Tuesday, February 15, 2011
You know I knew I hate Valentine's Day for a reason
And now I have my reason: Lupercalia, when the men were men and the women were whipped.. And now, after muddying the waters as the Popes do so well, we celebrate Valentine’s Day, or at least did yesterday.. The NPR story I linked here a few minutes ago continues to fascinate me.. ..The notion of young Roman men picking female names out of a jar, and having relations for the duration..no flowers necessary in Roman times. No chocolates. No wining and dining.. instead it was the very act of procreation or nocreation that took place with immediate flare..
NPR reports, too,
Young women would actually line up for the men to hit them, Lenski says. They believed this would make them fertile.
…and now, after this brutal history of abuse of women and strange pagan rituals of what could best be described as rape, we celebrate a glorified marketing bonanza of food booze and cards. And the women that don’t get a card are told to be upset.. the men who have no one to give a card to are told they are losers. Maybe those should get together and start celebrating Lupercalia all over again, minus the nudity, whipping, gender abuse, and demoralization of humanity. But isn’t demoralization of humanity what Valentine’s Day is all about anyway..?
Should have linked this one yesterday
But interesting nonetheless: The dark origins of Valentine’s Day..
Monday, February 14, 2011
Late solar news flash:
The sun continues to be active tonight… and now an X2.2 level X-ray event was observed by the GOES 15 satellite around 9 p.m. ET tonight.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttiOfX3IEj8?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=http://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque&w=500&h=374]
…solar flares abound.. Staring at the Sun — The Offspring
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
24 "news" networks
Anyone else frustrated!!? What a waste of time.. CNN, FOX NEWS, MSNBC.. all those hours a day and nothing to show for it.
A revolution in Egypt.. And more. Tunisia.. Now IRAN! …the Patriot Act passes tonight.. there are tremors at Mount St Helens.. there is a massive solar flare aimed right at earth.
And what do our noise networks give us?
Dick Morris on FOX NEWS…
Politics on MSNBC..
Snooze news on CNN..
Truly a shame. Such a grand amount of time devoted to mindless drivel.. So many minutes of the day wasted on news that doesn’t matter but just “stuff” like gossip, celebrity, and noise that poses as news.
As Dan Quayle said once, “What a waste it is to lose one’s mind or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.”
Perhaps Dan was a prophet.
This was predicted: House passed the Patriot Act Renewal tonight with a simple majority
It didn’t happen last week. But everyone knew it would go through..
A strange scene took place in Harrisburg, PA today
About ‘200’ people convened outside of the Mayor’s office to tell Linda Thompson to quit.. She mouthed no.. and then someone threw a snowball at her window..
None of it was productive. None of it fixed any true problems in the capitol of Pennsylvania.. but it made for some strange images from the midday protest..
A strange scene took place in Harrisburg, PA today
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