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I like to keep up with the Academy awards to see just how much Hollywood has lost its mind from year to year. And since America is marinated in the juices of Hollywood, it’s a nice Rorschach test for the mysterious tendings of our nation.
By the way, I got in a late screening of Black Panther the night before. It’s about the techno-metropolis of Wakanda hidden deep in the African jungle lo these many centuries. (Who knew?) The elite of that utopia travel the world in flying saucers. When trouble turns up, what weapons do they reach for? Spears. I kid you not. My favorite line in the movie: American white G-man to Nakia, Black Panther’s ex-girlfriend: “Put that spear in the trunk!”
So… I tuned into the last ten minutes of the red carpet pre-game. Side boob as far as the eye could see — from women who will return to anti-rape culture activism when they get over their hangovers. Everybody on the runway was “stunning.” And they appreciated being informed of that, because they hear it so seldom. Glenn Close revealed that her gown contained four million beads and weighed forty pounds. I hope she donates it to the Clinton Foundation for HRC’s 2020 nomination acceptance speech.
Oh, Black Panther just won its first award: costume design. It’s amazing what you can do with vibranium. It drapes beautifully, breathes, and can recharge your Tesla. I confess, the costumes kept me going through that movie because the story was so incomprehensible. LL Bean will be offering field jackets in Vibranium next fall, with a special pocket that charges your cell phone. I want one!
Cut to Marty Scorsese selling Rolex watches. Every American should have one, and when AOC is finally president, every American will have one!
Oh, Black Panther won another statuette-of-color for production design (sets and stuff). Fer sure, I felt that I was transported to another world where absolutely nothing was recognizable, which is also how I feel when I read The New York Times.
Followed by the strangest musical number of the night so far: Jennifer Hudson costumed like an elevator operator in front of a Supreme Court backdrop, belting out a power ballad about women and… well… power (from the documentary about Ruth Bader Ginsburg). Well, RBG is getting on in years. She certainly deserves an elevator in her place of business. More power to the ole gal!
Uh-oh, Black Panther just lost in the Sound Editing category. Unfair! Ballot recount, please!
Bunch of white guys won the Sound Mixing award for Bohemian Rhapsody. They all look the same. Same tuxedo. Same plain vanilla speech. Boring. I cannot tell you exactly how sound mixing differs from sound editing. Probably doesn’t. Fake award! Investigation perhaps?
Saved by another musical number: From Mary Poppins Reboot. Ole Bette Midler in an outfit that said Waitress-in-a-donut-shop. I think the song was composed in eleven minutes in the parking lot of the Shake Shack on Sunset off NW Knollwood.
Here comes Pharrell Williams in a camo tuxedo, soon to be worn by US Army Rangers in the forthcoming invasion of the Hamptons. Followed by some chick in a jogging outfit (best animated short). Followed by an hysterical babe “fighting for menstruel equality!” Empowerment, yes! Hear us roar! (Grrrowww!)
Commercials coming hot and heavy now, like the flak over Saarbrucken, 1942. A kind of battle fatigue settling over the auditorium. If it was me out there, I’d be hitting that half-pint of rock’n-rye in my back pocket.
More boring white guys picking up their awards for visual effects. Space movie. Does make you kinda wonder if we actually went up there in 1969, or was that a visual effect too? British accents. (Fake?) The odor of colonialism wafting out over the audience. Thank Gawd that’s over with.
Awards for short films nobody will ever see. (Yawn.)
Spike Lee wearing some kind of futuristic cab driver get-up: “Do the right thing.”
I confess, I don’t care who wins the bigly awards. (Double yawn.)
Most interesting feature of the whole excruciating spectacle: Nobody even mentioned the name of he-who-will-not-be-named-here-either (hint: occupies White House.) The word must have gone out… don’t…go…there. Was it the Jussie Smollett effect, or is something more sinister a’foot?
Anyway, I can’t take it anymore. Zzzzzzzzz….
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I will skip watching the awards, again.
But Id like to read others comments, who watched or have an opinion about the WINNERS.
I wonder if during other times of national confusion that the vacuous vapidity of our entertainment industry has been as rampantly blighted? I’ll guess so, for in such times the only game is droll competition between peers. Nobody progresses or dare claim in this swamp of national torpor that they know a way forward or out. The wolf drools in Washington but all we can do is listen to cat fights in the middle of the night and hope for a side boob fail.
During the Depression and WW2 Hollywood gave us The Wizard of Oz, Gone With The Wind, Citizen Kane, and Casablanca.
You think any film made last year will still matter seventy years from now?
And yet the worst of them will still have more historical significance than yourself.
You’re absolutely right. The worst film made in 2018 will still have more historical significance than me.
And more than you.
And more than anyone else posting here, unless Jim Kunstler himself ends up being remembered as the unfairly maligned prophet of his time.
Drek, crap on toast, other terms come to mined, as in ‘life sentence’.
I watched the entire ceremony and made predictions about most of the categories in advance. I called most of the winners and even anticipated most of the upsets, such as “BlacKkKlansman” beating “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” for Best Adapted Screenplay and “First Man” beating “Avengers: Infinity Wars” and “Ready Player One” for Best Visual Effects, even if I didn’t think they were favored, but one award surprised me, Olivia Colman winning Best Actress. She won the equivalent category at the BAFTA Awards, but I expected Glenn Close to take home the little golden man instead. Just the same, I enjoyed watching Colman giving her spontaneous stream-of-consciousness acceptance speech and so did the audience.
As for the lack of the mention of Trump, that didn’t stop the presenters and awardees from being political and criticizing him indirectly. Barbra Streisand spoke about truth being under attack and Spike Lee implored the audience to “do the right thing” and go to the polls next year. The entertainment professionals in the hall and many of the viewers at home knew exactly who they were referring to and what to do about it.
Just the same, the Academy voters had some chances to score political points with the winners of the documentary awards and chose not to. It would have been easy for the members of the Motion Picture Academy to make a statement by voting for “RBG“; instead, they gave the award to “Free Solo.” In this case, they bowed to popular taste as “Free Solo” earned $2 million more at the box office than “RBG,” making it the most lucrative nominated documentary (“Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” was the highest earning documentary released during 2018, but wasn’t nominated).
They could have also made an “it could happen here” point by voting for “A Night at the Garden,” but instead honored “Period, End of Sentence” to make a statement about sexism. That’s much more indirect. By the way, that’s one of the awards Awkwafina, the “chick in a jogging outfit” gave out.
In contrast, the movie awards show that had no problem mentioning Trump were the Razzies, which nominated “Death of a Nation” and “Fahrenheit 11/9” four times each, including two shared ones for Donald Trump. They followed through, as “Fahrenheit 11/9” won three Razzie Awards, two for Trump and one for Kellyanne Conway, while “Death of a Nation” shared two of them, both for Trump, as Worst Actor and Worst Screen Combo with his “self-perpetuating pettiness.” Conway won for Worst Supporting Actress, beating Melania Trump.
Finally, I wish to address our host’s comment that “America is marinated in the juices of Hollywood.” Most of that marination is in fantasy, as nine of the ten highest grossing films of 2018 were speculative fiction, including the highest grossing film about politics and government, “Black Panther.” Even the one top ten movie that wasn’t about superheroes, science fiction, or fantasy, “Mission: Impossible – Fallout,” had strong escapist elements. I’ll leave what Americans taste for escapist fantasy means as an exercise for the reader.
JHK equates Hollywood with liberalism/socialism, because that’s how his strict diet of Fox nonsense has informed him.
So, he is compelled, or is it required, to attack the goings on of this particular affair. Ironically, the affront to humanity that occupies the WH is apparently okey dokey.
Gone to Hell,
Most loud mouth Hollywood celebrities are left-of-center, although this may be hard for you to see since they are not left-of-you.
I see that the Jussie Smollett fraud has not shaken your faith in the fake news, ideologically driven sloppy reporting of CNN, MSNBC, and the rest of those clowns..
I saw that weepy woman speaking about menstrual equality. Not having seen her short feature, I’m not even sure what that means. Does it have something to do with women being considered ritually unclean during that time of the month in some religions or something along those lines? Can’t cook, can’t clean, can’t perform your marital duties, really shouldn’t even be seen. Just go lay around in your room and eat baklava. I thought that was considered a five to seven day mini vacation and eagerly anticipated every 28 days. Certainly, lets save these women from that awful burden.
Yes indeed, I gave up on the BS decades ago myself and I find that reading Jim’s analysis of the non-event more than sufficient coverage and even entertaining as well. I was away for a few days searching Damascus, Pennsylvania for a new home with my brother for him to purchase now that the folks are gone. It was amazing Jim and probably a lot like your neck of the woods with a few small 1950 kind of towns surrounded by miles and mile of working farms, wooded hillsides, and very friendly, working white people. It was great, it really was and very heartening to know that places like this still exist and in a big way.
Hollywood, the denizens that inhabit it, and their worthless sellout biddies in DC can have their demented lives and corruption. As long as a few places exist like Honesdale and Hawley Pennsylvania exist, and the people and the lifestyles there remain intact, America shall continue to have hope. It’s only “flyover” country for the sardines in the airborne tin cans and who gives a damn about them anyway?
GREEN BOOK WON.
Totally pc film.
Even Peter Bradshaw in the Graun said it was ‘shallow’ 🙂
“In the end, there was enough good news – or news that made a certain sort of sense – for this not to be simply another exasperating Academy Awards pageant of mysteriously over-promoted nonsense.”
“A friend of mine said that by the time this awards season was over, this film should have the word “REALLY?” added to its title. Green Book REALLY? becomes this year’s technical winner of the “best picture” accolade and surely now is added to the list that includes Crash, Chicago and Argo in the What Were They Thinking? categories.”
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/feb/25/oscars-2019-green-book-olivia-colman-the-favourite-alfonso-cuaron
But it’s interesting to read the comments below the article too. Audiences don’t always agree with critics.
Once upon a time, movie goers opinions and money mattered.
I was planning to see Green Book. Then, I gathered it was just another dime-a-dozen White Saviour narrative, so didn’t bother.
But the Negro Motorist Green Book is a really significant topic. It’s just that its story deserves to be told in a way that centers the experience of people who actually used and needed it. This documentary on the Smithsonian Channel looks interesting. Maybe I’ll check it out.
I’m waiting for them to ban “Gone With the Wind” from ever again being publicly broadcast because it’s politically incorrect. All those slaves so happy to work on Tara; so sad to be unemployed by emancipation. Yes, it may be slanted and even silly; but art often reflects its time.
You may think I’m off the deep end. But if they can tear down the statues, rewrite the history books, burn the books and films which tell of the past; we are already in the Orwellian Globalist prison matrix.
They just re-purposed it into Downton Abbey, hmuller, with the upstairs people being ever so solicitous towards the downstairs people and His Graciousness never getting any of the kitchen-maids pregnant and then kicking them out to languish in the workhouse with their sickly, unacknowledged children.
I enjoyed Downton Abbey (mostly for he dowager countess Maggie Smith) and even Gone with the Wind in its time. Fiction is fiction.
*the*
GA, I’ve been meaning to borrow Downton Abbey from my sister and binge watch it. I enjoy “period pieces” (is that the term?). Guilty confession – I’ve watched the Australian soap opera “A Place to Call Home” set in the 1950’s; and I liked it, though it could use more kangaroos.
It’s great fun, hm. Enjoyable fluff (but there are some dark bits). And Maggie Smith is a treat. I don’t want to give you any spoilers but the level of fantasy involved in the pretty sister and the Irish chauffeur with IRA connections is a hoot.
My favourite fact, though, is that His Graciousness had a dog called Isis, before Isis meant ISIS, so they killed it off quietly and got him another one.
Binge watching it is the way to go!
https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/1/590x/Downton-Abbey-Isis-514420.jpg
That’s exactly why I never liked Downton. Those aristocrats would never, never have been that concerned with their servants. They would barely notice them. The whole presentation was phony. The servants, though, would know a great deal about the upstairs crowd. They would watch them closely because it’s a question of survival. The man behind it all, Julian Fellows, I think, always claimed that he knew a lot about the aristos and their lives, so he must’ve meant it to be accurate, even if it’s fiction. He put a heavy layer of sweet sauce over a plate of garbage and everyone bought it.
…”and everyone bought it.”
What makes you think everyone bought it? Loads of people just took it for what it was – entertainment. If you want some truly depressing, realistic English historical drama, try ‘The Village’.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Village_(2013_TV_series)
Maxine Peake is excellent, as ever, but it was unrelentingly depressing for the first half of the series.The thing is, we got to see both series. So we didn’t end up any dimmer or dumber for the experience.
“The Plot”
“The Village tells the story of life in a Derbyshire village …John Simm plays Bert’s father John Middleton, an abusive, alcoholic Peak District farmer, and Maxine Peake plays Bert’s mother, Grace.
“Writer Peter Moffat has spoken of wanting to create ‘a British Heimat’, alluding to Edgar Reitz’s epic German saga Heimat, which followed one extended family in a region of Rhineland from 1919 to 2000. Unlike Downton Abbey, this version of history is a working-class history—”domestics are expected to face the walls when the master walks by”.
I’m sure you’d find it realistic enough. It was brilliant, but not for the fainthearted, in its early part.
Hmm
Where is heckle and Jeckel or the little rascals?
Won’t be long and the Three stooges will also be bought and taken off the market.
Yes, the Three Stooges mocks bipolar and low IQ people. Can’t have that.
Someday a kid will visit a slavery museum and come out with no idea as to who owned the slaves.
What makes you say that, njguy? I haven’t noticed “white people” being shielded from any blame. Quite the contrary, they’d pin Aztec human sacrifice on us if they could.
You keep tearing down statues of Robert E. Lee and taking names like Jefferson off stuff, it may reach that point.
Unless history is rewritten such that a mythological entity called The Man is said to be responsible for all oppression throughout history.
I had a choice at Thanksgiving–my mother in law from Philly was down, should I take her to the look down on Southerners movie or the Judy Garland re-make? I couldn’t bring myself to go for the lecture and wondered if this Lady Gaga person could sing as well as Barbra Streisand. We did the Star turn. Gaga did fine but after the opening wall of rockabilly sound my mother in law’s hearing aid could only pick up the f word for the rest of the movie. Still haven’t seen it though I eventually had to go see Selma and The Help and will get around to it.
Now Hidden Figures was interesting. After watching Apollo 13 a few years ago I thought the moon shots were white men projects. Here in Alabama Werner von Braun ran the Saturn 5 project in our town with his Operation Paperclip colleagues and every kid in schools’ dad. The big scandal and honest truth was that von Braun founded an engineering school as University of Alabama satellite campus so that he would not have to deal with the bureaucratic politics of Alabama A&M which was predominately black founded in 1890 that HAD an engineering department. I don’t know how many black engineers he actually hired. So we might be able to add racist to his resume along with Nazi. We all thought he was a great guy but the town didn’t put up any statues so we don’t have to take them down. We did name the Civic Center after him….
Great interview with Brent Bednarik….
It was good. Impressive, well spoken guest, and Jim is an excellent interviewer.
brh
I wonder how the Taliban has been able to perpetuate their war all these years? I wonder if the Americans/ Saudis/ Pakistani’s have been arming both sides just to keep the drug profits flowing?
Earth to Pucker. There is a new article to say something about. COCKAROACHES to the corners! Lights on!
Pucker
Not just those three, and not all the Americans.
Remember who is using that drug money.
Idiot in the pharm industry today said that the FDA caused the opioid epidemic by allowing the use of opioids for chronic pain as well as acute pain.
Obviously the medical and pharm community had nothing to do with it.
“Idiot in the pharm industry today said that the FDA caused the opioid epidemic by allowing the use of opioids for chronic pain as well as acute pain.”
I can’t say the medical community had no role, but I definitely think that it’s fair to say that the control of the drug trade in places like Afghanistan is a greater contributor. It seems like the American people will ignore anything to keep from engaging with reality.
Farmer Joe
I think you need to read about this pharming family:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/10/30/the-family-that-built-an-empire-of-pain
It’s a long article but well worth the time. It gives the details on why the transition was made almost inevitably by individuals from the Sackler product (original formula) to that of the illegal drug dealers.
They are only now, somewhat belatedly, facing a lawsuit for ““actively participat[ing] in conspiracy and fraud to portray the prescription painkiller as non-addictive, even though they knew it was dangerously addictive”.
They knew. Like the tobacco companies back in the day.
Even individual doctors were harassed into using the drug. And not just by the pharma industry but by the system that allows their patients (sorry, consumers) to demand stuff as if they are buying sweeties in Walmart and rate their doctor according to how well s/he complies with their demands, which in turn affects the doctor’s remuneration.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kaifalkenberg/2013/01/02/why-rating-your-doctor-is-bad-for-your-health/
“Last February researchers at UC Davis, using data from nearly 52,000 adults, found that the most satisfied patients spent the most on health care and prescription drugs. They were 12% more likely to be admitted to the hospital and accounted for 9% more in total health care costs. Strikingly, they were also the ones more likely to die.”
Re doctors, ‘using’ the drug in the sense of prescribing it. Bad choice of word.
I can understand the chronic pain people getting hooked by prescription opioids. It’s hard for me to imagine that a doctor writing for 20 hydrcodone for a toothe ache or kidney stone is getting people addicted. Your problem is treated but you go ,oh shit I’ve got to go by heroin now
butter56
It’s a long time since I read the article, but from what I recall it was long-term users who got hooked. And who knows if they found something worked the first time, they maybe asked for it again and again.
The problem was that it was the original formula that was addictive, so when they changed the formula, after pressure, the new formula didn’t do the business, addiction-wise, for those hooked on the first formula, even it it worked fine as a painkiller for new users. So the ‘original formula’ addicts turned to heroin.
Pain has two components, the physical damage part, pain sensors and a stress part. Someone post surgery for example hurts physically due to the incisions, but five days later healing is underway and the pain subsides. During the acute pain part, the body anticipates the onset of pain with a stress release prior and during the pain onset. The patient learns to anticipate the stress release and take pain meds when feeling the stress onset. That is the problem. After a while, when the pain itself subsides, the med is taken to offset the stress onset. When the pain is gone and the patient is taking the meds to prevent stress release, he/she is addicted. The brain changes, neuroplasticity, to require the meds to keep stress away.
Post surgeries are pushed out the door to keep costs down for Medicare. No Rehab is done to wean patients off of pain meds. Addiction becomes permanent.
When the MD finally takes away the prescription, sometimes not for awhile, it is too late. The find out that her ion is cheaper than black market oxycodone.
Pucker, did you ever hear of the Pentagon plan, leaked maybe 10 years ago, proposing funding and arming a “salafist group” in order to destabilize those impolite states refusing to curtsey to Uncle?
Soon thereafter who should appear in Iraq with a parade of 100 brand-spanking-new white Toyota pickups but ISIS, armed to the teeth, voila.
It’s what’s known in the trade as “Let’s you and him fight”. Cruel and despicable but that’s show business.
Good review, Mr. Kunstler!
Tells us all we need to know.
I’m glad I didn’t waste my time (watching it)
brh
brh
That is a good solid sentiment to express.
Why waste your time watching yet another self-back-patting event when you can waste so much of it, apparently practically every waking moment of what little of it you have left, hanging out on a forum with a nice sizable handful of regulars such as yourself repeating over and over and over and over again the same general verbal mush?
What are you here, Ev?
“general verbal mush?”
Evelyn,
Those amongst us who are toothless have very little option….
Excellent Review, but I couldn’t believe you actually watched it? My wife and I certainly didn’t.
Here is how you know you’re in a good space. When a head talker mentions a “star” of whatever sex, colour, creed, you haven’t a clue who they are talking about? Furthermore, you don’t care. Although I do know who Glenn Close is and thought Fatal Attraction was pretty scary/good. And the latest news, even though RB? Kelly is supposedly a nightmare sex predator, you haven’t a clue what music he does and don’t care? R&B? R&B ? (I get it…it must be Rap). It sure as hell isn’t Otis Redding or Wilson Pickett. Rap? Come on, now.
God help us all. I’m not sure it’s worth saving.
Thank you for the Review. It sounded bang on.
R.Kelly’s, “Step In The Name of Love”, is one solid track.
It doesn’t have a good look to Middle America anymore.
Middle merica. Like the somalis in Maine and Minnesota, courtesy of Imam Barry?
Malthuss
Google CAIR.
I avoid google.
any word on how many people viewed this years Awards?
I take pride in not giving my attention to politics or to Hollywood. Specifically, I avoid the political debates and all entertainment award shows. I rarely go to the movies either.
In place of the Oscars I began tonight reading a novel on my computer titled Educated. It was selected by my wife’s book club and apparently has gotten excellent reviews, best seller list, etc.
Some people complain that if you read in your spare time that this is a sign that “you have too much time on your hands.”
I guess that they think that Reading is a big distraction from working at some crappy job, or watching Hollywood TV and movies?
Bloke on his deathbed: “I really wish that I had spent more time at the office working, or at home watching TV and Hollywood movies.”
Pucker
Or you might learn something that contradicts the Orwellian world that is being cast down on us.
Anybody notice that the contents of movies is becoming Orwellian. Teaching us the pc messages of Big Brother.
Revelation of the Method
The ‘elites’ do tell us through their books and publications and news releases, etc. what they are doing – this is called revelation of the method. If you are too stupid to recognize it for what it is that is your problem, from their point of view. It is a form of ritual mocking of the victim.
They’re been mocking the victim(s) for a long time. It’s not like they’re shy about it.
“Some people complain that if you read in your spare time that this is a sign that “you have too much time on your hands.”
lol. I’ve noticed this as well. Yet every asshole ever who ever complained on this topic, seem to carry a dish package, or own a jersey with another man’s name on the back. lol.
“I rarely go to the movies either.”
I’m fortunate enough to live within walking distance of two small arty-farty cinemas where Hollywood blockbusters are not overwhelmingly represented. I’m a member of one, so it costs me less (plus age-related discount). It’s just like Ye Olde Days, before the multiplexes, but with better food.
Where one of my brothers lives, in Hebden Bridge, they have a ‘a thriving, independent, not-for-profit cinema operated by (the) Town Council.’ Talk about being transported to another era. The people who use is even get to choose the films periodically. It’s a social thing.
https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8168/7118476867_67411fa1cc_b.jpg
The occasional gem does come out of Hollywood. Manchester by the Sea was heartbreaking and I subjected myself to having my heart broken all over again when it turned up on TV a few weeks ago.
The queue outside is because they don’t sell tickets in advance – you just turn up at the door. Like I said, a step back in time – or perhaps forward to the future too. Gives you a chance to share your umbrella with your neighbours in the queue and have a chat. Good old Yorkshire 🙂 .
Hebden Bridge sounds a lot like Sidney, British Columbia, a small community on Vancouver Island near Victoria. It’s a healthy sea-side town with a thriving independent-merchant-stores main street and town dock stretching down to the sea, overlooking the San Juan Islands and distant Mount Baker, Washington. They also have a town-owned indie theater, housed in the town’s 1950s movie theater. It has great support from town patrons. They recently renovated, replacing the 70s-vintage worn seats using much more comfortable seats bought used from a movieplex that was upgrading to new seats. It seems to be an theater alternative that many will gladly support – at least in smaller communities are economically healthy.
They do sound similar in ethos, islander800.
Hebden was an old mill town which died the usual death. Then some hippie types squatted in one of old mills back in the 70s and attracted some artistic types and the place came back to life. It has a railway station, which meant people working in cities like Leeds and Manchester could live there. So now it’s quite prosperous (in what is known as the muesli belt!) and has lots of character so plenty of visitors and hill walkers. It’s Bronte country – Haworth, where they lived, is just up the valley.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebden_Bridge
There was a programme on TV here about a week ago which was part of a series on island communities – the first part was the San Juan islands and the second half Avery Island in Louisana. I missed the first half so now I’ll have to try to find it on catch-up!
They seem to have retained the old seats in the Hebden Picture House!
http://www.hebdenbridgepicturehouse.co.uk/the-cinema/
I don’t know if you got the (excellent) police drama series ‘Happy Valley’ over your way, since a lot of BBC dramas are exported. It was based in Hebden. The ‘happy’ in Happy Valley refers to drugs issues, not jolly inhabitants!
Hah! Boy, do I agree with you. I turn on TCM occasionally and am amazed that Hollywood could make really good, entertaining movies and not the drivel that is being produced today. I want to go to the movies for entertainment and will whenever the contents are entertaining.
Watching the Red Carpet and remembering Stewart, Crosby, Kerr, Hope, Hepburn etc., folks who really had talent. Enclosing someone in a million dollar suit or dress does not make them an actor.
I think some of today’s actors have incredible talent. What they don’t have is the class of yesterday’s stars. Some might even call it ‘gravitas’. Mostly because people just don’t grow up anymore.
@goldpen…”Mostly because people just don’t grow up anymore”. You are spot on there. I personally haven’t watched an awards show since the 60s. Only watched then because that was what the family TV was tuned to.
Hey Sam! Hopefully that winter storm didn’t treat you too badly last week :-)?
Shtik,
It’s beneath you to use such a hackneyed phrase – “I take pride…”.
Self centric ego-ridden cliche that brings to mind another – “pride goeth before a fall…”.
“I take pride in not giving my attention to politics or to Hollywood. Specifically, I avoid the political debates and all entertainment award shows. I rarely go to the movies either.”
Q,
BUT…my father used to say (as we did battle on the snooker table), “A good pool player is the result of a misspent youth”….
We are sinners, all.
Was Jussie even in the house? I can’t imagine him staying home since he is devoid of shame. Or did they deny him entry? They certainly didn’t show his grotesque smarmy face on the camera.
I’m watching the After Show: blast from the past – Paris Hilton. Still looks great. She’s at “Elton’s” party and issupporting his charity. In other words, they’re trying to rehabilitate her after her anti Gay gaffe. She’s been persona non grata for years now.
His Hollywood peers are furious with Jussie because he got caught.
Hello James,
Down at the confluence of the Anacostia & Potomac a windy day is blowing the brain-farts away.
You are right – it seems there may be more [YES, much more . . .] to the whole “Jussie Smollett effect, or is something more sinister a’foot?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7lyja9JgrA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQlYlhU91wM
Carry-on until you are carrion.
Regards,
PFO
Oooooooooh…..Is something more sinister afoot indeed!
Thanks for posting those vids. For those with limited time just watch the second one for the juiciest implications. Is the female version of Obama Part Deux in trouble? Bwahahahahaha…..
Poor Jussie.
Being crucified for putting into action the sentiments of the rotten MSM. When are we going to put Mika and Don Lemon into the slammer for doing verbally what he acted out. After all, he is an actor, isn’t he?
I think CNN’s new motto should be: “When Others Report the Truth, Sometimes We Have No Choice”
Too long?
Definition:
Jussie-tice: What happens when Jussie gets convicted for falsely reporting a hate crime….
Of course, the elephant in the room is the political overtone . wasn’t this really just a cynical attempt to link Trump to a hate crime by putting MAGA into the speech of the attackers? I want to know if they admit to even saying MAGA. Or was that just something Jussie added later?
Paris: “So look at me: I’m a Fag-Hag at heart. No really. All that other stuff was just a simple misunderstanding. Still looking at me?”
The Chinese have a proskynesis mindset, so they won’t “Play Ball”….
“As I said earlier, for the first time in history the elite power groups who operate on a supra national level can’t find common ground. One system is broken beyond repair, the other system struggling to be born. Clinton vs. Trump was simply a microcosm of this all-out war.”
Daniel Estulin
In the Shadows of a Presidency
I find watching the Chinese aktion in Sinkiang, dealing with the stalwart hard-core Muslim community, fascinating.
Two totalitarian ideologies collide, neither willing to break ranks. The one with more temporal power overwhelms the other, which secretly gives up nothing at all. The Chinese can grind away, flood the territory with Han interlopers, force beards to be shaved and food to be eaten during Ramadhan. But they will not change the hard hearts of the Ummah.
The Sinkiang campaign is not at all like the “meeting of cultures” in modern Eurabia, where a totalitarian ideology barges right in and treads all over a weak liberal humanitarian one. By the time AfD and its more resolute counterparts attain power it will be too late, Game Over, more or less. Already looks that way in Belgium, France and the UK.
Somebody in the Comments section to a website last week said: “I wish that Jesus would hurry up and get it over with.”
Does anyone know anything about a Christian sect called ”Dominionism”?
I was in a coffeshop last week. More trendy than SBs. This is Seattle and we do have better places. Young lady behind the pastry case was covered in tattoos. The colored inks tried hard to ruin her looks but her youth still shined through and she was eager to please. The excessive skin art seemed out of place.
I won’t call him a boyfriend because he was obviously too hungry for her for that. A moth to flame and she was burning hot to him. I was not in the mood. One look at him and I was faga-maga-raga in my head. Physically I kept it together but mentally my brain-pan was steaming my loaf.
The dude had piercings all over his face. Holes in his cheeks were filled with turquoise studs. The studs did not look easily removable. But so what, live and let live. Then the heat cooking my noggin changed everything.
It is one thing to see a pretend devil character in a Hollywood movie. Devil horn stubs beneath the skin, but right then, a paying customer who did not deserve to be disgusted was pissed me off to see the real thing. Silicone implants to mimic Satan. Two cone shaped lumps under the forehead of a head shaved bald and tattooed. He looked like Scratch! Our Scratch with the horns.
Live and let live, fuck that. Everybody else there was on their way to put in their time for the man. Everybody else worked. And like it or not everybody was doing their part to keep this merry-go-round turning. Socialism in action but not for him. He was better than that. He could deface himself and render himself unemployable. Maybe get something going with the young lady and leave her with a child to feed in a couple of years while he ran after something more important than taking care of a family. It was a clear case of anything goes and fuck anything that matters.
Dominionists would ‘feel me and would approve a law against making your face look like the devil. Care to chime in Scratch?
“The dude had piercings all over his face. Holes in his cheeks were filled with turquoise studs. The studs did not look easily removable. ”
Other than the fact that this sounds quite revolting, I can confirm that in very cold or very sunny weather earrings can burn or freeze (not literally…) your ears – it’s actually almost painful – so I can’t imagine what this must feel like in even moderately extreme (yes, I know…) temperatures, having mutilated your actual face and being a full target for the sun’s rays or exposed to a significant chill.
The things below the skin sound gag-inducing – possibly literally if you were eating or drinking.
“Maybe get something going with the young lady and leave her with a child…”
I wonder if she was called Rosemary.
Maybe I’ve just got sensitive Scottish ears.
Rosemary, oh baby!
That’s the good Kdog talking – the one who remembers the Civilization his “conscious” self rejects. Ditto your hatred of Gays. Only the Pushy ones, you retort! They all tend to be like that now and are becoming more so each generation. Narcissism is the modus operandi of the Gay psyche. What is acceptable and even natural (in due measure) in woman utterly blights a man. The Old Civilization (which you follow in this but reject in most ways) kept them down and out of sight – for the good of all.
Look at the look on Jussie’s face: utter self satisfaction and complacency. Extreme and unwholesome self love. That is their Mark of Cain. The blighted countenance that warns others of their presence.
Could magnets be used in an interrogation?
Dog,
Where I live, and it is somewhere remote, I suffer from lack of racial AND the cultural diversity you describe. Your story does remind me, however, of an incident dozens of years past;
My buddy and I were in Reno, Nevada, enjoying one of our then quarterly debauches. We were in the back casino of Harrah’s, one block off Virginia Street. We observed casino security escorting a couple from the casino floor. The spectacle we saw I will now describe.
A very fat, (leviathan fat) male, of about 6’+ weighing over 400 pounds, dressed completely in black leather, studded with spikes, pins, belts and other accoutrement. He appeared to be in is mid to late 20’s, completely bald. His scowling face set in rolls of fat, small piggish eyes hostile and searching…heavy boots on the carpet.
But that wasn’t the weird part. In his right hand, he was holding a leash. The leash was attached to his consort…a desiccated, washed out, ridden-hard-and-put-away-wet female. The leash was attached to a large studded collar on her neck., and I would suggest that the collar was the most attractive part of the woman. Her make-up appeared to be applied with a spatula, her eye shadow a deep black and applied without judgment. Her hair blowsy and an unnaturally red. She also was dressed in full leather( not attractively) and with spiked-heel boots.
This, ladies and germs, was in the early 90’s…an example that, according to the Dog, might not now pass for comment.
We two X-cops were neither offended nor intimidated…just curious.
“Does anyone know anything about a Christian sect called ”Dominionism”?”
This is my take. The Dominionists would not agree with me [ big deal – lol ] Their “easy-believism” is fulfilling prophecy, but not as they imagine.
“God gave Adam rulership over the earth, but not ownership. God owns all things by right of creation. He remains sovereign over His creation and has given man mere authority–not sovereignty. The earth is not ours to do with as we please. We are managing God’s estate, and our Dominion Mandate gives us only the authority to treat His estate according to His will, which is His law. Therefore, we will be held accountable to Him for how well we manage that estate according to our level of authority.
To take ownership of God’s estate is the spirit of antichrist, for then rulership is done as if the estate is our own and can be ruled according to our own will and our own laws.
The Gospel of the Kingdom is based upon these foundational truths. A Kingdom is a King with a Domain. It is a King-dom. When man fell in the Garden of Eden, God did not lose His Domain. What He lost were ambassadors of His Government, and He has been working since then to train His ambassadors, so they can be entrusted with the Gospel of the Kingdom.”
https://www.gods-kingdom-ministries.net/daily-weblogs/2007/01-2007/dominion-in-the-kingdom-part-1/
Thus National Socialism. No Man can be allowed to “own” too much of what isn’t his to begin with. For we don’t even own our bodies – nay not even our very selves.
If a child refuses to share, he is made to anyway….
Janos,
You know the term for American enlisted personnel? GI, stands for “Government Issue”.
” For we don’t even own our bodies – nay not even our very selves. ”
A GI must take care of government property…this includes himself. It is a punishable offense in the military to become sunburnt…. The military invests millions in training, and that money trained an asset, and the asset is not to be squandered, until ordered to do so.
Didn’t know that. Interesting parallels. Of course, God loves his property – which are really parts of Himself. Thus the analogy breaks down, thank God.
“Of course, God loves his property – which are really parts of Himself. ”
That’s why when he’s tossing so much of his property into a big everlasting fire – way more everlasting than the worst thing his property has ever done or could ever do, he says ‘this is hurting me way more than it’s hurting you’. Com-passion. But not as we know it.
Or human projection.
What’s the difference between being a Vegetable, being in a Coma, and being a registered Voter?
“The vegetative state is a chronic or long-term condition. This condition differs from a coma: a coma is a state that lacks both awareness and wakefulness. Patients in a vegetative state may have awoken from a coma, but still have not regained awareness. In the vegetative state patients can open their eyelids occasionally and demonstrate sleep-wake cycles, but completely lack cognitive function. The vegetative state is also called a “coma vigil”. The chances of regaining awareness diminish considerably as the time spent in the vegetative state increases.[7]”
Okay, Pucker, so what is a registered voter?
Yes, remember poor Terry Schievo (sp?). Her Husband had the doctors starve her to death because he didn’t believe she was really in there anymore. Christians were freaked out claiming she was. Both sides were very extreme: either a full fledged human being or a vegetable. Nothing in between was allowed. No third parties. I think she was aware – about at the level of human house cat. She smiled occasionally but there didn’t seem anything particularly human there. But still would one starve a cat to death – or a newborn baby? The State of New York would…..
“in a camo tuxedo, soon to be worn by US Army Rangers in the forthcoming invasion of the Hamptons”
“Spike Lee wearing some kind of futuristic cab driver get-up:”
“Ole Bette Miller in an outfit that said Waitress-in-a-donut-shop.”
Jim, you’re just too marvelous, just too marvelous for words.
And they dragged out John Lewis, looking and talking like he’d just come from Palookaville, with that ever present “I remember, whitey” stamp across his face.
Remember Trump’s “blood was coming out of her eyes, coming out of her wherever”? Maybe that led to this:
“I can’t believe a film about menstruation just won an Oscar.”-‘Period: End of Sentence’ producer Melissa Berton, which won the Academy Award for best documentary, short subject.
Jim probably knows it’s Midler.
She could grind him up and have room for desert.
dessert It happens!
What kind of dessert would one want to have in the hot desert?
Maybe a cool key lime pie?
Probably one of those ice things.
Typo. –JHK
Every year for at least the past 15 years I have had this fantasy that an 8.2 earthquake would strike the auditorium of the Oscars right as the Best Picture Award is being announced. Now, now I know some will think this is a horrible fantasy because such an earthquake would also impact many who are innocent. Actually my fantastical hope is that this would be a miraculous earthquake that would only affect the auditorium while leaving the rest of the LA basin untouched.
Anyhoo…..another year and fantasy not fulfilled. There’s always next year.
Mista Jim I noticed that you didn’t give a review of Lady Ga Gag’s performance with her new cuck Bradley Cooper. I’m sure it was groping….I mean gripping.
Speaking of groping, Harvey Weinstein despite his exile still managed to sneak in and grope five young actresses last night. More miraculous than my fantasy earthquake!
I have the same fantasy about the Capitol building during the State of the Union. Talk about fixing a problem in one fell swoop.
Yep
An earthquake interrupted a World Series but never an award show.
Maybe God is a woman after all.
Below the media radar re the alleged ‘moon landings’ of 1969-72 which JHK mentions sceptically above –
And following up with the funny faces that ‘moon landing hero’ Buzz Aldrin was making the other day, at age 89, standing next to Trump at the White House … Buzz seemingly hinting it was all a scam –
3 days before his death on 7 March 1999, director Stanley Kubrick confessed to fellow film-maker T Patrick Murray, that he had faked the films of the USA claimed 6 ‘moon landings’ of 1969-1972, an era when the CIA had its own film studios at Laurel Canyon, California
“Kubrick made it clear that he had agreed to the interview for a very specific purpose. He knew that he was close to death & he wanted to get something monumental off his chest before he died. Almost immediately after sitting down, he proceeded to tell the stunned interviewer that the moon landings were fake & he himself had been the director in charge of the filming proceedings.
T (T. Patrick Murray): That we didn’t land on the moon, you’re saying?
K (Stanley Kubrick): No, we didn’t. It was not real.
T: The moon landings were fake?
K: A, a, a … fictional moon landing. A fantasy. It was not real.
T: The moon landing in ’69 …
K: Is total fiction. I perpetrated a huge fraud on the American public, involving the United States government & NASA, that the moon landings were faked, that the moon landings ALL were faked, & I was the person who filmed it.
T: Why did they have to fake it? Why would they have to do that?
K: Because it is impossible to get there.”
For a good laugh, take a look at the ‘Onion Moon Landing’ on YT, an alleged ‘recovered true original’ videotape of the ‘men landing on the moon’, full of four-letter words, 3 minutes, quite funny
I came to the conclusion years ago that the moon landings were faked. I think the biggest tip off to me was when a NASA scientist last decade remarked a big problem they were trying to deal with in planning for manned trips to Mars in the future.
What is the problem? He said that they didn’t know how to protect humans from very high outer space radiation beyond the Van Allen Belt.
It was a face palm slap for me at the time.
Sooooooo…….Had NASA forgotten how they did this in the late 60s and early 70s? Do any scientists and engineers keep notes?
Yeah. Right. Men went to the moon. Uh huh.
“Yeah. Right. Men went to the moon. Uh huh.”
Uh-oh, I’ve er…landed on one of those sites.
Next episode… how the attack on Pearl Harbour was faked to get the US to join the war. Seriously. There’s a secret bunker in Nevada where the descendants of the fake casualties are hidden to this day.
“Had NASA forgotten how they did this in the late 60s and early 70s?”
People forgot how to make concrete for about 1400 years. Someone lost the recipe in all that empire-falling 🙂
….and don’t forget that NASA has endured a lot of budget cuts over the decades. Maybe the notes on how to survive deep space radiation were lost due to lack of funds.
Next up……Earth is flat.
Bwahahahahahaha…..
I will accept a lot of things, goldpen, but not that the earth isn’t flat. Didn’t you see that Meryl Streep film, ‘Postcards from the Edge’? Meryl knows. Meryl’s been there. 🙂
Don’t forget, wrasslin’ is real.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLxpNiF0YKs
Yeah, vaccinations don’t work either. Also, Hitler , Elvis and JFK are partying down in Argentina. I got this info from Ricks Cafe American in Casablanca. I’ve heard good intelligence has been coming out of there since WW2.
I have to say that I was unaware of the tape of that NASA employee until the moderately ripe age of 42.
I’ve been the exhibits at the Smithsonian’s Air and Space museum many times, know all about the Kubrick stuff (which is questionable, I have never found a definitive source for his statements on this), and am aware of some of the admittedly staged photos used for PR, etc.
But I never really questioned the landing other than for the obvious propaganda value it had for us at that period in time.
I must say, however that that tape is something else…
Not only that, Kubrick admitted that your mother faked your birth.
Not speaking for Brabantian, but I have long suspected that my birth was faked. I was allegedly born in a US Army post hospital that is conveeeeeeeniently no longer there. As if it ever was there!
No one from my past schools while “growing up” remember me. Sort of like no one at Columbia Univ remembering Obama.
I think I was a dark op MKUltra CIA fake baby! Oh, and when I was 4 years old I was in my hometown’s newspaper commenting on the first moon landing! A picture of my making the shape of a rocket with my hands. I was probably being directed by Kubrick and I probably wasn’t actually even in my “hometown”.
I still have the newspaper clip. It looks so real. Oh they’re very gooooood…..
For the record, my crack about moon landing was a gag, pure and simple.
Yes, but it is definitely made of green cheese.
Nope, American cheese
Those Krafty bastards put another one over on me!
Well yeah, it’s like a spaceship made of green cheese after all :-). And there are aliens living in it and they come to earth at night and do…well you know the rest lol….
A friend of mine has two kids who are both unbelievably smart and look like movie stars. His wife say an alien had to have come down and made her pregnant but she doesn’t remember it
Hmmm that sounds like a familiar story lol :-).
Maybe he should have the whole family DNA tested to see who is related to whom. The threat alone maybe dislodge tawdry secrets long hidden.
Oh yes, the probe, I’d rather not talk about it.
Sightings of UFOs and stories of probes have steeply declined since the advent of sex shops and especially online ordering of their myriad gadgets.
Correlation? Causation? Who knows? 🙂
LOL 😛 you so crazy!
GreenAlba, I’ve had the curious thought that the Visitors are somewhat like the wildlife experts who only partly camouflage themselves, such that wild animals can get the sense of something living and watching them but not menacing enough to cause them to bolt.
For anyone with a persistent case of the doubts I respectfully refer you to the 2010 “Disclosure” videos recorded at the National Press Club, mostly testimony by retired USAF officers responsible for security at nuclear weapons sites.
Just look at them at the Apollo 11 press conference. For Christ’s sake these guys look like they are getting prepared to be water boarded.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI_ZehPOMwI
Yeah, this is what rock steady professional men acted like back then. Men who grew up eating organic food, getting exercise and fresh air, spending the hours and days with books and conversation, instead of social media. Men who respected knowledge, science, and philosophy, electing for a career of service, without a recruitment movie staring Tom Cruise.
You think the Air Force was selecting for something else?
As the conference continued, they loosened up a bit, their moderated voices picking up speed, and letting their guard down a bit.
Last week I was listening to a Geopolitics & Empire podcast that featured an interview with Dmitry Orlov from December 8, 2018. During the interview he told the host about a Russian scientist he spoke to. This scientist told him they were planning to send a mission to the moon to see if any of the Apollo stuff is actually up there. If true, doubt about the moon landings expands well beyond the tin foil hat crowd. Personally, I’d love to see someone either validate that it’s true or validate that it was faked.
Gotta wonder how it would play out if proven a fake. Lots of faith could be crushed, from faith in the government to faith to the idea that we are going to Mars and will soon be mining asteroids. Hell, that one Russian expedition could do more to unravel this country than all of the hysterical hand waving about the last election.
Yes I heard that podcast too. Dmitry also said that with Russia’s new missile systems, which Putin announced early last year, that the US no longer has any….as in absolutely none….ability to do a successful first strike. He’s said this more than once in his bi-weekly blog as well.
Oh, and he’s also said that US aircraft carriers can be taken out with no real ability to thwart the new hypersonic missiles. That they are in essence now just big floating coffins in the water.
Anyone here with a lot more knowledge of such things than myself have an opinion on these claims by Orlov?
He leaves one big thing out. FBM submarines. Both sides have them, they are hidden, undetectable, and close enough to their targets that there is no defense. Fleet Ballistic Missile boats are what forced the MAD folks to finally cave. Still no answer.
Carrier forces have one job in a crisis, get their planes launched in time to do their missions. The ships are expendable.
The hawks of the world are full of s—t. If someone pushes the ultimate button, the world will not be worth living in.
Oh yes, Orlov does mention the FBM submarines too. He brought up the Russian’s “Poseidon” weapon:
“Russia has reportedly commenced sea trials of its ultimate doomsday weapon, a nuclear-capable underwater vehicle (UUV), dubbed ‘Poseidon,’ purportedly designed to deliver a 2-megaton nuclear warhead to destroy naval bases, carrier strike groups, and entire coastal cities by triggering a radioactive Tsunami wave.
The sea trials of the “Poseidon” began last week and are primarily focused on the UUVs guidance system and underwater operations in autonomous mode. Work on the “Poseidon” is reportedly progressing according to schedule, the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) said in a July 19 statement….”
The above taken from here: https://thediplomat.com/2018/07/russia-begins-sea-trials-of-nuclear-capable-poseidon-underwater-prone/
Even with a Poseidon, ya gotta know where the FBM is. We have Asroc, on the surface and the same capability on subs to do the same thing. But ya gotta know what you are aiming at.
I will tell you the deadliest threat of both sides and any other small country like NOKO.
The EMF wave off a nuke cripples all silicon based electronics. It just destroys the devices with ionization. This was being discussed when NOKO was showing off a couple years ago.
The EMF wave will shut down everything due to the computerization of everything.
Instant 12th century.
“a radioactive Tsunami wave.
The sea trials of the “Poseidon” began last week and are primarily focused on the UUVs guidance system and underwater operations in autonomous mode. Work on the “Poseidon” is reportedly progressing according to schedule, the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) said in a July 19 statement….”
Goldpen,
I suspect that the Russians got help from extraterrestrials…how could they build something so advanced and otherworldly so quickly but from secret communication, direct from Uranus…yeah….
Orlov is a crank….
This from one who trumpets the NYT everyday? Curious…
Couldn’t finish the sentence Snack Packaging? Don Lemon’s balls in your mouth?
There’s a very interesting youtube or a series of them: NASA official admits they’ve lost the original films of Apollo program. In other words, they’ve been hidden or destroyed because they won’t stand up to modern technical scrutiny. I became very open to this question after watching that.
Employment here in Huntsville collapsed in the early 70’s. Boeing moved 5,000 jobs back to Seattle. GE terminated 2,000+. It was a bloodbath. I doubt they kept the historians. I am always up for a good conspiracy story though.
It’s impossible to get there. Amen. We can’t get there today, we can’t get there yesterday, and we won’t be able to get there for at LEAST another 100 years, probably 500 years.
@ Brabantian
oh please. why you want to have the truth about everything? Don’t you need a little myth in your life?
The big story is not whether Americans faked the Moon Landing, but why the leadership of the USSR went along with it.
I guess even then they were planning the “Enclosure” – the privatization of Soviet public property and becoming on equal footings with American elite.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure
Boy, have they been taken for a ride!
That ‘s easy. The faking of the moon landings had ancillary goals. One of them was the promulgation of the nuclear weapon myth. The critical link in the man with his finger on the button is the ICBM. It’s not bombers or nuclear submarines, which have people between them and nuclear holocaust. An ICBM has no such conscience. So doing wonders with rockets is essential for people to believe ONE man can destroy the world. This increases American and Russian power simultaneously. People think this is a pride thing. This is a power thing.
It’s the same reason people who liked the 50’s are Republicans and people who liked the 60’s are Democrats. No Republican will ever admit to fake moon landings, and the corollary no one who voted for Trump will admit the moon landings were faked. It’s admitting to being had, and no Republican will ever admit to that. They use that against them, unbeknownst to them.
No Republican will ever admit to fake moon landings, and the corollary no one who voted for Trump will admit the moon landings were faked
You were doing so good up until that statement. Most people who voted for Trump or who simply refused to vote only had one primary goal: to NOT elect Queen HRC. Faked moon landings are a whole nother topic altogether.
Most Americans of a certain age have a sentimental attachment to the moon landings, which were one of the few feel good things to come out of the 60’s, so they simply refuse to consider it a possibility altogether.
I am relieved to be free of another label.
I guess I’ll never understand the HRC vitriol. After everything Trump has done and so few have abandoned him… it’s amazing to me. Even SSL has at least a little buyer’s remorse. Most don’t. I’ve heard some say he’s the greatest president ever.
After all this time, I guess you won’t.
You won’t because you live in a world in which people believe Trump is akin to Hitler.
With that level of deductive reasoning and critical thinking, it is no surprise that you are entirely unaware of why one might find Clinton so vile.
People don’t like HRC because of her dead, evil eyes. You’ve become so ‘civilized’ that you’ve lost your animal instincts. One look at that woman, and all my instincts tell me to flee – just like if I happened across a rattlesnake while hiking.
One fun theory I heard the other day is that liberals have ‘evolved’ away so many of their natural instincts that your disgust threshold is nonexistent. That would explain how you can look at a 10 year old boy wearing a dress and makeup, stripping for older men, and not only not be horrified by it, but actually would say it is ’empowering.’
The evidence against the moon landing is laughable.
Really, the best they have is some apocryphal bullshit about Kubrick’s last words!
Flat Earth, the fookin’ Reptilians, vaccines cause autism, and the game moon landings are all on par.
I don’t know if they did or they didn’t, but there’s at least a plausible rationale for doing so.
Where’s RocketDoc when you need him?
https://spacecentre.co.uk/blog-post/know-moon-landing-really-happened/
Yes experts know everything and are never wrong…..
Like the experts on those weapons of mass destruction in Iraq….
I’m leaving you to RocketDoc, SSL – I hope he’s not on holiday.
RocketDoc and SoftStarlight – it has a certain je ne sais quoi as a pairing 🙂
The WMD ‘experts’ were spooks. Not my favourite category of expert.
I don’t have time for RocketDoc. Janos is bringing me to inner earth :-)! Tell him to call me. The King of inner earth said that I can still get calls on my phone down there.
I will happily leave you to Janos, SSL, There are some things a person aspiring to a modicum of dignity will not do, and one of them is argue about fake moon landings.
Happy Mo(o)nday 🙂
If you say so put it would be fun too. Happy belated Moonday!
No stake in the conspiracy game, but where does Russia Truth fit on your spectrum, I wonder?
“Tin foil for thee, but not for me.”
Heh.
Thank you. I did not realize so many did not want to believe anything good about our usually dysfunctional government.
Thank you. I did not realize so many did not want to believe anything good about our usually dysfunctional government.
And thanks to GA for her winsome hopes that I have something useful to add to moon landing non-believers. It’s just too hard to doubt everything.
I voted for Trump and am open on the question – so you’re wrong.
I believe you seawolf. It is very plausible that the moon landing was fake. And I voted for Trump nonetheless lol. But like you said I have buyers remorse which is true. I still wouldn’t have voted for Hillary but I can’t argue with you on that either.
It is equally plausible that a few guys went to the moon and everybody said been there done that and lost interest. Especially when it cost money.
The most stomach-turning part of the whole night was those harpies talking about ‘menstrual equality’. I laughed out loud, turned to my wife, and asked, “What the hell is that?” She rolled her eyes and laughed too. “I have no idea!”
I thought it was a joke but it is real:
https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/972
This bill establishes a tax credit, a tax exclusion, and requirements that apply to the purchase or distribution of menstrual hygiene products.
The bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) expand the tax exclusion for reimbursements from a health flexible spending arrangement to include amounts paid or incurred for menstrual hygiene products, and (2) allow a refundable tax credit of $120 for certain individuals who use menstrual hygiene products, subject to adjustments for inflation and a limitation based on adjusted gross income.
Thanks! I really needed a genuine laugh. Gawd bless ‘Murica!
Well now that is interesting. I can’t even get regular OTC saline eye drops credited on my Health Savings Account without a written RX from the MD. I wonder if the MD will have to write an RX for tampons.
I don’t think MAGA will get it done. There’s just no material to work with of any substance. I still like John Wayne movies, Jimmy Stewart, Humphrey B, and that generation. Then for musicals there’s Singing In The Rain. I could figure out those. I even liked Reagan movies. I think we are screwed. This is all a freak show now. No hope.
Driving Mrs Daisy won again.
More like, ‘Driving While Black.’
“Driving Mrs Daisy won again.”
But she’s got married in the meantime.
Someone once said that all movies run on 13 plot lines, just adaptations.
I think that has dropped to two or three.
Hmmm, so they are sorta like pre-packaged meals from Walmart.
Yeah, apparently there’s only seven jokes. The variables remain the same – only the values or incidentals change according to the present.
promulgation of the nuclear weapon myth == seawolf
Today’s political news in the United States showed that the fear of a certain part of the American establishment of Putin’s address to the Federal Assembly was not due to the fact that they were afraid of the damaging factors of a nuclear explosion, but with the possibility that their compatriots would understand – they are being set up not only by their own politicians, but also by the so-called American intelligentsia.
But in order for you to understand how this affects the situation in US and in Russia, I must explain to you, my dear readers, the difference between a hot war and a cold war. I tried to do it in the previous post, but judging by the comments, I did it badly.
And so I decided to approach the bomb again and this time I will start with a proposal to forget everything you know about the connection between war and the economy.
In particular, contrary to the very popular point of view, an emerging war cannot enrich America, since all previous wars enriched the United States because they increased the circulation zone of the dollar. And the current war can not increase the circulation zone of the dollar because after the collapse of the USSR this zone reached a planetary scale, that is, the maximum, and the only reason why the dollar has not yet collapsed is that both China and Russia are buying US securities, essentially saving the planetary circulation zone of the dollar. After the war, it can only become smaller, MUCH smaller, even disappearing completely.
This is important because the cold war is a way to destroy the enemy by economic means, and if the cold war happens, Russia will have no choice but to bring down the dollar if it does not want to repeat the fate of the USSR, which did not use Black Monday in 1987 and did not finish the United States off at that moment the “winner” in the cold war was not even on his knees, but one could say he was lying in a pool of his own vomit.
October 19, 1987 is the day on which the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell the most in its entire history – 22.6%, and if Gorbachev had not signed a surrender six months before in Reykjavik, of which the recently dead INF treaty was a part, then the fall of Dow Jones on one of those days with a guarantee would be at least twice as big.
And if the USSR in those days showed a space fighter, which later became the Avangard system, then the United States as a federation would most likely seized to exist already in the early 90s.
But in order to achieve such a victory in the Cold War, Russia needs to create a threat of the first or, as they say, in America preemptive strike with missiles, which in 5-10 minutes after launch will reach all the launch positions of American missiles.
Now Russia does not have such missiles, since even Avangards from Siberia to the USA will fly in about 15 minutes. But if Russia builds 16 missile cruisers that Putin was talking about, then after approaching the coasts of the USA, they will be able to simply shoot out the launch positions of the American missiles.
I repeat once again – Russia does not have to shoot the United States, but it must create the threat of such shooting, in order to force the United States to build a real missile defense system, which could at least theoretically intercept 800 Russian combat blocks with a flight time of 10 minutes, and which should cost around 20 trillion dollars and not 200 billion, which costs EURO missile defense, whose task is to intercept a retaliatory strike by 10% of Russian missiles that survived after a “preemptive” strike by the United States.
Why waste all that money, Finca?
Just support dictators in South and Central America, watch them export all their opposition folks, kick back and watch the US commit suicide internally trying to absorb the next ten million socialists.
So who are the really stupid people?
“…kick back and watch the US commit suicide…”
There’s a fair amount of evidence that his is Putin’s strategy. He is trying to do to us the same thing we did to the Soviets in Afghanistan.
There was even a James Bond movie where the Mujahadeen were the good guys, today’s Taliban.
Anyone ever think we might be there to protect the drug routes?
Assuming any part of your bullshit conjecture is realistic, more likely since they are trying to flee they are now hardened anti-socialists.
The New York Times today published an editorial by former chief of station for the CIA, John Sipher.
A concise history of Russian paranoia and its evolution as a secret intelligence state since the original establishment of the Cheka by Lenin.
It details why the crypto-Russian government is incorrigible and will never stop its constant existential task of bullshitting the world and it’s people to stay in power. The generation of disinformation is its asymmetrical leverage to dominate its population through coercion and terror and its pathetic abuse of human nature to maintain oligaric power.
Hmmm, sounds like some other country we know….
That sounds like what the ‘Murican secret intelligence state does! But with more smooth sophistication.
I am impressed that you are always on your point no matter what. All these other drifters are having a tough time competing lol!
Lil’ Snacker’s a grown up version of the Lil’ J-Bot. Might even work in/for the same bot center.
You think so? He seems real to me.
“I repeat once again – Russia does not have to shoot the United States, but it must create the threat of such shooting, in order to force the United States to build a real missile defense system
Komraden Finc!
Where do you get such crazy ideas, such Machiavellian plots?
Oh yeah, we did that to the Russkies in the 80’s…40 years ago.
I thought you guys played chess, not checkers….
Meanwhile, news abroad, in Canada, all animal products are gone form Canadian recommended food chart and in New Zealand,
immigrants are checked for BMI–body mass index, aka percent bodyfat.
Instead of watching the Oscars, I worked on my Meccano (#meccano) model of an Antonio Carraro Tigre 4000 tractor.
Time well spent, my friend.
(yawn) Any time dumped down a rat hole is like matter sucked into a black hole.
It seems some people are just bracing at the bit to throw in a negative comment. That tractor was necessary to help my robotics students understand the programming tasks associated with robotics.
I’ve basically stopped going to the movies since they’ve become alt-left propaganda pieces with all the subtlety of a Khmer Rouge video about Democratic Kampuchea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko9wikf_RBc
I stopped going because they all suck!
Yep!!! Nuff said ;-)!!!
Thanks for suffering for us.
I can recommend one documentary to all here, FYRE Festival debacle, pure Americana of late stage decadence.
IMO it was a brilliant marketing campaign what I would bill as a secular Hinduism (my apologies to real Hindus) of waving around tight young white girls with just enough splash of colored people to create a fantasy world for overpaid drones or trust fund dupes.
For my fake Hinduism secular faith the head cheese will have a statue that looks like the owner of Instagram the Zuck with many arms and bug eyes, YO.
That was great! Like watching a plane crash in slow motion.
And I haven’t seen the Oscar’s broadcast since they last had John Wayne on it.
I remember that. He looked terrible. I’ll never forget it. I said to myself, he looks like he’s been eaten alive.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob0JBcfaDgk
Who nuked the Duke?
The satire is delicious this morning, Jim, keep it up!
I couldn’t even finish watching “Black Panther.” While visually stunning I couldn’t follow the story at all, everything moved to fast, and I didn’t care one twit what happened to anybody in the movie. And this after many of my friends raved about the flick. Go figure.
Seawolf
One of the declines of the movies is that they are made for young folks, with their short attention spans. They are all cut up into a succession of skits, jumping from one set of characters to the next.
The young folks are products of Television. Why skits? That is the production distance between commercials.
People with longer attention spans have a tough time trying to keep it all straight.
Or perhaps they just don’t produce much good stuff anymore? They have a severe lack of creativity and lack substance. I am young and I don’t pay much attention to any of this stuff. None of my friends do either. Are we outliers? Possibly, but I honestly believe a lot of people don’t care whatsoever. You can pick and choose and stream anything you want to watch now so you can cut out all of the cookie cutter stuff.
I love horror. And I saw a good movie on Amazon the other night called Hell House. It was not any big production at all but it scared me pretty bad lol. It’s the best horror flick I have seen since Sinister.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4267026/
“Sinister” was very good. I hear “The Quiet Place,” is pretty good though I have not watched it yet.
Holy crap do you remember the scene where Ellison is watching the reel “Pool Party” and the demon basically looks at him and the projector catches on fire? That demonic, triangular face gave me chills I still can’t shake!
So insightful. I never thought of it that way, but it certainly seems to be true.
That’s your inner racism talking. I’m watching it now and it’s not bad. To my surprise, Whites aren’t portrayed as clowns or super villains. It just focuses on Blacks. I have no problem with it on that level.
Hmmm so maybe it is ok to branch out a little bit. I wasn’t even gonna consider it given the title.
I haven’t seen it. Do whites carry spears, too? Or is that the movie’s principal homage to black African culture?
No, they’re afraid of the Global White Culture and thus remain hidden. But some of them think that they’re super technology could defeat it. The secret is Vibranium!
Same conflict with Star Wars: if you have “blasters” or ray guns or even regular firearms, you don’t need swords anymore – even light sabers. But then all the fun is gone….
“And this after many of my friends raved about the flick. Go figure.”
Wolfie,
…get new friends….
Good article in the WSJ today, headline ‘Frackers Endure Reckoning on Wall Street’. Upshot is these drillers in Texas and ND are producing a lot of oil but they’re losing money, and Wall Street is increasingly reluctant to lend them anymore money to keep operations going.
As a layman its hard for me to believe these companies cant make a profit at $55 per barrel, which just shows you how expensive fracking must be.
Brh
With fracking, like regular drilling, the expenses are all up front. One the hole is drilled, they hope they get enough out of the hole to justify the outlay. As they get farther from the sweet spots, the pay back declines.
In Texas, a new technique is being employed. Instead of going from one site to another, x-y, they are going deeper and fracking additional strata. It seems to be working.
Incredibly, it turns out some of this fracking is occuring around Titusville and Oil City, Penn., where the original oil strikes happened in 1859.
Brh
Huh. Thanks for the update. My grandparents lived in Meadville, Pa, right in the neighborhood.
Wow, particularly insipid column this morning. JHK has the capacity to be quite insightful, but I feel lately that he’s slipping further into angry “get-off-my-lawn” old man territory.
I didn’t watch the Oscar’s show last night because I knew I wasn’t interested. I suspect JHK also knew that he wasn’t, but proceeded to watch anyway, and subject us to this screed about pop culture.
You get the award for being the first to accuse JHK of slipping into ‘angry old man syndrome’.
Seems to happen every week. Lol…
As for me, I’ve been yelling “get off my lawn” since I was in my early 30s. It is MY lawn damnit!!
Has it worked?
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/03/15/00/00713D5900000258-3492468-image-m-29_1458001957367.jpg
What, no mention of Vice? (I guess Bale won 2 for his portrayal of our Dark Lord).
Better tread lightly for a while, Jim! The devil incarnate Lord Cheney never sleeps, nor does he ever forget!
Did ‘They Shall Not Grow Old’ get any mention at the Oscars?
Brh
Glenn Close’s gown weighed forty pounds.
For comparison’s sake, an NHL goalie wears thirty-five pounds of equipment.
Hey, all you Apollo conspiracists.
Check out Wikipedia on Third party observations of the Apollo landing sites.
I would say enough independent sources have confirmed that the left overs are still there.
Or did some conspirator shoot that stuff up there so that people could take pictures of it forty years later.
Give me a break.
Well you know the Devil planted all them dinosaur fossils just so humans wouldn’t believe in Creationism.
It’s twoo!
“Well you know the Devil planted all them dinosaur fossils just so humans wouldn’t believe in Creationism.”
I thought it was God who was supposed to have done it as a test of faith. A born-again girl told me that.
Where’s the link?
You don’t need a link my child. Just have faith and you will be rewarded for your belief in things not seen.
Okay I’ll give this link to a ministry with its own creationist museum. Now they do actually believe dinosaurs existed. They only believe the Devil created misleading radio carbon dating. Doh!
Dinosaurs were around when Jesus walked the earth!!
https://creationmuseum.org/dinosaurs-dragons/
I believe you.
Another voice of reason.
The only awards that matter, to the extent that they matter, are best pic, best actor, best director. The rest don’t.
OK I confess I didn’t watch. But am I to understand that Black Panther didn’t get best pic OR best actor OR best director?
WTF? You kiddin’ me? All that money, what, $200 million to produce and over a billion at the box office, and they get those three nothing trinkets?
“Best costume design”? “Best production design”? “Original score”? Fuck right off. These are consolation prizes AT BEST, in a contest where I guess EVERYBODY gets something, where EVERYBODY is a winner, and they’re trying to dress this up as “historic?”
I can imagine Chris Rock building a routine around this latest slap in the face, and Spike Lee venting more rage in another movie.
I don’t get it. With that kind of loot, the studio should’ve had the wherewithal to EASILY buy something more, at least ONE of the Big Three. Don’t they do lavish dog and ponies … oh, there’s “rules” around lobbying? Really? Seriously? But I thought the studios sent nit-wit starlets to blow everybody in sight. Don’t they? Yeah, I know, Avengers grossed up more. So what, a billion, two billion, Black Panther was about BLACK PEOPLE. And what’s wrong with these guys, so bloody what if the other movie made more money, you send out twice as many star-lets to blow twice as many guys.
Anyway, I don’t care about the – cough – rules. This is obviously White Hollywood closing ranks, racism most vile. Any movie about White folks tallying up that kind of dough would’ve walked away with something better than those three pissant awards … just a cotton pickin’ minute, isn’t the movie based on a Stan Lee comic? Isn’t, er, wasn’t Stan Lee a White dude? Jesus H, they couldn’t find a Black comic artist? Don’t black lives matter?
I don’t get how this happened. Marvel Comics is owned by Disney. Isn’t Disney a Jew run company? Don’t Jews control everything? I’m totally confused.
V
Maybe the problem is as simple as:
White people watch white people and Black people watch Black people. No racism, just like when they integrated the schools, Blacks hung with Blacks, Whites with Whites, Asians with Asians, etc. Human nature. Adults do the same thing, the famous “neighborhoods” of Chicago are proof of that.
The Black movies are just a continuation of the same thing. Why are they not appreciated more at the box office?
Maybe because only 12-16% of the population is Black?
Did Black Panther get released in Africa? Wonder what the reception was there.
I was mostly being sarcastic. But you’d think that that the company that made the movie that pulled in almost 1.5 billion and was the second highest grossing pic would have bought at least one major award. When I say “bought” I mean “bought”. Does anyone think these awards ceremonies are on the level? In any case, this is one more issue that’s high on the list of things that don’t matter. But yeah, good question, I wonder how the movie did in Africa.
Does anyone think these awards ceremonies are on the level?
I thought the awards [I watched one time, long ago] was dull and scripted. too scripted. too much applause.
no booing = boring.
I am waiting for Africans to beam me up in their flying saucer :-). Shouldn’t we all be Wakanda-bound?
Maybe we can go together. I’ll bring us some wine and munchies. What do you like?
No, you’re coming with me to the Inner Earth. Get lost Volly.
Really :-)??? Now I am definitely coming with you :-)!!!
I’m trying to make contact with their emissaries here in the Upper World – usually halflings. The Dwarf Halflings pose as or actually are little guys who work as cobblers or jewelers, etc. The Elven halflings usually pose as young gay men. The results have been comical I must admit. The Dwarves order me out of their shops and threaten to call the police. The Elves think I’m some crazy coming on to them – but they’re willing anyway. I can tell some of them are the real thing because they’re snickering as they put on the act. Halfling scum!
Janos,
Once you go elf….
Lol halfling scum trying to get the best of you, how dare they! But then of course they would!
Once you go elf, no more off the shelf.
No, Whites watch Blacks.
Michael Jackson.
Actors.
comics.
hell, one of them played God. The old guy whose name eludes me.
took awhile to find…Morgan Freeman.
Whites watch white dominant movies, Blacks watch Black dominant movies.
I look for and watch Morgan Freeman, Denzel Eashington type movies and listened to Michael Jackson.
I just have no interest in an all Black movie, I guess I cannot relate. And I think it goes both ways.
Awards shows are an industry in themselves. The are just recycling capital in Hollywood. The movies are boring, the stars are boring, the clothes are boring. I wish we had Joan Rivers and the Fashion Patrol back, it at least added a little humor to the prelims.
Yes, it’s that simple. Natural preference for one’s own, also called Racism – but only when Whites are involved.
So you’re saying that Jews don’t control Hollywood? More proof of your identity.
I don’t think you are confused at all, but rather confusing. A very different thing.
I read that Einstein was killed by the deep state because he knew too much.
did they get his secrets before the killing?
Gosh I think your right. Tell me more!!! Was he wearing a turtleneck when they axed him ;-).
They made him shave his mustache, but just on one side. His mind dissembled and he twirled into a vortex of nothingness. They buried his mustache hairs in a heart-shaped chocolate box that had E=MC2 in raised letters embossed on it.
Lol a vortex of nothingness! Did he become a black hole?
That’s funny, SSL, you deserve a tip for that one.
Why thank you Captain :-)!
People still pay attention to this.
An industry marketing campaign branded as an awards show.
It’s spectacle to ensure their product “actors” are given importance.
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the american public.
Wow you don’t say!!!!! You mean it is scripted and complete and total BS???? I thought I was supposed to be basing my life on this stuff lol.
I await your words of wisdom this week eagerly :-).
The preoccupation with showbiz celebrity in this country is another testament to the cultural void.
Gauche
Yes, we need a new culture to fill that void. I think we are slowly creating one with our brain trust here. And in other places too. Stay tuned!
Some actor needs to get an award and then dedicate to his brother or cousin who was killed by Black criminals. Or at least give a White Power salute….
OMG that would be totally amazing. Can you imagine how much we would talk about that if a…think about…White male gave a White power salute and thanked his people and God for his good fortune upon receipt of his award??!! Don Lemon’s head would explode. Joy Behar would have to be undergo some sort of emergency psychological intervention. Alyssa Milano would announce that she is a Lesbian and would renounce the world. And I definitely would then have a new man to dream about all day long lol ;-).
Liberal tears are precious and we will pay for them. Like the beards of Old Women, we use them in our magical potions. See “below”…..
Are you talking about this?
https://www.adl.org/education/references/hate-symbols/white-power-hand-sign
Some people think that every time Trump makes the Ok symbol or Jnana mudra (an obscene gesture in Italy), he is speaking in code to his base, We Deplorables.
Went to a Gun Show over the weekend. Was great to back with the White American Yeomanry.
Symbols are wonderful and powerful. But there is a higher level of connectivity as well. I know how you feel and you know how I feel and no one has to say a word or display symbols.
Green Alba, the earth is so flat. It’s just that it exists in curved space. When a satellite orbits the Earth it’s actually moving in a straight line through curved space. Or something.
Oh, volodya, don’t tell me Meryl was lying. I’ll never believe anyone again…
I wouldn’t lie to you. Well, maybe sometimes, but only little white lies.
Actually I read your comment too quickly. Meryl wasn’t lying, the earth is still flat. God’s in his heaven and all’s right with the world.
Which is flat.
So we don’t need to worry about rising sea levels anyway, as we can just scoop the extra water over the edge. That’s probably what Meryl was doing when she sent the postcards. Leonardo di Caprio was probably passing buckets along too.
Everything is flat.
Because everything is reduced to solipsism.
Eventually
Most humorous JHK musings in years. Loved the stream of consciousness narration.
Bill Cosby’s life may be in danger at the SCI-Phoenix prison in Pennsylvania where he is being held for three to 10 years for sexual assault.
The 81-year-old has been in prison for four months now and was moved to general population earlier in February. Here, he is among 2,000 other inmates, where he could be more susceptible to an attack. Despite Cosby keeping mostly to his cell, where he eats and exercises, another inmate that is a mass murder has it out for him, Radar Online reported.
Convicted killer, George Banks, 75, has a target on Cosby for destroying his family, a source told the news outlet. Banks brutally murdered five of his children, two babies, five women, and a man, according to Radar Online. Cosby is rightfully disturbed about the threat and has reacted by hiring inside protection from the “gangsters in Banks’ circle,” according to the Radar Online source. He has money deposited into other inmates’ prison accounts “in exchange for protection,” the source said.
Prison officials have maintained that Cosby is safe as Banks is held in the capital case unit without access to other units within the prison.
While Banks is not able to get near Cosby, it wouldn’t stop him from “sending his hit men after Cosby,” Alan Davis, a law enforcement expert and retired Chester, Pennsylvania police force captain told Radar Online.
“Prisons are their own little worlds with politics, economy, favors and alliances, so I wouldn’t rule out anything as being impossible in there,” Davis told the news outlet.
Oh well. I wonder who is Banks and why he killed?
B-I-N-G-O
George Emil Banks was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, to John Mack, who was black, and Mary Yelland, who is white. His parents were not married. According to his attorneys at his later trial, he suffered severely from racism while he was growing up because of being mixed race.[4]
Despite his criminal record for an armed offense, Banks had started working as a prison guard at Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, in 1980.
In 1982 Banks had told coworkers at the prison that “the world would soon be consumed by a race war” and said he wanted “to prevent the five children he fathered with the four white girlfriends from [experiencing] the torment and agony of racism.”[4]
He was put on “an extended leave of absence” the first week in September 1982 after a conflict with a supervisor and threatening suicide. The prison ordered Banks to be examined for mental health issues at a Harrisburg-area hospital.[4]
Whoever gets to Cosby, you can bet the media will report the assailant was wearing a MAGA hat.
Pray to Jesus that the 0.1% who own 90% of the World’s wealth have the wisdom to lead us on the Path of Righteousness.
By chance does this “Path of Righteousness” lead us to the Orchids of Asia Day Spa? Just asking…
To him, there’s no stop light in human traffic.
Another billionaire on his well worn path to self satisfaction.
Today’s column well skewers the bizarro world of the movie crowd but where is mention that placenta eating is a thing out there, and coffee enemas (make mine decaf), rolfing, shopping at Goop and seances with Shirley MacLaine.
The other year we had #OscarsSoWhite and last night we had #OscarsSoBlack. When do we get #OscarsSoPink for the adult movie genre? I wanna see those video clips in the show! And the Oscar for stupid bigly cartoon boobs goes to dot dot dot Stormy Daniels. Accepting for Ms. Daniels is Miss Twiggy and now dot dot dot a word from our sponsor, Silicone City Health Essentials, Ltd, where we grow ’em so you can show ’em.
Today we’re back to reality…or is it…Vietnam War draft dodger goes to Vietnam to meet with the other barbarian with a bad haircut. Can’t make this stuff up…
Thanks Jim, again: “Black Panther” is, of course, another example of how the opposite is true to claims of native cultures having been misappropriated by White Europeans. Example: the bundled braided hair tumbling out of football helmets would be a health liability were it not for the personal hygiene practices made possible by Western culture’s contribution to scientific advancements, preventing such “artifice” from bearing vermin vectors that otherwise are health risks (as they remain in Africa).
This “misappropriation” of Western culture goes on and on, most apparent in the Western literary form upon which all Black writers are dependent – James Baldwin and Ralph Ellison no less.
Even jazz, blues and the studio arrangement scores that provide the only “musical element” to RAP derive from the Western canon of music as taught to the plantation bourgeois Blacks (entertainers) by Plantation owners.
Over all, for whatever Blacks suffered through American slave history life here was far more humane than the savagery between tribes practiced in Africa, including tribes profiting from selling into slavery captives from other tribes.
By the time Blacks arrived in America the level of civilization they were introduced to was centuries ahead of their native one, which offered little to be assimilated. So it remains, “White privilege” belongs to all living in Westernized nations.
“There’s no privilege like white privilege like no privilege I know…”
Others can’t accept having been, and being, less creative, less productive, less influential and less recognized.
Thus Spike Lee’s garish, goofy attempt at originality, showboating his ‘inventive’ blackness.
Oscar diversity:
https://www.cnn.com/videos/media/2019/02/24/oscars-best-moments-highlights-llr-orig.cnn/video/playlists/top-news-videos/
The ascension of mediocrity is by a force pulling down.
Like those 7 series BMWs parked in the low rent apartment complexes.
Lost cachet
“The ascension of mediocrity is by a force pulling down.”
Very insightful and meaningful. A natural human tendency or a product of modern democracy?
How about some real life murder mysteries right out of Hollywood, like Superman’s or Marilyn Monroe’s?
George Reeves:
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2006/nov/18/features.weekend1
Marilyn: Skip the last two, she knew about aliens, she’s still alive.
https://www.sbs.com.au/guide/article/2017/07/24/4-conspiracy-theories-about-death-marilyn-monroe
America marinated in Hollywood, Hollywood marinated in murder.
Manson killings
Simpson killings
Sal Mineo
Black Dahlia
Menendez couple
Marvin Gaye
Siegel
Johnny Stompanato killed by Lana Turner’s daughter
Sam Cook
Notorious Big
Hillside Strangler killings
RFK
Roman Navarro (silver dildo)
Dorothy Stratton
I’ll watch L. A. Confidential tonight, get rid of shallow, seductive glitter, take on some gangster grit and gore.
It is weird how there are so many real-life murder mysteries in Hollywood. A city of wild dreams, dashed hopes, drama, amazing riches, skidrow, sunshine, ecstasy, endless nights and death. You can get shallow, seductive glitter with your gangster grit and gore.
You forgot tacos.
You could argue that murder is shallow. Some would say, myself included, that murder Could be noble.
Seductive, okay. But glitter? Hmmm.
Oh yes there are many more, but one I should have included is Bonny Lee Bakley, who was killed by Robert Blake. After he was acquitted, he famously said he “was going to cowboy up.”
Yeah after second thought maybe not glitter. You know, I looked into Bonny Lee Bakley and read that she was a scam artist that married like ten different men to dig for gold. So we do need to add tacos, gold diggers, and men who snap in that list of qualities too!
Yes, Bonny Lee Bakley was a grifter, but that doesn’t justify killing her. Robert Blake was 65 yrs old and supposedly streetwise when they got together. He should have known better. Her previous 9 husbands were a big clue.
But he was acquitted; so we should assume he didn’t kill her.
Long John Holmes and the billion dollar boys? i forget.
That makes six fire deaths in Tesla’s in a year. Before anyone jumps in with “gas cars catch fire more often than electric”, consider this…..
The closest comparable car to what we’re seeing now with Tesla is the Ford Pinto from the 1970’s almost 59 years ago. The were 27 deaths in Pintos that caught fire, over 9 year period on 2.2 million cars…7 times more cars than Tesla..
Tesla has 350,000 cars on the road and 6 fire deaths in 1 year. That’s a worse rate than Pinto even if the number of cars was the same. And we’re comparing Tesla with a 50 year old econobox.
There are some modern luxury car models that have zero deaths of any kind over the last five years. Tesla’s total is 54 deaths.
Safest car ever? Not even by 1970 standards.
lol, a Tesla is the last car I’d ever wanna die in
if any car,.it’ll have to be in my mustang. If I gotta die in a car I’ll croak in that ole girl
Alba, please get a little cup ready to catch you tears before you read this. Good Queen Bess ordered Blacks out of England.
Her Majestie understanding that there are of late divers blackmoores brought into this realme, of which kinde of people there are allready here to manie, consideringe howe God hath blessed this land with great increase of people of our owne nation as anie countrie in the world, whereof manie for want of service and meanes to sett them on worck fall to idlenesse and to great extremytie. Her Majesty’s pleasure therefore ys that those kinde of people should be sent forth of the lande, and for that purpose there ys direction given to this bearer Edwarde Banes to take of those blackmoores that in this last voyage under Sir Thomas Baskervile were brought into this realme the nomber of tenn, to be transported by him out of the realme. Wherein wee require you to be aydinge and assysting unto him as he shall have occacion, and thereof not to faile.
JS: England belonged to the English. Even one Blacks was one “to manie”.
“Good Queen Bess ordered Blacks out of England.”
She wasn’t awfully keen on Catholics either. You’ll need to get me another cup.
In fact I’ll need a third – Jews got short shrift too if they didn’t convert or pretend to. We’re half way to a tea service.
Yes, England reached its cultural apogee after the expulsion of the Jews. And began to die once the abominable Billy of Orange brought them back in.
But they brought us fish and chips, Janos, from Portugal, in the 16th century. We wouldn’t be British without fish and chips.
How can a person miss so much of the rich tapestry of life?
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20130409-chipping-away-at-the-history-of-fish-and-chips
Well yes and no. Very White Belgian housewives came up with the chips part of the dish :-). Don’t give away the achievements of the sisterhood so quickly! And to the Hebrews no less!!! They have many achievements of their own to tout.
It hadn’t occurred to me to wonder what colour the Jews from Portugal were. Probably a bit more tanned than Elizabeth looked with that white lead makeup over her pock-marked skin.
But after they’d been here a bit they’d have looked like everyone else. What a sad, paranoid world you want us to live in.
My friend from Belgium is Creole, but I don’t think she eats many chips. She’s a nice colour. Kids turned out white (dad’s from Northern Ireland). But they might have a recessive gene to give them less pasty-looking kids themselves. Who knows? Who cares? They certainly don’t.
Here’s the true story of fish and chips. A papal delegate was visiting St Columba at his abbey on the isle of Iona in 590 AD. He couldn’t stop raving about how delicious the fish and potatos tasted. Finally, St Columba took the papal delegate to the abbey kitchen and introduced him to “the fish friar” and “the chip monk”.
A bit of good humor to lighten the mood of an otherwise very serious discussion :-).
Haha, the old ones are the best, eh, hmuller 🙂
I was on Iona a few years ago during a trip over to Mull – and onwards by small boat to Staffa (FIngal’s Cave). Very impressive.
Not much of Columba’s original abbey left, but the restored church is impressive – some of the restoration was done by unemployed craftsmen brought by the Rev. George MacLeod from Glasgow during the depression. A labour of love.
how many 1000s of books have you read or skimmed?
How can a person miss so much of the rich tapestry of life?
Check the title of Andy Groves book.
‘Only the……PARANOID survive’
your rich tapestry is unraveling.
I’ve seen Threads too 🙂
Wow this is very interesting. I hadn’t heard about this until today and so I had to read more about it. It sounds like it was partially, or mostly, a reaction to the viciousness of the Barbary pirates (Muslim Moors) who attacked Cornwall in 1556. She came into power in 1558. It is estimated that as many as 1.2 million White Europeans were enslaved by the Moors during the period of the Barbary pirates. So the Moors were an immediate national security threat. It also appears that Queen Elizabeth was concerned about the employment needs of the growing native-born population and competition with growing numbers of foreign Moors seeking work. So all and all, she appears to have been a Nationalist at the very least. But there is also the Race Realist aspect too. Populations naturally compete for resources and territories. She cared about her people and tribe in the midst of the competition. How many politicians are like this today? Not many it seems.
Got the quote from this review of the grotesque movie about Queen Mary. The English media elite are going all out to change English history – make it seem like Blacks have always been a part of England.
https://diversitymachtfrei.wordpress.com/2019/02/24/mary-queen-of-diversity/
The current Queen Elizabeth is Queen of England. That Queen Elizabeth was Queen of the English – and it makes all the difference in the world.
I am wondering if the inversion of reality will extend to making historically black, asian, etc. populations white.
Absolutely not!!!!! Blacks and Asians are real people with real cultures and real history. To suggest otherwise is extremely vile and racist. Now Whites, well those are just history-less and culture-less generic humans who are a blank slate and must accept whatever scraps of culture and personhood are bestowed upon them by real cultures.
no
“The current Queen Elizabeth is Queen of England. ”
Then its citizens are most welcome to her, Janos. Not my area of interest, as you know.
She’s only ER II there anyway.
Yes this is being done across the board it seems. But only for the White race. Every other people on the earth are allowed their own culture and history. They are even allowed racially homogenous domains like Wakanda! It is only Whites, solely, who must realize they have no history or culture without Brown and Black occupation. Whites are nothing more than generic non-people according to the new way. Even though real history does not bear this deception out.
SSL
I don’t know how weird things are in Louisiana, but please don’t imagine the rest of the world – even the English speaking world – conforms to the bizarreness that’s in your head and in the more histrionic parts of the interwebs.
Of course Alba. It’s all in my head. I feel like you tell me that a lot. So I suppose that you are not seeing the intentional misrepresentation of history in film and literature. But per your statement above it most likely isn’t that important to you. Of course that is your right. After all we are just a palette of interchangeable colors that should be mixed and matched. Yet, why have a color to begin with if it is not unique and special unto itself?
I don’t share your obsession with colour palettes, sorry.
In my world there are Germans, Italians, Polish people, Chinese people, Algerians, Indonesians, Russians and all the rest.
There aren’t any people of any colour who are a homogenous lump.
And none of us are special.
Re the misrepresentation in literature, yes, it’s difficult to be unaware of it, historically. Try all the caricatures of black people and Jews, just for starters, over the centuries. If things are evened out a bit, it’s about time, but I don’t look for historical truth in novels or films, unless they specifically say that on the tin.
I’ve read all Jane Austen’s novels more than once and I don’t recall much of a hint that the whole shebang was sitting on a slave society. Whitewashed out, as it were.
Classic Communist Military Strategy here – used on the battlefield, be they actual or cyber, involving firearms or committees. Mao picked it up from Sun Tzu: When they attack I retreat. When they retreat I attack. When they are stationary, I harass.
Note that she didn’t even try to defend her previous thesis of Blacks being part of everyday life in old England when the facts were presented to her. But now she’s harassing again since she thinks that even if it wasn’t so, it damn well should be now. Whites don’t exist, therefore they have no rights. She would never say the same about other races.
These tactics are very effective – she’ll be back to spouting ye Old Black England before ye know it (an attack on reality). Needless to say, we need to adopt these tactics ourselves – without ever succumbing to their distorted view of life of course.
Janos
“Note that she didn’t even try to defend her previous thesis of Blacks being part of everyday life in old England when the facts were presented to her. ”
Either show me a post where I ever said black people were ‘a part of everyday life in old England’ or shut the f*ck up. You are a truly tedious and poisonous little toad.
I said there were black people in England since the 12th century, which appears to be the case. No numbers were mentioned, as I didn’t have any. Later, in answer to one of your similar toad spittings, I said for all I knew there were three.
Go away and lick your blisters.
May I ask you a question Alba? Please define the bizarreness that you feel is in my head. My point was in agreement with Janos that history is being rewritten to downplay the role of Whites and diversify the history of western civilization in a way that is deceptive to those who are uneducated to the matter. Clearly this is the case with movie scripts as well.
“And none of us are special.”
So people who have made critical discoveries in science and medicine for instance. Are they no different than Joe and Jane next door? Are they not special? Gifted to say the least? It is easy to fall into the trap of believing all people are basically the same. It’s natural to be empathetic and willing to give others the benefit of the doubt. But it can often be a risky course of action. In doing so, you can both overestimate and underestimate those you cross paths with.
PC racism is all the rage.
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Did you say “Class Warfare”, or “Ass Warfare”?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzU6rH-TXmI
American Sikh angel sings about Peace. But who makes peace without being able to back it up with War? This was the Teaching of Guru Gobind Singh who turned the Sikhs into a martial brotherhood, after one Muslim outrage after another against them.
I love the way she looks back in the beginning of the video. Yes, I am looking at your ass, but that doesn’t mean I don’t find the rest of your beautiful, plus your song and spirit. As the Tantras say, We rise by that which other men fall.
That was very beautiful and very peaceful indeed. I also felt very whimsical and wanted to submerge myself and frolic in the sacred river in a spirit of sacred joy. Thank you for sharing. Don’t worry, men struggle to control their predilections when confronted with the natural hourglass, it’s understandable and very forgivable ;-).
Of course Alba. It’s all in my head.
Queen Green Alba, Queen of denial.
And when she first appeared, our new resident, a hydra headed jingoist, someone here quickly noticed how slippery the new Queen is.
WRT–You are very crafty Alba. Indeed, you noticed.
Why thank you, malthuss 🙂
You are welcome. How is the weather in Scotland?
Unseasonably warm. Record breaking in fact. Which is not a good thing for some plants and insects.
This time last year, we were freezing under the effects of the Beast from the East.
Such is the new normal.
I was in town today and saw from the bus a (tanned!) young woman remove her jumper and proceed along Princes Street in a sort of athletic bikini top. Edinburgh in February – what can I say?
Denial can be a very dangerous state of mind. Denial is the willful ignorance of facts and the maintenance of deception to stave off uncomfortable realities. Minimization and projection run amok. We need to move those in denial forward to a state of coping.
A means to deal with cognitive dissonance. When a worldview is challenged and the individual knows the challenge has merit, doubling down is the only solution if the person values the original belief too much to let it go.
As far as racism goes, I learned long ago that most people are racist. Fear of the other is natural, unfortunately. I dated a few Asian women back in my college days, and that was a real eye-opener.
PC racism is just the latest moronic topic to keep us distracted while the profiteers move ahead with their plans.
“Denial can be a very dangerous state of mind. Denial is the willful ignorance of facts and the maintenance of deception to stave off uncomfortable realities.”
I thought we’d done climate change on the previous thread…
Thank you for understanding, SSL.
A frustrated Christian bloke recently commented on a blog:
“I wish that Jesus would just get it over with.”
I presume that he wasn’t referring to the coup in Venezuela?
@pucker: the oscademy awards?
Us collapse fanatics feel the same way, with a religious fervor.
Im tired of the wars and legal infanticide.
One you tube talk gives a ‘book of revelations’ spin…an asteroid
will hit earth and the nukes will be detonated.
If you are tired of all the political diatribe, divisiveness and the constant propogandic blather delivered by the MSM to nudge us into another “save-the-hegemonic dollar” war, check out the 2019 Oscar winning documentary “Free Solo” at your local Imax. Incredibly shot in Yosemite N. P., the movie follows Alex Honnold’s unbelievable ascent of El Capitan, a 3000 foot high verical slab of granite, with no ropes or safety gear. He was the first person to accomplish this superhuman feat. Even though I knew, he made it, I was white-knuckling the armrest and on the edge of my seat during the climbing scenes.
We need to look to athletics and the arts for inspirationbecause Washington DC is full of do-nothings that are all on the take from their masters. BTW, the politicians don’t really have the power, they are a mere puppet show to feed our delusion.
“Wherever power seems to exist, it never exists there” —–
excerpted from the book “Leviathan” by Thomas Hobbes, 1640
Such reckless undertakings are the consequence of maleness having been emptied of meaningfulness, hence rather than expression of valorous purpose in benefit of community we end up with narcissistic acts of vainglory. Among native peoples such self-indulged behavior is discouraged because young people are too valuable to community survival. Like the menacing tattoos of today — and other improprieties of the adolescent mind — a pirate mentality is expressed of pure disdain for restraint. Extreme sports says it all.
“Such reckless undertakings are the consequence of maleness having been emptied of meaningfulness, hence rather than expression of valorous purpose in benefit of community we end up with narcissistic acts of vainglory. ”
So when would you say this emptying of meaningfulness from maleness began, Cavepainter, in relation to the feats of the great mountaineers? Records seem to suggest they’ve been vainglorying in this manner since the 14th century.
Why are you so hard on our brothers? Don’t you think they have enough coming against them every day?
Who am I being hard on? I’m asking why people – mostly men – can’t climb mountains if they want to?
If you keep looking for what you think I believe, you’ll keep finding what you think I believe.
You are very crafty Alba I have to give you that. We all know that men are natural adventure seekers and wanderers to some degree. At least when they are allowed to be what they are. What am I missing?
I don’t know, SSL, and carrying on with your ‘crafty’ accusations isn’t going to tell me.
Cavepainter suggested men do extreme activities to avoid doing useful manly things in their community. The way he put it suggested to me that he thinks this is a recent phenomenon.
My slightly facetious response suggested that men have always sought adventure by e.g. climbing mountains. I’m not the one who has criticised that – that was Cavepainter. I am perfectly fine with men climbing mountains or crossing the North pole.
So I have to ask you in my turn (a) what am I missing and (b) what in anything I said about the matter is ‘crafty’? It’s not my fault if you don’t pick up irony – Americans can sometimes be impervious to it.
Let’s not even call it irony. Let’s just call it the mildest of sarcasm – is that allowed?
“So when would you say this emptying of meaningfulness from maleness began,..”
Ma and Pa Kettle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4oTpMt1Ggk
🙂
Sarcasm and irony are allowed. But again a speck of misdirection. But now I understand. And please do proceed.
Having spent the better part of my adult life as a mountaineer I offer the cautionary quote that was common before “climbing” became a must do fashionable “sport”, “There are old climbers and there are bold climbers, but there are no old bold climbers”. Yes, “objective risk”, as they were then called, were understood to be beyond one’s control, but the history of “hardware” development testifies to aim of minimizing risk to life while pursuing the solace and grandeur of rare places. All “extreme sports” are driven by pursuit of celebrity status, unwarranted otherwise.
I don’t disagree with you, Cavepainter. I was primarily curious as to why SSL thought I was having a go at men for wanting to climb mountains. It’s none of my business who climbs what or even what their motivations are. I simply said men have been climbing mountains (for the sake of simply climbing them) since about the 14th century, from what I had just read.
I’m happy to take your point about the motivations of the ‘extreme’ sports folks. Lots of ordinary people that no-one knows die on mountains too, though, through bad luck or bad management.
I suppose that I am taking many things you have stated and have placed this in the balance as well. Perhaps my reaction was presumptuous and/or overmuch but it seems there is a pattern of hammering at perceived failures or deficencies in character. Maybe for good reason. But reasonableness would also find that all have failures and deficiencies that could potentially be called out.
“Perhaps my reaction was presumptuous and/or overmuch but it seems there is a pattern of hammering at perceived failures or deficiencies in character. Maybe for good reason. ”
I only have a go at the tossers, SSL. I am surrounded by lovely men – well, not literally, but at least ‘familially’ and friendship-wise – and mostly at work too, when I was there. Which is why I do not tolerate the bad apples gladly.
And I’m perfectly aware there are lots of awful women out there too – I’ve just been blessed by having neither worked with them nor had anything much else to do with them.
USA people dont need to be nudged into war..
USA is at war.
Under Imam Barry, a bomb every 20? minutes.
I haven’t stepped inside a cinema for more than twenty years now, so all those Oscar awards and nominations etc don’t mean a thing to me. Virtually the only kind of entertainment I watch on any screen anymore nowadays is wrestling. Which I enjoy immensely because it’s like gay porn, especially when it features Timothy Thatcher.
do you watch gay porn?
The Oscars are like a private clubs party. Members only are welcome.
A time to pat each other on the back.
In crowd welcome.
Malthuss’s interests: gay porn and HAARP
I remember when you called yourself Asia. Those were the days, eh? Once upon a time there was a tavern….
How do you remember history and philosophy and pop culture?
You might enjoy—youtube–call for an uprising channel.
Hey Malthuss, I found out what HAARP stands for…
Homo
Aerotic
Antenna
Radio
Penetrator
I think you can buy one on Amazon…
funny Debbie.
Treaties might be signed this week bringing the Korean War to an end, something presidents have wanted to do since 1953.
There’s talk of awarding President Trump the Nobel Peace Prize. The Prime Minister of Japan has made the nomination, and several members on the Committee are ready to second the nomination.
What a great honor.
Brh
It’s all so beautifully ironic! I wonder who the voters are. Throw some Real Shade on Obama. Eclipse that undeserving King of Kneelers.
Nobel Lauriate Donald Trump.
Sounds good, doesn’t it? All you haters out there in CFNation, (you know who you are) bask in the glow … bask in the glow, my friends!
Brh
And just think about it. He won’t earn the honor just because of the color of his skin!
Snort. I got $5 bucks says it won’t happen.
Is this Jim Kunstler or Heartiste? The horseshoe effect of horseshoe effects.
Feeling uncomfortable?
Dentshop,
Is that the blog where emotionally stunted “men” go to get instructions on scrabbling around in their small-clothes, searching for their undersized equipment?
LOL uh oh – war of the man sticks begins again lol.
I’d never heard of Heartiste – have just ‘educated’ myself with a quick description and some tasty bites.
Christ on a bike…
Undersized equipment? I don’t think their balls have dropped.
Something about pubescent girls and 90-year-olds. Something about hamsters (?), something about…
“Evade, tease, obfuscate. She thrives when she has to imagine what you’re thinking about her, and withers when she knows exactly how you feel. A woman may want financial and family security, but she does not want passion security. In the same manner, when she has displeased you, punish swiftly, but when she has done you right, reward slowly. Reward her good behavior intermittently and unpredictably and she will never tire of working hard to please you.”
A real pearl of the cretinosphere. No wonder they have to fantasise.
Any young woman faced with no choices better than these sad clowns would be better off with a dog.
Isnt that site mostly parody?
Who would take it seriously?
Brh
brh
If it’s parody and they don’t think they’re on there to learn from each other, then I have to wonder if any of them have jobs or any kind of actual function in the world. If nothing else they could be getting some old person’s shopping 🙂 .
My favourite dickhead moment was when some moron was writing disgusting tweets about the historian Mary Beard. Another guy stepped in and said to her ‘I know who this guy is – I’m going to tell his mum’.
And he did. And the moron got slated. And he wrote and apologised to Mary Beard.
Hilarious.
Classic Pavlovian techniques here. Sad if they have to be used. But many men more experienced than me swear that they are absolutely necessary.
What a sad bunch of tossers you must mix with.
What about those tears you promised me?
Hmmm some promises apparently can’t be kept.
“What about those tears you promised me?”
Gushed and gone, Janos, gushed and gone…
You didn’t say I was meant to conserve them to water your plants.
BTW, your ‘classic Pavlovian technique’ as applied above to human beings in relationships, would come under ‘Coercive Control’, which is a facet of domestic abuse now dealt with by the courts in the UK, whether it applies to men or to women. I’m sorry you are so far behind, but hopefully you do not have too many women so desperate, so uneducated as to be unable to support themselves, and so lacking in dignity and self-respect that they are willing to debase themselves before swine.
Although I actually imagine most of the men who believe this claptrap – or pretend they do – rarely come up for air so are not likely to be much of a genuine danger to womanhood.
Indo-Pakistani Incident
While the entire world is watching the small Venice of Amerigo Vespucci on the shores of Lake Maracaibo and the ruin of London by Jack Potroshenko, located on the banks of the Dnieper, expecting the Fourth World War to start there (the Third World War began on March 5, 1946 with Churchill’s Fulton speech), the most dangerous place on the planet happened to be the state of Kashmir and the city of New York, from where the strings of the aforementioned Kashmir are pulled.
India-Pakistan crisis: Tensions rise after Indian fighter jets bomb militant training camp in Balakot
https://www.yahoo.com/news/indian-aircraft-violate-pakistan-airspace-032700393.html
That is, a de facto war between the two nuclear powers with the use of the Air Force is in progress, and the Indian Foreign Minister made an unprecedented statement that the bombed base belonged to the Jaish-i-Muhhamed group and promised to publish documents related to this group.
Meanwhile, quite recently, one can only say yesterday, Dr. Afridi was killed in Pakistan, who, according to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and the US Secretary of Defense and CIA Director Leon Panetta, started collecting blood tests supposedly for vaccination, which allowed him to identify in the city of Abbottabad in a peaceful retiree arch-terrorist Osama-bin-Laden.
https://www.mynation.com/news/robert-vadra-talks-of-playing-larger-role-in-serving-people-bjp-takes-dig-at-congress-pngubu
The problem is that the city of Abbotabad is something like city of Kubinka near Moscow and in it are located all the most important military schools and the headquarters of the Pakistani army and intelligence.
Naturally, no stranger could be found in this city in principle, but I heard about it in 1985, when hot heads in my brigade of industrial mountaineering told me in a whisper about this city as the main objective of the 326 aviation division after April 26, 1985.
The Pakistani army in the process of suppressing the uprising of the “damned shuravi” killed God knows how many Soviet prisoners of war illegally detained in the concentration camp of Badaber.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badaber_uprising
And it does not surprise me that, according to the hints of the Indian Foreign Minister, this “episode” is mentioned in the documents that he intends to publish in connection with the terrorist attack and attack of the Indian Air Force, as well as the death of Dr. Afridi, whom the current Pakistani officials that are friendly with the White House, quite officially accused of having links with the group Jaish-i-Mohammed.
All this is very strange, but not so strange as such a frank exposure by the US Secretary of State and Secretary of Defense of such a valuable CIA asset as Dr. Afridi, especially since this kind of exposure of an agent is a very serious crime in the United States, even if it does not lead to the agent’s kill, and if it does, then it is EXTRAORDINARY!!!
However, surprise comes if we recall that President Obama, who actively used the elimination of Osama-bin-Laden during his election campaign in 2012, as his personal asset, that is, as an operation, which he himself directed from the very beginning bypassing conventional channels.
Moreover, in the New York beer pub McSorley’s absolutely all US soldiers and sailors are convinced that this photograph taken in the Situation Room of the White House, published on the orders of President Obama, tells us that a senior administration official was invited to the headquarters of the operation at the last minute or rather sent to the headquarters of the operation so that at the final stages of the operation, when the number of people involved in it inevitably increases, this official was under constant observation and could not warn Osama-bin Laden about it.
https://f10.pmo.ee/8-1SUD42OzoUM1CB0txUFNdatzM=/1200×630/smart/nginx/o/2011/05/03/571375t1h6d91.jpg
And then the murder of Dr. Afridi turns out to be a “clean-up operation” of the ends after the threat of the publication of the above-mentioned materials and the assumption of his position by US Attorney General William Barr.
The fact of the matter is that Leon Panetta who was dismissed from his post in 2012 was a ruthless and even rude critic of President Obama and even published with Hillary Clinton implicitly but frankly racist books about what kind of brown shit President Obama is, and now he is ruthless and rude critic of President Trump, accusing him again with Hillary Clinton of no less brown fascism and overt racism.
And if Bastinda’s involvement in the coup in small Venice on the shores of Lake Maracaibo and Jack Potroshenko’s coup in London on the banks of the Dnieper is almost official, then her involvement in the events in Pakistan is somewhat forgotten and could turn out to be a real sensation that would change the situation not only in the United States, but throughout the world.
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My GRU superiors have very specific orders to target Kunstler and make sure it carries at least some relevant information to current political situation.
They usually communicate with me through Inner Voices.
It could get pretty fucking annoying at times, especially in the bathroom.
LOL ok. I hope this doesn’t mean you often post while in the bathroom :-).
“It could get pretty fucking annoying at times, especially in the bathroom.”
Komaraden Finc!
…even more so if the bathroom is public, as in a bus station…some of those voices are real….
I did note with a bit of alarm the BBC’s reportage of the Indian air strikes…the strikes, not the reportage. A small regional nuclear war is certainly possible between India and Pakistan…perhaps Russia could intervene? Tell them both about Russia’s new wonder weapons? Russia’s new plan to bankrupt the US? Perhaps even open rat lines of immigration into one of the ‘Stans to release population pressure?
The GRU no longer exists.
So who do you really work for, Finca,
You can level with us.
Brh
Did I say GRU?
That was a slip of tongue.
What I meant is URGU – the Ural State University, my Alma Mater.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/13/Ural_state_university_front_2007.jpg
Hey Finca nobody in the USA is worried about potential conflict between 2 nuclear powers, one of them, Pakistan, highly unstable! What the political class is worried about right now is Michael Cohen’s testimony before Congress, and can it be used to take down the President. India — Pakistan conflict isn’t even on the radar. It can’t be used against the president so who gives a sh-t? Believe me, that’s the mentality in the DC NYC axis.
Brh
Thank you for the redirection! I am glad they are all proving they could care less about the actual success and safety of our country. They think people don’t notice too on top of that.
There is no reason for the US to exist. It is a legal fabrication based on equality of the vote and equality before the law. That is it. No ethnic basis, no language basis. What we are witnessing is whether that concept will work, whether equality of political and economic opportunity can overcome ethnocentrism. That is the Great American Experiment..
Right now, it is failing. Why?
Because the equality is being compromised by ethnic differences. The basic fabric of the Experiment is failing under ethnic pressures.
Same thing happened to Classical Greece, Rome, the Holy Roman Empire, the British Empire ,and most recently, the USSR.
Diversity kills empires.
There is no reason for the US to exist
Another bright idea from Arizona.
I give you one, but VERY good reason – to maintain the wellbeing of over 300 million people.
I think the Masons may have always planned to do exactly this. Always they have raved about a Universal Order and equality, liberty and fraternity – while secretly favoring their own. Clinton also called replacing Whites “an experiment”. Really? By what right do they experiment with us? Where is that in the Constitution? Again, one Law for them and one for us.
What’s the mystery? Clinton said “it might not work”. So don’t do it. It’s not like it can be undone once done. And what does “work” mean? Create a Brazil with a small White minority in charge, while ordinary Whites are prey of the resentful, seething dark masses? And the Elite themselves travel in helicopters from one building to another, afraid of the very same “citizens”? Is that “working”?
There are decent men in the Lodge, but there are many kind of Masonry. And I fear it all converges in the higher degrees above the 3rd or Master – which are by invitation only. Thus do the York and Scotch rites meet the feared Grand Orient of France, stating “there is no God but Man” once Man is perfected. And that will only be a very few…..
The English Lodges broke off communion with the Grand Orient when they pronounced that, and supported the Revolution. But we know that the Revolution itself was funded largely from England – so again there is the division, between public and secret.
The inner circles worship man or possibly it is even worse. Perhaps they worship evil incarnate. Because it is secret we can never be sure. It seems that secret societies that are self serving and self centered go against the interest of the people by default.
Janos, point of information…
Tape, whisky and mist can all be ‘Scotch’. People and even masonic lodges are Scottish. Not that I have anything to do with masonic lodges, although I did accompany my other half to a receptionist’s leaving do in one of their very unglamorous bars.
Other half isn’t in the Masons, I hasten to add. No connection on our part.
Tape, whisky and mist can all be ‘Scotch’. People and even masonic lodges are Scottish.
Although, there are those people called Scotch-Irish Americans.
I once had an Irish professor give me a lecture because I used that phrase, but it actually exists and I have heard it used by those with such ancestry.
Cheers
“Although, there are those people called Scotch-Irish Americans.”
It may exist over your way, Montsegur, but it doesn’t exist over here. Here they’d be Scots-Irish. And I feel we have the right to say since it’s us you’re talking about 🙂 . You’re welcome to disagree, obviously, from your different vantage point, and we can’t stop you from using words to describe us that make us cringe.
I’ve been up Montségur three times, if I may mention it in passing… Walked up from Lavelanet the first time. But Peyrepertuse is my favourite – did a day’s walk to it over the mountain from the Gorge de Galamus.
I’m assuming you chose the name because you’ve been there too, otherwise my mentioning it has no point. And you may just have chosen it for historical reasons. In which case, please ignore etc. etc…
And I feel we have the right to say since it’s us you’re talking about ? . You’re welcome to disagree, obviously, from your different vantage point, and we can’t stop you from using words to describe us that make us cringe. –GreenAlba
I’ll take you up on the offer to disagree 🙂
But not simply to be disagreeable. The statement, “since it’s us you’re talking about” is a double-sided coin. The “us” in my statement are Scotch-Irish Americans … that is, those Scots-Irish who left the home isles to make their lives in the New World. And I hasten to add, it is not “me” creating such terms … the Scotch-Irish Americans called themselves that … it is their self-description.
“Scots-Irish” is for me a perfectly valid description of those who remained on the home isles.
How fortunate you are to have visited Montségur three times. Provence and Languedoc are very special regions. One of my finest evenings camping was in Provence: sipping vin de table rouge, eating a baguette, and watching the sun set while the cicadas filled the air with their noise-making.
Cheers
Point gracefully conceded, Monsegur. Historically the word ‘Scotch’ for people was a thing on the departing side too, which is probably why it has survived on the receiving side.
But it long ago fell out of use, so it sounds not just weird but a bit like something a tourist to these isles would say.
But I take your point that it’s perfectly valid over your way.
Similarly, it seems that the first people who left the south of England for your shores had accents more like modern American than modern English, so that’s perhaps another side of the same coin too. The linguistic divergence happened more over here, and some ‘country’ accents in the south west of England don’t exactly sound American but do have some minor similarities of pronunciation.
I lived in the south of France for four years altogether – it took me a while to get used to the lack of cicadas in the evening when I got back!
Didn’t you get BRH what I wrote in the post?
The conflict has a potential of blowing wide-open the connections of Hillary and the Dems with Osama Bin Laden, as well could shed an unexpected light on 911.
Indians have an old score to settle with Hillary for Mumbai, and now they’re mad for her instigating the conflict in Kashmir.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Mumbai_attacks
You see, when you spill so much shit all over the world, sooner or later it’s going to catch up with you.
NY Dems are pushing taxing 2nd homes greater than $5 million in value.
Then Andrew Cuomo will wonder why people are moving to Florida and taking their tax money with them.
Wonder if NY liberals are running out of ways to raise government revenue, and what that means for the future.
Counter arguments have been postulated that the tax-spend doctrine of the Left has limits set by the ability of the folks with the bucks to just up and leave. Think California and New York. If the folks leaving leave their tax-spend mentality behind, the Blue revolution may be in jeopardy, hopefully.
Are California and New York tax revolutions a harbinger of the Federals in the future. Will the Elite just up and leave when the Liberals try to tax them more and more? If they do leave, does that mean the just folks crowd gets to pick up the taxation slack?
Remember that possibility when the Dems promise you nirvana by taxing the rich.
I am working on a proposal to our Fifth Directorate to use that fine American dollars they have been printing and stockpiling under the Kremlin walls – very high quality, better than the FED’s – and start throwing them from drones all over New York City.
What do you think, will they vote for Putin in 2020?
“What do you think, will they vote for Putin in 2020?”
Komaraden Finc!
…Donno…can he tend bar?
The tax law taking away the deduction for State income tax is not an attempt at redistribution of wealth, it is an attempt at redistribution of the population.
Away from coastal cities towards the Red zones. If folks change their stripes when they move, the days of tax-spend may be limited
IF!
Duke University tuition went up this year from $50,000 to $70,000 per year for room, board, and classes.
And they teach progressive “liberalism.” Remember the Lacrosse team mess?
$70,000 per year, learn how to hate whitey.
What a waste of money, you could learn that watching a few hours of CNN or MSNBC, for free.
Brh
I found this. Can anyone confirm or deny?
HAARP is emitting radio waves. It is used for mass mind manipulation and they can manipulate groups of people around you with HAARP systems to target you. They have neuro-computer interface and members in the military including Coronado Naval base which has a Indian swastika for a barracks is working with HAARP in Alaska which has reach all across the US.
Using neuro-computer interface they can emit their consciousness through HAARP into the atmosphere which effects the minds of people in society especially the weak minded. The European Union created the Human Brain Project which develops neuro-computer interface which can be used like a synthetic telepathy and can be emitted through electronics.
The USAF has small HAARP like installations around the US. The USAF is working with the Tavistock Institute which develops many of their gang stalking programs. The NSA database in Utah is storing information on targeted individuals such as profiles on them including types of attacks and reactions to attacks as well as personal thoughts, opinions, and emotions. Most electronics are using brain reading software and most major websites including YouTube, Facebook, and conspiracy sites use brain reading software. They are using almost all modern electronics which emit frequencies and emissions. They can control these emissions through programs like bio-neuro hacking software like GENESIS, NEURON, and BRIAN software which claim to be simulation systems of the human brain and human biology or nervous system.
Scientologists are using these systems. The Church of Scientology is heavily involved in this. GENESIS, NEURON, and BRIAN function through almost all operating systems.
They can be at a computer thousands of miles away and hack into your computer while implementing these bio-neuro hacking programs and attack your body. Wireless frequencies are also involved with bio-neuro hacking. They covertly add toxic chemicals into food. They track what people eat often through membership cards and will even go as far as polluting the food you frequently buy if you are a targeted individual. They can use these bio-neuro hacking systems to activate these toxins which cause bad reactions or irritations in the body.
Radio Telescopes can be used similar to HAARP in that they radiate radio frequencies and they can target people with pin point accuracy. Radio telescopes target individuals more than they target groups. Israel has a similar system called Unit 8200 which uses intel satellites which operate in a similar way. Their intel satellites are created by a company in Luxembourg and it is the royal family of Luxembourg that has some command over Unit 8200. There are satellite/HAARP like system in Puerto Rico. Many think HAARP is for weather medication however it is more for mass mind manipulation and mental harassment. I can also effect the weather when they emit certain microwave like frequencies. The USAF has high flying aircraft equipped with Directed Energy Weapons developed by DARPA and defense companies like Raytheon.
The Bush family have a high authority over DARPA and Raytheon. Vannevar Bush founded Raytheon. They can radiate people with electromagnetic frequencies and also target people with microwave frequencies. Particle Accelerators are really nuclear powered weapons that increase pressure in the atmosphere. Its like increasing the gravity. They can move around this gravitational pressure by ionizing pathways in the sky. They can move this pressure hundreds of miles this way. By doing this it increases the pressure in the atmosphere and can make entire populations of towns or only individuals with it causing them to feel stressed, weighed down, and lethargic. They can transmit this energy into the brain and densify the mind.
There are other elements to this that are difficult to speak about. However I will say that the US military and the CIA have invested at least millions into psychic phenomena including astral projection, telepathy, and remote viewing. They have invested money into researching these things. The military’s research into these demonic psychic abilities is called Project Stargate. All of the secret societies teach about psychic abilities. They are all involved with that.
…. Or maybe not?
” They have invested money into researching these things. The military’s research into these demonic psychic abilities is called Project Stargate”
Malthuss,
Stargate… and they used technology straight from Uranus….
It’s just as possible as anything else. Clearly the military, the MIC, men in black what have you are pushing the limits of technology for sheer advantage of power. Who knows what secrets and secret technology they are hiding from the general public. Remote viewing, astral projection, telepathy, etc., have been used by the military for a long time. Ditto with Wall Street and Corporate America. It would come as no surprise to find out that they can access a person’s thoughts. Some people have an innate ability to do so without technology.
35 chain stores file for chapter 11.
thats chains, not 35 stores. more like 35000.
… Culling a herd of unprofitable businesses. That’s healthy capitalism.
if JB has a monopoly? is that still healthy? huh Ms Debbie?
” It was estimated that there were 745,290 franchise establishments in operation in the U.S. in 2017.”
“Total sales from the nearly 3.8 million retail establishments in the United States reached about $2.6 trillion in 2016. Retailers employ almost 29 million, and support more than 42 million jobs in the U.S.”
So, 35000 stores of 38000000. So you’re saying that less than 1% of stores are closing.
I’m not interested for obvious reasons. The rest of the 3/4 of a million franchises are replacing it. (even though a growing proportion may be strictly online businesses.)
….Not saying that commercial real estate might suffer.
Green Alba said, “That’s why when he’s tossing so much of his property into a big everlasting fire – way more everlasting than the worst thing his property has ever done or could ever do, he says ‘this is hurting me way more than it’s hurting you’. Com-passion. But not as we know it.”
Eternal Punishment is against the Law.
http://gold-silver.us/forum/showthread.php?95865-Eternal-Punishment-is-Against-The-Law
Until Augustine and Jerome most of the church fathers taught Universal Reconciliation. They brought their pagan beliefs into the church attempting to scare people into becoming converts. They were converted to the church not to Christ, and thus churchianity.
My favorite question: If God could save everyone, would He do it?
https://gods-kingdom-ministries.net/teachings/books/if-god-could-save-everyone-would-he/
What a silly question!
He sent us Trump, didn’t HE?
Salvation comes in three parts: Justification [ saving of our spirit ], Sanctification [ saving of our souls {lives} ], Glorification [ saving of our body ].
God sends all kinds of people into our lives, for various reasons. Whether or not Trump benefits America, our personal salvation is certain.
Well of course. It’s all about you. That’s why is the greatest story ever told.
Was I special before I became aware of being special?
IOW – if God saves everyone, it is about all of us.
Fire destroys but also brings about new life. As is the case with forest fires at least.
Clinton Emails Reveals Direct US Sabotage of Venezuela
https://popularresistance.org/clinton-emails-reveal-direct-us-sabotage-of-venezuela/?fbclid=IwAR3XcNIzOKFm2zjuxA3ME5Xrkd2oh4uFl_qpvlAWBWQB_94GhMvSaNosxVw
Does that woman get a rest sometimes?
Well, ladies and germs,
I am currently reading a book written by Michael Lewis entitled “The Fifth Risk”. It describes Trump’s transition into the Government only days after his election…or to be more accurate, his lack of transition. It is not in any way complementary to Donald Trump.
If you read this book you might agree with me when I state…”Thank God for the bureaucracy”…that essential services of government can remain running in spite of complete dysfunction at the executive level….
…It has the ring of truth….
Was that the President’s fault, or the previous admin and the deep state teaming up to f_k him over?
They knew he didn’t have much political experience going in and a little good will would’ve went a long way. How many books does that make now ‘proving’ the president is an idiot and a danger to the Republic?
Brh
BRH,
Believe it or not…the “adult in the room” regarding the transition teams and relevant laws regarding succession was…Chris Christie. The book states that his suggestions met with derision by the Trump faction…apparently Trump’s team, other than Christie, did not understand the function of the transition teams, or the import of various agencies, along with their hundreds of billions of dollar budgets that run NOAA, NASA, Nuclear regulation, etc. The various agencies had teams at the ready to integrate the new administration into the nuts and bolts of government…no response for weeks….
All ugly if true.
I read it too. Interesting, but concerning. Like you said, “it has the ring of truth”.
To whom it may concern but Green Alba especially (because it’s so much fun), if you think that pushing water over the edge of a flat Earth is weird, there’s stuff being bandied about that’s orders of magnitude weirder, mainly that the universe as we see it might be in effect a multidimensional hologram arising from information encoded on a lower dimensional boundary.
I don’t understand the math behind the hologram on a credit card, never mind the math underlying string-theory, which forms the basis for the universe-as-hologram idea. My education was in the field of business and finance and tax ie vocational in nature, and not scientific or pure mathematics. But, I have to say, the theorizing out there makes Genesis sound reasonable in comparison, the very essence of simplicity.
I’ll give those ancients (the Jews, their predecessors, the Biblical writers) credit for a few things. I have no idea as to how they came up with it, the original stories and thinkers behind them lost in the sands of time or the middle-east or the Zagros Mountains, depending on who you talk to, but the idea of time being uni-directional from past to future as implied in the creation story came from them, the idea of the universe having a starting point, the idea of creation happening in stages, the idea of a transformation of human consciousness as happened in the Garden, the idea of all humanity living in the present day having two common ancestors, the notion of environmental calamities (the Flood) with a small band of survivors and founding population for humanity, all of them worthy concepts even if we don’t like how they were packaged.
OK, the Earth ain’t flat, that much anyone can see as the mast of the ship disappears over the horizon. But then Einstein steps into it with his notions of matter curving space and space curving the path of matter through it. Time and space turn out to be twisty and stretchy and what you deem to be “now” and what sits in your version of the present moment may not be the same for somebody else, somewhere else, moving in relation to yourself. So what time is it actually? And what’s flat and what ain’t?
By the time those old-folks put pen to parchment, people had been living in towns and villages for thousands of years and civilizations had risen and fallen and there had already been a long, long time to sit around and think about stuff. And those stories were already old, old, old, and probably had been written down a multitude of times. We just see a few surviving versions, like the Biblical and the Epic of Gilgamesh. But who knows what’s buried in those desert mounds.
We laugh and say it’s not science. And maybe it ain’t. But “science” is just one way of looking at things and what qualifies as valid science in some fields would get laughed at in others.
And is there such a thing as settled science? They thought so until Einstein and his boys upset the apple-cart a hundred years ago. So it seems that a particle can indeed be in two places at once, ie superpositioning, that it need not get over a boundary to get from point A to point B ie quantum tunneling.
You say “scripture” and the Dawkins of the world start acting all intellectual and superior and roll their eyes. But I think that maybe we ought to re-read those old tomes. I think it would behoove us greatly to not be too sure of what is and what’s not.
Try plowing through freshman level math, physics, biology, and chemistry textbooks, old man.
It will rip your frontal lobes apart and make you wish you’d never eaten from the tree of knowledge.
I’ve done university level calculus and stats. Also did a course in philosophy. I’ve also done a fair bit of reading on the side. What I’ve never done is higher level math. And what frankly shocks me is the level of confidence in the scientific community in their own pronouncements, unwarranted in my opinion, given the level of group-think in evidence, and the sheer level of wrongness in so many of their conclusions, given new discoveries and new research.
“Studies show” is the war-cry. Yeah, until other studies show something else.
A lot less self-confidence is what’s warranted. Stop fucking acting as if they know everything, as if their every word is graven in stone. All “knowledge” is subject to re-thinking. Ain’t never such a thing as settled science. Ever.
Well said. Not that the basics are overthrown per se, but incorporated into a greater super-structure – as Newtonian mechanics vs Particle theory and Relativity.
Apples will continue to fall even as we understand gravity better. Describing how it works as Newton did a bit of, is not the same as understanding why it works that way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snqsQFfjmaE
Celtic rock.
Exactly, Newtonian mechanics was an approximation, relevant in certain circumstances, but not the whole picture.
As is General Relativity an approximation, mind you, one that’s accurate to an ungodly number of decimal places. And quantum mechanics is the most successful theory out there. The problem is that it’s inconsistent with relativity. So they’re looking for another theory to mesh the two. I read that there’s some half-baked candidates, quantum-loop gravity being one, where the fabric of the space-time continuum is made up of infinitesimally tiny interlocking loops space-time. Don’t ask me what that means. They say it means that space and time are quantized. OK, I think I have an idea what that means ie not smooth.
They’re talking about looking into the hundreds of gigabytes of data from the Large Hadron Collider to see what they can winkle out of it in terms of “new physics”. They found the Higgs particle which they strongly suspected existed since the 1960s but they found zero evidence so far of super-symmetry. I read that when the Higgs decays, two photons were expected to be emitted at a particular energy level and that’s what they found.
So now they’re talking about deploying supercomputer algos on the gigantic masses of data they’ve stored since they cranked up the LHC.
So far nobody knows what dark matter is or dark energy and those two things comprise the large majority of stuff in the cosmos. A lot to do still and time’s a wastin’.
Are they still talking about strings? I liked that as they are simply the tentacles of Cthulu. As you know, the Great Old Ones are co-terminous with Time and Space, and thus cannot be destroyed or permanently thwarted.
Volodya, CERN reminds me of a story I once read.
It seems “the gods” change the nature of reality to keep pace with what men believe. For example, once the world was flat. When people changed their beliefs, the gods changed the world to spherical, and made the change retroactive, i.e. the world had always been spherical.
What is dark matter and dark energy? Once the scientists decide, the gods will make it so – now and in the past.
Perhaps our collective consciousness is the lathe of heaven, but fortunately we don’t know it.
Or are we possibly someones’s science experiment inside a virtual reality matrix?
Either way, I join Janos in hoping those fools don’t open a portal for Cthulu and his cousins to come calling.
youtube.com/watch?v=snqsQFfjmaE
Celtic rock
wow, 2nd music find on CFN here just now. You lot are giving me some new music to listen to, if nothing else 😉
Glad you liked it PeteA. You might like ‘The Mighty Atlantic’ by the same band. Best played loud! The mighty Atlantic has historically played a big part in the Scottish national folk consciousness, given how it historically separated people from their families that their little country couldn’t feed. And those that their landlords preferred to swap for sheep.
And, as you have first-hand knowledge of farming life, you might even be interested in the meaning of the band’s name, Runrig. Co-operative farming in practice 🙂
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run_rig
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TPQlWm_GcU
“Settled science” is a weasel word (“weasel phrase”?) introduced to the lexicon during the advent of the fake news era.
All these claims you make, that “science” is too confident… that “Scientists” know everything… that they present claims as irrefutable, are easily disposed with. They’re ALL testable hypotheses even if a scientist is wrong or even lying about being right.
I perceive your problem as personal… like everyone else, who wants to bitch about facts like… the doctors got it wrong on cholesterol, or that PFOA was harmless.
Science, the process, survives Science, the failures, and Science, the invalid.
Science- the process- is not a quorum of claims about science or scientific claims by scientists… or nonscientists.
To me, all this just increases my (reasonable) faith in the scientific method. It survives. Which is not to say the process can be improved… but after (400+) years its certainly robust… just look around you. Modern life (a product of technology vis a vis the scientific method) is Science in action.
You are correct, LiL Debie, true science is about a process of open minded investigation and a willingness to change beliefs to fit facts.
Unfortunately, many people have misapplied it and made it a value system, e.g. “my political opinions are based on science and therefore better than yours.”
Science does not know anything about moral right and wrong, much less which social policies are better.
“Science does not know anything about moral right and wrong”
Indeed, hm. A climate science can do his work conscientiously, tell you that if we continue with business as usual, we are likely to bring about our own demise as a species and take a lot of other species with us, then drive home in his SUV to book his six-month sabbatical flying round the world.
Nobody’s stopping him. He’s told it to you like it is and even he isn’t morally obliged to care one way or the other what happens after he’s gone. Most of them do, though. That’s because they’re humans with families, not because they’re scientists.
*scientist* not science…
There’s a lot of stuff in there, volodya, and since you’ve named me I feel I’ll have to say something. So I will get back to you because it will require some thought. And I’ve been remiss because I have some fairly urgent work to do and a further distraction came my way in the form of a person I haven’t seen in 50 years, leading to me being incorporated in a school (!) WhatsApp group all reminiscing about everything. Ye gods, have I not got enough temptations? Thankfully they’ve gone quiet.
So, with apologies, I’m going to have to do some actual work and get back to you – probably not before Thursday as I have yet other duties tomorrow. But I look forward to seeing the follow-up banter from your post when I return.
Theoretical physics is a mystery to me, though. But I feel there are at least levels of verifiable knowledge and repeatable experiments that give us SOME settled science. For example, we know that witches don’t cause plague – it’s caused by Y. Pestis infecting a flea that jumps on the back of a rat.
There are some things I am very willing to agree are settled.
GA, the problem of modern science is that it is not science, that is, quest for obtaining knowledge of the laws of nature, or, if you prefer, the ability to read the Mind of God, but rather a figure skating, where virtuosos score points for intellectual leaps and supports.
And now it is at the stage of dancing on the ice, where marks for artistry are still given out for remnants of Newton’s, Faraday’s, Maxwell’s, Planck’s and Einstein’s natural philosophy, but gradually the “science” moves to pair figure skating, where all this nonsense will simply disappear so as not to interfere with intellectual jumps and supports.
“The princes of DNA like James Watson are among the ugliest scientists that ever existed. Watson is a strange atheist, in that he obviously finds himself to be godlike. But let us look at the actual content of his work. DNA is used by the cells as a source of information. It tells them how to build other parts of the cell as well as the greater body of the organism. But if we look closer, we find very great mysteries, ones that are never mentioned. For a start, the DNA strand itself is built and replicated by enzymes. These enzymes can cut the strand as well as move around the sugars and phosphates that make up the strand. Problem is, to do this, the enzymes must have self-locomotion and a sort of intelligence. The DNA tells the cell what to do, but what tells the enzymes what to do? We have a reductio at precisely this point. We are told that the body and cells do what they do because the DNA instructs them to do it, but why and how do the enzymes do what they do? There is no room for a blueprint inside the tiny enzyme. What propels it? Even more to the point, what propels it in the proper direction, at the proper time, to do the proper thing? I am not proposing that a god tells them, by whispering in their tiny ears, I am just showing that the discovery of DNA is no great step to understanding the origins of life. DNA is just a code, but it takes a sort of intelligence to create a code, another one to replicate it, and a third to decipher it. For this reason, DNA can in no way be a source of intelligence at any level, either cellular or human.
That is why I fail to see how Watson’s work as a scientist supports his certainty as an atheist. The discovery of DNA does not even push us a tiny step closer to atheism. A code, any code, is indication of neither theism nor atheism. A code is only a code, and unless some information about gods is encoded directly on the strand, we have proof of nothing. Codes can be manufactured, we know that. Codes may also be natural, although that is only a conjecture at this time. To believe in manufactured codes is easy, since we can manufacture them ourselves. To believe in natural codes is not as easy, since we must be shown how a code can generate itself.
In fact, this is probably the strongest real argument of the theist. The theist states that, intuitively, the self-generated code is impossible to imagine. This intuition is not a proof of course, or even a strong indication, but as a bald postulate, the idea is as solid as any other. How can electrons and protons and mesons and so on, rushing around in gravitational and E/M fields, accidentally stick together or form structures, just as a matter of statistics, forming codes that other accidental conglomerations have a use for? Such a theory is just as fantastic as any other religious assertion, surely. The theist proposes these structures are not accidents, while the atheist demands that they must be. It is fantastic if they are and fantastic if they are not. It is beyond comprehension, proof, or all argument either way. The argument is ultimately beyond all math and logic, because all math and logic must begin with a postulate. This postulate of accident or no accident is the first postulate of all physical theory. It requires an unfounded belief either way.”
http://mileswmathis.com/atheism.html
“In fact, this is probably the strongest real argument of the theist. The theist states that, intuitively, the self-generated code is impossible to imagine….
Druid,
Then that which we cannot imagine must be magic?
And magic translates to religious faith?
And the certainty of faith regarding our scientific ignorance demands no further study?
#Settledscience
Ah yes, the infamous Y Pestis.
Except that maybe what happened way back wasn’t Y Pestis and it wasn’t the Bubonic Plague.
IF not, then we owe it to ourselves to figure out what really happened because these outbreaks have a way of doing do-overs.
This is the trouble with “settled” science. It shuts the door on free inquiry and filtering out the truth:
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg17223184-000-did-bubonic-plague-really-cause-the-black-death/
I’ve read that in some locales (I think it was a town in Austria) the pattern of transmission and death as evidenced by records of who lived where and who died when, was consistent with hemorrhagic fever.
Maybe those centuries of repeating plagues were more than one thing. Maybe we ought to nail it down.
“Ah yes, the infamous Y Pestis.
Except that maybe what happened way back wasn’t Y Pestis and it wasn’t the Bubonic Plague.”
Volodya, just dropping in for a very quick post-prandial fix, so not able to deal with your broader question. However, i get a lot of flak on here for being picky about words. i get called ‘crafty’ and ‘slippery’ for insisting on their proper use.
So, I don’t see that what you’ve said above contradicts my proposition that plague is Y. pestis. You seem to be saying the black death, a term I didn’t use, might not, historically, have been – or have been in all cases – the plague. I hope you can see those two propositions are not contradictory.
Plague remains Y. pestis, whatever the historical incidences of what is referred to as the black death.
Plague/Y. pestis exists even today in the US. The vector, from what I recall, is the prairie dog, but I’d need to check.
So, your last sentence should, I think, say ‘those centuries of repeated instances of the black death’ or else you need to clarify that you mean ‘plagues’ in a more general sense than the more precise ‘plague’, which remains Y. pestis, as far as I understand.
This is plague:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_(disease)
This is plague or plagues in the more general sense, which can include even a plague of insects:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague
Precision matters, and it is not crafty or slippery to insist on the correct meanings of words, although I know it’s not you who keeps making that accusation. Others do it for their own reasons.
I shouldn’t have said ‘the’ plague in line eight – that is a colloquialism more suitable for the general meaning of the word. The disease ‘plague’ is Yersinia pestis. People might be suffering from something else that has a similar pattern, but then it wouldn’t be plague in the current medical sense.
Volodya,
Good News! There are those who understand that Rattus rattus has been badly maligned, and are hard at work rehabilitating it’s image;
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47370291
Look at that face…who wouldn’t be moved to help?
A fat rat. Too much of that rich and buttery German cooking.
” But I think that maybe we ought to re-read those old tomes.”
Volodya,
I would opine that the “old tomes” provide unquestionable wisdom, but not necessarily knowledge.
I would agree, but I would also suggest that maybe the point of those old writings wasn’t objective knowledge in the first place. Right now there’s a conflict between science and religion, which I think would have puzzled the writers of the old testament for example. Did they really mean that the universe was literally created in six days? I doubt it, I doubt they cared whether it was six days or six minutes or six nanoseconds as that wasn’t the point of the story. I would guess that there were varying perspectives back then just as there are now, but it seems to me that the point of it was to set a moral context for human existence.
It’s ironic that religion and science are fighting because to my eyes they’re about different things. Kind of like engineers telling a class full of students at Le Cordon Bleu that engineering is superior. Engineering is about one thing, cooking about something else entirely. Such it is with science and religion.
volodya
“but it seems to me that the point of it was to set a moral context for human existence.”
I would agree. Humans everywhere have always told each other stories to try to explain their origins, their existence and their predicaments.
Re biblical knowledge, I’m with EF on this. There has always been wisdom, gained over individual and community lifetimes, but systematic knowledge took millennia to develop.
Re the grislier stories, I suppose, for the ancient Israelites, if you wanted to smite whole tribes of strangers and take their land, human psychology is such that you, the ‘good’ people, would sleep better at night if you could tell yourselves your god sanctioned it.
And the ancient Israelites aren’t the only ones guilty of bringing their imaginary friend in to sanction their own base aspirations, as we know.
Some current believers in a ‘new promised land’ have done so on these very pages.
And the British empire did the same in its day.
Land of hope and glory, mother of the free
How shall we extol thee, who are born of thee?
Wider still and wider shall thy bounds be set
God, who made thee mighty, make thee mightier yet
God, who made thee mighty, make thee mightier yet
Such is homo grabby-ens.
The ancients knew the earth was round long before space travel was supposed to have existed.
“The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow of the earth on the moon and I have more faith in the Shadow than in the Church.” Ferdinand Magellan
This quotation is often found on the internet attributed to Magellan, but never with a source, and no English occurrence prior to its use by Robert Green Ingersoll in his essay “Individuality” (1873) has been located. Thus, it it most likely spurious. In that essay Ingersoll states:
It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions, — some one who had the grandeur to say his say. I believe it was Magellan who said, “The church says the earth is flat; but I have seen its shadow on the moon, and I have more confidence even in a shadow than in the church.” On the prow of his ship were disobedience, defiance, scorn, and success.
Sometime disobedience and defiance are very necessary. That is very true. But if truth would have been embraced there would have been no controversy.
Isaiah 40:22 “It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to dwell in;”
“But if truth would have been embraced there would have been no controversy.
“Isaiah 40:22 “It is he who sits above the circle of the earth…”
It says ‘circle’ not ‘sphere’. When Isaiah was written, the understanding was still that the earth was a flat circle.
What about this one?
Job 26:10 “He has inscribed a circle on the face of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness.” It sounds like a view of the earth from space. A sphere still has the shape of a circle. And using the word circle is just a descriptor for the shape of the sphere? How can we be certain what the general understanding of the shape of the earth was 5,000 years ago and further back? Only fragments of texts remain.
SSL
You can tell yourself whatever you like, the ancient Israelites saw the earth as a flat circle with the vault of heaven above.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/ba/Early_Hebrew_Conception_of_the_Universe.png
Crikey, didn’t you do this stuff in Sunday School? I did.
But I’m sure if you look closely enough you’ll find the bit where a random goat herder confirms, in his musings, that it’s an oblate spheroid.
It’s just before the bit where Mr and Mrs Titanosaur Argentinosaurus huinculensis and Mr and Mrs Woolly Mammoth are making friends on Noah’s ark.
They’re stories, SSL. And whether or not you stop taking them literally won’t stop god existing if he does.
Wolfie,
“The church says the earth is flat”
The science is then settled….”
We laugh and say it’s not science. And maybe it ain’t. But “science” is just one way of looking at things and what qualifies as valid science in some fields would get laughed at in others.
volodya,
I’ve come to think there are at least two varieties. One is “big S” Science, that has made the famous discoveries.
The other part is “$cience” — “research” done in the name of supposedly proving something to sell a product or a political notion. Lots of $cience out there, and people too often confuse it with the “Big S” variety.
I think it would behoove us greatly to not be too sure of what is and what’s not.
Strongly agree on this point. Too many don’t realize that as powerful as the scientific method is, there are some areas of inquiry that it cannot usefully investigate. Too many make their belief in science a faith, and at that point, it becomes dogma for them.
Cheers
Montsegur, you say: “Too many don’t realize that as powerful as the scientific method is, there are some areas of inquiry that it cannot usefully investigate.”
You bet. To take one example that will no doubt get the eyeballs a rollin’ among the intellectual set, it’s the one-offs. It seems to me that the basis for science as we practice it is to ask one another, did you see what I saw? The problem is the “one-offs” the kind of stuff that we see that cannot be verified by someone else because it’s here and then it’s gone, nor tested nor replicated nor falsified in a lab under controlled conditions. You know where I’m going with this, it’s the paranormal stuff I’m referring to, and I’ll give an example. My grandfather was working in the barn when he heard the voice of his deceased father. That’s impossible you say, he’s dead. At least a lot of “rationalists” would say the same thing, that a dead man doesn’t talk.
So what am I supposed to do, call my grandfather a liar? Tell him he’s nuts? I can tell you, he wasn’t nuts, not by any stretch, yet he heard what he heard and there was nobody there to say no, they didn’t hear anything, or alternatively, yes, they heard the same thing, a voice coming out of nowhere. This is something that doesn’t fit into what “science” does, while a neurologist can say such a phenomenon as my grandfather experienced is “explainable”, being explainable by such-and-such doesn’t mean that in this particular case it is actually explained.
There’s other areas, for example, what does science have to say about the judaic notion that an individual life is invaluable and irreplaceable? What about the alternative view, that what matters isn’t the individual but rather the collective or the state, that an individual is indeed replaceable and has no real value in the grand scheme? What did Bismark(?) say, that the graveyards are full of indispensable men? Is it the place of science to pronounce on this?
Anyway, I’m not sure that this is the kind of thing you’re thinking about but I’d be interested in what you’ve got to say on it.
volodya,
Check, paranormal phenomena is one area the scientific method has difficulty investigating.
I could write a lot here, but what I mentioned about science as dogma is one reason, among others, that hinders scientific investigation of such topics.
I hear you re: your grandfather’s experience. I had one experience in my back yard that was plainly weird and for which no obvious rational explanation existed. I know what I saw happened for two reasons; one was that a household pet was with me and reacted to the same noise and sights I saw, and the second reason was that the neighbor’s children got blamed by their parents (the incident involved water spilled out of a pool). When I heard the children had been scolded, I took the chance of telling the neighbors what I had seen and that the children had not been present. What was interesting at that point was the older woman of their household slightly smiled, and said “GrandPa”. Made me think they had experienced out-of-normal activity themselves.
Is it the place of science to pronounce on this?
It is out of their swim lane. But that is a broad problem in Western society today. Nobody stays in defined swim lanes, and that contributes mightily to the magnitude of unhappiness in society … the partisan divide in politics being only one aspect of such.
As you can probably discern, I have conflicted feelings about science. The scientific method, coupled with the application of its findings in the form of technology, have wrought huge change in our world, much of it beneficial, but some of it not.
Against that, we have the cultural memories of people like Mengele, the experiments with the Atomic Soldiers, even smaller cruelties like subjecting goats to nerve gas (to “make sure” it worked as expected) … bottom line is that “Big S” Science’s commitment to ethics is fuzzy, while $cience makes no pretense at all of being ethical. IMO, all of this serves to corrode the belief of the little people in the legitimacy of the authorities.
Sorry if I wandered down too many paths in this reply.
Cheers
And you say “research” done in the name of supposedly proving something to sell a product or a political notion. Lots of $cience out there, and people too often confuse it with the “Big S” variety.
People charge that the science of climate change is infused with political activism, as you say, a political notion, or one that’s come to be a tribal signifier like tattoos or a head-dress. Not to mention commercial interests.
What does Coors Light and sex in a canoe have in common? They’re both fucking close to water.
Do you know what gynecologist and a tour guide have in common?
they know things form the inside?
coors light is gross
perhaps Russia could intervene? Tell them both about Russia’s new wonder weapons? Russia’s new plan to bankrupt the US? == elysian
Oh, it takes little to deceive me –
I cannot wait to be deceived!
A.Pushkin, Confession, 1826
Confession
I love you, though I rage at it,
Though it is shame and toil misguided,
And to my folly self-derided
Here at your feet I will admit!
It ill befits my years, my station,
Good sense has long been overdue!
And yet, by every indication,
Love’s plague has stricken me anew:
You’re out of sight, I fall to yawning;
You’re here, I suffer and feel blue,
And barely keep myself from owning,
Dear elf, how much I care for you!
Why, when your guileless girlish chatter
Drifts from next door, your airy tread,
Your rustling dress, my senses scatter
And I completely lose my head.
You smile, I flush with exaltation;
You turn away, I’m plunged in gloom;
Your pallid hand is compensation
For a whole day of fancied doom.
When to the frame with artless motion
You bend to cross-stitch, all devotion,
Your eyes and ringlets down-beguiled,
My heart goes out in mute emotion
Rejoicing in you like a child!
Dare I confess to you my sighing,
How jealously I chafe and balk
When you set forth, at times defying
Bad weather, on a lengthy walk?
And then your solitary crying,
Those twosome whispers out of sight,
Your carriage to Opochka plying,
And the piano late at night…
Aline! I ask but to be pitied,
I do not dare to plead for love;
Love, for the sins I have committed,
I am perhaps not worthy of.
But make believe! Your gaze, dear elf,
Is fit to conjure with, believe me!
Ah, it is easy to deceive me…
I long to be deceived myself!
Alexander Pushkin
Translation by Babette Deutsch
It’s a beautiful poem.
Movies and TV basically put people into a Vegetative State, right? Should Vegetables that be allowed to vote?
“The vegetative state is a chronic or long-term condition. This condition differs from a coma: a coma is a state that lacks both awareness and wakefulness. Patients in a vegetative state may have awoken from a coma, but still have not regained awareness. In the vegetative state patients can open their eyelids occasionally and demonstrate sleep-wake cycles, but completely lack cognitive function. The vegetative state is also called a “coma vigil”. The chances of regaining awareness diminish considerably as the time spent in the vegetative state increases.[7]”
In “The World According to Garp”, Garp’s Mom was a Feminist prototype working as a nurse in an Army hospital during WWII. She wanted to be a single mother, but needed sperm to have a kid. So she humped a Vegetable (a terminally burned bomber pilot) who would get erections. The Vegetable later died.
Garp’s Mom, Jenny, raped the Vegetable?
UHNWIs = Ultra High Net Worth Individuals
“There were 84,700 UHNWIs in the world in 2011, of whom 29,000 owned net assets worth more than $ 100 million, and of whom 2,700 were worth half a billion dollars—nearly enough to maintain the level of perks Naguib Sawiris deems acceptable. A total of 37,500 UHNWIs are in North America (44 percent); 23,700 (28 percent) are in Europe; and 13,000 are in Asia-Pacific excluding China and India (15 percent). When it comes to super-wealth, the United States is unassailably at the top. America is home to 42 percent of all UHNWIs, with 35,400. China is in second place, with 5,400, or 6.4 percent of the total, followed by Germany (4,135), Switzerland (3,820), and Japan (3,400). Russia has 1,970, India 1,840, Brazil 1,520, Taiwan 1,400, Turkey 1,100, and Hong Kong 1,030.“
Chrystia Freeland
Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else
If I was a Vegetable in a hospital, I’m not sure that I’d want some crazy white woman hopping on top of my boner?
Better than it just sitting there.
Puck,
Yes she did…and if the poor bastard survived his wounds, he would have been dunned the rest of his life for child maintenance….
Sometimes I get so fed up with your rules and regulations and your logic and reasoning that I just want to dive into the ocean and melt away into it. Letting the currents take me where they may. Drifting and floating away. Far away from all of the clamor and the noise and all of the you have to do this, you have to be this way, you have to think this way. In the freedom of the flowing rivers of water you can’t box me in. I don’t have to think your way or feel what you want me to. I still love you though. I always did. My love, just like my spirit, is like the ocean.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0RKg7u_IGY
This is better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXO-HnjLLiY&list=RDfXO-HnjLLiY&index=1
But it doesn’t match the mood I was in earlier. Though I do like it tonight. A little dream pop before dream time :-).
huh nice song bud
scrolling down there and I checked that out
If the status of the US Dollar goes as the Reserve Currency, then these people lose everything. Will a nuclear war protect the US Dollar? Daniel Estulin assumes that a nuclear war is game over, but Dimitry Orlov says that nuclear radiation is not so bad after all. There is a plethora of Wild game living near Chernobyl. The Neocons may think that war is a way out?
UHNWIs = Ultra High Net Worth Individuals
“There were 84,700 UHNWIs in the world in 2011, of whom 29,000 owned net assets worth more than $ 100 million, and of whom 2,700 were worth half a billion dollars—nearly enough to maintain the level of perks Naguib Sawiris deems acceptable. A total of 37,500 UHNWIs are in North America (44 percent); 23,700 (28 percent) are in Europe; and 13,000 are in Asia-Pacific excluding China and India (15 percent). When it comes to super-wealth, the United States is unassailably at the top. America is home to 42 percent of all UHNWIs, with 35,400. China is in second place, with 5,400, or 6.4 percent of the total, followed by Germany (4,135), Switzerland (3,820), and Japan (3,400). Russia has 1,970, India 1,840, Brazil 1,520, Taiwan 1,400, Turkey 1,100, and Hong Kong 1,030.“
Chrystia Freeland
Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else
Are there any Ultra High Net Worth Individuals in that Black Panther movie?
Pray to Jesus that the 0.1% who own 90% of the World’s wealth have the wisdom to lead us on the Path of Righteousness.
I mean: Are there any Ultra High Net Worth Individuals in the movie “Black Panther” apart from Spike Lee, Oprah, and the Obama’s?
The 0.1% are leading us straight to Hell. It is appalling to me the lack of caring about their fellow man these assholes are showing.
Pucker
I am 30 pages from finishing Estulin, very difficult read because of the level of discussion he holds, but it gets better and better as he talks about the last twenty years or so and extrapolates the future inroads from the globalists and the prognosis and it is not pretty. He leaves no doubt that the Elite and their globalist Elitist partners want to destroy today’s World Order as it exists and want to plug their universal finance and currency ideas into place. They aim to drive everybody into mediocrity and the US is target no.1, and Russia and China are both in crosshairs. If his prophesy is real, it will affect everyone living in the USA, dropping living standards for everyone except the Elite of course.
These guys are fighting WW3 economically and are using the ambivalence of the public to achieve their aims. Watch out, Big Brother is coming.
Daniel Estulin seems to draw heavily from the work of Catherine Austin Fitts, who I like very much. But even Cathern Austin Fitts says that she doesn’t understand the governance structure of the planet. Fitts and Estulin suggest that much of the trillions in missing money may have been used to build a “Breakaway Civilization”, much of it in Outer Space. It’s hard for me to get my head around this, as the Australians say. But it’s also hard for me to grasp that our “Representatives” don’t read the legislation nor do they have any idea where the money goes. Meanwhile, the people argue over Transgender bathrooms in public schools.
He refers to Fitts many times in the book.
Estulin is an independent individual, obviously cognizant of the subject, presenting a warning that a huge reset is coming and giving some hope that it can be averted.
I’ve heard (but not read), that Estulin says that even the Nazi remnant are players in all this, having given up their nationalist aspirations. Do they still hold their racial idealism? Possible – obviously the Elite don’t believe the pablum the push on the masses. The remnant of the Anglo-Saxon Elite might still be on speaking terms with those they destroyed for the most part. The Jewish Elite? Probably not so much.
Estulin labels the globalists source as remnants of the British empire that ties back to the start up of mercantilism in Venice during the Renaissance. The British element that has had the lead are tied into the Rothschilds clear back to Napoleon III. Macron is associated with the Rothschilds. The American wing of the group is , surprise, the Deep State.
Read the book, I am going to read it again to try to wring more out of it. It is pretty heavy.
He has a number of books – one about the “Nazis” too. You know the Rothschilds are Jews, right?
But your point is valid. Allied as the Anglos are with the Jews, perhaps the Nazi remnant has had to find other allies all entirely, since the Anglo-Saxons have thrown all racial loyalty to the winds.
Do you remember in the movie “One Flew Over the Cookoo’s Nest” when they lobotomized McMurphy?
That’s The Dream…Lobotomize everyone….
Brent Bednarik, who did 2 tours of duty in Afghanistan, says that half of the people take offense if you suggest that the US is an Empire.
India has flown a jet over the border and destroyed JASHA muhammed on the ground. Pakistan has made a statement that it will retaliate.
This takes the doomsday clock automatically to 11:59. (Two nuclear nations in direct conflict)
Pakistan somehow backing down is the world’s only hope.
“Pakistan somehow backing down is the world’s only hope.”
SnakPak,
Have you ever seen video of the Wagah Ceremony?
Yeah…they’ll back down when the Jews forgive Hitler….
Climate modelling confirming life as we know it will end guys…
Code Red. Change now.
The target reduction is 90%
That means reduction of 90% of humanity.
Are you down with that, Snacks?
brh
brh, I concur with Jack Alpert
http://kunstler.com/podcast/kunstlercast-303-jack-albert-unwinding-human-predicament/
“That means reduction of 90% of humanity.”
BRH,
If Climate Change be existential, and proved to be of human origin…I could accept that the governmental response would be a viable one, considering further that I would no doubt become one of the 90%. The response would be in keeping with the issue…the Paris Accords a canard.
If humanity were truly in jeopardy of extinction, it would be a measured response.
America has lined up brigades of diapers and spam on Venezuela’s border.
Honestly, doing exceptional work in preserving the Global Peace.
Its times like these where a Great Man (or three) can step into the breach and perform a “Nobel-worthy” action.
Its ironic that the choices are Trump, Putin and Xi.
The choices used to be Stalin, Mao and Ike.
Would you like that better, Snacks?
brh
The shortest line(or queue for GA) in human history:
The euthanasia volunteer line to save the planet.
90% right!
Hard to speculate. Of the three I’d go all in on Ike of course.
Since seven years went by between The Long Emergency and Too Much Magic (2005-2012) and it is now seven years again, is it time for another update?
Are American women now buying “Muscle Cars”?
What, youve never heard of Mustang Sally?
…”You betta slow yo’ Mustang down….”
I heard that Trump has flipped on Immigration, and he’s joining “The Caravan”. So now, Hillary wants to build “The Wall”.
Damn, that’s clever!
Please provide a link.
Guys, a 90% reduction in energy intensity of anyone’s lifestyle is possible.
The proof is easy enough to find. Take your average Honduran, and your average American.
The American has certain constraints, and the Honduran has certain constraints. If you are suggesting Americans cannot live a decent lifestyle at a 90% reduction, then yes, something has to give. Apparently its the climate… ?
No. Lets save the climate. 90% reduction is mandatory. I don’t care, particularly, what path people take. But I’m not going to advocate not putting a full effort into obtaining that goal until it is flat out impossible.
It would be immoral, in respect to my own ethical views. You may believe, and others may believe, there is or was no chance. I’m going to remind people to my deathbed, if necessary, that there was, and some failed in their moral duty. I did not.
America signed onto an IPCC agreement which reflects that moral reasoning. If you reject it, I reject you.
Now, will Floridians need to reduce their lifestyle by a greater degree than say, Inuits? Yes. Because this is a balanced load.
Everyone must do their part.
100% if you croak.
“IPCC agreement which reflects that moral reasoning”
SnakPak,
There is no moral reasoning in our signing…it was virtue signaling at it’s worst.
I reject it.
I really know the Libs are nuts.
I saw an estimate that the GND was going to cost $94 trillion dollars (that is a t) over ten years.
So I looked up the National budget. 4.4 trillion 2019, of which $1 trillion is deficit.
They want to spend two times the national budget, that is an additional two times, on a potential boondoggle.
And what happens when they run out of money a third of the way through it, like the high speed rail in California.
Crazy!
“And what happens when they run out of money a third of the way through it, like the high speed rail in California.”
What stopped this project were legal objections.
The system worked, in the sense that it frees up capital to hire the goon squads that are going to kick down your door and take the car keys.
I’m not saying the thing should be built (I am definitely not) or is worth it (it isn’t).
In a sense it reflects a certain truth, which is that capital is more valuable than oil. The price is going to zero.
Burning oil is not just energy wasted. Its wasted capital as well.
Russia understands this, its building a war chest of foreign reserves, largely on its energy exports. For the last few years they (and anyone playing the game) has been selling as much as possible before its over.
Putin says Russias oil will last 1000 years.
Brh
One thing interesting though.
Budget wise, it is nuts. Politically it is nuts.
However, most of what is contained in it is going to happen when peak oil hits hard, and The Long Emergency engages fully. What AOC is trying to do is eliminate oil from the economy. Peak oil will make that involuntary. Should be interesting!
It makes sense. Breathe in and let the GND flow.
You’ll become enlightened before you can say legal marijuana and free money.
A 90% reduction in certain populations would achieve it.
Of course, a drastic, sudden, catastrophic collapse in population would be disastrous in the short term.
Technologically speaking, its not impossible.
Just objectively, take a look a the energy intensity of the economy as a whole. The overproduction and waste is the first thing that strikes you. Now take objective stake of needs and wants. Then balance against the sum of potential recovered energy. Pretty favorable.
The other objective fact about our shared problems are belligerent resistance, by certain national policies.
The only thing that counters this level of belligerence, in terms of the global welfare, such a challenge has never been confronted in the history of the world.
Problematic events of similar magnitude have historically ONLY been handled by a combination of diplomacy… and war.
This is the current geopolitical situation. There is no way around that.
But individual belligerence? There will not be exceptions made for any individual. You will not be able to live a lifestyle in opposition to an effective global mandate.
Yeah, yeah, I can hear you throw your beer can at the computer from here. Fine, you’ll fight us until we pull the car keys from your cold dead fingers.
Until I see a sane, practical, and honest (non-skimming) effort to connect small communities in a general geographic area (again these locales connections have got to be based in reality; needs not wants) by regular ol’ “low”-speed rail, I’m not holding out any hope for sustaining ANY kind of “lifestyle” that isn’t going to degrade into absolute destitution and desperation.
The most forward-looking (or hidebound) individuals in these hyar Untied States are raising horses, mules, donkeys and such for transport and burden-bearers. Some may be raising them for Hollywood Westerns, I dunno… Foresight or tradition? You decide.
Now for some fun!
https://youtu.be/viSJsOUCGu4
Deflection, distortion and mis-characterization. Point handily subsumed. Well done! If wishing to engage in this kind of rhetorical mendacity, then thinking about the grandkids (and their kids) is probably not going to be in the frame.
(Misplaced in the thread. Not directed at the packer of snacks. Oh well, just a bit more confusion to spread around. WTF? is the new narrative/paradigm to light our lamps by.)
“Connect small communities in a general geographic area” — Oz
Pete as I recall there was an attempt to do just that up in your neck of the woods with the issuance of your own currency called the “Berkshire” and it was quite popular.
Brh
M.,
Yep. Funny how a currency backed by real man-hours (Energy, by gum!) has such a tough time getting traction and confidence. 😉 Used ‘some’ last summer; don’t know if the program is still extant.
A primer:
http://www.berkshares.org/how_to_spend
The Bershires in Western Mass is its own unique place with intact towns and small cities, a distinguished history, and a population that is well educated and independent. After all this is where Shays Rebellion came from. It might be hard to replicate the Berkshire currency program in other parts of the country.
Brh
Yet the criminal gang that invaded Union Grove was from the Berkshires.
Do Birkenstocks come from this accursed area, perhaps one of the snobbiest in America? But yes, it is beautiful. No doubt the poor are shuddered far away from Lennox and Tanglewood, in remote hilltops and valleys, inbreeding and creating dark monstrousities in their lust and desperation.
Where I’m at is a Red blob surrounded in a Blue state. Sap was running but the trees is froz’ up agin!
Here is a good map interactive map showing where you stand.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/upshot/election-2016-voting-precinct-maps.html#7.03/42.05/-72.94
“in remote hilltops and valleys, inbreeding and creating dark monstrosities in their lust and desperation.”
Janos,
…Worthy of Poe….
LOL that was really good. So creative and on point.
I like the way Yankees talk.
Ah, the darker side of Captain Planet emerges again. This is your aspect that indulges in war and conquest. Obviously this has a place in the order of things but like any other thing must be moderated with an opposite influence. If the science that you are invested in is actually correct. In some ways it is already too late. Mitigation not just in behavioral changes but also in the climate system itself would be necessary. And likely a modification of the climate system would be the most important first step in making any immediate changes. We can also let the forests run amok to collect more CO2.
‘Captain Planet’
With an agenda that includes wiping out 90% of humanity.
Brh
Yeah, his warlike side is very frightening. Thus it needs to be met with an opposing approach. There are many ways we could “save the planet” without the harshness. I preferred his initial approach of reducing immigration and removing illegal immigrants. That is only a start but would help with decreasing land use pressures since the US has historically low birth rates right now.
“Thus it needs to be met with an opposing approach.”
SSL,
Yes, and how does “You die first” sound to SnakPak?
Instead of prying car keys out of cold, dead fingers why can’t we all just hold hands and sing kumbaya :-)?
Yes, RT has said that American special forces are massing in Columbia and Puerto Rico and that invasion of Venezuela may be imminent.
Poor Nicholas Maduro – just a big Teddy Bear with a mustache, but a Teddy Bear that has sharp teeth. He said if he could only sit down with Mr Trump and shake his hand, then they could work things out. One Schmickler (sp?) recognizes another, perhaps. But it is not to be.
Cohen stated how Trump routinely cheated his building contractors. Many have said as much. That isn’t forgivable. Or rather, it would only be forgivable if he dedicated the rest of his life to fighting for the little guys he screwed over by saving Traditional America. But he’s not going to do that.
Well if he isn’t going to fight for the little guy and right the wrongs he promised to then that means he wasn’t genuine with us. Yet we were ready to give him a chance, hah like a million chances. The intervention in Venezuela is unacceptable too. I cannot believe they are doing this again.
Tax Cut…..
“In his speeches, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. says that “all men are brothers”, and that “black people should never misuse power to abuse and humiliate the White Man” and that all that “the Negro wants from the White Man is his friendship and understanding.”
In June 168, Paullus’s legions crushed the Macedonians, deposing its young, ambitious king, Perseus, who had tried to overthrow the hegemony of Rome. He watched as his father seized the Macedonian royal treasury, enslaved upward of three hundred thousand people, and literally erased the Kingdom of Macedon from the map. What had once been the Kingdom of Alexander the Great was now divided into four small republics. 18 After this harsh settlement, however, the Senate returned to their habit of ruling with a light hand. They demanded the inhabitants of the four new Macedonian republics continue to pay taxes, but at half the rate they had been paying to the kings of Macedon. If you managed to survive the war and not get sold into slavery, life under the Romans was pretty good. 19
Mike Duncan
The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic
That isn’t quite true. The Romans imposed severe restrictions on the social and economic activities of the Macedonian republics including interactions between the inhabitants of the republics. They banned intermarriage between inhabitants of the republics even though they were of the same ethnos. They also banned silver and gold mining. Effectively the idea was to crush ethnic/national unity and it worked. And thus Macedonia became a perfect Roman province.
Cohen, liar or Saint?
I definitely want a legitimate unbiased fact checker to verify his claims. There definitely has to be information that exists to back him up, or conversely label him as a chronic liar, or someone getting a big payday.
He says Trump knew about WikiLeaks DNC release being alerted by Roger Stone. So? I would imagine if that happened he gave out a big chuckle.
He says he lied about the payoff for Stormy, and lied to Melania.
So? That is no one’s business but their own. And if DC is going to hit every philanderer, get ready to replace about 2/3 of the Congress and the bureaucracy.
He says Trump negotiated with the Russians on the Moscow hotel during the campaign. So? No law against that, and he turned the company over to the family when he was sworn in.
He calls him a racist because of some disparaging remarks that Cohen says he made. He better have some earwitnesses to that
Where would Cohen be in a world where anti-libel laws were enforced?
Cohen sounds like a sleaze bag to me, trying to get revenge for not getting a job in the administration. When all someone can do is call people names, their credibility declines.
Cohen, Deep State sympathizer, rejected ego, convicted liar who will say anything to save his hide and his lawyer is Lanny Davis, another legal Deep State sleazebag.
Cohen says he has documentation for what he says.
We shall see starting today.
Is it just another fabrication like the rest? It’s already fact that Cohen lied to Congress and the FBI so what will change today? More likely the case is that people will hear the truth they want to hear. As it is with life in general. Either way, I doubt the course of things will change. The country will remain deeply and possibly irreversibly divided.
The republican idiocy marches on.
Cohen had fried eggs once so there is no other conclusion to form but that he eats fried eggs every morning.
I once cut a finger nail to far into the quick so obviously every time I cut my fingernails I end up bleeding from all my fingers.
Cohen wore a brown suit one time and that’s why he always wears brown suits.
He got a traffic ticket once and a now he gets one every time he drives.
SSL, you seem to express some sensibility once in a while, stop plodding along behind those stupid political hacks who refuse to consider that Cohen’s lips were moving but it was Trump who was telling them how to move and that his apparent and obvious regret was making his lips move in a new way which strangely synched up so well with the adulterous moloch we’ve come to know and have grave suspicions about that you’d have to be considered a sub-normal human to think he wasn’t telling the truth.
Based on what Trump has said about Rosy O’Donnell what is your guess what he’d say about you?
Who are we do judge?
We both do not know how would we behave in similar situation, having armed FBI thugs storming you home at dawn and torturing your wife and daughter with handcuffs.
Can you link to info on his wife and daughter being tortured. And if this is true it seems like it should be plastered everywhere!
It is well known that they were held in handcuffs for hours, which is considered a torture in the United States.
I am sure you could find that in Google, if they have not already shadow-banned it.
I don’t use Google but I will Duck Duck Go it. Thank you for the information. I don’t believe I heard about that before.
I have mentioned it before in one of my posts:
July 2, 2018
And I will begin a description of Trump’s triumphant march describing Trump’s position on April 9, 2018, when all his undeniable achievements in foreign policy and on the economic front (and it is undoubtedly a front of military operations) were erased by the New York Police raid on the office and apartment of his personal lawyer Michael Cohen, who was handcuffed with his wife and child and tortured, by keeping him and his family for several hours in cuffs.
By these actions, the so-called “New York Prosecutors” declared war not only on Trump, but also on the very powerful American Bar Association, and now if these “prosecutors” do not go to jail for a long time together with the judge who issued the search warrant, no one can trust his lawyer.
http://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/a-turn-for-the-worse/#comment-358786
“It is well known that they were held in handcuffs for hours, which is considered a torture in the United States.”
Komraden Finc!
Yes, torture. And a bullet to the back of the neck from the 7.62 Tokarev is considered “re-education” in the bowels of the Lubyanka….
Tell them about the horrors inflicted on the Czar and his family for weeks – particularly the rape of his daughters.
The Rasputin of the British Royal Family
In a letter to Tsar Nicholas II dated March 15, 1916, Chairman of the Duma Mikhail Rodzianko wrote:
“I must tell Your Majesty that this cannot continue much longer. No one opens your eyes to the true role which this man (Rasputin) is playing. His presence in Your Majesty’s Court undermines confidence in the Supreme Power and may have an evil effect on the fate of the dynasty and turn the hearts of the people from their Emperor.”
The British royal family is on the same trajectory. Those who hate it no longer fear its power, while those who once loved it increasingly find it despicable.
For all his moral ambiguity, Rasputin was full of commonsense or Peasant wisdom. “The Balkans are not worth the life of one Russian soldier”, he said. If only the Czar had listened to him and not his advisors.
The worse problem was his capitulation to his wife and her terrible political appointees. She was the one who kept Rasputin in the limelight more than any. He is said to have had a deep devotion to the Czar and his family. As a private influence behind the scenes, his influence could have been more or less benign. But front and center, of course he offended the Russian Orthodox priesthood and faithful. He prescribed to a very strange Gnosticism, one full of eroticism. One of his mottoes: Sin greatly that you may be forgiven. An Antinominalism that reveled in the sweetness of forgiveness.
Janos,
…Rasputin…I read a book years ago regarding his murder at the hands of Yusupov and his group. It was reported that they…removed his manhood while still alive…supposedly also committing “The infamous crime against nature” on his person. (Reminds me of Ghadaffi’s end…).
The book mentioned that there was some old woman living in Paris in the 60’s that years before somehow obtained that member and kept the shriveled remains in a box, as a shrine.
There also has been a long standing rumor that John Dillinger’s member is soaking in a jar somewhere in the
Smithsonian…I didn’t see it when I was there, but who knows?
Finca I never found anything on Cohen’s wife and daughter being handcuffed for hours. Can you link it? But I did see where he tweeted a photo of his daughter in lingerie. That’s creepy!!!!
Rasputin existed on two planes at least. The key to understanding is in the eyes. Wild and wide in most every photo with a transfixing gaze. He was a very nasty and base man. A drunk and a womaniser. And yet, he was an empath and a healer. A man of mystery and mysticism. Possibly a genius?
Yet no one asks the essential question. Who is the Rasputin of the British royal family?
“The British royal family is on the same trajectory. Those who hate it no longer fear its power, while those who once loved it increasingly find it despicable.”
And those with more than two brain cells to rub together ignore this family of European inbreds and their soap opera and get on with putting food on the table. Pap for the masses. You should be embarrassed, Tate.
“Yet no one asks the essential question. Who is the Rasputin of the British royal family?”
Good. That would show an encouraging level of brain cells generally.
I would like to know who the Rasputin of the British Royal Family is.
If you follow Tate’s posts, SSL, it’s not hard to figure out.
The “Rasputin of the British royal family” is a person who has recently been admitted into that family who is disruptive by their thoughts, words & deeds (specifically their pronouncements on certain institutions of higher learnings) & who casts dishonor upon that family & the people who do respect authority — even in its symbolic form. In other words, the British royal family is a Dead Man Walking, though they don’t know it yet.
” In other words, the British royal family is a Dead Man Walking, though they don’t know it yet.”
Well I’m glad we agree on that, Tate – we could do with the money to spend on something more useful. They were dead men walking over the Diana crisis and the narrative is that Tony Blair saved the day (how desperate would anyone need to be?).
Thought crimes, though? Crikey.
The funniest thing is that you know what Megan Markle has said and I have no clue, because the popular press is out of my zone of consciousness and if anything on the matter came up on the news I’d be mentally filing my nails till something more interesting came on. And no, please, I don’t want to know. You got rid of your colonial masters and their royal fripperies, Tate. Enjoy. Don’t go back there.
Finca – we’ve already pretty much successfully established no one reads your long winded blather so please stop beating SSL about the head and shoulders for not knowing about some useless and probably erroneous scrap of fake trivia contained therein.
Cohen may have once behaved in a sleaze bag way on behalf of Trump but it was plain to see in his opening delivery today that he is
sincere, remorseful, and credible.
It takes a special degree of cognitive dissonance to think that his portrayal of Trump was false. Trump is a dirt bag.
Kid yourselves all you want, Mueller will have solid proof to verify every assertion put forth today by Cohen.
Was it last year or the one before that that all the actresses disgraced themselves wearing black? I have not seen a film for about four years, the last ones being Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, watching them on the telly with my teenage son, and both of which I had seen before. I think he went with friends to the cinema last year (or the one before) but I cannot remember seeing a film on in our house since then.
The first I ever saw in a cinema was Westside Story, which was very dramatic, in the dark, and all this stuff with young hoodlums out climbing wire fences around open-air basketball courts in the middle of the night. What was that all about? I still do not know but I know now that nobody knows, that it does not matter and nobody cares anyway. But it was a big deal at the time. They kept climbing up those fences while your man warbled about Maria. The worst was when I was twelve and they were showing Krakatoa East Of Java (the title makes it easier to find it on a globe should you ever need to look) with some kind of ‘surround sound’. I never thought the damn thing would ever end. Then there was that film The Song Of Bernadette (I think) about the saint from Lourdes who by the looks of it was born and raised in Kansas.
Growing up we only had two or three television stations and I sat through quite a few black and white films. I suppose I thought I had to do this because everyone else was watching them. I must not have had anything better to do, although there were a few that were good enough like The Maltese Falcon and Great Expectations. I liked The Conversation and those Swedish films, Wild Strawberries and Mitt Liv Som Hund. There was a good black and white one about Dunkirk too. Saw Mary Poppins in the cinema but Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was dull. For a short while I used to go into the Saturday matinee in Eltham for sub-standard westerns and all the children cheered the Red Indians and booed the cowboys. I imagine Nathan Phillips (the native ‘elder’ in the Covington Catholics story) picked up his ay-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya chant from one of these. Years later in Dublin a friend down the pub warmly recommended Dances With Wolves. That really was hilarious. I would say AOC would like it. Hold on, there were some proper comedies: Duck Soup and A Night At The Opera and Laurel and Hardy (although they were not really feature films). I used to enjoy the old Carry On films in parts. At university I enjoyed watching the old Ice Cold In Alex. There was a lot of hype then about a film called Alien. Well, that taught me a lesson.
When I first came to Dublin nearly thirty years ago I found myself watching an American film. I could not understand a word of what they were saying, it was all mumbling. I looked around and everyone else was rapt in it. I had a similar experience last year when I tried watching Spotlight on YT about the mythological Boston abuse case. That was as dire as it gets and I only lasted fifteen minutes. These cretinous journalists (who we should all know by now live in an alternative fantasy universe) were talking or mumbling to each other with their mouths full. Are they STILL doing this nonsense to prove their salt of the earth credentials?
And what on earth was The Deer Hunter supposed to be about?
I really do not see myself watching another film as long as I live. I hope not, unless I end up tied to a chair in a nursing home in front of The Sound of Music. I think Céline nailed it in his famous book, Journey To The End Of The Night, where the main character ends up in America, in a cinema, day after day, sunk in this strange fantasy world.
I also saw West Side Story in a theater when I was 7. I was surprised that gang fights involved so much dancing, but I thought maybe it was “just a New York thing”.
The Church is in shambles. Everyone knows that the so called Pope is an enabler of Homosexual Predators. Indeed, he has surrounded himself with such. But even he was forced to laicize his boy McCarrick. But he had and will have his revenge by making much sound and fury but doing nothing about the crisis. Indeed, he put one of McCarrick’s allies in charge of recent conference on sexual abuse.
He talk as if you know nothing of these things – and perhaps you don’t as your mind automatically rejects things it doesn’t like. You didn’t want to understand the dialogue in those movies just as you don’t want to understand the case against the Church.
Not He talk but rather You talk, you Sean Coal Man, head buried in the peat bog of denial.
Peat smells very nice when burned. How are the Peat bogs doing? Is it now forbidden to burn Peat because of climate change or environmental damage?
You are losing it Janos. Signs of mania here I think. How do you connect my post to the Church? I have explained the anticlerical witch hunt with facts and arguments to you ad nauseum and you should also know by now why indulging in lurid fantasies is bad for you, so I will pass on this one.
Watched an actual nominated movie. “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”, based on a true story. (Wiki it yourself, the whole synopsis is there.)
Really excellent, IMHO. What to do when in dire straits and you have a truly limited/self-limited skill set? Confidence games are probably constrained to the sociopathic. Open gay-ness, twinned with drug dealing is downright dangerous; be not deceived.
Not a story about the glory of empowerment or self-realization. The reality of life on the ragged edges.
I hope that JHK sees this one eventually, even though it gets tiring wading through all the crap-fests that are passed off as Art. 1.) It’s about a writer. 2.) It didn’t do mega box office… barely covered production costs. That’s usually the sign of a serious effort; sometimes you gotta *think* about the implications of what’s being presented as an “entertainment”. That (generally) is not too popular. 3.) Good writing. 4.) People dressed like they’re not about to attend Comic-con or upscale, political fund-raising cocktail parties. 5.) A treatise about deception, delusion, and believing what you want to believe and seeing what you want to see. That right there, is a good deal of what this blog (and a major portion of the intertubes) is about, now ain’t it?
I read the synopsis and it looks like a very interesting movie. It’s on Amazon no less so I can check it out!! Hard times can really mess you up. But it goes to show that people having hard times can sometimes make outrageous and dangerous decisions. Something that is worthy of a lot of consideration given that increasingly hard times will put more people out on the edges and in danger territory.
I saw it too, ozone – agree it was a really good film.
Also very impressed by Leave No Trace, which I saw recently on DVD.
Bastinda and her Flying Monkeys Continue to Dominate both US Domestic and Foreign Policy
This impression is formed after watching Sunday political programs. Even Putin’s statements, who directly warned the United States that they will receive blow in the face with a nuclear fist, if they continue their policy of the 1990s in Europe, did not become news worthy of analysis.
Moreover, Bastinda is not mentioned directly, but implicitly, the denial of her role in the fact that Bernie Sanders did not become a candidate from the Democratic Party does not allow Democrats to nominate candidates for participation in the presidential race in 2020.
And the need to answer this question is so great that failure to answer can be fatal to the Democratic Party.
Meanwhile, the Venezuelan adventure also turns out to be a continuation of her policy of provoking conflicts between the United States and Russia in order to make Trump’s accusations of collaboration with the “worst enemy of the United States” – it’s precisely this characteristic of Putin’s Russia that, as if on a hint, both Democrats and Republicans, united by support of Hillary in 2016, began to use.
Moreover, this formula sounded from each Clinton steam iron BEFORE the above-mentioned statement by Putin, so that the answer to the question of causes and consequences in this case will be determined by the primitive law of causality, and not by political considerations.
Well, her role in the Indo-Pakistani conflict was versed in the previous post, and in the next post I will try to analyze her role in the negotiations with Japan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqBrw3rQvKo
And poor old schlimazel Bernie is busy fundraising for Hillary 2020 – that is what his “run” for the presidency is all about.
You think so? I think you’d better adjust your dosage again.
That would be a dream come true if it could be so easy.
The 2019 Buick Envision
This ones for you, C-wolf.
A 22/29mpg suv made on China, exported to America. But all is not well in the Chinese auto market. The New York Times reports 24% of their production capacity is idle. Workers laid off. American auto companies are feeling the burn too. They stumbled and feel all over themselves to penetrate the communist dictatorship’s planned economy. Now they are getting a haircut.
They could pull back into America and enjoy some of the effects of the coming Green New Deal and $94 trillion in spending. Buick can make the autonomous electric wheelchairs for the geriatric market which is boom, boom, booming.
Sign me up! First manufacture that comes out with a supercharged scooter has got my business for life, or what’s left of it anyway. Had an old biddy up here a few years back that drove her Rascal – I shit you not! – right on the street around town like a car. Had one of those bicycle flags on the back end like they used to use way back in the day. The cops let the old battleaxe get away with it too. Temper like a fucking rattlesnake and built like a bear. I think she’s since moved on to the local corpse repository.
That is exactly the reason why Nio contracted JAC to build their SUV’s. Over half of their plant was idle, allegedly because they could not make engines fast enough, but it could be for the slow down you quote here. Who knows and who cares. It was brilliant, because they did not have to go through the production “hell” Tesla went through because they wanted to build their cars from the ground up. Imagine if they had partnered with a GM factory that was going to be shut down. Imagine the good will they could have generated. They passed. Musk may be a genius, but he has made some bone head moves. China is taking the lead in electric vehicles, and if they take the lead in 5G, they will leap frog America in AI and consequently will leave America in the dust. Trump, to his credit sees this coming, as do most of the intelligence agencies. It won’t matter. America is ensconced in petrol power. You see it here on this website. The defend petrol cars and attack electric cars. Why? It makes no sense, but it will act like an anchor around America’s neck, and Trump is not different.
$94 trillion. Sounds like a big number. 9.4*10^13 dollarydoos in fact.
Let’s treat it as a standard home loan. Amortize the costs over a 40 year spam. Carry the 1.
A measly annual payment of 5% of GDP, before projecting revenue prospects for beating the rest of world in technology to market. Anyone else got any big scary numbers?
AOC has got this. The Puerto Rican Eco-Terrorist correctly identified the Idea On The Shelf in the Ammo Cabinet of Capitalism which can solve a Big Problem. Kind of ironic, I will admit.
GreenAlba, we’re getting tangled up here.
You referenced pestis as causing plague and not witches. OK. Fine. The problem I have is with “settled science.”
To a lot of people the bubonic plague, which is caused by pestis, is synonymous with the Black Death of the Middle Ages. This is deemed “settled” in certain quarters. And all my seething is in reference to that odious term which by my reckoning is an indicator of a lack of intellectual vigor, mental rigidity, cultural decline, academic senility.
No topic, NOTHING should be out of bounds for revisiting and reconsideration. I want to see an energetic academy that doesn’t laugh at anyone and questions everything and challenges everybody.
And I must have read a thousand times that the Black Death of the Middle Ages was the Bubonic Plague. And maybe it was, but some researchers say maybe not, that Pestis may not have been the mass murderer that killed off half the population of Europe in the Middle Ages. It may have been a different bug transmitted not by fleas but maybe person to person. Or the mass death may have been caused by different bugs, for example pestis doing its thing in some places, hemorrhagic fevers doing it in others.
If there’s a reasonable doubt we should have a look at it particularly as living conditions and general health in large swathes of the formerly developed world is evidently declining ie flyover country in the US. I don’t think it’s too much of a stretch to say that the unhealthier people are, the more susceptible they are to infectious disease. The more we know the more able we’ll be in fending off a resurgence.
These diseases tend to hop across national boundaries given the prevalence of jet travel. If the Greatly Enlightened along the coasts think they’re exempt from the predations of these killers, that because they’re so very special these microbial killers will pass them by, that only the Deplorables of the USA and other places will die of it, maybe they ought to have a re-think.
Anyway, to reiterate, maybe to the point of being annoying, this was all in reference to the issue of what our intellectual magistrates and moral arbiters call “settled science”, a term which makes my skin crawl, with its connotations of “here be dragons” thought control. I don’t like it, I don’t like it when people try to pull rank and use it for the purpose of curtailing debate.
Humility is what’s needed. Do NOT be too confident of what we know. Reality is a prankster and if there really isn’t a sneering, malicious deity running this fold of the cosmos just waiting to pull a fast one, well, it looks to me that nature organized itself to make it seem that way.
Let’s not be cocky, we’re limited creatures by our senses and ability to reason and as such we don’t see the world with crystal clarity but as though through a glass darkly. Complacency is our enemy, we should be constantly struggling to see through that glass and understand better. Yeah, yeah, enough grandiosity for one day.
Eh… I disagree. We are limited in our IN-ability to reason and IN-sensitivity.
Humility has its place, but… When you are screaming through the heavens on your way to setting foot on the Moon… A rush of perfectly natural human emotion may be hard to resist. That’s why NASA selected a bunch of autistic nerd athletes for the Moon landing. Unreactive, analytical types. Even the monkeys were chill.
The modern practice of science is heavily dependent on statistics, which uses a “confidence interval” for estimating a variable’s dependence on the tested hypothesis. It works pretty well. “Confidence” in science isn’t an artifact of egoism, but process.
Just to be clear, it is a different species of confidence than say, the enthusiastic type which many rightfully enjoy, for example, when that feeling of statisfaction when reflecting on the fruit of all the hard work that revealed that Yersinia pestis WAS in fact the principle cause of thw Black Death and not the alternative hypotheses… Gay space aliens practicing witchcraft, or whatever the alt-reality crowd comes up with
You mean the space aliens are down with all this damn #metoo shit now too? AND witchcraft? My lord, what are our worlds coming too?
I’ll bet they’re still down with a Lil’ Deb’s after landing, though. Who could possibly resist?
The answers are classified although these tests may indicate something to you
http://de.openvms.org/martinv/pgg/08r/08r017.html
Europe for several centuries has not taken a bath
The history of Europe is the history of stench and filth.
In the most banal sense of the word. The stench pervaded the everyday life of Europeans. In this sense, the palace of Versailles smelled no better than in the hut of a commoner.
Why the Europeans renounced the Roman Thermae, and the Russian continued to steam in the bath. Who is to blame for the stench of Europe? or for the plague?
Patrick Suskind, author of the acclaimed “Perfume” (in the original “Das Parfüm”), was terrified by the stench of European cities: “The streets smelled of shit, the backyards smelled of urine, the staircases smelled of rotting wood and rat droppings; unventilated rooms stank of stale dust, bedrooms – with thick greasy sheets, damp spring mattresses, and the acrid sweetish smell of night pots.
Nice! Pure poetry today, Finc.
Hi Volodya
It’s been a long day and I think the discussion on Y. pestis has been had, so I’ll leave it alone! It was a throwaway example that seems to have grown bacterial legs.
Re epidemics we may fear now, especially as antibiotics lose their effectiveness and eventually disappear, I hope there won’t be a return of the most horrible diseases, like plague and smallpox (if an evil maverick releases the latter from its current scientific fortresses), but I’ve always thought that if I have to go before my expected time, because of TLE, which I don’t expect to survive more than a week if tap water and sanitation disappear, there are worse ways to go than the ‘flu, which used to be called ‘the old man’s friend’. Like being bludgeoned to death by the local protection gang when the police and judiciary have been replaced by the everyday psychopaths who are always waiting in the wings.
People talk glibly about having ‘flu’ when all they’ve got is a bad cold. I’ve had ‘flu once, 35 years ago. I was the first to be able to get out of bed after the antibiotics, but before I reached that stage, I didn’t have the energy to care whether or not I survived – and that was as a mother of a two-year old. If you really get ‘flu you don’t ever confuse it again with a bad cold.
Doctors used to say if you can see a £20 note (it was a while ago!) on the floor beside your bed and you are able to get out of bed to pick it up you haven’t got ‘flu. I’m sure someone somewhere will disagree, with an anecdote to back it up, but it’s just a metaphor. At my worst, I really wouldn’t have cared that much if I’d just slipped away. So, yes, there will be many worse ways to go.
My wife and I caught the flu over Christmas 1994 and as you say, this was no common cold. Colds come on over a few days but when we came down with this beast, it hit us like bag of rocks over the course of an afternoon. We went from healthy in the a.m. to death’s door by evening.
Some people think they’re being green or progressive or whatever by not knuckling under to the drug companies and not getting the measles, mumps, rubella vaccine. Well, I had all three when I was a kid and when there was no vaccine and measles was worse than the flu and mumps was no picnic either. I was sick as a dog and especially with the measles I would gladly have expired. I can see how people die of it.
If somebody dies from having an avoidable disease, when all it takes is a needle to not get sick, well, I would say that the average IQ just went up, and humanity was culled of one of its dumber members. If your kid dies from an avoidable disease because you didn’t vaccinate them, you end up wearing that for the rest of your life.
I don’t know what to say to people who don’t get the polio vaccine. I’m old enough to remember the aftermath of outbreaks. Really ugly, with kids in wheelchairs and leg braces. When the vaccine became available, people ran to get vaccinated. But, if somebody figures they’re more enlightened, then I guess they run the risk of death or lifelong disability. I don’t know who’s gonna help them get dressed and go to the toilet. Won’t be me.
There’s a lot of nasty stuff out there that people have forgotten. Remember diptheria?
February in London: temperature hit 70 deg F. Hottest since 1910. The definition of 100-year event will have to be recalculated. Or was warmer than the average summer day.
This year vast stretches of boreal forest will burn plunging some of North America’s major metropolitan cities in the kind of toxic smog we used to think only existed in China. A drought of biblical proportion will stun the midwest. Millions of acres of topsoil will evaporate and blow into the site carrying the toxic residues of 70 years’ accumulation of Glyphosate, Diazanon, and other terrible molecules, which will rain down on Dallas Texas, Columbus Ohio, and Nashville.
In the early fall a mega ‘cane will build and send a widowmaker straight at Warrington DC the city will evacuate in the face of the first category six. At the last moment the cruel beast will change course, hitting Manhattan with a storm surge so powerful Queens will make New Orleans in ’05 look manageable. The storm will weaken to category 4 by the time it reaches Saratoga Springs, still strong enough to rip the roof off the old rope factory and send it crashing into JHK’s chicken hutch. A total loss if uninsured, in other words.
SnakPak.
You neglected the rain of frogs and the stinging insects….
On the plus side, we lack the funding to tear all that decaying infrastructure down anyway, so win-win. Likewise the temperature. With rising temps we won’t need to burn as much fuel to keep people warm. Yeah, it will get a bit on the warm side in the summers now, but fucking whiners can’t have everything, now can they?
You touch on a couple important points here.
One, that infrastructure repair re-engineering can drive gainful employment.
Two, that same blighted and now demolished infrastructure has a chance to be totally redesigned.
and if I may,
Three, indicate that none of these consequences are unanticipated, and therefore, prudent to perform every action necessary to finally secure and otherwise render protection for the various toxic industrial sludge and waste facilities that are at risk of breach of containment.
Hurricanes will necessarily require corresponding massive federal spending. Lets DO this!!
Janos, yes, they’re still talking strings, but my understanding is that string theory is desperately short of testable hypotheses even if the mathematics is the last word in beauty. From what I gather the energy levels required are just too big. But I’m not a physicist.
Loop-quantum gravity is an alternative theory. Guys like Lee Smolin and Carlo Rovelli are working on that one.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-string-theory-science/
String Theory – throwing a shadow on a dead (stringed) hedge.
Somewhat similar to cold fusion, global warming (changing) and gauge invariance theory.
throwing a shadow on a dead (stringed) hedge
Kinda fond of that phrase, eh?
Too bad – it would tie in nicely with the Musical Theory of the Spheres a la Kepler et al. But whose is the Hand that plucks those strings? Ax not if you don’t want to know!
A great article about defecting Venezuelan soldiers. Really heart warming. All they have to eat of rice and beans. Not surprisingly their triglycerides are normal.
Upon seeing a bowl of chips and salsa, tears spring to their eyes. Latin Americans. So emotional!
And don’t get me started in quantum computers.
“And don’t get me started in quantum computers.”
Komraden Finc!
Nor the Chinese stated near-ability to detect submerged Ballistic Missile Subs via a quantum method from space….
It’s been “near” for how many years? Not unlike the “near” achievement of fusion reactor capable of producing net-positive energy.
The guys are just busy “appropriating” funds, and lot’s of em.
They are putting brakes on real, promising technologies and promoting BS green technologies capable of only one thing – making electricity and elementary comfort living unachievable for “deplorables”, just like they made the medical care.
Muzerfukas!
“Muzerfukas!
Komraden Finc!
Muzerfukas, indeed! I also read, a few years back, that satellites can actually track submerged subs by the use of lasers measuring very small displacements on the surface of the sea…sort of like detecting a rat passing through a snake….
Not to worry, however…just another rumor of American scientific achievement….
Or just as impressively, extrapolating conversations being held in closed rooms by similarly detecting laser visible distortions in the walls caused by the vibration of voices.
Secular – Does NOT Mean Atheistic
The experience of the Western Roman Catholic Church has clearly shown that the attempts of the church to appropriate the functions of the state really do not lead to anything good, neither for the Church nor for the state, therefore the Orthodox Church, following historical experience, never made such attempts.
Moreover, the understanding of the need for a clear separation of the functions of the Church and the state to prevent the Church’s secularization, even if the head of state and the majority of the population are Christians, has undoubtedly become part of the Orthodox Belief, and as such has received the expression Symphony.
On the other hand, the Church cannot withdraw from participation in the affairs of society, especially those associated with public morality, social policy, education, and charity.
Moreover, in modern Russia, after the collapse of the communist ideology, amoralism of criminal privatization and the terror of various nationalisms directed mainly against the Russians, Orthodoxy turned out to be quite influential for the majority of the population of the country, able, in cooperation with other traditional religions, to prevent the country from slipping into chaos.
What time is it?
https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/current-time/
I had some hope based on The New York Times reporting that Pakistan’s Khan, a Reaganesque figure if I may be so bold, insofar as he is or was an actor, might be exercising some restraint.
But it was not to be, and now reports are that dogfighting has ensued and expensive military jets are crashing to earth leaving ragged fireballs in populated areas.
2 Indian F16s shot down and a pakistani mig. Also an Apache helocopter (unconfirmed)
But who cares about that the real news is Michael Cohens appearance before Congress, ha!
Thats what Im talking about!
Brh
I wonder if it will be on ESPN tonight? Probably have to settle for lousy english subtitles for commentary. Still, it beats watching Premier League soccer reruns. Damn sissies!
Re Pakistan’s Khan, Snacks, he was a cricketer, not an actor.
Good one! Can’t catch ’em all… 🙂
I do not want a pardon for what I was and am
I won’t be reconstructed and I don’t care a damn.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkveQrTBFtU&list=RDHkveQrTBFtU&start_radio=1
I marched with Marse Robert last time around. He was all a Man can be and more. You simply have no conception of his glory and goodness, not none of you cept SSL.
I love this post so much. It makes me feel at home :-). Robert E. Lee was a real hero. He believed slavery was an evil that would end naturally because of Christian ethics. But he wasn’t about to let his home and people be attacked by the North without a big fight. And he was so balanced and dignified and solid throughout. And he was so decent and he spoke out for us after the war during the reign of terror. I love him.
I hope you can clog. When we reach the Inner World, we’ll head for the area settled by Confederate refugees. It’s close – right under our feet more or less. You’ll be my ticket in. Once they get to know me, they’ll understand I’m a confirmed Copperhead. And once accepted by a community, it will be much easier to be accepted by the Central Authorities down there and be allowed to travel freely.
Then we’ll head for the high Civilization the German National Socialists have built under the South Pole.
Lol I haven’t done that for a while! I was ok at it but not a superstar by any stretch :-P. I could hone my skills if I have to clog to get us into Inner Earth lol. I will vouch for you for sure. Being that you are really a Southerner in your heart. And yeah once we are able to travel and go wherever I do want to go to the cities under the South Pole!
Here’s a fast and happy one to practice with.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqNBegibH64
I love this band!!! I am glad you shared this with me :-).
I have the highest respect for him myself. He was honorable and a true gentleman. The respect he received from his scarecrow army was the real McCoy.
Robert E. Lee with no doubt in my mind whatsoever would have considered Donald Trump a despicable disgusting person but would have shown him the same respect as someone he admired.
Nicknames of Robert E Lee
Marble Model Nickname Given to Lee by his West Point Classmates, as he was the model student. Lee was the first student to ever graduate West Point without a single demerit.
Granny Lee In the early days of the War, the public viewed Lee as too cautious in battle, and gave him the name “Granny Lee”. It was this patience, wrongly interpreted as reluctance to fight, which enabled Lee to keep the Union forces at bay for almost four years.
The Great Tycoon Given to Lee by his Staff because of the authority with which he managed
The King of Spades Given to Lee by his soldiers because of his propensity to have them “dig in”. After the strategy led to crushing defeat of the enemies in battles such as Cold Harbor, it became a term of endearment to Lee.
The Old Man Term of Respect from the Men who fought for him.
Marse Robert Marse is slang for “Master”.
Bobby Lee Another affectionate name the Troops used for Lee.
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sonofthesouth.net
You are brain dead. Any man who could order Pickett’s Charge at Gettysburg is a fucking moron of a general. IMHO, it is the worst example of military leadership in a critical battle in history.
He felt he had to do something as the battle and war were turning against the South. If it had worked, he would have been extolled even more than he is now. Btw, he didn’t hate the Mexicans, even though he had fought them.
So he sent men uphill, without first securing his flanks, which were ultimately taken by riflemen, sharpshooters from Vermont and Connecticut I think, leaving his men caught in a crossfire- it was a fucking meat grinder. When a general gives an order like that, especially after his advisors told him it was crazy, he is never obeyed the same way again. He is done.
Yet his men remained loyal and his memory is revered to this day. You are a Pygmy, a very small Mexican hairless barking at the heels of a German Shepherd.
You are right they did. It’s called Lee’s Finest Hour.
Lee’s plan is for the Confederate bombardment to concentrate all of their firepower on a small clump of trees at the Union center where a small stone wall is, and an adjacent picket fence. Where the fence and the stone wall meet will become known in history as “The Bloody Angle.” The Confederate Army will charge uphill, over open ground, over a mile, under Federal cannon and long range rifle fire, in an attempt to crash the Union center, which Lee estimates is weak, and send the blue troops into retreat as they did on the first day of the battle. Lee has tremendous confidence in the idea that his troops are much better than the Federal’s are, having never lost a battle to them. However, the Federal center is held by General Hancock, a solid military man with veteran troops, and one excellent artillery officer, 22-year old Alonzo Cushing of the 4th New York battery, poised with his guns precisely at the convergence of “The Bloody Angle.”
Longstreet is aghast at the plan, and tells General Lee that no troops can take the Union center in a frontal assault, but is again vetoed by the famous man, whose bull dog determination has apparently clouded his military judgment. In defense, the best, in attack, prone to fantasy. But General Lee prevails, the bombardment of the Union center, and the clump of trees (still there today), begins, and continues for about two hours. Everything the South has in artillery is expended to make way for the assault to come. Thus comes about the famous “Pickett’s Charge.”
With his three divisions, General Pickett, who only goes halfway up the ridge, but within the range of aimed musket and cannon, and even is knocked from his horse by a concussion burst from Federal artillery, sends the Virginia regiments to their death, and the hopes of the Southern Confederacy are smashed once and for all by this attack. The Union soldiers, having prepared themselves during the massive Confederate bombardment, lay in wait behind the stone fence, and the picket fence that forms a right angle to it. They look on in admiration at the bravery and discipline of General Pickett’s troops – and shoot them dead with massive musket volley fire.
Of the 11,000 men who set off on this ill fated attack, over 6,000 are killed. At the height of the attack, Confederate General Armistead sticks his sword through his hat and screams for the troops to “double quick” rally around him. They are being shot to pieces from the front and the side by the Union troops, but rush into “The Bloody Angle” where they run head on into the two remaining working cannon’s of Alonzo Cushing’s 4th New York artillery. Cushing, a 22-year old commander with great skill, had taken a piece of shrapnel through the groin ( a fatal wound in itself that had not yet taken Cushing’s life ), during the Confederate bombardment, but had refused to leave the field for an hour, awaiting, at his guns, the charge he, and the Union Army knew was coming. He was holding his intestines in with one hand, and loaded his two cannons with double canister, requesting permission of General Hancock to remain on the field with his sergeant and operate the two guns.
General Hancock, who also suffers a groin wound moments later, but will survive to fight again, looks on with awe at the young New York Lieutenant. The Confederates pour into “The Bloody Angle” and Cushing’s two guns roar with double canister shot, six pound shotguns firing bullets, BB’s, pellets, nails, shrapnel, stones, wood splinters directly into General Armistead’s troops. The Confederates make it over the wall, but with insufficient troops to turn the tide, as Union reinforcements pour in and capture or kill them. It is known in history as the “High Point of the Confederacy.”
Cushing dies seconds after his two cannon volley fire breaks the rest of the Confederate lines, from a bullet through the mouth to the brain. Armistead dies four days later (he and General’s Hancock are personal friends). Thus ends Gettysburg, and the Southern Confederacy’s final attempt to win the war. Never again will General Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia go on the offensive, but two more bloody years of war will continue before his surrender at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia, in April 1865. Sending three divisions of his finest troops in a suicide attack uphill, in the open, over a mile, against the advice of his best General – Longstreet, to face massive Union musket and cannon fire is Lee’s fourth and final mistake at Gettysburg, a place he really didn’t want to fight at in the first place. What follows, however, is also known as “Lee’s Finest Hour.”
As the remaining troops retreat down the slope back to the Southern lines, General Lee rides out on his horse Traveler to greet them and cries that “it’s my fault, all my fault, I thought we were invincible.” His few remaining troops surround him and plead with him to let them try the attack again, confident they can break that impregnable Federal center, but Lee says no, continues to shout he is the one to blame, as his troops yell NO repeatedly. In the end, however, the Southern Army retreats at Lee’s order having left over 20,000 soldiers and officers dead on the battlefield known as Gettysburg. At what cost was this Union victory? Exhausted, the Union Army also left over 23,000 dead on the field at Gettysburg, which will later be enshrined in American history by President Lincoln’s famous Gettysburg Address. In all, Gettysburg cost both armies over 25% of their soldiers and attendant officers.
At the end of the war, Lee returns to Richmond, Virginia, where he is besieged repeatedly by famous photographer Matthew Brady to pose for a photo. He reluctantly does so, showing the strong determined jaw and face of a man who, although reconciled to the war’s end, could just as easily be persuaded to fight again.
He was so completely amazing its unreal. He was respected because he was honest and his words were gold. He knew when he messed up and he admitted it but he always had fight in him. It does make me feel like fainting.
Well you sound like you know of what you speak. Perhaps he was tired – the brain is after all a physical organ, and thus prone to fallibility past a certain stress point, no matter how indomitable the spirit.
Lee not all to blame for that decision. He was operating on bad intelligence. Nonetheless, it was a major blunder to engage the Union Army at Gettysburg. Had he taken the advice of Longstreet, the South may very well have been out of our hair now when it comes to elections.
The smartest and bravest confederate soldiers were always put in command and served in the front lines. After the many bloody battles often few if any of those noble junior officers survived and the next crop of bravest and brightest took their place. The war between the states was a horrific slaughter and when it was over, the cream of the Southern crop had been skimmed away. Yesterday at the Cohen hearing we got a taste of the consequences of what the dregs resulted in.
“…I hates the Yankee Nation, and everything they do;
“I hates the Declaration of Independence, too”
Janos, in the event you haven’t heard it, it was sung by Ry Cooder and was part of the “Long Riders” soundtrack….
And…the link;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvBCnHPM4Y
Not a bad version, but mine is superior because of its greater passion and hatred. Also its exquisite colloquial.
One of the great early racist theoreticians (either Lothrop Stoddard or Madison Grant) wondered why the South produced so many bad men, both there and in the West. Climate? Too hot for Nordic Whites? Isolation and racial degeneration? Maybe the simplest reason was the loss of the War, resulting in poverty and great cultural bitterness passed down thru the generations. And of course the Culture of Honor was already in place before the War and didn’t go away. Add that in.
I think it was the war. We can live in this climate just fine. But the war forever changed everything and resulted in mass poverty that we never got past. Even now we are behind and made fun of all the time. But I believe its gonna change one day.
There’s whole parts of the West where Southerners are accepted and Yankees looked on with suspicion. They Yankees didn’t win the Culture War until recently – and still not completely by any means. And in so doing, they’ve left a lot of their own people behind and bewildered.
One of the reasons I know so much is I have a married couple who are friends of mine. The man is named Sickles and I cannot remember Lisa’s maiden name. Anyway their great, great grandfathers met on the field of battle at Gettysburg, both as generals, and fought against each other. 4 generations later their great, great grandchildren married. How cool is that?
The acclaimed movie “Gettysburg” portrayed the battle plan and the dissent pretty much as you say.
Huh? I hadn’t read this until after my previous post. So I’ll repeat, much of the best of the Southern gene pool was skimmed away by the war.
The unintended consequences of making your best people the leaders in a mindless form of warfare where line after line of soldiers marched in lockstep into direct enemy fire.
Now it’s a matter of fact and law. Trump fraudulently won the election by concealing numerous facts from the American people including payoffs to porn stars and business dealings in Russia, dealings which he consistently denied to the American people. He is a fraud that fooled all of you. His student records, hidden to this day, prove he is mentally deficient. His tax returns, hidden to this day, prove he is beholden to Russia and no where nearly as rich as he says he is. All of his records are no where to be found. He promised them but never delivered them. Why? Because he is a fake.
Yeah, exactly.
He’s in my back pocket – texting every morning for instructions before taking a dump.
LOL! I suspected as much!
SeaWolfy’s getting to be a bit of a nut case with the same old bullshit everyday, ain’t he? I think you’d better share some of them sweet Caribbean sticky buds you’ve got with him, Finc. Might lighten him up a bit.
I only wish that we had done more hammering on Barry-O about his birth certificate and eligibility for the office and sealed records and drug use when we had the chance. Can you imagine how we would have been hammered by the Leftie Loonies if we did?
America, North Korea – Bhai, Bhai! (Friendship Forever!)
I have the impression that Trump fled to North Korea in order not to answer journalists’ questions about Venezuela, Indo-Pakistani conflict and his lawyer Michael Cohen, who testifies to Congress that Trump is a racist, a crook and in general, a very bad man.
And if Trump had a little exaggerated his friendship with Kim Jong-un before, now it is official – the United States, North Korea – bhai, bhai!
Rocket man to the rescue!
Any of you know who Rocket Man was? The one Elton John was singing about? Jack Whiteside Parsons, a disciple of Aleister Crowley and co-sorcerer with L Ron Hubbard (founder of Scientology) in the Babylon Working magic ritual.
Wow, they certainly do pump him up don’t they:
https://www.cbs.com/shows/strange-angel/news/1008613/strange-angel-s-jack-parsons-is-the-original-rocket-man/
Blew himself up accidentally with fulminator mercury didn’t he? It must have been hard on his Mother and his dog eh? Wink, wink…..
You are right oh wise one. The Bohemian Rhapsody is also about Parsons.
Walt is so straight that he makes Mike Pence look like a hippy.
Pence was even worse, he was a democrat and even voted for Carter:
“…a Roman Catholic and a Democrat. He volunteered for the Bartholomew County Democratic Party in 1976 and voted for Jimmy Carter in the 1980 presidential election.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Pence
Of course, to be fair I registered as a democrat myself in 1972 so that I could vote for George Wallace in the primary, because of his views on states rights verses federal mandates. I also consider myself a Kennedy democrat today (no, not Ted) but then JFK was a moderate which is even better than todays republicans.
I’m watching the Cohen hearings, and it looks like the man who would have the nation saved, is also looking more and more depraved.
There will be more hearings to come, the SDNY investigations are a potential disaster, and the shame of it all is that the Obama, Clinton, McCabe, Comey, Lynch, Strzok, Page, Brennan and Clapper clan are loving every minute of it.
Will the SDNY uncover crimes involving the Trump’s and Deutsche Bank? Regarding taxes? What else?
I think that us MAGA people should start looking for another savior. You know, just in case.
Trump may not only be toast, he may be the shit on a shingle.
Where would another savior come from? I have been told that saviors are a figment of my imagination.
I wish I knew, SSL. Trump may be the closest we ever come to one, but he’s in deep trouble.
How many times have we heard “Trump is toast”, TS?
Every week a new “Bombshell” that’s going to ‘take Trump out’.
This Cohen BS will be forgot about a week from now, until the Dems and their MSM partners cook up another narrative of slander and lies.
Brh
Well, TS, if you are right, we are losing the only soul who is fighting the globalist jerks that are trying to do all of us in. Cohen has not reported anything illegal yet. Impeachment conviction is still not possible.
Do you believe a convicted liar that will say anything to stay out of jail. I wonder if Cohen is going to pay for violating confidentiality with a client.
Guys,right, that’s why we have to find someone else. Bombs eventually hit their target. It’s not only about impeachment, it’s about re-election, perception, and tolerance.
For the most part I believe Cohen, just as I didn’t believe Trump on that plane. I Knew he was lying.
It’s a butt fucking stupid story. Who except Trumptards would believe it. Cohen takes out a second mortgage to pay off a porn star that Trump did not have an affair with, unbeknownst to Trump, and then after he wins pays him back $350,000 after he found out later on or as Trump said “Later on, later on I knew.”
Just as stupid as
Higher taxes help the economy.
Iran does not cheat on its treaty commitments
Global warming will be fixed by spending $94 trillion dollars
Black people love white people and show no racism.
Global priorities are more important than America
More immigrants make a stronger economy, less crime and lower welfare costs
Socialism is better than capitalism
We hate the Elites. ( you are the elites)
There are no illegal voters.
We want a handful of counties of irresponsible coastal cities to control the direction of the country.
Spending is good, debt is irrelevant.
We can live at today’s standard of living with no fossil fuels.
Twenty year old college students are wiser than their elders.
American history is irrelevant, the Constitution is evil.
Blacks deserve restitution.
Santa Claus is real.
The tooth fairy is Dwayne Johnson.
And you think Capitalism is better than Socialism. You just can’t seem to hold two ideas (and the set of facts associated with them) in your mind at the same time. Thus you can’t come to the resolution or higher third.
As if profit alone can run a Nation. It is preposterous.
Just the latest henchman in the DC civil war. I for one do not believe anything he says. Or what the MSM says, and he is just a shill for them.
What convinced you Cohen is telling the truth, his own admission
that he’s a liar, a liar already planning a book and film deal?
The only thing missing from Cohen’s latest fabrication are
Smollett’s two Nigerian brothers.
Aura. The perception of a poet, the mind of a mathematician, the apprehension of the artist.
I’m sad. I feel like there is so much deception there is no one telling us the truth in DC anymore. They live in a bubble that I just don’t understand or get. I guess it must be nice for them. I don’t like how they get away with everything.
It is sad, this reality we now face in this country. Very sad, and no doubt about it.
You have to be in and out of that world, can’t stay there too long, can’t take it too seriously even though it is serious.
We choose the worlds we live in. Find happy ones as I know you can.
Trump went to North Korea to engage the only friends he has left, Kim Jung Um and Vladimir Putin, who I’m sure will cross paths with him sometime. Then he can return to his Walking Dead constituency who cannot be killed with facts alone, but must be killed by tax increases, green initiatives, or horror of horrors, socialism.
TDS can work both ways.
Can you catch both versions, in turn? Then what?
Curveball: Trump likes Hanoi so much he sets up Foreign office and runs the country from Vietnam
An entrepreneural developer in the middle of a flood of progress in Vietnam, like a kid in a candy store.
As opposed to the entrepreneurial killers here in the US Left.
And this contingent will not be killed by any of your ideas. Because when push comes to shove, the idiotic ideals you espouse are going to be shot down, hopefully by the vote.
I find it hard to believe you are so dead set on destroying the American Constitution. The above changes will dissolve the country as the only thing holding it together is the Constitution.
What did someone do to you to make hate this country so much?
Donald Trump Jr.
?
@DonaldJTrumpJr
Imagine hating someone so much that you try to distract nuclear peace talks. That’s how sick the Dems are!
Donald Trump Jr.: Democrats Are Trying to Distract Trump in Vietnam Talks – They Hate President Trump more Than They Love America
This one is right up there with they hate us for our freedom.
“Ahh, the smell of freedumb in the morning… It smells like the Mekong as it passes, fragrantly, through Ho Chi Mihn City on a hot and steamy April day!
Ozone,
Like the Ganges, but without the charm….
They hate Trump because he stands against everything they are trying to accomplish. They hate Trump because their masters are globalists and Trump’s America First credo is going to destroy the globalists. The haters want to federalize everything, making a uniparty Government with them in charge. He stands right square in the way of doing that. They want to kill viable unborn humans, he does not. He does not want to play the divide and conquer Clinton Obama foreign policy, playing off people against each other, Trump picks sides and pursues definite objectives for America First. Trade policies are definitely America, First, he wants to bring industry back to the US. Fiat Chrysler is doubling their Detroit work force.
So yeah, they hate Trump because they want to change the American government to a socialistic, maybe Communistic form and Trump will block them in any way he can.
Clintonoids fucked up big time in Venezuela.
First of all, for the American oil industry. In response to the de facto blocking of Venezuelan oil companies accounts, Venezuelan oil flowed into Asia. Due to the sharp contraction of the market, heavy oil from Brazil and Mexico, always sold at a discount, is now worth more than premium grades.
Moreover, they cannot replace Venezuelan oil – the Venezuelan Merey variety is distinguished by lower sulfur content relative to Brazilian Marlim or Mexican Maya, and billions and billions of dollars are needed to reconfigure the refineries.
Congrats, idiots.
Easy come, Easy Citgo as they say in Houston
AOC, Pressley and Tlaib went after Cohen in succession. They were fairly successful in darkening the clouds over Trump.
And get a load of this:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-jr-retweets-praise-193213552.html
JS: Jared Kushner interview on Sky News: He talks about getting rid of borders in the Middle East in order to reestablish better ones.
What we focused on is not as much the issues, uh, which we are focused on extensively, but also what’s holding back the Palestinian people from achieving their full potential and what’s holding back the Israeli people from being able to integrate with the whole region. And I think if you look at this whole region today, you have so much opportunity, but you also have some major threats. So by bringing everyone together, we are hopeful that they’ll be able to achieve a new paradigm.
I think the economic impact could be felt throughout the entire region. By the Jordanians, the Egyptians, the Lebanese – because if you can get people we have integrated. The political plan, which is very detailed, is really about establishing borders and resolving final status issues. But, in order to eh, you, the goal of resolving these borders is really to eliminate the borders. And so, if you can eliminate borders and have peace, less fear of terror, you could have freer flow of goods, freer flow of people, and that will create a lot more opportunities.
JS: In other words, he wants to create a Greater Israel stretching from the Nile to the Euphrates as per prophecy and the Israeli flag. This is why Trump ran for office in all probability.
Et tu, Brute?
Are you really using that phrase correctly? Did I ever express support or liking for Kushner or his role in the Trump Administration?
Free Bill Cosby!
In his speeches, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. says that “all men are brothers”, and that “black people should never misuse power to abuse and humiliate the White Man” and that all that “the Negro wants from the White Man is his friendship and understanding.”
Before he died (or was assassinated? The Macedonians were big on assassination.), Alexander the Great was contemplating going West to smash nascent Rome and Carthage. Phoenician Carthage was a big pain-in-the-ass when Alexander the Great was trying to sack Phoenician Tyre in Palestine. Eventually, the Macedonians built a land bridge to the island of Tyre and raised the city and raped all of the women. I think that at that time the West was considered primitive and backward and that Persia and India in the East were where the action was? Eventually, it flipped to the West and then Rome and Carthage had to Duke-it-Out….. Eventually in the Third Punic War, the Roman General Scipio Africanus (for whom Africa is named) defeated the Carthaginians, raised the city, and raped all of the women.
Eventually, the US and China may have to Duke-it-Out. Dukes-of-Hazzard….
A scene from, “America Gets Fuggin’ Great Again”. (Working title, “Oscar Be-Shits Hizself”):
Quiet on the set!………….Roll sound………Camera….aaaand…ACTION!
http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2019/02/how-bad-can-things-possibly-get.html#more
And, CUT!…. and Print………..
Coming to a decrepit town’s sad and moldering little film festival near you (sooner than we’d like, and much to the dismay of duh chir’rens).
Not a pretty picture.
Was that fiction?
Now let me step out here and hang myself.
brh
BRH,
I have no freakin’ idea whatsoever!
Sure wasn’t close to “uplifting”, now was it? Youch! Shades of “Winter’s Bone”.
(Thought for a brief moment it was referring to Kunstler’s neck o’ the haunted woods.)
Watching the hearings today, I was struck by the fact that there was really nothing about Trump’s personality or behavior that I didn’t already know or suspect. The crazy thing is that he really has never bothered to try & hide who he is, either by word or deed, and still enjoys the level of support that he gets. The reason in most cases seems to be that people will overlook certain of his behaviors because they support some of his goals. Like the religious right, who don’t care about him fucking other women, as long as he ends abortions, or others who don’t care how much he lies & steals as long as he builds the wall. In that respect, the level of support he gets is unprecedented. He behaves in ways that would have sunk anybody else long ago. It’s truly a new era in politics, and a disturbing one. I suppose someday in a campaign, someone will be discovered to be a child molester, and a segment of the public will say: “Maybe, but he’s OUR child molester.” It will ever come to that, but you get my drift. For people to be as against corruption and rule by the oligarchs as most of the country is, it’s amazing that they will excuse the behaviors of these people.
never come to that. Sorry.
There is something that happens to people sent to Washington, DC. They convert to the Deep State and end up subordinate to the globalist financiers. Trump is accepted in spite of his philandering because regular folks know how rotten DC is. He does not stand out at all. People want results. He definitely appealed to the “silent majority” who do not give a damn about the playboy antics of anybody. His personal habits make no difference.
Besides with a divorce rate of greater than 50% and efforts underway to kill viable babies, who has the hypocrisy to criticize anybody. Something about glass houses.
Remember Whitebwater and other corruptions from the Clintons.
Never successfully pursued. You think Trump was any worse that the Clintons. No way! The people know this.
Adds brightness to whites.
Clean clothes for dirty work.
Its never to late to learne.
Kind to hands he protects the sensitive skin of babies.
Stronger than dirt.
Truly a miracle of mildness.
He makes the Windex Index. No streaking for him.
Winters Bone
That movie haunted me for about 2 weeks after I watched it.
Despite the grim aura of rural poverty and violence made worse by meth, there’s also hope too with teardrop playing banjo at the end and beautiful Jennifer Lawrence teaching her little brother how to shoot and other country skills long forgotten.
brh
Great movie. It’ll be close to that and worse by around 2075, excluding the usual Armageddons.
I just bought a DVD on your recommendation, brh. Bet you never thought I’d say that 🙂 .
I’d seen a clip ages ago but hadn’t got any further than that.
Have you seen ‘Leave no Trace’? PTSD Vietnam vet. and daughter living off grid. Also haunting.
Meant Iraq, not Vietnam.
Im not surprised GA. You seem like a fair minded person, but with strong convictions you are willing to stand up for.
Also, whether you realize it or not, you are a British patriot. Ive noticed any critical remarks of GB on this site, specially from us yanks, elicits a response from you, generally defending your homeland. Good on you fot that
Brh
I didn’t realise Leave No Trace is by the same director as Winter’s Bone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ca-P3bjq6x4
It’s beautiful – bet your wife and those sisters-in-law would love it too! I will watch it again soon. Such a change from blockbuster drivel.
Oil may go to $200 barrel in ten months:
https://www.pkverlegerllc.com/assets/documents/180704200CrudePaper.pdf
Hm, old news. Evaluate chart on pg. 26 and project prices to current.
Another prognosticator whistlin’ in the wind…
Today’s global consumption of fossil fuels now stands at roughly five times what it was in the 1950s, and one-and-half times that of the 1980s when the science of global warming had already been confirmed and accepted by governments with the implication that there was an urgent need to act.
MAGA people must see what’s coming and prepare. With the most viable Democrat running in 2020, Trump is almost certain to lose the election.
Dems are already working Michigan, Penn., and Wisconsin, three states and 80,000 votes that gave Trump the victory.
He lost the popular vote by 3,000,000.
He’ll lose at least that number of defections.
The Mueller coup will prove to be successful because of the Deep State, our Democracy, and spineless Republicans.
Here’s a taste of Cortez, from today’s hearings:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/questioning-cohen-ocasio-cortez-focuses-on-potential-trump-fraud-230101073.html
Trump is dead, he just doesn’t know it yet.
His throat is now cut, and the remainder of his term will be spent bleeding out.
Be prepared. Adapt. We have almost two years to find another Savior. Yeah, that’s right, who ya gonna call?
That demands a clusterfuck classic:
“Water, water, everywhere,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink.”
The poet did show it.
You struck a chord as the water poured and gurgling sounds were heard, and I hope you weren’t laughing as you so ceremoniously observed.
Who? You of course. Your powers of analyzing the current situation leave us no other choice.
Ahhh, wisdom dwells within you, you are succinct, and also correct.
But the crown is heavy and I too light. I couldn’t weather being tied to that tether, I would fall….. like a feather.
Cortez was absolutely brilliant today!
Brilliant to look at and brilliantly intelligent in her use of the five minutes she was allowed for doing the wet work the ugly republicans refused to consider.
Lol like totally brilliant. She is rich anyway so it’s all a game and vanity. She likes hearing her own valley girl impressions. She should donate all of the millions she is raking in from Netflix to the Treasury.
SSL – You embarrass yourself with such a weak sappy reply.
What a putrid attempt.
Wouldn’t it be better for you to remain silent than to expose how banal your thinking is?
Ah haha I embarrass myself? I think you need to review your posts and call me back.
I don’t normally take part in these conversations about OAC – or even DJT. But I’m curious to know your estimate of her wealth, because I’ve just looked it up and have been vaguely comparing it to that of my own daughter who’s a nursery nurse (early years learning assistant). Currently, if you take the positives and negatives into account, the nursery nurse wins. But I’ll wait to hear your estimate of her wealth and your sources.
BTW…
https://www.politifact.com/facebook-fact-checks/statements/2019/feb/15/facebook-posts/no-netflix-did-not-pay-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-10/
The important bit:
“The story quickly spread on the internet, and somewhere along the way turned into Ocasio-Cortez getting the full $10 million “payout” from Netflix.
“Ocasio-Cortez does not own the film, and thus, cannot be compensated by any company for a distribution rights deal.”
Oh, yeah, ‘the internet’. Again.
“Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.”
And don’t make me quote Luke 10:25–37.
I see some prayers coming up, SSL 🙂 . But you’ll be forgiven.
Fake noooooooz.
And please don’t take anything I’ve said about AOC’s supposed wealth to mean anything about my endorsement or otherwise of any of her policies and then call me crafty or slippery if I deny espousing them. I get rather sick of that kind of devious behaviour on here.
I say what I say, not what people want me to have said. And I don’t accuse people of being ‘wealthy’ without checking. And not on some dingbat website for the already converted.
Of course Alba. You would never jump in at all would you :-). AOC is doing much better than most of us – check it out. Wow who would have thunk a nursery nurse would be making six figures. That’s freaking awesome!!!
https://www.financialsamurai.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-net-worth-is-higher-than-you-think/
A by the way. It’s our money (not yours) that is paying her six figure salary. Something many Americans will never see but who cares right. She is the latest incarnation of the goddess or something.
And on the Netflix thing. I am happy to admit that I am potentially wrong. However, you seriously believe that proceeds from the sales of the documentary that go to “non-profits” will not make its way back to her in the form of bribes and kick backs???? You don’t know nothin about American politics.
This was one of your more out there statements on this thread…
“I’m sorry you are so far behind, but hopefully you do not have too many women so desperate, so uneducated as to be unable to support themselves, and so lacking in dignity and self-respect that they are willing to debase themselves before swine.”
You are so rude to him and to me. I am not happy with it at all. It hurts me but I am glad you feel great!
“You would never jump in at all would you :-).”
Not on AOC – I think it’s the first time I’ve mentioned her name. And I rarely mention G3.
“Wow who would have thunk a nursery nurse would be making six figures. ”
Your homework for today is to research the difference between income and wealth. My daughter works three days a week and I imagine her hourly pay is around £15. But she owns half her flat.
And doesn’t owe $50K in student loans.
“You are so rude to him and to me. I am not happy with it at all.”
Nobody mentioned you. If you identify with women who allow ‘men’ to treat them like dogs at a training class, then I have more sympathy for you than I did and I’d offer to find some helpful telephone numbers for you. But it is not my understanding that this is the case.
And if Janos believes in treating women like dogs in a Pavlovian experiment, he is exactly the toad some of his other opinions suggest he is. And if you admire that, what can I say?
I was never that great with homework so I didn’t get it. I trust that your daughter does not make as much as AOC though. Which is totally understandable and where most people are.
The whole Janos/woman thing is a big sigh for me because I feel like you know what you are doing but you don’t want to admit it. Sorta like how you called me a slut on a previous thread in a way but not really. And very publicly you did that. I have thick skin though so it’s all good and I still like you because you can be fun too.
“The whole Janos/woman thing is a big sigh for me because I feel like you know what you are doing but you don’t want to admit it.”
Please clarify.
“Sorta like how you called me a slut on a previous thread in a way but not really.”
Please provide a link to that, otherwise what you are doing is outrageous.
I don’t doubt AOC has greater means at her disposal (as opposed to assets) than my daughter. That much is obvious. And if she doesn’t have the same modest assets as my daughter now, she very soon will have, once she’s paid off her student loan, shortly after which any comparison will be a joke.
You said she had made ‘millions’. I have no particular interest in AOC, but what you did was not to argue against her policies, which would have been fine, but to denigrate her as some kind of attention-seeking super rich kid pretending to be poor.
I get that you don’t like her or her policies but all you need to do is stick to the policies. It’s what you want people to do with Trump.
Well clearly he is not that bad if you are always trying to reason with him. And you often say the most horrendous things about him and/or any woman who gravitates to him. So like Janos and I get along and when you say how low a woman would have to be to choose to be around him you can obviously see why it makes me not feel good. I mean like implying I have no dignity or self-esteem. Actually he has made me feel better about myself when I’ve been down before. So maybe you pick and choose what you are seeing?
The slut reference was referring to when I had made the comment that some posters have a lot of audacity criticizing Janos, Tate, malthuus, revilo, etc., and I referred to them as f*cking spiritual leaders and sages. And you responded to the effect of…I have no idea who you are fucking SSL but good for you if they are spiritual leaders and sages. I hope you are getting some of that tantric stuff I have heard about…. I know it was a joke but it kinda embarassed me. As if people around here don’t have enough to say about me.
And AOC is not super rich but she comes from a wealthy family. She is now doing well herself. She needs to dispense with the underprivileged persona. But you are right. I don’t need to denigrate her. Hopefully she would feel the same about me.
Right, let’s get the irony bypass issue out of the way first. No harm to them, but like I said, many Americans don’t do irony, which is fine. But it means they take things literally which aren’t meant literally.
And people who don’t do irony are generally not going to get puns (jeux de mots, as our French cousins say). Some people don’t like puns – lowest form of wit and all that. Also fine. Squeeky gets it – she thinks it’s a personality thing she and I share. She uses them prolifically in her poems. We see unintended linguistic jokes and we assume – clearly wrongly – that other people see them too, at least if nudged.
Now, it’s always painful to have to explain a joke, and a pun isn’t any different, but needs must. So, when you said people were acting like they were ‘fucking spiritual leaders and sages’ my pun-brain saw ‘fucking’ as an adjective rather than a qualifier and punned itself into a sentence where you were saying the people you were denouncing were having sex with spiritual leaders and sages’. Haha – well clearly not. You’re either that way linguistically inclined or you’re not.
It had nothing to do with you at all – it was a joke intended to draw your attention to the unintended pun – but I do see that you are missing a facility with language play that Squeeky clearly shares with me. So I won’t make any jokes of that ilk again. I’m sorry for assuming perceptive linguistic skills that not everyone shares. And that’s not a putdown – some people have fun with language itself and others don’t. Consider it a pathology on my part and you can feel better.
But I’m not apologising for any kind of insult that I didn’t remotely send your way. Most people would have figured out that the phrase, if it wasn’t a joke, was a complete non-sequitur or entirely meaningless, so would have queried it. If you’d done so at the time, I’d have explained.
Gawd, that was hard work…
“And Jesus said “Neither do I condemn thee; go,and pun no more.” ‘
I’ll deal with the other bit separately.
Having just reread your post, which I skimmed far too quickly, I see that you did indeed get the joke. So I am now mystified that you could be embarrassed by it when you knew it had no personal content whatsoever. I didn’t know you were so puritanical. Sorry.
You were unfazed by Janos’ story about the couple having oral sex in the street – in fact you wanted me to feel warm and fuzzy about the romance of it. So I remain confused, but will stay away from jokes when I’m anywhere near one of your posts.
And what you accused me of above was calling you a slut, which is quite a bizarre accusation if you are claiming to have got the joke.
Thank gawd we’re at the dying end of this thread and it’s Friday.
Right, on to Janos.
It’s been weird watching two mutually unknown online entities flirting with one another on a discussion board, but whatever floats your boat. I’d say that was even weirder than making puns on one, but that’s just me. One does often want to say ‘get a room’. But moving on…
‘Any woman who gravitates to him’? That would be you, SSL. Just you. Other women might agree with something he’s said, which is fine, but the gravitational ethereal-love-force thing only applies to you, as far as I can see. Perhaps I’m missing something.
The trouble with playing online dance partner to Janos in this way is that you find yourself then feeling unjustified empathy regarding something someone says to Janos which has nothing whatever to do with you. So you make assumptions you have no need to make. I tend to leave people to fight their own battles on here, even when they’re a person I mostly agree with. I might add a relevant comment to the thread but I’m not going to go in, guns blazing, like a noble defender of someone else’s integrity, because that would be patronising.
The thing is, you don’t even know who you’re talking to. More than a few people have surmised that the Janos entity is not a bona fide poster but a provocateur paid to attract certain types of extremist to the site to discredit it. Some weeks it seems to be working well as a tactic.
But let’s assume, for the sake of argument, that Boston Boy is for real.
“and when you say how low a woman would have to be to choose to be around him you can obviously see why it makes me not feel good”
Now, words matter to me. So I like precision, and when someone’s sending an accusation my way I boringly insist upon it. For what it’s worth I think a lot of what he says about how he’d ‘manage’ a woman is nothing but Walter Mitty-type fantasy nonsense. He insists women really, really want to be with men exactly like him, and yet…
What I actually said above referred very specifically to the morons whose credo includes training a woman like a dog in a Pavlovian scenario. Janos comes into this because he provided the word for the technique and explicitly endorsed it. And by endorsing his endorsement, you seem to be endorsing it as well. I very specifically said in a post above that I don’t believe you personally are in a demeaning situation of that sort, but you seem to have deliberately ignored that bit. I don’t think you’d let anyone do that to you – I hope you wouldn’t – so I don’t know why you’re defending it.
What is described in the credo I quoted verbatim from the website in question is not love or anything remotely romantic. And it is certainly not healthy. It describes an ‘agent’ who very specifically does not love the person they wish to control. Control, in adults, is the opposite of love, and it doesn’t matter whether the person exerting it is male or female.
The situation in question describes an exploitative arrangement by which one person grooms another to service the needs of their ego. And I repeat, such behaviour, in my country, qualifies as emotional domestic abuse. ‘Coercive control’. Grooming, as I said. And it’s a criminal offence.
So you can be manipulative if you want to and try to pretend I’m insulting you, but the fact remains that I’m taking issue with Janos’s explicit endorsement of exploitative grooming behaviour. You can endorse it yourself if you want to, but don’t twist it into some kind of personal insult so that you can be offended.
Often when women find themselves in coercive situations like the above – and a minority actually do – it’s their friends who see what’s going on and they are the ones who try to help them see what’s happening to them and to re-assert their individual rights and personality. And, if possible, escape.
I hope you would do the same for a friend of yours.
When it’s the other way round and it’s a male victim, it can be complicated because men tend to be ashamed of letting someone do that to them so they hide it. But it does happen. However, it happens way more often the other way round, for obvious reasons.
And, as I said before, it’s likely that the majority of ‘men’ who write this crud on websites are losers who wouldn’t know a girlfriend if one fell in their soup. They don’t emerge from the darkness (any kind) for long enough.
You are going way too far Alba as I said I got the joke. But why would it surprise you that a person may blush or be a little embarrassed to be the brunt of a joke. That does not mean that I am puritanical. It was a reaction on my part within the moment of reading it. That is about it. And that is why I stated to you in the very first place that I FELT (not knew for sure) that you kinda were implying I was that way but you didn’t come out and say anything overtly offensive to me. And I did not accuse you of offending me with that post but I did just mention that I have thick skin. And in fact I made it clear that I don’t have any kind of hard feelings against you at all and find the banter that we have back and forth often times to be fun. So I would hope that you do not feel that there has to be this massive change in your conversations with me as I do enjoy joking and having fun. I suppose I could learn a bit about having fun with the English language. Admittedly I did not do that great in my English classes in school. I am sure you have noticed that. But it doesn’t mean that I am incapable of understanding. And I suppose you are correct. I should have mentioned that knee-jerk feeling to your post at the time it was posted and not at least one thread but I think maybe two or three later. At least here I did mention to you what you posted on this particular thread that made me take pause.
And several people here have accused me of being a paid provocateur. To that I can only LOL and say hey, please do hire me! I would love to make a little extra money. And unfortunately that is not the case at all. As I have stated ad nauseam here before. I am simply one individual who has come to enjoy posting here and interacting with others. If that is not what we are doing here then what the hell are any of us doing online? Please let me know because quite frankly I don’t understand why people are so freaking paranoid of others. If I don’t want to believe what you are telling me they can pay you a million bucks and guess what – I am still not gonna buy what you are selling. Apparently people are concerned that somehow these imagined paid provocateurs have a direct link to their brainwaves or something. Anyhow, I don’t think that of Janos and if it is the case then at the end of the day oh well. I suppose I do in many cases agree with his alleged paid for positions and opinions. And to be fair in going back to that specific Pavlovian reference that started a lot of this. Didn’t you notice that he actually stated that he does not have much experience. How humble of a man to even say that. Most men like to brag about how many women they have had. He did not. He simply said many guys he knows say those techniques work. And guess what. Women play many games and do many things psychologically and emotionally to get men to do what they want. You have to know that. Have you not done some of those things yourself??? So if we have a more complete conversation on the matter we would have discussed both sexes roles in doing such things.
SSL
My joke had no personal butt at all, but if it seemed that way, you have my apology. It was entirely impersonal. Why would I say such a thing in a personal sense? I know nothing about you other than what you have disclosed, and from that I’d take you to be the polar opposite of whatever people consider a slut to be. Somewhat like myself, but young enough for it to matter.
And I don’t consider even the inference that someone might be having sex with someone (shock, horror!!!), tantric or otherwise, to have anything to do with being a slut. What does that even mean. People have sex. They always have done. Yawn… as they say. Cheating bothers me, because I value honesty and loyalty above most other things, but people ‘having sex’ is of no more interest to me that people eating their dinner.
“And guess what. Women play many games and do many things psychologically and emotionally to get men to do what they want. You have to know that. Have you not done some of those things yourself??? So if we have a more complete conversation on the matter we would have discussed both sexes roles in doing such things.”
Yet again, I’m sorry you seem to have missed the bits – more than one – where I said exactly that. I even mentioned there was a particular problem with men being open about it. But to pretend the problem specifically described in the quote from the website isn’t primarily a problem more commonly to be found in the other direction is disingenuous, women more commonly being dependent on men, for good or ill.
“Have you not done some of those things yourself???”
No. For all my many other sins, playing games to get what I want from other people isn’t part of my personality. I mentioned before on this board that my husband said to me, not long after I met him, that I was the only person he knew who didn’t use other people to get what I wanted – either that or one of the few people – I can’t remember, but I think it was the first.
I have no idea what prompted him to say that, or the kind of people/women he’d been used to in the past, but I take it as a compliment, albeit not a very glamorous one.
Re your other post, I don’t consider that you are a paid provocateuse. I was referring to Janos. And I don’t know whether he is or not – nor do I spend any time thinking about it – but some people do think he is. What can I say?
To follow up a little further.
A great stupidity to think trying to frame the question to be about the fake wealth the websites for the gullible claim she has is relevant to the performance of this scintillating new political star.
With more skill than the rest of the entire house panel she provided enough fodder with the information elicited from Cohen to ensure Trump will fighting a desperate battle to stay out of prison until the end of his days.
As the big phony failure returns from his dismal klutzy dance with Kim I wonder if he is thinking it is time to drop some bombs somewhere. Could get tense.
“Scintillating new political star.” LMAO.
Here’s your other favorite, Evelyn, Nancy Pelosi. She has literally lost her marbles. Can’t string three words together.
http://www.theamericanmirror.com/video-pelosi-sputters-while-denouncing-wall-stammers-through-constitution-claims-presidents-day-to-celebrate-martha-washingtons-birthday/
Our Founding Mother? LMFAO
The usual ploy of stoopid rednecks. Avoid confronting the issue by trying to throw sand in the eyes. What a dipshit.
I’ll try to help you, Evelyn.
1) Turn off your TV
2) Throw away your newspapers
3) Find Tom Fitton on youtube
4) Listen and learn
It will be tough, but on the plus side, you’ll be less of a moron.
I listened to him. You are right, I am less of a moron. But I’m a much bigger idiot.
For the more intelligent CFNers the Russia farce was plain to see from Day 1. Two years later and you duped, spiteful automata just keep doubling down. It’s incredible to observe. You can’t come to grips with it. You’ve learned nothing.
“Cortez was brilliant today” — Evelyn
Well, we know she likes hamburgers. Who doesn’t?
Brh
People vote their interests. The candidate that talks about breakfast, lunch and dinner as opposed to trannies, gays and climate change will lock up the election.
The Republicans found this out in the last set of primaries. They’ve been talking patriotic crap for decades, telling people that it was their patriotic duty as Americans to submit to destitution because America was all about “free” markets and if destitution was what a free market came up with, then destitution was what a good American would live with, without complaint.
When Trump said bullshit to all that, he won the Republican nomination.
The Democrats and Hillary touted a panoply of discontents, few of them connected to what ailed people the most. Hillary lost.
It was never obvious to me that Mr and Mrs Lopez, who have got a sketchy grasp of English, three low paying and precarious jobs between them and four kids in a crime infested school, want to hear about anything except better paying work, curtailing gang activity in their ‘hood, cleaning up the kids’ school and getting reasonably priced health care (if not a single payer system). All the progressive, weirdo, nuts ‘n sluts sex agendas are for shit to people who exist on the economic edges. Gender fluidity? I don’t think so. Two dads? Get the fuck outta here. Two moms? Can I watch?
If the Democrats don’t smarten up to this, they’ll lose again in 2020. All Trump has to do is to be seen to be stickin’ up for the little guy – Hispanic included. Wouldn’t kill if he learns to habla espanol, at least a few words. Melania too. She’d be probably more adept than him.
Freeland’s Book “Plutocrats” is a bit of a disappointment as Freeland seems to be a bit of an apologist for the Plutocracy of today. For example, she says that unlike the Guilded Age of the late 19th Century, today’s new Guilded Age plutocrats (like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Paul Allen, etc.) “work for a living”, and they are not “Rent Seekers”. I was hoping to get a sense of the Plutocracy as an Oligarchy in control of society and its instruments of control.
Chrystia Freeland
Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else
Eventually, the Patricians monopolized all positions of power depriving the Plebeians of any voice even including in the Plebeian Assembly, and Rome devolved into an Oligarchy.
“A day will come when sacred Troy shall perish, And Priam and his people shall be slain.” Homer
Mike Duncan
The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic
Pucker. I think you have been listening to too much NPR. I’m worried. Next you’ll be telling us that Theodosius was a key Montagnard.
Get some sleep eat well and stay off the net for a few days. Maybe a good children’s book an dinosaurs can get the noggin rolling after a brief respite. It could do you good.
Reboot!
JS:Judge rules that male only draft is unconstitutional. Women are freaking out – realizing that equality has a down side! We warned them, but we don’t care any more. Check this guy out: The Shadenfreude is dished up hot and spicy. Angry? Oh, that doesn’t even begin to cover it….
Re: Heh at WRSA, and the federal ruling that a draft of only men is unconstitutional, we saw this shrill bleat that such manifest fairness is unfair go unanswered:
It is interesting to read the comments on this subject. It seems most commenters would enjoy seeing their young women getting drafted into combat, getting killed or mutilated, and many call women by vile profanities. Only a few men like you hold the line in your own lives and resist the temptation to bitterness and self destruction.
It seems that few WRSA readers have the foresight to see that the enemy has already set up residence in your head and wrecked any future you could have had in a decent, moral society if you take joy in the thought of having your own women forced into combat, killed or mutilated.
Hey, hold my beer:
Dear Lori,
1) Shells that landed inside your perimeter can be assumed to be aimed fire. Welcome to combat. It’s a bitch like that.
2) “Their” young women? Ha! “Your body, your choice.” Wait, what?
People told you for fifty years that if feminazis wanted to push for military service equality, you’d get it, good and hard. Welcome to the party, pal. The federal courts just punched your equality ticket. Enjoy combat. I hear it’s a peach. Bummer you can’t change biology, huh?
That rustling sound is your chickens coming home to roost.
3) “and many call women by vile profanities”.
Sorry, I couldn’t hear you over the sound of the caterwauling about toxic masculinity, rape culture, and 57 other flavors of anti-man feminist horseshit polluting the culture for 50+ years.
Men built the culture and the civilization, and even gave the Sisterhood the very equality they’re now enjoying, and all the Sisterhood has done with each expansion of that equality is squat and shit harder on men in general, and in specific.
Imagine a sentence that begins with the word “Go”, and ends with “yourself”, and see if you can cleverly supply the missing four-letter verb that belongs between the imperative and the object in that sentence.
Some of us aren’t holding the line, we’re holding our sides while you get your equality, good and hard, just like you bitched, whined, moaned, and pussy-hatted for. Wasn’t you? Go bitch at three generations of bull dykes in congress, et al, whom you let do your talking, and voting. Now you’ll get to enjoy feeling like men do when the military draft makes them Fate’s bitch. Legend has it your gender has some experience with that, so all y’all should take to this like a duck to water. Pisser about how heavy the packs are, huh?
4) “bitterness and self-destruction”.
Really? You mean after watching generations aborted in their millions, women en masse making sport of degrading, deriding, and ridiculing men as a gender, for decades, we’re not already seeing the root of that bitterness that lead to civilizational self-destruction? On what planet? Maybe you’ve noticed the growth industry of importing women from foreign lands as yet uninfected by the American Harpy Disease as brides here, who have still some wee notion of the eternal sense of division of roles by gender, courtesy of biology, and who’re not afraid to be mothers, while resisting the asinine fairytale notion that you can “have it all”, instead preferring marriages that endure, and motherhood in a two-parent traditional family, while resisting the perennially failing idea that you can skip those things, and have an endless parade of penises, and a career, and then squeak out a child as an artificially inseminated career woman, with Government as the Baby Daddy, because Gloria Steinem lied it into truth.
5) “It seems that few WRSA readers blah blah blah”…
No, sweetheart, the enemy has been sitting in residence in our institutions. Perhaps you’ve been asleep for fifty years. Men have not.
They’re tired of being accused of rape every time some drunken bimbo has buyer’s remorse the morning after. Or makes a story up out of whole cloth for a shot at a payday.
They’re tired of having no say about an abortion, but being saddled with full support for any baby delivered.
They’re tired of being saddled with paternity in a marriage despite that fact that up to 30% of all births within wedlock (itself a vanishing fraction of total births) are actually bastards sired by sluts catting around on the sly.
They’re tired of women yammering for equality, then treating husbands and fathers as disposable, after garnishing their paychecks for anywhere from 18 years to life.
So how about some more actual equality:
A baby isn’t your body. So from now on, no abortion unless the baby consents to it as well.
Good luck with that one.
Child support is 50/50. Women will be henceforth required to submit child support payments to the state in escrow. Women who fail to pony up the same amount as the father will be declared unfit, lose custody, and be imprisoned. Welcome to Deadbeat Mom status. Sauce for the gander.
No spousal support. You want spousal support, stay married. Divorce is henceforth a declaration of a desire by the filing party to be self-sufficient, entirely on their own hook. Alimony is hereby reset to $0, in perpetuity, in all cases. Each party departs the relationship with what they came into it with, and 50% of all joint assets produced during the union. And nothing more going forward. Now you’re equal. You don’t get to marry and divorce your way to an endless monkey-branching half of every man’s paycheck as your lifetime pension plan if you don’t honor the “until death do us part” section of the oath.
False and unsubstantiated accusations of rape, battery, or sexual harassment will be mandatorily prosecuted, with non-negotiable sentencing of the guilty equal to the highest sentence allowed for a man convicted of the same crime. Plus civil damages and loser pays lawyer fees. Due process is a thing again.
Three false accusations of same will constitute Three Strikes, and lifetime incarceration.
Aw…too soon?
6) “wrecked any future you could have had in a decent, moral society…”
Stop, you’re killing me, and my sides hurt from laughing.
Look at teen pregnancy, the number of abortions, divorce, out-of-wedlock births, shacking up, marital infidelity, and every social pathology traceable incontrovertibly to single parenthood (read single motherhood), and tell we where is that decent, moral society you’ve fantasized. Maybe among the Amish, or back in 1950. No one’s seen it hereabouts for decades.
7) “if you take joy in the thought of having your own women forced into combat, killed and mutilated”.
Apparently you’ve missed those same men, in droves, warning you that’s exactly what you were going get if the Sisterhood kept pushing this anti-biological codswallop contrary to reality forever that women are physically equal to men, and missed as well exactly the commenters you deride (hard to break old habits?) tell you until their tongues had calluses that 99% of women don’t even belong in the military in the first place, and never have, let alone within a country mile of combat duties, because there isn’t 1 in a literal 1,000,000 women who could even pass the physical.
And that it’s going to get women and men killed and maimed when it’s tried, and on top of that, cost us a battle, a campaign, perhaps even a war.
But the Womyn Of The 21st Century are immune to such facts, logic, and millennia-long biological realities, and aren’t having any of it, because the Sisterhood has pink-pilled them into oblivion chasing exactly this nonsensical fairytale nightmare.
If all we had to do was draft the lot of you, and kill and maim you in the literal millions to finally eradicate the error, I’d happily see an entire generation of lunatic women dismembered and slaughtered, just to see the pitiful few croaking and bloody survivors come crawling back to common sense on their bloody stumps, and let us try again societally in 20 years with generations yet unborn and untainted by the poisonous nonsense of retard feminism.
It would be a bargain for everyone but yourselves if the inevitable bloodbath only looked like WWI trench warfare, and wiped you out to the last lip-quivering Wannabe Combat Barbie.
And since that appears to be the only way 99% of you will ever wrap your empty, ungrateful heads around reality, the day cannot come soon enough.
Pucker up and kiss the pig you’ve been applying lipstick to since the 1970s.
You chose your date for this prom, and now you’re all about to dance with the partner that brung you to this point: a civilizational death wish.
Skip to my lou, baby.
Full gender equality, at last.
While biology laughs her ass off at you and the insane Sisterhood who wrought this (99% of whom will never bear the brunt of this asininity which you foisted upon yourselves), and the Gods Of The Copybook Headings sit in the wings with their pens ready to tally up the cost of reality coming so late to your empty heads.
Some lessons leave a mark. Fortunately this one will.
Western Rifle Shooters, regular columnist named Aesop
As I have stated repeatedly, men and women were designed to work together not to fight one another for dominance. There are no winners in war and here is the proof. How bad is it going to get for them once the flanking assault from Sharia Law comes at them as well? It is not good, not good at all.
I read that myself other day on WRSA; good on you Vlad for bringing it over here.
Reading it, I remembered this fact from the first Gulf War: when 2 US Army female soldiers were captured by the Iraqis, they were both gang raped, however, not executed. In any future major conflict, multiply that by 10,000, with the attractive girls going to officers quarters to serve as concubines, and the less attractive girls being passed around amongst platoons of enlisted, a 21st century example of soldiers pay.
That’s the way it is. It’ll be a hard lesson to learn.
Another thing that will happen is that early on female soldiers will quickly try to get pregnant to get out of deploying to Asian or Eastern European battlefields, but not quickly enough, and they’ll be shipped overseas just a few weeks pregnant — when shrapnel or 30 cal bullets rip into them it will be 2 casualties, not 1.
On another note, from todays WSJ, Watching the Gauges
US oil demand last week: 21,470,000 bpd
Oil imported: 8,000,000 bpd
SPR: 1,250,000,000 barrels
Brh
If your numbers are right and my math is correct, that give us less than 6 months until SPR depletion, no?
Science is in the front row. The essential duties of the back row do not require numerical accuracy. His numbers can’t be right as the amount of coal or oil exported did not make it down from the back row. Road noise from the open window must have masked them out along with the names of the two women in his Boudican claim.
Kdog i got that information about the two women POWs from Navy Times, which I subscribe to. They were not named for obvious reasons.
Brh
Walter, 6 months if all production and imports ceased immediately, which seems pretty unlikely.
Kdog those were figures lifted from todays WSJ. If they are true or false i have no way of knowing.
Brh
Damn! That was really rough. And it makes me feel scared for the future.
Janos,
“Aesop” has his own blog…the Raconteur report…many good rants in the past and no doubt, many more so to follow. “Aesop” was military, but has spent his last decade or so as an emergency room orderly/nurse.
And…the link;
http://raconteurreport.blogspot.com/
Bastinda, a Song in Issacia and Negotiations in Vietnam
I will start from the end:
Donald Trump, Kim Jong Un fail to strike deal, call off nuclear weapons talks early
https://www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-says-apos-no-050100013.html
And this, in my opinion, unequivocally suggests that the negotiations were really interrupted under the fire drill because something happened compared to which, if not an exchange of nuclear strikes between the USA and the North Korea, then the increased danger of such an exchange combined with the abandonment of ALL PR benefits of the summit in Hanoi seem to be a minor trouble.
And this assumption is something more than a hypothesis, if you simply list the news that arrived yesterday in the news feeds without even discussing their plausibility:
1. The “Economist” magazine, which in Russia is considered to be the bull-horn of the Planners and who 5 years ago actually gave a go-ahead to the coup in the city of Kiev, finally flew over the Cuckoo’s nest and began to publish vulgar jokes instead of its usual political propaganda
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2018/12/13/michael-cohen-was-sentenced-to-prison-for-things-he-did-for-his-boss
2. The assumption expressed in the previous post about Bastinda’s involvement in the Indo-Pakistani incident, was confirmed, and this in turn confirms the obviousness, which is psychologically difficult to believe, namely, that she, feeling the future loss in the geopolitical game, decided to go for broke and slam the door behind her.
3. The assumption of the construction of a transcontinental railway from Osaka to London and Cape Town, which was to become the main alternative to the Chinese New Silk Road, as the main goal of the peace treaty with Japan was also confirmed.
And this, combined with Ivanov’s very harsh statement that there are no negotiations on the transfer of the Kuril Islands to Japan, does suggest that Bastinda’s plan “B” is the World Economic Crisis, compared with which the 2008 mortgage crisis, which Bastinda also provoked by refusing as the Senator from the state of New York the financial help to bank “Lehman Brothers”, will seem just a fight in a children’s sandbox.
4. Indeed, looking at the world map and seeing how Ukraine, the border of Kosovo and Serbia, in Libya, in Syria, in Iraq, in the Persian Gulf, in Venezuela and in the Indo-Pakistani state of Kashmir, simultaneously flared up, then it becomes clear that removing taboos on the use of nuclear weapons and even against each other by the members of the British Commonwealth of Nations can easily cause an economic crisis and the collapse of the “Anglo-Saxon world” under the rubble of which the dollar will die forever, and those who bought the paper denominated in dollars will suffer the most, not having sufficiently large reserves of gold.
5. Moreover, taking into account Brexit, papers denominated in pound sterling and the euro will suffer even more than the dollar that provoked the collapse.
Make a barrel of oil and kilowatt-hour your reserve currencies, and thanks to Chubais, who prepared all rednecks so well from his point of view for such a turn!
6. And only Japan will be all in white chocolate!
Will Hillary perform for all of us the Nazi song
Bye bye Empire!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML–h2YV9Ho&t=45
Finc – I’m not going to criticize or praise what you write because I don’t know what it says, never feeling up to making the effort to read it.
But I would be curious to know if anyone, just one person besides you, ever reads your long winded babble?
Anyone who does give a shout out. I’ll be perfectly happy if lots do, I’m just curious.
Rest assured, they read – I know. You do too.
Well I know I don’t so you get a big zero on that matter. Waiting for some supportive shout-outs for you.
He, he, you just did.
* crickets *
You mean GA saying she use to scan it now and then. Good on you for being willing to settle for crumbs.
I used to scan them sometimes, Evelyn, but that was a long time ago. Now even if there’s something claiming the British royal family are divine monarchs or the City of London is a separate country from the pavements right beside it, I remain in ‘what-ev-ah’ mode and it just blows off the periphery of my consciousness like tumbleweed. I just can’t go there. And the coloured projects make me want to chew my own arm off.
I take this as a shameful personal failing on my part, obviously. No offence to Finca.
In his speech, “The Three Dimensions of a Complete Life”, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. says that there is glory and dignity in labor no matter how menial and lowly, provided that the laborer performs his job to the best of his ability. Dr. King says that all work is equally valid regardless of its level of intellectual difficulty. Unfortunately, this speech was delivered in 1967 amidst a manufacturing economy and pre-dates the present IT digital economy which places a premium on a very high IQ.
Technology and Globalization have engendered a Plutocracy that does not give a Christian Rat’s Ass about the dignity of Labor.
Therefore laborers must insure that their children learn first of all, how to grow their minds, before their backs go out.
…or by unmatched Liza Minnelli “Money makes the world go round”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIAXG_QcQNU
Cortez was absolutely brilliant today!
I can’t say anything about that pony show – there is nothing to analyze – everything was primitively disgusting.
The most interesting thing is that the Republican congressmen shined like a polished dollar.
It ain’t easy to get a well used piece of paper to shine so I get your point.
Do you think an attempt will be made to contact the schools that Cohen
testified he’d written letters of intimidation to in order to conceal Trump the hypocrite’s probable mental deficiencies? Just think, if they do and it turns out Cohen was the liar that those braindead republicans all sang about in their rehearsed one note chorus, that would put Cohen in even more jeopardy. Low hanging fruit for those fools to pick if they believe their own fantasy that nothing Cohen said was truth.
I have to admit, intense stupidity gets me worked up and after seeing so much of yesterday from the republicans and frankly one or two of the democrats (for different reasons) and then to come hear and still find it echoing around from the likes of you makes me crazy.
Curiously, they called him a liar constantly, but believed him when he said he saw no evidence of collusion with Russia. Funny how that works.
I’m not sure what I think of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.? I think that he was a sincere, True Believer. I think that he believed so hard that he was literally trying to become a Miracle incarnate. But I just don’t believe in Miracles. I’d like to believe in Miracles. I’m sure that these Christian preachers have deep seated desire to gratify the People’s need for a Miracle? But, I suspect that if you scratch the surface, Dr. King was just a Man with a Man’s foibles? In the back of his mind, Dr. King would have known this.
So you didn’t mean it when you said you heard that voice in Latin in Italy I think it was? And also when you saw that staircase on the mountain in Burma? That wasn’t true either?
From a Gnostic perspective which considers material Reality Evil, isn’t Satan therefore God’s manifestation in the World? If so, there would be a Spiritual dimension absent Miracles?
Satan is God manifest in this World?
If so, this is, at best, a very paradoxical and perverse Miracle?
I suspect that the Masonic Founding Fathers may have been Masons? I suspect that the Masons were Gnostic?
Tricky tricky you are! You answered me with six questions lol.
Satan is a metaphor for mans’ ego. We all have to exact same problem to solve upon entry into this illusory reality we are born into.
Dr. King said that “the Arc of History is long, but it bends towards Justice.”
Even Dr. King was a captive of his Times in believing in the myth of perpetual upward progress and material improvement in Man’s condition.
The Arc of History is Long, but it bends towards Justice…until the bottom falls out…. Life is Tragic….
It must be really weird being one of these Christian preachers? Every Sunday the same faces show up looking for inspiration, looking for Hope, looking to shore up their wavering Belief System under attack by an immoral, depraved consumer society. And the Preacher must think to himself: “What bread can I give these wretched souls to sustain them? What new words can I speak to inspire them? If only I could give them a Miracle, then they would all Speak-in-Tongues and go spiritually Ape-Shit.”
Many of these Christian preachers must be under tremendous pressure to Deliver.
All they have to do is simply read the scriptures to the people. The Holy Spirit will do the teaching.
We would all be a lot better off if they just did this rather than teaching the “doctrines and commandments of men”.
Miracles frighten the clergy.
Think about it. Every day congregants are showing up, saying, “Monsigeneur, I prayed day and night to the virgin and the sores went away. Es dios espiritu Santo!” The poor Bastard leading the flock knows what he’s preaching is errant bullshit. Once God apparently favors one or the other apparently equal congregants, the whole illusion begins to crumble. They think, “why her and not me?” necessitating months of damage control and canned sermons about mysterious ways. And that’s the best case. Because there is always 1 in 1000 truly “touched” individuals about to burst from the crowd babbling in tongues. One in a thousand of those is a true Charismatic, and a better persuader.
As you can see, my insights in science is matched only by my insight into religion.
Follow Li’l Debbie, my children, into the light .
The “Light” as in luce, luchem, Lucifer?
Oh yeah, whatever, Walter. Whatever.
You remind me of the Pied Piper Captain Planet. Playing your flute getting us all to skip and hop down the road with you. But where are you taking us?
elysianfield said. “Druid, Then that which we cannot imagine must be magic?”
No.
And magic translates to religious faith?
No.
And the certainty of faith regarding our scientific ignorance demands no further study? You are the one to appeal to #SettlesScience
Of course not. “ This intuition is not a proof of course, or even a strong indication, but as a bald postulate, the idea is as solid as any other.”
#SettledScience
Well Druid,
“Irreducible complexity” demands then a “bald postulate”? One could suggest it demands “more study”?
The “bald postulate”, hung with the armor of religion, does not necessarily promote, and sometimes retards violently, the demand for “more study”
#settledscience
“settled science” = weasel phrase
“#” = Twitter hotlink
Combine them both and what do you get? A Dog’s Breakfast of confirmation bias and pure ignorance.
This is pretty well in agreement with Mathis. He is simply saying the same things I’ve been saying except now it is about scientist establishment hierarchical wealth [ power ] transfer. Babylon is fallen.
I just like the term “Dog’s Breakfast”
It was used by SJ Gorsuch again in deliberations. In this case, about the mess of jurisprudence surrounding issues of the separation of church and state.
The case heard was about a 40 foot tall cross erected at a monument for WW1 soldiers that has been standing for over 80 years.
Various speculations were of course discussed in the case. One pointed out there is a framed Ten Commandments in the building
A Dog’s Breakfast, so help me God
Hey Elrond you out there? Looks like there’s trouble above the Timber Line:
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/justin-trudeau-faces-calls-to-resign/ar-BBUcCnQ?li=BBnb7Kx&ocid=mailsignout
Looks like it may be time for you Lumberjacks to pull a Trump of your own, eh?
Canadian Broadcasting is reporting the birth of sesquizygotic twins.
Authorities have sent mounted police to prevent the villagers from throwing the demon spawn in the well.
Wonders and signs, Li’l Truthy, wonders and signs.
Yes, Walter B, this has been all over the news up here for the past several weeks. For those not in the know, the Globe and Mail newspaper reported a few weeks ago that the demotion of former Justice minister, Jody Wilson-Raybould, to Veterans’ Affairs minister happened because she had resisted pressure to go easy on SNC Lavalin. They’re a big engineering company who are being prosecuted for engaging in bribery, and other forms of corruption, in projects overseas.
Wilson-Raybould testified to a House of Commons committee yesterday. She basically confirmed what everyone suspected: the Prime Minister’s office and others had pressured her for several weeks to drop the prosecution, in favour of a deferred prosecution agreement. A DPA is a way for prosecutors to let perpetrators off with a slap on the wrist, because the defendants are politically privileged, or they’re just chickenshit prosecutors who won’t risk a tough case. Pretty clearly the former, in this case.
Pushing Trudeau as Liberal party leader has been great branding for the party, and even better branding for Canada on the international scene — until now, that is. Unfortunately, a strong brand won’t make up for the fact that the Liberals are as corrupt as they have ever been. One of several reasons why I vote Green!
Perhaps the politicians can make their lives easier and do what ours did, make bribes and corruption legal and acceptable.
“… why I vote green!”
He just can’t help himself to a big plate of sanctimony.
What a tedious human being.
I’m sorry but sometimes the way you say things just makes me giggle and I do love Elrond but still this was a funny post.
I have question for any of you MAGA zombies.
Do you think mister grade-flunkie-intimidator would have the guts to grant Cohen a presidential pardon.
Cohen said he wouldn’t accept it. Go ahead Trump, see if he is bluffing, you fraudulent cheater – man who now knows taste of Korean piss in the mouth.
Flunkie ?
Yeah a flunkie who arguably made a billion in the competitive NYC real estate market, then got himself elected President of the US.
What a moron the guy must be.
Brh
It does say a lot about the moronity of his party and the people who put him in office. Don’t leave out the moronity of those who ran the only candidate he had any chance of beating.
But now that we know a little bit more about how you make your moral judgements, who did you admire the most – Bernie Madoff or Trump? Trump’s wealth is unknown, possibly fake, Madoff really did have the do re mi in his equally filthy hands at one time. Who do you admire more? Fool.
You sound like the smartest person on this board, Evelyn, a part of the resistance and down with the struggle at the same time, a true revolutionary. Take it to the streets, right on!
To pick up an earlier thread, when they start drafting women, the ardent feminists at Smith, Vassar, Bryn Mawr etc, what do you think, they’ll be the first to go, and volunteer for infantry? And fight alongside men in the trenches? Will you be signing up?
Brh
The Israeli’s found out women in combat wasn’t such a good thing. When the men the opposed they were fighting against women they went into macho overdrive and fought harder and more doggedly.
I would fight in a just war but there hasn’t been one in my lifetime.
Comanche’s were the equal and superior to any horsemen in the history of man. Comanche women were almost as good as males in some cases. The Comanche dialect was Shoshone.
…theY opposed FOUND OUT they were…
That is actually awesome Evelyn. You should do that or be that way if that is what you want. But it doesn’t mean we all have to do that or want to.
Evelyn LARPing as Katniss Everdeen makes for fun reading, but we all know deep down women have no business in combat.
Get your ass in the kitchen until instructed otherwise.
Boy, do I hate this.
End of the world scenarios abound in the movies and TV. Zombies are going to take over. Etc etc.
However, Is there a undercurrent going on that is inspiring all this.
AGW is going to affect a certain percentage of humans. It definitely will change national boundaries as arable lands changes locations.
But only a percentage. Some people will not even notice.
Fossil fuel depletion is going to change the life of every human on this planet. Everything we purchase, everything we eat, everyway we transport, involves fossil fuel.
Fossil fuel depletion buts us back into the 1800’s. JHK’s logo shows it well, a car being pulled by a horse. His comment about urban planner building walkways by the rapid transit projects for the horses that will be pulling the trains.
Fossil fuel depletion will be signaled when the first time they cannot pump enough to meet demand. Then watch out. Saw a prognosticator earlier predicting $200 oil, soon. I hope that a shockwave like that does not happen.
Anyway, one thing that deeply concerns me is the idiots in DC. The abrupt changes coming from AGW and fossil fuel depletion will need to be addressed by those idiots in DC and their handlers the globalists.
Boy, am I pessimistic. These people cannot find their ——- with both hands. AOC trying to deplete fossil fuels in twelve years, intentionally. She is literally out of her mind with Liberalthink. Kunstler stated somewhere that a fossil fuel less society will only support a billion people on the planet. What the hell is AOC going to do with the other 6+ billion people?
Is the free market responsive enough to adjust for the changes coming? Not with the Deep State in charge. Is socialism and possible totalitarianism the only recourse to keep humanity from plunging into chaos? It is disconcerting to think so but???
Janos, you wrote a tome earlier on the coming effects of the ascent of the Harpies. Well done. I wonder how many women really want the societal male responsibility? I wonder how many would like to tell the Harpies in the Deep State to just shut the ——- up!
Yes John thank you. May I take the microphone to express my feelings? Thank you so much.
You stupid fucking harpies shut the fuck up!!! Thank you and you’re welcome. (super duper smile and curtsy) [Claps/Applauses]
Now back to Janos’ porch for some gold ole fashioned clogging
I give a rebel yell
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/videos/category/history/what-did-the-rebel-yell-sound-like/
A Rebel standing tall and proud! I swoon and must fan myself with my lace white hand fan.
JohnAZ, I agree with most of your speculation about the consequences of climate change. As far as what to do with the other 6+ billion people, I suspect that for once the Republicans may be right: The free market will take care of that problem.
A question for the troops.
Cohen is ratting on Trump to the Congress. Okay? What is the responsibility of Cohen with respect to confidentiality with his client, Trump. Is he committing professional suicide with what he is doing?
One thing I absolutely do not believe is that he is doing this out of benevolence for the good of the country or anybody. He is either really POed at Trump for something, or someone is paying him a large amount of money to do it.
I prefer the latter explanation.
He was disbarred this yesterday morning wan’t he?
Think a bit more, John. His back is not only against the wall, it’s almost through the wall. Cummings said he would nail Cohen to the cross if he were still lying. If caught he would face more jail time.
Cohen’s smart enough to know when the game is up. The fixer sees the big picture. Some say he’s going to do time for the slime.
Cohen came across as utterly sincere. He was a good person snared by his own personal ambition and greed who against his nature allowed himself to be captured by the glamor he felt suffused in when Trump picked him as his boy.
He knew he was on the road to hell but like many of you MAGA zombie’s couldn’t pull himself out of it.
I would bet much that he is sleeping better now than he has in a long while, albeit probably apprehensive about what he faces in prison.
He is going through a tremendous cathartic experience but has new hope he will find redemption.
You phony ass so called christians have no clue what I’m talking about, do you?
Why pander to Christian beliefs and morals when you think it is all a bunch of BS? Playing your psychological games again Evelyn? When you have a catharsis and become immersed in the Christian experience lets get back together to discuss.
“Why pander to Christian beliefs and morals when you think it is all a bunch of BS?”
This question and other varieties of it imply that non-religious people do not have morals and do not make moral choices in their lives.
So, for instance, I’m more Catholic than the pope when it comes to e.g. lying, or cheating on income tax (which I could easily do because I don’t earn enough for the Inland Revenue to have time to have the slightest interest in me and check what I actually earn).
Lots of us have morals that are either as strict as yours or even stricter, on particular issues. Just because we don’t buy into the supernatural aspect of the matter doesn’t mean we’re not moral.
Good gawd you folks are dense. You can be damn sure anything inherently good in man’s nature has got nothing to do with the so called xian experience.
Do you honestly think your christian god is down with your allegiance to a lying, hypocritical, adulterous, narcissistic, moloch who tears children away from their mothers and plunges them into a whirlpool and darkness, fear, and pain while at the same time exudes contempt for anyone else on earth who fails to…ah forget it. I’m sure you do think YOUR god is that fucked up.
I don’t doubt that Alba. I never assume that people who are atheist or non-Christian don’t have morals and values. My point to Evelyn is that it makes no sense for her to discuss Christian values with people she perceives to be of Christian faith or culture because she has such an anti-Christian bias and hatred really. It prevents any real conversation and breaks down into rants and diatribes as you can see below.
Or above in this case. You know, left right whatever lol.
And Evelyn don’t act like I am being unreasonable or dramatic. Your statement is filled with both. It’s absolutely horrible for a mother and child to be separated. It’s also absolutely horrible for a mother to intentionally place her child in harmful situations. And Barry O was the one who started separating children from parents (both real and alleged) and puttng them in cages. Trump ended that policy.
And remember, he said that the Russian Collusion is simply nonsense. And don’t forget (when people get like this, they simply have no memory of what they said a second ago), you just said he “came across as utterly sincere”.
A scum sucking lawyer sell out for money John? Who’d a thunk it?
The sanctimonious congressmen grilling Cohen, any of them ever pay off any bimbos? We need all personal attorneys of all DC political scum to get on the docket and spill the beans about their clients lives, every raunchy salacious detail.
Let all the dirty laundry be aired, not just the presidents.
Brh
Trump still stands tall in Alaska, after Cohen takes the fall. He gets three years while Trump may get another four. Takes three bullets for the POTUS. But this is the problem:
https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/watergate-master-manipulator-spots-republicans-100853055.html
Netanyahu leans on Trump and Putin:
https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Netanyahu-to-the-Nation-You-need-me-Analysis-582101
Trump believes Kim, as he does Salman and Putin in these matters of death:
https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/28/politics/donald-trump-otto-warmbier-kim-jong-un/index.html
Oh, and credit to AOC the other day for questioning whether people should have children in this overcrowded, polluted world considering what they’re about to face. Echoes this blog, doesn’t it? Weasels in government, speak up! Face the facts!
From dust thy came, and to dust thou shalt return.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-demolish-trumps-border-wall-prototypes-san-diego-154446388.html
Trump’s wall prototypes BITES the dust, the BIG dust, and good fucking riddance.
Don’t gloat for too long. The flood will consume you too. For a half brother you know can be so mean to me. And after all I have done for you!
Should the bitch meet the blade?
ttps://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/hunter-shamed-posting-photos-trophy-kill-behavior-mentality-deplorable-213257059.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/hunter-shamed-posting-photos-trophy-kill-behavior-mentality-deplorable-213257059.html
The link needed the h in it 🙂
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/hunter-shamed-posting-photos-trophy-kill-behavior-mentality-deplorable-213257059.html
Nothing wrong with hunting for food but I don’t know if it is appropriate to be posting happy pictures with blood on your fingers. I hope she planned to cook mountain lion steaks otherwise a kill for the thrill is cruel IMHO.
Oh sorry you fixed it before me – just trying to be helpful :-P.
In this day and age, food or survival is okay. I often think about hunting the hunters, especially the poacher types.
Alot of people would like you if you did that. But I don’t want you to get in trouble!
Dr. King’s egalitarian Christian social philosophy of “Brotherhood” is interesting. It is diametrically in opposition to hierarchical social relationships of the ancient Persians or the Confucians who emphasize ritual and proskynesis (“Kowtow”). Westerners find kowtowing very offensive. When the British first confronted the Qing Dynasty, being asked to kowtow to the Chinese really pissed off the British. You don’t want to offend the British. The Americans pissed off the British with the American Revolution and the Battle of New Orleans and the Brits later settled scores by helping to engineer the US Civil War to regain control surreptitiously over the Americans. You don’t want to Fuck with these people.
Chinese Communism is a perverse notion of hierarchical egalitarianism, a bit of a “Brain Fuck”….
I guess that Communism and “Cultural Marxism” are a “Brain Fuck”?
You could go live in a society where everyone is “Brain Fucked”?
Didn’t the guest Interviewee in JHK’s recent podcast say that “since 9-11 American’s brains have been broken”?
You could go live in a society where the people have “broken brains”….
Talk about going ape!
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bullied-british-bonobo-finally-begins-integrate-finding-cougar-girlfriend-eight-years-senior-114042793.html
Have you ever noticed that American politicians generally, like Trump, Cortez, Pelosi, Pence, Bernie Sanders, Hillary, Mitchell, that Asshole from South Carolina, etc., are basically Caricatures? Hillary basically flunked out of the legal profession after a stint as a partner at a third rate law firm in Little Rock Arkansas after she got knocked up by Co-partner Webster Hubbell. It’s like a bad movie….
I read in the book “Plutocrats” that James Comey has a $3 million house in Connecticut. Nobody seems to notice….
It’s like a bad movie….
Yeah, it is. It’s called The Devils Advocate – inspired by Hillary early career.
Actually, a pretty good movie.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devil%27s_Advocate_(1997_film)
What town?
In 1975, Hillary Clinton – then known as Hillary Rodham – taught at the University of Arkansas School of Law, where she founded the University of Arkansas School Legal Aid Clinic.
It was during this time that she defended Thomas Alfred Taylor, a 41-year-old man accused of raping a 12-year-old girl – that was depicted in the movie The Devil’s Advocate.
Baloney.”The Devil’s Advocate” is about Allen Dulles and the law firm in New York City called Sullivan & Cromwell. Allen Dulles is John Milton. It has as much to do with HRC as a leech has to do with medicine.
I guess that’s how she got on the Watergate committee.
The Reason for the Breakdown of Negotiations in Hanoi Became Known
Russia, Syria demand U.S. withdrawal from Syria
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-02/28/c_137855779.htm
And since Russia is directly interested in the success of the negotiations between Trump and Kim Jong-un, after visiting a number of forums, I would venture to suggest that intelligence information about preparations for a repetition of the attack on Russian citizens in Syria, similar to the attack on Russian “mercenaries” on February 14, 2018.
Those “mercenaries” who were so polite in the Crimea, but then this event did not receive proper press coverage in order not to provoke the very war about which Bastinda so wants to moan her next “WOW”, and now preventing the recurrence of this situation urgent and personal participation of the American President is required, albeit at the cost of failure of negotiations in Hanoi.
Judging by the expressions that the Jerusalem Post uses to describe this statement, the word “ultimatum” is more appropriate.
https://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/Russia-and-Syria-tell-US-forces-to-leave-Syria-joint-statement-581890?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&fbclid=IwAR3iPhSTuC1OxfGNcgGOjczbEO7PImfYFOSod4FC7_G50rJwbtolx6LOLcg
Cohen came across as utterly sincere.Evelin
Republican lawmakers ask Justice Department to investigate Michael Cohen for perjury
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/02/28/politics/house-criminal-referral-michael-cohen/index.html
Now I know why Republican congressmen shined like a polished dollar during the Cohen hearings.
For every smart ass there is a dick with a screw.
In light of recent events and policy failures (not on my part, but on my behalf) I’ve decided to turn to Scientology.
I’ll see you guys on the other side. (The DVD instructional is only an hour long but I expect my mind will be so blown that I may not return for weeks, months, or even years.)
Symbols are never so obvious in a political sense.
In the classic (Greek) mythology poppy is a symbol of sleep and death.
In French symbolism, poppy is a symbol of evil, or rather, victory of evil (according to the materials of the Opium Wars).
But in Hubbard’s Dianetics, poppy is a symbol of the purification of reactive memory, the so-called clearing.
I think that this is a symbol of an attempt to erase the memory of victory over the Nazism.
ah, good advice. I’ll look for the poppy and note of any other symbolism.
Given that the DVD is a slick production by a worldwide, multimillion dollar cult religion, I need to be aware that every second of the production is calibrated to influence my mind- Aluminum wrap headband, dark sunglasses. Being instructed in Scientology by the light of the full moon. No crash helmet. Full throttle.
I notice there’s a push for a new referendum on Brexit. I hope they have one and they again vote to leave the EU only this time by a larger margin. What would Greenie have to say?
It would be an interesting academic exercise, Q, and I admit to curiosity regarding the hypothetical result, but I don’t think it would solve anything and it could make things worse, even if Remain won. So I’m a fan but not an advocate. Although the Brexit leaders are the most petulantly terrified of a ‘people’s vote’ which makes you wonder why they won’t just put their money where their mouth is. If they’re so sure they’d win why are they so scared? I’m not. Why aren’t they desperate to prove their point – and yours?
This Tory party power-play shambles has no solution. Attempts to ratify a deal that will avoid the risk of ‘trouble’ starting up again over the Irish border and avoid economic catastrophe are observably and repeatedly failing.
If there’s an economically catastrophic no-deal exit, there will be a de facto return to a physically divided Ireland as well, so people who didn’t choose this outcome will pay the price, perhaps even in blood (Northern Ireland voted against Brexit and Ireland, naturally, wasn’t asked, even though its economy will take a serious hit as well).
So people who look on gloatingly wearing their ‘stick it to the Remainers’ vests are just as lacking in insight as their soundbites.
Personally, I’ve had enough. At this point I take the view that the Brexit voters made their bed and they can lie in it. And that includes the Honda workers in Swindon whose town will be an early mass casualty, even though I feel sorry for their colleagues who voted differently. And Honda won’t be replaced. The company came because of the streamlined trade within the EU. Let them get paper rounds, eh, or clean windows. Or join Uber and fight over meagre hours with their old colleagues.
We’ll be fine – we can still grow oats 🙂 . I’ll pass on the turnip.
Although, interestingly, since the narrative on here is that the anti-Brexit faction consists of elites and their pushers, it’s interesting that not one person on here has ever suggested any benefit I might get from remaining. I have no job to lose and unless the economy tanks long-emergency style and my bits of pensions disappear altogether,
I can still cope with a 10% hit, which is what the economy risks taking.
I can certainly cope with it better than a Honda worker in Swindon with two kids and a mortgage, knowing that every time he applies for a job most of his erstwhile colleagues will be after it too.
Let them get paper rounds, eh, – GA
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I had to read this sentence a few times before I got the drift. Where I live we would have said “Let them get paper routes”
BTW, speaking of Brit terminology, thanks for the two new words added to my vocabulary when you used bellend and creche a couple of weeks ago.
“Today…I’m going to preach about White Women….
In my travels across this great land…
Across its highways and byways…
Across its hills, valleys, and rivers…
Across the rivers of Mississippi and across the Great Plains and the Grand Canyon….
There’s one topic that my black brothers always talk about…
White Women…
Some brothers say that the wise shepherd must attend to his own flock and not to the flock of others…
But the Lord sayeth: “Be Fruitful and Multiply!”
He did not say be fruitful and multiply with just your wife…
He did not say be fruitful and multiply with just your girlfriend…
He did not say be fruitful and multiply with just the cleaning lady….
He did not say be fruitful and multiply with just one race….
No!!!!!”
““Be Fruitful and Multiply!”
Or be fruit fly and multiple, whatever..
Don’t we share their genes?
But I digress. Bigly.
Regarding the Movie The Devil’s Advocate
You see, the true Art can not lie like the Mass Media does – or it ceases to be a true Art.
Since I am not only the chronicler of the New War of Roses, but also the adept of the Political History of Arts, I can not fail to mention that it was George Bush Sr. as head of the national committee of the Republican Party to a large extent contributed to the fact that the competition for the main tympanum of the National Cathedral was won by an unknown stone cutter Frederick Hart, who is one of my favorite artists in the United States and does not have any artistic education.
Undoubtedly you should recognize that tympanum from one of the scenes of the Devil’s Advocate:
https://cs9.pikabu.ru/post_img/2017/02/21/9/1487685799162541169.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WdWH53nsu8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jARp24AJWLk
This tympanum called Ex Nihilo (Creation from Nothing) was later used in the film Devil’s Advocate, based on some facts from Hillary Clinton’s biography, including the fact that the first case of the protagonist, who is not only the devil’s advocate, but devil’s son, whose intention is to bring the Antichrist into this world, reproduces her first case as a lawyer, and the list of protagonist’s favorite books in the script coincides with the list of her favorite books, which she published during the election campaign.
https://www.quora.com/What-are-Hillary-Clintons-favorite-books
Sullivan & Cromwell negotiated with Panama for the Panama Canal. They also set up all the trade deals that allowed Wall Street to finance the Third Reich. What did Milton say the law puts us into everything. David Talbot even calls Allen Dulles the devil in his new book. The Dulles brothers John Foster and Allen were Secretary of State and Director of the CIA concurrently under Eisenhower, something that has never happened before or since. The overt and covert foreign policy of the United States in the hands of the same family.
https://www.amazon.com/Devils-Chessboard-Dulles-Americas-Government/dp/0062276174
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sullivan_%26_Cromwell
No trade deal with China. No nuke deal with North Korea. No deal on wall. As Tom Petty once emoted “The winning is the hardest part.”
Even the loser gets lucky some times…
National Geographic is showing Free Solo for free on Mar 3rd, you can still see it on a big screen in some places.
Best documentary picture. It’s about a millennial that turns his back on society and does the impossible.