So I took the tractor to a place a couple of miles down the road today. Walked back so I can take the truck in the morning to have tools and crowbars, and torches and sawzalls and other implements of destruction should I need ’em….down a fairly rural but well-used two lane road,

I walked back simply because I need the exercise and the 3 and a half mile walk was good for me….. I need to reduce my carefully built up Winter Mode Modular Portable Food Storage….(often confused with plain old belly fat by those not in the know) to a more reasonable seasonal level….I stretched out my stride to 1 meter steps and set a good brisk tempo…I did 2.6 miles in 28 minutes, so a decent pace….Not yet up to ERJ standards, but hey…..

Anyway, walking along the edge of the two-lane about a foot and a half or so off of the pavement, I observed something interesting. I was passed by about a hundred eighty cars. I was walking in the direction of traffic so I could see and (if necessary) avoid the cars coming at me…

With one exception, every car driven by a person identifiable as white (the majority) moved over as much as possible in order to give me some safety room. So did the cars driven by hispanic people. (Say 17 or so after I began paying attention to the race of the drivers)….The cars driven by the black people (5) without exception failed to move over at all. No identifiable asians were observed. (Note that the default, minus positive ID otherwise, was “White” so there may be some error…..But I was able to observe the drivers fairly well so I think that error is low)

Now, maybe they are city born and simply don’t know the difference. Maybe they are unaware of the culturally normal and just plain decent thing to do…Maybe they are just assholes and don’t care (I am betting, honestly, on the last)…Maybe the sample was low enough that the results were skewed….I dunno.

But for some reason, 100% of the (identifiable) black drivers chose not to bother to give any safety room. Nearly 100% of the identifiable white and hispanic drivers DID choose to.

Is this a scientific study? No. Merely casual observation. But it does coincide with many other observations that I and others have made. There seems to be something missing there that caucasian and hispanics are not lacking when it comes to courtesy. I guess that is why the inner cities are such shitholes.

As they’d like us to think:

How Clean Are Tesla’s Cars Really?

A real analysis shows that, while “Greener” than a gas or diesel engine powered car, they aren’t actually all that non-polluting in their lifecycle.

In fact, when one takes all the factors into account, they aren’t Green at all, really.

No surprise to anyone who actually pays attention. So people are buying relatively small, expensive cars to save the environment….but they are not succeeding all that well. Just virtue signaling by folks that have to be Greener-than-Thou as a bit of their fashionable lifestyle.

20 inches in an 8 hour period in Florida.

Lots of flooding. Enough to close the Ft Lauderdale airport.

Lots of cars flooded. (Hint: Don’t drive into water that is over halfway up your tires. Never drive into moving water.) “Don’t drown. turn around”….People trapped in their cars in the water…(that’s their fault).

But 20 inches in an 8 hour period is a lot in any location. It can’t run away fast enough that there won’t be flooding, no matter where you live. Thing is, in Florida, there is no high ground to retreat to either.

So the asshole in Louisville who shot up his workplace was under care for mental issues. No surprise there…

But he was ALSO able to buy a firearm just a week before the shooting.

How is that? Did he pass a NICS check? If so how? Did the mental health folks not report him? Did NICS fail?

Enquiring minds and all that.

Apparently, InBev/Anheuser Busch market value was down about $3 Billion dollars.

“B” for Billion. Plus sales of all A-B products have, apparently, fallen off the cliff. Might be that the Clydesdales are gonna have to go to work plowing or something.

I am betting that some marketing people (and any management that approved this ad campaign) are looking for some cardboard boxes for their office stuff right now.

3 Billion. The Price of Woke just went up.

Some groups aren’t ever satisfied. They create their own problems.

I mean, Whole Foods tried to keep a store in Englewood (South side of Chicago) open because “Equality”…and their prices were not to the liking of the residents, so the local populace stole things instead. The costs from shoplifting were so high that the Whole Foods closed…..(plus, apparently the staff didn’t want to work there because of violence).

South Side residents claimed “racism” because now there wasn’t a local grocery store.

So the property was purchased by Sav-A-Lot…

And people complained. Protested enough that the store then closed after one day.

Might reopen, might not. Depends on how much graft the owners are willing to spread around to the protest leaders how the talks go.

I mean, the timing of this Woke VP at InBev woman’s education fits with the timing of the education of the suddenly Woke folks at Disney, which also meets with the timing of the Woke people in education.

Was there something that happened like 12-15 years ago in colleges across the country that led to all these “woke” people being indoctrinated with the WOKE? All of the people like her were who are now earning their way to powerful positions were graduated/ educated in about a 5 year window, as were the suddenly Woke and Pedophile enabling teachers….

What happened then? How did it all happen at the same time? Somewhere, somehow they all got the Woke. It had to be in colleges, as the other demographics seem to be too diverse. So who/how? Is it still happening?

This wasn’t incremental. It happened suddenly….what was it? What is the common factor besides a college degree?

It’s all about the Narrative, innit?

I mean, if you ignore the violence, then yeah, It was Mostly Peaceful…

Incredulous Riley Gaines slams statement from SF State PRAISING students for ‘peaceful’ protests after she was attacked and forced to hide inside a room when trans-rights protesters stormed her speech about women’s sport.

Punched in the face. But it was no doubt a “gentle punch” in a well meaning manner.

Of course, the police under whose protection she was were less than helpful, apparently. They did nothing to stop her from being punched and forced to lock herself in a room for hours. No arrests were made.

Besides that, their protection was awesome….

But the school praised the actions of the protestors, so there is that.

Y’know, some people know they are in the wrong, they don’t like how their world is treating them, and yet they just can’t do anything but Keep On Keepin’ On the way they have been, even though it is harming them in many ways…..And they know it.

The sad part is that it is mostly stubbornness and the inability to admit to themselves  that they are wrong…..so they can’t change their behavior. Pride and all that. Bordering on stupidity. But there they are. Watching the decline is disheartening.

Like a drunk on a downward spiral, they ignore all warnings, all one can do is stand back and watch the decline and hope that the splash isn’t too bad when the bottom hits.

Sad, really.

“You can’t go back and change the beginning but you can start where you are and change the ending.”

― C.S. Lewis

Why we celebrate.

It ain’t eggs and bunnies.

Happy Easter.