Mental Health and Mal-education

One comment from that depression article this is right on:



How perverse is it that white liberals “champion” the cause of minorities and are then displaced by these very minorities at the same time…fueling further resentment.

My thesis is thus: Liberalism is a mental illness. The Wuhan Flu has nothing on it in terms of its destructive power. We need immunization against the Left more than we need it against a flu bug.

And because those in power won’t do so, it’s up to us to do so for ourselves as much as possible. This isn’t empty rhetoric. That report noted that real and widespread mental illness is caused by Progressivism. Don’t any gun-toting right-wingers out there think they are immune. You are definitely not and I’ve seen myself how insidious this infection is. It can infect even the most conservative families even if they are on guard against it.

My brother, as a helpful reminder, told me the Baseball All-star game was on last night. I didn’t tell him that, but fuck them. These dirt bags, in what we could call the Progressive Sports Complex, deserve none of your money or time. Don’t let your addiction to watching sports pull you into their perverse universe.

And, really, that’s how one needs to approach it. It doesn’t have to be a “me against the world” attitude. But considering how many people put such efforts into wearing useless face masks against a flu bug, shouldn’t we put in at least as much effort to keep out the mental illness of Progressivism?

I had no idea that the All-star game was last night. But I have cut back on TV, with re-runs of The Rockford Files being the main object of my viewership. 

I have not listened to talk radio, not even Mark Levin, since Rush Limbaugh died.  I occasionally listen to a classical music station, WRR, which is world class. 

I have been thinking about our "consuming" habits and we do not spend much money on anything other than food, keeping a roof over our head, general housekeeping and a tank or two of gasoline per month. I did buy a new trimmer for the yard. I felt guilty splurging, but it does make things easier, thus it is more likely I will work outside a bit. 

I like the looks of your weed trimmer. I’ve got a Ryobi one that looks similar to that. It’s a few years old. Battery life is pretty good (still…and still on the original battery). I just wish it had a tad more power. What size cutting blade is yours? I think they list it in diameter.

Mine has a 12” diameter max cutting area. It’s a line trimmer only. There are no plastic-blade add-ons which sounds useful. It’s fine for medium-thick grass or less. Anything thicker and you have to go slow and maybe go over a patch a couple times.

I was thinking of upgrading to a cordless lawnmower. But I just don’t have a good place to store it. I’ve been cutting my relatively small lawn with the string trimmer. And I was thinking than rather than a mower I could get a more powerful trimmer with a larger cutting area.

On mine, the battery provides the most power for perhaps the first 10 minutes or so. That’s when I use it to cut the thickest grass. And then it seems to kick down to another gear where it more or less stays until it runs dead.

My line trimmer works pretty much the same way.  Then again, I generally let the grass grow more than I should so I rarely cut grass which is not fairly thick. 

A funny think happened to me last week when I was edging the front yard. A neighbor from across the street came over with his, I believe, Ryobi trimmer. But his had a much larger battery and the blade was metal. He just zipped through the areas I was having a bit of trouble with.  After that we spoke for about a minute about his trimmer and then we got on to Roundup. (Whether or not I should use it on some grass between cracks in the sidewalk.) Once that subject came up he said it caused cancer and he fairly abruptly went back to his garage. 

In twenty years here, I have never spoken to the man other than a couple of times some 15-20 years back when I was going around trick-or-treating with my son. I have no idea why he came over to help. I will just take it as a kind deed. 

These are the type blades that came with my trimmer.  Although they said that one should use them to edge grass around sidewalks, I wanted to see how they worked. 



They are ok if you regularly edge around sidewalks and curbs. But if the grass has grown over the gap between lawn and sidewalk, you will probably take some seconds before you find the gap. In those seconds, you can see how the plastic blades are pretty quickly worn down by concrete. 

As far as a bit heavier grass they were fine. They are not meant for trimming any type of hedge. 

Here's another good comment from the Progressivism-drives-you-crazy article:

StubbornThings was spawned by this crazy idea that the semi-informed commoner had a better grasp of events than the so-called “elites.” Comments like this proved I was right:

He wore no mask, which was good. Many people here no longer wear masks. 




I haven't heard the term "weed-eater" for a long time. I like that better than "trimmer" as there are many types of trimmers, but a weed-eater is a specific type of machine. 

“Weed Eater” has become the generic term, at least around these parts. Some call them weed whackers. It would appear that Weed Eater still sells a brand of string trimmer.