Longtooth Graybeard

Crippled but free. I was blind all the time I was learning to see….

[Longtooth Graybeard @Lamplighter68]

I come from another place.

Perhaps not a different space, but certainly a different time.

Perhaps you did too?

My grandfathers were farmers that served in WW1 and WW2 when called. Drafted. Serving by law.

My uncles served in Vietnam and Korea and do not talk about their trauma other than to say they’re glad it’s behind.

I grew up in the 70’s snd 80’s.

Tobacco, smoking and cheap beer were everywhere and were advertised constantly with sexy girls, manly men and questionable health benefits.

Seriously. -Everywhere.

You could buy cigarettes from a vending machine.

I played little league football and baseball and was a “free-range” kid, roaming for miles, staying outside until dark.

No cellphones.

Adventure and an absence of fear were the inspirations with tales of frontier life from the past and space travel of the future.

I watched the moon landing on a black and white TV and saw the challenger explode in my high school classroom.

The nation’s bicentennial, 200th birthday happened in my childhood.

We learned about the American Revolution and the debates about freedom, individual liberties and self governance our forefathers had during our nation’s founding.

It was a BIG deal. People were patriotic.

Fireworks, entertainment, fashion. Celebration was everywhere.

I also,watched President Carter give away the Panama Canal wasting our blood sweat and tears in Central America, and suffering the humiliation of our nation at the hands of Iranian terrorists, abandoning our beautiful Persian allies to religious zealots.

There were dark times. So much cultural noise. So many dark forces pushing in upon us, threatened by our democracy. -our republic.

Oil embargos, congressional hearings on government abuses, inflation, terrorist attacks, the omnipresent threat of nuclear war at the hands of violent communists who brutalized their own people, and so much cultural noise.

It took Ronald Reagan to bring morning back to our nation.

We were rejuvenated by his optimism and hope and belief that America was good and our future could be bright.

We supported him even while the elites stuck their tongues out and wagged their fingers at “the actor.”

He was right. They were wrong.

We leaned into it and the 80’s became a time of advancement and rejuvenation.

America wasn’t just exceptional, it WAS the exception.

People weren’t bound by class, caste, race, color, creed, or religion.

In our society we were equal before the law and you could succeed if you worked and found a better way.

We were raised to believe in our own agency. A sense of right and wrong was written into our souls and we tried to follow it, trusting our brothers and sisters were doing the same.

Slowly the noise has increased again. The signal has weakened. The trust has faded..

We need to find it again.

To be brave.

Teach our children that they have every thing they need to live good lives and make their way, all the way to the stars if we have courage.

Be happy if you live here. Be happy if you call yourself “American.”

It is a great country.

Celebrate it.

[Longtooth Graybeard @Lamplighter68]

@themagaking Then, absolutely nothing happened to the criminals she exposed. Nothing…that’s what we get from this…

[C3 @C_3C_3]

Did they cover the UK Rape Gang Inquiry?

Legacy Media…

BBC: No
CNN: No
MSNBC: No
ABC News: No
CBS News: No
NBC News: No
USA Today: No
New York Times: No
Washington Post: No

Like it didn’t happen.

Thousands of girls tortured. Like they never existed.

Pure evil.

Wonder why?

[Longtooth Graybeard @Lamplighter68]

@japan_nobunaga Spanish

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Dans 99% des cas, quand un Français me parle des Américains, c'est la même rengaine :

→ « les Américains sont pas nos amis »
→ « les Américains font des guerres partout »
→ « les Américains veulent nous coloniser »

La victimisation, toujours...

Et à chaque fois que je parle avec un Américain, c'est l'exact inverse :

→ « pourquoi vous régulez autant ? »
→ « pourquoi t'es à moitié socialiste sans le savoir ? »
→ « pourquoi vous détruisez autant de valeur avec vos normes ? »
→ « nous on veut juste faire du business avec vous »

Il y a en Europe une narrative insupportable, partagée par énormément de gens, qui consiste à croire que les Américains sont méchants.

C'est faux. Et c'est surtout dangereux, parce que c'est l'histoire qu'on se raconte pour ne pas regarder notre propre médiocrité en face.

Voilà ce que sont vraiment les Américains :

→ des joueurs bourrins, qui rentrent dans le jeu pour gagner
→ un rapport à l'argent que l'Européen ne comprend pas : l'argent c'est du sang, ça doit circuler, pas dormir dans un Livret A
→ pragmatiques jusqu'à l'os : business is business. Les guerres d'ego passent après le business, jamais avant.

Un Américain ne te déteste pas.

Il veut transacter avec toi.

C'est nous qui transformons une opportunité en procès d'intention.

Et voilà ce qu'on fait en Europe comment on se tire une balle dans le pied, à chaque fois :

On confie à des bureaucrates le soin d'écrire des lois sur la technologie alors qu'ils n'y connaissent rien.

Zéro.

Et l'output est à la hauteur : affreux, illisible, catastrophique.

On légifère sur un terrain qu'on n'a jamais foulé.

Puis on s'étonne du résultat.

Parce que les Américains, eux, sont joueurs. Ils ne pleurent pas sur nos règles : ils jouent avec.

Et ils gagnent.

Pourquoi ?

Parce que sur un play réglementaire, ce n'est pas le plus vertueux qui gagne. C'est celui qui aligne le plus de cash.

70 lobbyistes par député européen.
50 000 lobbyistes à Bruxelles.

Le top du classement des plus gros dépensiers ? Meta, Microsoft, Apple, Google.

On a écrit les règles. Ils ont acheté la table.

L'Europe n'a pas été colonisée.

L'Europe a designé son propre cercueil et elle a même payé le menuisier en taxant ses propres entrepreneurs pour financer l'opération.

Le pire ? On appelle ça « protéger nos valeurs ».

[Longtooth Graybeard @Lamplighter68]

@stockmom @FreyjaTarte Actors

[Longtooth Graybeard @Lamplighter68]

@FBIDirectorKash @dbongino Kash, when will we see high profile arrests? Will we ever? -truly feels like we’re being strung along until the clock runs out. -hope you’re embedding neutral players in the ranks and initiating good investigations that will produce results.

[American Debunk @AmericanDebunk]

This might break the internet. It’s one thing to read peoples’ reactions to the report. It’s another thing to have it brought to life through high quality videos.

You guys gotta go follow him 👇

[Longtooth Graybeard @Lamplighter68]

@CynicalPublius Wait…HW’s dad, Prescott, was a senator too wasn’t he? SMDH - political legacies and their dynasties senate….

[Longtooth Graybeard @Lamplighter68]

@CynicalPublius Sorry - that was Dad. You were talking about W. -same difference though….truly….legacy politicians and their dynasties….quite organic…not planned…just happened. (Real, true power occupies seats on both sides of the aisle. It can’t afford to leave things to chance.)

[DNI Tulsi Gabbard @DNIGabbard]

Today, on my final day as Director of National Intelligence, I’m releasing never-before-seen communications and documents exposing how Dr. Fauci provided millions in US taxpayer dollars to fund dangerous gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab, worked with politicized elements within the Intelligence Community to suppress the truth about his actions and hide the virus’ lab-leak origins, and lied to Congress while under oath in 2024. It’s time you know the truth.

https://t.co/3YJSstB7d4

[Longtooth Graybeard @Lamplighter68]

@benonwine Elections should be audited. Good luck.

[Longtooth Graybeard @Lamplighter68]

@sirjones007 @PolitiBunny

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

Seven Simple Points Explaining How We Can Pass The SAVE America Act—And Save America!

(1) Bring the SAVE America Act back to the Senate floor next week, making clear that we will keep debating the bill until we pass it.

[Longtooth Graybeard @Lamplighter68]

@PolitiBunny

[Longtooth Graybeard @Lamplighter68]

@NotKennyRogers

[Joseph Mallozzi 🏴‍☠️ @BaronDestructo]

Stargate Trivia: The Top 10 Running Gags in Stargate: SG-1
#SaveStargate

10. Blue Jello

The blue jello predates my involvement with the show. By the time Paul and I joined SG-1 in its fourth season, the gelatin was already de rigueur in most every mess scene, eventually, finding its way to Atlantis as well. So what’s the deal? Search me. I seem to remember someone saying it was simply something the prop department whipped up one day that stood out, both for its neon properties and sheer ridiculousness, quickly becoming a comically beloved visual staple.

9. O’Neill’s obsession with The Simpsons

O’Neill was full of Simpsons references and an admitted fan. Why? Well, because most of the show’s writers were fans as well, although nowhere near as huge a fan as Richard Dean Anderson. How big a fan was he? So big that he attended the table reading of a Simpsons episode and was totally blown away by the experience. Occasionally, he would even bring his daughter by my office to check out the various Simpsons-related dioramas and action figures that bedecked my shelf. Eventually, actor Dan Castellanetta guested on the show (Citizen Joe) and he and Rick hit it off. They had a great time working together and, months later, Dan showed his appreciation by writing a Stargate/RDA-themed Simpsons episode to which Rick lent his voice talents.

8. Pineapples

If you’re watching Stargate and ever happen to catch sight of a pineapple, there’s a good chance the episode you’re viewing was directed by long-time Stargate director Will Waring. The pineapples were his signature visual. More often than not, however, the fruit were so carefully camouflaged, most viewers would be hard-pressed to notice them. Still, there’s plenty of fun to be had in trying. I once asked Will “Why pineapples?” and he told me that on one of his first productions, he was camera operator on a scene involving a high speed chase. For some reason, he put a pineapple in the car’s back window as a gag – and then forgot to remove it for the actual shoot. As a result, for the entire high-octane chase sequence, there’s a pineapple clearly rattling around in the back window of our protagonist’s car. Nobody noticed – until the dailies. The director was livid and was prepared to fire Will – but the producer LOVED the pineapple gag. Will got to keep his job – and the signature pineapple was born.

7. The Big Wrench

Where Will Waring had his pineapples, director Martin Wood had his big wrench. You’ll often spot it in the background, in the hands of longtime Stargate SG-1 Fight Coordinator Dan Shea (Sgt. Siler), as he makes adjustments to equipment or simply walks around with this huge, oversized calling card. Every once in a while, Martin would get into the big wrench background action as well, donning the persona of his onscreen alter-ego, Major Wood.

6. Peter DeLuise’s Hitchcockian touch

Whereas Will had the pineapples and Martin had the big wrench, director Peter DeLuise had…Peter DeLuise. Before he was a director, Peter was an actor, and so it was only natural that he’d take a page out of Hitchcock’s book and make himself his own visual signature. He appeared as a host of background characters and played the part of the young Urgo opposite his father Dom. Even in the most challenging of episodes, Peter found a way to make his trademark appearance. Once, we thought he’d missed his cameo – only to discover he’d found an ingenious way to make a subtle appearance. In one scene, as Teal’c sits in his darkened room, deep in meditation, we pull back to reveal he is surrounded by candles – several of which are assembled to spell out the initial “PD”.

5. Jonas Quinn’s voracious appetite

Actors have their trademark “bits” as well and, for Jonas, it was food. Whether it was buttered toast in Night Walkers or the infamous banana scene in Descent (which, incidentally, ran about three minutes long in the director’s cut), he was always snacking. But he crossed the line in one episode where he showed up in the gate room sipping tea from a mug and had to be reminded – the tea mug was another actor’s trademark “bit” (see below).

4. Magnets

Every once in a while, whenever Carter tried to explain some scientific or technological wonder, Jack would try to tie it back to magnets. What was the deal with O’Neill and magnets? Well, this one was compliments of Creator/Executive Producer Brad Wright who once had someone pitch him some ridiculous scientific theory. When a dubious Brad asked him to clarify the faulty science, the other individual shrugged and offered: “Magnets?”. It eventually became the stock response to every befuddling question of logic.

3. The Wizard of Oz

This was another running joke that predated my involvement in the production but SG-1 was peppered with references throughout its ten-year run, culminating in the Wizard of Oz sight gag in the show’s 200th episode (200). Of course, by that point in the series run, the line-up had changed, offering a slightly altered version of the originals: Carter as Dorothy, Daniel as the cowardly lion, Teal’c as the tin man, and, of course, Jack as the scarecrow.

2. Indeed

If there is one word that perhaps appears in more episodes of Stargate than any other (beside, maybe, “stargate”), it’s “Indeed”, Teal’c’s short and sweet one-word response to most anything he is asked – and sometimes not. Actor Chris Judge even took to inserting the odd “Indeed” on occasions where it hadn’t even been scripted. I knew we’d reached the point of no return when, while watching dailies one day, we watched as someone asked Teal’c: “Have you seen him?” to which Teal’c replied: “Indeed – I have not.”

1. What the hell is in O’Neill’s cup?

Seriously. This one is fairly subtle but after noticing it for the first time, you'll always see it. Whenever Jack has a cup or mug in his hand there will come a point in the scene where he’ll glance down, frown, and then attempt to pluck some mysterious foreign object out of his drink.

[Longtooth Graybeard @Lamplighter68]

@DavidGiglioCA @tbfreespeach Starting to see shtick instead of substance with him to be sure. -Another actor playing a part…?

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Matt Walsh says the answer is to ban all 3rd world migration into America, and he’s right

“They don't want you to realize that the way to prevent this murder and many other crimes is to ban all third world migration to the United States. I mean, it's that simple. It's also the fastest way to improve the quality of life of every American citizen”

If you were to deport every third world immigrant who was imported into America over the last 10 years, the estimate is we would save $200 billion per year

That’s a trillion dollars in savings every 5 years and that’s after tax contributions from them are deducted

We are being destroyed with taxes because of situations like being forced to pay for third world immigrants who shouldn’t even be here

[Pino Americano @PinoAmericano]

Do you know how many of the 53 Republican Senators have voiced opposition to the pro forma sessions that are blocking Trump’s recess appointments since the start of this year?

Zero.

So, tell me, which one do you like?