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Jeff Tiedrich @itsJeffTiedrich
Here’s today’s post: “sex-offender sleazeball did nothing wrong, claims sex-trafficking sleazeball.”
Ghislaine Maxwell’s absurd claim that she never saw Donny do anything ‘concerning’ —
“let me go out on a limb here and posit that if you see nothing wrong
with befriending teenage girls so your ex-boyfriend can rape them,
you might have a different definition of ‘concerning’ than most people.”
https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/sex-offender-sleazeball-did-nothing
@allenanalysis
BREAKING: Jeff Bezos–backed Wildtype just got FDA approval to sell lab-grown salmon, after the agency skipped independent testing and animal trials, rubber-stamping it as “safe” based solely on the company’s own data.
Corporate science just wrote its own permission slip.
Carl B. Menger
I’ll buy #Bitcoin weekly for the rest of my life, simply as a silent protest against our crazy fucked up fiat bullshit world.
So much absolutely totalitarian shit going on right now. Go and stick your paper notes up your fucking asses.
I am buyer of last resort. FOREVER.
1985: Real Genius was released – the greatest geek movie ever. 15-year-old genius Mitch Taylor enrolls at Pacific Tech, where senior Chris Knight takes him under his wing. Hacking aplenty. Lasers. Revenge. And popcorn. Lots of popcorn. Loosely inspired by events at CalTech.
The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller
NPR: “Less than five years after urging rioters to “kill” police at the Capitol, former Jan. 6 defendant Jared Wise is working as a senior adviser for Trump’s Department of Justice…”
But ‘Back the Blue’, right?
More: https://npr.org/2025/08/07/nx-s1-5493197/doj-trump-jan-6-defendant-jared-wise-capitol-riot
China fights mosquito-borne chikungunya virus with drones, fines and nets as thousands fall ill
Workers sprayed some places before entering office buildings, a throwback to China’s controversial hardline tactics used to battle the Covid-19 virus.https://www.courthousenews.com/china-fights-mosquito-borne-chikungunya-virus-with-drones-fines-and-nets-as-thousands-fall-ill/
American Oversight Challenges IRS’s “Ridiculous” Attempt to Dismiss Lawsuit Over Its Targeting of Harvard University
The IRS claims all documents — phone logs, calendar invites, etc. — would reveal confidential tax return information.
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Citations, References, and Resources for the Sanas of Irish American Vernacular.
The “Doodah Man”:
The character ( The Doodah Man) in the song Grateful Dead Song “Truckin” … according to Google was :
The song references the “Doodah Man,” a figure representing drug dealers, highlighting the band’s association with the counterculture scene.
https://youtu.be/3_1rprcHG3Q https://youtu.be/3_1rprcHG3Q
and Al Jolson singing Camptown Races
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tuu5YtkPIo&list=RD_tuu5YtkPIo&start_radio=1
The “Doodah Man”: and Camptown Races
Stephen foster “gwine to run all night” a white man’s imitation spelling of AAVE African American Vernacular English dialect word “going” which isn’t regarded as racist then or now.
“Jim Crow” became part of the language, becoming the name for racist laws and attitudes used to oppress blacks in the Southern United States in the 19th and 20th Centuries.
DO YOU KNOW YOUR STATE SONG?
Do you know Florida’s state song?
Way Down Upon the Swannee Ribber
https://edu-cyberpg.com/Music/statesong.html
Find the origin of Jim Crow and the KKK from Dan Cassidy
Gaelic up to 1919. Jump Jim Crow By T.D. “Daddy” Rice Jump
https://edu-cyberpg.com/Music/statesongJumpJim.html
1800-2011 Why would anyone want to know these folksongs?
Music Sacred Harp JIM CROW SONGS Roots of Rap 1861 Wassail
https://edu-cyberpg.com/NCFR/folksongs-1800-2011.html
Learn about Louisiana, Code Noir, the Tales of Br’er …
Jim Crow laws, but were enacted in 1865 directly after the
https://edu-cyberpg.com/Linguistics/armynavycodenoir.html
Internet Hate Sites and Recruiting Tools on the net.
MORE ABOUT THE ORIGIN OF JIM CROW Learn about the whole concept
https://edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/hate.html
Citations, References, and Resources for the Sanas of Irish American Vernacular…
Hoodo, Honky Tonk, Jim Crow, Kid, Kiddo, Cracker, KKK, Baloney
https://edu-cyberpg.com/Linguistics/irish3.html
Origin of the words KU KLUX KLAN, CRACKER, and JIM CROW
https://edu-cyberpg.com/Teachers/dresscode.html