As Democrats start to panic over Pedo Joe’s dementia, advanced age, and low poll numbers, they look at California Governor Newsom as an alternative. Funny, they have a Kennedy running but don’t want him. He’s clearly not corrupt enough.
File under “Settled Science”
Bullet Points:
** “The largest cultural menace in America is the conformity of the intellectual cliques which, in education as well as the arts, are out to impose upon the nation their modish fads and fallacies, and have nearly succeeded in doing so. In this cultural issue, we are, without reservations, on the side of excellence (rather than ‘newness’) and of honest intellectual combat (rather than conformity).” -William F. Buckley Jr.
** Is paying for abortions a “foundational, sacred obligation of military leaders?”
** Pedo Joe and other adversaries of petroleum will always try to make claims such as “wind and solar are significantly cheaper than coal and oil,” but the reality is that it is simply not true. Wind and solar are not a solution. Nuclear, on the other hand, could be.
** CDRSAL discusses military production lines.
** “People who decry the fact that businesses are in business ‘just to make money” seldom understand the implications of what they are saying. You make money by doing what other people want, not what you want.” – Thomas Sowell
** The Southern Poverty Law Center: “They promised they’d stop fundraising once their endowment reached $55 million. But when they reached $55 million, they raised their goal to $100 million, saying $100 million would allow them to “cease costly fundraising.” But when they reached $100 million, they didn’t cease. They collected $200 million. Then $400 million. Now they have $730 million…love that money.
** Jules dabbles in art philosophy.
Identify the Aircraft
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Eject?
engineers come up with fun solutions…
I thought you were the largest cultural menace in America…
And I didn’t know you had to dress up to buy tamales.
I don’t think that you need to culturally appropriate in order to buy a tamale, but my opinion is in the minority.
I am a cultural menace but my menace is underappreciated.
I think Kipling’s Tommy Atkins would agree.
Well, yes, Jules, didn’t you know that when purchasing Tamales, one must dress in tails or frock coats and ladies, summer formals. I have would have given thought the English would have that custom down pat.
Of course I can manage that, being all Englishly. Trussed up proper is what we do.
What I want to know is if the guy selling tomales is upsetting his “costumers” (yes, it definitely says that) I’d just like to know the costumes they’re dressing in.
Identify the Aircraft:
1. Bristol XLRQ-1 Amphibious Glider
2. North American AJ Savage
3. Douglas O-43
I thought #1 was an early attempt at gravitational oppositional motive power until you pointed out it was a glider.
Thanks.
An AMPHIBIOUS glider.
Is that why the glider has US Army Air Corp markings and crewed with squibbes?
Makes sense to me. At the time everyone was trying gliders as a solution to not having enough powered aircraft.
Lets rehabilitate and repurpose lobotomies. Any repeat offender can be released back into society by volunteering for the procedure. We free up prison space and take care of the recidivism rate. Clark ‘Doc’ Savage Jr. was always ahead of his time.
I was a fan of Doc Savage until I grew up and realized what a eugenicist he was.
Antonio Egas Moniz is awarded the Nobel Prize for the invention of the lobotomy.
“Professor Moniz was a notorious savant in various fields when, accidentally, he came to the conclusion that the surgeon’s knife would bring relief or even recovery to patients suffering from certain serious psychic disturbances. Boldly he went to work. He was 61 when he made his first brain operation for this purpose. Today his method is practiced everywhere with very good results.”
— Carl Skottsberg, President of the Royal Academy of Sciences, 1949
You bloggers may not know that I’m an amateur trail surgeon, practicing where people will sit still for it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rxm5e4EI_MA
That is a great scene in the better True Grit movie, much closer in reality of the book.
I had to preform an appendectomy on a doctor friend when hunting up by Glacier National Park. We got snowed in during a blizzard and the doc’s appendix got hot and a rescue chopper was not forthcoming. By radio which we fortune to have. Doc was lucky I was a very good scrub nurse…
I was sharpening my pen knife today while waiting for a tire repair, thinking it better be sharp if I’m to perform an emergency tracheotomy.
I’ve never had the opportunity to.
Now that’s a story channeling the old West.
Some of the best tamales I ever ate came from the trunk of a car. Fresh, filled with meat, and made from a grandma’s recipe. No, there wasn’t a license from a government entity, but who demands one when they dine at the in-law’s?
Abuela’s tamales are always better than anything you will be served at a restaurant. It’s a rule that is seldom broken. The Grand Market in Santa Ana, California used to exist at Grand and Fourth Street and their tamales (grandma/abuela recipe, made by actual grandmas) were the exception. They were the best tamales I ever ate. Hands-down. Then the city widened Grand Avenue, condemned the building and they went out of business.
My SIL of Germanic descent and appearance ended up with a surname of Rodriguez (which she kept for the kids sake) and ended up working in Texas with a bunch of other Rodriguez named people who did not look like her. (I think her name got her hired.)
She told me about the first time the tamale vendor came to work and opened her trunk.
She was surprised and then she was hooked.
They can be addictive, but in many quarters, they’re only made for holidays and that’s a shame.
We pulled into a truck stop / cafe years ago on I20 in west Texas for fuel and food. Went into the cafe and ordered beef tacos. The waiter said ‘No beef only meat’. I asked for chicken tacos and got the same response. We ordered anyway…
Were they good?
My kids used to ask, “What kind of beef is for dinner tonight” having had deer, elk, caribou, bison, etc.
The good (and cheap) Brazilian churrascaria has a sign listing the kinds of meat they have. “Beef sirloin” tops the list (plus there’s tri-tip, beef shank, chicken hearts, you get the picture).
What you want?
Sirloin, please.
No sirloin, just beef.
SPLC is an anti-white, anti-Christian shakedown operation. With a deliberately misleading name. The responses (at the link) to “You hate gays” are weak and wrong. “No! I have plenty of gay friends” or “But I love gay people!” are demonstrations of weakness and tactic acknowledgement that it’s wrong to disapprove of homosexuality. Do NOT agree to debate under THEIR philosophical assumptions.
If someone accuses you of “hatred” toward some group you do one of two things. One is to completely own it. “Yes, I DO hate fly fishermen. Bait casting is the only way to go.” Obviously that was a silly example. The other is to respond with, “I’m sorry to hear that you feel that way about me.” Put the burden of the accusation on the accuser’s (doubtless narrow) shoulders. Which is where it belongs.
“Never apologize, never explain.” That’s a nice catch phrase, and correct in SOME circumstances. In public it’s generally the way to go. In private one-on-one with a genuinely curious person who wants to understand my position, I’ll explain in detail as requested. But almost never in public. It’s not worth it for many reasons.
I did get into 2A publicly with this Irishman (come to MY country and tell me how to live, ye fooking gobshite, you!) at a previous job after literally a month of daily barbs about “gun violence” and “racism”. After three hours going at it hammer and tongs he blurted out “But guns scare me!” This was immediately followed by him clamping his hands over his mouth just like in a cartoon. I was too angry to be gracious. “And there’s the real reason right there.” That person’s openly hated me ever since. He’s not really important in my life or vice versa, but what did I accomplish? Nothing. I made a somewhat pompous guy (admittedly highly intelligent, and with a proper education in the Classics, yet!) look foolish in public, but I didn’t change his mind. Nor do I think I changed anyone else’s mind. So what was the point?
1.”Do NOT agree to debate under THEIR philosophical assumptions.”
My blog has become the target of some argumentative lefty who has become very dismissive. I’ve taken to deleting him. I can’t convert him.
2. “But guns scare me!”
see response to 1 :)
I was testing drone aircraft at Stead Airport, North of Reno in the Spring of 2014. We were working with some people from Sierra Nevada Corp. One of my tech geniuses flew his father over from England. We were sitting at a restaurant and flush with bravado, the father discussed his skill with firearms. I unholstered my Colt 1911 that he didn’t know I carried, dropped the mag, ejected the live round, and handed it to him. “Let’s go shooting tomorrow.”
He went nearly Grand Mal x 1000 on me, foaming and shouting that was what was wrong with America and we Yanks. (see Juliette’s comment above my cultural menace) I explained that I carried it legally, dropped a round in, put the expected round into the magazine, inserted the magazine, and re-holstered, cocked, and locked.
We never went shooting.
You dodged a bullet there, so to speak.
Years ago, Christopher Hitchens visited Moscow, Idaho and was amazed at how open carry was allowed. He did get a good laugh from a sign in front of a hardware store with a barn burner firearms sale ongoing — Your wife called and said to buy a gun.
Last month I was in the Aloft (hipster hotel) in Tempe, AZ. Just as the elevator doors were about to close a fella looking (and dressed) like Lloyd from Yellowstone slipped in with a big ol’ revolver rigged cross draw. He nodded to me. I hope I didn’t goggle, but it took a second to process “I’m not in Boston any more.”
That’s normal in AZ – Constitutional Carry
The first time I saw Constitutional Carry was as a kid in Idaho. Spent a Summer there on a cousin’s horse ranch, and was amazed at all the “Cowboys” walking around with their”Six Shooters” on display.
“It’s the Way of the West, and Don’t You Forget It!” was the response when I asked about it.
x2
“Your wife called and said to buy a gun.”
Scherie and I were watching TV and she turns to me and says “Shouldn’t you buy another case of bullets?”
I’m convinced half the general public has been either fully or somewhat chemically lobotomized already. “Doctors” like Moniz and Fauci are a menace to society and should be put down before they can get a foothold and cause harm.
Tamale’s…never was a huge fan, guessing because I haven’t had a really good one.
Never had. Are you supposed to eat the husk?
Of course, it adds fiber to the diet. Heh.
It’s up to you, but only a racist would fail to eat the husk….
I have a feeling I still don’t know whether to or not. :)
It is the age old question I’ve had growing up in the Northeast and coming out West. I’m guessing if you are the type who eats a bag of not shelled peanuts straight without shelling them (I do), maybe eating the husk is just fine. Certainly easier.
By now, I think everyone has seen the saying, “if it’s settled it’s not science.” I’m starting to think my favorite is “science is self-correcting; which means it’s always wrong” Because if it wasn’t wrong, it wouldn’t need to be corrected. The only question is how wrong.
Back when the scientific method was actually taught, people might have had it lodged in their heads that only the things called natural laws are verified often enough to be considered settled. To be a pedantic a**hole, even those are questionable because they may not be true everywhere and always. Like Newton’s laws of motion that have to be revised for relativistic effects.
Arrogance goes before a dictate. These types are so convinced of their brilliance…either thwt or they’re evil, or a combination of the two. Fauxi wakes up chuckling to himself how he did a great hoax every 5-10 years of his “career”.
Oh, and psyche people should be avoided at all cost, their like chiropractors, junk science. No one can ever know what any person is truly thinking or their nature.
From an old Firesign Theater album,
“You know what I think?”
“That’s metaphysically absurd, man! How can I know what you’re thinking?”
Exactly…but HR departments are filled with these types, usually woman (not that I care but Jordan Peterson in his “chat” with Cathy Newman presents the “why”), then we end up with more not business Bravo Sierra that warps the corporate culture and forces employee’s to bend to the will of the lowest common denominator.
Southern Preposterous Lie Center.
A few years ago I spent time in Montgomery, AL. Didn’t find one local that had anything good to say about them. Most of the people I asked were assembly workers at the Hyundai factory.
Here’s another perspective, from a long-time National Review coworker: http://www.sobran.com/reluctant.shtml
Joseph Sobran was a treasure.
Back when I worked for a PD (as a staff ass, not as police) I used to love to read the SPLKKKC newsletter to find out exactly how bad I was that quarter. Since by reading one I found out that the worst threat to the US and the world was a white Christian heterosexual married conservative.
Whodathunk.
And the one time I went to a friend’s house for a gathering, that gathering was, yep, listed later in Hate Times (what I used to call the newsletter) as an evil collection of right-wing White Christians. Which was funny because there was at least one Jew, several atheists, some Ashatru (modern Norse religion people) some Wiccan and at least one Christian. And the host of the event said that amongst the 20ish people attending, at least 3 will be reporting to the Feds. Then there was the RV parked across the street that nobody knew about, though the host did take them some BBQ in the afternoon and then said there were 4 guys in there.
Whooo…