Para Rosie, a stalker: "Eu disse que você era especial, não única".
Wednesday, 27 May 2020
Desagradável/Obnoxious
Enfuriante, machista, egoísta, inacreditável, exasperante. Misógino... ou não? Em "Two and a Half Man", Charlie Harper, vivido na tela por Charlie Sheen, quase o espelho um do outro. Ele é nojento, mas você vai rir muuuuuuito!
Tuesday, 26 May 2020
Joguinho pra Quarentena
Este é um exercício para ativar a mente e ajudar passar a quarentena. 😉
1. Amor
2. Silbar
3. Noguera
4. Panel
5. Arcaico
6. Intergrala
7. Tangerina
8. Prisa
9. Pagar
10. Hinca
11. Aquerdo
12. Alegria
Em cada palavra há um país ou cidade. São 12. Esperamos sua resposta. Não sobram e não faltam letras.…Acentos podem ser retirados ou trocados de lugar. Vamos movimentar nossos neurônios
Monday, 25 May 2020
Sob o Signo de Centauro
O romance de Laura e Uilton da autora brasileira Nancy de Lustoza Barros e Hirsch agora no formato eletrônico pela Amazon! Mas se você prefere o livro físico, procure na Prosa & Verso Livraria, (24) 3353-3578. Quer uma dedicatória? Mande mensagem para cfhny at namahe.com.br.
Saturday, 23 May 2020
Cavalo Árabe - Paixão!
Parabéns ABCCA, pela iniciativa; Almir (Batata), pela dedicação; às atletas, muito sucesso!
Friday, 22 May 2020
TGIF - Doron ben David
Thursday, 21 May 2020
Wednesday, 20 May 2020
Tuesday, 19 May 2020
Outro Joguinho
Em cada palavra há uma fruta. São 21. Esperamos sua resposta. Não sobram e não faltam letras. Acentos podem ter sido retirados. Vamos movimentar nossos neurônios! 😃
Um exercício para ativar a mente nesta quarentena. 😉
1. Vau
2. Amgna
3. Abioga
4. Jacurama
5. Acetaba
6. Aximae
7. Rogamon
8. Xacabia
9. Argentina
10. Fobaresam
11. Eamotia
12. Rajalan
13. Liritom
14. Pear
15. Anaban
16. Tacreani
17. Amoma
18. Acuj
19. Pasrene
20. Sosepeg
21. Yatiap
Monday, 18 May 2020
Horses and Family
If you like romance, adventure and horses, this is the book for you, by the Brazilian author and breeder Nancy de Lustoza Barros e Hirsch.
Do you know anything about breeding horses? What if everybody wants to have a say in it? E-book available at Amazon
Saturday, 16 May 2020
Friday, 15 May 2020
TGIF - Justin Derrico
É sempre bom lembrar o intuito destas postagens de sextas-feiras, intituladas Thank God Is Friday - TGIF: nossos queridos amigos, namorados, maridos e outros que tais repassam entre si fotos, como dizer?, nada abonadoras ao sexo feminino, com as quais eles se divertem descaradamente. As imagens aqui colocadas são a vingancinha, com muita classe, que nós, garotas, nos permitimos. Divirtam-se e vejam a coleção toda clicando aqui!
Thursday, 14 May 2020
Ecos de 40 Anos Atrás
Não sei bem por que
Falo das coisas
Que falo
Não sei bem por que
Falo de ruas
De becos
Estradas que nunca trilhei
Não sei por que
Falo de amores
Promessas
Coisas que nunca farei
Reminiscências de vidas
Que algum dia vivi?
Sei lá, não sei
Sei sim e tenho certeza
Da farsa que sou
Das mentiras que vivo
O grande engano
No qual persisto
Não amo, não sofro
Não choro, não tenho
Nenhum querer
Não gosto de mim
Não gosto de ti
Que sou
Aonde vou?
© Nancy Lustosa Barros (Rio
– 300479)
Wednesday, 13 May 2020
Toby Kid
O primeiro romance da autora Nancy de Lustoza Barros e Hirsch, Passo Trote Galope, conta a história de uma família e seus cavalos. Nasceu um potrinho alazão da crina bem loura no haras Personal. Seu nome é uma homenagem ao cantor de música country americana Toby Keith. Sobre o cantor: http://tobykeith.musiccitynetworks.com/
Tuesday, 12 May 2020
Jogo de Palavras
Em cada palavra há um país, estado ou cidade. Espero sua resposta. Não sobram e não faltam letras. Vamos movimentar nossos neurônios. Vá respondendo logo que descobrir, cada uma com seu número. Não precisa ser em ordem. Escreva cada uma, não escreva todas de uma vez, para dar chance aos outros do grupo.
1 DAMIRD
2 CILOABOM
3 BARTIUCI
4 SABILO
5 APLUGACEGIT
6 ADIROLF
7 SUMOCO
8 TIDORTE
9 SANASKRA
10 ALIARTUSA
11 OSGATINA
12 SOLIPONAFIROL
Monday, 11 May 2020
Saturday, 9 May 2020
A Besta
Irish
Times
April 25, 2020
By Fintan O’Toole
THE WORLD HAS LOVED, HATED AND ENVIED THE U.S. NOW, FOR THE FIRST TIME, WE PITY IT
Over more than two centuries, the United States has stirred a very wide range of feelings in the rest of the world: love and hatred, fear and hope, envy and contempt, awe and anger. But there is one emotion that has never been directed towards the US until now: pity.
However bad things are for most other rich democracies, it is hard not to feel sorry for Americans. Most of them did not vote for Donald Trump in 2016. Yet they are locked down with a malignant narcissist who, instead of protecting his people from Covid-19, has amplified its lethality. The country Trump promised to make great again has never in its history seemed so pitiful.
Will American prestige ever recover from this shameful episode? The US went into the coronavirus crisis with immense advantages: precious weeks of warning about what was coming, the world’s best concentration of medical and scientific expertise, effectively limitless financial resources, a military complex with stunning logistical capacity and most of the world’s leading technology corporations. Yet it managed to make itself the global epicentre of the pandemic.
As the American writer George Packer puts it in the current edition of the Atlantic, “The United States reacted ... like Pakistan or Belarus – like a country with shoddy infrastructure and a dysfunctional government whose leaders were too corrupt or stupid to head off mass suffering.”
It is one thing to be powerless in the face of a natural disaster, quite another to watch vast power being squandered in real time – wilfully, malevolently, vindictively. It is one thing for governments to fail (as, in one degree or another, most governments did), quite another to watch a ruler and his supporters actively spread a deadly virus. Trump, his party and Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News became vectors of the pestilence.
The grotesque spectacle of the president openly inciting people (some of them armed) to take to the streets to oppose the restrictions that save lives is the manifestation of a political death wish. What are supposed to be daily briefings on the crisis, demonstrative of national unity in the face of a shared challenge, have been used by Trump merely to sow confusion and division. They provide a recurring horror show in which all the neuroses that haunt the American subconscious dance naked on live TV.
If the plague is a test, its ruling political nexus ensured that the US would fail it at a terrible cost in human lives. In the process, the idea of the US as the world’s leading nation – an idea that has shaped the past century – has all but evaporated.
Other than the Trump impersonator Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, who is now looking to the US as the exemplar of anything other than what not to do? How many people in Düsseldorf or Dublin are wishing they lived in Detroit or Dallas?
It is hard to remember now but, even in 2017, when Trump took office, the conventional wisdom in the US was that the Republican Party and the broader framework of US political institutions would prevent him from doing too much damage. This was always a delusion, but the pandemic has exposed it in the most savage ways.
Abject surrender
What used to be called mainstream conservatism has not absorbed Trump – he has absorbed it. Almost the entire right-wing half of American politics has surrendered abjectly to him. It has sacrificed on the altar of wanton stupidity the most basic ideas of responsibility, care and even safety.
Thus, even at the very end of March, 15 Republican governors had failed to order people to stay at home or to close non-essential businesses. In Alabama, for example, it was not until April 3rd that governor Kay Ivey finally issued a stay-at-home order.
In Florida, the state with the highest concentration of elderly people with underlying conditions, governor Ron DeSantis, a Trump mini-me, kept the beach resorts open to students travelling from all over the US for spring break parties. Even on April 1st, when he issued restrictions, DeSantis exempted religious services and “recreational activities”.
Georgia governor Brian Kemp, when he finally issued a stay-at-home order on April 1st, explained: “We didn’t know that [the virus can be spread by people without symptoms] until the last 24 hours.”
This is not mere ignorance – it is deliberate and homicidal stupidity. There is, as the demonstrations this week in US cities have shown, plenty of political mileage in denying the reality of the pandemic. It is fuelled by Fox News and far-right internet sites, and it reaps for these politicians millions of dollars in donations, mostly (in an ugly irony) from older people who are most vulnerable to the coronavirus.
It draws on a concoction of conspiracy theories, hatred of science, paranoia about the “deep state” and religious providentialism (God will protect the good folks) that is now very deeply infused in the mindset of the American right.
Trump embodies and enacts this mindset, but he did not invent it. The US response to the coronavirus crisis has been paralysed by a contradiction that the Republicans have inserted into the heart of US democracy. On the one hand, they want to control all the levers of governmental power. On the other they have created a popular base by playing on the notion that government is innately evil and must not be trusted.
The contradiction was made manifest in two of Trump’s statements on the pandemic: on the one hand that he has “total authority”, and on the other that “I don’t take responsibility at all”. Caught between authoritarian and anarchic impulses, he is incapable of coherence.
Fertile ground
But this is not just Donald Trump. The crisis has shown definitively that Trump’s presidency is not an aberration. It has grown on soil long prepared to receive it. The monstrous blossoming of misrule has structure and purpose and strategy behind it.
There are very powerful interests who demand “freedom” in order to do as they like with the environment, society and the economy. They have infused a very large part of American culture with the belief that “freedom” is literally more important than life. My freedom to own assault weapons trumps your right not to get shot at school. Now, my freedom to go to the barber (“I Need a Haircut” read one banner this week in St Paul, Minnesota) trumps your need to avoid infection.
Usually when this kind of outlandish idiocy is displaying itself, there is the comforting thought that, if things were really serious, it would all stop. People would sober up. Instead, a large part of the US has hit the bottle even harder.
And the president, his party and their media allies keep supplying the drinks. There has been no moment of truth, no shock of realisation that the antics have to end. No one of any substance on the US right has stepped in to say: get a grip, people are dying here.
That is the mark of how deep the trouble is for the US – it is not just that Trump has treated the crisis merely as a way to feed tribal hatreds but that this behaviour has become normalised. When the freak show is live on TV every evening, and the star is boasting about his ratings, it is not really a freak show any more. For a very large and solid bloc of Americans, it is reality.
And this will get worse before it gets better. Trump has at least eight more months in power. In his inaugural address in 2017, he evoked “American carnage” and promised to make it stop. But now that the real carnage has arrived, he is revelling in it. He is in his element.
As things get worse, he will pump more hatred and falsehood, more death-wish defiance of reason and decency, into the groundwater. If a new administration succeeds him in 2021, it will have to clean up the toxic dump he leaves behind. If he is re-elected, toxicity will have become the lifeblood of American politics.
Either way, it will be a long time before the rest of the world can imagine America being great again.
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April 25, 2020
By Fintan O’Toole
THE WORLD HAS LOVED, HATED AND ENVIED THE U.S. NOW, FOR THE FIRST TIME, WE PITY IT
Over more than two centuries, the United States has stirred a very wide range of feelings in the rest of the world: love and hatred, fear and hope, envy and contempt, awe and anger. But there is one emotion that has never been directed towards the US until now: pity.
However bad things are for most other rich democracies, it is hard not to feel sorry for Americans. Most of them did not vote for Donald Trump in 2016. Yet they are locked down with a malignant narcissist who, instead of protecting his people from Covid-19, has amplified its lethality. The country Trump promised to make great again has never in its history seemed so pitiful.
Will American prestige ever recover from this shameful episode? The US went into the coronavirus crisis with immense advantages: precious weeks of warning about what was coming, the world’s best concentration of medical and scientific expertise, effectively limitless financial resources, a military complex with stunning logistical capacity and most of the world’s leading technology corporations. Yet it managed to make itself the global epicentre of the pandemic.
As the American writer George Packer puts it in the current edition of the Atlantic, “The United States reacted ... like Pakistan or Belarus – like a country with shoddy infrastructure and a dysfunctional government whose leaders were too corrupt or stupid to head off mass suffering.”
It is one thing to be powerless in the face of a natural disaster, quite another to watch vast power being squandered in real time – wilfully, malevolently, vindictively. It is one thing for governments to fail (as, in one degree or another, most governments did), quite another to watch a ruler and his supporters actively spread a deadly virus. Trump, his party and Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News became vectors of the pestilence.
The grotesque spectacle of the president openly inciting people (some of them armed) to take to the streets to oppose the restrictions that save lives is the manifestation of a political death wish. What are supposed to be daily briefings on the crisis, demonstrative of national unity in the face of a shared challenge, have been used by Trump merely to sow confusion and division. They provide a recurring horror show in which all the neuroses that haunt the American subconscious dance naked on live TV.
If the plague is a test, its ruling political nexus ensured that the US would fail it at a terrible cost in human lives. In the process, the idea of the US as the world’s leading nation – an idea that has shaped the past century – has all but evaporated.
Other than the Trump impersonator Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, who is now looking to the US as the exemplar of anything other than what not to do? How many people in Düsseldorf or Dublin are wishing they lived in Detroit or Dallas?
It is hard to remember now but, even in 2017, when Trump took office, the conventional wisdom in the US was that the Republican Party and the broader framework of US political institutions would prevent him from doing too much damage. This was always a delusion, but the pandemic has exposed it in the most savage ways.
Abject surrender
What used to be called mainstream conservatism has not absorbed Trump – he has absorbed it. Almost the entire right-wing half of American politics has surrendered abjectly to him. It has sacrificed on the altar of wanton stupidity the most basic ideas of responsibility, care and even safety.
Thus, even at the very end of March, 15 Republican governors had failed to order people to stay at home or to close non-essential businesses. In Alabama, for example, it was not until April 3rd that governor Kay Ivey finally issued a stay-at-home order.
In Florida, the state with the highest concentration of elderly people with underlying conditions, governor Ron DeSantis, a Trump mini-me, kept the beach resorts open to students travelling from all over the US for spring break parties. Even on April 1st, when he issued restrictions, DeSantis exempted religious services and “recreational activities”.
Georgia governor Brian Kemp, when he finally issued a stay-at-home order on April 1st, explained: “We didn’t know that [the virus can be spread by people without symptoms] until the last 24 hours.”
This is not mere ignorance – it is deliberate and homicidal stupidity. There is, as the demonstrations this week in US cities have shown, plenty of political mileage in denying the reality of the pandemic. It is fuelled by Fox News and far-right internet sites, and it reaps for these politicians millions of dollars in donations, mostly (in an ugly irony) from older people who are most vulnerable to the coronavirus.
It draws on a concoction of conspiracy theories, hatred of science, paranoia about the “deep state” and religious providentialism (God will protect the good folks) that is now very deeply infused in the mindset of the American right.
Trump embodies and enacts this mindset, but he did not invent it. The US response to the coronavirus crisis has been paralysed by a contradiction that the Republicans have inserted into the heart of US democracy. On the one hand, they want to control all the levers of governmental power. On the other they have created a popular base by playing on the notion that government is innately evil and must not be trusted.
The contradiction was made manifest in two of Trump’s statements on the pandemic: on the one hand that he has “total authority”, and on the other that “I don’t take responsibility at all”. Caught between authoritarian and anarchic impulses, he is incapable of coherence.
Fertile ground
But this is not just Donald Trump. The crisis has shown definitively that Trump’s presidency is not an aberration. It has grown on soil long prepared to receive it. The monstrous blossoming of misrule has structure and purpose and strategy behind it.
There are very powerful interests who demand “freedom” in order to do as they like with the environment, society and the economy. They have infused a very large part of American culture with the belief that “freedom” is literally more important than life. My freedom to own assault weapons trumps your right not to get shot at school. Now, my freedom to go to the barber (“I Need a Haircut” read one banner this week in St Paul, Minnesota) trumps your need to avoid infection.
Usually when this kind of outlandish idiocy is displaying itself, there is the comforting thought that, if things were really serious, it would all stop. People would sober up. Instead, a large part of the US has hit the bottle even harder.
And the president, his party and their media allies keep supplying the drinks. There has been no moment of truth, no shock of realisation that the antics have to end. No one of any substance on the US right has stepped in to say: get a grip, people are dying here.
That is the mark of how deep the trouble is for the US – it is not just that Trump has treated the crisis merely as a way to feed tribal hatreds but that this behaviour has become normalised. When the freak show is live on TV every evening, and the star is boasting about his ratings, it is not really a freak show any more. For a very large and solid bloc of Americans, it is reality.
And this will get worse before it gets better. Trump has at least eight more months in power. In his inaugural address in 2017, he evoked “American carnage” and promised to make it stop. But now that the real carnage has arrived, he is revelling in it. He is in his element.
As things get worse, he will pump more hatred and falsehood, more death-wish defiance of reason and decency, into the groundwater. If a new administration succeeds him in 2021, it will have to clean up the toxic dump he leaves behind. If he is re-elected, toxicity will have become the lifeblood of American politics.
Either way, it will be a long time before the rest of the world can imagine America being great again.
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Friday, 8 May 2020
In Memoriam
É sempre bom lembrar o intuito destas postagens de sextas-feiras, intituladas Thank God Is Friday - TGIF: nossos queridos amigos, namorados, maridos e outros que tais repassam entre si fotos, como dizer?, nada abonadoras ao sexo feminino, com as quais eles se divertem descaradamente. As imagens aqui colocadas são a vingancinha, com muita classe, que nós, garotas, nos permitimos. Divirtam-se e vejam a coleção toda clicando aqui!
Burt Reynolds
Burt Reynolds
Thursday, 7 May 2020
Tuesday, 5 May 2020
Monday, 4 May 2020
O Dia das Mães Vem Aí
Alguns anos atrás, recebi este texto da minha amiga de infância Marilu. Achei maravilhoso e sempre oportuno. Hoje então, trancafiados, isolados, aquartelados, acorrentados em casa por conta do vírus Covid-19, nada como tirar alguns bons momentos para a leitura. E se você quer agradar, livros são um ótimo presente para a sua mãe no próximo domingo!
"COMPRE LIVROS - Maria Luiza Martucci
Há um tempo, Pedro Bial nos pediu que usássemos protetor solar. Hoje, eu - que estou longe de ser Bial -, peço: *comprem livros*. Não importa o que aconteça. Se você se considera leitor ou não, se gosta ou não gosta de ler, compre livros.
Compre livros para dar de presente. Compre livros para ler. *Compre livros* pela capa. Compre livros pelo título. Compre livros para decorar a estante. *Compre livros* pelo autor. Compre livros de ficção. Compre livros de não ficção. *Compre livros* de literatura brasileira. Compre livros de autoajuda. Compre livros de negócio. *Compre livros no Natal*.
Compre livros
*Compre livros* porque sim. *Compre livros* porque o Brasil é um país de não-leitores. Compre livros porque ler ficção faz bem e promove empatia.
Compre livros* porque autoajuda conforta e custa pouco. Compre livros porque poesia acalma e ensina novos usos para palavras de todo dia. Compre livros porque são livros. Compre livros porque são baratos. Compre livros porque 20 lojas da Saraiva fecharam.
*Compre livros* porque a livraria Cultura entrou com pedido de recuperação judicial. Compare livros porque a Fnac encerrou as atividades no Brasil.
*Compre livros*.
*Compre livros* e salve os livreiros. *Compre livros* e salve os editores. *Compre livro* e salve os autores.
As livrarias estão a perigo no Brasil. As editoras também. Os livreiros também. Os autores também.
*Comprar um livro* pode ajudar. E muito. Compre livros e, se não for pedir muito, dê preferência às livrarias físicas."
E eu peço comprem livros para salvar a tão rica Língua Portuguesa falada e escrita no Brasil! Os meus livros físicos podem ser adquiridos através das grandes livrarias, encomende pela internet. Tente a Asabeça ou a Prosa & Verso Livraria. A Amazon tem formatos eletrônicos. Este blog também tem!
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