tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post4154970919767351742..comments2024-03-29T06:03:45.545-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: I Let a Song Go Out of My HeadGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger53125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-2191429300117229052021-07-28T14:06:58.847-07:002021-07-28T14:06:58.847-07:00Actually, liberalism is the acting-out overreactio...Actually, liberalism is the acting-out overreaction we'd been hearing so much about. <br /><br />When corporate oligarchs get to write agitprop, write policy, write off practically anything including sending American greatness overseas, you know it's gonna be a matter of time before that powerless kid wearing mamas clothes in the basement closet says to himself: "Heck, if they can get away with that, then I wanna get away with this!" <br /><br />And then he/she steps outside for the first time in years thinking he/she looks fabulous.<br /><br />Some say that liberalism started going wonky in the late 60's, but that's right about the time all the offshoring of American greatness started. Not to mention America losing control over their fossil-based economy. You knew it'd be a matter of time before wierdos decided that if they had to wait in those incredibly long gas lines just to get to the only crappy job available, why not do so looking fabulous? It's freedom baby!<br /><br />I'm the guy who thinks that a healthy part of a nationalism diet is solving the damn problems already.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-54862386508627346102021-07-28T09:33:53.353-07:002021-07-28T09:33:53.353-07:00The call is coming from inside the house: "In...<a href="https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/07/the-follow-the-science-clown-show.php" rel="nofollow">The call is coming from inside the house</a>: "In social policy, we're back to the good old days of 1960s-style 'root causes' liberalism, when in fact the root cause of a lot of our social ills is... <i>liberalism</i>." Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00911613613759942690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-7328366548504139092021-07-27T19:56:18.589-07:002021-07-27T19:56:18.589-07:00Most popular bachelors’ degrees (2017):
Business ...Most popular bachelors’ degrees (2017):<br /><br />Business (381,000) (capitalists yay!)<br />Health professions and related programs (238,000) (capitalists yay!)<br />Social sciences and history (159,000) (communists boo!)<br />Psychology (117,000) (nutjobs boo!)<br />Biological and biomedical sciences (117,000) (capitalists yay!)<br />Engineering (116,000) (capitalists yay!)<br />Communication, journalism, and related programs (94,000) (boo unless Fox, Sinclair and Newsmax, therefore mixed)<br />Visual and performing arts (91,000) (communists boo!)<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-30518607334611982932021-07-27T14:39:53.817-07:002021-07-27T14:39:53.817-07:00The government is a sponge for these types, since ...The government is a sponge for these types, since they have no real world skills. It's another reason why Dems always push for more government, for the simple reason that it's an employment agency for the educated stupid -- for example, our president, vice president, speaker of the house, Wise Latina on the Supreme Court, etc.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00911613613759942690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-3065368887137008632021-07-27T14:29:17.494-07:002021-07-27T14:29:17.494-07:00This book on myths of human intelligence is quite ...This book on <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1108717810/ref=as_sl_pc_tf_til?tag=onecos-20&linkCode=w00&linkId=b18fb7ef241c2272db99e188b7e3aa77&creativeASIN=1108717810" rel="nofollow">myths of human intelligence</a> is quite good. <br /><br />In fact, it prompted a new theory to pop into my head, called the Conspiracy of Stupidity. It goes like this: because we have such a plethora of college-educated mid-wits, they have successfully muscled out the actually intelligent via sheer numbers and intimidation, leading to the present situation of being stuck with exponentially more degreed people than intelligent people, who now constitute a tribe and an interest group that is not only served by the Democrat party but constitutes it. It's why we have CRT, or defund the police, or MSNBC. Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00911613613759942690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-13690906956750643522021-07-27T10:42:51.352-07:002021-07-27T10:42:51.352-07:00Looks like I'll have to rethink my disapproval...Looks like I'll have to rethink my disapproval of the January 6 kerfuffle. Anything that can make Adam Schiff cry must be righteous. Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00911613613759942690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-35982886368418740742021-07-26T21:49:24.879-07:002021-07-26T21:49:24.879-07:00I'm starting to think if you read enough of th...I'm starting to think if you read enough of those, the effect is almost as brain melting as some drugs.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-51253744690736520232021-07-26T21:46:46.153-07:002021-07-26T21:46:46.153-07:00They appreciate the High Llamas in Japan:
Even th...They appreciate the High Llamas in Japan:<br /><br />Even though it was a new fu, it took a long time to arrive from the time I ordered it. “What the hell was it?” I think, I have myself curiously convinced<br />that it was the new score of Hyrama's.<br /><br />I'm not asking for anything up-to-date from their music, whether it's not right now or even in the predecessor of the new hyramas. So is this work in 2011, and the album is increasingly pushing into the ground of sabi-sabi in the tea ceremony.<br /><br />What can be said in all three works here is the short recording time. This work is also compactly compiled for 36 minutes. That's the big difference between Hawaii and Cold and Bouncy. In that sense, the “Tarahomi Way” is a complete trilogy that they no longer realize the market at all.<br /><br />While saying that it is a band that goes around with nature like the four seasons, on the other hand, the next thing is showing a major change, think of that as soon as you listen to the new score I have myself too. I think that's the Hyrama's.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00911613613759942690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-60967127838461529442021-07-26T18:57:09.393-07:002021-07-26T18:57:09.393-07:00Ted:
That is indeed a great High Llamas collectio...Ted:<br /><br />That is indeed a great High Llamas collection. One of the best bands of the last two or three decades. Which to me means "new music."Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00911613613759942690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-88187027571815234502021-07-26T18:55:06.699-07:002021-07-26T18:55:06.699-07:00Japanese take on Duke Ellington:
3 pieces at this...Japanese take on Duke Ellington:<br /><br />3 pieces at this price, and the title of THE REAL DUKE ELLINGTON, I bought it without hesitation!<br /><br />However, the sound that came out of this CD is a terrible sound like the old radio is ringing (tears). I was hoping for the real power of the big band, was done.<br /><br />But I bought it all so much, so I tried listening to just the song titled This, and I picked up about 20 songs and listened to it, but because of the bad sound, it was really “music” is not transmitted. Or rather, it's hard to listen, and it's just frustrating.<br /><br />Since there is no commentary, check with the credits of Jaquet, just recording of the 1930s, truly, considering the deterioration of the recording technology of the time, the sound source, etc. Probably.<br /><br />I imagined that there were tracks with intense sound, and maybe even secondary recordings that recorded what played the record board. (It is unknown because there is no explanation...)<br /><br />Ellington also seems to have a better sound recording if it was a little later, but for a limited period of time, I have to feel that it is easy to make just by converting a bad sound source into a CD. To claim “THE REAL...”, including the late period, we expect the best of the quality.<br /><br />In the past, there was a performance like this... it would be meaningful as a historical record, and it may be useful for those who want to study such a study. Immerse yourself in the music of Ellington and his big band and want to impress<br />music fans, not recommended for audiophiles.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00911613613759942690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-84893975373126133742021-07-26T18:22:25.827-07:002021-07-26T18:22:25.827-07:00Bob, if you haven't seen what JWM has been up ...Bob, if you haven't seen what JWM has been up to lately, <a href="https://catsofruatha.blogspot.com/2021/07/one-hundred-and-four-days.html" rel="nofollow">he has finished his latest sculpture</a>. <br /><br />Definitely worth a look.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-32555901415113661712021-07-26T17:36:59.853-07:002021-07-26T17:36:59.853-07:00I dunno about Florida. That place seems up for gr...I dunno about Florida. That place seems up for grabs. While your best militant patriots, the doughy white good ole boy cosplay crowd, are dying in covid droves, Ron DeSantis is demanding they get vaccinated. <br /><br />Will the doughy white good ole boy cosplay crowd mellow out? Or will DeSantis be targeted in yet another episode of storm the capitol? I anxiously await Trump to tell us what to do.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-77596961204418382432021-07-26T17:09:48.301-07:002021-07-26T17:09:48.301-07:00Trump is beating the drums in Phoenix. That city, ...Trump is beating the drums in Phoenix. That city, as we know, goes on to become the sumptuous capitol of New Westphalia, as the Reinstatement West came to be called.<br /><br />Fort Lauderdale well be the capitol of New Bavaria in the south, and Fort Smith, New Nuremberg in the center. <br /><br />These are interesting times. I encourage all citizens to keep notes and store them securely as historians will scour all Reinstatement-era structures and sites for these.<br /><br />Be honest in them. Even though, if you put bias and spin on your writings, these are also a critical window into the civilian mind-set of this pivotal scene. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-90133367005930530352021-07-26T12:47:35.182-07:002021-07-26T12:47:35.182-07:00Love the The High Llamas album! Was not familiar w...Love the The High Llamas album! Was not familiar with it. Thanks!tedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07354048695798015131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-20384730117008317152021-07-26T09:58:08.098-07:002021-07-26T09:58:08.098-07:00The new paradigm is that Jordan Peterson is a grif...The new paradigm is that Jordan Peterson is a grifter.<br /><br />He promised me that had I been born in Nazi Germany, that I would've been a Nazi. Yet I noticed that no more than a third of Germans ever voted for Nazis, and no more than a tenth of that population were party members. And that when the allies paraded the townspeople past all the Nazi atrocities, most of them were horrified and proclaimed to be one of the other 2/3 or 90%.<br /><br />Which brings us to the playground. I suspect that only 10% of the children were actually chasing the Jewish children around, and that no more than 1/3 were red-eyed dodge ball hurlers. And that Bob sat over here reading his books and Julie sat over there drawing her drawings.<br /><br />Is it human nature to give the meanest and most powerful all the credit for the rest of our behaviors?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-75772948050557301232021-07-26T07:29:41.333-07:002021-07-26T07:29:41.333-07:00Anonymous, I'm glad you brought up this line:
...Anonymous, I'm glad you brought up this line:<br /><br />"The greatest thing in life is to crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of the women."<br /><br />To make successful war has been our go-to paradigm of greatness from about the time the Sahara desert dried up and people first congregated along the Nile, Euphrates, and Tigris rivers and put their backs into agriculture.<br /><br />That paradigm has been with us ever since. In grade school a species of this philosophy was implanted. We used to play dodgeball and the balls were hurled at maximum velocity with the intent to physically harm the opposing player, and the yard duties loved it. Fist-fights were endemic and drew crowds to watch.<br /><br />We boys assembled in mobs and chased girls in the playground, and woe to she caught out without her posse. The mob would take down her clothes and give her a red-belly. Anyone remember those? Yes they hurt. The girl would lament all right. <br /><br />Or we would just outright sexually assault her. We were too young to rape but a lot of other questionable acts were performed.<br /><br />The authorities? Nowhere to be found. Boys will be boys.<br /><br />Later, all grown up, we boys would stick it to the competition in business and organized team sports. We were men, and we were trained up to be vicious, heartless, and ruthless. Crush the enemy and drive them before us? Hear the lamentations of their women? Yep. Better yet, exploit and sex their women up. Then say "Sucks to be you." Sound familiar? Is that still your program? <br /><br />All this by way of saying, do we now understand the reasons for CRT and other compensatory social mechanisms a little better?<br /><br />All of it was driven by perceived or actual scarcity. Time to let it go. <br /><br />What is the new paradigm? <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-14507547320735267552021-07-26T07:14:45.937-07:002021-07-26T07:14:45.937-07:00Julie, don't sell yourself short.
I have rea...Julie, don't sell yourself short. <br /><br />I have read hundreds of your comments over the years and visited your blog. <br /><br />My assessment: You are the real deal, a Christian who walks the walk. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-80400140092355176842021-07-25T21:04:52.216-07:002021-07-25T21:04:52.216-07:00God is God. I'm just an assoul.God is God. I'm just an assoul.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-34418619916569323742021-07-25T16:57:50.042-07:002021-07-25T16:57:50.042-07:00So it wasn't the lamentations of any women aft...So it wasn't the lamentations of any women after all.<br /><br />It was a robins nest several feet above my head, with 3 little chicks in it. One of God's little miracles. The adults are used to me now, coming and going with all their little feedings. So busy now. I wonder where they get all those little bugs and worms? I wonder if they think of me as some kind of god. I wonder if I should be thinking of Bob and Julie as some kind of God?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-70008823413078288892021-07-25T13:32:38.999-07:002021-07-25T13:32:38.999-07:00Thanks anon. Grandpa was an asshole anyways.
Th...Thanks anon. Grandpa was an asshole anyways. <br /><br />The demonically possessed. Cant live with em, cant live without em.<br /><br />I'd go into zen and the art of septic system maintenance, but all the finer details would only bore you.<br /><br />Ah, but the general philosophy of trusting oneself to be able to fix anything, as opposed to trusting oneself to imagine that you can fix anything as long as you're part of an insane mob doing insane things, is what's important. <br /><br />The greatest thing in life is to crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of the women. Now I look up at the tree which had caused all the drain field root penetrations and can hear the lamentations of the women. Had I tried to clear my drain field of roots with an insane feces-smearing mob inspired by our own President based on some lie, I suspect that quite a mess would have been made. And I'd still have toilet backups. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-85574806677955266472021-07-25T13:13:11.810-07:002021-07-25T13:13:11.810-07:00Alright anon. You repaired the septic system and n...Alright anon. You repaired the septic system and now you want to talk about it. <br /><br />OK, tell me more about what the damage was, how you fixed it, and include a little bit of background on septic systems in general for those of us who have not had to deal with one. <br /><br />Should be fascinating. <br /><br />Sorry about grandfather's passing. Now you do know your comment was not pleasant and uplifting? You do know that, right? Jus' scheckin'.<br /><br />You are an ornery one, aren't you? So non-compliant, so oppositional, so defiant. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-53852878592549218682021-07-25T09:34:22.735-07:002021-07-25T09:34:22.735-07:00I think of grandma and her famous cinnamon rolls. ...I think of grandma and her famous cinnamon rolls. I remember grandpa eating her famous cinnamon rolls with grandpa in her ornate country kitchen. I remember grandpa having a sudden heart attack and grandma cackling with glee as he died and then kicking grandpas beloved hound dog out the back door and telling Ole Blue to never come back because his grandpa was dead.<br /><br />Then she stepped over grandpas corpse and asked me if I wanted more cinnamon rolls. While her voice was really creepy and her eyes glowed red, the sweet smell of cinnamon still hung in the air.<br /><br />I don't like cinnamon. Can we talk about something else? I just repaired my septic system saving myself thousands of dollars. Can we talk about that instead?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-3503982779048972432021-07-25T09:19:00.436-07:002021-07-25T09:19:00.436-07:00OK let's pivot the subject away from all strif...OK let's pivot the subject away from all strife now and discuss something pleasant and uplifting. <br /><br />Does anyone have a pleasant and uplifting comment? Think limpid mountain lakes, scent of pine, a crackling fire. Family gather round. Does anyone know Kumbaya? Let's sing Kumbaya. <br /><br />Or Grandma's kitchen and secret recipes, scent of cinnamon and good things in the oven, the dog wagging his tail. <br /><br />Stuff like that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-47794107983198728962021-07-24T18:16:00.272-07:002021-07-24T18:16:00.272-07:00Yes, anon, I agree about the lawyers. But even the...Yes, anon, I agree about the lawyers. But even they can be con men too.<br /><br />Greedy. Callous. Selfish. Cruel. Criminal. Murderous. Monstrous. These are the charges leveled against the Anglos of the 18th and 19 centuries by the browns and blacks of today. <br /><br />The Anglos of today say, perhaps some bad things happened long ago, now please leave us alone, not our doing.<br /><br />But no, you are not off the hook. The Anglos of yore should of thought about how they were bending over their great-great-great grandchildren. Because that's what they did. Because the sins of the father have to be paid for by the sons. Surprise.<br /><br />Reparations are not going to be cheap. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-36294960355679332642021-07-24T16:30:07.834-07:002021-07-24T16:30:07.834-07:00Thanks anon. I once wrote a short story using wha...Thanks anon. I once wrote a short story using what I'll call “insanity slapstick style”. <br /><br />It featured a dim-witted con-artist who after abusing America’s so-called capitalist system in order to maintain the wealth he’d inherited, decided that getting himself elected president would be very the best con of all. He then went on to foment insurrections and grifts where he conned his faithful supporters out of tens of millions in donations with many of them going to jail. I’d written that he’d ran as a Democrat. <br /><br />My conservative friends exclaimed “Boy Howdy! That’s the Left in a nutshell!” But my leftist friends said that conservative operatives had cleaned the left out of any authoritarian/demogogue worshippers back in the Reagan years, so my story made no sense to them. So I sat on that manuscript and it never sold.<br /><br />Where I live the natives were approached by wealthy white businessmen bearing pictures of modern schools and brand new Ford Pickup trucks, and told that the natives could have that stuff if they’d just partnered with them in the casino business, on their land. The natives said yes and after several successful years of operation they approached the wealthy white businessmen for their cut. The wealthy white businessmen got the box with the pictures of modern schools and brand new Ford Pickup trucks and gave it to the natives, then told the shocked natives to go read the fine print in the contract. <br /><br />My take is that American natives might need better lawyers. Mama Tongvanoreply@blogger.com