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K “Yesterday really. 11:32 p.m. on the Coast East. The day triggers introspection. The party has just started and the punch bowl is pulled back unrelentingly a little at a time and then more quickly.”
J “The great rheostat starts turning down the lights. We need to light up our lives.”
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[See the e-commentary at “Weather / Climate. Oh, And Have A Happy Solstice! (June 17, 2019)”, “Another Solstice (June 20, 2011)” and “Solstice (June 21, 2010)”.]
Bumper sticker of the week:
Party on!
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[See the e-commentary at “King Seale Newton X Davis Dellums Day. Oh, And Happy Martin Luther King Day! (January 21, 2019)”, “Charlottesville . . . Chancellorsville? (August 14, 2017)”, “Rerouting History (February 15, 2016)”, “The Confederate Flag: What Does It Mean To You? (July 6, 2015)”, “Celebrate Virginia’s ‘Celebrate Slavery Month’ (April 12, 2010)”, “King Daze (January 20, 2014)”, “Dixie Visited (September 17, 2012)”, “Brown Is The New Black (February 18, 2008)”, “Seeing 2020: A Sanctuary City Is Legal If It Respects And Protects ____________. Oh, And Happy Martin Luther King Day! (January 20, 2020)” and “Columbus And The Redskins (October 14, 2013)”.]
Bumper sticker of the week:
Remember
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J “_.”
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K “_.”
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[See “Memorial Day: US Nuclear-Capable Bombers, NATO Warplanes Fly Over All 30 NATO Nations in One Day” in “Antiwar.com” dated May 31, 2021 by Rick Rozoff.]
Bumper sticker of the week:
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K “A devoted masker in late January of 2020 no longer shares the same devotion in early June of 2021. Much about the mRNA vaccines is troubling, very troubling. Now that the government mask mandates are relaxed, public places are relaxing their requirements and letting individuals who self-identify as vaccinated to enter without sporting a mask. However, my research suggests that many if not most individuals who have not had a vaccine are strolling insouciantly if not defiantly into public places without a mask.”
J “I believe in masks. I believe in mandatory mask requirements. I believe in mandatory mRNA vaccines.”
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Bumper sticker of the week:
The Great Divide. Coming to a country/county near you.
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K “Last time I ventured a guess, I concluded that I watch about 30 hours of traditional television a year. Some of the viewing is logged under ‘social science research’ rather than ‘entertainment’ or ‘educational’ activities. You will not be surprised to be reminded that I still have no television cable service.”
J “About 50 hours, give or take about 50 hours. Or a little more or less. Some of our watching is hybrid television. The only boob tube in the house is ensconced in the corner in the basement near other things in storage.”
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K “Now the amount of time I am enslaved by the fondle slab is another story. A daily nightmare really. Too much viewing. Je suis addicted.”
J “You may cut the cord, but we all are tethered by the signal. If I could do it, I would do away with the Internet entirely including all the positive avenues and opportunities it has created. Eliminate. The. Internet. Period.”
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[See the e-commentary at ““Monitoring The Masses: The Card And The Chip (January 12, 2015)” Revisited: The “Fondle Slab” Enslaves Us All (January 28, 2019)”.]
Bumper sticker of the week:
If you are not paying for the product, you are the prey
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K “You have been through this drill over the past year. If this signal is now coming through to you or to some of you, we can proceed with the second virtual graduation ceremony in school history. Learn to eschew fear. I realize. Easy to say; hard to do.”
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K “Ladies and gentlemen of the class of ’21 . . . learn to eschew fear. . . . If I could offer you only one tip for the future, learn to eschew fear. You have been studying and partying and extracurricularing at a frantic and frenetic pace. Now is the time to learn to eschew fear. Fear debilitates and demoralizes and immobilizes and immolates. Look at who is trying intentionally to frighten you. We are in the halcyon days of the Virus and the Vaccines and their consequences. The future will not be as calm. But learn to eschew fear.”
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K “And wear sun screen and hearing protection and chainsaw safety chaps. Eat dessert. First. Learn to tie a bowline (and a bow tie). Stop, pause, think. And learn to eschew fear.”
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J “Go East, young person. Go to Rome, D.C. and get in on the looting before it is too late.”
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[See the “Sunscreen Column”, the Wikipedia article “Wear Sunscreen” and listen to “Everbody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen)”.]
Bumper stickers of the week:
Wear sun screen and hearing protection and chainsaw safety chaps and eat dessert. First. Learn to tie a bowline (and a bow tie). Stop, pause, think. Learn to eschew fear.
Eschew fear.
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K “Let us also proclaim it National Irony Days. I cannot remember a time when there were more restrictions and road blocks by public and private entities on free speech. The technology makes it so easy to throw a switch and disconnect a citizen.”
J “Exercising your right of free speech if exercised to challenge those in power jeopardizes your personal freedom and threatens your life. These actions are not just having a ‘chilling effect’ on free speech, they are ‘deep freezing’ free speech.”
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K “The threat to one’s life and the possibility of being suicided is very real and a clear and present danger.”
J “And unreal. Anyone raising a serious and fundamental challenge to the system knows that he or she risks his or her life, liberty, property and pursuit of happiness.”
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Bumper stickers of the week:
Free the press
Antony Blinken Hypocrisy Award coming soon!
Low inventory! This gear won’t last — Due to global supply chain issues we’re having trouble keeping gear in stock.
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K “‘Shadowstats’ by John Williams.”
J “‘Chapwood Index’ by Ed Butowsky.”
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K “$8.99 two years ago, $13.99 one year ago and $22.77 one week ago. If it is available.”
J “$577 two years ago, $777 one year ago and $929 one week ago. If it is available.”
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K “The inflation in what is generically referred to as ‘higher education’ must be analyzed over ten years. Tuition is tied to increases in schooling loans. The federal government makes more money available at steep interest rates which triggers the universities to raise tuition and hire more superfluous administrators.”
J “Housing prices are through the roof and only getting worse with the price of lumber and consumer durables rising.”
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K “What happens when inflation undermines the real rates of return in the bond market and forces the Federal Reserve to consider raising interest rates?”
J “Raising the interest rate increases the cost of paying off the national Debt. Thus, the Fed must raise interest rates and must not raise interest rates.”
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Bumper sticker of the week:
Whip Inflation When? How?
[The announcement of the 2021 recipient of the Pushitzer Prize in Commentary is postponed from today to June 7, 2021.]
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J “China won; China one; U.S. none; U.S. done. With each passing day, the Chinese military is outflanking the bloated pork barrel project that is the U.S. military without touching off a round or launching a missile. CIPS is swiftly circuiting and circumventing SWIFT. National currencies, gold, silver and cryptos are supplanting the PetroDollar. Technology that was lifted is now legally acquired. Critical resources that were purloined are now purchased.”
K “For decades, the Eagle kept the Dragon and the Bruin in their corners. Now the Dragon and the Bruin have found common ground to overcome their considerable differences, challenge their common enemy and push the Eagle into a corner it does not even recognize. The vote in 2015 on the AIIB was the most revealing of the ultimate winner and the ultimate loser.”
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K “The U.S. is desperate to start and expand more wars and is looking to fight Russia or use proxies to fight Russia. The Bruin is going to be a bear.”
J “I am as uneasy about Russia as I am about China, but the U.S. should not go knocking on the Russian door and starting a fight on the Russian door step. When I walked the streets in different cities, I was struck by the steely resolve of the people that is totally absent in the U.S.”
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K “Our goose is cooked.”
J “We are dead ducks.”
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[See the e-commentary on the threat to world peace posed by NATO at “NATOExit? NATOExeunt? (July 4, 2016)”.]
Bumper sticker of the week:
Dragon < Eagle > Bruin; Dragon + Bruin > Eagle
e-commentary 
Sixth Annual Pushitzer Prize In Commentary For 2021 (June 7, 2021)
Posted in Pushitzer Prize In Commentary on June 7, 2021 by e-commentary.org. . .
K “The envelope please. . . . This year’s Pushitzer Prize in Commentary is awarded to . . . Pepe Escobar . . . for stirring the pot, asking hard questions, demanding answers, rejecting lies, spotlighting uncomfortable truths, comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable. And being a journalist.”
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K “I don’t always either. I cannot think of anyone I agree with all of the time . . . or even most of the time. But I do know who I agree with some of the time. Most of the time. At least much of the time. This time. I often disagree with myself.”
J “You can’t really be provocative unless you provoke. If you controvert the established hierarchy, you are likely to be disregarded, but you may be able to trigger controversy.”
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[See the e-commentary on the ongoing international crime at “The Persecution Of Assange And The Feckless MSM (September 21, 2020)”.]
[See the e-commentary on the Commentary Award at “Fifth Annual Pushitzer Prize In Commentary For 2020 (May 4, 2020)”, “Fourth Annual Pushitzer Prize In Commentary For 2019 (April 15, 2019)”, “Third Annual Pushitzer Prize In Commentary For 2018 (April 16, 2018)”, “Second Annual Pushitzer Prize In Commentary For 2017 (April 10, 2017)”, “First Annual Pushitzer Prize In Commentary For 2016 (April 18, 2016)” and “Pulitzers Are Pro-War? Pressing The Pushitzers (April 22, 2013)”.]
[Please send nominations for the Pushitzer Prize in Commentary for 2022 and a supporting letter by January 21, 2022 to e-ssay@gci.net and send the entry fee to your favorite charity.]
Bumper stickers of the week:
“The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses.” Malcolm X
For good and honest stuff
Dissent is patriotic
Plant a garden
Antony Blinken Hypocrisy Award coming soon!
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