Tuesday, May 31, 2022
Monday, May 30, 2022
The train drivers to Auschwitz
The cost of school shutdowns.
“If you were looking for some bad news, you’ve come to the right place. This time, the news concerns the fallout from the pandemic school shutdowns. As you know, because you have been reading this blog faithfully, shutting down schools was a very, very, very bad idea. It hurt children, causing cognitive and emotional damage. Not only that, but it was unnecessary; the children who were damaged by the shutdowns were at only minor risk of contracting the virus.
“Anyway, the New York Times offers an extensive assessment of the consequences of the school shutdowns. Naturally, it says nothing about the teachers’ unions and the Democratic politicians who foisted this horror on American children, but at least it recognizes the negative effects of this absurd and sadistic policy. We should ask ourselves, in all seriousness, why the perpetrators of this horror are not being identified and held to account. And yet, as long as the perpetrators do not belong to the oppressor class, no one cares.”
https://stuartschneiderman.blogspot.com/2022/05/the-cost-of-school-shutdowns.html
Don’t expect
anybody to do anything. No officials, anyway. They, after all, are the makers
of rules and handers out of money, and since they caused the problems to begin
with, they will not apologize or even talk about making amends. They don’t know
how to do anything but blame others and deny responsibility.
Do not place
too much viability on statements by school counsellors or in academic studies.
Those people did not raise any warnings at the time. They are the drivers of trains
to Auschwitz, the crew members throwing the switches to make sure the trains
arrive on time at the right station. They point out the problems, and at the
same time decide on solutions, for the right amount of money.
Sunday, May 29, 2022
You know, I keep telling people that 'We don’t bounce so good at our age'
This is from The Freeholder dot net and talks about some of the same things Priscilla and I have had.
“But I never remember to apply it to myself. I need to rectify
that oversight.
“It seems that once one is “over” the Wuflu, the Wuflu may not
be over you. While I’ve been able to get around and do a few things, the effort
has left me…hammered. Each day that I have done a few things, they’ve been
fewer than the day before and the price for the doing, higher. Mowing the grass
yesterday was apparently totally inadvisable. By the time I’d finished, I was
worn out and trying to cough up a lung.
“The odd thing is that while I was sick, I didn’t cough at all.
Now I’m coughing my head off, mostly in the evenings. Getting a decent night’s
sleep is problematic at best, or like last night, unlikely. For the most part,
I have to sleep reclining. It seems to keep the yuck from settling.
“I have restarted the Vitamin I on the assumption that I wasn’t
really better when I thought I was. I’m going to restrict the physical activity
for a while, and pay particular attention to breathing. Pulseox is good, and
there’s no wheezing in my chest, but there is some tightness that shouldn’t be
there. I’m keeping a close eye on all things O2, and I will pull the trigger on
an ER trip if necessary. I can do without a lot of things, but breathing isn’t
on that list.”
(Priscilla
does more than I do; a lot more. Can’t blame the kungflu for all of my
inabilities. She is tired, more easily gets tired than before. We had kungflu
in January – I think. Like the writer said, you might be over wuflu, but the wuflu might not be
over you. Dr. Bob’s thought: Everybody’s system is different.)
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait
Men in the Space Force …
Okay.
Inclusive and quoted.
Male Space Force Guardians may now “wear inconspicuous concealer or foundation to
cover up scars and blemishes.”
‘Space Force
– New Grooming Standards and More’
https://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=126314
Saturday, May 28, 2022
More ‘You can’t make this stuff up,’ but it’s DC, so not altogether unexpected
Capital City about to require special permit for big SUVs and big pickups.
Says D.C.
Council member Mary Cheh, “You can’t ban sales of these
things, but you can make them pay their own way.”
Persons
of DC residence who need full-size SUVs and pickups for work, well, too bad. No
exceptions.
No
word yet on American families who drive the family SUV to DC to see monuments
to American liberty.
https://gunfreezone.net/dc-goes-even-more-out-of-touch-with-regular-americans/
Discoveries indicate US natives were the rednecks of Indian settlement
No one with
degree letters or titles has said that, of course, but finds in Central and South America show those areas had advanced
civilizations, while the American Plains Indians were eking out a living in
Stone Age hovels. U.S. entertainment – films, TV, magazines, books – often feature
romanticized stories and tales of people who “were one with the land,” whatever
that means. U.S. Indians were peace-loving tribes and clans until Europeans
barged ashore and immediately began exterminating the indigenous peoples.
Recent
discoveries in Central America and in the Amazon basin, however, show people who did not leave the land as they found it, but made improvements for
civilized living.
From Nature
“Mysterious mounds in the southwest corner of the Amazon
Basin were once the site of ancient urban settlements, scientists have
discovered. Using a remote-sensing technology to map the terrain from the air,
they found that, starting about 1,500 years ago, ancient Amazonians built and
lived in densely populated centres, featuring 22-metre-tall earthen pyramids,
that were encircled by kilometres of elevated roadways.”
“kilometers of elevated roadways,” discovered because of the
dreaded “deforestation.”
In schools, dogma said the Amazon forest land was too shallow
and lacking in nutrients to grow anything other than 100-foot tall trees.
Cutting down those trees has made visible urban centers and transportation
networks.
As long as the area was only trees, what we could see was not
all of the truth.
“Two of the urban centres each covered an area of more than
100 hectares — three times the size of Vatican City. The lidar images revealed
walled compounds with broad terraces rising 6 metres above the ground. Conical
pyramids made of earth towered above one end of the terraces. People probably
lived in the areas around the terraces and travelled along the causeways that
connected the sites to one another.”
“These discoveries also counter the narrative that Indigenous
peoples were passive inhabitants of the Amazon Basin before the arrival of
Europeans. ‘The people who lived there changed the landscape forever,’ Neves
says.”
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01458-9
Recommended: 1491: New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus,” by Charles C. Mann
Friday, May 27, 2022
Bride kidnapping, a killing, and now a blood feud
From Caucasian Knot
According to
local customs, relatives of the Ingush resident, who was killed after the
abducting the bride, can declare blood feud against the killer. Besides, the
bride's fate is alarming, since earlier her relatives were against this
marriage, and now they can kill her for disobedience, Svetlana Anokhina, a
journalist, has stressed.
The
"Caucasian Knot" has reported that on May 19, the body of a
29-year-old local resident was brought to the Ingush Republic's Clinical
Hospital with gunshot wounds. On May 23, investigators announced the arrest of
a suspected killer. According to investigators, he shot the man dead after he
had abducted his sister aiming to marry her. The young man and the girl lived
in the village of Ekazhevo and had known each other for a long time, but the girl's
parents were against their relationship, a fellow villager has explained.
The
assassinated Ibragim Dzortov had earlier abducted the girl, and then sent the
elders of his clan to her relatives for matchmaking, but they refused to give
their daughter to Ibragim and demanded to return her home, and Ibragim was told
not even to come close to her, a Dzortov's fellow villager said earlier.
According to his story, the young man failed to perceive the seriousness of the
warnings from the girl's relatives and abducted her again. She was then
returned home again. Dzortov was shot dead; and no one has seen the girl since.
According to her relatives, she left home for some unknown place.
According to
Svetlana Anokhina, a journalist, who has been covering the problem of women's
rights in Northern Caucasus for many years, the first thing that causes concern
is the fate of the girl whom Ibragim Dzortov wanted to kidnap. "The girl
is in some unknown place; the police don't seek to see her, because such a
request needs a relatives' application. But of course there is none. Therefore,
the girl is in mortal danger, if she's not dead already. They kill not only for
escaping for marriage (and it was exactly an escape for marriage, not an
abduction), but even for disobedience," Ms Anokhina told the "Caucasian
Knot" correspondent.
Since the
murder of the bride abductor was committed defiantly, there is "a 100
percent probability" of a blood feud, she has added.
Источник:
https://www.eng.kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/60247/
© Кавказский
Узел
Oh, no! Illegals injured climbing over Trump’s wall!
From KCRA TV
A new report finds
deaths, injuries and hospitalizations increased after the installation of a
section of the 30-foot southern border wall in California. The new barriers
were added at the direction of President Trump in a 2017 executive order.
https://www.kcra.com/article/report-increase-deaths-wall-us-mexico-border/40039281
Link at
Knuckledraggin
Just back from Vietnam, Navy pilot Dan Pederson got a new job
Start a new school.
Navy pilots “had gone
into the war thinking we were the best pilots in the world flying the best
aircraft armed with the best weapons,” writes Dan Pedersen in Topgun: An American Story’. “The North Vietnamese showed us otherwise.
We were ready to do whatever it took to win.”
"The (existing) program
lacked combat realism. That’s not how you want to send a young man off to war.
The enemy always gets a vote, a wise person once said, and in the skies over
North Vietnam the enemy was voting in droves. Finally the time came for the
Navy to do something about it."
Thursday, May 26, 2022
Mickey, we hardly know you any more
From Sputnik News
“In 2015, the (Anaheim) city
council approved a plan that exempted Disney from sales tax on its ticket sales
for 45 years, and then in 2016, the city gave Disney $267 million in tax
rebates to build a luxury hotel.”
Organizations waking up to danger of woke
By Roger Kimble
Tennessee
Star
A
few weeks ago, Exxon announced that
it was banning the display of Pride and BLM flags at its headquarters in
Houston. There was a ripple of unhappiness, but nothing was burned down, the
media attention was muted, and the world went about its business as before.
Across
the country, school board elections are tossing out woke ideologues and
partisans of critical race theory and replacing what amounts to gay pornography in
the curriculum with more wholesome fare. The Biden Administration keeps running
into roadblocks, most recently a judicial order halting its efforts to rescind Title 42,
a Trump-era emergency order that turned away would-be immigrants at the
U.S.-Mexico border. A few days ago, Biden’s absurd Disinformation Governance
Board was shuttered and
its pathetic director, Nina Jankowicz, sucked back into the memory hole whence
she came.
https://tennesseestar.com/2022/05/23/commentary-the-lefts-misery-continues-to-elongate/
Link at Knuckledraggin
No one would have objected to hanging
After testimony from the defendant’s oldest daughter, no one in the courtroom would have been surprised if a jury member, say the oldest man or woman, had stood and said, “Your honor, we find the defendant guilty as charged on all counts. There are two or three big oak trees outside, with limbs of a sufficient nature, and we recommend taking up a collection to buy a proper size rope at the hardware store, and that you charge the sheriff to hang the defendant by the neck until he is dead.”
No one would
have spoken in opposition. Everyone in the courtroom would have given the
jurors a standing ovation.
A Red River
County Grand jury had charged Darrell Lee Smythe with 49 counts of aggravated
sexual assault on his two oldest daughters, then 12 and 11 years old. As the
prosecution pointed out, the only reason D.L. had not yet assaulted his third
daughter was that the girl was 8 years old, and the defendant did not consider
her old enough.
For the
trial, the prosecution brought D.L. up on nine of the aggravated sexual assault charges. The jury, following the
law and not what citizens wanted, found D.L. guilty on all charges. Jurors sentenced
D.L. to two concurrent life sentences and seven consecutive life sentences. D.L.
would begin serving the consecutive sentences after 30 years on the concurrent
sentences. He would serve – is serving – the consecutive life sentences in the
same manner – a new life sentence kicks in every 30 years. The difference, the
prosecution explained, had to do with a change in sentencing law.
That’s OK.
Two hundred forty years should be enough.
During the
trial, the prosecution alluded to D.L.’s murder of his wife a couple of weeks
before the sexual assault charges were filed. Investigators discovered the
sexual assaults during the murder investigation. The nude body of D.L.’s wife had
been found on a logging road in a pine plantation in Red River County. The
oldest daughter said the last time she saw her mother, the woman was lying
drunk in the yard, with D.L. spraying her with a garden hose. The mother was
reported missing by workers at a café near town.
The
prosecution never tried D.L. for killing his wife. There was no reason, the
county attorney said, for more taxpayer money to be spent on further trials.
During the
trial, too, prosecution witnesses testified that D.L.’s father and an uncle had
sexually abused “every female in the family.” Both men were arrested. One died
in prison.
Also, a few
years before, D.L.’s mother left the father and moved out of state. A witness
testified that D.L.’s mother’s sister then moved in with the father.
As the
prosecutor wondered during trial testimony, “What kind of family is this?”
Wednesday, May 25, 2022
Just like the Old West, Hungary is
‘Warning: Bear alert near Budapest!’
According to 444.hu, on Wednesday morning, a resident
reported seeing a bear in the forest near Acsa, a town of 1,400 people. The
municipality took immediate action, including warning residents via Facebook to
“walk carefully and do not approach the forest!”
https://dailynewshungary.com/warning-bear-alert-near-budapest/
Also: ‘Gunfight
between two families in a Hungarian town!’
A large-scale street fight broke out between two Hungarian
families in the town of Kerepes. Three people suffered injuries, witnesses
report gunshots.
On the evening of 21 May 2022, people reported gunshots from
Gyál Street, Kerepes. The police wasted no time and rushed to the scene. There
they found around 100 people in confrontation with each other. It turned out
that two local families first started a verbal conflict which escalated quickly
and soon some members even opted to use firearms. According to Blikk, police
reports suggest these weapons were rifles and gas pistols.
The police intervened and tried their best to separate the
fighting crowd, but they were still against each other’s throats.
More here: https://dailynewshungary.com/gunfight-between-two-families-in-a-hungarian-town-photos-video/
A couple of years back, Romania issued a vampire alert, so...
Tuesday, May 24, 2022
Minorities head-to-head, goat fans win
From The College Fix
A university in Ontario,
Canada deleted from a social media page an image of two women dressed in hijabs
kissing due to complaints from the local Muslim community.
According to The
London Free Press, Western University had posted the image to
its Instagram account for the International Day Against Homophobia,
Transphobia, and Biphobia. The picture also
featured two (black and white) men kissing, a person in a wheelchair with a
sexually ambiguous partner, and a black man and woman.
The “firestorm” of complaints noted the image was
“inappropriate” and “disrespectful” due to “religious and spiritual” nature of
the hijab.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/canadian-university-pulls-lgbtq-poster-after-muslim-community-complains/
Was a time US politicians and military wanted Canada to ask for membership in the Republic. Aren't we glad Canadians didn't agree?
Monday, May 23, 2022
Two headlines
Gay Community Most Vulnerable to Monkeypox Threat -- US News.
Monkeypox: Gay and bisexual men aren’t at greater risk -- The Conversation.
Glad news organizations are keeping us properly informed.
Remember this when the government says everybody is at risk and we all must get the vaccine
LONDON (AP) -- A leading adviser to the World Health Organization described the unprecedented outbreak of the rare disease monkeypox in developed countries as "a random event" that might be explained by risky sexual behavior at two recent mass events in Europe.
In an interview with The
Associated Press, Dr. David Heymann, who formerly headed WHO's emergencies
department, said the leading theory to explain the spread of the disease was
sexual transmission among gay and bisexual men at two raves held in Spain and
Belgium. Monkeypox has not previously triggered widespread outbreaks beyond
Africa, where it is endemic in animals.
The crazies and the criminals
The issue is not the type of firearm, it’s not the magazine capacity, it’s not even the fact that it’s a firearm, and it’s surely not what flavor of politics the killer claims or espouses. The issue is mental health and criminal behavior. As long as we are letting the crazies and the crooks run the streets, we’re going to have dead people. – William Lehman, The Hashtag.
Is that the break he deserved?**
From Knuckledraggin
Investigators say a
75-year-old man was in his wheelchair in front of the McDonald’s when one of
two women who arrived in a vehicle opened fire on him.
** For the
young’n readers: A bunch of years ago, McD’s advertising campaign was “You
deserve a break today.” That was after “Two all-beef Patty’s, special Ross… on
a Sesame Street bus.”
Sunday, May 22, 2022
Biden administration warns Israelis about that ‘freedom of worship’ thing
From Jihad Watch
Behind the
scenes, the Biden administration and its officials have been warning the
Israeli government to stop talking about "freedom of worship" and
defer to Islamic supremacism.
As one reporter described, "cognizant of how talk of 'freedom of
worship' can be interpreted, US officials have sought to push Israel to avoid
using the phrase and instead focus solely on affirming their commitment to the
status quo at Jerusalem's holy sites."
Freedom of worship doesn’t require any
interpretation. But here it means that the Israelis allow Muslims to control
the Temple Mount despite the fact that they illegally seized the site during
the brutal invasion and ethnic cleansing of Israel, and that occasionally Jews
are also allowed to enter the holiest site in Judaism and visit it, not to pray
publicly, but merely to set foot on it.
http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2022/05/biden-warns-israel-against-freedom-of.html
Hungary president: Build churches, build communities
From Hungary
Today
Katalin Novák, Hungary’s new president, said in Magyarlapád
(Lopadea Noua), in central Romania, that ten churches were consecrated at ten
localities in Transylvania during Friday
“It is no coincidence that when there is war and ideological destruction,
churches are the first to be destroyed because churches are the places where
communities start to form,” she said. “We are building and upgrading churches
across the Carpathian Basin because this is how we start strengthening our
communities,” she added.
The president noted that Lopadea Noua had been established in the
year of 1030 and was registered as the property of Queen Gisela, the wife of St
Stephen, Hungary’s first king.
“By dedicating ten churches today, we are also sending the message
that we will be here after a thousand years, among brothers and sisters,
addressing one another in Hungarian,” she said.
The consecrations marked Hungarian Reformed Church Unity Day
celebrated on May 20 each year.
https://hungarytoday.hu/president-novak-building-community-building-churches-transylvania/
If she’d shot better, the DNA pool would be improved.
An Uber driver in Atlanta was forced off the road by a man claiming to be a police officer. The fake po-leece was identified as Tyriq Qwadere Wiggins-Younger, who was charged with aggravated assault, impersonating a police officer, possession of cocaine, possession of marijuana and possession of drug-related objects. Wiggins-Younger also was treated at a hospital for at least one bullet hole from a gun fired by the driver.
Link at
Valor Guardians
Saturday, May 21, 2022
Just can’t send those boys out of town unchaperoned
From RT News
“The Secret Service is aware of an off-duty
incident involving two employees which may constitute potential policy
violations,” agency
spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said in a statement. “The individuals will be immediately returned back
to their post of duty and placed on administrative leave. There was no impact
to the upcoming trip.”
https://www.rt.com/news/555856-secret-service-agents-sent-home-over-seoul-altercation/
The state of
government is dependent on morals and ethics of people who work for it.
The old ball game
Asdrubal Cabrera played 15 years in Major League Baseball, with the Indians, Nationals, Rays, Mets, Phillies, Nationals, Rangers, Diamondbacks and Reds. His lifetime batting average is .266.
Asdrubal is
a Carthaginian name meaning “Help of Baal.” Baal was the major god of the
Canaanites many thousands of years ago. A force of Canaanites established
Carthage on the coast of North Africa in the 800 BCE time. Rome defeated and
razed Carthage in 146 BCE.
Neftali Feliz
pitched in Major League Baseball for 10 years, with the Rangers, Tigers,
Pirates, Royals and Brewers. His record was 21-20, with an earned run average
of 3.55 and 107 saves.
Neftali is
an adaptation of the Hebrew name Naphtali, meaning “Struggle.” The Canaanites
and the Hebrews were longtime enemies. God told the Hebrews to cleanse the land
of Canaanites.
Lost Texas treasure
The site of the treasure is somewhere in western Lamar County, Texas, bags of gold coins thrown into a shallow lake, as reported by the lone survivor of a burro train attacked by Indians.
The story
has everything needed in a Texas treasure tale – Indians, Mexican soldiers,
burros and a map drawn on a piece of leather.
Lots of
people have looked for the gold, but none have succeeded, as far as people
know.
I wrote a
couple of stories on the treasure while working at the newspaper in Paris,
Texas. The first story was an encapsulation of several parts of the tale,
including use of a steam digger in the early part of the 20th century. Use of a
state-of-the-art steam-powered digger was supposed to prove that technology won’t
always prevail over something buried.
Within a
couple of days after the story ran, a soybean farmer called the newspaper. He
said he farmed the fields where the treasure is buried. A photographer and I
went out a few days after the call and went with the farmer to the fields.
There were soybean plants as far as I could see, and due north, about a mile, a
line of trees marking the Red River.
The farmer,
the photographer and I stood in the field, the farmer recounting the story of a
Mexican army burro train traveling through the area before the Texas
Revolution. Indians attacked the soldiers. The commander ordered soldiers to
throw all the bags of gold into a shallow lake, lest the Indians seize the
coins. The soldiers complied. In the ensuing fight, Indians killed all the
soldiers but one. He hid and later made his escape.
The story
then shifts to the early 1900s, when a Texan in New Mexico meets an old Mexican
who has a map drawn on a piece of leather. That map led to the unsuccessful use
of the steam digger.
After saying
all that, the farmer informed the photographer and me, “I know exactly where
the gold is buried.” He pointed. “See that low place there? That used to be
part of the shallow lake. The gold is buried right there.”
I thought, Well, dang, dude! How come you don’t have a
backhoe out here, digging away? I didn’t say anything, though. Just let it
be.
Okie
Treasure Hunter wrote about the Lamar County gold 14 years ago. Details vary,
as always in a treasure story.
If you’re in Lamar County, he writes, “you might as well
keep your eyes open for the gold and silver coins left behind by a Mexican
wagon train in the 1840’s. This treasure is supposed to have been worth between
$25,000 and $75,000 when it was hidden. The wagon train was headed for St.
Louis, MO when they thought they were going to be attacked by a band of
outlaws. (At least it wasn’t the Indians this time!) Fearing an attack the
Mexicans buried the treasure on the old Spanish Road that ran along the Red
River north of Paris, TX. Then they high tailed it back to Mexico. The Mexican
War erupted soon after that and the original members of the wagon train all
died before they could retrieve the treasure.”
http://okietreasurehunter.blogspot.com/2008/04/more-tales-of-treasure-along-oklahoma.html
Details, details. Wagon train, outlaws, Spanish Road that
ran along the Red River. Not likely.
That $75,000 would be worth $2.5 million today.
From Borepatch
Dad Joke CCIV
What do you
call a fake noodle?
An impasta.
(I don’t
write them, I only copy them.)
Friday, May 20, 2022
See no pox, hear no pox, speak no pox
Fauci, WHO
Marxist friend, suggests covering eyes, ears and mouth to render monkey pox
bananaless
From Babylon
Bee
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Monkeypox pandemic has finally
breached the shores of the United States, with the CDC confirming a staggering
1 infections so far. In response, America's favorite, most trusted doctor, Dr.
Anthony Fauci, issued a statement recommending people stop the spread of
Monkeypox by covering their eyes, ears, and mouth.
Fauci accepted 137 TV interviews and a book deal after
issuing the guidelines essentially recommending people look the other way
rather than investigate the source of this new outbreak.
Since monkey pox was discovered 19 years ago, the US now has three (3) infections.
Thursday, May 19, 2022
Census Bureau to Americans: You don’t count
Audit to Census Bureau: You can’t count.
From RT News
“The miscounts were large in
numerical terms. For instance, the 2020 count missed about 325,000 Tennesseans
and 550,000 Texans. The census gave New York credit for more than 670,000
residents who don’t exist, and Minnesota’s population was inflated by 215,000.
President Joe Biden’s home state of Delaware, which had the second-highest
overcount rate at 5.5%, got the benefit of more than 50,000 extra residents.”
Overcounted states –
Democratic.
Undercounted states –
Republican.
Gee. Who would have thought.
Drugs in the recording studio
From Gun Free Zone
“…there was the one asshole
who broke our cardinal rule of no
fucking drugs in our studio ever! and was caught coming out of the bathroom
with a nose resembling a powdered donut. Let’s say that for a proper “tossing
the asshole out of the front door” you must open such metal door first and I
“forgot” to do so three times. The rest of the people present became quite
productive and enjoyable to work with which is not always the case with
musicians.”
https://gunfreezone.net/funny-video-with-just-a-skosh-of-truth/
What people have done to dogs
The most obvious is to the German Shepherd, breeders giving the dogs an angled back and bent legs. Just looking at the new shepherds, you know they will have increased hip problems.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10828681/Vets-reveal-pugs-USED-look-like-amid-warning-breed-cruelly-overbred.html?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletterTurned a Prince into a frog, she did
1440** news notes that Prince Harry and that woman were married on this date in 2018. Amazing what she has done in four years, putting the “Me” in “Meghan.” Ireland should sue for a name change, based on the normally liberal allegation of cultural appropriation.
(**Apology and correction. I originally wrote 1410. I sometimes have problems with numbers. You know, believing the NY Times and writing 1619 instead of 1776. NOT!)
Wednesday, May 18, 2022
We live in an interesting time
Victor Davis Hanson
After a year of politicizing the U.S. military and its self-induced catastrophe in Afghanistan, America has lost deterrence abroad. China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia are conniving how best to exploit this rare window of global military opportunity.
The traditional bedrocks of the American system—a stable economy, energy independence, vast surpluses of food, hallowed universities, a professional judiciary, law enforcement, and a credible criminal justice system—are dissolving.
https://amgreatness.com/2022/05/11/imagine-the-unimaginable/
Link at
Knuckledraggin
A good read, but the future is not that dismal. The Republic will stand. But, while mentally sharpening pitchforks and readying bundles of torches, we realize there are no targets whose elimination will set everything right.
From a newspaper in England
A story in the Daily Mail says Elon Musk “pumped the breaks” on his Twitter offer. Must have been because he couldn’t catch any brakes.
Story at Valor Guardians
Reference a required course
One thing from an International Relations course that made an impression: No nation will pursue a policy that is against its own interests.
So, what is
our reason in Ukraine? What effect does Ukraine have on U.S. national security?
Tuesday, May 17, 2022
WH: No; USA Today: No; Check on the ground: Yes, federal kits have crack pipes
But, who are you going to believe? A spokesperson or your lying eyes?
Link at
Knuckledraggin
Actual questions flummox new press secretary
Peter Doocy: How does raising taxes on corporations reduce inflation?
Karine
Jean-Pierre: “Well, you know, we have
talked about…we have talked about this this past year about making sure that
the wealthiest among us are paying their fair share,” she stammered. “And that
is important to do. And that is something that, you know, the president has
been working on every day when we talk about inflation and lowering costs. And
so it’s very important that, you know, as we’re seeing costs rise, as we’re
talking about how to, you know, build an America that’s safe, that’s equal for
everyone and doesn’t leave anyone behind. That is an important part of that as
well.”
Doocy: How does raising
taxes on corporations lower the cost of gas, the cost of a used car, the cost
of food for everyday Americans?”
KJP: “So, look, I think we encourage those who
have done very well, right? Especially those who care about climate change to
support a fairer tax code. That doesn’t change. It doesn’t charge
manufacturers, workers, cops, builders a higher percentage of their earnings
that the most fortunate people in our nation and not let that stand in the way
of reducing energy costs and fighting this existential problem, if you think
about that as an example. And to support basic collective bargaining rights as
well. That’s also important. But look, it is, you know, by not without having a
fair tax code, which is what I’m talking about, then like manufacturing
workers, cops. You know, it’s not fair for them to have to pay higher taxes
than the folks that who are who are who are not paying taxes at all.”
There is more back and
forth.
Amazing. Those “who
care about climate change” should “support a fairer tax code.” And, rich people
“are not paying taxes at all.” And she brought “climate change” the discussion!
Texas cowboy working every day at 89
“Hang on tight. And if you don’t make it back, I’ll tell ’em which way you went.” – Boots O’Neal to cowboys going to work on new-broke horses.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/legend-of-boots-oneal/?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email
Monday, May 16, 2022
Yeah, that went on his permanent record
On 24 April 1959, Captain John S. Lappo, operating from Lockbourne AFB flew a B-47 with two crewmen on board under the Mackinac Bridge in Michigan. Following a general court-martial, he was grounded for life. – Wikipedia article on B-47.
Lappo had a new navigator for the lake
flight, an officer not yet integrated
into the crew. After the flight, asked if any crew member objected, Lappo said,
"Yeah,
the navigator recommended against it. Of course, I had no idea at the time that
he was the general’s son and that he was going to go rat on me once we got back
to Lockbourne."
http://www.north-lights.com/Bridge/pilot.html
Lappo retired in 1972.
Iceberg in our path
Last night, a woman on America’s Funniest Home Videos used the non-word “Ima.” Her voice was quite plain; there could be no misunderstanding.
This bodes a
setback in saving the language, should the usage increase. When people begin speaking
the same non-words as they write, our ship of civilization is about to meet an
iceberg.
For a time it
seemed “prolly” might topple true American English. "Prolly" is that grating non-word that
was used in text “conversations” and in emails. “Prolly,” though, seems to have
lessened. How did anyone even come up with “prolly” as replacement for “probably”?
Have people become that lazy?
“Supposebly”
continues to hold first place as the most irritating non-word, though. Does no
user ever think that to have a “supposebly,” the language must first have a “supposeb”?
I’m sorry. I
used the word “think.” Abusers of the language do not have that ability.
Sunday, May 15, 2022
New words
There comes a time for some when the usual television volume is not high enough, but turning it up to make actor conversation audible would mean driving others from the room. That is where closed caption comes to the rescue.
As long as
the words on the screen bear some resemblance to what is being said. Too often
in a news interview someone is saying, “Somboli dasciby three times in the last
week, a plivel rascally sud.”
We expect a
literal display of what a person says, but too often lately literal has nothing
to do with real words.
One of the
best non words in British English is “innit.” Or maybe it’s “init.” Whichever,
it is not a real word, but accurately compresses “isn’t it” into a quick and
understandable reference.
“Innit” now
shows up as a closed caption word in some UK television programs. Yes, it is a
literal recitation of what someone said, and, if a viewer has a hearing problem
it is possible he or she would not hear the actor’s word. But, TV and movie
words have a way of wedging into accepted English speech. I do not expect “innit”
to become a common word in, say, the Bronx, but possibly more common in American
speech.
“Ima” also
shows up more frequently than before. That is a large compression, “I am going
to” into three letters. “Gonna” is another not-favorite.
Used to be,
people Up North decided the difference between acceptable English and how
everybody else spoke. Many years ago, a columnist for the former Dallas Times
Herald wrote that she had lived in the Dallas-Fort Worth area long enough that
she was comfortable with Texasisms and Southernisms in her speech. She wrote
that during her holiday visit to her former home in New York City, she said “y’all.”
Her mother immediately said, “Don’t say that. It sounds so ignorant.”
Yeah, all y’all
in Brooklyn or the Bronx have a monopoly in judging, don’cha. You’s should
watch My Cousin Vinny at least one
time a year. It’s an instructive movie, innit.
Saturday, May 14, 2022
Be careful what you ask for
“As democracy is perfected, the office of the President represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last and the White House will be occupied by a downright fool and complete narcissistic moron.” – H.K. Mencken, The Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920
At American
Digest
Mencken
apparently had little trust in “the plain folks of the land.”
More aid! More aid! More aid!
From Hot Air
“While
Ukraine is flush with weapons and other military supplies and equipment,
however, Ministry of Defense officials and volunteer fighters are both quietly
admitting that they lack the capacity to absorb so much aid. Much of the
equipment and weaponry requires new training to be used. Even when that is
available it takes time. Similarly, the influx of 16,000 or more foreign
volunteer fighters would seem like a decisive boon, but in fact almost none of
them had any military experience or training. They proved little more than
extra mouths to feed in most cases, according to Ministry of Defense staff and
some of the volunteer foreign special forces soldiers on the ground.”
https://hotair.com/headlines/2022/05/14/ukraine-is-in-worse-shape-than-you-think-n469339
A month or
so back, a US congressman argued that the Air Force needed to send three
squadrons of A-10s to Ukraine right now.
Anybody with any sense would immediately say, “Who’s going to fly them? Who’s
going to maintain them?” Politicians talked, too, about sending howitzer
ammunition from US stocks. The US and Ukraine don’t shoot the same ammunition.
Our bullets do not fit in their guns.
It’s all smoke
and mirrors and thousands of dead Russians and Ukrainians.
Response tells where that 11 cents is
Statistics show women are paid 89 cents for every dollar a man makes. Or 93 cents. Or 78 cents. Or 79 cents. Do a search, find a number.
The column
at Assistant Village Idiot was on Youth Softball. The writer said: “I was a terrible coach myself. I thought, given my
70's college psych training, that the key was to treat the girls the same way
you would treat the boys. This is untrue. Several of the girls still talk
about it 25 years later.” A reader asked: “What did they say?” The
author responded: “That I hurt their feelings but they were afraid to tell me.”
In comments,
Texan99 wondered about the mettle of girl players who thought the coach was too
hard on them. She said:
“Good grief. I suppose they had no idea
how much they needed to learn to grow a little bark, so they wouldn't enter the
adult working world expecting everyone to avoid hurting their feelings, and
therefore completely incapable of being a productive team member instead of an
emotional sinkhole. I know women who to this day have absolutely no idea how to
broach the idea of getting a raise, or how to make a case for why granting the
raise will be advantageous for the boss, not just for her personal needs.
“9/10ths of the complaints I hear about gender pay
inequality can be traced to this problem. Guys typically are taught not to sit
around waiting in resentment until someone notices their special specialness
and rewards them for it.”
http://assistantvillageidiot.blogspot.com/2022/05/youth-softball.html
Brits given another opportunity to turn in guns
Law officials looking for “heirlooms, shotguns and antique revolvers, as well as illegal stun guns and gas-firing blank pistols bought overseas.”
That Brown
Bess an ancestor used in the American Troubles? It’s a threat to national
security. Turn it in. No questions asked.
Link at
Knuckledraggin
Thursday, May 12, 2022
82 British skeletons found in Dutch mass grave
From The History Blog
Remains most
likely those of soldiers from the First Coalition War (1792-97), “when English,
Dutch, Spanish, Austrians and Prussians fought against the army of
Revolutionary France.”
Maybe the stupidest thing Biden has said?
From Breitbart
“President Joe Biden blamed
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday for the latest spike in gas prices,
suggesting the foreign leader had enacted a ‘gas tax’ on America by invading
Ukraine.”
In the same talk, Biden also
said, “The generic point is we have to invest in
ourselves, invest in our people, so that we can, in fact, continue to lead the
world on all the things that are so — there are so many incredible
opportunities for not only us but for the rest of the world.”
What?
Link at
Knuckledraggin
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