“But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
"Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad."
"How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
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Polls were still open in Pennsylvania when Stephen taped this show, so we’ll have to wait to find out which brand of crazy GOP primary voters prefer. Over in Russia, Vladimir Putin tried his best to shrug off news that two neighboring countries may soon join NATO.
Polls were still open in Pennsylvania when Stephen recorded this show, so we’ll have to wait for cialis generic online cheap to increase the birth rate in this state and improve potency in men.
Bye bye to Madison. At least we won’t be treated to unwanted nude videos.
The question of Ignorant vs. Stupid is a deep subject, not a snap judgement kind of thing. Maybe akin to Heredity vs. Environment.
Ill dwell on it further because I actually already do, but one thing I do know is back in the fifties and then sixties when ALL of us local kids were like extremely ignorant, some among us were also ignorant AND stupid. And some of us knew the difference.
Some of those who might rightly be considered to have been intelligent have grown up to have become Chumplestons. Seems to me to be a pretty stupid way to think, but maybe it’s just that they didn’t pay attention in school.
World update, cyber world that is. The russians have decided to start cyber attacks this week. I have not heard of serious breaches yet. A while ago I said to keep vehicles fueled up, never below a half tank, this is a good thing to do. Also, have a good bit of cash on hand for just in case the credit card and ATM systems go down. Also, to have food, water and some way of cooking without public services. I use butane stove tops, but a good old Coleman stove, propane or white gas, would be useful too.
They have been hitting my things roughly every twenty minutes around the clock. There must be more than one attack group because there is an occasional overlap once an hour, or so.
unwanted nude videos
…but Republican nude videos are the best kind! More submissions from the Freedom Caucus before Nov. plz, TIA👍
Man, this age of Aquarius really sucks.
Strug –
I’ll try and contract the 5 th Dimension , and tell’ em we want our money back. By the way , you’ll want to brush the last of those flower petals out of your hair.
Scott Mackenzie is out of business.
I was wondering about Idaho’s results , down ballot .
Some real red thinking in those “dog catcher” offices.
There are plenty of things out there I’m completely ignorant about. Plasma physics comes to mind, as does gravity. And I never have understood the difference between alternating current and direct current, but I know that reversing the poles on a DC device makes it either run in reverse or die a quick death, but then again I took football physics as an elective my senior year at Bama and I guess we didn’t cover that distinction. I like to think I’m not stupid – I hope I’m right. When it comes to other folks I think I’m decent at knowing the difference between a merely ignorant person (e.g. TFG talking about just about anything other than welching on debts) versus an ignorant/stupid person (e.g. Marjorie Taylor Green). Red caps tend to mark the latter these days.
Glad to see that little Cawthorn prick lost. I wonder if he and Stephen Miller do lunch.
A Monster Hurricane Season Is Coming—and Here’s the Culprit
“Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.”
and
“Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.”
Ignorance –
” A lack of knowledge “, note the root word Ignore.
This goes back to the invention of , “Cool” . It was cool to be a “C” student , that’s where the herd lived , thus the need to invent “Nerd” and :Geek”.
lol Dems think they’re smart and lose even when they win, bunch of dopes
speaking of education & avoidance thereof
Blink –
This is why Fetterman is going into Red counties. Your thinking is spot on.
It’s why the GOP won the countryside. The Dems saw them as boobs .
FDR . JFK, and LBJ did not sneer at these voters. They made their lives better.
This shift from that has given us this “Politics of Grievance”.
The big Dem thinkers have no clue about the life of a soybean farmer.
This cuts both ways .
Australia election: How climate is making Australia more unliveable
“It’s devastating. The amount of time and effort you put in your home and then to see it go under water.”
Sam Bowstead is an architect who specialises in preparing houses to withstand natural disasters. But when floods engulfed his Brisbane home in February, he felt helpless.
“I’ve worked with people who’ve been in similar situations – now this happened to me,” he says.
“I was shocked at how fast [the water] rose… more than a metre in a couple of hours. I went from being worried about our property to being worried about our safety.”
As I’ve said before , Climate Change is going to walk up to your door, ring your bell , and punch you right in the face.
In the past three years, record-breaking bushfire and flood events have killed more than 500 people and billions of animals. Drought, cyclones and freak tides have gripped communities.
Climate change is a key concern for voters in Australia’s election on Saturday. So is the cost of living – and these issues are converging like never before.
Climate is just the kettle we are all boiling in.
Ukraine is just one potato.
The hard part of climate change is the mass of cult followers to not believe it exists. The same as COVID, even while dying of it.
Old movie lines –
“no one ever stole to build a church”
Tony Rome
BB –
It’s coming to everyone’s door.
As Wally said , ” the climate can be a beast, and we are poking at it with sticks”
It is getting very strange in the Twitterverse. Hard to describe, but if you try to present a fact in response to something totally off the wall, you get “That’s the narrative.” as if you believe some fallacy and they are the ones in the know. No facts, no links, no back up just … “That’sthe narrative.”.
So on this ignorance-stupidity continuum, and upon reflection it is a continuum rather than a binary model, climate change deniers add a dynamic – those who are not ignorant, and unless you live under a rock it’s hard to imagine that anyone in the developed world can claim ignorance of the basic facts underlying the phenomenon could credibly claim the don’t know, but rather reject what they do know. Not sure where chosen ignorance falls on that continuum.
So far in the primaries
Victories by Mastriano, Budd show potency of Trump’s false stolen election claims in GOP – The Washington Post
Democrats pick John Fetterman for Senate in Pennsylvania primary – The Washington Post
Scandal-plagued Rep. Cawthorn Loses in NC
Polls were still open in Pennsylvania when Stephen taped this show, so we’ll have to wait to find out which brand of crazy GOP primary voters prefer. Over in Russia, Vladimir Putin tried his best to shrug off news that two neighboring countries may soon join NATO.
Polls were still open in Pennsylvania when Stephen recorded this show, so we’ll have to wait for cialis generic online cheap to increase the birth rate in this state and improve potency in men.
Bye bye to Madison. At least we won’t be treated to unwanted nude videos.
The question of Ignorant vs. Stupid is a deep subject, not a snap judgement kind of thing. Maybe akin to Heredity vs. Environment.
Ill dwell on it further because I actually already do, but one thing I do know is back in the fifties and then sixties when ALL of us local kids were like extremely ignorant, some among us were also ignorant AND stupid. And some of us knew the difference.
Some of those who might rightly be considered to have been intelligent have grown up to have become Chumplestons. Seems to me to be a pretty stupid way to think, but maybe it’s just that they didn’t pay attention in school.
World update, cyber world that is. The russians have decided to start cyber attacks this week. I have not heard of serious breaches yet. A while ago I said to keep vehicles fueled up, never below a half tank, this is a good thing to do. Also, have a good bit of cash on hand for just in case the credit card and ATM systems go down. Also, to have food, water and some way of cooking without public services. I use butane stove tops, but a good old Coleman stove, propane or white gas, would be useful too.
They have been hitting my things roughly every twenty minutes around the clock. There must be more than one attack group because there is an occasional overlap once an hour, or so.
…but Republican nude videos are the best kind! More submissions from the Freedom Caucus before Nov. plz, TIA👍
Man, this age of Aquarius really sucks.
Strug –
I’ll try and contract the 5 th Dimension , and tell’ em we want our money back. By the way , you’ll want to brush the last of those flower petals out of your hair.
Scott Mackenzie is out of business.
I was wondering about Idaho’s results , down ballot .
Some real red thinking in those “dog catcher” offices.
There are plenty of things out there I’m completely ignorant about. Plasma physics comes to mind, as does gravity. And I never have understood the difference between alternating current and direct current, but I know that reversing the poles on a DC device makes it either run in reverse or die a quick death, but then again I took football physics as an elective my senior year at Bama and I guess we didn’t cover that distinction. I like to think I’m not stupid – I hope I’m right. When it comes to other folks I think I’m decent at knowing the difference between a merely ignorant person (e.g. TFG talking about just about anything other than welching on debts) versus an ignorant/stupid person (e.g. Marjorie Taylor Green). Red caps tend to mark the latter these days.
Glad to see that little Cawthorn prick lost. I wonder if he and Stephen Miller do lunch.
A Monster Hurricane Season Is Coming—and Here’s the Culprit
The Atlantic hurricane season starts on June 1, and the Gulf of Mexico is already warmer than average. Even more worrying is a current of warm tropical water that is looping unusually far into the Gulf for this time of year, with the power to turn tropical storms into monster hurricanes.
It’s called the Loop Current, and it’s the 800-pound gorilla of Gulf hurricane risks.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-loop-current-is-forecasting-a-monster-atlantic-hurricane-season
Pogo –
I’m stealing ” football physics “.
mark twain on the subject:
“Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.”
and
“Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.”
Ignorance –
” A lack of knowledge “, note the root word Ignore.
This goes back to the invention of , “Cool” . It was cool to be a “C” student , that’s where the herd lived , thus the need to invent “Nerd” and :Geek”.
lol Dems think they’re smart and lose even when they win, bunch of dopes
speaking of education & avoidance thereof
Blink –
This is why Fetterman is going into Red counties. Your thinking is spot on.
It’s why the GOP won the countryside. The Dems saw them as boobs .
FDR . JFK, and LBJ did not sneer at these voters. They made their lives better.
This shift from that has given us this “Politics of Grievance”.
The big Dem thinkers have no clue about the life of a soybean farmer.
This cuts both ways .
Australia election: How climate is making Australia more unliveable
“It’s devastating. The amount of time and effort you put in your home and then to see it go under water.”
Sam Bowstead is an architect who specialises in preparing houses to withstand natural disasters. But when floods engulfed his Brisbane home in February, he felt helpless.
“I’ve worked with people who’ve been in similar situations – now this happened to me,” he says.
“I was shocked at how fast [the water] rose… more than a metre in a couple of hours. I went from being worried about our property to being worried about our safety.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-61432462
As I’ve said before , Climate Change is going to walk up to your door, ring your bell , and punch you right in the face.
Climate is just the kettle we are all boiling in.
Ukraine is just one potato.
The hard part of climate change is the mass of cult followers to not believe it exists. The same as COVID, even while dying of it.
Old movie lines –
“no one ever stole to build a church”
Tony Rome
BB –
It’s coming to everyone’s door.
As Wally said , ” the climate can be a beast, and we are poking at it with sticks”
It is getting very strange in the Twitterverse. Hard to describe, but if you try to present a fact in response to something totally off the wall, you get “That’s the narrative.” as if you believe some fallacy and they are the ones in the know. No facts, no links, no back up just … “That’sthe narrative.”.
So on this ignorance-stupidity continuum, and upon reflection it is a continuum rather than a binary model, climate change deniers add a dynamic – those who are not ignorant, and unless you live under a rock it’s hard to imagine that anyone in the developed world can claim ignorance of the basic facts underlying the phenomenon could credibly claim the don’t know, but rather reject what they do know. Not sure where chosen ignorance falls on that continuum.
Everybody’s ass is up for grabs.
–Lenny Bruce
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