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Open thread 4/10/24 — 42 Comments

  1. It’s interesting that there’s still a fair number of elements that we have apparently yet to find a natural source for. When I was learning about it in school it was handwaved that everything between lithium (3) and plutonium (94) came from stars (stellar nucleosynthesis) and everything beyond that was man made in a particle accelerator or whatever. Dying stars, merging neutron stars, and cosmic ray fission weren’t even talked about, I assume because those processes weren’t known about or understood back then.

  2. I stopped watching him a long time ago, before he “left” FOX. He knows nothing about Foreign Affairs or how International Relations work. He is an Isolationist, and not even mildly.

  3. Well i disagree on the particulars in gaza but lets look at the long war weve engaged in since 2001, did it benefit christians or empower moslems did they in fact inshrine islam as the official state religion in afghanistan you see that noah feldmans doing but not only him

    Did those that rose to the top ranks of the military hayden milley austin have anything but contempt for the war fighters and respect for the enemy faith they are ready and eager to wage holy war on the heartland to purge the services of believers to pervert the nature of the services themselves to make them unable to fight an adversary

    Look at how general flynn has been treated as an exemplar you may argue with some of his policy prescriptions but he was most accurate in 2012-2014

    Hayden failed up from nsa to cia to well paged deep state drone willing to cripple our defenses milley and austin presided over the greatest capitulation sincd 1841 in that region there was no rebuke just on to the next conflict

  4. Lets look at the competent authorities like graham who wanted to ban any discussion of islams fault who applauded the arab spring which toppled friendly regimes by other means in egypt libya tunisia was that in our interest, i would say not
    Thats why i found his crocodile tears about benghazi just that he unleashed the whir
    wind that claimed ambassador stevens that bled out west africa down to the niger river delta

  5. I have been reading Neo regularly since sometime in 2007. Almost every day. Back when I had a Facebook account I would sometimes copy paste a link to one of her articles, with usually a comment that ” Article may open in the comments section so you may have to scroll up to read the article. ”
    Occasionally over the years, usually while driving, I have listened to a lady named Janet Marshall, who currently has a radio show called ” In the Market(R)with Janet Marshall.” Her format is mostly interviews with various authors, speakers,etc.
    One of her guest yesterday was a Psychiatrist named David Carreon, MD who has written a book called ” The Opposite of Depression”. One of the things they talked about was the use of TMS,Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in cases of severe depression. Very interesting. His book https://www.amazon.com/Opposite-Depression-Suicidal-Patients-Flourish/dp/1496455363?ref=d6k_applink_bb_dls&dplnkId=16256cde-2746-47f1-b405-ab960c11f0f2&dplnkId=e3d957ed-d50d-4761-8f77-1bf49b8606b3

  6. Whose been in charge the last 20 years who made the most progress in four in a host of areas including suppressing islamic state al queda et al

  7. It is interesting how many content creators use guitars placed on stands or hung on or leaning against walls, as part of the decor or as set decoration embellishments.

    Of course, one might argue that these objects are personal possessions which just happen to be in the background of a home rec room or office studio, and not deliberate backdrop displays.

    Ward Caroll might be considered a case where they are incidentally included and not on deliberate display. But I doubt that that is the case even with him.

    Guitars, it must be admitted are among the most beautiful of musical instruments. Especially the classic archtop jazz boxes.

  8. well ward was a naval aviator and thriller writer, before he got into the podcast business,
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvkfMUCqh-k

    another former aviator turned author, stephen coonts has his protagonist jake grafton, mouth the sentiments when he is on yankee station, what was he and his brethren, doing
    in this war, when reprimanded by his CO for an unwarranted bombing run, the lesson is apparently the rules are preeminent, but the rules don’t matter to the enemy, they break every one of the Conventions, Hamas gunmen get on trucks delivering supplies, and the IDF is supposed to stop, well thats a violation of some rule isn’t it, a boy Al Queda gunman, with Canadian residency, shoots a US Army medic Christopher Speer, and his short stint in detention, is rewarded by the prime minister who sees no quarrel in locking up truckers and street preachers,

  9. Re my previous comment, and ro repeat one made a long while back: the essential 4G package for a healthy male life. Guns, guitars, girls, and gin. But, not necessarily in that order.

    [Couldn’t figure out how to work cars, sports or hunting using a “G” in there]

  10. miguel+cervantes on April 10, 2024 at 12:26 pm said:
    well ward was a naval aviator and thriller writer, before he got into the podcast business,
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvkfMUCqh-

    Mostly watched his technically oriented commentaries on the phasing out of the Tomcat and the old upgrade version question.

    He’s had some mildly interesting if not particularly informative uploads on the UAP business.

    I like his deadpan delivery well enough, but a little of it goes a long way.

  11. Spell check. My comments above were to have the name spelled ” Janet Parshall” . I caught it once where it changed the “P” to the more common ” M” but not every time.

    Sometimes spell check can be aggravating.

  12. gearshifts yes it’s not quite illiterative, when I was growing up, I couldn’t afford a car, but you have a whole generation of youth, who don’t want one at all, because any number of reasons, including groveling to the skydragon, re Guitars well the obama administration did go after one famous manufacturer, if memory serves, was not as inspiring, I did take a number of musical survey courses in High school and college
    survey courses do I suppose focus high on mozart and beethoven, and less to subsequent entries, I did enjoy Mr Hollands Opus,
    my own bout with musical education, that I’ve illustrated recently,

  13. …. another former aviator turned author, stephen coonts has his protagonist jake grafton, mouth the sentiments when he is on yankee station, what was he and his brethren, doing
    in this war, when reprimanded by his CO for an unwarranted bombing run, the lesson is apparently the rules are preeminent, but …

    Ha. Your comment puts me in mind of the video he uploaded on Robin Olds.

  14. Guitars well the obama administration did go after one famous manufacturer, if memory serves, ..

    It does. It was Gibson.

  15. I supposed the skill set to navigate a high performance aircraft and a highly tuned musical instrument, are similar, he was a RIO but he must have been trained as a pilot,

    of modern commercial musicians, I’m not terribly impressed, compared with those that came before, certainly those tech driven 80s efforts not so impressive, but compared to now,

  16. By the way, and speaking of Gibson, this is an historical “must see”.

    I do nowever apologize in advance that there is no chagrined mention of cultural appropriation, colonialism, slavery and exploitation, unearned privilege, or the destruction of sacred environment in the name of white vanity.

    How horrible it must have been to have lived in a world where egocentric people were so oblivious to the cosmic and human trauma which their depraved indifference, disinterest and disengagement from the lived experience of “the other” caused. They dared to live and go about their business as if they had a right to and a right to find gratification in the acts of producing and living; and as if they expected others to do the same as a matter of course.

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3-zOaOYB120&pp=ygUdR2lic29uIHByb21vdGlvbmFsIGZpbG0gMTk2MHM%3D

  17. I’ve complained to the wife unit that the spare room is full of guitars on stands and to please, please get them on the walls or something.

  18. I’ve complained to the wife unit that the spare room is full of guitars on stands and to please, please get them on the walls or something.

    Personally, I prefer ground stands to wall hangers when space isn’t a premium. But my little studio is too small so I had to hang everything on the wall.

  19. A assume this discussion is a reaction to Tucker Carlson’s interview of a Palestinean Christian pastor. It was a muddled mess and while I don’t think Tucker needs to be combative and I like that he let’s his guest speak, I couldn’t get a sense of what frame of reference the pastor was coming from. Basically he was saying that Israel persecuted Christians more than Hamas. The pastor lives in Bethlehem and should know that the Christian community has declined significantly under Palestinean rule.
    Victor Davis Hanson makes good points about the double standard we are holding Israel to using examples from Fallujah and even the Ukraine-Russia war.

    It was so lopsided I canceled my subscription to Carlson’s channel.

    The Ignorant Arguments Happening on the Right About Christians and Israel, with Victor Davis Hanson
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K59D_6KBC_s

  20. Guitar smashing reminds me of mother telling us kids to watch the Smothers Brothers because that group that smashes their instruments was going to be on. First time I saw The Who. Moon’s drum kit blew up.

  21. Looks like that Janet Parshall show I commented on earlier had a change of guest today.

  22. Brian E:

    Carlson was already headed in a bad direction while at Fox. I’d stopped crediting him quite a few years ago, especially on anything having to do with foreign policy. Since he left Fox, he’s gone further downhill. It appears in retrospect that Fox acted as a beneficial check on him, which I hadn’t realized till he left.

  23. }}} Haniyeh accusing Israel of acting in “the spirit of revenge and murder.”

    How DARE they!?!?!

    :-/

    /sarc off

  24. }}} West+TX+Intermediate+Crude — A more useful way of looking at the periodic table in present time

    I found this comment to be amusing:

    I was surprised that Sweden was the third most active discoverer.

    Doesn’t surprise me in the least, since there are 4 different elements, discovered from 1794 to 1878, named after one town in Sweden, “Ytterby”:
    Yttrium
    Terbium
    Ytterbium
    Erbium

    Additionally, Scandium, Holmium, Thulium, and Gadolinium can all trace their discovery to the same mine in Ytterby.

    Eight out of 92, just from one mine/quarry… not too shabby.

  25. DNW: [Couldn’t figure out how to work cars, sports or hunting using a “G” in there]
    How about: GTO, golf, and hunting Grizzlies?

    OBH: “… all trace their discovery to the same mine in Ytterby…”
    Any chance that mining area is actually a largish meteor site? Or are these chemicals now found in other locales, too, even if they were initially discovered in Yttergy?

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