We are rolling out our #KnifeFree chicken boxes in over 210 chicken shops in England and Wales, including Morley’s, Dixy Chicken and Chicken Cottage. They use real life stories to show people how they can go #KnifeFree. pic.twitter.com/vrG4WWa56v
— Home Office (@ukhomeoffice) August 14, 2019
I’m tempted to start making cyanotypes again just so I can occasionally ship items to Britain and use plastic knives from Burger McChicken King as packaging material.
So Trump put out another tweet calculated to drive Certain People buggo. And just like clockwork, Certain People went buggo.
What did Trump tweet?
….As proven last week during a Congressional tour, the Border is clean, efficient & well run, just very crowded. Cumming District is a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess. If he spent more time in Baltimore, maybe he could help clean up this very dangerous & filthy place
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 27, 2019
Baltimore? Filthy, dangerous and rat infested? Clearly trump doesn’t know what he’s talking about. “Charm City” is a clean, safe utopia by all accounts. Such as:
And…
“Baltimore is the big city with the highest per capita murder rate in the nation, with nearly 56 murders per 100,000 people.”
And…
I mean, *everyone* loves Baltimore. It’s a universal.
Facts, it seems, continue to be racist.
For all America’s troubles, there’s one bright spot: unlike Canada, we don’t have a “Human Rights Tribunal.”
Short form: a transgender woman went to a home-based business to receive a “Brazilian wax.” But the business owner did not want to carry out the procedure since the customer was equipped with male junk and felt uncomfortable with that (and her husband didn’t want her fondling another dudes tackle). So the customer took the business to the human rights kangaroo court in Vancouver, British Columbia, in order to ruin them, going so far as to compare the business owner to a Nazi. Which makes one wonder what kind of person wants a Nazi apply liquid-hot magmawax to their nads.
There’s just a whole lot of weird here. There’s also a lot of sad. Remember the story from a few days ago of the kid in Utah with a road-side “beer” stand, making money hand over fist with the jovial approval of the cops? Here we have a story of a woman who had carried out a cosmetic, errr… procedure on friends and family, apparently successfully, decided to make a business of it, and her very first customer put her out of business and has tied her up in an Orwellian thought-crime court.
Canada? Not even once.
Heinlein saw America devolving into chaos. But I don’t think he saw *this* sort of thing.
It’s interesting to watch how different locations deal with domestic terrorism In Portland, Oregon, Antifa essentially has free reign to do what they like and harm whom they wish; the mayor is on their side – or is at least cowed by them – and makes sure the cops give them a pass. But over the past few days the news here in Utah has covered a somewhat similar protest In Salt Lake City where the mayor (Jackie Biskupski… remember, she’s not just a Democract, she’s a *gay* Democrat) wasn’t having it. The response by the cops was less “let them do what they want” and more “Oy, what’s all this then?”
The source of the trouble is a little hard to suss out. In short, an “inland port” is in the early stages of being built in an undeveloped area of Salt Lake County. What’s controversial about that? Nothing that I can see, but then, this is Current Year and there are people who freakin’ *live* to find things to be offended by. Consequently, a place to unload cargo is now, somehow, racist. And so a pack of feral hipstery Antifa-wannabees came out and “occupied” the Chamber of Commerce. In true Klantifa fashion, they used violence to try to shut down the news media, attakign a few cameramen. The local government let them protest and bang their drums and make a nuisance of themselves for a while until they started getting rowdy, then the local PD said “enough” and cleaned them out.
Some news coverage is here. Watch the video, it’s interesting… especially Budget Hermione Grainger, somehow the organizer of this little shindig, explaining how they’re all innocence and light. It’s clearly a foreign conspiracy, likely the Queen trying to sow dissent so that her forces can reclaim the Colonies for the Crown. But of great importance is that the local government, including the Governor of the state of Utah, aren’t shying away from the truth:
“Borderline terrorism,” Gov. Herbert called the protest.
In contrast, check out this video from the always mellow and entirely safe for work Razorfist, describing and showing some of the more egregious nonsense the Portland government did in allowing Klantifa to run wild in their streets:
Here ends the great American experiment. Let’s start divvying the place up.
As soon as it is established that Presidential candidates are openly courting the votes of people who refuse to speak the language of the United States, that’s a good sign that we have failed as a nation. The US is, like Britain, just a geographical region, with nothing binding the inhabitants together anymore. Every man, woman, family, tribe, ethnicity, identity group for themselves.
A lot of Americans think it should be illegal to burn the US flag; many believe that it already is illegal to do so. Both beliefs are wrong. It’s not illegal, nor should it be, for someone to burn their own property, assuming that there aren’t air quality or safety issues. Now if some steals *your* property and burns it, then, yes, by all means the cops should come along and lay baton to noggin until they pay restitution. But if the burner is the lawful owner? It’s theirs to do with as they please.
If you are one of those delicate snowflakes who believes that the US Constitution means doodly squat and that your feelings are so vital that they should be protected from someone burning a flag, consider this:
Do you *really* want to be just like a European Union bureaucrat? Is that *really* who you want to emulate? If so… step away from the computer and take a year or two off to re-evaluate your life. If you *are* an EU bureaucrat, take a decade or two off to re-evaluate your life.
The article also says that the proposed law will protect the EU anthem, Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy.” How exactly do you burn music? The best I can figure, they want to ban stuff like these:
And one wonders what German EU bureaucrats would make of this:
Heh. So some government bureaucrats found out that their jobs were being relocated from DC to Kansas. They were upset about that, even though they work for the Department of Agriculture. There’s not a whole lot of agriculture going on in DC, while Kansas seems to specialize in that. And so like rational adults, they threw a hissy fit.
American Federation of Government Employees members from NIFA snd ERS turn backs on Agriculture Secretary Perdue at session on their unwanted relocation from DC to Kansas City area. #USDA pic.twitter.com/40JlVtuXFl
— Jerry Hagstrom (@hagstromreport) June 13, 2019
The weak-ass excuses I’ve heard from time to time for keeping the bureaucrats centralized in DC include:
1: It makes it easier to communicate from one department to another, or from a department to Congress or the White House. This, of course, is a specious and largely inaccurate claim in the era of telephones, email, texting and Skype.
2: It makes it easier for bureaucrats to transfer employment from one department to another. This is true… and not only irrelevant, it’s also damaging. If your career goal is to hop from department to department, go work at WalMart.
And I mean that in the best possible sense.
HBO is four episodes into a five-episode miniseries entitled “Chernobyl” based on, you guessed it, the nuclear accident. I’ve seen the first three episodes and it is, in my opinion, something of a horror masterpiece. Acting, writing, visuals, even the score conspire to make for an engaging story of what happens when socialist bureaucrats are put in charge of badly designed nuclear reactors and then have to try to clean up the inevitable mess. Incompetence leading to CYA on an industrial scale… but followed by selfless heroism by people high and low. “I’ll do it myself.”
In many ways this comes across as one of the better Lovecraftian horror stories I’ve seen on screen. There is a monster that threatens millions, something that is impersonal and vast and invisible and largely incomprehensible. It kills in horrifying ways (that the makeup people went to town on) that you can barely hope to defend against, and once you’ve met it there’s nothing anyone can do for you except watch as you basically fall apart. There is a sense of doom that hangs over especially the first two episodes that is just monumentally well done. In this it is aided by the score, barely music, composed by the impressively named Hildur Guðnadóttir. The score is composed of sounds from a Lithuanian nuclear powerplant and is just plain creepifyin’, subtle and mechanical, like the sound of machines in slow agony.
I suspect ol’ HPL would have loved to have seen this, and would have nodded along to a lot of it. One line in particular, “You are dealing with something that has never occurred on this planet before,” seems like something that would be at home in a tale of Cthulhu. There are individual scenes that are just plain disturbing… a plant worker looking directly into the exposed open, burning core, like looking into the mouth of Hell. Bureaucrats yelling at people that they did not see what they know they saw. “It’s not three Roentgen. It’s fifteen thousand.” A Geiger counter starting off going nuts… and only going faster until it’s an almost solid tone. A nuclear physicist trying to explain to Soviet apparatchiks why finding graphite *outside* of the reactor building is a Very Bad Thing. Cerenkov radiation visible *outside* of a containment vessel.
I would say that this exceeds, at least so far, “The Terror” in terms of effective horror. Which is interesting because Jared Harris is an important character in both stories.
Recommended.
Eric Swalwell, the Democrat Presidential nomination hopeful who thinks it would be a good idea to nuke his fellow citizens if they disagree with him on their right to keep their rights, explains in this brief clip just why he should never be President:
I may be "another white guy," but I know where there are gaps in my knowledge or my experience and I know when to pass the mic. pic.twitter.com/jMYBwF97xY
— Eric Swalwell (@ericswalwell) May 27, 2019
Here he is confronted with a Clown-World-level-stupid question: “Why should another White Guy be President?” And instead of answering it like a sane person, with something along the lines of “wow, what an incredibly racist *and* sexist question,” or with “that’s the dumbest thing I’ve heard all day,” he instead accepts that the proposition “White Guys shouldn’t be President” has merit and grovels to be accepted.
So on the one hand, anyone who’s not a hard-core “progressive” identitarian is likely to be turned off by Douche Nukem’s weak-willed self-hating bigotry. On the other hand, he points out that whenever the issue comes up of a topic that does not specifically deal with his tiny little sector of intersectionality, he’ll “hand the mic” to someone else… which means the obvious question becomes “so why do we need you?”
Why are you not 50 points ahead, you might ask? pic.twitter.com/vUhmaas0Jm
— Rep. Steven Smith 🇺🇸 (@RepStevenSmith) May 28, 2019
And let’s face it: THIS is the face of the type of person he’s desperately pandering to at warp speed:
Good luck with that. That’s not the face of a woman swooning over how woke you are, Mr. Swalwell; that’s the face of someone who despises you for being a white male. She looks like she’s about two seconds from going after you with a shard of broken glass.
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker doesn’t like people who like their own nations:
Methinks the Europeans would be well advised to see to it that Juncker needs to find another job. Maybe he could go far away, where doubtless he’ll find naught but love.