Chamblee54

This is a blog post about blogging. If this does not appeal to you, then skip to the pictures. They are from a square dance, held at a home in McIntosh County, Oklahoma. This event was in 1939 or 1940. They were originally in color, but look better in grayscale. The Library of Congress is a wonderful use of big government.
PG is a compulsive bookmarker. Whenever anything catches his fancy, he adds the url to his bookmarks. When the bookmark tab has 91 entries, it is time to sort them out. There is a variety of folders on the desktop, but the top rung for bookmarks is “frequent”. It is accessible by cntl+alt+F (gimme an F), and has the sites that PG wants to see on a daily basis. With this cleanout, four sites were added to the frequent folder.
Mayberry is a return to the frequent folder. The previous version of this blog, Large Tony, was a favorite before it graduated a couple of years ago. Mayberry is about the life of a man named Tony, who lives with his Granny in the Tennessee mountains. Tony recently announced he is back to posting something everyday. There is a meme floating by now, called the 30 day blog challenge. Tony has combined a few of the lists to come up with 64 topics. If he follows through on this, it will be highly entertaining. ( PG signed up for a blog every day challenge once called NABLOPOMO. Yes, that sounds a lot like NAMBLA. PG tried a month of NABLOPOMO, and decided to leave it alone. He still gets emails about it.)
The next blog to be promoted is A Philosopher’s Blog . With the miracle of alphabetization, APB is the number one blog in the frequent folder. PG got into a bit of a comment skirmish here recently.
Mr. Magus71 ( is that pronounced MAGOO, like the cartoon character?) If you spell checked your comments, they would make more sense.
Mr. chamblee54, Wow. You were born in 1954 and you’ve resorted to critiquing my spelling on hastily posted comments and also to name calling? Are you blogging from your mother’s basement?
And what exactly is the spell check problem besides me spelling avarice with an “E”–once, do you see in my post above? Perhaps you don’t understand military lingo. Or German names of cities?
Also, I have a bad connection and short time in Konar Province, Afghanistan. I race to make posts while the screen moves up and down on me and sometimes i lose entire posts when i hit “Post Comment”. Actually, I’m a very good speller–but a search and peck typer.
But thanks for being such a jerk. Merry Christmas.
chamblee whatever your age is: Seriously, spelling is a non-issue.
And if you’ve watched this site for a while, m simply doesn’t misspell excepot in instances such as he’s described above. Watch this site more closely for some who would present non-facts as facts. Or define words in unique ways. This thyme you merely gave magus a easy way to avoid responding to my explanation of his misundertanding of my 24/2010 11:57 post.
So their you goes. Apply your spell-grammer-cheker to this reply if you want something to do.
This quote is from the Wikipedia page for Jim Backus “He was the voice of the near-sighted cartoon character Mr. Magoo. In 1952, he had a brief scene in Don’t Bother To Knock with Marilyn Monroe. Years later, when Backus was a frequent talk show guest, he would recount the time Monroe urgently beckoned him into her dressing room. Once there, she exclaimed in her breathy voice, “Do Mr. Magoo!”[citation needed]”
In addition to Mr. Magoo, Mr. Backus was Thurston Howell III on Gilligan’s Island, and the father of James Dean in “Rebel without a cause”.
chamblee, I think you have left the Riemann sheet on which the rest of us are dwelling. To understand Magus, I would not look to Jim Backus but rather to Magi, Zarathushtra, etc.
Good times.
There are two more blogs that were made frequent clickees. Blog for democracy says it is a progressive political voice. The election season is over, and BFD and her BFF, peach PUndit, are not going to have the yukkfests they had in 2010. ( Or maybe they will. Georgia politicians seem to be frustrated rock stars, without the makeup artist.) Recent stories here include pregnant women shackled in Georgia prisons, and a Macon legislator’s comment about Republican laundry.
Palestinean Pundit is another internet outlet that tells tales not heard on Fox news. It is frequently written in Arabic, and often does not provide links for it’s stories. Nonetheless, whether you are concerned about the targets of Israeli guns, or want to “know thy enemy”, the Palestinead Pundit has some stories that should be getting more attention in America.
The lead story as this post is written regards Christians in Gaza. Most people assume the occupied territories are 100% moslem, but this has never been the case. The story starts: This is a very alarming article written by a well-known human rights activist in Gaza. Basically it is a threat against all Christians in Gaza (a very small number) that they will be targeted if a death sentence against a convicted killer of a Christian in Gaza is carried out. It threatens to target all Christians in Gaza and calls for driving them out!
The Christians in the Middle East have been having a tough time lately. In Iraq especially, as the secular Baath regime was replaced with fueding factions of Islam, the Christian community has been under attack. Many Iraqi Christians have fled the country. The ever vocal Christian community of America, with it’s intense support of Israel, have been strangely silent about the security of Christians in the Middle East.
Another story not widely reported in the USA is the return to Iraq of “charismatic” Shia leader Sayyed Moqtada al-Sadr. He has been out of Iraq for four years, coincidentally the time when the “surge” was “pacifying” the country. “The son of revered Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Sadiq al-Sadr, Sadr had reportedly been pursuing religious studies in the Iranian holy city of Qom.”
The headline in PP is “The Electric Drill Team is Celebrating: Sayyed Sadr Returns to Iraq after Four Years outside Country”, with a picture of Mr. Sadr, beside a portable electric drill. The use of the drill, applied to the temple, is the trademark execution technique of the shia militias.