THE GOOD OLD DAYS AND NIGHTS

Remember the last century in the last millenium? I do. It was a different kind of time where accusations didn't lead to automatic death sentences unless they were solidly backed up by proof and unfounded, unproven allegations while enough to ruin a career didn't result in jail time in criminal convictions or cancellation of all that had gone before. I wasn't at the event in question but I bought the patch for the significance of the trauma that event put every naval officer thru because of the Navy/Marine one-size-fits-all 'justice' that was in it. Surface warfare types don't attend Tailhook for one obvious reason. Nevertheless we were hounded to swear and affirm that we weren't there and the originals of our statements were forwarded to higher echelons to be consolidated and used against us at courts martial if they could prove that we lied.

The patch was sort of a badge of honor among us because for all the sound and fury, only about a half-dozen junior officers were held guilty at non-judicial punishment of any misbehavior at the convention. The other 134 cases were dropped. Still it was a witch hunt that lasted far too long, swept up way too many innocent officers and destroyed countless careers of men that never even had a chance to argue their case as they were simply tossed on the scrap heap and left to wither away.

Nowadays, accusation alone is sufficient to convict unless you're a democrat in which case there is no case, nobody saw a thing and the media is uncurious and indifferent to the allegations.

A TRUE DEMOCRATIC PARTY AD

Ripped off over at Powerline.

POINTLESS DEATHS WITHOUT REASON

In France last week a school teacher was killed by one of France's imported islamic terrorists who abound there now in what used to be a rather pleasant and easy going republic of French. It is now teeming with muslim fanatics hell bent on destroying France and most of the rest of western Europe which stupidly admitted them by the million from the war torn fanatic infested battleground failed states in the middle east and north Africa. He was killed because he grew up in the old Republic where the European Rights of Man included tolerance and a certain amount of free thought and speech. He failed to recognize that that Republic has joined all the other French Republics on the ash heap of history.

The other pointless unreasoning death was yet another black crazy person; this time in Philadelphia where two cops tried to get away from a crazy lunatic who would neither drop the knife nor stop charging at them as they attempted to open the distance between them. One of the cops opened fire and a fraction of a second later so did the other cop. Between them they loaded the lunatic black man up with 10 bullets.

I don't think they really needed to shoot that man 10 times. According to unreliable local sources the lunatic wasn't right in the head and perhaps 2 or 3 bullets would have been enough to say, slow the fucker down enough that the cops could retreat a little bit and let him fall over, bleed out and drop the knife and then they could have rendered a little first aid. They decided to give him a serious dose of lead poisening and get it all over with. As a result 30 cops were then injured and 12 are still in hospital with serious injuries from the rioting and looting prone response typical from our vibrant communities of color (COC). This will go on from now until the election and tear up more COC which won't matter as the election will bring out all the worst instincts of a group that seems to allow themselves to only yield to and suffer from their worst impulses.

So we now have yet another thoroughly justified police homicide of another black man with a knife and the response is the same every time. I think it is time to engage with an endless bombardment of these youths with some long overdue civic lessons. People here don't engage in any kind of racism by and large but they do stereotype and use the actions of the few to justify a certain wariness of the rest and when it has become clear that any justifiable homicide results in riots and looting and killing then the rest of us tend to increase the size of the pool we stereotype and when we hear from the 'educated' ones who spend their lives attacking the police and working to get the justice system and the schools to treat every interaction with the authorities as nothing but racism, we need to start thinking outside the box.

I'll say one thing. The answer is no longer to pretend that they are just like us. It is quite clear that too many of them are nothing at all like you and me. We don't know what turns some muslims into mindless mass murdering killing machines but we suspect it is the religion and its teachings and the shrill voices of the fanatics that run the mosques that creates these 'martyrs'. It's exactly the same kind of thing going on in the POC COC where the fanatics seem to make the rules and force everyone to abide by them if they want to remain POC and live in COC and not be attacked for being too white, too western, too civilized.

The madness is spreading. To read the delusional anti-Western screeds of crazy people on the left who are now talking about arresting all Trump officials after the election and sending them to re-education camps and who dox every single republican who contributes to a republican candidate and who thinks that Trump is more evil than Stalin or their favorite, Hitler, is to see that more and more people have become unhinged and are completely lost to reason.

MOST TWITTER PEOPLE ARE IDIOTS

I just have the sense that most people who insist on up to the minute twitting of their personal ignorance or perpetual surprise are stupid. This kind of sets the tone for tweeters.

A SIMPLE UPGRADE

We were notified that we were up for an upgrade to fiber-optic cabling to the internets so we had it done a couple of days ago. It took a little longer than expected to upgrade what with running a new cable to the house from the back of the house and then installing the new cable through the basement and then thru the floor into the dining room where it finally mated up with a modem roughly twice the size of the old one and voila, the network was down and the installer took a lunch break while waiting for the systems to come back online which, in the event, would take a couple of hours. Finally, he announced the job was done told me we had the same system ID and login and left. Needless to say, it did not have the same ID or password so a call to India was in order.

So now we have a new system and it punted the old system like a football into the stands as it wiped clean my google latches throughout every aspect of this blog. It is going to take a while to restore certain things invisible to you gentle reader but a meaningful eyefull to me since I don't necessarily blog anonymously since I used to have my google address for this blog write there whenever I replied at other folks blogs. That has left the building.

I have been a little tired of late and I tend to blog after deep thought and late at night/early in the morning. Going to bed before 2200 is putting a crimp in blogging around here by me. I'll get there soon.

I see that some cities/areas are already casting more ballots for the idiot then there are people living in those areas. No surprise just as it isn't a surprise that the media turns amazingly myopic when it comes to ballot fraud and election fraud and routinely claim it either never happens or only happens in very few and very small amounts. I just remember the last election when whole precincts in Philadelphia reported 100% votes for Clinton wihtout a single contrary vote and it is just not possible in America that there are preciincts without surly contrarians who vote against the public weal.

I'm actually looking forward to the next 60 Minutes from CBS. I'm curious to see how they try to goon it after President Trump went ahead and broadcast the entire interview.

DEBATING WHAT MATTERS

President Trump has put the deep state and Biden on notice that the debate may vary a bit from the course laid down for it by the Deep State operatives representing both Parties. I look forward to watching it go down.

ISN'T SHE SUPPOSED TO BE DEAD NOW?

Ghislaine Maxwell loses fight to keep her Jeffrey Epstein testimony sealed I see the Court is forcing the testimony to reach all ears. I'm surprised she didn't kill herself first. I imagine she'll get around to it soon though....with the help of her 'friends'. "A federal appeals court dealt Ghislaine Maxwell, the alleged madam to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, twin blows late Monday by declining to consolidate her appeals in numerous overlapping cases and striking down her effort to thwart release of a controversial deposition she gave in a now-settled civil lawsuit. The three-judge Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held more than two hours of oral arguments last week, and issued a succinct Monday afternoon order holding that a lower court judge did not err in ordering the release of a 418-page deposition from April 2016 that could shed new light on the Epstein empire. “We have reviewed all of the arguments raised by Defendant-Appellant Maxwell on appeal and find them to be without merit,” the judges wrote, also turning away a request for consolidation with Maxwell’s criminal case in the Southern District of New York. “We DENY the motion to consolidate this appeal with the pending appeal in United States v. Maxwell.”"

CAN'T STOP THE SIGNAL

I can see the signal is getting out and even those who expose themselves to the news and Washington Week in Review and PBS Newshour are starting to see pretty clearly that it's going to be a landslide. I hope so. I'm kind of looking forward to places like D.C. and Philadelphia actually having over 100,000 more ballots voted than there are people in the cities. I keep hearing there is no vote fraud but I really don't believe that whole districts in Philly voted 100% for Hillary last time because I know people and there is about one contrarian stubborn SOB/hundred that just votes to piss other people off. Oddly, none of them live in Philly or there was some real voter suppression going on. Pity about the Supreme Court and that jackass Roberts deciding today that PA must count all ballots received up to 3 days after the election even without al postmark. No chance of ballot box stuffing there guys. Oh well, a couple of weeks and we'll see if the real facists burn down the country.

SPEAKING OF SUCK

I just read elsewhere, I'd post the link if that was remotely possible, I just learned/saw that the BBC has taken one of my favorite books, THE NIGHT WATCH by Terry Pratchett and made a movie about it. You know, I usually put titled works in italics but blooger has made that impossible too since it is now just html text and frankly, who can bothered to recall something one hasn't used in over 10 years. Here is a quote from a commenter at a nameless place on the net.

His wife Sybil is now a thin POC… I guess fat shaming is okay if it’s a white female who is erased. Vetinari is a female. Dr. Cruces of the Assassin’s Guild is a female. CMOT Dibbler is a female. And on and on…. What we have here is the classic example of the Ultra Left killing a cultural property and then proudly wearing it as a skin suit. End quote

It's deeply hateful is what it is. I agree with the other commenter there who asked a simple question; why would you watch anything put out by studios today? Well, to be honest, we watch what we like on netflix and amazon and that seems to be enough entertainment. It's not like we could go to the movies even if we wanted to.

Here's a link for what it's worth. https://darkherald.net/2020/10/12/i-need-eye-bleeeeeech/

BLOGGER SUCKS @%^E@$(s

I've been trying to figure out simple things like pasting a link to an article which I have been known to do. Blogger made that impossible to do in the old way where one posts a link and then gives it a name for the text one is writing. Screw blogger!

THE NEXT THING

I have a thing going on with my vision. It doesn't work. I aim to watch the debate in a few minutes late into the darkness. I seem to come alive in the dark. Always have. BUT the one thing you can take to the bank about our current leader. He most significantly failed to lead us into war. Think about that. He is more unique......I know, that was for the one I love who does read here and we both laugh about things being more unique. THERE WAS NO WAG THE DOG. NOT ON HIS WATCH Me and my daughter when she was about 5 at the time greatly enjoyed walking around the roof and rest of the structure of the US Post Office Trump bought and was going to turn into a hotel in the heart of DC.It fronts the street where new presidents are sworn in. We made that trip to downtown DC about a month before the inauguration. If you haven't been to the roof of that building to look out at all of DC, if you find the time and opportunity it is well worth it.

POSSIBLY THE SADDEST SONG I EVER HEARD

3 TIMES

I tried 3 times to write about what bothers me today. I will have to try again later.

BLOGGER STILL SUCKS

BLOGGER SUCKS NOW

I read this article at I'm looking at blind in one eye these days, I no longer care. I agree in spades with the author of whatever link managed to get posted. I too used to read the Sunday NYT as if it mattered. I no longer bother and haven't for about 14 years. Used to be I would buy one at the book store in Solana Beach, drive to Del Mar and drink coffee at the Stratford for about as long as it took to read the Sunday NYT with endless refills.....then they caught on and more people would come and infest my Sunday reading spot. Darn them. In years of doing it, nobody came out to ask me to move along which is largely why I enjoyed sitting there in the Sunday morning reading a complete paper. Other people liked sitting on a patio in the sun by the Pacific Ocean and breakfasting and drinking coffee. Darn them.

BETTER FOR AMERICA'S INTERESTS?

Off hand I cannot think of any American interests in Iraq so this was funny. https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2020/09/27/u-s-plans-full-withdrawal-from-iraqi-embassy-n973408 BLOGGER has now managed to fuck up every single thing that was once easy and intuitive. FOAD Blogger.

WELL THAT TOOK NO TIME AT ALL

Idiot.

THE ABSOLUTE WRONGNESS

Don't read it.

otoh, know your enemy.

I READ THE LAST BOOK

 For about 20 years I chronicled my life. I pulled the last book off the shelf tonight and read it. It does what it was designed to do and proved evocative. I thought about things I hadn't thought about in decades. I stopped writing them in 99. There was a tiny hiatus until I took up blogging. I fucked up and got married. It proved to be the death of literature or words I wrote for myself.

KANT IS ALIVE AND WELL LIVING IN DENMARK

America is a country of muts. Has been for years. The countries of Europe were bastions of namism. An Englishman was English or possibly Scottish, by luck, Welsh. A French woman was purely French, Spanish were the all the same. Of course that is all not true anymore. Which made this  more amusing than it had to be. If you have not read On The Beautiful and the Sublime, try it again and laugh out loud as you see what once was: incontrovertible.

LOOKING FORWARD IN AMERICA

I can't wait to see how the left is going to describe President Trumps newest supreme court nominee as a rapist. They will. It's just a matter of time. Haters got to hate.

A NO KNOCK INVASION

 The only difference between a home invasion and the cops with no knock home invasions is that the cops wear bullet proof vests. In either event, go for head shots.

Yeah, I watched that video of a woman in a stadium arrested and cuffed after a long struggle by a cop simply because she wasn't wearing a mask in light density arena.

Some of them do a difficult job well enough. The rest are indistinguishable from the SS.

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A RARA AVIS

 Well, not exactly a bird but I did something tonight I have rarely done before and that was I deleted two blog posts that were extremely cryptic but where the lack of my words was to be explained by the hypertext links I put into the posts. In both cases the links were broken and unrecoverable so rather than simply confound people with nothing at all, I elected to delete them and so they are gone. Thank you to those who pointed out that the links were dead.

I typically like to confound people with my brilliance. I sometimes hear a "meh" from below and know I've overstepped my undeniable brilliance. She is my best critic.

NO KNOCK IS MURDER BY COP

This was murder by cop you don't have to agree but we should end it as a practice where the cops shoot innocent people in an armed invasion and where the ones who shoot back in response are charged with crimes against cops. I'm not alone in thinking this way. Every single person I've known over the last 55 years would treat a home invasion by cops exactly the same way they'd treat a home invasion.  Just how cops don't understand that is beyond me.

Invade a man's castle? He has a right to self defense. WACO. TWICE.

The latest gen, whatever they're called, probably don't see it. Their mother's didn't ever allow them to shoot guns in the boy scouts or the military service they declined and to be honest most of the sailors I knew were in that large group the admiral talked about that should never be allowed to handle firearms. "they'd do an injury to themselves." One might laugh but still it was tragic.

The ones in this country shooting the shit out of others are mostly black youths who just point and shoot as directed or when the whim takes them. Read https://secondcitycop.blogspot.com/. It is a description of an epic man made tragedy that just goes on and on.

ON ME

 I have never met any man like me. There was one who lived next door one year but I never really got to know him. My loss for he died. I still remember coming out the back door one day in the sun and he was sitting next door grading papers and he called out cheerily and asked if I was the Curtis writing to Lex on his blog and I said yes and then we knew each other briefly.

It turns out that he too had a book I read and enjoyed in college long ago but not as long ago as the book was written shortly after the Civil War. I'm reading it again late into the night. What are the chances that 2 men would read a hundred and 30 year old book? My copy died in the fire that consumed everything I had but here it is again in a different binding but of nearly the same vintage.

Copyright 1894. The roaring 90's. I lived/live in the place where that era thrived and made a country great. One place was a summer place for the creators of the era and the other place is one of the engines of that creation. If one counts silicon valley, I've lived in them all.