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many opinions ’bout white folks who dance ~ some look down their nose at the spectacle
we are having fun so we take the chance ~ so what if its not quite respectable
some people don’t like caucasian cha cha ~ no matter what we do or don’t wear
giggle and point and call our moves caca ~ we will have too much fun to care
jitterbug watusi macarena ~ suzy q boogie woogie mambo
pom pom jelly roll mosh pit polka ~ two step electric slide foxtrot disco
an opinion is often compared to a hole ~ lay down the beat and light up your soul
Ten Twenty
In truck driver shorthand, ten nineteen means “do I have any more stops?” The dispatcher either gives you somewhere to go, or says ten twenty four, meaning return to the base. Today is October 19, and it is time to ask the dispatcher where to go next.
There is a poem in production. There is a a troubled sticker picture, needing yet another design change. The trending topics are US soldiers killed in an undeclared war, and saying #metoo to indicate the experience of sexual harassment. It is unlikely that the troops will be called home, or that Donald Trump will grow up. The harassment thing will continue, with perps being more careful
in the future. As in all trending subjects, hypocrisy abounds.
This daily diary (diarette? diarheasses?) may be sporadically updated. The picture project… which needs a working title … is starting to show signs of activity. That is how these things work. You keep making changes until you get the results you like. Talent is knowing when to quit making changes.
The internet keeps changing. Killed by police, the new chamblee54 ongoing project, just posted three more incidents. After a while, we will check them out. Now, with “can of worms” showing signs of approval, giving me consent to work more, that should be the focus.
It is now ten twenty. In trucker shorthand, ten twenty means “whats your location?” Even with all the devices available to us, we often don’t know where we are. The picture is a can of worms. It is sort of ready to move forward. This best thing to do might be to let it rest for a day or so.
This seems to be going nowhere, or maybe we should put a space in nowhere and say it is now here. Here is a twitter battle from yesterday. For the record, it was during the Obama administration that US troops were sent to Niger.
@ShannonSharpe COS Kelly, you said somethings should be sacred. What’s the difference in you did and what Congresswoman Wilson did?
@chamblee54.@RepWilson outed a private conversation
@EmoNegro1
With the family’s consent, so maybe you need to attack this family instead of the Congresswoman!
@chamblee54 I am not sure the family consented Also, .@RepWilson could have been the cooler head, and not put the spotlight on a grieving widow
@EmoNegro1They consented when 1) they put the call on speakerphone 2) the family has confirmed Trump was an ass on the phone.
@chamblee54 so @RepWilson has no responsibility in this? she should have known that her big mouth was going to put the spotlight on the family
@EmoNegro1 TRUMP put the spotlight on the family by announcing he called the family! Trump is a roach, Wilson just shined the light on him!
@chamblee54 when did Trump announce the call? Wilson brought matter more publicity than it needed the last thing a grieving war widow needs is this
@EmoNegro1 The last thing a grieving war widow needs is a jackass shrugging at her husband’s death & using it to bash the previous president!
@chamblee54
two wrongs don’t make a right… @repwilson could have declined to answer questions about the call
@EmoNegro1 Cuz if Trump hadn’t been LAZY lounging on the golf course & then blaming Obama when he got caught, none of this would be happening!
Pictures from “The Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library”. ~ selah
Four Way Rules
This is a double repost . These two features have been repeated before , with text added. Whether the text adds value is a judgement question. For today’s entertainment, the added value text will be included. Historic pictures today are from“The Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library”. This was written like David Foster Wallace
Two features, posted two times each, is four. These two features are about rules for living, that come in groups of four. There is a symmetry about four. Four Beatles, Four seasons, four corners, four elements. This number is a homonym partner with for and fore.
When PG was a kid, his grandmother lived in a side apartment, in a house on Virginia Avenue. The owner of the house was Mrs. Stuckey. (PG never learned her “real” name, and assumed that checks were made out to Mrs.) There was a framed piece of paper in Mrs. Stuckey’s hall. The top said “The Four-Way Test of the things we think, say or do” , and featured the logo of the Rotary Club. The four rules were simple, on the surface. Is it the TRUTH?//Is it FAIR to all Concerned?//Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?//Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?
The four way test was written by Herbert J. Taylor. In 1932, Mr.Taylor took over the bankrupt Club Aluminum Company of Chicago. Trying to revive the company during the depression, Mr. Taylor wrote a code of ethics, that would be the basis for the company’s actions.
Many said that the four way test was not practical for the business world. The balancing of integrity and ambition can be daunting. It was said that “This emphasis on truth, fairness and consideration provide a moral diet so rich that it gives some people “ethical indigestion.”
PG maintains that fair is a baseball hit between first and third base. Sometimes, the umpire makes the wrong call. In the “real world”, the different points of view in a dispute make rendering a fair judgment a difficult task, if not an impossible one.
There is a story about the revival of Club Aluminum. ” One day, the sales manager announced a possible order for 50,000 utensils. Sales were low and the company was still struggling at the bankruptcy level. The senior managers certainly needed and wanted that sale, but there was a hitch. The sales manager learned that the potential customer intended to sell the products at cut-rate prices. “That wouldn’t be fair to our regular dealers who have been advertising and promoting our product consistently,” he said. In one of the toughest decisions the company made that year, the order was turned down. There was no question this transaction would have made a mockery out of The Four-Way Test the company professed to live by.”
How did the sales manager learn of the intentions of this buyer? Was he tipped off by one of the “regular customers” who feared competition? Was this “regular customer” lying? Many inspirational stories leave out crucial details.
As it turns out, Club Aluminum did sell enough product to emerge from bankruptcy. “By 1937, Club Aluminum’s indebtedness was paid off and during the next 15 years, the firm distributed more than $1 million in dividends to its stockholders. Its net worth climbed to more than $2 million.”
Club Aluminum cookware was cast, not spun. It is heavy, and is a prized collectors item today. As for the Club Aluminum company ” Standard International Corporation bought it in 1968. Regalware made and marketed Club Aluminum for a while, but went out of business in the mid-1980s. The brand name was eventually obtained by the Mirro Company.”
This is a repost. Philosophy and rules for living is always a crowd pleaser. Whether or not you practice what you preach is beside the point.
There is a story above. A company, facing bankruptcy, turned down a huge order because of concerns about how the product would be resold. Today, this seems quaint. Today, the moral thing to do would be to take the order, keep your factory busy, and not worry how it was going to be resold. While some pretend that moral rules are unchanging, the truth is that they do change with the times.
This reminds PG of a story from his days as a blueprinter. With ammonia developed prints, every print is fed by hand, and you have the option to adjust the speed of the machine. Slower prints mean less background, which to some is a higher quality print. (This is not an issue with digital printing. Some change is indeed progress.)
The company PG worked for was affiliated with a small, family run company in a neighboring city. This company was run by an old fashioned lady, who insisted on adjusting every print to get the perfect background. This was different from the company PG worked for, which ran large jobs for the big city market. To his customers, quality meant getting an acceptable print, DELIVERED ON TIME. Who had the higher standards? Maybe that is a question for the customer to judge.
These thoughts are for you to use. They were articulated by a man named Don Miguel Ruiz. They are called the Four Agreements. . HT to activecitizen54..
PG does not claim to live up to these ideals. Number two is especially tough for him. The main thing is to try, and to always do your best. This is not about what you believe or think, it is about what you do.
agreement 1–Be impeccable with your word – Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.
agreement 2–Don’t take anything personally – Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering.
agreement 3–Don’t make assumptions – Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.
agreement 4–Always do your best – Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
Are You An A$$hole?
A facebook friend recently displayed the results of an online test, Are you an asshole? When PG clicked on the link, he was told to sign in with facebook. Going to a clickbait site, and being told to drag in the zuckersphere, is more trouble than it is worth. Fortunately, google has the answer to “are you an asshole?” The fact that google is a corporate sphincter should be disregarded. Today we will look at the page one results. Pictures for this contemptible waste of your time are from “The Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library”.
How Much Of An Asshole Are You? gets the top spot. Buzzfeed paid for it. This is a typical online quiz. The multiple choice answers never quite seem to fit, so you choose one to get the results you want. “You got: NOT AN ASSHOLE AT ALL!”
Are You An Asshole?, also from Buzzfeed, asks “Have you ever…? There is a list of 22 items. “You checked 4 out of 22 on this list! Don’t worry. You’re a good person. There’s a chance you’ve been a little manipulative or dishonest, but for the most part, it was probably unintentional. The world could use more people like you.”
Are You A Certified Asshole? is a bit of self promotion by Bob Sutton, aka @work_matters. Self promoter is a synonym for asshole. “Are You A Certified Asshole? Find Out With the Asshole Rating Self-Exam (ARSE) A 24-Question Self-Exam by Bob Sutton. Click here to buy the classic “The No Asshole Rule.”” The questions deal with the workplace. “4 to 5 “True”: You don’t sound like a certified asshole, unless you are fooling yourself.”
How Much Of An Asshole Are You? is the facebook tainted thingie at the start of this post. What Kind Of A**hole Are You? has little value. There are more multiple choice questions that have no good answer. At the end, you have to click on an unknowable link, if you want the results. 8 Telltale Signs You’re An Asshole is a further descent into clickbait hell. There are eight items, many of which never occur to anyone over twenty five. Number eight is the catch all: “You don’t think you’re an asshole.”
ARE YOU AN ASSHOLE? is a devolution of the multiple choice concept. “IN YOU’RE SPARE TIME YOU…? HANG OUT WITH BUDS, CUT YOURSELF, PLOT ASSASSINATIONS, EAT SMALL CHILDREN, KILL STUFF.” When you get to question 5 / 9, you see this: “WHAT KIND OF MUSIC DO YOU LISTEN TO? This question is under review, please proceed ahead.” When you try to move ahead, you are told “Please select an option.” The Belorussian hackers have work to do.
ASSHOLE Quiz is another import from ProProfs. “Your walking down the street and you see a man on the ground and his head is blown off. What would ya do? Ask him if he is O.K., Fain, Call the cops.” After you answer the question, you are told if you gave the correct answer.
Are you an asshole? and The Asshole Test are the last two results on page one. Both are useless. “You’re a good person. You’ll help your friend if he needs you, you’ll buy him a beer if he forgot his purse, and you won’t blame your girlfriend for listening Justin Bieber just because you don’t like this stupid ass faggot. People love you.” There is nothing like validation.
Paul Krassner
Paul Krassner is alive at eighty five. He survives Lenny Bruce, Abbie Hoffman, Groucho Marx, and Lyndon Johnson. His magazine, The The Realist, is now available as an online archive.
PG was recently looking for background noise to compliment his photomongering. Somewhere along the way, he found episodes of WTF podcast to be available on Youtube. He made a list of shows he wanted to see, including Paul Krassner. When Mr. Google was recruited to find the show, other things floated to the surface. This is how Mr. Google operates.
An onion is more than an internet namesake. It lends a lively flavor, both cooked and raw. The onion consists of many layers of thin skin. These can be peeled off, as you get deeper and deeper into the root. A thin skinned root that gives you bad breath…. an aromatic symbol for the sixties.
When you go looking for WTF/Krassner, you are directed to issue 74 of The Realist. The feature story is the missing segments of a John Kennedy biography. On page 18, Jackie Kennedy saw more of Lyndon Johnson than she needed to see.
“That man was crouching over the corpse, no longer chuckling but breathing hard and moving his body rhythmically. … And then I realized – there is only one way to say this – he was literally fucking my husband in the throat. In the bullet wound in front of the throat. He reached a climax, and dismounted. I froze. The next thing I remember, he was being sworn in as the new President.”
Page two of issue 74 is the letters to the editor. The featured scribe is John L. Timmons, Secretary, Mattachine Society of N.Y. He wrote “Letter From A Homosexual,” in response to a cartoon page in issue 69, fag battalion. Using KY to lubricate a rifle is not a good idea.
At the time, America was fighting a war in Vietnam. Young men were given the choice of go in the army, or go to prison. It was ugly. There was a group, “The committee to fight the exclusion of homosexuals from the armed forces.”
The Mattachine Society was neutral. Some members supported the war, and some were opposed. It distracted from the overall agenda to take sides in other disputes. The editors at The Realist agreed. “… homosexuals who don’t want to be drafted will no longer be able to exploit their deviation rather than face the consequences of conscientious objection.”
When issue 74 was published, Walt Disney was still alive. This may account for the action on page 12. Maybe Uncle Walt did not want his animated actors to be drafted for active duty. The activities on page 12 might not be sufficient to have the players excused from active duty, however. By this stage of the war, the local draft boards were not accepting excuses.
Getting back to Paul Krassner… he founded the YIPPIES with Abbie Hoffman, took LSD with Groucho Marx, and published a satiric magazine without advertising. Only the last part can be confirmed. After the description of Lyndon Johnson’s post mortem dentistry, who knows what is real, and what is fake. Pictures today are from “The Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library”. The opinions expressed in this repost are in no way, shape, or form connected to that fine institution.
2016 Murder Statistics
Crime in the U.S. • 2016 has been issued. It is more statistics about crime than you could consume in a lifetime. This blog published a report, 2015 Murder Statistics. These numbers were broken down into white people and black people. Pictures today are from “The Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library”.
Expanded Homicide Data Table 1 is the source of murder statistics. These numbers are broken down by race, gender, ethnicity, and other factors. (Hispanic is considered an ethnicity, rather than a race. Hispanic people are included in racial breakdowns according to their race.) In 2016, there were 15,070 murder victims. The gender breakdown is 11,821 male, 3,208 female, and 41 unknown.
QuickFacts, from the U.S. Census Bureau, is the source of population numbers. On July 1, 2016, there were 323,127,513 people in the United States. White people were 76.9% (248,485,057), and black people were 13.3% (42,975,959).
15,070 murder victims breaks down into white 6,576, black 7,881, other race 400, and unknown race 213. (29 of the unknown race victims were also unknown gender.) If you divide the number of murder victims by the population, you get the number of murder victims per million. The overall population lost 46.63 people per million. For white people, there were 26.46 murder victims per million. For black people, there were 183.38 murder victims per million.
Scarier Than Bless Her Heart
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A Sad Event
It is with the saddest heart that I must pass on the following news. Please join me in remembering a great icon of the entertainment community. The Pillsbury Doughboy died yesterday of a yeast infection, and trauma complications from repeated pokes in the belly. He was 71. Doughboy was buried in a lightly greased coffin. The funeral was held at 3:50 for about 20 minutes.
Dozens of celebrities turned out to pay their respects, including Mrs.Butterworth, Hungry Jack, the California Raisins, Betty Crocker, the Hostess Twinkies, and Captain Crunch. The grave site was piled high with flours. Aunt Jemima delivered the eulogy and lovingly described Doughboy as a man who never knew how much he was kneaded.
Doughboy rose quickly in show business, but his later life was filled with turnovers. He was not considered a very smart cookie, wasting much of his dough on half-baked schemes. Despite being a little flaky at times, he was still a crusty old man and was considered a roll model for millions.
Doughboy is survived by his wife, Play Dough, two children, John Dough and Jane Dough, plus they had one in the oven. He is also survived by his elderly dad, Pop Tart.
I am not clever enough to compose the above piece. Credit is hereby given to whoever wrote it. This is a repost. Pictures are from “The Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library”. The spell check suggestion for Doughboy is Doughnut.
Rhetoric Over History
The symbolic fight today is over Confederate monuments. The high octane rhetoric is heard loud and clear. There is even historic revisionism. “…the real motivation was: to physically symbolize white terror against blacks.” PG finds this reasoning tough to believe. It sounds like another argument, from another symbolic battle. History likes to repeat herself.
In 1993, a movement emerged to change the Georgia state flag. At the time, the Saint Andrews cross, aka the Confederate flag, was on one side of the flag. Many people were offended by this flag, Many people liked this flag, and wanted to keep it. The argument went on for a few years.
In 2001, a new flag was adopted. The 2001 flag was even uglier than the old flag. The 2001 flag was rammed through the legislature. Part of this change was a law, protecting state monuments. “When Georgia took the Confederate battle symbol off the state flag in 2001, part of the compromise lawmakers struck was a new state law that protected Confederate memorials and monuments from being removed, relocated or even altered.” This law did not apply to the state flag, which was changed again in 2003. The current flag is similar to another Confederate flag.
When the flag change movement got started, a bit of historic revision was introduced. The story was that the legislature changed the state flag as a protest against desegregation. The first page of google does not have any of the 1993 rhetoric. This article sums up some of these arguments. The talk was louder, and angrier, in 1993.
PG never did believe the argument that the flag was changed as a protest. PG accepted that the flag was offensive to many, and did not object to changing it. However, he does not like to be lied to. If the flag was offensive to a large part of the state, why would you need to rewrite history? The 1956 legislature was a gnarly bunch… crooked, alcoholic, racist, and overwhelmingly Democratic. If anything else, they were not smart enough to change the flag as a protest. In 1956, protest was not the national pastime. Not everything had a hidden meaning.
Microfilm may wear out, but it does not lie. PG found an article announcing the change in the Atlanta Constitution. There was no mention of protesting integration. The fishwrapper, and the politicians, spoke about honoring the Confederacy.
The argument over changing the state flag was totally symbolic. The issues that affect communities of color, and communities without color, were not affected. Economic opportunity, equitable justice, access to housing and education… none of these life or death issues were affected by having the Saint Andrews cross on the state flag. The squabbling over the state flag was a proxy fight over black vs white. Pictures today are from “The Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library”. Most of today’s photos are from 1954 – 1956.
She Always Carries Jonquils
PG found Archival Atlanta: Electric Street Dummies, the Great Stonehenge Explosion, Nerve Tonics, and Bovine Laws : Forgotten Facts and Well-Kept Secrets from Our City’s Past at the Chamblee library. There are always more stories to be heard. This repost has pictures from “The Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library”. It is written like Margaret Mitchell.
In the 1840s, the Western and Atlantic railroad wanted to hook up with the Central of Georgia railroad. The spot for the meeting was called Terminus. One idea was to name the town for William Lumpkin, a former Georgia Governor and a railroad executive. Lumpkinville sounded bad in the mouth, and the new town was named “Marthasville”, after the daughter of the Governor. (Martha is buried in Oakland Cemetery.) Few people liked this name, and someone decided that the feminine form of Atlantic was Atlanta. Unlike the state flag, this is unlikely to change.
The new town prospered, and recovered from the unpleasantness of 1864. In 1875, there was a problem with stray cows. The answer was the “1875 Cow Ordinance”. The law required that cows be kept in a pen at night. A fine of two dollars was assessed for every stray cow that was caught.
About this time, there were a few very busy railroad tracks going through downtown. People were getting tired of waiting for the trains to go through. One by one, viaducts were built over the tracks, creating a forgotten ground floor. This was built up into Underground Atlanta in the sixties, which was red hot for a while, then cooled off, and is now so so.
In 1897, J.W. Alexander was the first person in town to own a “horseless carriage”. One day, he decided to take a ride to East Point. A mule objected, and kicked man and machine into a ditch.
It is a rule that all history books about Atlanta have to discuss Coca Cola and Gone With The Wind. There are only so many stories to go around. This book tells of an Alpharetta farmer who bought the Tara set from MGM. He stored in a barn, the location of which was a secret. Betty Talmadge wanted to buy it, and the price went from $375k to $5k. After a while, the sale was finalized. There was only one problem…the farmer died, and never told anyone where the barn was. Mrs. Talmadge got the money from her husband’s overcoat, went to Alpharetta, and found the barn. The set was moved into another secret location, where it was in 1996, when Archival Atlanta was published, at an undisclosed local location.
Sam and William Venable owned Stone Mountain, and had a quarry there. (The Ku Klux Klan held meetings on the mountain.) (The spell check suggestion for Ku Klux is Kook Klutz.) Sam built a large granite house at 1410 Ponce de Leon Avenue, and stocked it with ammunition. He thought a race war was on the way, and wanted to be prepared. One night, a chimney overheated. The roof caught on fire. The explosives in the attic exploded, and took the roof off. The house was repaired, Mr. Venable died, and the house became part of a Lutheran church.
One of the few ante bellum houses in Atlanta is near Grant Park. It was once owned by Lemuel Grant, who donated the land for the park. He stays in a large marble house in Oakland Cemetery now. The Grant Park house was purchased by Mr. and Mrs. John Marsh, in partnership with Boyd Eugene Taylor. After the death of Mrs. Marsh (also known as Margaret Mitchell), she was known to visit the house. “Margaret just wanders through the house, looking things over. She never talks, and she always carries jonquils. The first night she came I was very shocked. I went out to her grave at Oakland Cemetery the next day. I’d never been to the house before. But I was almost certain of what I’d find. The plot is covered by a bed of jonquils.”
Who Ran The Slave Trade?
PG was just hanging out, minding his own business, when he saw a bit of twitter synchronicity. This is when you see two tweets together, with no apparent causal relationship, but that seem to make a statement. The two tweets were: @iamduanus The best lies are the ones so despicable people get ostracized for questioning their validity…..or so I’ve heard @brolykogan_ Jews started and monopolized the slave trade, Jews have always been the archenemy of African people. @iamduanus did not reply. @brolykogan_ did.
@BrolyKoganHotep Are you saying that the Jews who wrote of this in their own histories were lying? Wouldn’t that be antisemitic?
@chamblee54 do you have a link for that? this was twitter synchronicity, not a judgement of truth
Dr. Tony Martin – The Jewish Role in the African Slave Trade
@BrolyKoganHotep The Dutch West India company was a Jewish venture. Christopher Columbus was a Jew, Jews owned the sugar plantations and rum distilleries
@BrolyKoganHotep Slave auctions were never held on Jewish holidays, Jews manufactured the shackles and ships, Jews worked in tandem with Arabs throughout
Speculative history is a sketchy affair. When Jews are involved, it gets sketchier. PG found an item about the Rothschild bank recently, Why Was The War Fought? The concept here is that the Rothschilds made money on the War Between the States. This may, or may not, be true.
Did Jews “monopolize” the slave trade? A bit of research shows that while some slave traders may have been Jewish, the overall operation was not run by Jews. One claim may have a bit of truth to it. Some evidence suggests that Christopher Columbus was a Jew who converted during the Spanish Inquisition. As for slave auctions and Jewish holidays, who knows? (These two tweets provide a bit of information. Unfortunately, no source is shown.) Pictures today are from “The Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library”.
Those Clowns In Virginia
display of a link on this page is not an indication of approval ~ Charlottesville suspect James A. Fields, Jr., revered Hitler as student ~ Convert Nation ~ Berkeley’s Top Dog fires employee who went to white nationalist rally ~ Peace Monument, Piedmont Park ~ The ‘Ironic Nazi’ Is Coming to an End ~ Quiz: Only 1 in 50 People Know The Meaning Of These 16 Old-Fashioned Words Jiggery-pokery, fortnight, Applesauce, humbuggery, the bees knees, Monkeyshine, bafflegab, thrice, hoodwink, plonker, Blithering, Piffle, Giggle water, fiddle-faddle, whimsy, the Cat’s Pajamas ~ For Black People Who Have To Deal With White People This Week ~ wypipo ~ It’s Official: White Allies Are the Worst Wypipo in the World ~ Is widely shared photo of black Charlottesville officer from August rally? ~ Atlanta protesters deface Peace Monument in Piedmont Park ~ Alex Ramos ~ waffle house ~ Donald Trump’s off-the-rails full news conference on Charlottesville response ~ Read the transcript of Donald Trump’s jaw-dropping press conference ~ Victim identified in Tuesday Thomasville shooting ~ Colorado Springs police officer fatally shoots shoplifter following foot chase ~ Anti-racism is worse than racism ~ Antifa: A Look at the Antifascist Movement Confronting White Supremacists in the Streets ~ Mystery deepens over Charlottesville helicopter crash as it is revealed that no distress call was made and that no flight data was recorded ~ @williamsforga 4 days & counting! @CaseyCagle still hasn’t publicly condemned #Charlotteville riot. Where does Casey stand on white supremacists? #gapol ~ How America Spreads the Disease that is Racism by not Confronting Racist Family Members and Friends ~ Virginia State Police Say They Didn’t Find Caches of Weapons in Charlottesville ~ Bucks woman: Dead rodent baked into my Chick-fil-A sandwich ~ Man misidentified as Charlottesville attacker had to flee home; now plans on suing ~ Charlottesville Aftermath ~ Alex Michael Ramos on participation in Charlottesville VA violence ~ Noam Chomsky: Antifa is a ‘major gift to the Right’ ~ then they came ~ Huge Blobs of Fat and Trash Are Filling the World’s Sewers ~ The Complete List of Racists ~ Why Did A State Trooper Try To Stop Medics From Performing CPR On Heather Heyer? ~ Take It from These Locals: Atlanta Has a Lot to Offer in the Outdoors ~ Gender Stereotyping in Academia: Evidence from Economics Job Market Rumors Forum The 30 words most uniquely associated with discussions of women make for uncomfortable reading. In order, that list is: hotter, lesbian, bb (internet-speak for “baby”), sexism, tits, anal, marrying, feminazi, slut, hot, vagina, boobs, pregnant, pregnancy, cute, marry, levy, gorgeous, horny, crush, beautiful, secretary, dump, shopping, date, nonprofit, intentions, sexy, dated and prostitute. ~ Evidence of a Toxic Environment for Women in Economics ~ Stephen Foster’s Lucky Toes ~ UVa Employee Suffers a Stroke After Campus Clash With White Supremacists ~ U.S. Generals Lead Unprecedented Revolt Against Trump, Their Commander in Chief ~ @chamblee54 @bdmcclay @AryehCW I enjoyed show ~ It was interesting to learn about small size of the park. ~ White people, here are 10 requests from a Black Lives Matter leader ~ Colin Kaepernick has never registered to vote in any election ~ Georgia Hate Map: Group Shows Active Racist Organizations ~ Second Kissimmee Police Officer dies after Friday night shooting ~ Malik Mohammad Ali ~ Everett Glenn Miller: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know ~ the Talking Heads ~ @bostonpolice #BPD is asking individuals to refrain from throwing urine, bottles and other harmful projectiles at our officers. ~ Women’s Suffrage Leaders Left Out Black Women ~ Slavery And Global Warming ~ Rhett Butler “I told you once before that there were two times for making big money, one in the up-building of a country and the other in its destruction. Slow money on the up-building, fast money in the crack-up. Remember my words. Perhaps they may be of use to you some day. (Rhett Butler)” ~ Two President Who Died Defying the Rothschilds ~ Open Thread: Buckhead’s party era officially died 10 years ago. What’s your wildest memory? ~ personal news ~ After Gemmel Moore’s Death, New Victim Comes Forward and Recounts Ed Buck’s ‘Gates of Hell’ ~ tesselations ~ Calling those clowns in Virginia Nazis is a stretch. World War 2 Germany was a serious war machine. The tiki torch boys don’t even come close. ~ Why do you flatter the tiki torch boys by calling them nazis? Their star performer was kicked out of the army for failing to meet standards ~ There is a video, which I cannot find now. The policeman was standing in front of an angry mob. People were yelling at him. One person was asking whether he thought a police killing was murder. The policeman kept his cool. He did not let people further damage the monument. This monument was built to celebrate the reconciliation of the north and the south. In effect, it celebrates the abolition of slavery. This is the statue that the mob labelled a confederate monument, worthy of destruction. Yes the policeman is a hero. ~ Mental Health 101: Ignore Donald Trump. ~ When the EC was conceived, “majority vote” had not been invented. ~ antifa is getting a free pass, and are going to be emboldened the next time something happens… i just want to know what the deal is with james fields was he paid to ram that car into those people, was he ordered to by some higher up, is he just a loose cannon that snapped, is he working for the government? i vote for loose cannon that snapped, with the tiki torch crowd getting the blame he certainly took this thing to another level ~ King George III disagrees. ~ Is there a video of arrest of James Fields, and the helicopter crash? There is a video of everything else that weekend in VA @handymayhem ~ racist isn’t working anymore so they have to say nazi, or that word that rhymes with trigger ~ is #antifa communist? Once, pre mature antifacist meant communist ~ The uncritical support for antifa is troubling. ~ Was this the Piedmont Park incident? I did not see that in the videos I saw. ~ 4 free articles remaining Not A Subscriber? Become One Today! Click here to register for 5 additional free articles every 30 days. To sign in to your account Click here. ~ Too much food for thought can lead to mental indigestion ~ There is a meme. It shows a picture of American soldiers making an amphibious landing. This is being compared to the people who fought with the protesters in Charlottesville. The soldiers were wading onto a beach while being killed by machine guns. The anti-protesters were throwing feces at overweight idiots. Please stop making this comparison. It is an insult to our fighting men, and, frankly, an insult to the Germans they were fighting. ~ Hmm I have heard LOTS of opinions this week about C-ville. I may skip over this, to get to the stories…. The old saying is that opinions are like assholes, every body has got one. Kevin, we all know how much you like butts. Maybe you can talk more about butts more, and less about political opinions. ~ Did anyone ever say, in 2012, that if you vote for Romney you are a racist? A mixed race man won that election ~ Kevin I was only able to listen to 8:44 of your message about Charlottesville. I agree with some of what you said. I disagree with some of what you said. I feel that many things you said were true, but not especially relevant to the incident. However, what I did not hear was anything I had not heard before. ~ People are encouraged to speak up. It is said that if you are silent, you are encouraging the bad guys. I disagree. If you feel that you must add to the noise, without bringing understanding, that you are contributing to the alienation. There is an old saying… if you can’t say anything good, don’t say anything at all. … There is a lot of rhetoric going around. You are certainly entitled to your opinion, and there are some who will benefit from listening. However, I am not one of them. … There is another old saying… opinions are like assholes, everybody has one. We know how much Kevin Allison likes butts. I hope you are not as fond of your political opinions as you are that body part. It is much more entertaining, and causes less emotional turmoil, to hear you talk about butts. ~ @dadtellsjokes I’m thinking about getting a new haircut… I’m going to mullet over. ~ “richard spencer started this whole thing and caused three people to die.” James Fields is probably a loose cannon. While Mr. Spencer is a yukky person, and it is convenient to blame him, is the action by Mr. Fields really the fault of Mr. Spencer? And how did Mr. Spencer cause the helicopter to crash? ~ Please tell all the contacts in your messenger list not to accept Jayden K. Smith friendship request. He is a hacker and has the system connected to your Facebook account. If one of your contacts accepts it, you will also be hacked, so make sure that all your friends know it. Thanks. Forwarded as received. ~ Hold your finger down on the message. At the bottom in the middle it will say forward. Hit that then click on the names of those in your list and it will send to them Chat Conversation End Type a message… ~ “What else do you need?” Maybe an arrest warrant from the Charlottesville Police. ~ KimKierkegaardashian @KimKierkegaard To be a genius on twitter is to be misunderstood ~ Thomas Jefferson did more than own slaves. ~ @ChrchCurmudgeon If you need to know something about the history of candles, you can look it up on wickipedia. You could burn up hours. ~ @chamblee54 @GlennLoury @JohnHMcWhorter between taping & broadcasting this comment, two policemen were shot dead in Florida ~ both DJT and BHO enabled the Saudi slaughter in Yemen ~ Hitler was a good entertainer/motivator, but a lousy military strategist. Hopefully, we won’t get to make that comparison. ~ On a related note, whatever rude things you say about the Germans in WW2, they were a tough army. It is preposterous to call these alt-right clowns nazis. And very few people make that distinction. And to take antifa throwing urine at the alt-right, and say that is the same thing as the D-Day landing, is an insult to the men who fought there, on both sides. ~ @dadtellsjokes Did you hear about the Italian chef who died? He pasta way ~ @datassque yall tired of boiling water every time you make pasta? boil a few gallons at the beginning of the week and freeze it for later. ~ That is a bad comparison. The soldiers in that picture were greeted with machine guns, and suffered heavy casualties. Antifa was greeted with clubs and angry talk. That meme is an insult to the fighting men, on both sides, of that landing. ~ pictures for this waste of time and bandwidth are from “The Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library”. ~ selah
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