Comments on: Open thread 12/23/21

By: Lee

Lee — Fri, 24 Dec 2021 13:36:39 +0000

Looking at data:

https://twitter.com/Longtimedead3/status/1474278673775620099

https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/denmark-vaccine-a-danger-to-the-vaxxed?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjozMDc0MzU4NiwicG9zdF9pZCI6NDU5NDYzMDQsIl8iOiJrQ1BGciIsImlhdCI6MTY0MDMyOTkzNSwiZXhwIjoxNjQwMzMzNTM1LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItNDQxMTg1Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.O6wYdgiTHOLbiUVJWL27OWOMZuIkU-eC3AWSvFGFpAM

By: lee

lee — Fri, 24 Dec 2021 10:54:51 +0000

Another person publishing at substack worth reading.
Share this one with any doctors you know who are being persecuted for treating patients.

https://roundingtheearth.substack.com/p/attacks-on-physicians-and-scientists?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjozMzg2MTYzNywicG9zdF9pZCI6NDU5NTQxNDgsIl8iOiJUZUZpTSIsImlhdCI6MTY0MDM0Mjg4NSwiZXhwIjoxNjQwMzQ2NDg1LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMjk1Nzc2Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.pdfFRDzEtKpN6PZRG0PnkqSgRKsifzUA0ujK_pLL9R4

By: TJ

TJ — Fri, 24 Dec 2021 03:46:22 +0000

The Revolver expose of Jan 6th gets approvingly reviewed by Roger Kimball, via Glenn Reynolds.

The “Insurrection” becomes the Fedsurrection:
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/493158/

After fake news and fake election came the fake insurrection? Well, why not?

By: Zaphod

Zaphod — Fri, 24 Dec 2021 03:39:38 +0000

Because I know you’d all hate to miss this, here’s Maniacal Genius Ed Dutton interviewing our perennial favourite:

https://odysee.com/@JollyHeretic:d/The-Z-Man-Joins-Us-to-Explore-His-Theory-of-Everything:a

By: OldTexan

OldTexan — Fri, 24 Dec 2021 03:24:16 +0000

Oh my goodness I remember those vacuum drive windshield wipers as well as that nice in front of the windshield vent on those old cars which had a had to move lever under the center of the dash.

By: Another Mike

Another Mike — Fri, 24 Dec 2021 02:27:24 +0000

Seventy-seven years young here. As a youngster our family car was a ’37 Dodge, acquire before the war. split windshield, and rear window. No radio. A trip to Monterey one spring, in the rain, demonstrated why the vacuum operated wipers went out of vogue; every hill the old Dodge climbed stopped the wipers. We never had an actual new car, always used.

I learned to drive in the 1950 Dodge… fluid-drive and all. A true tank. Was on my way to school with an older neighbor who drove when we heard of Buddy Holly’s death. I loved that music, as well as a lot of the “folk” genre of the time… Disco drove me into the country genre.

As said above: Buddy Holley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry…. now you are talking music. It took Haggard and Jennings to cut into the old rock…

You younguns missed some good times….

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 24 Dec 2021 01:21:42 +0000

The death of the front vent window may have something to do with a rectangular pane of glass in a rigid metal track and a separate vent window. These required a heavier more complex and costly door assembly. It is possible that some clever design engineer came up with a mechanism for a single pane glass window mechanism that was lighter and less expensive. You know they call that an engineering and design and marketing decision. For some reason there is no demand for “sneeze through wind vent” windows on cars.

By: Art Deco

Art Deco — Thu, 23 Dec 2021 23:53:57 +0000

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alessadominguez/culture-wars-media-misinformation

She evidently has a PhD in “American Studies” from the latrine of the Ivy League, Brown University. Hasn’t made her salable to the rest of the professoriate even in these degenerate times. She’s employed by BuzzFeed to persuade the rest of us she’s impossible to live with and should be out on the curb.

By: Geoffrey Britain

Geoffrey Britain — Thu, 23 Dec 2021 23:07:50 +0000

I’m 73 and didn’t begin to appreciate rock until the mid 60s.

Check out Buddy Holly’s “True Love Ways” recorded in
October 1958, four months before the singer’s death and in mono with astonishing fidelity.

“Can you folks actually remember traveling in cars with split windshields, and straight sixes?” DNW

Yes. But what I miss most is the small side windows you could crank out. They allowed you to roll the front windows down on a mild day or night and not have the wind buffeting you as it enters the vehicle. Now the wind roils about and interferes with having a pleasant conversation while driving. Marketing for aethetics instead of practicality.

By: TommyJay

TommyJay — Thu, 23 Dec 2021 22:20:51 +0000

Ah, those older cars. At the end of the 60’s I commuted to high school in my cousin’s Corvair. A cool car in spite of the controversial rear suspension.

A friend’s parents were fans of old Cadillacs with big fins. If I recall correctly, one of them had a tail light lens on that fin that flipped open to expose the gasoline filler neck. The same friend had an old Plymouth with big mechanical pushbuttons on the dash that shifted the transmission.

Another friend went rally racing with his father in a Fiat 850 Spider. That’s probably where I got my love of very small cars.

I got my parent’s cast-off German made Ford Capri with a pushrod V-6. Lot’s of fun.