Shit. I haz a disappoint. Asshole survived. Well, guess I'll go rewatch Willy's Wonderland by way of a palate cleanser- Nicholas Cage impassively killing off one monster after another . Plus, all the townspeople who fed strangers to the monsters get got one by one. And you get to watch Cage clean a men's room
First time I've ever seen an alien invasion movie in which I'm rooting for the monsters. That asshole who assaulted Jodie Whitaker would look much better as a pile of alien shit, you ask me. Those things can have every one of those creeps with my blessing.
What a great, great movie....I have it on blu-ray and dust it off every once in a while. If anyone hasn't watch this, give it a go...you won't be disappointed.
I said last post and out but I say stuff like that all the time and then carry on like I never said it.
Names man....
I had a nickname growing up.
I begged and pleaded with my family to stop it and call me by my real name.
"But it's so cute!!!!!"
No. It wasn't fucking cute. I got mocked, ridiculed and beat the fuck up because of it and I hated it and told my family all that and they still told me how "cute" it was.
The only person who respected me about was my grandfather.
nobody else ever stopped until well into my adulthood.
I imagine my life would be a lot different had I not had to endure that shit my entire childhood.
I was watching a segment of Joy Reid's show a few days ago mentioning the swift and violent shut down of a riot on NYC following a stunt by Kai Cenat, promising a limited number of free gaming systems. Then comparing it to the sputtering action following a violent coup attempt in DC on 1/6/2021. This reminded me of an even more unequal action by authority during a Mayday Vietnam protest in DC in 1971. Where over 12,000 protesters and some people just going to work or lunch were arrested, packed into fenced outdoor pens in the old RFK stadium without food, water, or sanitation facilities or in the Washington National Guard armory nearby. Nixon had called in not just the Guard but paratroop units and other regular military units, with over 12,000 military troops, Guard troops, and police on duty in riot gear that day. Even arresting 1,000 people in a peaceful protest on the Capitol steps the next day. All actions that Nixon had been planning for weeks aided by government surveillance and monitoring long before social media was a science fiction dream. Eventually almost everyone had charges dropped and many were awarded damages from the government for violating their rights.
Yet the people in charge of security in 2020 and 2021, including the FBI, either failed to see the problem staring them in the face, intentionally obstructed planning, or downplayed any possible danger. With people like Chris Wray still in top level security posts. Along with some holdovers in the DOJ telling Garland to sweep investigations of the insurrection leaders under the rug and allow most of the foot soldiers to plead to misdemeanors and get a week in jail for what amounts to a massive, violent invasion of the symbol and home of our democracy. I guess because we don't want Trump to be sad or angry.
If you are not familiar with the Mayday protests in DC in 1971, there are dozens of articles about it. And almost all of the victims were white! But I guess they were all commie college students and hippies. Like Antifa today.
I don't know what, or if, you have any personal experience with May Day, but as one who does (arrested on Tues. afternoon; released on Thurs. evening), I'd like to offer a few observations.
First, a quibble: at the time, and for decades afterwards, the official number of those detained and/or arrested (I have a close friend who was both) was about 14.500. I don't know where the later, revised 12K figure comes from, but can understand why the total was low-balled.
Second, the reason May Day was consigned to the national memory hole had less to do with the action itself, and more to do with how it created a new, decentralized, more militant (and harder to monitor/control/disrupt) template for civil disobedience on a massive scale. The passive resistance of the 1930's sit down strikes by labor, and the modern civil rights movement, was pro-actively radicalized*, yet fell far short of the SDS/Weatherman's more violent (even terroristic) 'revolutionary romanticism' (as Lenin might have phrased it). Later iterations of May Day would happen in the anti-globalization movement of the late 1990's; OWS in the later '00's; and the BLM movement in the mid-2010's.
That said, I have to question your apparent equation of Antifa with May Day, apart from the superficiality of both being predominately white youth led. May Day, anti-globalization, OWS and BLM were pro-active movements addressing systemic and institutional inequities. Antifa seems more of a reactive movement counter-protesting the more extreme manifestations of the emergent hard-and-far radicalized Right (Proud/Boogaloo Boys; 3%'ers, Oaf Creepers, the Klan, etc.)., without any longer term goals than immediate, situational confrontations with non-institutional entities. Which evokes the street brawls of Falangists and Republicans in pre-civil war Spain, or Nazis and Communists in Weimar Germany more than May Day.
Hey Jake, would you call sending an angry mob to stop an official government proceeding based on lies you told about election fraud in an attempt to overthrow the government a “major lapse in judgement”?
Maybe I'll just lean over on the desk and sleep in my chair today. I don't seem to be able to get out of it to go to bed and I did that yesterday and it's already too late for me to get enough sleep for tonight.
Be careful where you're finally overwhelmed by exhaustion and fall asleep. Several years ago during a stretch of sleepless nights while paul and his medical unit were mobilized elsewhere in the world I finally nodded off after being up for four days while sitting in the loo. I fell off the damned toilet, hit my head on the side of the bathtub and split my forehead open.
Speaking of "you've been married for certain duration"....
There are maybe three answers to this one.
Joke I make with patients.
(we have to check everyone for head lice and treat it if they have it and we get A LOT of kids with lice. Some kids have hair best described as "crunchy".
Me: "Have you ever had head lice?"
Client: "No."
Me: "Do you want some? We can get it for you."
(because I'm fucking hilarious).
Friday night.
Patient: "You asked me that last time I was here. Same answer. No."
*Afterward*
Me: "Maybe I need a new joke."
Nurse: "That one is hilarious. He's just been here too many times."
Cat the Ripper is a feline menace. While I was finishing my obsessive morning tidying, pillow fluffing, and magazine straightening that striped little monster decided to spring out from under the coffee table unprovoked and sink his needle-sharp front fangs into my right forearm.
The bleeding has been staunched, the bite cleansed, and antiseptic followed by a bandage applied. Ripper is lounging in the hall, languidly grooming and looking too entirely pleased with himself.
Despite my best efforts I'll never be able to get even with that damned cat.
I learned that when I named a cat "Eat my fucking face in my sleep" and years of surgery later I'm still not back to whoever I was years ago and can't even remember.
Names matter.
And joking aside, I think they do actually matter.
particularly with kids.
They're the ones who have to endure the mockery growing up.
He has certainly lived up to his namesake, hasn't he?
It's a pity that Evil the Cat isn't still marauding our hallways. He was another all too clever kitten cat who was every bit as diabolical as his name suggested; he was also just a beautiful lurking love bug and cuddle buddy.
Shit. I haz a disappoint. Asshole survived. Well, guess I'll go rewatch Willy's Wonderland by way of a palate cleanser- Nicholas Cage impassively killing off one monster after another . Plus, all the townspeople who fed strangers to the monsters get got one by one. And you get to watch Cage clean a men's room
Hurry up,monsters, the fucking mugger is getting away!
So disappointed, the yob with the pistol walked out of the elevator. Hoping for a 100 percent cent causality rate among the gang.
Later; oh good, they got him after all. Still hoping that piece of shit Moses will get eviscerated and dies screaming.
First time I've ever seen an alien invasion movie in which I'm rooting for the monsters. That asshole who assaulted Jodie Whitaker would look much better as a pile of alien shit, you ask me. Those things can have every one of those creeps with my blessing.
What a great, great movie....I have it on blu-ray and dust it off every once in a while. If anyone hasn't watch this, give it a go...you won't be disappointed.
As ever, late to watch the movie. Fantastic!
I said last post and out but I say stuff like that all the time and then carry on like I never said it.
Names man....
I had a nickname growing up.
I begged and pleaded with my family to stop it and call me by my real name.
"But it's so cute!!!!!"
No. It wasn't fucking cute. I got mocked, ridiculed and beat the fuck up because of it and I hated it and told my family all that and they still told me how "cute" it was.
The only person who respected me about was my grandfather.
nobody else ever stopped until well into my adulthood.
I imagine my life would be a lot different had I not had to endure that shit my entire childhood.
Both my sisters still like to call me by a diminutive of my name, and I've hated it for over half a century.
I endured similar torture.
They called you "Biff51" all the time?
I was watching a segment of Joy Reid's show a few days ago mentioning the swift and violent shut down of a riot on NYC following a stunt by Kai Cenat, promising a limited number of free gaming systems. Then comparing it to the sputtering action following a violent coup attempt in DC on 1/6/2021. This reminded me of an even more unequal action by authority during a Mayday Vietnam protest in DC in 1971. Where over 12,000 protesters and some people just going to work or lunch were arrested, packed into fenced outdoor pens in the old RFK stadium without food, water, or sanitation facilities or in the Washington National Guard armory nearby. Nixon had called in not just the Guard but paratroop units and other regular military units, with over 12,000 military troops, Guard troops, and police on duty in riot gear that day. Even arresting 1,000 people in a peaceful protest on the Capitol steps the next day. All actions that Nixon had been planning for weeks aided by government surveillance and monitoring long before social media was a science fiction dream. Eventually almost everyone had charges dropped and many were awarded damages from the government for violating their rights.
Yet the people in charge of security in 2020 and 2021, including the FBI, either failed to see the problem staring them in the face, intentionally obstructed planning, or downplayed any possible danger. With people like Chris Wray still in top level security posts. Along with some holdovers in the DOJ telling Garland to sweep investigations of the insurrection leaders under the rug and allow most of the foot soldiers to plead to misdemeanors and get a week in jail for what amounts to a massive, violent invasion of the symbol and home of our democracy. I guess because we don't want Trump to be sad or angry.
If you are not familiar with the Mayday protests in DC in 1971, there are dozens of articles about it. And almost all of the victims were white! But I guess they were all commie college students and hippies. Like Antifa today.
I don't know what, or if, you have any personal experience with May Day, but as one who does (arrested on Tues. afternoon; released on Thurs. evening), I'd like to offer a few observations.
First, a quibble: at the time, and for decades afterwards, the official number of those detained and/or arrested (I have a close friend who was both) was about 14.500. I don't know where the later, revised 12K figure comes from, but can understand why the total was low-balled.
Second, the reason May Day was consigned to the national memory hole had less to do with the action itself, and more to do with how it created a new, decentralized, more militant (and harder to monitor/control/disrupt) template for civil disobedience on a massive scale. The passive resistance of the 1930's sit down strikes by labor, and the modern civil rights movement, was pro-actively radicalized*, yet fell far short of the SDS/Weatherman's more violent (even terroristic) 'revolutionary romanticism' (as Lenin might have phrased it). Later iterations of May Day would happen in the anti-globalization movement of the late 1990's; OWS in the later '00's; and the BLM movement in the mid-2010's.
That said, I have to question your apparent equation of Antifa with May Day, apart from the superficiality of both being predominately white youth led. May Day, anti-globalization, OWS and BLM were pro-active movements addressing systemic and institutional inequities. Antifa seems more of a reactive movement counter-protesting the more extreme manifestations of the emergent hard-and-far radicalized Right (Proud/Boogaloo Boys; 3%'ers, Oaf Creepers, the Klan, etc.)., without any longer term goals than immediate, situational confrontations with non-institutional entities. Which evokes the street brawls of Falangists and Republicans in pre-civil war Spain, or Nazis and Communists in Weimar Germany more than May Day.
*https://jacobin.com/2021/05/may-day-1971-vietnam-war-nixon/
Speaking of names and I'm out. I can now do at best 4-1/2 hours sleep if I fall asleep in ten seconds or less.
Neveah.
What?
"It's Heaven backward."
Me: "So it means hell? Why would anyone name their kid that shit?"
My bride and I are joining friends from Albany, OR to watch the Ms play the Os this afternoon.
𝙂𝙊 𝙈𝙨 !!!
OK!
When Aunt Lydia gets elected.
Mrs. Betty Bowers:
Students in Arkansas will no longer get credit for AP African American Studies or have the exam paid for.
Students in Arkansas can still get credit for AP European History and have the exam paid for.
A touch of pure racism from the state's Aunt Lydia, Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
Photos of Central High School integration: https://twitter.com/BettyBowers/status/1690723260915138561
So Trump’s lies about his crimes are free speech and his attacks on prosecutors are free speech but Biden must stop defending his son, Jake?
“Jake Tapper Grills House Democrat on Whether Biden Showed a ‘Major Lapse of Judgment’: Does He ‘Need to Stop’ Saying Hunter ‘Did Nothing Wrong?’”
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/jake-tapper-grills-house-democrat-on-whether-biden-showed-a-major-lapse-of-judgment-does-he-need-to-stop-saying-hunter-did-nothing-wrong/
Hey Jake, would you call sending an angry mob to stop an official government proceeding based on lies you told about election fraud in an attempt to overthrow the government a “major lapse in judgement”?
How dare he not be objective about his son!
I love how Trump has the presumption of innocence but Hunter is guilty before there’s even a trial.
Maybe I'll just lean over on the desk and sleep in my chair today. I don't seem to be able to get out of it to go to bed and I did that yesterday and it's already too late for me to get enough sleep for tonight.
I'm fucking stupid.
Be careful where you're finally overwhelmed by exhaustion and fall asleep. Several years ago during a stretch of sleepless nights while paul and his medical unit were mobilized elsewhere in the world I finally nodded off after being up for four days while sitting in the loo. I fell off the damned toilet, hit my head on the side of the bathtub and split my forehead open.
I still wear the scar beneath my fringe.
Also too, scars are character. So wear yours proudly.
But a story about saving orphans from a burning building would go great with it. :)
I still remember a few years ago when I woke up and was in the wrong lane.
That was a wake-up call.
Yikes!
Still, it reminds me of one of my favorite bits of Reno 911 cop dialogue:
"I just had the weirdest dream."
"Do you realize you're driving?"
"AAAAHHHHHHHH!"
One of the oldest jokes.
I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather. Not screaming like his passengers.
Speaking of "you've been married for certain duration"....
There are maybe three answers to this one.
Joke I make with patients.
(we have to check everyone for head lice and treat it if they have it and we get A LOT of kids with lice. Some kids have hair best described as "crunchy".
Me: "Have you ever had head lice?"
Client: "No."
Me: "Do you want some? We can get it for you."
(because I'm fucking hilarious).
Friday night.
Patient: "You asked me that last time I was here. Same answer. No."
*Afterward*
Me: "Maybe I need a new joke."
Nurse: "That one is hilarious. He's just been here too many times."
I probably need a new joke.
Cat the Ripper is a feline menace. While I was finishing my obsessive morning tidying, pillow fluffing, and magazine straightening that striped little monster decided to spring out from under the coffee table unprovoked and sink his needle-sharp front fangs into my right forearm.
The bleeding has been staunched, the bite cleansed, and antiseptic followed by a bandage applied. Ripper is lounging in the hall, languidly grooming and looking too entirely pleased with himself.
Despite my best efforts I'll never be able to get even with that damned cat.
That's a great name though.
You could have named him Tranquility, or Sugar Boo, or Snuggle-wubbins. But oh no, you went with Ripper.
I learned that when I named a cat "Eat my fucking face in my sleep" and years of surgery later I'm still not back to whoever I was years ago and can't even remember.
Names matter.
And joking aside, I think they do actually matter.
particularly with kids.
They're the ones who have to endure the mockery growing up.
He has certainly lived up to his namesake, hasn't he?
It's a pity that Evil the Cat isn't still marauding our hallways. He was another all too clever kitten cat who was every bit as diabolical as his name suggested; he was also just a beautiful lurking love bug and cuddle buddy.
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F050d5efe-e235-48cc-8626-803b9cc27e92_601x297.jpeg
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1690712321444786176
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