Quick Takes

As I attempt – between work, kidlings, and a micromanaging wife with a metastasizing honeydew/”I want” list heedless of my own job and our budget – to put the finishing touches on a couple of substantive posts so I’m happy with them and the conclusions reached I thought I’d dash out a few things lumped together.

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First: Naturehood

I’ve been hearing ads for parents taking their kids out to nature, whether to hike or kayak or whatever. This is, IMHO, all to the good. We protect what we value, and we value things we enjoy. Natural areas are eminently worth protecting, and the more people that find nature and activities outside enjoyable, the better.

But all the commercials emphasize how close these natural areas are. One has kids in the car and it’s a quick drive there. The other has a dad calling a taxi to bring them home from being outside kayaking.

A taxi??? How is this possible?

It’s only possible if these people live in a megacity with dense population packing, surrounded in close proximity by these wild areas. Almost as if they’re trying to prep you mentally to be in a megacity a la Agenda 2030.

Almost. </sarc>

Just like the slew of articles I see praising “tiny homes”, and other articles lauding modular co-shared apartments and memes like eating bugs is good are almost like mental programming too.

Almost. </sarc>

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A short aside: Once, as an experiment, I did eat bugs. I had read about how, if you were lost in the woods, grasshoppers were a good source of food. Several articles merged in my mind about how to catch them with minimal effort, how to clean them (yes, they require pre-processing before you can eat them), how to cook them over an open fire… so I did it. The techniques worked.

Not high on my list of fave dietary items, but in a pinch it would beat starving.

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Second: Don’t Approve

So I got the kids into their gun safety class, and took the older one shooting one-on-one already. They had a blast – pun intended. A little scared at first, by the end they were demanding to load the magazine themselves. And at 10 feet, hitting the target. .. mostly. For a first time out, not bad at all. The younger kid is next though he’ll have a smaller firearm – .22 single shot. But they also loved the class where they got to shoot and are excited to go again.

Of course I took pictures and send them to family and friends. Most replies were enthusiastic and congratulatory, the ones from my in-laws overseas were “Can you really do that in America”?, one of my friends in Israel praised the Second Amendment (which they don’t have over there) and another insisted that I take him shooting if/when he gets over here… but my older (liberal) sister sent a two-word text back.

Don’t approve.

Well, sis, they’re not your kids, they’re my kids. But it brings back this cartoon I had done:

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What is it with liberals that they’re so driven to moralize and preach and think they have the right to opine on everything?

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Third: Microclots

I had had this piece open in a different window so forgot I had it open; Canadian Doctor Believes Two-Thirds of Vaccinated Could Die of Heart Failure. Not seeing it was still open I had to search for it again, and found a slew of pieces about how people with Covid – not the Jab but the actual virus – had microclots.

I may be repeating “conventional” anti-Jab knowledge, but… the virus causes microclots. The Jab causes microclots. What’s the common element? The spike protein. So, whether you get the virus itself or you get the Jab, you may develop microclots. Almost as if this is the goal, whether by the pathogen itself or the purported cure.

In parallel, and I don’t recall where I saw it, I did see an interesting-to-me observation. Ivermectin and HCQ are both anti-parasitic medications (the latter is effective against malaria, remember?). So… as a thought experiment, are the spike proteins similar to something from known parasites? If it’s shown that the spike protein was “grabbed” from a parasite and then spliced into the virus??? I’m not an evolutionary biologist but if that genetic sequence from the virus matches, say, a malarial sequence? IMHO that’s proof positive it was engineered.

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Our host has graciously allowed me, on occasion, to post a product of mine from one of my two Zazzle stores. Here’s one:

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