It was 12:36 p.m. and snowing when I took this picture today. This is a full color photograph, with absolutely no adjustments made to it. It looks so black and white, but there is a slight blue cast to the snow and some brownness to the twigs.
January 25, 2023
The woods at midday.
It was 12:36 p.m. and snowing when I took this picture today. This is a full color photograph, with absolutely no adjustments made to it. It looks so black and white, but there is a slight blue cast to the snow and some brownness to the twigs.
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well, The Good News Is: Our Abrams Tanks are (fairly) old tech, so; it won't be That Bad, when the russians take a couple (by hook or by crook*).. So, the russians (and the chinese) won't learn THAT MANY secrets from them.
by hook or by crook*
1st the crook: the Ukraine, is The Most Corrupt place on earth; Every Thing is for sale
2nd, the hook: if you don't think the Ukrainians will lose (at least) one in battle, you don't know much about battle**
don't know much about battle** here's your chance, to say "we didn't lose any in desert storm!"
and then *i* can say, yes; we Recovered those (4?) that were destroyed on the ridge.. BECAUSE we captured the ridge. If/WHEN the Ukrainian M1s get hit; it's unlikely that they'll hold their ground***
it's unlikely that they'll hold their ground*** and HERE is your chance to say "The Ukrainians will Walk right over the russians.. which will be MY chance to say: Keep Dreaming
ps just how did the Saudi's do, with Their M1s?
these March-December romances are the last of the bigotries, I swear to God
Or is it April-December?
I don't think it's May-December.
I'm going to have to google the motherfucking rom-com chicklit thesauraus.
And Mr. Blogger has helpfully red-lined "motherfucking" and "chicklit" and "thesaurus" and I had to do six fucking spelling attempts to get the red-line off thesaurus.
"Damn if I'm going to Mr. Google to get any help spelling thesaurus!" That's what I say.
Now that I've conquered the spelling universe, I can with confidence tell Mr. Blogger that "motherfucking" and "chicklit" are both words. One or both might possibly need a hyphen. The English language is dynamic, you stupid robot, and you need to up your game. That's right.
This post would be funnier if you could see the fucking red lines like I can. Blogger is Satan with a red fucking pencil.
Where was I? Oh yeah, I don't know what month I am in this damn feminine universe where age differences have crossed the space-time universe and somehow morphed into months on the fucking calendar.
I'm willing to call it a January-December romance, if that's what it is. January-December, I'm so far away, I've gone around the fucking calendar and now I'm right next door to her month. Which is confusing as shit.
Why are Saudi Arabia’s M1 Abrams tanks being knocked out so easily in the Yemeni War?
In short:
1). the Saudis aren’t employing the tanks properly.
2).The tanks aren’t designed to do this kind of work.
3). The enemy has learned how to destroy this kind of tank.
4). The Saudi soldiers aren’t trained like Americans, and are not nearly as proficient, or aggressive.
I did some math on the federal budget. If congress wanted to reduce spending to pre-covid levels, and if congress refused to make cuts to defense, medicare (not medicaid), social security, and interest, then congress would need to reduce the rest of government spending by 44%. Who thinks this will happen? The size of gov't will not be shrinked (shrunken? shrunkened? shrank? shrankened? well you know what I mean).
Nice.
Uses a semicolon to end a verse. That's unusual(?)
"Two years ago fifty-one (51) former intelligence officials, who used the false alarm of “Russian interference” to stop Donald Trump winning a second term as president.
Using the institutional weight of their former esteemed roles, they signed a dishonest letter to mislead voters 15 days before the election, claiming that material from Hunter Biden’s laptop published by the New York Post “has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.'" NY Post (October 2022)
Earlier in life: "The Nazis enlisted other physicists, including Nobel laureates Philipp Lenard and Johannes Stark, to denounce Einstein. One Hundred Authors Against Einstein was published in 1931. When asked to comment on this denunciation of relativity by so many scientists, Einstein replied that to defeat relativity one did not need the word of 100 scientists, just one fact."
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Albert-Einstein/Nazi-backlash-and-coming-to-America
Kind of Russian-looking to me. NTTAWWT.
Were you the first along the path, or had the snow covered the tracks?
That's what I like. Cold, hard, reality.
Voodoo Macbeth may be a lousy title, but the topic was a good one -- Orson Welles directing an all-Black production of the Scottish play in the 1930s. Unfortunately, it hits all 2020's woke themes.
I went on a nature hike today in Florida. 73 degrees when I started around 9:30, up to 83 when I got back to my car at 12:15. Walked six miles through pines, palmetto, live oaks and palm trees.
GLOBAL COOLING COMETH.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
My comment at 641PM above was meant for the previous post, with the RLS poem.
Renewed high excess deaths occurring in highly vaxxed and especially boosted populations.
Unusually LOW excess deaths occurring in lightly vaxxed populations.
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/urgent-deaths-in-england-surge-again
Thank you. That’s a lovely photo. It reminds me of the first time I saw snow falling in woods, nearly 40 years ago.
What is your mission?
Do you have a mission?
Y'all probably know my mission.
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
many more to come
The AA blog has the smartest and well-versed commenters on the internet, which is why this is my first stop in the morning. I have learned a lot. That being said, I am clueless at the continual use of the F-bomb. Maybe someone can help me out.
I am clueless at the continual use of the F-bomb.
Potty training mishaps
humor
a love of carnality
(this is like a mad scientist recipe)
a distrust of civilization
a reminder of common humanity
a humble reminder that we are still animals and are not up to God's perfection
a desire to "keep it real" and so to squirt some ugliness (I think I just got an R rating) into the canvas of life
more humor
more common humanity
a release of tension from any uptight crusading
a belief that down here in the commentary it's funny and not-so-public
semi-anonymous children who scoff at authority
more fucking humor
a knowledge that God invented orgasms, urine, shit and everything else in the universe
a mocking of the people who think pro-lifers hate sex
a recognition that we are sinners, and full holiness is unobtainable in this life
I have a couple of Episcopal priests who drop F bombs so it's their fault
and finally, humor
"In 2022, we produced & delivered 1.3M+ vehicles 💪
In Q4 we achieved our highest-ever quarterly revenue, operating income & net income"
readering, gadfly, LLR Chuck and Dumb Lefty Mark hardest hit.
"The obvious question after all of this is why didn’t the National Archives know that documents were missing. This is a good question because this same entity claimed as recently as September that all of the Obama Administration documents are accounted for."
It's because they would NEVER, EVER say a bad thing about their messiah. He does NO WRONG EVER. He is the most SCANDAL FREE LIAR we ever had.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/national-archives-lied-claimed-recently-september-obama-records-ignoring-records-biden-stole/
Humperdink, I would add too that in some situations, in some worldly conflicts, Johnny Rotten might be more effective than Mother Theresa.
I watch that performance (and I've linked to it a few times), and it's so powerful. I watch it and I wonder stuff like, "Did he impregnate that girl?"
"Biden, or someone close to Biden, certainly knew that he or someone close to him had illegally removed classified documents when he left the vice presidency in 2017—or years earlier as a senator.
For at least the last six years—at least—Biden has felt no compunction to confess to authorities he illegally was in possession of classified documents." https://amgreatness.com/2023/01/25/the-real-differences-between-the-biden-and-trump-troves/
Great photo!
"Does the "raw sewage" include when Obama falsely said, "The Cambridge police acted stupidly"; that "If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon"; and that racism in America is "still part of our DNA that's passed on"?
Does the raw sewage include over 50 "former senior intelligence officials," who -- days before the 2020 election -- asserted that the Hunter Biden laptop story had "all the earmarks of a Russian disinformation operation"; that Trump "colluded with Russia" to win the 2016 election; and that on Jan. 6, 2021, Trump committed "insurrection"?"
https://townhall.com/columnists/larryelder/2023/01/26/obama-warns-about-the-raw-sewage-of-disinformation-ignores-democrats-own-garbage-n2618758
Love the headline "German tanks roll east".
We have all been here before.
Headline: "Former Head Of Teacher Union In Arlington, Virginia Arrested After Embezzling Over $400,000" (Gateway Pundit)
I am hugely disappointed this poor schlub was caught. I was hoping she would continue to drain the teachers union coffers. Anything that stops the flow of campaign bucks to Commie-Pinko candidates is a plus for me.
This should prove amusing!
https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2023/01/25/report-putin-wants-to-buy-u-s-weapons-biden-left-in-afghanistan-but-theres-even-more-n1664501
@Saint Croix. Back in the day this language would have been labeled controversial (see Howard Stern). Not anymore. We have moved so far past controversy it's laughable. It would appear you are fully on board with the direction our society is taking. I always ask the question: Is this the language I want my children and grandchildren to hear/ read from me?
The King and Queen of Insider Trading are at it again. Gotta get what they can while the getting is good. They both belong behind bars, with Pauly's little boytoy.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/revealed-paul-pelosi-dumped-30000-shares-google-stock-one-month-doj-antitrust-lawsuit-filed-week/
I think I'm one of those artists who really needs an editor.
Can ‘robots’ practice law?
https://www.npr.org/2023/01/25/1151435033/a-robot-was-scheduled-to-argue-in-court-then-came-the-jail-threats
Or is this a defendant using AI (sic) to respond to questioning, and ask questions, prompted by an AI system?
Follow up question (I really don’t know) can a defendant use a law library to determine their answer to questioning and what questions to answer? If they were quick about it, why would that be a problem?
Can a defendant elicit the assistance of another person, for defense, even if that other person is not a lawyer?
An anecdotal story surfaced that Vlad "The Impaler" Putin was attempting to acquire US weapons left behind in Afghanistan. The ultimate irony .... US weapons being used by the Russians and Ukrainians to blow each others brains out.
Humperdink, I love your stuff. It's short, it's pithy, it's very good. In many ways, you are a better poster than I am.
@Saint Croix. Back in the day this language would have been labeled controversial (see Howard Stern). Not anymore. We have moved so far past controversy it's laughable.
I'm not sure that you read my post at 10:06. Maybe if you cite the language that offended you? That might help.
I will try again to explain again why I like and use the word "fuck."
I like sex.
Now you should probably explain why you dislike the word "fuck."
(It's a complicated word with many meanings, and it can have positive or negative connotations. It's a bad word, but it's not a simple word).
For instance, I think "fuck" is a powerful word because it references all of human history. Sex is the profound and hugely important way that humanity reproduces. Heterosexual sex is key to Darwin, for instance.
Fuck is also a bad word among Christians and other moral thinkers because we know it references sex outside of love, and often leads to horrific atrocities like rape and infanticide.
I get mad when authoritative people want to focus on my bad language, while these nice and proper people say it's "right" to stab a baby in the middle of birth.
I veer back and forth between my love of fucking ("Fuck!"), and my hatred of infanticide (...fuck...)
Sometimes people get confused by this. You can either quit reading me, or pay a little more attention.
I'm happy either way.
It would appear you are fully on board with the direction our society is taking.
I'm guessing you have not read my book.
I always ask the question: Is this the language I want my children and grandchildren to hear/ read from me?
I have yet to ask the question, "Are you going to abort my baby?" to women that I like. But it's floating around in the back of my mind. It kind of fucks up my sex life, to be honest.
LOL, look at the chyron and listen to the colonel's words. Don't worry though, you are being told the truth about the war.
https://twitter.com/Syricide/status/1618579799483744260
"I think I'm one of those artists who really needs an editor."
Supposedly Theodore Dreiser delivered his manuscripts to his editor in a steamer trunk, his editor then found the novels buried in there.
---I think I'm one of those artists who really needs an editor.
I nominate Humperdink, whose point I happen to agree with fully. F-bombs weaken the writing in about 98% of all cases, in my experience.
"Since the news broke that classified documents had been discovered in both Joe Biden’s office at the Penn Biden Center and at his home, the White House and Biden have made repeated statements about their “full cooperation” with the Justice Department and National Archives.
According to a new report from CNN, of all places, Biden wasn’t originally willing to consent to have the Justice Department search his home and only agreed to it after Justice Department indicated it would seek a warrant if necessary."
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2023/01/25/cnn-drops-a-huge-bombshell-in-biden-classified-documents-scandal-n1665097
George Soros has his slimy little hands in EVERYTHING BAD, doesn't he?? Shouldn't we revoke his citizenship and deport him back to Hungary?? He is the cause of most of America's problems.
https://nypost.com/2023/01/25/how-george-soros-funds-fact-checkers-to-silence-dissent/
"and finally, humor"
Fuck yeah.
I nominate Humperdink, whose point I happen to agree with fully. F-bombs weaken the writing in about 98% of all cases, in my experience.
It's extremely rare to use the F word in the world of books.
Shockingly rare.
Think about that for a second.
Why is it rare, do you think?
(My answer: pretentious people like a "clean space")
They're imagining a utopia in their minds.
I would beg these people.
Ask permission to take your Sex Education class on a field trip to an abortion clinic.
You PTA lovers, make sure your kids see an abortion!
I'm sorry, but I do not agree that the world needs more word repression.
Any fucking journalist, doctor, lawyer, professor or priest reading my words should strive first to understand the factual reality of abortion. Because you hide-the-shit motherfuckers are the problem, not me.
In my mind, I connect the urge to repress bad words
with the urge to repress bad photographs.
I might be wrong.
You tell me.
"What about my comments made her so uncomfortable? Was it me espousing conservative views that she had never heard from a black person? Was it me mentioning God and His place in my life?
I felt I’d fallen victim to a modern-day Jim Crow “law”: That liberals and Democrats feel it’s acceptable to demonize Hispanic and black conservatives."
https://nypost.com/2023/01/24/gianno-caldwell-on-being-a-back-conservative-demonized-by-liberals/
Imagine a world where a guy spends 20 years trying to get Roe v. Wade overruled...
and last year it finally happens
and the guy says, "Fuck, yeah!"
and he gets arrested
Harry Blackmun wrote the dissent in Cohen v. California
That's the not-so-notorious "Fuck the Draft" case.
Guy walks into a courtroom with "Fuck the Draft" written on his jacket.
Nowadays it would be "White People Matter."
Oh my God! White people matter! The violence! The Klan! Hate groups! Call the FBI! White people matter!
Anyway, 50 years ago, the cops arrested you in California if you want to have sexual relations with the draft.
Which sounds like a fucking metaphor?
He's not even fucking human beings and we're arresting him.
Okay!
"We have to stop this sexual predator before he realizes that his mindless draft-fucking might through ESP thought-transference impregnate the helpless females that I am sworn to protect."
Or something. Couldn't tell you, it's too fucking stupid.
Two years later, when Jane Roe shows up, Harry Blackmun is freaking out. "I knew that Fuck the Draft fucker was up to no good! Look what happened. Pregnancy! The horrible pregnancy! We have to stop that. Immediately."
When told that she was not, in fact, pregnant, Harry realized it was too late. The Fuck the Draft fucker had fucked her and she was fucked and the baby was out.
"Damn it!" said Harry, furious that he had not thwarted this reproduction from the lower classes. "I told you about fucking the draft! What did I say? You can't have boys showing up fucking the draft. That's not what drafts are for. And this fucker fucked the fucking draft, it was a humpa humpa humpa, and now we've got a damn baby running around on two legs. Another one! And we'll never get a chance to stop this evil unless we pretend she's pregnant, a sort of pregnancy simulacrum! And we'll abort the shit out of this avatar. Who gives a damn, anyway, it's all words. We all know biology doesn't exist in the U.S. Reports."
Lol, watch the video go haywire at the exact second a fence is breached, and then come back finding Ray Epps leading the mob towards the Capitol.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/ray-epps-exclusive-never-seen-leaked-video-ray-epps-breach-government-doctoring-video-cover-epps-incriminate-proud-boys-show-trial-part-14000/
Epstein didn't kill himself.
Catharine MacKinnon
possibly from Scotland, just sayin'
takes a furious stand against words.
"Words! Those dastardly words! Attacking me, harassing me, invading me. Words! They're killing me with words! Raping my ears. The words! How can this be right?! These words are evil and bad. I'm bleeding out. The words are in my mind! Aieeeeeeeee! How do I get the words out? I'm blind! Hate words tattooed on my soul. The words are like bullets, cutting through my vagina. How dare you. How dare you invade my vagina with your words! Imprison this man! Imprison this writer. Fuck! I got a semi-colon in the ribs."
---It's extremely rare to use the F word in the world of books.
Shockingly rare.
Think about that for a second.
Why is it rare, do you think?
(My answer: pretentious people like a "clean space")
They're imagining a utopia in their minds. [SaintCroix]
I guess this was directed at me, since you started off by quoting from my comment.
It is hardly rare anymore to encounter the F-bomb in print. Dialogue is often full of it. Narration less so, but still not what anyone could call rare. Although they made Norman Mailer spell it with a g, way back when.
IMO, Saint Croix, your writing would be better without the forced bravado. It sounds like it's trying way too hard that way. YMMV but many will just COB.
Go on Twitter and look at the Damar Hamlin trend. Crazy. Unbelievable. During the Bills -Bengals game they never showed his face.
I don’t know what it is…but best comment I saw was, “I’ve seen clearer pictures of Big Foot and the Loch Ness Monster than I saw of Damar Hamlin on Sunday.”
Yeah it was snowing, but the far shots of him were with distant with sunglasses, hoodie, and neck mask up to his nose. And the video of when they golf cart him to the Bills locker room, they’re treating him like he’s going to testify against the mob…still with the hoodie, and neck mask up to his nose. If Oswald would have been protected like that, he’d be alive.
Josh Allen the Bills QB in a recent podcast interview, when asked if he was duped by a fake Damar answers... "I don't think I was". He doesn't say, NO. I shook his hand. It was Damar... Josh Allen says basically, I don't think I was duped.
If you watched the game, which I assume many of us did, you don’t remember seeing his face either.
If Walter Payton survived a heart attack on the field in 1985, and showed up two weeks later to the watch the Bears win the NFC Championship, you think he would hide his face? Or not talk to the media?
America is now officially funky town.
The latest Veritas video is the biggest ever. Pfizer is basically wanting to manipulate corona viruses so they can develop "vaccines" against viruses they create. Just like Wuhan, Gates, and Fauci. I liked Pfizer a lot more when they created the boner on demand pill. It still should be appreciated. But...buy the generic. Good prices on GoodRX.
This doesn't stop until a certain percentage of the "vaccinated" stands up and says "you lied to us, and now we're pissed...now leave the young people alone". And there has to be some pushback from within institutions like The University of Wisconsin who still require mRNA injections for incoming students. But I don't have much faith in that happening. Ivory Towered liberals are more interested in protecting what they have now, more than the futures of young people. Student debt and college costs showed that. Maybe that's just the majority of human nature.
But for the unvaccinated, maybe our blood will be worth $1000 a pint by 2024 or 2025. Some 25 to 30 year old guy can sell his unvaccinated sperm for like 10,000 a shot.
That kind of money could even get the Proud Boys to change their "within one yard" masturbation rule. The market for "unvaccinated" sperm will explode. No pun intended.
"They made Norman Mailer spell it with a g, way back when."
No gucking way!
ha ha ha ha
guck me
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