The one thing about that one with the Aztecs and the children? Sometimes, it rained. Not because they sacrificed the children, but just because of random chance.
They killed over 100 million people in the 20th century, and communism NEVER worked.
As someone who lives in a Western state where over 80% of the land is controlled by one kind of BLM, and the big cities are sympathetic to the other, I concur with this statement.
I was going to put it in the form of “The trouble with computers is that they don’t do what you tell them to do. They do what their programmers told them to do.” But “we’re having more and more trouble figuring out who the ‘you’ is in that second sentence” is also a valid way of putting it.
Well, by that time hopefully I’ll either be safely dead or mining asteroids for precious metals to trade in space. My family has a history of miners. Might be worth while to take a stab at it again, in a new environment.
We called putting a little bit of everything a suicide. Just a couple of things us a mixed drink. (I prefer diet coke and sprite. With the sprite going in first to make a nifty two color effect.)
Also gave up soda’s. Zero Sparkling Ice Kiwi Strawberry, however, I do drink. But I will give up that before I’ll give up coffee w/ splash of 1/2&1/2. I didn’t even drink coffee until my mid-20’s. Hooked for good now. Now anyone who wants to live wants me to get my early morning coffee. 😁Actually, I’m not that bad. Prefer to not miss my coffee. But won’t drink it if can’t have real 1/2&1/2. No powders, none of the artificial stuff, not black. So have gone without when traveling, and everyone around me lived. I wasn’t grouchy.
Diet Dr. Pepper and regular Cherry Coke. I’m old enough to look at all the flavors on the machine and remember what they taste like together. No, thanks. The grape stuff on the end ruins it. I’ll stick with a known evil.
Our son’s dog also tries to persuade us he’s starving, even if he just got the last scraps from a chicken carcass. He has the soulful, pathetic expression down perfectly.
Let’s see if the memes are more fun coming off of 3 days of dexamethasone steroids (5x as strong as prednisone)… had a terrible crippling bout of flu and all joints locked were just so stiff couldn’t barely move for days.
One of my characters when they demand she surrender her weapons at a House subcommittee inquisition:
“The devices you refer to are embedded in my bones, threaded through my muscles and nerves. I can no more ‘hand them over’ than you can hand over your kidneys.”
“Besides, I don’t need to bring in weapons. This room is full of weapons I could use to kill you all. Everything from the furniture down to your fancy marble name plaque.”
She doesn’t set off metal detectors; her anti-grav and force shield generator devices are not made out of metal. They show up on MRI and CAT scans, though. So do her indestructible diamond-reinforced bones.
The only thing I would change about the two best/two worst presidents meme is that Carter and Biden should be standing in front of a portrait of Wilson — who was, IMHO, THE worst president in our history, because without him, we probably wouldn’t have had Carter or Biden. Among other things we wouldn’t have had.
There is a case to be made for Woodrow Wilson as the worst US President. Although I’d rate him second-worse, behind FDR. Third worst might be LBJ, although Nixon is a possibility too. Not because of Watergate but because of EPA, OSHA, and similar other evil innovations.
In any case, I’d rather not try to rate recent US Presidents, due to “Recent Presidents may appear larger than their actual size” in the rear view mirror of history.
The too dark coffee, and the poisonous vs. venomous. I correct the TV anchors, and a lot of other people. (Not person to person, other than major “clarify the meaning please” errors.)
The Abrams Tanks: Russia will offer to surrender immediately on the condition that we take them all back. Trump’s response: “We don’t want them either!”
I see CM has emerged from the shadows to bring terror once again. :-P
Oh, you have NO IDEA. There is at least one artist making “butt” fridge magnets. And no, I do NOT have any. My standards might be low, but I have them!
I don’t think I could lift the Anvil to drop it on anyone, but I’d love to if they deserved it. And let’s not even go into how much I want to use a Trebuchets as long as its not made by ACME. I still remember that much, wheres my slide rule?
Warning, these are the harmless musings of an old man not to be taken seriously. Well except the ACME point, come on you remember too.
Trebuchets pumpkin chunkin (small ones, not savages) was still allowed for BSA in the ’90s and ’00s (furthest landed, furthest went after hitting, most throw in X time. Was Trebuchets still standing when done throwing?) Smaller Trebuchets for fir cones. Don’t know if they still allowed to do water balloon fights with Trebuchets. Trebuchets the patrols made, from scratch, from logs and rope.
No punkin chunkin, no water balloons. Either biodegradable ammo or reclaimable (sports balls.) You also need some form of range safety officer on hand if you’re making any kind of launcher.
Yeah, they lawyered up the rules pretty heavily.
The one that gets me is the banning of cannon, which only happened a couple of years ago. I happen to know there was an actual death due to cannon a couple of decades back (of a 16-year-old camp staffer, no less), and they didn’t ban it then? No, they waited until some minor incident, then banned them. (We won’t even talk about the let’s-completely-ignore-all-protocol incident in Hawaii that has led to the current range restrictions.)
Kurt Schlicter is saying things are too quiet. It’s making him nervous.
Meanwhile, the swearing in was moved indoors and I saw one report it might be moved to the White House. OTOH, the President and First Lady were out watching a fireworks display, so not everything is hunkered down.
I think a lot of people are twitchy. I think a lot of people have the gain on their paranoia turned way high.
I kinda know why I feel "something must be wrong, turn up the gain and see if I can find what is wrong."
Yet, sometimes I am just making trouble for myself, and things will be fine if I can leave them alone mentally.
There are still gonna be people who can pay attention usefully, and make a difference where the hazards to them are concerned.
Moved indoors eliminates SOME issues. I so hope for multiple (different party!) scans for … Various Nasty Things. Because I do NOT trust the Deep State finks one leeetle bit.
I assume the narrative about the weather is a minor portion of the reason for the change, and security issues being the dominant one. After a couple of assassination attempts, I’d much rather forego the celebrations and let DJT get somewhere safer and get to work.
Sorry Bob, I think we have a right to be twitchy. The feeling is not stopping me from doing my own business, though I’ll keep a much closer eye and ears on the news tomorrow.
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I recall a lot of DeSantis FanGurling (and a bit less FanBoi-ing) from some of the posters. I tend to take Sundance’s attitude more seriously.sssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
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Part of PTSD is that, being accustomed to ongoing violence/trauma as normal, the absence of stimulus is nerve-wracking. Possibly overwhelmingly so.
You see a peaceful city park scene. Their skin is twitching because they can’t see the hostiles. Behind me? Ambush? Or hitting Bravo while we patrol? Too quiet!
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Why no riots? Where are the left-yahoos? Ambush, I can feel it. What are they up to? Where? Danger!
Yesterday in WA state capitol (Olympia), the news reported a “protest march”. Which blocked traffic, split into smaller groups, graffitied and damaged downtown, and got our governor-elect out on the Capitol Campus to pander to them and aver that he, too, hated and despised the Orange Man.
There are protests. Eugene is having one (supposedly). There is ongoing one in Washington DC currently, and supposedly tomorrow too. Subdued. Numbers aren’t there. Numbers won’t be there here in Eugene, or anywhere in the lefty enclaves here in Oregon either. Too dang cold. Eugene will be almost as cold as DC, but without the snow and killing wind chill. (Eugene might have wind child, but it won’t be anywhere near the expected -22F of DC.)
Oh, there are always hardcore who will layer-up and go protesting in a blizzard. The weather cuts -way- down on crowd mass, whcih helps prevent riots. Not enough “sea” for the guerillas to swim in unseen. The lousy conditions also bollox up logistics.
And deep freeze enables a particualrly gentle yet nasty crowd control. The firemen set up hoses. the police provide a last warning. The firemen open up on “mist”, just enough pressure to loft it into the problem folks. No damage. Just soaking wet in freezing weather. Very, very quickly the weaklings and unmotivated flee. Anyone who dosent gets to re-film “Frozen”. Pretty soon things ice over and its comedy gold for anyone trying to cross the zone. You have to prep for that way ahead of time, and anyone so prepped looks kinda obvious if you know. All in all, the advantage is way over on the side of the hosers.
The relative handfull in DC tomorrow are not enough to meet the expectations of the wary opposition. That can cause the “where are they?” stress I mentioned. -Really- clever folks can actually use that to manipulate the opposition.
I am not expecting anything Monday, beyond opposition snivelling and some pointless minor crapweasel moves. I am also doing the usual “go forth with forethought”. Get some extra sleep folks. And dang it, why did I have to hit that Girl Scout cookie gauntlet with a pocket full of cash. A nice professional ambush, ladies. …. There goes my diet.
Sadly, we have yet another “cease fire” versus “victory”.
Now it remains for Mr Trump to again render the Paleos moot in some sort of “Abraham Accord 2”.
Watched a translation of the Paleos declaring 7 Oct as a “great military victory”. It was the head honcho Paleo at the ceasefire negotiations in Dotha.
So we will see more abominations soon. First, the returned hostages. They were mostly abused. The details will shock andcenrage most civilized folk. Next, the terms where thousand plus responsible go free. And then, of course, we shall see more 7Oct type attacks. Any response will be “the Jews broke the deal!”
And the usual suspects will refuse to believe the horror stories the survivors will tell.
I like our minister, but he still trusts network news. (He believes, “fact-checkers,” are involved in making sure news is true and accurate and is concerned this valluable service is going away). His wife was commenting, “They released three (hostages) today and they looked very good.” The notion that Hamas might have done the equivalent of “fattening them up,” for the cameras never enters their minds.
Negotiating for the release of hostages is a losing proposition. They’re just guaranteeing that Ham-Ass will take more hostages.
Never, ever reward them in any way for taking hostages. It’s not politically correct to say “Kill them all” but that’s the only approach they will understand.
Those ‘fact-checkers’ do not check for truth, they check for the Approved Message.
Every one of these actions is intended to present both the Trump Administration AND Americans in general with a Hobson’s choice:
either wait for challenges involving them to wind their way through the court system (which is by no means guaranteed to reverse them; see how many gun laws have survived Bruen without SCOTUS even taking the cases) before taking any action to undo their effects,
or ignore them under a guarantee of future prosecution anywhere the Left (re)gains control.
Nah. Trump simply excels at thwarting, annoying, and ultimately spazzing them. Quite simply more fun to watch it, becasue they once believed themselves Masters of the System. But Trump learned to play the game, too. Trump is going to saying “Bite the Pillow” to some of them very soon.
Gutfield!™️(Who else? 😁) Showed the clip of SNL mocking (Wait? Who?) lefty news, and the usual senate and house suspects, declarations that they are going to respond to what President Trump does VS what he says regardless of the medium. By showing what they’ll actually do and the results. Google foo failing. Essentially goes like this:
“This just in Trump says ….”
“Wait! Trump Breaking news, this just in …”
“Wait! More Trump breaking news, this just in …
Repeat. Anchor never getting to the breaking news as more breaking news from President Trump comes through as leading the lefty suspects around by the nose.
SNL might think they are mocking President Trump. But SNL is really mocking the left.
So, turns out that I have gone a wee bit insane again.
As is well known, addressing climate change pretty much requires mass murder. Carbon, as the climate scientists understand their definition, is effectively a proxy for human lives. And the slow strangulation cannot kill enough in time, therefore fast killings are the only way for any of us to live, if those predictive models are correct. (1)
The old news is that of the world powers, the power closest to being able to pull off the necessary divide and exterminate strategy is the US of A. The US of A still has a number of intractable obstacles, but, say, 3% is more than 0.001%.
Specialists in the field understand that mass murder not only requires equipment, and some number of actual supporters, it also requires propaganda to motivate fighters, and also to completely dehumanize the target population.
The new insight is that this also has a specific challenge that happens to be very suited to trolling a group of people who I feel deserve to be offended.
Thanks to all that NATO collaborative stuff, there are a lot of US military officers inclined to think that the politicians, officials, military officers, and academics of western Europe might possibly be human beings.
So, what we need for divide and exterminate is not just more climate research that will remain unpersuasive, but also a lot of unpersuasive research purporting to demonstrate that no one in Europe is a human being.
This leads to a stupid argument that would be best argued in a satire of one of those TDS FSOs. That being that US interests are served by allowing Putin’s actions to stand, because the precedent in international law thus established is well suited to the propaganda campaign against the Euros. Stupid argument, because precedent is pretty ill-relevant for divide and exterminate.
Anyway, it would be in character for a TDS FSO to argue that Trump should not use muscular foreign policy to achieve an early victory for Ukraine.
Putin’s denazification and sphere of influence arguments have the obvious utilities for US actions against Russia and or the EU.
(Under EU speech laws, by implication Nazi parties are a regional product, and have headquarters in Berlin. )
Anyhow, thanks for helping me talk myself out of putting much work into my latest iteration of unnecessary silliness.
(1) I’m certain that the models are not correct. I’m certain that they were not built to the standards appropriate to making decisions involving that level of harm, and that the oversight was not adequate.
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The one thing about that one with the Aztecs and the children? Sometimes, it rained. Not because they sacrificed the children, but just because of random chance.
They killed over 100 million people in the 20th century, and communism NEVER worked.
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The “weapons of war” thing is a good one. SCOTUS agrees — read the Miller decision.
I liked the modified “palestinian solidarity” symbol.
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Now do one for BLM.
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Buy Large Mansions
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Or Burn Large Mansions, as the case may be. Apparently one of the Burn Loot Murder founders lost two of her three homes in the fires.
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So sad. Somewhere, the world’s tiniest violin is playing a melancholy tune…but I can’t hear it.
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Basically, Lying Marxists
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The trouble with “BLM” is that I have to ask “Which BLM?”
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As someone who lives in a Western state where over 80% of the land is controlled by one kind of BLM, and the big cities are sympathetic to the other, I concur with this statement.
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yes
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“Computers aren’t magic. They’re just machines that do what you tell them.”
It’s still true even in 2025. The problem is that we’re having more and more trouble figuring out who the “you” is in that second sentence.
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I was going to put it in the form of “The trouble with computers is that they don’t do what you tell them to do. They do what their programmers told them to do.” But “we’re having more and more trouble figuring out who the ‘you’ is in that second sentence” is also a valid way of putting it.
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45k might get you the down payment on that van down by the river. Might.
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The time is coming when 45K won’t even buy you a cardboard box to live in under the overpass.
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There’s a years-long waiting list for space under the overpass.
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Well, by that time hopefully I’ll either be safely dead or mining asteroids for precious metals to trade in space. My family has a history of miners. Might be worth while to take a stab at it again, in a new environment.
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after the rejuv treatments
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In college, we called the drink you got by hitting two buttons at once a “suicide.” Just saying.
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We called putting a little bit of everything a suicide. Just a couple of things us a mixed drink. (I prefer diet coke and sprite. With the sprite going in first to make a nifty two color effect.)
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I did regular coke and sprite. Stopped drinking sodas a few years ago, being someone who can’t stand the taste of artificial sweeteners.
The real sacrifice was giving up sweet tea. But I managed.
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Coke and sprite made me think of Hunter Biden and an underage girl.
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Coffee. I gave up soda, too. But coffee…
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Also gave up soda’s. Zero Sparkling Ice Kiwi Strawberry, however, I do drink. But I will give up that before I’ll give up coffee w/ splash of 1/2&1/2. I didn’t even drink coffee until my mid-20’s. Hooked for good now. Now anyone who wants to live wants me to get my early morning coffee. 😁Actually, I’m not that bad. Prefer to not miss my coffee. But won’t drink it if can’t have real 1/2&1/2. No powders, none of the artificial stuff, not black. So have gone without when traveling, and everyone around me lived. I wasn’t grouchy.
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Diet Dr. Pepper and regular Cherry Coke. I’m old enough to look at all the flavors on the machine and remember what they taste like together. No, thanks. The grape stuff on the end ruins it. I’ll stick with a known evil.
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I love these. Well done Sarah, as usual. Thanks for the effort!
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Our son’s dog also tries to persuade us he’s starving, even if he just got the last scraps from a chicken carcass. He has the soulful, pathetic expression down perfectly.
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Let’s see if the memes are more fun coming off of 3 days of dexamethasone steroids (5x as strong as prednisone)… had a terrible crippling bout of flu and all joints locked were just so stiff couldn’t barely move for days.
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…wow, an Ayn Rand meme that I didn’t send Sarah. Awesome. :D
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One of my characters when they demand she surrender her weapons at a House subcommittee inquisition:
“The devices you refer to are embedded in my bones, threaded through my muscles and nerves. I can no more ‘hand them over’ than you can hand over your kidneys.”
“Besides, I don’t need to bring in weapons. This room is full of weapons I could use to kill you all. Everything from the furniture down to your fancy marble name plaque.”
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Hubby has to show the xrays of both hips anytime he goes through anytime of security. Be it at the airport, or sheriff’s office.
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She doesn’t set off metal detectors; her anti-grav and force shield generator devices are not made out of metal. They show up on MRI and CAT scans, though. So do her indestructible diamond-reinforced bones.
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Me? Just have to wear short sleeves so I can show the CGM (at the cost/unit, not pulling early unless really have to). Or time so between devices.
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One great thing Trump can do for all of us: Disband the TSA! Right after the Department Of Education and the IRS.
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Add the State Department. Gut it entirely. It’s not worth attempting to save.
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SFBS!
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The only thing I would change about the two best/two worst presidents meme is that Carter and Biden should be standing in front of a portrait of Wilson — who was, IMHO, THE worst president in our history, because without him, we probably wouldn’t have had Carter or Biden. Among other things we wouldn’t have had.
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There is a case to be made for Woodrow Wilson as the worst US President. Although I’d rate him second-worse, behind FDR. Third worst might be LBJ, although Nixon is a possibility too. Not because of Watergate but because of EPA, OSHA, and similar other evil innovations.
In any case, I’d rather not try to rate recent US Presidents, due to “Recent Presidents may appear larger than their actual size” in the rear view mirror of history.
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The too dark coffee, and the poisonous vs. venomous. I correct the TV anchors, and a lot of other people. (Not person to person, other than major “clarify the meaning please” errors.)
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Aww!
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The Abrams Tanks: Russia will offer to surrender immediately on the condition that we take them all back. Trump’s response: “We don’t want them either!”
I see CM has emerged from the shadows to bring terror once again. :-P
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“This latest revolution had been brought to them by the letters C, M, and the numbers seven point six two.”
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The problem with the coffee cup in the first meme is that the coffee will be cold before she finishes her coffee. [Crazy Grin]
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Really big micro wave….snicker.
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Narf! “Diversity” made it.
And… I never had that issue with Jägermeister, but then I never guzzled it like some idiot fratboy.
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I’ve known several women who Jagermeister was their kyptonite, and I am serious.
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I have had SUCH a ‘sheltered’ life….
“Yeah, bomb sheltered!”
“..and the problem is?”
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Jaegermeister is a healthy herbal drink when consumed in moderation, like somebody sane would do.
But even the heir to the business admitted that it tastes like medicine and that he personally won’t drink it.
Chartreuse tastes like medicine, too, but it’s a better-tasting medicine.
And of course you can get bitter medicinal drinks that are a lot lower in alcohol content.
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Get a load of the cat-ass fridge magnets holding up the Cake sign.
Mary: Your Fluffy doesn’t sit on cakes, does he? :-D
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Oh, you have NO IDEA. There is at least one artist making “butt” fridge magnets. And no, I do NOT have any. My standards might be low, but I have them!
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An acquaintance apparently has a cat butt cookie cutter.
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I’ve seen that one. I want it.
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If you mounted one on a plaque, it would be a cat-ass-trophy. :-D
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“CARP out!”
(hurls)
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I don’t think I could lift the Anvil to drop it on anyone, but I’d love to if they deserved it. And let’s not even go into how much I want to use a Trebuchets as long as its not made by ACME. I still remember that much, wheres my slide rule?
Warning, these are the harmless musings of an old man not to be taken seriously. Well except the ACME point, come on you remember too.
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Trebuchets pumpkin chunkin (small ones, not savages) was still allowed for BSA in the ’90s and ’00s (furthest landed, furthest went after hitting, most throw in X time. Was Trebuchets still standing when done throwing?) Smaller Trebuchets for fir cones. Don’t know if they still allowed to do water balloon fights with Trebuchets. Trebuchets the patrols made, from scratch, from logs and rope.
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No punkin chunkin, no water balloons. Either biodegradable ammo or reclaimable (sports balls.) You also need some form of range safety officer on hand if you’re making any kind of launcher.
Yeah, they lawyered up the rules pretty heavily.
The one that gets me is the banning of cannon, which only happened a couple of years ago. I happen to know there was an actual death due to cannon a couple of decades back (of a 16-year-old camp staffer, no less), and they didn’t ban it then? No, they waited until some minor incident, then banned them. (We won’t even talk about the let’s-completely-ignore-all-protocol incident in Hawaii that has led to the current range restrictions.)
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You do know I do delivery for ACME, right?
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“Whosoever is worthy shall have the Power of TOON!”
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Kurt Schlicter is saying things are too quiet. It’s making him nervous.
Meanwhile, the swearing in was moved indoors and I saw one report it might be moved to the White House. OTOH, the President and First Lady were out watching a fireworks display, so not everything is hunkered down.
But I’m antsy, too.
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I’m very happy it moved indoors. Twitchy about the crowds, but I’m assuming/hoping DJT has his own A team on hand for the day’s festivities.
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Dear Frenz,
There are still gonna be people who can pay attention usefully, and make a difference where the hazards to them are concerned.
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Moved indoors eliminates SOME issues. I so hope for multiple (different party!) scans for … Various Nasty Things. Because I do NOT trust the Deep State finks one leeetle bit.
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I’m impressed (and not favorably) by the rant on PJ Media: https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/01/19/trump-sends-wrong-elitist-message-with-inauguration-change-n4936128 complaining about the change.
I assume the narrative about the weather is a minor portion of the reason for the change, and security issues being the dominant one. After a couple of assassination attempts, I’d much rather forego the celebrations and let DJT get somewhere safer and get to work.
Sorry Bob, I think we have a right to be twitchy. The feeling is not stopping me from doing my own business, though I’ll keep a much closer eye and ears on the news tomorrow.
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Catherine Salgado and most of her commenters seem to be idjits.
One wonders if they are disappointed Ron DeSantis isn’t being sworn in.
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I recall a lot of DeSantis FanGurling (and a bit less FanBoi-ing) from some of the posters. I tend to take Sundance’s attitude more seriously.sssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
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So much for resting my left hand…
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Part of PTSD is that, being accustomed to ongoing violence/trauma as normal, the absence of stimulus is nerve-wracking. Possibly overwhelmingly so.
You see a peaceful city park scene. Their skin is twitching because they can’t see the hostiles. Behind me? Ambush? Or hitting Bravo while we patrol? Too quiet!
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Why no riots? Where are the left-yahoos? Ambush, I can feel it. What are they up to? Where? Danger!
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Yesterday in WA state capitol (Olympia), the news reported a “protest march”. Which blocked traffic, split into smaller groups, graffitied and damaged downtown, and got our governor-elect out on the Capitol Campus to pander to them and aver that he, too, hated and despised the Orange Man.
A disgusting display all round.
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There are protests. Eugene is having one (supposedly). There is ongoing one in Washington DC currently, and supposedly tomorrow too. Subdued. Numbers aren’t there. Numbers won’t be there here in Eugene, or anywhere in the lefty enclaves here in Oregon either. Too dang cold. Eugene will be almost as cold as DC, but without the snow and killing wind chill. (Eugene might have wind child, but it won’t be anywhere near the expected -22F of DC.)
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Oh, there are always hardcore who will layer-up and go protesting in a blizzard. The weather cuts -way- down on crowd mass, whcih helps prevent riots. Not enough “sea” for the guerillas to swim in unseen. The lousy conditions also bollox up logistics.
And deep freeze enables a particualrly gentle yet nasty crowd control. The firemen set up hoses. the police provide a last warning. The firemen open up on “mist”, just enough pressure to loft it into the problem folks. No damage. Just soaking wet in freezing weather. Very, very quickly the weaklings and unmotivated flee. Anyone who dosent gets to re-film “Frozen”. Pretty soon things ice over and its comedy gold for anyone trying to cross the zone. You have to prep for that way ahead of time, and anyone so prepped looks kinda obvious if you know. All in all, the advantage is way over on the side of the hosers.
The relative handfull in DC tomorrow are not enough to meet the expectations of the wary opposition. That can cause the “where are they?” stress I mentioned. -Really- clever folks can actually use that to manipulate the opposition.
I am not expecting anything Monday, beyond opposition snivelling and some pointless minor crapweasel moves. I am also doing the usual “go forth with forethought”. Get some extra sleep folks. And dang it, why did I have to hit that Girl Scout cookie gauntlet with a pocket full of cash. A nice professional ambush, ladies. …. There goes my diet.
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Oh. Girl Scout cookie time?
Good to know. Need to get some cash 🤷I can’t eat them. But hubby and son can. Not that son will.
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Watching a rebroadcast of the inauguration fireworks.
Wow.
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Same, along with the tidbit I saw a couple days ago that apparently Chinese manufactured drones no longer have no-fly limits?
Or, honestly, the whole Livesberger mess.
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Mr. Patel, your terms are acceptable .
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Sadly, we have yet another “cease fire” versus “victory”.
Now it remains for Mr Trump to again render the Paleos moot in some sort of “Abraham Accord 2”.
Watched a translation of the Paleos declaring 7 Oct as a “great military victory”. It was the head honcho Paleo at the ceasefire negotiations in Dotha.
So we will see more abominations soon. First, the returned hostages. They were mostly abused. The details will shock andcenrage most civilized folk. Next, the terms where thousand plus responsible go free. And then, of course, we shall see more 7Oct type attacks. Any response will be “the Jews broke the deal!”
Prove me wrong please.
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Armistice: Everyone reload!
Unconditional Surrender: There is at least a CHANCE at peace.
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And the usual suspects will refuse to believe the horror stories the survivors will tell.
I like our minister, but he still trusts network news. (He believes, “fact-checkers,” are involved in making sure news is true and accurate and is concerned this valluable service is going away). His wife was commenting, “They released three (hostages) today and they looked very good.” The notion that Hamas might have done the equivalent of “fattening them up,” for the cameras never enters their minds.
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Or that those were the only 3 in a fit condition to release without causing outrage.
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Negotiating for the release of hostages is a losing proposition. They’re just guaranteeing that Ham-Ass will take more hostages.
Never, ever reward them in any way for taking hostages. It’s not politically correct to say “Kill them all” but that’s the only approach they will understand.
Those ‘fact-checkers’ do not check for truth, they check for the Approved Message.
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I am watching the evolution of the “Boy, did I call it or what?” meme in realtime.
Phase 1: George Orwell
Phase 2: Ayn Rand
Wake me when it gets to St. John the Divine.
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https://twitchy.com/amy-curtis/2025/01/18/biden-eyes-more-drilling-restrictions-in-alaska-the-hill-n2406886
Every one of these actions is intended to present both the Trump Administration AND Americans in general with a Hobson’s choice:
either wait for challenges involving them to wind their way through the court system (which is by no means guaranteed to reverse them; see how many gun laws have survived Bruen without SCOTUS even taking the cases) before taking any action to undo their effects,
or ignore them under a guarantee of future prosecution anywhere the Left (re)gains control.
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So they are telling us we NEED to just hang the leftists and be done with it?
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Hard to avoid that conclusion.
But mostly they simply think no one has the will to do it.
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No, but I like the way you think…sarc
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Nah. Trump simply excels at thwarting, annoying, and ultimately spazzing them. Quite simply more fun to watch it, becasue they once believed themselves Masters of the System. But Trump learned to play the game, too. Trump is going to saying “Bite the Pillow” to some of them very soon.
Patience. Then, popcorn.
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Gutfield!™️(Who else? 😁) Showed the clip of SNL mocking (Wait? Who?) lefty news, and the usual senate and house suspects, declarations that they are going to respond to what President Trump does VS what he says regardless of the medium. By showing what they’ll actually do and the results. Google foo failing. Essentially goes like this:
“This just in Trump says ….”
“Wait! Trump Breaking news, this just in …”
“Wait! More Trump breaking news, this just in …
Repeat. Anchor never getting to the breaking news as more breaking news from President Trump comes through as leading the lefty suspects around by the nose.
SNL might think they are mocking President Trump. But SNL is really mocking the left.
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Mike Johnson’s tale of the EO that FICUS didn’t recall issuing might lead to leverage at cancelling these. Maybe.
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So, turns out that I have gone a wee bit insane again.
As is well known, addressing climate change pretty much requires mass murder. Carbon, as the climate scientists understand their definition, is effectively a proxy for human lives. And the slow strangulation cannot kill enough in time, therefore fast killings are the only way for any of us to live, if those predictive models are correct. (1)
The old news is that of the world powers, the power closest to being able to pull off the necessary divide and exterminate strategy is the US of A. The US of A still has a number of intractable obstacles, but, say, 3% is more than 0.001%.
Specialists in the field understand that mass murder not only requires equipment, and some number of actual supporters, it also requires propaganda to motivate fighters, and also to completely dehumanize the target population.
The new insight is that this also has a specific challenge that happens to be very suited to trolling a group of people who I feel deserve to be offended.
Thanks to all that NATO collaborative stuff, there are a lot of US military officers inclined to think that the politicians, officials, military officers, and academics of western Europe might possibly be human beings.
So, what we need for divide and exterminate is not just more climate research that will remain unpersuasive, but also a lot of unpersuasive research purporting to demonstrate that no one in Europe is a human being.
This leads to a stupid argument that would be best argued in a satire of one of those TDS FSOs. That being that US interests are served by allowing Putin’s actions to stand, because the precedent in international law thus established is well suited to the propaganda campaign against the Euros. Stupid argument, because precedent is pretty ill-relevant for divide and exterminate.
Anyway, it would be in character for a TDS FSO to argue that Trump should not use muscular foreign policy to achieve an early victory for Ukraine.
Putin’s denazification and sphere of influence arguments have the obvious utilities for US actions against Russia and or the EU.
(Under EU speech laws, by implication Nazi parties are a regional product, and have headquarters in Berlin. )
Anyhow, thanks for helping me talk myself out of putting much work into my latest iteration of unnecessary silliness.
(1) I’m certain that the models are not correct. I’m certain that they were not built to the standards appropriate to making decisions involving that level of harm, and that the oversight was not adequate.
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I’d laugh if tomorrow, Trump pulls up to the Capitol in that garbage truck to announce, “I’m here to take out the trash!” :-P
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Apparently the truck is going to be in the inaugural parade. What part ot will play, I don’t know.
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