
… Much less submitting comments. Comments or songs. Comments, songs, or poems.
Comments, songs, poems, or memories. I’ll come in again.
Courtesy of our very own Bob B — or his bot — on his (dare I point out?) very white piano:
Imagine there’s no red wall
It’s easy if you cheat
No states declared yet
Ahead, sea of blue seats
Imagine all the people
Votin’ the right way
Ah
Imagine there’s no counties
All turned to red from blue
No need to drop fake ballots
No need for hacking, too
Imagine all the people
List’ning to Maddow
You
You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
When AOC begins her run!
Boeing commercial airplanes quality chief to retire in December
American Journal of Transportation | 11/11/2024 | David ShepardsonBoeing’s head of quality for commercial airplanes, Elizabeth Lund, who has spearheaded the planemaker’s improvement plans, will retire in December, the company said on Monday.
A 33-year veteran of Boeing, Lund had been named in February to the new position of senior vice president of quality for its commercial planes, after the crisis sparked by the Jan. 5 mid-air panel blowout of a new Alaska Airlines 737 MAX 9.
Kamala’s speechwriter?
JUST IN: MSNBC’s parent company Comcast is now in the process of SELLING the alleged cable “news” network.
X | 11/12/2024 | Kyle BeckerRatings since Trump took office have been in a DOWNWARD SPIRAL at @MSNBC.
• Morning Joe 1st hour – down 39.6% • Morning Joe 2d hour – down 36.9% • Andrea Mitchell – down 39.7% • Ari Melber – down 49.6% • Joy Reid’s Reidout – down 54.6% • All-in w Chris Hayes – down 47.2% • Alex Wagner Tonight- down 53.6% • Lawrence O’Donnell – down 60.6% • Stephanie Ruhle – down 67%
Russia plans ‘ministry of sex’ as Vladimir Putin desperately tries to boost birth rate
The Mirror | November 8, 2024 | Will StewartA ‘ministry of sex’ could be set up in Russia in the latest move to remedy the country’s drooping birth rate.
Putin-loyalist Nina Ostanina, 68, chairwoman of the Russian parliament’s committee on Family Protection, Paternity, Maternity and Childhood, is scrutinising a petition demanding such a move. This comes as Putin’s officials are coming up with myriad ideas to meet his demand to halt the demographic slide made worse by the hundreds of thousands killed in the war in Ukraine he unleashed almost three years ago.
One bizarre proposal is to turn off the Internet – and even the lights – between 10pm and 2am to encourage couples to have sex. Another idea is for the state to pay stay-at-home women raising children for doing housework, and to include this in their pension calculations. One more notion is that the state should pay for first dates – up to the value of 5,000 roubles [£40].
Yet another proposal is that public cash should fund wedding nights in hotels for couples up to a value of 26,300 roubles [£208] in the hope this stimulates pregnancies.

Hi everyone. These will be the last of the first round matches for this conference. Next week we will go onto the second round matches. Remember, every girl will play each other at least once so stay on top of the matches. Also, the site used for the information on the character and actress does not cover the last two Bond films so the format of the info is going be a bit different for those actresses. Please be aware of this and don’t blame the messenger. On to the matches.
Results
| Caterina Murino | No Preference | Olga Kurylenko |
|---|---|---|
| 142 | 2 | 91 |
| Gemma Arterton | No Preference | Berenice Marlohe |
|---|---|---|
| 199 | 1 | 28 |
Week of 11/13/2024
Tonia Sotiropoulou (Bond’s Lover) vs Lea Seydoux (Madelaine Swann)

Actress: Tonia Sotiropoulou Nationality: Greek Bond Movie: Skyfall (2012) Synopsis:
Tonia Sotiropoulou was credited only as “Bond’s lover”, and appeared in a brief scene with no lines or conversation with Bond. They made love, and were then shown lying on a bed, Bond drinking a beer. She is the only girl on this list that didn’t have a speaking role, and is perhaps the least memorable of all Bond girls.

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First appearance Spectre (2015) Last appearance No Time to Die (2021) Portrayed by Léa Seydoux Madeleine Swann is a complex character introduced in the James Bond film Spectre. Madeline Swann is the daughter of Mr. White (Jesper Christensen), a member of the criminal organization SPECTRE.
Swann studied at the University of Oxford and at Sorbonne University, and later worked with Doctors Without Borders.[1] By the time of Spectre she is working as a psychiatrist at a private clinic in the Austrian Alps.
Dying of thallium poisoning, White tells James Bond (Daniel Craig) to protect his daughter from SPECTRE, so Bond goes to see her at the clinic. Although Swann is initially hesitant to trust Bond, she agrees to share information about SPECTRE and help Bond take the organization down. The two gradually fall in love, and Bond ultimately leaves MI6 to be with her after arresting Blofeld.
Monica Belluci (Lucia Sciarra) vs Ana de Armas (Paloma)

Born Monica Anna Maria Bellucci
30 September 1964 (age 60)
Città di Castello, Umbria, ItalyOccupations Actressfashion model Instructed by his former superior M, James Bond is assigned to trace notorious assassin Marco Sciarra, kill him, and attend his funeral, knowing his womanizing ways will get him the answers he needs there rather from the assassin himself. Bond travels to Mexico and successfully kills Sciarra, failing his plan of targeting a stadium for a terrorist attack.

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Ana Celia de Armas Caso (born 30 April 1988) is a Cuban-Spanish actress. She portrayed the Bond Girl Paloma in No Time to Die.An agent of the CIA, James Bond, meets Paloma at the El Nido Bar after agreeing to Felix Leiter‘s request to go there in order to retrieve the scientist Valdo Obruchev, who has been captured by SPECTRE from a MI6 laboratory. To Bond’s bemusement, Paloma tells him that she has had only three weeks of training, though she nevertheless seems confident in her skills. She works together with Bond to infiltrate the party which is being held in the bar, though it turns out to secretly be a trap to capture and kill Bond. Bond ends up in a spotlight and sprayed with nanobots created from Project Heracles, though it ultimately transpires that Obruchev reprogrammed the nanobots to kill members of SPECTRE instead. In the ensuing chaos, Bond and Paloma manage to capture Obruchev, evading Nomi, an MI6 agent who had been sent with the same objective.

Oprah: ‘I Was Paid Nothing, Ever’ by Harris Campaign… So What Was That Million Dollars?
PJ Media | 11/12/24 | Stephen GreenWell, this is awkward.
After Federal Election Commission filings showed that the Harris-Walz campaign paid a cool million to Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Productions company for the town hall where Oprah endorsed Harris, Oprah denied it.
Caught on a backstreet by one of those TMZ video crews and asked if it was true that “they paid you a million dollars for the endorsement for Kamala,” Oprah replied, “Not true. I was paid nothing, ever.”
“The campaign paid for the production costs of ‘Unite for America,’ a live-streaming event that took place Sept. 19 outside Detroit, Mich.,” a spokesperson for Harpo said, trying to clear things up. “Oprah Winfrey was at no point during the campaign paid a personal fee, nor did she receive a fee from Harpo.”
Technically, that’s the truth. But only technically.
It was Winfrey’s production company that received the seven-figure check. But Harpo is owned by Winfrey. For all intents and purposes, Harpo IS Oprah.
The FEC paperwork shows that Harpo was paid for “EVENT PRODUCTION,” not for Winfrey’s endorsement. But does 94 minutes of unscripted, live television, produced on a small set, really cost a million dollars to produce? Or was Oprah’s “personal fee” just part of the overhead?
Four Counties In MI Find Over 26K Votes Days After The Election—Several Seats Flip From Democrat To Republican, Including One MI House Seat
Gateway Pundit | 11/11/24 | Patty MurrayOn Friday, the state of Michigan, which arguably has the most untrustworthy Secretary of State in America, added 26,662 unreported votes to its unofficial vote total from four counties after canvassers reportedly discovered the stunning discrepancies.
Kent County, formerly a red county, discovered a whopping 13,795 unreported votes. Kalamazoo County, home to Western MI University and Kalamazoo College, discovered 6,691 previously unreported votes. Calhoun County blamed their discovery of 4,602 votes on a “software glitch.” When northern Michigan’s Leelanau County’s results were first revealed, it looked like Democrats had won almost every race, which would solidify the belief that Democrats were able to turn the popular vacation community solidly blue. But not so fast—days after the Nov. 5 election, 1,574 unreported votes were discovered that had not added to the original count, flipping almost every race thought to have been won by a Democrat to a Republican candidate.
In Leelanau County, several key races, like the three Leelanau County board of commissioners spots, showed Democrats sweeping Republicans at the polls. The important local drain commissioner, which previously showed the Democrat winning by a landslide, was flipped to give the Republican candidate a resounding victory.