Month: September 2024

A Touch Of Fall

Weather

I went outside the night before last to fetch something from the car, and… cool weather.  Okay, so it was close to midnight, so never mind, thinks I — I’m wise to Texas Weather Tricksies by now.

Then I went out yesterday morning at about 9am to run some errands, and… still cool.  In fact, I had to step out from the shade into the sunlight to avoid shivering.  When I set off in the car, I turned off the AC (for the first time since mid-May) and just cracked the windows to stay cool.

Wait, what?  Could this be Global Cooling Climate Warming Change©?

Silly rabbit.  By the time I turned to come back home, it was back to 92°F — that September Texas weather we all know and love.

I am so ready for the Fall to come.

It ain’t pretty, but at least it ain’t sweltering.

 

News Roundup

Bad News

So let’s skirt the boundaries of good taste one more time, by looking at the news of yore.


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In Britishland News:


...mostly at gas stations and cafe-type stores, so no need to panic.


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...and you can fuck right off too, you unctuous, slimy piece of shit.

And it’s time to hear the call of EVERYBODY PANIC !!!! again:


...yeah, whatever.  Go and peddle your little scare stories somewhere else.  And:


...and are these experts telling us why and in which population the virus is spreading so fast?
#HomoSex

And speaking of monkeys, here’s the latest from The Great Cultural Assimilation Project©:


...borrowing tactics from TxGov Abbot and FlGov DeSantis, eh?  Yer welcome.


...well, somebody might as well use them.

In Election News:


...see, under the reign of World-Emperor Kim:


...nobody cares what you think, either.  Even if you did win the competition for “Most Likely To Have New Career on OnlyFans”.  And speaking of the inconsequential:


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...any guesses which county in Texas?
#TravisAustinCommieAssholes #NoSurprisesThere

In Motoring Technology News:


...I’m so old, I can remember when the only “software” in trucks was between the drivers’ ears.
...yeah [sigh], I miss ’em too.

And in gloriously link-free 

…considering he’s already had two goes at cultivating your little garden of delight, I seriously doubt he’s missing anything.


...pay no attention to the envious assholes, Demi me old darling;  you look sensational and it’s been money well spent.

And that’s the back side of the news.

Don’t See It

Drive Time

In this article (thankee Reader MG), the author talks about the styling similarities between the Ferrari 212/225 Barchetta and the early Ford Thunderbird, and how the two cars were linked.  Here are the side-by-side pics:

Honestly, apart from the obvious ones (embedded exhaust pipes, spoked wheels and round tail lights), I think they’re about as different as can be imagined.  The T-bird is part of that era’s American obsession with chrome and fins (part of the jet/space thing) and has not a single aspiration towards airflow and streamlining, while the Barchetta is all flowing lines and grace, with minimal chrome fittings.

And let it be known that I don’t actually dislike the T-bird’s shape — in fact, I think it’s excellent and so much better than their later iterations of the model.  But I don’t see the cars as stylistically comparable.  (Of relative performance, of course, we will not speak.)

I will admit to being not much of an automotive-styling cognoscentus, so if you think I’ve missed something, feel free to enlighten me.

Tommy’s Tale

Heroism

Anything produced by Jordan Peterson is worth watching.  His interview of Tommy Robinson, the bête noire  of British politics is very much more than that.

As Cathy Gyngell says of Robinson:

It also made me think of the many far more sullied characters on our political stage who have got away with it, and never been subjected to the across-the-board branding, silencing and curtailment of freedom he has been treated to. No epithet has stuck more effectively than those words thug, racist and far right have to him. You have to look quite far to find someone to whom you mention his name who doesn’t judge him so, who doesn’t assume he is the hooligan the press have told us he is, who doesn’t call him an idiot or simply display the distaste they feel for him on their faces. But ask those with these attitudes what they actually know about him and whether they have any idea of his story, and what his ‘beef’ is actually about they go quiet. They have no idea. Their judgement, as was mine in the past, is an unthinking one – based purely and simply on how the MSM cast him, and the fact he is actually working-class (unlike the elite politicians like Starmer so desperate to claim this background). This is a ‘tarring’ that is so universally accepted that anyone defending him in any way also risks being so tarred and outcast.

Of course no one ever sees him interviewed by the mainstream UK press or broadcasters: he is never allowed to defend himself, let alone be asked to tell his story. So there is nothing and no one to challenge the official Tommy characterisation as a law-breaker, inciter, thug or crook. Any out-of-context ‘angry monologue’ clips that people may have seen confirm their prejudice. It’s only when you hear his whole 20-year story that you start to understand it and empathise and are horrified by the cover-up. And understand his anger. There is such a thing as righteous indignation, and that without doubt is what Tommy feels.

The more the elite authorities want to suppress him, the more people like me want to know more about him.

And this was before the recent riots in the U.K.

This interview is quite possibly the most important insight into how the news is being shaped that I’ve ever seen.  Ignore that it’s primarily about a “racist” attack that took place in Britishland, because it concerns all of the news we’re being fed.

And by the way, if you start to feel the burn of anger when Robinson describes the fate of the hapless family, then you may begin to understand the background to the Stockport riots.

Ron Asks The Question

The Gun Thing, Wildlife and Hunting

“If you could only have three rifles to address all your hunting needs, what would they be?” — Ron Spomer

Of course, it depends where you live OR what terrain you would be hunting in, and what animals you’d be after.  Those three factors (before we even begin to talk about your hunting abilities) are probably the biggest drivers.  I mean, your needs in eastern Wyoming are going to be vastly different from eastern Kentucky, right?

And just in those two areas, what you hunt is going to be… diverse:

But enough equivocating.  Let’s make it really difficult, and say that you have friends all over the place so at any time you’re likely to get an invitation to join them on a hunt where they live.  (But if that makes it too difficult, go ahead and pick three rifles for hunting where you live.)

So you need three truly all-round rifles in your safe, (say) because that’s all you can afford.

Now pick ’em.  (My choices are below the fold, but pick yours first.)

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