My side of the family, specially from dad’s, has been cursed with having sensitive stomachs. I was the lucky bastard for many years and I could eat hot food and chase it with the darkest of espressos without even hiccupping.

Venezuelans love a good hot sauce. You will find a grungy-looking bottle of what you know is a home-made concoction in any street vendor and it will be used with delight by the customers. But truthfully since it was forbidden at home, I never cared for how it was made and never even heard of Aji Chirel, , just that it was available when I ate “perros calientes” (hot dogs) late at night at my favorite street peddler.

On the other side of the scale is the “aji dulce” which is any small pepper that has zero heat in it, but is loaded with flavor and it is used in all kinds of preparations. It tastes different that your red bell pepper but you can tell they are from the same family as the hot branch.

I know, it is a long intro, but bear with me. While I was in college in the USA, mom had gotten some seeds of what was supposed to be aji dulce.  Unfortunately, it was the seeds for the 120.000 SHU mini grenades which grew beautifully by her hand but could not use. Rather than being practical and getting rid of the plants, she gave all but one away because “It was always producing pretty peppers and it looked beautiful.”

Now, I don’t mind pretty plants and I will enjoy the look of a fruitful bush like any other human, but please inform me that we have mother nature’s chemical weapon dispenser in our backyard and I am supposed to be no closer than 5 feet from the fiery green I should have known something was weird because I saw the dogs avoiding the heck out of the plant, but my brain did not process the information.

One day back home for a brief vacation, mom asked me to water her plants in her side garden, the small one. Again, mom being green-thumb-mom, this task regularly took about 40 minutes because her definition of “small garden” was understated as hell. One of the things you do when watering is to check for bugs and sicknesses and that implies touching and examining up close. So I did… to the frigging aji chirel. I just did not touch it but gave it an examination worth medical school.

Then my right eye itched a bit and I rubbed it with my unwashed hand.

Medieval and Chinese tortures are lame. The Inquisition was a pussy. Napalm? pshhhht! just a slight sunburn.

It hurt. Oh my God it hurt. The burn was like somebody had lit a Bunsen burner inside my eye and sprinkled it with Pompeii’s lava. So I did what any normal idiot human being would do: I rubbed twice as hard with my both my hands, managing to share the same effect on the left eye and my cheeks start to feel as if I laid my face on a hot grill.

The streaming of cursing coming out of my mouth in three languages was one for the ages. I was told neighbors heard the multilingual demonstration 2 blocks away and more than one abuela clutched her rosary and started to mutter Hail Marys like a machine gun. I swear at one moment I could feel my eyeballs rotate at high speed inside my skull and my brain just simply shut down any higher level of consciousness and rationality.

I heard mom coming and I guess he figured out what happened because she asked why the heck did she raise a stupid child who went on to play make-up with God’s Burning Bush.  She warned me to, sit on the ground,  stop touching my face and that she would be right back. I did so and felt something falling/dripping on my lap. I touched and it felt ugly and sticky, was I losing ectoplasm?  Dear God! Am I gonna die here? (Later I found out it was just plain snot which I produced in amazing quantities)

Mom came back with milk which did nothing but provide me with a millisecond of relief. Then she went straight to the hose and sprayed me constantly which seemed to help better even if I almost drowned, but at that moment I really did not care, the pain subsided all of a 3% and I was happy about it.

The pain eventually subsided to “WWII Japanese bunker cleared by flamethrower” level and my brain once again re-engaged.  I washed my hands with gasoline, then detergent and the I put on some surgical gloves on instructions from mom. It took me till the next day to regain my facial functions and normal vision, but the nightmares remain till this day.

I went back to school and on my next vacation, I saw that the plant was gone. I asked about it and all I got were a truly evil stare  from dad and mom giving him a twice worse stare. I decided not to push the subject.

I know I should take pepper spray training, but if anybody asks if I ever had a taste of OC, I can proudly (and mostly stupidly) say yes.

Caught this last night in Facebook

My favorite redhead of all times as the top honcho of a federation Starship? It is so perfect I cannot do but smile big and wish I could get a copy framed for my wall.

Lucille Ball was the owner of a TV production company the youngins may not have heard about: Desilu. Back in the early 60s, they decided to produce a Sci Fi TV show which would transform the genre forever even though it did not fare well the first go around.  You may have seen tis closing credit once or twice.

Gene Roddenberry may have created, but she built it

It has become the norm for Lefts to engage in self-flagellation virtue signaling whereby they denounce their organization’s inherent or structural racism/sexism/bigotry/etc.

It’s obnoxious.

Now it’s backfiring.

The Education Department just informed Princeton that it's under formal investigation following the president's declaration that racism is "embedded" in the university. If true, that would violate the Civil Rights Act, rendering it ineligible for federal $.https://t.co/CIJS0fDzXE

— Tiana Lowe Doescher (@TianaTheFirst) September 17, 2020

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

If Princeton really is a racist organization, it doesn’t deserve federal money.

If it wants the money, it is going to have to walk back its statement and explain that it was all meaningless virtue signaling bullshit to appease the woke mob.

Between a rock and a hard place.

This is awesome, just awesome.

This shit hit my news feed:

They were planning for war. pic.twitter.com/b5IKr6jNWm

— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) September 17, 2020

Right…. because the DC National Guard being prepared for a riot at the Whitehouse gates with the intensity of what we saw in Portland is EXACTLY the same as people who criticize a doctor online being dragged out of their beds in the middle of the night and shot or poisoned with a nerve agent.

Then there is this shit:

We've had to endure President Trump's incompetence and dishonesty when it comes to testing, wearing masks, and socially distancing.

We can't afford a repeat of those fiascos with a COVID-19 vaccine.

The stakes are too high.

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) September 17, 2020

Then I read the replies.

I can sum up the Left this week like this:

The Left: “Just because a bunch of high profile Democrats have been in the social circle of high profile child sex traffickers,  and defended to the death a movie about twerking 11 year olds, doesn’t mean the Left is a cabal of pedophiles, that’s a QAnon conspiracy theory.”

Also the Left: “Trump is a Russian agent, owned by Putin and his tax returns will prove that.  Also, you can’t trust a COVID vaccine he approves because he secretly compromised the entire CDC approval process and clinical data to get reelected.”

I just can’t take this shit anymore.

I just can’t.

This lying fucking bullshit:

https://twitter.com/rezaaslan/status/1306410858088521728

If you go into the story what you will read is that there was an inquiry about having an Active Denial System available in case protests in Lafayette Park got out of hand.

This park is adjacent to the Whitehouse so there is a very real concern about rioters using the protest as cover to attack the Whitehouse.

Imagine a protest and one guy with a rifle among the protesters shooting at the Whitehouse.

Whitehouse security is one thing nobody in DC fucks around with.

The Active Denial System uses a frequency of electromagnetic radiation that heats the water in the skin to sub millimeter depths.  The result is that it feels like you stuck your face into a hot oven but it does no physical damage.

If I strapped you to a chair and blasted you with an ADS so the you could not run away, you might get the equivalent to a mild sunburn.

Far less damage than pepper spray, CS gas, or impact projectiles.

But the media is pushing this like it’s thr fucking flesh melting heat ray from the War of the World’s.

I’m convinced what these people really want is for the “peaceful protesters” to open up on the Trump Whitehouse like they did to the Portland Federal Courthouse.

I don’t think they care if the People’s House was damaged if it gets Trump.

Or if it sets precedent that fire bombing the Whitehouse is acceptable because they know Conservatives will never throw a Molotov Cocktail at the Whitehouse no matter what the Ocasi-Cortez/Tlaib administration does by executive order.

It’s that this sort of mendacity is so shamelessly pushed.

Leftist headline: “Trump orders peaceful protesters burned with heat ray.” Shows Getty image of Vietnamese child covered in napalm.

Reality: “DC Guard seeks non-lethal system to prevent Antifa from launching bombs at Whitehouse.”

I fucking hate the garbage media.

A week ago I posted about the sudden drop of marches and riots after it came out they were affecting negatively the Democrats according to polls. It has been a week and the traditional highly organized Antifa/BLM “block parties” are nowhere to be found.

I follow a couple of YouTube aggregators who do nothing else that collect streaming feeds from different sources and the only congregation of peoples trying to do BLM-ish stuff are at most a couple of dozen people per location just being an annoyance and little effective, In Rochester they seem to have tried to do a CHAZ takeover thing in front of City Hall, but they did not have enough protesters to cover one street block.

About the only exception had to do with the episode in Lancaster where initially  Lefty Social media reported the shooting of a poor unarmed black autist which drew somewhat violent protest by a scant few that quickly dissipated by the second day once the police video was released and the screen capture of a jumping & screaming man, knife in hand attacking the responded officer was released to the public.

Short of another shooting that is actually outrageous, I believe we have seen the last of the big organized Antifa/BLM till November. After that, my gut tells me they are gonna let the little barbarians loose to create havoc.

That might end up being called “The night the switch flipped.”