@ A. Foster-Grant: Zowie! In my geezerhood, the only near superpower I have is to mentally paralyze the young by doing arithmetic in my head (Wokester cashier: “Your total is $9.77″ Me” “OK, here’s a ten and two cents.” Paralysis ensues). But now you tell me the Afterlife has an unexpected perk, oppressing people from beyond the grave! Whiteness DOES have its privileges.
Kevin in PASeptember 19, 2021, 8:14 AM
Terrific comment.
I, too have induced paralysis among cashiers that can’t do basic math. The last time it happened, the kid looked at me like I just kicked his puppy.
What I wonder is how did they qualify for the job of cashier in the first place?
Gordon ScottSeptember 19, 2021, 9:41 AM
They had a pulse, Kevin, and they usually show up.
One of the stores I work in–the 2nd largest Walmart in the west–is short 80 full time employees. That means at any given moment the store is operating with 20 less staff than Walmart wants. And that doesn’t count those who call in sick.
Brian_ESeptember 21, 2021, 8:08 AM
In my 20 some odd years if providing IT support to a specialty retailer, we found that the majority of our cashiers couldn’t do the math required to understand that the proper change for Mike’s transaction was a quarter (or a nickel and two dimes if out of quarters). Instead – they’d have to enter the tender amounts of a $10 bill and the $.02, and have the register tell them the change was $0.25. At least this was the issue with a vast majority of our associates. And fortunately, we never had to go the route of automatic change making machines to remove the need to make change manually. At the other end of the spectrum, we had a few ‘savants’ that forced us to install time synchronized cameras to watch their change handling – or we’d never catch them shorting the customer and/or the drawer. Has our world always been populated by a majority that is too stupid/lazy to think, and a minority that thinks that their G*d given intelligence is best used to line their pockets at other’s expenses? What I worry about is that the ‘gap’ between those two extremes seem to be narrowing at an alarming rate. :-/
wildmanSeptember 19, 2021, 7:34 AM
It would appear that the devil is winning.
Mike AustinSeptember 19, 2021, 10:50 AM
“It would appear…” Appearances can deceive. We won 2000 years ago. On the Cross. Since then it has been a great mopping up operation.
Extremely appropriate that the end of the clip Bush and Obama biologically morph. Truth is stranger than fiction.
CallmelennieSeptember 19, 2021, 9:31 AM
If I were the devil, I’d turn Paul Harvey into a figure to be mocked, especially by the Boomer generation. That way we would reflexively sneer at everything he was trying to tell us, especially his cornball “If I were the Devil” routine
Whew! Good thing this so-called “Devil” (snort) didn’t suceed
enn essSeptember 19, 2021, 10:31 AM
Thats all that takes for the destruction of a country based on Christianity. It was true back when the Pilgrims set sail for religious freedom, it was true when the founders organized this country into a nation, it was true when Paul Harvey spoke of it, and it is true today.
As to the comments re: youth not being able to make change. Not that long ago in the grocery I handed a young feller a $20 and $.20 cents for a $12.20 bill, since he already punched in the register $20 tendered, he was stumped at the change to give back. Another cashier handed him a calculator. He still could not figure it out, because the register readout didn’t tell him what change to make. I kid you not! This is the mentality that is supposed to inherit the country?
EX-Californian PeteSeptember 19, 2021, 10:50 AM
My generation was raised on manners, morals, Paul Harvey and Billy Graham. It’s part of the reason we turned out to be good people who try and do what’s right. The other reason— good parenting.
How fortunate we are to have lived in, been part of, and to have experienced the greatest era of western civilization in mankind’s history. No other generation will ever have what we did.
He broke his winning streak.
I’ve been wondering how long he’d last before his addiction took over.
Gordon ScottSeptember 19, 2021, 12:16 PM
“It’s all about meeee,
It’s all about meeee,
Who else could it be
But who I am. . . “
Randall R BridgesSeptember 19, 2021, 12:37 PM
ghost, I must agree. I may have just fallen off the fence over there at vd.
Mike AustinSeptember 19, 2021, 11:12 AM
It seems Paul of Tarsus had the ruling “elites” of Washington DC—really, those of the entire world—on his mind when he wrote this not quite “politically correct” paragraph:
“Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.”—1 Corinthians 6:9-10
Did he leave anybody out?
Never forget that the Prince of the Power of the Air is the prince of this world.
Christ did not come into this world so you could avoid the Cross. He came into this world so that you could join Him on the Cross. Think of this when you see the state of the world.
It is getting easier and easier to tell who follows the God of Abraham and who follows the other guy. The red claws of Lucifer are out in the open now. He is as confident as…well, as Hell. How many in Washington have surrendered their souls for money, power, status, sex or fame? They have received their reward. When I hear these wretches speak, I only hear the laughter of demons.
Soon and very soon the Trumpets will sound as Christ returns. All will be on their knees, some through Joy, most through terror. Which side will you be on?
Always be of good cheer. And have a drink. It helps. Jesus drank. Be like Him.
If I were the devil I’d put me demons in control of the media, crown my imps as tech lords, fill the halls of Congress with my hoards, the military establishment with my gnats and gadflys, my fiends in the entertainment industry…
& dimply sit back, laugh and relax for the next hundred years.
Gordon ScottSeptember 19, 2021, 12:16 PM
“It’s all about meeee,
It’s all about meeee,
Who else could it be
But who I am. . . “
The simplicity of Common Sense. I truly miss those days.
VI
Sam L.September 20, 2021, 9:31 AM
I’d never heard this before. THANKS!!!!!!! I grew up with his News at Noon.
Someone told me some years back that Paul Harvey had stopped at his radio station to do his talk, had a few notes, and started talking. And ended on time.
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Intellectual disgrace
Stares from every human face,
And the seas of pity lie
Locked and frozen in each eye.
Follow, poet, follow right
To the bottom of the night,
With your unconstraining voice
Still persuade us to rejoice.
With the farming of a verse
Make a vineyard of the curse,
Sing of human unsuccess
In a rapture of distress.
In the deserts of the heart
Let the healing fountains start,
In the prison of his days
Teach the free man how to praise.
– – WH Auden
from “1054 AD”
Sometimes it seems I had a dream, and, as a dreamer woke immersed in mineral baths closed within a cool, dark chamber fed by streams flowing in from the center of nowhere.
Hanging from the granite ceiling a kerosene lantern cast shards of light through the pale steam rising from the surface of the pools.
Ripples radiated outwards from the edges of my body and tapping faintly on the rock revealed the edges of the chamber.
Outside I could hear the wind slide across the spine of the mountains, speaking in a language that I remembered but could no longer understand.
Steam filled my nostrils and heat penetrated my bones until, after a time, I had no body, only a sense of silence and distance and calm.
The steel mill sky is alive.
The fire breaks white and zigzag
shot on a gun-metal gloaming.
Man is a long time coming.
Man will yet win.
Brother may yet line up with brother:
This old anvil laughs at many broken hammers.
There are men who can’t be bought.
The fireborn are at home in fire.
The stars make no noise,
You can’t hinder the wind from blowing.
Time is a great teacher.
Who can live without hope?
In the darkness with a great bundle of grief
the people march.
In the night, and overhead a shovel of stars for keeps, the people
march:
“Where to? what next?”
— Carl Sandberg
Camouflage
Sourdough Mountain Lookout
Down valley a smoke haze
Three days heat, after five days rain
Pitch glows on the fir-cones
Across rocks and meadows
Swarms of new flies.
I cannot remember things I once read
A few friends, but they are in cities.
Drinking cold snow-water from a tin cup
Looking down for miles
Through high still air.
BY GARY SNYDER
Chimes of Freedom
Starry-eyed an’ laughing as I recall when we were caught
Trapped by no track of hours for they hanged suspended
As we listened one last time an’ we watched with one last look
Spellbound an’ swallowed ’til the tolling ended
Tolling for the aching ones whose wounds cannot be nursed
For the countless confused, accused, misused, strung-out ones an’ worse
An’ for every hung-up person in the whole wide universe
An’ we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing
“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’.”
Byzantium
That is no country for old men. The young
In one another’s arms, birds in the trees
—Those dying generations—at their song,
The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas,
Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer long
Whatever is begotten, born, and dies.
Caught in that sensual music all neglect
Monuments of unageing intellect.
An aged man is but a paltry thing,
A tattered coat upon a stick, unless
Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing
For every tatter in its mortal dress,
Nor is there singing school but studying
Monuments of its own magnificence;
And therefore I have sailed the seas and come
To the holy city of Byzantium.
O sages standing in God’s holy fire
As in the gold mosaic of a wall,
Come from the holy fire, perne in a gyre,
And be the singing-masters of my soul.
Consume my heart away; sick with desire
And fastened to a dying animal
It knows not what it is; and gather me
Into the artifice of eternity.
Once out of nature I shall never take
My bodily form from any natural thing,
But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make
Of hammered gold and gold enamelling
To keep a drowsy Emperor awake;
Or set upon a golden bough to sing
To lords and ladies of Byzantium
Of what is past, or passing, or to come.
– – W. B. Yeats, 1865 – 1939
De Breanski
VAN GOGH
Hillegas
To the Stonecutters
Stone-cutters fighting time with marble, you foredefeated
Challengers of oblivion
Eat cynical earnings, knowing rock splits, records fall down,
The square-limbed Roman letters
Scale in the thaws, wear in the rain. The poet as well
Builds his monument mockingly;
For man will be blotted out, the blithe earth die, the brave sun
Die blind and blacken to the heart:
Yet stones have stood for a thousand years, and pained
thoughts found
The honey of peace in old poems.
— Robinson Jeffers
Real World Address for Donations, Mash Notes and Hate Mail
Gerard Van der Leun
1692 MANGROVE AVE
APT 379
Chico, Ca 95926
from “1054 AD”
Sometimes it seems I had a dream, and, as a dreamer woke immersed in mineral baths closed within a cool, dark chamber fed by streams flowing in from the center of nowhere.
Hanging from the granite ceiling a kerosene lantern cast shards of light through the pale steam rising from the surface of the pools.
Ripples radiated outwards from the edges of my body and tapping faintly on the rock revealed the edges of the chamber.
Outside I could hear the wind slide across the spine of the mountains, speaking in a language that I remembered but could no longer understand.
Steam filled my nostrils and heat penetrated my bones until, after a time, I had no body, only a sense of silence and distance and calm.
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Paul. Where are you now that we need you?
In Heaven. Gazing into the Eyes of Christ. We should be so blessed.
It seemed extreme when I first heard it at age 20.
Not any more.
Dead white guy opressing the peeple with his privilege.
@ A. Foster-Grant: Zowie! In my geezerhood, the only near superpower I have is to mentally paralyze the young by doing arithmetic in my head (Wokester cashier: “Your total is $9.77″ Me” “OK, here’s a ten and two cents.” Paralysis ensues). But now you tell me the Afterlife has an unexpected perk, oppressing people from beyond the grave! Whiteness DOES have its privileges.
Terrific comment.
I, too have induced paralysis among cashiers that can’t do basic math. The last time it happened, the kid looked at me like I just kicked his puppy.
What I wonder is how did they qualify for the job of cashier in the first place?
They had a pulse, Kevin, and they usually show up.
One of the stores I work in–the 2nd largest Walmart in the west–is short 80 full time employees. That means at any given moment the store is operating with 20 less staff than Walmart wants. And that doesn’t count those who call in sick.
In my 20 some odd years if providing IT support to a specialty retailer, we found that the majority of our cashiers couldn’t do the math required to understand that the proper change for Mike’s transaction was a quarter (or a nickel and two dimes if out of quarters). Instead – they’d have to enter the tender amounts of a $10 bill and the $.02, and have the register tell them the change was $0.25. At least this was the issue with a vast majority of our associates. And fortunately, we never had to go the route of automatic change making machines to remove the need to make change manually. At the other end of the spectrum, we had a few ‘savants’ that forced us to install time synchronized cameras to watch their change handling – or we’d never catch them shorting the customer and/or the drawer. Has our world always been populated by a majority that is too stupid/lazy to think, and a minority that thinks that their G*d given intelligence is best used to line their pockets at other’s expenses? What I worry about is that the ‘gap’ between those two extremes seem to be narrowing at an alarming rate. :-/
It would appear that the devil is winning.
“It would appear…” Appearances can deceive. We won 2000 years ago. On the Cross. Since then it has been a great mopping up operation.
Extremely appropriate that the end of the clip Bush and Obama biologically morph. Truth is stranger than fiction.
If I were the devil, I’d turn Paul Harvey into a figure to be mocked, especially by the Boomer generation. That way we would reflexively sneer at everything he was trying to tell us, especially his cornball “If I were the Devil” routine
Whew! Good thing this so-called “Devil” (snort) didn’t suceed
Thats all that takes for the destruction of a country based on Christianity. It was true back when the Pilgrims set sail for religious freedom, it was true when the founders organized this country into a nation, it was true when Paul Harvey spoke of it, and it is true today.
As to the comments re: youth not being able to make change. Not that long ago in the grocery I handed a young feller a $20 and $.20 cents for a $12.20 bill, since he already punched in the register $20 tendered, he was stumped at the change to give back. Another cashier handed him a calculator. He still could not figure it out, because the register readout didn’t tell him what change to make. I kid you not! This is the mentality that is supposed to inherit the country?
My generation was raised on manners, morals, Paul Harvey and Billy Graham. It’s part of the reason we turned out to be good people who try and do what’s right. The other reason— good parenting.
How fortunate we are to have lived in, been part of, and to have experienced the greatest era of western civilization in mankind’s history. No other generation will ever have what we did.
“No other generation will ever have what we did.”
Right.
And they blame YOU for that. shrug
https://voxday.net/2021/09/19/you-shouldnt-hate-us/
He broke his winning streak.
I’ve been wondering how long he’d last before his addiction took over.
“It’s all about meeee,
It’s all about meeee,
Who else could it be
But who I am. . . “
ghost, I must agree. I may have just fallen off the fence over there at vd.
It seems Paul of Tarsus had the ruling “elites” of Washington DC—really, those of the entire world—on his mind when he wrote this not quite “politically correct” paragraph:
“Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.”—1 Corinthians 6:9-10
Did he leave anybody out?
Never forget that the Prince of the Power of the Air is the prince of this world.
Christ did not come into this world so you could avoid the Cross. He came into this world so that you could join Him on the Cross. Think of this when you see the state of the world.
It is getting easier and easier to tell who follows the God of Abraham and who follows the other guy. The red claws of Lucifer are out in the open now. He is as confident as…well, as Hell. How many in Washington have surrendered their souls for money, power, status, sex or fame? They have received their reward. When I hear these wretches speak, I only hear the laughter of demons.
Soon and very soon the Trumpets will sound as Christ returns. All will be on their knees, some through Joy, most through terror. Which side will you be on?
Always be of good cheer. And have a drink. It helps. Jesus drank. Be like Him.
Thank you, Mike Austin. One of the good guys.
If I were the devil I’d put me demons in control of the media, crown my imps as tech lords, fill the halls of Congress with my hoards, the military establishment with my gnats and gadflys, my fiends in the entertainment industry…
& dimply sit back, laugh and relax for the next hundred years.
“It’s all about meeee,
It’s all about meeee,
Who else could it be
But who I am. . . “
The simplicity of Common Sense. I truly miss those days.
VI
I’d never heard this before. THANKS!!!!!!! I grew up with his News at Noon.
Someone told me some years back that Paul Harvey had stopped at his radio station to do his talk, had a few notes, and started talking. And ended on time.
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