I wonder why Californian Eric Swalwell maintained a DC residence. After resigning, his federal career was kaput.

I was also curious as to why Democrat Eric Swalwell hired a conservative Republican named Bo Dietl -- retired NYPD detective -- to investigate his victims and witnessess.

There are plenty of gumshoes in NYC and California owned and operated by Democrats.

I forgot about the British Upstairs, Downstairs from 1971 to 1975 which was a serious show.

I bet some of the actors slid over to "I, Claudius" in 1976 to make a quid.

Indeed.

These miscreants would lynch a Muslim if they could, just like whites used to do to POC down South.

Good Morning Doc Sarvis:

A believable anecdote from Sean Phillips and a coincidence about her obit, "I, Claudius," and my OP about the benefits of immigration.

Shakespearean actors would have read or acted in Coriolanus, Othello, Titus Andronicus, and Julius Caesar, and be accustomed to the costumes and archaic practices. But these thespians probably didn't read the historical books about that era, like "I, Claudius." When would they have the time or inclination?

The last serious British production to win an award was Oliver! in 1969. Comedies and Dr Who may have been the zeitgeist in Britain from 1970 to 1976. So, the cast didn't take this show seriously. GT British Skull would know more about those nuances.

The cast of Casablanca also did not know that their movie would become a classic in the top ten.

Quite the opposite with Star Trek. When the last scene was filmed in Jan 1969, everybody knew they created something special. Five months later the entire cast would watch the moon landing.

The spectrum of SW Asian food ranges from the polar ends of Sri Lanka to Afghanistan, then everything else in-between.

Most spicy is further south.

The Sri Lankan cuisine I've enjoyed used a darker, or smoked, curry.

If Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) says Staten Island hosts one of the best Sri Lankan restaurants, believe him.

Where the restaurant would get fresh non-farm grown fish I don't know, because a Sri Lankan specialty is smoked sprats, four to six inches long and delicious.

BTW: Yup, we're about the same age and now I remember the double doors at the port. Tiled white floors and swinging wooden doors?

In SI there was also a huge disco right near the Outerbridge Crossing, but I can't remember the name. One word, I think. And a mobster worked out of that auto shop underneath the Bayonne Bridge last century.

#26

Yup.

Deborah Wasserman Schultz ought to be ashamed of herself.

Her entire career, healthcare program, and terrific retirement pension comes from all of our hard-earned money.

And she's been an AIPAC pod-person the moment she entered politics.

Like the privileged Deborah Wasserman Schultz knows about poverty and discrimination experienced by People of Color.

We may as well put a gringo in charge of Puerto Rico.

Roman gladiators weren't meant to be killed in the arena during combat, as they were considered expensive property. Many of them knew each other from the stables.

However, when an emperor decreed life or death for a fallen gladio, he would signify with the thumb.

The thumb DOWN signified "LIFE" and the victorious gladio was to thrust his sword harmlessly into the ground.

The thumb UP signified "DEATH" and the winning warrior was to thrust his sword upward through the heart of the losing combatant.

This practice was somehow mixed in translation from Latin or ancient Greek and this reversal began appearing in Renaissance literature and illustrations, persisting to this day.

Time flies: "I, Claudius" is half a century old this year and "Gladiator" premiered 26 years ago.

"Slay him."

The utterly demonic Jake Lang being warmly welcomed by the good people of Minnesota earlier this year.

*** Natalie Harpy Obssessed with Dummkopf Trumpf: USSS Alarmed ***

And Dummkopf Trumpf's fixation on handsome young men like NYG QB Jaxson Dart or NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) have alarmed West Wing staffers.

Pure putrid Peyton Place.

*** Senile Satan's Wretched Concubine Has No Security Clearance ***

"Dummkopf Trumpf's closest aide, Natalie Harpy, declined multiple times over more than a year to seek a routine security clearance normally obtained by West Wing staffers to work at the White House.

Harpy's reasoning for declining to complete the process was unknown."

~snip~

Below, two of the worst human beings to ever defile our planet. Both are a complete affront to the senses and decency.

As the Russians bark at miscreants: "Pa-showl!"

The US-armed Israeli Death Forces (IDF) -- serial killers of the Middle East -- have now extinguished 73,495 human beings in Gaza, 20,179 of them children, 12,500 women. 174,335 have been maimed or wounded. The Lancet UK argues the death toll exceeds 75,000.

The PTSD and anguish the poor Palestinian people in Gaza are suffering must be similar in magnitude to that of Auschwitz survivors of the Holocaust.

Israeli National Security Advisor Itamar Ben-Gvir publicly admitted that he wants the IDF to murder 30 to 40 Palestinians a night, not just six or seven a day which is the current trend.

The IDF High Command may have self-imposed a daily limit to the number of Muslims they kill in Gaza so as not to invite global scrutiny and scorn again.

Americans are sick and tired of funding Israel's worldclass universal healthcare while they butcher human beings
in Gaza to make way for Jared Kushner's upscale beachside resort for Israel's oligarchs and terrorist Settlers.

Meanwhile, we're stuck with the effects of the BBB and Trumpf Diarrhea Syndrome (TDS).

US midterm elections are tentatively scheduled for Tuesday 3 Nov 2026. Each of these Muslim deaths in Gaza at the hands of the vicious IDF translates into concrete votes for DSA candidates like Dr Abdul El-Sayed (D-MI) or Angie Nixon (D-FL).

Don't believe Coriolanus?

Don't care.

See example of NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D)'s 2025 victory over AIPAC pod-person Andrew Cuomo for more information.

The American taxpayer IDF-- the "Night Stalkers" of the Middle East -- like demented sequence killer Richard Ramirez.

If the Democrats have a genuine national convention in 2028 -- unlike the sham AIPAC carnival in 2024 which befouled Chicago-- USAF Major Jason Watson should be a keynote speaker.

Moreover, the next non-Republican administration can pardon Major Watson and promote him as if he was a POW these past two years.

Recall that USAF Airman Aaron Bushnell set himself on fire on 25 Feb 2024 in protest of US complicity in Israel's genocide of the Palestinians.

Heroism isn't always displayed in a combat zone, as USAF Major Jason Watson has demonstrated.

*** SiriusXM Radio Rakshasa Megyn Kelly: ""Free Childcare is for People Who Do Nothing" ***

"The Democratic Party's race to the left continues in earnest with a new win from a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, this time in Florida. In Florida, of all places. What's next? Mississippi?

"Last night DSA member Angie Nixon defeated retired Army lieutenant colonel and prominent resistance champ Alex Vindman in the Democratic primary for Senate in Florida. This guy is a left-wing hero, so how'd she take him down?

"She's DSA, that's how. Nixon advocates for abolishing ICE, free childcare " I love the word free. What it means is actual contributing members of society will pay for the free childcare of people who do nothing.

"Ashley Moody is going to be the opponent of Angie Dixon, and Ashley Moody is the current incumbent. She got the job, thanks to " she's a Republican " she got the job because Marco Rubella was elevated, and Gov. Ron DeSatan appointed her to replace Rubella when he became the secretary of state.

"But now they're running to see who's going to fill out the last couple of years of Rubello's term. And, look, the Republicans should win because it's Florida, and it's been since 2012, since we've had, I think, a Democrat elected to the US Senate or to a higher office in Florida.

"But who the hell knows, given the DSA is on some sort of a tear?"

~snip~

The harder the rightwing attack, the more they are panicking.

Yup. And Johnson Smith sadly went out of business many years ago.

Some company was liquidating their inventory online.

That's the pizzeria, but I don't recall the double doors.

And decades later my friend buried his mother at the free Jewish cemetery a few miles south of there.

None of us could have possibly thought that.

At the old Queensboro Plaza subway station (westbound, 7, N, and R lines), walking up the stairs and through a "building" before the walkway and toll-stile, there was a tailor in a kiosk who sold belts, shoes, ties, scarves, gloves, cufflinks, stylus pens, umbrellas, and he sharpened knives (not switchblades) and he mended clothing and altered suits. He was able to make enough money to survive NYC rents for years.

And next to him was a pizzeria. Two slices of pizza and a cup of Joe was the gumshoe lunch.

Hi Corky:

Be careful and keep your left up.

As Landru warned in Star Trek: "You are not of the Body and must be absorbed."

#10

To my Fellow Traveler with a sharp eye for the comely lasses, your wish is my command.

One book is sold.

I may still have a copy in storage.

The proprietor spent time with customers relating to us the myths (or debunking the myths) of the Old Southwest.

For example, we learned that sheriffs posted signs warning people to leave their six-shooters outside town limits or surrender them (and get a receipt).

"Calamity Jane" was thusly named because she was a fireship.

And last century, the SI ferry was a refuge for the homeless or poor people with nowhere to go. Passengers weren't all shooed off when the ferry pulled in on either side. For one token (I think it was), my friends and I would spend a day going back and forth a few times, getting the wind into our urban faces.

We would eat at a pizzeria right next to the SI ferry dock. Two bucks = two slices of pizza and a small orange or grape drink.

Willowby is late.

"FUNNY"

The rampant things in America: