Friday Ephemera (755)
Boobs in a jam, an obliging nudge. || Rice grain Gojira. || I’m no expert, but I don’t think that’s a guitar. || Feel the deep wisdom of her third eye. || Driving with intuition. || How to shrink your lungs. || Laughing while pregnant. || Little helpers. || The progressive retail experience, parts 609, 610, 611, 612, and 613. || Beef pottage and other thrills of the Medieval tavern. || You know, I question the physics. || Big and clicky, the way you like ’em. || On the problems of a billion-story building. || Tibetan sky burial. || Bottled for freshness. || Espionage essentials. || Question asked. || Taking out the trash. || More adventures in trash management. || His “first ever lesson” is to make small children memorise his own fabulist pronouns. || And finally, one to be filed under poolside etiquette.
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A nation which does not defend its borders will not survive for long. And the Cato Institute is fine with that.
Buy to virtue signal, also, sell to virtue signal.
As an aside, I hope that fence is not around her crib, that wouldn’t be welcoming, or something.
He provides no solid source but a screenshot for that. How do we know they didn’t pass the Darian gap? Panama would be a justified place to send such people. There must be a reason Panama accepted them. Might have something to do with the “miscommunication” with Panama by our state department as well. Interesting if true.
Or, aging celebrity craves relevance, attention.
Or, I don’t want to do what is moral and/or necessary. I want to be seen as nice.
Infuriated by reality.
Doesn’t Cheryl Crow have a history of easily mocked virtue signaling?
Were mediocre whites hired? Of course they were. But in general this would shake out. Either the mediocre would be displaced by the competent or the organization would fail (excepting government of course). This ignores the fact that even the mediocre whites have tended to be more law-abiding, on time, organized, and functional than, ahem, alternative cultures.
Weren’t the Maori headhunters?
‘Gender assigned at birth.’ As if he was a potato & had the naughty bits (which it is certain he is overly familiar with) stuck on.
The mandatory COVID test is a nice touch.
A red flag that shouts “I am annoying”.
Yes:
also:
No, ‘deportation’ does no such thing. ‘Repatriation’ does, but not ‘deportation’.
In any event, I long ago learned to ignore utopia-mongering idiots.
“The best way to solve problems is to not have enemies.”
PhD (Hon), the John Lennon School of Philosophy.
I vaguely recall schoolteachers fatuously saying “It takes two to have a fight”.
Funded by corporations that profit from unrestricted immigration?
Also known as the You Should Just Let Yourself Be Bullied, Forever approach.
“It doesn’t matter who started it.” The hell it doesn’t.
On the glorious NHS.
A nation which does not defend its borders will not survive for long. And the Cato Institute is fine with that.
If not having any connection to your destination country was a reason for migration to be wrong, then migration wouldn’t start or wouldn’t continue.
If “connection” means a connection to the people of the destination country, a lack of connection doesn’t stop a lot of migrants from coming – somebody needs to do the job of calling us racist. It goes without saying that the people of the desired destination countries of immigrants are considered to be outside the bounds of political and moral respectability if they complain that aliens are being parachuted in who have no connection.
The connections that migrants need and value are more with their own ethnic communities in the destination country, so early migrants tend to be more adventurous and assimilable than their cousins who arrive once those communities take root.
It’s not the source of their funding that is exceptional, but the vacuity of their notions.
Besides, using the bright-eyed & empty-headed as camouflage for base motives has a long, storied history.
In passing.
Both are noteworthy.
Another example: Silly and naive “defund the police, empty the prisons” liberals, who are funded by malevolent leftists like George Soros.
How dare you want an appointment with your GP.
How dare you want a doctor who understands English.
YOU BIGOT!
Following my recent piriformis injury, I phoned the local doctor’s surgery, which is about 200 metres away, to arrange a brief, ten-minute chat to check that I’m doing everything I ought to be doing and to discuss pain management, the hazards of prolonged use of anti-inflammatory painkillers, that kind of thing.
I was told that the earliest I could hope to be seen, whether in person or by phone, was in three weeks. For a ten-minute chat.
And don’t get me started on the attempt to return someone else’s crutches.
Looks like they’re doing the haka all over the place.
Wasn’t there here recently a video of a NZ parliament speech (by a Maori MP?) that was a haka, and which was celebrated in the media as Magic Brown Person Imparts Indigenous Ways of Knowing? But when it’s Magic Brown People vs The Rainbow Mafia, it looks like Rainbow wins. So much for those sacred Indigenous Ways of Knowing.
You know – I think there’s something to that Most Social Harm theory.
Does not make sense – the text says it is a time lapse covering 4 hours – but Jupiter is gigantic. Maybe 4 of our days.
This is brilliant. Tie them up in their own ideological knots.
Juno is not traveling slowly.
See @Dicentra’s comment.
The Hurt Feelings Squad has become the biggest department in the British Police Force.
This Cato Fellow fails to mention that there are internationally recognized rules for asylum seekers. The first rule is they are supposed to stop in the first “safe” country they land in. The vast majority of “asylum seekers” today are really economic migrants attempting to jump the immigration process and most of them have been in or through more than one country on the way to their preferred destination.
The Green Hornet needs to have a talk with Cato.
Also true: Jupiter does a complete rotation in under 10 hours.
“Free speech caused the Holocaust.”
I can’t even.
It’s never the well-paid people at the Cato Institute who are harmed by open borders.
I recall Mark Steyn pointing out Germany, after the Great War, had ‘hate speech’ laws in place.
The irremediable ignorance of our supposed betters is only matched by their malice.
Cheryl Crow: “The best way to solve problems is to not have enemies.” Ask the Belgians how that worked out for them in 1940. You don’t have to make enemies to be a victim. It is like saying the woman raped was asking for it.
Teachers and fights: it is simply easier to punish both rather than figure out who started it. My daughter in jr high got away with retaliation when bullied by her locker because the boys involved would not admit they got bested by a girl, and she had a good radar for teachers being around.
One of the most vacuous things I ever saw was during opening show for the london olympics the brits put on an paean to the NHS, complete with people dancing with beds. Really? The signs of rot were already there even then.
NHS: one of the big US innovations in health care is the walk-in clinic. No appointment, covered by insurance. You don’t get to see your regular md, but you get to see someone.
That’s right.
There was a time when such performances celebrated culture rather than politics.
Very strongly agree. Extremely beneficial.
Now that culture – or, more accurately, ‘culture’ – has been politicised . . .
“The personal is political and the political is personal.”
Also JBP: My right hand aches with the charge of a thousand undelivered yet morally obligatory slaps.
So what I hear you saying is the Earth is lazy?
OMG, that. But what was even more vacuous IMNSHO was the way people pretended otherwise. The elephant in the room was how so few people mentioned it, given how bloody absurd, Python-esque it was. Even over here across the pond.
Apropos of nothing…we need to make spanking great again. Especially for two year olds.
Our friend Adam Kotsko, ranting in 2023 against free market innovations:
Also Adam Kotsko
I recently watched the late 1960s movie A Touch of Love, in which Sandy Dennis plays a British woman who gets pregnant out of wedlock but decides to raise the child as a single mother. The baby is born with a congenital heart condition and has to spend some time in hospital. The NHS nurses, who of course know best, won’t let Dennis see her own kid, so she finally responds by screaming until the head doctor orders the nurses to let her see her own child.
Of course, if David tried that today, he’d get arrested.
A proper response, I, as I am sure the rest of you lot, can think of many others.