tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-344911102024-03-07T18:31:45.296-05:00The Bovina BloviatorThe Bovina Bloviatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11589846153927227356noreply@blogger.comBlogger2480125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34491110.post-52612758334605364302022-03-04T21:11:00.001-05:002022-12-12T16:46:40.602-05:00Moving On.<p>Greetings to anyone who happens to come across this posting. This is to inform you the Bovina Bloviator is finally heading into the barn for good. To those who find the news distressing (there must be a few), you may be pleased know its author, under the guise of a new pseudonym, Issac Bickerstaff, Esq., has started a new blog called <i>The Taos Tatler,</i> in a region far more mountainous than the Catskills, namely the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in the Southern Rockies. You may find the new blog at the link: https://taostatler.blog. </p><p>This blog will remain up indefinitely, though always at the whim of Google, which owns the platform, mainly because some of the postings their author still finds pleasing and he's far too lazy, i.e., he doesn't know how, to catalogue and archive them as an organized person would. This will have to do.</p><p>Your readership and comments, pro or con, have always been gratefully appreciated in the past and, it is hoped, in the future.</p><div><br /></div>The Bovina Bloviatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11589846153927227356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34491110.post-46901970459988041542022-03-04T21:11:00.000-05:002022-03-04T21:11:23.347-05:00Moving On.<p>Greetings to anyone who happens to come across this posting. This is to inform you the Bovina Bloviator is finally heading into the barn for good. To those who find the news distressing (there must be a few), you may be pleased know its author, under the guise of a new pseudonym, Issac Bickerstaff, Esq., has started a new blog called <i>The Taos Tatler,</i> in a region far more mountainous than the Catskills, namely the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in the Southern Rockies. You may find the new blog at the link: https://taostatler.blog. </p><p>This blog will remain up indefinitely, though always at the whim of Google, which owns the platform, mainly because some of the postings their author still finds pleasing and he's far too lazy, i.e., he doesn't know how, to catalogue and archive them as an organized person would. This will have to do.</p><p>Your readership and comments, pro or con, have always been gratefully appreciated in the past and, it is hoped, in the future.</p><div><br /></div>The Bovina Bloviatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11589846153927227356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34491110.post-51433009389591472022020-10-11T20:53:00.002-04:002022-12-12T16:46:40.738-05:00Say It Ain't So, Joe!<p>Some may find this surprising, but long, long ago I attempted to read Freud, <i>The Interpretation of Dreams, </i>I think it was, but not far into that dreary tomfoolery, tossed it onto the ever-growing pile of books I classify "Not to be Read Later." Since then I've held no particular regard for the learned professor's teachings. </p><p>Until today, that is, thanks to none other than Joe Biden. We're all familiar with the so-close-to-likeable coot's many gaffes, but recently he uttered one that beautifully illumed a staple Freudian notion, para-praxis, or, more commonly, (though <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freudian_slip" target="_blank">slightly inaccurately</a>), Freudian slips. Rather than clumsily attempting a description of the incident, let's hear it direct from the poor sad sack's mouth.<br></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Joe Biden: "You're trying your breast, but it never feels like enough." <a href="https://t.co/l7kJaOwcK7">pic.twitter.com/l7kJaOwcK7</a></blockquote><blockquote class="twitter-tweet">— Trump War Room - Text TRUMP to 88022 (@TrumpWarRoom) <a href="https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1315040327842115584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 10, 2020</a></blockquote><p>My goodness me, where do we go with this? To whom (or perhaps "what," more appropriately) was our frontotemporally-challenged VP's unfortunate faux pas attributable? Hard to say, but a possible candidate might be the former Second Lady, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Wilson" target="_blank">Edith Wilson</a>-wannabe Jill Biden. But I have my doubts. The two have been married for some time and Gropin' Joe, after many hopeful "feelings," must be fully aware by now the little woman's alledged deficiencies and accepted there is no more to be had. </p><p>No, Joe must have had on his mind (what remains of it, anyway) the many otherwise comely lasses victims of his impromptu physical examinations. I'm sure they know who they are and if they're good democrats, will take corrective action post-haste after this critique from the possible next president, God help us all, of the United States of America.<br></p> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script> The Bovina Bloviatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11589846153927227356noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34491110.post-82175806617006792872020-10-11T20:53:00.001-04:002020-10-12T10:45:00.837-04:00Say It Ain't So, Joe!<p>Some may find this surprising, but long, long ago I attempted to read Freud, <i>The Interpretation of Dreams, </i>I think it was, but not far into that dreary tomfoolery, tossed it onto the ever-growing pile of books I classify "Not to be Read Later." Since then I've held no particular regard for the learned professor's teachings. </p><p>Until today, that is, thanks to none other than Joe Biden. We're all familiar with the so-close-to-likeable coot's many gaffes, but recently he uttered one that beautifully illumed a staple Freudian notion, para-praxis, or, more commonly, (though <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freudian_slip" target="_blank">slightly inaccurately</a>), Freudian slips. Rather than clumsily attempting a description of the incident, let's hear it direct from the poor sad sack's mouth.<br></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Joe Biden: "You're trying your breast, but it never feels like enough." <a href="https://t.co/l7kJaOwcK7">pic.twitter.com/l7kJaOwcK7</a></blockquote><blockquote class="twitter-tweet">— Trump War Room - Text TRUMP to 88022 (@TrumpWarRoom) <a href="https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1315040327842115584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 10, 2020</a></blockquote><p>My goodness me, where do we go with this? To whom (or perhaps "what," more appropriately) was our frontotemporally-challenged VP's unfortunate faux pas attributable? Hard to say, but a possible candidate might be the former Second Lady, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Wilson" target="_blank">Edith Wilson</a>-wannabe Jill Biden. But I have my doubts. The two have been married for some time and Gropin' Joe, after many hopeful "feelings," must be fully aware by now the little woman's alledged deficiencies and accepted there is no more to be had. </p><p>No, Joe must have had on his mind (what remains of it, anyway) the many otherwise comely lasses victims of his impromptu physical examinations. I'm sure they know who they are and if they're good democrats, will take corrective action post-haste after this critique from the possible next president, God help us all, of the United States of America.<br></p> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
The Bovina Bloviatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11589846153927227356noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34491110.post-77081424713270154712020-09-16T12:26:00.002-04:002022-12-12T16:46:40.851-05:00The sad thing is, they probably will.<div><b>"Black Student Alliance demands Catholic university hire more black queer professors"<br></b></div><div><br></div>https://www.thecollegefix.com/black-student-alliance-demands-catholic-university-hire-more-black-queer-professors/The Bovina Bloviatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11589846153927227356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34491110.post-48323529813928623442020-09-16T12:26:00.001-04:002020-09-16T12:36:27.848-04:00The sad thing is, they probably will.<div><b>"Black Student Alliance demands Catholic university hire more black queer professors"<br></b></div><div><br></div>https://www.thecollegefix.com/black-student-alliance-demands-catholic-university-hire-more-black-queer-professors/The Bovina Bloviatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11589846153927227356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34491110.post-1750352073498120502020-08-07T16:45:00.002-04:002022-12-12T16:46:41.063-05:00If So, I Should Have Just Stayed in the Episcopal Church.It would have saved so much trouble: years of difficult discernment, followed by seven months intense instruction (this was in Fr. Rutler's church, so not your typical RCIA) and finally (as Newman put it), "admission into the One Fold of Christ".<div><br /></div><div>Now this. Fortunately it's the <a href="https://www.ncronline.org/news/opinion/ncr-connections/aoc-future-catholic-church">National Catholic Reporter</a> (where else?), so we need not take it too seriously. Still . . . <div><div><br /></div><div><div class="block block-ncr-blocks first last odd" id="block-ncr-blocks-article-header-text-image" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #414042; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px auto 2em !important; position: relative; text-align: center;"><h1 class="page__title title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: Merriweather, Times, "Times New Roman", Georgia, serif; font-size: 3em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 50.4px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 960px; padding: 0.75em 0px 0.5em; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">AOC is the future of the Catholic Church</h1><div class="post_date no_column_name" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;">Jul 27, 2020</div><div class="author no_column_name" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-size: 1.2em; font-weight: 700; line-height: 15.12px; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px 0.75em 0px 0.95em;">by <a href="https://www.ncronline.org/authors/heidi-schlumpf" style="color: #046db1;">Heidi Schlumpf</a></div> <div class="channel" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-size: 1.2em; font-weight: 700; line-height: 15.12px; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px 0.75em 0px 0.95em;"><a datatype="" href="https://www.ncronline.org/channel/opinion" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" style="color: #046db1;" typeof="skos:Concept">Opinion</a></div><div class="channel" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-size: 1.2em; font-weight: 700; line-height: 15.12px; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px 0.75em 0px 0.95em;"><a datatype="" href="https://www.ncronline.org/channel/justice" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" style="color: #046db1;" typeof="skos:Concept">Justice</a></div><div class="channel" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-size: 1.2em; font-weight: 700; line-height: 15.12px; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px 0.75em 0px 0.95em;"><a datatype="" href="https://www.ncronline.org/channel/people" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" style="color: #046db1;" typeof="skos:Concept">People</a></div></div><a id="main-content" style="background-color: white; color: #046db1; font-family: Merriweather, Times, "Times New Roman", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: underline;"></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #414042; font-family: Merriweather, Times, "Times New Roman", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;"></span><article about="/news/opinion/ncr-connections/aoc-future-catholic-church" class="node-191578 node node-article-with-paragraphs view-mode-full clearfix" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #414042; font-family: Merriweather, Times, "Times New Roman", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;" typeof="sioc:Item foaf:Document"><header style="box-sizing: border-box;"></header><div class="paragraphs-items paragraphs-items-field-paragraphs paragraphs-items-field-paragraphs-full paragraphs-items-full" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div about="" class="entity entity-paragraphs-item paragraphs-item-full-width-image " style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;" typeof=""><div class="field field-name-field-full-width-image field-type-image field-label-hidden" style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow: hidden;"><div class="file file-image file-image-jpeg" id="file-134715" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><h2 class="element-invisible" style="box-sizing: border-box; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); font-size: 1.8em; font-weight: normal; height: 1px; line-height: 35.28px; margin: 1em 0px 0.5em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute !important; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; width: 1px;"><a href="https://www.ncronline.org/file/aoc-cjpg" style="color: #04619d; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">AOC c.jpg</a></h2><img alt="" src="https://www.ncronline.org/sites/default/files/styles/article_full_width/public/AOC%20c.jpg?itok=u-KJFbB5" style="border: 0px; float: left; height: auto; max-width: 100%; width: 779.323px;" typeof="foaf:Image" /><div class="field field-name-field-cut-line field-type-text-long field-label-hidden" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; color: #777777; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 0.95em; line-height: 22.61px; margin: 0px; padding: 0.75em 0px 1.5em;">Screenshot from CSPAN's YouTube channel, showing U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), left, speaking from the U.S. House of Representatives floor July 23. (NCR screenshot)</div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-rich-text-paragraphs field-type-text-long field-label-hidden" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.07em;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's stunning <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI4ueUtkRQ0" style="color: #046db1;" target="_blank">speech</a> on the House floor last week has been called "<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/aocs-speech-about-ted-yohos-apology-was-a-comeback-for-the-ages/2020/07/23/524e689a-cb90-11ea-91f1-28aca4d833a0_story.html" style="color: #046db1;" target="_blank">a comeback for the ages</a>," "<a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/aoc-most-important-feminist-speech-generation_n_5f1afeb3c5b6128e68251cf9" style="color: #046db1;" target="_blank">the most important feminist speech in a generation</a>" and "<a href="https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/rep-ocasio-cortez-s-powerful-speech-on-the-house-floor-is-lesson-on-sexism-decency-88292933747" style="color: #046db1;" target="_blank">a lesson in sexism and decency</a>."</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">I just call it "truth."</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><br /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><br /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><br /></p></div></div></article></div><div><br /></div></div></div>The Bovina Bloviatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11589846153927227356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34491110.post-39283192633076849672020-08-07T16:45:00.001-04:002020-08-07T17:58:20.237-04:00If So, I Should Have Just Stayed in the Episcopal Church.It would have saved so much trouble: years of difficult discernment, followed by seven months intense instruction (this was in Fr. Rutler's church, so not your typical RCIA) and finally (as Newman put it), "admission into the One Fold of Christ".<div><br /></div><div>Now this. Fortunately it's the <a href="https://www.ncronline.org/news/opinion/ncr-connections/aoc-future-catholic-church">National Catholic Reporter</a> (where else?), so we need not take it too seriously. Still . . . <div><div><br /></div><div><div class="block block-ncr-blocks first last odd" id="block-ncr-blocks-article-header-text-image" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #414042; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px auto 2em !important; position: relative; text-align: center;"><h1 class="page__title title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: Merriweather, Times, "Times New Roman", Georgia, serif; font-size: 3em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 50.4px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 960px; padding: 0.75em 0px 0.5em; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">AOC is the future of the Catholic Church</h1><div class="post_date no_column_name" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;">Jul 27, 2020</div><div class="author no_column_name" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-size: 1.2em; font-weight: 700; line-height: 15.12px; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px 0.75em 0px 0.95em;">by <a href="https://www.ncronline.org/authors/heidi-schlumpf" style="color: #046db1;">Heidi Schlumpf</a></div> <div class="channel" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-size: 1.2em; font-weight: 700; line-height: 15.12px; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px 0.75em 0px 0.95em;"><a datatype="" href="https://www.ncronline.org/channel/opinion" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" style="color: #046db1;" typeof="skos:Concept">Opinion</a></div><div class="channel" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-size: 1.2em; font-weight: 700; line-height: 15.12px; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px 0.75em 0px 0.95em;"><a datatype="" href="https://www.ncronline.org/channel/justice" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" style="color: #046db1;" typeof="skos:Concept">Justice</a></div><div class="channel" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-size: 1.2em; font-weight: 700; line-height: 15.12px; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px 0.75em 0px 0.95em;"><a datatype="" href="https://www.ncronline.org/channel/people" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" style="color: #046db1;" typeof="skos:Concept">People</a></div></div><a id="main-content" style="background-color: white; color: #046db1; font-family: Merriweather, Times, "Times New Roman", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: underline;"></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #414042; font-family: Merriweather, Times, "Times New Roman", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;"></span><article about="/news/opinion/ncr-connections/aoc-future-catholic-church" class="node-191578 node node-article-with-paragraphs view-mode-full clearfix" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #414042; font-family: Merriweather, Times, "Times New Roman", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;" typeof="sioc:Item foaf:Document"><header style="box-sizing: border-box;"></header><div class="paragraphs-items paragraphs-items-field-paragraphs paragraphs-items-field-paragraphs-full paragraphs-items-full" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div about="" class="entity entity-paragraphs-item paragraphs-item-full-width-image " style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;" typeof=""><div class="field field-name-field-full-width-image field-type-image field-label-hidden" style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow: hidden;"><div class="file file-image file-image-jpeg" id="file-134715" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><h2 class="element-invisible" style="box-sizing: border-box; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); font-size: 1.8em; font-weight: normal; height: 1px; line-height: 35.28px; margin: 1em 0px 0.5em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute !important; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; width: 1px;"><a href="https://www.ncronline.org/file/aoc-cjpg" style="color: #04619d; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">AOC c.jpg</a></h2><img alt="" src="https://www.ncronline.org/sites/default/files/styles/article_full_width/public/AOC%20c.jpg?itok=u-KJFbB5" style="border: 0px; float: left; height: auto; max-width: 100%; width: 779.323px;" typeof="foaf:Image" /><div class="field field-name-field-cut-line field-type-text-long field-label-hidden" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; color: #777777; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 0.95em; line-height: 22.61px; margin: 0px; padding: 0.75em 0px 1.5em;">Screenshot from CSPAN's YouTube channel, showing U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), left, speaking from the U.S. House of Representatives floor July 23. (NCR screenshot)</div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-rich-text-paragraphs field-type-text-long field-label-hidden" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.07em;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's stunning <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI4ueUtkRQ0" style="color: #046db1;" target="_blank">speech</a> on the House floor last week has been called "<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/aocs-speech-about-ted-yohos-apology-was-a-comeback-for-the-ages/2020/07/23/524e689a-cb90-11ea-91f1-28aca4d833a0_story.html" style="color: #046db1;" target="_blank">a comeback for the ages</a>," "<a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/aoc-most-important-feminist-speech-generation_n_5f1afeb3c5b6128e68251cf9" style="color: #046db1;" target="_blank">the most important feminist speech in a generation</a>" and "<a href="https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/rep-ocasio-cortez-s-powerful-speech-on-the-house-floor-is-lesson-on-sexism-decency-88292933747" style="color: #046db1;" target="_blank">a lesson in sexism and decency</a>."</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">I just call it "truth."</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><br /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><br /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><br /></p></div></div></article></div><div><br /></div></div></div>The Bovina Bloviatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11589846153927227356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34491110.post-31912907951817716722020-07-21T13:25:00.001-04:002022-12-12T16:46:41.177-05:00Only the Satirist Dares Speak the Truth.<font size="5">From the <a href="https://babylonbee.com/news/study-finds-most-people-just-wearing-masks-to-avoid-judgmental-looks">Babylon Bee</a>. </font><div class="medium-article-title mb-1 font-weight-bold" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 40px; line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0.25rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="medium-article-title mb-1 font-weight-bold" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: roboto, sans-serif; line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0.25rem; margin-top: 0px;"><font size="5">Study Finds Most People Just Wearing Masks To Avoid Sea Of Judgmental Glares</font></div><div class="large-article-title mb-1 font-weight-bold" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: roboto, sans-serif; line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0.25rem; margin-top: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">A new study found that the primary reason people are wearing masks in public now is not to stop COVID-19 but rather to avoid the sea of judgmental stares.</p><div class="mid-article-container" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 15px;"></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">92% of Americans surveyed said they're wearing the masks not to stop the spread of the virus but just so they aren't publicly shamed.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">"Honestly, I couldn't care less about the 'rona, but I just want to get in and out and pick up a few groceries without getting glared at like I'm a serial killer who personally murdered hundreds of thousands of Americans," said Bob Cristoff as he went into a Safeway. "I just need some eggs, please don't beat me to death."</p></div><div class="large-article-title mb-1 font-weight-bold" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: roboto, sans-serif; line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0.25rem; margin-top: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><font size="5"><a href="https://babylonbee.com/news/study-finds-most-people-just-wearing-masks-to-avoid-judgmental-looks">Read the whole thing</a>.</font></p><div class="large-article-title mb-1 font-weight-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 40px; line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0.25rem; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></div></div><div class="large-article-title mb-1 font-weight-bold" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 40px; line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0.25rem; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></div> The Bovina Bloviatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11589846153927227356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34491110.post-2751753840452446142020-07-21T13:25:00.000-04:002020-07-21T13:25:15.682-04:00Only the Satirist Dares Speak the Truth.<font size="5">From the <a href="https://babylonbee.com/news/study-finds-most-people-just-wearing-masks-to-avoid-judgmental-looks">Babylon Bee</a>.
</font><div class="medium-article-title mb-1 font-weight-bold" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 40px; line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0.25rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="medium-article-title mb-1 font-weight-bold" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: roboto, sans-serif; line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0.25rem; margin-top: 0px;"><font size="5">Study Finds Most People Just Wearing Masks To Avoid Sea Of Judgmental Glares</font></div><div class="large-article-title mb-1 font-weight-bold" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: roboto, sans-serif; line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0.25rem; margin-top: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">A new study found that the primary reason people are wearing masks in public now is not to stop COVID-19 but rather to avoid the sea of judgmental stares.</p><div class="mid-article-container" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 15px;"></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">92% of Americans surveyed said they're wearing the masks not to stop the spread of the virus but just so they aren't publicly shamed.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">"Honestly, I couldn't care less about the 'rona, but I just want to get in and out and pick up a few groceries without getting glared at like I'm a serial killer who personally murdered hundreds of thousands of Americans," said Bob Cristoff as he went into a Safeway. "I just need some eggs, please don't beat me to death."</p></div><div class="large-article-title mb-1 font-weight-bold" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: roboto, sans-serif; line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0.25rem; margin-top: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><font size="5"><a href="https://babylonbee.com/news/study-finds-most-people-just-wearing-masks-to-avoid-judgmental-looks">Read the whole thing</a>.</font></p><div class="large-article-title mb-1 font-weight-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 40px; line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0.25rem; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></div></div><div class="large-article-title mb-1 font-weight-bold" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 40px; line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0.25rem; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></div>
The Bovina Bloviatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11589846153927227356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34491110.post-65822407645897391132020-07-06T13:26:00.002-04:002022-12-12T16:46:41.391-05:00In These Trying Times Here's News All May Rejoice In.<div><font size="5">From the <a href="https://pagesix.com/2020/07/06/alan-dershowitz-hasnt-visited-his-favorite-nude-beach-in-months/?utm_source=url_sitebuttons&utm_medium=site%20buttons&utm_campaign=site%20buttons">New York Post</a>:</font></div><div><br /></div><div><h1 class="postid-5308881" style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: neue-haas-grotesk-display, sans-serif; font-size: 2.625rem; line-height: 1.05; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alan Dershowitz hasn’t been seen at his favorite nude beach in months</h1></div><div><br /></div><div><img alt="Alan Dershowitz" src="https://pagesix.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/07/Alan-Dershowitz-beach-01.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=618&h=410&crop=1" /></div><div><ul class="article-loop" data-loop-page="0" data-loop-pages="5" style="background-color: white; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><li class="article-loop_adslot"></li><li class="article half article-loop__article has-border post-15935456 type-article status-publish has-post-thumbnail tag-alan-dershowitz tag-bill-clinton tag-child-abuse tag-ghislaine-maxwell tag-jeffrey-epstein tag-sex-trafficking section-news" id="post-15935456" style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(208, 208, 208); margin-top: 40px; padding-top: 40px; position: relative;"><div class="entry-thumbnail" style="float: left; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 231px;"><a href="https://nypost.com/2020/07/04/whos-afraid-of-ghislaine-maxwell-everyone-on-this-list/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="-1"></a></div></li></ul></div>The Bovina Bloviatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11589846153927227356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34491110.post-80305766834829802992020-07-06T13:26:00.001-04:002020-07-06T13:26:52.706-04:00In These Trying Times Here's News All May Rejoice In.<div><font size="5">From the <a href="https://pagesix.com/2020/07/06/alan-dershowitz-hasnt-visited-his-favorite-nude-beach-in-months/?utm_source=url_sitebuttons&utm_medium=site%20buttons&utm_campaign=site%20buttons">New York Post</a>:</font></div><div><br /></div><div><h1 class="postid-5308881" style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: neue-haas-grotesk-display, sans-serif; font-size: 2.625rem; line-height: 1.05; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alan Dershowitz hasn’t been seen at his favorite nude beach in months</h1></div><div><br /></div><div><img alt="Alan Dershowitz" src="https://pagesix.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/07/Alan-Dershowitz-beach-01.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=618&h=410&crop=1" /></div><div><ul class="article-loop" data-loop-page="0" data-loop-pages="5" style="background-color: white; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><li class="article-loop_adslot"></li><li class="article half article-loop__article has-border post-15935456 type-article status-publish has-post-thumbnail tag-alan-dershowitz tag-bill-clinton tag-child-abuse tag-ghislaine-maxwell tag-jeffrey-epstein tag-sex-trafficking section-news" id="post-15935456" style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(208, 208, 208); margin-top: 40px; padding-top: 40px; position: relative;"><div class="entry-thumbnail" style="float: left; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 231px;"><a href="https://nypost.com/2020/07/04/whos-afraid-of-ghislaine-maxwell-everyone-on-this-list/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="-1"></a></div></li></ul></div>The Bovina Bloviatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11589846153927227356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34491110.post-75389549834660129752020-06-29T23:18:00.001-04:002022-12-12T16:46:41.506-05:00Amazing! There still are New Yorkers in New York.<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Woman to counter-protesters at the Defend Teddy Roosevelt Statue rally in NYC: <br><br>“You’re a domestic terrorist group and we will see to it that you fall and you fall so hard, you won’t know what hit you.”<br> <a href="https://t.co/x7NPXWU7M4">pic.twitter.com/x7NPXWU7M4</a></p>— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) <a href="https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1277371107612528647?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 28, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script> <div><font size="5"><br></font></div><div><font size="5">The bewildered, helpless look on the face of "little boy," realizing his regurgitations of the radical crap intubated by his radical professors at the American University are going nowhere with this tough old broad, is priceless. She's obviously in her element, loving every minute of it and her "Nu Yawk" accent makes it all the more special, as does the cross around her neck.</font></div><div><font size="5"><br></font></div><div><font size="5">I hope this one goes viral.</font></div>The Bovina Bloviatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11589846153927227356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34491110.post-17592383671242457482020-06-29T23:18:00.000-04:002020-06-29T23:59:16.459-04:00Amazing! There still are New Yorkers in New York.<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Woman to counter-protesters at the Defend Teddy Roosevelt Statue rally in NYC: <br><br>“You’re a domestic terrorist group and we will see to it that you fall and you fall so hard, you won’t know what hit you.”<br> <a href="https://t.co/x7NPXWU7M4">pic.twitter.com/x7NPXWU7M4</a></p>— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) <a href="https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1277371107612528647?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 28, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
<div><font size="5"><br></font></div><div><font size="5">The bewildered, helpless look on the face of "little boy," realizing his regurgitations of the radical crap intubated by his radical professors at the American University are going nowhere with this tough old broad, is priceless. She's obviously in her element, loving every minute of it and her "Nu Yawk" accent makes it all the more special, as does the cross around her neck.</font></div><div><font size="5"><br></font></div><div><font size="5">I hope this one goes viral.</font></div>The Bovina Bloviatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11589846153927227356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34491110.post-87197205975839688172020-06-25T18:02:00.003-04:002022-12-12T16:46:41.643-05:00When an Unstoppable Force Meets an Immovable Object . . . <font size="5"><a href="https://www.lifenews.com/2020/06/24/planned-parenthood-employees-admit-abortion-business-is-steeped-in-white-supremacy/">Pass the popcorn</a>.</font><div><font size="5"><br /></font></div><div><h2 class="post_title" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #114d6d; font-size: 45px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 50px; margin: 0px 15px 10px;">Planned Parenthood Employees Admit Abortion Business is “Steeped in White Supremacy”</h2><div><br /></div><div><font size="5">Thanks to WJT.</font></div><div><font size="5"><br /></font></div><div><font size="5"><br /></font></div><div class="meta" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: lato, sans-serif; margin: 0px 15px 15px; text-transform: uppercase;"><font size="5"><span class="fa fa-flag" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #649255; display: inline-block; font-family: fontawesome; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; text-rendering: auto; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;"></span></font></div><div><font size="5"><br /></font></div><div><font size="5"><br /></font></div> </div>The Bovina Bloviatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11589846153927227356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34491110.post-66802707124178716982020-06-25T18:02:00.002-04:002020-06-25T18:08:21.453-04:00When an Unstoppable Force Meets an Immovable Object . . . <font size="5"><a href="https://www.lifenews.com/2020/06/24/planned-parenthood-employees-admit-abortion-business-is-steeped-in-white-supremacy/">Pass the popcorn</a>.</font><div><font size="5"><br /></font></div><div><h2 class="post_title" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #114d6d; font-size: 45px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 50px; margin: 0px 15px 10px;">Planned Parenthood Employees Admit Abortion Business is “Steeped in White Supremacy”</h2><div><br /></div><div><font size="5">Thanks to WJT.</font></div><div><font size="5"><br /></font></div><div><font size="5"><br /></font></div><div class="meta" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: lato, sans-serif; margin: 0px 15px 15px; text-transform: uppercase;"><font size="5"><span class="fa fa-flag" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #649255; display: inline-block; font-family: fontawesome; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; text-rendering: auto; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;"></span></font></div><div><font size="5"><br /></font></div><div><font size="5"><br /></font></div>
</div>The Bovina Bloviatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11589846153927227356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34491110.post-64342916994456778212020-06-25T17:32:00.006-04:002022-12-12T16:46:41.758-05:00Just Deserts.<div><img alt="View image on Twitter" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ea2eCRJX0AEFY_R?format=jpg&name=small" /></div><div style="font-size: x-large;"><font size="5"><br /></font></div><font size="5"><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/minneapolis-powderhorn-park-neighborhood-progressive-sworn-off-police-911-george-floyd">From Fox News</a>:</font><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><font size="5"><br /></font></div><div><p class="speakable" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: roboto, "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A progressive <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/minneapolis-st-paul" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #003366; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s, all 0.25s ease 0s, all 0s ease-in-out 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Minneapolis</a> neighborhood that pledged not to call the <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/crime/police-and-law-enforcement" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #003366; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s, all 0.25s ease 0s, all 0s ease-in-out 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">police</a> in the wake of the death of <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/person/george-floyd" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #003366; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s, all 0.25s ease 0s, all 0s ease-in-out 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">George Floyd</a> is now dealing with a 300-strong homeless encampment in a local park, according to reports.</p></div><div><p class="speakable" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: roboto, "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Traffic has reportedly increased in the neighborhood around Powderhorn Park, as drug dealers seek to meet their clientele displaced during the civil unrest, rioting and looting following Floyd’s death at the end of May. At least one person overdosed inside the park and was brought out by an ambulance. Prostitution has also been reported in the area.</p></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: roboto, "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Residents though have agreed to “check their privilege” and “protect people of color” by not involving law enforcement to report instances of property damage, according to the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/24/us/minneapolis-george-floyd-police.html" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #003366; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s, all 0.25s ease 0s, all 0s ease-in-out 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">New York Times.</a></p></div></blockquote><span style="color: #222222; font-family: roboto, "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><font size="5">Gosh, with all that mayhem, you think the neighborhood residents might change their tune? Not a chance. Not this one:</font></span><div><font color="#222222" face="" size="5"><br /></font></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: roboto, "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"I’m not being judgmental,” Carrie Nightshade, 44, told the Times, explaining she no longer allows her children, 12 and 9, to play in the park by themselves. “It’s not personal. It’s just not safe."</p></div></blockquote><div><div><font size="5">Nor this one:</font></div><div><font size="5"><br /></font></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><div><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: roboto, "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Another resident, Mitchell Erickson, said he regretted calling 911 when two black teenagers cornered him a block away from his home, held a gun to his chest and demanded his car keys. Erickson said he mistakenly handed over his house keys, and the frustrated teens left him only to steal another car a few blocks away.</p></div></div><div><div><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: roboto, "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Been thinking more about it,” Erickson said in a text message to a reporter. “I regret calling the police. It was my instinct but I wish it hadn’t been. I put those boys [<i>sic</i>] in danger of death by calling the cops.”</p></div></div></blockquote><div><font size="5">Nor, apparently, the rest of the neighborhood and local officials are with them all the way.</font></div><div> </div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><div><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: roboto, "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Residents in the neighborhood historically known for its far-left politics and activism intervened last week when park police gave campers 72 hours to dismantle their tents and leave. The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board has since passed a resolution not to evict people from any city park and has called for increased funding for longer-term housing for campers, according to the <a href="https://www.startribune.com/mpls-park-leaders-to-homeless-you-can-stay-in-our-parks/571355602/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #003366; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s, all 0.25s ease 0s, all 0s ease-in-out 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Star Tribune.</a></p></div></div></blockquote><div><div><div class="ad-container desktop" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: roboto, "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="ad gam" data-ad-lz="1" data-ad-size="728x90,300x250,320x50,300x50,1x1,fluid" data-hot-unit="" data-iu="lb4" id="desktop_desk-art-us-lb4" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div></div><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: roboto, "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="5">And social workers. Got to have social workers lest there be an outbreak of violent crime.</font></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font color="#222222" face="" size="5">An old saw claims a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged. There's truth to that, but it presumes of course the unfortunate muggee possesses at a least a minimum capability of empirical reasoning. These Minneapolitans seem to have none, thus are condemned to be victimized over and over again until they're lowered in the grave, possibly assisted in that by a member of the same criminal class for whom they profess such sympathy. You have to wonder does this virtue signalling of theirs release such powerful endorphins that the euphoria completely inhibits the awful pain of continual victimhood? </font></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: roboto, "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="5">More puzzling is many if not most of these hapless souls are descendants of a generation not too far back that managed to crush Hitler's Germany and Hirohito's Japan. What a tragedy, and what an outrage.</font></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p></div><div><div><div class="ad-container desktop" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: roboto, "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="ad gam" data-ad-lz="1" data-ad-size="728x90,300x250,320x50,300x50,1x1,fluid" data-hot-unit="" data-iu="lb2" id="desktop_desk-art-us-lb2" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div></div></div></div></div> <iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/bIZoVO8ZyyQ?start=2" width="560"></iframe>The Bovina Bloviatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11589846153927227356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34491110.post-78425527045227035962020-06-25T17:32:00.005-04:002020-06-25T21:43:38.143-04:00Just Deserts.<div><img alt="View image on Twitter" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ea2eCRJX0AEFY_R?format=jpg&name=small" /></div><div style="font-size: x-large;"><font size="5"><br /></font></div><font size="5"><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/minneapolis-powderhorn-park-neighborhood-progressive-sworn-off-police-911-george-floyd">From Fox News</a>:</font><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><font size="5"><br /></font></div><div><p class="speakable" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: roboto, "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A progressive <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/minneapolis-st-paul" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #003366; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s, all 0.25s ease 0s, all 0s ease-in-out 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Minneapolis</a> neighborhood that pledged not to call the <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/crime/police-and-law-enforcement" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #003366; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s, all 0.25s ease 0s, all 0s ease-in-out 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">police</a> in the wake of the death of <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/person/george-floyd" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #003366; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s, all 0.25s ease 0s, all 0s ease-in-out 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">George Floyd</a> is now dealing with a 300-strong homeless encampment in a local park, according to reports.</p></div><div><p class="speakable" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: roboto, "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Traffic has reportedly increased in the neighborhood around Powderhorn Park, as drug dealers seek to meet their clientele displaced during the civil unrest, rioting and looting following Floyd’s death at the end of May. At least one person overdosed inside the park and was brought out by an ambulance. Prostitution has also been reported in the area.</p></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: roboto, "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Residents though have agreed to “check their privilege” and “protect people of color” by not involving law enforcement to report instances of property damage, according to the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/24/us/minneapolis-george-floyd-police.html" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #003366; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s, all 0.25s ease 0s, all 0s ease-in-out 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">New York Times.</a></p></div></blockquote><span style="color: #222222; font-family: roboto, "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><font size="5">Gosh, with all that mayhem, you think the neighborhood residents might change their tune? Not a chance. Not this one:</font></span><div><font color="#222222" face="" size="5"><br /></font></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: roboto, "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"I’m not being judgmental,” Carrie Nightshade, 44, told the Times, explaining she no longer allows her children, 12 and 9, to play in the park by themselves. “It’s not personal. It’s just not safe."</p></div></blockquote><div><div><font size="5">Nor this one:</font></div><div><font size="5"><br /></font></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><div><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: roboto, "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Another resident, Mitchell Erickson, said he regretted calling 911 when two black teenagers cornered him a block away from his home, held a gun to his chest and demanded his car keys. Erickson said he mistakenly handed over his house keys, and the frustrated teens left him only to steal another car a few blocks away.</p></div></div><div><div><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: roboto, "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Been thinking more about it,” Erickson said in a text message to a reporter. “I regret calling the police. It was my instinct but I wish it hadn’t been. I put those boys [<i>sic</i>] in danger of death by calling the cops.”</p></div></div></blockquote><div><font size="5">Nor, apparently, the rest of the neighborhood and local officials are with them all the way.</font></div><div> </div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><div><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: roboto, "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Residents in the neighborhood historically known for its far-left politics and activism intervened last week when park police gave campers 72 hours to dismantle their tents and leave. The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board has since passed a resolution not to evict people from any city park and has called for increased funding for longer-term housing for campers, according to the <a href="https://www.startribune.com/mpls-park-leaders-to-homeless-you-can-stay-in-our-parks/571355602/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #003366; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s, all 0.25s ease 0s, all 0s ease-in-out 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Star Tribune.</a></p></div></div></blockquote><div><div><div class="ad-container desktop" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: roboto, "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="ad gam" data-ad-lz="1" data-ad-size="728x90,300x250,320x50,300x50,1x1,fluid" data-hot-unit="" data-iu="lb4" id="desktop_desk-art-us-lb4" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div></div><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: roboto, "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="5">And social workers. Got to have social workers lest there be an outbreak of violent crime.</font></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font color="#222222" face="" size="5">An old saw claims a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged. There's truth to that, but it presumes of course the unfortunate muggee possesses at a least a minimum capability of empirical reasoning. These Minneapolitans seem to have none, thus are condemned to be victimized over and over again until they're lowered in the grave, possibly assisted in that by a member of the same criminal class for whom they profess such sympathy. You have to wonder does this virtue signalling of theirs release such powerful endorphins that the euphoria completely inhibits the awful pain of continual victimhood? </font></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: roboto, "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="5">More puzzling is many if not most of these hapless souls are descendants of a generation not too far back that managed to crush Hitler's Germany and Hirohito's Japan. What a tragedy, and what an outrage.</font></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p></div><div><div><div class="ad-container desktop" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: roboto, "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="ad gam" data-ad-lz="1" data-ad-size="728x90,300x250,320x50,300x50,1x1,fluid" data-hot-unit="" data-iu="lb2" id="desktop_desk-art-us-lb2" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div></div></div></div></div>
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box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; display: inline; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.3125; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;">Anti-racism protests leave 27 police officers hurt</span></div></div><div class="css-1dbjc4n r-zl2h9q" style="align-items: stretch; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 0; margin: 0px 0px 2px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div class="css-901oao css-cens5h r-1re7ezh r-1qd0xha r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="auto" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #657786; display: -webkit-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.3125; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; display: inline; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.3125; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;">Protests in London have been largely peaceful but were marred by scuffles outside Downing Street.</span></div></div><div class="css-1dbjc4n" style="align-items: stretch; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 0; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div class="css-901oao css-bfa6kz r-1re7ezh r-1qd0xha r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="auto" style="border: 0px solid black; 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font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.3125; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; display: inline; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.3125; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;">27 police officers injured during largely peaceful anti-racism protests in London</span></div></div><div class="css-1dbjc4n" style="-webkit-box-align: stretch; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; align-items: stretch; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 0; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; 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font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.3125; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; display: inline; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.3125; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;">Anti-racism protests leave 27 police officers hurt</span></div></div><div class="css-1dbjc4n r-zl2h9q" style="align-items: stretch; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 0; margin: 0px 0px 2px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div class="css-901oao css-cens5h r-1re7ezh r-1qd0xha r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="auto" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #657786; display: -webkit-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.3125; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; display: inline; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.3125; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;">Protests in London have been largely peaceful but were marred by scuffles outside Downing Street.</span></div></div><div class="css-1dbjc4n" style="align-items: stretch; border: 0px solid black; 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Isn't "handling" part of the shipping process? Is it possible to have an item shipped without "handling" and if not, wouldn't it be more ethical to include it in the shipping charge?</i></div><div dir="auto"><i><br></i></div><div dir="auto"><i>In any event, that small one-dollar charge irked me enough to buy the book on Amazon instead. My reason for writing is to give you a "heads-up" that slipping in extra fees, no matter how small, appears underhanded and you will lose customers over them, as you have lost me. I urge you to quit the practice. </i></div><div dir="auto"><i><br></i></div><div dir="auto"><i>Sincerely, </i></div><div dir="auto"><i>[The Bovina Bloviator] </i></div><div id="ms-outlook-mobile-signature"><div><br></div>Get <a href="https://aka.ms/ghei36">Outlook for Android</a></div>The Bovina Bloviatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11589846153927227356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34491110.post-82877955084830130992020-06-04T13:26:00.001-04:002020-06-05T10:42:52.570-04:00The Lengths We go to Avoid Practicing, or: Straining at a Gnat.<div dir="auto"><i>Dear [music dealer],</i></div><div dir="auto"><i><br></i></div><div dir="auto"><i>I was about to make my first purchase from you of a volume of Durufle organ works, as your price was seemingly competitive and I like to patronize traditional retailers whenever possible.</i></div><div dir="auto"><i><br></i></div><div dir="auto"><i>Unfortunately, when I got to the check-out page, in addition to the shipping charge (which was reasonable) there was an additional one-dollar charge for "handling." Isn't "handling" part of the shipping process? Is it possible to have an item shipped without "handling" and if not, wouldn't it be more ethical to include it in the shipping charge?</i></div><div dir="auto"><i><br></i></div><div dir="auto"><i>In any event, that small one-dollar charge irked me enough to buy the book on Amazon instead. My reason for writing is to give you a "heads-up" that slipping in extra fees, no matter how small, appears underhanded and you will lose customers over them, as you have lost me. I urge you to quit the practice. </i></div><div dir="auto"><i><br></i></div><div dir="auto"><i>Sincerely, </i></div><div dir="auto"><i>[The Bovina Bloviator] </i></div><div id="ms-outlook-mobile-signature"><div><br></div>Get <a href="https://aka.ms/ghei36">Outlook for Android</a></div>The Bovina Bloviatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11589846153927227356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34491110.post-73229267965433602802020-06-03T15:42:00.005-04:002022-12-12T16:46:42.243-05:00It Was a Helluva Town.<div dir="auto"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div dir="auto">Watching New York City, the city of my ancestors back to when the lingua franca was Dutch, burn (again) is heartbreaking. Making it worse are the two incompetent clowns, the Mayor and the Governor, making fools of themselves constantly bickering with one another as mobs destroy everything in sight. Worse still, far worse, if those two buffoons, their malfeasance not withstanding, were to run for re-election, they would both win by huge margins, as they have in the past. You see, both have Ds after their names and both slavishly hew to the received body politic of the ruling class, for which nothing else matters. </div></div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto">Since New York's voters then are ultimately responsible for the two horrors, de Blasio and Cuomo, letting the City go to ruin while they shoot spitballs at each other, I cannot imagine myself ever wanting to return, even for a short visit. To be among a citizenry that permitted the despoiling of the city I loved and lived in for so many years is simply more than I could bear.</div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto"></div> The Bovina Bloviatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11589846153927227356noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34491110.post-47595167819435432432020-06-03T15:42:00.004-04:002020-06-04T22:28:29.262-04:00It Was a Helluva Town.<div dir="auto"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div dir="auto">Watching New York City, the city of my ancestors back to when the lingua franca was Dutch, burn (again) is heartbreaking. Making it worse are the two incompetent clowns, the Mayor and the Governor, making fools of themselves constantly bickering with one another as mobs destroy everything in sight. Worse still, far worse, if those two buffoons, their malfeasance not withstanding, were to run for re-election, they would both win by huge margins, as they have in the past. You see, both have Ds after their names and both slavishly hew to the received body politic of the ruling class, for which nothing else matters. </div></div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto">Since New York's voters then are ultimately responsible for the two horrors, de Blasio and Cuomo, letting the City go to ruin while they shoot spitballs at each other, I cannot imagine myself ever wanting to return, even for a short visit. To be among a citizenry that permitted the despoiling of the city I loved and lived in for so many years is simply more than I could bear.</div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto"></div>
The Bovina Bloviatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11589846153927227356noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34491110.post-90039841639290541432020-06-01T21:29:00.001-04:002022-12-12T16:46:42.391-05:00Note to the Media.Has there ever been a "protest"-turned-violent that didn't begin "peacefully?" Maybe it's time to retire this tendentious, deceitful and overused trope; you're not fooling anyone anymore. Give it a rest.The Bovina Bloviatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11589846153927227356noreply@blogger.com0