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Post by timothylane on Aug 21, 2019 12:25:54 GMT -8
So many of the Breaking News items are satirical items I (or someone else) encountered that it seems logical to add that as a separate thread.
Patriot post had a nice "daily meme" pointing out the murderous actions 40 years back involving Jim Jones, which might have some legal implications. (Kool-Aid control?)
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Post by kungfuzu on Aug 21, 2019 14:50:36 GMT -8
I recall that insane episode mainly because a former WBAP news anchor, Don Harris, was murdered along with Congressman Ryan by those People's Temple thugs.
I only people I have any sympathy with are the children who were murdered. It seems pretty clear that the adults were complicit in their own demise and those who did not actually try to commit suicide had put themselves into the deadly position by their previous actions.
I think it is worthwhile for people to read this Wikipedia piece on Jonestown, the fanatical leftist Jim Jones and his close associates. We should not forget that this is the utopian future which the leftists are ultimately pushing for. One should note the DemocRat politicians who supported Jim Jones. There are some very famous names there. This shows that yesterday's DemocRats are no different from today's, they just hid their left-wing fanaticism, and hate of America, better than today's maniacs.
One of the reasons I hold libertarians in such low regard is that, regardless their pie-in-the-sky rhetoric, their actual political actions, to a very large extent, help the radical left.
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Post by timothylane on Aug 21, 2019 15:01:44 GMT -8
I remember that, too. Jones had a long history in Babylon on the Bay, and was tied in with a lot of local Demagogues before deciding it was safer to set up an isolated commune in Guyana. Ryan came down to check things out, so Jones decided to kill him to prevent any bad news coming out. Then, I guess (who knows what went through what passed for his mind?) he realized that Guyana would have to ace after that crime against an American congressman, and the result was the Jonestown Massacre.
Incidentally, a Republican (Bill Royer) won the special election for Jones's seat, but he was defeated in the 1980 election. I think 2 other House Republicans. One was Samuel Devine of Columbus, OH, whose replacement) was then defeated in 1982 by John Kasich. Kasich was the only non-incumbent Republican to win a Demagogue House seat that year. I think Ryan's seat continued to remain a Demagogue stronghold after that, but of course districts can be heavily changed in California redistrictings.
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Post by timothylane on Aug 21, 2019 17:20:39 GMT -8
In discussing the latest impeachment farce, the blogger Johnny Reb came up with a delightfully vicious joke (though it had nothing to do with the topic). Unfortunately, this doesn't want to print the link, so I'll provide the basics of the joke.
A man was shipwrecked, and landed on what turned out to be a desert island with a sheep and a sheepdog. They were able to find food and water, but there are other needs. One romantic evening, as they walked on the beach, the man got desperate to try to cuddle with the sheep. The sheepdog, still protecting its charge, growled loudly and he quickly let go. They would still take walks after that, but he took no further chance of angering the dog.
Then there was another shipwreck, and Nancy Pelosi (the sole survivor) came to the shore. One night shortly after he was walking the beach with her on another romantic evening, and noted that it had been something like 6 months since he had any sex. She began playing up to him and asked if there was anything she could do for him.
"Yes," he said. "Could you take the dog for a walk to the other side of the island?"
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Post by kungfuzu on Aug 21, 2019 18:06:52 GMT -8
That was gross, but perhaps understandable.
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Post by timothylane on Sept 6, 2019 13:06:14 GMT -8
Daily Wire has a nice article on Pat Sajak's conservative humor on Twitter, starting with a discourse on using ketchup on hot dogs that parodies the recent Will and Grace boycott talk. (For the record, I prefer relish and sometimes mustard -- especially Dijon mustard -- on hot dogs.) Brad should be familiar with this already because I sent it on my political e-mail chain, which includes him. The link is:
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Post by timothylane on Sept 13, 2019 8:42:28 GMT -8
A favorite leftist gun-control trope is to compare guns to something else, such as cars. (Never mind that you can own cars at any age, and drive them on your own land without license or anything else, and buy as many as you want at a time, and without regard for how powerful they are.) Some protestor came up with a new one -- women having as many rights as guns -- and PatriotPost showed just how idiotic that is. Here is the link: Gun Control Idiocy |
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Post by artraveler on Sept 13, 2019 9:05:52 GMT -8
Logic is a flower blooming in the field, that smells bad--Spock ordinal Star Trek. I forget which episode
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Post by timothylane on Sept 13, 2019 9:18:26 GMT -8
It was the second season episode "I, Mudd", at the end when they used illogic to knock out the robots and enable them to regain control (especially of the ship).
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Post by kungfuzu on Oct 16, 2019 9:42:08 GMT -8
The link is to a delightful piece by Theodore Dalrymple which takes the mickey out of the Pope for his latest silly pronouncements. Papal PapThere are a couple of lines in this piece which are subtly hilarious. |
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Post by timothylane on Oct 16, 2019 10:08:36 GMT -8
Actually, my key idea on style is similar to Dalrymple's: go by how a sentence flows. I try to follow proper language rules, realizing that there are disagreements. (I've seen the case made that not splitting infinitives come from Latin professors -- of course, in that language an infinitive is a single word and can't be split.)
Churchill had a famous retort on the "don't end a sentence with a preposition" folks. An excellent example comes from a boy who was nettled that his father brought the wrong book to read to him from: "What did you bring the book I didn't want to be read to from up for?"
Incidentally, this hostility to adjectives was also advocated by Symes, who was working on the Newspeak dictionary. That's where he found the largest number of wasteful words. Of course, in that case it was not so much how many words were spoken or written, but how many different words there were. But I suspect Symes (who eventually became an unperson) would agree with his soulmate, the Peron Anti-Pope.
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Post by timothylane on Dec 9, 2019 11:06:13 GMT -8
Babylon Bee has some important news on the religious front It seems many churches are concerned about the declining numbers of fake Christians giving lip service to the Bible. The link is:
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Post by timothylane on Dec 13, 2019 11:55:20 GMT -8
Following up on that, the Babylon Bee reports on a new form of Christian apologetics, in this case involving not defending Christian theology but apologizing for any and every aspect of religion. They don't mention if the Peron Anti-Pope delivers guest lectures there, though it would certainly make sense. The link is:
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Post by timothylane on Jan 8, 2020 12:01:38 GMT -8
Mallard Fillmore takes on colleges -- their shoddy product and their excessive charges -- in his own unique way. The link is:
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Post by timothylane on Jan 15, 2020 15:34:27 GMT -8
Many here may recall the stereotypical meeting of gangsters to divvy up crime in a city. (Actually, I haven't seen enough gangster films to speak to that. I'm basing this mainly on a satire of the genre in MAD Magazine.) Now the Babylon Bee reports on a recent example that sounds like a heist comedy but is deadly serious. There's a reason I sometimes call a certain group the Plunderbund after a Dutch term for an organization formed to loot the public. (I saw that and immediately thought of the Democratic Party.) The link is:
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Post by kungfuzu on Jan 15, 2020 15:59:56 GMT -8
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Post by timothylane on Jan 15, 2020 16:27:18 GMT -8
They also reported on why the left is so reluctant to kill terrorists. It isn't hostility to killing, obviously, given their eagerness to kill unborn babies. And it isn't necessarily hatred of America or love of Soros money. The not-so-surprising explanation can be found at:
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Post by timothylane on Jan 17, 2020 14:30:14 GMT -8
The Babylon Bee has an interesting take on the Blonde Squaw's plans for free college (part of her plan for free everything), as well as the (lack of) utility of such degrees. The link is:
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Post by timothylane on Jan 22, 2020 14:33:08 GMT -8
The Babylon Bee has a report on a sensitive man responding to the Gillette "toxic masculinity" ad by letting his pregnant wife clear off the snow on his driveway. It's much more sensitive than singing along to "Sensitive New Age Guys" (which is on a Dr. Demento collection). The link is:
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Post by kungfuzu on Jan 22, 2020 14:47:53 GMT -8
A true male roll model. I will do my best to emulate him.
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