I work with data, aligning it and making it work for everything. on the side I’m into ham radio, Star Wars, genealogy, prestidigitation, retro games, RPGs.
I will never forget the day that DOGE discovered that FEMA was spending $59 MILLION to house illegal aliens in luxury hotels in NYC…
…all while FEMA nearly kicked out 3,000 Americans from THEIR hotel rooms in the dead of winter in Western North Carolina after Hurricane Helene
Never in my life did I think I would be running against a guy that thinks America deserved 9/11.
Abdul is too dangerous for Michigan. We can’t let him anywhere near the United States Senate.
Secretary Al Schmidt — who oversees Pennsylvania’s elections — was asked,
“If non-citizens end up voting in November, are you prepared to be held maybe criminally liable by the Department of Justice?”
👉How would you characterize his reaction?👈
(By the way, we are finding non-citizens actively on the PA voter rolls.)
INSTEAD OF WATCHING AN HOUR OF NETFLIX TONIGHT.
This 1-hour Stanford lecture by Joel Peterson will teach you more about negotiation and getting what you want than most people learn in years.
Bookmark it and give it an hour, no matter what.
Did you know about Glorfindel’s prophecy of the Witch-king?
J.R.R. Tolkien's The Return of the King, Appendix A (section on Gondor and the heirs of Anárion, describing the Battle of Fornost).After the Witch-king flees, Glorfindel stops King Eärnur from pursuing him and says:
"Do not pursue him! He will not return to this land. Far off yet is his doom, and not by the hand of man will he fall."Centuries later, during the Battle of the Pelennor Fields, the Witch-king confronts Éowyn and declares: "No living man may hinder me!"
Éowyn removes her helmet and replies: "But no living man am I! You look upon a woman." She strikes him down, aided by Merry's wound from a Barrow-blade that breaks his protective spell. Thus, the prophecy is fulfilled he falls not by the hand of a man, but by a woman (Éowyn) and a hobbit (Merry).
Glorfindel's words are remembered as legend, and the book notes that they came true exactly as spoken.
In Japan, if you use a word wrong, someone will quietly teach you the correct one.
In Texas, I thanked a mechanic by saying "you are a good man of the trucks."
He did not correct me. He put it on his voicemail.
"You've reached Ray. Good man of the trucks."
His son answers the phone that way now.
I'm not a racist. I'm a culturalist
I believe some cultures are superior to others
For example, I prefer cultures that do not encourage wife beating, paedophilia, clitorectomies, stoning and constant inflation of the male ego
I am also aware of the difference between Islamoscepticism and Islamophobia
Notice that hate does not come into this
Only moral preferences
1959, Carving Magic.
A wonderful film in my 16mm archive. It was seen as a short film for about 5 years at movie theaters as a warm up.
It is quite interesting…