Now they are power brokers? Where did that come from? All I said in the beginning was that they put Trump in there to help Hillary win, and it backfired on them. Just "they", no bold type, no capital letters. I never said it was a big international conspiracy, or a secret cabal, or anything like that. I seem to remember reading something once about the paper tiger device. I think it comes from India or someplace else where man eating tigers used to be a problem. If the villagers were unable to effectively deal with a marauding tiger, they would make a paper tiger upon which they would vent their rage and frustration. So it is said, even unto this day that, when a person attacks an argument that his opponent never made, he is using the paper tiger device.
Granted, I used to be a card carrying member of the John Birch Society, but that was a long time ago. I have explained, more than once, on this forum, that I no longer believe that they are all in it together, but I still believe that they are all in it. Everybody wants to stick it to the man, but they can't even agree on which man to stick it to. If, as Uncle Ken said, some of the same people who voted for Obama also voted for Trump, it would seem to indicate that they can't even make up their individual minds about which man they want to stick it to. Apparently they don't care who they stick it to, as long as they stick it to somebody. Well this time they stuck it to themselves. Good for them!
Thursday, June 15, 2017
How about that Ronda Rousey?
I have noticed those Hep C commercials and their stress on us old farts. like here is something especially for us because we all marched against the war together and we all listened to Country Joe and the Fish together and now we can all take their Hep C medicine together because we all used needles to inject illegal drugs together. Back in the day I remember there was some talk of Hep C in relation to needles, but I haven't heard much about it since then until these commercials.
Well haven't people been using needles all along? I reckon they have, and I reckon those people use the Hep C medicine, but maybe not enough of them, so now the marketeers see a new group of consumers in those of us old farts who messed with needles in the day but dropped the bad habit and now lead perfectly respectable lives. That's why they show the oldsters in the commercial wandering around through a redwood forest walking tall and clear-eyed.
How about that psoriasis commercial where it acts like the psoriason has been shunned by society but now has the strength of mind to step forward and take the medicine and can now join the mainstream world and leave the leper colony? Anymore you don't just take medicine to get well, you take it as a bold step to actuate your reality, some shit like that.
See now if I go to that Viking article I will have to read the whole thing to glean whatever point the Old Finn wants to promote, which is probably just a part of the article, so why doesn't the Old Finn, who has read it and knows, just write out those points in the univied halls?
Nephew, grand-second-in-law-twice-removed nephew, potato, red-skinned-Irish-twice-backed tater tot. I was hoping the mention of Ms Rousey would get this staid stuck-in-the-mud forum, into a little more exotic territory. I swear the old Finn was sitting there in his horned hat speaking Viking when she lit up the screen of the staid stick-in-the-mud Ten Cat.
Yeah that shooting has hijacked the news. Okay it is a big deal, but the facts aren't that many and are all known so why go on and on and on about it? All they are doing is asking politicians and other pundits what they think of it, and what they think of it, as the Onion trenchantly pointed it out, is that it proved whatever point the pol or pundit wanted to make. At the ending they all murmured piously that they hoped it would bring us all together, which of course it won't.
Those people, those people who voted for Trump, not Them, the power brokers Who influenced those deplorables to vote for Trump in order to advance the chances of the big girl, I believe generally wanted to stick it to the man. A lot of them were previous Obama voters, who I guess they also thought would stick it to the man, albeit more gently with Change we can believe in, and Yes we can (whatever those meant), Even those of us (and he knows who he is) who thought Obama was a wild-eyed commie would have to concede that he always behaved well and worked towards something he believed in, unlike the cranky baby now in the high chair. Anyway they still take polls, they come out about once a week like always. They almost always ask the Trunpists why they love him and invariably they answer because they trust him to do whatever and that is the extent of their beliefs.
Fact and spell-checked and now I have only to think of a title, something to catch the attention of my colleagues. Whatever shall it be?
Well haven't people been using needles all along? I reckon they have, and I reckon those people use the Hep C medicine, but maybe not enough of them, so now the marketeers see a new group of consumers in those of us old farts who messed with needles in the day but dropped the bad habit and now lead perfectly respectable lives. That's why they show the oldsters in the commercial wandering around through a redwood forest walking tall and clear-eyed.
How about that psoriasis commercial where it acts like the psoriason has been shunned by society but now has the strength of mind to step forward and take the medicine and can now join the mainstream world and leave the leper colony? Anymore you don't just take medicine to get well, you take it as a bold step to actuate your reality, some shit like that.
See now if I go to that Viking article I will have to read the whole thing to glean whatever point the Old Finn wants to promote, which is probably just a part of the article, so why doesn't the Old Finn, who has read it and knows, just write out those points in the univied halls?
Nephew, grand-second-in-law-twice-removed nephew, potato, red-skinned-Irish-twice-backed tater tot. I was hoping the mention of Ms Rousey would get this staid stuck-in-the-mud forum, into a little more exotic territory. I swear the old Finn was sitting there in his horned hat speaking Viking when she lit up the screen of the staid stick-in-the-mud Ten Cat.
Yeah that shooting has hijacked the news. Okay it is a big deal, but the facts aren't that many and are all known so why go on and on and on about it? All they are doing is asking politicians and other pundits what they think of it, and what they think of it, as the Onion trenchantly pointed it out, is that it proved whatever point the pol or pundit wanted to make. At the ending they all murmured piously that they hoped it would bring us all together, which of course it won't.
Those people, those people who voted for Trump, not Them, the power brokers Who influenced those deplorables to vote for Trump in order to advance the chances of the big girl, I believe generally wanted to stick it to the man. A lot of them were previous Obama voters, who I guess they also thought would stick it to the man, albeit more gently with Change we can believe in, and Yes we can (whatever those meant), Even those of us (and he knows who he is) who thought Obama was a wild-eyed commie would have to concede that he always behaved well and worked towards something he believed in, unlike the cranky baby now in the high chair. Anyway they still take polls, they come out about once a week like always. They almost always ask the Trunpists why they love him and invariably they answer because they trust him to do whatever and that is the extent of their beliefs.
Fact and spell-checked and now I have only to think of a title, something to catch the attention of my colleagues. Whatever shall it be?
Wednesday, June 14, 2017
Who Elected Trump?
I did not vote for Trump, Uncle Ken did not vote for Trump, Old Dog did not vote for Trump, none of us voted for Trump. Therefore, they must have voted for Trump. Of course all of them didn't vote for Trump, some of them voted for Hillary, some of them voted for third party candidates, and some of them didn't vote for anybody. Speaking for myself, we voted for third party candidates. I wouldn't say that they voted for third party candidates because I am included in the group. When speaking to you guys, I wouldn't say that they voted for Hillary, I would say that you guys voted for Hillary.
I doubt that all of them voted for Trump for the same reason. Some of them might have actually liked him, as incomprehensible as that may seem to us. Some of them might have wanted to "stick it to the man", as Uncle Ken has suggested. As many contexts as there are for the word "man", I think it's reasonable to assume that the man they wanted to stick it to was the Republican man. Well, that was just in the primary. In the general election, some of them might have wanted to stick it to the Democrat man, and some of them might have wanted to stick it to all men regardless of race, color, or creed. With all the polls that were taken before the election, were there any polls taken after the election? I have read about how a certain percentage of Blacks, Whites, women, and other sub groups voted, but I don't recall anybody asking them why.
I doubt that all of them voted for Trump for the same reason. Some of them might have actually liked him, as incomprehensible as that may seem to us. Some of them might have wanted to "stick it to the man", as Uncle Ken has suggested. As many contexts as there are for the word "man", I think it's reasonable to assume that the man they wanted to stick it to was the Republican man. Well, that was just in the primary. In the general election, some of them might have wanted to stick it to the Democrat man, and some of them might have wanted to stick it to all men regardless of race, color, or creed. With all the polls that were taken before the election, were there any polls taken after the election? I have read about how a certain percentage of Blacks, Whites, women, and other sub groups voted, but I don't recall anybody asking them why.
Boom or bust
Another annoying television commercial has been in heavy rotation, but it's specifically targeted to the Baby Boomers. Did you realize that we are at risk for Hepatitis C? Me neither. I had to dig a little to get the skinny on this health threat and it seems a bit alarmist to me. Sure, Hep C may not have dramatic symptoms and can be inactive for decades but unless you've had a blood transfusion or shared needles with your druggie pals back in the day there is minimal risk. I suppose any backroom tattoos could be a risk factor, too.
I wonder about those commercials for other prescription medications. Is it a plot by Big Medical/Big Insurance to get otherwise healthy people to become hypochondriacs? As we age we can become less mentally astute and I think we may succumb to the power of suggestion. There is a pill for everything, I guess, except common sense.
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The recent discussions of the English language remind me of an article (from 2015) that I read recently It goes on at length on why the English language is so strange and difficult to learn compared to other tongues. Plenty of blame to go around with all the different sources for our vocabulary (German, French, Greek, Latin, et al.) but what surprised me was the influence of the Vikings. It may be of more than passing interest, and you can find it here: https://aeon.co/essays/why-is-english-so-weirdly-different-from-other-languages
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Perhaps I didn't make myself clear. I don't have a nephew named Rocco. The lad in question is the son of my brother-in-law's nephew. Apologies are humbly offered for the lack of clarity
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As I suspected, that testimony by the Attorney General was a big nothing. The pundits seems mixed in their opinions, but I haven't followed it too closely. No big winners or losers, so I'll call it a draw. If I hadn't nodded off during the proceedings I might have a different point of view. I bet the closed-session testimonies are a lot meatier and I'm surprised nothing has leaked so far.
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And talking about Baby Boomers, today's big story is the Bernie supporter, aged 66, who took fifty potshots with a rifle at a group of Republicans, hitting one (not fatally). I bet he was off his meds.
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I find it more difficult to come up with a good subject title than it is to write the whole damn posting. After the short discussion of the Paris Accord I was going to use "We'll always have Paris," but then I thought, no, too obvious. And then Mr Beagles used it, so I had to smile. Great minds think alike.
I wonder about those commercials for other prescription medications. Is it a plot by Big Medical/Big Insurance to get otherwise healthy people to become hypochondriacs? As we age we can become less mentally astute and I think we may succumb to the power of suggestion. There is a pill for everything, I guess, except common sense.
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The recent discussions of the English language remind me of an article (from 2015) that I read recently It goes on at length on why the English language is so strange and difficult to learn compared to other tongues. Plenty of blame to go around with all the different sources for our vocabulary (German, French, Greek, Latin, et al.) but what surprised me was the influence of the Vikings. It may be of more than passing interest, and you can find it here: https://aeon.co/essays/why-is-english-so-weirdly-different-from-other-languages
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Perhaps I didn't make myself clear. I don't have a nephew named Rocco. The lad in question is the son of my brother-in-law's nephew. Apologies are humbly offered for the lack of clarity
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As I suspected, that testimony by the Attorney General was a big nothing. The pundits seems mixed in their opinions, but I haven't followed it too closely. No big winners or losers, so I'll call it a draw. If I hadn't nodded off during the proceedings I might have a different point of view. I bet the closed-session testimonies are a lot meatier and I'm surprised nothing has leaked so far.
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And talking about Baby Boomers, today's big story is the Bernie supporter, aged 66, who took fifty potshots with a rifle at a group of Republicans, hitting one (not fatally). I bet he was off his meds.
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I find it more difficult to come up with a good subject title than it is to write the whole damn posting. After the short discussion of the Paris Accord I was going to use "We'll always have Paris," but then I thought, no, too obvious. And then Mr Beagles used it, so I had to smile. Great minds think alike.
Dat's Da Man
I do indeed speak of the man in the street, but he's just walking along State Street or Ashland Avenue or wherever, he's not a part of a group that thinks up Rube Goldberg stunts to put people in power. Back in the day, there was Man, like Oh, Man, whuzzup Man, which was not the same as The Man.
I was thinking that the expression The Man predated hippies. I was remembering The Midnight Special by Johnny Cash, which I think was before the sixties and where if you complained about no food in your pan you got in trouble with the man. But internet research reveals that this song goes past Leadbelly into the foggy ruins of time. I love those old blues songs where nobody knows who wrote them and sometimes a phrase will drift in and out of songs and really make no sense but when the old Delta guy is banging his geetar and spitting out the words they are like the truest words ever spoken, oh Man.
Yonder comes Miss Rosie. How in the world do you know?
Well, I know her by the apron and the dress she wore.
Umbrella on her shoulder, piece of paper in her hand,
Well, I'm callin' that Captain, "Turn a-loose my man."
Why is she wearing an apron? Why is she carrying an umbrella? Don't matter Man, she's come to turn-a-loose her man,.
But anyway that phrase about The Man goes back to at least 1905, and it seems likely that the phrase was picked from this song to become a popular hippie phrase. It sounded so cool Man, to be talking about The Man putting his heel across across your neck, Man. But The Man was like the police, the gummint, the people in power. They never acted shadowy, they did not use misdirection, they were right in your face Man,
I was happy to see Trump win the nomination. I watched every debate and came away with a smug smile because after that outrageous performance how could anybody elect that clown? Still, if the big girl had to lose, I'd rather she lost to Trump than say Cruz. I hate to imagine a unified republican party in power. As some said about Trump, at least he is erratic, I would rather have Trump as the kidney stone in the urethra of the Republican party than have them peeing freely on us.
I never cared much for the word establishment. It was not a word that we used among ourselves, it was a word that the establishment put in our mouths when they put actors playing us on their tv shows or in their movies (Why is it on tv shows and in movies? No wonder English is so hard to learn). I notice now that the Trumpists rail against the establishment a lot. They are kind of like later day hippies, except that they don't believe in peace or love.
Before I make a posting I reread what I've written for typos and to see if it makes any sense (not well enough according to some, so be it), and I try to think of a title. I was thinking I'd respond to Beagles' title by using Dat's Da Man, but Da Man is not at all the same as The Man. You know I'm going to use it anyway because I don't have all morning, but once again no wonder it is so hard to learn English. It's a wonder we can write it,
I was thinking that the expression The Man predated hippies. I was remembering The Midnight Special by Johnny Cash, which I think was before the sixties and where if you complained about no food in your pan you got in trouble with the man. But internet research reveals that this song goes past Leadbelly into the foggy ruins of time. I love those old blues songs where nobody knows who wrote them and sometimes a phrase will drift in and out of songs and really make no sense but when the old Delta guy is banging his geetar and spitting out the words they are like the truest words ever spoken, oh Man.
Yonder comes Miss Rosie. How in the world do you know?
Well, I know her by the apron and the dress she wore.
Umbrella on her shoulder, piece of paper in her hand,
Well, I'm callin' that Captain, "Turn a-loose my man."
Why is she wearing an apron? Why is she carrying an umbrella? Don't matter Man, she's come to turn-a-loose her man,.
But anyway that phrase about The Man goes back to at least 1905, and it seems likely that the phrase was picked from this song to become a popular hippie phrase. It sounded so cool Man, to be talking about The Man putting his heel across across your neck, Man. But The Man was like the police, the gummint, the people in power. They never acted shadowy, they did not use misdirection, they were right in your face Man,
I was happy to see Trump win the nomination. I watched every debate and came away with a smug smile because after that outrageous performance how could anybody elect that clown? Still, if the big girl had to lose, I'd rather she lost to Trump than say Cruz. I hate to imagine a unified republican party in power. As some said about Trump, at least he is erratic, I would rather have Trump as the kidney stone in the urethra of the Republican party than have them peeing freely on us.
I never cared much for the word establishment. It was not a word that we used among ourselves, it was a word that the establishment put in our mouths when they put actors playing us on their tv shows or in their movies (Why is it on tv shows and in movies? No wonder English is so hard to learn). I notice now that the Trumpists rail against the establishment a lot. They are kind of like later day hippies, except that they don't believe in peace or love.
Before I make a posting I reread what I've written for typos and to see if it makes any sense (not well enough according to some, so be it), and I try to think of a title. I was thinking I'd respond to Beagles' title by using Dat's Da Man, but Da Man is not at all the same as The Man. You know I'm going to use it anyway because I don't have all morning, but once again no wonder it is so hard to learn English. It's a wonder we can write it,
Tuesday, June 13, 2017
Who da Man?
Uncle Ken is critical of my use of the word "they", yet he talks about "the man in the street". I seem to remember that Uncle Ken once asserted that some people voted for Trump because they wanted to "stick it to the man". I also seem to remember that, back in the 60s, Uncle Ken and his ilk used to refer to the police as "the man". If all these men are the same man, then this guy must really get around. If they are not the same person, then why does Uncle Ken use the singular "man" instead of the plural "men"? Of course, Uncle Ken is not the only person who does this. Lots of people refer to "the White man" or "the Black man". At least when I say "they", everybody knows that I don't think there's only one of them.
I never said that the people who put Trump in office were a "specific, if unnamed, cabal of powerbrokers." All I said was that they nominated Trump to help Hillary win, and it backfired on them. I seem to remember that Uncle Ken was happy to see Trump get the nomination because he thought it would turn the White House and the Congress over to the Democrats. Could it be that he was the only person who believed this? Not bloody likely!
I have heard in the news multiple times that the "Republican Establishment" did not want Trump to win the nomination. This sounds more like a specific cabal of powerbrokers, although not an unnamed one. We used to talk about the Establishment back in the 60s, but apparently there is more than one of them too. Like I previously said, they may not be all in it together, but I'm pretty sure that they're all in it.
I never said that the people who put Trump in office were a "specific, if unnamed, cabal of powerbrokers." All I said was that they nominated Trump to help Hillary win, and it backfired on them. I seem to remember that Uncle Ken was happy to see Trump get the nomination because he thought it would turn the White House and the Congress over to the Democrats. Could it be that he was the only person who believed this? Not bloody likely!
I have heard in the news multiple times that the "Republican Establishment" did not want Trump to win the nomination. This sounds more like a specific cabal of powerbrokers, although not an unnamed one. We used to talk about the Establishment back in the 60s, but apparently there is more than one of them too. Like I previously said, they may not be all in it together, but I'm pretty sure that they're all in it.
the inmates are steering the jolly ship of state?
One of the things I like about the Ten Cat is that the sound is never on for the tv sets and they are only on for sports events. As soon as the event is over the bartender clicks them off. Well not exactly, some games are on sports channels and before and after the games there is a sort of sports gossip going on and sometimes that it is allowed to linger and that's how it happened that one night (might have been in October), Old Dog might have been there, I'm not sure, we learned about Ronda Rousy, the female kickboxer, ultimate fighter, sensation. What reminded me of this event is Old Dog's mention of his nephew with his cool name, Rocco Ronzi. Maybe the two of them should get together and with Ms Rousy in the family the next time I disrespectfully disagreed with Old Dog he could just suggest that I speak to Ronda about that, and then I would see that he was right after all.
There has always been something salacious about women fighting. There used to be something called G. L. O. W. The Gorgeous Ladies Of Wrestling. But that was wrestling and it was more stupid and funny than sexy, although the ladies were babes. Well I see that I am getting a little off the high path of The Institute here. Wasn't one of the correspondents here going on and on about Nicki Minaj's fake butt about a year ago? Really.
Back to the subject of They, I think there is a difference between they say, where they stands for basically the man in the street, and They are running Trump in order to help Hilary, where They is a specific, if unnamed, cabal of powerbrokers. It's that unnamed thing, it's what makes conspiracy theories so hard to combat, if there were specifics to the plot they promote they could easily be disproved, but they are generally so vague that they can't easily be refuted. Not that being refuted ends them, they just roll along.
But speaking of they say, this is one of Trump's favorite tropes, whenever he wants to back up his lies he simply says he is repeating what they say, sometimes he dresses up them as 'smart people' or 'smart lawyers,' Did anybody catch yesterday's meeting of his cabinet where he brought in the cameras to record each and every one of them (I think Mattis was an exception) outdoing the other in proclaiming what a great honor it was for them to serve this great man?
Did you see Schumer's response to that? How about the Covfefe Act: Communications Over Various Feeds Electronically for Engagement, which would preserve the presidential tweets for posterity? Oh what laughs we have as the ship of state goes over the falls.
I hadn't heard the term Streisand effect before, but I am familiar with the phenomenon.. But it's not like Donald is any kind of strategist. I notice that the guy who wrote The Art of the Deal is on CNN now. He was no fan of Trump but he did it for the money, thinking he would have a series of interviews with Trump and use them to write the book, but then discovered that Trump was incapable of doing an interview over five minutes because that is as long as his attention span lasts. Trump is simply a guy with no discipline who has been surrounded by yes men all his life and that completely describes his behavior.
I think this Sessions thing will be a bust in that he will just refuse to answer questions that he doesn't feel are appropriate like those three clowns who were interviewed just before Comey. But I'll probably watch anyway because I just can't look away. Just can't.
And then there is Dennis Rodman. Is he an agent of Trump? Is he being used by Them? Is he one of Them Himself? I am thinking of the inmates running the asylum effect.
There has always been something salacious about women fighting. There used to be something called G. L. O. W. The Gorgeous Ladies Of Wrestling. But that was wrestling and it was more stupid and funny than sexy, although the ladies were babes. Well I see that I am getting a little off the high path of The Institute here. Wasn't one of the correspondents here going on and on about Nicki Minaj's fake butt about a year ago? Really.
Back to the subject of They, I think there is a difference between they say, where they stands for basically the man in the street, and They are running Trump in order to help Hilary, where They is a specific, if unnamed, cabal of powerbrokers. It's that unnamed thing, it's what makes conspiracy theories so hard to combat, if there were specifics to the plot they promote they could easily be disproved, but they are generally so vague that they can't easily be refuted. Not that being refuted ends them, they just roll along.
But speaking of they say, this is one of Trump's favorite tropes, whenever he wants to back up his lies he simply says he is repeating what they say, sometimes he dresses up them as 'smart people' or 'smart lawyers,' Did anybody catch yesterday's meeting of his cabinet where he brought in the cameras to record each and every one of them (I think Mattis was an exception) outdoing the other in proclaiming what a great honor it was for them to serve this great man?
Did you see Schumer's response to that? How about the Covfefe Act: Communications Over Various Feeds Electronically for Engagement, which would preserve the presidential tweets for posterity? Oh what laughs we have as the ship of state goes over the falls.
I hadn't heard the term Streisand effect before, but I am familiar with the phenomenon.. But it's not like Donald is any kind of strategist. I notice that the guy who wrote The Art of the Deal is on CNN now. He was no fan of Trump but he did it for the money, thinking he would have a series of interviews with Trump and use them to write the book, but then discovered that Trump was incapable of doing an interview over five minutes because that is as long as his attention span lasts. Trump is simply a guy with no discipline who has been surrounded by yes men all his life and that completely describes his behavior.
I think this Sessions thing will be a bust in that he will just refuse to answer questions that he doesn't feel are appropriate like those three clowns who were interviewed just before Comey. But I'll probably watch anyway because I just can't look away. Just can't.
And then there is Dennis Rodman. Is he an agent of Trump? Is he being used by Them? Is he one of Them Himself? I am thinking of the inmates running the asylum effect.
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