Don't believe your lying eyes. Don't believe that Orwell, guys. Don't go read that little book. Close your eyes and never look!
I wanna be a Yooper now. Best county officials ever.
Also, a great Northern Cities accent, a high percentage of Finnish and Cornish heritage, and delicious beef and potato pasties.
He's not wrong. There are plenty of honest differences in theologies and ideologies out there, but everything on the left starts with denigrating something good, and putting it on a level with everything evil and oppressive.
And then, they turn around and start redefining evil as good, and try their best to become oppressors and controllers of everyone and everything.
Marx treated his family like crud, used and stole all their money for his own purposes, and raped his employees. The example he set didn't get any better from there.
But he wasn't the evil guy. No, it was all the state's fault, and the factory owner's fault, and the religions' fault, and the bank's fault. It's the evil boogeymen who needed to be punished, not himself.
I'm startled to learn that Snapchat still exists.
Banning Trump means free advertisement from the news media, I guess. Possibly the only social media that might benefit are the near-dead companies.
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Of course Melania is awesome.
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Back in the day, it was against the flag code to wear any kind of US-flag-designed apparel, except on a soldier's or astronaut's uniform or the like, because it was seen as disrespectful, and because inevitably you'd get your clothes dirty, sit on them, fade them, etc. Hippies in the Sixties would do stuff like wear flag patches on their butts or blow their noses on flag hankies.
But that ship has sailed, about twenty or thirty years ago, and only old geezerettes like myself still remember. Now it's more like the medieval love of wearing heraldic emblems and designs.
Wearing a mask when you aren't sick is like asking for bacterial pneumonia.
Antifa did it. Dressed like Antifa, acted like Antifa, it was on at least one live video feed. One of them had a lighter and couldn't get the fire-resistant coverings to catch on fire, so I don't know how they finally got it going if they did.
If Pence is no longer VP, it's not a Trump/Pence administration.
What I find disturbing about this is that Romney -- a career politician -- does not put on his "I am dealing with a perturbed constituent" manner.
All politicians used to have one, and they would generally end a negative conversation with a comment about how he hoped he could convince them better next time, or how they should get in touch with his office and they'd talk further and work things out, etc. I've even seen retired Congressmen and Senators do this, on behalf of their non-retired colleagues.
But Mitt Romney doesn't bother. Even if he didn't think this lady was from UT, he should have dealt with her with (at least pretend versions of) respect and interest. Instead, he was barely civil, and he practically ran off.
Romney thinks he doesn't work for the public. He thinks he's too good for us, and that he can order members of the public around. What a freaking Chinese-shilling copperhead.
Today's the day when Mike Pence opens the Constitution garage door, kicks the tires, puts gas in the tank, and takes that beautiful muscle car for a drive.
Please God it may be so.
Because seriously, that's the only way we get out of having the fourth box decide things.
You are a person made by God to live forever, to serve Him in this world and to be happy forever with Him in the next. He died and rose for you.
Why on earth would you kill yourself over a temporary state of events? Why don't you value yourself as much as God loves and cares for you?
You belong to God, and all your weakness and unhappiness will change to show His glory and His love for you. All sorrows pass, and someday they will never come back. Stick with us and stick with Him, Velocistar.
Um... hon... who told you that? Was it the same person who told you that socialism and communism are okay? The Church saved and copied the books. The Church even saved the witches from the witchfearing laypeople, most of the time. Witchburning and bookburning largely happened in Protestant areas, sad to say. (Although bookburning as a policy came from pagan Roman law, actually. It's what you did to seditious books, or harmful magic books, or books on astrology predicting what would happen to the Emperor.)
Because the Catholic Church's continued existence was inconvenient for the UK government back in the day, there's a model of history that was promoted that is called "the black legend." Then there's another version which is mostly the same thing, which is called "the whig model."
The Catholic Church had its problems, and Protestant religion had reasons that people liked it. But the rise of Protestant kingdoms was all about Protestant kings having an easier time grabbing monastery and church property, or the properties of dissidents, and then redistributing them to their buddies and minions. (Although kings like Philip the Fair of France had already been doing that, to the Templars and the Cistercians.)
We lived within a couple miles of a major first strike target, so we never had duck and cover drills. Heh!
Actually, it sounds like some of her old classmates from high school or junior high are the ones who came out with this and pushed it along. People have had a lot of time on their hands, sitting home with nothing to do and not enough money. After a while, people probably get tired of hearing the same lies for the thousandth time.
Translation:
"I'd like to ask you again and again Only for Trump's support I do not exercise the copyright Feel free to use it!
"January 6th is the single turning point. (ー д ー)"
At the Twitter source, there's another drawing of Sumo Trump.
I like the Samurai Trump here, though. Obviously we've got the Pepe frog helping to fight the oni, but there's also what looks like a small supernatural catfish. Catfish (which could cause earthquakes if they grew to monster size) were traditionally associated with Western foreigners, particularly with Americans. It looks like the catfish is temporarily out of the water and in trouble, but Trump seems to be there to help.
A litany is a form of prayer in which a person gives a long list of petitions to God asking for help, and/or to a saint or various saints asking them to join us in prayers to God, and the list is separated into an antiphonal call and response format. Originally this would have been sung as part of a procession, but it's pretty normal to have spoken litanies today.
The most popular litanies (at least in the US) are probably the ancient Litany of the Saints (which is prayed upon all sorts of sacred occasions like baptisms, ordinations, and funerals), the [Litany of the Sacred Heart of Jesus] (https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/devotions/litany-of-the-sacred-heart-of-jesus-12754) and the Litany of Loreto (which includes a long list of pretty/Biblical/typological titles for the Virgin Mary).
But I have no idea what it means, either. I do know that there have been a lot of people praying for Trump, obviously. EWTN and Right Side News have had Catholic prayer for the US every day since before the election, and are keeping it up.
If you're Christian of any variety, you probably agree that it's important to remember that Jesus is our world's real ruler. The Sacred Heart devotion has always been associated with people dedicating themselves and their countries to Jesus' care and love, along with warnings that countries will suffer unnecessary turmoil if they don't remember Jesus. But whether this has any connection to the sentence in your mind, I don't know.
It's not just about sleep; there's evidence that melatonin blocks cytokine storms from forming. A lot of stuff in the body does multitasking like that.
Of course this is understandable anger, and I don't think this police chief should be punished.
However, if you read his autobiography, you will learn that Lt. Joe Kenda did the same thing to a pedophile who was openly unrepentant about doing some horrible stuff to a nice kid. Kenda had to be pulled off him... and then he sat down and wrote out a resignation letter.
The point is this -- not beating the crud out of scumbags who fully deserve it is part of a police officer's job. The police are not to be judge, jury, and executioner, and they are not to allow themselves to be baited by either scumbags or their own fully-justified feelings. If you beat up one person who deserved it, pretty soon you'll also be beating up people who didn't.
Doing this kind of thing isn't right for the police, and certainly not for a police chief. If you do it, you should change your career path and get out, to protect and teach the other police. This police chief should have resigned, because he failed in his duty.
Kenda failed after twenty years as a beat cop and an officer. This guy failed when he was still young. Kenda took six or seven years of retirement to leash in his temper and deal with his demons, and he admits that he still has to work at it. This guy doesn't seem to recognize that he even has a problem. Kenda was a leader who cared about the example he set for his people. This guy? Not so much.
Actually, there have been a fair number of real life serial killers who were long-haul truckers. And yes, a fair number of them killed prostitutes who worked truck stops. Killing hitchhikers and runaways has also been fairly common, although a few just killed random people in towns where they happened to be, or people unfortunate enough to be at the same rest stop. There are also a good few suspected interstate killers that are probably truckers, but which might turn out to be some other kind of person who travels the highways all the time and can strew bodies at the side of the road in the middle of the night.
Now obviously, in a profession that employs hundreds of thousands of people, there are going to be a few bad apples. But there are a fair number of truck stops that are spectacularly unsafe because of drugs and prostitutes and other bad stuff, just as there are "family" truck stops that don't put up with that stuff.
Here's <A HREF="https://www.ranker.com/list/truck-driver-crimes/amandatullos">a clickbait list</a> of ten trucker serial killers.
Because it's not about realism. It's a fetish. It's dress-up. They don't want to be highly trained kabuki actors who play women.
Making other people pretend along with them is also part of the fetish, at least for annoying SJWs who hate the opposite sex that they're pretending to be; it's the exertion of power that does it for them.
That said, there are people who do try hard to perfect their act, and who pay for extensive surgery. But they also usually have tells, because their fetish is portraying a stereotype of the opposite sex.
There's a reason why comedy actors can be more believable when playing a character of the opposite sex than people who have proclaimed themselves members of the sex that their chromosomes say they're not. And that reason is that comedy actors are really trying to portray a rounded persona with funny flaws, whereas most "transpersons" are trying to portray their favorite sexual stereotype.
If he had flu instead of COVID or as well as COVID, and you gave the guy a lot of steroids and such, it could knock down his immune system (IIRC). And yeah, once you go on a ventilator, there's a lot of Bad Things That Happen, especially since they have to knock you out and keep you under.
But yeah, it's also not a year to rule out Bad People Making Bad Things Happen.
Giordano Bruno was executed by secular authorities primarily for being a spy, secondly for grifting money all over Europe from a bunch of crowned heads, and only thirdly for practicing magic and teaching heresy and the occult instead of science. Anybody who thinks Bruno was a martyr has not paid attention to his case.
AFAIK, the Catholic Church (East and West) never executed anybody for being an apostate. You could become an atheist, Jewish, Muslim, or pagan, as much as you wanted. Now obviously the religious authorities got worried if people were spreading non-Christian ideas or practiciing non-Christian worship, but it was generally the secular authorities that were really worried about it. But even then, in most times and places they were only concerned about religious beliefs that led to people going against secular laws (although obviously secular laws included things we think of as religious today, such as tithing to the local church).
In general, it was considered better to leave heretics and apostates alive, because that gave people more chance to change their minds and come back to the Church.
So instead of testing a sun-dimming project in the Sahara, he wants to test it in Alaska. Where it's already cold. In a small town that can't fight him much and is probably considered expendable, and probably has a large Native American/Inuit population. And where there's lots of wildlife and wild forest to destroy.
Yay! What a great idea!
There's a radio parody sequel to 1984, The Goon Show. episode "1985." Since they knew Orwell was already parodying the BBC to an extent, the Goons decided to turn it up to 11 and parody everything. Still relevant.
"1985" on Podomatic