Indulge me.
A non-political post of a few of my recent photos. I don’t know if any of you need this, but I do.
Newburyport
Plymouth
What is it?
As the sign reads “Lighthouse Dining” , table for two only, must be able to climb two fleets of circular stairs to top. Private and romantic. Newburyport.
May 20, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) – For all the justifiable press coverage of Barack Obama’s federal guidance on transgender students in the public schools, its most dangerous provision has largely gone unnoticed – and it has nothing to do with bathrooms.
The most outrageous provision of his transgender bathroom order does not even involve locker rooms, where teenagers of the opposite sex will change and shower next to one another.
The most offensive part of the new policy is that, under the Obama administration’s federal guidance:
- School districts must allow biological males and females to spend the night together in the same hotel room on field trips;
- Colleges must let men who say they are transgender be roommates with one or more women; and
- School officials cannot even tell those young women or their parents in advance that their new roommate is a man, without risking a federal lawsuit.
The plain wording of the Obama administration’s diktat is clear enough, yet it has not been reported, even by conservative news outlets.
Read the definition of ‘Transgender’ status below then extrapolate the likely results within the next few years…
The eight-page letter clearly states that, as far as the Justice Department and the Dept. of Education are concerned, a student becomes a member of the opposite sex the moment he feels like it. The instant he tells school officials about his decision, they must immediately treat him accordingly.
Honestly, what started as a (fleeting) bad joke is beginning to look like the most disruptive attack on what used to pass for civilization by the light-bringer (Lucifer for short) as yet. What will the next seven months bring us?
The money quote from the article…
“I have never seen a case for homeschooling more clearly put forward. This is further proof that public schools are not interested in education, only political indoctrination.”
A petition, meanwhile, circulated by the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine (OISM) currently lists nearly 32,000 signers, including 9,000 Ph.D.s, who say, “there is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gasses is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth’s atmosphere and disruption of the Earth’s climate. Moreover, there is substantial scientific evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plant and animal environments of the Earth.”
Just like the fictional Elmer Gantry, Al’s in it for the pussy and the money. I can’t document the pussy, but the money is huge . . .
Daily Mail: 1.7 million in 2001
Net-worth.org: 300 million in 2016
H. L. Mencken “No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.”
Amen!
Over the last several years we have documented with clockwork regularity Venezuela’s collapse into failed state status, which was cemented several weeks ago when news hit that “Venezuela had officially run out of money to print new money.” At that point the best one could do was merely to step back and watch as local society and civilization turned on itself, unleashing what would ultimately turn into Venezuela’s own, sad apocalypse….
As time went by, desperate Venezuelans grew anxious over not being able to buy food. Then they started jumping over the gates and stormed the supermarket.
“They took milk, pasta, flour, oil, and milk powder. There were 5,000 people” one witness told Venezuela outlet El Estímulo.
People from across the entire state came to the supermarket because there were rumors that some products not found anywhere else would be sold there….
Over the last two weeks, several provinces have hosted scenes of looting in pharmacies, shopping malls, supermarkets, and food delivery trucks. In several markets, shouts of “we are hungry!” echoed. On April 27, the Venezuelan Chamber of Food (Cavidea) reported that the country’s food producers only had 15 days left of inventory.…
The is why, Español Ramón Muchacho, Mayor of Chacao in Caracas, said the streets of the capital of Venezuela are filled with people killing animals for food. “Muchacho reported that in Venezuela, it is a “painful reality” that people “hunt cats, dogs and pigeons” to ease their hunger.”
Subsquently, Muchacho warned that Caribbean islands and Colombia may suffer an influx of refugees from Venezuela if food shortages continue in the country.
“As hunger deepens, we could see more Venezuelans fleeing by land or sea to an island,” Muchacho said.
And that is how all socialist utopias always end.
In other reports, some hospitals have no running water the doctors wash their hands before surgery with tonic water. There are no drugs. No clean bandages. Limited electricity. No one is paid.
The people of Venezuela voted socialism in, cheered when the government seized the assets of the foreign companies that built the oil fields and pipelines and refineries. They cheered when the government jailed pro-democracy protesters and opposition newspaper editors and writers. They cheered when the wealth and property of the old upper class and the new private entrepreneurial class was confiscated and redistributed. Now they have no toilet paper since the old businesses that manufactured it within Venezuela are shut down.
Now they weep, now they starve, now they beg.
Do you know what? The people of the USA and the EU will probably send help. A lot of help. But I hope they wait until the current government is swinging from the end of a rope first. But we probably won’t wait until then. That’s how we are.
By the way, WHO are you voting for in November?
The eyes aren’t the only characteristic that is rounder in the European.
Here we have a side-by-side comparison of the humblest of fruits from two industrial powerhouses: simple bearings made in China and Germany. Both are advertised, per the description, as “weapons-grade,” though apparently the German version costs a good 30 times as much.
Trial 1: the Chinese bearings. You see three separate spins with the thumb, each allowed to go till friction stops the spinning. Total for all three turns comes in at around six seconds.
Trial 2: the German bearings. One thumb-spin left to whirl, and whirl, and whirl. For a good 27 seconds.
Gee, about the same diff in the time the Chinese and the German takes to have sex…
only one of them making love the other is just screwing someone over.
This is a subject on which I am more than a little sensitive, when we rebuilt and refurnished the house after the fire in 2005, we spent a fortune on appliances, kitchen gear and everything else. And within a year about 20% failed or broke, within five years half was broke or falling apart. Much of what is in the kitchen today (ten years later) is new to replace the Chinese made junk that was the only choice we had at the local stores. But now I prowl online to find non-Chinese made goods. German made is preferable, when I can find it. American made is second choice (we’ve fallen far, very far I’m afraid).
I mean, for Christ’s sakes, four corkscrews in three years? Either the Chinese devices were made very poorly or I’m becoming super strong in my old age. Three coffee makers, two toasters, one mixer and all of the first set of knives, forks and spoons. SPOONS???
I’d rather not spend thirty times as much, but usually I don’t need a weapons grade spoon. I will spend twice as much and if I can’t find a non-chinese alternative then I do without.
If $50 is the new $20, is $20 the new $5?
Working class guys use $1 & $5 to stuff the G-strings of America’s dancing girls (a.k.a. Strippers), but high end (!!?) clubs for the elite will have to either upgrade to the fifty dollar bill or downgrade to using tens.
Is it appropriate to spend the new twenty to buy goods manufactured in one of the many nations that use slave labor? (People, are you aware of the exploits of Harriet Tubman and the cause for which she fought?)
Certainly donating any cash in twenties to any member of the Democratic Party would be inappropriate, Harriet was a staunch Republican.
Flashing a roll of twenties in the future to lure a young woman into your clutches could seriously backfire with Mz Tubmans visage facing outwards. (Somebody warn Bill!)
Can a white person use the bill to order ribs, chicken and watermelon; or are they being racist?
Do you realize that replacing the image of the founder of the Democratic Party with a icon of the GOP is the first bi-partisan act of the Obama administration? About time!
…and on a lighter note.
They say there is truth in humor. Ain’t it the truth !!
Marine Beaches in Massachusetts
“The energy needed to refute BS is of an order of magnitude greater than the effort needed to produce the BS in the first place. ”
Brandolini’s law
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