Monthly Archives: December 2018

Time Lingers In Forgotten Places – Clearing theDrafts

08 Saturday Dec 2018

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***Note*** I’ve got a lot of drafts sitting around, some in existence and unpublished since 2013. It became obvious to me that I’m in no hurry to get around to them. But, they’ve survived various draft purges over the years. If they’re that important I can just come back and elaborate later. For now, I offer them, kind of as-is, in this, a lightning publishing round. The fun will continue while supplies last. Make of these what you will. Or not. I don’t care.

Today, a sort of an esoteric ramble, maybe suitable for a poem or something.

This title phrase came to me one day for no apparent reason.  However, as I reflected upon it I realized its truth and decided to pen this article.

Have you ever gone back to a place you haven’t visited in ages?  Maybe it was someplace from your childhood.  As you take it in again doesn’t time seem to reverse – back to the earlier memories?

Tweetsie

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(Tweetsie Railroad is the only place I’ve ever been back to as an adult which is exactly the way I remembered it as a child).

The Woods

Other Places

Use your damned imagination.

The Articles of Confederation – clearing the drafts

08 Saturday Dec 2018

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***Note*** I’ve got a lot of drafts sitting around, some in existence and unpublished since 2013. It became obvious to me that I’m in no hurry to get around to them. But, they’ve survived various draft purges over the years. If they’re that important I can just come back and elaborate later. For now, I offer them, kind of as-is, in this, a lightning publishing round. The fun will continue while supplies last. Make of these what you will. Or not. I don’t care.

Another post of title only. Maybe it’s better this way. Few can recall.

The other day I strolled the halls of an elementary school, a relic from the ’50s or ’60s. By the library, on the wall, the local Rotarians or someone had once built a shrine to law and liberty, old America-style. I admired it for what it was. However, I noticed two things – at the least – were missing. One was the Magna Carta. Its exclusion was understandable; resort to lex 1215 AD is kind of like keeping a Diplodocus at the zoo. What’s the point.

However, also absent were the Articles of 1781, also leaning towards the ancient. For the recent “refugees,” the tattooed, and other neo-American trash, this was the original founding federal document, sandwiched between the Declaration and the Constitution. It was in keeping with the former, vastly superior to the latter. And, today, forgotten.

Oh well.

Read, if possible, for yourselves.

 

Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells – Christmas Tunes, Revised, Updated and Expanded for 2018!

08 Saturday Dec 2018

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Merry Christmas, to all those of good will! To those others, a Very Merry Christmas, anyway!

Getting right to it, here’s a revised and bettered list of Carols you may not hear anywhere else. And, for once, I’m going with direct video embeds – hope the processor holds…

***Note*** These are YT videos. Some may have copyright or other display issues. Always a risk, encountering it even as I re-do the list. I’m trying to promote the artists; please spend some money on your favorites. If a link is out, C&C the name and look it up, Grinches.

Mistress for Christmas, AC/DC. I want the woman in red at the…

Little dirty, yes…

Naughty List, Forever In Your Mind

Little boy-bandish, yes…

12 (Drunken) Days of Christmas, Foster Brooks

12 Redneck Days of Christmas, Jeff Foxworthy

12 Pains of Christmas, Bob Rivers

Rigging up the lights.

I Saw Three Ships, Sting

Mele Kalikimaka, Bing Crosby

Christmas for Cowboys, John Denver

Christmas Wrapping, The Waitresses

All Alone on Christmas, Darlene Love

Winter Wonderland, Sleeper Agent

Dominick the Donkey, Lou Monte

Even for Southern kids…

The Night Santa Went Crazy, Weird Al Yankovic

Christmas at Ground Zero, Weird Al

Christmas in Hollis, Run DMC

The Christmas Song, Alvin and the Cute Rodents

Aaaaalvin!!!!

Blue Christmas, Porky P.

Grandma Got Run Over, Elmo & Pasty

Chanukah Song, Adam Sandler

I know you’re out there, Ryan. ברכות!

Alice’s Restaurant, Arlo Guthrie

Oops. Missed the mark again. Yankees understand…

Holiday Road, Lindsey Buckingham

Not Xmas, per se, but you get it. I hope.

And, one more:

Same Auld Lang Syne, Dan Fogelberg

Santa Claus is Watchin’ You, Ray Stevens

Many thanks to a young fan for reminding me of that one!

Twenty-three hits the local station might miss. For all others, consult Gene Autry. Etc.

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MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

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Also, Christmas Tie Season

Beloved Greek Interloper Hits the Skyway

08 Saturday Dec 2018

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Taki, the old rascal, prepares to seasonally vacate The Bagel. His remembrance of what may have once been.

So what does an older man do when alone in a city that once offered a lot and now, less than zero? Well, last week I went up to Provincetown for Michael Mailer’s mother’s memorial. I spoke a few words, met a lot of artistic people—she was a beautiful actress of the ’50s and ’60s, Beverly Bentley—and came back with a hangover that lasted for a good week. Provincetown is now mostly a gay town, a bit honky-tonk, but what shocked me the most was when we filmed a documentary in Norman Mailer’s last home. There was a plaque outside, but inside—it has since been sold to a private buyer—there was not a single book in sight. The bare walls brought on a sense of loss as I had been there when Norman was alive and the place was dripping with them. I guess it’s a sign of the times. Less books, more rap, more sci-fi, English no más, manners no más, girls no más, time to fly away.

And, He’s not just talking bout NYC.

Old Perrin won’t jaunt to the Alps this Christmas. Somewhere less snowy perhaps. Then again, I’m not fleeing the Apple of Decay either.

MKUltra, the Evil That Keeps on Killing

08 Saturday Dec 2018

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Thank God for government, right? Without Washington, who would break all the laws passed in Washington?

A Wiki (sorry, Vox) quote about US “intelligence” prior to 1942:

“Prior to the formation of the OSS, the various departments of the executive branch, including the State, Treasury, Navy, and War Departments conducted American intelligence activities on an ad hoc basis, with no overall direction, coordination, or control. ”

Then, came the OSS and, right behind it, the CIA – with all the added illegality, such as project MKUltra. (Read all about that ongoing fiasco – no time to elaborate). If anything changed, the lack of direction, coordination, and control certainly did not.

The CIA should be disbanded and destroyed. It won’t be. But, we appear to be getting the next best thing. If an organization is compromised and run by completely incompetent people, then its harmful effects may be mitigated. So it is. Gina Haspel, the female head of that wayward agency has appointed another woman, Elizabeth Kimber, to run the dreaded Operations division, which controls Clandestine Services, Paramilitary Ops and all. That’s the outfit that killed those who killed Osama (the second bullet-induced death, not the previous renal incident).

If the Q crowd did anything, they showed us that the agency can be electronically blinded, if only temporarily. The new direction of control hormonally guarantees inefficiency and redirection of purpose. The moves should make for a meaner and much viscous culture, but one that’s incapable of actually accomplishing much. For that, we should be grateful.

Oh, Say Can You (Still) See? – From TPC

07 Friday Dec 2018

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Is America Still a Nation? -A Brief Examination in Light of the Ongoing French Rébellion-

Humpty Trumpty sat on The Wall,
 
Humpty’s Nation had a great fall.
And all the bow ties, and all the con men,
Couldn’t put America together again.
1965 came with some political lies – lies that fostered a few changes, some of which you may have noticed. Back then, the liars lied when they said a little immigration law tinkering wouldn’t change a thing. Now, the liars lie by saying the changes were expected, par for the course, natural. America is, and always has been a proposition nation. Just move right in and instantly become American. Any history, culture, your own experiences, or Constitutional text to the contrary must be wrong … and racist.
Nations have people. They have rules and customs. Culture. They have borders, so as to define one nation from its neighbors. No border means no order. A loud, brash businessman from Manhattan said he understood as much. He says a lot of things. His delivery leaves a little to be desired.

READ ALL AT TPC

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‘Tis the Season … to be Offended

06 Thursday Dec 2018

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John W. Whitehead observes how the SJW’s ramp up the war on Christians and Christmas:

To a nation of snowflakes, Christmas has become yet another trigger word.

The latest Christmas casualties in the campaign to create one large national safe space are none other than the beloved animated classic Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (denounced for promoting bullying and homophobia) which first aired on television on December 6, 1964, and the Oscar-winning tune “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” (accused of being a date rape anthem) crooned by everyone from Dean Martin to Will Ferrell and Zooey Deschanel in the movie Elf.

Also on the endangered species Christmas list are such songs as “Deck the Halls” (it supposedly promotes “gay” apparel), “Santa Baby” (it has been denounced for “slut shaming”), and “White Christmas” (perceived as being racist).

One publishing company even re-issued their own redacted version of Clement Clarke Moore’s famous poem “Twas the night before Christmas” in order to be more health conscious: the company edited out Moore’s mention of Santa smoking a pipe (“The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth, / And the smoke, it encircled his head like a wreath.”)

Oh the horror.

I’ve got to do my part to advance the triggering. I’ll get to work on my revised Christmas tunes list (may just run straight YT vids) and my annual homage to Christmas tie season (actually been wearing ’em, sans the pics). Soon. Merry Christmas!

Government Schools are Free Press Crushing and Corruption Covering

05 Wednesday Dec 2018

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Quite the civics lesson at one Arkansas high school.

A high school newspaper in northwest Arkansas has been reinstated after it was suspended for publishing an article criticizing the transfer of five football players to a rival high school.

Publication of Har-ber High School’s The Herald was suspended after it published a months-long investigation into the transfer of five varsity players from Har-Ber to Springdale High School, its arch-rival within the Springdale Public Schools district.

The student newspaper reported that at least two of the players acknowledged that they did so to have a better chance of playing football, which would violate district policy.

The district instructed the newspaper’s teacher adviser, Karla Sprague, to remove the story from its website, and the article was taken down, according to BuzzFeed News.

A pattern across the country: schools violate their own rules and/or the law; students recognizes the malfeasance and report it; the schools crack down, usually in further violation of the law.

Karla Spraque should have forwarded the matter the AR DOE, the US DOE, the DOJ, the AR Attorney General, F.I.R.E, and, if necessary, the EEOC.

And, for funsies, let’s look at how “well” Har-ber High performs as an instructional institution. They boast a 90% graduation rate, even with only 55% reading proficiency and a whopping 26% mathematics proficiency rating. Wow! They do have an AP US government class. Maybe this case would make for an interesting current events discussion.

The Seventeen-Year Stalemate

05 Wednesday Dec 2018

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Is this really just now occurring to our military leaders?

The fight in Afghanistan is at a stalemate, and the significant number of Afghan troop deaths in the war is not sustainable, the Marine officer nominated to command U.S. forces in the Middle East told lawmakers on Tuesday.

Marine Lt. Gen. Kenneth McKenzie warned the Senate Armed Services Committee against an abrupt withdrawal of American forces or change in strategy despite frustration over the status of the 17-year conflict. He said he doesn’t know how long it will take to develop an Afghan force capable of defending its own country.

You don’t say? Just 17 years and we are precisely nowhere. Imagine where we’ll be after 34 or 100?

Time to wrap that one up, folks.

Man Up, Millenials

04 Tuesday Dec 2018

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This is from Vancouver, mind you. But, what the heck?

VANCOUVER — As the famous Village People song declares, “Every man wants to be a macho macho man / To have the kind of body, always in demand.” But are “macho macho” mindsets becoming a thing of the past? A new study finds that male millennials are drifting away from stereotypical masculine values.

The research, led by the University of British Columbia, showed that younger men tend to value selflessness, social engagement, and health over traditional male ideals like physical strength and autonomy.

Of course, physique and independence were still prominent values for the 630 Canadian men aged 15 to 29 who took part in the survey, just not as important to participants as selflessness. In fact, selflessness was by far the top-rated male value. Nine in 10 respondents said that men should should help others, and 88 percent of the respondents agreed that men should be open to new ideas, new people, and new experiences. Eight in 10 felt it imperative that a man gives back to his community.

The irony of the Village People quote.

Give back? Without manly men, there would be no communities. No figure in all of history is more selfless than Western Man. There would be no society to engage without him. There would be no modern notion of health without him. The strength and autonomy ensure those other things exist.

Read up and hot the weights. Get in touch with your masculine side, Men of the West. It’s you or no one.