Occasional Reader 10/19/2021 6:47:38 AM

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First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regime of Tuesday

/yawn

Occasional Reader 10/19/2021 6:48:14 AM

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In #1 Occasional Reader said: Regime

...nt

vxbush 10/19/2021 6:58:48 AM

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In #2 Occasional Reader said: ...nt

Actually, I think the first version was better. 

buzzsawmonkey 10/19/2021 7:11:47 AM

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So, today Morning Sedition talked about how Portland is building mini-villages of tiny "homes" for "the un-housed" (that's apparently the new term for "the homeless").  

A lot of fretting about the expense, and some recalcitrants are objecting to the city decreeing that it will plop these "villages"---which will, by the way, be "self-governing"---down in their as-yet-unsqualid neighborhoods without consulting the residents of the neighborhoods.  

Whatever happened to Quonset huts?  And, for that matter, does anyone notice that "the problem of the homeless" has been in the hands of "social workers" for 40 years, and has not only not gotten solved, but has gotten much worse and continues to do so?

JCM 10/19/2021 7:18:51 AM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 4:

Portland is also towing RVs and dumping them in neighborhoods.

Occasional Reader 10/19/2021 7:22:11 AM

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In #3 vxbush said: Actually, I think the first version was better. 

But inaccurate (per the source material). 

Occasional Reader 10/19/2021 7:23:10 AM

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In #4 buzzsawmonkey said: which will, by the way, be "self-governing"

What could possibly go wrong? 

Occasional Reader 10/19/2021 7:24:55 AM

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In #4 buzzsawmonkey said: and some recalcitrants are objecting to the city decreeing that it will plop these "villages"---which will, by the way, be "self-governing"---down in their as-yet-unsqualid neighborhoods without consulting the residents of the neighborhoods.

Mencken's quote about "good and hard"  comes to mind. 

buzzsawmonkey 10/19/2021 7:48:28 AM

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I've proposed a number of solutions to "the homeless problem" over the years.  The most important, of course, would be re-institutionalizing the insane, since the unsupervised insane, such as schizophrenics, can clearly not be trusted to take their meds if left to their own devices.  The corollary to this would be to recognize that "the homeless" consists of many subgroups:  the insane (see above), who should never have been de-institutionaiized; the substance-abusers, whether drunks or drug-users; the marginal poor (what used to be called "bums" or "hoboes," some of whom overlap with the substance-abusers); and the down-on-their-luck poor who have no personal "safety net."  

All these groups should be treated differently, instead of being lumped into one "homeless" or "un-housed" mass; they have different problems and different needs.  

There should be an effort to revive the flophouses and SRO hotels which used to house many of the more-socially-integrated marginal poor.  They were a free-market solution vastly superior to, and socially cheaper than, the government paying high-end rents on behalf of an undifferentiated mass of "homeless."  

There should be a re-institution of public baths.  If someone is down on their luck, but wants to find/is capable of finding work, the greatest barrier to their doing so is their being noisome; well-policed public baths would make it possible for the would-be-employed homeless person to make themselves presentable.   A corollary to this would be to have a mail-drop address and lockers available to these people; it is difficult to get a job if you have no address and have to tote all your possessions with you constantly.

If the authorities wish to provide "housing," there are two ways that could be accomplished that would be far cheaper than anything now being done.   One is to build Quonset huts, divided into cubicles, which I alluded to upthread.  The other would be to produce "highrise trailer parks."  Most people are familiar with the urban phenomenon of small parking lots that have metal ramps/frames which allow the lot to "stack" two layers of cars in a single space: adapted to housing, one could quickly and cheaply throw up a girder structure which would allow for three or four stories of trailers---or even used freight containers re-fitted---into a "highrise trailer park."  This would be relatively quick, easy and inexpensive to build, and any individual unit that became irredeemably filthy, infested, or otherwise polluted could be easily pulled out of the framework and replaced by a new one.

Occasional Reader 10/19/2021 8:11:28 AM

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In #9 buzzsawmonkey said: "the homeless" consists of many subgroups:  the insane (see above), who should never have been de-institutionaiized; the substance-abusers, whether drunks or drug-users; the marginal poor (what used to be called "bums" or "hoboes," some of whom overlap with the substance-abusers); and the down-on-their-luck poor who have no personal "safety net."  

And another category,, a significant one, thought it overlaps with the ones you mention (and indeed there's overlap among those as well); the more-or-less voluntarily "homeless",  people who choose to live as drifters.   I recall a piece by Heather MacDonald that showed these as being a remarkably large percentage of the "homeless". 

vxbush 10/19/2021 8:25:01 AM

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In #10 Occasional Reader said: And another category,, a significant one, thought it overlaps with the ones you mention (and indeed there's overlap among those as well); the more-or-less voluntarily "homeless",  people who choose to live as drifters.   I recall a piece by Heather MacDonald that showed these as being a remarkably large percentage of the "homeless". 

And some of these people make significant money being homeless. 

JCM 10/19/2021 8:28:49 AM

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Yesterday was firing day in WA.

Hundreds of firefighters, police officers, and other gov't positions were fired.

All for refusing to be needle raped. Many of them had valid medical exemptions. Many had already had covid and are therefore immune.

The Statists have their new normal.

Do was you or told.

Or Else.

Occasional Reader 10/19/2021 8:49:23 AM

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In #12 JCM said: Hundreds of firefighters, police officers,

Well, I do hope all the Assistant Directors for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion were spared.  You know, the truly essential personnel.

buzzsawmonkey 10/19/2021 8:53:18 AM

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In #13 Occasional Reader said: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

One wonders whether the acronym (DEI) was chosen with intent: vox populi, vox DEI...

Occasional Reader 10/19/2021 8:58:37 AM

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In #14 buzzsawmonkey said: One wonders whether the acronym (DEI) was chosen with intent: vox populi, vox DEI...

You don't really think the dullards who come up with this stuff are anywhere near that erudite, I assume.

buzzsawmonkey 10/19/2021 9:01:19 AM

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In ancient Egypt, it was customary for the new Pharaoh to chisel his predecessor's name off all the monuments that predecessor had built, and substitute his own.

In modern America, it is now becoming customary for the Fair(ness)-O's to efface the monuments to, and the names of, those who came before them.

vxbush 10/19/2021 9:01:27 AM

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In #15 Occasional Reader said: You don't really think the dullards who come up with this stuff are anywhere near that erudite, I assume.

Even if he does, I don't, and I've had discussions with some of them. 

buzzsawmonkey 10/19/2021 9:02:54 AM

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In #15 Occasional Reader said: You don't really think the dullards who come up with this stuff are anywhere near that erudite, I assume.

No, I don't---but I think it's an interesting coincidence.

Kosh's Shadow 10/19/2021 9:05:34 AM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 14:

Where I work, it is D&I, which they think is dandy

buzzsawmonkey 10/19/2021 9:06:54 AM

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In #19 Kosh's Shadow said: Where I work, it is D&I, which they think is dandy

It should be "Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity, since they really want America to DIE.

Occasional Reader 10/19/2021 9:10:51 AM

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In #19 Kosh's Shadow said: Where I work, it is D&I, which they think is dandy

Uh-oh... they forgot EQUITY, which makes them thought criminals under the new-new-new-rules.

Al paredón!

buzzsawmonkey 10/19/2021 9:13:49 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 21:

Maybe they just decided to equit while they were ahead.

Occasional Reader 10/19/2021 9:23:08 AM

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WaPo columnist (don't worry, the link is to PJM); Stop complaining about the shortages, Comrade, and do your Stakhanovite duty.  Our glorious leader Comrade Joe is on the job.

JCM 10/19/2021 9:33:07 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 23:

Ministry of Plenty is announcing your chocolate ration is increasing to 25g from 30g.

Kosh's Shadow 10/19/2021 10:23:32 AM

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In #24 JCM said: Ministry of Plenty is announcing your chocolate ration is increasing to 25g from 30g.

However, its shipment is delayed because the Ministry of Climate Change has banned diesel trucks and trains, and there are no electric trucks available, and the government is still taking bids on making all rail lines solar electric. The environmental review for the necessary space for solar panels will take 20 years.

buzzsawmonkey 10/19/2021 11:18:29 AM

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Occasional Reader 10/19/2021 11:46:53 AM

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In #26 buzzsawmonkey said: Just by the way...I am so damned tired of people who should know better not knowing the difference between "flouting" and "flaunting."

Are you throwing down the gantlet and challenging them?  Or are you keeping a lower, more discrete profile? 

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JCM 10/19/2021 11:52:17 AM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 26:

I prefer to flounce... but that is just me.

Occasional Reader 10/19/2021 11:54:15 AM

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Harris tweets photo of herself exiting her armored SUV to board her private 767, en route to "climate crisis conference"

vxbush 10/19/2021 11:58:06 AM

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lucius septimius 10/19/2021 12:50:20 PM

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In #25 Kosh's Shadow said:

Unrelated, but Dopps texted me that she can't get into her account -- I guess she needs the password but has forgotten it.  Could you email her with a re-set?

Kosh's Shadow 10/19/2021 1:03:43 PM

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Reply to lucius septimius in 31:

Done

buzzsawmonkey 10/19/2021 1:26:52 PM

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I just read that "Rachel Levine," the "transgender" Assistant Secretary of "Health," has been made "the first female four-star admiral."

I cunt believe it---and my apologies for "language."

Occasional Reader 10/19/2021 1:32:22 PM

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In #31 lucius septimius said: Dopps texted me that she can't get into her account

That's because she's BANNED!!11!!!!  FOR STALKING ME ON A ME-STALKING BLOG THAT'S ALL FULL OF PEOPLE STALKING ME!!1!!!

/ah, memories

Occasional Reader 10/19/2021 1:35:22 PM

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In #33 buzzsawmonkey said: I just read that "Rachel Levine," the "transgender" Assistant Secretary of "Health," has been made "the first female four-star admiral."

Um. 

What?!

And yes, there it is, I just saw it, too.  I didn't realize there was a super-special meaning of "admiral" in this context. 

So, again, soi-disant feminists; this is the side of the aisle to which you hitched your wagon, long ago.  And now, they're essentially maintaining that men are better at everything than women - even at being women. 

buzzsawmonkey 10/19/2021 1:40:43 PM

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buzzsawmonkey 10/19/2021 1:50:12 PM

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My local NPR affiliate---currently in the throes of an endless fundraising drive---is offering a crank radio as a pledge/subscription premium.

This would seem to be coals to Newcastle, given the proportion of cranks who listen to NPR in the first place, but it also suggests that the Greenies/Leftists/wokies (but I repeat myself) are tacitly admitting that the actions/positions they advocate will result in power outages and generally unreliable energy availability.

buzzsawmonkey 10/19/2021 2:02:15 PM

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When I was a lad, I had a dream
That I could become the sex I did not seem
i grew my hair out and wore a dress
And appeared to all who saw me as a big, fat mess
(And appeared to all who saw him as a big, fat mess)
I made myself a mess so thoroughly
That now I'm a four-star Admiral in the Navy
(He made himself a mess so thoroughly
That now he is an Admiral in the Navy!)

---"Rachel" Levine, channeling "HMS Pinafore"

vxbush 10/19/2021 2:07:52 PM

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In #33 buzzsawmonkey said: I just read that "Rachel Levine," the "transgender" Assistant Secretary of "Health," has been made "the first female four-star admiral." I cunt believe it---and my apologies for "language."

🙄

doppelganglander 10/19/2021 2:09:07 PM

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Reply to lucius septimius in 31:

Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 32:

Thank you both very much! Between the newish phone and being overseas, I'm having weird issues.

vxbush 10/19/2021 2:09:45 PM

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In #40 doppelganglander said: Thank you both very much! Between the newish phone and being overseas, I'm having weird issues.

Well, all the electrons drive on the left side of the internet highway. It's bound to mess things up. 

Kosh's Shadow 10/19/2021 2:20:03 PM

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In #40 doppelganglander said: Thank you both very much! Between the newish phone and being overseas, I'm having weird issues.

Trying to spell the password the British way?

vxbush 10/19/2021 2:25:10 PM

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buzzsawmonkey 10/19/2021 2:26:20 PM

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In #43 vxbush said: Or some other A-word. Suggestions welcome.

"Assholier-than-thou?"

vxbush 10/19/2021 2:26:49 PM

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In #44 buzzsawmonkey said: "Assholier-than-thou?"

Oh, yeah, that's good. 

Occasional Reader 10/19/2021 4:49:11 PM

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In #37 buzzsawmonkey said: tacitly admitting that the actions/positions they advocate will result in power outages and generally unreliable energy availability.

Well, in fairness, and how I hate to say that, but a handcrank radio is a fairly standard “emergency“ item, and has been so for a long time. I bought one not long after 9/11.

buzzsawmonkey 10/19/2021 4:53:11 PM

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In #46 Occasional Reader said: Well, in fairness

Nebidennezzar hath decreed that when the strumpets sound, you shall all bow down---else you shall be cast into a Fiery Fairness.