WHEN in the course of human Events, it becomes necessary….
Strange Daze
byVanderleunonOctober 11, 2020
In 1982 Agnes Denes cultivated, grew, and harvested a two-acre wheatfield in downtown Manhattan, a few blocks away from the World Trade Center and the heart of the financial district. KA-CHING!
BREAKING: Presidential Debate moderator Steve Scully (@SteveScully) deleted his account after getting caught conspiring against Trump by posting a tweet meant as a DM, and then claiming he was “hacked.” pic.twitter.com/pBF1MrCnWz
Arcadians versus Utopians : I shudder at the thought that Americans might be fool enough, to vote for the people who have a plan. And won’t even tell them what it is, until after the election. And could win it, only because they have succeeded in smearing the (essentially Arcadian) incumbent; and drilled all the young commies (“liberals”) to do as they say. (And they will make the adults pay their student debts.)
Vox Popoli: A portrait in missing the point This is a prime example of the problem with all the clueless Boomers and GenXers who live in safe white enclaves and believe that diversity is nothing more than a nice dash of spice and color in their comfortable lives. They don’t realize that they no longer live in America… or how desperately they will miss it once they realize what has taken its place.
Cutting out the corporate cancer Allowing the inmates to run the asylum, as Google and the NBA do, is a certain path to corporate extinction. Don’t be surprised to see other companies not only following Coinbase’s example but getting considerably more proactive about not permitting them to infest the organization in the first place.
The Feds announced to great fanfare that they foiled a plot by far-right extremists to kidnap the daffy governor of Michigan. They coordinated this with the governor so she could try to gain some sympathy. Of course, this being the age of lies, the extremists were mostly anarchists and random goofballs talked into this by the Feds. Putting aside the absurdity of this case, it does raise a good question. That is, why has there been so little organized violence in America? A Peaceful End | The Z Blog
Christians, Jews, other religions, have proved to the authorities that they can be easily intimidated. The Church, and the churches, will agree to close down: accepting that public health must take priority, not only over freedom, but also over God. Politicizing Everything – The Catholic Thing
Reading these Strange Daze links can be a bit depressing. Perhaps, for a change of pace, you might want to watch me blow out the candles on my birthday cake. 😉 http://www.ipernity.com/doc/319805/50408362
ghostsniperOctober 11, 2020, 1:32 PM
That Vox Popoli link reads similar to a comment made here a week or two ago.
The author of the VP screed was born in 1969 so most of what he wrote, too, was utter bullshit.
Once again, some are drawn to the worst life has to offer, but most are not.
ghostsniperOctober 11, 2020, 1:37 PM
Now THAT’S the way to blow them candles out, Jim!
And many more…..
NoriOctober 11, 2020, 3:42 PM
Happy Birthday,James! Thanks for sharing that delightful blowout;nicely done.
Next year,a flammenwerfer,perhaps? 💥
SpellerOctober 12, 2020, 3:04 AM
“I shudder at the thought that Americans might be fool enough, to vote for the people who have a plan. And won’t even tell them what it is, until after the election.”
Oh, they’re fool enough alright. That’s exactly what they did in 2008.
From my youth up I never liked the city.
I never forgot the mountains where I was born.
The world caught me and harnessed me
And drove me through dust, thirty years away from home.
Migratory birds return to the same tree.
Fish find their way back to the pools where they were hatched.
I have been over the whole country,
And I have come back at last to the garden of my childhood.
My farm is only ten acres.
The farm house has eight or nine rooms.
Elms and willows shade the back garden.
Peach trees stand by the front door.
The village is out of sight.
You can hear dogs bark in the alleys,
And cocks crow in the mulberry trees.
When you come through the gate into the court
You will find no dust or mess.
Peace and quiet live in every room.
I am content to stay here the rest of my life.
At last I have found myself.
“From a student radical/hippie/leftist of the Free Speech Movement/Vietnam Day Commitee era and a full-on Democratic Liberal in the decades after, I think I’ve evolved a politics that is neither right nor left but is, in its elemental nature, draconian. In the last 20 years, I’ve taken apart my beliefs with a sledgehammer. Now I’ve got to put the surviving parts back together with tweezers and other ‘shabby equipment, always deteriorating’.”
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In re Arcadians vs Utopians, I am sure they have a plan that they really don’t want to reveal. Except Keith Olberman couldn’t wait:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pkVnNqWk0Y&feature=emb_logo
Reading these Strange Daze links can be a bit depressing. Perhaps, for a change of pace, you might want to watch me blow out the candles on my birthday cake. 😉
http://www.ipernity.com/doc/319805/50408362
That Vox Popoli link reads similar to a comment made here a week or two ago.
The author of the VP screed was born in 1969 so most of what he wrote, too, was utter bullshit.
Once again, some are drawn to the worst life has to offer, but most are not.
Now THAT’S the way to blow them candles out, Jim!
And many more…..
Happy Birthday,James! Thanks for sharing that delightful blowout;nicely done.
Next year,a flammenwerfer,perhaps? 💥
“I shudder at the thought that Americans might be fool enough, to vote for the people who have a plan. And won’t even tell them what it is, until after the election.”
Oh, they’re fool enough alright. That’s exactly what they did in 2008.