I Looked, And Behold, A Pale Horse. And The Name Of Him Who Sat On It Was ONT

Thursday night again, huh? Guess that means it's time to write the ONT.

Toilet Bomb!

A toilet was used as an aerial bomb during the Vietnam War

On November 4, 1965, some Vietnamese came across a very strange object that looked as if it had been dropped from the sky. Was it a bomb? Well, it had tail fins and a nose like a bomb. But it was white, and shaped like – a toilet?

It was a toilet in fact. It had been dropped by a VA-25 A-1 Skyraider on a mission to the Mekong Delta in South Vietnam. It had come from Dixie Station, an aircraft carrier base in the South China Sea. The plane’s pilot was CDR Clarence ‘Bill’ Stoddard.

As Stoddard approached his target, he began preparations for attack. He read the ordnance (list of weapons the aircraft carried) to Forward Air Control. At the end of the list, he read ‘and one codenamed Operation Sani-flush.’ What was Stoddard talking about?

I bring this up not just because it's a good story, but also because I know many of you enjoy video games, and Cdr. Stoddard's Skyraider has recently been added to War Thunder:

I know as well that some of you are also modeling enthusiasts, and I happened to find a model of the plane as well:

I do not know if the model is sold complete with toilet, or if the toilet was scratch build and attached to a commercial Skyraider model.

From The Bee

Jeremy Boreing Sitting In Warehouse Full Of Tires Waiting For Goodyear To Say Something Stupid

Boreing seems to have a knack for jumping on the opportunity presented when companies go woke and there's a backlash, first with razors and recently with chocolate. What I don't know is if it's just a gimmick or if he's actually making bank.

Today's Stupid

White drivers are polluting the air breathed by L.A.’s people of color

Like many Angelenos, I spend a lot of time behind the wheel of my car. I drive from my Westside apartment to Dodger Stadium near downtown and farther east to hike in the San Gabriel Mountains. I take the 405 Freeway north to the San Fernando Valley to see friends, or occasionally south to the L.A. Times office — or to the airport, where I grow my carbon footprint even further.

So I couldn’t help but consider my own complicity while reading a new study from USC researchers, finding that Angelenos who drive more tend to be exposed to less air pollution — and Angelenos who drive less tend to be exposed to more pollution.

It may sound like a paradox, but it’s not. It’s a function of the racism that shaped this city and its suburbs, and continues to influence our daily lives — and a stark reminder of the need for climate solutions that benefit everyone.

And so goes the woke religion. And I use that term deliberately, wokism fills for these people the human need that religion fills for people who aren't insane. And like all religions, it tends to condemn other religions as invalid.

A Savior No One Needs: Unpacking and Overcoming the White Savior Complex

Missions regularly send young people to provide short-term support to developing countries, especially after disasters. These missionaries bring with them plenty of enthusiasm and love, but they generally have little to offer by way of actual work qualifications.

Some missionaries set up clinics and provide healthcare services without any medical training or experience. Others work together to build schools or homes in the community, completely discounting the skilled but unemployed workers in the community who actually have construction training and experience.

Consequently, the help they provide often creates more problems than solutions for the people they intend to help. It’s a quick, temporary bandage for concerns that extend well below the surface.

There's a kernel of truth here – blind assistance can wind up being detrimental to those it's intended to help (Hey, here's a good example, suppose you had a multi-generational welfare system that taught people to be utterly dependent on handouts, a system that actively punished those behaviors that might lead to self reliance and independence. That would be quacking crazy, right?), but it's no accident that these “problematic” behaviors are core tenets of the Christian faith. I've never seen these assholes aiming their woke at Muslims. Christians, however, are charged with helping our fellow human beings without regard to race – in either direction. That just won't do. If you read the section on how to “correct” these behaviors, it involves making them woke. Frankly, all of the “White Man's Burden” crap that they purport to oppose oozes from every pore on their bodies.

On The Pandemic

the greatest lie told during covid

the greatest lie.

the one lie to rule them all.

this is the one that will come back to haunt us over and over if we do not call it out by name and lay plain its resounding lack of basis in fact.

it’s the lie they have been trying to sell of for decades and failing (or at least having only moderate success and thus wreaking only moderate havoc).

it’s the one lie to rule them all. the one lie to rule us all. the truly big lie constituting a forest that has been lost for the trees and perversely therefore winds up being reinforced by the very debate about the little lies.

and that lie is this:

pandemics are dangerous to modern societies.

because the fact is that they are not.

beyond very minor levels, it’s been 100 years since one was. there has NEVER been a seriously dangerous global pandemic in the post antibiotic era. there have barely been any that even warranted notice and pretty much no one living can recollect a shred of the last one.

(By the way, don't blame me for the lack of capitalization. The author seems to have lost the shift key on his keyboard. Maybe it's written by e e cummings)

Anyhow, it's worth reading if you're interested.

Today's Title Fight

Jordan Peterson’s Twitter spat with Pope Francis

A few days ago there was a Twitter spat between Jordan Peterson (3.9 million followers) and Pope Francis (18.9 million followers, not including the 1 million assumed-to-be Latin Mass supporters who follow him on his Latin account). 

The news of this may fill you with delight or horror; or both. The Pope’s Twitter account usually contains a collection of short pieties which are intended to cheer the soul and not tax the mind. But on this occasion, Professor Peterson’s mind was not cheered (the jury is still out on his soul). He took issue with the Pope replacing piety with politics.

What had the Pope written to provoke the world’s most popular psychologist to lay down a Twitter challenge? 

“#socialjustice demands that we fight against the causes of poverty: inequality and the lack of labour, land, and lodging; against those who deny social and labour rights; and against the culture that leads to taking away the dignity of others.”

To which Professor Peterson (never short on self-confidence) replied: “There is nothing Christian about #socialjustice. Redemptive salvation is a matter of the individual soul.”

Now, I'm not a Catholic, but I think Peterson is right here. Frankly, I think Francis is an antipope, the resignation of Benedict and what followed was historically unprecedented, but it's not really my place to say. What's interesting is that the article is from a Catholic publication, and it spends a good deal of time arguing that Peterson has a point. Peterson's point is exactly in line with my understanding of Christianity. Christ came to redeem us as individuals, and that remains true, even if you're an Argentinian communist who managed to get to the big chair in Rome.

Here's Some Complete Bullshit

Can DeSantis Become the Candidate of Never Trumpers?

More likely, they are going to have to come to grips with an ultimate choice of DeSantis or Trump versus Biden. If they begin to dutifully line up behind the Scourge of Disney in order to stop a Trump comeback, DeSantis could put together a mind-bending coalition ranging from moderately conservative Establishment types to the scariest elements of the online far right.

I like DeSantis, but I'm not an idiot. The establishment will do everything it can to make sure that Trump isn't the nominee, and as soon as he isn't, they'll drop DeSantis like a hot rock so they can get Biden elected. I know some of y'all think DeSantis is Jeb! 2: Electric Boogaloo, and that's fine, but I think they're simply trying to use him as a Judas goat. Remember the choice that the uniparty actually wants to give us:

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