Friday Ephemera

Karate Girl, 1973.
Have you ever seen the Turkish Star Wars rip-off? Saw some clips 30 years ago. Hilariously bad.

the self-destructing tape recorders in the Mission: Impossible TV series.
As I recall, it was the tapes that self-destructed. But now we would have self-destructing USB sticks.

Morning, all.
The thrill of cardboard.
The food was okay, the atmosphere not so much.
And for those who missed them in the comments earlier in the week, two interviews of possible interest.

Best. Site. Ever.
[ Reaches under bar for revolver. ]
(Well, except for this one.)
[ Replaces revolver in ornate onyx box. ]

“Yikes. Why did they let it get so close?”
Freezing is the best possible thing to do in those circumstances…

*hums theme from Mission Impossible*

The arrival of 50 illegal immigrants on Marthas’ Vineyard…….
https://twitter.com/DoctorTurtleboy/status/1570571488956395521
So, apparently relocating migrants to a paradise holiday island is “traumatising”….
Their compassion is as deep as their swimming pools…

New rap sensation.
I didn’t know Philip Glass wrote rap parodies…

So, apparently relocating migrants to a paradise holiday island is “traumatizing”….
They don’t like it up ‘em, as a wise man once said.
Somewhat related.

https://twitter.com/DoctorTurtleboy/status/1570610540736806914/photo/1
The person who wrote that is way to self-aware to be Woke. I suspect the tweet will be deleted under pressure or downvoted to oblivion soon.

“There’s no law against that,” he says.

the self-destructing tape recorders in the Mission: Impossible TV series.
Interesting. But my only memory is of a tape self-destructing inside an automobile cassette player.

Safety hazard noted, along with rather unprofessional clothing for the job.
Some details here:

Oakville Trafalgar High School is overseen by the Halton District School Board (HDSB), which has recently begun promoting gender identity ideology in schools… [Their policy says,] “The HDSB is committed to establishing and maintaining a safe, caring, inclusive, equitable and welcoming learning and working environment for all members of the school community including… staff… who identify as, or are perceived as… trans…”

I would suggest that giving the seriously mentally ill access to other people’s children, and authority over those children, is also, shall we say, less than ideal.

a safe, caring, inclusive, equitable and welcoming learning and working environment
‘Safe’ = your kids will be stuck in a room with a lunatic.

can safely torment and mentally abuse your teenaged kids and you will like and accept it, you bigot.
I’ll just leave this here for no reason whatsoever.

a side effect of Lasik surgery is that at night, I often see a rainbow halo around street lights and car headlamps. Always quite circular.
Curiously, a friend who had that surgery mentioned hexagonal arrays of tiny lights instead of rainbows around those street lights.

…a friend who had that surgery mentioned hexagonal arrays of tiny lights…
Don’t eat the brown acid man.

I’ll just leave this here for no reason whatsoever.
Ah yes! Prof Cremini – the first His Pretty Nails (I love that tag. It says it all really.)
I would suggest that giving the seriously mentally ill access to other people’s children, and authority over those children, is also, shall we say, less than ideal.
This. And yet here we are, with schools overtly stating that this is how it’s going to be, and if you don’t like it, shut up bigot, or else.

This. And yet here we are, with schools overtly stating that this is how it’s going to be, and if you don’t like it, shut up bigot, or else.
An effective solution will require dealing with the rest of the left.

I’ve come to conclusion that all these people are actually anti-romantic while promoting promiscuity at every opportunity.
Yes. Also interested in exercising power–everything must be under their arbitrary control and everybody must be made to fear them.

I’ve come to conclusion that all these people are actually anti-romantic while promoting promiscuity at every opportunity.

A survey of more than 1,000 Australians commissioned by the organisation found that more than half of respondents were unable to recognise consent when seen on screen and one in four were unable to define it.

Half the respondents have a different idea than the activist pseudoscientists about what constitutes consent.
One in four are unable to define it in words, maybe because consent is implicit, conveyed in behavior.
See also
From the “former Sydney private school student” link…

‘He raped me twice and they let him get away with it. What more do you need to know?’ This one-sentence testimony above was bleak in its brevity, and sharp in meaning: boys and men get away with sexual assault, this is a large part of how and why it keeps on happening.

What exactly happened there? Brad from the rowing team caught her twice in the dark alley between the refectory and the music room in their elite private school? The misogynist trope, which never ever happens in real life, would be that she had sex with Brad twice then he dumped her callously for some tenth-grader. But luckily we have journalists to fact-check these complex issues instead of taking one-sentence testimonies at face value.

One in four are unable to define it in words, maybe because consent is implicit, conveyed in behavior.
I remember 1970’s feminists insisting that consent had to be given verbally and at every stage in a…”relationship”. This was very confusing for a young man barely out of adolescence, but I eventually realized that what these feminists said bore no relationship to the reality of human society, and that these feminists were all man-hating lesbians and/or just Marxists and other malevolent sub-humans.

Just a joke about your friend seeing colours, something which is commonly ascribed to LSD use.
You now know that I’d forgotten what little I had ever heard about LSD.
My friend said that he was happy with the results of the surgery, but the side-effects put me off (not to mention the small risk of serious vision loss) so I decided to stick with glasses. Besides, without glasses I wouldn’t be able to properly narrow my eyes and peer over them sternly at what is posted here.

OK, I can buy wanting asylum from Guatemala.
I can guarantee that just outside of the camera’s eye are military or para-military equipped with automatic weapons and body armour and vehicles with mounted high calibre weapons. I’ve been to Guatemala. People who look like the people in that video are under constant “supervision”. Hey, it may be part of the appeal.

‘Safe’ = your kids will be stuck in a room with a lunatic.
Until further details emerge it’s hard to say much more, but we do appear to have wandered into the land of farce. Maybe Mr Stephen Hanna, the man with the comedic rubber breasts and fire-sale wig, is sharing his real self and inner loveliness with the children in his care. Or, given the school district’s policy of affirming and indulging the dysmorphic, maybe he’s trolling for a lawsuit. But neither scenario suggests that he’s fit to be entrusted with other people’s children.

But my only memory is of a tape self-destructing inside an automobile cassette player.
Never dealt with 8-track tapes?

sharing his real self and inner loveliness
*squints*

Never dealt with 8-track tapes?
I was aware of them but never used them. Are you saying that MI used automobile 8-track players rather than cassette players? And if so are you sure? After 50 years it all gets vague.

I laughed and I’m not sorry.
And this.

Gender reveal.

“White people are the reason I can’t lose weight.”
Using the same high standard of argumentation employed by the young lady in the video, I could “prove” to her that actually Islam is the reason why she can’t lose weight, not white people.
Before the rise of Islam in the 7th century, the spice trade had carried on along the Eurasian corridor for centuries, probably almost a 1,000 years. (Hence among the many finds excavated from Roman Pompeii was a statuette of an Indian goddess carved in ivory).
The Roman cuisine included spices such as pepper, ginger, cloves, nutmeg, turmeric, cardamom, and cinnamon all of which ultimately reached Roman banquet halls via India.
After Islam’s expansion, those routes still existed , but there’s a reason why the root of both tariff and sugar in English are derived from Arabic in the first instance.
If you throttle demand in this way, the price shoots up. This is good for a time and great if you think you have a monopoly on the supply.
But prices that high create incentives and offer the possibilities of rewards so high that someone at some point is going to risk all on finding their own ways to break that monopoly apart and get a piece of the action.
Since a heavily-laden East India Company ship returning from the East could return profits of as much 22,000% for investors back in the day, unsurprisingly, there was a boom in trade once the routes had been navigated.
So using her own logic, it’s actually Islam and the Caliphate that put British and other European boots on the ground in India and so it’s therefore Islam that’s ultimately responsible – again according to her – for her difficulties in trying to lose weight.
Not a combination of too many muffins and not enough exercise.

I laughed and I’m not sorry.
Let the mockery continue!
What’s all this abo- … bwuh-ha ha ha ha ha ha! Holy Shoot-for-the-Moon!

Claiming that “every community in America should be sharing in the burdens,” DeSantis told a press briefing he wanted to draw attention to what he claimed was a failure by the Biden administration to secure the US-Mexico border [ … ]
DeSantis, Abbott and Doug Ducey, governor of Arizona, have sent thousands of migrants to predominantly Democratic-run “sanctuary” states and cities they deem to be liberal over immigration …

I know it’s The Guardian, but to write “deem to be” seems to imply that they are somehow mistaken in understanding “sanctuary cities” such as San Francisco to be ” liberal over immigration”.
Yet it literally says so right here under Priorities on the Mayor of San Francisco’s website:

Since 1989, San Francisco has proudly been a Sanctuary City. We will stand shoulder-to-shoulder with our immigrant communities and fight for the progress we’ve achieved in this City. We are a sanctuary city, now, tomorrow and forever.

And further on:

Under current law, City employees may not use City resources to:
* Assist or cooperate with any ICE investigation, detention, or arrest relating to alleged violations of the civil provisions of federal immigration law.
* Ask about immigration status on any application for City benefits, services, or opportunities, except as required by federal or state statute, regulation, or court decision.
* Limit City services or benefits based on immigration status, unless required by federal or state statute or regulation, public assistance criteria, or court decision.
* Provide information about the release status or personal information of any individual, except in limited circumstances when law enforcement may respond to ICE requests for notification about when an individual will be released from custody.
* Detain an individual on the basis of a civil immigration detainer after that individual becomes eligible for release from custody.

So where’s the lie? Where’s the error? What have De Santis and others got wrong that made The Guardian use the phrase “deem to be”?
True enough, Martha’s Vineyard is in a Republican state with a Republican governor as the report points out, but that’s hardly the point.
The responses in the same article are something else:

“Acts of calculated deception were reportedly used to trick migrants onto buses and planes,” the statement from Polaris [an anti-trafficking charity] chief Catherine Chen said. “Unfortunately, this tactic is one that we know far too well in the anti-trafficking world. Migrants are regularly tricked and defrauded as part of their trafficking experience, with traffickers and exploiters taking advantage of their recent arrival, limited English proficiency, and unfamiliarity with our government systems and labor laws.”
Chen added: “If migrants were defrauded, and if this fraud was intended as a vehicle for anyone’s material gain, including that of an elected official, then there is a case for investigating it as trafficking.”

I could sort of understand this if the migrants had been tricked onto buses and planes that had sent them to, for example, Rwanda in Africa.
But since migrants have to be accommodated somewhere if they are going to be in the US, why not Martha’s Vineyard, and why not also “at the Washington DC residence of the vice-president, Kamala Harris”?
I’m also not sure Chen is making quite the argument she thinks she is when she acknowledges that:

Migrants [are people with] limited English proficiency, and unfamiliarity with our government systems and labor laws.

Surely those are quite important issues to take into account, no?
Surely those are exactly the kind of issues that require a responsible government to be able to manage immigration to ensure both the safety of the migrants coming in (preventing them from being exploited by unscrupulous US citizens in housing, employment or others services) as well as the stability and cohesion of the communities into which they are moving?
That’s reasonable, isn’t it?
It certainly seems more sensible than allowing a free-for-all in which the unscrupulous and the downright criminal can exploit poor migrants in a shadow economy or flagrantly break laws on fire safety, sanitation, power use and so on in rented accommodation.
Doesn’t it?

Martha’s Vineyard is in a Republican state with a Republican governor…
I know, Guardian, so I would hardly expect them to do any research, but all the US senators and representatives are democrats, 37/40 state senators are democrats, 129/160 (1 independent) state representatives are democrats, and the “Republican” governor a Romney clone, so two microns to the right of their Senator Warren. Massachusetts is as “Republican” as North Korea.
Meanwhile, in a city with one of the highest Hispanic populations in the country, “We got no stuff, go back to Del Rio”. TBF, though, Chicago probably isn’t an improvement over wherever they left.

They want a game of calvinball.
Which is why they should spend the rest of the game in the penalty box.

Martha’s Vinyard: The feds themselves have been flying immigrants all over the country…but they do it at night with no press so it is sneaky. They object to it being in their faces. The ploy of dropping them in dem hellholes and letting the dem mayors squeel is simply brilliant. Martha’s had to call nat guard to move 50 migrants? hahahaha A resident on one thread defended the move by saying there is not housing “suitable” for the migrants (ie they need to be moved to a poor neighborhood) so moving them was kindness. Right.

I just looked up the electoral history of Massachusetts, and was surprised to find that the state Senate had a Republican majority as “recently” as 1958, that it voted for Reagan both times, and, even more so, that it’s only had one Democrat Governor since Dukakis packed it in. But yeah, the idea that it’s a “Republican state” is just nuts.

Yes, I have noticed this phenomenon.

Motor race of note.

What kind of human being would punch a 93 year old woman in the head?
Somewhat related. Bragging rights, apparently.

Somewhat related. Bragging rights, apparently.
Do you feel culturally enriched?

their degenerate enablers, would feel an occasional twinge of shame.
Municipal elections, which include school board trustees, are occurring in this jurisdiction in about a month. I’m actually surprised by the school board’s reaction under the circumstances. Unfortunately, it shows how far we’ve fallen when they’re that certain they won’t be turfed out over this.
so more serious behavior modification techniques will be needed.
Are those helicopters I hear?

A long thread about lenient sentences for thugs who should have gotten dirt naps.

NO ONE would accept a female teacher with a 36″ anatomically correct prosthetic penis shoved down a pair of leggings tight enough to be fully outlined.
I’m afraid there are some who would.

Mr Stephen Hanna, mentioned upthread, and his fire-sale wig and huge rubber bosoms.
It’s this that makes me wonder if it’s a shit test, or as David said above, “trolling for a lawsuit”. The blatant ridiculous in-your-face nature of it, and the school district doubles down! It’s like these arseholes are trying to see just how far they can go before someone says “enough”. Is there nothing Trans Inc and their spineless corporate and academic conquests will not defend?

a Manufacturing Technology instructor
AKA craft teacher

I want to slap the smug right out of that pisher.
What’s interesting is just how readily these people will lie:

HDSB Chair Margo Shuttleworth tells the Toronto Sun that staff are looking at “going through creating a safety plan” to ensure the Oakville Trafalgar High School teacher’s security as they prepare for potential protests when the school opens for classes Monday. Protecting any person’s “gender rights” is “the stance the school board is taking and they are standing behind the teacher,” said Shuttleworth. “This teacher (who teaches shop) is an extremely effective teacher,” said Shuttleworth. “All the kids really love being in the class.”

In fact, it seems obvious that quite a few of the children find the cartoonish transvestism distracting, to say the very least. Hence the tweeted comments and video. And Mr Hanna’s nylon wig and enormous rubber breasts, complete with prominent nipples, don’t appear to be enhancing his classroom competence or his compliance with basic safety procedures – quite the opposite. And of course, Ms Shuttleworth’s statement, above, doesn’t bode well for any child who isn’t happy about their forced proximity to a mentally ill man in a position of authority over them, or for any parent who sees fit to complain about their child being obliged to participate in a bedlamite’s psychodrama. Thanks to the school district’s my-fetish-in-your-face policy.
But as we’ve noted before, if you mouth the first lie – that he is somehow she – then other lies will rapidly accumulate. Best, I think, not to give away the store in the first place.

The 2022 IgNobel Prizes have been announced.

“This teacher (who teaches shop) is an extremely effective teacher,” said Shuttleworth. “All the kids really love being in the class.”
There is no limit to the lies that apparatchiks will tell. Treat them accordingly.

But as we’ve noted before, if you mouth the first lie – that he is somehow she – then other lies will rapidly accumulate.
This is what Jordan Peterson warned against when the aforementioned laws (mentioned by Daniel Ream upthread) were introduced.

This is what Jordan Peterson warned against when the aforementioned laws… were introduced.
In the case of Mr Hanna, I’m guessing we’re expected to believe that he’s some benign, vulnerable, and unfairly put-upon soul, and not just another narcissistic opportunist – a creep with a huge sense of entitlement and a serious mental health issue. A man whose absurd self-indulgence is being enabled and defended by the school district and will likely be deemed of greater importance than any children who object to participating in someone else’s psychodrama.
It seems to me that a person doesn’t behave in this way and impose on others in this way – such that one might assume he must be trolling for a lawsuit – if that person feels oppressed or marginalised or vulnerable. Quite the opposite.