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If you know a veteran of the GWOT, reach out to them and make sure they’re okay

I wonder if this is related to the Biden Administration throwing away all of our achievements in the Middle East relegating all our troops’ sacrifices to nothing, clearly protecting highly partisan incompetents to honorable officers, telling career military that they will be discharged under less than honorable conditions if they don’t take the Coof shot, attacking patriotic military personnel as white supremacists, or some combination of all of thee above.

Imagine being a soldier from working-class Middle America.  You sign up after 9/11 out of a love of country.  You become career military.

All of a sudden your Commander in Chief loses the war you fought and lost friends in, your Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff says you are a threat because of the color of your skin, your unconscious biases, and white rage, and if you don’t get the Fauci Ouchi, the last decade or more if your service and any retirement or veteran benefits with it are forfeit.

Yeah, I thought so.

If you know a veteran suffering right now, reach out to them.

Very good sci-fi series that I highly recommend

I just finished the first three books of the Wayfarer series by Becky Chambers.  They are: The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, A Closed and Common Orbit, and Record of a Spaceborn Few.

I’m waiting for the fourth to come out on audio (I have a 25 minute commute each way every day so I like audiobooks).

I decided I needed some light sci-fi after the grueling ordeal that was Ordinary Men.  Yes it was edifying and I’m glad I did it, but it was rough.

The Wayfarer series is excellent.

The reviews are shit that almost made me not want to read them, e.g., one review called it “sci-fi for the Tumblr generation.”

Yes, Chambers does use some of the gender neutral neologisms like xir, but it works in the context of alien species with no gender or fixed sex.

The books had delightfully no political bend.   She focuses more on world building and character development then action, which i greatly enjoy.

I’ve always preferred authors who can create interesting universes, which you can tell by the sci-fi stories I’ve posted.

The last two book series I’ve eaten up this ravenously were the Abhorsen (Old Kingdom) trilogy by Garth Nix and The Magicians by Lev Grossman.  Two others that have extraordinary world building.

Her third book, Record of a Spaceborn Few, is very Heinleinian in that the story is a vehicle for discussing social philosophy.

I highly recommend the series.

 

I hope his neighbors let him freeze

First this:

Now this:

https://twitter.com/NYScanner/status/1445839914856235008

New York City has become a place where people are terrified to leave their homes or else they get murdered on the subway.

This jackass moves from NYC to Idaho, one of the most beautiful states in the Union.

He then bitches on Twitter about it being too rural for Amazon Prime two-day delivery and the people not masking.

He calls his adopted state a societal failure but not NYC becoming a murder capital shithole.

I legitimately hope his neighbors see this and then come winter see his Tesla stuck dead in a snow bank because he forgot hot cold affects the battery, and they say “fuck him” and let the cold and the wolves do their thing.

Everything is more corrupt than you can imagine. Parents designated as domestic terrorists to cover up school board policy that protects rapists.

This is like the worst mash-up of Kafka and Orwell but it’s real life.

Loudoun County father who was dragged out of woke school board meeting and arrested was trying to tell other parents his daughter was raped by a boy ‘in a skirt’ in the girls’ bathroom and that staff ignored it

A Virginia father who went viral after being dragged out of a Loudoun County school board meeting and arrested for protesting its proposed transgender policies has now revealed he was trying to tell the room that his daughter had been raped by a boy ‘in a skirt’ in the girls’ bathroom.

Scott Smith was photographed on June 22 being dragged out of the heated meeting with his torso exposed in Leesburg, Virginia. The 48-year-old plumber was ridiculed on social media afterwards and was painted by the left to be a deranged, right-wing bigot.

But in an interview with The Daily Wire that was published on Monday, he explains that he was trying to stick up for his daughter, who he says was attacked at Stone Bridge High School on May 28 by a boy ‘in a skirt’ who took advantage of the trans policies to get into the girls’ bathrooms and assault her.

He said he exploded with rage at the meeting after hearing the school’s ultra-liberal staff claim they had never received a report of a sexual assault by a transgender child in the bathrooms or changing rooms when he says that’s exactly what he reported to them on May 28.

Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office confirmed the incident to DailyMail.com on Tuesday morning.

The school’s principal sent out an alert that day warning parents of what had happened involving Smith, but it said nothing of the sexual assault allegations in the bathroom.

‘We did respond. At the time, the juvenile was 14-years-old. He was charged with forcible sodomy. After that, it goes through the courts.’

At the meeting on June 22, Loudoun County School Superintendent Scott Ziegler said the school had never had any form of incident inside a bathroom or locker room involving a transgender child.

‘To my knowledge, we don’t have any record of assaults occurring in our restrooms,’ he said first.

Smith said he became irate. He started arguing with another woman at the meeting, labeling her a ‘b***h’ after she allegedly denied his daughter’s claim.

They were preparing for an October 14 court date, they say, but were stunned when the same boy was arrested again on October 6, at a different school in the same district.

On this occasion, he was charged with ‘with sexual battery and abduction’. In that case, he allegedly held a different girl in a classroom to attack her in Broad Run High School – 2.5miles from the high school where Smith’s daughter was assaulted.

Let’s recap:

The school board creates a policy thar lets trans students use the restroom of their choice.

A boy in a skirt follows this man’s daughter into the bathroom and forcibly sodomizes her.

The school quietly covers it up.  The boy is transfered to a new school.

He rapes another girl.

Smith, the father of the first victim, goes to the school board to confront them about their policy.  They deny the rape of his daughter happened.

He gets angry and get arrested.

Here is where it gets worse.

The arrest of Smith is prime example used by the Nation School Boards Association to the DOJ about the threat of domestic terrorism.

So quite literally, the NSBA got the AG and DOJ to designate parents as domestic terrorists in order to cover up how the Loudoun County school board policy for trans students led to the rapes of two teenage girls in two different schools by the same boy in a skirt.

This is a level of corruption and abuse of the people by the government that is hard to fathom.

All the Rabbis pale to Inigo Montoya

Of all the things that make me want to be a better practicing Jew, it’s not the Rabbinate, especially the Reform Rabbinate that seems to think the 613 Mitzvot come out of Das Kapital.

It’s Mandy Patinkin saying the Motzi (the prayer beforea meal) before feeding his dogs and saying the Mourner’s Kaddish for strangers.

(Dust warning)

 

These people are stupid

https://twitter.com/CasperFox/status/1447169211500048389

I feel inclined to remind them that are only three or four actual Blue states.

The big “Blue states,” e.g., New York, California, Illinois, Michigan, are merely Blue metropolitan bubbles inside of Red states.

Where will the Central Valley of California, upstate New York, downstate Illinois, etc. go?

Will the farms and factories stay with the urban bubble or will they join the adjacent Red State?

What sort of economic sanctions can LA, San Francisco, Chicago, and New York City impose on the rest of America that won’t be reciprocated by cutting off the urban bubbles from food and electricity?

We wouldn’t need to fire a shot to end NYC.  Just block the bridges and tunnels, cut the power lines, and wait for them to starve in the dark.

I’d give them a week.

My meme was accurate

So we are having A real life national transportation crisis and our Harvard educated, McKinsey trained Secretary of Transportation can’t do fuck all about it but have a meeting.

Remember when I posted this:

 

I was so fucking right it wasn’t funny.

It’s still not funny.

Our government is in the hands of people with the most credentials and least qualifications of any time in history.