Friday evening, not too bad outside

But it's still chilly, and I'm tired, so staying here it is.

Headline on Yahoo 'News':

Severe storm system will bear its teeth, etc.
After some of Kim's yelling about the proper word and why do these news weenies not know them?, I could hear "It's 'BARE its teeth', you illiterate yob!"

He's right.  It may be a losing battle, but he is.

And some pictures

And here we go

Some gifs tonight

Why are so many colleges such ass-kissers to the PRC?

Is it money?  Or are they so tied-up in playing 'anti-racist' that they'll even defend a government committing genocide as long as the government and people who make it up aren't western?

Makes you wonder if a lot of their students are capable of doing anything well, other than playing the proper 'right-thinking people'(according to the left) role.

Trudeau is one slimy piece of work, isn't he?

Accuse Jews of supporting swastikas, because apparently the only way he can deal with someone of opposing view is to slander and insult them....

So, too stupid to realize just how badly he's pissing people off, or too arrogant to think he'll be held to account at some point?

That is one hell of a picture

of something amazing.  And there's a link to different size downloadables

It's time for some more clearing

Hmmm. One quake in a set that we didn't see

until they actually looked for it.
Now, a new study published Feb. 8 in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, has revealed that the earthquake was actually a sequence of five sub-quakes, separated in time by mere minutes. And the third of these mini-quakes — a shallower, "invisible" earthquake hidden in the data and missed by monitoring systems at the time — was an 8.2-magnitude quake responsible for the tsunami.
Lots of things out there to surprise us still.

In case you didn't see it, the BATFEIEIO came up with a sure-fire idea for Valentine's Day:

Valentine’s Day can still be fun even if you broke up. Do you have information about a former (or current) partner involved in illegal gun activity? Let us know, and we will make sure it’s a Valentine’s Day to remember! Call 1-888-ATF-TIPS or email ATFTips@atf.gov. pic.twitter.com/OdDIPdIzkr

— ATF HQ (@ATFHQ) February 14, 2022
This is basically "SWAT your ex for the holiday!" ad.  We're probably lucky there hasn't been anyone reported killed by the bastards with this crap.

Kim has suggestions for how to deal with them for this.

"We have no time to waste on this legal stuff, because Global Warming!"

Yes, they actually said it.  Anyway, those laws are for little people, not important people like Granholm.

So they keep telling us.

History is messy, and does not generally lend itself to "This was always bad/good!" stories

My great-grandfather, Nwaubani Ogogo Oriaku, was what I prefer to call a businessman, from the Igbo ethnic group of south-eastern Nigeria. He dealt in a number of goods, including tobacco and palm produce. He also sold human beings.

"He had agents who captured slaves from different places and brought them to him," my father told me.

Nwaubani Ogogo's slaves were sold through the ports of Calabar and Bonny in the south of what is today known as Nigeria.
...
More than 1.5 million Africans were shipped to what was then called the New World - the Americas - through the Calabar port, in the Bight of Bonny, making it one of the largest points of exit during the transatlantic trade.
A lot of the 'equity' and '1619' clowns really don't like the fact that most African slaves brought to the New World were sold to the European traders by Africans; it really messes with the Preferred Narrative.

She hits on another important point:
It would be unfair to judge a 19th Century man by 21st Century principles.

Assessing the people of Africa's past by today's standards would compel us to cast the majority of our heroes as villains, denying us the right to fully celebrate anyone who was not influenced by Western ideology.

Igbo slave traders like my great-grandfather did not suffer any crisis of social acceptance or legality. They did not need any religious or scientific justifications for their actions. They were simply living the life into which they were raised.
And it was a life that predated their contact with Europeans.  Also an inconvenient fact.*

It's an interesting piece.  I'm sure the Usual Suspects will give her hell for daring to write it.



*Like pointing out that the First Immigrants to the Americas had practiced war and slavery and torture and cannibalism long before their contact with modern Europeans.

I am bloody exhausted,

and at this point, if it would get me a good nights sleep, I think I'd try heroin.

Yeah, when I say exhausted, I mean it.

I'll see you later.