We were coming home from the doctors office this morning when this song came up on the playlist. The two of us just marveled at how prescient the lyrics are.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEQldSi-heE
If you like the song, go ahead and click play and then read the rest of the post.
Everybody knows. Every body knows.
But of course, not everybody knows and that is the problem. The only thing that everybody actually knows is that they are entitled to their opinion. And they are as long as that opinion conforms to certain standards. Those standards are set by other people. People from San Francisco, or people from Washington or people from Paris or Moscow. Of course, we can all have opinions about every decision that they make, but let’s face it. We really don’t know.
The only thing we really know is that …
The dice are loaded
The good guys lost
But we can never see what is behind the locked door where the guards with guns protect the people who do know. The press, yappy little dogs with big tits, sit outside the room and wait for someone to tell them what they are supposed to be yapping about. We, several layers of manure down from the sunlight, only get the lies that are sprinkled on the manure at the top of the heap, the press. Then it seeps like rainwater through shit down to us where we wonder at the inconsistency. How could it possibly have any consistency? Even if they knew what they were doing in that locked room with guards, and that is almost surely not the case, we can never know for sure why they did what they did, and when they did it.
It sure is frustrating.
But everybody knows. Well not everybody, and certainly not us. That is what makes this one of the great songs of our times.
From the days of Suzanne taking me down to the river, to the verse in Hallelujah often omitted.
I did my best, it wasn’t much
I couldn’t feel, so I tried to touch
I’ve told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you
And even though it all went wrong
I’ll stand before the lord of song
With nothing on my tongue but hallelujah
Speak for yourself. I’m no more than two layers of manure from the sunlight.
… wonderful benefits @ level 3: more sunlight than level 4 and less raw manure than level 2??
Alright, I held off long enough to let you see, if I don’t comment, the thread withers on the vine. Stand back and watch the comments roll in now.
The things I do while waiting on Friday Camel toe.
Macbeth:
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Unless people learn how to read between lines again.
I’ve been out hunting rabbits.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzQ9kxs6RL8
“The good guys lost.”
No. We won! You’ll see. I hope.
Ted, I share your enthusiasm, but we haven’t had a lot of luck so far.
Luck? What’s luck?
Seriously.
It does not seem to be on the list.
Self-control appears to be one of them.
Galatians 5:22-23
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
The closest thing to luck I find in that book is Luke.
Looking at those corresponding verses, what’s the fruit of the flesh?
What’s the difference? (KJB)
Got the Spirit?
Luke 10:31 KJB… “And by chance there came down a certain priest that way: and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.”
“By chance”… ?
I believe Keyser Susie talked about the Lord preferring pen names when using the Spirit. Anonymity is sometimes best when discussing Grace.
Especially around this place, I’ve noticed.
Last thing I am is anonymous… dude I’m LOUD and PROUD…!
Romans 1:16 KJB… “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for IT is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.”
“IT”… Pauls gospel.
No; when you know the lie is a lie, you don’t listen. You look around you, and believe what you see. ‘Economy’s booming? Meh… It’s better than when Obummer was in office, but unless you’re playing the Wall St Casino, it hasn’t changed much. There are more cars on the freeway, which means more people are working. They’re also traveling farther to find that work. The housing market? There are some houses going up, but not like they were before the crash. That’s good for where I live, unless you’re in construction. The houses were going up so fast that the roads couldn’t handle the traffic of the new residents! Illegal immigration? NO ONE is doing ANYTHING about illegal immigration. This was, is, and will be the hot-button issue that comes up at every election, where millions of illegals will illegally vote for the people who illegally let them infest our neighborhoods. That is, of course, until the candidates get what they want and throw those people under the bus as well.
…Look around you. See what’s going on outside the world of CNN and Fox news. Respond accordingly…
…And if there’s manure tea dripping on your head and you’re doing nothing about it, well, you’re just part of the compost heap…
HR’s post wrote itself. No wonder it made more sense than usual.
I think I told you once that my Aunt Martha’s son lived in Australia for many years. He now is retired in Prescott, AZ, where my aunt grows flowers in the courtyard at a nursing home.
They made a little sign for it… “Martha’s Garden”… in her own calligraphy style, of course.
I would put up an image, but that would invite the pack to denigrate me. I’ll skip it this time and enjoy the music.
I ordered the Leonard Cohen Classics for piano at Shivelbine’s in Cape Girardeau the other day when I was hoping to photograph the breaking of the wall. Haha… even a businessman like yourself grasps leverage.
i’ve seen the future and its murder…..
HR,
This is why I took the stance I did when you were being rope-a-doped. Admittedly you did not shrink.
Point being, everyone has thoughts to share that may or may not ring-a-ding in the noggin. Keep sharing.
Thanks balls, I appreciated your support although you have to realize that there are no big dogs and no rope-a-dope. Still, thanks muchly.
You’re killin me, Balls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HwJqQMwsmY
EC,
You, me, Stucky, LLPOH and Yoji are on the same page other than trying to kick HR off the site.
Maybe I got that wrong?
Maybe ass-backwards. The origins of the whole brouhaha was Rob trolling Maggie. When confronted, he went Billy mode. You can look up Billy. His tactics are a textbook case, shifting the blame, playing the victim, deliberately misunderstanding the intent of a comment. It is exasperating and intentionally so. Young girls fight like that. The nature of their arguments devolve into: that’s nice, oh well, whatever…
In any case, it becomes a grappling contest where each contestant attempts to get a strategic hold on the other. In this case, nobody wants to offer any information that can prove usable to the other and there is no debate at all, just name calling and fighting over who started what.
I’m not pure or completely innocent but tell me when I have really honestly wanted to kick somebody off the site? I argued with Yokes and teased him but eventually I let on that I don’t wish him any harm. Billy really got under my skin but later we got along well and I even missed him when he quit.
Here’s the thing, Wipper. No matter how much you might hold against an ex-wife, in the end she is more important to you than anybody else because she takes with her your past, she is a witness to the most intimate parts of your life. It is a great loss. The same occurs here when a monkey leaves. Got that?
The day my grandpa died – they don’t wait in Mexico, you die one day, you are buried the next – an old man approached and lamented to nobody in particular, now I’m the only one left. He meant that the last remaining old man (100 years old) had died and he took with him the last hope for him that life might go on for a bit longer.
We are old fucks here, quite a bit of us. We seek comfort in each other’s company and we are afraid to lose one because the next one might be our self.
This explains a lot. The domocrats spy on trump at the direction of the president, then they turn around and bluster a cry that they were the ones who were wronged. It was they who have been damaged. There must be justice. They must be avenged. It is the tactic that you see most frequently if you bother to watch cnn, msnbc, any of the MSM really. It is taught by future presidents that apparently monumentally stupid merkins think will bring hope and change. It is displayed by antifa and hillary clinton.
And you support it. You embrace it. You up vote it. You allow it to fester like a boil because it hurts your head to see the truth.
It [it] PRONOUN: used to refer to a thing previously mentioned or easily identified.
You used ‘it’ nine times without identifying it once.
The only truth you can speak to is what Bill and Hilary taught you about festering in people’s heads. That’s it.
Yes and you dung are shit. Was I as witty as you? I can only aspire.
It is good when you can appreciate someone who pisses you off about 1/2 the time.
EC,
That was a great response. I did make it clear how I felt about the trolling and language being used. It takes away from the site. These things tend to start and end quickly, thank God. Hopefully wounds, if there are any, will be licked and all will return stronger. I’ve made it clear how I feel about Maggie also. I love her quirky style.
I do have one question for you DB Cooper.
Why didn’t it bother you when it was only directed toward women and not coming from one of their filthy mouths?
Dad wants to know. I knelt at his grave yesterday. And got the photo. You know I did.
Why doesn’t it bother you to snicker about the C-words around when they are other people’s daughters.
I handed my mother a red, white and blue rock with “C” on it yesterday and asked her to pray for my friends and neighbors.
That US Marine down the road with the compound? Cooper. And both of his sons are finally home out of Afghanistan, finally. Both Marines. Thank God.
M G,
I didn’t like it when LLPOH did it to Mygirl either. I’m not trying to pull anyone into this, btw. I think it’s disgusting. I have 2 daughters, a mother, a wife, 2 sisters, a granddaughter etc etc. I stood up for you Maggie. I just want HR to continue to share his thoughts without all the garbage. Just ignore those who troll. I find it to be a simple solution. I lost my cool at someone on TBP only once. I will refrain from doing it again. It isn’t worth it to me. I don’t know if there is any history between you and HR that I am unaware of but maybe don’t feed the trolls?
Balls, what if you are the one feeding the troll. What if it is you who have chosen unwisely and it is you who have been deceived. Perhaps, your world is not as you perceive it to be.
HR,
Hmm, we shall see I guess.
Balls, I could not ask for more. Thank you.
Not all eggs become birds.
Despite the fact that I’ve fed trolls, chosen unwisely and been deceived, my world is exactly as I perceive it to be. Everyone knows plenty of people whose perceptions of the world aren’t entirely ‘accurate’ or ‘realistic’. So what? What we know doesn’t change their world at all.
Nobody can say for certain that another’s experience of this world isn’t exactly what they perceive it to be. Everyone experiences the same instant slightly differently, and perceives it uniquely.
For you. I know you get it. If we never pass this way again, know this… we coulda told a great story if it weren’t for the duct tape hidden on the shelf.
I will miss you when you’re gone, but not as much a MyGirl…maybe
Not leaving until they throw me out.
LOUDLY.
Still we can dream.
That was me.
Everybody does know. They know the narratives are complete bullshit and it’s all for show. And so it goes. All the actors and most of the audience are fake news. Suspension of disbelief reigns in a reality TV universe. It’s a ratings blowout and with real consequences for all the wrong folks – ever watching and being watched. Tick tock.
Yeah Doug. Spot on. That’s what the post is about. We have seen the light but as the song says, what we actually know is that we are getting fucked. Tick Tock motha forker.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfaSLHOm4rw
Ticking away the moments that make up the dull day
Fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your hometown
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way
Shakespeare beats it all to hell and back, everything else is imitation…..
Jaques to Duke Senior
All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms.
Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress’ eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon’s mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lined,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slippered pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
Methinks it is all a sham.
time4teeth ~ I always say while they while away the hours from the ivory towers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzH7AyYGDks
We’ve seen them all. Especially now.
My friend who works at JHU- Applied Physics Lab called. Did me a favor with her T3 line. Not supposed to.
A Red Rope thing.
The Future will be my anthem when it kicks off. Then it will be some Pennywise Fuck Authority. After that the tunes go on random.
The Future is comin’ on…
I love gorillaz. It’s just too bad that they don’t produce more stuff. Still, new things do come out occasionally.
Just say kno.
I prefer Sigrid’s cover of it, used in the movie Justice League.