Friday Ephemera (799)
Some stability issues. || Sea bunnies. || Today’s word is breakdancing. || Senator invokes the biology of make-believe. || It’s absolutely essential, says she. || It’s a pull-and-blow kind of thing. || A collection of found cassette tapes (of variable quality). (h/t, Things) || Ah, simpler times. || Sprite, Australia. || As a lifestyle influencer, she likes looking at herself. || Just add flesh. || A gallery of strange phenomena. || He gives relationship advice. || “A different relationship to property,” says she. || Scenes from the Las Vegas Housekeeping Olympics. || A handy stick. || A history of English windmills, 1968. || When one just isn’t enough. || “We need help.” || Ill-equipped for the task of living. || PhDs. || Ice, hot copper. || Positioning of note. || For those long winter evenings. || Funny who you run into.
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Walz claims he has put National Guard on alert and will call them out to protect MN citizens. Open insurrection much?
[ cartoons of Deacon Mushrat and Mole hunting deviants and subversives. ]
Related.
Guidelines.
[ Watches old episode of Thunderbirds. ]
I have to say, Lady Penelope is pleasingly ruthless. She pursues a wrongdoer down the motorway and, making use of FAB 1’s machine guns, blasts him off the road to his (presumed) doom.
None of this let’s-all-talk-about-our-feelings nonsense.
Traffic safety tips.
Heh.
[ Peers out of window, checks for snow thievery. ]
In case you were wondering where hood-rat behavior comes from:
Is that what they call a heavy snow in England?
(Via here.)
Two thoughts:
Can we trust the researchers’ methodology?
Should we be worried or pleased?
Hmmmm… somehow I’m missing how this woman was just a confused mom who panicked and never hit the “not a real cop” cop here.
Indeed. This is an far-left provocateur who thought should could get away with anything…again. There is no reason to feel sorry for her.
@David, I believe you have said that a cup of coffee is an essential start to your day? That you can’t really do without it?
There is no reason to feel sorry for her.
“they don’t think the rules apply to them, not even the rules of life and death, and why should they…”
Hmmm…to protect MN citizens? Yeah. I guess if you buy the Narrative, of course that’s what it was about.
All Trump would have to do then is federalize the Guard whereupon they could be tasked with supporting ICE ops. They really don’t think this stuff through.
Did someone say, “NPR?” Because here is their sole headline covering the protests in Iran: “Iran’s supreme leader says protesters are ‘ruining their own streets’ to please Trump” Along with this take from their expert, “This is exactly why the internet was shut down: to prevent the world from seeing the protests. Unfortunately, it also likely provided cover for security forces to kill protesters.” As if the second sentence referred to some unintended consequence.
What are the odds?
Every Nazi, every Communist, every Islamo-fascist, thought they were a good person.
There are a couple other articles there, but much farther down, dated a couple days ago I think.
Still, NPR is NPR.
Actually, there are lots of reasons to feel sorry for her. Just none premised on the notion her death was unjust or unwarranted.
Okay, but after decades of “liberal” fascism I am all sorried out.
Nah. They wouldn’t spend so much time lying about themselves, their beliefs, or their actions if they truly thought that.
Seen earlier today: Someone played the Soviet funeral dirge* while discussing the death of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
* The one played on Soviet radio whenever a senior Kremlin leader died.
It was Hugh Hewitt.
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“Punchable face” doesn’t begin to describe him.
Actually, they thought they were entitled to take what they wanted by force. The Nazis and Communists had discarded outdated notions of good and evil. The Islamists think they have God in their back pocket.
Cluster B smirks and smugness is what they have in common.
This is why it was worth it.
Women of that type, and they are very much a type, are an appalling phenomenon. There’s a vain refusal to understand the reality of the situation, or her necessarily subordinate position, and a kind of juvenile brattishness that hasn’t been evaporated by normal adult maturity.
The Unspanked, as our host would say.
We’ve seen countless iterations of the same phenomenon with varying degrees of vividness. Leftist women, generally leftist women of a pampered kind, who use the fact that they’re women as a presumed shield against normal corrective measures, as if their being female offered an exemption from normal rules, normal reciprocation.
And so, we’ve seen women trying to spook police horses so that they throw the rider. Women bullying bewildered male shop assistants in the name of some fatuous activism. Women banging cowbells in the face of police officers in an attempt to deafen the officer. Women provoking men in ways one really shouldn’t. All while assuming that they won’t be subject to any of the normal physical consequences.
Because manhandling a woman – even a monstrously spiteful bitch – is assumed to look bad and so will therefore be avoided, resulting in paralysis, impotence. And any physical effort to inhibit their malevolent pantomime can quickly be used as evidence of some imagined brutality and thereby some high-status martyrdom. Because what threat could she be, being a poor little woman?
These are women who want to behave like a delinquent male thug while being spared the morally correct fate of one.
They are contemptible.
Regarding the above, this came to mind:
Not unrelated, I’d say.
As with the I’m-not-touching-you tactic, seen repeatedly and quite vividly here, they’re counting on the rest of us observing social rules that they themselves gleefully violate.
Cluster B smirks and smugness is what they have in common.
God, how is it that the neighbors don’t come out of their homes and scream at the horn honkers and whistle blowers to STFU? Is the whole street woke? I feel sorry for the one neighbor who works third shift and is just trying to get some sleep.
If so, then you will love this.
I gather the caffeine is supposed to have some small effect on hair thinning, though I don’t have a subscription to The International Journal of Questionable Hair Care.
[ Runs fingers through luxurious mane. ]
And then there’s this.
it’s Bring Your Kid To Work Day
All that time pandering to Muhammedan thugs and this is the thanks she gets.
Is it murder if they literally demand it? Asking for a friend.
It’s as if they don’t want to see what things in the world are.
Twelvth street. Twelvth. It’s the ordinal between eleventh and thirteenth. Twelvth. Let’s all say it together, TWEL-vuh -thuh. See? Wasn’t that fun? And we leared something too!
It’s not unlike a scene in that awful Alien prequel, Prometheus, where characters have to behave in really dumb ways in order for the plot to happen.
And so, two annoying crewmembers get stranded in a Big Creepy Structure, almost every aspect of which suggests doom of some sort. Someone detects a life sign that isn’t theirs, at which point the duo get scared and start running about. The message is clear: life sign equals very bad news.
But seconds later, when the same characters actually encounter one of the face-hugging serpent-things rising up and baring its mouth parts, they walk towards it cluelessly and treat it as if it were a puppy or a hamster. And – surprise! – they’re attacked.
It has a similar dynamic. And is similarly aggravating.
Movies with idiot plots are aggravating. Communists getting themselves killed is not in itself aggravating; it’s poetic justice, after all. What’s aggravating is how, on the way to their doom, they put real human beings in danger.
Based on the subset of Minnesotans I’ve known, conservatives are definitely a minority. Deranged libtards are very very common.
This. Big THIS. Women are becoming quite insufferable but this “I’m a woman, I’m a good person” BS that has been with us for a very, very long time now, has hit its expiration date hard. The women’s libbers objected to being put on a pedestal yet at the same time continued to expect men to put them on a pedestal. Treating women equally with men in ALL regards was a stupid idea even in the abstract A bloody stupid idea. One so stupid yet so bloody obvious, much like the anti-fats dietary “science”, or that girls/women were no better at language skills and boys/men no better at logical/analytical/math skills, a teenager could see through it decades ago. But any such teenager would be wrong, wrong, wrong. Even conservatives at the time, many even of the Greatest Generation, had been cowed and gaslit to believe the big lies. Believing those lies would have consequences. Serious consequences. But no one liked hearing such things. Best not to upset the…women.