biggest in New York City. And here, for your viewing pleasure, is my annual virtual St. Patty’s Day Parade, which features much more traditional irish and Celtic music than the local parade does.

Erin go bragh!


Amended and greatly expanded
By Nicholas Stix

Notes from 2011

In our Irish neighborhood, it is currently St. Patrick’s Season. While Manhattan and the rest of the world celebrate St. Patrick’s Day on March 17, we on “the Irish Riviera” celebrated our own St. Patty’s Day last Saturday, and the celebrations will continue on the 17th. What that means, practically speaking, is that there are two nights here on which it is impossible to get a taxi, because the drivers are all drunk.

While I am one-quarter Irish, via my paternal grandmother, on St. Patty’s Day, everyone is Irish! However, I don’t drink on St. Patty’s Day.

I have become, for the most part, a blue-nose, the high point of my drinking life having been when I was 13-15 years old, and could drink half the ex-cons in my neighborhood under the table. Since I will be celebrating my annual 21st birthday this spring, that period would have been … um … er … six to eight years ago!

(My sobriety has gone to such extremes that when my boy was born, I didn’t touch a drop for over a year, so afraid was I that I might drop the lad. [Postscript, St. Patrick’s Day, 2012: When I told this to a friend with a healthy taste for Scotch, and more children than me, he responded, “They bounce, you know.”]

My boy and I attended the local parade, which is the second biggest St. Patrick’s Day parade in New York, if not in America.

And the weather played along. Though the day wasn’t as stunning as last year, at least the rain held off. The march was a little shorter this year, because Mayor Bloomberg cut the amount of overtime for the cops working it. Since Hizzoner didn’t show up, I was unable to engage in my annual practice of turning my back on him, as he passes. Apparently, Bloomberg, who has never been kind to this working-class and middle-class community, was afraid of quite a few of my neighbors doing likewise. (According to the MSM, there are no white working-class New York neighborhoods, only “solidly middle-class” and “affluent” ones. That would mean that our neighborhood is full of “solidly middle-class” and “affluent” garbage men, cops, and firemen.)

All sorts of Irish pipe and drum bands groups march, playing Irish and Scottish folk songs, representing labor unions, workplaces, Catholic schools and Irish fraternal organizations, their members wearing kilts in the colors of the Irish county from whence their groups’ founders came.

Kilts? Bagpipes? Scottish folk songs? Well, both peoples are Celts, but beyond that, explaining the Scottish roots of much Irish-American folk culture is way above my pay grade, and would take a James Fulford, or even a David Hackett Fisher.

There were fewer Irish and Scottish folk songs than usual: No “Wild Colonial Boy,” no “Danny Boy,” and some of the traditional Irish songs that I heard every year in my childhood, such as the tune played at the end of The Quiet Man,* have completely disappeared. In their place were endlessly repeated versions of the Army and Marine Corps hymns. Not that I have anything against the Army or the Marines, but as my boy observed, it wasn’t “St. Army or St. Marine Day.”

My son confirms that there were two rounds of “The Minstrel Boy” and one of “Tunes of Glory,” the latter a one-time staple that had been MIA in recent years.
 

An óg-Laoch/The Minstrel Boy (Colm Meaney and Bob Gunton in Star Trek: The Next Generation)
 

 

Lyrics by Thomas Moore
To the tune of “The Moreen”

The minstrel boy to the war is gone,
In the ranks of death you will find him,
His father's sword he hath girded on,
And his wild harp slung behind him.

“Land of Song!” said the warrior bard,
“Tho’ all the world betrays thee,
One sword, at least, thy rights shall guard,
One faithful harp shall praise thee!”

The Minstrel fell! But the foeman's chain,
Could not bring that proud soul under,
The harp he lov’d ne’er spoke again,
For he tore its chords asunder.

And said: “No chains shall sully thee,
Thou soul of love and brav’ry!
Thy songs were made for the pure and free,
They shall never sound in slavery!”
 

At their Irish Page, Vivian and Jack write,
An emotionally stirring and inspirational song, the “Minstrel Boy” was written by Thomas Moore (1779-1852) who set it to the melody of “The Moreen”, an old Irish aire. It is believed by many that Moore composed the song as a memorial to several of his friends he had met while a student at Trinity College and who had participated in the 1798 rebellion of the United Irishmen. One died in prison, another was wounded, and a third captured and hung. The song originally consisted of two verses. Due to its popularity, a third verse was added by unknown authors at the time of the US Civil War…. [NS: And the fourth?]

“The remarkable thing is that such Moore Melodies were rousingly sung around the piano in Victorian English drawing rooms oblivious of the fact that ‘the foeman’ and ‘slavery's chains’ referred to the English yoke.”…

The immediate origins of the 1798 Rebellion in Ireland can be traced to the setting up of the Society of United Irishmen in Belfast in October 1791. Inspired by the French Revolution, and with great admiration for the new democracy of the United States, the United Irishmen were led by Theobald Wolfe Tone, Thomas Russell, Henry Joy McCracken and William Drennan. They came together to secure a reform of the Irish parliament; and they sought to achieve this goal by uniting Protestant, Catholic and Dissenter in Ireland into a single movement.
I first heard “The Minstrel Boy” sung by Sean Connery and Michael Caine at the climax of The Man Who Would be King, John Huston’s 1975 comeback masterpiece, based on the Kipling short story.

I have never been a fan of science fiction in general, or of the Star Trek spinoffs, but the power of the scene in which Colm Meaney and Bob Gunton sing “The Minstrel Boy,” to chords of mystic memory, cannot be denied.

Thanks to leggy1977.

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Tunes of Glory (Scotland the Brave): The Marching Dukes of Marlington
 

 

I’m including this bagpipe-free performance because the Marching Dukes of Marlington, who play the song with such passion and precision, are an excellent high school marching band in Alliance, Ohio, and out of gratitude to TheBatDEWde, who posted the performance under both titles.

Nowadays, if you seek at Google or Youtube for “Tunes of Glory,” you either get videos of the popular, eponymous pipe and drum band, or excerpts from the classic, 1960 Ronald Neame movie, starring Alec Guiness and John Mills.

But I grew up on “Tunes of Glory” as a St. Patrick’s Day staple. I’d never heard of the title, “Scotland the Brave,” which it turns out, is one of Scotland’s “unofficial” national hymns, until producing this virtual parade.

Granted, I’m hopelessly ignorant, but until now, I shared my ignorance with 200 million or so of my fellow Americans, who enjoyed hearing “Tunes of Glory” every year. See my previous remark about the Scottish roots of Irish-American culture.
 

Tunes of Glory (Scotland the Brave): Pipe and Drum Band
 

 

The last minute or so is another tune.

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The Wild Colonial Boy: Tommy Makem and the Clancy Brothers
 

 

The Wild Colonial Boy
By Francis McNamara
(Many variations, but this is the one that Makem and the Clanceys sing here.)

There was a wild colonial boy, Jack Duggan was his name,
He was born and raised in Ireland, in a place called Castle Maine,
He was his father’s only son, his mother’s pride and joy,
And dearly did his parents love the wild colonial boy.

At the early age of sixteen years, Jack left his native home,
And to Australia’s sunny shores he was inclined to roam,
He robbed the rich, he helped the poor, he shot James McEvoy,
A terror to Australia was, the wild colonial boy.

One morning on the prairie, as Jack, he rode along,
And listening to the mockingbird sing it’s joyful song,
Up came a band of troopers, Kelly, Davis, and Fitzroy,
They’d all set out to capture him, the wild colonial boy.

“Surrender now Jack Duggan, for you see we’re three to one,”
“Surrender in the Queen’s high name, for you are a plundering son,”
Jack drew two pistols from his belt, and proudly waved them high,
“I'll fight but not surrender!” said the wild colonial boy.

He fired a shot at Kelly, which laid him to the ground,
And turning ‘round to Davis, he received a fatal wound,
A bullet pierced the fierce young heart, from the pistol of Fitzroy,
And that was how they captured him, the wild colonial boy.

Thanks to vlikavec.

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How are Things in Glocca Morra?: Kate Baldwin in Finian’s Rainbow
 

 

How are things in Glocca Morra?
Music by Burton Lane
Lyrics by E.Y. “Yip” Harburg

I hear a bird,
A Glocca Morra bird,
It may well be,
He’s bringing me,
A cheering word.

I hear a breeze,
A River Shannon breeze,
It may well be,
It’s followed me,
Across the seas…

Then tell me please…

How are things in Glocca Morra?
Is that little brook still leaping there?
Does it still run down to Donny Cove
Through Killy Bay, Killkerry, and Kildare?

How are things in Glocca Morra?
Is that willow tree still weeping there?
Does that lassie with the twinkling eye,
Come singing by,

Or does she walk away,
Sad and dreamy there,
Not to see me there?

So I ask each weeping willow,
And each brook along the way,
And each lass that comes a-sighing Tooralay,
How are things in Glocca Morra this fine day?

[Revised and corrected on March 3, 2013. Thanks to Philippine Folio.]


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Look to the Rainbow: Petula Clark “Downtown in Paris” at L’Olympia
 


Uploaded by fglmusic on Sep 16, 2009.
 

Look to the Rainbow (from Finian’s Rainbow)
Words by E.Y. “Yip” Harburg
Music by Burton Lane

On the day I was born,
Said my father, said he,
I’ve an elegant legacy,
Waitin’ for ye.

‘Tis a rhyme for your lips,
And a song for your heart,
To sing it whenever
The world falls apart.

Look! Look! Look to the rainbow,
Follow it o’er the hill and stream,
Look! Look! Look to the rainbow,
Follow the fellow who follows a dream.

So I bundled me heart,
And I roamed the world free,
To the east, with the lark,
To the west, with the sea.

And I searched all the earth,
And I scanned all the skies,
But I found it at last
In my own true love’s eyes.

Look! Look! Look to the rainbow,
Follow it o’er the hill and stream,
Look! Look! Look to the rainbow,
Follow the fellow who follows a dream.

Follow the fellow,
Follow the fellow,
Follow the fellow…
Who follows .. a dream.

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The Humor is on Me Now: Farmer Dan


Thanks to Accordionman113 and Reel Classics.

The Humor is on Me Now
Words and Music by Richard Hayward

Oh, as I went out one mornin’ –
It bein’ the month of May –
A farmer and his daughter,
I spied upon me way.

And the girl sat down quite calmly,
To the milkin’ of her cow,
Sayin,’ “I will and I must get married,
“For the humor is on me now.”

Oh, the humor is on me now,
The humor is on me now.
Sayin,’ “I will and I must get married,
“For the humor is on me now.”

So, at last the daughter married –
She married well-to-do –
And loved her darlin’ husband,
For a month, a year, or two.

But Sean was all a tyrant,
And she quickly rued her vow,
Sayin’ “I'm sorry I ever got married,”
“For the humor is off me now.”

Oh, the humor is off me now.
The humor is off me now,
Sayin,’ “I’m sorry I ever got married,
“For the humor is off me now.”

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Danny Boy: The King Singers at the Salt Lake City Olympics, 2002
 

 

Danny Boy
Irish folk melody, lyrics by Fred E. Weatherly

Oh Danny Boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling,
From glen to glen, and down the mountainside,
The summer’s gone, and all the flowers are dying,
‘Tis you, ‘tis you, must go, and I must bide.

But come ye back, when summer’s in the meadow,
Or when the valley’s hushed, and white with snow,
‘Tis I’ll be there in sunshine or in shadow,
Oh Danny Boy, oh Danny Boy, I love you so.

But if ye come, and all the flowers are dying,
And I am dead, as dead I well may be,
Ye’ll come and find the place where I am lying,
And kneel and say an “Ave” there for me.

And I shall hear, though soft you tread above me,
And all my dreams will warmer, sweeter be,
And you’ll not fail to tell me that you love me,
I’ll simply sleep in peace until you come to me.

 
Thanks to Wehrheim04.

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The Isle of Innisfree, by Richard Farrelly
As Sung by Maureen O’Hara in The Quiet Man


Uploaded by TheQuietMan1952 on Dec 8, 2010

The Isle of Innisfree
By Dick Farrelly

Lyrics used in the film:
(by John Ford, Charles Fitzsimons and Maureen O'Hara)
Oh, Inisfree, my island, I'm returning
From wasted years across the wintry sea,
And when I come back to my own dear Ireland,
I'll rest a while beside you, gradh mochroidhe.*

* Gaelic words meaning "love of my heart"

 


 

“The Isle of Innisfree” by The Dublin City Ramblers


Uploaded by catalpa on May 18, 2007

Lyrics and chords here.

(Original) Words & Music by Dick Farrelly

I've met some folks who say that I'm a dreamer,
And I've no doubt there’s truth in what they say,
But sure a body’s bound to be a dreamer,
When all the things he loves are far away.

And precious things are dreams unto an exile,
They take him o’er the land across the sea –
Especially when it happens he’s an exile,
From that dear lovely Isle of Innisfree.

And when the moonlight peeps across the rooftops,
Of this great city, wondrous though it be,
I scarcely feel its wonder or its laughter,
I'm once again back home in Innisfree.

I wander o’er green hills through dreamy valleys,
And find a peace no other land could know,
I hear the birds make music fit for angels,
And watch the rivers laughing as they flow.

And then into a humble shack I wander –
My dear old home – and tenderly behold,
The folks I love around the turf fire gathered,
On bended knees, their rosary is told.

But dreams don't last – though dreams are not forgotten –
And soon I'm back to stern reality,
But though they pave the footways here with gold dust,
I still would choose the Isle of Innisfree.

Thanks to Reel Classics
 

The Quiet Man/Isle of Innisfree: A Tribute to the Movie
Kenneth Always and the Dublin Screen Orchestra
 


Uploaded on August 29, 2011, by Valdez244, who writes,
Although Victor Young is credited with the score to The Quiet Man, he used an extensive amount of traditional Irish music throughout the film, most notably the Richard Farrelly-penned, “Isle of Innisfree.” So, on the 60th anniversary of the movie, I thought this might be a timely tribute.
“The Isle of Innisfree,” by Richard Farrelly was a big hit for Bing Crosby in 1949, but today is known as a recurring tune without words, in John Ford’s The Quiet Man.

For over 60 years, lovers of the song and the movie have asked to which Innisfree the song refers.

One hears of an island in the lake in County Sligo.

The mystery has been cleared up by the songwriter’s son, who wrote that the Innisfree of the song is the Emerald Isle, itself!

“In Dick’s own words, ‘I used Isle of Innisfree as another name for Ireland, and it was Ireland I had in mind when I wrote the song.’”

When John Ford was setting about to make The Quiet Man, he heard the song, immediately fell in love with it, and had composer Victor Young weave it into the picture. This makes perfect sense, as Ford would hear der Bingle sing of “exile,” and think of himself.

Thanks to Frank Warner, and at least one other writer, whose name I could neither recall nor hunt down.

* * *
Garry Owen
7th Cavalry Regiment (Regimental March)



Uploaded on Mar 18, 2010, by TheMarches09, who wrote the following backgrounder.

The 7th Cavalry Regiment is a United States Army cavalry regiment, whose lineage traces back to the mid-19th century. Its official nickname is “Garryowen,” in honor of the Irish drinking song Garryowen, that was adopted as its march tune.
 

Lyrics

We are the pride of the army,
And a regiment of great renown,
Our names on the pages of history,
From sixty-six on down.

If you think we stop or falter,
While into the fray we’re goin,’
Just watch the step with our heads erect,
When our band plays “Garry Owen.”

In the Fighting Seventh’s the place for me,
It's the cream of all the cavalry,
No other regiment ever can claim
Its pride, honor, glory and undying fame.

We know no fear when stern duty,
Calls us far away from home,
Our country’s flag shall sagely o’er us wave,
No matter where we roam.

‘Tis the gallant Seventh Cavalry,
It matters not where we’re going,
Such you’ll surely say as we march away,
When our band plays “Garry Owen.”

Then hurrah for our brave commanders!
Who lead us into the fight,
We’ll do or die in our country’s cause,
And battle for the right.

And when the war is o’er,
And to our home we’re going,
Just watch the step, with our head erect,
When our band plays, “Garry Owen.”

Performed by the USAF Heritage of America Band.

 
Bagpipe Version
 



Uploaded by cavscout1983 on Dec 3, 2010

 
“Garry Owen” from They Died with Their Boots on
 



A raised saber to 7th Custer.


Lyrics as Sung in the movie

Garryowen
Traditional Irish pipe tune

Let Baccus’ son be not dismayed,
And join with me, each jovial blade,
Come, booze and sing and lend your aid,
To help me with the chorus:

In place water, we'll drink ale,
And pay the reck’ning on the nail,
No man for debt shall go to jail,
If he from Garryowen hail.

Oh we can dare and we can do,
United men and brothers too,
Their gallant footsteps do pursue,
And change our country’s story.

Our hearts so stout have got us fame,
For soon ‘tis known from whence we came,
Where ‘ere we go they dread the name
Of Garryowen in glory.

* * *
At the top, I referred to the tune played at the end of The Quiet Man, which had completely disappeared from the local parade. Well, in the course of putting together this little parade, I finally learned that the name of that music, which is inseparable from St. Patrick’s Day, is indeed, “The St. Patrick’s Day March.”

I usually pass on watching the official parade on TV, where all of the organizations that march in my neighborhood parade also march, but this year, I plan on watching, to see if they do it right in Manhattan.

 

The St. Patrick’s Day March from John Ford’s Fort Apache (first 1:26)
 

 

Thanks to Alamo YTC Germany.
 

The St. Patrick’s Day March, Played by Englishmen on, of All Occasions, the Queen’s Birthday
 


 

I’m including this version to show that the March can be played perfectly well by pipers.

Thanks to Winnie9212.

"The Isle of Innisfree," Theme from The Quiet Man






335,188 views Jul 26, 2011

"Farrelly's 'Isle of Innisfree' is a beautiful haunting melody by Irish Composer and Songwriter Dick Farrelly (1916 - 1990). The melody and lyrics express the longing of an Irish emigrant for his native land. It was the main theme of the film "The Quiet Man". It became a worldwide hit for Bing Crosby in 1952 and continues to enrich the repertoires of many artists; it endures in the hearts of many as one of the great songs of Ireland.

"The 1952 movie The Quiet Man was set in 1920s Ireland. Sean Thornton (John Wayne), an Irish-born American from Pittsburgh, returns to Ireland to reclaim his family's farm in Innisfree. He meets and falls in love with the fiery spinster Mary Kate Danaher (Maureen O'Hara)."


Isle of Inisfree

I've met some folks
Who say that I'm a dreamer
And I've no doubt
There's truth in what they say
But sure a body's bound to be a dreamer
When all the things he loves are far away
And precious things
Are dreams unto an exile
They take him o'er
The land across the sea
Especially when it happens he's an exile
From that dear lovely Isle of Inisfree
And when the moonlight
Peeps across the rooftops
Of this great city...?




The Kiss: John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara in Ford’s The Quiet Man (1952)


John Ford, born Sean Aloysious O'Feeney or O'Fearna, 1894-1973

John Wayne, born and died Marion Robert Morrison: 1907-1979

Maureen O'Hara, born Maureen FitzSimons: 1920-2015





Transcribed and posted by Secchiaroli
497,948 views Jul 29, 2014

Mary Kate: It’s a bold one, you are! Who gave you leave to be kissin’ me?

Thornton: So you can talk!

Mary Kate: Yes I can, I will, and I do! And it’s more than talk you’ll be gettin’ if you step a step closer to me!

Thornton: Don’t worry – you’ve got a wallop!

Mary Kate: You’ll get over it, I’m thinkin.’

Thornton: Well, some things a man doesn’t get over so easy.

Mary Kate: Like what, supposin’?

Thornton: Like the sight of a girl coming through the fields with the sun on her hair... kneeling in church with a face like a saint…

Mary Kate: Saint, indeed!

Thornton: ...and now coming to a man’s house to clean it for him.

Mary Kate: But... that was just my way of bein’ a good Christian act.

Thornton: I know it was, Mary Kate Danaher. And it was nice of you.

Mary Kate: Not at all.



Hillary Clinton's History of St. Patrick's Day Violence

Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Hillary and Her Goons: Secretary Clinton’s History of Violence and Intimidation Against Reporters

 

"Hillary Clinton announces her campaign to become senator for New York in February 2000," back when she was First Babe
 

Hillary and Her Goons
By Nicholas Stix
April 21, 2000
A Different Drummer/Stix and Stones

Hillary Clinton likes her journalists in a prone position, and apparently, that's fine by them. That's the upshot of a story out of New York that Hillary's media minions have tried to kill. But the story just won't die.

It seems that during the New York's March 17 St. Patrick's Day Parade, Hillary Clinton's Secret Service detail assaulted six journalists who tried to ask the First Lady questions. This is a major news story; an even bigger bombshell is the refusal, by all major news outlets, to run the story.

The story initially broke the same day, on WABC-AM (770), and at newsmax.com, an Internet news service owned by [Republican] investigative reporter Chris Ruddy that specializes in publishing stories the mainstream media doesn't want told. And let me tell ya,' business is booming!

As NewsMax's Carl Limbacher and staff detailed that day, WABC's Glen Shuck reported on Sean Hannity's call-in talk show, "Secret Service agents literally are pushing press to the ground.... The Secret Service just lost their minds, in my opinion. I mean, they just started pushing and shoving; female camera people five feet tall were getting thrown to the ground, cameras flying. Myself, I was grabbed by the shoulder, I was thrown back over. I think somebody from [WB] Channel 11 landed on my back. From that point, it really didn't get any better.

"Minutes after Shuck's interview with Hannity, WABC's in-studio reporter George Weber announced, 'Hillary Clinton's Secret Service agents today roughed up several members of the news media trying to cover the St. Patrick's Day Parade. At least six reporters, including WABC's Glen Shuck, were pushed and tossed to the ground as they tried to get quotes from Mrs. Clinton.

With one exception, the media response to the March 17 WABC and NewsMax stories was ... silence. Nada. Nichts. Nothing. And the exception was a case of an influential columnist who ridiculed the story, while refusing to tell its news source.

Consider that when Mrs. Clinton was waffling about announcing her candidacy late last year, New York reporters and editorialists claimed that she would have a tough time of it with New York's give-no-quarter press corps. Puppy dogs is more like it. A rabid media pack that has gone into attack mode on every unsubstantiated claim or oh-so-biased charge made against Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, especially the Big Lie asserting that the NYPD "profiles" black men, has spent its time sleeping on Hillary Clinton's lap, when it hasn't been licking her hand.

The title of NewsMax's follow-up story, on March 19 (a third story ran on March 21), said it all: "Media Silent on St. Pat's Day Assault by Hillary's Goons." "It was the ugliest public incident in the entire, seven-plus year history of the Clinton administration; certainly ugly enough to fatally wound any candidate's bid for higher office.

"But 48 hours after United States Senate candidate Hillary Clinton's security entourage attacked at least six reporters during New York City's St. Patrick's Day Parade -- throwing some out of the way, pushing others to the ground -- not a single mainstream media outlet has reported the assaults....

The report continued, that Glen Shuck was the only one of the six assaulted journalists to go public. "Newsmax.com has been unable to learn the identity of the female camera operator attacked by Clinton's goons -- nor the whereabouts of whatever film she shot.

"Though local WABC newsman George Weber covered the Secret Service violence at every newsbreak -- at one point even contrasting their use of force with Mrs. Clinton's own stands against police brutality -- none of Shuck's account made it to his own network's 6:00 p.m. report. ABC News failed to mention the assault of their own reporter -- even on their own website.

Mrs. Clinton's Secret Service detail has a history, going at least as far back as 1996, of intimidating reporters covering the First Lady.

When I asked WNBC-TV News Director Paula Madison about the Secret Service assaults, she told me, "I don't think I know about that." Madison thought again, and reiterated, "I have no knowledge of it." Repeated calls to WABC-Radio News Director Phil Boyce, however, went unanswered, despite the assurance of a station employee that she had given Boyce my messages. Remember, Glen Shuck was one of Boyce's people. Likewise, Karen Scott, the news director at Channel 11, one of whose journalists had also reportedly been assaulted, had not responded to repeated calls, as ADD went to web. At NY1's news scoops number, no one was answering the telephone all afternoon, and no one from NY1 responded to ADD's email inquiries. Mayor Giuliani's press representative, Julianna Glover-Weiss, first told me, "I have not heard anything about that, but let me look into that." Later, she told ADD, "I've got the research people looking into it.”

I only stumbled onto the story, in the first place. Newsday columnist and editorial board member Marie Cocco had done a hit on the American Enterprise Institute/frontpagemag-sponsored conference, "The Legacy and Future of Hillary Rodham Clinton." While omitting the date and location of the conference, and all but one of the panelist's names, Cocco slathered on the ridicule, describing the confab as a grouphate of psychotic, Republican Hillary-bashers. Check out her first three paragraphs:

"THIS IS HOW IT LOOKS, from the belly of the beast.

"A columnist for a conservative Internet site rises to charge, with perfect sobriety, that during last month's St. Patrick's Day Parade, U.S. Secret Service agents assigned to first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton 'assaulted and manhandled' members of the press, including cameramen.

"This does not, at the American Enterprise Magazine's (sic) daylong conference on ‘The Legacy and Future of Hillary Clinton,’ elicit skepticism.”

Unlike the confabs of multiculturalists, who refuse to invite any speakers who don't toe the politically-correct party line, these days conservatives often invite their enemies to their conferences. I suppose this has something to do with being out of power -- one tends to be on one's best behavior. Conversely, those in power feel no such compunctions.

Professionalism required that Cocco mention that half of the conference speakers (and spectators) were confirmed lefties, who themselves described Hillary's critics in the same, derisive terms Cocco used: born-again Clintonite David Brock; Newsweek magazine's White House mascot, Eleanor Clift; communist/feminist Betty Friedan; New York activist Karen Burstein; and token, leftwing Clinton-critic, Christopher Hitchens. Cocco chose instead to mention only one panelist -- Hillary Clinton's conservative critic, Joyce Milton, author of The First Partner: Hillary Rodham Clinton. Professionalism also required that she name the "columnist" -- Richard Poe -- and the "conservative Internet site" -- www.newsmax.com. And professionalism required that Cocco admit that she'd hunted down Richard Poe, interviewed him at length, and assured him that she was "curious about delving into the facts" of the "Hillary's Goons" story. Marie Cocco has had bouts of professionalism in the past. But I guess she's gotten over that.

Contrast Cocco's April 13 rendering of the conference (which is available online at frontpagemag.com) with Poe's NewsMax story the previous day, "The Hillary Conspiracy":

"Who is Juanita Broaddrick? I've never heard of her!' cried Betty Friedan, the founder of modern feminism. Friedan's outburst came at last Friday's conference, entitled 'The Legacy and Future of Hillary Rodham Clinton.' Held at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C., the event offered a chilling microcosm of an angry, divided America.

"For nearly an hour, a five-woman panel had been debating whether Hillary qualified as a 'feminist heroine.' I thought Broaddrick's claim of having been raped by Hillary's husband had some bearing on this point, so I broached the subject during the question-and-answer period. Friedan's dyspeptic denial followed.

"David Brock, author of The Seduction of Hillary Clinton, opined that 'Clinton-hating' was 'a realm for psychology, frankly... A lot of the venom is projection.' Eleanor Clift was even blunter. When confronted by hostile questioners, the Newsweek pundit snapped, "You all belong in a support meeting for the anti-Hillary frustrated minority!

“These cracks drew a few laughs. But the anti-Hillary panelists reminded us that more serious issues were afoot. Left-wing journalist Christopher Hitchens, author of No One Left to Lie to, warned that the Clintons were presiding over 'the transformation of the American democracy, the American republic, into a banana republic.' He pointed to the strange timidity of the press as one symptom. 'It is amazing that the New York press should congratulate itself on being so fierce and unappeasable and brave and searching when it has so far not asked [Mrs. Clinton] one single tough question.”

Amazing, indeed.

Cocco's hit achieved two ends: it made it all but impossible for civilians to find the Secret Service story, and in case it did somehow leak out, she slimed the story's messengers as a bunch of fruitcakes: ‘Yeah, right. Are you gonna believe these characters?’

Richard Poe's story on the conference is available online at newsmax.com, and archived at his own site, richardpoe.com. Poe, by the way, is a veteran journalist and New York Times-bestselling author (Black Spark, White Fire).

With a reticence that his ruthless peer lacked, Richard Poe did not wish to attack Marie Cocco when we spoke for the first time -- "She's a colleague." He did grant, during a later interview, however, that in ridiculing the journalists telling the story of Hillary Clinton's Secret Service goons, "She's trying to put the toothpaste back in the tube.”

Well, the toothpaste is out to stay.

Bagpipers - NYC St. Patrick's Day Parade March 17th, 2011: "The Minstrel Boy" (Shooting-Free Video)

Re-posted by N.S.





St. Patrick's Day, 2024: timelapse of the chicago river being dyed green (This is a shooting-free chicago video!)

Re-posted by N.S.





How do you celebrate St. Patrick's Day in D.C.? How else, but with a mass shooting? 7 shot, two dead, so far

By Prince George's County Ex-Pat
sunday, march 17, 2024 at 04:23:28 p.m. edt

2 killed, 5 injured in St. Patrick's Day mass shooting in nw DC

https://wjla.com/news/local/dc-crime-saint-st-patricks-day-mass-shooting-7-people-shot-2-dead-northwest-washington-7-p-street-investigation-homicide-hospital-bar-victims-third-district-public-safety-secure-dc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3bhT7Ke87g

Sunday, bloody Sunday.

Say, how ‘bout dem commanders?



TCM's Film Noir of the Week returns Saturday Night-Sunday Morning at Midnight and 10 a.m. ET with Jean Melville's Le Samourai (1967) with Alain Delon and his then-wife Nathalie Delon

By David in TN
friday, march 15, 2024 at 4:13:00 p.m. edt

TCM's Film Noir of the Week returns Saturday Night-Sunday Morning at Midnight and 10 a.m. ET with Jean Melville's Le Samourai (1967), with Alain Delon and his then-wife Nathalie Delon.

The film has been described as Delon playing a killer who lives like a samurai, aloof from his mistress.

Delon, now 88, has been in the news recently due to his children squabbling over his care.



Saturday, March 16, 2024

"exclusive: famed fashion photographer accused of forcing budding model to masturbate before sexually assaulting her"

By N.S.

"exclusive: famed fashion photographer accused of forcing budding model to masturbate before sexually assaulting her, lawsuit reveals"

"former model Alwantha Lawson claims renowned fashion photographer Marc Baptiste sexually assaulted her during a shoot over 20 years ago, new court papers allege."

https://nypost.com/2024/03/15/us-news/photographer-marc-baptiste-sexually-assaulted-model-during-shoot-suit/



"breaking: Mike Pence: 'I will not be endorsing Donald Trump' in 2024"

By N.S.

https://nypost.com/2024/03/15/us-news/mike-pence-i-will-not-be-endorsing-donald-trump-in-2024/



Most diverse areas

By Grand Rapids Anonymous
saturday, march 16, 2024 at 11:08:00 p.m. edt

There may be disagreement about the ratings I'm going to list of what's "worse",but with blacks,it's all relative anyways--if the blacks living near you don't commit felonies against you,their relatives will.


Can we assume Haiti is the worst?

Make it a 1.

Second worst: Baltimore

Third worst: Chicago

Fourth worst: St.Louis

Fifth worst: Philly

Sixth worst: Atlanta

Seventh worst: New York

Eight worst: Houston

Ninth worst: Detroit

Tenth worst: Dallas.

When reports of cannibalism start to surface in these U.S. shi*ties--they'll move up accordingly.

The way blacks commit crimes and disappear in the states,I wouldn't be surprised if some blacks eat their own to revenge gang killings that take place--but not to the extent of Haiti--YET.

--GRA



"extending work authorization to America’s undocumented will boost economy"

By A Texas Reader
saturday, march 16, 2024 at 03:47:11 p.m. edt

"extending work authorization to America’s undocumented will boost economy, advocates say," while costing millions of Americans their jobs!

https://www.dallasnews.com/business/2024/03/15/extending-work-authorization-to-americas-undocumented-will-boost-economy-advocates-say/

Economics 101: Shortages of labor are always a result of price.

Pay folks more.

Automate.

The Democratic Marxist News is always pushing its daily dose of agitprop, re: wetbacks and the “need” for more cheap labor.



fake president/real gangster Joe Biden "promoted top staffers involved in mishandling classified documents within 24 hours of special counsel’s damning report"

By N.S.

"Biden promoted top staffers involved in mishandling classified documents within 24 hours of special counsel’s damning report

"staffers were promoted on the same day special counsel Robert Hur released his report."

https://nypost.com/2024/03/16/us-news/president-biden-promotes-top-staffers-involved-in-mishandling-classified-documents/



realtor group settles lawsuits by slashing commissions, risks mass exodus of agents

Saturday, March 16, 2024 at 03:53:38 a.m. edt

realtor group settles lawsuits by slashing commissions, risks mass exodus of agents

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/realtor-group-settles-lawsuits-slashing-commissions-risks-mass-exodus-agents

“I hate realtors,” said the top Wells Fargo loan officer in the Southwest.

I have had to deal with realtors during the years I spent as a loan officer.

Many could be royal a--holes.

Not on behalf of their clients.

But because pots of gold were awaiting them at the end of a purchase loan.

Far too many realtors made too much money way too easily here in dallas.



Can Things Get Any Worse in haiti?




By N.S.

Can things get any worse in haiti?

https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2024-3-15-can-things-get-any-worse-in-haiti



new mexico state police identify suspect who shot and killed officer west of tucumcari

By A Texas Reader
saturday, march 16, 2024 at 09:43:36 a.m. edt

new mexico state police identify suspect who shot and killed officer west of tucumcari

https://www.krqe.com/news/crime/new-mexico-state-police-officer-shot-and-killed-west-of-tucumcari/

Looks white to me.

Well, according to the fbi.



Todd Bensman on current border policy hillsdale college video (15-minutes)

By "W"
saturday, march 16, 2024 at 10:22:15 p.m. est

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTg8LY6W5NM



south american drug lord arrested in new braunfels was still issuing commands to Colombian syndicate

By A Texas Reader
saturday, march 16, 2024 at 03:40:43 p.m. edt

south american drug lord arrested in new braunfels was still issuing commands to Colombian syndicate https://expressnews.com/news/article/aderbis-segundo-pirela-cartel-19075366.php

new braunfels used to be a tidy little german town with its own wonderful version of Oktoberfest.

No longer.



Guess the race: Andre Gordon, 26, shot and killed two people at a residence on viewpoint lane shortly before 9 a.m., police said; Gordon then drove to nearby edgewood lane, where he allegedly shot and killed a third person

By Prince George's County Ex-Pat
saturday, march 16, 2024 at 03:19:23 p.m. edt

Andre Gordon, 26, shot and killed two people at a residence on viewpoint lane shortly before 9 a.m., police said. Gordon then drove to nearby edgewood lane, where he allegedly shot and killed a third person.

https://www.inquirer.com/news/pennsylvania/shooting-falls-township-bucks-county-andre-gordon-20240316.html



Friday, March 15, 2024

"Victoria’s secret: the humiliating inside story behind the ouster of the deep state’s favorite color revolution architect"

Revolver News <connect@revolver.news>
To: "add1dda@aol.com" <add1dda@aol.com>
friday, march 15, 2024 at 01:59:59 p.m. edt

"Victoria’s secret: the humiliating inside story behind the ouster of the deep state’s favorite color revolution architect"

revolver news exclusive: "Victoria’s secret: the humiliating inside story behind the ouster of the deep state’s favorite color revolution architect" Headline image

"ding dong, the witch is… retired." such was the sentiment among many in the America First foreign policy community at the shocking news of Victoria Nuland's resignation from her position as undersecretary for political affairs at the state department—an elevated perch from which the controversial Nuland spearheaded and championed active US military involvement on behalf of the ukraine.

...

Nuland is not only a poster child for the deep state's color revolution faction; she in many ways instantiates the very notion of a deep state itself—that is, the notion of a powerful bureaucratic class that operates on a trans-partisan basis on behalf of entrenched special interests of the ruling class. She has worked for Hillary Clinton and George Bush alike and just happens to be married to Robert Kagan, one of the key architects of George Bush's tragically disastrous Iraq War. Talk about bedfellows! Revolver News' Darren Beattie exposed Nuland's likely role in the Biden Regime's regime change operation against Pakistan's widely popular leader Imran Khan, who is currently languishing in prison as a result of a deep state attack on him, not at all dissimilar to the attack Trump currently faces from the American deep state. Revolver's Beattie was the last Western journalist to have interviewed Khan prior to his incarceration.

...

According to two senior state department sources who spoke with Revolver News, Nuland quit in a rage at having been passed over for a key promotion. Specifically, Nuland was thought to be a shoe-in to replace the retired Wendy Sherman in the role of Deputy Secretary of State. Rather than elevate Nuland to the post, however, Secretary of State Blinken chose Kurt Campbell, a former NSC official who had served as one of the key architects of Obama's famed "pivot to Asia" policy. Nuland was so incensed at being passed over, and passed over specifically for Campbell, that she resigned in anger. 

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Fani Willis' gigolo withdraws from Trump election case after judge's ruling

Fani Willis' ex-lover Nathan Wade withdraws from Trump election case after judge's ruling Nathan Wade, the lead prosecutor on the Georgia election interference case against former President Donald Trump, has resigned, ABC News reported. Wade bowed out from the case a few hours... https://nypost.com/2024/03/15/us-news/fani-willis-ex-lover-nathan-wade-withdraws-from-trump-election-case-after-judges-ruling/

The President's extortion trial delayed by judge

https://dailycaller.com/2024/03/15/trumps-new-york-hush-money-trial-delayed-by-judge/

Total politicization, total chaos: One criminal (DR) threatens people on a subway train; another’ criminal’s (YO) girlfriend stabs him in the back; DR pulls a gun, but YO grabs it from him and shoots him four times; “nyc subway rider who shot ‘aggressive’ straphanger during rush-hour commute won’t be charged: ‘self-defense’”; nypost Gauleiter get more aggressive at censorship


Younece Obuad, the "good criminal"



By N.S.

"nyc subway rider who shot ‘aggressive’ straphanger during rush-hour commute won’t be charged: ‘self-defense’"

"the brooklyn straphanger who shot a berserk rider attacking him on a rush-hour train thursday will not be charged, prosecutors said friday."

By N.S.

A few hours ago, I hit the link to this article.

nostradumbest “The arbitrary nature of these decisions makes no sense. While I agree with the decision - what about that Marine?”

N.S.: The hero Marine, Daniel Penny, is White, and was protecting himself and others from a member of an unconstitutional and illegal ‘protected class,” Jordan Neely. Conversely, Younece Obuad, who shot Dajuan Robinson, is himself a member of an unconstitutional and illegal “protected class.” Thus, Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez ruled Obuad’s behavior “self-defense.” We live in a totalitarian country, with no rule of law.

At most two minutes later, I began writing a new comment, but switched tabs (without closing the one to the post article), in order to determine the name of the school, where a huge black female had attempted to murder a petite White girl.

I go back to the post article, but all of the comments at the bottom of the page have disappeared, as has the comments icon at the top.

I go the main page, and hit the link to a different post article, and hit the bell symbol, to check responses to my comments. Although my comment to nostradumbest had only been up a few minutes, and was a comment to a comment, I had immediately gotten four upvotes. (I'm now up to seven upvotes, but the post Gauleiter pushed my comment about 100 clicks down from the comment to which I'd responded.)

I finished the comment just below.

The video is worthless, just like the video of the racist attempted murder at Hazelwood High School. In both cases, the person videoing (who is surely a member of an unconstitutional and illegal “protected class”) turned away (during the crime), in order to protect the attacker from enhanced, criminal penalties.

I notice that the post ran a zillion photos of members of affirmative action classes. Was this because Lachlan Murdoch and Keith Poole have a usa today-style racial photo quota, or because someone wanted to show that the nycpd and mta both have anti-White hiring quotas?

I go to post my comment, and get: “LOG IN TO COMMENT.”

So, right after I had posted my only comment, the post Gauleiter had blocked me from seeing all comments at the article, including my own, and then blocked me from commenting, via the fake “LOG IN TO COMMENT” demand.

https://nypost.com/2024/03/15/us-news/nyc-subway-rider-who-shot-aggresive-straphanger-during-rush-hour-commute-wont-be-charged-prosecutors/


"Bad criminal" Dajuan Robinson initially had the gun



"'if anything happens, it's not suicide': Boeing whistleblower's prediction before death"

By A Texas Reader
friday, march 15, 2024 at 07:24:35 p.m. edt

"'if anything happens, it's not suicide': Boeing whistleblower's prediction before death"

https://abcnews4.com/news/local/if-anything-happens-its-not-suicide-boeing-whistleblowers-prediction-before-death-south-carolina-abc-news-4-2024



Career criminal, 16, pulls pistol on florida beach, where he was selling drugs; a warrant was already out on him for armed robbery and violation of his probation

By A Texas Reader and N.S.
friday, march 15, 2024 at 08:55:53 p.m. est

Teen peddling weed on florida beach pulls out gun next to deputies

Spring Break chaos as teenager, 16, peddling weed on packed Florida beach pulls out gun right next to Sheriff's Deputies before fleeing into the ocean as panicked revelers run for their lives

Felixander Solis-Guzman, 16, was arrested by officers from the Volusia County Sheriff's Office following the incident on New Smyrna Beach on Thursday.

https://www.volusiasheriff.gov/news/volusia-county-sheriff/video-armed-16-year-old-arrested-after-pulling-gun-in-spring-break-crowd-on-new-smyrna-beach.stml

https://www.wesh.com/article/new-smyrna-beach-gun-pulled-out/60216675

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13203465/Spring-Break-gun-weed-Florida-beach.html



The illegal alien churn: "Tyson foods sacks iowa staff of older illegal aliens, and "offers job-and-lawyer deal to" new illegal aliens!

By R.C.
friday, march 15, 2024 at 08:44:41 p.m. edt

"Tyson foods boycotted as it sacks 1,300 staff at iowa pork plant and offers 'job-and-lawyer' packages in bid to hire 42,000 asylum seekers in new york"

"Tyson foods seeks to hire 42,000 immigrants [sic] this year, and offers them $16.50-an-hour wages and free immigration lawyers in new york, a major destination for asylum seekers."

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13201583/Americas-meat-poultry-firm-BOYCOTTED-sacks-1-300-staff-Iowa-pork-plant-offers-job-lawyer-packages-bid-hire-42-000-asylum-seekers-New-York.html



Frank Sinatra: My Shining Hour (Video, from Trilogy: Past Present Future)

Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Frank Sinatra: My Shining Hour (Video, from Trilogy: Past Present Future)



 

Re-posted by Nicholas Stix
Expanded on September 16, 2015, 2:48 a.m.
Corrected on September 16, 2015, 2:58 a.m.
Last expanded on September 19, 2015, 1:20 p.m.

I am going to try and re-post something every day between now and December 12, which will be the 100th anniversary of Frank Sinatra’s birthday.

I won’t deny it; there are definite imperfections in the cadences of Sinatra’s performance of this song. Over the years, his phrasing was arguably his enduring strength, yet there are moments here where it goes awry. And yet, he still gives a moving performance of a lovely Arlen-Mercer song, in his last major album.

[Postscript, 3:07 a.m. I’ve figured it out. The imperfections come when he sings the introduction. American popular songs from circa the 1910s (earlier?) until circa the early 1940s typically had an introduction that did not match the rest of the song. Was this padding? Beats me. However, at some time during the 1940s, songwriters dropped the intros. The young Sinatra had cut his teeth singing songs written by the likes of Irving Berlin, which all had the introductions. However, with the passage of time, singers, Sinatra included, dropped the introductions. By the time he cut this album in 1979, he hadn’t sung standards as they’d been written for almost his entire career. Either he needed to develop a different strategy for singing the introduction, or its clunkiness was insuperable. There was the option of dropping the intro, but wouldn’t have fit the concept of the album. This was the “Past” portion, which required that he sing the songs old-school.

Once Sinatra gets past the introduction, he gives as moving a performance of this deceptively simple song as you’re going to hear.]

This recording, made in Los Angeles in September, 1979, is something of a make-up. Sinatra had first performed this song during the war, on the radio, I believe. (I seem to recall Jonathan Schwartz playing an unofficial recording of it on the radio.) There was a musicians’ strike at the time, and Sinatra was a big union man, so he refused to break the strike by hiring non-union musicians. Thus, the performance was given a capella, with Sinatra and a choir, with no instrumentalists.

This performance has a lovely arrangement by Billy May and orchestral and backup (really, choir) singer performances to match, supporting Sinatra. However, I can only identify Al Viola, for his delicate turn on acoustic guitar, and Gene Cherico on the bass. I can’t identify the rest of the orchestra, or any of the backup singers. Sorry, folks.

As trumpeter and arranger, Billy May was the quintessential, swinging, big band jazz man. As the unsigned biography at Big Band Jazz Music History recounts,
“May was soon contributing swinging arrangements described by the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz as ‘wailing, scooping saxophones voiced in thirds.’”

But May’s arrangement for “My Shining Hour” is the antithesis of his reputation, and without knowing who wrote it, one would be more likely to name Gordon Jenkins as having written the charts. Strings, strings, everywhere, and almost no brass. But it isn’t the Jenkins sound.

Jazz guitarist Al Viola plays a decisive role on this recording, with a tender, restrained turn that is one of the motifs that distinguishes this from a Jenkins arrangement.

This recording should tell you that the conventional understanding of Billy May is much too narrow. He clearly wrote the arrangement based on the song, rather than trying to force the song into a supposed Billy May groove.

This record is a bit of an anachronism, but a glorious one. It is part of “Past.” In that vein, May put together a big orchestra and a choir evoking the big band girl singer choirs of the 1940s, e.g., the Pied Pipers. However, his use of Viola breaks with that scheme. And yet, Viola takes the record to a higher level. Without him, the record would have had a cloying, Jenkins-like sweetness. Viola cut that sweetness.

On paper, “My Shining Hour” is a delicate little flower of a song, with brief lyrics, and yet it has always had such a power over me that I can remember the first time I heard it. It was the summer of 1979 (?), and I had the radio on in my old man’s huge but largely unused carpenter’s shop on Martha’s Vineyard. I was working as a dishwasher—“Hobart engineers,” they called us, for the machine we used—and I was up in the loft, writing letters to friends. I was writing to a very dear friend—not a girlfriend, but “a friend who was a girl”—and I used the song to open and close my letter.
This will be my shining hour,
‘Til I’m with you again.


If anyone worked on this recording, or knows who did, I’d greatly appreciate it, if you’d contact me at Add1dda@aol.com , to help fill in the gaps. Thanks, in advance.

 

 

The mook who posted the above version to youtube has since privatized it. And so, I found the identical version elsewhere on youtube. However, I believe the first guy had posted the names of the musicians and singers. (Or did I get their names from the Web page of the album?) Fortunately, I had copied and pasted said names back in 2015.  




My Shining Hour (1943)
Music by Harold Arlen
Lyrics by Johnny Mercer

This moment, this minute,
And each second in it,
Will leave a glow
Upon the sky,
And as time goes by,
It will never die.

This will be my shining hour,
Calm, and happy, and bright,
And in my dreams, your face will flower,
Through the darkness of the night.

Like the lights of home before me,
Or an angel, who’s watching o’er me,
This will be my shining hour,
‘Til I’m with you … again.

[Bridge]

Choir: Like the lights of home before me,
Or an angel, watching o’er me,
Sinatra: This will be my shining hour,
‘Til I’m with you … again.
 

PRODUCED BY SONNY BURKE

Recorded at United Western Studios, Hollywood, California

Engineered by Ed Green and Lee Herschberg

Music Preparation by Vern Yocum


Conductor: BILLY MAY

Contractor: Carl L. Fortina

Chorus
Sue Allen
Dick Bolks
Bill Brown
Kathrine Louise Brown
Vangie Carmichael
Peggy Clark
Alan Copeland
Alan Davies
Walt Harrah
Ron Hicklin
Tom Kenny
Karen Kenton
Gene Merlino
Julie Rinker Miller
Gene Morford
Loulie Jean Norman
Michael Redman
Terry Stillwell
Bob Tebow
Jackie Ward
Jim Wheeler
Linda Wheeler
Jerry Whitman
Dave Wilson

Small Group
Sue Allen
Dick Bolks
Gene Merlino
Mike Redman

Concertmaster: David Frisina

Violin
Israel Baker
Harris Goldman
James Getzoff
Glenn Dicterow
Marvin Limonick
Joseph Stepansky
Sheldon Sanov
Norman Carr
Robert Sushel
Mary Debra Lundquist
David D. Turner
Harry Bluestone
Marshall Sosson
Stanley Plummer
Judith Aller-Talvi
Daniel Shindaryov
Rochelle Abramson
Jennifer Small

Viola
Pamela Goldsmith
Louis Kievman
Archie Levin
Linn Subotnick
Allan Harshman
Barbara Simons

Cello
Douglas L. Davis
Raymond J. Kelley
Christine Ermacoff
Mary C. Lane
Ronald B. Cooper

Bass
John Allen Hornschuch
Gene V. Cherico
Meyer Rubin

Trumpet
John Audino
Charles B. Findley
Uan Rasey
Charles Henry Turner
Robert Findley
John McClanian Best

Trombone
William R. Watrous
Charles C. Loper
William C. Booth
James M. Self
Richard Nash
Lloyd Ulyate

Tuba
John Thomas Johnson

Woodwinds
Wilbur Schwartz
Ted Nash
Jules Jacob
Gene Cipriano
John E. Lowe
Robert Steen

Piano
Vincent J. Falcone, Jr.

Harp
Verlye Mills

Guitar
Alfred Viola

Drums
Irving Cottler

Percussion
Dale L. Anderson

Nicholas

David Strom: "We Need Elites and They Need to be Trustworthy"


By An Old Friend
friday, march 15, 2024 at 06:14:34 p.m.

David Strom: "We Need Elites and They Need to Be Trustworthy"

What we have, instead, is what Mark Steyn dubbed "America's depraved political class."

David Strom is an interesting and prolific writer at hot air, well worth following.

N.S.: He must have been having an off day. One-thousand-and-ninety-six words, just to say this?! John Derbyshire would have said it all in two words: "We're doomed!"


We Need Elites and They Need to be Trustworthy


I bash the elites all the time and truly believe they deserve far more disdain than I or anyone else can give them. 

But I don't think for a moment that any society more complex than a small village can actually successfully function without an elite of some kind or another, and by that I mean people whom others look to as legitimate leaders. 

Sure, plenty of societies have bad elites, and as a consequence, they function badly. But prosperous, thriving societies need elites who devote a significant amount of their effort to promoting the good of society, even if they skim more than a little bit off the top for themselves. 

As we have entered a populist moment in the West—one that is necessary to correct the moral collapse of our elites—it behooves us to remind ourselves why all societies have elites and why successful ones need reasonably good elites. 

As with everything economic and political, the issue centers on the importance of the division of labor. Every step up the ladder from our origin as hunter/gatherers has required an ever more sophisticated division of labor, and societal health and prosperity are directly tied to how well allocated both human and material resources are. 

At the bottom rung of societal development the most pressing need was security, and the division was between the strongest and most aggressive and everybody else. These societies were brutal, but a well-defended tribe that can cow or defeat its opponents can survive and prosper. 

On the other hand, modern states have a dizzyingly complex division of labor, and we can imagine almost no task that doesn't include enormous levels of specialization. From construction to Hollywood, the more specializations there are, the more efficient the process is, and the better the results are. And, for good or ill, the elites are the people who have the least replaceable skills, the most broad impact on the lives of others, and whose competence effects the most people. 

It would be insane to believe the elites as a class would be morally superior or less selfish than others, but in well-functioning societies, their own interests should overlap with the good of society as a whole. The primary reward for elites, aside from a substantially above-average quality of life, is power and prestige, which many people prize far more than money. 

So, what function does an elite serve in modern societies, and what happens when we lose our trust in them?

Leave aside politicians, for a moment because they are most likely to be motivated by power and money and least likely to toss aside self-interest. Bad politicians are as old as time and will be with us forever.

The elites whose declines matter most are the academic, cultural, and scientific elites. It is the Harvards, the CDCs, the teachers, and all the people we must trust to keep our society functioning well. A good elite creates and inspires social trust, and social trust is the grease that keeps the wheels spinning. 

You may have noticed that all the elites I mentioned are in the knowledge production and distribution business. Because of the division of labor, as a practical matter, almost everything we think and do is based on the implicit trust of the people around us. Politicians can be more corrupt because we already know they are likely to be self-interested. But our doctors, our teachers, our cancer researchers, our public health officials, and our news media need to be trustworthy or eventually, all the trust that is necessary for us to function in the modern world evaporates. 

The pandemic response is a perfect example of what goes wrong when our elite fails us. Even those of us who spent countless hours going through the research on COVID, viral spread, what works and what doesn't still need to have trustworthy information, and that's why we have a CDC and spend countless billions a year on medical research. The bargain we made with the scientists and policymakers at the CDC is that we would give them access to enormous quantities of money in exchange for unbiased research and the best advice possible. 

How'd that work out? The failures of our elites have cost us incalculably. Yet imagine if the CDC had been what it was supposed to be, and perhaps in the past, it had been. Reasonably objective, scientific, open to debate, honest with the public, and willing to concede the gray areas where the evidence was equivocal. 

Our country would be less divided, trust in medicine would be higher, there would be less hesitancy about necessary vaccines, and we would be better prepared for whatever comes next. 

This same pattern has played out regarding universities, public schools, the news media...pretty much every institution that has the potential to add enormously to social success. They all failed us, and the consequences have been devastating. Not only because of the mistakes they made but also because they revealed themselves to be quacks. 

That is why we are in a populist moment and why it is necessary that we go through one despite the downsides. We need to get rid of these particular elites, but it would be a mistake to believe that we can do without their replacements. 

We need trustworthy news media, scientific research, a CDC, and a military. Even the entertainment industry matters quite a bit. 

We just can't afford to have such corrupt ones. These particular institutions must be rejected. 

Populist movements arise when trust in the elites craters, and without question, that cratering is due to the failures and self-dealing of the elites. But populism is not a durable basis for building a successful and prosperous society, because we need a division of labor that includes a class of trustworthy people who do the knowledge work and who make necessary policies. 

Treating cancer is not a commonsensical enterprise, and neither is medical research. Determining the costs and benefits of various actions can often require sophisticated reasoning that leads to counterintuitive results. 

This is why pure democracies tend to fail quickly. Our Founding Fathers sought ways of constraining elites and ensuring that their interests usually coincided with the general interest, but they knew elites were a necessary component of a well-functioning society. 

Generally speaking, I fear populism because it is too responsive to people's fickle fashions and passions. 

Unfortunately, there really is no alternative. Our elites are corrupt and despise us, so they have to go. It will take generations to replace them I am afraid, if we can at all.