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I think this guy speaks for all of us old codgers.

"I don't wanna be a kid again or even twenty-four again/

"But it would be nice if I could get up off the floor again."

Julie Ecklar wrote a ton of music and was active in the filk scene for decades. (Not a typo -- look that one up if you're interested.) She didn't do a lot of novelty music, but she was very talented, and this one is a gem.

I first heard this, and this version, on Dr Demento decades ago. I listened to his show mainly to hear these old forgotten gems.

I don't have any patience with or confidence in drives that start to slow down, start making noises, or start showing I/O errors. I try to prevent that by replacing them before they start to show signs of age and, much worse, possible failure. I've gone to too much trouble to maintain my files, not all of which is my media server, although that's a large part of it, without losing it due to carelessness.

For example, a 2TB drive that was my dad's, one he bought in 2010, started showing problems reading files. I disconnected that thing immediately, ordered a new 8TB drive, reconnected the 2TB, and copied everything to the new drive. Two files didn't copy, and I easily replaced them, so there was no loss.

All drives fail eventually, and some sooner than others. I'd be interested in hearing your experience and learning from it. I'd also be interested in your reasons for having or not having a RAID array.

I joined a gym about six months ago I've forced my fat ass to go nearly every day. I used to belong to a lower cost gym, but I noticed a pattern relating to the part of town and the clientele. I purposefully selected a gym in an affluent part of town where the clientele is nearly all White people, but with a few exceptions, which I'll describe.

I live in a university town, there are so Asian students who go to that gym. There are very, very few niggers who live in this area, so there aren't many who go there. There's a good number of Hispanics, and there's a handful of Middle Easterners who live in the university area.

Because there are so few of them, niggers are actually not much of a problem, but if there were more of them, it would be insufferable. They're the ones who don't know how to behave in the steam room and the sauna, they move weights from the free weight area, and generally do stupid shit that would never occur to White people.

The Hispanics there aren't at all ghetto trash and they're pretty serious about their fitness, so they behave well. No problems with them.

The Asian students are fucking idiots. They're arrogant, they drop free weights when they're exercising, and let the weight plates in the exercise machines slam down.

The Middle Eastern guys are just loud, and they don't realize how loud they look in public.

This is a good gym, and the management does a good job of enforcing proper behavior. Even the chicks who attend behave. They may dress like sluts, with the tight leggings that accentuate their asses, but they're there to exercise, not attract attention and I never see them standing around chatting up guys.

Any thoughts on your experiences?

I wrote this about 14 years ago for a longer essay I was planning to write. I found it in some text files I was sorting through. It does not name the jew intentionally because not all of the powerful referred to are jews, although the vast majority of those who control the west are. However, the part about the money supply specifically means jews.

Go ahead and disagree and nitpick this apart because it's not quite the way you would have said it. I'm just posting it's a record of the development of my thinking and because I'm surprised I was as aware of this back then.

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**[u]Who they are who they are not[/u]**

1. The powerful are wealthy people who regard themselves as the ruling elite and are the only ones fit to govern.

2. They have allegiance only to their dynastic families and the exclusive, powerful organizations they belong to.

3. They have completely different values from 90% of the population, and they have barely concealed contempt for the governed.

4. They own and control global corporations and they control governments.

5. They are not politicians. Politicians work for them.

6. The relationship between government and corporations is symbiotic and seamless.

7. Money is a means to power and control.

**[u]Their tools and methods[/u]**

1. Secrecy
The activities of government and corporations are extremely complex and carefully concealed or disguised.

Most of the population believes most events are random or accidental. They are actually often planned, usually well in advance.

2. Control of money and money supply

3.Control of government

The most high level politicians are largely figureheads and take direction from the most powerful people in the world who prefer to remain out of the public eye.

There is no effective difference between the two political parties in the US. There are minor differences, but they exist to give a semblance of distinction.

4. Control of media

Media exist as propaganda tools for government and corporations. They do not portray politics, rather political theater, which is strictly for appearances and for consumption by the public.

5. Control of commodities

6. War

War is a tool wielded for economic, not ideological, purposes.

Wars are almost always started with a pretext. Wars are always planned well in advance and always involve economic and political gain. There is never an ideological basis for war.

7. Fear

The public can be convinced to do anything contrary to their best interests if they are frightened and intimidated.

**[u]Their apparent goals[/u]**

“One world government.”

Population control

**[u]What can be done about it?[/u]**

Nothing.

Pete Townshend singing his song "We Won't Get Fooled Again" at The Secret Policeman's Ball (1979). The last line is sung without irony -- he's absolutely serious here.

This is posted in response to the "release" of the Epstein flight list files. If anyone here actually thought something was going to come from this, you are naive. You got fooled again, because the new boss is the same as the old boss.

I like Townshend's acoustic version of his song because it really makes the point much clearer that during every political upheaval, there is resistance, protests and violence, and a political "reform" that results in nothing actually changing.

"I don't understand why we're having trouble. Before we were married, you told me you were well off."

"I was, but I didn't know it at the time."

The fact that he's doing all of this with absolutely no fucks to be given tells us that he could have done all of this much earlier beginning in January 2017. Instead he presided over a do-nothing administration for four years and gave away the presidency to lunatics for four years of Bidenomics and leftist lunacy.

Never forget that everything is political theater, and never trust anyone's apparent motives. What are the jews up to? Why are they telling Trump to do this? What do they have planned? What do they want? What's going to happen next?

This text message arrived this morning. I swear this is absolutely true. I'm suspicious to a fault when it comes to divulging information of any kind, up to and including being rude, because 99% of the time it merits it. I did not get another response after my last reply. Good. Fuck those people.