…from the Youth Division comes this little tale of gunny goodness.
Executive Summary: Father gets upset with family, threatens to kill everyone in the house, and indeed starts off by killing his adult stepdaughter. His son says “Enough is enough” and blows a hole in Daddy Dearest, who then assumes room temperature. Cops shrug and give the kid an “Attaboy” medal.
The only sad thing is that the woman had to die before her asshole stepfather was ushered out.
Whenever the Left goes all Hair On Fire, that generally means good things are happening. Take this little bit of news, for example:
After it was announced Monday that local businessman and Sinclair Broadcasting Group executive Chairman David Smith had rescued The Sun with plans to revitalize it to a robust status, the left is apoplectic.
Why? Sinclair, the local news behemoth Smith runs, has been accused for years of tilting right. Based on the hissy fits pitched by the AP, the Baltimore Banner (an online site started after the Alden purchase), CNN, The New York Times, and The Washington Post, it seems like journalists would rather the paper die all together than be run by someone who’s not a leftist.
Well, duh; if the Left can’t control something, they try to destroy it (see: Donald Trump).
And if, Lenin forbid, that change may tend towards conservatism, the screaming will ratchet up exponentially.
And so it happened in this case.
CNN reacted the way you’d expect. Oliver Darcy, their deranged liberal media hall monitor, whined in his media newsletter that it’s a “deal that has set off alarm bells” since Smith’s local stations around the country “has previously inserted right-wing editorial segments into its local news broadcasts.”
Writing on Threads and X, NPR media writer and former Sun reporter David Folkenflik huffed that “Smith was dismissive of the Sun’s journalism” and “deflected questions about his own political activities.”
He also seethed that “Smith has been a major funder of GOP candidates; more recently he has funded far-right outfits like Project Veritas and Turning Point USA & financed local ballot initiatives.”
Folkenflik made sure to take a swipe at Sinclair stations: “Sinclair…has pulled the news coverage and commentaries on those stations markedly to the right, ultimately becoming quite supportive of Trump.”
Oh noes… I see the End Of Democracy all over this one. That, or the End Of Civilization As We Know It.
Who knows? The Sun may even turn out to be a decent newspaper.
In case any of my Readers didn’t get the memo, we just had one of those cold snaps down here in north Texas, where we get a little Arctic air sent down from our neighbors up north. For three days, daytime high temperatures never went above freezing (32°F Murkin, 0°C for those of the Napoleonic Persuasion), with wind chills (once again, courtesy of the Canuckis) dropping the “felt” temperatures by another ten or so degrees. Night-time temps? You don’t wanna know.
I know, I know: “That’s Minnesota from November through May” etc. etc. I used to live in Chicago, remember, where I knew all about cold weather.
The difference is that up north, they know how to handle such temperatures, whereas we don’t. Builders, for all sorts of economic reasons, seldom install double-glazed windows, even for cooling the searing summer temperatures. (I remember a window guy asking me why I wanted double glazing on the northerly and easterly sides of the house, “cause there ain’t much call for ’em round here”.) Insulation — wall, roof and so on: wouldn’t last the first two weeks in Chicago without somebody dying of cold, but it’s perfectly acceptable down here.
All of which is fine and good, until the deadweight of Gummint gets involved. Everyone knows of the current feelgood fad of Global Cooling Climate Warming Change©, whereby eeeevil power sources such as oil and natgas have to be Done Away With, replaced by the usual unicorn-fueled farts of solar- and wind power generation, and Texas has lamentably not been spared this bollocks. Indeed, the laughably-named ERCOT institution has failed, every single year, to actually fulfill their remit and guarantee that the electricity supply would remain constant throughout the past decade, and has actually had the temerity to beg Texans to be sparing of their electricity use during summer where (in case nobody has noticed) things get fucking hot outside and in winter (when we get annual visits from the Polar Express or Blue Norther) to varying degrees of severity and duration.
And I shouldn’t have to tell anyone that Texas is blessed with huge energy reserves — oil, natural gas and coal (sadly, very dirty-burning coal, but better than nothing).
We didn’t experience an electricity outage this time — more, I suspect, by luck than by planning and calculation — but honestly, it gets on my nerves that every winter I have to make sure that I can survive a cold spell by laying in supplies of whatever’s necessary to prevent dying of cold. And I bet there are a whole bunch of fellow Texans who feel the same, or more strongly.
It’s not like this is some unknown, out-of-left-field occurrence, either, because examples of government idiocy and inadequacy abound, such as with our Neighbors To The North:
Ryan Maue is a US weather and climate guy. From early last week he was forecasting the incoming polar vortex would bring abysmal cold to virtually all of North America. Unlike climate activists, he’s not an alarmist except when as he jokingly put it, the real ‘climate emergency’ that would unfold would be temperature in the minus 40s — which is the same in Celsius and Fahrenheit — and colder!
That’s exactly what happened in Alberta on January 12, 2024. The polar vortex moved in and settled over most of the prairies and Northern BC and temperatures dropped like a stone. Maue checked in on “our Canadian friends” in Edmonton, reporting on Jan. 12th at 10:30 reporting: “Bit of a struggle today with the temperature. Currently -48°F (-44 C) with a wind chill of -67°F (-55C).”
That’s the bleak reality. Here’s how it gets even worse:
January 12, 2024, is the day decarbonization died in Alberta.
People with EVs were caught out as the cars couldn’t hold a charge and could only get half the range, as Global News reported.
As Brian Zinchuk of Pipeline Online reported, wind farms in Alberta quietly all went to sleep as temperatures hit minus 30C the night before. Why? Because in extremely cold weather, infrastructure like wind turbines with exposed blades and internal mechanics way up high face the risk of embrittlement and… shattering. Even though there was some wind, the risk was too great to continue operations, meaning that almost all of Alberta 4481 MW of wind power became useless. About that same time, the sun went down. Meaning that all of Alberta’s 1650 MW of solar power vanished for the night.
Meanwhile, the remaining coal-fired power plants, which have 820 MW maximum capability, have been running flat-out, presently at 817 MW as I write this at 12:14 on Saturday January 13, 2024 — another frosty day in polar vortex deep freeze, with temperatures across the province ranging from minus 40 to minus 50 degrees Celsius.
Last night, a grid alert was posted by the Alberta Electric System Operator (AESO), meaning the system was at capacity.
And the reason for the crisis?
The magical thinking of climate activists has been to replace fossil-fueled electrical power generation along with fossil-fueled cars and trucks with renewables and batteries instead, including EV vehicles. Furthermore the climate activists also want to decarbonize home heating, by switching from natural gas to electrical heating or heat pumps.
I should point out that, without exception, these so-called “climate activists” don’t have to live with the consequences of their fairytale nostrums. They live in areas where such catastrophes are unlikely, and in economic conditions which insulate them [sic] from any unpleasant outcomes.
The whole house of cards that is climate alarmism is falling — not fast enough, mind you, but falling nevertheless — and the only question remaining is how best we can prod Gummint into shit-canning the whole experiment. (I’d suggest random hangings, but no doubt someone will have a problem with this.)
When even the Germans are starting to wake up…
In the meantime, I’m bracing for the next cold snap. You know, the way Third World countries’ populations have to do when faced with weather extremes.
It’s just unfortunate that I happen to live in a (once-) First World nation.
Incidentally, I’m not the only Texan who feels this way:
So there you are, trundling along a little Ukrainian road, nothing but the usual soldiers’ thoughts buzzing around in your little Russki head:
…when suddenly, a little RadioShackski drone happens along and spoils your whole day.
Watch the video in the link… it’s impressive. Ooh, that’s going to leave a mark… and it ain’t gonna buff right out, either.
I love the smell of barbecued Russians in the morning.
For those faint-hearted who think I’m being Krool & Hartless, I have only one thing to say: they fucking started it.
#Hiroshima #Dresden
So the West gets more and more pissed off with the ragheads fucking with merchant ships off the coast of Arabland, and (amazingly) does something about it, i.e. bombing the rocket-launch sites:
Of course, the Muzzies are responding in typical fashion:
HARROWING images show gun-toting young children in the crowd as thousands took to the streets in Yemen to protest the joint UK and US airstrikes.
Supporters of the Iran-backed rebel group flocked to the streets of Sanaa chanting “America is the Devil” after the overnight blitzes.
And the predictable rent-a-crowd pics follow:
…which gives me an idea.
I like the idea of targeting the launch sites, of course, but it strikes me that it’s only a partial response to this nonsense.
What we ought to do is wait till the satellite pics show the crowds have gathered and are doing the shouty-burny thing, and then launch a couple of follow-up cruise missiles loaded with, I dunno, a daisy-cutter or two and drop them onto the crowd of smellies:
…and really give them — or the survivors anyway — something to complain about.
Maybe that will shut these motherfuckers up, and make them think twice before playing their little reindeer-rocket games on the trade routes. It’s worth a try, anyway. They could hardly hate us more, n’est ce pas?
Unless, of course, we’re saving the cruise missiles and daisy-cutters for the Chinese invasion of Taiwan.
Seems like a couple of asshole socialist Congressmen [redundancy alert] from (duh) Massachusetts and Maryland are going to try to subvert the Constitution by… banning militias?
Never mind that militias are specifically protected by the U.S. Constitution, and defined and entrenched in the U.S. Code as well. Those are, to the would-be totalitarians like Markey and that other tool, just inconveniences to be brushed aside. Here’s a choice bit:
“Patrolling neighborhoods, impeding law enforcement and storming the U.S. Capitol, private paramilitary groups like the Oath Keepers, the Three Percenters and the Proud Boys are using political violence to intimidate our people and threaten democratic government and the rule of law.”
Wait… the Oathies, Threepers and Proud Boys are paramilitary organizations now? Here’s what they’re talking about:
The legislation creates different tiers of criminal penalties based on whether violations result in injury or property damage; provides harsher penalties for repeat offenders; and allows for a probationary sentence for first-time offenders. It also creates civil remedies by authorizing the Department of Justice to seek injunctive relief against paramilitary activity, and by creating a private right of action for individuals harmed by paramilitary activity to seek injunctive relief and/or damages.
I’m curious as to how these Commie legislators are going to sidestep Antifa and BLM, who are paramilitary groups: uniforms, command structure, multi-state organization, very prone to violence and even at times, armed — and who routinely perpetrate actions that “result in injury or property damage”. Will they be scooped up by this proposed legislation, do you think? (Okay, you can stop that bitter laughter now.)
Whatever. None of what these politicians are talking about in their little extra-Constitutional exercise should be supported, and I can only hope that it won’t be, even by RINO twerps like Susan Collins and her ilk. But I fear for the worst. Why?
Because, you see, this is what happens when one side of the aisle demonizes the other side successfully*: all sorts of mischief can ensue as long as “public safety” can be trumpeted as the excuse, even when — as in the case of the three inept “rightwing” organizations cited above — there is absolutely no circumstance or rationale under which they would behave in the manner feared.
Of course, the Left and their foot soldiers will be exempted and excused because MAGA… but you all knew that.
Range time? I think so. And I’m not a member of any organization such as the above. But I am part of what can be described as the “citizen militia”, and unashamedly so.
*Here’s the international equivalent of demonizing (and eventually) criminalizing the opposition:
(link in headline)
Does everyone see the parallels, or do I have to spell them out?