Friday Ephemera

“Evil is a make-believe concept,” say vegetarian cyclists, before being rammed with a car and then stabbed to death by jihadis.
I warned you.

…although President Mountain Dew…
That is President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho, to you, thank you very much.

“Liberty has produced scepticism, and scepticism has destroyed liberty. The lovers of liberty thought they were leaving it unlimited, when they were only leaving it undefined. They thought they were only leaving it undefined, when they were really leaving it undefended.”
— GK Chesterton
Tends to underpin the growing rejection of rightism and its muh constitution type of passive grandstanding-slash-martyrdom.

Millennial Couple Bikes Near ISIS Territory to Prove ‘Humans Are Kind’ and Gets Killed
At least they proved some humans are really stupid.

And this:

The face lies on a surgical tray, eyes empty and unseeing, mouth agape, as if exclaiming, “Oh!” Sixteen hours ago, surgeons in Operating Room 19 at the Cleveland Clinic began the delicate work of removing the face from a 31-year-old woman who was declared legally and medically dead three days earlier. Soon they will take it to a 21-year-old woman who has waited more than three years for a new face.
For a moment, the face rests in its astonished solitude. Surgeons, residents, and nurses, suddenly silent, gaze at it in awe as clinic staff, like unusually polite paparazzi, move in with cameras to document it. The face, deprived of blood, grows pale. With each second of detachment, it looks more like a 19th-century death mask. Frank Papay, a veteran plastic surgeon, picks up the tray, carrying it carefully in his gloved hands, and walks to Operating Room 20, where Katie Stubblefield waits.

Needless to say, the article features some quite graphic photographs.

“And finally…”
Awww, I was hoping for a skateboarding duck.

At least they proved some humans are really stupid.
Somewhat related, these. Why, it’s almost as if there’s something to be learned.

The lost art of fire-jumping
What friends are for. Or associates, or something.

The umbrella on the left is the magic one.
Stopping a train.

Anyway, this might be of interest
Thanks, Tom.

Naturopathic Quesadillas, for the healthy lifestyle.
So Much Guardian.
When guns are outlawed, only bakers will have guns, or food.

Naturopathic Quesadillas, for the healthy lifestyle.
I was won over by the “biofrequency healing stickers.” Also, the use of clothes pegs.

What, not Face/Off?

From the spider link:
Well-fed males are redder, which may be a sign of their fitness. But red also acts as a deterrent, tapping into a female’s aversion to a color that typically screams I’m toxic.

Take a lesson from the spiders, friends.

In case David and the henchlesbians ever need a new lair
I may need a bigger tip jar.

It cost about $8 and contains enough materials to rip the hair out of six nostrils. To use it, you heat up waxy pellets in a microwave oven, apply the molten wax to a plastic stick, shove it into your nostril (twisting as you do so).

News you can use.

Re the vegan bicyclists: Experience keeps a rough school, but some fools won’t learn anywhere else.
Pretending that monsters don’t exist doesn’t seem to be a winning strategy.

Straight outta IngSoc

[T]he notion that a penis is exclusively a male body part and a vulva is exclusively a female body part is inaccurate. By using the word “parts” to talk about genitals and using medical terms for anatomy without attaching a gender to it, we become much more able to effectively discuss safe sex in a way that’s clear and inclusive.
For the purposes of this guide, we’ll refer to the vagina as the “front hole” instead of solely using the medical term “vagina.” This is gender-inclusive language that’s considerate of the fact that some trans people don’t identify with the labels the medical community attaches to their genitals.

Enriched Deutschland:
https://m.france24.com/en/20180817-yazidi-ex-sex-slave-trapped-both-iraq-german-exile

Presumably, they hadn’t considered the fact that children’s stories often feature monsters of some kind as a way to introduce important information about the world.
Years ago I did a fair bit of reading of the accounts of apostates from Islam. Of those who who had been converts, most were women. And most were warned, again and again.
One that always sticks out in memory was a German girl, who as usual met a wonderful, amazingly charming Muslim male; she was smitten, believed all he told her concerning his faith, converted, married, and, eventually, was convinced to follow him back to his home country.
Along the way this created a schism with her own family, and along the way there were plenty of moments when she could have given pause, and listened to her gut, instead of her heart.
In her husband’s home country, the mask began slipping off.
She escaped, eventually, and secreted her way to the German embassy. There she told the older woman working the desk her plight. The older woman’s response was telling, in what it implied. What she said, was: “Why don’t you girls ever listen?”

Under Senator Warren’s proposal, no business with more than $1 billion in revenue would be permitted to legally operate without permission from the federal government.
I would anticipate the dissolution of many $1+ billion companies, and the incorporation of many more $0.9 billion companies.
At which point Sen. Geritolimo would lower the bar to a half-billion, and then a quarter-billion. One struggles to predict the end result of this cat-and-mouse game. Federal oversight of all commercial activity, or a re-enactment of the Sack of Washington?

I would anticipate the dissolution of many $1+ billion companies, and the incorporation of many more $0.9 billion companies
Well, exactly. This is precisely what scares me most about these things. I find it hard to believe these people are actually this stupid. Yet lacking anything close to an even remotely honest and questioning media, even in much of the “conservative” media, when crap like this comes up no one asks the blatantly obvious questions. I’m constantly torn between two dark and helpless fears, #TheyCannotPossiblyBeThisStupidTheyAreHidingSomethingEvenMoreEvil and #OMGItsTrueTheyAreThisIncreadibyStupidAndTheyHavePower. Yes, hash tags. Because these things need to be categorized and monitored until I figure out WTH is going on.

Re cyclists: Experience is a tough teacher. She gives the test first, and the lesson after.

Re dorm room flycatcher: I knew a guy in HS who would catch flies by snatching them out of the air. Then, he’d pull their legs and wings off and watch them twitch on his desk.
He went to MIT and in 4 years earned a BS and two Master’s in math and engineering. He also co-owned a restaurant.
Don’t eat the soup.

Straight outta IngSoc
Lordy… Looking at a safe sex guide which is illustrated by a double fist is driving me into the ‘A’ in LGBTQIA…
Still, nice to see the ‘progressives’ continuing to fight reality with semantics.