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We're not easily offended and don't want people to think they have to walk on eggshells around here (like at another place that shall remain nameless) but of course, there is a limit to everything.
Play nice!
i haven’t been able to clean my benz in about a year…
it’s nasty! i should have hired someone to detail it. but my shoulder needs the workout and everything feels pretty good so far.
washing your car on a nice spring day
life is good
Happy Easter to all. He is Risen!
@ rain of lead:
We hit low to mid 90’s yesterday.
/Still nice. Totally enjoyable.
rain of lead wrote:
this isnt washing…this is war.
😆
oh man, it’s bad! 12 weeks on the road up in the mountains just destroyed it.
this is what years of indoctrination can do
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/polling/poll-majority-voters-plan-wear-masks-even-after-pandemic-ends
tis a sad, and happy day. mrs coldwarrior’s venerable volvo xc90 just had a catastrophic failure, blown turbocharger…
at 243000 miles.
methinks we’re gonna get a subaru next, as volvo is now chinese.
that xc was an impressive vehicle. 16 years in PA winters with salt…not one speck of rust anywhere
coldwarrior wrote:
The headline is highly misleading. “A majority” = 53%. Yes, it’s more than 50%, but my bet is that of that majority, a large number of them are followers. After they see other people breathing air freely, they will abandon the CO2 rebreathers.
It was a Rasmussen Male Bovine Excrement poll. 38% democrat (sheep), only 32% GOP. 30% other. Showing that this is a mostly political issue, those very likely to continue wearing masks, 54% identify as very liberal, 31% as somewhat liberal.
@ AZfederalist:
my point was this is how divorced from actual rational thinking and proper scientific method the populous has become.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/04/charles-barkley-says-politicians-want-black-people-white-people-hate-can-keep-grasp-money-power-video/
yep.
The Gestapo on passover.
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2021/04/03/absolute-legend-man-sends-the-lockdown-police-on-a-walk-of-shame-out-of-his-church-video/
I was thinking of sending this to some police unions.
This Althouse post had some good comments on Easter.
https://althouse.blogspot.com/2021/04/there-were-number-of-prominent.html
@ coldwarrior:
It’s a lot harder to “fundamentally change” a country when the people are happy
lobo91 wrote:
marx agrees.
@ lobo91:
That is pretty wise. Tim Pool quoted a survey on his podcasts that detailed about 47 percent of liberal as existing with some form of mental illness. Where in the conservative arena the percentage was around 25 percent. Conservatives trended more to be happy people.
And Happy Easter to all. I’m learning part of life is taking all problems and asserting a best effort into them.
I lived for over a year with two hard meth/fentanyl addicts. It literally sucks the life out of one. I don’t really observe holidays anymore. But I like to see people enjoying them to their fullest. Work hard and have the most fun.
In that world they say you have to hit rock bottom before you give up and see God. Even then some people have further to fall. Hopefully Easter celebrations trigger them to rise.
@ darkwords:
I think you have to be crazy to at least some extent in order to be a liberal. These are people who believe that 21st century America is worse than the Jim Crow south, despite a total lack of evidence showing that.
@ darkwords:
As opposed to about half the country, who will just be “triggered.”
@ coldwarrior:
No disagreement there. I’m amazed at how easy it was to get people so compliant. But I guess after learning of the Milgram experiment, “The experiment must continue”, I should not be. I thought the experiment was to serve as a point of concern about how easy it was to manipulate American citizens by someone posing as an authority figure (scientist in a white lab coat), instead, it appears to have been a recipe for how to exert control.
lobo91 wrote:
i despise that term.
its a cop out. a sign of mental weakness. a sign that the person is incapable of logical thought and understanding.
so what if someone disagrees with you? big deal. let me rant for a moment:
i know some peeps who have just about had it with the left, they WERE apolitical, happy people, now they are pissed. this balkanization will not end well for the left. because, as marx points out, the bourgeoise are very hard to overcome, especially when they are threatened.
we my be headed toward a great reckoning. it wont end well for the left. the pendulum swings, relentlessly. and at this point, the pendulum is a scythe. marxism/communism is a failure everywhere and forever. but, his analysis of political struggle is valid and should be understood. an unpopular overthrow by the left will result in blowback,
as above, barkley is dead on. and this will become more evident as time goes on. barkley v marx. who woulda though?
AZfederalist wrote:
Bestellungen sind Bestellungen
for now….
AZfederalist wrote:
i would also apply the classic russian fairy tail of the boy who cried wolf.
when, and i mean WHEN, we have a real and deadly pandemic, no one will listen. is this on purpose to destroy the middle class and reduce the population for the ‘elites’ to finally have total control? who knows.
i’ve gone 96 ER hours without a covid patient. its over.
i see all of the boards for all of our hospitals in real time. i can see meta data. its over.
coldwarrior wrote:
Might explain why they’re letting in as many infected Latin American “migrants” as possible and sending them all across the country…
Well, I’m happy to report that I now have water coming out of the tap in my trailer that looks like water, instead of watered-down skim milk.
It took 2 days of work, but I did it.
He’s deleted the tweet but ‘Reverend’ Raphael Warnock (now GA senator) tweeted that the meaning of EAster is more transcendent than the resurrection, that Christian or no, thru a commitment to helping others we can save ourselves.
Even I know the teachings of Christianity are the polar opposite – NOTHING transcends the resurrection (‘acts’ is an idea that is actually closer to Judaism). So he gets called out by practicing Christians and THEY get called racist.
It’s so predictable. And tedious.
coldwarrior wrote:
Yeah, well, they’ll figure out something.
eaglesoars wrote:
Which is precisely completely anti-Christian. If we could save ourselves, there would have been no need for a Savior or the resurrection. Screwtape would be smiling. (Yes, I’m continuing to read the whole thing; I’m sorry I had not read it earlier)
AZfederalist wrote:
me too!
eaglesoars wrote:
We gotta protect oursefs from the coming virus that hasn’t been detected yet. You know it’s coming. We’re all in this together.
@ Bunk X:
I predict a variant.
Hey, I have a favor to ask. Does anybody know of a good reference – book, preferably but articles ok – on the Frankfurt School?
BTW, Happy Eoster, peeps.
I got off easy – only two and a half hours of inane conversation but we had ham. Could have been worse. Brother-in-law didn’t show because he won’t leave his house. He hasn’t been vaxxed and is terrified of the ‘Rona.
coldwarrior wrote:
Yep, as soon as my state dropped the mandate, the mask wearing dropped to roughly 30% or less.
darkwords wrote:
Not a bad idea. Too bad Twitchy’s post includes all the unnecessary response tweets.
eaglesoars wrote:
That’s why Fauxci says we have to double, triple, quadruple mask forever. He told Rand Paul that we have undetected variants coming in and we aren’t immunized so mask mask mask until you can’t breathe anymore. /
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
which begs the question, if they’re undetected how does he know they’re coming in, let alone they’re variants.
This guy would flunk out of yeshiva, ya know? they actually require some intellectual rigor
I’m out. nite.
Bunk X wrote:
Some good comes from everything 🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
New viruses and variants are always coming in. His prediction is easy to make because it’s a given.
earthquakes in Los Angeles, not sure how big just woke up
2 so far, about 4.1 for the last. I think that’s relatively small. Last one reported 40 mins
This is interesting. Jarred Taylor sits down with retired LTC Tony Shaffer to talk about how 9/11 could have been prevented:
Well, this is new……
Beijing muscles in on the South China Sea filling it with hundreds of boats lashed together in an act of aggression designed to ‘squeeze out’ other Asia countries
China have claimed the Chinese vessels off the coast of the Philippines are merely fishing boats sheltering from bad weather
But satellite images show hundreds of ships – believed to be manned by Chinese militia personnel – lined closely together at Whitsun Reef in South China Sea
This is despite Philippines calling on China to withdraw ‘maritime militia’ vessels
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9436923/Beijing-muscles-South-China-Sea-filling-hundreds-boats-act-aggression.html
Good god. NY is set to raise taxes by nine billion, $4.3 corporate & income.
These people never learn
eaglesoars wrote:
4:44am local time. There was a smaller 3. something a half hour earlier, and a lot of small aftershocks too small to notice. The missus got woked.
It centered in Lennox not too far from LAX.
eaglesoars wrote:
Had a 6.3last nughtand i must have been having a pee and missed it completely.
sold daughter’s Riverside property for top dollar Wednesday and purchased a new build Saturday at Hobensonvilly Air Force Base. the old HQ and hauling out hangars for former lying boats. looks a million dollars with ferry wharfs and coffee bars and bikeways. the new build belonged to a distressed Chinese seller who got caught holding 7 home units and had to sell. put the acid on them and they popped. great price and we figured out how to make another en-suite bathroom out of a too large laundry. end townhouse as well so additional windows and more light too.Ms, AI is overjoyed with the purchase. instant capital gain. we put in some piping and buy a shower, toilet and small basin , close off a wall and use door to gain access from the Master bedroom. $10k and we now have a two double bedroom, 2 1/2 bathroom set up that puts us into the next $850k – $900 bracket. we stole it as it was for $783k
🙂
coldwarrior wrote:
ahhhhh quality steel from the mines of Sweden…. made great Tiger tank hulls as well.
🙂
Aussie Infidel wrote:
oh sweet! how’s the shoulder?
@ Aussie Infidel:
The swedish hammer was a brilliant car. Just amazing.
We got a Subaru outback…so…we’re aussies now?
G’day yinz! No worries, n’at!
coldwarrior wrote:
Golden Retrievers, I think
@ lobo91:
Did you notice that it’s an inter breed marriage? Dad is a golden, mom is a lab and the kid looks like dad.
just sayin’
@ eaglesoars:
At least one of them isn’t transgendered
@ lobo91:
yet
eaglesoars wrote:
pretty ordinary last night AND I ran out of
morphine tabs to boot.Just difficult to get comfortable. The worst bit is DEFINITELY getting used to sleeping in a harness with an achy arm strapped to one’s stomach. 🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
ugh
I’m out. nite.
Good morning! Here’s your new narrative.
White Evangelical Christians are holding up recovery by refusing to take the vaccine. They’ll kill us all
NYT: White Evangelical Resistance Is Obstacle in Vaccination Effort
Millions of white evangelical adults in the U.S. do not intend to get vaccinated against Covid-19. Tenets of faith and mistrust of science play a role; so does politics.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/05/us/covid-vaccine-evangelicals.html
If that’s paywalled for you, Yahoo picked it up directly from the NYT
How White Evangelicals’ Vaccine Refusal Could Prolong the Pandemic
https://news.yahoo.com/white-evangelicals-vaccine-refusal-could-184458952.html
NPR is a bit more balanced, but it’s still the theme
‘Love Your Neighbor’ And Get The Shot: White Evangelical Leaders Push COVID Vaccines
“I have a very hard time getting from vaccine to the Mark of the Beast,” Cornutt said, referring to one baseless rumor that linked vaccination requirements to an idea in Revelation, the apocalyptic book at the end of the New Testament.
https://www.npr.org/2021/04/05/984322992/love-your-neighbor-and-get-the-shot-white-evangelical-leaders-push-covid-vaccine
I guess BLACK evangelicals don’t read the same Bible as the white rubes, either, cuz all these stories are about the whiteys.
@ eaglesoars:
These people never stop. … and why should it matter? We’ve now been told that even if you get vaccinated you can still get or spread the disease and you still need to wear a mask and you still need to social distance. So tell me again, what is the value of the magic potion?
So in this pandemic, we have now devolved into medieval superstion: We have:
a) Magic Talismans/Amulets (masks with no scientific basis for their efficacy to stop spreading a virus)
b) Magic Rituals (social distancing, fist bumps/elbow bumps)
c) Magic Rites (shut-downs, only certain types of businesses can be open)
d) Magic Potions (That we were told would end all of the above but are now told don’t)
@ AZfederalist:
“Superstition” — Where was autocorrect to help me there?
@ AZfederalist:
It’s a pandemic porn cult with Fauci as the kinky leader. Vaccines can be improved. IMO by the third improvement they should be getting safe.
I don’t believe in the 666 stuff but I listened by accident to someone religious in this way talking about the Vaccine as an excample of 666. They included BLM, Big Tech, the passivity of conservatives, and it made a lot of sense. Just what are Faucis religious beliefs?
No althouse anymore. She went Full LGF. Something about the preponderance of reasonable conservatives in her comments made her crack open.
https://www.cnsnews.com/blog/craig-bannister/gov-abbott-texas-will-move-its-election-day-if-hr-1-passes
@ eaglesoars:
The Mark of the Beast is your SSN number.
darkwords wrote:
He’s a practicing Orthodox Bureaucrat.
darkwords wrote:
I had her number when, 3 weeks before the election, she was still in anguish about whether to vote for Obama AGAIN.
idiot.
Bunk X wrote:
And probably a secret transhumanist.
eaglesoars wrote:
Definitely a shape-shifter. Somebody tell QAnon.
2:05 PM · Apr 6, 2021
https://twitter.com/GlasnostGone/status/1379540875655720964
Peeps- I clicked a button in the dashboard settings that I think will fix the problem with showing the most recent posts. If you see anything squirrley let me know and I’ll turn it back off.
@ Bunk X:
I didn’t know there was a problem
And I think Ukraine is asking to join NATO. A bit late.
eaglesoars wrote:
I’ve had problems. I’ll log in, it shows a post that’s outdated, and I gotta hunt around to find the current one.
As far as I’m concerned, the main thing Hastings accomplished is proving that the Senate should go ahead and impose that lifetime bar from holding further office when they remove someone by impeachment.
Making of the BRCC Prius Vulcan:
@ lobo91:
Would people think me strange to say, “I want one”
I don’t know what to say about this. Probably the best video I’ve ever seen on twitter. A Dad is totally gobsmacked by his little girl (who is going to give Beyonce a run for her money in about fifteen yrs)
Dad’s reaction is priceless
https://twitter.com/KayaJones/status/1379632288217063426
Rand Paul
I urge everyone to get the vaccine if you think you need or want it. And then I urge everyone in America to throw away their masks, demand their schools be open, and live your lives free of more government mandates and interference.
So is the 2024 ticket Desantis/Paul or Paul/Desantis?
nite
Bunk X wrote:
I swear it wasn’t me. GoDaddy reset servers or something.
@ Bunk X:
Meanwhile, I’ve been sporadically combing old threads to update links from “theblogmocracy.com” to “blogmocracy.com” and 6 year’s worth of posts are fixed. I’m up to 2014. 😀
Here’s the very first (posted by “muman613”) in case you’re interested.
https://www.blogmocracy.com/2008/07/01/jews-against-obama/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/04/derek-chauvins-defense-plays-video-kneeling-george-floyds-shoulder-not-neck/
lobo91 wrote:
HA!
phoebe the blog dog love it too…of course, she loves all cars because that just might mean a trip to g’ma’s
lobo91 wrote:
mrs coldwarrior wants one.
@ Bunk X:
@ Bunk X:
thank you for the effort!
so far, so good!