I’ll be busy for a while now…
…but I’m planning another post tonight.
Till then – nice view, but I wouldn’t trust Foxie overly much:
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…but I’m planning another post tonight.
Till then – nice view, but I wouldn’t trust Foxie overly much:
That was kinda nice, actually—and that vista was majestic. (Hope the fox doesn’t run off with the kid, though.)
Be curious to see if Ozzie has his own version of this…
Holy cow. I wonder what altitude his house is at? Since I turned 50, I get altitude sickness if I go above about 8k. Even in Denver it takes me a few days to start to feel comfortable even if I’m not doing anything physical. That’s an awesome view though.
On another note…this guy’s a moron. I bet he grew up in a city and, as a result, has never really grokked the basic fact that mother nature is actively trying to kill you every second of every day. Fox are not generally aggressive unless cornered or threatened, but that fox is a wild animal and could easily perceive a threat that isn’t intended or real and decide to “defend itself” against that scary little creature in the blue onesy.
Then we’ll be reading about this terrible tragedy in the news and the Music Man will be telling everyone how shocked he is that his friendly neighborhood fox was capable of such violence.
Suspicious: does the Fox just wander by? Or has the guy been feeding him.
Maybe he would like a snack to eat while listening.
If the fox comes “to hear the guy play banjo every day”….how come the guy is pictured with a guitar?
He’s INVITING an attack, no?
He’s INVITING an attack, no?
You mean the fox is gonna go all Bluto Blutarsky on the guitar?
I am enamoured of the idea of him playing & animals either not running away from the noise or “gathering” to listen…but I’m not sure I’d let my newborn or eventual toddler around foxes unguarded.
Wild animals are always wild animals.
Wonder if he’s tried singing “The Fox Went Out On a Chilly Night” to him.
@ Earl > I also noticed the guitar. Perhaps social media influencers really are that dumb.
@ Mac > “Wonder if he’s tried singing “The Fox Went Out On a Chilly Night” to him.”
Cue Burl Ives, before he gets cancelled for something.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_dQFVSbyrY
Neo,
Have you ever posted something on the nihilism of the Democrat party?
I am becoming more and more convinced that conservatives have no idea just how deep Democrats are in denying reality. I think we want to believe that the wackiest of the wacky are just a fringe. The clues are piling up too high to keep believing that. Democrats are nihilists.
One more straw on the camel’s back — Pelosi is adamant that rampant govt spending does not cause inflation. Indeed, she asserts that it will be the cure! The most fundamental and well-established truths of economic history are now ignored because they conflict with the goal of political power. Alice’s queen was an amateur by comparison.
Science (indeed all academic research) now serves only as a tool for Democrats to achieve and retain power. Climate science isn’t just corrupt, it’s grossly incompetent. Covid “science” has been even worse and I didn’t think that was possible. Men can get pregnant. There are more genders than Heinz 57. These are not just fringe silliness. Denying them can wreck your life. These are just a glimpse at how far off the rails science and academia has gotten. It’s important to recognize that everything academia produces is just as rotten as male pregnancy.
The vast majority of all published studies are flawed. Anyone who doesn’t understand that needs to dig into the reasons why. Once you do, you can’t deny it. And the implications are scarier and scarier the longer you contemplate them. And studies which have any political utility to the left are virtually guaranteed to be flawed. Because they were produced to fill the political need. See e.g. Mann’s hockey stick. As he noted in an email to other political partisans, “we need to get rid of the MWP.” And then he produced the hockey stick which did. Despite the fact that every single part of the study was riddled with flaws, it was universally acclaimed by every major science group in the world. Science is broken. It’s all political posturing produced to serve the political needs of the politicians who fund it.
BLM and Antifa are peaceful and praise-worthy. Cops are ruthless killers roaming the streets looking to gun down innocent kids of color. And no one can say anything to the contrary without having their careers and lives wrecked.
We don’t just live in a post-truth society. We live in a world where reality is denied relentlessly in every field — military, media, academy, entertainment, government. The only, ONLY consideration that matters is whether it advances the revolution. There is no truth. Only lies that are useful. It isn’t just that everything is political. It’s that politics defines the very existence of everything.
Democrats have adopted Lysenko science to build a Potemkin Village and they are working tirelessly to force all of us to live in it. And for the most part they’ve already accomplished it.
But here’s the scary part. I’m convinced they’ve lived in their putrid lies so long, so completely, so corruptly that they have lost touch with reality. Pelosi, Hillary and Bill, Elizabeth Warren, Biden, Obama, Schumer — none of them have demonstrated any sense any more. Can anyone name a Democrat that has? Other than Manchin. Maybe Sinema. They’ve become fully immersed in the fantasy land they created.
I guess I’m trying to go beyond simply ranting about the constant, relentless lying that has dominated and driven the Democrats since the Clintons took control. I’m seriously concerned that they’ve denied reality for so long that they aren’t even in control anymore. I don’t think they even know they are lying anymore.
The academic dismissal of truth has infected and taken control of the whole party and all its institutional wings. If hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays virtue and it supposedly provides a guardrail against nihilism, what awaits us when the liars no longer even recognize that they are lying.
We live in a time of nihilism. Our society celebrates when people smash and burn neighborhoods. Just as all our institutions burn and destroy their own guardrails.
Will we ever condemn the nihilists?
The political divide in America is no longer a disagreement about policy.
It’s an existential fight about reality and truth.
stan,
I agree with much or what you wrote but the Dems are playing a clever game with their statements about inflation and words matter.
Increased government spending does not, necessarily, create inflation. Pelosi and Biden have been (to my mind) very specific in their wording, and Jen Psaki sometimes does this too. Although I abhor most government spending and think the Federal budget should be about $312.27, government spending and inflation are not, necessarily, directly linked.
Most people I hear complaining about inflation and the Federal government point to the Federal Reserve (the government) printing money. It is a truism that printing more fiat currency leads to a deflation in the value of that fiat currency, which means the cost of goods and services purchased with that currency will increase; a.k.a., “inflation.” “Too much money chasing too few goods” as my Econ 101 professor taught me.
Pelosi, Biden and Psaki have cleverly switched out “printing” with “spending” to make their statement potentially accurate while doing a sleight of hand regarding the real problem.
Although, out of control, deficit, Federal spending is also a huge problem!
stan,
If you haven’t seen it, Dinesh D’Souza’s film, “Hillary’s America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party” is worth a watch, especially for folks who don’t understand all that you outline. It does a great job of showing the party’s duplicitousness and evil intent from its very inception.
stan:
I’ve certainly written posts that contain the word “nihilist” or “nihilism.” For example, there’s this one which talks about the left’s lies and its nihilism. But “nihilism” is used there in a slightly different way than I think you’re using it. I use the word in other essays, too, but this one contains a particularly lengthy description and discussion of how it applied to the Obama administration.
Perhaps this post of mine is a better fit for what you’re talking about?
Regarding the Democrat Party and nihilism,
I think words like selfishness, narcissism or immaturity explain the general attitude better. Democrats are not nihilistic about their own lives. They generally think and act as if they are the most important people in the world.