kultsommer
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Quick, of-the-hip remark is not always the smartest.
Family of Saltimbanques 1905 = Clown world.
That’s not what the painting depicts. Quite the opposite.
Good for you jb-hb and no fight at all. I may be mistaken, it appears that you were in frequent conflict with the management at your work place while confined in a cubicle as a regular employee. Thus my remark. Why not run for managerial position in the first place?
While I understand your frustration, you just wrote of almost “picking up the fight” at the job interview? Who does that?jb-hb – why I have an occurring thought that your coworkers must have had a special nick name behind your back – aka “Shhhh, watch-and-learn is coming!” ?
In the early 90’s during the crumbling of Eastern block countries there was that “rock musician”, a prominent figure of dissent in Hungary at that time, who claimed that communism was preventing him to reach a deserved musical recognition.
Well…..it’s been over 30 years?………Me nether.
Small snippet about the “isms”.Over half the value of UConn football is generated personally by its coach!!!!!
The funds are, then, funneled to bolster Marxist ideology that permeates the learning institutions?
Just a fly-by question.I personally think that universities are there to provide a new generation of educated talent to keep the country afloat and
competitive. Not to make a sport coach rich. University is not a sport arena! Where are the professors and assistants in that picture of misplaced values and general “idea of worth”.In the news:
Coming off back-to-back national championships, (FYI state) UConn men’s head basketball coach Dan Hurley has a new $50 million contract that will keep him in Storrs through the 2029-30 season.
All springs from the thought, almost by default: “If they offered it to me, I would take it”. Then you get angry reading the news like this
Doesn’t it feel strange that our owners are briefly letting us stop pretending, after years of pretending?
Safety valve.
More of beloved “other people’s money” iron lady.
Other people’s money, just a different kind – indeedI been chewed out before.
Scene,if I am not mistaken, from “Inglorious bastards” – essentially rendering of a Jewish wet dream as what they would have loved to do to the Germans for all the humiliation, torture and killings they endured from them.
“Don’t visit Russia” clip above.
Just short five or six years ago display of such positive enthusiasm for any country on commenting sites earned you pile if down-votes, you were booed or, better yet, ignored.Art of Being Eternally Shocked”
What McAfee talks in that video above, Carlin was preaching decades ago but was treated as a stand-up joke since life was good. Only now that we are starring into the dark abyss.Big part of MAGA “philosophy”and Trump stated it, that US needs a military that Russia, or anybody else in the world, would respect and bow to. We all know what does it mean and Eisenhower warned about.
By Dionisio:
……..finally, they caused the ignition and, today, like a painter, in the perspective and security that only distance can provide, they enjoy their destructive work.
I admire the visual of that quote.
Absolutely brilliant work by the “machine” to hypnotize their own population and entire world for decades in a row that the US is the “force of god “while, yes, they had to “break a few eggs here and there when necessary”. War in Ukraine created a first serious cracks in that spell.Similarly, Israel will never have their “day before” (October 6th) back again.
Uncle Sam as a “Thinking man” at the top above.
Some in here should be made to write that text below 100 times on the chalkboard with the slim hope that the message will get through their head.EoinW
You need to go back to the 1950s, to Norman Rockwell’s America. That’s how you save the country!
Prosperity of postwar US is the proof that elite and power brokers can let you live well if they want to, although I think that circumstances of that era can not be repeated for various reasons.
Woketardistan is now the order of the day. FINE
For the “That’s a turkey” guy – response #1: “Of course, that’s what lefty commie is.”
But for the “Lia Thomas is the woman” – response #2: “No fucking way!”Bit selective, aren’t we?
Speaking of Left would Jimmy Dore, a rare voice of reason out there but bit too “Left” for my taste, have said “That’s a turkey”?
Just this week by the NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg:
The increase has also been a boon for U.S. businesses, he noted. “Much of this extra money is spent here in the United States,” he said. Over the last two years, more than two-thirds of European defense acquisitions—over $140 billion worth of contracts—have been made with U.S. firms. “NATO is good for U.S. security, good for U.S. industry, and good for U.S. jobs,” he said.
One can argue until face turns blue to no avail.
hb-jb and Dr D
With your ramblings that socialism has a heavy foothold here in the US, you may convince some poor slob that medical care and schooling at any level is free, apartment, albeit small is available for all – aka no tents on the sidewalk.
But you are talking about different type of socialism full of rainbow flags and woke characters mulling around that Marx was profusely writing about over 170 years ago. Right?
Kim Yong, by now, should be a guest of honor here instead being courted by the Russians. BTW how do you process that fact in you indoctrinated heads? Just as Elon had said about himself, it must be fun to be you.Now tell me some more about your PhD chemistry (so on topic) friend and…..ah,, yes, bamboo sticks in a pit as an answer.
Well, I ruffled some feathers today
hb-jb: Incoherent, triple post ramble without saying anything.
kultsommer: concise, up to the point short bursts that should be easy to dispute or, God forbid, agree with.From John’s post above:
I am into the part where Veblen is discussing the natural progression of effective industrial capitalism into chronic depression/recession, which the US had just experienced for over 30 years at the time of his writing. John D. Rockefeller said “competition is a sin”, and I now comprehend where he was coming from to say that openly and in public.
jb-hb and DR D:
“Whoo, wha, what??? Capitalism is the system where bla, bla bla….socialism is the system where bla, bla, bla…”
In amazement I observe how phoenix, while, I think, tentatively agrees with me, carefully avoids to acknowledge my posts in which I initiate this type of discussion to which she jumps right after – aka safe not to touch the “third rail”.
@jb-hb
Wikipedia definition of “isms” keep you sleep well at night?
Also keep yourself from behaving like milk – overflow. I don’t want you to have a hart attack. It’s a just fucking debate on the site where “different opinion is welcomed”. (Me:give me a fucking brake!)Dr D
Kultsommer, last I heard Military Outlets sold to GOVERNMENTS, wherein there is essentially NO competition.
Dear Dr, when you’ll figure out that a primary and stated function of corporation is a maximum profit making that their shareholders are holding them to? Gov-contracts offer the highest return on “investment”.so that’s where they go.
Just as for the jb-hb above you keep peddling the theoretical definitions of the system that does not exist in reality.
Do you remember the “bellowed quote” about the failure of communism? “That it was not actually put in practice”. An exactly thing that I recognize in ramblings of two of you.It’s great to be, for awhile, away from the commenting. It’s good for the soul and some of you should try it too.
MIC – all capitalist private enterprises – bringing the world to brink of WWIII and, yet, all the jb-hb sees are the red communist flags and Marxist slogans. Growing in parochial country, despite your thinking otherwise, has it’s consequences. Seek help dude! And you too Dr D.Morgan Freeman was absolutely brilliant in the “Shawshank Redemption”. Scene where he retrieved the box under the oak tree is a two minute masterpiece of depicting the body language of someone not trusting anybody. His, or anybody else’s for that matter, obsession with “greatness” of Elon, who is putting his formidable mind in all wrong places, is beyond me.
maybe consider, Međugorska Gospa
Americans butcher that word, so the ear hurts listening to them trying to pronounce it, but are capable to argue to death with the people of Medjugorje as how they should conduct their daily affairs.
Me (me) dju (as Julie) gor (gor) je (yes))
Kevin O’Leary – an epitome of a D-bag living large.
When in hotel, for me the “Shark tank” would be the choice when the TV is on. People with even the most lame invention were more lively to me than “panel” of moneyed assholes who were making the process as a soft version of “longest dance contest” during the Depression era, being forced to go through insulting loops in order to promote the product.I think that four years of JFK J’s voice would drive me nuts, while it would not be, at all, about the sound of his voice.
Similarly, I am pretty close to that with Trump’s rearranging of a few dozen words that he’s got in his library.Time to raise banana flag indeed.
Art today
Dora just realized that another woman in rascal’s life is not going away.
Her face is disintegrating in utter anguish, and soon to expand into last remnants of her dignity – carefully combed hair and the fancy hat. I newer knew that eyes rendered “like that” can express state of emotion so powerfully.Oh, and one more thing
Why have I read about Communists/Marxists working on infiltrating and guiding labor groups into communist lines of thinking?
Coming from one constantly whining how he felt unappreciated and, I suspect, exploited at his work. Pure Marx. His message is that “job creator” is not your friend. One that is, as I pointed earlier, “drives the same car as you do” and is considered a colossal looser as defined by the “system”.
Marxists wait standing right at the finish line for the people who have done the work to hand them the baton.
Now, have you read my comment way above re “International brigades” in Spanish civil war and who organized independent resistance to Nazi occupation in WWII?
Who was killed in the battles, by the millions, defending Soviet Union against German occupation. As a matter of fact, do you quietly chuckle in joy knowing that so many of “them” were disappeared?
That looks like waiting at the end of the line to you?
Now…… I am talking about the people with mind set and world view understanding of eighty years ago.
Just like mind set of a GI who landed in Normandy is not the same of GI in Afghanistan or Syria. To help you out, you know.Communism/socialism.
Failed experiments.
But why the elite so so still afraid of it?
Because, even failed idea is still an idea – idea, in simplest term, that handful of people can not own everything.
And that is what that handful wants to eradicate. Forever.
Workers willingly “forgot” the heroes of the past who gifted them 8 hour work day and free weekend. Because to remember them was too “hammer and sickle” for their refined souls while there is a possibility that “a $million” is waiting for each of them just around the corner.
So… no effort for the elite to “help even further”. Thus corrupted unions allowed and for mostly government workers with exuberant salaries compared to private sector. Envy and divide.
Economical success of the post war American capitalism led easily to lot of “free and idle time” for many of young of that era. Disguised as “freedom” it was really lifestyle of laziness and immature ideas, hastily based on Marx (movie “Zabriskie point” comes to mind), which all came as a god given to elite’s effort to declare: “See, that’s your fucking Marx!”, while in reality it was: “Keep your hands of my loot!”
That “freedom” in passing years transformed itself into all kinds “movements” each one outdoing the other in idiocy and stupidity, but again god given to be labeled as “Left” just because some idiots wear the T-shirts with Che, hammer and sickle or Red Star image. Even if we agree, OK, that may be the real new Left , message created was clear, for those who want to look between the lines: “Do not question that country is turning into oligarchy and that you’re being robbed blind, unless you want those lunatics in our place”.
Notice how in South America, some botched form of socialism and nationalization is put in place as the only way to keep the greedy hands from the North to loot the country’s resources. Those countries are endlessly vilified in the media and had a willing recipients in gen pop of the USA. Talking about indoctrination!And, that is the story behind “Marx”.
Yemen to send soldiers to Gaza.
Which brings thoughts to “international brigades” in Spain’s civil war.
Almost all of them mobilized, organized and staffed by the communists.
Good number of them were the sons from wealthy families of the region. Youth that went to Vienna to study, just to return home with “new ideas” aside from the degree in chosen field. They left comfortable life of luxury, great careers and exchange that for the smell of gun smoke on barricaded streets.
Few years later hose who survived were, almost exclusively, organizers of independent resistance movements against the Nazis.
But hurt? Of course you are.
Bear in mind that over eight decades ago an idea of communism/socialism was a view on Marxism as a real antidote to brutal world that Sharpie lived in (visit the site that TAE introduced me to and check on the “kid”), C. Dickens written about in his fiction stories and Marx expressed through scientific method and charts. Some of the charts show a “family income” contributions from parents down to the six years old child. Later offered great and correct criticism of the brutal system but, alas, could not offer the solution that nobody could.
I have written before, the Left, real Left, fought in those turbulent times so you can today sit on your comfortable chair and write shit about them. In return the elite obliged to your wishes engineered and served you the “Left” of your imagination that you apparently love – you know, LGB…degenerates, antifa and what-nots.@JSR
Croatians that live at coastal part of the country won a jack-pot after the establishment as independent country. Tourism and skyrocketing property values makes that part of the land as true western Europe that they joined. Inland, with the exception of the capital Zagreb, not so much where living lingers on borderline despair.…re. olive oil; evoo can indeed be used to saute/brown onions and other veggies…
Absolutely true.
Not sure how are you confident if the oil that you purchase/use where you live is true evoo. I was to write a long story, but “Food industry commercials” X-clip above came to my rescue. Sense of regret is a daily feature in shopping, knowing that what one gets is not the real thing despite paying the high price for it. According to Dr D, not to worry, Invisible hand of market lends its justice to cheaters. After all there is FDA to protect us!
Small trivia:
Novak Djokovic exclusively purchase his olive oil from the producer on Croatian island Brach (h added to help the proximate pronunciation). The type of oil similar or the same that I remember as real evoo.Jimmy Dore’s sad fatherly eyes just by listening to this lunatic, who would not stop talking BTW, –priceless.
@WES and others interested.
The processing of vegetable oil in commercial applications is commonly done by chemical extraction, using solvent extracts, which produces higher yields and is quicker and less expensive. The most common solvent is petroleum-derived hexane.
As JSR pointed out, olive oil is cold pressed and that’s it. Unrefined coconut.oil too and is solid at the room temperature. Avocado oil is extracted under slightly higher temperature but is still considered cold pressed.
Lard and real butter are also good for cooking.
Avoid oils featured above and “I can’t believe it’s a butter”.
