Open Thread - Friday, November 30, 2018
Contrary to what people may say, there's no upper limit on stupidity.
- Stephen Colbert -
Help, I am surrounded and rocking in the garage!
There is intellect, there is emotional intelligence and there is our President.
Attacking refugees? What the fuck! To the Hauge, assholes!
Funkin' geniuses! The images of tear gassing refugees really pisses me off. I would love to go a couple rounds with a couple of the facilitators. I have enough stored rage to make it very unpleasant.
The willful ignorance and sheer stupidity leaves me struggling to get along with people. Whenever someone articulates support for the policy, or for that matter the conservative propaganda, I tend to tee them high and let it fly. No more Mr. Nice Guy, enough with the shit. Your race and location of birth are not human traits that make you better than other people. Charity, empathy, compassion, humility and many other traits could elevate your status. Grow up assholes!
Refugees and the displaced, persist. Hang tough.
We will find a way to make things right. Not all of us are troglodytes.
It may require a foray to the dark side. I despise fake tough guys and I am not afraid of the simple minded. Too bad all of our political class are invertebrates. Chuck Schumer, spineless corporate Democrat, not a penny for a wall. Use the money for human services! Let the troglodytes shut the government, it will decrease the rate of decline.
Have a great weekend! 
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You are a treasure for the feelings popping
out from your words and music. Thanks for being here and helping us.
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Greetings
Thank you. Welcome to the garage.
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 ~~~
Righteous rant!
Chant starting: Shut it down! Shut it down!
The talk is cheap and petulant. The ignorance just hurts. The selfishness is unconscionable. Welcome to our American government.
Weather system moving in today. We'll see what it brings.
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
Good Morning
I have been a bull in a China shop. I go to the YMCA during the day, and have offended a few of the male patrons. Just before the election, I teed up a guy in a MAGA hat. It ended with me pointing out the cognitive dissonance of several "men". One, a self described social conservative and economic Libertarian. Whatever the funk that is? I explained how other people's private lives are none of his business. I even pulled out, "If you get an imaginary friend to justify your discrimination, I get an imaginary friend who says your imaginary friend is full of shit". It was not well received. Oh well.
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 for you.
My husband is constantly straightening out one of his knuckleheaded co-workers who lives with his head squarely up his ass (how does he drive?).
I’m lucky to work at a university where the thinking is more aligned with mine. However, I still have those who think Maddow speaks truth, so I have to bring them down to earth. Same goes for my coworkers who think Herr Drumpf is the problem and russiagate is real.
Educating others is hard work. Thanks for doing your part.
"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
The long hair ...
… and motorcycle garb, make me scary to some people. I exploit their prejudices. Headed back to the garage.
Difficult decision today. Cinnamon bun or apple Danish?
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 -
Tough decision?
Try deciding betwixt TrainWreck, Sour Diesel, or Cheese with your coffee!
Funky Forever from the Cradle to the Grave. . .
JAMming! Thanks Bruddah.
Ya got to be a Spirit, cain't be no Ghost. . .
Explain Bldg #7. . . still waiting. . .
If you’ve ever wondered whether you would have complied in 1930’s Germany,
Now you know. . .
sign at protest march
Yep
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, NCTim,
Your Friday morning OTs are so welcome! In no time, you will probably be headed back to NOLA.
Perception is mysterious, including perception of how long it takes for time to pass. (Hey, that may be a bit of horological meta for ya, kids!)
I was away from the internet for almost four months earlier this year due to a very serious blood clot. (Damn. I am stunned that I said that much!) Anyway....maybe because of that, somehow, this year seems shorter than other years. I feel as though September will be Starting soon.
Einstein left us with some interesting quotes about time, in surprisingly easy to understand and, believe it or not, sometimes adorable language. However, those who want to regurgitate Einstein for us, lest we learn we need not be geniuses to read him ourselves, make everything so dry, my cuticles start to bleed after a couple of sentences!
OK, not really, but I can't get beyond the first paragraph. So, the time I spend reading their stuff drags, while the time I spend reading caucus99percent's open threads or Einstein's own writing goes by quickly. It's almost as though time has some kind of connection with relativity, but that's just a theory. (-;
Speaking of time, according to the kids' rhyme about the number of days in each month, this is the last day of November.I'm sure enhydra lutris could tell us all kinds of marvelous things about the last day of November, but all I've got is haimish (apparently sometimes spelled heimish).
I've put away all fall/halloween/harvest/Thanksgiving crap and started to inventory my Christmas/New Year stuff. Turns out, all my red candles are sub par or a 1/3 used. So, it time for me to enjoy their flames while shop for some new ones online. Maybe Target, since they've not been charging for shipping in a while. I'll probably buy something corny, much as I try to avoid it.
Damn. That's some great music you posted today. Every time someone here puts up a few music video, I realized I came up listening to the wrong stuff! Big Sugar's Still Waiting is hot in every sense of the word, other than a report on the outdoor temperature. BTW, I am a ram, too--because of the time of year in which I was born. No!w all the astrologers reading this post will know way too much about me. (Moon in Scorpio, Acquarius rising, so don't jump to conclusions you pros!)
Well, there's another stream of consciousness post from HenryAWallace.
Oh, but you asked for help. Okay, Tim, I think you ought get out of the garage ASAP. Take a walk or a ride. While doing that, think of some great place where you can order something enjoyable to eat and drink for lunch. Maybe it's take out to revel in at home while listening to your wonderful music or a pub perfect for a day that is comfortable, but hints that colder days are coming before too much more time passes. Just have a great day, knowing you started off Friday for all of us in an excellent way.
You, too, all Caucusers! Have an enjoyable day and a great weekend. I hope time for you takes just the perfect amount of time to pass. Love on all of you!
Let it flow
As Sue's ALS progressed and involuntary sedentary set in, she had issues with blood clots. On and off Xarelto. Here come the ads.
Our deduced understanding of the world around us and invention of time has obfuscated the meaning of life. Time obviously speeds up and slows down depending on your level of engagement, enjoyment, pain, hunger, exhilaration, …
I will be out of the garage soon. Coffee, Danish, wait for it to warm up a little and them motorcycle ride to the gym. Probably just yogurt and banana for lunch, because I am making baby back ribs with mac'n'cheese this afternoon. Then a short nap, and Friday night at the pub!
Heh, I started out @ Joe's
Hanging at Johnny's Juke Joint for the morning, then make a move.
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 -
Sounds like an enjoyable kick off to the weekend.
I'd let you plan my Fridays any day of the week--and twice on Thursdays.
I'm guessing Sue's inability to move contributed to her clots.
I am now on Xarelto, which is all I'll say about my clots. I rarely post about the more difficult parts of my life, unless you count my having posted two or three Decembers ago about how hard the truth about my bachelor Uncle Nick or one of his unmarried sisters dressing up as Santa for their nephews and nieces. (The adults may have enjoyed it as much as we tots did, maybe more.)
Posting about that kind of thing is wonderful if a poster finds that so doing helps him or her process a difficult reality. I think it may have helped you some when Sue was suffering so and it must have helped our sweet, now departed river lover, too. At least, I so hope posting helped both of you. However, some of the reason that I post, I think, is to distract myself from personal stuff that is difficult. Another example of different strokes for different folks.
While in the hospital, I met a man with a great sense of humor despite horrific peripheral artery disease, pain and the reality that he might be dying soon, leaving his wife somewhat unprovided for. His one goal was to find (and afford) a place where both of them could live until he passed, and where she could spend her remaining years as well.
He had lost at least one finger (may have been several fingers-- didn't want to look), and both legs, one leg amputated above the knee, the other below the knee. He was in rehab for help with the leg that had been amputated below the knew, which had locked, forming a right angle and ending his ability to walk with prosthetics.
He also had a large, dark black circle on his stump, which I assumed to have resulted from a clot that had killed off the black of the stump. His wife told me nothing had helped him until Eloquis. However, I keep forgetting to ask my doc why I am on Xarelto as opposed to another blood thinner. (No matter how bad anything gets for almost anyone, someone else is having it just as bad or worse.)
NOLA
I am skipping Jazzfest and going to 420 Fest with my daughter and her fiancé.
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 -
Well, for starts, it was the date of the first Revue at the
Folies Bergere, and the date when Pink Floyd released the Wall. It also gave us, among others:
Jonathan Swift
Winnie Churchill
Shirley Chisholm
Abbe Hoffman
June Pointer
and took from us
Oscar - Life is too important to be taken seriously - Wilde, who never really said that, but was misquoted by Gilbert K. Chesterton,
Of course, that is all hearsay, like everything else, for though we remember and anticipate, some epistemologists and others question whether we truly experience the flow of time, or simply deduce it from the fact that we think we have recollections of it.
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 --
Heh
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 -
Mournin' Tim
Re: 420 Fest. Followed the link and found George Harrison, Eric Clapton, Ringo and friends doing the Weeping guitar number. Man, 17 years ago George left us yesterday. Thanks!
edited for numbers violation.
question everything
Time is sliding by
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 -
Your Colbert quote...
...and HAWallace's mention of Einstein bring to mind his quote -
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein
Convincing folks they are stupid may prove stupid too, but sitting silent when you hear the BS is unacceptable. I try to explain logically but it's like changing someones religion....ain't gonnna happen.
Thanks for the music and OT. Let's enjoy what we have while we have it!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Doing my part
Funkin' eh.
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 TGIF Funkmeister Tim and fellow C99 musack freaks.
Figured I would show up again. Haven't been around much lately cos it's been rough down here surviving the recent election cycle in Floridumb. The latest "offerings": a shitehole for governor (yet again) and an even bigger shole for US Senate. I won't name them cos it is too disgusting.
Tim, you sound good. You are angry and active. Sue is smiling down from her place beyond the stars. Hope all on here have a good weekend. Rec'd!!
Inner and Outer Space: the Final Frontiers.
I have a reputation ...
for not putting up with crap, and low tolerance for stupidity. Not everyone abides.
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. Rain finally stopped, but due back tomorrow,
Nursing some angry body parts and can't take advantage of the dry weather, so I'll probably wind up out in the garage too, making & fixing shit, or maybe here some too, heh. Thanks for the tunes and attitude Tim, always good to wake up to and get the blood moving on Fridays.
Sneakin' blues ukes in there, I see. Conjures up thoughts of more ukes, many more:
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 --
There are some eclectic creative and talented folks out there
There are Danish on the counter and the coffee is warm. Looks like a top shelf Taylor Guitar. The wood is gorgeous.
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 -
I'm a ram
Neat version of that song NCT. This my favorite version of I'm a ram, by Roy Buchanan.
Thanks for the great sounds. Loved Frigid Pink.
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
Livestock
Roy was a staple in 1970s western PA. Both Billy Price, singer, and Byrd Foster, keyboards, were local guys. Livestock was as ubiquitous as Led Zeppelin II. I saw Roy a handful of times, including the student union @ WVU. The first concert my wife and I attended together was Roy Buchanan at the old Stanley Theater, which was remodeled and is now the symphony hall, The Benedum. Good times.
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 -