…and what have we learned?
Another year’s over, and winter has returned.
And a very, merry ‘Howdy”
To what’s old and what’s new
A new day is coming
And we’ll be there, too.
Category: “The Floggings Will Continue Until Morale Improves”
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So this is the new site….
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Naughty, naughty!
A trans “female” customer with a baritone voice threw a tantrum in a Gamestop store at an employee for enforcing the store’s policy of ‘Store credit only – No refunds’.
https://www.christiandailyreporter.com/trans-gamestop-rage.html
Some enlightened soul got the video of the tantrum, including this jerkwad cursing in the presence of a juvenile, despite a female customer asking him to tone it down. S/He also cursed her.
12/29/2018 Albuquerque, New Mexico — A transgender GameStop customer who is a biological male but identifies as female flew into a minutes-long rage after being called “sir” by another customer who was politely asking him to stop cussing at the employee behind the counter because children were present in the store. – Article
When someone throws a screaming public tantrum like this, cursing at people who ask [h/im/er/it] to tone it down around kids, and all the other things that accompany this kind of uncalled-for rage, there is something wrong, and it is not with the onlookers or the recipients of that anger.
Tantrums thrown by toddlers are cute and funny. Tantrums thrown by people who are physically adults are not. Drill Instructors do a lot of yelling, but as long as they don’t have halitosis, s’okay. They aren’t throwing tantrums. (Where is SGT Hulka when you need him?)
Remember the bearded sales tramp in the vape shop throwing a screaming tantrum at a customer who wore a t-shirt with Trump printed on it? Same “generation”? There seems to be a lot of unreleased anger in these people. Perhaps sitting the zazen would help them.
In this case, since the “customer” was threatening the employee and damaged a display on h/is/er way out, the employee would be justified in asking h/im/er “Shall I call the police?”
After all, it’s not quite the same thing as being held up at gunpoint and loudly facing down the guy with the gun, is it? Especially if the guy with the gun runs away from you.
The video is embedded in the article. There is a ‘freeze Alaska’ ad, but you can click it off. Obviously, the – uh, customer has issues.
I could not tell whether or not Gamestop has a notice posted ‘No refunds – Store credit only’, but it would probably be a good idea to do that.
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Random Open Thread
© Ministry of Defence The British Army campaign features posters of soldiers with stereotype labels. UK army seeks ‘snowflakes’ and ‘selfie addicts’ in new ads
If you’re a millennial who’s addicted to taking selfies, video gaming or consider yourself a class clown, you could be exactly what the British Army is looking for.
For its 2019 recruitment campaign, “Your Army Needs You,” the army is seeking recruits from the “snowflake generation.”
The army drew inspiration from the World War I-era “Your Country Needs You” poster featuring Field Marshal Lord Kitchener, and recreated a series of videos and posters to attract people between the ages of 16 and 25.
The posters feature six soldiers labeled with stereotypes of younger people, before listing a positive value for each that would be welcomed by the army.
“Selfie addicts” have confidence, “snowflakes” have compassion, “phone zombies” have focus, “binge gamers” have drive, “class clowns” have spirit, and “me me me millennials” have self-belief, according to the posters.
The army says the campaign shows young people who are ambitious and feel undervalued have the potential to work for a job with “real purpose” and “do meaningful work.”
It also released several ads featuring young people being labeled a stereotype before portraying them in army roles working abroad in war zones and providing humanitarian relief.
Portrayed is a late-night video gamer who the army claims has “stamina,” and a slow supermarket worker who is bullied by her colleagues but who is described by the campaign as a “perfectionist” who’s “resilient.” Another video portrays a worker fooling around in the office, followed by the line: “there’s always room for people with a bit of spirit.”
The campaign was intended to show that “the army sees people differently” and that they “look beyond the stereotypes and spot the potential in young people,” Major General Paul Nanson said in a statement.
“We understand the drive they have to succeed and recognize their need for a bigger sense of purpose in a job where they can do something meaningful.”
Read the full article here: UK army seeks ‘snowflakes’ and ‘selfie addicts’ in new ads
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Viking Statue Toppled – Again
Photo from PhillyMag.
I don’t know what the vandals who do these things have against the Philadelphia statue of Thorfinn Karlsefni, a Viking who followed Leif Erickson’s trail into North America in AD 1004, but it seems as though every year in the fall, for about six years now, someone decides to pull down the bronze statue of him and throw it into the Schuykill River.
https://6abc.com/fate-of-viking-statue-uncertain-after-schuylkill-river-recovery/4389901/
Last year, the statue’s face was spray painted red and then it was dragged into the river. Since it’s a 1920 bronze casting, it isn’t a lightweight object. This time it was decorated with anti-Nazi language and the anarchy symbol.
https://www.phillymag.com/news/2018/10/02/viking-statue-boathouse-row/
Per the Philly Mag article, since this episode of vandalism preceded a Vikings/Eagles game, that may have had something to do with it this time. However, that connection was deemed slim by Philly police.
It’s also notable that a skinhead group meets nearby for their annual Leif Erickson celebration, and that they’ve clashed frequently with the Philly Antifas.
Remember those two Marines who were beaten by Antifas a couple of weeks ago? This vandalism took place around the same time as the vandalism event.
https://www.azuse.cloud/?p=83541&cpage=2
Probably the same bunch of useless schmucks, because frankly, people we used to call useless troublemakers have nothing else to do.
The response I have to these acts, since they take place under the cover of darkness and also seem to have a common theme, is that if these dweebs were faced with real Vikings, they’d wet themselves… copiously.
Anyone want to tangle with this skjaldmær? They were also called Valmeyjar, or battle maidens. It was not unusual for Viking women to choose to be shield maidens (skjaldmær).
In Old Norse, valkyrja, as well as Old English wælcyrge means literally, “chooser of the slain”. And the fighting was usually over waelstow reáfung (battle plunder) and breeding rights. But that’s a different part of Norse history and legend.
And then there were the Celts. You do know that some Celtic women trained the boys and men for battle and participated in fighting themselves, don’t you? You didn’t know that? Ah! Well, then….
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Just a Little Philosophy for the New Year
Add your own to this list.
GySGT Rzezckowski
Never get drunk and play strip poker with strangers.
Never tell Them everything, but let Them think you did.
Never, ever, assume anything.
Just because it’s quiet on all fronts, it does not mean there are no Snakes waiting in the bush to shoot you.
When people want to make fools of themselves, get out of their way. Record it for posterity.
The Notebooks of Lazarus Long / Robert A. Heinlein
A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.
Always tell her she is beautiful, especially if she is not.
Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.
Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes.
Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.
If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you want to vote for … but there are certain to be those you want to vote against.
When a place gets crowded enough to require IDs, social collapse is not far away
One man’s “magic” is another man’s engineering.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Never interrupt your enemy when he’s making mistakes.
If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.
The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.
There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.
In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.
In politics… never retreat, never retract… never admit a mistake.
Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.
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All We Are Is Leaves in the Wind….
There is a Disturbance in the Farce. I can smell it. I can feel the vibrations emanating from it. There is a certain… je ne sais quoi in all of this, as if – well, Thor is awakening. It’s not exactly wanting to buy the World a Coke and keep it company, you see.
From the WUWT article in which there are so many embedded links it is simpler to provide a link to the WUWT spot:
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi announced Friday that Democrats would create a Select Committee on the Climate Crisis in 2019, which will be headed by Florida Democratic Rep. Kathy Castor.
However, Pelosi’s announcement isn’t placating progressives in her party, such as New York Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who support “Green New Deal” legislation.
“This committee, if it turns out that the rumors about it are true, sound about as useful as a screen door on a submarine,” Ocasio-Cortez spokesman Corbin Trent, told The Hill. (She has a spokesman???)
“As it’s portrayed it’s going to be completely incapable of solving the greatest threat to human kind,” Trent said.
Pelosi, who’s expected to be elected House speaker in 2019, said there’s “tremendous pressure” for Democrats to make fighting global warming a central part of their agenda in the new year.
Pelosi made her announcement amid a government shutdown after she flew thousands of miles to a luxurious Hawaiian hotel where she was spotted Thursday, according to reports.
The creation of the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis is one way Pelosi plans on satisfying progressives without angering incoming committee chairs, like New Jersey Democratic Rep. Frank Pallone, who want to advance their own climate bills.
“It is with great enthusiasm that I appoint Congresswoman Kathy Castor as the Chair of our new Select Committee on the Climate Crisis,” Pelosi said in a statement issued Friday.
“She will bring great experience, energy and urgency to the existential threat of the climate crisis,” Pelosi said. “This committee will be critical to the entire Congress’s mission to respond to the urgency of this threat, while creating the good-paying, green jobs of the future.” – WUWT Article
Now, before you go all “toldja so” on this news, let us reflect solemnly on the potential this has for unifying the Old Guard Democrats – those in middle age or higher – with the Young Far Leftreds and bringing them together. The possibilities for conjugality and united efforts toward this goal are bountiful and endless. There is, indeed, a New Hope on the horizon…
So, before you get all jiggy about potentialities for this newly rising relationship, try to look at it the way I do.
And have a Very Happy and Joyous New Year!!!!
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Ikeishi! Ikeishi buadda, japalai!!!
This is in regard to Melania Trump’s choice of yellow Timberland boots on her trip with Pres. Trump to visit the troops during the Christmas holidays. The noise that has been generated over them consists of not just gossip, but blatant lies.
There was something posted on Twitter about racism on her part in this egregious spatter of pejoratives, based on her choosing to wear those boots.
From Business Insider: https://www.businessinsider.com/melania-trump-timberland-boots-visit-troops-iraq-2018-12
That’s on one of those ‘turn off your ad blocker’ deals, so read it if you wish.
The “racist” nonsense comes from a now-defunct site called Naha Daily, which in 2014 claimed falsely that Timberland’s CEO said he didn’t want blacks or Latinos in his boots. They admitted that it was completely made up out of whole cloth – a lie, in plain English, but people are now digging it up and pointing the finger at it and saying ‘Aha!’ and making themselves far worse than they pretend Mrs. Trump is.
According to Snopes, the false remarks originated from a December 2014 article from the now defunct site Naha Daily, which cited the shoe company’s CEO saying he did not want to see “Blacks and Latinos” in the boots.
Snopes reported that a disclaimer on the Naha Daily’s site said that its content was “based off current events [in 2014] in urban culture and entertainment” and was “completely fictional.”
Got that? Completely fictional.
It is something that some moron cooked up in 2014, posted on his website, and then added a disclaimer that it was all made up out of dust bunnies and hot air and is completely fictional. Naha Daily is out of business, but this trash still shows up.
Because there are enough imbeciles on the internet to populate a small planet like Mars, this disclaimer is disregarded by them as an inconvenient fact. They ignore it and subsequently carry the lie forward, using it against someone who had nothing to do with the source of the lie.
They do this out of pure hatred toward someone who has done nothing to them but exist.
Because they are addicted to trash, they got all excited when Mrs. Obama was recently seen in a yellow split-front drapey dress that would not look good on a bone-thin runway model, wearing thigh-high streetwalker glitter boots with it. If you dare, take a look. And don’t say I didn’t warn you.
Melania Trump, on the other hand, wore sensible boots on her Christmas trip to visit troops overseas, but people still won’t lay off her.
Yes, she’s made some faux pas. We all do that, but this obnoxious trash is grasping at straws, acting out their roles as schoolyard bullies because they think it’s okay. They have the maturity of freshly-laid eggs. And even if the hen sat on them, they’d still turn out to be rotten.
I have never seen such hatred manifested toward someone simply because she exists and has done nothing to deserve it.
This poisonous, festering slop has consequences for the people who generate it and perpetuate it. Employers expect their hirees to behave like adults in an adult world. Everything is investigated now. People who do these things are telling potential employers that they are not reliable, won’t be good workers, and won’t focus on doing their jobs.
Would you like fries with that?
Oh, yeah, the title – The first word starts with “F”, and the last word starts with “A”. And it means the same thing in another language that it means in English.
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Trump keeps up drumbeat for border wall
President Donald Trump stated: “It’s a disgrace what’s happening in our country. But other than that, I wish everybody a very Merry Christmas.” | Zach Gibson/Getty Images
By DAVID COHENPresident Donald Trump used a Christmas morning gathering in the Oval Office to reiterate the reasons he insists funding is needed for a border wall, even if it means the federal government will continue to be partially shut down.
“I can’t tell you when the government is going to reopen,“ Trump said, according to pool reports.
Not until, he explained, “we have a wall, a fence, whatever they’d like to call it. I’ll call it whatever they want. But it’s all the same thing. It’s a barrier from people pouring into our country.”
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The president said he thought that even those federal workers who were losing their paychecks would be supportive of his efforts.
“I think they understand what’s happening,“ he said. “They want border security. The people of this country want border security. It’s not a question of me. I’d rather not be doing shutdowns.”
I can assure President Trump DON civilians, myself included, would rather not be doing shutdowns, either. Non-essential employees will be furloughed and go home without pay; the lucky exempt folks, including myself, will go in tomorrow and work without pay. Since this isn’t a sequester, there’s a reasonable belief that lost pay will be reinstated. Pretty good deal for the furloughed, who get an unexpected paid vacation, even if the pay is belated. What really chaffs my ass is this is for only $5B USD, which is essentially a rounding error in the US budget. Money isn’t the issue of course, or even The Wall. It’s brinkmanship between Trump and Schumer with us caught in the middle. Again.
Lars, before you jump in with both feet loudly declaring how Trump sucks, take a calming breath and try for that rational sweet spot you hit yesterday, and recognize that both sides pretty much suck here. Thanks.
The rest of the article may be viewed at: The Politico