Just a couple of random thoughts and revelations. Not "revelations" with a capital "R", as in the End Times, but just random stuff, not too heavy, to discuss for today while Andrew heals from his child-induced plague and Kit gets through his studies
Case #1: As a follow up to the revelation by Rachel Dolezal. You may remember her as the former head of the Seattle branch of the NAACP and professor of Black Studies at Eastern Washington University who was outed as...well...not being the least bit a "person of color" from this summer. Well, after months of controversy, she finally had to admit when pressed by a Fox News panel of actual Black women that she, in fact, is a 100% white person with two white, Caucasian parents and that the person that she claimed was her "son" was really her adopted brother. Well, now that is settled, we can move on.
Case #2: Big news about Stonehenge. Yes, THAT Stonehenge where scientists, archeologist, and random Druids have speculated for generations about the reason they set up at this particular spot at that particular time. Was it some ancient astronomical calculator? Was it an ancient sacred religious ceremonial site for human sacrifice? Did an alien species use it as a landing site? Well, now the big news is that the people who frequented Stonehenge had big barbecues. Imagine.
This brings me to my theory of the mystery of Stonehenge. Having walked among these giant stones in April, there really should be no mystery as to why they ended up in the middle of nowhere. Honestly, humans haven't changed that much in thousands of years, so commen sense would say that these people had been dragging giant stones across Salisbury Plains forever and they just got tired. Finally one of them was brave enough to say with an oddly old man Yiddish accent said "Oy, I am tired of dragging these stones around. Can't we just stop with this mishegas already? My arms hurt. My sandal are worn to a nub. This looks like as good a place as any to set up these stupid stones. Maybe we could set up here? We can set them up with a pretty view of the stars at night. Maybe invite some of people over to have a giant nosh with these cows that are following us around. Eh, why not. We gotta eat, right?" Invitations were sent out, people came, and hence, the first known disgruntle employees and barbecue joints were born. See, mystery is solve.
By the way, I have the same theory about why the stone carvers of the Mayan calendar stopped at 12/21/2012. There should be no great mystery or revelation as to why it ended since the world did not actually end on 12/21/2012. Maybe, just maybe, one of the stone carvers with[oddly] the same old man Yiddish accent just got tired and bored like artists and craftpersons have done forever. Finally he (or she in our new PC world order) finally took a stand, stood up and shouted "Oy, I am tired of carving the same thing year after year. Just once, I want to carve something else! Maybe a pretty naked lady with no arms or nice naked boy. Anything other than this stupid circle!" It really could have been something as simple as that.
Anyway, I don't have a Case #3, but I am sure you can fill it in with some current or relevant topic...except for the Mets. Don't mention the Mets...the team that blew it when they lost the 2015 World Series in five games. Just don't do it unless you have to.
Case #1: As a follow up to the revelation by Rachel Dolezal. You may remember her as the former head of the Seattle branch of the NAACP and professor of Black Studies at Eastern Washington University who was outed as...well...not being the least bit a "person of color" from this summer. Well, after months of controversy, she finally had to admit when pressed by a Fox News panel of actual Black women that she, in fact, is a 100% white person with two white, Caucasian parents and that the person that she claimed was her "son" was really her adopted brother. Well, now that is settled, we can move on.
Case #2: Big news about Stonehenge. Yes, THAT Stonehenge where scientists, archeologist, and random Druids have speculated for generations about the reason they set up at this particular spot at that particular time. Was it some ancient astronomical calculator? Was it an ancient sacred religious ceremonial site for human sacrifice? Did an alien species use it as a landing site? Well, now the big news is that the people who frequented Stonehenge had big barbecues. Imagine.
This brings me to my theory of the mystery of Stonehenge. Having walked among these giant stones in April, there really should be no mystery as to why they ended up in the middle of nowhere. Honestly, humans haven't changed that much in thousands of years, so commen sense would say that these people had been dragging giant stones across Salisbury Plains forever and they just got tired. Finally one of them was brave enough to say with an oddly old man Yiddish accent said "Oy, I am tired of dragging these stones around. Can't we just stop with this mishegas already? My arms hurt. My sandal are worn to a nub. This looks like as good a place as any to set up these stupid stones. Maybe we could set up here? We can set them up with a pretty view of the stars at night. Maybe invite some of people over to have a giant nosh with these cows that are following us around. Eh, why not. We gotta eat, right?" Invitations were sent out, people came, and hence, the first known disgruntle employees and barbecue joints were born. See, mystery is solve.
By the way, I have the same theory about why the stone carvers of the Mayan calendar stopped at 12/21/2012. There should be no great mystery or revelation as to why it ended since the world did not actually end on 12/21/2012. Maybe, just maybe, one of the stone carvers with[oddly] the same old man Yiddish accent just got tired and bored like artists and craftpersons have done forever. Finally he (or she in our new PC world order) finally took a stand, stood up and shouted "Oy, I am tired of carving the same thing year after year. Just once, I want to carve something else! Maybe a pretty naked lady with no arms or nice naked boy. Anything other than this stupid circle!" It really could have been something as simple as that.
Anyway, I don't have a Case #3, but I am sure you can fill it in with some current or relevant topic...except for the Mets. Don't mention the Mets...the team that blew it when they lost the 2015 World Series in five games. Just don't do it unless you have to.
In ancient times...
ReplyDeleteHundreds of years before the dawn of history
Lived a strange race of people... the Druids
No one knows who they were or what they were doing
But their legacy remains
Hewn into the living rock... Of Stonehenge
There is not a word "hewn in the rocks" at Stonehenge other than...rocks, so I am going with my scenario. They are iconic and beautiful though surprisingly smaller than I imagined. Not "This is Spinal Tap" small, mind you, but in a vast open plain they are kinda' small...
ReplyDeleteThe Redskins are looking pretty good this year, even though they have benched RG3, the self described best quarterback in the league :) .
ReplyDeleteSeriously, I've got nothing against RG3. He comes across in public as a really nice guy, but his love of running the ball had a serious impact on his health (gave defenders too many opportunities to hit him hard). If he was with a stronger team that protected him better (including from himself) he would have no doubt been more successful than he was with the Redskins. Maybe he will be more successful elsewhere. Would be the first guy who the Redskin cut who went on to thrive.
Saw this incredibly rough video on The Blaze. Like I've noted before, the crumbling of the black family means too many people are sending damn near feral kids to school, and those deeply messed up kids demand attention from the teacher and slow down things for everyone else.
ReplyDeleteThat teacher could have used that bodyslamming cop :).
Not to say most kids are anywhere near as bad as the thugs in the video, but those thugs are extreme variants of a common type.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/11/02/shocking-classroom-video-will-leave-you-hoping-for-a-hero-to-put-teachers-out-of-control-bully-in-his-place-but-that-moment-never-comes/
“I’m going to smack her ass with a whole bag of M&Ms,” the male student says and appears to actually throw a bag of the candy at the teacher while other students laugh.
One female student appears to attempt to hold the male back, but she does so laughing.
In the video, the teacher eventually stands up and attempts to regain control of the classroom, but the male student comes behind her desk alongside her, looking through her desk drawers and demanding to get the M&Ms back. The teacher picks up a pile of paper and tries to discuss an assignment, but the male student wouldn’t let her.
“Sit your ass down in your chair,” he demands.
Anthony, I saw the same video. This is the problem with school administrators who have freaked themselves out about the law. There is no reason they can't have this student arrested for assault, can't expel them, can't send them to some sort of truant school.
ReplyDeleteThis is what happens when "the powers that be" show themselves to be impotent.
P.S. Anthony, I think RG3 will thrive if given a different coach. I suspect he will do very well if traded to the right team.
ReplyDeleteDitto on Kaepernick. The 49ers are basically getting ready to jettison him, but he's got real talent. He just needs a coach who knows what he's doing and some semblance of a real team around him. I wouldn't be surprised if the Jets are trying to work a trade for him right now. The Texans sure as hell should be!
Bev, What an amazing racist that being a member of a particular race is so important to her that she obsesses over it like this.
ReplyDeleteStonehenge always struck me an early government project... built in the middle of nowhere (Speaker Blarg Firebringer's district) out of ultra-expensive foreign materials, seemingly has no purpose, apparently bankrupted the people who made it, and was never finished. It's the stone circle to nowhere.
"Stonehenge always struck me an early government project... built in the middle of nowhere (Speaker Blarg Firebringer's district) out of ultra-expensive foreign materials, seemingly has no purpose, apparently bankrupted the people who made it, and was never finished. It's the stone circle to nowhere."
ReplyDeleteGood point!
Andrew,
ReplyDeleteCan I post that one on Facebook?
Sure, Kit. I'm glad you liked it. LOL!
ReplyDeleteAndrew. Stonehenge was either that, or the site of a very early Olympics. I believe the same is true for Easter Island, Great Zimbabwe, and Machu Picchu.
ReplyDeleteAnthony - What the hell WAS that on that video? "Feral" is certainly the right word. That was something out of some dystopian '60's horror movie. But I have to say, the teacher just sat there passively which just made them all more aggressive. Don't teachers have panic buttons in their classrooms? If not they should.
ReplyDeleteAndrew - Hope you are feeling better. Maybe it is the healing powers of Stonehenge. I have to say, I like your explanation even better than just random people dragging stones through the Plains. It does make much more sense that it was a massive, expensive pointless government project like the 2nd Avenue subway system in NYC.
ReplyDeleteTryanmax - I think you may be on to something. All of these places were ancient Olympics sites for alien beings. That's where the Greeks got it from and the Greek "Gods" who came down from the sky were really aliens. Which is also why the Greeks named the constellations after Greek Gods (nee Aliens) It all makes so much sense now...
ReplyDeleteBreaitbart had this article today..I really believe things are going to Hell in a handbasket, probably one that the Federal Government paid more than a few bucks for: http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/11/03/feds-rule-force-high-school-girls-undress-next-naked-boys-think-theyre-girls/
ReplyDeleteCritch,
ReplyDeleteI've got zero problem with gays or trannies or whatever but the Obama administration's position is insane. The school went out of its way to accommodate the guy (letting him play on a girls' team and calling him a female, which is unfair to other teams) but he wants the right to stroll into girls' locker rooms. Nothing like overreach to trigger a backlash.