When In The Course Of Human Events It Becomes Necessary For One People To Have An ONT

Howdy Morons! It was nice to see a bunch of y'all at the TxMoMe last week. Special thanks to host Ben Had and all of the other organizers. I spent some time talking to CBD, he was especially enthusiastic about a method of cooking called sous-vide. He told me that meat is sealed in plastic bags and the food is cooked in a bath of hot water over a long period of time. He said it was how they cooked food at gourmet restaurants. I couldn't wait to get home and try it for myself.

I dunno. I was expecting it to be better.

Kyle Rittenhouse

I saw this today. I'm not sure if it's from the defense or what, but it does a really good job of demonstrating how this entire prosecution is a politically motivated joke.

I saw some Antifa-type on Twitter claiming that if Kyle is acquitted, they were going to “riot in cities in all 50 states”. Um, if Rittenhouse is acquitted, there will be legal precedent to shoot violent rioters.

Visit Oz

A new commercial encouraging tourism to Australia just dropped.

Australia was always a place that I wanted to visit. I don't think I want to go there anymore. I'm not even sure I'd want to go if everything returns to “normal”.

Well, This Ought To Fix Things

Billionaires back new media firm to combat disinformation

A new public benefit corporation backed by billionaires Reid Hoffman, George Soros, and others is launching Tuesday to fund new media companies and efforts that tackle disinformation.

Why it matters: Good Information Inc. aims to fund and scale businesses that cut through echo chambers with fact-based information. As part of its mission, it plans to invest in local news companies.

Yeah, that sounds like a great idea. How long until “Good Information” is the go-to “neutral” source for “fact” checking in the media?

Although backed and launched by progressives, McGowan says the group could make investments in entities across the political spectrum so long as their editorial standards support fact-based information.

She points to The Bulwark, a center-right news site founded in opposition to Trumpism, as an example of the type of center-right news outlet it could fund.

Oh, yeah, the MSM is going to love these assholes.

Tut, Tut, Looks Like Rain

Wrong Again: 50 Years of Failed Eco-pocalyptic Predictions

It still amazes me that we as a race have somehow allowed ourselves to be brainwashed into believing that A) the biggest problem we face is the weather, and B) that we could actually do anything about it if it was. Boggles my mind, really. I mean, I get it. I heard the dire warnings growing up (back then it was global cooling and the “coming ice-age” ). As I came of age I suppose I believed by default, but as I started paying attention, I noticed that the goalposts were always moving. I noticed that any study that disagreed with the orthodoxy was dismissed, not disproved (by then it was “global warming” ), and as it morphed into “climate change” it stopped even pretending to be anything other than a religion for rich white liberals. Now? Now it's nothing less than the best illustration of my favorite H.L. Mencken quote:

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

Indeed.

If You Look, They Will Show You Who They Are

Here's a couple of screenshots from an interview with former representative from Tennessee, Democrat Harold Ford Jr. The meme captions tell the tale, really. He's got a painting of Mao on one wall, and a pedo painting by artist Kim Noble. (Lets be fair. Noble is a truly disturbed individual. She suffers from multiple personality disorder, and many of her personalities paint. When she paints as Ria Pratt, the paintings have themes of sexuality, abuse and pedophilia. You can see her work here). I have no doubt that Noble was severely abused as a child, which is the source of her disorder and the Pratt paintings. However, Ford chose that painting to display in his house, and that says an awful lot about him.

Shiver Me Timbers!

Ecuadorian Navy Sailing Ship Interdicts Drug Smugglers in the Pacific

I have nothing really to say here except that Guayas is a beautiful ship.

The Children Are The Future

So my 13yo got kicked out of class today

A speaker came into his classroom and the first thing they did was announce that their pronouns are they/them. He yelled “NOBODY CARES”

I’m one proud papa!

That's the entire thread, but good for him.

Time To Move

The Most Miserable Cities in America, Ranked

Baltimore is a fair choice for Maryland. I've never been to Port Arthur, so I don't know if it's the right choice for Texas or not. How did they do on your state?

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