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February 19, 2022

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35 comments:

Lem the artificially intelligent said...: President Biden is so desperate for a war in Ukraine, he is sending VP Kamala Harris to make sure it happens 😉; 2/19/22, 6:05 PM
farmgirl said...: Call yourself howling winds home, please.

Other than that- baking chocolate chip cookies.; 2/19/22, 6:31 PM
Heartless Aztec said...: Forget the Olympics. Here's the women's finals at the Banzai Pipeline on the North Shore of Oahu.
The surf is big and unruly. These women charged dangerous surf.

https://youtu.be/Y4fjxmGIZws; 2/19/22, 6:35 PM
Humperdink said...: Brian Flores, former coach of the Miami Dolphins who is suing the NFL for all things race, has been hired by the Pittsburgh Steelers as a senior defensive assistant. Hopefully this will lead to the canning Mediocre Mike Tomlin. It's the only avenue for Tomlin to be fired.; 2/19/22, 7:13 PM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: A mashup of The Weeknd and Michael Jackson. Link to video; 2/19/22, 7:29 PM
Andrew said...: There's a remarkable trilogy of articles in City Journal by Heather MacDonald, regarding great art museums now going woke. They're troubling, but also quite humorous, if you can laugh at nonsensical woke BS. Here are the articles, starting with the most recent. Highly recommended:

1) https://www.city-journal.org/european-museum-curators-turn-to-racial-score-settling

2) https://www.city-journal.org/metropolitan-museum-of-art-has-redefined-itself-as-an-antiracist-agent-of-change

3) https://www.city-journal.org/art-institute-of-chicago-redefines-its-purpose-as-antiracism

Personally, I keep hoping that this is a phase. But the longer it goes on, and the more institutions that are taken over, the more concerned I am that we truly are entering a new "dark ages." The barbarians have already conquered the city. There's really not much clarity about what happens next. The upcoming generations are even more permeated with wokeness, anti-Americanism, and warmed-over communism than the prior ones that are now taking over. I can't pretend that we (traditionalists, nationalists, red-pilled realists, etc.) are the silent majority anymore.; 2/19/22, 7:39 PM
Big Mike said...: I see another colleague of Epstein’s has been suicided. Interestingly enough, just as with Epstein, the surveillance cameras were offline. What a coincidence! Amazing.

Do we wait for a third dead body to presume enemy action?; 2/19/22, 7:55 PM
Original Mike said...: href=https://dailycaller.com/2022/02/19/jean-luc-brunelwho-found-dead-prison/>Former modeling agency boss Jean-Luc Brunelwho, who was suspected of supplying underage girls to Jeffrey Epstein, was found hanging in a prison cell Saturday.

They can just do whatever they want with impunity; can't they?; 2/19/22, 8:12 PM
MadTownGuy said...: Listening to the police scanner (online) from Ottawa tonight. No major incidents, some typical emergency calls interspersed with the status reports from the checkpoints. Some protesters are leaving in buses though it's not clear if they're doing so voluntarily.

You can hear the feed if you have the Scanner Radio app on your phone or the one from the Microsoft Store.; 2/19/22, 8:19 PM
Wa St Blogger said...: I used to watch spy thrillers like Bourne and MI, because I liked the escapism. The secret people who could reach secretly into a high security prison and off some high value target with no trace was fantastical. I guess with the latest Epstein prison suicide I guess I have to think of those movies as reality TV. I really thought those things could not really happen. I now see our government, not as incompetents, but as enemies of the common man.; 2/19/22, 8:28 PM
Howard said...: Blowing a Gale in Center Mass too. I made cookie bars last night for my hiking group. Spice cake without the liquid, butter instead of oil, extra pumpkin spice, vanilla, with raisins and crystalized ginger.

The ladies love the ginger spice; 2/19/22, 8:37 PM
Sebastian said...: Shoutout to Greg the Class Traitor re comment on another thread:

"Non violently, with only a few deaths, the US Air Force established "we're ever so much better than you", while the US Government established "we're not going to roll over and let you win"."

Fair enough. Perhaps the message did prevent bigger hassles down the line. I still think saving West Berlin was a good idea, and probably necessary to "keep Germany down," but I'm not as sure as I used to be.; 2/19/22, 8:53 PM
tim in vermont said...: "I used to watch spy thrillers like Bourne and MI, because I liked the escapism."

The craziest things about those movies was the premise that the bad guys would actually worry about it if the evidence of their wrongdoing went to their superiors.; 2/19/22, 9:28 PM
J. Farmer said...: @Andrew:

The upcoming generations are even more permeated with wokeness, anti-Americanism, and warmed-over communism than the prior ones that are now taking over. I can't pretend that we (traditionalists, nationalists, red-pilled realists, etc.) are the silent majority anymore.

One of the reasons Republicans have been so inept at fighting the culture war is their inability to understand the world except in partisan, ideological terms.

It is true that power is concentrated in the hands of a small, elite establishment, but this elite is not unified ideologically but socioeconomically (e.g. by wealth, income, education, occupation, social status, etc.). This elite are the primary winners from globalization and have been reaping the benefits for 40 years, regardless of which party controlled the White House or Congress. After Trump, the candidacy most despised by the elite was Bernie Sanders, whose supporters were attacked as toxic male Bernie bros.

Meanwhile, incessant partisan bickering keeps the population divided and unable to organize effectively against elite interests. This is why elitism is sometimes described as the rule of an unorganized majority by an organized minority. Republicans can't fight the culture war without fighting the class war.; 2/19/22, 9:56 PM
tcrosse said...: The Trudeau regime is going to great efforts to keep the vaccine mandates. Cui bono?; 2/19/22, 10:16 PM
Bender said...: Listening to the police scanner (online) from Ottawa tonight. No major incidents, some typical emergency calls interspersed with the status reports from the checkpoints.

Meanwhile, now that the guys sitting in their trucks in Ottawa have been cleared out by the headbreakers, out in British Columbia, leftists have attacked a major natural gas line construction site.; 2/19/22, 10:25 PM
narciso said...: Commies dont give up in 53 they crushed the june 17th protests similar things in 56 in poland and hungary they crushed the they built the wall; 2/19/22, 10:30 PM
Josephbleau said...: I recall from history now that in 1665 Caimbridge University was closed for 18 months for the pan England bubonic plague. We have them beat now.; 2/19/22, 11:54 PM
effinayright said...: When Bill Buckley famously said: "I would rather be governed by the first 2,000 people in the telephone directory than by the Harvard University faculty,"

My first thought was, "WTF? You think we should be ruled by Alcoholics Anonymous and Triple-A"??; 2/19/22, 11:58 PM
effinayright said...: Big Mike said...
I see another colleague of Epstein’s has been suicided. Interestingly enough, just as with Epstein, the surveillance cameras were offline. What a coincidence! Amazing.
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Funny how surveillance cameras never, never, never fail when really evil perps like the subhuman who just murdered a Uber driver mom are put into a cell.....

Myself, I think it should be mandatory that shoelaces, belts, ropes and easily-knotted bedsheets be standard equipment in cells housing such lowlifes. Along with cyanide capsules and Drano.

With a big plaque on the wall reading, "My Body, My Choice".; 2/20/22, 12:07 AM
effinayright said...: Howard said...
Blowing a Gale in Center Mass too. I made cookie bars last night for my hiking group. Spice cake without the liquid, butter instead of oil, extra pumpkin spice, vanilla, with raisins and crystalized ginger.

The ladies love the ginger spice
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Don't come here making nice, Howard----after shitting on us all day.; 2/20/22, 12:09 AM
madAsHell said...: Has anyone ever managed to “press 9 now”, and extend their car warranty?; 2/20/22, 12:09 AM
walter said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 2/20/22, 12:10 AM
rehajm said...: For a certain kind of progressive, giving up masking feels like giving in. It doesn’t feel to them like the epidemic has been beaten — it feels to them like they have been beaten, and their cultural enemies (Joe Rogan)…have won.; 2/20/22, 12:58 AM
J. Farmer said...: @Wa St Blogger:

I used to watch spy thrillers like Bourne and MI, because I liked the escapism. The secret people who could reach secretly into a high security prison and off some high value target with no trace was fantastical. I guess with the latest Epstein prison suicide I guess I have to think of those movies as reality TV. I really thought those things could not really happen.

You don't really need a super spy to have someone in prison killed. Prisons are fantastically corrupt institutions in which order is maintained primarily through a tacit alliance between correctional officers and prison gang leadership. USP Atlanta was temporarily shutdown and emptied of its inmates last year when the level of its corruption started approaching Monty Python territory (e.g. not only were prisoners coming and going through a hole in the fence, they established an ad hoc shuttle service). One of the corrections lieutenants estimated that around a quarter of the staff was "dirty."; 2/20/22, 1:05 AM
walter said...: I made cookie bars last night for my hiking group. Spice cake without the liquid, butter instead of oil, extra pumpkin spice, vanilla, with raisins and crystalized ginger. The ladies love the ginger spice.
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Getting an image of a bowl hair cut Ginger Howie.; 2/20/22, 1:12 AM
walter said...: I bow out for a few days and Ottawa goes to hell.
Was Gadfly running nekked there with syringes hanging off him?; 2/20/22, 1:15 AM
walter said...: Howie should send some buttery spice cakes to the civil rights protesterss in Trudeaustan.; 2/20/22, 1:44 AM
J. Farmer said...: @narciso:

Commies dont give up in 53 they crushed the june 17th protests similar things in 56 in poland and hungary they crushed the they built the wall

Forty years of trade liberalization, deregulation of capital markets, liberalization of inward foreign direct investment, financialization, privatization, outsourcing, mass immigration, diminished labor union power, and unprecedented concentrations of wealth among a tiny class of ultra-rich.

The problem? Commies.; 2/20/22, 3:11 AM
wendybar said...: Shut up Grislaine...YOU'RE NEXT!!!; 2/20/22, 4:57 AM
Lurker21 said...: Saw Dune. Didn't much like it. Getting tired of anything Star Warsy. Not a fan of Timothee Chalamet. I wasn't much of a fan of Kyle MacLachlan either when the earlier film came out, but now he seems to own the role. Same thing with Francesa Annis versus Rebecca Ferguson as the mother.

I also saw Jill Clayburgh and Jeffrey Tambour in a 90s film, Never Again, which sounds like a Holocaust film but is actually a rom com about divorced fifty-somethings. It's a movie your mom might like and feel a little naughty about liking, given all the sexual references. Overwhelming impression, as with First Monday in October was how much the world -- or at least the world we see in films -- has changed in 30 or 40 years. People don't say the same things in films that they used to.; 2/20/22, 7:06 AM
mezzrow said...: This dropped yesterday. If this is being sung in the streets of Ottawa next week, that's the earth you feel moving under your feet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1po9pNs8RU&ab_channel=JordanBPeterson; 2/20/22, 7:43 AM
Andrew said...: @J Farmer,
Thanks for the response. I agree with you, to some extent, although I don't know what a successful and unified class-based reaction to the elite would look like. The Democrats and Republicans are on two different planets.

I was surprised, in 2016, at how many Trump voters here in Ohio said that they would have voted for Bernie if he had been the Dem nominee. There is certainly some overlap. But I certainly don't see socialism as being the answer. Quite the contrary.; 2/20/22, 8:55 AM
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TML said...: Ann, my BIG question is, since I discovered Spelling Bee from you (Unbroken genius streak so far!), are you playing Wordle, too?; 2/20/22, 10:45 AM