tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post2873511573900459189..comments2024-03-27T18:00:02.032-04:00Comments on Sardonicky: Having Your Trump and Eating It TooKaren Garciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15612731479365562803noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-39807534011600534832017-02-04T11:27:42.581-05:002017-02-04T11:27:42.581-05:00Neil,
There are also plenty of movies available f...Neil,<br /><br />There are also plenty of movies available for free on YouTube. My tip is to type in a movie title and see if it's available. You can often access older movie classics this way.Karen Garciahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15612731479365562803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-83872582364215646862017-02-04T10:43:51.712-05:002017-02-04T10:43:51.712-05:00Thanks Karen for the TCM update. Its been so long ...Thanks Karen for the TCM update. Its been so long I’ve moved on... and I avoid subscriptions after my experience with the NY Times 28 day billing cycle and my 30-31 payday schedule... now its DVDs on a 9 inch TV/DVD combo next to my computer... mostly for background company... don’t (can’t) watch ordinary TV with constant commercials... otherwise it’s YouTube for everything from current news to music to documentaries... been watching Ken Burns "The War" on DVD for years, love the first person accounts http://www.pbs.org/thewar/ <br /><br />Otherwise, what are they teaching in journalism school? Now that investigative journalism has vanished?Neilhttp://nosueorg.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-71204991220233885292017-02-02T11:01:14.789-05:002017-02-02T11:01:14.789-05:00Actually, Neil, I am still catching up with films ...Actually, Neil, I am still catching up with films that came out nearly a hundred years ago. Just caught the Weimar-era Cabinet of Dr. Caligari on Netflix not too long ago.<br /><br />Re TCM, you can stream some of their movies, plus they just came out with a new service called Fanstruck, which has a lot of films from the Criterion Collection. I was annoyed when Hulu discontinued the Criterion movies last fall.<br /><br />And yes, Jay, everything is negotiable. You can even dicker over prescriptions at the drugstore, since medicines are way overpriced to begin with. Karen Garciahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15612731479365562803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-7658889325980424922017-02-02T10:39:59.217-05:002017-02-02T10:39:59.217-05:00We dropped TV in 2011 but kept the internet of cou...We dropped TV in 2011 but kept the internet of course. Recently, on the advice of a neighbor we lurched through the same crazy routine described by Karen with our baby bell up here. One phone call––no threats, no weeping, just askin'––got us an upgrade for 1/3 less dough. Huh? Yes, welcome to the world. From such petty yet unremitting injustices great fortunes are made. Every day, at your expense. I sometimes wonder, could I breathe without the internet? And if so, do the Amish accept converts?Jay–Ottawahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10360356126450612113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-70192219434233337942017-02-02T10:26:44.557-05:002017-02-02T10:26:44.557-05:00RE "I'm still trying to catch up on films...RE "I'm still trying to catch up on films that came out 50 years ago."<br /><br />Nothing Sacred with Carole Lombard, Release date November 25, 1937<br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_Sacred_(film)<br /><br />Karen, you are still trying to catch up on films that came out 80 years ago! <br /><br />But seriously, what are they teaching in journalism school? <br /><br />BTW, my cable was cut years ago, and how I miss Turner Classic Movies.Neilhttps://nosueorg.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-11719931529024336062017-02-01T16:51:41.117-05:002017-02-01T16:51:41.117-05:00But does your new/old cable system still include t...But does your new/old cable system still include the rants of Trump or does it go black when he appears, Karen.Pearlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-52262358889279555452017-02-01T15:24:43.780-05:002017-02-01T15:24:43.780-05:00Good for you, Karen! "Why didn't you offe...Good for you, Karen! "Why didn't you offer me that to begin with?"<br /><br />I dropped cable a long time ago, after it almost doubled in a few years. I dropped AT&T land line years ago because it DID double in 8 years for the same service. When I dropped AT&T, I told them why, and I said "My salary hasn't doubled in 8 years."<br /><br />The kids grieved the loss of a few stations for a while. But there is less noise and tension in our home, and we have more control over what we do watch -- thanks to the internet.Elizabeth Adamsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-75105426182095533972017-02-01T14:43:06.164-05:002017-02-01T14:43:06.164-05:00Jamie,
We're really on the same page. Who to ...Jamie,<br /><br />We're really on the same page. Who to loathe more - Trump, or the anti-Trump corporate media? I lean toward the anti-Trump virtue-signalers myself. Re Resistance, Inc: the coup de grace for me was Obama's press agent (not Obama himself, who's still busy vacationing on a private island where the rate for paying guests starts at $78,000 a night) saying how much he is "heartened" by the protest movement.<br /><br />I'm sure that many protesters are upset with more than just Trump the Person and his cabinet, but it's painfully obvious, given all the professional politician and celebrity involvement,that the Marches and the Airport stand-offs are meant for the ultimate benefit of the Democratic Party, a/k/a Resistance, Inc. I consumed the news this morning of multimillionaire minority leader Nancy Pelosi standing in front of the Supreme Court for a protest photo-op, and I nearly upchucked the content all over my slick new modem. I read on an off-label comment board that to call them Vichy Democrats is actually an insult to the French Nazi collaborators. These centrists and liberals cannot rubber-stamp Trump's oligarchic cabal fast enough.<br /><br />Another one of my favorite pet peeves this week: Obama and Clinton fans still urging the Democrats to "grow a spine."Karen Garciahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15612731479365562803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-74151219159113485742017-02-01T13:47:10.744-05:002017-02-01T13:47:10.744-05:00I am going to cut the cable for the opposite reaso...I am going to cut the cable for the opposite reason. The news stations have become a 24/7 infomercial against Trump ... in favor of neoliberal imperialism, globalism, and corporate governance. The more they become the anti-Trump Pravda, the more this Marxist will tolerate Trump, since all media is simply an edifice of the capitalist superstructure.<br /><br />Yet I don't blame you for cutting the crap. It's a lot to pay for a circus clown cam.Jamiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06188981127650112105noreply@blogger.com