I have touted this podcast before, and cannot resist re-touting it. Still time to go back to the beginning, and it only comes out once a month (sadly) so no big time commitment, but if you ever feel you narrowly missed living in a bunker, or believing in Space Nazi’s, then this is for you. Not one to abandon conspiracy, as he ably brings the Hapsburgs and their minions, Disney, into the picture with wild abandon, he addresses both the modern and ancient world with a wry, dry, sense of humour. And in this episode Kevin Lux dives into the financing of the American election, and the fine cast of characters being inflicted on the populace by the monied interests, a topic of interest to this Canadian currently yawning through her own Federal election, a scant month away, in which we too have a chance to endorse a dynastic family. [Excuse me while I choke on my beaver tail.]
Episode Twenty-Seven: I’m Kevin Lux and I Approve This Message
And I am Xty and I approve this message.
this is a really good topic but i don’t have time right now. i did take a quick peek. this article works here though. i’ll be back.
http://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2015/09/16/welcome-to-america-14-year-old-texas-student-arrested-for-building-a-homemade-clock/
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There is so much wrong with that story one hardly knows where to begin, but I think I will start with handcuffs. Did he really seem a violent flight risk? What kind of cop slapped him in cuffs? I guess Texas won’t be taking any Syrian refugees …
I am having trouble connecting the dots …
Off for last (I assume) x-ray of my not so broken leg this morning, but man I stubbed my toe next to my baby toe (I guess my ring toe, if feet were hands) on my right foot last night. I have been close a number of times and finally got myself, stubbing it on the dratted cane. Mad at self. Ouch.
See you in a year, the doctor said. Music to my ears.
Pete had a song up there that posed a good question. i also am unable to solve the riddle. so i will offer some advice instead.
me either.
and Ken Kesey. i didn’t know.
http://www.thefamouspeople.com/september-17th.php
check out the bass and bongos on this. some kind of weird deadline on the
is looming. obscure.
you’re either on the bus, or you’re off the bus.
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it sounds so less profoundly consequential when phrased that way.
I am currently on the bus … but my ability to understand seems flawed. Did we miss someone’s birthday? And has anyone else read Sometimes a Great Notion by Kesey? I remember really enjoying it but no one else seems to have read it. It was about a dysfunctional family living in the woods in Oregon I think. Generations of them.
And good morning.
Maybe that but should have been an and, but you now what they say about no ifs, ands or buts …
i thought i remembered two of them in December, one being yours Xty. but i could be mistaken. the 17th does have a ring to it. sorry if i missed it. my policy has always been to not let mine out, to limit liability.
i did not read that one. i read many of the others from that era. Burroughs, Kerouac, Thompson, even Bukowski. it would have been an interesting time to come of age, and i am pretty sure i would have been one of those longhairs. i do somewhat regret missing it. i have had to follow this generation my whole life, and watched as they have forgotten everything, especially forgetting to leave anything for the next guy. it is going to be one hell of a “fourth turning”.
I think about that metal tree and wonder who the hell these people are and how they grew up so self-centred and unaware. It boggles the mind. There is going to be a ward meeting to discuss the loss of real trees to infill hosted by our councillor … the one who now thinks $100,000 is a drop in the bucket … how many real trees could have been planted, even on that spot? And meanwhile there are at least three illegally paved lawns on our street on which people park and the city simply won’t act. It isn’t even smoke and mirrors, they just talk out of their …… Plant metal and talk about wood. And don’t get me started on the height thing … we are zoned all along the main street near us for only 6 stories, and every new building has a “story” that allows them to break this. 11 stories, 8 stories, 23 stories. We have an appointed board that sits Provincially made up of ex-developers, that people can challenge municipal zoning decisions to, and they frequently overturn decisions to prevent development, famously to develop a lovely bit of parkland that the city had expropriated to build veterans homes on back in the fifties, never did, and then with the entire city council unanimous and even a local senator on board that it mustn’t be turned into single family homes for the rich, the case went to this board, the OMB, and they allowed the developer to trade this property for some swamp they owned and now it is a hideous development of wall to wall monster homes. And although they had to preserve a small amount of green space (where the shore is eroding into the river) the tiny park they created actually has hours posted and you are not allowed after 9 at night. Signs and bricks and pavement, and then a meeting about losing trees. What a farce. Oh and a new building to break the zoning had to create a “wow” factor and now we are going to be allowed to see this wowness, but it is the OMB that will approve it, regardless of what the peons think. Grumpy this a.m. I am.
the opposite is happening here. if i live long enough i think i will see that the trees win. well, except for the ash trees planted all at once and everywhere for some years decades ago. the emerald ash borer has killed nearly every one in less than 5 years. if i were really dumb, i’d try to get the city’s permission to make all that wood into charcoal.
We have lost something like 25% of the trees in Ottawa, i.e. all the ashes, to that beetle. I didn’t think about when they were planted – monoculture is the worst of bad ideas. At least they don’t mow the ditches anymore – one good practice brought about by tight funding. And I do live in a world that has been apparently quite insulated from the economic downturn – mad development for the past decade.
And Good Morning. We were out on the boat most of the weekend, hence my vanishing act, but Friday was hot and I begged hubby to take off the afternoon, and then on Saturday we mucked about cleaning and fixing, and then stayed over at the sailing club, tied to the dingy dock so we could have both arms out on Saturday night. Howling wind and then a lovely afternoon on Sunday. I was commenting to said hubby about how much I liked the windy, cold night and how one of the things I love about living on the boat (or I should say a boat) is experiencing the weather. Time passes and it is better to feel it than not, in general.
Imgur has changed their links … oh well.
Good morning. We are so quick to pass judgement these days, and I bumped into the strange backlash by Richard Dawkins and that loathsome Bill Maher against the lad who was arrested for building a crappy clock, and then found this article, worth sharing as we collectively suffer xenophobia faced with a massive refugee problem in Africa. White privilege is a hard thing to recognize and while getting invited to the White House seems a little grandiose (but what can one expect from the Narcissist in Chief, himself a product of white privilege despite his half-blackness, and denial of his white genes and upbringing that nonetheless opened so many doors for him) so was getting taken away in handcuffs.
Hmnnn … messing with the link … give me a moment.
And having refused to display the link, it now says duplicate comment. I need to get to the bottom of this business where wordpress seems to add a “no follow” thing to links sometimes. hmmnn ….
but still the link is missing …. There are a gazillion share options on the article, but none of them seems to be relevant as Facebook, twitter, pinterest etc., are not of interest …. well, here it is in raw form anyhoo, while I get grumpy at the interface to the interwebz …
http://www.salon.com/2015/09/21/the_despicable_backlash_against_ahmed_mohamed_its_nothing_new_for_white_america_to_see_the_gifted_other_as_its_greatest_threat/
Oh, and now it shows as a link … so my mistake was in trying to use the link feature … there were a few plugin updates so who knows … not me apparently.
Did I ever mention that the surgeon who fixed my hernia and resectioned my inguinal nerve had the unspellable name Kosar Khwaja. And he was the surgeon who ended up saving the lives of a number of college students when we had a rare for Canada campus shooting, where indeed the perpetrator did have a muslim background, which the press did cover up, and so prejudice flowed in all directions, including pussy-footing around ideological terrorism. But of course the perpetrator had no actual political goals, but the woman hatred thing was genuinely imbibed. But skin colour and country of origin did not allow one to guess at the behaviours of the participants. Nurture did it all, nature none of it.
i had trouble posting the magic bus picture which is why i ended up posting every Imgur link option. initially the one i thought worked here didn’t. i gave up after posting all the links – no image appeared at all. i checked your blog later and there it was. i will try again. this by a famous artist…
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the Imgur link called “Embed Code” is the one that is working now.
i went to a job fair today – a state government sponsored event at the job center for the county i live in. about 1/3 (~15) of the tables were for various job placement (temporary) firms. another 10 or so were various home health care, disabled/challenged assistance, social service type positions – not enough to live on, but at least you feel like you are making a difference. among the remaining of a total of 50 presenters were the most infamous local employers on sites such as Glassdoor.com that allow present and former employees rate their on the job experiences. and Hooters. yes, Hooters gets a booth at the job fair. sadly and without a doubt the best paying job i saw today, except i’m not at all qualified (festooned?) to work there.
my take away? maybe voting for Donald Trump isn’t such a bad idea. i have voted for a Donald before – Donald Duck. but should this jerk actually get elected, it would no longer be possible for any American with an IQ above 10 to pretend that our country is in any way still exceptional. and maybe that would mark the absolute rock bottom.
edit: oh – i forgot Taco Bell.
That is super depressing. Taco Bell and Hooters and Donald Trump. But your picture is very nice … escapism if that is a word.
I never have understood how Hooters escapes from discrimination suits. What if they only wanted white servers, or male servers? I am a poor feminist most of the time but find the concept embarrassing.
maybe i should have filed that under “rants”. i forgot to add that 5-6 of the employers “no showed” to the event – one was the largest hospital group in the entire state-line area, and had listed by far the most openings prior to the event. so there were less than 45 companies in total present, more than 1/3 of them temporary placement services. these places are popping up like weeds now that Wisconsin is a “right to work” state, and due more generally to the overall dismantling of labor laws under Governor Walker.
the entire experience in one word,… “despair”. the mood and faces of the job seekers, muted screams of desperation.
i need to talk about this somewhere. you know i always try to balance things out with my other posts.
also, please know that i wouldn’t vote for Trump with a gun to my head.
that artist is Bob Dylan. he has done some interesting paintings. Stevie Nicks and David Bowie also.
Hooters has been sued. a guy wanted to work there as a waiter. i don’t remember what happened, but it was a sensational national news story – no surprise there.
in my opinion it is a person’s choice to eat there. it also is a person’s choice to work there.
i used to meet a guy for lunch at a Hooters when i was on the road in his area for work. that is where the dumb ass always wanted to eat. the food is terrible, overpriced, and the waitresses totally grovel and worse for tips. i always felt like a fool for going along with the whole charade.
Rant away my friend. And no, I didn’t think you really meant you would vote for Donald Trump. Donald Duck? Yes, and they do have similar hair. But there it ends.
And at least Scott Walker has abandoned his campaign to be the Elephant in Chief so you won’t have the option of not voting for President Walker. (The Democrats are the donkeys, right? I can never keep it straight.)
Good Morning. We went to a “crane familiarization” session last night at the sailing club and are now familiar with the north crane. All about insurance, but we feel mighty familiar.