those darned kids
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Are you in an abusive relationship with reality? Look for these signs:
1. You walk on eggshells to avoid disappointing the taxman, the bank, the mirror.
2. Reality uses facts and figures to maintain the upper hand in the relationship.
3. Reality requires constant check-ins and wants to know where you are, what you had for breakfast, and who really shot j.r..
4. Reality says hurtful things about you disguised as “reality”.
5. You find yourself ignoring the obvious even when you know you are completely wrong.
6. Reality hides secrets from you, but won’t allow the opposite.
7. Reality refuses to give you trophies for 19th place and insists gravity is real.
8. Reality withholds affection, sex or money to punish you.
9. You’ve lost all desire for logic and reason.
10. You feel sorry for yourself, and reality rubs it in.
11. Reality is always changing plans in order to let you know who’s boss.polder: yesterday, the hairstyle-in-chief of canada announced “sweeping new” crap. he’s gonna call an election on it. what a dweeb.
So that’s life, then: things as they are?
It picks its way on the blue guitar.A million people on one string?
And all their manner in the thing,And all their manner, right and wrong,
And all their manner, weak and strong?The feelings crazily, craftily call,
Like a buzzing of flies in autumn air,And that’s life, then: things as they are,
This buzzing of the blue guitar.~wallace stevens (who insisted the painting had nothing to do with it, but no one believes him!), 1937
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and, of course, michael tippett’s sonata for guitar (1984), “the blue guitar”, which you can find on the you tube.
[insert uninsertable link to norbert kraft’s performance (with score!)]haha, music is not a competition. i was just jesting with the poker analogy. i mean, if you wanna get paid by the note, listen to earl scruggs (r.i.p., sir) play “shuckin’ the corn”. or try “trinkle tinkle” by thelonious monk, the coltrane version with the sheets of sound.
so tucker starts his thing great. afghanistan is a mess. we are idiots. then to prove it, ¿¡eric prince!? oops, bad, bad choice.
anyhoo, he gets this guy, pedro gonzalez, to talk about race. “uniparty”, “imperial”, “power and control”, “fuel the growth of a corrupt political order”, “ruling class”, “psychotic”, “neoliberal”, “fundamentally dehumanizing” on fox frikkin’ news. listen to the dude. i know nothing of him except this, but the dude crushes it.
bill7: i’ll take your luis de milán and raise you francis poulenc’s sarabande (1960) performed by narciso yepes (i like the slower 1977 version). so very, very simple, modern yet timeless. go to the youtube to treat the ear.
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fair enough..
pun[ishment] intended.
still, i’ll give it a try next time. i’ve got my mojo bag and toes crossed, too.
any port in a
clichéstorm.dear [insert name of loathsome right wing politician of your choice]:
for years i have watched you install fracking wells in pristine wilderness and next to nursery schools,
for years i have watched you deceive the naïve, telling them you’d end abortion,
for years i have watched you destroy unions and off-shore their jobs,
for years i have watched you divert the people’s money into totally unnecessary military madness,
for years i have watched you be a total dink.but now, even after all that, i will vote for you. to be honest, in the last election i put smiley faces in the little circles because it just seems like a silly charade. before then, i voted green or marxist or further back for centreleft. but now, i will vote for you, loathsome right wing politician, because in our new upside down world, it seems like you, loathsome right wing politician, have become the only voice of reason that still cares about freedom.
without freedom, i can’t prove to you how wrong you have been all these years. so, thanks again, loathsome right wing politician, for all your hard work of late. i’ll see you at the polls.
and i sincerely hope the msm explanation is completely correct, and that vaccines will end this insanity.
i mean, saddam did have wmd. he just used ’em up in the 80’s before america came back for the deposit.
dr. d: “And yes, what’s with the ad hominem? I’m sure he would take the vaccine,”
are you addressing me? i only ask because it seems to me that a lot of the insistence, the tone seems to brought about by fear. fear of a mistake, perhaps? i felt kinda icky asking, as i’ve never asked anyone, but i’ve asked other questions i felt were pertinent and have been completely ignored.
my questions haven’t been about receptors or studies or data or misdisinformation – they’ve been about lived experience. i ask those because from my (purely anecdotal, of course) experience, the dangers of these vaccines seem to greatly outweigh the dangers of this virus (for example, i have seen 4 people sent to the hospital because of vaccines, whilst knowing of only one because of the virus).
scientifically, anecdotes mean little. nonetheless, i find it very hard to advocate for something i see causing so much torment. i have asked the questions i chose to see if deflationista had experienced anything similar, for it just seems too impossible to ignore so much pain.
if i have offended anyone, i apologize quite sincerely. my questions may have gotten more “intense” because i’ve been ignored. i guess i should post more stats…
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[so, my post #83637 is etherville. as is post #83639, so another try. now post 83640 didn’t work, either. i’ll try the “link” button…. ok, so that didn’t work for post #83641. raw link? nope, post 83642 didn’t show up. nor did post #83642 with no link attempt whatsoever.]
deflationista: do you believe in these injections enough to take them? is your money where your arm is?
m.c.: unfortunately, we are being manipulated into hating each other, where everyone sees everyone else as a threat, as the enemy, an enemy who is always hiding something from us, be it injection status, racial bias, left/right political heresies..
deflationista: are you vaccinated? i’ve never asked anybody that question, but i’m asking you now. i think you can surmise as to why.
vietnamvet: “the Chinese Wuhan mRNA coronavirus”. a more apt name is perhaps “the university of north carolina, national institute of health, fauci’s little wonder, wuhan rental labs chinese coronavirus with who sauce”.
absolute galore: when i say i hope “they” are right, i refer to those who believe and promulgate “normalthink”, that the vaccines will work and save lives, not this wacky nonsense i believe.
i really, really, really hope mr. vanden bossche is completely wrong. regardless, to normalthinkers, he is just another misdisinformationer who should be removed from youtube.
thanks, upstate. i was just looking at the script for “invasion of the body snatchers” for ideas, and it seems it doesn’t really need any modifications to fit our present circumstances.
oh, how i long for the days when “full house” and “fresh prince” were reality.
upstate: it was gonna be my own creation. i bet madamski could find a real one!
m.c.: right on that one. he would probably own greece by now.oh, germ..
i thought of posting a “night of the living
deadcovidians” parody where the zombies walk about pleading for “vaaaacciiines, VAAAAAccciiIIIINEEESSS”, but i thought i should not because so many i need, respect and love have taken this route.i sincerely hope we are wrong, and they are right.
to me, for profit medicine is about as moral as for profit firefighting.
obviously people need to be compensated for time, skill and danger, but…
i actually think deflate is having second thoughts about getting injected twice, and these squattings we have been receiving are just attempts at self-reassurance.
germ: i guessed cbd would be good for my wife when she had the thing. it worked well for the pains and stiffness, and allowed for some real sleep (in the sunshine!). great to see it has anti-viral properties. she has continued to take it, and i’ll show her those studies. she’s a scientist. every city park should have fields of cannatonic [insert link explaining cannatonic, a high cbd form of hemp] planted in them.
it looks like the palestine cases/deaths are an echo of the israeli situation, lagging by 3 or 4 months.
i guess we’ll see in ¿october? whether this is happening.
i sure hope the fears about ade result in nothing. i know of so many…
susmarie: this is awesome: “The evolution of BMI values of US adults: 1882-1986
John Komlos, Marek Brabec 31 August 2010”. the gremlins in this machine refuse to allow my posting of links, so just search ‘er up.from the above:
CONCLUSION
The lifestyle changes of the 20th century affected the four groups under study somewhat differently. Identifying the deep causes of the long-run trends is outside of the scope of this study, but the “creeping” nature of the epidemic, as well as its persistence, does suggest that its roots are embedded deep in the social fabric and are nourished by a network of disparate slowly changing sources as the 20th-century US population responded to a vast array of irresistible and impersonal socio-economic and technological forces.The most obviously persistent among these were:
•the major labour-saving technological changes of the 20th century,
•the industrial processing of food and with it the spread of fast-food eateries (To illustrate the spread of fast food culture, consider that White Castle, the first drive-in restaurant, was founded in 1921. McDonald started operation in the late 1940s, Kentucky Fried Chicken in 1952, Burger King in 1954, Pizza Hut in 1958, Taco Bell in 1962, and Subway in 1962.),
•the associated culture of consumption,
•the rise of an automobile-based way of life,
•the introduction of radio and television broadcasting,
•the increasing participation of women in the work force, and
•the IT revolution.These elements – taken together – virtually defined American society in the 20th century
good, too: “The Average Weight of Men and Women Since the 1970’s
Hristina Byrnes”••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••
it seems the destruction of western health began, like so many of our present day ills, before mr. nixon dropped the puck. the fiat system, has allowed for the acceleration of most of these processes, in this case the consolidation of america’s farms into a giant pop-tart plantation.
yum.
Washington (APE) August 12, 2021: Today officials from the Federal Infrastructure, Security and Slush Initiative (FISSI), created under the Biden Administration’s Bribe Back Better to Rebuild America Plan (BBBRAP), announced a major initiative to restore America’s roads, bridges, tunnels and airports.
Government agencies, working together in privblic partnership with drug maker Pfizer Inc., Halliburton Road Systems, and Raytheon Death Stuff, will begin injecting the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine into the decaying concrete and cement that comprises much of America’s crumbling vital infrastructure.
“We feel the clotting properties of this injection, coupled with the free market spirit of American Cronyism, will protect, strengthen, and reinvigorate our roadwork, keeping Americans safe and ready to fight wars for generations to come”, remarked President Biden’s stunt double.
actually, people don’t live that much longer. back in the day, infant mortality was so high that average life expectancy was very low. if you made it past ten, you’d probably have a long life (watch out for accidents, though!).
this same phenomenon can be seen today in the few hunter/gatherer societies left on the orb.
deflationista: it seems you believe certain things about our current “situation”, and most of these things seem to be in line with what our governments have been telling us.
do you believe what our governments tell us about foreign policy? yes/no why/why not?
do you believe what our governments tell us about environmental policy? yes/no why/why not?
do you believe what our governments tell us about military policy? yes/no why/why not?
do you believe what our governments tell us about infrastructure policy? yes/no why/why not?
do you believe what our governments tell us about monetary policy? yes/no why/why not?just curious..
Let’s stop pretending all these other countries are somehow innocent babes being taken advantage of.
indeed, and if i may:
let’s stop pretending the idea of countries means anything to the owner of a private jet.
the hook of fear*
the hook of fear
snags passerby,
the unaware and wise alike.the hook of fear
gores the writhing catch,
leaving entrails on the oily deck.the hook of fear
lances soles and pierces souls,
turning the once strong into lame.the hook of fear
traps in barbs of lies, our lives,
our loves, our wit, our will.*i can’t remember who used this expression the other day..
smells like dr.Qanon for smarties..
i bet there are similar characters on other similar blogs as well (if this is gchq style manipulation).
influencers for the influentialitos, the moyenne burgercheese, the bourgeoieasy of our time. they, having been properly inFluenced, in turn push the proleplorables to act the right way.
nc links for today comment-3587201
i can’t post a link, ever. not broken up, not complete. nothing.
for example:
the auto ma tice art h.c om [if this goes through, i’ll be surprised]
indeed, mr. r.
you’ll see our present climate mayhem really shifted gears in the early 70s. hmmm…
also, check the hockey stick thing (are we still allowed to mention that?). you’ll see the bend in the blade starts almost to the day nixon dropped the puck.
doctor d!!! thanks and thanks. no one, i repeat no one, has ever listened to my idea about gold linking money to the earth, and thus, limiting our destructive capabilities relative to fiat. all they ever do is hear the word “gold”, and off they go into whatever it is they already believed.
one thing about gold: because people believe it’s actually worth something and has such a long history as a form of money, it makes a good starting place to recouple our desires (i.e. greed) with the carrying capacities of this dear planet. i do, however, believe there must be a better way to anchor our money back to the earth.
thanks again!
i found an interesting article at global research, but i can post no links or, now it seems, quotes.
basically it says there doesn’t exist enough land for carbon offsets to actually get to net zero.
recall that schrödinger’s chicken tells us the chicken may be both to AND fro, i.e. simultaneously on both sides of the road, all depending on whether the random falling boulder has caused the coyote to release the bird seed on the near or far side of the road. as the observer can only can only watch until the end of the cartoon, the outcome is void where prohibited.
