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Odd O'blography

by Words Whirling 'Round

Rated: 18+ · Book · Biographical · #2257228

Tales from real life

Well, if they're not true, they oughta be!

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10 Most Recent Blog Comments:

Words Whirling 'Round

Dec 30, 2024 at 1:33pm
In response to "Men of the Year"

I turned 18 in time to vote for Jimmy Carter in 1976. I was proud to support a decent, educated man who served his country. He studied engineering and served as a submarine officer aboard the USS Pomfret. He later became involved in the Navy's nuclear program and participated in the cleanup that followed a reactor accident at Canada's Chalk River Laboratories. Lieutenant Carter put on protective gear and took his turn being lowered into the hot zone to disassemble the damaged reactor. His more well-known career in politics was noted for humility, kindness, and compassion. Jimmy Carte was a man of heroic courage who spent his entire life in public service. I only wish that America could see his example as something to be emulated rather than ridiculed.

Kåre เลียม Enga

Dec 29, 2024 at 9:48pm
In response to "Men of the Year"

Well they deserved the recognition as they definitely made an impact on the last century. Unfortunately, so much of it was negative. Many, not just Time, seem to equate power with greatness.

Jimmy Carter was a great person... (1924-2024).

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Kåre เลียม Enga

Aug 30, 2024 at 5:51pm
In response to "Donald J. Trump, DEI"

Yeah... and he may be prez again. He gets away with everything. It's his greatest talent. That, and instilling fear... and lying.

I think... Harris/Walz (a.k.a Brat&brats) needs to be ahead by 5% or 8 million votes to squeak by. If they don't get ahead by more than 3% in Congress, they will get little support from there.

But Americans vote out of fear. There are many who fear the raising cost of food (it is), the price of gasoline (because...), and criminal immigrants stealing their last piece of pie (they aren't... and they aren't).

DJT is running scared though... The forecast for November is stormy.

Kåre เลียม Enga

Jul 24, 2024 at 3:28pm
In response to "The MAGA Anthem"

The RNC is now known as the TNC... the old replaced by the new.

Has Donald-the-Martyr been made a saint yet?

It's funny that the former GOP talks about unity... I was never included.

Words Whirling 'Round

Jul 21, 2024 at 12:16pm
In response to "Assassination Tango"

Don't worry, be happy!

The homeless camps will be relocated away from decent folks and equipped with tight security. Out of sight, out of mind!

The LBGQT policy will be don't ask, don't tell, don't be. Everyone will display cultural unity or go to jail. Out of sight, out of mind!

Women will be confined to their homes unless accompanied by a male guardian. No more worries about career or politics. Out of sight, out of mind!

State media will show only positive images of the great Amerika. No more coverage of urban crime, civil unrest, or climate disaster. Out of sight, out of mind!

If you'll just stop being woke you won't even notice that you're living in Hell.

Kåre เลียม Enga

Jul 20, 2024 at 12:23am
In response to "Assassination Tango"

Saint Donald the Martyr was crowned pope/king/heir-apparent to the papal-state/kingdom/empire of the CMTA, the successor to the failed USA. E Pluribus Unum will be replaced by We Are Saved (We... not you), the Constitution replaced by the Bible-according-to-some-Christians (but not others), women will be put in their rightful place, minorities will bow to the Almighty White Man (God/Jesus is White), science will be subservient to theology, abnormals (trans, queer, etc) will have no rights. The State will be Loyal to Saint Donald the Martyr. Any servant must be loyal. Anyone not speaking English will be suspect. Anyone without American born parents will be suspect. Deportation of suspected undesirables will be a.s.a.p. The new King will give commends and cannot be questioned nor removed without a violent uprising. The CMTA will be a fortress nation.

The God-appointed, Saint-anointed theocracy will not be known as Atwood's Gilead, rather the Christian Military Theocracy of Amerikkka.

...

In truth? It's toxic masculinity supported by toxic men and the women who want to be fucked by them.

IT'S A MAN'S WORLD

is the basic message.

Its absolute loyalty (gimu) resembles the old Empire of Japan in some disturbing ways as does the quid-pro-quo system of favors and money (giri) that kept the poor poor.

DLSpirit~write r🙏🌳

May 26, 2024 at 3:07pm
In response to "Lost on Route 66"

I saved it to come back to later but from what I see it's quite lovely and accurate!
Do keep on writing!(I'm proofing our Blogging Bliss newsletter!)

Lyn's a Witchy Woman

May 22, 2024 at 12:17pm
In response to "Lost on Route 66"

I agree with you about family activities dying in most households. We don't watch much television but we do play a board game while having our evening dinner meal. It encourages us to eat slower and to have interesting conversations.

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Kåre เลียม Enga

Jan 19, 2024 at 9:34pm
In response to "The Ballad of Donny and Al"

Thank you. I haven't heard that song in ages.

It did get me thinking though. The Beatles trip to America (la reconquista?), George's interest in South Asia (and 'strange' instruments like the sitar), John's relationship with Oko... all very new and strange at the time. England was just opening up.

As for DJT. America loves being scammed.

Kåre เลียม Enga

Jan 11, 2024 at 4:47am
In response to "Loathsome Loser"

Cute. Good title.

My thoughts:
You can drop 'the cost' at the end of line 5. (line's a tad long)
Yes, he-who-should-not-be-named really won't face himself and admit that he might, just might, be wrong. (line 8)
I don't think of the courts as belonging to Biden (no suggestion as to what word to replace it)...
...and I really don't think it's political as much as the wannabe martyr cries that the prosecution is persecuting him. Yes, he's a loathsome loser. Yes, he keeps on lyin'.

Bonus points for not mentioning his name.

January 15, 2025 at 1:28pm

#1082385

Smart Guys

"You don't have to be a genius to lie about your IQ." - The Gospel of Trump

How do you get to be the smartest person in the room?

Being born with a Mensa-level IQ is one way, but it's tough to arrange after the fact.

Another way, perhaps even better, is through hard work and extensive study. We may not be fully successful, but making the effort is within our control and definitely improves the odds.

The MAGA approach is to pack the room with idiots. Even a freakin' moron looks intelligent among the incompetents and fools nominated for the second Trump administration. And Pete Hegseth appears to be the poster child for the idiocracy. His lack of qualifications for heading the military have been laid bare and his distasteful personal history has been exposed for all the world to see. It matters not to the MAGAnaughts.

One senator used Hegseth's confirmation hearing as an opportunity to curry favor with the president elect. He suggested that the unqualified Hegseth might be just as successful as a certain unqualified presidential candidate in 2016. Talk about damning someone with faint praise!

Then Senator Markwayne Mullin defended Hegseth with an observation that all congressmen are drunken incompetents who cheat on their wives. He insisted that it would be the height of hypocrisy to disqualify a Trump nominee just because he wasn't smart enough or decent enough to deserve the post. Mullin finished his self-referential exercise in stupidity by declaring "Give me a joke!"

Hegseth accommodated him by squawking "meritocracy, meritocracy" like a deranged parrot. I don't know if they rehearsed this routine, but it could hardly be any more comical if they had. It seems obvious that Mullin meant to say 'give me a break' but tripped up on that old Freudian Slip thing.

And Hegseth himself displayed a woeful lack of intelligence when cornered by Senator Tammy Duckworth. He wouldn't answer a direct question of whether he would be loyal to his country or to his president. He couldn't bring himself to say that he would refuse an illegal order from Donald Trump. Did he learn nothing from the nominees of the first Trump administration? Just tell the damned lie, Pete! MAGAworld doesn't care about the truth, and no one will ever hold you accountable. And therein lies the tragedy that only emphasizes the comedy.

"Give me a joke!"

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