Ah FFS, here we go again with this Monday shit:
So to help you roll that fucking boulder uphill for the umpteenth time in your life, here’s Teh Funny:
And finally, a Reader suggested I look up some bint named Rachel Skarsten, so I did:
I report, you decide… although, to be honest, she’s a trifle skinny for my taste, e.g.:
Now finish getting yer clothes on, and go to work.
Everyone owes it to themselves to visit the South of France, especially the Provence and Louberon areas. There’s something different about the place, and not just the architecture and scenery: even the light is unlike anywhere I’ve ever been. When you see artwork as painted by Cezanne and Van Gogh, you look at the light and think that the golden tint that diffuses the scenery is unrealistic or even fake, but it isn’t — it really does look like that. (It’s best visited in summer, by the way: winter has a different light altogether, as I discovered when I toured the area with Longtime Friend Knob a couple years back.)
Anyway, all that is to introduce an artist I’ve never seen before (introduced to me by New Wife, by the way), who apparently specializes in painting scenes from the Midi: Laurent Parcelier is his name, and here’s an example:
This one serves as the wallpaper on my laptop as we speak.
Here’s another:
Yes, that’s exactly what the sunlight looks like in Provence — I’ve seen several places that could be carbon copies of the above.
You can find some of Parcelier’s other works over here. Unusually (for me), I like just about every single one of them.
Enjoy browsing. And the website, WOoarts.com, has some other interesting artists as well.
Your suggestions in Comments.
Apparently, some “experts” (standard warning applies) over in Britishland (same warning) have come up with a list of activities that carry a risk of catching Chinkvirus cooties, ranked according to risk level:
All FYI — as much of what is listed is pretty much commonsense. I do wonder, though, how “protest march”, “rioting” and “looting” (some overlap) did not make the list.
Once again, the Year From Hell is adding to the catalogue of woes:
And I think the Grand Finale will be:
…which, if it blows, will pretty much wave goodbye to Western civilization. (The Third World is already in Dark Ages-style squalor, so not much change for them and like cockroaches, they’ll survive.)
There’s only one thing to do, at this point:
Not my actual Cabinet ‘O Scotch*, but it’s pretty close. So, after I’m done loading up my [number deleted] AK- and M1 Carbine mags…
Cheers, y’all.
*Upon close inspection, there are only about a couple of those brands that I’ve never tasted, so maybe a pre-Apocalypse run to Ye Olde Liqueure Shoppe is called for…
Seeing as how everyone’s getting all “defund this” and “defund that”, allow me to offer a few candidates out of this lot:
A U.S. Army email, sent after the Fourth of July to its military and civilian members, included a graphic which claimed saying the phrase “Make America Great Again” is evidence of “white supremacy.”
The graphic listed other behaviors it deemed evidence of white supremacy, including, “Celebration of Columbus Day,” the “Denial of White Privilege,” “Talking about ‘American Exceptionalism,’” and saying “There’s Only One Human Race.”
Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL, duh) is all over this, and he:
…has sent a letter to U.S. Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy, demanding an investigation.
Brooks asked McCarthy to answer the following:1. Who within the Department of the Army is responsible for the creation of the email and document?
2. Who within the Department of the Army approved the email and document?
3. Pursuant to the creation and approval of the document, was there a violation of either the Hatch Act or DoD Directive 1344.10?
4. If a violation of the Hatch Act or DoD Directive 1344.10 is found to have occurred, will those responsible be held accountable for their actions?
5. If it is found that a violation occurred (which seems pretty obvious), how will those federal employees be held accountable for their illegal conduct?
The Army needs to stamp out this bullshit toot sweet, and defund the people responsible (every single one who falls into the above five questions), i.e. either by court-martial and dishonorable discharge, by RIF-ing their asses out of existence or (if some civilian asshole is involved) fire them with loss of all benefits and privileges. (I leave it to my .dot-mil veteran Readers, e.g. Staff Martin, to offer the precise details in Comments.)
I’m not going to go overboard and throw the “treason” word around — it’s been used way too cavalierly just recently — but if we take on faith that the “MAGA” expression belongs to the C-in-C (and it does), what’s going on here is (at best) gross insubordination.
I’m being quite serious, here. This nonsense does not belong in our Armed Forces; their job is to help keep America great, but if they can’t be trusted to do that — and this is a prime indicator that they can’t — there needs to be some kind of ill wind that blows all the non-essential, and even the marginally-essential, REMFs out into the fucking trash can.
ArmySec McCarthy needs to jump on this quickly, have answers for Brooks with 24 hours, or face termination himself.