lucius septimius 6/2/2021 5:26:12 AM

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vxbush 6/2/2021 5:29:18 AM

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Good morning, campers. 

OR, you mentioned yesterday that you hate what the leftists have done to our country. I've spent hours in the last year thinking about to my grandmother, who told me lots of stories about growing up in the turn of the century--how Bibles would allowed alongside evolution books in school and both were taught with nary a peep from anyone; how proud people were of the US and what we accomplished in both world wars; how kids simply didn't talk back to the adults at all; how the news was slanted more, you knew what slant you would get from each paper; and how even though it was harder without the appliances that we have now, she really missed almost all of it. 

I think back now to what things were like when I was a kid, back in the 70's, and even though some of the anger from the Vietnam War seeped into my consciousness even at a very young age, adults were polite, kids still didn't talk back to them that often (compared to now), and every conversation wasn't about some leftist political topic. I think my grandmother would be absolutely fuming at what has happened to this country. I'm just glad there are large pockets of sanity outside the cities. 

Occasional Reader 6/2/2021 5:56:37 AM

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In #2 vxbush said: my grandmother, who told me lots of stories about growing up in the turn of the century

Now, without question, there are things that were prevalent in the US then that we are better off without; e.g. Jim Crow.

Good morning to all.

Occasional Reader 6/2/2021 6:05:00 AM

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Comment of the day at Instapundit, regarding Rick Desantis:

” Gain of function! A politician with a spine!”

vxbush 6/2/2021 6:21:20 AM

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In #3 Occasional Reader said: Now, without question, there are things that were prevalent in the US then that we are better off without; e.g. Jim Crow.

Oh, she wasn't talking about that. She never once spoke about race issues at all. 

vxbush 6/2/2021 6:21:44 AM

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In #4 Occasional Reader said: ” Gain of function! A politician with a spine!”

Ouch. It's funny because it's true.

buzzsawmonkey 6/2/2021 6:32:17 AM

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In #3 Occasional Reader said: Now, without question, there are things that were prevalent in the US then that we are better off without; e.g. Jim Crow.

Jim Crow is quite prevalent in the US at present, except that it's being imposed by blacks and Leftists in the form of cancel culture.  What are no-whites-allowed "safe spaces" and racially-separate graduations on college campuses, if not Jim Crow?

Occasional Reader 6/2/2021 6:47:11 AM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 7:

Nothing I wrote disagrees with you on that.  

buzzsawmonkey 6/2/2021 6:58:05 AM

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According to preliminary articles, the upcoming "jobs report" will be as bad, or worse, than the last one.  No shortage of jobs---big shortage of workers.  

No surprise there; when you try and eliminate or marginalize the "Rs," as this Administration has been doing, you don't get "workers"---you get "wokers."

buzzsawmonkey 6/2/2021 7:14:14 AM

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Two items from today's Morning Sedition that are worth listening to, albeit guaranteed to get your blood boiling:

1) NPR's sell job on Critical Race Theory (just under 5 minutes); and

2) NPR's sell job on the "Palestinians" and the Evils of Israel, featuring Rashid Khalidi (just over 7 minutes). You will remember that Rashid Khalidi, now the Edward Said Memorial Chair or something at Columbia, was formerly at the University of Chicago, and that there was a brief kerfuffle during Obama's first presidential campaign over his attending a dinner honoring Khalidi; the LA Times, IIRC, had a tape of the evening's proceedings which it refused to release.  Khalidi has long been an anti-Israel voice in academia.

Occasional Reader 6/2/2021 7:15:17 AM

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Google diversity chief, from 2007 blog post: Jews "have an insatiable appetite for war".

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9643469/Googles-head-diversity-slammed-saying-Jews-insatiable-appetite-war-killing.html

Occasional Reader 6/2/2021 7:26:09 AM

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In #4 Occasional Reader said: regarding Rick Desantis:

Gah.. RON.

Occasional Reader 6/2/2021 7:27:27 AM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 10:

I cannot tolerate NPR like that anymore.

Kosh's Shadow 6/2/2021 7:29:23 AM

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We had the discussion of the new CasaBlacka movie.

It has the classic exchange:

I'm shocked, SHOCKED that there is violence in the BLM movement!

--Your lootings, Sir.

buzzsawmonkey 6/2/2021 7:33:53 AM

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In #13 Occasional Reader said: I cannot tolerate NPR like that anymore.

It makes me grind my teeth, too---but it is still important to know what the enemy is thinking and how it's presenting it.

There was a segment which I did not link to, attacking the still-pending Texas voting law---which, of course, "disproportionately affects people of color," like everything else the Left opposes.  

They're still reflexively putting "lie" or "false narrative" or some similar equivalent to even the most-casual reference to any question about the integrity of the 2020 election; leaving aside that such editorializing is itself wholly inappropriate in a "news" context, the obsessive use of such conclusory words is itself a "tell" that they know they are selling rather than reporting.

buzzsawmonkey 6/2/2021 7:34:57 AM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 14:

+++++++++

And, "The downtown has been looted and burned.  Release the usual suspects on their own recognizance."

Occasional Reader 6/2/2021 7:53:02 AM

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In #15 buzzsawmonkey said: they know they are selling rather than reporting.

Well, you claim that, but “without evidence“....

Occasional Reader 6/2/2021 7:53:45 AM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 14:

++++

buzzsawmonkey 6/2/2021 8:02:25 AM

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In #17 Occasional Reader said: Well, you claim that, but “without evidence“....

I've done too many transactional negotiations to not be able to know a "tell" when I see one.

I say to my students, who come in largely terrified by the thought of legal negotiation, that if they've ever been in a bad relationship they know more about negotiation than they realize; any time someone offers an explanation for a question you have not asked, you know they are lying.  Case in point, you're sitting at home doing something and your soon-to-be-insignificant other comes in later than expected, and immediately launches, unbidden, into an explanation of why they were delayed.  

They're lying.  They're lying to set out the "narrative," to test where it does not ring true, so as to be able to adjust that part that rings false, and to be able to say, "Oh, I didn't say that" if you question them on any of it.  You may not know (yet) exactly what they're lying about, but you know they're lying. 

The same principle holds true in contract negotiation---and it certainly holds true when an organization allegedly reporting the facts of the news instead offers constant editiorialization.

JCM 6/2/2021 8:05:48 AM

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Vancouver [WA] homeless encampment fire sparks concerns

VANCOUVER, Wash. — Massive flames lit up the midnight sky in Vancouver after a fire broke out at a populated homeless camp in east Vancouver.

The fire started just after 12 a.m. Monday, near Northeast 112th and 51st Street.

Vancouver fire crews were just minutes away and say when they arrived, flames were 40 to 50 feet tall, engulfing a wooded area that was populated with dozens of homeless campsites.

Luckily, everyone made it out safe but fire crews tell KATU it was an obstacle getting to the actual fire.

“There is a road that is there, but there are these large concrete blocks that we couldn't push past or move. The fire was several hundred feet beyond those. So, we couldn't drive our engines and trucks up there like we normally would,” Vancouver Fire Capt. Raymond Eagan said.

Occasional Reader 6/2/2021 8:08:25 AM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 19:

Psst... I was making fun of the NPR tic of "news"-reporting that any claim made by a conservative is "without evidence".... 

JCM 6/2/2021 8:11:24 AM

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Reply to JCM in 20:

Atlanta lost a freeway.

One of these days a bunch of zoned out druggies will get crispified.

Or, worse it spreads to a neighborhood and burns people in their homes or out of their homes.

And the enablers will whine about not enough money and refuse to accept respsonsibliity.

buzzsawmonkey 6/2/2021 8:12:12 AM

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In #21 Occasional Reader said: Psst... I was making fun of the NPR tic of "news"-reporting that any claim made by a conservative is "without evidence".... 

Oh, I got it.  I just thought I'd get up on the ol' soapbox for a minute.

JCM 6/2/2021 8:13:54 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 11:

Dear Bobble Head,

Just which conflict did the Jews start again?

JCM 6/2/2021 8:18:13 AM

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BLM Leader Quits, tells the ugly truth.

buzzsawmonkey 6/2/2021 8:23:23 AM

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Reply to JCM in 25:

Look, give BLM credit.  Look at how much "affordable housing" Patrisse Cullors has acquired.

Occasional Reader 6/2/2021 8:30:52 AM

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In #25 JCM said: The Truth Revealed about BLM

Good story, but I wish he'd get more fully re-pilled and stop using (and thinking in) the phrase "black lives".  Human life has no color. 

buzzsawmonkey 6/2/2021 8:32:19 AM

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In #27 Occasional Reader said: Human life has no color. 

I've had a few jobs like that...

JCM 6/2/2021 8:33:23 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 27:

I'll take what I can get.

A journey starts with a single step.

Occasional Reader 6/2/2021 8:33:24 AM

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In #27 Occasional Reader said: reD-pilled

Occasional Reader 6/2/2021 8:34:52 AM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 28:

Heh.

But seriously, I don't recall where I first saw it put this way, but it's spot-on:

Lives matter. 

And anyone who insists on putting a color in front of that phrase is self-declaring as a racist. 

buzzsawmonkey 6/2/2021 8:35:57 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 31:

True; it's like perverting the concept of justice with "social justice."

Occasional Reader 6/2/2021 8:36:11 AM

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In #26 buzzsawmonkey said: Look, give BLM credit.  Look at how much "affordable housing" Patrisse Cullors has acquired.

Heh.  Minus the low-income housing complex they burned down in Minneapolis equals... hmm, did I remember to carry da bum?... 

Occasional Reader 6/2/2021 8:37:11 AM

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In #32 buzzsawmonkey said: True; it's like perverting the concept of justice with "social justice."

... or of chocolate with "white chocolate". 

vxbush 6/2/2021 8:55:17 AM

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In #34 Occasional Reader said: ... or of chocolate with "white chocolate". 

Word. 

Occasional Reader 6/2/2021 9:23:49 AM

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Iran's largest warship caught fire and sank. 

I would love to believe we had something to do with that, but I know better.  So perhaps Shayetet 13 was in the neighborhood? 

JCM 6/2/2021 9:40:31 AM

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Kosh's Shadow 6/2/2021 9:44:49 AM

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In #36 Occasional Reader said: Iran's largest warship caught fire and sank. 

So when does the Biden administration offer to give them another ship?

vxbush 6/2/2021 9:51:11 AM

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In #38 Kosh's Shadow said: So when does the Biden administration offer to give them another ship?

Bite your tongue; I can totally see them doing that. 

Kosh's Shadow 6/2/2021 9:53:51 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 39:

That's why I did not add a sarc tag.

Of course, the Iranians might ask for a nuclear ballistic missile submarine, even though their nuclear program is "peaceful".

Occasional Reader 6/2/2021 10:08:47 AM

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I felt a disturbance in the Force.  But balance seems to have been restored.

(Which once again, literally begs the question, for all intensive porpoises:  So it seems to have been the case in the Phantom Menace-y period of the Star Wars saga, that there were umpty-ump Jedi Knights, and only two Sith; so why on Earth Alderaan would the Jedi want to "restore balance to the Force"?!) 

Occasional Reader 6/2/2021 10:10:25 AM

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Reply to JCM in 37:

It's called the Kharg, which seems an onomotapaeic name, probably the last thing the Captain uttered as she went down... 

Occasional Reader 6/2/2021 12:56:24 PM

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vxbush 6/2/2021 1:03:52 PM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 42:

I just think of this......

Occasional Reader 6/2/2021 2:51:28 PM

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Occasional Reader 6/3/2021 2:34:27 PM

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News you can use:

https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2021/06/02/FDA-cicadas-seafood-allergies-warning/3601622667069/