Carrie Prejean Boller
Most Of This Is Real appeared on chamblee54 on May 1, 2009. It is about Carrie Prejean, Miss California in the 2009 Miss USA beauty pageant. There was a fuss, after she said marriage should be between a man, and a woman. Public nuisance Perez Hilton was a judge, and had a disruptive hissy fit. Miss Prejean made some noise of her own. The mini-scandal got fifteen minutes of attention.
Finally, Miss Prejean was fired as Miss California. The Miss USA pageant was owned by Donald Trump, and the headlines were predictable: Donald Trump to Miss California: You’re Fired! There were some zesty pictures taken. Miss Prejean filed a lawsuit, settled, and wrote a book: “Still Standing: The Untold Story of My Fight Against Gossip, Hate, and Political Attacks.”
After seeing the 2009 post, I wondered what happened to Carrie Prejean. A quick Google search turned up an Instagram spot, “carrieprejeanboller. Carrie Prejean Boller Miss CA USA 2009 👸 1RU Miss USA 2009 Author: Still Standing Mother❤💙 Wife of NFL QB Kyle Boller🏈 Trump Campaign Advisory Board Member @womenfortrump20 maga-mamas moms night in nc april 30.” @BethanyHudsonNC Calling all you MAGA MAMAS! @susantillis will be joining @heytana, @carrieprejean1, and me tonight! #WomenForTrump #NCBoots #LeadRight RSVP now to reserve your spot @carrieprejean1 “Can’t wait!!!!”
Kissed and made up! Runner-up Miss USA Carrie Prejean swoons over Trump at rally after she accused the New York Times of ‘twisting’ quotes for ‘hit piece’ on The Donald. · Fast forward to 2016. Mrs. Boller makes a splashy appearance at a Trump rally. This is despite some unflattering things she said about “The Donald” in her book. ‘They took a little tiny thing from my book and they twisted it. … And if they would have actually read on, I talk very highly of Mr. Trump. I don’t say anything negative about him. … Just below what they quoted, on page 68 [of her book], I said that most of us respect Donald Trump and he’s an amazing businessman and leader. Why didn’t they put that in the piece?”
The NYT piece has some juicy quotes. “His level of involvement in the pageants was unexpected, and his judgments, the contestants said, could be harsh. Carrie Prejean, who was 21 when she participated in the Miss USA contest in 2009 as Miss California, was surprised to find Mr. Trump personally evaluating the women at rehearsal. “We were told to put on our opening number outfits — they were nearly as revealing as our swimsuits — and line up for him onstage.”
“Donald Trump walked out with his entourage and inspected us closer than any general ever inspected a platoon. He would stop in front of a girl, look her up and down, and say, “Hmmm.” Then he would go on and do the same thing to the next girl. He took notes on a little pad as he went along. After he did this, Trump said: “O.K. I want all the girls to come forward.” … It became clear that the point of the whole exercise was for him to divide the room between girls he personally found attractive and those he did not. Many of the girls found the exercise humiliating. Some of the girls were sobbing backstage after he left, devastated to have failed even before the competition really began to impress “The Donald.”
While promoting her book, Miss Prejean appeared on the Larry King show. She did not make a good impression. Miss California USA Executive director Keith Lewis released a statement. “The public is finally getting a glimpse of the real Carrie Prejean who lives in her own delusional world. The childish behavior, her negative attitude, the sarcasm and condescending tone, the disrespect and continual lying she is demonstrating now is only a fraction of what we endured during her reign and after. Anyone who buys her book is supporting a woman who is actually the opposite of everything she claims to be. I sincerely hope she is able to get the psychological help I believe she has shown to clearly need.” … Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. Marion Post Wolcott took the social media picture in September 1939. “Combination filling station, garage, blacksmith shop, grocery store. Frank Petty, owner of the wagon, has just had his mule shod, his corn ground, purchases some kerosene and is returning home. R.F.D. Danville, Virginia, Pittsylvania County” This content was originally published May 1, 2020. More chamblee54 content about CPB can be found here.
Ashes To Ashes
This content was originally published June 24, 2009. … Neda Soltan was killed during disturbances following a contested election in Iran. “The Iranian authorities have ordered the family of Neda Agha Soltan out of their Tehran home after shocking images of her death were circulated around the world. Neighbours said that her family no longer lives in the four-floor apartment building on Meshkini Street, in eastern Tehran, having been forced to move since she was killed. The police did not hand the body back to her family, her funeral was cancelled, she was buried without letting her family know and the government banned mourning ceremonies at mosques” …
Meanwhile, a few hundred kilometers away, a funeral was allowed to take place. They had a visitor. “Up to 80 people have been killed after missiles were fired from a US “drone” at the funeral of a suspected Taliban commander of the Pakistani Taliban in South Waziristan, Pakistan officials have said.” The United States is at war with Pakistan in all but name. This is a nation of over 100 million moslems, with nuclear weapons. If we had listened to “neocons” and extremist Israelis, we would be at war with Iran now. Those people in the streets would be fighting us.
This content was originally published June 21, 2009. … Quoting Matt Taibbi … “Hank Paulson is one of the nameless men who helped to make the dollar worthless. He was the Secretary of the Treasury under George W. Bush. Before that, he was Chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs. In 2004, Paulson played a key role in the relaxation of certain rules governing banks. “he called up SEC director William Donaldson in 2004 and quietly arranged to get the state to drop capital requirements for the country’s top five investment banks?… Paulson met with Donaldson and got the rules changed” …
… “Goldman and four other banks no longer had to abide by the old restrictions that forced banks to actually have a dollar or two on hand for every ten or so they lent out. Bear Stearns in just a few years had a debt-to-equity ration of 33-1! Lehman’s went to 32-1.” The big banks were lending money to just about anyone who wanted it. So much capital was coming on the market, it was a struggle to lend it all out. The standards, especially for home loans, went down to almost nothing. These loans were packaged and resold, in the form of securities backed by these almost fraudulent loans.”
From another Matt Taibbi article … “So some Dutch teachers’ union that a year before was buying ultra-safe U.S. Treasury bonds in 2006 runs into a Goldman salesman who offers them a different, “just as safe” AAA-rated investment that, at the moment anyway, just happens to be earning a much higher return than treasuries. Next thing you know, a bunch of teachers in Holland are betting their retirement nest eggs on a bunch of meth addicted “homeowners” in Texas and Arizona.” “Alt-A mortgages are characterized, mainly, by crappy documentation and lack of equity: no income verification, no asset verification, little-to-no cash down” …
… “These crap/sham mortgages, a lot of them adjustable-rate deals with teaser rates that featured sudden rate hikes two or three years after closing, they would never have been possible had not someone devised a method for selling them off to secondary buyers.” … “This isn’t really commerce, but much more like organized crime: it was a gigantic fraud perpetrated on the economy that wouldn’t have been possible without accomplices in the ratings agencies and regulators willing to turn a blind eye. Imagine a meat company that bred ten billion rats, fattened them on trash and sewage, ground their bodies into chuck, and then sold it all as grade-A ground beef” …
… Neal Boortz blamed the sub prime mortgage crisis on the government pressuring lenders to give loans to less qualified buyers. I was listening one day when an “expert” was discussing the mortgage crisis. Neeyull mentioned that Government pressure led to loaning money to less qualified people. The expert said that was part of it, but the real problem was the flood of capital available to lend. The banks were under pressure to loan the money out as quickly as possible, and not to be too picky about qualifications. … Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. The social media picture is “Corporal Rutherford Hayes Woolley, Co. H, 20th Alabama Infantry Regiment. … Photograph shows identified soldier, who was captured in July 1863 at Vicksburg, Mississippi.”
SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT
This content was originally published June 25, 2009. … I went on his bike to look at the yard sales. Before I was twenty feet off my driveway, I saw a pile of broken glass. A thoughtless person threw a Jarritos bottle in the street. A car did not miss it. I was lucky to see that broken bottle in time. … Kind people of the internet, Enjoy your beverage, and throw the glass bottle in a trashcan. If your beverage is a legal drug, enjoy it in a home or a bar, but not in a moving vehicle.
This content was originally published June 26, 2009. … In the wake of 911, an email wormed its way around the internet. This letter references an appearance by Anne Graham Lotz on “The Early Show.” AnGel Ministries said, in an email, “Any mutation of it on the Internet would have occurred without Mrs. Lotz’s involvement.” … “Subject: SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT i recently got this email from a close relative and i was left in awe about what Billy Grahams daughter says on TV. also the things that she says is shockinly true. i hope you read” …
… “Are you laughing? Funny how when you forward this message, you will not send it to many on your address list because you’re not sure what they believe, or what they WILL think of you for sending it. Funny how we can be more worried about what other people think of us than what God thinks of us. Pass it on if you think it has merit. If not then just discard it… no one will know you did. But, if you discard this, don’t sit back and complain about what bad shape the world is in!”
This content was originally published June 25, 2009. … There is a report out about the 25 most dangerous neighborhoods in America. The study was compiled by Andrew Schiller and NeighborhoodScout.com. This is a service for people looking to move to an area. You can get a report on any “neighborhood” in America. You will need a paid subscription to the service. The study uses FBI data regarding murder, non-negligent manslaughter, forcible rape, armed robbery, and aggravated assault. It is a standard statistical soup of incidents per thousand residents. …
… 1. Cincinnati, Ohio (Central Pky./Liberty St.) 2. Chicago (State St./Garfield Blvd.) 3. Miami, Fla. (7th Ave./North River Dr.) 4. Jacksonville, Fla. (Beaver St./Broad St.) 5. Baltimore (North Ave./Belair Rd.) 6. Kansas City, Mo. (Bales Ave./30th St.) 7. Memphis, Tenn. (Warford St./Mount Olive Rd.) 8. Kansas City, Mo. (Forest Ave./41st St.) 9. Dallas, Texas (Route 352/Scyene Rd.) 10. Richmond, Va. (Church Hill) 11. Memphis, Tenn. (Bellevue Blvd./Lamar Ave.) 12. Dallas, Texas (2nd Ave./Hatcher St.) 13. Springfield, Ill. (Cook St./11th St.) 14. St. Louis (14th St./Dr. Martin Luther King Dr.) …
This content was originally published June 25, 2009. … Mark Sanford is the Governor of South Carolina. He is a Republican and a flaming Jesus Worshiper. He recently got caught with his pants down. I am not fond of the word hypocrite. I would rather look at the person’s deeds. Mark Sanford spent father’s day with this mistress. … Let’s look at the emails the exchanged with his mistress. He quotes The Bible in an email to his mistress. To be specific, I Corinthians 13. “ Love is patient and kind, love is not jealous or boastful, it is not arrogant or rude”. … Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. Russell Lee took the social media picture in April 1942. “Los Angeles County, California. The evacuation of Japanese and Japanese-Americans from West coast areas under United States Army war emergency order. Japanese arrive at the Santa Anita reception center”
Is Sarah Silverman Funny?
This material was originally published June 17, 2014. … There was a “promoted” tweet yesterday. @Scribd New on our blog! Laugh So Hard You’ll Pee, The 15 Funniest Lines From Sarah Silverman’s Book. The book, The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee, was published April 20, 2010. That fact may be the funnier than the 15 lines.
Most of the lines were embedded in pictures, which means a blogger would have to retype them. This is too much work. The few in text form were not very funny. But then, neither is Sarah Silverman, who once gave a TED talk. The big dog at TT said it was “G-d awful,” and did not allow it to be officially released. I saw the video as part of my research for Is Sarah Silverman Funny? The last seven words of the poem: “don’t make me listen to it again.”
The publisher has a survey “to see if this is the book for you.” · “1. Which of the following do you appreciate? (a) Women with somewhat horse-ish facial features. (b) Women who, while not super Jew-y, are more identifiably Jewish than, say, Natalie Portman. (c) Frequent discussion of unwanted body hair. · 2. Are you offended by the following behavior? (a) Instructing one’s grandmother to place baked goods in her rectal cavity. (b) Stripping naked in public—eleven times in a row. (c) Stabbing one’s boss in the head with a writing implement. · 3. The best way to treat an emotionally fragile young girl is: (a) Murder the main course of her Thanksgiving dinner before her very eyes. (b) Tell her that her older sister is prettier than she, and then immediately die. (c) Prevent her suicide by recommending she stay away from open windows. · If you read the above questions without getting nauseous or forming a hate Web site, you are ready to buy this book! Please proceed to the cashier.”
The survey did not indicate whether the book would be at the library, or a yard sale. After four years, it is probably available in discount bins. Pictures today are from Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library. The social media picture: “Moreland Avenue and Euclid”
Rebelling Against God
This is a repost from 2014. … Matt Walsh put up a post, We can’t end ‘rape culture’ if we don’t end hook-up culture. (Internet archive does not have a copy.) Now, RC/HUC are dodgy concepts. Just last week, I saw a post about RC, that started “If you are a man, you are part of rape culture.”
OTOH, the “blogger, writer, and professional sayer of truths” has a wide audience. Any trickle down to this slack blog would be appreciated. The BWPST also answers comments, using a psuedonym. He is easily provoked. If you don’t want trolls to start trouble, then you should not answer them. Some people are easily amused.
The fun started when BWPST said “Just like every other problem in the culture, it’s ALL about rebellion against God.” When a Christian talks about God, he usually means something very different from what I think. One of the few things that I believe is God does not write books. I made a comment, and the fun began. Entertainment is not what it used to be.
chamblee54 “Just like every other problem in the culture, it’s ALL about rebellion against God.” The first commandment says to hold no other God before you. This does not mean a book. When you declare a book, compiled by a Catholic committee, to be the word of God, then you are violating this common sense rule. Violating this rule causes problems. Mo, are you Matt? · Mo @ chamblee54 “The first commandment says to hold no other G-d before you. This does not mean a book.”What on EARTH are you talking about? “When you declare a book, compiled by a Catholic committee, to be the word of G-d, then you are violating this common sense rule.” I haven’t declared anything, especially anything regarding Catholicism, as I am not Catholic. Show me where I mentioned anything about Catholicism? Nor did Catholics compile the Word of God. Take your nonsense elsewhere. I have zero time or patience for it. · chamblee54 Mo, are you Matt? · Mo @ chamblee54 “Mo, are you Matt?” How about addressing the POINTS I made to you and the questions I asked? Another troll, capable of nothing but repeating the same nonsense over and over.
chamblee54 Ok, I don’t know where, or if, you said anything about the Roman Catholic Church. My point was about the Bible. The canon of the Christian church was compiled by a group of men. I might be mistaken on this point, but I believe they were Catholics. Whether of not the compilers of the bible were, or were not, Catholic is beside the point I want to make. That point is that the bible is not the word of God. God does not write books. When you confuse a book for God, you violate the first commandment. “How about addressing the POINTS I made to you and the questions I asked?” “Take your nonsense elsewhere. I have zero time or patience for it.” This is a contradiction. · Mo @ chamblee54 “Ok, I don’t know where, or if, you said anything about the Roman Catholic Church.” Okay, then your comment has no point since that’s what’s your crabbing about. Go troll someone else. Do not waste my time.
That is the end of the Matt Walsh/chamblee54 showdown. …We should take a look at the idea of “rebellion against God.” When you assume that a book contains the “word of God,” and use that assumption as a weapon to attack other people, that would seem to be “rebellion against God.” When you believe that a soveriegn deity is interested in your petty quarells, that might be “rebellion against God.” When you spend your time arguing with “trolls,” that might not be “rebellion against God,” but it looks foolish to those who don’t share your beliefs. · Pictures today are from Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library The social media picture was taken September 25, 1968. Union Camp Corporation United Appeal campaign.
POTUS Jokes
After a ADHD WHCD, the Washington Post published The single best joke told by every president, from Obama to Washington. It was easier than finding anything coherent said by Kamala Harris. Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. This is a repost.
The pickins are surprisingly slim, especially for the modern era. When everything you do is recorded, something has to be funny. Three recent Republicans show a liberal capacity for humor.
George H.W. Bush, 1989 Gridiron Club: “People say I’m indecisive, but I don’t know about that.”
Richard Nixon, in Ms. magazine, 1971: “Let me make one thing perfectly clear. I wouldn’t want to wake up next to a lady pipefitter.”
Herbert Hoover “Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.”
Warren Harding was a dog. … “referring to his penis, which he named Jerry, in a 1915 love letter to his mistress Carrie Fulton Phillips: “Jerry — you recall Jerry, whose cards I once sent you to Europe — came in while I was pondering your notes in glad reflection, and we talked about it.”
You have to go back over a hundred fifty years to get a serious laugh.
Andrew Johnson “Washington, D.C., is twelve square miles bordered by reality.”
Abraham Lincoln “If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?”
Franklin Pierce about duties after leaving office: “There’s nothing left. . . but to get drunk.”
Zachary Taylor when suggested that he run: “Stop your nonsense and drink your whiskey!”
John Tyler on his death bed: “Doctor, I am going. Perhaps it is best.”
James Madison on his death bed: “I always talk better lying down.”
I found a quote once about Alexander Hamilton, by John Adams. “His ambition, his restlessness and all his grandiose schemes come, I’m convinced, from a superabundance of secretions, which he couldn’t find enough whores to absorb!” A google search for verification led to a reddit page, Fake Founder Quotes, starring John Adams. Apparently, Mr. Adams said something similar to that in a letter to Dr. Benjamin Rush, sent January 25, 1806. According to this source, the letter was a satire of Jonathan Swift’s Tale of a Tub
George Washington in a 1788 letter congratulating the Marquis de Chastellux on his recent marriage: “Now you are well served for coming to fight in favour of the American Rebels, all the way across the Atlantic Ocean, by catching that terrible Contagion — domestic felicity — which like the small pox or the plague, a man can have only once in his life: because it commonly lasts him (at least with us in America — I don’t know how you manage these matters in France) for his whole life time.”
The Mess In Iraq
Content below was previously posted May 17, 2009. … Patrick Charles Eugene Boone will celebrate his 91st birthday June 1 … Pat Boone has had a long, profitable career. He is 75 years old. It might be time for him to retire. Or maybe he can do “cover” versions of gangsta rap. There is an article on WorldNetDaily, signed by Mr. Boone. … If you go to WND, you will get a full-screen popup warning of a computer virus … He makes three suggestions to President BHO. Mr. Boone observes that BHO did not serve in the military. According to wikipedia, neither did Pat Boone.
Content below was previously posted May 17, 2009. … There was a draft when Mr. Boone was 19, and the Korean War had just ended. If he had volunteered at 18, he might have seen some action. The first suggestion regards the pictures of torture. Mr. Boone uses a lot of buzz words, like “liberal media” and “Dan Rather and CBS”. Mr. Boone claims that the torture ended at Abu Ghraib. Documents recently released indicate otherwise. Mr. Boone claims that the corporal punishment his mother gave him was worse than what was done to prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. He also raises the red herring …
Content below was previously posted May 17, 2009. … Suggestion 3 is where Mr. Boone shows signs of dementia. He discusses the reluctance of BHO to publicly participate in the National Day of Prayer. This is compared with a proclamation issued by Abraham Lincoln in 1863. Before he gets to that, he drops this in: “But, scarcely into your presidency, you seem hell-bent to marginalize Christianity and this country’s Judeo-Christian foundation, allowing military chaplains to be harshly disciplined for praying in Jesus’ name and promoting a so-called “fairness doctrine” that is designed to squelch conservative and Christian radio hosts and to equate Holy Scripture with “hate speech.”
Content below was previously posted May 22, 2009. … Nibras Kazimi is a visiting scholar at the Hudson Institute in New York. He writes a blog, Talismangate. It is mostly about Iraq, and the mess it is in. He recently wrote about President Obama. It seems like BHO is going to make a speech to the Muslim world in June. He has chosen Cairo as the site. Mr. Kazimi does not think this is a good choice. The reasoning behind this teaches me a few things.
Content below was previously posted May 22, 2009. … The line in the west is that Cairo is a leading city in the Muslim world. According to Mr. Kazimi, this is not quite the case. The importance of Cairo is largely a product of British propaganda, during the time that Egypt was part of the British Empire. Another black eye for Egypt is the peace treaty with Israel, which was evident during the siege of Gaza last year. To many, Egypt is an ally of Israel. Damascus was suggested as another site for this speech. There are problems. The regime in Syria is brutal …
Content below was previously posted May 22, 2009. … Syria is the sworn enemy of Israel, which would not play well with BHO’s supporters back home. The good news is, Syria has taken in many refugees from the war in Iraq … many more than the United States. Mecca would be a good site for this speech, if BHO was not an infidel. President O is viewed with disdain in the Muslim world, with the escalation of the war in AfPak. Meanwhile, many in America believe BHO is a Muslim.
Content below was previously posted May 22, 2009. … Talismangate is an excellent source of information and confusion. You will read things that are not even hinted in the American corporate media. The English speaking reader will find many of the names difficult to fathom. (Nibras Kazimi is one of the easier ones) Every time I read an Iraqi Blog, I is a bit more confused. America has started something that will be very difficult to finish. … Talismangate is no longer published. Nibras Kazimi currently is known on X as @ImaraWaTijara. … Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. Russell Lee took the social media picture in March 1939. “Two children of family living on relief near Jefferson, Texas. These children did not attend school because of lack of warm clothes and indifference of mother who was sick with pellagra.”
The Nothing Of Jordan Peterson
“Jordan Peterson, if you don’t know him, he doesn’t know himself. So it’s not a big deal. I mean if you ask him, who are you, he’ll tell you what is who, what is are, what is you …” This may be more truth than poetry. Ever since Jordan Bernt Peterson came out of his near death experience with Benzodiazepines, he gets more and more Bidenesque every day.
I had been avoiding the video where JBP sits down with “20 atheists.” I am beyond tired of JBP, and the semantics of the God issue make me want to puke. That was before I saw this x-crete. I got “sucked into” this matter, and might as well get a blog post out of it.
It takes a bit of digging to find the original post. The title on youtube is Jordan Peterson vs 20 Atheists. When I posted that link on x, the title is shown as “1 Christian vs 20 Atheists (ft. Jordan Peterson)” Apparently, after this drama became popular, someone went in for damage control.
JBP is a bullshitter. He sort of makes points, but packages them in layers of semantics, sophistry, obfuscation, and just plain noise. Some people are impressed by this. This problem here is that when you live by the gotcha, you die by the gotcha. JBP just became too clever for his own good, and was hoisted on his own petard. To the millions that are bored by his antics, the downfall of JBP is hilarious. Of course, when you wear a pin stripe suit to talk to baseball hats …
The format of this telenova is for JBP to present a “claim”, and the young atheists run to the interview chair to do battle. Claim #1 “Atheists reject God, but they don’t understand what they’re rejecting” The first fighting atheist is Cade Bradley, aka gayextrad. Cade was studying for the Catholic priesthood, and can sling big words like a pro. … “when we look at the Bible the Bible can’t precisely say anything because there are so many different exegetical and hermeneutic views of this particular book and that everybody has disagreed historically on it seems like even the most benign detail about a book this big and it seems like you can only say that the Bible says something if you first presuppose that it’s univocal.” This was early in the show, before the audience went to sleep.
At 48:46, one atheist is “voted out by the majority”, and @dannyphiltalk moves into the hot chair. Danny is going to be the viral sensation. JBP is defending Claim #3 “Everybody worships something, including atheists, even though they might not know it”.
“How do they regard Mary?” … “Why are you asking me that?” … “Because you’re a Christian?” You say that” … “I haven’t claimed that” … “Oh what is this is this Christians versus atheist” … “I don’t know” … “You don’t know where you are right now” … “Don’t be a smartass” … “I mean either you’re a Christian or you’re not” … “You’re a smart ass” … “Either you’re a Christian or you’re not. Which one is it?” … “I could be either of them but I don’t have to tell you you” … “You don’t have to tell me? I was under the impression I was invited to talk to a Christian. Am I not talking to a Christian?” … “No … “I think everyone should look at the title of the YouTube channel. You’re probably in the wrong YouTube video.” … “You’re really quite something you?” … “but you’re really quite nothing”
If you really are hard up for entertainment, you say see the entire shitshow here. If that isn’t enough, chamblee54 has written about JBP several times. 061318 061718 070318 072719 021220 020224 Pictures today are from Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library The social media picture was taken May 22,1955. “Colonial Stores supermarket at Briarcliff and LaVista”
Carrie Prejean
It is another sunday morning. Going to church is too gruesome to contemplate. The lawn does not need mowing. It is 052525, the five digit palindrome day for 2025 … what Uncle Hotep would say is the year of our Lord 2025. I go to facebook to wish people happy 52525, and see a post about how the Golden Dome missile defense system is not going to work, except to make buckets of money for the companies that will develop it. Even if the GD does blow up a nuke in the sky, the radiation …
Content below was previously posted May 6, 2009. … The custom of baptism has reared her ugly head again. The dunk or sprinkle debate will probably never be resolved. The question about whether to baptize infants or converts is a call to battle. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has thrown another possibility into the game…baptism of the dead by proxy. This is one of the things about CJCLDS that causes heads to shake. There are computers in Mormon facilities that track the ancestors of members, and perform a digital baptism by proxy. The idea is that a person cannot go to heaven unless they have been baptized.
Content below was previously posted May 6, 2009. … The obsession with life after death is a nonstop source of amusement. A curious custom is in the news today. It seems like CJCLDS baptized Stanley Ann Dunham, the deceased mother of President Obama. This is despite the fact that Miss Dunham married an African, and had a mixed race son. CJCLDS apparently confirmed that this baptism did take place. … “Baptisms for the dead are just a symbolic gesture that we remember and love the deceased and welcome them into our faith. We understand that they have the same freedom” …
Content below was previously posted May 1, 2009. … Carrie Prejean is Miss California, and was a finalist in the Miss USA pageant. (In 2009, MUP was owned by Donald Trump) Perez Hilton asked her whether the other states should follow the lead of Vermont, and legalize same sex marriage. Miss Cali said marriage was between a man and a woman. Mr. Hilton (aka Mario Lavandeira, Spanish for laundromat) had a hissy fit, and insulted mama dogs. Miss Prejean opened her mouth, and did not shut it. It takes talent to make Perez Hilton look smart, but Carrie Prejean has done it.
Content below was previously posted May 1, 2009. … It turns out Miss Prejean had breast implants. There was a statement by the Co-Executive director of the Miss California Organization, Shanna Moakler. It turns out that the Miss California Organization paid for the breast implants. … There is more about Miss California, Carrie Prejean. It turns out her parents separated when she was very young, possibly before she was born. Does she have the same father as her sister? Mom and Dad spent the next few years in a nasty custody battle. Now Miss Prejean is fighting to defend marriage. What does Miss Prejean thinks she is defending?
@carrieprejeanboller “What an honor of a lifetime to be appointed by the President and serve as a commissioner on the Presidential Commission on Religious Liberty. On this National Day of Prayer seeing the President sign this new Executive Order protecting my Christian faith is truly amazing and historic. Singing praise to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ while in the rose garden with the President on this day is something I will never forget. May we always remember our God-centered foundation as a nation and put God at the forefront of all that we do.” May 2, 2025
Bristol Palin
Content below was originally posted May 26, 2008 … There is this problem of the soldiers who died fighting for the losing side. What to make of these Confederate soldiers who died so their rich neighbors could keep their slaves? They are just as brave as the Union troops, often fighting with less food, weapons and clothing. The modern side to this dilemma is the Vietnam Vet. Often drafted, sent to fight a war which few wanted, these brave soldiers have been dumped on. While the war did not end well, they are every bit as valiant as those who fought in other conflicts.
Content below was originally posted May 29, 2009 … Fort Campbell had a problem with soldiers committing suicide. The commander of the 101st Airborne Division is a take charge type, Brig. Gen. Stephen J. Townsend. He, in so many words, ordered the soldiers to stop killing themselves. “If you don’t remember anything else I say in the next five or 10 minutes, remember this — suicidal behavior in the 101st on Fort Campbell is bad. It’s bad for soldiers, it’s bad for families, bad for your units, bad for this division and our army and our country and it’s got to stop now. Suicides at Fort Campbell have to stop now.”
Consider the teenage abstinence program. The poster girl is Bristol Palin, the same Bristol who fornicated in her parents house. The same Bristol who had her baby, and broke up with the babydaddy, with numerous hard feelings. Some people find this not real. And who is caring for baby Tripp while Mama Bristol talks up abstinence? … In the past 16 years, Bristol has had many excellent adventures. Today she is a real estate agent, and found a check in the mail. It was a reality check. When he took it to the bank, it was rejected for having insufficient funds.
Content below was originally posted May 21, 2009 … “Victory Day“ is celebrated in Russia on May 9. This is the end of the war with Germany in 1945. The Soviet Union lost over 20 million people in that war. The United States, which fought on two fronts, lost 400 thousand, almost all military. The Soviets lost millions of civilians. World War Two was largely fought on Soviet soil. The Nazis killed, and killed, and killed some more. The only thing to stop them was to kill back, which the Soviets did.
All the countries that participated in World War Two suffered, but none quite like the Soviets.
In Ukraine, the Germans were initially greeted as liberators. Once Ukraine got to know the Germans, they saw the need to resist. The Western Front, started on D Day, forced the Germans to divert troops from the Russian War. The United States gave arms and supplies to the Soviets. However, it was the Soviet people who did the heavy lifting in that war. The allies probably would not have won without them. … I grew up in Georgia (American), roughly one hundred years after the War Between the States. Atlanta was the scene of some heavy fighting.
The impact of having a war fought on your home turf is much greater than fighting across an ocean. I look at the impact a 19th century war had on his home, and can only imagine what impact a much bloodier, more recent war, would have on Russia. After the hot war came the cold war. The Soviet Union was our enemy, and the excuse to maintain a large military. Many of the contributions made by the Soviets in the struggle against Germany have been forgotten. People seem to forget the hundreds of thousands of German civilians killed by American air raids. … Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. Arthur Siegel took the social media picture in August 1942. “Interlochen, Michigan. National music camp where 300 or more young musicians study symphonic music for eight weeks each summer. Girls waiting to catch large rubber ball”
Sunday Morning Drabbles
Today is May 18, 2025. I am going to write new material for my blog today, based largely on content from May 2008. This was the first year that chamblee54 was on WordPress. I was driving a truck in Marietta, and listening to am talk radio. The 2008 election was going on. John McCain was going to be the Republican candidate, and Barack H. Obama was the Democrat wannabe. The 2008 economic meltdown was a few weeks away. After the economic meltdown, I lost my job, and the election of Obama became inevitable. 17 years later, I am assembling this collection of drabbles.
Another shot in the arm deals with capital punishment. On May 6, 2008, Georgia was preparing to off a convict. … Semantic timeout. While hung, shot, or beheaded are obvious verbs for more archaic means of execution, what is the expression for “executed by lethal injection”? What do you call the process where a GDC employee shoots up a person with substances that will cause their demise? Injecticide? … With all the corruption, lawyers, and rampant egomania in the justice business, how can the death penalty ever be administered fairly? Was this practice ever intended to be fair?
There was a comment thread at a Christian blog. The topic of preaching at funerals came up: “I want to see God’s grace and name honored.” Preaching an unwanted message to grieving people does not honor God. Christians frequently do not respect non-believers. Christians feel that if they only repeat their message over and over that others will agree with it. However, many of us have made up our minds. The more you try, the more you alienate us. A heavy religious message at a funeral is an example of this. Many incontinent evangelicals are like dogs that will not quit barking.
Like many men of my degeneration/generation, I had long hair. The problem is, with a Georgiawhiteboi like me, hair turns into worms after about three centimeters. It is way too much work to take care of. So I bought a pair of clippers. It was the modern version of letting my freak flag fly … I was in the church’s fried chicken on Broad street downtown. The two drag queens were in front of me in line.They got their food and left. When I stepped to the counter, I heard this girl say to her friend ”Her hayyer is so preeiitee”
Tallulah Bankhead was making a movie, “Lifeboat”, directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Some of the other actors commented that Miss Bankhead was not wearing panties. Mr. Hitchcock wondered if this was a matter for wardrobe or a matter for hairdressing … Did Mohawks really shave their heads except for a stripe of hair in the middle? That would seem to be a lot of trouble for pre-modern men living in upstate New York. A Mohawk haircut is high maintenance, just like many who display them. … When asked how long it takes to do her hair, Dolly Parton replies. “I don’t know I am not there”
A clean pair of socks is change you can believe in. … The intangibles include respect, good will, and trust. Semantic fine tuning aside, these words mean the same thing. … A man has to believe in something. I believe I will have a drink. W.C. Fields … Mr. Barnum once said “there is a sucker born every minute”. This belief served Mr. Barnum abundantly … Miss Teenage South Carolina gave a famous speech. The first three words were ” I personally believe” … Anyone can quote the Bible. To do so without the trust of the listener is to speak in vain.
Opinions are like a smelly, though productive, body part. What does this say about beliefs? … Believe is a seven letter word. The first two letters are BE. The next three letters are LIE … Cher had a hit song called “Believe” The hair is a wig, the plastic surgery is paid for, but do you believe. … John 3:16 has more than 22 words. That verse helps reduce Jesus to a scheme for life after death. … My opinions about G-d, the Bible, Jesus, and Life after Death are none of your business. … Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. The social media picture: “Private Lucien Love of Co. D, 43rd Virginia Cavalry Battalion … Photo shows young identified soldier. Lucien Love is one of six Mosby Rangers executed by the Union in September 1864 near Front Royal, Virginia.”
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