Right Angle: Backstage (10-05-2021)

There’s a guy on Youtube that makes a cologne named “Rotting Turtles.”

The main character dying also happens in No Country For Old Men

I appreciate what Scott says about getting involved, he’s not wrong in what he says, however, there is a point missing. People on our side of things, broadly speaking the freedom loving, patriotic and conservative side of things, tend to have jobs, lives, families and sanity. We are up against people for whom joining school boards (and other such things) to push their agenda IS their life and often their job. Their lives are dedicated to pushing their agenda and they exhibit a singlemindedness often amounting to madness. Sometimes even their family connections are part of the whole slimy mess.

There are some purely political folk on the right, I know a few and sort of am one myself, but we’re freaks. I’ve tried to get sound, right of centre friends to become more involved, but they are rarely interested, and I cannot blame them for resisting. They have little free time to dedicate to it as they have real jobs that require actual work, not made-up positions with the local Labour council. Add to that the very real possibility of professional difficulties if you do get involved and make any headway on the right. We’ve seen people in academia, media, heritage and other fields fall foul of the left’s ability, and willingness, to use its influence to harm the careers of those bold enough to put their head over the parapet.

What is the answer? I don’t know. For decades the right across the Anglosphere has concentrated, quite successfully, on winning political power at the national level and the more major local levels. It has ignored cultural influence and much smaller seats of power like school boards. This is more than simply saying we can’t do it because it’s hard and we’re up against folk who are determined. Their hard work has been aimed not just at winning arguments, it’s been aimed at getting control of the game, stopping opposing voices being heard, changing the very nature of the game itself. Scott effectively says we have to “Play up, and play the game”. However, the playing field has been deliberately tilted, the referees are largely members of the opposing team, and the ball can be removed at the opposition’s will.

There is some truth in what you say, however there are plenty of right of center adults living in communities throughout the country who do have the time to devote to school boards or town councils. In my county, I was approached to run for school board. There was another gentlemen considering it as well who had not served previously. We discussed it. See we were both deacons at the same church and in fact were in the same sunday school class. We decided that since he grew up here while I was a damn Yankee, he would have the much easier time of getting elected. He fights those fights and is doing it well. It’s his job as long as he wants it, not a stepping stone to something better.
He fought to keep our schools open, but our fascist Gov Jolsen wouldn’t allow it, among other things.
Oh, and his kids a fully grown but his kids and grandkids live here so he has a vested interest to keep things sane. Helps that our school superintendent also is a deacon at our church. (the county has 300,000 people so not that small.
Everyone has the same amount of time. He does the school board thing, I help out in the community in other ways. Neither of us is rich, though we did ok. But the idea that having a full time job precludes people from running from school board is just not a valid excuse. Everyone on a school board has another job, the stipend covers almost nothing.

Oh gawd … Hai Karate … Bad memory.

When I was a kid I had to work on the farm. This was not an optional thing. My grandpa had two coops of battery hens, max capacity of 10,000 hens per coop. That means the chickens lived in wire cages on two tiers in four rows with pits underneath the cages to catch the chicken feed that the chickens were done with. The pits were located between rows 1&2 and rows 3&4. They were almost 100 yards long, 5 feet deep and six feet wide. They would fill up twice a year. That’s a LOT of used chicken feed and it sits there brewing for a LONG time.

The pits would be full of fly maggots, just to add a little color to the gray goop.

My job, as “the kid” was to sit on the tractor that powered the auger that ran down the bottom of the pits at a perpendicular angle while grandpa used a small tractor with a blade (like a snow plow, not like a katana) pushed the poo towards the center where the auger was. I was to engage and disengage the PTO on the tractor to fill up the “honey wagon”, a cylindrical manure spreader with chain flails that distributed the used chicken feed over the fields for fertilizer.

I wore a paper face mask like you would use for painting or other toxic applications. The stink was amazing. It would make me gag. Constantly. Throw up a little bit, take a breath or two, throw up a little bit, take a breath or two … Like that.

So I, being the genius child that I was, settled upon a plan to make that smell more tolerable. I went up to the house, got some toilet paper and soaked it in Grandpa’s Hai Karate. Then put that Hai Karate soaked toilet paper in my mask and went happily back to work expecting to now smell Hai Karate only. Which believe me, no matter how bad Hai Karate is, it’s orders of magnitude better than the smell coming from the chicken manure pits.

Wrong.

The smell of the stuff in the pits wasn’t removed, covered, or diminished. I just had Hai Karate scented chickenshit in my nose the rest of the day. One did not cancel out the other, they fed on each other like some sort of evil alchemy and made the situation worse.

I guess I wasn’t such a genius after all.

Too funny! Hai Karate-scented chicken poo !
I almost spit out my lunch when I read that. 🙂

Heh … You should hear about the time I decided I was going to see how a crop-duster airplane worked. From underneath, where the spray comes out. While the plane flew over me as I hid in the beanfield. Grandma spent hours with a stiff brush and homemade soap getting the smell off of my hide … I wasn’t allowed to eat at the table with normal people until the odor was completely gone. Which took a couple days soaking in the creek.

Concentrated herbicides really stink. Agriculture and violent aromas just have a way of hanging out with each other.

Now skunk hunting, that’s fun and generally done in the company of a cousin or three. It’s a real challenge to get that critter before he gets you. If you’re not successful, more stiff brush, homemade soap and creek time. I got so I positively enjoyed the creek time.

I immediately thought of Brut by Faberge (I was an Eddie Murphy fan, too) First real cologne I ever got was by a girlfriend who got me Drakkar Noir in the “cool, black bottle”. I think she got me that so that I wouldn’t wear the horrible English Leather that I had gotten for myself.
I finally decided clean was a good scent with a little aftershave at the most.
That was shortly after I stopped using my dad’s Vitalis.
I was a mess as a teenager.

Ha, I had very similar experiences myself. After I grew up and got married, I let my wife(s) pick out any cologne I might wear and tell me when I should wear it. Heck, they were the ones who had to live with it so it only seemed fair.

Nowadays I hardly ever have any call to apply cologne. When I do I use some stuff called Royal Copenhagen. I think I’ve had the same bottle for about a decade and it’s still more than 3/4 full. It’s a very light scent and I spray a single squirt in the air, then step under the falling mist. If that is too much for anyone then that’s just too bad, don’t stand so close. Which is a good practice anyway, I’ve been known to bite.

Middle School teacher survivor of the Axe Wars.
Smells better than middle school boys, but….=argghh= breathing isn’t optional!

GACK!! I hear you, my nephew got hooked on that Axe stuff. It’s enough to choke a brown dog, as the Aussies say. I can’t imagine being cooped up in a classroom with a couple dozen or so boys all coated in that stuff.

The thing is, they put enough on so they can smell it. For a few minutes. They don’t realize that long after they can’t smell it anymore it’s still following them around like a deadly miasma.

A tiny circus came to town when I was about 12 or so. They set up in a park right across the street from my Grandpa and Grandma’s house.

The baby elephant slapped my little sister with its trunk and knocked her silly. Baby elephants are not friendly it turns out. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

Many of the problems that the public are opposing in schools today were the same problems my parents fought within the Western Canadian district that my sister and I attended. The “Woke Agenda” is not new in the world. The solution that my parents and others devised was the founding of a small, one-room private school, at which my sister and I and four other children were the first students. Removing our children from these public indoctrination camps and placing them in institutions dedicated to the Three R’s of education is the only viable solution to develop adults capable of critical thinking, creativity, communication, and collaboration.

Weren’t the Democrats trying to sell us on the idea that Merrick Garland was a moderate a few years back?

They probably still think that he is one

The main character cannot die because of magical armor …
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Ha ha ha. Consider the counter example:
I am Legend
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Squid Games … the Running Man of the times. Since mature adults are becoming rarities, all the games must be geared for children.
Who recalls the tyranny of Logan’s Run? Children are easier to dominate than free-thinking, mature adults.

Also this kind of gratuitous gore and violence isn’t a new thing. English language programming is more the exception than the rule, globally speaking.

French TV has been notorious for decades for just that sort of thing. Even French children’s cartoons are violently bloody. Where here in the US a cartoon character might blow himself up with TNT and stand there covered in soot with white eyes blinking in surprise — in France the character would disintegrate in a cloud of red gore, hair, teeth, eyeballs and severed limbs with bones and spurting arteries. Of course we’re talking about the French so your point about gearing for childish minds applies in spades.

Considering the national character of France I can’t see that this sort of programming has been any advantage to them. I lived there for a while and would be hard pressed to think of a country whose population is more snide, condescending, gaulic-centrist, snobby, disdainful, and just plain cruel and mean. At least some of that has to be the result of desensitization as children.

It does not surprise me that the same thing would come out of South Korea. Squid Games gets a hard pass from me, I’m not interested in it at all.

Totally agree on the French character. Very well put. I was in France a few times for extended periods of time, I studied French Language and Lit (my second major), and I come from a Francophile culture, at least it was when I was living back there in my native country…

Thanks for the collaboration on what I said. Some people might think I’m just being mean to the French, or that I don’t know what I’m talking about. Nor is what I said likely to be the experience of someone who goes on a vacation in France for a few days. You had to actually spend some significant amount of time there to understand what I’m talking about, you need a broader experience than spending a few days in Cannes or some such. So you seconding what I said is very helpful.

I lived in France in the vicinity of St. Remy de Provence and it was a fairly rural environment. I met some people I really liked there. Mssr. Marceau who operated the local cafe was a great guy, for instance. So I’m not talking about the few people I met that the national character didn’t apply to. There are good people everywhere.

I’m not really banging on the French either, it just is what it is. The French can run their country and treat people inside their borders however they see fit as long as they adhere to some basic concepts of human rights. They do.

They’re just really irritating about how they treat people who are not full-blooded born-in-France Frenchmen. I could tell lots of stories about that … But I’ll spare you and everyone else for now.

In the late 70s, Stephen King, before he was fully insane and writing as Richard (?) Bachman, published a story called The Long Walk which was a type of game show. Teenage boys competed to see who could walk the farthest, starting in Maine (of course). The winner got basically anything they wanted. (I may be wrong but I think he wrote it as a teen, but that may have been another in the anthology I recall)
The whole thing was televised with crowds cheering them when they got to towns.
The kicker? If you stopped walking, slowed down too often, or tried to leave the road, you were shot. So the winner was the last one alive.

So just looked up and Running Man was a Bachman novel as well. Thought that was under King’s name. Liked the story “thinner” as well. Maybe I was more of a fan of Bachman than King when I was younger. Saw that you can’t get a copy of “Rage” anymore.

I have an anthology published in 1985 that is called “The Bachman Books, Four Early Novels By Stephen King”. It contains four of King’s early works that he created under the pseudonym of Richard Bachman:

Rage, Copyright 1977
The Long Walk, Copyright 1979
Roadwork, Copyright 1981
The Running Man, Copyright 1982

I also prefer King’s earlier works. I agree he is now completely insane — likely for the past couple of decades.

I think I had that same anthology. I also had the Different Seasons Anthology which contained the original story “THe Body” which became Stand By Me and The Shawshank Redemption story.
His early work was good and tight. Then got really long winded. Enjoyed The Stand, but man it’s long.

I still have a paperback copy of “Different Seasons”. I also have what I think may be his last work using the Bachman pseudonym: The Regulators, 1996. The flap describes it as a post-humous work, since the flap also declares Richard Bachman died in 1985. Unfortunately, I seem to have lost my copy of its “mirror” novel, Desperation.
If you have not yet concluded an obvious fact, I hoard the books I read. It’s one of my many flaws.

I used to do that. Donated a bunch to the local library about ten years ago when the number of shelves taken up by my old books became ludicrous. Actually, when taking the literal meaning of a bunch of bananas, I donated several bunches.

Bill,
Be careful planning your $599 transactions in separate accounts. Current federal laws refer to that activity as Structuring for cash transactions under $10000, and it is deemed illegal.

The definition of structuring states, “a person structures a transaction if that person, acting alone, or in conjunction with, or on behalf of, other persons, conducts or attempts to conduct one or more transactions in currency in any amount, at one or more financial institutions, on one or more days, in any manner, for the purpose of evading the [CTR filing requirements].” “In any manner” includes, but is not limited to, breaking down a single currency sum exceeding $10,000 into smaller amounts that may be conducted as a series of transactions at or less than $10,000. The transactions need not exceed the $10,000 CTR filing threshold at any one bank on any single day in order to constitute structuring.

The real gotcha is that all transactions exceeding $10000 may be deemed to be laundering.
If we do a thing, then we are criminal. If we do not do a thing, then we are criminal. Without bloodshed, there is no escape from this sort of tyranny.
When it comes to cash transactions at banks, those in public office who wish to steal our money will invent rules to allow them to do it “legally.” One should expect similar laws to appear in relation to this proposed $600 threshold.

Funny, the moment Bill said that I thoiught the same thing

The juxtaposition of the tactics by the left of following a US Senator into a bathroom to harangue her vs parents who come to an open school board meeting to state their position, both trying to sway a vote. One of these tactics is horrid, the other is like pushing on rope. (i.e. not very effective)
At one of these meeting several months ago, the board fled. Someone who knew Robert’s Rules Of Order, took that to be a mass resignation since the agenda was still open and they elected a new board right then. Never heard a follow up on that situation.

I read that a judge confirmed the action and the new board was instituted as valid.
That’s probably why you haven’t heard more on the situation. The plebs won…

Excellent, thanks. And you are right. No need to publicize that which worked against them.

https://electionwiz.com/2021/04/28/arizona-school-board-flees-parents-elect-new-board-vote-to-end-mask-mandate/

Do they still love their kids’ teacher? After a year and a half of Zoom school? W/ the teacher refusing to go back to work? And now the parents know what the teacher has been doing in class?

Plus noticing the BLM and Antifa posters, no U.S. flag but a Rainbow Pride flag proudly displayed, and pix of Che Guevara.

Scott, What you’re saying about the grind and paperwork of being a school board member… seems like it’s really designed to keep normal people OFF school boards and in the dark about what’s going on. A system for education policy wonks that enthusiastically follow whatever trend is being handed down from the tops of the education industry. Or a jumping off point for hopeful career politicians that are favored by the local party machine AND the education industry.

An expert like… Ibram X Kendi?

Eventually people are gonna say,”I’m a terrorist? OK. I’ll be a terrorist.”

Investigate parents. But illegal aliens harassing a sitting senator, that’s cool.

RE: Scott saying it’s the first time in a long time that he left an event and said, well that was worth the investment. I say that every Wednesday morning after roughly 50 minutes of watching RA Backstage. Just saying.

Yes. It’s good to listen to the ramblings and stories of wise men.

Write the song Steve!
Lydia, the un-tattooed Lady.

I saw Ringiling Bros. at the Astrodome. And I saw Circus Vargus in a tent at the local mall’s parking lot.

An hour! That ‘s what I’m talking aobut.

Garland is just warming up for when a SCOTUS seat opens up. Then Joe will nominate him and enough Republicans will vote to confirm his nomination.
Then Joe will be able to nominate an even greater wacko for AG.

Scott trying to inject reason into unreasonable times while Bill and Stephen try to get Scott to wake up to the reality of politics today.

If you Google The Host, you’ll need to Google, “The Host Korean movie.” Surprisingly, there are a few other hosts out there.

And stalking a US senator is part of the process, but AG Garland wants the FBI to treat parents who are angry at their school boards as terrorists?

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