Month: July 2024

Not Ready For Prime Time, Perhaps?

Eco-Crap, Travels

From the Heart Of Stone Department comes this report:

A couple who embarked on an eco-friendly voyage across the Atlantic were found dead in a lifeboat after seemingly being forced to abandon their yacht.

Brett Clibbery, 70, and British woman Sarah Justine Packwood, 54, were reported missing after setting off from Nova Scotia in Canada in their 42ft sailing boat Theros on June 11 – and were found last week in a washed-up liferaft.

The couple’s remains were found on Sable Island, nicknamed the ‘Graveyard of the Atlantic‘, 180 miles off the coast of Nova Scotia, the liferaft having washed ashore. They had intended to sail to the Azores 900 miles west of Portugal.

Thanks, but if I am going to cross the ocean by sea, I’ll use one of these, despite the effect on Global Warming Climate Cooling Change©:

…as long as it’s not captained by someone named “Edward Smith”, because the last time that happened, we ended up with a shitty James Cameron movie (is there another kind?).

Pure Comedy

Morons & Idiots, Politics

Fine, I know he’s the prime contender for the late Sheila Jackson Lee’s title of “Stupidest Person In Congress”, but even for him, this is rich:

Representative Adam Schiff (D-CA) said Wednesday on ABC’s “The View” that it was “hard to find someone better qualified in our history to become president” than Vice President Kamala Harris.

Ummm I can think of half a dozen, and that’s just since 1900.  (Okay, since you ask:  Taft, Coolidge, Hoover, Eisenhower, Nixon and Reagan.  Hell, Warren Harding was better-qualified than the DEI VP, never mind the lesser Republicans like the two Bushes.)

And if we go further back in our history… oh, Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Jackson, Lincoln… need I go further?

I would suggest that Schiff undergo a lobotomy, but I suspect he already has.

Speed Bump #845

Grammar Nazism

From Breitbart News:

“Coronate”?  Ain’t no such fucking word.  At a coronation, one is crowned, not “coronated”.  Guess who coined the term?  Jesse Jackson, back in the 1990s (saw it on TV).

Hell, I even saw Mort Kondracke say it on a Fox News panel discussion once, and the host didn’t hit him over the head with a chair, like I would have done.

Note the reaction from SpelChek (in this very post):

Of all the times for my AK-47 to be at the pawn shop… and STG, if someone tells me they found this abortion of a word in some poxy modern dictionary ergo  it’s okay to say it, I’m going to come to their house.  With a Molotov cocktail.