I’ve been very frustrated with the slowness of our progress this year; during the two dry months we got very little done, and by the time we really started moving forward the rainy season had returned. Last year, once Grace explained what needed to be done I could do a little, get her to inspect my work to be sure I was doing it correctly, and then go full speed ahead until I had finished and was ready to move on to the next step. But the roof work required skills I don’t have, which couldn’t be easily explained, and it took us a long time to figure out what I could do without years of experience. Grace still needs to fabricate the main beams, but once they’re done I now have the ability to weld them in place if we can get the welder close enough; MIG welding relies on wire mechanically fed up the line by a motor inside the machine, so the stinger line is relatively short compared to the heavy cables used in stick welding. In this picture, I’m using nearly all the length there is, so to get to the very top of the central support we had to position the cart directly underneath (not always easy with tub and ladders in the way) and then put the welder up on top of a crate on the cart. It’ll be a little easier when we get away from the area directly above the tub, but I really wish we’d been able to get at least part of the roof in place before the monsoons.
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I’m not entirely sure why society collectively agreed that sex traffickers operate in a similar fashion to Wile E. Coyote trying to catch the Roadrunner. – Jessica Dean
It’s good to see this lurid narrative turned against cops for a change:
A woman who…filed a lawsuit in…Virginia…alleges that in 2010…[when] she travel[led] to the U.S. to work as an…escort…she was…[somehow unaware that the job involved] sex…and…[that] her new boss, Hazel Marie Sanchez Cerdas…[used threats to force her into unsafe and exploitative situations, and stole] all of [her income]…local [cops]…protect[ed] the [abusive pimps] in exchange for sexual services [for which the escorts were not compensated]…In April 2015, the plaintiff [got fed up with the exploitative arrangment]…and went to [the cops]. In 2019, Sanchez was charged with—and eventually pleaded guilty to—felony charges related to sex trafficking and was sentenced to 30 months in prison…
Unfortunately, the reporter is a “sex trafficking” fetishist who credulously parrots lots of copaganda in the article, but I’ve extracted what appears to be the important information from amongst the dysphemized descriptions, agency denial, and outright fantasies.
“Even reasonably intelligent, sophisticated men seem to believe deep down that their phalluses…have the ability to damage women’s bodies and destroy our souls.” Just in case some of you thought that was an exaggeration, please allow me to present this recent screenshot from Twitter, which also illustrates the concept of “science worship” as diagrammed here. Compare to the bizarre claims of “sex trafficking” fetishists and other prohibitionists, and I think you’ll admit my point that both feminists and denizens of the “manosphere” are part of the same continuum of wackadoo.
Anything that demonstrates the absurdity of internet censorship is good:
Vienna’s tourism board has started an account on OnlyFans – the only social network that permits depictions of nudity – in protest against [other] platforms’ ongoing censorship of its art museums and galleries. In July, the Albertina Museum’s new TikTok account was suspended and then blocked for showing works by the Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki…This followed a similar incident in 2019, when Instagram [censored] a painting by Peter Paul Rubens…In 2018, the Natural History Museum’s photograph of the 25,000-year-old Venus of Willendorf figurine was deemed pornographic by Facebook and [censored]…The Leopold Museum has likewise struggled to promote its collection of nudes by the expressionist Egon Schiele, with [its ads censored by bureaucrats] in Germany, the UK and US…A short video featuring the painting Liebespaar by Koloman Moser, made to mark the Leopold Museum’s 20th anniversary this year, was rejected by Facebook and Instagram as “potentially pornographic”…the Albertina’s current exhibition, by the Italian portrait artist Amedeo Modigliani, [is also terrifying to puritans]…
See the city’s YouTube ad below.
A whore-snitching app that skips the middlerat:
Police Scotland [has] adopt[ed] a simple [way to criminalize more sex workers]…by using the Unseen App. The app, which is hosted by the [government]…has been downloaded to [cop]s’ mobile devices to …[give them various excuses they can claim are] signs of…exploitation [so as to arrest sex workers while calling it “rescue”]…the app will provide [cops] with [legally-admissible excuses for the harassment]…Assistant Chief Constable Judi Heaton [shared some of her favorite BDSM masturbatory fantasies about passive, doll-like sex workers]…
Remember, Amazon eagerly hands data from internet-connected devices to cops:
A woman…requested all the information Amazon has on her through her two Amazon Dot devices and one Amazon Echo device as well as smart phones. Several Zip files came through and when she clicked on the audio file she says she discovered…3,534 audio files in a single Zip file alone…Amazon [also] has a copy of all her phone contacts…
The “things on cars” branch of “sex trafficking” scarelore has expanded to include things near cars:
“So have you ever seen this type of car seat just out of nowhere?” the woman in the TikTok video asks…pointing to a photo of an abandoned baby car seat in a parking lot…“that’s not an ordinary car seat…[it’s a] sex trafficking car seat”…placed as bait by sex traffickers to kidnap and enslave unsuspecting victims…The woman who posted the video is…a TikTok creator with 122,000 followers who bills herself as a “spiritual gardener” who offers Tarot intuitive readings on social media. [She has the typical] lack of credentials [of those billing themselves] sex trafficking expert[s, so as usual] her video has gone massively viral…the Wilkesboro [North Carolina] Police Department…[has so much spare time it actually] investigated this incident and…deemed…[it non-]criminal…but…Parker appears to be doubling down…[saying] “I still feel that there is something going on in our society”…
[Spanish] Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez…pledged [once again] to “abolish” prostitution in the country, [even though no such prohibitionist campaign has ever done anything but increase]…violence a[gainst]…women…Sanchez took office [again] in January 2020 as head of a minority coalition government after his Socialist Party won two inconclusive national elections in 2019…
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I’ve always been dedicated to the idea of this as the time of year for spooky fun. So every year I collect all the spooky, creepy or scary content from the previous year into one place just before Halloween. If you’ve come to my blog in the past year, or don’t remember previous editions, they are “Trick or Treat”, “More Trick or Treat“, “Tricks and Treats“, “This Trick’s a Treat”, “Tricky Treats“, “A Trickle of Treats”, “Tricking and Treating“, and “Tricks for the Treat“. Horror, death or Halloween-themed columns of the past year include “Dead on Arrival“, “The Mysteries“, “Could It Be…Satan?“, “The Sparkle of a Star“, and “The October Country“; there are creepy or spooky-fun videos in Links #541, #553, #566, and #590, and here’s a collection of spooky or Halloweeny links:
- A little slice of horror.
- Islamic horror movies.
- “Take only as directed“.
- Nightmare of the week.
- Beware of the shoggoths.
- I hate it when this happens.
- Horror headline of the week.
- A very patient practical joker.
- Radioactive hybrid terror pigs.
- What could possibly go wrong?
- Invasion of the Octopus People.
- I think I’ve seen this one already.
- As a foulness shall ye know them…
- This practically screams “rebury it”.
- That is not dead which can eternal lie…
- The phrase “gas station sushi” was awful enough.
- Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn.
- A corpse pretending to be a mannequin pretending to be a corpse.
- Do I really need to say, “Not because you dislike someone’s decorations”?
Posted in Links, Miscellaneous | Tagged animals, Antarctica, Denmark, drugs, Hawaii, holidays, imaginative fiction, Iran, Islam, Japan, language, New York, Not for Any Reason Whatsoever, paganism, psychology, Russia, Spain, Texas, United Kingdom | Leave a Comment »
The lady in front of you sucks. – “Officer” Brandon Roy
I’m combining two of my favorite types of videos this week: novelty songs and spooky stuff, in this oldie from The Dr. Demento Show. The links above it were provided by Nun Ya, Missy Mariposa, Jacob Sullum, Mistress Matisse, and Dave Krueger (x2), in that order.
- Skynet is coming.
- Is nothing sacred?
- I’m sure you feel safer now.
- Talk about adding insult to injury.
- They’re barely even trying any more.
- Laws are for the ruled, not the rulers.
From the Archives
- I’ve somehow managed the best possible game with the hand I was dealt.
- There’s literally never been a case of a kid getting drugged trick-or-treat.
- Authoritarians can’t conceive of any non-violent solution to any problem.
- We’re lucky cops & prosecutors moronically chose such a wealthy target.
- The anti-whore brigade just wants to make sex workers’ lives miserable.
- Once in a while, there are witnesses to the way cops act toward women.
- Hearings for the DC decriminalization bill dwarfed similar NYC meetings.
- Commies still love the fantasy that they can magically vanish sex work.
- Prohibitionists never grasp how unhinged they sound to normal people.
- The Japanese get very touchy when anyone memorializes their victims.
- Pro-decrim articles are even common on conservative sites these days.
- When this (soon) arrives in the US, the excuse will be “sex trafficking”.
- Cannabis prohibition in North America will soon be a thing of the past.
- It’s never called “trafficking” when the government or a crony does it.
- Don’t teach kids about sex; fill their heads with anti-sex propaganda.
- Allena Gabosch presents an essay collection called Sex Positive Now.
- Any non-politician would have given this up as a bad idea long ago.
- Indian activists battle prohibitionism disguised as “public health”.
- It’s the same everywhere our work is even partially criminalized.
- Banks are still actively looking for whores to rat out to the pigs.
- All too often, evil arrives cloaked in the mantle of expediency.
- Brooke Magnanti on how “sex trafficking” panic led to QAnon.
- Maybe the Church shouldn’t just ignore priests’ sexual needs.
- Ever notice how often predatory cops’ targets are underage?
- “Sex trafficking” propaganda has always been deeply racist.
- On the havoc wrought by Swedish criminalization in France.
- “Crime”: introducing two people. Sentence: life as a pariah.
- A cop who molested people spiritually as well as physically.
- Cops, politicians, Twinkies, sound effects, and much more.
- Why won’t prohibitionists let sex workers get other jobs?
- If you aren’t worried about spy planes, how about this?
- A look at Hacking/Hustling’s report on shadowbanning.
- All of our roofing materials are finally on the way!
- It rains an awful lot on the edge of a rain forest.
- Let’s hope Moran discovers the Streisand Effect.
- Cops, Muppets, Florida, words, and much more.
- Your government refers to this as “correction”.
- This is getting both nastier and more tangled.
- Once in a while, whores win a small victory.
- An exceptionally pleasant autumn.
- Rapist cop of the week.
- R.I.P. Scotty Bowers.
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Clearview’s mass scraping of…web data…may be legal, but it certainly isn’t morally acceptable. – Tim Cushing
Pregnant women are uniquely vulnerable to state coercion:
Brittney Poolaw has been sitting in an Oklahoma jail for more than a year and a half…[and was] recently convicted of first-degree manslaughter and sentenced to 4 years in prison for miscarrying her child…In May 2020, Poolaw, then a teen, arrived at a local hospital after losing the fetus at 17 weeks. She was soon transferred to a cell…[after the hospital called the pigs because]…the [still]born [fetus]…tested positive for methamphetamine…the state’s current abortion laws…allow women to terminate a pregnancy prior to 20 weeks’ gestation…[but] Poolaw wasn’t even seeking an abortion: She had a miscarriage…and she will now suffer a barrage of legal consequences not experienced by Oklahoma women who ask doctors to terminate their pregnancies…
Facebook didn’t think the face-eating leopards it wanted would eat its face:
…Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich…[has claimed] that he’s investigating “sex trafficking” connected to Facebook ads…[in a] letter to [U.S. Attorney General Merrick] Garland…[Brnovich] complain[ed]…that folks are using Facebook to strategize sneaking into the country. As a result, AG Brnovich requests that the DOJ “investigate Facebook’s facilitation of human smuggling at Arizona’s southern border and stop its active encouragement and facilitation of illegal entry”…considering that the U.S. government is attempting to railroad veteran journalists Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin…[by] hold[ing] them vicariously accountable for illegal acts allegedly connected to adult ads posted by users of [Backpage]…it’s not out of the realm of speculation that the feds would attempt something similar in regards to Facebook or any other site that hosts third-party content…
The racism of European “anti-trafficking” schemes is getting harder to disguise:
Italian police have arrested more than 2,500 migrants for smuggling or aiding illegal immigration since 2013, often using anti-mafia laws to bring charges…Italy has spent decades pursuing a policy of criminalising asylum seekers…filling its prisons with innocent men used as scapegoats…smugglers often choose a migrant as a driver. This can be someone who does not have enough money to pay for the trip or with experience of navigation. When the boat enters Italian waters, the authorities ask passengers to identify the driver, who is then arrested…[and] accused of crimes…[including “human] trafficking[“]…They can face sentences from 15 years to life in prison…
The government needs to be buried in lawsuits before this will stop:
In October 2019, a [screw]…in Central Texas was charged with sexual assault…[for orally raping] a [caged teen] boy…the day after the [rape]…the boy tried to kill himself. Two months before that…another [screw] was fired after a teenage girl [he raped got] pregnant…the day-to-day conditions [in Texas cage stacks] are relentlessly violent and oppressive, with guards often [brutalizing prisoners for fun]…In 2019…almost 7,000 [cases of violence were reported] — equivalent to six times per [young person locked in state cages] that year…nearly a dozen staff members have been arrested on charges of sexual abuse against juveniles, and complaints about mayhem inside the f[ilthy cages]…are common. These [facts, reported]…by advocacy groups and families, lawsuits filed against the state, news media reports, and investigations at the state level — present a portrait of a terrifying environment inside juvenile prisons in Texas…The Justice Department’s investigation comes almost a year after two Texas advocacy groups — Disability Rights Texas and Texas Appleseed — filed a complaint urging the federal government to intervene…
Think of the Children! (#1117)
I’m sure Jesus would approve of punishing children for the sins of their parents:
Sara and Matt Cheek…moved to Lithia, a tiny suburb of Tampa, Florida…after…COVID hit [they suffered a series of financial difficulties, so]…Sara [startedan] OnlyFans [account] and now…makes about $30,000 a month…[their] three children—two boys, ages 4 and 6, and a 7-year-old daughter—enrolled in the Pinecrest Pilots’ Youth Football and Cheerleading program, where Matt served as one of the football coaches…[until] the…cheerleading coach, Bree Coggins, [discovered her OnlyFans account via] Instagram…and [began mistreating her]…daughter…and [encouraging]…all the other girls to [do the same. The mistreatment soon spread to the boys] and Matt [as well]…they’ve been refused service at their local restaurant and Sara no longer visits the grocery store, preferring to order her food online and avoid the judgmental looks. They transferred their kids over to a charter school, and the family is planning on moving out of Lithia next year…
Still think this djinni can be crammed back into its bottle?
Clearview’s not going to let several months of bad press derail its plans to generate even more negative press…Maybe it thinks it can still win hearts and minds by not only continuing to exist but also by getting progressively worse in terms of integrity and corporate responsibility…Clearview has now collected more than 10 billion images from across the web—more than three times as many as has been previously reported…it is [also] developing new ways for police to find a person, including “deblur” and “mask removal” tools…If you feel selling government agencies a more efficient way to generate false positives and false negatives is the way to future profitability, this would be the route to take…
Notice how often predatory cops’ victims are underage?
A[n]…Alaska [cop named]…Benjamin Strachan…was charged with…sexual abuse of…two minor victims, one…repeatedly…[other cops thought it was very important to say] he [was] not [wearing his magic clown costume while molesting]…
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Last week, the rain hit just as we were finishing up the framework for the western section of the roof, so we had to wait until early this week to get the last few welds in place. I was a bit nervous about my ability, unsure that I could do a good enough job for it to be sufficiently strong, but then Grace showed me how to do a series of tacks rather than attempting a continuous bead. That did the trick; I was having trouble making a neat, continuous bead, and worried that I’d burn through the comparatively-thin (10 guage) metal of the cee purlins while welding them to the thicker (3/16“) walls of the rectangular tubing. But to tack with the MIG, I just need to put the stinger in position, pull the trigger, count to two and release, remembering to use the tip dip frequently and cutting off the excess wire whenever I get it stuck (which is now less often than when I first started learning). Oh, and remembering to put my welding hood down so I don’t get flashed, and pulling my overshirt closed so I don’t get sparks in my cleavage (which is a lot of no fun). Next step: roof panels!
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It never ceases to amaze me that, after a century and a half of pseudoscience, self-contradiction, crypto-moralism, scams and outright lies, most people STILL believe nutritionism is a real science rather than something akin to astrology, phrenology, or bite mark analysis.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) September 30, 2021
Morally and ethically, the government is responsible for every single victim of police violence, whether the cops "violated procedure" or not.
Every. One.
And in a republic, who's responsible for the government?
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) October 3, 2021
Sometimes a tweet is so painfully delusional, I have to mute the sender to save my brain from possible future exposure to that kind of cognitive noise.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) October 7, 2021
Human garbage who approve of the State's Harrison Bergeron schemes will be muted on sight.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) October 9, 2021
"[The classroom is] supposed to be a safe space" is a perfect summation of what's wrong with US education. It's EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE of the truth; classrooms should be intellectually DANGEROUS spaces, challenging preconceptions and safe, comfortable notions.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) October 8, 2021
"Free, peaceful global trade is being damaged by sociopathic politicians fighting over who has the bigger dick"
There, fixed it for you. https://t.co/EdTbxSakEM
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) October 9, 2021
In case you youngsters ever wonder why so many people raised in the '70s tend to be more laid-back about sex than your generation. https://t.co/FywyXDkcIj
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) October 9, 2021
Some examples of collectivist idiocy are so profoundly stupid I mute them on sight to ward off possible injury to my sensibilities.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) October 9, 2021
Your points would be a LOT more effective if you expressed them in ordinary language rather than academic jargon.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) October 9, 2021
Passengers: Can you please make the seats a bit larger & farther apart, and get rid of all that security theater?
Airlines: We're going to now refer to you all as an undifferentiated mob.https://t.co/AgrzKhjYXE— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) October 10, 2021
Tankies really have absolutely no shame; they eagerly eat up every morsel of Chinese totalitarian feces on-camera while making yummy noises.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) October 11, 2021
Hong Kong is dead. What you are now seeing is just Zombie Kong. https://t.co/RpGob5z5Vo
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) October 13, 2021
Sit down; we need to talk. https://t.co/1l6eaxIrkV
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) October 15, 2021
It's always nice when a new flavor of virtue-signaling announces its hashtag up front for ease of muting.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) October 16, 2021
Posted in Miscellaneous, Philosophy | Tagged Twitter | 2 Comments »
So many clowns. – an Afghan refugee expert, about the rescue industry
It’s always nice when filth like this feed on each other:
…Waco [Texas cop]…Willy Rafael Lopez was arrested…after…he [was tricked by another pervert cop named Joseph Scaramucci who was fantasy role-playing] as a prostitute…online…Scaramucci [has a long history of this kind of creepy behavior, and previously targeted Lopez [with] the same [trick] in 2018…[which is ironic considering that] at that time, Lopez was [playing the same disgusting game to trick others]…
For more cops eating each other, see the next item.
Cops fantasy role-playing pimps vs cops fantasy role-playing sex workers & clients:
NYPD [cops]…Thomas Diorio and Michael Sardone, both of [whom fancied themselves “pimps”, were tricked by fellow cops]…in a[n elaborate sex fantasy]…the two cops were convinced to come up to a hotel room to lean on…another undercover cop [playing out a stupid stereotype of a customer] who didn’t want to pay the f[ee]…The details of the sting operation [reveal the depravity of the stupid stereotypes about sex work cops usually masturbate to]…
This would be hilarious if they didn’t use these make-believe sex games to justify spying upon, robbing, raping, abducting and deporting actual sex workers.
Cops are just a gang of rapist thugs waiting for opportunities:
Hundreds of cases of sexual misconduct were made against [cops in] Scotland…over the last four years – yet not one resulted in dismissal…245 counts of sexual misconduct [were filed] against 166 [cops, yet every one of these dangerous sexual predators is still loose to attack more women]…The findings come as part of a wider investigation into sexual misconduct in police forces across the UK in the aftermath of Sarah Everard’s murder…by [typical and representative cop] Wayne Couzens…
The rescue industry provides many opportunities for white folks to play cowboy:
…following the shambolic departure of U.S. troops [from Afghanistan]…a wide ecosystem of private citizens and groups [has appeared,] claiming to be facilitating the evacuation of both American and Afghan citizens…Many of the[se are]…making unsupported—and, in many cases, unverifiable—claims about their work in Afghanistan a[nd] raising funds off doing so. Some of these are well-known [rescue industry]…organizations, many of them QAnon-adjacent, [which] have grown [wealthy]…in recent years by making bold, heroic claims of dubious validity about their work rescuing women and girls from sexual slavery…[th]is…troubling, widening stratum of would-be fixers and self-appointed saviors…are in [many] cases potentially imperiling the lives of people seeking to flee a war zone, [just as they’ve imperiled the lives of sex workers and migrants for decades]…”There are like 500 nonprofits raising money but not doing shit,” said one person directly involved in exfiltrating refugees…
Given that the media is finally starting to pay attention to this scam after 20 years (thanks to the Trump connection), this could also be filed under “The Implosion Begins”.
Funny how often people “die suddenly” while cops are brutalizing them:
A 42-year-old man arrested by [Houston cops]…died suddenly [in a cage after cops beat and repeatedly]…tased [him while oinking out the words]…“combative”…[and “]open municipal warrants[“. The cops have announced they’ll be “investigating” themselves]…
Notice how often predatory cops’ victims are underage?
A [typical and representative] Kentucky [cop named]…Joshua Eugene Preece [pled guilty] to [federal]…child pornography [charges in return for a maximum]…sentence of…no more than 30 years…Preece [was dispatched] to a domestic dispute between a mother and daughter in November 2018…He…offered to drive [the daugher]…to her friend’s home…[but] instead…he…stopped his [pigmobile]…near a barn, [where he molested her and demanded]…her…Snapchat username and contact information…the girl told her mother what happened and [cops rooted in]…Preece’s cellular phone [to find]…numerous “sexually explicit photographs and conversations”…with “seven self-described minors that [prosecutors were un]able to identify” between the ages of 13 and 17 and that [Preece had]…confirmed each…was underage before continuing to chat with them…Preece’s internet-based predatory behavior went on for “months if not potentially years” and was effectuated through the use of “at least two false personas–a teenage female and a teenage male,” fake identities which were used “to coerce the…minors to send explicit photographs”…
Did you ever wonder why the government stopped harassing bitcoin?
…central bankers want to displace grassroots cryptocurrencies with central bank digital currencies (CBDC) of their own design that absolutely will not protect privacy, and that will let governments control private transactions…”Imagine your digital balance shrinking slowly over time to motivate rapid consumer spending,” warns Alexander William Salter, a professor of economics at Texas Tech University. “Or the Fed blocking payments to politically disfavored businesses”…There’s really no doubt that governments dislike financial privacy and want greater ability to monitor where and how we use our money. As I write, President Joe Biden’s proposed tax plan “will give the IRS the resources it needs to keep up with the lawyers and accountants of the super-wealthy,” insists the president…[but] the proposal…would apply to all business and personal accounts…[above] $600…I suspect that $600 is a definition of “super wealthy” that’s new to most of us…
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny | Tagged Afghanistan, cops, Cops and Robbers, Creepy Coppers, Decentralization, Do As I Say, Droit du Seigneur, Kentucky, New York, porn, rape, rescue industry, scams, surveillance, Texas, The Implosion Begins, To Molest and Rape, Torture Chamber, United Kingdom | Leave a Comment »
I don’t normally give Cicero his breakfast peanuts on the front porch, because, as you can see, it makes a bit of a mess. But now that the monsoon season is once again upon us, I don’t have the heart to make him eat his breakfast in the rain, so if it’s actively falling when I get up in the morning, I’ll feed him in the dry spot near the door. You can see where that stops in this picture, and you can also see the peanut storage in that garbage can; we buy ’em in bulk because it’s cheaper, and the wooden frame is to keep him from knocking it over (it was originally built because Orville kept doing exactly that). And you can also see a hand truck which someone apparently forgot to put away after bringing my new desk upstairs last week; Jae is starting to work on my office, which is good because I’ve wanted that for a while now and we’ll have fewer days to work on the bathhouse now that it’s raining half of the week or more. I would’ve liked to have a good bit of roofing up before this started, but it didn’t work out that way; still, there should be enough dry days over the next couple of months to make some slow progress before the really heavy rain arrives with the winter.
Posted in Diary | Tagged animals, Sunset | 1 Comment »
I scan a lot of articles every day in search of material for this blog, so I simply don’t have time to read most of them thoroughly even if I feature them in a news column; even if they’re interesting I generally read most of them in a somewhat cursory fashion, stopping to read more thoroughly whenever I hit a point that seems important. And if a piece is longer than 1000 words or so, I’ll generally start skipping at about that point to see if there’s anything of note further down. So when I find myself reading an article in its entirety, that is noteworthy in itself, as in the case of this post:
The parents of the 1980s and 1990s were Baby Boomers…until recently…the most panicky and gullible generation in American History…They grew up sheltered, coddled, [and] emotionally stultified…by PTSD-ridden survivors of World War 2 in atomized nuclear families…without nearby relatives…disconnected from the filial and familial bonds that had historically characterized social institutions…under the most suffocating and paranoid propaganda campaign ever undertaken in the West up to that point…Is it any wonder that this generation fell for every conspiracy theory that could be cooked up to fleece them? Is it any wonder that, once they had children they got paranoid? Or that, as parents, they freaked out about the same sex/drugs/rock’n’roll culture that they enjoyed and championed in their youth? Or that they believed that the risk for child-abduction in the 80s was both new and ubiquitous? Or that they believed that there was a Satanist behind every bush and that one in four young girls are being raped in occult rituals so that their babies might be sacrificed at a Black Mass?…Gen X and the Millennials grew up watching this insanity, and the State power that followed it. When a child claims (or is claimed by others) to be abused, the State comes in and runs through a bureaucratic checklist, frequently resulting in long-term fracturing of families, sending children into a…system where they are more likely to be abused than if they stayed with relatives or friends, all while the State was willing and able to violate every point of law and civil liberties at the merest rumor of abuse, domestic violence, drug use, or sexual or religious deviance…They had to submit to more onerous interference in their personal lives…and/or submitting to the most invasive surveillance state in world history…People in such a situation don’t have many children, and tend to be too fearful as parents to let their children actually grow up…
That’s a good taste of it, but I think you’ll find the whole piece worth your time.
Posted in Current Events, History, Tyranny | Tagged child "protective" services, Gullible's Travels, hysteria, propaganda, psychology, surveillance, Traffic Jam | 6 Comments »
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