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Well, I haven't seen so few comments on the ONT in some time. Are it early or am I.. um.. something

pthhh. Not warmed up yet.

Howdy.

I've known lots of Clive Bundys. Good, hardworking people who are not uneducated, but are unsophisticated by some measures, so they speak the blunt, direct language of an earlier age.

A dear neighbor sometimes remarks about blacks in ways that "sophisticated" ears might hear as racist.

And, to a certain degree, it is, but not much.

I know he is speaking of the culture, not the race, really. I expect he knows about rules & exceptions, that blacks are hardly alone in that culture, and that (as is often noted here) there is a self-denigrating culture among American blacks specifically which keeps themselves down. So, "those people" refers to a specific set of black culture, not all of that skin.

I know he knows the kind of good, kind, hard-working Christian blacks, such as those who (like my neighbor) were employed by my family back in the day, people still dear to my heart as family.

When I hear such remarks, I sometimes try to gently 'correct' the way he talks about it, more FTR than anything. I don't expect he'll change his manner of speech and quit embarrassing his citified grandkids. I'm not trying to change his thinking, really, because like what Bundy said, it's right, just poorly-put by some standards.

Besides, he's a wiser, smarter, stronger, harder-working, more successful businessman and father, a more moral, more generous man, than I can ever hope to be, so I tip in my tiny bit of ejjimicated soffistication with utmost humility. Not that it necessarily shows.
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Guess that's my t.l. for today.

"Henry frantically looked and came to a stunning realization...."

I knew what was coming (generally, not specifically) and yet I couldn't quit reading...!

"Buildings collapsing and debris and chaos and fire all around me. It was the single most terrifying day of my life. Needless to say, I will never ever go back to SF."
Posted by: grammie winger

Hahaha, grammie winger, what a classic Murphy's Law tale! Glad you survived!

Some tourists would pay extra for that, you know.

"I believe the countdown will refresh. Doesn't really matter who is elected this time around.
"Fastor somewhat less fast, we'll still get fucked."
Posted by: Azenogoth

Thanks for shitting on the closest thing to pass for a happy thought I've had so far today.

((marks Azenogoth in the Demotivational column))

Sefton nabs first. It will be a good day.

"1,002 to Inauguration Day 2017"

In two days, we party like it's 2001! (Dont know about you, but the day GWB took office, we celebrated.)

Now and then it occurs to me , the day may shall come when JJ's countdown will no longer be necessary. Keeps me going.

Now to read the 2nd comment... this will take a while at this rate....

Ah, Finished the post. (burp)

Don't do videos in the early a.m. as a rule, so... that post was lite and low-caloric.

Like a cucumber sandwich.

But, thanks for the post., Mr Malor. Here's a cuppa brew for you (pours into USB port).

Dropped on the butt-dragging end of the ONT, preplayed for your edutainment:

Upon America's Honor
It truly is a stain
We haven't get proper treatment for
Poor Senator John McCain
—Karma Shave

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Morning, Glories!
Pray for Truth.
Beauty and Goodness will follow.

Ah! coffee's done! Now to reading....

Upon America's Honor
It truly is a stain
We haven't get proper treatment for
Poor Senator John McCain

—Karma Shave

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I like the stale end oof the ONT - always interesting.

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"Bundy's view on race has nothing to do with the brownshirts that attacked him. To conflate the two means you are a FUCKING MORON."
—Old Grizzled Gym Coach

I presume you are responding to the post, v a comment.

I've no insight into Maet's mind, but I don't see the matters as having been conflated. I believe the point is not that Maet is a small-m moron, but that the Masses, the public is full of a) morons who will conflate those issues and b) propagandists for the enemy who will play to that ignorance.

There are other ways to be a moron....

Writing is tedious! Surely the new post is long since up now?

Okay, seems like things are... going on.

Past my bedtime, so I'll be going on, too.

Ha ha See what I.. [klonk]

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Good Night, Gracies.

No wall of pix?

All those worrrrrds!

All those depressing worrrrds!

But, you made up for it with the banjos (running in the background here) ...and 1963. Cleopatra. How the West was Won. It's a Mad^4 World. Never heard of any of those again. Nor any of those musicians.

C'mon world, that was 50+ years ago. 2014, what you got?

BTW, speaking of 1954, great pic of "the look of rebellious youth, circa 1954." Here:
http://www.steynonline.com/6264/rock-around-the-clock

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Evening, strangests!

Say good night to me now,
Let me know I exist,
Then, I'll slumber, and cease.
Until, coffee!

Jor-El did his best to save his planet, but they would not listen. He was not resigned to Let It Explode. But when it was inevitable, he did what he could.

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Say, the rhyme below stated out as a two-liner for a comment in the earlier thread, but grew. I was going to just post it on my site, but, after reading Drew's post, I thought I'd dump it here. Apologies if inappropriate.

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As the Union succumbs
to the failure cascade,
Undoing the best
that our ancestors made,
Good citizens wonder,
as we lose our lands,
Where's the Nation we swore to,
for which that Flag stands?

Not found in D. C.,
only Lincoln's cold eyes;
Not taught in the schools,
brainwash jails in disguise;
Not on the T. V.,
Father never knows best.
Not found in the churches
where Lucifers nest.

Republicanism is lost,
the mob rules.
Tyranny by
a committee of fools.
No respect for Real law
Nor for Our Constitution,
This plague eats away
At each good institution.

No New World escape;
all the globe has been found.
No fleeing to Space,
NASA stares at the ground.
We're not just surrounded,
We've been infiltrated,
The enemy acted
while good people waited.

Laid seige, persecuted,
defeated, dispersed,
Liberty's torch
will shine out
through the worst,
That Spirit of 76
will inspire,
Those God-granted Rights
setting new hearts on fire.

Corruption may win,
no more once a great nation,
But some will retain
that Great Declaration,
And seek Independence,
that some day we'll see
A new home of the brave,
In the land of the Free.

Facilitated communication" people.

Is that something like "people whisperers"?

((Fans some warm Oklahoma Spring air up Carol's direction.))

Folks, if you're waiting for better times before moving to freer states... don't hold your breath.

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The browser decided to close, randomly, which meant I had to go feed pesks and such. Back now. Hope y'all waited for me...

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New Horde-inspired webwork...

Mindful Webworks is going all-in for the Clinton-Bush 2016 UniParty ticket. Download your posters now. (nick link)

All winter long
I pray for Spring,
So I won't
wake up freezing.

So, here we are.
It's Spring at last
Great! Now I
wake up sneezing.

—Karma Shave
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Morning, Glories! Another day to contribute our little souls' efforts toward the advancement of the Almighty Supreme Culmination of Time-Space evolutionary creation. You didn't have anything else planned, did you?

This long post conveniently broken up into readable bite sizes as if I'd been commenting all along...

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"Intentionally Crashed Into the Far Side of the Moon"

would have been a big hit for the Bee Sharps, if Rock 'n' Roll hadn't taken off that week.

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Motorboarding... Mae West... I don't get it.

http://torontofilmsociety.org/files/2013/11/She-Done-Him-Wrong-3.jpg

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Heart goes out to Jinx. And all those similarly hurt.

Many, many moving, thoughtful, thought-provoking, considerate (and communing) comments I've just enjoyed lurking through. Who are you people and what have you done with the Horde?

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Speaking of who are you people (subtle contextual segue!), we just watched the next-to-last episode of Eureka tonight. It's been a fun series. I think the last multi-year tv series I actually watched to the end must have been Farscape.

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Mindful Webworks goes all-in for the Clinton-Bush UniParty ticket in 2016. Download your posters now! (cliikity ze niikity)

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I sure hope I closed all the tags. I did an open-strike/close-italic followed by an open-strike/close-boldface (it was the small screen's autoincorrect, really! plus bad editing, but mostly.. okay) and Pixy only put in one close-strike (checked the HTML), proving my theory that The Pixy Tag Closing Software Patch™ is defeated by double-opening tags. Fixed in #twoweeks.

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And let me warn everyone, should you ever find yourself in the barrel, and wonder about that hatch in the floor? Do not open and by all that's holy, do not climb down!!! I will recover. Someday. Probably.
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Back to the cell. Good night, Gracies.

Before I go clicking Maet's pix (you should excuse the expression)... Had I thought about the ONT coming up, I would've saved this instead of posting to the last thread like a socially awkward fool... oh, well. I are what I am.

Just found out about this, of possible interest to folks in the NE Oklahoma area, as a few of us get to be, so I rushed in here to share (sorry about banging the door). Ha ha that joke's... no funnier the second time.

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Liberty Rally
Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Sarah Palin, and Oklahoma's "most conservative ever" Speaker of the State House and candidate for Coburn's Senate seat, T.W. Shannon.

Tomorrow, Apr 24, 6pm, Green Country Event Center, 12000 E 31st Street, Tulsa, OK, 74146.

RSVP at twshannon.com/rsvp, 918-246-6104, #TWLibertyRally

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We probably can't make it. Maybe you can.

Oh, yeah...

Howdy.

Hey, um, O/T, but we're in the 400s right? Hi.

Just found out about this, of possible interest to folks in the NE Oklahoma area, as a few of us get to be (Sherry? Soona?), so I rushed in here to share (sorry about banging the door):

Liberty Rally
Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Sarah Palin, and Oklahoma's "most conservative ever" Speaker of the State House and candidate for Coburn's Senate seat, T.W. Shannon.

Tomorrow, Apr 24, 6pm, Green Country Event Center, 12000 E 31st Street, Tulsa, OK, 74146.

RSVP at twshannon.com/rsvp, 918-246-6104, #TWLibertyRally

We probably can't make it. Maybe you can.

"Why oh why would the feds try to pick a fight with Texas?"

See: Hitler, or Napoleon, v Russia
Also: Japan v USA

In the good old summertime
In the good old summertime
I'll hold your hand and you'll hold mime
In the good old summertime