24 జులై, 2026

The lakeside breath of freedom.

And here we were talking about that 4:23 a.m. post about Kierkegaard and anxiety:

వీరిచే పోస్ట్ చేయబడింది Ann Althouse వద్ద 7:56 AM
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Kai Akker చెప్పారు...

Isn't it a fear not of freedom, but of THE freedom to choose death? Isn't that the devil, or the imp of the perverse, who always lurks within us -- that power to obliterate the self and the devilish little lure of ignoring the consequences and just doing it? What would it feel like to fall freely to one's death? To choose it, not to be hounded into it by suicidal despair. We could find out.

24-07-26 8:16 AM
Kai Akker చెప్పారు...

I know there is a post specifically about this below.

24-07-26 8:18 AM
Lem Vibe Bandit చెప్పారు...

Plato’s cave, My dinner with Andre and The Truman Show have very similar if not an identical message.

24-07-26 8:28 AM
tim maguire చెప్పారు...

I don't have a particular fear of heights, but it's hard to stop the thoughts about how easy it would be. Just a step or two, that's it. Nothing to stop me if I decided to. And, somehow, that realization transforms into a feeling that it is plausible, likely even. Because it would be so easy, it might actually happen.

24-07-26 8:32 AM
Jersey Fled చెప్పారు...

Fun fact of the day.

8% of Los Angeles population lives on the street or in their car.

24-07-26 8:34 AM
Quaestor చెప్పారు...

A beautifully calm lake, very inviting for your leap of faith.

24-07-26 9:00 AM
Kai Akker చెప్పారు...

--- Because it would be so easy, it might actually happen.

The death wish. Who postulated this? Not Freud, was it?

24-07-26 9:02 AM
Quaestor చెప్పారు...

"8% of Los Angeles population lives on the street or in their car."

Don't fear the reaper or the indefinite masculine singular third person.

In 30 years, everyone will think Americans were cowed into talking and writing grammatical nonsense.

24-07-26 9:05 AM
Quaestor చెప్పారు...

Ja, ich bin ein Grammatik-Nazi. Heil Lindley Murray!

24-07-26 9:12 AM
Aggie చెప్పారు...

'....What would it feel like to fall freely to one's death? To choose it, not to be hounded into it by suicidal despair. We could find out....'

Wasn't there a study some years ago, of suicidal people that had chosen to jump to their death, but had survived? The study found that a large number of them (most of them, IIRC), had an immediate feeling of deep regret as soon as they had acted on the choice to jump, wishing they hadn't done it, wanting to take it back.

24-07-26 9:13 AM
Quaestor చెప్పారు...

8% of Los Angeles population lives on the street or in their cars.

There. Fixed both politely and factually. Those 8 percent don't share a single automobile, unless it's a car the size of Van Nuys. No one is offended, except Inga.

24-07-26 9:17 AM
tim maguire చెప్పారు...

"They" as a non-gender-specific third person singular is proper English with long provenance. Except for a brief period in the 20th century when it was frowned upon, it has always been accepted. And even during that dark time, it was in common use in some constructions, such as "everyone loves their mother."

24-07-26 9:27 AM
bagoh20 చెప్పారు...

Many have followed the woman into her dark lair, none have returned to sanity. The souls are stacked like cord wood, and for the same purpose. Winter is coming.

24-07-26 9:35 AM
n.n చెప్పారు...

Sowing seashells by the lakeshore.

24-07-26 10:17 AM
forest చెప్పారు...

Love the videos and stills. Hope they keep coming.

24-07-26 10:41 AM
Jersey Fled చెప్పారు...

6600 illegals on the voting rolls in NJ and now 3000 in Alaska.

The beat goes on.

24-07-26 11:27 AM
loudogblog చెప్పారు...

The staying power of names is interesting. At the theme park, we had two employee cafeterias. One was called, Lakeside because, when it was built, the Corkscrew ride next to it had a lake. They removed that ride and the lake over thirty years ago, but everyone still calls the facility, Lakeside. (Even though the company shut the kitchen and downgraded it to a nameless break room with vending machines.) Also, the other cafe was called, Crew's Nest. At about the same time as the Corkscrew went away, the company tried to officially change the name of Crew's Nest to,: The Four Cornerstones Cafe. (Because of corporate slogan reasons) They put up big signs all over the cafeteria that said, "The Four Cornerstones Cafe" and management always calls it that, but all the hourly employees still call it, Crew's Nest. I think that the reason why the names won't go away is that people have good memories of those places.

24-07-26 11:30 AM
boatbuilder చెప్పారు...

See today's Coffee & Covid for what you won't see in the NYT or Washington Post--a primer on Senator Ron Paul's committee's disclosure of incriminating documents establishing that Fauci and his minions were well aware of the very strong evidence to support the lab leak theory in 2020, while simultaneously telling the world that it was impossible. Included is documentation that Ralph Baric and Peter Dascak had specifically proposed "to insert furin cleavage sites into SARS-like bat coronaviruses"--in 2018. In Wuhan. Project Defuse. Also emails documenting the strategy of covering it up.
Fauci is supposed to appear before Paul's committee at a public hearing next week.
In a just world the corporate press would be all over this. They won't. Another reason you should not trust anything you read or hear from the corporate press.
I would link but I can't figure out how. Maybe narciso can help me out.

24-07-26 1:11 PM
boatbuilder చెప్పారు...

3000 illegal voters in Alaska?

Let me guess--Murkowski supporters?

24-07-26 1:58 PM
Kai Akker చెప్పారు...

There is room for both Pauls in the Senate!

We need some serious review before the last chances of justice disappear into the mists. How much did Fauci et cie receive as royalties from the total affair? But the money is only tertiary to the illegal machinations on using Wuhan, the project itself, and the endless deceit to all America. People still believe this guy had someone's best interests at heart. Only his.

24-07-26 1:59 PM
Kai Akker చెప్పారు...

---- The study found that a large number of them (most of them, IIRC), had an immediate feeling of deep regret as soon as they had acted

Yes, Aggie, I remember this one too. Those were depressed cases who thought they wanted suicide.

I think Poe had the phenomenon exactly right, well before psychology and psychiatry started wading in, when he wrote The Imp of the Perverse in 1840s,

"We stand upon the brink of a precipice. We peer into the abyss -- we grow sick and dizzy. Our first impulse is to shrink from the danger. Unaccountably we remain. By slow degrees our sickness and dizziness and horror become merged in a cloud of unnamable feeling. By gradations, still more imperceptible, this cloud assumes shape, as did the vapor from the bottle out of which arose the genius in the Arabian Nights. But out of this our cloud upon the precipice's edge, there grows into palpability, a shape, far more terrible than any genius or any demon of a tale, and yet it is but a thought, although a fearful one, and one which chills the very marrow of our bones with the fierceness of the delight of its horror. It is merely the idea of what would be our sensations during the sweeping precipitancy of a fall from such a height. And this fall -- this rushing annihilation -- for the very reason that it involves that one most ghastly and loathsome of all the most ghastly and loathsome images of death and suffering which have ever presented themselves to our imagination -- for this very cause do we now the most vividly desire it."

[Exactly as discussed above!]

https://poestories.com/read/imp

24-07-26 2:06 PM
Jersey Fled చెప్పారు...

USA Today just ran a piece linking Caitlin Clark fans to White.Supremacist groups.

We don’t hate our media enough.

24-07-26 2:27 PM
Howard చెప్పారు...

Everything's absolutely perfect. We are the snail and AGI is the straight razor.

"I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That's my dream; that's my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the edge of a straight razor... and surviving"

24-07-26 3:30 PM
Mason G చెప్పారు...

"We don’t hate our media enough."

I keep trying. They keep making mincemeat of my efforts.

24-07-26 4:17 PM
wendybar చెప్పారు...


Elon Musk reposted
Daniel Concannon
@TooWhiteToTweet
Let's take a walk through the "American justice system," shall we?

Sharmake Omar is the Somali man who filmed Shiloh Hendrix on the playground in Minnesota that day in April 2025.

In January 2022, he and another Somali man "allegedly" spent two days raping an underage foster care runaway in a trailer, keeping her falsely imprisoned.

In March 2025, all charges were dismissed "in the interest of justice."

Weeks later, in April 2025, he turned his camera phone on at the playground after a young Somali thief attempted to steal from a White mom, Shiloh Hendrix, and began haranguing that White mom for having said the word "nigger." Omar demanded that Hendrix repeat the word on camera, which she did - four times, while Omar himself said the word five times in the less-than-one-minute video.

Four long months later, multiple "disorderly conduct" charges were maliciously brought against Shiloh Hendrix for the playground incident in which she was the only victim, and Sharmake Omar was the videographer.

Then, last night, Shiloh Hendrix was CONVICTED - specifically for saying "nigger" to Sharmake Omar AFTER he demanded she say it, while he himself said it repeatedly. Her sentence is a $1,000 fine and 200 hours of community service.

By the way, Sharmake Omar WAS NEVER CALLED TO TESTIFY in the Hendrix trial.

But don't worry, that's not all the justice we have in store for today. Just keep the substance of Shiloh's "crime" - as well as her sentence - in mind as we move forward.

Rewind to April 2020. That's when Sharmake Omar, our favorite Somali videographer, along with another Somali friend of his (separate from his alleged co-raper), committed a violent assault in the street. Omar threw a rock at a car, then attacked and beat the 16-year-old driver. A bystander tried to intervene, but Omar's accomplice threatened him with a knife.

For this, Sharmake Omar was charged merely with DISORDERLY CONDUCT. Yes, for hurling a deadly weapon at a vehicle, then beating the teenage driver while his criminal pal held off onlookers at knifepoint, Omar faced the EXACT SAME CHARGE that Shiloh Hendrix faced for saying a word that Omar asked her to say, as she held her child in her arms and fled the playground before Omar could assault her, too.

Like Shiloh Hendrix, Sharmake Omar was convicted on his count of disorderly conduct.

His sentence?

A $200 fine.

That's it. That's the entire thing.

So, to review:

Rape an underage foster child for two days (allegedly)? Clean slate.

Hurl a deadly weapon at a car and assault its driver? $200.

Say a word to an accused rapist/kidnapper and convicted violent criminal who demands you say it while saying it himself? $1,000 and 200 hours - not to mention international infamy.

Could the anti-White standard be any more egregiously in our faces?

While we're here, a special dishonorable mention must go to every single "FIRST AMENDMENT" organization in this hollowed-out country of ours. You know the ones - they relentlessly solicit and collect large sums of money to "DEFEND FREE SPEECH" while continuously, cravenly shrinking away from EVERY meaningful case where White people - LITERALLY THE ONLY GROUP WITH MAJORITY SUPPORT FOR THE FIRST AMENDMENT - are so clearly maliciously persecuted.

Similarly, NOT ONE official at any level of government has spoken up to defend Shiloh Hendrix or her Constitutional rights, nor to condemn the flagrantly anti-White, utterly unconstitutional witch hunt she's endured. Not one.

And on that note, we conclude today's review of the good ol' "American justice system."

Lady Justice isn't blind. She's anti-White. And it's never been plainer to see.

https://x.com/TooWhiteToTweet/status/2080646959736537115?s=20

24-07-26 4:24 PM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ చెప్పారు...

Why did congress vote to send another $70 billion to a war in the Middle East that most Americans don't support, while doing nothing meaningful to bring down the cost of living for working families?

And the farm provisions in this bill are especially frustrating. Congress attached a $12 billion bailout for farmers — supposedly to help them deal with the effects of tariffs — to this same defense package that pours more money into the Iran conflict. That conflict has driven up fuel, fertilizer, and shipping costs, hurting the very farmers this aid is meant to help. It feels like corporate welfare and endless war packaged together, with ordinary people and farmers footing the bill through higher prices and taxes.

24-07-26 4:27 PM
wendybar చెప్పారు...

End Wokeness
@EndWokeness
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6h
Past few days in the USA:

> White woman convicted for a slur
> 2 historic churches burn via arson
> Explosives set off by ICE HQ in NY
> Allah Akhbar stabbing spree in NY

Blue cities are effectively Europe now

https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/2080664173302657448?s=20

24-07-26 4:35 PM
Smilin' Jack చెప్పారు...

Well, seeing a beautiful dawn to start a day would turn anyone’s thoughts to Kierkegaard.

24-07-26 9:49 PM
Tina Trent చెప్పారు...

I deeply dispise philosophy. Never met a sane person who dedicated their mind to it. The worst example: an otherwise normal, sweet, but disturbed man who hung himself just inside the entrance to his house the day his new wife (after divorcing our old friend and stealing her money in the divorce), brought their infant, named Hope by him, from the hospital. First thing she saw. It dehumanizes you, all of it. Primitive AI, in my opinion. Before that, he courted me by giving me the saddest book ever, The Single Vegan.

I knew them for decades. I was not surprised. Philosophy is the heroin of screwed-up people. Prove me wrong.

25-07-26 4:50 AM
Narr చెప్పారు...

Why Kant we Schopenhauer, Locke up and head Hume later? Let's not Hegel about it.

The philosopher I knew best on campus was a great guy (Heidegger and Dilthey specialist) who also served as provost until the brain cancer got too bad.

One of the too few faculty who treated the librarians as more than hired hands.

Died a couple of years ago. He was something of a know-it-all but that's hardly confined to philosophers or academics, IME.

25-07-26 10:46 AM

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