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1.) Swamp Fox - 07/28/2016
We know that the Fifth Dimension is The Twilight Zone, and the Sixth Dimension is where God is said to exist. In Dimensions Seven through Eight, it gets even trickier, and by the Ninth Dimension I, personally, am completely lost, but your consciousness may vary.
So I don't know if there's a Dimension that handles this already, but there must be a plane for the loonosphere. I assume it has a higher number than where my development was arrested, but maybe not.
Can you have negative planes? Especially for this kind of thing? -----
[B][SIZE=4]Are men who identify as women being denied their reproductive rights? ‘That’s a major part of the discussion’[/SIZE][/B]
[I]Actress Amber Tamblyn admitted she has much to learn about the reproductive rights of trans women, and whether men who self-identify as women can get abortions.
The Atlantic and Refinery29 hosted a panel discussion entitled “Young Women Rising: America’s Next Top Voter?” during the Democratic National Convention, Tuesday evening.
Following a 30-minute conversation on “intersectionality” and millennial feminism, a reporter asked the panel for its thoughts on reproductive rights and women’s health issues for men who ascribe to a female gender identity.
Ayanna Pressley, a Boston city councilor at-large, said the issue of men who identify as women getting abortions is all about “elevated consciousness.”
[...]
When asked if trans women are “being denied their reproductive rights” Pressley was stumped.
“You got me on that one.”
Tamblyn chimed in, arguing that the reproductive rights of trans women are at the forefront of the conversation at Planned Parenthood, where the Grudge 2 star sits on the board of directors.
“I wouldn’t know any statistics on that but I would say that goes again with the same notion of community, and fighting for everyone together,” Tamblyn said. “That for me as a heterosexual white woman to talk about reproductive rights and sit on the board of directors for Planned Parenthood, I have to not just talk about my people. I have to talk about everybody. And that’s a huge thing, and that’s a major part of the discussion.”
Tamblyn admitted she has a lot to learn about whether biological men are being denied abortions.
“The fact that I don’t know, the fact that I don’t have an answer should tell you a lot,” she said. “About what I need to learn.”
[/I]
More babbling and video proof that some humans can survive without brains here:
[url]http://freebeacon.com/politics/amber-tamblyn-lot-learn-trans-womens-reproductive-rights/[/url]
So I don't know if there's a Dimension that handles this already, but there must be a plane for the loonosphere. I assume it has a higher number than where my development was arrested, but maybe not.
Can you have negative planes? Especially for this kind of thing? -----
[B][SIZE=4]Are men who identify as women being denied their reproductive rights? ‘That’s a major part of the discussion’[/SIZE][/B]
[I]Actress Amber Tamblyn admitted she has much to learn about the reproductive rights of trans women, and whether men who self-identify as women can get abortions.
The Atlantic and Refinery29 hosted a panel discussion entitled “Young Women Rising: America’s Next Top Voter?” during the Democratic National Convention, Tuesday evening.
Following a 30-minute conversation on “intersectionality” and millennial feminism, a reporter asked the panel for its thoughts on reproductive rights and women’s health issues for men who ascribe to a female gender identity.
Ayanna Pressley, a Boston city councilor at-large, said the issue of men who identify as women getting abortions is all about “elevated consciousness.”
[...]
When asked if trans women are “being denied their reproductive rights” Pressley was stumped.
“You got me on that one.”
Tamblyn chimed in, arguing that the reproductive rights of trans women are at the forefront of the conversation at Planned Parenthood, where the Grudge 2 star sits on the board of directors.
“I wouldn’t know any statistics on that but I would say that goes again with the same notion of community, and fighting for everyone together,” Tamblyn said. “That for me as a heterosexual white woman to talk about reproductive rights and sit on the board of directors for Planned Parenthood, I have to not just talk about my people. I have to talk about everybody. And that’s a huge thing, and that’s a major part of the discussion.”
Tamblyn admitted she has a lot to learn about whether biological men are being denied abortions.
“The fact that I don’t know, the fact that I don’t have an answer should tell you a lot,” she said. “About what I need to learn.”
[/I]
More babbling and video proof that some humans can survive without brains here:
[url]http://freebeacon.com/politics/amber-tamblyn-lot-learn-trans-womens-reproductive-rights/[/url]
2.) bluecat - 07/28/2016
:laugh:
3.) bluecat - 07/28/2016
I have officially heard it all now.
4.) bluecat - 07/28/2016
Life meet art, art this is life.
5.) Swamp Fox - 07/28/2016
Ahead of their time, weren't they, those Python boys...:-)
6.) bluecat - 07/28/2016
Yep, I'll tell you another one that was ahead of their time, Theodor Geisel aka Dr. Seuss. There was so much good advice and humor in the simplest of books. He was brilliant.
7.) DParker - 07/28/2016
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;42654]We know that the Fifth Dimension is The Twilight Zone[/QUOTE]
{Rod Serling}
Submitted for your approval...
{/Rod Serling}
[video=youtube;kjxSCAalsBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjxSCAalsBE[/video]
{Rod Serling}
Submitted for your approval...
{/Rod Serling}
[video=youtube;kjxSCAalsBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjxSCAalsBE[/video]
8.) bluecat - 07/28/2016
How could those people perform in an oxygenless environment? I'm calling foul.
9.) DParker - 07/28/2016
[QUOTE=bluecat;42668]How could those people perform in an oxygenless environment?[/QUOTE]
The same way someone with no uterus can have a baby.
[URL="http://everydayfeminism.com/2015/11/trans-women-reproductive-justice/"]http://everydayfeminism.com/2015/11/trans-women-reproductive-justice/[/URL]
The same way someone with no uterus can have a baby.
[URL="http://everydayfeminism.com/2015/11/trans-women-reproductive-justice/"]http://everydayfeminism.com/2015/11/trans-women-reproductive-justice/[/URL]
10.) Swamp Fox - 07/28/2016
LOL...
11.) DParker - 07/28/2016
BTW, depending on whether your subscribe to the current variants of String Theory or M-Theory, the mathematics of those theories say that the number of spacetime dimensions is either 10 or 11...which is disturbing, considering that the 4 we can perceive are already wearing me out every day.
12.) Swamp Fox - 07/28/2016
[QUOTE=DParker;42675]BTW, depending on whether your subscribe to the current variants of String Theory or M-Theory, the mathematics of those theories say that the number of spacetime dimensions is either 10 or 11...which is disturbing, considering that the 4 we can perceive are already wearing me out every day.[/QUOTE]
See, that's what I'm on about...:wink..I had to stop at 9, but I got a sense that if I kept googling I might go down a worm hole or something...And I'm already having trouble with the current rabbit hole as it is...
See, that's what I'm on about...:wink..I had to stop at 9, but I got a sense that if I kept googling I might go down a worm hole or something...And I'm already having trouble with the current rabbit hole as it is...
13.) DParker - 07/28/2016
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;42681]See, that's what I'm on about...:wink[/QUOTE]
Yes, I saw those extra dimensions repressin' you. It's just the violence inherent in the system.
Yes, I saw those extra dimensions repressin' you. It's just the violence inherent in the system.
14.) Swamp Fox - 07/28/2016
[I]Our power doesn't come from some self-declared savior promising that he alone can restore order as long as we do things his way. We don't look to be ruled.
[/I]
---Barack Obama, Slower of the Rise of the Oceans, and Planet-Healer, a convention hall in Philadelphia, 2016
[I]
"Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony." [/I]
---Dennis, serf, a muddy field in Britain, 932 A.D.
[/I]
---Barack Obama, Slower of the Rise of the Oceans, and Planet-Healer, a convention hall in Philadelphia, 2016
[I]
"Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony." [/I]
---Dennis, serf, a muddy field in Britain, 932 A.D.
15.) bluecat - 07/28/2016
:tu:
16.) DParker - 07/28/2016
What this country really needs is more moistened bints and watery tarts.
17.) Swamp Fox - 07/28/2016
Plus we need more information on ISIS's position on global warming, LOL
Take a minute and a half to ponder this if you can't hang in for all the interviews ( 3 minutes and change)
This guy leaves the other lefties in his dust...though Ashley Judd makes her own statement:
Take a minute and a half to ponder this if you can't hang in for all the interviews ( 3 minutes and change)
This guy leaves the other lefties in his dust...though Ashley Judd makes her own statement:
18.) DParker - 07/28/2016
Ashley Judd is one of those "If she weren't good looking nobody would talk to her" women. Plus, she's got toys in the attic.
Bonus points for working in the Slim Pickens/Blazing Saddles clip though.
Bonus points for working in the Slim Pickens/Blazing Saddles clip though.
19.) bluecat - 07/28/2016
It was nice impersonation of Jesus by Mathew McConaughy.
20.) bluecat - 07/28/2016
[QUOTE=DParker;42698]Ashley Judd is one of those "If she weren't good looking nobody would talk to her" women. Plus, she's got toys in the attic.
Bonus points for working in the Slim Pickens/Blazing Saddles clip though.[/QUOTE]
She sure didn't like being called a girl...LOL! The humanity!
Bonus points for working in the Slim Pickens/Blazing Saddles clip though.[/QUOTE]
She sure didn't like being called a girl...LOL! The humanity!
21.) Swamp Fox - 07/28/2016
Whoever does the drop-ins or whatever they're called does a really good job on these segments. I especially liked the Gene Wilder and Jim Carrey appearances in this one.
22.) Swamp Fox - 07/28/2016
[QUOTE=bluecat;42699]It was nice impersonation of Jesus by Mathew McConaughy.[/QUOTE]
LOL! Nailed it!
I saw a tweet from someone last night who figured out why Tim Kaine looked so familiar:
LOL! Nailed it!
I saw a tweet from someone last night who figured out why Tim Kaine looked so familiar:
23.) bluecat - 07/28/2016
Yeah, that's good. I was thinking this when I saw him.
24.) DParker - 07/28/2016
[QUOTE=bluecat;42700]She sure didn't like being called a girl...LOL! The humanity![/QUOTE]
That sort of thing always reminds me of this...
[video=youtube;f0CprVYsG0k]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0CprVYsG0k[/video]
That sort of thing always reminds me of this...
[video=youtube;f0CprVYsG0k]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0CprVYsG0k[/video]
25.) Swamp Fox - 07/28/2016
[QUOTE=bluecat;42703]Yeah, that's good. I was thinking this when I saw him.
[/QUOTE]
What did you have for breakfast this morning?
You're on fire today!
:grin:
What did you have for breakfast this morning?
You're on fire today!
:grin:
26.) bluecat - 07/28/2016
Breakfast of champions
27.) DParker - 07/28/2016
I think that means that Ted Cruz has officially endorsed Jiminy Cricket. I mean, he did say, "Vote your conscience"...right?
28.) Swamp Fox - 07/28/2016
[QUOTE=DParker;42704]That sort of thing always reminds me of this...
[video=youtube;f0CprVYsG0k]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0CprVYsG0k[/video][/QUOTE]
Boxer would be the kind of person who would insist you call her "Doctor" if she had a Ph.D.
I also get a kick out of people who aren't judges or presidents or colonels anymore being addressed as "Judge" "President" or "Colonel." I mean, it's one thing if you retire from your field at 70 to catch up on your reading, fish every day and grow some tomatoes in your garden, but when you're a 50- or 60-something TV host or charitable foundation rainmaker, it's time to admit the title is honorary, has nothing to do with your new life, and just give it up.
[video=youtube;f0CprVYsG0k]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0CprVYsG0k[/video][/QUOTE]
Boxer would be the kind of person who would insist you call her "Doctor" if she had a Ph.D.
I also get a kick out of people who aren't judges or presidents or colonels anymore being addressed as "Judge" "President" or "Colonel." I mean, it's one thing if you retire from your field at 70 to catch up on your reading, fish every day and grow some tomatoes in your garden, but when you're a 50- or 60-something TV host or charitable foundation rainmaker, it's time to admit the title is honorary, has nothing to do with your new life, and just give it up.
29.) Swamp Fox - 07/28/2016
[QUOTE=DParker;42707]I think that means that Ted Cruz has officially endorsed Jiminy Cricket. I mean, he did say, "Vote your conscience"...right?[/QUOTE]
You mean this Ted Cruz?
I know, I know...it's not my own work...
You mean this Ted Cruz?
I know, I know...it's not my own work...
30.) bluecat - 07/28/2016
Wow! :grin:
31.) bluecat - 07/28/2016
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;42708]Boxer would be the kind of person who would insist you call her "Doctor" if she had a Ph.D.
I also get a kick out of people who aren't judges or presidents or colonels anymore being addressed as "Judge" "President" or "Colonel." I mean, it's one thing if you retire from your field at 70 to catch up on your reading, fish every day and grow some tomatoes in your garden, but when you're a 50- or 60-something TV host or charitable foundation rainmaker, it's time to admit the title is honorary, has nothing to do with your new life, and just give it up.[/QUOTE]
:wink
I also get a kick out of people who aren't judges or presidents or colonels anymore being addressed as "Judge" "President" or "Colonel." I mean, it's one thing if you retire from your field at 70 to catch up on your reading, fish every day and grow some tomatoes in your garden, but when you're a 50- or 60-something TV host or charitable foundation rainmaker, it's time to admit the title is honorary, has nothing to do with your new life, and just give it up.[/QUOTE]
:wink
32.) bluecat - 07/28/2016
Don't even think about it.
33.) Swamp Fox - 07/28/2016
Julliard-trained dermatologist....
34.) Swamp Fox - 07/28/2016
[QUOTE=bluecat;42712]
Don't even think about it.[/QUOTE]
The chickens all put up a squawk that he wasn't drumsticked out of the army on a Chapter 11 Herbs and Spices a long time ago....
[url]http://www.armycourtmartialdefense.info/2009/09/chapter-11-entry-level-separation.html[/url]
Don't even think about it.[/QUOTE]
The chickens all put up a squawk that he wasn't drumsticked out of the army on a Chapter 11 Herbs and Spices a long time ago....
[url]http://www.armycourtmartialdefense.info/2009/09/chapter-11-entry-level-separation.html[/url]
35.) bluecat - 07/29/2016
My friends call me Judge, you can call me Ed.
36.) bluecat - 07/29/2016
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;42714]The chickens all put up a squawk that he wasn't drumsticked out of the army on a Chapter 11 Herbs and Spices a long time ago....
[url]http://www.armycourtmartialdefense.info/2009/09/chapter-11-entry-level-separation.html[/url][/QUOTE]
He didn't go far in the army but he did earn his wings.
[url]http://www.armycourtmartialdefense.info/2009/09/chapter-11-entry-level-separation.html[/url][/QUOTE]
He didn't go far in the army but he did earn his wings.
37.) bluecat - 08/02/2016
[QUOTE=DParker;42704]That sort of thing always reminds me of this...
[video=youtube;f0CprVYsG0k]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0CprVYsG0k[/video][/QUOTE]
She's the type that always gives out one hard candy at Halloween. Eventually the kids avoid her neighborhood completely.
[video=youtube;f0CprVYsG0k]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0CprVYsG0k[/video][/QUOTE]
She's the type that always gives out one hard candy at Halloween. Eventually the kids avoid her neighborhood completely.
38.) Swamp Fox - 08/02/2016
[QUOTE=bluecat;42724]He didn't go far in the army but he did earn his wings.[/QUOTE]
:-)
His favorite thing was marching abreast...
:-)
His favorite thing was marching abreast...
39.) Swamp Fox - 08/02/2016
[QUOTE=bluecat;42794]She's the type that always gives out one hard candy at Halloween. Eventually the kids avoid her neighborhood completely.[/QUOTE]
You sure it isn't California raisins, dried fruit, nuts, or trial-sized tubes of toothpaste?
You sure it isn't California raisins, dried fruit, nuts, or trial-sized tubes of toothpaste?
40.) bluecat - 08/02/2016
The raisins always ended up in the bushes. The nerve of some people.
41.) DParker - 08/02/2016
[QUOTE=bluecat;42807]The raisins always ended up in the bushes. The nerve of some people.[/QUOTE]
Demonic raisins, I rebuke you!
Demonic raisins, I rebuke you!
42.) bluecat - 08/02/2016
[QUOTE=bluecat;42712]
Don't even think about it.[/QUOTE]
The success of his enterprise can be attributed to the fact that he offered quality meals at chicken scratch prices.
Don't even think about it.[/QUOTE]
The success of his enterprise can be attributed to the fact that he offered quality meals at chicken scratch prices.
43.) bluecat - 08/02/2016
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;42806]You sure it isn't California raisins, dried fruit, nuts, or[B] trial-sized tubes of toothpaste[/B]?[/QUOTE]
:laugh:
:laugh:
44.) bluecat - 08/02/2016
[QUOTE=DParker;42704]That sort of thing always reminds me of this...
[video=youtube;f0CprVYsG0k]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0CprVYsG0k[/video][/QUOTE]
She's also the type of witch that when she notices some of the neighbor boys playing football in their expansive yard, she turns on the sprinkler system.
[video=youtube;f0CprVYsG0k]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0CprVYsG0k[/video][/QUOTE]
She's also the type of witch that when she notices some of the neighbor boys playing football in their expansive yard, she turns on the sprinkler system.
45.) bluecat - 08/02/2016
[QUOTE=bluecat;42712]
Don't even think about it.[/QUOTE]
The army was instrumental in providing discipline and structure to the Colonel who was always up with the chickens every morning.
Don't even think about it.[/QUOTE]
The army was instrumental in providing discipline and structure to the Colonel who was always up with the chickens every morning.
46.) Swamp Fox - 08/02/2016
He credited his drill instructor with stiffening his spine in boot camp.
Otherwise, he said, he would have been boneless.
Otherwise, he said, he would have been boneless.
47.) bluecat - 08/02/2016
48.) bluecat - 08/02/2016
[QUOTE=DParker;42704]That sort of thing always reminds me of this...
[video=youtube;f0CprVYsG0k]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0CprVYsG0k[/video][/QUOTE]
And in the unfortunate circumstance that a football from an errant pass thrown by one of the grade schoolers would have landed in her lane as she was driving her black Audi, she would have just continued to drive over it and pretended not to notice.
[video=youtube;f0CprVYsG0k]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0CprVYsG0k[/video][/QUOTE]
And in the unfortunate circumstance that a football from an errant pass thrown by one of the grade schoolers would have landed in her lane as she was driving her black Audi, she would have just continued to drive over it and pretended not to notice.
49.) bluecat - 08/02/2016
The Colonel learned some valuable skills from his boot camp training. Nothing really ruffled his feathers.
50.) Swamp Fox - 08/10/2016
It was clear to everyone he was a man of many talons.
51.) bluecat - 08/10/2016
Psychologists who believe in birth order are quick to note that "The Colonel" was first in the sibling pecking order.
52.) bluecat - 08/10/2016
[QUOTE=DParker;42704]That sort of thing always reminds me of this...
[video=youtube;f0CprVYsG0k]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0CprVYsG0k[/video][/QUOTE]
She is also the type that in the unfortunate circumstance that she crosses paths with her gardner, she would not acknowledge their presence.
[video=youtube;f0CprVYsG0k]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0CprVYsG0k[/video][/QUOTE]
She is also the type that in the unfortunate circumstance that she crosses paths with her gardner, she would not acknowledge their presence.
53.) Swamp Fox - 08/10/2016
:grin::laugh:
Admit it: You were saving that one!
Admit it: You were saving that one!
54.) bluecat - 08/10/2016
Born poor and with limited means, "The Colonel" learned the value of hard work and was fiscally responsible. When he died, he had quite a nest egg.
55.) Swamp Fox - 08/10/2016
When he heard criticism that sometimes his chicken was pretty greasy, it made him boiling mad.
56.) bluecat - 08/10/2016
:applause:
57.) DParker - 08/10/2016
He really plucked up.
58.) Swamp Fox - 08/10/2016
At board meetings, proponents of good side dishes tried to make them a wedge issue...
59.) bluecat - 08/10/2016
"The Colonel" was such a shy kid growing up. The army really helped him come out of his shell.
60.) Swamp Fox - 08/10/2016
Is that a corn joke?
If so, 2 points. If not, I need to get out more and figure out what's going on...LOL
If so, 2 points. If not, I need to get out more and figure out what's going on...LOL
61.) bluecat - 08/10/2016
When "The Colonel" died, authorities suspected fowl play. He apparently fell asleep under some heat lamps and never woke up.
62.) Swamp Fox - 08/10/2016
Homicide investigators grilled all the kitchen workers, and began to focus their investigation on one who flipped them the bird and answered questions extra-crisply.
63.) bluecat - 08/10/2016
+3 :-)
64.) DParker - 08/10/2016
[QUOTE=bluecat;42999]When "The Colonel" died, authorities suspected fowl play. He apparently fell asleep under some heat lamps and never woke up.[/QUOTE]
I'll bet he was extra crispy.
I'll bet he was extra crispy.
65.) bluecat - 08/10/2016
It was a tasty crime scene. "The Colonel" looked battered. The coroner draped a checkerboard tablecloth over his breast, legs and thighs.
66.) Swamp Fox - 08/10/2016
As a bird colonel, Sanders was due full military honors, and funeral planners were chosen because they were not green bean counters. They'd all served, and every one had skin in the game.
67.) bluecat - 08/10/2016
+ 5 :-)
68.) bluecat - 08/11/2016
Mrs. Sanders was always careful not to excite the plucky inventor as he was counting and testing his secret herbs and spices. You could say she walked on eggshells.
69.) Swamp Fox - 08/11/2016
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;43005]As a bird colonel, Sanders was due full military honors, and funeral planners were chosen because they were not green bean counters. They'd all served, and every one had skin in the game.[/QUOTE]
Staff blanched at the original guest list, but it was soon pared.
At first, everyone expected eulogists at the service to pepper their addresses with capers from the Colonel's spicy past, but family members were afraid that almost any slice of his life that could be dredged up might blacken his reputation. Before conclusions could be drawn, his widow clarified, but her insistence that no one flavor their remarks in the style of a Fryers' Club roast was chilling.
It led most to scrap their prepared remarks and try to wing it, garnishing their comments with reconstituted tales of grinding hard work and grate dreams as The Colonel carved out a culinary niche for himself, plucking only a dusting of crumbs as a reward, until he won all the marble with a franchising scheme that peeled off a percentage of profits without the knead to personally shuck and chive in each kitchen.
Some of his franchisees didn't mince words about the high fees the Colonel had poached and tried to skewer him in the press, but they recalled that he had felt the fees he was skimming were but a pinch and, ignoring all the invection tossed his way (as well as a light drizzle) he took his wife out salsa dancing to celebrate.
Staff blanched at the original guest list, but it was soon pared.
At first, everyone expected eulogists at the service to pepper their addresses with capers from the Colonel's spicy past, but family members were afraid that almost any slice of his life that could be dredged up might blacken his reputation. Before conclusions could be drawn, his widow clarified, but her insistence that no one flavor their remarks in the style of a Fryers' Club roast was chilling.
It led most to scrap their prepared remarks and try to wing it, garnishing their comments with reconstituted tales of grinding hard work and grate dreams as The Colonel carved out a culinary niche for himself, plucking only a dusting of crumbs as a reward, until he won all the marble with a franchising scheme that peeled off a percentage of profits without the knead to personally shuck and chive in each kitchen.
Some of his franchisees didn't mince words about the high fees the Colonel had poached and tried to skewer him in the press, but they recalled that he had felt the fees he was skimming were but a pinch and, ignoring all the invection tossed his way (as well as a light drizzle) he took his wife out salsa dancing to celebrate.
70.) Swamp Fox - 08/11/2016
There are over 40 puns or cooking/kitchen/restaurant references there, since I had nothing better to do over lunch.
I might be able to come up with a prize for the person who comes up with the most well-hidden, or sees one that I didn't even think of.
:pop:
I might be able to come up with a prize for the person who comes up with the most well-hidden, or sees one that I didn't even think of.
:pop:
71.) bluecat - 08/11/2016
Wow, I sit in the presence of greatness. + 39. :wink
72.) bluecat - 08/11/2016
When the "The Colonel" died, the obituary simply stated that he kicked the bucket.
73.) Swamp Fox - 08/11/2016
No, I just had some cancellations this week...LOL
So I got some half-points, huh? :wink
So I got some half-points, huh? :wink
74.) Swamp Fox - 08/11/2016
[QUOTE=bluecat;43041]When the "The Colonel" died, the obituary simply stated that he kicked the bucket.[/QUOTE]
D'oh!
[smacks head]
:applause:
D'oh!
[smacks head]
:applause:
75.) Swamp Fox - 08/18/2016
Yahoo "News", which infests my homepage, has a headline for a story about this t-shirt. (I missed the coverage of Iran, Russia, Obamacare, the economy, Hillary's newest newish scandal, and the US woman Olympic shooter who is smashing records.)
The headline on the homepage reads: [I]T-Shirt Stirs Debate--Not Everyone Offended[/I]
Then you click on it and you get this important report:
[url]https://www.yahoo.com/beauty/black-olives-matter-000000839.html[/url]
I just thought I'd point it out while we're on a food pun kick...Plus the picture is nice to look at. :-)
76.) bluecat - 08/18/2016
We are slowly losing our ability to be humorous, much like our gill slits and webbed toes that are almost gone now except for a few freaks.
77.) Swamp Fox - 08/18/2016
How about all the pearl-clutching going on about an animated movie involving a lesbian Hispanic taco that falls in love with a hot dog bun?
I'm not kidding. Apparently there's a question about whether the movie, Josh Rogen's [I]Sausage Party[/I], which skewers every other group imaginable, is insufficiently delicate in its handling of whatever LMNOPQ sexual/gender sub-group you self-identify with currently. And another question whether or not a website's explanation of its retraction of a favorable review of the movie was sincere or in jest.
Is it possible the questions themselves are parodic?
You know that there really are some people getting the vapors over how the cartoon taco and the cartoon hot dog bun are portrayed, whether somebody wrote a parody highlighting that reaction or not. What does it say that we should/must/will discuss this? LOL
I can't explain it in just a few words, except that you know you're in the Loony Zone when parody or satire are indistinguishable from reality, and vice versa. You'll have to read about it for yourselves.
[url]http://thefederalist.com/2016/08/17/please-help-we-cant-tell-if-this-hilarious-sausage-party-apology-is-satire-or-not/[/url]
I'm not kidding. Apparently there's a question about whether the movie, Josh Rogen's [I]Sausage Party[/I], which skewers every other group imaginable, is insufficiently delicate in its handling of whatever LMNOPQ sexual/gender sub-group you self-identify with currently. And another question whether or not a website's explanation of its retraction of a favorable review of the movie was sincere or in jest.
Is it possible the questions themselves are parodic?
You know that there really are some people getting the vapors over how the cartoon taco and the cartoon hot dog bun are portrayed, whether somebody wrote a parody highlighting that reaction or not. What does it say that we should/must/will discuss this? LOL
I can't explain it in just a few words, except that you know you're in the Loony Zone when parody or satire are indistinguishable from reality, and vice versa. You'll have to read about it for yourselves.
[url]http://thefederalist.com/2016/08/17/please-help-we-cant-tell-if-this-hilarious-sausage-party-apology-is-satire-or-not/[/url]
78.) bluecat - 08/18/2016
Crazy stuff Maynard..
Okay, I heard this yesterday. The left is concerned that there are not enough lesbian farmers and so they are trying to change that. Cindi Lauper is going to be a spokesperson.
Did I dream this or did Rush Limbaugh talk about this yesterday? Farmers are all white rich people as you know.
That's all we need is a bunch of progressives creating our food.
Okay, I heard this yesterday. The left is concerned that there are not enough lesbian farmers and so they are trying to change that. Cindi Lauper is going to be a spokesperson.
Did I dream this or did Rush Limbaugh talk about this yesterday? Farmers are all white rich people as you know.
That's all we need is a bunch of progressives creating our food.
79.) Swamp Fox - 08/18/2016
LOL...Haven't heard that. Hope they have better luck creating a financing venue that's not a scam and abuse magnet for lesbian farmers than they did for racial minority and female "farmers."
[url]http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/05/how-did-progressive-journalists-get-pigford-so-wrong/275593/[/url]
How to recruit more lesbian farmers? It'll be a project. But don't ask for any help from the other other team...LOL
[url]http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/05/how-did-progressive-journalists-get-pigford-so-wrong/275593/[/url]
How to recruit more lesbian farmers? It'll be a project. But don't ask for any help from the other other team...LOL
80.) DParker - 08/18/2016
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;43230][url]http://thefederalist.com/2016/08/17/please-help-we-cant-tell-if-this-hilarious-sausage-party-apology-is-satire-or-not/[/url][/QUOTE]
I've never seen a clearer illustration of Poe's Law.
I've never seen a clearer illustration of Poe's Law.
81.) Swamp Fox - 08/18/2016
It is hard to beat, that's for sure.
82.) bluecat - 08/18/2016
What if one day you identified yourself as a taco and then you identified yourself as a gyro?
83.) bluecat - 08/18/2016
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;43230]How about all the pearl-clutching going on about an animated movie involving a lesbian Hispanic taco that falls in love with a hot dog bun?
I'm not kidding. Apparently there's a question about whether the movie, Josh Rogen's [I]Sausage Party[/I], which skewers every other group imaginable, is insufficiently delicate in its handling of whatever LMNOPQ sexual/gender sub-group you self-identify with currently. And another question whether or not a website's explanation of its retraction of a favorable review of the movie was sincere or in jest.
Is it possible the questions themselves are parodic?
You know that there really are some people getting the vapors over how the cartoon taco and the cartoon hot dog bun are portrayed, whether somebody wrote a parody highlighting that reaction or not. What does it say that we should/must/will discuss this? LOL
I can't explain it in just a few words, except that you know you're in the Loony Zone when parody or satire are indistinguishable from reality, and vice versa. You'll have to read about it for yourselves.
[url]http://thefederalist.com/2016/08/17/please-help-we-cant-tell-if-this-hilarious-sausage-party-apology-is-satire-or-not/[/url][/QUOTE]
So when I buy hot dog buns now, I'm to look for gluten free, lesbian friendly, non-gmo, free range buns?
I'm not kidding. Apparently there's a question about whether the movie, Josh Rogen's [I]Sausage Party[/I], which skewers every other group imaginable, is insufficiently delicate in its handling of whatever LMNOPQ sexual/gender sub-group you self-identify with currently. And another question whether or not a website's explanation of its retraction of a favorable review of the movie was sincere or in jest.
Is it possible the questions themselves are parodic?
You know that there really are some people getting the vapors over how the cartoon taco and the cartoon hot dog bun are portrayed, whether somebody wrote a parody highlighting that reaction or not. What does it say that we should/must/will discuss this? LOL
I can't explain it in just a few words, except that you know you're in the Loony Zone when parody or satire are indistinguishable from reality, and vice versa. You'll have to read about it for yourselves.
[url]http://thefederalist.com/2016/08/17/please-help-we-cant-tell-if-this-hilarious-sausage-party-apology-is-satire-or-not/[/url][/QUOTE]
So when I buy hot dog buns now, I'm to look for gluten free, lesbian friendly, non-gmo, free range buns?
84.) Swamp Fox - 08/18/2016
[QUOTE=bluecat;43238]What if one day you identified yourself as a taco and then you identified yourself as a gyro?
[/QUOTE]
You'd have to go on the lamb...
If you were born a gyro but became a tortilla, you'd have to change your name to Speedy Aristophanes, or something.
[/QUOTE]
You'd have to go on the lamb...
If you were born a gyro but became a tortilla, you'd have to change your name to Speedy Aristophanes, or something.
85.) DParker - 08/18/2016
[QUOTE=bluecat;43240]So when I buy hot dog buns now, I'm to look for gluten free, lesbian friendly, non-gmo, free range buns?[/QUOTE]
I've always had free range buns....much to my wife's dismay.
I've always had free range buns....much to my wife's dismay.
86.) Swamp Fox - 08/18/2016
[QUOTE=bluecat;43240]So when I buy hot dog buns now, I'm to look for gluten free, lesbian friendly, non-gmo, free range buns?[/QUOTE]
Also, it would be great if they were vegan-curious...Thanks.
Also, it would be great if they were vegan-curious...Thanks.
87.) Swamp Fox - 08/18/2016
[QUOTE=DParker;43242]I've always had free range buns....much to my wife's dismay.[/QUOTE]
Just keep your cattle in the corral, young man!
Just keep your cattle in the corral, young man!
88.) Swamp Fox - 08/18/2016
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;43241]
If you were born a gyro but became a tortilla, you'd have to change your name to Speedy Aristophanes, or something.[/QUOTE]
Dimetrius Gonzalez?
Pancho Popadapoulis?
If you were born a gyro but became a tortilla, you'd have to change your name to Speedy Aristophanes, or something.[/QUOTE]
Dimetrius Gonzalez?
Pancho Popadapoulis?
89.) bluecat - 08/18/2016
Okay, now you're just being silly.
90.) bluecat - 08/18/2016
Santiago Stavros gave that 2 likes.
91.) DParker - 08/18/2016
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;43247]Dimetrius Gonzalez?
Pancho Popadapoulis?[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=bluecat;43248]Okay, now you're just being silly.[/QUOTE]
[video=youtube;kYmWRNZ_0ys]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYmWRNZ_0ys[/video]
Pancho Popadapoulis?[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=bluecat;43248]Okay, now you're just being silly.[/QUOTE]
[video=youtube;kYmWRNZ_0ys]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYmWRNZ_0ys[/video]
92.) bluecat - 08/18/2016
LOL, well we are juvenile, after all.
93.) Swamp Fox - 08/18/2016
The Bulgarian judges are robbing me on "You'd have to go on the lamb" and "Also, it would be great if they were vegan-curious."
Just sayin'. :wink
Just sayin'. :wink
94.) bluecat - 08/19/2016
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;43241]You'd have to go on the lamb...
If you were born a gyro but became a tortilla, you'd have to change your name to Speedy Aristophanes, or something.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;43244]Also, it would be great if they were vegan-curious...Thanks.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;43256]The Bulgarian judges are robbing me on "You'd have to go on the lamb" and "Also, it would be great if they were vegan-curious."
Just sayin'. :wink[/QUOTE]
:applause::applause:
We just expect that kind of high comedic quality from you Swampy. Sorry if we took you for granted. The Bulgarian judge was soundly penalized for her inattentiveness.
If you were born a gyro but became a tortilla, you'd have to change your name to Speedy Aristophanes, or something.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;43244]Also, it would be great if they were vegan-curious...Thanks.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;43256]The Bulgarian judges are robbing me on "You'd have to go on the lamb" and "Also, it would be great if they were vegan-curious."
Just sayin'. :wink[/QUOTE]
:applause::applause:
We just expect that kind of high comedic quality from you Swampy. Sorry if we took you for granted. The Bulgarian judge was soundly penalized for her inattentiveness.
95.) bluecat - 08/19/2016
[QUOTE=bluecat;43238]What if one day you identified yourself as a taco and then you identified yourself as a gyro?[/QUOTE]
And what it you wanted a little taste of Germany, say a large glass of lukewarm water and a hard roll?
And what it you wanted a little taste of Germany, say a large glass of lukewarm water and a hard roll?
96.) bluecat - 08/19/2016
[QUOTE=bluecat;43250]Santiago Stavros gave that 2 likes.[/QUOTE]
Santiago Ludwig Von Stavros has given his seal of approval.
Santiago Ludwig Von Stavros has given his seal of approval.
97.) Swamp Fox - 09/13/2016
How 'bout some Weiner schnitzel?
98.) Swamp Fox - 09/13/2016
[B][SIZE=3]Great news for Brown University: There will now be free tampons in the men’s room[/SIZE][/B]
[I][I][...] For all of you young men who will be attending classes and residing there this fall, you’ve got one less thing to worry about. When you go to the men’s room, there will be plenty of tampons available, courtesy of Viet Nguyen, President of the Undergraduate Council of Students.
Brown University’s student body president will be hand-delivering menstrual products to all nonresidential bathrooms on campus, including men’s rooms, with the help of 20 other students…
[B]“There’s been a lot of conversation about why pads and tampons are a necessity, not a luxury, but not a lot of action. We wanted to take it into our own hands,” Nguyen explains in the email, observing that “low-income students struggle with having the necessary funding for food, let alone tampons.”
[/B]
[...]
By putting menstrual products in women’s, men’s and gender-inclusive bathrooms, Nguyen’s campaign highlights an often ignored fact: Not all people who menstruate are women. “We wanted to set a tone of trans-inclusivity and not forget that they’re an important part of the population,” he says. [B]“I’d be naïve to say there won’t be push back. I’ve had questions about why we’re implementing this in male bathrooms as well. It’s an initial confusion, but people generally understand when we explain it.”
[/B]
[B]Well, not to quibble here, but actually everyone who menstruates is a woman. I’m not sure if they still have a medical department at Brown or any classes which deal with genetics, but if you ask some doctors they may be able to help you.
[/B]
[/I][/I]
[url]http://hotair.com/archives/2016/09/10/great-news-brown-university-will-now-free-tampons-mens-room/[/url]
Brown ostensibly educates about 6200 undergrads. The educational status of the administration is uncertain. The university takes only 8.5% of those who apply, not counting grad schools. At roughly $62,000 a year, the school is a center of learning that can deduce a rationale to put tampons in the men's room, but not a way to keep students from starving.
Undergraduate tuition for academic year 2015-16: $48,272
Room, board, and required fees: $12,700
Total cost: $62,046
[I][I][...] For all of you young men who will be attending classes and residing there this fall, you’ve got one less thing to worry about. When you go to the men’s room, there will be plenty of tampons available, courtesy of Viet Nguyen, President of the Undergraduate Council of Students.
Brown University’s student body president will be hand-delivering menstrual products to all nonresidential bathrooms on campus, including men’s rooms, with the help of 20 other students…
[B]“There’s been a lot of conversation about why pads and tampons are a necessity, not a luxury, but not a lot of action. We wanted to take it into our own hands,” Nguyen explains in the email, observing that “low-income students struggle with having the necessary funding for food, let alone tampons.”
[/B]
[...]
By putting menstrual products in women’s, men’s and gender-inclusive bathrooms, Nguyen’s campaign highlights an often ignored fact: Not all people who menstruate are women. “We wanted to set a tone of trans-inclusivity and not forget that they’re an important part of the population,” he says. [B]“I’d be naïve to say there won’t be push back. I’ve had questions about why we’re implementing this in male bathrooms as well. It’s an initial confusion, but people generally understand when we explain it.”
[/B]
[B]Well, not to quibble here, but actually everyone who menstruates is a woman. I’m not sure if they still have a medical department at Brown or any classes which deal with genetics, but if you ask some doctors they may be able to help you.
[/B]
[/I][/I]
[url]http://hotair.com/archives/2016/09/10/great-news-brown-university-will-now-free-tampons-mens-room/[/url]
Brown ostensibly educates about 6200 undergrads. The educational status of the administration is uncertain. The university takes only 8.5% of those who apply, not counting grad schools. At roughly $62,000 a year, the school is a center of learning that can deduce a rationale to put tampons in the men's room, but not a way to keep students from starving.
Undergraduate tuition for academic year 2015-16: $48,272
Room, board, and required fees: $12,700
Total cost: $62,046
99.) bluecat - 09/13/2016
Good find Swampy and perfect thread for it.
100.) Swamp Fox - 12/19/2016
And the winner in the Lack of Perspective and Self-Awareness category is... these people:
Three concerned analysts (two from Harvard and one from San Francisco) sent a letter to the White House calling for a psychiatric evaluation of Donald Trump before he takes office. "Why?" you ask:
[QUOTE]Here, according to The APA, are the 9 criteria for “Narcissistic Personality Disorder”. If an individual has 5 out of the 9 they have a confirmed diagnosis of this illness. Many individuals have “traits” of narcissism but only about 1% of the population has clinical NPD.
Summary : A pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of empathy, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by five (or more) of the following:
1. Has a grandiose sense of self-importance (e.g., exaggerates achievements and talents, expects to be recognized as superior without commensurate achievements)
2. Is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love.
3. Believe that he or she is “special” and unique and can only be understood by, or should associate with other special or high-status people (or institutions)
4. Requires excessive admiration
5. Has a sense of entitlement
6. Is interpersonally exploitative
7. Lacks empathy: is unwilling to recognize or identify with the feelings and needs of others
8. Is often envious of others or believes that others are envious of him or her.
9. Shows arrogant, haughty behaviors or attitudes.
[/QUOTE]
[url]http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-greene/is-donald-trump-mentally_b_13693174.html[/url]
Tell me if you think Hillary or 0 might score off the chart, then. These rocket surgeons have never said anything about that, though, as far as anyone can tell. Maybe they were too busy administering ink blot tests to the poor wretches in fly-over country.
The author of the article bravely lays out the case now, however, which proves the old saying, "Better late than never." Based on his 7-point analysis (see the link), we clearly dodged a bullet with Mrs. Clinton, though he does not address the damage already done by an undiagnosed and unfettered Barack Obama.
The number of people in this country in need of psychiatric evaluation is even higher than we thought.
Three concerned analysts (two from Harvard and one from San Francisco) sent a letter to the White House calling for a psychiatric evaluation of Donald Trump before he takes office. "Why?" you ask:
[QUOTE]Here, according to The APA, are the 9 criteria for “Narcissistic Personality Disorder”. If an individual has 5 out of the 9 they have a confirmed diagnosis of this illness. Many individuals have “traits” of narcissism but only about 1% of the population has clinical NPD.
Summary : A pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of empathy, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by five (or more) of the following:
1. Has a grandiose sense of self-importance (e.g., exaggerates achievements and talents, expects to be recognized as superior without commensurate achievements)
2. Is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love.
3. Believe that he or she is “special” and unique and can only be understood by, or should associate with other special or high-status people (or institutions)
4. Requires excessive admiration
5. Has a sense of entitlement
6. Is interpersonally exploitative
7. Lacks empathy: is unwilling to recognize or identify with the feelings and needs of others
8. Is often envious of others or believes that others are envious of him or her.
9. Shows arrogant, haughty behaviors or attitudes.
[/QUOTE]
[url]http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-greene/is-donald-trump-mentally_b_13693174.html[/url]
Tell me if you think Hillary or 0 might score off the chart, then. These rocket surgeons have never said anything about that, though, as far as anyone can tell. Maybe they were too busy administering ink blot tests to the poor wretches in fly-over country.
The author of the article bravely lays out the case now, however, which proves the old saying, "Better late than never." Based on his 7-point analysis (see the link), we clearly dodged a bullet with Mrs. Clinton, though he does not address the damage already done by an undiagnosed and unfettered Barack Obama.
The number of people in this country in need of psychiatric evaluation is even higher than we thought.
101.) DParker - 12/19/2016
I'd say that possession of at LEAST 5 of those traits is an absolute requirement for even wanting to be POTUS.
102.) Jon - 12/20/2016
Why anyone would want to be POTUS is beyond me
103.) Swamp Fox - 04/27/2017
[B]Yale Grad Students Go on ‘Symbolic’ Hunger Strike Where They’re Allowed to Eat[/B]
[url]http://freebeacon.com/culture/yale-grad-students-go-symbolic-hunger-strike-theyre-allowed-eat/[/url]
[url]http://freebeacon.com/culture/yale-grad-students-go-symbolic-hunger-strike-theyre-allowed-eat/[/url]
104.) DParker - 04/27/2017
I symbolically went on the wagon at my favorite taproom this past weekend, though I had a couple flights of beer so as to justify my taking up a seat. While there I symbolically fasted with the 2-meat BBQ combo. I did not waver in these symbolic protests until I was forced to because the white privileged owner declared "closing time".
There's no sacrifice I won't pretend to make in the interest of social justice.
There's no sacrifice I won't pretend to make in the interest of social justice.
105.) Swamp Fox - 04/28/2017
That's what makes you a great American. LOL
106.) bluecat - 04/30/2017
LOL! Did you read some of the comments. Too funny.
"I'm a vegetarian, but I also eat chicken, pork and beef."
"I'm a vegetarian, but I also eat chicken, pork and beef."
107.) DParker - 04/30/2017
Troll Level: Expert (and delicious. )
[URL="https://www.google.com/amp/s/legalinsurrection.com/2017/04/college-republicans-at-yale-troll-hunger-strikers-with-barbecue/amp/"]College Republicans at Yale Troll “Hunger Strikers” With Barbecue[/URL]
[URL="https://www.google.com/amp/s/legalinsurrection.com/2017/04/college-republicans-at-yale-troll-hunger-strikers-with-barbecue/amp/"]College Republicans at Yale Troll “Hunger Strikers” With Barbecue[/URL]
108.) Swamp Fox - 05/01/2017
LOL---That's gold.
Headline suggestion for school newspaper: "Grad students vow to endeavor to persevere."
Possible tag lines for Republican trolling effort:
"Beef---It's Justice on a plate."
"Don't fill up on Justice; Save some room for just desserts."
:pop:
Headline suggestion for school newspaper: "Grad students vow to endeavor to persevere."
Possible tag lines for Republican trolling effort:
"Beef---It's Justice on a plate."
"Don't fill up on Justice; Save some room for just desserts."
:pop:
109.) Swamp Fox - 06/02/2017
Chair of American Studies Department at Harvard having a tough day on Twitter:
[QUOTE]Joyce E. Chaplin @JoyceChaplin1 20h20 hours ago
The USA, created by int'l community in Treaty of Paris in 1783, betrays int'l community by withdrawing from #parisclimateagreement today
[/QUOTE]
********************
I suppose you have to be highly educated to be that stupid.
[url]https://twitter.com/JoyceChaplin1/status/870383338799976448[/url]
[QUOTE]Joyce E. Chaplin @JoyceChaplin1 20h20 hours ago
The USA, created by int'l community in Treaty of Paris in 1783, betrays int'l community by withdrawing from #parisclimateagreement today
[/QUOTE]
********************
I suppose you have to be highly educated to be that stupid.
[url]https://twitter.com/JoyceChaplin1/status/870383338799976448[/url]
110.) bluecat - 06/02/2017
Where's that picture of the Gumby brothers? smh
111.) Swamp Fox - 06/02/2017
112.) DParker - 06/02/2017
The "United States of America" was created 10 years before that, in 1773, with ratification of the Articles of Confederation. It just took 10 years and the slinging of a lot of lead for us to convince King George to use the name.
And this whole "withdrawal" from an agreement, the goals of which are all voluntary and made up by each individual participating nation....and that has absolutely no force of law (except for provisions regarding progress reporting) is more theater than substance.
And this whole "withdrawal" from an agreement, the goals of which are all voluntary and made up by each individual participating nation....and that has absolutely no force of law (except for provisions regarding progress reporting) is more theater than substance.
113.) Swamp Fox - 06/02/2017
I think you mean 1776/1777 for "beginnings" of AoC---She's talking 178[B]3[/B] (bi-lateral Paris Treaty that she calls international) not 178[B]8[/B] (ratification of Constitution)...Since she's talking complete nonsense in the first place, it is easy to misread...and then that throws your math right out! :-)
114.) Swamp Fox - 06/02/2017
Timeline of American Revolution 1760s forward:
[url]https://www.bl.uk/the-american-revolution/articles/american-revolution-timeline[/url]
[url]https://www.bl.uk/the-american-revolution/articles/american-revolution-timeline[/url]
115.) Swamp Fox - 06/02/2017
Better timeline:
[url]http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/revwartimeline.html[/url]
AoC: [url]https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/articles.html[/url]
[url]http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/revwartimeline.html[/url]
AoC: [url]https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/articles.html[/url]
116.) Swamp Fox - 06/02/2017
Why is it that you can never find a good American Revolution meme when you need one?
[QUOTE]To form a new Government, requires infinite care, & unbounded attention and international creation---er, recognition---, even if it's not really international, or creation or ---er, recognition--; for if the foundation is badly laid and the int'l community betrayed, the superstructure must be bad and I will be stuck driving this muscle car sucking fossil fuel back and forth to academic conferences, nationless.[/QUOTE]
Washington to John Augustine Washington, May 31 – June 4, 1776, Founders Online, National Archives [url]http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-04-02-0333[/url] ---(Ok, not really an EXACT quote).
[QUOTE]To form a new Government, requires infinite care, & unbounded attention and international creation---er, recognition---, even if it's not really international, or creation or ---er, recognition--; for if the foundation is badly laid and the int'l community betrayed, the superstructure must be bad and I will be stuck driving this muscle car sucking fossil fuel back and forth to academic conferences, nationless.[/QUOTE]
Washington to John Augustine Washington, May 31 – June 4, 1776, Founders Online, National Archives [url]http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-04-02-0333[/url] ---(Ok, not really an EXACT quote).
117.) bluecat - 06/03/2017
LOL!
Let's not overlook the lunacy of Kathy Griffin. Somehow, she is playing the victim card right now.
Let's not overlook the lunacy of Kathy Griffin. Somehow, she is playing the victim card right now.
118.) DParker - 06/03/2017
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;49276]I think you mean 1776/1777 for "beginnings" of AoC-[/QUOTE]
Actually, we're both wrong. I should have cited 1781, the correct year of the ratification of the AoC (Mar. 01). I had to get a couple of 11.5% brews into my Friday in order to get it right.
Actually, we're both wrong. I should have cited 1781, the correct year of the ratification of the AoC (Mar. 01). I had to get a couple of 11.5% brews into my Friday in order to get it right.
119.) Swamp Fox - 06/03/2017
That's why I said "beginnings" as distinct from adoption or ratification...The first drafts or proposals started coming in 1774 or 5 if I'm not mistaken, but never went anywhere. It was only in 76 that a draft was substantially moved forward that really resembled the end result in 81.
Clear as mud? :beer:
Clear as mud? :beer:
120.) Swamp Fox - 06/03/2017
[QUOTE=bluecat;49280]LOL!
Let's not overlook the lunacy of Kathy Griffin. Somehow, she is playing the victim card right now.[/QUOTE]
Kathy Griffin was funny for a few hours once in the late 80's.
She's become unhinged in the last couple of years. I don't know what the severed head thing was about. I don't think even she thought she was trying to be funny.
I think she thought it was Art.
Capital A..."Art."
Let's not overlook the lunacy of Kathy Griffin. Somehow, she is playing the victim card right now.[/QUOTE]
Kathy Griffin was funny for a few hours once in the late 80's.
She's become unhinged in the last couple of years. I don't know what the severed head thing was about. I don't think even she thought she was trying to be funny.
I think she thought it was Art.
Capital A..."Art."
121.) Swamp Fox - 06/03/2017
Here you go, DP...This is where I was coming from:
[QUOTE]The Articles of Confederation, America’s first constitution, has a complicated and tortured genealogy. Americans began contemplating uniting the colonies under one charter in 1775 in order to resist the British more effectively. A number of proposals were put forth, including one by Benjamin Franklin, but moderate members of the Continental Congress, who hoped for reconciliation, objected that Britain would perceive such an act as an effective declaration of independence. Discussions were therefore tabled. It was not until separation appeared probable in the spring of 1776 that plans for a confederation began in earnest.
On June 7, 1776, Richard Henry Lee motioned in Congress that a committee be formed to construct an American constitution and central government. Although John Dickinson was opposed to independence, he was the logical person to take the lead. To date he had written many of the official issuances of Congress and was recognized as one of the foremost legal minds in the colonies. Very little record remains of what transpired in the last two weeks of June when the committee worked. Dickinson's draft and a few pages of his notes are all that survive from their sessions....
[url]http://digitalhistory.hsp.org/pafrm/doc/draft-articles-confederation-john-dickinson-june-1776[/url][/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]The Articles of Confederation, America’s first constitution, has a complicated and tortured genealogy. Americans began contemplating uniting the colonies under one charter in 1775 in order to resist the British more effectively. A number of proposals were put forth, including one by Benjamin Franklin, but moderate members of the Continental Congress, who hoped for reconciliation, objected that Britain would perceive such an act as an effective declaration of independence. Discussions were therefore tabled. It was not until separation appeared probable in the spring of 1776 that plans for a confederation began in earnest.
On June 7, 1776, Richard Henry Lee motioned in Congress that a committee be formed to construct an American constitution and central government. Although John Dickinson was opposed to independence, he was the logical person to take the lead. To date he had written many of the official issuances of Congress and was recognized as one of the foremost legal minds in the colonies. Very little record remains of what transpired in the last two weeks of June when the committee worked. Dickinson's draft and a few pages of his notes are all that survive from their sessions....
[url]http://digitalhistory.hsp.org/pafrm/doc/draft-articles-confederation-john-dickinson-june-1776[/url][/QUOTE]
122.) DParker - 06/03/2017
Yeah, I knew the history...but it doesn't count as "creating" the USofA until ratification by the Ss.
As for Kathy Griffin...the best description of her I've heard is that she's the female Andy Dick...only a LOT uglier.
As for Kathy Griffin...the best description of her I've heard is that she's the female Andy Dick...only a LOT uglier.
123.) Swamp Fox - 06/03/2017
Well, even then it wasn't the "USA" in the way the professor implies...It was "the confederation and perpetual union between the states of New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia."
I'm of the school that says that after the Constitution is ratified in 1788 it becomes the united states of America, and after the War Between the States it becomes, in effect, the United States of America. Or, a better way of putting it would be as historian Shelby Foote did [paraphrasing here]: "Before 1865 it was 'the United States [B][I]are[/I][/B]_______,' and afterwards it became 'the United States [B][I]is[/I][/B]_____.' The war made the country an [I]'is'[/I]."
The point is that this professor's tweet was total nonsense from the jump (starting with the USA part, which I'm willing to give her as shorthand, just to have some pity on her). But to say the nation was "created by the international community in 1783" --leaving aside the idiocy of "betraying" the international community by pulling out of a voluntary and unenforceable accord--is both nuts and factually wrong on many levels.
I'm of the school that says that after the Constitution is ratified in 1788 it becomes the united states of America, and after the War Between the States it becomes, in effect, the United States of America. Or, a better way of putting it would be as historian Shelby Foote did [paraphrasing here]: "Before 1865 it was 'the United States [B][I]are[/I][/B]_______,' and afterwards it became 'the United States [B][I]is[/I][/B]_____.' The war made the country an [I]'is'[/I]."
The point is that this professor's tweet was total nonsense from the jump (starting with the USA part, which I'm willing to give her as shorthand, just to have some pity on her). But to say the nation was "created by the international community in 1783" --leaving aside the idiocy of "betraying" the international community by pulling out of a voluntary and unenforceable accord--is both nuts and factually wrong on many levels.
124.) DParker - 06/03/2017
Here's the basis for my pegging it at the date I've identified:
[URL="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States"]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States[/URL]
[Quote]The second draft of the Articles of Confederation, prepared by John Dickinson and completed by June 17, 1776, at the latest, declared "The name of this Confederation shall be the 'United States of America.'"[/quote]
This was ratified onMay 1, 1783...making it official.
[URL="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States"]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States[/URL]
[Quote]The second draft of the Articles of Confederation, prepared by John Dickinson and completed by June 17, 1776, at the latest, declared "The name of this Confederation shall be the 'United States of America.'"[/quote]
This was ratified onMay 1, 1783...making it official.
125.) Swamp Fox - 06/03/2017
[QUOTE]The Continental Congress adopted the Articles of Confederation, the first constitution of the United States, on November 15, 1777. However, ratification of the Articles of Confederation by all thirteen states did not occur until March 1, 1781.[/QUOTE]
[url]https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/articles.html[/url]
[url]https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/articles.html[/url]
126.) Swamp Fox - 06/03/2017
I think you're misreading the line...Treaty of Paris is right under that...That's where 1783 comes in.
127.) DParker - 06/03/2017
I'm going to stop posting now...until the average 11.5% ABV brews have completed their journey through my system, and my reading comprehension skills have once again clawed their way back to "average".
128.) Swamp Fox - 06/03/2017
That's okay..Until I caught the typo, I had the Constitution being ratified in 1888 for a minute...LOL
129.) Swamp Fox - 06/03/2017
SCENE: A misty moor, deep in flyover country.
NUTTY PROFESSOR: Fledgling and recalcitrant int’l community member!
DENNIS: Sovereign nation!
PROFESSOR: Sovereign nation, yada yada... What public intellectual lives in that castle over there?
DENNIS: I'm two hundred and forty-one.
PROFESSOR: What?
DENNIS: I'm 241 -- I'm not a baby!
PROFESSOR: Well, I can’t just call you ‘Old Man.’
DENNIS: Well, you could say “The longest-standing constitutional republic the world has ever known.”
PROFESSOR: Well, I didn't know you were.
DENNIS: Well, you didn't bother to think about it, did you?
PROFESSOR: I won’t say sorry about the int’l community thing, but from way up here you looked--
DENNIS: What I object to is you automatically treat me like an inferior and a dependent!
PROFESSOR: Well, I AM a professor...
DENNIS: Oh professor, eh, very nice! An' how'd you get that, eh? By exploitin' affirmative action and the federal loans and grants programs -- by 'angin' on to outdated Marxist dogma which perpetuates the economic an' social tensions in our society! ....If there's ever going to be any progress--
WOMAN: Dennis, there's some lovely filth down here. Oh -- how d'you do?
PROFESSOR: How do you do, good lady. I am Joyce, Chair of American Studies at Harvard. Whose castle is that?
WOMAN: Chair of the 'oo?
PROFESSOR: American Studies.
WOMAN: What are American Studies?
PROFESSOR: Well, it’s everything. You’re all pupils and I am your Chair.
WOMAN: I didn't know we had a chair. I thought we were on independent study.
DENNIS: You're foolin' yourself. We're livin' in a dictatorship. ..... A self-perpetuatin' autocracy in which the free and independent-minded--
WOMAN: Oh there you go, bringin' freedom into it again!
DENNIS: That's what it's all about if only people would--
PROFESSOR: Please, please good people. I am in haste. Who lives in that castle?
WOMAN: No one lives there.
PROFESSOR: Then who is your lord?
Woman: We don't have a lord.
PROFESSOR: What?
DENNIS: I told you. We're a sovereign constitutional republic. We take it in turns to elect representatives to act as a sort of proxy to run three co-equal branches of government…
PROFESSOR: Yes.
DENNIS: But all the decisions of those proxies have to be ratified at special meetings…
PROFESSOR: Yes, I see.
DENNIS: By a simple majority in the case of some affairs,--
PROFESSOR: Be quiet!
DENNIS: --but by a two-thirds majority in the case of more--
PROFESSOR: Be quiet! I order you to be quiet!
WOMAN: Order, eh? – ‘Oo does she think she is?
PROFESSOR: I am your professor!
WOMAN: Well, I didn’t vote for you…
PROFESSOR: You don't vote for professors!
WOMAN: Well, 'ow did you become Professor, then?
PROFESSOR: The Dean of the college, [angels sing] her arm clad in the purest shimmering rayon, held aloft a sheepskin from the bosom of the water signifying by Divine Providence that I, Joyce, was to carry some letters after my name, and though I am not a real doctor, you should call me one. [singing stops] That is why I am your professor!
DENNIS: Listen -- Inbred limeys across the pond distributin’ documents is no basis for a system of government. Autonomous national creation derives from a mandate from the citizens, not from some farcical monarchal ceremony!
PROFESSOR: Be quiet!
DENNIS: You can't deny pre-existing supreme sovereign power just 'cause some mole-covered royal surrendered and threw a peace treaty at you!
PROFESSOR: Shut up!
DENNIS: I mean, if I went 'round sayin' I wasn’t born yet just because some sleepy government bureaucrat hadn’t stamped my birth certificate, they'd put me away!
PROFESSOR: Shut up! Will you shut up!
DENNIS: Ah! Now we see the logic inherent in the system!
PROFESSOR: Shut up!
DENNIS: Oh! Come and see the bias inherent in the system! --- HELP! HELP! I'm being repressed!
PROFESSOR: Bloody peasant!
DENNIS: Oh, what a give-away! Did you hear that, did you hear that, eh?.... That's what I'm on about! -- Did you see ‘em repressing me? You saw it, didn't you?
NUTTY PROFESSOR: Fledgling and recalcitrant int’l community member!
DENNIS: Sovereign nation!
PROFESSOR: Sovereign nation, yada yada... What public intellectual lives in that castle over there?
DENNIS: I'm two hundred and forty-one.
PROFESSOR: What?
DENNIS: I'm 241 -- I'm not a baby!
PROFESSOR: Well, I can’t just call you ‘Old Man.’
DENNIS: Well, you could say “The longest-standing constitutional republic the world has ever known.”
PROFESSOR: Well, I didn't know you were.
DENNIS: Well, you didn't bother to think about it, did you?
PROFESSOR: I won’t say sorry about the int’l community thing, but from way up here you looked--
DENNIS: What I object to is you automatically treat me like an inferior and a dependent!
PROFESSOR: Well, I AM a professor...
DENNIS: Oh professor, eh, very nice! An' how'd you get that, eh? By exploitin' affirmative action and the federal loans and grants programs -- by 'angin' on to outdated Marxist dogma which perpetuates the economic an' social tensions in our society! ....If there's ever going to be any progress--
WOMAN: Dennis, there's some lovely filth down here. Oh -- how d'you do?
PROFESSOR: How do you do, good lady. I am Joyce, Chair of American Studies at Harvard. Whose castle is that?
WOMAN: Chair of the 'oo?
PROFESSOR: American Studies.
WOMAN: What are American Studies?
PROFESSOR: Well, it’s everything. You’re all pupils and I am your Chair.
WOMAN: I didn't know we had a chair. I thought we were on independent study.
DENNIS: You're foolin' yourself. We're livin' in a dictatorship. ..... A self-perpetuatin' autocracy in which the free and independent-minded--
WOMAN: Oh there you go, bringin' freedom into it again!
DENNIS: That's what it's all about if only people would--
PROFESSOR: Please, please good people. I am in haste. Who lives in that castle?
WOMAN: No one lives there.
PROFESSOR: Then who is your lord?
Woman: We don't have a lord.
PROFESSOR: What?
DENNIS: I told you. We're a sovereign constitutional republic. We take it in turns to elect representatives to act as a sort of proxy to run three co-equal branches of government…
PROFESSOR: Yes.
DENNIS: But all the decisions of those proxies have to be ratified at special meetings…
PROFESSOR: Yes, I see.
DENNIS: By a simple majority in the case of some affairs,--
PROFESSOR: Be quiet!
DENNIS: --but by a two-thirds majority in the case of more--
PROFESSOR: Be quiet! I order you to be quiet!
WOMAN: Order, eh? – ‘Oo does she think she is?
PROFESSOR: I am your professor!
WOMAN: Well, I didn’t vote for you…
PROFESSOR: You don't vote for professors!
WOMAN: Well, 'ow did you become Professor, then?
PROFESSOR: The Dean of the college, [angels sing] her arm clad in the purest shimmering rayon, held aloft a sheepskin from the bosom of the water signifying by Divine Providence that I, Joyce, was to carry some letters after my name, and though I am not a real doctor, you should call me one. [singing stops] That is why I am your professor!
DENNIS: Listen -- Inbred limeys across the pond distributin’ documents is no basis for a system of government. Autonomous national creation derives from a mandate from the citizens, not from some farcical monarchal ceremony!
PROFESSOR: Be quiet!
DENNIS: You can't deny pre-existing supreme sovereign power just 'cause some mole-covered royal surrendered and threw a peace treaty at you!
PROFESSOR: Shut up!
DENNIS: I mean, if I went 'round sayin' I wasn’t born yet just because some sleepy government bureaucrat hadn’t stamped my birth certificate, they'd put me away!
PROFESSOR: Shut up! Will you shut up!
DENNIS: Ah! Now we see the logic inherent in the system!
PROFESSOR: Shut up!
DENNIS: Oh! Come and see the bias inherent in the system! --- HELP! HELP! I'm being repressed!
PROFESSOR: Bloody peasant!
DENNIS: Oh, what a give-away! Did you hear that, did you hear that, eh?.... That's what I'm on about! -- Did you see ‘em repressing me? You saw it, didn't you?
130.) DParker - 06/03/2017
+100
131.) Swamp Fox - 06/03/2017
Thanks.
Don't encourage me. (:wink)
Don't encourage me. (:wink)
132.) bluecat - 06/03/2017
Damn, the whole time I'm reading this on my phone and scrolling I'm thinking I'll give ya a hundred and then DP''s post comes into view.
Well done my son!
Well done my son!
133.) Swamp Fox - 06/04/2017
I figure if a suit against Katie Couric for a blatant misrepresention of a very real video'd discussion with gun owners can be dismissed against all common sense, I should be okay with a creative parody of a satirical film from the 1970s.
Right?
But just in case: You all are down with my legal defense fund, right?
Right?
But just in case: You all are down with my legal defense fund, right?
134.) DParker - 06/04/2017
The check is in the mail!
If you get bored you should read the opinion dismissing the VCDL libel suit against Couric et al.
[URL="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3762263-Underthegun.html"]https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3762263-Underthegun.html[/URL]
The judge was clearly agenda-driven, and must have pulled a muscle stretching so much to rationalize his finding that the edit wasn't actually dishonest.
If you get bored you should read the opinion dismissing the VCDL libel suit against Couric et al.
[URL="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3762263-Underthegun.html"]https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3762263-Underthegun.html[/URL]
The judge was clearly agenda-driven, and must have pulled a muscle stretching so much to rationalize his finding that the edit wasn't actually dishonest.
135.) Swamp Fox - 06/04/2017
I've skimmed some stuff on it but don't have a lot of patience for law school peekaboo. To equate misleading video editing with real silence--> with spontaneous answers-->with not answering a question--> with not answering the way you desire is --> why you have "no honest lawyers" jokes.
Not saying I'll never try to analyze the ruling, but it might be a bridge too far this weekend...LOL.
Not saying I'll never try to analyze the ruling, but it might be a bridge too far this weekend...LOL.
136.) Swamp Fox - 06/04/2017
If I knew how to create a playlist on any kind of device, I would be adding the Macedonian national anthem right now...You can thank me later.
137.) Swamp Fox - 06/04/2017
My favorite part is where they go
[QUOTE]Старо, младо, машко и женско,
На нозе се кренало!
Старо, младо, машко и женско,
На нозе се кренало![/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]Старо, младо, машко и женско,
На нозе се кренало!
Старо, младо, машко и женско,
На нозе се кренало![/QUOTE]
138.) Swamp Fox - 06/04/2017
Crookedeye could tell you what that means, but then he'd have to kill you...
139.) Swamp Fox - 10/24/2017
Time for this again, unfortunately.
The PC war on all things fun, including Halloween, but kicked up a notch:
[QUOTE]It's mid-October, which means Halloween is just two weeks away, which means it's way past time to decide on a Halloween costume for your kid. Chances are, you have a child that is enamored with all things Disney and wants to be all of the princesses. All of them! Especially Moana.
[B]The New York Post recently highlighted an article on raceconscious.org about how that's probably not a good choice if your kid is white, and revealed that "moms are freaking out" over the culturally appropriative costume. [/B]Needless to say, the Post's coverage has only amplified the debate around what does, and doesn't, constitute cultural appropriation. Last year, Disney came under fire for its Maui costume, which depicted the demigod's painted brown skin. The company ultimately pulled the costume in response to the uproar, telling Entertainment Weekly in a statement that "The team behind Moana has taken great care to respect the cultures of the Pacific Islands that inspired the film, and we regret that the Maui costume has offended some." The Maui question may have been settled, but [B]this year, there are plenty of tweets out there asking the internet (and Lin-Manuel Miranda) if it's OK to dress as Moana for Halloween.[/B]
[B]The original article, written by Sachi Feris, discusses how her white daughter was torn between dressing as Elsa, from Frozen, or the titular character from Moana. Feris expresses concern that while an Elsa costume might reinforce notions of white privilege, dressing up as Moana is essentially cultural appropriation[/B] — the act of reducing someone's culture to stereotypes, and thereby belittling it. Though Feris puzzles over how one might wear a Moana costume respectfully, she ultimately decides it just isn't a good idea.
At this point, you might be saying something like: "But, I dressed up as Jasmine as a child, and I'm not a racist!", or, "It's just a Halloween costume, please chill the f*ck out." But one of the best things about time is that it moves forward. You should too. You can (and should) strive to be better than you were 10, 20, or 30 years ago. If you missed the mark when you were younger, maybe think about using this Halloween as an opportunity to teach your kids about the importance of cultural sensitivity. If your child's dream costume feels questionable, don't just throw up your hands and hand over your credit card. You're the parent here, and the onus of what your child wears falls on you. If your kid wears a racist costume … you're kind of wearing it too.
Recognize this: Moana is a really special character to young girls of Polynesian descent who have never seen a Disney Princess who looks like them, just like how Tiana from The Princess and the Frog likely resonated with young Black women who had waited decades to see themselves represented. White girls have plenty of princesses to choose from — there's Belle, Ariel, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty … you get the idea. [B]If your Caucasian son or daughter doesn't get to be exactly what they wanted for Halloween, encourage them to take a step back and realize that they're awash in privileges that the real Moanas and Tianas of the world will likely never see, because the world is full of racist assholes.[/B]
And those assholes are becoming even more empowered. Our President is a hate group apologist who tries to ban refugees from seeking asylum in our country, simply because of their faith. Meanwhile, Black Americans continue to be killed by police, and antisemitic voices feel louder and more powerful than they have in decades.
[B]So what does this have to do with a seemingly innocent princess costume? Pretty much everything.[/B] It's important to align with, and stand up for, people of color and minorities, and a key part of that is showing respect for their cultures. To pretend to be a racial, ethnic, or religious minority when you're not makes light of their history — and reinforces a deeply problematic power dynamic, wherein white people use, then discard, pieces of cultures they've subjugated for centuries just because they can.
[B]To clarify: No one is telling you to ban your child from belting out Moana songs in your living room. They're good songs! Moana is a powerful, phenomenal Disney heroine who relies on more than just her CGI perfection to save the day. [COLOR="#FF0000"]But [/COLOR][/B]there's no better time than when a kid is in their formative years to teach them that it's not OK to mock other people's cultures. That's the sort of attitude that will ultimately bleed into the way they behave and think as they get older — do they respect the personhood of those unlike themselves, or is their only concern doing whatever they think is fun? (For what it's worth, Fijian Emmaline Matagi suggests using a kid's desire to be Moana or Maui as an opportunity to teach them about actual Polynesian culture. She concedes that she understands why kids would want to dress as Moana, but instead suggests that they make their own outfits, without attempting to recreate "designs [they] think are Polynesian." After all, she writes, "my culture is not a costume.")
A Halloween costume is a small, easy way to introduce these issues in a way that a child's yet-to-be-fully-brain can process. This isn't about putting a damper on your kid's creativity; it's about exercising sensitivity towards anyone who doesn't get to choose how the world at large sizes them up. Whether or not your kids get that is up to you.
From: Redbook[/QUOTE]
I thought I could just take snippets, but it's so idiotic you just have to stare at the whole unedited thing. Highlights are mine. Original is here:
[url]http://www.cosmopolitan.com/lifestyle/a13069023/moana-halloween-costume-racist/?src=socialflowTW[/url]
You wonder how some people leave the house in the morning.
The PC war on all things fun, including Halloween, but kicked up a notch:
[QUOTE]It's mid-October, which means Halloween is just two weeks away, which means it's way past time to decide on a Halloween costume for your kid. Chances are, you have a child that is enamored with all things Disney and wants to be all of the princesses. All of them! Especially Moana.
[B]The New York Post recently highlighted an article on raceconscious.org about how that's probably not a good choice if your kid is white, and revealed that "moms are freaking out" over the culturally appropriative costume. [/B]Needless to say, the Post's coverage has only amplified the debate around what does, and doesn't, constitute cultural appropriation. Last year, Disney came under fire for its Maui costume, which depicted the demigod's painted brown skin. The company ultimately pulled the costume in response to the uproar, telling Entertainment Weekly in a statement that "The team behind Moana has taken great care to respect the cultures of the Pacific Islands that inspired the film, and we regret that the Maui costume has offended some." The Maui question may have been settled, but [B]this year, there are plenty of tweets out there asking the internet (and Lin-Manuel Miranda) if it's OK to dress as Moana for Halloween.[/B]
[B]The original article, written by Sachi Feris, discusses how her white daughter was torn between dressing as Elsa, from Frozen, or the titular character from Moana. Feris expresses concern that while an Elsa costume might reinforce notions of white privilege, dressing up as Moana is essentially cultural appropriation[/B] — the act of reducing someone's culture to stereotypes, and thereby belittling it. Though Feris puzzles over how one might wear a Moana costume respectfully, she ultimately decides it just isn't a good idea.
At this point, you might be saying something like: "But, I dressed up as Jasmine as a child, and I'm not a racist!", or, "It's just a Halloween costume, please chill the f*ck out." But one of the best things about time is that it moves forward. You should too. You can (and should) strive to be better than you were 10, 20, or 30 years ago. If you missed the mark when you were younger, maybe think about using this Halloween as an opportunity to teach your kids about the importance of cultural sensitivity. If your child's dream costume feels questionable, don't just throw up your hands and hand over your credit card. You're the parent here, and the onus of what your child wears falls on you. If your kid wears a racist costume … you're kind of wearing it too.
Recognize this: Moana is a really special character to young girls of Polynesian descent who have never seen a Disney Princess who looks like them, just like how Tiana from The Princess and the Frog likely resonated with young Black women who had waited decades to see themselves represented. White girls have plenty of princesses to choose from — there's Belle, Ariel, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty … you get the idea. [B]If your Caucasian son or daughter doesn't get to be exactly what they wanted for Halloween, encourage them to take a step back and realize that they're awash in privileges that the real Moanas and Tianas of the world will likely never see, because the world is full of racist assholes.[/B]
And those assholes are becoming even more empowered. Our President is a hate group apologist who tries to ban refugees from seeking asylum in our country, simply because of their faith. Meanwhile, Black Americans continue to be killed by police, and antisemitic voices feel louder and more powerful than they have in decades.
[B]So what does this have to do with a seemingly innocent princess costume? Pretty much everything.[/B] It's important to align with, and stand up for, people of color and minorities, and a key part of that is showing respect for their cultures. To pretend to be a racial, ethnic, or religious minority when you're not makes light of their history — and reinforces a deeply problematic power dynamic, wherein white people use, then discard, pieces of cultures they've subjugated for centuries just because they can.
[B]To clarify: No one is telling you to ban your child from belting out Moana songs in your living room. They're good songs! Moana is a powerful, phenomenal Disney heroine who relies on more than just her CGI perfection to save the day. [COLOR="#FF0000"]But [/COLOR][/B]there's no better time than when a kid is in their formative years to teach them that it's not OK to mock other people's cultures. That's the sort of attitude that will ultimately bleed into the way they behave and think as they get older — do they respect the personhood of those unlike themselves, or is their only concern doing whatever they think is fun? (For what it's worth, Fijian Emmaline Matagi suggests using a kid's desire to be Moana or Maui as an opportunity to teach them about actual Polynesian culture. She concedes that she understands why kids would want to dress as Moana, but instead suggests that they make their own outfits, without attempting to recreate "designs [they] think are Polynesian." After all, she writes, "my culture is not a costume.")
A Halloween costume is a small, easy way to introduce these issues in a way that a child's yet-to-be-fully-brain can process. This isn't about putting a damper on your kid's creativity; it's about exercising sensitivity towards anyone who doesn't get to choose how the world at large sizes them up. Whether or not your kids get that is up to you.
From: Redbook[/QUOTE]
I thought I could just take snippets, but it's so idiotic you just have to stare at the whole unedited thing. Highlights are mine. Original is here:
[url]http://www.cosmopolitan.com/lifestyle/a13069023/moana-halloween-costume-racist/?src=socialflowTW[/url]
You wonder how some people leave the house in the morning.
140.) DParker - 10/24/2017
141.) Swamp Fox - 10/24/2017
LOL ... It's a mad, mad, mad, mad world.
The day you have to "ask the internet" if it's okay to do something is the day you should just hang it up.
The day you have to "ask the internet" if it's okay to do something is the day you should just hang it up.
142.) bluecat - 10/24/2017
Is it still okay to deer hunt on Veteran's Day? That's all I want to know.
143.) DParker - 10/24/2017
[QUOTE=bluecat;52633]Is it still okay to deer hunt on Veteran's Day? That's all I want to know.[/QUOTE]
Yes...but doing so on Veterinarian's Day might be bad form.
Yes...but doing so on Veterinarian's Day might be bad form.
144.) Swamp Fox - 10/24/2017
To kick things up a notch around here, I propose a wager or a pool revolving around when or where the first (or most prominent) complaint about how the [I]Redbook[/I] article is whitesplaining will appear.
145.) bluecat - 10/25/2017
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;52629]Time for this again, unfortunately.
The PC war on all things fun, including Halloween, but kicked up a notch:
I thought I could just take snippets, but it's so idiotic you just have to stare at the whole unedited thing. Highlights are mine. Original is here:
[url]http://www.cosmopolitan.com/lifestyle/a13069023/moana-halloween-costume-racist/?src=socialflowTW[/url]
You wonder how some people leave the house in the morning.[/QUOTE]
The PC war on all things fun, including Halloween, but kicked up a notch:
I thought I could just take snippets, but it's so idiotic you just have to stare at the whole unedited thing. Highlights are mine. Original is here:
[url]http://www.cosmopolitan.com/lifestyle/a13069023/moana-halloween-costume-racist/?src=socialflowTW[/url]
You wonder how some people leave the house in the morning.[/QUOTE]
146.) DParker - 10/25/2017
[QUOTE=bluecat;52668][/QUOTE]
Must....resist....obvious....joke......
[/QUOTE]Must....resist....obvious....joke......
147.) Swamp Fox - 10/25/2017
It's not the tacos that are problematic. It's the hoop skirt.
[url]https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/removing-the-southern-belle-from-her-inglorious-perch/2015/08/14/ea929b2a-3f96-11e5-9561-4b3dc93e3b9a_story.html?tid=a_inl&utm_term=.95ea3176e398[/url]
[url]https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-banning-of-hoop-skirts-is-troubling/2015/08/19/7f0c47c6-444f-11e5-9f53-d1e3ddfd0cda_story.html?utm_term=.6fac6e1cb363[/url]
Personally, that outfit combines all my favorite things ...
[url]https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/removing-the-southern-belle-from-her-inglorious-perch/2015/08/14/ea929b2a-3f96-11e5-9561-4b3dc93e3b9a_story.html?tid=a_inl&utm_term=.95ea3176e398[/url]
[url]https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-banning-of-hoop-skirts-is-troubling/2015/08/19/7f0c47c6-444f-11e5-9f53-d1e3ddfd0cda_story.html?utm_term=.6fac6e1cb363[/url]
Personally, that outfit combines all my favorite things ...
148.) Swamp Fox - 10/25/2017
Well, OK ... Most of them.
149.) DParker - 10/25/2017
I'll see your hoop skirt (actually, I won't...since I rant into WaPo's paywall) and raise you racist Corn Pops:
[URL="https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2017/10/25/kelloggs-replace-racially-insensitive-corn-pops-boxes-following-twitter-rant/797911001/"]USA Today: Kellogg's to replace racially insensitive Corn Pops boxes following Twitter call out[/URL]
[URL="https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2017/10/25/kelloggs-replace-racially-insensitive-corn-pops-boxes-following-twitter-rant/797911001/"]USA Today: Kellogg's to replace racially insensitive Corn Pops boxes following Twitter call out[/URL]
150.) Swamp Fox - 10/25/2017
LOL ... I have a feeling that Saladin Ahmed is offended by just about everything except his own strong odor, or [I]putrescence[/I] as a literary type such as he would put it.
[url]https://twitter.com/saladinahmed?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.usatoday.com%2Fstory%2Fmoney%2Fbusiness%2F2017%2F10%2F25%2Fkelloggs-replace-racially-insensitive-corn-pops-boxes-following-twitter-rant%2F797911001%2F[/url]
The hoop skirt thing is a slightly old story, but maybe it didn't get a lot of play nationally.
[url]http://thefederalist.com/2015/09/10/hoop-skirts-mean-freedom-not-oppression/[/url]
[url]https://twitter.com/saladinahmed?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.usatoday.com%2Fstory%2Fmoney%2Fbusiness%2F2017%2F10%2F25%2Fkelloggs-replace-racially-insensitive-corn-pops-boxes-following-twitter-rant%2F797911001%2F[/url]
The hoop skirt thing is a slightly old story, but maybe it didn't get a lot of play nationally.
[url]http://thefederalist.com/2015/09/10/hoop-skirts-mean-freedom-not-oppression/[/url]
151.) bluecat - 10/25/2017
"The empty barrel makes the most noise."
152.) Swamp Fox - 10/25/2017
Exactly ... LOL
153.) Swamp Fox - 10/25/2017
Now that I think of it, with hoop skirts, Moana, sexy nurses, French maids, seductive witches and hoop earrings all out of bounds, white girls are having a really hard time finding something to wear.
Remember that, gentlemen, the next time your p̶r̶i̶n̶c̶e̶s̶s̶ ̶q̶u̶e̶e̶n̶ ̶w̶o̶m̶a̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶'̶r̶e̶ ̶w̶a̶l̶k̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶t̶h̶r̶o̶u̶g̶h̶ ̶l̶i̶f̶e̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶ significant other takes too long getting ready to go out.
[QUOTE][B]Campus-Wide E-mail Tells White Girls to Stop Wearing Hoop Earrings Because It’s Cultural Appropriation[/B]
Now, I can admit that I did not invent hoop earrings. Hell, I can even admit that I’ve never done any research on the history of hoop earrings. But does this mean that I can’t wear them? Hell no, because it is literally a piece of metal twisted into a circle, and if you are going to try and tell me that I cannot wear a piece of metal because that piece of metal has been twisted into a circle, then I am going to tell you to shut up. It does not matter who started it, nobody owns circles, and you really, really need to calm down.
Read more at: [url]http://www.nationalreview.com/article/445611/campus-wide-email-tells-white-girls-stop-wearing-hoop-earrings-because-its-cultural[/url]
[/QUOTE]
Remember that, gentlemen, the next time your p̶r̶i̶n̶c̶e̶s̶s̶ ̶q̶u̶e̶e̶n̶ ̶w̶o̶m̶a̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶'̶r̶e̶ ̶w̶a̶l̶k̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶t̶h̶r̶o̶u̶g̶h̶ ̶l̶i̶f̶e̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶ significant other takes too long getting ready to go out.
[QUOTE][B]Campus-Wide E-mail Tells White Girls to Stop Wearing Hoop Earrings Because It’s Cultural Appropriation[/B]
Now, I can admit that I did not invent hoop earrings. Hell, I can even admit that I’ve never done any research on the history of hoop earrings. But does this mean that I can’t wear them? Hell no, because it is literally a piece of metal twisted into a circle, and if you are going to try and tell me that I cannot wear a piece of metal because that piece of metal has been twisted into a circle, then I am going to tell you to shut up. It does not matter who started it, nobody owns circles, and you really, really need to calm down.
Read more at: [url]http://www.nationalreview.com/article/445611/campus-wide-email-tells-white-girls-stop-wearing-hoop-earrings-because-its-cultural[/url]
[/QUOTE]
154.) bluecat - 10/25/2017
[url]http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/10/24/white-privilege-bolstered-by-teaching-math-university-professor-says.html[/url]
155.) DParker - 10/25/2017
First the low-fat pigs, now the SJWs are trying to ruin the one night of the year when most women with moral codes have a good excuse for dressing like women with...well...significantly attenuated moral codes. Pretty soon ALL of the fun will have been completely sucked out of life.
[video=youtube;tleSnj4OD0g]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tleSnj4OD0g[/video]
[video=youtube;tleSnj4OD0g]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tleSnj4OD0g[/video]
156.) DParker - 10/25/2017
[QUOTE=bluecat;52687]https://i.imgur.com/HtMOoRN.jpg[/QUOTE]
LOL! +5.
LOL! +5.
157.) bluecat - 10/25/2017
[QUOTE=DParker;52688]First the low-fat pigs, now the SJWs are trying to ruin the one night of the year when most women with moral codes have a good excuse for dressing like women with...well...significantly attenuated moral codes. Pretty soon ALL of the fun will have been completely sucked out of life.
[video=youtube;tleSnj4OD0g]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tleSnj4OD0g[/video][/QUOTE]
That was very racist video you posted. Thought you should know.
[video=youtube;tleSnj4OD0g]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tleSnj4OD0g[/video][/QUOTE]
That was very racist video you posted. Thought you should know.
158.) Swamp Fox - 10/25/2017
[QUOTE=bluecat;52687]
[url]http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/10/24/white-privilege-bolstered-by-teaching-math-university-professor-says.html[/url][/QUOTE]
LMAO! ...That might even be a +7!
[QUOTE]Gutierrez did not respond to an email from Fox News Tuesday seeking comment.[/QUOTE]
---from link above
Yeah, I'll bet she didn't.
:duh:
[url]http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/10/24/white-privilege-bolstered-by-teaching-math-university-professor-says.html[/url][/QUOTE]
LMAO! ...That might even be a +7!
[QUOTE]Gutierrez did not respond to an email from Fox News Tuesday seeking comment.[/QUOTE]
---from link above
Yeah, I'll bet she didn't.
:duh:
159.) Swamp Fox - 10/25/2017
BTW and for the record, I agree with all the line-drawing.....
160.) bluecat - 10/25/2017
If loving her is wrong, I don't want to be alt right.
161.) Swamp Fox - 11/01/2017
.....
162.) DParker - 11/02/2017
I missed this until just now, but this appears to have been yesterday's Tweet-Of-The-Day winner. From one of the geniuses at ThinkProgress.org (an editor, even):
Because apparently it's racist to not want to bother sending dead guys to Gitmo. Of course, when Ben Shapiro pointed out that the Vegas shooter was already a stiff, she deleted her tweet and tried to pull the old, "Well, I mispoke...but my point still stands, even though the premise on which I based it is completely false" routine:
[URL="https://twitter.com/ekhatami/status/925779290771394560"]https://twitter.com/ekhatami/status/925779290771394560[/URL]
Because apparently it's racist to not want to bother sending dead guys to Gitmo. Of course, when Ben Shapiro pointed out that the Vegas shooter was already a stiff, she deleted her tweet and tried to pull the old, "Well, I mispoke...but my point still stands, even though the premise on which I based it is completely false" routine:
[URL="https://twitter.com/ekhatami/status/925779290771394560"]https://twitter.com/ekhatami/status/925779290771394560[/URL]
163.) Swamp Fox - 11/02/2017
A lot of anti-Trump and handwringing about "backlash" and Islamophobia over there.
Not one tweet about the victims.
But hey... You can't get to everything.
Not one tweet about the victims.
But hey... You can't get to everything.
164.) DParker - 11/03/2017
If any of you has some extra popcorn on hand, would you be good enough to ship some to me? I don't have nearly enough for all of the left-wing meltdowns that are going on right now. Between the revelations of all the grab-ass going on in Hollyweird and the sudden admission by DNC and other (D) leaders that the 2016 nomination was rigged (bought and paid for) by Hillary's campaign, while she funneled funds from down-ticket state candidates to her own campaign, I'm down to my last box of Orville Redenbacher.
165.) Swamp Fox - 11/03/2017
I know, right?
Add to your list of must-sees the "Shitty Media Men List" story which is bubbling to the top, and ultra-lefty David Corn's woes over at [I]Mother Jones [/I]... Maybe he's being smeared unfairly, but a small part of me is smiling at the sight of progs eating their own.
Hoisted with their own petard, you might say.
[url]http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/shitty-media-men-list-accused-sexual-harassers-is-spreading-panic-1053468[/url]
[url]https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/02/david-corn-mother-jones-workplace-behavior-probe-244482[/url]
Next thing you know, it'll come out that Bernie paid for his new houses with money from the Clinton Foundation. :p
Add to your list of must-sees the "Shitty Media Men List" story which is bubbling to the top, and ultra-lefty David Corn's woes over at [I]Mother Jones [/I]... Maybe he's being smeared unfairly, but a small part of me is smiling at the sight of progs eating their own.
Hoisted with their own petard, you might say.
[url]http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/shitty-media-men-list-accused-sexual-harassers-is-spreading-panic-1053468[/url]
[url]https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/02/david-corn-mother-jones-workplace-behavior-probe-244482[/url]
Next thing you know, it'll come out that Bernie paid for his new houses with money from the Clinton Foundation. :p
166.) DParker - 11/03/2017
Oh, yeah...I forgot to include liberal media grab-ass as well. And to be quite honest...I not only don't know if all/many/some/any of the allegations are true, I really don't care. It's just entertaining as hell to see all of these "war on women" propagandists having their own guilt-by-accusation-because-we-must-always-believe-women-unquestioningly-and-anything-a-woman-doesn't-like-is-de-facto-sexual-harassment weapon turned on themselves...as well as the resulting liberal cannibalism.
167.) Swamp Fox - 11/03/2017
Somebody should organize some marches where everyone wears funny hats and stuff ...
168.) DParker - 11/03/2017
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;52916]Somebody should organize some marches where everyone wears funny hats and stuff ...[/QUOTE]
I'm not showing up unless I can turn over cars, break windows, toss Molotov cocktails and smack people upside the head with a bicycle lock. You know, what the left calls "peaceful protest".
I'm not showing up unless I can turn over cars, break windows, toss Molotov cocktails and smack people upside the head with a bicycle lock. You know, what the left calls "peaceful protest".
169.) Swamp Fox - 11/03/2017
....
170.) Swamp Fox - 11/03/2017
....
171.) DParker - 11/03/2017
I've been working in office environments for just over 30 years now, and I've never been sexually harassed. 
172.) Swamp Fox - 11/03/2017
You and Nancy Pelosi!
173.) Swamp Fox - 11/03/2017
I put this over in the Current Events thread, but it's too good not to cross-post here ... LOL ...
"When we turn on each other, we can’t unite to fight back against a rigged system.” —@ElizabethforMA #DemsInPhilly
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) July 26, 2016
174.) Swamp Fox - 11/03/2017
She was on the path to victory ...
175.) DParker - 11/03/2017
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;52923]I put this over in the Current Events thread, but it's too good not to cross-post here ... LOL ...
[/QUOTE]
"When we turn on each other, we can’t unite to fight back against a rigged system.” —@ElizabethforMA #DemsInPhilly
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) July 26, 2016
[/QUOTE]
176.) Swamp Fox - 11/03/2017
LOL!
177.) Swamp Fox - 11/13/2017
This is so 2017, LOL:
Keurig smashing: wherein conservatives destroy their own property and help the environment, just to trigger the libs.
— David Atkins (@DavidOAtkins) November 13, 2017
178.) Swamp Fox - 12/12/2017
Chief Attention Seeker (:pop:) goes Marianas Trench subliminal. Not sure Warren knows what slut-shaming is. Pretty sure Gillibrand will not appreciate the assist unless as unaware as Warren.
2020 Dream Team?
2020 Dream Team?
Are you really trying to bully, intimidate and slut-shame @SenGillibrand? Do you know who you're picking a fight with? Good luck with that, @realDonaldTrump. Nevertheless, #shepersisted. https://t.co/mYJtBZfxiu
— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) December 12, 2017
Lightweight Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, a total flunky for Chuck Schumer and someone who would come to my office “begging” for campaign contributions not so long ago (and would do anything for them), is now in the ring fighting against Trump. Very disloyal to Bill & Crooked-USED!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 12, 2017
179.) DParker - 12/12/2017
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;53735]Chief Attention Seeker (:pop:) goes Marianas Trench subliminal. Not sure Warren knows what slut-shaming is. Pretty sure Gillibrand will not appreciate the assist unless as unaware as Warren.
2020 Dream Team?
[/QUOTE]
So she's saying Gillibrand is a slut?
2020 Dream Team?
Are you really trying to bully, intimidate and slut-shame @SenGillibrand? Do you know who you're picking a fight with? Good luck with that, @realDonaldTrump. Nevertheless, #shepersisted. https://t.co/mYJtBZfxiu
— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) December 12, 2017
[/QUOTE]
So she's saying Gillibrand is a slut?
180.) DParker - 12/12/2017
James Woods also delivers on occasion...
This person berates the character of @SarahHuckabee on a daily basis. #ChelseaHandlerHumanUrinal https://t.co/Y07Q0Rmcw6
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) December 9, 2017
181.) Swamp Fox - 12/12/2017
That's what she's saying, but she doesn't know she's saying it.
At the very least she's saying that Gillibrand is known for "questionable behavior" ["Not that there's anything wrong with that!"--The Audience] and needs to be defended lest she be branded.
If Trump hadn't jumped on the Roy Moore train, I would have loved to see him tweet back "I'm not slut-shaming. Some of my best friends are sluts. My lawyer's a slut!"
[url]http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-roy-moore-wife-jewish-comments-20171212-story.html[/url]
Now THAT would be must-see Twitter!
At the very least she's saying that Gillibrand is known for "questionable behavior" ["Not that there's anything wrong with that!"--The Audience] and needs to be defended lest she be branded.
If Trump hadn't jumped on the Roy Moore train, I would have loved to see him tweet back "I'm not slut-shaming. Some of my best friends are sluts. My lawyer's a slut!"
[url]http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-roy-moore-wife-jewish-comments-20171212-story.html[/url]
Now THAT would be must-see Twitter!
182.) Swamp Fox - 12/12/2017
I saw something about a month ago that James Woods was hanging it up in Hollywood. Essentially he wasn't getting work, or so it seemed. The bear doesn't like getting poked. I kept hoping he was going into politics in Rhode Island, LOL, but the story turned out to be untrue.
"Honest mistake" LOL---I think it ran on the basis of a real estate ad, and without corroboration :re:.
"Honest mistake" LOL---I think it ran on the basis of a real estate ad, and without corroboration :re:.
183.) Swamp Fox - 12/13/2017
[QUOTE=DParker;53736]So she's saying Gillibrand is a slut?[/QUOTE]
Gillibrand is trying to make hay, but with a whirlwind history of going from A to F with the NRA, twisting herself inside out on immigration, and sucking up to and then turning on Bill Clinton, some clever and very brave and thick-skinned pundit will make the case that she is a political whore.
[url]http://www.msnbc.com/the-cycle/the-flip-flopping-nature-kirsten-gillibran[/url]
Elizabeth Warren, as a Cherokee-American, would then be obligated to lobby the Senate to send Kristen away.
[QUOTE]Nose-cutting of adulteresses, though hardly universal among American Indians, was fairly widespread — we have credible reports of its occurrence among the Creek, Sioux, and Navajo.
[...]
Getting back to Native Americans, not all tribes punished adultery brutally. Cuckolded Cherokee men, it's said, just sent their wives away.
[url]http://www.creativeloafing.com/news/article/13038404/did-native-americans-cut-off-the-noses-of-adulterous-wives[/url][/QUOTE]
Who could have seen that coming?
Gillibrand is trying to make hay, but with a whirlwind history of going from A to F with the NRA, twisting herself inside out on immigration, and sucking up to and then turning on Bill Clinton, some clever and very brave and thick-skinned pundit will make the case that she is a political whore.
[url]http://www.msnbc.com/the-cycle/the-flip-flopping-nature-kirsten-gillibran[/url]
Elizabeth Warren, as a Cherokee-American, would then be obligated to lobby the Senate to send Kristen away.
[QUOTE]Nose-cutting of adulteresses, though hardly universal among American Indians, was fairly widespread — we have credible reports of its occurrence among the Creek, Sioux, and Navajo.
[...]
Getting back to Native Americans, not all tribes punished adultery brutally. Cuckolded Cherokee men, it's said, just sent their wives away.
[url]http://www.creativeloafing.com/news/article/13038404/did-native-americans-cut-off-the-noses-of-adulterous-wives[/url][/QUOTE]
Who could have seen that coming?
184.) bluecat - 01/12/2018
[url]https://www.yahoo.com/news/top-grammar-school-bans-pupils-called-girls-case-offends-transgender-students-104622401.html[/url]
Top grammar school bans pupils being called 'girls' in case it offends transgender students
Top grammar school bans pupils being called 'girls' in case it offends transgender students
185.) DParker - 01/12/2018
[QUOTE=bluecat;54192][url]https://www.yahoo.com/news/top-grammar-school-bans-pupils-called-girls-case-offends-transgender-students-104622401.html[/url]
Top grammar school bans pupils being called 'girls' in case it offends transgender students[/QUOTE]
That's why I now refer to everyone as "carbon units".
Top grammar school bans pupils being called 'girls' in case it offends transgender students[/QUOTE]
That's why I now refer to everyone as "carbon units".
186.) bluecat - 01/12/2018
Oxygen and Calcium are offended.
187.) Swamp Fox - 01/12/2018
[QUOTE=bluecat;54192][url]https://www.yahoo.com/news/top-grammar-school-bans-pupils-called-girls-case-offends-transgender-students-104622401.html[/url]
Top grammar school bans pupils being called 'girls' in case it offends transgender students[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=DParker;54194]That's why I now refer to everyone as "carbon units".[/QUOTE]
This goes along with the purple penguins thing from a couple of years ago. We're churning out illiterates in history and civics, apparently, but man!: Everybody's dialed in right on the feelings curriculum. The other story I saw in the last week is one about schools discouraging kids to have "best friends." You should be friends with everybody ...blah, blah, blah.
Moving on to adult children: Didja catch where the Women's March doesn't want to use pink hats this year because they could be racist and/or transphobic? Not kidding. Just shoot me now.
DP, you are probably on to something.
I think my head would explode if I were raising kids today.
Top grammar school bans pupils being called 'girls' in case it offends transgender students[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=DParker;54194]That's why I now refer to everyone as "carbon units".[/QUOTE]
This goes along with the purple penguins thing from a couple of years ago. We're churning out illiterates in history and civics, apparently, but man!: Everybody's dialed in right on the feelings curriculum. The other story I saw in the last week is one about schools discouraging kids to have "best friends." You should be friends with everybody ...blah, blah, blah.
Moving on to adult children: Didja catch where the Women's March doesn't want to use pink hats this year because they could be racist and/or transphobic? Not kidding. Just shoot me now.
DP, you are probably on to something.
I think my head would explode if I were raising kids today.
188.) DParker - 01/12/2018
[QUOTE=bluecat;54195]Oxygen and Calcium are offended.[/QUOTE]
They need to check their higher-atomic-weight privilege.
They need to check their higher-atomic-weight privilege.
189.) DParker - 01/12/2018
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;54196]Didja catch where the Women's March doesn't want to use pink hats this year because they could be racist and/or transphobic?[/QUOTE]
So the SJW stupidity wasn't quite turned up to 11 yet, and they're seeking to remedy that.
So the SJW stupidity wasn't quite turned up to 11 yet, and they're seeking to remedy that.
190.) bluecat - 01/12/2018
[QUOTE=DParker;54197]They need to check their higher-atomic-weight privilege.[/QUOTE]
+ 5 :laugh:
+ 5 :laugh:
191.) Swamp Fox - 01/12/2018
[QUOTE=DParker;54198]So the SJW stupidity wasn't quite turned up to 11 yet, and they're seeking to remedy that.[/QUOTE]
There's always room for disimprovement.
There's always room for disimprovement.
192.) Swamp Fox - 01/12/2018
BTW ... I've noticed some people starting to say "Turn it up to 12" (or 13) lately ...because that's where we are these days.
193.) bluecat - 01/12/2018
Eleven is so yesterday. Get with it man.
194.) Swamp Fox - 01/12/2018
The mass stupidity is getting massier.
I don't know if it's more fun to engage, or to just watch people's heads explode from afar.
Either way, it takes a lot out of you.
I don't know if it's more fun to engage, or to just watch people's heads explode from afar.
Either way, it takes a lot out of you.
195.) bluecat - 01/12/2018
If it helps, sometimes when I'm winded I'll take a knee to protest my heart not keeping up the oxygen concentration in my blood.
196.) Swamp Fox - 01/12/2018
I might have to try that.
Either that or cancel my internet.
Either that or cancel my internet.
197.) Swamp Fox - 01/16/2018
Today's kookiness included Moms Demand Action flogging MLK Day in support of gun control [I]all day[/I], while never addressing whether they support the government's denial of a concealed handgun permit for King after his home was bombed.
An innocent oversight, I'm sure.
An innocent oversight, I'm sure.
198.) Swamp Fox - 07/06/2018
[B][QUOTE]Monty Python’s Terry Gilliam On The BBC’s Diversity Push: ‘I’m A Black Lesbian’[/QUOTE][SIZE=2][/SIZE][/B]
[QUOTE]Speaking at a press conference at the Karlovy Vary film festival, where he was presenting his new film The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, Gilliam said: “It made me cry: the idea that … no longer six white Oxbridge men can make a comedy show. Now we need one of this, one of that, everybody represented… this is bullshit. I no longer want to be a white male, I don’t want to be blamed for everything wrong in the world: I tell the world now I’m a black lesbian… My name is Loretta and I’m a BLT, a black lesbian in transition.” [url]https://hotair.com/archives/2018/07/06/terry-gilliam-bbcs-diversity-push-im-black-lesbian/[/url][/QUOTE]
Read the whole post. John Cleese gets in a few good shots as well.
[url]https://hotair.com/archives/2018/07/06/terry-gilliam-bbcs-diversity-push-im-black-lesbian/[/url]
[QUOTE]Speaking at a press conference at the Karlovy Vary film festival, where he was presenting his new film The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, Gilliam said: “It made me cry: the idea that … no longer six white Oxbridge men can make a comedy show. Now we need one of this, one of that, everybody represented… this is bullshit. I no longer want to be a white male, I don’t want to be blamed for everything wrong in the world: I tell the world now I’m a black lesbian… My name is Loretta and I’m a BLT, a black lesbian in transition.” [url]https://hotair.com/archives/2018/07/06/terry-gilliam-bbcs-diversity-push-im-black-lesbian/[/url][/QUOTE]
Read the whole post. John Cleese gets in a few good shots as well.
[url]https://hotair.com/archives/2018/07/06/terry-gilliam-bbcs-diversity-push-im-black-lesbian/[/url]
199.) bluecat - 07/06/2018
Nice!
200.) bluecat - 07/06/2018
Although they did discriminate against Eric Idle (Loretta I think) wanting to have a baby. So they are sexists.
201.) Swamp Fox - 07/06/2018
He (Reg/Cleese) was just being realistic FOR HIS TIME ... lol
202.) Swamp Fox - 07/07/2018
:-)
....
....
203.) crookedeye - 07/08/2018
maxine knows what she's talking about
204.) crookedeye - 07/08/2018
its all about the kids ..ice is ripping them away from there mothers.. o the horror.. i had it 10 times worst when i was a kid,i never had a space blanket or TV dinners..i had to live off the land eating grubs and ants for protein. we never had airconditioning .. i had to dig tunnels threw the snow just to get to school so i could learth it..
205.) crookedeye - 07/08/2018
i know 6 plus 3 is 8 and Jack columbus discovered america plus i speak english.. these kids now days i just want everything legal..thats why were not iran or germany or turkey or cuba.. were the land of the free home of the brave motherf##kers we dont follow.. we lead..TRUMP. TRUMP. make america great again..
206.) bluecat - 07/08/2018
[QUOTE=crookedeye;56484]maxine nos what she's talking about[/QUOTE]
Fify
Fify
207.) DParker - 07/08/2018
[QUOTE=crookedeye;56486]i know 6 plus 3 is 8 and Jack columbus discovered america plus i speak english.. [/QUOTE]
Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?
Don't know much about history.
Don't know much biology.
Don't know much about a science book.
Don't know much about the French I took.
Don't know much about geography.
Don't know much trigonometry.
Don't know much about algebra.
Don't know what a slide rule is for.
Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?
Don't know much about history.
Don't know much biology.
Don't know much about a science book.
Don't know much about the French I took.
Don't know much about geography.
Don't know much trigonometry.
Don't know much about algebra.
Don't know what a slide rule is for.
208.) crookedeye - 07/08/2018
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209.) crookedeye - 07/08/2018
,,,,
210.) crookedeye - 07/08/2018
. this was probally ome of the greatest day i spent hunting
211.) crookedeye - 07/08/2018
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212.) crookedeye - 07/08/2018
i felt closer to God that day..it was 30 degrees and i was in my deerstand and the sun was coming up,,
213.) DParker - 07/09/2018
[QUOTE=crookedeye;56493]i felt closer to God that day.[/QUOTE]
How high up in the tree was your stand?
How high up in the tree was your stand?
214.) bluecat - 07/09/2018
lol,
Was any of the shrubbery burning?
Was any of the shrubbery burning?
215.) Swamp Fox - 07/11/2018
[QUOTE=crookedeye;56486]i know 6 plus 3 is 8 and Jack columbus discovered america plus i speak english.. these kids now days i just want everything legal..thats why were not iran or germany or turkey or cuba.. were the land of the free home of the brave motherf##kers we dont follow.. we lead..TRUMP. TRUMP. make america great again..[/QUOTE]
I overheard a conversation yesterday in which a girl was talking about flying across the country and when she left and when she landed and what time it was back home ... "So if I'm not in the air for eight hours, what happened to the other three hours?" --- Or something like that. I had to tune it out for the sake of my own sanity. It went on for about half an hour, with three people trying to explain it to her. No one ever got through, LOL.
I overheard a conversation yesterday in which a girl was talking about flying across the country and when she left and when she landed and what time it was back home ... "So if I'm not in the air for eight hours, what happened to the other three hours?" --- Or something like that. I had to tune it out for the sake of my own sanity. It went on for about half an hour, with three people trying to explain it to her. No one ever got through, LOL.
216.) bluecat - 07/11/2018
You didn't tell her about the Bermuda Triangle?
217.) Swamp Fox - 07/11/2018
LOL ... I badly wanted to say something, but I figured I'd say something badly ... So I just kept my mouth shut.
218.) bluecat - 07/11/2018
She probably just didn't want to be late for a protest march.
219.) Swamp Fox - 07/11/2018
[QUOTE=crookedeye;56486]i know 6 plus 3 is 8 and Jack columbus discovered america plus i speak english.. these kids now days i just want everything legal..thats why were not iran or germany or turkey or cuba.. were the land of the free home of the brave motherf##kers we dont follow.. we lead..TRUMP. TRUMP. make america great again..[/QUOTE]
Incorrect. You're thinking of Jacqueline LaLane, who --- once she had discovered America--- married into the McNally family. However, because of systemic American racism and sentiments like "No Scots Need Apply" she quickly decided that with French blood and a Scottish name―- plus all the patriarchy―-she was royally screwed to make her way in the world.
She was particularly adamant that she didn’t want any son of hers growing up to be a groundskeeper like her cousin Willy. (Not that there's anything wrong with that.) Willy had had a hard life, and so had all his family, going back to the times of his ancestors, one of whom was a bastard child of Henry VIII raised in Boulogne, which is where baloney comes from, I believe, and also some herring.
So, anyway, from the moment Jacq and her husband conceived their son Rand (no one knows exactly how), they were determined to emphasize the importance of strategic marriages and good bloodlines to him throughout his life. Apparently, the message took. Rand McNally met Charles Atlas at a San Francisco fundraiser one fabulous summer night and was instantly smitten. Though there was no chance of producing children, everyone agreed they certainly had the RIGHT to have children, even though neither one of them had a womb.
It didn’t matter. The two were meant for each other and cartographic history was made the first time Rand McNally rode Atlas.
Anytime you need to no anything else, just ask.
Incorrect. You're thinking of Jacqueline LaLane, who --- once she had discovered America--- married into the McNally family. However, because of systemic American racism and sentiments like "No Scots Need Apply" she quickly decided that with French blood and a Scottish name―- plus all the patriarchy―-she was royally screwed to make her way in the world.
She was particularly adamant that she didn’t want any son of hers growing up to be a groundskeeper like her cousin Willy. (Not that there's anything wrong with that.) Willy had had a hard life, and so had all his family, going back to the times of his ancestors, one of whom was a bastard child of Henry VIII raised in Boulogne, which is where baloney comes from, I believe, and also some herring.
So, anyway, from the moment Jacq and her husband conceived their son Rand (no one knows exactly how), they were determined to emphasize the importance of strategic marriages and good bloodlines to him throughout his life. Apparently, the message took. Rand McNally met Charles Atlas at a San Francisco fundraiser one fabulous summer night and was instantly smitten. Though there was no chance of producing children, everyone agreed they certainly had the RIGHT to have children, even though neither one of them had a womb.
It didn’t matter. The two were meant for each other and cartographic history was made the first time Rand McNally rode Atlas.
Anytime you need to no anything else, just ask.
220.) Swamp Fox - 07/11/2018
[QUOTE=crookedeye;56486]i know 6 plus 3 is 8 and Jack columbus discovered america plus i speak english.. these kids now days i just want everything legal..thats why were not iran or germany or turkey or cuba.. were the land of the free home of the brave motherf##kers we dont follow.. we lead..TRUMP. TRUMP. make america great again..[/QUOTE]
Incorrect. You're thinking of Jacqueline LaLane, who --- once she had discovered America--- married into the McNally family. However, because of systemic American racism and sentiments like "No Scots Need Apply" she quickly decided that with French blood and a Scottish name―- plus all the patriarchy―-she was royally screwed to make her way in the world.
She was particularly adamant that she didn’t want any son of hers growing up to be a groundskeeper like her cousin Willy. (Not that there's anything wrong with that.) Willy had had a hard life, and so had all his family, going back to the times of his ancestors, one of whom was a bastard child of Henry VIII raised in Boulogne, which is where baloney comes from, I believe, and also some herring.
So, anyway, from the moment Jacq and her husband conceived their son Rand (no one knows exactly how), they were determined to emphasize the importance of strategic marriages and good bloodlines to him throughout his life. Apparently, the message took. Rand McNally met Charles Atlas at a San Francisco fundraiser one fabulous summer night and was instantly smitten. Though there was no chance of producing children, everyone agreed they certainly had the RIGHT to have children, even though neither one of them had a womb.
It didn’t matter. The two were meant for each other and cartographic history was made the first time Rand McNally rode Atlas.
Anytime you need to no anything else, just ask.
Incorrect. You're thinking of Jacqueline LaLane, who --- once she had discovered America--- married into the McNally family. However, because of systemic American racism and sentiments like "No Scots Need Apply" she quickly decided that with French blood and a Scottish name―- plus all the patriarchy―-she was royally screwed to make her way in the world.
She was particularly adamant that she didn’t want any son of hers growing up to be a groundskeeper like her cousin Willy. (Not that there's anything wrong with that.) Willy had had a hard life, and so had all his family, going back to the times of his ancestors, one of whom was a bastard child of Henry VIII raised in Boulogne, which is where baloney comes from, I believe, and also some herring.
So, anyway, from the moment Jacq and her husband conceived their son Rand (no one knows exactly how), they were determined to emphasize the importance of strategic marriages and good bloodlines to him throughout his life. Apparently, the message took. Rand McNally met Charles Atlas at a San Francisco fundraiser one fabulous summer night and was instantly smitten. Though there was no chance of producing children, everyone agreed they certainly had the RIGHT to have children, even though neither one of them had a womb.
It didn’t matter. The two were meant for each other and cartographic history was made the first time Rand McNally rode Atlas.
Anytime you need to no anything else, just ask.
221.) DParker - 07/11/2018
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;56511]...cartographic history was made the first time Rand McNally rode Atlas.[/QUOTE]
Was that when he shrugged?
Was that when he shrugged?
222.) Swamp Fox - 07/11/2018
LOL ...
I believe that was later in the relationship, when --while on their honeymoon road trip through the western United States---Rand, who was driving, declared, "I knew I should have taken that left turn at Albuquerque!"
I believe that was later in the relationship, when --while on their honeymoon road trip through the western United States---Rand, who was driving, declared, "I knew I should have taken that left turn at Albuquerque!"
223.) DParker - 07/11/2018
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;56513]Rand, who was driving, declared, "I knew I should have taken that left turn at Albuquerque!"[/QUOTE]
What a maroon.
What a maroon.
224.) Swamp Fox - 07/11/2018
Yeah, it kinda messed them up. They decided to make the best of the inadvertant detour and ended up visiting the Mooonlite Bunny Ranch, but that turned out to be nothing like what they expected.
But they were cool about it.
It's stuff like this that I like learning about history.
But they were cool about it.
It's stuff like this that I like learning about history.
225.) bluecat - 07/11/2018
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;56511]
Anytime you need to no anything else, just ask.[/QUOTE]
Sometimes you scare me a little.
Anytime you need to no anything else, just ask.[/QUOTE]
Sometimes you scare me a little.
226.) Swamp Fox - 07/12/2018
I scare myself a little ... At least twice a day.
227.) bluecat - 07/12/2018
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;56517] ... At least twice a day.
[/QUOTE]
Be careful or you'll go blind.
[/QUOTE]
Be careful or you'll go blind.
228.) DParker - 07/12/2018
[QUOTE=bluecat;56518]Be careful or you'll go blind.[/QUOTE]
"Blind Swamp Fox" would make a cool blues name.
"Blind Swamp Fox" would make a cool blues name.
229.) bluecat - 07/12/2018
Harmonica and Acoustic Guitar
Burning Roux Blues by Blind Swamp Fox (8 bar blues)
I burnt a roux
That's what I do
I burnt a roux
That's what I do
If only, only, only
I knew what to do
Chorus
I've got the burning roux blues baby
Ain't nothing I can do
I've got the burning roux blues baby
It's turning into goo
Burning Roux Blues by Blind Swamp Fox (8 bar blues)
I burnt a roux
That's what I do
I burnt a roux
That's what I do
If only, only, only
I knew what to do
Chorus
I've got the burning roux blues baby
Ain't nothing I can do
I've got the burning roux blues baby
It's turning into goo
230.) DParker - 07/12/2018
[QUOTE=bluecat;56520]Harmonica and Acoustic Guitar
Burning Roux Blues by Blind Swamp Fox (8 bar blues)
I burnt a roux
That's what I do
I burnt a roux
That's what I do
If only, only, only
I knew what to do
Chorus
I've got the burning roux blues baby
Ain't nothing I can do
I've got the burning roux blues baby
What can I do?[/QUOTE]
LOL! +3.1415926
Burning Roux Blues by Blind Swamp Fox (8 bar blues)
I burnt a roux
That's what I do
I burnt a roux
That's what I do
If only, only, only
I knew what to do
Chorus
I've got the burning roux blues baby
Ain't nothing I can do
I've got the burning roux blues baby
What can I do?[/QUOTE]
LOL! +3.1415926
231.) Swamp Fox - 07/12/2018
LOL ... That's cake, baby. :applause:
232.) bluecat - 07/12/2018
233.) bluecat - 07/12/2018
234.) bluecat - 07/12/2018
Damn, Imgur just crapped all over themselves.
235.) DParker - 07/12/2018
You could do a duet with the guy, the Viscount "Slim" (a statue we passed in London):
236.) bluecat - 07/12/2018
Would a viscount who has been relieved of his duties be a discount? I'll hang up and listen.
237.) Swamp Fox - 07/12/2018
[QUOTE=bluecat;56527]Would a viscount who has been relieved of his duties be a discount? I'll hang up and listen.[/QUOTE]
LOL ...
+3.5
Coincidentally, I just got a call from Baron Ludwig von Schtupp, who was quite animated about the Viscount's hat. I couldn't quite make out exactly everything he was saying in his native German with a bit of Belgian twang, but I think he was generally approving.
BTW, he says the boar hunting was excellent last year, and extends an invitation to all of his American friends on HuntingCountry to join him whenever they are in the area.
LOL ...
+3.5
Coincidentally, I just got a call from Baron Ludwig von Schtupp, who was quite animated about the Viscount's hat. I couldn't quite make out exactly everything he was saying in his native German with a bit of Belgian twang, but I think he was generally approving.
BTW, he says the boar hunting was excellent last year, and extends an invitation to all of his American friends on HuntingCountry to join him whenever they are in the area.
238.) DParker - 07/12/2018
[QUOTE=bluecat;56527]Would a viscount who has been relieved of his duties be a discount? I'll hang up and listen.[/QUOTE]
Be careful, and remember the sage words of Jim Croce:
[I]You don't tug on Superman's cape.
You don't spit into the wind.
You don't pull the mask of the old Lone Ranger.
And you don't mess around with the Viscount Slim.[/I]
Be careful, and remember the sage words of Jim Croce:
[I]You don't tug on Superman's cape.
You don't spit into the wind.
You don't pull the mask of the old Lone Ranger.
And you don't mess around with the Viscount Slim.[/I]
239.) Swamp Fox - 07/13/2018
[QUOTE=bluecat;56527]Would a viscount who has been relieved of his duties be a discount? I'll hang up and listen.[/QUOTE]
I'm revising my score to a +5 --- It's not every day you can come across viscount jokes.
I'm revising my score to a +5 --- It's not every day you can come across viscount jokes.
240.) bluecat - 07/13/2018
Thanks, it is not your garden variety Duke or Earl humor.
241.) Swamp Fox - 07/13/2018
[QUOTE=bluecat;56520]Harmonica and Acoustic Guitar
Burning Roux Blues by Blind Swamp Fox (8 bar blues)
I burnt a roux
That's what I do
I burnt a roux
That's what I do
If only, only, only
I knew what to do
Chorus
I've got the burning roux blues baby
Ain't nothing I can do
I've got the burning roux blues baby
It's turning into goo[/QUOTE]
Lost lyrics from the vault:
I used to run a-screamin’
Anytime you called for roux.
Now I’m s'posed to stand here, waiting,
While the oven do your work for you.
I’m gon' go back to basics, boys
To a roux up top the stove,
‘Cause my oven ain’t done nothing
To improve my roux, you know.
When the shrimps are in the creeks, man
I’ll throw my net for sure
But roux in the oven
I ain’t doin’ that no more.
Oh, give me some more gumbo
Just cause I made a lot
And really, I don’t care, girl,
If the roux is right or not.
Burning Roux Blues by Blind Swamp Fox (8 bar blues)
I burnt a roux
That's what I do
I burnt a roux
That's what I do
If only, only, only
I knew what to do
Chorus
I've got the burning roux blues baby
Ain't nothing I can do
I've got the burning roux blues baby
It's turning into goo[/QUOTE]
Lost lyrics from the vault:
I used to run a-screamin’
Anytime you called for roux.
Now I’m s'posed to stand here, waiting,
While the oven do your work for you.
I’m gon' go back to basics, boys
To a roux up top the stove,
‘Cause my oven ain’t done nothing
To improve my roux, you know.
When the shrimps are in the creeks, man
I’ll throw my net for sure
But roux in the oven
I ain’t doin’ that no more.
Oh, give me some more gumbo
Just cause I made a lot
And really, I don’t care, girl,
If the roux is right or not.
242.) Swamp Fox - 07/13/2018
[QUOTE=bluecat;56520]Harmonica and Acoustic Guitar
Burning Roux Blues by Blind Swamp Fox (8 bar blues)
I burnt a roux
That's what I do
I burnt a roux
That's what I do
If only, only, only
I knew what to do
Chorus
I've got the burning roux blues baby
Ain't nothing I can do
I've got the burning roux blues baby
It's turning into goo[/QUOTE]
Lost lyrics from the vault:
I used to run a-screamin’
Anytime you called for roux.
Now I’m s'posed to stand here, waitin',
While the oven do your work for you.
I’m gon' go back to basics, boys
To a roux up top the stove,
‘Cause my oven ain’t done nothing
To improve my roux, you know.
When the shrimps are in the creeks, man
I’ll throw my net for sure
But roux in the oven
I ain’t doin’ that no more.
Oh, give me some more gumbo
Just cause I made a lot
And really, I don’t care, girl,
If the roux is right or not.
Burning Roux Blues by Blind Swamp Fox (8 bar blues)
I burnt a roux
That's what I do
I burnt a roux
That's what I do
If only, only, only
I knew what to do
Chorus
I've got the burning roux blues baby
Ain't nothing I can do
I've got the burning roux blues baby
It's turning into goo[/QUOTE]
Lost lyrics from the vault:
I used to run a-screamin’
Anytime you called for roux.
Now I’m s'posed to stand here, waitin',
While the oven do your work for you.
I’m gon' go back to basics, boys
To a roux up top the stove,
‘Cause my oven ain’t done nothing
To improve my roux, you know.
When the shrimps are in the creeks, man
I’ll throw my net for sure
But roux in the oven
I ain’t doin’ that no more.
Oh, give me some more gumbo
Just cause I made a lot
And really, I don’t care, girl,
If the roux is right or not.
243.) bluecat - 07/13/2018
Man, I was feelin' it Swamp.
244.) Swamp Fox - 07/13/2018
LOL ... Bluecat! ... My man!
245.) bluecat - 07/13/2018
Great lyrics Swamp.
246.) Swamp Fox - 07/13/2018
They need a coupla three tweaks, but ALEX has an f'd -up edit thing going on, so I'ma leave them alone for fear of losing the whole damn thing ...LOL... I'm just sayin' that in case the Blues Lyrics Hall Of Fame surfs through here someday ....
But they DO have everything a good blues song needs: sexual tension, resistance to authority, vivid imagery, and a sense of humor/doom.
When you're playing it in the dive bars on your way to fame and immortality, just give me some credit.
"Well a friend of mine named Swamp Fox wrote that song, and he told me it was the perfect 8-bar blues song ... I wrote him back a forum post and told him it was not the perfect 8-bar blues song because he hadn't said anything at all about momma, or trains, or trucks, or prison, or gettin' drunk."
So, if I get such a forum post, I will sit down and write another verse to this song and send it to you, and after reading it you will realize that I have written the perfect 8-bar blues song, and you will feel obliged to include it on your album.
Revision... To be almost perfect:
[QUOTE]I used to run a-screamin’
Anytime you called for roux.
Now I’m s'posed to stand here waitin',
While the oven do your work for you.
I’m gon' back to basics, boys
To a roux up top the stove,
‘Cause my oven ain’t done nothin'
To improve my roux, you know.
When the shrimps are in the creeks,
Man, I’ll throw my net for sure.
But a roux heat in the oven…
I ain’t doin’ that no more.
Oh, give me some more gumbo
Just ‘cause I made a lot.
And really, I don’t care, girl,
If the roux was right or not.[/QUOTE]
But they DO have everything a good blues song needs: sexual tension, resistance to authority, vivid imagery, and a sense of humor/doom.
When you're playing it in the dive bars on your way to fame and immortality, just give me some credit.
"Well a friend of mine named Swamp Fox wrote that song, and he told me it was the perfect 8-bar blues song ... I wrote him back a forum post and told him it was not the perfect 8-bar blues song because he hadn't said anything at all about momma, or trains, or trucks, or prison, or gettin' drunk."
So, if I get such a forum post, I will sit down and write another verse to this song and send it to you, and after reading it you will realize that I have written the perfect 8-bar blues song, and you will feel obliged to include it on your album.
Revision... To be almost perfect:
[QUOTE]I used to run a-screamin’
Anytime you called for roux.
Now I’m s'posed to stand here waitin',
While the oven do your work for you.
I’m gon' back to basics, boys
To a roux up top the stove,
‘Cause my oven ain’t done nothin'
To improve my roux, you know.
When the shrimps are in the creeks,
Man, I’ll throw my net for sure.
But a roux heat in the oven…
I ain’t doin’ that no more.
Oh, give me some more gumbo
Just ‘cause I made a lot.
And really, I don’t care, girl,
If the roux was right or not.[/QUOTE]
247.) bluecat - 07/13/2018
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;56538]They need a coupla three tweaks, but ALEX has an f'd -up edit thing going on, so I'ma leave them alone for fear of losing the whole damn thing ...LOL... I'm just sayin' that in case the Blues Lyrics Hall Of Fame surfs through here someday ....
But they DO have everything a good blues song needs: sexual tension, resistance to authority, vivid imagery, and a sense of humor/doom. [/QUOTE]
You forgot a fanatical devotion to the pope.
But they DO have everything a good blues song needs: sexual tension, resistance to authority, vivid imagery, and a sense of humor/doom. [/QUOTE]
You forgot a fanatical devotion to the pope.
248.) bluecat - 07/13/2018
A couple of tweaks
I used to run a-screamin’
Anytime you called for roux.
Now I’m s'posed to stand here waitin',
Waitin' all night for you
I’m gon' back to basics, boys
To a roux up top the stove,
‘Cause my oven ain’t done nothin'
To improve my roux, you know.
When the shrimps are in the creeks,
Man, I’ll throw my net for sure.
But a roux heat in the oven…
I ain’t doin’ that no more.
Oh, give me some more gumbo
Just ‘cause I made a lot.
And really, I don’t care, girl,
If the roux was right or not.
Chorus
I've got the burning roux blues baby, uh huh,
I've got the burning roux blues baby, uh huh,
I've got the burning roux blues baby,
Ain't nothin' gonna make it right.
Second Chorus
I've got the burning roux blues baby, uh huh,
I've got the burning roux blues baby, uh huh,
I've got the burning roux blues baby,
We're gonna make some love tonight.
I used to run a-screamin’
Anytime you called for roux.
Now I’m s'posed to stand here waitin',
Waitin' all night for you
I’m gon' back to basics, boys
To a roux up top the stove,
‘Cause my oven ain’t done nothin'
To improve my roux, you know.
When the shrimps are in the creeks,
Man, I’ll throw my net for sure.
But a roux heat in the oven…
I ain’t doin’ that no more.
Oh, give me some more gumbo
Just ‘cause I made a lot.
And really, I don’t care, girl,
If the roux was right or not.
Chorus
I've got the burning roux blues baby, uh huh,
I've got the burning roux blues baby, uh huh,
I've got the burning roux blues baby,
Ain't nothin' gonna make it right.
Second Chorus
I've got the burning roux blues baby, uh huh,
I've got the burning roux blues baby, uh huh,
I've got the burning roux blues baby,
We're gonna make some love tonight.
249.) DParker - 07/13/2018
Only my mother loves my roux
But she could be jivin' too
But she could be jivin' too
250.) Swamp Fox - 07/13/2018
[QUOTE=bluecat;56542]A couple of tweaks
I used to run a-screamin’
Anytime you called for roux.
Now I’m s'posed to stand here waitin',
Waitin' all night for you
I’m gon' back to basics, boys
To a roux up top the stove,
‘Cause my oven ain’t done nothin'
To improve my roux, you know.
When the shrimps are in the creeks,
Man, I’ll throw my net for sure.
But a roux heat in the oven…
I ain’t doin’ that no more.
Oh, give me some more gumbo
Just ‘cause I made a lot.
And really, I don’t care, girl,
If the roux was right or not.
Chorus
I've got the burning roux blues baby, uh huh,
I've got the burning roux blues baby, uh huh,
I've got the burning roux blues baby,
Ain't nothin' gonna make it right.
Second Chorus
I've got the burning roux blues baby, uh huh,
I've got the burning roux blues baby, uh huh,
I've got the burning roux blues baby,
We're gonna make some love tonight.[/QUOTE]
LOL ...
I used to run a-screamin’
Anytime you called for roux.
Now I’m s'posed to stand here waitin',
Waitin' all night for you
I’m gon' back to basics, boys
To a roux up top the stove,
‘Cause my oven ain’t done nothin'
To improve my roux, you know.
When the shrimps are in the creeks,
Man, I’ll throw my net for sure.
But a roux heat in the oven…
I ain’t doin’ that no more.
Oh, give me some more gumbo
Just ‘cause I made a lot.
And really, I don’t care, girl,
If the roux was right or not.
Chorus
I've got the burning roux blues baby, uh huh,
I've got the burning roux blues baby, uh huh,
I've got the burning roux blues baby,
Ain't nothin' gonna make it right.
Second Chorus
I've got the burning roux blues baby, uh huh,
I've got the burning roux blues baby, uh huh,
I've got the burning roux blues baby,
We're gonna make some love tonight.[/QUOTE]
LOL ...
251.) Swamp Fox - 07/13/2018
[QUOTE=DParker;56544]Only my mother loves my roux
But she could be jivin' too[/QUOTE]
+3 ....
But she could be jivin' too[/QUOTE]
+3 ....
252.) Swamp Fox - 07/13/2018
[QUOTE=bluecat;56541]You forgot a fanatical devotion to the pope.[/QUOTE]
:-) .....
Okay, AMONG the things that it has are ...
:-) .....
Okay, AMONG the things that it has are ...
253.) bluecat - 07/13/2018
I've never understood gear/gun reviews that subject the gear/gun to unreasonable, improbable and unlikely conditions to prove the worthiness of the item.
For example, there are many gun reviews out there, where they take a gun and pack the action with mud, sand, crap, drag it behind a car and then attempt to shoot it under water. I don't get it. If it doesn't pass the test are you gonna say the gun is no good? There's the old subject the gun to constant (in this case automatic) firing where the gun actually gets so hot the guide rod melts. So after the test where the gun fails after 170 15-round magazines are you going to go with a different brand?
Are you making your purchasing decisions based on the melting point of polymer? I understand reasonable and extreme conditions but some of this stuff is ridiculous.
For example, there are many gun reviews out there, where they take a gun and pack the action with mud, sand, crap, drag it behind a car and then attempt to shoot it under water. I don't get it. If it doesn't pass the test are you gonna say the gun is no good? There's the old subject the gun to constant (in this case automatic) firing where the gun actually gets so hot the guide rod melts. So after the test where the gun fails after 170 15-round magazines are you going to go with a different brand?
Are you making your purchasing decisions based on the melting point of polymer? I understand reasonable and extreme conditions but some of this stuff is ridiculous.
254.) DParker - 07/13/2018
[QUOTE=bluecat;56549]If it doesn't pass the test are you gonna say the gun is no good?[/QUOTE]
That would be pretty dumb. But what I can see as reasonable is saying that if it DOES take the abuse and still keeps working then you can say, "Well, if it survives those extreme conditions then it should be reliable under normal ones."
That would be pretty dumb. But what I can see as reasonable is saying that if it DOES take the abuse and still keeps working then you can say, "Well, if it survives those extreme conditions then it should be reliable under normal ones."
255.) bluecat - 07/13/2018
I agree. These tests continue to go until the gun fails. So there is never a time when the gun is held on high and say it passed all the tests. I'm glad there are people out there willing to destroy their guns so I can watch though.
Customer: "Do you have any guns that survived the airplane drop test?"
Customer: "Do you have any guns that survived the airplane drop test?"
256.) Swamp Fox - 07/14/2018
It's mostly clickbait and a way to draw many more eyes than a standard no-nonsense written review would. Yeah, the info is semi-useless but more people want to produce that kind of material --- and more people want to view it--- than want to write or read intelligent, in-depth coverage ...because that would take too long ...LOL.
[QUOTE]Customer: I'd like to look at pistols that perform well underwater ... Preferably on the Gulf Coast.
Salesman: What was your name again, sir? [/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]Customer: I'd like to look at pistols that perform well underwater ... Preferably on the Gulf Coast.
Salesman: What was your name again, sir? [/QUOTE]
257.) Swamp Fox - 07/14/2018
Basically, it's a death spiral of mass media. I'm not sure how you're going to get meaningful in-depth information in the future.
258.) DParker - 07/14/2018
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;56552]It's mostly clickbait and a way to draw many more eyes than a standard no-nonsense written review would. Yeah, the info is semi-useless but more people want to produce that kind of material --- and more people want to view it--- than want to write or read intelligent, in-depth coverage ...because that would take too long ...LOL.[/QUOTE]
TL;DR
TL;DR
259.) Swamp Fox - 07/14/2018
LOL ... +2
260.) Swamp Fox - 07/14/2018
No ... +3 ... I didn't consider it long enough initiallly ...
261.) Swamp Fox - 08/05/2018
LOL ...
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