leh-nerd skin-erd

Thanks for this information. In related news about the size and scope of the government in general, let’s stay tuned for a report from the IRS Department of Infectious Diseases and the General Services Agency Associate Chair on Chinese Virology. We get those, keep a good thought that the NYS DMV weighs in, we can get to the bottom of all this.

I’m not certain if this is a coincidence or not. Actual intercepted Western Union telegraph: 27 February 2023: Brothers and Sisters of the Revolution<stop> The fight is yet upon us <stop> We are the only truth <stop> Règlement sur la liberté! <le stop> —CKA

Italian-Americans, I’m told. I learned this after using the word one day a while back. I had reconsidered in your absence, decided to accept your apology in the interest of the greater good. Yeah, you have the wrong guy on this one. I have no problem criticizing Trump (how original, that “orange” thing though), but you asked me a specific question and I answered accordingly. Kay, you imagine pro-regulatory, pro-labor, and environmentalist groups operate purely from a position of light and benevolence, and have no financial interest in the fruits of their….labor. I do not. I consider agenda and who benefits from The Cause. I’ll wait for the final outcome of the investigation but you go ahead and leap before you look. Summary: My friends generally work for a living, have disparate point(s) of view based on their own life experiences, and generally follow the societal norms of common sense and civility in polite conversations. At this stage of my life, of the two choices offered, I believe I would choose “perish” based on the rather humorless lives and easily manipulated lives of the typical modern American revolutionary. Of course, there are other choices when you get right down to it. I see you as situationally ethical, and in that regard, pretty much like most people. I stand by my comments. It was a low level dig, certainly on the scale of d!ck to nazi. Pedestrian, but worth mentioning. I count my blessings everyday, my friend, and that shapes my view of the world. Before lashing out with dark fantasies of violence and assault, consider moments of personal reflection and the blessings visited upon you. Fight your battles, soldier on, do your Kay thing, but find a moment to be grateful too. I love Chickpea soup. We’ll always have that, I guess, at least until you and the other Khmer Rouge suburbanites take down Big Chickpea. ✊🏻

Sure, Red, that’s the only answer…an apocalyptic war with China…so no further conversation/discussion should take place. 🤔

It’s important to know what that designation means in context. The FBI is said to have moderate confidence in the lab leak theory. I’ve read several articles that suggest the difficulty in truly assessing the root cause lies in the refusal of the Chinese government to cooperate with the investigators and allow full transparency into the origin of the virus. Meanwhile, the US government has ties to the research done in China, Fauci downplayed the lab leak theory, the vampire bat theory goes mainstream and the politicization of the virus was off with a full-throated roar. What we can say is the evolution of the conversation reveals that those skeptical of believing The Narrative were on the right side of the ledger, and you trust “leadership” blindly at your own peril. For me, the rather obvious disinterest in certain quarters of really getting to the bottom of this whole thing is the biggest issue of all. https://www.forbes.com/sites/marisadellatto/2023/02/26/timeline-how-the-covid-lab-leak-origin-story-went-from-conspiracy-theory-to-government-debate/?sh=4d21f19f37b9

Poser of epic proportions. It really took him becoming a political caricature to get some traction, an old guy with a heavy accent just screaming nonsense about fair share. Meanwhile, he’s a rich guy doing rich guy things.

It’s interesting that the IBEW is touted here. As of 2020, female/minority representative was about 20% according to IBEW. The article below references the shifts in attitudes dating back to 1974…and 50 years later they are at 1 in 5? https://www.ibew48.com/blog/changing-face-union-how-demographics-are-shifting-and-why-thats-great-news-all-us

This is a new twist on some old crazy—like yelling at the new neighbors for things the old neighbor did. Let them go, BillSy, or go chat with the folks over there.

So, on this issue, expecting kids to have a firm grasp on Nazi symbolism and what it really means is crazy. Of course, in this case, the range is a silly kid drew a controversial symbol on a wall (vandalism) to he’s a future Nazi with serious emotional issues. On one hand, punishment and simple course correction are appropriate, on the other, the problem goes much, much deeper and exclusion from school with mental health counseling appropriate.

I’m not sure I follow here. Scribbling, or was he carving the symbols into something? I am not sure this means anything much beyond the fact that kids do dopey things for a variety of reasons.

I know the literal definition of the word, as I’ve told more than a few posters on our journey here, I read books ‘n stuff too. Geesh, some people. 🤦🏼‍♂️ I felt it ill-conceived, poorly implemented. I also decline to accept your apology as I can only control how I receive what is written, not how it is intended to be received. It was not my intent to offer anything substantive on East Palestine until the NTSB came out with its final conclusion, maybe never. We are now up to the “train might possibly not have probably derailed if things that happened had not happened sequentially because Trump…” and that seems silly to me. I will offer that while Mayor Pete generally seems to be in over his head, I wouldn’t necessarily criticize him for his tepid response to this crisis. I do think he allowed himself to appear disinterested and out of touch when Trump visited the scene, and that the offering of McDonald’s was a stroke of genius on Trump’s part. You’re free to stand by whatever you say or do, Kay. Before you stomp off in your plant-based 4Reelz Chuck Taylor’s, though, “shallow” was a reference to the post, not an indictment of your character. I have made clear, for those paying attention, that whatever else I might think of your political views, your posts are thought-provoking and of value to me. True, at times the thoughts provoked are along the line of “What the &$#@ is this cauliflower munching hippie commie stoner chick thinking?”, but that’s life. I don’t “police” posts, Kay, and I will not be defunded. I offer opinions and interact with others. Sometimes I’m on point, other times I’m unclear or my message misses, but mostly I’m just hanging out shooting the bull and don’t apologize for that. #free @leh-nerd skin-erd I won’t acquiesce to your demands to discuss things in the format of your choosing, but will say I have interacted with people I disagree with regularly. The literal interpretation of regularly, in case you’re concerned I don’t know more words, is ‘as, of, and to on a regular basis; not infrequently’. I don’t discuss many of the subjects you’ve inquired about here, I prefer not to. Too much pain for too many people, including people I love/like/interact with and I find it troubling. However, I treat people with respect regardless of where they fall on whatever spectrum you can devise. I agree that some people don’t follow that approach here and in life, Kay, but I’m not here to be dragged into conversations I prefer not to have. Btw, in my travels here, I’ve been called a cultist, f’n idiot, nazi, arrogant, red-neck (that’s still my favorite) and believe it or not, one cheeky tart referred to me as a “d*ck” and worse not all that long ago. I think this boils down the way people communicate, Kay. Sometimes, when a fella says “I don’t like the soup”, he just doesn’t like THE soup. Yes—that’s it—-“whatevs”! You too, Kay. *I made up that whole “regularly” thing. It’s hard to find words in the dictionary, there are so damn many pages.

Ah, I see what you’re saying. I didn’t like the format either, and just yelled at some little kids to stop making so much noise in my neighborhood. Carry on sir.

Maybe, but likely less rare than deploying an armed assault team to a political opponent’s home to address an issue that’s apparently pretty common.

I have never had an issue with the length of CKA posts, I generally have enjoyed reading her thoughts and her contributions to the board. This post not so much. Race baiting. Ethnic slurs. Broad generalizations. Shallow.

This is it. I find it interesting that the social safety net seems to be the size of 36 of the 50 states combined, that the people “leading” us have been in office for decades, have historically used insider information and influence peddling to become quite wealthy, and are looked to as architects of future tax law. This is a shared problem, borne of people generally out of touch with the problems of regular people, and nothing symbolizes it more clearly than the student loan buyout. Joe says $10k, Warren et al says it’s not enough, $50k is a more equitable number. Meanwhile, a couple making $200k + is saved, and using sone basics planning tools, should be looking at family savings of $20,000 to $30,000 per year at a minimum. Unfortunately, ours is a consumption society where many people choose immediate gratification over doing some heavy lifting on their own, which in reality, is very light lifting.

BillSy has been taking an online master class in HillarySpeak. This is the sort of thing that prompted Trump to launch “fake news” to great effect. Liberals met that slogan with scorn, ironically while decrying Fox as…fake news.

That’s fair political debate, who(m) the footage is released to. Conservatives took great issue with selective leaking of edited clips provided to favored news organizations and will in the future. Liberals supported that version of story telling, among many others. Your argument seems to be you want politicians to do non-political things, but only when they align with your values. To the point made by the Pelosi spokesperson et al, the release is legal, or it isn’t. Btw when Schiff lied about Russian evidence, was he acting as a liar or propagandist? Hakeem Jeffries lying about the 2016 election, propagandist or liar?

These are the types of politicians I referred to in my post above. Hakeem Jeffries, Nancy Pelosi, election deniers 2016. Pelosi was in charge when Schiff made comments about evidence in his possession tying DJT directly to Putin, evidence never produced nor heard about again post-Mueller. Second issue, McCarthy made statements in 2022 that he was going to release footage if he became Speaker. Pelosi spokesperson doesn’t suggest McCarthy is legally prohibited from sharing access, instead that a “serious question” is in play. These are political weasel words designed to rile up the base. The only serious question is whether or not the law limits release, and if it did, surely there would have been action to prevent it. The Dems seem very opposed to transparency, which seems odd given their general position in law enforcement and dealing with the public.

Frenx, I don’t know what national security secrets would be exposed by the release of the tapes, but it seems like you’re advocating for a wide scale release. Give the tapes to PBS, AP etc and others? Politics makes strange bedfellows. This is not new. Meanwhile, it’s interesting that prior to the release, the control of the surveillance was exclusively limited to political parties/appointees with a long and rich history of deceiving/misleading the people. From selective leaks to selected outlets, misleading statements and innuendo to outright manipulation, release seems to be the best option even though it’s not you preferred source.

Lots of folks want transparency's as long as it’s controlled by their guys. Same old story.

Why would I be offended? I asked for your opinion.

I guess I understand this concern to a point, but I’m not certain that listening to a prosecutor from a DOJ case is the best source of objective information. The decision to withhold footage may well have been part of a strategy to win a case where the withheld footage might have shaded or added context to the matter. Additionally, if these cameras were designed to help prevent the events of a 1/6, the “cat” referenced sounds like an awful lot like Garfield. It seems illogical that the people responsible for security haven’t drastically overhauled the system to stay one step ahead of where it was at back then. If there are legitimate security concerns, they should be dealt with. I’m all for that but for now, I’m not really seeing how this is catastrophic.

The game has to be played by the rules established, and Washington leaks like a sieve. What are you concerned about?

Pretty soon, this will probably be illegal too.

Not for the monkeys, that’s why I had to make amends.