A bit of housekeeping - crossposting from Dreamwidth appears to be permanently down, so I am manually copying this which will be my last post on LiveJournal.  Please find me at https://chris-gerrib.dreamwidth.org/.

For the record and so I may refer to them later, my thoughts on the situation in the Ukraine.

First, there is no moral, legal or ( Read more... )

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Three things make a post, so here's three random thoughts.

Random Thought #1

I recently had cause to watch the WWII movie The Guns of Navarone. In it, there are several scenes in German, but no subtitles are provided. I also noted that the theatrical release of The Battle of Britain had a lot of such un-subtitled scenes. When did the convention ( Read more... )

My October 14 post about Trump claming that Nothing in his Administration will become him like the leaving of it has not aged as well as I would have liked in the wake of Wednesday's coup attempt. I admit, I did not anticipate him sending a mob to lynch Congress.

Although I'm not sure how much of Wednesday's mob action was planned by Trump. First ( Read more... )

I'm glad to see that the Republican Party is the party of law and order. Blue lives matter! (That's sarcasm, for those unclear.)

Calling Trump's coup yesterday half-assed is an insult to half-assedness, which is par for the course with Trump. And yes, it was a coup attempt, and even after half-assed coups you need to remove the coup plotters.

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When I was a small boy, too young to stay at home by myself, my parents went out for New Year's Eve. I stayed with my grandparents. For some reason, WGN seemed to think that the movie The Battle of the Bulge was the thing to show. When the (shortened for TV) movie was over, they'd cut to a hotel ballroom where Guy Lombardo and his Royal ( Read more... )

On my Facebook page, somebody pointed out that Trump won more counties than Biden. Here's my edited comment to that.

Here in the US, people vote, not cows or cornfields. Here in the US, people live in cities and suburbs. Making an argument about how many counties somebody won is stupid.

For example, Biden won DuPage County, getting 281,000 votes. ( Read more... )

I suspect most people have heard of the Qanon movement. This is a group of people that believe Donald Trump is in a secret war against a legion of pedophiles who are in various high-ranking government and business posts. The Qanons expect that Trump will any day now launch massive arrests and bring down the whole business.

Back in the 1840s, there ( Read more... )

Various thoughts on a Monday.

Thought #1

I was with my Rotary club working both the National Night Out event and a festival in Darien. I was struck by some of the outfits people wore to the various events.

Thought #2

Via my LinkedIn feed, I found this site: Google Project Sunroof. It allows you to put in your street address and get an ( Read more... )