Open Thread - Friday, March 15, 2019
Submitted by NCTim on Fri, 03/15/2019 - 3:20am
Caesar:
Who is it in the press that calls on me?
I hear a tongue shriller than all the music
Cry "Caesar!" Speak, Caesar is turn'd to hear.
Soothsayer:
Beware the ides of March.
Caesar:
What man is that?
Brutus:
A soothsayer bids you beware the ides of March.
- Julius Caesar Act 1 -
I do not have what it takes to be a corporate executive, politician, philanderer nor criminal. It must be hell being surrounded by such people.
The burden, from being a scoundrel, would weigh heavy on me.
The simple life seems so much more enjoyable.
I am sitting here with a peanut butter bagel and cup of coffee. The sun is shining. Life is good.
What's up this weekend?
I think I will head out to join the revelry.
It's a lot easier to have fun, with a clear conscience.
Have a great weekend! The thread is OPEN.
Comments
Great selection of tunes today Tim
Kids on strike today
Go Greta!
Thanks!
The day did not go according to plan. I picked up a BIG staple, like the ones used for pasture fence, in a motorcycle tire. I saw the dash alert for tire pressure and watched the tire go flat over the course of just a few miles. My day ride turned into sitting around waiting for a ride, borrowing a pickup truck and going back to retrieve my motorcycle. Today: Get it to the shop.
Kid Power!
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -
In my fantasies of all fantasies
Children shame the adults into doing the right thing. Go Greta!
There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier
This new Jimmy Dore Show is the Best Yet
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpI0ThZiFh0]
The truth about MSNBC slips out from one of it's regular talking heads.
Funk the media
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -
Good morning, Tim ~~~
Been enjoying my spring break. Went to CA for a few days. Enjoyed watching it snow at home yesterday afternoon. Today, my granddaughter comes to help me clean out my pantry. We’ll head to the brewery tomorrow evening. Fruitful week.
Hope those affected are surviving the cyclone bomb!
Have a beautiful day and weekend, folks!
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
Retirement
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -
What's old news is new news. Again.
Thanks for another great playlist. Happy Friday
Why Bernie Sanders thinks he can win California this time
This time? never mind
huh
Disinformation alert! whoop whoop Yonder follows my own fine selective quoting:
That is what happens when you stop counting, usually you lose. HOPE lesson learned.
Focused on introducing, not winning. DARN IT TO HECK I already knew him since thirty years before so what was me puppet doing for his campaign masters in 2015? Giving money, phone-banking for ngp... accidentally helping assholes win. SORRY
wah Bernie sucked up all the air already, only 41% left for the 18 other announced candidates. haha
Wait! Did he just say corral? oops baaah! New speaking matrix, stat! lol
Top operatives! That's The List I need to see. (takes names) heh
forgot unicorns
It's not like every paragraph of that article pissed me off, not at all. giddyup trigger
California has a few major shipping ports, the Bay Area transportation network is fragile, LA is too. be careful out there go slow and SMILE.
Make future happy, go forth and STRIKE!
solidarity
peace
PS. Bernie still winning TOP Beto poll 78% and Beto dropped to 4% ker-plunk! can't even get support in his own diary over there. Kos HQ is in Oakland California, has he "lost the narrative" or what? Chuck Todd lost his number for sure.
Good Day Mate
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -
Who is on bass? I dig it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Jamerson
No way can that be James on his back, no way man. LOL again.
Good Day right on
Good morning all
The sun's come out after another 1.75 inches of rain yesterday and last night. Spring has sprung here. Cherry trees in full bloom, forsythia bright yellow, daffodils everywhere.....
The equinox is next week and spring will be official as the days grow longer than the night. Glad you got your bike in the shop. Hope the repair is quick and inexpensive. Enjoy the revelry tonight. I have my little weekly session this evening. I learned a couple of new ones lately. When the wall controversy was ongoing I learned this Porter piece...fun to play and sing
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSnYdEjwPLM]
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
More on wealthy parasites buying pieces of paper for their spawn
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYiEsEkxjPY]
The part about paying to have these peoples' kids falsely labelled LD or otherwise disabled really pissed me off, especially as someone who is actually both, with classes literally taking everything out of me just to SURVIVE them. Yet, rich SOBs can buy diagnoses to not only get them into college but get them cushy jobs as well?
Modern education is little more than toeing the line for the capitalist pigs.
Guerrilla Liberalism won't liberate the US or the world from the iron fist of capital.
“Dude, dude, what do you think, I’m a moron?”
Napa Valley vintner Agustin Huneeus Jr. charged in college admissions scandal
Wasn't the Clinton Foundation also a "non-profit" "purported charity"? no wonder
Their parents paid to cheat them into elite colleges. What happens to them now?
Nothing? Because D-PayForPlay is very much a California thing, legal bribery, despite Her shutting Her foundation trap. In my view, the Clintons should be in prison because it seems easy to prove what crooks they are, of course there should be a trial. defense entitlement
PU Bay Area hedge fund, personal equity investor. Sit on thy ass and collect. fuck those guys
Georgetown, where every sickening U.S. secretary of state gets training. weakest link goodbye
Stanford, Condoleezza Rice, the Chevron tanker.
We're amerika's coming attraction, the future happens here first."
keep flushing
Good morning Tim, happy Friday, tire and all. Slowly build a
a lift up "greenhouse" of bug screen around one of my raised beds as a proof of concept while prepping for further "planting". The planting for this bed consists of breaking off pieces of existing Portuguese kale, dipping them into rooting hormone and sticking them in the soil.
Have other yard and garden projects too, all slow and slowly, nursing assorted joint and muscle ills, etc. Gonna be a way slow day and weekend here.
Laugh, gotta laugh. We all do. Music is good, but really need to laugh too.
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 --
Good Morning
First sunny week here in SoCal in over a month (yes, we're spoiled) after weeks of rain, and we've been visited by millions of migrating butterflies. Was out earlier in the garden with cup of freshly made coffee watching hundreds of them flutter among the wild flowers and it is magical.
I'm in agreement with you NCTim about not wanting to live a life surrounded by people whose impetus each day is how they can gain more power and more wealth at any price. I worked down on Wall Street for many years as a graphic designer and felt like I was walking among perverse caricatures of human beings. It was soul deadening.
Much happier living with "less" in terms of material wealth in exchange for the joy of living life on my own terms where each day is a gift.
Peanut butter bagel on a sunny morning sounds lovely. Brings to mind the different breakfasts people eat in other parts of the world...
[video:https://youtu.be/JGjeaHe7GkY]
There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier
The guardian gives only isolated stories of climate strike
I would like to see a conglomerate number of participants from the 82 countries...
In Australia...
Greta
Rough guess, since the media wants to slice and dice it down to individuals' stories. 1000 locations (registered) times 20, 000 demonstrators ~= 20 million worldwide Anybody thinking to see that news upstage crashing jets, mosque shootings or regime change crimes?
Sheesh
Yes
And therein lies the problem. He who has the megaphone has the power.
There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier
Tell you what
If 20 million kids are striking around the world, I would listen. But, as you say, the narrative is controlled. How many killed in Yemen by US bombs, how many starving? How many suffering and murdered in Palestine? How many forced into poverty in Argentina? Afghanistan, Iraq, Africa. Kosovo, Atlanta, Nicaragua, Detroit? And we are expected to foot the bill for cleaning up the mess from the extraction industries raping of resources. End of rant.
This shite has to stop.
I hear ya...
I have my own way of dealing with this so I don't go crazy, but to each his own.
There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier