Critical Becky Studies
Becky is a generic insult for *some* white women. If you don’t know what a Becky is, you might not understand the feature below. Chad is the equivalent expression for white men. He is not important enough to be studied critically. This is a repost. Very few of the links in this feature work in 2o25.
It started out with a tweet, about a symposium, Critical Becky Studies: Critical Explorations of Gender, Race, and the Pedagogies of Whiteness. Soon, I was googling CBS. The paywall protected Wall Street Journal had an article on CBS. The seminal article was at City Journal, Racial Resentment As Pedagogy. The CBS flap originated at 2019 AERA Annual Meeting, sponsored by American Educational Research Association.
@chamblee54 @CityJournal @maxeden99 There was no link to this event in your article. I suspect this is a hoax. Please provide a link to the location on the event guide, for “critical becky studies.” The AERA conference guide is a confusing academic labyrinth. After a while, I clicked on the correct link, and found a way to search for whiteness pedagogy.
CBS is real. “In the tradition of speculative fiction, parable, and counterstorytelling within critical race theory, this session aims to problematize the characterization of “Becky,” a term specific to white women who engage whiteness, often in gendered ways. This characterization is relevant to education by critically examining who is Becky and how she is characterized, her positionality in education, and how the hope for diversity, inclusion, equity, and racial justice within the P-20 educational pipeline is impacted by Becky. … tied to the gendered and raced mechanisms of whiteness enacted by Becky. ”
The symposium featured the presentation of several papers. If, after reading this feature, you want to learn more about these papers, you can follow the links.
This Ain’t No “Wizard of Oz,” Becky “The chapter is a parable in the spirit of speculative fiction, about the fictional (mis)adventures of Becky in the land of Ny as she faces obstacles that she can only overcome by grappling with her own whiteness.”
Two Woke Beckys? “Although both Sheila and Erika slip into different whiteness performances during their conversation, including passive aggressiveness and tone policing, white innocence, and white saviority, they check each other and delve into how they each have and are employing whiteness, despite their desires to rid themselves of whiteness, albeit through different means. …”
Love in the Time of Beckyism “… a particular white heterofeminine citizen-subject popularly known as “Becky,” … Despite “progressive” commitments such as equality, and social justice; and sentimental responses to historical atrocities and current social events, these (conditional) protestations made by Becky serve as a hedonistic mechanism for image management that hinges on the exploitation and social death of people of color. …” How can a teacher preparation program work to rethink the episteme and ethos that socializes Beckyism?”
Book Club Becky: White Racial Bonding in the Living Room “Many liberal white women gather monthly for book clubs … This paper reveals the more insidious workings of these spaces, as they are places where white women bond in order to maintain their place in white patriarchy, what Christine Sleeter named white racial bonding. The conversations that take place, the women who are included as “educated,” and the spaces where they meet are laced with white supremacy and surveillance.”
Border Becky “… why white women still invest in whiteness. Using the term “Becky” establishes an academic backing that can be applied and analyzed when researching the pathology of whiteness. … whiteness manifests in classrooms riddled with white women seeking to prove how they are not like other racist white people. Becky in the counterstories demonstrates the character-like roles white women play in a white supremacist folklore.”
It was a busy weekend for whiteness pedagogy. Ekemini Uwan shocked a Christian conference with her remarks about whiteness. “So then when we talk about white identity, then we have to talk about what whiteness is. Well, the reality is that whiteness is rooted in plunder, in theft, in slavery, in enslavement of Africans, genocide of Native Americans, … It’s a power structure, that is what whiteness is, and so that the thing for white women to do is you have to divest from whiteness because what happened was that your ancestors actually made a deliberate choice to rid themselves of their ethnic identity and by doing so they actually stripped Africans in America of their ethnic identity. … Because we have to understand something – whiteness is wicked. It is wicked. It’s rooted in violence, it’s rooted in theft, it’s rooted in plunder, it’s rooted in power, in privilege … ”
Today’s images are from The Library of Congress. Russell Lee took the facebook photograph in August 1940. “Mormon farm family, members of FSA dental cooperative, in dentist’s office. Tremonton, Box Elder County, Utah” We do not know if any of these ladies were named Becky. UPDATE @chamblee54 I found the link. My apologies for doubting you. @maxeden99 No worries. I couldn’t have made it up if I tried :)
Letter To Darryl Cooper
Darryl I recently finished listening to Fear & Loathing in the New Jerusalem parts 1-6. I listened to part 7 shortly after October 7. I only listened to 1-6 after the Douglas Murray went on JRE to promote his new book. I have a few thoughts about this intense experience. If you could find the time to read this, I would be honored. I also plan to post this letter on my blog, chamblee54.WordPress.com, and at r/martyrmade. I have made 4 blog posts about listening to FLNJ. 041525 041825 042325 042625
We have never met in person. However, after listening to 22:54:47 of FLNJ, I do feel a connection. Listening to FLNJ is intense. I appreciate Douglas Murray’s reluctance to take this journey. This is the same person who said “So what. 30 plus hours of podcasting, you do that in a week”
The most obvious comment is about the insanity of forming opinions about Darryl Cooper based on a few comments on the Tucker Carlson show. FWIW, I disagree with the idea that Winston Churchill was the true villian of WWII. This was not the first time I had heard these ideas. For some bizarre reason, I read Pat Buchanan’s book a few years ago. I generally prefer fiction, and honestly don’t know what drew me to that book.
Winston Churchill is an actor in FLNJ. He was an enthusiastic supporter of Zionism, for whatever reason. I did do some digging into Mr. Churchill, and found a copy of his editorial Zionism Vs Bolshevism. I also found a quote: “As prime minister, in 1941, he proclaimed that “I was one of the authors” of Zionist policy. Indeed, among the lengthy catalogue of criticisms of Churchill was that “He was too fond of Jews.” My irony meter went crazy while listening to FLNJ.
There are many whatifs in the FLNJ story. One is the Ottoman Empire. What if OE had allied with the Allies, rather than the Central Powers? Or better yet, remained neutral. From my Wikipedia level view of history, it seems as though Germany simply made a better offer than France. That would have changed a lot of things.
Another missing link is the history of communism and Judaism. At one time, communism was seen as being a Jewish movement. Over the years, this evolved to the point where Israel is seen as being the enemy of communism. In the eighties, we heard a lot about the need to rescue Jews from anti-semitic persecution in the Soviet Union. How/when did this change take place?
On a related note, here is a quote from part two part two of the chamblee54 commentary. “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 or the holocaust. Any information about communism being a motivation for restricted emmigration is are very difficult to find.”
FLNJ-5 and FLNJ-6 are difficult to listen to. There are a lot of things I had never heard about that era. The Arab rebellion, the Zionist terrorism against the British mandate, the dirty business of getting the UN to approve the partition were all new to me. While I had knew that the Nakba existed (contrary to what some propagandists tell you today) I had no idea about the details. There is a saying about making laws and making sausages … you don’t want to be there when either one takes place. The same thing could be said about “nation building.” God is in the details, or maybe it is the Devil.
It is obvious that a 2016 show about Israel/Palestine is going to sound very different in 2025. It is a fitting irony that one of the last things you mentioned in FLNJ-6 was the quote from Refaat Alareer. “Sometimes a homeland becomes a tale, We love the story because it is about our homeland, and we love our homeland even more because of the story.”
On December 7, 2023, Dr. Alareer “was killed by a strike in Shajaiya, in northern Gaza … He was staying with his brother, his sister, and her four children, who were also killed.” Shortly before his death, Dr. Alareer had been in a twitter squabble with Bari Weiss. The IDF saw this as sufficient reason for a targeted assassination.
Anyway, thank you for the hard work you put into FLNJ. It took me 13 days to listen to it. If listening causes this much brain damage, I can only imagine how tough it would be to create those 23 hours. Thank you. … Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. Jack Delano took the facebook picture in December 1942. “Chicago IL An unusually heavy fog in the early afternoon”
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From christianitytoday.com · Readers added context they thought people might want to know … The Bible says explicitly that Jesus had wounds in His hands and side following His crucifixion, burial, and resurrection. John 20:27: “Then he said to Thomas, ‘Put your finger here and see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it in my side. Do not doubt but believe.'” · my comment: The shroud of Turin appears to show a spike driven through his wrist. A nail through the hand would not have supported his weight. There is a space between the bones of the wrist where the spike was driven in. No bones were broken. 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This essay, in its pure form would appeal to anti-segregationists, but would infuriate many white Americans. In order for this essay to appeal to Harper’s Magazine’s primary audience, white upper class Americans, the focus of Baldwin’s relationship with white America was repressed, bringing out only the focus of Baldwin’s relationship with his father. · “I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.” – James Baldwin … Wikiquotes says this is from “Notes of a Native Son” When I found a copy of NOANS, the quote is not in there · “Notes of a Native Son” by James Baldwin was published in the November 1955 issue of Harper’s magazine under the title “Me and My House,” but these two versions are not exactly the same. “Notes” is a dually focused essay, focusing on Baldwin’s relationship with his father, and focusing on Baldwin’s relationship with white America as well. This essay, in its pure form would appeal to anti-segregationists, but would infuriate many white Americans. In order for this essay to appeal to Harper’s Magazine’s primary audience, white upper class Americans, the focus of Baldwin’s relationship with white America was repressed, bringing out only the focus of Baldwin’s relationship with his father. · “Notes of a Native Son” · Gaza Writes Back Short Stories from Young Writers in Gaza, Palestine Edited by Refaat Alareer · “In a land where hope is the most precious commodity passed down through the generations, these stories provide a tangible platform for silenced voices to be heard and means towards gaining some dignity for a wounded nation.” Ramzy Baroud, Author of My Father was a Freedom Fighter: Gaza’s Untold Story · 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 · @WillieGriswold Trump loves Shedeur Sanders. Two guys with successful dads that managed to talk their way out of getting drafted. · @itranslate123 If I get killed by Israeli bombs or my family is harmed, I blame Bari Weiss @bariweiss and her likes. Many maniacal Israeli soldiers already bombing Gaza take these lies and smears seriously and they act upon them. · This is the final installment of an appreciation of “Fear & Loathing in the New Jerusalem”, a 23 hour podcast series about the creation of Israel. It has taken me 13 days, and untold brain damage. Darryl Cooper wins this round. · @ZaidJilani After arguing with white nationalists and Hindutva all night I am ready to go back to the Middle East debate, believe it or not I find Hasbara to be less racist and less stupid · The spell checks for Hasbara are Barabbas and Harass · always, bring, cookies, dragging, existential, fruitcake, greatness, hovering, interplanetary, Jesus, killed, looking, marvelous, never, plays, question, research, sing, terrible, understanding, variable, with, x-ray, yellow, zeitgeist · 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 Four
This is part four of my guided tour with Fear & Loathing in the New Jerusalem, a podcast series about Israel and Palestine. This will be the final episode, and will cover FLNJ-6. FLNJ covers the time between 1890 and 1948, and is 22:54:47 in 6 episodes. FLNJ was created by Darryl Cooper aka @MartyrMade. Other episodes of the chamblee54 series are available: 041525 041825 042325 Disclaimer This post 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.
April 23, 2025 Throughout this process, I have been hitting the wrong button on my phone, and sending FLNJ back to 0:00. I’ve started taking notes of when I finish listening, so that if when I screw up, I can go back and find where I was. A minute ago, I arrived at dinner. I turned off the phone, and looked at the time (1:54:26). I then hit the wrong button on the phone, and wound up at 0:00. It is one of the problems of listening to long form podcasting.
At 1:57:24 I have to pull over into a parking lot. Darryl has gotten to where he needs to discuss the Jewish Holocaust of World War II. It’s an important part of the Israel story, as well as an overwhelming human tragedy. Darryl is having a tough time deciding how to approach it, and settles on reading three individual stories. Multiply these 3 stories by 2 million, and you have a holocaust. God/Satan is in the details. Focus on the tragedy, and leave the statistics for someone else.
FLNJ was recorded in 2015 and 2016. This is 9 years ago, or 7 years before October 7th. Today is also 8 months after Darryl’s notorious appearance on Tucker Carlson, after which he was called a holocaust denier. It’s tough to see how you could listen to FLNJ, and then call Darryl a holocaust denier. That is how the modern discourse goes. You can create an intense multi-part series about the creation of Israel, and people are more interested in a few sentences on youtube.
Another thing that’s happened since 2016 is the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This surprised most people, who knew little about the Maidan coup, or the Russia-Ukraine war already raging. In FLNJ, Darryl calls the capitol of Ukraine KEY-evv, whereas most people now say KEEV. Darryl also has a tasteful quote in FLNJ-6. “In the early 1930s, Poland got to look across the border to Ukraine and watch the Communist secret police, which was 75% Jewish … murder, by intentional starvation, somewhere between 6 and 10 million Ukrainian peasants.”
At 2:18:02 Daryl mentions the social ramifications of not accepting the Holocaust story with worship, but by questioning some of the details. It’s almost as if he saw the reaction to his comments on Tucker Carlson, 8 years later.
April 24, 2025 At 0833, I take my brother to the marta station in Chamblee, and find a non-handicapped place to park. I’m going to do my morning walk on the paths in downtown Chamblee.
At 3:32:00 of FLNJ-6, Darryl is talking about a jailbreak. This is the point where I came in on FLNJ-6, thinking it was FLNJ-5. I’m going to continue to listen. It’s going to be difficult, because I know what is coming. Israel is going to declare independence after the British mandate ends. The Zionists are going to be rewarded for their terrorism against the British, and they’re going to turn their homicidal fury on the Arabs. Israel is gaining their Homeland by violence. This is not the message that I have been taught about Israel.
I finished my walk at 3:58:20 of FLNJ-6. It is 0958 in Chamblee, and I’ve turned off FLNJ-6. I’ve had enough. There was a United Nations vote to establish the partition of Palestine. It was going to fail. The vote was delayed. Many countries were put under intense pressure, and given threats by the United States, to pass this resolution. Liberia was told that they were going to lose their major employer. France was told if they did not vote yes, they will not receive financial aid after World War II. There are reports that the Soviet Union pressured Ukraine to vote yes. It was dirty dirty dirty.
The Lebanese representative made an impassioned speech against establishing the partition. It’s almost as if he could foresee the future, and the destruction that Israel would visit upon Lebanon.
4:22:58 Always write down the time. I somehow hit something on the player that said show album art. Meanwhile, I was talking to some idiot phone scammer, and the show-album-art screen would not go away. I had to close the player out to get rid of the screen. By the time I got the player back on, FLNJ-6 had gone back to 0:00.
April 24, 2025 I am in a parking lot, turning off the player at 5:21:58 of FLNJ-6. The series is essentially over. The last chapter was about the Nakba. … Darryl continues, “The Zionists are never going to give up Israel, and the Palestinians are never going to give up their fight to return. Refaat Alareer wrote “Sometimes a homeland becomes a tale, We love the story because it is about our homeland, and we love our homeland even more because of the story.”
On December 7, 2023, Dr. Alareer “was killed by a strike in Shajaiya, in northern Gaza … He was staying with his brother, his sister, and her four children, who were also killed.” Shortly before his death, Dr. Alareer had been in a twitter squabble with Bari Weiss. The IDF saw this as sufficient reason for a targeted assassination.
This is where the journey ends. Listening to FLNJ has been difficult, although not nearly as difficult as living it. … to paraphrase an obnoxious argument, which one hears all too often these days. The chamblee54 series is not comprehensive, and leaves out a great deal of information. I write this knowing that almost nobody will read it, and that even fewer will care. If you tell this story to a supporter of Israel, you can expect to hear some angry talking points about October 7. Angry hasbara is a huge part of the problem in the United States.
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 Three
This is part three of my visitation with Fear & Loathing in the New Jerusalem, a podcast series about Israel and Palestine. FLNJ covers the time between 1890 and 1948, and was created by Darryl Cooper aka @MartyrMade. Other episodes are available: 041525 041825 042625 … Disclaimer This post 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.
April 19, 2025 I listened to FLNJ-5 on the morning walk without incident. This listening thing needs to go at a slower pace. Burnout is creeping in. The FLNJ story makes me think too much. So much of it corresponds to current events, controversies over historic events, and conflicts from my own life. I have eight hours to go on FLNJ.
There are several whatifs here. One involves the Ottoman Empire. Why did the OE ally with Germany in World War 1? If the OE had stayed neutral, or sided with the British and French, it would have changed a lot of things. When you deal with wikipedia level history, it simply seems like the Germans made the Turks a better deal than the British. See disclaimer above.
I spent much of saturday afternoon editing photographs, and listening to FLNJ-5. I don’t have a lot of product to show for it. Every few minutes, I would hear something the piqued my interest, and go looking for a transcript of it. A good example is this: 2:27:36 “Hitler never left those trenches you can see a few old pictures of Adolf Hitler sporting a normal mustache in the early days of the war the shortened mustache tucked under his nose that was a modification made in order to allow a soldier’s gas mask to seal against his skin during an attack”
Later, at 2:34:17, there was a long quote from Winston Churchill. “Just a month before Hitler was discharged from the German Army, in March 1920, Winston Churchill had published that editorial … called Zionism Vs Bolshevism … ‘the international Jews were engaged in quote a worldwide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization. There is no need to exaggerate the part played in the creation of Bolshevism and in the actual bringing about of the Russian Revolution by these International and for the most part atheistical Jews.’
FWIW, Winston Churchill … who Darryl Cooper famously called the real villain of World War II … was a staunch supporter of Zionism. “… as colonial secretary in the 1920s, Churchill took steps that enabled 300,000 Jews to emigrate to Palestine … As prime minister, in 1941, he proclaimed that “I was one of the authors” of Zionist policy. Indeed, among the lengthy catalogue of criticisms of Churchill was that “He was too fond of Jews.”
April 20, 2025 I come in from my morning walk shaking with rage. FLNJ-5 is at 4:43:00. Israel has declared Independence, the British are leaving, and the Nakba is going strong. Darryl tells some confirmed stories of Israeli atrocities, during the ethnic cleansing of the Arab population.
I HAVE F$$$ED UP. I am not listening to FLNJ-5, but FLNJ-6. I should have looked closer at the screen. Apparently, when I switched from youtube to mp3, I started back with the wrong file. I suspected that something was up last night. At one point, there was a gap. First, we were at Hitler’s rise to power, which had obvious implications for the Zionist project. Next, it was 1946, and the Irgun terrorist movement was in full flower. After realizing my mistake, I think I understand why. I will find where I was in FLNJ-5, and start over. Unfortunately, when I get to the Nakba in FLNJ-6, I will have to listen a second time.
April 21, 2025 I am now 8 days into this project, one day longer than it would have taken Douglas Murray to record it. I am at 3:52:23 of FLNJ-5, and burnout is setting in. Files from other podcasts that I enjoy are piling up.
Monday morning means a new episode of “Blocked and Reported.” This week features Episode 257, Faux POC Poetry. I am part of a poetry community that is run by POC. This should be entertaining.
April 22, 2025 When I got back from my morning walk, I was at 5:21:11 of FLNJ-5. The various situations are not improving. Germany is lurching towards war, and the “final solution.” British Mandate Palestine is descending into chaos, with the elimination of Arabs on the horizon.
There are many, many things to learn from FLNJ-5. The Mandatory British Administration of Palestine is a disaster for the Arabs. An Arab revolt was suppressed by the British and Zionists, with the trademark cruelty of all anti-insurgencies. Torture, collective punishment, and limitless “collateral damage” are all present. An estimated 10% of the Arab population in Palestine died. The British Army is forcing Arab prisoners to ride on the hood of trucks, as human shields against land mines. The rhetoric of this era could have been spoken today.
In the early nineties, I read A Child of the Century by Ben Hecht, a journalist, screenwriter, and piece of work. During the last days of the Mandatory Government, Mr. Hecht became involved with the Irgun … a notorious para-military outfit in Palestine. Mr. Hecht proudly used the term “terrorists” to describe the Irgun. I read this during a time when Israeli propaganda made “terrorist” synonymous with Palestinians. The evening news was full of leaders saying the name Yassir Arafat, pause, terrorist. Using the t-word to describe a Zionist force struck me as highly ironic. FWIW, the term “terroriste” was coined in 1794, during the French Revolution.
April 23, 2025 This is #nationalpoetrymonth. Every day in April, I post a picture poem from my archives. Today it is In Jerusalem. The text is based on Ecclesiastes 1, and the pictures are “added value” shots of the American flag.
Whirleth about continually dim, Preacher was King over Israel’s fate, Have been before me in Jerusalem, That which is crooked cannot be made straight, I gave my heart to know how wisdom sings, Generation passeth away below, There is no remembrance to former things, Increaseth knowledge Increaseth sorrow.
A month after October 7, I was working on another poem, Cha Cha Part Two. One of the lines was “Ecclesiastical Abomination,” which rhymes with “Cultural Appropriation.” … FWIW, the poem was a celebration of white people who like to dance. … I was working on the pictures, and glanced at twitter. I saw a video of PM Netanyahu saying, there is a time for war. I began crying, and could not stop. By then, the exponential over-retaliation of Israel was all full display, for those who could see. This was truly an Ecclesiastical Abomination.
The FLNJ series runs 22:54:47. (FLNJ-1 – 2:21:05, FLNJ-2 – 3:18:52, FLNJ-3 – 1:44:03, FLNJ-4 – 4:25:58, FLNJ-5 – 5:35:43, FLNJ-6 – 5:30:07) Mileage may vary. Today’s pictures are from The Library of Congress. Russell Lee took the facebook picture in April 1941. “Saturday night in barroom. Southside of Chicago, Illinois” · selah
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“the right wing’s” obsession with gay sex is similar to “the left wing’s” obsession with racism. Projection, need to present appearances, uncertainty about your own values, etc. · This is your monday morning reader for today. Google ai says: “The day after Palm Sunday is called Holy Monday. … Some traditions commemorate events like Jesus cursing the fig tree and cleansing the temple.” · 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” · Russell Lee took the facebook picture in May 1938, Southeast Missouri Farms. Farmers talking together in cooperative store. La Forge project, Missouri · I am currently listening to “Fear & Loathing in the New Jerusalem.” I am taking notes, and writing blog posts. Fear & Loathing Part One was published a few minutes ago. · At one point during last week’s show, Joe Rogan was trying to say that Darryl Cooper has done 30 plus hours of podcasting about Israel/Palestine. Douglas Murray interrupted him, to say “So what. 30 plus hours of podcasting, you do that in a week” I am now listening to that 30 hours. I doubt that I will finish in a week · There are so many ironies in FLNJ-1. Douglas Murray stridently said, in effect, that Dave Smith should not talk about Israel if he had not been there. At 59:54 of FLNJ-1, MartyrMade 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.” MartyrMade recently opened a can of worms when he said the Mr. Churchill was the real villain of World War II. · 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 · The text for #nationalpoetrymonth 17/30 is borrowed from Psalm 46, King James Version. The KJV is in the public domain, which makes it a good source for copy/paste use. · The Psalms are basically poems, and many are quite lovely. Many of our self-anointed religious leaders claim that the Bible is the inerrant word of God, and spend their time analyzing this text to death. This is a great disservice to the public. When you put your efforts into making angry noise about the Bible, you are not enjoying the beauty of this document. · There is a lovely story about William Shakespeare and Psalm 46. “Since Shakespeare was born in the year 1564, then he would have been 46 years old during 1610 when the finishing touches were being put on the KJV. In the KJV, if you count down 46 words from the top (not counting the title) you read the word “shake,” then, if you omit the word “selah” and count 46 words from the bottom you find the word “spear.” … William Shakespeare is an anagram of “Here was I, like a psalm.” · Is this intentional, or is this just a head scratcher … one of those things that you cannot rationally explain, but which can see with your own eyes? Maybe that is what God is … something you cannot explain or understand, but just might be real. · The quote about Psalm 46 is from Kyle Butt, with Apologetics Press. · “walk through Ashes of my passions” Ashes to passions, lust to dust. · amusing the muse can be a full time job · firing line with William F. Buckley Jr.: Terrorism: Viewed from Abroad Recorded on May 30, 1986 Guests: Benjamin (Netanyahu, Binyamin) Netanyahu, Claude de Kemoularia · @ClassicalAegis This is Carl Jung. He introduced the world to the concept of Synchronicity. It is no coincidence you stumbled across this thread. Here’s why: 🧵 · Judas Priestess was just getting even with Mary Magdalene · Retro-active birth control would like to have a word with ultimately conditional ego · Russell Lee took the facebook photograph in July, 1941. “Lunch at carnival stand, Fourth of July, Vale, Oregon” · Part Two of an appreciation for “Fear & Loathing in the New Jerusalem” is now available. 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. · @LibertyLockPod Douglas Murray burnt out in the podcast circuit so he’s now on with Bill Maher to widespread applause. The neocon neoliberal alliance is complete. They wouldn’t dare say Dave Smith or Darryl Cooper’s names but took shots at them once again. Pathetic. · there is no perfect connection for a tooth to steal. Only flawed dysfunction to the elbow to bypass · thoughts and prayers don’t help very much · someone interviewed an elderly Walt Whitman. He said: “This damned war business is 999 parts diarrhea and 1 part glory” · a chance meeting between a bird and a snake goes over my head · I need login out right now. We can meet via email. What is your email? fuckyou@noyb.com · Yes, Easter has fallen on April 20th multiple times in the past. It was last on April 20th in 2014 and will occur again on that date in 2087, according to the US Census Bureau .. In 2025, Easter also falls on April 20. · The shroud of Turin appears to show a spike driven through his wrist. A nail through the hand would not have supported his weight. There is a space between the bones of the wrist where the spike was driven in. No bones were broken. The Romans knew what they were doing · Pictures from The Library of Congress Russell Lee took the facebook picture in April 1941. “Negro cabaret. Chicago, Illinois” · selah
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.
@Drabblecast If you submitted something to us, we want to let you know that we are behind on our 90 day turn around time. Some things happened behind the scenes (turns out that when your shadow beckons you to follow a hallway that you don’t remember being there, you will get VERY lost). @chamblee54 Your tweet had 53 words/291 characters. This is 47 words short of a drabble. We are in the middle of the story. Drabblecaster followed his shadow into a hallway and got VERY lost. This is a handy metaphor for the United States economy right now.
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. Of course, you can’t listen to podcasts on a desktop while at the gym, or work on the front porch. 5- When starting another line on facebook, hold the shift key down when you hit enter. · Write encouraging comments on two poems finish adding your poem ‘Hillary And Donald Speak’ Comments must be made from this page to count Comments on this page should be friendly and encouraging – not critiques. Try phrases like “enjoyed your passion” or “how inspiring.” Want more detailed comments? Click the “trade comments” tab on the front page. Why do we require comments? New poets tend to post 100 poems & get disappointed they got no comments. You get what you give – everyone here is a poet wanting to inspire others & get feedback. · #nationalpoetrymonth 08/30 This was written in 2016. It features paintings from a wall, across the street from a prison. The mural was painted over shortly after the pictures were made. Here is a link to the picture poem: Sorry, due to spam issues, new members can’t post links in their poems. Once you’ve been active on the site for awhile it will be possible. · Silts in the festering swamps … So this is what happened to Uncle Fester after Gomez kicked him out for hitting on Morticia · “Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you.” Walt Whitman This is a wonderful quote. Unfortunately, it does not appear in “Leaves of Grass.” Sunshine, shadows, and face were used as search words. Maybe it is an Arab proverb. @QuoteResearch · Murray is a lost cause, but I highly recommend “Fear and Loathing in the New Jerusalem” by @martyrmade I only listened to the last episode, about Palestine/Israel/Lebanon between 1948 and 1982. It is powerful, fair to both sides, and deeply researched · eminent tremendous inversion, beautiful domain catastrophe, nice unbelievable excuse, incompetent sudden disgrace, lgbt systemic children seller, recommend out-of-pocket, contentious discrimination arena. – #nationalpoetrymonth 08/30 Hillary And Donald Speak · things truly wicked start with forgiving, what’s in store for me from this direction, there’s nothing to life but just the living, extinguish one man with his erection, know many tricks and have resolution, absolute honesty underneath, never confuse movement with action, smiling nothing but a mouth full of teeth – #nationalpoetrymonth 08/30 Truly Wicked · I am trying to cope, with your story about rope, it needs a bit more dope, or clean it up with soap · democracy is such a wretched refuse, without a teeming shore to crawl onto, but instead must party on · When I posted this, this is what you see: murder of crows **** of peacocks – Profanity : Our optional filter replaced words with *** on this page • Configure · Who’s that other dude who thinks he’s an expert on Churchill Darryl oh Darryl Cooper does not think he’s an expert in fact I think it’s everybody else is always calling him an expert and he’s like I’m just a history have you ever absorbed any of his material have you ever consumed any of his podcasts or anything like that 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.” · Douglas Murray and Dave Smith are on the Joe Rogan Experience. 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. It will be difficult to listen to it in a week. @martyrmade · @Jon_S_Desoto_MS One of the serious flaws of in-person debate is that it almost always devolves into tactics designed to win rather than an exploration of truth. @DouglasKMurray was guilty of this, unfortunately. · I may be a landlubber, put I know persnickety · deontologogy is an ethical conundrum, not the study of Deion Sanders · 1 – “Experts” have disagreements 2 – Many “experts” are working on behalf of bad faith actors who pay the “expert” to promote their agenda. 3 – “Experts” make mistakes, or say things that will be seen as foolish in a few years. · Must-Watch: When our friend Douglas Murray agreed to sit down with Dave Smith on Joe Rogan’s podcast, he knew it would be contentious. It was certainly that, but also a triumph for Douglas, whose new book, On Democracies and Death Cults, is a book you should read. Cometh the hour, cometh the man. · “the mere fact that Waring commission was totally unable to prove that doesn’t mean that it’s not true” – Mark Lane, on Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. Episode 039, Recorded on December 1, 1966 · Pictures today are from The Library of Congress Russell Lee took the featured photograph in February 1940. “Wife of Pomp Hall, Negro tenant farmer, threading sewing machine. She makes practically all of the clothing for her family with the exception of such things as overalls, sweaters, etc. Creek County, Oklahoma. · selah
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.”
Here is more from/about r/ContraPoints. · u/2mock2turtle “Let’s assume this wasn’t written by AI, just for fun.” · @brocade.bsky.social “I immediately stopped reading the moment you brought up numerology. I honestly think people like you should be institutionalized.” · @chamblee54.bsky.social is tagged as a “Jesse Singal Follower” · @chamblee54.bsky.social ”1:46:23 into “Conspiracy”, Natalie is sharing an unidentified red liquid with a crude mannequin that resembles Hillary Clinton. This is not the only time the former FLOTUS is compared to a crude mannequin.” · @southernviolet.bsky.social “How can you be so god damned stupid” – Natalie.”
freedom illusion · becomes just the scenery · pull back curtains eat … This reduction is based on social commentary product by Frank Zappa. The fun started when the image was posted to r/Zappa u/East-Caterpillar-895 What the fuck is this low quality AI bullshit? · u/ResurrectedMortician Have you ever had a dream that that you um you had you’d you would you could you’d do you wi you wants you you could do so you … · u/PAXM73 As a fellow collage artist, Zappa fanatic, and big fan of that quote: nice work! Timely too. … Pictures are from The Library of Congress. Arthur S. Siegel took the facebook picture in August 1942. “Interlochen, Michigan National music camp where 300 or more young musicians study symphonic music for eight weeks each summer. Dance jamboree on Monday night”
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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
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