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I get allergic smelling hay!
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 12, 2026 05:31 PM (1Ff7Z) 2
I don't know if I'd want to go to a retired tractor display. They'd probably just sit around bitching about how bad things are today.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 12, 2026 05:33 PM (1Ff7Z) 3
If any among the Horde embark on pallet hobbying projects, send a photo. Thank you!
I took apart a couple of pallets to make a tool corral for the yard implements. Looks like crap, so I won't embarrass my construction abilities by sending in a photo. Does the job, but it'd probably lose a beauty contest to Dylan Mulvaney. Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 12, 2026 05:35 PM (1Ff7Z) 4
"She might have took my car keys --
But she forgot about my old John Deere!" "She thinks my tractor's sexy . . ." Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 05:37 PM (wzUl9) 5
Couldn't have bulldozers or tanks if it weren't for Benjamin Holt and the Caterpillar.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 12, 2026 05:40 PM (1Ff7Z) 6
If model kit companies like Revell or he long-defunct Aurora had the wide range of assembly kits of the '60s and '70s, I'm sure at least one would produce a tractor in 1/25 scale to go along with a vintage Ford pickup truck. That 1938 JD looks like a good candidate. You could create a cool diorama: the tractor outside a barn or farmhouse, the dusty pickup nearby, and the stocky farmer with overalls or suspenders.
A double kit, perhaps, with tractor and pickup? Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 05:41 PM (wzUl9) 7
Looks like it's just you and me, Wolfus.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 12, 2026 05:45 PM (1Ff7Z) 8
As for pipe smoking: Last week I received two "pay-it-forward" free vintage pipes, a Weber billiard (the classic cylindrical shape) and an "apple" (plump, rounded bowl) Canadian Club brand. I've smoked both and enjoyed them, esp. the Weber. Another member of that forum offered a couple of bowls of a blend from a shop in Jackson, MS, and I took him up on it: "Old Fashioned," it's called. A nice toasted sort of aroma and even a bit of flavor, smoked in the Canadian Club.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 05:46 PM (wzUl9) 9
I've only smoke cigars, Wolfus. One of my uncles was a pipe man. Only quit after his first heart attack.
One thing I can say about pipe smoke, is it doesn't make me gag like cigarettes. Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 12, 2026 05:47 PM (1Ff7Z) 10
Oh fun! Tractors! Unfortunately, I didn’t get very many of my babies’ baby picture in the Great Divorce. They were all the computer, which he took, of course. One that I do have is of my youngest, with new walking feet, standing by a great big ol’ John Deere tire on our horse farm. I LOVE that picture. It’s adorable.
Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 05:47 PM (ZdaMQ) 11
Whew! At least someone else is here. It was getting a bit lonely.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 12, 2026 05:49 PM (1Ff7Z) 12
The "Old Fashioned" blend contains Virginia, burley, Dark Fired Kentucky (which can be strong), and some Cavendish. I only recently found that "Cavendish" is a process, not a kind of tobacco, and that both burleys and Virginias can be used as a base for Cavendish preparation. The pipe shop's website says the Cavendish in this blend is based on burley.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 05:50 PM (wzUl9) 13
I have 8 Deere tractors that run. All 2 cylinders except for my little loader tractor. It's a 750 4 WD with a 3 cylinder Yanmar engine. Also have a Grey market Kubota. Wasn't meant to be sold in the US.
Posted by: Ronster at September 12, 2026 05:50 PM (IFwjj) 14
Unfortunately, my hobbies are pretty dang boring and for the most part, I share them with y’all on the daily. More than you want, I am sure! But there is something incredibly iconic about a John Deere.
Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 05:51 PM (ZdaMQ) 15
I'm still working on the Bayou Jumper radio mentioned above (thanks, TRex). The stain and finish on the case turned out well. I've mostly got the guts of the radio soldered onto the circuit board, but these last few steps that involve mounting connectors have been challenging. I'm going to step away from the workbench for a while. I think I've earned a break, and maybe a drink. I'll send pictures once I get it all together and tested (assuming it passes the smoke test).
Posted by: PabloD at September 12, 2026 05:52 PM (B7yLN) 16
My dad's side was country folk, but I don't ever remember them having a tractor. Some horses around and some plows, but no tractors.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 12, 2026 05:52 PM (1Ff7Z) 17
My association with tractors begins and ends with a John Deere kid's model, pedaled like a tricycle. No idea why my folks got it for me but it was so cool, way better than the typical trike my friends had. Must have been pretty well made since it survived to be used by my little brother a few years later.
Posted by: JTB at September 12, 2026 05:53 PM (yTvNw) 18
Well, a motorized scythe is just a lawnmower. Just with a double, rotating blade.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 12, 2026 05:53 PM (zZu0s) 19
I've only smoke cigars, Wolfus. One of my uncles was a pipe man. Only quit after his first heart attack.
One thing I can say about pipe smoke, is it doesn't make me gag like cigarettes. Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 12, 2026 *** You don't inhale that stuff any more than you do cigars. If you did I'd never have gotten into the pipe years ago, or again recently after a long layoff. I've tried a few of the little cigarillos, and they're fine, but I only smoke those outdoors; and ten months of the year it's too hot to be outside here. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 05:54 PM (wzUl9) 20
Top picture is a Model A not 80.
Posted by: Ronster at September 12, 2026 05:54 PM (IFwjj) Ace of Spades Pet Thread, September 12![]() Courtesy Donald Sensing
Would you dare employ a monkey?
I lost my pup Bruno last Tuesday to Lymphoma. It had been in remission but came back over a few days and just overwhelmed him. He's buried down by the woods, where he loved to run. I miss you buddy, and your wagging tail thumping against the cabinets in the shop.Oh, no. So sorry that you have lost Bruno. What a wonderful boy. ![]() This is the good Little Mama who brought her four kittens to our house and demanded that we feed them. She splits her time between our house and some unknown locale. She has been spayed and her boys have all been neutered now. K.T.
Thank you for sharing your pets and animal photos and stories with us today. If you would like to send pet and/or animal stories, links, etc. for the Ace of Spades Pet Thread, the address is:Until next Saturday, have a great week! If you start feeling nostalgic, here a link to last week's Pet Thread, the Ace of Spades Pet Thread, September 5 I closed the comments on that post so you wouldn't get banned for commenting on a week-old post, but don't try it anyway. Comments(Jump to bottom of comments)1
Yay! Pets!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 12, 2026 03:45 PM (FZ29D) Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2026 03:46 PM (eRlcH) 3
Yes, yay pets!
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at September 12, 2026 03:47 PM (wxsGM) 4
Yay, Pet Thread!
Thank you, K.T., for something pleasant to think about today. And my sympathies, fd, on your loss of Bruno. Posted by: barkingmad59, wandering lurkette at September 12, 2026 03:47 PM (R3yzU) 5
Meow...
Posted by: Puddleglum, drive by meow at September 12, 2026 03:49 PM (sAmhv) 6
Sorry for your loss fd. Bruno looks like he was a real sweetie.
Posted by: Tuna at September 12, 2026 03:49 PM (lJ0H4) 7
Saw trumpeter swans on the lake near the house this week. Means they are headed south, but they usually hang out here until hard frost. The sandhill cranes came through a couple of weeks ago, also headed south. Another month or so and we can put up the bird feeders for the winter. If we put them up before then, the damned bears get into them which sorta defeats the purpose.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 03:50 PM (Ntshk) 8
barkingmad59, wandering lurkette at September 12, 2026 03:47 PM
Posted the Gardening for Apples thread late today. If you want something pleasant to read, it's not too late, even to comment! Posted by: KT at September 12, 2026 03:53 PM (1RGZ5) 9
Afternoon, pet folken,
Piper, in the pic, Kovu looks very much like my Stirling. I don't know what you mean about "wilted" ears, though; they look pretty much normal. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 03:55 PM (wzUl9) 10
If we put them up before then, the damned bears get into them which sorta defeats the purpose.
Posted by: tcn in AK Even in Western PA, bears enjoy a good feast from a bird feeder. My friend, who lives in the burbs of Sharon, PA, had a black bear casually feeding from her bird feeder. A fairly populated area but deep woods aren't too far away. Bear didn't care. It was hungry. Anyway, it wandered off and my friends had to bear proof a bird feeder. Not sure what they did to do it. Posted by: Puddleglum, drive by meow at September 12, 2026 03:57 PM (sAmhv) 11
That good Little Mama whacked DH on the shin when she showed up for food for her babies. When he came out to feed her, there were two kitten sitting on each of her sides.
Posted by: KT at September 12, 2026 03:58 PM (1RGZ5) 12
Woof
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at September 12, 2026 03:59 PM (9Qx17) 13
Happy Caturday everyone
All but done at a new Animal Hospital job, hope they can help lots of pets when they open. Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 04:01 PM (Ia/+0) 14
I learned a valuable lesson about unconditional love this week.
I chose NOT to sell my cats' organs as aphrodisiacs on the Chinese black market after they knocked my Lego Star Destroyer off the bookshelf in my library. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 12, 2026 04:02 PM (FZ29D) 15
Sorry about Bruno, fd. He looks like a very nice dog.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 12, 2026 04:03 PM (JrHfD) 16
That good Little Mama whacked DH on the shin when she showed up for food for her babies. When he came out to feed her, there were two kitten sitting on each of her sides.
Posted by: KT at September 12, 2026 *** KT, you mean she clawed at him -- drew blood? If a strange cat did that to me, she wouldn't get any food, that's for sure. I have a second cat visiting my door. This is a brownish-grey male tabby with white, about 50-50, a feral who hangs around with the non-feral shorthair gray, "Alfred," who visits me from time to time. This new boy won't come close, but actually cries for food just as Alfred does. I tell Linda, "If he's gonna visit at a distance, I'll feed him at a distance. Just throw him a handful of dry food!" Just kidding. I put out a scoop of Iams dry food for them in a plastic bowl. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 04:05 PM (wzUl9) 17
Regarding that meme of the cats spying on their humans: You'd think, after some 8000 years of cats living with and observing humans, they'd have reported everything necessary for the Great Take-Over.
Well, maybe reporting wasn't so easy back then. Hard for a cat to send a message by carrier pigeon without eating the messenger. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 04:08 PM (wzUl9) 18
Millard the kitten continues to make me laugh. He goes under his scratching post and not scratch, so it's like what my husband calls a "tunnel with a tail."
My friend has three cats with scratching posts in every room but the bathrooms. He enjoys the scratching post in the living room but needs others. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 12, 2026 04:08 PM (JrHfD) Posted by: goatexchange at September 12, 2026 04:09 PM (xHuLt) 20
fd, my condolences on the loss of Bruno. A Rin Tin Tin lookalike he was.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 04:09 PM (wzUl9) 21
Monkey face is cute, but. . . so many questions about the context - where? why? who's giggling?
Posted by: Lizzy at September 12, 2026 04:11 PM (rOKnE) 22
I chose NOT to sell my cats' organs as aphrodisiacs on the Chinese black market after they knocked my Lego Star Destroyer off the bookshelf in my library.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 12, 2026 *** Chinese black market, you say? (*CRASH* as Dagny knocks over and shatters a lamp) Whereabouts can one find a dealer, pray tell? Asking for a friend, of course. . . . Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 04:11 PM (wzUl9) 23
Very sorry about the loss of your boy, fd.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 04:12 PM (viF8m) 24
Condolences, fd!
Posted by: Lizzy at September 12, 2026 04:12 PM (rOKnE) 25
What kind of swallow is that in the pic, that travels 8000 miles to southern Africa on a regular basis? (I'm guessing "swallow" based on the tail. We call men's format coats "swallowtail" coats for a reason.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 04:13 PM (wzUl9) 26
The monkey looks as if the smell of the beans as he breaks each one is unpleasant, or as if he has arthritis in his paws and it hurts him to snap each one.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 04:15 PM (wzUl9) 27
Losing a pet is hard to take.
Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 04:15 PM (Ia/+0) 28
Monkey face is cute, but. . . so many questions about the context - where? why? who's giggling?
Posted by: Lizzy at September 12, 2026 *** The monkey's mate? "Another bowl, Seymour, and then maybe I'll let you watch Monkey Business with the Marx Brothers. Snap to it!" Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 04:16 PM (wzUl9) Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 12, 2026 04:25 PM (FZ29D) 30
Afternoon all
fd, so sorry that you had to say goodbye to Bruno. Such a handsome boy. Always so tough, we know. Posted by: Pony Tail at September 12, 2026 04:28 PM (v8m9Y) 31
What kind of swallow is that in the pic, that travels 8000 miles to southern Africa on a regular basis?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 04:13 PM (wzUl9 Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 12, 2026 04:29 PM (nbLIj) 32
1 What kind of swallow is that in the pic, that travels 8000 miles to southern Africa on a regular basis?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 04:13 PM (wzUl9 Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 12, 2026 04:29 PM (nbLIj) The unladen kind, of course.. Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 12, 2026 04:29 PM (nbLIj) 33
I'm so sorry about Bruno. Beautiful dog.
And such pretty cats. Snowflake comes in and sleeps with Ralphy and I at night on the chair. She used to get up with me around 4 am and want to go outside. Lately though she waits until I've completed another REM cycle and am just out of sleep and she'll jump on the bed and meow. That's pretty remarkable. I've been feeding her and her outdoor Mom Starry. My friends family came home and I asked the kids how Starry looks. She's not fat by any means. But you wouldn't think she's homeless. Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 12, 2026 04:32 PM (Sco7b) 34
I often write about our goodly gal Daisy the Malinois. Our old black kitty, not so much to write about.
Ony (short for "Onyxia") was bestowed upon us by our son Prod (short for "Prodigal") when he left college in 2009, when she was maybe three years old. We had many cats then, and Ony has outlived them all. She has always been a pretty hearty housecat. Tolerates the dogs, demands food on time, lets us know when the litter box needs cleaning. However, in recent weeks, she seems to have started showing her age. She scrambles, rather than jumps, up on the bed. Moves slowly and cautiously — we think she may be losing her sight She doesn't really leave the bedroom now. Rarely comes out to get in my lap at the desk. Still likes to sleep on the bed between us. She started peeing in inappropriate places, so we moved her litter box from the bathroom to the bedroom, next to the cat tree and her food, and that seems to have worked. Other than that, she mostly just seems to be getting a little slower, a little weaker. Of course, we hope she'll hang in there for a long time to come, but, well, just giving her plenty of hugs and scritches.🐈⬛🥺 Posted by: mindful webworker - Ony, the Queen of the Critters here at September 12, 2026 04:38 PM (k0Y0k) 35
What kind of swallow is that in the pic, that travels 8000 miles to southern Africa on a regular basis? (I'm guessing "swallow" based on the tail. We call men's format coats "swallowtail" coats for a reason.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 04:13 PM (wzUl9) Is it an African swallow or a European swallow? Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 12, 2026 04:38 PM (TlKpx) 36
Stateless, Stirling has a habit of waking me by jumping over me and kicking me as he goes -- at 3:45 am. He only started this about a year ago, and he doesn't do it every morning. But when he does, I glance blearily at my watch and it's between 3:40 and 3:50 every time.
I'm glad he didn't do this 45-60 minutes before my alarm when I was working! Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 04:39 PM (wzUl9) 37
Mindful, so Ony is about twenty? I've never had a cat who lived that long, only Arizona the red tabby part-Coon who made it to 16.5. And he had health issues in his last two years. Clearly Ony is going for a record.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 04:43 PM (wzUl9) 38
Stirling has a habit of waking me by jumping over me and kicking me as he goes -- at 3:45 am. He only started this about a year ago, and he doesn't do it every morning. But when he does, I glance blearily at my watch and it's between 3:40 and 3:50 every time.
---- Clearly Stirling and Lily are texting each other to synchronize their attacks. Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 12, 2026 04:43 PM (kpS4V) 39
Hey guys!
Fd, so sorry for the loss of your Bruno. Sending hugs your way. KT, so glad mom and kittens are fixed. Piper, Kovu is beautiful. I won't be posting our cat blog update today. I'm going to assume that anyone who has been following or donated the last 2yrs+ can already read the posts. :-) I have been approved for SSI, so thankfully I can take some of the bill burden off my sister. I can now also apply for disability homestead deduction. Posted by: Joyenz at September 12, 2026 04:45 PM (2F0/Y) 40
36 Stateless, Stirling has a habit of waking me by jumping over me and kicking me as he goes -- at 3:45 am. He only started this about a year ago, and he doesn't do it every morning. But when he does, I glance blearily at my watch and it's between 3:40 and 3:50 every time.
I'm glad he didn't do this 45-60 minutes before my alarm when I was working! Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 04:39 PM (wzUl9) That's when I put the cats back outside. But she NEVER wakes me up now. Apparently I'm studied to an incredible degree but this works well. And I'm amazed at what goes on outside at 4am. Starry is sometimes by. Another orange cat. 4am is cat party time. Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 12, 2026 04:45 PM (Sco7b) 41
A couple of memes
The many names of my dog https://bit.ly/dog-many-names Memorial to the search-and-rescue dogs of 9/11/2001 https://bit.ly/rescue-dogs-9-11-memorial Read (on this blog, I think) that the 9/11 search folks thought the dogs were getting depressed at not finding folks in the rubble, so they would have folks 'hide' themselves in the rubble, so the dogs could find them. The dogs surely suffered after-effects as much as the humans - physical as well as emotional.🐕🦺❣️ Posted by: mindful webworker - good dogs at September 12, 2026 04:45 PM (k0Y0k) 42
Is it an African swallow or a European swallow?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 12, 2026 *** Well, assuming the swallow is traveling due south, Africa is only 5000 miles long, so the bird would be starting from somewhere in northern Europe. And the poster mentions his garage -- not something you'd find often in northern Africa -- so again I think Europe. Maybe not, though. Qwant's AI says the distance from NYC to southern Africa is about 8000 miles, so maybe the birds go southeast? Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 04:50 PM (wzUl9) 43
I nap 30 minutes between two cats.
Posted by: Eromero at September 12, 2026 04:53 PM (LHPAg) 44
Clearly Ony is going for a record.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius Yes. Never had a cat get that old. Obviously, after so many years, she's deeply entrenched in our lives and hearts, and irreplaceable. That failed police pup sure looks like a young version of our Daisy. We never had her as that young and when I see Malinois pups, I get a little sad we didn't. Never had to house-train her, though. Great pic of Bruno. GS and Malinois, wonderful (and closely related) breeds. Posted by: mindful webworker - skritches all around at September 12, 2026 04:54 PM (k0Y0k) 45
I like the many names for your dog, mww. And I appreciated the statues for the rescue dogs. Here is an article about some of the rescue dogs for 9/11:
https://tinyurl.com/2ezrjjnj Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 12, 2026 04:55 PM (JrHfD) 46
I miss you buddy, and your wagging tail thumping against the cabinets in the shop. - fd A guy at work brought his Basset hound to work once. The dog was slamming his tail againt a metal filing cabinet. BAM BAM BAM! I thought it would be painful but I guess not. Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 12, 2026 05:00 PM (Cqx++) 47
There was a pale gray tabby named "Cocoa" for adoption at a local Petco this morning, where we stopped after World Market just to see what was new. She (I assume "she") is bigger than a kitten but not an adult quite yet. The sticker said that she'd prefer a home with large dogs or other cats to which she could be introduced gradually. "Not a fan of small dogs."
Most Petco stores, not that long ago, used to have four to eight cats available for adoption on a Saturday morning. Now it's unusual to see even one. I wonder why? Shelters are still going; you'd think they'd ship a few over to catch a family's attention as often as they could. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 05:00 PM (wzUl9) 48
https://bit.ly/dog-many-names
*** The many names of my cats: Stirling: also Duke of Vicksburg, Big Black, Black Thug, Tiny Jaguar, You Battleship, What Are You Doing?!, Dammit, Stop That Dagny: also Dagnetta, La Siberienne, Gray Girl, Puffball, Stubby Tail, Little Gray; and she shares What Are You Doing?!, Dammit, and Stop That with Stirling Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 05:05 PM (wzUl9) 49
Can't "bear proof" a bird feeder really. Unless it's "bird proof" too.
Near as I've been able to figure out, bears must associate pain with humans. Their natural inclination is to run at top speed, at first sight of a human. If they determine the worst that can happen is a little yelling, or maybe somebody banging pots and pans, then they don't GAF and will be nothing but trouble. Posted by: Common Tater at September 12, 2026 05:05 PM (/ijqt) 50
Sorry for your loss fd. Bruno was a handsome boy.
Posted by: Biergood at September 12, 2026 05:05 PM (PwgSL) 51
Cocoa was a pretty cat for a shorthair. I suggested to Linda she adopt her. "You need your own cat."
Ha. She has my two to play with and fuss over; what does she need with her own? Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 05:08 PM (wzUl9) 52
Condolences for Bruno, fd.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 12, 2026 05:09 PM (zZu0s) 53
"Council of Cats": I've long imagined that in Cat Heaven there is a throne for the King or Queen, and he/she has a cabinet of ministers or favorites. Marie-Antoinette, the smart black medium-hair, believed she was cat royalty while she was on Earth. No doubt she intrigued to be be crowned in heaven, and now rules as did Queen Elizabeth I, surrounded with courtiers and court favorites.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 05:14 PM (wzUl9) 54
Thank you so much, everyone.
Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 05:19 PM (MWfyi) 55
Cat's can be thwarted by a spray bottle and a laser pointer.
They can never take over the world. Penguins on the other hand..... Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 12, 2026 05:21 PM (XV/Pl) 56
The many, many names of my current dogs:
Ruby, Ruby-boober, Sugar Baby, Sweet Pea, Boober-oo. Piper, Piper you idiot, Get Off, Settle!, Doofus, Dork, Knucklehead, Dingbat, Buffalo, Knock that crap off! [well, you get the idea] I think the names are ever-evolving. Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 05:23 PM (Ntshk) 57
One of our adopted cats, "Mr. Rubs" is, I think, on his final journey with us. He's been on our porch all spring and summer, only disappearing when it storms or visitors come. He still comes inside to get brushed (something I worked with him on last year, and it's his favorite thing) and periodically to see what's what.
But he's totally uninterested in stalking the property like he used to. He's 8 years old... so he's getting up there. Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 12, 2026 05:23 PM (2Cry5) 58
This is the first time in over 30 years that there is no dog around here. Usually there is some overlap so the older dog teaches the younger dog(s) how to behave and go on walks.
Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 05:24 PM (MWfyi) 59
One of my coworkers lost his cat not that long ago (she died...about 15 years old, I think).
Almost like clockwork, there are three or four stray cats hanging out around his house now. I suspect he'll be a cat owner again before too long. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 12, 2026 05:25 PM (FZ29D) 60
Reef is pretty much: Reef, Psychodog, Aja-Reef!, and What the fuck?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 12, 2026 05:27 PM (zZu0s) 61
Bruno looked like a very good dog. Stately.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 05:27 PM (RIvkX) 62
One of my coworkers lost his cat not that long ago (she died...about 15 years old, I think).
Almost like clockwork, there are three or four stray cats hanging out around his house now. I suspect he'll be a cat owner again before too long. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 12, 2026 *** When Arizona passed, I had Marie-Antoinette right there. When Oreo passed, I had Tatiana Romanova. After her there was a short gap, then came Chekov and Wolf; and when Wolf passed, Chekov was here. I let almost three months go by after Chekov's passing before even consdiering another cat -- the longest I've gone, I think. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 05:30 PM (wzUl9) 63
Also, we do not exist.
/cleaning each other's ears Posted by: Council of Cats at September 12, 2026 05:31 PM (RIvkX) 64
The Cat Distribution System is very efficient
Posted by: Common Tater at September 12, 2026 05:32 PM (/ijqt) 65
Hobby thread is nood.
Posted by: Tuna at September 12, 2026 05:34 PM (lJ0H4) 66
I calculated the other day that 80% of my life, from age twelve to now, has been spent in the company of cats. There was that first twelve years, then two years when Mrs. Wolfus No. 2 and I lived in a *strictly* pet-free apartment, and the three months between the passing of Chekov and the advent of Stirling. Aside from those periods, I've always lived with a cat.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 05:35 PM (wzUl9) 67
Noodus hobbyana -- farm tractors!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 05:36 PM (wzUl9) Special Garden and Orchard Thread - Apples!![]() Our stories need catharsis (so said Aristotle), and if your conclusion is weak, it’s tempting to deflect by offering… “don’t you see, it’s about the journey?” But certainly there are other aspects of life where the journey is –if not the point— as acceptable as the destination. Do I need to reach the summit of a mountain to enjoy a hike? Might it be the same with gardening? Do we need the fruit or the flower to experience a sense of satisfaction? Perhaps the process can bring as much joy as the terminus. I’m not trying to run interference for failure. In fact, last year, I posted on AoS about my ongoing battle with birds, which had, for years, poached my annual blueberry crop. That essay was titled “The Great Blueberry Bush Battle.” A quick recap: the blueberry bushes at my house have, for the last ten seasons, yielded copious and healthy fruit. The only problem became preventing birds from stealing the berries, which happened until 2025 when I discovered thule netting (Photo 2; date taken 8-2-26) This style of mesh net acts like a Ziploc bag, encasing the bush in a net that no bird can penetrate. ![]() So, after failing for a number of years to defeat avian pests, I found my game changer in 2025, and 2026 has been just as successful. ![]() “The Great Blueberry Bush Battle” has been a fun journey, but it was always the goal to get good fruit. I did that, and boy has the catharsis flowed. Unfortunately, the scrum with nature when it comes to my Empire apple trees has mostly gone against me. Unlike blueberries, there seem to be more factors that can affect a good apple crop. Rough winters, spring conditions, disease, and other unknowns that are out of my hands make getting good apples anyone’s guess. ![]() I am certain I could do better if I put in orchard-level effort or used industrial-strength sprays, but that would entail hiring someone and I want this project all to myself. So, despite my instincts not to fall back on “it’s about the journey,” I’ve begun to lean into the phrase. But should I? *** To help you opine, allow me to provide the history of the trees. The blueberry bushes were planted when I bought and redid this house in 2009-2010. ![]() ![]() In the succeeding years, there was little bounty. The trees grew and did produce fruit each season, but the apples were always spotted or bruised, and by harvest time the toy car was not needed. I didn’t do much to tend them until— because of Covid fascists—I had to hang around the house in the summer of 2020. I began to take more interest in my fruit trees at this time, but taking an interest and producing a satisfying result did not go hand in glove. It had been fairly common for the tree to blossom in May, which always portended fruit, but often, as mentioned, the apples would never survive in any kind of healthy way. ![]() For better results, I consulted landscape architects, my lawn and garden service team, the internet of course, and neighbors who also have fruit trees. Naturally, I received a lot of advice. Neem oil to ward off insects. Other sprays to combat disease. Reflective tape to deter birds. Trimming in winter months only. Unfortunately, nothing seemed to work. Then, in the summer of 2023, something amazing occurred. I did nothing special to prepare for this year, but the trees produced more fruit than I could imagine. The limbs were so heavy with apples I had to tie up splitting branches. I estimate each tree produced 1,000 apples. Plenty of them were poached by animals or blemished, but there was so much that even a ten percent haul meant 200 edible apples. The toy car was long gone, but it would not have been able to handle the payload. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The trees themselves have continued to grow and always appear healthy, but bearing fruit like those two great years (2014 and 2023) seems an impossibility now. In the succeeding years, there was little bounty. The trees grew and did produce fruit each season, but the apples were always spotted or bruised, and by harvest time the toy car was not needed. The trees themselves have continued to grow and always appear healthy, but bearing fruit like those two great years (2014 and 2023) seems an impossibility now. My own very non-scientific theory is the trees have become too big. They were much larger in 2023 than in 2014, so that may disprove my theory, but it’s hard to gainsay they are probably twice as big as when planted. That is, there is too much wood. The branches shoot to the sky and criss-cross each other at every chance. I have trimmed each year, but they grow back quickly. ![]() ![]() But now that this season is effectively over, I’m going to get much more aggressive with trimming and thinning than I have before. I’ve spent the last couple of weeks taking out branches, and the results are much more ‘airy’ trees. ![]() ![]() Even so, it would be nice to munch on an unblemished, crispy apples that come from my trees. Check in with me the next season, and I’ll tell you where I stand on journeys and destinations. Thanks, LEX! What a project! You have kept good records, too. Time for discussion! Do you grow apples? Do you want to? How about pears? If you would like to send photos, stories, links, etc. for the Saturday Gardening Thread, the address is: ktinthegarden at g mail dot com Remember to include the nic or name by which you wish to be known at AoSHQ, or let us know if you want to remain a lurker. I closed the comments on that post so you wouldn't get banned for commenting on a week-old post, but don't try it anyway. Comments(Jump to bottom of comments)1
Happy Caturday everyone
Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 02:13 PM (Ia/+0) 2
Mentioned before we sem to have a outside rabbit than lives within feet of the house. Ttying not to frightening her we think its a female
Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 02:17 PM (Ia/+0) 3
Bluebird at the mealworm feeder right now.
Posted by: Ernst Rohm at September 12, 2026 02:19 PM (RIvkX) 4
Stone fruits are pruned when in bloom or leaf to discourage too much growth at cutting points. I imagine it's the same for other deciduous trees. Don't prune in fireblight season.
Posted by: KT at September 12, 2026 02:23 PM (1RGZ5) Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 02:25 PM (RIvkX) 6
When all of us neighborhood kids were growing up in our residential neighborhood there was still a fairly large (for little kids) vacant lot owned by a certain Mr. Hackett (rumored to shoot at kids with a shotgun loaded with rock salt). It was at one time pasture or farm ground, and overgrown. It had a number of wild apple trees, and it had the best tasting green apples ever. I didn't care for them ripe, they seemed mealy and not crisp the way I thought an apple ought to be. They never turned solid red.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 12, 2026 02:26 PM (/ijqt) 7
I am tending to a fig tree planted this year. I've been fighting the fact that I have grown into an old, Italian man for quite some time now but, alas, the proof to the contrary is doing well right in my own back yard.
Posted by: Tonypete at September 12, 2026 02:30 PM (m4Pfq) 8
Just trying to keep the losses down, epically hot and dry around here.
Posted by: Miflin at September 12, 2026 02:30 PM (aA6YN) 9
I am wondering if Lex's neighbor's crabapple pollinates his apples.
Posted by: KT at September 12, 2026 02:32 PM (1RGZ5) 10
I would love to eat an apple, even that green one, but alas, I has only 10 teefs.
Posted by: Eromero at September 12, 2026 02:34 PM (LHPAg) 11
Lex, that story was an emotional rollercoaster! I feel your pain: growing up, we had a beautiful apple tree that threw off tons of tart green apples, but they were to often twisted and wormy.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 12, 2026 02:43 PM (kpS4V) 12
Speaking as a person with little actual knowledge of the problem, those trees need to be way thinned out so there is room for sunlight, and later, apples. Now.
Posted by: From about That Time at September 12, 2026 02:45 PM (sl73Y) 13
often twisted and wormy.
Used to date her. Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at September 12, 2026 02:45 PM (t59Wi) 14
My vegetable garden is definitely winding down for the season, although the hot peppers are still going great guns and the zucchini plant is punching above its weight.
I won't bother to plant corn next year. I got a few slender ears of pretty blue corn, which was fun to monitor but kind of a waste of space. Ditto the sunflowers, although the birds and bees loved them. Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 12, 2026 02:47 PM (kpS4V) 15
"the trees produced more fruit than I could imagine"
What a great problem to have. Great post, KT! Posted by: 40 Miles North at September 12, 2026 02:48 PM (96qvc) 16
And no more cherry tomatoes! There's such a thing as being too prolific, guys.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 12, 2026 02:49 PM (kpS4V) 17
Fruit trees and plants are my bailiwick. I worked in a large (and varied) orchard for four years in my youth to put money away for college. I learned how to get stung by bees, a bit of Spanish, and lots about growing healthy market acceptable fruit (apples, peaches, pears, berries, grapes, kiwi, you name it).
First off, your apple trees that produced beyond expectations one year, and then dropped off. That's common. It's called alternative bearing, or biennial bearing. They mean the same thing. Essentially, your tree exhausted itself on a good year or two and has to recover to produce again. Not unusual. And, orchards will combat this by pulling excess fruit off during development to assure it doesn't overload the tree's resources. Pruning in early winter is a necessity. You want a flat top to your tree, and solid limbs, not "springers". Insecticide is basically to assure a blemish free apple...nothing more. It's a pain, but if you want the good, perfect fruit it is required. I grow Winesap, Red Delicious, Granny Smith, Yellow Delicious and a couple Japanese apples I can pronounce. I eat a bunch, the rest are for the deer (who can smell them miles away). Posted by: Orson at September 12, 2026 02:51 PM (dIske) 18
Today I picked and ate the first fig from my Beer's Black container tree. It was tasty and there are more figs maturing on the branches. It needs repotting but I plan to wait until after I pick the rest of the figs. I have a nice clay pot for its new home.
Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at September 12, 2026 02:51 PM (OlzlW) 19
I've heard apple trees naturally set more fruit on the more horizontal branches. The skinny branches (water sprouts) that grow straight up just sap the tree's energy.
Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at September 12, 2026 02:56 PM (OlzlW) Posted by: Mr. Hackett at September 12, 2026 02:59 PM (4Je4D) 21
I love the idea of a container fig tree! Think I'll try it next year.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 12, 2026 03:01 PM (kpS4V) 22
Oh, one other thing on apple trees, specifically. Stay away from nitrogen based fertilizer if fruit is your goal. "Nitrofert" is great if your goal is a beautiful looking tree for your front lawn, but nitrogen based will go right to the leaves first and foremost.
Posted by: Orson at September 12, 2026 03:03 PM (dIske) 23
You need the book "Grow a Little Fruit Tree". It will teach you how to prune them for a manageable size. And, I have pruned apple trees in a commercial orchard, Granny Smiths grown on wires and kept reachable on a 12' ladder. If you want fruit, you have to prune and you thin the apples when they first set. For manageable trees, you prune in the summer, which discourages growth. Amazon carries the book.
My little trees are trying to recover from a grasshopper attack. I used neem oil. I also used a copper fungicide for rust. Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 12, 2026 03:04 PM (bkuEU) 24
How's your bee population? Here we have very nice native bees like mason bees. They only come out when the fruit trees flower, have a pretty short life but a busy one
Posted by: Sabrina Chase at September 12, 2026 03:05 PM (63pwK) 25
I love the photos and story!
I second what Orson wrote about pulling off excess fruit and winter-pruning. I'm planning to prune the arbor vita this coming winter. They are filling out nicely. In a couple more years, I hope they'll be a proper privacy fence. Posted by: NaughtyPine at September 12, 2026 03:06 PM (ao+in) 26
There are two wild apple trees next to each other right off my favorite hiking trail. Can always grab 3 or 4 with no wormholes. They're not pretty, but they're all-natural.
Posted by: Delurker at September 12, 2026 03:07 PM (2Drhq) 27
And, in the battle with the grasshoppers, they have not touched a leaf on the figs. I am starting to wonder if I should put in another Chicago Hardy or two as replacements for anything that doesn't make it. No figs but the trees look good
Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 12, 2026 03:09 PM (bkuEU) 28
The garden is mostly done now. We have lows in the low 40s so most everything is going dormant. I still have carrots and potatoes, and they will be good for about a week after hard frost, which can come at any time.
I need to get out and pull bean plants, and clean out the strawberry beds. The raspberries produced over 10 gallons of raspberries this year, and this after I whacked them down mostly to the ground in the spring. They just grow like weeds here. Big fruits, too, the size of a decent strawberry. Next year I think I will make raspberry wine. The greenhouse was disappointing this year. Plenty of peppers, but something killed off the cukes halfway through the season, and my tomatoes never produced, at all. Next year I'm putting in drip irrigation and getting a better handle on controlling the heat in there. I think the exhaust fan is too small for the space. Once I have a kitchen again (end of the month? maybe?) I will start putting up soups and other items for the pantry. Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 03:46 PM (Ntshk) 29
Delurker at September 12, 2026 03:07 PM
Wonder how those apple trees got to be "wild" next to a trail? Think someone planted them? A Johnny Appleseed? Posted by: KT at September 12, 2026 04:03 PM (1RGZ5) 30
Wow. Some good information in the post and the comments today!
Here, we have to choose apple varieties that tolerate low chill hours in winter and also high summer heat. Posted by: KT at September 12, 2026 04:07 PM (1RGZ5) 31
Here, we have to choose apple varieties that tolerate low chill hours in winter and also high summer heat. Posted by: KT Anna and Dorsett. Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 12, 2026 04:09 PM (NnhvP) 32
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Here, we have to choose apple varieties that tolerate low chill hours in winter and also high summer heat. Posted by: KT Anna and Dorsett. And Red Fuji and Granny Smith Posted by: KT at September 12, 2026 04:32 PM (1RGZ5) 33
I think Anna and Dorsett require fewer chill hours than the ones I listed. Granny Smith is listed at 400 hours, and some growers also list Pink Lady at 400 chill hours.
Posted by: KT at September 12, 2026 04:39 PM (1RGZ5) 34
We had 3 apple trees here-- not sure but believe they were Red Delicious, Golden Delicious, and ??? which was larger, rounder, slightly tart and had firm flesh. Never cared for "delicious" apples anyway-- too mealy and bland.
All were overgrown, dropped wormy fruit all season, and wood was diseased. Attracted unwanted wildlife, too. Got sick of raking them up each week before mowing the yard! I *finally* convinced hubby to let me have them removed. Don't miss them. Posted by: JQ at September 12, 2026 05:15 PM (rdVOm) 35
JQ at September 12, 2026 05:15 PM
Commercial Red Delicious apples are inferior to the original strain, which is not as pretty. There are some fine Golden Delicious apples, but flavor may depend on climate, with best quality where nights are cool during ripening. Posted by: KT at September 12, 2026 05:29 PM (1RGZ5) 36
Managing a small orchard is one job I never wanted, and apples are one of my least favorite fruits.
Posted by: JQ at September 12, 2026 05:56 PM (rdVOm) A War for CivilizationWell, it's been quite a week for civilization in the USA. Try scrolling through the posts from the archives here from the past week for a sampling of craziness. Mark Steyn has noticed something, too: This is my ancient column from that day, composed in the hours that followed, when very little was known. There are passages I would write differently today, and some I would not write at all, but I thought we would re-publish it as is, with the original (Spectator) illustration and headline. It was and is "a war for civilisation", but in ways I did not fully grasp until six months later, standing across the street from a Viennese maternity shop. So here we are, a generation later, when no jihadist needs to fly planes into western skyscrapers - because, in New York as in London as in other western capitals, we have handed Islam the keys to those skyscrapers. In the excerpts from the flight manifests that appeared over the next few days, I was struck by the name of Christine Hanson of Groton, Massachusetts, a two-year-old girl sitting between her parents on a doomed flight. She was last heard crying in the background during her father's telephone call to her grandparents to report that the stewardess had been stabbed. Christine would be approaching thirty now - and I cannot but feel that the intervening years have dishonoured her memory:Interesting to read what Steyn wrote 25 years ago. What has changed since then? I would suggest that we might look back even further than yesterday's 25th anniversary, and think about what we want to teach the kids (a theme here last week). Ayaan Hirsi Ali has written a piece that reminds us that, while the details had not been worked out, there were people who had plans to attack the West long before 9/11. What Mohamed Atta Was Trying to Tell UsIn April 1996, more than five years before he steered American Airlines Flight 11 into the North Tower, Mohamed Atta sat in a small Hamburg apartment and wrote his last will and testament. He was 27, an architecture student at the Technical University, the son of a Cairo lawyer, fluent in German, and living comfortably in one of the most affluent societies on earth. Nothing in his circumstances compelled him to dwell on death. Yet he gave detailed instructions for the handling of his corpse. “I don’t want any women to go to my grave at all during my funeral or on any occasion thereafter,” he wrote. He did not want a pregnant woman, or “a person who is not clean,” to come and say goodbye. The man who washed his body should wear gloves so as not to touch his genitals. He was to be wrapped in three white pieces of unadorned cloth, laid on his right side facing Mecca, and buried “next to good Muslims.” His money was to be divided “according to the Muslim religion as almighty God has asked us to do.” There is no political program and no mention of foreign policy or economic grievances in the document. There is only a young Muslim man, in a German apartment, arranging to sacrifice his life to Allah in the confidence that Allah will reward his martyrdom in the life to come. The will was witnessed by fellow believers at the al-Quds mosque, where Atta prayed in Arabic, grew his beard, and where, four years later, he would meet the men he would die with. The document is among the most neglected pieces of evidence from Sept. 11 because it contradicts the explanations of the attack that most Western commentators preferred. Atta was not poor. He was not radicalized by drone strikes that had not yet happened, nor by American support for Israel. He was not in any formal or organizational sense an “Islamist.” Rather, he had an uncompromising and militant commitment to Islam that he was ready to die for. Yet for 25 years Western elites repeatedly insisted that men like Atta must have been driven by something other than the culture and the faith that provided him with a lens through which his actions seemed both sensible and necessary. After 9/11, intellectuals and policymakers asked “what went wrong?” as though the source of Atta’s animus toward the West was shrouded in some deep mystery. In the Western experience, men had not killed other men over religious questions en masse since the end of the great religious wars of the 17th century. Culture, a term that was once understood to encompass a great many facets of human identity, experience, and belonging—religion included—had also been ruled out. Saying that cultural differences exist and should be respected was a foundation of the multicultural order; the idea that some cultures might lead people to murder each other, for reasons that do not appear in the Western rationalist list of sane causes, struck many Western liberals as too close to racism to bother arguing the point. Since then, each time the West collided with Islam, much of the Western intellectual class reached for explanations that made sense within its own secular humanist categories: grievance, humiliation, underdevelopment, alienation, foreign policy frustration, or the failure of Western states to properly integrate men like Atta, who were, or must be, inherently no different than immigrants of similar age, class, and educational attainments from Vietnam or Poland, or anyplace else. Since all conflicts are material in origin, it was assumed that they could be settled though material means. . .Her insights into the thinking of Atta also have relevance to the current Iranian conflict. Matty Laeh Sep 06, 2026 PS: This is not my article, is a simple copy from the x account of Krzysztof Szczawinski ; - @Kristof_Poland (consider giving a follow, he has a lot of good articles about socialism) I don’t usually do this, but he explained what Gramsci was and his ideas way better than I could (even thought I knew about Gramsci for years). https://x.com/Kristof_Poland/status/2096207075386786042
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Good morning KT
Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 11:19 AM (Ia/+0) 2
Dutifully called em
Onto content Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 11:20 AM (Ia/+0) 3
for 25 years Western elites repeatedly insisted that men like Atta must have been driven by something other than the culture and the faith"
When you have half a century of "all cultures are equal" and "religions are equal", what else would be expected? Posted by: man at September 12, 2026 11:24 AM (cGjQu) 4
If you wanted to introduce an "I hate poetry" person to good poetry, what's the one poem you'd give them to read?
Psalm 23, of course. Posted by: Community Notes at September 12, 2026 11:26 AM (a3CJ+) 5
Thx K.T.
Pete Buttgiggle' s father , a professor at Notre Dame, was the head of the Antonio Gramsci society of America. Besides gay, what do you think Buttgiggle believes? Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 12, 2026 11:26 AM (N2HNb) 6
Kipling, Service, manly poetry, now ignored or derided. The World is sick and getting sicker.
Posted by: Zombie G. Gordon Liddy at September 12, 2026 11:26 AM (Fn+3X) 7
The Gods of the Copybook Hearings by Kipling is a good start
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 12, 2026 11:28 AM (N2HNb) 8
If you wanted to introduce an "I hate poetry" person to good poetry, what's the one poem you'd give them to read?
The Highwayman. By Alfred Noyes. Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2026 11:34 AM (aRyyL) 9
There is only a young Muslim man, in a German apartment, arranging to sacrifice his life to Allah in the confidence that Allah will reward his martyrdom in the life to come.
___________ It doesn't help that mainstream Protestants and some recent Popes have been more focused on saving mother earth, and other purely secular concerns, than saving souls. Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 12, 2026 11:35 AM (XvL8K) 10
Our very own house troll Paul spews the 9/11 happened because US support for Israel talking points.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 12, 2026 11:36 AM (2BUGt) Posted by: what the cat drug in at September 12, 2026 11:36 AM (jrgJz) 12
If you wanted to introduce an "I hate poetry" person to good poetry, what's the one poem you'd give them to read?
I'd give them 'The Red Wheelbarrow' by William Carlos Williams. It creates an indelible image in your mind with about a dozen words. Imagine what longer poems can do... here it is: so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens Posted by: 496 at September 12, 2026 11:38 AM (QbvHV) 13
If the red wheelbarrow doesn't work, there's always that young man from Nantucket
Posted by: 496 at September 12, 2026 11:39 AM (F5Pkl) Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2026 11:40 AM (aRyyL) 15
If you wanted to introduce an "I hate poetry" person to good poetry, what's the one poem you'd give them to read?
It would be hard to pick just one of Muldoon’s finest. Posted by: Kratwurst at September 12, 2026 11:41 AM (NGBKs) 16
Interesting to read what Steyn wrote 25 years ago.
------------------ Link to what he wrote in "Spectator" on Steynonline. https://www.steynonline.com/16400/the-way-to-lose Posted by: olddog in mo at September 12, 2026 11:42 AM (NmD3f) 17
So if muzzies do terrorism because us support for Israel explain the muzzy terrorism in India.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 12, 2026 11:42 AM (2BUGt) 18
I am sure Longfellow poem was read to us. But my best remembrance is 4th grade as we left ever day reciting lines fro Robert Frost's Stopping by the woods on a snowy evening.
Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 11:42 AM (Ia/+0) Posted by: KT at September 12, 2026 11:45 AM (1RGZ5) 20
Little Christine Hanson died for America. Groton is a bucolic little town with a very nice music and arts theater, built by a local benefactor to promote culture. She would have loved growing up in that pretty place, but instead some muslims decided to kill her. Remember her.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 12, 2026 11:46 AM (a6L2j) 21
From Ayaan's piece: "It wasn’t that Western observers were deaf to the logical, organizational, and civilizational dimensions of Islamist movements. What was lacking was the imagination required to believe that they might triumph."
Understanding why lefties love Islam. Posted by: KT at September 12, 2026 11:47 AM (1RGZ5) 22
10 Our very own house troll Paul spews the 9/11 happened because US support for Israel talking points.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez ========= It is because of people like Pual that we got attacked. Cowardly, degenerate, and evil types that believe themselves to be Secret Kings. About as believable as We Wuz Kangz and Shit. Posted by: whig at September 12, 2026 11:47 AM (E4rtv) 23
Leaves of Grass
Posted by: Monica Lewinsky at September 12, 2026 11:49 AM (J4Dwc) 24
You'd think that all those people calling for Islam's ascendancy would look at the youth of Iran today and ask "why?". You'd think.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 12, 2026 11:50 AM (Riz8t) 25
So if muzzies do terrorism because us support for Israel explain the muzzy terrorism in India.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez Shut up, they barked. They can't explain the expansion into Africa, either. US/Israel has nothing to do with it. They're fucking liars. And people on our side better get their heads out of their asses. Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 12, 2026 11:51 AM (EGW4m) 26
24 You'd think that all those people calling for Islam's ascendancy would look at the youth of Iran today and ask "why?". You'd t
Ah, I have it! Real Islam has never been tried! Posted by: Archimedes at September 12, 2026 11:51 AM (Riz8t) Posted by: man at September 12, 2026 11:51 AM (cGjQu) 28
It always struck me years ago, when I would read historical documents the spooks and social planners published, about how difficult it would be to achieve “global governance” would be effected.
The impetus was understandable, even before atomic weapons were even tested there was a lot of discussion at a high level that such weapons would proliferate and therefore a system or international control was necessary. (The Soviets, of course nixed any such notion) But they clearly had a coordinated plan for religion in America. It had to be de-fanged. It was too powerful, church attendance was high, and the morals and traditions too ingrained in society. Some 80 years later, one can see how they incrementally and methodically chipped away at everything. Legislation, crackpot judicial rulings, education in primary schools, media, drugs, etc. “Well; it worked, didn’t it?” Harry Reid Posted by: Common Tater at September 12, 2026 11:52 AM (aPO7X) 29
It’s one of the great ironies that AWFLs love Islam. It’s like gazelles hoping lions take over.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 12, 2026 11:52 AM (2BUGt) 30
Yeats, "The Second Coming"
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 12, 2026 11:52 AM (a6L2j) 31
My father can still recite "Ozymandius", 80 or more years after memorizing it in school/
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 12, 2026 11:53 AM (a6L2j) 32
I think there's a lot of overlap between our leftist political entities and the Islamic horde currently on a tear through the US.
For one; they share some common political beliefs that overlap with a quasi-religious ideology. The left, and the Islamic politicians we've allowed to attain office are hell bent on our destruction. And the country's. There's common cause between those two groups. For two; we've been conditioned to accept other cultures... even at our own peril. Nobody wants to be labeled a racist, but to be honest, it's a label that's lost all meaning. I would imagine in the not-to-distant future there'd be some push-back on all this. Being labeled all sorts of derogatory terms by the left is getting old and people are just now starting to fight back... ineffectively, but it's a start. I'll be dead and gone, but I'm hoping the kids carry on. Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 12, 2026 11:53 AM (2Cry5) 33
It doesn't help that mainstream Protestants and some recent Popes have been more focused on saving mother earth, and other purely secular concerns, than saving souls.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba Eh, Christians in Name Only will always exist. As do heresies. And it is always the same cause even for Israel and Judah in the Old Testament. Too many humans rebel against the word of the Lord and want to create a god in their own image. They make idols of themselves and their feelz rather than do what is right. They excuse evil and promote it under lies like tolerance while attacking what is godly, beautiful, and upright morally. So killing babies becomes good for them, inviting criminals from abroad to kill, murder and rape is called being a good Samaritan, and coddling those here to terrorize the honest and hard working people is considered as mercy. All inversions of what is good and what is evil. And that is a sign that those CINOs chose the way of the devil. Posted by: whig at September 12, 2026 11:54 AM (E4rtv) 34
The Owl and the Pussycat.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2026 11:55 AM (yEz+x) 35
Some 80 years later, one can see how they incrementally and methodically chipped away at everything. Legislation, crackpot judicial rulings, education in primary schools, media, drugs, etc.
“Well; it worked, didn’t it?” Harry Reid Posted by: Common Tater It too will fail. If you have faith as strong as Daniel, or the three Shadrach, Meshach, and Abenego cast in the fiery furnace, all the tricks and snares that befoul society are cast back onto the ones that set them. Posted by: whig at September 12, 2026 11:56 AM (E4rtv) 36
But in its wake, in their objective of removing our religious heritage from the public sohere they expunged all those guardrails in society.
In this huge void or vacuum, a lot of really nasty wicked things moved right in. Oops. “You can’t legislate morality!!” we were lectured. Yeah, well you can un-legislate it, and someone’s “morality” is going to prevail. They left that part out. Oops. Posted by: Common Tater at September 12, 2026 11:56 AM (aPO7X) 37
Our local mosque is a complex of buildings, surrounded by large boulders, a water moat, two different gated fences, and with cameras everywhere. It's a fort.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 12, 2026 11:57 AM (zfW44) 38
It’s one of the great ironies that AWFLs love Islam. It’s like gazelles hoping lions take over.
I think in their heart of hearts they really want a man to tell them what to do. In the Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky wrote that free will is something most people don't want; in this case, it's really easy to see. The AWFLs won't acknowledge their craving for being controlled to themselves, because to do so would destroy their entire way of viewing the world and themselves. : The Inquisitor states that people do not actually want freedom because it brings agonizing moral responsibility and doubt; instead, they desperately want bread, miracles, and someone to take away their free will and tell them what to do. Posted by: Archimedes at September 12, 2026 11:57 AM (Riz8t) 39
29 It’s one of the great ironies that AWFLs love Islam. It’s like gazelles hoping lions take over.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez ========== Underpants gnome theology except the Islamists are prepared for what comes next, the idiot AWFLs cheering Charlie Kirk's death will be bound in burqas as baby factories. It is as if the AWFLs want this outcome because they are too frightened and weak to oppose this destiny. Posted by: whig at September 12, 2026 11:59 AM (E4rtv) 40
Better get the UN outta NY. I have a feeling the goatrapers are slowly taking it over.
They're establishing beach heads all over the country. Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 12, 2026 12:00 PM (EGW4m) 41
All I'll add is that our betters have waded us into that Middle Eastern shithole time after time with the same thinking- we can somehow apply our ideals and principles to a world that, while they may have some, they are not ours. And the weak-minded among the populations of the West are OK going along with it, if not enthusiastic. A cynical man would say there's a plan...
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at September 12, 2026 12:00 PM (QaH55) 42
"If you wanted to introduce an 'I hate poetry' person to good poetry, what's the one poem you'd give them to read?"
Aurora Leigh then we could both hate it together. Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd stirring the pot at September 12, 2026 12:00 PM (r7+Q7) 43
I would imagine in the not-to-distant future there'd be some push-back on all this.
——- I was looking for that 35 years ago. I’m not very optimistic at this point. America is on a serious, almost fatal time-delay. Posted by: Common Tater at September 12, 2026 12:00 PM (aPO7X) 44
Eh, Christians in Name Only will always exist. As do heresies. And it is always the same cause even for Israel and Judah in the Old Testament.
Posted by: whig ____________ Yes, but you have to admit that the long term trend in the west (I'd say ever since the enlightenment and then the French Revolution) is for more and more CINOs or the outright irreligious. Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 12, 2026 12:01 PM (XvL8K) 45
16 Interesting to read what Steyn wrote 25 years ago.
------------------ Link to what he wrote in "Spectator" on Steynonline. https://www.steynonline.com/16400/the-way-to-lose Posted by: olddog in mo at September 12, 2026 11:42 AM (NmD3f) Thank you! Posted by: m at September 12, 2026 12:01 PM (odBC9) 46
The biggest mistake made by the likes of Mussolini, The Tsars, the Nationalist Chinese, Batista, hell anyone and everyone in power anywhere at anytime who had marxists in their custody was letting them live and not shooting them. All of them. No big show trials, no court house fanfare, no 2 years for this or 5 years for that. Just shoot them out back behind the prison.
Letting them live just spread the virus. Posted by: Stamp Out The Virus Of Marxism at September 12, 2026 12:01 PM (cCXR+) 47
How about that Norm MacDonald-inspired 9/11 lead article in the New York Times? Those guys are the worst of the worst.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 12, 2026 12:01 PM (zfW44) 48
Well shucks. It still boils down to the islam.
Posted by: Eromero at September 12, 2026 12:01 PM (LHPAg) 49
All I'll add is that our betters have waded us into that Middle Eastern shithole time after time with the same thinking- we can somehow apply our ideals and principles to a world that, while they may have some, they are not ours"
This Posted by: man at September 12, 2026 12:02 PM (cGjQu) 50
> Our local mosque is a complex of buildings, surrounded by large boulders, a water moat, two different gated fences, and with cameras everywhere. It's a fort.
----------- It's also an armory. Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 12, 2026 12:03 PM (2Cry5) 51
A beautiful day in Waxhaw, NC.
Posted by: mrp55net at September 12, 2026 12:03 PM (dT1rV) 52
The Inquisitor states that people do not actually want freedom because it brings agonizing moral responsibility and doubt; instead, they desperately want bread, miracles, and someone to take away their free will and tell them what to do.
Posted by: Archimedes I think may be a function of culture. A real boss does not have to proclaim such on social media; people know it instinctively. So Girlbossism is rather like posing and bragging to raise social status among their competitors rather than actuality. Social media is like a twisted mirror on reality and like the palantir after Sauron obtained one, it takes a strong mind with principles plus the Holy Spirit whispering wisdom and discernment in the ear to get useful information from it. Weaker people either despair into blackpillism or simply roll over to go with the tide whichever way it is flowing. Posted by: whig at September 12, 2026 12:03 PM (E4rtv) 53
VITAE SUMMA BREVIS SPEM NOS VETET INCOHARE LONGAM
They are not long, the weeping and the laughter, Love and desire and hate; I think they have no portion in us after We pass the gate. They are not long, the days of wine and roses: Out of a misty dream Our path emerges for a while, then closes Within a dream. -- Ernest Dowson, 1867-1900 -- Posted by: Archimedes at September 12, 2026 12:04 PM (Riz8t) 54
Are you now suggesting that an error was made in the 60s and 90s by giving the most ta\\radical Saudi Wahhabists billions of dollars to fight the Russians in Afghanistan?
If so, that shipped already sailed. You did think it was a good idea back then. Sauis actively promoted THE most radical sect of that religion. Posted by: Aliss at September 12, 2026 12:05 PM (LN9Ll) 55
Bravely bold Sir Robin rode forth from Camelot.
He was not afraid to die, O brave Sir Robin. He was not at all afraid to be killed in nasty ways, Brave, brave, brave, brave Sir Robin! He was not in the least bit scared to be mashed into a pulp, Or to have his eyes gouged out and his elbows broken, To have his kneecaps split and his body burned away And his limbs all hacked and mangled, brave Sir Robin! His head smashed in and his heart cut out And his liver removed and his bowels unplugged And his nostrils raped and his bottom burned off And his pen-- Brave Sir Robin ran away, Bravely ran away, away. When danger reared its ugly head, he bravely turned his tail and fled. Yes, brave Sir Robin turned about And gallantly, he chickened out. Bravely taking to his feet, He beat a very brave retreat, Bravest of the brave, Sir Robin. He is packing it in and packing it up And sneaking away and buggering up And chickening out and pissing off home, Yes, bravely he is throwing in the sponge. Posted by: Archimedes at September 12, 2026 12:06 PM (Riz8t) 56
27 Leaves of Grass
Posted by: Monica Lewinsky " Don't you get leaves of tobacco? Posted by: man at September 12, 2026 11:51 AM (cGjQu) We're getting dangerously close to puns here. Let's not blow it. Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd stirring the pot at September 12, 2026 12:06 PM (r7+Q7) 57
I think may be a function of culture. A real boss does not have to proclaim such on social media; people know it instinctively. So Girlbossism is rather like posing and bragging to raise social status among their competitors rather than actuality.
As long as they are non-practicing whites, all is well. Posted by: Archimedes at September 12, 2026 12:08 PM (Riz8t) 58
I am not a poetry lover, but do appreciate good poetry
Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 12:08 PM (Ia/+0) 59
Yes, but you have to admit that the long term trend in the west (I'd say ever since the enlightenment and then the French Revolution) is for more and more CINOs or the outright irreligious.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba I can't say that. I suspect rebelling against the Lord and all his teachings is common across the ages. We just call it different movements and that in part is because institutions including churches and sects are made of mankind and will fail just like mankind often enough. But the Word of the Lord never will until the end of times despite the rise and decline of institutions. We don't openly do idolatry aside from the idiots that play around with dark forces, but leftist ideology has created an idol like Frankenstein (government--popular will--our democracy)--a man made monster that can and will turn on humanity. Posted by: whig at September 12, 2026 12:08 PM (E4rtv) 60
YOU gave the jihadists the power by funding them and you still will not admit or apologize for that mega mistake.
Posted by: Aliss at September 12, 2026 12:09 PM (LN9Ll) 61
THAT was the price you paid for cheap oil
Posted by: Aliss at September 12, 2026 12:10 PM (LN9Ll) 62
As long as they are non-practicing whites, all is well.
Posted by: Archimedes Another example of twisted hypergamy that leaves only pain, failure, and absence from God in its wake. Denying that you are as God created you is a sin. We can be no other than what he made us. But what we do with the raw materials is up to us under free will. Posted by: whig at September 12, 2026 12:10 PM (E4rtv) 63
From Ayaan's piece: "It wasn’t that Western observers were deaf to the logical, organizational, and civilizational dimensions of Islamist movements. What was lacking was the imagination required to believe that they might triumph."
Understanding why lefties love Islam. Posted by: KT at September 12, 2026 11:47 AM (1RGZ5) I recall the high-fiving and grab-assing following the 1993 WTC bombing. The captured terrorists were mocked for the fact they were caught because one of them tried to get the deposit back from the Ryder truck rental that carried in the bomb. We (I among them at the time) laughed when it was revealed they wanted to topple one tower into the other. The book 102 Minutes chronicles the period between that and the successful mission less than a decade later. No one is laughing now, but a lot of people have gone back to sleep, hoping it was all just a bad dream.. Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 12, 2026 12:11 PM (nbLIj) 64
It’s one of the great ironies that AWFLs love Islam. It’s like gazelles hoping lions take over.
They just want to get ploughed not-quite-consensually by swarthy exotic men who smell like goat. It's the bad boy thing, international edition. Posted by: But they REALLY want a good man at September 12, 2026 12:12 PM (TbWk/) 65
58 I am not a poetry lover, but do appreciate good poetry
Posted by: Skip Try the Bible. Has some amazing poetry that somehow works out regardless of the languages used. And whenever you feeling on top of the world, the Book of Ecclesiastes or Book of Job is there to tell you that this too in this world will pass. This world is to harden and forge people so that they can go to the Father and be with him eternally as the choir of the righteous or choose the lot of those rebelling against him. Posted by: whig at September 12, 2026 12:13 PM (E4rtv) 66
I used to think as soon as the oil runs dry we’re done having to worry about these goat fuckers. Then someone had the brilliant idea of importing them here by the millions.
Thanks Dubya. Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 12, 2026 12:13 PM (2BUGt) 67
If you wanted to introduce an "I hate poetry" person to good poetry, what's the one poem you'd give them to read?
For a young man it would be Kipling's "If". That is how one becomes the heroic lone jury holdout. Posted by: Napoleon XIV at September 12, 2026 12:15 PM (91TQ2) 68
57 I think may be a function of culture. A real boss does not have to proclaim such on social media; people know it instinctively. So Girlbossism is rather like posing and bragging to raise social status among their competitors rather than actuality.
Any woman who must say "I am the Queen" is no true Queen. Posted by: Tywin Lannister at September 12, 2026 12:17 PM (TbWk/) 69
Good morning, hot coffee and content. bbl
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 12:18 PM (VQ0bX) 70
The Cremation of Sam McGee.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 12:19 PM (1z8ji) 71
"The Second Coming" and "Ozymandias" are my top two poems for Dudes Who Say They Hate Poetry. Some others:
Richard Cory. Invictus. Death of the Ball Turret Gunner. Charge of the Light Brigade. Dulce et Decorum Est. They all pack a punch, and like all poetry, should be read aloud for maximum effect. Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at September 12, 2026 12:20 PM (5YmYl) 72
Letting them live just spread the virus.
Posted by: Stamp Out The Virus Of Marxism You can't. It is because ideas will always be used to try to win power for people who are not in the power structure but want to be. Cromwell had his levellers to deal with. The radical Anabaptists in Germany had a similar idea. You get the divine right of kings because kings liked it. And so on. What we have to do is far more sobering--realizing there is no permanent victory, no permanent defeat until the end times. So we brace ourselves and contest this portion of devilment in our times that is our lot during our lifespan. We are already assured of victory because Christ has already won that victory for the faithful by his sacrifice. So Gramsci too and his progeny will flag and fail like all of mankind's efforts do. And then another will pop up rehashing the same old story--something for nothing, do as thou wilt, and every other devil inspired movement. Posted by: whig at September 12, 2026 12:20 PM (E4rtv) 73
Weaker people either despair into blackpillism or simply roll over to go with the tide whichever way it is flowing.
Posted by: whig ________ But the Grand Inquisitor's point was that the weaker people comprise the vast majority of the population, and that it was thus unfair for Christ to place the immense burden of free will on them. Dostoyevsky gave no rational answer to this, but instead had Christ kiss the Grand Inquisitor at the end. Which was the only possible answer since faith is not based on the rational. For now we see through a glass, darkly. Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 12, 2026 12:21 PM (XvL8K) 74
I guess we can add "failure to execute Antonia Gramsci" to the crimes of Italian Fascism.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 12, 2026 12:22 PM (amcLV) 75
58 I am not a poetry lover, but do appreciate good poetry
Posted by: Skip On the other hand, the un-bowdlerized saga of Eskimo Nell might be more to AOS tastes in poetry. Posted by: whig at September 12, 2026 12:22 PM (E4rtv) 76
In contrast to what our political betters have in mind with regards to the Islamic horde here in the US, at least some in the Trump administration have publicly said their presence here is a problem.
Maybe lumped in with all the other hordes, but I think some in the administration are keenly aware of the threat. Yet, we can't seem to deport illegals here without some rogue judge halting it. There are a lot of hurdles to overcome with our own judiciary in order to properly deal with the threat from Islamists. Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 12, 2026 12:22 PM (2Cry5) 77
They all pack a punch, and like all poetry, should be read aloud for maximum effect.
Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at September 12, 2026 12:20 PM (5YmYl) ---------- Tennyson's "The Revenge." *mic drop* Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 12, 2026 12:25 PM (amcLV) 78
But the Grand Inquisitor's point was that the weaker people comprise the vast majority of the population, and that it was thus unfair for Christ to place the immense burden of free will on them.
Dostoyevsky gave no rational answer to this, but instead had Christ kiss the Grand Inquisitor at the end. Which was the only possible answer since faith is not based on the rational. For now we see through a glass, darkly. Posted by: Biff Pocoroba All of us are weak, even Peter denied Christ three times from fear. It is only by reliance on Christ, not ourselves and our strength that we can conquer. That is the part that the Grand Inquisitor did not get. We cannot triumph ourselves with free will; we can only do so in accordance with God's will and with his blessings. That is the part of Christianity that people including Islamists fail to get. Christ is there to help us, succor us when we are floundering, help us deal with temptation that can ensnare us, but we have to ask him and humble ourselves. Even the strongest among us will falter and fail without that divine assistance but with it, we cannot fail. Posted by: whig at September 12, 2026 12:26 PM (E4rtv) 79
17 So if muzzies do terrorism because us support for Israel explain the muzzy terrorism in India.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez --- Their goals are conquest and degrade. It doesn't matter the opponent. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 12:27 PM (VQ0bX) 80
Any woman who must say "I am the Queen" is no true Queen.
Posted by: Tywin Lannister ==== Funny but pretty much true. Posted by: whig at September 12, 2026 12:28 PM (E4rtv) 81
Our local mosque is a complex of buildings, surrounded by large boulders, a water moat, two different gated fences, and with cameras everywhere. It's a fort.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 12, 2026 11:57 AM (zfW44) Makes it hard to get out when the mortar barrage starts. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 12:29 PM (1z8ji) 82
Some of us keep telling people, the CORRECT reaction to 9/11 is the one that imagines and brings to life the reaction to what would have happened if the Capitol-targeting flight wasn't delayed on the tarmac, for if the Capital was struck within minutes of the WTC or earlier, our reaction as a people of some 300 million would be WAY different from the one that quickly soured on the Iraq war. After all, this, and the message it would have sent (all those dead Republican and Democrat lawmakers) is what Atta and Osama WANTED us to internalize.
And if not for the tarmac delay, they would have gotten a reaction from us far beyond their wettest dreams. Not to their worldly benefit, of course, whatever one thinks of their death-wish. (For one, just perhaps, the Masjid Al-Haram might not have been standing for much longer.) Posted by: Garfunkel's Sowed Oats at September 12, 2026 12:29 PM (XXR9+) 83
Letting them live just spread the virus.
Posted by: Stamp Out The Virus Of Marxism at September 12, 2026 12:01 PM (cCXR+) Same could be said for jihadis. Why hasn't Nidal Hassan been scragged yet? Get the stick out of your ass, people, and fucking do it. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 12:31 PM (1z8ji) 84
Civics was taught in grammar school -- a religious grammar school ‐- I attended fifty plus years ago. I doubt it's taught anymore. I know they picked the worst people, but Jay Leno's interviews of students on the sidewalk is tragic
Posted by: JM in Illinois at September 12, 2026 12:33 PM (MEjZB) 85
Something I didn't realize when I was young is the role of demoralization in making a civilization ripe for conquest. Now I see its insidious influence acting on soft minds.
Yesterday on campus, I was approached by a Boomer hippie type who wanted to give me a brochure about how our university was instrumental in promoting Nazism in Germany. He claimed this information was crucial considering the rising fascism in our country and the danger Trump poses. I told him that Trump is fighting fascism harder than just about anyone else and I'm deeply grateful for his devotion to that cause. I wonder what responses the hippie got from the young students. Anyway, I've come to despise the efforts to pile guilt and shame on people for a past that they weren't even a part of, especially since this effort is usually paired with encouragement to engage in current immorality (I'm not talking strictly sexual immorality, although that plays a significant introductory role). I suspect that if I had engaged this guy further, I would have uncovered many of the unsavory aspects of leftism, like anti-semitism, infanticide, suppressing unapproved speech, turning criminals loose on society. Posted by: Emmie at September 12, 2026 12:34 PM (OlzlW) 86
Islam is out to conquer the world
Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 12:34 PM (Ia/+0) 87
85 If i were more partisan, I would have pointed out that the time frame he was concerned about was when Arkansas was under Democrat control.
Posted by: Emmie at September 12, 2026 12:35 PM (OlzlW) 88
Makes it hard to get out when the mortar barrage starts.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 12:29 PM (1z8ji) Yea, verily. Posted by: Eromero at September 12, 2026 12:36 PM (LHPAg) 89
Have you heard of the wonderful one-horse shay
That ran a hundred years to the day And then of a sudden it---Ah, but stay I'll tell you what happened without delay... Posted by: Wenda at September 12, 2026 12:38 PM (uSgX5) 90
37 Our local mosque is a complex of buildings, surrounded by large boulders, a water moat, two different gated fences, and with cameras everywhere. It's a fort.
Posted by: Huck Follywood --- All mosques should be raided and searched. Simultaneously would be best. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 12:40 PM (VQ0bX) 91
I was in 1st grade in 1976, and our teacher, Mrs. Weishauer, had us memorize The Midnight Ride.
Posted by: Jeff Weimer at September 12, 2026 12:43 PM (gUs21) 92
I believe that 6 months later, Mark Steyn watched a continuous stream of Muslim women enter the maternity shop dressed in muslim garb. He did not see any european women enter; he realized demographics were on the side of muslims
Posted by: JM in Illinois at September 12, 2026 12:45 PM (MEjZB) 93
Makes it hard to get out when the mortar barrage starts.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 12:29 PM (1z8ji) 3500 of them? Maybe in Free America, but do we have the capability to overcome law enforcement in blue sh tholes? Posted by: Eromero at September 12, 2026 12:45 PM (LHPAg) 94
The deliberately organized & coordinated scientific manipulation of minds and attitudes really only got going at the beginning of the 20th century. Or at least technology had reached a level where it was far more insidious and pervasive. The Socialists perfected this to an art form.
In addition to the Frankfurt School communists imported in the 30s there was a large cohort of nazis imported after the war in the 1950s, including rocket scientists, but also chemical warfare scientists, propaganda specialists and similar. These cast of characters have had an outsize influence in the last 80 years here in America that I think is largely unknown. Yes, it is recognized an open air insane asylum in many places, but nobody quite understands why, or how this happened. Posted by: Common Tater at September 12, 2026 12:45 PM (aPO7X) Posted by: what the cat drug in at September 12, 2026 12:47 PM (jrgJz) 96
Makes it hard to get out when the mortar barrage starts.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 12:29 PM (1z8ji) 3500 of them? Maybe in Free America, but do we have the capability to overcome law enforcement in blue sh tholes? Posted by: Eromero at September 12, 2026 12:45 PM (LHPAg) Well, I am assuming some event occurs that causes the powers that be to declare all islam to be the enemy. Which will eventually happen, because they cannot help themselves. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 12:49 PM (1z8ji) 97
"...I was struck by the name of Christine Hanson of Groton, Massachusetts, a two-year-old girl sitting between her parents on a doomed flight. She was last heard crying in the background during her father's telephone call to her grandparents to report that the stewardess had been stabbed. Christine would be approaching thirty now - and I cannot but feel that the intervening years have dishonoured her memory:"
Peter Hanson grew up in Easton, CT, where I live now. Yesterday, we dedicated the 25th anniversary ceremony at the 9/11 Memorial Garden in front of Town Hall to the Hanson family - Christine, Sue Kim, and Peter Hanson. There were several people there - including our First Selectman - who grew up with Peter. The last speaker also knew Peter from Easton, and was working on the 64th floor of the South Tower when the plane that the Hansons were on struck the WTC. After he evacuated the tower, he was eventually reunited with his wife and six-week-old daughter and went up to VT to decompress. While there, they ended up receiving a baby gift in the mail, addressed to the daughter. It was from the Hansons. Posted by: Darrell Harris at September 12, 2026 12:53 PM (/ZuMP) 98
'Civics' was replaced by 'Sociology'
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 12, 2026 12:55 PM (XeU6L) 99
Islam delenda est.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 12, 2026 12:58 PM (TlKpx) 100
66 I used to think as soon as the oil runs dry we’re done having to worry about these goat fuckers. Then someone had the brilliant idea of importing them here by the millions.
Thanks Dubya. Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez --- Bush, the Bush's, are mere functionaries of the Borg or Administrative State or call the Board of Directors what you will. _Politburo Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 12:58 PM (VQ0bX) 101
Yesterday on campus, I was approached by a Boomer hippie type who wanted to give me a brochure about how our university was instrumental in promoting Nazism in Germany. He claimed this information was crucial considering the rising fascism in our country and the danger Trump poses.
Me: If he's the fascist you say he is, why are you free to wander around passing out leaflets denouncing him? I'll wait. Posted by: Archimedes at September 12, 2026 01:01 PM (Riz8t) 102
3500 of them? Maybe in Free America, but do we have the capability to overcome law enforcement in blue sh tholes?
Posted by: Eromero I have ideas. OPSEC Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 12, 2026 01:01 PM (vnlVL) 103
I like to picture the hijackers, indeed all muslim martyrs, getting roundly rogered by their 72 virginal hormone-crazed teenage boys
Posted by: 496 at September 12, 2026 01:03 PM (ouubj) 104
Yet, we can't seem to deport illegals here without some rogue judge halting it. There are a lot of hurdles to overcome with our own judiciary in order to properly deal with the threat from Islamists.
Posted by: Martini Farmer --- Regaining the balance of powers, putting the judiciary back into and equal third and getting rid of radical judges who do not respect the Constitution or the rule of law is a major necessity to the continuation of this Republic. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 01:04 PM (VQ0bX) 105
There is no radical islam. There is only islam.
Posted by: free tibet at September 12, 2026 01:04 PM (iNp3L) Posted by: Archimedes at September 12, 2026 01:05 PM (Riz8t) 107
I'm still expecting to start a trinitite collection from the 1000 most sacred places in Islam.
But by that time, it might include samples from Dearborn, London, Windsorstan, Berlin. I still believe we'll win. And most of our dead will be deadweight leftists anyways and no great loss. Actually, no loss at all. Everyone have a good weekend. Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at September 12, 2026 01:05 PM (Sco7b) 108
Makes it hard to get out when the mortar barrage starts.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon --- If we only had mortars. They won't be fighting our military they will be fighting us in the streets just as they are in Iran. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 01:08 PM (VQ0bX) 109
They infest, invade and erode from the inside out.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 01:09 PM (VQ0bX) 110
If you wanted to introduce an "I hate poetry" person to good poetry, what's the one poem you'd give them to read? For the boys: Robert W. Service Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2026 01:15 PM (eRlcH) 111
> If we only had mortars. They won't be fighting our military they will be fighting us in the streets just as they are in Iran.
------------ I imagine a number of those men from the middle east who jumped the border under *biden's reign are now setting up shop in mosques around the country, collecting weapons and explosives for "later use." On us. Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 12, 2026 01:16 PM (2Cry5) Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 12, 2026 01:17 PM (g8Ew8) Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 01:18 PM (VQ0bX) 114
Thanks Dubya.
Remember, during the 2000 election Dubya said that Arabs should get less scrutiny in airports. I don't think that anyone's reputation has collapsed more in the last twenty-five years than W. Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 12, 2026 01:22 PM (aD4fx) 115
Civilization is always in upheaval. Society is always changing. People tend to forget that peace is a luxury to be worked for.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 12, 2026 01:23 PM (E0Et6) 116
Read Bush is still spewing that Islam is a religion of peace crap yesterday
Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 01:23 PM (Ia/+0) 117
For the boys: Robert W. Service Posted by: Hadrian ------- Good choice. In HS (all boys), my English teacher had the class memorize 'The Cremation of Sam Mcgee'. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 12, 2026 01:24 PM (XeU6L) 118
When the socialists think they are in control, then they will start murdering their allies.
Good luck in Dearbornistan. Posted by: Anna Puma at September 12, 2026 01:24 PM (gXiuU) 119
What we have to do is far more sobering--realizing there is no permanent victory, no permanent defeat until the end times. So we brace ourselves and contest this portion of devilment in our times that is our lot during our lifespan.
Whig, this is so well-put I copied it down to think about. Thank you. Posted by: RI Red at September 12, 2026 01:24 PM (jkyX4) 120
Have a FWP, haven't found mh reading glasses all week. There here, but where. Going to try reading book without them.
Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 01:25 PM (Ia/+0) 121
120 Have a FWP, haven't found mh reading glasses all week. There here, but where. Going to try reading book without them.
Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 01:25 PM (Ia/+0) You need glasses to read, but since you can't see you can't find your glasses. That's a Catch 20/20. Posted by: Darrell Harris at September 12, 2026 01:26 PM (/ZuMP) 122
I don't think that anyone's reputation has collapsed more in the last twenty-five years than W.
Besides the "religion of peace" drivel, W. helped set the stage for the Deep State's attempts to overthrow the elected government. On September 12th, after the worst intelligence failure in the history of the United States, the intelligence agencies prepared themselves for the mass firings that would surely follow after this disaster. Bush fired no one. That convinced the Comeys and Brennans that they were bulletproof, and that they could try to overthrow the elected government of the United States without consequence. Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 12, 2026 01:27 PM (aD4fx) 123
Have a FWP, haven't found mh reading glasses all week. There here, but where. Going to try reading book without them.
Posted by: Skip ------- Local drug store, ~$5:00 for cheapies that kinda work. I've been avoiding getting a prescription pair. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 12, 2026 01:27 PM (XeU6L) 124
Even the strongest among us will falter and fail without that divine assistance but with it, we cannot fail.
Posted by: whig at September 12, 2026 12:26 PM (E4rtv) Bullshit. Even as a good Christian, you'll still fail, sometimes badly. Belief in God gives one the strength to admit it, correct it, then get back on your feet and move on. Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 12, 2026 01:29 PM (g8Ew8) 125
In the War for Civilization, we will emerge victorious!
Posted by: Big Penguin at September 12, 2026 01:29 PM (0sNs1) 126
Thank you KT for writing on this important topic.
Hirsi Ali's book "Infidel" was transformative for my view of the current crisis. She is brilliant (so is her husband.) Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 01:30 PM (RIvkX) 127
When the socialists think they are in control, then they will start murdering their allies.
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 12, 2026 01:24 PM Qué? That's a rather cynical thing to say, Seňorita! Posted by: Che Guevara at September 12, 2026 01:31 PM (0sNs1) 128
Read Bush is still spewing that Islam is a religion of peace crap yesterday
Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 01:23 PM (Ia/+0) ===== Hard to believe yet not hard to believe. Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 01:32 PM (RIvkX) 129
Have a FWP, haven't found mh reading glasses all week. There here, but where. Going to try reading book without them. Posted by: Skip ------- Local drug store, ~$5:00 for cheapies that kinda work. I've been avoiding getting a prescription pair. Posted by: Mike Hammer Buy several pair and leave them about the house. Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 12, 2026 01:33 PM (Cqx++) 130
Qué? That's a rather cynical thing to say, Seňorita!
Posted by: Che Guevara at September 12, 2026 01:31 PM (0sNs1) ===== Was? Posted by: Ernst Rohm at September 12, 2026 01:33 PM (RIvkX) 131
Qué? That's a rather cynical thing to say, Seňorita!
Posted by: Che Guevara at September 12, 2026 01:31 PM (0sNs1) ===== Was? Posted by: Ernst Rohm at September 12, 2026 01:33 PM (RIvkX) Tell me about it. Posted by: Leon Trotsky at September 12, 2026 01:39 PM (eRlcH) 132
Was? Posted by: Ernst Rohm -------- Lately been reading this. A very detailed history https://shorturl.at/xydXr Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 12, 2026 01:40 PM (XeU6L) Posted by: javems at September 12, 2026 01:45 PM (zFsEm) 134
Very nice day outside. This evening going with my sister and takkng my dad to a drone light show.
Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 01:47 PM (Ia/+0) Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 12, 2026 01:49 PM (2Cry5) 136
culture is politics by other means – and that the side that controls the culture wins, regardless of who wins the elections
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 01:53 PM (VQ0bX) 137
Read Bush is still spewing that Islam is a religion of peace crap yesterday
Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 01:23 PM (Ia/+0) ===== Hard to believe yet not hard to believe. Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 01:32 PM (RIvkX) He's nothing but a soy and estrogen-soaked milquetoast pussy who's one of many of the deep state's sellouts by the muzzies. Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 12, 2026 01:55 PM (g8Ew8) 138
We have been well informed and well warned about the true nature of Islam since its very beginning. For 14 centuries history has amply demonstrated the fact that this ideology retains an adamantine grip on its death cult origin. In every century, scholars and laborers, warriors and clerics, rulers and commoners alike have all given witness to the unchanging nature of Islam’s progress throughout the world — submission before the sword. That not every muslim bears a sword is of no matter to the nature of Islam, nor is the alleged ‘silent majority’ of so-called ‘moderate muslims’, just as an apostate Christian is of no matter to the nature of Christianity. Of course, the true muslim has no qualms in showing the difference in how such apostasy is handled…
(cont.) Posted by: goozer at September 12, 2026 01:55 PM (eTh1u) 139
(cont.)
There can be no accommodation with those who wish to enslave and kill you. Unfortunately, it is our own civility that has been our undoing in dealing with the problem of Islam. The modern, enlightened Western Civilization has in varying degrees throughout those nations where it holds sway rejected its Spiritual underpinnings in favor of a relentless secularism. This has led to a blindness that prevents them from comprehending what it is that they are seeing in those who hold to the tenets of Islam. The philosophies and fantasies of those who hold power and influence in our culture and polity have declared that all creeds, castes and cultures are equal, and that there is no objective right or wrong to measure between them. All testimony to the contrary from the past is dismissed as ‘unenlightened provincialism,’ and all evidence in the present is equivocated and dissembled as merely a reaction to our past provocations and lingering biases. The calls for an ‘Islamic Reformation’ miss the mark by virtue of the fact that that is indeed what is taking place already — the truly faithful have begun to wrest he faith away from the apostate. (cont.) Posted by: goozer at September 12, 2026 01:56 PM (eTh1u) 140
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Meanwhile, Islam looks at the world from its unchanging perspective and sees what it has always seen; lands full of dhimmis and kafirs awaiting the inevitable conquest of the one true faith. Their ‘hearts and minds’ — even the so-called ‘moderates’ — are unwilling to be changed to hold to the secular Western notions of ‘tolerance’ and ‘equality.’ Their faith holds as a tenet that it is a good work to lie to the unfaithful, and vice in the pursuit of their ‘virtue’ is no barrier to their paradise, especially when its purchase can be made with the blood of unbelievers. And now, thanks to the insanity of those leaders in Europe who have sown the winds of demographic suicide through so-called progressive policies like abortion and one-child initiatives, they are reaping the whirlwind of invasion by legions of young men who are unencumbered by such “enlightenment” — and some welcome them with open arms! I fear there will be no Charles Martel to turn the tide back this time. (cont.) Posted by: goozer at September 12, 2026 01:57 PM (eTh1u) 141
Buy several pair and leave them about the house.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 12, 2026 01:33 PM (Cqx++) ___ That's what I do. Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 12, 2026 01:58 PM (Rln0i) 142
(cont.)
So we are left with a hope that Islam will return to the apostates, which is foolishly unrealistic, given the witness of those Judeo-Christian denominations and sects who have done likewise, only to see their branch shrivel and die through the attrition of death, denial, and desertion. And a return to the centuries of isolation and Internecine conflicts that marked the Islamic world before we started marking lines on maps is no longer possible — that djinn is out of the bottle. Unless Islam is eradicated, there will always be conflict. Reducing Mecca and all the other major Islamic centers and governments to radioactive slag would not be enough. But as genocide is anathema to the civilized mind, it is a conflict that we can never truly end. But we must never never never never NEVER SUBMIT! Posted by: goozer at September 12, 2026 01:58 PM (eTh1u) Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 12, 2026 01:59 PM (g8Ew8) 144
>>> If the red wheelbarrow doesn't work, there's always that young man from Nantucket
Posted by: 496 at September 12, 2026 11:39 AM (F5Pkl) *golf clap* Posted by: Max Power at September 12, 2026 02:03 PM (q177U) 145
>>for 25 years Western elites repeatedly insisted that men like Atta must have been driven by something other than the culture and the faith"
-- >>When you have half a century of "all cultures are equal" and "religions are equal", what else would be expected? - - - - We've been watching the 9/11 shows on Nat Geo and the History channels. They've been making these for years, telling the stories of various survivors, including footage, etc. This year I was really struck by how New York-y they all were - the accents, the obviously Irish and Italian first responders were, how they had a lot of family involved (family there for generations), the NYC sensibilities and humor. It is delightful, but also so sad, knowing this kind of New York-iness is being replaced with mass foreign immigration and "diversity" that is celebrates/valued over the long-time locals who've made this city great. That, and the sheer, unhesitant heroics. THAT is a value of ours we take for granted, the notion that of course co-workers will carry each other down the stairs, that not just FDNY, bust civilians run toward the chaos, run UP the stairs to save as many as they can. Not all cultures do that. Posted by: Lizzy at September 12, 2026 02:03 PM (rOKnE) 146
The above commentary was something I wrote for another blog about 16 years ago (RIP Threedonia), minus the quotes from historical accounts that bore witness to the origin of the death cult.
I agree with Mark Steyn and others -- we lost the "War on 'Terror'" the very moment GWB stood in front of those ideological fellow travelers of the bastards who flew those planes and basically surrendered to them. Posted by: goozer at September 12, 2026 02:04 PM (eTh1u) 147
On the next episode of the Waltons, every female member of the family is pregnant.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at September 12, 2026 02:05 PM (8hZNI) 148
>>The above commentary was something I wrote for another blog about 16 years ago (RIP Threedonia),
Oh man, I read your blog! Posted by: Lizzy at September 12, 2026 02:06 PM (rOKnE) 149
It's the same retarded fairy-tale twaddle they tried to 'splain domestic crime in the 1950s, and 1960s. Crime, you see, is always and ever a matter of "poverty".
They tried that shit in high school. I countered that, with the observation that the real dynamic is ordinarily that crime causes poverty. But the lunatics insist on their delusions, because to admit they were wrong about their crackpot theories is too horrible to contemplate. So Moslem atrocities are due to "poverty". Send them more money, and it will get better. Posted by: Common Tater at September 12, 2026 02:08 PM (/ijqt) 150
143 Posted by: goozer at September 12, 2026 01:56 PM (eTh1u)
Paragraphs are your friends. Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 12, 2026 01:59 PM (g8Ew Yes, and were this blog still allowing unlimited text (as it was when I first cross posted it here before the copy/paste troll), there would be a few more than what I used here in order to keep it to just four comments. ;-) Posted by: goozer at September 12, 2026 02:09 PM (eTh1u) 151
Islam is antithetical to Christianity.
Islam is antithetical to life. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 02:09 PM (VQ0bX) 152
The world paying Muslims their jizm taxes so they don't have to work, keep their 4 wives pregnant won't make it any better.
Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 02:11 PM (Ia/+0) 153
PET NOOD
Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 02:14 PM (Ia/+0) 154
When you have half a century of "all cultures are equal" and "religions are equal", what else would be expected?
------ It's worse than that. They don't claim cultures are "equal" or anything of the sort. Nobody believes that, clearly cultures are widely disparate. What they claim is that despite these wide differences, there is no inherent superiority or preferable way of doing anything. Different, yes. Better, no. There are no objective standards, you see. There is no "right" or "wrong" way, everything is biased, blah blah blah. The real goal is to turn people into mewling quims who will not defend what they have. Not their life, not anyone else's life, not the culture, not anything. They have no framework, no independent thought. The worst thing of all is to be "judgmental" or declare that one thing might just really be better than some other thing. They live in a Psychic Cage. The way to have fun with these nihilists, when the professor suggests in class there is no objective reality, well then we'll just delete your fucking paycheck and retirement pension there, sport. They'll start screeching. Posted by: Common Tater at September 12, 2026 02:14 PM (/ijqt) 155
148 >>The above commentary was something I wrote for another blog about 16 years ago (RIP Threedonia),
Oh man, I read your blog! Posted by: Lizzy at September 12, 2026 02:06 PM (rOKnE) It wasn't my blog! That honor goes to the anonymous "Floyd Turbo". I was a frequent commenter who eventually graduated to "COB" status there. Unfortunately, someone hacked the blog and locked us out, and Floyd's backup went tits up at the exact same time, so that's why it went dark. Posted by: goozer at September 12, 2026 02:16 PM (eTh1u) 156
>>It wasn't my blog! That honor goes to the anonymous "Floyd Turbo". I was a frequent commenter who eventually graduated to "COB" status there. Unfortunately, someone hacked the blog and locked us out, and Floyd's backup went tits up at the exact same time, so that's why it went dark.
Oh, d@mn, that sucks!! Posted by: Lizzy at September 12, 2026 02:17 PM (rOKnE) 157
But the lunatics insist on their delusions, because to admit they were wrong about their crackpot theories is too horrible to contemplate.
So Moslem atrocities are due to "poverty". Send them more money, and it will get better. Posted by: Common Tater --- Yep, Gramci nailed it. The instrument was the long march through the institutions. Not the barricade. The school, the university, the media, the judiciary, the civil service, the cultural establishment – every institution through which a civilization transmits its values to the next generation. Capture these, fill them with people who share the counter-hegemonic project, and the cultural assumptions that maintain the existing order gradually dissolve. No barricades. No visible moment of rupture. Just the slow replacement of one cultural hegemony with another. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 02:19 PM (VQ0bX) 158
goozer, it's what trolls did to the blog that caused the word limit on extended thought. Trolls are one of the evil nuisances in this world.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 02:22 PM (VQ0bX) 159
On the next episode of the Waltons, every female member of the family is pregnant.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at September 12, 2026 02:05 PM (8hZNI). At least we know it wasn't Will Geer. Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 12, 2026 02:27 PM (u3SRj) 160
The educational capture was the masterpiece. Control the curriculum and you control the categories of thought available to the next generation. Not by telling them what to conclude – by shaping what questions they think to ask, what they consider obvious and what they consider unthinkable. The generation educated after the long march does not need to be told what to think. It thinks what it was formed to think – and experiences that thinking as its own
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 02:30 PM (VQ0bX) 161
The dirty little secret is that we CAN have back the America of the Fifties--but with lower income taxes!--but only if we're willing to kill enough internal enemies to destroy their power forever.
Ever wonder why there were no more Southern rebellions after the Civil War? It was because they had lost too many men to put up a fight again. If we do away with maybe ten or twenty million leftists, not only will they not be able to make a military comeback, they won't be able to win any elections either. We'll be able to do cool stuff like settle the other planets instead of dealing with the latest treasonous stuff they come up with. Plus, it will be fun to see some wannabe online badass begging for his life and ratting out his friends, right before you put a bullet in him. If we don't do this, we'll, after the Lindsay Clancy brigade is done killing their kids so they can get back to the party, do you have any doubt that they will come after ours? These subhuman pieces of shit wanted to rape Sarah Palin for not aborting her baby boy. Posted by: Ken at September 12, 2026 02:37 PM (aVf49) 162
> The educational capture was the masterpiece.
------------- 4 or more years of socialist indoctrination followed by a piece of paper that's worthless. Go to job interview and are totally confused about what you're expected to do, hate the idea of a work schedule, being told what to do, when to do it and when to complete it. Bail on finding meaningful work and become increasingly pissed off at society. Fall back on your "degree" and join up with like minded people and spend your days protesting. You get free meals, a place to sleep and feel like you're really "sticking it to the man." There's at least two generations of this festering resentment about to boil over. Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 12, 2026 02:39 PM (2Cry5) 163
Public education is worthless.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 12, 2026 02:52 PM (u3SRj) 164
Posted by: whig at September 12, 2026 12:13 PM (E4rtv)
Whig - I'm way late to the thread and you probably won't see this but I wanted to say that the Holy Spirit is within you and I value your words, inspired as they are by the Holy Spirit. I regularly pray for His guidance and inspiration too, especially in these troubling times. May the Good Lord be with you always. Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at September 12, 2026 03:06 PM (91pBE) 165
158 goozer, it's what trolls did to the blog that caused the word limit on extended thought. Trolls are one of the evil nuisances in this world.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 02:22 PM (VQ0bX) Yes, I know, I've been on this blog since early '09. I remember when it happened. Posted by: goozer at September 12, 2026 03:07 PM (eTh1u) 166
Yep, Gramci nailed it.
The instrument was the long march through the institutions. Not the barricade. The school, the university, the media, the judiciary, the civil service, the cultural establishment – every institution through which a civilization transmits its values to the next generation. Capture these, fill them with people who share the counter-hegemonic project, and the cultural assumptions that maintain the existing order gradually dissolve. No barricades. No visible moment of rupture. Just the slow replacement of one cultural hegemony with another. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 02:19 PM (VQ0bX) You nailed it too my friend. And it all starts with - and ends with - the schools. All those institutions require a "Degree", worthless as is it in real knowledge, to advance. Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at September 12, 2026 03:11 PM (91pBE) 167
The educational capture was the masterpiece.
------------- 4 or more years of socialist indoctrination followed by a piece of paper that's worthless. Go to job interview and are totally confused about what you're expected to do, hate the idea of a work schedule, being told what to do, when to do it and when to complete it. Bail on finding meaningful work and become increasingly pissed off at society. Fall back on your "degree" and join up with like minded people and spend your days protesting. You get free meals, a place to sleep and feel like you're really "sticking it to the man." There's at least two generations of this festering resentment about to boil over. Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 12, 2026 02:39 PM (2Cry5) Precisely. The targeting of the schools was diabolically evil. And effective. Khrushchev was right and that's how they did it. Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at September 12, 2026 03:14 PM (91pBE) 168
Thats why to me the youngest Americans H8 the country, brainwashed into Cultural Marxism.
Every election there is a booth outside the polling place a table and almost always high school girl thereYoung Democrats organization. Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 03:20 PM (Ia/+0) 169
They Frankfort School assholes should have been lined up on the pier and shot. East River crabs gotta eat, too.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 12, 2026 03:26 PM (u3SRj) 170
The educational capture was the masterpiece. Control the curriculum and you control the categories of thought available to the next generation. Not by telling them what to conclude – by shaping what questions they think to ask, what they consider obvious and what they consider unthinkable. The generation educated after the long march does not need to be told what to think. It thinks what it was formed to think – and experiences that thinking as its own
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 02:30 PM (VQ0bX) Nailed it. And it's why, if we want our great civilization back, we have to get out there and evangelize. We have to get people to understand what was the basis of our civilization and how those things make freedom possible. We have to pass on our religion and our culture AND the knowledge that built American thought. What God says about His commandments is also true of our culture and our freedom: You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. Posted by: GWB at September 12, 2026 03:29 PM (kU0PQ) 171
“This son of yours [Ishmael] will be a wild man, as untamed as a wild donkey! He will raise his fist against everyone, and everyone will be against him. Yes, he will live in open hostility against all his relatives” (Genesis 16:12,)
-- My teachers also introduced me to the greater enemies of Islam—the great Satan, being the United States of America, and the little Satan, being Israel, the Jewish state. A distinction was made between Israel as a state and Jews, who embodied a type of metaphysical evil. The Jew was synonymous with the word Satan. He was behind all evil things, and had designated Islam and Muslims as his enemy, and was hell-bent on destroying us all. In all of our prayers, and in all of our dua is the supplication that God would destroy and eliminate the Jews. _ Ayaan Hirsi Ali Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 03:32 PM (VQ0bX) 172
What’s happening in America, they tell me, is not dramatic enough to warrant any kind of serious change. Muslim communities have a constitutional right to grow and expand, and if they win elections then they win elections. What I hear is the same inability that I heard in Europe 25 years ago to accept the magnitude of the threat posed by a hostile foe, or even to admit the reality of cultural differences.
_ Ayaan Hirsi Ali Call to prayer 5 times a day; Minneapolis, Hamtramck, Michigan — . Dearborn, Michigan, Paterson, New Jersey — subject to designated hours. Astoria, Queens, New York — during Ramadan. Occoquan, Virginia — invited by the mayor, two occasions during Ramadan. Broadcast loud, throughout these American cities by those whose devotion is to conquer us. Submission, we much. Epic Center Texas and another Islamic Center in Katy TX. How many in other states? Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 04:03 PM (VQ0bX) The
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