‘Richard Simmons hospitalized after “bizarre conduct”: report’
Fark dot com says: How could anyone tell?
A York Daily News reporter says her cousin’s BF’s brother-in-law saw a TMZ story saying Simmons “was hospitalized Friday after his ‘bizarre conduct’ caused concern” at his Hollywood mansion.
“It remained unclear whether the exercise guru was still in the hospital, according to the gossip site.”
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/richard-simmons-hospitalized-bizarre-conduct-article-1.2661382?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link
I dunno. This kind of thing usually happens in threes, and with Muhammad Ali taking a 10-count …
The NY Daily News calls TMZ a “gossip site?”
Link at http://www.fark.com/
Sunday, June 5, 2016
Saturday, June 4, 2016
Why does it matter that the man was a former Marine?
Headline: 'Former Marine charged with stabbing 11-year-old boy'
Could have said: Homeless man charged with stabbing 11-year-old boy
Could have said: Black man charged with stabbing 11-year-old boy
Could have said: Black man charged with stabbing 11-year-old Mexican-American boy
Could have said: Man charged with killing 11-year-old boy
Could have said: Homeless man charged with stabbing 11-year-old boy
Could have said: Black man charged with stabbing 11-year-old boy
Could have said: Black man charged with stabbing 11-year-old Mexican-American boy
Could have said: Man charged with killing 11-year-old boy
'Trump could only be American'
“Trump could only be American. And much as elite opinion despises his banausic tribe, America really would not be America without them. The country owes its success to the fact that, for a few hundred years, it became the natural homeland for the world’s overconfident loudmouths, blowhards, wiseacres and minor assholes. It didn’t get rich through agonising about safe spaces and the gender assignment of bathrooms. It got rich because of people called Vinnie building things.” (Emphasis added.)
http://www.spectator.co.uk/2016/06/a-monkey-brained-case-for-donald-trump/
(Those are called “Irish,” I believe. Except for the “Vinnie” part.
(The dude is a British a$$hole, not Scots or Irish or Welch, even though he alludes to Scots and Welch ancestry.)
http://www.spectator.co.uk/2016/06/a-monkey-brained-case-for-donald-trump/
(Those are called “Irish,” I believe. Except for the “Vinnie” part.
(The dude is a British a$$hole, not Scots or Irish or Welch, even though he alludes to Scots and Welch ancestry.)
Not A War Story
This happened in Vietnam, and was told as true, but it does not fit the strict parameters of A War Story.
A War Story: (a) has no moral, no axiom, no lesson learned; and, (b) at the end of A War Story, no one can ask, “What happened then?” In The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien gives as an example of A War Story: Three grunts are walking through the jungle. One trips a trip wire, and the trip wire is attached to the biggest explosive ever, tons of C4, two 500-pound bombs, four 155mm rounds. The blast blows up everything within a 100-meter radius – trees, bushes, monkeys, birds. The three grunts go flying into the air, and just before Finality, two look at the one who tripped the trip wire. “The fuck, man?” both say. The third shrugs, says, “Story of my life, man. Story of my life.”
See? No moral, no questions asked. Like if somebody says, “Why are you in Vietnam?” and the reply is “Story of my life, man. Story of my life.” That’s all there is.
This was in late December 1966, early January 1967. A platoon from one of the 11th Armored Cavalry’s tank companies was busting jungle with a cav troop, when a gook machine gun opens up from a bunker. ACAVs return fire -- M60 machine guns, .50-cals, M79s -- and the tanks join in with .50-cals and 90mm main guns. But this is a strong bunker, really strong, with big logs and sand bags – really thick. Everybody shoots at everybody else for a while, but neither side is getting the upper hand.
After a while, the TC on one of the tanks goes into “I’m tired of this shit” mode. He tells his driver to drive to the bunker. The driver goes as fast as terrain allows and then presses the brake pedal when the TC says, “Driver stop.” Machine gun bullets are bouncing off the tank, and you know the two or three gooks inside the bunker must be passing rice like there’s no tomorrow. And for them, there isn't.
With his TC override control, the TC lowers the main gun tube and says, “Driver forward. Slow.” The TC places the gun tube as close to the firing aperture as possible, says “Driver stop” and squeezes the trigger.
The man who relayed this story said, “Man, there was logs and dirt and gooks and shit flying everywhere!”
This has a moral, so it isn’t A War Story.
The moral is: Don’t fuck with a tank when all you’ve got is a machine gun.
A War Story: (a) has no moral, no axiom, no lesson learned; and, (b) at the end of A War Story, no one can ask, “What happened then?” In The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien gives as an example of A War Story: Three grunts are walking through the jungle. One trips a trip wire, and the trip wire is attached to the biggest explosive ever, tons of C4, two 500-pound bombs, four 155mm rounds. The blast blows up everything within a 100-meter radius – trees, bushes, monkeys, birds. The three grunts go flying into the air, and just before Finality, two look at the one who tripped the trip wire. “The fuck, man?” both say. The third shrugs, says, “Story of my life, man. Story of my life.”
See? No moral, no questions asked. Like if somebody says, “Why are you in Vietnam?” and the reply is “Story of my life, man. Story of my life.” That’s all there is.
This was in late December 1966, early January 1967. A platoon from one of the 11th Armored Cavalry’s tank companies was busting jungle with a cav troop, when a gook machine gun opens up from a bunker. ACAVs return fire -- M60 machine guns, .50-cals, M79s -- and the tanks join in with .50-cals and 90mm main guns. But this is a strong bunker, really strong, with big logs and sand bags – really thick. Everybody shoots at everybody else for a while, but neither side is getting the upper hand.
After a while, the TC on one of the tanks goes into “I’m tired of this shit” mode. He tells his driver to drive to the bunker. The driver goes as fast as terrain allows and then presses the brake pedal when the TC says, “Driver stop.” Machine gun bullets are bouncing off the tank, and you know the two or three gooks inside the bunker must be passing rice like there’s no tomorrow. And for them, there isn't.
With his TC override control, the TC lowers the main gun tube and says, “Driver forward. Slow.” The TC places the gun tube as close to the firing aperture as possible, says “Driver stop” and squeezes the trigger.
The man who relayed this story said, “Man, there was logs and dirt and gooks and shit flying everywhere!”
This has a moral, so it isn’t A War Story.
The moral is: Don’t fuck with a tank when all you’ve got is a machine gun.
Friday, June 3, 2016
Remember when Schwarzenegger brought fascism to California?
You don’t? Camille Paglia does, and that’s why we should elect Bernie Sanders for president.
“I am still amazed at the election of Arnold Schwarzenegger to governor—a man who has never held political office and who participated in only one serious debate. It is a disturbing sign in any nation when politics have become so inefficient and corrupt that the people turn to an outsider as ‘strong man’ for leadership. This is how fascism is born. Because it is Schwarzenegger’s machismo—represented on a superhuman scale in his films—that California voters want to attack the entrenched special interests in Sacramento, his behavior toward women was irrelevant. Or rather, his behavior actually reinforced his virile image as a forceful personality who pushes through barriers.”
https://ricochet.com/camille-paglia-donald/
Who is Camille Paglia? Wikipedia says she is “an academic and social critic.” I’ve known academics who occasionally drifted into social criticism when not doing academic things – teaching. But to make a living at being both, one must have friends in Established places.
Anyway, the point of that being at Ricochet is that as with a number of other Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy sites, Ricochet has become angrily anti-Trump. For years, those organizations – Red State, Never Yet Melted, Flopping Aces, Hot Air – railed and rent garments and poured ashes in anti-Clinton 1 and Obama and We need a Conservative Republican to Save the Republic. Or, when donning a patriot, non-party demeanor, a True Conservative, and the Republican Party is closer to True Conservatism than those other guys.
But now … Now those organizations don’t run the Party, and they don’t know what to do.
This guy Trump … He says he’s a Republican, but he’s not one of us! He doesn’t listen to us! Doesn’t he realize we are the Party?
“I am still amazed at the election of Arnold Schwarzenegger to governor—a man who has never held political office and who participated in only one serious debate. It is a disturbing sign in any nation when politics have become so inefficient and corrupt that the people turn to an outsider as ‘strong man’ for leadership. This is how fascism is born. Because it is Schwarzenegger’s machismo—represented on a superhuman scale in his films—that California voters want to attack the entrenched special interests in Sacramento, his behavior toward women was irrelevant. Or rather, his behavior actually reinforced his virile image as a forceful personality who pushes through barriers.”
https://ricochet.com/camille-paglia-donald/
Who is Camille Paglia? Wikipedia says she is “an academic and social critic.” I’ve known academics who occasionally drifted into social criticism when not doing academic things – teaching. But to make a living at being both, one must have friends in Established places.
Anyway, the point of that being at Ricochet is that as with a number of other Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy sites, Ricochet has become angrily anti-Trump. For years, those organizations – Red State, Never Yet Melted, Flopping Aces, Hot Air – railed and rent garments and poured ashes in anti-Clinton 1 and Obama and We need a Conservative Republican to Save the Republic. Or, when donning a patriot, non-party demeanor, a True Conservative, and the Republican Party is closer to True Conservatism than those other guys.
But now … Now those organizations don’t run the Party, and they don’t know what to do.
This guy Trump … He says he’s a Republican, but he’s not one of us! He doesn’t listen to us! Doesn’t he realize we are the Party?
Telemarketers
With internet and cable, we got a landline phone. That means telemarketers. I got tired of just letting the call run out its 10 rings and tired of getting mad at real people and madder at recorded sales pitches, especially the ones that are made as though a real person is conversing.
"Hey, this is Fred with customer service! How are you today?"
ME: Which customer service.
FRED: That's great! I'm calling from Walt Disney Tours ...
Now I say : "Thank you for calling the Red Pony this glorious afternoon. How may I be of assistance?"
What I have learned: A -- By saying that, I do not get angry. B -- The telemarketing aspect is not engaged unless you say "Hello?" or "Hola?" or some such.
So far I have said that to one (1) real, live human-type person, and she started her spiel about delivering a religious tract as though I had said nothing. Hey, lady. You're interested in where I will spend Eternity, but you don't listen to what I said?
"Hey, this is Fred with customer service! How are you today?"
ME: Which customer service.
FRED: That's great! I'm calling from Walt Disney Tours ...
Now I say : "Thank you for calling the Red Pony this glorious afternoon. How may I be of assistance?"
What I have learned: A -- By saying that, I do not get angry. B -- The telemarketing aspect is not engaged unless you say "Hello?" or "Hola?" or some such.
So far I have said that to one (1) real, live human-type person, and she started her spiel about delivering a religious tract as though I had said nothing. Hey, lady. You're interested in where I will spend Eternity, but you don't listen to what I said?
1st Infantry Division loses its cajones
“The Army Times reports that special operations icon, retired Lieutenant General William Boykin was disinvited from a breakfast at Fort Riley, Kansas during the 1st Infantry Division’s ‘Victory Week’ celebration because perpetual whiner, Mikey Weinstein doesn’t like the general. It seems that Boykin is a Bible-thumping Christian, which should earn him protection from the actions of the mis-named Military Religious Freedom Foundation, Weinstein’s group of hand-wringing Godless heathens.”
http://thisainthell.us/blog/?p=66122
The division will reschedule the breakfast, but the general will not be invited.
“However, citing Fort Riley's ‘diverse community,’ (MSG Mike) Lavigne said 1st ID ‘will pursue the invitation of a different speaker for the prayer breakfast once it is rescheduled.’"
…
“Weinstein's group, which claims more than 41,500 clients, recently succeeded in efforts to remove Bibles from several ‘missing man table’ displays, designed to honor prisoners of war and troops missing in action, that are located on military and Veterans Affairs Department property. Boykin, in a piece at the FRC Action website, called one VA official's decision to remove the Bible ‘disgraceful’ and showed ‘a poor knowledge of the Constitution.’"
http://www.armytimes.com/story/military/2016/06/01/fort-riley-prayer-breakfast-called-off-controversial-retired-3-star-had-been-set-speak-jerry-boykin-mikey-weinstein/85254680/
(This Ain’t Hell has Weinstein’s press release proclaiming yet another victory. My breakfast is where it should be, and I see no reason to make it disgorge.)
http://thisainthell.us/blog/?p=66122
The division will reschedule the breakfast, but the general will not be invited.
“However, citing Fort Riley's ‘diverse community,’ (MSG Mike) Lavigne said 1st ID ‘will pursue the invitation of a different speaker for the prayer breakfast once it is rescheduled.’"
…
“Weinstein's group, which claims more than 41,500 clients, recently succeeded in efforts to remove Bibles from several ‘missing man table’ displays, designed to honor prisoners of war and troops missing in action, that are located on military and Veterans Affairs Department property. Boykin, in a piece at the FRC Action website, called one VA official's decision to remove the Bible ‘disgraceful’ and showed ‘a poor knowledge of the Constitution.’"
http://www.armytimes.com/story/military/2016/06/01/fort-riley-prayer-breakfast-called-off-controversial-retired-3-star-had-been-set-speak-jerry-boykin-mikey-weinstein/85254680/
(This Ain’t Hell has Weinstein’s press release proclaiming yet another victory. My breakfast is where it should be, and I see no reason to make it disgorge.)
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