By the way, when did this bullshit become acceptable?
and:
I know, it’s supposed to do… what, exactly? Fuck with my eyesight?
This works perfectly:
Rule #1 of photography: no damn unfocused blurriness, unless for effect — and then it must be the focal point of the pic.
Blurring the borders just makes my head ache after a while, and I loathe this affectation with a passion.
Possibly because my Sensitivity Antenna isn’t dialed up to 11, I actually don’t think this cartoon is So Bad It Causes Cancer:
When I first saw it, I saw an attempt to paint the (blind) Trump being guided (in his foreign policy) by Israel’s Netanyahu. I thought the cartoon was stupid, but not especially offensive. Stupid because it paints Trump as a Jooo — or a Joooo-sympathizer — by wearing a yarmulke*, when he isn’t Jewish at all — and because it uses a dachshund to represent a guide dog. (Why a dachshund? Oh yeah, a Lab / Alsatian is a big dog, and we can’t have Israel represented by big, powerful dog, can we?) Like I said, it’s stupid, and it’s also kinda simplistic.
It’s also not true. But that’s unimportant. If truth was important to cartoonists, then Ted Rall would be mopping floors at the Hollywood YMCA.
Is it inflammatory? Of course it is: that’s generally the whole purpose of political cartoons. Is it anti-Semitic? Maybe if you’re ultra-sensitive to anti-Semitism — which, by the way, I usually am — but to my eyes, the cartoon is clumsy, the cardinal sin of cartooning.
And OMG! the cartoonist had a Jew represented by a DOG! (Shades of Julius Streicher everywhere! ) — well, what other animal could he have used? Last time I looked, there was a distinct shortage of guide-cats, guide-bears, guide-pigs (now that might actually have been anti-Semitic) and seeing-eye squirrels around.
Was it a sin for the poxy New York Times International Edition to publish the thing? No more than it was sinful for the Danish Jyllends-Posten to publish their Mohammed cartoon.
And we all know who got so bent out of shape about that.
Here’s my First Amendment take on the whole episode: the more a media outlet publishes bullshit (anti-Semitic, anti-Black, anti-male whatever), the more it can be identified for the disgusting piece of shit that it is. In this case, the New York fucking Times stands exposed for being horribly anti-Israel (Zion) and anti-Semitic (the two are not the same, although Anti-Zionism is generally the camouflage behind which anti-Semites lurk). And the fact that it published the cartoon in its international edition simply shows me how anti-Semitic the Europeans continue to be (Europe accounts for a large proportion of its sales), and is very much of a piece with all the shit their editorial pages contain on a daily basis. (Today, Jews; tomorrow, Christians; the day after, gun owners… and the band plays on and on.)
What’s delicious about this is that the oh-so politically-correct NYT (which, by the way, has more than a few Jews working for it, and was once even owned by Joooos) is being crucified [sic] at the altar of its own political correctness. It is, as my kids say, to LOL.
I don’t buy for one moment that the stupid cartoon is going to fuel the fires of anti-Semitism, or give cover to anti-Semites to perpetrate atrocities towards Jews, any more than the Mohammed cartoons would cause the same among anti-Muslims. All this is a classic case of ultra-sensitivity in the Snowflake Age, where everyone is triggered by someone saying “nigger”, “rag-head”, “fag”, “cunt”, “lesbo”, “trannie” or even “snowflake”, and the minute one says anything outside the P.C. canon, one will immediately be labeled a Nazi or [shudder] a “hater”.
I’m more upset that the P.C. “priesthood” seems to have tossed anti-Semitism out of its canon. (Does this make them Nazis? Discuss. )
But hey, sooner or later (and I suspect sooner), everything we say or think will be streng verboten… which is what the totalitarian mental midgets in government, academia and the mainstream- and entertainment media are aiming for anyway. Otherwise, how else can they control us?
Here’s my opinion of the whole stinking outrage:
I’m so sick of the Perpetually-Outraged, of whatever persuasion, deciding what can and can’t be said. They’re children, the whole fucking lot of them.
*to me, “kippah” (the way I pronounce “kipper”) means kippered herrings, such as what one has for breakfast
I grew up calling the Jewish skullcap thingy a “yarmulke”, and that’s what I’m going to continue to call it. Otherwise I’m going to think of observant Jews wearing a smoked fish on their heads, and giggle.
…because they’re fucking idiots. From Sundance:
The professional financial punditry can’t explain it. Flummoxed academics run around bumping into walls amid economic numbers that continue to defy expectations. All caused by a simple return to common sense ‘America First’ MAGAnomics.
Low unemployment (3.8%); wages growing (+3.2%); inflation stable (1.6%). These measures all have a cumulative impact on paycheck-to-paycheck Americans. Prices for durable goods are stable and wage growth is exceeding inflation. That means more disposable income in the middle-class…DUH. Which, when combined with the increased pay from lower middle-class tax rates, is exactly the intended outcome of MAGAnomics.
One more time: come the reign of Emperor Kim, economists will all be forced to wear wizards’ hats in public. To put it even more simply (for those of the economist persuasion):
The U.S. is where the growth is. We are in the period where exporting U.S. wealth (globalist policies) has been slowed/halted. We are confronting protectionist tariffs abroad which impede our exports, and simultaneously applying reciprocal tariffs toward those who want access to our U.S. market. As a consequence, capital investment is returning to Main Street USA (nationalist policy).
This is the heart of MAGAnomic policy.
…in response to Sen Chuck Grassley (AG, Iowa) and his op-ed piece in the MSM:
@ChuckGrassley is doing the bidding of Tom Donohue, the corrupt U.S. Chamber of Commerce, K-Street, his BigAG benefactors, and selling out the U.S. middle-class while simultaneously cloaking himself in the flag. Despicable.
And he spells it all out in a long, but a very valuable rebuttal of what is so dishonest a piece of writing, it could have been written by a Democratic Socialist.
And in our last look at the economy for today, we have this news:
Private payrolls grew by 275,000 last month, the biggest increase since July, when they expanded by 284,000.
Services-providing jobs increased by 223,000 in April, led by a gain of 59,000 jobs in professional and business services.
The Democratic Socialist Party’s response to this fantastic news has been predictable:
…and:
Why?
Because socialists have a problem recruiting happy people with jobs to The Cause; they can only practice their politics of envy with a willing base of unemployed, surly proles to support them. And well-to-do liberals who are protected from the results of socialism by their wealth.
In the meantime, America’s getting on with it:
“The job market is holding firm, as businesses work hard to fill open positions,” says Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics.
My only issue is with the Ruger 10-22 (although it’s not the world’s worst option), simply because I prefer my little Taurus pump.
Also, given the terrain his hideout is in the middle of, that “deer rifle” had better be able to reach out really far and touch something, because it’s kinda lacking in cover. I’m thinking a Dakota Model 10 in 6.5x55mm Swede or .300 Win Mag:
But those little quibbles aside, his principal thesis is perfectly sound. Especially the last item:
