Paul Waldman: This recession is going to bad. Really bad. (Washington Post)
America has done something extraordinary, perhaps unprecedented. In the face of a looming public health crisis, with potential deaths in the thousands or even millions, we essentially made a collective decision to have ourselves a recession. We've shut down a significant portion of our economy, knowing that the result will be businesses going bankrupt, huge job losses and people losing their homes.
Hisarlik, often spelled Hissarlik, is the Turkish name for an ancient city located in what is known historically as Anatolia (now Turkey). After many decades of scientific and literary study, the site is universally accepted as the location of what ancient city?
Hisarlik (Turkish: Hisarlik, "Place of Fortresses"), often spelled Hissarlik, is the Turkish name for an ancient city located in what is known historically as Anatolia, Turkish anadolu. It is part of Çanakkale, Turkey. The archaeological site lies approximately 6.5 kilometres (4.0 mi) from the Aegean Sea and about the same distance from the Dardanelles. The site is a partial tell, or artificial hill, elevated in layers over an original site. In this case the original site was already elevated, being the west end of a ridge projecting in an east-west direction from a mountain range.
After many decades of scientific and literary study by specialists of various types in every major university in the west, the site is universally accepted as the location of ancient Troy, the city mentioned in ancient documents of many countries in several ancient languages, especially ancient Greek, where it appears as Ilion in the earliest literary work of Europe, the Iliad. The site is still being excavated under the name of Troja. It also has been promoted as a major tourist attraction visited by many thousands of persons per year.
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Mark. was first, and correct, with:
Troy.
Alan J answered:
Troy.
Randall wrote:
Troy
zorch said:
It's the site of Troy. And yesterday I misspelled crap-halyard and forgot to mention that a binnacle connects the crap-halyard to the jimbob.
Cal in Vermont replied:
Troy. There are 23 or 25 or 19 cities in the US of A named Troy according to the Oracle of Google.
Dave responded:
Troy. Another correct guess on my part.
Billy in Cypress U$A replied:
Hissarlik is Troy.
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mj wrote:
Actually nine or more versions
Of that city: Ilium (Troy).
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• Will Rogers seldom hurt anyone with his jokes. However, in his vaudeville days, he once was preceded by a singing act called the Cherry Sisters. During his act, he said that they must have decided on their name before they learned about lemons. After making the joke, Will realized that it was hurtful, so he apologized to the Cherry Sisters.
• Jack Benny was not a virtuoso violinist, but neither was he as bad as he pretended to be to get laughs. After Mr. Benny played the violin well at a benefit, a friend said, "Jack, I didn't know you played the violin so beautifully." Mr. Benny replied, "When I was younger, they used to call me another Heifetz. Not Jascha - another Heifetz."
Composers
• As a young boy, pianist Carl Czerny heard a family friend named Gelinek talk about how he was looking forward to meeting a pianist later that night at a party and how he and his friends were going to "thrash him" in a piano competition. The next day, however, Gelinek had to admit that he had been defeated: "That young man is possessed of the devil. Never have I heard such playing! He improvised on a theme I proposed like I never heard even Mozart improvise. Then he played compositions of his own, which are wonderful and grandiose to the highest degree." Czerny's father asked about the rival pianist's name. "He is a short, ugly, swarthy, and obstinate-looking young man," Gelinek replied, "and his name is Beethoven."
• Composer Igor Stravinsky loved to have a good time with his friends. On his 80thbirthday, several people threw parties for him - one person invited him over for cocktails, another person invited him over for dinner, and so on. When all the little parties were over, he said, "Well, that was marvelous. Thank you very much. I'm going home." The other people said, "Very well," so he asked, "Isn't anyone else going home?" They said no, for they were going out again to get drinks and perhaps do some dancing. Mr. Stravinsky then said, "What? You think that I'm going home to bed when all the rest of you are going out on the town?"
• George Frideric Handel composed the Messiah, well known for its "Hallelujah" chorus. During a rehearsal for its premiere in Dublin, he became angry at a man named Janson, who was one of the bassos. "I thought you told me that you could read music at sight," complained Handel. "I can," Janson replied, "but not at first sight."
• Gioacchino Rossini was giving singing lessons to a girl whose sister asked him, "Why don't you write any new music?" He replied, "A waste of time, my dear girl. It's impossible for the singers to perform what I've already written."
Conductors
• Meredith Willson, author of The Music Man, had a great respect for Arturo Toscanini, who was an invited guest at the symphony orchestra where Mr. Willson worked. While the orchestra was practicing a dissonant symphonic poem named "Feste Romane" by Ottorino Respighi, Maestro Toscanini stopped the orchestra and told Mr. Gerhardt, a clarinet player, "F sharp, F sharp, F sharp." This happened five or six times, with Mr. Gerhardt protesting to Mr. Willson (no one protests to Maestro Toscanini!), "I amplaying F sharp. I've been playing it since the beginning." At this time, the clarinet player unconsciously - clarinet players do this occasionally by habit - held his instrument horizontally and blew some water out from under some of the very small keys. Once again, the orchestra launched into the piece and at its end, Maestro Toscanini said, "At last F sharp - grazie a Dio!" According to Mr. Willson, the water under the key had caused the note to sound F natural - and Maestro Toscanini heard the incorrect note through all the dissonance of the musical composition although the man who had actually played the note could not hear that it was incorrect!
Michael Steele quoting Predator--obviously he never took the test that it was announced that he passed--he doesn't even know it's done with a swab!
Steele tweet:
Stop it. You didn't take the test Trump. It's an oral or nasal swab. "It's a little bit of a..." what?! It's a cotton ball on the end of a stick, for crying out loud.
Margaret, I get it. I really do. We are in the middle of a pandemic. Everyone is scared and things are a bit crazy. Of course, the President should address the American people. Of course, he should. But just not this one. It's not helping. It really isn't.
There is nothing decent about this man. He has cheated on all three of his wives. His career is filled with lawsuits, bankruptcies, claims of racism, tax evasion, discrimination, even rape. Nothing. Nothing about this man is honorable much less tolerable. His only claim to fame is taking joy in firing people on national television.
Sumo is over until May.
Was kinda strange without an audience and it was sad to see no cushions flying after a gold star win.
But at least it wasn't cancelled.
Tonight, Sunday:
CBS starts the night with a double dose of '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH'NCIS: The Expendable One', then a FRESH'NCIS: The 3rd One'.
NBC opens the night with a FRESH'The Wall', followed by a FRESH'Littel Big Shots', then a FRESH'Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist', followed by a FRESH'Good Girls'.
ABC begins the night with a FRESH'Amercian Idol', followed by a FRESH'The Rookie'.
The CW offers a FRESH'Batwoman', followed by a FRESH'Supergirl'.
Faux has a RERUN'The Simpsons', followed by a RERUN'Bob's Burgers', then a FRESH'The Simpsons', followed by a FRESH'Duncanville', then a FRESH'Bob's Burgers', followed by a FRESH'Family Guy'.
MY recycles an old 'How I Met Your Mother', followed by an old 'Big Bang Theory', followed by another old 'Big Bang Theory', then still another old 'Big Bang Theory', followed by yet another old 'Big Bang Theory'.
AMC offers 'The Walking Dead', another 'The Walking Dead', followed by a FRESH'The Walking Dead', then a FRESH'The Talking Dead'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] PLANET EARTH: THE HUNT - In The Grip of Seasons - Arctic
[7:00AM] PLANET EARTH: THE HUNT - Hide And Seek - Jungles
[8:00AM] PLANET EARTH: THE HUNT - Hunger At Sea - Oceans
[9:00AM] PREMIER LEAGUE DARTS 2020 - Episode 7
[10:00AM] ROCKY (1976)
[12:30PM] ROCKY II (1979)
[3:00PM] ROCKY (1976)
[5:30PM] ROCKY II (1979)
[8:00PM] ROCKY III (1982)
[10:15PM] ROCKY IV (1985)
[12:15AM] ROCKY V (1990)
[2:45AM] ROCKY III (1982)
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - The Circle, Part 2 (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', then a FRESH'Family Karma', followed by a FRESH'Watch What Happens Live'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Ocean's Eleven', followed by the movie 'Office Space'.
FX has the movie 'X-Men: Apocalypse', followed by the movie 'The Greatest Showman'.
IFC -
[6:00A] The Three Stooges - Men in Black
[6:15A] Derailed
[8:30A] Redemption
[10:45A] Mission: Impossible
[1:15P] Focus
[3:45P] The Princess Bride
[6:00P] Old School
[8:00P] Tropic Thunder
[10:30P] Total Recall
[1:00A] Tropic Thunder
[3:30A] Redemption
[5:45A] The Three Stooges - Men in Black (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:30am] Law & Order
[7:30am] Law & Order
[8:30am] Law & Order
[9:30am] Law & Order
[10:30am] Law & Order
[11:30am] Law & Order
[12:30pm] Stand by Me
[2:30pm] The Karate Kid Part II
[5:00pm] The Karate Kid
[8:00pm] The Outsiders
[10:00pm] Rambo: First Blood Part II
[12:00am] Rambo III
[2:30am] Stand by Me
[4:30am] Hogan's Heroes
[5:00am] Hogan's Heroes
[5:30am] Hogan's Heroes (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'John Wick: Chapter 2', followed by the movie 'King Arthur: Legend Of The Sword'.
Four years after Taylor Swift and Kanye West's feud began over his "Famous" lyrics, a new piece of evidence has been brought to the table, opening back up the case between the two.
On Friday, a video of their phone call discussing the song was leaked in its entirety on the internet, and it appears to offer a new perspective on the situation that led to Swift's year-long disappearance from the public and social media.
As a refresher, back in April 2016, Kanye released "Famous," in which he raps: "I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex / Why? I made that bitch famous." Shortly after, Swift slammed the track for its lyrics being disrespectful and misogynistic. Kanye, and his wife, Kim Kardashian, fought back, claiming the songstress approved the lines before the single dropped and provided a clip of their call with Swift on Snapchat as proof.
However, Taylor claimed that she did not hear the song in full, telling fans on social media: "You cannot 'approve' a song you haven't heard...Being falsely painted as a liar when I was never given the full story or played any part of the song is a character assassination." Meanwhile, the new clip making the rounds on Twitter present-day, seemingly confirm Swift's side of the story.
It's unclear who may have leaked the "unedited" video (Kris Jenner is a prime suspect), but, in any case, the hashtags #KanyeWestIsOverParty and #TaylorSwiftWasRightAllAlong are trending on Twitter.
Google finally unveiled its coronavirus website today. Yes, that website, the one that President Donald Trump (R-Gaslighter) said Google was building that the company had no idea it was building.
The website, while a good resource to obtain information on covid-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, is nothing like what Trump described.
To recap, last week Trump and his team announced that Google was developing a nationwide coronavirus screening website. The president claimed that 1,700 Google engineers were working on the project and that they had "made tremendous progress." Confusion ensued afterward, with Google hurriedly announcing that it was working on something vaguely similar to what Trump had described.
In the end, Google delivered a website that does what it said it would do, which just happens not to be what Trump or his team said it would do. In other words, it is not a covid-19 screening website that provides users with a questionnaire about their symptoms and directs them to the nearest drive-through testing facility.
RuPaul, of the beloved RuPaul's Drag Race television show, said in a recent interview that he leases the mineral and water rights of his land in Wyoming to oil companies.
In an interview with NPR's Terry Gross on her show "Fresh Air" (the irony), Gross asked RuPaul about the 60 acres of land he owns in Wyoming.
"Oh, no, no no. No, no, no. Sixty thousand acres," RuPaul corrected Gross.
"That's like a national park!" Gross exclaimed. "What are you doing with them? … Do you have, like, horses, cattle, a farm?"
RuPaul went on to explain that a "modern ranch, 21st-century ranch is really land management". Land management, at least the way he's doing it, is to "lease the mineral rights to oil companies and you sell water to oil companies, and then you lease the grazing rights to different ranchers".
Sigmund Freud is one of the most famous doctors to delve into the human subconscious. But is anything he said rooted in science?
After all, one of his most memorable ideas suggested that we're all repressing our true desires to have sex with our parents. But Freud didn't use science to arrive at this idea. He started out with a theory and then worked backward, seeking out tidbits to reinforce his beliefs and then aggressively dismissing anything else that challenged those ideas. That's according to Frederick Crews, a one-time Freudian follower and professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley.
"Freud passed himself off as a scientist. He was very sensitive to objections and would simply laugh at an objection and claim the person making it was psychologically ill," Crews told Live Science.
"Freud was right about 'day residue' in dreams," said Robert Stickgold, a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. "But the whole psychoanalysis thing, and the role of childhood sexuality, was totally bonkers."
Day residues are exactly what you think they are: traces of what happened in reality that find their way into our dreams. Freud was nothing if not prolific, content to opine on matters as diverse as sexual perversions, the notion of female "hysteria," and subliminal memory, or the memories that supposedly lurk in parts of the brain separate from the conscious. But for some observers, that's where the man's apparent genius lies.
Two Republican senators defended themselves on Friday against heavy criticism, including calls that they resign, for selling substantial amounts of stocks before the coronavirus-induced market meltdown and after closed-door briefings on the outbreak.
Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr sold up to $1.7 million worth of stock on Feb. 13 in 33 separate transactions after offering public assurances the government was ready to battle the virus. His financial filings were first reported by ProPublica.
Senator Kelly Loeffler also sold millions of dollars in shares in the weeks after lawmakers were first briefed on the virus, according to public filings.
Media reports about Burr and Loeffler, who have denied wrongdoing, prompted calls they leave office and other criticism from people as disparate as a progressive Democratic lawmaker and a conservative commentator.
It wasn't the welcome home that U.S. soldiers expected when they returned from war zones in the Middle East in the past week.
When their planes landed at Fort Bliss, Texas, they were herded into buses, denied water and the use of bathrooms, then quarantined in packed barracks, with little food or access to the outdoors. "This is no way to treat Soldiers returning from war," one soldier told The Associated Press in an email.
The soldiers posted notes on social media about the poor conditions. Their complaints got quick attention from senior Army and Pentagon leaders. Now changes are under way at Fort Bliss and at Fort Bragg in North Carolina, where the first soldiers placed under quarantine also complained of poor, cramped conditions.
Quarantining troops on military bases is becoming a greater challenge for military officials. While continuing missions and training, they also have to try to prevent the spread of the highly contagious coronavirus by enforcing two-week quarantines of soldiers who have spent months overseas.
In one of Bragg's remote training areas, large white tents have popped up over the past few days to house hundreds of 82nd Airborne Division troops returning to the base from Afghanistan and Middle East deployments. The tent city, being called Forward Operating Base Patriot (FOB Patriot), materialized almost overnight, after commanders realized the limits of the barracks when troops began arriving on Saturday.
The Trump Organization has been forced to cut back on its hotel operations and close certain properties as the US continues grappling with the rapid spread of the novel coronavirus within its borders.
Among the properties that were shuttered is President Donald Trump (R-Grifter)'s Mar-a-Lago golf resort in Palm Beach, Florida, The New York Times reported.
The resort was the site of a number of events and meetings earlier this month that included people who have since tested positive for the coronavirus. That includes two Brazilian officials who were part of a delegation with Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on March 7.
The Times reported that the Trump Organization sent a notice last week to Mar-a-Lago members informing them that the club would be cleaned on Monday but remain open the rest of the week. But the club has now shuttered because of social distancing requirements.
The Times' report said the Trump Organization has also cut staff from properties in New York and Washington and closed golf courses in Los Angeles and Miami.
A mother and her daughter have been arrested for selling body parts from their funeral home for medical research, often without the knowledge of the dead people's families.
Shirley Koch and Megan Hess have been charged with six counts of mail fraud and three counts of illegal transportation of hazardous materials, according to the US Attorney's Office in the District of Colorado.
Ms Koch and Ms Hess set up the Sunset Mesa funeral home in Montrose, Colorado in 2009.
The attorney's office explained that the two women "were arrested for illegally selling body parts or entire bodies without the consent of the family of the deceased."
They also offered cremation services for families, but on some occasions never delivered them.
Donald Trump (R-Inept)'s optimistic and often misleading statements about his administration's response to the coronavirus pandemic stand in sharp contrast to the measures that first responders are seeing in hospitals across the US.
While he's now under scrutiny for overplaying the assistance and relief that the federal government plans to make available, the president's early efforts to diminish the viral outbreak came as confirmed cases of Covid-19 continued to surge.
His statements were met by waves of criticism from his political rivals and public health officials, including members of his own administration leading the response.
A Reddit user matched the president's public statements over the last several weeks to a graph that charts the growing number of coronavirus cases in the US up to this week, showing how the outbreak's impact contradicted the president's own confident claims about his administration's response.
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