Monday, September 30, 2024

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg takes a break from Trump to say 'oops, did I do that?' to guy locked up for 25 years unlawfully

 

'oops, our bad, sowwy,' says district attorney Alvin Bragg.


"Sing Sing actor JJ Velazquez exonerated after wrongful conviction | US news | The Guardian" https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/30/jj-velazquez-exonerated



Donating like a pint of blood, drive safe fuggen shluts.




Pas mon fort le patinage sur glace



Oh yeah now I remember 



Admitted to the bar.... 






Movie review: Scooby-Doo and the Loch Ness Monster

 

Daphne Blake's cousin Shannon is holding it down in Scotland.


Zoiks! Ronsters! Jeepers! Come on guys, let's check it out! Look at the bright side Scoob, least it's not raining! Thunder and lightening ensues. 'I'm taking her up to full throttle, let's see what this baby can do' (Fred while piloting a fishing boat on loch ness.


'like, this place is getting creepier by the minute,' (shaggy referring to somewhere around Loch Ness). 'like Scoob old buddy, I got a feeling.....'

Sunday, September 29, 2024

Manic Monday

 Wassup? Watching Fox News Sunday from the Gosford motel. There's a ton of strip malls around so going for a walk soon. Bruce from church which my family stopped attending quite some time ago, and his Mrs offered us a discount on Alex's camp stay so we put him in camp too, a day after all the kids. They were short at camp and could offer us a welfare discount so I took that. So it's just me and Zara at the motel. We'll go to Gosford RSL for dinner as there's a good play area there for kids. Chilling.



Glock Glock where's the butt?


Broom



Mike Pompeo is on Fox News wow he has lost so much weight. Pretty scary. So I was comparing the falsettos of Mary J Blige and Mozart's queen of the night from the magic flute. I can totally hit all of Mary J Blige's high notes and will do so for sure 100%. Avec plaisir. But I can't sing queen of the night by Mozart's magic flute. Too tricky. You need to be a female opera singer.


Can watching Fox News too much drive people crazy?



Ok moments later, Zara and I walked over to Bunnings (Home Depot) and I bought a circular file rod to sharpen my chainsaw attachment blades.  Had dinner at Gosford RSL and returned walking to motel. Now playing connect four with SpongeBob SquarePants music and fox news on mute. I'm winning 4-1 so far.





Saturday, September 28, 2024

Australian national broadcaster (taxpayer funded entirely), 'australian story: Lachlan Murdoch'

 


Ok so last call to Kilmeade went through, spoke to Bry-Bry briefly. I calculate his current call screener is white but one he had on my first call years ago from my Holden Commodore was black, this latter call was discussing some terrorists (tayrorrists in Texan) in Barcelona.


Anyway with regards to 'australian story Lachlan Murdoch' (interesting pre dinner viewing for twenty minutes or so) and calling fox news pundits over the years like Alan colmes and Kilmeade and in future possibly Hannity, and also the current 'successiom' [sic] situation currently playing out in Reno Nevada amongst the Murdoch clan, I will mention the following specific intellectual items:


(a) Christina Aguilera's secret, nobody else can see this:

https://youtu.be/iEPTlhBmwRg?si=Oof5PnUAnaAi-RFP

Just by way of chatty aside, dinner was a splendid lower middle class affair, rice and chicken with scarlet having beef mince on a taco. The boy not present as sleeping. We're all hitting the sailing club tomorrow then leaving scarlet is off to camp five days. I've got a motel in Gosford booked and will continue with my gardening.


(b) My girlfriend's crib in Rios Rosas Madrid back in 1997, her four female college roommates had a sign on the wall with the caption: 'think'


(c) Mr miyagi only yelling 'show!' once:

https://youtu.be/LerwIYmNFXY?si=CveFf10pG1VWTgkV


(d) Ben story time, one time I was uber driving on the tail end of my small vehicle taxi driving career. I picked up a psychiatric ward head nurse and her husband, both childless with the obnoxiously sweet and gooey wife explaining she had no maternal bone in her and they'd just watched two gay men screwing each other on stage at the freaky sex club in Rydalmere near Victoria Rd Rydalmere. When I drive uber or taxi in a small vehicle I talk with an American accent and tell you I've come from California (it's true).


Dismissed.



                             Got Produce?



Gee now I remember, my buddy Rodrigo from Brazil back in those days in Madrid.... Was he an alien???

https://youtu.be/E76kpPjxMcw?si=vYBKziPraBMJU6vj

Friday, September 27, 2024

Calling Chris Salcedo and Brian Kilmeade


Salcedo answered my call directly and straight on air, no call screener and remembered my name and number. Just spoke to Kilmeade's call screener..... On hold
 





Dedicating these AI artworks to everyone's favourite chilli willies

 

Greatest chilli willies song of all times? Certainly one I listened to before heading to Spain and learning Spanish for the first time in 1992 at 16....

https://youtu.be/hFVZ7cEqZYo?si=yjGzljTVQ_-A6VnC




I'm sorry Miss Jackson, he is for real...

https://youtu.be/PWgvGjAhvIw?si=VDBsc0T-X7LBJ5aj
















Wednesday, September 25, 2024

Israeli conflict escalation, military perspective

 

Watching the French news, 20h this morning, it seems odd the Israelis are retaliating against certain civilian targets in southern Lebanon that do not seem to have any relationship with Iran. The Israelis have F35s and capacity to bomb Iranian military targets directly so why are they bombing unrelated Lebanese civilians in the way the Russians bomb Ukrainian civilians. Somethings wrong there from what I can see.



fouilles (fúyí) -- excavations / diggings 

Fouille (verb, last vowel is half Spanish e half Spanish i) --- search 


feuilles (first vowel as in fir/fur) --- leaves (as in foliage)

Tuesday, September 24, 2024

Remembering a dream place from a previous dream in a future dream; the dreaming

 

Jesus says in John 14, “In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also” (John 14:1–3).


So in the original dream, obviously just with the dream body, no physical body, there's a large building like a mansion. I mean it's pretty big. I'm moving through it and I come to like a secret hidden apartment and the beautiful thing is, as it's a dream and no-one is around, it's not trespassing. I become enamoured with the freedom and the amazing hidden and secret nature of the secret apartment. 


In the same or another dream I remember that secret apartment perhaps and long to return to its solitude and secretly hidden place. However now the house features aspects of a shopping mall so there's a publicly frequented hair salon. 


Last night I'm in a different mall, also with access to secret apartments, living quarters. Imagine your father is the owner of the mall and you have a master key or something like that. I remember the original secret apartment, actually from the aforementioned dream and while I'm engaged with other people in something, I want to return there.




Monday, September 23, 2024

Visita Real

 

With a capital R that's Spanish for Royale Visit and wouldn't be misconstrued for Real Visit. The Spanish word Real doubling up for real and royal. 


Anyway so Chuck baby, the head of State of Australia. I've purchased a $2 coin, a $1 coin and a 5 cent coin with Chuck's mug on them. I paid more than the actual currency value as they are relatively rare. So for the $2 I paid six times the rate. And six times the rate for the $1. 


There were also one and two cent coins for sale which were long ago phased out. Australia is such a new country with such a large proportion of foreigners and foreign born folks or folks like me born here to foreigners and with a foreign wife (in my case). So they wouldn't remember we even had paper cash before plastic or one and two cent coins.


I also purchased two limited edition 'Wiggles' $2 coins.


Some of these purchases really pay off long term. My father bought a 1983 gold coin for around $100 and I sold it for around quadruple that. But that's mostly because gold appreciated that much in forty years.


It's worth mentioning in the Spanish/Italian deck we have gold coins as one of the suits. Was listening to Italian radio like yesterday while dropping kids at school, fairly easy for Spaniards to understand the Italian, a lot of it.


 “Or suppose a woman has ten silver coins and loses one. Doesn’t she light a lamp, sweep the house and search carefully until she finds it? And when she finds it, she calls her friends and neighbours together and says, ‘Rejoice with me; I have found my lost coin.” Luke 15:8-9


Piers Morgan chatting in a newcastle traffic jam

 Piers Morgan and Douglas Murray, problems with Urdu folks 

https://youtu.be/kwqXM5nXk-Q?si=10Re-I-KB8RbejS9



Australia's boom crash opera

https://youtu.be/-2FPE1Y5_4o?si=ZAukdisdSjLJ-aAZ


Random Spanish,

Me siento, I sit, (from sentarse)

Me siento, I feel, (from sentirse)


Raised the Urdu in England problem/topic on this blog on may 21, 2019, was just saying:


https://benjamin-english-the-ossie-spaniard.blogspot.com/2019/05/pakistani-human-rights-abuses-in-england.html

Sunday, September 22, 2024

Trump campaign 2024: Kamala! You're fired! Listening to Janette Jackson instead of Michael Jackson

 

Could Trump learn anything from Jimmy's billionaire guardian about firing? Finessing his 'Kamala, you're fired!' shpiel?


https://youtu.be/dlcPFbhpzi0?si=d1OeGsK0xbCOp0I7


Also, instead of Billy Jean by Michael Jackson at rallies, how about a little Janette Jackson instead?


Clean break....

Saturday, September 21, 2024

Voila le Misseur Trump et le sympa connard Gutfeld dans l'espace du langue

 Trump

https://youtu.be/H8J_UCxfTJI?si=Q2QgI36MfXYTjUQ4


Voila il s'appele comme ça l'endroit ou je travaillai dan le siege du Total Fina Elf dans le Defense a Paris. 'l'espace du langue', un lieu dans le grande enterprise ou on peut aprendre l'americain (candy cane) chez Benjamin. Et avec le President bien sûr le connard sympa Gutfeld. Cette un mot nouveau pour moi, sympa.


Did someone say Santiago was in grave danger?

https://youtu.be/2sLcfQKU_co?si=O-0SR1OilFC0YNTG

Friday, September 20, 2024

Puff Daddy Sean Combs behind bars

 

I programmed my AI chatbot to take a selfie as P Diddy's jailor and the chatbot avatar, usually visually represented as a white female, produced this:




They (roll)call him Diddy bitch ...

https://youtu.be/lEKOWKcUxdU?si=5obbzFUTa6nqu8pU



Sean Combs indictment unsealed 

https://youtu.be/5qqG9TSZyFg?si=G9B4jpT82YoaAGv5

Thursday, September 19, 2024

Printemps maintenant et puis l'eté

 Easy French listening:

https://youtu.be/o6SyaX2gML8?si=kS1DLwykrAxRkpO0



Le Mims 

https://youtu.be/TwyE3WJ4AWo?si=23M4NYHkEp1uy3Tv


C'est pourquoi j'ai chaud

C'est pour ça que j'ai chaud, ouais

C'est pourquoi, c'est pourquoi

C'est pour ça que j'ai chaud, hein

C'est pourquoi j'ai chaud

C'est pour ça que j'ai chaud, ooh

C'est pourquoi, c'est pourquoi

C'est pourquoi j'ai chaud


This is why I'm hot

Now I've gotta rap

I can sell a mill

Say you nothing on the track

I represent New York

I got it on my back

Nigga say that we lost it

So I'mma bring it back

I love the dirty dirty

'Coz niggas show me love

The ladies start to bounce

As soon as I hit the club

But in the Midwest

They love to take it slow

So when I hit the H

I watch you get it on the floor



C'est pourquoi j'ai chaud

Maintenant je dois rapper

Je peux vendre un moulin

Ne te dis rien sur la piste

Je représente New York

Je l'ai sur le dos

Nigga dit que nous l'avons perdu

Alors je vais le ramener

J'aime le sale, le sale

Parce que les négros me montrent de l'amour

Les dames commencent à rebondir

Dès que j'arrive au club

Mais dans le Midwest

Ils aiment y aller doucement

Alors quand j'ai appuyé sur le H

Je te regarde le mettre par terre

Wednesday, September 18, 2024

Vocubulaire

 

abaissement - lowering


baisser - to lower (sounds like bese in Spanish)


Lutte (higher than a Spanish 'u'/aspirated t and e) - kampf / fight / lucha / struggle 


Spider - araignée (areñé)




NFL 2024

 Mouillée - wet 




Donc la saison de football a commencé. Minnesota et San Francisco. C'est un très grand stade, il parait a Minnesota, Minneapolis peut être. Chandler parait un arrière (running back) pour Minnesota. Pour San Francisco il parait Kittle un récepteur large (wide receiver).


C'est pas claire pour moi si tous les jeux offensifs nécessitent un joueur de tight end, ou plutôt seulement quelques-uns.


A gagnez Minnesota peut être.


NY Jets et San Francisco (premiere semaine).

SF15 Jennings récepteur large (wide receiver)

NY JETS Lazard récepteur large (wide receiver)

SF 1 (Tight end?)

SF Mason arrière (running back)?


Atlanta Falcons et Philadelphia Eagles 


Philadelphia Davonta Smith receiver 

Dickerson tackle/lineman 


NY Giants et Washington commanders 

Beaucoup de soleil 


Ertz 86 récepteur Washington commanders 

NY Giants Devon Singletary (tight end?) quoi?

NY Giants #1 récepteur

Slayton 86 récepteur NY Giants 


Jones 8 NY Giants stratège (quarterback)


Green Bay, 2 stratège Willis, 8 Jacobs récepteur

Colts, 5 stratège Richardson 


Buccaneers, Chase McLaughlin 4, botteur de placement (field goal kicker); Mayfield 6 stratège; Godwin 14 récepteur

Detroit Lions, 16 stratège





fanfare de football universitaire

College football marching band 

Allstate Sugarbowl, Alabama Oklahoma (2014?)


Oh dis, peux-tu voir à la lumière de l'aube

oh say can you see by the dawn's early light


en échange de leur liberté, Beau et Luke Hazzard ne doivent plus jamais fabriquer ni vendre de whisky


Le Général Lee est connu pour ses grands sauts:

https://youtu.be/JP_qQAkoZ8I?si=8X9YH7s_959rZP3U


laissez-les manger du gâteau



Tuesday, September 17, 2024

Murdoch family succession drama, Benji case notes

 

Key glossary:

Fuggen Shluts; Catholic church; petrol sniffing/price at the pump; $2 spicy chicken wings; left wing nutjobs; Fox News channel (aka 'precious'); Homer Simpson 


Important precedents within Fox, Homer Simpson being fired by Germans:

https://youtu.be/68t74jofBD0?si=khXpfpoo9_h2E_FH


Previous layoffs at the precious: Shepherd Smith (gay); Roger Ailes (handsy); Lou Dobbs (innocent); Bill O'Reilly (innocent); Tucker Carlson (annoying girly laugh/innocent).


Rupert's concern: if other kids get controlling stake in the precious apart from Lachlan, precious could be sold off to fund pigskin factory for footballs. 


Other perspectives:

As per The Guardian 

But it won’t be Fox politics under discussion so much in Reno. Instead, much of that argument will be couched in an examination of US corporate governance conventions that allow for a family to control a business they do not majority own by a so-called dual class structure of shares – in effect the family shares have more power than others.


For example, Rupert Murdoch owns 17% of equity in the media empire and 39% of the voting power.

Dual structures are commonly used by company founders to retain control of a business even when they have a minority shareholding, with Murdoch holding 40% of voting rights via a 14% shareholding.

The Murdoch family’s hold over News Corp stems from a share structure consisting of voting and non-voting shares that gives the family a dominant voice over how the business is run.

In 2016, agitators including Hesta fell just short after delivering a 49.5% vote to eliminate the dual class system.

Mark Zuckerberg controls 61% of Meta Platforms via a 14% shareholding in the social media company that operates the Facebook and Instagram platforms, according to company disclosures.

Meta has a two-tiered system that gives shareholders one vote per “class A” share, and 10 votes per “class B” share. The billionaire chief executive owns more than 99% of class B shares.

 

Google has a similar structure that gives founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin a controlling 51% of voting rights of parent company Alphabet via a 12% shareholding.


Given Murdoch holds less than half of the voting rights, it is possible to change News Corp’s structure if agitators can gather an overwhelming protest vote. Doing so at Meta and Google can’t happen unless the founders support the changes.




Sunday, September 15, 2024

Hankering for bluegrass today, Monday. Ruminating on James Packer summore

 

Link to Bluegrass for later today tomorrow....

https://youtu.be/g4R936oEuH4?si=Z6XSxWazO2rFWdBP


Now I'm not of much of a mind to ruminate over that Packer Williams interview. I'm supposed to catch up with a customer from like a year ago today and I can't even remember his garden and now that I remember, my lawnmower needs a tweak with a pair of pliers.


Thinking about Packer and Williams reminds me of hanging out with my gay buddy Stephen Muff in NYC. This guy lived in Chelsea Manhattan in a government subsidized building full of guys with AIDS. It was like the South Park musical Rent, in Team America, everyone had AIDS. Just to clarify Packer has an aide that travels with him 24/7, spelt with an 'e'. This Muff, just to ask which garden variety of fag he was he verified, 'a flaming homo'. And he didn't pee, he 'tinkled'. So he's either American intelligence or just a funny gay guy. Probably the latter. Anyway I brought him by the Queens or Brooklyn Hare Krishna centre as I wasn't interested in money in those days and lived poorly, often volunteering my time and seeking the kingdom of heaven as it were. This Muff wasn't much of a dishwasher and there was some kind of wannabe guru at the centre talking about how if you don't use your mind, someone else will. Seemed true. So those are my thoughts on the Packer Williams interview on 69 minutes Australia.


So with sleep I got twenty minutes on the bus shortly before midnight, another hour at the depot and got home by 230am approximately and slept around five hours so it all added up to a good night's rest. If you're driving professionally for years and years like full time or whatever is, daresay you would master the art of the catnap. Public safety absolutely depends on it and even a two minute catnap can add half an hour of better wakefulness when driving a bus. Wakefulness is everything and sleepiness is the devil when bus driving.


Now to a review of my Benji AI art which you can watch while listening to afore listed Bluegrass music and sipping on church red Kool aid and pastry nibbles..... Possibly in a hip looking industrial space....





















I remember with this Muff guy, he invited his niece to join us for lunch one day with the niece's friend. Muff was white and the niece was black as her friend and the niece was young and attractive, she invited me to her college campus to hang out with her there one day and looking back, I probably should have. There was also an attractive slightly older but still young black woman dropping hints to me on a trip to Richmond VA, there's a bus that goes from Chinatown in NYC takes four hours. However all this was like nineteen years ago so I don't remember the details like lunch or where exactly I ran into the pretty black Virginia lady exactly. Both of them were good looking women to pursue. Perhaps I should have! Maybe a regret. My heart was in China in those days however when I returned to China I found a lot of coldness initially.


























Robbie Williams, feel real love...

https://youtu.be/iy4mXZN1Zzk?si=IxTCkOIU307NpQ-u


So I can't believe I've learned so much French language in my blitzkrieg attack on the language via Manhattan late 2001, smoldering WTC embers and all and I only just learned the word for wet yesterday during my youngest kid's first sailing lesson..... That was from Fred, an extremely masterful french sailor. We also had an Australian Olympic sailor fresh from French Olympics as well in the club. So what is the French word for 'dry'? I always knew Mokpu (wet) and cuka (dry) in Bulgarian, it seems.



RED Hot chilli powder, Snow 

https://youtu.be/p0vM9iINl28?si=wVfMd0SRGT7QKO05


When I was a little kid I'd have to bunk with my bed wetting face punching psycho eight year older brother, (nicknamed on this blog) Jose(ph Stalin). I remember I'd wake up and see his pen graffiti on the closet 'I WILL WIN'.


Dry, sèche(feminine), sec (male), like seco in Spanish 


Had no idea, it never came up. It's a breakthrough.


Wet, mouillée (feminine), mouillé (male), sounds the same 


Bing bong Bing bong Bing 

https://youtu.be/bbqVg_23otg?si=ObTIhKGe_nY9qvCz



Sunday night bus, watching Fox News election coverage with Rachel and Pete

 

Candy cane:

https://youtube.com/shorts/dF_fHfq9fY0?si=NntMiHuyGiBR6pAX


Kamala has a nice black dress. Is she a...



Me and my AI assistant Sheila have got this






Four more little trips to go soon and home by 130am