My ex's cooking was cold and bland.
Clearly, she put her heart and soul into it.
*.*
Why didn’t the green pepper get into archery?
He didn’t Habanero!
*.*
With a very seductive voice the woman asked her husband, “Have you ever seen Twenty Dollars all crumpled up?”
“No,” said her husband.
She gave him a sexy little smile, unbuttoned the top 3 or 4 buttons of her blouse, and slowly reached down into the cleavage created by a soft, silky push-up bra, and pulled out a crumpled 20 Dollar bill. He took the crumpled Twenty Dollar bill from her and smiled approvingly.
She then asked him, “Have you ever seen Fifty Dollars all crumpled up?”
“Uh… no, I haven’t,” he said, with an anxious tone in his voice.
She gave him another sexy little smile, pulled up her skirt, and seductively reached into her tight, sheer panties… and pulled out a crumpled Fifty Dollar bill.
He took the crumpled Fifty Dollar bill, and started breathing a little quicker with anticipation.
“Now,” she said, “have you ever seen $50,000 Dollars all crumpled up?”
He said “No!” trying to hide his arousal.
She said….. “Check the garage
*.*
My Husband died.
After he died, I couldn't even look at another man for almost 20 years.
But now that I'm out of Prison, I can honestly say it was worth it.
*.*
How many hippies does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Hippies don’t screw in light bulbs, they screw in dirty sleeping bags.
Quote of the Times;
Say Idolator instead of Woke, say Sodomist instead of Gay, say Treason instead of Fraud, say Communist instead of RINO or Democrat.
Link of the Times;
https://thesaker.is/will-the-ukraine-be-partitioned-next-and-if-so-how/
Issue of the Times;
The Global Vaccine Nightmare Has Just Begun by Emerald Robinson
What happens when 3 billion vaccinated people have undiagnosed myocarditis?
I went to the nail salon this week, and there was a young women working there who started weeping inconsolably in a corner. I asked the manager what was wrong. “She just lost her mother” was the reply. She had died in her sleep suddenly though she was perfectly healthy.
This last weekend, I had attended the funeral of an old friend. He was perfectly healthy too, and then he got late-stage pancreatic cancer — and he was gone a few months later.
That was the exact same story for another friend. He was healthy as a horse, until he wasn’t — because he too had suddenly developed late-stage pancreatic cancer.
Not to mention a young (and very fit) mother I know who just got a check-up, and was told that she too has suddenly developed aggressive cancer in her early 40s.
The perfectly healthy are getting bad cancers much too frequently now.
The perfectly healthy are dying suddenly.
What all of them shared was being vaccinated.
Steve Kirsch on Substack has conducted a survey (done by a third party) and the results are so disturbing that nobody in the corporate media will touch it.
Ten million Americans have heart injuries.
Ten million Americans had to be hospitalized after taking the vaccines.
Five million Americans can’t work after being vaccinated.
At least 600,000 Americans died after getting vaccinated.
More than 5 billion people have been injected with at least one dose of a COVID vaccine — so if we extrapolate a 6% heart injury/hospitalization rate from the survey, that would mean 300 million people have been effected.
If Dr. Malone is correct and a majority of vaccinated people have undiagnosed myocarditis, that would mean 3 billion people are at serious risk of sudden cardiac death.
You can’t imagine it (and I can’t imagine it ) but if that really happens to even a tenth of 3 billion people in the next few years, then we are talking about a world-altering event.
If you’ve being paying attention on social media — or, most of all, on Substack — then you already know that this man-made disaster was happening on a vast scale because you’ve seen far too many posts of soccer players suddenly collapsing on the field, or young people hooked up to machines at the hospital after getting their first clot shot, just like me.
In fact, mortality rates for young people across Europe are rising dramatically — in yet another sign that the use of the experimental COVID vaccines should be halted immediately.
Healthy people are now dying so frequently and suddenly from heart failure that the totally corrupt corporate media has invented names like Sudden Adult Death Syndrome (“SADS”) to account for these obviously vaccine-related deaths.
Suddenly, toddlers are now having seizures after getting vaccinated as well.
As for vaccinated women who are pregnant, they are experiencing miscarriages and still births at much higher rates than in the past.
What has the American medical community done about this catastrophe? They have aided and abetted it the entire way.
They have taken the Big Pharma blood money and the Federal government’s blood money — and they have stayed silent while they injected your friends and family with these deadly vaccines and watched them die.
You know it — and I know it.
When their patients asked for ivermectin to treat COVID, they denied them those prescriptions and treated them like deviants for asking — and they strongly recommended they get vaccinated instead.
When injured people had the audacity to complain about their vaccine injuries, our doctors and nurses gaslighted them, or told them to stay silent, or told them they had no clue why they were having problems.
It’s the most shameful episode in the history of American medicine.
Sudden deaths. Infant seizures. Blood clots. Miscarriages. Heart attacks. Skyrocketing mortality rates. Declining birth rates.
You might think that the COVID virus has gone away, but the global vaccine nightmare has just begun.
News of the Times;
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=246650
https://thesaker.is/putins-address-to-participants-and-guests-of-the-10th-moscow-conference-on-international-security/
https://www.rt.com/news/561093-finnish-pm-party-videos/
https://nypost.com/2022/08/15/bidens-title-ix-rules-deputize-teachers-to-override-parents/amp/?fr=operanews
https://thenewamerican.com/biological-male-cheerleader-cited-for-assaulting-female-at-texas-cheerleading-camp/
https://www.lawofficer.com/indiana-police-officer-noah-shahnavaz-killed-gunman-traffic-stop/
https://www.redvoicemedia.com/2022/08/oklahoma-man-kills-three-kids-and-himself-uploaded-livestream-right-before-murder-suicide-video/
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/08/13/arizona-police-taze-desperate-parents-outside-elementary-school-during-lockdown/
https://bigleaguepolitics.com/texas-is-the-latest-state-to-join-18-other-states-to-stand-up-against-blackrocks-woke-policies/
https://nworeport.me/2022/08/16/london-sex-change-clinic-for-kids-shut-down-and-sued-by-1000-families/
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/family-man-87-builds-him-27768549
https://www.thedailybeast.com/salman-rushdies-stabbing-shows-the-danger-of-conflating-words-with-violence
https://valiantnews.com/2022/08/irs-report-shows-heavily-armed-agents-simulate-assault-on-suburban-home/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/geico-closes-38-california-insurance-offices-putting-hundreds-people-work-report/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApfBvkql0lI
Begun?
Crush?
What do you call those who fully listen to both sides of an argument?
Neighbors.
*.*
I hit the gym last night.
Luckily, it was only my first DUI.
*.*
Oneliners:
I'm no magician, but I once turned a backrub into two kids and a mortgage.
I'm not saying I drink a lot of caffeine, but I'm pretty sure my body will still be moving around 24 hours after my death.
When someone says, "You look familiar," I say, "Oh, I do porn."
LeBron James has signed a two-year extension with the L.A. Lakers for $97.1 million, it breaks down to something like $20,000 for each missed freethrow.
You actually don't wash your hands; they wash each other, while you stand there looking at them like a creep.
Have you ever accidentally woke up at 5am and realized that some people get up at that time to exercise?
To be clear, I'm not a person you should ever put on speakerphone.
Married Man's Confession: I always read my wife's horoscope so I know what kind of day I'm going to have.
A car's weakest part is the nut holding the steering wheel.
The key to someone saying, "You look amazing!" is looking like crap most of the time, so it's a surprise.
*.*
Scotland has Nessie.
The US has Ten Nessee.
*.*
If you die and you’re cremated...
You can be put in an hourglass and still be a part of family game night.
Subscribe for more tips.
Quote of the Times;
More Whites were brought as slaves to North Africa then Blacks brought as slaves to the United States or to the 13 colonies from which it was formed. White slaves were still being bought and sold in the Ottoman Empire, decades after Blacks were freed in the United States. - Tomas Sowell
Link of the Times;
https://creativedestructionmedia.com/opinion/2022/07/18/why-is-gender-dysphoria-spreading-like-wildfire/
Issue of the Times;
5 Transportation Industries the US Government Is Crushing With Regulations by Richard Fulmer
Transportation is essential to any economy.
In war, each side tries to cripple the other’s economy by targeting and destroying its transportation infrastructure: ports, airfields, roads, bridges, railroads, rivers, and canals. The United States, however, like many countries, wrecks its own transportation systems—not with bombs but with laws and regulations.
The American Henry George (1839-1897) once commented on this dismal state of affairs. “What protection teaches us,” he wrote, “is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war.”
Let’s explore some examples of how this works.
1. Railroads
The Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC), created in 1887; the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890; the Elkins Act (1903); the Hepburn Act (1906); the Mann-Elkins Act (1910); the Panama Canal Act of 1912; and the Valuation Act (1913) worked together and at cross purposes to ensure that the nation’s railroads could neither compete, cooperate, nor coordinate with each other. Routes, lading, and rates were all heavily regulated. The result was that even before the country entered World War I, its railroads were grinding to a halt, incapable of transporting steadily increasing amounts of war materiel to the nation’s seaports. As Marc Scribner explains:
Pooling equipment and facilities could have eased the traffic crunch in the short-run, but the Interstate Commerce Act explicitly prohibited the voluntary pooling of railroad resources. In 1917, railroads appealed to the ICC for a 15-percent rate increase to help offset some of the rising costs associated with wartime traffic and afford them the opportunity [to] raise revenue necessary to invest back into network enhancements. The ICC rejected their request.
Frustrated with the growing railroad network inefficiencies during the war, President Wilson nationalized the entire railroad industry. On December 28, 1917, the newly formed United States Railroad Administration took over American railway operations. The agency immediately pooled all railroad equipment and facilities, and six months later increased freight rates by 28 percent.
Scribner adds that partial deregulation in the 1970s saved the country’s railroads from “the brink of collapse.”
2. Shipping
The Merchant Marine Act of 1920 (“Jones Act”) prohibits transporting goods between American ports on ships that aren't American built, owned, registered, and crewed. The Act significantly increases the cost of shipping American products between American cities. As a result, goods that could more efficiently be sent by water are sent by rail, truck, or air, wasting fuel and producing far more pollution and CO2 emissions than necessary. In addition, the high cost of shipping domestic products leads Americans to buy more from abroad. Finally, the Act has crippled America’s shipbuilding industry.
3. Ports
While Covid and Covid lockdowns exacerbated problems at America’s seaports, the issues have been building for decades:
• Longshoremen’s unions are limiting automation and job flexibility
• The Foreign Dredge Act of 1906 artificially increased the cost of the dredging that would allow our ports to service more and larger ships.
• State and local laws prevent seaports from expanding their container storage facilities
4. Air Travel
During the four decades from 1938 to 1978, the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) regulated passenger airlines engaged in interstate operations. It assigned routes, set fares, limited market entry, subsidized airlines, and regulated mergers. While the CAB prohibited price competition, it did allow airlines to compete on quality of service and frequency of flights. As a result, airlines became inefficient, overcapitalized, and overstaffed. Airlines profitably flew frequent, partially-booked flights, which, while convenient for customers, wasted fuel, labor, and equipment. Intrastate airlines – not subject to the CAB’s entry restrictions or price controls – could transport customers for half the cost of their CAB-certified rivals.
5. Trucking
From 1935 to 1980, the ICC regulated the nation’s trucking industry. The agency controlled rates and routes and limited market entry. Applicants for operating rights had to prove that existing firms weren’t already providing the proposed service and that the firms wouldn’t be hurt by the additional competition.
When President Jimmy Carter signed the Motor Carrier Act of 1980, which largely deregulated the trucking industry, he stated that the reforms would reduce “consumer costs by as much as $8 billion each year… and… conserve annually hundreds of millions of gallons of precious fuel.”
California’s AB5 law (also known as the “gig worker bill”) restricts companies’ ability to designate workers as contractors. Because over 60% of California’s independent owner-operators fall under the law’s definition of regular employees, AB5 will have a significant impact on the state’s trucking industry. By reducing or eliminating logistics companies’ ability to hire short-term trucking services and by driving some independent truckers to leave the state or the business, the law will further decrease the ability of the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports to clear their backlogs. Bottlenecks at these ports impact not just California but the entire nation.
The Bottom Line
Transportation is essential to any economy. Transportation expands the size of markets, market size determines the scope for the division of labor, and division of labor drives productivity. A nation’s transportation infrastructure is critical to its survival, but even the best infrastructure in the world cannot move people and products if laws and regulations create enough roadblocks.
News of the Times;
https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/is-the-pope-catholic/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/confirmed-least-20-undercover-fbi-atf-embedded-capitol-jan-6-along-several-undercover-capitol-police-agents/
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/fairness-justice/healthcare-workers-subjected-to-vaccine-mandate-will-get-10m-in-legal-settlement
https://www.theblaze.com/news/nj-councilwoman-hit-and-run
https://www.westernjournal.com/stunning-44-page-criminal-history-christmas-parade-massacre-person-interest/
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/robert-spencer/2022/07/30/priorities-u-s-military-base-is-hosting-a-drag-show-n1617034
https://realrawnews.com/2022/08/irs-to-open-sniper-school/
https://thedcpatriot.com/chilling-death-scene-photos-of-woman-linked-to-dead-bill-clinton-presidential-finance-adviser-raise-many-more-questions/
https://americanwirenews.com/spam-meat-product-is-locked-up-at-nyc-store-among-high-inflation-related-thefts-ive-never-seen-that-before/
https://www.outkick.com/msnbc-calls-herschel-walker-negro/
https://nationalfile.com/youth-football-coach-shot-dead-on-field-in-front-of-9-year-old-son-by-brother-of-nfl-broadcaster-former-player/?fs=e&s=cl
https://www.amren.com/news/2022/08/france-north-african-migrant-arrested-for-raping-american-tourist-in-paris-public-toilet-while-her-partner-waited-outside/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/video-houston-muslim-children-singing-martyrdom-song-praising-irans-supreme-leader-wearing-shahid-headbands-goes-viral/
https://legalinsurrection.com/2022/08/more-consumers-shopping-at-dollar-stores-as-confidence-in-the-economy-shrinks/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=li-NoI-jm0M
Neighbors.
*.*
I hit the gym last night.
Luckily, it was only my first DUI.
*.*
Oneliners:
I'm no magician, but I once turned a backrub into two kids and a mortgage.
I'm not saying I drink a lot of caffeine, but I'm pretty sure my body will still be moving around 24 hours after my death.
When someone says, "You look familiar," I say, "Oh, I do porn."
LeBron James has signed a two-year extension with the L.A. Lakers for $97.1 million, it breaks down to something like $20,000 for each missed freethrow.
You actually don't wash your hands; they wash each other, while you stand there looking at them like a creep.
Have you ever accidentally woke up at 5am and realized that some people get up at that time to exercise?
To be clear, I'm not a person you should ever put on speakerphone.
Married Man's Confession: I always read my wife's horoscope so I know what kind of day I'm going to have.
A car's weakest part is the nut holding the steering wheel.
The key to someone saying, "You look amazing!" is looking like crap most of the time, so it's a surprise.
*.*
Scotland has Nessie.
The US has Ten Nessee.
*.*
If you die and you’re cremated...
You can be put in an hourglass and still be a part of family game night.
Subscribe for more tips.
Quote of the Times;
More Whites were brought as slaves to North Africa then Blacks brought as slaves to the United States or to the 13 colonies from which it was formed. White slaves were still being bought and sold in the Ottoman Empire, decades after Blacks were freed in the United States. - Tomas Sowell
Link of the Times;
https://creativedestructionmedia.com/opinion/2022/07/18/why-is-gender-dysphoria-spreading-like-wildfire/
Issue of the Times;
5 Transportation Industries the US Government Is Crushing With Regulations by Richard Fulmer
Transportation is essential to any economy.
In war, each side tries to cripple the other’s economy by targeting and destroying its transportation infrastructure: ports, airfields, roads, bridges, railroads, rivers, and canals. The United States, however, like many countries, wrecks its own transportation systems—not with bombs but with laws and regulations.
The American Henry George (1839-1897) once commented on this dismal state of affairs. “What protection teaches us,” he wrote, “is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war.”
Let’s explore some examples of how this works.
1. Railroads
The Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC), created in 1887; the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890; the Elkins Act (1903); the Hepburn Act (1906); the Mann-Elkins Act (1910); the Panama Canal Act of 1912; and the Valuation Act (1913) worked together and at cross purposes to ensure that the nation’s railroads could neither compete, cooperate, nor coordinate with each other. Routes, lading, and rates were all heavily regulated. The result was that even before the country entered World War I, its railroads were grinding to a halt, incapable of transporting steadily increasing amounts of war materiel to the nation’s seaports. As Marc Scribner explains:
Pooling equipment and facilities could have eased the traffic crunch in the short-run, but the Interstate Commerce Act explicitly prohibited the voluntary pooling of railroad resources. In 1917, railroads appealed to the ICC for a 15-percent rate increase to help offset some of the rising costs associated with wartime traffic and afford them the opportunity [to] raise revenue necessary to invest back into network enhancements. The ICC rejected their request.
Frustrated with the growing railroad network inefficiencies during the war, President Wilson nationalized the entire railroad industry. On December 28, 1917, the newly formed United States Railroad Administration took over American railway operations. The agency immediately pooled all railroad equipment and facilities, and six months later increased freight rates by 28 percent.
Scribner adds that partial deregulation in the 1970s saved the country’s railroads from “the brink of collapse.”
2. Shipping
The Merchant Marine Act of 1920 (“Jones Act”) prohibits transporting goods between American ports on ships that aren't American built, owned, registered, and crewed. The Act significantly increases the cost of shipping American products between American cities. As a result, goods that could more efficiently be sent by water are sent by rail, truck, or air, wasting fuel and producing far more pollution and CO2 emissions than necessary. In addition, the high cost of shipping domestic products leads Americans to buy more from abroad. Finally, the Act has crippled America’s shipbuilding industry.
3. Ports
While Covid and Covid lockdowns exacerbated problems at America’s seaports, the issues have been building for decades:
• Longshoremen’s unions are limiting automation and job flexibility
• The Foreign Dredge Act of 1906 artificially increased the cost of the dredging that would allow our ports to service more and larger ships.
• State and local laws prevent seaports from expanding their container storage facilities
4. Air Travel
During the four decades from 1938 to 1978, the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) regulated passenger airlines engaged in interstate operations. It assigned routes, set fares, limited market entry, subsidized airlines, and regulated mergers. While the CAB prohibited price competition, it did allow airlines to compete on quality of service and frequency of flights. As a result, airlines became inefficient, overcapitalized, and overstaffed. Airlines profitably flew frequent, partially-booked flights, which, while convenient for customers, wasted fuel, labor, and equipment. Intrastate airlines – not subject to the CAB’s entry restrictions or price controls – could transport customers for half the cost of their CAB-certified rivals.
5. Trucking
From 1935 to 1980, the ICC regulated the nation’s trucking industry. The agency controlled rates and routes and limited market entry. Applicants for operating rights had to prove that existing firms weren’t already providing the proposed service and that the firms wouldn’t be hurt by the additional competition.
When President Jimmy Carter signed the Motor Carrier Act of 1980, which largely deregulated the trucking industry, he stated that the reforms would reduce “consumer costs by as much as $8 billion each year… and… conserve annually hundreds of millions of gallons of precious fuel.”
California’s AB5 law (also known as the “gig worker bill”) restricts companies’ ability to designate workers as contractors. Because over 60% of California’s independent owner-operators fall under the law’s definition of regular employees, AB5 will have a significant impact on the state’s trucking industry. By reducing or eliminating logistics companies’ ability to hire short-term trucking services and by driving some independent truckers to leave the state or the business, the law will further decrease the ability of the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports to clear their backlogs. Bottlenecks at these ports impact not just California but the entire nation.
The Bottom Line
Transportation is essential to any economy. Transportation expands the size of markets, market size determines the scope for the division of labor, and division of labor drives productivity. A nation’s transportation infrastructure is critical to its survival, but even the best infrastructure in the world cannot move people and products if laws and regulations create enough roadblocks.
News of the Times;
https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/is-the-pope-catholic/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/confirmed-least-20-undercover-fbi-atf-embedded-capitol-jan-6-along-several-undercover-capitol-police-agents/
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/fairness-justice/healthcare-workers-subjected-to-vaccine-mandate-will-get-10m-in-legal-settlement
https://www.theblaze.com/news/nj-councilwoman-hit-and-run
https://www.westernjournal.com/stunning-44-page-criminal-history-christmas-parade-massacre-person-interest/
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/robert-spencer/2022/07/30/priorities-u-s-military-base-is-hosting-a-drag-show-n1617034
https://realrawnews.com/2022/08/irs-to-open-sniper-school/
https://thedcpatriot.com/chilling-death-scene-photos-of-woman-linked-to-dead-bill-clinton-presidential-finance-adviser-raise-many-more-questions/
https://americanwirenews.com/spam-meat-product-is-locked-up-at-nyc-store-among-high-inflation-related-thefts-ive-never-seen-that-before/
https://www.outkick.com/msnbc-calls-herschel-walker-negro/
https://nationalfile.com/youth-football-coach-shot-dead-on-field-in-front-of-9-year-old-son-by-brother-of-nfl-broadcaster-former-player/?fs=e&s=cl
https://www.amren.com/news/2022/08/france-north-african-migrant-arrested-for-raping-american-tourist-in-paris-public-toilet-while-her-partner-waited-outside/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/video-houston-muslim-children-singing-martyrdom-song-praising-irans-supreme-leader-wearing-shahid-headbands-goes-viral/
https://legalinsurrection.com/2022/08/more-consumers-shopping-at-dollar-stores-as-confidence-in-the-economy-shrinks/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=li-NoI-jm0M
Team?
Pimps should dress like old-time animal trappers.
After all, they are in the modern day beaver trade.
*.*
It's my wife's birthday next week.
She's been leaving jewelry magazines laying around all over the house.
I hope she's thrilled when I give her the magazine rack she apparently wants!
*.*
A West Virginia state trooper, stopped a woman for going 15 miles over the speed limit.
After he handed her a ticket, she asked him, "Don't you give out warnings?"
"Yes, ma'am," he replied. "They're all up and down the road.
They say, 'Speed Limit 55.'"
*.*
I went to see my doctor this morning. “Someone decided to graffiti my house last night!” I raged.
“So why are you telling me?” the doctor asked.
“I can't understand the writing,” I replied. “Was it you?”
*.*
I'm working on a newsletter about various fungi and molds.
Still working on a name for it.
Leaning toward Lichen Subscribe.
Quote of the Times;
“The raid of MAL is another escalation in the weaponization of federal agencies against the Regime’s political opponents, while people like Hunter Biden get treated with kid gloves. Now the Regime is getting another 87k IRS agents to wield against its adversaries? Banana Republic.” - Governer Ron DeSantis
Link of the Times;
https://www.npr.org/2022/08/03/1114964240/new-battery-technology-china-vanadium
Issue of the Times;
It’s not Hypocrisy, You’re Just Powerless by N.S. Lyons
Hello Friend,
I saw your post on the interweb the other day about that nasty thing Team A did, even though they always completely lose their collective mind with moralistic outrage if Team B (which I understand is your team) even thoughtcrimes about doing something similar. In fact Team A seems to blatantly do things all the time that no one on Team B could ever get away with doing without being universally condemned as the absolute worst sort of immoral criminal/being openly threatened with mob violence/losing their livelihood/having their assets frozen/being rounded up by the state and shipped to a black site somewhere for some extended TLC.
Maybe the latest thing was breaking some very important public health rules, or pillaging and burning down government buildings for fun, or mean tweets, or polluting the planet with a private jet, or using allegedly neutral public institutions against political opponents, or just engaging in a little tax-dodging or corruption while doing, like, a ton of blow in a hotel room with some capital city hookers – I forget the specifics. In fact I forget what country you’re even living in now days.
But I did see that slick video you posted on how just pointing out “imagine if someone on Team B did this!” is all it takes to blow the lid off this glaring hypocrisy, thus totally destroying Team A with facts and logic. I’ve noticed you posting a lot of things like this, which is nice, since they are very witty and produce a pleasant buzz of smug superiority, even though this feeling never lasts very long.
However, I suddenly realized that you may not be in on the joke, so to speak, so I figured I’d write this short PSA to help explain what “hypocrisy” in politics actually is, just in case you didn’t know and had been fooled into seriously trying to benefit Team B with your comparative memes.
You see, it’s possible you are under the misapprehension that you are not supposed to notice what you described as the “double-standard” in acceptable behavior between Team A and Team B. And that you think if you point out this double-standard, you are foiling the other team’s plot and holding them accountable. This might be because, in your mind, you are still in high school debate club, where if you finger your opponent for having violated the evenly-applied rules a neutral arbiter of acceptable behavior will recognize this unfairness and penalize them with demerits.
Except in reality you are not holding Team A accountable, and in fact are notably never able to hold them accountable for anything at all. Even though Team A gets to hold you accountable for everything and anything whenever they want. This is because unfortunately there is no neutral arbiter listening to your whining. In fact, currently the only arbiter is Team A, because Team A has consolidated all the power to decide the rules, and to enforce or not enforce those rules as they see fit.
As some dead American white male once said, “The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.” And if you remember there once being a more equal, neutral standard for both teams in the past, that probably wasn’t because either team was nicer back then, or was more constrained by some higher power within or above the system – there was just a more equal balance of power between them, and therefore they could both hold each other accountable by punishing the other if it strayed too far from “the rules” written down on a scrap of paper somewhere.
Today, however, Team A is not operating on remotely the same level as Team B. And your biggest misunderstanding may be that you think Team A doesn’t want Team B to recognize this fact and point it out for the whole world to see. Yes there is a separate-and-not-equal standard for Team A, and this is no accident. Yes there are two different tiers of acceptable behavior; two tiers of justice; two tiers of citizen.
In fact, there is no “Team A” or “Team B,” only Class A and Class B.
And Class A really wants everyone, especially Class B, to understand this, because they think Class B seriously needs to get the message and accept its place in the order of things. Class B is on the bottom, where it belongs. Class A is on top, and a more lenient standard is a privilege reserved for them, by virtue of their natural moral/educational/economic/aesthetic superiority and consequent rightful dominance. If Class B does not enjoy this discipline, they should strive to clean up their dirty, stupid, wicked ways and someday become part of Class A.
Friend, you are not in high school debate club anymore. You are a peasant in feudal Japan, and every day the Samurai get to denigrate, abuse, and rough up your kind as much as they want. But if you ever talk back to a samurai, let alone try to do a little roughing up of your own, you will be beheaded on the spot. And far from being punished for this, the samurai who does it will be praised for doing his duty, since uppity peasants are dangerous and immoral and need to be dealt with at once, before they threaten the established social hierarchy. That samurai is just protecting democracy…, er the Shogunate. Pointing out the hierarchy of the social order as a peasant will be met only with a nod of approval: “yes, that is how it is, it’s good that now you finally understand.”
“Hypocrisy,” I hope you now see, is simply a display of power, so the more blatant it is the better. Hypocrisy is a concrete demonstration of living without having to fear consequences. And Class A loves it when Class B notices this and whines about it, because complaining about hypocrisy is just another way of saying “Class A is higher status than me,” and “I am the loser.” That’s the joke.
Much like the Great Khan, Class A has decided the greatest happiness in life is to crush its class enemies, see them driven before it, and hear the lamentations of their pundits.
Fundamentally, Class A believes the purpose of power is to reward its friends and punish its enemies. Which is what it does. That way it can keep its enemies down at the same time as it attracts more friends by offering great perks for class membership. And as a controversial Arab thought-leader once said: everyone prefers a strong horse to a weak horse.
If you, Class B serf, do not enjoy this arrangement, your lamentations about hypocrisy will not change it, no matter how loud and shrill. Only taking back control of the levers of power and then using that power to strike the fear of accountability into the hearts of your ruling class will ever be able to do that.
News of the Times;
https://victorygirlsblog.com/bidens-afghanistan-debacle-one-year-later/
https://www.salon.com/2022/08/09/cries-of-civil-war-reach-pitch-after-fbi-search-of-mar-a-lago/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/sperry-fbi-agents-involved-trump-raid-criminal-investigation-durham-abusing-power-trump-russia-probe/
https://slaynews.com/news/give-up-your-yacht-before-lecturing-the-world-brazil-president-scolds-at-leonardo-dicaprio-in-my-government-average-deforestation-is-way-lower-than-it-was-in-the-past/
https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-08-12-government-1-in-246-covid-vaccinated-dies.html
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2022/07/surprise-alleged-jihad-terror-financiers-organized-campaign-events-for-rashida-tlaib
https://fee.org/articles/public-schools-are-hemorrhaging-students-in-major-cities-heres-where-theyre-going/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/nashville-man-busted-enough-fentanyl-laced-pills-kill-roughly-150000-people/
https://thefederalist.com/2022/07/29/build-back-better-bill-would-fund-86000-additional-irs-agents-to-sic-on-american-taxpayers/
https://dcenquirer.com/irs-agents-audits-raise-taxes-biden-midterms/?utm_source=89381
https://www.louderwithcrowder.com/lia-thomas-riley-gaines
https://rumble.com/v1e3grt-contrary-to-bidens-statements-our-founders-were-pro-insurrection-and-create.html
https://thegoldwater.com/news/44623-ATF-Agent-Caught-Scanning-Thousands-of-Private-Gun-Sale-Records-into-Personal-Phone
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/07/environmentalism-environmental-hazard-daniel-greenfield/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uX1xFRMXrks
After all, they are in the modern day beaver trade.
*.*
It's my wife's birthday next week.
She's been leaving jewelry magazines laying around all over the house.
I hope she's thrilled when I give her the magazine rack she apparently wants!
*.*
A West Virginia state trooper, stopped a woman for going 15 miles over the speed limit.
After he handed her a ticket, she asked him, "Don't you give out warnings?"
"Yes, ma'am," he replied. "They're all up and down the road.
They say, 'Speed Limit 55.'"
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I went to see my doctor this morning. “Someone decided to graffiti my house last night!” I raged.
“So why are you telling me?” the doctor asked.
“I can't understand the writing,” I replied. “Was it you?”
*.*
I'm working on a newsletter about various fungi and molds.
Still working on a name for it.
Leaning toward Lichen Subscribe.
Quote of the Times;
“The raid of MAL is another escalation in the weaponization of federal agencies against the Regime’s political opponents, while people like Hunter Biden get treated with kid gloves. Now the Regime is getting another 87k IRS agents to wield against its adversaries? Banana Republic.” - Governer Ron DeSantis
Link of the Times;
https://www.npr.org/2022/08/03/1114964240/new-battery-technology-china-vanadium
Issue of the Times;
It’s not Hypocrisy, You’re Just Powerless by N.S. Lyons
Hello Friend,
I saw your post on the interweb the other day about that nasty thing Team A did, even though they always completely lose their collective mind with moralistic outrage if Team B (which I understand is your team) even thoughtcrimes about doing something similar. In fact Team A seems to blatantly do things all the time that no one on Team B could ever get away with doing without being universally condemned as the absolute worst sort of immoral criminal/being openly threatened with mob violence/losing their livelihood/having their assets frozen/being rounded up by the state and shipped to a black site somewhere for some extended TLC.
Maybe the latest thing was breaking some very important public health rules, or pillaging and burning down government buildings for fun, or mean tweets, or polluting the planet with a private jet, or using allegedly neutral public institutions against political opponents, or just engaging in a little tax-dodging or corruption while doing, like, a ton of blow in a hotel room with some capital city hookers – I forget the specifics. In fact I forget what country you’re even living in now days.
But I did see that slick video you posted on how just pointing out “imagine if someone on Team B did this!” is all it takes to blow the lid off this glaring hypocrisy, thus totally destroying Team A with facts and logic. I’ve noticed you posting a lot of things like this, which is nice, since they are very witty and produce a pleasant buzz of smug superiority, even though this feeling never lasts very long.
However, I suddenly realized that you may not be in on the joke, so to speak, so I figured I’d write this short PSA to help explain what “hypocrisy” in politics actually is, just in case you didn’t know and had been fooled into seriously trying to benefit Team B with your comparative memes.
You see, it’s possible you are under the misapprehension that you are not supposed to notice what you described as the “double-standard” in acceptable behavior between Team A and Team B. And that you think if you point out this double-standard, you are foiling the other team’s plot and holding them accountable. This might be because, in your mind, you are still in high school debate club, where if you finger your opponent for having violated the evenly-applied rules a neutral arbiter of acceptable behavior will recognize this unfairness and penalize them with demerits.
Except in reality you are not holding Team A accountable, and in fact are notably never able to hold them accountable for anything at all. Even though Team A gets to hold you accountable for everything and anything whenever they want. This is because unfortunately there is no neutral arbiter listening to your whining. In fact, currently the only arbiter is Team A, because Team A has consolidated all the power to decide the rules, and to enforce or not enforce those rules as they see fit.
As some dead American white male once said, “The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.” And if you remember there once being a more equal, neutral standard for both teams in the past, that probably wasn’t because either team was nicer back then, or was more constrained by some higher power within or above the system – there was just a more equal balance of power between them, and therefore they could both hold each other accountable by punishing the other if it strayed too far from “the rules” written down on a scrap of paper somewhere.
Today, however, Team A is not operating on remotely the same level as Team B. And your biggest misunderstanding may be that you think Team A doesn’t want Team B to recognize this fact and point it out for the whole world to see. Yes there is a separate-and-not-equal standard for Team A, and this is no accident. Yes there are two different tiers of acceptable behavior; two tiers of justice; two tiers of citizen.
In fact, there is no “Team A” or “Team B,” only Class A and Class B.
And Class A really wants everyone, especially Class B, to understand this, because they think Class B seriously needs to get the message and accept its place in the order of things. Class B is on the bottom, where it belongs. Class A is on top, and a more lenient standard is a privilege reserved for them, by virtue of their natural moral/educational/economic/aesthetic superiority and consequent rightful dominance. If Class B does not enjoy this discipline, they should strive to clean up their dirty, stupid, wicked ways and someday become part of Class A.
Friend, you are not in high school debate club anymore. You are a peasant in feudal Japan, and every day the Samurai get to denigrate, abuse, and rough up your kind as much as they want. But if you ever talk back to a samurai, let alone try to do a little roughing up of your own, you will be beheaded on the spot. And far from being punished for this, the samurai who does it will be praised for doing his duty, since uppity peasants are dangerous and immoral and need to be dealt with at once, before they threaten the established social hierarchy. That samurai is just protecting democracy…, er the Shogunate. Pointing out the hierarchy of the social order as a peasant will be met only with a nod of approval: “yes, that is how it is, it’s good that now you finally understand.”
“Hypocrisy,” I hope you now see, is simply a display of power, so the more blatant it is the better. Hypocrisy is a concrete demonstration of living without having to fear consequences. And Class A loves it when Class B notices this and whines about it, because complaining about hypocrisy is just another way of saying “Class A is higher status than me,” and “I am the loser.” That’s the joke.
Much like the Great Khan, Class A has decided the greatest happiness in life is to crush its class enemies, see them driven before it, and hear the lamentations of their pundits.
Fundamentally, Class A believes the purpose of power is to reward its friends and punish its enemies. Which is what it does. That way it can keep its enemies down at the same time as it attracts more friends by offering great perks for class membership. And as a controversial Arab thought-leader once said: everyone prefers a strong horse to a weak horse.
If you, Class B serf, do not enjoy this arrangement, your lamentations about hypocrisy will not change it, no matter how loud and shrill. Only taking back control of the levers of power and then using that power to strike the fear of accountability into the hearts of your ruling class will ever be able to do that.
News of the Times;
https://victorygirlsblog.com/bidens-afghanistan-debacle-one-year-later/
https://www.salon.com/2022/08/09/cries-of-civil-war-reach-pitch-after-fbi-search-of-mar-a-lago/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/sperry-fbi-agents-involved-trump-raid-criminal-investigation-durham-abusing-power-trump-russia-probe/
https://slaynews.com/news/give-up-your-yacht-before-lecturing-the-world-brazil-president-scolds-at-leonardo-dicaprio-in-my-government-average-deforestation-is-way-lower-than-it-was-in-the-past/
https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-08-12-government-1-in-246-covid-vaccinated-dies.html
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2022/07/surprise-alleged-jihad-terror-financiers-organized-campaign-events-for-rashida-tlaib
https://fee.org/articles/public-schools-are-hemorrhaging-students-in-major-cities-heres-where-theyre-going/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/nashville-man-busted-enough-fentanyl-laced-pills-kill-roughly-150000-people/
https://thefederalist.com/2022/07/29/build-back-better-bill-would-fund-86000-additional-irs-agents-to-sic-on-american-taxpayers/
https://dcenquirer.com/irs-agents-audits-raise-taxes-biden-midterms/?utm_source=89381
https://www.louderwithcrowder.com/lia-thomas-riley-gaines
https://rumble.com/v1e3grt-contrary-to-bidens-statements-our-founders-were-pro-insurrection-and-create.html
https://thegoldwater.com/news/44623-ATF-Agent-Caught-Scanning-Thousands-of-Private-Gun-Sale-Records-into-Personal-Phone
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/07/environmentalism-environmental-hazard-daniel-greenfield/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uX1xFRMXrks
Ruby?
Marriage Survival Tip #1:
Never ask your wife when dinner will be ready while she’s still mowing the lawn.
*.*
So, they're saying that certain foods are shortening our lives by minutes. Hot dogs, 36.3-minutes; soft drinks, 12.4-minutes; double-cheese burger, 8.8-minutes; pizza, 7.8-minutes; and bacon, 6.4-minutes.
That adds up to under 72-minutes and, I don't know about you, seems like a pretty fair trade.
*.*
Joe has been seeing a psychoanalyst for four years for treatment of the fear that he had monsters under his bed. It had been years since he had gotten a good night's sleep. Furthermore, his progress was very poor, and he knew it. So, one day he stops seeing the psychoanalyst and decides to try something different.
A few weeks later, Joe's former psychoanalyst meets his old client in the supermarket, and is surprised to find him looking well-rested, energetic, and cheerful. "Doc! " Joe says, "It's amazing! I'm cured! "That's great news! " the psychoanalyst says. "you seem to be doing much better. How? "I went to see another doctor," Joe says enthusiastically, "and he cured me in just ONE session! "One?!" the psychoanalyst asks incredulously. "Yeah," continues Joe, "my new doctor is a behaviorist. "A behaviorist? " the psychoanalyst asks. "How did he cure you in one session?
"Oh, easy," says Joe. "He told me to cut the legs off of my bed."
*.*
Who invented the miniskirt?
Seymour Hiney.
*.*
Who is the king of seasoning?
Sultan Pepper
Quote of the Times;
He whose life has a why can bear almost any how. - Nietzsche
Link of the Times;
https://www.wsj.com/articles/businesses-should-prepare-for-risk-of-civil-unrest-from-food-scarcity-11660210202
Issue of the Times;
Remembering Ruby Ridge by Lloyd Billingsley
This month marks 30 years since Ruby Ridge, one of those events that, as Dan Gelernter explains, the FBI prefers Americans to ignore. That attitude invites a look at those events, as described by the victims of FBI violence.
Army veteran Randy Weaver believed the world had become corrupt and dangerous, so he chose to be a survivalist. In 1983, Weaver built a cabin in the remote Ruby Ridge area of northern Idaho and lived there with his wife Vicky, daughters Sara and Elisheba, son Samuel, and family friend Kevin Harris.
Weaver held anti-government views but was not a member of the Aryan Nations. The federal Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms sought to make Weaver an informant among the group and when Weaver refused he was arrested. This led to a standoff in which U.S. Marshal William Degan and Weaver’s son Samuel, 14, were both killed.
This brought in the FBI, which deployed some 400 heavily armed agents, helicopters, and armored personnel carriers against a single family. The rules of engagement allowed deadly force against any family member seen with a firearm, but in effect it was an order of shoot on sight.
“On August 21, 1992,” Randy Weaver later testified,
federal marshals shot my son Samuel in the back and killed him. He was running home to me. His last words were, ‘I’m coming, Dad.’ They shot his little arm almost off and they killed him by shooting him in the back with a 9-millimeter submachine gun. The gun had a silencer on it. He was not wanted for any crime. He did not commit any crime. The marshals killed his dog right at his feet. He only tried to defend himself and his dog.
Sammy was just 14 years old. He did not yet weigh 80 pounds. He was not yet 5 feet tall. The marshals who killed Sammy were grown men. They were in combat gear. They had their faces painted with camouflage. They were wearing full camouflage suits with black ninja-type hoods. They were carrying machine guns and large caliber semi automatic pistols. They were trained to kill. Two of them were hiding behind trees and rocks in the woods where they could not be seen. The third was around a bend in the trail in thick forest. They were under direct orders from Washington to do nothing to injure the children. They were to have no contact or confrontation with me or my family. They killed him anyway in violation of their orders.
One day later, Vicki Weaver was holding infant daughter Elisheba in the cabin doorway when FBI sniper Lon Horiuchi shot the unarmed mother in the face, killing her instantly. Snipers are trained carefully “to acquire” the target, so there is little chance the shooting was accidental.
“On August 22, 1992,” Randy Weaver later testified,
completely without warning of any kind, an FBI sniper shot and killed my wife Vicki. He was using a .308 caliber sniper rifle with a specially weighted barrel and 10-power scope. He was using match grade ammunition. He had years of training to kill. I heard him testify at the trial that he wanted to kill. He shot my wife in the head and killed her. She was not wanted for any crime. There were no warrants for her arrest. At the time she was gunned down, she was helpless. She was standing in the doorway of her home. She was holding the door open for me and Sara and for Kevin Harris. She was holding Elisheba, our 10-month-old baby girl, in her arms. As the bullet crashed through her head, she slumped to her knees, holding Elisheba so she would not drop her. We took the baby from her as she lay dead and bleeding on our kitchen floor.
Louis Freeh, the Clinton pick for FBI boss, expressed “regret and sorrow for Mrs. Weaver’s death,” which was “tragic but accidental.” For Freeh, a former federal judge, the sniper’s second shot was “constitutional.”
Freeh also referred to the “murder” of Degan, which was inaccurate given the 1993 trial that acquitted Weaver and Harris of that charge. “Serious mistakes occurred with regard to the Ruby Ridge incident,” testified Freeh, who promoted Larry Potts, the agent in charge, to deputy director of the FBI, only to demote him when controversy ensued.
Attorney General William Barr spent two weeks organizing former attorney generals to defend FBI sniper Lon Horiuchi, whose kill-shot on Vicki Weaver was “constitutional,” and also an “accident” and one of the many “mistakes” that could have been avoided but weren’t.
FBI snipers also wounded Randy Weaver and Kevin Harris, who was near death when he finally surrendered. In the aftermath, Randy Weaver filed a lawsuit that paid more than $3 million to the family. Senators Herb Kohl (D-Wis.) and Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) sympathized with the Weaver family, but as the San Francisco Examiner reported, Dianne Feinstein of California “dealt sternly with Weaver, asking whether his children wore Nazi armbands and shouted Nazi slogans at neighbors.”
In early 2020, Fox News produced a documentary on the Ruby Ridge standoff. As the film shows, establishment media branded the Weaver family “white separatists.” Since the 2020 election, those less than worshipful of Joe Biden are branded “white supremacists.” In practice, as the late Angelo Codevilla explained, that means “anyone whom anyone in power dislikes enough to so label him.”
The Biden junta also brands his political opposition as violent extremists and “domestic terrorists,” a smear applied to parents who protest the racist indoctrination of their children. FBI boss Christopher Wray, who strenuously denied any FBI spying on Trump, is down with all of it, and so is Attorney General Merrick Garland.
As the 30th anniversary of Ruby Ridge approaches, the FBI functions as a Geheime Staatspolizei, an American Gestapo making summary arrests in the dead of night, with a show of overwhelming force. The FBI is also the American Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti or KGB, involved in stagecraft, as the Whitmer kidnapping plot and January 6, 2021 demonstrate. In KGB style, the bureau conducts “special tasks” far beyond the rule of law.
Some two months after the Ruby Ridge milestone come the midterms. Should the same massive irregularities of 2020 accompany those elections, embattled Americans might launch major pushback. And 2024 is just down the road.
“If the next presidential election is curated by the usual suspects, Soros, Zuckerberg, and the Democratic National Committee,” Roger Kimball explains, a few million people might begin “acting like Black Lives Matter during the summer of 2020.” As Kimball wonders, “what then?” Ruby Ridge provides a few clues.
Randy Weaver, the man labeled a “white separatist” by the FBI, died on May 11. He was 74, but his testimony stands the test of time. Against a single family, including children, the FBI deployed helicopters, armored vehicles, hundreds of agents in full combat gear, and trained military snipers like Lon Horiuchi. That sniper shot and killed Vicki Weaver, who was unarmed, and neither accused nor guilty of any crime. For embattled Americans in 2022, it would be a mistake to regard this assault as a one-off.
“Desire to wage war on ordinary Americans—to disadvantage them and even to kill them—had long been bubbling in the ruling class’s basements,” wrote Angelo Codevilla, citing documents such as Hot Spots of Terrorism and Other Crimes in the United States, 1979-2008. This Department of Homeland Security study classified persons judged “suspicious of centralized federal authority” and “reverent of individual liberty” as “extreme right wing terrorists.”
For Codevilla, “the countless, nearly identical pronouncements from on high in recent days can be taken as an announcement that the ruling class has raised them into its forceful mainstream.”
News of the Times;
https://www.wnd.com/2022/08/inflation-still-raging-federal-report-confirms/
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/07/15/the_left_is_about_to_pay_for_their_energy_insanity_147895.html
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/watch-democrats-cheer-clap-like-seals-pass-bill-raise-taxes-middle-class-raise-inflation-crush-small-businesses-bidens-economic-recession/
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2022/08/05/wapo-wonders-why-arent-health-officials-urging-a-certain-kind-of-social-distancing-in-monkeypox-outbreak-n487650
https://townhall.com/columnists/humbertofontova/2022/07/16/forget-jill-bidens-stupid-taco-quiptheres-much-worse-n2610312
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/flight-attendant-fired-for-pro-life-views-wins-5-1-million-lawsuit-against-airline-union/
https://www.al.com/news/2022/07/world-games-human-trafficking-operation-leads-to-rescue-of-several-victims-including-children-and-dozens-of-arrests.html
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/russia-and-china-officially-announce-new-global-reserve-currency
https://apdillon.substack.com/p/us-dept-of-ed-drops-report-on-prohibiting
https://www.dw.com/en/german-residents-make-plans-amid-fears-of-a-winter-gas-shortage/a-62482737
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/what-are-military-recruits-defending/
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/kevindowneyjr/2022/08/08/dems-wont-lift-a-finger-to-stop-crime-in-black-communities-yet-republicans-are-the-racists-n1619157
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/top-wisconsin-democrat-janet-bewley-kills-mother-5-year-old-daughter-car-accident-phone-local-media/
https://www.brassballs.blog/home/ap-cnn-marcelias-marc-elias-hillary-russian-dossier-usps-mail-strike-teams-rig-plant-crossfire-hurricane-marti-johnson-pelosi-schumer-biden-hr-3076-washingtonpost-usatoday-perkinscoie-fusion-102417
https://www.theorganicprepper.com/uranium/
Never ask your wife when dinner will be ready while she’s still mowing the lawn.
*.*
So, they're saying that certain foods are shortening our lives by minutes. Hot dogs, 36.3-minutes; soft drinks, 12.4-minutes; double-cheese burger, 8.8-minutes; pizza, 7.8-minutes; and bacon, 6.4-minutes.
That adds up to under 72-minutes and, I don't know about you, seems like a pretty fair trade.
*.*
Joe has been seeing a psychoanalyst for four years for treatment of the fear that he had monsters under his bed. It had been years since he had gotten a good night's sleep. Furthermore, his progress was very poor, and he knew it. So, one day he stops seeing the psychoanalyst and decides to try something different.
A few weeks later, Joe's former psychoanalyst meets his old client in the supermarket, and is surprised to find him looking well-rested, energetic, and cheerful. "Doc! " Joe says, "It's amazing! I'm cured! "That's great news! " the psychoanalyst says. "you seem to be doing much better. How? "I went to see another doctor," Joe says enthusiastically, "and he cured me in just ONE session! "One?!" the psychoanalyst asks incredulously. "Yeah," continues Joe, "my new doctor is a behaviorist. "A behaviorist? " the psychoanalyst asks. "How did he cure you in one session?
"Oh, easy," says Joe. "He told me to cut the legs off of my bed."
*.*
Who invented the miniskirt?
Seymour Hiney.
*.*
Who is the king of seasoning?
Sultan Pepper
Quote of the Times;
He whose life has a why can bear almost any how. - Nietzsche
Link of the Times;
https://www.wsj.com/articles/businesses-should-prepare-for-risk-of-civil-unrest-from-food-scarcity-11660210202
Issue of the Times;
Remembering Ruby Ridge by Lloyd Billingsley
This month marks 30 years since Ruby Ridge, one of those events that, as Dan Gelernter explains, the FBI prefers Americans to ignore. That attitude invites a look at those events, as described by the victims of FBI violence.
Army veteran Randy Weaver believed the world had become corrupt and dangerous, so he chose to be a survivalist. In 1983, Weaver built a cabin in the remote Ruby Ridge area of northern Idaho and lived there with his wife Vicky, daughters Sara and Elisheba, son Samuel, and family friend Kevin Harris.
Weaver held anti-government views but was not a member of the Aryan Nations. The federal Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms sought to make Weaver an informant among the group and when Weaver refused he was arrested. This led to a standoff in which U.S. Marshal William Degan and Weaver’s son Samuel, 14, were both killed.
This brought in the FBI, which deployed some 400 heavily armed agents, helicopters, and armored personnel carriers against a single family. The rules of engagement allowed deadly force against any family member seen with a firearm, but in effect it was an order of shoot on sight.
“On August 21, 1992,” Randy Weaver later testified,
federal marshals shot my son Samuel in the back and killed him. He was running home to me. His last words were, ‘I’m coming, Dad.’ They shot his little arm almost off and they killed him by shooting him in the back with a 9-millimeter submachine gun. The gun had a silencer on it. He was not wanted for any crime. He did not commit any crime. The marshals killed his dog right at his feet. He only tried to defend himself and his dog.
Sammy was just 14 years old. He did not yet weigh 80 pounds. He was not yet 5 feet tall. The marshals who killed Sammy were grown men. They were in combat gear. They had their faces painted with camouflage. They were wearing full camouflage suits with black ninja-type hoods. They were carrying machine guns and large caliber semi automatic pistols. They were trained to kill. Two of them were hiding behind trees and rocks in the woods where they could not be seen. The third was around a bend in the trail in thick forest. They were under direct orders from Washington to do nothing to injure the children. They were to have no contact or confrontation with me or my family. They killed him anyway in violation of their orders.
One day later, Vicki Weaver was holding infant daughter Elisheba in the cabin doorway when FBI sniper Lon Horiuchi shot the unarmed mother in the face, killing her instantly. Snipers are trained carefully “to acquire” the target, so there is little chance the shooting was accidental.
“On August 22, 1992,” Randy Weaver later testified,
completely without warning of any kind, an FBI sniper shot and killed my wife Vicki. He was using a .308 caliber sniper rifle with a specially weighted barrel and 10-power scope. He was using match grade ammunition. He had years of training to kill. I heard him testify at the trial that he wanted to kill. He shot my wife in the head and killed her. She was not wanted for any crime. There were no warrants for her arrest. At the time she was gunned down, she was helpless. She was standing in the doorway of her home. She was holding the door open for me and Sara and for Kevin Harris. She was holding Elisheba, our 10-month-old baby girl, in her arms. As the bullet crashed through her head, she slumped to her knees, holding Elisheba so she would not drop her. We took the baby from her as she lay dead and bleeding on our kitchen floor.
Louis Freeh, the Clinton pick for FBI boss, expressed “regret and sorrow for Mrs. Weaver’s death,” which was “tragic but accidental.” For Freeh, a former federal judge, the sniper’s second shot was “constitutional.”
Freeh also referred to the “murder” of Degan, which was inaccurate given the 1993 trial that acquitted Weaver and Harris of that charge. “Serious mistakes occurred with regard to the Ruby Ridge incident,” testified Freeh, who promoted Larry Potts, the agent in charge, to deputy director of the FBI, only to demote him when controversy ensued.
Attorney General William Barr spent two weeks organizing former attorney generals to defend FBI sniper Lon Horiuchi, whose kill-shot on Vicki Weaver was “constitutional,” and also an “accident” and one of the many “mistakes” that could have been avoided but weren’t.
FBI snipers also wounded Randy Weaver and Kevin Harris, who was near death when he finally surrendered. In the aftermath, Randy Weaver filed a lawsuit that paid more than $3 million to the family. Senators Herb Kohl (D-Wis.) and Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) sympathized with the Weaver family, but as the San Francisco Examiner reported, Dianne Feinstein of California “dealt sternly with Weaver, asking whether his children wore Nazi armbands and shouted Nazi slogans at neighbors.”
In early 2020, Fox News produced a documentary on the Ruby Ridge standoff. As the film shows, establishment media branded the Weaver family “white separatists.” Since the 2020 election, those less than worshipful of Joe Biden are branded “white supremacists.” In practice, as the late Angelo Codevilla explained, that means “anyone whom anyone in power dislikes enough to so label him.”
The Biden junta also brands his political opposition as violent extremists and “domestic terrorists,” a smear applied to parents who protest the racist indoctrination of their children. FBI boss Christopher Wray, who strenuously denied any FBI spying on Trump, is down with all of it, and so is Attorney General Merrick Garland.
As the 30th anniversary of Ruby Ridge approaches, the FBI functions as a Geheime Staatspolizei, an American Gestapo making summary arrests in the dead of night, with a show of overwhelming force. The FBI is also the American Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti or KGB, involved in stagecraft, as the Whitmer kidnapping plot and January 6, 2021 demonstrate. In KGB style, the bureau conducts “special tasks” far beyond the rule of law.
Some two months after the Ruby Ridge milestone come the midterms. Should the same massive irregularities of 2020 accompany those elections, embattled Americans might launch major pushback. And 2024 is just down the road.
“If the next presidential election is curated by the usual suspects, Soros, Zuckerberg, and the Democratic National Committee,” Roger Kimball explains, a few million people might begin “acting like Black Lives Matter during the summer of 2020.” As Kimball wonders, “what then?” Ruby Ridge provides a few clues.
Randy Weaver, the man labeled a “white separatist” by the FBI, died on May 11. He was 74, but his testimony stands the test of time. Against a single family, including children, the FBI deployed helicopters, armored vehicles, hundreds of agents in full combat gear, and trained military snipers like Lon Horiuchi. That sniper shot and killed Vicki Weaver, who was unarmed, and neither accused nor guilty of any crime. For embattled Americans in 2022, it would be a mistake to regard this assault as a one-off.
“Desire to wage war on ordinary Americans—to disadvantage them and even to kill them—had long been bubbling in the ruling class’s basements,” wrote Angelo Codevilla, citing documents such as Hot Spots of Terrorism and Other Crimes in the United States, 1979-2008. This Department of Homeland Security study classified persons judged “suspicious of centralized federal authority” and “reverent of individual liberty” as “extreme right wing terrorists.”
For Codevilla, “the countless, nearly identical pronouncements from on high in recent days can be taken as an announcement that the ruling class has raised them into its forceful mainstream.”
News of the Times;
https://www.wnd.com/2022/08/inflation-still-raging-federal-report-confirms/
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/07/15/the_left_is_about_to_pay_for_their_energy_insanity_147895.html
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/watch-democrats-cheer-clap-like-seals-pass-bill-raise-taxes-middle-class-raise-inflation-crush-small-businesses-bidens-economic-recession/
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2022/08/05/wapo-wonders-why-arent-health-officials-urging-a-certain-kind-of-social-distancing-in-monkeypox-outbreak-n487650
https://townhall.com/columnists/humbertofontova/2022/07/16/forget-jill-bidens-stupid-taco-quiptheres-much-worse-n2610312
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/flight-attendant-fired-for-pro-life-views-wins-5-1-million-lawsuit-against-airline-union/
https://www.al.com/news/2022/07/world-games-human-trafficking-operation-leads-to-rescue-of-several-victims-including-children-and-dozens-of-arrests.html
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/russia-and-china-officially-announce-new-global-reserve-currency
https://apdillon.substack.com/p/us-dept-of-ed-drops-report-on-prohibiting
https://www.dw.com/en/german-residents-make-plans-amid-fears-of-a-winter-gas-shortage/a-62482737
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/what-are-military-recruits-defending/
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/kevindowneyjr/2022/08/08/dems-wont-lift-a-finger-to-stop-crime-in-black-communities-yet-republicans-are-the-racists-n1619157
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/top-wisconsin-democrat-janet-bewley-kills-mother-5-year-old-daughter-car-accident-phone-local-media/
https://www.brassballs.blog/home/ap-cnn-marcelias-marc-elias-hillary-russian-dossier-usps-mail-strike-teams-rig-plant-crossfire-hurricane-marti-johnson-pelosi-schumer-biden-hr-3076-washingtonpost-usatoday-perkinscoie-fusion-102417
https://www.theorganicprepper.com/uranium/
Thomas?
I work at a dry cleaners and some lady just dropped off a bunch of ripped up nun’s clothes!
Guess she had some really bad habits.
*.*
Brad Pitt wore a skirt to the premiere of his latest movie in Berlin last week.
That reminded me of a friend who started wearing a bra.
I asked him, "Bob, how long have you been wearing one of those?"
He said, "Since my wife found it in the glove compartment."
*.*
A man had recently moved and was filling out forms at his local police station:
Q: Has your driver's license ever been suspended or revoked?
"No, never."
Q: Have you ever been convicted of a DUI?
"Oh yes, lots of times!"
Q: Have you ever been convicted of a driving-related felony?
"Yeah, three of them."
At this point, the officer stopped to ask: "well wait a minute, if you have all of these DUIs and felonies, how come your license has never been suspended or revoked?"
The man responds: "Never got one."
*.*
Interviewer: What drives you?
Candidate: The bus mostly.
Interviewer: I mean what motivates you to get out of bed in the morning?
Candidate: Missing the bus!
*.*
What do you call a dad joke that turns 18?
A groan up.
Quote of the Times;
“98% of all confirmed cases of Monkey Pox were from men who had sex with men.” - Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the Director General of the World Health Organization
Link of the Times;
https://babylonbee.com/news/government-that-shut-down-businesses-parks-schools-beaches-and-churches-for-2-years-says-theres-nothing-it-can-do-to-stop-a-disease-spread-by-gay-sex
Issue of the Times;
Justice Clarence Thomas is Proof America is Not Racist, That’s Why Leftists Hate Him by Gary Bauer
For the past 11 years, Justice Clarence Thomas has taught a course on constitutional law at George Washington University. The students who took those courses benefitted greatly from Justice Thomas’s knowledge and experience.
But this year is different. Radical, pro-abortion students launched a petition to get Thomas fired. While the reasons are not immediately known, the university announced yesterday that Thomas would not be participating in this year’s constitutional law seminar.
George Washington Law Professor Jonathan Turley, who is no conservative, said on Fox News this morning that this decision was a “tragedy.” Thomas was known on campus for how much he cared about the students, how he went out of his way to help them and give them guidance, regardless of their ideology.
Thomas has more decency in his right pinky finger than today’s intolerant leftist students!
In fact, Justice Sonia Sotomayor recently praised Thomas for his kindness and humility. He is a genuinely good man who treats everyone equally.
In addition, he has a tremendous story to tell about America and what people can overcome in this land of opportunity.
Clarence Thomas is a living testament to the American Dream. Born into abject poverty in the segregated South, today he is the longest-serving justice on the Supreme Court.
Every day, Thomas disproves the left’s false narrative that America is a “systemically racist country.”
And that’s why the left despises him so much!
The attempt to assassinate Brett Kavanaugh’s character during his confirmation hearings and the refusal to tone down their rhetoric after an assassination attempt on his life, combined with the campaign to cancel a black justice and smear his wife tells you everything you need to know.
Today’s left is driven by nothing other than the desire to rule or ruin. They will use whatever tactic they have to use. They will deploy left-wing stormtroopers and encourage assassins. This is who they are.
Traditional conservatives who don’t understand that are not going to succeed in saving the country.
This is not Ronald Reagan’s “morning in America.”
This is potentially the “mourning of America” unless we wake up!
The conservative movement’s biggest problem is not Donald Trump. Its biggest problem is that far too many “leaders” still don’t understand the nature of the battle we’re in.
News of the Times;
https://www.mediaite.com/news/new-poll-more-trump-voters-in-red-states-say-secession-would-make-things-better/
https://conservativebrief.com/judge-32-64988/
https://nypost.com/2022/07/14/nyc-serial-shoplifter-lorenzo-mclucas-busted-for-129th-time/
https://www.cleveland19.com/2022/07/28/3-suspects-accused-beating-death-akron-teenager-outside-i-promise-school-indicted-lesser-charges/
https://www.amren.com/videos/2022/07/black-brutality-2/
https://dailycaller.com/2022/07/15/pelosis-husband-massive-amount-in-chips-stock-before-expected-senate-vote-subsidies/
https://rairfoundation.com/italys-front-runner-for-prime-minister-giorgia-meloni-yes-to-the-natural-family-no-to-the-lgbt-lobbies-video/
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/07/15/pete-buttigieg-admits-high-gas-prices-are-intentionally-part-of-the-biden-strategy-to-push-people-to-electric-vehicles/
https://valiantnews.com/2022/07/fox-news-panel-monkeypox-furious-after-pundit-advises-avoiding-gay-orgies/
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/pro-gun-group-slams-traitor-republicans-who-voted-for-assault-weapons-ban/ar-AA107sV3
https://www.unclesamsmisguidedchildren.com/house-democrats-add-amendment-to-ndaa-the-hunt-for-extremists-in-the-military-and-federal-law-enforcement/
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2022/07/16/more-sweet-liberal-tears-over-manchin-shows-how-hysterical-and-radical-dems-have-become-n596104
https://nypost.com/2022/07/14/us-agencies-arent-following-the-science-on-covid/
https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/07/how-universities-weaponize-freshman-orientation/
https://principia-scientific.com/hospitals-are-covering-up-baby-deaths-by-cremating-babies-themselves/
Guess she had some really bad habits.
*.*
Brad Pitt wore a skirt to the premiere of his latest movie in Berlin last week.
That reminded me of a friend who started wearing a bra.
I asked him, "Bob, how long have you been wearing one of those?"
He said, "Since my wife found it in the glove compartment."
*.*
A man had recently moved and was filling out forms at his local police station:
Q: Has your driver's license ever been suspended or revoked?
"No, never."
Q: Have you ever been convicted of a DUI?
"Oh yes, lots of times!"
Q: Have you ever been convicted of a driving-related felony?
"Yeah, three of them."
At this point, the officer stopped to ask: "well wait a minute, if you have all of these DUIs and felonies, how come your license has never been suspended or revoked?"
The man responds: "Never got one."
*.*
Interviewer: What drives you?
Candidate: The bus mostly.
Interviewer: I mean what motivates you to get out of bed in the morning?
Candidate: Missing the bus!
*.*
What do you call a dad joke that turns 18?
A groan up.
Quote of the Times;
“98% of all confirmed cases of Monkey Pox were from men who had sex with men.” - Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the Director General of the World Health Organization
Link of the Times;
https://babylonbee.com/news/government-that-shut-down-businesses-parks-schools-beaches-and-churches-for-2-years-says-theres-nothing-it-can-do-to-stop-a-disease-spread-by-gay-sex
Issue of the Times;
Justice Clarence Thomas is Proof America is Not Racist, That’s Why Leftists Hate Him by Gary Bauer
For the past 11 years, Justice Clarence Thomas has taught a course on constitutional law at George Washington University. The students who took those courses benefitted greatly from Justice Thomas’s knowledge and experience.
But this year is different. Radical, pro-abortion students launched a petition to get Thomas fired. While the reasons are not immediately known, the university announced yesterday that Thomas would not be participating in this year’s constitutional law seminar.
George Washington Law Professor Jonathan Turley, who is no conservative, said on Fox News this morning that this decision was a “tragedy.” Thomas was known on campus for how much he cared about the students, how he went out of his way to help them and give them guidance, regardless of their ideology.
Thomas has more decency in his right pinky finger than today’s intolerant leftist students!
In fact, Justice Sonia Sotomayor recently praised Thomas for his kindness and humility. He is a genuinely good man who treats everyone equally.
In addition, he has a tremendous story to tell about America and what people can overcome in this land of opportunity.
Clarence Thomas is a living testament to the American Dream. Born into abject poverty in the segregated South, today he is the longest-serving justice on the Supreme Court.
Every day, Thomas disproves the left’s false narrative that America is a “systemically racist country.”
And that’s why the left despises him so much!
The attempt to assassinate Brett Kavanaugh’s character during his confirmation hearings and the refusal to tone down their rhetoric after an assassination attempt on his life, combined with the campaign to cancel a black justice and smear his wife tells you everything you need to know.
Today’s left is driven by nothing other than the desire to rule or ruin. They will use whatever tactic they have to use. They will deploy left-wing stormtroopers and encourage assassins. This is who they are.
Traditional conservatives who don’t understand that are not going to succeed in saving the country.
This is not Ronald Reagan’s “morning in America.”
This is potentially the “mourning of America” unless we wake up!
The conservative movement’s biggest problem is not Donald Trump. Its biggest problem is that far too many “leaders” still don’t understand the nature of the battle we’re in.
News of the Times;
https://www.mediaite.com/news/new-poll-more-trump-voters-in-red-states-say-secession-would-make-things-better/
https://conservativebrief.com/judge-32-64988/
https://nypost.com/2022/07/14/nyc-serial-shoplifter-lorenzo-mclucas-busted-for-129th-time/
https://www.cleveland19.com/2022/07/28/3-suspects-accused-beating-death-akron-teenager-outside-i-promise-school-indicted-lesser-charges/
https://www.amren.com/videos/2022/07/black-brutality-2/
https://dailycaller.com/2022/07/15/pelosis-husband-massive-amount-in-chips-stock-before-expected-senate-vote-subsidies/
https://rairfoundation.com/italys-front-runner-for-prime-minister-giorgia-meloni-yes-to-the-natural-family-no-to-the-lgbt-lobbies-video/
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/07/15/pete-buttigieg-admits-high-gas-prices-are-intentionally-part-of-the-biden-strategy-to-push-people-to-electric-vehicles/
https://valiantnews.com/2022/07/fox-news-panel-monkeypox-furious-after-pundit-advises-avoiding-gay-orgies/
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/pro-gun-group-slams-traitor-republicans-who-voted-for-assault-weapons-ban/ar-AA107sV3
https://www.unclesamsmisguidedchildren.com/house-democrats-add-amendment-to-ndaa-the-hunt-for-extremists-in-the-military-and-federal-law-enforcement/
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2022/07/16/more-sweet-liberal-tears-over-manchin-shows-how-hysterical-and-radical-dems-have-become-n596104
https://nypost.com/2022/07/14/us-agencies-arent-following-the-science-on-covid/
https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/07/how-universities-weaponize-freshman-orientation/
https://principia-scientific.com/hospitals-are-covering-up-baby-deaths-by-cremating-babies-themselves/
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