Occasional Reader 10/11/2021 6:31:48 AM

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Occasional Reader 10/11/2021 6:34:12 AM

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From last night’s Pub:

In #4 Alice in Dairyland said: Just watched a 3 hour 49 minute movie.  Once Upon a Time in America, starring Robert Deniro and James Woods.  Can't say I'd recommend it, but your mileage may vary.  

I saw this movie on VCR circa 1995; and I still can’t decide whether I liked it. 

buzzsawmonkey 10/11/2021 7:29:20 AM

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vxbush 10/11/2021 7:50:54 AM

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In #3 buzzsawmonkey said: Here's the traditional greeting for "Indigenous Peoples' Day":  Hi-how-are-ya, hi-how-are-ya, hi-how-are-ya...

Heh. Speaking of which, when did this day get designated as this to get rid of Columbus? Was it the 1990's or earlier? Because this came up instead of it being Columbus Day on my calendar and honestly quite annoyed me. 

Occasional Reader 10/11/2021 8:03:24 AM

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In #4 vxbush said: when did this day get designated as this to get rid of Columbus?

Well, depends what you mean by “designated”.  By whom?  The Federal holiday is still called “Columbus Day”. 

And I love the blanket, unthinking designation “indigenous people”.  Indigenous to where? Since when?  The Taino (the people Columbus encountered) had likely migrated to the Bahamas from South America.

JCM 10/11/2021 8:11:29 AM

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Facebook ‘Whistleblower’ Was Part Of Election-Meddling Team That Nuked The Hunter Biden Laptop Story

The Facebook “whistleblower” thread has been pulled, and now the facade won’t stop unraveling — to the point that Frances Haugen has been revealed as part of the team of Big Tech censors at the center of 2020 election meddling, The Post Millennial has found.

Haugen was a member of Facebook’s civic integrity unit, which was tasked with countering so-called misinformation (read: throttling politically disfavored content) about the 2020 election. In October, that entailed censoring The New York Post’s reporting on Hunter Biden’s laptop, which incriminated the Biden son and his father for corruption in the run-up to the highly contested election.

buzzsawmonkey 10/11/2021 8:11:39 AM

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In #4 vxbush said: when did this day get designated as this to get rid of Columbus? Was it the 1990's or earlier?

There've been rumblings in the direction of ditching Columbus for some time---I remember there being wokie clamors to change the name of Columbus Circle in NYC some years ago, and there were even suggestions a while back to re-name Columbus, OH---but I don't think the movement really picked up steam until the Obama years.  Since the invention of BLM, the promotion of CRT, and the statue-toppling craze, it's become a political wildfire.

buzzsawmonkey 10/11/2021 8:13:43 AM

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In #5 Occasional Reader said: The Federal holiday is still called “Columbus Day”. 

Though I heard NPR today celebrating that some people are now calling it "Indigenous Peoples' Day," and that Biden was issuing some proclamation to that effect.

vxbush 10/11/2021 8:13:55 AM

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In #5 Occasional Reader said: Well, depends what you mean by “designated”.  By whom?  The Federal holiday is still called “Columbus Day”. 

Wikipedia differs (which means nothing, except people will assume it does): 

On October 8, 2021, U.S. President Joe Biden, the first U.S. President to formally recognize the holiday,^[2] signed a presidential proclamation declaring October 11 to be a national holiday.^[3] 

(italics not in original)

Occasional Reader 10/11/2021 8:25:09 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 9:

I was not aware of that.

LET’S GO, BRANDON

/spit

buzzsawmonkey 10/11/2021 8:31:50 AM

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Reply to JCM in 6:

Listen to the Facebook whistleblower

Blowin' like she never did before...

---not quite Bob Dylan

Kosh's Shadow 10/11/2021 8:52:02 AM

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In #6 JCM said: Facebook ‘Whistleblower’ Was Part Of Election-Meddling Team That Nuked The Hunter Biden Laptop Story

The story is being used to push for further government control of Facebook, which means more restrictions on speech, and you can guess what positions will be restricted.

Dems are getting desperate over 2022. There is only so much of telling Republicans they already voted that can be done.

buzzsawmonkey 10/11/2021 8:59:36 AM

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In #12 Kosh's Shadow said: telling Republicans they already voted

"You may already have voted! We may already have won!"

Or, as Firesign Theatre put it, so aptly and so many years ago, "The future is fun!  The future is fair!  They already have won!  We may already be there!"

Occasional Reader 10/11/2021 9:30:05 AM

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I did not realize quite how bad things are in the UK.

https://www.city-journal.org/united-kingdom-servile-response-to-covid-19-pandemic

Wow.

JCM 10/11/2021 9:34:14 AM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 12:

What is sad, is that was obvious that it was she is a false flag whistleblower, with exactly that intent from the moment CBS pushed the story.

Kosh's Shadow 10/11/2021 9:42:48 AM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 13:

I was actually referencing the Newsom recall election, in which Republicans were told they already had voted.

buzzsawmonkey 10/11/2021 9:46:01 AM

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In #16 Kosh's Shadow said: I was actually referencing the Newsom recall election, in which Republicans were told they already had voted.

I know that---but it brought to mind both the Firesign Theatre lines, and the old "You May Already Have Won!" that Publisher's Clearinghouse used to use on its junkmail.

Occasional Reader 10/11/2021 9:55:50 AM

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vxbush 10/11/2021 10:00:02 AM

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And let's add some more CRT to the day, shall we? 

I don't have the complete video; I just have the snippet that was shared on this page, but this video talks about some of the ways CRT is creeping into schools and what the end goal is. It is NOT the better education of your child, that's for sure. 

vxbush 10/11/2021 10:00:52 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 19:

Source is here. One of these days I'll stop pressing Return when I just want to return to editing the post and not publishing it. Harrumph. 

buzzsawmonkey 10/11/2021 10:02:39 AM

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buzzsawmonkey 10/11/2021 10:06:44 AM

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doppelganglander 10/11/2021 10:08:14 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 14:

It sounds nearly as bad as Australia and New Zealand. I'm headed there Wednesday night for two weeks. I'll report back any truly egregious incidents. 

Occasional Reader 10/11/2021 10:08:22 AM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 21:

and this is legal, how?!

buzzsawmonkey 10/11/2021 10:13:27 AM

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In #24 Occasional Reader said: and this is legal, how?!

If the Art Institute tells the volunteers they are "no longer required," and withdraws whatever passes and access they had as volunteers, how is that "illegal?"  Nobody is compelled to accept a gift, even a gift consisting of time and knowledge.  And if the Art Institute wants to then hire people, and has the money to do so, how is that "illegal?"

It's stupid, bigoted, and wasteful in many ways, but I don't see where the illegality is.

Occasional Reader 10/11/2021 10:18:01 AM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 21:

i’ll confess to feeling a little tingle of schadenfreude, given the likely political leanings of white female docents at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Occasional Reader 10/11/2021 10:21:27 AM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 25:

OK, I had not read the story yet, did not see that the docents had been entirely unpaid.  still, I am not aware of precedent regarding federal or state anti-discrimination law as applied to volunteer “work“, but I would not be surprised if there is caselaw on the point that would support the docents winning a lawsuit.

buzzsawmonkey 10/11/2021 11:48:43 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 27:

"Volunteer Lives Docent Matter."

---Art Institute

Kosh's Shadow 10/11/2021 12:07:27 PM

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buzzsawmonkey 10/11/2021 12:14:30 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 29:

"Woke," 1920's-style.

buzzsawmonkey 10/11/2021 12:25:04 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 29:

"Multiculturalism," 1912-style

Occasional Reader 10/11/2021 12:26:17 PM

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In #27 Occasional Reader said: but I would not be surprised if there is caselaw on the point that would support the docents winning a lawsuit.

I mean, if nothing else; collapse the two transactions, so to speak, and it sure looks like race based hiring discrimination.

Kosh's Shadow 10/11/2021 12:29:32 PM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 30:

All it needs for today is something on "non-binary gender"

buzzsawmonkey 10/11/2021 12:32:27 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 29:

"Tolerance and Inclusiveness," 1930-style

buzzsawmonkey 10/11/2021 1:00:14 PM

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I said, some time back, that what this country needs is a "Hollywood Squares"-style game show, where ordinary-citizen contestants get to argue issues with politicians who are in a Tic-<s>Tok</s>-Tac-Toe-style set.  

The show would be called "Quizzlings."

I still think---more than ever---that it could be a big streaming hit, and that the agile minds of this merry crew could make it happen.

buzzsawmonkey 10/11/2021 2:27:02 PM

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Just bristle while you're woke
xe xi xem all are me
And angrlly divided we'll diversify the space
So act just like a goon
It won't take long to sow division all around the place

And as you spread your gloom
Enjoy your alienating somebody that you love
And soon you'll find they're dancing to the tune
Accepting the lies that you'll apply 
So bristle while you're woke

---No Whites and the Seven Genders

Kosh's Shadow 10/11/2021 2:38:53 PM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 37:
Snow White Privilege

Kosh's Shadow 10/11/2021 2:40:52 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 38:

One of the greatest cartoons of all time - featuring Cab Calloway

Kosh's Shadow 10/11/2021 2:45:31 PM

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Columbus sailed because he hated Muslims, according to an LA Times article by the chair of the Department of History at Yale University

Well, all his statues will get blown up now/

Christopher Columbus was the “progenitor of a continental genocide,” claims Alan Mikhail in the Los Angeles Times Monday, and Mikhail is not part of some affirmative action plan at the Times to give a voice to those who propagate insanely ahistorical anti-American garbage. Mikhail is, in fact, the chair of the Department of History at Yale University, and if that isn’t evidence of the advanced state of rot in American academia today, nothing is. Columbus, in Mikhail’s febrile fantasies, was something even worse than a genocidal maniac: he was an “Islamophobe”: “A primary force behind Columbus’ Atlantic crossings was a fear and hatred of Islam.”

While portraying the discovery of America as an exercise in gratuitous racial hatred, Mikhail doesn’t bother to mention what really led up to Columbus making his voyage. He did so because the land route to Asia had been closed to Europeans since the fall of Constantinople in 1453. The fall of the city was the occasion for an unforgettable demonstration of jihadi bloodlust. As The History of Jihad shows, the warriors of jihad entered the great city on May 29, 1453, and made the streets run with rivers of blood. Muslims raided monasteries and convents, emptying them of their inhabitants, and plundered private houses.

buzzsawmonkey 10/11/2021 2:51:53 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 39:

Always a fave.  Just in passing, when Betty slides down the slope and emerges in the ice/glass coffin, the song is "Here Lies Love," which is featured in the superb Paramount film "The Big Broadcast," starring Bing Crosby, Stuart Erwin, and Burns & Allen (with acts by the Mills Brothers and Cab Calloway); the dragon-chase by the wicked witch/stepmother at the end is to the tune of "Tiger Rag" ("Hold that tiger! Hold that tiger!") which the Mills Brothers sing in "The Big Broadcast."

buzzsawmonkey 10/11/2021 3:26:02 PM

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"Indigenous Peoples' Day" kind of kills retail, doesn't it?

How are you gonna have "Columbus Day Sales" if you erase the fact that Columbus sailed?

Kosh's Shadow 10/11/2021 3:41:25 PM

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In #42 buzzsawmonkey said: "Indigenous Peoples' Day" kind of kills retail, doesn't it? How are you gonna have "Columbus Day Sales" if you erase the fact that Columbus sailed?

Used to make heap big wampum.