Gah- Sorry, the scheduler didn’t schedule this morning…
There is going to be a volume 2 of Tales Around the Supper Table!
There are some new authors joining us this time around, but the usual suspects are also present…LOL
And we’re working up the cover for my next book.
The tentative title is Diplomatic Immunity. Just went over 50k words last night on it.
And a little humor for your weekend, with Halloween coming, who knows what costumes we’ll see this year???
From Ammo.com another ‘view’ of what is going on today and the impact…
Righteousness is simply the sense that one’s cause is so just that “the ends justify the means” – the ends could be anything. A critical feature of righteousness is the belief in the perfectibility of man and earth. It is often accompanied by philosophical progressivism, the view that the world becomes a better place, morally speaking, over time.
Righteousness requires coercion. This necessitates a large administrative state to enforce the prevailing diktats of the secular-religious. An excellent example from recent history is the campaign against tobacco, which in the span of a few years was chased from every public place.
The full article is HERE.
Personally, I believe Sam has nailed it with this one. What happens next IS up to us. Do we knuckle under to the proggies or do we stand up to them?
Those are about the only two options left, due to the current administration’s policies. I do believe we are starting to see pushback on a few fronts, but I also see the administration countering that pushback with DOJ and ‘other’ threats like the IRS…
YMMV… sigh
THINGS WE LEARNED FROM THE MOVIES
-If you try hard enough, you can outrun an explosion.
-During all police investigations, it will be necessary to visit a strip club at least once.
-It is always possible to park directly outside the building you are visiting.
-All telephone numbers in America begin with 555.
-All watches and clocks are synchronised to the second.
-Beds have special L-shaped cover sheets which reach up to the armpit level on a woman; but only to waist level on the man lying beside her.
-Any elevator will automatically go to your floor without pressing any buttons and take as long as your conversation to reach the right floor.
-The ventilation system of any building is the perfect hiding place. No one will ever think of looking for you in there, and you can travel to any other part of the building you want without difficulty.
-Nearly everyone speaks English, no matter where they are from. Even aliens from outer space, despite the fact they have never been to Earth, seen an Earthling, or even heard of Earth or Earthlings.
-Should you wish to pass yourself off as a German officer, it will not be necessary to speak the language. A German accent will do.
-Television news bulletins usually contain a story that affects you personally at the precise moment that it is aired.
-A man will show no pain while taking the most ferocious beating, but will wince when a woman tries to clean his wounds.
-It is not necessary to say hello or goodbye when beginning or ending phone conversations.
-Kitchens don’t have light switches. When entering a kitchen at night, you should open the fridge door and use that light instead.
-During a very emotional confrontation, instead of facing the person you are speaking to, it is customary to stand behind the person and talk to the person’s back.
-When you turn out the light to go to bed, everything in your bedroom will still be clearly visible, just slightly bluish.
-You can always rely on your car keys already being in the ignition when you get in the car, but if it’s an emergency, you won’t be able to find the keys anywhere.
-If staying in a haunted house, women should investigate any strange noises in their most revealing underwear.
-If you stick your head out of cover during a gun fight, it will never be hit, especially if you look backwards to hold a conversation with someone behind you.
-Cars that crash will invariably burst into flames.
-No matter how badly a spaceship is attacked, its internal gravity system is never damaged.
-Stripping to the waist can make a man invulnerable to bullets.
-A million dollars in cash or cocaine fits perfectly in a briefcase.
-If you find yourself caught up in a misunderstanding that could be cleared up quickly with a simple explanation, for goodness sake, keep your mouth shut.
-Cars that fly off cliffs spontaneously combust in mid-air for no apparent reason.
-Any person waking from a nightmare will sit bolt upright and pant.
-If you need to reload your gun, you will always have more ammunition – even if you haven’t been carrying any before now.
-A cough is usually the sign of a terminal illness.
-All bombs are fitted with electronic timing devices with large red readouts, so you know exactly when they’re going to go off.
-An electric fence that’s powerful enough to kill a dinosaur will cause no lasting damage to an eight-year-old child.
-When in love, it is customary to burst into song.
-Many musical instruments – especially wind instruments and accordions – can be played without moving your fingers.
-If you decide to start dancing in the street, everyone you meet will know all the steps.
-If you type a partial password on someone else’s computer, the system will give you additional prompts that will enable you to guess the rest.
-When confronted by an evil international terrorist, sarcasm and wisecracks are your best weapons.
-A cup of black coffee or a splash of cold water in the face is enough to render the most inebriated person stone cold sober.
-One man shooting at 20 men has a better chance of killing them than 20 men firing at 1 man.
-75% of all Americans live in either New York or Los Angeles. The remaining 25% that live outside those cities are violently racist rednecks, inbred hillbillies, or separatist militants.
-If being fired at by Germans, hide in a river – or even a bath. German bullets are unable to penetrate water.
-Cemeteries generate their own weather. Usually rainstorms… and not just gentle sprinkles, but biblical downpours.
-Laptop computers are powerful enough to override the communication systems of an invading alien civilisation.
-If staying in a haunted house, women will investigate any strange noises in their most revealing underwear.
-Word processors never display a cursor on screen but will always say: Enter Password Now.
-There will always be a doctor in a plane or building with the right medical supplies.
-Most people keep a scrapbook of newspaper clippings – especially if any of their family or friends have died in a strange boating accident.
-No matter how fuzzy the photograph, it can be enlarged and enhanced to show the finest detail.
-Police Departments give their officers personality tests to make sure they are assigned a partner who is their total opposite.
-All single women have cats.
-A detective can only solve a case once he has been suspended from duty.
-You never have to use the spacebar when typing long sentences.
-When they are alone, foreigners prefer to speak English to each other.
-Medieval peasants had perfect teeth.
-If you are a hero, you never face charges for manslaughter or criminal damage despite laying entire cities to waste by your actions.
-The entire British population lives in London.
-All Australians live in the Outback.
-You can always find a chainsaw when you need one.
-Any lock can be picked by a credit card or a paper clip in seconds – unless it’s the door to a burning building with a child trapped inside.
-If someone shoots a fully automatic weapon at you, running behind a banister or railing will ensure that the bullets hit only the posts.
-You can tell if somebody is British because he will be wearing a bow tie.
-People rarely use the bathroom, and if they do, they’re usually dead within minutes.
-When driving a car, it is normal to look not at the road but rather at the person sitting beside you or in the back seat for the entire journey.
-Close blood relatives usually look nothing like each other, or have only a passing resemblance.
-Even when driving down a perfectly straight road, it is necessary to turn the steering wheel vigorously from left to right every few moments.
-A monster can always sneak up on you, no matter how big or clumsy it is.
-Taxi drivers don’t require exact or even approximate payment – the first bill you pull from your pocket is always correct.
-No matter how catastrophic the disaster, pets will always survive it.
-Having a job of any kind will make a father forget his son’s eighth birthday.
-Honest and hardworking policemen are traditionally gunned down on the eve of retirement.
-The more a man and a woman hate each other, the more likely they will fall in love.
-If a large pane of glass is visible, someone will be thrown through it before long.
-The Eiffel Tower can be seen from any window in Paris.
-You’re very likely to survive any battle in any war unless you make the mistake of showing someone a picture of your sweetheart back home.
-Once applied, lipstick will never rub off – even while scuba diving.
-It’s easy for anyone to land a plane providing there is someone in the control tower to talk you down.
-All grocery shopping bags contain at least one stick of French bread.
-Rather than wasting bullets, megalomaniacs prefer to kill their arch enemies using complicated machinery involving fuses, pulley systems, deadly gasses, lasers, and man-eating sharks, which will allow their captives at least 20 minutes to escape.
-If you are blonde and pretty, it is possible to become a world expert on nuclear fission at the age of 22.
-It does not matter if you are heavily outnumbered in a fight involving martial arts. Your enemies will wait patiently to attack you one by one by dancing around in a threatening manner until you have knocked out their buddy’s.
-Should you decide to defuse a bomb, don’t worry which wire to cut. You will always choose the right one.
-At least one of a pair of identical twins is born evil.
-Large, loft-style apartments in New York City are well within the price range of most people – whether they are employed or not.
Here’s the clip of the boom…
Lousy phone video, but you get the idea… 🙂
Which is the truth???
From the Republican Daily…
Yesterday, mass chaos ensued for Southwest Airlines, with thousands of flights being canceled across the country. Passengers were left scrambling as refunds were denied and nonsensical excuses were presented.
The official story was that ATC “issues” and bad weather caused the meltdown, which hit Jacksonville, FL especially hard. That rippled through flights elsewhere as planes were not able to make their connecting legs.
One look at the radar and airport delays, though, shows there was absolutely nothing weather-related anywhere in the country (where Southwest Airlines operates) that caused this, much less in sunny Jacksonville. Rather, it was some mix of an air traffic controller and pilot shortage due to pointless vaccine mandates driving the cancellations. That’s made obvious by the fact that other major US airlines saw cancellation rates over 10x lower during the same period.
Further, it’s been confirmed now that the mass “sickout” was a result of the vaccine mandates.
From some ‘other’ sources…
Note the comment about the leave and banked personal time… I know which one of these ‘I’ believe…
YMMV, but I’d be careful about whom I book flights on for a while. Just sayin…
All good things must come to an end, social gathering of the tribe is over for another year.
Now it is back to reality, the Internet, and news… Sigh
Regular blogging and comments will be back on Tuesday.
No Internet, no TV, just sitting around shooting a few guns, and lots of lively conversation! I’m sure my blood pressure is down by at least 20 points after a few days! 🙂 And yes we are making things go boom!
Sadly the movie is too big, but 2 lbs of Tannerite makes a big boom!
I don’t have to go to school or work.
I get an allowance every month.
I have my own pad. I don’t have a curfew.
I have a driver’s license and my own car.
The people I hang around with are not scared of getting pregnant and I don’t have acne.
Life is great. I changed my car horn to gunshot sounds.
People get out of the way much faster now.
Gone are the days when girls used to cook like their mothers.
Now they drink like their fathers.
Old age is coming at a really bad time.
When I was a child I thought “nap time” was a punishment.
Now it feels like a small vacation.
The biggest lie I tell myself is… ” I don’t have to write that down, I’ll remember it”.
I don’t have gray hair… I have “wisdom highlights”!
I’m just very wise.
If God wanted me to touch my toes, He would’ve put them on my knees.
Last year I joined a support group for procrastinators.
We haven’t met yet.
Why do I have to press one for English when you’re just going to transfer me to someone I can’t understand anyway?
Of course, I talk to myself.
Sometimes I need expert advice.
At my age “Getting Lucky” means walking into a room and remembering what I came In there for.
I have more friends I should send this to, but right now I can’t remember their names.
Now, I’m wondering… did I send this to you, or did you send it to me?
Do you see rays of sunshine, or darkness???
Took this as the sun was setting the other night. What ‘I’ think you’re seeing is the bumps in the cloud tops blocking the sunshine, which gives the impression of ‘rays’ of sunshine (but I really think they are rays of darkness).
YMMV…
Your thoughts?
Light blogging and commenting the next few days, out in Big Sky Country…
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