Comments on: Open thread 8/25/23 https://thenewneo.com/2023/08/25/open-thread-8-25-23-2/ A blog about political change, among other things Sun, 27 Aug 2023 03:56:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: OBloodyHell https://thenewneo.com/2023/08/25/open-thread-8-25-23-2/#comment-2695961 Sun, 27 Aug 2023 03:56:45 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=128233#comment-2695961 Suggestion: Consider retaining some of the lint from your dryer’s lint filter for use as that kindling. The stuff is tailor made for that purpose. I keep it in a ziplock bag, as you don’t want it having access to oxygen, just in case it self-ignites from various natural causes.

}}} Of course, with emergency machete and hunting knife, one would be wise to have emergency matches, too.

Yeah, but if the current crop of lefties have their way, you’ll run out of matches and be unable to replace them… :-/

]]> By: Jerry https://thenewneo.com/2023/08/25/open-thread-8-25-23-2/#comment-2695863 Sat, 26 Aug 2023 15:02:43 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=128233#comment-2695863 Frederick @ 11:56,
Precisely. I personally have been pushed across the red line, thus my comment a couple days ago about not supporting any weasels. I tried to explain my reasoning but couldn’t. But you have captured it incredibly well. Thank you.

]]> By: Snow on Pine https://thenewneo.com/2023/08/25/open-thread-8-25-23-2/#comment-2695836 Sat, 26 Aug 2023 02:51:49 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=128233#comment-2695836 Even a monkey knows about fairness.

See this very funny video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meiU6TxysCg

]]> By: Cornflour https://thenewneo.com/2023/08/25/open-thread-8-25-23-2/#comment-2695831 Sat, 26 Aug 2023 01:28:09 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=128233#comment-2695831 Another painful reminder of the Left’s politicization of crime and criminalization of politics: yesterday, it was reported that Michael Byrd, the Capitol Police officer who murdered Ashli Babbitt on January 6th, has been promoted to Captain (https://tinyurl.com/3rfpv6nr).

Meanwhile, Derek Chauvin rots in jail for the bad luck of being in the same place as a felon who took an overdose of fentanyl.

And Trump will go to prison.

And Jordan Peterson will be sent to a political re-education camp.

I need a scorecard.

]]> By: miguel cervantes https://thenewneo.com/2023/08/25/open-thread-8-25-23-2/#comment-2695813 Fri, 25 Aug 2023 22:45:31 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=128233#comment-2695813 the distinction between a regime based on consent and one that isn’t, warning about language,

https://twitter.com/a_newsman/status/1695181171712295343

curiously it wasn’t even referenced in that so called debate,

]]> By: Snow on Pine https://thenewneo.com/2023/08/25/open-thread-8-25-23-2/#comment-2695808 Fri, 25 Aug 2023 22:31:58 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=128233#comment-2695808 P.S.—I point out that these 10,000 experimented on and ultimately killed was a far greater number killed than were killed by the Nazi’s Dr. Mengele.

]]> By: cb https://thenewneo.com/2023/08/25/open-thread-8-25-23-2/#comment-2695806 Fri, 25 Aug 2023 22:27:18 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=128233#comment-2695806 “The More You Know, The Less You Carry”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxIUI401zuU

]]> By: Snow on Pine https://thenewneo.com/2023/08/25/open-thread-8-25-23-2/#comment-2695805 Fri, 25 Aug 2023 22:23:19 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=128233#comment-2695805 that guy—the atrocities committed by the Japanese during WWII were quite extensive, and as the war wound towards it’s close—from my examination of contemporary reporting—were minimized, under, or just not reported.

One particularly ugly example is the history and activities of Japan’s Unit 731, their chemical and biological warfare experiment organization which was active in China and Manchuria for something like 10 years, starting in the mid 1930s.

After the war all involved escaped prosecution because the U.S. made a deal to get the results of their “experiments “ in return for immunity from prosecution.

They scooped up all sorts of people—various unlucky Chinese, communists, some Russians, and various POWs, and conducted horrific experiments on them.

The number of victims experimented on seems to have been around 10,000 ( could be more) and none survived these horrific experiments.

]]> By: J.J. https://thenewneo.com/2023/08/25/open-thread-8-25-23-2/#comment-2695802 Fri, 25 Aug 2023 22:17:48 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=128233#comment-2695802 I did that friction fire starting in Boy Scouts but used a bow to spin the stick. Very time consuming and the materials must be very dry.

Moved up to flint and steel. That requires charred cloth as a receptacle for the spark. Takes about two or three strikes to get a spark to enter the char. Then you use dried, shredded bark as tinder. Put the glowing char in the center of a ball of tinder, then blow on it gently. Have a teepee of smaller sticks to put the flaming tinder under. Voila, you have a campfire.

I won the fire-starting contest at several Boy Scout jamborees in the 1940s. As a result, I was selected to start the opening campfire for the National Boy Scout Conference when it was held in my hometown. A bit of pressure performing before such a big audience, but I had done it so many times that I wasn’t the least bit nervous. Had the fire going in just a minute or so. To great applause from the conferees.

]]> By: Kate https://thenewneo.com/2023/08/25/open-thread-8-25-23-2/#comment-2695780 Fri, 25 Aug 2023 20:52:21 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=128233#comment-2695780 physicsguy, congratulations on finally moving in! I hope the house will meet all your expectations.

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