tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47696062619870256172024-03-27T17:55:12.140-06:00The LabUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger130125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4769606261987025617.post-25456026124724708022023-11-13T16:17:00.027-07:002024-01-16T16:27:42.777-07:00Last Art Blast Blog Update<p><br /></p><p>sup old blog audience! this blog is retired for now. i am continuing to publish at Substack.</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4769606261987025617.post-89875554326791316332023-10-10T08:06:00.017-06:002023-10-10T10:36:18.566-06:00Rashรดmon (1950) Movie Review Spoilers<iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/Zqoyl2p8_lw?si=-JzjUa_5SorBOmNu" width="480"></iframe><div><br /></div><div>In Rashomon everyone tells lies. Everyone tells a truth.</div><div><br /></div><div>The bandit overpowers the husband, rapes the wife, takes the swords and runs off leaving the husband tied up. The bandit flees in fear when the wife pulls the dagger after raping her. The bandit tells a tall tale about cutting the tied husband's ropes and an epic sword fight duel to burnish his image and cover his cowardice.</div><div><br /></div><div>The husband asks the bandit to take the wife as well as he runs off. From the afterlife the husband lies about his death to protect his honor cover his humiliation of being first tricked by a bandit and then murdered by his dishonored wife.</div><div><br /></div><div>The raped and betrayed wife kills the husband with the ivory and ebony handled dagger after the bandit runs off. The wife lies about a preposterous sword fight. She lies to cover her murder.</div><div><br /></div><div>The wood cutter withdraws the dagger from the corpse after finding the dead husband. The wood cutter lies about losing his axe. He lies to cover his theft of the dagger.</div><div><br /></div><div>The storytellers literally break apart a ruin of their once great culture for firewood while telling the tale.</div><div><br /></div><div>Every character is at turns victim and villain. The husband lured into the woods by his interest in buying the misbegotten cache of weapons offered by the bandit is both victim and villain - lured by his interest in profiting from misbegotten wealth.</div><div><br /></div><div>end spoiler question - is the abandoned infant the child of the wife by the bandit rape? ๐ค</div><div><br /></div><div>Rashomon. ๐๐</div><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4769606261987025617.post-33510595584879457952023-09-17T11:56:00.003-06:002023-09-17T12:12:42.054-06:00Stayin Alive<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinU7MAHYQiJ0LzNeFCTWlHEjZX6ww2yoE6KkJyikNVD7z6B3b8NaCe-LgwFvhs2AyH5GeKPxyJKHZiR-f50lUZv3L7RoFl45r-fASY2qlTMjsNgeQ2jLYvMtGJs2ir06UJ_qjmSnLKbcwbGjTwKDKZGQ3-s_R4egvwBjlfhNfzCkWv2Xzse_P17QWZ-5s/s2916/dyuta-chapter1.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2916" data-original-width="2396" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinU7MAHYQiJ0LzNeFCTWlHEjZX6ww2yoE6KkJyikNVD7z6B3b8NaCe-LgwFvhs2AyH5GeKPxyJKHZiR-f50lUZv3L7RoFl45r-fASY2qlTMjsNgeQ2jLYvMtGJs2ir06UJ_qjmSnLKbcwbGjTwKDKZGQ3-s_R4egvwBjlfhNfzCkWv2Xzse_P17QWZ-5s/s320/dyuta-chapter1.png" width="263" /></a></div>may keep posting Sanskrit translation note collage.<p></p><p>i am working on two manuscripts in parallel, 'Sabha As it Rhymes' and 'Bhima the Terrible.'</p><p>These are notes from Dyuta parva, which is the gambling match with dice with Shakuni and Yudhishthira - a part of the Sabha rhymes. </p><p>tinkering with chapter graphics. here is 'Jatasura Vadha' - Jat the cannibal hauling a wagon full of bound Pandavas (Draupadi, Yudhishthira, Sahadeva, Nakula)</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaSVN2NVhB-hMLR5l_SPvsJj-KL2_6rSCy49X-bYX0wjYY6jfpRNZn93zFfloKhB9moSiBGcbAYsgJv6HjSiwXmyb6ddKSkrmHWBi12HxGhoww4VgF7mJCJjH2bwZSTG8qAMZk6HAzxNUB5xcwApc0Jf7xZxH1UmHOjOGUQIFPU9Wn8-06SXMhS5oitEA/s898/jatasura.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="710" data-original-width="898" height="506" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaSVN2NVhB-hMLR5l_SPvsJj-KL2_6rSCy49X-bYX0wjYY6jfpRNZn93zFfloKhB9moSiBGcbAYsgJv6HjSiwXmyb6ddKSkrmHWBi12HxGhoww4VgF7mJCJjH2bwZSTG8qAMZk6HAzxNUB5xcwApc0Jf7xZxH1UmHOjOGUQIFPU9Wn8-06SXMhS5oitEA/w640-h506/jatasura.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4769606261987025617.post-4286498030830164012023-09-02T12:08:00.014-06:002023-09-17T11:59:49.465-06:00Y'all know where to find me<p> Creative energy is continuing toward </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHA4qBdBemctuAYU4NJO3HI75JxsaRVplupv3stuBojTpRz2w8JEfZnJXFkZszDir8-Y4XB0NL4ziJN9MgD9phCupbhtW9ao2HxZpeqo917EApQqRdEvgNnP_igmU87351BUbD44ATNGb7gIMsU8ToL9GRcoVcHFkQHz_VJkeEdsjbOlCtmkW5Ius35eU/s4206/chapter-2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4206" data-original-width="3144" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHA4qBdBemctuAYU4NJO3HI75JxsaRVplupv3stuBojTpRz2w8JEfZnJXFkZszDir8-Y4XB0NL4ziJN9MgD9phCupbhtW9ao2HxZpeqo917EApQqRdEvgNnP_igmU87351BUbD44ATNGb7gIMsU8ToL9GRcoVcHFkQHz_VJkeEdsjbOlCtmkW5Ius35eU/s320/chapter-2.jpg" width="239" /></a></div>Drop by the stack to take a look if you're bored.<p></p><p>Bronze age war poetry may not be everyone's cuppa tea.</p><p>happy to supply promo digital copy for frees. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4769606261987025617.post-60119644410806352792023-07-23T14:32:00.004-06:002023-07-23T14:37:25.495-06:00YANC - Milton Friedman would just say no to Sanctions! What's cleaner than clean? ammonia coal<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzwI0V-TfDCkKNF6LWmjYVthUZa2nPjtLJIugvMzfEmnWZ4oqyfFHXY1-GUGp5xfV7jVMoi3v24McqzzOpJfyIZOcSWam8d3GCuS8B4NeY0UMA7D6XHgbzJ3o-9oPFSpVRXjdFJAOKMZq4Vw8TIHVMbgf70xghGMlYfFpL13OqH-TELj6HhE3icHXviPM/s2565/07-23-2023.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1824" data-original-width="2565" height="456" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzwI0V-TfDCkKNF6LWmjYVthUZa2nPjtLJIugvMzfEmnWZ4oqyfFHXY1-GUGp5xfV7jVMoi3v24McqzzOpJfyIZOcSWam8d3GCuS8B4NeY0UMA7D6XHgbzJ3o-9oPFSpVRXjdFJAOKMZq4Vw8TIHVMbgf70xghGMlYfFpL13OqH-TELj6HhE3icHXviPM/w640-h456/07-23-2023.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Related image search: #Charles Strebor #Nathan Olney #Dematerialism # Marianne McMillan #Karl Bogartte #Trevor Brown<p></p><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjYldYl7h2-IRIF-IDJgL9wC6ZmNyq5Nc7adeM3-IUuFJIJwnULQF-9zxcNEVLU8Zjgs9KProc2A-CeXRA01u8ruijKv8X6Gvx44bBcamxmGWDymawl9ZCaPLD2vvBQHsNG4c3IgTfLoijxUTIvSlPe5IJcJSZo0YCizAA8_VdVC-Cx_IsR6zWW-dByr9c" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="858" data-original-width="922" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjYldYl7h2-IRIF-IDJgL9wC6ZmNyq5Nc7adeM3-IUuFJIJwnULQF-9zxcNEVLU8Zjgs9KProc2A-CeXRA01u8ruijKv8X6Gvx44bBcamxmGWDymawl9ZCaPLD2vvBQHsNG4c3IgTfLoijxUTIvSlPe5IJcJSZo0YCizAA8_VdVC-Cx_IsR6zWW-dByr9c" width="258" /></a></div><br /><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4769606261987025617.post-42098770802482748452023-07-16T09:06:00.014-06:002023-07-17T07:02:49.048-06:00Mine Fields Awaste, Weird Baseball Takes Off in Texas, Detroit Dines on Elephant, Indo-Roma Irish Taxonomy, Parasites and Protozoa GoTo Poland, Luddite Lawmakers Chose AI, Long Arm of China Law, Iron Veins Cut Off What Remains<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJINcOPMEdIFlLE4N7Rpn6ac8cFWvRpUob2ST-_c4FocJ1tGApOlo2dbW3l-xYYiT7DbrPG1NFVxr3bf3JrQ3DrRzgbKIzZK_QTXxBLzkxeZ8u8Qfuv0SjI_4HQ-tXDMaWfkfGVHun9z0ie7VoTlhd0vc2wGAcMPqZ6gPHe6TC4z3Ms5PJvYuDlvTN5-A/s2098/07-16-2023.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1578" data-original-width="2098" height="482" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJINcOPMEdIFlLE4N7Rpn6ac8cFWvRpUob2ST-_c4FocJ1tGApOlo2dbW3l-xYYiT7DbrPG1NFVxr3bf3JrQ3DrRzgbKIzZK_QTXxBLzkxeZ8u8Qfuv0SjI_4HQ-tXDMaWfkfGVHun9z0ie7VoTlhd0vc2wGAcMPqZ6gPHe6TC4z3Ms5PJvYuDlvTN5-A/w640-h482/07-16-2023.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /> <a href="https://www.google.com/search?sxsrf=AB5stBg7dT5QHnNu8tKoVlswx6QLiX6Gxw:1689532283448&q=khosrow+hassanzadeh+art&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiwn92c7pOAAxXyODQIHRT7AWwQ0pQJegQIDBAB&biw=1623&bih=961&dpr=1.05">khosrow hassanzadeh art - Google Search</a><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4769606261987025617.post-17922503830729689842023-07-14T17:17:00.010-06:002023-07-14T17:20:09.637-06:00Counter measure<p></p><blockquote><p>"I will blaze amidst the soldiers like the rays of the sun. I will use weapons created by the gods. I will crush the Pandavas. Bibhatsu (Arjuna), Janardana (Krishna), Bhima, the twins (Nakula and Sahadeva), Yudhishthira, Shikhandi, Dhrishtadyumna and Satyaki do not know the weapons I possess or the techniques for releasing and withdrawing them. In earlier times the Gods crafted a weapon that never returns without killing, but it kills indiscriminately. Used in a battle its energy will blaze and cause a shower of incandescent arrows to fall from the sky." - Ashvatthama. Narayana Astra Moksha Parva. Mahabharata.</p></blockquote><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj9apGsQePfEC6KdZdAOfSAEHI-ZCBoGuB0vDC4ThM_0tnQ74QpGs1-e0OfDUI0sUUZuSwPOQmcSI88VAjdbSnWQitXiJFGAnP9_P-0v2p1WGjJ4u_Qb3cb6fNi7pBGZ5ZAVWK8kT3zyq7sYAUa3qgykfbfKWb_XWXq-x_mkQPwB9Tgi5Ikr3dcl0krcMw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="572" data-original-width="821" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj9apGsQePfEC6KdZdAOfSAEHI-ZCBoGuB0vDC4ThM_0tnQ74QpGs1-e0OfDUI0sUUZuSwPOQmcSI88VAjdbSnWQitXiJFGAnP9_P-0v2p1WGjJ4u_Qb3cb6fNi7pBGZ5ZAVWK8kT3zyq7sYAUa3qgykfbfKWb_XWXq-x_mkQPwB9Tgi5Ikr3dcl0krcMw" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p><a href="https://www.eurasiantimes.com/us-admits-russias-on-point-jamming-has-made-life-miserable/?amp">Russiaโs โOn-Point Jammingโ Has Made Life Miserable For HIMARS, EW Attacks Cause It To Miss Its Target - US Report (eurasiantimes.com)</a></p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/05/16/world/russia-ukraine-news">U.S. Officials Confirm Damage to Patriot Defense System in Kyiv Attack - The New York Times (nytimes.com)</a></p><p><a href="https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/patriot-station-batteries-destroyed-hypersonic">Patriot Radar Station and Five Missile Batteries Destroyed in Russian Hypersonic Strike on Kiev (militarywatchmagazine.com)</a></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4769606261987025617.post-59880558849305024982023-07-07T18:24:00.046-06:002023-07-09T09:37:48.650-06:00Hearts and Thoughts Fade Away <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigPEeMi8PECYpODJ1e0TkqEzUPlUmVHORH_C3FO5Sn_yqciUQ1qLSoQrTpgKySeIxin1_sTQP6GQ8SkUjuF64tNqe1agpwwy5ij9cW-6A4bT_ec2lt-xI9AqqeuqmpzQfhWxJ6lmrfy_WXoRkhtmF2ztqNGcJuiOGhduE34cG7j1_qWX2hMLkcZHQWN_Q/s4160/draw_straight_flush.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4160" data-original-width="4160" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigPEeMi8PECYpODJ1e0TkqEzUPlUmVHORH_C3FO5Sn_yqciUQ1qLSoQrTpgKySeIxin1_sTQP6GQ8SkUjuF64tNqe1agpwwy5ij9cW-6A4bT_ec2lt-xI9AqqeuqmpzQfhWxJ6lmrfy_WXoRkhtmF2ztqNGcJuiOGhduE34cG7j1_qWX2hMLkcZHQWN_Q/w640-h640/draw_straight_flush.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">in memory of a friend</div><h1 style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></h1><h2>Super Silly System</h2><h3 style="text-align: left;">Chapter 5 Card Draw</h3>One good thing about 5 card draw is just that the level of play has a much wider range as compared to other popular variants like Texas Hold'em or Omaha. Those games are popular and sensationalized due to the poker boom started by Doyle Brunson and sensationalized through players like Chris Moneymaker. Players in those games are very skilled at that form, but in other variants of poker don't have as much experience. Doyle Brunson called Texas Hold'em the Cadillac of poker. I respect that. But to me Hold'em is the kung foo of poker. Crouching tiger 3 bet to the flop, blooming lotus when a set of aces hits, then its preying mantis when the drawing hand floats the turn bet and hidden dragon when the heart makes a flush on the river with the money all in. Draw is like a light saber fight. Bet-fold-raise-call-draw-bet-fold-raise-call pot. Slash-slash-hack-parry-stab bingo. No re-re-redraw haze to floatie along on. <br /><br />One part I like about draw is disguising one's hand on any non-pat hand in the draw. When 3 cards connect on the deal, especially when they connect straight-wise and flush, drawing 2 may make a runner hand or pair and existing card. Sometimes its worst odds to make the hand but may be more on the implied odd. When the runners make it, the hand can be disguised to players who saw the draw 2. Draw feels more fun to mix it up. <div><br /></div><div>Here are a few hands to show what I mean. </div><div>This was in a 6 hand game.<h1 style="text-align: left;">Hand 1 <span style="font-size: x-large;">๐ค๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ง๐ ๐๐น </span></h1><div>To the right of the dealer I had 4S.5S.6S.QD.9H in an unraised ante pot. Everyone I put in a small raise. On the draw I looked for runner runner straight or flush, dumping QD.9H. The deck gives me 7S and 2C. 4 to the straight and the straight flush spades just one gap with the 2 of clubs. Ha! Can you beat that? It's one of those hands where it's so close the master-plan it feels like it should win. Welcome to draw poker! A bluff raise on the end got picked off by aces. Sometimes the only way to win is bet and you get called.</div><div><br /></div><h1 style="text-align: left;">Hand 2 ๐๐๐๐๐</h1><div>There it is. Similar to above - second position to act dealt ADJH10D6C2S. I bet to represent ditch the 2S and 6C looking to pair a high card or runner-runner broadway straight draw. The return gives me QC and 9H; for the seems like it should be a straight 9-10-J-Q-A. Ending up winning a showdown in a check-raise squeeze play that saw the winning hand fold a pair and a Ace high - Queen out-kicker. Folder assumed 3 of a kind or 2 pair. </div><div><br /></div><div><h1>Hand 3 ๐๐๐๐๐</h1><div>In this case I was dealt 23445. I raised the ante from the button and was re-raised by first to act. On the draw I cashed the 4 looking for a straight rather than try to redraw more cards to hit a set of 4s or make two pair. Drawing to the straight is probably the worst mathematical play there, but my thought process followed when they drew 2. I figured they already had a pair or better, and in that situation I figured the pair of 4s were no good anyway and whether the straight hit or not the raiser would try to show down if they had a big pair and figured we were in the same race. The straight missed but repaired the 3. I check-raised over the pot on the end. They thought for a minute and folded kings up thinking I must have hit a straight or flush. The pre draw action and information from the draw should allow one to gauge an opponent's hand to a range. </div></div><div><br /></div><div>All in all, 5 card draw is a fine game and more freedom to make creative sub-optimal plays that the shark infested oceans at the Hold 'em games where they snack on sub-optimal play like Tunisian Tuna. The biggest draw to Texas Hold'em is also its fatal flaw; the river. In Hold'em it's entirely possible to make the wrong read, get outplayed, get out-bet, be out-kicked and still be saved by a miracle card on the end. That kind of epic nonsense is not really possible in draw. That's another good thing about draw poker, you don't have to put up with bad beat stories cause there are none. The structure of Hold'em is its insurance. The tactical structure of draw is much tighter and less edging on repeated rounds of chance. <br /><div> ๐ด๐ด๐ด๐ด๐ด๐ฅ<p></p></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4769606261987025617.post-67521650321171238542023-07-05T11:44:00.012-06:002023-07-05T12:04:30.115-06:00Bonus July 4 Newspaper Collage: AI Wrote 702, Nun Vader, Jenin in the Zone, Juvie Spotlight War, Tunis Means Tuna, CIA goes Blond(ie as in 'call me'), Go Long Lithium!<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiikVrCaglguOjoS2yxtZ2sDqOc9Z_MHcUiEqqFr14Zsd6prPoQojAoIk6AsJU1XyA0N4IC__UGKW5GUzhEwVPZz_TexH3VjDB2hHOBO1GqONM7YgfbrTUekGufrQgrzs5NPx3eEO7fx1s6nJA798_Ul8rDwNyAVw35gNEwVKXQJRjxbrkl6G0atQgCmyA/s1872/july-4-2023.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1780" data-original-width="1872" height="608" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiikVrCaglguOjoS2yxtZ2sDqOc9Z_MHcUiEqqFr14Zsd6prPoQojAoIk6AsJU1XyA0N4IC__UGKW5GUzhEwVPZz_TexH3VjDB2hHOBO1GqONM7YgfbrTUekGufrQgrzs5NPx3eEO7fx1s6nJA798_Ul8rDwNyAVw35gNEwVKXQJRjxbrkl6G0atQgCmyA/w640-h608/july-4-2023.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4769606261987025617.post-59660053250870438702023-07-02T12:15:00.014-06:002023-07-02T15:53:42.004-06:00Wagner Revolts China Bolts, Capsized Boats, Pickleball Bullets, Panama City Drowning, Grandpas Balls, France Explodes<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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They call him 'Uncle Ted' and are 'Tedpilled'. I had no idea. Idk. 35,000 words seems like a lot for a manifesto if I am being honest.<br /><p></p><div>Related web image search #valda bailey #delaney and Bonnie #Robischon Gallery<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi3W2GDkeqnqdWg93xax_29-LfU1F3EyLgQVW4iSQxp2q41PjH8M58HCEyezMYaTOLGhIdj-kLFDCBeRRSTL-LaFuw4aGQmsrsYA7Lv0VsAq4JuJBoVd0AarXF0hqXF2hhmPfo1-E71q0C_NRHJ1PARER7_lKa27ci_WWxxaV3LgvTCURpYRPKsB0eK" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1685" data-original-width="957" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi3W2GDkeqnqdWg93xax_29-LfU1F3EyLgQVW4iSQxp2q41PjH8M58HCEyezMYaTOLGhIdj-kLFDCBeRRSTL-LaFuw4aGQmsrsYA7Lv0VsAq4JuJBoVd0AarXF0hqXF2hhmPfo1-E71q0C_NRHJ1PARER7_lKa27ci_WWxxaV3LgvTCURpYRPKsB0eK" width="136" /></a></div><br /><br /></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4769606261987025617.post-38919812735604549832023-06-04T10:53:00.009-06:002023-06-04T14:53:51.321-06:00Cop City Unrest, Tragic Train Derailment, Biden Slips, Mauritania Women be Free, Russian Kid Anthems, and other paint by number antics<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_8ddQ4OorcLo02KXyT0e9WTcM6V4DWvaaD_HjBPNZX611hqMbeEinueu4eGxvO1OjZKmxoscUxJki1FxPBmxzatMdxTfHlw0fe1grwPfm7H2UEGKZEY3LB_clPeGrCQyDsUKgSBxHnadIEYzZPvBI3wga8ddzc3xGZur76J9W6kjPOAQK1pGsyb1c/s1797/06-04-2023.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1608" data-original-width="1797" height="572" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_8ddQ4OorcLo02KXyT0e9WTcM6V4DWvaaD_HjBPNZX611hqMbeEinueu4eGxvO1OjZKmxoscUxJki1FxPBmxzatMdxTfHlw0fe1grwPfm7H2UEGKZEY3LB_clPeGrCQyDsUKgSBxHnadIEYzZPvBI3wga8ddzc3xGZur76J9W6kjPOAQK1pGsyb1c/w640-h572/06-04-2023.png" width="640" /></a></div>Quick Capsule Notes - Lots of notable events, weather and sports in the news today from the collage.<p></p><p>Start where its hot - Russia. Last week the Times tepidly reported a belief that Russian support for the war was built on shaky foundation. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgakLXdxfyhKz4Mvy0jvkA1ro1Zot2ZneMqI6Elw5sqmmpbW77zWyPLs6nU9bLKuVFC4ArELsqtuOzOt4KJhfHbtQ0i9G5i46RBxmjwyqRuP6LWAPfqPNAkIV_cqjOiCnAShva0H_hWB9WhjmTBAgxrH_65ZAmP1Mp-RXoO2p_aJCalMceekdaOLDab" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="206" data-original-width="187" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgakLXdxfyhKz4Mvy0jvkA1ro1Zot2ZneMqI6Elw5sqmmpbW77zWyPLs6nU9bLKuVFC4ArELsqtuOzOt4KJhfHbtQ0i9G5i46RBxmjwyqRuP6LWAPfqPNAkIV_cqjOiCnAShva0H_hWB9WhjmTBAgxrH_65ZAmP1Mp-RXoO2p_aJCalMceekdaOLDab" width="218" /></a></div>This angle in reporting is common in western propaganda; the narrative is that Putin is an out of control leader of a war that has shaky or non-existent popular support. The west's propaganda plays up many reports of carloads of young men leaving Russia, and this or that prominent business person in Russia speaking out against the war. However, there is another side to that - this week we see their schoolkids kids are happily wearing camo swim suits and singing songs. <p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiCyfFNXEUFuqsqchPh7ZvkWfG9D_ApddidMkU9TLm-IxU-Kx-pI-nFefCLkgugQLJyO_NBw6bC2ZYjYPs9XkycRQZ45dyUSU5tJxWHeEp0kh58QdVOYuOVg2Aldu1id6w59ANmLcrf0BrqB7mY17qJUY-7IE_CwlHa3OIttm3Ewx-svUD85bg6j9Hf" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="160" data-original-width="203" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiCyfFNXEUFuqsqchPh7ZvkWfG9D_ApddidMkU9TLm-IxU-Kx-pI-nFefCLkgugQLJyO_NBw6bC2ZYjYPs9XkycRQZ45dyUSU5tJxWHeEp0kh58QdVOYuOVg2Aldu1id6w59ANmLcrf0BrqB7mY17qJUY-7IE_CwlHa3OIttm3Ewx-svUD85bg6j9Hf" width="305" /></a></div>The kids characterize all those carloads of conscientious objectors that outlets like CNN love to play up as evidence that Russia's people may not be willing to fight the war as gangsters and fascist filth fleeing Russia. yikes. <p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhRr4WqTXqq8tdOSjvbGZCm79FltZZKU2besCMszP9MDF0xdIFRklncN7vkO1x1jiMX0aKH2EZ_5VWYHpf7OEK08k9EVhk1utZLUl7fxcZlY7LhgE3mZ7038ThtxeDDgQB2hvGnP1PPd-BwBGeeAQ-ykU7-Nqj3_3vDE-JLy4QEXqSvZAUhHHLfCdBN" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="76" data-original-width="177" height="137" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhRr4WqTXqq8tdOSjvbGZCm79FltZZKU2besCMszP9MDF0xdIFRklncN7vkO1x1jiMX0aKH2EZ_5VWYHpf7OEK08k9EVhk1utZLUl7fxcZlY7LhgE3mZ7038ThtxeDDgQB2hvGnP1PPd-BwBGeeAQ-ykU7-Nqj3_3vDE-JLy4QEXqSvZAUhHHLfCdBN" width="320" /></a></div>A curious note that Russia is purging Kiev's historical credit for receiving Christianity into Russian culture. <div><br /></div><div>Scary reports of a car-bomb assassination of local business men in Zaporizhzhia Ukraine.<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEglP5NwN4JxruSMkw9MSu9R3SdFb-Ud8KMCq48dvQb-IipHnZhHmi3hLrmvSbpedp5ck3-hbRY_Mm2Qkpn3O2v8b4XJtgalfAQEMpfPSJTFdYKF7BBpmtYN7ReMFQJRYyjud7cpFdvdwkudGruqtJ3Y4p8jGXDx99r6doMZmpUmPNc7E038T-FUlQAx" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="134" data-original-width="388" height="111" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEglP5NwN4JxruSMkw9MSu9R3SdFb-Ud8KMCq48dvQb-IipHnZhHmi3hLrmvSbpedp5ck3-hbRY_Mm2Qkpn3O2v8b4XJtgalfAQEMpfPSJTFdYKF7BBpmtYN7ReMFQJRYyjud7cpFdvdwkudGruqtJ3Y4p8jGXDx99r6doMZmpUmPNc7E038T-FUlQAx" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">Reporting suspects the businessman was assassinated due to his political ambitions and his support for Russia. what </span><span style="text-align: left;">a soup.</span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></div><p>Did you hear the one about the party boat of international spies that capsized in an Italian resort? </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgXZ2h9Xo9y_DwTR2OU4z0aW7pkSPaBeKAlErnx1Q5jUkl36IxQHKdmXyRHGgFzZuLCu8_jJEm0mfJ9ExkBasN8doC096PAQNpaoMvIq7w3oVDFUjZ0f5OkYgrNmYQ7WftgrHNKL9C3i_8wLX_gWqBCk9WhNzrItYDQ91AIPbifSsgBx6nWLc0vvN9F" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="374" data-original-width="188" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgXZ2h9Xo9y_DwTR2OU4z0aW7pkSPaBeKAlErnx1Q5jUkl36IxQHKdmXyRHGgFzZuLCu8_jJEm0mfJ9ExkBasN8doC096PAQNpaoMvIq7w3oVDFUjZ0f5OkYgrNmYQ7WftgrHNKL9C3i_8wLX_gWqBCk9WhNzrItYDQ91AIPbifSsgBx6nWLc0vvN9F" width="121" /></a><br />The weird kicker is that it was a micro-weather event that only sunk their boat. Wut the what?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><br /><p></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4769606261987025617.post-28709246517863095122023-05-30T17:50:00.032-06:002023-06-10T11:18:48.962-06:00Recognize World War by Party Three?<h3 style="text-align: left;">Observations</h3><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/27/world/europe/russia-putin-ukraine-war.html" style="text-align: center;">Putinโs Ukraine Strategy: Ignore War in Public and Outlast Foes - The New York Times (nytimes.com)</a></li><li><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/30/europe/moscow-drone-attacks-russia-intl/index.html">Drone attacks in Moscow strikes near the heart of Russia's elite | CNN</a></li><li><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/01/27/there-are-already-small-number-us-troops-ukraine-they-florida-national-guard/">There are already a small number of U.S. troops in Ukraine. They're from the Florida National Guard - The Washington Post</a></li><li><a href="https://reason.com/2023/05/11/trump-on-ukraine-i-dont-think-in-terms-of-winning-and-losing-i-think-in-terms-of-getting-it-settled/">Trump Calls for End to Russia-Ukraine War: โI Want Everybody to Stop Dyingโ (reason.com)</a></li><li><a href="https://www.newsweek.com/antony-blinken-us-china-ukraine-russia-war-peace-1791111">Blinken Hints China Peace Plan for Ukraine Is 'Cynical Trap' (newsweek.com)</a></li><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/07/nato-members-may-send-troops-to-ukraine-warns-former-alliance-chief">Nato members may send troops to Ukraine, warns former alliance chief | Nato | The Guardian</a></li></ul><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjoCNPOXVyLwdEMYGujvkBLMZ322tbUW9wmL8f3wgWQPSdpP6xGes4C7ZbVO1bGlJSmTIf9ZF1BFxqihSEovMJZGD1RF7iNdphUuVJu8vc_KD1MsFuUGntpLfYtZVXlCJZsHwye8gPSdFkVJ21Qiu-dWCX0wSlE8wVBZgR1rzJrFSbjTTMyob4pa1hf" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="842" data-original-width="899" height="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjoCNPOXVyLwdEMYGujvkBLMZ322tbUW9wmL8f3wgWQPSdpP6xGes4C7ZbVO1bGlJSmTIf9ZF1BFxqihSEovMJZGD1RF7iNdphUuVJu8vc_KD1MsFuUGntpLfYtZVXlCJZsHwye8gPSdFkVJ21Qiu-dWCX0wSlE8wVBZgR1rzJrFSbjTTMyob4pa1hf=w640-h600" width="640" /></a></div></div></div><br />Thinking through the range of participation from nothing to do with conflict to active war party - <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiEPB82xDaDj8s5a8wcXhDMlExD6ZGLky2aj4obckt1uzYudpZUEhf46XtnqL3K0dutzTdJytJtervIhEH20hlj1RUX8RqDcbbLgAjGCDziAQCKSCFv4ENLxfXt277bGTrFZycx4xEg5S99BarxItyq09lfmQZacKtrAp2XnOfNRwxmAlh7bh-wqhs6" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="494" data-original-width="184" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiEPB82xDaDj8s5a8wcXhDMlExD6ZGLky2aj4obckt1uzYudpZUEhf46XtnqL3K0dutzTdJytJtervIhEH20hlj1RUX8RqDcbbLgAjGCDziAQCKSCFv4ENLxfXt277bGTrFZycx4xEg5S99BarxItyq09lfmQZacKtrAp2XnOfNRwxmAlh7bh-wqhs6" width="89" /></a></div><br /></div><div>Putin and the West (led by the United States/NATO) seem to have the same idea; attritional bankruptcy. Putin has taken the guerrilla perspective; time is on his side in Ukraine. Strangely that idea fits into his world view that Ukraine land is thinly branded Russian turf. From Putin's perspective, Russian forces do not need to win - <a href="https://americancrackpot.blogspot.com/2023/02/nikki-haley-at-head-of-class.html?q=trap" target="_blank">they just need to maintain a set of political conditions under which the United States opposes ceasefire</a>. One idea to entertain is the perilous lure of escalation. Sunk costs scale imagination and commitment. Penny in for a pound. Today non-combatant advisor. Soon boots on the ground? <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiR8-PoGTdzJSJ2YFBD5Xm34Na--2e3OaxO3MuarIneOFjsCL8jCMIKYq8kod2qn3fU7ff72s6_iN-4cj9ufQXia7aT0eTf3yYiv7cf8XqAmFriWeTFYueEMEfWDjeWs7FlTvkN_b8vhRS0W2dNeOXrSuDOA-lokD-bxicloJS88k_ymlDATEQpTHEY" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="226" data-original-width="181" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiR8-PoGTdzJSJ2YFBD5Xm34Na--2e3OaxO3MuarIneOFjsCL8jCMIKYq8kod2qn3fU7ff72s6_iN-4cj9ufQXia7aT0eTf3yYiv7cf8XqAmFriWeTFYueEMEfWDjeWs7FlTvkN_b8vhRS0W2dNeOXrSuDOA-lokD-bxicloJS88k_ymlDATEQpTHEY" width="192" /></a></div></div><div>The Russians seem to think they can tread water waiting out a change of Administration and see what that looks like in 2024 before taking more action. In turn, expect the Biden Administration to do everything in its power to lock in commitments before losing office.</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh2FH63Ekm1ye5D_JsurOYCmBLpHvVFu6NohYulm9RgqSuH_CGCBh7oo4qeaKDSt0jevRHdDpzoh8X-4BQNzObrscE7xdRn6HLJqJ18OZLWOFGs4gqG4nbpdi7fZP0T7VuRqn4-IkBgh2xNbjFjKuLSZnmLkcxrV2Yeir2Hy3KeJVygIA9s7qFTj_Uq" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="55" data-original-width="181" height="97" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh2FH63Ekm1ye5D_JsurOYCmBLpHvVFu6NohYulm9RgqSuH_CGCBh7oo4qeaKDSt0jevRHdDpzoh8X-4BQNzObrscE7xdRn6HLJqJ18OZLWOFGs4gqG4nbpdi7fZP0T7VuRqn4-IkBgh2xNbjFjKuLSZnmLkcxrV2Yeir2Hy3KeJVygIA9s7qFTj_Uq" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjTh0AEeUJUQ_9p_3RKbNDuDkHQW7XD0XQ4JAKtJhXo1N1bNLPuCDuy4DjrpiZLiscYRwBqf93WS4vepwuAlXhU6uogxrvYyIV-XpkPUnlMAt-LGLVmODyeksoBDFDMmFag5gfYHqqKm69d9_l9fmNb5LFDTbcZuqZ0p2sJElvPvwUvrWaISGXL3EWk" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="69" data-original-width="184" height="120" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjTh0AEeUJUQ_9p_3RKbNDuDkHQW7XD0XQ4JAKtJhXo1N1bNLPuCDuy4DjrpiZLiscYRwBqf93WS4vepwuAlXhU6uogxrvYyIV-XpkPUnlMAt-LGLVmODyeksoBDFDMmFag5gfYHqqKm69d9_l9fmNb5LFDTbcZuqZ0p2sJElvPvwUvrWaISGXL3EWk" width="320" /></a></div>Internal pressures mount on Putin to escalate an end to the war by any means.</div><div> </div><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4769606261987025617.post-86112243816581718852023-05-29T12:26:00.007-06:002023-05-30T07:35:49.514-06:00ChatGPT gets disbarred, Putin's Patience, Erdogan Wins Turkey, Raja Modi, Sudan Art under Attack, And more....<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglN-6AZYJGZHcEuWjqO9wOd7a65fH3tVeVAKJT6dGprb9nDBQnqXDRugxRSrEYHX5cuNYuRjSb4TE4mkF0nBLteLJqjYLSIYl4DdT4M4ISWFLqdr_P9k10FSWKC_L2pe1BUqqh41HtUjBi57vpkNPfZnOf0m-mKFXhO-KnlSINf6Xya7poW-Yc18H5/s2339/05-29-2023.png" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1744" data-original-width="2216" height="504" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlxRLJO3wfRgJTzCK8ZycZ6vOsD5i_VeY8iEcpIgQE1IUtf0IJd9VhV_OE6Nhlm8Ogd2zFMK1KhIAg7D6CnrSqMsnx9hQGbbm4Lg7KL2H7hQ5zRQZge5ps_biQ2CLpk69isHqkR7TgZ1XuZ3ag8l_uR4LSn7w-oGfMN2EfLSX1V2XcZUTIV4DpoA1N/w640-h504/04-30-2023-b.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"> Quick snap collage of an online news feed. </span></div><p></p><p></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/hindu-goddess-kali-posing-like-marilyn-monroe-ukraine-sparks-outrage-in-india/ar-AA1aFBMG?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=7269824b470245fa8ffae7cc0d3b7931&ei=38">Hindu goddess Kali posing like Marilyn Monroe: Ukraine sparks outrage in India (msn.com)</a></li><li><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/03/media/tucker-carlson-text-message/index.html">Tucker Carlson sent a racist text to a producer: 'It's not how white men fight' | CNN Business</a></li></ul><p></p><p>The Ukraine dust-up with Kali was omg interesting. Indian officials smell something fishy. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhkcnj8TDIh9diNVSWx0bmIwxj6Vfdt5HeBf2R6xqx_Fm1z210QauUzxmXbqOjyYSPhNStGN3_BHpz3Ndswqs5X0RvfH0nF7HzjY4ZzsH7OuorD8jN4iir_bnQWh7HXR-1FvHWS9hS9ncL-k7PGpqyGhlPXBX4Jey0fzk01YCp5FH9Q4yTevQd4HecN" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="164" data-original-width="637" height="165" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhkcnj8TDIh9diNVSWx0bmIwxj6Vfdt5HeBf2R6xqx_Fm1z210QauUzxmXbqOjyYSPhNStGN3_BHpz3Ndswqs5X0RvfH0nF7HzjY4ZzsH7OuorD8jN4iir_bnQWh7HXR-1FvHWS9hS9ncL-k7PGpqyGhlPXBX4Jey0fzk01YCp5FH9Q4yTevQd4HecN=w640-h165" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I found Ukraine's sexualization/appropriation of Kali into a provocative Marylin Monroe pose perplexing too. As propaganda, it made no sense because there is no Hindu partisan anywhere near the conflict - so why did Ukraine invoke that deity? The Russian Patriarchs like Kirill and his counterparts in the Ukrainian Orthodox Christian camps have been decrying this as Christian on Christian brother on brother violence. Bringing Kali into the mix just seemed like a screwball dig out of left field by Ukraine to me. They must not like that India has not/is not joining the West's offense and guzzles Russian energy by the barrel. 'Our new best friend America will commodify you too, India,' the cartoon seems to say. The sentiment seems very West. The premise very Fukuyama; the expectation that history will march western industrial democratic capitalism to the gates, over the walls and thru the door into the bedroom of every human civilization and culture in time. Maybe.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The British colonization of India was a mass act of cultural repression and stigmatization. Repression in the individual causes it to blow back up larger than before. To my mind that repression is coming back around. The next century will be the rise of two global forces. One will be the Chinese Empire of trade. Second will be the influence of India on popular culture. The West's cultural acts of self-destruction cannot hold. The West's intellectual vanguards has turned inquiry and accountability past the point of return and into destruction. The West hates its own culture and history and a lot of the energy seems to be re-writing the past or destroying/discarding what cannot be revised sufficient to modern taste. There are rising crises of identity; as people no longer have any clue what roles men and women should play in the culture, or which of the two they belong too, or what any of that means no matter how one may add it up. To follow the psychological thought on repression - once an individual casts off identity through destructive acts - as the West is doing now in its culture wars - the individual may feel anxious and a strong compulsion to assume or adopt a new identity and set of identity talismans. Back in the old days this was commonly known as a rite of passage, and the individual was guided to a new appropriate identity be it as a man or woman through some hardship. We don't have anything like that though. In any case. Enter the rise of India's culture right at the moment as the West is shredding the last bits and bobs of Cervantes and Thomas Jefferson through the woodchipper. Sari fads sweeping women up in Idaho or Ohio? Re-watching RRR like Rocky Horror? Cockney gals swooning over the latest serial Krishna's mustache in Liverpool? Yikes. You may shudder at the thought. But it's on the menu, B. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>The Tucker Carlson departure from Fox may have been a surprise to everyone, even Fox! What if the conversation went something like - Higher up: "Tucker, great show tonight. We love you, but you have to do such and such after the Dominion fallout." Tucker, "Ugh. I'm done." Higher-up, "Excuse me?" Tucker, "I'm just done." Exec, "ok." It's funny to me that I have referenced Tucker so much lately - since the <i>New York Times</i> quoted Tucker characterizing Congressperson Massie from Kentucky as 'interesting as hell', because I am not a fan or critic nor am I much interested in Fox News or cable television political wars as a topic in general. This weekend the NYTimes detailed the Tucker-Trump relationship; one that blossomed after Trump dropped voicemail on CNN-era Tucker to concede that Tucker has better hair but the point in Trump's favor is that he has slept with more women - omg lol. The New York Times reporting these detes. For whatever reason the winds of synchronicity keep blowing Tucker this way. Pops up in the collages. I saw Tucker's Fox show exactly one time - albeit that was a recent one-off encounter with a television. Cable political debate television programming is still a thing was news to me. Prior to that I recall a segment with Tucker and John Stewart about a decade ago. The Times quoted Mr. Carlson saying he has "no ambition" in politics or life. His visceral real time reaction to watching a racially charged political act of violence was interesting study of humanity. <i>"White guys fight as dirty as anyone, Tucker!"</i> Anyway. In comics news, Hulk's hulk is a masterstroke. It's Hulks all the way up and turtles all the way down. Makes sense to me.<p></p><p style="text-align: center;">related web images star trek?</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi5bUhASQL-XF4KvsBmuHlxnQRoApIfZNioItW1uYrPZHoflsXNJmghmoldqgULYuXjolgWUqtdcxS0DwR5KRrIvwlnTUsrxPAPzWhrmaO-_ItLczwDzexzSgtOF8JCqKngXFZUkZCc_32aVvpB95BXEyj0rfUWWgfOriCvOCvphEU18Kve2ksIArxd" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1667" data-original-width="939" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi5bUhASQL-XF4KvsBmuHlxnQRoApIfZNioItW1uYrPZHoflsXNJmghmoldqgULYuXjolgWUqtdcxS0DwR5KRrIvwlnTUsrxPAPzWhrmaO-_ItLczwDzexzSgtOF8JCqKngXFZUkZCc_32aVvpB95BXEyj0rfUWWgfOriCvOCvphEU18Kve2ksIArxd" width="135" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4769606261987025617.post-89745678886506920452023-04-29T16:40:00.050-06:002023-05-02T15:57:58.667-06:00The Supreme Woke GOATs, Wrexham Soccer Club Wins, Tucker's Nose, Occupy Brazil, Sudan in Smoke, Bow Bells, Blucipher's Masterstroke and More... <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgphiLlnnTTgn8Ba1l4SnKqzg8U94WYfptL3yXLu_i98185Ne_5jiK4pfg95L6g3VzQZK59uJgV5riihQ4roWUjAfSp8lYYjy7XQNkrUYQ8vVCEXlFrNFUO_MyUAGdNFjLe-AvjqBaRzQuTp6eIVC1feLxQKD8cGBHAU3g6stdznl7oZYmR01tO2owR/s2216/04-30-2023.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1744" data-original-width="2216" height="504" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgphiLlnnTTgn8Ba1l4SnKqzg8U94WYfptL3yXLu_i98185Ne_5jiK4pfg95L6g3VzQZK59uJgV5riihQ4roWUjAfSp8lYYjy7XQNkrUYQ8vVCEXlFrNFUO_MyUAGdNFjLe-AvjqBaRzQuTp6eIVC1feLxQKD8cGBHAU3g6stdznl7oZYmR01tO2owR/w640-h504/04-30-2023.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><h1>๐๐ฆต</h1>"London lore holds that to be a true Cockney, a person must be born within earshot of Bow Bells, which ring from St. Mary-le-Bow church in east London." <br /><div style="text-align: right;">- Carrying on a Waning Way of Life, WIth Pearly Duds and a Cockney Accent. M.Specia. New York Times. April 30, 2023.</div>-<br /><h4>relate collage gateway web image search @time of create</h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhrCmkDtY9xz6mIYf_DSDg8urVVQEX9TLaC5BtTI7oR_TcVJJ6-RciB0z7oKPm1Ntp-SGlhfF_sbMQ12mt_kbT6q5GpKyXi4zvRPgbDxiiGcguzWJ-XH_Mxmg-p0ESE2vKSVHRXk2VzrHPWaljNXYROaSTGCHAWc2yhq8t20pbQ2S3Fa_qDOIcl0TRo" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1679" data-original-width="960" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhrCmkDtY9xz6mIYf_DSDg8urVVQEX9TLaC5BtTI7oR_TcVJJ6-RciB0z7oKPm1Ntp-SGlhfF_sbMQ12mt_kbT6q5GpKyXi4zvRPgbDxiiGcguzWJ-XH_Mxmg-p0ESE2vKSVHRXk2VzrHPWaljNXYROaSTGCHAWc2yhq8t20pbQ2S3Fa_qDOIcl0TRo" width="137" /></a></div></div><h3 style="clear: both; text-align: center;">legend. </h3><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://youtube.com/embed/YO7M0Hx_1D8" width="480"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><h3 style="clear: both;">RIP.</h3></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4769606261987025617.post-10592881331983371302023-04-29T14:38:00.007-06:002023-04-29T15:42:15.235-06:00Increase in disease rates<p><span face="cnnsans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.4px;"></span></p><blockquote><p><span face="cnnsans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.4px;">Disease detectives with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are investigating a cluster of rare and serious brain abscesses in kids in and around Las Vegas, Nevada, and doctors from other parts of the country say they may be seeing a rise in cases, too....</span></p><p class="paragraph inline-placeholder" data-analytics-observe="off" data-component-name="paragraph" data-editable="text" data-uri="archive.cms.cnn.com/_components/paragraph/instances/paragraph_730E4814-8226-E5AD-2786-C77010C3CE3F@published" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: cnnsans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.4px; line-height: var(--theme-paragraph__line-height--from-small); margin: 0px 0px 16px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">โIn my 20 yearsโ experience, Iโve never seen anything like it,โ said Dr. Taryn Bragg, an associate professor at the University of Utah who treated the cases....</p><p><span face="cnnsans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.4px;">โAfter March of 2022, there was just a huge increase,โ in brain abscesses, Bragg said.</span> </p><p><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/28/health/brain-abscess-cluster-nevada/index.html">Doctors watching for more cases after mysterious cluster of brain infections strikes kids in southern Nevada | CNN</a></p></blockquote><p><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/28/health/brain-abscess-cluster-nevada/index.html"></a></p><p>Follow the link to find out more. The article speculates about a relationship to Covid. I speculate as well, just from the perspective that what may have happened after March 2022 or thereabouts was the mass rollout of forced injections of a relatively untested mRNA reactive agent - they call these vaccines, but to my mind vaccines are a specific type of medicine created from dead or partial viruses. I bring this up because I remember digging into the medical research a bit - and the basis of some criticism is that in the past, similar mRNA medicines have failed during long term study due to what is called 'antibody dependency enhancement', or ADE. The upshot of that condition is that what may be the long-term effect of the mRNA stimulant is to suppress the immune system's response. To my read it is similar to what happens with steroid abuse where the body stops producing the hormones that the juice brings into the system. When I see these stories with astonished epidemiologists like Dr. Bragg it tracks with what I saw. We are seeing an across the board fracturing of the immune system. The rub is that no one will ever tie this to the vaccines even if it becomes glaringly obvious that is a major contributor until a long time from now. Denial, and pointing to the lack of conclusive studies, the ability to ad-hoc theorize about mass immune suppression as a result of lockdown (which although seemingly baseless, if conceded would poke another massive hole through the entire enterprise in the first place), or saying the weakening is caused by Covid itself, and finger pointing and so on. </p><p>The enforced vaccination and shutdowns programs were unconstitutional acts. To the side is the issue of public health. The question here is not whether the government has authority and the right to engage in public health policy, but how they have done so. The enforced vaccination program - and these were backed by threats and attacks to persons livelihoods - violated on people's right to religious belief. To accept the vaccination was to force one to accept the materialist atheist assumptions of the substance being injected and to neutralize any spiritual belief about personal health before them. The forced economic shutdown may be construed as an unconstitutional abuse of the federal government's constitutional power to regulate interstate commerce. In the corporate world a dark form of witch hunting took place. The path to an exemption to the mandate were medical or religious. Previously if an employee brought up their religious beliefs at work human resources may contact them and squash it. Now human resources was tasked with soliciting written religious papers linking ones personal spiritual beliefs about mind, body health to the Covid virus and vaccine. Did anyone else feel like they were treated different after being forced to put their religion on blast at work? Put this way - if one says they see evil/nasty energies around Covid and are uncomfortable on that level with the vaccine mandate - without needing to be more specific that is a generic spiritual belief that fits any religious complex. Government coercion to inject an uncertain substance inherently forces that person to violate whatever those beliefs may be. If I say the aggressive social behavior of mandates was part of a mass demonic possession, and that the substance in the syringe is a literally material manifestation, or incarnation, of the demon's energy - being forced to inject that energy by the government is a straightforward violation of constitutional protection for religious freedom. For anyone with spiritual beliefs, those beliefs are manifested in their physical body. 'We showed those mother-trucker rednecks who owns the facts, jacks' - seems to be the liberal take on all this. I don't think they have really thought much beyond fist pumping in the face of their imagined cro-magnum American adversaries in flyover country. They believe an elite vanguard should be able to force the dumb general population to just do things. ready to just roll with it? What I question is whether any of this will go anywhere, or if Americans are just kind of beat at this point. ju-do.</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4769606261987025617.post-85769724195291709082023-04-24T12:35:00.032-06:002023-04-25T18:51:02.025-06:00Alternate 4/23/2023 Collage - Gold Stained Glass Ceiling Variant<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimGm14JBwe5krHsD0rPQgk6MIFgrntT4EZEhdTiznwv5K-th0TYK8KHINTiRc0fdjYUzxVh07ZjywpXUe-G1-GzdaI4aZnXasiKOo3zIj-hr9pjGh7yrAXarZIv2xBJSJlhVpy8MOw4nzpp6GHekL8H7G9HL0qON_dNSK1DMZsDKb9lZbdeFgT-N9H/s1887/04-23-2023-a.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1474" data-original-width="1887" height="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimGm14JBwe5krHsD0rPQgk6MIFgrntT4EZEhdTiznwv5K-th0TYK8KHINTiRc0fdjYUzxVh07ZjywpXUe-G1-GzdaI4aZnXasiKOo3zIj-hr9pjGh7yrAXarZIv2xBJSJlhVpy8MOw4nzpp6GHekL8H7G9HL0qON_dNSK1DMZsDKb9lZbdeFgT-N9H/w640-h500/04-23-2023-a.png" width="640" /></a></div><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/20/us/politics/trump-desantis-2024.html">Behind Trumpโs Personal Touch in Fighting DeSantis - The New York Times (nytimes.com)</a> Fascinating stuff. methinks the back-and-forth barking between Mr. Trump and Mr. DeSantis can be boiled down to a quote from one of Mr. Trump's henchmen - "we (team Trump) wake up every day thinking of ways to punch Ron DeSantis in the face." ouch! pls enjoy the collage variant with big tent stain glass Disney floral print ornament.<p></p><h1 style="text-align: center;">๐ฟ๐๐ช<br /></h1>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4769606261987025617.post-80053952743769972772023-04-23T17:25:00.016-06:002023-04-24T10:57:58.096-06:00Covid Data Point<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-large;">๐ฅ<br />โจ<br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEihYOYuld4cHi8aJq89_rwwxXDUFgaLg4gtzd51QEKluqeyUqmYX7obX3sP9DBkSVC7jVPQbR3xzftpZMofiZw5mjJlttq5qL73AFWjXRZrwrkqYmvtK4hrHg6WrdMGZo9BlqtgKrE8YIIt8-go-6Gs4n70hn_Sy_5X4vGS3A_xlvkawNvvdSLO3gj1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="65" data-original-width="184" height="113" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEihYOYuld4cHi8aJq89_rwwxXDUFgaLg4gtzd51QEKluqeyUqmYX7obX3sP9DBkSVC7jVPQbR3xzftpZMofiZw5mjJlttq5qL73AFWjXRZrwrkqYmvtK4hrHg6WrdMGZo9BlqtgKrE8YIIt8-go-6Gs4n70hn_Sy_5X4vGS3A_xlvkawNvvdSLO3gj1" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/20/health/doctor-death-astrazeneca-covid-vaccine.html#:~:text=A%2032%2Dyear%2Dold%20psychologist,fatal%20reaction%20to%20the%20vaccine." style="text-align: left;">British Man Died of Rare Blood Syndrome Linked to AstraZenecaโs Vaccine - The New York Times (nytimes.com)</a></div><p></p><p>Interesting story - a 32 yo man took the vaccine and immediately suffered complications that ended in death within a few weeks. A surviving widow fought tooth and nail for 2.5 years get his cause of death changed from 'natural causes' and stroke to a vaccine related death. A systemic refusal of the system to acknowledge causes of death related to the vaccine, even in the most obvious case such as this one where the side-effects were not long or lingering but immediate and terminal, could explain the statistical basis for how safe the vaccines are. If you don't attribute anyone's death to a cause, then you can truthfully say that people that die from that cause is low. <a href="https://www.wfyi.org/news/articles/insurance-death-rates-working-age-people-up-40-percent" target="_blank">The 6 sigma all-cause death increase</a> may be where the after-math begins to shake out.<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/23/health/sacklers-opioids-national-academies-science.html" target="_blank"> Are they juke the stats?</a> <a href="https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/07/05/time-to-assume-that-health-research-is-fraudulent-until-proved-otherwise/" target="_blank">Very rare indeed.</a></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhy-lV7qDncHSgC92ipmT5Ci9IFh2RS56K6zKMQDso59zpPmcFqOthp3BENQy0SFq6Fi16o4M9YzFRbeBEDP0kI4I8rwoxo09pexRPSlcF_HPNQK8QRHFzQexORMvV-W6c0TogGpV6Y42XyLwBE6J25cA-_sDRC7SHI36hj8TCK0diRLm68XMtbolz7" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="153" data-original-width="182" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhy-lV7qDncHSgC92ipmT5Ci9IFh2RS56K6zKMQDso59zpPmcFqOthp3BENQy0SFq6Fi16o4M9YzFRbeBEDP0kI4I8rwoxo09pexRPSlcF_HPNQK8QRHFzQexORMvV-W6c0TogGpV6Y42XyLwBE6J25cA-_sDRC7SHI36hj8TCK0diRLm68XMtbolz7" width="285" /></a></div><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4769606261987025617.post-69491932820334714002023-04-23T11:29:00.009-06:002023-04-24T08:59:06.695-06:004/23/2023 Newspaper Collage <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoj4wZs0I9DIdKZwE_KWU5QW7fyZPgPvI-FlHF_IE2sklC_Fe7WvCTeFOBRp2BDI0VTryPbsWMPeB6UkxcCpbJyhkz-YfEzo7qLWbVHof6W_nUeKI_QIOcct5vGNJHQDNqPEv8MIkSDOjGS9BSQWuuRYWl9rwq1U85hoU_hatGEwznfFsiyEDzmChp/s1887/04-23-2023.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1474" data-original-width="1887" height="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoj4wZs0I9DIdKZwE_KWU5QW7fyZPgPvI-FlHF_IE2sklC_Fe7WvCTeFOBRp2BDI0VTryPbsWMPeB6UkxcCpbJyhkz-YfEzo7qLWbVHof6W_nUeKI_QIOcct5vGNJHQDNqPEv8MIkSDOjGS9BSQWuuRYWl9rwq1U85hoU_hatGEwznfFsiyEDzmChp/w640-h500/04-23-2023.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4769606261987025617.post-67280368319803531342023-04-19T16:15:00.045-06:002023-05-02T16:54:15.405-06:00Newspaper Collage - 'not as gucci as people think.'<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW0E-ADDyvS1sOVcImDzNIHVoHZr4ZI5cijAQ3V7YJpPjk6KalUMzzbO0iw3Ze5szy9_7126RFm-rpzUVZo6ald1XJYf1-4HD-cxDA-PeWY2sAATFxi0dYvstaUEkArDySc5RnVnWEbg43MfyLzYoPc5D3MsZyj9vV8ol2RxDb9cwp1O6JHZ9ucr5S/s2179/gray-lady-portrait.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2179" data-original-width="1596" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW0E-ADDyvS1sOVcImDzNIHVoHZr4ZI5cijAQ3V7YJpPjk6KalUMzzbO0iw3Ze5szy9_7126RFm-rpzUVZo6ald1XJYf1-4HD-cxDA-PeWY2sAATFxi0dYvstaUEkArDySc5RnVnWEbg43MfyLzYoPc5D3MsZyj9vV8ol2RxDb9cwp1O6JHZ9ucr5S/w468-h640/gray-lady-portrait.png" width="468" /></a></div><h3 style="text-align: center;">Alternate print 4/16/2023. The 'Gray Lady' Descending a Staircase before Picasso Homage</h3><div>related web image search <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj_hc54eo-BywXp0Jwjb0sjbmegSCTU_t-vur5pqckQxFFhs0V2qpMveIZcVg-jJQmZeb9lsJ1mZLsIqvpZnjYUbNhL9obmM-ZxObERsxsJdOirgWA1XE9hZUJ1XH1ssyDGp0rT2fcdbVnZgQhjYiXZ4U97kpNMgUppmWxr_HI6_E_4k1lzc9_FRdfg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1665" data-original-width="944" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj_hc54eo-BywXp0Jwjb0sjbmegSCTU_t-vur5pqckQxFFhs0V2qpMveIZcVg-jJQmZeb9lsJ1mZLsIqvpZnjYUbNhL9obmM-ZxObERsxsJdOirgWA1XE9hZUJ1XH1ssyDGp0rT2fcdbVnZgQhjYiXZ4U97kpNMgUppmWxr_HI6_E_4k1lzc9_FRdfg" width="136" /></a></div><br /></div><div>Quick commentary - From personal experimentation - reading the <i>New York Times</i> Sunday print newspaper on Sunday and spying headlines on the rack keeps me as well informed as re-reading daily news source and commentary or blogs for a fraction of the time. no/little online sources. no radio. daily exposure to the circus shows brings a dull bloat to mind with marginal value. just reading the sunday times for a couple hours once a week gets the skinny straight dope w/ none of the noise that pollutes the daily air waves. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/18/business/media/fox-dominion-defamation-settle.html" target="_blank">Today I spied headline Fox News on a huge payout.</a> 787 million dimes ten times. yikes. glad I don't watch tv. Didn't see those lies. not interested. don't care. Wasn't exposed to them and a million other ones on air all the time. I poll as a <b>'low information'</b> voter. I don't waste time watching an exclusive on Mueller. nonetheless the NYT is a fantastic newspaper. Eye yam a connoisseur. One of the last bastions of solid journalism standing. Fantastic reporting and photojournalism every week. As a writer I find the reporting content provokes comment. As an artist making collages of their newsprint are a creative pleasure whereas doing the same with inferior newspapers can be a chore. Though I know I shouldn't sometimes I take cheap shots at the rubbish that floats through the opinion section. <span style="font-size: x-large;">๐คก</span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">about the author:</span><span style="font-size: xx-large;">๐ช</span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh6uZLBOJgrgcoEL8TURfB_kSwmi2EldxiXiLep2pVOSC3cNlyQ3N1LJIiXfuj6tZ2cxIDlovU2nYCieb0SeZ1o4bFK5NxhAMlvsDPxinAdrzzzU0ayBEPPAyKchKjEXBErLewsYE9pwvqokoRmv73cKHI4z1DFbBATxu4BjRlr5kxUBxeHn8cqZSTA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="433" data-original-width="738" height="188" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh6uZLBOJgrgcoEL8TURfB_kSwmi2EldxiXiLep2pVOSC3cNlyQ3N1LJIiXfuj6tZ2cxIDlovU2nYCieb0SeZ1o4bFK5NxhAMlvsDPxinAdrzzzU0ayBEPPAyKchKjEXBErLewsYE9pwvqokoRmv73cKHI4z1DFbBATxu4BjRlr5kxUBxeHn8cqZSTA" width="320" /></a></div></div></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4769606261987025617.post-6891830411874880822023-04-17T11:53:00.024-06:002023-04-17T15:55:30.784-06:00The China - America Amalgalypse<p></p><blockquote> "I can't think of any major nation after the United States with more of a Protestant work ethic and naturally capitalist population than China." </blockquote><blockquote> <br />- <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/14/opinion/china-america-relationship.html" target="_blank">Thomas Friedman. 'What are America and China Fighting About?' 4-16-2023. New York Times.</a></blockquote><p></p><p>China's capitalist protestant work ethic? hmm. Make a note of it! I thought this was an interesting comparison of America to China from Mr. Friedman's column today. I have to agree with his comparison. China's politics and all-in industrialization, fondness for capitalist business, and displeasure for corruption all feel gung-ho American-ish to me. <a href="https://americancrackpot.blogspot.com/2023/01/the-next-stage-of-globalization-will-be.html?q=china" target="_blank">I recently wrote similar commentary to Mr. Friedman's point that American culture feels prominently influenced by China.</a> Don't forget the coolie experience as fundamental part of the American mythological and real West. Also from Protestant work ethic, I can't think of two countries that most similarly see technology as the Chinese and Americans - part lavish status driven toy gadgetry, one part business focused, one part with ai as critical law enforcement instrument, a fourth part as a critical component to weaponized superiority - China and America share a "deep good" resonance outlook in the parlance of Mr. Friedman's column. That may be a planned byproduct of the robust economic integrations that Mr. Deng intentionally set in motion in 1978-9 and Mr. Friedman exhaustively outlines in two-page spread. For about 30-40 years, America's material culture got a heavy dose of Chinese made goods - shallow and deep. To wit; When all your crap is Chinese, and all the crap you use is made by the Chinese, you become Chinese. That's the magic of China![1] The shift in American perspective on the make of goods to the Chinese perspective away from the Smith and Wessen steel driven manufacture and heavy metal smithing of durable implements has been remarkable. To the military side - I hope/think China's strategy in Taiwan is to just keep making headway in the rest of the world, let America continue stumbling in its entanglements and lose strength, delay confrontation and make repeated demonstration of strength in the region. One would expect that 80-90% of the business leaders in both countries would revolt if the political or military leaders decided to chart a course of war. The Taiwan situation is interesting. One hopes that the situation resolves in peaceful and uncontested economic integration on either end. We'll see. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEicEJHAXm_INqmgXuNCMYjn9T_5imt2VphwfMAUiQ7YcZxNa4eEMF-ImAue2zEeiwZG8cr4jzjqhOK3Zaz_LgK55GCp0Xu1w12ehBTs4RjRBDYSNQUsEz06i8mMhqNv-DXlNUWWBGrPuxIvz8QBafsPjg3FtPBbmrI7R2MqJhdWdFXTTkLvtkk2c8cn" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="448" data-original-width="427" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEicEJHAXm_INqmgXuNCMYjn9T_5imt2VphwfMAUiQ7YcZxNa4eEMF-ImAue2zEeiwZG8cr4jzjqhOK3Zaz_LgK55GCp0Xu1w12ehBTs4RjRBDYSNQUsEz06i8mMhqNv-DXlNUWWBGrPuxIvz8QBafsPjg3FtPBbmrI7R2MqJhdWdFXTTkLvtkk2c8cn" width="229" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">๐ต๐ ๐ง๐ฅ๐๐๐ฃ๐ข๐๐โฉโช๐ ค๐ ฃ</span></p><p>[1] China once was conquered by a superior enemy. The Chinese decided upon their strategy. They agreed to manufacture and export their goods to the conqueror. They exported everything they could. In a few generations the barbarian descendants became fat and happy, whereupon the Chinese threw off their rule for good. See David Graeber 'History of Debt' for details. </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4769606261987025617.post-8227388624283961192023-04-16T15:14:00.015-06:002023-04-17T14:17:54.371-06:00Picasso Broke His Noses Moses Knows - Cubist Newspaper Collage<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb5NEWgQBKEFkDzUu8CqT2-3Aht--gdvpZh-fpm0W57exPdBk3Lx9A9_M2Om_jBD5H5JT6WP9JmU84um0SO20FU9QfUOKD0TjQ6RELL7AKC7rAwwydujlKC5htX5vxzHF0AL1Z5ED0wUsG2jxuJtt_V-r2AUZNDVQ_z7UC5lvAZUVAZJ_4f6U3BuCj/s2179/04-16-2023.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2179" data-original-width="1774" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb5NEWgQBKEFkDzUu8CqT2-3Aht--gdvpZh-fpm0W57exPdBk3Lx9A9_M2Om_jBD5H5JT6WP9JmU84um0SO20FU9QfUOKD0TjQ6RELL7AKC7rAwwydujlKC5htX5vxzHF0AL1Z5ED0wUsG2jxuJtt_V-r2AUZNDVQ_z7UC5lvAZUVAZJ_4f6U3BuCj/w522-h640/04-16-2023.png" width="522" /></a></div><p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: center;">"African art? Never heard of it." - Picasso</p></blockquote><p>Made me wonder, was Picasso scoffing at the question or the subject? European art? I don't know of any such thing. I know about things like Dutch Masters, Celtic art, English and Russian literature, French impressionists, Italian sculpture and fresco, U.K street art, such and such other, etc. Maybe Picasso was pointing to the racist de-construction of the categorization - the art that Picasso studied that originated on the continent of Africa similarly came from a diverse range of cultural context in different time and places. Who knows?</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0