ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU HIS CHOSEN ONES. ZARDOZ IS PUZZLED. HE RECEIVED A TRANSMISSION FROM THE TABERNACLE…
Caution: You are approaching the periphery shield of Vortex Four. Caution: You are approaching the periphery shield of Vortex Four.
THE IMAGE ZARDOZ WAS SENT APPEARED TO BE SIMILAR TO FRIEND STEVE SMITH.
NIGHT VISION IMAGE SENT TO ZARDOZ
YET THIS APPEARS TO BE MUCH MORE … SOPHISTICATED THAN FRIEND STEVE SMITH. ZARDOZ WILL SEND A PRIORITY INQUIRY TO THE TABERNACLE TO FIND OUT THE SITUATION. IN THE INTERIM TIME INTERVAL, ZARDOZ WILL GIVE HIS CHOSEN ONES THE GIFT OF THE LINK. GO FORTH AND COMMENT. ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN
- BRUTAL NATION OF JAPAN RE-ELECTS PRIME MINISTER WHO WANTS MORE ARMS. ZARDOZ WONDER IF THIS HAS THIS HAPPENED BEFORE?
- ZARDOZ DOES NOT BELIEVE W.H.O. HAS GONE FAR ENOUGH. A DISTINCT LACK OF CLEANSING IS NOTED.
- AGAIN, ZARDOZ IS DISAPPOINTED BY THE LACK OF KILLING IN THIS INSTANCE. HOWEVER, ZARDOZ BELIEVES THAT THIS CAN PROVIDE ADDITIONAL MATERIAL FOR HIS CHOSEN ONES’ FICTION EFFORTS.
- ZARDOZ ALWAYS FEELS THAT TOO MUCH IS SPENT ON HEALTHCARE OF BRUTALS.
I believe in the unholy trinity of Zardoz the father, his son Steve Smith, and the Holy Ghost of Cthulu.
nemA?
What about their mother, Hillary?
*shivers*
The unholy mother is Lena, of the Dunham clan. Her loins burst with the sins of humanity and her offspring shall forever infest the world with cellulite and Kankles.
You know which other Jap Prime Minister wanted a more adventurous foreign policy?
Your mom?
Where’s my zaibatsu?
Why is everyone speaking Pidgin all of a sudden?
So a Tyler Perry movie will beat the other ID4 guy’s answer to global warming alarmism at the box office. Har har.
The new Tyler Perry flick does have some apparently funny moments in the trailer at least. I’ve never watched one of his before, but there appear to be some genuinely good gags in this one.
Why do the sjw’s hate Tyler Perry so much? Shouldn’t he win all the Oscars?
Because the movie’s wind up affirming decent family values, which they are opposed to.
As opposed to Proper values like Harvey Weinstein values…
GASP! Giving people what they want?! Obscene.
lmao
telling him to “go to hell.”
I may have to watch one of his stupid movies just because of that
No kidding. Who is Tyler Perry was my question.
He’s put out like dozens of those fat black lady movies in drag that I’ve never seen. But I do recall some things that implied he’s not as woke as someone like Spike Lee pretends to be.
Here ya go.
Ok, that makes sense now.
I only know from The Boondocks parody they did of him:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJf4dmRKMwU
The whole episode is great.
But I’m definitely watching the Disaster Porn when it hits streaming. It’s so much fun. My favorite is still Volcano: the La Brea Tar Pits BOIL. There’s LAVA. Beverly Center collapses! It’s personally tailored for me to find it hilarious.
A naked Weinstein ended up chasing her through his apartment, forcing her to use a broken glass to keep him at bay, De Paula said.
She was going to give him a Brazilian cut.
Might have been better for all if she had swung and made him a castrato.
STEVE SMITH THINK NO BUSINESS LIKE SHOW BUSINESS. AND BY BUSINESS MEAN RAPE
I…I..would have to agree.
OMG! Harvey Weinstein is Steve Smith!
Interesting thought-piece on Democrats.
Democrats have favored everyone but the middle class, granting privileges, for example, to the wealthy in the form of crony capitalism, in which large companies often benefit from trade agreements and regulations at the expense of smaller competitors, which cannot absorb the compliance burdens
My Democrat friends are always going on about how they hate chain stores and how they support mom and pop businesses, yet you point ^this out and you’re accused of wanting customers poisoned.
How about how they used to hate mom and pop stores until the big box stores arrived?
That’s when mom and pop were da man.
Couldn’t read it all, but very interesting, and damning. Of course no one on the left will take heed
I think he’s a little easy on the Democrats in places – I mean, they are unmitigated evil – but the analysis of identity politics is spot-on.
Yeah, very good analysis of identity politics and guilt with no possibility of retribution. They’re like the bug aliens from Independence Day, the only thing the guilty (white, hetro, men) can do for them is die, and as we’ve seen with the monuments fiasco, even that isn’t good enough.
Good article. Thanks for linking it.
ZARDOZ DOES NOT BELIEVE W.H.O. HAS GONE FAR ENOUGH. A DISTINCT LACK OF CLEANSING IS NOTED.
Mugabe can’t die soon enough.
Is Ian Smith forgiven?
Ian Smith has been out of power and dead long enough that he is irrelevant.
new plan for eventual engine swap.
2H turbo is very easy.
that’s a beautiful troopy.
That is a beauty. I tried to get a job with an outfit that refurbishes old cruisers right down the road from me. No joy. They do some cool work in spite of passing up an exceptional hire such as myself. Their loss.
That is too bad. That would be a fun gig.
I don’t blame them. They were looking for a young do it all to train up. I got over my bitterness of middle age job search rejection. Still their loss, but whatever. I should have sent you the job posting, but it is boring over here compared to your big city ways. I got a job with the county. I am in my evaluation stage now. I hope to become a government maggot for awhile. At least keep the heat on for the winter anyways. Maybe even ski a few days.
congrats!
Thanks, but it is not congrats worthy. Trust me.
I wish I could get a job in motorsports but I’m at about the same point. I’ll probably volunteer on some local teams when I get a chance just for fun and experience.
Laid out a plan to drop about 100 pounds off the front of my car while keeping it street-able (required for the events I try to compete in). That will be nice.
I still want to open a rally course around here to get all these W’s into their natural environment.
I am commuting now and need to get a reasonable mpg vehicle. I thought it would be fun to get a 4wd rally worthy car (not for racing) and trick it out mountain ready. Lift it, larger tires, more clearance, beefier suspension, more HP…… and then rip around on the 4wd roads in it one day.
forester or outback XT. the forester XT from 04-08 is basically an STI, and STI and impreza parts bolt on from the same period. The forester sits a nice 1 or 2 inches above the STI. you need the STI top intercooler and turbo, but if you do that and an exhaust, you have more power than the STI with less weight and more ground clearance stock. there are also a few rally spacers or struts you can use to add more.
This. A lot of the STi parts will fit on those things so you can get a cheap base model and go to town with used STi parts.
you also need the STI scoop I think. maybe just the WRX one. The XT is a bastard STI block with WRX parts attached.
Thanks, I will keep my eyes peeled for an 04’ish forester XT.
you also need the STI scoop
You mean the hood?
yeah, if you put the bigger intercooler up there, the hood scoop needs to be bigger.
The best way to shed weight from the front of the car is to neutral drop it into reverse at high RPM. The greased up bikini model just slides right off.
North London vs City of Liverpool did not go well today, 9-3 aggregate.
Koeman is done, I doubt he makes it to December.
I’d be surprised if Klopp makes it to December.
I dont care about that side of the park.
I don’t care about Goodison. Wanna take this outside?
i can punch you without my kid in my other arm.
Most of us don’t care about the EPL at all.
The Championship is where it’s at, baby! (At least until the team I follow gets promoted again, at which point… the EPL is where it’s at, baby!)
I am pissed that the Championship is no longer shown in the US. WTF?
Perhaps that was done to spare Sunderland’s blushes? Pretty rough to from the EPL straight to the drop zone of the Championship…
Ouch. Yeah, the bottom of that ladder always seems to fill up with EPL rejects. But I’m more into Newcastle myself. Too bad they’re not both up – the league would be better for it.
Oh, I see some games are on “ESPN3” now. Thanks but no thanks.
I’m a Villan myself – last year was a bit rough, but things are looking halfway decent right now… just slipped into the playoff spots this weekend. Though there’s a bloody long way to go.
And the rumor is a return of Moyes to replace Koeman.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Looking at rumors… LOL, the Men in Blazers have been riffing on this for years.
How can a country that is no. 3 on the Heritage Freedom index be run by someone who thinks capitalism failed?
I don’t know, Winston.
The same way a company can be run into the ground by the founder’s heirs. People who grow up in prosperity tend to take it for granted and not know what it took to build it.
So how do we stop that? It was a big flaw of classical liberalism and libertarians have yet to solve it.
Put a stop to “thick” libertarianism, for one thing. That’s the cancer that will ultimately destroy libertarianism. If you start pretending libertarianism is about things like equality, cosmopolitanism, etc., actual libertarianism winds up dying on their alter.
Similar to Obama: young, attractive, good speaker; previous government had been in power for 9 years; perceived major national crisis (housing) that their opponents couldn’t “fix.” Plus, NZ has a long history of social planning.
Christina Sommers explains to students how free markets lifted people out of poverty. Right as she’s making her point, a student interrupts her with…any guesses?
Racist?
Close. Go even derpier.
Slavery. Which was invented by the United States.
Did you peek?
Yes, I knew it had something to do with racism.
Fascist?
That was my guess.
Black Lives Matter?
You’re not a real woman?
^THIS^ or “Nazi”
King Leopold II’s murderous reign over the Congo “Free State”?
Seriously, that one gets dug up from time to time as an example of laissez-faire capitalism. Because nothing says laissez-faire like autocracy.
oh my. I laughed and laughed
i watch it on a loop and it keeps making me laugh exactly the same way. its the sound of the SJW voice, combined with the posture of CHS just going, “oh, fuck, why do i even bother”
This is exactly what the identity politics article I linked to was about. The left can never, EVER let this shit go because it’s what defines them.
Which ring of hell is that? Christina literally, literally, gets knocked back physically by that comment.
It’s the squeaky nasal ring of hell. Probably muffled/altered by a piercing.
ZARDOZ ALWAYS FEELS THAT TOO MUCH IS SPENT ON HEALTHCARE OF BRUTALS.
Interesting article. I would be interested to know how much the US spends on all elective surgery including joint reconstructive surgery so people can continue leisure activities such as skiing. There once was a time when if your knee was mangled you gave up skiing because that was how life worked. Those are times of yore.
I once saw an analysis on premature babies. Wish I could find it. Moral of the story was something like of the 20 most premature babies to survive all were born in the US. Other countries don’t expend resources on something like that, nor do they have the technology.
Playa pointed preemies out earlier. I wonder how that fits in as well. How much is spent on keeping babies alive that other countries would let die or out right murdered before the chance of life?
I have spent the last 2 months slowly fixing my home frame’s structure rot in a couple places. Today I’m pretty sure I found the root cause of all of it: the master carpenter that did my a roof replacement job for me 5 years ago was badmouthing the last guy who did the roof work for the previous owners of my house.
Everything was cool until I found this dude had put ZERO sealant or flashing at the junction between the angled plywood of the roof and the vertical plywood sheets of the outer wall. I popped off some pine siding panels directly below the eave, and twouldn’t you know god dammit: granules from the asphalt roof shingles between the pine siding and the tar paper. Mother FUCKER.
I wouldn’t be nearly so pissed if this guy hadn’t been such an overconfident dick by badmouthing the previous roof work that lasted for ~20 years. Total dick. Never hiring that guy again.
Have you thought about badmouthing this guy to the people in your area?
Take pictures and send him a bill for your time. Make it lawyering wages. That should get his attention. If I did that, I would fix it all free of charge if the homeowner let me know I fucked up. I only do roofing for family and friends though. I am not a roofer. That is a specialized trade imo.
One thing I learned long ago, the guys who talk shit about their competition are the ones to avoid. It’s some sort of corollary to not trusting the guy who keeps telling you that you can trust him.
That narrows my vote down to *Checks list of candidates*…..Oh, this guy. Me.
NEEDZ MOAR JOHN BOORMAN REFERENCES BESIDES DELIVERANCE.
…um, wut?
He directed Zardoz. And the only other movie he did people know of is Deliverance.
I didn’t know he was still alive until I looked it up, lol.
THERE ARE NO OTHER MOVIES BESIDES ZARDOZ!
Lies. There are’plenty of movies with Winston´s mom.
Leo the Last sounds interesting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_the_Last
I’d like to see a ZARDOZ remake with Tyler Perry.
Shit, he produced a lot of stuff, including Excalibur (the less funny version of Monty Python and the Holy Grail) and Emerald Forest.
You need to see Point Blank.
Mel Gibson > Lee Marvin
I kid. ;P
Jason Statham and Chow Yun-Fat also did versions? Huh.
Mel Gibson actually had potential. Watch The Year of Living Dangerously.
And yes, I meant the one with Lee Marvin, since it too was directed by Boorman.
I’ve posted this before, but the penthouse scene where John Vernon takes a header off the balcony, wad filmed at the Hundley Hotel in Santa Monica. Back in 1999, it was a Mexican restaurant. Now it is this https://www.thehuntleyhotel.com/m/penthouse
Anywho, one evening after a happy hour of free nacho bar, and sbout 3 pitchers of margaritas, and dragging some broad 11 blocks to her car and then driving her home… I fell in love with that broad. We’ve been married 14 years.
Sounds like date rape to some fiery young attorney who imagines themself the lead in a John Grishom novel. Better hope you never get divorced.
New Walking Dead tonight. Please Jesus, don’t let it suck.
Just assume that it will suck, set the expectation, and that way it’s win-win: if it only kinda sucks, it won’t be that bad. But if it sucks-sucks, then you REALLY will know it had sucked.
I’ll have to see if I can fit it into part 5, I don’t think it’ll fit into what I have plotted for part four.
Anyone who wants to take the baton after part four, let me know.
ZARDOZ IS PLEASED.
well yeah, look at that head.
You need to see Point Blank.
Is that the one with Lee Marvin? Later remade with Mel Gibson?
Yep. But if you watch Payback, the Director’s Cut is very different from the original – completely different tone, score, even color filters. BIg improvement in character too IMO.
new plan for eventual engine swap.
2H turbo is very easy.
What a godawful racket.
Just because you hate diesel!
Who could love this?!
aww.
*zooms away*
Zardoz on rails?
The Island of Sodor is truly a fucked up place.
^THIS!^
I feel bad for Carson. That broken arm seems like a fluke, even at his age.
The fuck you mean “his age?”
Get off my lawn!
in the context of QB.
how was your 4pm dinner?
I WAS SUPPOSED TO GET TAPIOCA PUDDING WITH THIS! WHERE IS MY PUDDING!
Delicious. It was pineapple, crunchy peanut butter, and avocado free.
delicious indeed!
Sounds like a horrible pizza. Next you’re going to tell us it was deep-dish, too.
Nah – that was *my* dinner. But it had bacon, so I think I’m exempt from any criticism.
Let me rephrase in case there was any confusion
It was:
Pineapple free
Crunchy peanut butter free
Avocado free
Also; obviously not deep dish because deep dish is not pizza
what stupid rule will the NFL make this time? Last time he was injured they created the no hitting qbs below the hemline rule.
I hope they don’t. I think both hits were fine, just unlucky for the injury that resulted.
I watched bits and pieces of a couple of football games, today. I couldn’t help noticing a lot of empty seats.
Also, Lewis Hamilton won in Texas.
today’s history lesson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biscari_massacre
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The Biscari massacre was a war crime committed by members of the United States Army during World War II.[1] It refers to two incidents in which U.S. soldiers were involved in killing 73 unarmed Italian and German prisoners of war (POWs) at the Regia Aeronautica’s 504 air base in Santo Pietro, a small village near Caltagirone, southern Sicily, Italy on 14 July 1943.
…
On 14 July 1943, soldiers with the U.S. 180th Infantry Regiment were facing stiff enemy resistance near the Santo Pietro airfield, and by 10:00 hours had taken a number of prisoners, including 45 Italians and 3 Germans. The executive officer for the 1st Battalion, 180th Infantry Regiment, Major Roger Denman, ordered a noncommissioned officer (NCO), Sergeant Horace T. West, 33 years old, to take that group of prisoners “to the rear, off the road, where they would not be conspicuous, and hold them for questioning.” The POWs were without shoes and shirts, which was common practice to discourage attempts to escape.[7]
After Sergeant West, with several other U.S. soldiers assisting him, had marched the POWs about a mile, he halted the group and directed that eight or nine of them be separated from the rest and taken to the regimental intelligence officer (the S-2) for questioning. West then took the remaining POWs “off the road, lined them up, and borrowed a Thompson submachine gun” from the Company First Sergeant (the senior NCO in the Company). When the First Sergeant asked West what he wanted it for, West responded that he was going to “kill the sons of bitches.” West then told the soldiers guarding the POWs to “turn around if you don’t want to see it.”[8]
He then killed the POWs by shooting them with the Thompson. When the bodies were discovered some thirty minutes later, it was noted that each POW had been shot through the heart, which indicated shooting at close range. Investigators later learned that after West had emptied the Thompson into the group of POWs, he “stopped to reload, then walked among the men in their pooling blood and fired a single round into the hearts of those still moving.”[9]
The next day, the 37 bodies caught the attention of a chaplain, Lt. Col. William E. King, who reported the event to his senior officers.
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When he was informed of the massacres, General Omar Bradley told General George S. Patton that U.S. troops had murdered some 50-70 prisoners in cold blood. Patton noted his response in his diary:
I told Bradley that it was probably an exaggeration, but in any case to tell the Officer to certify that the dead men were snipers or had attempted to escape or something, as it would make a stink in the press and also would make the civilians mad. Anyhow, they are dead, so nothing can be done about it.[15]
Bradley refused Patton’s suggestions. Patton later changed his mind. After he learned that the 45th Division’s Inspector General found “no provocation on the part of the prisoners . . . . They had been slaughtered,” Patton is reported to have said, “Try the bastards.”[16]
The U.S. Army charged Sergeant Horace T. West for “willfully, deliberately, feloniously, [and] unlawfully” killing thirty-seven prisoners of war in the first incident.[17] At his trial, which began on 2 September 1943, West pleaded not guilty. Although he admitted the killings, his non-lawyer defense counsel raised two matters in his defense. The first was he was “fatigued and under extreme emotional distress” at the time of the killings and was essentially temporarily insane at the time of the commission of the acts. However, First Sergeant Haskell Y. Brown testified that West had borrowed the Thompson plus an additional magazine of 30 rounds and had appeared to act in cold blood.[18]
The second defense raised by West’s counsel was that he was simply following the orders of his Commanding General who, he testified, had announced prior to the invasion of Sicily that prisoners should be taken only under limited circumstances.[19] West’s regimental commander, Colonel Forrest E. Cookson, testified that the general had stated that if the enemy continued to resist after U.S. troops had come within 200 yards of their defensive position, then surrender of those enemy soldiers need not be accepted.[20] The problem with this defense was that the POWs in this case had already surrendered and the surrender had been accepted.
The court-martial panel found West guilty of premeditated murder, stripped him of his rank and sentenced him to life imprisonment. On 23 November 1944 the remainder of his sentence was remitted and he was restored to active duty and continued to serve during the war, at the end of which he received an honorable discharge.[21] {West died in Oklahoma in January 1974}
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This seems…fucked up.
At the very least.
So he’s the original antifa?
*narrows gaze*
Just because you hate diesel!
Guilty as charged.
I hate diesel too. It is too expensive. Hence why I sold the last truck and bought the current one. $50 a barrel for oil and we have close to $3 a gallon diesel? Fuckers be playing us as fools.
As fat as I am concerned, the only problem with diesel is the engine. There is nothing inherently wrong with a diesel engine. They are more efficient and run longer than a standard gas engine. Where the trouble starts is when things go wrong. I can fix a lot of gas engine problems. I know a lot of people who can fix much more complex gas engine problems than I can. When a diesel engine ceases running correctly, there is a very limited amount of people who know what to do. That and pieces and parts for a diesel are very expensive.
the problem is a matter of economy of scale. There are many more gas engines in circulation than diesel. that’s my only problem with diesel.
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/ever-deadlier-police-state/
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None of the reforms, increased training, diversity programs, community outreach and gimmicks such as body cameras have blunted America’s deadly police assault, especially against poor people of color. Police forces in the United States—which, according to The Washington Post, have fatally shot 782 people this year—are unaccountable, militarized monstrosities that spread fear and terror in poor communities. By comparison, police in England and Wales killed 62 people in the 27 years between the start of 1990 and the end of 2016.
Police officers have become rogue predators in impoverished communities. Under U.S. forfeiture laws, police indiscriminately seize money, real estate, automobiles and other assets. In many cities, traffic, parking and other fines are little more than legalized extortion that funds local government and turns jails into debtor prisons.
Because of a failed court system, millions of young men and women are railroaded into prison, many for nonviolent offenses. SWAT teams with military weapons burst into homes often under warrants for nonviolent offenses, sometimes shooting those inside. Trigger-happy cops pump multiple rounds into the backs of unarmed men and women and are rarely charged with murder. And for poor Americans, basic constitutional rights, including due process, were effectively abolished decades ago.
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Just awful. I wonder who he blames for this.
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The accelerated assault on the poor and the growing omnipotence of the police signal our transformation into an authoritarian state in which the rich and the powerful are not subject to the rule of law. The Trump administration will promote none of the conditions that could ameliorate this crisis—affordable housing; well-paying jobs; safe and nurturing schools that do not charge tuition; better mental health facilities; efficient public transportation; the rebuilding of the nation’s infrastructure; demilitarized police forces in which most officers do not carry weapons; universal, government-funded health care; an end to the predatory loans and unethical practices of big banks; and reparations to African-Americans and an end to racial segregation. Trump and most of those he has appointed to positions of power disdain the poor as a dead weight on society. They blame stricken populations for their own misery. They seek to subjugate the poor, especially those of color, through police violence, ever harsher forms of punishment and an expansion of the prison system.
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Libertarian and progressives have a lot of common ground/ Reason and CATO
All that seems like a progressive wish list and not targeted actually solving the problems they describe. Except for demilitarizing police forces they don’t even mention police. It is like they have one solution for all problems.
Problem:
Solution: Further empowerment of centralized government and more unequal application of the law (fuck the kulaks!).
Great.
Fuck these people.
I’m still glad I don’t work in Miami any longer.
This piece of shit somehow not only manages to keep his job after doxxing and threatening multiple people for daring to do things like question him or film other cops or say cops did something bad, but he gets promoted
But he stepped down as Police Union chief, replaced by this guy, who may be a bigger piece of shit.
Certainly sounds like a POS. That article, however, doesn’t even try to hide it’s bias.
The Trump administration will promote none of the conditions that could ameliorate this crisis—affordable housing; well-paying jobs; safe and nurturing schools that do not charge tuition; better mental health facilities; efficient public transportation; the rebuilding of the nation’s infrastructure; demilitarized police forces in which most officers do not carry weapons; universal, government-funded health care; an end to the predatory loans and unethical practices of big banks; and reparations to African-Americans and an end to racial segregation.
Yeah. That would fix everything.
“predatory loans”
Be careful. Watch your back. Someone might sneak up on you and lend you money.
(((Someone)))
Look Derp, these bastard lend you money that they know you can’t pay back, and then add on late fees and interest until you really can’t pay it back , and then they sell your loan to a collection agency at a loss and then they profit, it’s trickle down economics or something. Also they force you in to prostitution but that’s more of a sex trafficking problem during Superbowls™ and republican conventions.
And now a crowd favorite.
http://archive.is/ug7x7
1, 2, 5, 30
Bunny boiler: It’s redheads, there are too many to list
Second time through…add 23, 25, 27, and 33 to the list.
1, 16, 23, 27 & 34 are the only ones who’d be verified as natural reds. Not saying all of the rest are dying their hair, just without the Dalmatian spots, you can’t know.
30 is beyond bunny boiler. She 180 deg turned her head around and is looking at the camera from over her shoulder blades. She is a Steven King novel.
I know, right?! Delicious!
To Protect Animals, Should We Just Shoot All the Poachers?
http://www.takepart.com/article/2016/08/03/it-ethical-kill-poachers
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Protecting the world’s endangered species from poachers is dangerous business.
Over the past decade, more than 1,000 rangers have died in the line of duty, according to statistics released last week for World Ranger Day. Some deaths were caused by accidents or animals. Most, however, were murders committed by heavily armed poachers who enter national parks and other protected areas in search of species such as tigers, rhinos, and elephants.
At the same time, rangers have killed hundreds of poachers, often spurred by the shoot-on-sight policies that have become the norm in several parks. The numbers add up: Between 2011 and 2015, rangers at South Africa’s Kruger National Park alone reportedly killed nearly 500 poachers.
While these rangers are undoubtedly heroes who all too often lay down their lives to protect the animals in their care, some organizations have begun to raise questions about the retaliatory bloodshed, asking if it is ethical or moral for rangers to kill suspected poachers without arrest or trial. The issue came to bear most recently last month after a guard in India’s Kaziranga National Park, which has a shoot-to-kill policy, critically wounded a seven-year-old boy from a tribe that lives around the park.
“We’re pretty horrified by the situation,” said Sophie Grig, senior campaigner at Survival International, a tribal rights organization that has criticized the recent Kaziranga shooting and shoot-to-kill policies in general. “It seems to us a very worrying trend that is bad for both local people who get caught in the crossfire and for conservation.”
Grig also wonders if shooting poachers even solves the larger problem. “If you were arresting those people and then investigating them, you could trace back and work out who the kingpins are,” she said. “If you shoot them dead, you can’t ask them any questions.”
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Here’s an idea- sell hunting permits and legalize the sale of ivory
It’s just crazy enough to work.
Nah. The Chinese will find a way to counterfeit the permits.
Even so, there are only a few places where elephant populations are increasing, and they all have the same thing in common.
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Namibia’s Conservancy Approach
In Namibia, elephant numbers have been increasing, and the nation’s conservancy approach is applauded as a factor in this success.
Established by the Namibian government in 1996, the program grants communities the power to manage wildlife on communal land and to work with private companies to develop their own tourism markets.
The latest government statistics indicate that the estimated contributions from trophy hunting exceeded $70 million. The vast majority of this income is returned to operators and spin-off beneficiaries such as airlines, hotels, tourism facilities, but there is a trickle-down effect.
In 2000, the total income to communal conservancies from all forms of wildlife use, including trophy hunting, amounted to $165,000. Six years later, this had increased almost tenfold to $1,330,000. Though small compared to the overall income from trophy hunting, it does provide one in seven Namibians with $75 a month.
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https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/11/151715-conservation-trophy-hunting-elephants-tusks-poaching-zimbabwe-namibia/
Didn’t Tanzania have some success privatizing their elephants?
An impressive amount of derp crammed into a 90 second video called Thanks, Capitalism!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sLgqq939JQ
The cartoon style reminded me of PlayMobil toys.
OT: I bought some LED bulbs and installed them in my kitchen chandelier… Now they are going through periods of constant flickering (all of the bulbs do it, not just one). It doesn’t do it all the time, but other times, they’re flickering so badly that it just bugs me to see the light from that room out of the corner of my eye.
I had CFL bulbs in there before, and they never flickered. Any idea why LEDs would be doing this?
They’re meant for DC?
Poltergeists seem like the only logical conclusion. You’re welcome.
Oh, and GET OUT
Is your chandelier on a dimmer?
Nope.
Then I’m guessing it’s because at the times they are flickering there is something running in your house that is causing the voltage to change in the light’s wiring. Either that or your lamp’s wiring is loose.
Are LEDs more sensitive to slight changes in voltage?
I just ask because this never happened with the CFL bulbs even when I had the oven, AC, dryer, and other high-voltage appliances running.
From what I understand, yes. Unlike incandescent, CFL, etc. LEDs have no persistence. So as soon as the voltage drops below its threshold, the LED turns off immediately. Just like how LEDs can turn on at full brightness without having to warm up.
How many bulbs does your chandelier take? Doesn’t matter, nobody needs that many bulbs. You are the devil and killing the planet. That is why it is flickering.
Inside your chandelier, assuming it is of recent vintage, there is a little black box. This little black box limits the output current to your light fixtures to .5 amps. This is something the government decided had to be installed in all light fixtures about a decade ago. The box was meant to prevent people from burning bulbs over 60 watts.
What has happened in the years since he requirement. Lamp manufacturers use the lowest quality black boxes that they can find to be in compliance with the government regulations.
Find your black box, and then remove it. it will probably fix your problem.
As per the Energy Policy Act of 2005, all ceiling fans manufactured or imported into the United States must utilize a light bulb wattage limiter as of January 1, 2007. This limiter limits the capacity of the fan’s light kit to a maximum of 40 watts per bulb.
That’s best I could find to verify I’m not full of shit. I’m sure that the law applies to chandeliers as well as ceiling fans.
There’s plenty of Youtube videos on how to take the limiters out.
That having been said, an LED bulb is only going to draw 7 to 12 watts, so unless you’re sure it’s a shitty box, I’d try looking at other causes first.
you’re approach seems logical.
What causes lights to flicker. An incandescent bull is naught but a resistor that gets hot amd don’t burn up because it’s in a vacuum.
An Led bulb is a solid state semiconductor.
If the light wasn’t flickering before the led was installed but was after, then we can rule out many things. Loose connections. voltage deviations (I can explain this if you want E=IR)
The wattage limitor is the only electronic component in a chandalier. It consists of an oscillator circuit and a set of transistors. The oscillating circuit pulses the gates of the transistor at at rate than limits the current flow.
In a direct hookup up between a light bulb and a power source, there would be no difference between the behavior of an led bulb and and an incandescent bulb.
Since Akira migrated from an incandescent to an led, the only thing that could cause a difference in operation is the wattage limiting circuit
Makes sense.
Hold up – are you telling me that the government passed an intrusive law that makes consumers worse off just so that they can virtue-signal and pretend that they’re “doing something” about a problem that doesn’t exist in the first place?? You must be off your rocker!
Kidding aside though… Is there a fire hazard from removing this box? I’m just paranoid about such things.
No. there is no hazard. when you remove the box, all you are doing is connecting the sockets directly to the bulb. That is how lights have been working since the days of edison.
The only danger comes from an EPA inspector disassembling your fan and finding that you jumped out the wattage limitor.
If anything, I’d think the limiter box is the fire hazard.
The box was meant to prevent people from burning bulbs over 60 watts.
Mutherfuckers. Then why do they still sell 100w bulbs?
Because all the incandescent bulbs that are on the market today were produced before the energy act of 2005. There is no new manufacturing of incandescent bulbs. The incandescent bulb manufacturers knew theor product was going to be banned years in advance. They over produced for years. What you can buy now is stock manufactured before the ban.
Unless you are getting those on the black market or some of the rapidly diminishing sources of stocked bulbs they are no longer sold.
*psst, hey kid I got some really nice incandescents here that will light you right up*
I was talking about 100w compact florescent. I know not what actual wattage they draw. But please allow me to lay this on you all on that topic.
In 1992-3 I was stationed at a small Coast Guard station in the NW just outside of where Kurt Cobain hailed from before he offed himself. (irrelevant point but I stumbled out of the bar he got his start in and I am drinking now so it has relevance) At that time, the CG had a program that if you came up with an idea to save the service money, you would be cut a percentage of the savings. That was the time compact florescent came on the market. I was in charge of the stations maintenance at the time and we changed who knows how many light bulbs a day in the quarters and general areas. These new fangled compact florescent light bulb supposedly lasted ten years and use whatever percentage of the electricity of our usual incandescent bulbs. I did all the math then that I do not remember now and used our small station as a model and calculated millions and millions of savings in the Coast Guard alone. I sent my proposal up via official channels and a JO in Seattle thought it was a great idea. He forwarded it on and on. It made it to DC where a civilian evaluater looked at it and declined my idea. He said he tried the bulbs in a lamp and they did not fit right for his shade. That experience convinced me gov contracts were more solid than saving gov money. We had cases and cases of incandescent bulbs stacked for years and years in a tiny station. If he had approved my suggestion, I would be typing on a millionaires keyboard. The florescents give shit light, but damn they do last. I have a wrinkled ten dollar bill that is all they use in Coast Guard stations now.
So, a beurocrat nixed your idea on his whim. america, the land of thee free.
He probably also had stock in Sylvania. Jesus we went through some bulbs. It was a small station but hundreds of light bulbs. That adds up. Multiply that by hundreds of stations and we get to real money. I wrote a solid proposal even back then when the compact florescent was stupid expensive they could have saved millions. The gov moves slowly.
On a related note, I’ve been having a similar electrical difficulty.
My dusk to dawn light (street light with a halogen bulb) has been working fine for 4 years. Out of nowhere the light started turning off whenever the heat pump kicked on.
The light is on a completely different circuit than the heat pump. The electrical company came out, measured my voltage drop, and said there was no way the heat pump was drawing enough to affect the light on a different circuit. They even installed a larger transformer just to be sure that wasn’t the problem.It wasn’t. The light still cut out whenever the heat pump turned on.
None of the other lights or electronics in the house flicker. Any idea what’s going on?
I have yard light that hasn’t worked for almost a decade (the power is fine, I think the bulb is bad, but you need a cherry picker to get to it and I don’t think it’s important enough for the hassle) a few years ago out of nowhere during a storm it came on for about an hour, then hasn’t worked since. Damn witchcraft!
are you sure it a halogen bulb? Some types of lighting fixtures (mercury vapor, metal oxide, high pressure sodium, etc.) need a certain voltage to to ignite the ballast. A slight drop in voltage from the compressor in your heat pump starting may cause them to go out.
today in punchable faces:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cT2Syixy60
Is he wearing a clip-on bowtie with the top button of his shirt undone??
Fucking millennials (and I say that was someone who was born in ’87).
Since all the faces in that video are punchable, do we line them up by size, or age?
Neuter him now before he has a chance to reproduce.
By listening to him, I don’t think that’s a concern.
Baby Clay Aiken
Good lord. That is the definition of “first up against the wall”.
Hm, that was supposed to be a reply to “today in punchable faces”.
I know.
The stupidest supporters of the shooting regime.
Sounds like he’d go there voluntarily.
lol
i had literally the exact same reaction. i heard a russian voice saying, “Comrade, when the revolution comes, first we shoot the intellectuals”
Fucking Richard Spencer manages to come off as not the biggest douche in a room. The world is over. Someone turn off the lights please.
After listening to some of that, I’ve changed my mind. Spencer is the biggest douche. It was a close call though.
I only listened for a few minutes when they got Into the chants. Then I had to take a leak.
That is a new leaf turned over in recent history. The white nationalist is not a bigger prick than the assholes opposing him even talking. How do they not see that giving him attention is what he wants? That ignoring him would be the best course of action? It is mind boggling. He had what, 20 guys there supporting him?
Maybe it’s the same leaf with a 21st century color. Two versions of authoritarianism butting heads.
But neither of them have any power. They have youtube and social media. I see them as entertainment and self reflection in that at least I am not that fucked up.
If Richard Spencer didn’t exist the left would have to create him. They like to have an easily identifiable villain. The alt-right and the social justice crowd feed off each other.
Because they’re too busy shouting him down to hear him say explicitly that: that he relishes the protesting and hatred because he’s benefitted massively from it.
And they lack the knowledge and awareness to recognize the pattern—pretty much a ‘law’—captured by the ‘Streisand effect.’
Those things in flyover country are sub-human vermin anyway so I don’t know why he even bothered.
http://nypost.com/2017/10/21/the-other-half-of-america-that-the-liberal-media-doesnt-cover/
Ms. Paglia is always a breath of fresh air.
http://www.intellectualtakeout.org/article/paglia-dumbing-down-america-began-public-schools
She’s pretty righteous most of the time, but I remember an interview on The Other Site where she said she would support Dianne Feinstein for president (even The Jacket was flabbergasted by that one).
Humans are capable of wild inconsistencies, I guess.
True. It’s the problem with making politics your religion (as “liberals” are wont to do), even when there is a mountain of evidence in front of you, somehow you remain blind.
Well, she explained it a little. The context was that she’d just finished describing Hillary as a liar and someone who couldn’t hold an opinion without poll-testing it. “This is not a strong candidate for our first woman president.” When she mentioned Feinstein & the Jacket reacted, Paglia said “I don’t care what her views are. What I’m saying is, for the post of president, the commander-in-chief of the military, it’s gotta be a woman who has familiarity with military matters and also has gravitas.” She then cites Feinstein’s control of the situation after the Moscone-Milk shootings saying this was the model for a woman president to communicate with strength, reserve, & compassion.
Also, she thinks Revenge of the Sith is the greatest art of this generation, somehow.
lol, I totally forgot about that.
She appears to think her generations campus stupidity was totes different and not what gave birth to today’s stupidity.
That’s the problem with being at least moderately principled. You’ll see people acting ostensibly in favor of high ideals and not realize that those ideals are not universally extensible for most people who tout them—that in effect they apply only to the touters themselves, because once the power dynamic is shifted such that they have the better of it, their emotive, galvanizing rhetoric will suddenly disappear. Rosa Luxemburg talked a big game about freedom and free speech, but had she ascended to a position of power over mass others, she wouldn’t be favoring such freedom for them.
Camille Paglia admired the rhetoric of her peers and the ideas expressed by it, so she doesn’t let herself recognize its essential insincerity.
Did it start in 1980’ish perhaps? Something something DOE…..
I’m watching Anthony Bourdain’s show on CNN–in an episode about Pittsburgh.
So what, right?
Bourdain was interviewing (and eating with) this guy who I’m almost certain was the guy that asked Gillespie if he wanted to go out into the parking lot that time he was BIll Mahr’s show. Remember that guy was the mayor of the hardest hit steel town in Pennsylvania?
The interesting thing–that guy is starting an indoor, legal marijuana facility, and his business partners is, get this, Franco Harris!
Franco Harris was talking about the benefit of marijuana for pain treatment, etc.
There’s a local sports hero giving you a celebrity endorsement. I wonder if they’re looking for investors.
The former mayor’s taking care of the licensing? Check.
Local celebrity endorsement? Check.
Are they looking for investors?
Hell no.
But that shit’s gonna sell like . . . marijuana.
Everybody wants to buy marijuana. That’s why they call it marijuana.
http://imgur.com/hTZtSms
Just dug this out of the closet. I think wife and I are gonna watch it
Don’t forget your chainsaw.
But which Edition?
Groovy
On the earlier thread today, Gustave was describing a situation in which his wife was admonished by a Canadian about Trump and healthcare.
Unfortunately, many Canadians have a superior attitude toward Americans, despite having limited interactions with them. Many Canadians think that, because of Canada’s more progressive bent, we’re somehow “better” than Americans. This fits into a pattern of what I call “small Canadianism”, whereby Canadians see the world through the very narrow perspective of being Canadian, and develop a very elitist attitude. Many of my friends, family, and neighbours exhibit this attitude, and I’m embarrassed by it.
Perhaps more embarrassing, I spent the better part of 7 years working in the US, and initially, I think that I came with this attitude, too. But, I had the opportunity to get to know many Americans on a personal level. In retrospect, I must apologize for the attitude that I had previously. Now, I have several American friends, and, in general, I like and respect Americans. What appeals to me about Americans is your friendliness, straightforwardness, and orientation towards liberty. In fact, I think that I might even like Americans more than Canadians.
Except Philip Rivers. Fuck that guy. /Broncos fan
Most Canadians I’ve met have been great and the times I’ve spent on vacation in Canada have been wonderful. I do find the hang up that Canadians seem to have about Americans being super parochial, inward-looking and patriotic, while somewhat warranted, to be kind of amusing though; possibly the only people I’ve ever met who are bigger flag-wavers than Americans are Canadians.
Our flag sucks now, I hate the minimalist utilitarian design. And now we have idiots claiming the good flag is actually secret alt-right racism.
You know, the one they fly at basically every Legion and veterans’ center in the country.
They have the same sort of attitude about Americans in Mexico–especially around tourist areas. I blame tourism for a lot of our bad rep abroad. Even Mexicans have an idea of the “ugly American” stereotype.
When you see American or British or people of any nationality on TV, you see idealized versions of them.
When you’re a Mexican in a border town or a beach town, the Americans you see in real life are there to get drunk out of their minds and puke all over the street. And the American middle class has been able to afford to go to these places for a long time–so we’ve had a long time to build up that reputation.
Incidentally, the Mexicans who come here to be gardeners, cooks, and house cleaners are exactly representative of average Mexicans either. Middle class Mexicans don’t come here to take those jobs.
If we judged each other’s countries by tourists, economic refugees, expat retirees, etc., we’d all think each other’s countries were shit.
You know, Ken, I think what you said about our interactions with Mexicans is true. In the US / Canada, the Mexican people with interact with tend to be those who work as unskilled labourers. When we go to Mexico on vacation, we tend to interact with Mexicans who work in the hospitality industry (unfortunately in North America, also seen to be unskilled labour).
I blame tourism for a lot of our bad rep abroad. Even Mexicans have an idea of the “ugly American” stereotype.
Except the data doesn’t actually support it. I recall reading a piece about a survey of hospitality workers in multiple countries. Americans had the worst reputation of any nationality polled about. Fair enough. Then they showed the sub-categories for different qualities of tourists. Americans came out at or near the top on every category.
Honestly, when I hear some of the foreign commentary dismissing Americans, I can’t help but wonder why they just don’t call us (((Americans))). I mean, what do they say: we’re loud, we’re pushy, we think we know it all, we throw our money around.
Except Philip Rivers. Fuck that guy. /Broncos fan
I say fuck Trevor Siemian. /Broncos fan
I would echo what is said above. Canadians are the biggest flag wavers I have ever met. They have a pride that is awesome but a grudge like a beat up kid but there is no reason to have since we never beat Canada up. Timber deals, milk deals, trucking deals….I don’t know the ins and outs of them all enough to make a certain statement, but the Canadians I know are sure they are being fucked over. Also, I think sans the free healthcare, they are pissed they are America with just a little more Northern Latitude, higher taxes and Tim Hortons. Canada is the USA with better hockey players and worse coffee but awesome twelve grain bagels. (toasted with butter please)
Yeah, I’ve seen enough of Trevor Siemian. Also not sold on Vance Joseph.
but there is no reason to have since we never beat Canada up.
Well, there was that one time you invaded us in the American Revolution…
…And that other time when you invaded because the Brits kept stealing your sailors…
…And then there was the time you allowed terrorists who wanted to conquer us to operate out of your country…
But that’s about it. Oh, and that time we almost went to war over a pig. But that was our bad.
I meant more along the line of time after colonial sort of times. See, this is why you should write more history articles John. So I be learnin stuff to yell back when I hear, WE BURNED YOUR WHITE HOUSE!!11 I have heard that one a few times.
I am a product of American public education so I have an excuse.
The “We burned your White House” one is easy. Because we didn’t. British regulars from northern England and Scotland did, they never even set foot in Canada, the invasion staging operation was in Bermuda. Canadian militia were not involved at all, and the dumb argument I always hear is “well, some of the guys who burned the White House later settled in Canada, so it counts.” But by that logic we also conquered India I guess.
A lot of modern Canadian nationalism is more about being massively insecure about being neighbours with the superpower than anything else, it manifests itself in some pretty pathetic ways.
*Cue “WE BURRRRRRRRRNED THE WHITE HOUSE DOWN” autistic screeching*
Hey, the US government did force a lot of kids to watch Degrassi Junior High, that was a worse affront than burning the white house.
I love DJH. Tell me this isn’t brilliant.
^Check out the Canadian spy ^
Not Brooksing here, but that article Rhywun posted about the Dems’ identity politics religion so accurately and succinctly outlined the current political climate that it is an absolute thing of beauty. I wish I could have condensed the reality of our situation that well.
But you did Brooks
“I don’t mean to interrupt…” He interrupted.
or as is hip on the twitter of late…
Narrators voice – “He was Brooksing.”
Did I? Perhaps *YOU* did!!
(suspenseful music)
A little bitta Brooksing is a good thing, I reckon.
That’s what she said (I assume).
this fog is crazy
OT: My friends just came back from their wedding anniversary, where they ate at one of these “employee-owned co-op” restaurants…
They walked into the front room, which was a large bar/seating area. It was a pretty huge room, but they had to walk up to a hostess station and give their names. The host told them to give their names and wait for a table. It was confusing because the area appeared less than half-full, and many customers were just drinking at the bar and eating appetizers. They had a few drinks and went into the restaurant area, which was surprisingly about a quarter of the size of the bar/waiting area. While looking over the menu, they noticed that it was a “co-op”, “no-tipping” establishment. They waited 30 to 45 minutes for a table, ordered their food, and waited another 30 minutes for their food, but they decided it had been too long and they gave up. They went up to pay for their drinks and chips and salsa. When they asked the host for the status of their order, they were told that the cooks hadn’t even started on it (this was a burrito restaurant, so you’d think it would be quick).
Surely, this is the best way to run the US economy, right guys??
It’s a good thing that they had to wait so long for food. In other countries, the rich get the food and the poor starve to death.
They went to an artisinal burrito bar for their anniversary? How bourgeoisie.
wow. I wonder how they stay in business.
‘Brad, like, just wasn’t feeling coming to work today. And like man, the cooks just wanna chill for a bit. Here, have this piece of cilantro.’
Dine n dash crossed my mind for a split second. Just ate French toast at a restaurant. Left my damn wallet at the office. Check the change I have in my pocket-¥910. Bill is ¥970. Office is quite far away. Remember I have a point card. ¥90 worth of points. Perfuckinmundo. Had me panicking for a few minutes.
Good short story.
If you need ¥10, I’ve got your back.
Domo arigato.
Cool. I wanted a gumball from the machine.
But if it’s yen, it’ll taste like squid, though, right?
If Yen can cook, so can you!
better than dishes.
Is Jap french toast like normal french toast or do they sprinkle seaweed and low tide dead shrimp on it or something?
Probably caramel sauce with tons of whipped cream on top.
Just cause it’s Sunday night https://youtu.be/128LI6_4L-s
Hmm… that brought up Nancy Sinatra’s These Boots Are Made For Walking and Dusty Springfield’s Son of a Preacher Man, so thanks for that.
you’re gay now
Yeah, looking at those women turned me
Well, Nancy is 76 or 77 and Dusty is dead, so neither is particularly appealing.
Here’s a lovely little lady singing about girl power https://youtu.be/XRclcywfu-4
For some of us it is Sat night, and that was #uncalledfor
Kenny Dorham so nice https://youtu.be/jQJMfufzg0Y
Nice harmonies. Sentimental as hell.
https://youtu.be/uur4t4UO80E
She still has a great set of pipes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmM72gxbdfU
humperdink humperdink humperdink
Chest hair and Hai Karate https://youtu.be/2h4eeanfgh4
Vegas lounge!
Good one. Here’s a classic https://youtu.be/6bki3iCF1ps
I’ll just answer with another Dick Cheese song, because honestly, he perfected the lounge cover.
And the closer, Closer
Ha ha just for you…
One more, since you convinced me…
Always found this funny.
Or this sentimental reply.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brYZ2jfvBww
That man is a hero.
‘Right side of history’ arguments entail an eventual equilibrium, which supposes an increasing—even close monotonically increasing—level of stability from every moment to the successive, occurring especially at the present moment. It sounds like nonsense to me altogether, human existence is not that pretty, the physical world is not that clean,—but it’s especially nonsensical when you consider how unstable and fraught progressives view the world to be, compounded by their prescription for it. You can’t vilify people and expect them not to react disruptively. This scaremongering by the left about the ‘nihilism’ of the alt-right seems to miss the fact that the left itself has precipitated it, even necessitated it of the deplorables. How else would they react?
Damn.
https://jacobitemag.com/2017/08/12/how-message-board-culture-remade-the-left/
Since we all of course know* that ‘It’s all projection with the left’™ the idea that the Russian hacking conspiracy theory being pushed is attributable to that projection shouldn’t be surprising… and yet I didn’t consider it at all. It makes sense. “Of course Trump voters were manipulated by online propaganda; I’m manipulated by online propaganda all the time!” /self-aware prog subconscious
*facetious; don’t send me letters!
“As enunciated today, progress is simply a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.”