Comments on: Open thread 2/13/23 https://thenewneo.com/2023/02/13/open-thread-2-13-23/ A blog about political change, among other things Tue, 14 Feb 2023 17:20:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 By: Barry Meislin https://thenewneo.com/2023/02/13/open-thread-2-13-23/#comment-2666561 Tue, 14 Feb 2023 17:20:10 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=124098#comment-2666561 Now that’s a superlative point.
(One might also have asked what they do at night….)
But it is certainly a curious regulation.
It’s entirely possible that this is precisely the reason why traffic jams are horrendous in S. Korea. (I understand that in NK, it’s a real pleasure to drive.)
Nonetheless, if you read the fine print, it says, whomever establishes eye-contact FIRST.
(But that may not get us very far…)
The even finer print says, whomever blinks first (after establishing eye-contact).
What they don’t tell you is that most, if not all, Korean drivers wear sunglasses.
I suspect one might understand the reason why….

(Now…just don’t get me started on the traffic circles/roundabouts/rond-points in France….

]]> By: richf https://thenewneo.com/2023/02/13/open-thread-2-13-23/#comment-2666554 Tue, 14 Feb 2023 15:37:01 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=124098#comment-2666554 “,,, If you are approaching an intersection and make eye contact with the other driver, you are supposed to yield.”

If you make eye contact with the other driver, isn’t the other driver also making eye contact with you ?

Doesn’t this imply that BOTH of you are supposed to yield ?

]]> By: Barry Meislin https://thenewneo.com/2023/02/13/open-thread-2-13-23/#comment-2666540 Tue, 14 Feb 2023 14:37:03 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=124098#comment-2666540 …French historian spews warning!
“World War III Has Already Begun”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/french-historian-world-war-iii-has-already-begun
…but gives the game away with:
‘…”the resistance of the Russian economy is pushing the U.S. imperial system toward the abyss” and that Biden must “hurry” to rescue a “fragile” America….’
“Rescue” America, eh? Sure thing, mon ami!

Oh well, so much for French historian…

(I mean, hasn’t he figured out yet the obvious: that the “UFOs” that “Biden” has been shooting down are arriving en masse precisely to try to save humanity from destroying itself?)

]]> By: Barry Meislin https://thenewneo.com/2023/02/13/open-thread-2-13-23/#comment-2666538 Tue, 14 Feb 2023 14:19:23 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=124098#comment-2666538 Related (unfortunately)…
We heard about the foxes and the chickens.
Now it’s the fish….
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/environment/least-3500-fish-killed-75-mile-stretch-ohio-water-after-train
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/ohios-apocalyptic-chemical-disaster-rages

But don’t worry. Sec. Pete’s on it.
“Buttigieg tells crowd White construction workers are taking jobs from communities of color”—
https://www.foxnews.com/media/buttigieg-white-construction-workers-taking-jobs-communities-color

And as we speak…
“Two More Trains Derail Across US After Ohio Catastrophe”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/two-more-trains-derail-across-us-after-ohio-catastrophe

More crises.
More distractions.
So forget about those balloons.
Forget about those sea-floor pipelines.
Forget about those gas ovens
Forget about those classified documents.
Forget about Hunter Biden.
Forget about inflation
Forget about that southern border.
Forget about CRT and DIE.
Forget about skyrocketing urban crime
Forget about the weaponized IRS (and weaponized everything else)
You gonna criticize Biden/”Biden”, eh?

Meanwhile…

]]> By: Miguel cervantes https://thenewneo.com/2023/02/13/open-thread-2-13-23/#comment-2666537 Tue, 14 Feb 2023 14:07:12 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=124098#comment-2666537 https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/02/14/health-concerns-grow-as-more-toxic-chemicals-revealed-on-derailed-ohio-train-than-first-made-public/

]]> By: Barry Meislin https://thenewneo.com/2023/02/13/open-thread-2-13-23/#comment-2666536 Tue, 14 Feb 2023 13:50:16 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=124098#comment-2666536 Thanks for that link, Miguel.
In better times, more normal times, one would likely dismiss those contentions as absurd, ridiculous, nuts.
Unfortunately, today one CANNOT do that.
In fact, today, given what the FBI and its political masters have been up to, you’d believe it immediately, no question.
(You might still weep a bit, if only deep inside, but you’d believe it. In fact you’d have to.)

File under: Federal Bureau of Intrapment.

]]> By: Miguel cervantes https://thenewneo.com/2023/02/13/open-thread-2-13-23/#comment-2666534 Tue, 14 Feb 2023 13:42:09 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=124098#comment-2666534 https://amgreatness.com/2023/02/13/did-a-government-intel-asset-plant-key-evidence-in-proud-boys-case/

]]> By: stan https://thenewneo.com/2023/02/13/open-thread-2-13-23/#comment-2666532 Tue, 14 Feb 2023 13:33:20 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=124098#comment-2666532 Huxley,

Agree on 60s and early 70s. Woodstock was the summer of 69. That marked the coming of the sixties culture to mainstream America. A somewhat older friend of mine recalled leaving Princeton at the end of spring semester in 1969 with his preppy khakis, penny loafers and short haircut. He returned for the fall with long hair and bell bottom jeans thinking that his friends would be shocked at the changes. He was surprised to see that all of his friends had made the same changes over the summer.

One of the many interesting insights from the documentary “Harvard beats Yale 29-29” was the recollection of the conservative social attitudes on both campuses in the fall of 1968. The sixties may have been in full swing at campuses like Berkeley and Madison, but they hadn’t yet infiltrated Harvard and Yale with barely a year left in the decade.

A look at HS or college yearbooks from 1970 to 1976 will show when the long hair of the sixties actually became widespread in the culture.

One of my baseball teammates at Davidson in 1975 had a pony tail that extended past the middle of his back (he would go on to manage Channel One for Whittle and was publisher of Rolling Stone for Jann Wenner). Our All-American 1B (also a star LB in football) had a big bushy Fu Manchu in addition to the longest hair of his life. When we beat Bobby Richardson’s South Carolina team that finished 2d in the nation, the old Yankee star with his crew cut was as upset by our long hair as he was at their only home loss of the season.

For the vast majority of America, the sixties happened in the seventies.

]]> By: Barry Meislin https://thenewneo.com/2023/02/13/open-thread-2-13-23/#comment-2666529 Tue, 14 Feb 2023 13:17:42 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=124098#comment-2666529 And for those of us who have forgotten some of the animus that fills Biden’s past WRT the Jewish State (or perhaps never even knew in the first place) we can thank Jeff Dunetz for straightening us out:
“Biden And Israel, So Far No Good”—
https://lidblog.com/biden-and-israel-so-far-no-good/

Continued at… https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/367448
“There is still time to avoid an anti-Israel legacy, but don’t hold your breath. It started with his Senate career and continues on.”

(Knowing all this…it should be obvious why the State of Israel—under its previous government—honored Biden with a special medal…)

]]> By: stan https://thenewneo.com/2023/02/13/open-thread-2-13-23/#comment-2666527 Tue, 14 Feb 2023 13:05:35 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=124098#comment-2666527 I understand that Steve Kirsch is willing to pay ten times the money bet to anyone who can show his data analysis of the vax causing excess death is wrong.

https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/death-reports-prove-that-the-covid

Sounds like easy money. I expect lots of brilliant number crunchers to cash in post haste.

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