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Octuplets: What the hell is WRONG with "them?"
Had to rant at a site all a-blather about octo-babies, sick of hearing "teachers" natter about:
It’s the buzz in the lounge. It’s the prattle around the water cooler, the conversation near the coffee pot: the poor obsessive-compulsive woman who had eight babies… to add to her present six children. What she did not have was a “job” and a “husband.” Sandwiched between the tsk-tsks and the cluck-clucks is grousing about how “I made my… Continue
Added by waldopaper on February 21, 2009 at 2:53pm — 2 Comments
Willingen ski jumping
Added by curt on February 6, 2009 at 2:30pm — 6 Comments
Death by Stupidity
“And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee…”
Matthew 5:30
Billions (yes, with a “B”) of us are going to die within the next decade from war, famine, and pestilence. How do you like them apples? Millions of people all over the world know this, and some of them are actually in a position to alleviate some of the suffering, perhaps even to help us all avoid the great die-off all together. But they… Continue
Added by waldopaper on January 22, 2009 at 7:00pm — 4 Comments
Our Make-Believe is Murder
Re-localization and De-militarization
Stage I: “9-11” was an inside job. Most people jump off the clue train right there. Now comes stage II of the krackpot konspiracy theory... the levers (ie, "write yer kongressperp, "voting," etc.) are no longer connected to anything. "Government" is a staged illusion. The "system" is not 'broken," it's GONE. We’re… Continue
Added by waldopaper on October 4, 2008 at 11:48am — No Comments
Is Ron Paul "one of us?"
Ron Paul probably does not realize he is a Socialist… and that is a good thing. Those who have little understanding of Socialism or Marxian Theory will begin flinging words like “statist” or “collectivist” as a child would fling the epithets of… Continue
Added by waldopaper on August 24, 2008 at 4:20pm — 5 Comments
Speaking our minds
As for our speaking our minds....
we could (!) let it be. Aint no one listening any old how. Let us....consider ourselves .....
silent observers. Not any easy job. On the other hand, we save ourselves a load of problems trying to convince the unconvinceable. Short & sweet little hints should suffice. A lot like salting our puddings. I trust that if we can find that balance in the amount of info / warning we emit, we can make a dent. A big… Continue
Get used to it: killing "liberals."
As usual, there is great temporary great buzz and twitter is about the nut-case in Tennessee who shot people because he “hated liberalism” Whacko reasoning is not always the best. He could have done it because a demon possessed his neighbor’s dog. However, there is something more common and universal in US… Continue
Added by waldopaper on July 30, 2008 at 6:40pm — 2 Comments
McCain: a God-fearing man
Throw an atheist off a cliff, and half-way down they’ll start talking to something. Pilots tend to be an especially superstitious lot, as are sailors, dealing with wind shear and vertigo miles above the earth or angry leviathan waves that break over the bows of Kennedy-Class aircraft carriers. Such forces tend to make even the most rational person, overtly or subconsciously, call on the help of unseen metaphysical forces.
Matt Tabbi’s… Continue
Added by waldopaper on July 26, 2008 at 5:50pm — 2 Comments
Foul language: fatheads, fools and fakes
US culture is truly suffering from foul language, that is, some language is stinking and loathsome to the senses… especially “common” sense. Perfectly good words like “freedom,” “democracy,” and most references to “God” and such have putrefied with repetition by fatheads, fools and fakes. The fatheads are those who cannot make change for half-a-brain. The fools believe what they want to… Continue
Added by waldopaper on July 17, 2008 at 10:44am — 5 Comments
It’s the same dang thing, I tell ye!
On the surface, seems like there’s no connection between “we are the fascists our fathers fought against” and “Hick Hop,” a combination of Country & Western murder ballads and Gangsta Rap. But if ya put the James Burke/… Continue
Added by waldopaper on July 12, 2008 at 1:41am — 5 Comments
There are grown-ups
So what about the distinction between “serious” readers and “influential” readers? Maybe cynical, but let’s just suppose that a “serious” reader is a critical thinker whose opinion is worth something more than money. Which leads to the other kind, the “influential,” rich famous whatever… got money.
“Serious” and “influential” need not be mutually exclusive, but how about letting the cat out of the… Continue
Added by waldopaper on July 8, 2008 at 11:00am — 1 Comment
It ain't over yet.
Sgt. Berry Benson
Their ghosts are close to the surface now. They could be nothing more than random stimulus being perceived as significant. They say the US is polarized now. The young rebels and yanks who were greybeards a hundred years ago, seen sitting on… Continue
Added by waldopaper on July 6, 2008 at 6:00pm — No Comments
Io: Christians and Patriots
Like all successful plagues, it will probably recede when it runs out of fuel. -wp
A word, please. I’ll try to be nice. You used to frighten me. Then you just flat-out bored me. Now I wish you’d just go away… and the truth is, you were never here to begin with. Many of us would probably find much in common with Christians or Patriots… and would get along with them just fine… IF WE EVER MET ONE. Living in Dominionist… Continue
Added by waldopaper on July 1, 2008 at 3:27pm — 1 Comment
Taking a Ponerology from Behind
Be embraced, you millions!
Bring an antibody meme to the fore!
Maybe Wilhelm Reich was one of a great many intellectuals who gave up on saving us pipsqueaks. We are quite capable of saving ourselves. In fact, we… Continue
Added by waldopaper on June 30, 2008 at 12:13pm — No Comments
Market Driven Solutions™ from Buddy Jesus© Inc.!
DON'T BUY PEPSI IN THE NEW CAN!
> Don't buy Pepsi in the new can. Pepsi has a new 'patriotic' can
> coming out with pictures of the Empire State Building , and the
> Pledge of Allegiance on them.
> However, Pepsi left out two little words on the pledge,
> 'Under… Continue
Added by waldopaper on June 26, 2008 at 3:30pm — 1 Comment
Adam Curtis films
Added by Mouse on June 21, 2008 at 7:30pm — 2 Comments
Talking about "Socialism:"
And it’s about goddam TIME.
It’s about time for the US citizens who aren’t happily nested in the Middle Ages to leave… Continue
Added by waldopaper on June 11, 2008 at 10:00am — No Comments
The $175 Burger
Now... imagine a bunch of stock brokers, bankers and derivative fund floozies having a food fight with the $175 burgers... and there's the world view of the… Continue
Added by waldopaper on May 24, 2008 at 9:22am — 3 Comments
Which blog is glob
zen is not the antidote to war
Kim reminds us of some good points.
There’s a lot of Zen in the conversation with Susanka. Being totally in the moment, focused on one thing at a time, just being aware of the present reality is where I want to be. Deciding what you want to do with your life and then just doing it is the action that sounds so simple but… Continue
Added by daveb on March 22, 2008 at 11:30am — 5 Comments
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