My irrelevant question regarding the first House hearing on the January 6 insurrection is, what video projector are they using?
Listening to Ivanka’s brief comment reminded me of someone.
OMG… that’s it! Ivanka is Lydia from Breaking Bad!
https://youtu.be/apFR2OKKhlw
Having used a Richard Scarry image earlier today, by coincidence Tom the Dancing Bug is doing the same thing, but for a very different reason.
Jack Welch was a chemical engineer who thought he was the world’s greatest CEO. Many of his admirers agreed, but in hindsight he was a terrible executive. Like the far less accomplished Trump, Welch’s actions were extremely destructive.
To me, Welch’s management ideas were bogus on their face, especially the annual culling of the ranks, based upon the “stacked ranking” of employees. If a company lets go of the bottom 10% of its staff every year, even assuming valid criteria are used, competent employees will be lost. All you’re doing is providing talent for other companies to hire, and lowering morale in the process. Ultimately, productivity will decline, and that was exactly what happened at General Electric.
No, I don’t get any money if you buy Gelles’ book. I have no relationship with Amazon, other than being a customer for the past 26 years.
For Memorial Day, TCM is showing two John Sturges movies back to back. Bad Day at Black Rock, and the inspiration for TV’s Hogan’s Heroes (with a nod to Stalag 17), The Great Escape, which is still playing as I write this.
Something that stands out immediately in both movies is how artificial the sets and costumes are. For all the attention to detail put into the productions, their overall appearance is much too clean and new, as was typical in movies of the time. The hotel in Black Rock was made to seem old and worn, but it’s sitting on a freshly poured concrete foundation. The German POW camp in Escape is said in the story to be new, but nevertheless there is a Disney-esque fakeness to it, even inside of the tunnel as it’s being dug.
On Facebook, I’m seeing posts about the price paid for freedom by American soldiers who died in the service of their country. I certainly agree with honoring those who died in military service, but since WWII, depending on the conflict their deaths may not necessarily have helped to keep Americans free. Most recently, invading Afghanistan after 9/11 was definitely justified in my view, but redirecting and expanding the conflict into Iraq — George Bush Jr. finishing the job his dad declined to do — was a monumental mistake.
Seth Meyers tears into the ridiculous talking points being proposed by Republican gun apologists.
Newsy is a free non-cable news channel available on broadcast television (68-3 in Boston) and on Roku streaming devices. On Newsy a few days ago, a former ATF official commented that he remembers boys having hunting rifles in trucks parked at Texas high schools. “There wasn’t a problem. Something has changed in the past 20-30 years,” he said.
WTF??? Seriously? Texas had, and maybe has, trucks in high school parking lots with unsecured guns?? He isn’t making that up? That is insane! Whoever this former ATF idiot is, he isn’t sharp enough to think up a few points on his own.
First, the guns under consideration today are assault weapons. Second, back in the day, they weren’t available to anyone, let alone everyone on demand, no questions asked. Third, the NRA used to be an organization devoted to gun education and safety. Now it’s an organization devoted to making assault weapons available to everyone, on demand, no questions asked.
Something I see in online comments that really gets me going are the gun nuts who jump on somebody who says “assault rifle.” Their complaint? They want to discuss the exact make and model of weapon that was used in a particular mass shooting, because they feel it’s been mischaracterized as a true assault rifle, as if that matters.
My reply to that is, that would be like me defending a political cartoon that offends them by pointing out it wasn’t inked with a #2 Series 7 Winsor Newton brush, but a #3 brush. IT DOESN’T FRICKIN’ MATTER!
Repeal the Second Amendment. It’s the root of this entire probem. Don’t take my word for it.
