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Very important read, IMO:
Uncomfortable Truth-Telling in “Tet Take Two” — the Left singularity approacheth
http://stopshouting.blogspot.com/2016/01/uncomfortable-truth-telling-in-tet-take.html
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Mary, arm and ammo up! Quietly start at least a 30 day supply of everything, food, batteries, essential household items, secondary source for water purification, food preparation. Usually there’s a trigger point, in this case we might miss this. Stay vigilant!
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Thank you for your concern, Col . We have a head start, but will work on it more diligently.
One of the few benefits of living in CA are the frequent reminders of being prepared in case of earthquakes–esp. in this area [sandwiched between the San Andreas Fault and Rogers Creek/Hayward Faults] . Would like to be elsewhere, but it is what it is.
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The Gates of Vienna essay is excellent:
http://gatesofvienna.net/2015/11/tet-take-two-islams-2016-european-offensive/
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Morning Stella! Very wind here, intermittent, Temps are slowing dropping. Waiting for the dusting of snow (1″-3″).
This whole issue will not end well.
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We have snow on the ground now. Slush and slop.
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My gosh, that was depressing.
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Yes, it is. It was the first thing I read this morning, before coffee!
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On a side note, it seems to support my theory, which is that I’m not crazy.
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Sorry, nyet. Truth sometimes is depressing, but it can also be energizing and catalytic.
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Another read for later. Thanks Stella.
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This sentence encapsulates Islam.
Most simply distilled, in the earthly realm, these Islamic texts offer immoral men sanction for thrill-killing, looting, raping, and capturing infidel slaves, and when these jihadists are killed, they are promised a perpetual orgy with seventy-two nubile virgin slave girls in Mohammed’s sick, evil and perverted Muslim paradise.
Even more succinctly as Muhammad’s child bride Aisha said “I appears that your Lord hastens in fulfilling your wishes and desires.”
I haven’t gotten beyond the first part about Islam.
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It* not I though both are sadly appropriate.
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Mornin’ MaryfromMarin!
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Afternoon, nyet! Afternoon, all!
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Yatz’s and PZ well done. You have stirred my thought processes from long ago. Using the Tet attack, my two big take aways are: NVA eliminated the main force Viet Cong, and Americas political will to fight was snuffed out by Walter Cronkite. Imagine if Walter Cronkite had said this about “the battle of Ardennes ’44”. Or the brutal combat on Okinawa in ’45.
Outstanding PZ, hope you are well.
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Cronkite was a globalist and (should I say it?) a traitor. Did you read the Gates of Vienna article? It’s long, but very good (linked by PZ, and by me, above).
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More on the subject:
The Western Spring, Richard Fernandez
One advantage the United States theoretically enjoys over Europe during periods of free-surface flooding is the Constitution. This serves as a foundation, a sort of ballast which lowers the meta-centric height of the ship of state and keeps it on an even keel in all but the roughest sailing.
It was meant to provide a check against excesses from either side in a political duel. The Constitution itself used to rest upon an even more basic rock, a widely shared set of assumptions, moral and religious beliefs which obtained at the beginnings of the nation. That gave it tremendous stabilizing power. Unfortunately the left has steadily chipped away at this Constitutional ballast and the stone on which it was builded, a fact they may regret before long.
https://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2016/1/10/the-western-spring
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Thanks Mary, will read this later this evening.
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Morning everyone! It’s raining and snow is expected later on tonight! Now for a few hours of sleep. I just knew those Steelers would lose. That game was not football, it was a legal street brawl. The NFL should be ashamed of putting a product (game) like this one on National TV.
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Hey Col. the Steelers won. The game was terrible. #55 on the Bengals was terrible.
The snow has stopped here but it is supposed to be 10 degrees tomorrow 😦
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Yes I knew they had won, I was just so Maddddddddd must have missed typed.
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Morning lovely, waiting for the snow, temps should bottom out around 10* here. It’s ICE BOWL 2 in your neck of the woods today.
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Good morning Col 🙂
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I watched bits and pieces of it while I was channel surfing and then watched the end of the game. Bengals shot themselves in the foot with the two stupid penalties. They had the game won then gave it away.
I though could care less about the NFL anymore, between their liberal policies and doing their best to turn it into flag football it quit being any fun to watch. Not to mention the pink, my goodness their constant obsession with trying to appeal to women turned this woman off. The little pink bow on the uniforms was enough, we didn’t need to see pink socks, gloves, shoes, etc.
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Mornin’ michellc!
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Good morning!
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Morning michellc, I do agree with you!
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Good morning!
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Raining now here, cold and miserable, and snow on the way. The dog wasn’t happy this morning.
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Just stocked the wood box, added a few lumps of coal, and about to pour myself a hot cup of coffee, I’ll add a little of Tex’s sipping whiskey, halftime!
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Mornin’ sir!
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Nye, thank goodness your on dry land, you could be out knocking sea ice off the ship!
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I was in main propulsion of a fuel oil burning ship. It was around 130F on top of the main engine. I do not know this “sea ice” you speak of.
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The northern Atlantic, and parts of the norther Pacific when ice forms on the outside of ships. Many years ago was reading WW2 convoy escort reports taking war supplies into northern Russian ports. Also reports on supply/troop ships around the Aleutian Island chain.
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Y’all up yet? 😀
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Well, I am. Awake is debatable.
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Mornin’ stella!
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Good morning Miss WeeWeed and all 🙂
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Mornin’ WeeWeed!
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Mornin’ Boris!
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I am and I survived the bitter cold that the media thought would kill me.
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We are being warned basically not to send our children out to the bus stop in bathing suits or our naked bodies as sleds. Oh and “Bundle up!!”
🙄
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It’s so annoying anymore. We’re not all stupid or wilting flowers and neither are our animals. The people who are will still send their children to the bus stop in shorts.
I think they just like being dramatic and make mountains out of mole hills.
I have a twisted sense of humor because every winter they warm people of the dangers of portable generators and portable propane/kerosene heaters. Yet every winter some idiot kills themselves by running one or the other inside the house.
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Around here we aren’t well prepared for snow and ice because why should we be? It’s rare, it would be utter stupidity to have all the equipment that you guys do, or they have up north. Consequently, people panic at snow forecasts, and grocery shelves literally empty. Little blue haired old ladies fight over a loaf of bread or roll of toilet paper.
It’s not as bad as it used to be, but it still gets crazy. I may be the only person in Georgia who refuses to go to the store when they predict bad weather. Unless it’s my normal day and I really am out of everything, which never happens, I am not going. If we have to resort to heating canned peas on the grill, we won’t starve. People are stupid.
That being said, if I’m low on coffee, I will go into town to the little shop where the lady roasts coffee right there and grab a pound. I’m spoiled about my coffee, and I’ll do without it only if I gotta.
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Morning Menagerie, sounds like your on a roll! So order a 5lbs bag of coffee, kohana, from the 50th state!
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We’re really not all that prepared either. The state and some towns have snowplows and the turnpike authority has been bragging about their new huge plows, which is a waste of money imho as we don’t have enough snow to warrant them.
Usually though only major highways get much done to them.
I have a friend who was raised in Washington state and she’s always said when she first moved here she laughed at people freaking out over snow and ice until she learned that they don’t have the same kind of equipment as they had back home and most roads are left alone.
We do though have the people who buy out the bread and milk. My daughter had to go buy the baby juice Friday and she said the bread aisle was bare and the only milk left was soy, almond and chocolate milk and one half gallon of whole milk that two older women were arguing over.lol
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Two years ago? Maybe three. We had a big scandal because we had a very snowy winter and people were noticing the salt trucks/plows were late in getting started and they seemed to be taking long breaks and the snow kept piling up.
It turned out that our salt storage units were generally empty because a friend of someone in the government, I can’t remember who but someone in waste management I believe had a friend in a town about 15 miles away and the city rented their remote storage facility rather than using property we already owned to store our salt.
So what should have taken maybe 15 minutes to refill a truck bed with salt was taking well over an hour. Then of course the roads were far worse by the time the trucks got back and it took them longer to clear them.
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Personally, since we don’t get that much bad weather I’d just rather they ignore the roads. If we get more than 2 or 3 they do anyway because they wasted all of their supply on the first one or two. It also never fails those they wasted their supplies on weren’t that bad and would have been gone in a day or two, but the bad one comes along and stays on the roads for a week or longer.
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I just brought another round of tickets, maybe, just maybe……….I’m not counting on it…..
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Morning Ms.WeeWeed!! When you win, you may need a driver, security, or anything else.
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Mornin’ Colonel! Yer on!! 😀
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Thank you MsWeeWeed!!!
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Did you see that Sean Penn interviewed El Chapo for Rolling Stone? Big mistake by El Chapo, for sure.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-sean-penn-el-chapo-interview-captured-20160110-story.html
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I did. Do you think his life is worth a plugged nickel (from the Sinaloa cartel) now??
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Hey we get a “twofer”!!
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This is so great 😀
I tried to read the entire Rolling Stone article but I couldn’t get through it. Penn is a terrible writer who is fully smitten with his own insufferable love letter to his own dull writing.
Then there is this line which in retrospect Mr. Penn may or may not find sobering;
This will be the first interview El Chapo had ever granted outside an interrogation room, leaving me no precedent by which to measure the hazards.
I think Penn fancies himself a Don Quixote.
Ah! Alas but what am but an owl among falcons 😀
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He’s a useful idiot, who has been backing losers (Castro, Chavez).
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Chapo’s disproportionate head, the rectangle face and his jowls remind me of Jeb.
I hope we get him on US soil before he finds someone to pay off. I read that as of now he has about 6 stall technics to stop extraction and his attorneys will play them out one at a time, keeping him in Mexico as long as they can.
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Good morning all. Balmy 11* here which is supposed to be the high for the day. Looks like about 2 inches of snow. I think the responsible thing to do is just go back to bed.
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On its way to us, next. Still raining here, 35*.
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Well it was really beautiful snow it looked like glitter last night in when is was reflected in the light. Unfortunately it stuck to the ground 😦 It doesn’t look as heavy as the last batch.
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Mornin’ lovely!
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Good morning Nyet 🙂
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Little warmer here, it was 14* when I went out this morning, supposed to be a high of 29* today.
We only got a dusting of snow yesterday that melted about as quick as it came down.
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On this day in 1949: A three-day snowfall begins in Los Angeles, California. Accumulations range from a trace near the coast to almost a foot in the San Fernando Valley.
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Breakfast!
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Awesome!!! Garcias, B!
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Sausage gravy, yum!
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And some coffee with yer biscuits. 😀
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😀
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I don’t think it’s a tendency. It’s life. Coffee is the on button.
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Word. 😀
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Mornin’ texan59!
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Mornin’ Dr. No. 🙂
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Tex, thank you, this is excellent, hot cup of coffee, hot lunch, hot fire, and relaxing! What more can a man want!!! Oh, sipping whiskey at half time!
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Good morning Texan 🙂
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Nye!!! Excellent!!! Lunch time, Like,like,like!!!
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And a bouquet today for our beloved Menagerie, who is 29-again today! Happy Birthday Menage!
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Happy birthday Menage. 🙂
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My favorite cake. I sure wish I had some right now!
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Thanks! This is a really special one though. Today I have been 29 twenty nine more times! 😀 I iz gettin’ good at it.
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You iz!!! You haz perfected it!!
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Happy Birthday!
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You’re the best Nyet!
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Happy Birthday Menagerie!
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Thanks Colonel, it’s almost time to start on my liquid presents. Temps are dropping.
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Happy birthday Menagerie!
God grant you many years! << An old Byzantine blessing 🙂
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Beautiful! Thank you so much.
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Happy Birthday Menagerie!
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Thanks Michellc. It’s been great.
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Happy Birthday Menage!
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Appreciate it tessa. I’ve enjoyed it!
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Happy Birthday, Menage!
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Hey, that looks like Clyde and Riley! Thanks Stella.
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“Happy birthday to youuuuuu!…” Wait, what?
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Ha! People should pay me not to sing for sure. Thanks, Mary.
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Good evening all. Gonna scroll back up and read now.
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Good evening Tessa 🙂
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