Throwback Thursday: Trump Flushes Away Yesterday’s Environmental Restrictions

Remember when dishwashers actually cleaned your dishes? Toilets required only one flush? And faucets had more pressure than an IV drip? Well so does President Trump. Here he is, at the rally on Tuesday, addressing all of the above…plus showerhead pressure. If you’ve recently redone your kitchen/ bathroom or have checked into newer hotels you have firsthand experience with that of which the President speaks.

Democrats think the country is held in thrall by their impeachment antics but in fact real people are far more concerned with government intrusion into every aspect of their lives, dictating everything from what kind of lightbulbs they can buy to how much water they can use while brushing their teeth. But the elite can’t relate, they can only ridicule.

Trumps bizarre rant about toilets and dishwashers might be his strangest moment yet

Donald Trump has a history of going on bizarre rants about all kinds of stuff but he arguably reached his apex on Tuesday evening.

At a rally in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, which was taking place at the same time as the Democratic debate, the president spoke at length about household appliances such as toilets, dishwaters and lightbulbs.

With his adoring supporters cheering him on, Trump talked about his administrations plans to block a requirement on all Americans to use energy-efficient light bulbs, which he believes gives him an orange hue. - UK Independent

Their studied refusal to understand the President’s point regarding environmental regulatory overreach will cost them the election. Which is a shame as they’d much prefer someone willing to impose draconian energy restrictions on regular citizens in order to stop the earth from getting warmer. Poor darlings, they’re going to have another 4 year sad.

Funny thing, people seem to have strong preferences about lighting. Including the Democrats’ own lightbringer who never used “energy saving” lightbulbs and was not overly concerned about saving energy when it came to his own charismatic appearances.

But  yes, Trump’s the bizarre one.

White Supremacy: You’ll Know It When You See It

What’s it like barreling through mountain passes in whiteout conditions – translation for the uninitiated: the combination of snow and wind that results in zero visibility? It sucks. Nobody enjoys it: not thrill seeking adrenaline junkies, ordinary junkies, type A or B personalities, liberals, conservatives, not global warmists or deniers…NOBODY. You are unsafe at any speed and you know it.

Allow me to share a little of the “thrill” for those of you south of the Mason-Dixon line who’ve never seen the necessity of learning how to steer into a skid:

Yes, that about captures it. I know you can’t see anything - zero visibility, remember? And there you are, in a 5000 pound SUV, traveling 40, 50, 60 - even 70 mph, depending on the condition of your nervous system, hurtling up and down grades more suitable for mountain goats than wheeled vehicles. Throw in an endless stream of tractor trailers, aka semis, playing hopscotch with each other and you are living the dream, baby.

I’d say everyone should do it at least once but no, really, they shouldn’t. It’s insanity of the highest order. Right up there with the delusion that gender-queer is a real thing.

Add to the specific insanity of driving through the mountains in a snowstorm the fact that you are doing it with another bunch of people as insane as you are and we’ve moved into an undertaking at least as deranged as a Democrat debate. I don’t know what it says about me that I’ve done it now at least a dozen times.

Although right now I’m feeling both crazy and stupid. Maybe I should get some sleep.

Open Thread Tuesday

I heard a rumor there’s a Democrat debate tonight. I also heard that the British monarchy drama continues to play out.

It’s enough to make you want to go hole up somewhere with a buddy till all the drama’s over.

Or if you prefer the British way:

American Journalism Is Alive And Well in the Jemez Valley in New Mexico

The Jemez Valley Alley has been doing its part to save journalism in the age of fake news. This is a screen shot of page 1 that Raj took. Then he combined the other 7 pages of the first edition into one pdf, uploaded it to the interweb and created a link to the whole paper. Btw, we are on the road, heading to the Rocky Mountain bunker. We stopped n Des Moines last night enroute to Park City. So far so good. Say a little prayer, the next 2 days are usually the worst.

Now I give you without further adieu The Jemez Valley Alley page one of its first publication, with a link to the other 7 pages. Thanks JVA, America needs more patriots and journalists  like you – people who don’t really hate America doing real news. Keep up the good work.

Click to Download The Whole Paper

Alternate Link If Scribd Doesn’t Work For You

Big congratulations JVA! Very few people can say they’ve published a news paper, fewer still can say they’ve published one that tells the truth.

“The Decade’s Over When I Say It’s Over.”

Remember the kerfuffle about the end of the decade?

Hopefully 2020, regardless of which decade you think it’s in, will see the end of this meme

In an election year it’s always nice to have something irrelevant to argue about, which is why I don’t intend to re-litigate the case between the decade originalists and the living-decade crowd. But if the decade isn’t pragmatically over how could the American Dialect Society  (ADS)  have already selected their “word of the decade,” hmmm?

The personal singular pronoun “they” has been crowned the “word of the decade” by the American Dialect Society…singular “they” was recognized for its growing use to refer to a known person whose gender identity is nonbinary**.

I’ve got news for the ADS, the conscious use of “they” as a singular pronoun is hardly new, it’s been used that way for 50 years. Journalists, corporate supervisors, advertising copywriters and managers have agonized over how to handle this dilemma ever since radical Feminists in the 60s dictated the end of the “sexist” use of male pronouns to generically refer to both men and women. Should they pepper communications addressed to both men and women with multiple repetitions of the awkward “his/her,” he/she” construct or blatantly choose to employ improper grammar by using the plural pronoun “they” when referring to a singular person of either sex? Most eventually chose the latter, the cowards way out.

So the gender-related, decades old intentional misuse of the singular “they” turned out to be a slippery slope. The new gender-related intentional misuse of the singular pronoun “they” also entails the intentional misuse of the previously non-gender-related  term “nonbinary.”

And on that note I’d just like to remind you that the decade’s over when I say it’s over. And I say it’s over; it’s definitely time to start over, this time with PDJT at the helm.

**Non-binary, or genderqueer, is a spectrum of gender identities that are not exclusively masculine or feminine‍—‌identities that are outside the gender binary.

Caturday: Economic Genius Edition

Paul Krugman, the Nobel prize winning economist who’s been wrong about everything from the internet to economic cycles (repeatedly)

has - gasp! - had his IP address embarrassingly compromised!!!!

Or so he claims. Some critics are a bit dubious, claiming he’s pulling an Eichenwald and trying to get out in front of the story (pardon the French, but we’re talking about progressive pervs here).

I ask you, does this serious economic journalist look like a pervert to you?

Of course he does but don’t hold that against his cats, they were brought there against their will.

“Yeah, I’m with pedo, but it’s strictly an economic arrangement; he buys me anything I want to eat and I leave hairballs in his shoes.”

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It’s Friday; Don’t Do Anything You’ll Regret…

Like take an ax to your computer.

Given my computer situation – new one’s on the blink and old one’s a dinosaur that’s nearly as unstable as the one I’m having fixed  – I will be pre-posting threads for today through Monday. I won’t be around much so you know the drill: have fun, behave (not mutually exclusive) and don’t do anything I wouldn’t do.

Should you by some chance reach the end of the internet and have nothing else to talk about might I suggest you go back and replumb the Megxit story. Such royal virtue signaling is so full of comedy gold you could easily work this one story until long after my computer problems are resolved.

Throwback Thursday: Making Better Mistakes Tomorrow For Over 100 Years

“It was characteristic of the Jazz Age that it had no interest in politics at all. It was an age of miracles, it was an age of art, it was an age of excess, and it was an age of satire.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald, writing about the Twenties in 1931

This year Throwback Thursdays will be dedicated to a look back at how we have changed – or not – during the past century. 

First I would update Fitzgerald’s quote for the Roaring Twenties of the 21st century:

“It was characteristic of the Jazzed Age that it had no interest at all other than politics. It was an age of miracles, it was an age of pseudo-art, it was an age of excess and it was the end of satire.”

It’s scary if you allow yourself to reflect too long: all of the excess, decadence  and modernity, but none of the fun. And this time instead of bathtub gin and bootlegged liquor it’s fueled by both legal booze AND weed!

What could possibly go wrong?

I strongly suspect this century’s Roaring Twenties will, once again, be chalked up as the Decade Dedicated to  Making Better Mistakes Tomorrow.

1920:

‘No throat irritation or cough’  but your lungs? Toasted.

2020…

Throat irritation, check, lung irritation, check, cough, check, brain…toasted

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