Greetings, Brutals. While we …. work things out with Zardoz, I shall be providing the Links for tonight. I wouldn’t worry too much. I have summoned expert help, out of the memory banks of the Tabernacle:
The left really ought to promote this guy as a voice of their cause.
What better way to relate to the problems of poor blacks and hispanics than to explain that some multimillionaire artist won’t put some bolts of fabric over existing monuments because Trump is a meanie.
The leftist media gets more cartoonish every day.
Slammer
That sort of degenerate ‘art’ is the very definition of a public nuisance.
I remember hurling a stream of curses at the table selling his photo books when he did the Gates project in Central Park. Want to do art that you dig on your own dime? Fine. Then why are you using a taxpayer funded space as your canvas?
I hope that everyone is ready to celebrate Dyngus Day tomorrow. Just don’t celebrate it unless you’re of Polish ancestry, or you’ll be appropriating my culture.
The festival is traditionally celebrated by boys throwing water over girls they like and spanking them with pussy willows. Boys would sneak into girls’ homes at daybreak on Easter Monday and throw containers of water over them while they were still in bed. This was usually accompanied by a rhyme; in the Polish-American community of Pine Creek, Wisconsin, the boys would chant Dyngus, dyngus, po dwa jaja; nie chcę chleba tylko jaja (“Dyngus, dyngus, for two eggs; I don’t want bread, only eggs”).
After all the water had been thrown, the screaming girls would often be dragged to a nearby river or pond for another drenching. Sometimes a girl would be carried out, still in her bed, before both bed and girl were thrown into the water together. Particularly attractive girls could expect to be soaked repeatedly during the day. The use of water is said to evoke the spring rains needed to ensure a successful harvest later in the year. Girls could save themselves from a soaking by giving boys “ransoms” of painted eggs (pisanki), regarded as magical charms that would bring good harvests, successful relationships and healthy childbirths. Although in theory the girls are supposed to wait until the following day to get their revenge by soaking the boys, in practice both sexes throw water over each other on the same day.
Pussy willows appear to have been adopted as an alternative to the palm leaves used elsewhere in Easter celebrations, which were not obtainable in Poland. They were blessed by priests on Palm Sunday, following which parishioners whipped each other with the pussy willow branches, saying “Nie ja bije, wierzba bije, za tydzień, wielki dzień, za sześć noc, Wielkanoc” (“It’s not me who strikes, the willow strikes, in a week, holy week, in six nights, Easter”). The pussy willows were then treated as sacred charms that could prevent lightning strikes, protect animals and encourage honey production. They were believed to bring health and good fortune to people as well, and it was traditional for three pussy willow buds to be swallowed on Palm Sunday to promote good health. As with the water-throwing, boys would whip girls with pussy willows on Easter Monday and girls would do the same to boys on the following Tuesday.
Just don’t celebrate it unless you’re of Polish ancestry,
What if you don’t know what ancestry you are?
UnCivilServant
Just don’t celebrate it unless you’re of Polish ancestry, or you’ll be appropriating my culture.
Look, one of the basic tenets of my culture is culturual misappropriation. You can’t tell me not to misappropriate culturual elements, or you’re oppressing me.
Sounds like a limey. “I need hospital” has the missing article so prevalent over there.
If it were a native New Yorker, they’d have berated the mouse with profanities and emptied their bowels in an empty conductor compartment as they lit up their crack pipe.
The first link had me curious since it said a person was fatally shot in minooka – I had no idea the minooka was a vital body part.
UnCivilServant
It depends on the species. For some, it can be a very painful way to go.
Rick C-137
Just wanted to thank everyone who had input on my weapons questions earlier. All y’all are cool people and I have enjoyed the move from lurking to commenting
Rick C-137
Also, is the this zardoz thing like an actual dispute or more of a staged thing to generate buzz amongst the commentariat?
westernsloper
Not sure. You would have to ask Swiss, who I think is the dude in the “scab” picture at the top that looks like a Spanish transvestite dressed in a nuns habit.
Sunday’s comments appear to be the first confirmation that both countries are working together on how to deal with the North Korean issue.
they’ve been “working together” on the north korean issue for something like 30-40 years. Its not really getting anywhere, but they certainly work on it.
I think of it as sort of a very slow, very labored “good cop/bad cop” routine. With the main goal always being that China offers the Norks ‘closer relations’ and economic support in exchange for pacifying the US/NK tensions. Its all just a game they play in order to sink their claws deeper into the Kim regime and make them more compliant.
Rick C-137
That makes sense. They move troops to the border to contain refugees, reject some coal, then maybe suggest some changes and we go back to status ante bellum or at least pre tensions
I’ve always taken it as China using the Norks as a cat’s paw. Loosen up on the leash, let the Kim du jour get a little lippy, and the US has to shift attention in the region to dealing with the North Koreans. And since we can’t really do anything with them, it becomes a problem that only China can solve for us, which they inevitably do. China thus makes itself look like a responsible force for peace and diplomacy in the world and looks like a viable alternative to US hegemony in the Pacific.
Pomp
We’re here, we’re queer, and we want to see Trump’ s tax returns. (!!)
westernsloper
Were they chanting that at the brunch you went to today?
Pomp
Nope, it was idyllic and very nice, with a few adjacent tables mixed with locals and Phillips Exeter Academy students. Primo oysters and roast sirloin.
westernsloper
Nice. A decent brunch buffet spread is hard to beat. I always thought they should have open bars for what they charge though.
Pomp
This particular brunch had a freebie mimosa and was $15 cheaper last time, but the oysters were so damn good I didn’t mind.
Playa Manhattan
My brunch was disappointing. Second seating. First seating didn’t vacate in time, food was overcooked, etc
Pomp
Truth. First seating is usually a good bet.
quincy
We’re great, we’re straight, we want Trump’s tax rebate!
This Cleveland thing is a little weird. Of course they seem to be going full Boston on the shelter-in-place thing. Sounds like he might be a little schizo from the description of the shooting.
Well, it was in color. So there’s that. Plus a suicide is always gonna seem less disturbing to me than a murder. Because an innicent person is being killed. With suicide, at least there’s some agency for the deceased.
The question of who gets to continue using a kind of technology is a question of power — who gets to claim that a communication tool is meaningful or who gets to cast it off as pointless is more and more a decision that is made by corporations rather than people.
You mean corporations made up of the people that invented them, risked their own capital to bring them to market and also developed the replacement? Those “corporations”?
Fucking slack-jawed, Luddite fuckheads.
Pomp
The fuck you jawboning about? My communication innovations coalesce out of the aether.
That having been said, once I buy a piece of technology that works for me, I’d like to be able to continue using it as is and not be forced into “upgrades”. Salon, of course, doesn’t give a shit about property rights.
Gilmore
, once I buy a piece of technology that works for me, I’d like to be able to continue using it as is and not be forced into “upgrades”
This was my thought too. You mean the corporation that only exists because it is producing what people want?
I think half of progs don’t understand that, and the other half hate that in a free-market things that the common man want are produced, not things that they think ought to be produced.
__Warren__
They understand how it works. every utterance from them is to pave the way for them to be put in charge of the resources.
They want to be in charge of everything. They don’t care about efficacy, or rights, or justice, only that they must be in charge. And since for the most part they can’t build things they have to steal what others make. So all their words are to get enough people on their side to make it happen.
It doesn’t matter that they’ll run things into the ground as long as they can feed off of it for some period of time. Of course their egos are such that they think a death spiral like in Venezuela won’t happen to them.
They don’t really want slow, antiquated systems. They just want to bitch about missing quirky shit they can use when they’re rolling on their penny farthing while listening to an 8-track Walkman while wearing a trucker hat and carrying a six pack of PBR in the largest fanny pack ever made.
Their absolute lack of originality makes me fear for my youngest children and what kind of creative void they’re going to differ through as they hit their teens.
Rufus the Monocled
For all their claims to understand human nature and nuance, they sure are the least imaginative and predictable people in the universe.
For instance, whenever faced with a (perceived) problem the solution usually comes down to increased regulations and/or taxes or some redistribution scheme with them.
They’re sooo boring.
Rufus the Monocled
/waves at Frank.
westernsloper
What I find stupider than progressives who can’t realize that said evil corporations determine what media we use by what people buy more of, is stupid progressives who try to determine some deep meaning in a tv show. Unless that show is the Rockford Files. There were some deep artistic undertones there.
Pretty much every TV theme song from the 60s, 70s, and 80s is permanently etched in my brain. Now I don’t even recognize the names of most shows that are on TV today.
Rufus the Monocled
Taxi, Rockford, Magnum, Diff’rent Strokes, WKRP….all great tunes.
Gumshoe shows like Rockford Files are ageless.
Full of charm and irreverence.
Rhywun
I won a free drink ticket once for being the first person to identify “Sanford and Son”. I mean, come on.
Upthread got me wondering the commentariat’ opinion on two things to do with wartime comedy/dramas.
What was better: M*A*S*H the movie or the tv show?
And was Stalag 17 or Hogan’s Heroes better?
__Warren__
M*A*S*H the movie is far superior to the TV show.
Rhywun
I’ve always kind of seen them as completely different properties. Also, the movie was before my time whereas I grew up with the TV show. I know the reasons the movie supposed to be better but I’m more “comfortable” with the show.
quincy
Ditto.
Gilmore
1 – movie
2 – hogan!!!
westernsloper
I don’t think I have ever seen MASH the movie, or Stalag 17.
Re M*A*S*H as a commentary on the Vietnam war. I think the movie was better at catching the absurdities of the military, the TV show got awful damn preachy about whatever Alan Alda’s hobby horse was at the moment. Though I must give points to Harry Morgan as the CDR for lifting a difficult position beyond mere buffoonery.
Stalag 17 and Hogn’s Heroes are hard to compare. The movie was excellent and SGT Schultz was not a putz and was an excellent character. William Holden was excellent as well. The TV was typical broad humor and nothing special. If you have not seen the movie,I recommend it.
Trivia: The same actor who played the movie SGT Schultz (Sigi Rumann) was also in numerous Marx Brothers movies and Ninotchka,
Ruman was in several Lubitsch movies, including To Be or Not to Be. And since the story about my grandfather made me think of the movie, Rumann was also in the excellent Confessions of a Nazi Spy, one of Hollywood’s first anti-Nazi movies.
dbleagle
Sigi was my uncle of my ex-father in law. The family was not from Hamburg but from Northheim. Northheim is best known for being the setting of the famous William Allen book “The Nazi Seizure of Power” which is a comprehensive study of the success of Nazism at the smaller city level.
Sigi fled Germany before the war. The family haus, which also housed the city’s synagogue, is now the location of the local Holocaust memorial. We visited the town several times with our kids.
dbleagle
So I think Sigi could bring feeling to his anti-nazi roles. Much like the German and French refugees brought much feeling to the movie “Casablanca”. E.g. Major Strasser was a German Jew and the prostitute Yvonne was a French refugee, among others in the cast. In the famous” battle of the anthems” scene those are real tears by refugees never knowing if they would see their homelands again.
Best? Both good (MASH) in their own way. The show’s politics was a bit much, however.
The Elite Elite
I’ve only seen Hogan’s Heroes out of those four.
commodious spittoon
SIL has parents in town for Easter weekend. Wander out briefly, hear them discussing politics. Christ almighty, the idiocy. Did you know America took an eight year vacation from dropping bombs until Trump personally dropped the MOAB last week? Did you know that families are “literally being torn apart” under Trump’s immigration plan? Did you know the country is going to shit in some unspecified way which is nonetheless undeniably tied to Trump’s presidency?
And hearing Bush lauded as “the sane conservative” is just rich.
Gilmore
hearing Bush lauded as “the sane conservative”
when bush was in office, Reagan was the sane conservative. when Reagan was in office….Nixon wasn’t so bad…. and so on.
(*i know i skipped gerald ford. i think most people agree he doesn’t really count as anything)
commodious spittoon
Never even seen a Gerald Ford on the road.
quincy
They rebadged that model as the Ford Prefect for the overseas market.
Gilmore
The newest aircraft carrier in the US fleet is the USS Gerald Ford
I joked w/ my dad that its a “stealth carrier” = the enemy will keep forgetting it exists.
We went over to visit my sister in Massachusetts, and since her daughter is getting married, she started asking Dad questions about Mom as she had a book about memories from grandmother to mother to daughter she wanted to fill out before the wedding. Dad started talking about Grandpa, who was apparently a Secret Nazi.
As I understand it, Grandpa didn’t actually have citizenship yet in 1941, but came to the States for a second time in 1937 to escape the Nazis as he didn’t want to get drafted into what would become the Luftwaffe. (Grandpa was about 5’2″, a perfectly short size to be a fighter pilot. Grandpa and Grandma actually got married in the US in 1929 but she wanted to go back to Germany since she couldn’t take living in the States. She followed Grandpa the second time because wives obeyed their husbands back then, and she was pregnant with Dad anyway.) He was, however, active in the Bund and didn’t want to fight for the US. So the authorities interned him. Of course, none of this was talked about after the war. And I’m sure Dad is embellishing some of the stories.
After hearing the story, I can’t help but think of the baker from Michael Powell’s 49th Parallel, who was drafted into the German military and didn’t want to serve, just wanting to sit out the war baking bread for the Hutterites.
I very highly recommend the movie.
commodious spittoon
You know who else wanted to live out the rest of his life making sandwiches for an underdeveloped people…
Most “he”s want their womenfolk to make the sammiches for them.
Amashi
Arthur Dent?
dbleagle
Most people forget that the US also interned Germans and Italians during WWII as well. Many ended up in Ft Missoula, MT. My dad’s family immigrated from southern Italy over the course of the 1920’s. My grandfather was not drafted because of essential war work (working for a railroad), his younger brother was an infantry LT, and his older brother never got around to citizenship so spent almost a year in Ft Missoula before being released to work in a shipyard building submarines in Illinois. After the war he moved to Florida because “he never wanted to be cold again.”
Dad claims Grandpa was interned on Ellis Island, since he took the boat to visit Grandpa on Sundays.
Rhywun
My grandmother, from PA, in her 60s or 70s remarried some Italian guy who took her down to Florida. She hated it there and wasn’t afraid to let everyone know it during family reunions up north.
Grandpa got remarried (to another German immigrant) seven months after Dad’s mother died.
Festus
My Grandad was in the U.S. Cavalry. He got chucked into the brig when they caught him selling side-arms off-base. My other Grand-dad was thrown in prison for desertion. He went on to win the Military Cross and drank himself to death in the sixties.
I forget the details but it happened. In the U.S., I know if Italians (not sure about Germans) weren’t interned strict curfews were imposed on them.
Amashi
As someone who lived in Montana as a kid, all I have to say about this is “At least your folks got to leave when the war was over.”
Rhywun
Did you know that families are “literally being torn apart” under Trump’s immigration plan?
I’ve always found this argument to be particularly mendacious. Who the hell gives a shit about other people’s families – except as a means to score political points?
If I were a politician speaking at a town hall and some idiot started whining about how not paying for her birth control meant I didn’t want her to have birth control at all, I’d use the taxation is theft argument by having her literally try to take a $20 bill from another attendee’s wallet.
westernsloper
Did you walk back in and tell them to promptly get the fuck out of your house? That you would not celebrate the day honoring zombie jebus with such ignorant people?
commodious spittoon
I’m just renting a room. I don’t mind these people, except when I have to excuse myself to put my hand into the garbage disposal because it’s less painful than listening to them articulate their political opinions.
People have literally ruined all meaning of the word.
Festus
Since my Mom died we don’t have to put up with that nonsense, anymore. She was a dyed in wool Socialist. Wonder how heaven/hell is treating her?
dbleagle
I heard a joke this morning and I am stealing it. “Atheism is a lose lose proposition. When I die if I am right, there is no way to brag to others about it- and if I am wrong, I have to hear about it for eternity.”
Festus
Oh don’t get me wrong, I’m an atheist but I hope she burns in whatever afterlife she lands in.
Rufus the Monocled
Dunno what people think of Black Pigeon but anyway:
It befuddles me how anyone didn’t see through his shameless schtick. He was the epitome of the emperor has no clothes.
mikey
Yeah. The Dems kept complaining about the evil and obstructionist rethuglicans and I kept thinking how LBJ would had Boner and the rest of the stupids for lunch.
Festus
Rex is the dude that I want carving the Easter ham and holding forth at the dinner table. Reminds me of my Grandfather, the valourous one.
Rufus the Monocled
It’s a marvel he remained at the CBC all these years given his (non-leftist) views (which I agree with most of the time).
Festus
What? You don’t care for Candy Palmater?
Rufus the Monocled
Had to look her up.
‘a gay native feminist comic raised by bikers’.
Ah.
Festus
She’s a real peach, the kinda girl that you take home to meet “Mother”.
Seems a shame that they have to get their heads half blowed off.
The Elite Elite
It befuddles me how there are still people who don’t see through him. Just the other day one of my Facebook friends posted an Obama pic with a caption saying something along the lines of, “Remember when our president was intelligent, thoughtful, and cool?” Fucking barf.
Festus
Yeah, it’s like having one “black” friend in high school.
Glitterstorm
These people couldn’t tell you what he did in office.
Festus
He was sorta kinda Black. Black matters?
The Elite Elite
Be the first (half)black president.
Glitterstorm
First president from Hawaii
Rufus the Monocled
They’re so burnt they literally think foreign policy was reset and he calmed the storms as well as fixed the economy, gave everyone health insurance and kept domestic peace. At the same time, blaming GOP obstructionism and having inherited a mess where he failed in those same instances.
Some trick.
Glitterstorm
Love the GOP boogie man
The Elite Elite
The same friend that posted that picture has also linked several articles about how much Trump’s family has been costing taxpayers. Not a fucking peep about all the money the Obamas needlessly spent on all their fucking trips or flying separately to the same damn location! Nope, no caring about that massive waste. Nope.
Festus
I don’t mind Obama, it’s his wife that I hate.
Festus
If his dong was that long and girthy he wouldn’t have to be a politician.
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171 responses to “ZARDOZ ON STRIKE LINKS OF EASTER EVENING”
Leftist stomps feet.
Seals clap at his “bravery”.
What a coincidence…
The left really ought to promote this guy as a voice of their cause.
What better way to relate to the problems of poor blacks and hispanics than to explain that some multimillionaire artist won’t put some bolts of fabric over existing monuments because Trump is a meanie.
The leftist media gets more cartoonish every day.
That sort of degenerate ‘art’ is the very definition of a public nuisance.
I remember hurling a stream of curses at the table selling his photo books when he did the Gates project in Central Park. Want to do art that you dig on your own dime? Fine. Then why are you using a taxpayer funded space as your canvas?
Mmmmm, killer umbrellas….
I’m allergic to Salon, so I didn’t RTFA.
Did he cash the check first?
I hope that everyone is ready to celebrate Dyngus Day tomorrow. Just don’t celebrate it unless you’re of Polish ancestry, or you’ll be appropriating my culture.
Fucking Polacks, amirite?
Problematic AF
Just don’t celebrate it unless you’re of Polish ancestry,
What if you don’t know what ancestry you are?
Look, one of the basic tenets of my culture is culturual misappropriation. You can’t tell me not to misappropriate culturual elements, or you’re oppressing me.
Pics?
Czechs and Slovaks have a similar tradition, except that the men hit the women with branches while the women soak the men.
Polish and Slovak here. I get the best of both worlds. Possibly some Czech too.
You sure that isn’t a line from an interviewee in “Secret Nazi President”?
Sounds like a limey. “I need hospital” has the missing article so prevalent over there.
If it were a native New Yorker, they’d have berated the mouse with profanities and emptied their bowels in an empty conductor compartment as they lit up their crack pipe.
I got “Asian“.
A lot of asians speak limey these days.
Ahem…Rimey
Yeah, that pretty accurately describes my lifestyle when I lived in NYC.
It’s a guy who’s new to New York.
obviously. Native New Yorkers have become natually toxic to rodents and the rats know better than to bite them.
I live here. The people are more intolerable than the “vermin”
Native New Yorkers
The first link had me curious since it said a person was fatally shot in minooka – I had no idea the minooka was a vital body part.
It depends on the species. For some, it can be a very painful way to go.
Just wanted to thank everyone who had input on my weapons questions earlier. All y’all are cool people and I have enjoyed the move from lurking to commenting
Also, is the this zardoz thing like an actual dispute or more of a staged thing to generate buzz amongst the commentariat?
Not sure. You would have to ask Swiss, who I think is the dude in the “scab” picture at the top that looks like a Spanish transvestite dressed in a nuns habit.
Isn’t that Kevin Kline?
Kevin Kline is a Spanish transvestite?
He very well might be.
THAT IS NIALL BUGGY, NOT ME!
*breaks forth wall* I’m pretty sure it’s just something done for fun.
I figured it was tongue in cheek, especially since the reptilian mr. lizard jumped in offering weapons
Well Mr lizard is a very real entity.
All too real…
Fear not mammal, weaponry will always be provided as long as you stooopid rutting bipeds continue to entertain
THE STRUGGLE IS REAL!
I didn’t realize that ZARDOZ was in solidarity. My apologies
This brutal acknowledges the struggle
Appropriate for Dyngus Day.
*narrows gaze*
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-39614428
I know that China enjoys having the buffer state but I’m curious to see how they handle this
they’ve been “working together” on the north korean issue for something like 30-40 years. Its not really getting anywhere, but they certainly work on it.
I think of it as sort of a very slow, very labored “good cop/bad cop” routine. With the main goal always being that China offers the Norks ‘closer relations’ and economic support in exchange for pacifying the US/NK tensions. Its all just a game they play in order to sink their claws deeper into the Kim regime and make them more compliant.
That makes sense. They move troops to the border to contain refugees, reject some coal, then maybe suggest some changes and we go back to status ante bellum or at least pre tensions
I’ve always taken it as China using the Norks as a cat’s paw. Loosen up on the leash, let the Kim du jour get a little lippy, and the US has to shift attention in the region to dealing with the North Koreans. And since we can’t really do anything with them, it becomes a problem that only China can solve for us, which they inevitably do. China thus makes itself look like a responsible force for peace and diplomacy in the world and looks like a viable alternative to US hegemony in the Pacific.
We’re here, we’re queer, and we want to see Trump’ s tax returns. (!!)
Were they chanting that at the brunch you went to today?
Nope, it was idyllic and very nice, with a few adjacent tables mixed with locals and Phillips Exeter Academy students. Primo oysters and roast sirloin.
Nice. A decent brunch buffet spread is hard to beat. I always thought they should have open bars for what they charge though.
This particular brunch had a freebie mimosa and was $15 cheaper last time, but the oysters were so damn good I didn’t mind.
My brunch was disappointing. Second seating. First seating didn’t vacate in time, food was overcooked, etc
Truth. First seating is usually a good bet.
We’re great, we’re straight, we want Trump’s tax rebate!
1-2-3-4 Melania’s a dirty whore!
5-6-7-8 We want to see Drumph’s tax rebate!
This Cleveland thing is a little weird. Of course they seem to be going full Boston on the shelter-in-place thing. Sounds like he might be a little schizo from the description of the shooting.
Don’t watch the videos! I made the mistake of doing so.
It’s disturbing to say the least.
More or less disturbing than Budd Dwyer?
Ugh I made the mistake of watching that once.
Well, it was in color. So there’s that. Plus a suicide is always gonna seem less disturbing to me than a murder. Because an innicent person is being killed. With suicide, at least there’s some agency for the deceased.
For Budd
I’ll just watch this Cleveland video instead.
Not this one?
Progressives hate progress when “corporations” determine what form it will take.
Leave Flo alone!
Kiss her grits.
How will that affect my car insurance rates?
The question of who gets to continue using a kind of technology is a question of power — who gets to claim that a communication tool is meaningful or who gets to cast it off as pointless is more and more a decision that is made by corporations rather than people.
You mean corporations made up of the people that invented them, risked their own capital to bring them to market and also developed the replacement? Those “corporations”?
Fucking slack-jawed, Luddite fuckheads.
The fuck you jawboning about? My communication innovations coalesce out of the aether.
That having been said, once I buy a piece of technology that works for me, I’d like to be able to continue using it as is and not be forced into “upgrades”. Salon, of course, doesn’t give a shit about property rights.
I actually have that plug-ins force MS Office apps to use 2003 pre-ribbon menu architecture
I’m sure there are some things that Office ‘updates’ do better. Its just that i’ve never needed it to do those things.
Heh, I blogged about the horrible ‘ribbons’ back in the day. Worst fucking UI ever and they’re still pushing it.
Worse than Microsoft Bob?
Did anyone actually use that? I never saw it in the real world.
I use Libre Office.
I don’t even have a TV
This was my thought too. You mean the corporation that only exists because it is producing what people want?
I think half of progs don’t understand that, and the other half hate that in a free-market things that the common man want are produced, not things that they think ought to be produced.
They understand how it works. every utterance from them is to pave the way for them to be put in charge of the resources.
They want to be in charge of everything. They don’t care about efficacy, or rights, or justice, only that they must be in charge. And since for the most part they can’t build things they have to steal what others make. So all their words are to get enough people on their side to make it happen.
It doesn’t matter that they’ll run things into the ground as long as they can feed off of it for some period of time. Of course their egos are such that they think a death spiral like in Venezuela won’t happen to them.
They don’t really want slow, antiquated systems. They just want to bitch about missing quirky shit they can use when they’re rolling on their penny farthing while listening to an 8-track Walkman while wearing a trucker hat and carrying a six pack of PBR in the largest fanny pack ever made.
Their absolute lack of originality makes me fear for my youngest children and what kind of creative void they’re going to differ through as they hit their teens.
For all their claims to understand human nature and nuance, they sure are the least imaginative and predictable people in the universe.
For instance, whenever faced with a (perceived) problem the solution usually comes down to increased regulations and/or taxes or some redistribution scheme with them.
They’re sooo boring.
/waves at Frank.
What I find stupider than progressives who can’t realize that said evil corporations determine what media we use by what people buy more of, is stupid progressives who try to determine some deep meaning in a tv show. Unless that show is the Rockford Files. There were some deep artistic undertones there.
Starting with the Mike Post theme.
Pretty much every TV theme song from the 60s, 70s, and 80s is permanently etched in my brain. Now I don’t even recognize the names of most shows that are on TV today.
Taxi, Rockford, Magnum, Diff’rent Strokes, WKRP….all great tunes.
Gumshoe shows like Rockford Files are ageless.
Full of charm and irreverence.
I won a free drink ticket once for being the first person to identify “Sanford and Son”. I mean, come on.
Ha, ha.
I’m having a heart attack over this.
Rockford’s con games were a revolation to me.
Yep. Greatest intro ever.
You misspelled Hogan’s Heroes.
Was that story supposed to have a point?
Upthread got me wondering the commentariat’ opinion on two things to do with wartime comedy/dramas.
What was better:
M*A*S*H the movie or the tv show?
And was Stalag 17 or Hogan’s Heroes better?
M*A*S*H the movie is far superior to the TV show.
I’ve always kind of seen them as completely different properties. Also, the movie was before my time whereas I grew up with the TV show. I know the reasons the movie supposed to be better but I’m more “comfortable” with the show.
Ditto.
1 – movie
2 – hogan!!!
I don’t think I have ever seen MASH the movie, or Stalag 17.
You heathen. They’re both classics.
Heathen? That stings. I will have you know I am full of culture. Did hot lips show her tits in the movie?
You got the curtains and the carpet in the movie.
Re M*A*S*H as a commentary on the Vietnam war. I think the movie was better at catching the absurdities of the military, the TV show got awful damn preachy about whatever Alan Alda’s hobby horse was at the moment. Though I must give points to Harry Morgan as the CDR for lifting a difficult position beyond mere buffoonery.
Stalag 17 and Hogn’s Heroes are hard to compare. The movie was excellent and SGT Schultz was not a putz and was an excellent character. William Holden was excellent as well. The TV was typical broad humor and nothing special. If you have not seen the movie,I recommend it.
Trivia: The same actor who played the movie SGT Schultz (Sigi Rumann) was also in numerous Marx Brothers movies and Ninotchka,
Ruman was in several Lubitsch movies, including To Be or Not to Be. And since the story about my grandfather made me think of the movie, Rumann was also in the excellent Confessions of a Nazi Spy, one of Hollywood’s first anti-Nazi movies.
Sigi was my uncle of my ex-father in law. The family was not from Hamburg but from Northheim. Northheim is best known for being the setting of the famous William Allen book “The Nazi Seizure of Power” which is a comprehensive study of the success of Nazism at the smaller city level.
Sigi fled Germany before the war. The family haus, which also housed the city’s synagogue, is now the location of the local Holocaust memorial. We visited the town several times with our kids.
So I think Sigi could bring feeling to his anti-nazi roles. Much like the German and French refugees brought much feeling to the movie “Casablanca”. E.g. Major Strasser was a German Jew and the prostitute Yvonne was a French refugee, among others in the cast. In the famous” battle of the anthems” scene those are real tears by refugees never knowing if they would see their homelands again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTsg9i6lvqU
Best? Both good (MASH) in their own way. The show’s politics was a bit much, however.
I’ve only seen Hogan’s Heroes out of those four.
SIL has parents in town for Easter weekend. Wander out briefly, hear them discussing politics. Christ almighty, the idiocy. Did you know America took an eight year vacation from dropping bombs until Trump personally dropped the MOAB last week? Did you know that families are “literally being torn apart” under Trump’s immigration plan? Did you know the country is going to shit in some unspecified way which is nonetheless undeniably tied to Trump’s presidency?
And hearing Bush lauded as “the sane conservative” is just rich.
when bush was in office, Reagan was the sane conservative. when Reagan was in office….Nixon wasn’t so bad…. and so on.
(*i know i skipped gerald ford. i think most people agree he doesn’t really count as anything)
Never even seen a Gerald Ford on the road.
They rebadged that model as the Ford Prefect for the overseas market.
The newest aircraft carrier in the US fleet is the USS Gerald Ford
I joked w/ my dad that its a “stealth carrier” = the enemy will keep forgetting it exists.
Or it will stumble out of the dock.
+1
or sometimes… USS Walter Mondale
FWIW.
Pierre Trudeau on Nixon: ‘I’ve been called worse things by better people’:
Could be worse. Sister-in-laws parents could be telling you how you could be making $3534 a month.
I couldn’t believe it when they showed me their last month’s bank statement.
We went over to visit my sister in Massachusetts, and since her daughter is getting married, she started asking Dad questions about Mom as she had a book about memories from grandmother to mother to daughter she wanted to fill out before the wedding. Dad started talking about Grandpa, who was apparently a Secret Nazi.
As I understand it, Grandpa didn’t actually have citizenship yet in 1941, but came to the States for a second time in 1937 to escape the Nazis as he didn’t want to get drafted into what would become the Luftwaffe. (Grandpa was about 5’2″, a perfectly short size to be a fighter pilot. Grandpa and Grandma actually got married in the US in 1929 but she wanted to go back to Germany since she couldn’t take living in the States. She followed Grandpa the second time because wives obeyed their husbands back then, and she was pregnant with Dad anyway.) He was, however, active in the Bund and didn’t want to fight for the US. So the authorities interned him. Of course, none of this was talked about after the war. And I’m sure Dad is embellishing some of the stories.
So you’re Dennis Reynolds?
I thought maybe I was Cortez Cortez or something.
When Germany sends its people, they’re not sending their best.
After hearing the story, I can’t help but think of the baker from Michael Powell’s 49th Parallel, who was drafted into the German military and didn’t want to serve, just wanting to sit out the war baking bread for the Hutterites.
I very highly recommend the movie.
You know who else wanted to live out the rest of his life making sandwiches for an underdeveloped people…
Jared Fogle?
Not at all what I had in mind, but damn funny.
Most “he”s want their womenfolk to make the sammiches for them.
Arthur Dent?
Most people forget that the US also interned Germans and Italians during WWII as well. Many ended up in Ft Missoula, MT. My dad’s family immigrated from southern Italy over the course of the 1920’s. My grandfather was not drafted because of essential war work (working for a railroad), his younger brother was an infantry LT, and his older brother never got around to citizenship so spent almost a year in Ft Missoula before being released to work in a shipyard building submarines in Illinois. After the war he moved to Florida because “he never wanted to be cold again.”
Dad claims Grandpa was interned on Ellis Island, since he took the boat to visit Grandpa on Sundays.
My grandmother, from PA, in her 60s or 70s remarried some Italian guy who took her down to Florida. She hated it there and wasn’t afraid to let everyone know it during family reunions up north.
Grandpa got remarried (to another German immigrant) seven months after Dad’s mother died.
My Grandad was in the U.S. Cavalry. He got chucked into the brig when they caught him selling side-arms off-base. My other Grand-dad was thrown in prison for desertion. He went on to win the Military Cross and drank himself to death in the sixties.
I meant to answer this earlier. Yes, they were.
So were Ukrainians.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_Canadian_internment
I forget the details but it happened. In the U.S., I know if Italians (not sure about Germans) weren’t interned strict curfews were imposed on them.
As someone who lived in Montana as a kid, all I have to say about this is “At least your folks got to leave when the war was over.”
I’ve always found this argument to be particularly mendacious. Who the hell gives a shit about other people’s families – except as a means to score political points?
Every Soap Opera viewer ever?
If I were a politician speaking at a town hall and some idiot started whining about how not paying for her birth control meant I didn’t want her to have birth control at all, I’d use the taxation is theft argument by having her literally try to take a $20 bill from another attendee’s wallet.
Did you walk back in and tell them to promptly get the fuck out of your house? That you would not celebrate the day honoring zombie jebus with such ignorant people?
I’m just renting a room. I don’t mind these people, except when I have to excuse myself to put my hand into the garbage disposal because it’s less painful than listening to them articulate their political opinions.
Literally being torn apart? Like by wolves?
God, I hate the bastardization of “literally”.
Yes, literally.
People have literally ruined all meaning of the word.
Since my Mom died we don’t have to put up with that nonsense, anymore. She was a dyed in wool Socialist. Wonder how heaven/hell is treating her?
I heard a joke this morning and I am stealing it. “Atheism is a lose lose proposition. When I die if I am right, there is no way to brag to others about it- and if I am wrong, I have to hear about it for eternity.”
Oh don’t get me wrong, I’m an atheist but I hope she burns in whatever afterlife she lands in.
Dunno what people think of Black Pigeon but anyway:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9b5Hlf4pV3Y
I prefer Bucky as Captain America’s sidekick.
Leave it to Rex Murphy to tell it like it is. Obama was more an MC than a leader. Awesome.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZJj3Eg9-hM
It befuddles me how anyone didn’t see through his shameless schtick. He was the epitome of the emperor has no clothes.
Yeah. The Dems kept complaining about the evil and obstructionist rethuglicans and I kept thinking how LBJ would had Boner and the rest of the stupids for lunch.
Rex is the dude that I want carving the Easter ham and holding forth at the dinner table. Reminds me of my Grandfather, the valourous one.
It’s a marvel he remained at the CBC all these years given his (non-leftist) views (which I agree with most of the time).
What? You don’t care for Candy Palmater?
Had to look her up.
‘a gay native feminist comic raised by bikers’.
Ah.
She’s a real peach, the kinda girl that you take home to meet “Mother”.
Bears repeating: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHPhZwZKvzk
I live for the unedifying of presidents
Seems a shame that they have to get their heads half blowed off.
It befuddles me how there are still people who don’t see through him. Just the other day one of my Facebook friends posted an Obama pic with a caption saying something along the lines of, “Remember when our president was intelligent, thoughtful, and cool?” Fucking barf.
Yeah, it’s like having one “black” friend in high school.
These people couldn’t tell you what he did in office.
He was sorta kinda Black. Black matters?
Be the first (half)black president.
First president from Hawaii
They’re so burnt they literally think foreign policy was reset and he calmed the storms as well as fixed the economy, gave everyone health insurance and kept domestic peace. At the same time, blaming GOP obstructionism and having inherited a mess where he failed in those same instances.
Some trick.
Love the GOP boogie man
The same friend that posted that picture has also linked several articles about how much Trump’s family has been costing taxpayers. Not a fucking peep about all the money the Obamas needlessly spent on all their fucking trips or flying separately to the same damn location! Nope, no caring about that massive waste. Nope.
I don’t mind Obama, it’s his wife that I hate.
If his dong was that long and girthy he wouldn’t have to be a politician.
Dunno- I _do_ miss Eisenhower…