Instead of taking the bullet-train, he took a bullet-proof train!
The meeting lasted more than four hours where he promised his full support for Russian President Vladimir Putin in what he called a "fight against imperialism"
In other world news, Jaime Maussan, a self-proclaimed ufologist brought 2 caskets to Mexico's Congress claiming they contain the mummified corpses of non-human aliens believed to be 1,000 years old.
I guess I've got to be the first to bring today's top story about Hunter Biden being indictment on federal gun charges... more news at 11pm.
This should make you queasy as you put all your belongings in bins along the conveyor so TSA can be sure you aren't traveling with weapons, explosives or drugs as everything passes through scanners and x-ray machines while they search your... everything.
So you get your things back, put your shoes on and find $600 is missing from your wallet.
Who 'ya gonna call?
Footage newly released by the Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office appears to show two TSA agents at Miami International Airport stealing money from passengers as they pass through an airport security checkpoint.It appears surveillance footage works both ways.
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Mark was given 63 months of prison for his actions in the January 6th insurrection on the Capitol. He's tied with Robert Scott Palmer who pleaded guilty to taking part in the siege.
What did they both have in common? Believing the election was stolen.
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Palmer's article with comments:
Smile Mark, you're on candid camera.
I've seen some videos of people who actually believe the event never took place!
If you bought products made after COVID, did you notice the quality was less than what they were before COVID? It's across the board and I'll start with paper towels. I used to think the thinnest napkins and paper towels could be found in Chinese restaurants. Not so anymore. The towels in dispenser at the highway service plaza are so thin now, they melt in your wet hands as you pull them. It takes a few extra towels to dry your hands.
Paper cups from Publix market... I've been using them for years and after COVID the cups were leaking right near the bottom. It took a few months before they corrected the quality control. Now, the cups don't leak but the price went from $2.00 packs and are $4.50
Scorpion brand was one company popular for making model aircraft Electronic Speed Controls (ESC's) but they had a failure rate more than 50% after COVID. They will replace a defective unit under warrantee, but the cost of repairing a crashed model helicopter (or airplane) isn't covered. Many of us switched to other (more expensive) brands with assurance of less failures.
I'm sure lots of cars manufactured right after COVID are having a higher rate of defects.
That said, maybe it's important to confirm the manufactured date of the products you are buying to be before COVID (BC) or after COVID (AC)
It happened on a Tuesday morning... and the world had changed.
Sometimes a slight hesitation the way a word or words are spoken can bring on a totally different meaning... or (at very least) confuse the person you are conversing with.
Emphasis to be pronounced as m- fassus is my example.
English is a 2nd and sometimes a 3rd language to the people I come in contact with. If I know them and communicate on a regular basis, it becomes easier to actually know what they are saying.
I was working for a company that manufactured sofa-beds and the workforce were a group of people from the Caribbean islands. Cubans, Jamaicans and Haitians. Each having some distinct differences in the way words were pronounced.
In Jamaica, the number that comes after two is pronounced 'tree'
Anna is usually pronounced 'Hanna'
I don't speak Spanish, but I can read Spanish words and pronounce them with a fair degree of accuracy.
Most of the people I'm currently working with are from Brazil and speak Portuguese. Some of them also speak Spanish. When they leave notes in the order processing system, I have to run them through a language translator to understand them. The notes aren't intended for me and some of the installers and factory workers who access the system only speak a little bit of English.
Right now, Portuguese is troublesome for me as I haven't been able to figure out Portuguese pronunciations.
Example of good morning is spelled: bom dia, but dia (unlike Spanish) is pronounced gia, like JEE-ah.
I see now, I need to work on the m- fassus.
I see in the news that Donald J. Trump was holding a $100,000 a plate fundraiser dinner for his former attorney, Rudy Giuliani. The event was to be held at his Bedminster country club.
I haven't followed up as of yet, but one article brought some interesting reader comments and that is usually better than the story itself.
For example...
If Trump would have paid Giuliani for his legal fees in the first place, he probably would not need to have the fundraiser.
MAGA complain about prices and the economy, yet they continue to donate money to trump and his minions.
Trump must be scared that Rudy will flip on him.
Trump doing something to benefit someone else?? Somehow he will make it all about himself. There has to be something in it for him or else he wouldn't bother.
If Ghouliani thinks he needs money now, just wait until they see the settlement for Miss Ruby, his lawsuit for exploiting his secretary, and Jack Smith drops the J6th charges on him.
He's apparently trying to keep Rudy in the fold. Rudy knows where all the bodies are buried going back to the old days. Since Rudy is guilty as sin, the chances of him turning are good. djt doesn't want that.
Only a complete fool would give Rudy money, he created his own mess, let him pay the price!
Would love to know the number of plates sold and who paid for them. Also, the names of the people who actually attended.
(don't worry - it wouldn't surprise me if there will be investigations for the source of the funds)
Those who contribute to the defense of this traitor are traitors themselves.
Yeah, I’m totally sure ALL of it is going to Rudy, trump wouldn’t ever skimm
MAGA: My Attorney Got Arrested!!
Two weeks ago, Donald J. Trump surrendered to the Fulton County jail where he was booked, fingerprinted and posed for a mugshot. This is a first as no US president can claim what he has accomplished... that is, he is facing 4 criminal indictments.
Within a few hours his mugshot came online. There was a delay as so many people clicking to see it overloaded the network server.
It didn't take long for King Grifter to turn this event into a money-making merchandising operation by selling T-shirts and and mugs with his booking photo and the inscription:
NEVER SURRENDER.
One small detail is
he had to surrender to the jail for them to take a mugshot.
Did I miss something here?
It's now reported Trump's campaign has raised $9.4 million since his booking with the release of his shirts. I'm surprised he didn't offer a signed and numbered 'collectors edition' for $500 bucks more! Certainly this is something collectors could be hawking on eBAY for years to come.
Mugshots posted online are part of the public domain... however there are some rules/limitations about their use and misuse. One topic that is being tested is profiting off of ones mugshot. Another is playing down the seriousness of a criminal indictment and can that be perceived as a form of jury tampering?
This is what I've seen in the news and since it appears to be something without case history, can the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office legally force Trump (and his campaign and or merchandising company) to cease selling the shirts and mugs. One step further, could they be legally charged and have to pay fines for misuse and possibly have to refund the money?
Warning: while I often allow off-topic comments to my blogs, any mention of Biden weaponizing the DOJ or FBI will probably disappear in the night.
From what I see it's not only T-shirts and mugs.
I went out for my morning walk and see someone had dropped 2 bagels in the parking lot expecting to feed the birds.
Some black crows were picking, but strangely no takers.
The reason why... the bagels were stale, as in hard like stone.
I started breaking a bagel into small pieces and throwing out to the birds who quickly ate them up. A squirrel wanted in on the action, so I threw a few larger pieces his way. He grabbed one, climbed the tree and returned for another.
To my surprise, some white birds with long bills came and chased the crows away. They had some difficulty with the size of the pieces I was breaking off for the crows, so I pinched them in 'pea' size chunks and they began to fight over them, eating as fast as I could toss them to the group.
I could see other birds in the nearby tree waiting and after the white birds left, they came over and started feeding. The whole event was more than 30 minutes and both bagels were gone!
I didn't get much walking this morning, but the birds got breakfast on me!
Music of The Beatles changed my life. Sure other artists influenced me too, but it's said The Beatles were inspired from many of the American musical artists.
Elvis, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Bob Dylan to name a few.
Oddly, I never really followed the music of the musicians who influenced The Beatles. What a concept!
Early Beatles trivia I learned was from the album covers and 'teen' magazines that were filled with stupid things unrelated to their music. Like, Ringo's birthday or John's favorite color and had little or nothing to do with the music.
Usually on the weekends, I immerse myself in YouTube videos. Sometimes they are instructional, or science related... but there is always room for music and a few documentaries about musicians.
It seems the more I research things about The Beatles, the more I realize what little I really knew along the way.
55+ years later I found out that Abby Road Studios was really EMI studios. I knew that the recording equipment in America was far superior to what was in use in England at the time and I'm not sure why they didn't import those tape recording machines.
EMI studio was setup to have full musical scores used in movie soundtracks. One large room where a symphony of 40 musicians, lots of microphones and a control panel would record as though the listener were present in a live performance. Sound was recorded to 4-track machines. That means while recording, 4 discreet channels could be filled. Let's say drums, bass and rhythm guitar could be on the first track, piano and lead guitar on the second track, main vocal on the third track and backing vocals on the fourth track. That's it. If something wasn't right, either a mistake or a wrong recording level, the entire track had to be done again... including all the instruments or voices on that track. That would take days to perfect one song.
What happened then is, after each take was right, the recording engineer would 'mix down' the good parts to another 4-track machine so they have room for more parts. Maybe sound effects or orchestra arrangements added to the original recording. Often I would read about the original tapes used to create other versions of a song that would be decided later which version would make it to a record. Remastered is a word to describe when they make a new version (mix) using the original tapes.
I know all of this 'technology' existed, I didn't know exactly how it was applied to each song of every album. It originally came as a surprise, but it's been documented and there are lots of recording engineers who have all that information.
Many recording studios in the United States used 8-track recording machines giving a track for each voice or instrument. An example, if the piano track had a mistake, they only had to rerecord that one part and not an entire section where drums, guitar and piano shared a single track.
Paul McCartney made famous a bass guitar manufactured by the German company Höfner. It had a unique hollow body violin appearance, 30" long scale and he was seen in all live performances with that bass guitar. He also used a British VOX amplifier by Jennings Musical Instruments.
The song 'Come Together' was recorded in 1969 and to my ear, the bass guitar didn't sound like a Höfner. I later learned McCartney had switched to an American made Rickenbacker with a solid body, 34" long scale and an American made Fender bass amplifier. Much of his later recordings and performances with Wings had his Rickenbacker bass with Mesa-Boogie amplification.
The Beatles music changed with a few short years. It evolved from the live band sound to a more complex studio band, probably due to many factors... that included their experiments with psychedelic drugs, study of Eastern philosophy and the use of recording machines that could vary speed/pitch, double track for added voices, playback in reverse.
That brings me to the 1966 album REVOLVER...
I can't find the blog I commented on last week referencing the number of guns sold in America versus the population and from raw facts it would appear each American had a gun. From experience of friends, workers and going to gun shows, I'd estimate one person had 10 guns while 9 didn't, making the tally (from a glance) look like everyone had a gun.
Okay, that thought passed. I was listening to a news report of Jeffrey Ferguson, a Superior court Judge in Orange County California had murdered his wife.
Get this:
47 weapons and more than 26,000 rounds of ammunition were recovered during a search of his home, including the pistol used in the shooting. Authorities said the weapons were legally owned. A rifle registered in his name is not accounted for.72 year old Ferguson was arrested last week. He was released a day later on $1 million bail and set to be arraigned on September first.
That 'shoots a hole' in the statement that each American owns a gun.
A rifle registered in his name is not accounted for, according to the district attorney's office.Where do you think he stashed the rifle?
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