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Total Members Voted: 11

Voting closed: February 15, 2022, 10:51:36 AM

[Oi!]

Mascagni’s  Intermezzo is alone worth countless reruns of Raging Bull.

Then Pandora is the website for you.   

[Oi!]

As does The Aviator,  The Wolf of Wall Street, After Hours,  The Last Temptation of Christ,  The Age of Innocence,  Kundun,   Silence,  Cape Fear and The King of Comedy, to name a few more where it's difficult to spot the Italians killing each other for money.   Not that I'm a big fan or anything.   Cough.

Well, technically....

Ha!   Though technically being a subject of Rome in Judaea does not make you Italian.  But I laughed anyway. 

It's funny that R Bull and TD are,  though iconic,  about my least favorite Scorsese pics,  which is why I tend not to list them.  It's funny how a movie can be important,  and yet there is no desire to see it again.

I think there are great movies that are just too raw or painful to rewatch. RB and TD are two. So, recently, is MbtS.

MbtS,  with Casey Affleck's suffering,  is off the charts raw/painful.  Makes Scorsese seem like snuggling with fluffy bunnies by contrast. 

[Oi!]

https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/03/politics/pennsylvania-probation-illegal-ballot-trump-2020/index.html

5 years probation plus 4 years without voting.

This is America

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/texas-woman-sentenced-five-years-trying-vote-gets-new-appeal-n1262691

So the one fraudulent vote that gets through is for Trump.  And gets probation.

And the one vote that's provisional, and is never counted because recognized as invalid,  is the one that gets a prison sentence.   

Hmm.   America.

[Hairy Lime]

As does The Aviator,  The Wolf of Wall Street, After Hours,  The Last Temptation of Christ,  The Age of Innocence,  Kundun,   Silence,  Cape Fear and The King of Comedy, to name a few more where it's difficult to spot the Italians killing each other for money.   Not that I'm a big fan or anything.   Cough.

Well, technically....

Ha!   Though technically being a subject of Rome in Judaea does not make you Italian.  But I laughed anyway. 

It's funny that R Bull and TD are,  though iconic,  about my least favorite Scorsese pics,  which is why I tend not to list them.  It's funny how a movie can be important,  and yet there is no desire to see it again.

I think there are great movies that are just too raw or painful to rewatch. RB and TD are two. So, recently, is MbtS.

MbtS,  with Casey Affleck's suffering,  is off the charts raw/painful.  Makes Scorsese seem like snuggling with fluffy bunnies by contrast.

MbtS makes Lonergan's YCCoM seem like a laugh a minute yuckfest.

[LarryBnDC]

This must have been a very uncomfortable class

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/01/nyregion/zoom-teacher-racist.html

[facilitatorn]

http://thebulwark.com/kevin-mccarthy-master-of-strategery/

[facilitatorn]

http://www.emptywheel.net/2021/05/05/in-request-for-special-master-the-lev-parnas-prosecutors-hint-at-prior-taint-team-searches-on-rudy/

It would be a shame if Rudy were involved with promoting the big lie or whipping up the insurrection. Anyone who had business with him on those fronts should probably find a Fed and start spilling what they know about the whole seditious conspiracy.

[facilitatorn]

The Ukrainians are starting to get very public and forthcoming about the trump-Putin Axis of Evil.

[facilitatorn]

http://digbysblog.net/2021/05/they-want-the-big-lie-they-need-the-big-lie/

[LarryBnDC]

Uh... yeah, sure.

https://www.ajc.com/news/crime/fired-apd-officer-who-shot-rayshard-brooks-reinstated/DRIIURYISNC6FOR2OHIMZTPU2U/

[REDSTATEWARD]

 News Item ( Man Bites Dog Department)


By The Associated Press
HELENA, Mont. — Montana is ending its participation in the federal unemployment program that gives people extra weekly unemployment benefit payments as the state struggles with a worker shortage, Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte announced Tuesday.

Beginning June 27, unemployed workers in the state will no longer receive $300 in weekly extra benefits funded by the federal government through Sept. 6.



For those who return to work and keep their job for 4 weeks Montana will pay them a bonus of $1200. The governor approved $15 million in funding for the incentives from federal coronavirus relief money allocated to the state in March.

Montana has 10-14,000 few workers than it did pre-pandemic so this move underscores that Congress did far more harm than good with its bonus jobless benefit, and it could help the job market recover faster by repealing it.  A conclusion of most economists months ago.

[kidcarter8]

Common sense in Montana

[LarryBnDC]

Common sense in Montana

How’s that boot taste?

[LarryBnDC]

News Item ( Man Bites Dog Department)


By The Associated Press
HELENA, Mont. — Montana is ending its participation in the federal unemployment program that gives people extra weekly unemployment benefit payments as the state struggles with a worker shortage, Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte announced Tuesday.

Beginning June 27, unemployed workers in the state will no longer receive $300 in weekly extra benefits funded by the federal government through Sept. 6.



For those who return to work and keep their job for 4 weeks Montana will pay them a bonus of $1200. The governor approved $15 million in funding for the incentives from federal coronavirus relief money allocated to the state in March.

Montana has 10-14,000 few workers than it did pre-pandemic so this move underscores that Congress did far more harm than good with its bonus jobless benefit, and it could help the job market recover faster by repealing it.  A conclusion of most economists months ago.

If by most you mean Club for Growth types like Stephen Moore

HAHAHAHAHA!

[kidcarter8]

As does The Aviator,  The Wolf of Wall Street, After Hours,  The Last Temptation of Christ,  The Age of Innocence,  Kundun,   Silence,  Cape Fear and The King of Comedy, to name a few more where it's difficult to spot the Italians killing each other for money.   Not that I'm a big fan or anything.   Cough.

Well, technically....

Ha!   Though technically being a subject of Rome in Judaea does not make you Italian.  But I laughed anyway. 

It's funny that R Bull and TD are,  though iconic,  about my least favorite Scorsese pics,  which is why I tend not to list them.  It's funny how a movie can be important,  and yet there is no desire to see it again.

I think there are great movies that are just too raw or painful to rewatch. RB and TD are two. So, recently, is MbtS.

MbtS,  with Casey Affleck's suffering,  is off the charts raw/painful.  Makes Scorsese seem like snuggling with fluffy bunnies by contrast.

heh

that movie sucked