Author: David

Over-educated Curmudgeon, Bit-Bucket Tuner and Budding Brewmeister.
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Baltimore *munches popcorn-sips beer*

Sequence:

Trump verbally “trashes” Baltimore.

Loony Left Moonbat heads explode in rage.

Video after video after video emerges of past comments (over just the last few years) from Loony Left politicians confirming Trump’s remarks and some going even further.

Loony Left Moonbats: “Unfair!”

Hivemind “reporting”: largely *crickets* or simply attempts to bolster Loony Left Moonbat outrage.

Reporter gathering “[homeless] man on the street” remarks to bolster the “unfairness” of Trump’s original comment has rat photobomb her “report.”

Meanwhile, wwhile politicians and governments are sitting on their hands and pointing fingers at one another (and isn’t THAT a pleasant picture? Ewww. . . ):

Trump supporter organizes Trash Cleanup Day to support Baltimore< /a>

Mass Media Podpeople Hivemind: *crickets*

Folks, entertainment just doesn’t get more amusingly farcical than this. *munches popcorn-sips beer*

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Gun “Control”? #feh

A site I visit now and then, just to bring a smile to my face.

“When any government deprives a citizen of his freedom or property, the individual must take action to publicise his grievances. To this end, I hope to illustrate in the following pages, the futility of gun control, and that no amount of arbitrary legislation can ever prevent those wanting firearms from owning them. The individual who has the ability to construct his own homemade gun can never be permanently disarmed by any level of gun control legislation.”

https://thehomegunsmith.com/

Do note that the “expedient firearms” featured at the site are rather crude, and not examples of firearms I would ever be tempted to build, but it is nice that, even though the site creator has passed away, there are those committed to natural rights who have been willing to step up and maintain the site.

Below, “gun control” as desired by the enemies of the people:

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Three Citizens, One Goblin Down

I’m withholding any comments aside from the following, until more facts emerge.

1. 3 Dead People = evil.
2. That LEOs who can in no way qualify to be employed by the Broward County Sheriff’s Department were present resulted in what good there may be in this, so far, namely
3. One Dead Goblin.

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3 People Killed, Including 6-Year-Old Boy, in Mass Shooting at a California Food Festival

(I assume the death of the shooter doesn’t count as a dead “person.” I know, I know: far past simply harsh, but he is the one who chose to dehumanize himself.)

No word as of the latest reports on the incident on where Scot Peterson was hiding out.

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Always Another Option. . .

My Lovely Wonder Woman has a way about her. . .

I mentioned to her that completing the repairs on a ceramic “canister” (ceramic can?!? *feh*) would take ~$11-$12, but that I’d end up with a lot of extra materials to store, possibly for future projects. . . or whatever. *heh* Her solution?

“Well, I could break more things.”

Another possibility? Just replace the thing, I suppose. *sigh* I hate not just repairing a broken item, but sometimes. . .

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Cat Cleaner

I am considering putting “cleaning pads” on Cat #2 (A/K/A “CATrina), since she has taken up “sharpening her (non-existant*“>*) claws on the glass of our French doors.

* Reluctantly declawed on front because she would NOT stop climbing my Wonder Woman’s drapes. She’s still a pip, though.

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“Dr Muerte’s Panacea for Pain”

Picked up some kind of contact rash in the last day or so. Despite observing pretty good hygiene with handwashing, etc. (including having worn nitrile gloves), I seem to have spread it to. . . rather uncomfy areas. So, tried an astringent product from FAK to alleviate itching. It works, but kinda like after stubbing one’s toe and asking “Dr. Muerte” for pain relief, getting a punch in the nose. I don’t really notice the itching now that everything is BURNING.

*heh*

“Pain is just weakness leaving the body” (and other convenient lies. 😉 ).

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Nature Abhors a Vacuum, #3,827.348

And sometimes vacuum just sucks. *heh*

Hmm, lil “casual use lappy” running hot n slow. So, usual software maintenance, then upgrade memory. Strange hardware config. Upgrading memory requires removing keyboard. mmmK. Lappy FILLED with cat hair. Well, that goes a long way toward explaining the heat.

Cleaned out cat hair. Installed memory. Much better, now.

Looks like that may be a regular maintenance “call back” for “cat hair removal.” *heh*

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“Outside a dog, books are a man’s best friend. . . “

“. . .inside a dog, it’s too dark to read.” ~ Twain

Re: reading programs in general. My Wonder Woman (a school librarian/”Media Specialist”) has finally seen some movement resulting from her campaign to get away from regimented reading programs and encourage/allow kids to read whatever interests them (within the scope of what she is allowed to have in her collections). Circulation at both her libraries is up, and reading scores have improved dramatically since the regimented reading programs in her two schools have been relaxed in one and eliminated in the other.

One of the things she has excelled in is taking kids with very low reading scores on standardized testing and engaging them in ways that spur their interest in books, primarily by focusing on their personal areas of interest. So far, this has resulted in not only contributing to improving their reading skills but also in broadening their interests. More and more of these “marginal readers” (below grade level, sometimes by several grades) have advanced to well above grade level in reading comprehension.

Interest. When kids discover that books can increase their knowledge/understanding of the things they are interested in, it can make a difference for the better.

(Of course, those with severe cognitive/perceptive impairments of some kind require other kinds of intervention, but excellent tools and materials are available there, as well.)

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Oh, No You Don’t!

Usage note: “utilize” =/= “use” If I were to dig holes in the ground with a tractor and PTO auger, then that would be a case of USING the auger (that is, for its intended purpose). If I were to effectively and efficiently bore a hole in a tree with it, I would be UTILIZING it (for a purpose for which it was not designed or intended). BTW, attempting to effectively and efficiently bore a hole in a tree with a tractor-powered auger would seem a bit. . . silly, at best, and probably doomed to failure. _Utilizing things is a hacker’s gig.

In my experience, people who misuse “utilize” when they describe an action to which “use” applies are usually subliterate, pretentious twats. (YMMV, of course.) Such persons’ misuse is creeping slowly, a bit at a time, into dictionaries, though, further impoverishing English by blurring clear and very useful distinctions, as has already been done with more and more words as the democratic subliteracy of the Internet accelerates pejoration and even outright destruction of useful meanings. (Simple example of destruction of meaning is the most prominent use nowadays of the word invented by Richard Dawkins to refer to “a parallel between the way that genetic information propagates in the gene pool and the way that cultural information is transmitted through a culture.” Nowadays, most usage of the word refers to graphics with pithy captions attempting to make the leap to widespread cultural transmission. *cough* #ICanHazCheeseburger *cough*)

(Note: utilize can also refer to effective and efficient uptake of a nutrient by a biological entity. In fact, that is its best, clearest use.)