The problem some of you had yesterday accessing the blog and the comments has been fixed – hopefully, for good.
Open thread 5/8/24
Next post: Open thread 5/10/24
Previous post: Open thread 5/6/24
The problem some of you had yesterday accessing the blog and the comments has been fixed – hopefully, for good.
Next post: Open thread 5/10/24
Previous post: Open thread 5/6/24
Mailing Address for the Blue Planet
Your Say
My Back Pages
Search American Digest’s Back Pages
Real World Address for Donations, Mash Notes and Hate Mail
Who Am I? by Carl Sandburg
My head knocks against the stars.
My feet are on the hilltops.
My finger-tips are in the valleys and shores of
universal life.
Down in the sounding foam of primal things I
reach my hands and play with pebbles of
destiny.
I have been to hell and back many times.
I know all about heaven, for I have talked with God.
I dabble in the blood and guts of the terrible.
I know the passionate seizure of beauty
And the marvelous rebellion of man at all signs
reading “Keep Off.”
My name is Truth and I am the most elusive captive
in the universe.
Duty, Beauty, Liberty, Country, Honor, Family, Faith — Plus a few simple easy to follow rules for guys
The Vault
Take It Where You Find It
Men saw the stars at the edge of the sea
They thought great thoughts about liberty
Poets wrote down words that did fit
Writers wrote books
Thinkers thought about it
Take it where you find it
Can’t leave it alone
You will find a purpose
To carry it on
Mainly when you find it
Your heart will be strong
About it
Many’s the road I have walked upon
Many’s the hour between dusk and dawn
Many’s the time
Many’s the mile
I see it all now
Through the eyes of a child
Take it where you find it
Can’t leave it alone
You will find a purpose
To carry it on
Mainly when you find it
Your heart will be strong
About it
[Chorus]
Lost dreams and found dreams
In America
In America
In America
Lost dreams and found dreams
In America
In America
In America
And close your eyes
Leave it all for a while
Leave the world
And your worries behind
You will build on whatever is real
And wake up each day
To a new waking dream
Take it where you find it
Can’t leave it alone
You will find a purpose
To carry it on
Mainly when you find it
Your heart will be strong
About it
[Chorus]
Change, change come over
Change come over
Talkin’ about a change
Change, change
Change come over, now
Change, change, change come over
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I see my light
See my light
See my shining light
I see my light
See my light
See my shining light
Comments on this entry are closed.
Joseph Biden’s America is a crime and disease ridden catastrophe, imported by him and his democrats at the expense of law-abiding, hard-working American citizens.
It is a landscape of unvetted, unvaccinated filthy beggars imported from the most fetid shit holes on earth.
It is miles of urban streets littered with tents and needles and human waste, a landscape of violence and mayhem and sex trafficking.
How a single rational American could vote for more of this madness is inconceivable.
Signed, James Woods
@RealJamesWoods
https://coldfury.com/WRSA/WRSA-WP/
It’s never ending for these assholes….
==========================
…until someone ends it for them.
Why are LGBTQ+ people more at risk from climate change?
LONDON – A new study has highlighted the extent to which LGBTQ+ people can be uniquely affected by climate change, underlining the particular and underreported vulnerabilities of a community that also often suffers from poverty and discrimination.
The report by the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law found that same-sex couples in the United States run a greater risk of being negatively affected by climate change than their heterosexual peers.
Same-sex couples are more likely to live in areas with poor infrastructure and less access to resources, the study said, noting that same-sex couples were also disproportionately located in coastal areas and cities.
The research builds on previous limited data and comes as LGBTQ+ activists around the world urge authorities to include the community in discussions around environmental policies.
Around 3.6 billion people live in areas susceptible to climate change, according to the World Health Organization.
Here’s what you need to know about the specific vulnerabilities of the LGBTQ+ community.
Why are LGBTQ+ people more at risk from climate change?
Multiple studies have shown that climate change exacerbates existing societal inequalities and disproportionately affects marginalised communities, although specific research into the impact on LGBTQ+ lives is limited.
Globally, LGBTQ+ people, who already face legal and societal discrimination in some countries, are at greater risk of being homeless or in poverty, which can make them particularly vulnerable during natural disasters.
In the United States, former discriminatory housing and loan policies pushed LGBTQ+ communities into more under-resourced areas, which lack the infrastructure to deal with high temperatures or flooding, the Williams Institute report said.
It’s a pattern repeated elsewhere.
In Jamaica, LGBTQ+ people face significant discrimination in the housing sector, and homeless LGBTQ+ youths have been known to make their homes in gullies, a report by Equality for All Foundation (EFAF) found in 2021.
LGBTQ+ people have also faced barriers in accessing disaster relief. Activists in the Pacific island of Tonga, which is facing more frequent cyclones, told how emergency shelters are mostly run by religious organisations, whose members might be hostile towards sexual and gender minorities.
In Haiti, after the 2010 earthquake, gay and bisexual men tried to adopt “a more masculine demeanour” to avoid harassment in displacement camps and were turned away from emergency housing and food programmes, said a report by the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission and Foundation and SEROvie, an HIV NGO.
When Hurricane Katrina hit southeastern United States in 2005 – before marriage equality was introduced in all states in 2015 – there were reports of LGBTQ+ couples being separated and struggling to apply for aid as relief efforts did not recognise same-sex households as families.
In some countries, trans communities also struggle to access aid relief as they often don’t have legal documentation, due to leaving home at a young age.
https://www.context.news/climate-risks/why-are-lgbtq-people-more-at-risk-from-climate-change
“Sometimes I wonder if the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.”
Mark Twain
“In friendship false, implacable in hate
Resolved to ruin or to rule the state.”
John Dryden, ‘Absalom and Achitophel’ -1681
https://www.bartleby.com/lit-hub/the-poems-of-john-dryden/105627/
I recommend a complete read.
The same old shit as ever has been.
Another sample:
“Some Truth there was, but dashed and brew’d with Lies;
To please the Fools, and puzzle all the Wise.
Succeeding Times did equal Folly call
Believing nothing or believing all
The Egyptian Rites the Jebusites embrac’d,
Where Gods were recommended by their taste.”
More Dryden:
“Let those find fault whose wit’s so very small,
They’ve need to show that they can think at all;
Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow;
He who would search for pearls, must dive below.”- All For Love
Last time I looked it was obvious that “They really mean it”.
You Don’t Say?
===========
Much more at the link at the bottom.
Men and women are radically different. This is what makes for the specially potent attraction but also what makes communication and successful pairing very difficult.
Paradoxically, in other words, the Sexual Revolution left behind at least two (are we at three now?) generations of women who have experienced long bouts of sexual loneliness. Teenaged girls grew up knowing nothing about normal female sexual response and felt shame when they did not feel compelled to act like their male cohorts, when they found, for instance, hook up culture so deeply unsatisfying.
Ask the experts (if you can’t just ask your grandmother) solid female arousal depends on time. It’s actually hard-wired. An investment of time is a sign that a man might invest time when it’s needed most, during the years of pregnancy and child-raising. So women get turned on by someone who has gone to the trouble of trying to seduce them, but the elements of seduction, which starts with glances, casual, but usually complimentary, comments, and casual touches, have been driven out of the public sphere by sexual harassment regulations. In the modern workplace, at a college, even glances can be dangerous.
https://masha184.substack.com/p/bat-shit-crazy-broads-vs-the-rest
Soothing
=======
Reagan on the Carson Show – 1975
Money shot @ 4:40.
Guess it would have been helpful to provide the link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1aKYs82CGo&t=317s
You’ll enjoy it, I promise.