The House hearings on reparations for slavery. You can go on down the line. Should gays get reparations? Women? Other historically oppressed groups? What about the Indians? Or you can talk about what you want.
Did the Cro-Magnons pay reparations to the Neanderthals? The Israelites pay reparations to the Canaanites?, The Inquisition to those burned at the stake? History is replete with inequity and oppression: understanding and sympathy yes-$$ for subsequent generations, not IMO. Am I being harsh here?
BTW... that 20K also included a signed letter of apology from Pres Reagan. Funny thing, the ppl who believe the US should never apologize for anything never complained about that.
We ponder the conundrum of why newborn babies are sinners because they are descendants of Adam. Christians know that Jesus never mentioned it, Paul confused it with neoplatonic reasoning and Augustine misunderstood Paul. Such were the accretions of the Church Fathers.
The weather forecasters on our local news stations continue to catastrophize the weather. Here in the Tri-State area they lead almost every forecast and many times it goes on for twenty minutes like nothing else happened that day (nobody got shot? no fire in Brooklyn?). They're animated, they gesticulate and gesture and they love to throw words around like "dangerous" then in the wintertime when it gets extremely cold like single digits for a week we're supposed to somehow tie in climate change as being responsible for the latest spate of blizzards. BB are we even gonna be around when the world gets inundated by the oceans?
I've noticed that TV weathermen have a fairly mundane job. So hurricanes, heat waves, blizzards and tornados give them a chance to become stars: weather karaoke so to speak. "Here I am on the edge of the flood. See me wade in hipboots" "Here in the blizzard with my station winter coat, I can barely stand up". Remember that one time when Jim Cantore was enunciating in the snow when it lightninged and there was a big thunderclap? He was jumping up and down. ...so you think you can dance? On the other hand when I mowed the lawn at 100 degrees, I got heatrash. Used to be only babies got that. Just saying.
For the past month or so I've been doing massive yardwork in the backyard. Weird plants grew and proliferated probably due to the massive spring rains. Plants that belong in swamps. Anyway got rid of 'em and better when you can yank 'em up by the roots then weed-whack them. One section was a nightmare of poison ivy on the ground crawling and climbing up the chain link fence. Got rid of that too and even though I know what it looks like and am careful got it again on my arms. Oh did I mention most days were in the 90's and I'd soak my shirt in sweat but it had to be done. Should've picked up a bunch of Mexicans.
I got poison ivy quite a bit back in Wisconsin when I was a kid. Later, I would just walk by some and catch it- must send out some sort of vapor. My current locale has no poison ivy, no mosquitos and hardly any traffic lights. From the sounds of the job, you were lucky to come away with only poison ivy rash..could have gotten heatstroke, or bitten by a possum hiding in the swamp out back.
Sort of a scandal at a little upriver town: dimming lights, flickering TVs etc. The little town authorities tracked it to some guy that was mining bitcoin- used half the county's electricity. The locals figured he must have been mining with a pick axe and bruised an underground cable. To quote Arthur in the musical 'Camelot' - That's what the simple folk do.
I see some dude tried to arrange a giant visit of thousands to Area 51. Worked about as well as the latest Woodstock....USAF has its Area 51, Army has its Dugway and the Navy has a place called China Lake. They fiddle with far out stuff termed 'skunkworks' by the Ivory Tower.
Original sin: the Hebrew (Old Testament) view- we should be glad that Adam sinned, or we wouldn't be here. Theotechnically, is the Augustinian original sin inherited physically, spiritually, or handed out in confirmation class?
My backyard is pretty well taken care of, me being retired and all. But a couple days back when I woke up at 5 AM, I had to chase 4 elk away. (If any of them had a big set of horns, I would have let them graze until they got bored)
Going back to your comment that poison ivy may emit a vapor I'm with you on that. Now I've been careful and can recognize the plant and yet it still happens maybe not at top potency but yes it's like just being in the area. Elk...moose you don't wanna mess with. They say they're mighty unpredictable and over here there's been a spate of coyote attacks in NJ. Me? I haven't figured out Original Sin yet just that something hasn't been right since Day One.
Adds interest. Like the old Blue Light Specials. A couple years back, some guy got bit by a rattle snake in the Walmart outdoor plants section. Original 2nd Amendment: if ya had a long black powder flintlock in the corner of your cabin, it was fine. We've come a long way, baby.
The constitution doesn't address the progress of a buckskin guy that walked five weeks across the mountains with a black powder long rifle among bears and Shawnees to some fat kid with a grudge that gets an AR-15 off the internet. I suspect Jefferson would be appalled, even if LaPierre and McConnell aren't. Oh well, just NRA collateral damage.
Hey BB... what a bust that whole fiasco was. There were 2 things out there the same weekend. One drew 3000 people, well short short of the more than 30000 they were expecting.
The other one had about 500 folks, so after Friday, they cancelled it!
On the other hand, they could adopt the current admin policy and simply claim the crowds were the biggest in Area 51 history, bigger than ever, incredible, huge, etc., etc.
Fodder for Stranded in Civilization: the Mrs. volunteers to work with 3rd graders once a week. This week she worked with critical thinking. "Which of these is man made? The Grand Canyon, The Amazon Jungle, The Pyramids or The Moon? Junior pondered and thoughtfully answered "None" Mrs. was a bit taken aback, "What about the pyramids?" The kid replied that they were made by Ancient Aliens. Is he right, or is TV turning us stupid? Then my truck wouldn't start today. Odd, because it has started for 18 years. Every day. The lights worked, the heater worked, the radio worked and the battery cables looked well attached. Tried again. Nuttin, zero. Mrs. said "You gonna call the service station?" Pretty frustrated, I answered "No, religion" She laughed because I'm about as religious as a cod fish. So I went out, took out my key ring and thought to use it as a rosary. Moved the truck key and murmured "Holy Mary, mother of God, make my %&# truck start. It did. Like the Alien dude, I had seen it on TV- EWTN, the Catholic Channel. Go figure....
That's an old theory about ancient aliens building the pyramids. It's like that other theory about aliens creating the human race. I don't subscribe to that theory but it's what they call non-falsifiable. As one of my old HS teachers would probably say about this one it's probably not true but remotely possible. He said the same thing about solipsism. I don't think the kid was stupid for saying it I mean Neil deGrasse Tyson has said he thinks we're living in a simulation a theory I have a hard time getting my head around. "As religious as a cod fish" - that comes from back in the Lista days.
Lista- Yes, compared to her I was a codfish religion-wise. Her father was a preacher and she was a Bible expert of the Evangelical genre. We e-mailed for a couple of years before she went FaceBook and disappeared from blogging. I was concerned that her town, Paradise CA, burned to the ground two years back and still wonder how that went. One of her activities was singing and playing the guitar in elderly centers and working with church choirs. Oddly, for a codfish guy, one of my interests is Christian hymnology. I suggested and sent her the guiltar chords for the Thanksgiving hymn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpMCE1G3N7Q based on the old Welsh tune "Wind in the Ash Trees". She used it at that time of the year (hope she still does) and pronounced me irreligious, but spiritual. Hmm.
Reminds me why do we change our clocks back again? Pitch black at 4:30 in the afternoon. Can Congress stop this? I mean take a break from the Impeachment Inquiry and do something really practical and useful for a change.
Most people would like to do away with Daylight Savings Time. Kind of odd, back in Nazi Germany they had DST..so it must be bad, right? North of the Arctic Circle, they don't have it. Like the Canadian province of Nunavik (largest Canadian province, smallest population - 35,000 Eskimos) What are you going to do when there is six months of night and six months of day? Arizona and Hawaii don't have it, so states have a choice. Seems like a no brainer, but lately when a congress passes anything, the Senate rejects it and vice versa. Then some folks want to change Halloween to a weekend night for some reason. We are an unusual species: couldn't agree on the date of Easter for centuries and shove all the holidays to extend our weekends. The unusual thing about the word unusual is that it has 3 'u's...sort of like Albuquerque and Dubuque. ..congress ought to check that out while they are at it. My wife says I can't wear blackface for Halloween this year. Whassup with that?
Did the Cro-Magnons pay reparations to the Neanderthals? The Israelites pay reparations to the Canaanites?, The Inquisition to those burned at the stake? History is replete with inequity
ReplyDeleteand oppression: understanding and sympathy yes-$$ for subsequent generations, not IMO. Am I being harsh here?
Not only that if some of the Dems keep making such hard lefts they'll be handing the reelection to Mr. Trump.
DeleteThey say there are enough Trumps in the Whitehouse to stay there until 2082. Dunno, might wear thin before then?
DeleteWell... there might be some precedent. We did pay a tidy 20K to the Japanese folks we imprisoned during WWII.
ReplyDeleteDid we make a promise, like 40 acres and a mule, that we never honored?
If we did, should we be held to it now?
BTW... that 20K also included a signed letter of apology from Pres Reagan. Funny thing, the ppl who believe the US should never apologize for anything never complained about that.
ReplyDeleteWe ponder the conundrum of why newborn babies are sinners because they are descendants of Adam. Christians know that Jesus never mentioned it, Paul confused it with neoplatonic
ReplyDeletereasoning and Augustine misunderstood Paul. Such were the accretions of the Church Fathers.
I'm religious to the bone but the root of the problem as I see it is when Religion becomes organized.
DeleteYup Dave but should we also pay the Indians? Oh yeah they have casinos.
ReplyDeleteThese increasing heat waves: are those standing out in the sun
ReplyDeleteClimate Change deniers?
The weather forecasters on our local news stations continue to catastrophize the weather. Here in the Tri-State area they lead almost every forecast and many times it goes on for twenty minutes like nothing else happened that day (nobody got shot? no fire in Brooklyn?). They're animated, they gesticulate and gesture and they love to throw words around like "dangerous" then in the wintertime when it gets extremely cold like single digits for a week we're supposed to somehow tie in climate change as being responsible for the latest spate of blizzards. BB are we even gonna be around when the world gets inundated by the oceans?
DeleteI've noticed that TV weathermen have a fairly mundane job. So hurricanes, heat waves, blizzards and tornados give them a chance to become stars: weather karaoke so to
Deletespeak. "Here I am on the edge of the flood. See me wade
in hipboots" "Here in the blizzard with my station winter coat, I can barely stand up". Remember that one time when Jim Cantore was enunciating in the snow when it
lightninged and there was a big thunderclap? He was jumping up and down. ...so you think you can dance? On the other hand when I mowed the lawn at 100 degrees, I got
heatrash. Used to be only babies got that. Just saying.
For the past month or so I've been doing massive yardwork in the backyard. Weird plants grew and proliferated probably due to the massive spring rains. Plants that belong in swamps. Anyway got rid of 'em and better when you can yank 'em up by the roots then weed-whack them. One section was a nightmare of poison ivy on the ground crawling and climbing up the chain link fence. Got rid of that too and even though I know what it looks like and am careful got it again on my arms. Oh did I mention most days were in the 90's and I'd soak my shirt in sweat but it had to be done. Should've picked up a bunch of Mexicans.
DeleteI got poison ivy quite a bit back in Wisconsin when I was a kid.
ReplyDeleteLater, I would just walk by some and catch it- must send out some sort of vapor. My current locale has no poison ivy, no mosquitos and hardly any traffic lights. From the sounds of the job, you were lucky to come away with only poison ivy rash..could have gotten heatstroke, or bitten by a possum hiding
in the swamp out back.
Unless it's my imagination I swear there are weeds that literally grow overnight.
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ReplyDeleteBB-Idaho7/28/2019 3:56 PM
Sort of a scandal at a little upriver town: dimming lights, flickering TVs etc. The little town authorities tracked it to
some guy that was mining bitcoin- used half the county's electricity. The locals figured he must have been mining with a
pick axe and bruised an underground cable. To quote Arthur in
the musical 'Camelot' - That's what the simple folk do.
Saw a thing on Area 51 last night. Apparently it's still operational. Are they keeping a Bigfoot there?
ReplyDeleteI see some dude tried to arrange a giant visit of thousands to Area 51. Worked about as well as the latest
DeleteWoodstock....USAF has its Area 51, Army has its Dugway and
the Navy has a place called China Lake. They fiddle with
far out stuff termed 'skunkworks' by the Ivory Tower.
Original sin: the Hebrew (Old Testament) view- we should be glad that Adam sinned, or we wouldn't be here. Theotechnically,
ReplyDeleteis the Augustinian original sin inherited physically, spiritually, or handed out in confirmation class?
My backyard is pretty well taken care of, me being retired and all. But a couple days back when I woke up at 5 AM, I had to chase 4 elk away. (If any of them had a big set of horns, I would have let them graze until they got bored)
ReplyDeleteGoing back to your comment that poison ivy may emit a vapor I'm with you on that. Now I've been careful and can recognize the plant and yet it still happens maybe not at top potency but yes it's like just being in the area. Elk...moose you don't wanna mess with. They say they're mighty unpredictable and over here there's been a spate of coyote attacks in NJ. Me? I haven't figured out Original Sin yet just that something hasn't been right since Day One.
DeleteBullet proof backpacks. Are they shooting lunches now?
ReplyDeleteBB... include it in the new back to school list.
ReplyDeleteAre we really to that point of worry? I hope not.
What is it about Walmarts? There's always something with a gun going on.
ReplyDeleteAdds interest. Like the old Blue Light Specials. A couple years back, some guy got bit by a rattle snake in the Walmart outdoor plants section. Original 2nd Amendment: if ya had a long black powder flintlock in the corner of your cabin, it was fine. We've come a long way,
Deletebaby.
Difference being in the pioneer days they mainly hunted. No one ever wondered how can I mow down 50 people in 5 seconds.
DeleteOne thing is certain... if ya got a semi auto, you don't have to have perfect aim to get that buck...
DeleteThe constitution doesn't address the progress of a buckskin guy that walked five weeks across the mountains with a black powder long rifle among bears and Shawnees to
Deletesome fat kid with a grudge that gets an AR-15 off the internet. I suspect Jefferson would be appalled, even if
LaPierre and McConnell aren't. Oh well, just NRA collateral damage.
Is good old Bill Donahue of the Catholic League still trying to replace Pope Francis with Donald Trump?
ReplyDeleteI was thinking about him the other day. He always looks like he's about to have an aneurysm.
DeleteWonder whatever happened to old Richard Simmons, the Crocodile Hunter of fitness?
ReplyDeleteYa think he was gay?
DeleteJust wondering - how was your trip out to AlienFest at Area 51?
ReplyDeleteHey BB... what a bust that whole fiasco was. There were 2 things out there the same weekend. One drew 3000 people, well short short of the more than 30000 they were expecting.
ReplyDeleteThe other one had about 500 folks, so after Friday, they cancelled it!
On the other hand, they could adopt the current admin policy and simply claim the crowds were the biggest in Area 51 history, bigger than ever, incredible, huge, etc., etc.
I take it you guys aren't Area 51ers. Think of the poor Sasquatches who had to pick up the garbage afterwards.
ReplyDeleteThink of the unfortunate USAF grounds keeper who had to tell them they would only get minimum wage.
ReplyDeleteAs always, burning man will be a huge draw... for aliens, people and trash alike.
ReplyDeleteFodder for Stranded in Civilization: the Mrs. volunteers to work with 3rd graders once a week. This week she worked with critical thinking. "Which of these is man made? The Grand Canyon, The Amazon Jungle, The Pyramids or The Moon? Junior pondered and thoughtfully answered "None" Mrs. was a bit taken
ReplyDeleteaback, "What about the pyramids?" The kid replied that they were
made by Ancient Aliens. Is he right, or is TV turning us stupid?
Then my truck wouldn't start today. Odd, because it has started for 18 years. Every day. The lights worked, the heater worked, the radio worked and the battery cables looked well attached. Tried again. Nuttin, zero. Mrs. said "You gonna call the service station?" Pretty frustrated, I answered "No, religion"
She laughed because I'm about as religious as a cod fish. So I
went out, took out my key ring and thought to use it as a rosary. Moved the truck key and murmured "Holy Mary, mother of God, make my %&# truck start. It did. Like the Alien dude, I had seen it on TV- EWTN, the Catholic Channel. Go figure....
That's an old theory about ancient aliens building the pyramids. It's like that other theory about aliens creating the human race. I don't subscribe to that theory but it's what they call non-falsifiable. As one of my old HS teachers would probably say about this one it's probably not true but remotely possible. He said the same thing about solipsism. I don't think the kid was stupid for saying it I mean Neil deGrasse Tyson has said he thinks we're living in a simulation a theory I have a hard time getting my head around. "As religious as a cod fish" - that comes from back in the Lista days.
DeleteLista- Yes, compared to her I was a codfish religion-wise. Her father was a preacher and she was a Bible expert
Deleteof the Evangelical genre. We e-mailed for a couple of years before she went FaceBook and disappeared from blogging. I was concerned that her town, Paradise CA, burned to the ground two years back and still wonder how that went. One of her activities was singing and playing the guitar in elderly centers and working with church choirs. Oddly, for a codfish guy, one of my interests is Christian hymnology. I suggested and sent her the guiltar
chords for the Thanksgiving hymn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpMCE1G3N7Q based on the old Welsh tune "Wind in the Ash Trees". She used it at that time of the year (hope she still does) and pronounced me irreligious, but spiritual. Hmm.
You gonna be wearing your Sasquatch outfit for Halloween this month?
ReplyDeleteReminds me why do we change our clocks back again? Pitch black at 4:30 in the afternoon. Can Congress stop this? I mean take a break from the Impeachment Inquiry and do something really practical and useful for a change.
DeleteMost people would like to do away with Daylight Savings Time. Kind of odd, back in Nazi Germany they had DST..so
Deleteit must be bad, right? North of the Arctic Circle, they don't have it. Like the Canadian province of Nunavik (largest Canadian province, smallest population - 35,000
Eskimos) What are you going to do when there is six months of night and six months of day? Arizona and Hawaii
don't have it, so states have a choice. Seems like a no brainer, but lately when a congress passes anything, the Senate rejects it and vice versa. Then some folks want to
change Halloween to a weekend night for some reason. We are an unusual species: couldn't agree on the date of Easter for centuries and shove all the holidays to extend our weekends. The unusual thing about the word unusual is that it has 3 'u's...sort of like Albuquerque and Dubuque.
..congress ought to check that out while they are at it.
My wife says I can't wear blackface for Halloween this year. Whassup with that?
You know my sister back in the day dressed up as a sexy black woman for Halloween and everyone thought it was cool. Back in the day.
DeleteHas Rudy J gone senile on us?
ReplyDelete