The Best Things In Life Are ONT

Well gang, we're getting close to the end of October. I'll probably have some Halloween memes tomorrow, but how many of y'all remember this?

I remember one year I wore a Batman “costume”. There was a mask like these, and the smock had a picture of Batman on it. Like Batman's uniform was a picture of himself. Ahh, the 70s...

Here's A Halloween Story That'll Scare AlextheChick To Death

Teeny jumping spider found in woman’s ear after days of torturous racket

the good folks at the New England Journal of Medicine offer some fresh nightmare fuel ahead of Halloween: an ear spider. And there's a video.

In a short clinical report published in this week's issue, doctors in Tainan City, Taiwan, detail the case of a 64-year-old woman who sought care at an otolaryngology (ENT) clinic. She came in complaining of having an incessant ruckus in her left ear for the previous four days. On the first day of symptoms, the woman said she was awoken by a feeling of a wee creature crawling in her ear canal. That feeling was then followed by days of clicking, beating, and rustling noises.

It didn’t take long to find the problem; in a physical exam, the doctors easily spotted the itsy-bitsy arachnid moving about its cozy new shelter. And it wasn't exactly alone. During its four-day stay, it apparently molted, leaving an exuvia (its shed exoskeleton) in the canal as well.
Video of the creepy crawler shows it darting around the canal, just in front of the eardrum. When it spots the medical probe nearing, the spider comes in for a closer look, facing the camera directly for a perfect view of its eyes.

The itsy bitsy spider crawled in the ear canal
Built him a web and waited for his gal
Here comes the doctor who pulled the spider free
now the itsy bitsy spider is climbing up on thee.

Dark Money

The For-Profit D.C. Firm Staging America’s ‘Grassroots’ Movements

This one's a bit of a web. This articles unravels it.

Meet Arabella Advisors, the brainchild of ex-Clinton administration staffer Eric Kessler and the favorite tool of anonymous, billionaire donors on the progressive left. Since 2006, the Arabella hub has overseen a growing network of nonprofits—call them the “spokes”—that collected $2.4 billion in the 2019-20 election cycle, nearly twice as much as the Republican and Democratic national committees combined.

These nonprofits in turn manage and supervise a vast array of “pop-up” groups—mainly political attack-dog websites, ad campaigns, and “spontaneous” demonstrations staffed by Arabella’s network of activist professionals who pose as members of independent activist organizations. These groups—such as Fix Our Senate, the Hub Project, and Floridians for a Fair Shake—typically emerge very suddenly in order to savage the political opposition on the policy or outrage of that particular day or week, then vanish just as quickly. The pop-ups do not file IRS disclosures or report their budgets, boards, or staff. In most cases, their connection to Arabella goes unreported. Many of them have offered sympathetic ordinary voters the opportunity to donate to whatever the “grassroots” cause happens to be, when in fact the money feeds back into Arabella’s enormous dark-money network.

Here's a big problem with our form of government. When something like this comes to light, the reaction of a lot of people is “Congress should do something”. And they should. But Congressmen are directly benefiting from the status quo. How likely is it that 218 of them in the House and 60 of them in the Senate will discover the moral fortitude to act against their own personal best interests? Rand Paul couldn't even get 20 votes in the Senate to remove 1000 servicemen from Niger in the face of a decaying local political situation that puts them in danger. Why on Earth does the US need 1000 soldiers in Niger? I don't know what the answer is.

Pure Evil

“God lied to humanity”: This has to be the most blasphemous sermon of all time

Peters accuses God of "lying to humanity," which is not only blasphemous but it is also a logical impossibility. It's not just that God tells the truth all the time, it's that God is Truth. Whatever He says, whatever He does, whatever He thinks, is the Truth to which creation can only conform or uselessly rebel against. Ms. Peters' choice in that regard is self-evident. She has willfully and pridefully chosen the path of Eve. Consider her language: "to take my God away from me" "the God that I know" "the God that I know" This is Idolatry 101. It is also the fruit of so much of "progressive" Christianity - the manufacture of a false god that looks remarkably like you. One that permits you to "reinterpret" Scripture in a way that just so happens to always match your wants, permit your passions, encourage your urges, and facilitate your desires. One that never says no.

It's the religion of the moment, the true spirit of the age, and "Pastrix" Peters is a profound prophet of that faith. That's her prerogative, of course, but it's not Christianity.

This is the same woman who made the news several months ago when she praised her two abortions as a religious experience.

This self-proclaimed "Pastrix" (the latest identity title made up by progressives) donned a Planned Parenthood stole, climbed into a pulpit, and celebrated her two abortions. "I can also attest that I felt God's presence with me as I made the decision to end two pregnancies," Peters proclaimed. "And I felt no guilt, no shame, no sin."

I'm sure you did sense God's presence lady. He was there redeeming the souls of the babies you were murdering.

Demons live among us.

Irony

Kraken Can't Light Lamps In 4-1 Home Loss To Rangers

It's not just that they couldn't score, they play at the ironically names “Climate Pledge Arena”, which uses “green” energy for a significant portion of its power. Well, that system failed, and some of the lights went out. The game was played in, if not the dark, than in the dim.

Nice Shootin', Tex

SWAT officer shoots gun out of suicidal man's hand

On August 16, 1993, 37-year-old Doug Conely parked a white plastic lawn chair in the middle of a residential intersection in Columbus, Ohio, and aimed a .38-caliber revolver at his head.

It was indeed a nice shot, but he was only 82 yards away. There were a lot of people at the TxMoMe last week that could make that shot, on the range at least. Doing it in the field does add just a bit of pressure to the scenario.

We Were Warned

Charlottesville's Robert E. Lee statue has met its end, in a 2,250-degree furnace.

Swords Into Plowshares, a project led by the two women, will turn bronze ingots made from molten Lee into a new piece of public artwork to be displayed in Charlottesville. They made arrangements for Lee to be melted down while they started collecting ideas from city residents for that new sculpture.
Given past threats to the project and worries about legal action, Douglas, Schmidt and other organizers who traveled to this foundry in the American South took great pains to keep this part of the process under wraps. Only a few dozen people, including some who had housed or transported the dismembered figure of Lee, were invited to watch alongside them in secret. They announced the feat at a news conference Thursday afternoon in Charlottesville.

Anyone care to guess what kind of woke monstrosity the "art" they make it into will be?

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.

― George Orwell, 1984

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