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New shopping, new life: (Which is intended to help Your Correspondent supplement his disability benefits, for the most part, as well as Some Good Causes, foremost among them being Reduction of the U.S. National Debt):
(part 2):
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And why not take a moment to look @ PayPal as a way to add online shopping to your website, or otherwise raise funds.
...EXCEPT MAYBE TO SUGGEST THAT THE DOYENS OF CONSERVATIVE PROLEFEED, WITH THEIR OBVIOUS APPEAL TO THE VULNERABLE AND MARGINALISED, may want to reach for Sympathy Soothing Syrup (and remember, Sympathy spelled backwards is "Yhtapmys," in case you've forgotten the old Jack Benny gag inspired by the slogan for Serutan laxative all those years ago--"Read It Backwards").
BTW, whatever became of Serutan?
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MEANWHILE, IMAGINE THE FOLLOWING AS AN IDEAL RADIO ADVERT FOR WISCONSIN DELLS IN THIS UPCOMING ECONOMY-CHALLENGED SEASON when people need to look for value all the more:
(Mise en scene: A low-class breakfast place somewhere in Chicago, early morning. Place fills with the inevitable crowd preparing to make their way to their work.)
MAGGIE: Good morning.
ELAYNE: Good morning you yourself--And does that go how today?
MAGGIE: There If it's me that as for the thing of 1 which can be used small-numbered days it is the summer from heat.
ELAYNE: Follow.
MAGGIE: As for me us haven't the you have known; Is Wisconsin Dells of time it now--
ELAYNE: My which.
MAGGIE: Therefore something prevents the fact that we perhaps this summer go there?
ELAYNE: Center--?
MAGGIE: We considerably the waterpark resort,
there's perhaps, it is not possible; It has the value of
normal, the well small motel where it is try. Perhaps those it
possesses desirable value there.
ELAYNE: I'd recognizes one of the pool; the child likes that certainly.
MAGGIE: As for oh it is,--and there's in addition shopping which should you have there--
ELAYNE: --and the waterpark, excessively; don't those waterparks which have been forgotten…
MAGGIE: --and the meal which should you have there--
ELAYNE: Maggie?
MAGGIE: Yes, Elayne?
ELAYNE (with some electricity in the air):LET'S WISCONSIN DELLS!!
(Music in the background: The chorus of Starship's "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now")
ANNOUNCER: Concerning that you do not have to make a
mistake: This time can use certain health of Wisconsin Dells for many, this
summer. Because of many items of information, fee no charge 1-800-22-DELLS call, or
visit our web sights www.wisdells.com anytime.
(If any of you were wondering as to the object of the preceding, such was in Engrish to best make use of humour to call awareness to the Capital City of Waterpark of the World in potentially difficult socioeconomic times such as these. Comments are appreciated, as always.)
UNLESS TECHNICALLY OUTGOING SENATOR NORM COLEMAN MANAGES TO PULL OFF HIS WILLIE LUMPLUMP ACT BEFORE THE MINNESOTA SUPREME COURT, expect it to be a given that Democratic Senatorial candidate Al Franken, thanks to an exceptionally thorough hand recount of election ballots, will claim his seat as the Junior Senator from Minnesota by edict of the Minnesota Canvassing Board sometime within the day.
And we know the canards and patsies ex-Senator Coleman will be playing: That there are more absentee and postal ballots still under lock and key as were yet uncounted on "technical points;" that said ballots were kept out of the loop to protect Franken's "trick and deceit" in winning sure electoral victory; that many of the votes for Franken were somehow counted twice, creating an artificial advantage further raising issues of "trick and deceit" on the Franken campaign's part; that Secular-Progressive elements dommo the Canvassing Board, and so on ad infinitium to the point of obnoxiously frivolous or vexatious.
Which, in its turn, may leave the Minnesota Supreme Court with but little choice other than dismissal of Coleman's claims "with prejudice"--in legal terms, "final and binding."
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AND FOR THOSE STILL INSISTING THAT LIBERALS AND SO-CALLED "SECULAR-PROGRESSIVES" ARE NOT ENTITLED TO POSITIONS OF POWER AND AUTHORITY, in effect making its corridors the exclusive monopoly by a Christian Conservative "elect***entitled as of right" supposedly based on Unwritten Custom and Tradition, need I remind you that History reminds us of where such complacent attitudes and mindsets, otherwise known as Maschienpolitik, only provides incentives for corruption, barration, waste, fraud, inefficency and, in due course, School for Scandal.
As in the likes of such infamous political machines from history as Huey "Kingfish" Long.
Richard Daley the Elder.
James Patrick Curley.
Tom Penderganst.
"Boss" Frank Hague.
Which ought be studied as lessons and warnings of the old maxim about "power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely" in action.
And, for the sake of fairness, the excesses of apartheid South Africa, thanks to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
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IF YOU THOUGHT EVANGEL TONY ALAMO'S MARTEXTIAN ARGUMENT THAT WOMEN SHOULD BE MARRIED ONCE THEY REACH THEIR PUBESCENCE was rather bizarre, even considering his invoking Biblical Justification therefor, consider the case of "Mika" and "Anna-Lena" from Hannover, Germany (ages five and six, respectively) who wanted to get married down Africa way--only to go as far as the Hannover railway station, where police started getting suspicious and contacted their parents before they were able to get to the airport.
(Making matters worse, they didn't have the airfare, and their only possessions were bathing suits, sunglasses and a li-lo, if that.)
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IF THERE'S ONE SUBPOPULATION TAKING AN ESPECIALLY UNHEALTHY INTEREST IN THE ISRAELI "PREEMPTIVE ACTIONS" IN PALESTINIAN GAZA OVER RECENT DAYS, it would have to be the obnoxiously self-conscious "European-American" community of the mostly poor, undereducated, easily-led and socioeconomically marginalised seeing in David Duke and his ilk their "salvation" on the same level that white Afrikanerdom across apartheid South Africa were expected to see in the National Party and its several affiliates expected to reinforce Afrikaner Honour and Patriot Love.
A mindset in the "there but for the grace of G-d go I" stylee, hoping to use the Obama/Biden regime in Washington as a "battle cry" to "racial consciousness" not seen since the worst excesses of Nazi Germany (and, in a way, apartheid South Africa and Rhodesia). Aided and abetted, no doubt, by "action alerts" expecting White Christian America to take a more conscious stand "for racial pride and honour" all the more through the likes of "deeper study" of news broadcasts.
Your Correspondent, for his part, thinks that the only race which matters is the human race.
Besides, the Nazis notwithstanding, "Aryan" has no ethnological validity or qualification in describing a sub-species of Caucasoids "having non-Jewish, northern European origins, especially Nordic such;" in fact, the term is Sanskrit, and technically belongs to those of Indo-Iranian origin. How "Aryan" came to be associated with Nazi ideals of racial superiority is anybody's guess, but suffice it to say that gutter literature played a part in sowing the seeds.
And Another Thing: Animal breeders will tell you that attempts to create a "pure-bred" line of any species (humans included, no doubt) only risks serious genetic harm to the point of causing Undesirable Traits of Breed to be all too numerous in time.
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NO WONDER THE HOMOPHOBIC COMMUNITY IS SO HARD-WIRED AS THEY ARE IN THEIR BELIEF THAT "SOY IS FEMINISING" (as in unwittingly leading to Homosexual Tendencies being developed over time): Next thing you know, expect such to push for a heavy excise tax on soy-based foods (especially soy milk, soy curd and soy-based meat substitutes), the proceeds therefor subsidising the cost of "real" meats and dairy products in lower-income or otherwise culturally-deprived environments "@ high or extreme risk of breaking out in epidemics of homosexual tendencies" in due time.
All to be excused as a "preemptive" action "to prevent the further spread of homosexuality" based on discredited psuedoscience dusted off for ideological purposes.
And if such doesn't have the Desired Corrective Effect, then expect them to consider Drastic Measures amounting to legalising prostitution in Designated Federal Areas (low-income, for the most part) as a "preemptive measure" for such aims as just explained--not to mention an old-school freak show depicting Homosexuals As They Really Are (or so stereotypes of the Religiopolitical Right seek to perpetuate) making the rounds of disreputable travelling carnivals in low-income parts of the country before settling down in Branson (and without any qualms about children being "corrupted" by such displays of homosexual behaviour in its most stereotypically lurid form, excusing such as being "educational" and yet "healthy").
PERHAPS THERE MAY STILL BE A PLACE FOR THE SO-CALLED "BUSH DOCTRINE" OF "PREEMPTIVE ACTION" in a post-Bush America--in this case, cutting short rather obnoxious displays of conservative propaganda and "enlightenment" blather with this iconic Australian advertising jingle, and in a rather loud, ear-splitting stylee:
I like Æroplane Jelly, Æroplane Jelly for me! I like it for dinner, I like it for tea, A little each day is a good recipe! I like Æroplane Jelly, Æroplane Jelly for me!
(Making this more worthwhile as an effective means of "preemptive" deflation of conservative propaganda excess: The same version of the jingle as recorded by five-year-old Joy King in 1938 continues to be used to this day "Down Under" in radio, cinema and television advertising for this iconic Australian product--as well as their website--even if the Australian subsidairy of the American firm of McCormick now owns the brand.
(In the same league, no doubt, as Vegemite, Milo, ETA Barbecue Sauce, Sanitarium Weet-Bix, Napi-San diaper sanitiser, Arnott's Biscuits, Cottee's Coola cordial and Allen's Minties among Australian consumer-brand icons.
(And did I mention another likely reason being the fact of Keith Rupert Murdoch being of Australian extraction himself?)
WHEN WILL THE GOP IN CONGRESS LEARN TO LEAVE WELL ENOUGH ALONE, AND THEN SOME, in questioning the oh-so-inevitable likelihood of Democrat Al Franken winning the Senate race in Minnesota thanks to the recount process of the Minnesota Canvassing Board, whose announcement of the end result is expected within measurable distance?
Especially considering their contending that Franken used "trick or deception" to claim Republican Norm Coleman's seat, howbeit lacking evidence as is not iteslf forged or otherwise manufactured with nefarious intent such as Camp Coleman hopes to present before the Minnesota Supreme Court in case Franken is declared winner fair and square. And what's more, word-processing programmes these days have the potential for creating authentic-looking documents as can trick or deceive experts specialist in forgery.
@ least until chemical tests on the ink and paper deflate the collective egos of such elements weird and unwholesome playing the forgery game "for political reasons," hoping all the while to get their droogs @ Fox Prolefeed in particular to play along. (In fact, such testing actually served to confirm the authenticity of Anne Frank's famous diaries several years back in response to ongoing propaganda by neo-Nazi and Holocaust Denial types, the latter hiding behind the cloak of "Historical Review" for trick and deception right there, suggesting that same was a Jewish "fabrication" to mislead the public about the Nazi agenda towards Jews.)
(Memo to Camp Norm Coleman: We can do without your Willie Lumplump strategy designed solely to push your neoconservative patsies and canards upon the ignorant and marginalised, alias Kankerdom.)
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AS FOR SOME OF THE MORE INFLUENTIAL ATTENDEES @ ANTI-ISRAELI MARCHES OVER RECENT DAYS IN RESPONSE TO THE ISRAELI CAMPAIGN IN GAZA, which has now gone into ground-operations mode after a week of mostly air strikes, how do we know they didn't include Archie Bunker/Alf Garnett types supporting the Palestinian side based on "the-enemy-of-my-enemy-is-a-friend-of-mine" illogic (a/k/a false analogy)?
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STAYING WITH THE SUBJECT OF FALSE ANALOGY FOR A MOMENT, expect there to resurface in especially culturally-deprived environments (as in communities with few or no realistic job-creation prospects under current socioeconomic conditions) various "mailing-list generator" schemes which suggest that such is "providing a service" to the extent of such being considered legal per 18 USC 1302 (proscribing use of the mails in furtherance of lotteries and related activities) and 18 USC 1341 (proscribing use of the mails in furtherance of fraud or swindle).
For the record, I am not aware of supposed provisions in either of the laws referenced allowing for "providing products or services" to be an exemption under its provisions, or such being allowed as a defence to any ensuing court action.
And perhaps it was time to explain that there are three elements which make a lottery for the purposes of John Law; to wit:
Prize (an offer or promise to award money and/or merchandise of significant and measurable value to a select and lucky few, chosen by random lot);
Consideration (the requirement that participants purchase products or services from the promoters or affiliated entities, or donate to affiliated charities, as a condition of entry); and
Chance (the actual award of prizes, and the emouluments therefor, being subject to certain external factors outside the direct control of its sponsors, including number and quality of entries).
So what sort of patsies are those engaging in "mailing-list generator" schemes--or, for that matter, their cousins in cyberfolly in "Five Reports" and "cashflow gifting" form--playing to suggest that potential earnings claims do not constitute "prizes," the cost of materials (including reseller rights, if need be) are not "consideration," and that the time and effort to put into the whole is not one with "chance"?
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HISTORY WAS MADE FOR THIS BLOG YESTERDAY @ 11h05 UTC (05h05 CENTRAL TIME IN THE UNITED STATES) when, according to site traffic tracking by SiteMeter.com, The Exaggerator welcomed its 20,000th visitor since inception just over a year ago.
Who came by way of Quezon City in the Philippines, as it turns out.
And which was helped all the more thanks to my recently joining up with EntreCard in the interest of building up the traffic following the recent amalagamation of BlogMad (as had been used previously for such ends) into Today.com. Otherwise, it would have been quite awhile before the 20,000-visitor threshold would have been crossed here.
To our 20,000th guest, we can only say "congratulations."
And the way traffic has gone here @ The Exaggerator in the last month or so, it looks likely that we may see #25,000 recorded sometime before Easter (which, this year, is April 12th for most Christians, and a week later in the Eastern Orthodox churches).
Meanwhile, the online shopping area of the sidebar could use some healthy business for once; as I've mentioned before (and @ the expense of such who suggest that I'm only bellyaching here, and that I should "get a real job" for once), my disability benefit only goes so far every month, and it may be some while (if @ all) before it's likely that I'll come into money.
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MEIN OWN MOTHERDEAR, FOR SOME REASON OR ANOTHER, SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN FEELING DEPRESSED BEYOND ANY HOPE over the just-concluded holiday season--which, "officially," she put down to tiredness aggravated by age and her own physical limitations requiring use of a walker to help get around her house.
That, and the fact of her car being unable to start after all this time in the garage of her house, forcing her to miss medical appointments (though not precluding Home Health Aides and/or Nurses calling on her thrice weekly) and be unable to buy groceries @ the store unless a close relative did so for her ... not to mention her still insisting on cheap incandescent lighting to shed light on things (considering the availability of "bright-as-daylight" compact fluorescents) and the front window being canopied to the extent that she's unable to take healthy advantage of the southern exposure thus available.
Which leaves us wondering whether she's trying to hide something which could be more serious medically (she's 87 going on 88), let alone picturing the prospect of something serious developing medically when the streets and roads are in a Very Bad Condition to the extent that Travel is Not Advised Unless Deemed Necessary.
Even if the days are starting to get longer in the daylight department.
KUDOS AND A TIP OF THE GIMME CAP TO THE SNARKY VIEW FOR HAVING BEEN AWARDED THE SNARKY LEMONADE AWARD (as above) just today in recognition of being "absolutely a Snarky blogger!", so joining the Virtual Trophy Case here @ The Exaggerator.
As it is that a condition of receiving this award is having to name ten nominees therefor (as well as linking to same, not to mention including the logotype therefor), here's my nominees therefor:
