Kalashnikov died in 2013, at age 94.
It is said he was buried and after a week, the Russian army dug him up, washed him off and put him back to work.
From
Borepatch.
Tuesday, October 19, 2021
Real Mexican food, huh
From Knuckledraggin
I once asked a Mexican friend what a
gordita was and he laughed and said "It's a fat girl, homeboy".
"No, I mean what kind of
food?" I'd never heard of it before and was curious as to how real
Mexicans made it.
"Oh," he says. "You know, Taco Bell shit."
https://ogdaa.blogspot.com/2021/10/oh-joy.html
Monday, October 18, 2021
From Confederate nurse Augusta Jane Evans
"O! I longed for a Secession flag to shake defiantly in their teeth at every fire! And my fingers fairly itched to touch off a red-hot-ball in answer to their chivalric civilities." – Confederate nurse Augusta Jane Evans, after being fired upon by Union soldiers from Fort Monroe, Va.
A native religion those dastardly Spanish Catholics destroyed
From Lone Star Parson
Bernal Diaz describes his first impression of the Aztec capital Tenochtitlán, now Mexico City:
"And when we saw all those cities and villages built in the water, and other great towns on dry land, and that straight and level causeway leading to Mexico [i.e. Tenochtitlán], we were astounded. These great towns and cues [i.e., temples] and buildings rising from the water, all made of stone, seemed like an enchanted vision from the tale of Amadis. Indeed, some of our soldiers asked whether it was not all a dream. It is not surprising therefore that I should write in this vein. It was all so wonderful that I do not know how to describe this first glimpse of things never heard of, seen or dreamed of before..."
At the heart of this enchanted city of some 300,000 people was a great temple, the Templo Mayor, surmounted by twin shrines to Huitzilopochtli, the god of war, and Tlaloc, god of rain and agriculture. Diaz tells us the statues of the deities were encrusted with pearls, precious stones and gold, and that the walls of the shrine(s) "were so caked with blood and the floor so bathed in it that the stench was worse than that of any slaughter-house in Spain."
In front of the bloody pyramid, the scene of an estimated 20,000 yearly human sacrifices, rose the Huey Tzompantli, the Skull Wall or Skull Banner. This held the flayed, decapitated heads of the Aztecs' sacrificial victims. These were strung up between beams, rank on rank, in a kind of grisly abacus about the length of a basketball court. This was flanked at either end by a circular skull tower, approximately 6 meters in width and height.
Andres de Tapia, who served under Cortes, saw the Tzompantli and its accompanying skull towers. He loosely calculated the structures to hold 136,000 heads, and we can imagine him walking about the temple precinct, with its gardens, ornamental ponds, brilliantly feathered birds and a towering wall of human skulls. He must have had time on his hands to do the math.
Historians and anthropologists
were in the habit of dismissing all of this as Conquistador propaganda, used to
justify their bloodthirsty, colonial oppression and destruction of the Aztec
culture. Then, uncomfortably, in 2015 and 2020 archeologists discovered the
remains of the skull towers. Diaz, Tapia et al weren't lying.
You see, gentle readers, all religions are not the same,
especially when one is a human sacrificing, cannibalist, demonic death cult.
God bless,
LSP
https://lonestarparson.blogspot.com/2021/10/all-religions-are-not-same.html
(A thing to remember that one day each year when the uninformed, waxed-eared noise makers damn Columbus and raise upon high the ideas of native religions and culture of which they know nothing.)
Friday, October 15, 2021
Place your bets now!
CORRECTION: My use of an 800 number was my Boomer mind at work. The FoxBets link requires downloading an app. Fox Sports also ran an ad "Play free for $50,000."
Original post.
In the bottom of the first inning of tonight's Houston-Boston ACLS, Fox Sports popped up an ad advising all fans to call an 800 number to FoxBets and wager $100 that the Red Sox starting pitcher would strike out seven or more Astros batters.
Fox Sports guaranteed a $350 return on the $100 wager if the pitcher is successful.
MLB Corp. says gambling on baseball games is against the rules. Any person associated with major league baseball may be banned for life if MLB determines he/she/they has/have bet on a baseball game. Except when MLB takes money from gambling companies and says it's OK, as long as a bettor follows MLB gambling rules.
As suggested a couple of days ago, Pete Rose needs to sue. MLB banned Rose from anything to do with baseball after MLB determined Rose bet on games as a player and as a player/manager. The monkeys are now in charge of banana storage.
Wednesday, October 13, 2021
Today is Wednesday cleaning day
The cleaning lady works every other Wednesday, 0900-1300.
My wife and I pick up and put away things. I put away pistols. They are still accessible, just not lying in plain view on tables.
This morning when the doorbell rang I suddenly realized one pistol was on the lamp table beside my chair. It was only a few steps away, so I retrieved it and brought it to the lanai.
I sit out here with my writing machine and a thermos of coffee and try to string words together in a readable manner. Right now I am about 10,000 words into a story that so far does not have a title. The story begins:
You’ve read the ad.
“Wanted: Somebody to go back in time with
me. This is not a joke. 1432 Lee County Road, Seven Pines, TX 75399. You'll get paid after we get back. Must
bring your own weapons. Safety not guaranteed. I have only done this once
before.” And then in bold type: “Reply
to the address listed, not to this publication.”
I replied.
“Dear Sir, I am replying to your ad of
May 1 in Olive Green Magazine. I have weapons and military experience. Reply to:
Ben Allison, 367 East County Road 2640, Choctaw, OK 74760.”
I waited a month for an answer. I didn’t get one. What was the deal?
So, of course, our
protagonist travels from Choctaw, OK, to Seven Pines, TX, to find the answer.
DHS or ATF or some similar agency becomes involved, convincing Leigh Forrest
that Ben Allison is the best person available. There is no time travel, but
there are gates (for large vehicles) and portals (for small parties). The story
reads well.
Monday, October 11, 2021
Let’s see if I get this climate malarky straight
Burning trees and tree-made products to make electricity is OK, despite the huge amount of pollution released into the air, because replacement trees grown in cut-down areas will soak up all the bad stuff pumped out by factories making renewable electricity. (Twenty, thirty years from now?)
Even though the UK’s pellet-burning plant “is among the biggest sources of carbon dioxide and PM10 (particulate matter of 10 micrometres and smaller) air pollution of all EU power stations – when biomass emissions are included – more even than some of Europe’s dirtiest coal plants.”
The official measure of bad stuff “excludes these biomass emissions from its total count, because – like the EU – it treats bioenergy as immediately carbon neutral on the assumption that forest regrowth soaks up the carbon again.”
“Immediately carbon-neutral.” Or, lauded and praised before being praised and lauded.
“Your measurements exceed the standards. Oh, you’re burning wood! That’s OK, then.”
Link
at Maggie’s Farm.
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