He's had it
The CEO of Red Bull GmbH just gave all of his woke executives their walking papers over their pushing a BLM agenda during the last month. The how-DARE-you reports speak darkly of his Austrian headquarters and Trump support, his skepticism about German immigration policy, and his Scrooge-McDuck ownership of an island off Fiji, so I thought I should look up his Wiki to find out how evil Dietrich Mateschitz really is.
The Wiki page as of 10 a.m. July 21 was pretty benign. There aren't even any Nazi tie-ins yet, but I predict that by 2 p.m. it will contain a lot of new and scandalous entries. In the meantime, besides the information that Mateschitz bought his island from the Forbes family for a mere seven million pounds--which everyone who watches the island-acquisition TV shows knows is chicken feed--there is the interesting fact that he owns a custom submarine for the use of his island guests. How many anti-woke world-dominating billionaire moguls can go full Captain Nemo? All he needs now is a volcano and a nuclear arsenal.
Another Peaceful Protest
It takes gall to attack a pro-law enforcement protest (6 years running).
Goodness knows our justice system is broken, and there’s a lot that desperately needs fixing. I’m not impressed with this approach, though none of the others are working either. It’s another area where both parties are both wrong, and both lying. That doesn’t excuse cracking the heads of innocent people.
Goodness knows our justice system is broken, and there’s a lot that desperately needs fixing. I’m not impressed with this approach, though none of the others are working either. It’s another area where both parties are both wrong, and both lying. That doesn’t excuse cracking the heads of innocent people.
The Obvious Answer
For some reason few have heard of this idea; here again it is presented as radical and new. But if global warming is a problem, well, essentially all of the heat input is solar. So why not reflect more of the solar energy back into space for a while? Weather balloons and hoses are relatively cheap. You can solve the problem with little of the expense or (this is why I think the idea gets little attention) centralized political power.
Let Us Be Entertaining
I don’t know that I buy the hypothesis that masks provide effective screening; I wear a bandanna to try to encourage terrified people to leave home and spend money floating our economy. But hey, let’s entertain the possibility that it works. Then something like this makes sense.
George Floyd transcript
This transcript doesn't sound at all like the impression you get from any of the videos I've seen. Neo argues that it sounds like Floyd was having a heart attack, with the characteristic sense of impending doom. He was recovering from a COVID infection, had at least some heart disease, and may have been having a bad fentanyl reaction. The police sound like guys who were trying to figure out a delirious panic attack.
You have a solid point there
If the North Carolina teachers' union feels it can't go back to work, who am I to urge them? It's time to find an alternative, maybe something private, perhaps voucher funded. Something involving a lot of home-schooling and parent choice, with more safety and free time for the unionized teachers.
Fund students, not schools:
Let Portland go, too.
Fund students, not schools:
If a neighborhood grocery store refuses to reopen, it may be inconvenient, but families wouldn't be devastated; they could take their money elsewhere. Imagine if you were forced to pay your neighborhood Walmart the same amount of money each week regardless of whether they provided your family with any groceries. The store would have little incentive to reopen in an effective or timely manner.
It sounds absurd. But you have essentially just imagined today's compulsory K–12 school system.
Let Portland go, too.
Never give in, never, never, never.
If Winston Churchill were campaigning today, his rhetoric would be called divisive.
"If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its cunning."
"If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its cunning."
Irish Archaeology Breakthrough
Massive religious structures in County Armagh:
"It would give you a very good indication of the footprint of these buildings and the scale of the structure.
"I suppose that's one of the reasons why this feels so significant, because these are truly monumental structures, they are absolutely huge by the standards of the age.
"These could probably be some of the largest structures built in the first millennium BC and the first millennium AD."
Explicit Racism
Want to lay off police as part of defunding their department, but unsatisfied at the degree of virtue signalling this accomplishes? Violate Federal laws by explicitly discriminating on the basis of race!
The police chief is a little taken aback by the suggestion.
UPDATE: Portland too.
The police chief is a little taken aback by the suggestion.
UPDATE: Portland too.
Contemporary Slavery
It's not chattel slavery, but there is increasing interest in just how much forced labor is going on -- including with major corporations.
Being woke won't help you.
That whole bit about 'having kids is the worst thing you can do' shows this isn't even a right-wing attack on the woke; it's a left-wing, abortion-and-contraceptives attack. It's woke hitting woke.
UPDATE: An escapee from the Chinese gulags speaks.
Being woke won't help you.
That whole bit about 'having kids is the worst thing you can do' shows this isn't even a right-wing attack on the woke; it's a left-wing, abortion-and-contraceptives attack. It's woke hitting woke.
UPDATE: An escapee from the Chinese gulags speaks.
Twenty prisoners live in one small room. They are handcuffed, their heads shaved, every move is monitored by ceiling cameras. A bucket in the corner of the room is their toilet. The daily routine begins at 6 A.M. They are learning Chinese, memorizing propaganda songs and confessing to invented sins. They range in age from teenagers to elderly. Their meals are meager: cloudy soup and a slice of bread.Most likely the sterility is the intent of the drugs; the whole point of a genocide is to get rid of the enemy population, after all. Which also explains the further rather gruesome details about the rapes being accompanied by forced abortions and contraceptions.
Torture – metal nails, fingernails pulled out, electric shocks – takes place in the “black room.” Punishment is a constant. The prisoners are forced to take pills and get injections. It’s for disease prevention, the staff tell them, but in reality they are the human subjects of medical experiments. Many of the inmates suffer from cognitive decline. Some of the men become sterile. Women are routinely raped.
NY vs. Sweden
In a way their models seem similar: accept extra death up front, in return for getting though the epidemic faster. Sweden, of course, merely 'accepted' the risks; NY actively encouraged death via its nursing home policy.
The graph at the link shows that, in fact, the models didn't work out the same way at all. They did both get to near-zero death rates, though.
The graph at the link shows that, in fact, the models didn't work out the same way at all. They did both get to near-zero death rates, though.
Local Wokeness
California repeals law against discriminating on the basis of sex, race, and similar things in order to begin actively discriminating.
Seattle approves massive tax on high earners.
Asheville passes reparations for slavery for black residents, though in fact Asheville had almost nothing to do with slavery and was a tiny mountain community largely uninvolved in the Civil War.
Seattle approves massive tax on high earners.
Asheville passes reparations for slavery for black residents, though in fact Asheville had almost nothing to do with slavery and was a tiny mountain community largely uninvolved in the Civil War.
"Please Wait While Your Experience Loads"
So sayth the DOT tax website, not taking into account that long waiting to pay my taxes is in fact part of the experience.
So, the Battle Scenes in "Arms and White Samite" Were Pretty Accurate It Seems
Archeological evidence of medieval battle victims shows the sorts of injuries resulting from the application of medieval arms in the hands of men trained to use them, and unsurprisingly, it's pretty gruesome- and quite effective.
One thing that surprised me in this is some of the seemingly valuable articles that were buried with the dead, either out of an unwillingness to go through the gore to retrieve them, or respect for the dead, or perhaps something else. At any rate, it's clear to me that Grim did his homework to make the battle scenes in his tale as realistic as possible, as evidenced by the dig in Gotland near Visby, and some other locations, and what was retrieved there.
One thing that surprised me in this is some of the seemingly valuable articles that were buried with the dead, either out of an unwillingness to go through the gore to retrieve them, or respect for the dead, or perhaps something else. At any rate, it's clear to me that Grim did his homework to make the battle scenes in his tale as realistic as possible, as evidenced by the dig in Gotland near Visby, and some other locations, and what was retrieved there.
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