The person running the simulator is just running it on every dystopian novel on their shelf. They were doing George Orwell, now they are using Ayn Rand.
climate change
Overstatement
For more than two decades, I have suspected the weather reporters have sensationalized weather just as much as the MSM exaggerates and creates new stories. I was kicked off of a hurricane and weather reporting site in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina for telling people that the damage in Katrina wasn’t as bad as was being reported.
I was there, on the ground as a rescuer in the area of Pascagoula, Ocean Springs, and Biloxi. Damage was pretty severe within about a mile or so of the beach, but outside of that, it really wasn’t that bad. We watched as reporters told their viewers no one was there helping, while we were standing right next to them distributing food, medical aid, and searching neighborhoods for the injured and dead.
I had pictures. That didn’t matter. I disagreed with the consensus there and was expelled from the website.
About ten years ago, we had a hurricane pass almost directly over our heads, and the damage was nowhere near what the winds being reported would have done. So I bought a personal weather station. Nothing I’ve seen from that PWS has supported what the weather folks report.
The same is true about Hurricane Isaias. It was reportedly a CAT3, then weakened at the last minute to a CAT2, and even that lower bar wasn’t seen on shore. The highest wind I could find in the storm’s path was a wind gust to 116 mph with a sustained wind of 91 mph reported at a station near Santa Rosa Sound, Florida. That’s category 1 strength.
We are seeing this time and time again- a hurricane makes landfall and the wind speeds are nowhere near what was predicted.
Fake News
Smug
Some Americans pretentiously think they are better than you because they can pronounce names from foreign languages like native speakers of that language:
Just like the people who insist on pronouncing the name of our current hurricane as if they speak Spanish:
Then there are Americans who don’t give a shit:
Communism
None For You
So the owner of the business has to provide the compressor, the electricity, the maintenance, insurance, and other necessary items at his own expense?
Pass a law against charging for air, and they will just remove the air station, ensuring that no one will have air available at all.
Oh, and saying “I’m pro-capitalism, but” right before making a statement like this is like saying “I’m a gun owner, but”
Fake News
Conspiracies
This is why I fight to keep this blog from going too far down the conspiracy theory rabbit hole. When Charlie Kirk was murdered, there is footage of one of his bodyguards pushing a button on a device attached to another body guard.
It’s not a mystery- that button is a programmable button that public safety agencies use as an emergency button. It’s used for that because it’s very easy to find quickly by feel, since it’s at the base of the antenna. I carried a radio with one of those buttons for DECADES, but some Internet rando has cracked an entire conspiracy by watching a Youtube video.
In my department, when pushed it switched your radio back to channel one, set off an alarm at every 911 dispatcher’s console, and opened your microphone for 30 seconds. It doesn’t have to do that, however. If I were a bodyguard, I would have it alert my backup team, or summon a driver, or any number of things.
I posited that, and was immediately shot down as not knowing what I am talking about.
This is peak conspiracy. It isn’t enough of a story for a crazed tranny to murder the head of a conservative organization by using a rifle to snipe him at distance. No, people have to spin a story involving his wife betraying him to be in league with the Jews.
One of the ways governments engage in disinformation is through the discrediting of movements by mimicking the movement, but doing it so far in the extreme as to make its adherents look like idiots who are one theory away from a new suit whose sleeves tie in the back.
That’s why I require evidence before screaming about Israel. I’m tired of the stupidity and I just don’t want this blog to become a version of Stormfront. With that being said, I do support the free exchange of ideas, but it’s a fine line that needs to be walked. If you have evidence of Israeli involvement or even Jewish involvement, post a link to it, and I don’t have a problem publishing it. However, come on here with vague innuendo or a game of six degrees from Jews, and I will toss it in the trash.
Posting a link to your own blog, or to some other antisemitic blog that posts innuendo without evidence isn’t evidence. Anyone can have a website, as this blog has proven time and time again.
Crime
Standing Ground
A child gets on a school bus with a pizza. One of his fellow students (a 14 year old feral) by the name of RJ McIntyre decided he wanted a piece and when he didn’t get one, struck the student. The father reported the attack to the bus driver and asked that the “teen” be disciplined.
The next day, dad took his son to the bus stop himself and had another confrontation with the bus driver. The 14 year old called his brother (Trevor Ivory, note the different last names) to the bus stop. Why the 16 year old had to respond from home was predictable- he was already suspended for being a violent little turd. When he arrived, Ivory confronted the dad. That’s when the 14 year old son decided to get off the bus, followed by McIntyre. They both dropped their backpacks and were about to fight while Ivory attempted to hold the father back from interfering.
That’s when the father pulled his son behind him and told the two attackers to get back. The article then says the two “approached” the father. I’m sure they were being calm and not threatening at all. That’s when dad, who has a concealed weapons permit, drew a handgun and told them to get back. This defensive use of a firearm appears to have ended the attack without anyone getting hurt.
Detectives from the Martin county sheriff’s office spent an entire day investigating this and decided that no charges would be filed against the father, and the father declined to press charges against the two ferals. Of course, the two attackers went immediately to the press and acted like choir boys.
They and their families attended a meeting of the National Association of African Convicts and Parolees (NAACP) to vent their frustrations. They are staunchly opposed to white folks being armed. After all, if would be victims are armed, this could severely disrupt the livelihoods of those in the black community. Here is a quote from one of the little criminals:
“I feel like under any circumstance, however you felt, no firearms should be displayed at a bus stop where there’s a bunch of kids on a bus looking forward to going to school,” Ivory said. “Instead, they had to see a man with a gun on two teenagers that they know ride the bus in the morning.”
Those same kids were on the way to school and had to be attacked by negro criminals.
“The dad had a thousand options. He chose the wrong option,” said Pam Ivory, Trevor’s aunt.
It looks to me like the correct option was chosen. He legally displayed his firearm, and the incident ended without harm to anyone. Perhaps your criminal nephew shouldn’t be attacking people.
Jimmy Smith, president of the NAACP Martin County Branch, also addressed the situation:
“We know guns aren’t allowed on school property. They also shouldn’t be allowed in school bus stops,” Smith said.
You know what else isn’t allowed at school bus stops? Little criminals who have been suspended. Still, he is incorrect. The news didn’t care about that, and jumped on the bandwagon by having some idiot lawyer make this comment:
But attorney and former Palm Beach County State Attorney Dave Aronberg said there is another issue at play: Florida law generally prohibits possessing a firearm at a school, school bus or school bus stop, subject to exceptions. “Florida law makes it a low-level misdemeanor to have a firearm at a bus stop. There are some exceptions,” Aronberg said.
Aronberg said one exception involves a firearm secured inside a vehicle.
“Parents can have a firearm in their car during school drop-offs as long as it’s securely encased or not readily available,” he said.
He said that protection can change once someone leaves the vehicle with the firearm.
“But the moment an adult exits the vehicle and steps onto the bus stop with a gun, that vehicle exception expires, and it’s a potential crime,” Aronberg told WPBF.
Firearms ARE prohibited at bus stops, even for CCW holders. However, the law (Florida statute 790.115) also says this:
A person who exhibits any sword, sword cane, firearm, electric weapon or device, destructive device, or other weapon as defined in s. 790.001, including a razor blade, box cutter, or common pocketknife, except as authorized in support of school-sanctioned activities, in the presence of one or more persons in a rude, careless, angry, or threatening manner and not in lawful self-defense, at a school-sponsored event or on the grounds or facilities of any school, school bus, or school bus stop, (emphasis added)
The dad has decided to pull his son out of school to homeschool. I think that is a great option.
Anti American left
Just Play
On March 22, 2003, the band “Live” played for the Mardi Gras celebration at Universal Studios Orlando. I went, mostly because I liked their music. About halfway through the concert, they stopped playing and the singer said “I want to take a minute to talk about George Bush’s illegal war.” I yelled out, “Shut up and play the fucking songs.”
Some dude standing next to me pushed me and took a fighting stance, so I punched him as hard as I could. He went down and I got out of there before security could arrive.
The point here is I paid to go to a concert, not a political rally. A musician is no more qualified to comment on foreign policy than any other random person. If he had been expressing his opinion about the best guitar, microphone, or even what flavor is best for LSD, he would probably be qualified to express his opinion. They are abusing the fact that they have an audience held captive by the cost of a ticket to attend this concert to force that same audience to listen to your completely unqualified opinion.
So when I hear that Ed Sheeran stopped his concert in order to express his opinion on Palestine and Israel, I have only to remind them of the saying: Dance, monkey, dance. We pay you for a concert, not to hear your take on today’s news.
Race baiting
I’m Sitting Out the Governor’s Race
In a followup to my post about Republicans, here is a big reason why I won’t be casting my vote in the Florida Governor’s race:
That right there is the Republican nominee in the Florida governor’s race. To the Republican party:
We always talk about a line in the sand. This is one of them. I won’t EVER vote for someone who says I am the enemy. You want to call me a white supremacist? This honky is keeping his Governor’s vote to himself.
His record sucks balls anyhow. He’s been convicted of drug possession, writing bad checks, and who knows what else. This is the best that Florida’s Republican party has to offer?