Clarence is not leaving for himself a great legacy in history. How can you say he is a credit to his race when he is tearing down everything that people fought and died for in the 1960’s? He is gutting voting rights, destroying affirmative action, turning abortion rights back to the Dark Ages. Plus, he receives questionable “political” gifts, hides under-the-table unethical dealings, has lied, etc. Clarence Thomas has turned the Supreme Court into one with ethical problems. My question is: do some of his actions taint his court rulings?
Speaking of the “MAGA crowd,” Justice Clarence Thomas’ wife works with the deplorables even though Clarence rules in the Supreme Court on many of the MAGA actions. Democrats call for new supreme court ethics rules amid Clarence Thomas’ recurring scandals… which ethics rules will be too little and way too late. It is so unfair for Judge Thomas to pass SCOTUS judgements on the very rights and most personal freedoms of Americans’ lives. In his unethical hands are life and death judgements which will last for many decades and beyond. How unfair to Americans! Democrats accuse the top U.S. court of the ‘lowest ethical standards’ in history, but Republicans say criticism of Justices Neil Gorsuch and Thomas is unfounded. The Republicans are evil and rotten.
Justice Clarence Thomas’ wife works with the deplorables even though Clarence rules in the Supreme Court on many of the MAGA actions. Democrats call for new supreme court ethics rules amid Clarence Thomas’ recurring scandals… 1/3https://t.co/IHpTCee61K
I was happy to see singer Fats Domino get a street named after him in his home town New Orleans. He deserved it. He is one of the originators of Rock and Roll.
Her outfit is nice because the mask and her gym pants are both purple. Outfits where the colors match are nice.
Nice outfit.
Raquel Welch was one of the top movie stars in the 1960’s and 70’s. I do not know if she won any academy awards. However, I think that it was the type of roles that she was given. Usually, like Marilyn Monroe, the studios typically gave her roles that mostly emphasized her nice appearance instead of giving her meaty, dramatic roles.
A story by Sugar Ray (below) reminded me of one of my encounters that I remember.
GAZETTE (July 7) — I had a similar story in my repertoire to Sugar Ray’s which he tells here. My story also took place in a locker room where I checkmated a bully. Here is Sugar Ray’s story first. Sugar Ray says:
“One day, a bully, probably about six feet two, threw me against a locker at Parkdale High. I was almost knocked out cold.” (However, at 13 years old, Leonard had started training as a boxer. By 15 he was competing as an amateur boxer in the AAU’s national division.)
He said, “The old me would have searched for any peaceful way to end the mismatch. The new me fired a succession of left hooks, missing wildly. The bully began to laugh, yet each hook began coming closer and closer, until one put his butt on the ground.
“I looked down at my fists, seeing them in a whole different light. I realised they could operate outside the ring as well as they did inside. As for the bully, he never bothered me again.”
by Sugar Ray Leonard
Sugar Ray.
by Ferdie (New Orleans) — I also had a similar bully incident in a locker room that I settled by knocking the scumbag to the floor with a powerful combination that my cousin had taught me. Just like Sugar Ray said, “As for the bully, he never bothered me again.” NOTE: I spend most of my time to myself, enjoying TV, cooking, eating, being with loved ones. I hate bullies, crime, violence and all of the killing in the streets.
I never did become the boxer or “ninja” that my cousin is; but with what skills he taught me I successfully neutralized several hateful lowlifes whom I came across through time. Today, there is such a spirit of hate in the world that it is overwhelming.
This picture below shows how Americans spray tanned themselves in the 1940s. I think that is similar to how people do today, but now they climb inside a machine which tans them.
Spray tanning in 1940’s.
By the way, I bet that most people around the world get their tans by lying on a beach or in their back yard.
GAZETTE (Sept. 11, 2022) — Why do I like old school cheesecake pictures? I like old school cheesecake because it is not gratuitous like some of the pictures today. Do you remember that they brought Bettie Page to court in the 1950’s? The government singled her out and persecuted her for her pin-up pictures which today are fine and dandy. The government persecution of Bettie eventually led her into a mental institution.
Old school.
This next picture is Bettie Page in a field.
Bettie had a prolific modeling career with many iconic and popular pictures. Then, the government singled her out by filing charges on her for her pin-up pictures. The persecution by the government eventually caused her to have a mental breakdown.
Bettie Page
Bettie was often referred to as the “Queen of Pinups”: her shoulder-to-armpit-length jet-black hair, blue eyes, and trademark bangs have influenced artists for generations. Wikipedia
GAZETTE (June 14, 2022) — Should Opie decide for himself? Sheriff Taylor (Andy Griffith) had these words of wisdom. “You can’t let a young’n always decide for himself. He’ll grab at the first flashy thing with shiny ribbons on it. Then, when he finds out there’s a hook in it, it’s too late. Wrong ideas come packaged with so much glitter that it’s hard to convince ‘em that other things might be better in the long run.”
Should Opie decide things for himself?
GAZETTE (JUNE 13, 2022) — We celebrated my mother’s birthday last night. Relatives texted pictures; but I dropped my phone (my N.O. #), cracked the glass and cannot see texts, hear the phone ring or do anything. WOE IS ME! I have insurance though.
This is an older picture.
I wrote here my latest Scrolls from my daily Captain’s Log. I will edit it as I go, after I publish it. Remember that the pandemic is going on, and I spend most of my time indoors. I just wanted to get an article published. Please understand. 20August2021
19July2021, Mon. — . start of this session
1120 hrs. >>Still no keys. UPDATE: I have since found my keys. 1137 hrs. No eggs, no receipt. I bought eggs, but could not find them at home or the receipt to check if the clerk actually rang them up.
19July2021, Mon.
1318 hrs. >>tuna. 1728 hs. >>ate, now evening news.
20July2021, Tue.
0450 hrs. >>A dream: Upstairs in the high bay at my job. A lot of the new people were in Cell J Control room. FACT: In reality, I had retired by April that year which my dream was about. I tired of training new crops of people every cycle with no extra benefits, respect or atta’ boys from the higher ups or the “grunts” on the front line. 0947 hrs. need to get to grocery. >>Suborbital means that you are not in orbit.
2048 hrs. >>NBA finals.
So tall!
21July2021, Wed.
1203 hrs. >>no more basketball this season. I have to start studying baseball. 2154 hrs. >>Since New Orleans does not have Major League Baseball team, I like the Mets so far.
0912 hrs. >>phone is dead. 1250 hrs. >>ate tuna @1241. 1656 hrs. >>pot pie @1646,
24July2021, Sat.
1254 hrs. >>Arizona vs. Cubs baseball game. 1627 hrs. >>Yankees vs. Boston. 2146 hrs. >>soup and sandwich.
25July2021, Sun.
1118 hrs. >>that fried chicken damn near killed me. 1454 hrs. >>pains in my side, heart and stomach might be from eating too many peanuts. By April 2022, I was rushed to the emergence room with appendicitis. 2229 hrs. >>figuring out what to eat since I got sick this morning.>>
26July2021, Mon.
0644 hrs. still have not found dentures. 1534 hrs. >>bns.tuna, ice cream @1742. 2358 hrs. >>Eating cheese.
27July2021. Tue.
0911 hrs. >>breakfast. 1719 hrs. >>watching the news.
28July2021, Wed.
0013 hrs. >>I am watching a jazz documentary – the blues. 0848 hrs. >>need to add another story.
1151 >>cheese and turkey sandwich.
29July2021, Thu.
0818 hrs. >>I dreamt about the paint at the bottom of the pillars on my house. 1612 hrs. >>I found my dentures. 1832 hrs. >>rinsing out some briefs. 2341 hrs, I caught a few winks. Looking for some TV now. I am watching some of the olympics.
30July2021, Fri.
0045 hrs. >>BMX racing. The mens BMX racer from nevada crashed and was taken to the hospital.
2028 hrs. >>I am watching In and Out.
31July2021, Sat.
0803 hrs. >>breakfast, now movie. 1538 hrs. >>watch some baseball.
01August2021, Sun.
1041 hrs. >>I am watching Midway. I had soup and fried eggs.
#WakanTankan spoke to me while I was still in the #womb in the ambiotic fluid. I have little or no Native #Indian blood in me. However, Wakan Tankan said, "If you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, nothing shall be impossible unto you." Did you know..https://t.co/jvCJx9Y6vzpic.twitter.com/OYpUK2mq2K
An Oldie Post (by Ferdie Werdie) — I am praying for Kim to have a blessed recovery from her marital woes. I heard that Kanye moved out on her, and that is why she filed for divorce.
Kim Kardashian and her “ending” marriage…
DONALD H. TRUMP is up to his old tricks:
It’s an outrageous attempt by Trump to rewrite the history of the insurrection, which he stoked by repeatedly and falsely claiming the 2020 election was stolen from him. https://t.co/NsP4OApsCD
George Armstrong Custer lost his life and everyone’s life in his battalion of the 7th Cavalry at Little Bighorn because he wanted only himself and his troops to attack Sitting Bull’s village. Why? In order to capture young Native girls for his carnal pleasure for the journey back East.
In his previous mission Custer killed everyone in the village except 17 young Native girls whom he dragged back East to rape and to share his tent during the march. All Companies of the 7th Cavalry were supposed to rendezvous at Little Bighorn before attacking, but Custer disobeyed orders because of lust for the Native girls and personal glory. Custer’s body was found with an arrow shoved up his penis which the U.S. Army did not reveal to his wife.
George Armstrong Custer
Hey, y’all, I am having fun filling out my March Madness bracket. I have #8-seed LSU and #2-seed BAMA winning in the 1st Round. I even have BAMA going to the Sweet Sixteen… maybe even the Elite Eight. Some experts think that BAMA will make the Final Four. Once I fill in all the slots on my Times-Picayune sheet, I will go online to finish my online bracket, and maybe win the $millions or a car or a trip. Who Knows? However, most likely not!
Note about my bladder: The doctor did something on Monday which seems to have my bladder working better so far. Over the weekend my bladder had “bottomed out” and was almost holding 0 water. Now it looks like it is holding water better.
I was worried for a minute.
I am doing better now, and hope that I am standing on less shaky ground. I feel confident that I am on the right track.
Dear cedric.o.garrett >>when it comes to me, you are rather perceptive like my brother is. Working with me for so many years, you can often “read” below the surface of things that I say 🙂. My brother often “calls me out” on things that other people do not see. The photo that I wanted to post below is in my files on my office phone. I was too lazy to transfer it here; so, I just “posted” something (anything related) from my files on this. Very good, Cedric. You impress me like my brother often does 😎. I could not put it past you. The picture does not match with the words unless you translate deeper.
MEANWHILE, A MEMORY:
I remember what it took to wrap up the manuscript of my book I HAVE A DREAM!
I would have had a shortened career at my job years ago if someone did not speak up “bigly” for me. Security chased me down once when I ran past the gate to punch in on time. Rushing in, I forgot to show my badge. Security thought that I was 007 crashing the gates like I did. My manager desperately came running up to us at the clock to verify that I worked for him. I told him that at least I punched in on time. The guards were a hair breath away from dragging me out by my ankles 🙂. I was one lucky son of a gun that my manager “rescued” me and spoke up quickly for me. I went straight to my desk and put the finishing touches on my book I HAVE A DREAM! We went to the presses with it, and got it published. For a whille it was even on display and sold at the bookstore at the MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK in Atlanta, Georgia.
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I WANT TO MENTION to my readers that I am presently reading the autobiography of Geronimo. Geronimo died in 1909 imprisoned on an Indian reservation in Oklahoma. A Mexican army attack killed his first wife and 3 toddler children when he was very young sparking the beginnings of his military raids.
I posted too many pictures of my “meals” the last few days… more or less as an “inside joke.” With this being Thanksgiving week, maybe I won’t take ANY more pictures 🙂.
By the way, about my current diet, my doctor wants to bring my cholesterol numbers down a few pegs with medicine, exercise and what I eat, like all doctors do. It’s not about turning myself into Twiggy, or about a “girlish figure”… it’s about the cholesterol.
I get more exercise than the average bear. I stay so busy that my dad used to call me Mr. M.B. because I stay “MORE BUSY” than Maison Blanche. Even my bosses always told me what great shape I am in.
Also, I posted too many pictures of my "outings" the last few days more or less as an "inside joke"; and this being Thanksgiving week, maybe I won't take ANY pictures 🙂.
Can I go long without posting a picture of food? No! Hell no!!! For those who do not know, this picture below is a picture of what we call in Louisiana a soft shell crab. Whoooo-la-la! I love ’em! You fry them.
Soft shell crab. Delicious! One of my favorites.
I also want me some of this girl below. Dear God, please send this girl to my house. It would make me very happy if you send her to me.
Me wants! Me wants!
After a professional photo shoot, actress Sarah Michelle Gellar sarahmgellar on Instagram said, “I’m just going to pin these up all over my house as a reminder not to overeat on Thursday #thanksgivingprep.” She received much flak from commentors who said that the picture set unreasonable goals for the average woman. COME ON, MAN! Political correctness can be so unfair.
This is what we ate last night. That order is called a “boat” at Louisiana restaurants… a Louisiana boat of course. I will write more about it and put up more pictures, but I had better get off of this computer for a while to do some work around here. Yes, I have more pictures and comments about our lovely meal last night.
After our meal, I brought home two “go plates” (my share) from the boat. Guess what! When I got home, I finished off all of the leftover seafood, leaving only the french fries for today.
My take-home go plates.
I at first posted these pictures up locally, but wanted you to see them also. When I got home this morning, I climbed on my scale to find out that I put on 5 pounds since yesterday after eating that “boat.” I did not indulge by my lonesome of course. By the way, I remembered to take some pictures only after we (me and them) already ate about half of the boat. Do people from around the world also like Louisiana seafood?
I am sitting here at home starving to death. I am supposed to be on a diet, but I am about to eat everything in sight. Beware! Any fine, sexy ladies in my vicinity had better run for cover. Hahaha…
That is I on the right in the gold shirt. The other folks are my mom, my brother, my sisters.
Also, our (see above photo) children are shown below:
I am mad! I am mad!! I AM MAD!!! Later on (which happened in the next paragraph), I will write here at my blog the reasons for my current state of ill-humor. I am scared of myself when I am #mad. When I was growing up, my dad used to corral me close to him whenever I started acting up. He kept me on a short leash. Now-a-days, only one other person in New Orleans can #scare me into my corner. However, she #loves when I am out loose, “parading around” in the moonlight, until she sends me the #bat signal to shut up and scamper into my designated corner.
Later on!!!… A Revelation: My James Bond 007 martini has become my personal concoction of which I am discovering I do not know what I will turn into after drinking it. There have been many classic movies in Hollywood through the ages which depict the many dire and lethal circumstances which occur once the protagonist drinks some kind of volatile concoction of his own design. I now begin to think that similarly that is also “I.” I drove over to my daughter’s house yesterday evening to mix a few martinis for us and some guests while we sat and chatted. Then, by the time I got back home, I WAS MAD! MADDD!!!
I wanna’ be on the beach with her.
UPDATE: I fell asleep for a minute. Now, I plan to watch a little bit of TV to relax. When I initially awoke I briefly studied some of my resources in order to dig for a possible nugget of wisdom. I ran across Psalm 103:11 which says, “For as high as the heaven is above the earth, so great is the Lord’s mercy unto them that fear Him.” I also ran across Chapter 4, Eckhart Tolle, The Power of NOW which says, “Die to the past every moment. You don’t need it. Only refer to it when it is absolutely relevant to the present. Feel the power of this moment and the fullness of Being (which is the Lord’s living power flowing into us right now). Feel your presence.“
… or, if I were better-looking; or, if I spent some time in the gym buffing up my physique.
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