He Was Expecting Free Hits

Boys in the girl’s showers? This “lawmaker” has a solution worthy of Solon.

66 strikes and counting.

At the very end of the article, this:

Chattanooga Mayor Tim Kelly condemned the shooting, describing it as “an isolated, senseless, and brazen act of gun violence,” and suggesting it was unavoidable.

“The sad reality is that sometimes proactive policing only goes so far, particularly when you’re dealing with the kind of person who would commit a murderous act of apparent rage in front of witnesses on the steps of his own apartment building under the blue light of a well-known public safety camera,” Kelly said in a statement.

66 strikes! Yet – “unavoidable”? “Who could have seen it coming?” Helen freakin Keller could have seen it coming.

Oddly no calls for stricter gun laws, though. Just throw up the hands and blame the limits of proactive policing. Funny how policing doesn’t work if the AG just lets ’em go.

… males identifying as females, crashing a women’s tech conference …

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/leanna-eldridge_i-heard-about-this-phenomenon-earlier-today-activity-7112938909579309056-y8ta

https://youtu.be/uyciINvsoIk?t=50

Male Asian strivers outstriving female Asian strivers.

There is no single biological standard by which all humans can be reliably sorted

Of course there are.
Here’s one: If any of your body’s cells’ chromosomes contain the SRY gene then you are male. Otherwise you are female.

There are certainly other reasonable biological standards which would categorise some individuals as neither male nor female, but to claim there are none which won’t is anthropological ignorance. Ironically.

Something to remember, here…

Most of the liberal BS is grafted on to both Oregon and Washington, thanks to all the fruits and nuts from California and back East that gravitated here. The actual locals who are native to the two states are entirely different creatures.

Remember that Oregon actually banned blacks of any sort entering it, back in the day. Having observed Bloody Kansas, they wanted none of that acrimony over slave or free state. Oregon was also in the forefront of the Chinese exclusion movement. There’s a fairly strong thread of outright racism in the state, particularly in the rural areas. It’s not the sort of “KKK racism” that you might think, but it’s more the “We don’t want that sort of trouble” racism. Semi-pragmatic, in other words… Not to defend that, of course. Just an observation.

In both states, the urban areas were colonized by the outsiders, who came to dominate them. The rural areas, particularly the eastern parts? Quite different places economically, politically, and culturally.

Now, what I would point out for folks not from around here? There are an abundance of ways for someone to disappear, and never, ever be seen again. There are reasons that we have such prolific serial killers, and such a lot of trouble catching them. The landscape is heavily forested on the western slope of the Cascades, offering an awful lot of isolated places to allow nature to take its course. Wilderness is a short drive from anywhere, and you’d be shocked as a European to realize just how isolated you could be, were someone to say, chain you to a tree a few yards off the interstate. Or, chuck you into a snowbank, were it winter.

The eastern portions of both states are considerably more arid, but they’re also less populated and full of old, disused mines. You and your car could easily vanish, never to be seen again until someone decides to go exploring the mineshaft you were dropped into. There are also an awful lot of lakes and rivers.

The upshot of all this is to say that when the saturation point is finally reached, that Timisoara moment, the odds are pretty good that a lot of people are going to find that unmarked unconsecrated resting place out in the sticks. And, not by choice, either…

I won’t lay odds on whether or not the set of idiots enabling all of this might be joining their pets, either. People are getting pissed; many of the country folk remember the urban idiocrats destroying their livelihoods in favor of the sainted Spotted Owl, which turns out to be a crock of BS. The nature lovers in government are now hiring people to shoot the Barred Owls, which turn out to be rather better at being owls than the spotted variety. People have noticed this, and other things. They seethe, silently, observing the forests burn because nobody is harvesting the timber or clearing the brush, in the name of “Nature”.

There will be a denouement at some point. It won’t be pretty. I ain’t going to predict where or when it will start, but there are a lot of signs that the social pressure is building.

Of course, the whole thing may be moot. Should the Cascadia Fault subduction earthquake of 1700 repeat itself, most of western Oregon and Washington are going to spend an interregnum of anarchy before any sort of communications are re-established. Nobody is really prepared to deal with the aftermath, either. It will be interesting to observe… I expect the urban areas to revert to a Lord of the Flies sort of situation, particularly where they have been building on top of hills like the one at Oso a few years back. The world is gonna have a lot of fun observing that particular cluster-fark, because I guarantee you it’s going to be epically ugly. Hosts of other things could happen, as well… Mt. Rainier could go off, the faults along the Straits of Juan de Fuca could let go, or… Well, you get the point: Seattle and Portland might well get the Sodom and Gomorrah treatment. Which will leave a bunch of us on the east side of the Cascades sad, but entirely unsurprised. The stupid bastards deserve it, the way they’re behaving.