Human Decency Standards
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The Peanut Butter Meme
A facebook friend posted a meme this morning. There is a picture of a piece of bread, covered in peanut butter. There is forty point, sans serif, text pasted on the condiment. “If someone ever tells you that you’re putting too much peanut-butter on your bread, stop talking to them. You don’t need that kind of negativity in your life.” This is a helpful hint repost.
PG dabbles in graphics. When he saw the meme, the first thing he saw were the words “your life” at the bottom. Six longer lines of text were stacked on top of “your life.” This creates a top heavy look. PG made a comment: “A meme is different from a peanut butter sandwich. There are too many words in this meme. If they had stopped after “negativity”, there would not be two words at the bottom by themselves. The result is a top heavy graphic. The words “in your life” do not add anything to the overall message. This is not negativity, this is editing.”
There are more issues with the peanut butter meme. This is a sacred saturday, after a long week at work. If PG wants to write snarky commentaries about a facebook picture, that should be his right. No one is making you read this. If you want to skip the text, and look at the pictures (from The Library of Congress,) go ahead. The images are from the FSA depression era collection.
We live in a selfish society. It is all about “your life.” The concept of scarce goods is not considered. What if there is only enough peanut butter (without the dash) for two regular sandwiches, or one super duper helping? Is it negativity to ask someone to share?
“If someone ever tells you … stop talking to them.” Are two people talking at the same time? Or, is one person talking, and the other listening? Maybe the meme should say stop listening to them. But, we are a self oriented culture. Listening is seen as weakness. Talking is seen as confident action. If someone says something you don’t like, don’t talk to them.
You probably weren’t listening anyway. It is all about you, and your desire to pile on the peanut butter. Maybe that is why it was important to add the words “in your life” to the text. The fact that there was not enough room does not matter. It is all about your life. If this throws the overall picture out of balance, that is too bad.
Watch Your Mouth
Watch your mouth! The words “f–k”, “f—–g” and “f—-n” are not allowed here. ~ “This has been going on for forty years since Jimmy Carter’s shift to the right abandoned labor unions as the core of the Democratic party.” You are 35 years old, I believe. How can you comment on things that happened when you were minus five? As for Smiling Jimmy’s “shift to the right”… I don’t remember that. ~ Asbestos anagrams into to bet ass and O best ass ~ Is this worth one of my four free visits behind the NYT paywall? ~ I once read a 10 page magazine article about tennis, written by D. F. Wallace,who studied competitive paint drying before he died ~ There is a name misspelled in the blurb. If anyone deserves an extra i in his name, it is Mr. Netanyahu ~ @Nettaaaaaaaa I am the stone that the builder refused…the promise of what’s to come. And I’mma remain a soldier till the war is won. netta@thisisthemovement.org ~ Dave wants Buster to get back to work. ~ does anyone else see a connection between @wsj and #sjw? ~ The Bernie Sanders proposal to fund free college and heatlthcare by taxing wealthy people is faulty math. ~ “I personally would love to see him as a catalyst to keep her veering left.” Donald Trump agrees with you. ~ @awwwchris “these racist Whites” might be prejudiced What if someone said “these thieving blacks”? ~ Google Derpious definition: Did you mean: DERPIEST definition DUBIOUS definition DEVIOUS definition ~ On David Bowie’s birthday this year, I ripped all his cd’s into a playlist. I was thinking about doing the same for Bob Dylan on his birthday. ~ best homeless, park ped, post office, ~ @luckybastard77 @AngryBlackLady I don’t know if people realize the racism he had to endure. First big tour opening for Rolling Stones, crowds threw shit @chamblee54 @luckybastard77 @AngryBlackLady I’m calling BS on that. Do you have any evidence of this? ~ @AmyVansant They should put Hillary on the twenty dollar bill. She hasn’t been on a Bill in years. ~ The only vote that counts is electoral votes. The Georgia electoral votes will probably go to the Republican. There is a chance of an anti-Trump backlash that would tip the state towards Hillary, but I would not bet on it. What I would bet on is that BS will not win Georgia, even if he ran on the free beer party. ~ Maybe that is how the college proposal should work. You pay for tuition and books, and the government gives you all the beer you can drink, as long as you maintain a certain GPA. ~ The President is elected by electoral votes. Georgia is all but guaranteed to go republican. You can carry on about privilege all you want, but, unless you live in a swing state, you do not have a vote. And the electoral college enables the two party duopoly to stay in power. NONE of the current candidates are calling for abolition of the electoral college. ~ You are blocked from following @luckybastard77 and viewing @luckybastard77’s Tweets. ~ Roseanne Rosannadanna was my second favorite Gilda Radner character. My favorite, Emily LaTella, had one word she liked to say, and I feel this is a good time to say it. BITCH ~ @WernerTwertzog The gap between patriotic rhetoric and reality in the U.S. is so great that it is the nation’s greatest source of alternative energy. ~ why you don’t look at your smart phone on camera. Of course, this is the show where the Vietnam war was compared to the “great recesssion.” There were 58k American deaths, and uncounted millions Vietnamese deaths. To compare this tragedy to the Bush recession is a sick joke. ~ Contrary to rumors, it appears that BS does have upper teeth. ~ B vowel T is a great formula. All five vowels can be inserted into that spot, and make usable words. bat, bet, bit, bot, but ~ scurrilous, opprobrious, obscene, or profane language; given to abusive or filthy speech.” ~ The structural, energetic and electronic properties of chiral (n, m) (3⩽n⩽6, n/2⩽m⩽n) single-wall copper nanotubes (CuNTs) have been investigated by using projector-augmented wave method based on density-functional theory. ~ when your idea of #socialjustice is to call your neighbor #racist then you choose the side of the oppressor ~ Your Candidate in a Word ~ Science proves that people who correct typos and grammar are usually jerks ~ emoji science ~ Admitting that white privilege helps you is really just congratulating yourself ~ stay woke ~ woke badge ~ Only 3% Of Americans Can Pass This American History Test ~ The word “cisgender” is anti-trans ~ am i a racist quiz ~ stupid ~ nonsense ~ The smug style in American liberalism ~ “Beautiful Losers” ~ Just for fun, take a photo of whatever is in front of you right now and post it in the comments: ~ Violent protests shut down Stone Mountain attractions ~ ‘Pro-white’ rally prompts protests and arrests at Confederate monument ~ The ~ Wordnik’s Most Favorited Words (So Far) ~ Pictures this week are from The Library of Congress. ~ selah
Anesthetic Sensibility
@MrChurchGuy Today is National Sibling Day. No it isn’t Yes it is No it isn’t Yes it is No it isn’t Dad! Tell him it’s Sibling Day! Sure, whatever dear. ~ I do that for my blog, and publish the list every monday. ~ @sesquiotic I’m not an anti-authoritarian, though I may seem like one. I’m just anti anyone’s authority other than my own. @chamblee54 authoritarianism is a poorly understood personality factor many who think they are anti a merely use a different authority @sesquiotic I remember years ago there was a slogan, “Lead, follow, or get out of the way.” I just didn’t want to do any of those things. @chamblee54 that sort of Independence is a luxury that many cannot afford @sesquiotic Indeed. I sweat privilege. @chamblee54 maybe instead of check your privilege, you should dry it off ~ Millard Fillmore 1- Best initials of US Presidents. 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When it is experienced, it’s usually only temporary, superficial, and/or by choice.” ~ KimKierkegaardashian @KimKierkegaard Bronze is so pretty & def one of my favorite tones. Its dull gleam reminds us to rejoice even while we suffer. ~ @DailyRobbins …An aesthetic sensibility is both more authentic and more commendable than a political or religious one. @chamblee54 an anesthetic sensibility. artificially induced and temporary, is an antidote to politic, religion, scalpel happy surgeons ~ This reminds me of that internet group “Never had sex with a goat” I once joined. It was really dull but I thought that quitting would seem suspicious. ~ Politicians have been accurately referred to as whores for a long time. They accept legal bribes, under the guise of campaign contributions, in exchange for services rendered. 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To give it legitimacy, copy editors call it “the singular ‘their,'” as if calling it singular makes it no longer plural. It is my job when I see it in print to do my best to eliminate it. I couldn’t make it, “Everyone held her breath,” or “Everyone held his breath,” or “Everyone held his or her breath.” Whatever I suggested had to blend in. I asked, through the editor, if the author would consider changing it to “All in the vicinity held their breath,” because “all” is plural. Nope. I tried again: “All those present held their breath?” I thought this sounded vaguely judicial. But the editor pointed out that we could not have “present” and “presence” in the same sentence. When the final proof came back, the author had accepted “as” for “like,” and “miked” for “mic’ed.” But on “Everyone held their breath,” he stood his ground. Two out of three isn’t bad. ~ Bitch Ass Bullshit @foofoofag Mexican Intersectional Feminist. Dadi/Papi. Gendervoid Cyborgkin Demiqueer. ~ Ling Ling quit playing with your food ~ 1- @InNogodWeTrust @chescaleigh can dish it out but she cannot take it This is the last tweet I sent her before I got blocked. 2 – @InNogodWeTrust when you say the n-word you demean yourself it is in your best interest not to use it ~ @joshuafoust I dunno. I think Bernie Sanders would come off better if he smiled more and wasn’t so shrill. And didn’t seem to ruthless and ambitious. @chamblee54 BS comes across as a 66.6% jerk of course, this is compared to HRC , DJT, REC, who are off the scale ~ I got 90. 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Privy Privilege
California is like a really bad version of Florida ~ @realprettydude One of my favorite things in the world is talking to people until they realize I’m an idiot. ~ Signup today to our awesome weekly newsletter and get our free 9-page PDF text messaging guide for free ~ That man is prejudiced. Videos like this do more harm than good. ~ How do you know this? ~ @Pig_Vomit @AZEALIABANKS Palin has accomplished so much her life- vp candidate, gov, author, tv, etc. What have you done?sang shitty songs & fucked. ~ Sarah Palin Hey Female Rapper – listen up, little darling. No one has any idea what you’re wigging out about in these bizarre, violent rants against me, but you’re obviously not exercising enough intelligence to acknowledge you’ve been sucked into believing some fake interview in which I supposedly offered comments representing the antithesis of my truth. ~ Result: You’re woke! You get woke every morning and stay woke all day, but are never so woke that you can’t fall asleep when your head hits that pillow at night. ~ That? Several issues are being juggled now. Like a juggler keeps several items in rotational air through practice and efficiency, a rhetorician keeps issues flying in a circle, careful not to let anything fall to the ground before its usefulness to the circus has expired. Just as juggler is similar in sound to jughead and jugular, the internet wisdom monger wallows in the same ethical pigpen as Joseph Goebbels, planned obsolescence,@Nero. ~ in today’s cruz news, assisted anagrams into ted is ass ~ I would be happy for people to know that y’all is plural – singular they is a nuisance singular ya’ll is an abomination ~ @bigmacher Dad will use as many words as he wants. No one tells the dad how many words to use in his household!!!! #FamilyValuesIn5Words ~ I suspect that RuPaul would not be pleased to see her image used like that. ~ alt right rat light ~ @pooroldkilgore 1- i follow @AlysiaAbbott I initially thought it was her making the comment about @ponifex tweet Ms. Abbott has a severely autistic son and may have an informed opinion about “People with disabilities are a gift … ” ~ @chamblee54 @Flyswatter Necrotizing Fasciitis is my new stage name ~ @mbsycamore Trying to decide whether maximalism is minimalism at its best, so I must be getting tired. @chamblee54 the issue is not mini vs maxi it is mal vs bueno as in minibuenoism (spell check suggestion minibus) or maxibuenoism ~ @Stopfamousquot1 hasn’t tweeted yet. ~ lull ~ Milo Yiannopoulos: Breitbart’s star provocateur, Gamergater, and Trump champion, explained ~ TRANSCRIPT: Bernie Sanders meets with News Editorial Board ~ this is the transcript we are waiting on the ciscript ~ 9 things Bernie Sanders should’ve known about but didn’t in that Daily News interview ~ Watching the Woke Olympics ~ Quiz: How Woke Are You? ~ Stop: You Are Not A Machine ~ 10 reasons whatshisname is better than you ~ 20 Christianese Phrases We Really Need to Stop Saying ~ words ~ transblog ~ Being blocked is not the same as being censored ~ REMARKS CONCERNING THE SAVAGES OF NORTH-AMERICA ~ One man’s 100 interviews to find out why his flings failed ~ divide and conquer ~ pictures today are from “The Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library”. ~ selah
Shocking Information
I wrote 1984. as a warning not as a fucking instruction manual. ~ Did anyone “change their profile in solidarity” after a drone strike? ~ I always wonder what sort of crookedness is going unnoticed when nonsense like RFRA gets all the attention. ~ @JoanneWiggyG Love space,cats,yoga,karaoke,Poetess © #JoanneWiggyG Smart,passionate,loyal.#No2EU,#Brexit,#Jockney,#MiddleKid, ❤️#2ndWifey ❤️ #LetsUnite #BetterTogether #COYG ~ @SusanSarandon Mother, activist, actress and ping pong propagandist at @WeAreSPiN New York, NY ~ Lets do a remake of the Rocky Horror Picture Show. Donald Trump can be Frank N Furter. Ted Cruz can be Rif Raff. Hillary Clinton can be Magenta. Susan Sarandon can repeat as Janet Weiss, with Bernie Sanders as Brad Majors. ~ The calculator on this machine says “invalid entry” when I ask for the square root of -2 and -9. Is the square of invalid entry a walking exit? ~ @milkvamp Susan Sarandon also supported Ralph Nader? Sounds like she has good taste in politicians to me. @chamblee54 @milkvamp Ralph Nader helped get George W Bush elected good intentions sometimes have horrific results @OmanReagan In Florida’s 2000 presidential election 308,000 Democrats voted for Bush, only 24,000 Democrats voted for Nader @OmanReagan Aside from Democrats in FL, Gore lost 191,000 self-described liberals to Bush, but less than 34,000 self-described liberals voted for Nader. @OmanReagan In 2000 in Florida, irregularities aside, Gore ‘lost’ to Bush because women, democrats, and independents voted for Bush, not Nader. @OmanReagan It wasn’t Third Party that did it, it was Democrats (and SCOTUS): 12% of Florida Democrats (over 300,000 people) voted for Bush in 2000 @OmanReagan Write these facts down, share them every time you hear the myth. Americans are terrified of 3rd parties b/c elites want it that way. ~ Maybe the test should be whether you are good at making an educated guess. I only knew five of the questions, but guessed four out of the other five. I also might (if I cared enough, which is doubtful) investigate some of these questions. I never heard of it being illegal to name a horse Hitler, and suspect BS. ~ Sounds like fun Do you have a link? ~ I find it curious that respect-ability is a dirty word to some. ~ Has @realDonaldTrump @tedcruz @SenSanders ever paid for an abortion? Has @HillaryClinton ever had an abortion? ~ Is @nero the illegitimate offspring of @realDonaldTrump and @Courtney Love Cobain? ~ Shocking information found about Marshall Hill ~ In the pool at Pineapple Point Guest House in Victoria Park, we listened to a proctologist from Minneapolis list the things he has extracted from clients. These include a baffling number of batteries (in a wide range of sizes from AAA – D and dangerous when they leak) and a Barbie shoe. ~ Why would you need professional help to get a Barbie shoe out? 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The name is @conniejstokes I will not vote for her ~ the abbreviation for singular they should be sin. they ~ @freddiedeboer Well this is the most manipulative thing I’ll read in 2016 @chamblee54 is this worth one my free peaks behind the pay wall? @freddiedeboer No need to worry – if you click a link from Twitter, it bypasses the pay wall. @freddiedeboer (You should still subscribe if you are a regular consumer of their news and if you can afford to, though. @chamblee54 pay wall links are hit or miss … that was also a rhetorical question ~ George Orwell ~ Orwell was a warning, not an instruction manual ~ Atlas Shrugged is a warning not an instruction manual. ~ George Orwell ~ The masterpiece that killed George Orwell. ~ 2001 ~ Obama’s Feds Spend Thousands to Study French Lesbians… No Wonder We Are a Joke ~ test ~ Schedule 5 – Registration of Ownership Names’ and Styles ~ Schedule 1 – Registration of horse names ~ Horse Racing: Banned Horse Names ~ ‘Mental.’ ‘Utterly Stupid.’ ‘Trump Only Cares About Trump.’ ~ daddy ~ video ~ A Note on Call-Out Culture ~ In Defense Of Donald Trump’s Heidi Cruz Tweet ~ Milo Yiannopoulos ✘ ~ Daddy ~ First openly gay congressman savages Bernie Sanders: ‘He’s achieved very little’ ~ him ~ Here’s why a Bernie Sanders victory for the nomination would make him a hypocrite ~ Did he say it? 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A Week At CTZ
NOTE: This post appeared a few years ago. It was taken down, and edited. The location of the hosting facility has been intentionally obscured.
At 752 am, October 11, 2010, PG warmed up the car. The destination was Central Time Zone. The Gathering had started on friday, but PG found enough slack to go on monday. After an hour on the road, there was a stop at a gas station. The lady said “wherever you are going, don’t work too hard”. PG assured her that, where he was going, that would not be a problem.
At 1130 pm PG rolled onto the driveway to the land. (The time zone play provides a layer of confusion right away. Atlanta is not that far east of CTZ, but is on the western edge of the time zone. While there is little difference in the location of the sun, CTZ is on Central time, and an hour behind.) The first day of a gathering is a lot of work. You have to get your gear down a steep hill, go park your vehicle, hike back, and then set up your tent. The parking lot is about two miles away, and the trail has a steep hill and a poorly maintained trail. You get used to walking on steep hills at a gathering.
People who have been to gatherings before tend to have a preferred place to camp. PG likes the yurt yard, which is right next to the knoll, fire pit, and flag pole. This is a center of activity, and can be noisy. It is also closest to the driveway, and has the least distance to haul goods. PG thinks this is a good trade off, and can go to sleep listening to a drum circle.
There is a lot of dust, after a month with no rain. Water is brought in by truck every day, and water conservation is preached whenever announcements are made. There was a spigot on the porch where you could get water. It was very slow, and getting water was often a social activity.
Dinner monday night was an asian themed event, with several varieties of veg-sushi. One of the pieces had a sauce that was as hot as anything PG has ever eaten. Eating on the porch, with oil lamps providing minimal lighting, it became an act of bravery to eat, not knowing whether the next bite might be your last. PG ate the rest of the dinners inside, where there was electric lights.
After dinner, a lively drum circle started by the fire pit. A tall man, in a striped costume, was dancing with a sign that said “please touch me without asking”. It seems as though there had been a discussion before PG arrived about not touching people that did not want to be touched. Not everyone was happy with this development, and it was a subject of conversation the rest of the gathering. There were also reminders to get consent before taking pictures.
During a break in the drumming, an English lady posed a riddle. A man was watching TV. He turns off the TV, goes upstairs, turns the light on, and jumps out the window to his death. The riddle caused many furrowed brows, and for about twenty minutes no one could figure the dern thing out. Finally, PG asked if it was a lighthouse. The man had learned about a boat crash on TV, went upstairs, cut on the light, and jumped out the window in his shame.
On tuesday, a neighbor cooked pancakes. PG had heard about this for a few years, and finally got to eat a couple. This was followed by a heart circle, lunch, and something called playback theater. PG was imitating a bird that flies into a plate glass window, and took a tough fall back onto the ground. He got back up, rubbed a few things, and decided he was not as delicate as he thinks.
A few raindrops came down, and the theater play was cut short. The rain never did arrive, and the rest of the day was spent chatting with people. A lovely dinner of lentil loaf was followed by a rousing dance party. PG saw the septuagenarian Randy Wicker , and suggested that he act his age.
Wednesday morning, the 13th of October, began bright and dry. There was a hike over to a neighbor’s land, where he was building a foundation for a yurt. The hike went to the bottom of a ravine, and up a steep, rough path to the other neighborhood. The plan was to fill plastic bags with gravel, seal them with duct tape, and arrange them in a circle where the yurt was going to go. The walk back to camp was over a much easier trail.
When PG got back to his tent, there were some goats supervising things. He got a few pictures of one, who said baa to indicate her consent. Soon it was time for a nap, dinner, and a brief ritual. There were no seats left for the know talent show, so PG went to sleep. It finally rained a bit, just enough to make the dust settle a bit.
There was a heart circle Thursday morning. At this, a tarot card is drawn, and the instructions for that card read to the circle. A talisman is handed to the first person to talk. After this person speaks, the talisman is handed to the next person. PG laid back in the sun, with a bright pink baseball hat cutting a crescent into the blue sky. Someone read a poem… When you were born, you cried, and the world rejoiced. Live so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
Thursday was going to be a working afternoon. The reason gatherings are so cheap is that all the work is done by participants. PG is not fond of washing dishes. An alternative is to be the greeter. Thursday afternoon was spent at the top of the hill, telling everyone who comes in “welcome to Wal Mart”. There was a scrabble board, and as soon as a game was started the customers came in. The action slowed down long enough to finish the game, with PG losing 271-204.
After dinner thursday night, there was dancing in the kitchen. Someone brought out a tray of a chocolate pudding cake. PG ate a slice, and decided it was time to shoot a video about how it does indeed get better. Soon, the dance broke up, and PG was chatting with octogenarian Crazy Owl…who always acts his age. Crazy Owl left the earth April 4, 2011.
By friday, the pace was slowing down a bit. There was a long, slow walk down the paths behind the garden, with stops to visit along the way. After lunch, PG made the mistake of being idle in the kitchen, and wound up stirring lentil soup for a couple of hours. There was a party friday night a couple of ridges over, but PG decided to stay put. Some movies were shown in the pavilion.
Saturday morning was another heart circle, followed by lunch, and a spell of greeting new arrivals. There was dinner, dancing in the kitchen, drumming by the fire, and the sad knowledge that another gathering was coming to an end.
PG is starting to use his first name, Luther, in day to day activity. Sunday afternoon saw something inevitable happen. PG gave a man a ride away from the facility, toward a house down the road a bit. As the man left, he said ” nice to meet you Martin“.
Hawaiian Good Luck Sign
Dear Grand-daughter, The other day I went up to our local Christian book store and saw a ‘Honk if you love Jesus’ bumper sticker . I was feeling particularly sassy that day because I had just come from a thrilling choir performance, followed by a thunderous prayer meeting.
So, I bought the sticker and put it on my bumper. Boy, am I glad I did; what an uplifting experience that followed. I was stopped at a red light at a busy intersection, just lost in thought about the Lord and how good he is, and I didn’t notice that the light had changed. It is a good thing someone else loves Jesus because if he hadn’t honked, I’d never have noticed. I found that lots of people love Jesus!
While I was sitting there, the guy behind started honking like crazy, and then he leaned out of his window and screamed, ‘For the love of God!’ ‘Go! Go! Go! Jesus Christ, GO!’ What an exuberant cheerleader he was for Jesus! Everyone started honking! I just leaned out my window and started waving and smiling at all those loving people. I even honked my horn a few times to share in the love!
There must have been a man from Florida back there because I heard him yelling something about a sunny beach. I saw another guy waving in a funny way with only his middle finger stuck up in the air. I asked my young teenage grandson in the back seat what that meant. He said it was probably a Hawaiian good luck sign or something. Well, I have never met anyone from Hawaii , so I leaned out the window and gave him the good luck sign right back. My grandson burst out laughing. Why even he was enjoying this religious experience!! Praise the Lord!!!
A couple of the people were so caught up in the joy of the moment that they got out of their cars and started walking towards me. I bet they wanted to pray or ask what church I attended, but this is when I noticed the light had changed. So, grinning, I waved at all my brothers and sisters, and drove on through the intersection. I noticed that I was the only car that got through the intersection before the light changed again and felt kind of sad that I had to leave them after all the love we had shared.
So I slowed the car down, leaned out the window and gave them all the Hawaiian good luck sign one last time as I drove away. Praise the Lord for such wonderful folks!! Will write again soon, Love, Grandma. This repost is written like J. D. Salinger. Pictures are from “The Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library”.
Trump Is About Trump
@AryehCW Everyone mentioned in this post should #DonSackclothAndAshesAndWalkBarefoot
@chamblee54 can you make a sackcloth and ashes pantsuit for Hillary?
@AryehCW she should trek to Lourdes and bathe in the healing waters
By this time, Donald Trump behaving badly is old news. The incident to fire up Ann Coulter involves a tweet, where Mr. Trump says that his (former model) (third) wife is prettier than Heidi Cruz. The post inspired by the tweet, ‘Mental.’ ‘Utterly Stupid.’ ‘Trump Only Cares About Trump,’ sets a new standard for conservative purple prose.
“The hard truth is: Trump only cares about Trump. … Trump is about Trump. Not one of his many wives. Not one of his many “pieces of ass.” He is, at heart, a self-preservationist. Trump supporters, no one should let you off of that bandwagon now. You should be handcuffed to that Titanic you volunteered to crew. Donald Trump didn’t suddenly change in the past few days, weeks or months. He’s the same guy he always was … He didn’t abruptly become reckless, obnoxious, ill-informed, erratic, hot-tempered, pathologically dishonest, narcissistic, crude and catastrophically unqualified for the presidency overnight. He’s always been that guy, … Years of effort spent attempting to dispel the accusations of inherent Republican misogyny, xenophobia, hypocrisy, ignorance and blind rage have been undone by Trump’s campaign.” (Racism and homophobia are not mentioned in this list.) “And every Trump advocate in front of a camera had a hand in this. We’re not just gonna hug it out. “
The “Mental” post begins with a link to a video Ann Coulter made with Milo Yiannopoulos ✘<. “COULTER: Moreover, I’m a little testy with our man right now. YIANNOPOULOS: You are? Daddy’s annoyed you? COULTER: Our candidate is mental! …YIANNOPOULOS The trashier he gets the more I love him … Presidentiality is in the eye of the beholder”
At 3:20, Ms. Coulter (where are those gender neutral titles when you need them?) says the DT can be presidential, but that “drastic measures may have to be taken. … I want to take him to a urologist and have electrodes inserted into what is apparently a very large schlong, and whenever he does something like this I want to have the button” Mr. Yiannopoulos said “I can tell it, I think its huge.”
This is the first time many have heard of Milo Yiannopoulos. Unfortunately, it probably will not be the last. He authored a piece at Breitbart, In Defense Of Donald Trump’s Heidi Cruz Tweet. “Trump’s critics have accused him of being over-the-top in his response. Surely, say his critics, insulting a rival’s wife for being too ugly is simply crass, classless, and rude. I agree. It’s all of those things. But that’s a good thing. … In the process, he’s certainly lowering the tone — but it badly needs to be lowered. Only by totally ignoring people’s feelings can we end the left’s culture of grievance, offense, and victimhood. It’s what I’ve been doing for years, and it’s what Trump is now doing on the national stage. Sure, the rudeness is uncomfortable to decent conservatives who appreciate good manners and a civil tongue. But if we really want to beat the left, we need Trump’s crassness. A few mean tweets about Heidi Cruz is a small price to pay to end a quarter-century of grievance culture.”
Pictures are from “The Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library”.
Warning Not A Manual
What better way to start the new week but a meme, featuring a quote from a famous person. “I wrote 1984. as a warning not as a fucking instruction manual.” George Orwell
Chamblee54 has a ten minute rule on quotes. If you can’t find the source in ten minutes, then the quote is disputed. Fake is a harsh word. “I wrote 1984.” fails the ten minute test. It also has an extra period, which does nothing for it. A learned Englishman like Eric Blair (the birth name of George Orwell) would not insert a useless period into a sentence. Ditto the use of fucking as an adjective. 1984 is not a sex education text.
The first page of google results has a couple of forums, and a handful of tasteful graphics. The quote is expressed as Orwell was a warning, not an instruction manual, and Atlas Shrugged is a warning not an instruction manual. At no time is a source for the quote, from the words of Eric Blair, given.
George Orwell died January 21, 1950, six months after the publication of 1984 Mr. Blair had been in very bad health. There were indications that he preferred working on his manuscript to taking care of his health. ( The masterpiece that killed George Orwell tells the story.) This fact is another indication that the meme is an example of *doublespeak*.
1984 was an influential book in the sixties and seventies. When the actual year took place, it was a bit of a relief. It was the year of Ronald Reagan’s landslide re-election. While technocratic control of the population was in effect, it was not as overt as the book would have it. (PG has never read 1984. It is uncertain how many people using the adjective “Orwellian” have read the book.)
The reality of the present does not always line up with the sci-fi predictions in the past. 2001 was going to be the year of interplanetary exploration. Instead, September 11, 2001, was the start of the twenty first century. Jet airliners as WMD sucker punched America into a series of self destructive wars. Pictures today are from The Library of Congress.
Blocked From Following
I pick up the ringing telephone. It was Timothy Whatsisname from Blah Blah Blah research company I would like to ask you a few questions on a confidential basis for quality control purposes this call may be monitored I asked the name of the firm he represented He sighed and hung up the phone ~ We hope this new largely symbolic measure will help us create a more pleasant and cultivated environment for all of our readers, and, as always, we thank you deeply for your support. ~ less a paywall than a gesture of your own commitment to the cause of great conversation. ~ How did the lake get that clean? ~ will take your word on this it is too much work to read puffho and see for myself ~ Turnip is an anagram for I Trump ~ Thank you for posting the link. I appreciate being able to read the interview and decide for myself. ~ Bernoids are more self righteous. ~ @RuPaul Derogatory slurs are ALWAYS an outward projection of a person’s own poisonous self-loathing ~ The people who think that racist is the worst insult imaginable are probably not going to vote for DT. Demoze might be making a mistake in their hysterical insistence that DT is a racist. They might impress themselves. It might also drive marginal voters into the DT camp. ~ This is very different from my experience with Christianism. ~ How then would you interpret taking out “She-Mail” from the show due to allegations of transphobia? I don’t know. You know, I didn’t do that. The network did that, and you’d have to ask them why they did it, but I had nothing to do with that. …Well, the intention behind that word is a portmanteau that was meant as a way to be fun and to enjoy language. … ~ Is RuPaul a racist? ~ Real Talk With RuPaul ~ Why Sponsor? By purchasing a Guest Book sponsorship, you’ll be giving loved ones a place to express their feelings and share memories any time they’d like in the months and years ahead. ~ Unfriending can be hurtfull, but sometimes you don’t want to see all their cultural/political contributions ~ A trans woman can be a bigot. ~ Today is nine months until christmas. In other words, this is the day that joseph and mary did not screw. ~ Please quit sending these unsolicited junk messages. I do not want to pay for television. If I want to get your new product, I will contact a sales agent. I get dozens, no make that hundreds, of these junk mail email sales pitches. I never read so much as one word. I mark them as read, and delete. You are alienating a long time customer. Please stop. No more packages in US mail. No more orange T shirted men knocking on my door. No more e mails. Go away. Don’t come back. ~ essjayuyu ~ @N7IRL ~ @AngryBlackLady Racism against white people is a serious threat. Just like unicorn stabbings and death by aerial pig droppings. ~ @TananariveDue As Twitter users, we all have the sacred right to decide which trashy stories to speak up about and which to ignore. ~ The CEO of the National Enquirer is David Pecker. This led to the #TrumplovesPecker hashtag. ~ The spikes used to attach Jesus to the cross were driven through the wrist. If you drove them through the hand the flesh would tear through the spikes. The Romans knew what they were doing. ~ The sword and the egg are symbols of life/death male/female duality. Maybe the fertility of the egg is a counterpoint for the violence of capital punishment. ~ so divided ~ people who are not black have some real problems ~ n word ~ The “get over it” school of dealing with life’s problems is very appealing, especially when it is someone else that has the problems. I do try to keep things in perspective. Sometimes I succeed, and sometimes I do not. I breeze past things that upset other people, and get bent out of shape over trivia.Often my body chemistry is the culprit. When this chemistry tells me to be unhappy, my mind will find a way to comply. ~ Maybe a good place to start not taking things too seriously is with the opinions (and autograph) of a drag queen. Yes, they say some wise things. But it is just a black man wearing a blonde wig. ~ 1-That is what RuPaul says in interviews. I wouldn’t be surprised if RuPaul gets upset about trivia when no one is looking. It is a part of being human.2- I would be interested in RuPaul’s opinion about singular they. ~ #CruzSexScandal 1 with that last name, of course he is a dog 2 were those women blind? 3 Trump is fine one to talk 4 BS is too ugly ~ @TheKevinAllison 1-listened to RISK#723 all way through – JF says Mitt should have said I am not conservative enough for you & they would @TheKevinAllison 2- respect him- Today Trump is doing just that he is not respected but just might get elected ~ 0325 is nine months until 1225 this is the day Joseph and Mary did not procreate #goodfriday ~ You are blocked from following @BGDblog and viewing @BGDblog’s Tweets. ~ @tedcruz Father of two, @heidiscruz’s husband, U.S. Senator, fighter for liberty, player of iPhone games, 2016 GOP candidate for President. ~ The word you’ve entered isn’t in the dictionary. Click on a spelling suggestion below or try again using the search bar above. ~ Making up quotes on the internet is unforgivable Albert Einstein ~ my ideal audience aacddeeeiilMnuy ~ 1-You can send a message to @RuPaul on twitter There is no guarantee that you will get a reply. 2- I am now following @kat_blaque on twitter. She sent a nice message thanking me for following her. This is a first. I hope she has a light touch on the block feature, unlike @angryblacklady, 3- I agree that RuPaul is an entertainer, whose thoughts deserve no special attention. 4- I forget if this was the article linked above, or the @kat_video on RuPaul, but… there was some speculation as to how, essentially, RuPaul is not black enough for some people. Now, this is not something I am going to pretend to know enough to judge. I do find it rather noteworthy that RuPaul is being judged in those terms. White performers are not judged on whether or not they are white enough. I think RuPaul feels that emphasis on race is part of the illusion, but I cannot speak for her. I just sense that she has better things to worry about. ~ White People Explain Why They Feel Oppressed ~ To Bro or Not To Bro? ~ authoritarian personality There is an online test for authoritarian personality. They give you a list of words, and ask you to select the ones you are sure you know the definition of. Two of the words are cuivocal and florted. These two words are not in any dictionary that I checked. ~ The Authoritarians ~ Your score for right-wing authoritarianism ~ water use ~ Donald Trump Doesn’t Have the Character to Be President ~ Trump’s Hypnotic Gig at AIPAC Will Go Down in History – or Infamy ~ #NationalWaterDay ~ Real Talk With RuPaul In fact, I’d rather have an enema than have an Emmy. ~ But if you are trigger-happy and you’re looking for a reason to reinforce your own victimhood, your own perception of yourself as a victim, you’ll look for anything that will reinforce that.~ Do you think it’s important for the younger generation to learn it? I don’t know. I don’t really care about them. The truth is, they’re on their own. They’ll figure it out. There’s nothing we can do to force them to say, “Look, this is important.” Humans don’t learn that way. ~ List of Paraphilias ~ 5 (Statistically BS) Complaints About Social Justice Issues ~ “Racism” The Curious Beginnings of a Useless Word ~ Going down the coney hole ~ Performative Blackness and the Problem With ‘RuCo’s Empire’ ~ Don’t Believe the Stupid Argument: The “Bernie or Bust” Movement is Not Based on Privilege ~ Old Mansions of Peachtree ~ Pictures today are from “The Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library”. “Henrietta Egleston Hospital for Children, Atlanta, Georgia, 1937 ” ~ chocolate bunny monday ~ selah
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