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AS ONE OF THOSE LISTENERS TO XM SATELLITE RADIO'S ESCAPE CHANNEL (#78, TO BE EXACT), DEVOTED AS IT IS TO "EASY LISTENING" MUSIC, Your Correspondent often runs into an insturmental number by French easy-listening bandleader Norrie Paramor entitled "Soul Coaxing."
And it leaves him asking: "Just what exactly is 'soul coaxing,' come to think of it?!"
Perhaps it might be best to leave it up to you, the readers of this blog, to debate the issue in the comments section. (Just remember to keep it clean.)
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JUST A COUPLE MORE DAYS TO GO BEFORE YOUR CORRESPONDENT STARTS HIS SUMMER BREAK, and the Minnwissippi region couldn't be nicer. If a bit on the cool and breezy side, though, while he sips on some San Pellegrino Limonata (which, for those of you not "in the loop," is Italian mineral water blended with lemon juice and pulp--16% lemon juice in each serving, to be exact; in my own case, it's a 200 mL bottle).
The picture illustrating today's bit of brevities could also be a reflection on the Wisconsin Dells situation after Lake Delton's shock drainage last week about this time following heavy rains: As I've mentioned @ least twice before in this blog, the Visitor and Convention Bureau there wants you to know that, save for Lake Delton proper, it's still "besigheid as gebruiklike" in the "mizu shobai."
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THE NEWS THAT UNITED NATIONS SECRETARY-GENERAL BAN KI MOON RECEIVED FROM SAUDI KING ABDULLAH that the Saudis were increasing oil output by 200,000 bbls./day from next month (on top of an estimated 300,000 bbls/day increased in just the last month) should technically be seen as "good news" by such frustrated about high oil prices of late.
Even considering where crude oil prices have fallen back from near-record levels in afterlunch trading.
But then again, let's not forget where The Dirty Digger had prophesised that the ur-RAHOWA Against Terrorism would translate into $20/bbl. crude oil within measurable distance--and you'll never guess how wrong he turned out to be, especially after factoring in a weakened dollar and general socioeconomic dislocation caused, for the most part, by His Fraudulency's warped socioeconomic delusions seeing low taxes=jobs=social stability (but only for an "elect***entitled as of right" more so than the hoi polloi who, methinks, may be all the more targeted--and deliberately--for Social Security denationalisation).
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AND COME TO THINK OF IT, HIS FRAUDULENCY'S GREAT WITHIN (AND ITS "INSIDE OF THE INSIDE") MUST SECRETLY HAVE THIS NOTION that the ur-RAHOWA Against Terrorism, for all its failings, takes a higher priority than damage recovery from the ongoing flooding and tornadoes across the Midwestern states when it comes to Federal funding.
Which, no doubt, provides as good an incentive as any for foreign governments to send us "morally superior" Americans disaster relief assistance for once--unless the aforementioned Great Within's xenophobic delusions intervene without valid justification.
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"SADISM." PERHAPS THE WORD OF THE HOUR EXPLAINING THE SITUATION IN ZIMBABWE ahead of the Presidential runoff between incumbent Robert Mugabe (ZANU-PF) and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai (Movement for Democratic Change/MDC) much of it instigated by goon squads officially known as "war veterans" on behalf of the former using fear and paranoia to scare off opposition sympathisers from voting.
And no doubt of interest to the Dick Dastardly Squad of the GOP.
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COMPARE AND CONTRAST DEPARTMENT (PART I): Item from People For the American Way's Right Wing Watch blog sidebar, devoted to recent headlines from the Religiopolitical Right's Dark Satanic Mills of Propaganda:
At the Southern Baptist Convention, Richard Land advocated for “sustained prayer” as “the only answer for our country….The hope for America will not come from Washington, D.C., not from the Supreme Court and not from Congress.” These statements, however, do not mean a less politicized SBC: Land cited “four modern-day horsemen of the apocalypse”: “the spiritual and moral wasteland of pornography," the "radical homosexual agenda's attempt to undermine and destroy the family…the sanctity of human life issue,” and “radical Islamic jihadism,” and the Convention passed resolutions urging political action against the forces pushing America into a “spiritual and moral cesspool.”
Cf. "Pray ... pray ... pray hard," which the late Mary Ann VanHoof (as in the officially-disapproved-of Shrine of Our Lady Queen of the Rosary, Mediatrix of Peace, Mediatrix Between G-d and Man of Necedah, Wisconsin) was forever claiming preceded every "revelation" she had with not so much Our Lady as the angels, the saints and the prophets, and a onetime Emperor and Czar of All the Russias, as would quite often cross over into the obnoxiously absurd.
No doubt earning Miss VanHoof and her followers much condemnation from the Roman Catholic Church since she first claimed to have received divine communications in late 1949, culminating in the "apparitions" as were really no better than a "bluish haze" on August 15, 1950 ... and only going downhill since then, even after her decease in 1984.
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COMPARE AND CONTRAST DEPARTMENT (PART II): Media Matters for America has transcribed these remarks (emphasis supplied) from the 11th June broadcast of Laura Ingraham's talkback radio show, which had Monica Crowley hosting in lieu:
Monica Crowley in for Laura Ingraham, 800-876-4123. Well, apparently the Bada Bing has two new patrons these days. According to a major story in today's New York Times, Bill and Hillary Clinton are spending their downtime putting together a major enemies list of all of the turncoats who went off with, yeah, Mr. Hope and Change, Senator Obama. And according to The New York Times, it says Clinton loyalists -- and yeah, I guess there are still some--regard these people with some variation of, quote, ingrate, traitor, or enemy. This according to the associates and campaign officials who would speak only on the condition of anonymity, because they also do not want to end up in cement shoes. The offenders' names are spat forth by the Clintons and their associates in rants, gripe sessions, and post-mortems. New York Times goes on to say the lineup invariably begins with A-list members like Governor Bill Richardson, Representative James Clyburn, Gregory Craig, Bill Clinton's lawyer in his impeachment trial, David Axelrod, Senator Claire McCaskill, and several Kennedys--an assortment of Kennedys, beginning of course with Ted. Goes on to say some members of the Democratic Party's rules committee, the state of Iowa, and the caucus system in general, are also near the top of the Clintons' hit list. That would be the whole state of Iowa. I wonder if Hillary Clinton is going to go there and yell at the whole state the way Oprah went down to Mississippi and yelled at the whole state for being fat.
The New York Times piece also goes on to say the news media have already focused on some list entries, including Matt Drudge, Todd Purdum of Vanity Fair, and the cable network MSNBC, whose hosts Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann are charter list members. The Clintons' lists are also reported to include lesser-known Obama-supporting members of Congress, former ambassadors, or Clinton White House officials turned Obama advisers. These are people, it says, who should know better than to ask the former president of first lady for a job recommendation for a son-in-law.
I'm sure that the name on the top of Bill Clinton's list is Hillary, and vice-a-versa. It'll be like that movie Mr. & Mrs. Smith, where Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are husband-and-wife assassins who are paid to kill each other. My colleague on The McLaughlin Group, Eleanor Clift, a couple of weeks ago wrote a piece for Newsweek. She made this point, that a Clinton aide--a top Clinton associate--said of John Kerry, who is also backing Barack Obama, quote, "He's dead to us. He is dead to us." A major donor, she reports, apologetic, very apologetic of his support of Barack Obama, went to Hillary hat in hand, and saying, you know, "I really apologize. I had to back Barack." And she snapped at him, quote, "Too bad for you because I'm going to win."
Too bad for you. You know, if you're backing the "hope" guy, well, that's too bad for you, and it will be too bad for you because girlfriend will cut you. She will strap you into the electric chair. Then she will waterboard you. Then she will slowly and methodically pull off each one of your toenails. Then she will deprive you of sleep by blasting "The Best of the '80s Hair Bands" at you, and then she will cut off your manhood, and then she will throw the switch. This is what Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, Bill Richardson, Oprah, and Maria Shriver all have to look forward to. None of them should be starting their personal cars in the morning. 800-876-4123. Monicamemo.com. I am Monica Crowley in for Laura Ingraham.
Speaking of "cut[ting] off your manhood," cf. with this supposed subtitle from a Hong Kong-produced martial-arts "chop-sockey" potboiler of a few years back:
This will be of fine service to you, you bag of the scum. I am sure you will not mind that I remove your manhoods and leave them out on the desert flour for your aunts to eat.
Or, for that matter, the occasional rumours in a number of African countries about sorcerers and other practicioners of the Forbidden Arts being capable of shrinking one's penis with a mere handshake, which have led to outbreaks of mass hysteria crossing into violence and rioting. (For their part, local police officials contend that these stories are baseless, usually provoked by criminal gangs using the ensuing chaos to carry out robberies, looting and vandalism.)
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WITH CERTAIN ELEMENTS SUGGESTING THAT SERIOUS SOCIOECONOMIC DISLOCATION AND/OR INSTABILITY MAY BE IMMINENT, all thanks to His Fraudulency's Great Within and their misadventures in ur-RAHOWA form based on flawed evidence, expect plenty of e-mail, message board and blog postings in the vein of the following so-called "money-making opportunity" (with necessary deletions):
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OR,
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Which, if anything, may raise questions under 18 USC 1343 (Fraud by Wire, Radio or Television) as much as 18 USC 1341, not to mention the PayPal Terms of Service.
As well as perverting the whole concept of mutual self-help by invoking same for fraudulent or deceptive ends, especially in view of current or otherwise imminent mass socioeconomic dislocation and uncertainty vis-a-vis the vulnerable and easily-influenced of the community.
I'M NOT EXACTLY SURE IF DICK HYMAN, AUTHOR OF NUMEROUS COLLECTIONS OF "FUNNY" OR OTHERWISE ESOTERIC SPECIMENS OF LAW AND ORDINANCE across the United States, has since passed on ... but it's my understanding that his interest in the subject was stimulated by an obscure Alabama law which supposedly holds that husbands have the legal right to beat their unfaithful wives with "a stick no larger than the thumb," length thereof not otherwise specified.
In any case, Hyman would make a career out of documenting such specimens of hilarious-sounding legal esoterica for the now-defunct American Magazine and in several books, most notably his 1977 volume The Trenton Pickle Ordinance and Other Bonehead Legislation.
(The title alluding to a supposed ordinance in Trenton, New Jersey proscribing under penalty of law "throwing a tainted pickle upon the streets" of The Garden State's capital city.)
Anyway, getting back to that stick "no larger than the thumb" as a lawful agency of spousal chastisement:
No wonder the Southern Baptist Convention, which called upon wives to "graciously submit" to their husbands in His Name, would approve of such a law towards "gracious submission."
Or would they?!
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15.6.08
The images which launched quite the traffic to this weblog
OVER THE LAST FEW DAYS, MOTIVATED LARGELY BY WEB SEARCHES RELATED TO THE MIDWEST FLOODING AND THE SHOCK DRAINAGE OF LAKE DELTON IN WISCONSIN, Your Correspondent has noticed quite the traffic to this particular blog thanks to web searches involving these two images, as were used to illustrate blog items discussing the Lake Delton situation:
In any case, Your Correspondent no doubt appreciates all the traffic thus generated--and, in the process, the interest shown in this weblog.
Especially considering where he begins a summer hiatus later this week.
So, with that in mind, he would greatly appreciate it if you would make this blog more of a regular habit for once, what with the RSS feed available for your subscription and use (in some cases, you could even add it to your own weblog!) ... not to mention offering some financial support, as in a donation to the Virtual Tip Jar or even doing some online shopping with some of the e-merchants this blog is affiliated with--or, for that matter, Exaggermall!, this blog's own e-store for anything and everything you may need or want. (With plenty of helpful comparison shopping to help you decide.)
Once again, Your Correspondent thanks you for all the traffic--even if it involves just a couple of silly pictures which, to Your Correspondent @ least, were a commentary on the loss (for this summer, @ least) of Lake Delton. (But fortunately, though, not the Wisconsin Dells area; rest assured that the lion's share of the distractions, especially so the waterparks, remain open.
(But then again, one small-time innkeeper there in the Waterpark Capital I have acquaintenance with acknowledges where business is down for the time being among motels catering to the common rabble, what with flooded basements and their having to be pumped out. Not to mention checking for other property damage as is flood-related. Hopefully, though, things should improve by the July 4th Long Weekend.)
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14.6.08
Is poor white trash too "race-conscious" for their own good?
AMONG THOSE SPECIMENS OF THE DREGS OF SOCIETY OTHERWISE KNOWN AS "POOR WHITE TRASH"--Caucasoids of the lowest socioeconomic standing, lower than even such National Minorities their ilk has long been conditioned to consider as "inferior" for their own hubris-weighted arrogance and "honour"--there exists what amounts to an arrogant delusion of "racial consciousness" rivalled only by the same "inferior" National Minorities.
Especially so blacks, Hispanics, Latinos, First Nations and Asians.
Hence, this argument holds, what exactly prevents the "morally superior" White Master Race from their rightful exercise of "racial consciousness" as much as pride and "honour"?
Which, usually, will be put down to "Political Correctness," which their propaganda channels see as "Communist-influenced" or "Communist-inspired," even citing (if @ all) highly-incredible sources to substantiate.
Not to mention the possibility of where the most likely correspondents in the "penfriend" vein among "poor white trash" internationally will be such specimens of Unreconstructed Afrikanerdom from down South Africa way as are of like mind in the "White Racial Consciousness" arena from poorer and traditionally white districts of Pretoria, Johannesburg, Cape Town, Bloemfontein and Durban, with maybe a few from Die Volkstaat Orania--perhaps the most pathetic exercise known in Defending White Racial Consciousness and Honour in an otherwise enlightened world. Never mind all international mail (even to South Africa) now going airmail @ 94¢ a letter and the reply airmail postage being ZAR4.64 (US$0.58) for a letter and ZAR3.01 (US$0.38) for an aerogramme (unless, however, an International Reply Coupon to cover reply postage is purchased @ $2.10 in the United States or ZAR15.40 (US$1.93) in South Africa; one is all you need now).
Which, after all, begs the question of why "poor white trash" should be all too conscious of their race solely because of their own warped and misguided hubris distracting attention from something more worthwhile: Videlicet, what really prevents their advancement in this known and knowing world:
Lack of access to a decent education;
Limited job or career options where they reside;
Relocation to cities (sometimes by force of necessity) just to try and find work, only to wind up on welfare (which "poor white trash" is forever contending as an "indignity");
Current social welfare policies based heavily upon stereotypes having no factual basis (except among the Zealots and True Believers forever advancing same pro Deo, patria et familia);
Overzealous to the point of "hard-wired" influence of Fundamentalist/Primitive religious beliefs as may be closer to pseudo in terms of Reality, and their effects upon the mental faculties in general;
Deliberate and complacent isolation as only worsens the risk and danger of inbreeding and sexually-transmitted diseases, not to mention a latent hyperjuvenile sexual promiscuity (and the culture behind same) common to such insular societies; and
General acceptance of complacent "stay the course" attitudes and articles of faith as can only make matters worse thanks to corruption, mismanagement, fraud, inefficency, waste and potential for exploitation by weird and unwholesome elements over time.
In other words, it was about time that "poor white trash" started realising that the only race which matters when it comes to "racial consciousness" is the human race, pure and simple.
Need I say more, except to suggest sharing this with your friends?
(N.B. "ZAR," used as above, is the abbreviate for the South African Rand, their monetary unit of 100 cents. Coins are denominated @ 1, 2, 5, 10, 20 and 50 cents and for 1, 2 and 5 rands; notes, 10, 20, 50, 100, 250 and 500 rands. Currently, US$1=ZAR8, while, conversely, ZAR1=US$0.125, FYI.)
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Even without Lake Delton, the Tommy Bartlett Show can still be considered "entertainment"
THE SUDDEN DRAINAGE OF LAKE DELTON FOLLOWING THE RECENT HEAVY RAINS AND FLOODING HAS ESSENTIALLY REDUCED THE TOMMY BARTLETT SHOW in Wisconsin Dells to a sky and stage act for the time being.
Which is probably the first time ever in its 56-year run in Wisconsin Dells that there was no waterski portion of "The Show" to speak of.
But, nonetheless, perhaps this is as good a time as any to make note of some of the more famous stage acts to grace the shores of Tommy Bartlett Bay on Lake Delton during Act II thereof:
1957: A rotating selection of performers from The Lawrence Welk Show made one-week performances, with The Lemmon Sisters being especially popular with audiences. The "Dancing Waters" routine, basically a son et lumière performance not unlike Waltzing Waters, was added, and would remain part of the evening performance until 1986.
1958: Michael Kelly's ice-dancing company performs an ice-skating revue, "Holi-Dells on Ice," on a real ice rink set up on stage--even with 100-degree-plus temperatures for several days.
1959: Doug Alii's Hinohino Tahitian Drum Dancers make the first of many appearences bringing a touch of Polynesia to "up where the pines begin." By 1970, the knife-throwing routine in the act was dropped after an elderly woman from Minneapolis was nearly scared when one of the knives came unconfortably close to her seat.
1975: Wes Harrison, "Mr. Sound Effects," makes the first of many appearences to the Tommy Bartlett stage.
1980's: The Argentine rhythyms of Los Gauchos Latinos and the first of many appearences by the famous Swiss acrobat troupe The Nerveless Nocks, famous for the three-way swaypole exchange. German-born juggler/comedian Dieter "You like it, I do it again!" Tasso becomes another Show favourite. From 1987, a new Laser Lights and Entrancing Waters show wraps up the evening performance, complete with Patriotic Finale.
1990's: Risley (Australian foot) juggling troupe, The Ashton Family, makes several appearences, as does the Boehmer Family Jugglers, all 11 members, and contortionist Miss Carolina.
2000's: Return of Polynesian dancing to the Tommy Bartlett stage with Netane's Polynesian Drum Dancers continuing the tradition of Doug Alii's company from the late 1950's into the 1970's. Comedian T.J. Howell also graces the stage.
And the common demoninator throughout: Nothing but clean, wholesome, family-friendly entertainment. In fact Mr. Bartlett, who died @ the end of the 1998 season, was proud of the fact that there was never a bad word uttered nor suggestive gesture performed upon the shores of Tommy Bartlett Bay for his audiences.
The fact of which continues to this very day.
Is it any wonder that The Tommy Bartlett Show has consistently remained the #1 live summer outdoor show in the country for many years running, with nearly 50 million people having seen it during its 55-year run?
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BY THE WAY: IN CASE ANY OF YOU ARE WONDERING HOW YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE TO THE RESTORATION OF LAKE DELTON, you can send a check or money order, payable to "Village of Lake Delton" and with "Lake Delton Restoration" noted in the "memo" section, to:
Village of Lake Delton Lake Delton Restoration Fund PO Box 87 Lake Delton, WI 53940-0087 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(Those of you from overseas should make your donation in US dollars, in the form of a cheque or draft drawn on, and payable through, a bank in the United States.)
No amount too small or too big will be declined.
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