Score One For Flag H8red On My Watch

 I'm reposting the same text that I posted about ten years ago which recalled events ten years earlier. A "score" is 20 years right?

Back in 2000 I announced to some former coworkers that my wife and I and our two toddlers were planning to buy a house up in Oceanside. The La Jolla chemistry lab where I had worked was mainly staffed by foreign students and postdocs, but the US students and post docs who were there were mostly the products of elite American universities. One of them looked at me and in all earnestness said: "You know they fly flags up there don't you?"*

Now this was all pre-9/11, but it did typify the mentality at elite universities--even among hard science students who people think are apolitical.  Link

Flag Day is just around the corner (June 14th). We all know that God hates flags, but this isn't a religious holiday. There have always been those who express visceral negative reaction towards the flag. There are probably far more who keep it to themselves. Do they feel the same way at Arlington? Do they feel the same way on July 4th?  If so, it's important to know which way the numbers are changing, demographically. Are there more flag h8ters today than there were 20 years ago?  

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*If you know San Diego County geography and history, you know why this is so.

The End Of Wokeness

Yet another disgusting smear from her. https://t.co/qioOygG4fT

— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) June 7, 2021

My point is that if you piss-off Megyn Kelly -- no fan of Trump -- you've lost a lot of women. 

This is the End

Trooper York's Word of the Day

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 wallow

[ˈwälō]

VERB

1. (chiefly of large mammals) roll about or lie relaxed in mud or water, especially to keep cool, avoid biting insects, or spread scent.

   "watering places where buffalo liked to wallow"

   synonyms:

   loll about/around · lie about/around · tumble about/around · splash about/around · slosh · wade · paddle · slop · squelch · welter · splosh
2. (wallow in)

   (of a person) indulge in an unrestrained way in (something that creates a pleasurable sensation).

   "I was wallowing in the luxury of the hotel" · 

   [more]

   synonyms:

   luxuriate · bask · take pleasure · take satisfaction · indulge (oneself) · delight · 

   [more]

NOUN

1. an act of wallowing.

   "a wallow in nostalgia"
2. an area of mud or shallow water where mammals go to wallow, typically developing into a depression in the ground over long use.

   "a buffalo wallow"

This is what I have been watching....no arguments or fights. Just cake.

The only thing I can say about it that is bad is that they didn't do any pies.

I love pie. 

Apple Pie. Pecan Pie. Blueberry Pie. Peach Pie. Pumpkin Pie. All kinds of pie.

Why can't we live a life of Pie?

It is getting tougher and tougher to find things to read.

 

And another thing! I am not through complaining yet!

It is getting harder and harder to read political blogs anymore. It is always the same shit. I started tuning it out at the end of the Trump administration. It was getting all too predictable. The Liberals. The Maga people. The Never Trumpers. Same shit different day.

I have a few blogs I always go too on a daily basis. Red State. Ace of Spades. Hot Air. Daily Wire. American Greatness. Instapundit. Vox Day. But all of them seem to have something lacking these days. I guess my feeling of connection has been lost. I am getting really weary of the same augments by the same bad actors. 

The political shows have also really lost their appeal for me. The Five and Tucker and Hannity are all running together in my mind. I have stopped listening to them as they have just become noise to me.

The only thing I seem to enjoy is arguing about TV shows on Previously TV which is a blog which details every show on TV and has a post about many episodes. So you can go on and argue about what went on. I have been banned four times and am on my fifth identity. I don't know how long I can last since I always post pro Trump and pro conservative ideas in a liberal cesspool. Once the moderators catch up I will be a cooked goose. But for now it lets me get my two cents in while I still can.

I don't comment much on blogs anymore since so many of them have disqus or some other monitoring method. It is just not worth the trouble to get certified and then be banned two weeks later. 

Oh well. I guess I have to go back to my Kindle. 

Da Bears!

 

I know I have said that I have stopped following the National Felons League. Which I have. I have not seen a game in the last four years. Not even highlights. So I have no idea what is going on except from some websites that I enjoy. One site that has become a go too place for me is "Outkick the Coverage." 

One of the recent posts tells me that the Halas family is thinking about selling Da Bears. One of the cornerstone family owned franchises like the Steelers or the Giants they were the only ballast the league had to keep it in line from the new woke ownership that has destroyed the league. 

Now Halas's daughter who is about 98 doesn't want to sell and her idiot family wants to dump the team. You know who one of the main competitors for buying this gem? Jeff Bezos of Amazon. Imagine that.

Monopoly Amazon controlling a storied NFL franchise. I don't know how the salary cap works but I bet you can just pay a fine like the Yankees do in baseball. Can he buy a championship with the dough I give him by having an Alexa in every room? That would suck.

The old families and the old ways are passing from the scene. I guess everyone used to say the same thing when they get old. I remember how sad everyone got when Albert Anastasia retired so to speak. Now it is all woke all the time. 

Thank God that I don't follow the league anymore along with millions of other conservatives. I hope the rating decline continues and the league loses its big TV contracts. Although with Bezos they might just go to Amazon and we might be forced to watch it if we want to order books for our kindle or tampons or whatever.

It's sick out there and getting sicker.

You can't escape it no matter where you go.

 

Watching TV has become more and more of a problem for us. I am not one of those phony shitheads like the Nutty Professor who claim they never watch TV. I love TV. I watch it all the time. After a long day it should be relaxing and enjoyable. It is not anymore.

I remember when I was a kid and we all enjoyed six channels. There was CBS, NBC and ABC. Two independent channels WPIX and Fox. Plus PBS if you were gay. So America was basically forced to come together and watch the same things. In the sixties we watched the sitcoms like Gilligan and the Brady Bunch and I Dream of Jeanie and Bewitched. Or dramas like Gunsmoke and Bonanza. The Wonderful World of Disney. Lawrence Welk. Batman. Basically all the shit I write about. But even the seventies and the eighties had cultural benchmarks for all of us. Friends. Seinfeld. The Love Boat. NYPD Blue. All in the Family. The Jeffersons. Mary Tyler Moore. The country was brought together by the same shows we were all watching.

Now there are a hundred channels and there is nothing on. You have streaming services and cable packages. The audience is diverse and fragmented. Only a tiny portion of the old audience is available to any niche part of television viewership. The problem is the powers that be play to only one niche. The woke.

WLEM TV

 A young Sixty Grit (Delta Blues affciando) casually dismisses up and coming band Led Zeppelin and blows his chances with a hot redhead:

Chip Off The Old Chip

 

I wanted to make a wish-you-were-here post for Chip Ahoy, but I don't know a damn thing about hieroglyphics, or pop-up books, or food, or et cetera. But Chip would periodically post a list of unusual words he had encountered, along with definitions. I can do that.

One of my favorite time-wasters is doing London Times Cryptic Crosswords. Any sort of cryptic crossword is difficult. The Times Cryptics are both very difficult, and very British, which makes them real beasts for Americans to solve. These days I can successfully complete maybe two out of three, but almost never without heavy use of the internet -- particularly the indispensable Crossword Solver.

Every single puzzle has answers that are words and names and phrases I've never seen before. Plants, animals, minerals, names of British and European places and people. Terms from soccer and cricket, of course. And Indian food: apparently Times readers are presumed to know all about Indian food. Also phrases. Most Americans would recognize "Oi, mate!" or "Pull the other one!" But how about "Yah boo sucks" or "Tace is latin for candle"? Both of those showed up as answers in Times cryptics.

I'm currently halfway through a book of 50 Jumbo (23x23) Times cryptics, and I've already found several dozen new-to-me words as answers. I'll exercise self-control, and list only seven of them (all from the same puzzle!):

goldcrest: a small bird

teapoy: a three-legged table, sometimes with a tea-chest

Wee Free: slang for the Free Church of Scotland (as opposed to the much larger United Free Church)

leaf curl: a plant disease

raita: a yogurt-based Indian dish

pay and display: a ticket-vending machine used in parking lots -- sorry, in car parks

ragged staff: a symbol used in heraldry -- a staff with knobs, or a tree-trunk with stumps of branches

Books of Times cryptics can be found only sporadically on US sites; the best place to buy them is the excellent English online bookseller Wordery.

WLEM FM

Overheard at Lem's:

Blogger Amartel said...

I do love the 70s, when men could wear tiny sequined matador jackets, or whatever that is, and still be men.

Remember when Robert Plant wore blouses?

The video is great of example of how tightly drummer Bonzo and guitarist Page fed off each other. Some have said that was the key to the Zeppelin sound. 

WKRLEM: The New Pig is not having it!

Everybody loves John Prine.

The Return of the King

 

The God Emperor has already closed down his blog.

As reported by the New York Post the God Emperor of the Cherry Blossom Throne will be closing down the blog and website that he had just opened to communicate with his supporters. This is a precursor to returning to another social media platform which I presume to mean Twitter. Or perhaps he will go on "Gab" or another of Twitter's competitors. I just bet that it will be Twitter. They want the buzz and the activity that  his Tweets bring. Just as CNN's ratings have gone through the floor so has Twitter usage once the God Emperor was banned. So they are bringing him back.

Soon the country will as well.

We just have to wait until we pay $10 a gallon for gasoline.

WKRLEM: Take It To The Limit

One more time.

Trooper York's Word of the Day

 

pedophile

[ˈpedəˌfīl]

NOUN

paedophile (noun)

a person who is sexually attracted to children.