And on another note, the GA indictments are a sham. But they could be the ones that do the most damage. I truly despair for our country. Hillary laughs and we weep. I fear that it will only get worse.
Best part of visiting Tx is their bbq!
It’s so easy to over eat…
These guys are kind of funny and there is some good Barbecue in Texas, mostly beef. You don’t need to fill your plate up that full, as shown in the video, and eat like rabid wolverines because just a bit can fill you up and you can then take your leftovers home and keep nibbling for a day or two.
The two best places I have eaten Barbecue here in Texas are the original Rudy’s in Leon Springs just on the North edge of San Antonio and Lum’s in Junction, Texas in the middle of ‘no where’ on I-10 nestled in the Hill Country which is perhaps the best I have ever eaten.
Don’t watch this when you’re hungry!
If you’re ever in Chicago, get to Green Street Meats in the west loop. As good as I’ve ever had – and I’ve had a lot!
…original Rudy’s
OldTexan:
My favorite BBQ ribs in Abq are Rudy’s. I love the motto:
____________________________
I DIDN’T CLAW MY WAY TO THE TOP OF THE FOOD CHAIN TO EAT VEGETABLES.
I am reminded of being in line at a Wal-Mart, when two visitors from Ohio asked me where to find good barbecue in my TX town. I told them to drive down the road and pull into the first barbecue joint you see. A joint that doesn’t serve good barbecue won’t last. Though some good local barbecue joints didn’t survive the Covid retail crash.
Down here many a farm owner has a BBQ set up. When I had my farm, it was a hollowed out old fridge I got at the dump with a sixteen or so inch iron pipe connected by furnace ducting welded to one end and a gate to the other. Every once in a while for a day you’d throw in some hickory branchlets.
Not sure how, but my neighbor Tommy Thompson always knew when it was going and would ‘drop by’. He had the farm next door but his house was over 1/4 mile up the road. Good guy. I never minded ’cause he didn’t care if my dog played with his Angus herd.
“ The two best places I have eaten Barbecue here in Texas are the original Rudy’s in Leon Springs just on the North edge of San Antonio and Lum’s in Junction, Texas in the middle of ‘no where’ on I-10 nestled in the Hill Country which is perhaps the best I have ever eaten.”
Ran into an obvious Texan with an Austin T shirt on. Asked him if he had ever eaten at the Salt Lick, south of town. Of course.
who appears to be continuing her “detransitioning” from the Left
A reminder that people can change, even those most set in their beliefs. I find her criticism of his problem with women interesting — my takeaway, he doesn’t treat them gallantly 🙂 Hey, I thought equality was a thing.
In other news — ” Biden Promises Maui Fire Survivors $700 Per Household”
China and “The Mandate of Heaven”
Prior to the communist takeover of China historians used to talk about traditional China’s “dynastic cycle” in which a dynamic new leader forms a new dynasty, the dynasty prospers for a while and then, just before that dynasty falls and is replaced by a new one, you would see all sorts of signs— natural disasters, famine, disease, economic disasters, rebellions— which signified that the waning dynasty had lost “the Mandate of Heaven.”
Well, I’m seeing an awful lot of stories about all sorts of disasters which are afflicting China, and I’m wondering if a lot of Chinese are interpreting these disasters—floods, disease, economic disasters, the real estate market collapse, banks failing, “empty “ghost cities,” collapsing “tofu-dreg” high rises, unusual public protests—as signs that the current Chinese Communist government has lost the Mandate of Heaven?
P.S. I’m sure that Communist leaders are very much aware of the idea of the “Mandate of Heaven,” and are trying to prevent such a perception from spreading, but I wonder if they themselves don’t have a sneaking suspicion that they have lost it.
Aristotelian rhetoric prof and diversity traier, who is black, speaks out against DEI, in a 30 minute interview with John Stossel. His colleague’s online do mob him for his wrong think. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZSusqfJeD4
He indicts victimhood mongering. “It’s becoming more the norm in my field.”
the late Roy spence of yale, said china operates on a three generation cycle, with xi being in the last generation
Snow on Pine — the novel idea that China could tank, or be tanking seems to be afoot. Eight months ago, the smart money piled into Chinese stocks because a post-Covid lockdown era should see a rapid return to productivity
and economic growth.
But if it happened it was brief. And now economic uncertainties in the face of political demands for certainty, at least of perceptions, are being tested.
The BIG question— what can shock China out of the malaise?
Financial historian Russell Napier believes “financial repression”
as a policy is manifest. They’re and in the overly indebted West like the US.
In simplest terms, this means muddling through or “kicking the can” down the road and pretending that the real problems don’t exist. Napier’s May Tele-conference talk to an Indian conference of investment and financial advisors is mind-blowing.
He also explains with his theory of financial repression why the next US recession, long expected 12-18 months ago and now not visible on the horizon by the Fed, does not yet appear.
Let me illustrate with some examples: these INDICATORS of recession have failed. HIGH interest rates crash the stock market. FAIL. The long inverted yield curve signals recession — FAIL. Liquidation affects stock market valuation. Liquidity has declined — yet risk assets keep rising
in price! Why?
Off that topic. Universities should consider ‘financing’ student loans using their huge endowments. Might be a lot less defaults and it would relieve non-student ‘average Joe’ from paying the defaults.
Memphis Minnie’s is a BBQ joint in the San Francisco Haight district. While I was around it was hip with the young SF folks. I claim no authority on BBQ, but I thought it was pretty good.
Minnie’s did push the odd notion that fancy sake went well with BBQ — a combination which never made sense to me.
Robert Kennedy Jr said one truly ominous thing in history Tucker interview.
In the segment 58-60m, he says that he bumped into Trump SoS Mike Pompeo in Las Vegas, and he and their entourages had dinner.
Just before dining, Pompeo shared certain regrets about not doing big reform of the CIA. And to doorstop his earlier Kennedy assassination conversation, I think, he adds that Pompeo told Kennedy that the no one in the top echelon leading the CIA embrace America’s democratic values.
(H/T Dan Bingino today)
I take this to mean that CIA-The Deep State opposes the free election of a President they disapprove of, like Trump. Edward Snowden was right anout the dangerous powers of the Surveillance State. And thus, today, we have a hyper-powered Big Brother bureaucracy controlling “our” government. For our own good, naturally.
Unfortunately, Tucker seems to not have fleshed this detail out any further.
So. THERE we find ourselves.
I just finished listening to Tucker’s show.
Kennedy said a lot of interesting things, and much of it appeared to be new to Tucker.
The interview starts with what is basically a rehash of the Russia-Ukraine argument that played out here at Neo’s for months, although with a few new allegations
Rough time stamps per my notes:
37:00 Fauci’s bioweapons labs & Wuhan Flu aka Covid;
46:00 assassination of his uncle JFK (he believes there actually is evidence the CIA instigated it);
54:00 for more on the intel agencies and the Pompeo meeting;
1:00:00 for his change of view on closing the border, from formerly opposed to now adamantly in favor, mostly because of the horrible exploitation of the migrants and the associated shredding of the American wage structure and welfare net;
and 1:11:00 for a very moving explanation of why he is running for President.
I could be wrong, but I would think a business Titan like Elon Musk could come up with a better name than “X” to replace “Twitter.”
It certainly is different and minimalist!
@ T-Rex > “an interesting article from Naomi Wolf, who appears to be continuing her “detransitioning” from the Left”
Thanks for the link to Wolf’s post.
I have commented on two other threads with excerpts relevant to Neo’s topics.
Wolf covered a lot of territory in her analysis of the indoctrination that gave her a “Pavlovian” distaste for, even hatred of, Trump, and how it was countered by actually seeing and hearing him in person, and researching some of the misinformation from the media that had conditioned her response.
Her prose is a bit effusive, but her analysis — based on personal observation and experience — was trenchant.
I could be wrong, but I would think a business Titan like Elon Musk could come up with a better name than “X” to replace “Twitter.”
It certainly is different and minimalist!
–Jordan Rivers
__________________________
It is minimalist and that’s sufficient answer to the origin question.
Yet as a silverback computer guy I remember Ted Nelson, an extraordinary, but largely forgotten computer visionary from the 60s and 70s.
Nelson made a difference. A large swath of the people who made the personal computer revolution happen were influenced by Nelson.
Nelson foresaw hypertext, hyperlinking and the worldwide web. He envisioned a vast project he called “Xanadu” which store all the text content in the world, the links between *everything* and provide access for some micro-miniscule scale which would provide some remuneration to writers.
As part of “Xanadu” there would be highway network of “Xanadu” access points, where one could drive in, pull over, log on and jack in to all the hyperlinked information.
Just look for the sign of the “Golden X.”
@ huxley > maybe Musk knows that story too.
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You ought to see what they call Chili in the UK.
And on another note, the GA indictments are a sham. But they could be the ones that do the most damage. I truly despair for our country. Hillary laughs and we weep. I fear that it will only get worse.
Best part of visiting Tx is their bbq!
It’s so easy to over eat…
These guys are kind of funny and there is some good Barbecue in Texas, mostly beef. You don’t need to fill your plate up that full, as shown in the video, and eat like rabid wolverines because just a bit can fill you up and you can then take your leftovers home and keep nibbling for a day or two.
The two best places I have eaten Barbecue here in Texas are the original Rudy’s in Leon Springs just on the North edge of San Antonio and Lum’s in Junction, Texas in the middle of ‘no where’ on I-10 nestled in the Hill Country which is perhaps the best I have ever eaten.
Don’t watch this when you’re hungry!
If you’re ever in Chicago, get to Green Street Meats in the west loop. As good as I’ve ever had – and I’ve had a lot!
…original Rudy’s
OldTexan:
My favorite BBQ ribs in Abq are Rudy’s. I love the motto:
____________________________
I DIDN’T CLAW MY WAY TO THE TOP OF THE FOOD CHAIN TO EAT VEGETABLES.
I am reminded of being in line at a Wal-Mart, when two visitors from Ohio asked me where to find good barbecue in my TX town. I told them to drive down the road and pull into the first barbecue joint you see. A joint that doesn’t serve good barbecue won’t last. Though some good local barbecue joints didn’t survive the Covid retail crash.
Down here many a farm owner has a BBQ set up. When I had my farm, it was a hollowed out old fridge I got at the dump with a sixteen or so inch iron pipe connected by furnace ducting welded to one end and a gate to the other. Every once in a while for a day you’d throw in some hickory branchlets.
Not sure how, but my neighbor Tommy Thompson always knew when it was going and would ‘drop by’. He had the farm next door but his house was over 1/4 mile up the road. Good guy. I never minded ’cause he didn’t care if my dog played with his Angus herd.
“ The two best places I have eaten Barbecue here in Texas are the original Rudy’s in Leon Springs just on the North edge of San Antonio and Lum’s in Junction, Texas in the middle of ‘no where’ on I-10 nestled in the Hill Country which is perhaps the best I have ever eaten.”
Ran into an obvious Texan with an Austin T shirt on. Asked him if he had ever eaten at the Salt Lick, south of town. Of course.
Neo, an interesting article from Naomi Wolf, who appears to be continuing her “detransitioning” from the Left. T
https://naomiwolf.substack.com/p/on-hearing-president-trump-in-person?r=b9bca
who appears to be continuing her “detransitioning” from the Left
A reminder that people can change, even those most set in their beliefs. I find her criticism of his problem with women interesting — my takeaway, he doesn’t treat them gallantly 🙂 Hey, I thought equality was a thing.
Next up, climate change.
Part of — The rest of the Maui story:
https://www.civilbeat.org/2023/08/a-state-official-refused-to-release-water-for-west-maui-fires-until-it-was-too-late/
In other news — ” Biden Promises Maui Fire Survivors $700 Per Household”
China and “The Mandate of Heaven”
Prior to the communist takeover of China historians used to talk about traditional China’s “dynastic cycle” in which a dynamic new leader forms a new dynasty, the dynasty prospers for a while and then, just before that dynasty falls and is replaced by a new one, you would see all sorts of signs— natural disasters, famine, disease, economic disasters, rebellions— which signified that the waning dynasty had lost “the Mandate of Heaven.”
Well, I’m seeing an awful lot of stories about all sorts of disasters which are afflicting China, and I’m wondering if a lot of Chinese are interpreting these disasters—floods, disease, economic disasters, the real estate market collapse, banks failing, “empty “ghost cities,” collapsing “tofu-dreg” high rises, unusual public protests—as signs that the current Chinese Communist government has lost the Mandate of Heaven?
P.S. I’m sure that Communist leaders are very much aware of the idea of the “Mandate of Heaven,” and are trying to prevent such a perception from spreading, but I wonder if they themselves don’t have a sneaking suspicion that they have lost it.
Aristotelian rhetoric prof and diversity traier, who is black, speaks out against DEI, in a 30 minute interview with John Stossel. His colleague’s online do mob him for his wrong think.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZSusqfJeD4
He indicts victimhood mongering. “It’s becoming more the norm in my field.”
the late Roy spence of yale, said china operates on a three generation cycle, with xi being in the last generation
California moves to Maine:
https://www.themainewire.com/2023/08/millsvilles-the-maine-wire-visits-portlands-drug-infested-tent-cities/
Snow on Pine — the novel idea that China could tank, or be tanking seems to be afoot. Eight months ago, the smart money piled into Chinese stocks because a post-Covid lockdown era should see a rapid return to productivity
and economic growth.
But if it happened it was brief. And now economic uncertainties in the face of political demands for certainty, at least of perceptions, are being tested.
The BIG question— what can shock China out of the malaise?
Financial historian Russell Napier believes “financial repression”
as a policy is manifest. They’re and in the overly indebted West like the US.
In simplest terms, this means muddling through or “kicking the can” down the road and pretending that the real problems don’t exist. Napier’s May Tele-conference talk to an Indian conference of investment and financial advisors is mind-blowing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uil8IfiIcg&t=0s
He also explains with his theory of financial repression why the next US recession, long expected 12-18 months ago and now not visible on the horizon by the Fed, does not yet appear.
Let me illustrate with some examples: these INDICATORS of recession have failed. HIGH interest rates crash the stock market. FAIL. The long inverted yield curve signals recession — FAIL. Liquidation affects stock market valuation. Liquidity has declined — yet risk assets keep rising
in price! Why?
SEE financial repression by Napier.
Fury as Harvard University encourages students to apply for food stamps from government despite $53bn endowment https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12406973/Harvard-University-food-stamps-endowment.html
Off that topic. Universities should consider ‘financing’ student loans using their huge endowments. Might be a lot less defaults and it would relieve non-student ‘average Joe’ from paying the defaults.
Memphis Minnie’s is a BBQ joint in the San Francisco Haight district. While I was around it was hip with the young SF folks. I claim no authority on BBQ, but I thought it was pretty good.
Minnie’s did push the odd notion that fancy sake went well with BBQ — a combination which never made sense to me.
Robert Kennedy Jr said one truly ominous thing in history Tucker interview.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIDpANpGEMU
In the segment 58-60m, he says that he bumped into Trump SoS Mike Pompeo in Las Vegas, and he and their entourages had dinner.
Just before dining, Pompeo shared certain regrets about not doing big reform of the CIA. And to doorstop his earlier Kennedy assassination conversation, I think, he adds that Pompeo told Kennedy that the no one in the top echelon leading the CIA embrace America’s democratic values.
(H/T Dan Bingino today)
I take this to mean that CIA-The Deep State opposes the free election of a President they disapprove of, like Trump. Edward Snowden was right anout the dangerous powers of the Surveillance State. And thus, today, we have a hyper-powered Big Brother bureaucracy controlling “our” government. For our own good, naturally.
Unfortunately, Tucker seems to not have fleshed this detail out any further.
So. THERE we find ourselves.
I just finished listening to Tucker’s show.
Kennedy said a lot of interesting things, and much of it appeared to be new to Tucker.
The interview starts with what is basically a rehash of the Russia-Ukraine argument that played out here at Neo’s for months, although with a few new allegations
Rough time stamps per my notes:
37:00 Fauci’s bioweapons labs & Wuhan Flu aka Covid;
46:00 assassination of his uncle JFK (he believes there actually is evidence the CIA instigated it);
54:00 for more on the intel agencies and the Pompeo meeting;
1:00:00 for his change of view on closing the border, from formerly opposed to now adamantly in favor, mostly because of the horrible exploitation of the migrants and the associated shredding of the American wage structure and welfare net;
and 1:11:00 for a very moving explanation of why he is running for President.
And the Brits like Waffle House too; how could they not?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VQWuZU-AIE
I wonder if they will do Buc-ee’s next?
https://babylonbee.com/video/californians-move-to-texas–episode-5-buc-ees
I could be wrong, but I would think a business Titan like Elon Musk could come up with a better name than “X” to replace “Twitter.”
It certainly is different and minimalist!
@ T-Rex > “an interesting article from Naomi Wolf, who appears to be continuing her “detransitioning” from the Left”
Thanks for the link to Wolf’s post.
I have commented on two other threads with excerpts relevant to Neo’s topics.
Wolf covered a lot of territory in her analysis of the indoctrination that gave her a “Pavlovian” distaste for, even hatred of, Trump, and how it was countered by actually seeing and hearing him in person, and researching some of the misinformation from the media that had conditioned her response.
Her prose is a bit effusive, but her analysis — based on personal observation and experience — was trenchant.
That’s some peak carnivore right there.
Meanwhile,
Male Powerlifter Sets New Women’s Record During 2023 Western Canadian Championship
Such incredible POWER-POWER-POWER!
I could be wrong, but I would think a business Titan like Elon Musk could come up with a better name than “X” to replace “Twitter.”
It certainly is different and minimalist!
–Jordan Rivers
__________________________
It is minimalist and that’s sufficient answer to the origin question.
Yet as a silverback computer guy I remember Ted Nelson, an extraordinary, but largely forgotten computer visionary from the 60s and 70s.
Nelson made a difference. A large swath of the people who made the personal computer revolution happen were influenced by Nelson.
Nelson foresaw hypertext, hyperlinking and the worldwide web. He envisioned a vast project he called “Xanadu” which store all the text content in the world, the links between *everything* and provide access for some micro-miniscule scale which would provide some remuneration to writers.
As part of “Xanadu” there would be highway network of “Xanadu” access points, where one could drive in, pull over, log on and jack in to all the hyperlinked information.
Just look for the sign of the “Golden X.”
@ huxley > maybe Musk knows that story too.