Open Thread 1 MAR 22 ~ Fat Tuesday
The King of the Krewe Zulu, showing his stuff to the sound of jazzy music.
Happy Carnival! Can't help myself, but this is the day that all stops are pulled for a full blown
party. Parades and music all day long in New Orleans town and other places.
Right up until midnight when the horse mounted coppers clear the Quarter followed by the fire engine pumper trucks to hose-down all evidence of debauchery. Partial disclosure: I am not even close to being catholic, so Lent doesn't stop any ideas of giving up on a good time. Laissez les bon temps rouler !
Listening to WWOZ FM in New Orleans as of now. Highly recommended for good local jazz, blues and funk.
https://www.wwoz.org/listen/player/ - guardians of the groove
some of the players ..
Lil' Queeny and the Percolators
New Orleans Night Crawlers
Wild Tchoupitoulas
79RS Gang
Al Johnson
Shamarr Allen ..
..
Papa Grows Funk
Rockin Doopsie Jr.
Big Sam's Funky Nation
The Spirit of FI YA YA
Earl King
Neville Brothers ..
..
Dixie Cups
Margie Perez and the King Crab Babes
Troy Trombone Shorty Andrews
Allen Toussaint
Black Orpheus
Clifton Chenier
Coolbone Brass Band
Eddie Bo
Dr. John ..
..
Ernest Skipper
Los Hombres Calientes
Champion Jack Dupree
Tab Benoit
Kermit Ruffins
Professor Longhair ..
..
and the culture ooh, baby..
Creole Crawfish
Gumbo Mambo on the Bayou
Oyster Po'boys
Beignets ala Cafe Du Monde
Bourbon Street Hurricanes..
The Wild Magnolias ..
and
..
Beau Jocque
Flaming Arrows
Monogram Hunters
Dave Bartholomew
Danny Barker
Young Guardians of the Flame
..
Goes on forever, you get the idea!
So join in and smile, sing, dance, groove or whatever moves you.
Comments
Good morning, happy March, bye bye February
Tonights theater of the absurd will be brought to you by an actor
dressed up as the head of state reading a speech to the assembled
co-conspirators of congress in the play called
State of the Onion
The critics have labeled this play variously as 'dark comedy',
'a real stretch' and 'descriptions of a dystopian parallel reality'.
Tune in around 9 PM eastern at your peril.
In other current events ..
Jill Biden Mistakenly Introduces Kamala Harris as ‘President,’ Then Says She Was Just Joking
Second Round of Talks Between Russia and Ukraine May Take Place on 2 March
'Out of the Question': Claims of Russian Use of Cluster, Vacuum Munitions in Ukraine False - Kremlin
End the Imperialist Expansionism': US Progressives Demand NATO Be Disbanded
Fence Around US Capitol Building Is Being Reinstalled Ahead of Biden's State of the Union Address
what are they afraid of ??
Hunter Biden’s partner gets prison sentence
Ukraine lodges formal EU membership bid
anything else you see of interest today ?
What are they afraid of? Us, the People. n/t
There is no justice. There can be no peace.
Dang, I thought that first
line about Jill Byedone was a joke. Like Onion style. But nope...
If you're poor now, my friend, then you'll stay poor.
These days, only the rich get given more. -- Martial book 5:81, c. AD 100 or so
Nothing ever changes -- Sima, c. AD 2020 or so
No muss, no fuss
I was just wondering, how many casualties are the Russian imperialist invaders experiencing per the first week of engagement in Ukraine compared to Afghanistan 1.0 or to the US when it invaded Iraq?
[video:https://youtu.be/mVPTqHZqdz0]
and
https://news.yahoo.com/russia-used-beatings-tricks-forcibly-191116730.html
Ok, but Ash Wednesday is tomorrow
so we still have today to be ash less or cash less as the case may be
Lent
Former Catholic. The only part I miss is eating authentic Paczki. A Polish desert pronounced as punch key. I did find some a few years ago at a grocery store. Didn't even look this year. Bakery items are too expensive like just about everything else at the grocery store.
I did get a King Cake from a food giveaway a couple of weeks ago. Why so early, I have no idea. They do not put the baby in the cake because Americans are so stupid that they would swallow and choke on it, so you have to put it in yourself. It came with a white and black baby. Even King Cakes have become politically-correct now.
As for Lent, most Catholics no longer give up things. Instead, they are doing things like not buying groceries and eating out of their pantry so that they don't waste food. Another idea is to give away 40 items in 40 days.
Ah yes, King cakes, another tradition
It was said whoever got the little plastic buried baby in their slice
was required to buy the cake for the next year. I got that once.
Can't remember if I ever made good on that particular onus.
How do you get rid of NATO?
Can you disband it it, what would it mean? Can you kill it? I guess it would just produce a NATO 2.0 edition.
It doesn't look like NATO is protecting us from something, more that it causes problems for most.
What would it take? That one NATO member state after the other declares they want to quit being a member state?
Pfft. Insanity you are my middle name, I guess. Down with the NATO! Yes to WAR, BOMB YOURSELF.
LONG LIVE THE IDIOTS.
Probably the best way to disband the NATO bloc
would be to stop funding it. I don't expect the US to do that anytime soon, as it seems the
lions share of funds runs thru our treasury. Do the EU members wish to cash-out in favor
of having additional monies available to domestic needs? I would think yes. Does the population
of the US want to see military expenditures applied instead to the failing infrastructure here
at home? Again, my guess is yes. Like you, we do not have a say in where congress spends
our monies. What else is there to do? If the dollar goes into the toilet, as it seems is happening,
then all the bucks in the world won't solve the perpetual war scheme. Therefore goes NATO.
Have patience
wait a bit longer, maybe NATO is busy destroying itself. Everything is corrupt.
I know it's easy for me to say have patience, I'm not inches away from the front lines on my map but you are. All I can do is send out the peace and love words. They are only words, but what is everything else here and all over the internets every damn day? It's either filling my head with love, or yet another two minutes of hate. I'm exhausted, want this madness to end. Then I can get back to worrying about where to live when this property sells. okay
Peace and Love
never ending
These would be pretty large inches I am supposedly away
from the 'frontlines'.
Hamburg in Germany is around 900 miles away from Kiev. That would be the distance round about New York to Montgomery. Or the distance between Washington DC to Detroit .You better not believe it because I can't find two cities in the US that are 900 miles apart.
Sigh. I am not scared yet a bomb would hit Hamburg in Germany, unless our Chancellor Scholz gets as insane as some other lusty bomb lovers. So far he is not.
PS: Don't give up, eyo. I know how it feels to fear any day to not have a place, dry and with the right temperature.
My son tells me, he starts to think about it, when it actually happens, which could be tomorrow or any other day. so, it does not make sense to worry, he says.
Peace and Love from a German Peace and Love lover.
Yesterday I learned "waters of state" definition
thanks, keep going! LOL peace and love ping pong across the world.
California coast is about 750 miles north to south, from Weed to San Diego. heh I looked it up on pursuantmedia dot com, a place I never saw before.
Do warships have a right to innocent passage?
I was curious, it is only 14 nautical miles distance from where a bunch of hostile maritimers could flatten this entire state in das blinken eye. Aim for the Salesforce obscenity, that's what I say! Getting rid of that skyline eyesore would be gravy.
...
and there my browser cuts it off. I think they wanted to finish with "including waters that flow in and out your bank account, because Kamala Harris loves war." mwahaha
Yesterday I kept confusing ss with the stasi from east berlin. BigTech is the western stasi, that's how it feels living here. Got a problem? Make a database!
Peace and Love
backward and forward
Woke up "not dead"
again this morning. Had the white-flash nightmare 3 times last night. Usually, once is enough to do the obligatory self-abasement to the demons in my head, but here lately it apparently isn't sufficient.
It'll be nice when this is over.
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
Scientists have found there is little difference
between mushroom clouds and LSD flashes.
So we are safe for now
Good morning...
lovely here...hope you're having nice weather too. Enjoyed strolling trade day and visiting with folks today. No purchases, but a fun visit to town. Swung by the grocery on the way home for a few items.
Still planting onions today. I'm avoiding the pro-war MSM coverage filled with Russiahate. So curious how we can invade countries all over the world without the same condemnation.
Mardi Gras is French for Fat Tuesday. Carnival celebrations in New Orleans, Venice and Rio and many other places around the world.
https://www.southernliving.com/holidays-occasions/mardi-gras/mobile-mard...
Enjoy the day where ever you are!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Ho, ho, ha
tied some cowbells to a rake that had just hit him over the head . . .
reminds me of yesterday, rounding the corner of the garage / tent
slipped on the ice and fell onto the tent which dislodged a sheet
of frozen snow on top, falling onto my head. Insult to injury.
Glad you can enjoy trade day!
Best
Todays March 1st....odds on seeing the Ides of March
dwindle with each passing tweet
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/02/28/george-soros-and-hi...
Live from Ukraine
At least Putin did something right
I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish
"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"
Heard from Margaret Kimberley
The Zalenskyy regime is going insane?
Already gone.
Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy was born to Jewish parents on 25 January 1978 in Kryvyi Rih, then in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. His father, Oleksandr Zelenskyy, is a professor and the head of the Department of Cybernetics and Computing Hardware at the Kryvyi Rih State University of Economics and Technology; his mother, Rymma Zelenska, used to work as an engineer. His grandfather, Semyon (Simon) Ivanovych Zelenskyy, served in the Red Army (in the 57th Guards Motor Rifle Division) during World War II; Semyon's father and three brothers were murdered in the Holocaust.
That US Ex-pat
needs to get on a plane and come home.
Handing out military weapons to untrained civilians is madness.
Creating chaos and death is the specialty of the NATO regime Zelensky has hooked up with.
The Culling to bring on the Reset.
Posting this cartoon because you do not need to speak Portuguese to understand the meaning.
NYCVG
Well NYCVG
It's an "emergency" so we can wait til Friday to convene....smfh
https://www.zerohedge.com/
Stocks, Bond Yields Puke; Oil Explodes Higher After NATO 'Emergency Meeting' Headlines
I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish
"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"
Heard from Margaret Kimberley
The Stock Market
is not something I understand.
What I do understand is Oil Market prices.
WTI and The Brent are now well above $100 per barrel---$5 above last time I checked.
The $100 per barrel price is the point at which money can be made on extraction of more deeply inaccesible oil.
Going after Tar Sand Oil and Fracking will now produce profit.
Coming soon--- the drilling will commence and the environmental collapse will accelerate.
NYCVG
Good morning QMS. Thanks for the heads up
regarding the adipose weekday and the accompanying tunes and link. I believe that there are places where the festival is referred to as "Carnival", Rio, for one, I believe. That, at any rate, would explain the following:
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Something else appropriate for the day
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
The Crescent City
Stuck between the Pontchartrain and the big muddy levees
Treme
https://www.neworleans.com/plan/neighborhoods/treme/
Treme
is an HBO mini-series authored by David Simon who also gave us The Wire.
Treme was just as good as The Wire but did not get the tremendous acclaim the The Wire did. No doubt because the politics were so harsh.
If you have not seen it and can do so give yourself a treat---it showcases New Orleans food, music, Police Dept. with a Rolling Stone imitator covering the Katrina story, starting 3 weeks after the Storm.
The coverage of New Orleans Public School system disappearing and the way perfectly sound housing was declared "unsafe" when not a drop of water had touched them teaches anybody new to USA reality some very difficult lessons.
Star-studded sumptuous TV. As good as this medium ever gets.
NYCVG
sounds good
unfortunately, I gave up TV for lent about 20 years ago
and have not gotten back to that particular medium so
am missing a lot of current programming, much to the
chagrin of the frontal lobes
oh well
one doesn't miss some things until it's gone
thanks for checking in
btw, ya wanna try to host the Tuesday OT?
Impossible
It took me most of a week to get my new computer working after the last one died.
It had been flickering on this website for a few days and then went black and stayed there.
I understand my limitations, and having any responsibility to a mechanical entity is way beyond my scope.
NYCVG
yeah, that's cool
getting tough for me too
ain't 'puter literate by any means
like to be creative, but has its limits
putting it out there for y'all to share
just need some helps for Lookout, JtC
and my own damn self
after we lost can't stop, the French gal
and the other supporters, we are drilling
down to get some help
before we burn out
Too Optimistic? IDK
NYCVG