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276 responses to “Sandbox – 20jun23”
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https://i0.wp.com/newspack-berkeleyside-cityside.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Daughhetee-Sixties-Generals.jpg?w=1200&ssl=1
General Hershey Bar (who I saw in the flesh a few times in Los Angelezee venues) is on the left, General Wastemoreland is on the right.
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I see that Pres. Joe just announced the appointment of Sen. John Fetterman as ambassador to the new Republic of Russia, with its capital in Rostov-on-Don, near the Ukrainian border.
Joe was quoted “We will Putin, er, put in a new face for our ambassadorship in Russia.”
Sen. Fetterman was quoted “I am happy to be the new amtroutador to this new member of the UN. I even bought a new hoodie to go with the job, with a rainbow on the back. I’m baffaffled as to why it took me so long to reach this impurtenant position in this great amdinistation. Suck n’eggs Oz.”
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I am liking the discussions on Fox News and CNN that have nothing to do with current political squabbles in the US now that Putin is on the defensive.
The pause that refreshes, but they’ve got a lot of nukes over there.
“This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we’ll be lucky to live through it.”
– Fictional character: Admiral Josh Painter
“The Hunt for Red October”
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From USA Today, for those liberals not paying attention:
(Former Col. & suer of Pres. Trump) Alexander S. Vindman, former director of the U.S. national security council and an expert on Ukraine and Russia: “The seizure of the (Rostov-on-Don) SMD HQ and the potential consolidation of control over bases in the area has taken the insurrection into very dangerous territory.”
He seems to define the word “insurrection” quite well – need at least 25,000+ fighters, well-armed, have airplanes will travel. Our ‘insurrection’ lacked all of those seemingly obvious requirements.
Of course, since Vindman is an acknowledged “expert”, this quote should have come over a week ago. That would indicate the US intel community was on top of their game. At least they issued an opinion quicker than they did for our Afghan ‘insurrection’ and subsequent tail-between-our-legs withdrawal in Aug 2021.
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This business IS out of control.
Hunt for Red October is a great action movie, and the late Senator Fred Thompson (who played the Admiral) helped make it great.
Adm. Painter: What’s his plan?
Jack Ryan : His plan?
Adm. Painter : Russians don’t take a dump, son, without a plan.
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Don the Con memorial sculpture,
https://www.mediaite.com/politics/mock-mar-a-lago-bathroom-crime-scene-complete-with-cardboard-boxes-and-toilet-shows-up-by-donald-trumps-hollywood-star/
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As if vlad and emperor xi would not take advantage of creepy grampa joes fiasco open border –
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/rising-number-russian-chinese-nationals-us-southern-border-raises-security-concerns
😉
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” That would indicate the US intel community was on top of their game.”
I suppose there’s some odds that the 17 intelligence agencies have their fingers in this pie.
Truth is we’ll never know. I try to stick to furrin’ newspapers, but have a feeling that there’s layers on layers. Naturally TASS or Pravda is worth a look, but are just basically Russia’s MSNBC/CNN.
Prigozhin needs to follow through. If things are as they appear (no guarantee there) Putin absolutely has to have the man’s head on a stake outside of the Kremlin with a good part of Wagner subject to a quick machine gunning. It’s just the nature of the thing and can’t be avoided.
Would we be where we are now without the US-driven takeover in Ukraine? Dunno, but perhaps not. Central European politics never seemed suitable for Washington but it doesn’t mean that they won’t keep on trying. Remember what Bismarck said about the Balkans.
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Gregory: “This business IS out of control.”
It’s off to Act II.
Washpo: “Charges against Wagner chief will be dropped, Kremlin says”
lol. We need some sort of betting pool. 1)Prigozhin retires to Switzerland 2)Prigozhin dies from ‘natural’ causes. 3)Prigozhin hangs from lamppost.
I’m still going for 3. The more interesting question I think is whether Wagner is now used as full-on cannon fodder (true to some extent already) or disbanded.
It’s a serious place with serious people. I always wonder how the J. Bidens and L. Grahams of the world think they can go toe-to-toe with Russians (or Chinese) at a diplomatic table.
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Posted by: scenes | 24 June 2023 at 01:35 PM
I always wonder how the J. Bidens and L. Grahams of the world think they can go toe-to-toe with Russians (or Chinese) at a diplomatic table.
I imagine that were was much rejoicing in many a foreign capitol when the cheap and easily accessible coin operated Senator/VP was promoted to cheap and easily accessible coin operated president (now with lil Bagman Junior president accompanying)!
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Truly inspiring news…… Florida is back on the table Cereal!
…..feel free to lift up your “Dunlap” and shake your penis at any poor, terrified child you can corner!
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Dunlap%27s%20Disease
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scenes 01:35 PM
Didn’t you mean the “K. Harrises, R. Levines or H. Clintons”? – the Dems are intent having one of them (or similar ones) in the Oval Office.
Sorry – let me be more clear – after all, B. Clinton had one in the Oval Office…to have a person of female gender, once it is defined, in the Presidency.
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Higher education in a single sentence……
Wonder if she had a Masters Degree?
https://dnyuz.com/2023/06/24/harvard-scholar-who-studies-honesty-is-accused-of-fabricating-findings/
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If anyone had been asked 20 years ago if the movie franchises Star Wars, Toy Stoy and more could be ruined by woketards no one would have believed it but disney managed to. The real problem is they/them make movies fo themselves not the whole country –
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2023/06/24/box-office-analyst-estimates-disney-lost-890-million-on-last-eight-theatrical-releases/
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2023/06/24/nolte-mr-they-thems-flash-is-a-certified-box-office-catastrophe/
😉
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ROFLOL What isn’t these days? –
BMI measurement deemed ‘racist’ in new medical report: ‘This is politics, not medicine’
https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/bmi-measurement-deemed-racist-medical-202835952.html
😉
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re: DonB@9:12PM
I like that article, it’s got all the good words..
‘Racism’, ‘problematic’, ‘exclusion’, ‘harm’, and (drumroll) ‘marginalized’.
You do have to wonder what made everyone go crazy all at once, but then it’s not everyone, it’s a highly motivated group of people who hit above their weight (so to speak).
Obviously, BMI exists because people are crappy at using calipers and dunk tanks are too much work. Changes over time are as interesting as static measurements. I wonder how many hypertension=racism articles a person could find in 30 seconds searching. It’s all so tiresome.
FBLM!
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Here it comes:
https://news.yahoo.com/fuel-taxes-plummet-states-weigh-042526446.html
Best quote:
““The impetus at this point is less about collecting revenue than about establishing these systems, working out the kinks, getting the public comfortable with it, expanding awareness around it,” he said.”
Ah, yes – we need to get the public “comfortable” with the idea of the govt tracking their travel.
The most hilarious part is the notion that taxing miles will replace the tax on fuel at point of purchase.
Har de har har har. That’s a good one. Tell us another.
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re: Scotto@7:46AM
Lotsa possibilities here.
Remote shutoff of car. No need for police chases endangering The Children.
Realtime black box for speeding, poor driving, insurance rates, post-crime tracking. Maybe Psul’s 17 intelligence agencies will get better at tracking down and jailing insurrectionists. I suppose it could all be done with increasingly inexpensive and universal traffic cams.
Truth is, it’ll all happen in any case. The pro-surveillance forces are more focused and powerful than the anti-.
This is why ownership of the bureaucracy is such a deathmatch at this point in time. Whoever owns Leviathan when surveillance of the public gets to a certain point will own it forever.
Of course, the tax dollars just go into one big pot in any case. There’s handwaving about paying for roads, but they simply spend less from other sources.
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Your quote of the day….
Was just thinking that “escaping” Florida involves a leisurely drive up the Eastern Seaboard. No fugitive trans posse’s chasing, no lynchings…..maybe stopping for pictures and a lovely lunch at the beach.
You know….every summer vacation you ever had….
https://twitter.com/FiveTimesAugust/status/1669855362151792642?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1669855362151792642%7Ctwgr%5E3819f8daf7a801d3f14e08b0c58528aec68da3a4%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Finstapundit.com%2F591605%2F
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re: 🐠@8:31AM
oooh, that led me to this.
“Understanding left-wing authoritarianism: Relations to the dark personality traits, altruism, and social justice commitment”
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12144-023-04463-x
“Rainbow Underground Railroad” make me wonder what happens when all the mentally-ill people end up in one place. It sounds like a Douglas Adams book (or Clans of the Alphane Moon).
I’m still laughing about ‘Cloaca’ the Drag Queen. So perfect. Maybe his last name is ‘Maxima’.
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Let’s face it – the “Rainbow Underground Railroad” is just a grift for folks wanting some one else to pay for their re-lo.
And it makes for great ink in the lefty pearl-clutching sites.
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Posted by: scenes | 25 June 2023 at 09:23 AM
I’m still laughing about ‘Cloaca’ the Drag Queen. So perfect. Maybe his last name is ‘Maxima’.
I’m not sure what’s worse….. that “Froggy” knows just what a Cloaca is and chose it anyway……or that they don’t and just like how it sounds.
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DB and scenes – re the “Racist BMI” BS. It’s been brewing for awhile.
Remember this?
https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/01/cosmo_2jpg-JS630117340.jpg
How old is she? Wait til the years pile up. And then the AMA looks us square in the eye and claims black women not having the same longevity as white women is totally because of racism. “Don’t you honkies tell us how to live” they screech as they blame us later on their death beds.
Shrug.
Whatever.
And it isn’t just black women. The white girrrles are trying their best to guilt us into treating the tubs-o-lard as lithe and limber or you’re “fatphobic”!!
“I should get 2 airline seats for the price of one” they claim.
How about we just load them in with the checked luggage and fly them for free?
Of all places – watching a British show the other night about a gent trying to follow guidebooks from the 50s on places to drive in Jolly Olde on holiday in your auto.
At some sea-side resort he lamented the huge difference in the average Brit’s poundage vs what they looked like in the old days. The video of the crowds around him provided plenty of proof.
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I ran into this article:
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2023/06/21/steve_bannon_rfk_jr_is_leading_a_massive_realignment_of_american_politics_against_the_administrative_state_and_the_deep_state.html
…and he said a thing that jogged a memory.
” I don’t think Biden will be the nominee, but it sure won’t be Robert F. Kennedy as a Democrat to replace him. it will be Newsom, Whitmer, Michelle Obama, or Pritzker, one of those types. ”
‘Pritzker’. Hang on, that name…
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/billionaire-family-pushing-synthetic-sex-identities-ssi-pritzkers
The perfect Democratic candidate for Clown Nation. Even psul would approve. Probably a case where BMI won’t make a lick of difference as the pair of them will both probably make it to 100.
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Oh boy…
“Americans Are Quietly Getting Closer to Ditching the Electoral College”
Mob rule…
Yeah, that’s the ticket.
If you think American politics is divisive now, just wait.
Now – if we can just pack the Court with judges who follow the “will of the people”…
“A republic, if you can keep it”
https://www.newsweek.com/americans-are-quietly-getting-closer-ditching-electoral-college-opinion-1807948
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DISPATCHES FROM WEIMAR AMERICA:University of Wyoming sorority reveals it CHANGED its definition of ‘woman’ to allow 6ft2, 260lb trans member to join – and slams sisters who sued because she ‘stared at them with an erection visible through leggings.’
Twenty five years ago this would have been the plot for a summer comedy blockbuster…..
Still ….hat tip to the “sister” in question…..shows the lengths some guys will go to to see women in their underwear.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12218911/University-Wyoming-sorority-slams-sisters-suing-6ft2-260lb-trans-member.html
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re: fisha@7:49AM
I admit there’s something beautiful about the Clown Nation sentence from the article:
“changing the definition of ‘woman’ to accept a trans member”
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Your easily accessible coin operated chief executive….
I mean who wouldn’t want to drop their money in the Biden Machine and see what cool prize they had won?
I wonder if they’ve just printed a menu to make the graft flow faster?
https://news.yahoo.com/visiting-white-house-logs-300-093005488.html
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Posted by: scenes | 26 June 2023 at 07:57 AM
“changing the definition of ‘woman’ to accept a trans member”
Not sure that’s entirely accurate given that nobody seems to know what a woman actually is……cough…cough Supreme Court justice…cough.
Tozer…..if you are still with us get well soon! Miss you boy!
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I just had to read:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12218911/University-Wyoming-sorority-slams-sisters-suing-6ft2-260lb-trans-member.html
again.
roflmao. Check out this dude. Nothing says ‘sorority’ like a giant-mentally-ill-schlub-with-an-erection.
This is our future under the Progressive Snake Cult. It sure ain’t just the US.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/s0V4s3u9OYY
‘Noticing’ is a crime. Meanwhile…’TRUMP!’, ‘RUSSIA!’, ‘EQUITY!’. In geologic time, none of this will matter as all of the Drag Queen Prosthetics, cell phones, and Pride Flags will be squished into a tiny layer of slightly radioactive rock, but it’s a helluva thing to watch in real time.
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Well, they changed “criminal” and “felon” to “justice system involved person” so why not just go through the dictionary?
“BlackRock’s Fink says he’s stopped using ‘weaponised’ term ESG”
Hilarious:
“But the world’s largest asset manager hasn’t changed its stance on ESG issues, Fink told the Aspen Ideas Festival on Sunday.”
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/blackrocks-fink-says-hes-stopped-170451898.html
Golly – I wonder, wonder, wonder why only the left gets to do this?
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Fink/BlackRock is pretty outrageous, but I don’t think that big leagues bankers using OPM to further their political kinkiness is anything new.
Given the gravitational attraction of money, revolving doors, and regulatory apparatus, BlackRock and the USG simply look like organs of one animal, but is that really any different than the House of Morgan?
It would be interesting to delve into US history in order to find an era where large bureaucracies, exhibiting the prejudices of their executives, simply didn’t matter very much. No doubt the closing of the frontier made it hard to escape these people, but besides ever metastasizing gubmint law it seems like the main hold their talons have is via debt.
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scenes – “…using OPM to further their political kinkiness is anything new.”
Hmmm…
Can you think of any? If they did, I’m pretty sure they weren’t talking about it.
Plenty of large business owners have had their pet projects, both left and right but it was their dough.
Larry Fink is part of something new. A world-wide industrial scale effort to mold humanity into a compliant bunch of herded sheep following one common bunch of rules.
These folks at WEF are plenty darn open and proud of themselves:
“Annual Meeting of the New Champions”
https://www.weforum.org/events/annual-meeting-of-the-new-champions-2023
New Champions, my ass. Look at the first speaker –
“Li Qiang, Premier of the People’s Republic of China, State Council of the People’s Republic of China”
I’d be glad to listen to him, but he’s no champion of anybody outside of the WEF.
It is a constant amazement to me at how openly they brag they will bend the public to their will and yet so many dismiss any discussion of them as just a “conspiracy theory”.
It is no wonder one of their main goals is to disarm the American public.
“You will own nothing and be happy”
Or else.
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Cant help themselves –
Democrat state senator arrested after admitting to keying car with ‘Biden sucks’ sticker: police
Police said no one is above law after Sen Joshua Miller name-dropped police colonel
https://www.foxnews.com/media/democrat-state-senator-joshua-miller-rhode-island-arrested-admitting-keying-car-biden-sucks-sticker
😉
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Scotto: “Can you think of any?”
Rothschild family (mic drop).
It’s funny how much power you have merely from the ability to steer money to governments.
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Boy did we dodge a bullet when it comes to merrick garland who needs to be gone soon –
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/hunter-biden-prosecutor-claims-he-was-not-allowed-to-charge-first-son-outside-of-delaware-and-was-denied-special-counsel-status-by-doj/ar-AA1d4EQA?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=002620cbb180452b8e3fe8d293eb9102&ei=16
😉
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Irony fail LOL –
https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2023/06/26/trans-cyclist-austin-killips-says-men-are-underrepresented-in-womens-sports/
😉
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scenes – I suppose you could say that about them now, but traditionally the Rothschild family to my knowledge has never used anybodies money to do anything but to make themselves wealthier. They might push govts around in the meantime, but only as a means to an end. Fink and the other WEF types are using (in many cases) the American people’s money to destroy America. It’s not a means to an end, it is the end. And he’s admitted that sometimes investments might turn out “sub-optimal” by traditional investment standards, but will lead eventually to more important societal changes that are necessary (according to him). Disney keeps losing money but stays the Woke course because it means they will continue to have access to more capital anyway. Inbev continues to bleed billions in market share because they are beholden to this new corp ethic.
The newer generations of Rothschilds are probably going to go along with the WEF because as wealthy as they are, they haven’t the clout they once had. They can’t possibly control the WEF, so they may as well join them.
The Rothschilds of old would be horrified by this new way of using financial clout.
The old way is gaining power by gaining wealth. The commie leaders of the twentieth century showed you could become immensely powerful without ever having to have had money ever in your life. The uber-wealthy of the world know now that their “peers” often are nothing more than middle class jumped-up bureaucratic functionaries who none the less fly where they want in private jets just as the wealthy do. We are entering a new era that sees a great shift in who attains power and how they manage it.
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Now we’re talking…..
This should be sufficient magick to summon psul, who I’m guessing is looking a little bit like John Forsyth in “Scrooged” at this point, from his casket!
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-rules-republicans-north-carolina-elections-dispute-rcna68630
https://media-prod.fangoria.com/images/5dff9694e421313df23bb726_0UtkzlM5JxKeuo2y7ztD7.width-800.png
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Wait…..that means…..
….progressives are the Fascists!
Who knew?
Oh that’s right….we did!
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/corporatism-has-replaced-liberalism
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re fishingrope 6:17 – Times have changed, haven’t they. Checking out Daily Kos we find the American left has become the war party and tax cheating millionaires are being given passes. What J Edgar and the Fibbies used to be pilloried for, is now shrugged off as:
“so they made some mistakes…”
Gotta love it.
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re: Rothschilds and European banking.
They certainly fared far afield in terms of driving politics at the expense of pure-play making of more money…much more influential than any modern rich folk…but…
it’s worth considering if it really all isn’t just ‘making money’. By stressing DEI, which is essentially a sort of mind control (French Revolution and after seems prone to that), Larry Fink might be redesigning everyday life in a way that leaves BlackRock in a better position. Also, DEI is right handy as a weapon for working one’s way up (or defending) a corporate ladder.
fish: “….progressives are the Fascists!”
Merger of corporate and government interest seems to be a thing that goes in and out of style, although I think it doesn’t give the Fascists enough credit. These crazy belief systems that make an appearance, rabble+elite, usually differ enough that they need their own names I think. That’s the value of ‘Woke’ since historical analogies break down if you push them hard enough. Any memorable phrase or word is good enough as long as everyone knows what you mean.
I doubt European Fascism thought of itself as mentally ill men-in-dresses, unlimited immigration, growth of a welfare state with a devolving underclass, racial spoils system. Maybe you could dress a university Equity Officer in a snappy uniform with riding boots and make it work though.
At the end of the day, there’s some chance that DEI is a mechanism for the destruction of Western Civilization, but leaves the infrastructure intact, a kind of neutron bomb. What is left might be somewhat less efficient, but the people in the driver’s seat have a greater degree of control and percent of ownership at the end of the day. I think there’s a logic to the management of mass movements that isn’t immediately obvious, but self-interest plays a huge role.
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FISH STICKS FOR MY NEW FROZEN ALUMINUM DINNER WITH NEW TV TRAY IN FRONT OF MY NEW RCA COLOR TV SET:
FISHMONDO: I am coming up for air from the bowels of the Swap Gas to say I ain’t dead yet, still among the vertical, and fighting the good fight. Just in a different venue for the good fight right now. Got bigger fish to fry before I GET FRIED. Dog eat dog, yum yum.
Did you know if you walk (or are wheeled or crawl) into the local hospital through the ER entrance and past all the sick and suffering humans in waiting and across the hall from the cafeteria there is a wall with a door entering the imaging center(?) graced by a NICE BRASS plaque dedicated to George and JoAnne Rebane. Or was that JoAnne and George Rebane. Probably JoAnne behind it all, lol.
Our leader and creator of this site is indeed a true community asset, unlike the boastful community assets.
I have learned through time and especially now that the measure of a great man as opposed to the measure of a good man or famous man or bad man is the character of humility one possesses. Humility and gentleness of spirit such as Dr. Rebane possesses is what separate great men from the rest of the pack.
And to think how shabbily the self appointed community non-asserts treat such a man as Dr. Rebane is what separates the true men from the faux community assets.
Yes, it was pleasing to the eye and refreshed me weary heart to come across that plague. BTW, the expression ‘warms the cockles of me weary hearth’ comes from Old English, predating the Irish languages all the uninformed run to to seek the quote from old Irish to correct moi.
But, not a hill worth fighting over this fine fine fine fine splendid morning here in God’s country. They have the right to be wrong as many times a day they choose and I retain the right not to correct them. All is well with my soul in good fight.
And to think that KVMR was petitioned to have Dr. Rebane removed from his 5 minutes a week on KVMR tells me everything I need to know about great men and the wannabes. The separation is humility, gentleness, and in Dr. Rebane case, long suffering with others. The patience of Job. A very rare character trait that leaves the rest of the pack behind.
Later my friend, fish. I’ll leave my swamp gas breath at the other good fight venue where it belongs. Thanks for the worry about my sabbatical. Nice to feel the love from you and Gregory. Warms the cockels of me weary hearth.
Anybody know what day of the week this is? Just asking for a friend….
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Merger of corporate and government interest seems to be a thing that goes in and out of style, although I think it doesn’t give the Fascists enough credit. These crazy belief systems that make an appearance, rabble+elite, usually differ enough that they need their own names I think. That’s the value of ‘Woke’ since historical analogies break down if you push them hard enough. Any memorable phrase or word is good enough as long as everyone knows what you mean.
At present the mendacious and doddering feeb who serves as figurehead to progressivism in the US has united behind him the whole of government and the collective might of the largest and most influential American and….many foreign businesses. No matter how hard you “push” it, this is textbook Fascism.
It is interesting that the collective cognoscenti on the left just refuses see it (well they probably see it but clearly refuse to admit it).
Can’t wait to see psul strutting around in Jodhpur’s while rocking Hugo Boss…..pony tail jutting out the back….while demonstrating his goose step for anyone who will buy him a cocktail!
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re: fish@7:13AM
While it’s just quibbling about a word, I can’t believe that ‘Fascism’ includes pathological altruism. Even a gentle reading of the literature shows a difference between the term and what we are seeing now.
Generally, I’d say that ‘Fascism’ is mostly used as a pejorative anymore in order to link the target with the Nazis. A lot of peoples’ political analysis consists of Six Degrees to Hitler (h/t to Kevin Bacon), whether it’s appending ‘denier’ to a thing, comparing any discussion about a Jewish person to the Holocaust, equating Trump to Hitler because he’s a once-in-a-lifetime retail politician, noticing that an avenue of Pride Flags looks remarkably like a Nuremberg Rally. I fall into it myself, but it’s intellectually lazy.
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“Larry Fink might be redesigning everyday life in a way that leaves BlackRock in a better position.”
…Leaves Larry Fink in a better position!
The roar of the grease paint, the smell of the crowd. Don’t ever, ever forget that unrelenting tug of “look at me, I’m God!” that drives a certain sort of human along like an uncaring man whips along his rented mule.
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fishman 713a
The Jacobin are the Fascists but are unlikely to recognize this anytime soon, if ever. They were always the ‘bad guys’ of the French Revolution.
mr toes 710a
It’s so good to greet this morning with a note from you. Been wondering.
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Forgot… it’s Woden’s Day today, tomorrow belongs to Thor.
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BillT 710am – It is great to hear from you Mr Tozer, and thank you for those kind words. I hope that you continue staying very involved in managing your treatment regimen. After many years of experience with the medical industry, especially as it relates to patient care, I have confirmed that there is less to clinical practice than meets the eye. Your insights and opinions are critical input to your clinician.
The Rebane family is praying for you.
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“Got bigger fish to fry before I GET FRIED. Dog eat dog, yum yum.”
“A dog makes for a fine meal”, from The Patriot, uttered by a caricature of Francis Marion, in real life known as The Swamp Fox, sometimes as the father of modern guerrilla warfare.
I remember when in Elementary School, a patriotic Disney treatment of The Swamp Fox aired, starring Leslie Nielsen as Marion. Imagine that of the current Woke brigade at Disney.
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