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Uncut Gems

Now that the kids are at camp, I am catching up on movies that I have been meaning to wash for a while, but have not been able to.

Watched Shutter Island yesterday. It was great. Knowing the darkness of reality, I found the factual parts of the movie more disturbing than the fantastical parts.

Wastched uncut gems today. A dirty movie. Leaves you feeling dirty and unhappy. And I could not help but hear Robert’s words of advice in my head at the end. The movie was ugly. But what made it bad (implausible) was a finale in which characters were acting irrationally, and against their own best interest - even assuming they were evil. I won’t spoil it anymore than that, but will give a more detailed movie review of both films in the Locals exclusive portion of the next live stream.

I also finally got to have breakfast again at Montreal’s most famous greasy spoon (IMHO), cosmos. I had the double creation. Bacon, fried salami, cheese, eggs. There is a history, and a tragic history, to Cosmos. If you have never seen the movie “man of Grease”, I think it is available online. The restaurant was a cornerstone of Montreal foodie world. When I was in high school, I used to have breakfast before school pretty much every day. I knew the owner. Nicest guy you’ve ever meet.

In 2016, the son of the owner who suffered from mental illness, killed his own father - Tony - the man of grease - who was the owner and cook. The surviving brother worked the restaurant until he died recently (that’s him in the painting behind us). The surviving sister went her own way. The restaurant ended up getting sold. It seems to be in good hands now. Food tastes as good as ever. But it’s such a sad fate the befell the whole family.

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Robert Barnes@RobertBarnes
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VivaFrei@VivaFrei
2 hours ago
The most ridiculous lawsuit yet…

We will talk about it tonight, but this one takes the cake.

A woman’s family sues the oil industry because she died from hyperthermia.

The woman was obese. Decided to take her car to an appointment on the hottest day of the year.

Her car is air-conditioning didn’t work.

She doesn’t sue the car company for the broken air conditioning.

She doesn’t sue the food industry for making her obese.

She sees the oil industry for climate change.

In King County. Barnes’ nemesis County.

So she might win. Lol

https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/leon-vs-exxon-complaint.pdf

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Brad864@brad864
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For the last three years I’ve been looking after my father in laws car. After the coof jabs, he experienced a rapid mental and physical degeneration which rendered him unable to stay at home. He had a heart attack the evening of his second jab which he survived. The family wouldn’t listen to my protests but the fear was alive back then and they were in full psycosis mode. He’s owned the car for 67 years and today we loaded it onto a trailer as it’s off to a new owner. It was built in 1927 during the golden years of English engineering, sadly those days are long gone.

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Robert Barnes@RobertBarnes
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Wisdom of the Day: “I am so disappointed in The Federalist Society because of the bad advice they gave me on numerous Judicial Nominations. This is something that cannot be forgiven.” President Donald Trump.  

 

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Robert Barnes@RobertBarnes
May 23, 2025
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Book Recommendation: Jeffrey Sachs: The Strange Case of Dr. Shock & Mr. Aid. Sachs is a Globalist Economic Hit Man. Always has been. The Harvard economist engineered “shock therapy” economics in the 90s, a policy so disastrous in Russia, he had to pretend he didn’t do it. A big champion of globalist institutions, The World Health Organization, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the United Nations, he masks his agenda behind talk of “aid” and “development.” Sachs’ biggest allies are George Soros and Bill Gates. It’s no coincidence he’s America’s leading China apologist, hates Trump, championed global Covid vaccines, open borders, WTO China, whining ceaselessly about climate change, condemns America as a “colonialist, racist, white supremacist” nation, who had an “insurrection” on J6. He's completely incompetent, and a total phony. This book exposes him from the left, along the lines of The Confession of an Economic Hit Man.

Wisdom of the Day: “I thought about the core tools we EHMs used in my day: false economics that included distorted financial analyses, inflated projections, and rigged accounting books; secrecy, deception, threats, bribes, and extortion; false promises that we never intended to honor; and enslavement through debt and fear.” John Perkins, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man.

 

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Robert Barnes@RobertBarnes
May 16, 2025
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Art of the Day: A lifelong favorite of mine, a gift from my brother when young, reflecting the fearlessness of the working class folks who build those fancy castles in the sky, unafraid and unaffected sitting up miles in the sky just snacking on a little lunch. Their extraordinary achievement, their direct sense of success, and their fearlessness toward the risks of the world always fascinated me as a child, and to this very day, remains one of my favorite American photos.

Book Recommendation: Grapes of Wrath. A seminal text by a legendary American writer.

Wisdom of the Day: “A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ.” John Steinbeck.

 

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