tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post234104373846073981..comments2023-10-17T08:19:58.196-04:00Comments on FreeThinke: FreeThinkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comBlogger42125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-14392852638344479772013-06-03T11:49:07.517-04:002013-06-03T11:49:07.517-04:00Note from the link above...
6,700 oropharyngeal c...Note from the link above...<br /><br /><i>6,700 <a href="http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Oropharyngeal" rel="nofollow">oropharyngeal</a> cancers in men.* </i>Speedy Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01640242783952822072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-3478452244221887732013-06-03T11:46:58.100-04:002013-06-03T11:46:58.100-04:00I'm glad you don't think so, despite the f...I'm glad you don't think so, despite the fact that the <a href="http://www.cdc.gov/STD/HPV/STDFact-HPV.htm" rel="nofollow">HPV virus</a> is known to be the cause of cervical cancer in women.Speedy Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01640242783952822072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-48452636137419987402013-06-02T19:34:47.162-04:002013-06-02T19:34:47.162-04:00I don't think so, Thersites. I have always dis...I don't think so, Thersites. I have always disliked Michael Douglas. He is one of myriad icons of irremediable vulgarity who took over the entertainment industry long ago. But, I wouldn't wish cancer on anyone -- not even Hillary Clinton. It's just hard to believe that any doctor worthy of the name would have missed "a walnut-sized growth" at the base of anyone's TONGUE. <br /><br />People of this despicable ilk will say ANYTHING to gain publicity.FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-15833146420490098822013-06-02T18:33:55.302-04:002013-06-02T18:33:55.302-04:00Another paean to the practice of sodomy...Another paean to the practice of <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2013/jun/02/michael-douglas-oral-sex-cancer" rel="nofollow">sodomy</a>...Thersiteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15751286903359745316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-82143071161189272382013-06-01T07:44:18.011-04:002013-06-01T07:44:18.011-04:00O look on the mindless with kindness
They have not...<b><i>O look on the mindless with kindness<br />They have nothing to offer or give<br />But a welcome to dine less in blindness<br />And a lifestyle that won't let us live.</i></b><br />FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-57912753458639966132013-06-01T07:21:15.318-04:002013-06-01T07:21:15.318-04:00OMG, another Democrat who's entire worldview i...OMG, another Democrat who's entire worldview is centered upon race... what a surprise... NOT!Thersiteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15751286903359745316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-81572557494690954572013-06-01T06:24:38.733-04:002013-06-01T06:24:38.733-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Stephanienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-65651783798410233782013-06-01T06:13:58.824-04:002013-06-01T06:13:58.824-04:00How Barack Obama and Rock Hudson Are Alike (Hint: ...How Barack Obama and Rock Hudson Are Alike (Hint: a complicit press worked a clear agenda to protect their secrets for years). They’re also both gay as rainbows.<br />This, of course, makes Michelle Obama the most high-profile and powerful beard in history<br />Michelle Obama is a beard, too, but she needed to ride Barack Obama’s coattails to power (partly to get away from Jesse Jackson, on whom her family depended for many years). This arrangement is no different than Rock Hudson’s with his beard of a wife Phyllis Gates…and no different from Mimi Rogers, Nicole Kidman, Katie Holmes, Kelly Preston, Jada Pinkett Smith, Zoe Saldana, Selena Gomez, Juliann Hough, Vanessa Hudgens, and all the women who beard it up for gay guys who want to be movie stars or other incarnations of celebrity. Being the pretend wife to an upwardly mobile gay guy is both fun and profitable…and there’s no reason these woman can’t have studs of their own on the side while their husbands-on-paper-and-in-the-press-only spend time “with the guys” playing basketball, golfing, or whatever else they do when they disappear off the record for long stretches of time (that staffers in the White House in particular claim are “irrelevant” and “not something the public needs to know about”).Kevinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-33641512245368448222013-05-31T22:26:45.128-04:002013-05-31T22:26:45.128-04:00....cuz He's the only one who does.....cuz He's the only one who does.Thersiteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15751286903359745316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-21407398335558126632013-05-31T22:01:13.854-04:002013-05-31T22:01:13.854-04:00Well, like I say, Shaw. God loves the atheists bes...Well, like I say, Shaw. God loves the atheists best.Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-61579122830421025132013-05-31T20:38:29.446-04:002013-05-31T20:38:29.446-04:00Ducky, St. Leonard's, not St. Gregory's. ...Ducky, St. Leonard's, not St. Gregory's. I often go to Mass there to listen to it celebrated in Italian. <br /><br />I'm not a believer, but I do like to hear the liturgy spoken in the language of my parents and all my ancestors.<br /><br />Sorry I missed seeing you in the North End today.<br /><br /><br /><br />Shaw Kenawehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08637273000409613497noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-76510161546170396992013-05-31T20:07:58.727-04:002013-05-31T20:07:58.727-04:00FT, all I can say is just hang in there brother. Y...FT, all I can say is just hang in there brother. You've traveled a distance, seen a lot and lived more than many so you have contributed much to the world around you and probably gotten a few earned benefits as well. That is part of the game: Make life seem hopeless and feel helpless and just surrender to submersion in the evil.<br /><br />I think those who can see the problem can work to expose the evil intent with the last ounce of strength available to us. I just don't see the problem and solution as being strictly political, Liberal or Conservative, Republican or Democrat. As far as I can tell both seem to be playing for the same team, both ends against the middle, so to speak.Waylonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08533895509055020394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-13661943101695135042013-05-31T19:26:05.246-04:002013-05-31T19:26:05.246-04:00The prophecies of E.M. Forster, Aldous Huxley, Geo...The prophecies of E.M. Forster, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell and Margaret Atwood are being fulfilled, Waylon.<br /><br />There is no hope for someone as old as I -- long trapped in The Pattern, dependent on The System, and weakening daily with ravages of advancing age. My time is drawing to a close more rapidly than I like to think -- I can feel it.<br /><br /><b>However, anyone under the age of fifty-five should consider dropping out, becoming a latter-day Gypsy -- rootless, constantly in the move, living from hand to mouth doing odd jobs or outright begging, but blessedly OUTSIDE The SYTSEM.</b><br /><br />The legend of Robin Hood and his Merry Men appealed greatly when I was a boy. After all that has befallen us in the past sixty-odd years, the idea of living freely in the forest with a few well-chosen friends preying occasionally only on the wicked appeals now more than ever before.<br /><br />The illegal aliens we currently shriek and roar about have been doing this since before the USA was born. It is the Democrats' piously seductive attempts to bring them into The System, that have corrupted them. Before they were incredibly <i>useful</i> -- and content enough with their lot. Very soon they -- like the Negroes and Puerto Ricans before them -- will be transformed by the ever burgeoning interventionist initiatives of the Democratic Party into nothing but a burden on an ever-dwindling population of employed, white, property-owning, taxpaying citizens.<br /><br />We may never again achieve the degree of material comfort, security, medical advantages and high culture we once knew before Marx-inspired Progressivism took over, but a return to the ways of the NOMADIC TRIBES from which all of us originated MAY provide an ANTIDOTE to the slow-acting POISON by which we've been afflicted.<br /><br />The Golden Age of Pericles didn't last very long, and it was followed by approximately FIVE-HUNDRED YEARS of DARKNESS dominated by unspeakable brutality, hardship, privation, deadly superstition and plague.<br /><br />CYCLES! CYCLES! CYCLES!<br /><br />It has been ever thus.FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-60678811623251111822013-05-31T18:45:58.881-04:002013-05-31T18:45:58.881-04:00All the idiotic partisan sniping about the wonders...All the idiotic partisan sniping about the wonders to be endowed by one political party or the other and, wouldn't you know it, the scheduled opening of the Utah Data Center has been bumped up from September to a more urgent present.<br /><br />Here's how Wiki sees the center: <br /><br />"The Utah Data Center, also known as the Intelligence Community Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative Data Center,[1] is a data storage facility for the United States Intelligence Community that is designed to be a primary storage resource capable of storing data on the scale of yottabytes (1 yottabyte = 1 trillion terabytes, or 1 quadrillion gigabytes). <br /><br />The data center is alleged to be able to capture "all forms of communication, including the complete contents of private emails, cell phone calls, and Internet searches, as well as all sorts of personal data trails—parking receipts, travel itineraries, bookstore purchases, and other digital 'pocket litter'."<br /><br />Looks like the end of the line is fast approaching for the one and only country founded on the principle of individual rights and constitutionally limited government. The world should be weeping. It's not. People have been dumbed-down to such a low level, finger pointing at other citizens that the great experiment in individualism has been terminated. Unfortunately almost all of the serious damage to the original ideal has been spawned internally ... but that's another story.<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_CenterWaylonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08533895509055020394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-67283417377476753662013-05-31T16:57:07.466-04:002013-05-31T16:57:07.466-04:00Duck,
I just took a look at what you posted from y...Duck,<br />I just took a look at what you posted from your photo shoot today. Some good stuff there!<br /><br />The one called "Shadow figure" is really quite something. How many like that man are unseen? Have we become inured to such men and written them off?Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-53004198786545086302013-05-31T16:33:33.281-04:002013-05-31T16:33:33.281-04:00That the GLORY of any such a work -- and, thank Go...<br />That the GLORY of any such a work -- and, thank God, there are MANY -- comes not from BREAKING rules and escaping SELF-DISCIPLINE<br /><br />-----<br />No wonder you don't like Godard.Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-31323321021133530552013-05-31T16:23:13.716-04:002013-05-31T16:23:13.716-04:00Well FT, I looked at your blog over breakfast and ...Well FT, I looked at your blog over breakfast and just thought to myself that I needed to put in a few hours at the office to remind me that things are good.<br /><br />Daddy had a pretty damn good day at the office. Pretty much everyone was way upbeat. This gay couple asked me to take a photo. Pretty good shot.<br /><br />Got a good one of an old woman trying to keep cool in her doorway in the North End.<br /><br />There was a guy sitting alone at a table outside a gelato shop on Hanover and he had a look that was just somewhere else. The shot was there but I didn't take it. Vibe seemed hostile.<br /><br />"Winogrand would have taken the shot. That's why he has a one man show."<br /><br />Missed another. It would have made a great cover for my upcoming book, "Cellphones gone wild". Bimbo was on the phone jaywalking and almost got hit. I was paying attention to another zone of opportunity and missed it, darn.<br /><br />But it was a good day. Was taking one shot and a guy got into a conversation with me about the North End and why it's special. I told him I liked the Catholic presence that's still there like Shaw says about St. Gregory's.<br /><br />Got some good sgots of folks cooling of in the fountains on the Greenway.<br />Downtown Crossing was alive, the Haymarket.<br /><br />You know something, FT. I wasn't even listening for the bad words. Don't know why you do either.<br /><br />We both know it's all freaking good.<br /><br />"Blow Up Your TV, throw away your <br />paper <br />Go to the country, build you a home<br />Plant a little garden, eat a lot of peaches <br />Try and find Jesus on your own."<br /><br />---John Prine<br />--DuckyDucky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-71754241076395486932013-05-31T14:35:50.565-04:002013-05-31T14:35:50.565-04:00FT,
Yes, I'm in such a position -- for a few m...FT,<br />Yes, I'm in such a position -- for a few more years if my health holds out.<br /><br />But our numbers are very few, and it's an uphill battle to enlist more who are interested in such curricula.<br /><br />Story from this school term....One parent had been requesting the public school teachers to allow her daughter, a superior reader, to read classic works of literature for the required book reports. This mother specifically requested that her daughter read <i>Jane Eyre</i>; the teacher gleefully "informed" the woman, "We don't read books like that anymore." <br /><br />This year, that student did, of course, read <i>Jane Eyre</i> for her second book report of the term. <br /><br />Another young lady read <i>Pride and Prejudice</i>, which you mentioned above, after reading <i>Of Mice and Men</i>. She specifically stated that she preferred the former because it was lighter in tone. Can't say that I blame her!Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-14943915108217175092013-05-31T13:54:41.042-04:002013-05-31T13:54:41.042-04:00AOW, at least YOU are in a position to continue as...AOW, at least YOU are in a position to continue assigning the Great Books and staging class discussion, individual papers written by students and read in class, etc. <br /><br />Many are getting wise ti the AGENDA-DRIVEN CURRICULA that is turning whole generations into brainwashed automata programmed to do the bidding of these Oligarchs who have steadily and stealthily USURPED Power away from the People to whom it LEGITIMATELY belongs.<br /><br />COMPLAINT is NOT the way to fight this.<br /><br />Using POSITIVE EXAMPLES of the WONDER and GLORY that is being systematically STAMPED OUT by these Tyrannists IS a viable, highly valuable form of RESISTANCE and REBELLION against TYRANNY.FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-77578071497407873152013-05-31T13:45:11.382-04:002013-05-31T13:45:11.382-04:00Well, HURRAH for the ACLU, Jerry. I'm glad to ...Well, HURRAH for the ACLU, Jerry. I'm glad to know those things.FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-87251326085344588632013-05-31T13:34:07.447-04:002013-05-31T13:34:07.447-04:00FT,
literary works such as Pride and Prejudice, J...FT,<br /><i> literary works such as Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre, The Mill on the Floss, Wuthering Heights, The Forsyte Saga, The Portrait of a Lady and The House of Mirth</i><br /><br />Sadly, many of these works as well as others along the same lines are being removed or already have been removed from curricula today. Much of what has replaced these classics ranks among the most depressing writing of all time.Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-68555773746940992592013-05-31T13:14:13.605-04:002013-05-31T13:14:13.605-04:00I guess such a belief (ANY overt expression of bel...I guess such a belief <a href="http://www.aclu.org/aclu-defense-religious-practice-and-expression-public-schools" rel="nofollow">(ANY overt expression of belief in Jesus Christ)</a> is a conservative value, particularly if the ACLU is a for it.Jerry Critterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01870618647449723147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-34738383178807057292013-05-31T12:20:24.682-04:002013-05-31T12:20:24.682-04:00Jerry, are you not aware that ANY overt expression...Jerry, are you not aware that ANY overt expression of belief in Jesus Christ is strictly FORBIDDEN in most public schools today, and considered ANATHEMA by the Liberal Establishment that controls Entertainment, Pop Music, and the dissemination of News and Information?<br /><br />Christianity gets NOTHING BUT bad publicity these days and has for DECADES.FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-79846821268939637742013-05-31T12:16:44.266-04:002013-05-31T12:16:44.266-04:00I've said this before, but this seems an appro...I've said this before, but this seems an appropriate time to say it again.<br /><br />I have found literary works such as Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre, The Mill on the Floss, Wuthering Heights, The Forsyte Saga, The Portrait of a Lady and The House of Mirth -- and many of the great songs of Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Strauss and Hugo Wolf along with much of Wagnerian Opera and parts of the symphonies of Mahler -- to stimulate far more erotic yearnings, powerful passion and hunger for affection than any of the cheap, obvious, clumsily "direct" efforts of "modern" works which avail themselves of the "freedom" to be as explicitly vulgar as the scribblings often found on the walls in public toilets.<br /><br /><b>The excesses of Progressive Statism have succeeded only in jockeying Modern Man into what-promises-to-be a prolonged period of NEO-BARBARISM.</b>FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-1918858581563456122013-05-31T11:58:55.305-04:002013-05-31T11:58:55.305-04:00Who is complaining about the wearing of religious ...Who is complaining about the wearing of religious symbols?Jerry Critterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01870618647449723147noreply@blogger.com