Category: Good Stuff
Learning From Furriners
It’s not often that I think we can learn much from Them What Ain’t Murkins, but this would definitely be one of those times:
Sweden’s new right-wing government has sparked an outcry after scrapping the Ministry of Environment in a move the opposition has branded “devastating”.
The Enviros are now part of the Swedish Commerce Dept., which is where they belong, if anywhere at all. And the only thing “devastating” about this decision is the hair-on-fire response.
Creating the Dept. of the Environment was perhaps the worst thing Richard Nixon ever did, and elevating this bunch of wackos to a Cabinet position is in the Top 3 Worst for Jimmy Carter (it’s difficult to rank the awful things Carter did, there being so many, but a top 3 for this one is certainly appropriate).
Well done, Sweden! Bra jobbat!
Street Takeovers
Reader Mike L. sends me this heartening news:
Dangerous street takeovers are happening more and more often in Oklahoma City and across the nation, which is why an updated city ordinance is cracking down on large groups of people who illegally block intersections, roads, or parking lots. Street takeovers can include street racing, or can simply involve participants using their vehicles to block intersections while they take over the area with friends.
Not only do illegal takeovers increase crime, they also block medical responders during emergencies.
The updated ordinance includes vehicles being impounded for 90 days, while participants can be jailed for 60 days, as well as face fines of more than $2,000.
My only suggestion is that the towed cars are taken not to impound lots, but straight to scrapyards where the car crushers are waiting. To paraphrase Samuel Johnson: nothing concentrates the mind more than an imminent crushing.
And the fine takes away the deposit for a replacement.
My Kinda Guy
The Kim Award for Honest Speech and Straight Talk goes to Sheriff Grady Judd of Polk County FL for this outstanding comment:
People have a right to be safe in their homes… I highly recommend, if a looter enters your home, you grab your gun and you shoot him, you shoot him so he looks like grated cheese.
I bet he drinks straight bourbon with a vitriol chaser.
No doubt some fainting goats will have a problem with his fine suggestion; just nobody on this website.
I Did Not Know That
Via Insty, a very interesting factoid:
SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, is an airborne disease transmitted via aerosols, which are spread from the oral and nasal cavities—the mouth and the nose. In addition to the well-known division and spread of the virus in the cells of the respiratory tract, SARS-CoV-2 is also known to infect the cells of the lining of the mouth and the salivary glands.
Commercially available mouthwashes contain a number of antibiotic and antiviral components that act against microorganisms in the mouth. One of these, cetylpyridinium chloride (CPC), has been shown by a team of researchers led by Professor Kyoko Hida at Hokkaido University to reduce the viral load of SARS-CoV-2 in the mouth, primarily by disrupting the lipid membrane surrounding the virus. While there are other chemicals with similar effects, CPC has the advantage of being tasteless and odorless. Their findings were published in the journal Scientific Reports.
I use Scope mouthwash at least twice a day (morning and bedtime, but this is not repeat NOT a product endorsement) — have done so for years — and yes, it contains CPC, according to their own blurb.
Of course, future studies may find that cetylpyridinium chloride causes hair to grow on your liver or something, but sufficient unto the day, as a wise man once said.
I should also point out that this prophylactic measure is not exactly a new thing:
Perhaps if schools still did this kind of thing — you know, stuff that is actually helpful as opposed to crap like CRT indoctrination — the whole Covid lockdown bullshit may have been avoided.
“We’re All Battling”
Just a lovely story, one that makes me want to take the barrel of tar off the boil, hang the rope back on the wall and postpone a trip to the range:
“Today at my local supermarket, there was an elderly lady in front of me, kept checking how much she’s spending. Long story short, the amount came to over what she had, and she asked for certain items to be credited off.
“The Aldi cashier turned around and said, ‘It’s only £1 something over, I’ll pay it for you.’
“When it was my turn I said ‘what a lovely thing to do’ and the reply was ‘we are all battling at the moment and we need to eat’.”
Nothing like a bit of gratuitous kindness to help assuage the rage, is there?