So yesterday was spent trying to chase down an awful smell in our new house. Current working theory is that a rat or mouse entered into the dryer vent and got cooked during my all day laundrathon. Today is take apart the dryer day. and i just remembered I’m on Links duty today… sigh.
Oh well, you didn’t come here to read of my woes; let’s look at links –
My spirit animal now gets to fly for flee because the squeaky wheel gets the grease.
This is, in my opinion, the best political theory website in existence – Unqualified Reservations.
Huge thank you to the lovely Mojeaux for turning me on to awesome furniture maker David Lundell. If I had $10k to drop on a coffee table, it would be on one of his.
Feeling rather melancholy today, so here is a good tearjerker about honor and sacrifice – Cobra Seven
Thank you Tonio.
Good luck with the dryer.
We’re all counting on you, l0b0t.
He’s more likely in the exhaust duct. Not cooked, but put down by the carbon monoxide. If he’s in there, you don’t have too big of a job. Just toss the old duct and put in a new one.
Mornin’!
“mouse entered into the dryer vent and got cooked during my all day laundrathon.”
Mmm, sounds tasty. May I suggest some fava beans and a fine Chianti?
I hope he has lots of bandages for the sheet metal cuts.
“A stinging nickname for Twitter owner Elon Musk trended this week on his own social media platform: “space Karen.””
Lame.
Although when Elon says “I want to talk to the manager”, it usually means the manager is about to get fired.
In the reboot of Office Space, the two Bobs will become the two Karens.
“What would you say you diversify here?”
** polite clapping **
Current working theory is that a rat or mouse entered into the dryer vent
I was visualizing a coroner’s crew in hazmat suits, jackhammering up the basement floor.
I’ve had two mice die in my crawlspace (or possibly duct work, although if so it was somewhere I couldn’t find). Ozium, Glade solid air fresheners, and time. Good luck to you.
HOLY MACKEREL! When I awoke at 6am it was 21 degrees outside. It is now down to 17. Florida and Louisiana, I miss y’all.
21 is perfect weather. you can wear a tshirt and not sweat
I don’t know about you, but where I come from, we use real temperature units. 21 degrees Rankine is “a bit nipply.”
We’re expecting to get up to the low 20’s today. It looks like the close bar with mediocr food and beer selection will be the girlfriend’s choice to watch the Browns game.
81 expected for the high. However, we have a small craft advisory for the channels because of high winds and large swell. (Surfers will be happy.)
Today’s race should be smaller sails than normal and very wet.
Blustery and windy here. Just barely above freezing.
GT: Plymouth Adventure is available on Amazon Prime.
Thanks! Unfortunately, I don’t do Prime. Looks as if I may have to settle for someone’s YouTube post of The Mouse on the Mayflower.
It’s on Vudu, if that’s an option.
Are these Thanksgiving movie suggestions?
It’s a movie that’s Thanksgiving-appropriate.
OK, I’m still looking for something I can watch with my mom.
Spencer Tracy isn’t good enough for your mom?
What?
Not Scent of a Woman?
Oh, I’m just gettin’ warmed up!
If I were the man I was five years ago, I’d take a FLAMETHROWER to this place!
But not a SNITCH!
” Five dead and 18 injured after gunman opened fire inside gay club in Colorado Springs: Shooter is in custody and being treated at a local hospital ‘after being subdued by patrons inside’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11449337/Five-dead-18-injured-gunman-opened-fire-inside-gay-club-Colorado-Springs.html
I wish they would say “murderer” rather that “gunman” or “shooter”.
“Club Q describes itself online as an ‘adult-oriented gay and lesbian nightclub hosting theme nights such as karaoke, drag shows & DJs.'”
And the lesbians have huge tits?
Well shit, that’s really bad. People are assholes.
As opposed to a children-oriented gay and lesbian nightclub?
They don’t want to compete with the school board.
[golf clap]
That’s because it’s the gun’s fault.
Meh. “Murder” is a legal conclusion, not a factual one
as such. I’d rather the press err on the side of facts
than conclusions. So I’m fine with “gunman”.
““Murder” is a legal conclusion, not a factual one”
It’s both.
The FBI is investigating.
There was a shooting death at a club last night on Caroline Street. The FBI is not investigating that one.
I think they have to when it’s one of their assets.
*golf clap*
Sounds like the crowd subdued the killer. Good on them. Waiting for the police to do it is what racks up the larger number of casualties. I’ve been saying they are training people wrong for these shooting events. Fight first (if physically capable) then flee and finally cower should be last on the list. Cowering is basically waiting your turn at the slaughter.
I’ve long said that the “run, hide, fight” formula is just fine. As long as you run towards the attacker, it is the formula for an ambush. I note that after I made this observation at work, our training changed to “run away”, not just “run”.
‘Run to safety’ is how some of my instructors phrased it. And yes, the quickest way to safety is to make the assailant dead. My hat is off to the patrons of Club Q; it sucks to be victimized, but y’alls response was exactly right.
How is “Space Karen” supposed to sting Elon Musk.
Karens ask to speak to the manager and try to get an employee disciplined or fired. Musk bought the whole store and fired the people providing the service he didn’t like himself.
Like so much of the left’s agitprop, they think they have said something stunning, brave, funny, and insightful. Instead they come across as whiny, petulant, and reaching for a joke but missing.
When you have to parse all of your insults to make sure that none of your protected groups could be offended, you are bound to fail.
BREAKING: Nikole Hannah-Jones Is An Asshole
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11448945/Nikole-Hannah-Jones-sets-Twitter-mob-Asian-woman-complained-violence-NYC-subways.html
She has no respect for other people of color?
Asian, so really white
Well cock-asian I could understand, but this was a woman.
If a woman doesn’t fall under the heel of the progressive stack, it is of no consequence.
Handgun and a minority, then?
(Meant for the shooting post, obviously)
“She criticized the governor’s executive order to ban Critical Race Theory from Virginia schools – despite also insisting that the subject wasn’t actually being taught at all.”
I noticed a similar trend in the DEI course yesterday.
“DEI has a legal definition for business owners, but we’re not talking about that. We’re talking about how DEI makes you a better businessperson.”
It’s doubletalk, and it’s annoying at best.
That and the “Imagine an airline pilot. Good, was he black. No? You’re definitely biased.”
Maybe he was Navajo, bitch.
The proper response is “why would you assume it was a man?”
I almost laughed at loud at the “Look at these photos and tell me what you see.”
*proceeds to display powerpoint of a variety of ethnic groups*
Turns out they’re all prominent public personae in one way or another, but the lone white guy in khakis was a serial killer.
I wasn’t kind in my review of the session.
Oh, and one of them was Fetterman.
“He’s a US Senator with arm tats!”
The room was remarkably quiet.
A serial killer and a brain-damaged crook? Quite the representative sample, there.
White guy in khakis? Sound like a glowie to me.
Perfect.
Why would you assume he is white?
I imagined the Saudis flying planes into the World Trade Center. Does that make me anti-racist?
I hope this wasn’t some in-person thing.
I would have a really hard time not mouthing back.
Industry conference put on by the association. Thankfully, it was the last session.
No, he was an airline pilot friend of mine, who happens to be white. Go fuck yourself in your mother’s ass, assuming that you know who she is.
There’s a parallel here with holocaust deniers. “The holocaust never happened! (But, I really wish that it had…)”
I guess we know who didn’t stay for the end of the overnight comments. :-p
inorite? 🤪
I almost never read the overnight, midday, Saturday and Sunday night comments.
You think free drugs will fall out of your ass? :-p
Nothing better than bluechecks (I know that means nothing now, which is great) nagging regular people trying to live their lives. Also! Does the fact that it happened 2 years ago make it okay?
I have found activated charcoal is a great way to deal with the smell of dead mouse
An activated charcoal air filter?
Nope, a 1lb container from amazon for fish filters.
Just set it out with the lid off, does a great job.
Activated charcoal is why Taryton smokers would rather fight than switch.
Governor lockdown will tell you when it’s safe
On Saturday afternoon, New York Governor Kathy Hochul touted the state’s storm preparedness and said crews have been working tirelessly to manage the situation.
“This is the effort we’ve brought together: bringing resources, people, equipment from all over the state of New York. And because we were so preemptive in this strike, we were able to avert many tragedies,” Hochul said.
She thanked western New Yorkers for shutting down major highways, implementing travel bans and staying home before the snow started to fall which helped prevent accidents, protect human life and ensure roads are safe and clear for emergency services.
As a precautionary measure to ensure public safety, any civilian found outside will be shot.
I bet Governor Lockdown knows how to post links.
Well, maybe one of her flunkies does.
This is beyond the power of the Edit Fairie to fix.
Well, the snow was many beer cans high.
This is true almost everywhere, though. When we hit level 3 emergencies you’re not allowed on the roadz.
If it’s in the dryer vent, just run the dryer empty for a few hours. Pretty soon the smell will go away *and* you’ll have rat jerky!
Rat-In-A-Box
Very nice
Unqualified Reservations. – wait are we back in 2008?
Governor Lockdown link, maybe.
It’s not a real Buffalo blizzard until you see footage of people on their roofs with snowblowers.
Caramelized Onions: from Basics to Extreme Gourmet with Matias Perdomo – Contraste*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0p5mSIsXbdk
::lights Mojeaux signal::
I looked for those in the (crummy, grafty, unionized) supermarket the other day. Maybe they’ll turn up at Grocery Outlet.
Recalls Old Man’s carmelized onion pizza. I’d be drooling if I hadn’t just finished a machaca burrito.
‘Straw & Oak’ Traditional cider pressing in Devon , UK.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODqYSuX5U-w
Mmm. Oi be trinkin’ zoider! 🍎 🍻
or should I say 🍏?
Speaking of movies-
I watched The Jokers last night. Very good. Worth it for the ’60s London time capsule, if nothing else. And Oliver Reed bombing around in a Mini Moke.
I watched The Long Good Friday the night before last. Bob Hoskins and Helen Mirren circa-1980 mobster flick. Not bad.
It was a homemade double bill with Call Northside 777 which is a bit of a snoozer (but you do get Jimmy Stewart righteous indignation scenes)
It’s too bad I didn’t make a stink all those times Spirit Airlines acted like, well, Spirit Airlines. I could have gotten free flights on SW for life.
I’ve tried getting into Curtis Yarvin’s writing because I’ve heard a couple of his interviews and he has unique viewpoints. But his writing is unnecessarily wordy and full of obscure metaphors and call outs like an episode of Family Guy. And I hate that show.
Replace Family Guy with Dennis Miller and see it gets better.
Listen, Spudly…
I miss him. Sorry he cancelled himself.
Yarvin is yet another pundit who suffers no consequences for being wrong.
That too 🙂
“Elon Musk REINSTATES Donald Trump’s Twitter account after holding poll on whether to bring him back: Ex-president’s account has lost 89 MILLION followers – but all his old tweets are still there
Also back was conservative author and psychologist Dr. Peterson, who was suspended from the platform after saying transgender star Elliot Page had his breasts removed by a ‘criminal physician.’
The Babylon Bee – which had its account restricted in march for naming U.S. assistant secretary for health Rachel Levine, a transgender woman, ‘Man of the Year’ – got full access to its account as well.
Along with Trump, the big names that remain booted from Twitter include Roger Stone, Alex Jones, Steve Bannon and US Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11448549/Elon-Musk-says-Trumps-Twitter-account-reinstated-15-million-voted-online-poll.html
Come on Elon, Alex wasn’t even banned for anything he said on Twitter.
My guess is Elon is afraid of getting hit with part of Alex Jones Eleventy!!11!!111111eleventy!111 trillion dollar judgement by hosting his super-duper-extreme-to-the-max-right-wing-and-a-thigh views. He’ll never be allowed back.
Good morning. Nice to “see” my friends here.
I gave it my best shot.
I’m tired.
I think I’m gonna have to go “dark” for a while.
What did I miss, splosives? I’m sorry that whatever is happening is causing you problems and you do what you need to do, but I would selfishly hate it if you weren’t around
Hubby hit her in what is reported as stroke-induced violence.
Oof, sorry, sounds like things may have gone poorly yesterday.
Take care of yourself, we’re here whenever you need us.
Sorry you’re going through a rough patch.
Sorry, at least you don’t have to work today.
As long as the pictures turn out OK.
Seriously, sorry to hear that it could have gone better.
Sorry, ‘splosives. I, too, hope we’ll see you around again soon.
Sorry HS.
We’ll miss you, H-splosives. Please don’t stay away too long.
We hear that ‘Time Heals All Wounds’ but sometimes it doesn’t or there isn’t enough time.
Sorry
Take care of yourself HE. I look forward to your eventual return.
Sorry to hear that, Hi-x
I don’t have any errant smells, but I had to disassemble my fully-wrapped-with-insulation water hose because it had been dripping at the outdoor faucet. Removed the pressure regulator and re-wrapped it.
I ran out of high speed data 3 days before my billing cycle turns over. That’s my best yet! If I ensure the quality on all my streaming is as low as possible, maybe I can make it the whole month. Luckily my phone has a modicum of high speed data so I can do my virtual training tomorrow without problems. Hopefully.
You need to get Space Karen’s dealy mabob.
Call in the legbreakers
Halted at the beginning of the pandemic, monthly loan bills are set to resume in January unless the pause is extended for a ninth time. But current and former students, including one who owes a staggering $118,000, said the looming payments are simply above their pay grades, especially in post-pandemic America.
Some 26 million people applied for the loan relief plan that critics claim could intensify inflation and 16 million had already been approved as of last week, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters.
Activists say the viability of the proposed debt relief remains unclear: The Department of Education stopped accepting relief applications and the program faces a possible Supreme Court showdown. Debt activists say up to 75% of borrowers won’t resume paying when those invoices arrive.
“These loans have become weaponized, they’re viciously predatory and hyperinflationary,” Alan Collinge, founder of nonprofit group Student Loan Justice, told The Post. “So, they’ve become these licenses to steal [from borrowers].”
I think you have misidentified the predators. Borrowing money and pissing it away on useless frivolous things is not the fault of the loan shark.
I am not clear on how paying debts is hyper-inflationary. Since the money goes to the government since it took over student loans, if anything it would have deflationary effect, no?
Pretty sure it goes to the banks.
Enjoy
OK, thanks
Disgusting.
Get a fucking job and pay your debts, assholes.
Effing Griggs.
So the government is predatory and vicious?
No shit.
That’s a neat table but I’m not seeing anything particularly difficult woodworking wise, If he’s getting 10 large for those I’m in the wrong business. Unless he’s including all the guns and toys and stuff inside.
Yeah… Hey, he’s including a handmade knife with every purchase. But honestly, a $10k table is just as attainable for me as a rocket car and a solid gold house.
Custom tables for gamers has been a market for a while.
https://wyrmwoodgaming.com/prophecy-gaming-table/
Is one. There was a big deal (in the board game community) pre 2020 when one company went bankrupt, stranding a bunch of completed tables.
It might not seem like that mich to YOU, but he’s the one building the things. Did you get to the part where he makes almost all his own hardware (i.e., not the slides and hinges, but the mechanisms)?
Maybe you are in the wrong business. Build a philosopher’s table! (Which is what got this whole thing started.)
I caught the ‘build my own hardware’ but take away the slides and hinges and latches and hold open things, I’m not to sure what he’s talking about, he mentioned the locking plate (and I assume he didn’t build the actual locking mechanism just the custom faceplate) but other than that maybe a couple spring loaded dowels that need to be pushed up to open a drawer? I get it he designed and built it and it’s cool and if he can get 10 large for one more power to him, I only skimmed the video although I’ve watched a few other from him, maybe there’s more to it but for ten grands I’d expect exotic hardwoods hand carving, intricate joinery, something more than neatly stacked/nestled/hidden drawers and a few custom etched metal plates. De gustibus, YMMV, and whatnot.
No, he machines the locking mechanisms. That comment was in a different video, though.
Well, shoot, now that I’m thinking about it, maybe my remembery is playing tricks on me. Not sure now.
That’s only 100 hours at $100/hour. What’s a good guess on time to make this? There’s a lot going on here. Wouldn’t surprise me if it took well over 100 hours to make.
40 hours tops.
Snark aside, I guess I look at it differently, I’d estmate he has maybe 2-3 grand in materials and expenses, and I could build that in a month easy, 7 grand/month is damn good money for playing in my shop. Like I said I’m in the wrong business, I’ve built a few custom pieces over the years but my promoting sucks and I could never break into that high end niche market.
Or maybe I’m just not that good a woodworker, either way it’s bathroom remodels and flooring installs for me.
We all know why Lobot wants that coffee table.
It’s funny because it’s true.
I was thinking of this.
We’re talking about how DEI makes you a better businessperson.
Did she then assert without evidence that “diverse” teams make better, more creative and more profitable business decisions?
It was a slick little substitution of paying attention to shifting market conditions for DIVERSITY.
It would have been just as easy to say “Hey, Mexicans have big quinceañera parties and you should try to target that market for event rentals. Or Indians have long weddings with specific requirements that may need you to carry different inventory. Why not go talk to those groups and see if you can drum up business.”
Instead it was “Hey, hire an Indian or Mexican so they can tell you all about their family and culture so you know what to do.” Fine, but if I don’t need to hire anyone or if the Italian dude already on staff is more than capable of selling to those groups, then why?
I’m more inclined to hire Spanish-speakers, white or not, so I can communicate with the average construction crew these days.
I am not clear on how paying debts is hyper-inflationary. Since the money goes to the government since it took over student loans, if anything it would have deflationary effect, no?
I balked at that, too.
Maybe if we’re feeling uber-generous, we can pretend he’s referring to the inflationary effect all that easy money has on college costs.
What’s inflation? Sounds like a made-up word by Republicans.
I’m more inclined to hire Spanish-speakers, white or not, so I can communicate with the average construction crew these days.
That reminds me of an experience I had in Indianapolis. I stopped at a random liquor store to buy some beer, and the guy behind the counter (who was white) was going back and forth seamlessly from Spanish to English as the checkout line progressed. It was really impressive. Maybe he was from Texas.
Anybody watch 1899?
I am a big fan of weird, WTF-is-going-on-shows. Of course, the issue with these shows is that either the writers HAVE a story they want to tell and the entire show is great (WestWorld s1, NGE, Twin Peaks, The Prisoner, The Expanse… the minority, alas) or they don’t and are just pretending and the pretense reveals itself in the shit ending (BSG, NuWho, etc.)
I don’t know which one 1899 is going to turn out to be. I’m just three episodes in. So far, structurally it seems like the writers know what they’re doing, and they do drop clues for the viewer (like the “geisha” speaking Chinese), but there are a few red flags. A cheap and lazy way to fake there being a big underlying mystery is to keep repeating a symbol to make the audience think it must mean something (NuWho did this CONSTANTLY with Bad Wolf, the Silence symbol, etc.) In 1899’s case it’s the Earth symbol that gets thrown around constantly on this ship. It’s on the cabin number plates and in the freaking CARPET for God’s sakes. One of the characters wears Earth symbol earrings. Which, while Earth being an odd symbol to have on a steamship, would be fine, except that a) the Main character seeing it as a tatoo comments that it’s the same symbol as in her mysterious letter, as opposed to on her cabin door and the carpet and all the other signage aboard ship. And then in the next episode, the Captain explicitly states that the symbol found on a clearly marked secret door is “the symbol of the shipping company.” So either we’re back in lazytown, or possibly we’re supposed to decide that Dr. Clueless from earlier has mental issues.
“I am asking for everyone at the U.S. Capitol to remain peaceful. No violence! Remember, WE are the Party of Law & Order – respect the Law and our great men and women in Blue. Thank you!”
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1346912780700577792
“Please support our Capitol Police and Law Enforcement. They are truly on the side of our Country. Stay peaceful!”
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1346904110969315332
much incitement, such insurrection
Dude that’s CODE!
“Remain peaceful” = “Kill Pence”
“No Violence” = “Eliminate Capitol Police”
“Please” = “Start insurrectioning”
Did you not watch the Bipartisan J6 hearings?
Dude that’s CODE!
Exactly, the left had been praising all of those mostly peaceful protests for months. They know what they meant by that.
Odd things to say to people simply taking an unguided tour and selfies.
He was talking to the imbedded FBI agents and informants.
Don’t blame me, I voted for Ray Epps!
NOT MY PRESIDENT!
For the past six years, I’ve been grappling with the same unsettling mix of feelings: horror at Donald Trump’s presidency, incredulousness at what happened at the capital, relief when the most damning evidence of Trumpian misdeeds came to light and a near-religious hope that the GOP might return to something resembling sanity. My nervous optimism persisted through the run-up to the midterms, with its loud predictions of an apocalypse, and after the election, had a brief moment of actual confidence. But this week, as I watched Trump announce his candidacy for 2024, that optimism was eclipsed by a more persistent, nagging realization: Trump was never president.
I don’t mean literally. He did serve a term, though he violated so many oaths and protocols of the office — and of simple decency — that many Americans (including me) took to saying that he was not president, as a kind of protest.
But I’ve come to believe that protest was too narrowly focused. This started to dawn on me during the Jan. 6 hearings as witness after witness described a viciously anti-democratic atmosphere in the White House that emanated from Trump but was bigger than him. They spoke about the intolerance and intransigence that had taken hold not just in the capital, but in towns and cities far beyond D.C. that were feeding the atmosphere and also feeding on it — all part of an ecosystem that was flourishing in some form all over the country.
Then it hit me: Trump was, and continues to be, the chief executive not of a nation, or of the Republican Party, or even of a cult, but of a culture — namely a culture of white supremacy.
This is actually worse than it sounds. Even very “woke” Americans tend to see white supremacy as an isolated dynamic synonymous with racism, the “bad” America. But what many people don’t realize is that white supremacy is a culture that is much broader and deeper than that. It is about racialized power, an assumed authority of white people (chiefly men) to set and enforce the social and moral order as they see fit, often in the service of values that on their face sound noble, like tradition or family.
Jesus. More juvenile whining from some salvationist dimwit in the President-as-Mythical-Figure cult.
He’s just some jackass who was hired to do a job no sane person would want, but you have to put him on a pedestal and give him magical powers.
They really want the “white supremacy” moniker to stick.
I guess racism wasn’t good enough anymore.
That person needs to seek help. Some meds might counter the delusions.
A contributer to NYT editorials. No, I don’t think there is any medical answer to that.
“Accidentally” not locking down the stretcher and leaving the ambulance doors open is sort of medical.
I’m never certain the extent to which they believe themselves. The Communist Party was (and is) notorious for inserting ideas into the zeitgeist that are intended to create maximum disruption as they think they will benefit from the chaos.
Destroying the current system is just as or even more important than preparing for the next one.
Decency like LBJ holding meetings in the bathroom while he was defecating, so as to intimidate whomever he was speaking to? Or maybe decency like the Kennedy brothers spit-roasting Marilyn Monroe in the White House pool?
+1 dog-faced pony soldier
Whether or not JFK did MM, no way Bobby the Prude was taking part in those types of actions.
Anybody watch 1899?
Don’t know what that is, or where it’s on. I watched the first two episodes of The English on Prime a couple of nights ago. I see a probable woke-message kabuki on the horizon, but I’ll watch a few more.
It’s a Netflix show set on a transatlantic steamship in 1899. The A plot concerns a vanished sister ship, and each episode’s B plot is about how a particular character became fucked up. Usually by killing someone.
In this culture, the presidency, electoral politics, the Constitution, rule of law, democratic ideals, liberalism, decency — all are incidental. They can never matter as much as white peoples’ ultimate right to power.
The gravitational pull of white supremacy in America is not new. It is part of who we’ve always been. What is new is that in 2022, under the increasingly thin guise of conservatism — and greatly aided by the internet, social media and big media like Fox News — the culture of white supremacy has gone fully, almost gleefully mainstream. Republican policy agendas have been replaced with relentless attacks on critical race theory and the whole notion of social justice; voter suppression is orchestrated out in the open; Jan. 6, an attempt by a largely white minority to subvert democracy, has been met with less than universal condemnation from GOP leadership.
Like a Category 5 hurricane, this culture of white supremacy has gained strength by converging with other offshoot culture wars from the last 40 years, from the anti-abortion operation to science denial to the total gun rights movement. Some of the people who are involved with these movements may not think they are serving white supremacy. But by advocating for policies that disadvantage and endanger people like me, that is precisely what they are doing.
Replace “white supremacy” with “western culture” and it begins to make more sense. Except for the part about how the “rise” in “white supremacy” is anything but a reaction to an overt war on western civilization by the academics.
Never say always. Never say never. But western culture has been for the most part fundamentally inclusive and welcoming for those it has conquered and subsumed.
It’s the new, improved Angela Davis.
-1 Mohandas Gandhi
Say what you will of the British, they treated Gandhi with a good deal of forbearance.
“It is difficult to see how Gandhi’s methods could be applied in a country where opponents of the regime disappear in the middle of the night and are never heard of again. Without a free press and the right of assembly, it is impossible not merely to appeal to outside opinion, but to bring a mass movement into being, or even to make your intentions known to your adversary. Is there a Gandhi in Russia at this moment? And if there is, what is he accomplishing? ”
…George Orwell, “Reflections on Gandhi”.
https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/reflections-on-gandhi/
Yeah, it begins to make “sense” because they label anything that tends to bring success in life as “white”. It’s all bafflegab flapdoodle aimed at amassing power for themselves without, you know, having to do anything successful.
Are they offering this as proof that Obama was a useless chucklehead? ‘Cause that is what it sounds like.
Mornin’
Countless users soon began employing the “space Karen” taunt in their own tweets. Other insults projected onto the building, meanwhile, included “bankruptcy baby,” “petulant pimple” and “mediocre manchild.”
Their impotent rage is amusing.
The temper tantrums of two-year-olds may be amusing for a very short while, but then you want to give them something to really cry about.
If only we could elect a President willing to take us back to the cloud cuckoo land of peace, sharing and harmony which existed prior to the advent of White Man Tricknology and oppression!
Time Wounds All Heels
Now I’m feeling melancholy.
Saw my home away from home on the map.
Thanks, lobot
Not Space Karen.
Space MOSQUITO
That British table looks cool.
Not my style. I’m more simple shaker/midcentury modern.
Arts and Crafts or Mission style for me.
Enough about your sexual proclivities. What styles of furniture do you like?
Another Sunday morning listening to the pastor decry “racism.” Without, of course, explaining why racism is bad. I’d love to get someone like her in a Socratic discussion to find out exactly why racism is wrong in her eyes. Because she subscribes to all manner of collectivism when applied to non-racial issues.
Racism is so obviously bad, YHVH didn’t think it was necessary to tell Moses to write down a commandment about it.
Ask her if it’s righteous for a person and their out-of-wedlock sexual partner to hector and insult their parents if those parents are racists.
http://theundergroundchurch.net/blog/2018/06/17/communist-infiltration-of-protestant-churches/
Looks like this will be the first day it stays below freezing all day. I should probably take a scarf to the range.
Make sure it’s a tactical scarf.
Harry Potter scarf. Think ‘grey man!’
Slutty Sunday is back… and front.
https://archive.ph/E3NeK
Mostly front.
https://twitter.com/CallMeK1123/status/1592666615002583040
At least she’s hot I guess?
Crazy violation
I wonder what the line will be, if there is one any more, where the reaction takes over and people like that end up on the wrong side of a violent response.
“I was watching porn at, like, eight years old.”
And she grew into such a well-balanced young woman.
She had great parents.
Eh. Looks dirty, if you know what I mean.
Another Sunday morning listening to the pastor decry “racism.” Without, of course, explaining why racism is bad.
I’d appreciate it if they’d make an honest effort to explain what it even is. Just as, in that long excrescence about “White Supremacism” I linked above, the guy makes no effort to, you know, define it. It exists, and it’s bad. That’s all we need to know.
I’ve been listening to John Ziegler lately. He’s been debunking media stories for a long time.
His operating thesis is that once a narrative is set, there’s no turning back for the media. Their jobs are to be consolers and therapists for their audiences, who don’t tolerate betrayal of their preconceptions well. In other words, it’s follow the herd and too bad if anyone gets fucked over in the process.
I’m guessing that explaining things might lead to the unraveling of cognitive dissonance. “Check your premises” isn’t just a Randian catch phrase that can easily be dismissed.
I think that idea is the essential premise of TDS. That one person could so successfully blow a hole in liberal pieties, so quickly, would be devastating to people who have built incredibly thick bubbles.
So, my furnace went out sometime last night. Looks like the transformer blew – the input is showing 240VAC, exactly what it should be, while the output is showing 0V. Hmmm, that doesn’t look right.
New transformer should be here sometime next week. Hopefully I don’t freeze before then.
Pick up a kerosene heater? Radiant propane heaters are inexpensive but I’ve never used one.
I might do that while I’m out and about today.
Fortunately my townhouse leveled off around 60°F – that’s okay for me. Just means I have to wear clothes around the house…
“WATCH: Alex Jones takes the high road, responds to Elon Musk over Twitter account
“I understand why Musk did this. He’s got the ADL and the Democratic Party on him. He’s got the EU on him, trying to shut him down right now. So don’t put all your eggs in the Elon Musk basket, but support him trying to free up Twitter,” Jones told his viewers.
Radio show host Alex Jones on Friday urged his followers to “not blame Elon Musk” for not reinstating his Twitter account, telling his audience to instead support him on censorship-free sites and wait to see if the new Twitter owner can actually secure free speech on the platform.
The message was posted to Banned.video, where Jones and other affiliates of his Infowars brand host their shows, soon after Musk made the announcement that Jones wouldn’t be coming back to Twitter.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/watch-alex-jones-responds-to-elon-musks-refusal-to-restore-his-twitter-account
Imagine the uncontrolled salivating of the trial lawyers involved in the eleventy bazillion dollar Sandy Hook lawsuit if Musk let Jones back on Twitter.
You’d have to put up flood control sandbags.
My everyday carry knife is the Spyderco Manbug. For bigger jobs the Delica 4.
For grins I have a Kershaw Random Task II with “speedsafe”. I just got finished disassembly, cleaning and lube.
I’ll take the lighter simpler Spydercos all day long. And just as easy to open one handed if not more so.
I love flat-ground Spydercos. My Para3 is on my person whenever I’m wearing pants, and often when I’m not…
Me too.
I daily carry my Leatherman which is constantly called into use. I got a portable SHARPAL sharpener which has really helped with blade damage and nicks. What do you use to stay sharp?
Meth