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Kosh's Shadow
11/2/2019 5:14:44 PM
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Waiting for the crowd builds up a great THIRST!
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Kosh's Shadow
11/2/2019 5:15:34 PM
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I know, we need a new piano player. I had to get rid of the old one for dedicating a song to the Clintons, and not "Leavenworth Prison Blues"
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buzzsawmonkey
11/2/2019 5:28:25 PM
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In #8 Kosh's Shadow said: Which reminds me. Today's Torah portion was Noach. It is interesting that part of the reason all life was destroyed was due to sexual perversion, and the rainbow was the symbol from G-d that He would never again destroy all life on earth in a flood. And that symbol has been adopted by LGBTQ etc people as their symbol Interesting point. I always figured it was a re-adaptation of the far-Left's use of the rainbow; see, e.g., the mention in Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man," in the "Brotherhood" (i.e., Communist Party) chapters, of a poster with the caption "After the Struggle: the Rainbow of America's Future," and Pete Seeger's ecology/brotherhood/no borders song from the late Sixties, "Rainbow Race." However, the intentional co-optation of the rainbow as a symbol based on Noach is also not impossible by any means. Interestingly, the gay-rights "rainbow" is not a true rainbow; the true rainbow splits white light into seven colors, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. The gay-rights rainbow is six bands; it combines/collapses the blue, indigo and violet into two bands, blue and purple. If we're talking about appropriation/adaptation of symbols, one could plausibly argue that the supposedly-inclusive "rainbow" of the movement is subtly and intentionally racist, because it does not reflect the inclusion of "white" which the true rainbow does.
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Kosh's Shadow
11/2/2019 5:37:27 PM
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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 4: I think the LGBTQ rainbow was not intentional on their part, but they were nudged, if you will, into using it, by G-d, so those who knew would notice. And their modification makes it even more interesting.
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buzzsawmonkey
11/2/2019 5:46:29 PM
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Can we get our italics back?
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Kosh's Shadow
11/2/2019 5:49:38 PM
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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 8: When I have some time. I'll try to get it done before the big program review at work early December, but no promises. Very busy at work right now, which means I get home late, and I have some other things to clear up for my security clearance.
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buzzsawmonkey
11/2/2019 5:52:55 PM
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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 10:
As long as I know it's in the pipeline. Though you tarry, I will wait...
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Kosh's Shadow
11/2/2019 6:02:56 PM
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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 12: Thanks. It is on my list, but I'm busy at this time
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Occasional Reader
11/2/2019 6:30:50 PM
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I have the dubious distinction of having actually met Pete Seeger on more than one occasion, as a kid.
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Occasional Reader
11/2/2019 6:33:19 PM
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At the zoo this morning, at one point little OR wondered aloud, “can a snake bake a cake?“. Then he exclaimed, “daddy! That could be a Dr. Seuss book!“.
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buzzsawmonkey
11/2/2019 6:40:15 PM
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In #15 Occasional Reader said: I have the dubious distinction of having actually met Pete Seeger on more than one occasion, as a kid. I was a big fan of his, as a kid---understandable, in that my parents had a number of albums by the Almanac Singers (the pre-Weavers group that included Woody Guthrie), and my mother was quite the little Leftist. His songs---some of them, anyway---are still moving, even though many of them simultaneously give me hives when I think of the sentiments they express. Which is artistry, of a type. One of the reasons I've done so many song parodies (aside from my own pleasure) is to try and start the Conservative Folk Revival; Seeger, his father, and Alan Lomax started back in the Thirties to try and co-opt American history by taking possession of folk music, and many of the Almanac Singers' songs (just like those of the earlier Joe Hill) were parodies/adaptations of existing songs to get their Leftist views across to the population. Seeger was monumentally successful at this; it was one of the great stealth inroads into American culture by the Left. I admire Seeger's brilliance even as I despise his objectives and his never-wavering loyalty to Stalinism, just as I admire the art of the attorneys whose vile contracts I must dissect and revise on behalf of my clients, even as I despise and seek to frustrate their work.
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buzzsawmonkey
11/2/2019 6:40:55 PM
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In #16 Occasional Reader said: At the zoo this morning, at one point little OR wondered aloud, “can a snake bake a cake?“. Then he exclaimed, “daddy! That could be a Dr. Seuss book!“. You have got one smart, creative kid there. Congratulations.
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Occasional Reader
11/2/2019 6:45:14 PM
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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 17: Seeger Was part of the whole “ Clearwater” sailing vessel crusade to clean up the Hudson river in the early 70s, which was certainly not the worst calls he was ever associated with. My parents were tangentially connected to people involved with that, so there were a couple of occasions when we (my sister and I) saw him in relatively small venues, and were dutifully presented to him to say hello.
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Occasional Reader
11/2/2019 6:45:59 PM
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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 18: You forgot “handsome“. : )
thanks.
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Occasional Reader
11/2/2019 6:51:08 PM
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In #19 Occasional Reader said: worst calls = worst cause
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Kosh's Shadow
11/2/2019 8:29:01 PM
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In #21 Occasional Reader said: worst cause wurst case? I never sausage errors
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