Open House 4/6/19

Posted on April 7, 2019 by Darin
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  1. Darin says:
    April 7, 2019 at 12:57

    Some possible exciting news on the science front-

    https://www.france24.com/en/20190406-scientists-set-unveil-first-picture-black-hole

    I hope this isn’t another tease http://falfn.com/CrusaderRabbit/wp-content/plugins/wp-monalisa/icons/wpml_unsure.gif

  2. Darin says:
    April 7, 2019 at 13:09

    I thought the dems said there wasn’t an emergency at the border?

    https://www.apnews.com/aabc13ab07604b39b09710f08bc42a4f

    Congress under both parties has sat on their asses and done nothing.The court system and liberal legal activists have done everything they could to throw up roadblocks.And the bureaucracy itself has been not help.

    But somehow it’s all Trump’s fault http://falfn.com/CrusaderRabbit/wp-content/plugins/wp-monalisa/icons/wpml_wacko.gif

  3. Darin says:
    April 7, 2019 at 14:19

    Another version of “On the Nature of Daylight” but directed by the man himself Max Ricther.
    https://youtu.be/b_YHE4Sx-08

    Great music for watching sunset http://falfn.com/CrusaderRabbit/wp-content/plugins/wp-monalisa/icons/wpml_cool.gif

    • KG says:
      April 8, 2019 at 08:14

      I know they’re a pest, but what a beautiful animal!

      • Darin says:
        April 8, 2019 at 09:21

        Yes,too bad they are eating everything that moves including baby Alligators.

        That snake was 17 foot long,now consider that near me on the wall of a country store a few miles up the road there is the hide from a 15 foot long Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake that was killed about 1970. :shock:

  6. KG says:
    April 8, 2019 at 08:14

    The NZ Unelected Rabble government’s template:
    https://morningmail.org/99412-2/#more-99412
    and, a comment in the Oz Morning Mail on what’s happening to free speech in Britain. Make no mistake, this has already begun in NZ:

    From Brendan Oā€™Neil:

    Not content with throttling democracy, now the UK establishment has free speech in its sights. This week, the National Police Chiefsā€™ Council warned campaigners and columnists to tone down their Brexit rhetoric. This is the behaviour of a police state. Cops have no business telling people what they may think and say about politics.
    It is testament to the intellectual classesā€™ turn against freedom of speech that they have expressed no anger about this reactionary intervention of the police into the realm of political speech. What this amounts to is the armed wing of the state warning citizens not to get too angry about the political classā€™s betrayal of Brexit.
    They make a mockery of our vote and then criminalise us if we get upset about it. This is serious. Democracy and liberty must be protected against the out-of-control elites.

    • Yokel says:
      April 9, 2019 at 11:13

      And he didn’t mention all those NATO troops in the country for a “previously announced” exercise. They’ll be here for at least another week.

      How fortuitous, if you need a little bit of help with the populace a la francaise.

  8. the conservative says:
    April 8, 2019 at 14:47

    Got my first 1.0k views on YouTube; very pleased indeed:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PssQ_jhN-QA&t=188s

  10. Darin says:
    April 9, 2019 at 07:11

    Burma-No Country for Radical Muslims-

    https://youtu.be/UESBPWEk1Qw

    http://falfn.com/CrusaderRabbit/wp-content/plugins/wp-monalisa/icons/wpml_cool.gif

    • KG says:
      April 9, 2019 at 07:35

      According to the U.N., that’s “genocide”. Seriously.
      and, via Breitbart:
      ‘A tribunal judge said that a Turkish criminal should be allowed to stay in the UK because membership of a north London crime gang proved he had integrated into British society.’

  11. KG says:
    April 9, 2019 at 16:29

    Bawaaahahahaha!
    ‘Aircraft vapour trail bewilders Auckland residents’

  12. KG says:
    April 12, 2019 at 09:16

    A copy of Eric Hoffer’s ‘True Believers’ arrived in the mail yesterday. http://falfn.com/CrusaderRabbit/wp-content/plugins/wp-monalisa/icons/wpml_yahoo.gif
    “The Black Book of Communism’ is still too expensive, so that’ll have to wait.

  13. Darin says:
    April 13, 2019 at 00:48

    “A beautiful afternoon”-

    https://dailycaller.com/2019/04/11/trump-veterans-white-house-visit/

    “from a time when we knew how to win wars”http://falfn.com/CrusaderRabbit/wp-content/plugins/wp-monalisa/icons/wpml_good.gif

  14. KG says:
    April 13, 2019 at 10:58

    Quote of the week:
    The fact of the matter is that the American Left is waging a full scale war against fellow Americans who have the audacity to disagree with Left Wing orthodoxy. They are not interested in debate, discussion, ideas, free speech, or a free press. They are the enforcers of their own iron-fisted, totalitarian, Mao-style cultural revolution.

    https://spectator.org/the-google-blacklisting-of-the-american-spectator/
    The left worldwide, not only in America.

    • Pascal says:
      April 13, 2019 at 15:12

      Along the same lines.
      On FB, Wretchard made the following observation:

      Now that the power struggle in Washington is out in the open what is to be done about it? One option is to try to put the toothpaste back in the tube. Political conflict is one of those one way functions that is easy to start but much more difficult to reverse.
      If the truce is to be re-established a group of truce-makers must be found on each side. Yet superficially at least these are nowhere to be seen. On every side everyone seems raring to go.
      The fundamental problem is that there is no constituency for burying the hatchet yet, except in someone’s back.

      Someone who seems to know Wretchard well added the following:

      How could you raise this topic and not raise the “War is a mere continuation of politics by other means” quote? I know it is not your style, but the 800 lb gorilla question is “how damned bloody will it become?” You’re welcome.

      LOL. That could have been our KG. “let’s get on with it already!”

      • KG says:
        April 13, 2019 at 15:22

        :mrgreen:
        Wretchard (Richard Fernandez) is a treasure, but even he can be slow to see that sometimes head-on confrontation is the only remedy.
        I/we don’t have enough time to sit around and hope for a solution, because the left has a great deal of experience keeping things just barely below boiling point until the opposition wears itself out over protesting endless “little” outrages.
        And that moves the Overton Window ever further left.

        • Pascal says:
          April 13, 2019 at 15:57

          Damned straight KG. That move is headed straight for the totalitarian abattoir.

          • KG says:
            April 13, 2019 at 16:23

            And there will still be people who are bewidered by it all as they’re loaded into the cattle cars, Pascal. Herded into them by their former neighbours who are now wearing armbands and carrying clipboards.
            “What went wrong?” will be the catchcry on that day.

  17. Darin says:
    April 13, 2019 at 20:21

    No,capitalism needs to be left alone to work it’s best-

    https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/money/111874077/the-american-dream-is-lost-billionaire-takes-aim-at-trump

    And the American dream is lost,not because of capitalists,but-Because of billionaire hedge fund managers.

  19. Michael in Nelson says:
    April 13, 2019 at 21:31

    I haven’t listened to all of this yet but I will. What I have heard is a litany of generosity and altruism by men of war that has been swept under the rug of Leftist history. Vietnam veterans were the most vilified of all because of leftist propaganda. It’s a wonder this video is still available.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5yJKzEzX54

    • Darin says:
      April 14, 2019 at 10:02

      My father was of the generation that came between Korea and Vietnam.He left the Navy in 1964 after two hitches IIRC,however he had a lot of friends that went on to serve in Vietnam.Several were killed,several were wounded and some still have scars not visable.
      One of the few times he ever used profanity in anger was during a conversation he was having with a former neighbor of ours after the neighbor made the comment that “Vietnam wasn’t a real war”
      His response was-“if it wasn’t a real f–king war,how do you explain the 58,000 dead US Servicemen and women?” needless to say that was the end of the conversation.

      If you are able,
      save for them a place
      inside of you
      and save one backward glance
      when you are leaving
      for the places they can
      no longer go.
      Be not ashamed to say
      you loved them,
      though you may
      or may not have always.
      Take what they have left
      and what they have taught you
      with their dying
      and keep it with your own.
      And in that time
      when men decide and feel safe
      to call the war insane,
      take one moment to embrace
      those gentle heroes
      you left behind.

      Major Michael Davis O’Donnell
      1 January 1970
      Dak To, Vietnam

      http://www.virtualwall.org/do/OdonnellMD01a.htm

  20. KG says:
    April 14, 2019 at 08:26

    ‘Anti-Māori pamphlet show gaps in hate speech law’
    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12221767

    What they mean – of course – is that maori should be exempt from criticism. I have seen far more racism in NZ than in any other country I’ve lived in, and most of that has been directed towards whites by maori, especially in the past couple of years.
    I have a copy of the pamphlet referred to in the article and among grown-ups it would cause barely a stir, or at least some debate on the points it raises.

    • Darin says:
      April 14, 2019 at 09:46

      “Claim: With Western medicine Maori life expectancy has risen from 20 to 25 years (1840) to 75 years today.

      Te Ara says that Māori life expectancy at the time of Captain James Cook’s visits to New Zealand (between 1769 and 1777) was similar to that in some of the most privileged 18th-century societies. Māori may have had a life expectancy at birth of about 30 but there was a major decline in Māori life expectancy after European contact.”

      Sounds perfectly resonable to me,those figures track with similar primitive populations I have read about elsewhere in the world.The article of course omits the fact that if Europeans had never arrived,the Maori life expectancy would still be 25-30 years today.Just like modern isolated tribes across the globe.

      • KG says:
        April 14, 2019 at 15:33

        Yep.
        And the so-called “most privileged” 18th century societies had a LOT of people living in poverty and squalid conditions.
        Charles Darwin had some interesting observations about Maori in his book The Voyage of The Beagle.