MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: keberoxu
Date: 23 Dec 23 - 06:58 PM

Thinking of Rapparee and his good wife Pat,
and hoping that both are recovering well from what ails each of them.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Dec 23 - 08:19 PM

He’s here, Mom. Hear the sides of the chimney collapsing?

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Dec 23 - 03:52 PM

MMario dropped by on Christmas Eve. He said to say hello. So did Spaw.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Dec 23 - 08:55 PM

Anyone heard from John from Hull recently?

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 30 Dec 23 - 09:32 AM

John from Kansas settled a dispute on Friday.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Jan 24 - 08:53 PM

Another year, another journey around the sun has been accomplished, Mom. Please simply keep your resolutions from 2005, okay?

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Jan 24 - 08:07 AM

As the sun orbits our galaxy our journey is a spiral around the sun ad infinitum right down to the spiral of our DNA. Even black holes spiral space-time in what we call frame dragging.

Rap why so cryptic?

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Jan 24 - 10:09 AM

Happy Nude Year!!!!

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 08 Jan 24 - 02:03 PM

The winter doldrums are here. Is MOM ready for the snow? Does she still have a sled or has she shifted to sliding on an inner tube or a plastic slide? That will cheer her up!

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Jan 24 - 07:55 PM

Last I saw she was sliding on an ice slide downhill toward ice covered "Bottomless Lake." Had a pretty smart speed going, too. I think she was going to attempt to jump the lake.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Jan 24 - 08:09 PM

Mom's okay. I just got a call from the police station and she's resting quietly in her usual cell. Her usual lawyer has been called, and she's eaten her usual hearty breakfast. They expect that the usual bail will be set and she'll be out again in a day or so, as usual.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Jan 24 - 07:06 PM

A Green Winter

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Jan 24 - 09:02 PM

That's why we go to the Arctic. It's certainly not to fall down and hurt myself.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 15 Jan 24 - 06:42 AM

I just heard from gnu's nephew - G.O. is at the hospital in palliative/end-of-life care.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: keberoxu
Date: 15 Jan 24 - 08:35 AM

Thinking of gnu and his surviving family at this sensitive time.
Thanks for the news, Stilly.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Jan 24 - 08:10 PM

Gnu is no longer on this side of The Great Divide. He was one of the good ones. Hope he, Amos, Kendall, MMario, Spaw and the rest are having a great time!

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Jan 24 - 09:50 PM

As he once said to me, “                         you.”

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Jan 24 - 01:42 PM

and the horse you rode in on.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Jan 24 - 09:21 PM

What did my poor horse ever do to you?

Subject: RE: BS: Apple TV series - Foundation
From: Donuel
Date: 28 Jan 24 - 08:40 PM

I'm not saying anyone forgot Holocaust Remembrance Day but on Saturday I watched the 9 1/2 hour European 'Shoa' documentary.
I learned more than from all other documentaries combined.
It was in German, Polish, Yiddish, and French with English subtitles.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Jan 24 - 08:45 PM

Mother, once again I find you associated with denizens of the lower depths, swilling cheap wine and acting like a ne’er do well. Your clothing is filthy, you hose downgyved, your purse empty of coin or bills, and I don’t know what you’ve done but there’s blood on your switchblade. Get in the cab, you’re going home. In the morning you’ll see the priest to be exorcised again.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: keberoxu
Date: 04 Feb 24 - 07:14 PM

Once again, MOM and her Daughter
need to get up to the top of the queue.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Feb 24 - 05:44 PM

Monday the narrow surgeon is going to drill holes in my head to let the evil spirits out. I have ordered them to avoid their friends in DC, London, and suchlike places as there are enough evil spirits there.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Feb 24 - 07:08 AM

Good luck with your timpanation. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/demons-and-evil-spirits-from-idaho/id1477139871?i=1000543830448

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Feb 24 - 08:57 AM

The Boston typewriter orchestra

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Feb 24 - 05:02 PM

The first hospital in the USA was founded by Ben Franklin.
The second largest commodity in the world is concrete.
The red team will win the Super Bowl without a doubt.

all stuff I didn't know when I woke this morning.

Subject: Its time to condemn Simon Says games.
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Feb 24 - 09:18 AM

The 'average person' gets a bad rap.
At least I hope so. Most politicians are willing to say the average American is exceedingly stupid. Worse than that it is said stupid average people are in the majority.

IF true, those who can manipulate the average person must ensure that the average person stays stupid and never smarten up. There is plenty of evidence that the ignorance campaign is alive and well. Part of that campaign is to convince the rest of us that the average person is stupid. I believe that is a big fat lie.

Barricades to the smart average people are internet apps, cults, and weakest links to religion. Rewarding old hateful knowledge is also a strategy.

Its time to exclaim the wisdom of the average person.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 14 Feb 24 - 10:31 AM

So much depends on context. When headlines say "Florida man" did this or that (in the non-Trump meaning) it tends to say average or below average who you've never heard of.

If you want to do the math then in the spread, 25% would be below average, you could give the middle 26 to 50% as average, and the top IQ or some other functional measurement to the 76-100% of the group. Or you could do 33.3 for each group.

100% of the people who vote for the majority of the GOP slate of electors at least have a screw loose if they can't figure out that they're being taken to the cleaners by Trump's gang.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 14 Feb 24 - 11:30 AM

Hate is a far more potent emotion than love, Stilly: a red rage takes rather longer to wear off than a pink glow. That's why political attack ads work. If you can get the masses to hate someone else (eg foreigners) enough, you've got a zombie army at your command.

.... Just make sure that, when you're leading your zombie army, you don't trip over. Oh, and aim at the institutions of learning first, as critical thinking is Kryptonite to a berserker.*

* Apologies for crashing gears in mid-metaphor without using the clutch.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 14 Feb 24 - 02:19 PM

I was thinking more about the term "average" than I was the rest of the content in that post.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Feb 24 - 06:00 PM

My scatter shot thoughts on the Kansas City shooting today are about the emotions of all those involved; from the politicians that allow/encourage mass shootings to the hateful shooter to all the victims wounded physically or not.

Some politicians don't care, some will feign a prayer.
The shooter had a moment of satisfaction probably stemming from bullying at some point.
The victims include 8 children with gunshot wounds. What they are feeling is beyond my comprehension.

This rips apart the spirit, destroys hope and kills safety in all celebrations.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 14 Feb 24 - 06:11 PM

And it is a problem unique to the US, the number of gun shootings per capita.

MOM outta send Gluon out to retrieve all of those assault rifles and drop them into whatever volcano is newly churning out lava.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Feb 24 - 08:14 AM

well oiled military weapons won't rust shut for hundreds of years.
The leading cause of childhood death isn't disease anymore.
There has never been an incident abhorrent enough to change a thing.

Sanity regarding guns will never be threatened by rational minds in America. Somehow crazy trumps common sense here.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Feb 24 - 07:36 PM

The Invention of Race NPR listen here

Race distinction is as artificial as the Caste system.
The ancient Greeks had no concept of race, only different cultures.
Race was invented by a Portuguese man in the 14th century...

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Feb 24 - 02:47 PM

With the sudden disappearance of my stalker, I found I was suffering from a version of the Stockholm effect. Perhaps he had found his true calling and became the author, editor, and publisher of 'Critic's Corner' where all critics of every genre were criticized.
It would have a companion book 'The Autocritocrisy of the World's Greatest Critic'.

While the book was full of glowing self-praise, 'Critics Corner' was a scathing digital profane diatribe of libelous insults. Perhaps the book propelled the online critics corner or simply the phenomenon of the most negative influencer caught on, but in no time there were more followers than on Truth Social.

This success was followed up with emails from MAGA internet threateners, Swatters, and apps from stalkers of young women influencers that have had threats via Venn diagram information of every person who was acquainted. Stalking and threatening turned out to be a huge industry.

Suddenly my exstalker was a small fish in a big sea. To be as important as he desired meant that he had to become a global villain and that did not have the appeal he had always wanted. Stopping hurt and torture had some withdrawal symptoms but soon he felt happier than before. He had time to enjoy life and lived happily ever after.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Feb 24 - 07:08 PM

The last thing J Allan Hynek showed me what he was working on was a compendium of different types of UFO shapes. There were over 30 types but the one type that has been recorded since his death that did not appear in his collection is the dynamic type that separated into many like images from three to many and form patterns or shapes.

Over the last 60 years there is a progressive change in the shape and navigation abilities. Some earlier types do not appear anymore.

Subject: RE: DECLUTTER *hoards *bad habits *toxic stuff - 2024
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Mar 24 - 01:20 PM

What is toxic is the manipulation and addiction society. We used to be a tool and skill society. Now apps on your phone, that you do not know is there; will measure your dopamine reward levels and lets you play against AI features for your attention. Its not a fair fight.

Suicide levels have doubled for adolescents exposed to social trashing techniques by other users whose playground has addictive app features.
Speaking of users, there are drug users and tech users but for other things we are customers, clients or patients.

Smart and secure people can use the internet rabbit hole to investigate many issues. The negative rabbit holes are tunnels of disinformation like Pizzagate and the holy Trump. Tools of persuasion normally move slowly Like Nazi laws that gradually criminalized a certain branch of society. Facebook and other techs can move faster.

I addressed addiction by limiting hypnosis sessions to three. More than that would be considered unnecessary but possibly helpful. Apps have no limits on there growth. AI will never solve the problem of fake news. The existential threat is as real and abusive to democracy as slavery. Laws against addictive tech is a rational eventual outcome. I hope. But I am the odd man out who does not use or carry a digital phone.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 02 Mar 24 - 02:25 PM

Not sure where that last post was intended to go but it didn't fit the declutter thread so is parked over here where just about everything fits in somehow or other.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Mar 24 - 08:16 AM

Once again I'm towed to the impound lot. At least there is no fine.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 Mar 24 - 04:59 PM

I miss Rapparee.
His last post here said he was to be treated by a narrow surgeon?

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Mar 24 - 05:30 AM

I thought he said Fresno Sturgeon.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Mar 24 - 04:46 PM

It gives all the oil and gas that it can give
But the USA just takes it all for granted
We forgive you when you hurt us
For a while we think you love the US
But all you really do is use us, what can we do, Texas
It's so hard to be a Texan
Every man is after something
Is it wrong when we give in
If we like the Constitution is it a sin
Every Walmart shooting we regret it
But it happens 'cause we let it
Is it the only way to hold you
'Cause your strong desires control you
And I just don't want to lose you, what else can we do, Texas
It's so hard to be a Texan
There is so much hate at your border
Is it wrong to let folks in
If you steal kids is it a sin
It's so hard to be a Texan
You win with the most executions
Is it wrong when you give in

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 06 Mar 24 - 06:23 PM

I miss gnu filling my Facebook account with posts he shared. Haven't seen Rap for a little while. Hmmm. Travelling?

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Mar 24 - 06:19 PM

Worry goes to your empathetic credit. If there was bad news, it would travel faster than good news.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Mar 24 - 06:53 PM

Every heart has tasted bitter betrayal
We all know lies but the poor swim in them
Governments are famous for their lies
In troubled times truth is told silently
like the furtive solemn glances at a funeral.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 07 Mar 24 - 09:39 PM

He hasn't posted on Mudcat since February 8.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Mar 24 - 06:02 AM

As you might expect a skilled carpenter makes a superior orthopedic surgeon. The same is true of artists and astrophysicists. The reason is the skill of seeing in new imaginative ways with their mind's eye.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: gillymor
Date: 13 Mar 24 - 09:09 AM

What a load of hooey. I was a skilled carpenter at one time, I doubt you would have wanted me to perform a hip arthroplasty on you.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 13 Mar 24 - 10:16 AM

gillymore, you just identified the reason for this thread. So settle in for the nonsense or find a different thread.

I texted with Rap a few days ago - he is dealing with a medical situation (again).

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: gillymor
Date: 13 Mar 24 - 10:23 AM

Well, I'm not doing anything tomorrow, if anyone needs a hinky joint scoped, I'm your man.