Tuesday, May 31, 2022

Southern Fried Stonehenge: GA Guidestones


Rocks [The Georgia Guidestones]: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (web exclusive)
(Last Week Tonight, May 29, 2022) John Oliver discusses desperate Republican candidate Kandiss Taylor, a prominent loser in the race for governor of Georgia, a swampy state in the beautiful South, and fierce anti-rock activist.
Connect with Last Week Tonight online...on YouTube for more almost news as it almost happens, on Facebook like your mom would, on Twitter for news about jokes and jokes about news, or on the official website for all that other stuff at once.

(The Problem With John Stewart) The Problem With White People 

Jon Stewart (who's still alive and on TV somewhere) dissects why it’s been so easy to ignore the racism, oppression, and inequality that exists in the United States. White people keep saying they’re ready to listen…but Black people have never stopped speaking out against the reality of systemic racism in North America.

2022 Scripps Nat'l Spelling Bee: Prelims


(Scripps National Spelling Bee) The 2022 Scripps National Spelling Bee begins with the preliminaries today, Tuesday, May 31, at 9:00 am. All 234 spellers will have a turn at the microphone in the hopes of becoming the 2022 champion! Watch the preliminaries live from The Bee's official YouTube channel.

How's U.S. proxy-war in Ukraine going?

Jimmy Dore, Jackson Hinkle (TJDS); Pfc. Sandoval, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
There really are Nazis in Ukraine's military (Asov Brigade) and gov't, and the US knows it.

Where in the world is Ukraine anyway?
The money, the billions, the US has sent -- as liberals, progressives, and former peace activists have been duped into demanding -- do not help defeat the Russian Empire. They are misappropriated and line the pockets of the oligarchs. Ukraine has them just like Russia and the US.

Lies the West tell us to believe
The CIA, the Pentagon, the NSA, NSC, and other Alphabet Agencies are doing something in Ukraine/Russia. Who knows what?

Meanwhile, they're using the dispute to raise prices on gas and commodities to enrich the super-rich here. Look around. Pay attention. The mainstream media has been misguiding us. Why would they suddenly do an about face and admit that Ukraine has been losing all along. Pres. Vlad Putin's health is probably fine, and we've just been the victims of Pentagon propaganda.

Which Archangel will save world's trees?

David Milarch (ancienttreearchive.org), Archangel (Bing search), Editors, Wisdom Quarterly
Buddhist Sakka, King of the Devas (as Archangel Saint Michael) protects the world.
Siddhartha chose a pipal tree (Ficus religiosa) under which to awaken to become "the Buddha."

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This Archangel (the Ancient Tree Archive) is creating living libraries of old-growth tree genes. Archangel Ancient Tree Archive is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that locates and propagates the world’s largest and most iconic trees, such as California's massive redwoods.
[Theravada] Buddhism is a forest tradition.
It promotes the use of the right trees for the right application for a balanced, sustainable environment.

It is creating living libraries of old-growth tree genetics by cloning these trees through traditional and advanced horticultural propagation methods for the purpose of future research and immediate reforestation.

Who or what lives in and around trees?
It wants and needs to replace the natural filter systems of the earth's water and air to reverse global warming-caused climate change and protect freshwater ecosystems to restore the health of our planet. More: Archangel Ancient Tree Archive Mission

Monday, May 30, 2022

Dragon and temple passages found in Peru

Carlos Valdez (Reuters via MSN, 5/30/22); Xochitl, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Archaeologists discover passageways in 3,000-year-old Peruvian temple (Reuters/MSN)
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Archaeologists discover passageways in 3,000-year-old Peruvian temple
Chavín de Huántar archeological site
LIMA, Peru - A team of archeologists has discovered a network of passageways under a more than 3,000-year-old temple in the Peruvian Andes Mountains.

Chavín de Huántar temple, located in the north-central Andes Mountains, was once a religious and administrative center for people across the region.

The passageways were found earlier in May (2022) and have features believed to have been built earlier than the temple's labyrinthine galleries, according to Dr. John Rick, an archeologist at Stanford University who was involved in the excavation.

Located 3,200 meters above sea level, at least 35 underground passageways have been found over the years of excavations, which all connect with each other and were built between 1,200- and 200-years B.C. in the foothills of the Andes Mountains.

"It's a passageway, but it's very different. It's a different form of construction. It has features from earlier periods that we've never seen in passageways," Dr. Rick said. More

The "Dragon of Death"
The new "Dragon of Death" (CNN.com)
If that weren't enough, there be dragons in the ancient sky, too. Some say that massive thunderbirds still sail the thermals along the Sierra Madre Mountain range running south into Mexico and beyond.

Jim's pranks on Dwight (The Office)


A dozen more Office pranks that totally flummoxed Dwight Schrute
(COZI Dozen, April 1, April Fools) Who needs Seinfeld when The Office is in syndication? Pam Beesly (Jenna Fischer) is pretty. Who knew her love interest, Jim Halpert (John Krasinski), was fiendishly clever? Rainn Wilson plays Dwight Schrute well, but nothing beats a good writing team in the back. Part 1. Catch The Office anytime on @Peacock. #TheOffice #Pranks #COZITV

A "Good Guy" with a Gun? (video)

Good Guy Jordan Klepper, Michael Kosta (The Daily Show); I. Rony (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly

(The Daily Show) Switzerland: more guns, less crime. It's not the guns.

Switzerland: So many guns, no mass shootings
(The Daily Show Throwback, May 29, 2022) Michael Kosta heads to the world’s largest annual shooting festival to find out how Switzerland can love guns so much yet have such a low rate of gun-related crimes. #DailyShow #Comedy

Who's blocking food supplies from Ukraine?

Jackson Hinkle, Kurt Metzger, Jimmy Dore; Seth Auberon, Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly 

Who’s REALLY responsible for US inflation and the "food crisis"? (Hint: It’s us). Who's driving up gas prices to record levels? Oops, ya mean it's not all-purpose boogeyman and all-around bad guy Vladimir Putin, president of Russia? Why have the mainstream media been telling us it is?


David Sedaris, Kendrick Lamar, Sarah Silverman

Terry Gross (Fresh Air, NPR.org, from WHYY); CC Liu, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Fresh Air is a Peabody Award-winning weekday magazine of contemporary arts and issues, one of public radio's most popular programs. Hosted by Terry Gross, the show features intimate conversations with today's biggest luminaries.

Today (May 31, 2022) it's gay writer David Sedaris (the brother of the funnier Amy "Jerry Blank" Sedaris), returning with his new book, Happy-Go-Lucky. "My father was not a good person, but he was a great character," Sedaris says.

The humorist writes about his odd family and efforts to make peace with his memories of his late father in Happy-Go-Lucky. Rapper Kendrick Lamar's new album is reviewed after five years since his last release. It's a more pensive and conversational record [with, alas, no "bangers" it sounds like].

MAY 30, 2022: Country music stars Tim McGraw and wife Faith Hill star in the Paramount+ series 1883. The show tells the story of a group of Eastern European immigrants trying to make their way in covered wagons from Texas to Oregon. Before they filmed, they attended "Cowboy Camp," to learn the basics of riding horses and driving wagons. Dave Davies spoke with McGraw about the series, falling in love with Faith Hill, and learning about his birth father, MLB pitcher Tug McGraw.

MAY 28, 2022: It's the best of Fresh Air: Comic Sarah Silverman - As a kid, Sarah Silverman says, the fact that she wet the bed was her "deepest, darkest shame." Decades later, she wrote about the humiliation in her 2010 memoir The Bedwetter — now adapted into a musical. The comic talks with Terry Gross about the songs, cringing at some of her old jokes, and satirizing the Left in I Love You, America.

MAY 27, 2022: Angela Lansbury - In June, Lansbury will receive the Tony Award for lifetime achievement. The Murder, She Wrote star previously won Tonys for her performances in Gypsy and Sweeney Todd. She spoke with Terry Gross in 2000.

MAY 26, 2022: How a Disinformation and Harassment Expert Became a "Target" with ex-chief Disinformation Czar for Biden's White House Nina Jankowicz. The divisive [and histrionic-sounding] wannabe music theater star was tapped to head the Biden administration's new Disinformation Governance Board but resigned after being called out for trying to run a US "Ministry of Truth" and deluged with online threats. Her new book is How to Be a Woman Online.

MAY 25, 2022: Diana Goetsch's Long Journey to Living as a Woman -- transsexual Diana Goetsch grew up in a time when s/he didn't have the language to help him/her understand what it meant to be trans. The poet chronicles her later-in-life transition in the memoir This Body I Wore. "I felt that the universe owed me 50 years as a female living this way," she explains. "That's crazy, but it's this sense that I wanted more life."

MAY 24, 2022: Comic Sarah Silverman [because we can't enough of our favorite female standup comic] - As a kid, Silverman says, the fact that she wet the bed was her "deepest, darkest shame." Decades later, she wrote about the humiliation in her 2010 memoir The Bedwetter — now adapted into a musical. The comic talks with Terry Gross about the songs, cringing at some of her old jokes, and satirizing the Left in I Love You, America.

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