Comments on: Open thread 1/2/2025

By: Marlene

Marlene — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 05:21:17 +0000

Snow on Pine: Yes, the Left’s crazy “soft on crime” policies have taught so many wobbly or amoral people exactly what they hoped to find, in their lives.
Freedom to be criminals.
And the worst part: the lesson is especially embraced by the young.

By: Snow on Pine

Snow on Pine — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 14:30:35 +0000

P.S.–If you look at some of these Youtube videos about theft at retail/bigbox stores, a lot of the younger thieves appear/profess to have convinced themselves that, what they are doing is not really theft i.e. the store somehow “deserved it,” or, their insurance would pay for it, so, no big deal.

Moreover, since they are “young,” they sometimes argue that they should be let off, and released without any charges.

By: Snow on Pine

Snow on Pine — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 13:44:20 +0000

Here’s a story in the Atlantic which talks about how self checkout is failing.

The story minimizes crime as merely being only one of the reasons for this failure, but if Youtube is any indication, just breezing by the self checkout kiosk with a boat load of un-paid for stolen merchandise, and heading for the exit, “skip-scanning” i.e. you scan the cheap items but don’t scan the expensive ones, or switching bar code tags are extremely common forms of theft.

Yeah, there are all sorts of other reasons for the failure of this “experiment,” but given the level of disregard for the law, and criminality–casual or professional–these days, it was never really going to work.*

* See https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/10/self-checkout-kiosks-grocery-retail-stores/675676/

By: Snow on Pine

Snow on Pine — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 12:56:11 +0000

By: Snow on Pine

Snow on Pine — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 12:42:12 +0000

Here is a horrendous story out of the UK, which more and more people need to be aware of, the Pakistani grooming gang which, over the course of 1997-2013, groomed, raped, and sexually assaulted 1,500 young girls–some reportedly as young as 11–and passed them around among themselves in Rotherdam. There are also other, similar cases, Oxford, for instance, when it was 400 girls.

It was apparently an open secret that this horrific grooming, rape, and sexual exploitation was going on, the authorities knew about it, but did nothing about it, for fear of being seen as “racist.”

Reportedly Police not only ignoring the evidence when it was presented to them, but even going so far as to arrest fathers when they tried to rescue their daughters.

All the perps need to be given life sentences, and every civilian and police official, every politician who looked the other way ought to be sacked and prosecuted.*

You want a glaring example of institutional cowardice, the devolution and destruction of traditional England, and how multiculturalism and political correctness have driven a stake through it’s heart, here it is.

* See https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/01/renewed-outrage-over-rotherham-other-uk-child-exploitation-cases-after-elon-musk-demands-accountability/

By: Philip Sells

Philip Sells — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 03:34:20 +0000

Chases Eagles, thanks for that about the scaups! That was me.

By: Karmi

Karmi — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 23:38:41 +0000

With Ukraine facing a new incoming administration whilst the historically renown bully Russia continues to pummel them – my thoughts turned to a site normally avoided due to it’s negative reporting on Ukraine. ‘A small Soviet army cannot defeat a big Soviet army.’:

Once a cautionary tale, this phrase now rings prophetic. Of course, calling Ukraine’s army a “small Soviet army” oversimplifies the issue – neither Russia’s nor Ukrainian military is truly Soviet in the broad sense, but both have inherited the Soviet military's systemic flaws. For Ukraine, decades of neglect, underfunding, lack of military prestige, and compounding socio-economic problems have exacerbated these problems. Only a large-scale demanding society-wide mobilization has laid these issues bare.

*IF* Ukraine is allowed to fall into Russia’s hands once again, then I suspect that history will show such as one of the biggest (if not the biggest) mistakes ever made by America. Europe? Sure, Europe also, but such mistakes are basically the Modus Operandi of Europe. Long but interesting read...

By: Chases Eagles

Chases Eagles — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 23:17:36 +0000

There was a question a couple,of days ago about scaups. The scaups are only here for about 8 weeks or so in the winter and they are not here every day. They are here today. There are about 150 mixed greater and lesser scaups. Normally they don’t come close but today they only about 10-30 yards away. They are feeding on sand shrimp and escargot but I think they are also hiding from an eagle by using my house to block his line of sight. I last identified the wounded bird on the 29th.

By: huxley

huxley — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 22:44:24 +0000

The fun thing about subliminal advertising is that, once you do your homework, it’s a secret hidden in plain sight. A conspiracy, if you will.

Meanwhile, our authorities in government and academia, if they bother, deny the issue and denounce anyone who calls out the emperor for nakedness.

But in 2025 we’ve seen the deny and denounce strategy played out often enough that it shouldn’t be a surprise.

Of course, subliminal advertising isn’t a burning issue like, say, election fraud. It’s just interesting and fun if you’re in the mood.

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 21:09:21 +0000

TOTAL Corruption, Inc.

“Let Battle Commence: Trump Admin Begins War For Freedom Over Deep-State Control”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/let-battle-commence-trump-admin-begins-war-freedom-over-deep-state-control

Will Trump-ules be able to clean up / clear out the Augean Stables?

One must dearly hope so….
(Will he even be given the chance?…. To be sure, “Biden” still has 19 days left to TOTALLY screw up the country…)