Rain at least compacted the snow, and cleared enough space on the road that the odd jobs man's utility vehicle was able to come up just as the animals in the neighborhood started to run out of feed. The cats got an inferior grade of kibble, explained as the only kind left in the store, and were glad to see kibble of any grade again. I'm low on human food, but if no more snow falls I expect to be able to pick my way out with a stick when I run out of human food. Deliveries will certainly be welcome; dangerous heroics are not necessary.
Books
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Tolkien and his dragons...why he called the big bad dragon Smaug.
Bookshop is doing a promotion of new nonfiction for Black History Month. I recognize only a couple of reprints in their list. Let's just say that all books by Zora Neale Hurston are interesting--she was quite an interesting person, and a gifted writer--and may become your favorites, and all libraries for grades seven and up need a copy of Martin Luther King's Letter from Birmingham Jail. The others, well, they're on sale and may be good. Buying them through the link below will help the Cat Sanctuary.
Cybersecurity
Whatever did I say that multiplied my readership by five? Satisfactory numbers of readers are in the US, in Germany, and in Brazil, but why are four or five times as many in Vietnam? Heads up, Google! Masses of views from a country that one has not been writing about, where one does not know a lot of people, tend to come from organized spammers and scammers. If people in Vietnam are actually reading this blog, that's a different thing, and they're welcome. But I suspect these views are coming from digital malware.
Health News
Currently used MMR vaccine does not necessarily give immunity to measles:
And some scientists think some vax really can trigger autism in some patients, though the explanation of why they don't have that effect on most patients is strictly theoretical.
Politics
(The rant was written in response to some headlines that didn't really need links; you've already seen them.)
The hush of the snow dampens the clamor of politics, and for those who turn on the news the brawls of idiot Yankees are there to distract attention from what our Spamburger is quietly doing with the legislature--ramming through all the new legislation we do not want, including "sanctuary cities" rubbish so we can reenact the Minneapolis civil war right here.
The Left are gushing emotion in that hammy, fakey, out-of-touch way that make me wonder how much, if any, of it they actually feel and, if so, how much of it actually has anything to do with the events they rant on about. Oh, oh, woe and wail, poor little Renee Good was so good and poor little Alex Pretti was so pretty and we just know they are in Heaven now, though if anyone on the Right mentions Heaven they're the first to sneer at the antiquated fairytales to which we bitterly cling. It gets nauseous.
Renee Good was a homicidal motorist. She may not have seen herself that way. Most of them don't. They're just a little bit careless, had just one drink too many, didn't think it would matter, until they've hit somebody. We all saw the video: Good's car, or would you call it a van, SUV, whatever, bumped the agent. Good's driver slammed on the brakes. Good squawked "Drive, baby, drive." At that point the agent shot her and, fine man that he undoubtedly is, he let the driver live, which is more than I would have been likely to do in that situation. Are the Left grateful? They are not. Though according to someone at Quora Good's last words were "I'm not mad at you." Did she mean the driver or the agent? Who knows? Who, actually, cares? Somehow I don't think the hysterical left-wingnuts do. I think, if Good had been a Republican and had hit a street cop when not protesting an order given by President Trump, the people screaming loudest about her death would be celebrating it.
Alex Pretti was, we are told, a nurse. On what hospital's payroll, then? Oh, he was a volunteer nurse. Maybe he was. Maybe there's a hospital that doesn't snap up a young healthy male nurse who is qualified. The financial situation in most American businesses has been deeply weird since the COVID panic, so I'm not saying it's not possible. Anyway what we all saw on video was Alex Pretti kicking in the taillight of a motor vehicle. Approached by policemen, he ran. Surrounded by policemen who ran faster than he, he reached for a loaded handgun, putting left-wingnuts into the position of having to defend his right to bear arms. His apologists claim he had been trying to "comfort a woman." That wasn't on the video. In the last minutes of his life Pretti was not concerned about comforting anybody.
But it may be true. Alex Pretti may have been trying to comfort a woman who wanted to keep beside her some man who had just been loaded into the vehicle he was kicking. Renee Good may even have been trying to feel whatever she thought forgiveness to be toward the agent who shot her.
Nicki Minaj, that well-known spiritual teacher, outraged some people who preferred her when she was singing, or screaming, whatever, about sex and drugs. She supports the President. Roseanne Cash, a quiet and independent musician who doesn't need to try to be a celebrity like her father, outraged some of her fans, too. She supports the protest.
Let's put it this way. Some of the "refugees" and "would-be immigrants" the Left wanted to bring in to prop up Social Security are, in fact, the scum of the earth, not welcome back in their native countries and not welcome here, and if they're loaded onto leaky ships no one will shed one tear. And then some of them are the salt of the earth, and have more right to be here, more right to be breathing up oxygen in this world, than some people who were born here. I am, Donald Trump, related to an outstanding example of just how vile it is possible for a Virginia gentleman to be. Why don't you send him to Somalia and give some "immigrant" who is willing to work a decent job that pays White man's wages.
I don't hate Nicki Minaj if she wants some creep who's been stalking her deported. I don't hate Roseanne Cash if she wants some friend of hers to be able to stay here. What's going wrong with all of us, anyway, that we're letting ourselves be so "polarized' about this? Who benefits from our being "polarized," anyway? Well...the cause of global tyranny does. The cosmic Evil Principle does. Do you believe anyone else does?
Faith of our fathers! we will love
Both friend and foe in all our strife...
Where are the Christians loving and supporting one another across this present strife?
Tom DeWeese asks whether the Rs have a plan to win elections this year:
I think practicing good will toward our foes in this strife (which does not mean letting them win any elections) might work.
Zazzle
A new trend is giving bags of coffee as favors at parties that may run far into the night. For each gift-sized bag you buy, $1 goes to help protect butterflies and their habitat.
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