Prince William Sound

 

 

Summer

 

Portage Lake

  The drone's eye view.

Homer, Ak.

 

H/T: John Nolte-Breitbart

With Donald Trump off the ballot and the 2022 midterms just over the horizon, Democrats and their corporate media allies have launched an obscene crusade to dehumanize the unvaccinated.

This anti-science campaign to demonize more than half the American people as walking biohazards (those who’ve chosen not to get vaccinated or who cannot due to their youth) is right out of the Nazi playbook and one of the most grotesque things I’ve ever witnessed.

According to the far-left CDC’s very own math, the unvaccinated are almost entirely a threat only to themselves and hardly that. Here are the numbers, and let me repeat: these numbers come straight from the far-left CDC…

The Unvaccinated:

• If you’re unvaccinated and under the age of 70, your chances of surviving the coronavirus are over 99 percent.
• If you’re unvaccinated and under the age of 50, your chances of surviving the coronavirus are over 99.9 percent, which puts you in flu territory.
• If you’re unvaccinated and under the age of 20, your chances of surviving the coronavirus are 99.997 percent, which puts you in flu territory.

The Vaccinated:

Based on the numbers available right now (which could improve or worsen), of the 161 million-plus Americans who are vaccinated…

• Only 5,914 have gotten sick enough to be hospitalized.
• Only 1,141 have died.
• Of those, 74 percent were over the age of 65.
• In other words, only 0.0037 percent of the vaccinated have gotten sick enough to be hospitalized.
• Only 0.00071 percent have died.
• That means only 1 out of 27,223 of those vaccinated have gotten seriously ill.
• Only 1 out of 114,000 have died.
• Per the National Safety Council, your chances of dying in a car accident are 1 in 107.
• Per the National Safety Council, your chances of dying in a car accident this year are 1 in 8,400.

The Dehumanization Campaign:

Based on numbers like that, numbers straight from the far-left CDC, we are witnessing a fear and scapegoating campaign unlike anything since the dark days of McCarthyism.

The question is, why?

The answer is obvious: the 2022 midterms.

For five years, former President Donald Trump was the Democrats’ Great Turnout Machine, and this is a failing party in desperate need of a bogeyman to turn out voters.

You see, other than fear and hate and scapegoats, Democrats have nothing to offer voters. In full sway of the violent and fascist extremists in Black Lives Matter and Antifa — in one blue city after another, Democrats are proving utterly incapable of governing, of delivering even the basic services that directly affect the all-important quality of life.

Countless Democrat-run cities have become unsafe due to an unnecessary and preventable rise in violent crime caused by the undermining of their own police officers, a loony refusal to punish criminals, and the redefining of looting, burning, and anarchy as “mostly peaceful protests.”

On the national level, His Fraudulency Joe Biden demonizes un-vaccinated Americans even as he floods the country with tens of thousands of illegal aliens of unknown vaccination status.
What’s more, immediately upon taking office, Biden hit the poor with a whiplash-inducing explosion in energy prices and lunatic spending proposals that have created record inflation, a brutal tax on the poor.

Across the country, Democrat governor after Democrat governor use the coronavirus numbers above to justify wiping out small businesses, locking down the healthy, closing schools, and putting the healthy in masks — even after Texas, Florida, and South Dakota proved those measures unnecessary.

Meanwhile, while everyone was locked down and masked, Deep Blue California couldn’t deliver electricity to its citizens, and Democrat-run forests continue to burn to the ground due to mismanagement put in place to appease the enviro-freaks.

New York’s Democrat governor flooded nursing homes with the virus, and with the help of the Marxist mayor, destroyed New York City with crime and lockdowns.

The list goes on and on… This is a Democrat party out of ideas, and absent a bogeyman like Trump, they’re now targeting everyday Americans guilty of nothing more than minding their own business.

By manufacturing hysteria based on numbers like “0.00071” and “1 in 114,000,” Democrats and the organized left (CNNLOL, etc.) are scapegoating half the country just like Hitler scapegoated the Jews. They are the cause of death. They are the cause of a stalled economy. They are the cause of the noble and virtuous vaccinated being forced back into masks. They are the cause of schools not reopening. They are the cause of price increases. They are the cause of all the ills in the world.

With clenched fists and spittle flying, the left scream: IT’S THE UNVACCINATED! If you’re living in fear, living with stress and uncertainty, living with loss and unemployment, living with the indignity of masks, BLAME THE UNVACCINATED! Blame those selfish creatures! Blame those monsters who refuse to do what they’re told! And give us the power to DEAL WITH THEM!

Trump accepted the bogeyman role. He stepped into the arena and said, come and get me. That doesn’t make what was done to him, okay, but taking flaming arrows in the back was his choice.

This is different.

This is way different.

We’re talking about everyday people from all walks of life. We’re talking about a disproportionate number of black Americans and Hispanics. We’re talking about people who are much, much less of a threat to the vaccinated than a drive to the store.

The only true threat to America and Americans is the organized left — Democrats, the corporate media, Hollywood, academia, and Big Tech. Everything they touch turns to shit, so they require a scapegoat to save themselves from a coming 2022 wipe out, and this time…

The scapegoat is us.

Morning Light - Autumn

 

 

Mantanuska River

Photos From 600K Ride

 



 The Gakona Solstice 600K ride is arguably one of the best bicycle rides in Alaska, and certainly the height of the randonneuring season here.  The ride begins and ends at the Gakona Road House. The roadhouse is situated two miles from the intersection of the Richardson Highway and the Tok Cutoff Highway.  A six a.m. start takes you to the Richardson intersection and then a right, heading north to Delta Junction which is approximately 138 miles up the road.  From there you take another right on the Alaska Highway and head southeast to Tok, approximately 107 miles. This is the equivalent of a 400K brevet.  At Tok, riders usually rest for a few hours, maybe shower and have a change of clothes, a meal and are off on the last 126 miles from Tok back to Gakona. There is a forty hour time limit.



 A scene taken heading north on the Richardson, south of Paxson.  The first forty miles are a gradual but continual uphill to the first control at Meyers Lake. Between Meyers Lake and Paxson, the going is fairly level and after Paxson the road again climbs to Summit Lake.

 Summit Lake. The beauty of the scenery does not convey the ferocuios headwinds encountered.

North of Summit Lake, heading towards the Black Rapids River. We had these long downhills and should have been screaming down them and banking time like bandits. Instead, we were having to pedal downhill at around six miles per hour. But still, despite the headwinds making the going slow

and hard, it was beautiful.

Yours truly threw in the towel at the Black Rapids Lodge, slightly over 100 hundred miles into the ride. The wind wore me out and I was behind enough on time that I didn't think I could make it up. So I got a ride with our RBA who was working the controls and went onto Tok.  The next day, though I DNF'd (Did Not Finish), I rode th 126 mile leg from Tok back to Gakona. and I'm very glad I did. It was spectacular.

A photo from the Alaska Highway between Delta Junction and Tok, taken after midnight.  No traffic to speak of and just the sound of an owl hooting.

Taken along the Tok Cutoff. 

Another photo taken along the Tok Cutoff, near the Nabesna Road control. Our final control before finishing.

I don't usually quote movie stars or so called 'celebrities.'  But I will make an exception in this case for the following pearl.  Here's a quote from the actor James Caan on politics, "Nobody should give a shit about an actor's opinion on politics."

For the  childish dolts still rioting, threatening electors, vowing to obstruct the president-elect in all ways, please read the following article.

Michael Totten has panned his usual intelligent and informed letter of advice on foreign policy to the president-elect. It is worth reading in its entirety.

Finally for the Luddites wringing their hands over Trump's environmental view, and his appointment of Myron Ebell to lead the EPA, read this.

Personally, I think Trump is already beginning to exceed my expectations, which were admittedly low.

Finally, from Samizdata: THis is the left, it's who they are, it's how they roll...

 

Right. We’re going in. Those trees gonna die.

Natalie Solent (Essex) · Environment · UK affairs

Jennifer Saul, a professor of philosophy at the University of Sheffield, has a had a figurative and literal rude awakening. Writing in the Huffington Post, she says,

Authoritarianism in Sheffield
…you might think, local Labour councils would be on the side of the good—fighting authoritarianism and working to preserve what they can of the quality of life in their cities.
This morning, however, Sheffield’s Labour council showed us beyond a shadow of a doubt how they feel about the authoritarianism on the rise round the world. Overruling their own hand-picked Independent Tree Panels, they decided to descend on Rustlings Road, a quiet residential street, in the wee hours of the morning with 22 police officers, to fell 8 trees (6 of which the tree panels said should be saved). Residents were awakened in the middle of the night by police demanding that they move their cars. Three were arrested, including two pensioners. Police in the middle of the night, knocking on doors, dragging people out of bed? Arresting elderly law-abiding citizens? This is not the lovely left-wing city I thought I was moving to back in 1995.

I laughed at her political naivety until I remembered that I shared it. Whether the local authority was Labour, Conservative, or any other party, I would not have expected to read of vanloads of police with arc lights and bullhorns descending at dawn on any street of the UK for anything short of a raid on armed and dangerous gangsters.
Nor should Sheffield City Council get away with this less dramatic but equally ominous manipulation of the law:

We learned their recommendation today [i.e the decision of the Tree Panel], only after the felling. (Although the recommendation was dated 22 July, it was only published this morning at 4.30.) The council’s hand-picked experts recommended against felling 6 of the 8 trees. And yet the council was so determined to destroy them anyway that they engaged in a massive police action against law-abiding citizens in the middle of the night.

Other accounts of the incident can be read here and here.  By the way, none of the above news was 'fake'.

Architecture - 2016

#architecture
The Museum of the Arctic, University of Alaska, Fairbanks.

Morning Light

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Though this is a three shot HDR composite, the post production was minimal.  I did not punch up the colors, especially reds/yellows to get the photo to look like that. That is how things actually appeared that morning.  Some days nature does all the work for you.

Autumn Black and White

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Day #7

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Day #6

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Fall in New England has nothing on us.

Day #5

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Day number five.

This evening's view from the porch.

Day #4

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Day #3

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Downtown

Downtown Chitina, Ak.

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