Implanting Bill Gates's Micro-chips In Brains For Over 20 Years!

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

To be fair, it's more trite equivalence, or easy equivalence, or oleaginous equivalence. There's some element of truth to it, but in the same way that stereotypes are usually based on something.

Sure. To the extent his point is simply to beware of information you receive from other humans because no human is able to fully rid him or herself of biases that person holds, including biases that are so inherent, we may not be conscious of them, this point is hard to dispute. This is hardly revelatory, although it sounds like he is jumping on the CRT train with this slippery slope of a premise. Hannity would be disappointed in him for leaving this door open. Everything else he says is just the same rotten fruit he has been trying to sell door to door for years now. As if he hopes that this time we will have finally become so numb to it that we can no longer see the flies.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

Ooooh. Please tell me you are going to the top of Billboard's Indian Music charts! https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q...E7BF&FORM=VIRE

Or maybe you'll answer the long unanswered question from the north country: after the tragedy of the Tragically Hip, whom?

Thank you for your interest, but I do not take requests, except when I do. I rather enjoyed your song, though, and was NOT expecting the banjo.

But today we stay in New Orleans, and go back a bunch of decades to 1972. Four years earlier, Dr. John had blown everybody’s head open with the psychedelic voodoo masterpiece Gris-Gris, which gave him some cult status cachet—his 1971 album The Sun, Moon & Herbs, for example, had guest appearances by Mick Jagger and Eric Clapton. For Gumbo, he looked to New Orleans classics, including Earl King’s Big Chief (the same type of Mardi Gras Indian Big Chief referenced in yesterday’s Song of the Day). The song had been popularized by Professor Longhair, but I love the slower Dr. John version, with the loopy electronic organ riff, and super funky laid back second line percussion. The references to Spy Boys and Flag Boys are also to specific roles within Mardi Gras Indian gangs. The album itself is an incredible tribute to classic New Orleans music, and if you have never sat down and listened to the whole Gumbo album, I recommend taking an hour or so this Mardi Gras, making yourself a couple of Vieux Carres, turning up the heat, putting your feet up and letting the groove wash over you. (Alternate instructions if you decide instead to go with the album Gris-Gris involve substituting Vieux Carres with Ayuhuasca, and securing ample face paint and/or voodoo masks, congas and tambourines, and dozens of candles for lighting.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCBdO4w6jAs

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan

We were waiting for the season to finish before getting into this last one. Absolutely love it. I'm two books from finishing the series too, and I can't think of a series where I loved both versions pretty much equally.

I aspire to glare as well as Camina Drummer.

The first two books were good. I couldn't get through the third one.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

Thank you for your interest, but I do not take requests, except when I do. I rather enjoyed your song, though, and was NOT expecting the banjo.

But today we stay in New Orleans, and go back a bunch of decades to 1972. Four years earlier, Dr. John had blown everybody’s head open with the psychedelic voodoo masterpiece Gris-Gris, which gave him some cult status cachet—his 1971 album The Sun, Moon & Herbs, for example, had guest appearances by Mick Jagger and Eric Clapton. For Gumbo, he looked to New Orleans classics, including Earl King’s Big Chief (the same type of Mardi Gras Indian Big Chief referenced in yesterday’s Song of the Day). The song had been popularized by Professor Longhair, but I love the slower Dr. John version, with the loopy electronic organ riff, and super funky laid back second line percussion. The references to Spy Boys and Flag Boys are also to specific roles within Mardi Gras Indian gangs. The album itself is an incredible tribute to classic New Orleans music, and if you have never sat down and listened to the whole Gumbo album, I recommend taking an hour or so this Mardi Gras, making yourself a couple of Vieux Carres, turning up the heat, putting your feet up and letting the groove wash over you. (Alternate instructions if you decide instead to go with the album Gris-Gris involve substituting Vieux Carres with Ayuhuasca, and securing ample face paint and/or voodoo masks, congas and tambourines, and dozens of candles for lighting.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCBdO4w6jAs

That was great. Really great.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

This is the greatest airdrop since Berlin...

Sorry, let's fix that.

This is the greatest airdrop since Thanksgiving in Cincinnati!

https://www.thedailybeast.com/mypill...er-vax-protest

[Replaced_Texan]

The Houston Chronicle asked all 143 Republicans running for Congress if they thought the election was legitimate. 13 said yes. The rest said no.

But this is a both sides problem.

To my begrudging respect, my be-eyepatched congressman is one of the 13. He's being primaried. Hard. My favorite quote:

“A congressman‘s job is to speak the mind of those people they represent,” said Milam Langella, one of three Republicans challenging Crenshaw, who told GOP activists they were “kidding themselves” if they think the 2020 election was stolen.

“It appears that well over 50,000 people who attended the Trump rally (last month in Conroe) would agree that this last election was very questionable,” Langella said. “My duty as a congressman will be to not just vote conservatively, but to do what I can to kick over the ant hill, and fix what happened in 2020, as ugly as it might be.”

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

This is the greatest airdrop since Berlin...

Sorry, let's fix that.

This is the greatest airdrop since Thanksgiving in Cincinnati!

https://www.thedailybeast.com/mypill...er-vax-protest

As God as my witness …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf3mgmEdfwg

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan

The Houston Chronicle asked all 143 Republicans running for Congress if they thought the election was legitimate. 13 said yes. The rest said no.

But this is a both sides problem.

To my begrudging respect, my be-eyepatched congressman is one of the 13. He's being primaried. Hard. My favorite quote:

I understand why that sh*t is appealing to hard-core conservatives. What I don't understand is why Democrats have not been able to make Republicans pay more of a political price for pandering to those people.

Part of the answer is that people like Sebby, and people who pay less attention to politics than he does, have such a strong Both Sides instinct. Sure, the Republican Party is organizing around the principle that when a Democrat wins an election, it's illegitimate, but look, AOC is progressive and she bothers a lot of people too.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan

The Houston Chronicle asked all 143 Republicans running for Congress if they thought the election was legitimate. 13 said yes. The rest said no.

But this is a both sides problem.

To my begrudging respect, my be-eyepatched congressman is one of the 13. He's being primaried. Hard. My favorite quote:

“The Trump fanatics are not the GOP.” -Sebastian
“We owe our eternal loyalty to the rightful victor of the 2020 election, Donald Trump.” -The GOP

Yup, that all makes sense. Carry on.

[Icky Thump]

Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan

We were waiting for the season to finish before getting into this last one. Absolutely love it. I'm two books from finishing the series too, and I can't think of a series where I loved both versions pretty much equally.

I aspire to glare as well as Camina Drummer.

I have the book that starts where the series ended. Haven't started but will soon.

[Icky Thump]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

I understand why that sh*t is appealing to hard-core conservatives. What I don't understand is why Democrats have not been able to make Republicans pay more of a political price for pandering to those people.

Part of the answer is that people like Sebby, and people who pay less attention to politics than he does, have such a strong Both Sides instinct. Sure, the Republican Party is organizing around the principle that when a Democrat wins an election, it's illegitimate, but look, AOC is progressive and she bothers a lot of people too.

Republicans fight back. It's way easier to just shove Al Franken in front of a bus.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan

The Houston Chronicle asked all 143 Republicans running for Congress if they thought the election was legitimate. 13 said yes. The rest said no.

But this is a both sides problem.

To my begrudging respect, my be-eyepatched congressman is one of the 13. He's being primaried. Hard. My favorite quote:

Was this Texas wide, or Houston local? Would be interested in similar surveys outside Texas.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

“The Trump fanatics are not the GOP.” -Sebastian
“We owe our eternal loyalty to the rightful victor of the 2020 election, Donald Trump.” -The GOP

Yup, that all makes sense. Carry on.

In Sebby's defense the R's in the purple states responses might be of more interest?

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

In Sebby's defense the R's in the purple states responses might be of more interest?

There’s no interest. There are reaffirmations. The left, the right, here, anywhere, any social media platform… There are Sides Picked.

Even you’ve been cowed to a bit of fealty to certain pieties.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

In Sebby's defense the R's in the purple states responses might be of more interest?

You would get similar results here.