Goodies from Ol' Remus

Ol' Remus 

 

Imagine - They want you to think that we live amidst ever-increasing scarcity, peak energy, global warming and a bunch of other fake crises. None of these crises exist anywhere outside of the human brain that is hallucinating them.
Texas Arcane at vault-co.blogspot.com 

Bugout locations - It’s all a crap shoot. One guy on foot who thought he’d go live off the land in those mountains getting sick of being cold and wet could plant himself at the treeline 300 metres from my shack and pick me off with a 308 when I stepped out in the morning.
ready down under, comment at shtfplan.com 

Unnatural enemy - The government I live under has been my enemy all my active life. When it has not been engaged in silencing me it has been engaged in robbing me. So far as I can recall I have never had any contact with it that was not an outrage on my dignity and an attack on my security.
H.L. Mencken

Shortly after Dykes on Bikes rumble across the starting line of the Capital Pride parade in Dupont Circle on Saturday, an expected 150,000 spectators should witness something never before seen on an American city street — a U.S. Armed Forces color guard marching alongside rainbow flags in a gay pride parade.
Aaron Davis at washingtonpost.com

Remus says - Pointedly humiliating the armed forces is now a career credit in DC

From the BBC in 1998 - The sun is currently at its most active for 300 years. That, say scientists in Philadelphia, could be a more significant cause of global warming than the emissions of greenhouse gases that are most often blamed. The researchers point out that much of the half-a-degree rise in global temperature over the last 120 years occurred before 1940 - earlier than the biggest rise in greenhouse gas emissions. Using ancient tree rings, they show that 17 out of 19 warm spells in the last 10,000 years coincided with peaks in solar activity.
news.bbc.co.uk

Remus says - Climatologists were either wrong in 1998 or wrong now, or wrong both then and now. Whichever it is, they strongly resemble craven, bottom-feeding, shape-shifting, alarmist opportunists with an ethics deficiency approaching unity and a credibility reliant in its entirety on the memory hole. And "but" nothing, no reasonable self-respecting person wants to hear any more from them.

DC declares whites are "biographically inelegible" for FAA employment

Thousands of potential FAA air traffic control trainees, with College Initiative Training degrees or previous military experience, have been told by the federal agency they are no longer eligible for job interviews. Instead, the FAA has decided to accept less qualified applicants, apparently to satisfy concerns that the agency needs a more diverse workforce, say Ferrugia and Shelley in this article, FAA changes hiring practices for air traffic controllers ignoring qualified students and vets, at 7 News Denver.

Remus says - They're not "less qualified" applicants, they're unqualified applicants. If there's no point in following the rules, there's no point in having the rules. Ever-lower performance standards are next. They're always next. We'll accept incompetent "quota hire" air traffic controllers as well. Fifty years of Affirmative Action, each outrage more egregious than the one before. It appears there's no bottom, no limit. Sigh. Most probably this is beyond orderly retrieval. Perhaps long ago. There's a catastrophe building, out of sight but we all know it's there. Every day there are more who would rather mourn it than prevent it. For those of us who try, every day gives us another reason to just walk away.

VA hospitals

Former VA surgeon - What is hilarious is, that we all knew, always, and forever, that government-run medical care, as EPITOMIZED by the VA, was the worst in the US. "Never miss a meal for a vet" was the catchphrase. "In the good VA hospitals, they let you die. In the bad ones, they kill you" was the constant refrain. All you ignorant idiots out there, who believe that "government can do it", in medical care are the cause of this. The blood of the dead is on YOUR hands, for being stupid, lazy, foolish, and not getting RID of these government parasites at every opportunity.
Cotf, comment at progressivestoday.com

VA nurse - Many union hires are to pad the diversity numbers and a work ethic is non-existent in 75% of them. Those who were not diversity hires see the others get away with doing next to nothing and often decide "why bother?". There are some of us who are grateful to have a good job that pays a good deal better than the private facilities and do our best, but we are about 25% of the workforce and we end up doing 75% of the work. Nurses scarcely want to do the dirty work and those whose job is to clean the people and the facility often feel that genuine work is for suckers.
dwk67, comment at progressivestoday.com

Race and wealth - Why would race have anything to do with it? Put your mind to what you want to do and go for that. It’s kind of like religion to me, it’s a good excuse for not getting there.
Morgan Freeman, to Don Lemon at CNN via Kellan Howell at washingtontimes.com