- Despite backing off from movies, I agree with Aaron Harris that freedomistas should see Little Pink House, the tale of Susette Kelo. If you’re not up for the movie, the book by Jeff Benedict is even better.
- Growing up around a dog can protect your child against allergies. (So can playing in the dirt.)
- “Control the guns, control the masses.” Watch Ds and Rs collaborate to inflict universal background checks and, soon, a nationwide, red flag law to allow anyone with a grudge to send cops to seize guns.
- OTOH, you can just plain turn in your really crappy homemade guns to get enough money to buy a good one (Via Borepatch)
- A pro-vaccine doc told the fedgov officials he worked with that vaccines could, under some circumstances, cause autism. Then the coverup began. (This article also contains background on the federal government’s secret vaccine court, in which the taxpayers fund innoculations gone wrong.)
- Forget death panels. Medicare for All could become the leading cause of death in the U.S., no panels needed.
- This year will be the 20th since JFK Jr doomed three people, including himself, using typical Kennedy recklessness. Don’t believe the “this could have been Camelot II” hype you’ll hear from the media.
- Reckless, maybe. But here’s one awesomely gutsy woman. (Via f. at the forums formerly known as the Cabal)
- Did this wounded tiger really seek out human help? (H/T MtK)
- And yes, modern Hollywood may suck, but there will always be Casablanca. The second-greatest film ever made has probably the first-greatest scene of all, as explained here. (They’ll have to pry my DVD of Casablanca out of my cold, dead hands.)
- Has anybody here read any of Seanan McGuire’s “Wayward Children” books? I know nothing about them, but this review at Ars Technica, which compares her made-up world to the creations of J.K. Rowling or C.S. Lewis (only more nightmarish) makes them sound interesting.
- Ten graves (almost) worth dying for.
- TRIGGER WARNING: Strange Clothes. 🙂
I’ve read most of Seanan McGuire’s stuff. I don’t have time right now to read the article, but Thats not a bad description of the Wayward Children set. I like most of her stuff, if you prefer leaning towards the nightmarish side look up her alternate author name of Mira Grant!
Methinks the song still has meaning today!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPxH1tWOQ_U
Red Flag law? Call in on your disposaphone and complain about the violent arguments you heard at your mayor’s home.
Speaking from 300 hours of VFR time as a spam-can pilot, when I first read the stories of Junior’s crash, I thought, “Dumb sumbitch.”
Saw “Casablanca” when it first came out. It remains as #1 for me.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RfdZTZQvuCo
Vaccines do not cause autism or ASD. Period. I don’t care how many Mercoloids, no matter how highly placed or well paid (or by whom) repeat that crap it is still crap. Even intelligent good-faith actors can be deceived, and an awful lot of the pro-Measels lobby are neither intelligent nor acting in good faith. When you find yourself on the same side of an argument as RFKjr, Jenny McCarthy, and the Taliban, it might be time to reconsider your position. It also bears mentioning that detailed descriptions of “changelings” and “fairie children” closely matching the symptoms of ASD exist in written records and folklore stretching back long before the introduction of even the most primitive forms of vaccination.
And even if it -were- true, the argument assumes that Autism is such a horrible fate that death from Measels or Whooping Cough or tick-borne Encphalitis is preferable. As an ASD person I find this risible beyond ready discription. I and people like me do not need fixing, repairing, or preventing, especially not at the cost of 25% infant mortality- which is the low end of the range for the pre-antisepsis/pre-antibiotic era. In the early medieval era, when the cultures of the British Isles and France were positively obsessive about cleanliness and food safety, approx. 35% of live births did not live to the age of three years. The recorded incidence of vaccine-preventable diseases decreases markedly in the 6mo preceding the widespread introduction of vaccination and precipitously in the 3 years following the initiation of widespread vaccination: each disease in turn. “Diet and exercise and cleanliness” are not, Susan Calloway’s insistance aside, responsible for those decreases: if they were, the declines would be both gradual and simultaneous.
You’re reading a whole lot into that item that isn’t actually there, E. Garrett Perry.
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Casablanca is great. For my money, though, Seven Samurai is better, and Ikuru is better yet.
I cry every time I watch Ikuru, and it’s the only movie that moves me so much.
Kurt
Kurt — +1 on Seven Samurai. I thought Ikiru was boring, but certainly Ran, Throne of Blood, and several other Kurosawa films would make my Top 100 list.
Casablanca is the gold standard, but there’s a parallel scene in Zulu, where a kazillion Zulu are chanting, gearing up to overrun the badly-outnumbered Brits. The lieutenant commanding turns to the unit’s musician, who starts them singing “Men of Harlech,” and the soldiers steady into the “Thin Red Line.”
Music has power beyond words.
Aikens has her bonehead clause. From that, and the way she treats foxes, she’s the antithesis of reckless. She knows exactly what she’s doing, respects her limits, and knows it could all end very quickly.
Not someone who would think, “I’ve done it in daylight, it can’t be that much harder in the dark with poor visibility and without proper training, and by the way I’ll take two friends along with me.”