tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-834822786084044829.post5373393975186375084..comments2024-02-04T19:08:45.476+00:00Comments on CRISTOBELL UNDECIDED: Is 70 the new 50: UneditedRosalinda Huttonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01497239700092619580noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-834822786084044829.post-60374914169790144292020-07-03T08:45:28.105+01:002020-07-03T08:45:28.105+01:00Sounds very good, but who’s gonna do the questioni...Sounds very good, but who’s gonna do the questioning of accepted ideas with a “comprehensive irreverence” for all kinds of sham, that is the question.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-834822786084044829.post-18130806060901385032020-07-02T22:34:14.307+01:002020-07-02T22:34:14.307+01:00Bloomsbury group, name given to a coterie of Engli...Bloomsbury group, name given to a coterie of English writers, philosophers, and artists who frequently met between about 1907 and 1930 at the houses of Clive and Vanessa Bell and of Vanessa’s brother and sister Adrian and Virginia Stephen (later Virginia Woolf) in the Bloomsbury district of London, the area around the British Museum. They discussed aesthetic and philosophical questions in a spirit of agnosticism and were strongly influenced by G.E. Moore’s Principia Ethica (1903) and by A.N. Whitehead’s and Bertrand Russell’s Principia Mathematica (1910–13), in the light of which they searched for definitions of the good, the true, and the beautiful and questioned accepted ideas with a “comprehensive irreverence” for all kinds of sham.<br />Dust jacket designed by Vanessa Bell for the first edition of Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse, published by the Hogarth Press in 1927.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-834822786084044829.post-54572166583207987572020-07-01T14:45:50.769+01:002020-07-01T14:45:50.769+01:00Rosalinda Hutton 1 July 2020 at 13:48
Very sorry...Rosalinda Hutton 1 July 2020 at 13:48<br /><br />Very sorry, my dear, concentration failure. I was looking for the name Ernest Owens, not realising it was in two comments, and got the wrong comment. I meant Anonymous 30 June 2020 at 08:38.<br /><br />Bless.<br /><br />T<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-834822786084044829.post-33096466601876936592020-07-01T14:28:25.496+01:002020-07-01T14:28:25.496+01:00Thank you Bjorn for the being the bright light tha...Thank you Bjorn for the being the bright light that keeps this blog going! And for seeing what I see, I thought I was going crazy at times. And of course 'normal' people who look in can see it, and no doubt it puts them off posting. I've let it go on for too long.<br /><br />I've always longed to belong to some sort of 'Bloomsbury Group', with a place where intelligent people can debate, discuss history and exchange ideas. Quite a lofty idea, lol, perhaps I should have started with a book club. My blog on the discussion front, has never quite been able to take off, largely, as I now see, because of the trolls. And they are trolls, their purpose is disrupt. They never discuss the subject of the blog. <br /><br />But live and learn eh? The comments may drop off, but that's fine, the blog will continue, I'm still aiming for my Bloomsbury Club! :)Rosalinda Huttonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01497239700092619580noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-834822786084044829.post-71171612910500002382020-07-01T13:48:21.619+01:002020-07-01T13:48:21.619+01:00Goodness T, you say 'nice one' and thank a...Goodness T, you say 'nice one' and thank a poster who thinks he/she has made a fool of me. Why would you do that?<br />Rosalinda Huttonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01497239700092619580noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-834822786084044829.post-21590326871710376572020-07-01T13:37:29.685+01:002020-07-01T13:37:29.685+01:00You have c/p random sentences and the result is me...You have c/p random sentences and the result is meaningless.<br /><br />Why don't you try saying what you mean in your own words Brenda, then we might get somewhere.Rosalinda Huttonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01497239700092619580noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-834822786084044829.post-14260131034294820402020-07-01T13:35:12.327+01:002020-07-01T13:35:12.327+01:00I gave you a long, considered and thoughtful reply...I gave you a long, considered and thoughtful reply Huanita, I am so sorry that you see that as taking the piss, I addressed every point you made politely and respectfully, even though I was aware of the hostility in your initial post. <br /><br />But your prerogative my friend. Take care. Rosalinda Huttonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01497239700092619580noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-834822786084044829.post-17867186949398795242020-07-01T13:29:54.670+01:002020-07-01T13:29:54.670+01:00Well Sam and Brenda, what can I say, are you only ...Well Sam and Brenda, what can I say, are you only here for the bitchy comments about me? Odd. And how do you know so many comments are missing? Are you the senders? If so, I can see why you are so pissed off, you no longer have a platform for your hate. Rosalinda Huttonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01497239700092619580noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-834822786084044829.post-6169279809669699502020-07-01T13:14:37.364+01:002020-07-01T13:14:37.364+01:00Perhaps I was being modest xyz or perhaps I was in...Perhaps I was being modest xyz or perhaps I was inviting others with more knowledge than I to enlighten me? I do in fact know a lot about US politics, it is my main interest at the moment, to the point of obsession and, as I have told you before, if you study a subject for more than 10,000 hours, you become an expert. <br /><br />You xyz, zyx and Woody Holl (all the same person?) do not have to read my musings, alternately, you could point out instances of my 'scant knowledge' to illustrate your complaint. <br /><br />Yes indeed, all my readers know that I hate Trump, so you are suggesting, that's it, end of subject. That I should never mention one of the two biggest threats to our world again, because you've already read about it. Well sorry to bring your little world crashing down zyx etc, but I don't write for you, I don't write for the blinkered period. <br /><br />And to the Marlon Brando and butter creep, it was sicko first time round, now it is sicko and desperate.Rosalinda Huttonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01497239700092619580noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-834822786084044829.post-53316573302676478882020-07-01T12:05:46.207+01:002020-07-01T12:05:46.207+01:00Anonymous 30 June 2020 at 19:36
Nice one. Many t...Anonymous 30 June 2020 at 19:36<br /><br />Nice one. Many thanks.<br /><br />T<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-834822786084044829.post-55971383790596188242020-07-01T12:03:24.031+01:002020-07-01T12:03:24.031+01:00To whom it may concern
Personally I’d appreciate ...To whom it may concern<br /><br />Personally I’d appreciate if more posters here on Rosalinda’s blog would express their own opinions, which, I believe, is necessary for meaningful discussions. The dominant view now seems to be to criticize as much as possible of what Rosalinda says, without expressing any particular views.<br /><br />Imagine if you were going to a party with the sole intention of insulting the host and also consider that you’re doing something good, then I would probably say that you belong to the category of notorious bullies, who we unfortunately have to endure.<br /><br /><br />Moreover, quotes of more or less well-known persons don’t tell us anything about what the poster him/herself thinks about the subject in question.<br /> <br />Kindest Regards<br />Björn<br />Björnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-834822786084044829.post-63778877424160346472020-07-01T11:56:18.067+01:002020-07-01T11:56:18.067+01:00My polite an civil observations.
Ros: “we … are i...My polite an civil observations.<br /><br />Ros: “we … are intoxicated by the political diatribes of scoundrels and rogues.”<br /><br />Huanita: “How can I take you seriously when you yourself say that you are intoxicated by the political diatribes of scoundrels and rogues and appear to be supressing dissent?”<br /><br />Ros: “We, a collective we”<br /><br />“I can't say I have ever been intoxicated by the political diatribes of scoundrels and rogues.”<br /><br />Ergo…?<br /><br />Brenda<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-834822786084044829.post-53803449423405157252020-07-01T11:27:24.844+01:002020-07-01T11:27:24.844+01:00You are taking the piss at my serious questions bu...You are taking the piss at my serious questions but I see your genuine answer elsewhere “Ha ha ha, I may muse, but my favourite line is htf do I know.”<br /><br />Thanks for your favourite line anyway.<br /><br />Huanita<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-834822786084044829.post-53341179573828068882020-07-01T10:36:54.719+01:002020-07-01T10:36:54.719+01:00Thank you Sam. I agree with you. I suspect Ros d...Thank you Sam. I agree with you. I suspect Ros doesn't not publish the comments unfavourable to her, even those addressed to someone else. I’ve been following this blog for years and lately it’s really been getting worse and worse.<br /><br />Brenda.<br /> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-834822786084044829.post-42366667353154393462020-07-01T09:46:58.902+01:002020-07-01T09:46:58.902+01:00zyh
Brandy Brandie had thrown it down the slope o...zyh<br /><br />Brandy Brandie had thrown it down the slope of a butter mountain by all accounts.<br /><br />Woody Holl<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-834822786084044829.post-42221686089141616702020-06-30T22:49:35.346+01:002020-06-30T22:49:35.346+01:00Anonymous30 June 2020 at 18:23
What are those &qu...Anonymous30 June 2020 at 18:23<br /><br />What are those "things"? Like ‘Marlon Brando brought the USSR down’?<br /><br />zyx<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-834822786084044829.post-25108372813567687242020-06-30T19:58:34.912+01:002020-06-30T19:58:34.912+01:00Ros @1829
“I have never been for supressing disse...Ros @1829<br /><br />“I have never been for supressing dissent Huanita, the opposite in fact, you will also see from the title of my blog, that I muse, subversively. Ergo, in my book, dissent is good!”<br /><br />Then please publish BFG’s W’s Z’s comments and whatever else you’ve held back and let all your readers see that what you’ve been saying about them is not you fantasies. We are not children here, we can make up our own minds.<br /><br />Thank you.<br /><br />Sam<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-834822786084044829.post-58671529515764015842020-06-30T19:46:00.097+01:002020-06-30T19:46:00.097+01:00Wow, I have literally just finished and posted tha...Wow, I have literally just finished and posted that comment! You can't even have had time to read it!<br /><br />I can't click on links, my regular readers know that, a technical hitch if you like. If you read my reply, which couldn't possibly have had time to do, you will see that I am not preaching at all. I don't preach, as if? Ha ha ha, I may muse, but my favourite line is htf do I know. <br /><br />Do you think if I had known the identity of Ernest Owens that my reply would have been any different? The answer to that if you are perplexed, is no. Of course it wouldn't. I answered the post sincerely, what do I have to be embarrassed about? Do you think I would have answered different if I had known he was black and gay?Rosalinda Huttonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01497239700092619580noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-834822786084044829.post-26996181356479043122020-06-30T19:36:03.044+01:002020-06-30T19:36:03.044+01:00"Ernest Owens
Writer at Large
Ernest Owens ..."Ernest Owens<br /><br />Writer at Large<br /><br />Ernest Owens is an award-winning journalist and CEO of Ernest Media Empire, LLC. As an openly gay black journalist, he has made headlines for speaking frankly about intersectional issues in society regarding race, LGBTQ, and pop culture.<br />@MrErnestOwens<br />MrErnestOwens<br />www.ernestowens.com"<br /><br />If you had clicked on the link and noticed it was a quote (notice the quotation marks) and then checked who Ernest Owens is, you would have not tried to preach to someone and make a fool of yourself.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-834822786084044829.post-7051420552173924642020-06-30T19:22:58.070+01:002020-06-30T19:22:58.070+01:00Thank you for your post 08:38, I am unclear as whe...Thank you for your post 08:38, I am unclear as whether these are your views of those Ernest Owens, or are you Ernest Owens?<br /><br />In any case I hear you. And in a perfect world, this is not scenario you would be in. I can see how for many you are literally between the devil and the deep blue sea. Essentially you have two rich old white guys battling it out, htf did that happen? I am hoping that Biden will at least choose as his running mate Stacy Abraham or Kamala Harris, both women of substance to bring much needed diversity to the White House. The constant parade of rich old white men should be consigned to the last century where it belongs.<br /><br />I see your dilemma 08:38 with the 'Hobsons Choice' you have in front of you. At this moment in time, your choices aren't great, but you must remember, this is only a moment in time, you choice, as distasteful as it might be, will affect not only your family now, but future generations to come. What good can it do anyone of them to return to power for another 4 years, a man who tweets videos of his followers shouting 'white power'.<br /><br />For sure, Biden has made a lot of mistakes in his past 08:38, but in honesty, I could look at my own stances and views, circa 1970's and 80's and plead with the ground to open up and swallow me. Life, age and experience has made me much wiser. If we are honest, we are all guilty, we start life very naïve, we learn about all the horrors and injustices along the way. <br /><br />I am not sure you have a bleaker future my friend. The extreme right wing politics of Trump has brought out the extreme Left wing of his opposition. It is the dialectic. The thesis, the antithesis and the synthesis. The antithesis is winning, the odious politics of the man on the golden toilet is stirring up a revolution against capitalism. They won't win, but they will score enough victories to make significant changes. That is any politician wanting to hang onto his seat will have make major changes to the way in which police departments are run. Randomly killing black people will no longer be acceptable. Any politician, Republican or Democratic, not hearing that, will lose. <br /><br />And Trump is the ugly face of all those killer police 08:38, he wanted to execute the Central Park kids, he celebrates white people pointing guns as peaceful black demonstrators, he applauds a fat old white man in a golf cart putting his fist in the air and shouting white power. <br /><br />This is not America 08:38, I have always loved you lot, from afar, because my dear old dad loved you and Hollywood movies too. This is not your heart, your soul, your love of freedom. I grew up on the cowboy films, the war films, the cavalry to the rescue and the goof ball films, the Americans were always the good guys. And every American I have ever met or known has had a life altering affect on me. It breaks my heart to see you like this.<br /><br />I don't think you have much choice come November 3rd my friend. You need Trump out and Biden is the safe choice for all those Americans afraid of change. But go a few steps ahead with your chess move 08:38, Joe Biden is very old, in 4 years he will be over 80, if God willing, he makes it. His choice for VP therefore is very significant. If he chooses wisely, you may, vicariously, get exactly what you wanted. <br /><br />Thank you so much for replying 08:38, it is great to hear from someone who actually has a vote in the forthcoming Presidential election! My kindest wishes to you and yours, stay safe.Rosalinda Huttonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01497239700092619580noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-834822786084044829.post-43982107153567498852020-06-30T18:29:19.598+01:002020-06-30T18:29:19.598+01:00Thank you for giving your name Huanita, I feel now...Thank you for giving your name Huanita, I feel now that I can reply to you personally.<br /><br />What did I mean by 'Unedited'. Exactly that Huanita. I wrote that blog whilst 3, possibly 4, sheets to the wind. My usual practice is to return to that which I have written hastily, and edit the text ruthlessly, plus clean up on grammatical and spelling errors. On this occasion, I chose to publish regardless, because more often than not, I have moved on, ergo, I have 500+ unpublished blogs lost in time. <br /><br />How do I know we are facing the biggest crisis of our time? I am 63 (I think) and I have never experienced a pandemic, quarantine and lockdown before. In fact, that applies to anyone under the age of 120. We, a collective we, are not taking the danger seriously enough. WHO, the World Health Organisation, are now saying the worse is yet to come. Ignoring it is clearly not working.<br /><br />Easy to mock 'we the masses' Huanita, but governments rule only with the support of the people. If they people turn against them, they are finished. Forgive me for speaking like a Marxist on an orange box, but we the people simply do not comprehend the strength we have when uniting together. Tyger, tyger, do you not know how fearsome you are?<br /><br />I can't say I have ever been intoxicated by the political diatribes of scoundrels and rogues. I'm using 'we' very loosely here, like the Marxist on the orange box. I'm not great with the whole following thing, and to be honest, I've never been much of a team player. I can't in good conscience for example align myself with Labour or even the Far Left. I used to call myself a Marxist/Feminist, but that's all a bit too strong now, especially as I can't even align myself to #MeToo. I hate the whole 'victim' culture, it is destructive, not least to those it pretends to help. Help should be about empowering people, not labelling them as helpless cabbages. <br /><br />But my subversive views on 'speaking properly', #MeToo and the victim culture, would make me far more unpopular than I already am and those who love me, tell me no. So, for now my views will be supressed until I am bold enough.<br /><br />I am not suggesting to anyone that they should follow scoundrels and rogues Huanita, in fact, in school marm mode, I don't tell anyone to follow anyone. My advice to my former students and indeed to anyone, is to make the discoveries yourself, that way it is always more meaningful. <br /><br />I have never been for supressing dissent Huanita, the opposite in fact, you will also see from the title of my blog, that I muse, subversively. Ergo, in my book, dissent is good!<br /><br />Anyway, Huanita, you are very welcome here and I am curious as to where you are from? Mostly, because I get a kick out of speaking from to people from way away places. Regardless, I do hope wherever you are, you are not being hit too hard by the Virus. Stay safe, my kindest wishes to you and yours.Rosalinda Huttonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01497239700092619580noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-834822786084044829.post-30839617352386156472020-06-30T18:23:18.383+01:002020-06-30T18:23:18.383+01:00"But before I go on, I should stat that my kn..."But before I go on, I should stat that my knowledge of US politics is scant, in the whole scheme of things."<br /><br />Ros - just a suggestion - maybe you should blog about things that you have more than a scant knowledge on.<br /><br />All your eager followers know by now that you hate Trump - repeating it in varying different ways does not make it any more interesting for your Worldwide readers.<br /><br />xyzAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-834822786084044829.post-10140107344539807022020-06-30T08:57:49.211+01:002020-06-30T08:57:49.211+01:00What do you mean by “Unedited” in the title?
How...What do you mean by “Unedited” in the title?<br /><br />How do you know that:<br /><br />“We are facing the biggest crisis of our lifetimes, the potential that at least one third of the world's population will be wiped out by Covid-19.”<br /><br />“ we, the masses … have the power to change things”<br /><br />“we … are intoxicated by the political diatribes of scoundrels and rogues.”<br /><br />???<br /><br />How can I take you seriously when you yourself say that you are intoxicated by the political diatribes of scoundrels and rogues and appear to be supressing dissent?<br /><br />Huanita<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-834822786084044829.post-44470948984854017062020-06-30T08:38:25.889+01:002020-06-30T08:38:25.889+01:00https://www.phillymag.com/news/2020/05/27/joe-bide...https://www.phillymag.com/news/2020/05/27/joe-biden-racist-pennsylvania-primary/<br /><br />Ernest Owens<br /><br />'I agree, Trump is worse than Biden. But if we are playing the “lesser of evils” game, that would simply make Biden a <i>lesser</i> racist than Trump. A racist is still a racist, and I couldn’t bring myself to reward bad behavior by voting for Biden in the Democratic primary. After two previous failed attempts, Biden will — barring some new revelation — finally get the Democratic nomination for president this summer. It will be anti-climatic and perhaps the most disappointing candidate selection process in the Democratic Party’s recent history.<br /><br />Going to the polls in November will be a decision between bad and slightly less bad, not a choice between oppression and liberation. Biden has made it clear that he will be a staunch moderate on policies (such as his opposition to Medicare for All and his pandering to the super-wealthy) that will still oppress, albeit just a bit less than Trump’s. Biden’s not about raising the bar. He’s about taking the bar, which Trump has buried six feet deep, and putting it back on the floor. Groundbreaking.<br /><br />I will vote for Biden in November because there will be no other viable option for defeating Trump. For many Americans, this is all that matters. But for black millennial voters like me who aren’t willing to be shills for the establishment, all of this speaks to a bleaker future for American politics.'<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com