Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man,
play a song for me
I'm not sleepy
and there ain't no place I'm goin' to
Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man,
play a song for me
In the jingle jangle morning,
I'll come followin' you
Take me for a trip upon
your magic swirling ship
All my senses have been stripped
And my hands can't feel to grip
And my toes too numb to step
Wait only for my boot heels to be wanderin'
I'm ready to go anywhere,
I'm ready for to fade
Unto my own parade
Cast your dancing spell my way
I promise to go under it
me 2
I wonder what this DST nonsense costs, in total.
Whoops! I missed it–what is DST?
Daylight Savings Time. The clocks change in most of the country. As an Indian was once given credit for saying: “Only a white man can take 6″ off one side of a blanket, sew it back on the other, and claim the blanket is longer”
From over at Ethics Alarms ( https://tinyurl.com/yc2kv3tc ) was this comment about another commenter that has a lot packaged in it. I imagine most of us know similar people. This was originally about an article pertaining to that mouthy male negro at Trumps speech last week.
=================
Commenter Jack Marshall replying to commenter proe32754:
proe32754 is a very smart, ethically based, thoughtful and caring person whom I have known for decades, and who even worked for me. This reaction is valuable from a diagnostic standpoint.
First, there are many liberals, many of them devout Christians, who really do think that the United States should be in the business of income re-distribution and hard government over-sight of virtually all individual activities.
Even though they know government is untrustworthy and incompetent as well as corrupt, they won’t give up—or are in denial about–the dream.
They also somehow thought that the US was really on the way to this Nirvana, and living in a bubble—the arts, education, academia, the non-profit sector, they have been bombarded for years by one-way propaganda.
They also tend to trust the news media, which is dominated by people with a similar orientation. Such individuals, who may be wise and perceptive in most other areas, shift to pure emotion now because they were under the influence of the mirage that the country was overwhelmingly in favor of the nanny state, and it isn’t and never was.
Trump is the most jarring human splash of ice water in the face that these people could experience, so their reaction is visceral, emotional (angry) and irrational.
proe32754 is, under normal circumstances about 5X smarter than Al Green and under less intense circumstances would never support his act. We need to learn from people who react this way. My sister, for example, is essentially furious now all the time.
It’s all rooted, unfortunately in hatred for Trump, some of it legitimately based on one comment or another, some on class prejudice and intellectual snobbery, a lot on ignorance of history and leadership, and too much on getting lied to by the news media.
My sister, for example, insisted that the GOP was to blame for the illegals tidal wave because Trump killed the bill that was the best that anyone could do to stem that tide. But that was just an Axis lie, as Trump made clear in his SOTU. He didn’t need that law, and neither did Biden.
My sister is also very intelligent about most things, but regarding Trump she is a fully programed useful idiot.
I don’t know how these people can be saved.
Most can’t. I’ve tried with some long term deeply held friends … and I failed. And lost the friendships. No point trying with strangers. There is NO compromise with these people; they won’t allow it. “Live and let live” is not an option in their eyes, neither is “we’ll agree to disagree” – their way is the only way and all must conform. “Facts” are only facts when they fit the narrative. I sometimes wonder if they know the definition of diversity but then I remember they don’t know the definition of woman or mother. Or “inseminated person” (are you a mother only when inseminated? Are you not a mother 9 months later?)
Funding for studies in menstrual cycles of “trans-women”? WTF???
This is not a fringe group; it’s ⅓ to near ½ the country. How did so many people come to have these same lockstep ideas and where did it come from so seemingly suddenly? It wasn’t like this in the “turbulent” 60s nor even as recently as the ’90s or ’00s.
I still think it’s going to come down to violence on a wide-spread guerilla-level scale. Trump hasn’t been in office two months yet and *those* people are already beginning to lose control of themselves. I don’t want to be around any medium to large cities and I’m afraid even travel is going to become iffy.
I’m getting too old to properly deal with this crap …
I believe we could be decent friends if we lived closer.
I’m gonna try to make a point here.
My wife and I have gotten along for 40+ years because we have a lot in common. What arguments we have come from the things we don’t have in common. She’s female and I am male so we see some things differently, and there is nothing to be done about that. But, because we are aware of these differences, and have concern for each other, we can find salvageable commonality in the differences. Does that make sense?
IOW, we have more in common than not. So there is some inertia built in to the relationship.
I have always thought of all this diversity business thats been going around as most BS. When I lived in Germany in the 70’s I found it difficult or challenging mingling with the masses because I wasn’t an inherent German. It was a struggle on my part, but I found the German people, in general, hospitable. None the less, our differences were, for me, an uphill battle.
I would think that uphill battle would be consistent in all instances of diversity. I would also think that up hill battle could take a heavy toll after a period of time.
In years gone by I have done numerous google searches on “Why is diversity good?” and the answers I received were nothing short of silly. “Because if everything was the same all the time life would be boring.” Seriously. Sounds like something a little kid would come up with.
Diversity may indeed be a strength but only in very narrowly defined terms. As a general rule diversity will always be an abject failure.
Next time you build a cake from scratch be diverse, install black pepper instead of sugar and note the diff.
I said what I did in my first sentence because based on what you wrote above and elsewhere I can see that you and I have a lot in common, and that, I believe, is the basis for lasting relationships.
Could be.
I’m trying to put the words together to discuss something like this – not coming to me yet though.
I think Denver is too far east.
In my own mind I have been able to place a “start time” for this mess that we are struggling to escape.
After WWII many of our returning soldiers received education using the GI Bill. That was such a huge gift! EDUCATION–yes, they earned it. BUT, also YES many of them were willing to use their newly acquired intellectual skills to examine other aspects of communal life here in the US. Debating on campus for the first time such hot topics as socialized economics. This freedom to be a participant in these “intelectual conversations” was a first for the vast majority of college students during those years. Remember that most of the “college students” in that first wave were vets who had just spent months and years crawling across Europe or Pacific Asia. How exhilarting those years must have been to now be able to sit “at the table and discuss” !
How ideologically vulnerable did the communists find this group to be?
Ahhh . . .America’s Communist party laying in wait in the shadows since their arrival from Russia since 1890. Many of our grandfathers and fathers wanted to stop the pain of war, so they became dedicated Democrats. They strengthened the party all the way up until 1963 when the little cracks in the claim that the Democrats were the most caring party of the finest rationale, began to be visible.
Unfortunately by that time the daughters of these veterans were well indocrintaed and demanding “equality” with daddy supporting their claims. But what daddy didn’t realize was that that wave of young female college graduates were well indoctrinated, well organized, and WELL ARMED with obedient and self-righteous attorneys everywhere in this country. Not to mention the groups of true evil such as teamsters, mobsters, etc.who were taking advantage of the new situation. That small wave of new ideology that began far out on the ocean in 1944 became a devastating tsunami in 1970. Some of us have just been picking up the debris ever since, some of have been selling off whatever they could find:free speech, clean elections, rigorous and honest legal system, etc. Most of us have just been walking through destroyed cities trying to make a bit of life for our own families.
Took my potted chili plant outside yesterday, hoping a bug would pollinate some of the blossoms. I think it got up to 65F. Got soma jalapenos from The Wal Marts, damn near the size of a small banana. Maybe save some seeds out of one of those for the garden.
Son and I started refinishing cabinet doors in the kitchen. Sand, stain, polyeurothane! The current trend is for folks to paint over all the wonderful oak in the kitchens. Some years from now there will be a big industry of people stripping paint off oak cabinets. Kind of like removing crappy carpet from an old floor and finding beautiful wood floors below.
Power Monday. Time to grind at the fun factory. 21 months to go.
Enjoy your job while it lasts 🙂
Retirement will keep you busy.
“Your job is a vacation from your vacation”