Carrie Prejean Boller
Most Of This Is Real appeared on chamblee54 on May 1, 2009. It is about Carrie Prejean, Miss California in the 2009 Miss USA beauty pageant. There was a fuss, after she said marriage should be between a man, and a woman. Public nuisance Perez Hilton was a judge, and had a disruptive hissy fit. Miss Prejean made some noise of her own. The mini-scandal got fifteen minutes of attention.
Finally, Miss Prejean was fired as Miss California. The Miss USA pageant was owned by Donald Trump, and the headlines were predictable: Donald Trump to Miss California: You’re Fired! There were some zesty pictures taken. Miss Prejean filed a lawsuit, settled, and wrote a book: “Still Standing: The Untold Story of My Fight Against Gossip, Hate, and Political Attacks.”
After seeing the 2009 post, I wondered what happened to Carrie Prejean. A quick Google search turned up an Instagram spot, “carrieprejeanboller. Carrie Prejean Boller Miss CA USA 2009 👸 1RU Miss USA 2009 Author: Still Standing Mother❤💙 Wife of NFL QB Kyle Boller🏈 Trump Campaign Advisory Board Member @womenfortrump20 maga-mamas moms night in nc april 30.” @BethanyHudsonNC Calling all you MAGA MAMAS! @susantillis will be joining @heytana, @carrieprejean1, and me tonight! #WomenForTrump #NCBoots #LeadRight RSVP now to reserve your spot @carrieprejean1 “Can’t wait!!!!”
Kissed and made up! Runner-up Miss USA Carrie Prejean swoons over Trump at rally after she accused the New York Times of ‘twisting’ quotes for ‘hit piece’ on The Donald. · Fast forward to 2016. Mrs. Boller makes a splashy appearance at a Trump rally. This is despite some unflattering things she said about “The Donald” in her book. ‘They took a little tiny thing from my book and they twisted it. … And if they would have actually read on, I talk very highly of Mr. Trump. I don’t say anything negative about him. … Just below what they quoted, on page 68 [of her book], I said that most of us respect Donald Trump and he’s an amazing businessman and leader. Why didn’t they put that in the piece?”
The NYT piece has some juicy quotes. “His level of involvement in the pageants was unexpected, and his judgments, the contestants said, could be harsh. Carrie Prejean, who was 21 when she participated in the Miss USA contest in 2009 as Miss California, was surprised to find Mr. Trump personally evaluating the women at rehearsal. “We were told to put on our opening number outfits — they were nearly as revealing as our swimsuits — and line up for him onstage.”
“Donald Trump walked out with his entourage and inspected us closer than any general ever inspected a platoon. He would stop in front of a girl, look her up and down, and say, “Hmmm.” Then he would go on and do the same thing to the next girl. He took notes on a little pad as he went along. After he did this, Trump said: “O.K. I want all the girls to come forward.” … It became clear that the point of the whole exercise was for him to divide the room between girls he personally found attractive and those he did not. Many of the girls found the exercise humiliating. Some of the girls were sobbing backstage after he left, devastated to have failed even before the competition really began to impress “The Donald.”
While promoting her book, Miss Prejean appeared on the Larry King show. She did not make a good impression. Miss California USA Executive director Keith Lewis released a statement. “The public is finally getting a glimpse of the real Carrie Prejean who lives in her own delusional world. The childish behavior, her negative attitude, the sarcasm and condescending tone, the disrespect and continual lying she is demonstrating now is only a fraction of what we endured during her reign and after. Anyone who buys her book is supporting a woman who is actually the opposite of everything she claims to be. I sincerely hope she is able to get the psychological help I believe she has shown to clearly need.” … Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. Marion Post Wolcott took the social media picture in September 1939. “Combination filling station, garage, blacksmith shop, grocery store. Frank Petty, owner of the wagon, has just had his mule shod, his corn ground, purchases some kerosene and is returning home. R.F.D. Danville, Virginia, Pittsylvania County” This content was originally published May 1, 2020. More chamblee54 content about CPB can be found here.
Ashes To Ashes
This content was originally published June 24, 2009. … Neda Soltan was killed during disturbances following a contested election in Iran. “The Iranian authorities have ordered the family of Neda Agha Soltan out of their Tehran home after shocking images of her death were circulated around the world. Neighbours said that her family no longer lives in the four-floor apartment building on Meshkini Street, in eastern Tehran, having been forced to move since she was killed. The police did not hand the body back to her family, her funeral was cancelled, she was buried without letting her family know and the government banned mourning ceremonies at mosques” …
Meanwhile, a few hundred kilometers away, a funeral was allowed to take place. They had a visitor. “Up to 80 people have been killed after missiles were fired from a US “drone” at the funeral of a suspected Taliban commander of the Pakistani Taliban in South Waziristan, Pakistan officials have said.” The United States is at war with Pakistan in all but name. This is a nation of over 100 million moslems, with nuclear weapons. If we had listened to “neocons” and extremist Israelis, we would be at war with Iran now. Those people in the streets would be fighting us.
This content was originally published June 21, 2009. … Quoting Matt Taibbi … “Hank Paulson is one of the nameless men who helped to make the dollar worthless. He was the Secretary of the Treasury under George W. Bush. Before that, he was Chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs. In 2004, Paulson played a key role in the relaxation of certain rules governing banks. “he called up SEC director William Donaldson in 2004 and quietly arranged to get the state to drop capital requirements for the country’s top five investment banks?… Paulson met with Donaldson and got the rules changed” …
… “Goldman and four other banks no longer had to abide by the old restrictions that forced banks to actually have a dollar or two on hand for every ten or so they lent out. Bear Stearns in just a few years had a debt-to-equity ration of 33-1! Lehman’s went to 32-1.” The big banks were lending money to just about anyone who wanted it. So much capital was coming on the market, it was a struggle to lend it all out. The standards, especially for home loans, went down to almost nothing. These loans were packaged and resold, in the form of securities backed by these almost fraudulent loans.”
From another Matt Taibbi article … “So some Dutch teachers’ union that a year before was buying ultra-safe U.S. Treasury bonds in 2006 runs into a Goldman salesman who offers them a different, “just as safe” AAA-rated investment that, at the moment anyway, just happens to be earning a much higher return than treasuries. Next thing you know, a bunch of teachers in Holland are betting their retirement nest eggs on a bunch of meth addicted “homeowners” in Texas and Arizona.” “Alt-A mortgages are characterized, mainly, by crappy documentation and lack of equity: no income verification, no asset verification, little-to-no cash down” …
… “These crap/sham mortgages, a lot of them adjustable-rate deals with teaser rates that featured sudden rate hikes two or three years after closing, they would never have been possible had not someone devised a method for selling them off to secondary buyers.” … “This isn’t really commerce, but much more like organized crime: it was a gigantic fraud perpetrated on the economy that wouldn’t have been possible without accomplices in the ratings agencies and regulators willing to turn a blind eye. Imagine a meat company that bred ten billion rats, fattened them on trash and sewage, ground their bodies into chuck, and then sold it all as grade-A ground beef” …
… Neal Boortz blamed the sub prime mortgage crisis on the government pressuring lenders to give loans to less qualified buyers. I was listening one day when an “expert” was discussing the mortgage crisis. Neeyull mentioned that Government pressure led to loaning money to less qualified people. The expert said that was part of it, but the real problem was the flood of capital available to lend. The banks were under pressure to loan the money out as quickly as possible, and not to be too picky about qualifications. … Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. The social media picture is “Corporal Rutherford Hayes Woolley, Co. H, 20th Alabama Infantry Regiment. … Photograph shows identified soldier, who was captured in July 1863 at Vicksburg, Mississippi.”
A Palestinian Doctor
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this is your weekly reader for this neo-summer monday. The picture below was taken in 1955, at the 14th Street bridge over the expressway · Pictures today are from Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library. The social media picture was taken August 17, 1955. “Phillips 66, Bankhead and Hightower” · 2008 was a simpler time and place. Neal Boortz said we were winning the war in Iraq. Barack Obama was fixing to run against John McCain. Sarah Palin was just another governor. Oil shale was the energy source that was going to end foreign dependence. · My government name is Luther Mckinnon. I write a blog, chamblee54.WordPress.com, along with other unwholesome activities. I have been searching for something I read at the Bilerico blog. The internet archive gave me a list of 10K pages, which I am still not sure I can access. Other search engines are useless. · Anyway, the post involves a young man weaseling his way into meeting his idol, Christopher Isherwood. The young man asks him about gay liberation. Isherwood asks the man who arranged the meeting, do you speak German? The two proceeded to have an exagerrated conversation in German, and the young man was ushered out of the room. · If this doesn’t ring any bells, I would not worry about it. I suspect this is going to be another internet holy grail, like what happened to that boyfriend I last saw in 1978. · this post is a re-run from 2014. The pictures are much better than the text. The spell check suggestion for Silverman is Silverware · Pictures today are from Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library. The social media picture was taken May 7, 1951. Glenn Iris Supper Club · Today’s visit to the archive includes lethal injection, drone strikes, an ill-fated trip to WalMart, and a facebook friend who is better looking than Charles Bukowski. · The social media picture: “Corporal John A. Hartshorn of Company A, 19th Maine Infantry … Photograph shows identified soldier John A. Hartshorn, who volunteered to enlist in the army as a substitute for John W. Crane in August 1863. Hartshorn died on May 23, 1864 of wounds received at Cold Harbor, Virginia. Harshorn wears a sack coat and forage cap and holds a musket wit fixed bayonet missing its ramrod.” · For my enemy is dead—a man divine as myself is dead; I look where he lies, white-faced and still, in the coffin—I draw near; I bend down and touch lightly with my lips the white face in the coffin. · Reconciliation Walt Whitman · Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. Russell Lee took the social media picture in April 1942. “Los Angeles County, California. The evacuation of Japanese and Japanese-Americans from West coast areas under United States Army war emergency order. Japanese arrive at the Santa Anita reception center” · The picture below was taken April 1942. “Los Angeles County, California. The evacuation of Japanese and Japanese-Americans from West coast areas under United States Army war emergency order. Japanese arrive at the Santa Anita reception center” · rejected superpowers that i don’t want · @shadihamid I honestly don’t know what to say. It makes me angry that so many can look away from this and say “well, sorry guys, war sucks.” There’s a kind of racism at work. Arabs and Muslims simply don’t count. Their lives don’t matter. That’s what it comes down to. · Pictures for this last monday morning of spring are from The Library of Congress. Marjory Collins took the social media picture in August 1942. “New York, New York. O’Reilly’s bar on Third Avenue in the “Fifties” · selah
Luther C Mckinnon
Luther Campbell McKinnon Sr. was born February 22, 1916, on a farm in Rowland, North Carolina. Europe was stuck in a war that would change the world, and not until The United States got involved. This didn’t happen for another year.
Luke was the youngest of four children. After life as a farm boy, he went to Wake Forest University, and then came back when his Daddy died. He ran a family dairy for a few years, and went to live in New Jersey. He lived near a prison, and saw the lights dim when the electric chair was used.
In the early fifties, he came to Atlanta to live. This was where his sister Sarah stayed, with her husband and two daughters. One day he went into the C&S bank on 10th street, and took notice of one of the tellers. On October 6, 1951, he married Jean Dunaway. She was with him the rest of his life.
At some point in this era he started selling shoes. He would go to warehouses, gas stations, and wherever barefoot men needed shoes. He was “The Shoe Man” .
Before long there were two boys, and he bought a house, then another. The second house is the current residence of my brother and myself, and is probably worth 15 times what he paid for it. He had the good fortune to not buy in an area that was “blockbusted,’ as many neighborhoods were.
And this was his life. He tended a garden, went to the gym, and was in the Lions Club for many years. When he met Mom, she let him know that going to church with her was part of the deal. They found a church that was good for their needs, and made many friends there. The Pastor at Briarcliff Baptist, Glen Waldrop, was his friend.
When I think of the character of this man, there is one night, which stands out. My brother was away at the time. The day before, Mom had discovered she had a detached retina, and was in the hospital awaiting surgery. Her job had arranged a “leaf tour” by train in North Georgia, and she got one of her friends at work to take me. There was some mechanical trouble on the train, and it did not get back into town until 3am Monday morning. And yet, Daddy stayed at home, did not panic, and had faith that all of us would be back soon, which we were.
Through all the struggles of his life, Dad was cheerful, laughed a lot, and was good company. He left me with a rich repertoire of country sayings, and had many stories to tell. He was surprising mellow about black people, if a bit old fashioned. (In the south when I grew up, this was highly unusual).
Dad was always in good, vigorous health, and I thought he would be with us for a long time. Well, that is not how things work. A cancer developed in his liver, and spread to his lungs (he did not smoke). After a mercifully brief illness, we lost him on February 7, 1992. This is a repost.
SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT
This content was originally published June 25, 2009. … I went on his bike to look at the yard sales. Before I was twenty feet off my driveway, I saw a pile of broken glass. A thoughtless person threw a Jarritos bottle in the street. A car did not miss it. I was lucky to see that broken bottle in time. … Kind people of the internet, Enjoy your beverage, and throw the glass bottle in a trashcan. If your beverage is a legal drug, enjoy it in a home or a bar, but not in a moving vehicle.
This content was originally published June 26, 2009. … In the wake of 911, an email wormed its way around the internet. This letter references an appearance by Anne Graham Lotz on “The Early Show.” AnGel Ministries said, in an email, “Any mutation of it on the Internet would have occurred without Mrs. Lotz’s involvement.” … “Subject: SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT i recently got this email from a close relative and i was left in awe about what Billy Grahams daughter says on TV. also the things that she says is shockinly true. i hope you read” …
… “Are you laughing? Funny how when you forward this message, you will not send it to many on your address list because you’re not sure what they believe, or what they WILL think of you for sending it. Funny how we can be more worried about what other people think of us than what God thinks of us. Pass it on if you think it has merit. If not then just discard it… no one will know you did. But, if you discard this, don’t sit back and complain about what bad shape the world is in!”
This content was originally published June 25, 2009. … There is a report out about the 25 most dangerous neighborhoods in America. The study was compiled by Andrew Schiller and NeighborhoodScout.com. This is a service for people looking to move to an area. You can get a report on any “neighborhood” in America. You will need a paid subscription to the service. The study uses FBI data regarding murder, non-negligent manslaughter, forcible rape, armed robbery, and aggravated assault. It is a standard statistical soup of incidents per thousand residents. …
… 1. Cincinnati, Ohio (Central Pky./Liberty St.) 2. Chicago (State St./Garfield Blvd.) 3. Miami, Fla. (7th Ave./North River Dr.) 4. Jacksonville, Fla. (Beaver St./Broad St.) 5. Baltimore (North Ave./Belair Rd.) 6. Kansas City, Mo. (Bales Ave./30th St.) 7. Memphis, Tenn. (Warford St./Mount Olive Rd.) 8. Kansas City, Mo. (Forest Ave./41st St.) 9. Dallas, Texas (Route 352/Scyene Rd.) 10. Richmond, Va. (Church Hill) 11. Memphis, Tenn. (Bellevue Blvd./Lamar Ave.) 12. Dallas, Texas (2nd Ave./Hatcher St.) 13. Springfield, Ill. (Cook St./11th St.) 14. St. Louis (14th St./Dr. Martin Luther King Dr.) …
This content was originally published June 25, 2009. … Mark Sanford is the Governor of South Carolina. He is a Republican and a flaming Jesus Worshiper. He recently got caught with his pants down. I am not fond of the word hypocrite. I would rather look at the person’s deeds. Mark Sanford spent father’s day with this mistress. … Let’s look at the emails the exchanged with his mistress. He quotes The Bible in an email to his mistress. To be specific, I Corinthians 13. “ Love is patient and kind, love is not jealous or boastful, it is not arrogant or rude”. … Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. Russell Lee took the social media picture in April 1942. “Los Angeles County, California. The evacuation of Japanese and Japanese-Americans from West coast areas under United States Army war emergency order. Japanese arrive at the Santa Anita reception center”
Be Not Curious About God
Beautiful that war, and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly lost;
That the hands of the sisters Death and Night,
incessantly softly wash again, and ever again, this soil’d world:
…For my enemy is dead—a man divine as myself is dead;
I look where he lies, white-faced and still, in the coffin—I draw near;
I bend down and touch lightly with my lips the white face in the coffin.
Reconciliation was written by Walt Whitman. During the War Between the States, Mr. Whitman served as a volunteer nurse in Washington DC hospitals. That hospital was full of the human cost of war. Mr. Whitman looked past the so-called causes … slavery, states rights, banker profits … and saw the price paid, by the men who fought.
“In 1862, Whitman received word that his brother George had been wounded at the Battle of Fredericksburg. During the worst, he traveled down to the Virginia battle site. Much to Whitman’s relief, he found that his brother had sustained only minor injuries. While he was there, Whitman was moved by an especially brutal scene. … He records a dramatic moment where he’s standing in front of this field hospital and sees at the foot of two trees a pile of amputated limbs. He says, “A full load for a one horse cart.” And these are limbs that had been thrown out the windows of the surgery in the haste of the battle and the emergencies.”
Walt Whitman emerges as a type of Jesus figure. His words are analyzed 150 years later, looking to find a meaning that pleases 2023 America. At least Mr. Whitman left a written record, in English. This does not prevent him from being misrepresented.
“Song of Ourselves? Walt Whitman and the American Imagination” talks about Mr. Whitman living in Brooklyn before the War, and how he came to be involved in that conflict. At some point, the hosts talk about … a framed quote, “Be curious, not judgmental.” I was curious about the context, and did a little digging. There are plenty of meme-mongers selling this quote. This does not answer the question … how did Walt Whitman come to say this?
Wikiquotes lists BCNJ as Disputed. “While consistently attributed to Whitman, this popular motivational quote has no source. It is occasionally listed as occurring in Leaves of Grass, but the closest phrase found in that collection is “Be not curious about God.”
And I say to mankind, Be not curious about God,
For I who am curious about each am not curious about God,
(No array of terms can say how much I am at peace about God and about death.)
I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least,
Nor do I understand who there can be more wonderful than myself.
Why should I wish to see God better than this day?
I see something of God each hour of the twenty-four, and each moment then,
In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass,
I find letters from God dropt in the street, and every one is sign’d by God’s name,
And I leave them where they are, for I know that wheresoe’er I go,
Others will punctually come for ever and ever.” … Song of Myself, Part 48.
This is a repost from 2019. Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. The social media picture: “Corporal John A. Hartshorn of Company A, 19th Maine Infantry … Photograph shows identified soldier John A. Hartshorn, who volunteered to enlist in the army as a substitute for John W. Crane in August 1863. Hartshorn died on May 23, 1864 of wounds received at Cold Harbor, Virginia. Harshorn wears a sack coat and forage cap and holds a musket wit fixed bayonet missing its ramrod.”
Which Poet Are You?
This content was originally published June 19, 2014. … This is true for people with, or without, privilege. (Almost everyone in America has some sort of privilege.) People are skeptical for a lot of reasons. They have been lied to many times. They are told things to manipulate their emotions. If you want to encourage understanding, then you should listen to what they have to say. Quit talking, and start listening. Quit using labels, and consider that it is a human being you are dealing with. …
… chamblee54 Georgia is going to poison Marcus Wellons tonight. The source of the drugs is a state secret. Noway Please tell me, chamblee, how “poisoning” a murdering animal is a bad thing? chamblee54 1- I don’t like the politically correct expression “lethal injection.” 2- Mr. Wellons is a nasty piece of work, who committed a horrible crime. He probably deserves to die. However, this is not always the case in a state sponsored, premeditated, killing. 3- The whole business of using secret drugs, from a secret source, is appalling. Three Jack Just shoot em, no chemicals needed. …
… chamblee54 Today is the 75th anniversary of the last public execution in France. On June 17, 1939, Eugen Weidmann was dispatched. The guillotine was used. The guillotine may be the most efficient, and least painful, method for executions. Unfortunately, it is rather messy. We have to pretend that we are a civilized society. There are endless appeals, and the humane seeming “lethal injection.” gcp “We like to pretend that we are a civilized society.” We have some members of our society who are quite uncivilized and have shown they can’t exist in this society which is why we have prisons …
This content was originally published June 21, 2014. … There is some talk about what the media tastefully calls drone strikes. Unmanned airplanes are piloted by remote control. The focus on a target, and fire a AGM-114 Hellfire II Missile. Often, a second strike is made, after rescuers come to the scene. When the dead are buried, there is sometimes a strike on the funeral. The Hellfire II Missile costs $40,000. The drones use lots of fuel, and require maintenance. Meanwhile, the moving lips in Washington say that no civilians are killed by these attacks. …
… “More recently, on February 8, the Times reported the BIJ’s findings that the CIA’s drone attacks in Pakistan “have repeatedly targeted rescuers who responded to the scene of a strike, as well as mourners at subsequent funerals.” But after highlighting BIJ’s report, the article then allowed a “senior American counterterrorism official, speaking on the condition of anonymity” to not just question the report’s findings, but to state: “One must wonder why an effort that has so carefully gone after terrorists who plot to kill civilians has been subjected to so much misinformation.” …
This content was originally published June 27, 2014. … I rode my bike to walmart. A bottle of liquid soap was purchased. On the way home, I noticed the bike making a strange noise when braking. When I got home, I saw a liquid puddle under the bike. The top had come off the bottle of soap, and cleaning product was everywhere. After cleaning up, and a car trip to walmart, the internet chipped in. A friend had taken a quiz, Which Poet Are You? The friend got Charles Bukowski. The friend is better looking than Mr. Bukowski. That is setting the bar low. …
… The first question is “Where do you like to write?” The third question is “What muse speaks to you?” There is a picture of a bronze Buddha, wearing a Prussian army helmet. This is a hard hat with a rhino spear rising out of the top. It is most phallic, and totally impractical in the nuclear age. The rest of the questions were stupid. You got: Edgar Allen Poe. “Your dark side is your best side. You excel at noticing the weird, the macabre, and the eerie. While others are frightened by darkness and strange, you feel … Pictures today are from Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library. The social media picture was taken May 7, 1951. Glenn Iris Supper Club · selah
Is Sarah Silverman Funny?
This material was originally published June 17, 2014. … There was a “promoted” tweet yesterday. @Scribd New on our blog! Laugh So Hard You’ll Pee, The 15 Funniest Lines From Sarah Silverman’s Book. The book, The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee, was published April 20, 2010. That fact may be the funnier than the 15 lines.
Most of the lines were embedded in pictures, which means a blogger would have to retype them. This is too much work. The few in text form were not very funny. But then, neither is Sarah Silverman, who once gave a TED talk. The big dog at TT said it was “G-d awful,” and did not allow it to be officially released. I saw the video as part of my research for Is Sarah Silverman Funny? The last seven words of the poem: “don’t make me listen to it again.”
The publisher has a survey “to see if this is the book for you.” · “1. Which of the following do you appreciate? (a) Women with somewhat horse-ish facial features. (b) Women who, while not super Jew-y, are more identifiably Jewish than, say, Natalie Portman. (c) Frequent discussion of unwanted body hair. · 2. Are you offended by the following behavior? (a) Instructing one’s grandmother to place baked goods in her rectal cavity. (b) Stripping naked in public—eleven times in a row. (c) Stabbing one’s boss in the head with a writing implement. · 3. The best way to treat an emotionally fragile young girl is: (a) Murder the main course of her Thanksgiving dinner before her very eyes. (b) Tell her that her older sister is prettier than she, and then immediately die. (c) Prevent her suicide by recommending she stay away from open windows. · If you read the above questions without getting nauseous or forming a hate Web site, you are ready to buy this book! Please proceed to the cashier.”
The survey did not indicate whether the book would be at the library, or a yard sale. After four years, it is probably available in discount bins. Pictures today are from Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library. The social media picture: “Moreland Avenue and Euclid”
EarthtoDavid
This content was originally published June 18, 2008. … “Oil shale is the fuel of the future, and always will be,” goes a popular saying in Western Colorado. There is a lot of talk these days about oil. Many blame the cost of oil on the reluctance of The United States to drill in certain parts of our territory. This view is especially popular on talk radio. Many suspect radio talkers of being on the oil industry payroll. One of the sources of energy considered today is oil shale. This mineral is found in large quantities in Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming. …
… Extraction of petroleum from the shale is a mess. Essentially, you heat the rock until the oil comes out. The process uses a lot of water, and leaves a great deal of nasty cooked rock behind. There are some proposals to sink heating towers into the earth and cook the oil out in the ground. That sounds awfully complicated, expensive, and dangerous to this reporter. The extraction of oil from the earth is a messy matter. When you dig a hole several miles into the ground, lots of mud will come up and need to be disposed of. …
This content was originally published June 14, 2008. … One of the regular stops on this computer is EarthtoDavid. ETD is a country man living in Opelika, Alabama. Recently, he started a “fitness journal”. Now, there are two ways to see this sort of blogging. You can say it is narcissistic and ignore it. Or you can read and enjoy it. Both answers are correct. Part of this journal is the songs on his mp3 player while he walks. … As I commented: “I like to walk and bicycle. However, I do not own an mp3 player. I like to listen to …
… ETD was a big enough man not to be offended by that, and the next day : ” that is what I did. It was really nice to hear the raindrops falling on my umbrella as well as the tree frogs, birds chirping, fish jumping in the water out on the lake, some swimmers out in the water throwing frisbee and enjoying a light rainy evening and seeing the sun settle down behind a thick blanket of rain clouds.” Part of this journal is a picture of ETD, at the top of the post. I began to notice to telltale wire of the mp3 player. …
… I have a bit of history/baggage here. I worked for a long time across the room from an earplug listener. His desk was in front of my work station, so when I was doing my job, I was looking at him. He looked like an idiot with that reverse colostomy bag hooked up to him. There is a lot more to this story…he was an vocally abusive Christian …but seeing hundreds of hours of him listening to his preaching tapes was the icing on the cake.” Life is a matter of personal connections. You connect things to people in your life.
This content was originally published June 11, 2008. … I had assumed that JSM was assured of Georgia’s electoral votes. But looking at these stats from CL, I begin to wonder: Amount Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign has raised in Georgia: $1,305,275, Amount Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign has raised in Georgia: $2,458,219, Number of votes Obama received in 2008 Democratic Presidential Primary: 704,247, Number of votes McCain received in 2008 Georgia Republican Presidential Primary: 304,751, Number of votes Sen. John Kerry received in 2004 Georgia Democratic Presidential Primary: 293,265
… There is also the BHO charisma. The dude is a rock star. He has people fired up in a way that JSM can only dream about. … Black voters are a big part of the electorate in Georgia. This block should go overwhelmingly to BHO. Lets assume that a million votes are cast in Georgia. If 30% are black, and they all go for BHO (this is not reality, just pre summer speculation), then that leaves 70% of the population. BHO would only need 200K votes, or 28%, of the non black community. …
… JSM appeared on the Today show this morning. He said we need to be concerned about greenhouse gases, which causes apoplexy in Red America. There was talk about Nuclear Power, which is expensive, and requires intense Government Regulation. There was talk about high gas prices, but no one connects the dots to the weak dollar and deficit spending in Babylon. Oh, and the surge is working. Happy talk in the press is part of the surge strategy. JSM has a more likable personality that BHO. JSM appeared on the Glenn Beck show a few weeks ago, and the first thing he did was call Beck a jerk. … Pictures today are from Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library. The social media picture was taken August 17, 1955. “Phillips 66, Bankhead and Hightower” This is what 2656 Donald Lee Hollowell Pkwy looks like today. · selah
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I believe Mr. Coates went to the West Bank, not Gaza. · I have not read “The Message” in spite of John’s efforts to promote it. · I found this article, and had the vague sense that I had read it before. Then I saw that riff with Gary Indiana, and I knew I had already read it, and did not want to read any more · The social media picture was taken July 12, 1955. “First National Bank and Pabst Blue Ribbon signs” · here is the monday morning reader for today. The quicksand topic last week was the Jordan Peterson nothing debate. When I was telling a friend about it yesterday, his reaction: Who is Jordan Peterson? · The social media picture: “Peachtree Street at night, downtown Atlanta, Georgia, 1937.” This is a repost from 2023. · today is the third of June. Did Billy Joe jump off a wooden bridge, over the Tallahatchie River near Money MS? This is the location of Bryant’s Grocery Store … where Carolyn Bryant was working one afternoon, when Emmett Till came in the store. · This is a repost from 2018. Pictures today are from The Library of Congress Russell Lee took the social media picture in August 1937. “Resident of Ericsburg, Minnesota” · In 2016, I published a poem, Then They Came. … first they came for the rich, i clicked like on facebook, then they came for #racists, i tweeted a #woke #hashtag, then they came for truth tellers, i gave my #thoughts&prayers, then they came for me. A person complained that I made this about “racists”. Which was my point. People get called racist for the flimsiest of reasons, and can suffer severe consequences. · The Elie Wiesel speech, Always take sides, is another example of this. · according to legend, someone asked Martin Niemöller if he included Catholics, in his famous poem “First They Came.” “I never said it. They can take care of themselves.” · The social media picture was taken September 23, 1968. “Buck Owens promotional visit … Capitol Records Distribution Corporation; Riviera Motel” · On March 13, 1988, Halabja was attacked with chemical weapons. Iraq, governed by Saddam Hussein, was almost certainly the culprit. Iraq was in a horrific war with Iran, and was supported by the United States, governed by Ronald Reagan. The United States tried to cover up the attack by blaming Iran. · The Iran-Iraq war had gone on for eight years at this point. Hundreds of thousands, possibly millions, of people died in that war. Iraq invaded Iran in 1980. At that time, Iran was holding Americans hostage. Many people wanted to bomb bomb bomb Iran. We were happy to see someone else do the dirty work. The United States gave vast amounts of support to Iraq, in its effort to wipe out the Islamic Republic. · There was speculation that the west was encouraging Iran and Iraq to fight as long as they could. The thinking went that when they were fighting each other, they were not fighting Israel. Perhaps if the warring parties had been encouraged to negotiate an end to the conflict, then the chemical weapons attack would not have taken place. · This was after the Iran Contra scandal. This was when the United States was selling arms to Iran, with the help of an Israeli middleman. This was at the same time we were supporting the Iraqi army. We were arming both sides of this horrific war · In 2014, Matt Walsh was a mere blogger, having comment fights with readers · so the r-word is retarded and not racist. I have a good story about the r-word, meaning mentally challenged. This man has a “challenged” brother. All his life, the r-word had been forbidden, and the challenged brother had never heard the word retarded. So, this man brings his boyfriend to meet the family, and the bf slips up and says retarded. Later, the challenged brother asked his mother what that word meant. His mom explains it to him. The challenged brother then said, “oh, I thought it had something to do with being gay · here is a selection of stories from 2008. Included are Neal Boortz, Lester Maddox, Barack H Obama, and Tom Waits. The picture below: “Jack Whinery, homesteader, and his family, Pie Town, New Mexico” · This is a repost from 2009, based on a Listserve article, 15 Fascinating Facts About Toilets. LS continues to produce fresh content in 2025. Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. The social media picture was taken January 7, 1911. “Bris (Briscoe Robotham) Lord, outfielder for the Philadelphia Athletics”. … Selah · These are borrowed from a site called Listserve. LS has lots of lists, and is publishing fresh content in 2025. · 90% of pharmaceuticals taken by people are eliminated through urination. Therefore our sewer systems contain heavy doses of drugs. A recent study by the EPA has found fish containing trace amounts of estrogen, cholesterol-lowering drugs, pain relievers, antibiotics, caffeine and even anti-depressants. Modern urine is expensive · @barrypopik “I’ve created a website selling and delivering #sausages over the #Internet. I’ll send you the #link” · when nothing moves you, if wishing in your hand doesn’t deliver, there is always a bowl of fruit, if the writing prompt does not lead to victory, stymied by writers tackle once again, · Pictures today are from Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library. The social media picture was taken October 19, 1955. “14th Street and Expressway” · selah
Fun With Commodes
01. The film “Psycho” was the first movie to show a toilet flushing – the scene caused an inpouring of complaints about indecency.
02. Pomegranates studded with cloves were used as the first attempt at making toilet air-freshner.
03. In a 1992 survey, British public toilets were voted the worst in the world. Following quickly behind were Thailand, Greece, and France.
04. Hermann Goering refused to use regulation toilet paper – instead he bought soft white handkerchiefs in bulk and used them.
05. Over $100,000 US dollars was spent on a study to determine whether most people put their toilet paper on the holder with the flap in front or behind. 3 out of 4 people have the flap in the front.
06. King George II of Great Britain died falling off a toilet on the 25th of October 1760.
07. The average person spends three whole years of their life sitting on the toilet.
08. The first toilet cubicle in a row is the least used. (and consequently cleanest)
09. An estimated 2.6 billion people worldwide do not have access to proper toilet facilities, particularly in rural areas of China and India.
10. The Roman army didn’t have toilet paper. They used a water soaked sponge on the end of a stick.
11. The toilet is flushed more times during the super bowl halftime than at any time during the year.
12. 90% of pharmaceuticals taken by people are eliminated through urination. Therefore our sewer systems contain heavy doses of drugs. A recent study by the EPA has found fish containing trace amounts of estrogen, cholesterol-lowering drugs, pain relievers, antibiotics, caffeine and even anti-depressants. Modern urine is expensive.
13. Lack of suitable toilets and sanitation kills approximately 1.8 million people a year.
14. The toilet handle in a public restroom can have up to 40,000 germs per square inch.
15. While he didn’t invent the toilet, Thomas Crapper perfected the siphon flush system we use today. He was born in the village of Thorne – which is an anagram of throne.
Add.1-An amusing feature of the water closet is the tendency of people to die there. Elvis comes to mind immediately. There is some debate about this, as some say he was stricken on the throne, fell off, and perished on the floor. Judy Garland is also known to have met her maker while doing number two. Add.2- It seems that this is a real problem with older people that have constipation issues. When you are in delivery mode, and you push too hard, you can cause something called Valsalva’s maneuver. To make a long story short, all that squeezing can pinch the arteries going into the heart. This is not good for you. According to a commenter here, it is .06% of all deaths.
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