Mr. Misanthrope

re: Best Horror Movie of All-Time: CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH (Voting Open)

Posted by Mr. Misanthrope on 5/22/26 at 6:45 pm to iwyLSUiwy

1. The Exorcist

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re: So Tulsi resigns after her husband is diagnosed with rare form of bone cancer and

Posted by Mr. Misanthrope on 5/22/26 at 6:38 pm to antman123

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no part of this is a win for anyone

Nailed it. She’s a patriot, good at her job, and was a moderating voice with military credentials among many competing firebrands who had none.

re: AI call screening - there are few things worse than dealing with this

Posted by Mr. Misanthrope on 5/22/26 at 6:32 pm to Cosmo

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Its better than talking to Raj in Mumbai imo

I suppose-but nowadays it’s Randy, Jeff, or Michelle…in Mumbai.

re: Why did the Union not allow the Confederacy to secede without a war?

Posted by Mr. Misanthrope on 5/18/26 at 12:37 pm to Beau Fontenot

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The tales of devastation in the Mississippi Delta and of course in Georgia are appalling.

And inexcusable and criminal in my opinion.

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Sherman understood that to defeat the South, it meant taking the war to its people. And he did with no mercy.

That is, of course, the mantra justifying his crimes, and what is trotted out to this day to justify Federal war crimes during the Civil War.

The case that Sherman, his CO Grant, and Lincoln, the Commander in Chief are war criminals is strong.

The Mises Institute has a provocative article, Revionist History and Sherman’s War Crimes bearing on the topic.

Quoting the article:

In his article Why They Raped, Looted, and Plundered, Tom DiLorenzo reviews the evidence of war crimes in “General William Tecumseh Sherman’s famous ‘march to the sea’ at the end of the War to Prevent Southern Independence,” observing that: “The Lincoln cult – especially its hyper-warmongering neocon branch – has been holding conferences, celebrations, and commemorations [of the march to the sea] while continuing to rewrite history to suit its statist biases.” The dominant historical narratives admire Sherman’s “total war” policies as a corollary of their admiration for Lincoln’s war. Sherman’s war crimes are well-documented, and the aim of this article is not to revisit the evidence of his war crimes but to examine some of the justifications that are often advanced to exonerate Sherman.

DiLorenzo continues; The Lincoln cult, far from regretting the horrors of that war, continues to view the burning of the South as worthy of celebration. The triumphalist view of Lincoln’s war is reflected in an opinion piece published in the New York Times in 2015, which argued that Sherman’s war crimes were intended “to widen the burden and pain of the war beyond just rebel soldiers to include the civilian supporters of the Confederacy, especially the common folk who filled the ranks of the rebel armies.”

The Mises Institute article also quotes relevant passages from Walter Brian Cisco’s book, War Crimes Against Southern Civilians .

re: Christopher Nolan Directs and casts new WWII Movie...

Posted by Mr. Misanthrope on 5/16/26 at 10:03 am to WWII Collector

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But who plays Montgomery and Patton?

Jamie Foxx?

re: Christopher Nolan Directs and casts new WWII Movie...

Posted by Mr. Misanthrope on 5/16/26 at 10:00 am to WWII Collector

Babylon Bee? Think of the impact on “Hitler Reacts” content.

re: Annual post Mother’s Day termite thread

Posted by Mr. Misanthrope on 5/13/26 at 3:16 am to Cycledude

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You could see them flying all down Old Hammond highway for miles in the headlights of passing cars.

Same out around Milldale, Pride/Port Hudson coming home from my son’s place. Clouds of them. Especially when backlit by an oncoming vehicle. I’ve never seen that before.

re: Trump shares post calling for the arrest of Obama

Posted by Mr. Misanthrope on 5/13/26 at 3:12 am to Eurocat

Your post left me with questions and the link didn’t answer them.

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President Donald Trump shared a Truth Social post late Monday night that called for the arrest of Barack Obama, accusing the former president of treason, without evidence.

The post President Trump shared simply didn’t contain or enumerate the evidence for treason; it didn’t claim evidence doesn’t exist.

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“Arrest them all. Prosecute them all. Incarcerate them all at once for treachery, treason, and seditious conspiracy to overthrow the United States government. But first, Barack Obama,” the end of the post read.

It’s not clear if the quoted text was in its entirety the conclusion of the post President Trump shared or if was emphasis the President added to the original.

I’m assuming it’s the shared post’s original conclusion and not added by the President.

My only other comments are that, while morally reprehensible, I don’t believe “treachery” is a capital crime, and that I hope someone in our government has the capability, the power, the will, and the balls to prosecute, convict, and punish the entire treacherous cabal for their seditious and treasonous actions.

re: What did you steal for your mother, for Mother’s Day?

Posted by Mr. Misanthrope on 5/13/26 at 2:10 am to Yeti_Chaser

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How can people be "poor" and be so fricking fat

I believe the approved narrative is they’re too poor to afford healthy food.

An unapproved narrative is that feeding a small family McDonald’s, Burger King, Dunkin Donuts, and Dominoe’s Pizza for a few days is possibly worth a week’s worth of more nutritious and healthy groceries.

This counter-argument, like the discouraging word of Home on the Range fame, is seldom heard.

re: Triple homicide in Texarkana at aluminum plant

Posted by Mr. Misanthrope on 5/12/26 at 11:00 am to Salmon

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*triple homicide

Three homicides and a suicide?:dunno:

re: Walker Percy

Posted by Mr. Misanthrope on 5/9/26 at 12:23 pm to GreenieTiger

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Sometimes I watch television with her and share a bottle of Jax and talk about her years at MacDonough No. 6 school, the happiest period of her life.

Love it. I think he called her dog Rosebud or some such because its tail curled up highlighting its anus.

:Cheers:

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re: Walker Percy

Posted by Mr. Misanthrope on 5/9/26 at 3:39 am to GreenieTiger

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Walker Percy and his two brothers were adopted by their relative William Alexander Percy (son of Senator Leroy Percy).

Will Percy's Lanterns on the Levee is a must read for every Southern gentleman and lady.

A copy should be kept on your bedside table.

Walker Percy contributed the introduction to the 1973 edition.

Interestingly Shelby Foote was part of that group of Percy brothers and was Walker’s best friend. If I recall accurately, Foote was with him at his deathbed.

The Percy brothers were adopted by their uncle because their father killed himself with a shotgun. Now that I think about it, so did Archie Manning’s father, in Drew, not too far away from Greenville where Will Percy raised them.

Walker Percy’s novels are permeated with the trauma of the events and seemingly him attempting to make sense of the tragedy, or, in some ways, work through it using his craft to explore it.

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re: Walker Percy

Posted by Mr. Misanthrope on 5/9/26 at 3:19 am to ecb

Big fan. Got a couple of first printing/first issue.

I really enjoy all of his stuff but Love in the Ruins is probably my favorite. The Moviegoer is a remarkable work, especially as a first effort. It’s a favorite because the territory of deals with in New Orleans and environs are so familiar to me.

Love in the Ruins is funny and dark simultaneously and fairly balanced between the two with a large dose of sardonic cynicism. A lot like his other works, but some of them are weighted more to the dark side than others, notably Lancelot and The Thanatos Syndrome.

In Ruins a hypocritical pair of English new age gurus groom Dr. Thomas More’s wife, out for her money to fund a commune in Mexico. Dr. More, commenting on the Englishmen, says they “sat on their broad potato fed asses, spoke of the Hindu reverence for life and fell on my steaks like jackals.” :Lol:

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re: Name Your Favorite Perfect Albums

Posted by Mr. Misanthrope on 5/9/26 at 2:38 am to STigers

Tapestry-Carol King

Pet Sounds-The Beach Boys

Rubber Soul-The Beatles

Take Five-Dave Brubeck

Déjà Vu-Crosby, Stills, Nash &Young

Merry Christmas-Johnny Mathis (1958)

The Magic of Christmas-Nat King Cole
(1962 reissue)

Delivering-Poco

Whipped Cream-Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass

No particular order.

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re: Religious Leaders Told to 'Prepare Now' for UFO Disclosure and 'Bible-Changing' Revelation

Posted by Mr. Misanthrope on 5/7/26 at 12:12 pm to Powerman

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I think the argument might be...if the Bible is supposed to be some complete work of truth about the universe why would it completely omit the rest of life in the universe?

Something like that. The Bible speaks to mankind’s plight here on Earth and God’s redemptive acts to restore the fractured relationship between the created and Creator.

Insofar as I can tell the Holy Scriptures are silent on the status of life on planets in the vast Universe, if such life exists at all. Did they have a cataclysmic rupture in their relationship with God? Perhaps they didn’t. If they did, was Jesus Christ’s perfect, once for all, propitiatory sacrifice for sin, efficacious for them also?

I think the message eventually to come from alien beings will be one of light, hope, peace, and unity. A higher spiritual reality than organized religions offer, especially Christianity. Ultimately it’s deception and demonic at its core.

Jesus Christ is LORD, Savior, Messiah, and Creator. There is no salvation except in his name. Nobody comes to the Father except through him. Anything else is the spirit of anti-Christ.

re: Something from youth now missing?

Posted by Mr. Misanthrope on 5/7/26 at 11:00 am to Bayou

re: Time moves too fast these days.

Posted by Mr. Misanthrope on 5/2/26 at 6:01 pm to In The Know

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Chris Rock said time goes by slow as hell if you are 1) in jail or 2) in a horrible marriage.

:Lol:

re: Controversial Opinion - Teachers don’t deserve pay raises

Posted by Mr. Misanthrope on 5/2/26 at 5:59 pm to Skippy1013

Good teachers deserve great pay. But “Educators” are often less than worthless. Agenda driven programmed robots.

re: Time moves too fast these days.

Posted by Mr. Misanthrope on 5/2/26 at 10:51 am to BrianKellysbuyout

It does relative to your age. To wait a year for the next Christmas is an endless ordeal for a six year old grandson. For his Seventy-three year old Poppa, it’s the blink of an eye. A year is 1/6 of his life and 1/73 of mine. He’s on the outer rim of the whirlpool; I’m being pulled under in the center. I’m living life really fast now.
:Lol:
It’s science.

re: What’s one trait you can notice someone is from South Louisiana?

Posted by Mr. Misanthrope on 4/26/26 at 3:51 pm to 777Tiger

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always wear those when I’m going to Deanie’s

Amen!
Mrs M. and I when first married lived on Live Oak not far from Saltifamagio’s. grocery. Five kids. Poor as all get out. Probably broke bread at Deanie’s a table or two over from you. :Cheers:

We were the table with the two year old putting fries with ketchup on his head.