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Hendrik Abbé (* vor dem 28. Februar 1639 in Antwerpen; † gegen Ende des 17. Jahrhunderts) war ein flämischer Maler und Zeichner. Vielleicht war er auch Architekt.

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Hendrik Abbé war der zweite Sohn des Kunsthändlers Claude Abbé († 1652 oder 1653) und der Elisabeth van Noorden. Über sein Leben sind nur wenige sichere Fakten bekannt. So liegen etwa keine Informationen darüber vor, welchen Meister er zum Lehrer hatte. Zahlreiche Autoren identifizierten ihn ohne genügende Grundlage mit einem Abbé, der die Zeichnung zu dem Bildnis des Malers Peeter van Bredael schuf, die von Conrad Lauwers für das Gulden Cabinet des flämischen Dichters, Juristen und Politikers Cornelis de Bie (Antwerpen 1662) gestochen wurde. Abbé wäre als damals erst 22-Jähriger der jüngste künstlerische Mitarbeiter von Cornelis de Bie gewesen. Mit größerer Sicherheit dürfte auf ihn ein Dokument des Antwerpener Notars J. M. Lodewijcx vom 16. Mai 1665 zu beziehen sein, in dem die Schuld eines Kunstmalers Hendrik Abbé beim Priester Franciscus Anthoine für ein halbes Jahr Kostgeld auf 180 Gulden beziffert wird. Deshalb musste dieser Abbé mehrere seiner Kunstwerke verpfänden, die, falls er seine Schuld nicht binnen Dreiwochenfrist bezahlen konnte, an den Priester fallen sollten.

Merkwürdig ist, dass Abbés Name nicht in den Unterlagen und Rechnungen der Antwerpener Lukasgilde auftaucht, obwohl er 1670 in Antwerpen mehrere Graphiken herausgegeben haben soll. Ob es sich dabei um Graphiken für die Kathedrale dieser Stadt handelt, wie im Artikel zu Abbé in dem französischen Künstlerlexikon Bénézit angegeben, steht ebenfalls nicht mit Bestimmtheit fest. Das Einschreiberegister der Lukasgilde erwähnt nur 1673/1674 einen Miniaturisten (verlichter) Hendrik als Freimeister der Zunft, ohne seinen Familiennamen anzugeben. Es ist unwahrscheinlich, dass dieser Hendrik mit dem hier behandelten Abbé identisch ist, u. a. deshalb, weil Abbé als Sohn eines Meisters nicht wie der erwähnte Hendrik Geld an die Zunft hätte zahlen müssen.

Nicht nur als Maler war Abbé aktiv, er soll auch dem Beruf des Architekten nachgegangen sein. Alexandre Pinchart spürte nämlich in den Akten des Rats von Brabant eine früher im Allgemeinen Reichsarchiv in Brüssel befindliche Urkunde auf, laut der ein Maler und Architekt Hendrik Abbé 1671 ein Modell für jene Leuchter zeichnete, die das Kapitel der Sint-Goedelekerk in Brüssel unter den Apostelstandbildern zu platzieren beabsichtigte. Jedoch ist diese Urkunde heute verschollen, weshalb nicht mehr untersucht werden kann, ob der in ihr genannte Abbé tatsächlich mit dem hier behandelten Künstler gleichzusetzen ist. In den Einschreiberegistern der Brüsseler Künstler entdeckte Alexandre Pinchart außerdem den Vermerk, dass ein Maler Abbé, dessen Vorname allerdings fehlt, am 13. Juli 1676 Aufnahme in diese Zunft fand. Ob er mit Hendrik Abbé identisch ist, lässt sich aber auch in diesem Fall nicht sicher entscheiden. Das einzig mit Gewissheit Hendrik Abbé zuzuweisende Werk sind vier mit dem Monogramm HA oder mit vollständigem Namen signierte Graphiken, die zu den Illustrationen der von Pierre Du Ryer besorgten Übersetzung von Ovids Metamorphosen gehören, die 1677 in Brüssel und Amsterdam erschien. Möglicherweise ist auch eine mit H. A. F. 1677 unterzeichnete Plafondskizze in der Wiener Albertina auf Hendrik Abbé zu beziehen. Wahrscheinlicher kann ihm aber ein einst dem Kunstsammler James Hazard gehörendes Porträt der Drei Grazien in einer Landschaft zugeordnet werden, das die Unterschrift H. Abbe trägt.

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 Adolphe Siret: Abbé (Henri) In: Biographie Nationale de Belgique. Band 1, 1866, Sp. 1 (französisch, Wikisource).

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Controversial "Immunity Passports" Debated as COVID Vaccine is Rolled Out
Scott Ikeda· January 15, 2021
The concept of an "immunity passport" that verifies inoculation has been floated for some months now, with the first prominent public example being an announcement by Qantas that proof of vaccination would be required for international flights. The idea of demonstrating proof of receiving a COVID vaccine to access both public and private spaces is, according to an MIT Technology Review report, being hotly debated by a broad variety of both government and business organizations.
There have yet to be any proposals that individuals "show papers" to move freely or access services, but the issuance of vaccination receipts in some areas (such as hard-hit Los Angeles County) has raised concerns that these might be adopted as *de facto* immunity passports.
COVID vaccine rolls out amidst a storm of issues
Distribution of the COVID vaccine in the US has been plagued with logistical issues and confusion over how to prioritize recipients, and is far from being at a level where a system of immunity passports could be seriously considered. Still, it appears that there is great interest throughout both government and private industry.
The only thing resembling immunity passports at the moment is a reminder notice that is issued after the first of the two COVID vaccine doses is administered. This card (which is now available in digital form in Los Angeles, sent directly to smartphones) is issued solely for people to keep track of when they need to return for their second dose. It is possible to obtain a vaccination certificate for international travel purposes after receiving both doses, but there is currently no domestic application for these records.
Proof of a recent negative COVID-19 test is required to travel to many countries at present, including to the US as of this month. Some countries are also allowing documented proof of exposure and recovery as a substitute, given that there is a growing body of evidence that COVID-19 immunity persists for a very long time once developed. But there has been little real discussion anywhere of limiting domestic travel or access to vital services to those who can demonstrate some form of immunity.
Advocates for broad-scale domestic immunity passports point out that vaccination records are already required for many things, such as going to school and working at certain jobs, and are already required for international travel to combat diseases such as yellow fever. Critics counter that those are established vaccines that have been tested and used for many years; the two COVID vaccines available at present make use of mRNA technology that has never been used on the general public before, and that neither the government or private enterprise should be in the business of forcing people to take what is essentially an experimental medicine that has not been subject to the usual safety testing standards.
Many other issues with immunity passports
Even if there was broad public support for requiring people to take the vaccine to move about their daily lives — something that seems unlikely to materialize — there would be the issue of how to set up a verification standard. Immunization records are handled at the state level, and are subject to a variety of differing state laws. There is no central federal clearinghouse for such records. In some rural areas, patient care facilities still communicate entirely by fax machine. The COVID pandemic might well resolve itself naturally in the time it would take to come up with workable answers to all of these issues of authorizing and moving personal data.
There is also the issue of hardening any such digital identity system against forged results; a black market has already appeared for the negative test results needed to fly between certain countries. MIT reports that several big names in tech and medicine, including IBM and Microsoft, are looking to build a centralized system based on a singular verifiable credential to address this possibility. However, any such system would require trusting personal health data to a private entity — at a time when big tech is not particularly popular for its data handling practices. It would also require connecting thousands of health systems that have no prior relationships and are governed by a variety of different laws. The current COVID vaccine dose reminders issued by Los Angeles County would not work as immunity passports as they are easily replicated and nearly impossible for anyone to verify the authenticity of.
And that is before getting to the raft of ethical concerns and potential legal conflicts that arise. Private businesses would likely be legally gun-shy about participating unless the government made vaccination mandatory, something that is exceptionally unlikely. There are also currently large categories of people (primarily children and pregnant women) that are advised to not take either of the existing COVID vaccines as not enough safety data exists for them.
There is also the possibility of creating a perverse incentive to become infected with COVID-19 to avoid being limited in movement and access to work opportunities. This scenario could unfold if distributed doses of the COVID vaccine remain inadequate to keep up with demand; wealthy and connected individuals might access it first, pressuring the less fortunate to develop immunity by gambling with exposure.
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Efforts at immunity passports thus far appear to be developing on an independent basis, either by industry or by individual organization. For example, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) is developing blockchain-based immunity passports specifically for travel while the World Health Organization (WHO) is researching a similar "e-vaccination certificate." These projects are currently slated to be used only for international air travel, with each country's contact tracing system picking up responsibility upon arrival.
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White House will defend tougher rules, Geithner says
The Obama administration will continue to oppose attempts to change new regulations intended to prevent a repeat of the global financial crisis, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said. "If these efforts to weaken reform are successful, then consumers will be more vulnerable to future abuse, businesses will be more vulnerable to future contractions in credit availability caused by financial mistakes, and the economy will be more vulnerable to devastating crises," he said. MarketWatch(12/1)
Lawmakers scrutinize Gensler and CFTC over MF Global
Republican members of the Senate agriculture committee criticized Commodity Futures Trading Commission and its chairman, Gary Gensler, for actions leading up to the collapse of MF Global. Sen. Mike Johanns, R-Neb., questioned whether Gensler's recusal from the MF Global investigation was a way to "avoid the heat." Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., is demanding an independent investigation into how MF Global was monitored by regulators. Reuters(12/1), The Hill/On The Money blog(12/1)
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The Securities and Exchange Commission is reviewing an accounting technique that MF Global Holdings used. The U.S. agency is discussing "repurchase-to-maturity" agreements with the Financial Accounting Standards Board, SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro said. "We are talking ... about whether we need more disclosure of those," she said. Bloomberg(12/2)
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Experimental Atmospherics: Black to Comm's "Seven Horses for Seven Kings"
Jenna DePasquale
Jenna DePasquale Published: January 24, 2019
With an eye for perfection in imperfection, Hamburg's Black to Comm (inspired by the spirit of the MC5 track) has graced the world with an artform that cannot be summed up in a single word. A musical astronaut, the man behind it all, Marc Richter, has become highly sought-after to take audiences into higher planes. His body of atmospheric work is covered in a darkness offset by the rhythmic twinkle of faint lights, as if stars were on-switches. The intriguing paradox that is Black to Comm's futuristic take on the land that time forgot has yielded countless albums adorned with surreal visuals: for instance, the project's 2014 self-titled release managed to illicit a post-rock sound through non-traditional means, ultimately speaking to Richter's role as a benevolent Dr. Frankenstein.
Now, Black to Comm has returned with its latest creation: a sinister take on the outer limits of the avant-garde in the form of Seven Horses for Seven Kings. We're streaming it below prior to its Friday release.
With a name like Seven Horses for Seven Kings, this album instantly gives off the impression of a towering tale. Despite its non-melodic overtones, it is a work from which we can derive a vivid narrative. On the flip side of lucky seven, the track listings total to an ominous 13, documenting the stages of extreme distress and peace, as well as much of the grey that rests in between. Together, we are presented with a soundtrack to a dreamscape where a semi-conscious brain is the director. The pulsing, trumpet-like screeches of opening track "Asphodel Mansions" immediately grips you by the collar as the words "Seven Horses for Seven Kings" emerges in gothic font.
After a quick fade to a blank screen, tensions build slowly but surely as different samples are interjected. Orchestral-like gravity anchors a variety of beeps until all operations go haywire, invoking a taste of what can be more closely identified as "noise" as we have come to know it. The glimmers of hacksaw-induced torture in "Lethe" push morale to an all-time low, felt in the pit of the stomach, while the somber malaise of "The Deseret Alphabet" serves as a manifestation of Stockholm Syndrome. The underlying sense of dread lifts with "Angel Investor," like a captive heroine finally breaking free into the daylight. You can practically watch the credits roll on grand finale "The Courtesan Jigokudayū Sees Herself as a Skeleton in the Mirror of Hell," but one last bout of haunting unease suggests that we have been set up for a sequel.
While this thriller is exhaustive, there is one final question that can be mustered: who managed to harvest sounds not found in nature? While the surface can only be scratched on the mind of Black to Comm, we asked for Richter's hand and allowed him to guide us.
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Obviously, you're quite the master of experimentation. How did you pick up the technical skills needed to achieve Black to Comm's signature sound?
I would say technical skills are only a small part of what I do and it sounds simple but skills just come to you if you're doing your thing for a long period of time with fervor and perseverance. Of greater importance for any kind of music making is the act of listening. Before I started making music myself I was (and still am) an active listener, spending hours a day just listening to records. [In] the way I make music the most important aspect in the mixing process is peeling away any unnecessary layers, so it's crucial to know what you're trying to achieve and even more crucial to have a sense of what you don't want to hear in your music. You have to be unduly opinionated.
The vinyl artwork for Seven Horses for Seven Kings is striking, haunting, but also quite beautiful. Can you tell us about the inspiration behind the visual aspects of the album?
The artwork was done by my friend Andreas Diefenbach, who's a visual artist. Most of his techniques are quite similar to the way I make music; collage, overpainting, sampling, stealing, mutating pre-existing material. This one is an overpainting of a photo of a popular TV personality (I'm not going to say who it is). It goes well along the themes of the album; feudalism, kleptocracy, our new aristocracy. I usually try to work with more subtle imagery but the whole album is a bit more immediate than previous works so it suited that notion.
What do you think is the ideal context in which to enjoy this record?
In the bathtub? No, seriously, I don't know. I guess it doesn't make sense to listen to it as background music so I'm always slightly incensed when people come up with the Ambient Music denomination. It's definitely a more bodily sound compared to older records so it should be played loud and through speakers, large speakers if available. Enjoying might not be the right word though.
If you are inclined to share, what is the significance of the number seven to you?
I'm not sure it has a significance to me personally (though I do tend to associate some sort of serendipity to it) but I realized it generally seems to be a number people favor over other numbers or mystify for some reason. So I'm more interested in the fact that the number has a significance rather than it having one for myself. There are several mystical concepts involving the number seven; seven virtues, seven deadly sins, seven sleepers, the seventh son of a seventh son (an Iron Maiden album as well). In Islam seven is the number of heavens and the number of hells.
What goal did you have in mind when it came to launching your label, Dekorder? What has the experience been like overall?
It was to be an open heterogeneous space; one that I only intervene in rarely (something labels usually do) to give musicians I love and respect a platform where they can present their very own vision and not censor them. It's a big word but all labels want to create some sort of sonic Gesamtkunstwerk and I'm no different. It's been a great experience and I met most of my friends through the label but in the last few years even though it was finally making a small profit it became a bit of a burden so I stopped. In recent years it has become very difficult to promote a real underground culture. Social media seems to have standardized people's opinions and suddenly everything seems either black or white while I'm personally more interested in the grey areas.
Are you keen on playing shows? If so, what work goes into translating Black to Comm into a live performance?
I used to not enjoy playing live but kind of got into it in the last few years. There's an immediacy and physicality you can only accomplish with a decent sound system and the right group of people. It's difficult to translate what is mainly a studio project into a live setting but I think I found some ways to do it without compromising too much. I don't really enjoy being front and center, but neither [do I] want to incorporate visuals, so I try to let the sonics take center stage.
Where do you see yourself fitting into the legacy of industrial music in Germany, if at all?
Obviously I have an interest in the origins of the genre with groups such as Throbbing Gristle, Nurse With Wound, and Coil. Regarding German groups I would say Faust (from Hamburg!) are the ultimate proto-Industrial band using a concrete mixer and TV sets on stage in the 1970s and working with the studio as an instrument, and groups like Cluster introducing pure electronic sounds to a music scene used to guitars and drums.
Hamburg had a strong scene in the early 1980s with Alfred Hilsberg's Zick Zack label which released early albums by Neubauten, Die Tödliche Doris, Palais Schaumburg et al. There were people like Asmus Tietchens and Uli Rehberg (who are still around) releasing music by SPK, Throbbing Gristle, Laibach and still running a great record shop (Unterm Durchschnitt) that I visited regularly when I moved to the city -- it's definitely a tradition I can identify with.
Also, the late 1970s/early 1980s works by Roland Kayn should not be forgotten (even though he moved to the Netherlands at some point). Coming from a whole different (academic) background, he was still taking a similar path. Massive walls of noise...
Seven Horses for Seven Kings drops on Friday via Thrill Jockey.
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Filed Under: black to comm, experimental, germany
Categories: Debuts, Interviews, Streams
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Fvnerals Enters a Chilling "Ashen Era" of Atmospheric Doom Metal (Early Track Stream + Interview)
Imha Tarikat Unshackles Black Metal with Heartfelt Intensity and "Brute Majesty" (Early Track Stream + Interview)
"Salt," or, "Cryptae Destroys Death Metal, Again" (Early Song Debut)
Listen for "Phantom Knocks" in GRIN's Bass-Heavy Stoner Doom (Early Album Stream)


Anyone who has been on the graffitimundo, or Juanele AR tours has had the chance to see that the local urban art is booming. Don't miss the last days of Palermo art gallery Hollywood in Cambodia's special sale of some of the best local stencils, graffitis, and illustrations by some of the most active urban artists of the Buenos Aires scene. Bellow the gallery is the Post Street Bar, which is decorated with graffiti and stencils and is a good place for a quick beer. Gallery opens from 5pm-9pm. Sale from 8pm-9pm. Thames 1885 1st floor. hollywoodincambiodia@gmail.com.
Every Friday the historical San Francisco Basilica in the Monserrat neighborhood hosts an arts fair where paintings, sculptures and photography can be bought. Adolfo Alsina 380, Monserrat.
Take a day trip to the San Isidro neighborhood in the outskirts of the city and visit Quinta Los Ombues, one of the oldest homestead in the city where a small historical museum is displayed overlooking a beautiful viewpoint of San Isidro. Close by is the San Isidro cathedral and an artisans fair in a shaded park. Also in San Isidro is the Casa de Victoria OCampo well worth visiting and worth stopping in for some tea with scones.
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Good morning my fellow readers/followers, I'm just so excited this week! I belong to an amazing group on facebook called Foodify, and this week we had the Fall Soup Challenge which I was thrillled to join, This was my first food challenge and I loved it!! We had to use only 6 ingredients and for me ( as you know I love spices & various ingredients) so using just 6 ingredients was a real challenge for me! My creation was Bean Soup with bacon and chili peppers, we are legumes lovers in my house. I chose legumes because they are healthy and adding chili peppers to it just makes a perfect fall soup! I bring another great recipe from my kitchen to yours. KALE OREXI!!!
I soaked my legumes (kidney- beans) over night. The following day I boiled them and drained drained them in a colander. I chopped up all the ingredients and added them in the pot. I sauted for about 10 minutes, added 8 glasses of water( if needed add more. Boil on high for about 1 hr. When they have softened place on low heat and allow to simmer until legumes have reached an almost creamy taste.


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Hvalfjarðargöng
The Hvalfjörður Tunnel or Hvalfjarðargöng, as it is known in Icelandic, is the first tunnel in Iceland to be built under the sea. The 5.77 km-long (5770 metres) road tunnel connects the western part of Iceland to its northern regions.
Thus, what was earlier a long, winding route through the fjords was replaced by a shorter route through the tunnel, cutting the distance by 45 km. This means it now takes about 10 minutes to cross the fjords, which earlier took an arduous one hour time. The Tunnel, which is 165 metres below the sea level at its deepest point, has a sea depth at 40 metres, while the minimum rock coverage stands at 40 metres.
The Hvalfjörður Tunnel which is 165 metres below the sea level, also marked a milestone for being the first private finance initiative in the construction sector which did not get direct funding by the state government. Constructed by Spölur and designed by Verkís, Spölur owned the tunnel till 2018, after which it was transferred to Vegagerðin, the Icelandic Road Administration. The two-lane Tunnel built at a cost of $ 70 million began construction in 1996, which was completed in 1998 and has been designed to cater to an average daily traffic of 5000 vehicles.
Designed as per Norwegian guidelines, and Norwegian, Icelandic, and international standards, it received a bad rating in 2010 from the European tunnel test and subsequently several improvements were carried out from 2007 to 2013, including better lighting and emergency lights, additional fire extinguishers, monitoring system etc. Designed to withstand the effects of most earthquakes, there are also several portals at 500 metre intervals to facilitate turning around. The Hvalfjörður Tunnel has been toll-free since October 2018.


Cisco Systems on Tuesday put the finishing touches on its portfolio of 10-gigabit-per-second networking gear, a move CEO John Chambers said should boost the company's service provider income to 60 percent from 25 over the next five years.
Cisco Systems on Tuesday put the finishing touches on its portfolio of 10-gigabit-per-second networking gear, a move CEO John Chambers said should boost the companys service provider income to 60 percent from 25 over the next five years.
Industry analysts at RHK last month reported that Cisco continues to lead in the IP router market, having captured about 70 percent of sales in North America. But Juniper Networks is gaining steam and has captured about 25 percent of the overall market, valued at $972 million in the first half of the year.
At the network core, Cisco has about 60 percent of the market, down from 78 percent at the end of 2000, compared with 33 percent for Juniper, up from 21 percent. Avici claimed 7 percent of sales, up from 1 percent in 2000, RHK reported. Core gear directs traffic to the optical core at OC-48 (2.5-Gbps) or OC-192 (10-Gbps) speeds and was valued at about $535 million in the first half.
"Were giving our customers a new set of options for moving 10G through the entire network, giving them the bandwidth to sell advanced services," said Rob Redford, vice president of Ciscos Public Carrier IP Group.
Cisco announced its 10G line back in March. This week, the company said it was extending the 12000 Series of core routers with new edge-optimized line cards based on Ciscos IP Services Engine; the 12404 Internet Router, a smaller 10G box at one-eighth of a rack, is suited for use in small and medium points of presence.
The additions represent "unparalleled investment protection," said Praveen Akkiraju, Ciscos director of product marketing. The company claims an installed base of about 20,000 12000-Series routers and those customers are looking to wring as much value as possible from their capital investments.
"Any customer can take a line card and reuse it in any of the four chassis," Akkiraju said. "This is critical for customers looking to optimize capital expenditures. The second key aspect is that we are the only platform to offer modular switch fabric. This means a customer can double or quadruple the per-slot capacity of the chassis with a fabric upgrade in the field. To move from 2.5G to 10G speeds, all you have to do is swap up to five line cards."
At the network edge, Ciscos share declined to 81 percent from 91 percent, compared with Junipers, which jumped to 14 percent from 7 percent. Unisphere Networks captured 4 percent and Ericsson had 1 percent. The segment was valued at $437 million in the first half of the year.
"By no means has Cisco taken this lightly. It has taken steps to broaden the capabilities and form factors currently available in its edge portfolio," said Rosalyn Roseboro, senior analyst in RHKs Switching and Routing Service unit.
In fact, Cisco this week said it was pushing the IP edge into the metro market with its 10720 Internet Router. The box integrates IP-optimized transport using Ciscos resilient packet ring technology, Dynamic Packet Transport, for full IP routing and services, as well as Ethernet subscriber interfaces.
Cisco advances aside, network engineers arent ready to ignore Juniper.
"I would not ever count Juniper out," said David Diaz, CEO of International Wire Communications. "They place their money on maxing out line rate, while being able to filter everything a network engineer can think of. Design engineers dont like to hear that while you have a high-speed interface in the router, it only pushes 40 percent capacity with the real-world filters on."


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Remembering Norm MacDonald, Trying to Forget AOC & Gavin Newsom (posted 9/20/21)
As I mentioned briefly on Friday, Norm MacDonald has died, and he will be missed. He was an original, and although I didn't enjoy everything he did – his commitment to bits designed to make people uncomfortable, his sometimes cheerfully aggressive vulgarity – he had an intelligence that snuck up on you, packaged as it was in the guise of an amiable, none-too-bright everyman.
He told a joke about a moth – you can find it online – that betrayed a pretty extensive knowledge of Russian literature, and yet had a punchline so dumb that I laugh every time I think about it. Most of the comedians I respect – Dennis Miller, Bill Burr, Seinfeld, and on and on – talked about Norm with awe and affection, which says a lot. I've not read his book, "Based on a True Story," but after seeing a few excerpts from it, I'm looking forward to doing so.
He also had a rare commitment to placing principle ahead of his career. He was famously fired from Saturday Night Live because a big shot there was friends with OJ Simpson, and ordered him to stop telling OJ jokes. Norm cheerfully plowed on ahead, stepping up the ratio of OJ jokes until he was fired from one of the prime jobs in comedy.
It was also refreshingly undramatic, and counter to our times, that he actually had cancer for 9 years, and never told the world or, according to some reports, his friends or family. The family part is weird, but I was raised in the Midwest in what now seems like the 19th century, and I admire stoicism and the resistance to dramatize and over-share one's problems with the world.
When everybody is taking video selfies and sharing every banal detail of their lives and opinions, and yammering on about the nuances of their sexual self-categorization into one of 127 imaginary genders, it's beyond refreshing to see an old-school guy bearing his own cross and avoiding the limelight.
Reminder #1 of the unfairness of the world: Bums like Nancy Pelosi and Bernie Sanders are still alive (not to mention Joe Biden being partially alive) in their late hundreds, but Norm MacDonald is dead at 61.
In other news, when I was taking some pot shots at AOC's ridiculous dress incident last Friday, it turns out I missed a few details that make the whole story even more obnoxious.
It turns out that Little Miss Tax the Rich is an even better representative for the elite left than I realized. I mocked her for her hypocrisy in pretending to attack the rich while she was paying $30 large for a ticket to that stupid gala. It turns out that it was $35K, and that… wait for it… Sandy didn't pay for it anyway!
That's right, she got her tickets comped. So far no one is admitting whether a deep pockets Dem paid for her, and a spokes-weasel said only that she was "a guest of the museum." Another preening socialist, Bill Duh-Blasio, also didn't pay his own way.
I know, break out the defibrillator: another virtue-signaling leftist turns out to be a shameless mooch! Who could have seen that coming?
Speaking of which, the designer who came up with AOC's idiotic dress is named Aurora James, and she's a perfect fit for her sleazy clients. She may want the rich to "pay their fair share," but she appears to have a black belt in fair-share-avoidance herself.
She has open tax warrants against her in NY, and at least six liens from the IRS for not paying payroll taxes. She got nailed for not carrying worker's comp insurance, and for running a quasi-sweatshop and exploiting unpaid interns, and for stiffing multiple landlords. With the profits from such cheating, she bought herself a $1.6 mansion in LA last September.
She's already delinquent in her property taxes there.
For the rancid cherry on her hypocrisy sundae: her sleazy company received over $41K in "pandemic relief aid," courtesy of Joe Biden's ghost, and the American taxpayer.
Reminder #2 of the unfairness of the world: Sandy Cortez cried on camera, describing the "trauma" of how she thought she was going to be raped and murdered in her office on January 6th… even though she was in a different building, blocks away from the goofballs in the Capitol… who, as it turns out, never raped or murdered anyone.
Meanwhile, Norm MacDonald had cancer for 9 years and actually died from it, all without mentioning it, let alone crying about his "trauma."
In other idiocy-related news, the administration has started to regularly cut off Joey Gaffe's microphone; they've done it at least three times this month.
You can see why. I didn't discuss his angry screed announcing his unconstitutional vax mandates, which are being challenged everywhere, but it was a remarkably bad speech. Just like his Afghanistan hollering, it's filled with anger at everyone who don't deserve it, rather than at himself.
The line, "We've been patient, but our patience is wearing thin," was especially obnoxious, on several levels. It suggested the royal "we," in a way that we don't take kindly to in America. Who is he to be brow beating us and praising himself for his patience?
The only thing growing thin is his feeble, intermittently firing neural synapses.
Finally, the people of California have spoken, and they are still morons.
Faced with a choice between a competent black man with well-articulated and logical plans to start digging the Late Great Golden State out of its hole, and a gormless, incompetent Ken Doll who has been digging that hole, they chose Gavin "featureless-plastic-crotch" Gavin Newsom.
Yes, there was the usual ballot stuffing and cheating, along with the usual racial arsonists in the media smearing the black guy as a white supremacist. But the margin of victory was such that the message seems clear: the majority of Californians are going to get what they asked for, and they're going to get it good and hard.
Reminder #3 of the unfairness of the world: A lot of good people who have been voting against the Dems who are ruining CA are going to suffer along with the knuckleheads who deserve it.
I know it's painful, but you folks have got to abandon the nitwits destroying your state like Joe Biden abandoning American citizens in Afghanistan!
CO and I left IL for FL. Joe Rogan and the Daily Wire crew and hundreds of thousands of others have left CA and IL and NY for TX and TN and FL. You've got to start looking at your own costs and benefits, and consider joining us.
It's been a long 4 years, and it's only been 32 weeks.
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