REPRINT A Muddled Movie About Something Rather Important

 From November 10, 2012

Many years ago, I think in an Agatha Christie novel, I encountered an old conscience-teaser (I don’t know what else to call it) that went something like this:

You get your heart’s desire; but to pay for it, a Chinese mandarin must die.

There’s the temptation. If this person were to die in the normal course of events, you’d never even know it. He’s a perfect stranger on the other side of the world. His life would seem a small price to pay for fame, fortune, love, health, or whatever else might head your crave list.

But the catch is that you know that as soon as you get your wish, an innocent man will die because of it.

Which was the inspiration for The Box (2009) by Richard Kelly, starring Cameron Diaz, James Marsden, and Frank Langella. A married couple very badly needs a break, and Frank Langella shows up on their doorstep with a box. If they push the button on the box, they get a million dollars in cash… but someone they don’t know dies.

Byron Tackles ‘Oy, Rodney’ REPRINT

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G’day, everybody! Byron the Quokka here, with Chapter CCCXLII of Violet Crepuscular’s epic romance, Oy, Rodney.

[Nothing is written for an hour, to indicate an hour going by.]

What the dickens is this? Something about some unemployed shepherd with d damaged coccyx, and these twins, the Pottery sisters, Febrile and Facile. Come on, now! What kind of names are those? And I don’t want to know how to make twinkies with a toothpaste filling!

Y’know, that guy Unknowable had the right idea: wait till the Old Man’s better, and let him deal with this. By Jove, I’ll run contests for him till we’re both blue in the face, but trying to read and make sense of Oy, Rodney is just not on the cards for me. Just the one chapter that I read–sort of!–was enough to make my own coccyx hurt–and I don’t have one!

Management will endeavor to restore normal service as soon as management stops feeling like death warmed over.

 

Dear Lord and Father of Mankind

Got sidetracked today, but it was interesting.

Today I watched a video about the history of Newark, New Jersey.

Newark was a very big city, near to Elizabeth (which was big, too, but not as big as Newark).  Newark had much more of a big-city feel to it.  I remembered when I was about eight years old, and a neighbor took me to Newark for a day of shopping.  Those department stores!  They were incredible.  Palatial.  They had in-store restaurants–real ones– with waitresses in uniforms, and silver and china place settings.  They had floorwalkers–men with carnations in their buttonholes.It was a different world from today.  After WWII, there was a rapid decline in the population.  The GI’s returning from the war found that mortgage financing was easier to get for suburban housing as opposed to urban.  The population decline, plus poverty, plus other influences caused the decline of Newark.  Just in my lifetime, such a change.  It is gone forever.

Not all change is change for the better.  Sometimes I think it is mostly not for the better.

I also spent time reading through a lot of Lee’s Inquisitor  columns from both The Independent  and Today.

Now I have a better idea of what I will post tomorrow.

Another clear, sunny and beautiful day.

That’s always a good thing.

Have a good night, all.

See you tomorrow.

God bless everybody.

Patty

Tuxedo cat never bonded with anyone until…

Senior dogs need love, too. Shadow’s story.

I Has eated Brane Chips!!! REPRINT

From  March 8, 2019

I was so exited Wen i herd abuot “a” Sceyentits” he is Inventting Brane Chips thay willl maike yiu Smart!!! and i was even moar exited wen i mett “this” gye hear at Collidge he “is” maiking Brane Chips tooo!!! and then he telled me he “was” looking fore Somboddy “to” trye themb out!!!!

“Wel i wuld be hapy to try it i sayed”! But he sayed i wuld has to Pay for it Lotts of mony,, yiu “got to Pay” “One Hunderd $1 dollers!” Of corse becose of Captilism i hasnt got no Hunderd Dollers so he sayed wel “alrihght, jist give me” “alll yore mony then!” so i gived himb the Two Dollers $$ “that it is Not reely enuohgh he sayed “yiu got to give me Somthing “else” and he sayed i culd taik a cupple Tests “four” himb becose he didnt Feel “lyke” taiking them his self and then he gived me A “bole” of Brane Chips!!! Thay tasted jist “lyke” Coarn Flaikes! and aslo thay looked lyke Coarn Flaikes tooo and i sayed “Are yiu Shure theese are Reel Brane Chips and not jist Coarn Flaikes??”” and “wen Do i stort getting Smarter'”?? and he sayed See “yiu” are geting Smarter all reddy!!”

Wel woodnt yiu Know “it”! i taiked themb Tests thay was jeeograffy or Som thing and aslo Introseckshanul Lego Studdys,,, i didnt Know nothing abote themb sujbecks And yeti Ased themb annyweiy!!!!! that was reely Som thing becose thay are “alll” Egstra Smart Stodints in themb classses and Al Of themb Thay al got Ays!!! That jeeogriffey Test itt was reely Hard expeshelly that One Queschin “”Ware is North Amarica in reelashin to Sowth Amarica???–and i didnt even Know i knowed that!!! i dont rembember waht i ansered but It must of bin Rihght!!

As sune as i “can” Get moar Mony i whil by Annether Bole of Brane Chips and maby i can past my neckst Gender Studdys Test!!!!

The University: Where Young Minds Go to Die REPRINT

Hey, remember Janet Napolitano–Big Sis, former head of Homeland Security? Well, she’s now president of the University of California, and she’s come out with a big new list of things that no one will be allowed to say in any UCal schools ( http://nypost.com/2015/06/15/the-dont-you-dare-say-that-drive-for-campus-diversity/ ).

The stated goal is to produce “diversity” through enforced uniformity of thought.

For instance, Big Sis opposes what she calls “the myth of meritocracy,” so there will be a taboo against saying “I believe the most qualified person should get the job”–because that’s wrong, that’s bad, and it really means “People of color are given extra unfair benefits because of their race.”

Hmmm… You mean they aren’t? Never? What was Affirmative Action all about, then?

Big Sis has been handing out tracts with titles like “Tools: Recognizing Microaggressions and the Messages They Send.” You remember “microaggression,” right? ( http://leeduigon.com/2015/05/12/how-liberals-make-human-life-unliveable/ ) It’s virtually anything you say or do or think that some liberal doesn’t think you should be allowed to say or do or think. There is to be no microaggression throughout the UCal chain!

This era of history is an embarrassment. Authority figures, from the lowliest idiot teaching school to the most exalted fat-head in Washington, hand down ridiculous lies and promote crazy policies. They tell lies that even a simpleton should be able to see through (like “Bruce Jenner is now a woman”), and when they get caught lying, they just keep right on lying like nothing happened. If they’re left-wing liars, they know the nooze media will cover for them.

But as for everybody else, down there among the great unwashed…

You miserable peasants don’t even know you’re racists and homophobes and cissexists and whatever, everything that comes out of your mouths is microaggression, so just shut up!

They won’t be satisfied until they’re able to sew our mouths shut.

The truth about “green” energy Must Read.

  • Lithium is refined from ore using sulfuric acid. The proposed lithium mine at Thacker Pass, Nevada is estimated to require up to 75 tanker truck loads of sulfuric acid a day! This acid does not turn into unicorn food as Congress Cretin AOC believes.

    Refining lithium has created several EPA SUPERFUND SITES. IT IS VERY TOXIC TO THE ENVIRONMENT!

    The battery in an electric car, let’s say an average Tesla, is made of :
    25 pounds of lithium,
    60 pounds of nickel,
    44 pounds of manganese,
    30 pounds of cobalt,
    200 pounds of copper,
    and 400 pounds of aluminum, steel, and plastic, etc……
    averaging 750-1,000 pounds of minerals, that had to be mined and processed into a battery that merely stores electricity … Electricity which is generated by oil, gas, coal, or water (and perhaps a tiny fraction of wind and solar )…

    That is the truth, about the lie, of “green” energy.  There’s nothing green about the “Green New Deal”.

    You Congress Cretins better learn how to vote or this nonsense will continue to flow down on top of We the People from the throne of government upon of which you put these people.

    Stop drinking the Green New Deal’s sulfuric acid Kool-Aid!

    Dr. Phillip A. Fields
    University of South Alabama
    Mobile, Alabama


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