“I am a social justice...advocate and I say, "Stop the Hate!"
I'm pretty sure that the first tornado shot is from Andover Kansas. (I verified that it is) My brother's band lead singer lost her home as a result.
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp8BcySnwwM
https://www.tiktok.com/@davaug/video...nder_device=pc - Michen_888 tiktok actual drone footage
This photo was taken from my brother's driveway:
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My brother is on the left in his band...'his' band is a controversial 'perspective'
The family redneck...(In truth, there are plenty of us but declining in numbers) I try to talk him out of it, but he won't give...
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I had a first conversation with my oldest half sister. Apparently she's a real badass, sure talked like it...She has a history of managing a software company which is where she started her career. A pioneer of sorts. Later she went on to managing staff for hospitals. She is about a year and a half younger than I, and is anxious to get back to work after some serious health issues.
She impressed me as very 'bright', so, of course, I had to get me in and I admonished her that as the oldest sibling I was by default the 'smartest'. It was a joke and it fell flat as a pancake. She didn't even crack a grin vibe.
Profound thought for the day: Well maybe not, though I was in my mental flowzone when it occurred to me, but, of course, I didn't spend the night at a Holiday Inn Express.
At what level does a person relinquish their principles in favor of what they desire? Sounds like the emotional development of a 5-year old. But that is not as low as we can go as humans. At birth a baby is left to the mercy of instinct, an instinct for survival. And there we have the gist of the average MagaLander. For ever Trumpers applying logic to the phenomenon it becomes obvious that they feel their survival is threatened. Is that the whole story? I don't think so, the question remains where does the fear that invokes the instinct come from? Let me illustrate:
Earlier today I was walking through the park, holding my dong, and reminiscing. No, not really, I wasn't reminiscing. I happened upon a young mother with her, I'm guesstimating her 2.5 year old son. He was running and saying, "I running away!" His mother scurried after him and he abruptly stopped and started running towards her, yelling with joy, "I running very fast!". As I passed the mother, I said, "He's really running fast" and she replied, "Yeah, he can go backwards, too". So, i look at the kid and say, "Wow, that is really good!". In the blink of an eyelash, the kid says in the best adult language ever uttered by a virtual toddler (with the possible exception of my daughter and Aragorn), "The police are coming!". I was guffawing meanwhile his mother was rushing him readying to pounce on him. I don't know, I have this sneaking suspicion it might have something to do with the things we are exposed to at a very early stage.
But yesterday, that was another day. On my neighborhood board there was a thread that had been started by a Hispanic woman from Mexico. Her son had been bilked by a scammer purportedly selling an IPhone, he had been saving money from his job around his high school schedule. She started the post to 'warn' other parents to be wary of this guy and probably many others. Some people were sympathetic and had offered to donate some money and I guess what were older phones but after a short while, things diverged, people were accusing her of running a scam, including setting up one of those 'donate board things'. There was absolutely no evidence that she had done anything of the sort, nothing. Naturally, after awhile the thread was overrun and shut down.
I posted to her that I had a practically brand new IPhone 13 that I would give to her son and somehow through the grapevine the message got through to her. Evidently, I had started a new thread, but anyway, later she came to pick it up and expressed much thanks, I thought she was going to kiss my feet, but she wouldn't accept my invitation to step into my living room, hmmm, and related in her broken English how ashamed she was because people didn't trust her and thought she was a bad mother. I reiterated in my broken English that too many people are just fuckheads.
The moral of the story is that there are literally hundreds if not thousands of people on the forum and 5 of them responded to my post with a thanks. I responded back to one of them and stated that, "I don't have a problem taking a chance on people, if they are scamming for personal gain that is between them and their God."
Ok, so maybe I was wrong...
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Dreamland:
I dreamed that Aliens attacked the entire world with 'Lava bombs' and then nukes, and then a good faction started dropping anti-metallic bombs which came close to impact but didn't blow because they repelled from the impact.
It was wild, it started where I wasn't working, so I was at my brother's house trying to help with a construction company that was doing some minor updates on his house. Long story short, his house ended up collapsing with my help and 'their' incompetence. It was obvious that my brother would not be financially responsible (I was worried about that) and then the entire neighborhood started collapsing and then the community and then the region. When a group of people recognized that we were under attack and saw the encroaching lava climb elevation, we all ran in high panic literally for the hills. We were stuck and desperate, people were in impromptu fashion performing music for the huge crowds. Then the lava started climbing again and more panic ensued, a small group of us banded together and there was one guy that was obviously an accomplished 'survivor', very intelligent and was making all the right moves so I followed his ass...
Pretty strange dream and emotions.
Wind (17th November 2023)
Tomorrow is my 1st day that I have had to report physically to work in over 3.5 years. I'm not looking forward to it, at all. I'm too old for this sh*t.
Wind (20th November 2023)
Have you been able to work from home all this time?Originally posted by Chuckie
Tomorrow is my 1st day that I have had to report physically to work in over 3.5 years. I'm not looking forward to it, at all. I'm too old for this sh*t.
"The more I see, the less I know for sure." ~ John Lennon
Chuckie (20th November 2023)
yes, And I don't wan't to change. I lost my last job which was perfect for me because I didn't want to compromise on the the work from home thing and I paid the price. Though, I got paid full salary for nine months without doing a day of work. It is embarrassing to be such a loser. I don't plan on doing it that long. I've always been pretty good at getting what I wanted from my masters and I was not always a favorite among co-workers because of it. Such is life, one has to work for those little life's perks that at least I have always wanted.
Vlad the Impaler, Henry Irving, or Walt Whitman. Here's my bid:
Given Stoker’s hero worship of Whitman, literary scholars have looked for evidence of the poet’s influence on Dracula. A cryptful of critics spent the late 1980s and 1990s fixating on the novel’s morbid sensuality and what it suggested about homosexuality. It was on this issue that they frequently located Whitman’s fingerprints. Belford regards Whitman’s influence as “profound,” noting that the Count and Whitman share common physical traits. “Each has long white hair, a heavy moustache, great height and strength, and a leonine bearing. Whitman’s poetry celebrates the voluptuousness of death and the deathlike quality of love.”
Stoker didn’t leave any explicit clues behind to suggest whom he had modeled Count Dracula on. But given that Whitman wasn’t averse to a little hero worship, he might have liked being turned into an immortal creature with a lustful fan base.
When Stoker died in 1912, Sotheby’s auctioned off his library. Whitman’s lecture on Lincoln, which he bequeathed to Stoker, sold for $25.
"The more I see, the less I know for sure." ~ John Lennon
Kissinger always left a nasty taste in one's mouth. You know I actually really admired Nixon. I thought he was brilliant despite being mentally ill and a dirty dealer. I was very naive in those days. In a way, rebelling against all the screaming about how horrible the U.S. was, per the hippies. That's the thing about me, I never take the side against whom everyone is aligned, especially if the maligners don't ever consider different perspectives.
my bio aunt died a couple days ago so I ordered and sent flowers to the family. On the order receipt it said, "We hope to serve you again soon.
I replied that they should rethink that...of course, they sent me a return message bearing no relationship to the message I sent. Gawd, life is killing me!
Life is deadly, didn't you know? At least you're the one still alive.Gawd, life is killing me!
"The more I see, the less I know for sure." ~ John Lennon
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