Don't drag my mistress into this. <deadpan>

 

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Say's (maybe) a man that sings and play a guitar (great music). It think people confuse complicated with complexity.

'Complex' is the opposite of 'simple'; 'complicated' is more like the opposite of 'easy'. The Master can handle the complicated with ease but it's never simple.

 

Say's (maybe) a man that sings and play a guitar (great music). It think people confuse complicated with complexity.

'Complex' is the opposite of 'simple'; 'complicated' is more like the opposite of 'easy'. The Master can handle the complicated with ease but it's never simple.

I'd also add that it takes a virtuoso to make something difficult look easy ...

 

I'd also add that it takes a virtuoso to make something difficult look easy ...

Yes. Advertising uses the words simple and easy to sell products because they know the difference.

 

Woodie's guitar wasn't just a musical instrument, it was a machine to kill fascists! "Take it easy, but take it".-Woodie Guthrie Him and his buddy that other wobbly red socialist Pete Seeger and his young brother Michael...

 

Truth being told, it's the first time I've heard of Mr Guthire ... I just liked the phrase I posted

 

I dunno. It looks way too clean to give away to a 17 y.o....

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She likes it. Whoda thunk it?

 

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Conjoined twin Abby Hensel, of TLC’s ‘Abby & Brittany,’ is now married to an Army veteran

https://nypost.com/2024/03/28/lifes...sel-of-tlcs-abby-amp-brittany-is-now-married/

 

Happy Transgender Day of Visibility.

Because for 2,000 years, that's what it's been all about.

 

Happy Transgender Day of Visibility.

Because for 2,000 years, that's what it's been all about.

Much ado about nothing.

 

Woody Allen quote: "And the lion will lie down with the lamb, but the lamb won’t get much sleep".

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/01/us/oregon-drug-law-portland-mayor.html
Oregon Is Recriminalizing Drugs. Here’s What Portland Learned.
Oregon’s governor has signed a measure to reimpose criminal penalties for hard drugs. Mayor Ted Wheeler of Portland talks about why the experiment “failed.”

When Oregon embarked on a landmark plan three years ago to decriminalize hard drugs, it wagered that a focus on treatment over punishment would create a new model for drug policy around the country.

But after a deluge of overdose deaths and frequent chaos in the streets of Portland, Gov. Tina Kotek signed into law on Monday a measure to restore criminal penalties for drug possession. It brought to an end a key portion of one of the nation’s most ambitious attempts to find alternatives other than jail for drug users, embodied in a 2020 voter initiative known as Measure 110.

The rollback has supporters among a wide range of public officials, including Mayor Ted Wheeler of Portland, who found himself presiding over a series of crises since taking office in 2016. They included surging unsheltered homelessness, turbulent street protests, an exodus of downtown businesses, record numbers of homicides, the rapid spread of fentanyl and soaring overdose deaths.
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At the same time, in relatively recent polling, I think 81 percent said they feel unsafe going downtown in Portland at night. Are they wrong to feel that way?

IMO It's too late for most of the drug addicted and now mentally disabled people, they will never recover to their potential before drugs.
https://www.therecoveryvillage.com/fentanyl-addiction/what-fentanyl-does-your-brain/
What Fentanyl Does To Your Brain

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/01/us/oregon-drug-law-portland-mayor.html
Oregon Is Recriminalizing Drugs. Here’s What Portland Learned.
Oregon’s governor has signed a measure to reimpose criminal penalties for hard drugs. Mayor Ted Wheeler of Portland talks about why the experiment “failed.”


IMO It's too late for most of the drug addicted and now mentally disabled people, they will never recover to their potential before drugs.
https://www.therecoveryvillage.com/fentanyl-addiction/what-fentanyl-does-your-brain/
What Fentanyl Does To Your Brain

What horrors we visit on ourselves through a misguided sense of compassion ...

 

What horrors we visit on ourselves through a misguided sense of compassion ...

One of the few positives here is the experiment is over. Hard lessons relearned for the nth time, maybe but when you hit rock-bottom, the only way is up for those that want to recover.
The problem is, there is a large population here that likes doing drugs, would rather be a homeless vagrant if it means stopping using drugs and is willing to beg, steal and terrorist the population to continue using drugs.
The experiment failed because of drug users attitudes as drug addicts, not because of a lack of money, a lack of treatment or a lack of compassion (citations/fines were simply ignored - with no consequences for ignoring).

 

One of the few positives here is the experiment is over. Hard lessons relearned for the nth time, maybe but when you hit rock-bottom, the only way is up for those that want to recover.
The problem is, there is a large population here that likes doing drugs, would rather be a homeless vagrant if it means stopping using drugs and is willing to beg, steal and terrorist the population to continue using drugs.
The experiment failed because of drug users attitudes as drug addicts, not because of a lack of money, a lack of treatment or a lack of compassion (citations/fines were simply ignored - with no consequences for ignoring).

The lessons learned will be first, misinterpreted, and second, summarily forgotten.

Rinse and repeat, some other place, some other way.

 

The lessons learned will be first, misinterpreted, and second, summarily forgotten.

Spot on ... a very poor collective memory is the culprit ... IMO

Out of cultural laziness, people don't want to actually learn History... they would rather experience it themselves. Leading to inevitable endless (and pointless) repetitions generation after generation.

 

https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/a-look-at-washington-states-strippers-bill-of-rights/
A look at Washington state's 'Strippers' Bill of Rights'


What about a VIP Bill Of Rights?