RIGHT SPEECH (sammā-vācā) in most Buddhist texts (such as the Pali canon) is presented as four abstentions [29, 68]: "What is right speech? Abstaining from lying (false speech), from divisive speech, from abusive speech, and from idle (beastly talk) speech: This is called right speech."
Instead of the usual "abstention and refraining from wrong" terminology, a few Buddhist texts, such as the "Fruits of Recluseship Discourse" (Samaññaphala Sutta) and Kevata Sutta in the Long Discourses of the Buddha (Digha Nikaya) explain this virtue in an active sense, after stating it in the form of an abstention [69].
For example, Fruits of Recluseship Sutra states that a part of a Buddhist monastic's virtue is that of "abstaining from false speech. One speaks the truth, holds to the truth, is firm, reliable, not a deceiver of the world" [69].
Similarly, the virtue of abstaining from divisive speech is explained as delighting in creating concord [69] and peace and harmony between people.
I'm humiliated! I can never face the world!
The virtue of abstaining from abusive speech is explained in this sutra as including affectionate and polite speech that is pleasing to most people.
The virtue of abstaining from idle chit chat (animal talk or ticcharana-katha) is explained as speaking what is connected with the Dharma, the goal of of which is liberation from all ignorance and suffering [69, 40] by realizing the freedom of enlightenment and the bliss and peace of nirvana. More
(PoliticsJOE) Hollywood actors absolutely destroy criminal Pres. Donald Trump at the 2026 Golden Globes, except pro-authoritarian, rich Jewish Zionist Bill Maher on the murder of Renee Good.
Triumph the Insult Comic Dog roasts MAGA Trump supporters at his MSG Nazi rally | The Daily Show
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Oct 30, 2024: Triumph the Insult Comic Dog went to Madison Square Garden (MSG) to cosplay as a January 6th insurrectionist, tease MAGAots, launch a line of merch, and write a song about Republicans’ favorite thing: “Liberal Tears.” #DailyShow #Trump #Triumph
Trump's Puerto Rico fallout spreads as he insists he's "not a Nazi" | The Daily Show
(The Daily Show) Oct. 29, 2024: With one week until Election Day, Ronny Chieng assesses the fallout from standup roast comedian Tony Hinchcliffe's racist Puerto Rico joke, while The Donald plays defense, like a Hitler insisting he's "not a Nazi." Plus, German Grace Kuhlenschmidt takes RFK Jr.'s advice and travels back in time to save Baby Trump from becoming what he is now. #DailyShow #comedy
0:00 - Ronny Chieng's TDS open
0:26 - Trump facing major backlash after comedian's Puerto Rico comments
4:12 - Trump insists he's "not a Nazi"
5:43 - JD Vance defends Trump's "not a Nazi" claims
7:04 - RFK Jr. chimes in on Trump's Nazi fallout
8:22 - Grace Kuhlenschmidt and Troy Iwata weigh in on the Trump fallout
Look, if we have to die, let's at least not talk about it, not now while we're still alive.
I.R. = insulin resistance. It's part of the metabolic syndrome our bodies spin into, with weight, diabetes, blood pressure, sugar, addiction, exhaustion...this disease kills more people than cancer, and no one seems to know he or she has it. Get onto YouTube and watch this presentation. It's well worth it.
3X deadlier than cancer and most people don't know they have it
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What is Mt. Rushmore? In plain state South Dakota, there are only 1.5 attractions, one being the four faces of some white president of Conquerors who helped lead a slow genocide against the Indigenous populations. Tom Margie on Flickr has a butt shot.
Massive columns are phalluses, some say, with one very obvious one behind and a cabin on top.
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Was ancient man aware of his penis?
The monument to men their wangs or white domination remains unfinished, having been intended to show full frontal bodies. But one or more penises and a Buddhist temple-like cave carved right into solid rock were included. Why?
It looks like Freemason-style "secret society rituals" for Washington DC elites (Yale Skull 'n Bones, Moose Meetinghouse, Elks Lodge, Illuminati chamber?), who would be the only ones to know it was back there.
Why are Theravada Buddhist Thailand and Vajrayana Buddhist Bhutan so obsessed with penises, to say nothing of India and its obsession with Shiva's lingam and Shakti's yoni at the center of most every stone temple? Nepal has a new D City named Shivaling
Q: How far underground are the sculptured phalluses, and how does one get to them?
A: The four phalluses [penises, stone Shiv-ling, Thai-Buddhist lingam] are located 200 feet below ground. To get to them, take an elevator journey entitled “The Descent to Glory.” Going down into the rich silence of the “Chiefs’ Chamber” often casts a reverential hush over guests. In the hush, many claim to hear the throbbing heartbeat of our nation [or their own sexually excited ears pounding].
Q: Why did the artist choose to work with rock hard granite?
A. Granite, a type of igneous rock, is extremely slow to erode [slow to lose its erect status], making it an excellent medium for representing the endurance and vitality of, ugh, the, ummm, nation.
So says Daniel Williams at Medium.com. Our resident historian and old timer doubts it. "That can't be true!" he insists. Williams is confabulating. We believe him. (Did this woman Eve see it?) If only there were pictures instead of rumors. No one had a flash? No cameras allowed? No low lux secret phones could be snuck in?
The Natives and ancient city builders in what is now the USA had giant pyramid mounds
Blackfoot, Glacier Nat'l Park, 1913
Battle for Mt. Rushmore: ‘It should be turned into something like the Holocaust Museum’
The national memorial draws millions of visitors a year – and Native Americans want their sacred site back.
Mt. Rushmore national memorial draws nearly 3 million visitors a year to Lakota land in remote South Dakota. They travel from all corners of the globe just to lay their eyes on what the National Park Service calls America’s “shrine of democracy.”
American Indian Phil Two Eagle is not opposed to the fact that the giant sculpture of American presidents is a major tourist attraction, but he thinks the park should have a different focus: oppression. More: The Guardian
What must the (free-) masons been thinking? The secret history of secret societies in America -- not just the world-famous megaliths of Mexico, Guatemala, Peru, and tombs in the Americas -- but the ritual architecture of the proto-USA is amazing.
Should Trump's penis-haircut be added to MR?
The pyramid mounds of Cahokia, Missouri, near the Mississippi (the second longest river in the country), where many Midwest giants are buried, kurgans (monolithic structures on energetic spots that should have been impossible to erect by Stone Age Native peoples), American Stonehenge in the Northeast, the Stonehenge underwater in a lake, the massive walls that experts try to explain away as the work of newcomers when they are long and pointless as any kind of demarcation of plots, homesteads, or property lines, the massive stone block walls that are aligned as only masons (and not Mother Nature) would bother to do...
There are many mysteries in the country we call our own, only 75% of which has ever been surveyed by foot. (A quarter of the country has never been visited by foot to be mapped or officially surveyed, only scanned from the air, such that anyone can be in there doing anything. Sasquatches raising families? Why not).
Remember to visit the Mt. Rushmore gift shop.
The government is well aware of the giant human skeletons it continues to collect and hide at the Smithsonian institution (a collective of more than a dozen entities, not a single museum with a massive underground warehouse) and the Forest Service is well aware of the cryptids that share the U.S. with humans even if it is only three-quarters surveyed by foot.
Daniel Williams (medium.com); Annette McGivney (sej.org via The Guardian, 7/3/21); Pfc. Sandoval, Xochitl, Ashley Wells, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Jimmy Kimmel breaks down the presidential debate between Donald and Kamala
(Jimmy Kimmel Live) Sept. 10, 2024: Jimmy breaks down the debate of the decade between Vice President Harris and felon Trump, and it was quite the beating, Trump spent the day posting cat memes after a debunked story that Haitian immigrants are eating pets, VP candidate JD Vance can’t stop bringing attention to these stories, Trump keeps intentionally mispronouncing Kamala Harris’ name, he seems to KNOW and NOT KNOW a lot of things, and Jimmy checks in with a panel of political experts for their thoughts on the debate: Gavin Newsom (Josh Meyers), MyPillow Mike Lindell (James Adomian), and JD Vance (Haley Joel Osment). #Kimmel
TOO CONFIDENT? We got him on the run, Girl! Just stick to the script; watch him go mental.
I'm a fire-exhausting dragon waiting to burn her
Don't expect too much from Kami. That way we can only be delightfully surprised that she studied and prepared and did method acting with a coach and a lookalike Trump to prepare. Once upon a time, in a campaign he was losing, Trump debated his female opponent. He couldn't beat her on substance, as hated as she was, so he walked up behind her at the podium like Jaws the Shark to throw her off her game. It sure worked. He's a nut and a scoundrel and has tricks up his sleeve. All he does all day is argue with people. He doesn't play fair. He just plays to win. He's a liar.
Excuse me, Sir. I'm speaking, OK? Thank you.
She's a lying lawyer, and her grift is the law, where she gets to plan tactics with reasonable opponents, other lawyers, not sociopathic nuts. She doesn't stand a chance. She's about to be mowed down by an orange weedwhacker. The only reason she didn't blow her big speech at the DNC is because she was reading what she had memorized. How will that skill in reciting prepared comments help her here? She gets softball questions all the time. If they are ever uncomfortable, she cackles. The orange monster gets hit in the back of the head with a 2x4 daily, and he seems to like it. It has made him an ugly American, a New Yorker, a con, a used car salesman with no shame or boundaries, no limits or conscience. We fear she will be so humiliated and out on her butt like her boss was the last time he went up against the ginger j*ck*ss. Beware, Kami. Tap out as soon as you can and turn it over to Tim. You're in over your attorney head.
The blood sport begins 6:00 pm (Pacific), 9:00 pm (Eastern)
Meet the writer behind those campaign fundraising emails clogging our inboxes | The Daily Show
(The Daily Show) Sept. 10, 2024: Meet campaign email ghostwriter Susan Callipenni-McIntyre (Desi Lydic), the keyboard-pushing, politician-impersonating literary genius behind the many, many desperate messages asking for just $5 to save America. #DailyShow #DesiLydic#email
Kamala and Trump prepare to debate, Dick Cheney endorses, JD Vance in pool
(The Daily Show) Sept. 9, 2024: With the election rapidly approaching, Jordan Klepper catches up on the latest stories in the presidential race, including recent telephone polling favoring Trump, JD Vance swimming in a t-shirt, and Dick Cheney’s surprising endorsement of Kamala. Plus, as Harris and Trump prepare for their first debate with starkly different approaches, Grace Kuhlenschmidt joins to break down the Republican candidate’s predictable “weaving” tactics. #DailyShow #JordanKlepper #debate
Trump says he wants to lock up late night hosts, fails to prepare to debate over-prepped Kamala because he'll just wing it like usual, and Melania has a new book
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Sept. 9, 2024: There has been an intense heat wave here in Los Angeles (particularly the Valley), Jimmy sends guard Guillermo to check on his wax figure at Madame Toussard’s on Hollywood Boulevard to see if it’s holding up in this heat, football players have the option of wearing protective helmet bumpers this year, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are going head-to-head in their first and only debate tomorrow night on ABC, there are various prop bets you can bet on from tie color to if they will shake hands, Trump had a very busy day yesterday posting a birthday wish to the Virgin Mary and endorsing Hulk Hogan’s beer, he is still worked up over the fact that Tim Walz keeps calling him "weird," California's Gov. Newsom's ex Kimberly Guilfoyle wowed a crowd at the Florida Republican Party Victory Dinner, Trump has been hammering the idea that Democrats are randomly chopping off kids’ private parts, Rolling Stone published a report that Donald has tried to declare anti-Trump material broadcast by late night shows as illegal, Melania (more Barron's mom than Mrs. Trump) has a new book coming out, we have a winner for tonight’s award for Excellence in Reporting and Apple gives a surprisingly honest sales pitch at their recent summit. #Kimmel
Lincoln Project (commercial); Jimmy Kimmel Live!, 9/9/24; Desi Lydic, Jordan Klepper, The Daily Show; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly
BREAKING NEWS: All hell breaks loose when Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene directly insults Black Jasmine Crockett
(Forbes Breaking News) May 16, 2024: At tonight's House Oversight Committee hearing, [white] Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-GA) insult of [Black] Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) plunged the hearing into chaos, particularly when Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) jumped in and took sides against Greene. Then Crockett got in the best line of the night, openly mocking Greene in the form of a hypothetical question about badly bleached blond hair and a butch body. Ehem, Marjorie? Sadly, the old white men in charge did not understand the question.
MAGA Reps. Gaetz and Boebert get heckled at the Trump circus trial
Girls used to be so classy. Now it's all petty ego.
On Thursday, May 16, 2024, evening, a House Oversight Committee hearing intended to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt quickly devolved into a heated and disorderly exchange between Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Marjorie Taylor Greene.
The session was initially convened to address Garland's refusal to comply with a subpoena for an audio recording of Pres/ Biden's interview with a special counsel. However, tensions flared when Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene made a derogatory comment about Rep. Jasmine Crockett's appearance, prompting an intense response from [AOC] Rep. Ocasio-Cortez [who got all Puerto Rican or Cuban and New Yorker with a kind of, Oh no you diddent, aw hell no you diddent kind of vibe, made worse by the addition of "baby girl."
During the hearing, Greene interrupted Crockett with a personal attack, stating, "I think your fake eyelashes are messing up what you’re reading."
This remark led to audible groans in the chamber and a plea for order from Committee Chairman James Comer.
Ocasio-Cortez immediately called for Greene's words to be "taken down," a procedural move allowing the speaker to withdraw or amend the words if deemed inappropriate.
I'm from New York. I eat Greenes for lunch.
Greene's retort, "Are your feelings hurt?" was met with Ocasio-Cortez's sharp response, "Oh girl, baby girl! Don’t even play!"
Ocasio-Cortez insisted that Greene's comments were unacceptable and demanded a sincere apology to Rep. Crockett, rejecting any insincere or smarmy apologies.
Despite the heated back-and-forth, Greene eventually agreed to strike her words but refused to apologize, further insulting Ocasio-Cortez's intelligence.
You want some, B*tch? - Are you talkin to me?
The situation escalated when Rep. Jamie Raskin asked Greene again if she would apologize, to which she defiantly replied, "You will never get an apology out of me."
The contentious exchange highlighted deep divisions and personal animosities among committee members, drawing significant attention and criticism.
Rep. Crockett later expressed her frustration on social media, emphasizing the inappropriate and chaotic behavior displayed by some members of Congress.
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