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Saved comments during December 2024
My comments on Company Man explains 'Walmart - Why They're Hated' for Black Friday/Buy Nothing Day.
It's certainly better than a couple of dollar store chains, which are heavily dependent on Chinese imports. That will get them in trouble if tariffs get imposed on or after January 20th.
True, but $17.50 is still more than $10 more than the federal minimum wage of $7.25/hour. That needs to increase.
(Above posted on November 30, but saved here).
Thanks for linking to this entry at your blog and welcome to all of your readers who came here from your link! Also welcome to all the people who came her from the Citizen Connect/Coffee Party USA Facebook page! I appreciate all of you!
My comment on 'The "dirty side" of a hurricane, explained' by Vox.
Thanks to Infidel753 for linking to this entry at his blog and welcome to all of you who came here from his link. Also, welcome to my readers from Brazil, Singapore, Hong Kong, Germany, and the rest of the world. I appreciate all of you!
My comments on 'Last Week Tonight' examines disability benefits after winning 2 Emmy Awards.
Very flattering and the text is on-topic, but neither will help you if your link is irrelevant. Deleted.
Your first attempt failed and I'm not approving it. You posted your second using a different account and I deleted it. This third time was a charm. It got through and I'm allowing it to stay because the product at your link is at least tangentially relevant to disabilities. Should Blogger retroactively reassign it to the spam folder, it will stay there. Good luck. You'll need it!
My comment on Postponed video for Black Friday post.
That sounds as bad as Starbucks. Remember the scene from Shrek when one Starbucks was about to be destroyed and all the customers just ran across the street to the next one? A lot of those closed, too.
My comments on the Instagram link to PBS Terra asks 'Why Are Some Cities ATTRACTING Storms While Others REPEL Them?'
Done. It only took me a month.
It is!
My comment on 'From' and 'The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon' lead horror series nominations at the Saturn Awards.
And the next day you used that video at Crooks and Liars.
My comment on 'Weathered: Earth's Extremes' asks 'What Happens When the Land Runs Out?'
Thanks to Steve in Manhattan for linking to this entry at Crooks and Liars and welcome to all of you who came here from his link! Also, welcome to my readers from Hong Kong, Brazil, Singapore, Israel, and the rest of the world. I appreciate all of you!
Response to Batocchio for John Swift Roundup
Blog Name: Crazy Eddie's Motie News
Title of Post: John Oliver examines Clarence Thomas and makes him an offer on 'Last Week Tonight'
Link: https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/02/john-oliver-examines-clarence-thomas.html
Author of Post: Pinku-Sensei (Vince Lamb)
Brief Description/Pitch of the Post: This was the most read entry of 2024. It's still timely ten months later with the release of the Senate Judiciary Committee report last week. Too bad Thomas didn't accept Oliver's offer!
My comments on I ask The Archdruid and his readers 'Can you show us on the doll exactly where the educated professionals hurt you?' A Festivus airing of grievances.
You definitely showed you weren't kidding when you wrote "If a public figure or party I basically support does something bad, I will call them out on it" in Link round-up for 28 December 2024. Festivus is a time for airing of grievances and you certainly aired yours!
That written, you still thought well enough of this entry to link to it along with Broken Peach sings 'Winter Wonderland' for Christmas and For Yule/Winter Solstice, Monstrum asks 'Why Do These Christmas Monsters Want To Destroy the World?' Thank you and welcome to all of your readers who came here from your links!
Welcome to Crazy Eddie's Motie News, John! Regarding Greer's sour attitude, are you sure you're not confusing him with James Howard Kunstler? He is notoriously dyspeptic. Still, any sourness on Greer's part about his mainstream reception shows he might not have thought the reaction to his eccentricity all the way through or reconciled his emotions to his thoughts on the matter. I've decided to "help" him that way beginning with this blog entry. Last year, I wrote "I want both Greer and his nickname for the 45th President to become better known among the American Left. If he becomes more widely disliked, so be it." Only took me a year to follow through.
As for your second paragraph, that's exactly what I meant. The educated professionals are merely carrying out the wishes of the wealthy and then being blamed for them. Fixating on people like us serves two purposes, one political and one personal. As I wrote, it deflects blame from the wealthy, particularly the local "small" business owners, who are in the same socioeconomic stratum as the better-off educated professionals and are still generally voting Republican. Second, Greer himself has the education and background to be an educated professional (he has a Bachelor's degree) and dropped out of that class (his father was a teacher). He is instead a self-employed author, so he identifies more with the small business owners. He might feel a bit personally betrayed and wants revenge. Then again, that's how I feel about the Republican Party, so I might just be projecting.
As for AI replacing educated professionals, that would definitely help the business owners, large and small in a struggle for social dominance, but it's not what Greer and his readers are likely hoping for. Greer has banned discussion of AI from his comments.
My comment on December 2024 Open Post
Thanks to you and your readers for your answers last month. Now this month's question: What do you make of all the drone hysteria in the U.S. media this month?
My comments on Broken Peach sings 'Winter Wonderland' for Christmas.
Glad you appreciated them. After all, you're the one who introduced me to them. As for their costumes, that's in the eye of the beholder. I enjoyed them.
Thanks for linking to three of my entries at Link round-up for 28 December 2024, this one, I ask The Archdruid and his readers 'Can you show us on the doll exactly where the educated professionals hurt you?' A Festivus airing of grievances, and For Yule/Winter Solstice, Monstrum asks 'Why Do These Christmas Monsters Want To Destroy the World?' Welcome to all of your readers who came here from your links!
My comment on For Yule/Winter Solstice, Monstrum asks 'Why Do These Christmas Monsters Want To Destroy the World?'
Thanks for linking to three of my entries at Link round-up for 28 December 2024, this one, I ask The Archdruid and his readers 'Can you show us on the doll exactly where the educated professionals hurt you?' A Festivus airing of grievances, and Broken Peach sings 'Winter Wonderland' for Christmas. Welcome to all of your readers who came here from your links! Also, welcome to my readers from Brazil, Turkey (Türkiye), Singapore, Argentina, Canada, and the rest of the planet, especially my Brazilian readers, who contributed ~6700 page views this week, 110 more than my American readers!
My comment on Democrats Are the Kwisatz Haderach.
"[T]hey hated being held responsible for supporting Bush." My wife asked me what we'd do if Trump won. I responded "punish the people who helped him win." This looks like the perfect way to do it, hold them responsible for supporting Trump. The only problem is that the reprogrammable meatbags will think everything he does that's bad is good. Let's see how long that lasts.
My comment on USC Trojan Marching Band - Disneyland Town Square - December 2024.
"You just won the Las Vegas Bowl. What are you going to do now?"
"We're going to Disneyland!"
On a more serious note, I'm offering the following:
09:07 - Country medley of "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" and "Nine to Five."
11:00 - "Freedom! '90" (George Michael, not Beyonce).
Signed, A Bruin alum being helpful to the Trojans.
It's certainly better than a couple of dollar store chains, which are heavily dependent on Chinese imports. That will get them in trouble if tariffs get imposed on or after January 20th.
True, but $17.50 is still more than $10 more than the federal minimum wage of $7.25/hour. That needs to increase.
(Above posted on November 30, but saved here).
Thanks for linking to this entry at your blog and welcome to all of your readers who came here from your link! Also welcome to all the people who came her from the Citizen Connect/Coffee Party USA Facebook page! I appreciate all of you!
My comment on 'The "dirty side" of a hurricane, explained' by Vox.
Thanks to Infidel753 for linking to this entry at his blog and welcome to all of you who came here from his link. Also, welcome to my readers from Brazil, Singapore, Hong Kong, Germany, and the rest of the world. I appreciate all of you!
My comments on 'Last Week Tonight' examines disability benefits after winning 2 Emmy Awards.
Very flattering and the text is on-topic, but neither will help you if your link is irrelevant. Deleted.
Your first attempt failed and I'm not approving it. You posted your second using a different account and I deleted it. This third time was a charm. It got through and I'm allowing it to stay because the product at your link is at least tangentially relevant to disabilities. Should Blogger retroactively reassign it to the spam folder, it will stay there. Good luck. You'll need it!
My comment on Postponed video for Black Friday post.
That sounds as bad as Starbucks. Remember the scene from Shrek when one Starbucks was about to be destroyed and all the customers just ran across the street to the next one? A lot of those closed, too.
My comments on the Instagram link to PBS Terra asks 'Why Are Some Cities ATTRACTING Storms While Others REPEL Them?'
Done. It only took me a month.
It is!
My comment on 'From' and 'The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon' lead horror series nominations at the Saturn Awards.
And the next day you used that video at Crooks and Liars.
My comment on 'Weathered: Earth's Extremes' asks 'What Happens When the Land Runs Out?'
Thanks to Steve in Manhattan for linking to this entry at Crooks and Liars and welcome to all of you who came here from his link! Also, welcome to my readers from Hong Kong, Brazil, Singapore, Israel, and the rest of the world. I appreciate all of you!
Response to Batocchio for John Swift Roundup
Blog Name: Crazy Eddie's Motie News
Title of Post: John Oliver examines Clarence Thomas and makes him an offer on 'Last Week Tonight'
Link: https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/02/john-oliver-examines-clarence-thomas.html
Author of Post: Pinku-Sensei (Vince Lamb)
Brief Description/Pitch of the Post: This was the most read entry of 2024. It's still timely ten months later with the release of the Senate Judiciary Committee report last week. Too bad Thomas didn't accept Oliver's offer!
My comments on I ask The Archdruid and his readers 'Can you show us on the doll exactly where the educated professionals hurt you?' A Festivus airing of grievances.
You definitely showed you weren't kidding when you wrote "If a public figure or party I basically support does something bad, I will call them out on it" in Link round-up for 28 December 2024. Festivus is a time for airing of grievances and you certainly aired yours!
That written, you still thought well enough of this entry to link to it along with Broken Peach sings 'Winter Wonderland' for Christmas and For Yule/Winter Solstice, Monstrum asks 'Why Do These Christmas Monsters Want To Destroy the World?' Thank you and welcome to all of your readers who came here from your links!
Welcome to Crazy Eddie's Motie News, John! Regarding Greer's sour attitude, are you sure you're not confusing him with James Howard Kunstler? He is notoriously dyspeptic. Still, any sourness on Greer's part about his mainstream reception shows he might not have thought the reaction to his eccentricity all the way through or reconciled his emotions to his thoughts on the matter. I've decided to "help" him that way beginning with this blog entry. Last year, I wrote "I want both Greer and his nickname for the 45th President to become better known among the American Left. If he becomes more widely disliked, so be it." Only took me a year to follow through.
As for your second paragraph, that's exactly what I meant. The educated professionals are merely carrying out the wishes of the wealthy and then being blamed for them. Fixating on people like us serves two purposes, one political and one personal. As I wrote, it deflects blame from the wealthy, particularly the local "small" business owners, who are in the same socioeconomic stratum as the better-off educated professionals and are still generally voting Republican. Second, Greer himself has the education and background to be an educated professional (he has a Bachelor's degree) and dropped out of that class (his father was a teacher). He is instead a self-employed author, so he identifies more with the small business owners. He might feel a bit personally betrayed and wants revenge. Then again, that's how I feel about the Republican Party, so I might just be projecting.
As for AI replacing educated professionals, that would definitely help the business owners, large and small in a struggle for social dominance, but it's not what Greer and his readers are likely hoping for. Greer has banned discussion of AI from his comments.
My comment on December 2024 Open Post
Thanks to you and your readers for your answers last month. Now this month's question: What do you make of all the drone hysteria in the U.S. media this month?
My comments on Broken Peach sings 'Winter Wonderland' for Christmas.
Glad you appreciated them. After all, you're the one who introduced me to them. As for their costumes, that's in the eye of the beholder. I enjoyed them.
Thanks for linking to three of my entries at Link round-up for 28 December 2024, this one, I ask The Archdruid and his readers 'Can you show us on the doll exactly where the educated professionals hurt you?' A Festivus airing of grievances, and For Yule/Winter Solstice, Monstrum asks 'Why Do These Christmas Monsters Want To Destroy the World?' Welcome to all of your readers who came here from your links!
My comment on For Yule/Winter Solstice, Monstrum asks 'Why Do These Christmas Monsters Want To Destroy the World?'
Thanks for linking to three of my entries at Link round-up for 28 December 2024, this one, I ask The Archdruid and his readers 'Can you show us on the doll exactly where the educated professionals hurt you?' A Festivus airing of grievances, and Broken Peach sings 'Winter Wonderland' for Christmas. Welcome to all of your readers who came here from your links! Also, welcome to my readers from Brazil, Turkey (Türkiye), Singapore, Argentina, Canada, and the rest of the planet, especially my Brazilian readers, who contributed ~6700 page views this week, 110 more than my American readers!
My comment on Democrats Are the Kwisatz Haderach.
"[T]hey hated being held responsible for supporting Bush." My wife asked me what we'd do if Trump won. I responded "punish the people who helped him win." This looks like the perfect way to do it, hold them responsible for supporting Trump. The only problem is that the reprogrammable meatbags will think everything he does that's bad is good. Let's see how long that lasts.
My comment on USC Trojan Marching Band - Disneyland Town Square - December 2024.
"You just won the Las Vegas Bowl. What are you going to do now?"
"We're going to Disneyland!"
On a more serious note, I'm offering the following:
09:07 - Country medley of "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" and "Nine to Five."
11:00 - "Freedom! '90" (George Michael, not Beyonce).
Signed, A Bruin alum being helpful to the Trojans.