Whatthe_Firetruck
Whatthe_Firetruck's JournalPast is prologue...?
When I was a young mother I picked a used book at the library, they were selling for pittance, along with hundreds more.
It was about the nazi rank and insignia from ww2. I don't remember much from it now, but there was an entry that fascinated and horrified me in equal measure, so much so I still recall it.
It was a series of civilian medals for honoring prolific mothers. The more children the mother boasted, the fancier and shinier the medal. Even then I realized that there was no (or few) other honors available for females, so the only real worth they had to the nazis was as a superior broodmare.
I grew up reading my mom's science fiction collection. My favorite authors were Anne McCaffrey, Andre Norton, Marion Zimmer Breadley, and Octavia E. Butler. These pioneering women saw a loftier place for women in the future, one where those medals in that book would be rightly viewed as barbarous relics.
... /sigh
How long do you think it will take for the heritage foundation or something similar to whip up a set of United States Patriotic Mother awards for this administration? The Druggars and other quiverful families will be lining up for 'em
America has decided...
...To f around and find out. (They said this very thing on msnbc last night.)
Caveat emptor.
"...And then they came for me..."
Green Day - Bohemian Rhapsody
I know what you're thinking... Green Day didn't do a cover of this song.
And you're right.
This was filmed at a Green Day concert in England.during an intermission. The band wasn't even on stage, except for a guy who popped up briefly to tap on a drum.
But there was music. There was lighting. There was singing. But it wasn't boring. "You can do what you want with my music, but don't make me boring." - Freddy.
Tdfg's "sir story" database...
This guy was interested in them, so he made a searchable database. "Sir, they said, with tears in their eyes..."
https://richielionell.github.io/president-trump-sir-stories/
Take out the 'ammunition' in the search box and you have 400+ stores, but he repeats a lot, so it also says when and where in the next column, and sometimes other notes.
First of May by JoCo [NSFW]
The word "fuck" can be any part of a sentence.
The FUCK word
Perhaps one of the most interesting and colorful words in the English language is the word "Fuck." It is the one magical word, which, just by it's sound describes pain, pleasure, love, and hate. In language, "Fuck" falls into many grammatical categories. It can be used as a verb, both transitive (John fucked Mary) and intransitive (Mary was fucked by John). It can be an active verb (Mary doesn't really give a fuck); or an adverb (Mary is really fucking interested in John); and as a noun, (Mary is a terrific fuck). It can be used as an adjective (Mary is fucking beautiful). As you see, there are very few words with the versatility of "Fuck."
Besides It's sexual connotations, this incredible word can be used to describe many situations:
It can be used in an anatomical description
"He's a fucking asshole."
It can be used to tell time
"It's five fucking thirty."
It can be used in business
"How did I end up with this fucking job?"
It can be maternal
as in "Motherfucker."
Valuable Vocabulary Chart Below:
Greetings
"How the fuck are you?"
Fraud
"I got fucked by the car dealer."
Dismay
"Oh, fuck it."
Trouble
"Hell, I guess I'm fucked now."
Aggression
"Fuck you."
Disgust
"Fuck me."
Confusion
"What the fuck...?"
Difficulty
"I don't understand this fucking business."
Despair
"Fucked again."
Exasperation
"For fuck's sake."
Enjoyment
"This is fucking great."
Hostility
"I'm going to knock your fucking head off."
Stupidity
"Geir Bergerud is a Fuckwad!"
Incompetence
"He's such a fuck-up."
Ignorance
"Fuck if I know."
Displeasure
"What the fuck is going on here?"
Lost
"Where the fuck are we?"
Disbelief
"Unfuckingbelievable!"
Retaliation
"Up your fucking ass."
Surprise
"Fuckin A!"
Surprise
"Well, I'll be fucked."
Suspicion
"What the fuck are you doing?"
Contempt
"Fuck you and the horse you rode in on!"
Famous quotes.
General Custer's last words:
"Look at all the fucking Indians!"
Mayor of Hiroshima:
"Holy FUCK!"
Captain of the Titanic:
"Where is all this fucking water coming from?"
The mind boggles at the many creative uses of the word FUCK!
Use it regularly in your daily speech.
It will add to your prestige
Such a versatile fucking word, ain't it?!
Thin yellow line.
Saw a mention of that and did a google image search...
It was intended as a memorial for tow truck drivers who died on duty, but after Uvalde... I picked this grunge version because the speckles look like bullet holes.
It will hurt the cops' machismo if we spread this around as an indictment of their cowardice.
60 min: USAF Vet buys plantation house ancestors were enslaved at.
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/sharswood-air-force-veteran-plantation-ancestors-reclaiming-history-60-minutes-2022-05-15/#appBased on this WaPo story: https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/01/22/virginia-plantation-slavery-owners-history/
Pittsylvania County, Virginia.
Just off the side of the road sat a grand white house called Sharswood. Silently holding secrets from the past, waiting for a new owner to uncover them. Sounds like the opening line of a southern gothic novel, but this story is about a real family, and a real house, this country's history, and a man who found himself at the center of far more than he had bargained for.
The man is Fred Miller, a 56-year-old Air Force veteran who was looking to buy property in his Virginia hometown for his large extended family's frequent get-togethers. He had never heard the name Sharswood, and yet this old house would lead him on a journey of discovery, with surprises and revelations that seem both impossible and inevitable all at once.
These are the gentle hills of Pittsylvania County, Virginia -- quiet, rural farm country near the North Carolina border that once produced more tobacco than any county in the state.
Fred Miller: Hey, we're gonna gather up in this room here mainly..
Fred Miller grew up here in a close family that likes getting together regularly for birthdays, fish fry's, and as his cousin Adam Miller told us, just about anything.
He knew nothing of his family history, or how it all tied back to this very property, until after he bought the place. Of course, his great grandmother's parents never lived in the well-maintained main house, but in the now crumbling slave's quarters in the back...
As I read this, I could only think that if teachers told their students about this history today they'd be accused of teaching CRT.
Comment ignore.
I occasionally read articles at newswer, and you can block people there, but you can read replies to them. I like doing that so while I'm no longer exposed to their negativity, I can see the replies to them and get a sense of other users reactions to them. That way I can follow most of the discussion.
Ignore here is a) block them from mailing you, or b) block them from mailing, all their posts, and all replies to their posts. I did that to someone here, then went back to the discussion and it was like a completely different thread. It just eviscerated the contents including many replies I agreed with or found thoughtful.
Since Earl G is redoing the site, maybe he can set up a newser/disqus style of direct post muffling, but revealing the replies. As it is, the site is like that pretty much already, as I'll see posts hidden or removed by writer. If this suggestion is implemented, it would be a) blocked from mailing, b) comment ignore, or c) full ignore.
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