Democratic Alderman William Hall joined residents outside the store Monday, where signs read “Senior Lives Matter” and “End Corporate Abandonment.”
“Walgreens should be charged with first-degree corporate abandonment,” Hall said. “It should be a crime the way they’re treating our elders. It should be a crime the way they're treating our families.”
So he's a NAZI? Private ownership and government control?
preBoomer-Marinebrat
5/5/2026 12:52:55 PM
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In Hall's America, he and others have a long-running desire for that kind of fascism, but there's another element too.
Hall's mindset began developing among blacks in the Sixties, cultivated by W.E.B. du Bois and others (but not M.L. King.)
But in the early Seventies, it began spreading across America's entire popular culture. "Victimology", spawned by popularization of Freudian "psychologisms". Victimhood was soon widely used to "prove" that one wasn't responsible for (pick something, anything). Today it's endemic, all the way across politics, religion, popular and "news" media, and the Web.
"On the one hand, I'm innocent. On the other, those others are always evil. Which, of course, is the reason I'm always innocent."
Kosh's Shadow
5/5/2026 1:26:22 PM
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Reply to preBoomer-Marinebrat in 2:
JCM
5/5/2026 1:34:16 PM
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Reply to preBoomer-Marinebrat in 2:
In Seattle the out of the closet Socialist Komrade Katie held and press conference to announce "she will not allow" stores to close. Of course she has no idea how to accomplish this goal. In her little world she thinks somehow her word is law. On the other hand when ask about the rich leaving her response was, "Bye" and a giggle.
LBJ's Great Society was the fuel for "Victimology" it fed it and made it "government" approved and created the bureaucracy around it with all those cush government jobs.
preBoomer-Marinebrat
5/5/2026 2:01:01 PM
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In #4 JCM said: LBJ's Great Society was the fuel for "Victimology"
Yes!
What was it he said, I think as he signed the GOP-passed Civil Rights Act? ... Something like, "this will weld the black community to the Democratic Party [referring more to his Presidency] for a century."
LBJ would've made a fortune running Nevada's "Chicken Ranch"
preBoomer-Marinebrat
5/5/2026 2:02:29 PM
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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 3: Forgive me, but I don't watch those things.
Kosh's Shadow
5/5/2026 2:19:47 PM
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Reply to preBoomer-Marinebrat in 6:
You don't have to. But if you mean crude videos, that guy has other good ones. Although he does get silly a lot.
Kosh's Shadow
5/5/2026 2:51:16 PM
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Reply to preBoomer-Marinebrat in 6:
It is tamer than it looks - suggestive, not explicit
preBoomer-Marinebrat
5/5/2026 3:13:41 PM
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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 8: I had taken a very brief glance through it -- just video, here and there, sound turned off.
Keep in mind that culturally, I'm VERY "old school". Out of high school (Camp LeJeune) in '61. Quite listening to rock 'n roll by the end of that year. The last time I was in a motion picture theater was in the '80s when "Hunt for Red October" came out.
I'm so old school, my definition of "conservatism" includes things about behavior (which has gotten me laughed at and cursed by the local Republican Party fellows.)
preBoomer-Marinebrat
5/5/2026 3:14:48 PM
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Reply to preBoomer-Marinebrat in 9: "Quit" listening. PIMF
Kosh's Shadow
5/5/2026 3:21:27 PM
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Reply to preBoomer-Marinebrat in 9:
When Hunt for Red October came out, I worked with someone who had been in the Submarine Service. He said his buddies saw it and laughed at how inaccurate it was.
preBoomer-Marinebrat
5/5/2026 3:47:23 PM
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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 11: Early 80s, northwest side of Tucson, I helped form a very large suburban fire district (to keep the City from annexing out that way.) Sat on the Board as Clerk-Treasurer for a decade.
About that time was when a movie called "Towering Inferno" came out. The advertisements showed a firefighter walking upright through a room full of flames.
During my time on the NWFD Board, I got to watch a training drill. Inside a house (which was due to be demolished), told to kneel and not even think of standing up after the blaze had been commenced over in that yonder bedroom. When the drill was done, we crawled out of the building.
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FYI, there's a 1950 British film, "Morning Departure", John Mills and Richard Attenborough. It is not ordinary.
Kosh's Shadow
5/5/2026 6:15:09 PM
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Reply to preBoomer-Marinebrat in 12:
Massachusetts has a requirement that towns will MBTA service need a high densidy zoning district near transit. My town has commuter rail to Boston (90 minutes each way; around $500/month).
We set up such a district right near the train station. All small lots, too small for a big developer.Us hicks outsmarted the smahty pahnts in Bahstahn.
JCM
5/4/2026 5:16:56 PM
Kosh's Shadow
5/5/2026 1:26:22 PM