WHEN in the course of human Events, it becomes necessary….
While You Were In a Food Coma…
byVanderleunonDecember 2, 2019
Maureen Dowd’s Brother appears annually in her column’s space. This is from this year’s Kevin Kontribution: Opinion | Kevin Talks Turkey – The New York Times The Democrats have never recovered from the 2016 election when they nominated the worst candidate in political history and lost to a political novice. Their horror at Trump conjures Lady Macbeth crying in agony, “Out, damned spot.”
All of the Democratic candidates support Medicaid coverage of abortion and nominating only judges who endorse abortion rights.
As for the best and the brightest the Dems have to offer:
Warren/Sanders: If you combine the support of the two billionaire-bashing socialists, they lead the field. You might consider vacationing in Venezuela before committing to them or they could run together as the End of Days ticket.
Biden/Bloomberg: Like Bloomberg, Biden has been forced to grovel and renounce all past career accomplishments on crime prevention.
Harris/Booker: They’re having trouble lighting the spark, even with some black voters.
Klobuchar/Buttigieg: They are the two least crazy people in the field, which means they have absolutely no chance.
The Martin O’Malley Award to Beto O’Rourke for thinking a vague resemblance to the Kennedys, an Annie Leibovitz Vanity Fair cover and a 214,000-vote loss to Ted Cruz could carry him to the nomination.
The Best Selling Books They Didn’t see comingTake traditional publishing –please, I don’t want it. It had massive power in the beginning of the twentieth century. What it didn’t want to be seen, wouldn’t be seen. But d*mn it, sometimes the pesky reading public still got one in, still managed to make something a bestseller they didn’t see coming, still insisted on reading things that the increasingly closed-circle-leftist group that ran publishing didn’t think should be read. So they ate faster. They tightened the circle. They hired and published only true believers, and when the laydowns crashed (guys, in the 70s a 75k laydown was considered bad and would end your career. Now? Well, selling 3k to 5k is normal. 10k will get you fawned upon. Now, these are hard copies of course. Traditional is notoriously bad at tracking ebook sales. They also price them not-to-sell. So, who knows?) They made up stories about how TV and movies and then games were taking the readers away. (It’s funny, though, because they’re somehow magically re-appearing in indie.) And when that stopped working they tried to force what they wanted to be the only thing read by going to the self-patting system of ordering to the net and telling the bookstores what to order. That is in an interesting state of collapse, and the Earth-shattering Kaboom won’t be far behind.
Andrew Sullivan: Every now and again, it’s worth thinking about what the intersectional left’s ultimate endgame really is— and here it strikes me as both useful and fair to extrapolate from Kendi’s project. They seem not to genuinely believe in liberalism, liberal democracy, or persuasion. They have no clear foundational devotion to individual rights or freedom of speech. Rather, the ultimate aim seems to be running the entire country by fiat to purge it of racism (and every other intersectional “-ism” and “phobia”, while they’re at it). And they demand “disciplinary tools” by unelected bodies to enforce “a radical reorientation of our consciousness.” There is a word for this kind of politics and this kind of theory when it is fully and completely realized, and it is totalitarian.
Moral superiority is what the leftist, PC mob is looking for, hence all the crap about toxic masculinity, white privilege, Gauguin’s pictures, even Randy Andy’s stupidities. People are not all fools, and they should see through the bullshit and react to it. These cretins trying to rule our hearts and minds are in the majority, alas, especially in American universities, where the proportion of liberals to conservatives ranges from 8 to 1 to as much as 70 to 1. Oh yes, I almost forgot: Jeffrey Epstein was a big, big liberal, as were most of his friends like that lefty lawyer Dershowitz. Andrew should start hanging out with right-wingers like myself, but in his case I’m not available. For some strange reason I prefer people with brains.
Clarence Thomas Says ‘The Modern-Day Liberal’ Tried To Stop His Career “Do I have like stupid written on the back of my shirt? I mean come on. We know what this is all about,” Thomas says in the film. “People should just tell the truth: ‘This is the wrong black guy; he has to be destroyed.’ Just say it. Then now we’re at least honest with each other.The idea was to get rid of me. And then after I was there, it was to undermine me.”
“When we raise taxes on the poor, it’s good because then the poor will live longer because they can’t afford as many things that kill them.”
~Nanny State Mayor Bloomberg pic.twitter.com/23p443ieg4
Firstly, the narwhal’s tusk is actually an overgrown spiralized tooth and it’s one of only two teeth they’ll ever possess. In fact, if you were lucky enough spot a narwhal in the wild you may not even recognize it as a narwhal at all, since many of them lose their tusks over time (hence its mysterious and elusive reputation!). And while there are a few other animals that have similarly protruding teeth (like walruses and elephants), the narwhal tusk is unique still.
Essentially, it’s an inside out tooth. The narwhal tusk is incredibly sensitive on the outside, with up to ten million nerve endings on each one. In 2014, researchers even found significant changes in heart rate when alternating solutions of high-salt and fresh water were exposed to the external surface of the tusk. I imagine this as similar to that feeling you get with really cold ice cream on a sensitive spot on your tooth—you know—but way worse. How in the world does the narwhal survive with such a thing in the frigid Arctic waters?
Couldn’t get past the turkey dinner image. Still laughing 3 minutes later.
“nobody will ever ask you to make holiday dinner again”
Schill McGuffinDecember 2, 2019, 11:33 AM
Beto’s a wonderful symbol of the marketing mentality, and if any lessons were learned, they’ll surely be forgotten even before the election comes. Even more than Edwards before him, he was the marketers’ candidate — He hit all checkboxes in terms of superficial media appeal, wrapped around an absolute void. Negative substance, if such a thing is possible. His evaporation is even more satisfying than that of Edwards, in its own way.
Steve in GreensboroDecember 2, 2019, 11:52 AM
The leftist’s endgame? Destroy America.
ghostsniperDecember 2, 2019, 2:09 PM
“The leftist’s endgame? Destroy America.”
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I think you are giving them a little more credit than they deserve. It’s a pretty tall order to “destroy america” and I have my doubts that whiney children can mount such an endeavor.
No, what is more likely is that the whiney children of all ages are more interested in a life of leisure absent responsibility. How this life of leisure/non-responsibility is paid for is secondary to their desire of the life itself. In a group setting like the US all things must be paid for so the only route to the whiney childrens goal is through the hiring of thugs, US politicians, that will steal for them.
All politicians steal but there is a subset that has proven over the duration that they are more aggressive at the stealing and those are the thugs the whiney children prefer. Since whiney children are, well, children they are lacking in foresight and experience so it is easy to con them with a clever phrase or a flowery show – something easy to remember and deeply embedable in a maleable mind.
As far as all that destroying the US stuff goes, it’s ain’t gonna happen. Never in the history of the world have whiney children ever been in charge of anything worthwhile. They can only scale the mountain of success so far and then nap time happens. They lack the intellectual horsepower to see the accomplishment of the goal. The mountain of success is slammed with natural obstacles that the whiney children are unable to overcome. Never forget, they are children, in all ways that matter. Treat them as such. Give them no merit, no voice, no notice. If you ignore the whiney child it will soon go into a bombastic tantrum and cry itself to sleep. If the ignored whiney child tends toward the physical the adult in charge will use corporal methods to put the child to sleep. They are children. Isn’t this plain to all?
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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
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
Maureen Dowd’s Brother appears annually in her column’s space. This is from this year’s Kevin Kontribution: Opinion | Kevin Talks Turkey – The New York Times The Democrats have never recovered from the 2016 election when they nominated the worst candidate in political history and lost to a political novice. Their horror at Trump conjures Lady Macbeth crying in agony, “Out, damned spot.”
Gerard Van der Leun
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Couldn’t get past the turkey dinner image. Still laughing 3 minutes later.
“nobody will ever ask you to make holiday dinner again”
Beto’s a wonderful symbol of the marketing mentality, and if any lessons were learned, they’ll surely be forgotten even before the election comes. Even more than Edwards before him, he was the marketers’ candidate — He hit all checkboxes in terms of superficial media appeal, wrapped around an absolute void. Negative substance, if such a thing is possible. His evaporation is even more satisfying than that of Edwards, in its own way.
The leftist’s endgame? Destroy America.
“The leftist’s endgame? Destroy America.”
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I think you are giving them a little more credit than they deserve. It’s a pretty tall order to “destroy america” and I have my doubts that whiney children can mount such an endeavor.
No, what is more likely is that the whiney children of all ages are more interested in a life of leisure absent responsibility. How this life of leisure/non-responsibility is paid for is secondary to their desire of the life itself. In a group setting like the US all things must be paid for so the only route to the whiney childrens goal is through the hiring of thugs, US politicians, that will steal for them.
All politicians steal but there is a subset that has proven over the duration that they are more aggressive at the stealing and those are the thugs the whiney children prefer. Since whiney children are, well, children they are lacking in foresight and experience so it is easy to con them with a clever phrase or a flowery show – something easy to remember and deeply embedable in a maleable mind.
As far as all that destroying the US stuff goes, it’s ain’t gonna happen. Never in the history of the world have whiney children ever been in charge of anything worthwhile. They can only scale the mountain of success so far and then nap time happens. They lack the intellectual horsepower to see the accomplishment of the goal. The mountain of success is slammed with natural obstacles that the whiney children are unable to overcome. Never forget, they are children, in all ways that matter. Treat them as such. Give them no merit, no voice, no notice. If you ignore the whiney child it will soon go into a bombastic tantrum and cry itself to sleep. If the ignored whiney child tends toward the physical the adult in charge will use corporal methods to put the child to sleep. They are children. Isn’t this plain to all?