I guess Firefox doesn’t like Al_x J_nes

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Dec 112019
 

I use Firefox as a browser. Now and then I go to my Disqus admin page to check on comments on the blog. Tonight I saw a comment I felt like responding to… and when I clicked the direct link to that comment, the Firefox security system went buggo and warned me that it wouldn’t link to Up-Ship.com because the site would try to steal my passwords and such. As you might imagine, this is not something I need to see. I went to the comment through a roundabout means… the main site, then the link to the blog, then the specific post. Everything went fine. Huh. So back to the Disqus admin page; further attempts to link straight to the comment all met with failure and warnings. But… clicking on *any* other comment? Went straight there, absolutely no hint of trouble. So what was in that one comment? Was there a link to something horrible? An attached file of doom? Nope. A single sentence stating that A_ex Jo_es was right. That’s it. It seems that that collection of words triggers Firefox. Which makes me wonder about what will happen with this *post.* Which… on second thought, I’m’a gonna do some slight self-censoring in both the post title and the body of the text because I don’t need people getting scared away from the blog, but I still think the incident was worthy of note.

 Posted by at 10:40 pm

Not your traditional “self hating Jews”

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Dec 112019
 

Jersey City shooting suspects were lovers who lived in a van

So, these two lovely folks decided it was a perfectly cromulent exercise to go and shoot up a Jewish grocery store. They killed three, including a cop, before they caught some bullets themselves. Additionally, they’d apparently previously killed an Uber driver. And who were they? What made them decide to go kill them some Jews?

David Anderson was described by law enforcement sources on Wednesday as a follower of the Black Hebrew Israelites, and he introduced girlfriend and accomplice Francine Graham to their beliefs,

These are people who believe that black folk are the true Hebrews, and that all the other Jews are just evil white colonist cultural appropriators. If you think you’ve heard of the Black Hebrew Israelities before… congrats! You almost certainly have. You could have heard of them many places, but one standout is that these jackholes were the ones standing in front of the Lincoln Memorial in January of this year. Their loud, insane, inane racist shriekings are what set off the Covington Blood Libel. Note that even at this late date, the New York Post article *still* lays some of the blame at the feet of the Covington kids while letting the aggressor who banged a drum in a little kids ear entirely off the hook and portrays him as a hero rather than a minor villain.

The Black Hebrew Israelites, who are not a part of mainstream Judaism, believe that white people are agents of Satan, Jews are liars and false worshippers of God, and black people are the true “chosen people” of the Bible, according to the Anti-Defamation League.

The Southern Poverty Law Center lists various branches of the movement among the country’s black nationalist hate groups, most of which it says are “strongly anti-white and anti-Semitic.”

You know you’re special when the SPLC decides that your anti-white rhetoric and beliefs might be a bit beyond the pale.

Once again it should prove interesting and entertaining to see how this terrorist action compares in the media to others with reversed color values.

 Posted by at 8:16 pm

Well *THIS* looks like a laugh riot

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Dec 112019
 

“Antlers” is a Guillermo del Toro produced horror movie set in Oregon featuring a Wendigo causing a ruckus. A good basis for a horror flick, but the Wendigo is from Algonquin mythology… east coast of Canada rather than west coast. Kinda like having leprechauns in Albania, I suppose. The Wendigo was a creature of the cold, driven by greed and a need to consume human flesh; humans could become Wendigos by either being in close contact with them, being too greedy or resorting to cannibalism. This is the sort of supernatural monster that very likely has a real-world basis, either in the form of psychopaths who have some compulsion to eat people, or schmoes who, like the Donner party, felt forced to eat people to survive. Consequently, this is a monster movie that could be supernatural, or simply feature regular humans who are plain buggo and wear wacky costumes and do horrible things. Except the very last little bit of the trailer seems to show something…

 

I always assumed the “Wendol” from Michael Crichtons “Eaters of the Dead” (movie version: “The 13th Warrior”) were based in part on the Wendigo

 Posted by at 1:17 pm

Here’s a headline I never thought I’d see

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Dec 102019
 

Honestly, I didn’t see this coming:

Animal Rescuers Worried After Pigeons Are Found Wearing Tiny Cowboy Hats

PIGEONS IN HATS

PIGEONS IN HATS? Bobby Lee of Las Vegas recently spotted pigeons in his neighborhood wearing tiny hats and the video is going viral on Facebook.Is it funny or a case of animal cruelty? A local pigeon rescue group is now looking for the pigeons. Original post >> https://bit.ly/2Prrpe3

Posted by KTNV Channel 13 Action News on Saturday, December 7, 2019

https://www.fox29.com/news/someone-is-putting-tiny-cowboy-hats-on-pigeons-in-las-vegas-as-animal-rescue-works-to-remove-them?fbclid=IwAR3_RHcHBkSHMDmffr9suosHnlJz4HO41tJzvTk37E8Do4-ASk6MNTtImeg

Posted by Lofty Hopes – A Pigeon Positive Movement on Monday, December 9, 2019

Yes, I suppose strictly speaking this is animal cruelty… but come on… that’s funny right there, I don’t care who you are.

 

 

Tiny Cowboy Hat Wearing Pigeon Near Trop & Maryland

The Vegas cowboy pigeons are real.🎥: @kassandraqueenn/twitter

Posted by Las Vegas Locally on Monday, December 9, 2019

 Posted by at 11:28 pm

Could current weirdness be chemically driven?

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Dec 102019
 

It’s from the Daily Fail, so take with a block of salt:

Humans are being exposed to 44 TIMES more infertility-causing and cancer-linked ‘gender bending’ chemicals than first thought

For starters, the headline doesn’t quite align with the text. The article itself indicates not that humans in the western world are being exposed to 44 times more Bisphenol A (BPA, a chemical often used in plastics) than previously thought, but rather the current “safe” level is 44 times what the researcher thinks the safe level really is. But then later in the article it says that new testing shows that the levels of BPA in people *is* higher than previously thought. Shrug.

Regardless, my interest here is a philosophical/political one. A number of researchers think that BPA is dangerous because it messes with hormones; it seems to reduce sperm count and screws up eggs. There is some thinking that BPA might mess with peoples hormones enough to screw with peoples sexuality/sexual identity.

So it’s *possible* that the current wave of transgenderism and soyboys and nonbinary nonsense might not be a result of natural human variation finally being allowed to express itself due to society becoming more permissive, but instead it’s a result of chemical contamination. Let’s say that that’s the case, and it can be proven so. Further, let’s say it can be demonstrated that if BPA is utterly eliminated from manufacturing, things will eventually return to normal. “Let’s do that,” I bet most people will say. But… the loudest people in society today are exactly the kind of people who would likely go apoplectic at the idea of reducing “diversity.” Imagine the political chaos if “chemical genocide” is proposed.

 

MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

 Posted by at 4:42 pm

Y’know, it actually looks pretty good…

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Dec 092019
 

Huh. Now that the actual trailer has been released, it *still* doesn’t look like crap. Who coulda guessed?

From the comments:

“There hasn’t been a ghost sighting in 30 years”
2016 Ghostbusters: Is that like, a personal attack or something?
Real Fans: YES IT IS
“There hasn’t been a ghost sighting for 30 years.”
“but what about…”
“THERE HAS NOT BEEN A GHOST SIGHTING FOR 30 YEARS”
This trailer is already a better stand-alone movie than that thing they did in 16′.

And as a reminder of how *not* to do it…

And this also looks good:

 Posted by at 11:19 am

Krampus Invictus

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Dec 082019
 

The Austrian traditions surrounding Krampus the Christmas demon are, to American eyes, pretty bizarre. Instead of the vanilla tale of jolly old Saint Nick just wandering around doling out toys of adoring little tykes, here Santa is joined by the demon Krampus who takes the naughty kids with him back to Hell (or something like that). Sorta evens things out, I suppose. Part of the tradition seems to be public festivals where people dress up like demons and act out a bit. But it seems that they’ve been acting especially enthusiastic of late:

 

The initial reporting seems to be that these demonic cosplayers are just getting somewhat out of hand. As is the way of things, especially things written in weird alien languages like Italian, the story seems to grow in the telling, so that now it seems to be that what happened is that migrant colonizers in Austria took offense to Austrian tradition, tried to interfere, and got a wholloping for their troubles. The initial tale is just “oy”-worth bad behavior; it becomes feel-good rah-rah later, and quite likely inaccurate.

The later version of the tale is certainly the preferable one, as it involves heroics and Europeans finally standing up for themselves. But I suspect that’s not actually what happened.

 Posted by at 7:59 pm

And yet more 80’s awesome

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Dec 082019
 

And so Warner Brothers released the first trailer for the second “Wonder Woman” movie today. I’m not enthralled with the DC movies, and the first Wonder Woman movie was at best OK, but this looks like it’ll be reasonably enjoyable. However, what *really* makes this stand out is the 80’s aesthetic… especially the music, a remix (or complete remake, dunno) of “Blue Monday” by New Order.

Sorry, Millenials and Zoomers… your music doesn’t get to be 80’s music.

 

The original by New Order, from 1983:

Get off my lawn!

 Posted by at 4:37 pm
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