(0541) Morning all. Right, it’s apparent, at 0724, that there’s a dearth of new poltics … North America is in bed, Downunder is quiet, early morning Brits are only just stirring now. Meaning not many post items for some hours. Meanwhile, the feature posts build up, accumulate, ones I’m itching to get going with.
I’m thinking we have to roll with the material we have, rather than trying to press it to regular columns, to search far and wide for something, anything, to fill the space. (0734)
8. An American item
7. Some Brit items
6. Toodles corner
Had to check the football score first for the new season opener … under the new head coach:
Haven’t looked at the report yet but did, last night, ask a question as to why Nick Saban had retired, moved on, as head coach and found this:
As part of the College Gameday program, Saban touched on some of the reasons for his decision to call time on his coaching career, stating: “I was really disappointed in the way that the players acted after the game. You gotta win with class. You gotta lose with class. We had our opportunities to win the game and we didn’t do it, and then showing your ass and being frustrated and throwing helmets and doing that stuff … that’s not who we are and what we’ve promoted in our program.”
He added that the players’ motivations for playing the game were another contributing factor, claiming: “I thought we could have a hell of a team next year, and then maybe 70 or 80 percent of the players you talk to, all they want to know is two things: What assurances do I have that I’m going to play because they’re thinking about transferring, and how much are you going to pay me?” Saban told ESPN.
Right … the second thing, pre contacting Toods, is that it was good that I checked the spam and trash lists first as her comment was in there … easy to see why … she mentioned Redacted whom the system here is quite cautious about now for different reasons.
The third thing is that I’m running a Toods-brought youtube after this post because it’s excellent.
The fourth thing is that we might have a difference of opinion, Toods and I … and yet not … on The Naked Gun from yesterday. She was not enamoured of the early ones, actually the one with the Queen and baseball, which is the one I posted. My feeling too, as was hers, as was the feeling of a few reviewers at IMDb … that the baseball sequence at the end was too long and drawn out … in fact, the Dodgers themselves weren’t happy with the team pile-on part … all of this is fascinating to me … all the sensitivities. Plus Toods said Priscilla Presley has gone downhill. I’ll have to ask her if the presence of Juice in the cast was also offputting.
Now, I also must warn our jazz aficionados that one of the tunes is going to be a marching band’s version of Louie Louie, which was the song used at the end of the film, played by the marching band. Weeeellll, it’s sort of jazz.
7. Some Brit items – replying to Deryl Lynn on stranger’s island. One of the saddest things to have happened in the post-war era is the Left brainwashing the indigenous ethnos; the students, a significant minority of whom became virulent self-haters. If you were on the ground in academia during the 1960’s it was everywhere, as Orwell said:
“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
From that you get white guilt and the belief that white people are responsible for all the bad things that ever happened with black and brown people the only victims. The same ‘white liberals’ who believe ‘race is a social construct’ are never more certain about who to blame.
That was not my experience in the early 1960s when I was at university.
I can remember in the first year the Head of Department telling us, “We are not here to tell you WHAT to think, but HOW and WHY to think”.
Perhaps it wasn’t your experience Dad, but my own experience at technical college in the mid 70’s with fresh out of uni teaching staff, was having to listen to looney liberals with an axe to grind. These headbangers had come from red brick universities no less: a generation who began the ‘long march through the institutions’ in significant numbers. They were self-haters in the making. Just listen to the crap coming from the Archbishop of York today? Same age as me, went to a polytechnic in the 70’s = screaming lefty. The reason I escaped the brainwashing was day-release, the rest of the week I was in the real world serving my apprenticeship.