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Post by Brad Nelson on Feb 23, 2021 8:36:51 GMT -8
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Post by kungfuzu on Feb 23, 2021 9:27:12 GMT -8
Where has the guy been? I have been saying this stuff for decades. Now that we are inches from going over the cliff (I hope I am not just imagining we are still just on terra firma) McKay writes this piece.
I had a similar beef with Rush. Over the last couple of years, he started pointing out some hard facts which anyone with a brain should have known over twenty years ago. I guess its a case of "better late than never."
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Post by Brad Nelson on Feb 27, 2021 21:56:26 GMT -8
So true.
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Post by kungfuzu on Feb 28, 2021 17:02:05 GMT -8
The link is to another piece on this subject. I like it better than McKay's piece. I would say what Greenfield is taking about, but doesn't exactly say is that our elites are degenerate. Going Woke because they are going broke
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Post by Brad Nelson on Mar 1, 2021 8:53:00 GMT -8
Very interesting.
Again, interesting.
That’s a lot said in those two paragraphs.
I’m trying to remember if I’ve ever seen anyone order a salad at McDonald’s.
Maybe if he’d had affairs with male employees, it would be okay. But I thought that conservatives were supposed to be the sex police? If this guy is having an affair, it’s between him and his wife, not the board of directors.
No question that Greenfield goes into much more detail and offers much better analysis. McKay’s article was more or less just “Here’s the screwy news of the day.”
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Post by artraveler on Mar 2, 2021 8:07:09 GMT -8
McDonald’s, like a lot of traditional fast food places, is experiencing its own slow decline. The decline of McDonald's is deceptive. Over the last 40 years the company has grown, rewarded investors and employees, and expanded market share. Under ordinary examination this is a strong company producing a product the public desires and is willing to pay for. But that is not necessary the problem. McDonalds is the largest privately owned landholder in the nation. The company controls the leases and generally owns the land underneath every restaurant. A franchisee pays a 20year lease on the property and if they don't hold to the franchise agreement they lose their lease. It is the certainty of income from these leases that is really the core business of the company. In short, the company does not care what they sell or don't sell as long as the rent is paid. This indifference is the reason for the slow decline. They keep playing with the basic product. I believe when the menu expanded to so many products that the idea of a quality low priced meal went out the door. It is almost impossible to just order a hamburger, fri and drink without being assaulted by suggestions, almost demands, for upgrades. The same is true for most of their competors. They have taken a proven concept and perverted it into something it was never intended it to be. In short they have morphed from conservative to progressive and the conservative customer is saddened by the change. The progressive customer still hates the company and will continue to make absurd demands until it fails or someone says no, that is enough. I won't hold my breath waiting for that to happen.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Mar 2, 2021 8:40:13 GMT -8
The whole Coke thing brings to mind a saying: If some people didn’t virtue-signal, they’d have not virtue at all.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Mar 2, 2021 8:51:26 GMT -8
That’s interesting.
The low-price meal has certainly gone out the door.
Very interesting analysis. I’ve stated my view before. It’s a fancy description of “jaded.” But I now view most people as Donald Sutherland did in Invasion of the Body Snatchers. It used to appall me this idea that the Snowflakes have spread their destruction through the institutions (private or governmental) based on vapid wants and needs and then cried when it didn’t work out. Now I just observe them as you would monkeys in a zoo.
I’m fully aware that I’m built a bit different from most people. It’s sort of the Kung Factor which states: Anything I like will likely be gone in six months to a year. People are now caught in this trap of their own making. A client of mine just received his second of two Wuhan Flu shots. And then he said he was still worried about the variants that are arising. I told him “They aren’t ever going to let go of this.” He had no comment nor need he give one. I admittedly was speaking to a pod person. Nothing productive could have come from any further exchange. But sometimes I just have to remind myself of reality for my own sake.
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Post by artraveler on Mar 2, 2021 9:03:58 GMT -8
Now I just observe them as you would monkeys in a zoo. I concur, but these monkeys are dangerous as the gather in numbers and screech hysterically until they get their way. Rush used to talk about mind-numbed robots but I think that is an insult to robots. A robot cannot twist itself into the logic knots leftists do. Remember the core principle of leftism is "I love humanity, it's just people I hate".
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Post by kungfuzu on Mar 2, 2021 15:43:27 GMT -8
I tried, but couldn't find a music clip of the refrain from "Born Under a Bad Sign," to wit, "if it wasn't for bad luck, I wouldn't have no luck at all." With a little rearrangement, your words would fit.
Sadly, I see no reason to change my view of things.
Unfortunately, the monkeys have broken out of their enclosures. They are out slinging feces at the rest of us. Our choices are to run away, (but the gates of the zoo are locked) sling feces back at the monkeys, which may work on a temporary basis or get the monkeys back in their cages. Some of them may suffer serious injury when we do this, but better that than the rest of us devolving into monkeys. The left is proof that Darwinism is a fraud.
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Post by kungfuzu on Mar 2, 2021 16:03:35 GMT -8
Last week I was saying something similar to my friend who is in this business. He works for/is part owner of a company which has three new vaccines or vaccine delivery systems undergoing testing.
I said that the future must look bright for him as the pharmaceutical companies had a guaranteed market of about 7 billion people for just this year's KFF boondoggle. In addition, I was absolutely sure that henceforth, we will all be getting yearly vaccinations, as there would be some new variation or other. My friend didn't disagree with my statement.
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Post by artraveler on Mar 2, 2021 16:33:31 GMT -8
Vaccinations for truly horrible diseases are prudent, smallpox, typhoid, chickenpox measles and polio come to mind. These and a few others are proven killers and the risk of vaccination more than outweighs the risk of contacting the disease. In 72 years, almost 73 I have lived through at least 73 flu seasons and never had a flu shot. And, yes I've had flu several times, suffered for a few days, recovered and gone about my business none the worse for the experience. Never in all those years did I wear a mask, or even think one might be necessary.
People die for a lot of reasons, some simple and others complex, but to ascribe nearly every death over the last years a KFF caused is the hight of absurdity. We have talked a lot about the cost of KFF to the economy but there is another cost. The cost to the integrity of healthcare providers. A small lie--did mr. X die of covid or condition or disease unrelated to it? The yes answer yields additional money for the hospital, doctor, nurses and in some cases even the family. So, when asked an ME is likely to say, "well his heart stopped working, normally it would be called heart attack, but this year in is a condition caused by KFF". The lie stands as truth and another death is cataloged incorrectly.
I have not seen the numbers for 2020 but I would be willing to bet deaths from everything not directly tied to respiratory conditions went down even among those over 70. If so, the argument can be made from the stats that KFF actually saved lives. A tautology I know but we could convince Andrew Coumo.
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Post by kungfuzu on Mar 2, 2021 20:13:35 GMT -8
Last week I read that there have been only 165 cases (I blv that was the number) of flu cases in the USA this flu season. Yesterday or Sunday, I read that Singapore has had 0 cases of flu this season. I understand similar ridiculous numbers have been reported around the world.
This is absolute nonsense at best, but it is more likely historic mendacity. One thing I do believe this shows is that the medical industry has been lying to us for decades. They haven't actually been performing lab tests on millions of people who died over the years. They have simply used "symptoms" to ascribe a name as cause of death. Got a headache, fever, cough and muscle ache? Before 2020 that was the flu.
I would bet that over the last year everything from the flu, mumps, typhoid, typus, black water fever and smallpox (to name a few) has been called the KFF.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Mar 4, 2021 10:48:04 GMT -8
We need a more accurate term than “homeless.” Yesterday morning I found a guy sleeping in the upper tier of my parking lot. This was right next to a fairly busy driveway that leads to some condos just down the road. He was basically just about right on the edge of the road, right out in the open. He had laid a few terrycloth towels on the asphalt underneath his bag. And he did have a very nice sleeping bag, one that top mountain climbers use when they pitch camp on the face of a mountain during an extended climb. He looked like he’d been decked out in the best that Dick’s Sporting Goods has to offer. It was some kind of coffin-like zip-up sleeping bag that looked to be a very nice one. It would have been a less strange sight if the guy had been covered in an old, smelly coat or even some newspapers. But to see a “homeless” person who obviously had a well thought-out system for sleeping wherever he wanted, “homeless” doesn’t see to be a term that applies. He’s just stealing acreage wherever he chooses. So what’s his story? What’s going on here? This clearly, to my eye, seemed to have nothing to do with being a victim of capitalism. This seemed completely like a lifestyle choice. And it chafes my bum to have the feel-good euphemism of “homeless” attributed to people, many of whom obviously are without a permanent home by choice.
And, of course, this bum left the terrycloth towels for me to dispose of. "My world is my garbage bag." That seems to be their attitude.
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Post by kungfuzu on Mar 4, 2021 15:49:21 GMT -8
I like the old-fashioned term "bum."
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Post by artraveler on Mar 4, 2021 16:29:03 GMT -8
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Post by Brad Nelson on Mar 8, 2021 10:20:42 GMT -8
It might be good to read a good book on the subject, whether fiction or non-fiction. But I would certainly have said beforehand that I believed there were various degrees of “bumness.” There must be the type who enjoy the on-the-road lifestyle, perhaps initially driven by necessity to find work and later adapting (perhaps too well) to this lifestyle.
It’s 11:00 pm last night and I’m watching something on the TV when I hear someone knocking on the door. I know it has to be a bum. It was. It was some guy asking if so-and-so was there. No. Well then, is so-and-so there? No. Then it was something like “Do you know where the green light is?” I told him it was across the street and that’s where he then headed.
I can see the glamour of hitching a ride on a train and going wherever whim takes you. This isn’t a question of objecting to lifestyle. It’s objecting to the trespassing and the trash that is left behind.
Wasn’t there a good movie where Ernest Borgnine plays one of the enforcers on the railroad? They could be very harsh in how they dealt with trespassers.
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Post by kungfuzu on Mar 8, 2021 11:16:00 GMT -8
There was a tradition of this type of man in the U.K. I believe it has pretty well died out.
That is very strange. You have more patience and guts than I do. If I opened the door at that time of night, I would have a pistol in my hand.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Mar 8, 2021 14:17:21 GMT -8
Patience would be applicable regarding someone from this planet. But this guy was obviously on drugs or burnt out from drugs. Getting angry at him would be like getting angry at your dog for shedding hair.
See how “the compassionate society” has actually dehumanized people? Not me. I mean that they’ve helped turn this guy into a zombie.
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Post by kungfuzu on Apr 8, 2021 9:01:24 GMT -8
A very good reason to avoid United Airlines, before their planes start falling out of the sky. Fly the PC skies of United Lysenkoism is taking over America. Qualifications are no longer the prime reason for hiring people. This has led to a degradation of standards across all realms. This lack of expertise has created a situation where anyone can claim to have a serious opinion on anything, from brain surgery to astrophysics. Appearance has become more important that content. This is why the Chinese are kicking our gaining on us very fast. They can bullshit with the best of them, but they know when they are bullshitting and when they aren't. We should remember, during the Cultural Revolution which the country was in a complete mess, Mao made sure that the nonsense didn't touch their nuclear-weapons program.
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