If you are a misanthrope the odds are quite high that you embrace all or much of Disgruntled Old Cootness and that the Coot might even find thee acceptable for short periods.
Hmmm…
Is this revelation an example of a dichotomy?
I must ponder the multitudinous aspects of the possibility.
When substitute teaching at the local high school your Cootish Entity regularly heard “Mr. Coot, you use such big words.”
What the mumbler meant was that I used a vocabulary that included uncommon words.
I also knew that those making that comment were not listening well since I did use “big” words but also included a simpler word while speaking to define that word.
I also often wrote the BIG word on the white board and added a simpler word underneath to assist in defining that word.
Over time, I gave up on that tactic and to save time altered my presentations so as to use the simplest words possible. A trait I noticed that most teachers used to simplify their job.
Sadly, the high school I was teaching in was located in that states’ highest income town, a place where the local elites dwelt and whose spawn are mostly upper-upper middle class and above with a huge percentage of the students headed off to college.
Most of those kids were unprepared for college or life and likely achieved ultimate economic success via daddy or mommy’s connections within the business world.
There were many CEOs and highly-placed corporate droids whose spawn attended that school.
Relative wealth of the student’s families was indicated by the cars those students drove. New expensive cars glutted the parking lot.
Listening to student conversations I was shocked about the places travelled to during vacations past and planned.
Cabo, Bermuda and Bahamas, various locales in Europe… sometimes even during a short school break of just a few days.
My goodness. What a different world from the one your Cootness was reared within.
I recall kids bragging of being sent to “juvie,” juvenile hall, incarceration for kids. Those were the kids looked up to. Few kids had a car and those who did drove old heaps. Vacations were a drive to a national park and camping for the richer families while the poorer folks made do with local venues if a vacation was a part of the summer routine.
The above was pondered upon while reading some of the comments sent to your Coot, mostly from coquettish females lambasting and berating me for my opinions about many topics but mostly about females and the Females as Property Movement (FAPM).
Among those communiqués full of bile and condemnation and accusations regarding my sanity and mental abilities and inabilities I noticed similarities among many of those messages; one being a boring sameness among the messages, as if rote memorization was relied upon regarding words and terms used, indicative of past indoctrination that fed the fire of their writing.
Another similarity was an apparent lack of reading comprehension among those reviling the lovable pudgy Coot. Despite my frequent use of modifiers and proclamations that declarative statements were used to shorten essay length and that exceptions exist in almost everything and specifically declaring prominently that some females are fully qualified and capable for inclusion within adult society AND that some males are akin to females in being unable to muster the capacities and capabilities needed for adult inclusion… many females “wringing the Coot’s neck” via the written mumble appear to have been unable to comprehend the Coot’s writing.
Digging into ancient memory I recalled the need to lower one’s verbal and written output so as to allow the maximum number of people to comprehend one’s communications.
Poking around the Wide World of Webdom I found an enormous number of numbers, a mind numbing number of numbers, numerically number speaking.
Those numbers told of the numbers and percentages of a huge number of categories and statistics and a pinch of this and a dash of that, a veritable recipe of reading comprehension levels.
Sit with mouth agape at the following found factoids. Figures vary from source-to-source but the range variance was not all that humongous with statistics close enough for either government or Coot work:
Nearly half of America’s adults are poor readers, or “functionally illiterate.”
50 percent of American adults are unable to read an eighth grade level book.
About 20% of the US population is functionally illiterate; for some subsets of our population, that rises to 40%.
Among 17-year-olds, the percentage of non-readers doubled over a 20-year period, from nine percent in 1984 to 19 percent in 2004.
My personal observations within public schools and my fellow Americans during daily activities and viewing a multitude of Web message board postings the past 13 years (aboard the Web in the Spring of 1996) I can only conclude that a large percentage of high school-aged kids and adults are lacking in reading comprehension with their writing ability also lacking.
I can only wonder how my writing is interpreted within the minds of many of my readers, especially those sending scathing scrawls severely scolding the Old Fart-like Coot.
Some may wonder why I do not do as the “professional” writers do, reduce my sentence and paragraph lengths and utilize the most basic vocabulary possible.
Some “experts” declare that one should write for the masses at a level the typical 8th grader can comprehend.
Other sources state that reading comprehension levels for the general adult population have dropped over the last couple decades and recommend a 6th-grade writing level so as to maximize the number of bleating sheep ignoramuses (ignorami ?) who are able to understand the words and the message(s) they convey.
Well, your Coot refuses to accept that advice. It is much more fun to confuse the addle-minded semi-illiterates of the land.
Besides, I also receive a few messages from readers proclaiming their delight with the Coots’ meandering messages, opinions, comments and various outpourings that somehow appear within the bowels of my mind and wend their way to monitors across the planet via the written word.
The Disgruntled Dude, the Coot, is not bothered by the scathing comments sent his way, nay!!! As the entertainment stars say, bad publicity is better than no publicity.
I would rather be despised than ignored, though being ignored is no problem. Heck, I even ignore myself much of the time!!!
So, keep those messages and comments coming, kids, especially you offended females. Reading your emotion-laden irrational mewlings that are often merely cobbled together tid-bits of implanted-by-others knee-jerk rhetoric convinces me even more of the absolute need for the Females as Property Movement or some variation thereof.
Here yah’ go girls… liberate yourself from self-enlightenment, rationality, logical thinking and continue being influenced by advertisers and spewers of politically correct brainwashing and follow your instincts that attract you to baubles and trinkets and the endless pursuit of triviality.
Maybe because you are one of the small percentage of females who have transcended the actions and mentality of the female majority and are capable of full inclusion into adult society.
Then again, maybe you should hie off to the kitchen and do something productive for a change.
If the Females as Property Movement ever succeeds we will never have the buffoon below representing the USA and interacting with foreign leaders and dignitaries. Shudder. No wonder so many non-USA folks look down upon the USA. Heck, I live in the USA and have doubts about this country and having that Clinton clown as one of the elites’ lackeys sends spasms of disgust and revulsion through my meek mild-mannered mindlet.
Thus concludes the latest Disgruntled Diatribe.
Goodnight America and to all the ships at sea.
The Cantankerous Coot wandered across the Web. Thoughts of fleeting femininity amongst so very few modern-day dames entered Coot Thoughts ™.
A recent news story observed on local TV and seen repeatedly at various Web sites showed a male wearing a female-type bathing suit being arrested then booked for some criminal charge having to do with the wearing of female-type swimming garb.
The news stories generally included ridicule of the male.
Well, just to be fair and equitable allow the Coot to ridicule all those bewildered broads wandering the planet with, at most, perhaps 5 percent of their brainpower engaged as they interact with their environment.
That percentage of mental activity may increase to 20 percent when a cellphone is shoved against their mostly empty heads but rest assured the increased mental activity is not used for any productive useful purpose.
So, the male is ridiculed, scoffed at, made fun of.
Okay.
Now let’s see, hear or read in the media about females wearing pants… a traditionally male clothing type.
How about ties? Workboots? Boy shorts?
What’s good for the gander is just fine for the goose, also.
Can we expect any of those bizarre female-based groups or organizations to condemn the media for ridiculing a male when females apparently receive a “free pass” for the same activity? Not likely.
Those baffled broads are quick to demand every right and privilege available but those girls are so silent when they should be demanding their proper access to responsibilities.
Silly little girls.
Such simplistic creatures requiring constant supervision to minimize their disruptions of society.
Before the distraction I, the One Disgruntled, was babbling akin to a dizzy dame (Hey!!! nobody’s perfect).
Oh, Web wandering.
Stumbled across an interesting site. Rather than attempt describing the various activities that the Humble Herd can do there how about wandering over yonder yourself and poke around:
The Coot Critter ™ registered and made a posting. As typical, the demented daffy dimwit dames that read my words entered knee-jerk rhetoric mode, cast aside what little rational-thinking ability that accidently entered their feeble female minds and responded with the all-too-typical female-type responses to all that offends their self-absorbed non-empathetic me me me first personalities.
Read the words of the whackos here:
Time for a quiz. Everything off your desks. Girls, I know it will be difficult, perhaps the most difficult thing you have ever attempted, but you simply must pry that cell phone away from your head.
Brenda!!!! Stop!!!! a few minutes without your cell phone is no reason to leap out the window to the ground 40 feet below. Yes, Brenda, you will be plugged into the hive mind in a few minutes.
Okay… look at the picture. Take your time before answering. All the balls present are male balls. No, this is not a pun.
Can you determine the one single, non-married ball?
Write your answer on the back of the picture and pass it forward.
Yes, girls, forward is the direction you are facing when looking at me.
No, Rachael, Stephanie, Latrisha, Megan, Susan, Trish et al. You will not be graded for spelling. You know I seldom grade for spelling or other basic skills. I want you girls to pass to the next grade.
Back to that Experience Project Web site. Coot was there a brief period but it sparked a bit of interest in me. I am unsure if it would be a place I would frequent. Perhaps an occasional dabbling of the toe into the pond and leave a few words about the Female as Property Movement.
Doing so might rouse a few of the dames from their lethargic state, maybe even coerce the befuddled broads from their constant cell phone yacking and yapping and compel the half- and quarter-wits to spew their implanted knee-jerk rhetoric against the Old Coot Mumble ™.
If your Web Wandering Wonder, the Disgruntled One, the Coot of fame and renown arrives at a final conclusion regarding the newly noticed site I referred y’all to in this post I may or may not inform the Herd of my final opinion.
Meanwhile, you are on your own regarding the critiquing of Web site mentioned on this post.
Now, go forth and do what you were going to do before reading this post.
Girls, may I suggest some house cleaning since it is doubtful that interacting with anything upon the Web will sate your most basic inner desires and compulsions.
Baubles, shiny trinkets and hours of meaningless gabbing will likely meet those girlish needs, wants and desires. But, for the few requiring more than that, there are a few gals roaming the land who are above the norm, go follow the guys and check it out.
Yes, Disgruntledness has been cast aside for a wee bit.
Deliriously delighted vice disgruntled!!!
“Well, you old Coot, did you finally find a decent gal and fall in love?”
Nope… not even a rich widow lady could create convulsions of pure unadulterated delight within my decrepit carcass as being chosen to be listed upon another Web site!!!
On this momentous day the Cootster learned that his Disgruntled Old Coot site upon the Web was listed at: Stumble Upon, one of those high-falutin’ sites yer’ Coot has noticed in the past but never gave much heed to… until learning some lad created a link to my site there.
Hot diggity!!! Some wonderful youngun’, a mere couple decades of age, took the time and effort to include the Coot at that Stumble Upon place.
Here’s where the lad included my link and wrote a brief review about your lovable, huggable, squeezy squishy relic of a bygone era:
For those shunning clicking here for your personal viewing pleasure is a Coot Critique ™, unasked for, unedited and not influenced by me via fair means or foul;
“Racist misogynist hyper-cons need blogs too, it seems.”
Coot admires brevity in writing. Something I need to work upon. Such a wondrous brief, concise to-the-point, word-saving pronouncement.
I do admit scratching my noggin’ regarding the “hyper-con” term. Is that a hyperactive criminal? Coot is no criminal. Oh, sure, I spent a night in jail way back in 1972 or so but no charges were filed and I was released before I could receive a free breakfast… cheap bastards in Bakersfield. That was before I turned 18 so as with K-12 schooling and their “permanent record” the record isn’t that permanent… even the FBI couldn’t find the record despite looking but that’s a story for another posting, and that FBI interaction is NOT this one.
Did you know that for MANY years when J. Edgar Hoover was head honcho of the FBI he publicly proclaimed there was no Mafia / La Cosa Nostra / whatever label you have for The Mob? Some historians believe the Mafia had “the goods” on little Edgar what with his supposedly being one of them thar’ homersecksuals and dressing in wimmens’ clothes and stuff. Not that there’s anything wrong with that but those were different times and if true, left old Edgar ripe for the picken’ when blackmail time rolled around.
Watch out for those FBI folks when they get to play Rambo and SuperCop. Stuff such as Ruby Ridge with a mother holding babe in arms is shot dead by a FBI sharpshooter or Waco wherein the feds got to play with all those neat toys and things that go boom and end up killing folks who should have not died. Just be careful.
Your Coot has lived enough time that if the feds ever remove me for being an actual threat to their elite class masters it will not be a big deal… nuthin’ like little kids being murdered by jack-booted thugs loyal to pay and pension, their beloved bureaucracies and the elites they kneel down in front of, akin to pagans worshipping a golden calf or a fatso in front of a Big Mac super-sized meal with 8 of those little two-for-a-buck pies.
Okay… where was I?
Oh, “hyper-con.”
Rotten kid, he got me started on a different topic and off I go but I returned… a modern-day MacArthur-like guy but without the lame corn-cob pipe, groovy shades and a horde of photo-ops to parade ones’ self before the bleating sheep public.
“Hyper-con.” Hmmmm… pondering….
Ahhhh!!!! I wonder if “con” stands for “conservative”?
Maybe I am considered to be ultra-conservative by our young likely brainwashed by public schooling lad who is still wet behind the external portion of his hearing organs and likely has not had much time to accumulate real-life experience and not a whole lotta’ book larnin’.
No big deal. The Coot still delights in the placement upon anuddah’ Web site and for someone to write a review.
Nothing else to be but…
GIDDY WITH GLEE!!!!!!! WHEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!
Oh, for hanging in there this far with an old fart such as I here’s a pic for yah!!!
Time for the Coot to go.
No film at eleven this time.
Hi kids!!!!
It’s that time again… Word of the Week time!!!! Yay!
Do you kids know what a zerk is?
Well, click on “zerk” above if you do not know the definition and/or need/want to know how to pronounce our weekly word that seldom appears weekly but “week” and “word” both start with a “w” so what the heck…
To hear the word zerk spoken at the linked-to Web site you gotta’ click on the little speaker thingy and allow pop-ups.
If the audio doesn’t work for you zerk rhymes with jerk.
Hey herd, yer’ laudable Coot just thought of a name for those of thee unable to concoct or agree upon a name for the vile spawn you created.
Name the little heathen Zerk!!! Beats the heck out of Swine Flu Smith or Anabolic Steroid Swenson or some such name.
If your last name is Zamboni then Zerk Zamboni has a mighty nice sound to it.
If the Coot was to spawn… very doubtful since your Cootster keeps those money-sucking soul-sapping females at arms’ length, well, if somehow a spawn I was responsible for naming appeared I believe I would name the critter Ghengis Kahn and any last name except my own.
I just like that name.
If the kid was a female, tough. Ghengis Kahn it is and as it is written so shall it be.
Back to the zerk. Here’s some information about a contraption not as common as it used to be: click here you demented fool.
Here’s an entire box of zerks of various types. Little Ghengis Kahn Whatever would surely shriek with glee at finding these under the Christmas tree. Imagine the loving hug the wife unit would give you after receiving her own box of Zerks on her wedding anniversary. Better than a shotgun cleaning kit. You betcha’. Ain’t yer Coot a romantic sort?
Hey, let’s poke through the pic pile and see what we can find!!!
Well, this one should popularize me even more with the wacky wimmenfolk.
Well, true in many ways but there are exceptions. Females excel in many areas but too many of the daffy dames believe those exceptions are far greater in number than actually exist.
And as the Cootster has repeatedly declared, there are the few gals with abilities beyond the female norm that allow them to be fully functional adults worthy of all adult rights and privileges while meeting adult responsibilities.
It is just a terrible shame those females are such a small minority with the majority of gals requiring the presence of the Females as Property Movement to protect those majority of dames along with protecting society from the rampaging emotion-laden instinct-driven irrational “precious princesses.”
This one should alleviate the grunting and growling of the feminist freaks writing and informing this Disgruntled Old Coot what an ignorant idiotic buffoon I must be. Golly, thanks, girls. You make an Old Fart blush!
Hmmmm…. fairly accurate, in general. She needs a little make-up, though.
Wonder what Moses has been up to lately?
Same old Moses. What a trouble-maker. Wonder if his babes nagged him about those 4 decades or so wandering from place to place?
I wonder what George Washington would have thought about females voting, especially todays’ dingy spoiled dames with their “precious princess” attitudes and lack of concern by most of the female brat pack regarding current events, political affairs, etc. and an overwhelming sense of materialism and the all-too-common female “me me me me me” attitude?
I thought so. Old George was an intelligent rational fellow and he and his cohorts knew what was best for society and culture and knew better than to allow irrational creatures such as human females too much power within a civilized society.
That concludes this edition of the immensely popular Word of the Week. Well, popular among many males and a mere minute speck of females who can yank the cell phone away from their vacuous heads and concentrate for more than a mere few seconds away from their beloved baubles and trinkets.
Health care in the USA.
Lots of publicity regarding the topic lately.
The lead figurehead of the elites, corporate America and the special-interest groups, the Obama unit, is babbling about reforming health care.
Lots of confusion existing within the Coots’ Cranium ™ however.
Are we supposed to be improving health care practices or how the cost is transferred to the end user?
Are we concerned with health care insurance in general or how much of the cost is covered by which sub-section of the USA population?
Are we concerned with how folks in general use the existing health care systems… yes, there IS more than one health care system in the USA.
At the Contra Costa County public hospital in the late 1980s where my “treatment” for what I believe may have been a black widow spider bite cost me over $400; for a 5-minute look-over by a doctor and sent on my way, I saw the illegals coming in for the free treatment (thanks to phony ID) for symptoms as minor as a sniffle or a runny nose (your Coot was one hurting Coot… in agony and basically bedridden for five days except for the brief period about half-way through when I was barely able to get myself to the hospital and back before the main symptoms reasserted themselves) .
Talk to an emergency room nurse or read what they write about the MANY abuses of emergency rooms and how those receiving free care abuse it.
Read about how those not paying for medical care call an ambulance for free transportation to emergency rooms… a favorite tactic of illegal aliens who have kids by the score.
There are so many ways to abuse the existing systems and there will be more ways to abuse an altered future system.
Where is the talk about fixing the existing problems?
How about the doctors and hospitals defrauding patients, insurers and government agencies? So often the punishment is a wrist slap with nothing done to eliminate waste and fraud.
How about those staging fake car wrecks or work injuries that defrauds all of us?
So much fraud and conniving and basic criminal behavior that all of us pay for with higher medical and insurance costs along with taxes paid to cover costs paid by governmental agencies.
Where are the criminals sentenced to life at hard labor who defraud us whose sentence will hopefully send a message to others to NOT screw all of us?
Maybe we need to see a few bodies swaying in the breeze, hanged by the neck until dead, to send a clearer message to those considering defrauding us. Of course, ensure there is NO possibility at all the one(s) hanging around to send that message are innocent. Their guilt MUST be 200 percent proven.. and considering how corrupt the legal system is, well…
Sure, something needs fixed with many aspects of the health care system in the once-sovereign USA.
First fix would be to save BILLIONS of dollars by kicking out the illegal invaders.
Next, do all possible to stop fraud at all levels; from patient to doctor to corporations involved with health and medical care.
Next, make the elites and their lackeys who are skimming from the pile of medical dollars get real jobs.
There are too many parasites grabbing medical-related dollars who have nothing to do with medical care… other than occupying a created position whose existence serves nobody but the parasite within that position.
Sadly, if the USA federal government gets even more involved with the medical arena the actual problems leading to excessive costs will not be eliminated.
Just expect even more abuse and even more parasites skimming off the top with even less to be accomplished with even more money thrown into the medical care dollar pile.
It is the American Way. Accept the coming changes that benefit only a few already wealthy parasites, a criminal element, abusers of systems for their own advancement and many millions of illegal aliens who will not even bother to mumble, “Gracias.”
Instead, expect a non-spoken-aloud “Muy estupido Gringo suckers.”
The medical and health care and insurance for them subjects is extremely complicated with a huge number of aspects and so many ways to view the situation,
On a message board way over yonder your Coot Critter read this;
“Free enterprise” in health care? How stupid do you think we are? Where is there a market where I can buy an eye exam, a blood test, an MRI or even know the cost of one of these commodities? Where is the free market where I can buy prescription drugs? The prices are set, not by supply and demand, but by monopolistic protectionism. Health care is a perfect example of a lack of competition and free enterprise. We are forced into non-transparent financial exchanges with businesses and providers protected by pure cronyism and political payoffs.”
I agree. But, it is just one aspect of the many problems, defects and other negatives of a medical system designed to maximize profit for a few at the expense of many.
Surely we can alter the system so that those actually working within the system, the ones who actually perform useful needed functions are rewarded for their efforts while the parasites are given the boot.
Some jobs within the medical field require years of preparation and immense cost, such as surgeons. Yes!!! Reward them well!!! Other jobs within the medical field are also worthy of a good or even a great wage.
But why is that corporate higher-up functioning within an elite-created position making such a huge salary for… what? Shuffling papers around and influencing politicians to create legislation that harms the masses and ensuring the proper politicians obtain high-paying jobs at the apex of the medical field when those politicos depart office and over and over and over.
Whatever the outcome of the Obama units’ efforts, along with those of the horde of scum greedy elite-class or elite-class lackey vile foul politicians within Congress AND all the underlings, minions, lackeys and bureaucrats obeying the parasitical class above them… rest assured that the “proper” “deserving” folks of the USA will benefit greatly from any alterations to the existing medical systems.
Rest assured that those benefiting the most will not be you or me or our neighbors and co-workers.
Nope.
We will pay and the “skim” will continue and likely increase and the number of illegal alien parasites will continue increasing also since they are tools used by the elites in the ongoing class war.
The USA legal system is an “adversarial” type that was designed and still intended to maximize the incomes of those earning their income via the legal system.
Ascertaining guilt or, even more importantly, the innocence of those accused, is of little importance to the “system.”
Many critics of the legal system note how wealthy folks are more apt to be found innocent. The wealthy can afford to defend themselves… with that expenditure, in many ways, a “bribe” to the system, pumping money into the pockets of those earning wealth via trials.
In some ways, the despised Commies in Russia during the Cold War era, possessed a more equitable system for commoners accused of non-political crimes.
USA propaganda lambasted the evil Russian Commies but I view the USA legal system as less desirable than what Russia utilized.
How many innocents have withered in prison or died on the gallows in the USA due to the corrupt legal system we have been brainwashed from an early age into accepting as being superior to all others?
Oh, yeah, our legal system IS better than some but due to the profit motive of our legal system innocence/guilt is too often merely used to create wealth for the elite few while the accused is used as a machine, a wealth-creating tool.
There are MANY books written by those who have/had a career in the legal system who, for whatever reason(s), wrote about the many defects of that system.
Coot read many of them over the years, resulting in a deep despisement of that legal system of, for and by an elite class and a few special-interest groups… the notorious enemies of the common folks (along with much of corporate America.)
This book appears interesting:
Serial Liars: How Lawyers get the Money
I clicked the link and a .pdf file opened with what appears to be a free copy of the book in e-book format.
Your speed-reading Old Coot scanned the offering and the general theme supports prior books I have read condemning our supposed wondrous legal system.
Read any book criticizing the legal system, at least a book written by someone that truly knows that system, and you will assuredly know more about the actual workings of the USA legal system than the vast majority of bleating sheep simpletons who support the present legal system with implanted knee-jerk rhetoric placed there purposefully by those with a vested interest in maintaining the status quo. Yep, those pesky greedy elites, corporate America and special-interest groups.
Oh my, that class war again. Enslaving us. Imprisoning us. Skimming off too-large of a portion of the profit we create from our labors… supporting parasites.
Diversity, the mantra of the politically correct? Or, a tactic used by the elites and their minions to divide the citizenry (and non-citizens) while engaged in class warfare?
Prez. Obama berates Iran for the methods used by Irans’ elite class to stifle dissent.
The elites of every country use various methods to maintain the status quo that benefits those elites and typically at a cost to the masses of commoners.
Obama is merely a figurehead for America’s elites.
His condemning Iran is such a farce.
America’s elites have behaved similarly, including using incarceration and even murder to force the masses to accept the status quo.
Look at American history for many examples of the USA’a elites harming the common folks, even for the mere act of peaceful protesting.
I fear our elite class much more than all foreign terrorists combined.
