It never ceases to amaze me

That people who are terribly emotionally tied up in an argument, when it is pointed out to them the flaw in their argument or position, cannot accept their failure in logic.

“Yes, but….”

“A=B Yes? “

“Yeah”

“B=C, yes?”

“Yes”

“Therefore A=C,”

“NONONONONONO…..I think that….”

Aaaaand around we go again. Emotion is the enemy of logic for many people. Religion is the only thing that trumps that…..

How many black people

Who think the Oscars are too white, and that blacks are ……underrepresented in the awards, shall we say….

Are going to vote Democratic this year…

and choose between Hillary Clinton (a white woman) and Bernie Sanders(a white man) and not complain about how they are underrepresented….?

I mean, double standards are fine, up to a point.

The blue cities are imploding

The Blue model is beginning to show the cracks….

First Baltimore and that poorly run police department (and the mayor who said, in effect, “Let the niggers riot”)..

Then we hear about the failure in Flint, Michigan. and the elevated lead level in the water (although I doubt that the lead levels in the kids are solely from a years worth of slightly acidic river water eroding pipes)….and the Hype by the Media is that no one can in any way use the water, even for bathing or washing……or even flushing. Instead, an example of how dependent these citizens are, is that the National Guard must DELIVER water door to door, because the residents apparently cannot even rouse themselves to go to distribution centers to get the FREE WATER…. The Democrats failed that city so badly that the State took over most operations in Flint….

And now, the TEACHERS in Detroit have become so disgusted with the conditions in the school building (Mold, Rats,leaky ceilings, rotting floors, lack of heat, etc) that they are staging a “Sick Out”.

What do these cities (and the Greater St Louis, and the Katrina era New Orleans and most “old” US cities) have in common?

Yep, run by Democrats for 30 or more years. Run into the ground. Political appointees with little proper backgrounds (Usually a degree in something like Political Science) making decisions that affect millions, both immediately and into the future…

Chicago, Milwaukee Cincinnati and Pittsburgh and Philadelphia and many others are not far behind.

And now the cities are crumbling, and the wealth is going to the suburbs, or elsewhere, leaving only the poor to reap the results of the leadership failure.

Expect more reports of infrastructure failures and failures of leadership to come from these cities run by those who follow the DNC.

Snowpocalypse

Or something.

I mean…..”Blizzerdd warnings!!!!!!….As much as (haha, you whiney little wimps) a FOOT of snow in a day! Zomg!  Prepare! (actually, in the winter (or any time) you should be prepared for a week without heat or electricity and the possibility that you can’t get out because of the weather…)..

The authorities are sounding the alarm:

12 inches in a day and up to 20 inches in the storm total? Here, we call it a “significant snowfall”…. and go on about our business. Winds of “up to 35 MPH with gusts of 60″….gee, guess you’ll have to buy a frikkin hat and maybe some gloves (although it isn’t supposed to be that terribly cold….).  Possibility of ice? Better get some (fresh) gas for the genset……. So you can power the Dish and all…

Seriously, this is gonna be a decent snowfall and winter storm, but the hype and panic are making me laugh…..Many parts of the US and Canada wouldn’t even slow down for a “Winter Storm” such as this….But because it will impact both DC and New York Cittee, the news folks are going apeshit.

If this happened in Rapid City S.D or OKC, the national news probably wouldn’t even mention it….

MLK’s dream:

 (BTW, his Birthday was the 15th, but the Democrats move it around so the Government employees have an extra long weekend every year…..)…Hardly a tribute to the man when his day just becomes another day off….

So here we are….53 (actually 52-1/2) years later after his big speech on the Mall in Washington.
Is his dream alive?.

Depends. Most places, yes, it thrives. If people are willing to let it.

Ferinstance:

We bowl with a bunch of people. All races. White, Black, Hispanic, Asian. It is a fun league, and we do have a lot o fun…..together. Color/race/ethnicity is not a factor in our relationships. No one really cares. The kids that run around are treated as kids. Children of all races play together…Adults of all colors watch out for those same kids.  Asshole adults are treated like assholes (they don’t stick around long)…..Content of Character is really the only judgement….No one acts like a “Yo” or an inbred cracker….everyone is a decent solid citizen. Cops from Gary mingle with firefighters from Portage who mingle with business owners from Valparaiso……all fairly well educated and who speak English. People wearing Hijabs are looked at, but are treated with courtesy and politeness…and not noticed….. like everyone else.

Same-Same at the gunshow this weekend. The folks showing and selling Nazi items were, for the most part, shunned. The crowd was mostly white, but no one cared about the other ethnicities….I didn’t see a single vendor turn anyone with cash away from a sale…. Yes, there were a lot of assholes….they were treated as such, no matter what their skin color. Decent people who acted well were treated politely. The big point here is that no one CARED what your ethnicity was. Buyers were treated like buyers….ethnicity was, for the most part, ignored. If you didn’t look (and more importantly ACT) like a gangbanger, or a skinhead, then you were not treated any differently than any of the rest of the crowd.

The point is that no one gets treated special, or differently based on skin color or ethnicity. Everyone gets treated the same.

MLK’s “Dream” may not be alive everywhere, but here in the Middle and upper class midwest, it lives and breathes.

WOW

I mean,…. (name for a mexican landscaper)  H tapdancin’ Cheeerist.

The Indy 1500 had a line to get in about 400 people long. AT 11:15 AM/ (the Show opens at 8).

Crowded? Like a can of pickled Norwegian Herring. I actually skipped a row and came back later several times because they were SO crowded. Had I not driven 2 hours to get there, I’da left and gone back home…..(Plus I wanted to say “Hi” to Tam)

The show promoters must LOVE IT when Barry opens his pie hole…….figure at least 15,000 people (at $12.00 a pop) That is some real cash profit there. Might have been 20K or more. I am not that good at figuring those kind of crowds

No real deals to be had though. guns or ammo. (At least not by the time I got there) fewer private sales folks too, I noticed….so Barry has had some effect….maybe? ….I dunno.

All in all, a friend turned an old Colt government model into a new Mustang and a bit of cash, and I left with a decent pair of scissors……But that was it. I came to spend some money,,,,,,,but not spend it foolishly….so I left with nearly all that I brung.

Armslist it is then.

Planz finalized.

I will be at the Indy 1500 from about 1:30 am Local time…..until probably 4.

Hope the line isn’t too long.

If yer gonna be there, and want to meet up, drop me your cell number in an email (TheMiddleOfTheRight at theGMayl dot Kom

It has begun….

At least in Finland.

Apparently, the north African “refugees” (from Syria, of course) are (and have been) misbehaving in Finland as well as Sweden and Germany….

Enter the Sons of Odin. 

Vigilantes? Perhaps. Just a gang? Maybe.

Or it could be that people are pissed off enough that their government has allowed a bunch of unemployed young men from Northern Africa who are, at best, unsuited to be in a “civilized” western society…especially with no one to teach them how to behave in their new digs. (if they ever, in fact, even knew how to behave at all, anywhere)

I think that these patrols get more support than what the Finnish government might like you to believe. But they are a symptom of the failure of the Government and the Police to fix the problem unchecked immigration has caused.

How long til the pogroms begin in Germany…..they do, you know, have a history and all….

That was then

This is Now.

Read:

America used to know how to assimilate immigrants

What he leaves out is how easy it is today (and how hard it was then) to enter the country.

And the fact that the trip was, essentially, one way. Then, it was 2 weeks or more travel to get to the US (and roughly the same home) and cost about half a years wages. One left friends and family behind forever, for the most part. One had to commit to living in the “new World” for the rest of your life….

Today you can fly “home” anywhere in the world in less than 12 hours (maybe a bit more if you live in Australia) and easily return, at less than a months wages for most people.

And while thre may have been Irish Ghettos and “Little Italy” and places where only the Polacks or the Hunkies lived, they worked alongside other American…..and had to learn at least some english to communicate and survive….A common language that helped make them all one people. No one accommodated them, they accommodated their new world and new home.

The kids were mixed in together in school and learned English and by the second or third generation were truly amalgamated Americans, even if they held to the cultures of the old home country.

Accommodating our recent immigrants has prevented them from assimilating.