Chamblee54

The Election From Hell

Posted in Library of Congress, Weekly Notes by chamblee54 on November 19, 2018


Downtown Decatur coffee shop damaged in overnight fire ~ Man fatally shot at Atlanta park ID’d; person in custody ~ white album ~ Fire at Java Monkey Nov. 2018 ~ jm fire ~ new jm owner ~ blocker awards ~ A high-stakes December runoff even without an Abrams-Kemp matchup ~ In North Korea, Missile Bases Suggest a Great Deception ~ conceptual penis ~ Department of Registration and Elections The Registration and Elections Department is responsible for conducting elections in Fulton County and registering voters who reside within Fulton County. ~ dekalb county registration Our Mission: Serve the public and register all eligible citizens to vote. Assign voters to respective precincts in accordance with state and federal laws. Maintain accurate registration records. Conduct all primaries and federal, state, county and municipal elections with integrity, and in accordance with Georgia election code. Serve candidates and the public by providing information regarding elected officials, election districts, election statistics, and other registration/election related matters. Operate all polling locations including advance voting locations and an absentee poll, for federal, state, county and municipal elections. ~ How we found 30,823 additional Georgia votes … and why we’re still counting ~ In Georgia, Brian Kemp Put on a Master Class in Voter Suppression ~ Georgia’s Kemp Purged 340,134 Voters, Falsely Asserting They Had Moved ~ The Voice of the ‘Intellectual Dark Web’ ~ angel poventude on election day ~ gwinnett elections ~ Federal Judge Orders Georgia to Reveal Tally of Provisional Ballots ~ lucy mcbath ~ Black security guard stops shooter in a bar — then gets gunned down by cop who mistook him for criminal ~ scenes from the factory ~ Judge Orders Review of All Provisional Ballots in Georgia Governor Race ~ radiotopia “that we need to talk about.” Please don’t tell me what I need to talk about. There is more than enough talk right now. What we need to do is listen. ~ Fulton Co. Board of Elections certifies results of last Tuesday’s election ~ Democrats in Congress rally behind Georgia vote fight ~ 1113 capital protest ~ Jesus is Polyamorous | Queer Theology ~ Harry Hay ~ Adventures in the Archives; or, In Which Professional Homosexuality Takes a New Turn ~ The Gay Love Letters of Neal Cassady to Allen Ginsberg ~ mattachine society ~ State Sen. Nikema Williams, 16 Others Arrested At Capitol During Protest ~ Capitol and Grounds Exhibit and Event Guidelines ~ stacy and stacy ~ Georgia state senator, protesters arrested at Capitol while demanding ‘every vote count’ ~ Harry Hay ~ dear abby Eric: You must have known people who were gay at that time then, personally. Abby: Yah, well, my hairdresser. He’s like a brother. And he’s been my hairdresser for about, maybe twenty-nine years. He came from Louisville, Nebraska. Beautiful guy and just a sweetheart. And he had to leave the little town of Louisville because, well, he just couldn’t survive there. I’ve taken him to Korea with me when I was a Miss Universe pageant judge. We just had a ball. He and I are in a helicopter. Have you ever been in a helicopter? ~ Georgia Lawmaker Arrested Amid Protest To Count Every Vote In Governor Race ~ rhetoric about capitol protest ~ more jm fire ~ @w_terrence SNOWFLAKE of the YEAR AWARD goes to this guy. Retweet if you are laughing with me ~ nikkeda released on bail ~ Santa Ana McDonald’s manager attacked by woman over ketchup ~ Lawsuits, Arrests, and Allegations: The Georgia Governor’s Race Continues ~ BLM Demonstrators And State Senator Arrested In Georgia’s Capitol During ‘Count Every Vote’ Protest ~ @CaseyExplosion Seriously folks. “Feminism causes men to transition to atone for male privilege” is an absolutely on-its-face absurd take, you don’t have to engage with it. ~ Absentee ballots missing birth dates must be counted, judge orders ~ arrested while black ~ facebook problems ~ Jonathan Franzen’s 10 Rules for Novelists ~ nirvana on mtv unplugged ~ Georgia Senate to look into arrest of lawmaker during Capitol protest ~ inside the capitol ~ How we found 30,823 additional Georgia votes … and why we’re still counting ~ adan bean ~ Kemp holds steady lead, Abrams considers longshot legal challenge Her campaign has said it has heard from 25,000 voters who had problems casting their ballots, ~ The voter-suppression rap on Georgia’s Brian Kemp is unfair. Now what about the voter purges? An investigative piece by American Public Media reported that nearly 600,000 Georgia voters were removed from the rolls in 2017. Team Kemp has an explanation for that: A 2016 lawsuit brought by Common Cause and the NAACP over the state’s voter list temporarily halted the biennial purge of inactive voters. After the lawsuit was thrown out, Georgia had two cycles’ worth of inactive voters to remove from its list. ~ “But without the context and with hyperbolic rhetoric, the claims of voter suppression aren’t much different from the demagoguery Democrats decry from the likes of Kemp and Donald Trump.” ~ Brian Kemp’s Bid for Governor Depends on Erasing the Black Vote in Georgia ~ Uber Eats driver who shot and killed customer found guilty on all counts ~ problems ~ dylan’s masterpiece ~ After the Retail Apocalypse, Prepare for the Property Tax Meltdown ~ herman hesse ~ @realDonaldTrump Congratulations to Brian Kemp on becoming the new Governor of Georgia. Stacey Abrams fought brilliantly and hard – she will have a terrific political future! Brian was unrelenting and will become a great Governor for the truly Wonderful People of Georgia! ~ 4 alleged Atlanta teen gang members indicted on 48 charges, including murder ~ Childhood Gender Nonconformity and Children’s Past-Life Memories ~ kemp election certified ~ Binyamin Netanyahu battered by bungled Gaza raid ~ Kemp defends Georgia’s ‘exact match’ voter registration law ~ Meditation Is a Powerful Mental Tool—and For Some People It Goes Terribly Wrong ~ We are entering a phase where the power brokers behind the scene have a black person as a front. This worked well for 8 years with Barack Obama. It almost worked for Stacey Abrams. ~ #CountEveryBallot Typically, rallies at the state capitol are outside. Why was this one inside? Were police justified in wanting a loud demonstration held outside? Does this constitute a “breach of the peace” which would justify arresting Sen. Williams? .@elenaparent ~ If you went to a voting place outside the county where you live, and request a ballot, then that provisional ballot should be thrown away. ~ To me, the issue is the Abrams campaign making a high octane issue out of voter suppression. There is a good bit of nuance there, which gets lost in all the rhetoric. I think Abrams knew a lot of what she was saying was not true, but also saw a potent campaign issue. Another issue is the way her charges were believed without question, both by the voting public and the corporate media. The Media especially should be ashamed. A story about RACISM and government corruption/incompetence in backwoods Georgia! Of course the media went bonkers over that. That doesn’t make it the truth. ~ I want back the Xmas of my youth. It was what you wanted it to be. If you want to talk about Jesus, you can. If you want to shop, you can. If you want to go to parties, you can. It is a shame when choosing to say Merry Christmas, instead of Happy Holidays, is a political statement. ~ The Georgia Department of Public Safety (DPS) or the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) are the law enforcement entities responsible for security of the Capitol building and grounds. DPS or GBI may suspend or modify the use of the Capitol building and grounds and adopt temporary guidelines as needed. GBA retains the right to waive or modify any or all of the Guidelines contained herein on a case by case basis as deemed necessary by GBA. Failure to follow these guidelines, or the instructions given by either GBA or law enforcement personnel, will result in the immediate removal of any exhibit or event from the Capitol building and grounds. Failure to follow these guidelines or instructions given by GBA or law enforcement personnel may result in the denial of future applications to use the Capitol building and grounds. PREVENTING OR DISRUPTING GENERAL ASSEMBLY State law prohibits: Recklessly or knowingly committing any act that may reasonably be expected to prevent or disrupt a session or meeting of the Senate or House of Representatives, a joint session thereof, or any meeting of any standing or interim committee, commission or caucus of members thereof. O.C.G.A. 16-11-34.1(a) State law prohibits: Willfully and knowingly entering or remaining in any room, chamber, office, or hallway within the state capitol building or any building housing committee offices, committee rooms, or officers of members, officials, or employees of the General Assembly in either house thereof with intent to disrupt the orderly conduct of official business or to utter loud, threatening, or abusive language or engage in any disorderly or disruptive conduct in such buildings or areas. O.C.G.A. 16-11-34.1 (f) State law prohibits: Parading, demonstrating, or picketing within the state capitol building or any building housing committee offices, committee rooms, or offices of members, officials, or employees of the General Assembly or either house thereof with intent to disrupt the orderly conduct of official business or to utter loud, threatening or abusive language or engage in any disorderly or disruptive conduct in such buildings or areas. See O.C.G.A. 16-11-34.1 (g) ~ Abrams lost. She doesn’t have to accept it because her decision to fight on costs her nothing. She knows that this was her one shot and that the DPoG isn’t going to clear the field for her to run for election again, and that she is never going to get this fawning, uncritical coverage from the state and national media that had the effect of free advertising on her behalf, “coverage” that included repeating every charge, accusation and claim as Kemp and treating it as objective fact without challenging it in the slightest. Abrams invested the last 8 years convincing the DPoG that she could create a turnout machine capable of winning the governor’s race that would prevent candidates from having to run to the center-left and the only result was for her to prove her naysayers right. This was the perfect storm: a very unpopular GOP president, angry moderates and independents in the suburbs, the worst GOP statewide candidate since Mitch Skandalakis, a national media willing to make her candidacy a cause celebre and she still lost. So of course she has every incentive to fight, claw and scratch before she makes her inevitable exit – stage left – from public life. But that doesn’t mean that everyone else owes her anything, including being willing to drink her Kool-Aid wholesale and regurgitate it on demand. ~ Suburban Dictionary @Suburban_Dic Feels – Deep personal emotions for people who don’t have time for feelings. ~ @KentWGraham Kids today don’t know how easy they have it. When I was young, I had to walk 9 feet through shag carpet to change the TV channel. @chamblee54 I had to walk ten feet to adjust the fine tuning, only to see it turn over and over and over and over and over and over and over ~ pictures today are from The Library of Congress. “Golden Jubilee and Fifteenth Annual Convention, Anti-Saloon League of America, Columbus, Ohio, November 10-13, 1913” ~ selah

Racial Slur During Halftime

Posted in Library of Congress, Weekly Notes by chamblee54 on November 12, 2018


Gwinnett County high school band spells racial slur during halftime show ~ voters guide ~ brian and stacey ~ The Georgia Democratic Party Tried to Hack the Voter Registration System ~ Brookwood investigating racial slur spelled out during marching band halftime show ~ High school halftime show included racially insensitive term A concerned resident sent a photo and a copy of the letter The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. ~ @AlexaLiackoFOX5 “I want them expelled.” We spoke with the mother of a band member at Brookwood High School who says her son loves band but is uncomfortable after several band members created a racial slur using the school’s mascot letters. @FOX5Atlanta ~ @GoHomeRyan A Black police officer killing unarmed black ppl is still a symptom of systemic racism. A Latinx person calling ICE on an undoc. immigrant is still a symptom of xenophobia. A Black Brookwood band student spelling “COON” during halftime is still a symptom of white supremacy ~ A Racial Shakedown in Portland ~ Five Lies In Trump’s Favorite Campaign Ad ~ coon ~ Alfred Hitchcock Explains the Plot Device He Called the ‘MacGuffin’ ~ Khalid Sings and I Wonder Where Home Is in the First Place ~ gulch ~ Half-naked woman crashes through restaurant ceiling in Tennessee ~ EP6 On The Vietnam War with Sir Max ~ In Journalism About Race, A Tinge Of Denial ~ ww1 show ~ Man caught on surveillance video stabbing another in the chest ~ Is More Democracy Always Better Democracy? ~ ga sos ~ behavior ~ Why did some voting machines sit unused on busy Georgia Election Day? ~ Karen Handel admits defeat, but doesn’t want to talk about it ~ waugh ~ Talk to Me: HP Lovecraft ~ Georgia’s elections system desperately needs an update—but how? ~ Georgia Officials Kept Hundreds of Voting Machines Locked in Warehouses on Election Day ~ Thousand Oaks Bar Shooting Suspect Posted on Instagram During Massacre ~ tay k ~ Midterms 2018: In Predominantly Black Atlanta Neighborhoods, Voters Say There Aren’t Enough Machines ~ Restaurant owner paints over Buford Highway mural after concerns over immigration politics ~ 5 Tactics Used By Passive-Aggressive Arguers (And The Best Forms of Defense) ~ stacey’s dress ~ : Here’s how Brian Kemp is stealing the Georgia election Kemp or his chosen successor gets to decide whether to count my ballot! The suppressor-in-chief working for the racist-in-chief, Donald Trump.” ~ gwinnett shooting ~ Don’t let Brian Kemp steal Georgia’s gubernatorial election ~ Did Democrats Elect Four Horrible People? ~ Requiem for American Exceptionalism ~ Deaths From Gun Violence: How The U.S. Compares With The Rest Of The World ~ Brian Kemp Caught on Tape Warning His Donors About Black People Voting … Again ~ In Leaked Audio, Brian Kemp Expresses Concern Over Georgians Exercising Their Right to Vote ~ Brian Kemp’s Lead in Georgia Needs an Asterisk Days before the deadline to register for the November election, the Associated Press reported that Kemp had put 53,000 applicants on hold due to exact-match problems. An analysis of Kemp’s records found that 70 percent of those applicants were black. (Georgia is roughly 32 percent black.) Separately, the Georgia chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union found that some 700 absentee-ballot applications and almost 200 absentee ballots were rejected by county officials due to a law mandating that the signatures on absentee applications and ballots visually match the signatures on file. ~ Democrats file lawsuit over Dougherty County absentee ballots ~ Georgia effort to clean up state’s voter rolls underway ~ Georgia cancels registration of more than 591,500 voters ~ why ww1 lasted so long ~ studio 54 ~ poddies ~ Naropa Poetics Audio Archives ~ LENNY BRUCE ON THE STEVE ALLEN SHOW APRIL 5, 1959 ~ Florida, Georgia testing strength of new Dem coalition ~ A Gated Community Tried to Form a New, Whiter Town to Land a Cheesecake Factory ~ Rapper T.I. arrested in Henry County ~ What Is ‘White Privilege’? ~ Dr. Phil’s “White Privilege” Video Goes Wrong ~ Voting a write in candidate is fun. When you click on the write in box, a keyboard appears on the screen. You type in “Carlton Heston” in the GA06 race. Then name then appears on a screen, with a check mark next to it. ~ Justin Flanagan This is a scam link. When clicked it takes me to a virus website. Also please don’t write in stupid crap, the race is close enough as it is. Happy election day! ~ Unfortunately, the website does have issues. As for calling Carlton Heston stupid crap, that is not kind. The GA06 race is sort of a mess. Karen Handel is a sponsor of FOSTA/SESTA. Lucy McBath has sent me telephone surveys, which are in reality campaign calls. I would like to perform the electoral hygiene of voting out Rep. Handel. However, Mrs. McBath uses shady campaign tactics. In addition to that. Mr. Heston has better hair than either Rep. Handel or Mrs. McBath. ~ There is a saying, hold your nose and vote. I vote in the cafeteria of the elementary school i attended as a child. It is not the first time I have held my nose in there. ~ Sorry, we can’t find what you are looking for. Take a deep breath. Everything’s going to be okay. ~ To say that this is Gingrich’s seat is a bit misleading. The district lines change every ten years. My neighborhood is in a different district every ten years. Some parts of GA06 were represented by Mr. Gingrich, but not all. I was never represented by him, which I appreciate. FWIW, Mr. Gingrich originally represented a district based in Carollton, in West Georgia. His constituents were getting tired of him. Mr. Gingrich won an election by less than 1000 votes. Then, new districts were created, and Mr. Gingrich moved to Cobb County, and a newly created district. ~ The phrase “affordable housing” is somewhat of a buzz word. I hear it a lot, and very few specifics. God is in the details. Lets focus on “…Invest Atlanta voted to help fund over 400 units of affordable housing” How is this going to work? Are they rental units, or owner occupied housing? Assuming that they are rental, what can we expect the rent to be? Who is it going to be affordable to? How long will the rent be capped at this level? When the controls come off, what will happen? Will these units be maintained properly? Where is this 400unit_AH going to be built? Affordable housing is a great idea, and it is needed. It needs to be carefully planned if it is going to work. ~ Actually, Mr. Davis was shot after a heated argument. Going off on an armed man is not a good idea. His killer is in prison. Lucy McBath is to be praised for defeating Karen Handel. Her campaign was careful in the way they described the death of Mr. Davis. Tom Robinson should do the same. ~ I am hearing that it is the counties, not the state, that count the votes. I don’t know who processes voter registration, and maintains the voter lists, but I strongly suspect it is the counties. The decision to sequester voting machines was made by Fulton, Dekalb, and Cobb counties. This has been a good issue for the Democrats. They almost won the election because of it. If Mr. Kemp had the political sense to resign after the primary, the Democrats would not have had this issue. ~ Oops! You blew up the Internet. The page you are looking for is no longer here, or never existed in the first place (bummer). You can try searching for what you are looking for using the form below. If that still doesn’t provide the results you are looking for, you can always start over from the home page. ~ First World War : 22nd of August 1914 the bloodiest day ~ This Day in History, September 26, 1918: The Meuse-Argonne Campaign Begins ~ last man to die ~ ww1 show ~ @USNatArchives One hundred years ago on November 11, 1918, the First World War came to an end. For Pvt. Henry Gunther, it was too late. He was shot and killed at 10:58 am, just two minutes before the Armistice was declared at 11 am and the fighting stopped. ~ pictures are from The Library of Congress. ~ selah

#RejectedStripClubNames Part Three

Posted in Library of Congress, Weekly Notes by chamblee54 on November 5, 2018


Here’s what we know so far about Robert Bowers, the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting suspect ~ Issue #48: Oct 21-Oct 27, 2018 ~ the gulch ~ Trump’s Caravan Hysteria Led to This ~ shared against better judgment ~ @teedubya101 No, no, no, Jesus drives a Honda but doesn’t brag about it. “For I did not speak of my own accord” John 12:49 ~ @geofflangdale It was surprisingly spacious, too: later, Acts tells us all the apostles were in one Accord. When God is in a party mood, though, he drives a Plymouth. Isiah 63:6 “I will make them drunk in my Fury” ~ The Library of Congress Lets You Stream Hundreds of Free Films ~ 2nd largest minority ~ national screening room ~ Footage of one of the earliest Gay Pride demonstration marches, the first Christopher Street Liberation Day Parade, held in New York City, New York, on June 28, 1970, to commemorate the first anniversary of the Stonewall Riots ~ The Personality Trait That Is Ripping America (and the World) Apart ~ The Lessons for Western Democracies from the Stunning Victory of Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro ~ nikki gray fundraiser ~ Racist ‘hot’ white woman loses job after harassing two black women in parking lot ~ Netanyahu Congratulates Bolsonaro for Brazil Election Win, Invites Him to Israel ~ The domain BettyBowers.com is for sale. betty spaghetti Suggested uses: America’s Best Christian, Christian Gifts, Betty Boop Sitcker, Betty Spaghetti, Christian News, Christian Advice, Betty Hill ~ 12 Young People on Why They Probably Won’t Vote ~ on the road ~ georgia cities ranked ~ lit and bruised halloween ~ Jerry Seinfeld on Louis C.K., Roseanne and Tense Times in Comedy ~ Recovering the (Lost) Art of Civility ~ morticia dances ~ Security threw 1st punch in brawl outside popular restaurant, family says ~ ten scary episodes of criminal ~ DUDE, WHERE’S MY CAREER? ~ I Went to a Sex Party I Found on the Internet and It Was Hilariously Awkward ~ haunted by halloween ~ After Kemp pulls out of original debate, candidates unable to agree on alternative ~ “After repeated efforts to schedule a debate on the issues that matter most to Georgia voters, radical Stacey Abrams decided she would rather hide behind television ads paid for by San Francisco socialists than face the voters and defend her extreme agenda that will raise taxes by $13,000 a person, give welfare and voting rights to illegal immigrants, and usher in the government takeover of healthcare. While Abrams has decided to duck the electorate, Brian Kemp will continue to travel the state on his Putting Georgians First Bus Tour. He’s proud of his record and confident that his plans for our state will keep Georgia working!” ~ Brian Kemp thinks we are stupid. Even if the Governor had the ability to do so, they are not going to raise taxes $13k per person. The Governor does not have the ability to give voting rights to people who are not citizens of the United States. As for the government takeover of healthcare, that is a federal matter. Barack Obama, with a Democratic majority in both houses of congress, could only pass the flawed and limited ACA. To say that a Governor of Georgia could do more is insane ~ Voters, You’re Being Manipulated Always accuse *the other* of doing what you are also doing. This is something that *both sides* do, and fall for. ~ Stacey Abrams Wants Gun Ban, Dodges Confiscation Question ~ Christian Woman Disrupts Drag Queen Story Time At Private Book Store To Stop “Perverse Lifestyles” ~ How to Punish Voters ~ Willie Horton Revisited ~ From patriarchy to snowflake: five keywords you need to know ~ CNN’s Don Lemon doubles down after saying white men are ‘the biggest terror threat in this country’ ~ Quote Investigator: QI has located no persuasive evidence that Phineas Taylor Barnum who died in 1891 spoke or wrote this saying. Researcher Ralph Keyes presented a skeptical stance with his assertion in “The Quote Verifier” that “No modern historian takes seriously the routine attribution of this slogan to P. T. Barnum.” ~ orwell quote ~ orwell’s theory of language ~ @bitchywaiter This is dedicated to those customers who won’t leave the restaurant even when it is closed. #GTFO ~ lyin’ lucy ~ Atlanta Storytellers Podcast ~ Joe Rogan Experience #1191 – Peter Boghossian & James Lindsay ~ The controversy around hoax studies in critical theory, explained ~ Ilana Glazer ~ this ain’t hollywood ~ fat studies ~ Trump video accused as racist also lacks factual basis ~ Stacey Abrams, Oprah targeted by racist robocall funded by white supremacist group ~ abrams robocall ~ armistice ~ Wait, Have We Really Wiped Out 60 Percent of Animals? ~ What’s so blasphemous about free speech? ~ It might be a shorter list if they ask for people who have heard anything that was true. ~ @nihilist_arbys What do arbys and hardcore alcoholics have in common? We both have serious shakes. ~ pictures today are from The Library of Congress. ~ this is the poem from last night at java monkey:
#rejectedstripclubnames hallelujah ~ sarah suckabee panders golden squirt
harry twotter sorry charlie tuna ~ mount gushmore vagina diner dessert
thots & prayers ho depot sugar bowl ~ low expectation lorena bobbitt
little dick chicken choker glory hole ~ peel & squeal snatch & grab lickety split
george w’s bush taint misbehaving ~ nacho mama furry biscuit craving
loaded & bloated drug money bedspread ~ slobbering goober beaver & butthead
the three splooges phillip mccavity ~ itty bitty titty depravity ~ selah

Engaging You Is A Waste Of Time

Posted in Library of Congress, Weekly Notes by chamblee54 on October 29, 2018


gender memo ~ living with dolly parton ~ The Oglethorpe Atlanta Crypt of Civilization Time Capsule ~ changing the flag ~ twitter thread @KevinMKruse No, she burned the old *Georgia* flag, which had been designed specifically by white supremacists as a show of defiance to desegregation in 1956. Let’s dig in. ~ White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism ~ try this ~ state study on 1956 flag ~ Stacey Abrams’s Burning of Georgia Flag With Confederate Symbol Surfaces on Eve of Debate ~ What Stacey Abrams said about burning the Georgia flag in 1992 ~ The Battle Of Fair Street Bottom ~ John Sammons Bell ~ 2000, ~ state flag talk ~ Israel lobby wants Saudis to get away with Khashoggi murder ~ Jamal Khashoggi Body Double Created False Trail in Turkey, Surveillance Images Suggest ~ Khashoggi Case Erodes Saudi Reputation, and Allies Worry ~ Highsmith on Kruse, ‘White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism’ ~ @Duranti Yeah, I’m about to follow his lead. Engaging you is a waste of time. I’m going to wait ten minutes to give you time to see this, then I’m blocking you. Goodnight. ~ KimKierkegaardashian @KimKierkegaard I avoid excessive exclamation marks in emails by adding the disclaimer: “my grim tone reflects the eschewing of false and frivolous cheerfulness in favor of profound faith in the potential of the human soul that is not lacking in joy for all its outward solemnity” ~ killed by the United States ~ @DCSharon Hahahaha! That is not what authoritarianism is about at all, Mr. uninformed bag over the head man. I’m following the lead of others and blocking you. Ignorance like this does not deserve a voice. ~ @KirstenPowers Dear white people who are upset that you can’t dress up as another race or culture for Halloween: your feelings don’t matter. The only feelings that matter are of those who feel disrespected/mocked by you appropriating their culture for entertainment. Show some common decency. ~ @CountDankulaTV Dear Kirsten,Why are you promoting an event that was appropriated from my culture? As an American why do you feel like you have the authority to tell people how to celebrate a Celtic festival that was appropriated from my people? ~ Being Creative Can Reduce Stress: Even If You’re Not Artistic ~ Georgia NAACP files complaints alleging voting machines incorrectly registered votes ~ megyn kelley on blackface ~ DOCS: Ga Congressional Candidate Disqualified from Homestead Exemption, Tax Office Investigating ~ When was a word first used in print? ~ My Truth: How I really feel… Kat Blaque ~ How ‘Gardening While Black’ Almost Landed This Detroit Man in Jail ~ Transformation Through the Breath ~ Cesar Sayoc Jr., Alleged Mail Bomber, Threatened Democrats on Twitter ~ cesar ceyok ~ Paul Volcker, at 91, Sees ‘a Hell of a Mess in Every Direction’ ~ How Sears and its catalog helped subvert Jim Crow in the South ~ ga streetcars ~ newspaper search ~ camp gordon ~ Covington shooting ~ where was that place ~ This seems to be a combination of two quotes. “It is quite possible to be both. I look upon myself as a man. Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.” When asked by Viereck if he considered himself to be a German or a Jew. “What Life Means to Einstein: An Interview by George Sylvester Viereck” The Saturday Evening Post (26 October 1929) “All these motives made me into a passionate pacifist and anti-militarist. I am against any nationalism, even in the guise of mere patriotism. Privileges based on position and property have always seemed to me unjust and pernicious, as did any exaggerated personality cult. From My Credo, 1932 ~ lucy mcbath ~ Black mecca or most unequal US city: will the real Atlanta please stand up? ~ The lost city of Atlanta ~ Nowhere for people to go: who will survive the gentrification of Atlanta? ~ A city cursed by sprawl: can the BeltLine save Atlanta? ~ How the alleged bomber was caught ~ all of bach ~ @postcrunk stages of white acceptance of black slang (AAVE):1. Refusal “That’s ignorant/not real English.” 2. Ironic usage “Me and bae so TURNT UP rn. Lol not really just listening to NPR” 3. Sincere usage “It’s lit” 4. Brand usage McDonalds: #SquadGoals Wendys: this aint it chief ~ Trump’s veiled anti-Semitism comes home to roost in Pittsburgh ~ Classical 1920s building in downtown Atlanta is being razed for hotel ~ Dear client Att Internet Services, congratulations! We would like to thank you for your loyalty to Att Internet Services, and thus we offer you an exclusive chance to get a Walmart $1000 Gift Card today – October 22 (Monday), 2018. All you have to do is choose the correct gift box to get started. Good luck! ~ These voter suppression stories need skeptical review. Take the 53k registration applications on hold. All we ever heard was “AP Study”. How many of those applications did AP review? How does AP know that 70% (a nice round number) were black people? These stories are uncritically accepted by the national media, which love to post Honey Boo Boo stories about Georgia elections. ~ Merriam Webster has a feature, time traveler. You type in a year, and you get a list of words which appeared in print, for the first time, that year. For 1954, the list includes: baby back ribs, bragging rights, cash flow, cha cha, contrarian, dragster. far out, hard copy, New York minute, pasties, rock and roll, sleaze, thorazine, TV dinner, way out ~ I am going to come to this potluck even though I was not invited And I am going to have the scariest costume of all My costume is going to be so bigly scary that you are going to be afraid to go home because I will still be your president ~ In 1971, I was selling encyclopedias door to door. One night, we told this young lady to meet us at the Krystal. She went to the Krystal on Ponce. We were very worried. I stood in front of the Peachtree Krystal, waiting for her to show up. At that time, 645 Peachtree was a bar that showed movies. ~ pictures for this pointless regurgitation that nobody is going to read are from The Library of Congress. ~ selah

A Disparaging Term

Posted in Library of Congress, Weekly Notes by chamblee54 on October 22, 2018


post ideas: atlanta doesn’t build roads it paves cow paths, search whiteness on youtube ~ Americans Strongly Dislike PC Culture ~ ‘White Women’ Becomes a Disparaging Term ~ NYPD Looks to Charge 9 Proud Boys With Assault for Manhattan Fight ~ Claudia Rankine, The Art of Poetry No. 102 ~ Claudia Rankine on Citizen: An American Lyric – 2015 L.A. Times Festival of Books ~ abrams wants illegals to vote for her ~ marsy’s law ~ Please Do Not Shoot the Pianist. He Is Doing His Best “I would suggest that the present practice of shooting at the organist during the service be discontinued. It is a ridiculous habit, and annoys the congregation by filling the church with smoke. The poor man has his faults, but he does the best he can. Besides, it chips the new organ.” ~ oedipus ~ Kmart plans to close its last Georgia stores ~ ‘This is live voter suppression’: Black Voters Matter blocked from taking seniors to vote ~ threas on something ~ Jamal Khashoggi’s killing took seven minutes, Turkish source tells MEE ~ On Facing the Possibility of Losing the Civil War ~ Suspect killed after firing gun while handcuffed during traffic stop on I-75 ~ A new study reveals the real reason Obama voters switched to Trump ~ Rihanna Declined Super Bowl LIII Halftime Show Offer in Support of Colin Kaepernick ~ They Didn’t Vote … Now They Can’t ~ Two Princes: Jared Kushner and Mohammed bin Salman ~ You are blocked from following @girlsreallyrule and viewing @girlsreallyrule’s Tweets. ~ #WhyIWrite I don’t know write from wrong ~ @Gaming_agent99 “You can make empires rise from ashes. You can make heroes fall and villains rise. You can bring all your thoughts and ideas to life, what’s more fun than that. #WhyIWrite” ~ You can make anything by writing c.s. lewis ~ @chamblee54 #WhyIWrite I found this in my search “The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.” The Magician’s Nephew (1955), Ch. 10: The First Joke and Other Matters ~ @chamblee54 the full quote in context is usually better than the meme ~ Was Gary Hart Set Up? ~ What Screwtape Actually Said About Politics ~ facebook lewis ~ TOP 5 Optical Illusions with Natural Hallucinogen Effects (2015) ~ Georgia DA says prostitution ring ran on Fort Valley State campus; 7 charged ~ Republicans Pimp Black Women’s Voices in Racist Radio Political Ad Pandering for Black Votes ~ Officer killed in the line of duty; 4 suspects on the run ~ cory booker ~ Account suspended This account has been suspended. Learn more about why Twitter suspends accounts, or return to your timeline. ~ why is this stuck on all caps in another document? ~ This is slightly off topic. A man meets a sex worker on Ponce De Leon Avenue. He thought he was getting an automatic. He was distressed when he learned it was a stick shift. ~ Hey Zeus sounds very much like a hispanic person saying Jesus. ~ Hrishikesh Hirway @HrishiHirway One good thing about my name: I got a call from a telemarketer who said, “Can I speak to…um…” and then just hung up. ~ #WhyIWrite I don’t know write from wrong ~ @J_D_Landis What did the hairdresser say to their client? It’s time to dye. ~ The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed. CS Lewis The Magician’s Nephew (1955), Ch. 10: The First Joke and Other Matters ~ pictures today are from The Library of Congress. ~ here is the poem from last night at java monkey:
intoxicated mom took the money ~ refusing to leave super china buffet
body’s been out here for a while honey ~ she was having sex in the alleyway
female refusin’ to leave the motel ~ homeless man set on fire in the hood
car with trunk full of items to sell ~ dude says he’s drunk & doesn’t feel good
talkin’ bout the devil shaking his fist ~ threatenin’ to shoot everyone for kicks
democratic man in the bar got kissed ~ fightin’ in the lobby at motel 6
threatenin’ to shoot everyone for kicks ~ lonely bipolar schizophrenic dad
fightin’ in the lobby at motel 6 ~ home depot hot dogs aren’t half bad
lonely bipolar schizophrenic dad ~ democratic man in the bar got kissed
home depot hot dogs aren’t half bad ~ talkin’ bout the devil shaking his fist ~ selah

Only Half The Story

Posted in Library of Congress, Weekly Notes by chamblee54 on October 15, 2018


The 17 Kinds of Hyphens You Must… Wait, Seriously, 17? ~ voter purge list ~ Why “I’m not racist” is only half the story ~ I just came across this video and it seemed germane to this convo I listened to this monologue. I am not impressed. This monologue is challenged in its use of logic. I do not feel that it speaks to my experience. Let’s take a look at the first sentence of the notes. “If you’re not racist, why is racism still America’s biggest problem?” There is an assumption here: that racism is still America’s greatest problem. Looming environmental catastrophe, political corruption, unsustainable national debt, usustainable food supply chain… these, and a host of other problems, are arguably far more damaging than racism. Then there is the either/or dilemma… “If you’re not racist, why is…” Who is the lady speaking to? Who is the person who does not consider themself to be racist, and is thus responsible for racism being “America’s greatest problem.” After a while, I am going to put this video behind me, like I have so, so much talk about racism. On a lighter note, Mani Sheriar has a very powerful story on RISK. It addresses many of these issues, and is a good counterpoint to this story. ~ Why “I’m not racist” is only half the story | Robin DiAngelo ~ 3 chicago poets ~ Toddler, straight-A student fatally shot in separate incidents during bloody weekend in Chicago ~ The Mystery of Tariki ~ Gay Atlanta activist, pioneer Berl Boykin dies at 74 ~ An Interview with Atlanta Gay Rights Pioneer Berl Boykin ~ Vic Mensa Calls Out XXXTentacion Supporters, Rap’s Embrace Of Abusers ~ Sam Harris July 01, 2017 – Common Sense with Dan Carlin Show #293 ~ Amanda Seales Questions White Women Kneeling to Protest Rape Culture ~ Grateful Dead – The Acid Test Reels 1965-1967 ~ Squirrel vs snake ~ I Take Medication For Depression, Hair Loss, And Erectile Dysfunction, And There’s Nothing Shameful About That ~ Voting rights become a flashpoint in Georgia governor’s race ~ What happened to Jamal Khashoggi? The Saudis need to provide the U.S. with answers. ~ John Lennon on violence ~ Joe Rogan Experience #1184 – Roseanne Barr ~ watching the defectives ~ Rick Stein: A Man for All Seasons and My Kind of Guy ~ voter application ballot ~ The Myth of Systemic Racism (Coleman Hughes Pt. 2) ~ Officer-involved shooting shuts down busy Cobb County intersection ~ Mother accidentally smothers baby during fatal meth overdose, sheriff says ~ Man was randomly shooting inside apartment complex before officers killed him ~ Facebook: Hackers got (very) personal data from 29M users. FIND OUT if your info was breached. ~ What the Black Men Who Identify With Brett Kavanaugh Are Missing ~ How I Quit Drinking in a World That Wants Me Drunk ~ holocaust photo That claim about Iran is a bit misleading. Some Iranian leaders say that, although the translations may be questionable. It is not known how much the general population agrees. Right now, some American politicians are spoiling for a war with Iran. If this war happens, there will be a lot of men, women, and children killed in Iran. It is important that the world never forgets. Part of this is preventing the Persian holocaust that so many seem to want today. ~ Is Georgia’s minority population boom fueling political pushback from Republicans? ~ CNN’s Cuomo: Trump Looked Like He Was Thinking Racist Thoughts While Talking To Kanye West ~ Did you know Kanye West’s father was once an AJC photographer? ~ Suspect killed in Cobb County officer-involved shooting identified ~ mindful resistance 46 ~ Why Young Men of Color Are Joining White-Supremacist Groups ~ Man shoots, kills girlfriend in front of her 9-year-old son at apartment complex ~ why the gulch deal matters ~ What exactly do you mean by “affordable housing”? I hear that phrase a lot, but don’t know what the guidelines are. Another concern I have is who is going to live in this AH. It seems like the less expensive the housing, the people who live there will be less, and less, pleasant to be around. If you do choose to live in this mythical AH, will you want to be around your neighbors? ~ I just received another phone call from Lucy McBath. It pretended to be a survey, but was, in fact, a paid political message from Lucy McBath. ~ PLEASE VOTE NO ON AMENDMENT 2 in Georgia. It is a horrible proposal. It seeks to establish “business” courts with appointed, not elected, judges, and is designed to protect corporations from being sued by people they have injured. It is being pushed by Georgians for Lawsuit Reform, which is little more than a front for big business. Please forward this post. Most voters are unfamiliar with proposed constitutional amendments, and most, like this one, are worded in ways that hide their true intentions PLEASE FORWARD THIS.! ~ “Kemp’s office blamed that disparity on the New Georgia Project, a voter registration group founded by Abrams in 2013. Kemp accuses the organization of being sloppy in registering voters, and says they submitted inadequate forms for a batch of applicants that was predominantly black. His office has said the New Georgia Project used primarily paper forms and “did not adequately train canvassers to ensure legible, complete forms ….” Yes, that may be more bs from Mr. Kemp. It may also be the truth. It is entirely possible that the New Georgia Project submitted a bunch of registration forms with serious mistakes. We are getting to the point in this election where everything you hear is suspect. ~I got there a half hour early. I sat outside for 45 minutes, waiting for “someone to be with you” I only had to check out one wardrobe item. I took a bus from the base camp… an old warehouse on white street in west end, in front of the beltline … to the set. It was the West Hunter Street Baptist, formerly pastored by Ralph David Abernathy Sr. We were led into a room on the second floor. We sat in that room for four hours. There was a fan in that room, that was turned off during takes. Turning the fan off and on was the only thing to do for four hours. We went back to base camp for a fabulous lunch. We then went back to the church. After a while, our handler came to the room, and got a few of us to go to a site. We went to a side street off Lee Street, across from the west end marta station. We were set up as homeless people, while a car drove by. I was given a homeless person buggy, and told to walk by showing tremendous effort to walk by. However, I was not to be used in the first shot. They did a few takes of the car going down the street. The crew moved across the street. A decision was made not to use any background performers in the next shot. I was taken back to base camp, turned in my wardrobe shirt, my invoice was signed, and I went home. ~ pictures today are from The Library of Congress. ~ selah

Enraged Over Order

Posted in Library of Congress, Weekly Notes by chamblee54 on October 8, 2018


my voter page ~ Joe Rogan Experience #1041- Dan Carlin ~ fbi 2017 crime statistics ~ people have been shot and killed by police in 2017. ~ Why You Should Not Call Members Who Aren’t Yours ~ That sign telling you how fast you’re driving may be spying on you ~ White progressive parents and the conundrum of privilege ~ Enraged over order, woman pulls knife on McDonald’s employee, police say ~ hipster index ~ hit and run arrest ~ Can poetry be a form of therapy? ~ I was undocumented. My future was decided by the judge I feared most Nimisha Ladva ~ The Cruelty Is the Point ~ Chiliquila Ogletree ~ Business owner says gay people “need to be called out.” Let’s see how he likes it. ~ Jamilah Lemieux likes to call Black Men “Negroid” ~ nightclub shooting ~ @mattklewis @billscher ~ i’ve been told i interrupt too much ~ he gives her a drug called a popper ~ great speckled bird ~ What is the meaning of this quote: “We can disagree and still love each other, unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist.”? ~ @SonofBaldwin We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist. ~ Deadly shooting at Buckhead club: ‘Throwing bottles … then pow, pow, pow’ ~ The tragic end of Telltale Games ~ the people more facebook logic ~ @BetteMidler The too brief investigation of allegations against Kavanaugh infuriated me. Angrily I tweeted w/o thinking my choice of words would be enraging to black women who doubly suffer, both by being women and by being black. I am an ally and stand with you; always have. And I apologize. ~ 16 Movies Where the Actors Really Had Sex ~ Problems in Social Sciences ~ Why “I’m not racist” is only half the story ~ bette midler ~ please copy this ~ Forgiveness Is Overrated ~ toxic masculinity ~ You Can’t Cure Depression By Working Out ~ I got a hoax academic paper about how UK politicians wipe their bums published ~ Maybe you can’t cure depression by running. However, you can get a virtual buzz by thinking of the correct phrase to google, to find an amusing article you saw a few months ago. ~ fb hoax ~ @TalbertSwan White women kneeling during the anthem to protest “rape culture” is highjacking a movement you took no risks for. You didn’t kneel in solidarity to protest the murder of Black people, don’t co opt & make it about your victimization. That’s white supremacy in the name of feminism. ~ @TalbertSwan That’s exactly what it is. To change the meaning of #TakeAKnee from a movement led by Black men to protest injustice against black people to a liberal white woman led protest against rape culture is hijacking. It’s offensive & epitomizes white supremacy. ~ A fire service in the region dubbed the ‘obesity capital of Britain’ has been called out 50 times to help winch severely overweight people out of their homes and into ambulances. ~ This is a substantial work. I look forward to seeing a live performance of this. As a male, there are some mixed feelings about the content. A poem should inspire more than one emotion. One criticism I have of this video is the church steeple on the left side of the screen. That was a distraction. The phallic symbolism of the steeple is ironic. The rest of the staging is good, particularly the lighting of the two poets. ~ I recently sent a link to the Paul Gilmartin story to a friend. He is in the AA program, and I thought he would enjoy the atory. Here is the email I sent with that link. This is a link to a story. It is an AA war story. It starts at 20 minutes. There is another story here. The first story in this show is about an Indian lady, who does not like her Jewish mother in law. At ten minutes into the show, the bride says “I am going to have to spend the day with a racist.” At this point, I turned off the show in anger. I am sensitive to the term racist, for perfectly obvious reasons. I did not want to listen to the rest of the show. When I decided to send you the link, I had to listen to the part of the show around the 20 minute mark, so I could know when the war story started. I set the timer for 18 minutes, and listened to the end of the mother in law story. There is a twist in the story, and everyone is friends now. The bride says “I am ashamed of reducing her to her racism.” ~ It is frequently speculated that the homophobe is secretly gay. The need to be heard badmouthing gays stems from a perceived need to prove heterosexuality. Could this be the case with the anti racist? Maybe the anti-racist is secretly afraid that they might be a racist. The “calling out” of others, for perceived racism, is an effort to overcompensate for their own shortcomings. ~ What is going on? I was just in the greenspace. A swatch of land, on the north side of the space, just below the parking lot, has been clear cut. The woods to the south of the parking lot have been thinned out. A twenty foot wide gash, leading away from below the parking lot to a spot a few hundred yards below, has been bulldozed out. What is going on? ~ If you like the links at the drudge report, you should go to my blog on monday morning. I keep a document on my desktop. Whenever I go to anywhere, I make a copy of the url. It is a handy habit, for a number of reasons. On monday every week, I publish the notes from the previous week. The pictures this week are from the farm security administration. The government hired a bunch of photographers during the depression to document the conditions. All these photographs are in the public domain. There was a law… if you worked for the government, you could not claim a copyright. This week the pictures are oil workers from Oklahoma in 1939. ~ Is is misogyny to use *Becky* as a slur for white women? ~ Wikiquotes says “Do what you feel…” was “As quoted in How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (1944; 1948) by Dale Carnegie;” ~ What is rather amusing is the quote above this. “Oh! I want to put my arms around you, I ache to hold you close. Your ring is a great comfort. I look at it and think she does love me or I wouldn’t be wearing it!” In a letter to Lorena Hickok, March 7, 1933 ~ @KngHnryVIII There once was a girl named Boleyn, Who lured my codpiece to sin, After we wed, She cheated my bed, And I divorced her neck from her chin ~ That quote is not found on the James Baldwin wikiquotes. A gentleman named Robert Jones Jr., who uses the pen name Son of Baldwin, is given credit for that phrase. ~ @euflorium #OddThingsToAskAVampire Why don’t you suck fat instead of blood? @pints_and_puns How do you like your stake? #OddThingsToAskAVampire ~ “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!”” ~ defiled mostly by her step brother, who knocks her up and beats her down, alone in the woods becoming a mother, leaving her on the brink of death town, they clean her up and take her in, rich wife dies alone in child birth, drag her to wet nurse his baby of sin, calls the women a harlot of the earth, when her milk stops she still says sir, he sometimes apologizes for raping her, step brother comes back to extort money, rape her once more for good times honey, they make love again and now it’s true, knowing she bit off more than she could chew ~ pictures today are from The Library of Congress. ~ selah

What is Authoritarian about Social Justice?

Posted in Library of Congress, Weekly Notes by chamblee54 on October 1, 2018


Katt Williams claims local radio host’s husband pulled gun on him at comedy club ~ Actor says he was attacked by popular rapper’s entourage after confrontation ~ Police investigate incident involving Katt Williams, V103’s Wanda Smith ~ V-103’s Wanda Smith and Frank Ski Discuss The Katt Williams Fallout ~ Gun Pulled On Katt Williams By Husband Of Radio Host For Roast, Here’s What Happened ~ Yom Kippur Thoughts After Recent Conviction of My Attacker on Appeal ~ Bette Midler’s Final Performance At The Continental Baths in NYC ~ how to spot a bad statistic ~ statistics ~ Reflections from a Hashtag ~ bbq will be illegal ~ cruz cuisine ~ texas bbq ~ The Aesthetic ~ 10 Bible Passages That Teach a Christian Perspective on Homosexuality ~ Get a First Listen to David Lynch & Angelo Badalamenti’s Long-Lost Album, Thought Gang ~ GAY HISTORY: September 19, 1964 – The Little Known First Organized Gay Protest ~ dick richards ~ he came to chicago not quite as black as when he left ~ “racial identity and its appropriation on behalf of political ambition” ~ taking on black americanness as a cloak ~ ‘EUPHEMISMS’ in the Bible No direct matches for your keyword exist in the King James Bible. ~ The Trouble With Uplift ~ @chamblee54 ~ Nuance: A Love Story ~ Kanye responds to the Drake “smashing” his wife rumors PT. 1 ~ ‘Shoot Them on Sight’: Stacey Abrams’ Campaign Harassed by White Nationalists; Republican Brian Kemp and Georgia Media Say Nothing ~ Joe Rogan Experience #1041- Dan Carlin ~ n word letter ~ georgia pol nonsense ~ gapol post with magic word ~ Emory professor speaks out after being suspended for using N-word during lecture on civil rights ~ America, Land of Brutal Binaries ~ Out On Film 2017 — Three Decades of Queer Atlanta: The American Music Show ~ CNN’s Toobin: ‘Maybe This Country Is a Lot More Racist and Sexist Than We Thought’ ~ Why Schools Are Banning Yoga ~ sunday school dropout ~ Myth Or Fact: Does The Word ‘Testify’ Come From ‘Testicles’? ~ Please enjoy Pulp Fiction’s Jules Winnfield interrogating Brett Kavanaugh ~ Biblical Euphemisms For sexual activity ~ What Ben Franklin Really Said ~ @chamblee54 .@robertwrighter has a new set, which works well for photo mischief When #BenFranklin was talking about liberty&security, he was promoting right of governments to tax people to pay for defense Why would fox use this quote? .@greggutfeld ~ @ChrchCurmudgeon She made pancakes and sausage, She did it from the first, Because he vowed to love her, for batter or for wurst ~ #MeToo Casualty Ian Buruma Was the Editor We Needed ~ How A Rising Star Of White Nationalism Broke Free From The Movement ~ prog rock quiz ~ To Russia With Love ~ Nobody Wins: ContraPoints, The Aesthetic, and Negative Representation ~ How We Know Kavanaugh Is Lying ~ Kavanaugh hearing: Transcript ~ I Read Every Memoir by a Presidential Mistress. Including Stormy’s. ~ How about putting Christ back in the cave? ~ when you give a shit, do you gift wrap it? ~ “When you’re a grown and mature person” you should not say “give a f*ck” to express interest or apathy. ~ .@GlennLoury said that he and .@JohnHMcWhorter were like the IDW in that they will say things that “no man woman or child” will say Is .@jordanbpeterson a man, a woman, or a child? ~ i am more concerned with his crookedness and mental instability talking about his racial values obscures more important discussions ~ FWIW I just got back. I was planning to stay until Sunday. It rained every day. Tuesday, the sun came out, and the clouds made up for lost time in the late afternoon. I got some water in my tent, which had never happened before at the mountain. The various paths are little more than a collection of mud puddles. Allegedly, the weather is going to get better. It may already have. You can look at the weather forecasts, and take your chances. ~ “#MakeAmericaGreatAgain became viewed as the calling card of people who wanted to go back to a time when using the n-word was an acceptable daily occurrence.” ~ “People with ingrained biases should not be teaching law to any student, holding a public office, or making decisions that could impact others.” ~ @LaDawnLBJJones just posted 1600 fire breathing words about an Emory law professor that used the magic word in a lecture. Needless to say, the death penalty is too mild for this infraction. When advertising this post on facebook, @georgiapol_com posted a historic picture. This picture included the same word, whose use was hysterically denounced in the post. ~ .@LaDawnLBJJones just posted 1600 fire breathing words about an Emory law professor who used the magic word in a lecture. When advertising this post on facebook, .@georgiapol_com posted a picture including the same word, whose use was hysterically denounced in the post. ~ c&r show about country music hosted by Tyler Mahan Coe ~ disgraceland show about musicians who do terrible things, and have terrible things done to them ~ Useless Information shows 103, 104, 105 are about La Mars IA ~ Pictures today are from the Library of Congress The pictures were made in Oklahoma, August 1939. Photographer was Russell Lee ~ the poem from last night at java monkey:
#wordsthatsounddirty funky fork tender ~ vindictive screwdriver sanitation
beef stroganoff slippery surrender ~ health code penal system violation
glandular megaphone go take your seat ~ pork loin chowder spelunking macguffin
hole in one lollipop all you can eat ~ moist angina in your buttered muffin
tight end trouser honorable mention ~ grandma’s medicinal chicken salad
freakin frackin with dynamic tension ~ woody hard liquor ball washer ballad
grandma’s medicinal chicken salad ~ follicule election ugly cream pie
woody hard liquor ball washer ballad ~ penalize permission to rectify
follicule election ugly cream pie ~ freakin frackin with dynamic tension
penalize permission to rectify ~ tight end trouser honorable mention ~ selah

Only Confirmed Followers

Posted in Library of Congress, Weekly Notes by chamblee54 on September 17, 2018


Advice for those considering joining the military ~ Jeanette Winterson’s 10 Tips on Writing ~ I Approve This Message: Why Political Ads Now Come With Disclaimers ~ Unearthed, Vol. 1 :: Sausalito Haze ~ Our current POTUS is famous for his incontinent use of twitter. Here is how W does twitter @GeorgeWBush This account’s Tweets are protected. Only confirmed followers have access to @GeorgeWBush’s Tweets and complete profile. Click the “Follow” button to send a follow request. ~ The most popular personality test in the world is a joke ~ djt on 091101 ~ Rahsaan Roland Kirk “Blacknuss” ~ Here is a response to the TPC video. I am tired of the kneeler controversy. Both sides are right. Police should not kill unarmed black people. The flag, and the national anthem should be respected. Just because you intend a gesture to mean something does not mean people are not going to be offended for different reasons. But above all, I am tired of Nike. The controversy was quieting down, when Nike fired it up again. Nike is making an existing conflict worse to sell shoes. ~ zoe tillman ~ Don’t fall for the hoax: Facebook isn’t restricting your News Feed to 25 friends ~ @TheKert She has made a statement confirming it’s him. Obviously she disagrees with his statements but she confirmed that is in fact her brother. ~ @Suburban_Dic BDSM – Bridge, Dominoes, Scrabble and Monopoly. ~ For all the poor Black kids who become prey for rich white liberals ~ led zeppelin debut ~ Left or Liberal? ~ sex pisstols ~ The High Price of Stale Grievances ~ Officials: Evidence in Botham Jean’s home supports Amber Guyger account of his location in apartment ~ Tom Waits Releases a Timely Cover of the Italian Anti-Fascist Anthem “Bella Ciao,” His First New Song in Two Years ~ Seven Questions With Phil Johnson ~ what dave wallace ate ~ The value of skepticism ~ My Chat with Rick Mehta – Academic Freedom Under Threat ~ David French on “The Great White Culture War” | The Ezra Klein Show ~ The Great White Culture War ~ On Saturday, I received a robo call from 2020 insight. It said it would take five minutes, but lasted nine minutes. Chris, the robovoice of 2020 Insight, said that it would be a survey. You were asked to respond to a series of statements about the candidates for District 81 in the Georgia House, Scott Holcomb and Ellen Diehl. All of the statements were complimentary towards Rep. Holcomb, and derogatory towards Ms. Diehl. One of these statements said that Ellen Diehl has a life sized cardboard cutout of Donald Trump in her home. Whether this is, or is not true, has no impact on her ability to represent the 81st district in the GA House of Representatives. It is a sad moment when a politician insults an opponent by saying she supports the President of the United States. ~ This publication is made possible, in part, by the voters of Minnesota through a Minnesota State Arts Board Operating Support grant ~ Neal and Bob were walking one day. They saw a dog licking his balls. Neal said, “I wish I could do that” Bob replied “Maybe you should pet him first” ~ A better way of phrasing that would be to observe that sometimes African Americans DON’T use the magic word. The language choices of African Americans give me neither permission, or desire, to use the magic word. ~ @Suburban_Dic Cunnilingus – Dinosaur noted for its short arms and long tongue ~ Of course I am a sinner. Is photoshop mischief a sin? I differ with you about the details. IMO, the death/reputed resurrection of Jesus has nothing to do with what happens to my post mortem soul. ~ The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, also known as McCain–Feingold Act, requires candidates for federal offices to have a disclaimer in their advertising. It is now boilerplate… I am Joe Blow, and I approved this message. Question: Is there any requirement like this for state and local races? Are the so-called surveys from 2020 Insight, which are really advertising for one candidate, legal? ~ The least radical thing you can do is speak in all caps ~ pictures today are from The Library of Congress. ~ here is the poem from last night at java monkey:
#myleastfavoritephraseis you okay ~ but nothing to get excited about
are you triggered at the end of the day ~ this is a teachable moment no doubt
it’s a deal breaker that you can believe in ~ christians aren’t perfect just forgiven
i work to live i don’t live to work spin ~ have a nice day don’t get mad get even
you might have a negative attitude ~ he’s a nice guy once you get to know him
that’s the way we do things here dude ~ love the sin hate the sinner sink or swim
he’s a nice guy once you get to know him ~ good grief that is not an apology
love the sin hate the sinner sink or swim ~ cool beans on the right side of history
good grief that is not an apology ~ that’s the way we do things here dude
cool beans on the right side of history ~ you might have a negative attitude ~ selah

Do More Than Talk

Posted in Library of Congress, Weekly Notes by chamblee54 on September 10, 2018


both sides ism ~ What Is Shigella? An Explainer of the STI Exploding Among Gay Men ~ @Bumbling85 Need to do better than that dude, kek was around long ~ before the alt right. Any gamer would know that. Try looking a little further than the SPLC and try looking at Warcraft where it originated from many moons ago. Then you will see it’s ties to memes and gaming. ~ Homophobe Arrested At Key Gay West Bar For Drunken Violent Outburst ~ 29 shot, 6 fatally, in Chicago weekend violence ~ @chaeronaea UMMMM yes your mother attempting to hire a hitman to have you killed is……………..illegal ~ Family says ‘Jim Crow Road’ doesn’t represent what you think ~ Lest We Forget the Journalist Who Exposed CIA Cocaine Trafficking, Would Be 63 Today, but He ‘Shot Himself’ in the Head, Twice ~ @JohnBrennan Colin Kaepernick drew our collective attention to the problem of continued racial injustice in America. He did so not to disrespect our flag but to give meaning to the words of the preamble of our Constitution—“in order to form a more perfect union.” Well done, Colin, well done. ~ Officer ‘fighting for his life’ after being shot by man trying to steal bandanas, GBI says ~ half mast or half staff ~ Northwestern doctoral student among 6 fatally shot in Labor Day weekend violence ~ HeyJackass! ~ Call Them What They Wants ~ Mahmoud Ahmadinejad @Ahmadinejad1956The #NFL season will start this week, unfortunately once again @Kaepernick7 is not on a NFL roster. Even though he is one of the best Quarterbacks in the league. #ColinKaepernick #NFL ~ @Ahmadinejad1956 Had a busy day today . But I always make time for #Twitter ~ Redux: If You Can Hoe Corn for Fifty Cents an Hour … ~ Jim Harrison, Reading, 27 February 2002 ~ Claudia Rankine: why I’m spending $625,000 to study whiteness ~ @meetrobertsmith They don’t? Have they made a public statement? ~ nfl kneelers ~ social justice statement ~ Houston after Harvey ~ Some White People Are Very Mad At Nike And Colin Kaepernick ~ 7 shot during teen party at Birmingham’s WorkPlay; 1 of the injured in custody ~ 6 teens shot at Birmingham’s Workplay ~ @CNBC ‘Don’t touch me again, man’: Sen. Marco Rubio faces off against InfoWars conspiracy monger Alex Jones in hallway heckle spat ~ Bret Easton Ellis on ‘American Psycho’, Hollywood Hypocrisy, and the Excesses of #MeToo ~ neil young ~ Taibbi: David Remnick’s Steve Bannon Flop Was a Journalistic Embarrassment ~ nike talk ~ How Well-Intentioned White Families Can Perpetuate Racism ~ Believe in Something….Even if it means Sacrificing Everything?! ~ Georgia GOP House candidate Ellen Diehl and the global witches’ coven ~ troye sivans ~ Jim Brown Cuts Colin kaepernick Throat ~ depression talk ~ ‘The pain never ebbs. The tears never dry. But they are proof that my brother, Rob, mattered’ ~ Police: ‘No suspects, no motive’ in drive-by shooting that killed paralegal ~ Thousands Of Evangelicals Sign Petition Condemning Churches That Advocate For “The Social Justice Agenda” ~ “They” Is a Fine Pronoun, But It Ain’t Mine ~ warren zevon ~ las vegas story ~ Nike’s Big Gamble on Colin Kaepernick ~ Why White Parents Need to Do More Than Talk to Their Kids About Racism ~ Scientific Racism Isn’t ‘Back’—It Never Went Away ~ @RepScottHolcomb This is my opponent. She lives w/ life-size cutout of Trump & talking Trump doll. She deleted some of her videos this week. Here’s one: Georgia GOP House candidate Ellen Diehl: “Understanding Islam—If you’re not Islamic, they want to kill you” – Brambleman ~ anti Diehl propaganda ~ Serena Williams accuses umpire of sexism and vows to ‘fight for women’ ~ ksu cheerleader files lawsuit ~ Jeanette Winterson’s 10 Tips on Writing ~ I just had a twitter chat. I have screen shots, if it gets deleted. @iSocialFanz I trust brands that TAKE a stand much more than brands that go with the flow and are scared to upset one side or the other! Kudos to @Nike #ColinKaepernick #ImWithKap #ImWithNike #NikeBoycott #Injustice There was a picture of Pat Tillman, with the Nike text pasted in front. @chamblee54 The Tillman family does not appreciate this @meetrobertsmith They don’t? Have they made a public statement? @chamblee54 That took less time to find on google than it will take me to write this reply. ~ #Nike choose labor day, to announce their new spokesman for shoes made in Asian sweatshops #ColinKaepernick ~ Has anyone seeing this damaged Nike apparel as an act of protest? How many people really have? Maybe this is the plan… to have a few plants say they are burning their shoes, and get more publicity for Nike. It is bad enough to commodify social justice jihad.To further divide and alienate people, just to sell more sweatshop produced footwear. This is very cynical and exploitative. ~ I am one of the 96% I do not pay retail for books. If it turns up in a yard sale, or at the library, I might try it I appreciate your desire to move product, but this simply is not going to fly A singing commercial for the book would be fun to listen to ~ I do not buy brand name merchandise, unless it is a good deal. I have no illusions about the sweatshop origin of most of the items I do wear. I resent the way Nike is exploiting divisions in our society. Millions of people are offended that their ritual patriotism is being disrespected. While I might not agree with them, these people are entitled to their opinions. If Colin Kaepernick arrogantly ignores these people, then that speaks poorly of him. If the supporters of Mr. Kaepernick choose to insult these people, then that speaks poorly of them. When Nike exploits these divisions to gain market share, then that speaks poorly of them. Do these opinions make me a shitty human being? ~ cissexist is not a good word for spoken word performances the spell check suggestion for cisssexist is coexist ~ I just received a robo call from 2020 insight. It said it would take five minutes, but lasted nine minutes. It apparently was in support of Scott Holcombe. I have always supported Scott, but will have to re think my support after this call. This call said that Ellen Diehl, his opponent, has a life sized cardboard cutout of Donald Trump in her home. Whether this is, or is not true, has no impact on her ability to represent the 81st district in the GA House of Representatives. ~ How many people have really burned their Nikes? Was this staged, to get more publicity for the ad campaign? Something is really fishy here. ~ 300 309 are you registered to vote ed has life size blow up of donald trump in her house 389 6869 20 20 insight ~ pictures for this pointless waste of bandwidth are from The Library of Congress. ~ selah

I Wash Mine Daily

Posted in Library of Congress, Weekly Notes by chamblee54 on August 27, 2018


TsMadison Hosting “The ALL WHITE SOIRÉE”for EMORY clinical Research ~ Atlanta Monster ~ conservative humor ~ disgraceland ~ einstein ~ How Poetry Came to Matter Again ~ At Least 58 People Shot In Chicago This Weekend; 6 Dead, 52 Wounded ~ Julian S. Carr, “Unveiling of Confederate Monument at University. June 2, 1913” ~ Julian Carr ~ @jjones9 From white supremacist Julian Carr’s speech at the dedication of Silent Sam in 1913 ~ silent sam ~ wbts nonsense ~ Shelby Foote on “The Great Compromise” ~ Another View of Shelby Foote ~ slavery and global warming ~ why was the war fought ~ From Sixties hippies to anarchist drag queens, I discovered one cultural treasure after another ~ Father calls inured daughter a hero for saving mom from oncoming MARTA train ~ Young girl lured to motel, forced into ‘sex trafficking’ ~ talking heads 1975 ~ hobo code ~ @chamblee54 what are the names of pork industry magazines @dandrezner @natsecHeather ~ JORDAN PETERSON EXPLAINS GOD WHILE SAM HARRIS LOSES HIS MIND ~ splc bs ~ @BallbusterF Hey @StormyDaniels no one likes a nasty cunt! @StormyDaniels Agreed! Which is why I wash mine daily. ~ Gay Trump supporter alerts FBI that Grindr shut down his account ~ Atlanta Drag Club GM Publishes Transphobic Messages ~ Modestly Strong but Malleable Support for Single-Payer Health Care ~ The Vanishing Idealism of Burning Man ~ ag statement ~ Darron Glass ~ Mom charged with DUI after wreck on Ga. 400 that killed her 2 kids ~ Two officers suspended for a day after body cam video was leaked of the Denver mayor’s son berating cops during traffic stop ~ Food Words That Are Also Verbs fritter, hock, shoulder, rib, juice, wine, junket, carp, hare, fish, milk, pork, trifle, mushroom, curry, scallop, chip, duck, cream, flounder, egg, shake, butter, sprout, jam, chicken, toast, sandwich, waffle ~ A Father’s Responsibility ~ rat park/bert ~ Taylor Swift Interviews Rock ’n’ Roll Icon Pattie Boyd on Songwriting, Beatlemania, & the Power of Being a Muse ~ Joe Rogan Experience #1158 – Chuck Palahniuk ~ A Minimalist’s Guide to Camper Van Conversions ~ Racists Don’t Like Their Racism Video Taped. Boo Hoo. ~ Backpage Plea to Texas Sex Trafficking Charge Turns On CEO’s Admission to Brokering Adult Prostitution ~ Rep. Handel TV Ad: Combat Human Trafficking “The first bill that Congresswoman Handel co-sponsored after winning last year’s special election was H.R. 1865, which passed the House in February, and was signed into law by President Trump in April. The law had almost immediate results in shutting down Backpage, and many other online recruiting and advertising sites for Human Trafficking.” ~ David Foster Wallace on John McCain: ‘The Weasel, Twelve Monkeys and the Shrub’ ~ cultural appropriation ~ Man accused of urinating on girl, 5, and calling her racial slur: police ~ Prosecutors: Story of man urinating on black girl made up ~ contra panic ~ @BallbusterF Hey @StormyDaniels no one likes a nasty cunt! @StormyDaniels Agreed! Which is why I wash mine daily. ~ eight best crime podcasts ~ Attn. Facebook Enthusiasts: You are not required to express an opinion about #JohnMcCain ~ @cheezit On December 26th, experience the cheesy crunchy satisfaction of Cheez-It crackers in the biggest college football bowl yet, the Cheez-It Bowl. @chamblee54 Is this satire? @cheezit Thanks for asking, Luther. You feta believe that it’s real! You can learn more about this exciting event here ~ pictures today are from The Library of Congress. Greensboro, Greene County, Georgia. Playing checkers outside a service station on a Saturday afternoon _ Marion Post Wolcott, 1910-1990, photographer _ Date Created/Published: June 1939 ~ seven more words to six sixty six
This is the poem from last night at Java Monkey:
been to the mountaintop been to the sea ~ body part insults and other such jive
heard happy talk about being free ~ maybe its just my time to be alive
laughed with morticia lusted for lurch ~ got tested for drugs look out for disease
wanted to sleep so i dropped out of church ~ back skull feet eyes blood pressure knees
blow twenty five points in the super bowl ~ both jesus and satan work over my soul
i gave up the reefer and gave up the beer ~ one thing i will never give up is the queer
it has taken this long to find my voice ~ i’m glad my mother did not take the choice ~ selah

Are Racist/Racism Obsolete?

Posted in Library of Congress, Weekly Notes by chamblee54 on August 20, 2018


Dear White People, Please Stop Pretending Reverse Racism Is Real ~ I Drink Too Much, But It Isn’t About The Alcohol, It’s About The Sex ~ 15 states side with Nevada in drugmaker delay of execution ~ Nevada death-row inmate on legal delays: ‘Just get it done’ ~ race scene ~ Incitement to Violence Is Not Limited to Trump ~ is your brain a democratic or republican ~ r or d link ~ we don’t hate you ~ i would rather go through starbucks and the swimming pool three times a year than be white and weigh 400 pounds ~ @chamblee54 .@JohnHMcWhorter .@GlennLoury .@jordanbpeterson 1-What are your preferred pronouns? 2-I re-wrote how to in my own style. I chose to say you’re instead of you. 3-Are racist/racism obsolete? Has meaning expanded to point where those words are useless? ~ There was a folk saying about pigs earlier in this thread. ~ I recently had a facebook encounter with some self described socialists. When I wrote about it in my blog, I included this:You should never wrestle with a hog. You will get dirty, and the pig will enjoy himself. Later, there was this: “Did you just call us pigs in your horribly designed blog” ~ I didn’t go to Aspen as a negro ~ I would rather go through starbucks and the swimming pool three times a year than be white and weigh 400 pounds ~ Dread Singles Classique ~ Mike Pence ~ Roseanne Cash ~ rock and roll fueds ~ Chrissy Teigen Shares Her Secret To Having Gone Her ‘Entire Life Without Saying The N-Word’ With Nonblack Folks Struggling To Do So ~ This makes me sad to see A few weeks ago you were quitting drinking, but now you are a mess again. This little speech makes you look petty and asshole-ish That last line … “I need an enema today”… is more true than you think ~ ac ~ Robert Wright on Marshall McLuhan, Joe Rogan, and Jordan Peterson ~ Edinburgh festival 2018: the 10 best jokes ~ These were voted the worst jokes at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival “This vodka is drunk by the rapper Sean Combs. P Diddy? Only when he drank a whole bottle.” ~ foods that fight heart attack ~ circle ~ Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald No country’s political class, except maybe Israel’s – maybe – exploits and trivializes anti-semitism accusations for cheap political gain as brazenly, cynically and recklessly as the British political class does ~ demolitions ~ makeup lies ~ incels ~ orwellian ~ @jvn Not all republicans are racist. Just like not all democrars are evil, we have to stop demonizing eachother. Unless you’re actually racist then you suck, Trump is Racist – not all his voters are necessarily we gotta remember we are all in this together. ~ Crazy Rude Asian? Seemingly Drunk Porsche Employee Gets Fired for Running Black Folks Out of Atlanta Lounge ~ contra points This video has an interesting point of view. FWIW, some people use *Becky* as a generic insult for *some* white women. I have seen *Chad* used to describe the male counterpart of *Becky*. And now, I learn that certain incels use Chad as a generic term for a man who gets laid, presumably with women. ~ ted talk on depression ~ Shawn Kruzan ~ Mr. White Chocolate ~ rock star philosophy ~ Trump and the N Word ~ outrage is helping trump ~ woke washing ~ Rupaul likes to say we are born naked, and the rest is drag. It turns out he stole that line from a drag queen at the Sweet Gum Head. ~ Something is wrong with america when ________ does _____ and _______ happens, while _______ does _______ and _______ happens. Something far worse is wrong with america when people get mad because of that so-called logic. ~ Democrats … Stacey Abrams Don’t Owe You Jack … I would prefer Miss Abrams to Mr. Kemp. ~ I am concerned about the followers of Miss Abrams. I am also concerned that anything she says to fire up her own base will have the effect of alienating Republicans. Barack Obama was able to walk this tightrope and get elected. It remains to be seen if Miss Abrams can. ~ @SlavojTweezek So after the recent allegations that Trump used the N word on multiple occasions, do you regret saying you would have voted for him? Ž : No, come on, such bullshit, you know! Trump can’t even pronounce the word, you know, “nihilist”. ~ ” exploits and trivializes _____ accusations for cheap political gain as brazenly, cynically and recklessly ” Is it worse than racism talk in the USA, by everyone with a facebook account? ~ concept of people expressing their toughness via generous distribution of obnoxious opinions, & name calling people who do not share your passion for these ideas is valued more by giver than receiver ~ @tunaofthesky #MyTwitterEpiphany People say things with their thumbs they’d never dare say with their mouths ~ pictures are from The Library of Congress. ~ here is the poem from last night at java monkey:
#imnotmissingsexbutt moderation ~ my lotion budget shot up to the sky
how do you turn up a phone vibration ~ apple pie puts a twinkle in my eye
all the cold showers are getting wetter ~ poodle wags puffy tail and i follow
eyesight of stevie wonder is better ~ dentist told me to spit and i swallow
why do i keep running out of kleenex ~ all that i seem to be bouncin’ are checks
tweet with one hand while starchin’ my socks ~ wobbly machine at the laundromat rocks
made uber driver take bumpy ride home ~ this trailer hitch has way too much chrome ~ selah