Open thread - change
Submitted by QMS on Tue, 11/15/2016 - 5:00am
I'm not here for a long time, more for a good time.
Anonymous
Guten Morgen!
So many dynamic changes under way just now. Polymorphic protests all over the map, democratic ideas growing like weeds. It's almost like independent thought is the new cool. Gotta jump on that horse while it's running! Might get us out of this deep canyon alive.
Experienced a delightful mind share with a fellow C99%'re the other day. It's what I love about this sight. People embracing change, opening up to new ideas and offering constructive possibilities. What can we do to enact the kind of social change we need to make this a better world? Sharing "new" ideas is key.
Cheerios folks. The soap box is yours to expand upon. Shout it out to the rafters!
Comments
Ice-breaking first comment.
In respect of the seasons, I venture forth this AM to have my snow tires put on. A car full of wheels. The pains of a smaller car. And then to credit union to send $$ to Canada, where a check lost in the mail seems to have cleared and left me -$143.00. And my attorney's office, handling my fraud suit against my contractor (and recipient of the missing check) has announced they will be holding back $20,000 of sale of cottage proceeds, I assume while Ontario makes sure I do not owe them a dime. Change is good!
Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.
traction is good
Detroit Wheels
Morning
Afraid it doesn't feel very good. Things I'm reading.
1. Paul Ryan, with the help of some Dems of course, are working on a bill to privatize Medicare.
2 SS is on the hook.
3. Dept of Education and all of its funding will be eliminated. Kame duck Snyder, DeVos and their new repulsive puppet McMillan elected to Dept of Ed will take care of whatever is left of schools and teachers in MI.
4. Democrats are getting no messeage except it is everyone's fault but theirs. I am all over FB and Twitter blaming Stabenow, Levin and every other fucking Hillarybot for Trump and everything he does.
Since I am in such a sour mood, I am going to disappear before I spread too much cheer.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
sounds like the cheerios need some sweeteners
Forest fires in NC & TN are not being contained. Fires in the
east are very smoky compared with western fires and the air quality is extremely bad even more than 100 miles from the burns. Although it's been a year of average rainfall, there's been no rain since the leaves have fallen and these dry leaves readily combust and have been getting hot enough to ignite the duff which makes putting out the fire more difficult.
"The justness of individual land right is not justifiable to those to whom the land by right of first claim collectively belonged"
smoky mountains
Good luck to you.
Thanks. Those with breathing problems are having it rough.
"The justness of individual land right is not justifiable to those to whom the land by right of first claim collectively belonged"
Anyone here
from Western NC? Specifically the Boone area?
I'm having a really rough time and feel the need to connect in "meat space" with someone like-minded if I can. I don't mean to sound whiny but this inability to talk to family and friends is starting to get to me and, well...anybody close enough to grab a cup of coffee?
Oh, and good morning all! Hope everyone is well
Wish I were close by
All I get from my family is "I hope you are happy now." As if I ever advocated for Trump.
Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.
To quote Cheech and Chong
Pues bien Chevrolet. Alegra!
many years ago
I lived outside of Boone in Mabel. Worked in Boone at Farmers Hardware.
I'm still in the mountains but far to the south on Lookout mt.
Good luck with your get together.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Wow, You are really in the Boonies
Have visited Ashville and Charlotte, very cool places. Probably rode my cycle thru your turf, following some ridges. Hope you can find some similar souls to share that cup of Joe. Sometimes I find them a block down by meeting a thousand miles away. Connections are amazing.
I am indeed
but with the university and all roads 4-laned now, its a lot easier to get to than it used to be..these days it feels a lot more isolated than it usually does.
I'm hoping there are people close by, but if not, I'll drive to Charlotte and meet up with an old school mate who voted for Jill and is laying low like I am...
Let's play Six Degrees :-D
https://www.oracleofbacon.org/
"lisa gerritsen has a Bacon number of 2"
Okay here I go: Micky Mantle, this one, at Broderbund Software early '90s, was Systems Software VP, me a peon. Way back then Mickey's advice to me during annual reviews was always "lower your expectations" and I was all like, fuck that shit where's my whole damn dollar?! But the literal words were correct, a big Clinton warning I shoulda took it and protected myself from the downward spiral, the outsourcing, the giant sucking sounds. Oh well.
Later, my other boss at Broderbund was the Desktop Support manager Lisa Gerritsen. Here she is on TV with Cloris Leachman in The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Not Just Another Pretty Face, Part 1 of 2, and before that Gunsmoke: Jenny 1970. No worker who needed a good review spoke of her previous career, at the time it would get you the stink eye.
Last I met her was outside the book store in Petaluma a few years ago, married with kids and stuff. Content and happy, I think. I hope.
Anyone else? Thanks for playing.
Good day
Oh, that's fun eyo
I imagine we all have experienced those connected moments. I've a few. Once while travelling from Houghton, MI to New Orleans via Greyhound, we had a stop somewhere in the U.P. to make transfers. Ran into an ex-lover crying into a pillow in the depot. We didn't part on such good terms years back. She took one look at me and ramped-up her sobbing bacon scale 10. Couldn't get her to talk. Years later, she shared her then lover had just dumped her. Some hockey prick with no front teeth. And then there was the time...
I have just re-connected with an elementary school friend
who was a he, now a she. She had sent me a (coded) message in a bottle, on two occasions in the past 50 years. I connected with her at the second. And then fell into a memory lapse. He had been charged with the murder of his parents and the rape and murder of his niece. And found not guilty, just convenient for the police. Oops. I forgot and asked how her parents dealt with the transition. But we may actually be soul mates. I remember him as a kind and gentle boy in my class. I will not name names, because the murder case went on for some time in a city not near where either of us live.
Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.
I think I'm 8 or 10 degrees from even grokking who the dude is.
Back when it was kind of new, somebody explained the whole thing to me and my response was "who the hell is Kevin Bacon". Those present immediately proceeded to tell me in terms of films and/or TV that I had never seen and in most cases never heard of. I am familiar with the works of Sir Francis Bacon, but our paths never crossed.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
I should hope not, el!
That dude died long ago. I suspect you are not old enough!
Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.
Bacon did not write HAM-let
even though some people are crazy enough to think it's a clue. Or a clew. But those people think only a twit could know anything. I bet in 500 years there'll be people insisting George Martin wrote those Beatle tunes. No, I take that back. In 500 years there'll be people sitting around the communal fire singing Beatle songs to comfort them as they watch out for bears and other marauders. It'll be even darker than now!
I prefer “Hobbes and Bacon” (Calvin and Hobbes fan-fiction)
http://www.pantsareoverrated.com/archive/2011/05/10/hobbes-and-bacon/
By the way, note the year this was posted (2011). Creepily prescient. Now kids of all ages are frightened about there being a monster in the national clothes closet.
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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
What a fun comment thread.
Life is strong. I'm weak, but Life is strong.
If there is a funny bone in the head
I'm trying to tickle it..
Here's something interesting,
There's a Daily Mail link about how Bill Clinton tried to tell the Hillary campaign what was going wrong, yet was marginalized. Ignore the salacious phone-throwing details, the meat of the story paints a picture that comports well with the rumors we've been hearing all along.
Bill was telling the campaign for weeks that they were getting it wrong, and Mook and Podesta basically told him that he was mansplaining.
Famous last words.
Ignoring a guy that won two Presidential elections, and has legendary windage skills was apparently their downfall.
"Obama promised transparency, but Assange is the one who brought it."
Nixon & Mussolini's lovechild in the White House
One should assume everything that went on in Nixon's administration is happening now. There are plenty of advice & tools out there but so few do not even know where to begin or what to think about.
Reddit Privacy is a good place to start and alternate search engines such as ixquick or duckduckgo for less commercially oriented results prioritization.
Does anyone else here use Little Snitch or similar network sniffing app on your browser?
used to use ixquick before it became google-ized
duckduckgo is good tho