Beautiful pic, thanks. Just lost my father-in-law and this cheers me up. Here is a poem I did a few years back that mentions him.
Hunting Season
It begins differently
Depending on the instrument
Bows go first
Slipping between the early weeks
Where trees still in leaf
Confound the aim
And reward absolute quiet
At the nock and draw and loose
Of death’s short flight
Later come shotgun rifle
And even pistol
Dull blue names
Carrying inside them
The unequivocal kick
That comes
At the end of life
Again this season
I will not go out
As my father did
For sport and also
In hope of meat
The dressed bricks
In their freezer paper
Like money in the bank
And the hide smoked
By a woman we knew
Nor will I go out
As my wife’s father did
After he returned
From his youth
With unwanted craft
And utterly sobered by war
As of Monday, vaccine mandates go into effect for the federal contract I work under. Including supervisors, we have 44 people. Word is only 18 are going to be qualified by then. Qualified being defined as having had a second dose of vaccine more than two weeks prior. A negative test in the last week (every week) will be accepted, but it must be signed by a physician and the company will not provide recompense. Even at 44, we’ve had scheduled overtime for months we are so shorthanded.
In any organization, there will be a large number of employees, possibly a plurality, who have been fully vaccinated but object to the “Ihre Papiere bitte” component of the elite.
Important to move the Overton window to support this concept. I am in that category, and plan to decline if ever asked (my organization knows better).
Today I sent the following email to my senators and congressman (all Dems):
Defend the civil rights of January 6 political prisoners!
I write to protest the shameful abuse of the political prisoners from the January 6th Capitol protests. Their treatment is a stain on you, your party and our country!
Judge Royce Lamberth has held the Warden of the D.C. jail and and the Director of the D.C. Department of Corrections in contempt, for purposely delaying the paperwork which defendant Christopher Worrell needs for an operation he was recommended to have in June!
There have been many reports of other prisoners being abused, and they are being denied their right to a speedy trial. Most of their charges are for minor offences. In contrast, few of the violent BLM/Antifa rioters of 2020 have been held to account, and your party has treated them leniently and paid for their bail!
I will continue to pray for you, and that you will have the wisdom and courage to do the right things.
Re West Texas Intermediate Crude.
THIS could be what breaks the Ruling Class. I’ve read a few posts and several comments to this effect.
It also speaker to the fortifying independence of State level legitimacy. This increasing contrast between State liberties and Federal gendarmes authoritarianism…could mushroom.
That’s a Twitter thread started by a Republican communications professional about how she’s going to start burning her seven-year-old’s Pokemon cards if he doesn’t eat enough to statisfy her. It’s such a blatant example of psychological child abuse that I have to think she’s making some kind of point but what it could possibly be escapes me.
Mike
Owen–
Heartfelt sympathy to you and your wife on the death of your father-in-law. And thank you for posting the poem “Hunting Season” that you wrote in his (and your father’s) honor. Your father-in-law must have been a good man.
MBunge,
I don’t have an opinion on the punishment. I do not know the situation. It seems a bit unusual, but what do I know? Even with my own kids I used different carrots and sticks for similar situations. Different personalities. Different motivations.
What makes me suspect her reasoning, however, is that she feels the need to publicize it under her own name in a public forum available to millions (billions?). This will almost certainly get to some of her friends, neighbors, kids her kid knows. She appears to put her own desire for likes and affirmation ahead of what’s best for her family’s cohesion and security. I hope she rethinks this and begins to give her relationships with her loved ones the importance and privacy they deserve.
The far Left mob has been mobilized against Tucker Carlson for the sin of noticing federal border laws going unenforced. and Biden immigration policies that embrace invasions that’s against the US Constitution.
There is much conceptually and rhetorically insight at work here.
Vaclav Klaus –the Czech Republic president from a decade and a half ago — wrote that while discrimination can be bad, a policy of non-discrimination is much worse.
Intellectually, that’s what the far Left does.
TJ: “THIS could be what breaks the Ruling Class.”
Yes. What Biden and company are doing by decreeing these mandates is showing their ignorance of how he economy works. Police, firefighters, nurses, doctors, truck drivers, airline pilots, and many more professionals make the economy work and provide the environment in witch it can work. As things grind to a crawl, as crime rises, as fires cannot be put out, as hospitals are unable to meet demand, as store shelves empty, as airline passengers are stranded, and much more; what will the elites in D.C. do? Will hey double down and make things worse or will they see the light and realize they don’t have the leverage to demand obedience? If they double down, things are going to get ever more difficult. It won’t be pretty and could well lead to violence, food shortages, and unnecessary deaths – the wages of authoritarian government. Pray for Biden and company to be wise and make accommodation with the unvaccinated.
RTF says, What makes me suspect her reasoning, however, is that she feels the need to publicize it under her own name in a public forum available to millions (billions?).
You might be interested in an article posted just last night on Quillette on “The Exhibitionist Economy.” The author’s central point is that Instagram et al. have fostered a culture in which people no longer care about privacy: “. . . we grew comfortable baring all in the name of entertainment and attention. Today, we all live on Instagram. From cradle to grave, a vast and growing segment of humanity has willingly forfeited personal privacy in pursuit of likes and shares. The notion of a ‘private sphere’ now seems quaint and archaic—a term that harks back to a distant era in which a person’s privacy began at their hedgerow.”
It’s a long article but full of detail about the contemporary obsession with “letting it all hang out.” I’m thinking that the woman in the Twitter thread that MBunge cited is a case in point. Anyway, here is the link:
Yesterday, Gallup published an article (https://tinyurl.com/338vjmex) about a poll that they’ve been doing, for twenty-nine years, on whether Americans think that the government is doing too much or too little. The article includes some graphs that do a good job of telling the story, but here’s a paragraph that summarizes some of the data:
“Last year marked only the second time in Gallup’s 29-year trend that at least half of Americans endorsed an active role for the government on this item. The other pro-government response came in the weeks after the 9/11 terror attacks amid heightened concern about terrorism and a surge in trust in government.”
Please look at the graphs, but the punchline is that Americans have consistently wanted a smaller, less intrusive government. They’ve wanted this for a long time, and they’ve wanted this by a wide margin. The only two exceptions were after 9/11 and during the pandemic. I’m not in the minority, and I feel stupid for not realizing it. I wish that Republican and conservative politicians and media would hammer this point home. (Not that I’m stupid, but that the majority of people want what’s right most of the time. Don’t let the Democrats shove big government down our throats. And so on.)
Anyway, maybe everybody who reads this blog already knew that we’ve almost always been in the majority, but I didn’t. Unfortunately, now I can’t decide whether I should be more optimistic or more pessimistic.
Neo:
For some reason, I’m unable to add a comment. I thought I’d try to let you know.
Maybe this comment will go through.
Testing 1,2,3 …
Cornflour:
I liberated it from the spam folder and now it’s showing in the thread. I have no idea why it was labeled spam.
Pa+Cat: thanks. Yes, he was a good and honorable man. 63rd Division, Infantry Captain, Battle of the Bulge, Bronze Star, Korea. Helped to open one of the camps outside Munich. Not much of a talker about all that.
Owen–
Small world: my dad was in the Battle of the Bulge (82nd Airborne, sent to the northern shoulder of the bulge) and helped to clean up one of the camps outside Ludwigslust in May 1945. And like your father-in-law, he didn’t like to talk about what he saw during the war. We really do owe those men so much– all honor to them.
I suppose most of you have heard that there are shortages and empty shelves at stores and this is because our cargo transportation system is a mess; primarily in S. California. That location is no accident.
I’ve read that the problem is because there are not enough crane operators at the ports or that there are not enough carriages or chassis (the 16 wheeled platforms under the containers) for the trucks to use. Sure. Tell me another one.
The two primary issues are:
1) the California CARB declared greenie war on diesel trucks years ago, with an emphasis the high traffic areas, namely the ports. Those time delay regs. have now hit.
2) California has also banned non-unionized trucking. (True? How is this not news?)
I remember when the war on diesel emissions first started. It was around the time that the German automakers were making a big push on clean diesel. Audi came out with this satire advertisement. As I recollect, it lasted a week or two before it was pulled down.
For truckers there was a push to require diesel engines with SCR (selective catalytic reduction) which required filling your truck with urea periodically which is injected into the exhaust system. I’m not sure where this stands now in CA.
If this Biden spending bill gets through consider it a declaration of war against all Americans.
From Insty:
“$8 billion will go to create an army of federally funded “climate police” called the Civilian Climate Corps (CCC). They will be able to drop a dime on anyone who has an unacceptably large “carbon footprint” and direct federal attention toward them. Make sure you already have an electric car or there may be someone knocking on your door.”
TommyJay: thanks for the link to the Widburg piece on the factors contributing to supply chain problems in California.
Last year on this forum, after the election, during discussions around the correlation of forces between the red and the blue states, I pointed out that the southeastern U.S. has a number of large cargo or shipbuilding ports. These include Houston, New Orleans, Biloxi-Pascagoula, Mobile/Alabama State Docks/AUSTAL, Port Tampa Bay, Jacksonville, Savannah, and Charleston. I also pointed out that the second most powerful nuclear power plant in the U.S. is located in Alabama (Browns Ferry). Finally, I mentioned that the South is now a major manufacturing region, accounting for much of the country’s auto manufacturing and shipbuilding capacity. Today, I would add that venerable firearms manufacturers (most recently Smith & Wesson: https://ir.smith-wesson.com/news-releases/news-release-details/smith-wesson-relocate-headquarters-tennessee) are moving their operations from blue states to the South.
These facts may acquire new significance in the weeks and months ahead.
Hubert–
The Florida Ports Council is putting out the word that Florida’s 15 ports are open for business, and Governor DeSantis earmarked stimulus money to help the seaports cope with the pandemic: “‘Florida is where your success comes in, and our seaports are the solution to ensure the cargo shipping logjam doesn’t become the Grinch that stole Christmas,’ said Michael Rubin, President and CEO of the Florida Ports Council. Florida leaders say California is no longer the most efficient way to move goods to the East Coast or even the Midwest. They say Florida is the answer.
‘Why pay to moor off the coast of California, when Florida shipping lanes are open and serving as the gateway for getting goods to America’s market,’ Rubin said in a press release. Rubin says Florida has invested in infrastructure to increase port capacity. Earlier this year, Gov. Ron DeSantis directed $250 million of stimulus money to Florida’s 15 seaports to help offset pandemic impacts.”
You’re welcome Hubert. BTW, 18 wheelers – tractor with 6 wheels is a 12 wheel trailer or carriage. Oops.
“From cradle to grave, a vast and growing segment of humanity has willingly forfeited personal privacy in pursuit of likes and shares.”
I’ve never cracked open a psychology textbook in my life and even I know the end result of that will be a growing segment of humanity that is profoundly broken, empty, and bitterly unhappy.
Mike
Cornflour,
I think research typically shows Americans are against government except for things they get; like agricultural subsidies in your state. Because of this, most all government programs have widespread support among their recipients.
People say they want less government, but when asked specifically about programs they benefit from they want those to remain.
PA Cat,
Everything on Quillette is a long article! But they’re almost always worth reading.
PA+Cat: precisely. Expect other southern states to follow suit.
WWII vets:
One of my maternal uncles served as an infantryman in the 100th ID in Alexander Patch’s Seventh U.S. Army. His unit encountered elements of the XIII SS Army Corps around Bitche, a French fortress town in the Maginot Line, during Operation Nordwind in December 1944-January 1945. He said they called it “Bitchy”.
Pa+Cat @ 3:56: “…82nd Airborne…”. I’ve heard of that outfit! Thanks for the details. Our parents’ generation paid a high price. The more I learn of what they did and suffered, the more humbled I become.
“Even at 44, we’ve had scheduled overtime for months we are so shorthanded.”
The people that could workz are waxxine dmged or dead from the wax bio weapon. Everyone is running out of workers. But in 2020, no problem.
Concerning the idea of re-routing freighter traffic to Florida: it sounds like a great idea, but will this be truly doable given the Panama bottleneck that would result? And do the ships have the fuel for it? I’d like to see it work, but these aspects would have to be resolved convincingly first.
In the spirit of Ymar our resident Demiurge, some Blake:
“The Whore & Gambler by the State
Licencd build that Nations Fate
The Harlots cry from Street to Street
Shall weave Old Englands winding Sheet
The Winners Shout the Losers Curse
Dance before dead Englands Hearse”
The Polish cryptographers, Tommy Flowers, The U.S. Navy, Alonzo Church
But it is Turing, according to woke fable, who is responsible for winning the war and giving us the modern world and freedom on a plate.
And look how ungrateful we are just because he had a taste for buggering boys.
I wish that more of our imports that comes from China could be shifted to Haiti and Western Africa.
Or does the combination of culture, corruption and political instability make that impossible? Is there not one West African Nation with which a robust, mutually beneficial trade partnership could be developed? Im sure there is some small scale stuff going on, but to scale it up?
@jon baker: ^^^
Race Matters. No escape. Just accept. Wakanda does not exist. Cannot exist.
@ Griffin > The Federalist post was informative, but snark is more entertaining.
Court documents with testimony ties George Soros and the Democracy Integrity Project to helping the FBI and Christopher Steele and …Hillary and Sussman to promote Russiagate claims against Trump?
And look how ungrateful we are just because he had a taste for buggering boys.
People forget in re Turing that his prosecution for sodomy was consequent to having a late-adolescent rent boy on retainer.
As does Xi’s shill, existing and persisting. It’s his feature, not a bug.
Art Deco on October 16, 2021 at 6:15 am said:
‘ … And look how ungrateful we are just because he had a taste for buggering boys…’
People forget in re Turing that his prosecution for sodomy was consequent to having a late-adolescent rent boy on retainer.”
Yeah, I think the current crop of social apologists for these abominations now spout some cant about “love” knowing no limits … or some equivalent formulation.
Apparently, like the parson explaining his reference to “religion” as naturally implying both Protestantism and the Church of England, we are to assume that when they say ” no limits” we are to understand youthful age, and when they say ” love” we are to assume “sexual activity”, or whatever practices pass for sex in their world of the perverse.
John Baker– You are suggesting that the goods we currently import from China,we, instead, import them from Haiti and/or West Africa?? What, specifically, would those goods be?
Or did I misconstrue your comment.
I did see an article last week (WSJ I think) about some big retailers (Costco,Wal-Mart, Target) were putting stuff on smaller container ships that could off-load at smaller ports like Oakland, Portland, Seattle. The downside is that it makes the stuff more expensive, but at least it is on their shelves rather than riding at anchor off LA.
[Yes, I’m late to the discussion; got caught up in traffic…]
Going around to the East Coast ports may not do much good in the near term. There is a big logjam at the Port of Savannah, also.
A lot of the problem is the lack of trucks to come and get the containers and take them wherever they’re going. This is also a big problem at railyards (a lot of incoming sea freight moves by rail as the first leg of its inland journey)…back 2 months ago, Burlington Northern CEO Katie Farmer, described the dozens of trains waiting to be unloaded at her RR’s Chicago intermodal yard…I’m sure the problem hasn’t gotten better since then.
Turing played a huge part in winning WWII.
Deal with it.
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Beautiful pic, thanks. Just lost my father-in-law and this cheers me up. Here is a poem I did a few years back that mentions him.
Hunting Season
It begins differently
Depending on the instrument
Bows go first
Slipping between the early weeks
Where trees still in leaf
Confound the aim
And reward absolute quiet
At the nock and draw and loose
Of death’s short flight
Later come shotgun rifle
And even pistol
Dull blue names
Carrying inside them
The unequivocal kick
That comes
At the end of life
Again this season
I will not go out
As my father did
For sport and also
In hope of meat
The dressed bricks
In their freezer paper
Like money in the bank
And the hide smoked
By a woman we knew
Nor will I go out
As my wife’s father did
After he returned
From his youth
With unwanted craft
And utterly sobered by war
As of Monday, vaccine mandates go into effect for the federal contract I work under. Including supervisors, we have 44 people. Word is only 18 are going to be qualified by then. Qualified being defined as having had a second dose of vaccine more than two weeks prior. A negative test in the last week (every week) will be accepted, but it must be signed by a physician and the company will not provide recompense. Even at 44, we’ve had scheduled overtime for months we are so shorthanded.
In any organization, there will be a large number of employees, possibly a plurality, who have been fully vaccinated but object to the “Ihre Papiere bitte” component of the elite.
Important to move the Overton window to support this concept. I am in that category, and plan to decline if ever asked (my organization knows better).
Today I sent the following email to my senators and congressman (all Dems):
Defend the civil rights of January 6 political prisoners!
I write to protest the shameful abuse of the political prisoners from the January 6th Capitol protests. Their treatment is a stain on you, your party and our country!
Judge Royce Lamberth has held the Warden of the D.C. jail and and the Director of the D.C. Department of Corrections in contempt, for purposely delaying the paperwork which defendant Christopher Worrell needs for an operation he was recommended to have in June!
There have been many reports of other prisoners being abused, and they are being denied their right to a speedy trial. Most of their charges are for minor offences. In contrast, few of the violent BLM/Antifa rioters of 2020 have been held to account, and your party has treated them leniently and paid for their bail!
I will continue to pray for you, and that you will have the wisdom and courage to do the right things.
Re West Texas Intermediate Crude.
THIS could be what breaks the Ruling Class. I’ve read a few posts and several comments to this effect.
It also speaker to the fortifying independence of State level legitimacy. This increasing contrast between State liberties and Federal gendarmes authoritarianism…could mushroom.
Is this woman serious?
https://twitter.com/LizMair/status/1448983240061165572
That’s a Twitter thread started by a Republican communications professional about how she’s going to start burning her seven-year-old’s Pokemon cards if he doesn’t eat enough to statisfy her. It’s such a blatant example of psychological child abuse that I have to think she’s making some kind of point but what it could possibly be escapes me.
Mike
Owen–
Heartfelt sympathy to you and your wife on the death of your father-in-law. And thank you for posting the poem “Hunting Season” that you wrote in his (and your father’s) honor. Your father-in-law must have been a good man.
MBunge,
I don’t have an opinion on the punishment. I do not know the situation. It seems a bit unusual, but what do I know? Even with my own kids I used different carrots and sticks for similar situations. Different personalities. Different motivations.
What makes me suspect her reasoning, however, is that she feels the need to publicize it under her own name in a public forum available to millions (billions?). This will almost certainly get to some of her friends, neighbors, kids her kid knows. She appears to put her own desire for likes and affirmation ahead of what’s best for her family’s cohesion and security. I hope she rethinks this and begins to give her relationships with her loved ones the importance and privacy they deserve.
The far Left mob has been mobilized against Tucker Carlson for the sin of noticing federal border laws going unenforced. and Biden immigration policies that embrace invasions that’s against the US Constitution.
His penalty? Tarred and smeared as a racist!
The Federalist has a piece insightfully explaining how — yet again — far Left propaganda and lies stampedes the Mob into action.
https://thefederalist.com/2021/10/15/leftists-racist-outrage-treadmill-revs-up-over-tucker-carlson-noticing-open-borders/
There is much conceptually and rhetorically insight at work here.
Vaclav Klaus –the Czech Republic president from a decade and a half ago — wrote that while discrimination can be bad, a policy of non-discrimination is much worse.
Intellectually, that’s what the far Left does.
TJ: “THIS could be what breaks the Ruling Class.”
Yes. What Biden and company are doing by decreeing these mandates is showing their ignorance of how he economy works. Police, firefighters, nurses, doctors, truck drivers, airline pilots, and many more professionals make the economy work and provide the environment in witch it can work. As things grind to a crawl, as crime rises, as fires cannot be put out, as hospitals are unable to meet demand, as store shelves empty, as airline passengers are stranded, and much more; what will the elites in D.C. do? Will hey double down and make things worse or will they see the light and realize they don’t have the leverage to demand obedience? If they double down, things are going to get ever more difficult. It won’t be pretty and could well lead to violence, food shortages, and unnecessary deaths – the wages of authoritarian government. Pray for Biden and company to be wise and make accommodation with the unvaccinated.
RTF says, What makes me suspect her reasoning, however, is that she feels the need to publicize it under her own name in a public forum available to millions (billions?).
You might be interested in an article posted just last night on Quillette on “The Exhibitionist Economy.” The author’s central point is that Instagram et al. have fostered a culture in which people no longer care about privacy: “. . . we grew comfortable baring all in the name of entertainment and attention. Today, we all live on Instagram. From cradle to grave, a vast and growing segment of humanity has willingly forfeited personal privacy in pursuit of likes and shares. The notion of a ‘private sphere’ now seems quaint and archaic—a term that harks back to a distant era in which a person’s privacy began at their hedgerow.”
It’s a long article but full of detail about the contemporary obsession with “letting it all hang out.” I’m thinking that the woman in the Twitter thread that MBunge cited is a case in point. Anyway, here is the link:
https://quillette.com/2021/10/15/the-exhibitionist-economy/
Yesterday, Gallup published an article (https://tinyurl.com/338vjmex) about a poll that they’ve been doing, for twenty-nine years, on whether Americans think that the government is doing too much or too little. The article includes some graphs that do a good job of telling the story, but here’s a paragraph that summarizes some of the data:
“Last year marked only the second time in Gallup’s 29-year trend that at least half of Americans endorsed an active role for the government on this item. The other pro-government response came in the weeks after the 9/11 terror attacks amid heightened concern about terrorism and a surge in trust in government.”
Please look at the graphs, but the punchline is that Americans have consistently wanted a smaller, less intrusive government. They’ve wanted this for a long time, and they’ve wanted this by a wide margin. The only two exceptions were after 9/11 and during the pandemic. I’m not in the minority, and I feel stupid for not realizing it. I wish that Republican and conservative politicians and media would hammer this point home. (Not that I’m stupid, but that the majority of people want what’s right most of the time. Don’t let the Democrats shove big government down our throats. And so on.)
Anyway, maybe everybody who reads this blog already knew that we’ve almost always been in the majority, but I didn’t. Unfortunately, now I can’t decide whether I should be more optimistic or more pessimistic.
Neo:
For some reason, I’m unable to add a comment. I thought I’d try to let you know.
Maybe this comment will go through.
Testing 1,2,3 …
Cornflour:
I liberated it from the spam folder and now it’s showing in the thread. I have no idea why it was labeled spam.
Pa+Cat: thanks. Yes, he was a good and honorable man. 63rd Division, Infantry Captain, Battle of the Bulge, Bronze Star, Korea. Helped to open one of the camps outside Munich. Not much of a talker about all that.
Owen–
Small world: my dad was in the Battle of the Bulge (82nd Airborne, sent to the northern shoulder of the bulge) and helped to clean up one of the camps outside Ludwigslust in May 1945. And like your father-in-law, he didn’t like to talk about what he saw during the war. We really do owe those men so much– all honor to them.
Embrace Diversity!
https://vdare.com/posts/white-conservative-mp-sir-david-amess-reportedly-stabbed-to-death-by-somali-in-britain
I suppose most of you have heard that there are shortages and empty shelves at stores and this is because our cargo transportation system is a mess; primarily in S. California. That location is no accident.
I’ve read that the problem is because there are not enough crane operators at the ports or that there are not enough carriages or chassis (the 16 wheeled platforms under the containers) for the trucks to use. Sure. Tell me another one.
This article sounds like the real story.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/10/empty_christmas_stockings_dont_blame_covid_blame_california.html
The two primary issues are:
1) the California CARB declared greenie war on diesel trucks years ago, with an emphasis the high traffic areas, namely the ports. Those time delay regs. have now hit.
2) California has also banned non-unionized trucking. (True? How is this not news?)
I remember when the war on diesel emissions first started. It was around the time that the German automakers were making a big push on clean diesel. Audi came out with this satire advertisement. As I recollect, it lasted a week or two before it was pulled down.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVPyHrPZbVM&t=4s
For truckers there was a push to require diesel engines with SCR (selective catalytic reduction) which required filling your truck with urea periodically which is injected into the exhaust system. I’m not sure where this stands now in CA.
If this Biden spending bill gets through consider it a declaration of war against all Americans.
From Insty:
“$8 billion will go to create an army of federally funded “climate police” called the Civilian Climate Corps (CCC). They will be able to drop a dime on anyone who has an unacceptably large “carbon footprint” and direct federal attention toward them. Make sure you already have an electric car or there may be someone knocking on your door.”
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/479312/
Has everybody been as horrified as the MSM by yesterday’s insurrection?
https://thefederalist.com/2021/10/15/can-you-spot-the-difference-between-these-two-insurrection-photos/
TommyJay: thanks for the link to the Widburg piece on the factors contributing to supply chain problems in California.
Last year on this forum, after the election, during discussions around the correlation of forces between the red and the blue states, I pointed out that the southeastern U.S. has a number of large cargo or shipbuilding ports. These include Houston, New Orleans, Biloxi-Pascagoula, Mobile/Alabama State Docks/AUSTAL, Port Tampa Bay, Jacksonville, Savannah, and Charleston. I also pointed out that the second most powerful nuclear power plant in the U.S. is located in Alabama (Browns Ferry). Finally, I mentioned that the South is now a major manufacturing region, accounting for much of the country’s auto manufacturing and shipbuilding capacity. Today, I would add that venerable firearms manufacturers (most recently Smith & Wesson: https://ir.smith-wesson.com/news-releases/news-release-details/smith-wesson-relocate-headquarters-tennessee) are moving their operations from blue states to the South.
These facts may acquire new significance in the weeks and months ahead.
Hubert–
The Florida Ports Council is putting out the word that Florida’s 15 ports are open for business, and Governor DeSantis earmarked stimulus money to help the seaports cope with the pandemic: “‘Florida is where your success comes in, and our seaports are the solution to ensure the cargo shipping logjam doesn’t become the Grinch that stole Christmas,’ said Michael Rubin, President and CEO of the Florida Ports Council. Florida leaders say California is no longer the most efficient way to move goods to the East Coast or even the Midwest. They say Florida is the answer.
‘Why pay to moor off the coast of California, when Florida shipping lanes are open and serving as the gateway for getting goods to America’s market,’ Rubin said in a press release. Rubin says Florida has invested in infrastructure to increase port capacity. Earlier this year, Gov. Ron DeSantis directed $250 million of stimulus money to Florida’s 15 seaports to help offset pandemic impacts.”
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4003542/posts
You’re welcome Hubert. BTW, 18 wheelers – tractor with 6 wheels is a 12 wheel trailer or carriage. Oops.
“From cradle to grave, a vast and growing segment of humanity has willingly forfeited personal privacy in pursuit of likes and shares.”
I’ve never cracked open a psychology textbook in my life and even I know the end result of that will be a growing segment of humanity that is profoundly broken, empty, and bitterly unhappy.
Mike
Cornflour,
I think research typically shows Americans are against government except for things they get; like agricultural subsidies in your state. Because of this, most all government programs have widespread support among their recipients.
People say they want less government, but when asked specifically about programs they benefit from they want those to remain.
PA Cat,
Everything on Quillette is a long article! But they’re almost always worth reading.
PA+Cat: precisely. Expect other southern states to follow suit.
WWII vets:
One of my maternal uncles served as an infantryman in the 100th ID in Alexander Patch’s Seventh U.S. Army. His unit encountered elements of the XIII SS Army Corps around Bitche, a French fortress town in the Maginot Line, during Operation Nordwind in December 1944-January 1945. He said they called it “Bitchy”.
Pa+Cat @ 3:56: “…82nd Airborne…”. I’ve heard of that outfit! Thanks for the details. Our parents’ generation paid a high price. The more I learn of what they did and suffered, the more humbled I become.
“Even at 44, we’ve had scheduled overtime for months we are so shorthanded.”
The people that could workz are waxxine dmged or dead from the wax bio weapon. Everyone is running out of workers. But in 2020, no problem.
Concerning the idea of re-routing freighter traffic to Florida: it sounds like a great idea, but will this be truly doable given the Panama bottleneck that would result? And do the ships have the fuel for it? I’d like to see it work, but these aspects would have to be resolved convincingly first.
Pay zero attention. Just worship Homos:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10095261/Alan-Turing-NOT-driven-suicide-conviction-homosexual-acts-insists-nephew.html
In the spirit of Ymar our resident Demiurge, some Blake:
“The Whore & Gambler by the State
Licencd build that Nations Fate
The Harlots cry from Street to Street
Shall weave Old Englands winding Sheet
The Winners Shout the Losers Curse
Dance before dead Englands Hearse”
Prompted by Mayor Pete’s degenerate evil LARPing:
https://media.gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/087/821/485/original/0ab14ff078c437df.jpeg
The Polish cryptographers, Tommy Flowers, The U.S. Navy, Alonzo Church
But it is Turing, according to woke fable, who is responsible for winning the war and giving us the modern world and freedom on a plate.
And look how ungrateful we are just because he had a taste for buggering boys.
I wish that more of our imports that comes from China could be shifted to Haiti and Western Africa.
Or does the combination of culture, corruption and political instability make that impossible? Is there not one West African Nation with which a robust, mutually beneficial trade partnership could be developed? Im sure there is some small scale stuff going on, but to scale it up?
@jon baker: ^^^
Race Matters. No escape. Just accept. Wakanda does not exist. Cannot exist.
@ Griffin > The Federalist post was informative, but snark is more entertaining.
https://notthebee.com/article/climate-protesters-this-week-tried-to-take-over-a-federal-building-and-under-the-new-rules-it-counted-as-an-insurrection-right
BOMBSHELL story at Just The News.
Court documents with testimony ties George Soros and the Democracy Integrity Project to helping the FBI and Christopher Steele and …Hillary and Sussman to promote Russiagate claims against Trump?
https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/soros-tied-group-met-fbi-during-russia-collusion-probe
And look how ungrateful we are just because he had a taste for buggering boys.
People forget in re Turing that his prosecution for sodomy was consequent to having a late-adolescent rent boy on retainer.
As does Xi’s shill, existing and persisting. It’s his feature, not a bug.
Yeah, I think the current crop of social apologists for these abominations now spout some cant about “love” knowing no limits … or some equivalent formulation.
Apparently, like the parson explaining his reference to “religion” as naturally implying both Protestantism and the Church of England, we are to assume that when they say ” no limits” we are to understand youthful age, and when they say ” love” we are to assume “sexual activity”, or whatever practices pass for sex in their world of the perverse.
John Baker– You are suggesting that the goods we currently import from China,we, instead, import them from Haiti and/or West Africa?? What, specifically, would those goods be?
Or did I misconstrue your comment.
I did see an article last week (WSJ I think) about some big retailers (Costco,Wal-Mart, Target) were putting stuff on smaller container ships that could off-load at smaller ports like Oakland, Portland, Seattle. The downside is that it makes the stuff more expensive, but at least it is on their shelves rather than riding at anchor off LA.
[Yes, I’m late to the discussion; got caught up in traffic…]
Going around to the East Coast ports may not do much good in the near term. There is a big logjam at the Port of Savannah, also.
https://www.poandpo.com/news_business/nearly-80000-shipping-containers-piled-up-in-port-of-savannah
A lot of the problem is the lack of trucks to come and get the containers and take them wherever they’re going. This is also a big problem at railyards (a lot of incoming sea freight moves by rail as the first leg of its inland journey)…back 2 months ago, Burlington Northern CEO Katie Farmer, described the dozens of trains waiting to be unloaded at her RR’s Chicago intermodal yard…I’m sure the problem hasn’t gotten better since then.
Turing played a huge part in winning WWII.
Deal with it.