Showing posts with label spring. Show all posts
Showing posts with label spring. Show all posts

7/04/2021

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.

4/08/2013

Where's the Global Warming When You Need It?

I took this Saturday evening. It had snowed hard all day. But it was close to freezing. I figured it was winter's last hurrah and would melt away in a day or two. Boy was I wrong.


Sunday was cold & cloudy but with some sun, now today, it's been snowing most of the day and as I write this, it's coming down very hard. This morning when I went out for a 4 mile jog, our thermometer was reading around 10F.

To wit...



Winter Weather Advisory
URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ANCHORAGE AK
410 PM AKDT MON APR 8 2013

AKZ101-091330-
/X.CON.PAFC.WW.Y.0033.000000T0000Z-130409T2000Z/
ANCHORAGE-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ANCHORAGE...EAGLE RIVER...INDIAN...
EKLUTNA
410 PM AKDT MON APR 8 2013

...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SNOW REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON AKDT TUESDAY...

* LOCATION...ANCHORAGE BOWL AND HILLSIDE.

* SNOW...TOTAL SNOW ACCUMULATION 3 TO 8 INCHES THROUGH NOON ON TUESDAY. HIGHEST AMOUNTS WILL BE ALONG THE HILLSIDE AND ACROSS EAST ANCHORAGE.

* TIMING...SNOW WILL INCREASE THIS EVENING INTO THE EARLY OVERNIGHT. SIGNIFICANT SNOW ACCUMULATIONS WILL PERSIST THROUGH TUESDAY MORNING. MINOR ADDITIONAL ACCUMULATIONS OF SNOW ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT.

* IMPACTS...TRAVEL MAY BE DIFFICULT. VISIBILITIES MAY BE LIMITED IN HEAVY SNOWFALL.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SNOW MEANS THAT PERIODS OF SNOW WILL CAUSE PRIMARILY TRAVEL DIFFICULTIES. BE PREPARED FOR SNOW COVERED ROADS AND LIMITED VISIBILITIES...AND USE CAUTION WHILE DRIVING.

                          ..............

It's April, the days are getting pretty long again. We're little more than two months from the summer solstice and shortening days again. A week ago, I had the bike out and was doing 10 mile rides after work. I figured I might get lucky and get some substantial mileage in during April. No such luck.

You always have to assume that there's 'one more' coming. Until about mid-May anyway.
Oh well enough whining, I guess I better head to Wal-Mart, buy my self some straws & suck it the f**k up. 

(Taken Monday evening around 8PM)
 

7/21/2012

In Memorium...


In lieu of the shootings in Aurora Co., it seems the media is in over-drive, focusing on the shooter, who he was, what were his motivations, what was his life like... ad nauseum. Witnesses are trotted in front of the camera to describe the grisly horror of those moments in the theater for the titillation of the couch potato audience. Only too happy to comply and get their 15 minutes of fame. Already political grist is being made out of this tragedy. I've even seen such items on Flickr for God's sake, subtly advocating disarming the law abiding public.

Perhaps everyone should just STFU and take a moment in silence for those who didn't live to see the next day. Perhaps we might even reflect on the fact that we who do get to see another day, maybe ought to try to act like it might be our last. Maybe, just maybe if we really gave a shit...

Nah, that's crazy talk!

6/10/2012

Country Livin...


This past week, a brown bear was shot and killed about a mile from our house in a residential neighborhood, near a park I used to take my daughter to when she was small. The article link is here. Some of the comments are pretty stupid.
Here's a link to a map showing the tracking of some brown bears in the Anchorage area. Not the usual problem a city of this size would have in most places.

3/26/2011

Spring time



Early spring evening...



This past week, the last movie star died. Elizabeth Taylor.
In remembrance, here's a photo from a time in her life when she wasn't just hot, but smoking hot. I recommend you watch "Who's afraid of Virginia Wolf?" and see how great acting looked. She and Richard Burton seem so real, you almost wonder if they were acting. RIP...
H/T to Small Dead animals on the photo.