- There’s a new player in the freedomista news and comment field: LibertyNation.com and some of our blogfriends are associated with it. It’s lib-conserv, not anarchist (so anarcho-snowflakes* might want to stay away). Very nice site, though. Clean layout, good content. Much to read.
- The number of TV sets in the U.S. is declining. No surprise in the netly age. But what crossed my eyes was the stat that “declining” still means 2.3 televisions per home. Which is nutz. Nutz in general, but even nuttier at a time when household size is smaller than it once was.
- Seattle wants to take its money out of Wells Fargo. Not because WF is a nest of financial snakes (though it is), but because it’s not “pure” enough for the leftist wingnuts who now run the city. Wells Fargo says go — with our blessings — and get lost. Guess who gets stuck with the cost of supporting SJW “ethics.”
- Old dried-up piece of mold sells for nearly $15k.
- Hm. Was the big Oscars flub a sign of American instutitional collapse? Dunno. Interesting argument, though. (Via Say Uncle)
- Obscure poet, unemployed and living in a trailer, wins a big literary prize for which she didn’t even know she was nominated.
* See comments. This doesn’t mean all anarchists. If so, it would mean me, and I’m no snowflake. This is a term I just made up for those who are too “pure” to accept that the freedom movement has many paths and many viewpoints.
I was doubly interested in the Aboriginal poet, Ali Cobby Eckermann, who won the poetry award. Not only the story itself which I had read earlier, but that she was one of the Stolen Generations. I first saw the movie, Australia, last year and was moved by it.
[url=https://www.amazon.com/Australia-Shea-Adams/dp/B001RU2YUQ/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1488558324&sr=8-2&keywords=Australia%2C+movie]Australia[/url]
While it talks it up as a romance between Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman, it centers around a young “creamy” boy who entered their lives just before WWII. I thought the story of the boy was more interesting than their relationship.
BTW, I have no title on this Friday Links, until I click on “continue reading”.
Weeeell, I remember when we got our first TV. It showed 3.5 channels from 4:00 p.m. to midnight. Then they played the National Anthem and signed off. There were some extended family negotiations over what to watch.
Today, of course, there’s lots more stuff no one wants to watch, and we just have basic cable w/o premiums.
I also remember when families limped along on one toilet per house, with similar results. Now we have the same amount of sh*t, but you don’t have to wait to dump it.
Flubbing a name isn’t what’s wrong in OscarLand.
I bank at Wells Fargo. Yeah, they got caught in a no-no. But they came clean, fixed the problem, and made amends. If they were doing anything else questionable, I’m sure the msm would be all over it.
Much of what we blame on banks, they do because federal and state regulations require them to.
Besides the fact that WF has always given me good service, whenever I’ve travelled in England and Europe flashing a debit card with a stagecoach on it identifies me as being from Texas. Turns out that’s a lot more popular over there than being from the U.S.
As for the pipeline, IMHO that’s another case of white folks using Native Americans. And I’m talking about the environmental “we don’t need no reliable energy” types more than the government.
Hint received, Claire. We’ll all go and nominate you for a Windham-Campbell Prize. After all, you and Eckermann both write about government screwing over people. $165k is worth having your photo published, right?
“Hint received, Claire. We’ll all go and nominate you for a Windham-Campbell Prize. After all, you and Eckermann both write about government screwing over people. $165k is worth having your photo published, right?”
I’ll be thinking about that and will announce my decision when the Windham-Campbell people contact me to tell me I’ve won. 😉
I hope you’re right about Wells Fargo. They did jump on that phony-accounts problem as soon as it was announced and that’s a good sign. But you’re definitely right that much that’s wrong with banks is actually government-driven.
Always liked Wells Fargo. One of my art teachers used to take her classes every year to sit in the WF HQ lobby in San Francisco and draw that famous stagecoach.
Is it “anarcho-snowflake” to roll my eyes at people who believe liberty can be enhanced by making the State bigger and stronger (as long as it is only used against liberties you don’t like)? If so, I’ll claim the label. 😉
I wonder if they count TVs stored in closets? Because I think I may have 2 such TVs. There are two TVs in use in the house- my parents just tossed their old 40″ flat screen at me. The others in the house wanted it (to replace my 18″); I call it “The Abomination”. It covers up lots of valuable shelf space- until I can mount the thing on a wall out of the way.
I have some dried out fungi, skulls, and other old things lying around the house if anyone would like to pay me $15,000 for them.
Is it “anarcho-snowflake” to roll my eyes at people who believe liberty can be enhanced by making the State bigger and stronger (as long as it is only used against liberties you don’t like)? If so, I’ll claim the label. 😉
Nope. I knew somebody would ask and/or object to the term, which I made up on the spur of the moment.
An anarcho-snowflake is somebody who can’t even read an article or op-ed that has one, single statist opinion in it without focusing on that one point to the exclusion of everything else, getting all huffy about it, and generally feeling an urgent need to publicly object to that one point even if everything else in the piece made great freedomista sense. An anarcho-snowflake, like those more familiar snowflakes, can’t bear the thought that others might have differing opinions and might actually dare to express some of those opinions before the poor snowflake’s offended eyes. An anarcho-snowflake refuses to see the freedomista forest if there’s one “impure” tree standing in it. An anarcho-snowflake constantly objects to “impure” actions taken by activists while rarely performing any “pure” activism to show a better way to do things.
Feel free to roll your eyes or argue on issues as much as you like. Nothing “snowflake” about that.
Can snowflakes take the heat?
“Can snowflakes take the heat?”
LOL! Only an instant, before having a meltdown.
I gotta admit that there are times I’d like to see the Draft re-instituted. I’d love to be a fly on the wall, watching snowflakes deal with Basic training.
(I received my “Greetings!” from Ike in November of 1953. I re-upped and enjoyed two glorious years in Paris. That more than made up for occupation duty in South Korea. :D)
I never got my draft notice.
When I got my report-for-physical letter I was a first lieutenant in Vietnam. I told the unit adjutant I needed to go back to the world and report, but he laughed me out of his office. Once I returned the form with my current address the draft board lost interest.
Any thoughts on this WRT “anarcho-snowflakery”? The subsequent dialogue / responses are also noteworthy. BTW, I heartily recommend the linked blog to anyone interested in a “lib-conserv” POV.
I’ll be thinking about that and will announce my decision when the Windham-Campbell people contact me to tell me I’ve won.
Um. I have a feeling that the announcement, “Wolfe refuses $165,000 prize so her photo won’t be published” might have some paparazzi/tabloid-driven side effects. Virally.
For your entertainment:
http://www.thedailysheeple.com/watch-guy-builds-shotgun-out-of-items-purchased-after-going-through-tsa-at-the-airport_022017
Just goes to show.
Also I just recently ran across this quote and liked it.
“If men are good, you don’t need government; if men are evil or ambivalent, you don’t dare have one.” – Robert LeFevre
Very neat gun.
And another truly remarkable dog story. Hopefully “being hailed as a hero” means set for life. http://www.dogingtonpost.com/stray-dog-saves-newborn-baby-thrown-in-dumpster/?utm_source=outbrain&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=obfeed&utm_term=rss&utm_content=rss
Interesting take on Seattle and Wells Fargo Banks. I’ve just recently saw a YouTube video about where to stash money if you don’t want to use banks. It interested me enough to see the actual online article which can be located here:
http://www.theorganicprepper.ca/should-you-trust-your-bank-43-of-americans-dont-heres-why-03102015
I have a fair amount of trust in my local bank. Locally owned. Very conservative. No home loans. Commercial loans up to 50% of accepted collateral. The lure to Olde Pharts is the payment of interest on a checking account; trivial interest is better than a monthly service fee.
But I like to have a cash-stash at home, and as often as feasible use cash around town for most purchases.
As far as the Oscar idiocy, the competence level is on a par with their political thought. Remember the daze of the Limbo dance? “How low can you go?”
CW — Thanks for the Liberty Nation.com smooch! Indeed there is a stable of talented young writers here who have a good grip on the issues and how to deal with them in a compelling way. Obviously I am not included in the “talented young” part and they have shown questionable taste in publishing a few of my scribbles. At least it gives me something to do with a couple of fingers and considerably cheaper than Prozac.
Hope this finds you well, warm and surrounded by canine affection.
This isn’t too surprising:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/03/07/why-the-cia-is-using-your-tvs-smartphones-and-cars-for-spying/