Shine some light and watch the bugs scurry for cover
January 14, 2017 at 9:33 pm
WayneM
To misquote Chief Brody from Jaws… “We’re gonna need a bigger light.”
If you want to get an idea of how big of a light, watch Stefan Molyneux’s recent video on McCarthyism… It’s long but well worth the view.
January 14, 2017 at 9:37 pm
Old Codger
I read somewhere that Soros bet big that the stock market was gonna tank when Trump was elected and stood to make back everything he spent on various campaigns and initiatives this year. Unfortunately (for Soros) after Trump won the stock market took off and Georgie boy lost $MILLIONS! LOL Could it happen to a MORE deserving person? I don’t see how.
Yes, I saw that. I know a financial analyst who predicted the surge in the markets weeks before it happened. Fortunately, I have better sense than to post his name where Soros the Shitbag might see it. We don’t want that person to get any bright ideas, do we, now?
January 15, 2017 at 9:32 am
Brasspounder
Learning that Sonderkommando Soros took it in the shorts was among the many things about the recent election that made me smile.
That is either brilliant market snark or yoogely serendipitous phrasing.
Either way, funny as hell. 🙂
January 14, 2017 at 9:39 pm
Southpaw
Day By Day joke for the day:
Q: Why is it so difficult to go out to dinner with Elizabeth Warren?
A: Because she always needs a reservation.
January 15, 2017 at 8:22 am
noncom
I heard she went to a psychiatrist and told him “Sometimes I feel like a teepee and sometimes I feel like a wigwam”….he told her to relax, she was two tents….
January 15, 2017 at 12:39 pm
Old Codger
That joke was sheepish. it was baaaaaaad.
January 14, 2017 at 9:55 pm
Heltau
What is this deep state that you talk about in this episode?
And who is part of this deep state?
January 14, 2017 at 11:23 pm
eon
It’s right there in panel # 6. The permanent, largely unelected Ruling Class which Angelo Codevilla describes here;
I will say this about the Tim Kreider article. Having read Jennifer Finney Boylan’s book, She’s Not There: A Life In Two Genders, I’m quite sure I could enjoy spending an afternoon chatting with Prof. Boylan a lot more than I could tolerate spending five minute listening to Tim Krieder rant about everybody he wants dead.
Including me and pretty much everyone here.
clear ether
eon
January 15, 2017 at 4:21 pm
WayneM
Thanks for the links, eon.
People like Tim Kreider are the backbone of the progressive movement, the useful idiots who do not recognize their cultural marxism and who blindly hate anyone who disagree with the tenets of their cult.
January 14, 2017 at 11:50 pm
silvergreycat
Mike Lofgren offers an explanation…
*…a disconnected, self-serving bureaucracy that is … simply evolving to do what it’s doing now. That is, to maintain and enhance its own power.
…The key institutions are exactly what people would think they are. The military-industrial complex; the Pentagon and all their contractors (but also, now, our entire homeland security apparatus); the Department of Treasury; the Justice Department; certain courts, like the southern district of Manhattan, and the eastern district of Virginia; the FISA courts. And you got this kind of rump Congress that consists of certain people in the leadership, defense and intelligence committees who kind of know what’s going on. The rest of Congress doesn’t really know or care; they’re too busy looking about the next election.
…You’ve got Wall Street. Many of these people — whether it is David Petraeus … or someone like [Bill] Daley, who is the former chief of staff to President Obama … or Hank Paulson, who came from Goldman Sachs to become Treasury Secretary and bailed out Wall Street in 2008; or the people that Obama chose to be Treasury secretary — like Tim Geithner. They all have that Wall Street connection.
And the third thing now is Silicon Valley…Because they generate so much money that they are rivaling and sometimes surpassing Wall Street. The heads of Google or Apple make more money than the guys running Wall Street…But it also has access to an unfathomable amount of
information.*
They are the same people who during a budget crisis will cut back on services that the public uses everyday. The employees who do the work there are sent home on paid leave but are told they won’t be paid in hopes they’ll go raise hell to the media.
The goal is to get the people so upset that they’ll demand anything be done to end the crisis… Like raise taxes.
Once the crisis is over and taxes are raised not all of those services are brought back. The politicians have a windfall of new money to steal.
January 15, 2017 at 12:56 pm
Old Codger
All bureaucracy is both disconnected and utterly self-serving. A wise man I know says, “Those who can,do. Those who cannot go into civil service so they don’t have to.” He has also been known to ask, “When have you known a civil servant who was either?”
January 14, 2017 at 10:13 pm
Craig
What is he holding, what’s the huge reference, help! 🙂
January 14, 2017 at 10:18 pm
Chris Muir
It’s a cable for internet connection.
January 15, 2017 at 4:37 am
Bill
Damn and here I thought that was just a Yuge suppository…..
January 15, 2017 at 5:36 am
Lucius Severus Pertinax
Git ‘er Done!
January 14, 2017 at 10:20 pm
Th3o
Just a guess but isn’t that a cable plug (internet)(power source) in his hand?
January 14, 2017 at 10:27 pm
Steve_1066
Coax cable is what is being held, indicating connection to the Internet. Internet is also ‘Twitter’ which is without a gate keeper. Ronald Reagan had to ask for ‘Air Time’ from the Broadcast Networks, Donald Trump, with the Internet does not need them or their permission!
Aha! Pure freedom of speech, expression and information!
Ain’t it just grand??
January 15, 2017 at 7:59 am
GWB
It’s like Gutenberg all over again!
January 15, 2017 at 8:00 am
Randy
And to top it off (the true freedom part) each American gets to filter “The Donald” as they see fit. The MSM would throw fits when he’d unleash a tweet and start spinning him as an extremist. Many took Donald Trump “literally, but not seriously,” while most of Trump’s supporters took him “seriously, but not literally.” If you don’t like the new Pres change the channel, that’s what I’ve been doing the last 8+ years 😉
January 15, 2017 at 12:13 pm
Pamela
In a pinch coaxial cable can be used to tie someone up or fashion into a noose. In a round about way I guess you can call it the instrument to shine freedom’s torchlight into all the dark places.
But seriously… even I know there are times (too many as of late) where business MUST be taken care of before we can sit back and enjoy the wonderful “eye candy” that Mr. Muir blesses us with from time to time.
January 15, 2017 at 4:39 am
Bill
It’s there you just have to read the strip backwards
January 15, 2017 at 6:39 am
Bill G
And played at 78.
(Yeah, I’m old enough to remember.)
January 15, 2017 at 2:43 pm
MasterDiver
With a diamond stylus, on a counter-balanced tone arm!
Zar Belk!
January 14, 2017 at 11:06 pm
LifeofTheMind
Twitter Facebook and Wikipedia are all purging opponents of the Deep State.
It is no longer a matter of subtle maneuvering. The Deep State is the self regulating and renewing perpetual government, the American version of the Soviet “nomenklatura,” who are embeded in the Civil Service but have allies in other institutions. It was the Deep State that attempted a coup d’etat against Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin.
January 14, 2017 at 11:39 pm
NotYetInACamp
Like i said, Disqus has purged me again.
January 14, 2017 at 11:35 pm
NotYetInACamp
Paul Ryan is part and parcel with all of those who did not want Trump to make it to the dance.
Dance and leave with those who brung you, Donald. That ensures no knives in the back and front.
You are American. Unlike the Deep State.
January 14, 2017 at 11:43 pm
Pamela
Gibbs’ Rule #9: Never go anywhere without a knife.
Trump had better know how to handle one already.
Always be able to cover your own back.
If he already carries, it will be interesting to see if he goes shooting to stay accurate with his security detail at a secure range.
It will be different to have a President that can defend himself and those around him if the need arises.
January 15, 2017 at 6:42 am
Bill G
The Donald had no trouble getting his NYC carry permit.
And his level of money and connections are the basic requirement for it, being a May Issue jurisdiction.
January 15, 2017 at 10:52 am
Corvette
Pamela that’s it, can’t hold it in any more. You love real men and love loving them. You are smart, poetic, great sense of humor, love guns, cars and being a little bit naughty from time to time. And, now you are quoting Gibb’s rules.
That’s it, I declare you to be a Unicorn. (Google utube for the Hot Crazy Matrix). Hubby is one lucky guy.
Corvette
January 15, 2017 at 12:44 pm
Pamela
I thank you Good Sir. I consider myself to be an ordinary woman with an insatiable zest for life.
Oh, dude…all them points you earned in comment one I fear you lost at about 2:35 in comment two’s link.
The danger zone is strippers, Tiffany’s, hairdressers…and redheads?
Or maybe this is a test; if you and the Matrix geek are correct, you might find a rabbit in your pot after Miz P checks it out. 😉
January 15, 2017 at 12:28 pm
Corvette
JTC, I hope I don’t loose too many points, I did say the magnificent Ms P has a good sense of humor. And, this is DBD, the king of satire and humor. For the record, Sam, Jan and the rest of the ladies (well except Skye) are also Unicorns.
Good thing too, what’s the other thing they said the Crazy Ones do? Something about keying your car?
Better hide that ‘Vette just to keep it safe too.
January 15, 2017 at 12:40 pm
Pamela
Never cared for the taste of boiled rabbit. They are better roasted on a spit over a campfire after catching it in a snare.
January 15, 2017 at 12:35 pm
Pamela
They summed it up accurately and the vectors make sense.
Poor man must have met the wrong redhead (color had to come out of a box).
January 15, 2017 at 12:45 pm
Corvette
Pamela, just for full disclosure, I met my red head in 1978, married her in 1983 and she is still my wife having raised two wonderful children. Not all red heads are above the Hot/Crazy line, heck look at Sam.
corvette
Corvette
January 15, 2017 at 5:49 pm
Chris Muir
Not a dating site.
January 15, 2017 at 4:23 am
Doc Nova
Heard a good quote a couple of weeks ago that was attributed to someone close to DJT. Sorry I can’t remember the specific source, but it goes something like this:
“Donald will not only dance with the one who brung him; he’ll also dance all night and then go make out in the limo afterwards.”
January 15, 2017 at 1:24 pm
Old Codger
Knives are why I have my own version of the “keep your friends close” maxim. The “kill zone” (the distance from which someone can kill you and you cannot stop them by shooting. The kill zone for a knife is 7 yards. If a person holding a knife is 7 yards or closer and you have not already drawn your sidearm, you are already as good as stabbed. From a standing start the average person can cover 7 yards in 1.3 seconds. The average person requires 1.5 seconds to draw and fire. That means the attacker can have his knife buried in your gut a 5th of a second BEFORE you can shoot him. That’s why I say “Keep your friends close. Keep your enemies at 7 yards.”
January 15, 2017 at 3:31 pm
eon
On duty, I always carried at least two knives as close-quarter weapons in addition to my sidearm, second, and concealment pistol. (.45 ACP or 10mm, .38 Spl or .357 Mag., and .32 ACP or 9 x 18 respectively, depending on the year in question.)
In a knife fight, you’re going to get cut. The trick is to cut the attacker worse.
BTW, Hollywood, Hong Kong, and etc. to the contrary, most knife engagements are over and done in under three seconds. By that time, somebody has received at least a debilitating, if not lethal injury.
Make sure it isn’t you.
clear ether
eon
January 15, 2017 at 5:26 pm
Pamela
I carry two, plus a few other implements. One of the Cops I dated many moons ago got friendly and found the knife I carried on my thigh. Only thing he said was remind me not to ever piss you off.
Knife or not, if a BG gets into your “personal zone”, let’s say 2 yards, he’s arguably already too close for sidearm defense even if you’ve already drawn. I heard that defense scenario expressed as,
“…at that point YOU don’t have a gun, Y’ALL have a gun.”
And that gun becomes as potentially lethal to you as to him. That little factoid should be a critical component of your Situational Awareness thought and preparedness mindset.
January 14, 2017 at 11:39 pm
Pamela
You just need to know the Vectors to make a change.
So what do the Black P’s, Lennon, Brown, and Dr. Laura…and every one of those “entities” that somebody (who is it?) lists for DT, have in common?
They all say “Power to the People”. But they all got it dead wrong. And that’s how they got into such a “Deep State” of chaos and defeat.
It’s Power *from* the People. People Power. That’s the natural flow.
And now somebody understands that. Whoever is talking to The Donald understands (who is it???), knows that he loves the light…and that he is a master of disseminating it through that cable to a whole world of deplorables.
The host here knows it too…this “toon” is a work of art and perception.
POWER FROM THE PEOPLE BABY! Yeah, that’s the ticket, and the ticket is us.
January 15, 2017 at 1:56 pm
Old Codger
Because all compliance is voluntary, all government derives its power (“just” or otherwise) from the consent of the governed. Kings George III and Louis XVI found out what happens when too many of the governed withdraw their consent. Governments create nothing. They have no wealth save that which the governed consent to contribute. They have no power save that voluntarily ceded them. Governments are subject to the principle that the ratio of rulers to ruled always favors the ruled. If sufficient numbers of the governed withdraw their consent governments fall. And the number withdrawing their consent need not be a majority. By the end of the American Revolution, more colonists were fighting FOR the redcoats than against them.
The whole raison d’ etere of the “power to the people” mantra is to purchase that voluntary compliance; it has been (and continues to be for certain large swaths of those people), extremely successful.
But other large swaths have discovered -or rather rediscovered- that their compliance is purchased with what was already theirs and was stolen from them. Prayers that it is enough, and that it is not already too late.
So what you all are saying is that the Deep State took for granted its own false superiority, and assumed that it would hold the reins forever, but NOT any more? Is that correct?
They must be terribly frightened of companies like Amazon, who monitor digital rights for people who publish through them. Must scare the crap out of them. I knew Amazon was the best choice. Glad I went with them.
January 15, 2017 at 2:08 am
Pete 231
“Just because I’m paranoid, it doesn’t mean they’re not out to get me.” -John Malkovich-
I’m thinking that The Donald already has people in place. This man did not get to where he is without some SERIOUS “people in place” to do what needs to be done. Praise God for a man such as I see him to be. There are all those who think Ovomit will “declare martial law during the inauguration”, etc, but I’m betting the purge will be what it must be. *AHEM* 😉
January 15, 2017 at 11:44 am
PaulS
Aren’t they trying to organize a Million Moron March for inauguration day? This really is becoming quite entertaining. We just need to keep laughing at them, they really hate that.
January 15, 2017 at 1:00 pm
Pamela
If the protestors decide to get bat shit crazy and riot instead of peacefully protest, pull one from the history books and use water cannons on them for crowd control. The US Navy used them in Lebanon to keep the docks and the port open in 1958 when their civil war erupted.
Michael Crichton, in his book ‘State of Fear’ had a character wandering around claiming that the Military-Industrial Complex had been replaced by the Iron Triangle, a coalition of Big Government, Big Business and Big Media. It’s purpose was to maintain the population in a state of fear so that more and more power could be accrued by these groups.
In the book he totally dissed the AGW folks as scammers.
For a read of his own viewpoint he posted this: http://www.michaelcrichton.com/state-of-fear-authors-message/
Scammers? No, really?!? Yes, just follow the grant money. Remember that George Mason Univ prof who wanted ‘climate deniers’ prosecuted under the RICO Act last year? And that flopped, so he’s being investigate for conning 19 people into signing his begging letter/ An it all revolved around the grant money he was getting, close to $4 million/yr. That’s a lotta cash to lose, isn’t it?
Just follow the cash trail, people. Follow the money.
January 15, 2017 at 12:06 pm
Michael Thayer
I;m old enough to remember Reagan telling congress that if they wouldn’t approve his initiatives, he’d just take them to the people though the media. It worked them, and it will work now. Keep tweeting Mr. Trump.
January 15, 2017 at 12:49 pm
JCTPatriot
Stay fightin’ mad, people. I kept everyone fired up during the election cycle, but I see the complacency already setting in. “Trump will fix it.” is the new rallying cry, but that isn’t true. If we don’t stay fightin’ mad, they’ll just go back to doing what they’ve always done.
January 15, 2017 at 1:59 pm
Old Codger
“Follow the money.” Deep Throat definitely knew whereof he spoke.
January 15, 2017 at 6:12 pm
John
And remember, your hero Trump _came_ from the Deep State. He’s got lots of friends from there and his enemies are arguing from envy not principle (for they have none).
January 15, 2017 at 1:39 pm
CaptDMO
TRUMP USES TWITTER!
Threat to National Security cited.
OBAMA PENS ELEVENTH HOUR NSA RELEASE DEAL!
Known security colanders, fake news, enemies of the State, rejoice!
January 15, 2017 at 5:34 pm
Pamela
Anyone care to take a bet?
That the leaks are going to stop and Clandestine Services lips are going to be tighter than a virgin spinster’s knees and knickers during Fleet Week.
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Shine some light and watch the bugs scurry for cover
To misquote Chief Brody from Jaws… “We’re gonna need a bigger light.”
If you want to get an idea of how big of a light, watch Stefan Molyneux’s recent video on McCarthyism… It’s long but well worth the view.
I read somewhere that Soros bet big that the stock market was gonna tank when Trump was elected and stood to make back everything he spent on various campaigns and initiatives this year. Unfortunately (for Soros) after Trump won the stock market took off and Georgie boy lost $MILLIONS! LOL Could it happen to a MORE deserving person? I don’t see how.
Lost about $1 billion.
Yes, I saw that. I know a financial analyst who predicted the surge in the markets weeks before it happened. Fortunately, I have better sense than to post his name where Soros the Shitbag might see it. We don’t want that person to get any bright ideas, do we, now?
Learning that Sonderkommando Soros took it in the shorts was among the many things about the recent election that made me smile.
“Soros took it in the shorts”
That is either brilliant market snark or yoogely serendipitous phrasing.
Either way, funny as hell. 🙂
Day By Day joke for the day:
Q: Why is it so difficult to go out to dinner with Elizabeth Warren?
A: Because she always needs a reservation.
I heard she went to a psychiatrist and told him “Sometimes I feel like a teepee and sometimes I feel like a wigwam”….he told her to relax, she was two tents….
That joke was sheepish. it was baaaaaaad.
What is this deep state that you talk about in this episode?
And who is part of this deep state?
It’s right there in panel # 6. The permanent, largely unelected Ruling Class which Angelo Codevilla describes here;
https://spectator.org/39326_americas-ruling-class-and-perils-revolution/
BTW, said ruling class is now seriously pissed at about 68,000,000 Americans;
http://theweek.com/articles/670637/love-america-americans-hate
I will say this about the Tim Kreider article. Having read Jennifer Finney Boylan’s book, She’s Not There: A Life In Two Genders, I’m quite sure I could enjoy spending an afternoon chatting with Prof. Boylan a lot more than I could tolerate spending five minute listening to Tim Krieder rant about everybody he wants dead.
Including me and pretty much everyone here.
clear ether
eon
Thanks for the links, eon.
People like Tim Kreider are the backbone of the progressive movement, the useful idiots who do not recognize their cultural marxism and who blindly hate anyone who disagree with the tenets of their cult.
Mike Lofgren offers an explanation…
*…a disconnected, self-serving bureaucracy that is … simply evolving to do what it’s doing now. That is, to maintain and enhance its own power.
…The key institutions are exactly what people would think they are. The military-industrial complex; the Pentagon and all their contractors (but also, now, our entire homeland security apparatus); the Department of Treasury; the Justice Department; certain courts, like the southern district of Manhattan, and the eastern district of Virginia; the FISA courts. And you got this kind of rump Congress that consists of certain people in the leadership, defense and intelligence committees who kind of know what’s going on. The rest of Congress doesn’t really know or care; they’re too busy looking about the next election.
…You’ve got Wall Street. Many of these people — whether it is David Petraeus … or someone like [Bill] Daley, who is the former chief of staff to President Obama … or Hank Paulson, who came from Goldman Sachs to become Treasury Secretary and bailed out Wall Street in 2008; or the people that Obama chose to be Treasury secretary — like Tim Geithner. They all have that Wall Street connection.
And the third thing now is Silicon Valley…Because they generate so much money that they are rivaling and sometimes surpassing Wall Street. The heads of Google or Apple make more money than the guys running Wall Street…But it also has access to an unfathomable amount of
information.*
source… http://www.mikelofgren.net/deep-state-interview/
I’ll add a little to Silver’s post here.
They are the same people who during a budget crisis will cut back on services that the public uses everyday. The employees who do the work there are sent home on paid leave but are told they won’t be paid in hopes they’ll go raise hell to the media.
The goal is to get the people so upset that they’ll demand anything be done to end the crisis… Like raise taxes.
Once the crisis is over and taxes are raised not all of those services are brought back. The politicians have a windfall of new money to steal.
All bureaucracy is both disconnected and utterly self-serving. A wise man I know says, “Those who can,do. Those who cannot go into civil service so they don’t have to.” He has also been known to ask, “When have you known a civil servant who was either?”
What is he holding, what’s the huge reference, help! 🙂
It’s a cable for internet connection.
Damn and here I thought that was just a Yuge suppository…..
Git ‘er Done!
Just a guess but isn’t that a cable plug (internet)(power source) in his hand?
Coax cable is what is being held, indicating connection to the Internet. Internet is also ‘Twitter’ which is without a gate keeper. Ronald Reagan had to ask for ‘Air Time’ from the Broadcast Networks, Donald Trump, with the Internet does not need them or their permission!
Aha! Pure freedom of speech, expression and information!
Ain’t it just grand??
It’s like Gutenberg all over again!
And to top it off (the true freedom part) each American gets to filter “The Donald” as they see fit. The MSM would throw fits when he’d unleash a tweet and start spinning him as an extremist. Many took Donald Trump “literally, but not seriously,” while most of Trump’s supporters took him “seriously, but not literally.” If you don’t like the new Pres change the channel, that’s what I’ve been doing the last 8+ years 😉
In a pinch coaxial cable can be used to tie someone up or fashion into a noose. In a round about way I guess you can call it the instrument to shine freedom’s torchlight into all the dark places.
Oh, Twitter has a gatekeeper all right — just ask Milo Yiannopoulos. And in fact Twitter has already censored candidate Trump (http://www.infowars.com/proof-twitter-is-censoring-donald-trump-to-block-fundraising-efforts/). But they won’t dare censor President Trump.
Thanks everybody!
Well, I guess it can’t be T&A EVERY panel…
Awwwwwww!!
But seriously… even I know there are times (too many as of late) where business MUST be taken care of before we can sit back and enjoy the wonderful “eye candy” that Mr. Muir blesses us with from time to time.
It’s there you just have to read the strip backwards
And played at 78.
(Yeah, I’m old enough to remember.)
With a diamond stylus, on a counter-balanced tone arm!
Zar Belk!
Twitter Facebook and Wikipedia are all purging opponents of the Deep State.
It is no longer a matter of subtle maneuvering. The Deep State is the self regulating and renewing perpetual government, the American version of the Soviet “nomenklatura,” who are embeded in the Civil Service but have allies in other institutions. It was the Deep State that attempted a coup d’etat against Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin.
Like i said, Disqus has purged me again.
Paul Ryan is part and parcel with all of those who did not want Trump to make it to the dance.
Dance and leave with those who brung you, Donald. That ensures no knives in the back and front.
You are American. Unlike the Deep State.
Gibbs’ Rule #9: Never go anywhere without a knife.
Trump had better know how to handle one already.
Always be able to cover your own back.
I have heard that he carries.
This is an interesting addition, possibly.
https://www.infowarsstore.com/citizen-armor-shtf-tactical-xpc-vest.html
The pad is also good for kid’s backpacks.
If he already carries, it will be interesting to see if he goes shooting to stay accurate with his security detail at a secure range.
It will be different to have a President that can defend himself and those around him if the need arises.
The Donald had no trouble getting his NYC carry permit.
And his level of money and connections are the basic requirement for it, being a May Issue jurisdiction.
Pamela that’s it, can’t hold it in any more. You love real men and love loving them. You are smart, poetic, great sense of humor, love guns, cars and being a little bit naughty from time to time. And, now you are quoting Gibb’s rules.
That’s it, I declare you to be a Unicorn. (Google utube for the Hot Crazy Matrix). Hubby is one lucky guy.
Corvette
I thank you Good Sir. I consider myself to be an ordinary woman with an insatiable zest for life.
P.S. I have never keyed a car or slashed tires.
Corvette got it right!
Universal Hot Crazy Matrix link.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hKWmFWRVLlU
(Hope I did this link right)
Corvette
Oh, dude…all them points you earned in comment one I fear you lost at about 2:35 in comment two’s link.
The danger zone is strippers, Tiffany’s, hairdressers…and redheads?
Or maybe this is a test; if you and the Matrix geek are correct, you might find a rabbit in your pot after Miz P checks it out. 😉
JTC, I hope I don’t loose too many points, I did say the magnificent Ms P has a good sense of humor. And, this is DBD, the king of satire and humor. For the record, Sam, Jan and the rest of the ladies (well except Skye) are also Unicorns.
Thanks for warning me of the potential danger.
Corvette
You’re right, her humor will keep you safe.
Good thing too, what’s the other thing they said the Crazy Ones do? Something about keying your car?
Better hide that ‘Vette just to keep it safe too.
Never cared for the taste of boiled rabbit. They are better roasted on a spit over a campfire after catching it in a snare.
They summed it up accurately and the vectors make sense.
Poor man must have met the wrong redhead (color had to come out of a box).
Pamela, just for full disclosure, I met my red head in 1978, married her in 1983 and she is still my wife having raised two wonderful children. Not all red heads are above the Hot/Crazy line, heck look at Sam.
corvette
Corvette
Not a dating site.
Heard a good quote a couple of weeks ago that was attributed to someone close to DJT. Sorry I can’t remember the specific source, but it goes something like this:
“Donald will not only dance with the one who brung him; he’ll also dance all night and then go make out in the limo afterwards.”
Knives are why I have my own version of the “keep your friends close” maxim. The “kill zone” (the distance from which someone can kill you and you cannot stop them by shooting. The kill zone for a knife is 7 yards. If a person holding a knife is 7 yards or closer and you have not already drawn your sidearm, you are already as good as stabbed. From a standing start the average person can cover 7 yards in 1.3 seconds. The average person requires 1.5 seconds to draw and fire. That means the attacker can have his knife buried in your gut a 5th of a second BEFORE you can shoot him. That’s why I say “Keep your friends close. Keep your enemies at 7 yards.”
On duty, I always carried at least two knives as close-quarter weapons in addition to my sidearm, second, and concealment pistol. (.45 ACP or 10mm, .38 Spl or .357 Mag., and .32 ACP or 9 x 18 respectively, depending on the year in question.)
In a knife fight, you’re going to get cut. The trick is to cut the attacker worse.
BTW, Hollywood, Hong Kong, and etc. to the contrary, most knife engagements are over and done in under three seconds. By that time, somebody has received at least a debilitating, if not lethal injury.
Make sure it isn’t you.
clear ether
eon
I carry two, plus a few other implements. One of the Cops I dated many moons ago got friendly and found the knife I carried on my thigh. Only thing he said was remind me not to ever piss you off.
Knife or not, if a BG gets into your “personal zone”, let’s say 2 yards, he’s arguably already too close for sidearm defense even if you’ve already drawn. I heard that defense scenario expressed as,
“…at that point YOU don’t have a gun, Y’ALL have a gun.”
And that gun becomes as potentially lethal to you as to him. That little factoid should be a critical component of your Situational Awareness thought and preparedness mindset.
You just need to know the Vectors to make a change.
So what do the Black P’s, Lennon, Brown, and Dr. Laura…and every one of those “entities” that somebody (who is it?) lists for DT, have in common?
They all say “Power to the People”. But they all got it dead wrong. And that’s how they got into such a “Deep State” of chaos and defeat.
It’s Power *from* the People. People Power. That’s the natural flow.
And now somebody understands that. Whoever is talking to The Donald understands (who is it???), knows that he loves the light…and that he is a master of disseminating it through that cable to a whole world of deplorables.
The host here knows it too…this “toon” is a work of art and perception.
POWER FROM THE PEOPLE BABY! Yeah, that’s the ticket, and the ticket is us.
Because all compliance is voluntary, all government derives its power (“just” or otherwise) from the consent of the governed. Kings George III and Louis XVI found out what happens when too many of the governed withdraw their consent. Governments create nothing. They have no wealth save that which the governed consent to contribute. They have no power save that voluntarily ceded them. Governments are subject to the principle that the ratio of rulers to ruled always favors the ruled. If sufficient numbers of the governed withdraw their consent governments fall. And the number withdrawing their consent need not be a majority. By the end of the American Revolution, more colonists were fighting FOR the redcoats than against them.
The whole raison d’ etere of the “power to the people” mantra is to purchase that voluntary compliance; it has been (and continues to be for certain large swaths of those people), extremely successful.
But other large swaths have discovered -or rather rediscovered- that their compliance is purchased with what was already theirs and was stolen from them. Prayers that it is enough, and that it is not already too late.
So what you all are saying is that the Deep State took for granted its own false superiority, and assumed that it would hold the reins forever, but NOT any more? Is that correct?
They must be terribly frightened of companies like Amazon, who monitor digital rights for people who publish through them. Must scare the crap out of them. I knew Amazon was the best choice. Glad I went with them.
“Just because I’m paranoid, it doesn’t mean they’re not out to get me.” -John Malkovich-
I’m thinking that The Donald already has people in place. This man did not get to where he is without some SERIOUS “people in place” to do what needs to be done. Praise God for a man such as I see him to be. There are all those who think Ovomit will “declare martial law during the inauguration”, etc, but I’m betting the purge will be what it must be. *AHEM* 😉
Aren’t they trying to organize a Million Moron March for inauguration day? This really is becoming quite entertaining. We just need to keep laughing at them, they really hate that.
If the protestors decide to get bat shit crazy and riot instead of peacefully protest, pull one from the history books and use water cannons on them for crowd control. The US Navy used them in Lebanon to keep the docks and the port open in 1958 when their civil war erupted.
“Deep State”? Yeah, keep a list. And again, 😉
Michael Crichton, in his book ‘State of Fear’ had a character wandering around claiming that the Military-Industrial Complex had been replaced by the Iron Triangle, a coalition of Big Government, Big Business and Big Media. It’s purpose was to maintain the population in a state of fear so that more and more power could be accrued by these groups.
In the book he totally dissed the AGW folks as scammers.
For a read of his own viewpoint he posted this:
http://www.michaelcrichton.com/state-of-fear-authors-message/
Scammers? No, really?!? Yes, just follow the grant money. Remember that George Mason Univ prof who wanted ‘climate deniers’ prosecuted under the RICO Act last year? And that flopped, so he’s being investigate for conning 19 people into signing his begging letter/ An it all revolved around the grant money he was getting, close to $4 million/yr. That’s a lotta cash to lose, isn’t it?
Just follow the cash trail, people. Follow the money.
I;m old enough to remember Reagan telling congress that if they wouldn’t approve his initiatives, he’d just take them to the people though the media. It worked them, and it will work now. Keep tweeting Mr. Trump.
Stay fightin’ mad, people. I kept everyone fired up during the election cycle, but I see the complacency already setting in. “Trump will fix it.” is the new rallying cry, but that isn’t true. If we don’t stay fightin’ mad, they’ll just go back to doing what they’ve always done.
“Follow the money.” Deep Throat definitely knew whereof he spoke.
And remember, your hero Trump _came_ from the Deep State. He’s got lots of friends from there and his enemies are arguing from envy not principle (for they have none).
TRUMP USES TWITTER!
Threat to National Security cited.
OBAMA PENS ELEVENTH HOUR NSA RELEASE DEAL!
Known security colanders, fake news, enemies of the State, rejoice!
Anyone care to take a bet?
That the leaks are going to stop and Clandestine Services lips are going to be tighter than a virgin spinster’s knees and knickers during Fleet Week.
Quoting “Hard to Kill” eh?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099739/quotes?item=qt0215571
Dammit, you knew! 🙂