INAUGERATION DAY: VIA YOUTUBE

 THIS IS NOT MY VIDEO ...
Not my CIRCUS, not my MONKEYS!!!!!

As I tell my kids when they start pulling me into intrigue ... although ... if you've been here for any amount of time - I'm always intrigued!

So - here is a "Live Feed" - as of right now, I don't know how long they will keep it up ... obviously, it likely will no longer be "Live" ...

R.I.P DAME MAGGIE SMITH

I cannot believe this -- I haven't seen a WORD about this on Good Morning America this morning .... I'm really beginning to question the Disney Corporation ....

Dame Maggie Snith - known to most children as "Mrs. McGonagall" passed away on Friday 27Sept2024 ...

I found out about it while watching a PBS show, Ridley, this weekend - it opened with a small placard ...
I suppose from the PBS system, because she had nothing to do with the show itself ...

I could see them not mentioning it on Friday ... since I don't know when on Friday sfirshe had passed away - perhaps after the show, or slightly before ...
Or maybe, and actually more likely, the press wasn't informed until afterwards ...

But if PBS could get a placard made by Sunday night - surely ABC, owned by Disney Corp, could have gotten an announcement in the first hour of their news broadcast - even during the sceond hour media gossip section, I didn't hear a thing about it!!

So sad .... she was a part of so many of our lives for so long ... and while the youth might remember her as McGonagall ... 

I will treasure her as Lady Violet Grantham from Downton Abbey ...

So to honor her - here is a video i FOUND on YouTube ...

again .... NOT MY VIDEO ...
I will likely add more videos as I find them.

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I knew Maggie Smith had a long career, but I forgot most of these!

In Their Own Words

The Democrats are very successful at the finger pointing and saying "see - that person flip-flopped!"

well in their own words ... remember the PRESIDENT and both houses of the Democratic led CONGRESS said that health care reform, in particular the individual mandate, was NOT a TAX and that NO ONE earning less than $250,000 would see any sort of a tax increase ....

Here is how "OBAMA'S LAWYER" ((actually its the US attorney, the one who speaks on behave of the government and Congress)) argued the governments RIGHT to pass this Act:

it is "A tax law ... fully integrated into the tax system .... [that] triggers .... tax consequences for non - compliance."
The Law "imposes a tax liability .... [and] tax penalties on non-exempted individuals ..."
The "penalty operates to increase the paxpayer's total tax liability .... [and[ is valid not only as a tax in its own right, but also as an adjunct to the income tax."
Obama Administrative Brief To Supreme Court
10/26/11

So for any of those out there who thinks that Chief Justice Roberts gave the administrations lawyers the heads up as to which way to argue this case ... I think you can see that the White House was already calling it a TAX even while they where whispering in our ear while reaching up our skirts "its okay baby, its not a tax" ....

The Courts majority decision said what about this? (this was read aloud so I may miss where some redactions begins/end)

"... the funds-due, refered to as a penalty, do not alter their essential characteristics as taxes ... if the concept of a penalty means anything, it means punishment for an unlawful act or admission, and since failure to have health care insurance is NOT unlawful, therefore, it is "a tax on those who do not have health insurance"

It gets better ... in RECORDINGS from the Supreme Court hearing, Chief Justice Roberts took the Federal lawyer, Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr, to task:
CJR: why didn't Congress call it a tax then?
SGV: well ...
CJR: are you telling me then that they thought of it as a tax, they defended it on the tax power, why didn't they say it was a tax?
SGV: they might have thought, Your Honor, that calling it a "penalty" as they did would make it more effective in accomplishing its objectives but it is in the Internal Revenue Code, it is collected by the IRS on April 15th"

I do have an issue with how many dot-dot-dots there are in this particular quote which I found -- a lot of "sins" and truths can be hidden in those dot-dot-dots. but since lawyers are NOTORIOUS for using such devices, one would think that before such a breif goes before the Supreme Court they lawyers would have looked to see how a redaction might have looked while still keeping a grain of truth within them.

I saw a cartoon which attacked the Tea Party for not wanting the HCA by stating that the only places in the word without universal healthcare are Communist China and all of Africa ... implying that if you don't believe in healthcare you believe in oppressive regimes.

The Administration also loves to point to the Mass. Health Care which Romney helped to put in place and say "see he's for it" ... but they fail to mention that it is on a STATE LEVEL which would be perfectly LEGAL under the United States Constitution since such issues as insurance falls under States Rights not Federal {and I blame the Conservatives for letting that whole argument slide}

WOW - right after I typed that, a conservative legal analyst actually used that argument (states rights) and was SNICKERED at by the liberal legal analyst -- I'm not sure which is more stunning ... the fact that the conservatives are finally starting to understand it, or the fact that the liberals are willing to ignore those Rights too just to get what they want ...

which in my mind is more of our money to push through more dependence on government programs ...

want an idea of what you will be in for?

here is a clip from a prepper lady who I have corresponded with (ok, I comment on her videos, she writes back) quite a few times ... she is up in Canada:


Now before anyone starts going "oh its one of those crazy prepper people I've seen on TV" -- Bev, TheMrsVolfie, is actually quite down to earth, at least thats the feeling I get from her ... don't believe me? check out her videos ... I think the most "radical" Ive see on her channel is the slaughtering of her own animals - but if thats radical, then there are an AWFUL lot of radicals in this world.

Eminent Domain Strikes Again

This had slipped past me - at least until I subscribed to the MNDMV YouTube site ...

Watch the animation carefully on the left-hand side - see the neighborhood (barely visible beneath the trees) disappear as the image sweeps upward ... Oh and look, the trees are going to disappear as well.

The only reason the houses are going is because the new project is moving the freeway closer to the homes Conde ing them for safety reason -- otherwise there is no reason for these homes to be condemned ... It's the project ITSELF that causes the issue



Pay attention -- this too can happen to you!

Historical Fiction

Oh to think that this really wasn't that long ago ... not even 100 yrs:

Watch the full episode. See more Masterpiece.

Things that make you go "COOL"!!!!!

Its not Monday - but here we go ...

Okay so I was checking out the Rav page - like I always seem to be doing when I don't have knitting needles or a crochet hook or a tatting shuttle in my hand (although its getting close enough to graduation to where I will soon have Scrapbooking stuff taking up every space in the house ... but probably not until after Easter so I can spread it out on the big dining tables and not move it until I've finished) ....

any how - on Rav i belong to a Tea group and one of the members was looking for 50's style items to make, but someone linked to a page which had a link to another page about a Hawiian Island hairstyle (all the rage in the 40's & 50's) and that page had a comment section, and when I went to leave a comment - and give some hints ma gave me way back when - I found a link to this video ....

The Vintage Bow Bun!!!

Now the video is in Japanese - they have a great love for all things 1950-s American there - but if you click on the triangle on the bottom video ribbon (looks like an up arrow) and then turn on the annotations - it will say 'turn off annotations' when its on - then along the top of the video will be the instructions in English ...

Have fun! I know my daughters and I will