Never had toys as a child. Had to make do with books. Caught the last wave of old, classical professors before woke displaced them. Absolutely no AI content.
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"American women take the occasion of the November midterms to inoculate themselves against the final two years of Trump's presidency..."
(Actually, it's opera star Mimi Benzell spraying bug killer on herself as a mosquito repellant prior to a tent show in Connecticut in 1950. Benzell died of an undisclosed cancer in 1970. She was 52). 🇺🇸 🥷 🤔🦟☠️
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The private sector in Canada is dead in the water, smart, ambitious Canadians have decamped to the U.S., new investment is undetectable, the private sector has stopped creating jobs & Trump has two more years to squash what's left. CBC host, discussing Carney's blowout $62B deficit budget, begins his segment by saying the Canadian economy is "doing OK." Canada's "journalistic watchdogs" are simply embarrassing & complicit in running this country off a cliff. 🇨🇦🤦♀️📈📉
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The left is fond of obscuring meaning & intent through the manipulation of words.
The intent of “woke,” for example, becomes crystal clear when seen for what it is: Code for “fringe empowerment.” The dynamic involved requires an inversion of the natural order & I don’t get why people just quietly put up with it.
Thus, we’re forced to endure art that is ugly, junk “science,” unreadable books, bad movies, nasty, aggressive music celebrating criminality & dead cops, disposable architecture, fashion that ridicules men & women, schools where nobody learns, churches burnt to the ground, counterfactual news reporting & commentary, government that destroys rather than fortifies, law enforcement & jurisprudence that targets the innocent while protecting the guilty, policies that preference death over life, men who claim to be women & vice versa, poverty & want presented as virtue, magical thinking as scholarship & so on.
We need to find the off-switch on this because this doesn’t end in “equality” & "inclusion"; it ends with all of us immersed in a hideous dystopia longing for the world we neglected to defend. 🇺🇸 🇨🇦🇬🇧 🇪🇺👹
Anyone else having a weird day?
I was delighted this summer to find a copy of a book from my youth called Mysteries of the Unexplained.
It’s a Reader’s Digest compendium of short, interesting stories regarding bizarre, unsettling events, anecdotes & phenomenon collected over the centuries. My new copy is an updated edition (1985) from a large press run, so nothing unusual there.
I’m into the chapter regarding coincidences, many of which so far have struck me as far-fetched.
This morning, it was the story of popular author Anne Parrish (1888-1957) & how she was thrilled, in the 1920s, to find a copy of a beloved book from her youth at a used-book kiosk in Paris.
According to this coincidence, Parrish was astonished when she opened the cover & found it was inscribed with her name & address, in her hand, from the time she was a student in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
“Yeah, good story,” I thought.
So I put the book down & headed up town to grab a paper & hit the farmers market.
As I was heading out the door, I noticed this large poppy display I’d purchased from the local Legion many years ago & had been meaning to post it in front of my house for Remembrance Day. I grabbed it & -- as I pushed the thin bamboo shaft into the ground -- I noticed the support was getting flimsy & frayed.
I made a mental note to find a replacement & headed uptown when – about 100 feet south of my home – I came across a thin bamboo shaft almost identical to my poppy’s but in much better condition. It was taped to a crosswalk pole &, apparently, had been a support for some advertisement I don’t recall seeing.
“Isn’t that handy,” I thought.
I walked the stick back to my place, then headed out again.
I get about 100 feet up the street & was surprised to see a guy on the other side, with a backpack, heading the other direction in a full Spiderman outfit. That was odd because Halloween was last week.
So I crossed the road & asked if I could take a photo. Sure, he says, later explaining that he started dressing up as Spiderman several years ago as a cope for a “broken heart.” People responded well, he added, he liked the attention, so he keeps doing it. Whatever floats your boat.
So I walk a couple blocks to get my paper, then to the post office for my weekly pickup.
In my box is a package from The War Amps key-return service with a new set of tags & a request for a donation. I toss it in my shopping bag & head over to the farmers market where I discover, after a visit, that my favorite vendor doesn’t take debit cards. So I trot off the two blocks to my house to retrieve some cash, intending to return.
Halfway home, I notice I’m missing my keys. I’m shocked because I always carry them in my hand when I’m out, with a finger through the ring loop. I’ve had things fall out of my pockets, so this is how I stay in touch with my keys. Up till now, this approach has served me well.
I head south to the post office, which is open on Saturdays, to see if anyone has turned in my keys. Negative. So I retrace my steps to the farmers market, scanning the grass along the way. Nothing. So, as I approach my vendor friend, he says “Hey, did you maybe walk off without your keys?” I did, I said, & was glad to see them, otherwise getting into my house becomes a challenge.
I took extra care on my way home in case this was the day I walked in front of a car. It’s a little after 3:30 p.m. & I’m pleased to report nothing else has happened – although there are 8+ hours remaining in this most unusual of days.
Share your coincidence if you have one. They happen to everybody & no one can explain why. 🇨🇦🤔🕷️
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Given Tuesday’s result, I will be surprised if the United States – in the long run – hangs onto its constitutional republic.
This separation-of-powers business in Washington only works for a people with an attention span & a sound working knowledge of the world. It requires a political class & judiciary that are committed to doing right by the people while honoring their wishes & looking out for their interests. We don't have that today & won't for at least the next two years.
Tuesday was a great day for the woke globalists in America & they are giddy about it. Suffice it to say the people who voted for them are about to find out they are at the bottom of their priority list. Democrats have much bigger fish to fry, & their to-do list doesn’t involve making the average American happy. These are politicians who do things to you, not for you, so get ready to pay for what you've done.
The problem on the Democratic end involves too many who see abundance & prosperity & think government should just take it & give it to everybody. They have no plan for the future beyond eating the seed corn & burning the furniture for heat. People like this will never build anything great, let alone a country with a future.
And what can you say about Congressional Republicans other than they are a disgrace & an embarrassment. Trump won a third election in 2024 with 77.3M votes, with a couple busloads of GOP candidates riding his coattails into Congress. They proceeded to substitute their judgement for the wishes of the tens of millions who voted for the President’s agenda, obstructing it every step of the way till they could safely hand off power to their Uniparty friends across the aisle. This is straight-up sabotage from within. All concerned deserve to be primaried right off the ticket & out of the GOP in time for 2028.
As for holding the constitutional republic together, a President with a serious, ambitious agenda will need time to execute it. Your country isn’t going to amount to much if your dithering electorate insists on whip-sawing from one extreme to the other every two years. How many of these Republican voters with their noses out of joint over inflation arising from neutralizing Iran have actually looked into why Trump acted like he did when he did? How many actually took time to investigate what this militant, fanatical country of 70M had planned for the rest of humanity? In keeping with the dictum that no good deed goes unpunished, Iran has been put in a wheelchair, so, of course, you have the people benefitting from this arrangement gainsaying this gift of security by suggesting maybe we didn’t have to kick the hell out of them after all.
Again, this is the same new generation of voters who like the idea of having their cake & eating it too, because – according to their magical thinking – we should be able to have it all & it should be free. That's what their professors tell them. Like everything else, they think liberty & security should be free too, so why is President Trump doing this to us & creating all this awful (& temporary) inflation?
So, the same people who provided Trump his landslide in 2024 decided Tuesday to “send a message” to the White House. They shouldn’t be surprised if the exercise ends with a hot poker up their ass, because that’s usually what happens, in the end, to foolish people. 🇺🇸
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Teeny Wahini retweeted
Why is @UMich silencing this? This woman assaulted me and @teameffujoe , resisted arrest, and threatened to KILL ME.
The fact that the police let her out of custody is absolutely insane to begin with. And now the fact @UMich as let her back onto campus. and is silencing people is unfathomable. She is a DANGER to students. She is someone who has been institutionalized and is on multiple SSRIs.
If I were a parent at this school, I would IMMEDIATELY remove my child.
When I went to the ER yesterday, I was told by the physician that assaults are very common on this campus.
This is an absolute disgrace.
So @UMich is allegedly hushing yesterdays assault. The perpetrator was let go, and no students apparently feel they’re not allowed to talk about it.
The Reddit post regarding the incident has been locked.
Democrats have been making trouble for the U.S. & everybody else for the past 176 years. The issues have changed but their successors remain as reckless & lawless as ever.
This is no accident. I think the mentality of slave ownership & all it represents can be abstracted, carried forward, & applied to other criminal avenues of illicit acquisition & ownership, as provided for in the present by the playbook for communist insurgencies.
The spirit of the Democratic Party has attracted these difficult personalities through numerous incarnations through the years. History may not repeat itself. But, on occasion, it rhymes. Does anybody doubt – with their talk of Stalinist show trials & avowed determination to hound this President through his final two years of office – that these people wouldn’t gulag you in a slave camp, run more or less on the same principles as an antebellum plantation?
It’s a political cult for high-handed, pushy individuals --increasingly sociopathic -- with unwholesome motivations who accept sludge as culture & filth as an occasion for pronouns & grooming our children. 🇺🇸
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Such a difficult time to run a climate grift. The bed-wetters can’t buy a break.
A little better than two weeks ago, this “expert” on CBC radio warned that this fall’s “super el Nino” in the Pacific is going to clobber us all; it's going to play havoc & -- since then – nothing but blue skies & pleasant fall weather. I think there’s been one cloudy afternoon in my neighborhood since. The really nice weather, in fact, has become monotonous. This is not a symptom of weather systems in crisis – quite the opposite -- so I don’t exactly understand where this hysteria is coming from.
Meanwhile – other than dry parts of the west that needed rain anyway – there’s no sign “Super el Nino” is going to give us trouble. As for the Atlantic storm season, Grok just called in the following: “The 2026 Atlantic hurricane season has been one of the quietest on record, especially in intensity, ranking well below average in both frequency and (especially) overall activity.”
Don’t ask the President about it. He’d probably take credit for it, although all of this is happening on his watch. If you get blamed for the negative, why shouldn’t you take credit for the positive? Let’s be fair & consistent here. 🇺🇸 🇨🇦🌞🎙️
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Working through an experiment in the kitchen this afternoon that is producing some satisfying results.
On the menu today is a mittful of raw Pacific white shrimp in 9 fl. ounces of Blue Dragon-brand Thai Red Curry Paste, consisting of about 20 carefully-balanced herbs & spices.
They have been blended with a regulation box of Catelli whole-wheat rotini in a novel way that really enhances the dining experience.
I first boiled about 4 cups of water, threw in the raw shrimp, turned off the heat, put the lid on & let the assemblage simmer & chill till the shrimp is just right – parboiled plus a titch.
You remove the shrimp from the pot & set aside to cool but you keep the broth & dump it into the pot where you boil your rotini pasta. Just top it up enough to comfortably boil the noodles with little water remaining as surplus. Drain the noodles, but again retain the broth.
Empty the curry into your boiled noodles. Stir in a tablespoon of butter. A teaspoon or so of curry inevitably clings to the inside of the jar so the best way to extract this is to dump 6 ounces of hot shrimp broth in, tighten the lid, give the contents a shake, then dump the sauce in with the noodles.
Notice how everything is infused with shrimp. And boy, does it ever taste like it. It’s so shrimpy, I’m hitting forkfuls with dashes of Old Bay to see how that fits. Try it sometime when the stars align in your kitchen. You will be deliciously rewarded.😋🦐🥒
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Teeny Wahini retweeted
The real problem here isn’t the kids, it’s both of their parents. If our kids answered like this, they’d win the prize of reading 10 other classic books with full book reports on them because we expect better. That’s why our kids are ahead and prospering. They know their parents have standards. They’re smart, yes, but parents have to motivate their kids to be their best. Too many are fine with mediocrity they can blame on someone else. I’m not, and neither is my wife. We know God blessed our kids and we expect them to use those blessings properly, to their full potential. Ironically, because they know we have standards, we haven’t had to do many of these things. Why? A side effect of having standards is your kids develop their own internal standards. They then hold themselves to those standards.
We are literally doomed
American High School English Teacher reads real responses from her student’s assignment after reading The Great Gatsby
We have a serious education issue in America and if we don’t address it, we have a horrible future ahead of us
These kind of responses are to be expected because 12th grade reading results in 2024 in America showed that reading levels right now the lowest they’ve ever been since the assessment began in 1992
There, fixed it for you. Pro tip: Canadians are a simple people. They need these things spelled out. Also, the border around this doodle is crooked. Maybe learn to draw a square before taking on political issues you know nothing about. @globeandmail @deAdder 🇺🇸🇨🇦🎃
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Great Halloweens: Dive bar Scarberia, early 1980s; Crowd loses it when Frankie Venom, high on something, delivers killer Lucy Potato. 🇨🇦🎸🥔🎃
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Teeny Wahini retweeted
"Hi. My name is Tempest. And if you don't want me to step on your toes, move your fucking feet." 🇺🇸😄
Teeny Wahini retweeted
I make time at Halloween for scary cinema. Turner Classic Movies has a full slate today, including the excellent The Haunting (1963) starring Richard Johnson, Julie Harris & Claire Bloom.
I remember, as a child, watching The Haunting on TV but I had to change the channel because it was too intense & creepy. The few times I’ve watched it since, I’ve been impressed how director Robert Wise sustains the dread of a badly haunted mansion without parading demons & goblins across the screen. It’s all done expertly with sound effects, creepy architecture, fine acting & menacing atmospherics. The Haunting tenses you up in your chair & keeps you that way till the end.
Fun fact: At the start of Rob Zombie’s rocker Devil Man, we hear a plummy, cultured voice say “Look, I know the supernatural is something that isn’t supposed to happen but it does happen.” That’s Richard Johnson in The Haunting as Dr. John Markway, an investigator of paranormal phenomenon as he prepares to camp out at the haunted mansion in question.
That’s 4:30 p.m. on TCM. If you make time for it, prepare for an unsettling experience. After The Haunting comes Curse of the Demon (1957) starring Dana Andrews. If you like scary beings up on the screen at Halloween, this one will be to your liking as well.📽️👻👹🎃
I make time at Halloween for scary cinema. Turner Classic Movies has a full slate today, including the excellent The Haunting (1963) starring Richard Johnson, Julie Harris & Claire Bloom.
I remember, as a child, watching The Haunting on TV but I had to change the channel because it was too intense & creepy. The few times I’ve watched it since, I’ve been impressed how director Robert Wise sustains the dread of a badly haunted mansion without parading demons & goblins across the screen. It’s all done expertly with sound effects, creepy architecture, fine acting & menacing atmospherics. The Haunting tenses you up in your chair & keeps you that way till the end.
Fun fact: At the start of Rob Zombie’s rocker Devil Man, we hear a plummy, cultured voice say “Look, I know the supernatural is something that isn’t supposed to happen but it does happen.” That’s Richard Johnson in The Haunting as Dr. John Markway, an investigator of paranormal phenomenon as he prepares to camp out at the haunted mansion in question.
That’s 4:30 p.m. on TCM. If you make time for it, prepare for an unsettling experience. After The Haunting comes Curse of the Demon (1957) starring Dana Andrews. If you like scary beings up on the screen at Halloween, this one will be to your liking as well.📽️👻👹🎃
Teeny Wahini retweeted
Saddened to hear of the loss of the stunning Elke Sommer - it marks the passing of a truly luminous presence in cinema, a woman whose radiant beauty, sparkling blue eyes, and irresistible European allure brought glamour and sophistication to the screen. #RIP
Know what else you can pick up in a pick-up bar? Dancing skills. She's all right. Puts it down like a boss.💃🎃
Notice Canada isn't on the list. Why? Because if there's trouble, Canadians know Uncle Sam will take care of it. 🇺🇸🇨🇦🍺🦫🦅
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One of the best songs ever written, a great composition evoking the spirit of the Old West. Look at that guy with the maracas. Just sellin' it. This musical interlude was brought to you by GERITOL -- "Make every day count." 🇺🇸🎸🪇👻🐎🎃
