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Post by kungfuzu on Apr 10, 2023 12:27:41 GMT -8
To quote Churchill,
“Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in, except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.”
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Post by Brad Nelson on Apr 10, 2023 12:53:36 GMT -8
Well, he role-played a Christian for a number of years, which is better than any number of other things a person could have done. But, yes, it is role-playing for many. And it sometimes shows. It's worth noting that this bible is almost completely untouched and unused. I got it out from deep-storage and don't have the heart now to just put it away in the dark again. It's on one of my bookshelves now.
My mother tried for years to rope me into going to church with her. I couldn't do it because I didn't want to be reduced to someone's conquest. I feel sort of guilty about it now, but I don't really wish that I had done otherwise.
It's amazing to see how fast my brother switched to atheism – which was, and still is, just a way to emotionally separate himself from his wife who is, admittedly, an obnoxious and judgmental bible-thumper. I think he's over that fad now, but for a while he was scratching his emotional itch by reading some of the atheist screeds. At times, he was not good publicity for the 60's generation.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Apr 10, 2023 13:03:41 GMT -8
Perhaps one thing that makes Jews an extraordinary people is their acceptance of (to put it mildly) disagreement, particularly concerning the Torah and other items. It is a delicate thing to bond a people together without it becoming Jonestown.
The ability to question, minus the truly subversive heart which means only to stab, is a great thing. We have to be able to question things or we are just monkeys learning by rote, able to recite but understanding very little. But, if like the Left (and the hippie generation) we make a fetish out of questioning and put it above all other considerations, then we are destructive. This is where the men have failed us. I have, as you know, given the ladies their due for the destruction of the West. But the way idiot men took to the fetish of questioning was just as destructive as anything the idiot women did and continue to do.
Easy to say and describe this balance between conformity and questioning, but nearly impossible to get most people do to anything but act like monkeys shaking branches in the trees. We owe much of our rational and intellectual heritage to the Jews...particularly the #1 Jew...or is Moses #2? I forget.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Apr 10, 2023 13:09:48 GMT -8
Nothing of quality or honor can survive on Facebook. More proof.
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Post by kungfuzu on May 19, 2023 12:20:43 GMT -8
Perhaps the greatest player, but certainly the greatest running back, in NFL history has died at 87. I can still remember seeing him run over, past or around players. Jim Brown |
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Post by Brad Nelson on May 20, 2023 17:23:07 GMT -8
Certainly the greatest of his era. And not a bad action star. But if I’m on defense, the last player I want to see carrying the ball is Earl Campbell.
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Post by kungfuzu on May 24, 2023 11:45:23 GMT -8
Tina Turner has died. What's love got to do with it? She was to be seen just about everywhere in the 1980s. I guess her highest popularity came around the time of Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. I saw her some years thereafter on a flight from, I believe, Brussels to Zurich. We were flying SABENA Airlines and I had an international connection from Brussels to Zurich. Since I was flying business class, and the short flight has no business class, the airline put me in first class, which wasn't first class in any way except that it was curtained off from the rest of the plane. The only other people in first class were Tina Turner and her two young assistants, one male one female. Not a word passed between us. We only nodded and smiled to each other. As I recall, the male asked me something, but I can't recall the question. I did not know it at the time, but Turner had moved to Switzerland sometime in the mid-nineties. |
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Post by artraveler on May 24, 2023 12:40:20 GMT -8
Tina Turner has died. In 1966 I took a sweet girl to concert to see the Righteous Brothers. The surprise warm up act was Ike and Tina Turner. I guess we are all going to more funerals then weddings these days. |
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Post by kungfuzu on May 24, 2023 12:53:16 GMT -8
Too many of those I was closest to have already shuffled off this mortal coil. But it is natural as one ages. One expects it. That is why a twelve-to-fifteen month period around 1971-1972 was so shocking to me. During that time, nine people I knew died. The oldest was something like 51 years old. He was a friend's father. One of my uncle's died at the age of 49. Another friend's mother died just a day or two before his 18th birthday. It was a horrible year. On the bright side, we are already too old for it to be said of us, "He died young."  |
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Post by Brad Nelson on May 24, 2023 17:31:38 GMT -8
LOL. First time I’ve heard it put like that. Not sure if that sounds like Bob Hope or Milton Berle. Maybe Jack Benny.
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Post by kungfuzu on Jul 24, 2023 16:40:44 GMT -8
While I was mowing the front yard, it hit me that I forget to wish you Happy Birthday on Sunday. So here are my belated birthday wishes. It is your 65th, I believe.  |
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Post by artraveler on Jul 24, 2023 17:44:02 GMT -8
65, just a kid
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Post by Brad Nelson on Jul 25, 2023 9:36:05 GMT -8
Thank you, Mr. Kung. And thank you, Herr Artler. And I believe KFF's birthday is coming soon.
Just a kid indeed. I had my brothers over and made them lunch. My older brother's birthday is two days before mine. We watched To Tell the Truth while we had lunch. Yes, the days of strippers jumping out of cakes have been given over to watching Peggy Cass make a gigantic New York loud-mouth ass out of herself. But there is entertainment value in even that.
And older brother spent time complaining about his band despite apparently a successful gig at Alderbrook Inn over the weekend where all the liberal chicks giggled and threw up their arms at "Sweet Caroline." If I never hear that song again. Is this just a Northwest thing? He's having problems with the drunken keyboard player. I held my tongue. I think you would have been proud of me although I suspect in your heart of hearts you would have loved to sit back and watch me hoist him by his own libtard.
Didn't do much for the rest of the day. My younger brother and I played some video games. There was a light rain all day so it was definitely an indoor day.
Still kicking, as I hope you all continue to do for a long time to come.
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Post by kungfuzu on Jul 25, 2023 11:33:47 GMT -8
You are welcome, and I turned the big 70 today. I believe I was born around 3:00 am so I am already 70 years and 11.50 hours old. As to your older brother's situation. He should know by now that any group virtually always has problems between the various members. This is multiplied many times in musical groups. Each member thinks he is a genius and the star, some do drugs and can handle it, (barely) some can't, etc. Just look at all the famous groups which have busted up over the years. Dope and Ego Make the Band Go. On the other hand, one must ask oneself if this is not closer to the root of your brother's complaints.  |
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Post by Brad Nelson on Jul 25, 2023 13:18:43 GMT -8
That's so very nice to hear. Happy Birthday.
Money doesn't go as far anymore. This is the best I can do. Tell Mrs. Flu to avert her eyes. Kung Jr. might be interested though:
That was me and Herr Artler in the back row tokin' on a cigarette and sharing a flask of Kentucky's best under the radar of the high-backed seats. The guy from The Man from U.N.C.L.E. looks as if he's a bit overwhelmed by it all.
I would love to tell you that I think he does it for sheer love of music. But I think it's mostly ego.
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Post by kungfuzu on Jul 25, 2023 15:08:55 GMT -8
Thanks for the gift. I was able to have a viewing without either being present. No point to stir things up, one way or the other. If that were my wife, I might break out in a sweat as well. After getting a divorce from The Man from U.N.C.L.E., she married Paul Kersey.  |
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Post by kungfuzu on Dec 31, 2023 23:57:11 GMT -8
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Post by Brad Nelson on Jan 1, 2024 9:39:20 GMT -8
If you can catch an early flight, you are all welcome to my place for a Winter Classic/Sugar Bowl fest. The NHL Winter Classic is held in the stadium where the Mariners play. It has a retractable roof but it will likely stay open today.
The game will be at noon between the Seattle Kraken and the Vegas Golden Knights. The Sugar Bowl (#3 Texas vs. #2 Washington) is at 5:45 Pacific time. If you catch an early enough flight, we can watch the Rose Bowl at 2:00 Pacific (#4 Alabama vs. #1 Michigan).
This may all be not naught because it's possible that the best team in the country is Georgia. Next year apparently the college playoffs will expand which should then at least give the best teams a shot at the national championship. Georgia absolutely destroyed Florida State in the Orange Bowl the other day...a 60 point win.
Or if you have access to a Star Trek transporter, right now on ESPN2 there is the ReliaQuest Bowl between Wisconsin and #13 LSU. In order to be able to watch the NHL Winter Classic, I had to subscribe to SlingTV ($40/mo) which is probably the best way to get TNT which is airing the game. Coming along for the ride with that SlingTV "orange" package is ESPN, ESPN2, and ESPN3. You can go month-to-month with these services. I will almost certainly cancel after the first month.
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Post by kungfuzu on Jan 1, 2024 10:02:41 GMT -8
Wow! When Sling started out a few years ago, a monthly subscription cost $20. Inflation is bad.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Jan 1, 2024 12:06:12 GMT -8
That's the main reason I don't keep it. It's way too expensive. But it does have a lot of stuff. The problem is, most of it is live-stream stuff from various channels. That is, most of it is not "on demand." So if you want to watch something (from the start, anyway), you have to plan for it and set aside time. And I am just so out of that viewing paradigm. I want to watch things when I want to watch, not kowtow to someone else's schedule. Therefore 99% of the stuff on SlingTV I'm just never going to watch. You do have the ability to record shows. But that's just more to fiddle with.
At $10.00/mo., I would consider keeping it. The problem is, even if you go with the live-stream stuff, these various channels are just loaded with commercials. What then did I pay $40/mo. for? For the privilege of watching commercials? There's just no logic for this kind of TV package that makes any sense for me.
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