5.24-25 Open Threads
Hey guys and gals. It’s that time of year down here: Hurricane Season. Y-U-C-K! I’m signed up to listen to two weather experts discuss it. Funsies. Wonder if they’ll announce a new category: 6? Good ole climate chaos thanks to a certain greedball human mindset. 🙁 Our Nest is Open, and I hope everyone is well.
Thanks orl I saw that the Gulf warm current, which acts as rocket fuel for any hurricanes loose there, is supposed to be hotter than ever this year. I know you’re in the Orlando area but which coast are you closer to?
East side, the Atlantic, but we are inland.
The government needs to nail any ranchers killing wolves and lying about why. On top of that, get them off the land owned by We the American Taxpayers, or start charging them rent. This freebie crap needs to end!
😂👏😂👏
+27
One of my grandsons posted this good news on his fb page today.
A step in the right direction. Merely a start, but the fact that America’s police have little to no federal standards or record-keeping always felt intentional to me:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/24/police-executive-order-white-house-floyd/?fbclid=IwAR0uCI1jREjLRuC-EyvUSG49WaE8qYIrrnl7-Uamhy0IGtxxh967mEVVrfE
This book was reviewed on Democracy Now! yesterday. I ordered it today. A heart breaking but wonderful story of how we survive in this country.
14 students, 1 teacher dead after shooting at Texas elementary school:
The R’s and the NRA send out thoughts and prayers as usual and our elected officials have no backbone to do anything to curtail this sad ongoing chapter of American history. What’s next for Abbott -arm the students k thru 12 -its Texas after all. The civilized world thinks were bat shit crazy with obsession with guns.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/spare-bullshit-sen-chris-murphy-rips-gop-colleagues-texas-shooting-rcna30405
It makes America very sickening, stupid, and backwards!
Muskets. That’s what the Second Ammendment is about, muskets! Muskets that had to be loaded, one shot at a time, first the powder, then the shot. And, a time in ten or so, the thing would backfire and possibly blow up in your face. Not this video game numbed dead eyed ease. You had to think about every shot.
So, make muskets readily available, on every street corner. Sell them out of vending machines, for all of me. Everything else is illegal. And I mean illegal. And possesion of automatic artillery of any kind should be punishable by death. Because that’s what these things bring to us, isn’t it? Isn’t that the bloody threat?
What a spineless, lawless, senseless, and completely lacking in humanity federal legislature we have. This insane mess really does need to go.
Definition of a prick.
+27!
Over $300k from the gun lobby for Cancun Cruz’s last election gets only thoughts and prayers for those families from him
What do you expect out of a culture which revers greed, stupidity, blood and gore, violence, and war?
Still as relevant today as it was back in 96
“OK Boomer” is a catchphrase that has come to perfectly encapsulate the generational divide in modern American politics. It has also led to some moments of pure comedy gold.
But it turns out that one of the great all-time standup comedic minds was literally decades ahead of the game when it came to dragging Boomers for selfish, hypocritical, and entitled behavior. In his 1996 stand up special “Back in Town” George Carlin devoted a glorious two minutes and twenty-seven seconds to putting Boomers in their place.
“A lot of these cultural crimes I’m complaining about can be blamed on the Baby Boomers,” Carlin says, beginning what would become a now legendary rant.
“I’m getting tired of hearing about Boomers,” Carlin continues. “Whiny, narcissistic, self-indulgent people with a simple philosophy: ‘GIMME IT, IT’S MINE!’ ‘GIMME THAT, IT’S MINE!’ These people were given everything. Everything was handed to them. And they took it all: sex, drugs, and rock and roll, and they stayed loaded for 20 years and had a free ride.”
“But now they’re staring down the barrel of middle-age burnout, and they don’t like it. So they’ve turned self-righteous. They want to make things harder on younger people. They tell ’em, abstain from sex, say no to drugs; as for the rock and roll, they sold that for television commercials a long time ago…so they could buy pasta machines and Stairmasters and soybean futures.”
Or, as one person on Reddit commented on Carlin’s video: “My feeling about baby-boomers is that they were one of the first generations to really adulate and idolize the idea of youth, and youth empowerment but when they themselves reach senior ages their own ideas were working against them so they changed to demonizing youth.”
But Carlin wasn’t done there. He says the Boomers have not only become hypocrites, they turned their own generational shift into cutthroat, corporate catchphrases that guilt and shame others who don’t comport to their world view.
“You know something? They are cold, bloodless people,” Carlin says.
“These people went from ‘Do Your Own Thing’ to ‘Just Say No.’ They went from ‘Love is All You Need’ to ‘Whoever Winds Up With the Most Toys, Wins.’ And they went from cocaine to Rogaine.”
Carlin’s bit concludes in epic fashion with an all-encompassing take down that applies to, well, literally everyone. But the next time you hear a Boomer ridiculing young people or defending their own legacy, just show them this clip and remind them that Boomer criticism is something that transcends age, gender or race. Heck, even if you’re from the Boomer generation, this clip is just too good to not enjoy and share.
I watched (with Hubster’s 10+ grade) Judd Apatow’s 2-part documentary, “George Carlin: American Dream.” It is a 2-parter; each part is 2 hours long. It’s on HBO. The dude was absolutely fearless, loved words, and made Lenny Bruce look like a piker when it came to nailing America. It is a must-see for all Birdies and Lurkers on here. No lie. 🙂
I to expect a category change on Hurricanes as the worlds politicians continue to delay any meaningful legislation on climate change in the name of maintaining profit margins
Category 6, here we come. Bah humbug!
They count on human ignorance and stupidity, pure and simple! 🙁
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/24/us-progressive-democrats-primaries-wins-congress
How many times have we heard after a mass shooting that “Were Better Than This” The cold hard reality is No were not and wont be until Americans get sick and tired of their kids being killed, put aside the R and D and elect people that have the courage to pass meaningful legislation and making it stick. Until that day its when is the next mass shooting going to happen and how bad will it be? How much more of our dearest blood must be spilled until congress acts?
+27M!
Anytime the Cult losses makes me 😁 but Adames will need record turnout to have a shot
Ms. Aint…., Stacey has a very good chance of becoming GA’s first AA, female governor. Like Fetterman, do not under-estimate her. She’s as shrewd as a fox. 🙂
More primary results…
Go Aint…. and Georgia!!!! There’s hope yet for my beleaguered state; we may just get rid of Marco Rubio. That’s a big mebbe, tho.
Night is early but…
I’ve been travelling the last couple of days. I hadn’t heard about this endorsement:
fingers crossed🤞🤞🤞