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David Weissman, the fake Trump to Warren flipper: language pattern analysis
November 13, 2019 Election 2020, President Trump, Preventing the Collapse of the EmpireSarah Reynolds
Remember that guy who claimed that the "kindness" of Sarah Silverman on twitter caused him not only to drop support for Trump but become a Dem & then declare support for Elizabeth Warren? It's even more ridiculous than it sounds! Let's break it down:
Who is David Weissman and why should I care? you might be asking.
Who he is doesn't matter. It's very unlikely he wrote the post in question (which you can read here) himself. The tone is too varied to indicate one writer anyway (the voice shifts from humble to condescending to patronizing to contrite to patriotic to corporatist faster than Linda Blair on an Exorcist Merry Go Round) so the who isn't relevant. The what is why you should care.
The what?
I said, that's why you should care.
LOL. But seriously, this anti-Trump piece of propaganda — er, I mean, opinion piece — is some heavy duty power of suggestion-based nonsense. The multiple tones of voice are just the beginning! Wait till we get to the word myopic!! LOL!! I'm dying.
The premise is that the author claims he attacked liberal activist Sarah Silverman on twitter, and the fact that she reacted with kindness to him instead of just blocking him caused him to FIRST decide not to support Trump and SECOND to magically become a Democrat! Let's start with the headline (which you can see for yourself here). It states: "In 2016, I was a conservative Trump supporter but I'm backing Elizabeth Warren in 2020. Trump supporters who once knew me now call me a traitor, a sellout, a Dem plant, a fraud — which surprised me because I thought they were friends."
Headlines are great, because they tell us exactly what the writer wants us to walk away thinking in our own mind. The headline is the bright red neon sign that says, "This is the take-away. Not the conclusion you might draw with your own ability to reason and apply logic if you took the time to read the entire article, oh, noooooo. Put your deductive reasoning cap on ebay; you won't be needing that anymore, because instead, I'm going to tell you which conclusion to draw!"
That conclusion? That it's ok — you have permission — to switch from Trump to a Democrat candidate in 2020, just like the writer has, and specifically, to the DNC's pre-annointed victor, Elizabeth Warren. And, by the way, the writer continues, people I thought were my FRIENDS are now calling me mean names!! Trump supporters! Being mean to me!!
Does this sound familiar? Because something similar actually did happen. Many many — to the tune of millions — of Bernie supporters (1 in 10) flipped to Trump in 2016 after he endorsed Hillary. And between 8 and 12 million Obama voters in 2012 magically transformed into Trump voters in 2016. And these people who flipped were then as a consequence ruthlessly mercilessly harassed and shamed and pummeled with insults and hate for months and even years on the internet and at rallies if they went public with that information. Including yours truly, who voted for Obama twice, supported Bernie in the primaries, and switched to Trump after I read his now famous tweet, "Bernie Sanders endorsing Hillary Clinton is like Occupy Wall Street endorsing Goldman Sachs," during the summer of 2016.
The target audience of this propaganda piece is anyone and everyone who flipped to Trump in 2016. And the purpose of the piece is to influence that group of people to flip back.
The ways to get people to do something they would not otherwise do are to give them a reward (for example, a bribe), threaten them with a punishment, or do it in a far more sinister way, such as by using the power of suggestion so that they believe it is something they already want to do and then go ahead and DO it with little resistance. We'll come back to that word BELIEVE (because it is sprinkled liberally throughout the piece).
The "opinion" piece begins:
It's been over a year since I decided to stop supporting President Trump and join the Democratic Party. I have also decided to support Elizabeth Warren in the Democratic primaries. To this day, I am still asked why I made the transition — and I feel that I need to explain why.
I want to ask you a question, dear reader: do we as Americans, or even just as human beings, decide on a certain candidate? Or do we feel desire for a certain candidate? Desire is a powerful word, in terms of the power to influence your action. But the word decide is even more powerful. You might desire neither candidate and subsequently take no action. But if you are repeatedly told to DECIDE, well, that's a whole other area of suggestion. It's a command statement. You have to choose. You have to pick one. You have to take decisive action. You HAVE TO VOTE. DECIDE DECIDE DECIDE. Pick one!!!!!
Lol.*
Deep dive into the word decide:
I never decided on Trump. I was devastated that Bernie had been absolutely robbed of any fair chance to be the Dem nominee and I looked around and saw Trump. And Trump wanted to get us out of Afghanistan, bring back manufacturing jobs (he literally said "I'm for fair trade not free trade" at a rally I was watching live in 2016; as I picked my jaw up off the floor, I was like, holy shit, does this guy have a membership at the co-op too? I'm gonna shit my pants! I could just imagine him and Melania measuring bulk organic rolled oats, "it's tare .37 on that tupperware container" as they approach the register with their cart filled with free range chicken and grass fed beef — LOL), get us out of the TPP (which he did on day one, almost literally day one — I think it was week three), and end endless war. I was like, oh wow. I'm gonna have to look into this guy. I never decided. I DESIRED. And Candidate Trump knew the power of humor too. Read the tweet mentioned above. I was like, omg, this guy wants China to stop fucking our country to death and he's funny as hell. Interesting! (We'll get to some of the things he said that I didn't agree with later, but I want to note here that I would fight and die in a war against China tonight if it mean ridding the world of their sick communist sadistic torture regime.)
So why does this overt piece of anti-Trump propaganda use the word "decide"? Because its target audience is the undecided voter, not the passionate desire-filled voter. Let's go to the next paragraph:
I was a conservative activist and writer for a couple of years prior to the 2016 election. I decided to do this because I felt threatened by Democrats, and I believed that they wanted to take our rights away — rights like freedom of religion, and speech. I believed Islam was a religion of terror. I believed Democrats wanted to destroy the sanctity of marriage. I had a myopic view of the second amendment, without seeing its full context. I condemned socialism and abortion. I wanted a wall to stop immigrants from "invading" America.
I was originally a Ted Cruz supporter
Again with the "I decided" seed being planted (over and over) in your mind. But anyone who knows conservatives (and you're talking to NOT one; I'm a pro-choice, pro-$15/hour minimum wage voter as well as being a pro-America FIRST policy, pro-gun voter) knows that certain views are non-negotiable. Conservatives are often religious. Let's use deductive reasoning to figure out if this David Weissman character is probably one of them. He says "I condemned abortion" in the past tense. People who condemn abortion are almost always religious. They believe that abortion is murder because it stops a beating heart. If he condemned abortion, then we can safely conclude that he is probably a religious conservative (and not just fiscally conservative as many Independent voters are). What would be the reason he changed his mind on the abortion issue? Because Trump? Doesn't quite pass the logic smell test, does it? Let's say–for the sake of argument–that there is a person somewhere who was pro-life who switched to pro-choice later in life: I'd bet money that there are a few. Ok. But the author of this article? Who ostensibly supported Ted Cruz? A simple google search reveals Cruz's political positions:
But if a person were against legal abortion, are they going to become pro-choice and stop condemning abortion because … twitter? No, if the Republican candidate is not someone they can morally support, they're going to hold their nose and vote for the pro-choice candidate anyway, as many of my Catholic friends did in 2008. It's almost as if the team writing this piece of propaganda doesn't know how to create a fake profile of a voter that is based on any semblance of reality. The portrait of this fictional flipper — er, I mean, very real human being named David Weissman — could just as easily have been of a fiscal conservative instead of a religious conservative who flips from Trump to Warren and it would have sold marginally better. And that is to say, still poorly!** OR, they could have left the abortion issue out of the article completely. Or the author could have said, "I remain pro-life but it's not the most important issue for me." Or any number of variations that would have made SENSE.
Same weird inconsistency with condemning socialism; that wouldn't change either. (And why is this article trying to plant the seed of the idea that ANYONE should be ok with socialism? Hmmm? Let's ALL condemn socialism.) And how about destroying the sanctity of marriage as between one man and one woman? Again, you're talking to someone (me, Sarah) who believes gay marriage should be legal (but PSA: there are only 2 genders) especially since forbidding it hurts straight women, because as long as society condemns homosexuality, there will be those few gay men who will entrap an unsuspecting woman in a loveless marriage and use her as a beard while he has affairs with men. I love gay marriage. Marriage is a legally binding contract that says one sexual partner for the REST OF YOUR LIFE. It's the ultimate cross fit class, the ultimate test of endurance and commitment. I dare you to get married. Straight or gay. I dare you to TRY to find someone you love so much you are willing to agree to only have sex with them till the day you die. I triple dog DARE you. (If you're really feeling brave, may I suggest opening a joint checking account! HAHAHAHA! I'm not laughing at you. I'm crying with you.)
But I digress. The point is, a religious conservative person is not going to change on the gay marriage issue either. Again, they might stop liking Trump and go support a different Conservative, but to switch to a Democrat? I mean, the proposition is silly! And briefly, to touch on radical Islamic terrorism, that's an unfortunate reality of life on Earth at this moment in time. Who doesn't know that? How odd. Why did the propagandists "go there"? Plus, feminists morally oppose the hijab and female genital mutilation: all my female Boomer friends who tried to talk me out of voting for Trump (they voted for Hillary) think that the oppression of women inherent in radical Islam is deplorable. Bringing this issue up was unwise in this forum, to put it mildly. And you know why, my conservative friends, don't you. Because conservative women — and every conservative man I've met and talked to about this issue while at the MAGA meetups I've attended — think that the oppression of women inherent in radical Islam is deplorable! Oh, what's that? Common ground? Gee whiz! Who'd a thunk it! Propagandists, in your next piece, just don't even go there. Really.
And it gets better! And even more absurd. I mentioned my religious friends who usually vote Republican but held their nose for a pro-choice candidate in '08 thinking Obama would end the endless war (and death). Did you notice that NO WHERE in this article is the word Republican mentioned? No where. Not once. As I've mentioned in my previous blogposts, the three elements of communication are: the words that are coming out of the person's mouth, what they're really saying, and what's not being said, i.e. what has been specifically omitted. And it's the third category that can be most revealing. We get to ask, why were you afraid to say "Republican," Mr. Weissman? You want people who voted REPUBLICAN in 2016 to not vote REPUBLICAN in 2020, but no where in the entire article do you utter the word? Why? Because the piece is purely an attack on MAGA, the movement to end endless war and crony capitalism that ships our jobs to China, Mexico and other countries and bring back union jobs that pay middle class salaries to hard working Americans. I am a Trump supporter. I'm not a Republican and I've never been a Democrat. This article is an attack on ME and the 8 million people who voted for Obama in 2012 and flipped to Trump in 2016.*** That's why Mr. Weissman never uses the word "Republican." But he uses the word MAGA. Several times.
Here's how we know the piece is an attack on MAGA, this quote:
The insults continue to this day, but when it happened during that initial learning period [after the author supposedly spontaneously, and not as part of a pre-planned psychological operation, began a public discourse on twitter with liberal celebrity Sarah Silverman], it snapped me out of my MAGA trance. I saw how Trump thrives on this behavior, and that's when I decided to no longer be part of MAGA.
This article is designed to paint the MAGA movement, the effort to drain the swamp, in a bad light. The effort to bring back manufacturing jobs? Imply that one would have to be in a trance to want that! The effort to end endless war? What have you been smoking? We're in a trance to want jobs that have benefits and pay enough money to raise a family, and God forbid we want a national budget less bloated than a good year blimp. We must be hypnotized!! "I decided to no longer be a part of MAGA." Again, the word decide. As we read a first person narrative, our mind automatically internalizes what the writer is saying as its own thoughts; only a very strong moral compass makes you simultaneously react, "whoa, this is some fucked up shit right here, yo." The weak mind will not resist the "decide" command statement and the "I decided against MAGA" suggestion that is being given.
And no attempt to establish rapport with the MAGA tribe would be complete without inserting the phrase "fake news" somewhere in the piece:
After a couple of years of defending Trump and calling media that portrayed him in a bad light "fake news" — which was a thing before Trump — I had a conversation that changed my approach on social media.
Wow, "which was a thing before Trump," B T W. F Y S A. Oh, we didn't know that? We the reader are too ignorant to know that fake news didn't take its first stroll down the escalator in 2015 (only to fall flat on its face at the feet of President Trump)? Gee, thanks for enlightening us. We would never have known that without you educating us. It's an example of the patronizing tone I mentioned at the beginning, and only something a CNN/CNBC/MSM fan would feel compelled to point out — Fox News "fair and balanced" watchers have always wanted real news and known of the dearth of fair and balanced news sources. This is something an intern who googled "origin of the phrase fake news" as part of her research for ghostwriting this piece for Weissman would say. Now, let's peel back one more layer. The writer is admitting that the media is portraying Trump in a bad light instead of a factual unbiased light! (That was a slip-up.)
Then suddenly the article takes on a fake-humble tone …
I realized I had always been aggressive and mean. I wanted to force my views on people. There was never a debate — I used insults and ad hominem attacks.
These tactics didn't get me anywhere.
… as if the author is confessing to us, "I realized …" and the unspoken, "I confess that …" I used insults. But if the writer had truly wanted to create empathy, they would have apologized. They would include a "saw the light" statement, following up "these tactics didn't get me anywhere" with something like, "and I'm sorry I hurt people I didn't even know with things I wish I hadn't said" or something along those lines. Because the author(s) is in no way humble, and in no way self-reflective, and in no way sorry for anything, these words are omitted. Ironically, the entire paragraph comes off as an extended insult ("Trump supporters are aggressive and mean, force their views on others, use insults and ad hominem attacks — I'm no longer a Trump supporter, er go I no longer have these personality traits"). And we all know how well insults work to change someone's mind! (The irony!) But let's get totally real: people who are aggressive and mean don't stop being aggressive and mean when they switch political parties. They just become aggressive and mean about the new party. Is this news? This article acts like the author found Jesus, not Elizabeth Warren.
Here's another slip-up; read this (unintentionally) sweetly complimentary description of POTUS:
Trump wanted the same things I wanted, so I thought he was an easy choice for President of the United States. I really believed Trump was a patriotic, successful businessman, who cared about all Americans, and that sold me on voting for him. I was aware he wasn't a saint, but I felt no one is perfect and anyway, conservative news networks kept calling Hillary a criminal.
No one is perfect! Ain't that the truth. What a healthy sense of self and others the author is pretending to have! But uh oh … here comes the sinister reveal.
At the time, I didn't realize who Trump really was.
Yes, that's right: you, dear reader, are not smart enough to see who Trump really is. You need Mr. Weissman to tell you. And then to tell you The Truth about Hillary and Obama.
Here's who Trump really is, according to Weissman:
but then the Helsinki meeting with Putin came. I saw how he, the President of the United States, made himself vulnerable to Putin and Russia, agreeing to closed-door meetings and being recorded by our adversaries. What kind of president would do such a thing? When I saw someone tweeted a clip of the debate between Hillary Clinton and Trump where she called Trump a puppet of Putin, I was stunned. I now believe she was right. This is not the guy who I voted for, and yet it is. That was the moment when I decided I was no longer a Trump supporter. I went back over years of his corruption, lies and draft-dodging. My whole world was turned upside-down.
Is this the best they've got? Helsinki? The non-event that happened over a year ago? Putin hands Trump a soccer ball and says, "the ball is now in your court" in an OBVIOUS attempt to deliver Trump a message in a concealed way so that the message would not be intercepted by anyone in POTUS' immediate circle and all of a sudden Trump's a puppet to this guy? All diplomatic meetings are surveilled and recorded by the government of the country they're being held in — LOL. I mean LMAO. Seeing that part of the clip from the debates changed Weissman's mind? It's laughably unrealistic. And yep, Putin's a mean dick. And? How long have you lived on earth? You didn't know that mean dicks fill power vacuums? Well, welcome to the shithole war planet. Here's your accordion. (Old Far Side joke — ode to Gary Larson.) When mean dicks have nuclear weapons, you play nice so they don't blow up the planet. Now go get a mirror. And don't you TOTALLY wonder what was inside the soccer ball? I heard from this guy Comey once during a press conference that Hillary's lawyers used a scrubbing software to wipe her emails from US State Department computers. In the same press conference, the guy Comey — oh yeah, he was like the FBI director at the time, omg — he totally said foreign actors had accessed her emails because the server in her bathtub at her house in NY was like totally NOT secured (yes, it was like LITERALLY IN HER BATHTUB – I know right?!?). But what if Russia had TOTALLY read all the emails and was like, lol, I heard it was your birthday, President Trump, here's a flash drive buried inside a soccer ball with ALL her emails, yeah we made a copy — I know, you didn't expect that, you thought we would just skim the subject lines but no, we actually printed them out too and bound them in a fun spiral bound book cover and laminated it, you know those fun laminating machines from the 80's? Well, here you go — Putin heard a rumor Trump was a mean dick with access to nuclear weapons and this was his way of saying, please don't blow up the planet! Hashtag GLASNOST!!!
So a couple of things. I hope you saw the humor in the previous paragraph, is probably number 1. Second, there's a lot of gray area on earth. But this article reeks of black and white thinking. Yeah, Russia is our adversary. They're also a nuclear power. Russia is a beautiful country with beautiful people with a shitty government. (Oh, is it mirror time again?) Freedom is hard. Half the people eligible to vote in our country don't even show up on election day. "I don't have time" and "I don't think my vote matters" are the odd things I hear come out of the mouths of people who lack gratitude and reverence for their freedom. Elections have consequences, as former President Obama said. That they do. One lives in the White House right now. You know why? Because math. Votes are counted. Did anyone think the Berlin Wall was going to fall and Russia was going to be like, "oh, yeah, we're totally cool with less geographical territory now that we're not the USSR"? Sometimes the best we can hope for is peace but the most we can actually get is an absence of war. A little diplomacy goes a loooooong way. (Lol, did you know there is no gayness in Russia? True story!) Do you know why you don't even remember Helsinki? Because nothing happened. Seriously. Anderson Cooper practiced his method acting skills in an attempt to display Shock and Chagrin, and a couple people on twitter pretended they had a heart attack, but really, two world leaders talked about politics, and maybe, MAYBE IF WE'RE LUCKY, we'll get to find out what was so controversial in those State Dept emails that good people, career public servants, risked their jobs and security clearances and freedom (from JAIL) to cover for Madam Secretary. All because the Russians are nosy mo-fo's! (Although, if it's a nosiness contest, well then ….)
Trump is strong and scary, the quintessential Alpha male. That's who he "really" is. He will stop at nothing to protect the United States of America and her people from danger. Period. Putin and Hillary are Alphas too. These aren't "nice" people. Who do you want protecting your tribe? Nice or scary as hell?
But this article purports to tell us The Truth about Hillary and Obama too — again, because you aren't smart enough to figure it out yourself. It should go without saying that anyone who tells you that they have The Truth, and that The Truth is ______ is full of The Bullshit. (Biggest red flag in the article — it's almost as if they want this article to reinforce existing support for Trump!). Mr. Weissman says:
I learned the truth about President Obama, Hillary Clinton and other top Democrats. I have learned of all the good they have done for our country. They are not twisted, evil people who wanted to destroy America from the inside. All they wanted to do was to help move our country forward
What does "move forward" mean? Linguistically, it's nebulous — it could mean getting out of a rut or not standing still, but in contrast to "make America great again" which indicates going back to the way it was before NAFTA/WTO and twenty years of endless war, "move forward" clearly implies that going back is wrong and moving forward is right. Attacking MAGA is a divide and conquer strategy since it was THEE thing that united conservative voters and independent voters and old school union dems.
I would argue that those people were voting for MAGA, the idea, not Trump, the man, whereas people who voted for Hillary were voting for the woman, not the policies she represented. And as far as "the truth" about her and other "top democrats" that Mr. Weissman claims to have learned, what good was it that they did for our country? That's a big claim. The author presents no evidence to back it up. Weissman says Trump was corrupt and dodged the draft, but we the American people aren't looking at anything but the actions of the LAST THREE YEARS that affect us personally. And we see factory jobs coming back, factories coming back that help middle class families and communities, prison sentence reform that helps Black families, finally someone fighting China back on their currency devaluation and intellectual copyright violations and flooding our US market with deadly fentanyl. And more. The list goes on and on and on. At the top of it? Average increase of $5,000 a year per family in income. I mean, that's so awesome (thank you, President Trump!).
"The average median income under President Bush rose only $400 over an 8-year period. Under President Obama, it rose $975 over an 8-year period…And under my administration, it rose $5,000 over slightly more than just 2 1/2 years. That's a big difference." – @realDonaldTrump pic.twitter.com/wq4K7wrldn
— Trump War Room (Text TRUMP to 88022) (@TrumpWarRoom) November 12, 2019
Hillary Clinton asked rhetorically, "What difference at this point does it make?" when being questioned about Benghazi. She said of Gaddafi, "We came, he saw, he died" and laughed strangely. These cringe-worthy moments were horrifying to me as a student of body language and speech patterns. But to my liberal friends who voted for her, it was so embarrassing for them to recall those moments that they would come up blank when I mentioned it to them. They would say, "How can you vote for Trump when he says "grab 'em by the pussy"? And I would say, "because it was said around all guys and men talk using language far worse than that and he had no idea he was being recorded. We all might be embarrassed by words we said in confidence. Hillary doesn't even realize how awful she sounds when she KNOWS she's being filmed, and broadcast live, and she can't even reflect on how insensitive it sounded to gleefully cackle about Gaddafi or throw her hands up and ask what difference does it make when she and Obama are personally responsible for the attack on the compound in Benghazi. Yuck! I'm embarrassed FOR her!"
My friends couldn't argue. Why? Because essentially we were in agreement: both Trump and Hillary had said things that were embarrassing. The "she's so qualified" argument, I noticed, was often used by those who couldn't confront how uncomfortable it makes people to observe Hillary Clinton's social ineptitude: how patronizing, how smug, how arrogant and how out of touch she comes across as. Furthermore, Hillary Clinton was treated as if she were literally above the law. Her lawyers wiped her server (like with a cloth? No, with bleachbit) so that thousands of those emails would never see the light of day. Obama knew about it, indeed, aided and abetted it, and participated in it by replying to her non-government email address. And the FBI director didn't care. What good DID Obama do? I can think of many broken promises but I can't think of anything he actually accomplished that Trump isn't undoing as we speak (Affordable Care Act, etc). When I think of Obama, I hear him saying, "The jobs aren't coming back. There's no magic wand." And you know what I think? I think, what a prick.
AND I CAN'T WAIT TO VOTE FOR TRUMP ALL OVER AGAIN! Make America Great Again! Awesome union manufacturing jobs, come (back) to mama!
President @realDonaldTrump: "Past leaders wrote off American manufacturing as dead but their policies were the ones that were actually killing it"
"America is now gaining over 10,000 brand new, beautiful factories." pic.twitter.com/vzqYWXJ7SN
Let's wrap this up with a few more indicators that Weissman's piece is purely political propaganda and not an authentic conversion of heart narrative.
As I began conversing with Silverman, other people began reaching out to me. I started learning more about Democratic values and people. In many ways, it was shocking.
"In many ways, it was shocking" … why, because you were living under a rock? You never heard of a living wage before? Government funded healthcare? You never heard of that even though Canada has it and Obama wanted a public option in 2008 and Hillary pushed for single payer in 1994? LOL. We might have been born at night. Not last night. Conservatives call it the nanny state. Again, "it was shocking to find out I had so much in common with people I would have disagreed with a year earlier" makes sense. He doesn't say that. "In many ways, it was shocking," which is what he did say, comes off as juvenile. It's almost as if someone edited the piece to shorten it and went too far.
What [Silverman] did was inspire me to talk to other people who had different views to mine. She accepted me for being a Trump supporter and that's what brought down my wall of hate and closed mind.
The "wall of hate" imagery is being used to plant the idea of the border wall, as in Build the Wall, is a wall of hate, and not a very real physical barrier against criminals trying to break into the back door of our house-country. Being accepted exactly as we are, warts and all, IS an extremely powerful precursor to transformation. But again, insulting Trump supporters by telling them they are filled with hate and have closed minds? Not going to change their minds. (The same irony as above, using a story of acceptance to shame someone for being different … so strange.)
Ok, read this one: this is the best deep state co-authored part of the WHOLE piece. LOL, I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!
I maintained a myopic view on the right to bear arms, and believed that Democrats want to take all of your guns — but I've learned from the conversations I've had since that that's far from true. I learned that while the second amendment states that we have the right to bear arms, it should be within the confines of a well-regulated militia. The history of an AR-15 makes it clear that it was meant to be a weapon of war. There's no reason why a civilian should own weapons that are only meant for combat.
How many times is the intern — er I mean, Weissman — going to say, "I've learned"? Again, you the reader are being educated (yeah, RE-educated). Myopic literally means stupid. It means, "lacking intellectual insight." Yep, "I maintained my stupid view on guns." That's not insulting! Not at all! How about this? "I maintained my low IQ view on the right to bear arms." So here's how we know this was always a propaganda piece. The AR-15 is NOT a weapon of war. But let's say it is. For the sake of argument. This deep state tool/pawn says that he learned that "there's no reason why a civilian should own weapons that are only meant for combat." Oh, yes, sadly, there is a reason, a horrifying one indeed. It's in case our government ever got so corrupt that we had to have another revolution. A revolution is a WAR. Which is why the Founders wrote the Second Amendment: to protect our right to be fully and sufficiently armed. In case we ever had to fight against our own government the way we had to in 1776 — via a WAR. Pray to God every day that we never have to do this. Revolutions are horrible: years of bloody filthy despair, dirty water, starving children, rape in the streets. Revolution is WAR. Please don't ever throw this word around in casual speech (like Bernie Sanders does, unfortunately). Revolution is a very specific type of fight: pray that fate never calls you to such a battle. Because it will end in death even if it ends in victory. Bottom line? No conservative flips on this issue. Many liberal Dems love guns and the Second Amendment. You don't have to be liberal or conservative to love guns. You just have to love your country. To the literal death. So get real. And then get thee to a gun show.
Next piece of BS:
I also learned that seeking asylum is a human right, and that immigrants who are fleeing for their lives deserve it. Yet, the Trump administration is inhumanely violating this right by separating families at the border.
Wrong. Obama separated kids from adults in their "families" at the borders first. It was one of a few good things he did that Trump has continued. Go bury your head in the sand if you don't want to learn about human trafficking. In the past — prior to Obama past — DHS agents were more likely to release families with children than someone with no child after they were detained for crossing the border into the United States from Mexico illegally. OH DOES THIS CREATE AN INCENTIVE TO LITERALLY RENT A CHILD IN ORDER TO MANIPULATE BORDER AGENTS INTO RELEASING "FAMILIES"? Why, yes! You want to know what it costs to rent a child on average? $130. Now, what's the value you would appraise your child at? Little bit higher? Oh, come now, it's only for a few weeks! Yeah, go jump off a cliff, you CHILD TRAFFICKING ENABLING SICKOS. And thank you, President Trump for having DHS DNA test these "asylum seekers" to see if they are actually related to the children they are using as props. Oh, you didn't like the link to Breitbart as evidence? How about this link to a CBS article about it from 2014? Oh look, inflation hasn't caused the price of A HUMAN BEING CHILD to go up. Aside: Yes, seeking asylum is considered to be a human right. A request can be made at any official port of entry. But the use of the word "human right" is not a phrase a conservative would use. They might use the phrase "natural right," "God-given right" or "Constitutionally protected" but they are generally highly sensitive to using any language that implies entitlement and often avoid saying the word "deserve." YES, opinions change. Speech patterns — in an adult person over the age of 25 whose brain has completely finished growing — don't. A person, of any political persuasion, is very unlikely to start using words that their core values and morals have compelled them not to use for years. The authors of this piece of hogwash weren't even trying to sound believable.
This next part sticks out like a sore thumb:
Barack Obama constantly talked about empathy, the need for us to put ourselves in other people's shoes. My journey is ongoing.
Then the author goes on to say, "I've learned what Islam is really about and all the good Muslims have done for America" and how similar Christianity and Judaism and Islam are. Fair enough, they're all three abrahamic religions, but why bring up Obama? Why? I supported Obama for 8 years and I don't remember him "constantly" talking about empathy or putting ourselves in other people's shoes. And again, why the Obama puff piece? Is something bad about to come out about him? What does Obama's soaring rhetoric from 2012 have to do with Elizabeth Warren running for President in 2020?
Next piece of BS, the closing statement by this so-called Elizabeth Warren supporter.
Do I agree with all of her policies? Absolutely not. But even with my disagreements, I believe she is the most put-together candidate to move our country forward.
Move our country forward? Again, the antithesis to Making America Great AGAIN (going back) is moving forward. And "put together"? That's a reason we vote for people? No, that's the reason we hire them to be a pharmaceutical company sales rep. "She was so polished and professional and put-together." LOL, these people should write for SNL and Make SNL Funny Again! Put together. (Shakes head, maternally, with a mix of amusement and pity.) No one ever won a presidency because they were put together.
SO: was this thing written by a DIA intern over the summer? Do I get a prize for guessing right? LOL, did General John "Guilty as Charged" Kelly help edit it? Wait, was he like, "be sure to use the word myopic twice in reference to the Second Amendment"?? Because I want to really get this straight: we're supposed to believe a Ted Cruz supporter would flip to Trump … and then to the Democratic Party and then …. to Elizabeth Warren? Really???????????????????
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***FROM the "American National Election Studies' 2016 Time Series Study"
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From every corner of India, people have been commenting that the Comedy Nights Live is flop compare to Comedy Nights with Kapil. However, I am going to watch it and support it. The reason is very simple. When every one is behind stars, there are very few people who are behind good people. They just do good work without reaching at that stardom and Krushna Abhishek is such an example.
Men are not on the earth just to rule or to make biceps. They are to protect and give the confidence in women. It is easy to work with Sunny Leone or Ekta Kapoor or Katrina, but there will be very few people who will work with a healthy girl like Bharti Singh. Even Dilip Kumar refused to work in the film "Pyasa" because Vahida Rehman was newcomer. Guru Dutta had the courage but Bollywood gave all respect and stardom to Dilip Kumar. I feel great when I watch his combination with Bharti.
While John left Bipasha after 5-6 years of living relationship, this guy married his girlfriend Kashmira Shah after 7 years of living relationship. Talent is everywhere from Kasmir to Kanyakumari in India, but we lack character. I love this guy Krushna even if he is not as talented as Kapil.


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How the Texas Attorney General Assists the Child Support Program
According to its mission statement, the Texas Attorney General's Child Support Division assists custodial parents to obtain financial assistance that would help cater to the needs of their child. The Attorney General has the authority to establish the paternity of children and establishes all court orders pertaining to child support.
The Attorney General also encourages the involvement of both parents in the upbringing of a child and conducts various programs through schools, hospitals, and community groups to promote that idea. All activities that are conducted by the Child Support Division are designed to address the three major priorities of the agency: children, collections, and customer services.
Like other states, many parents in Texas are either at the paying or receiving end of child support, but not all of them are fully aware of their rights and responsibilities as parents. The Attorney General's Office helps in this regard by clearly stating the rights and responsibilities of a parent in relation to child support on its website along with also answering numerous other questions that a parent may have regarding child support.
According to the program, a parent has three basic rights pertaining to child support:
All personal information about a parent, including physical address, is kept confidential
The agency will provide timely and professional customer service to parents
The agency will always submit a written inquiry or complaint regarding a case
Similarly, there are certain responsibilities that a parent has in regards to child support:
A parent should have all documents in order
A parent should appear in court when ordered
A parent should comply with court orders and provide support to a child
A parent should notify the Attorney General's office about any changes in the contact information
Another important point to note here is that per state and federal laws, the Attorney General's Office is entrusted with establishing and enforcing child support orders and that the Attorney General represents the state and cannot represent an individual who has filed a child support claim. For individual representation and other related queries, a parent may consider retaining an attorney.
Source: https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/child-support
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The Corning Museum of Glass is a totally not-for-profit educational institution dedicated to educating the public about glass and glassmaking. The Museum was renovated and enlarged in 1999 to include an extensive Glassmarket where guests can purchase art glass, glass jewelry, books on glass and consumer glass products. There is also a large area with science-related items and toys for children.
As part of the renovation and expansion, a new Innovation Center was also opened in 1999. Families can see how glass changes the world in this award-winning, state-of-the-art, interactive science and technology exhibit. Highlights include a 200" telescope blank, submarine periscope, flight simulator mirror, walk-on glass floor, optical fiber exhibit, and 15 films on glass innovations.
There are also several glassmaking experiences for families to enjoy. The Hot Glass Show is a live, narrated, hot glassblowing demonstration complete with overhead monitors allowing families to see every step of the process. Flameworking Live is a demonstration in which glass artists flamework glass rods into intricate shapes. The Walk-in Workshop is a favorite among all our guests. For a small fee, one can try hot glassblowing, glassworking, flameworking, fusing, and sandblasting. Visitors can blow a roman bottle, sculpt a glass flower, make a glass bead, or create a unique design to decorate a drinking glass.
In addition to all of these attractions, the new facility includes the Glassmarket Caf� and Coffee Bar. These two eateries offer a full menu of specialty food items, as well as a selection of regional wines.
Open: The Museum is open daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. From July 1 through Labor Day, the hours of operation are 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. The Museum is closed January 1, Thanksgiving, December 24, and 25.
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SpaceX Successfully Tests Crew Dragon Landing Parachutes
The spacecraft will first splash down in the ocean under parachutes, but SpaceX wants to land it on solid ground.
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If you happen to live in the desert near Coolidge, Ariz. and saw something red and white falling from the sky recently, don't be alarmed.
It wasn't a UFO — it was just SpaceX testing out the parachute system it plans to use to land its manned Crew Dragon spacecraft back on Earth. The private spacecraft maker recently conducted its first successful test of the system as part of its final development and certification work with NASA's Commercial Crew Program, the space agency announced Wednesday.
SpaceX, which is working with NASA to build a spacecraft that will take astronauts to the ISS, carried out the test with a "mass simulator" that replicates the weight and shape of the spacecraft, connected to four red-and-white parachutes. The team released the simulated Crew Dragon and parachute system from thousands of feet above the ground from a C-130 cargo aircraft.
The test was meant to evaluate the four main parachutes, but did not include the so-called drogue chutes the full landing system will utilize.
SpaceX Just Misses Third Water Landing
"Later tests will grow progressively more realistic to simulate as much of the actual conditions and processes the system will see during an operational mission," NASA said.
The idea is that the spacecraft will initially splash down to safety in the ocean under parachutes. SpaceX ultimately, however, wants to land the vessel upright on solid ground using eight SuperDraco engines. The company tested its propulsive landing system in Texas this past November.
For a peek at the parachute test, check out the video below.
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Home Arts & Entertainment	Figuring Out What Matters
Figuring Out What Matters
written by Brent Marchant April 21, 2010
Musician-turned-carpenter Roger Greenberg (Ben Stiller, left) and personal assistant Florence Marr (Greta Gerwig, right) attempt to maneuver their way through an awkward and unlikely romance in the new drama, "Greenberg." Photo by Wilson Webb, courtesy of Focus Features.
"Greenberg" (2010). Cast: Ben Stiller, Greta Gerwig, Rhys Ifans, Mark Duplass, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Merritt Wever, Chris Messina, Susan Traylor, Brie Larson, Juno Temple, Dave Franco, Zach Chassler, Mina Badie. Director: Noah Baumbach. Screenplay: Noah Baumbach. Story: Jennifer Jason Leigh and Noah Baumbach. www.focusfeatures.com/film/greenberg
As we wend our way through life, many of us face numerous challenges for managing our daily existence. Each of the tests we encounter can be difficult enough in themselves, but imagine what it would be like if we were fundamentally incapable of getting a handle on what's truly vital in life or being able to materialize those essentials. Such is the lot of the title character in the disquieting new drama, "Greenberg."
Roger Greenberg (Ben Stiller) is a seriously lost soul. The former musician-turned-carpenter has trouble with everyday existence. He spends much of it adrift in life's minutiae, an obsession that regularly launches him into incoherent stream of consciousness ramblings or angry rants, either verbally or in letter form. It's a pattern of behavior that probably helped land him in the mental institution from which he recently emerged. But now that Roger's back in mainstream society, his challenge is to figure out what's next, a daunting prospect for a 40-year-old who feels life is pointlessly passing him by.
Forty-something Roger Greenberg (Ben Stiller, center) attempts to find a new direction in his life while partying with twenty-somethings like Muriel (Juno Temple, left) in the quirky new drama, "Greenberg." Photo by Wilson Webb, courtesy of Focus Features.
As a start, Roger agrees to leave his New York home and travel to Los Angeles to house-sit for his brother Phillip (Chris Messina), who's embarking on a lengthy trip abroad with his family. While in L.A., Roger's told he can call upon Phillip's capable but somewhat spacey twenty-something personal assistant, Florence Marr (Greta Gerwig), if he needs anything, an offer that quickly spawns an often-awkward rollercoaster romance. Roger's visit also allows him to reconnect with his former band mates, Ivan (Rhys Ifans) and Beller (Mark Duplass), as well as an old flame, Beth (Jennifer Jason Leigh), all of whom have moved on with their lives while Roger has stayed emotionally and psychologically stuck in place, a realization that reinforces (and sometimes even empowers) his sense of isolation and inability to progress. Nothing seems to give Roger the inspiration he needs to get on with his life, but, given his scattered and perpetually discontented state of mind, there's no guarantee he'd even be able to recognize said spark if it were to appear. So what's someone to do as the years pile up and life marches ever forward? That's Roger's burden as he grapples with the life he wasn't expecting (nor wanted).
Taken at face value, "Greenberg" might seem like a frustrating film to watch, mainly because it comes across as an unfocused story about a self-absorbed misfit. But if viewers go beyond its surface qualities, they'll find a very different—and very engaging—picture, one that's effective at conveying an important (and potentially unsettling) message: If merely seeing a character engaging in a life of apparent futility makes one squirm, then imagine what it must be like to be someone who lives out such an existence. That might be an especially uneasy prospect if it hits close to home, particularly given the degree of authenticity with which it's depicted here.
Reconnecting with former band mate Ivan Schrank (Rhys Ifan, left) is one of the ways lost soul Roger Greenberg (Ben Stiller, right) seeks to bring meaning back into his life in "Greenberg." Photo by Wilson Webb, courtesy of Focus Features.
The movie thereby illustrates just how crucial it is to have an understanding of conscious creation/law of attraction principles for managing the basic functioning of day-to-day existence. If we were to lack such an innate awareness about the workings of life, we'd likely wander through it just as aimlessly and embittered as Roger does. And since he seems unable to grasp even the rudiments of the process, he's consequently unable to assemble the most basic belief platform necessary for creating the foundation of a meaningful existence. Instead, he defaults to his inability to work the process, which only brings him more of what he's already accustomed to, as well as peers (like Florence) who seem to be just as intrinsically clueless as he is. What's worse, these circumstances even lead him to frequently proclaim that he's intentionally seeking to create nothing out of his life, a defensive reaction to this fundamental failing. It's almost as if he's creating a Seinfeld-esque existence, only without the laugh track. It's all so very sad.
Viewers who grasp these notions should be able to see the debilitating difficulty involved in a condition like this, and that, in turn, should help increase awareness of the need for compassion for those so affected. Recall what I noted previously about trying to imagine what it might be like if the shoe were on the other foot: If you were to find yourself in the thick of such circumstances, wouldn't you want compassionate souls in your life to help show you the way out of your dilemma rather than to simply label you as demented, maladjusted or pathologically narcissistic? (I sure would.)
Old flames Roger (Ben Stiller, left) and Beth (Jennifer Jason Leigh, right) experience a chance encounter in director Noah Baumbach's latest release, "Greenberg." Photo by Wilson Webb, courtesy of Focus Features.
"Greenberg" is definitely not everyone's cinematic cup of tea. Those who prefer pictures that are plot-driven, rather than character-driven (as is the case here), are likely to be disappointed. What's more, those expecting a Ben Stiller comedy (as the film's somewhat misleading trailer would seem to imply) will likely be disappointed as well, for there are few genuine laughs this picture.
With all that said, however, there's a lot here for moviegoers who enjoy the unconventional. Director/screenwriter Noah Baumbach shows us, rather than merely tells us, what he's trying to say, a rich, nuanced approach to filmmaking seldom seen in many of today's neat, tidy, formulaic productions. The overall style reminds me of the works of Robert Altman, many of whose pictures focused more on developing characters rather than story lines, often with the same degree of quirkiness found here. Also, it's nice to see Stiller play a role where he isn't a walking punch line as has often been the case in many of his other movies. He turns in a capable performance in a rare dramatic turn, something I hope he attempts more of in the future.
"Greenberg" is the kind of movie that should help well-adjusted viewers be grateful for what they have. Seeing the greenery from the other side of the fence might be just what it takes to care for one's own lawn in the first place—and to be happy with the grass that's already growing there.
Copyright © 2010, by Brent Marchant. All rights reserved.
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A lifelong movie fan and longtime student of metaphysics (with an emphasis in law of attraction/conscious creation principles), free-lance writer/editor Brent Marchant is the author of Get the Picture: Conscious Creation Goes to the Movies (Moment Point Press, www.momentpoint.com, available in soft cover and Kindle formats). His additional writing credits include contributions to www.beliefnet.com and to Divine Revolution, Sethnet Journal and Reality Change magazines. Brent also maintains an ongoing blog about metaphysical cinema at www.getthepicturebrentmarchant.blogspot.com, which includes listings for the internet and broadcast radio shows on which he frequently appears as a guest. He holds a B.A. in magazine journalism from Syracuse University and resides in Chicago. You can email him at brentmarchant@momentpoint.com.
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A lifelong movie fan and longtime metaphysics student, Brent Marchant is the author of "Get the Picture?!: Conscious Creation Goes to the Movies" and "Consciously Created Cinema: The Movie Lover's Guide to the Law of Attraction," both of which look at how conscious creation (a.k.a. the law of attraction) is illustrated through film. Brent also maintains a blog on the subject through his web site (www.BrentMarchant.com) and is a contributor to Smart Women's Empowerment, New Consciousness Review. The Good Radio Network and Library Journal. Follow Brent's writings on Twitter, Facebook, Google+, GoodReads and BookDaily.
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Thanks Brent, I appreciate your take on this. Would you compare it to Funny People, the movie from earlier in the year – also with a funny leading man (this time Adam Sandler) in a not-so-funny life drama. I wish I'd had your perspective before viewing that film, perhaps I could have drawn more from the character development. Always a pleasure to read your reviews!


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MN food charities expect demand to increase…
MN food charities expect demand to increase when extra $600 unemployment money ends
Food insecurity to jump 65 percent statewide, says Second Harvest Heartland
By Katrina Pross | Pioneer Press
PUBLISHED: July 31, 2020 at 9:19 a.m. | UPDATED: July 31, 2020 at 6:42 p.m.
With the extra unemployment boost coming to an end, Minnesota food charities say they are expecting to see a significant increase in demand.
Under the federal CARES Act coronavirus relief law, those receiving unemployment benefits received an extra $600 weekly because of the COVID-19 pandemic through July 31. Food charities have already been seeing a surge in demand since the pandemic began but are anticipating that demand to increase even further.
Allison O'Toole, CEO of Second Harvest Heartland, said a 70 percent increase in food insecurity in its service area and a 65 percent increase statewide is expected. Second Harvest Heartland is a food bank that provides food to partners across Minnesota.
O'Toole said the end of extra unemployment benefits is the main driver of that projected increase, but the pandemic as a whole has created an exponential surge in food insecurity as well.
"That means one in eight Minnesotans, including one in five Minnesota kids, will not know where their next meal is coming from," she said. "That means families are watering down milk, that means moms are skipping dinner to give their kids a little more."
Loaves and Fishes, a food charity that provides meals across the state, has been offering curbside pickup since the pandemic started. Officials there are also expecting demand for its services to increase once the extra unemployment benefits end.
The heightened demand will last for months, said Cathy Maes, executive director of Loaves and Fishes. Since the pandemic began, Loaves and Fishes has doubled the number of its locations and tripled the amount of meals it serves.
'We're talking a lot about making sure we have enough food on site," Maes said. "This is going to be our new reality."
The YMCA partners with food charities like Loaves and Fishes and is also anticipating the need for food to escalate.
In a normal year, summer months are already a time when there is more food insecurity, as children are not in school where they can rely on meals, said Joan Schimml, YMCA senior director of communications and marketing.
Catholic Charities has seen a 200 percent increase in demand at its local food distribution sites, said Kathleen Turner, food services partnership and strategy manager for Catholic Charities of St. Paul and Minneapolis, in a statement.
That demand decreased once individuals began receiving extra unemployment benefits, but it's anticipated the demand will increase again now that the additional benefits are ending, Turner said in the statement.
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In preparation for the expected increase in demand, Second Harvest is working with partners to ensure they have the resources they need and is setting up more emergency grocery pop-up locations where community members can drive up to receive food. Loaves and Fishes is ramping up its supplies, expanding locations and hiring more staff, and the YMCA is looking to extend and expand its partnerships with food distributors.
The food charities and providers said they are doing everything they can to meet the projected need.
"This is going to be prolonged," O'Toole said. "Our goal is to make sure this community thrives after we're through this."
Katrina Pross | reporting fellow
Katrina Pross is a year-long reporting fellow for the Pioneer Press. She is a recent journalism graduate from the University of Minnesota, where she worked as a news editor and reporter for the Minnesota Daily.
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I know I haven't written a lot about my Mamavation journey recently and there's a reason for that - I haven't really had time! This week in particular I've been swamped, planning for Zeke's birthday party this coming weekend and our upcoming homeschooling year that starts on Monday. I've gotten some other writing opportunities that are taking up some time too. And I'm also going to start babysitting again very soon and am trying to plan for that since I'll be doing it every week day for the whole school year. And of course along with all those things I need to continue taking care of my kids, keeping up on my housework, taking care of my husband, etc.
With that said, I haven't (and don't plan to) quit my fitness and exercise goals...but I've been feeling bad for not keeping up the Mamavation sisters and what's going on with them. If you follow me on Twitter, you've probably noticed that my tweets recently have been very erratic - I just haven't had time to be on there. I apologize for not keeping up with everyone...but real life always trumps everything else. My family is more important to me than being on Twitter all day long. And the only way for me to get healthy is to stay active, not sit at the computer. So I'm taking a break from my weekly Mamavation postings on Monday BUT I'm not going to quit updating from time to time on my exercise, fitness and overall wellness. I am very proud of the five pounds I've lost with Mamavation and the friends I've made on there. I appreciate the friendship, accountability, tools and tips. I hope to continue to lose even more weight and get healthier - and I hope you'll still follow along with me.
I am so sorry you are having a difficult time. No worries. Mamavation will be here and we will be waiting for your triumphant return! keep your head up girl!
We'll miss you but I completely understand . . . I've had to back off of Mamavation Twittering over the past few weeks I have had to back off as well.


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Oakshade é uma comunidade não incorporada em Fulton County, no estado americano de Ohio.

História
Um posto de correio chamado Oak Shade foi estabelecido em 1874, o nome foi mudado para Oakshade em 1893, e o correio fechou em 1910. Em 1920, Oakshade era uma das três comunidades listadas em Município de Chesterfield.

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Haven't been here for a while but wanted to say Merry Christmas with a medley. I played these songs with the camcorder going then added some bass notes with a keyboard. Listening closely, players on this board will detect a bit of a glitch here or there. Sorry about that. With time running short to get something up during this week before Christmas, didn't do multiple takes or punch-ins, so it is what it is. But enjoyed doing it. It's been said that a "medley" is when you "meddle" with melodies and string them together. Fun to do. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all.
Art, that was nice! You sure packed a lot of songs into that medley! I'm wondering, do you always wear your thumbpick that far back? I couldn't do it. Thanks again!
Art I really enjoyed that and helped put me in the Christmas spirit, thank you sir!
Art, that was great. I especially liked the ending... very creative. Thanks, Tom W.
Art, mighty fine work there Sir! Always appreciate your work. Thanks!
I do wear the band of the pick that far back but what I'm using isn't a normal thumbpick. Looking at the very end of the video, I see that when I lift my hand, you can see the underside of the thumb and that there's a flatpick involved, which is farther out toward the tip of the thumb than the band around the thumb. You are a keen observer.
Thanks everyone for these great comments of encouragement. Christmas songs about our Lord are especially enjoyable to me. I'm so glad for God's great mercy through His Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, toward all people who will have it. What a great reminder the songs of Christmas are!
Art, my typical comments have to do with technique, equipment, etc. I can figure out the music but any little detail I can pick up to help me play better, I'm always looking for. Your explanation was very interesting. Thanks!


Open noon-11pm, with food served 12-3 and 6-9pm.
The pub is on the steps just beneath the ramparts of the castle tower at the south east corner of Rye's citadel. It's a tremendously romantic setting. In the warmer months the beer garden is idyllic, with its views across the marsh and its rivers. In the winter, the pub's low beamed interior and open log fire make it a warm and inviting place to hide away.
We offer a great selection of ales and ciders. The focus is on local Sussex and Kentish cask ales and craft keg beers from around the UK. Our draught lagers are both from independent German breweries.
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Agnes Baden-Baden
9/26/2019 6:19pm
Save your earthly appetite and come to Spirit Guide Spaghetti Night TONIGHT in the Grand Ballroom of Osiris! All you can eat! Tickets still available at the door.
When what thou eatest is brought to thee, what I eat is brought to me. Thou eatest what is eaten by Seb and Osiris. And what do they eatest?
ALL YOU CAN EAT SPAGHETTI AND GARLIC BREAD!!!
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- 9/22/2019 11:38pm
I'm pleased to report that the septennial Jamboree of the Spirit Guides was a resounding success! Members of all ranks were able to confer, converse, and otherwise hobnob with their brother and sister Spirit Guides from around the world, engaging in fellowship, secret handshakes, ritual duels, and direct mind-to-mind transfer of knowledge too delicate to relate through other means.
Also, new Ascended Masters were selected and transformed, as you no doubt noticed through the cryptographic messaging of puffs of white smoke emanating from the various rental cars parked around campus.
Now that the Grand Host has left and returned to their secret stations across the globe, Troop 109 is ready to turn their full attention once again to the care and direction of Psyhigh's student body.
That's why we're hosting Spirit Guide Spaghetti Night this Thursday in the Grand Ballroom of Osiris! All you can eat! The stake which will be in your hand will be the thigh of Nemu; the fork which will be in your hand will be the fingers of Sokaris; the point which will be in your hand will be the claws of Isis; and the blade which will be in your hand will be the knife of Nemu.
Plus, unlimited garlic bread!
We hope to see you there. Tickets are $5 each, and available from our table in the commons during lunch through Thursday.
And as a special bonus, everyone who purchases a ticket will be automatically entered in our raffle for one free ride on the Sun Barque.
Following the success of Troop 109's campus tour project, there's been a great deal of interest in the Spirit Guides and how to "get involved."
While we're not at liberty to comment on the fundamental Mysteries of the Initiation Rites, we can list the first 10 of the 17 ranks of the Spirit Guides. They are (in ascending order):
Tenderfoot
Intuitive-Projective
Mythic-Literal
Synthetic-Conventional
Arrow of Light
Individuative-Reflective
Big Cheese
These are of course followed by the Mystery Ranks (levels 11-17) which exist on a vibratory plane too high for unascended ears to comprehend.
If you'd like to learn more about the Spirit Guides, we're having our septennial Jamboree starting this weekend right here on campus! Invocations begin tonight with the rise of the full moon in the Gnarly Grove. We'll have Spirit Guides from around the world staying in the dorms temporarily for the full week of events, so feel free to introduce yourself to one of us to learn more.
If you'd rather just take a campus tour, we'll be meeting up at the bell tower again tomorrow at noon. Hope to see you there!
Thank you for your interest in rituals.
- 9/6/2019 11:12pm
Psyhigh's own Troop 109 of the Spirit Guides will be conducting campus tours for incoming freshmen starting this weekend at noon at the bell tower.
As our motto says, "We show the way!"*
*At least, that's our modern motto. Our original motto was ""Hail to thee, O daughter of Amenta, mistress of Peteru of heaven, thou gift of Thoth, thou mistress of the two sides of the ladder, open a way to Unas, let Unas pass. Hail to thee, O Nau, who art seated upon the brink of the Lake of Kha, open thou a way to Unas, let Unas pass. Hail to thee, O thou bull of four horns, thou who hast one horn to the west, and one to the east, and one to the north, and one to the south, let Unas pass, for he is a being from the purified Amenta, who goeth forth from the country of Baqta. Hail to thee, O Sekhet-Hetep, hail to thee, and to the fields which are in thee, the fields of Unas are in thee, for pure offerings are in thee" but it didn't fit on buttons so nicely.
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