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Here’s Aaron Haspel’s Twitter account of original aphorisms.
A Collection of Interesting, Important, and Controversial Perspectives Largely Excluded from the American Mainstream Media
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The major media overlooked Communist spies and Madoff’s fraud. What are they missing today?
The “war hero” candidate buried information about POWs left behind in Vietnam.
What Was John McCain's True Wartime Record in Vietnam?
The evidence is clear — but often ignored
Teach your children well.
No wonder you like the guy:
Shutting up your opponents is the quickest and easiest way to win the argument. It’s an especially valuable technique when your opponents have a point.
He stole that from Ring Lardner, “Shut up, he explained”. Not original.
This one is brutal:
Amerika ist wunderbar
“Shut up, he explained”
America is wonderful
We're all living in America
America, AmericaWhen there's dancing I want to lead
even if you're whirling around alone
Let yourselves be controlled a little
I'll show you how it really goes
We're making a nice round dance
Freedom is playing on all violins
Music is coming out of the White House
and Mickey Mouse is standing in front of ParisWe're all living in America
America is wonderful
We're all living in America
America, AmericaI know moves that are very useful
and I will protect you from missteps
And whoever doesn't want to dance at the end
doesn't know yet that they must
We're making a nice round dance
I will show you the way
Santa Claus is coming to Africa
and Mickey Mouse is standing in front of ParisWe're all living in America
America is wonderful
We're all living in America
America, AmericaWe're all living in America
Coca-Cola, Wonderbra
We're all living in America
America, AmericaThis is not a love song
This is not a love song
I don't sing my mother tongue
No, This is not a love songWe're all living in America
America is wonderful
We're all living in America
America, AmericaWe're all living in America
Coca-Cola, sometimes war
We're all living in America
America, America
Sometimes an aphorist is not an aphorist; he’s a tritist.
https://youtu.be/Rr8ljRgcJNM
“Shut up, he explained”
I love the (probably very intentional) irony of the Apollo mission background, if it wasn’t for Werner von Braun and his compatriots the US space program would never have gotten off the ground.
Here are the lyrics.
We’re all living in America
America is wonderful
We’re all living in America
America, America
When there’s dancing I want to lead
even if you’re whirling around alone
Let yourselves be controlled a little
I’ll show you how it really goes
We’re making a nice round dance
Freedom is playing on all violins
Music is coming out of the White House
and Mickey Mouse is standing in front of Paris
We’re all living in America
America is wonderful
We’re all living in America
America, America
I know moves that are very useful
and I will protect you from missteps
And whoever doesn’t want to dance at the end
doesn’t know yet that they must
We’re making a nice round dance
I will show you the way
Santa Claus is coming to Africa
and Mickey Mouse is standing in front of Paris
We’re all living in America
America is wonderful
We’re all living in America
America, America
We’re all living in America
Coca-Cola, Wonderbra
We’re all living in America
America, America
This is not a love song
This is not a love song
I don’t sing my mother tongue
No, This is not a love song
We’re all living in America
America is wonderful
We’re all living in America
America, America
We’re all living in America
Coca-Cola, sometimes war
We’re all living in America
America, America
I just saw a SPLC commercial, featuring a bunch of celebrities, during the McGregor ppv, quoting Nelson Mandela about how we all need to fight bigotry. Unsurprisingly, there was no mention of black on white violence in Mandela’s South Africa. The SPLC is making a killing since Charlottesville, no pun intended.
The right needs to be working on a de-platforming of the SPLC from its "advisory" roles to the police. We also need coordinated boycotts against its leading sponsors.
Yuppers. It’s from, appropriately enough, considering the times, The Young Immigrunts (definitely sic).
On a related point, someone told me the BBC had a headline, “Is it safe to whiten your teeth at home?”
Duh! Don’t pat yourself on the back; it’s a famous line, for chrissake, and shouldn’t have to be explained or attributed. It should be obvious that he was consciously quoting.
“shut up” not very original and quite passe’ since we’re moving quickly to the point that our opponents are simply labeling us “Nazis” which makes it okay for them to hit or club us,often with the authorities looking on.
In time we’ll long for the good old days when the only thing the other side would do is retort “shut up” when they heard something they didn’t like.
would you say the phrase,
‘words have been weaponised…it’s what people do when they have power, but don’t have a point’,
is more effective? I think maybe it is
“The greater good is distant and speculative: the lesser evil required to achieve it is immediate and certain.”
Though I know it as a joke punchline (“fuck off”, explained the sergeant in answer to some complicated question posted by a educated recruit)
People like to forget the violence and torture practiced by Nelson’s then-wife Winnie Mandela.
The right needs to be working on a de-platforming of the SPLC from its “advisory” roles to the police. We also need coordinated boycotts against its leading sponsors.
Memphis Orpheum Theater won’t show ‘Gone With the Wind,’ calling film ‘insensitive’
August 25, 2017, by David Royer, WREG TV Memphis
The Orpheum Theater Group, the nonprofit organization that operates the historic Orpheum Theater recently announced the addition of four new members to its Board of Directors:
Dr. Noelle Chaddock – Assoc. Dean Academic Affairs for Diversity & Inclusivity, Rhodes College
Terri Lee Freeman – President, National Civil Rights Museum
Dr. Andrea Lewis Miller – President, Lemoyne-Owen College
Brian Sullivan – Principal/CEO, Sullivan Branding
I guess with no ‘Gone With The Wind,’ the conversation about diversity, inclusion, equity, and social justice can finally begin, but, on the positive side, they didn’t call it racist.
What's the problem, then? Hussy-shaming? Rhett Butler "rapes" his own wife?
OT:
Confederate Navy Jack maker pulls in the business:
Confederate flag maker ‘overwhelmed’ by orders as tensions flare
Security & Insurance at that outfit must be expensive.
“Elite. 1. distinguished by outstanding achievement. Obs. 2. On top.” [emphasis added.] Pretty good.
Former Sen. Mike Gravel said: “When you first get to the Senate, you wonder, ‘How did I get here?’ After six months, you wonder, ‘How did my colleagues get here?’” (Hope my memory’s okay.)
For an example of Haspel’s “on top” definition of elite, you may want to look at university trustees, any university’s trustees.
August 25, 2017, by David Royer, WREG TV MemphisThe Orpheum Theater Group, the nonprofit organization that operates the historic Orpheum Theater recently announced the addition of four new members to its Board of Directors:Dr. Noelle Chaddock - Assoc. Dean Academic Affairs for Diversity & Inclusivity, Rhodes College
Terri Lee Freeman - President, National Civil Rights Museum
Dr. Andrea Lewis Miller - President, Lemoyne-Owen College
Brian Sullivan - Principal/CEO, Sullivan BrandingI guess with no 'Gone With The Wind,' the conversation about diversity, inclusion, equity, and social justice can finally begin, but, on the positive side, they didn't call it racist.
The Academy Award show uses Max Steiner’s theme music from “Gone with the Wind” as its own theme song:
Will that be triggering?
No Mandela quote is complete without phony sign language.
All too true — but not this time.
The twitter purge of anyone with a sense of humour continues – Godfrey Elfwick and Amena Shaladi were zapped a couple of weeks ago, and now Weihan Wang has been banished to webcache Valhalla:
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:GM-6ELxHpYcJ:https://twitter.com/weihanwang4
If you have great aphorisms in you, they will be selected for you by posterity. They are not created sitting behind your computer trying to think of something profound. What a cringefest.
Beria once said: “Those who won’t learn from nice words will learn from a shot in the back of the neck.”
In time we'll long for the good old days when the only thing the other side would do is retort "shut up" when they heard something they didn't like.
There’s a line in Daniel Woodrell’s Winter’s Bone when scary meth cook Teardrop tells his wife, “I said shut up once already, with my mouth.”
We’re at the stage of the threat that that implied.
Court, n. Appeal engaged when those who’ve won competitions for power, wealth, and status lose ability to define reality.
Only if someone tells them. Which you may have just done ; )
https://twitter.com/ahaspel/status/901547065590808582
His hit rate on the aphorisms is impressive. Thanks for the link, Steve.
When they want an excuse, it’s in the genes, but when they want an excuse, men and women are not genetically different!
Sounds like something out of Catch-22
Confederate Navy Jack maker pulls in the business:
Confederate flag maker ‘overwhelmed’ by orders as tensions flare
Security & Insurance at that outfit must be expensive.
Leftists & antiracists probably actually buy more because they keep burning theirs.
Praise be!
… At least in the short-term.
Nobody told John Wesley Hardin to shut up. Nobody told Wyatt Earp to shut up. Nobody told Bat Masterson to shut up.
There is a pattern here …
August 25, 2017, by David Royer, WREG TV MemphisThe Orpheum Theater Group, the nonprofit organization that operates the historic Orpheum Theater recently announced the addition of four new members to its Board of Directors:Dr. Noelle Chaddock - Assoc. Dean Academic Affairs for Diversity & Inclusivity, Rhodes College
Terri Lee Freeman - President, National Civil Rights Museum
Dr. Andrea Lewis Miller - President, Lemoyne-Owen College
Brian Sullivan - Principal/CEO, Sullivan BrandingI guess with no 'Gone With The Wind,' the conversation about diversity, inclusion, equity, and social justice can finally begin, but, on the positive side, they didn't call it racist.
“they didn’t call it racist”
What’s the problem, then? Hussy-shaming? Rhett Butler “rapes” his own wife?
So Obama’s shovel-ready work has finally arrived!
Praise be!
Mandela was unrepentant murderer before he took power and the left justified it. They see it as a feature not a bug.
I don’t think he was passing it off as original, so I don’t think it counts as stealing per se.
http://i.imgur.com/Za3eg8J.jpg
That certainly explains the differences between the Harvard, Yale, and Princeton classes of 1918 and those of 2018.
Does that apply to nuclear weaponry as well? A recent piece in (I think) the WaPo argued that presidents were too spooked by the power even to pretend to use it in war games.
How many political parties have had their leaders’ hands on the button but have never pushed it? 15? 20? 25? No one wants to be the next Harry Truman, and I don’t blame them.
August 25, 2017, by David Royer, WREG TV MemphisThe Orpheum Theater Group, the nonprofit organization that operates the historic Orpheum Theater recently announced the addition of four new members to its Board of Directors:Dr. Noelle Chaddock - Assoc. Dean Academic Affairs for Diversity & Inclusivity, Rhodes College
Terri Lee Freeman - President, National Civil Rights Museum
Dr. Andrea Lewis Miller - President, Lemoyne-Owen College
Brian Sullivan - Principal/CEO, Sullivan BrandingI guess with no 'Gone With The Wind,' the conversation about diversity, inclusion, equity, and social justice can finally begin, but, on the positive side, they didn't call it racist.
When all trace of the Confederacy has been expunged and thus all context will be gone, how will the goodthinkers be able to explain how it was the Worst Thing That Ever Happened™?
August 25, 2017, by David Royer, WREG TV MemphisThe Orpheum Theater Group, the nonprofit organization that operates the historic Orpheum Theater recently announced the addition of four new members to its Board of Directors:Dr. Noelle Chaddock - Assoc. Dean Academic Affairs for Diversity & Inclusivity, Rhodes College
Terri Lee Freeman - President, National Civil Rights Museum
Dr. Andrea Lewis Miller - President, Lemoyne-Owen College
Brian Sullivan - Principal/CEO, Sullivan BrandingI guess with no 'Gone With The Wind,' the conversation about diversity, inclusion, equity, and social justice can finally begin, but, on the positive side, they didn't call it racist.
This time it’s personal….
August 25, 2017, by David Royer, WREG TV MemphisThe Orpheum Theater Group, the nonprofit organization that operates the historic Orpheum Theater recently announced the addition of four new members to its Board of Directors:Dr. Noelle Chaddock - Assoc. Dean Academic Affairs for Diversity & Inclusivity, Rhodes College
Terri Lee Freeman - President, National Civil Rights Museum
Dr. Andrea Lewis Miller - President, Lemoyne-Owen College
Brian Sullivan - Principal/CEO, Sullivan BrandingI guess with no 'Gone With The Wind,' the conversation about diversity, inclusion, equity, and social justice can finally begin, but, on the positive side, they didn't call it racist.
Any bets on how long it’ll take Turner Classic Movies to retire GWTW?
I am pretty sure La Rochefoucauld just sat at his desk and wrote them.
Memphis cancelled a showing of GWTW this past weekend. Feelz, you know.
Hit the thrift shops and start stocking up on VHS tapes and books.
https://twitter.com/ahaspel/status/901547065590808582
TED talk level would be better.
You will always be able to buy the “Special Racist Edition – Director’s Cut With Restored Footage, Recolored.”
In any case, this is the original — assuming Ring Lardner didn’t lift it from Artemus Ward or somebody.