I find anything the Moiseyev dance company does just amazing, but I cannot figure out how the kneecaps of the male dancers are still attached to their knees.
My knees hurt just watching those guys.
JohnTyler: You think the male dancers’ knees get a workout in this ballet, you should watch them in “Yablochko,” which is part of a “Naval Suite” called “A Day on the Ship.” Note that in addition to working the knee joints, these dancers do high kicks as well, at one point looking like a line of male Rockettes. The part that I found really remarkable, though, begins at 2:05, when one of the sailors plays an accordion solo while dancing. That requires an uncommon ability to multitask!
(Sorry that the link looks like gibberish because that’s what YouTube does with Cyrillic characters– maybe Neo can fix it).
Song of the Day [Oscar Peterson Trio, Night Train — 1963]: Hymn to Freedom
Andy McCarthy has something up at NRO on the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago. Anyone want to check it out and report back?
I’d be surprised if there was a noticeable lack of outrage and a lot of “Well, they must have a good reason for this.”
Mike
re: Andy McC
Practice using the phrase “Good German”. I think we have a lot of it ahead …
The dance is so beautiful … so traditional … so approving of simple care and attraction between male and female. It feels like a rare occurrence these days.
Pa+Cat
I don’t think the dancer is actually PLAYING the accordian. I think he is just pretending to play it. I have to say that he is doing a much better job than a lot of faking I have seen — he does move the bellows. But his hands don’t seem to move on the keys or buttons.
Golly, agree about the knees.
And those girls can SMILE.
What is interesting is that, individual talent aside, none of them got tangled up with others.
Re zJimNorCal—
I only enjoy gallows Humor accompanied by real hangings. But given the Class War dimensions we face, joyful, blood spurting guillotines are Truly Just.
These people are actually playing instruments while they are moving.
“Turning back to the US, the next recession, which is likely to occur in ’22, will cause solvency concerns to spike as revenue collapses and the National Debt-to-Federal-income ratio soars. However, this time around the Fed’s ability to monetize away collapsing asset prices and crumbling economic growth will be fettered by an inflation rate that is already many times greater than it is comfortable with.
That leaves the Fed and Treasury with a dangerous dilemma: allow asset prices and the economy to implode, which will certainly fix the inflation problem; but will most likely lead to a depression. Or, try and pull the economy and assets higher by once again borrowing and printing multiple trillions of dollars, which will send the rate of inflation skyrocketing from its 40-year high. That will risk destroying confidence in the USD and any faith that remains in the bond market. Therefore, the stock market and economy would collapse anyway as inexorably rising inflation pulls yields on sovereign, municipal and corporate bonds ever higher.
Skeptics will insist the bears never give up. But what will be the tipping point?
The Michigan gov tested positive for covid with a statement that her symptoms are reduced due to vaccines & boosters.
Has anyone seen a study that proves this with the current version of the virus? Remember when the “experts” downplayed the use of HCQ and Ivermectin because there wasn’t a double blind study?
BTW – I’m in the no-vax control group and my C19 symptoms in late April 22 were mild (slight fever, cough, and fatigue).
I’ve seen the Moiseyev many times, although not recently, and my impression is that whenever someone is actually dancing and supposedly playing an instrument, the instrument-playing is fake.
Sometimes, though, they have real musicians on stage, but although they might walk a bit they don’t dance. For example, this charming dance.
neo’s video was great, as was Pa Cat’s. Thanks to both!
Put me in the camp that believes the accordion player is not playing. The ins and outs don’t match the notes and his fingers rarely move. But very impressive, none the less!
“The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them down between the millstones of taxation and inflation.” Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
liz the vaxxed often console themselves by claiming it would have been worse without jabs and boosts.
I’m not aware of any proof to back it up but I don’t have a refutation either.
JimNorCal:
There’s plenty of proof. I’ve written about that proof many times both in posts here and in comments. I’m not going to do all that work all over again now.
I have never seen a study for the most recent strain, however. But it’s been shown over and over again for previous strains that the shots result in milder cases on the whole, although I think that with the more recent strains they don’t reduce the number of cases in those who have had the shots.
I have found that the articles that purport to prove it’s not true use faulty number-crunching, and I’ve discussed some of that on this blog, too.
If you want to see some of the articles on Omicron and vaccines – which I just found by doing a search – see this from this past February. There’s also this. I assume there are more; that’s just what I found in less than a minute.
The CBS news site had a story with this title:
“Grand jury declines to indict White woman who set off Emmett Till’s lynching”.
This title, to me, is poorly worded.
Yes, she said to some white men that somebody “whistled at her and acted inappropriately”, in a store that she was in, but she did not identify Emmett Till as the person who did these things.
The article’s title:
“Grand jury declines to indict White woman who set off Emmett Till’s lynching”, can suggest that 1) she identified Till as the person who did these actions, (+ it appears now that she did not), and 2) that she was working with people who wanted to- do violence or maybe deadly violence to Till, (and current news says -she was not).
According to the woman in question, Carolyn Donham, she says she did not know that the people who were looking for Emmett Till, wanted to do violence to Till.
She says that she didn’t know that these people, who did the violent crimes + murder, were, in my words- out to do violent crimes to him or to anyone else in this event.
Rep Liz and other on Covid.
The current strains are too far unrelated to the first for the Orginal Vax to do any good. Best is exposure to Omicron (November in SA, January in the US.)
This gives broadest immune recognition, while boosters of the original Vax are too narrow and likely also prime the immune system to respond reactively to minute exposure.
RNA viruses evolve rapidly, and this likely lab made and enhanced for humans does just that.
I’ve ceased using Dr John Campbell’s daily YT and very timely updates. The Mich gov is making stuff up, or more likely regurgitating made up stuff by our evil health overlords who refuse to admit that Vax effectiveness declines with time (6 months at first), and even shorter with successive “boosters.” (Although, some protection against deathly outcomes might be retained — and for some, maybe long term, even years — again, SEARCH Campbell on YT. He likely covers that point in his many, many vids since the Omicron variant.)
In the world beyond the Brandon Bananna Republic the Ukrainians gave Vlad a little surprise: boom, boom in Crimea. Enough to make Vlad feint?
Ukrainians degrading Vlad’s Crimean air power that would be needed
for a defense of Kerson, or necessary for a spoiling counteroffensive by Vlad against the Ukrainians?
I love the Moiseyev ballet, and they do have lovely smiles, but the camera keeps cutting to their faces when I want to see their feet.
@ JohnTyler – watching them dance makes my entire body hurt.
om. Ammunition is designed to be difficult to make explode except as designed. Indeed, many artillery shells are stored without the fuses, which are inserted later, depending on the tactical need.
Small arms ammo cooks off like popcorn on ‘roids.
While using the enemy’s own stored energy against him is an attractive proposition–see Guns of Navarone–it takes a lot of luck when it’s ammo.
One big explosion….and a similar one some distance away….was the delivery of a large amount of energy, not the guerilla’s lunch box with two pounds of C4 and a timer next to the ammo locker.
It would be interesting to see if somebody could time the explosion to the fraction to see if the explosion was high-order (warhead((s)), or lower order…propellant. Those are usually stored separately.
Richard Aubrey:
Indeed about things going boom only when you want them to. Sympathetic dentonations and
insensitive high explosives are a thing.
Carolyn Donham, then Carolyn Bryant, operated a general store with other family members in Money, Mississippi. She had an exchange one day with a youth over the counter which was disagreeable to her. What he actually did and said to her we cannot know because there were only two people present. We do know it was something out of the ordinary, as she had exchanges with black youths every day; most of the store’s customers were black. (By some accounts from disinterested parties, she was perturbed in real time). Her husband and brother-in-law were out of town that day and found out about the incident on their return. How they found out is not altogether certain, as all the witnesses were interested parties. (By some accounts, Carolyn Bryand and her brother-in-law’s wife elected to let the matter drop, the children in the family let the cat out of the bag). Her husband and brother-in-law responded by tracking down the youth in question, kidnapping him, and beating him to death. There are satisfactory eyewitnesses that there were other people in Bryant and Milam’s truck when Till was kidnapped, but their identity has never been established. The two men were prosecuted and Carolyn Bryant offered testimony at their trial. She may have told the truth, or she may have embellished the event. She was an interested witness so not altogether reliable. The jury let Bryant and Milam off, but the town ostracized them when a Look magazine article about the case was published; Bryant and Milam had agreed to answer questions from the reporter and bragged about the murder. The men are long dead, as is Mrs. Milam. (Both women eventually divorced their husbands).
It’s a reasonable wager this woman was an accomplice of some sort to the abduction and a reasonable wager she perjured herself at trial. However, that is entirely speculative. There is no basis for commencing an investigation of a an 88 year old woman over a crime which occurred 67 years ago. If Mississippi’s penal code is of the modal type, any prosecution would be time-barred now and would have been time-barred 60 years ago, unless you had evidence that she was a conspirator.
This is all too stupid.
To Art Deco,
Thanks for reply about that case.
I very much agree.
: )
John Wilcox –
Yeah, the DCI crew has come a long way since the days when people in A Real Marching Band would refer to them as Dumb and Bungle Corps.
Personally, I think they’ve gone overboard on the showmanship. The precision and the music is impressive enough without all the flag wavers. That stuff can add decoration, but a lot of the time it gets in the way.
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I find anything the Moiseyev dance company does just amazing, but I cannot figure out how the kneecaps of the male dancers are still attached to their knees.
My knees hurt just watching those guys.
JohnTyler: You think the male dancers’ knees get a workout in this ballet, you should watch them in “Yablochko,” which is part of a “Naval Suite” called “A Day on the Ship.” Note that in addition to working the knee joints, these dancers do high kicks as well, at one point looking like a line of male Rockettes. The part that I found really remarkable, though, begins at 2:05, when one of the sailors plays an accordion solo while dancing. That requires an uncommon ability to multitask!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K21yj2lEgrA&ab_channel=%D0%93%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B1%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%86%D0%B0%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%98%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%8F%D0%9C%D0%BE%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B0
(Sorry that the link looks like gibberish because that’s what YouTube does with Cyrillic characters– maybe Neo can fix it).
Song of the Day [Oscar Peterson Trio, Night Train — 1963]: Hymn to Freedom
Andy McCarthy has something up at NRO on the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago. Anyone want to check it out and report back?
I’d be surprised if there was a noticeable lack of outrage and a lot of “Well, they must have a good reason for this.”
Mike
re: Andy McC
Practice using the phrase “Good German”. I think we have a lot of it ahead …
The dance is so beautiful … so traditional … so approving of simple care and attraction between male and female. It feels like a rare occurrence these days.
This reminds me of 25 brides for 25 brothers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbzJtP75NqM
Pa+Cat
I don’t think the dancer is actually PLAYING the accordian. I think he is just pretending to play it. I have to say that he is doing a much better job than a lot of faking I have seen — he does move the bellows. But his hands don’t seem to move on the keys or buttons.
Golly, agree about the knees.
And those girls can SMILE.
What is interesting is that, individual talent aside, none of them got tangled up with others.
Re zJimNorCal—
I only enjoy gallows Humor accompanied by real hangings. But given the Class War dimensions we face, joyful, blood spurting guillotines are Truly Just.
These people are actually playing instruments while they are moving.
Drum Corps International (DCI)
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=bluecoats+2014+Tilt&docid=608000252370356821&mid=4CB08BEC82E978F7417F4CB08BEC82E978F7417F&view=detail&FORM=VIRE
There’s a lot of bad news out there.
“Turning back to the US, the next recession, which is likely to occur in ’22, will cause solvency concerns to spike as revenue collapses and the National Debt-to-Federal-income ratio soars. However, this time around the Fed’s ability to monetize away collapsing asset prices and crumbling economic growth will be fettered by an inflation rate that is already many times greater than it is comfortable with.
That leaves the Fed and Treasury with a dangerous dilemma: allow asset prices and the economy to implode, which will certainly fix the inflation problem; but will most likely lead to a depression. Or, try and pull the economy and assets higher by once again borrowing and printing multiple trillions of dollars, which will send the rate of inflation skyrocketing from its 40-year high. That will risk destroying confidence in the USD and any faith that remains in the bond market. Therefore, the stock market and economy would collapse anyway as inexorably rising inflation pulls yields on sovereign, municipal and corporate bonds ever higher.
Skeptics will insist the bears never give up. But what will be the tipping point?
https://invesbrain.com/the-great-reconciliation-of-asset-prices-in-2022/
The Michigan gov tested positive for covid with a statement that her symptoms are reduced due to vaccines & boosters.
Has anyone seen a study that proves this with the current version of the virus? Remember when the “experts” downplayed the use of HCQ and Ivermectin because there wasn’t a double blind study?
BTW – I’m in the no-vax control group and my C19 symptoms in late April 22 were mild (slight fever, cough, and fatigue).
I’ve seen the Moiseyev many times, although not recently, and my impression is that whenever someone is actually dancing and supposedly playing an instrument, the instrument-playing is fake.
Sometimes, though, they have real musicians on stage, but although they might walk a bit they don’t dance. For example, this charming dance.
Another data point.
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/denmark-ends-covid-vaccinations-for/comments
Denmark ends mRNA vaxxing for 18 and under. If you are a special case and get a doctor to sign off, exceptions can be made.
neo’s video was great, as was Pa Cat’s. Thanks to both!
Put me in the camp that believes the accordion player is not playing. The ins and outs don’t match the notes and his fingers rarely move. But very impressive, none the less!
Come on! How can this compare with our Super Bowl ‘shows’?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7CbRdxs55L4
Rap concerts? Rave events?
Brian E,
A deep depression is necessary to rescue earth and humanity from man-made climate change. Serious sacrifices will have to be made by the bourgeoisie.
“ACLU Demands that the U.N. Force the United States to Pay Reparations”
https://amgreatness.com/2022/08/09/aclu-demands-that-the-u-n-force-the-united-states-to-pay-reparations/
“The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them down between the millstones of taxation and inflation.” Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
liz the vaxxed often console themselves by claiming it would have been worse without jabs and boosts.
I’m not aware of any proof to back it up but I don’t have a refutation either.
JimNorCal:
There’s plenty of proof. I’ve written about that proof many times both in posts here and in comments. I’m not going to do all that work all over again now.
I have never seen a study for the most recent strain, however. But it’s been shown over and over again for previous strains that the shots result in milder cases on the whole, although I think that with the more recent strains they don’t reduce the number of cases in those who have had the shots.
I have found that the articles that purport to prove it’s not true use faulty number-crunching, and I’ve discussed some of that on this blog, too.
If you want to see some of the articles on Omicron and vaccines – which I just found by doing a search – see this from this past February. There’s also this. I assume there are more; that’s just what I found in less than a minute.
The CBS news site had a story with this title:
“Grand jury declines to indict White woman who set off Emmett Till’s lynching”.
This title, to me, is poorly worded.
Yes, she said to some white men that somebody “whistled at her and acted inappropriately”, in a store that she was in, but she did not identify Emmett Till as the person who did these things.
The article’s title:
“Grand jury declines to indict White woman who set off Emmett Till’s lynching”, can suggest that 1) she identified Till as the person who did these actions, (+ it appears now that she did not), and 2) that she was working with people who wanted to- do violence or maybe deadly violence to Till, (and current news says -she was not).
According to the woman in question, Carolyn Donham, she says she did not know that the people who were looking for Emmett Till, wanted to do violence to Till.
She says that she didn’t know that these people, who did the violent crimes + murder, were, in my words- out to do violent crimes to him or to anyone else in this event.
Rep Liz and other on Covid.
The current strains are too far unrelated to the first for the Orginal Vax to do any good. Best is exposure to Omicron (November in SA, January in the US.)
This gives broadest immune recognition, while boosters of the original Vax are too narrow and likely also prime the immune system to respond reactively to minute exposure.
RNA viruses evolve rapidly, and this likely lab made and enhanced for humans does just that.
I’ve ceased using Dr John Campbell’s daily YT and very timely updates. The Mich gov is making stuff up, or more likely regurgitating made up stuff by our evil health overlords who refuse to admit that Vax effectiveness declines with time (6 months at first), and even shorter with successive “boosters.” (Although, some protection against deathly outcomes might be retained — and for some, maybe long term, even years — again, SEARCH Campbell on YT. He likely covers that point in his many, many vids since the Omicron variant.)
In the world beyond the Brandon Bananna Republic the Ukrainians gave Vlad a little surprise: boom, boom in Crimea. Enough to make Vlad feint?
https://redstate.com/streiff/2022/08/09/airbase-in-russian-occupied-crimea-hit-by-devastating-ukrainian-attack-n609575
Ukrainians degrading Vlad’s Crimean air power that would be needed
for a defense of Kerson, or necessary for a spoiling counteroffensive by Vlad against the Ukrainians?
I love the Moiseyev ballet, and they do have lovely smiles, but the camera keeps cutting to their faces when I want to see their feet.
@ JohnTyler – watching them dance makes my entire body hurt.
om. Ammunition is designed to be difficult to make explode except as designed. Indeed, many artillery shells are stored without the fuses, which are inserted later, depending on the tactical need.
Small arms ammo cooks off like popcorn on ‘roids.
While using the enemy’s own stored energy against him is an attractive proposition–see Guns of Navarone–it takes a lot of luck when it’s ammo.
One big explosion….and a similar one some distance away….was the delivery of a large amount of energy, not the guerilla’s lunch box with two pounds of C4 and a timer next to the ammo locker.
It would be interesting to see if somebody could time the explosion to the fraction to see if the explosion was high-order (warhead((s)), or lower order…propellant. Those are usually stored separately.
Richard Aubrey:
Indeed about things going boom only when you want them to. Sympathetic dentonations and
insensitive high explosives are a thing.
Carolyn Donham, then Carolyn Bryant, operated a general store with other family members in Money, Mississippi. She had an exchange one day with a youth over the counter which was disagreeable to her. What he actually did and said to her we cannot know because there were only two people present. We do know it was something out of the ordinary, as she had exchanges with black youths every day; most of the store’s customers were black. (By some accounts from disinterested parties, she was perturbed in real time). Her husband and brother-in-law were out of town that day and found out about the incident on their return. How they found out is not altogether certain, as all the witnesses were interested parties. (By some accounts, Carolyn Bryand and her brother-in-law’s wife elected to let the matter drop, the children in the family let the cat out of the bag). Her husband and brother-in-law responded by tracking down the youth in question, kidnapping him, and beating him to death. There are satisfactory eyewitnesses that there were other people in Bryant and Milam’s truck when Till was kidnapped, but their identity has never been established. The two men were prosecuted and Carolyn Bryant offered testimony at their trial. She may have told the truth, or she may have embellished the event. She was an interested witness so not altogether reliable. The jury let Bryant and Milam off, but the town ostracized them when a Look magazine article about the case was published; Bryant and Milam had agreed to answer questions from the reporter and bragged about the murder. The men are long dead, as is Mrs. Milam. (Both women eventually divorced their husbands).
It’s a reasonable wager this woman was an accomplice of some sort to the abduction and a reasonable wager she perjured herself at trial. However, that is entirely speculative. There is no basis for commencing an investigation of a an 88 year old woman over a crime which occurred 67 years ago. If Mississippi’s penal code is of the modal type, any prosecution would be time-barred now and would have been time-barred 60 years ago, unless you had evidence that she was a conspirator.
This is all too stupid.
To Art Deco,
Thanks for reply about that case.
I very much agree.
: )
John Wilcox –
Yeah, the DCI crew has come a long way since the days when people in A Real Marching Band would refer to them as Dumb and Bungle Corps.
Personally, I think they’ve gone overboard on the showmanship. The precision and the music is impressive enough without all the flag wavers. That stuff can add decoration, but a lot of the time it gets in the way.