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Monday morning Schifrin shuffle

by | Jun 21, 2021 | Mondays | 5 comments

Bloody hell, not Monday again. I just can’t do this without coffee…

Well, now that I’ve had my first proper dose, let’s get down to business. For it is of course time for the Great Mondaydact Browser Buster, to help us all get through this shitstorm of a day.

And we’ve got a good ‘un for you this week. Our good friend Dawn Pine, aka The Male Brain, has taken time out from his busy schedule to supply us with a great theme.

Does the name, “Lalo Schifrin”, ring a bell? If not, it should. This is the guy who composed the score for the original Dirty Harry. That’s right – the eerie jazz-fusion score that drove the film forward and helped make it amazing was this guy’s creation.

Take it away, Dawn Pine:

Monday marks the 89 birthday of Lalo Schifrin. Honoring one of the most productive and versatile composers of the 20th century. Argentine-born pianist Lalo Schifrin not only earned acclaim for his robust playing, but for his adventurous yet tasteful composing and arranging talents as well. Moreover, he soared in a variety of different forms—from the world of jazz and orchestral music to his long list of film and television soundtracks.Born Lalo (Claudio) Schifrin on June 21, 1932, in Buenos Aires, Argentina; son of Luis (a violinist and conductor of the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires); married, Donna; children: three. Education: Studied music in Argentina with Juan Carlos Paz and at the Paris Conservatory.

Formed own jazz group early in career; International Jazz Festival, Paris, Argentinean representative, 1955; Xavier Cugat’s orchestra, arranger; Dizzy Gillespie’s band, pianist and composer, 1960-62; moved to Los Angeles and focused on film work, mid-1960s though the 1980s; University of California, Los Angeles, teacher of music composition, 1970-71; developed Jazz Meets the Symphony series, early-1990s; focused on jazz and classical composing, 1990s. Guest conductor with philharmonic symphonies, including those in Los Angeles, Israel, Buenos Aires, and Mexico, the Indianapolis and Atlanta symphonies, and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. Member: Young Musicians Foundation (president and musical director, 1983).

Awards: Received 20 Grammy Award nominations; winner of four Grammy Awards, including two for his theme from Mission: Impossible, 1967, 1969, 1986, and 1997; received six Academy Award nominations; Hollywood Walk of Fame Award; Hollywood Chamber of Commerce; Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, government of France.

His breakthrough project arrived in 1965 with the music for the film The Cincinnati Kid. Since then, Schifrin went on to pen the unforgettable theme for the Mission Impossible television show, Dirty Harry (1971) and Sudden Impact (1983) starring Clint Eastwood, Bullitt (1968) with Steve McQueen, the Bruce Lee Saga Enter the Dragon (1973), Rush Hour (1998) featuring martial arts star Jackie Chan, and the Oscar-nominated film by Carlos Saura entitled Tango (1999). For his work in this medium, where he succeeded in bridging the worlds of traditional and film music like no other musician of his generation, Schifrin was regarded as the most important film composer of the post-Henry Mancini, post- Psycho era.

Born Claudio—he shortened his name to Lalo after emigrating to the United States—on June 21, 1932, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Schifrin began studying classical music early in life with his father, Luis Schifrin, a violinist and the concert master of the Orchestra of the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, as well as Enrique Barenboim (father of concert pianist/conductor Daniel Barenboim). “It’s a very unique city,” he said of growing up in the South American capital, as quoted by Zan Stewart in Down Beat. “We absorb everything. Myself, I absorb like a sponge the music of other cultures, besides classical.” Despite his father’s rigid musical tastes, in addition to his own personal joy as a youthful piano student in the music of Igor Stravinsky, Bela Bartók, and Arnold Schönberg, Schifrin nonetheless was equally drawn to the sounds of jazz greats like Bud Powell and Thelonius Monk. “The first time I heard Monk was on a 78 at the record store,” he recalled. “He was incredible, and I became mesmerized and started to learn jazz from records.” Other interests blossomed too, including the Latin sounds of his native culture as well as music from around the world. An avid moviegoer as well during his childhood, Schifrin spent countless hours at the cinemas in Buenos Aires, where he found himself more captivated by the music than the stories themselves.

Winning a scholarship to attend the prestigious Paris Conservatoire (or Conservatory), where he studied with twentieth-century music great Olivier Messiaen and based his thesis of study on classical and African music, Schifrin traveled to France with the true intent of learning more about jazz. Thus, he led a double life of sorts throughout his stay in Paris; he studied classical music during the week at school, then spent the weekends playing with some of Europe’s hottest jazz artists—people like piano legend Chet Baker and Belgian saxophonist Bobby Jaspar. In addition to jazz, Schifrin over the course of his stay in Paris developed eclectic tastes in modern, especially popular, music.

Performing with the pros overseas made a great impact on the younger pianist, and when Schifrin returned to Argentina in the mid-1950s, he continued to play jazz and started to write music for film. At the same time, Schifrin indulged in the more traditional music that had encompassed his formal training, writing chamber pieces, compositions for ballet, and even symphonies. In 1955, Schifrin represented Argentina in the Third Annual Jazz Festival held in Paris. Soon after that performance, in 1956, he formed his own big band, largely in the tradition of Count Basie and Dizzy Gillespie, through which Gillespie himself first heard Schifrin play. Schifrin recalled meeting Gillespie in Argentina, while the trumpeter/bandleader was in the midst of a United States State Department-sponsored tour: “Dizzy’s was one of the first American jazz bands that came to Buenos Aires,” he told Graybow. “My jazz band played for him at a reception, and he asked me if I had written the charts, which I had. Dizzy invited me to come to the United States to be his piano player. At first, I thought he was joking, because I was so surprised.”

Realizing the sincerity of Gillespie’s proposal, Schifrin followed the trumpeter to New York City in 1958. Focusing almost exclusively on jazz upon his arrival and through the early-1960s, Schifrin as a jazz performer worked with such big names as Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Stan Getz, and Count Basie. By the mid-1960s, however, having moved to Los Angeles and landing a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) to compose scores, Schifrin started to devote most of his energies to film work. And within no time, he had become one of the most prominent and productive of a new generation of film composers in Hollywood. While he maintained a love for jazz in his heart and mind during the height of his film career, Schifrin gave performances only on rare occasions.

However, Schifrin’s career in Hollywood eventually grew stale over time. “They typecast me,” said Schifrin to Entertainment Weekly’s Dave Karger. “They didn’t trust me with a love story. I was too weird.” Although Schifrin continued to score music for both television and film well into the 1990s—including, with Danny Elfman, for the 1996 film Mission Impossible based on the television series and for the 1998 film Something to Believe In —the composer turned to classical and jazz as his primary focus, beginning in the early-1990s with the development of Jazz Meets the Symphony, for which Schifrin served as the featured composer, pianist, and conductor.

According to Schifrin, the idea of combing the two genres—jazz and classical music—arose years before, during the composing of two early film scores. “In The Cincinnati Kid, Ray Charles sang backed by a symphony orchestra,” he related to Stewart. “Then for the chase scene in Bullitt, I wrote a symphonic score combined with saxophone solos, all at very fast tempos. Years later, when I arranged music for Dizzy, Ray Brown, Grady Tate and myself to play for a tour with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, I began to fully realize that the two distinct musical forms could be combined.” Since its formation, Jazz Meets the Symphony, represented by a total of four albums—plus a release combining the first four recordings entitled Jazz Meets the Symphony Collection, which garnered three Grammy nominations—has been Schifrin’s primary focus. He planned to record a fifth installment in the autumn of 2000.

In addition to uniting jazz with classical influences, Schifrin also explored the blending of jazz with Latin elements for 1999’s Grammy-nominated Latin Jazz Suite, recorded in Cologne, Germany and featuring the WDR Big Band, Jon Faddis, saxophonist David Sanchez, and drummer Ignacio Berroa. Using his upbringing in Buenos Aires as a point of reference, Schifrin for the project mixed jazz with Afro-Cuban, Caribbean, Pampas (a style of Argentine music), and Brazilian sounds. “All these influences and others were important to me, and in this suite I wanted to write things that, hopefully, are autobiographical, writing about my impressions or inventions based on my memories, based on what I know, or what I’m trying to know,” he explained to Stewart.

Along with his Grammy and Oscar nominations, Schifrin received numerous honors over the course of his career. Among them include the BMI Lifetime Achievement Award, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres from the French minister of Culture, and more. Even as the years passed, Schifrin never slowed down. As he continued to record, compose music, and perform in the world’s most renowned concert halls and at jazz festivals across the United States and Europe, Schifrin did so with the same enthusiasm of a much younger man. “For me this is not work,” he said to Stewart. “It’s the continuation of my teenage years when I discovered all the music I was totally blinded by. I’m still blinded by it and I’ll die blinded by it.”

We wish him a long and productive life.

Here is his biography:

And here he gives some advice to composers:

His first major work:

This, right here, is his single most famous piece:

And, of course, his most famous film score:

Here he is being honoured by Clint Eastwood – I’m surprised the stage didn’t implode from so much pure AWESOME standing on it:

And this is him with his piano:

His Most Illustrious, Noble, August, Benevolent, and Legendary Celestial Majesty, the God-Emperor of Mankind, Donaldus Triumphus Magnus Astra, the First of His Name, the Lion of Midnight, may the Lord bless him and preserve him, could probably make BILLIONS from charging his critics a penny for every single thing that they slammed him for saying, when he was in fact 100% correct:

#BasedTucker is based:

Mark Dice notes that the truth about the vile toxic stew that is Critical Race Theory has finally emerged into mainstream consciousness, and this is indeed a Very Good Thing:

Dave from Blue Collar Logic asks whether Americans are, in fact, brainwashed:

And Jason is amused at the way that Jewish (not-actually-particularly-amusing) comedian Jon Stuart Leibowitz, better known as “Jon Stewart”, tripped over the truth by accident and fell headfirst into a pile of steaming woke-outrage:

Bill Whittle FINALLY has a new Firewall episode up, and it’s a good ‘un about the culture of cowardice that rules us now:

At the time that I found it, this video had just 218 views. That is RIDICULOUS given Bill’s 188K subscriber base on YooToobz. And there is a very good reason for this:

SpewTube has it as an “unlisted” video.

Yet, if you subscribe to his channel, you can see it just fine. Even if you DON’T subscribe to it, you can still see it.

This means that SpewTube has blocked it, because it contains “dangerous” thoughts.

GOOD.

Spread that video far and wide. Confront the cowardice of terrified innumerate youngsters and smug mask-wearing metropolitan elites wherever you can. The only way we are going to get back on track is to push as hard as we can against this culture of fear that surrounds us. And you need to do your part.

Plenty from The Male Brain this week to keep things moving at a steady pace. We begin with a great video from Felix Rex about how there will never, ever be an end to racism:

He’s right. The more that Whites bend over backwards to address the so-called “sin” of racism – which is NOTHING of the sort – the more things that non-Whites will find to turn into race issues.

That is why it is better, by far, for Whites to simply reject the whole thing outright and tell Blacks and POCs to GTFO if they don’t like White culture. This is a reasonable and rational response, and it never ceases to amaze me as to why Whites don’t just DO it already.

The Russians come closest to doing this outright. In Russia, they don’t care if you are Black, Yellow, Blue, Green, or Pink with Purple Polka Dots. They simply expect and demand that you obey their laws, respect their customs, and speak their language. If you can’t be arsed to do these things, then they imprison you or kick you out (or both).

This is rational, healthy, and decent. The craven attitude of Westerners is not.

Moving on – Fandom IRL talks about what would happen if Loki ever went to therapy:

Old Hiddles there must be genuinely pissed off over how the Devil Mouse wrecked his character by now.

Larry the Stormtrooper asks what would happen if the Coof ever hit the STAR WARS universe, and they all had to resort to interstellar Zoom meetings:

Veritasium has a video about the world’s longest-running experiment in evolution:

That is technically a misnomer. What you see with those 74,500 generations (and counting) of E. coli bacteria is NOT “evolution” in the Darwinian sense. It really isn’t. The resulting bacteria are STILL E. coli. They aren’t some new strange unclassified unknown organism. Indeed, what you see is MICROEVOLUTION – small changes to outside stimuli through mutation and adaptation.

Nobody with any serious knowledge of basic biology argues against microevolution. It happens, and it’s real.

Macroevolution, which involves actual changes in types and forms, is NOT real and has never been conclusively proven – because it’s mathematically impossible, given time, mutation fixing rates, and epigenetic requirements.

The tendency of scientists, who practice scentistry, not actual science, to elide over there important distinctions, is highly irritating and needs to stop.

It’s been a while since we last saw much of JP Sears, so here you go:

Paul Ramsey unpacks the possibility that the Jan 6 “riot” was actually an FBI false-flag operation:

This is not beyond the boundaries of reason. The “Maidan Revolution” in Ukraine in 2014 was a CIA-backed coup against a pro-Russian (albeit admittedly corrupt) politician, and we have since seen evidence that the nationalists opened fire on their own people in order to set off the violence that destroyed the Poroshenko government.

Given the utter contempt that the American elites have for their own people, it makes considerable sense that they would do the same in America.

PJW is thoroughly amused by the way that Megan Rapinoe has been hoisted by her own virtue-signalling petard:

The lovely and charming Dr. Sam Bailey takes a break from her work on the Coof and virus myths to talk about sleep:

Lord Razor of the Fist Clan

The Dizzle did a livestream with his good buddy, The Apostate Prophet, about the perplexing nature of the Koran, which supposedly had to be revealed in Arabic to make any sense – and that is in fact NONSENSE:

Dr. Jay Smith from PfanderFilms teams up with his good friends Al-Fadi from CIRA International and Mel from Sneaker’s Corner to discuss a fascinating new theory about the possible true origins of the Izzlamic sanctuary of Mecca:

Dr. Frank Turek from Cross Examined has a fascinating list of questions that you can ask your woke boss, should you be unfortunate enough to work in a woke company:

China Uncensored dives into the issue of why Turkey abandoned the Uighurs, with whom the Turks have an actual racial and religious affinity, for the sake of their relationship with the ChiComs:

America Uncovered tackles the prickly issue of a “global minimum tax” – which, despite the G7’s supposed “agreement” on the subject, is not going to become real anytime soon:

Jared Taylor from American Renaissance has had enough of kowtowing to the Black Narrative, and throws down on it:

As I stated above, it is well past time for Whites to simply divorce themselves from Blacks and other POCs who hate them. Let the Diversitopians “thrive” on their own. They won’t manage it, and it will be hilariously satisfying, in a rather sadistic sort of way, to observe the collapse of their White-free Utopia.

Terrence Popp has some excellent common-sense advice for all of us:

Midnight’s Edge looks at the inability of a Hollyweird director to keep his temper in check when dealing with entirely justified scepticism about the upcoming release (read: ruination) of Indy 5:

Overlord Dicktor Van Doomcock puts on his full Clownipornia Q outfit for the latest rumours and news coming out of the Devil Mouse:

Gary from Nerdrotic has an absolutely BRUTAL assessment of the true awfulness of the latest Kurtzman Trek outing:

The Drinker is even less impressed by ST:P 2:

Your “Science is F***ING WEIRD” moment of the week comes from The Male Brain, and takes on the very existence of Dark Matter:

The general theory of relativity (GR) is symmetric under smooth coordinate transformations, also known as diffeomorphisms. The general coordinate transformation group has a linear subgroup denoted as the Lorentz group of symmetry, which is also maintained in the weak field approximation to GR. The dominant operator in the weak field equation of GR is thus the d’Alembert (wave) operator, which has a retarded potential solution. Galaxies are huge physical systems with dimensions of many tens of thousands of light years. Thus, any change at the galactic center will be noticed at the rim only tens of thousands of years later. Those retardation effects are neglected in the present day galactic modelling used to calculate rotational velocities of matter in the rims of the galaxy and surrounding gas. The significant differences between the predictions of Newtonian instantaneous action at a distance and observed velocities are usually explained by either assuming dark matter or by modifying the laws of gravity (MOND). In this paper, we will show that, by taking general relativity seriously without neglecting retardation effects, one can explain the radial velocities of galactic matter in the M33 galaxy without postulating dark matter. It should be stressed that the current approach does not require that velocities v are high; in fact, the vast majority of galactic bodies (stars, gas) are substantially subluminal—in other words, the ratio of vc≪1. Typical velocities in galaxies are 100 km/s, which makes this ratio 0.001 or smaller. However, one should consider the fact that every gravitational system, even if it is made of subluminal bodies, has a retardation distance, beyond which the retardation effect cannot be neglected. Every natural system, such as stars and galaxies and even galactic clusters, exchanges mass with its environment, for example, the sun loses mass through solar wind and galaxies accrete gas from the intergalactic medium. This means that all natural gravitational systems have a finite retardation distance. The question is thus quantitative: how large is the retardation distance? For the M33 galaxy, the velocity curve indicates that the retardation effects cannot be neglected beyond a certain distance, which was calculated to be roughly 14,000 light years; similar analysis for other galaxies of different types has shown similar results. We demonstrate, using a detailed model, that this does not require a high velocity of gas or stars in or out of the galaxy and is perfectly consistent with the current observational knowledge of galactic and extra galactic material content and dynamics.

The tl;dr version of this is that dark matter may not exist and galaxies change their spin rates because it takes a long time for things that happen in the galactic centre to reach the ends of the galaxy.

Your long read of the week is EXTREMELY long, and consists of a paper written by a scholar of military strategy and history in order to understand how and why the Coof spread as a bioweapon created in a lab:

If we accept the argument that COVID-19 is a possible US bioweapon first hitting some of the US adversaries, China, Iran, and Italy (the first European state to join China’s Belt and Road Initiative), we also have to ask: why did the US accept to become a target, the new epicenter of COVID-19? Why would the US use such weapons against itself? It is not logical. To approach this problem, we may first look at the timeline. Initially, in January-February 2020, Wuhan/China appeared as the epicenter with hundreds of cases in mid-January, 14,000 cases on February 1, 80,000 a month later, and these figures may very well represent a conservative estimate. Soon, Iran became one of the epicenters. In March, Europe and primarily Italy appeared as the new epicenter with 100,000 cases in late March (over 400,000 in Europe as a whole), which doubled in May. France, Spain, and the UK had soon equally many cases. In the US, real testing stared in mid-March. In late April, there were close to 1 million cases and 60,000 dead, while in March 2021, there were 30 million cases and 500,000 dead. The US figures were perhaps exaggerated, and many deaths may have had other explanations, but these are the figures you will find in the media (statistics from “wordometer”).[157]

A first hypothesis was that the virus originated in Wuhan and then was spread around the globe. In several cases, the virus could be traced back to Wuhan. In Iran, a first reported case was from February 19. An Iranian merchant had travelled to China. He could have brought the virus to Iran, Wikipedia argues.158 This seemed plausible, but the Iranian authorities were suspicious. Iran was then the only country in the Middle East seriously hit by the virus, and it had hit the religious center of Qom and particularly Government officials. In early March, former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wrote to UN Secretary General António Guterres saying that the virus is a bioweapon attack by the hegemonic powers to maintain “an upper hand in the global arena”. It was supposedly a US attack to keep China down. The virus was “produced in laboratories” of “the world hegemonic powers”, he said.[159] The top-commander for the Revolutionary Guard, Hossein Salami, argued that the new virus might be a U.S. biological weapon against China and Iran.[160] Ayatollah Khamenei discussed in March whether the US had produced the virus, but we are patient, he said: “We will not surrender”.

In Italy, two Chinese tourists had travelled to Rome on January 31. They tested positive, Wikipedia argues.162 But this does not explain the explosive outbreak in parts of northern Italy, long before that, particularly around Bergamo. The virus “may have circulated in northern Italy for weeks before it was detected”, The Guardian wrote.[163] The significant spread of the virus in Lombardy in northern Italy in February-April 2020 compared to the limited spread in the rest of Italy indicates that the virus must have been around in these areas for months. Already in November 2019, medical doctors in Lombardy around Bergamo had a “strange pneumonia, very severe” in “old people”, Director of the Mario Negri Institute in Milan, Giuseppe Remuzzi said. He was also president of the International Society of Nephrology. He continued: “This means that the virus was circulating, at least in [the northern region of] Lombardy and before we were aware of this outbreak occurring in China”.[165] In the most seriously affected areas, in October-November 2019, there had been hundreds of additional pneumonia patients hospitalized.[166] Italian National Institute of Health had collected samples of sewage water from large Italian cities once a month. Samples from both Milan and Turin revealed SARS-CoV-2 from December 18, not for November 18, but there were no samples from the affected northern Lombardy (Bergamo).[167] The Italian National Cancer Institute in Milan found, however, that several people screened for lung cancer had had COVID-19 before November. Four cases had been infected already in late September 2019. The virus circulated in Lombardy at least since that month (Giovanni Apoloni et.al, Tumori, November 11, 2020).[168] A Rome University study with Paola Stefanelli et.al (Eurosurveillance, April 2, 2020) found that the “[p]hylogenetic analysis consistently placed the Italian [Lombardy] patient’s strain in a distinct cluster from the [Chinese] tourist’s strain. The strain of the Italian patient grouped with other viral strains identified in Germany and Mexico, while the strain from the Chinese tourist, related with the Wuhan virus strain, clustered with different European strains and a strain from Australia.”[169] The Lombardy virus did not originate from Wuhan. It was genetically very different. The new evidence tells us that in parallel to the viral outbreak in Wuhan (11 million), there was also an explosive outbreak of COVID-19 in the city of Bergamo (100,000 inhabitants), a pneumonia epidemic starting in September-October already before the outbreak in Wuhan and with no link to China. These were two different SARS-CoV-2 viruses.

As I have said several times before, I do not buy the theory that the Deep State in the USA released the SARS-CoV-2 virus into China and then saw the bioweapon backfire horribly upon itself. This doesn’t make the slightest bit of sense, especially given the fact that US and Russian bioweapons have historically focused much more heavily on weaponised pathogens that spread locally and kill quickly. The USA has never demonstrated – to my knowledge – any expertise in weaponising influenza or coronavirus strains.

The Chinese, on the other hand, have an EXTREMELY long and highly dishonourable history of being the very centre of an epidemic outbreak, and then trying desperately to cover it up. The “Spanish” Flu, for instance, supposedly originated in America, according to most sources – it actually most likely came from China. So did the 1957 “Asian Flu”, and the 1968 “Hong Kong Flu”, and the 1997 outbreak of H5N1 that caused the world to collectively crap itself, with good reason.

And let’s not forget SARS in 2003 – the direct ancestor, supposedly, to the current virus. I write “supposedly” because, despite much media hoopla and misinformation, to my knowledge, NO ONE HAS EVER ACTUALLY ISOLATED A PURE EXAMPLE OF COVID-19 IN A LAB.

That’s right – those much-hyped PCR tests that supposedly are hyper-accurate at detecting the Commiepox, are actually attempting to match genetic sequences identified in a patient against a long series of hypothetical sequences that clinicians say make up the viral signature.

It all makes you wonder sometimes whether “science” isn’t just some massive joke played on us all by Satan. Real science isn’t anything like the nonsense we’re seeing these days.

Linkage is good for you:

And some more from Dawn Pine:

The Neo-Tsar won BIG at that meeting with the Fake President, mostly because he isn’t an addled geriatric puppet controlled by others – and he makes damned sure that you know it:

No, he doesn’t have any illusions, and as he says right at the end – I listened to it in Russian with subtitles off – Russia must not have any illusions in the future about its relationship with the West.

Russia knows full well that the West hates and fears it – and hates and fears HIM. But that does not change the fact that the Russians live in a liberal (in the good sense of the word) and free society with relatively limited government interference. Russians are free and safe and harbour no illusions about the way the world works. They have paid a DREADFUL price to reach that level of self-awareness.

Life is hard for the ordinary Russian in a way that it is not for the average Westerner. And that is not surprising. But unlike Westerners, Russians appreciate what they have, and do not hold to the psychologically sick and twisted desire to sell out those good things.

History lessons of the week:

The graphics engine and output in HALO Infinite have MASSIVELY improved since the E3 demo last year, and boy does it show:

This game is gonna be SUPER DOOPER AWESOMESAUCE AMAZEBALLS, boys.

And now let’s watch Mint Blitz completely bork the HALO physics engine, AGAIN:

Wazzocks gonna wazzock:

The notion that Jezza, of all people, is driving a tractor around, should be utterly terrifying to those of us familiar with the Three Wazzateers. Do y’all remember any of the following?

Yeah… those guys with tractors… just NO. The only thing more scary is the idea of that lot with GUNS:

And let’s watch Jezza & Co. poke fun at the Colonials:

Kitchen Nightmares with the Angry Scot:

Comedy hour:

Pics, guns, girls:

ABSOLUTELY.

Yep.

And people wonder why I think that America will absolutely get its ASS KICKED in the next serious war.

That actually puts things into proper perspective, I think.

If you try that out on any reasonably attractive college girl, the next sound you hear will be her vagina turning into sandpaper in record time.

Headlines of the week show that the gubmint is so hopelessly inept that it LOSES money when selling WEED to Canadian stoners:

Your “It’s All Greek To Me” moment of the week:

Your “Karma is a Stone-Cold Heartless Bitch” moment of the week:

Your “Bear Necessities” moment of the week:

Your “Wine O’Clock” moment of the week:

Your “TikTok is Not De Whey” moment of the week:

Your “Scamdemic Scamalot” moment of the week:

Your “Military Priorities” moment of the week:

Your “Media Malpractice” moments of the week:

All I can say is that I am SERIOUSLY looking forward to the day when whorenalists reap what they have sown – in th form of free one-way helicopter rides and firing squads.

I’ve fed quite a few geese by hand in my time, and I can confirm that they are VIOLENT bastards.

That said, you can easily sort them out with a swift slap or kick. And no, that is not cruelty toward animals, not when the stupid noisy jerks bite you simply because you’ve run out of bread with which to feed them.

DAMN RIGHT.

DAMN F***ING RIGHT!

Your Dog of the Week is the giant wolf-killer known as the Kangal, or Turkish Shepherd Dog:

Kangal Dog Info, Varieties, Care, Training, Pictures

Your aminules are adorkable moment of the week:

And also your animals are absolute DICKS moment of the week, to balance things out:

Gym beast props go to Dmitry Klokov once again:

Buakaw Beatdown of the Week:

Thing is, Buakaw actually lost that fight – the hellbows that Dzhaniev unleashed on him opened up several deep cuts on his head. But Buakaw battered his opponent’s ribs so badly that the guy couldn’t fight on after this “victory”. So as far as I’m concerned, Buakaw won. The judges who scored this in favour of the Russian, really need to get laser eye surgery or something.

Jesus loves knockouts:

Shufflin’ keeps things groovin’

#MetalFeast

And now, after much assorted stuff and nonsense, here is your Instathot to get the week off to the best possible start (under the circumstances, anyway). Her name is Tarsha Olarte Whitmore, age 20, from Sydney, Australia. The fact that she is Australian is, on its own, sufficient to stamp a HUGE warning label on her, because this is the island-continent where EVERY SINGLE LIVING THING WANTS TO KILL YOU AND EAT YOUR EYEBALLS FOR JUJUBEES. I am not exaggerating about this. Australia is the single most pants-shittingly terrifying place in the world, what with the deadly spiders, deadly snakes, deadly sharks, deadly centipedes, deadly crocodiles, deadly waves, deadly jellyfish, deadly octopi, deadly fish, deadly… well, you get the idea. EVERYTHING Is lethal there.

Anyway, if you’re really interested, she’s some sort of Instaham model that apparently fronts as the brand ambassador for something called “Oh Polly” – heck if I know what that means. Oh, and she’s half-Filipina, which means not much of anything in my book.

Well, there you have it, gentlemen. That’s all for this week’s show. Now get back to work, you lazy sods, the economy isn’t going to un-f**k itself, after all.

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5 Comments

  1. Robert W
    Robert W on June 21, 2021 at 3:41 pm

    Critical Drinker makes a good point: There’s no commercial reason for the ST:P and ST:D shows to exist let alone continue. It should shatter the paradigms of the right/libertarians who believe corporations exist for profit. They observably do not.

    Regulatory Capture is a real phenomenon. Virtue Signal capture is a real phenomenon as well, and it seldom comes to reality like Howard Roark in The Fountainhead

    Reply
    • Didact
      Didact on June 22, 2021 at 6:23 am

      It should shatter the paradigms of the right/libertarians who believe corporations exist for profit. They observably do not.

      You are correct. They do not. Modern giant corporations exist to leverage their scale and size in order to extract favours and benefits from the public, not to make a profit. They are very, very good at acting in such vampiric fashion.

      We are no longer in an era of actual capitalism – if, indeed, we ever were. We are now in an era of something called bricolage, which is a pretentious French term for a “renter economy”. In other words, companies don’t produce actual useful good and services for people to consume, thereby increasing productivity and human potential. They merely rent out existing assets to extract rent, not produce things.

      It’s a lot like eating the seed corn. This will work, for a while, but in the long-term, it’s a disaster.

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    • Didact
      Didact on June 22, 2021 at 6:24 am

      Welllllll… I wouldn’t go as far as to ignore the entire chase in Bullitt. Nobody’s topped it yet, despite many, many attempts to do so. But yes, Schifrin’s music is amazing.

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  3. Vincent
    Vincent on June 22, 2021 at 12:56 pm

    Oops, pardon me, I meant “cut TO the chase.” But you’re right, while no one’s topped that epic chase yet, honorable mentions could go to “The Seven Ups” and “To Live and Die in L.A.”

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