More like every time a federal employee is fired, the devil looks around to see if there is anywhere else he can place them to continue damaging society.
After 78 years of life and many horrific events I am now living in a state of eternal ennui. When everything is the worst, hottest, driest, wettest and most unprecedented natural disaster I cease to believe any explanation or reason other than it’s nature and we’re not in control so learn to mitigate as much as we can and accept.
The press is the problem, along with the overheated world of social media. There ,
history is forgotten and every conspiracy enhanced. We watch screaming politicians and pundits casting blame and most goes to Trump and Red state government. Crisis blamed on one figure who controls everything can only be avoided if the figure is brought down and destroyed either by physical means or by legal measures or a concoction of lies.
The loon who wrote the NYT story should be dismissed as an uninformed, hysterical fear monger but no, she works for the NYT, the paper of record and our country’s worst enemy.
The fact that we are forced to recieve a false, hysterical Narrative by unknown authors with an agenda we can’t clearly see because they are deliberately making it opaque is the problem.
I always think of one of my favorite movies, Bridge on the River Kwai...."Madness! Madness!". Haven't watched television in fourteen years. Never miss it.
the bridge was the perfect government project! It employed a lot of people to build it and then was immediately destroyed by others paid by the same government to destroy it.
the other day I watched a few city maintenance workers steam-clean the small concrete pad under a park ramada for 4 hours... it sure was clean by the end! I mean, alone I could have done it in an hour, but who am I to complain.
Not so much to tell the truth. Los Alamos itself is attractive because they get all the tax proceeds and government handouts. Natural uranium in the water, But unnatural tritium in the skies. Trees dying at an alarming rate. They blame insects and warming. Warming is thanks to the geoengineering going on. Lots of stripes in the skies. Monsoons now at the pleasure of whoever is responsible for climate manipulation. Call me a conspiracy theorist. I don't care I am a realist. https://www.ruidosonews.com/new-mexico-tree-deaths-double-in-2024/
Great old movies and a select group of Youtube channels are my only reason to have a television. Just watched Lawrence of Arabia again. Great movie making.
Steve Campbell - agree. I’m 69 years old. I no longer watch any so-called ‘news’. It’s all lies, hyperbole, crap. Even the weather! It’s a horror, how folks no longer think for themselves. Wish I could ‘uninvent’ the internet and cell phones (which of course aren’t phones; they’re miniature computers connected to the internet).
I regularly check a local weather app, checking the forecast when planning my day. I also usually look at the weather across the country wondering what my relatives east to west will face, it's just a nerdy curiosity I have. What I never worry about are the seemingly endless WEATHER WARNINGS! It'll be hot today, don't run a marathon if your health is fragile, be careful, it's not a good day to reshingle your roof, it's cold wear a coat or you MIGHT DIE!
It is interesting to look up air quality indices on NWS or Accuweather. Accuweather seems to tell the truth about air quality while NWS takes some kind of average of the pollutants and usually comes up with "good," "fair," or "moderate" with just a number. Accuweather at the same time will tell you when air quality is poor and why. NWS has been trying to gin up a flood in my area for quite a while. They have failed so far, but the warnings don't stop.
I promise you that Linda Greenhouse has not left the Upper West Side of Manhattan for many decades, except for academic gigs at an East Coast Ivy school or summer weekends in the Hamptons, and that she wouldn't know MacArthur Park from General Douglas MacArthur.
Our liberal overclass has now moved into performance art, or maybe tribal animist rituals where the village elders shake and froth to convey an important message from the gods—there is no escape for them from the house of horrors that their psyches have become.
They have transformed into their final form and there's no turning back: it will be hysterical Medea-like performances of rage where they're either Freedom Riders in 1950s Selma or underground Resistance fighters in 1930s Germany until they eventually die of an overdose of hysteria. (They're starting to make Capt Ahab seem grounded and level-headed.)
Linda Greenhouse and the likeminded members of our progressive clerisy would rather have a public park filled with junkies and their illegal alien dealers than see it cleaned up by force. Why? 1) Because they and no one they know uses public parks (at least not THOSE kind); and 2) their conception of freedom means that the lower orders need to suffer grime and crime so they can feel the frisson of righteous compassion.
Our ruling class privatizes virtue and socializes the destructive consequences of their boundless self-regard. They can't be swept away fast enough.
It has taken me a long time to accept the fact that the vast majority of people just aren't that smart. I want them to be, desperately I do, but they aren't.
While I wish I was as witty and verbose as most of your readers, able to state the obvious in intelligent prose, I am not so much equipped. So pardon this redneck when I describe Linda Greenhouse's little story as a load of horse shit.
And pardon me Linda, but your privilege is showing. Its oh so common place for limos to transport her and her neighbors around. And oh so convenient when your desire for cheap labor can be disguised as concern for another human bbeing. And an op ed too, this immigration situation has been a win win for liberals.
I have never seen a limo in any neighborhood I have ever lived in. These people make me sick. Spend a week in Topeka, Linda. Talk to real human beings for once. The ick will be strong but you might wake up one of the two IQ points you have left.
Well, they only come close because there are so many people on the dole or with TDS willing to cheat, and they probably have 20 extra representatives due to illegal immigrants counted in the last census, but I hear what you are saying.
I dunno. In thinking about whom I would rather have across the table during a negotiation or business meeting, I'm finding more and more that I'll take a Roger Sterling-Don Draper matchup over anything a modern HR-addled corporation can produce, any day.
Here's another good treatment of the fraud that is psychiatric meds.
“Most antidepressant trials last just a few weeks or months, even though many people take these drugs for years. In the U.S., for example, half of all antidepressant users have been on them for more than five years. Short-term trials are of little relevance to this population.”
“Worse, many trials enrolled patients already taking antidepressants—then abruptly withdrew them before randomisation. As a result, those assigned to placebo experienced withdrawal symptoms that blurred the difference between treatment and control groups, artificially minimising the harms.”
When every scientist in a field of study cheats just a little by such means, all those little cheats stack and we get one big cheat that kills people. Nobody says "no" to the little cheats because everybody knows everybody cheats a little.
Psychologist Dr. Roger McFillin has a Substack called Radically Genuine in which he exposes the overuse of psychiatric medications and the fraud and corruption behind their approval.
Visiting family in a blue state. My aunt is an aging hippie lesbian in her 70s. She lived in a VERY liberal town. With a straight face she informs me that it's now dangerous for her to fly her LGBTQ flag outside her house. "Why?" I ask. Because her neighbor is a "conservative." When pressed she confirms that he has not spoken to her, or been mean to her in any way. But he flies an American flag ("which they've taken from us" according to her), and he homeschools his daughter. I just shook my head.
Someone on my FB feed linked to a “story” in the Independent that Trump was going to strip Rosie O’Donnel of her citizenship because she’s a “threat to humanity.” This person wrote that Trump needs to be impeached for this because that’s “what the Nazis did.” I wish I could make this up. For good measure she tagged Corey Booker and Chris Murphy
It’s got to be EXHAUSTING to live in constant fear and outrage at the perceived threats against you or the people you support. Of course when you get to broadcast your angst for the world in an op-ed, I’m sure that makes it so much better…..
It’s true George; every time a federal employee is fired an angel gets her wings.
Only about 20 million to go. Heaven is elated! 🤣🤣
notice, you said "her" wings
she/her
More like every time a federal employee is fired, the devil looks around to see if there is anywhere else he can place them to continue damaging society.
The left has honed my schadenfreudian sensibilities to a fine edge.
I'm not a bad person, but it makes me happy when they're like this.
After 78 years of life and many horrific events I am now living in a state of eternal ennui. When everything is the worst, hottest, driest, wettest and most unprecedented natural disaster I cease to believe any explanation or reason other than it’s nature and we’re not in control so learn to mitigate as much as we can and accept.
The press is the problem, along with the overheated world of social media. There ,
history is forgotten and every conspiracy enhanced. We watch screaming politicians and pundits casting blame and most goes to Trump and Red state government. Crisis blamed on one figure who controls everything can only be avoided if the figure is brought down and destroyed either by physical means or by legal measures or a concoction of lies.
The loon who wrote the NYT story should be dismissed as an uninformed, hysterical fear monger but no, she works for the NYT, the paper of record and our country’s worst enemy.
The fact that we are forced to recieve a false, hysterical Narrative by unknown authors with an agenda we can’t clearly see because they are deliberately making it opaque is the problem.
I always think of one of my favorite movies, Bridge on the River Kwai...."Madness! Madness!". Haven't watched television in fourteen years. Never miss it.
the bridge was the perfect government project! It employed a lot of people to build it and then was immediately destroyed by others paid by the same government to destroy it.
Look only at the train to nowhere in California..
My husband worked on massive government “clean up” contracts for decades. Their unofficial name was “unending government work projects”. 😉
the other day I watched a few city maintenance workers steam-clean the small concrete pad under a park ramada for 4 hours... it sure was clean by the end! I mean, alone I could have done it in an hour, but who am I to complain.
I retired from Los Alamos National Lab and live in the vicinity. Unending government work projects is a perfect name.
Hubby worked there for several years; 2019 - 2021. What a CF....lovely place to live, though.
Not so much to tell the truth. Los Alamos itself is attractive because they get all the tax proceeds and government handouts. Natural uranium in the water, But unnatural tritium in the skies. Trees dying at an alarming rate. They blame insects and warming. Warming is thanks to the geoengineering going on. Lots of stripes in the skies. Monsoons now at the pleasure of whoever is responsible for climate manipulation. Call me a conspiracy theorist. I don't care I am a realist. https://www.ruidosonews.com/new-mexico-tree-deaths-double-in-2024/
Great old movies and a select group of Youtube channels are my only reason to have a television. Just watched Lawrence of Arabia again. Great movie making.
“Be happy in your work…”
Steve Campbell - agree. I’m 69 years old. I no longer watch any so-called ‘news’. It’s all lies, hyperbole, crap. Even the weather! It’s a horror, how folks no longer think for themselves. Wish I could ‘uninvent’ the internet and cell phones (which of course aren’t phones; they’re miniature computers connected to the internet).
I regularly check a local weather app, checking the forecast when planning my day. I also usually look at the weather across the country wondering what my relatives east to west will face, it's just a nerdy curiosity I have. What I never worry about are the seemingly endless WEATHER WARNINGS! It'll be hot today, don't run a marathon if your health is fragile, be careful, it's not a good day to reshingle your roof, it's cold wear a coat or you MIGHT DIE!
It is interesting to look up air quality indices on NWS or Accuweather. Accuweather seems to tell the truth about air quality while NWS takes some kind of average of the pollutants and usually comes up with "good," "fair," or "moderate" with just a number. Accuweather at the same time will tell you when air quality is poor and why. NWS has been trying to gin up a flood in my area for quite a while. They have failed so far, but the warnings don't stop.
the Jerry Springer Show of news
I promise you that Linda Greenhouse has not left the Upper West Side of Manhattan for many decades, except for academic gigs at an East Coast Ivy school or summer weekends in the Hamptons, and that she wouldn't know MacArthur Park from General Douglas MacArthur.
Our liberal overclass has now moved into performance art, or maybe tribal animist rituals where the village elders shake and froth to convey an important message from the gods—there is no escape for them from the house of horrors that their psyches have become.
They have transformed into their final form and there's no turning back: it will be hysterical Medea-like performances of rage where they're either Freedom Riders in 1950s Selma or underground Resistance fighters in 1930s Germany until they eventually die of an overdose of hysteria. (They're starting to make Capt Ahab seem grounded and level-headed.)
Linda Greenhouse and the likeminded members of our progressive clerisy would rather have a public park filled with junkies and their illegal alien dealers than see it cleaned up by force. Why? 1) Because they and no one they know uses public parks (at least not THOSE kind); and 2) their conception of freedom means that the lower orders need to suffer grime and crime so they can feel the frisson of righteous compassion.
Our ruling class privatizes virtue and socializes the destructive consequences of their boundless self-regard. They can't be swept away fast enough.
Wish I could “like” this comment 1,000 times! 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼……….
you can and you did!
thanks!
much appreciated
Amen, Amen!!
🎯
This is why the First Amendment is so important.
These people should be allowed -- and indeed encouraged -- to continue speaking loudly so that all may hear.
The problem is that too many think they are telling truth, when instead they are reacting hysterically to lies or are promoting lies.
It has taken me a long time to accept the fact that the vast majority of people just aren't that smart. I want them to be, desperately I do, but they aren't.
☝️Oh man. Not that guy again! 😆 he is 100% correct.
yes
While I wish I was as witty and verbose as most of your readers, able to state the obvious in intelligent prose, I am not so much equipped. So pardon this redneck when I describe Linda Greenhouse's little story as a load of horse shit.
That works just fine.
Seems like a perfect, kick ass comment to me.
Horse shit doesn’t smell enough. It’s actually 🐷💩
Thank you Steve. It goo to know I’m not alone. Oh ya. Bingo. Right on!
Telling it like it is, plain and simple, is the new intelligence prose.
Pretty sure you nailed it! 👍🏻
And pardon me Linda, but your privilege is showing. Its oh so common place for limos to transport her and her neighbors around. And oh so convenient when your desire for cheap labor can be disguised as concern for another human bbeing. And an op ed too, this immigration situation has been a win win for liberals.
I have never seen a limo in any neighborhood I have ever lived in. These people make me sick. Spend a week in Topeka, Linda. Talk to real human beings for once. The ick will be strong but you might wake up one of the two IQ points you have left.
Didn't Dems lose the last election because of behavior like this?
Sadly, Dems came uncomfortably close to winning the last election because of (anticipatory) behavior like this.
Well, they only come close because there are so many people on the dole or with TDS willing to cheat, and they probably have 20 extra representatives due to illegal immigrants counted in the last census, but I hear what you are saying.
Their base seems to be devolving into particularly rabid new versions of Little Red Book automatons.
Chicken Little was the book that came to my mind.
“Oh noes! The sky is falling. Again.”
Shhhhhhh! It’s funny. Just let them speak. Just when you think that they can’t get any more silly, there they go again, lol.
We were so much more relaxed and rational when people smoked cigarettes. The SSRI’s are having the opposite effect
And had three martini lunches.
Would that mean a lunch + three martinis
or
having lunch three times + martini(s)
?
Either way, I'm for it!
I dunno. In thinking about whom I would rather have across the table during a negotiation or business meeting, I'm finding more and more that I'll take a Roger Sterling-Don Draper matchup over anything a modern HR-addled corporation can produce, any day.
As long as I don't have to treat appeals to emotion(ality) as something real and tangible.
"Just the facts, ma'am"
Shaken, not stirred.
💯
Brilliant as usual Chris. I actually wonder how much of this manufactured anxiety is correlatable to meds intake by the terminal outrage culture.
Here's another good treatment of the fraud that is psychiatric meds.
“Most antidepressant trials last just a few weeks or months, even though many people take these drugs for years. In the U.S., for example, half of all antidepressant users have been on them for more than five years. Short-term trials are of little relevance to this population.”
“Worse, many trials enrolled patients already taking antidepressants—then abruptly withdrew them before randomisation. As a result, those assigned to placebo experienced withdrawal symptoms that blurred the difference between treatment and control groups, artificially minimising the harms.”
https://blog.maryannedemasi.com/p/antidepressant-withdrawalwhy-do-researchers
When every scientist in a field of study cheats just a little by such means, all those little cheats stack and we get one big cheat that kills people. Nobody says "no" to the little cheats because everybody knows everybody cheats a little.
Psychologist Dr. Roger McFillin has a Substack called Radically Genuine in which he exposes the overuse of psychiatric medications and the fraud and corruption behind their approval.
Visiting family in a blue state. My aunt is an aging hippie lesbian in her 70s. She lived in a VERY liberal town. With a straight face she informs me that it's now dangerous for her to fly her LGBTQ flag outside her house. "Why?" I ask. Because her neighbor is a "conservative." When pressed she confirms that he has not spoken to her, or been mean to her in any way. But he flies an American flag ("which they've taken from us" according to her), and he homeschools his daughter. I just shook my head.
I know people like this. They find the stories they tell each other very exciting.
"The stories they tell each other"
Haha! Yes. The only place the danger exists is in their imaginations, but it's so thrilling to be the main character in their own drama.
Everyone needs a life - pathetic or not. 🐑
Oh bless her heart.
They just cannot believe we haven’t reached peak Handmaid’s Tale yet. And it’s all Trump’s fault.
The most dangerous disinformation to the left is what they said last week.
Democrats and the left have become so feminized. Everything is about feelings.
It’s a female longhouse society. Neurotic, unhappy women hold a lot a of sway in today’s world.
Very true. It’s certainly visible in journalism.
Someone on my FB feed linked to a “story” in the Independent that Trump was going to strip Rosie O’Donnel of her citizenship because she’s a “threat to humanity.” This person wrote that Trump needs to be impeached for this because that’s “what the Nazis did.” I wish I could make this up. For good measure she tagged Corey Booker and Chris Murphy
First they came for Rosie O'Donnell, and I did not speak up, because I was not Rosie O'Donnell
Thankfully, neither am I.
s/ "low-status and untriggered"
🤣🤣🤣👍
You didn’t speak up because she is Rosie ODonnell and you were cheering for it to be true.
I love Bluesky because it’s all this type of thing. It’s hilarious.
If you’ve ever watched SpongeBob, I imagine BlueSky is like being thrown through The Fly of Despair.
https://youtu.be/1J_q9lZ2rQ8?si=k9mdB5Pm74rPExPo
When I say it’s hilarious, I do need to be in the right mood 😅
Remember that scene in "Space Odyssey" in the beginning when the apes are trying to scare each other away from the watering-hole?
Run forward from the group, gesticulate and scream, dart back to the group. Repeat until one side gives up and runs away.
And the, one ape realised that by using a bone and by actually killing the opponent solves the problem permanently.
The apes could not learn to share and have mutually agreed-upon rules for interaction and sharing fairly; that left only threats and force.
There's a lesson in that. For every side.
More performances than Broadway on a busy weekend.
And I am pretty sure we are in the hottest summer ever. At least for 2025.
It’s got to be EXHAUSTING to live in constant fear and outrage at the perceived threats against you or the people you support. Of course when you get to broadcast your angst for the world in an op-ed, I’m sure that makes it so much better…..
Her SSRI uptake saves the day!!!