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America has undergone enormous change during the nearly seven decades of my life. Today, America is a bitterly divided, poorly educated and morally fragile society with so-called mainstream politicians pushing cynical identity politics, socialism and open borders. The president of the United States is threatened with impeachment because the other side doesn’t like him. The once reasonably unbiased American media has evolved into a hysterical left wing mob. How could the stable and reasonably cohesive America of the 1950s have reached this point in just one lifetime? Who are the main culprits?

10) Mark Felt
9) Bill Ayers
8) Teddy Kennedy
7) Walter Cronkite
6) Bill and Hillary Clinton
5) Valerie Jarrett
4) Jimmy Carter
3) Lyndon Johnson
2) Barack Hussein Obama
1) John Kerry

Dishonorable Mentions!

John Brennan
Jane Fonda
Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin
Robert Johnson /BET
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr./The New York Times
George Soros
Frank Marshall Davis

In Soviet style questioning, House Democrats repeatedly interrupted Attorney General William Barr at Tuesday's contentious Judiciary Committee hearing with the phrase, "reclaiming my time."

At one point, Barr noted that the point of his testimony was so he could be heard.

On the aftermath of the Lehman shock in 2010, almost all supermarkets would require shoppers to bring their own shopping bags. Some yrs back, some supermarkets would provide plastic bags free of charge while there still a remaining few ones who wouldn't.So I thought the economy is perking up. In contrast, all convenience stores gave it for free. That was so until I shopped last Sunday. I just thought I was abreast with the news but I was wrong. Today when I bought a packed lunch and a couple of drinks, I was drawn to a notice near the cashier. ¥3 for every plastic shopping bag. My attention was all over covid, the anti terror bill in my home country and the recent murder of 4 military intelligence officer again in my home country. I am caught unaware of this eco and frugal law in my adopted country. I'm looking beyond what my eyes can't see that I forget the very struggle of the country where Iam now. From July 1, there'll be no more free plastic shopping bags. Frugal but eco times indeed!

This is why the Second Amendment is so important. People need to have the right to keep and bear arms.

Carmen Best, the Seattle police chief, sent a letter to city residents and businesses that essentially told them that when it comes to social unrest, they are on their own.

Best, who has reportedly maintained a strained relationship with the city’s mayor, Jenny Durkan, sent the letter in response to the city council’s new ordinance that went into effect last weekend that bans city police from even using “less lethal tools” when dealing with protesters.

“Simply put, the legislation gives officers NO ability to safely intercede to preserve property in the midst of a large, violent crowd,” Best wrote. “For these reasons, Seattle Police will have an adjusted deployment in response to any demonstrations this weekend—as I will never ask our officers to risk their personal safety to protect property without the tools to do so in a safe way.”

Although the city was able to take down the CHOP protest site after deadly shootings, the city is still in the grips of violent protests. On Saturday, the city police department reported that 59 cops were wounded during a riot that included explosives, bottles and rocks, according to the Washington Times. The report said that 47 people were arrested.

“Throughout the day officers were moving protesters away from the East Precinct after they threw an explosive at the building causing structural damage,” police said.

If you ever used Lard in bed.
If you own more than 3 shirts with the sleeves cut off.
If you have ever spray painted your girlfriend's name on an overpass.
If you consider a 6 pack of beer & a bug zapper quality entertainment.
If your lifetime goal was to own a fireworks stand.
If someone asks to see your ID and you show them your belt buckle.
If your mother doesn't remove the Marlboro from her lips before telling the patrolman to kiss her a$$.
If the primary color of your car is "primer".
If the directions to your house includes "turn of the paved road".
If your dog and your wallet are both on a chain.
If you owe the Taxidermist more than your annual income.
If you ever lost a tooth opening a beer bottle.
If Jack Daniels makes your list of most admired people.
If your wife's hairdo has ever been ruined by a ceiling fan.
If you see no need to stop at a rest area since you have an empty jug in your car.
If you have a rag for a gas cap.
If the dog can't watch you eat without gagging.
If you have ever had BBQ'd Spam on the grill.
If you have ever had to scratch your sister's name off a message "For a good time call________."
If your brother-in-law is also your uncle.
If Redman Chewing Tobacco sends you a Christmas card.
If your dad walks you to school because you're in the same grade.
If your wife has a beer belly and you find it attractive.
If your house doesn't have curtains but your truck does.
If your porch collapses and kills more than 3 dogs.
If you think Volvo is part of a woman's anatomy.
If you consider your license plate personalized because your father made it.
If you have been fired from a construction job because of your appearance.
If after making love have to ask your wife to roll down the window.
If your wealthiest relatives just bought a new home and you go over to help take the wheels off and put it up on blocks.

Porky pies – Cockney slang for lies. Everyone tells porkies. I don’t know how many honest profiles there are on CS but I know mine says ‘a few extra pounds’. I should change that but I can’t be arsed, I’m sure I’ll lose that Covid stone any time now. In the meantime I look, so I was told by an acquaintance on Sunday, very healthy. when an English person says you look very healthy you know you look like a tethered weather balloon. Meh. The “very healthy” option isn’t on the CS dropdown list.

Since CS is now dedicated to the activities of the American president, I shall get in my token political comment quickly so that this blog qualifies. All politicians lie. Some call it political necessity. Some apologise. Some pretend they never told the lie in the first place. Meh. The media dedicate a LOT of time to counting the lies told by Ramapoes who runs the country where I once lived, by Boris and indeed Wee Cranky who run the country where I formally lived, by Sánchez in the country where I now live. Wherever you live, I’m sure you have media tracking the honesty of your leaders. Some of you have entire singles websites dedicated to it.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who counts the lies of those who count the lies?

This quote from realclearpolitics.com – the media distorts and misleads, takes statements out of context, treats assumptions as facts and in general seems to want to sow as much rancor and fear as possible.

Yup.

The Harvard Business Review comments that media and government are entwined in a vicious circle of mutual manipulation, mythmaking, and self-interest. The media fails to do what it claims to do, what it should do, and what society expects it to do.

Yup.

Columbia Journalism Review has an article titled the fall, rise, and fall of media trust. They point out that as far back as Washington newspapers were full of lies.

Yup

Etc etc etc

You probably agree, at least about media supporting views other than your own. And yet – we all read this crap. We all argue about this crap as though it was worth argument. We let ourselves be panicked by this crap. Social media, some would argue, is the last uncontaminated source.

I’d love to see 48 hours, just 48 hours, lie-free, across the world, across all forms of media. Nothing but facts, or rumours clearly highlighted as rumours. No whipped up dramas. No inflated twisted biased items. Just facts. Wondered if anyone who has read this far would agree, or if the media are right and most of us WANT the soap opera.

Meanwhile – breaking news – peaceful talks in Southern Spain break down after a visiting English delegate referred to a local Spanish delegate as now looking like a tethered weather balloon

He's not oppressed. You don't own him. Success is available to him.

Reject the victimhood narrative. Rise up and succeed.

Of course, the great selling point was sex. One ad said the waterbed is very good for two things; one of them is sleeping. Another ad claimed that she’ll admire you for your car, respect you for your position, and love you for your waterbed.

But then waterbeds were nothing new. The Persians had them in 3600 BC when they filled goatskin bags with water. During the 1800s medical doctors used something similar for patients with bedsores and/or TB. They were reinvented during the late 60s and became popular during the 70s. During the late 80s, nearly one in four mattresses sold were water bed mattresses, and in the 90s they quietly went out of fashion leaving thousands of water mattresses in warehouses. Most dealers will tell you that it is years since they last sold one.

By the 80s, at the height of its popularity, waterbeds were available in a variety of styles, from four-post Colonials to Victorian beds with carved headboards to simple, sturdy box frames. Allergy sufferers liked having a dust-free mattress, while back pain sufferers were drawn to the beds’ free-floating quality.


So what happened? How did our enthusiasm for sleeping on liters of pure H2O go down the drain so quickly?

These beds were probably just too cumbersome. Apart from the constant possibility of a flooded bedroom, they were prohibitively heavy; not just the mattress but also the supporting framework. It was a problem filling or draining the mattress.

During the early 90s when I decided to buy a new bed, a salesman tried very hard to sell a waterbed to me but he had to settle for the sale of a normal bed. I was not going to risk a woman getting seasick on my bed.