Reflections From a Murky Pond

Random Acts Of Beauty

Just yet another in a series of attempts to lighten up what is normally a dark place – some random acts of beauty that might leaven Reflections From A Murky Pond and elevate our collective moods.

Tags: Babes | Beauty | Random Acts of Beauty | Society

This entry was posted on Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 at 11:00 am and is filed under Society. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

Five years, give or take a bit, Markey and AOC introduced their idiotic, woke socialism disguised as environmental action, the Green New Deal. Of course, nothing came of it.

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A Green Deal Americans Would Accept

See? There’s a fine new green deal Americans would not only accept, but wholeheartedly get on board with. American’s love green deals, just not ones that do little to nothing other than transfer the wealth from the makers who earned it to the takers and eaters who Democrats pander to. Americans would far more prefer and endorse a green deal that both provided us with children and didn’t try to prevent us from passing on the wealth we earned to them.

Tags: America | AOC | Babes | Beauty | Climate Change | Green | Green New Deal | Humor | Markey | Ocasio-Cortez | Politics | Social Justice | Society | Warmists

This entry was posted on Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 at 7:00 am and is filed under Humor, Politics. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

I love and laugh at this, though I’m fully cognizant of how few people will understand why I find this funny, or why in the world I titled it “Vintage Japanese Prison Porn.”

So, let me explicate…

Why Vintage Japanese Prison Porn

• The art style is a fusion of Western Cartoon and Japanese Ukiyo-e, which also influenced Western art;
• She’s obviously a high-ranking Yakuza, probably an oyabun, given her level of tattooing;
• The origin of Yakuzas’ tattooing is from 17th-19th Centuries Japanese practice of irezumi kei (tattoo penalty), where criminals were tattooed as part of their punishment;
• She’s tied up Shibari or Kinabku style – you pendants can argue about which term is right – which was derived from Hojōjutsu, a method of restraining, torturing, and displaying prisoners in feudal Japan.

So, there you have it – why my humor and snark was engaged by this image and why I’ve titled it here as “Vintage Japanese Prison Porn.” 😉

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This entry was posted on Monday, May 13th, 2024 at 10:57 am and is filed under Humor. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

It’s taken 4 long, brutal, soul-deadening years, but COVID is finally over. Oh, not the Coronavirus itself; we’ll be having mostly less lethal variants of that for however long Humanity lasts. But, what’s over is the Panicdemic, despite the occasional desperate and increasingly febrile jabberings of certain sorts.

A couple of months ago Biden’s CDC has ended it’s COVID-19 specific recommendations and guidelines, rolling COVID into the general Respiratory Illnesses Guidelines and relaxing their “guidance” on isolation, testing, and vaccine use. And, they did this because it was no longer politically viable for them to keep the panicdemic alive any longer.

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COVID Is Finally Over

So, barring some last ditch, desperate attempt to change the voting metrics in the upcoming 2024 elections – somewhat unlikely, but certainly possible – the whole COVID crap is finally over. And, quite sadly, that means the Corona Cuties are pretty much over too, fading into history alongside the debacle that created them.

Ah well. With the start of the pandemic and its surrounding, manufactured panicdemic we had to take the good with the bad, and now with its ending we have to let go of the good along with bad.

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This entry was posted on Wednesday, May 8th, 2024 at 8:50 am and is filed under Humor, Politics, Society. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

Bikini Interlude

This, the 89th Bikini Interlude, is just that and nothing more. A brief interlude of beautiful bikini clad babes at the beach.

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This entry was posted on Friday, May 3rd, 2024 at 10:40 am and is filed under Society. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.