Why stop with Confederate statues?

Revolutionary War could be next.

“Anti-war activist” and self-described “repeat Noble Peace Prize nominee” complained about statue of George Rogers Clark at University of Virginia. UVA president “referred the matter to the President’s Commission on the University in the Age of Segregation.”

https://legalinsurrection.com/2019/08/university-of-virginia-considering-removing-statue-of-revolutionary-war-soldier/

How is Coca-Cola spelled in Hungary? Q-U-E-E-R

From Hungary Today

Far-right Mi Hazánk is calling for a boycott of US soft drink maker Coca-Cola over the company’s recently-launched advertisement campaign promoting gay acceptance, party leader László Toroczkai said on Thursday.

Until Coca-Cola “stops promoting homosexuality”, Mi Hazánk will organise protests against it on a weekly basis and will call on its supporters to join a boycott of the company’s products, Toroczkai told a press conference in front of the US multinational’s premises in Dunaharaszti near Budapest.

He said the company has admitted that it was campaigning for same-sex marriage in two countries and is a supporter of the local Pride festival in a number of countries.

Mi Hazánk believes a soft drink company “has no business involving itself in politics or interfering in other people’s private lives and its job is not to try to strengthen forms of social deviance”, Toroczkai said.

He called on Coca-Cola to “return to its own field of business” and “not to attack families, traditional values or society”.

As his party’s first act of protest, Toroczkai poured Coca-Cola products offered up by Mi Hazánk’s supporters out onto the asphalt in front of the company’s premises.

https://hungarytoday.hu/mi-hazank-boycott-coca-cola-gay-acceptance-ads/

Ignore the crazies

Thirty-three years ago a vein burst in my brain. Doctors drilled a hole in my skull and went in and did microscopic stuff and put a stainless steel spring-loaded clip on the part that burst.

I was off duty for 70 days. During that time, when daily matters became too stressful, I went to sleep. Some days I slept more than 12 hours, sometimes 14.

I thought then that it would be a good thing if we all had a switch. We could say to the one who lived with us and who loved us, “I’m going to turn off for a while. Turn me back on in a day or so.” And we would have 24 or so hours to dream.

Right now, the crazies dominate talk and news and such. I mean, crazies like I’ve not seen before in my 73-plus years. No details are necessary on the screaming Democrats or the ignorant Republicans. All ignore us. We aren’t inside the Beltway. We don’t blissfully wade through the swamp every day.

I think I will check out for a while. Maybe the crazies will shut up.

Take that, P&G! $5.24 billion loss

“Red State - Gillette’s ‘Woke’ Ad that Insulted Men Cost P&G Billions ... P&G reported a net loss of about $5.24 billion, or $2.12 per share, for the quarter ended June 30, due to an $8 billion non-cash writedown of Gillette.

“Excerpt: Gillette’s commercial that blanketed the male gender with the accusation of ‘toxic masculinity’ while using feminist buzzwords and clips of hard-left news organizations was one of the most hated commercials of the past decade.”

woodpilereport.com

(After watching the Gillette commercial, I stopped using my Gillette razor and will buy no more of its products. Gillette and ESPN are in the same bedroom, with diverse progressives.)

Gun control

“Go look in Mexico; there is exactly one legal gun store in the entire country and it takes months to get paperwork processed to buy one. Possession of even one firearm or one round of ammunition is good for a five year prison sentence there.

“That does exactly zippo to prevent all those who want to murder from acquiring and using them in Juarez.

“Since it is proved that just a few miles south the most-restrictive gun laws imaginable do exactly nothing to prevent hundreds of murders every year in that city alone no, I will not consent to any further infringement of the 2nd Amendment.”

Karl Denninger, quoted at woodpilereport.com

(Mexico has strict gun control laws in order to keep its people from revolution. Gun control is one thing the governing class learned from the 1910 revolution. The ruling class has succeeded. The people of Mexico have not brought revolution since the laws were instituted. Thousands have died in the on-going drug wars and shootouts and general murders and beheadings. But the people have not revolted against the ruling class.)

Millions of us have guns, and we haven’t killed anyone

But we will be targeted.

From Zellman Partisans:

“100 MILLION honest gun owners didn’t kill anyone with 16 MILLION AR- or AK-pattern weapons over the weekend. 100 million people certainly didn’t kill anyone with 393+ million firearms.

“But let’s punish them all for the actions of two chumbuckets with two guns.”

http://zelmanpartisans.com/?p=13119

Gas stations, service station, convenience stores

 On the east edge of Maud, Texas, north of Highway 67, there used to be a gas station with a manual pump. In 1951, the station had two electric pumps, but the owner kept the manual pump on site.

A manual pump, as the name implies, had a wooden handle on the base. By moving the handle back and forth, the gas station attendant pumped gasoline from the tanks into a big glass bowl on top of the pump. The bowl held up to five gallons and was a means of showing a customer he was getting the amount of gas he would pay for. The visible pump was necessary because pumps that mechanically displayed the amount of gas purchased had not been invented. The visible pump was a boon to gas station attendants as well. Before visible pumps, attendants pumped gas into a can and then poured that gas into a car or truck.

Back then, gas stations were often called service stations, although the two were originally different. A gas station sold gas and oil. A service station sold gas and oil, but also provided mechanic services.

A convenience store sells everything from potato chips to clothing, and has little to do with gas stations or service stations.

If you ever see a glass-topped manual gas pump with all the parts for a decent price, buy it. They are few and far between.

Here is a link to a photograph of a manual gas pump at a service station in More, Oklahoma:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Old-Photo-Moore-OK-Magnolia-Petroleum-Gas-Station-/200578235693

The attendant has his hand on the pump handle. On the slab beside the pump is a container of oil bottles. Oil in cans was not yet available.