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  • WIBCI Post #148

    WIBCI Americans had more BALLS?

    Wouldn’t It Be Cool If more people were like Bruce Springsteen?

    The Boss was the musical guest on Stephen Colbert’s 2nd to last show (whose contract, after over a decade of ‘success’, was not renewed, allegedly due to political pressure aka people not having balls nor a sense of humor).

    “I am here in support tonight for Stephen, because you are the first guy in America who’s lost his show because we got a President who can’t take a joke. And because Larry and David Ellison feel they need to kiss his ass to get what they want. Anyway Stephen, these are small-minded people, they hot no idea what the freedoms of this beautiful country are supposed to be about.

    This is for you.”

    Then Bruce Springsteen sang the only main stream fight song anyone of any generation has had enough balls to write under the current monarchal administration:

    The Streets of Minneapolis

    Through the winter’s ice and cold, down Nicollet Avenue
    A city aflame fought fire and ice ‘neath an occupier’s boots
    King Trump’s private army from the DHS, guns belted to their coats
    Came to Minneapolis to enforce the law or so their story goes

    Against smoke and rubber bullets, in the dawn’s early light
    Citizens stood for justice, their voices ringing through the night
    And there were bloody footprints where mercy should have stood
    And two dead left to die on snow-filled streets, Alex Pretti and Renee Good

    Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice singing through the bloody mist
    We’ll take our stand for this land and the stranger in our midst
    Here in our home they killed and roamed in the winter of ’26
    We’ll remember the names of those who died on the streets of Minneapolis

    Trump’s federal thugs beat up on his face and his chest
    Then we heard the gunshots and Alex Pretti lay in the snow dead
    Their claim was self-defense, sir, just don’t believe your eyes
    It’s our blood and bones and these whistles and phones against Miller and Noem’s dirty lies

    Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice crying through the bloody mist
    We’ll remember the names of those who died on the streets of Minneapolis

    Now they say they’re here to uphold the law but they trample on our rights
    If your skin is black or brown my friend you can be questioned or deported on sight
    In our chants of “ICE out now!” our city’s heart and soul persists
    Through broken glass and bloody tears on the streets of Minneapolis

    Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice singing through the bloody mist
    Here in our home they killed and roamed in the winter of ’26
    We’ll take our stand for this land and the stranger in our midst
    We’ll remember the names of those who died on the streets of Minneapolis
    We’ll remember the names of those who died on the streets of Minneapolis

    I don’t see anything in these lyrics a reasonable adult could disagree with, let alone argue against.

    Thank you Bruce.… more “WIBCI Post #148”

  • WIBCI Post #147

    WIBCI we celebrated our own MILESTONES

    Wouldn’t It Be Cool If we recognized not just where we are, but where we started?

    It is one year today since I began blogging, this was the official launch of Deathofhypatia.com, and I have since successfully trademarked both the name and the logo since its online inception.

    Therefore I’m going to try something new in year 2, this year’s blog posts MAY include a look back at last years, aka year 1’s posts. Of course this will only be in practice if A) I do not have a new and burning subject to blog about and/or B) last year’s post was leaning towards lame. *Note, I of course can only do this because the world, without the aid of social media, has yet to become acquainted with this website and therefore no one will tire of a recap of what wasn’t read to begin with:)

    Therefore in honor of our anniversary, below are the first posts for both WIBCI and Know Thyself:

    • Know Thyself Post #1

      Know Thyself through PHILOSOPHY:

      I believe Focus is Key.

      Try this: Take a walk. Go outside if possible. Focus on consciously utilizing all five of your toes with each step you take.

      How is YOUR posture? Are YOUR shoulders up and scrunched or down and back like your shoulder blades could almost touch?

      If not, try and correct this consciously…. have you noticed how you can actually just tell your body what to do? You can actually make yourself taller, try it.

      Do YOU feel more in control?

      Imagine focusing like this on everything YOU do. What do YOU Think?

      Multi-tasking sucks.… more “Know Thyself Post #1”

     

    • WIBCI post #1

      Wouldn’t It Be Cool If BILLIONAIRES had souls?:

      WIBCI: The Billionaire that owns the largest online retailer and shipping outfit in the US (the fourth richest man in the world), partnered with the Billionaire that owns a US electric car company (the richest man in the world) – and converted the largest US shipping fleet of vehicles to ones that didn’t pollute our environment, you know the kind the richest man in the world makes?

      I think that would be Better for the Most.

      What do YOU Think?… more “WIBCI post #1”

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  • WIBCI Post #146

    WIBCI celebrities stopped SELLING OUT?

    Wouldn’t It Be Cool If they were going to use up/ruin their clout, why couldn’t it be for a cause, not KahShield.

    There once was the Golden Age of Hollywood, described by scroller.net as:

    ..more than just a glamorous era; it was a revolution in storytelling, star power, and silver screen magic. Between the late 1920s and early 1960s, a wave of iconic actors and actresses captivated the world with unforgettable performances and timeless style. These stars weren’t just famous, they defined fame as we know it today.

    Humphrey Bogart, Marilyn Monroe, Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, James Stewart, Bette Davis, Charlie Chaplin, Grace Kelley, Marlon Brando, and Elizabeth Taylor were icons. Katherine Hepburn was a humanitarian ambassador for UNICEF, Jimmy Stewart served in WWII, and Elizabeth Taylor was a pioneering activist for HIV/AIDS. Grace Kelley was an actual royal princess. They had class, were looked up to for good reason (for the most part), they made a difference with their fame, they made art.

    Oh how times have changed….

    Billy Bob Thornton, I don’t wish to guess where you are, who your carrier is, nor the strength of your signal. I don’t care, weren’t you a bad boy at one point, please go away.

    Samuel L. Jackson cheapening himself for Dice Dreams? The SNL Weekend Update guys AND Jason Alexander also partaking of the gambling app bandwagon. Don’t you guys invest?

    Ludicrous hawking vitamins! Busta Rhymes handing over his soul to Walmaht! Christopher Walken…. oh Mr. Walken…Mr. ‘More Cowbell’…..light beer….. why?

    Kevin Hart and Shaq….YOU ARE OVER EXPOSED.

    The guys from Scrubs whose commercial campaign has lasted longer than the show, its going away, and its comeback; STOP IT.

    Tom Brady, YOU AREN’T FUNNY, you are never going to be funny, please stop trying; watching you try and appear human with emotions is as painful as watching people dance on Beverly Hills 90210.

    Liberty Biberty was funny for a hot second….. you killed it…..happy now?

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  • WIBCI Post #145

    WIBCI our leaders messages had SUBSTANCE?

    Wouldn’t It Be Cool If we were governed by those who evolved towards a better future for us?

    the phrase M/A/G/A is today’s version of ‘Four legs good, two legs better.” (This is from Animal Farm by George Orwell, a three hour audio book that IS worth usurping one evening’s worth of scrolling, trolling, or gaming, in my opinion)

    The phrase M/A/G/A is sheer rubbish propaganda. How can you have such a vague, subjective slogan that sheep willingly advertise on their person, lawn, and/or pickup truck, without some clarification? Does the populace just love an acronym so much that they continually turn a blind eye to injustice and ambiguity, or are they avoiding the mortal humiliation of being wrong?!?

    When was this ‘great’ time in America anyways? Whom exactly was it ‘great’ for? Cause if it’s white, rich, old, men; when exactly were their liberties trampled upon? When were they disadvantaged? When did they not receive the lion’s share of everything?

    To me M/A/G/A means Middle-Class Americans Give All while the white, rich, old, men, gladly take it and innact laws to keep it that way. And Americans wear the hat while the 1% laugh all the way to their retirement compounds.

    Call me naive but I want my leaders to be heroes, not inarticulate, aggrandizing, narcissistic, tyrants, who are ‘good at business’.

    In Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces he discusses both the tyrant and the hero:

    The inflated ego of the tyrant is a curse to himself and his world. No matter how his affairs may seem to prosper, self terrorized, fear haunted, alert at every hand to meet and battle back the anticipated aggressions of his environment, which are primarily the reflection of the uncontrollable impulses to acquisition within himself. The giant of self achieved independence is the world’s messenger of disaster. Even though in his mind he may entertain himself that with humane intentions. Wherever he sets his hand there is a cry, if not from the housetops then, more miserably, within every heart. A cry for the redeeming hero. The carrier of the shining blade whose blow, whose touch, whose existence, will liberate the land….

    The hero is the man of self achieved submission. But submission to what? That precisely is the riddle that today we have to ask ourselves, and that it is everywhere the primary virtue and historic deed of the hero to have solved. As professor Arnold J. Toynbee indicates in his six volume study of the laws of the rise and disintegration of civilizations: schism in the soul, schism in the body social will not be resolved by any scheme of return to the good ole days, archaism, or by the programs guaranteed to render an ideal projected future… or even by the most realistic hard-headed work to weld together again the deteriorated elements. Only birth can concur death. The birth, not of the old thing again, but of something new, within the soul, within the body social there must be, if we are to experience long survival…..  

    Tyrant or Hero?

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  • WIBCI Post #144

    WIBCI Republicans wanted Americans to vote?

    Wouldn’t It Be Cool If Republicans didn’t need to cheat to remain in power?

    What if Republicans were good enough at their jobs and thereby didn’t require gerrymander or stooping to changing voting rights to be re-elected? WIBCI Republicans did what was Better for the Most of their constituents and thus won elections because they got the most votes fair and square?

    I would rather win anything justly, against a foe at full strength, on an even playing field, without a net or corked bat. This way, if I win, I truly won, and if I lost, it was because, in that moment, I wasn’t the best, and only the best should win.

    Cheaters are undeserved and should not be honored or revered in my humble opinion. Cheaters expect accolades, but when received they do not appreciate, reciprocate, nor respect you for them.

    So VOTE…..while you still can.… more “WIBCI Post #144”

  • WIBCI Post #143

    WIBCI BIG PHARMA played a smaller part in our lives?

    Wouldn’t It Be Cool If side effects mattered?

    I’m starting to think that the masses aren’t really thinking far into the future where things like outcomes, denouements, and consequences come to rest. It seems like instant gratification is of far more import than possible, agonizing, life altering, disfiguring, mortifying, and mortal side effects. I’m starting to believe that if there was a drug that was available to the public that gave you a 25% chance of losing 45% of your body fat, with a 65% chance of dying 10 years earlier than you would have with a crazy expensive price tag and people would treat it like they were Cabbage Patch Kids in the 1983 Christmas season.

    What does a drug need to offer YOU where you would roll the dice on the following LISTED side effects:

    • an infection in and around the anus and genitals that may be fatal
    • urinary tract and genital yeast infections in both MEN and women
    • and my personal favorite: lower limb loss
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  • WIBCI Post #142

    WIBCI humans entertained humans?

    Wouldn’t It Be Cool If I didn’t just see, what I just saw?

    I just walked by a television, if I had to guess, it was probably on ‘live TV’, and probably was the end of a movie. It was late in the credits, that is what caught my attention, I don’t believe I’ve seen the end of credits on ‘live TV’ in quite some time. Normally I have to split my attention between the opening credits of one in the corner, while the closing credits of the previous means of entertainment shrinks away whilst increasing to a pace only Speed Reader could keep up with.

    May I digress, and shout out to anyone who got the Great Space Coaster reference. I remember he could read a book and give Gary Gnu a synopsis in seconds. He read so fast he needed a headband. If you don’t know, now you know.

    Anyways, back to me being caught off guard with the sight of complete credits. As a member of the audience you were allowed you to see all the images those that made it intended you to see, right until the final fade to black. Having worked near people who yearned to be IN credits themselves, I understand the importance of them, and proudly like to sit in a movie theater until all the names have stopped rolling by. We owe the Best Boy Grip this at least. So I was impressed that the station, or service, or platform allowed the audience to see all the hardworking people that spent a portion of their lives dedicated to the preceding art offering.

    Then I saw it.

    The final credit, the one that drifted by, slower than all before it. This individual apparently deserved the honor of not only taking longer to drift by but then to stop and linger into the open window of the final image on screen. There this obviously consequential contributor remained until the final dip-to-black. Who, do you ask, did this final, significant credit go to? Whom did the broadcasting medium think so important as to break the norm of whizzing the credits by our eyeballs in teeny tiny zoomed out font at super human speed?!

    None other than……

    ChatGPT

    So….we are giving credit to computers for creating entertainment now?

    Does this make anyone else uncomfortable?

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  • WIBCI Post #141

    WIBCI SNL skits from 38 years ago didn’t still ring true?

    Wouldn’t It Be Cool If it were just funny, not funny and a little sad?

    On October 8th, 1988 Saturday Night Live did a sketch parodying the Bush-Dukakis Debate. After the debate concludes journalists Peter Jennings (played by Tom Hanks) and David Brinkley (the late/great Phil Hartman) give their impressions:

    Peter Jennings: Well, this concludes our debate, and with me is my colleague, David Brinkley, a veteran in many such debates. David what were your impressions?

    David Brinkley: Well, what we saw were two men doing everything they could to avoid saying what they would do if elected. Because they know if they did, we wouldn’t elect them. But that’s nothing new, of course, Peter. Every president from Washington to Ronald Reagan has been either a liar or a fool, and usually both!

    Peter Jennings: Well, David, throughout your career, you’ve been known for your cynicism, but certainly you haven’t lost that much faith in the presidency.

    David Brinkley: Well, Peter, as I get older, I find I’ve lost faith in a good many things – country, family, religion, the love of a man for a woman.. I’ve reached a point where it’s struggle to get up in the morning, to continue to plow to a dreary, nasty, brutal life.. of terrible desperation.. at the end of which we’re all just food for maggots!

    Conjures recollections of recent debates, the world doesn’t change much does it? This should have calming effects, like we’ve gone through this before…. but I feel like our trials and tribulations have been upgraded, rebooted, and not in a good way.… more “WIBCI Post #141”

  • WIBCI Post #140

    WIBCI we really understood Fairy Tales?

    Wouldn’t It Be Cool If we considered Folk Tales not only in the time they were written, but as well as in comparison to today?

    Little Red Riding Hood, is a tale that has thousand year old roots in oral traditions, Greek and Roman literature, and the Kabbalah, but the version closest to today’s can be traced back to pre-17th century western Europe. The tale has had many titles, been passed down in multiple languages, and has softened the ending with each generation. You probably only know the sanitized Disney version of such tales and not why the lessons they taught were necessary for children’s survival.

    Little Red Riding Hood was about peasants’ struggle to live in their harsh, scraped out existence. How children need to be leery of strangers and crafty just to exist. In the earliest versions the wolf found out how and where the girl was headed, taking a different route he beat her to her grandmother’s house, killed the grandmother and served her for dinner. The little girl at her grandmother was coaxed into bed with the wolf and he ate her. End of story.

    Charles Perrault explained the ‘moral’ at the end of the tale so that no doubt is left to his intended meaning:

    From this story one learns that children, especially young lasses, pretty, courteous and well-bred, do very wrong to listen to strangers, And it is not an unheard thing if the Wolf is thereby provided with his dinner. I say Wolf, for all wolves are not of the same sort; there is one kind with an amenable disposition – neither noisy, nor hateful, nor angry, but tame, obliging and gentle, following the young maids in the streets, even into their homes. Alas! Who does not know that these gentle wolves are of all such creatures the most dangerous!

    Through the years the ending was cleaned up for the aristocrats to whom this was jarring. There was the introduction of a woodsmen who saved the two eaten but still alive women within the wolf’s belly, or scarred off the wolf before he ate the girl while grandma was hiding in the closet.

    I think it crazy to think that life was so brutal that stories needed to scare the bejeezus out of children. Most of the Brothers Grimm stories are just that, grim… Hansel and Gretel is rough, and you know that Old Woman in the Shoe?  Here are the original lines:

    There was an old woman who lived in a shoe.
    She had so many children, she didn’t know what to do.
    She gave them some broth without any bread;
    Then whipped them all soundly and put them to bed.

    Eeeesh, I thought Poltergeist left scars….… more “WIBCI Post #140”

  • WIBCI Post #139

    WIBCI we weren’t flooded with Propaganda?

    Wouldn’t It Be Cool If our leaders didn’t feel the need to sway and convince the population at large that we share values and goals with them?

    I saw a nationally televised propaganda commercial to remind us just how amazing our President is, and how great the country is doing. There were images of him with arm raised, not the finest of our population goggling near him, there’s saluting, military images, and false declarations about how this is the best ____ , that is the greatest ____ , and never before in the history of mankind has ____ been so good.

    It is awkward, embarrassing, and a bit disturbing; please don’t look for it, it need not garner any hits online.

    My question is, what was this produced for exactly, and who paid for it?

    I also saw online a Rocky Balboa worthy montage to terrible music that I’m sure wasn’t licensed, over images of real life stuff blowing up in Iran interspersed with Superheros, I kid you not. It is tasteless and disconcerting, like something 13 year old boys would make and high five about. Again, please don’t look for it.

    Question remains; what was this produced for exactly, and who paid for it?

    Didn’t the Federal Government defund Cancer research, food stamps, PBS, and eliminate the Department of Education, but we have money for this shit?… more “WIBCI Post #139”

  • WIBCI Post #138

    WIBCI healthcare was LESS on us?

    Wouldn’t It Be Cool If Medical Care wasn’t so REMOTE?

    Below are a smattering of synonyms for the word REMOTE per Thesaurus.com:

    • distant, far-flung, far-off, inaccessible, isolated, lonely, lonesome, obscure, secluded, and unknown…

    hmm I concur these are feelings I associate with the Healthcare industry, but they aren’t….shall I say, inviting?

    As I am a strong believer that meaning in words can be found in what the word is NOT, here are some of the antonyms listed:

    • befriended, close, known, loved, sociable, approachable, convenient, friendly, gentle, likely, possible, relevant, and warm…..

    Ahhhh, cozy no? So the second list of words are the opposite of what Remote Healthcare is designed to feel like. Hmmm, does marketing know this?

    I saw a commercial where you can BYO medical instruments to your next gynecologist appointment if you want ‘the latest in comfort’. I also saw advertisements touting how you can inject your own medication, with syringes, in the comfort of your own home…..

    To each his own, but I feel good with the uncomfortable reluctant feeling that bubbles up with the thought of buying my own medical instruments to appointments and giving myself shots, and I wish to continue leaving such matters to experts.

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  • WIBCI Post #137

    WIBCI our leaders thought before they spoke?

    Wouldn’t It Be Cool If our leaders’ words had meaning/bite/truth/substance?

    When our POTUS during a prime-time address said:

    “We’re going to bring them back to the stone ages where they belong,” and threatened to hit Iran “extremely hard over the next two to three weeks.”

    May I say on behalf of more than most Americans, that we do not concur with the above statement. I do not, nor does 99% of the conscious, thinking, population of the United States wish for a people and their country to be enihilated.

    He does not speak for us.

    Also the irony is not lost on me that the new kid on the block is speaking in ‘Ages’. What does this country know about Ages? We are celebrating a whopping 250 years of existence when Iran is one of the world’s oldest continuous major civilizations, first unified in the 7th century BC. In other words this civilization he so cavalierly could obliterate, has existed for 2,700 years, or 10 times longer than the USofA.

    So again, world, he does not speak for us.… more “WIBCI Post #137”

  • WIBCI Post #136

    WIBCI we learned to eat more crow?

    Wouldn’t It Be Cool If credit was given where it was due?

     

    I can’t believe I’m typing this but…..

    some credit MUST be given to the President of these United States.

    FOR THE PAST 72 HOURS…IN A ROW…. the POTUS has NOT:

    • lied to the public in an address, speech, and/or comment on camera,
    • posted a regrettable opinion on a social media platform,
    • performed military operations without Congressional approval,
    • defied the Constitution,
    • enacted an Executive Order that oppresses the poor whilst advancing the rich,
    • offended an entire collection of individuals,
    • utilized the Department of Justice for personal vengeance,
    • and/or exhibited a cringy lack of decorum internationally

    Maybe he’s not so bad?

     

     

    April Fools.

     

     

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  • WIBCI Post #135

    WIBCI we listened to Denis Miller?

    Wouldn’t It Be Cool If compared to today’s political climate, 36 years ago didn’t seem progressive?

    On October 8th, 1988, a few weeks before George Bush Sr. was elected President of the US, Denis Miller during SNL’s Weekend Update had this to say:

    You know, I don’t even think the Presidential system works anymore. I’m advocating a new system, the volleyball-tocracy. We elect six men, one of them serves until he screws up, they rotate, somebody else takes it for a while. 

    I think he was on to something…..… more “WIBCI Post #135”

  • WIBCI Post #134

    WIBCI we were more like dogs?

    Wouldn’t It Be Cool If created less chaos?

    Cesar Millan, ‘The Dog Whisperer’ was interviewed on PBS’ To Dine with Date Sullivan. They were having dinner at his favorite restaurant and talking about how he went from homeless immigrant to where he was today. Specifically he was talking about how he learned he had to rehabilitate the human owners, NOT the dogs.

    “Human rationalize, we have a choice, so we should be like the most balanced of them all, but we are not.

    We are the ones that create confusion, happiness, and chaos, all over the world.

    Animals would never aim for confusion, happiness and chaos; they would never follow an unstable leader, ever, woman or a man.

    We are the only species to follow unstable leaders.”

    Ain’t that the truth.

    So I thought about it. We also seem to be the only species capable of extinguishing another. Just us and Mother Nature/time. We are the only species that enslaves. We are the only species that takes more than we need.

    Seems everybody else might be better at this whole evolution thing…

    What do YOU think?… more “WIBCI Post #134”

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