On my last visit, Aggie Beau introduced me to the libertarian oasis in Honduras:
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40 degrees here this morning and we may dip down to 29 on Wednesday morning, just too dang cold for me. We’re supposed to hit 60 by 3 PM today so that’ll help. Lil’ Dawg got up about 5:30 and after going outside she headed straight for the heater in the den. There is a hearth there were the old wood stove used to be and she has her donut there
Mornin’ Gang
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This popped up over yonder; Teri Garr in Young Frankenstein. As to not offend Granny Hammy I’ll not repeat the quote. 😉
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Super Dave, HA – we’ve got ya beat… It’s 41 out here in the woods… ShortieDawg was not at all amused when I insisted we needed to “go walkies”
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We need to have thousands of schools like this in America.
What’s the Opposite of Harvard? A Year of Honest Work
At Deep Springs College, I received a copy of the student body bylaws and instructions for treating snakebites. This was my orientation.
Deep Springs is one of the most selective colleges in the world and the smallest in the country, admitting only twelve from a pool of several hundred applicants. Students live on a ranch in the White Mountains for two years, earning credits that are accepted by almost every school in America. It has never charged tuition. This is only partly a matter of principle, since students spend around twenty hours a week working—cooking, cleaning, gardening, farming, butchering, and maintaining the college vehicles—which keeps overhead very low.
I had heard about Deep Springs from a distant friend in the fall of 2021 and immediately decided to apply. I grew up in New York City but had spent the past two years of high school on Zoom and felt thoroughly disturbed. I spent the summer of my junior year dreading the return of the familiar dogmatic garble, the ever-changing set of secret codes forbidding you from saying this or that. In literature class, the session’s “conclusion” was often written on the board as you entered the classroom. This was training, not teaching.
Deep Springs Valley is located in the White Mountains, just north of Death Valley National Park. The valley itself is deceptively large. Paved by the retreat of glaciers 10,000 years ago, the valley is not only long and broad but very flat. The huge mountains are all made of the same crumbly, unpacked rock. Gazing across the valley means you’re greeted all around with the same view—these strangely textured mountains—with no intermediate markers of distance.
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In 1917, alarmed by the spiritual decline that he observed in the younger generations, an eccentric millionaire named Lucien Lucius Nunn abandoned his profitable electricity business to found Deep Springs College. Built on the model of the frontier towns in which he made his fortune, Deep Springs consists of a junior college and an operational ranch with around 300 head of cattle. In some form or another, it has inspired many of America’s most successful modern education experiments that you probably haven’t heard of: Outer Coast, Thoreau College, the Tidelines Institute, the Gull Island Institute. At Deep Springs, students have nearly total control over their own education. On Monday, the student committees come together to make decisions about hiring, firing, fundraising, and admissions. On Friday, the student body meets as a whole to hold discussions and elect officials.
What a remarkable place and what a remarkable young man. The school is 106 years old now.
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Here is an interesting article about the sham of DIE, found in TakiMag.
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We Were Taught to Hate Jews
‘It’s like asking me how often I drink water. Antisemitism was everywhere.’ Apostates, former Islamists, and an almost-terrorist on how they changed their minds.
The following five ex-Muslims grew up in Canada, Europe, and the Middle East, but they were all indoctrinated, they say, with the same views on Jews and Israel. They remember a childhood shot through with antisemitic moments ranging from the mundane (one woman recalls her aunt claiming Jews put cancer in her vegetables at the market) to the deadly (a former extremist went as far as to pick a location in London for a terrorist attack he planned to carry out at 17).
These hateful ideas, repeated by their family members, religious leaders, and teachers, are part and parcel of the same animus, they say, that fueled Hamas’s attacks on October 7.
Some of the people you will hear from below have received death threats for speaking out on issues like antisemitism and sexism in the Muslim world. One uses a pen name to protect herself and her daughter from her terrorist ex-husband, who is currently jailed in Egypt. All of them came to reject their loathing for Jewish people and the West, and have rebuilt their lives in the wake of their realizations. Here are their stories, which you can read or click to listen to each author recite in the audio recordings below.
The thing that continues to shock me is how deeply Muslim men are taught to hate their women – from the modes of dress to hide even their faces, severe restrictions on their freedoms to honor killings.
Men in the West adore femininity, create paintings and sculptures, plays and movies and hundreds of thousands of songs about the women of their lives.
Islam is fundamentally sick.
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Islam is fundamentally sick.
IT is also fundamentally:
Evil in how it treats non-muzzies, in addition to those not deemed pious enough.
Destructive in that every culture or society in which it invades, that distinct culture dies.
Illiterate the females are not allowed to go to school in the more ‘religious’ countries, the only thing the masses are taught is the Koran, Hadith and how to assemble an AK47
Backwards thinking the only thing Islam is good at is spreading misery. They do not innovate, they do not create. Algebra was created by the Persians prior to the islamic invasion and conquer. Algebra was stolen by the muzzies, they did not create it as they are so frequently credited.
The only thing that islam is good at is spreading misery, death and destruction; just as their father,satan, would have it.
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Now that was a different time; Presenting the losers.
Company: Eastern
Year Released: 1967In 1967, Eastern Airlines gathered a bunch of job applicant rejects in a room and made them take a sad photo together because they didn’t get the stewardess job for which they applied. These women, according to the ad, didn’t have the “weight,” “maturity,” “speech,” “intelligence,” and “enthusiasm” to work for the airline.
BTW; Can you imagine the wailing and wringing of hands by the Woke crowd if that was published today? 😉
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Texpat @ 7:50 AM that is just neat, a great find.
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I just saw a national Fox news poll about Republicans that I found interesting;
Candidate Now November
Donald Trump 69% 62%
Ron Desantis 12% 13%
Nikki Haley 9% 10%
Vivek Ramaswamy 5% 7%
Jersey Yell Roll 2% 3%
So! I keep hearing all the liars saying that Nikki Haley is coming on strong and is in second place. WTH is that coming from?
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Graveyard Dead! Am I good or what? 😀
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It was revealed recently Chris Krispy Kreme Christie wouldn’t be listed on the Republican primary ballot in the state of Maine.
Maine has a population of 1,362,359 people. Of those folks, 295,122 are registered Republicans.
Krispy Christie could not get 2,000 Republicans to sign a petition to get him on the ballot.
And yet, every news network including Fox thinks Americans give a damn about anything he has to say.
Corporate media in America are a bunch of propaganda clowns.
Also, don’t forget I have stepped out to the ledge and made a prediction. CBS News will not exist in 2 years or less.
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8 Super Dave
I think that was a cruel and tasteless ad even if it was the archaic era of the 1960s.
It doesn’t speak well for the reputation of Eastern or Frank Borman.
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I took a muscle relaxant last night, so slow getting going this morning. I’d put out rosary beads last night, so made the day’s rosary: gold with gold seed beads. Listened to my Catholic podcast, and yes, Bergoglio is at it again. /spits/ Prayed my rosary. Decanted my chicken stock from the crock pot and said stock is now in silicone cups, making “pucks” for a turn in Elsa later. Washed dishes (and dried and put away, unlike Hubby, but I’m happy he thinks of me enough to clear the evening mess for me at night). That got me feeling domestic, so I did some cleaning and straightening up while waiting for Hubby to come home so I could order some car stuff for him. Without me, I don’t know what he’d do. /sigh
Had a talk with Hubby for a bit and made my first day’s meal after he left. I need to figure out the sequence of events for the day: eggery trip (since I have dental surgery tomorrow and prolly won’t want to do much after that), treadmill time, shower, bank deposit, grocery shopping, making dinner, and I need to get everything done before my appointment this evening.
I think I’m going to pre-make a dinner plate for Hubby that he can just heat up. That’ll free up the rest of my day. But first….
….aaaahh, Mr. Childers is on vacation and I guess he didn’t line up a column for today. Enjoy the fam, Mr. C.!
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I think that was a cruel and tasteless ad even if it was the archaic era of the 1960s.
I agree.
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Morning, gang. I was worried about Billy Cat last night. He was in the backyard gazebo yesterday around 4 o’clock so I gave him some chow. But then later on after dark, around the time I put out food for the raccoons and the possums, Billy didn’t show up as he normally would, even if he had lucked out with an extra meal during the day.
But he was asleep in a grassy, sunny spot when I looked for him this morning.
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Sounds like Billy Cat may have a girlfriend on the side.
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One of the brightest, most intelligent judicial minds alive today, Eugene Kontovorich, writes:
Britain and Belgium plan to follow suit, and other European Union countries will likely jump on the blacklist bandwagon.
The United States frequently uses such visa restrictions to block those guilty of gross human-rights abuses, tyrannical foreign despots and nationals of state sponsors of terrorism.
But this is a far cry from that — it’s simply a big step in the Obama-Biden administrations’ deep delegitimization of those who oppose a “two-state solution.”
The president has broad power to deny entry to foreign nationals — despite the furor over President Donald Trump’s executive orders in this area.
Barring those guilty of crimes is certainly an excellent reason for exclusion, and the Biden administration should enforce such limits far more vigorously at the porous southern border, where millions are coming from the world’s most violent countries.
There are 450,000 Israeli Jews living in the West Bank region.
Any lunatic can be pro-Hamas and get a visa to enter the USA or they can just walk across the border from Mexico with their IEDs, but if you are a Jew and live in Judea and Samaria or you publicly support settlers in the West Bank, you will forbidden from traveling to America and soon European countries.
The great commentator Caroline Glick lives in the West Bank and now she will be blocked from traveling and speaking in the United States.
Blinken and Harris are the driving forces behind this Jew hatred and anti-Zionism.
My words are unprintable.
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The notion that Jews should not be allowed to live in JUDEA, is absurd beyond the pale.
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Testam
girlfriend on the side.
I don’t think so. Neutered and has a clipped ear-point.
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RUFKM
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Unbelievable.
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Talk about a special place in hell…
Two middle-aged white women – serving probation for the same crime in 2020 – have been charged with burglarizing a dead woman’s home in Memorial Villages during the funeral.
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#21 Shannon: We should simply ship them to Gaza as special ‘war brides’ for the poor hamas warriors.
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Super Dave
So! I keep hearing all the liars saying that Nikki Haley is coming on strong and is in second place. WTH is that coming from?
Haley has definitely pulled ahead of the pack (2nd tier) in New Hampshire and is nipping at DeSantis’ heels in Iowa.
This is what the MoronMedia is talking about.
We’re getting close to primaries, now. National polls mean nothing.
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The Lame Stream Media are so busy trying to soft-peddle bad financial news and other concerns that so many normal people all over the country have about the USA being run away with by the socialist wanna-bees. However, they don’t have complete control over the news…. We The People shall not forget this come 2024. Those Lame Streamers are so self-absorbed looking in the mirror they don’t even think twice about what the rest of the population thinks. Nor do they care much about it. They believe their own propaganda, a dangerous thing to do.
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Christmas-related things covered up today and will also do so tomorrow, but I will check in on tomorrow’s posts as a welcome relief from the day’s chores. Christmas Eve is always a relief, as all the stuff to be done has been done. 🙂
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I still haven’t put up the little tree.
It just isn’t time yet.
Might be as late as Christmas Eve. Who knows.
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Dropping a full, open bottle of 90 pills on the kitchen floor is really hard on the knees and back.
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I guess I got all of them. At this point I don’t really care.
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#26 Shannon
That’s a smart & happy dog!
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