winsor

Anti-Woke is simply the principle of equal rights and equal responsibilities, no more and no less.

Like any religion Woke is a disease of denial, mental malware that exploits a fundamental vulnerability. Poe's law applies nicely.

Watching Richard J. Daley in action I took for granted that Chicago couldn't possibly do worse. Boy, was I wrong.

If the goal is equal rights and equal responsibilities, I'm in. If, however, the focus is one race or another, it's racist. If the response to George Floyd was to the effect that no citizen should be subjected to such treatment, I'm in. If it turned out that the perpetrator and victim had worked together, and that the perpetrator viewed the victim is a useless junkie criminal but the crime was attributed to race, that's racist. If identical violations of rights take place, but only those involving one race or another get any attention at all that's racist. You get the drift.

If a conviction for witchcraft would keep him out of office, bringing such charges is strongly recommended. I kinda wish he decided the preferred path forward involved seppuku. That would, however, require some sense of honor, which rules it out in his case. He is proof positive of Mencken's observation that nobody ever went broke overestimating the vulgarity of the American buying public.

Sweden.

We simply need more laws. All that needs to happen is for someone intent on violence to obey ONE of them and their plans are thus thwarted. Once guns are made as illegal and unavailable as, say, cocaine and heroin, the problem will simply disappear. Violence is entirely due to the influence of firearms on people who are otherwise decent, peaceful and law abiding citizens. Given the chance, everyone will voluntarily disarm since that will result in a peaceful utopia. The solution is simple and easy.

31 counts? They should charge him with witchcraft and sorcery just to round things out.

Chris Rock pointed out that charging Trump was like charging Tupac Shakur, where it only served to solidify his credibility within his base. Never wrestle with a pig, because you just get dirty and the pig enjoys it.

Put me down for 75%.

Billy's use of a sidearm is no more an indictment of firearms than the fellow in Idaho is an example of why civilians should not own Ka Bars or why ownership of SUVs should be proscribed because of the woman who drove off a cliff with her wife and six children. When someone uses skydiving as a way to commit suicide, there are those that consider this 'proof' that skydivers have a death wish. Arguments to the contrary fall on deaf ears. I have lived amongst people who cannot be trusted with pointy objects or blunt instruments, and with those who are entirely safe with metric tons of hydrogen cyanide, hydrogen fluoride or WMDs in general. It's the people that form the basis of the threat. 'Gun violence' is a case in point of the Pareto principle in action. There is a distinct correlation between severely fucked up people and 'gun violence.' People who are given to using firearms or Ka Bars or SUVs as instruments of violence are unfit to populate a free society. BSBD, Winsor

Rather than vilifying inanimate objects, why don't we consider who is actually responsible? Going over the authors of the most recent atrocities, they are, without exception, Seriously Fucked Up People. I know the 'solution' put forth is to constrain everyone to the limitations of the lowest common denominator, but I take exception to the dictatorship of the mediocre. Perhaps I have been spoiled by living and working with people who can be trusted with lethal service on a mass scale, and so do not aspire to a nerf world. YMMV

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is all about NewSpeak, and 'gender politics' is likewise mind-boggling. Making a neutral comment about basic a biology should not be cause for people to take leave of their senses. Lighten up, Francis! Orwell was, indeed, an optimist.

Pogo Possum

I dunno, any spam that begins with "dear patriot" gets summarily deleted.

Cheap propeller - lowest bidder and all that.

How long can you tread water?

For all the bitching on this forum about the bias of Fox/Murdoch, none of the the links I've followed hold a candle to NPR for raw prejudice. Not saying that's a bad thing, mind you; NPR is careful only to speak The Truth (tm), so pretending to be Fair and Balanced (tm) is entirely unnecessary. BSBD, Winsor

Yeah, I was kinda wondering about that.

Oddly enough, the descendants of said goat herders to a large extent regard the untranslated writings as having merit on a par with the Greek myths. Admittedly Haredim take it verbatim, but I'm not sure how they deal with mitzvot mandating genocide or slavery. The significance of mitzvot, as I understand it, is that 'the law' was thus not whatever the King du jour felt it should be ('we answer to a higher authority' and all that). As Clarence Darrow noted, "in the beginning God created man. Man, being a gentleman, returned the favor." The Bronze Age writings rather reflect that reality. As an aside, I'd love to know how our neighbors to the West built the pyramids. Regardless of the budget, I'd no-bid that contract. BSBD, Winsor

She reminds me of the applicant for the radio announcer job: They di-di-di-didn't hire me 'cause I'm j-j-j-Jewish.

I understand religion and sexual orientation that differs from my own in an abstract sense. In practice I just don't get it. You're having two way conversations with an invisible friend - you're joking, right? You want to have sex with WHAT? Come on, you're pulling my leg. Anyhow, so long as either group leaves children out of it, and doesn't expect my approval, financial support or participation, I'm okay with it. Legislation based on either set of delusions or affinities is problematic. Legalizing polygamous marriage to barnyard animals due to a religious mandate brings up all sorts of problems with the tax code for instance, though it makes as much sense as most anything religious. Credo quia absurdum and all that. One should be polite around religious people, given their historic propensity to inflict violence upon those whose faith differs or is absent. I prefer to be spared the particulars of such individuals as the guy who married his dog; I prefer to assume that was a goof and leave it at that. BSBD, Winsor

? I have never inflicted violence upon anyone based on race (or much of anything else), nor have I considered race as a hiring criterion. I have, however, been the target of racially motivated violence, and have lost out on jobs because I didn't meet criteria for any of the company's hiring quotas. Racism's racism, and it's not okay. BSBD, Winsor

I came across this article: https://mises.org/wire/power-woke-how-leftist-ideology-undermining-our-society-and-economy which addresses the various positive and negative, historical and current definitions of 'woke.' It also goes into the ESG commitments by major corporations, and their financial motivations. Right, wrong or indifferent, I found the points made by the author to be worthy of consideration. BSBD, Winsor

Mama Cass Elliot had a massive heart attack while eating a ham sandwich, she did not choke on the ham sandwich. I recently read a blurb about some activist who touted loving one's body, regardless of its shape or condition or whatever. She apparently succumbed to a premature death linked directly to being morbidly obese. Karen Carpenter succumbing to Anorexia Nervosa does not appear to be a real improvement. I've know rather a few young women whose health was compromised by the urge to achieve their preferred BMI. Professional models and sumo wrestlers are stuck with these body models as a job requirement, but that doesn't make either end of the spectrum a model of healthiness. The standard that 'the dose makes the poison' applies to a lot of things, and those taking a hard stance one way or another are often equally wide of the mark. Having had a life expectancy conveniently measured in minutes on more than one occasion, I prefer to load the dice in favor of stretching out my time on the green side of the sod as opposed to having the most impressive self-esteem. YMMV. BSBD, Winsor