... graffiti on a boarded up window says "Marxists are trying to make State Street a boarded-up unsafe dystopia."
Sunshine Daydream says "Spread love not hate."
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November 4, 2020
I'm back from my stoical walk — 3.4 miles, 60°, down by the lake and over to State Street...
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Madison looks to be thriving! Thanks for the pics.
Oh, almost forgot: /sarc
"Marxists are tying to make State Street a boarded-up unsafe dystopia"
Not just State Street.
The people have spoken...well, most of them...and they chose Trump. Too bad the dems are going to cheat us out of it. As they say: Resist! I can't decide if I am going to burn down an orphanage, a church, or a minority owned small business. ;'o/
Sunshine Daydream says "Spread love not hate."
Sunshine Daydream's storefront says "Welcome to my nightmare."
Wow, that doesn't seem like a very nice town. Why would anyone live there?
I take some solace from the fact that Trump won the election among real voters.
He didn’t produce enough votes to overcome the massive fraud.
This cannot be blamed on the electorate.
All over the internet, people are screaming at me to “Do something!” What would you have me do?
The electorate did its job. We cannot overcome a criminal conspiracy operating on such a high level.
"Sugar Magnolia"
It's not over 'til it's over, and even then it's not over. We live to fight another day.
We too here have endless closed storefronts, but they are not boarded up.
Closed, here, by Covid, not riots.
Every one we pass I wonder if it will reopen next year, if then. Maybe it won't for five years, or maybe a decade.
I wonder how many of yours will lose that plywood, and when.
Between one thing and another this is a global disaster far worse, by now, than the stock market crash of 1929 or the financial crisis of 2008.
AA's latent Deadhead surfaces. Oddly enough, in the context of Stoicism.
I am still digesting this.
Brutalist architecture in 2020.
Dreams of the collectivists!
Spread the plywood, brothers and sisters!
My first vote was absentee in 1972.
The new, loose voting standards are ostensibly for people too incompetent to timely vote in person.
Think about it.
If you like what they did on State Street, just WAIT until they do the rest of the country.
Downtown Oakland is equally serene - except for the bullet holes in the federal courthouse that haven't been repaired yet.
Baby steps.
It's a beautiful day here. Too many incumbents won yesterday though.
ST, you are absolutely correct. Biden announced it. "Greatest vote fraud operation in history."
I wonder if Althouse ran this morning? Because that, in addition to a 3.6 mile walk, would be impressive. Althouse is a fitness power house.
We lost. The children of Gramsci own the field.
Biden winning, Wall Street shorting plywood and brick
Guess this means Springsteen stays. Too bad.
@Roughcoat: Not sure I can take such dire gloom. Coming especially from you. Please get some sleep and then come back refreshed. Here's a quote you can use to drift off into rejuvenating slumber. Commit it to memory. “This is the lesson: never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.”
Sleep well, friend.
What are the rioters and looters going to do if Biden is elected? Stand back and stand by, or go ahead and have one more night/weekend/week/month of reparational intensifying mostly peaceful protests? I, for one, have a lot of Christmas shopping still to do, and would appreciate a time/location where I can get stuff really cheap.
Shouting Thomas said...
All over the internet, people are screaming at me to “Do something!” What would you have me do?
11/4/20, 10:59 AM
I can really relate to this. The funny thing is that a lot of the people who expect you to “do something” think they’re actually “doing something” when all they do is just leave comments on the internet, lol.
Any Trump votes strewn along your path?
Shouting Thomas said...
All over the internet, people are screaming at me to “Do something!” What would you have me do?
11/4/20, 10:59 AM
I can really relate to this. The funny thing is that a lot of the people who expect you to “do something” think they’re actually “doing something” when all they do is just leave comments on the internet, lol.
Remember that Trump is still President at least until Jan 20. No telling what he might do if he's pissed off.
"All over the internet, people are screaming at me to “Do something!” What would you have me do?"
Buy more ammo. I know, the prices are outrageous. But I have a feeling they won't be coming down any time soon.
'Sunshine Daydream says "Spread love not hate."
Umm-hmmm. Spread plywood, not glass.
Althouse, the only thing I never understood about "Sugar Magnolia" is when they said, "We can discover the wonders of nature, rolling in the rushes down by the riverside."
I have never lived close to a river where this would be a pleasant erotic experience. Unless you have a fetish for large rocks, ticks, and sand burrs.
But I totally love the lyric, "Sometimes when the cuckoo's crying, when the moon is halfway down, sometimes when the night is dying, I take me out and I wander around, wander 'round"
Also..."she can dance a Cajun rhythm, jump like a Willys in four wheel drive" LOL!
I lived on State Street above a storefront like that Sunshine place - for $80/month so you can guess how long ago. I was back in Madison a couple of years ago and State Street was nasty. The current plywood look doesn't improve it. Rose colored glasses, perhaps?
Meade:
Thanks. Good advice. Will follow. Now, to sleep . . . perchance to dream.
Back to you shortly...
"Spread the plywood, brothers and sisters!"
Plywood is the new Plastic...
Be a super spreader!
Taking heart from great literature:
Aias at the Ships
Background: Greatest of the warriors after Achilleus is Aias. Homer is very firm about this. . . . although Diomedes at times seems to surpass anything that Aias can do. Diomedes in his aristeia fights under the protection of Athene, and Achilleus is constantly attended and favoured by divinities; but Aias carries on, from beginning to end, without benefit of supernatural aid. A huge man, he is compared to a wall, and carries a great shield of seven-fold ox-hide. He is not the man to sweep the enemy back in a single burst, as Diomedes, Agamemnon, Achilleus, or Hektor can do . . . . He fights as a big man, with no aura of the supernatural about him; best on defence and when the going is worst. With the other great Achaians out of action, he keeps the Achaian retreat from becoming a rout, defends the wall, and then the ships. At the last moment before Patroklos and the Myrmidons come to the rescue, we find him leading the defence of the ships, baffled by Hektor, beaten. sweating. and arm-weary, without hope, but still fighting. Lacking the glamour of others, never the greatest leader, Aias remains throughout the best soldier of them all.
The scene: The Trojans, led by Hektor, have driven the Achaian’s back down to the waterline, back to their beached ships. All the great Achaian heroes are from the action, all are wounded and unable to fight; Achilleus sulks in his tent. All save one: Aias. Hektor and his men kindle torches and advance toward the ships, intent on burning the vessels. Seizing a long pike, he interposes him between the ships and onrushing Trojans, and exhorts the Achaians, rallying them as follows:
Friends and fighting men of the Danaans, henchmen of Ares,
be men now, dear friends, remember your furious valour.
Do we think there are others who stand behind us to help us?
Have we some stronger wall that can rescue men from perdition?
We have no city built strong with towers lying near us, within which
we could defend ourselves and hold off this host that matches us.
We hold position in this plain of the close-armoured Trojans,
bent back against the sea, and far from the land of our fathers.
Salvation's light is in our hands' work, not the mercy of battle.
And so, the Iliad’s narrator tells us,
“He spoke, and came forward with his sharp spear, raging for battle.
And whenever some Trojan crashed against the hollow ships
with burning fire, who sought to wake the favour of Hektor,
Aias would wait for him and then stab with the long pike
and so from close up wounded twelve in front of the vessels.”
The Iliad of Homer
15.733-746
Richmond Lattimore, trans.
What a dump.
"Remember that Trump is still President at least until Jan 20. No telling what he might do if he's pissed off."
Declassify everything?
Graffiti on a boarded up window. Where are your men? Who would allow this? Where are your men? Grrlll Power ain't no power at all.
Baltimore used to have some streets like that. Before they were bulldozed.
"Remember that Trump is still President at least until Jan 20. No telling what he might do if he's pissed off."
The permanent establishment (deep state) barely followed his directions up til now. When/if he is a lame duck, they will ignore him completely.
Nice temperature--and day--for that walk!
Roughcoat said...
Taking heart from great literature:
Aias at the Ships
When I read the Illiad as a kid he was called Ajax. Like the foaming cleanser:
“Use Ajax, the foaming cleanser ... Floats the dirt right down the drain ... buh-buh buh-buh, bumbubum”
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