Tag: Heimatkunde
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Why we get news from FB
Last night around 9:30 I had doors and windows open as usual to bring in the nice cool air. Heard some sirens. The sirens stopped close by, and then I heard: SUSPECT, YOU ARE UNDER ARREST! NEIGHBORS, STAY INSIDE YOUR HOUSE! Decided it was a good idea to close windows and doors. SpokaneNews Facebook came…
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Copyright trap or just error?
While looking through my old maps to find the right corner of Manhattan for previous item about city dumps and barrios, I noticed a really odd error on a USGS map. File creek? I remembered it as Pfeil Creek. Another USGS map got a little closer: Here’s the same Phiel, scanned from a more recent…
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Natural growth
Following on previous item about Sailer contours. Our homeless camps remain camps, with uncontrolled fires and craziness. They’re strictly illegal, not allowed to settle. In countries with softer governments, poor people build casual houses in their camps, and the houses gradually become more permanent, turning into barrios or favelas and gradually acquiring infrastructure. A similar…
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Contours
Reading the constant flow of ‘reported brush fires’, really homeless campfires gone out of control, I was struck by the perfection of Sailer’s altitude rule. Height = status. The homeless occupy the floodplain and hillsides next to the river. The urban Democrat types are on the first shelf near downtown. The working class and retired…
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Productive oddballs
EnidBuzz posted an ad for an apartment. Looks like an uninteresting but solid unit. The rental is $750, which is NOT hyperinflated. Back in 1980 an apt like this would be $350, and overall inflation is x2 since then. The address rang a bell, so I googlemapped it. Sure enough, the lot was formerly occupied…
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3rd world infrastructure
Continuing CH Smith’s point that we don’t even know what quality looks like. This week the neighborhood is full of trucks and workmen from TDS Fiber Communications, who are installing an underground fiber system. (1) It’s unnecessary and redundant, since Bell or Qwest or CenturyLink or Quantum or whatever it’s called already has a full…
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US equivalent of Holy Wells
Kingsnorth’s latest magical Holy Well reminded me instantly of a holy place I knew when I was young. = = = = = START 2016 REPRINT: Spokane’s idiot misgovernment has succumbed to blackmail by the EPA Terrorist Army, and is building a number of Miasmal Swamps. Three of them appeared last month in my neighborhood.…
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Uniquely Enidish
As the west coast continues roaring into chaos and oblivion, the sane states continue gaining economic and cultural strength. Here’s one small but significant sign from my old hometown Enid. A year ago, a woman with a Persian name started a menswear store called Manopolis. She made it through the first year successfully. Downtown is…
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Hell freezes over
Alt headline: Why newspapers are failing. San Francisco “voted” solidly against crime and for police yesterday. Hell is officially frozen. The local “newspaper” declared that the people had gone crazy and the city was no longer tolerable for journalists. = = = = = START QUOTE: The San Francisco Chronicle declared its hometown “can no…
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It was really The Street!
TIL, as they say, that Wall Street was an OUTDOOR AUCTION for a hundred years, and didn’t come inside as an organized exchange until 1921. The outdoor auction occupied the full width of Broad Street, not Wall Street, with traders shouting bids at each other. After telephones were common, the traders rented offices in facing…
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Today is Maine Streete Daye
Why does Maine Street in Enid have an E? It was named after the 1898 fake “attack” on the battleship Maine, which gave us an excuse to grab Cuba and the Philippines from Spaine. Remember the Maine was a national campaign to stir up war fever, the first of a hundred evil successors from Lusitania…
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Spokane in one picture
Says it all. When you devote all your money and effort to satisfying Bloomberg’s ESG and DEI requirements, there’s nothing left for trivial luxury accessories like streets and snowplows and police and jails.
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SUN!
For the first time in several weeks the SUN is popping out, starting to dry things. Polistra and friends salute the SUN! Reached 49 degrees. I walked without a coat, and the ice cream man is driving around the neighborhood!
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Neighborhood note
The house kittycorner from me is a rental with an excellent landlord. For 20 years he’s always managed to keep nice decent families in the house. They change once a year or so, but they’re always fine people, usually married, often with kids and dogs. The current tenant fits the model. Right now the whole…
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