Why, ONT, It Doth Bestride The Narrow World

Good evening fellow Morons. Been quote a while since I've seen an administration start off like this, if ever.

Comrade Bass

Goodbye Pacific Palisades, Hello Full Communism

Soboroff later clarified to Pollack that "the ‘consultant’ will be an ‘owner’s rep’ to oversee the work of the various agencies involved, much like a construction manager on a building project," and that there "would be a competitive bidding process for the role.”

In other words: this is going to take some time. Rather than a relatively simple process of homeowners filing their insurance claims and rebuilding once the money and the permits come through, big-name consultants will spend big money on big-name contractors to give the Palisades a big government makeover.
Indeed, that's exactly the case.
With homeowners locked out of the process and without any oversight, Bass will pursue her dream of rebuilding the Palisades "in a more equitable and environmentally sustainable way," as she put it. I'm picturing government-spec apartment buildings and other multifamily dwellings on burned-out lots where single-family homes used to stand. Those 15-minute cities don't build themselves, you know — mostly because, given the choice, people reject them.

I'm not going to claim that government officials set the fires, but boy, these communists fucks sure do take every opportunity to screw the citizens, don't they?

Sign Me Up

So I’m a Sociopath. So What?

If it’s somebody who screamed at me because I refused to mask up?  If it’s somebody who screamed at me because I didn’t want to participate in this decade’s Tuskegee experiments?  If it’s somebody who screamed at me that I hate women because I don’t want to pay doctors to cut up unborn babies, or that I’m a TERF because I don’t want men in the same locker rooms as my daughter, or that I’m a racist because I won’t let animals wearing the guise of humans act rabid?  If it’s someone who covers up grooming and rape because it’s “just their culture?”  If it’s someone calling me racist because I want the border closed, because I want the cartels gone?  If it’s someone calling me a sociopath because I understand the consequences that their minimum wage laws will have on all of us? 

Yeah.  I lack kindness and empathy for those groups.  And I lack kindness and empathy for the people saying I should have kindness and empathy for those groups.  The most I can, or will do, for any of those is pray for their souls as I pull the trigger, if they endanger my family. 

The famous words of Andrew Breitbart come to mind. “Fuck you. War”

Daily Chuckle

I Can't Stop Laughing After Reading These 42 Extremely Dumb Things People Posted On The Internet Last Month

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Go Home

No, the US is not a ‘nation of immigrants’

Brennan, in an attempted debate with Vice President JD Vance (because that’s what it was), declared, “Well, this is a country founded by immigrants.”

Vance had a brilliant response. But the underlying point is that we are not a nation of immigrants. We are a nation that takes in a lot of immigrants historically, but even today, only 14 percent of the population of the U.S. is foreign-born.

The remaining 86 percent of us are native to the U.S. And how many generations of your family have to be born here before you’re no longer tied to your ancestors’ Old World homelands? I have neither visited nor even met anyone from my ancestors’ home countries of origin. I am just an American, like anyone else born an American to Americans.

I'd like to point out that America was NOT “ founded by immigrants”. If that was true the Pilgrims would have assimilated into the tribes of natives that were already here. America was conquered, and we were kind enough to allow the natives to become part of the country that we subsequently founded.

Good Eats

RFK Jr. can take Maine approach to food nationwide

The potential appointment of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services perfectly aligns with Maine’s roadmap to fix our food system. Whatever is right with America’s food system can be found in Maine. In RFK, Maine will have a partner to bring what is successful in Maine to the rest of the country.

As a chef, my life is rooted in food. While I have always loved food and restaurants, my love transitioned from hobby to career while living and attending college in Maine. It was here I learned about local food systems, sustainability, and how a properly well-managed resource (Maine Lobster) is best managed by the fishermen themselves with little government intervention. I have spent many days driving around Maine seeking out local potatoes, blueberries, and of course whoopie pies. Maine’s local products are iconic and the perfect representation of how properly managed food systems, with minimal government intervention and no massive subsidies, can produce nutrient-rich food, but this culinary utopia is at risk. This is why when I think about the pending RFK Jr. nomination, I think about Maine.

Mmmm. Now I want lobster. They're hard to find down here, only the bougie market has them, and the last time I checked they were $30 /lb. When I was a kid vacationing in Maine every year you could buy enough lobsters to feed our family of 6 for that!

Tough Love

Attacked by a Gym Teacher

Late one afternoon, I pushed my luck. Mr. Ray had just put us through two hours of drills with no obvious goal in mind. We were drenched and annoyed when we tumbled downstairs to the locker room to shower and change. Mr. Ray’s office was down there, directly across from my locker. He went in but kept his door open. Whatever his problem with his girlfriend was, it was putting him more and more on edge.

Just then, one of my buddies from the other end of the locker room called out to me if I was going to date a certain girl. “No,” I called back in a loud stage voice that Mr. Ray was sure to hear. “Girls hate it when you’re shootin’ blanks.”

I never saw it coming. In a second I’d crashed into the lockers. I felt my head get bashed against the steel a couple more times, complete with a blast of white noise invective that filled my ears, a sound so raw and raging that I couldn’t make out any of the words. The locker room went dead, and stayed that way.

Mr. Ray had gone nuts. Almost as quickly, Mr. Ray realized what he’d done. He retreated to his office and quickly shut the door. I collapsed on the bench, trying go catch my breath. Then I quietly finished changing and went home. I was sore and bruised. I was also in a good position. Mr. Ray had been a teacher at the school for over 10 years. And I could end his career with one phone call.

No, I'm not saying that teachers should have free reign to push students into lockers. But today's schools definitely DO need a lot more discipline. And nuns whacking rulers across knuckles never killed anybody.

Cleaning House

Proposed Revised @PeteHegseth To-Do List

1. Fire the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. Replace him with a killer. You can’t change an org if you don’t change its head.

2. Instruct that “climate change” shall never again be labeled a strategic threat; our threat is enemy nations and groups, not the weather in a century. Related: The Army having dumped its green uniform, the military is no longer concerned with green frivolity.

3. Instruct that EVERY attack option briefed to POTUS will include significant degradation of enemy military capabilities; no more “messages” or “signals.” Diplomats send messages. If we hit, it hurts and makes the enemy less capable.

4. Tell the UK we’re keeping Diego Garcia; they can work backwards from that end state.

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