Open thread 8/5/21
I remember when and where this photo was taken. Eight years old. The sun was in my eyes. I loved that red dress:
The New Neo
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I remember when and where this photo was taken. Eight years old. The sun was in my eyes. I loved that red dress:
HEADLINE “Democrat Operative” in Houston Alleges Massive Voter Fraud in Texas and Beyond
“Legendary Texas Democrat operative Gerry Monroe is blowing the lid off 2020 voter fraud in Harris County, Texas, which houses the city of Houston.
“As NATIONAL FILE has extensively reported, the Joe Biden campaign’s Texas political director Dallas Jones was implicated in a voter fraud scheme which saw a campaign assistant for Sheila Jackson Lee submitting fraudulent paper ballot applications on behalf of dead and unaware voters.
Gerry Monroe will be interviewed on NATIONAL FILE TV (live on Twitter) in the 11 AM ET hour on Thursday August 5. Here is Gerry Monroe laying out some evidence:
“Voter Fraud Exists not only in Texas but in Every state
“Non residents voting? Dead people votin? Mail in ballots same signatures voting multiple times
“??Someone is benefiting pic.twitter.com/hU1d7BfbtW
“Identities of living and dead people were stolen in Harris County, Texas to fraudulently vote in the 2020 election, according to bombshell audio obtained by NATIONAL FILE.
“A convicted forger who mailed the fraudulent ballot applications in Democrat Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee’s district worked as a campaign assistant for Sheila Jackson Lee’s 2020 campaign, and has gotten paid by Jackson Lee’s campaign efforts in the past.
“The Joe Biden campaign’s 2020 Texas political director Dallas Jones oversaw this alleged voter fraud operation and he was interrogated by the FBI in the last weeks of the 2020 election according to insiders.
“The audio below includes phone calls in which people confirm that their identities or the identities of their dead relatives were stolen in Harris County.
“This information has been provided to the Texas Secretary of State for the purpose of aiding Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office in formal investigations….”
https://nationalfile.com/watch-black-democrat-operative-blows-the-lid-off-democrat-voter-fraud-in-texas/
Gorgeous memory, Jean (neo). Really wonderful for you to share it!
We (readers) have been wondering.
I see the kid next door stole your apple.
1. Great pic.
2. Thanks, TJ, for the heads up.
Neo denies that she’s a cousin of Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
Such lovely hair on that charming young lady! Us bald guys notice that on people. Then again, hair only goes so far. As a wise man once told me, God made just a few perfect heads and the rest he covered with hair.
You were a cute child, Neo. Not as solemn as I would have expected. Wavy rather than curly hair.
You must have been a beautiful baby
You must have been a wonderful child
When you were only starting to go to kindergarten
I bet you drove the little boys wild
And when it came to winning blue ribbons
You must have shown the other kids how
I can see the judges’ eyes as they handed you the prize
I bet you made the cutest bow
Oh you must’ve been a beautiful baby
‘Cause baby look at you now
Does your mother realize
The stork delivered quite a prize
The day he left you on the family tree?
Does your dad appreciate
That you’re merely super great
The miracle of any century?
If they don’t just send them both to me
You must have been a beautiful baby
You must have been a wonderful child
When you were only starting to go to kindergarten
I bet you drove the little boys wild
And when it came to winning blue ribbons
You must have shown the other kids how
I can see the judges’ eyes as they handed you the prize
I bet you made the cutest bow
Oh you must’ve been a beautiful baby
‘Cause baby look at you now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnY9NEgOvow
I have to say that with those sidebuttons that dress looks more like some young cowgirl blouse.
Gerard @1132 gets the award for best comment on Neo’s picture.
Now, Neo, given that picture and what we can see behind the apple, I suspect any high school picture would have secured you as a true “knockout”.
neo:
Follow-up on ABBA / Bee Gees…
Barry and Robin Gibb introduced ABBA when they were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2010.
–“THE BEE GEES INDUCT ABBA INTO THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DoyAWnhFaY
huxley:
I knew that. I’ m very up on Bee Gee lore. Also, Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys had given the speech for the Bee Gees’ induction. He’s a huge fan.
I was wondering from the video about Robin Gibb’s health. He looked so gaunt. Looking him up on wiki, I see RG was on his way out. A few months after the ABBA induction:
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On 14 August 2010, while performing in Belgium, Gibb began to feel abdominal pains.
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By May 2012 he was dead at 62. I know you know about that.
Will the open thread photo of neo from High School have an apple? Or will it be photoshop to the rescue?
That is a charming picture of a young woman who looks as if she would have her homework done on time and raise her hand to answer the teacher’s questions before anyone else in class. Thank you J. K. for sharing with us.
What a beautiful picture- thanks Neo!
huxley:
Robin looked extremely gaunt for many years before he died. Hard to say when he really began to be seriously I’ll, because he was private and reticent about it. But as soon as his fraternal twin Maurice died in 2003, Robin was plunged into deep deep grief that lasted. I saw an interview with Robin and Barry shortly after Mo died in 2003 and Robin looked awful. It was clear he was deeply shaken and it was affecting him physically.
Now that all the others are gone, Barry is functioning ok but looks and sounds changed although not gaunt. He says he feels his brothers’ presence with him onstage and elsewhere.
Thanks to everyone who complimented me on the photo!
Very cute. You were in the 3rd grade?
Wow, that dress is cute, and the girl’s a good look for eight. At that age, I remember trying to figure out how to send a valentine to a girl without her knowing it was from me. All the things I’ve forgotten, and that one sticks. Without an open thread, who’d ever write about something so goofy?
I am reminded of something the preacher said about the question he gets about how old are people in Heaven, since some die young and some die old. His answer , “ They will be the perfect age.”
Adorable Neo. And such a cute dress.
You look the same.
Cornhead:
I can’t fit into the dress anymore. 🙂
You look very much a confident lass!
you were a cutie.
i do wish you would remove that apple
Not to be Debbie Downer after neo’s great and lovely photo, but it is Diversity Thursday after all.
“The Navy is incapable of extracting itself from racial essentialism on its own.” That applies to the entirety of government agencies, Federal and State IMO. Those who push racial essentialism from whatever shade of melanin are a pox on the nation, again IMO.
http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/
avi:
There is a photoshop dude on the interweb who fixes photos for fun. His literal artistic license yields funny results.
You looked very much like my older grand daughter, who is also generally considered, not just by me, to be a beauty.
Not bad Neo. Have you had lots of your old colour negatives and transparencies scanned? The amount of image information contained in these is so much more than what we were used to see in the colour snapshots we handed around back in the day — consumer grade colour printing was like NTSC video — just barely ‘good enough’. Digitally scan the original developed films though and be very pleasantly surprised by just how good the quality is.
Less of a thing with monochrome prints — but the difference with colour is really something.
Good old diversity, nothing new in that. In early 1989 I was moving back to Texas from Minnesota to start up a new business and I was wanting an interim job to tied me over thinking working for the 1990 census would be perfect. I did not want to use my nest money to live on so a trip to Dallas I applied for a management job with the Federal Census, taking an exam I knew that I had maxed. Six weeks later I received a letter telling me to appear at a certain place and time in Dallas and I purchased another plane ticket and arrived at the right time and place only to find out I was being given the same test and I asked the staff what the hell was going on. After a bit of discussion I was sent into another office where a very nice black woman asked me to sit down and then she told me she was not telling what she was telling me but I need to know it. Her explanation was that even though I was a college graduate with a BBA an part of an MBA and had maxed out the exam and had a veteran’s preference for my four years of service in the lat 1960’s she would not be able to hire me.
This was during the last years of the Senior Bush administration and the nice woman said she was so sorry but she could not hire white men for management positions in the 1990 census, she was required to hire either women or minority people and then she once more said that she had never told me about the requirements but she thought I should know the truth about diversity. That was over 30 years ago, Happy Diversity Thursday and last year I was hired as a census worker and it worked out well for this old retired man.
More from the “You Just Can’t Make This $%^& Up” Department:
https://vdare.com/posts/north-korean-defector-robbed-by-three-black-women-accused-of-racism-by-whites-who-saw-the-crime-because-she-threatened-to-call-the-police
Life Imitates Art:
https://twitter.com/serenawilliams/status/1422755739739856897
HEADLINE “Recovered COVID Patients Suffering ‘Significant Cognitive Deficits’ According To Large-Scale UK Study”
A study roundup from the UK reports that survivors and recovered from COVID-19 have brain damage, even from the mildest cases.
One study was of 80,000 brains. Covid-19 may accelerate Alzheimer’s onset.
Dr Rhonda Patrick said via Twitter:
“Severe cases had the greatest cognitive decline of 0.47 standard deviations compared to non-infected individuals. This deficit surpasses the cognitive decline found in former stroke victims, as well as cognitive differences between groups that differ by 10 yrs of age.”
Cognitive decline averages 3.5 IQ points in even mild cases.
Was this entirely from those suffering “long Covid-19?” I will re-read this story.
At any rate, more worries over the CCP virus. https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/recovered-covid-patients-suffering-significant-cognitive-deficits-according-large-scale-uk
HEADLINE “Recovered COVID Patients Suffering ‘Significant Cognitive Deficits’ According To Large-Scale UK Study”
It’s a cold virus. I doubt they can replicate this.
So cute, but no apple yet.
The end is nigh, god says.
That was a joke.