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Post by timothylane on Jan 31, 2020 15:33:34 GMT -8
I hadn't realized there was a place where I could customize my Kindle (which is on my computer, not a separate device. I narrowed the right and left margins but left it the same otherwise. It gives the font as Georgia and won't let me change it, but it looks like what I see here so that's all right.
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Post by kungfuzu on Jan 31, 2020 15:37:48 GMT -8
I had to look up what that "Olivator" was. An olive stuffer? It is something to buy for some woman you do not think very much of. Or maybe for that dope-head friend you haven't seen for a few years. Great for snorting coke.
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Post by timothylane on Jan 31, 2020 15:39:09 GMT -8
Back around 1960 or so, MAD Magazine had an article on Russia that noted the people there lived on potatoes, vodka, and baloney. "They get the potatoes from the government-owned grocery stores, the vodka from the state-owned liquor stores, and the baloney from the state-owned newspapers."
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Post by Brad Nelson on Jan 31, 2020 16:28:04 GMT -8
I switched to Caeclia on my Kindle and barely saw a difference….which means it’s another highly-legible choice.
I also use the least amount of margin. I see no good reason to waste that space. I use the medium line spacing. But that or the largest (as you use) is the best.
I have (I noticed) the justification set to “justified” as opposed to “flush left.” Even so, that depends on whether the individual book supports it. My present book (Rabbit Run, which I have no interest in taking further) is presented flush-left even though the internal setting of the Kindle is for justified text.
If the type you’re using is small (and yours is smaller than mine), justified text will work just fine.
They’ve since made minor improvements, but that is an astonishing recognition. Basically Claude Garamond invented about everything that needed to be invented for typefaces back in the early 16th century. That may be a bit of an exaggeration, but not by much.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Jan 31, 2020 16:36:39 GMT -8
You probably don’t want to know what’s in Olivier loaf.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Jan 31, 2020 16:39:44 GMT -8
You know me. I say—Why change it? Georgia is supreme.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Jan 31, 2020 16:42:52 GMT -8
It looks to be some kind of gay device. But it could have something to do with stuffing olives, yes. Oh, goodness. That would be a stunning gift to get for one who is slightly-beloved, with lukewarm passion, on this upcoming Valentine’s Day.
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Post by timothylane on Jan 31, 2020 17:50:05 GMT -8
Well, I can see your point about Georgia. But never forget "Bowling Green" by the Everly Brothers (detailing the merits of Kentucky sunshine) and "Kentucky Rain" by Elvis Presley. Musically as well as physically, if you don't like Ohio valley weather, just wait a few minutes.
And of course there's "Houston" by Dean Martin and "Galveston" by Glen Campbell.
I don't know of any songs about Monterey, Alexandria, Kifissia, Fort Campbell (though "Last Train to Clarksville" by the Monkees comes close because it probably refers to the nearby city), or even Louisville.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Jan 31, 2020 18:43:22 GMT -8
I'm certainly a booster of this area (at least the non-libtard parts). But I doubt the bluest skies I've ever seen are in Seattle. But I have actually seen the sky in Seattle. But it's a rarity.
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Post by timothylane on Jan 31, 2020 19:47:06 GMT -8
Well, I assume the video portion of that is fairly recent, though I don't know when the Space Needle was put up. Good thing you don't live in Bremerton. But if you lived in Tacoma you could always use the famous footage of the collapse of the Tacoma Narrows bridge. It's straight video without sound, but still remarkable. The closest Louisville comes to that (as far as I know) is a few scenes from Goldfinger.
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Post by kungfuzu on Feb 10, 2020 11:04:33 GMT -8
I am creating links to a two-part piece in Taki Mag which clearly point out the moral-poverty (my words) of David Frenchism and its analogues in conservative publishing.
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Post by timothylane on Feb 10, 2020 11:59:24 GMT -8
Very interesting 2-part article. As it happens, I once received (I'm not sure why) a pamphlet by Philippe Rushton, who could be considered Peter Brimelow on steroids. Rushton argues that there is a continuum among human racial groups based on number of children. Cultures with fewer children devoted more effort to each child. Africans had more children to make up for all the random hazards of life in much of Africa. Oddly, the opposite is not whites but the eastern Asians, despite their fecund reputation. He looked at many statistics (including frequency of twinning as well as family sizes), and linked them to IQ. So of course he's attacked as racist even though his "superior race" is not his own.
Culture is especially important in a society that adopts multiculturalism. If the Hispanics, Muslims, and east Asians who came to America adopted our culture, there would be no problem except for genuine racists. But they don't anymore; they retain their own cultures, which have many characteristics (tolerance of rape and pedophilia, the Hispanic padrone system, Islamism) that are in fact highly undesirable and often even incompatible with Western civilization.
Conservatives used to accept this. Many praised The Camp of the Saints because they were aware of how accurately Raspail pointed out a threat to Western civilization that is in fact happening. But somewhere they ceased to accept that view and began tossing out those who held it. Mark Steyn was kicked out of NR for other reasons, in theory, but he also was very politically incorrect about invading cultures.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Feb 11, 2020 8:32:51 GMT -8
As far as I can see, many on the right respond like concerned parents. The baby is crying, therefore they need to understand why. They think they may need to console the baby or give the baby attention. They assume the baby is crying for a legitimate reason or else it wouldn’t be crying.
If told by the baby “I hate you, I hate you, I hate you,” the concerned parent of the right tries to figure out what he or she did wrong to cause the baby such angst. Surely the resolution must be a matter of coming together, a meeting of minds, of “reaching out” to the baby.
It never occurs to the parent to send the baby to his room without supper or even to spank the baby.
Culture and psychology are complex things. I’m not sure why the right has acquiesced and so allowed the inmates to run the asylum. But they have. They are afraid of taking concrete action to oppose the babies.
The babies themselves have learned to cry in unison to get what they want. They’re not going away. Their expectation is that they will get what they want if they pout long enough. Recent history has shown that they are correct in this assumption.
Is this moral weakness, cowardice, expedience, or just gullibility by the parents on the right? At the end of the day, they just can’t get motivated enough, for whatever reason, to provide real opposition to the babies. And the babies keep winning. All that is left is to redefine one’s views to better match those of the babies.
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Post by artraveler on Feb 11, 2020 8:44:57 GMT -8
And the babies keep winning. All that is left is to redefine one’s views to better match those of the babies. I think it is the Dr. Spock colic been going around for years. It seems the only cure is reality. |
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Post by timothylane on Feb 11, 2020 10:42:01 GMT -8
I think I quoted this at ST, but this is another place for this poem from (what else?) MAD Magazine:
Spock, Spock, the baby doc Leads a peace march down the block. Around him everywhere you look Are kids he messed up with his book.
Incidentally, Spock spoke at Purdue as the 1972 People's Party presidential candidate. A friend of mine and I thought about attending and munching on lettuce (which was being boycotted at the time). Perhaps it's just as well that we didn't. We know today how negative the reaction could be, and neither of us was a fast runner. (That friend was the one who introduced me to Ayn Rand, though it was shortly before Thanksgiving that year that I picked up Atlas Shrugged and read it over the holiday.)
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Post by Brad Nelson on Feb 13, 2020 8:46:16 GMT -8
It this was not so insipidly stupid, it would be worth a guffaw to see an article like this at National Review Online: What a Republican Climate-Change Agenda Might Look LikeYou do understand why I started StubbornThings way back when. It’s because I saw much more wisdom and knowledge in the comments section than I did in the articles written by the professional dolts like this one. I think this one commenter brilliantly assesses the situation perfectly from a scientific perspective: In other words, this is all pseudo-science and fraud. Another commenter does a great job slicing and dicing from the political/social perspective: There’s even the logical “Even if true” perspective: And in counterbalance, there’s the more direct “If true, why do they then oppose all the remedies that matter?” Despite the importance of this “climate change” scam, it’s still amusing to see the baloney they publish at NRO that passes for a serious article. It’s possible and desirable to reject the baloney of “climate change” even while offering an agenda of more nuclear, natural gas, and recycling strategies. You can do these things without accepting the false premises of the very people who are trying to destroy this country. |
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Post by kungfuzu on Feb 13, 2020 9:32:03 GMT -8
While there is no doubt leftists wish to push the "Climate Change" agenda for political reasons, we should understand that there are also monied interests helping it along. Al Gore has made hundreds of millions on this scam. I understand that there are a very large monied interest behind/supporting the Greta Thunberg character. I would not be at all surprised if the financiers behind NRO were somehow connected to interests which would profit from the USA buying into this nonsense.
The good news is that Americans are not buying this rubbish.
That being said, we must be on guard against a long-term PR campaign to soften up our resolve and brains in favor of the "Climate Change" fraud.
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Post by kungfuzu on Feb 13, 2020 10:11:00 GMT -8
Here is a commentary on the debased rag NRO, which supports what we have been writing about it for years. Taking money from Google and hiding it? Williamson the rabid dog
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Post by timothylane on Feb 13, 2020 10:17:23 GMT -8
This is atrocious. I don't think the maximum sentences for Stone's offenses would come to 50 years. It seems Williamson's TDS has really gotten the better of him. He's like a biased leftist who lets his own side off scot free for their crimes (such as James Crapper's pathological and frequent lying under oath) and makes up for it by throwing the book at those he disagrees with.
I would think that a grossly politically biased justice system would also violate Williamson's principles. But not when the target is a Trumper, obviously.
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Post by timothylane on Feb 13, 2020 10:47:47 GMT -8
Michael Gove may be a Tory, but he sounds like a typical watermelon -- green on the outside, red on the inside. (So does NRO, unfortunately. Their article never even considered the question of how much, if any, truth there actually is in the global warming aka climate change aka climate disruption alarmism.) Gove is very unhappy that Trump doesn't support the sort of government controls beloved of climate alarmists who use the issue as an excuse for taking over the economy. Never mind that the US has actually reduced carbon dioxide emissions more than most countries, likely including Britain, France, and Germany.
The responses to the NRO idiocy that Brad quoted were all quite good. The first showed exactly why I refer to the whole issue as a hoax. But the days when NR was willing to stand up to liberal/leftist orthodoxy seem to be all in the past. You don't get to go the best parties and "stand tall in Georgetown" by challenging them.
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