It Takes a Little Time, Sometimes, to Turn the Titantic Around...

 That's why if you're smart, diversity means you partner with people in smaller crafts -- Old Town Otters say... ;-) -- who can change direction more quickly, get ahead, and let you know what's coming...*

Bigger isn't always better, you know.

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* ie/ a shoutout:  "Hey, Iceberg ahead!  Steer clear ye wealthy passengers in the bigger, allegedly safer vessel following..."

(Dems would be smart now to put their listening ears on;  as Judge Judy says, there's a reason God gave us two ears and one mouth...)

Wow.

After 157 Years, Chippewa Falls’ Leinenkugel’s Brewery is Closing

Molson Coors plans to close Chippewa Falls brewing operations in new year, WTMJ reports

V1 Staff|November 6, 2024

That longstanding Leinenkugel's brewery/ "Leinie's Lodge" IS Chippewa Falls.  If this closure goes though, they're going to be hurting...  

What will they do with that historic property?  (In St. Paul, the Schmitz brewery is now artists' lofts...)

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ADDED:  More answers in this story:

While the brewery will close, Erhardt says Molson Coors will keep the Leinie Lodge and its pilot brewery open.

"Ever since Leinenkugel’s joined Miller Brewing in 1988, the brand and Chippewa Falls have been a cherished part of our company and culture. That’s not changing. Leinie’s Summer Shandy and the rest of the portfolio will continue to play a role in our premiumization plans, and the Leinie Lodge and adjacent pilot brewery will remain open year-round for guests to enjoy and experience the Leinenkugel’s beers and history. "

You know the testicles that hang from a truck trailer hitch?

That's the online equivalent of the discourse swaying around today.

Let the boys have their fun:  thinkers can opt out today and enjoy a quiet one. Ain't nobody listening anyway.

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* I like this one, myself...

The Quiet Majority That Was Silenced...

 made sure there was no doubt this electiontime about having their voices heard in the democratic process... The elites have been wrong, the legacy media as well, for the past four years.  They don't know who they're representing or writing for anymore.

Globalists are great -- but they transfer the costs of their globe-trotting -- and support of endless ethnic wars in their "homelands" -- to the rest of us, whether it be international disease transmission (no, I'm not disparaging immigrants, just well-heeled travelers intent on picking up and bringing home every virus available on God's green earth...) or environmental destruction...

These are often the loudest voices warning of Global Warming! Save the Planet!  Yet they refuse to curtail their muli-annual overseas trips in search of the freshest pastry or decadent meal in the world, or to bring back the latest international fashions... 

OK, you're free to do you, but now you've heard from Others with whom you must share the planet, like it or not.

The people allegedly in power today are out of touch with the common majority:  we don't share your priorities or your "action plan" for change.  Don't ask the government to do what you refuse to do for yourself... Don't take away our freedoms of choice because you want us to foot the bill for yours.  Hth.

(and no, I'm not talking about abortion either... Plenty of freedoms the government has curtailed in a nanny state, that the nannies will need to enforce on their own now, for those charges in their continual care, that should not affect grown adults who choose otherwise and are free to pursue something different to meet our own basic needs.)

The American People Win!

 Can the Elites hear them now?  Don't try to install your choice over ours again... Maybe that's the lesson to be learned?  Trust the primary process.  (and never ever ever get into bed with a Cheney because America is better than sleeping with losers hoping to win!  Whoever gave the political advice to publicly team up with the Loser War Monger Legacies did the Dems no favors... We're a peaceful, anti-war people who know America's strength is around negotiating tables crafting solutions, not warring endlessly, encouraging lethal conflicts that kill, just so the "defense" industry that dominates our East Coast can continue running guns to the world and booming business.  We're better than that.  If the DC swampdwellers and all the national "pundits" didn't understand the nation's true power balance before... let's hope they do now:  Power to the PEOPLE.  Human life matters. #NeverForget)

According to my chocolate Advent calendar...

there are only 3 Days Until Christmas!!

Here's another humor bit, from the sportsworld, if you're looking for a laugh tonight...

Added:  I'm not laughing at him. Joe Few did his job, he tried. He got in the game and gave it his all...  I'm laughing at the excellent writing. Not too much of that to enjoy anymore.

Kenny Rogers - Love Will Turn You Around (Audio)

Movie Dialogue: Sunshine State (John Sayles)

Remember Clarence Green? Used to work in the kitchen. He'd be back there. I'd come in, "Morning, Clarence." "Morning, Mr. Furman," he'd say. -They don't call you like that no more. -Not for a long time, Daddy. I said that if integration comes... ...I was gonna close up. One day, there it is. Four of them. Young, polite. Sitting in a booth... ...waiting for my girls to serve them. Clarence was in the back trembling like a leaf. Didn't know how I was gonna react. I said, "What do you think, Clarence?" He said, "Well, Mr. Furman... ...I reckon if you serve them this one time, they ain't coming back." "How's that?" I said. "Excuse me for saying it, Mr. Furman. But the food is a lot better down at Buster's Place." You spend a lot of time worrying about a day coming. Then when it does, it ain't so bad.

The Storm Before the Calm...

Keep your heads down out there today and in the coming days, people...

Bob Marley - One Love

"As it was in the Beginning, 

so shall it Be in the end...

Give thanks and praise to the Lord

and it will be all right...

Let's Get Together and feel all right.

Give thanks and praise to the Lord

and it will be all right..."

Electric Company - The Plumber

Snow on the Sumac

 Happy Minnesota Halloween!

The Dubliners - The Black Velvet Band (ft. Christy Moore)

"Her eyes, they shined like a diamond, you'd swear she was Queen O'er the Land... and her hair hung over her shoulder, tied up with a black velvet band..."

Ministry - The Nature Of Love (1985)

Ministry - Every Day Is Halloween

Better to be a Piece of Trash...

 than a Child Killer, in my mind.

(or worse really: not to be killing the children yourself outright, but to be paying off people who are continuing the slaughter and even expanding their killing grounds...) As Israel moves into Lebanon after decimating the people of Palestine, the horrors grow.  Our legacy media turns away, our Christians refuse to reckon with what they've unleashed and are financing... good people stay silent.

We all know how this ends.  I didn't ask to be smart, an independent thinker, or prescient, but you've got to be a fool to think Americans can deliver such death and doom upon the world, and still think ourselves untouchable on our own allegedly sovereign soil...

#EyesOnTheFuture  #EyesOnThePrize  #Don'tKIllSomeToAllegedlySaveOthers  #WarCrimes #ChildKillings

No Artificial Scares Needed...

 if you read the newspapers, you know the horrors of everyday life are real enough...

This is a local story -- two years old now -- about how the wilderness that surrounds our urban areas came for a lost young man who had been out drinking, took a wrong turn, and never made it home:

https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/it-has-been-one-year-since-a-minnesota-family-has-seen-or-heard-from-their-son/

Joe Biden Called Us "Garbage"

 Now we're seeing a number of people posting garbage bags on their front lawns and signs saying, "Garbageman reporting for duty!"  Joe Biden should have stepped aside or been content to remain hidden in the shadows...

Unless the Democrats and the media are determined to edge us into another Civil War at home, we really need to stop attacking the "other side".  

Especially during wartime.  "Divided we fall"

#ChangeIsGonnaCome

RIP Teri Garr.

 She was good in the films of my generation, often playing a Mom figure, but funny as hell.  And she didn't get much sexier than those bits on Late Night sparring w/David Letterman, even showering once on set, iirc... Her style of classy femme humor is missed.

Room w/a View.

 

Movin' On Up... to the East Side.

"Ain't It Strange How the Night Moves? ..."

 "... with autumn closing in..."

Happy Saturday. Make it count!

The Famous Final Scene

Gordon Lightfoot - Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald (Official Audio)

This is a good song to open in a few windows and listen to in the round... at different speeds like that. #Haunting

Donald Trump & Karen Walker Sing Green Acres at the 2005 Emmys

Profile of the Man Tasked with Leading the NYT National Political Coverage This Year.

 Hm.

David Halbfinger reflects on his tenure as NYTimes Jerusalem bureau chief

So How Bout the New Yawk Liberty's First Championship?

 Meh.  They got gifted it with help from the refs... be honest!

or, What do Donald Trump and Cheryl Reeve have in common?  "Stolen From Us"

It's hard to complain, after the fact, when you believe the officiating went to your opponent, but sometimes indeed, it happens... Go get em next year, Lynx and voters*!  It's the American way.

Zach Halverson on X: "Gotta love @LynxCoachReeve here, not holding back one bit. #WNBA https://t.co/0j58quDU6C" / X

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* For voters: next year is now. Been a long time coming, these past few years... let's pray everybody is alive and standing still after Election Day...

"I love salt"*

 I'm sorry, but I love that our presidential candidates aren't just going into the food places and interacting anymore, but getting behind the counter and roleplaying working in that industry's workforce...

Bad Hombre on X: "HAPPENING NOW: President Trump is killing it on his first day on the job at McDonalds. Perfectly salted hot crispy fries. https://t.co/DTH2cdGkEI" / X

(lol... He giving the food away, no matter what they ordered, lol... that first guy got as many fries as would fit in the bag... lol... and he is telling everyone how beautiful and good looking they are... I LOVE IT! lol) BREAKING NEWS: Trump Serves Customers At McDonald's Drive-Through In Pennsylvania

I love it!  Put JD in the front-end managing a Walgreens next?? lolol.

And Kamala can be folding sweaters at Benetton (is Bennetton still around?)  and flipping up collars on Izods in the display window.  Tim can work the gun counter at Cabela's...

MORE please! ;-)  Makes my heart happy to seeing the interaction between the working and political castes, with the media -- as always -- standing to the sides watching... heh. Lil voyeur class always trying to write themselves in... "I'm a *fill in the blank* and here's what I think..." As if.

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* I love ketchup!  Lot of salt in ketchup...  Look at us finding common ground... Give him his due, the man is good like that.

Don't knock me for pointing out, we could use skills like that in changing what we've been seeing out of DC and from the uniparty people who have been in charge far far too long, not even roleplaying wanting to know what it is like for other workers...

** "Have a good time!" instead of "Have a good day!"... I like that too. lol

*** "I want more money..." No, just kidding. It's a great franchise.  He is just cracking me up... He owns that drive thru, and enjoyed his 15 minutes of fast-food fame.

"Peace on Earth!" was all it read.

 So the Valley cried with anger, 

Mount your Horses! Draw your Swords! 

and they killed the Mountain people, so they won their just reward...

Now they stood beside the Treasure, on the mountain, dark and red.

Turned the Stone and looked beneath it... 

"Peace on Earth!" was all it read. ...

 There won't be any trumpets blowing, come the Judgement Day, on the bloody morning after,

 One Tin Soldier rides away... (ba-dup-ba-da. ba-dup-bu-da. bu-dup-ba-dup-ba....)

Hunter's Moon in October.

 Harvest Moon was last month...

Know your Native American moon naming and why they called them what they did?  The harvest was last month, now is the time to track prey to have meat for the long winter months...  Good luck to you too.

Let's get these wars ended now so American taxpayers can go and live in peace?  We shouldn't be on the line subsidizing the cleanup *(again) for teh IDF endless destruction...

How will they ever learn to stop behaving like that if the world continually cleans up after them?  No, it's time for the Israeli people to roll up their sleeves and start financially sacrificing for their war aims, I think.  America cannot protect them from consequences forever, and I think we've helped enough by arming them like a good American street gang capable of terrorizing and controlling their turf.

Trouble is, Israel tends to overreach and try to take things that do not belong to her.  And now saddled with the understanding that these people are proud to be Child Killers... this won't end well for them with that mindset, I don't think...

56!

Had a fun birthday in Stillwater , and Lake Elmo!, with some of the people who love me! ;-)

#Blessed.

Neverending War. Who Voted for This??

 Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country and vote these warmongers OUT!

The Jakarta Post

Israel strikes Syrian city, US pounds Huthis in Yemen

"If the Boys Want to Fight, You Better Let Them..."

 The wisest military move for the world right now would be to send armed troops, led by the United States of America, into Israel.  If our "ally" starts firing as the armed troops invade, fire back...

The IDF one day must be tested against another army, prepared and ready. FullyArmed. Mano v mano, with the IDF co-ed staffed if necessary, but I do not think those rules hold in combat. (The women we see on video appear to be there more as comfort troops to the young men, to be honest...)

Give em a fucking man's war already.  Let them fight other armed men. No rock-tossing kids (18 and up are adults, call them teens if you like, but adults); no civilian women; no elders...

Israel has had plenty of years playing "warm up" by pre-emptively attacking other armies, and "mowing the lawn" (their words) multiple times against civilians.

An actual armed army*, complete with the best in the world US military equipment, which will also be used against us in what we have previously supplied our former ally. If Bibi dares fire back in his ongoing suicide mission against the world...

Now let them fight another army, preferably via an invasion of allies.  Call it Operation Tough Love.  Let the Israelis fight back, or accept an international force on "their" soil, with the IDF laying down their weapons and being conscripted...

The Great Rebuild of Gaza, like the Marshall Plan, would then commence...

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#DareToDream #RealSoldiersDoNotKillChildrenForShame

#Manov.Manov.Manov.Manov.Manov.Manov.Manov.Manov...NoNinos

#The21stCenturyHolocaustIsHappening  #NetanyahuUnmaskedAsToday'sHitler

#WillTheWorldContinueToStandByAndWatch...

#WhoIsLeadingTheUSIsJillBiden"InCharge"?JoeSureAin'tUpToMakingCommanderInChiefCalls

#NoConfidence.

Erasure - Love To Hate You (The EIS Christmas Concert 2002) [HD]

"I like to watch a murder mystery... I like to know the killer isn't me~!"

Lol.

1. Trump turned us into a nation of haters. He’ll do it again if he wins next month.

   By Bret Stephens

   Oct. 15, 2024

2. 

   Thomas L. Friedman

   It’s Time for America to Get Real With Iran and Israel

   A real strategy for coercive U.S. diplomacy to change Iran’s behavior.

   By Thomas L. Friedman

   Oct. 15, 2024

Yeah, wake us up when you've got a plan to convince the US Congress -- which allegedly represents the American people -- to put Bibi N and old Israel over its knee for a good, hard spanking, Tom...

You want to... convince Iran to be on better behaviour? Lolol.

Clean up your own house, and come up with a plan now to discipline your own people, Tom.  Has the MSM seen the images on social media? Is the Times still barring their employees from logging onto Twitter and following the discussion there?

I really don't think the old media Israel beat reporters understand how things have shifted... Israel isn't the little guy being bullied anymore.  They're not the skeletal naked figures piled like cordwood in the corner... Congrats, I guess.

The US media and military was unable to convince Bibi's IDF to get into those tunnels and pursue the hostages and Hamas. Instead of performing heroically -- and taking military losses like the American GI's did going in armed only with grenades and flamethrowers into the tunnels under Iwo -- the IDF balked at pursuing the bad guys and instead performed mightily in scorching to death civilians. In hospitals and refugee camps. Alive...

The tide has turned, Tom. If you don't have any good advice for either Israel or the US Congress now, just... take the damn buyout.  Don't end your career shilling for this. History will not judge you kindly either playing at being the judge here.  

The deal is off, God says. You didn't keep the commandments, so you lose the promised land. Your people breached, Tom, and now you're judging o/Others and giving advice? lol.  Wise up. Open your eyes and see what is happening while you advise, sir...

Stephens has children at home still to feed... what's your excuse, Tom?

Lol.

 A good relationship is when your wife is by your side

during the bad times to tell you that none of this would’ve

happened if you had just listened to her...

Will the MSM accept a Trump Win?

Ezra Klein

Ignore the Polls

4 min read  

That's the real Question as the East Coast legacy media like Ezra Klein advocate on, pushing Kamala for Prez.   

(Imagine if the reporters had only been doing their jobs, reporting honestly all along... Kamala would already be president through the backdoor because honest reporting about Joe's condition of being an incapacitated president means he would have stepped down...)

Kamala Harris has never won anything herself on a national stage (she was the "plus-one" VP on the Biden ticket):  it's hard for the political operatives playing in the field of journalism today to see that, as they only know and accept the political views (mostly anti-Trump) of politics-playing people like themselves... 

Americans ain't playin' this election time.

That died with all the childen...

Maureen Dowd

Where Is the Fierce Urgency of Beating Trump?

4 min read

Off the coasts where there is more diversity of value and more people live closer to the earth in a natural state, there's a great distaste for all this destruction and loss of life...  we don't want to be complicit in these crimes; we defend innocent children being slaughtered for nothing; and we know the costs of unending war because we've paid the price in the past...

Life matters here still.

You're free to vote for more Cheney/McCain in the cover of a black woman; we won't because morally we can't, Maureen.  We're not that hard and we don't need more money to live because we are not as  dependent as those on the coasts cut off from the land... and life.  

Praying for you, sister...  wise up before DC is hit?

Troye Sivan - One of Your Girls (Official Video)

Paul Simon - Me and Julio...

I don't care what Liz Cheney learned at her father's knee... this is not wise warfare.

 If you love Israel, tell the truth while there is still time?

Middle East Crisis

• Israel-Hezbollah War
• Maps: Israel’s Invasion of Lebanon
• How Israel Could Attack Iran

Year After Oct. 7 Attack, Israel Faces 4-Front War

Israeli forces exchanged fire with Tehran-backed militants in Gaza, Lebanon, Iran and Yemen on Monday.