Another photo from my trip to lower Manhattan, from which I returned 3 days ago. It's been cold, snowy, and overcast here in Madison, but I expect to get back to my sunrise routine soon.Please use the comments section to write about whatever you want.
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Amish, babies... and albinos (ABA). Also, ABBA.
Vivek for R nomination. Kim R - IA for VP!
The question is ambiguous.
It could mean what are your foundational principles — what values do you represent.
But could mean what are you putting up with.
Remember NPR? remember back when NPR Pretended to be non commercial?
I guess, those days are long gone.
https://www.ntd.com/npr-cuts-roughly-10-percent-of-workforce-amid-darkened-financial-outlook_903469.html
The National Public Radio (NPR) is cutting roughly 10 percent of its current workforce as the network’s financial outlook recently “darkened considerably” amid declining advertising revenue, NPR’s executive officer announced..
I actually Listened to NPR yesterday, on my way home from Shiloh, Tenn.
Here's what i heard them say: (as best as i can paraphrase)
"white people Aren't just terrified of Black rebellion.. white people are TERRIFIED of Black Success"
At that point i tuned it off and went back to WSM (650 AM). Just in time to hear Merle Haggard sing:
Turn me loose, set me free, somewhere in the middle of Montana.
And gimme all I got comin' to me, And keep your retirement and your so called social security.
Big City turn me loose and set me free.
I thought the contrast was interesting
I stand for to pee. No sitzpinkler here.
Less and less, and yes my answer is ambiguous.
Modern lynching device, 11 o'clock high!
Apparently, a gigantic blue sucker-monster.
To pee.
So far about 42" of snow here a mile high in the San Bernardino mts. Still snowing heavy. Even down the mountain it's been snowing, in parts of LA and other places at about 1500'. Snow is in places it hasn't been for about a hundred years
The weather forecast for Snoqualmie is 4" of snow tonight plus another 5" over the next 3 days. Sunday and Monday are grocery days plus tire repair day at Costco and Tuesday I'm getting together with a friend who lives both here and on Maui. I bet he wishes he's back on Maui now.
"Build me a cabin in Utah
Marry me a wife, catch rainbow trout
Have a bunch of kids who call me “Pa”
That must be what it’s all about"
1. Free Speech.
2. The Rule of Law.
3. A color-blind society.
4. A meritocracy.
5. Free people and free markets.
6. Stopping unreliable and expensive solar.
7. Stopping the mutilation and sterilization of children.
Is this too much to ask?
For the above, I’m controversial and bitterly hated by numerous NE Dem state Senators and Dem politicos.
I turned off the camera in my iphone-7 after it turned on in my pocket and ran the battery to zero. Since then the battery has been holding charge unusually well, in addition to not running down in my pocket. I use a sony pocket camera for camera work. It has an actual button so you can take pictures without seeing the screen, too.
I need the iphone to work with non-contact veterinarians. Also good for emergency hotspot when home DSL goes down.
You don't want most people standing for anything.
I'm old. I prefer to remain seated....."Racism is an illness. Are you sick." This reminds of when they used to classify homosexuality as a mental illness....Everybody is a prejudiced. That's how our brains work. You tense up in the presence of The Other. MAGA hats, guys in heels and push up bras, different chokes for different folks.... Just now, a certain group of people is trying to define another group of people as mentally ill and/or evil if they look cross eyed at yet another group of people. My desperate plea for tolerance is that we should be accepting of those people who are intolerant but who, for the most part, live and let live provided you stay away from their children. Also, I'd give Scott Adams a break.
Let me tell you a little story. I do genealogical research about my family on Ancestry. The other day, I got a Find A Grave hint about one of my 4-great-grandfathers, Asa Houghton, who was born in Vermont and died in Ohio. Well, not only was there a picture of the grave site, but also a lengthy obituary and a reference to a genealogical history of the Houghton family going back to Lancaster, Massachusetts, where Ralph Houghton was one of the town's founders in 1653. He was born in Lancaster, Lancashire, England in 1623 and had come to Massachusetts sometime a few years before the founding of the namesake town. The town was destroyed by an Indian attack during King Philip's War in 1675, and the surviving colonists fled back to the Boston area, but in 1685, Ralph and his son James built the Ralph Houghton Garrison House in the town of Harvard, which was once part of Lancaster.
Now here's where the story gets weird. In 1981, after Army Basic Training at Fort Dix, New Jersey, I went to Fort Devens, Massachusetts for Advanced Individual Training at the Intelligence School there. In 1985, I returned to Fort Devens for an add-on course on the way to West Berlin. Fort Devens is located just west of the town of Ayer. Ayer is just to the northeast of Harvard, where my ancestors had built the house three hundred years earlier, and I had no idea. I looked on my map app and poked in the address for the Fort Devens Museum, which is on the same quad where my old barracks was, and the house in Harvard. The route diverts around a nature preserve, with a total distance of 9.5 miles. As the crow flies, it probably less than five miles. That close.
Now I have to go back to New England, not just to see that house, but also to see various other ancestral places in the other New England states. It was certainly interesting to find and read the book online, which had been published in 1912 by John Wesley Houghton, a son of Asa by his second marriage. My ancestor George W. Houghton was the son of Asa by his first marriage. To hear J.W. Houghton tell it, pretty much all of his relatives were of sterling character, although I guess it might have been awkward to say of living relatives at the time that they weren't the salt of the earth.
I stand for self-service gas.
And I stand for the Gospel
but I sit for the sermon.
And I stand for Trump and Zelensky
like a polar bear on a shrinking ice floe.
And I stand for DWMs
Viva DWMs and all their arts and sciences.
And I stand for free speech
and I stand for expensive speech
and I stand for ornamental speech.
But I can't stand CHAT AI speech.
I can't stand bland.
Civility bullshit wears shorts.
I stand here, waiting for spring.
I kneel, looking for snowdrops.
The knees of my jeans are soaking wet and cold.
I can't stand it.
I'm going in, sitting down and trying Jameson's.
I'll stand for something tomorrow. Maybe.
Viva Dave Begley. I saw part of your testimony.
The question is indeed ambiguous, but has at least three distinct meanings, not two.
My first thought was 'What do I stand for? The national anthem, of course. No kneeling here.'
I stand for "Truth, Justice, and the American Way"
I stand up for the Stars and Stripes. And when the band plays “Hail to the Orange.”
Great series of urban art photos. I haven't been to the lower east side of Manhattan in a bunch of years.
What streets were these from?
What I won’t stand for: people who refer to objective reality as “disinformation.”
The Presentation of the Colors.
The Hallelujah Chorus.
The best view I can get.
“I wish we traded more than tongues and chapsticks”.
I like that. It’s honest and (sadly)yearning.
In watching New Amsterdam, I am very impressed that such a show(multi-culture, woke) is able to be so fair-minded in doing a well-rounded job of showing both sides in the social/economic/political/medical spectrum.
It’s a great show.
I stand for: the old ways. The traditional, moralistic ways.
Once those are gone- we’re sunk.
Tim- guess you need a trip to the Kingdom.
It’ll bring back the spring in your step. For now.
… and I’m putting up w/wrestling a memory and trying not to lose.
I feel like Jacob wrestling w/G*d. My memory isn’t Him, though.
According to our own CIA, Joe Biden has driven China to consider arming Russia. The west can’t sanction China in any way that doesn’t pale in the context of a war over Taiwan, which the US is pushing. We won’t give Ukraine ATACMS, probably because we can’t spare them in light of the war the neocons are planning with China.
After getting a look at what modern industrial war actually looks like, no country wants to deplete their own stockpiles to defend Kiev’s right to impose the Ukrainian language on Donbas and Crimea, or its revenge fantasies on Russia. The war is all over but the killing and dying, and it’s time to recognize this fact.
Remember that none of this had to happen. It’s a neocon wet dream, and Joe Biden is a tool of the neocons.
Both side’s nuclear arsenals have probably served to restrict the war to Ukrainian territory, BTW.
I go our for a walk today and what do I see? Besides a beautiful warm winter day?
A family of 4.. mom, dad and two kids. They are all walking and staring at their phone screens.
The kids have blue hair.
What a pathetic sight.
We are willing to put up with a lot.
Link to tweet
It appears that UNC is taking a stand.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/university-north-carolina-moves-ban-diversity-equity-inclusion-statements-anti-woke-backlash
University of North Carolina moves to ban ‘diversity, equity and inclusion’ statements in anti-woke backlash
It's going to be interesting to see how that affects their incoming class. Will students decide that their own work may have a better chance at being graded on merit rather than adherence to D.E.I. principles, and thus decide in UNC's favor. Will such a decision sway 1L law students to select UNC rather than Notre Dame, UGA, Georgetown, or Univ. of Alabama? Or, will it sway them to decide against UNC rather than others. I'm going to check later this year and see how their incoming class ranks in regard to LSAT and GPA scores.
I suspect the backlash from faculty will be harsh since the faculty is already upset because the Chapel Hill Trustees have already voted to start a School of Civic Life and Leadership. A new academic unit featuring for-credit courses on history, literature, political science, and more. According to the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, the school will provide a space for UNC students to “explore American civic values with the full freedom of expression, intellectual diversity, and open inquiry that such studies require.” How dare they!!???
Here is a sample of what Scott Adams was talking about. (no worries, it's not a physical violent clip)
I stand for humor.
Unexpectedly
Hint: Joe Rogan clip
'Is like having a baby' is a dying metaphor... or, 'We are having a baby' is just a pronoun reveal; until the mass abortion protest... or something.
Link to YouTube clip
Hint: the unexpected is the hardest thing to see.
The elephant in the room is in agony
Hint: Tonight's SNL opening monologue is not going to be on any future DVD release.
"The west can’t sanction China in any way that doesn’t pale in the context of a war over Taiwan, which the US is pushing. "
Why in the world would "the US" (not sure what entities you're referring to here) want a war over Taiwan? That would be a disaster.
Remember when Lefties were AGHAST they found out that Sarah Palin was okay with hunting wolves by Helicopter?? Now, this administration is going to shoot COWS who are stepping on grasses in a 3 million acre reserve. They aren't even going to harvest the meat for the poor. Where is the outrage?? That's right. When a Progressive is in office, there is no rage.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/spencerbrown/2023/02/25/so-the-federal-government-is-shooting-cows-from-helicopters-in-new-mexico-n2619956
I think that war with China over Taiwan is a stupid idea, and yet...
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-general-predicts-country-war-134622647.html
We have abandoned "strategic ambiguity" on Taiwan, and made it clear that we would fight to defend Taiwan in the case of any military threat by mainland China. Biden has said this out loud, even though the generals tried to walk it back, you know Biden is most likely just repeating what he hears in his briefings that he is supposed to shut up about. The major argument inside the Pentagon over Ukraine, per some observers who seem to me to make a lot of sense, is that we are depleting our arsenal and destroying the military credibility of any US defense of Taiwan.
In any event, China surely has a basis to believe that the US is planning a military operation against it, and China surely accepts, as do almost all countries outside the western propaganda bubble, that the US instigated this war in Ukraine, and that the US is just as likely to instigate a war over Taiwan, as it has instigated so many wars I the past, and the US likely wants to do so before China becomes so strong that winning will be impossible. It may be too late for that one. Especially after this pointless Ukrainian debacle.
Whether you believe China is right or not, Biden's big mouth and crappy diplomacy has driven China and Russia into each other's arms; that can't be denied. Throw in Iran, which can shut down the Straits of Hormuz, even if it takes punishing blows by the US, and it's quite a hornets' nest that Biden is leading us into.
Clyde: I know Houghtons, from VT.
Check out Caledonia County.
The ones I know are good folk. Mingled w/a little French blood now b/c a niece of my husband’s(my niece, his lineage)has a child w/a Houghton.
Small world, if related.
@ farmgirl, it’s quite possible. That Houghton book is available online through archive.org. I knew even back then that I had some New Englanders in the family tree, but today, so much more info can be found.
"...China surely accepts, as do almost all countries outside the western propaganda bubble, that the US instigated this war in Ukraine..."
Un, no. This is not a war but a "special military operation" in which Russia assembled a 250K troops on Ukraine's Eastern border and then invaded. Almost all "countries" not named Vermont observed this, so the term "accepted" is not germane.
So Tim, now that Russia's little misadventure in Ukraine has turned into a tar baby for them, you are now segueing to supporting China in a confrontation with your own country? Are there nothing but Nazis in Tiawan, too? Or is it that the US is full of nothing but Nazis? Don't you think it's time you shelved your own propaganda campaign? Here's a hint: you are not convincing anyone.
"...China surely accepts, as do almost all countries outside the western propaganda bubble, that the US instigated this war in Ukraine..."
A violent coup, essential services denied, services provided by a force already legally present, a vote for help from a neighbor, eight years of conflict, US aid for a progressive condition, another region another request, a military/para-military axis assault and torture of the people, an apartheid regime in Kiev, an American vice/president visits to cover up his trail of lust and abortion with "benefits"... a Slavic Spring in the World War Spring series and legacy.
Well. Tim. The longer this goes on the less likely restraint is going to be observed. One side is going to go scorched earth to end it. But the Democrat graft must flow no matter who dies.
jaydub said...
So, now that the US's little misadventure in Ukraine has turned into a tar baby for us, we are SCREWED
fify!
1 year from now, how will this war be going?
10 years from now, how will this war be going?
please show examples from other American adventures to support your predictions.
what WAS the last war America won?
CapMetro buses in Austin have 'notice' declaring = Stand for What is Right - it is the law
as exhort/[extort] offering seats to elderly etc.
Political Junkie said...
Vivek for R nomination. Kim R - IA for VP!
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for your analytic machine>> you are probably already aware could happen
Inida orgin PM in UK
Paskitan origin first ninister in Scotland
"For the above, I’m controversial and bitterly hated by numerous NE Dem state Senators and Dem politicos."
Such self-importance! What makes you think they even notice you?
"I stand for 'Truth, Justice, and the American Way.'"
You're being self-contradictory.
We have abandoned "strategic ambiguity" on Taiwan, and made it clear that we would fight to defend Taiwan in the case of any military threat by mainland China. Biden has said this out loud, even though the generals tried to walk it back, you know Biden is most likely just repeating what he hears in his briefings that he is supposed to shut up about. The major argument inside the Pentagon over Ukraine, per some observers who seem to me to make a lot of sense, is that we are depleting our arsenal and destroying the military credibility of any US defense of Taiwan.
Yup. The next war we are in, we will lose. The left has hollowed out the military and given away our weapons. I hope I do not see it.
"University of North Carolina moves to ban ‘diversity, equity and inclusion’ statements in anti-woke backlash."
And thus the new dark age comes in on soft feet (and bellicose voices).
"When a Progressive is in office, there is no rage."
You make the mistake of assuming the Democrats (by and large) are "progressives."
"Yup. The next war we are in, we will lose. The left has hollowed out the military and given away our weapons. I hope I do not see it."
Yes, we'll probably lose it, as we have our last several wars. However, your notion "the left" (sic) "has hollowed out the military and given away our weapons" is a colossal and staggering delusion.
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