In Part 1, we visited Garden of the Gods, Manitou Springs, Pike’s Peak and hiked the St. Mary’s Falls trail in the North Cheyenne Cañon Park. In this part I share a couple more hikes and a cool restaurant.
Hike #3, Red Rock Canyon Open Space
We did the Sand Canyon, Mesa, Greenlee, Red Rock Canyon Loop in the Red Rock Canyon Open Space. We had low expectations for Red Rock Canyon – it didn’t look very impressive from the road. However, it was a very enjoyable hike, with a nice variety of beautiful views. It was Mrs. N’s favorite hike on this trip. The hike was less than 1,000 feet of elevation change, but there were still some challenging switchbacks and steep paths to make us sweat. Another challenge was the fact that mountain-bikers are also on the trails. We had to step aside to let bikers past us a few times. However there was plenty of times when we had portions of the trails to ourselves.
The beginning of the trail
A narrow pathway
An incredible view
We had no idea this would be along the trail. Beautiful!
Rock formations
Toward the end of the trail
After the hike we ate at a Culver’s restaurant near our hotel. This was our first experience with Culver’s. Friends had recommended it to us. We ate at Culver’s a couple times during our week-long trip (mmm … cheese curds, burgers and frozen custard).
Hike #4, Helen Hunt Falls and Seven Bridges Trail, North Cheyenne Cañon Park
We returned to North Cheyenne Cañon Park to check out Helen Hunt Falls and hike the top-rated Seven Bridges Trail. In addition to the short Helen Hunt Falls hike, we also did the Silver Cascade Falls Trail and then took the Buffalo Canyon Trail and part of the Upper Columbine Trail to get to where the Seven Bridges Trail starts.
Helen Hunt Falls
And no, Helen Hunt Falls is not named after the actress Helen Hunt, but the poet Helen Hunt.
NOT this Helen Hunt
A view along the Silver Cascade Falls Trail
It was along this hike that we came across the marijuana that’s been legalized in Colorado. Mrs. N’s golf buddies warned her that we’d be coming across the MJ everywhere in Colorado. Nope, just the smell of it when we came across a couple of young hikers taking a break along this trail. That was it; otherwise the MJ prevalence seemed the same as in Ohio.
A creek along the trail
The Seven Bridges Trail was more like a walk through the woods. It follows alongside a creek with the bridges crossing the creek along the way. The elevation change is only about 1,000 feet, but felt like it was a more gradual change in elevation.
A waterfall on the Seven Bridges Trail
Bridge #1 of the Seven Bridges
Bridge #2
A view from Bridge #3
Bridge #4
A view from Bridge #5
Bridge #6
Bridge #7
The reward for this hike was yet another stop at a brewery. We went to Cerberus Brewing Co. Another great meal and beers. They didn’t offer beer flights, but had small pours, so I got few of those and Mrs. N got a canned hard cider that they also had on the menu.
Cerberus beers: a Dunkel, a Radler and a Kölsch
The Airplane Restaurant
We had time to stop for lunch on our way to the Colorado Springs airport for our return flight. We went to The Airplane Restaurant. An Air Force KC-97 has been incorporated as part of the restaurant. The KC-97 Stratofreighter is a tanker aircraft (refuels other aircraft via a “flying boom” that extends from the rear of the aircraft) produced in the 1950’s and preceded the KC-135 Stratotanker (the Air Force’s workhorse tanker that’s as old as I am). As a former Air Force officer and someone who has flown on KC-135s (only as a passenger) and worked in the KC-46 Tanker Program Office, I had to go here.
Like The Ohio State University, THE is part of the name
You can see the restaurant building to the right
The other wing inside the restaurant
We were the first customers of the day, so I could walk around and take photos. We also got a prime booth in the airplane.
Entrance to the aircraft
Seating inside the plane
View from the window at our table
Boom operator station. They laid on their stomachs similar to the KC-135
Cockpit
The food at the restaurant was okay – nothing special. This was all about having a meal inside an historic aircraft.
Overall, this was a great trip. Would definitely recommend and would visit again.
On the First day of Christmas I gave my true love, myself, the gift of being First. I am the only one worthy of my love.
And I don’t recognize any other days of Christmas outside the First.
Congratulations?
It’s not polite to always finish first.
former Air Force officer
I’ve slept in the maintenance garages two or three times at Peterson AFB. Nice and cool up there: good sleeping.
Sounds like a cool trip.
The Airplane restaurant looks amazing.
Looks fun.
That airplane restaurant is cool.
I have no idea how I missed that restaurant. I flew into CO Springs in the summer of 2016. Landed at Cutter Aviation, We must have driven right past it.
I love my mountains, but i’ll admit that Colorado got the pretty side of the Rockies.
Mmmm, Provo Canyon can rival Colorado Rockies.
The Canyons can be beautiful, but the Mountains are still the desert facing side of the range.
Too true. I lived at the bottom of the foothills (the Y mountain) for a while and it wasn’t terribly pretty.
https://www.kansascity.com/news/nation-world/national/article247890285.html
Submitted without comment.
/waves at lurking Feds
I guess they’re getting the hell out of Dodge?
*tumbleweed*
The point being missed that either mask mandates don’t work because people comply, or people comply and mask mandates don’t work.
cases surged
*yawn*
This is something
Every winning candidate of an election, by accepting their election, should agree to be locked in a room watching this over and over until they cry and beg to be let out.
“We just felt like we had to do something so everybody was aware of how important it was for everybody to be responsible for each other’s health and well-being,”
You are responsible for you and I am responsible for me.
You are responsible for you and I am responsible for me
vs.
“We are living on the summit of the greatest pass in history, our day has seen the beginning of a new order in human relations, a new morality, a new law, the foundation of which is the victorious idea of human solidarity…. In our country he alone is a man of worth whose needs and desires are the needs and desires of a collectivist. Our family offers rich soil for the cultivation of such collectivism.”
On a scale of Jefferson to Stalin…..where are we right now?
-Stalin Era Soviet Parents Handbook
Sh*t……the rhetorical question was supposed to be last
We’re about 50% to Stalin, but at our speed of travel, we won’t be able to see Stalin to our left with the naked eye in about 2 years.
We’re not even on that scale. Neither the socialists nor the conservatives have courage or statesmanship enough to rate looking at that scale. We’re too comfortable, all sides. Only when some large faction has nothing to lose will the radicals of one flavor or the other be able to make a significant change to the bureaucracy. The cheap talk by the politicians on the surface may steer us to believing we’re moving toward collectivism or anarchy or whatever, but Murrica’s bureaucracy is what it is, and is slow to evolve. Its direction won’t change because some used car salesmen get free airtime on the bandwagon media.
That changed the minute they were able to rig a national election with no consequences. As soon as they swear in the Commie Warlock and the other cockroach dem, they will move at lightspeed to fundamentally change the USA, just as they promised. And SCOTUS will do jackshit because penaltax will not allow the cases to be heard.
I prepare to have nothing to lose. But Murrica’s political system continues to move the partial enslavement of all citizens toward a smaller and smaller group of wealth producers. Will that small group go on strike a la Atlas Shrugged? Will it be big enough to revolt when they’ve had enough?
I’ve got a long way to fall to take violent action to help right the ship. My biggest concern now is, how far will I go to stand on principle, the most important being the 2A. Will I refuse to be disarmed?
The 2A is effectively gone the minute the dems have the Senate.
Then I’ve gotta figure out where I am on the scale from Boating Accident to Cappin Cops.
Then I’ve gotta figure out where I am on the scale from Boating Accident to Cappin Cops.
Today’s a good day to crack Gulag Archipelago open again.
Thanks for the reminder to read that! Just ordered.
Kansas City is not in Kansas.
But good to hear good new from Kansas. Politicians need to fear the people. Otherwise there will be tyranny.
Uuuuummmmmm there IS a Kansas City in Kansas. It is directly across the state line. We distinguish by saying KCK when we mean the one in Kansas.
Pendant! I meant THE Kansas city, the one where they’ve gone about as fur as they can go. There’s Baltimores all over the country, but there’s only one Baltimore, the official 3rd world shithole.
Yes, THE Kansas City is in Missouri, you are correct.
Also, technically correct is the best kind of correct.
This is so cool. It’s the sort of place I want to visit if maybe the New World Order will let me leave my own country and allow me into another one again someday.
NOT this Helen Hunt
But I like that Helen Hunt.
Paul Reiser-original soy boy?
But I like that Helen Hunt.
#metoo
Thanks so much for these beautiful posts, Annoyed Nomad. I love travelogues! ?
I think I have another travelogue in my brain…gotta see if I have sufficient pics to go with it.
I’m glad to contribute. Sorry I got to the post late. I’ve had a busy day.
You can see the restaurant building to the right
Kind of winging it as a concept I see.
They’re flying by the seat of their pants
Look they are just stalling till they get a good Idea.
*narrows gaze*
Looking for the Hun in the sun?
I’ll be in my bunk
Not in your berth?
Now that’s an interesting point – Jayne probably should have said “berth” instead of “bunk”
/nerd
I do too, but I spend so much time commuting, I just want to be there. I hate the travel part.
Great photos, Officer Nomad. Thanks for sharing.
Oops. This was supposed to be under SP’s post.
The commute to KK’s bunk sure is a long one. ?
You’re telling me!
I hate airplanes. There, I said it. Hate me if you want. Airplanes are filthy, nasty beasts, that until Rona Times, used to be filled with people who should be taking a bus.
Okay, I don’t really hate airplanes. They are amazing machines. It’s the airports that I hate. Well, maybe not the airports themselves, more like the people in the airports. Oh, not all people, just the government people. Yes, that’s it. I hate the TSA. They ruined the joy of air travel. There. I feel better now.
Eh, I have a healthy contempt for the airlines themselves as well. Thanks to the FAA and cronyism they function basically as state run transportation with all the attending inconveniences and unpleasantries.
I’ll start liking them when I get one of these.
De Plane!
I think that’s the one the Mayor of Austin took to Cabo to celebrate Thanksgiving
Was there a climate change conference bonus in it for him?
Seriously, if I won some huge lottery jackpot, this is the first thing I would buy.
Like anything else, if the FAA tasking and national flying infrastructure costs were directly and truly captured in the price of a ticket, the entire industry would look nothing like it does today.
Not to mention what would’ve happened had we not spent obscene amounts of money to build the Interstate Highway system.
If I could afford it, I’d buy a plane and use it to avoid flying commercial. Unfortunately, I have not yet won the lottery.
#MeToo
Love the travelogue! The airplane diner is great.
This is a restaurant where I grew up, in Covina Ca and making a stand.
https://redstate.com/brandon_morse/2020/12/29/store-owner-confronts-health-department-worker-with-harsh-realities-after-trying-to-shut-his-business-down-n301238
When do we start funding airlifts for people like this? “You, your family, your employees, and their families have one 737’s worth of cargo space destined for the free world. Use it wisely.”
Someone went outside, super outbreak incoming!!!
I’ve decided outdoor mask wear (coming to an area near you!) is the hill that I will die on. I’ve so far been complicit with indoor mask wear as I have no desire to ruin some poor service workers day or cause a business owner to incur fines.
Refusing to wear a mask outdoors however has no such leverage and I will happily tell all the Karen’s of the world to FOS and force the local gestapo to arrest me (despite what my cop brother tells me I’m sure they’ll find a couple bad apples who will be willing to slap the cuffs on me).
I don’t. We have one here now I think. I don’t care, and apparently neither does most people, because almost no one is doing it. I’ll wear one inside, but as soon as I’m out the door, it comes off.
It seems to be more and more common (both as mandate and in practice). I’m aware that LA county has an outdoor mandate but I wasn’t sure where else. An outdoor mandate is the pinnacle of nonsensical even by their own inane logic, and to me, typifies that it has nothing to do with a virus but everything to do with submission.
It’s unenforceable, so they can fuck right off.
The upside is you can tell who the morons are from about 100 yards.
The ones wearing a mask, alone in the car?
Or walking down the street or hiking on a trail…..
Fun aside: A friend and I met up to walk the dogs and encountered a lone, maskless hiker coming the opposite direction……he nearly tripped over himself trying to get off the trail all while frantically covering his mouth and nose with his sleeve. We made little attempt to hide our contemptuous laughter.
“he nearly tripped over himself trying to get off the trail all while frantically covering his mouth and nose with his sleeve.”
Never mind that fall off a 150ft cliff, the vid is goan getcha!
We had a similar hiking experience – not wearing masks, because we’re not cretins, and a couple of masked hikers coming at us from the other direction. They went tromping through the underbrush to avoid coming within 20 yards of us.
I’m the same. If there’s a sign on a business that requires me to wear a mask, I’ll do it but the moment I step outside, that shit is coming off.
I went walking on a trail near my house and 95 percent of the people weren’t wearing masks.
Same here. Our trail down the hill from here, which is quite popular, always people waking or riding a bike Have seen very few people wear a mask. And have not seen anyone tackled by the swat team yet.
I had a wandering little kid engage me in the grocery store parking lot last week. He still had his mask on and I couldn’t understand him that well but I smiled really big when his mom came to grab him and told him to take off his mask because they weren’t shopping anymore and he “looks like a criminal”.
FOS ?
FUCK OF SLAVER
Do you even glib, bro?
D’oh!!
Fear of salamanders
Same. I avoid wearing the damned thing as much as possible but if a business asks, I either leave or wear one.
No way in hell am I ever wearing that thing outside.
Goes on in the vestibule, comes off in the vestibule. I’ve never had a problem not wearing one outside. Did get a weird look from a pair of lesbians and their 5 kids at the park. Granted, they were scootering through the park with helmets, elbow pads, knee pads, masks, and rubber gloves, and piled into a car with 40+ bumper stickers, so I wrote them off as lunatics.
I’m operating off the principle that the ratchet only tightens so outdoor mask wear will be the next step in the name of SCIENCE. My prediction is it will be the next condition for a ‘safe’ reopening in the spring.
I get disapproving looks sometimes when I pull that thing off before clearing the doorway on my way out.
I watched someone shoveling snow today while wearing a mask.
Totally pointless.
Except they do keep your face warm.
I just drove past a guy walking down a country road past a dairy farm wearing a mask. It was 35 degrees so maybe he’s just cold.
Yup. More convenient than a scarf too. But now I have to be worried about my countersignalling. Thanks, Fauci!
Doom.
Biden: Carbon emmissions threaten “the very existence of our planet”
Yes, actually (well, not the planet itself…). If the co2 content of the atmosphere drops too low it will not support plant life.
So he’ll be limiting his travels on AF1, right? RIGHT?
Dear Joe,
FOS!
No. How else is Hunter to travel to China?
Whish is expected to happen well before the expanding sun incinerates everything.
The EPA getting CO2 classified as a pollutant was a major victory for green whack jobs.
From the benign or even positive sounding “greenhouse gas” to “poison” in one simple word usurpation.
It makes as much sense as getting testosterone banned a drug. Joe Biden. SCIENCE!
Mostly True(tm)
To every dipshit that voted for this sockpuppet: Congratulations motherfuckers.
His emissions certainly do.
I thought the area around Seven Bridges and Helen Hunt got hit hard by fire a few years ago. Good to see they did not.
Seven Bridges?
I hate the Eagles, man
Biden: Carbon emmissions threaten “the very existence of our planet”
The planet is (still) doomed.
Thx, Joke.
This has nothing to do with killing poor people because heating and AC will be unaffordable for the lowest income households. I guess they can become artists.
Whats the matter, didn’t want to try the incline? ?
I hiked these trails as well when I was stationed in Colorado Springs. I miss the winter.
This is gorgeous. Thank you.
What could go wrong?
However, while you may have been paying attention to his efforts on vaccination and lockdowns, you may not have noticed that one of Gates’ most controversial causes just got a go-ahead: A project that would help block out the sun. …
According to Reuters, a Harvard University project plans to test out a controversial theory that global warming can be stopped by spraying particles into the atmosphere that would reflect the sun’s rays.
The project represents one of the most controversial aspects of what’s known as “geoengineering” — the idea that, to tackle issues like climate change, massive aspects of our ecosystem can be played with or changed. In this case, it would involve reflecting some of the sun’s rays to stop them from reaching Earth.
“What could go wrong?”
If it actually worked, maybe a few nuclear winters with crop failure and mass starvation?
So, nothing, all will be going as planned.
What could possibly go wrong? Bill Gates is like smart and stuff.
Who knew Elon Musk would be the good guy in the pantheon of crazy tech billionaires?
When the media tries to portray someone as insane or evil, you can be sure they’re the exact opposite.
Elon is a good guy. The problem is that it’s difficult for someone with that much money to feel empathy for the unwashed masses. He’s the 2nd richest guy on the planet now, and will probably be the first trillionaire because of SpaceX.
None of this stuff will affect him and he’s obsessed with making things work, something the government knows jackshit about. He’s sort of like Trump, only smart and a lot richer. I don’t believe the man has a political ideology, he just knows the government wants to fuck with him, so like Trump, he’s lashing out at them.
Yabut…his name. Elon. Musk. If you were writing a trite superhero movie, it would be Bill Gates: Protagonist, and Elon Musk: Supervillain.
In an upside down CNN world, yes.
But, we know Elon is who I say he is, because there is a guy who was always singing about him
Rocket Man
Actually, Elton fucked this one up, because he thought the prophecy spirit said ‘Levon’ instead of ‘Elon’. No one is perfect.
Levon?
Someone needs to blow that asshole’s head off.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_Summer
Does he also have a lair in a volcano?
I’ve seen that movie. It involved cannibalism and trains, a progressive’s wet dream.
Back at TOS, I liked to point out that nuclear winter was the solution to AGW.
Pick someone you don’t like. Wipe them out. The planet cools off.
Two birds; one stone.
Fatal Conceit is going to become even more fatal.
It is amazingly arrogant of these elites to think that they can and should control the climate of a whole planet, the spread of a run-of-the-mill virus, economic equality, etc.
These same elites tell us how bad we are to the planet and how insignificant we are compared to Mother Gaia. So either we are insignificant or we’re totally running the show, one or the other.
I’d say the elites want to control the world in an effort to distance themselves from their insignificance. Reminds me of this quote from the movie, Birdman…
“Means something to who? You had a career before the third comic book movie, before people began to forget who was inside the bird costume. You’re doing a play based on a book that was written 60 years ago, for a thousand rich old white people whose only real concern is gonna be where they go to have their cake and coffee when it’s over. And let’s face it, Dad, it’s not for the sake of art. It’s because you want to feel relevant again. Well, there’s a whole world out there where people fight to be relevant every day. And you act like it doesn’t even exist! Things are happening in a place that you willfully ignore, a place that has already forgotten you. I mean, who are you? You hate bloggers. You make fun of Twitter. You don’t even have a Facebook page. You’re the one who doesn’t exist. You’re doing this because you’re scared to death, like the rest of us, that you don’t matter. And you know what? You’re right. You don’t. It’s not important. You’re not important. Get used to it.”
*crumples up outline for next article*
That quote covered it better than I could.
As an author, I don’t care about fame. I want my books to pay the bills.
The biggest thing that signified my transition into adulthood was giving up any give-a-shit about being relevant or impactful or legendary. Living a joyful life, providing for my family, and being good to my community is all I want. I don’t need to change the world.
I used to want to be famous. Then I just wanted people to like my imaginary friends as much as I do. Now I just want some passive income.
Very few people change the world and nowadays, people who really do never become household names.
IOW, Stephen King will never be as important or longlasting as Shakespeare.
Trashy,
Doing those things does change the world into better place. That’s a pretty decent legacy.
You want manmade climate change? This is how you get manmade climate change.
You want another giant taxpayer funded boondoggle? This is how you get another giant taxpayer funded boondoggle.
It’s like a prophecy or something.
Just saying, prophecy or just good ol totalitarianism, it’s not good to play God. This shit and Andrew Wang wanting to barcode people. They’re going to fuck around and get all of us killed, including themselves.
Since Playa’s not around much: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyjJbhuwGkU
Bill Gates = Dr. Strangelove
Great. Reduce Vitamin D intake thus weakening everyone’s immune system and making vaccines ineffective.
I had a discussion with my dermatologist just this morning. He said the sun is carcinogenic, period. Take a supplement if your level is low. Science!
Then he chastised me for waiting so long to visit him. “Next time don’t wait a half a decade.” Oops.
This didn’t work out so well in Highlander 2.
The only movie sequel worse than The Matrix
23.Have you seen The Concorde: Airport ’79?
Nope. Worse than TM3?
Neat. I would totally do the airplane restaurant thing.
I the kind of guy who stops to see the world’s largest ball of yarn.
I treat historical markers like a truck driver treats weigh stations: pulling off the highway is mandatory.
I especially like old churches in the eastern states.
Spooner Wisconsin has a funny little train that is privately owned, along with several miles of track. Each train car is from a different decade. You can buy a ticket and ride out to a scenic spot where they park while serving dinner. Then they return to the station.
I liked the time capsule nature of the mismatched cars. One was kitted out like a 40s-50s diner; another was turn of the century with wooden accents.
Quirky roadside attractions are part of the American Experience.
I wish I were that adventurous. I am not interested in roadside attractions if I’ve got someplace to be. It’s a compulsion with me, getting someplace by setting a land speed record.
I suppose I could do like UCS did, taking a road trip with the express purpose of stopping all those places.
I loved hiking Garden of the Gods when I was in my early 20’s. I am sorry to say I haven’t had a chance to go back since then. LH and I lived in Boulder for a short while, so the drive seemed quick and easy back then. True story, we got nekkid on one of the trails in Garden of the Gods. Luckily we were clothed again moments before a family with small kids were making their way up the same trail.
*scribbles that down in doodle book*
Really cool. I would love to visit that restaurant
DOOOM!!!!!
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-threat-of-authoritarianism-in
Greenwald has crossed the Rubicon.
It’s a pretty good read. Still his is a left wing take and… I have differences of opinion about that. For example:
I don’t see how you can write all of what Glen has just written and then talk about how it is because of overwhelming wealth inequality that needs to be fixed… By the Government. If the government is, as he stipulates, thoroughly captured by private enriched interests, there is no move that the government will take that would threaten those interests. It will only further entrench them. The only way forward would be if the Government was gutted, it’s powers destroyed and there was no power for those interests to buy.
In short, you could agree with everything the left puts forward about inequality and the rich oligarchy that is our government, and the conclusion would not follow, that we should give them more power to police themselves.
This is the escence of setting up “Citizen Review Boards” (always appointed or in some way overseen by the DA) to police the police. You aren’t fixing the power problem. The cops still have the monopoly power.
Likewise, we can have valid reasons to bash Bezos, and Zuck et.al about concentrated power, but the most concentrated power there is, is still the US Government. If the USG decided to freeze all of Bezo’s assets, i don’t think there is a bank in the country that would resist.
I think he’s mistaking the private interests. As I say below, it isn’t the rule of the titans. It’s the rule of the mid-level career bureaucrat. The “titans” represent a potential countervailing power center that has largely been co-opted, but could represent a potential threat. From the authoritarians’ standpoint, even if the extremely wealthy are on their side, they want them cut down to size.
Musk is in greater danger of incurring the wrath of the governing elite.
He has spoken out against communism and socialism (grew up in South Africa), he was very vocally against Covid lockdown foolishness, and he dodges reporters whenever they try to get him to take a stand on flavor-of-the week cause.
Just for not being a statist or a leftist they hate him.
Gavin Newsom was arrogantly flippant when asked if Musk was seriously considering moving away from CA. Newsom smugly remarked that Musk isn’t going anywhere soon.
One week later, Musk had moved his residency to Texas.
Musk will eventually be forced to play the lefty game.
No wonder he wants to go to Mars.
“Musk will eventually be forced to play the lefty game.”
What he needs to do is start a new media company and crush the leftist narrative like bugs.
I, for one, fear the day Bezos’ “Prime Korps” goes door-to-door to round up all who have not signed up for a free-trial of Audible.com and sends us to the camps.
Try and save me a spot near the wire, plz.
Save me one near the wi-fi.
The authoritarianism of the twenty-first century will not be that of the strongman. Instead, it will be that of the little men. Authoritarian control will be wielded by men and women of, at best, limited talents of achievements who sit amid the rest of the leadership class. They’ll couch their authoritarianism in decisions of committees and justify their power through credentialism. They’ll profess consensus, even when that consensus is reached only within their own circle.
Passive totalitarianism. The ratchet doesn’t even need a hand on it to keep on turning.
I’m actually far more worried about the culture of informing on your neighbors that seems to be spiraling out of control. “Snitching” and “self-righteousness” appear to be emerging as “virtues” of all things. There’s a religious zeal that is coming with the destruction of “the other” that is terrifying to me.
Without it, most would be authoritarians often view their schemes as impractical. With it they become emboldened.
This is a very good point.
It’s not like the government had to twist arms to recruit snitches. Those already inclined to tell others what to do self-assembled into Karen Corps with remarkable ease.
We have put scumbag cynical elites at the top of the power pyramid, and they’ve equipped themselves with armies of would-be kindergarten teachers to keep us in line.
The Karen Corps. I will be stealing that!
Has Glen realized yet that these ‘liberals’ are not his friends? If not, when?
About the same time the staff at TOS gets tossed into the camps with us while they screech “Oh Comrade, you are making a mistake!”
Greenwald is a decent guy but you have to be missing a few teeth off of your gears to be a leftist.
Minnesota sense.
The Minnesota Department of Health, in its “COVID-19 Sports Practice Guidance for Youth and Adults,” writes:
Gotta condition ’em compliance to arbitrary horseshit while they are young.
Part of me suspects that they are being deliberately arbitrary just to break our spirits and remind us who’s in charge.
“…deliberately arbitrary just to break our spirits…”
See also Ohio’s high school wrestling mandates. Not allowed to shake hands before or after a match. Much of wrestling is hand fighting, wrist grabbing.
https://www.wlwt.com/article/ohsaa-coronavirus-rules-students-can-wrestle-but-cant-shake-hands/34874133#
Perfect! We can ban wrestling and the toxic masculinity it has caused for 2500 years since the ancient Greeks cursed us with it.
Not allowed to shake hands
I had an endoscopy procedure done a couple weeks ago.
After the procedure, there was a brief discussion. Then the doctor held out his hand, and I shook it.
Fuck the new normal in the ass.
Yeah. ‘Part’ of me too.
I like the pictures. This looks like a good trip.
a Harvard University project plans to test out a controversial theory that global warming can be stopped by spraying particles into the atmosphere that would reflect the sun’s rays.
What kind of supervillain glitterbombs the planet?
A fabulous one, darling!
The other planets in our solar system watch on in horror:.
Venus: “Earth is playing with glitter!”
Mars; “Oh shit.’Now we’re ALL gonna get glitter on us!”
What does their “undo” plan look like?
Harvard doesn’t have an engineering program.
*jaw drop*
I don’t know why that’s so stunning to me, but it is.
There’s a tech school nearby for that.
“It’s not much of a college town, really.”
Dinky little college.
I think more of that tech school than I do Harvard.
Harvard Medical School also doesn’t have its own hospital.
At some point you realize the entire university is just a giant marketing program.
“Come get one of the world’s most expensive medical degrees! Oh, BTW, you’ll have to do your internship at another school’s hospital because we ain’t got one o’ them things.”
Why would an institution for training priests and intellectually enriching the idle wealthy need an engineering department?
Silly me.
Harvard has a School of Engineering and Applied Science.
Harvard doesn’t have time for that waste of time. They have to make sure that the slant eye devils cannot use their superior intelligence to acquire too much privilege, instead of pursuing more meaningful goals, like social justice and dealing with systemic racism. And by dealing with, I mean profit! You give us $54,000 a year and we make you more stupid. Joke on you!
Corpses?
Rip Taylor?
How dare they engage in such tests until 99% of all scientists agree that this is Science and not some crazy nutjobs trying to undermine the consensus?
It is amazingly arrogant of these elites to think that they can and should control the climate of a whole planet, the spread of a run-of-the-mill virus, economic equality, etc.
These same elites tell us how bad we are to the planet and how insignificant we are compared to Mother Gaia. So either we are insignificant or we’re totally running the show, one or the other.
We’re long overdue for a smiting.
Look, I’d just as soon not have any money going anywhere, even to me, But if the rest of the world and a couple of animal species can get millions of dollars, I want my fucking $2,000 check.
You’re fucking welcome.
Oh, no. It’s not happening. https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/29/politics/republican-senator-reject-2000-stimulus-increase/index.html
^This.
I can’t find it but i swear i heard a story about Rome and a Senator who was criticied for going and getting his parcel during a redistribution (maybe from the grain dole?). Anyway he retorted, “I Don’t like it, but i’ll be damned if i don’t try to get back some of what is mine”.
If we are going to give millions and billions to Antipodean BackWardsTopia then i’ll damn well demand my pound of flesh back.
Ayn? Is that you?
I write better protagonists.
And better sex scenes.
Aw, thanks! To be fair, that’s not hard.
Well…sometimes it is that’s why there are a ton of those types of books…
Indeed! 😉
Our heat wasn’t working for the past few days and I couldn’t see anything obvious so, we called our Guy (hat tip Mojeaux) and he came out, charged only the service fee call of $30 bucks and said, you all good and if it has a problem, Ill come back out and waive the service fee. I think a $40 tip was well deserved.
These are the guys who sold us a new condenser unit a couple years ago at cost and like $200 bucks labor in 115deg heat.
One of these days I’m gonna write a book of essays titled “I Have a Guy”.
Chicagoize it – “I’ve Gotta Guy…”
The one up man ship with “I gotta guy” gets annoying to me.
Oh you got taken.
My guy can fix it so it lasts 20 years, he does in two hours, and only charges $50.00.
Watching a talk show video that involves puppies. So the guest is 8 feet away from the host, but they’re kissing and snuggling the puppies and passing them back and forth. Everybody knows puppy coats don’t trap anything, nope.
Just like when you sit down to eat and the mask comes off, the WuFlu respects everyone’s boundaries.
I am crotchety today,
We all deserve to be crotchety from time to time, no one blames you 😉
Puppies radiate a love so pure and intense it eradicates all pathogens.
*hangs head* I had forgotten.
Even the pathogens attached to the “tootsie rolls” the puppy eats out of the cat litter box?
Alright folks. I am looking to finish up my degree. Looking for online schooling if possible, probably computer science or EE (which I know would be some in school things). Any leads?
Apparently not Harvard
(I got nuttin)
I have 26 mo left on my GI bill that I have squandered and should take full advantage.
Hah! That’s why I did an MBA program. Not because I particularly wanted one but, hey, it was free!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Extension_School
Harvard has a Computer Science department under its School of Engineering and Applied Science.
(was referring to if’s post above about engineering)
Talk to HM.
My knowledge is about twenty or so years out of date.
From 2000-2004 I worked on my MS in Computer Science through a distance learning program from a state school.
The flexibility was convenient, but the program had a bit more overlap with my BS. Overall, I’m not certain it was worth the time and money despite being significantly cheaper than being on campus.
The place I went for my MS no longer offers a MS in Computer Science through distance learning, but offers a graduate certificate for CMPSC.
I checked the place I went for my undergrad. They have Software Engineering and Information Sciences And Technology (IST) at the BS level for distance learning. Their CMPSC BS program is not available through distance learning. I’m not certain how the Software Engineering and IST programs differ from what I went through as they are new majors since I received my undergrad.
If all you want is a piece of paper, look for a diploma mill. Safe yourself the hassle.
If you plan to use the degree, make sure the place isn’t a diploma mill and has a solid program.
Unfortunately, since the world has changed a bit since I received my degrees, I won’t be of much use.
Thanks Deg. Not necessarily just a piece of paper. I don’t want to be a gov drone my whole life. YEARS ago, my dream was CIS and then pregnancy, marriage, military, remarriage, more kids got in the way.
YEARS ago, my dream was CIS and then pregnancy,
I didn’t know you could get pregnant. 😐
Never change Ted,
What, busses only hit women?
Totally irrelevant:
Health information management is a growing field.
Big Data. The Cloud. I totally don’t know that that means, but I have just qualified myself for a profitable new career in
bullshithealth information management! Can I can get you that covid outbreak spike in a nice report? Yes, I can! Fluff this data over here, pad that data over there… WINNING!Get a 2 year degree in CompSci with a focus on programming. Actually practice programming while you are doing this and find someone who already works as a developer who you can talk with, so that you can get through an interview. Profit!
Seriously, there are not enough programmers. One of my clients recently tried to hire a new developer with my skill set, and they could not do it. The candidates they found all wanted too much money.
Or you could go into IT security, that’s real hot right now. And prepared to be bored to death.
I wasn’t late. The links were late.