Validate My Existence
@illhueminati SAY IT WITH ME: I AM A BEAUTIFUL, COMPLEX HUMAN BEING AND I DONT NEED ANYONE TO VALIDATE MY EXISTENCE ~ you don’t have to shout ~ Say it with me: I am a beautiful, complex human being and I don’t need anyone to validate my existence ~ Georgia just executed a man with a 70 IQ. The only lawyer who would take his case was a useless alcoholic. The Social Justice Warriors have been totally silent. Pointing fingers, and screaming racism, is more important than taking action on something that matters. ~ the morning after wayne holsey died nineteen years after will robinson died one could ask why the social justice clique was so quiet one could ask if any murders were prevented one could ask what drugs were used when nathan deal got a notch on his belt ~ This is true and not true. The event you describe probably happened. However, it was not the only event like that. People started to put flowers on soldier graves as the war was still going on. After a conflict as horrific as the War Between the States, some sort of remembrance was inevitable. ~ This “war on christmas” is such a pain. I like secular christmas. If you want to be religious, you can. If you want to shop till you drop, you can. If you want to drink to excess, you can. (The original meaning of merry christmas was a drunken holiday.) The trouble is that the some Jesus worshipers want the holiday to be all about them. ~ Most research is designed to provide evidence for an already decided outcome. ~ just heard episode11 #serialpodcast it is starting to wear thin next week is the final show ~ WWYDJ What Would You Do To Jesus ~ Al Pieda is an international terrorist group consisting entirely of pastry chefs. AP has claimed responsibility for several heinous crimes, including the assassination of Betty Crocker in 1996, ~ From FUCK YOU / a magazine of the ARTS, number 5, vol 6, Apr. 1964 ~ COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER: I do NOT own the copyright to this recording, nor am I claiming ownership, it is being posted here strictly for all Judy fans as a promotional and entertainment tool. Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for fair use for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use. ~ @mbsycamore why is dress the verb if you are wearing pants? If you wore a dress, would they like the way you pant? ~ Whereas OKCupid is mostly, “Young professional heteropatriarchic ‘centrist’ republican seeking overly manscaped MBA/accountant with a below-average sex drive for a honeymoon at Martha’s Vinyard followed by long walks on the beach with our Mastiff when we’re not ‘cutting it loose’ at Disney World’s oxygen bar.” ~ @MiguelDaCosta01 Bio: Married to God. But she’s away a lot, so feel free to sext. ~ If you think your post has disappeared, see spam or an inappropriate post, please do not hesitate to contact the mods, we’re happy to help. ~ not your soapbox, personal army, or advertising platform. Questions seeking professional advice are inappropriate and will be removed. Soliciting money, goods, services, or favours is not allowed. All users are expected to be respectful to other users at all times Comment replies consisting solely of images will be removed. ~ Clarice Starling: I graduated from UVa, Captain; it’s not exactly a charm school. ~ They should have kept Marthasville. ~ keep your mouth shut ~ I would suggest starting out with a blog on a hosted site, like WordPress. It would be free to start. If this turns into something, then you could go with a self hosted site. If you get tired of feeding the puppy, then you can ditch it with no harm done. There is a page on chamblee54 How to Blog with a few ideas about how to do this. ~ “The Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library”. ~ selah
Walked Into A Bar
Engineers from IBM, Apple, and Microsoft were attending a tech conference. They met at the queue to the toilet by chance in-between talks. The Engineer from IBM took a leak, washed his hands, and dried his hands with about 20 sheets of paper towels. He said to the other two “At IBM, we are very thorough”, then left to conference hall. The engineer from Apple pissed, washed his hands, then dried it with one sheet of paper towel, making sure he used every millimeter of the towel. “At Apple, we are efficient”, he quipped to the Microsoft engineer before returning to the conference hall. The Microsoft engineer did the number one, then directly went to the hall, muttering to himself “at Microsoft, we don’t piss on our goddamn hands”. ~ A Roman walks into a bar and asks for a martinus. “You mean a martini?” the bartender asks. The Roman replies, “If I wanted a double, I would have asked for it!” ~ Angela Merkel arrives at Passport Control at Paris airport. “Nationality?” asks the immigration officer. “German,” she replies. “Occupation?” “No, just here for a few days.” ~ You’re the worst topology professor! You couldn’t tell your ass from a hole in the ground! True, but I can tell the difference between my ass and two holes in the ground ~ A Higgs Boson walks into a church and the priest says “we don’t allow Higgs Bosons in here”. The Higgs Boson then replies “but without me, how could you have mass?~ Helium walks into a bar and orders a beer, the bartender says, “Sorry, we don’t serve noble gases here.” He doesn’t react. ~ We don’t serve faster-than-light particles here”, says the barman. A tachyon enters a bar. ~ Standard deviation is not enough for a perverted statistician. ~ Werner Heisenberg, Kurt Gödel, and Noam Chomsky walk into a bar. Heisenberg turns to the other two and says, “Clearly this is a joke, but how can we figure out if it’s funny or not?” Gödel replies, “We can’t know that because we’re inside the joke.” Chomsky says, “Of course it’s funny. You’re just telling it wrong.” ~ A biologist, a chemist, and a statistician are out hunting. The biologist shoots at a deer and misses 5ft to the left, the chemist takes a shot and misses 5ft to the right, the statistician yells “We got ’em!” ~ The programmer’s wife tells him: “Run to the store and pick up a loaf of bread. If they have eggs, get a dozen.” The programmer comes home with 12 loaves of bread. ~ An Irishman goes to a building site for his first day of work, and a couple of Englishmen think, “Ah, we’ll have some fun with him!” So they walk up and say, “Hey, Paddy, as you’re new here make sure you know a joist from a girder…” “Ah, sure, I knows” says Paddy, “twas Joyce wrote Ulysses and Goethe wrote Faust.” ~ Your mother is so classless, she could be a marxist utopia ~ Lenins tomb is a communist plot. ~ A recent finding by statisticians shows the average human has one breast and one testicle. ~ It’s hard to explain puns to kleptomaniacs because they always take things literally. ~ is it solipsistic in here, or is it just me? ~ Did you hear about the jurisprudence fetishist? He got off on a technicality… ~ A Roman walks into a bar, holds up two fingers, and says, “Five beers, please”. ~ A pun, a play on words, and a limerick walk into a bar. No joke. ~ There’s a band called 1023MB. They haven’t had any gigs yet. ~ How may Freudians does it take to screw in a lightbulb? Two; One to screw in the lightbulb and one to hold the penis… I mean ladder. ~ A philosopher says to a linguist “What if, instead of periods, women had apostrophes?” and the linguist replied “They’d be more possessive and have more frequent contractions”. ~ Linguistics: the most misunderstood field of study in all of everything. ~ What’s the difference between ignorance and apathy? I don’t know and I don’t care. ~ Three logicians are sitting in a restaurant. The waitress asks “is everyone having coffee?” The first logician says, “I don’t know.” The second logician says, “I don’t know.” The third logician says, “Yes.” ~ Pictures from “The Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library”. ~ Selah ~
#ThingsACrazyPersonWouldSay
The number one trending hastag at 1:23 pm, on 12/13/14, is #ThingsACrazyPersonWouldSay If you are familiar with contemporary logic, the tweets will come as no surprise.
@thePatriciaRae I’m not worried. The Government is gonna take care of me
@Thomasismyuncle I’m a Liberal Democrat… … and I’m here to help.
@cmclymer “Police brutality and structural racism don’t exist.”
@chamblee54 I have read all of #ThingsACrazyPersonWouldSay
There is a comment above in the twitter feed. @RobinDGKelley READ @NaomiAKlein ON Why #BlackLivesMatter Should Transform the Climate Debate via @thenation
The linked article is a doozy. “The annual United Nations climate summit is wrapping up in in Lima, Peru, and on its penultimate day, something historic happened. … The historic event was the decision of the climate-justice movement to symbolically join the increasingly global #BlackLivesMatter uprising, staging a “die-in” outside the convention center much like the ones that have brought shopping malls and busy intersections to a standstill, from the US to the UK.”
The rest of the article is an orgy of overblown rhetoric. “What does #BlackLivesMatter, and the unshakable moral principle that it represents, have to do with climate change? Everything. Because we can be quite sure that if wealthy white Americans had been the ones left without food and water for days in a giant sports stadium after Hurricane Katrina, even George W. Bush would have gotten serious about climate change.”
Really? Hurricanes have happened for years. A channel was created to help shipping in Louisiana, and took out barrier islands that would have absorbed the impact of Katrina. George W. Bush, and his arab oil industry buddies, are not going to let a few lives get in the way of their profits.
The debate on carbon pollution is not going away. We may already be past the tipping points, with an unstoppable slide into disaster. Alternative energy is a long way away from being able to satisfy our needs. None of these realities is going to change because protesters in Lima, Peru, staged a die in. These are #ThingsACrazyPersonWouldSay. Pictures today are from “The Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library”.
Bah Humbug
The door of Scrooge’s counting-house was open that he might keep his eye upon his clerk, who in a dismal little cell beyond, a sort of tank, was copying letters. Scrooge had a very small fire, but the clerk’s fire was so very much smaller that it looked like one coal. But he couldn’t replenish it, for Scrooge kept the coal-box in his own room; and so surely as the clerk came in with the shovel, the master predicted that it would be necessary for them to part. Wherefore the clerk put on his white comforter, and tried to warm himself at the candle; in which effort, not being a man of a strong imagination, he failed.
“A merry Christmas, uncle! God save you!” cried a cheerful voice. It was the voice of Scrooge’s nephew, who came upon him so quickly that this was the first intimation he had of his approach.
“Bah!” said Scrooge, “Humbug!”
He had so heated himself with rapid walking in the fog and frost, this nephew of Scrooge’s, that he was all in a glow; his face was ruddy and handsome; his eyes sparkled, and his breath smoked again.
“Christmas a humbug, uncle!” said Scrooge’s nephew. “You don’t mean that, I am sure?”
“I do,” said Scrooge. “Merry Christmas! What right have you to be merry? What reason have you to be merry? You’re poor enough.”
“Come, then,” returned the nephew gaily. “What right have you to be dismal? What reason have you to be morose? You’re rich enough.”
Scrooge having no better answer ready on the spur of the moment, said, “Bah!” again; and followed it up with “Humbug.”
“Don’t be cross, uncle!” said the nephew.
“What else can I be,” returned the uncle, “when I live in such a world of fools as this? Merry Christmas! Out upon merry Christmas! What’s Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer; a time for balancing your books and having every item in ’em through a round dozen of months presented dead against you? If I could work my will,” said Scrooge indignantly, “every idiot who goes about with ‘Merry Christmas’ on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. He should!”
“Uncle!” pleaded the nephew.
“Nephew!” returned the uncle sternly, “keep Christmas in your own way, and let me keep it in mine.”
“Keep it!” repeated Scrooge’s nephew. “But you don’t keep it.”
“Let me leave it alone, then, Much good may it do you! Much good it has ever done you!”
“A Christmas Carol” was written by Charles Dickens. Text is supplied by Project Gutenberg. This is a repost. Pictures are from The Library of Congress.
Al Pieda
PG was downloading files from “The Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library”. Some of their fine images accompany this report. While his eyes and fingers were busy, his ears were listening to Glenn Loury and John McWhorter, a.k.a. the black guys on Bloggingheads.tv. This is a repost. The war on Christmas is observing a cease fire.
The problem with multi tasking with tbgobh is when you hear something that requires a sound clip. You have to interrupt your downloading to create a dingalink. Doctors Loury and McWhorter like to talk about the quandary of being a proud black man, and what role to let it play in your life. To them, many people are more concerned about their race than they are other parts of life, to their detriment. Not everyone is pleased by what they have to say.
PG has mixed feelings. He doesn’t think much about things in terms of being a white person. Is this the way it is, or is it white privilege? Life can be confusing.
At some point, the conversation turned to Wayne Williams. He was convicted of killing two of the missing and murdered children in 1982. PG had heard, somewhere, that DNA testing was going to be done on Mr. Williams. Then nothing more was heard. What would Mr. Google say about this? It seems as though DNA testing “strengthens” the case against Mr. Williams.
This is part of the problem of working on the internet. You have access to amazing collections. You are also tempted every minute. There are millions of ways to kill time online. If you don’t stay focused, you will never get very much done.
After the Wayne Williams search… or maybe before … PG thought of a conversation he had the day before. Someone said that Ann Coulter had been attacked onstage, and her body guards pulled the attackers away. There were supposed to be videos available.
A youtube search of “Ann Coulter attacked” brought up the embedded video. This was the work of Al Pieda. “… an international terrorist group consisting entirely of pastry chefs. The organization consists of clandestine cells known as “bakeries,” which are believed to operate mostly within Estonia, Albania, and the less-interesting parts of Iowa but mostly in the Wigan area. Al Pieda has claimed responsibility for several heinous crimes, including the assassination of Betty Crocker in 1996,”
If A Jury Will Convict
PG is listening to Serial. The show deals with the murder of Hae Min Lee, and the subsequent conviction of ex boyfriend Adnan Syed. Serial is highly addictive. If you want to download the show, Chrome is the best browser to use.
Episode 7 is “The Opposite of the Prosecution.” The voice of Serial, Sarah Koenig, talks to Deirdre Enright, head investigator for The Innocence Project. TIP thinks that Syed is innocent. Ms. Enright had some comments about the case. When reading this text, think about some controversial decisions made by grand juries recently.
Deirdre Enright … . I look at this as, this is just a case that wasn’t ready to be brought. You don’t have enough to put Adnan away. Not to me, you don’t. Sarah Koenig Yeah but doesn’t the fact that they did put him away mean that they had enough to put him away? Deirdre Enright Well, yeah. They would say yes, and I would say no. The reason I say that is because I look at this and think, law enforcement and prosecutors and defense attorneys, we all– we act like if a jury will convict, then that’s fine. I think those of us that know a good case from a bad case should know that even if we can get a jury to convict, it doesn’t mean we necessarily should ask them to do that.
Unworthy Of All Of Us
Jon Stewart nails it. It’s nice to hear a prominent liberal admit there were significant problems with the Mike Brown case but the Eric Garner case was much more clear. Absolutely insane. ~ In other words, we were lied to last week ~ @MHanson62 While I appreciate your Mother’s military service, her combat footwear is inappropriate and unflattering. #UnwieldyInsults ~ Maybe *they* do know we are seeds. *They* throw fertilizer on us. ~ I wonder how large a donation Monsanto made to the HRC to get that ranking. ~ defriend me because of a facebook comment? you were never my friend ~ ob’s sounds a lot like obese ~ You might want to consider that “practicing racism” is a two way street. Does it include the person who perceives themself as being persecuted ~ When decrying racism opens no door and teaches no skill, it becomes a schoolroom tattletale affair. It is unworthy of all of us: “He’s just a racist” intoned like “nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah!” ~ I was in the mood to read disgusting facebook comments. “Louise are you just posting psycho babble in every Salon post and you don’t even read the gotdamn article? Get back on your meds sweetheart.” ~ @PublicWagon All I do is consume and complain about it. ~ I think there may be more to this story. Mr. Carageorge joined the team as a “walk on” last summer. Apparently, he saw football as a path to glory. What were his motivations? Did he see this as a way of getting a scholarship? Did he just want to play football for Ohio State? This is a sad story. I agree that there is a lot of exploitation of athletes, especially at the college level. The thing is, we are going into the post season, and the winning teams will be awash in glory. The players will be paying with their pain, for both the winning and losing teams. ~ How many poets does it take to change a light bulb? ~ Does ATM mean Automated Teller Machine, or Machines? I know the WMD is weapons, plural, of mass destruction. POC is people, plural, of color. The plural of medium is media. Sometimes an s at the end of the word is not needed. ~ This tweet is getting some attention :Kiara Rhodes @NthnEvenMatters Dear White People, Stop telling us what MLK would think of today’s world. Maybe we’d know if y’all didn’t kill him. Thanks, Black People 11/24/14, 7:20 PM from Desoto, TX Here is a reply. Dear Black People Stop telling us what Malcolm X would think of today’s world. Maybe we’d know if y’all didn’t kill him. ~ you can always stay at home and watch netflix ~ You’re the Nile, You’re the Tow’r of Pisa, You’re the smile On the Mona Lisa. I’m a worthless check, a total wreck, a flop, But if, baby, I’m the bottom You’re the top! Cole Porter ~ Do they have a choice for “Like, except I don’t know the specifics”? People are way too proud of their opinions. ~ I am not sure if they are beside the point. Often people exaggerate to make a point. This makes other people doubt their honesty. Maybe it would be best to stick to the truth and not exaggerate. … Thank you spell check I usually have trouble with words like exaggerate. ~ Cigarette smokers must get an exemption on the no idiot policy. ~ ” and we can’t keep making decisions in the same way we did in the 1980s” When were you born? I believe it was in the late eighties. You were not making any decisions at all. I can see several sides to this discussion. The eighties, and first half of the nineties, were an experience I would not wish on anyone. I am very lucky to be able to type this sentence. ~ Local social justice warriors are too busy with MO & NY to notice an execution in their own state. People only care about what the corporate media tells them to worry about. ~ People, take a timeout from screaming about Ferguson. You can point fingers, and holler racist, later. It may be too late to worry about Wayne Holsey. Activism isn’t about results, it is feeling good about yourself. Activism is validating your privilege, by pointing fingers and crying about racism. ~ The clemency hearing was today. It was denied, and the execution happens tomorrow. You can make arguments both for, and against, this execution. Whatever people say now will make little difference, either in the Holsey execution or the Ferguson/Staten Island grand juries. The media cheerleaders are egging people on about the out of state grand juries. That must be where the profit centers are ~ pictures are from “The Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library”. ~ selah
Stella Young
Writer and comedian Stella Young died Saturday evening in Melbourne, Victoria. The disability activist was 32. “Young was born in Stawell, country Victoria, with osteogenesis imperfecta, a genetic disorder that causes bones to break easily.” She spent most of her life in a wheelchair.
Ms. Young gave a TED talk, I’m not your inspiration, thank you very much. There was a chamblee54 response, Inspiration Porn. PG has a similar view about people who try to make your life better with their happytalk. Good intentions are sometimes not enough.
Somebody posted 17 things Stella Young wanted you to know. Here are a few.
I started calling myself a disabled woman, and a crip. A good 13 years after 17-year-old me started saying crip, it still horrifies people. I do it because it’s a word that makes me feel strong and powerful.
I dance as a political statement, because disabled bodies are inherently political, but I mostly dance for all the same reasons anyone else does: because it heals my spirit and fills me with joy.
These images … are what we call inspiration porn. And I use the term porn deliberately because they objectify one group of people for the benefit of another group of people.
That quote, ‘the only disability in life is a bad attitude’, the reason that’s bullshit is … No amount of smiling at a flight of stairs has ever made it turn into a ramp. No amount of standing in the middle of a bookshelf and radiating a positive attitude is going to turn all those books into braille.
While [Peter Singer] may see value in the life I’m living now, and may even treat me as an equal, he still believes that on the balance of things, parents and doctors should be given the choice to end lives like mine before they get tricky. For me, and for many other people with disabilities, it’s personal.
I’ve been an atheist for a long time – ever since I first heard that there was only a stairway to heaven.
Pictures are from “The Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library”.
Six Pack Of PBQ
As 2014 winds down, the playbuzz quiz is off the chain. Almost every day another facebook denizen announces What Kind Of Demon Are You? or Which Magical Creature Should You Adopt? Today’s waste of bandwidth will explore these dimensions. Pictures are from “The Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library”.
The is an accounting procedure called LIFO. It means last in, first out. The last PBQ on FB was Which Magical Creature Should You Adopt? “If you could pick one of these superpowers, which one would you choose?” “Where would you rather live?” The first four questions offer a non choice, like “something else”, or “somewhere else.” The research oriented PG chose these placebo options.
The first result was GREMLIN. “You are a generous, yet rebellious individual and you and your pet gremlin will have loads of fun getting into trouble together! Just remember, don’t feed him or her after midnight!” Hopefully, an AMC automobile is not involved.
What Kind Of Demon Are You? DJINN “Like human beings, the jinn can be good, evil, or neutrally benevolent and hence have free will.” Some cleansing cream product called Puffs advertised in this segment. Magic Dragons are pleased.
What Crime Did You Commit in Your Past Life? This does have a fun question. “Pick a celebrity mug shot.” The options are Kholoe Kardashian, Lil Wayne, Lindsay Lohan, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, and Nick Nolte. Lindsay Lohan has the best hair.
There is a bit of ironic presentation. The meme-headline says “Am I the only one around here that gives a shit about the rules!?” A mean looking actor holds a pistol, and screams. The question is: Finish this sentence: Rules are meant to be ______ . The answers are Bent, Broken, Followed. To the right of the question is an ad for Ricoh Healthcare Technology & Document Management.
The last question was “Pick a weapon.” An option is a knife, and handgun, with the universal no pasted on. The criminal result: PRACTICING WITCHCRAFT. “After the rumors began spreading, a wave of hysteria washed over the community and you were thrown in jail.” That sounds like the last two weeks in “post racial” Amerika.
When you work on the internet, there is temptation and distractions. There is always *something* on twitter. @paul_lander FOX News had on Mark Fuhrman talking race relations. Let’s face it, if he were alive, they’d give a cooking show to Jeffrey Dahmer. Just try the mashed potatoes.
Which leads us to the next PBQ, Which Mythical Creature is Hidden Inside You? FAIRY A hair care product called Pantene is advertised.
The last two PBQ are about allegedly real people. It is a fine line between history and myth, especially when you are promoting a war. What Iconic Figure In American History Are You Most Like? probably will overlook this sordid reality.
“Which of these periods in American History would you most like to live in?” The options are “Now – The Information Age” (picture of aluminum skyscrapers”,) “The Founding Days” (painting of George Washington looking cool,) “The Roaring 20s” (picture of women in short skirts dancing,) “The Influential 60s” (picture of post pubescent Joan Baez and Bob Dylan.)
“Which of these influential figures of Western History do you hold in highest regard?” Winston Churchill, Salvador Dali, Albert Einstein, Bill Gates, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln. Six white men, with the hispanic Dali posing with a cat. This PBQ is politically incorrect. Maybe PG should not worry about being compared to slaveowner GEORGE WASHINGTON.
The last PBQ is Which Famous Genius Do You Think Like? ALBERT EINSTEIN PG might trim the mustache back a bit. The rumored affair with Marilyn Monroe can stay. Being misquoted on the internet, sixty years after you die, is good, clean fun.
Gremlin, Djinn, Fairy, Practicing witchcraft, George Washington, Albert Einstein. Life is good. Political correctness is greatly overrated.
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