FRIDAY, JULY 28, 2023
Also, some free advice: Back on July 5, we announced that we would be gone until "at least" the next week.
That turned out to be a bit of an understatement. Today, we offer some free advice, derived from our recent medical adventure:
If you're going to get a surgical wound, don't get the surgical wound on your back, where you can't even see it! You won't be able to bandage some such wound and, like us on our lengthy summer vacation, you may be away from your campus for quite a while longer than had perhaps been foretold!
What did we do on our summer vacation? We spent our disconnected time dreaming of the later Wittgenstein, and of ongoing attempts to make Einstein easy, and of the widespread human phenomenon we'd describe as "illusory explanation."
We dreamed of the antique claim that we the humans are, in fact, "the rational animal." With respect to that self-description, we asked ourselves, as we long have done, if we the humans aren't perhaps a bit inclined to "see ourselves from afar."
We're back on campus today, prepared to start the next 75 years of our life. We expect to focus more on that bigger picture, a bit less on the tribal warfare which continues to embarrass each of our "cable news" sides.
Could Donald J. Trump get elected next year? Grimly, we'd still have to say that he could.
Services will resume in the next few days, perhaps in an altered form. Also, we'll be seeking a few good trillionaires—people prepared to be medical sponsors of this incomparable site.
Glad you are feeling better.
ReplyDeleteOn what planet can a convicted rapist with multiple additional criminal indictments pending run for president much less win? Does this make any sense to anyone, even someone under the influence of mind-altering medicine?
On a planet whose political systems are falling apart.
DeleteOurs are still functioning despite the Republican efforts to undermine them. That's why I am surprised at Somerby's pessimism.
DeleteOnly today Trump said on Truth Social: "We are truly a Nation In Decline!" (his capitalization)
DeleteHow is this not a Republican talking point when Somerby and others repeat it here?
Concerns about the country's state and political systems are voiced by individuals across various political affiliations, not just Republicans.
DeleteRepublicans are very concerned about having too much gdp and employment growth under Biden. They are hoping for a recession, what a cohort!
DeleteIMO Trump probably committed a number of crimes, though most are victimless. IMO a number of+ federal agencies, as well as some local and state agencies, have been corruptly going after Trump to an entirely disproportionate degree, and sometimes very dishonestly. The contrast between the handling of Hunter Biden and Donald Trump is evidence of that.
DeleteIMO much of the media is also corrupt, basing their coverage on which side it helps. The bias of the mainstream media makes it difficult for a Republican to be elected.
On top of this, free speech is becoming less and less popular. A recent survey showed majority support for government "control of accuracy", which amounts to censorship.
This all makes me sad. I see American freedom and democracy evaporating with no clear avenue available to reverse the trend.
Hunter didn’t pay owed taxes when he was using cocaine after his brother’s death from cancer. He paid all back taxes and penalties by 2021. His prosecution now is unusual for those doing what he did. In contrast, Trump has evaded taxes from the beginning, has not admitted to what he owes or his wrongdoing and made no restitution. Tax evasion is not a victimless crime — it is stealing from the American people, from you and I. Hunter Biden is honest compared to Trump. Your warped view of Trump makes me sad. Trump needs his day in court so that people like you will understand what Trump did and why it is wrong.
DeleteThanks for your response, @4:15. I agree that Trump committed a number or crimes. I didn't know about tax evasion. Biden became a multi-millionaire living on a government salary. IMO he achieved this wealth by corruptly using his elected office.
DeleteBad as these two old men are, they will soon pass from power. Even though they're currently leading in the polls, I suspect, and hope, that neither will be elected in 2024. I am more worried about the corruption of various government agencies and many media. This will continue, even as personnel changes.
My husband became a multi-millionaire on a computer scientist’s salary. Did he corruptly use his office too? Thomas J Stanley wrote “The Millionaire Next Door” to explain how people build wealth. Most who get rich are not corrupt, even if people like Clarence Thomas abuse their offices and George Santos is living large on campaign funds. Instead of assuming “everyone does it” why not hold the guys in your own party accountable?
DeleteIf someone is insufficiently competent to accumulate wealth in a job paying $400,000 plus living expenses: $100,000 travel, $50,000 expenses, $19,000 entertainment, non-taxable, and free housing, then they are not qualified for the job. First ladies get $500,000 for official travel. Why wouldn’t the president come out ahead, especially after a career in which his wife also worked? And that’s assuming the Bidens had no family money or inheritances and no investments. But you think corruption is the answer and yet you don’t apply the same standard to Republicans.
Look how wealthy Boebert is after 2 years in office. She started out “borrowing” money from her campaign to pay her business taxes by inflating her mileage claims. Her income is estimated as $41 million which doesn’t seem right for such a newcomer. Her income is reported as $5 million. Her salary is $175,000. Riddle me that one.
Props to your husband, @6:53. I suspect you also deserve a lot of credit for you spending was controlled. My parents did the same thing. My father was a penniless immigrant. He died a multi-millionaire by controlling spending and investing all his spare money in the stock market at a time when the stock market was doing very well.
DeleteYou are right that Biden could have become rich without the corruption. However, the evidence of his corruption is overwhelming. There is lots of evidence that relatives, including Hunter, were influence peddling and sharing their payoffs with Joe.
Fortunately for Joe, he hasn't been thorough investigated. I doubt that he ever will be.
There is no evidence of his corruption. Nor is there evidence that Hunter shared influence peddling money with Biden. Those accusations have no substance. They are a right wing smear.
DeleteCan you link to proof of any of this? Something being “possible” doesn’t mean it happened. It is most likelyJoe Biden is telling the truth, given that there is no evidence and Biden is not a known liar like Trump and the right wing.
DeleteThese are the shell companies that China etc put millions of dollars in:
DeleteName Formation Date
Lion Hall Group, LLC 5/26/1998
Owasco P.C. 1/19/2006
Robinson Walker, LLC 2/28/2008
Skaneateles, LLC 7/18/2008
Seneca Global Advisors, LLC 8/12/2008
Rosemont Seneca Partners, LLC 6/25/2009
Rosemont Seneca Principal Investments, LLC 7/29/2009
Rosemont Realty, LLC 2/12/2010
Rosemont Seneca Global Risk Services, LLC 10/4/2010
RSP Holdings, LLC 9/15/2011
Rosemont Seneca Technology Partners, LLC 10/19/2011
Rosemont Seneca Thornton, LLC 5/28/2013
Rosemont Seneca Advisors, LLC 7/2/2014
Rosemont Seneca Bohai, LLC 9/18/2014
JBB SR, INC. 9/3/2015
RSTP II Alpha Partners, LLC 12/17/2015
RSTP II Bravo Partners, LLC 12/17/2015
Owasco, LLC 12/21/2015
Hudson West III, LLC 4/19/2016
Hudson West V, LLC 5/27/2016
CEFC Infrastructure Investment (US), LLC 5/11/2017
Biden is already caught lying that he had no knowledge of his son's business dealing - which was always a clear lie.
DeleteIf influence peddling and trading off politics for wealth was illegal, the Trump crime family would be behind bars, as is commonly the case when individuals are convicted of stealing from their charitable organizations.
DeleteWe do know that VP Biden was heavily involved in Ukraine and traveled there dozens of times while serving and all of a sudden the same time shell companies his son set up are receiving millions of dollars from businesses in Ukraine. Bank records show these funds were directly deposited to various members of the Biden family. The same with Romania. Copies of the redacted bank records have been published.
DeleteBut you're right, President Biden was probably telling the truth and that he had no idea any of that was happening. That makes sense.
The timeline isn't right, but who cares about facts? If there were any evidence, you would have posted a link to it. Not even the highly motivated Congressional investigation has been able to present evidence of any Biden wrongdoing. This is a farce, but your posts here show what you guys are willing to consider evidence. For example, what can a "redacted" bank record show if the information is blanked out? Nothing. But you present it here as if it means something.
DeleteThis part was weird:
Delete"At the time of Vice
President Biden’s speech, one of the most high-profile corruption
prosecutions in Romania
revolved around Gabriel Popoviciu.18
Romanian prosecutors charged and convicted Mr. Popoviciu with a
bribery related offense, and there has been subsequent litigation in the United Kingdom
related to this matter.19
On September 28, 2015, Vice President Biden welcomed Romanian
President Klaus Iohannis to the White House.20 A readout of the meeting stated, the “Vice
President welcomed President Iohannis’ focus on
anti-corruption efforts and rule of law as a means to strengthen
national security and
promote greater investment and economic growth ...
Within
five weeks of this meeting, Bladon Enterprises Limited (Bladon
Enterprises) began making
deposits into Robinson Walker, LLC’s bank account. Bladon
Enterprises is reported to be Gabriel Popoviciu’s Cypriot
company that he used to conduct business in Romania.23
From
November 2015 to May 2017, Bladon Enterprises paid Robinson Walker,
LLC over $3 million. Biden
family accounts received approximately $1.038 million from the
Robinson Walker, LLC
account after Bladon Enterprises deposits. Sixteen of the seventeen
payments from Bladon
Enterprises to Robinson Walker, LLC were made while Joe Biden was
Vice President.
It's probably all bull though.
Some Biden family corruption is so brazen that one has to work at not thinking in order to miss it. Here's a mocking example from David Burge (Iowahawk)
DeleteMAJOR ART MOVEMENTS OF THE PAST 100 YEARS
DeStijl Cubism
Abstract Expressionism
Dada
Surrealism
Color Field
Pop Art
Post Modernism
Meth Addicts Who Pick Up a Paint Brush For The First Time at Age 50 And Suddenly Sell Paintings To Their Fathers' Friends For $1 Million
Hunter Biden has the same art career as George W. Bush. Are you prepared to mock him too?
DeleteIf you knew more about Biden's art sales, you would know that neither Hunter nor Joe Biden were ever informed by Hunter's art dealer who had bought any of his paintings. The pricing is also done by that dealer, based on what the market will bear. The person who did buy the painting was subsequently appointed to a govt position by Nancy Pelosi, not Biden, and it was to a position normally occupied by major donors to a party (a traditional donor reward by both parties). The women who bought the painting had made many public substantial donations as a Democrat, not a single underhanded one that neither Biden knew anything about.
And look at all of the many patronage appointments Trump made to his donors, including the ones who contributed to the inauguration party (which was not public money and went straight into the hands of Trump himself).
Biden was a cocaine addict in the two years following the death of his brother Beau. Calling him a meth addict is perhaps intended to portray him as low class, but isn't factually true about his addiction. Nor is the timing of his art career with respect to his addiction. But details don't matter when Republicans are busy smearing those they hate. No painting sold for $1 million.
Don't forget that Trump had a handy business going selling pardons on his way out of office -- as much as $750,000 by one pardon-seeker.
Deletehttps://www.opensecrets.org/news/2021/01/trump-tied-lobbyists-paid-massive-sums/
Does anyone buy an NFT because they like Melania's designs?
Delete"Former President Donald Trump has made between $100,001 and $1 million in income from NFTs, his new financial disclosure showed." (Apr 14, 2023)
"At its heart, Hunter Biden's new memoir, Beautiful Things, is a story of addiction.
DeleteBiden, the 51-year-old son of the president, writes that he first bought crack cocaine at age 18. He first fell in love with alcohol in high school and started drinking heavily after work in his 20s. "I always could drink five times more than anyone else," he writes.
He has been in and out of rehab numerous times over the last two decades and has had long periods of sobriety between relapses.
It's also a story about a family's love and loss. Biden was 2 years old when his mother and sister died in a car crash. Hunter and his brother, Beau, were seriously injured but survived.
Hunter Biden's Memoir 'Beautiful Things' Seeks To Tell Just Where He's Been
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Biden writes that his addictions entered a particularly dark phase after Beau died of brain cancer in 2015. It got to the point where in an intervention in early 2019, his father held him in a bear hug, saying, "I don't know what to do."
Hunter Biden says his wife, Melissa, got his life under control shortly after they met later that year."
Republicans are despicable people to use a family tragedy to target the sitting president for political reasons.
DeleteOver at Gateway Pundit, Republicans are suggesting that Obama had a hand in the death of his chef in a paddleboard accident last week, that they aren't sad about his death. Because that's what Republicans are like.
DeleteThey are similarly revved up over Hunter Biden's out-of-wedlock daughter, to the point that the president issued a statement about leaving them all alone. Because there is no respect for the privacy of a 4 year old and her mother.
Republicans are not good decent people. Just read the comments from Gateway pundit about the Obamas:
https://nomoremister.blogspot.com/2023/07/of-course-bottom-feeders-are-spreading.html
All the evidence is indicating that it makes sense that the addiction would be a direct result of the tremendous guilt, pressure and shame he was facing having to run an international corruption scheme with some of the world's most unscrupulous governments for his calculating father.
DeleteAnd that's why it dates back to his teens?
DeleteJoe Biden was accused of corruption and improprieties by Trump, republicans and their right wing media channels in regard to his relation with Ukraine, in the run up to 2020. Trouble with this narrative, to anyone paying attention, and that doesn’t include Fox viewers, was that Biden was applying pressure to oust corrupt elements in the Ukrainian government. But facts don’t matter then and they certainly don’t now.
DeleteLet's bring this debate back to the topic of corruption.
Delete@3:16 wrote, "Hunter Biden has the same art career as George W. Bush. Are you prepared to mock him too?"
DeleteThis is an example of having to work at not thinking in order to overlook the corruption. These are not at all the same for several big reasons:
1. IIRC W's art did not sell for the same amount of dollars as Hunter's.
2. Bush is an ex-President. Hunter Biden is nobody.
3. Bush was not in a position to reward art purchasers, since he was out of office. Hunter and his father are in a position to reward the buyers.
4. President Bush did indeed reward buyers of Hunter's art.
Does anyone seriously disbelieve that people bought Hunter's expensive paintings in order to curry Presidential favor? IMO rather than disbelieve something that's obviously true, many people simply don't think about it. They're helped by a media that inflates Trump's wrongdoing (although Trump does commit lots of wrongdoing) and ignores or downplays Biden's wrongdoing.
1. IIRC Bush had no influence to peddle. Neither does Hunter, being honest not corrupt.
Delete2. Bush has been nobody since leaving office.
3. You can’t do anything if you don’t know who bought Biden’s art — Bidens weren’t informed and didn’t do anything for them. No quid pro quo.
4. Nancy Pelosi rewarded a Democratic donor with an unpaid appointment with no grifting opportunities.
Republicans never prove their accusations. What career could Hunter pursue that wouldn’t look dirty to you David?
The laptop is a nothingburger planted by Rudy Gugliotta and Paul Manafort.
DeleteActually it was Gugliotta and Papadopoulos.
Delete@1:39 Being appointed to an unpaid position on a commission by Nancy Pelosi is not a favor from the white house. The woman was also a major campaign donor, which accounts for the appt, not buying a Hunter Biden painting.
DeleteThe only thing stopping Joe Biden with being charged with corruption, is finding someone willing to make those charges, while under oath in a court of law.
DeleteWelcome back. I've missed you and am glad to hear that you're on the mend.
ReplyDeleteI highly recommend David Neiwert's new book:
ReplyDelete"The Age of Insurrection: The Radical Right's Assault on American Democracy" (June 27, 2023)
https://www.amazon.com/Age-Insurrection-Radical-American-Democracy-ebook/dp/B0BGN1KH96/ref=sr_1_1?crid=30D1SR91HWGWG&keywords=the+age+of+insurrection+david+neiwert&qid=1690572706&sprefix=Age+of+Insurrec%2Caps%2C131&sr=8-1
As Amazon describes it:
"An important book, offering the clearest explanation of how dark forces conspired to overthrow our democratically elected government and install a fascist regime in its place. And it’s a warning that what comes next might be even worse... His prose is passionate, thoughtful, at times blisteringly funny and always deeply morally engaged with the importance of the work." -- The Seattle Times
The strange and terrible tale of the far right’s long war on American democracy . . .
From a smattering of ominous right-wing compounds in the Pacific Northwest in the 1970s, to the shocking January 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, America has seen the culmination of a long-building war on democracy being waged by a fundamentally violent and antidemocratic far-right movement that unironically calls itself the "Patriot" movement.
So how did we get here? Award-winning journalist David Neiwert — who been following the rise of these extremist groups since the late 1970s, when he was a young reporter in Idaho — explores how the movement was built over decades, how it was set aflame by Donald Trump and his cohorts, and how it will continue to attack American democracy for the foreseeable future. Neiwert especially studies how the Pacific Northwest has long been a breeding ground of extremist violence, from the time when neo-nazis migrated to the area from southern California in the 1970s, through the great battles in Portland and Seattle and neighboring towns over the last decade.
Laying out how these groups organize their terroristic violence and attacks on democratic institutions at every level—including local, state, and federal targets—Neiwert details what their strategies and plans look like for the foreseeable future."
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It is important to see the connections between Trump and the fascist right wing behind his campaign so that we all see what is at stake in the 2024 election.
Welcome back, Bob! I was worried when you didn't return after the first week of absence. More so after each subsequent week. Glad you made it. But enough with the pleasantries and onto more important things -- like my very important opinions about your plans for the site. This is going to get annoying, presumptuous, and a lot of other unappealing things. Take it in the spirit in which it's intended. You know I'm a fan. You know I love you. But please, love o' god, Bob, please don't rehash that stuff about Wittgenstein, Einstein, and Aristotle. First of all, you've gone over that stuff literally dozens and dozens of times. I don't think it served any high purpose to begin with, but once it's been said, repeating it countless times is even more pointless. When you feel like any potential new readers need to hear about it, just link them to one or two of your earlier posts. And really, honestly, what is the reason you talk about that stuff? I honestly wonder if it's not just to feel intellectually superior. In two ways. First, it's kind of like name dropping -- you get to show everyone that you're familiar with "the great thinkers." Secondly, you get to dismiss everyone else as a bunch of know-nothings and feel superior. You get to feel like you're smarter and more virtuous (honest) than everyone else. Come on, man, enough. There are better ways to use your smarts. Besides, some of that material may not even be cogent. As an example, your "rational animal" critique is itself questionable in terms of its "rationality." You're pointing out relatively few instances of what you consider non-rational behavior or claims, and then proclaiming that therefore Aristotle was wrong, the entire human race is NOT a "rational animal." (Aristotle was wrong! See, I'm smarter than Aristotle!) First of all, strictly speaking, your premises don't logically entail your conclusion. Even if people are SOMETIMES non-rational, it doesn't follow that human beings are non-rational, full stop. Secondly, you've never defined the very hard-to-pin-down term "rational." If Joe Scarborough says something that is inaccurate, illogical, misleading, dishonest, etc., to many people's way of thinking, that doesn't prove he's not "rational." He's making millions of fucking dollars saying it! That's pretty fucking rational from a self-interest perspective. He scored himself a hot babe, probably in part for his "non-rational" claims and the money and fame those claims earned him. Same goes for the people who repeat the day's storyline. They might be doing this for any number of perfectly "rational" reasons -- like saving themselves time and effort, or going along to get along, or preserving their jobs. Many people would call this perfectly rational. You can maybe call them something else -- self-serving, lazy, dishonest, etc. But to call this behavior non-rational (or "irrational") is just silly. You seem to be doing the very thing you've criticized others for: forcing the facts to fit a preferred theme/storyline. You want to keep mentioning Aristotle, you want to show that you're smarter than Aristotle, and you want to show that you're smarter than all those "irrational" pundits and science popularizers. Stop it! (By the way, the laziness or self-serving-ness of pundits like Scarborough are perfectly legitimate targets of criticism, but you don't have to tie them back to some grand theme. Just point out the inaccuracy or whatever the problem is and leave it at that. Why try to tie everything together in a "theory of everything" kind of way? That's what has tripped up so many "great thinkers" -- they always want to try to tie everything together with an overarching theme. Who cares about that shit?) Ok, I'm done being annoying. Truly glad you survived and are back to writing.
ReplyDeletePretty unfair to Mika to call her a "hot babe" and then imply that she is only with Joe for the money. Aside from that cheap shot at Mika, I agree with you and don't find you annoying at all.
DeleteMuch relieved that you survived your hospital stay and you're now well enough to write. Looking forward to reading your future thoughts in whatever form the blog takes. Welcome back, Bob.
ReplyDeleteThank Goodness. In my view, please never stop bringing the context of Wittgenstein, Einstein, and Aristotle. There are a few others too.
ReplyDeleteOppenheimer?
DeleteIt’s so nice to see you, Bob.
ReplyDeleteI don’t know why home health care people aren’t (were’t?) coming in to treat your back wound.
Ignore complaints. Expound upon anything you wish. We’ll all be here reading it.
You ARE intellectually superior.
"You ARE intellectually superior."
DeleteEasy for you to say...
Intellectually superior people generally end up spending 25 years writing blogs on Google Blooger that nobody reads, I guess.
Delete"Intellectually superior people generally end up spending 25 years writing blogs on Google Blooger that nobody reads, I guess."
DeleteBut you're ... reading it...????
I am willing to entertain the possibility Bob is intellectually superior to Cecelia. Some days, anyway.
DeleteIn other words, Anonymouse 2:29am, you’re mostly here to read me.
DeleteAnd weep.
DeleteAnonymouse 10:55pm, but you do.
DeleteBetter phrasing: No one comes here to read you Cecelia.
DeleteWhen you can’t be bothered to consider time dilation and length contraction in order to gain some comprehension about relativity, “intellectual superiority” is the last thing you could credibly claim.
ReplyDeleteBuck up, Somerby, nobody cares about your physical condition, just get on with repeating right wing garbage so we can get back to enjoying thoroughly debunking your nonsense.
Some of us worry about Somerby's mental condition too. Universities stopped teaching Aristotle and started teaching actual science for good reasons.
DeleteThere are some modern courses now taught in philosophy departments at major universities. These don't rehash Wittgenstein. One is cognitive science, another concerns the history of science and the role of technology in society -- an important component of the field of applied ethics, which is one thing students can do for work with a philosophy major. Discussions based on the ideas presented in such courses would be fascinating, especially with the advent and predictions about the impact of AI, but Somerby hasn't read anything recent, so he is unprepared to think about such stuff. For him, the intellectual world froze when he graduated.
It is obvious that it wasn't a bandage that kept Somerby in the hospital (if that is where he was). He doesn't have to tell us any details -- that is personal. But he could think up more plausible lies.
"There are some modern courses now taught in philosophy departments at major universities. These don't rehash Wittgenstein. One is cognitive science, another concerns the history of science and the role of technology in society -- an important component of the field of applied ethics, which is one thing students can do for work with a philosophy major."
DeleteLightweight stuff -- and not philosophy.
Not philosophy? Not according to philosophy professors in Philosophy Departments.
DeleteThe most subversive thing about the Barbie movie is that it seems to suggest that the way out of Ken's existential crisis is for the Kens to figure out who they are. That is identity, not membership in some group called "men." The Barbies did that, but the Kens remained as boyfriend appendages of Barbies, with no purpose of their own, no meaning to their existence. That, not muscle flexing, is the suggested ending (with a set up for a sequel).
ReplyDeleteRight wingers don't believe in identity or identity politics and they are fine with one gender being an appendage of the other. Of course they are upset with the movie. They seem to have forgotten when women left their husbands and families in order to figure out who they were (it is the plot of Kramer vs Kramer), because they didn't know how to be a distinct person while embedded in relationships (subsumed by the needs of others). The confrontation with gender may be about whether someone can be a person without playing a prescribed gender role. Is there more to being manly than liking horses?
And the Barbies aren't a prescribed gender role. Right.
DeleteIn the USA and Great Britain, over 90% of horse owners are women.
DeleteLeave it to a hysterical woman to use a movie plot as evidence to support a real-life claim..
DeleteGo see the movie and then you can join the discussion about it.
Delete@4:29
Delete32.8% of cowboys are women and 67.2% of cowboys are men
Women farmers, singly and jointly, operated over 65 percent of all horse farms, compared with 37 percent of all farms. This may partly be due to inheritance, as is true for female business owners in general.
"At 8:00 A.M. on a drizzly, muddy weekday morning, Rosenblum is at Belmont Racetrack on Long Island watching the grooms check her horses to make sure they’re sound before they’re exercised. But aside from a small handful of women working as exercise riders, or in the stables, Rosenblum is the only non-equine female in sight.
Traditionally horse racing is a male dominated industry. But now, Rosenblum, and women like her, are changing the industry. All of the investors in both of the syndicates Rosenblum oversees are women.
“It’s exhilarating, it’s challenging,” says Rosenblum of working in the mostly-male industry. “It’s tough as heck. But I love it.”
Women do not compete against men in rodeo events but there are separate female rodeos now, gaining popularity since the 1950s when about 10% of rodeo contestants were female.
"In 2019, approximately 83 percent of FEI dressage riders, 73 percent of eventing riders, and 61 percent of jumping riders were women, which is comparable to the male-female divide in Canada's provincial sport organizations." In the US it is 91% female, but there are only 780 total equestrians competing in dressage in the US.
Yes, middle-aged women with children are the primary owners of recreationa riding horses.
BUT... if you watch the Barbie movie, the Kens are enamored of horses because they want to be cowboys. Ken also loves outfits with fringe. You wouldn't expect a boy doll played with by girls to be obsessed with guns, would you? The GI Joe doll was very different.
Sorry, being sane, I have no idea what you're talking about.
DeleteNo, being unfamiliar with the topic at hand, you have nothing to say about it.
DeleteWhen men decide to find themselves and beat feet, we call them deadbeat dads.
DeleteBarbie and Ken have no genitals hence no offspring.
DeleteThank goodness for small blessings.
DeleteThe movie itself is insulting, obnoxious and idiotic.
DeleteYou can’t really say that without having seen it.
DeleteMens reaction to the Barbie movie shows they are far too emotional to be put in positions of power.
Deletehey, welcome back, bob. you've been missed. hope you are feeling well.
ReplyDeleteWelcome back, Bob!
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