Jun 292022
 

Who thinks it’s a good idea to glue yourself to the road???

 

Several commenters on that twitter thread point out that the guy comes off like one of those wussy, lazy, unmanly and cowardly soccer players that help to make the game so unwatchable:

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 Posted by at 12:00 am
Jun 272022
 

Her explanation fits *me* precisely. I do not and have never had a religious objection to abortion. I was for a quite a while on the “meh” side of the argument. What flipped me? The Moloch-worshipping (and that’s not even my religion) baby-haters, losing their minds and turning something that *should* be seen as at best unfortunate into something they are *proud* of.

UPDATE: The account was made private, even though the creator said nothing even remotely crazy. I suspect The Usual Suspects started getting threatening.

UPDATED UPDATE: The account seems to have been un-privated.

@michellerhodesofficial

♬ original sound – michellerhodesofficial

So here, at least for now, is a YouTube version of the video:

BEHOLD:

 

 Posted by at 6:41 pm
Jun 272022
 

The Supreme Court overturning Roe vs. Wade has brought out the hateful and violent rhetoric of many on the Left in *spades.* Go peruse Libs of TikTok for a plethora of examples of death threats,  advocations of assassinations, etc. Far too many to post here.

That said, there is one particular story that is instructive on several levels: a registered nurse claimed that she bases her medication prescriptions not on the needs of the patient, but on their race and politics. Good news/bad news: The bad is that there are such hateful people out there. The good is that they often publicly tout their badness. The double-plus bad is that they feel safe and comfortable doing so, because they know that since they are on the politically correct side, their malfeasance will often be ignored. They can get away with doing what they’re doing.

 

She felt comfortable enough to say it publicly. How long has she been actually *doing* it?

Well, there is some double-plus good news:

“Resigned.” Yeah, I kinda expect that she was pushed out the door. And I kinda expect that the hospital now has *all* of their lawyers working overtime, poring through every last record of every last patient this twit had anything to do with. Were you one of her patients? Did anything seem a  little off? Were the meds she prescribed not quite right, or didn’t quite do the job? Yeah… lawsuits are coming.

 

 Posted by at 4:53 pm
Jun 262022
 

Is it illegal? It’s certainly fraudulent. And it’s something to watch out for.

Never mind the “let’s bring in cartel money” aspect, which I’m *really* certain is illegal.

Additionally: she is a special kind of stupid for discussing this on a phone call to an inmate, when it is open knowledge that such calls are recorded. On the other hand, she’s a Democrat, so her chances of being reported on by the media, never mind arrested, are minimal.

 Posted by at 8:41 pm
Jun 232022
 

Here’s the proof a NYC high school diploma is worthless

“‘The Three Little Pigs’ story was read round-robin style in a grade 11 classroom, which demonstrated limited student access in this class to grade-level text,” according to the department’s Office of Accountability. … At Brooklyn’s Boys and Girls High School, more than one-third of all classes were being disrupted by students’ chatter …

Sure, society needs people who are no more skilled than required to dig a ditch. But the problem is, these kids are doubtless also being taught that they are special snowflakes and that anything less than a lavish lifestyle of hookers and blow is a sign that The Other People are oppressing them. So these “students” will not only leave school utterly incapable of performing any but the most basic tasks… they’ll be unwilling to do them. One might wonder why this sort of thing would be promoted. Well… one might wonder that if one had not been paying attention. Why would this sort of thing be promoted?

1) These kids will be useless, sure. But they’ll still be allowed to vote. And who will they probably vote for? The people promising to make their lives easier without effort on their part.

2) They will consume resources without contributing. Thus they will be a net drain, requiring someone to fill in for them. And who better to fill in for them but similarly low-skill, but less offended foreign workers of dubious legality? And who will they and their offspring and their enablers probably vote for? Why, most likely those politicians who promise to not deport them.

Maybe Congress should spare a moment from the January 6 show trials to look into the matter of politicians whoa re *really* working to damage the United States. It might be worth seeing who’s getting paid or influenced by, say, the ChiComs. The Rosenbergs sizzled for doing less damage to the US.

 Posted by at 7:24 pm
Jun 232022
 

Well, here it is, the dumbest, worst thing you’ll read today:

A Belief in Meritocracy Is Not Only False: It’s Bad for You

The author believes that merit is a terrible idea, and that it should be abandoned. And replaced with what, exactly? I know you’ll be stunned: he doesn’t say. Because repalcing the concept of advancement through merit – intelligence, hard work, determination, talent, whatever – even if a lot of the time it comes down to random chance (i.e luck) with *anything* else is self-evidently an awful idea.

Consider: some singers rise to *billionaire* status. Most singers end up singing in the shower, and not much further. Some shower-singers are probably objectively better than the billionaire singers. Well, so the fabulously successful ones may have gotten there through luck. What of it? Got a better way? Lotteries?

 Posted by at 12:37 am
Jun 202022
 

So last night the neighborhood resounded to the sound of random explosions. I was confused until I remembered that today is the new Federal High Holy Day “Juneteenth.” Yay, strike up the marching bands, fire up the amateur and unwise fireworks. So, how enchanting of a day is this going to be going forth? Here are some hints from Our Betters in the media:

How to Celebrate Juneteenth Without Misappropriating It

How thrilling: a “holiday” that comes with racialized lecturing. I don’t recall such things for, say, Saint Patricks Day or Bastille Day or Pearl Harbor Day or 9/11 or Leif Erikson Day. And where are the lectures on how to celebrate Yuri’s Night? Where, indeed, are the jeremiads on how to celebrate Apollo 11, or the Wright Brothers, or D-Day or VE Day or VJ Day or The Day The Berlin Wall Came Down or The Day The USSR Went The Frak Away or Trinity Test Day or Edison Lights A Bulb Day or Moses Browning Day Goddard Launches A Liquid Rocket Day? To be honest, though, some other holidays *do* come with lectures… Cinco De Mayo (Drink Like A Fish Day) and Dia Die Los Muertos (Mexican Halloween) tend to come with finger-wagging harangues about how we’re not supposed to view them as lightly as St. Patty’s Drink Like A Fish Day or Actual Halloween.  And of course Columbus Day tends to comes with screeds about how it *shouldn’t* be celebrated and the fact that history lined up in such a way that *you* exist should be seen as a monumental tragedy.

So, yeah, this one will be a hoot, at least until it is “celebrated” like all other basically meaningless artificial holidays:

 Posted by at 6:46 pm
Jun 182022
 

The Babylon Bee is at its best when you read one of their satirical articles and realize that if you didn’t know it was satire, you’d accept that it was a real, if perhaps disturbing and/or insane, article. Well… here’s a website that doesn’t seem to say anywhere that it’s satire, and I can’t tell if it’s satire or complete insanity:

https://iqfy.com/

There are a hundred pages of content, with about ten articles per page. A thousand articles of satire is a hell of a commitment to cause… but then, so is a thousand articles of utter nuttery.  There are articles such as:

We need to talk about “mental hospitals”—or internment camps for the neurodiverse

Body positivity is for women, not lazy white guys with dad bods

Is coffee racist? How drinking coffee perpetuates white supremacy

Mass shootings have a race—and political party

This dog is the new face of online homophobia

Elon bros are killing us with free speech

Encourage women to smell their poop to be more inclusive to Trans women

And so on

The site seems to just take whatever “articles” get written and submitted to it. So it may be a fully serious site (a lot of the articles seem fairly normal) that is either:

1) Being bombarded by articles written by loons

2) Being bombarded by articles written by trolls pretending to be loons

3) Being bombarded by both trolls and loons

 

Either way… I’m all for people paying attention. A bunch of leftwing lunatics who want to tear down civilization? That sort of thing should be noted. Insane trolling proves indistinguishable from honest insanity? That should also be noted.

 Posted by at 4:11 pm