Monday, May 20. 2019
Free range, organic, low carb, all natural. h/t Ace
The movie: Lord of War (2005) with Nicholas Cage. Trailer here.
The book: The End of Old Age by Marc Agronin
Joe DiGenova and Victoria Toensing reveal Brennan was the mastermind of the Russia hoax
Scott Adams thinks:
Comey and Brennan paper trail…THEY colluded with Russia?
Is the evidence overstated, where’s the counter-narrative?
Cognitive blindness prevents the left from seeing the obvious?
Exculpatory unknown evidence is possible…but WOW
"I think then that the species of oppression by which democratic nations are menaced is unlike anything which ever before existed in the world. I am trying myself to choose an expression which will accurately convey the whole of the idea I have formed of it, but in vain . . . I seek to trace the novel features under which despotism may appear in the world. The first thing that strikes the observation is an innumerable multitude of men all equal and alike, incessantly endeavoring to procure the petty and paltry pleasures with which they glut their lives. . . . Above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications, and to watch over their fate. That power is absolute, minute, regular, provident and mild. It would be like the authority of a parent, if, like that authority, its object was to prepare men for manhood; but it seeks on the contrary to keep them in perpetual childhood; it is well content that the people should rejoice, provided they think of nothing but rejoicing."
Alexis de Toqueville, Democracy In America, via Kimball's Notes on the Great Realignment
 What is a "woman"?
Meet the Bold Sexologist Questioning Transgender Orthodoxy
Learning about Cotton in School Is Racist Now
So try harvesting some polyester plants
Why is a new history of the United States necessary? Why now?
Socialism Is about Taking, Not Giving
Want To Dismantle Capitalism? Abolish The Family
Philadelphia’s Soda Tax Bombed As Predicted
Harvard is failing its students by allowing them to live in a fantasy world
NYC schools chief accused of creating environment ‘hostile’ to white people
The Australian election: Cathy Wilcox, a newspaper cartoonist, tweeted: “It seems unfair that the morons outnumber the thinking people at election time.”
Canadian Government Imposes 'Social Justice' on All Universities
Sounds like China
California half-fast ‘hi speed rail’ plan now pondering old fashioned diesel trains to salvage something from failed project
Al Gore inserts himself into Australia's election — and Aussie voters run the other way
Financial Collapse Of The United States Postal Service Is Coming
Byron York: Mueller changed everything
HERE’S HOW THE ASYLUM SYSTEM IS BEING EXPLOITED
Sunday, May 19. 2019
 While greenies are preparing to change their motto omce again, (to Environmental Destruction), workers are now trying to open Lassen National Park for Spring.
Not an elitist. Closest thing to Andrew Jackson, an excellent president whose style was also disparaged by the elites.
Trump as folk hero.
Revelation 21:1-6
21:1 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.
21:2 And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
21:3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, "See, the home of God is among mortals. He will dwell with them as their God; they will be his peoples, and God himself will be with them;
21:4 he will wipe every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; mourning and crying and pain will be no more, for the first things have passed away."
21:5 And the one who was seated on the throne said, "See, I am making all things new." Also he said, "Write this, for these words are trustworthy and true."
21:6 Then he said to me, "It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the thirsty I will give water as a gift from the spring of the water of life.
Saturday, May 18. 2019
These birds are similar to the very abundant Sandhill Cranes, and can interbreed with them.
Sandhill Cranes are huntable and highly edible. They taste like Swan, I am told. Do not shoot a Whooping Crane. The US has an eastern flock, and the famous western flock.
With a flock this small, conservation is promising but not guaranteed.
I would never mentor a young woman in our shop. Not worth the risk, if she gets pissed off about something. That could happen, because I do not parse my words about things.
It's all about political posturing. I do not think these people believe what they are say.
If NYC evaporated today, it would have zero impact on the planet. But it would make me sad.
Equal treatment means equal. Why treat women as if inferior? It's not Sullivan's proposal, but it makes sense to me
Friday, May 17. 2019
There is an old Hotel/Pub in Marble Arch, London , which used to have gallows adjacent to it. Prisoners were taken to the gallows (after a fair trial of course) to be hung. The horse-drawn dray, carting the prisoner, was accompanied by an armed guard, who would stop the dray outside the pub and ask the prisoner if he would like ''ONE LAST DRINK''. If he said YES, it was referred to as ONE FOR THE ROAD. If he declined, that prisoner was ON THE WAGON.
They used to use urine to tan animal skins, so families used to all pee in a pot and then once a day it was taken and sold to the tannery. If you had to do this to survive you were "piss poor", but worse than that were the really poor folk, who couldn't even afford to buy a pot, they "Didn't have a pot to piss in" and were the lowest of the low.
The next time you are washing your hands and complain because the water temperature isn't just how you like it, think about how things used to be in England. Here are some facts about the 1500s: Most people got married in June, because they took their yearly bath in May and they still smelled pretty good by June. However, since they were starting to smell, brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odour. Hence the custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting married.
Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. The man of the house had the privilege of the nice clean water, then all the other sons and men, then the women, and finally the children. Last of all the babies. By then the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it. Hence the saying, "Don't throw the baby out with the bath water!"
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Continue reading "Fun but dubious origins of a few expressions"
From a commenter:
I understand the problems in incarcerating large numbers of people. I understand the politics and how easy it is to make a social issue out of this if we hold them. But what I don't understand is why the laws apply to citizens but non-citizens especially illegal aliens don't have to face consequences of breaking our laws. I don't understand why it is I have to fill out an I-9 to get a job and only certain state or federal ID is satisfactory and illegals have zero requirements in fact the government goes out of their way to make it easier for them. I don't understand why the TSA can make me take my clothes off and feel me and my family up at the airport but 100,000 non-citizens from god knows where can cross our border freely, get a hot meal, an airplane ride to U.S. cities and a briefing on how to apply for welfare and housing. WTF is wrong with my government???
Ace:
"... DHS is releasing thousands of illegals into the country every month, over a thousand a day which begs the question "why?!""
For at least two reasons: First, because, by default, Mexico and Guatemala are in charge of US immigration. The second is because the Dems want to import more voters, and more cheap lawn guys and hotel maids.
No Hockey Sticks: Studies Reveal Long-Term Lack of Warming
Still, I am skeptical about any and all climate studies. All I believe in is today's weather. No, all I believe in is this hour's weather.
Mick Jagger at 75, 2 weeks after heart surgery, practicing dance moves
Ultra-processed foods 'make you eat more'
So tasty food "makes you eat it"? Really? Their example of "highly-processed food" is quesadillas. These nags want you to live on fruit, greens, nuts, and seeds.
Sicilian pistachios need police protection
Notre Dame rebuild proposal would bring solar glass, urban farm to cathedral roof
What a joke
In Order To Stop White Men From Legislating Women's Bodies, Democrats Fight To Overturn Roe V. Wade
Disrupting the Pharmacy - Innovative technology could eliminate the inflated costs that Americans pay for drugs.
How Diversity Training Widens the Gulf Among the Races
CAN THE COLLEGE BOARD MEASURE ADVERSITY ON THE SAT? The College Board plans to score a student's adversity from one to 100.
COLLEGE BOARD OPENLY TRYING TO SKIRT THE SUPREME COURT WITH SECRET ‘ADVERSITY SCORE’
California Wants To Ban 'Racist' Single-Family Zoning To Correct "Historical Wrongs"
Infrastructure: President Trump and Democratic leaders have discovered the one policy that unites Washington: spending money we don’t have.
Nobel Laureate Shiller: Market Overreacting to Trade War 'Theater'
Duh
Blame Game: Clapper, Brennan and Comey Start Turning on Each Other as Barr Turns Up the Heat
Joe diGenova: For the First Time I Believe These Guys are Going to Jail
Judicial Watch Releases Email Exchange Between State Department Official and Bruce Ohr Targeting Trump Weeks AFTER 2016 Election
Thursday, May 16. 2019
Greenies are increasingly willing to admit that their mission is more about government power than anything environmental.
The Green New Deal is about power, not the planet
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Seeing Endangered Whooping Cranes Step Through the Fog of Extinction -