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News Briefs 02-07-2015

Really TV Land? This is how you think Racism is fixed?

Thanks to Daisy Duke and her shorts.

Quote of the Day:

“Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.”

˜Victor Hugo

      1. scary? nah…
        … I’d keep it as a pet. I always had creepy crawlies growing up. Frogs, hermit crabs, fish, lizards – pretty much everything except a snake.

          1. no spiders
            Certain things mom would not allow in the house. No rodents either, sadly. I always wanted a pet rat 🙁

          2. well…….
            When I was in college, I had a girl friend who had a tarantula. Kept in this big glass terrarium. I hadn’t noticed it for the first couple weeks, thinking it was a large aquarium.

            So, one evening we were sitting on the couch (the terrarium was on a small table behind the couch and against the wall) and I happened to look up at the far wall and saw this huge frikkin’ shadow of a spider climbing up it. I freaked, and turned around and saw the damned thing. The terrarium was lit, and the spider was between the lamp and the glass wall. Scared the hell outta me.

            Afterward, everytime I went over there I made sure that the thing was in the case, and the lid was on top and fastened. 🙂

  1. Dukes of Hazard
    I didn’t even know this show was still playing. I don’t think people will notice, you can watch every episode online somewhere. That moment when you wonder if things have gone to far?

    1. Going too far.
      Absolutely it’s going too far. It’s the same as airbrushing Walt’s cigarettes from his fingers in old Disney photos, or deleting the ‘N’ word in Mark Twain’s Huckeberry Finn –and yeah, I’m aware that by going with the PC approach of not having the BALLS to write the damn word, not only am I falling in the same fallacy I’m criticizing, but I keep on providing power to the word.

      There’s a fine line between Political Correctness and Minitruth. Banning the Dukes is the latter, and I for one am completely against it and other approaches supported by what Chris Ryan calls ‘Hippie Nazism.’

      1. Exactly
        Everyone is going nuts lately with the PC. If it’s not about race it’s about how to define someone, such as a disability. It always ends up sounding more insulting than the previous version. You should see the amount of dancing around the bush people go through with autism. Can’t we just refer to them as a person? That’s what they are! These labels are ridiculous, and all we keep doing is making labels to stick over the labels. If we are going to ban Huck Fin then we should ban pretty much every author from that error because most have some bigotry in their writing. There was the Lovecraft and H.G. Wells blow up a few years ago about this.

        I would understand the banning if it was intentionally trying to insult or being used to represent hatred. If the Dukes were using The General Lee to actually run over black people, then yeah that shouldn’t be on TV ever. But they are not. Here is their take on this while thing, please read it RPJ, it’s interesting:
        http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/07/02/bo-duke-tweets-photo-of-dylann-roof-in-protest-after-tv-land-dumps-dukes-of-hazzard/

        No harm was meant to come from it, it was not meant to represent hate.

          1. The New Wilhelm Reich Book
            Very fine review of the new Reich book. Reich was a prime example of “disruptive thinking” – a cousin to disruptive technology – and like the latter not all aspects may in the end be true or disruptive, but in the meantime they scare the crap out of people wedded to certain models. I know personally that Reich and his forebears like Mesmer were definitely on to something with regard to “life force’ ie Reich’s “orgone,” but I know that not theoretically but empirically as an orgoniteer who makes and most unambiguously feels the orgone field emanating from orgonite. It needs to be noted that modern orgonite is really an evolution of the old orgone boxes and such that Reich came up with. Modern orgonite is both more powerful and more intricate in it what it can do.
            With regard to the “vesicles” I have made a powder of Azomite minerals subjected to repeated boilings and freeze/thaw cycles according to an aspect of Reich’s methods, and though this powder definitely goes into a higher energy state I don”t whether that is just a result of the process accomplishing something else by means that have nothing to do with vesicles, or whether there is a presence of vesicles since I don’t have a microscope of sufficient magnification to see any bions or vesicles that might be there. Whatever – I mix this powder and other things into orgonite as additives to good effect.
            I don’t pretend to have plumbed the depths of Reich, but just based on what I have learned and experienced via hands-on work and astonishing results I suspect that he may one day be given the same sort of recognition given to Tesla very posthumously and in much the same vein – Reich was troubled, a bit cracked, and a deep, deep visionary. He may have been so far ahead that he was at times unable to integrate to his satisfaction, and the strain of that as much as any peer and governmental persecutions may account for his breakdown in later life.

          2. Reich
            I’m still on the fence on whether I should attend the Paradigm Symposium this year –what with the unemployment and the fact the Mexican economy is a secondary victim to Europe’s economic war against Greece– but if I do go, one of the tnings I want to do is chat with Peter Robbins about Reich, because apart from UFOs his theories about orgone is something Peter has studied in depth.

            I agree with you. I think he really was on to something 🙂

          3. http://borderlandresearch.com
            http://borderlandresearch.com/functional-thinking-an-interview-with-eric-dollard-by-tom-brown

            “The important thing about Wilhelm Reich is not so much his apparatus or his theories but his concept of functional thinking. If you know the basic patterns of nature then you have no problem seeing all these phenomena. You have no problem looking up in the sky, knowing what all the cloud patterns mean. You have no problem developing apparatus to work with these energies because you just basically know. The great minds such as Johann Sebastian Bach and Nikola Tesla worked with these types of situations. You could say that all their work is based on archetypal forms.”

          4. well……. Again…….
            Here’s something that the press hasn’t bothered to report.

            The flag that started all of this, the one in South Carolina that’s got all these folks having a case of the vapors, shouldn’t be a problem. You see, that flag used to be out front of the South Carolina statehouse. In 2000, some people objected to it, and so those folks got together with the state legislature and came up with a solution. The flag would be moved from in front of the statehouse, and instead placed at the South Carolina memorial to it’s civil war soldiers, sailors and marines.

            Everyone involved agreed that that was a fair and equitable solution that satisfied everyone’s concerns. That was 15 years ago.

            Then, some idiot massacred 9 innocent people. It was a terrible, vicious, and unforgivable attack. But because the kid was seen in one image with a Confederate battle flag, THAT suddenly became the object of their fury. Never mind that the flag didn’t jump down off it’s pole and kill those people. That lunatic kid was also posing burning a US flag. Should that have been banned as well? I ask because their are literally hundreds of images with KKK members carrying US flags.

            But the flag is now the rallying point for everything wrong in these United States. But it isn’t.

            See, the thing is, it isn’t the flag, it isn’t the gun. Hell, the kid lied on his ATF form anyway, and since the police hadn’t bothered to update, or even send in to the national data base his records, it didn’t matter. But he lied.

            But if you look back in time, Cain killed Abel with a rock. We don’t have a weapon problem. We have a heart problem.

            Guns don’t kill people. Cars don’t cause people to drive drunk. Spoons don’t make people fat. Pencils don’t make spelling errors.

            People do these things. Until we can reach their hearts, pick them up and shake them and tell them that they HAVE to change, that ALL lives are important, then we’ll see this happen again.

            Stop the hate and this all ends. I’m probably preaching to the choir here, but that’s my 2-cent’s worth.

            And by the way, I unpacked my old Confederate flag and hung it in the front window. I also noticed that two of my neighbors, both African-Americans, put Confederate Flag stickers on their cars. They, too, feel like me. It’s an issue of free speech, and banning something has no place among free men.

          5. Gun problem
            My own personal opinion is that America does have a gun problem. One you decided NOT to face (again) in the aftermath of this recent tragedy. Since Liberals know this is a battle they’re not going to win –at least not any time soon– they instead chose to pick on the low hanging fruit of the Confederate flag.

            But I agree with you in thinking the flag itself is not the problem. Suppose that after WWII the allies had successfully erased ALL traces of the Swastika: Airbrushed them from all photos and books, destroyed any ancient depictions of it like the Taliban or IS, etc.

            Getting rid of the Sawstika would not get us rid of antisemitism any more than getting rid of the Confederate flag will get us rid of racism against black folks.

  2. The Hazzard of Living
    The current owner of The General Lee is going to paint over the flag:
    http://espn.go.com/golf/story/_/id/13190780/bubba-watson-paint-confederate-flag-general-lee
    Good luck if you ever want to resell it, which honestly is what he should do and to someone who will appreciate its value. It’s like signing your name on the Mona Lisa with a big Sharpie. Yeah it’s a flag that represented the bad ideas of the South, but to me this is like destroying a museum piece, a part of history. Erasing history does not help us in the long run.

    This has gone too far now. Should the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C. destroy all its artifacts because they show hatred toward Jews? No. Should everyone who collects antique African American artifacts from the 1960s that depict them as big lipped and watermelon eating burn them in a pile? NO! because it shows a part of history, that yes we have grown out of but still need to learn from even if it’s a dark part. And believe it or not I have a black friend who collects said artifacts and uses them to teach his college students about race in America. Is this golfer scared of loosing sponsors? Why? He didn’t believe this car was racist before the TV Land BS. He isn’t a racist man. Hell even his sport of golf has opened up more to African American golfers. So WTF? What the serious FUCK?!

    Okay I live in a small podunk town in New Jersey with VERY strong Republican, Bible-bumping views and about 98% of the population is white. There is a part of my town behind the main liquor store that if you keep driving, you will see Confederate flags hanging outside (this is on a regular basis not because of recent news). I have seen skinheads riding around drunk in big Jeeps with a big flag hanging out the side and yelling racist chants. I have heard the elderly under their breath say the “N” word about a clerk at the front counter of the Rite Aid. There is a dilapidated shack about a mile away from my house that used to be a meeting house for the KKK. And this is New Jersey! So I know racism. I understand how the flag can be used to represent racism. I understand taking the flag down at the town hall of the city where that church was shot up. I understand taking it down where it was intended to represent a racist view. But The Dukes were not meant to be a racist insult or a hate crime. The creator of the show said it himself. Before all of this happened no one cared about the flag on The General Lee. So stop it. Stop being so dam politically correct before we forget about all our past. We will be doomed to repeat it. And I don’t even like or watch The Dukes of Hazzard, but I recognize them as an important piece of TV history.

    1. The Hoo Hoo House
      Getting hung up on insignia is a hall of mirrors that never ends. Would that dream come true of banning public display of the Confederate flag you can bet there will spring up versions that look close but not identical and then we will be off on another legal/political excursion trying to figure out where the Confederate flag ends and some other flag begins.

      There is already a problem with the “good luck” swastika on historic, protected buildings:

      http://www.mallstuffs.com/Blogs/BlogDetails.aspx?BlogId=329&BlogType=Spiritual&Topic=Swastika%20in%20american%20government%20buildings%20and%20historical%20monuments

      http://hoohoohouse.typepad.com/hoohoo_house/2008/07/early-use-of-th.html
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      Some fun flags Americans will miss should the relativistic melee of symbol identity crises ever culminate in the total ban of all flags

      http://www.oddee.com/item_96845.aspx

  3. Votive sword found in Georgia
    This could simply be some Chinese rail-road worker or family lost it in Georgia a 150 or so years ago. There were thousands of Chinese rail-road workers in America the 1800’s.

    However this simple explanation seemed to have been overlooked. 🙂

    1. Rail road workers
      –“Honey, why are you taking that old votive sword to work?”

      –“Because my father gave it to me! The same way his own father gave it to him, and my great-grand father gave it to my grandfather, and my great…”

      –“Yeah, but WHY?”

      –“Because it’s what WE do in our family, woman!”

        1. The Newburgh Sting
          The idea that the citizenry should not be totally disarmed has merit especially in light of what the US government and its agencies have been caught doing these past years. A government intelligence apparatus that is hell bent on manufacturing a climate of fear and “terror” while simultaneously pushing the idea of citizen disarming arouses great suspicion and justifiably so.

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3WeAPUHVtc

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          How FBI Entrapment Is Inventing ‘Terrorists’ – and Letting Bad Guys Off the Hook

          Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-fbi-entrapment-is-inventing-terrorists-and-letting-bad-guys-off-the-hook-20120515#ixzz3f86mgAsY
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          http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-fbi-entrapment-is-inventing-terrorists-and-letting-bad-guys-off-the-hook-20120515

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