Tag: Asked and answered
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Couldn’t be Spanish.
I heard the Ripley item about the mysterious Mexican president Comonfort again and got puzzled again. The Ripley audio is unclear, and the announcer didn’t always handle foreign words well. Google filled in the proper name after I typed ‘Mexican president Ignacio C’. Comonfort couldn’t be Spanish. Was it from the native tribes, or a…
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Why lawyers?
Thinking about those lawyers who write on Quora. Why do I appreciate them? Because they’re OBJECTIVE. Other professions sometimes write ‘out of character’, but other professions never manage the same degree of objectivity. Academics never bash tenure outside the ivied walls**. Politicians never reveal real secrets. Journalists never tell the truth about the permanent idiocy…
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Metawait 2
At a fixed timepoint in every episode of Lady Edgar’s official propaganda outlet This is your FBI, the smarmy Special Agent slaps his forehead and says “Wait! Why didn’t I notice this before?” Here’s one of those moments. For many years I’ve been focusing on ZERO TAX as the sole purpose of Repooflicans and Tech…
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Not a paradox
Seen on Twitter: Why are Canadian public health officials are so preoccupied with “destigmatizing” hard drugs when one of the greatest public health victories of our generation was the collapse of tobacco smoking – a change that was brought about by stigmatizing the practice. No contradiction, no paradox. Deepstate destigmatizes the harder drugs and stigmatizes…
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Y REA?
Here’s Y in one picture. FDR recognized that Germany and Russia had BETTER SYSTEMS than we did. Those BETTER SYSTEMS were competing against ours and huge numbers of Americans SAW the difference. Our system was totally fucked in 1932, as it is again now for the same goddamn reason. Our alleged “capitalism” had failed on…
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Wisdom from Burge
He’s continuing to explore the NIPs. After running through a lot of inconclusive details about party and ideology and non-attenders of church, he concludes that the inconclusion is the conclusion. = = = = = START BURGE: It used to be easier to predict whether someone was a never attender by whether they identified as…
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Scratched an itch
Bought Pat Foster’s book on the history of Hudson. He covers the founding decade from 1909 to 1919 in satisfying detail. The early part of the story isn’t mentioned in the usual magazines and websites. Most of the later years are familiar material, but this picture finally answers a question I’ve wondered about. Other sources…
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Captive regulars
Nice self-explanatory picture. A downtown cafe, facing the alley, making no attempt to look attractive to walkbys. The background explains why. Downtowns were full of upstairs apartments and rooms. Most downtown apartments lacked kitchens. Residents used hotplates or simply ate in cafes. This cafe had a captive audience of reliable regulars.
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As predicted
A year ago I noted that Michael Lewis was writing a book on Sammy. = = = = = START REPRINT: Lewis is famous for The Big Short about the 2008 “crisis”, and he also wrote a disgusting celebration of the 2020 “virus” genocide, hymning the godlike virtues of Demon Fauci and Demon Mecher. Ankler…
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LBOs all the way down
Rich people are gangsters and extortionists and murderers. They destroy businesses and cities and countries in order to buy cheap. Rich people never pay. They always receive. They are black holes. Soros has been destroying entire countries for 30 years in order to short their currencies. Remove a stable government, turn the country into a…
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Why the inversion?
Sailer catches the same inversion that I was noticing earlier. Back in the ’50s and ’60s we had lots of serious reports of UFOs, including several from astronauts. Weather radar and ship radar often tracked the vehicles, so they weren’t insects or lens flares. Also back in the ’50s and ’60s, the same government that…
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Good question from Sailer
Sailer asks a damn good question: = = = = = START QUOTE: The massive deinstitutionalization of the 1960s–1980s is now widely considered a blunder, but why did it seem like a good idea at the time? We need to consider why progressive reformers in the English-speaking world turned as fervently against lunatic asylums in…
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Peculiar typo
All the headlines about yesterday’s election of Trump misspell the word elect. They all say “Trump indicted by Grand Jury”. Some stories say that other agencies are annoyed at the NYC jury, because the other agencies want to be the first to elect Trump. Again these stories misspell elect as indict for some mysterious reason.…
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HGT puzzle solved
My pet theory is that humans are a hybrid of bird and mammal. Which type of bird transferred the genes for politicians? The cassowary is commonly acknowledged as the world’s most dangerous bird, particularly to humans byu/solateor ininterestingasfuck Result:
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