Month: November 2017

The Epitome of Hypocracy

If you have been following the news tomorrow, Saturday, November 4th, Refuse Fascism – the “official” group of Antifa – wants to kick off its revolution against the Trump administration.

They actually went as far as to put an ad in the New York Times.

Here is the text of the ad.

I had no interest in being anywhere near one of these “events,” fortunately the closest event to me is in Atlanta.

Then I saw something so mind blowing, so over-the-top Antifa that I want to see it in person.

Barneys New York is an upscale retailer in New York City.  Upscale as in Gucci t-shirts that are $950 each.

Barneys New York is selling an army surplus M-65 field jacket that comes pre-adorned with Antifa-esque, anarchist revolutionary messages.  It is cheap, at only $375.

  This is the apogee of silver spoon, trust fund,  Ivy League, champagne socialist, revolutionary.

Nothing says “down with the capitalist system” like a spending more than two days worth of working wages on a jacket decorated by children in a sweatshop in South East Asia instead of buying a $15 surplus jacket and a Sharpie and doing it yourself.

This is even more bourgeois than buying a $15 surplus jacket and a Sharpie and having your illegal immigrant maid decorate it for you.

I want to find the Antifa snowflake wearing this and fight him.

On principle.

If a bunch of Lesbian Interpretive Dance majors want to play Communist Revolutionary because they are still butthurt that Hillary lost the election, by destroying property in Hillary territory, I don’t care.  I don’t live there.

But to see someone  be so shallow in their Communist Revolutionary cosplay that they can’t be bothers to sloganeer their own jacket, which costs as much as a working man’s car payment, hits my limit of tolerance.

More on Star Trek

I’m still plowing my way through TNG.  I finished the episode Coming of Age. I think my suspension of disbelief is broken.

The entry exam for Star Fleet Academy requires knowing how to fuel a starship and navigate inter-species relations. 

That’s like required prospective students to know how to design engines for entry into a mechanical engineering undergrad program.

If you already know this stuff, what’s the point of the Academy.

I also can’t believe every one of thousands of officers in Star Fleet on hundreds of ships went through that same test.

If they had made it entry into some super duper ultra special accelerated program, I’d believe it.  For regular Star Fleet, that’s dumb.

Going by what is required I think the time scale is off.  Unless humans got radically smarter by Star Trek time, high school should take you till your 20s.  College/Academy until mid 30s.  Commission as an officer by 40, serve till 80, retire, die at 120.  Which makes sense given how long life has been extended in that universe. 

The problem in engineering programs today is that there is so much new technology that when you teach the fundamentals and the new stuff, it’s closer to 5 years of school than 4.  Add 300 years of technology and an undergraduate program should be 10 years to cover everything from intro to physics to warp theory.

Otherwise three year old will have to be doing calculus to be advanced enough to get into the Academy by 16. 

Jean Luc should be at the beginning of his career, not captain, in his 50s. 

Also, Wesley is still annoying as shit.

Miami Beach is officially a Stupid Place. 

If you are old enough, you will remember the Miami Vice scenes filmed in Miami Beach. It was a worn out locale with low-rent hotels filled with old people and others less than honest characters.

After Miami Vice and then Scarface, amazingly Miami Beach had a rebuild and became not only a quality tourist attraction of international fame, but a renowned Gay Area with what was supposed to be a safe neighborhood for LGQTB people.

About 5 years ago (more or less) something has happened to Miami Beach. Violence and debauchery is the law of the land and nobody with two functional brain cells would dare to go there, specially at night.

Here is a compilation video from a long-time resident of the place.

It kinda reminds me of a tropical Mad Max movie.

Local residents cite a number of reasons, but the one that lately has been the most talked about is that the City Council extended the sale of booze to five in the morning.  I don’t think that alone is the sole reason, but I don’t live there so I can’t comment.

But sure as hell I am not gonna retract from my self-imposed ban on visiting Stupid Places so I do not win Stupid Prizes.

 

Surrendering the West

The following map was published back in August of this year, it shows the location and date for every major terrorist attack in Europe since 2015.

From just last month, the major news sources didn’t bother to cover the fact that there were seven bombings or bombs found in Sweden in a period of 12 days.  Courts in Germany have opened more than 900 terrorism related cases in 2017 alone.

Before that, in September, London Mayor Sadiq Khan said terror attacks are “part and parcel of living in a big city.”  The implication being that terrorism is the new normal and Londoners will have to accept that they will happen.

Following Tuesday’s truck attack in New York City – which contrary to the prognostication of Virginia democrats was not carried out by a white guy with a DTOM bumper sticker – NBC published an opinion “America must prepare for a future where terrorism is routine.”

Between the Mayor of London and NBC, the West is on the cusp of surrendering.  We can’t stop soft target attacks so we might as well give in to their demands.

God forbid we try and intercept the ISIS fighters returning home to Western nations, that’s just Islamophobia.  It’s best to no be a racist, xenophobe and let them win.

Maybe woke New Yorkers are happy to virtue signal by becoming New Yorkistan but we in Alabama are not.

If this is truly the direction that Our Betters want to take this nation, all I can do is leave you with the wisdom of Sgt. Maj. Basil Plumley.

When Cracked Advocated for National Concealed Carry

Watch This:

The video is accurate from the details of the stabbing to the police making it clear “we can watch you get murdered and don’t have to do fuck all to help you” is NYPD policy.

This is about the simplest argument for national concealed carry I’ve ever seen.

The cops know about a spree killer on the loose, saw him on a subway, hid like dickless cowards, and watched as a citizen got stabbed nearly to death.

Yeah, if I’m in New York City on the subway, I want a gun on me.  Being stabbed in the head by some drugged out madman while a couple of cops munch popcorn like they have front row tickets to Madison Square Gardens Fight Night is not what I planned for my vacation.

Hawaii’s Spam black market… Huh?

A black market for Spam in Hawaii is forcing retailers to store the canned meat product behind lock and key to stop a string of thefts. The rash of heists of the mystery meat – a processed blend of pork known for its incredibly long shelf life – has prompted some proprietors to treat it like a pricey luxury item, putting the cans behind plastic cases to stop shoplifters looking to flip the island “staple” for quick cash, the Washington Post reports.

Source: Hawaii’s Spam black market blamed for spate of crime | New York Post

I knew Hawaiians love Spam, but a black market on a non-restricted non-addictive item? Am I missing something here?

This is not a good indicator for the legalization of drugs. Just my two cents.