Terrorism? Drunk? Nuts? Hmmm…

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Nov 212021
 

A person plowed their SUV through the Waukesha Christmas Parade and more than 20 people are injured, with some fatalities authorities say

The way this is written, it seems reasonably certain that the driver was not having a medical episode, or fell asleep or anything like that, but did this intentionally. Reference is made to a cop shooting at them. No info as yet about who the driver was or what the motivation might have been… but people intentionally ramming Christmas festivities with sizable vehicles is not exactly an unknown occurrence.

UPDATE: A recording of police radio *seems* to give a description of the driver and his name. If this is accurate… well, let’s just say that BLM and the anti-Kenosha Kid forces will probably not have a lot to say.

HMMMM….

UPDATE:

Video of the “incident.” Let’s see if this gets the play that the less-fatal Charlottesville attack got.

EDIT: the above video was scrubbed from twitter because of course it was. Here is a link to it on Bitchute.

Someone got this photo of the driver:

As usual, heavy.com is proving to be a good aggregator of the news.

UPDATE:

https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-suspect-in-waukesha-mass-casualty-incident-identified-as-career-criminal-darrell-e-brooks

How will they blame Trump for this???

UPDATE:

This fine upstanding citizen has a number of rap videos, at least until they get deleted. And yes, his “rap music” is as talent-free as you might expect. Interestingly, his murder weapon – the Ford SUV – is on display in this video. Kinda curious how long until YouTube yanks the vids…

It’s no wonder he went bugnuts… he thought the idiot noise he was making was actual music. Maybe someone played him some Pat Boone and his brain finally snapped. I shudder to imagine what might have occurred had he been exposed to some Beethoven. He might have undergone complete proton reversal.

 

 Posted by at 9:03 pm

FYI: “SR-71” is currently cheap

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Nov 212021
 

Amazon currently has my “SR-71” bookazine for thirteen bucks, plus shipping. Woo. Get a few copies now, before Christmas comes and you fall short and you have to live in eternal shame that you did not have enough copies to gift to all your friends, family, co-workers, arch-enemies and random people on the street.

 

 Posted by at 2:06 pm

Yeah, no…

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Nov 212021
 

This concept car is certainly… interesting. But the “scales” on the back seem to serve no purpose other than to drive up the manufacturing and maintenance price. The ability to crab-walk seems of dubious practicality; the wheels seem like they would be fabulously easy to damage. It sounds like it’s struggling to turn power into motion. The control system is strange and seems like it’d be twitchy, prone to massive responses to minor control inputs. The doors don’t inspire structural confidence, nor does that headrest… and the back seats in particular look like they’re unergonomic and uncomfortable.

It’s a concept car, so its supposed to push the boundary of goofiness, but this seems like it’s pushing a bit too hard.

 Posted by at 12:20 pm

I draw a different message…

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Nov 212021
 

YouTube decided that I needed to see this trailer:

It’s yet another sportsball movie. Yawn. But the schtick here is that the sportsballers in question are college, not professional, and there is some movement afoot to get them paid and get them medical insurance. Because the sportsballers currently don’t get paid, while their coaches and other staff can have salaries measured in millions; and while the staff have careers lined up for potentially decades, most of the sportsballers *won’t* go on to become professionals.

Message: boo hoo poor college sportsballers who spend several years getting feted and fawned over and provided with enough cars and other gifts and whatnot that if they weren’t idiots they could fund a pretty decent post-college retirement even without moving on to professional sportsball.

However, my takeaway is this: stop funding college sportsball. Instead of giving the coach six million dollars a year, give that money to the nuclear engineering department. Give it to the college Chess Team or the RC Airplane team or the Liquid Propellant Rocket Racing To The Stratosphere team. Or the Medical department. Or the physics lab. Or the library, to keep actual books on actual stacks that the students can actually access. You know… what academics are *supposed* to be about.

If these people are worried about college sportsballers getting so injured that they’ll need medical insurance more than the average college student, then clearly sportsball is an unwarranted risk. Get rid of it, turn the stadiums into lab spaces (imagine what the Ag Science department could do with an average football field) and instead of football and basketball, focus Rah Rah Go Team instead onto the Chess team, the college Halo/Call of Duty/Donkey Kong team.

There. Problem solved.

 

 Posted by at 8:59 am

Left wing religious extremism

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Nov 212021
 

Whenever you hear about religious whackadoodles in the US, the press makes sure to point out that they are “right wing.” Fact is… the left is loaded to the gills with their own religious nuts. And this isn’t even referring to those who have accepted The Environment or The Historical Dialectic or all the rest as their proxy religion; I mean honest-to-Odin *real* old school fire and brimstone Christianity. Like those arguing for Young Earth Creationism, these religious crackpots are perfectly happy to lie right to your face.

 

 Posted by at 2:29 am

I *really* need to know how this story ended

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Nov 212021
 

Some series get cancelled on a cliffhanger. Such is the case here, where a road rage incident has a guy with a (very crappy, almost certainly fake) sword try to intimidate another guy… who seems wholly unimpressed and pulls a rifle from his trunk.

Road rage hierarchy – The sword is more mighty than the fist, but then there’s the AK15… from PublicFreakout

I get a serious Antifa vibe from the “swordsman.”

 Posted by at 1:40 am

This should prove vastly entertaining…

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Nov 212021
 

… providing that the results are actually reported.

Lakehead University-led research team receiving $1.2 million to investigate cancer prevention using traditional healing

A Lakehead University professor and her research team in partnership with traditional knowledge holders and Waasegiizhig Nanaandawe’iyewigamig Health Access Centre (WNHAC) are receiving $1.2 million in CIHR funding to explore the efficacy of using traditional healing to prevent cancer.

Dr. Lana Ray, Assistant Professor in Indigenous Learning at Lakehead and the University’s Indigenous Research Chair in Decolonial Futures, will work with WNHAC, traditional knowledge holders, and researchers from Lakehead University, Nipissing University and the University of Toronto to carry out the work over five years.

This project will implement traditional healing activities to address the impacts of colonialism in WNHAC’s service area. It will evaluate the impacts of the intervention through a pre- and post-design that will explore and measure risks and protective factors.

Using an Indigenous mixed methods research approach, this study will privilege Indigenous ways of knowing and doing and tangible outcomes for Indigenous communities through the implementation of medicine camps and traditional health practitioner visits.

…

“When we do this, we also begin to think of cancer as a symptom of colonialism, which allows for expanded approaches to primary and secondary cancer prevention.”

Colonialism is fundamentally about severing Anishinaabe peoples’ deep spiritual relationships to land. The anti-thesis to that is Anishinaabe systems of traditional healing that are grounded in a deep love and respect for the land and the knowledge that it possesses, Dr. Ray explained.

That’s *glorious.* Not only are they woke, they’re willing to put peoples lives at risk to prove it. And when it inevitably proves to be of little or negative value, rest assured that they’ll blame colonialism for the failure of their bone-headed superstitious gibberish.

 Posted by at 12:58 am

Double jeopardy

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Nov 192021
 

The jury in Wisconsin reached the “wrong” conclusion. So there are those who wish to re-try it.

House Judiciary Chair Nadler Calls for DOJ Review of Kyle Rittenhouse Case After ‘Heartbreaking Verdict’: Sets ‘Dangerous Precedent’

For starters, it’s not illegal for armed American citizens to cross state lines. And for second… he didn’t cross state lines with a gun anyway. So Nadler is flat-out lying in order to either grandstand or to call for the end of the judicial system we’ve had since day one.

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