Looks like Mt Rainier or Mt Hood. Maybe Shasta. Seattle and Portland for all intents and purposes on the first two; northern CA on Shasta. Pretty country but you’d not be happy with your neighbors – but the Shasta area would be preferable to the other two.
AnneSeptember 23, 2024, 10:12 AM
Does anyone here have a suggestion for a handheld tool that will cut back creekside brush. The brush grew quite large this year, and we need to get it hacked back. We are too old now for a “brush mower”. I think we could handle a handheld chainsaw with battery–any suggestions?
John VenletSeptember 23, 2024, 11:48 AM
Anne. You’re on the right track. A battery operated handheld chainsaw will do the job very well. Mine is an off brand one, with a 6 inch blade, which is more than adequate for brush clearing. There are many makes and models available at Home Despot or lowly Lowe’s. You may want to consider one that also comes with an extender pole which can be attached to the saw to extend your reach. I use mine all the time. Good luck.
ghostsniperSeptember 23, 2024, 1:01 PM
I bought the Ryobi P2510 a few years ago and have used it to cut down large swathes of out of control wild shrubberies along our creek and a lot of other things. It is cordless, uses the 18 volt batteries, and works very well on everything I have used it on, with some caveats.
It is a pole type of a saw and will be a minimal of 4′ long and extension tubes can be added to get it out to about 13′ long. Keep in mind the motor is in the head, the part where the blade is, so it can be sort of heavy and maybe awkward. What’s nice about having the weight on the end like that is is that it puts downward pressure on the blade making it cut faster. You’ll need a small rat tail file to keep the blade sharp, and chainsaw oil for the blade.
My method was to use the full length pole and reach down into the shrub and cut it off at the base, then pull like hell to dislodge it from the surrounding shrubs. Then move onto the next one. A pair of lopping shears was helpful.
I have also used this saw to trim errant tree branches overhead. For me, it was a little pricey, but compared to the competition that’s out there, Ryobi tools are always very competitively priced.
I have more than 30 Ryobi 18 volt tools and have been using them almost daily since the late 90’s and have not had even one failure in all that time. I have had a couple chargers stop charging and a couple battery failures too. But the tools themselves have always performed well even under hard strain.
I think that’s Shasta from the south. One of the peaks I always lusted after and planned trips to. This looks like a little tarn somewhere near Heart Lake in the Castle Crags area. Very nice picture, very nice. I see there was a fire there in the recent past, the bushes have taken over, and the surviving conifers are slowly re-seeding. There’s so many nice places to go see, and not enough weekends.
azlibertarianSeptember 23, 2024, 11:12 AM
I look at that picture and imagine that Gerard took it and that he was seeing a beautiful vista as well as his affection for Neo.
ghostsniperSeptember 23, 2024, 1:22 PM
Circular Attack
===========
I first encountered this tactic a few years ago when I decided to “vet” a news article by running down the rabbit hole of the numerous supporting links in the article. This exhausting venture revealed not one reliable source for proof of what the article was claiming. Not one. The average reader won’t do what I did, and will just take the fact that a link was provided as proof of the validity of the article.
As far as I’m concerned, fraud (like this tactic), lying and other media “tricks” and NOT covered under the 1st Amendment because they are crimes and therefore should be treated as such.
Anyway, go to the link and read the Naomi Wolf article on how this RFJ Jr hit piece is being developed.
I’ll tell you what, when the shit goes down I will personally mount a charge on the CNN bldg with hatchet and blade and I won’t leave until my bounty bag is overflowing with scalps.
Everyone is citing everyone else, in a circular way, with just one and a half named sources in total at this point.
In TheWrap.com, PuckNews.com cited an unnamed individual “close to Nuzzi” as being the only source for the existence of the alleged “demure nudes” that were allegedly sent to RFK Jr’s phone. CNN also cited an unnamed “individual close to Nuzzi.” TheWrap.com is also citing The Daily Beast. All these publications cite each other, with no more actual reporting or sourcing being done, and then outer-extending news sites cite the original maelstrom of innermost news sites that cite the other news sites.
Olivia Nuzzi or someone close to her is the one on the record source; and someone who appeared to share an email from Nuzzi’s editor David Haskell, is half of another.
In spite of this complete lack of verification or sourcing beyond Nuzzi, all of these publications are freely using the word “affair” – thus imprinting in the consciousness of the exhausted American public that “RFK Jr must have had an affair” — even though buried in the steaming mass of fecal non-journalism presented here are the nuggets of acknowledgement (sorry for the graphic metaphor but that’s the disgusting reality of this) that there was no affair.
An affair is not even in the realm of the allegations.
Far down in the articles, where many fewer people will be reading, you see that whatever happened, which to date has only been sourced on the record from the woman making the assertions and from someone “close to” her, which could be the woman herself (that is how some people leak information), it was not an affair. And the only evidence that exists to this point reveals that the “relationship,” such as it is, was on her side.
DTSeptember 23, 2024, 7:25 PM
Are you surprised?
John A. FlemingSeptember 24, 2024, 12:10 AM
For many years I said when prompted for my opinion, that there’s no functional difference between the Repocrats and the Demublicans. They both want the same thing, they just lie about it in different ways. For most people, it’s a statement that goes too far, they aren’t willing/able to give up their comfortable long-held beliefs, I watch them universally shake their head and reject the proposition. I’ll give you a simple proof: after every election, after they’ve gulled the rubes one more time, the lame duck Legislatures pass all the really bad bills with comfortable margins, with little debate. They’ve had them queued up all session, just waiting for the post-election ennui to mask their dirty deeds.
And now for the last two years, I have come to a similar conclusion: all the news is fake and gay all the time. Nobody is telling the truth. If a news item suddenly pops up out of nowhere like this crazy news chick and a Kennedy (dsydic, remember guys), you can be sure it’s fake and gay. The news is not for informing us, but for controlling our thoughts. Everyone everywhere all the time does it, it doesn’t matter, from Mother Jones to PBS to OneAmericaNews to InfoWars, they sell our minds to those whose sole goal is political power. And just like the Repo/Demu situation, most people are unwilling to accept it when I tell them that it’s all lies all the time from every direction.
We are an empire of lies, we live in and on a vast dungheap of lies. And how we will burn in the camps later, we purely and simply will have deserved everything that happened afterward.
ghostsniperSeptember 24, 2024, 9:32 AM
If Trump was going to hurt America, he would have done it in his first term.
If Harris was going to help America, she would have done it in her first term.
ghostsniperSeptember 24, 2024, 12:00 PM
Say that, in the next 3-4 months the absolute worse thing you can imagine happens in the US (short of your own death), are you prepared for that?
John A. FlemingSeptember 24, 2024, 2:19 PM
Ninety percent of things people worry about and fear don’t happen. The riots start in the big cities, the ‘burbs are more insulated until the rioters start migrating outwards, which either dilutes their effectiveness, or they have to make targeted incursions into small salients where force can be applied against them.
Even more so than food, very few people have enough water to last any length of time. The very worst thing that can happen is the water supply fails or is shut off. Civilization collapses in 3 days. End of story. The NG does not have enough water buffaloes to keep collapse at bay.
DTSeptember 24, 2024, 3:55 PM
I look at cities as the canary in the coal mine. I’m out far enough that when the cities start to go down, it’ll act as the first stage fire alarm. While the nearest large city to me is not considered a large city, SHTF there is now the second stage fire alarm. Given I’m at least an hour out, I figure that 2nd stage to give about 1 week warning before “they” come knocking on this community’s door. Even then, any action here would be sporadic at first (and dealt with harshly) and if it expands, the locals will have time to man the defenses. A bit of dynamite at the pass into town will delay the hordes. This is a farming community with a fair size river flowing through.
I hope y’all are in a similar situation or can get to something similar soon – I don’t think there’s much time left. Perhaps it stays “calm” until the election; maybe even for a while after. But my gut feeling is the Dems are going to pass the bat-shit crazy stage no matter who wins. How that develops depends on who wins. All I’d be willing to bet on now is no matter who wins, it won’t be us “citizens”.
The woman will say anything that she thinks will gain her a vote. Ab-so-lutely anything.
She said exactly the same thing in 2016, the only difference being that she was for eliminating the filibuster so as to enact the Green New Deal.
She, and/or her voters, are denser than concrete. The President of the United States has nothing at all to do with the Rules that the Senate adopts internal to their decision-making. Not one thing. Zero. The President may have an opinion on Roe* or an opinion on environmental policy, but the rules by which a House in a separate branch of government come to their concensus are entirely up to that separate branch. The President’s voice on these matters is no more influential than that of any other private citizen.
* On Roe. I get it that the Dobbs decision was a hard blow against those who believe in a “woman’s right to choose” (sic). But what Dobbs has said (which Trump has endorsed), is that the decisions regarding abortion should be made in the states. Consider this hypothetical: A Republican Congress sends to the President a bill prohibiting or limiting abortions. The opposite might be true too….a Democrat Congress could send a bill allowing abortions. It doesn’t matter which way it goes, if the President signs either of these bills, Dobbs tells us that the Supreme Court is going to throw these laws out and they’ll be back where we are today…..with the states (and the people therein) deciding these matters..
* On Roe. I get it that the Dobbs decision was a hard blow against those who believe in a “woman’s right to choose” (sic). But what Dobbs has said, and that Trump has endorsed, is that the decisions regarding abortion should be made in the states. Consider this hypothetical: A Republican Congress sends to the President a bill prohibiting or limiting abortions. The opposite might be true too….a Democrat Congress could send a bill allowing abortions. It doesn’t matter which way it goes, if the President signs either of these bills, Dobbs tells us that the Supreme Court is going to throw them out.
The woman will say anything that she thinks will gain her a vote. Ab-so-lutely anything.
She said exactly the same thing in 2016, the only difference being that she was for eliminating the filibuster so as to enact the Green New Deal.
She, and/or her voters, are denser than concrete. The President of the United States has nothing at all to do with the Rules that the Senate adopts internal to their decision-making. Not one thing. Zero. The President may have an opinion on Roe* or an opinion on environmental policy, but the rules by which a House in a separate branch of government come to their concensus are entirely up to that separate branch. The President’s voice on these matters is no more influential than that of any other private citizen.
* On Roe. I get it that the Dobbs decision was a hard blow against those who believe in a “woman’s right to choose” (sic). But what Dobbs has said (which Trump has endorsed), is that the decisions regarding abortion should be made in the states. Consider this hypothetical: A Republican Congress sends to the President a bill prohibiting or limiting abortions. The opposite might be true too….a Democrat Congress could send a bill allowing abortions. It doesn’t matter which way it goes, if the President signs either of these bills, Dobbs tells us that the Supreme Court is going to throw these laws out and they’ll be back where we are today…..with the states (and the people therein) deciding these matters.
azlibertarianSeptember 24, 2024, 12:51 PM
My error: Harris’ endorsement of ending the filibuster regarding the Green New Deal occurred 5 years ago, in 2019, and not in 2016.
ghostsniperSeptember 24, 2024, 1:56 PM
The problem with all of this is that for 50 years they dined on the good stuff, and now, they have to go back to baloney sando’s and that won’t do, no matter how it’s dressed up. Reality has no meaning to a demented mind, all you can do is “Ol’ Yeller” that ass to shut it up.
Never forget, to the left, everything rotates around the genitals. Seriously, they never got past that infatuation everyone goes through at about age 4 or 5.
Close you eyes, lean your head back, and remember. Long, long ago when your sons or daughters were of that age, 4-5, and how you interacted with them. How you adjusted your speech so they might understand you better. Maybe even talk like little kids talk. Say silly stuff, just to get laughs.
Once, my son and I touched noses and looked cross eyed at each other, and we both almost went insane. We laffed and laffed and laffed. My wife came through the room carrying a load of laundry, stopped and looked at us, shook her head and went to the master bedroom. We looked at her, then at each other, then started laffing again.
When he was 4 or 5 he caused me to be 4 or 5 too. Then, an hour later, I went back to being an adult with bills to pay, work to do, responsibilities to acknowledge, and he went right on being a little boy. Less so than yesterday, more so than tomorrow.
A part of the lefts brain never advanced beyond that stage.
It’s nothing short of cruel for the gov’t to coddle them so, forcing them to live as children trapped in adult body’s when in reality they need to grow up, take full responsibility for themselves in all ways, and behave as adults. The adult children can’t grow up and mature as long as the gov’t accommodates their childish tendencies.
ghostsniperSeptember 24, 2024, 1:38 PM
OK, something different.
Say you’re going to make sketty (with ground beef) but instead of sketty noodles you use rice. What would that be called?
Now, instead of using italian spices and herbs, you use taco spices and herbs, what would THAT be called?
—signed, “The Mad Scientist-Chef”
John A. FlemingSeptember 24, 2024, 2:23 PM
Cleaning out the pantry week, making room for the next resupply, revisiting your 20’s when your life was simple and poor, and living large during the Depression. Just don’t tell Bird Dog.
DTSeptember 24, 2024, 3:59 PM
“Say you’re going to make sketty (with ground beef) but instead of sketty noodles you use rice. What would that be called?”
Put the mix in a bell pepper shell and cook. Call it stuffed green peppers.
“Now, instead of using italian spices and herbs, you use taco spices and herbs, what would THAT be called?”
taco stuffing
DTSeptember 24, 2024, 4:03 PM
On a different topic, we’re less than 6 months until shutdown. Someone early on – ghostsniper? – had a way to download an archive of Gerard’s (and Nemo’s and ours now) writings.
Is it still possible to do so?
Or – is there anyway to keep this site up (was it Garard’s wish to shut it down or was it a matter of financial support ending?) I’d be happy to chip in and help keep the site up.
ghostsniperSeptember 24, 2024, 5:27 PM
Shortly after Gerard died I used a free downloadable program named Cyotek WebCopy to download the entire American Digest website at that particular time. The site has expanded since then. The download took about 36 hours continuous to complete and entailed 5.04 GB of hard drive space, 11,776 folders, 67,114 files.
Running a website can be an expensive endeavor not to mention a major time evaporator. I started 2 blogs a long time ago, one about architecture and one about woodworking, but abandoned both after just a few months. I can contribute like a son of a bitch but I can’t run it. The former is lackadaisical, the latter is regimental, and I’m kinda lazy.
DTSeptember 25, 2024, 3:50 PM
Thanks for the link
John A. FlemingSeptember 25, 2024, 6:44 PM
It ain’t just me, others like Liberty’s Torch are thinking the unthinkable: what will happen when all the millions of invited, newly-arrived and unproductive people are cut off from government largesse, as will happen sooner or later. Perhaps quite soon. I’ve already noticed an uptick in petty lawlessness in my AOA. It will be much much worse, especially for all those small cities in which are being dumped all the newcomers. It’s almost by design, create hundreds of flashpoints when the locals and the newcomers go at each other en masse.
AnneSeptember 26, 2024, 8:37 AM
Once more: I did not see a human being in the first picture of the high mountain lake. I see it now. Was that just “cognitive dissonance”?
John A. FlemingSeptember 26, 2024, 10:17 AM
Hi Anne, I’m pretty sure that it’s a choice of the photographer and the curator (Gerard), to depict the grandeur and largeness of the natural world, against the relative smallness of the human presence. I believe the lake is this one Heart Lake, at the headwaters of Castle Lake Creek. It would have been a better picture perhaps if the photographer had taken the photo early or late in the day, the mid-day light has flattened all the details.
ghostsniperSeptember 29, 2024, 8:05 AM
And now, at 11:05am Sun, the post at 9/25 won’t open.
Maybe the whole thing is going down slowly, 1 day at a time?
Real World Address for Donations, Mash Notes and Hate Mail
Gerard Van der Leun
1692 MANGROVE AVE
APT 379
Chico, Ca 95926
Green Pants Interior by Klahn
Who Am I? by Carl Sandburg
My head knocks against the stars.
My feet are on the hilltops.
My finger-tips are in the valleys and shores of universal life.
Down in the sounding foam of primal things I reach my hands and play with pebbles of destiny.
I have been to hell and back many times.
I know all about heaven, for I have talked with God.
I dabble in the blood and guts of the terrible.
I know the passionate seizure of beauty
And the marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading “Keep Off.”
My name is Truth and I am the most elusive captive in the universe.
Duty, Beauty, Liberty, Country, Honor, Family, Faith — Plus a few simple easy to follow rules for guys
Men saw the stars at the edge of the sea
They thought great thoughts about liberty
Poets wrote down words that did fit
Writers wrote books
Thinkers thought about it
Take it where you find it
Can’t leave it alone
You will find a purpose
To carry it on
Mainly when you find it
Your heart will be strong
About it
Many’s the road I have walked upon
Many’s the hour between dusk and dawn
Many’s the time
Many’s the mile
I see it all now
Through the eyes of a child
Take it where you find it
Can’t leave it alone
You will find a purpose
To carry it on
Mainly when you find it
Your heart will be strong
About it
[Chorus]
Lost dreams and found dreams
In America
In America
In America
Lost dreams and found dreams
In America
In America
In America
And close your eyes
Leave it all for a while
Leave the world
And your worries behind
You will build on whatever is real
And wake up each day
To a new waking dream
Take it where you find it
Can’t leave it alone
You will find a purpose
To carry it on
Mainly when you find it
Your heart will be strong
About it
[Chorus]
Change, change come over
Change come over
Talkin’ about a change
Change, change
Change come over, now
Change, change, change come over
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I see my light
See my light
See my shining light
I see my light
See my light
See my shining light
Gerard Van der Leun
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I should be some place similar.
Looks like Mt Rainier or Mt Hood. Maybe Shasta. Seattle and Portland for all intents and purposes on the first two; northern CA on Shasta. Pretty country but you’d not be happy with your neighbors – but the Shasta area would be preferable to the other two.
Does anyone here have a suggestion for a handheld tool that will cut back creekside brush. The brush grew quite large this year, and we need to get it hacked back. We are too old now for a “brush mower”. I think we could handle a handheld chainsaw with battery–any suggestions?
Anne. You’re on the right track. A battery operated handheld chainsaw will do the job very well. Mine is an off brand one, with a 6 inch blade, which is more than adequate for brush clearing. There are many makes and models available at Home Despot or lowly Lowe’s. You may want to consider one that also comes with an extender pole which can be attached to the saw to extend your reach. I use mine all the time. Good luck.
I bought the Ryobi P2510 a few years ago and have used it to cut down large swathes of out of control wild shrubberies along our creek and a lot of other things. It is cordless, uses the 18 volt batteries, and works very well on everything I have used it on, with some caveats.
It is a pole type of a saw and will be a minimal of 4′ long and extension tubes can be added to get it out to about 13′ long. Keep in mind the motor is in the head, the part where the blade is, so it can be sort of heavy and maybe awkward. What’s nice about having the weight on the end like that is is that it puts downward pressure on the blade making it cut faster. You’ll need a small rat tail file to keep the blade sharp, and chainsaw oil for the blade.
My method was to use the full length pole and reach down into the shrub and cut it off at the base, then pull like hell to dislodge it from the surrounding shrubs. Then move onto the next one. A pair of lopping shears was helpful.
I have also used this saw to trim errant tree branches overhead. For me, it was a little pricey, but compared to the competition that’s out there, Ryobi tools are always very competitively priced.
I have more than 30 Ryobi 18 volt tools and have been using them almost daily since the late 90’s and have not had even one failure in all that time. I have had a couple chargers stop charging and a couple battery failures too. But the tools themselves have always performed well even under hard strain.
https://www.homedepot.com/p/RYOBI-ONE-18V-8-in-Cordless-Oil-Free-Pole-Saw-with-1-5-Ah-Battery-and-Charger-P2510/319723808
I think that’s Shasta from the south. One of the peaks I always lusted after and planned trips to. This looks like a little tarn somewhere near Heart Lake in the Castle Crags area. Very nice picture, very nice. I see there was a fire there in the recent past, the bushes have taken over, and the surviving conifers are slowly re-seeding. There’s so many nice places to go see, and not enough weekends.
I look at that picture and imagine that Gerard took it and that he was seeing a beautiful vista as well as his affection for Neo.
Circular Attack
===========
I first encountered this tactic a few years ago when I decided to “vet” a news article by running down the rabbit hole of the numerous supporting links in the article. This exhausting venture revealed not one reliable source for proof of what the article was claiming. Not one. The average reader won’t do what I did, and will just take the fact that a link was provided as proof of the validity of the article.
As far as I’m concerned, fraud (like this tactic), lying and other media “tricks” and NOT covered under the 1st Amendment because they are crimes and therefore should be treated as such.
Anyway, go to the link and read the Naomi Wolf article on how this RFJ Jr hit piece is being developed.
I’ll tell you what, when the shit goes down I will personally mount a charge on the CNN bldg with hatchet and blade and I won’t leave until my bounty bag is overflowing with scalps.
================================
https://naomiwolf.substack.com/p/rfk-jr-and-the-slinging-of-mud
Everyone is citing everyone else, in a circular way, with just one and a half named sources in total at this point.
In TheWrap.com, PuckNews.com cited an unnamed individual “close to Nuzzi” as being the only source for the existence of the alleged “demure nudes” that were allegedly sent to RFK Jr’s phone. CNN also cited an unnamed “individual close to Nuzzi.” TheWrap.com is also citing The Daily Beast. All these publications cite each other, with no more actual reporting or sourcing being done, and then outer-extending news sites cite the original maelstrom of innermost news sites that cite the other news sites.
Olivia Nuzzi or someone close to her is the one on the record source; and someone who appeared to share an email from Nuzzi’s editor David Haskell, is half of another.
In spite of this complete lack of verification or sourcing beyond Nuzzi, all of these publications are freely using the word “affair” – thus imprinting in the consciousness of the exhausted American public that “RFK Jr must have had an affair” — even though buried in the steaming mass of fecal non-journalism presented here are the nuggets of acknowledgement (sorry for the graphic metaphor but that’s the disgusting reality of this) that there was no affair.
An affair is not even in the realm of the allegations.
Far down in the articles, where many fewer people will be reading, you see that whatever happened, which to date has only been sourced on the record from the woman making the assertions and from someone “close to” her, which could be the woman herself (that is how some people leak information), it was not an affair. And the only evidence that exists to this point reveals that the “relationship,” such as it is, was on her side.
Are you surprised?
For many years I said when prompted for my opinion, that there’s no functional difference between the Repocrats and the Demublicans. They both want the same thing, they just lie about it in different ways. For most people, it’s a statement that goes too far, they aren’t willing/able to give up their comfortable long-held beliefs, I watch them universally shake their head and reject the proposition. I’ll give you a simple proof: after every election, after they’ve gulled the rubes one more time, the lame duck Legislatures pass all the really bad bills with comfortable margins, with little debate. They’ve had them queued up all session, just waiting for the post-election ennui to mask their dirty deeds.
And now for the last two years, I have come to a similar conclusion: all the news is fake and gay all the time. Nobody is telling the truth. If a news item suddenly pops up out of nowhere like this crazy news chick and a Kennedy (dsydic, remember guys), you can be sure it’s fake and gay. The news is not for informing us, but for controlling our thoughts. Everyone everywhere all the time does it, it doesn’t matter, from Mother Jones to PBS to OneAmericaNews to InfoWars, they sell our minds to those whose sole goal is political power. And just like the Repo/Demu situation, most people are unwilling to accept it when I tell them that it’s all lies all the time from every direction.
We are an empire of lies, we live in and on a vast dungheap of lies. And how we will burn in the camps later, we purely and simply will have deserved everything that happened afterward.
If Trump was going to hurt America, he would have done it in his first term.
If Harris was going to help America, she would have done it in her first term.
Say that, in the next 3-4 months the absolute worse thing you can imagine happens in the US (short of your own death), are you prepared for that?
Ninety percent of things people worry about and fear don’t happen. The riots start in the big cities, the ‘burbs are more insulated until the rioters start migrating outwards, which either dilutes their effectiveness, or they have to make targeted incursions into small salients where force can be applied against them.
Even more so than food, very few people have enough water to last any length of time. The very worst thing that can happen is the water supply fails or is shut off. Civilization collapses in 3 days. End of story. The NG does not have enough water buffaloes to keep collapse at bay.
I look at cities as the canary in the coal mine. I’m out far enough that when the cities start to go down, it’ll act as the first stage fire alarm. While the nearest large city to me is not considered a large city, SHTF there is now the second stage fire alarm. Given I’m at least an hour out, I figure that 2nd stage to give about 1 week warning before “they” come knocking on this community’s door. Even then, any action here would be sporadic at first (and dealt with harshly) and if it expands, the locals will have time to man the defenses. A bit of dynamite at the pass into town will delay the hordes. This is a farming community with a fair size river flowing through.
I hope y’all are in a similar situation or can get to something similar soon – I don’t think there’s much time left. Perhaps it stays “calm” until the election; maybe even for a while after. But my gut feeling is the Dems are going to pass the bat-shit crazy stage no matter who wins. How that develops depends on who wins. All I’d be willing to bet on now is no matter who wins, it won’t be us “citizens”.
The Hill, as reported by Yahoo: Harris calls for ending filibuster for abortion rights“.
The woman will say anything that she thinks will gain her a vote. The Hill, as reported by Yahoo: Harris calls for ending filibuster for abortion rights“.
The woman will say anything that she thinks will gain her a vote. Ab-so-lutely anything.
She said exactly the same thing in 2016, the only difference being that she was for eliminating the filibuster so as to enact the Green New Deal.
She, and/or her voters, are denser than concrete. The President of the United States has nothing at all to do with the Rules that the Senate adopts internal to their decision-making. Not one thing. Zero. The President may have an opinion on Roe* or an opinion on environmental policy, but the rules by which a House in a separate branch of government come to their concensus are entirely up to that separate branch. The President’s voice on these matters is no more influential than that of any other private citizen.
* On Roe. I get it that the Dobbs decision was a hard blow against those who believe in a “woman’s right to choose” (sic). But what Dobbs has said (which Trump has endorsed), is that the decisions regarding abortion should be made in the states. Consider this hypothetical: A Republican Congress sends to the President a bill prohibiting or limiting abortions. The opposite might be true too….a Democrat Congress could send a bill allowing abortions. It doesn’t matter which way it goes, if the President signs either of these bills, Dobbs tells us that the Supreme Court is going to throw these laws out and they’ll be back where we are today…..with the states (and the people therein) deciding these matters..
* On Roe. I get it that the Dobbs decision was a hard blow against those who believe in a “woman’s right to choose” (sic). But what Dobbs has said, and that Trump has endorsed, is that the decisions regarding abortion should be made in the states. Consider this hypothetical: A Republican Congress sends to the President a bill prohibiting or limiting abortions. The opposite might be true too….a Democrat Congress could send a bill allowing abortions. It doesn’t matter which way it goes, if the President signs either of these bills, Dobbs tells us that the Supreme Court is going to throw them out.
The Hill, as reported by Yahoo: “Harris calls for ending filibuster for abortion rights“.
The woman will say anything that she thinks will gain her a vote. Ab-so-lutely anything.
She said exactly the same thing in 2016, the only difference being that she was for eliminating the filibuster so as to enact the Green New Deal.
She, and/or her voters, are denser than concrete. The President of the United States has nothing at all to do with the Rules that the Senate adopts internal to their decision-making. Not one thing. Zero. The President may have an opinion on Roe* or an opinion on environmental policy, but the rules by which a House in a separate branch of government come to their concensus are entirely up to that separate branch. The President’s voice on these matters is no more influential than that of any other private citizen.
* On Roe. I get it that the Dobbs decision was a hard blow against those who believe in a “woman’s right to choose” (sic). But what Dobbs has said (which Trump has endorsed), is that the decisions regarding abortion should be made in the states. Consider this hypothetical: A Republican Congress sends to the President a bill prohibiting or limiting abortions. The opposite might be true too….a Democrat Congress could send a bill allowing abortions. It doesn’t matter which way it goes, if the President signs either of these bills, Dobbs tells us that the Supreme Court is going to throw these laws out and they’ll be back where we are today…..with the states (and the people therein) deciding these matters.
My error: Harris’ endorsement of ending the filibuster regarding the Green New Deal occurred 5 years ago, in 2019, and not in 2016.
The problem with all of this is that for 50 years they dined on the good stuff, and now, they have to go back to baloney sando’s and that won’t do, no matter how it’s dressed up. Reality has no meaning to a demented mind, all you can do is “Ol’ Yeller” that ass to shut it up.
Never forget, to the left, everything rotates around the genitals. Seriously, they never got past that infatuation everyone goes through at about age 4 or 5.
Close you eyes, lean your head back, and remember. Long, long ago when your sons or daughters were of that age, 4-5, and how you interacted with them. How you adjusted your speech so they might understand you better. Maybe even talk like little kids talk. Say silly stuff, just to get laughs.
Once, my son and I touched noses and looked cross eyed at each other, and we both almost went insane. We laffed and laffed and laffed. My wife came through the room carrying a load of laundry, stopped and looked at us, shook her head and went to the master bedroom. We looked at her, then at each other, then started laffing again.
When he was 4 or 5 he caused me to be 4 or 5 too. Then, an hour later, I went back to being an adult with bills to pay, work to do, responsibilities to acknowledge, and he went right on being a little boy. Less so than yesterday, more so than tomorrow.
A part of the lefts brain never advanced beyond that stage.
It’s nothing short of cruel for the gov’t to coddle them so, forcing them to live as children trapped in adult body’s when in reality they need to grow up, take full responsibility for themselves in all ways, and behave as adults. The adult children can’t grow up and mature as long as the gov’t accommodates their childish tendencies.
OK, something different.
Say you’re going to make sketty (with ground beef) but instead of sketty noodles you use rice. What would that be called?
Now, instead of using italian spices and herbs, you use taco spices and herbs, what would THAT be called?
—signed, “The Mad Scientist-Chef”
Cleaning out the pantry week, making room for the next resupply, revisiting your 20’s when your life was simple and poor, and living large during the Depression. Just don’t tell Bird Dog.
“Say you’re going to make sketty (with ground beef) but instead of sketty noodles you use rice. What would that be called?”
Put the mix in a bell pepper shell and cook. Call it stuffed green peppers.
“Now, instead of using italian spices and herbs, you use taco spices and herbs, what would THAT be called?”
taco stuffing
On a different topic, we’re less than 6 months until shutdown. Someone early on – ghostsniper? – had a way to download an archive of Gerard’s (and Nemo’s and ours now) writings.
Is it still possible to do so?
Or – is there anyway to keep this site up (was it Garard’s wish to shut it down or was it a matter of financial support ending?) I’d be happy to chip in and help keep the site up.
Shortly after Gerard died I used a free downloadable program named Cyotek WebCopy to download the entire American Digest website at that particular time. The site has expanded since then. The download took about 36 hours continuous to complete and entailed 5.04 GB of hard drive space, 11,776 folders, 67,114 files.
You can get the program here:
https://www.cyotek.com/cyotek-webcopy
Running a website can be an expensive endeavor not to mention a major time evaporator. I started 2 blogs a long time ago, one about architecture and one about woodworking, but abandoned both after just a few months. I can contribute like a son of a bitch but I can’t run it. The former is lackadaisical, the latter is regimental, and I’m kinda lazy.
Thanks for the link
It ain’t just me, others like Liberty’s Torch are thinking the unthinkable: what will happen when all the millions of invited, newly-arrived and unproductive people are cut off from government largesse, as will happen sooner or later. Perhaps quite soon. I’ve already noticed an uptick in petty lawlessness in my AOA. It will be much much worse, especially for all those small cities in which are being dumped all the newcomers. It’s almost by design, create hundreds of flashpoints when the locals and the newcomers go at each other en masse.
Once more: I did not see a human being in the first picture of the high mountain lake. I see it now. Was that just “cognitive dissonance”?
Hi Anne, I’m pretty sure that it’s a choice of the photographer and the curator (Gerard), to depict the grandeur and largeness of the natural world, against the relative smallness of the human presence. I believe the lake is this one Heart Lake, at the headwaters of Castle Lake Creek. It would have been a better picture perhaps if the photographer had taken the photo early or late in the day, the mid-day light has flattened all the details.
And now, at 11:05am Sun, the post at 9/25 won’t open.
Maybe the whole thing is going down slowly, 1 day at a time?