for listening to later
Trump’s Shoes: recruiting the assassin, how not to scream during shootings, shooting videos during shootings, cameras settings for shootouts, Ernie Pyle, US Secret Disservice
— Michael Yon: Callsign BIG HONEY 6 (@Michael_Yon) July 15, 2024
If there are free elections, Trump will win. There will be no free elections. pic.twitter.com/AWcRMfFAVA
Replacing the king with a double
Ann Althouse links to an essay that wonders if Yanks would be upset if Biden is being manipulated by his staffers, and refers to the movie Dave, where a body double takes the place of the President.
comments point out this has been done in literature/movies: as in Kurasawa's Kagamusha and in Heinlein's Double Star.
In both these stories, the human was humble enough not to change things (although in Double Star, he opposed a staff member who was bullying him to change the original president's agenda).
If all this sound like fiction, it is: Except that the Huff Post suggests this be done with AI.
Agatha Christie indult 2.0
the Agatha Christie Indult was a Catholic decree in response to a petition signed by many artists and writers not to cancel the Latin Mass back in 1971
Supposedly, Pope Paul had read the letter and exclaimed in excitement, “Ah! Agatha Christie!”, and so decided to grant it, thus giving the indult its nickname.
Well, history repeats itself LINK
They agree that not everyone appreciates its value, "and that is fine", but "to destroy it seems an unnecessary and insensitive act in a world where history can all too easily slip away into oblivion"...
. "The Old Rite's ability to promote silence and contemplation is a treasure that cannot be easily replicated and, once gone, cannot be reconstructed".
and some signing it includes
Bianca Jagger (wife of Mick Jagger), Lord Lloyd-Webber (musical composer), Dame Kiri Te Kanawa (opera singer), Steven Isserlis (Jewish cellist), Princess Michael of Kent (member of the British Royal Family), Sir Andras Schiff (Jewish pianist), Tom Holland (historian), Lady Antonia Fraser (author) and Sir Paul Smith (fashion designer).
So I guess we can call this the Bianca Jagger Indult?
space photo
From a million miles away, NASA captures Moon crossing face of Earth. (Yes, this is a real image)
— Curiosity (@MAstronomers) July 1, 2024
Credit: NASA/NOAA pic.twitter.com/1TW9ylByZR
gobs
Aka whoopie pie
from WTAE Pittsburgh:
JOHNSTOWN, Pa. — JR Harris' uncle told an employee a story about the origins of the gob. He said a worker for his family's bakery was on break. They were permitted to make and eat anything they wanted to at the bakery. "He had two small chocolate cakes and put icing in between," Harris said. "And then the company saw what he had done and started doing what he did with the gob cake."
The term gob was trademarked in 1927 by the Harris-Boyer bakery. Gobs are inherently part of the fabric of Pennsylvania's culinary landscape. They are also part of New England's food history, but the dessert is known as a Whoopie Pie there. The true origin of the treat may never fully be known, but the historical debate over it is fascinating.,,
,In the 1930s, the sailor-boy image associated with the Johnstown gob was developed for the wrapper.
Gob can also be used as a synonym for sailor, though no one with any knowledge of the company knows if that was why it was given its original name. "Gob" was also used within the mining industry in reference to refuse coal. It is possible that miners gave the dessert its name in the region.
a similar confection is called whoopie pie and has it's origin in Amish cooking. In eastern Pennsylvania it is still known by that name. and a similar confection was backed in Maine
Susan Kalcik, a folklorist and archivist in Johnstown, said the recipe for gobs traces back to Germany in the middle ages. She thinks the recipe was brought to the United States by immigrants.
so why was this popular in Johnstown area?
Regardless of where it was started, it was perfect for coal miners in Somerset and Cambria counties who didn't want their lunchtime dessert's icing to melt on the wrapper. Kalcik said gobs predate any bakery's claim to have created it.
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