Monday, April 12, 2021
The Origins Of "The Narrative"
Saturday, April 10, 2021
Musical Interlude
Glazunov, pupil of Rimsky-Korsakov, teacher of Shostakovich, composed this lovely piece in 1891, yet it sounds so modern ... as if it could have been written only yesterday!...
Wednesday, April 7, 2021
Beyond Fragile Little Snowflake Status
Woman has mental breakdown and assaults another woman in an elevator since she can’t maintain social distancing. pic.twitter.com/v8247Rd0FB
— Katie Daviscourt🇺🇸 (@KatieDaviscourt) April 6, 2021
revereridesagain said... If you have an "extremely compromised immune system", what the hell are you doing riding elevators at all? The rest of the world cannot and if it wants to retain anything of its freedom will not stop everything to accommodate people like you. Get a damn face shield to go with your designer mask and stop throwing tantrums when others are just living their lives.
Monday, April 5, 2021
So Weary Of The Narratives (Lies)
I'm hearing it repeated as gospel truth that "nearly all" American mass shooters are white. Here are the photos of mass shooters from 2019 (defined as four or more shot in a single incident). It shows quite a diverse set of faces. #Boulder #Atlanta pic.twitter.com/z4eGq8mCiW
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) March 24, 2021
And then there's this...
Thursday, March 4, 2021
Mr. AOW Has Gone Home
Sunday, February 21, 2021
Sad News
I am a veteran of the Vietnam War Era and a political conservative even though I'm from Southern California.I have been married over 40 years to the best blogger on the web: Always On Watch (aka AOW and Mrs. AOW).Severely disabled by a brain hemorrhage in 2009, I still love life!I have the use of only one hand, so my seek-and-find typing is very slow. However, I do read and appreciate comments to my blog.I believe that laughter is the best medicine. Send me jokes! I'm an equal opportunity insulter. Heh.
Rest in Peace when your time comes, Mr. AOW.
Friday, February 19, 2021
Dems Play Politics, Repubs Play Pocket Pool
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"Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose 'em I never knew existed before."
"Can't anybody here play this game?"
"Wow. We officially raised $1 million for Texas relief at 9:17pm.," she tweeted. "Thank you all so much. Folded hands I'm at a loss for words. Always in awe of movement work."
By Friday, she tweeted, that figure had risen to $2 million and she announced she was going to fly to Houston to join with Texas Rep. Sylvia Garcia to distribute supplies.
After returning to Houston on Thursday afternoon, Cruz told reporters outside his home it was "obviously a mistake" and that "in hindsight I wouldn't have done it."
Wednesday, February 17, 2021
Mega Dittos!
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Monday, February 15, 2021
The Maoist State of America
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Another day, another un-woke celebrity cancelled by the Red Guard...
The persecution of Gina Carano
Her sacking perfectly illustrates the hypocrisy and intolerance of the woke elites.
So far, she has not opted for a self-flagellating Maoist Struggle Session, which seems to be all the rage lately. She must be smart enough to realize you cannot appease the baying mob.
NY Times food critic offered this obsequious self-mortification for criticizing a woman of color:
“I’m a white woman who has and will continue to benefit from white privilege and I recognize that makes what I said even more inexcusable and hurtful. The fact that it didn’t occur to me that I had singled out two Asian women is one hundred percent a function of my privilege (being blind to racial insensitivities is a discriminatory luxury).
“To our community of contributors, subscribers, partners, and visitors which includes,” it noted, “but is not limited to, Black, Latinx, Indigenous, Middle Eastern, Asian, trans, non-binary, and queer people, undocumented and other immigrants, people with disabilities, and those struggling financially: we apologize for our silence in the face of crisis amid the call to dismantle institutional racism.”The host of "The Bachelor" fell afoul of the Social Control Ministers at Ingsoc when he did not collapse into an attack of vapors and immediately organize the horsewhipping of a woman contestant who attended an antebellum themed party when she was in high school.
“What I now realize I have done is cause harm by wrongly speaking in a manner that perpetuates racism, and for that I am so sorry.”
"By excusing historical racism, I defended it. I invoked the term ‘woke police,’ which is unacceptable. I am ashamed over how uninformed I was. I was wrong,”
"I am sorry for the hurt, sadness, frustration, fatigue, exhaustion and pain this article has caused anyone, but specifically Black students in the higher education community and beyond," writes the Ohio State University professor. "I am struggling to find the words to communicate the deep ache for the damage I have done."
My center is as a learner, so movement for me will involve unlearning and relearning by listening, reading, dialoguing, reflecting and writing as a means for increasing my awareness and knowledge about systemic racism and the experiences of people of color and people who hold marginalized identities different from my own."
I am just beginning to understand how I have harmed communities of color with my words. I am learning that my words—my uninformed, careless words—often express an ideology wrought in whiteness and privilege. I am learning that my commitment to diversity has been performative, ignoring the pain the Black community and other communities of color have endured in this country. I am learning that I am not as knowledgeable as I thought I was, not as antiracist that thought I was, not as careful as I thought I was. For all of these, I sincerely apologize.
I know it's not anyone's job to forgive me, but I ask for it—another burden of a white person haunted by his ignorance.
In an apology upon leaving the company for an article he wrote in 1987 opposing women in combat, then-Boeing executive Niel Golightly said the article was “painful because it is wrong. Painful because it is offensive to women. Painful because it reminds me of the sharp and embarrassing education the uninformed and unformed ‘me’ of that time received as soon as the piece appeared.”This will not end well.
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Saturday, February 13, 2021
Swing and a miss! Strike two
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CNN's Chris Cillizza splains...
Why Democrats blinked in the Senate impeachment trial
Poor Dems in government and the press are like the guy in the gay cowboy movie, still clinging to President Trump and declaring, "I just can't quit you!"
Wednesday, February 10, 2021
How the Election was Stolen
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Molly Ball has come out bragging about how she was privy to a cabal of powerful special interests that colluded to steal reelection from President Trump.
Mail-in ballots are known as an unreliable voting method, even without its potential assistance to criminal fraud such as ballot-stuffing, because they create margins of error well within the margin of actual votes in a close election. That’s why labor unions, Jeff Bezos, and many foreign countries refuse to use them.
One of the core problems with the 2020 election is that many states did not follow their voting laws, suspending them with the excuse of COVID (which the Centers for Disease Control said the day before the election, after most votes were already cast, was not necessary).
The article shows how these activists pushed a narrative that election results would not be known on election night as part of their campaign to box out Trump. It then openly admits to a subsequent orchestrated attempt to anoint Biden the winner before all the votes had been tallied. This is how leftists made their “fever dream” a reality.
Therefore, in a mail-in election such as 2020, in which half of the total votes and most of the Biden votes were mail-in, one can control the outcome simply by controlling the poll-watchers and vote-counters. Even if they are honest, their unconscious bias or the simple mayhem of unreadable handwriting and signatures creates the conditions for untrustworthy results.Please go read the whole article. If you must insist the election was stolen, this is the most logical theory.
We have no way of knowing how many of the approximately 65 million 2020 election mail-in ballots were legal — meaning, how many fully complied with all applicable state laws to be validly completed by eligible voters. It could be all of them. It might not be. Nobody with power seems to care to find out.
Monday, February 8, 2021
LARPing towards Armageddon
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The Realignment Podcast, Ep. 89: Eric Weinstein, Reckoning with Capitol Chaos and How to Save America
We must stop canceling people, even those we vehemently disagree with. Redemption is a basic human need. It is healthy for people and societies.
Monday, February 1, 2021
Taking A Break From The Web

I can't keep watching and cataloguing the decline of our beloved republic:
The watching and cataloguing of the above are literally making me sick.
Moreover, Mr. AOW's condition has declined, and he needs more caregiving now.
It's all I can do to teach a few hours a week and keep up with the home front.
The last thing that my mother said to me before she died in 1987: "Don't hurt your health."
I'm going to take Mom's advice. For the sake of my health, after over fifteen years of intense blogging, I'm not going to spend much time on the web for the foreseeable future.
Take care.
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Thursday, January 28, 2021
The Road Ahead
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Tuesday, January 26, 2021
Sean Hannity Won't Save You
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Sunday, January 24, 2021
You Are Here
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"Looks like intelligence agencies were monitoring the Trump '16 campaign, and continued to cast a weather eye on him thereafter. I don't have a problem with that, merely winning an election is no guarantee that you're not a criminal."
Friday, January 22, 2021
Weekend Music Break
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Thursday, January 21, 2021
Dysphoria
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Tuesday, January 19, 2021
Red White and Blue Scare
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The Democrat-Press-Political Establishment Axis has responded by unleashing a Red White and Blue scare, a hysterical over-reaction that will make the Red Scare of the 1950's and the Muslim scare of the 2000's look like a pillow fight.
Can I ever again climb into my pickup with my buddies and our guns and ammo, going out hunting or for target practice, and not be under suspicion? Indeed, even law-abiding citizens with no criminal background are now considered dangerous ticking timebombs.
"Who are the anti-American terrorists now, you rightwing racist extremist bastards?"
Monday, January 18, 2021
One Last Election Post...
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Saturday, January 16, 2021
Musical Interlude
Wednesday, January 13, 2021
The Real Plague
Monday, January 11, 2021
Saturday, January 9, 2021
Musical Interlude
The stars shine with more pleasing grace when a storm has ceased to roar and pour down rain.After the morning star has dispersed the shades of night, the day in all its beauty drives its rosy chariot forth.So thou hast looked upon false happiness first; now draw thy neck from under her yoke: so shall true happiness come into thy soul.
Friday, January 8, 2021
Crowds
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Thursday, January 7, 2021
What's going on?
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Wednesday, January 6, 2021
Pardon Julian Assange?
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Monday, January 4, 2021
The Milgram Experiment & The Social Experiment Of 2020
Milgram suggested that two things must be in place for a person to enter the agentic state:1. The person giving the orders is perceived as being qualified to direct other people’s behavior. That is, they are seen as legitimate. [Dr. Fauci? Other scientists, including the various departments of public health?]2. The person being ordered about is able to believe that the authority will accept responsibility for what happens. [Government stimuli packages?]Agency theory says that people will obey an authority when they believe that the authority will take responsibility for the consequences of their actions. This is supported by some aspects of Milgram’s evidence.For example, when participants were reminded that they had responsibility for their own actions, almost none of them were prepared to obey. In contrast, many participants who were refusing to go on did so if the experimenter said that he would take responsibility.