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Sep 24 2021
I’m BACK!
After a very frustrating week of: Closing on our new home (signed papers in SC, found that the vital parts weren’t signed/transmitted), traveled to OH to deal with the issue in person (husband traveled all night), and finally got the keys and started moving stuff in. We had electricity, but not gas, water, or internet. …
Sep 20 2021
Rationing Liquor – Who Will That Affect
From the list of brands affected, it looks like women and the men that are trying to impress them, Black people, and Rednecks with taste (the Rye). Frankly, any man who spends as much as Dom Perignon costs (it can run over $200 a bottle!), is either trying to score with a woman who is …
Sep 15 2021
What Belief Can Teach Science
I found this on Wired. Perhaps not surprisingly, those Tech Nerds are flabbergasted at the idea that religions’ practices have practical application for modern people. As a Catholic, I come from a long heritage of scientists with strong religious convictions – Pascal, Descartes, Copernicus, Lemaitre, Mendel, Mercalli, Lavoisier, Doppler, to just name a few. Check …
Sep 14 2021
They Want to ‘Pretty Over’ the Wounds
The memorials – flowing water, ‘pretty speeches’ (well, if you don’t consider the politicized speech of the former president slamming the NLD (Non-Leftist Dissidents) as Domestic Terrorists), and and fervent undercurrent of “Let’s Forget”. That’s the Democratic Legacy of 9/11. It was Terribly Inconvenient of the Taliban not to cooperate in a quick and “victorious” …
Sep 12 2021
Post 20th Year Ceremonies – What Remains of the Republic?
It was said to have been uttered by Ben Franklin. It may have been, he was apparently quick with pithy sayings (not always his own). At the close of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, Franklin was queried as he left Independence Hall on the final day of deliberation. In the notes of Dr. James McHenry, …
Sep 11 2021
Watching the 20th Remembrance of 9/11 Victims
Every year, I watch this – either the televised services, or the ceremonies that were held at the schools I taught at. The Southern schools do this well. Most of the schools have an active JROTC program, and the students take their participation very seriously. School leaders, community members – both present and past serving, …
Sep 10 2021
Note the Exempted Groups – Those That Colluded with the Steal
Postal Workers – whose facilitation of the movement of the fake ballots – through the postmarks that were backdated, enabled a veneer of respectability to cover the shenigans. Teachers – another group that is largely exempt from forced vaccination. NGOs are generally under the number of employees (100), and should be exempt from the mandatory …
Sep 06 2021
Looking at Some Maps of the World
I was reading some stories about the aggressive moves of China in the world – their attempts to impose cultural hegemony in the West, their moves to take over the waterways near them, how they use their market share like a club to get concessions from Western firms – and I realized that I needed …
Sep 05 2021
Why Your Facebook Friends are not Responding to You
It’s not complicated. They fully recognize that the entire basis for their self-image of themselves – that they were rational, fair, and not partisan – is a lie. They twist into pretzels, trying to justify applying different standards to similar actions. Every time that they think they’ve escaped a logic trap, OOOPS, Biden does it …
Sep 04 2021
Nice to Know that ALL State Leaders Haven’t Lost Their Mind
Why do I write that? Because 20 of the states, including 3 I have connections to (OH, WV, and SC), are part of a lawsuit of the Biden Administration to stop them from mandating Men in Women’s facilities. It’s time for Americans to agree on at least ONE thing – that if an individual hold …
Sep 04 2021
Saturday Miscellany
Political Donations by State. I happened to find a link to Open Secrets, a site that tracks political donations by individual, party, political organization, and state. That last interested me, as I was wondering about the connection between money and voting patterns. As you can see below, the outcomes in GA and MI appear to …
Sep 01 2021
If Strong Language Upsets You,…
DO NOT CLICK THIS LINK. I’ve noticed the same sudden silence of the “You are so STUPID to back Trump!” crowd. After months of haranguing me and the rest of their social feed, it’s like they had been Raptured. Gone. MIA. Quieter than a kidnap victim with a K-Bar to her throat. Gee, I wonder …
Sep 01 2021
What’s Up With Scott Adams?
I have enjoyed the Dilbert cartoons over the years. The cartoons have appealed to all of us who have been in the bowels of large companies/organizations, whether public or private, nonprofit or – allegedly – for profit. They are quirky, absurdist, and strangely appealing to the Everyman that lives with arbitrary rules, unfair employment practices, …
Aug 30 2021
The Elite Have Thrown Down the Hammer
Kah-mah-la has delivered a smackdown to the proles that infest the Non-Elites in the Not-the-Coast. “Christmas has come early for Washington’s enemies. Literally. Kackling Kamala Harris was dispatched to Singapore to assure our allies that the hyperpower was not a complete laughingstock. Instead, she told her hosts that it’s beginning to look a lot like …
Aug 28 2021
Anonymity – A BAD Idea
With very few exceptions, bloggers, writers, and commenters should post under their REAL Names. Why? Because: It’s self-evidently untrue that you are speaking “Truth to Power” or “Ready to Lead the Revolution”, if you fear a simple test like putting your signature/name to your opinions. The more anonymous the poster, the likelier he/she is to …
Aug 24 2021
A Change in the Way that Americans Travel Through the World
Almost all Americans travel worldwide with the permission of the American government, through its passport program. That document enables them to receive what services are available in countries that we have embassies in. Those services may be limited in some countries – China, for example, has imprisoned Americans in the past, and still does, should …
Aug 24 2021
Words Cannot Convey…
…how truly horrified I am at this. Cuomo just pardoned some convicted murderers on the way out. “David Gilbert, a Weather Underground member who was convicted of three counts of second-degree murder and four counts of first-degree robbery for his role in the crime that resulted in the deaths of Nyack police Sgt. Edward O’Grady …