Friday Ephemera (801)
How to warm your car, or possibly a friend’s. || Some might call it karma. || “When I’ve been pulled over before,” she said. || Fun with Goffin’s cockatoo. || The gentle touch. || Quit griping, they had it worse. || Engaging maximum girliness. || He also loves his girlhood. || Scenes of lively tilting. || An oddly tricky question. || On pharmaceutical sortedness, portable warehouses, and raving in Cramlington, 1993. || The thrill of candles, 1972. Or possibly Things To Come. || How the North Pole was thought to be, 1595. || Can you power your computer by typing? || This, and the quoted post. || An educator speaks. || She’s taken time out of her busy schedule to tell you how magic works. || Gradient horse. || Scenes of suboptimal ice clearing. || Intriguing baggage detected. || And finally, an influencer at large.
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Well, obviously.
TBF…because always, always gotta BF even when dealing with leftist BS, it doesn’t appear that that specific person I quoted is herself a nurse. But it wasn’t significantly atypical of the other comments by nurses there.
One for the Unfit For Civilisation file.
In lighter news, going full goggles.
Or, shit and death.
I just assumed she was talking about some academic over-the-shoulder regalia earned from the department of man.
Hm. This gin and tonic needs refreshing.
WHY MUST I SUFFER LIKE THIS?
For Jenna, the young lady who was pulled over and questioned by the police, a small snippet of a song for her:
”One
Two
Three
Four
Five Policemen working overtime.”
(With apologies to XTC)
Birds of a feather . . .
That feeling you get while despising lawfare but wanting this clown tied up in court ad infinitum.
It’s as if sexuality is not the only way trans people are loony and obnoxious.
Praise the lord, it’s a miracle!
As if Baconians and Oxfordians weren’t enough bother.
Marxists in Europe have voiced support for the regime in Iran. The one killing thousands of protesters. The one that chased a thousand or more into the Rasht bazzar and then set it on fire. When they tell you who they are, believe them.
Rioters in Minnesota are channeling their inner Dahmers.
That bit about Shakespeare having been a black woman has been featured here in the past, but given this level of oratory, it just may be true.
https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/zdvxjexjgvx/PATTIE%20GONIA%20TRADEMARK%20LAWSUIT%20complaint.pdf
A corporate executive in Patagonia cringes to a drag queen who’s blatantly embracing and extending the trademarks they spent 50 years developing. Normal people just get a disagreeable legal email and it escalates fast from there. Here the escalation is as timid as the opening (“I am writing, somewhat more formally this time … I hope we are able to work this out”) and they eventually file this reluctant lawsuit where they don’t want to be meanies, and if you ask us personally we don’t think sexual exhibitionists should be subject to any laws or social feedback at all, but we submit to the court a list of our environmentally virtuous projects, modestly suggesting that we’re nearly as much the good guys as the guy who’s stealing our intellectual property, so if the court wouldn’t mind etc etc.
So this is what Michelle Obama means about “letting us wear our natural hair.”
Actually, I kinda like the do. It took a lot of skill to get it in that position, though I don’t know how you’d navigate lying down in it to sleep.
It’s creative, brightly colored, and refreshingly unique.
When we take my mom to places where there’s lots of walking, she sits in a wheelchair, but she’s actually ambulatory over short distances and while hanging out at home.
OTOH, that kind of wheelchair is not what you use unless you’re seriously disabled to the point that you need help using the toilet.
So yeah. Fake.
I’m not sure that’s the problem. He’s definitely not good at speaking extemporaneously (at least right here), but Elon is also not particularly articulate.
In Elon’s case, it’s probably his Asperger’s (which might reduce his verbal aptitude), but also you get the sense that his brain is racing faster than he can get the words out, and he has to keep backing up to complete his sentences. I’ve read some of his emails to employees, and he seems to use language well enough.
Alex might be stumbling over his own efforts to sound intelligent, OR he might be having a hard time assembling sentences that reflect what people are OK with hearing but that he himself doesn’t believe.
Given that he’s to inherit the Soros project, I kinda hope he’s a moron. Maybe that would slow down the mischief after the old man finally kicks it.
OTOH, there are likely to be plenty of other psychopaths in Soros’s inner circle who can keep it all going.
e.g.: Biden administration
It’s remarkable how she manages to speak for so long, ostensibly on the subject of what she thinks, without actually having any thoughts.
Meanwhile, in the New York Times, where Our Betters set the pace.
I keep trying to construct some fanon in my head where the 22 minute running time precluded the many escalations necessary to get from “one of our subs is missing” to “bomb the entire ocean” and I’m not quite getting there. I mean, even if you assume the sub has been destroyed by enemy action, bombing the entire ocean seems a bit indiscriminate. And if it’s simply had a comms failure or worse, a ballast rupture, then bombing the entire ocean seems likely to destroy the missing sub.
I have questions for Stingray Command, is all I’m saying.
She looks ridiculous, and none of the comments are from anyone with a real job. Just useless HR power skirts engaging in typical female intrasexual competition.
BOMB THE OCEANS, I SAY.
I suppose the question is whether her feat of ostentatious, rather overbearing hairstyling is likely to fill patients, the party that matters, with confidence.
In many ways, the CG remake was pretty well done, but the modern audience tendencies could be a little grating.
I vaguely recall one episode in which the villains of the piece have tried repeatedly to murder all of the Tracy boys and their empowered female team member, and many other innocent people, and – for reasons too complicated to relate – end up trapped and facing their own impending doom. This predicament being a direct consequence of their own homicidal tendencies.
The subsequent agonising of the Tracy boys – and their willingness to risk their own escape to save the party bent on their destruction and the destruction of many others – did strike me as a little jarring. The message for children presumably being that the wellbeing of sociopaths who delight in destruction and the murder of random people is every bit as valuable as that of anyone else.
A more morally satisfying conclusion would, I think, have required some of that old-school Lady Penelope spirit.
Ironic, given how many Marxists that regime killed.
Doubly ironic, as that’s the only good thing it did, in my view.
As I said elsewhere, imagine a patient awaking from a coma and that is the first thing they see.
Back in the 60’s, black
asswipesclassmates confidently “informed” me that Beethoven was black. Likewise Cleopatra. But I cannot recall at the moment if the “Shakespeare was black” lie goes back that far.My ability to feel sorry for the author is drastically limited by my horror at the evils the author promulgates.
So a morally deranged liar, or just morally deranged?
Silly Muslima, everyone knows it was the Wakandans.
If being raped by a pack of men for six hours didn’t learn you anything, nothing will. Similar for the editor, publisher, and anyone who reads that criminal enterprise mouthpiece.
And assuming that the crime happened, would it be outrageous to ask whether the race of the assailants might be an issue? I ask because with women of this type – and they are very much of a type – it often is.
These stories are so bloody stupid and appear with such increasing frequency such that I find it hard to say which is more naive? Believing that they happened or believing that they didn’t?
Well, one doesn’t rush into perdition – a stately, measured tread is the thing.
She writes for The Nation so let’s go with the former.
Possibly apropos:
In a word – No. I wouldn’t want a nurse with face/neck tattoos, face piercings, or a 90’s style punk mohawk hair style either, regardless of the melanin level of the person sporting it. Since such accoutrements speak to a general disregard of professionalism; what else can I expect in terms of their diligence to high levels of care?
Livestream just started: Scott Adams Celebration of Life
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‘Next stop, Alice blows Wally.’
He admits that most of his people don’t want to integrate and that even those who want to integrate can spend 20 years trying to approximate the baseline social/political intuitions of Westerners. Let’s just stop there, take it that integration doesn’t work, and not let his people in. Including him.
We don’t need ideological projects on his alien conception of Biblical Western civilization, or his alien conception of “our”. We don’t need to teach grand ideas that we barely understand explicitly ourselves to people who hate us and don’t want to learn. If he and his funders want to try that out in his own people’s homeland, inshallah, the Great Books are out of copyright and downloadable by anyone who watches ISIS videos.
It’s the Western people that need to be protected from erasure.The civilization, such as it is and for whatever it’s worth, survives with us, as long as we don’t let aliens in to breed at our expense.
And dollars to donuts, she’d have no problem with aborting any babies that result from these rapes.
Common sense isn’t.
Including Ayaan Hirsi Ali?
I interpreted his brief words more generously than you. Never forget that any honest Christian might say that following the teachings of Jesus is a lifelong labor.
Dan Burmawi seems like good people. I’ve run into a few other escapees from Islamic nations who have embraced Western values, including Christianity, and who serve as “translators” between the two traditions.
Yes, similar to Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
Dan is trying to warn us that most of his people will never integrate into Western traditions. He warns against the conquest mentality of Islam and other mental structures common among the desert people.
He’s a good follow, at least for now.
The bit about Islam being the foundation of Western advancement come from actual historical stuff.
When the Moors ruled over the Iberian peninsula, Toledo became a center of scholarship, learning, arts, and cultural exchange. There was detente between the Muslims, Christians, and Jews, wherein the scholars shared their knowledge. Toledo was considered a center of enlightenment, and that’s not entirely wrong.
As it turns out, the writings of ancient Greek philosophers such as Aristotle, Ptolemy, and Galen were had by Muslim scholars. During the Islamic Golden Age (~750–1258), the Greek texts were translated into Arabic, and then in Toledo (starting during the Moorish occupation and continuing past the Reconquista) the Arabic texts were translated into Latin.
And when European scholars got hold of the Latin translations, it triggered the Renaissance.
So her assertions aren’t entirely wrong, but then you’d be remiss if you didn’t ask why the Islamic world failed to advance using those texts. Why didn’t THEY develop steam engines or draw the meridians?
Perhaps not.
Dario Fernández-Morera’s The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise argues quite persuasively against the notion of a concordance between Muslims, Christians, and Jews.
The writings of ancient Greeks were also had by Byzantine scholars – who didn’t have to subject the texts to multiple translations – and there was freer intercourse with the remnants of the Eastern Empire and the successors to the Western Empire.
Thank you for reminding me. I’d been meaning to order a copy.