Bye Bye, beautiful Bo

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Friday December 08, 2023 · 8:49 AM PST

2023/12/08 · 08:49

My eyes have finally healed. 2 days ago I tried to scratch them out. I had settled on the couch to enjoy a few hours of gummy-infused relaxation. Scanning through the choices offered on Amazon, I saw John Derek’s “Ghost,” listed. I think I had seen every other movie featuring his lovely, statuesque, blond wife so this seemed an ok selection. I am much the same age as Bo and have eagerly perused her photos, etc, every chance allowed. (She isn’t the best actress, but she makes up for that lack by presenting her best assets. “10” seems an underrating).

As the movie progressed, nude scenes kept me interested. And then, a boardroom scene made me want to scream, vomit, anything to make it go away. Why aren’t disclaimers required when unexpected grotesqueness is in store? “Nudity, sexual situations, profanity,” were listed during the intro, but nothing about the upcoming horror. Soon I was gagging, scratching at my eyeballs, my buzz harshed into the past. That f*cking former guy sat across from Bo, looking, pensive? At least he had shaved the middle of his eyebrow.

I’ll never trust the Derek’s again.

The Wheels Might Fall Off, but a Flat Tire on the Patriot Mobile Could Be a Real Possibility

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Monday September 05, 2022 · 2:49 PM PDT

2022/09/05 · 14:49

As I read the post by Hunter regarding the high jacking of 4 Texas school boards, an image flashed through my mind and I thought, I can see some real probability of the revenge these young kids might try. When I was in 6th grade almost 60 years ago, I watched a quiet girl prop a nail beneath a teacher’s tire. Early in the school year this teacher had embarrassed the girl in a mean way.

Might such things happen to those promoting all this hate and grabbing control? Welp, I understand the girl from grade school much better now than I did then.

As the guy from Hollywood Squares would say when a contestant missed the obvious choice of squares, “...this might work out.” In the long run, I see this creating all kinds of trouble.

I probably missed any previous posts that answer my Covid 19 wonderings...

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Wednesday April 29, 2020 · 7:30 PM PDT

2020/04/29 · 19:30

I don’t think I’m a carrier but I could be. I’m over 60, I’m a midnight toker with a cough the next day so I’m likely a juicy prospect for the Covid 19 virus. And I wonder about the following (list has been edited to fit my attention span):

If I pee in a pond, on a salamander or snake, or on fresh blue gill eggs, or even mosquito eggs, did I infect them?

If I sneeze by our beehives or the hen house, did I just infect them?

If I toss the rest of my hamburder bun onto the grocery store parking lot and birds swarm and eat it, did I just infect them?

If I feed the dog next-door my leftovers, did I just infect him?

Also too, what are the odds that some crazy, infected wingnut(s) will become the new, American-style suicide bomber?

I apologize if the answers have been discussed previously.

If we take a trump and flush, what then?

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Thursday January 05, 2017 · 1:49 PM PST

2017/01/05 · 13:49

This will be brief as I cannot imagine the subject has not been discussed. However, I have not searched for such.

So, if not Trump, then who is next? I see a Pence presidency as a bad situation gone worse. Maybe I’m a bit biased as I am a Hoosier…

progressive horizons. dark/stormy?

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Friday August 23, 2013 · 6:18 PM PDT

2013/08/23 · 18:18

If at some point i get off point, it is due to the fact that this would have been day 13 of alcohol abstention (if you forgive the makers on the rocks splash wednesday night after the estate auction success), subsequent to a foot-fracturing plummet from a farmhouse bedroom loft in the pitch dark middle of the night two weekends ago after much brandy and associated vices, and not because i intend to submit this to a certain literary competition for the year 2014. how's that mr bulwer-lytton? yes, admittedly it was dark, but the weather was fair.
anyway, i continue to see how we seem pleased at the turning back of right-wing attempts at whatever kind of shit they're up too. as we should be. well, it reminds me of a "flintstones" cartoon i saw long ago where fred told barney, as they stood by and looked upon a trickling stream, "the yellowstone...they expect it to really be something someday." or some such...
as in this little trickle will be so persistent that someday it'll be a canyon, such that people will marvel. such=10 points, right?
persistent. like a fucking mosquito until you make it clear by neutralizing with bug spray, or final by entrapment betwixt skin and slapping skin. otherwise it gets what it wants.
off point a bit. what i want to say is that with each victory, we should push back to regain ground lost or plant a flag in new territory. holding the line does not serve progress.
i quit this keyboard. you're welcome. perhaps pep talks are all i'm good for...
not only am i hobbled by broken bones, i'm also lazy. but as generous as i can be (that was a preposition employed much like a german verb, sorry mr churchill). so i merely exhort. and fund the effort, if only as meagerly as i am mobile.

We Need Some Intervention: A Cry for Help (not for overthrow, snark included)

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Friday July 08, 2011 · 9:40 AM PDT

2011/07/08 · 09:40

Perhaps the time has come for the rest of the world to correct the flight path on which the United States currently finds itself. How often do you read that many folks outside our borders wonder just wtf is up with the US?
Not only did our financial markets drag down the economies of our localities, states and country; not only have they more or less enslaved millions of Americans; not only have they directed a certain faction within our governments local, state and federal, to weaken any regulation that could thwart their continued march to supremacy; not only do they promote the poisoning of the air, land and water in this country. But the map ahead exposes an inevitable downward spiral for much of the rest of the world as well if the once great United States is permitted to repeat the actions which brought the world to the brink of economic disaster. Why should the rest of the world allow this?
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Sunday July 03, 2011 · 2:27 PM PDT

2011/07/03 · 14:27

Sunday 7/3
Dear Diary (now it qualifies, right?)
Because I don't have much time with all the golf and baseball on tv, not to mention how long it takes to file for my unemployment online, I have little patience for the process whereby ads pop up on my screen. I remember the day I happened to notice an alternative here on DailyKos...but I didn't have the forty bucks.
Well, I have to say that today my mind has been changed. All because of a sudden desire for Russian girls.
Too bad I still don't have forty bucks, da? It says they're waiting, I just hope they have more patience...

Greece: the 5th try to post my first diary so maybe I'm not even qualified...

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Monday June 20, 2011 · 7:58 PM PDT

2011/06/20 · 19:58

Witness what could soon happen in Greece at the behest of the banks. And be reminded that over the course of many years it has gone on in the US in different forms. In the event that the chilling statement I read in an earlier diary on the subject proves accurate, "See ya Greece," the country you associate with culture, history, thought, olives and architecture could become a private vacation land, if you can afford it. And if it happens in Greece, it could quickly evolve from trend to de rigueuer.

You have seen it here in renamings of landmarks and sponsorship of new building construction which displays the name of the corporation making sure this monument to its beneficence never falls! If Greece can be sold to satisfy debt, just think how quickly your favorite park, stadium (already done), golf course (has it been done?) will be on the block? I read recently in the local newspaper that there is talk that selling public property could be the answer to our indebtedness, at the lowest level of government.

If you think it is a problem that Congress is bought and paid for...wait until the very ground you walk on is.

I am aware that there are people who want to take their country back and the government is always found at the end of their pointed fingers. I can go along with that only until I consider the part about something which seems important regarding: of, by and for we the people.
(Insert Hallmark Swirly Here and JUMP!)

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