I’d grab a stout multigrain bun and cut it in half horizontally, slather both sides with mayo and the slightest sprankle of salt and peppa…
Then a handful of thinly tangled green leaf lettuce would rain down on that bottom bun…
And then a 1″+ thick, juicy slab of that red devil would go right on top…
Cap it with the other side of that bun and then…
Pour a big vat of 1/2 -n- 1/2 tay, grab that tall science experiment and head out to the open porch and find me a place in the sun…
nom a nom a nom a nom…..
The juice would be running down my arm and dripping off’n my elbow and I wouldn’t care as the dragonflies congregate around the growing puddle on the floor….
Snakepit KansasSeptember 3, 2024, 4:25 AM
Eating a sun warmed mater right off the vine.
AnonymousSeptember 2, 2024, 12:10 PM
“We are a Republican government. Real liberty is never found in despotism or in the extremes of democracy. — Alexander Hamilton
ghostsniperSeptember 2, 2024, 12:19 PM
Have you noticed how the United States is starting to look like a bus station at 2 a.m.? It’s like we’re all just one missed Greyhound away from being found face down on a plastic bench with a bag of Funyuns as a pillow. People don’t care anymore—about how they look, about how they act, about basic hygiene. We’re all just one pajama-wearing Walmart trip away from complete societal collapse.
Remember when people used to put in the effort to look good? You look at old photos of people in public from, like, the 1950s, and everyone’s dressed like they’re on their way to a job interview at NASA. The men are in suits, hats tilted just right, like they’re about to solve a mystery on a train. The women have their hair perfectly styled, lipstick on, clutching a purse like it contains the nation’s secrets. And that’s just to go grocery shopping!
Now? Oh, now we’re out here looking like we’re in the middle of a hostage negotiation with our closet. People are showing up to the airport in Crocs and pajama pants, like they’re expecting a four-hour delay at the gate and maybe an emotional support hamster to get them through it. You see a guy at the DMV wearing a tank top that says “I paused my game to be here,” and you’re like, “Yeah, I bet you did, buddy. I bet you did.”
It’s like nobody even knows what a mirror is anymore. You’ve got folks out here with hair that looks like it’s been styled by a leaf blower. And don’t get me started on the people wearing sunglasses indoors at night. What are you hiding from? The fluorescent lighting? Reality?
Let’s be honest, we’re all living in the ‘People of Walmart’ slideshow now. And it’s not just how we look; it’s how we act! People used to say “good morning” or at least grunt in your general direction. Now, you get on a bus, and it’s a collection of feral stares and people making TikToks like it’s a confessional booth at a dive bar.
It’s like the collective standard of public decorum has fallen so far that if you’re just wearing clothes that aren’t stained, you’re practically a Rockefeller. There used to be a time when people took pride in their appearance, where leaving the house in sweatpants was a cry for help, not a fashion statement. Now, wearing jeans is considered “dressed up.”
The United States in 2024: where the dress code is “Please just have something on,” and the only rule is “No shirt, no shoes, no problem.” We’re all just one Netflix binge away from showing up to work in a bathrobe and calling it “business casual.”
Anne sed: “I was thinking of city council members, or state legislators, or government administrators. The decision makers who have authority over our daily lives. Also, if any individual is harassed by tax authority, or zoning authority, or whatever authority. We should show up for the hearing.”
==========
What would be the point?
AnneSeptember 2, 2024, 1:12 PM
Just so they know. So they can see and count bodies–silent bodies watching. Heck of a lot better than what we are doing now. Numbers we need to show them the numbers in real life! So they can start to squirm just a little bit inside.
ghostsniperSeptember 2, 2024, 2:45 PM
In the other comment you mentioned filing suits. Have you priced attorneys lately? It’s not for the meek. It’s an M note just to get in the front door. I don’t have that kind of money laying around just to get on a gov’t employees radar screen.
At this stage 0f the game the only serious way to get criminal gov’t employees to “start to squirm just a little bit inside” is a stern thrashing, done privately.
Look, all adults ALREADY know that you should treat others as you would like to be treated yourself. THEY ALREADY KNOW THIS!!! So, if they ignore that knowledge and practice their behavior that is harmful to others, they do so with eyes wide open. They have ALREADY committed the crime.
The only thing left, at this point, is retribution for that criminal behavior. The justice system won’t do it for it is criminal too, so it is up to the citizenry, the wronged, to set things right. Twas ever thus.
DTSeptember 2, 2024, 3:43 PM
Vigilantes served a useful purpose. I notice those against vigilantism are those whose jobs aren’t being done that would stop the need for vigilantes. Govt can’t have competition – especially from competence (try fixing a pothole yourself).
It’s going to take violence to fix this. Whether legal or illegal violence is necessary remains to be seen (as is what constitutes “legal” anymore).
What would Judge Fenton do …?
azlibertarianSeptember 2, 2024, 4:26 PM
I have to confess that our garden this year is pathetic. We got a very late start….it wasn’t till late May that it was even properly planted. The wife insists otherwise, but I think our 4 tomato plants are volunteers from last year, and while the plants have grown, the fruit they’ve produced is very, very small and the birds get to the fruit before they even start to redden. Our soil here is surprisingly bad. This was once an orange orchard, and despite amendments and such, our little patch of the farm life doesn’t produce much. We had enough Roma tomatoes last year which allowed the wife to made a fantastic tomato soup from our garden, but no such thing this year.
Our climate is generally mild enough that we can keep a tomato plant alive for 2 years, but if these 4 plants don’t take off here in the fall, they may not make it to January.
Snakepit KansasSeptember 3, 2024, 4:39 AM
Azlib,
I am sure you already know, but I like to richen up my dirt with coffee ground, egg shells, corn cobs, grill ashes, chunks of dry wall from my new-window-adventure, etc. At the end of the year we turn over our small garden, dig a trench through the very middle and dump in a couple bags of lawn clippings and leaves, then cover it back up.
This summer one corner grew a volunteer jalapeno and it is now producing tremendous fruit. There was that one year I had the largest tomato plant ever, but never produced a tomato at all. Right now the rabbits have had their fill of green beans and we had some for dinner last night.
Keep working on the ground to improve it.
azlibertarianSeptember 3, 2024, 10:54 AM
Mmyeah, the improvements to our little garden (2 4×8 raised bed boxes) have been an ongoing thing for like 4 years now. She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed likes the idea of a completely organic garden, and I don’t disagree with that, but improving our horrible soil has been a sloooow process. We’ve got ground-up eggshells on the counter right now which are intended to end up in the garden. The dirt we’re using came from a pool dig from across the street and it’s just bad. We had a much larger raised bed garden at our previous home, and that soil was top soil that I bought and wheel-barrowed around the house and into the garden. It didn’t take much at all to get something to grow over there.
The one exception to our miserable garden is the basil plant in the herb section of the garden. We’ve got a good healthy plant and I’m going to have to strip off half the leaves and make some pesto soon.
ghostsniperSeptember 3, 2024, 11:15 AM
All home construction over the past 50 years has had basic “fill” dirt installed for the final grading, as most new homes have sod installed as opposed to seeding. So that pool dig dirt was very low quality. Your previous garden was the way to do it but it is a bunch of work, that dirt is heavy.
I tried the raised bed thing with good dirt last year and it failed miserably because of the lack of sun back here in the dense forest. Can’t get more than about 2-4 hours a day and that just isn’t enough. I wonder how much a fully installed 20′ x 20′ greenhouse would cost?
AnneSeptember 3, 2024, 10:44 PM
Dear Ghost:
Please keep me informed about greenhouses. I am also coming to believe that it will be the only solution for us. I would like something with would framing if at all practical. The other thing I have been thinking about is to first build an open building–just a shelter type thing with a glass roof. Then put a smaller greenhouse underneath that shelter. That should help with -45F temps. My problem is this: I have been to Thorncrown Chapel! 🙂 I know you will understand–sometimes you’ve just got to do something “just for pretty”!
AnneSeptember 4, 2024, 6:42 AM
Sorry. That “would” should be WOOD!!
AnonymousSeptember 4, 2024, 8:13 AM
Anne —
re Thorncrown Chapel: Anthony Chapel in Hot Springs is another good one.
AnneSeptember 4, 2024, 8:40 AM
Thank you so much! I did not know about the other chapels! We met Mr. Jones after a speaking event.
He was very unaffected–genuine.
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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.”
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They thought great thoughts about liberty
Poets wrote down words that did fit
Writers wrote books
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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
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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
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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
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Change, change come over
Change come over
Talkin’ about a change
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I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
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I see my light
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That fat red one on the bottom.
You see it.
I’d grab a stout multigrain bun and cut it in half horizontally, slather both sides with mayo and the slightest sprankle of salt and peppa…
Then a handful of thinly tangled green leaf lettuce would rain down on that bottom bun…
And then a 1″+ thick, juicy slab of that red devil would go right on top…
Cap it with the other side of that bun and then…
Pour a big vat of 1/2 -n- 1/2 tay, grab that tall science experiment and head out to the open porch and find me a place in the sun…
nom a nom a nom a nom…..
The juice would be running down my arm and dripping off’n my elbow and I wouldn’t care as the dragonflies congregate around the growing puddle on the floor….
Eating a sun warmed mater right off the vine.
“We are a Republican government. Real liberty is never found in despotism or in the extremes of democracy. — Alexander Hamilton
Have you noticed how the United States is starting to look like a bus station at 2 a.m.? It’s like we’re all just one missed Greyhound away from being found face down on a plastic bench with a bag of Funyuns as a pillow. People don’t care anymore—about how they look, about how they act, about basic hygiene. We’re all just one pajama-wearing Walmart trip away from complete societal collapse.
Remember when people used to put in the effort to look good? You look at old photos of people in public from, like, the 1950s, and everyone’s dressed like they’re on their way to a job interview at NASA. The men are in suits, hats tilted just right, like they’re about to solve a mystery on a train. The women have their hair perfectly styled, lipstick on, clutching a purse like it contains the nation’s secrets. And that’s just to go grocery shopping!
Now? Oh, now we’re out here looking like we’re in the middle of a hostage negotiation with our closet. People are showing up to the airport in Crocs and pajama pants, like they’re expecting a four-hour delay at the gate and maybe an emotional support hamster to get them through it. You see a guy at the DMV wearing a tank top that says “I paused my game to be here,” and you’re like, “Yeah, I bet you did, buddy. I bet you did.”
It’s like nobody even knows what a mirror is anymore. You’ve got folks out here with hair that looks like it’s been styled by a leaf blower. And don’t get me started on the people wearing sunglasses indoors at night. What are you hiding from? The fluorescent lighting? Reality?
Let’s be honest, we’re all living in the ‘People of Walmart’ slideshow now. And it’s not just how we look; it’s how we act! People used to say “good morning” or at least grunt in your general direction. Now, you get on a bus, and it’s a collection of feral stares and people making TikToks like it’s a confessional booth at a dive bar.
It’s like the collective standard of public decorum has fallen so far that if you’re just wearing clothes that aren’t stained, you’re practically a Rockefeller. There used to be a time when people took pride in their appearance, where leaving the house in sweatpants was a cry for help, not a fashion statement. Now, wearing jeans is considered “dressed up.”
The United States in 2024: where the dress code is “Please just have something on,” and the only rule is “No shirt, no shoes, no problem.” We’re all just one Netflix binge away from showing up to work in a bathrobe and calling it “business casual.”
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Anne sed: “I was thinking of city council members, or state legislators, or government administrators. The decision makers who have authority over our daily lives. Also, if any individual is harassed by tax authority, or zoning authority, or whatever authority. We should show up for the hearing.”
==========
What would be the point?
Just so they know. So they can see and count bodies–silent bodies watching. Heck of a lot better than what we are doing now. Numbers we need to show them the numbers in real life! So they can start to squirm just a little bit inside.
In the other comment you mentioned filing suits. Have you priced attorneys lately? It’s not for the meek. It’s an M note just to get in the front door. I don’t have that kind of money laying around just to get on a gov’t employees radar screen.
At this stage 0f the game the only serious way to get criminal gov’t employees to “start to squirm just a little bit inside” is a stern thrashing, done privately.
Look, all adults ALREADY know that you should treat others as you would like to be treated yourself. THEY ALREADY KNOW THIS!!! So, if they ignore that knowledge and practice their behavior that is harmful to others, they do so with eyes wide open. They have ALREADY committed the crime.
The only thing left, at this point, is retribution for that criminal behavior. The justice system won’t do it for it is criminal too, so it is up to the citizenry, the wronged, to set things right. Twas ever thus.
Vigilantes served a useful purpose. I notice those against vigilantism are those whose jobs aren’t being done that would stop the need for vigilantes. Govt can’t have competition – especially from competence (try fixing a pothole yourself).
It’s going to take violence to fix this. Whether legal or illegal violence is necessary remains to be seen (as is what constitutes “legal” anymore).
What would Judge Fenton do …?
I have to confess that our garden this year is pathetic. We got a very late start….it wasn’t till late May that it was even properly planted. The wife insists otherwise, but I think our 4 tomato plants are volunteers from last year, and while the plants have grown, the fruit they’ve produced is very, very small and the birds get to the fruit before they even start to redden. Our soil here is surprisingly bad. This was once an orange orchard, and despite amendments and such, our little patch of the farm life doesn’t produce much. We had enough Roma tomatoes last year which allowed the wife to made a fantastic tomato soup from our garden, but no such thing this year.
Our climate is generally mild enough that we can keep a tomato plant alive for 2 years, but if these 4 plants don’t take off here in the fall, they may not make it to January.
Azlib,
I am sure you already know, but I like to richen up my dirt with coffee ground, egg shells, corn cobs, grill ashes, chunks of dry wall from my new-window-adventure, etc. At the end of the year we turn over our small garden, dig a trench through the very middle and dump in a couple bags of lawn clippings and leaves, then cover it back up.
This summer one corner grew a volunteer jalapeno and it is now producing tremendous fruit. There was that one year I had the largest tomato plant ever, but never produced a tomato at all. Right now the rabbits have had their fill of green beans and we had some for dinner last night.
Keep working on the ground to improve it.
Mmyeah, the improvements to our little garden (2 4×8 raised bed boxes) have been an ongoing thing for like 4 years now. She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed likes the idea of a completely organic garden, and I don’t disagree with that, but improving our horrible soil has been a sloooow process. We’ve got ground-up eggshells on the counter right now which are intended to end up in the garden. The dirt we’re using came from a pool dig from across the street and it’s just bad. We had a much larger raised bed garden at our previous home, and that soil was top soil that I bought and wheel-barrowed around the house and into the garden. It didn’t take much at all to get something to grow over there.
The one exception to our miserable garden is the basil plant in the herb section of the garden. We’ve got a good healthy plant and I’m going to have to strip off half the leaves and make some pesto soon.
All home construction over the past 50 years has had basic “fill” dirt installed for the final grading, as most new homes have sod installed as opposed to seeding. So that pool dig dirt was very low quality. Your previous garden was the way to do it but it is a bunch of work, that dirt is heavy.
I tried the raised bed thing with good dirt last year and it failed miserably because of the lack of sun back here in the dense forest. Can’t get more than about 2-4 hours a day and that just isn’t enough. I wonder how much a fully installed 20′ x 20′ greenhouse would cost?
Dear Ghost:
Please keep me informed about greenhouses. I am also coming to believe that it will be the only solution for us. I would like something with would framing if at all practical. The other thing I have been thinking about is to first build an open building–just a shelter type thing with a glass roof. Then put a smaller greenhouse underneath that shelter. That should help with -45F temps. My problem is this: I have been to Thorncrown Chapel! 🙂 I know you will understand–sometimes you’ve just got to do something “just for pretty”!
Sorry. That “would” should be WOOD!!
Anne —
re Thorncrown Chapel: Anthony Chapel in Hot Springs is another good one.
Thank you so much! I did not know about the other chapels! We met Mr. Jones after a speaking event.
He was very unaffected–genuine.