Fear & Loathing Part Two
This is Part Two of my journey with Fear & Loathing in the New Jerusalem, a podcast series by Darryl Cooper aka @MartyrMade. Other episodes of this effort are available. 041525 042325 042625 Disclaimer This is a greatly simplified view of what happened. For more information, you can listen to FLNJ, or google one of the many histories of this era. … At the end of this post, we will see that googling for more information can have its limits.
April 15, 2025 My morning walk today was a trip to the county office to buy next year’s auto tag. It is 1.54 miles from my house to the office. When I got there, I had to go through a metal detector wielding security guard. He looked in my bag, and would not let me take my bottle of tea into the office. As soon as I got in the office, I was waited on, and got my tag business done quickly.
I am finished with FLNJ-2. The last part was about the time between roughly 1922 and 1925. More Zionist settlers are coming into Palestine. There is a debate about whether settlers should take over, or whether they should get along with their neighbors. Unfortunately the Jaffa riots took place.
According to this narrative, the trouble began when a groups of settlers were having a march somewhere, and one Zionist group attacked the other. The British police got involved, and the Arabs started to hear that the settlers were causing trouble. The Arabs got involved, and it was a great big mess. After that after that there was little talk of getting along with your neighbors. This development had unfortunate consequences for the whole Zionist project.
After posting FLNJ Part One, u/chamblee54 made a comment at r/martyrmade announcing the publication of Fear & Loathing Part One. There was a festive comment thread. HughNormousPeanus “I made this list during my last listen hope it helps” (This list was the actors in the F&L drama. It may prove helpful in the production of the series.) Chamblee54 “Thank you. I may want to borrow from this in my series. I hope your co-worker wasn’t listening at work. He might not get anything else done. Always remember, Douglas Murray could have done this in one week.” HughNormousPeanus ‘Douglas Murray is a three letter word I can’t say on Reddit starting with F ending in G with an A in the middle” Chamblee54 “Oh my. I am a gay man. I do not appreciate that. His sexual honeydew list is about the only good thing I can say about that idiot.” HughNormousPeanus “I’d tell you to appreciate these nuts but you probably would I can’t think of anything more derogatory to call Douglas Murray you’ll have to get over it.”
Later in the day. … I took a different route back from the county office, making the round trip 2.87 miles. I downloaded FLNJ-3, and listened to the whole thing on a trip to a pizza buffet on Pleasant Hill Road. FLNJ-3 is only 1:44:03, and is not a narrative history. Instead, MartyrMade discusses the honor culture among the Arab people in West Asia. Societies are not governed by institutions as much as families and tribes. This is how mankind has operated until recently. There was one quote that made me pull into a parking lot and make a note. 33:18 “what civilization does is relieve us of the burden of needing to be honest all the time.”
April 16, 2025 I started to listen to FLNJ-4 on my morning walk. Immediately after the opening montage, FLNJ-4 got very interesting. “Late one Friday afternoon in 1924, the Orthodox Jewish rabbi Yaakov Yisroel Dehan was walking back from his synagogue to his home in Jerusalem …”
Jacob de Haan a Dutchman, was a Gay Poet, an Orthodox Jew, and an all around piece of work. In 1919, he left The Netherlands for Palestine. “On the day of his departure, thousands of fans crowded Amsterdam’s train station, waving frantically and singing “Hatikvah.” At least one chronicler of the occasion joked that many present just wanted to make sure that he’d really gone.”
Rabbi de Haan soon became disillusioned by the reality of Palestine, after hearing about the high minded vision of a Jewish homeland. He began to display his talent for pissing people often. One quote seems to sum up his attitude. “Ever the polyglot, he quickly studied Arabic, and took great pleasure in upsetting the Zionists he’d meet by demanding that they speak to him in Arabic, an official language according to the British bylaws.” Eventually, he got enough people mad at him.
When the Zionists killed Yaakov Yisroel Dehan on July 1, 1924 I found an article written about YYD shortly after his death. It was republished in 2002, by a contemporary group with similar ideas about Israel. “NKI is the voice of Religious Jews world wide in their Torah-based opposition to the State of Israel” … “At a time when the first followers of the Zionist movement began streaming into the Holy Land in large numbers, defiling the holiness of the land, and by virtue of their idiotic ideas began to work to expel the Arabs who had been living there for centuries in order to establish a Zionist state.”
April 17, 2025 The process of listenting to FLNJ is turning into a war of attrition. The gee whiz phase is over. I am 69 minutes into FLNJ-4. The saga is sometime in the 1920’s, and is being overwhelmed by problems. The Arabs are not going anywhere, and have plenty of issues with the British and the settlers. The settlers are quarelling with each other about the direction of the Zionist project. There is a lot more action to come.
My life continues. Every morning in April, I repost an old picture poem for national poetry month. Today, it was something from Psalm 46. I got unwound talking about that on facebook, and decided on a possible definition for God … something that we cannot fully know or understand, but just might be real. … It is too nice a day to worry about this.
At 1:24:00, Darryl gets onto a source of support for the Zionists. They have the backing of several Western European nations, most notably Great Britain. Some cynical people said these nations just wanted to get rid of the Jews. Whatever. Another source of support is the Rothschild family.
Illuminati talk often involves the Rothschilds, and can get antisemitic quickly. Darryl mentioned the wars that were financed by the Rothschilds. There have always been rumors of the Rothschilds financing both sides of a war, and of egging on the warring parties, so as to make money from the ensuing carnage. There are rumors about the War Between the States … the London branch financing the Union, with the Paris branch financing the Confederacy. This is difficult to confirm or deny, and inevitably leads to Illuminati talk.
The Zionists had unity, and access to resources, not enjoyed by the Arabs in Palestine. It is interesting to speculate how the Zionist project would have gone, had it waited until after the influx of oil revenues into the Arab world. At this point, we might note the presence of Iran, which is Persian rather than Arab. The saga of Iran over the last 80 years is consequential … the 1953 coup, the 1979 revolution, the Iran-Iraq war, the ongoing conflict with Israel and the United States. The story of Iran is just as consequential as the story of Israel.
April 18, 2025 I finished my morning walk without incident. The stock market is closed for good friday. The last report: −527.16 (1.33%) Apr 17, 4:55PM EDT. In a few minutes, I will drive over to Drew Valley, for their community yard sale.
I am now at 4:04:09 of FLNJ-4. It is 1929 in the New Jerusalem. Radical Zionists are forcing matters, into faster action. The Arab population does not like it. The British don’t know what to do. The situation gets very, very ugly. See Disclaimer at top of post.
The yard sale will be celebrated on Saturday. While driving back, I heard the last few minutes of FLNJ-4. Darryl mentions something I had never heard before. At some point in this era, the United States and Great Britain restricted Jewish immigration. Darryl says the fear was about communist revolutionaries coming into the country. At this time, most of the Bolsheviks were Jewish, and the Russian revolution was seen by many as a Jewish revolution. When I try to find out more about this, the only google results are to sources concerned with anti-semitism. Any information about communism being a motivation are very difficult to find.
Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. Russell Lee took the facebook photograph in July, 1941. “Lunch at carnival stand, Fourth of July, Vale, Oregon”
Flaunt Of The Sunshine
Fact checking spurious quote by Walt Whitman, using search target “sunshine.” Sunshine appeared six times in “Leaves of Grass” · Flaunt of the sunshine I need not your bask—lie over! · O for the sunshine and motion of waves in a song! · Sunshine, storm, cold, heat, forever withstanding, passing, carrying, · No women looking on nor sunshine to bask in, it did not conclude with applause, · A thick gloom fell through the sunshine and darken’d me, · Sunshine upon the mountains—many a distant strain · To the cities and farms I sing as they spread in the sunshine before me.
Douglas Murray made a snide comment about Darryl Cooper. … Rogan: Have you ever absorbed any of his material, have you ever consumed any of his podcasts or anything like that? Murray: I tried it’s pretty hard to listen to somebody who says “I don’t know what I’m talking about but now I’m going to talk or I don’t know about this or I’m not capable of debating this historian but I’m going to just tell you what I think.” If you listen to a minute of “Fear and Loathing in the New Jerusalem” you will know this is not true.
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041225 – 1641 Saturday afternoon I am sitting in the Marta parking lot, waiting for Mac to get to the station. It has been a good afternoon. I was downloading Bob Dylan albums, (one two three four) while listening to “Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.: The Hippies.” … Episode 113, September 3, 1968, Guests: Lewis Yablonsky, Ed Sanders, Jack Kerouac.” There was a tasty quote from Mr. Keruoac: “I said there are people who make a a rule of creating chaos so that once the chaos is under way they can then be elected as the people who take care of the chaos” …””I said there are people who make a a rule of creating chaos so that once the chaos is under way they can then be elected as the people who take care of the chaos.”
The fbf sent me this image in a dm. It is a link to a video. The caption read “TRUMP BROUGHT RACISM TO THE POLICE …” This all-caps screed forced me to reply. “Hey. This image rubs me the wrong way. I don’t appreciate Trump-bashing. I don’t like the man, but nonstop trumptrashtalk is part of the reason the idiot is in the White House. I don’t like ALL CAPS talk about racial dysfunction, especially when this shouting is done to spread hatred. While I do not appreciate police excesses, I also realize they have a tough, dirty, necessary job.”
A fbf recently cited Matthew 10:33 to make a point. … 33 But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven. … Fbf did not mention what Jesus said next. (Fbf assumes that Jesus really did say these things.) … 34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. 35 For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
When you post to allpoetry, they require you to comment on two other poems · Obsolescence is the ontological result of hematologist vampire conscience struggle with morphodite baseball · my only regret is that I have but one **** to give for my country · money wise, sex wise, knowledge wise, technology wise” These are all oxymorons · this is what Hunter S Thompson meant when he said “buy the ticket, take the ride” · “And called him **** ” Jesus has the curse of being remembered in a culture that will not spell out what he was called. … The pictures are from The Library of Congress. John Collier took the photographs in November 1942. Pittsburgh PA (vicinity). Montour no. 4 mine of the Pittsburgh Coal Company. Miner’s wife, who is an Office of Civilian Defense first aid nurse. · selah
Fear & Loathing Part One
April 13, 2025 – I am beginning Fear & Loathing in the New Jerusalem (FLNJ), a six part series by Darryl Cooper (middle name unavailable), aka @MartyrMade. This might prove to be a bit of a challenge. The podcast itself is easy to find as a free download. However, a transcript (the lazy blogger’s ally) might prove challenging. After googling several paywalled sources, I found a youtube edition. This will provide a transcript.
I begin this journey a few days after the infamous JRE featuring Douglas Kear Murray and Dave-no middle name-Smith. I am on team Dave, and found DKM to be an obnoxious purveyor of bad faith rhetoric. At one point, Rogan was trying to say that DC has done 30 plus hours of podcasting about Israel/Palestine. DKM interrupted him, to say “So what. 30 plus hours of podcasting, you do that in a week” I am just starting to listen to that 30 hours. I doubt that I will finish in a week.
There are so many ironies in FLNJ-1. DKM stridently said, in effect, that DS should not talk about Israel if he had not been there. At 59:54, DC mentions that “Herzl (Theodor Herzl, the founder of Zionism) had never even been to Palestine when he published his pamphlet calling for the Jews to move there.” In another head scratcher, at 24:44 we learn: “Zionism was competing for recruits with Bolshevism, and these other radical movements. It’s a competition which Winston Churchill … would later call quote little less than a struggle for the soul of the jewish people.” DC opened a can of worms when he said the Mr. Churchill was the real villain of World War II.
Eventually, though a series of World War I related events, Britain issued The Balfour Declaration. This document promised a “national home” for the Jewish people. Unfortunately, Britain had already promised the Arabs their own independent state. Britain also promised France that Palestine would be under international rule. These conflicting promises would lead to problems.
April 14, 2025 Today’s visit with FLNJ is with Episode 2, on my morning walk. FLNJ-2 begins by talking about the effect of World War I on the Arab populations of West Asia. The colonial powers … The English, The French, The Ottoman Empire … were conscripting Arabs to go fight in their war. These men did not understand why they had to go kill each other. This is not surprising, since the European conscripts did not understand the war either.
The first two hours of FLNJ-2 concern the events in Palestine after World War I ended. As could have been predicted, Britain broke its promise to the Arabs. The Balfour Declaration stood, and a portion of Palestine was “given” to the Zionists, under British administration. Meanwhile, Syria became a French governed territory. The Zionists began to build things, including militias. The Arabs were not happy, and the British managed to upset everybody. Before long, people began killing each other, and the whole thing devolved into a quagmire. … This is a greatly simplified view of what happened. For more information, you can listen to FLNJ, or google one of the many histories of this era. … I am going to copy that disclaimer for later use.
Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. Russell Lee took the facebook picture in May 1938, Southeast Missouri Farms. Farmers talking together in cooperative store. La Forge project, Missouri. There are more episodes of the Fear & Loathing series available. 041825 042325 042625
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#nationalpoetrymonth 14/30 · 37,027.67 • -1,287.19 (-3.36%) today Apr 7, 9:34 AM EDT • Disclaimer … This is probably not going to be a good day. You might as well enjoy the monday morning reader, and some pictures from the GSU Library · This is the monday morning reader for #BlackMonday2025. At Apr 7, 9:52AM EDT, we see −1,216.09 (3.17%). And now for something completely different. When x posts a link, they embed the title of the post in the corner of the picture. · 1- Windows 11 had a learning curve, but is working out fine. There are some things I really like about it. 2- I have a Logi wireless keyboard, that I got from Walmart, and I can’t remember what it cost, except that it really wasn’t that bad. 3- I have had very good luck working with Delta computers in Doraville 4- I agree that desktops can do things easily that are more work on a laptop, or impossible on a smart phone. 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Mr. Murray makes a snide comment about Darryl Cooper. … Rogan: Have you ever absorbed any of his material, have you ever consumed any of his podcasts or anything like that? Murray: I tried it’s pretty hard to listen to somebody who says “I don’t know what I’m talking about but now I’m going to talk or I don’t know about this or I’m not capable of debating this historian but I’m going to just tell you what I think.” · Joe Rogan was trying to say that Darryl Cooper has done 30 plus hours of podcasting about Israel and Palestine. Douglas Murray interrupted him, to say “So what. 30 plus hours of podcasting, you do that in a week” · “And called him **** ” Jesus has the curse of being remembered in a culture that will not spell out what he was called. · “he spits on the floor and says **** off” The barmaid interpretted this rudeness as four star desire. · people that disagree with anything that’s happening any gigantic world events it’s one of these [ __ ] shows where there are screaming there’s the word again we brought it we were just talking about that the word [ __ ] is back and it’s one of the great culture victories that I think is spurred on probably by · @RichardHanania “People who go into border security sometimes do so because it’s the one job you can legally hurt innocent people for fun.” This is also why people go into the ministry. · @DouglasKMurray “So what. 30 plus hours of podcasting, you do that in a week.” If God can make the world in a week, then .@martyrmade can make “Fear and Loathing in the New Jerusalem” in a week. @ComicDaveSmith @joerogan · Jack Keruoac: “I said there are people who make a a rule of creating chaos so that once the chaos is under way they can then be elected as the people who take care of the chaos” · Does anyone else find these “debates” to be extremely tiresome? It is one thing to discuss ideas. However, what we are talking about is a “battle” using bad faith rhetoric and fallacious logic as weapons. The one who “wins” is the one who shouts loudest. @ComicDaveSmith · debbi דְבוֹרָה @RedeemedRags I once swallowed a book of synonyms. It gave me thesaurus throat l’ve ever had · I was scrolling down the list of poems on “this page”. I needed two comments of other poems, before my offering would hit the ether. I saw the word “nasties” in the sample, and realized I had a winner here. · The prejudice of haters and prudes is usually best ignored. If you fight back, you are wrestling with a hog, and will get dirty. Of course, wrestling with K-Gear might be fun. The dirtier you both get, the better. · A fbf recently cited Matthew 10:33 to make a point. … 33 But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven. … Fbf did not mention what comes next. … 34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. 35 For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. 36 And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household. 37 He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. · I just started “Fear and Loathing in the new Jerusalem.” @DouglasKMurray says he could have produced that show in a week. 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Conspiracist Part Three
After posting Conspiracist Part Two, I posted Thoughts on Conspiracy at r/ContraPoints. “Conspiracist Part Two is a blog post about a recent entertainment from Natalie Wynn, aka Contrapoints. Collating the many trains of thought into coherent content proved to be a challenge. While generating some traffic to the post, this notice received little positive attention. Later, this appeared: “Sorry, this post has been removed by the moderators of r/ContraPoints.” u/2mock2turtle made an uncharitable comment. This has been consistent with my experience at other sub-reddits, with mods making arbitrary deletions based on whatever the rules are that day.
For national poetry month, I post an old poem every day. Today, it was an autobiographical piece, Wanted To Sleep. There were some revisions over the years, and I had the bright idea to update the slide show today. It was opening a can of worms. The font I used in 2018 is no longer in my machine. Fortunately, I downloaded a copy. I kept remembering lines to update as I went along, finally reshooting 4 captions. Make the new images, collate the with the old, and post to wordpress. God is in the details, or maybe it is Satan. …
This involves copying everything, and then keeping track of what is where. Enter the whole thing in the library, and create a new file for the phone. It is rather taxing on my mental health, even without googling dow jones every time I open a browser to see how bad the stock market crash is. Apr 3, 11:08 AM EDT • Disclaimer • −1,586.92 (3.76%)today • 40,638.40 • OK, one nervous breakdown at a time. I have done everything necessary for today’s npm post. It is time to stretch, and go for my walk.
The latest episode of You Must Remember This is about George Cukor, who directed the movie version of “My Fair Lady.” A condition for getting the rights to MFL was that the Jack Warner needed to hire Cecil Beaton, an old queen who did not like old queen Cukor. There is a delicious quote. It seems as though Mr. Beaton went to one of Mr. Cukor’s fabulous pool parties. Mr. Beaton “was sickened by … a scene when a fair young Adonis massaged the back of George’s shoulders so violently that his gray-haired covered breasts wobbled like jellies.”
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try losing girlfriends · despite rejection you will · ride perfect laughter · Brigitte Macron has bigger hands than Donald Trump · arthur Rothstein took the featured photograph in June 1942. “Brooklyn NY Red Hook housing project. Boys in the woodcraft class at the community center” · This is what I did last week. Among other things, I looked into the persistent (percistent) rumors about Brigitte Macron’s gender. I found a picture of Mme. Macron, whose hands appear to be larger than those of our cis male POTUS · الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social If Palestine is the litmus test everybody has failed it, so it’s not a surprise the West is in a dire State. The same men bombing brown & Black people indiscriminately will also snatch your white elderly Mom’s social security. That’s why fighting for rights can’t be selective. Everybody or nobody. · Various high level actors in the Trump Administration were discussing military action against Yemen. · Various high level actors in the Trump Administration were discussing military action against Yemen. The discussion was in an online venue, “Houthi PC small group.” Included in HPCSG was Jeffrey Goldberg, a journalist at “The Atlantic.” … “the Hegseth post contained operational details of forthcoming strikes on Yemen, including information about targets, weapons the U.S. would be deploying, and attack sequencing.” … NSC spokesman Brian Hughes: “The thread is a demonstration of the deep and thoughtful policy coordination between senior officials. The ongoing success of the Houthi operation demonstrates that there were no threats to troops or national security.” · ” The ongoing success of the Houthi operation demonstrates that there were no threats to troops or national security.” The USS Harry S. Truman disagrees. · Marjory Collins took the linked photograph in February 1943. “New York NY Band in an Irish-American restaurant O’Reilly’s at Third Avenue and Fifty-Fourth Street, on Saturday night.” · Anita Bryant made her departure December 16, 2024.Jack Ruby (1911-1967), Howard Cosell (1918-1995), Flannery O’Connor (1925-1964), Gloria Steinem (1934-present), Anita Bryant (1940-2024), Aretha Franklin (1942-2018), and Elton John (1947-present) · when a baby is circumcised, some ritual Jewish circumcisers (mohelim) do a practice called metzitzah b’peh. Metzitzah b’peh is when the mohel uses their mouth to suck blood away from the baby’s circumcision wound as part of the circumcision ritual. After metzitzah b’peh, some babies can get an infection. · Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. Marjory Collins took the facebook picture in February 1943. “New York NYImporter of Oriental and Italian foods on First Avenue at Tenth Street” · I’ll quote another Marjorie tweet ’cause she thinks with the same subtlety that she does pull-ups, quote, we are in a battle between good and evil. The Democrats are the party of pedophiles, murdering the innocent unborn, et cetera, et cetera. The Democrat party is flat out evil and yesterday they tried to murder President Trump. Imagine the Democrats attempting something as proactive as an assassination, not really. · Marjorie thinks with the same subtlety that she does pull-ups “Democrat party is flat out evil yesterday they tried to murder President Trump” Imagine Democrats attempting something as proactive as an assassination · I was listening to cp, and she was talking about how you can see satan if you fold a dollar bill just right … actually, you can see satan if you just look at the damn thing flat … and as soon as she said the s-word, the phone rang · Contrapoints, aka Natalie Wynn, is a dangerous content creator. When you consume her product, you can start to think like her. This can cause problems. · Russell Lee took the facebook photograph in April 1941. “Wife of railroad worker feeding her children. Chicago, Illinois” · In 2005, @DennisPrager had one question for opponents of Operation Iraqi Freedom: Do you believe we are fighting evil people in Iraq? He compared this to asking, in 1905, “Do you believe that whites who lynch blacks are evil?” · “Now it has to be said that a lot of these people are using Israel’s crimes against Palestine as a pretext and those crimes are real. And the Trump administration really is citing antisemitism to justify crackdowns on protests in universities. But it certainly doesn’t help that Conspiracists are exploiting the situation to promote Hitler and Jew hatred.” · Neal: Why is bitcoin worth anything? Bob: I don’t know. Why is gold worth anything? Neal: Why do you always answer my question with another question? · The facebook photograph: Clown with two children, Atlanta, Georgia, June 11, 1953. · “Ronstadt For President” is about Linda’s struggles to make it as a singer. Her looks got in the way. “… Hugh Hefner would be … “Let’s just shoot you with no clothes on, why don’t we?”… “Me with no clothes, imagine!” … · Pictures today are from The Library of Congress Marion Post Wolcott took the facebook picture in August 1941. “FSA borrower and two of his children. Laredo, Montana” · selah
Is Dennis Prager Dennis The Menace?
Why Are So Many Good Things Being Destroyed? is a recent offering from public nuisance Dennis Prager. It is a doozy. If you want to see the video, you can follow the link. Prager University (PU) has a transcript, and a study guide. The original concept of this post was to work with the study guide, and answer questions like “Why do you think that the Left destroyed the Boy Scouts?” Before we could get to those questions, there is an internet rumor to consider.
Did Dennis the Menace grow older, and become Dennis Prager? As some of you know, cartoonist Hank Ketcham really did have a son named Dennis. “The comic-strip Dennis was conceived … in 1950 … Alice Ketcham stormed into his studio, fuming “Your son is a menace!”
“But the years have not been as kind to Dennis, the cowlicked kid who innocently launched a cartoon empire. Now 46 (in 1993), he works as a tire retreader, living with his second wife, Janet, a part-time office cleaner, in a trailer park in Grove City, Ohio, just south of Columbus.
It is more than just geography and lifestyle, though, that distance father and son. For the past 28 years, they have barely seen each other and spoken only occasionally by phone. “I hear from Dennis about once a year, mostly when he needs money,” says Hank tersely. “I don’t want a closer relationship—nor do I want a confrontation.” “Dad can be like a stranger,” counters Dennis, who has never met his two half-siblings. …
” … Alice meanwhile … became an alcoholic. In 1959 she filed for divorce, and as her condition deteriorated, Dennis, then 12, was sent to a boarding school near Carmel. “I didn’t know what was going on,” says Dennis, “except that I felt Dad wanted me out of the way.” A few months after he left for school, his mother died from an accidental overdose of alcohol and barbiturates at the age of 41.”
“Shaken by his wife’s sudden death, Hank could not bring himself to break the news to Dennis over the phone. Nor could he even tell him in person—until shortly after Alice had been buried. “Mom had always been there when I needed her,” says Dennis. “I would have dealt with losing her a lot better had I been able to attend her funeral. …”
“…In 1966 he joined the Marines; during his subsequent year-long tour of duty in Vietnam, he says, “my grandmother and aunt sent me letters. But never Dad.” … Discharged in 1970, Dennis underwent three months of counseling for post-traumatic stress syndrome at a VA hospital and drifted through a succession of jobs—ranch hand, poultry-farm worker, prison guard.”
Meanwhile, Dennis Prager was born August 2, 1948 into an Orthodox Jewish family in New York City. Through various twists and turns, he became a radio star. Mr. Prager, known for hawkish military opinions, apparently did not serve in the United States military. This contrasts to Dennis Ketcham’s service in Vietnam. In all probability, Dennis Prager is not Dennis the Menace.
Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. Russell Lee took the pictures in April, 1941. Russell Lee took the facebook photograph in April 1941. “Wife of railroad worker feeding her children. Chicago, Illinois” This is a repost.
Uncle Slaughter Is Offended
It’s amazing today. Things picked up steam after my morning walk, when I stumbled on to the Houthi PC special group, aka HPCSG. They were discussing plans for the attack on Yemen. This attack on Yemen is incredibly foolish. Saudi Arabia/UAE, With American support, had a horrific war against Yemen for many years. We threw everything we could at Yemen. The thing is, their bomb launching facilities, and storage areas, are underground. The Yemeni war machine was not impacted by the slaughter going on aboveground. Yemen supports the Palestinians in their current struggle with Israel. Uncle Slaughter is offended.
Sally Struthers is on the Gilbert Gottfried’s Amazing Colossal Podcast. SAS describes the experience of being in a Stage production of The Odd Couple. Her costar, who SAS referred to as whoseburger, was a famous actress that SAS hated, and refused to say her name. GGMCP was playing on my ride home one afternoon. While I was waiting on my falafel plate to be ready, I googled SAS. Whoseburger turned out to be Rita Moreno, who had her fifteen minutes in “West Side Story,” back in the black and white tv days. SAS survived both TOC and Archie Bunker.
nyc.gov has a page, health-topics/safe-bris. If you go there, you learn about Metzitzah B’peh (Direct Oral Suctioning). “When a baby is circumcised, some ritual Jewish circumcisers (mohelim) do a practice called metzitzah b’peh. Metzitzah b’peh is when the mohel uses their mouth to suck blood away from the baby’s circumcision wound as part of the circumcision ritual. After metzitzah b’peh, some babies can get an infection. … To protect the health of New York City’s infants, the Commissioner of Health has ordered mohelim identified as having infected a baby with HSV-1 through metzitzah b’peh to not perform this …”
I finally went to the gym. Once there, I did my usual routine and moved onto the cardio machine. The entertainment today is Conspiracy, the new Contrapoints entertainment. CP is basically Natalie Wynn talking about what ever comes into her estrogenated mind. NW … no middle name, this is a trans identity, with her dead name an ungoogleable mystery … CP/NW is that unique youtuber makes use of the visual elements that are available. Most youtubewhiners are mere talking heads. Natalie is the exception, with fabulous sets and costumes. CP needs to be seen, which can be …
I copied the link to Conspiracy, and the seconds count in the code said 6383s. The entertainment had been going on for 6383s, or 1:46:23. I decided it would be fun to set the counter to 6666s, or 1:51:06. This will be followed by 6 seconds of action, from a tv crime show. Four people … three of whom are alive … are in a medical setting. The nurse shows a model of a human body part. Natalie comments “The framing of a police procedural provides a legitimate context that gives us permission to indulge”
It is the end of the day. I meditate until the alarm goes off, pull my mask off, turn the music off, and get ready to call it a day. It has been a good day. I didn’t get hit over the head or arrested. I saw some of the video with Contrapoints and made a video clip … it was about some conspiratorial bilge saying that the Democrats tried to kill Donald Trump. Natalie’s comment: “Imagine the Democrats attempting something as proactive as an assassination.” Or as organized as getting Thomas Crooks an unguarded roof, 400 yards … Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. Marion Post Wolcott took the facebook photograph in January 1941. “Old buildings in New Orleans, Louisiana”
Conspiracist
I was listening to a show, and the host quoted Dolly Rebecca Parton. “Figure out who you are. Then do it on purpose.” I made a note on my phone, and went on with my walk. Later, I went to google for “Dolly Parton the meaning of life” Predictably, the bot said “The meaning of life lies in God, family, and music, in that order.” DRP knows her audience. She also knows a good line, and remembers it for later use. It would probably be easier to find out when she did not say a quote, than when she did.
It can be so discouraging. I see a beautiful meme, expressing a great thought, from someone that I admire. When I try to find a source, I find problems. … This meme is a miracle. It is real. In 1885, Vincent Willem van Gogh sent a letter to painter Anthon van Rappard, while he was caught up in creating “The Potato Eaters”. “A somewhat different translation of the key sentence appeared in volume three of “The Complete Letters of Vincent Van Gogh” … “I am always doing what I can’t do yet in order to learn how to do it.”
Quote Sourcing might be the handle I have been looking for. When I see a quote … typically in a technicolor facebook meme … my instinct is to check it out. Unfortunately, memes do not lend themselves to copy/pasting text, So I have to type out the good words. I paste them into a google search, and see what happens. Quote debunking, investigation, authentication, and research have style issues. When I look into a quote, the core activity is finding a source. When you find the source, you can move on to attribution, authenticity, context and proper use.
“this place was you know founded as good trouble so you could call it the First Existentialist Congregation of good trouble ” This congregation is housed in a granite building on Candler Park Drive. As you may know, that house was built by Black people, before they were forced to move. I doubt very seriously that the original worshipers at that house would refer to their eviction as “good trouble.” What is GT to the good troublemaker is often seen by others as just plain trouble. While GT can have a positive effect, we should be careful that often GT only makes things worse.
Various high level actors in the Trump Administration were discussing military action against Yemen. The discussion was in an online venue, “Houthi PC small group.” Included in HPCSG was Jeffrey Goldberg, a journalist at “The Atlantic.” … “the Hegseth post contained operational details of forthcoming strikes on Yemen, including information about targets, weapons the U.S. would be deploying, and attack sequencing.” … NSC spokesman Brian Hughes: “The thread is a demonstration of the deep and thoughtful policy coordination between senior officials. The ongoing success of the Houthi operation demonstrates that there were no threats to troops or national security.”
The HPCSG story keeps getting better. On X, @michaelgwaltz is following @slim_sexy_trey aka Big Dick Bottom. A fair minded person might say, maybe this is another Michael Waltz. So you go to his site, and see his pinned post. ” @michaelgwaltz I am deeply honored President Trump is placing his trust in me to serve in his Cabinet as National Security Advisor. There is no higher calling than defending our nation’s values …” Meanwhile, @slim_sexy_trey ( Sexual Entertainment & Recreation _ Georgia USA) has not tweeted since January 6, 2025, and before that May 15, 2024. We do not know when @michaelgwaltz followed him.
In her video ”Conspiracy,” Contrapoints puts large font words on the screen. To a compulsive anagrammer like myself, this is an irresistible temptation. One is Conspiracism, anagramming into racism_cop_sin. This may be the perfect anagram for talk about conspiracies, and the authoritarianism at the heart of it. Racism_cop_sin brings three powerful elements of our culture into play: racial dysfunction, religion, police. All three are forms of authority, although few recognize the authoritarian control function that racial dysfunction serves. Police play into most conspiracy/authority scenarios, as does the Christian church. The Illuminati could not improve on this. … Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. Marjory Collins took the facebook picture in February 1943. “New York NY Importer of Oriental and Italian foods on First Avenue at Tenth Street”
Anita Aretha and Elton
In the early nineties, I had too much free time. On March 25 of one year, he looked in the fishwrapper, and found a list of famous people with birthdays.
There was an unlikely trio celebrating that day. This would be (in order of appearance) Anita Bryant (1940), Aretha Franklin (1942), and Elton John (1947). All three have been paid for singing. The three have a total of five husbands.
Several other people have arrived on planet earth on March 25. They include, in 1911, Jack Ruby, the killer of Lee Harvey Oswald (d. 1967) (They don’t say alleged when it was on live TV). 1918 produced Howard Cosell, American sports reporter (d. 1995). 1925 produced Flannery O’Connor (d. 1964). 1934 gave us Gloria Steinem. To make room for all this talent, Buck Owens died March 25, 2006. On August 16, 2018, Aretha Franklin was heaven bound, with Anita Bryant following December 16, 2024.
March 25 is after the spring equinox, and has been Easter. A few noteworthy events have gone down on this day. In 1894, Coxey’s Army departed Massillon, Ohio for Washington D.C. In 1911, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire killed 146 garment workers in New York City. In 1939 Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli becomes Pope Pius XII, to the delight of Adolph Hitler. 1955 saw the United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg’s poem “Howl” as obscene. In 1969, John Lennon and Yoko Ono began their first Bed-In for Peace at the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel.
HT and applause to wikipedia. This is a repost. Pictures are from The Library of Congress. Marjory Collins took the linked photograph in February 1943. “New York NY Band in an Irish-American restaurant O’Reilly’s at Third Avenue and Fifty-Fourth Street, on Saturday night.”
Brigitte Macron
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We only need to be lucky once. You need to be lucky every time. · “Today, we were unlucky. But remember, we only have to be lucky once — you have to be lucky always,” · @cianmaher0 In honour of all the jubilee stuff this week, allow me to remind you of the time old people on Facebook somehow managed to think the IRA’s warning to Margaret Thatcher after failing to assassinate her in 1984 was actually an inspirational quote attributable to Thatcher herself · I listened to your podcast. It is good to hear someone read it, while I do other things. You have a pleasant voice, and the sound quality is good. That said, the content … while true … is disheartening. We are in a world of s***. Sometimes all I can do is cry. · “how are you uh pretty good i can’t complain”@connorechols.bsky.social is following the script. · @teikokumatchco · Arthur Rothstein took the featured photograph in June 1942. “Queens NY Nursery school at the Queensbridge housing project. Drinking tomato juice” · @martyrmade Happy to be proven wrong by events, but the problem with bombing Yemen is that it’s just killing people to make ourselves feel good. KSA & UAE wrecked and starved Yemen for years, killed 100s of 1000s, to no strategic effect. We’re not going to change things with a few Tomahawks · This is frustrating. When I see an online figure being vilified, my first instinct is to see some of their content, so I can decide for myself. I had to go to some trouble to find out who @teikokumatchco was. They is just another idiot. Ignore them and they will go away · Mark 6:4 But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, but in his own country, and among his own kin, and in his own house. · I haven’t seen any of the posts you refer to. I do know that there is a lot of high octane rhetoric surrounding this issue. The military industrial complex is doing very well with this conflict, no matter which side wins. Some say that all wars are about money, and that is an important factor here. What happened before the Russian invasion of 2022 cannot be changed. The second-best we can hope for know is an end to the killing. The best thing to hope for is that nuclear weapons do not get involved. · “Sorry, this user has been suspended.” Idk about you, but I am happy when they kick another bot off this site · The featured photograph was taken April 21, 1969. “Mendel College for Fabric Knowledge” Fashion show (“Mendel College for Fabric Knowledge”) · Someone made a movie about an American plastic bag that winds up in the Pacific trash vortex. The Atlanta trash vortex has locations in Midtown and L5P · There are trans rumors floating around about Brigitte Marie-Claude Macron, the wife of French president Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron . I decided to find a picture of her. One google result was an article in WWD “Brigitte Macron Favors Utilitarian Styling With Statement Belt During Uzbekistan President’s Paris Visit.” The face is inconclusive. However, the hands tell a different story. · Russell Lee took the featured photograph in October 1938. “Refreshment stand at state fair, Donaldsonville, Louisiana” · October, 1938. Princesses at the National Rice Festival, Crowley, Louisiana. There were thirty of these chosen from different communities throughout the rice section, the Queen being chosen from them. · We have no record of John Lennon saying “Time you enjoy wasting was not wasted.” Today’s featured picture: “Princesses at the National Rice Festival, Crowley LA. There were thirty of these chosen from different communities throughout the rice section.” · @MaxBlumenthal · Tulsi in 2018: “It is absolutely outrageous that the United States has continued its support for years now for Saudi Arabia’s genocidal war in Yemen” · Tulsi in 2025: “Trump has taken decisive action [against Yemen] for our own safety, security and prosperity” · I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it · It can be so discouraging. I see a beautiful meme, expressing a great thought, from someone that I admire. When I try to find a source, I find problems. This meme is a miracle. It is real. In 1885, Vincent Willem van Gogh sent a letter to painter Anthon van Rappard, while he was caught up in creating “The Potato Eaters”. “A somewhat different translation of the key sentence appeared in volume three of “The Complete Letters of Vincent Van Gogh” … “I am always doing what I can’t do yet in order to learn how to do it.” He went on to say “Madness is salutary in that one becomes less exclusive.” · I saw this graphic on facebook, and investigated. The first result was from @QuoteResearch The quote is real. Vinnie said it in a letter to painter Anthon van Rappard in 1885. It can be so discouraging to find fake after fake with memes. It is wonderful to find a real one. · Quote Sourcing might be the handle I need. When I see a quote, my instinct is to check it out. Quote debunking, investigation, authentication, and research have style issues. Finding the source is the core activity. Attribution, context and proper use can follow. @QuoteResearch · This is a repost from 2023. Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. Russell Lee took the featured photograph in February 1940. “Son of Pomp Hall, Negro tenant farmer, feeding his father’s mule. Creek County, Oklahoma.” · FWIW, Tema Okun, the author of the second thoughts has had second thoughts about the way her work is used. The article at The Intercept is hidden behind the message “This is not a paywall.” There is no discussion on whether paywalls are a part of WSC. · This feature begins with a tweet about NYT reporting on youth gender medicine, and quickly degenerates into a chat about White Supremacy Culture®. · White Supremacy Culture Resources · Pictures today are from The Library of Congress The featured photograph was taken July 1864, during the War Between the States. “Broadway Landing, Va. Surgeons of 4th Division, 9th Corps” · n03-046_01 031723 · Pictures today are from Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library. Tracy O’Neal took the featured photograph in January 1951. “Peachtree Street, looking north from the Candler Building. · “this place was you know founded as good trouble so you could call it the first existentialist Congregation of good trouble” This congregation is housed in a granite building on Candler Park Drive. As you may know, that building was built by Black people, before they were forced to move. I doubt very seriously that the original worshipers at that house would refer to their eviction as “good trouble.” What is GT to the good troublemaker is often seen by others as just plain trouble. While GT can have positive effect, we should be careful that often GT only makes things worse. · Pictures today are from The Library of Congress Arthur Rothstein took the featured photograph in June 1942. “Brooklyn NY Red Hook housing project. Boys in the woodcraft class at the community center” · selah
Sin
The post below went up thirteen years ago. It deals with a publicity stunt from the Catholic church, an updated seven deadly sins. The statute of limitations may have run out on this message. The traditional “seven deadly sins” were anger, greed, sloth, pride, lust, envy, and gluttony.
The site linked above has a page, the seven deadly sins of Mohandas Gandhi. The subcontinental fashion icon lists Wealth without Work, Pleasure without Conscience, Science without Humanity, Knowledge without Character, Politics without Principle, Commerce without Morality, and Worship without Sacrifice. FWIW, the word Sin means without in Spanish.
After 1,500 years the Vatican has brought the seven deadly sins up to date by adding seven new ones for the age of globalization. The list, published yesterday in L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper, came as the Pope deplored the “decreasing sense of sin” in today’s “secularized world” and the falling numbers of Roman Catholics going to confession. The new deadly sins include polluting, genetic engineering, being obscenely rich, drug dealing, abortion, pedophilia and causing social injustice. HT to Fox News. (aka the eighth deadly sin.)
One reaction is to wonder, what language was used for the list? Phrases like “obscenely rich” and “causing social injustice” can mean different things, and one wonders about the nuance behind the original expression. Now, just about all of these “sins” can merit comments. Maybe the Catholic church is thinking of moving its headquarters to hell.
polluting We can talk about something where all have sinned, or who should throw the first stone. If you ride in a car, wear synthetic fibers, through away anything, use a less than perfect sewer system (or a functioning one on a rainy day with overflows), then you have polluted.
genetic engineering Here again, there are semantics galore. Much of the food we eat is tweaked by genetic breeding. This is something Euros get twitchy about, that doesn’t concern most Americans.
being obscenely rich This is one to wonder what the original Italian said. Compared to much of the world, a 900sf house is a palace. However, compared to many of the neighbors, it is lower middle class. Perhaps the emphasis should be on greed, selfishness, and how you gain this wealth. The tenth commandment says something about coveting. It is the forgotten commandment.
drug dealing Is there a distinction between legal and illegal drugs here? If you go by the damage that substances cause, then this rule will speak to bartenders and the clerk who sells cigarettes. Not to mention the media outlets who advertise cigarettes and beer, the legislators who condone these substances while prosecuting potheads, and a whole host of others. The legally based war on drugs is a disaster in this country. Do we really need to drag the Catholic church into it?
abortion If Mary had gotten an abortion, would Christians worship a vacuum cleaner? Seriously, the Catholic Corporation has flogged this donkey, to great profit, for years. If you don’t want abortions, promote contraception and adoption. Catholics should find another gimmick.
pedophilia When you up pedophile in the dictionary, you see a picture of a Catholic priest.
causing social injustice Can we have a better translation of this? Pictures today are from The Library of Congress The featured photograph was taken July 1864, during the War Between the States. “Broadway Landing, Va. Surgeons of 4th Division, 9th Corps”
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