Too Stupid for Words category archive
“I Wouldn’t Want Anything Bad To Happen To Your Nice Little Treaty Organization” 0
Noz on the Trumpling of NATO:
Follow the link for his reasoning.
Droning On 0
Boys and their toys.
But that’s what he said happened one early evening in mid-March, when he spotted a drone hovering outside his window in the Skye condos on South Caldwell Street. He said he believes the drone spotted him watching it, took off then returned soon after, slowly going up the side of the building and peering at windows.
“It’s creepy that someone’s looking in your window,” Roth said. “You figure you’re 18 stories up no one’s going to be watching you, right?”
Much more at the link.
And, in more news of boys and their toys . . . .
The Climates They Are a-Changing (Updated) 1
Late last night, my brother sent me a link to a picture of the town of Cape Charles, Va., under water because of, not a hurricane, but a steady rain. (See more pictures of yesterday’s rain.)
You’ve likely never heard of Cape Charles, but I’m quite familiar with it. When I was growing up, one of the highlights of the Christmas season would be a visit to the McCrory’s in Cape Charles to see the model train layout on the second floor. Also, when I was a kid, Cape Charles did not flood. It might take on some water during a hurricane, but it did not drown in a summer rain.
Anyone who does not understand that the climates they are a-changing is either willfully ignorant or just too stupid for words.
Then, again, as Der Spiegel points out, there are those persons who are both:
Follow the link the complete Der Spiegel story.
Addendum, Two Days On:
My brother, who spent more time in Cape Charles than I did–I think a young lady might have been involved–informs me that flooding in Cape Charles was not so rare as I thought, though he does not recall flooding of such severity in a routine summer rain.
I don’t know how much rain Cape Charles got, but here in Virginia Beach we got only an inch and a half–heavy, but hardly something Noah would have noticed.
Here’s a bit of what he told me:
The problem with Cape Charles is that it’s too flat, too low, suffers from poor planning (too much concrete and asphalt), and they use the streets as their storm drains. If you have a storm drain system and try to route too much runoff through the drains, they back up. The same thing happens when you use streets as storm drains–route too much runoff through the street system and the streets flood.
Twits on Twitter 0
My local rag tries to make sense of Donald Trump’s “ill-considered” (to use their term–“unconsidered” would likely be a more accurate phrasing) tweets, a Quixotic endeavor in the best of times. A snippet:
It is an excellent editorial. As you read it, remember the target audience is Virginians and that Virginia gave us “massive resistance“; it is consequently worded rather charitably, but read between the lines.
I look forward to the coming letters to the editor from our local Trumpsters.
Afterthought:
Referring to Trump’s hand-held device as a “smartphone” is a gross misnomer. After all, look at the company it keeps.
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*Trump. Design. It is to laugh.
That Was the Weekend That Was 0
In an article tangentially related to the previous post, Josh Marshall reflects on Donald Trump’s weekend of twittery and reaches a conclusion:
Follow the link for his reasoning.
Path to Pariah 0
Thom and Pap discuss Trump’s exit from the climate accords.
Because Isolationism Worked Out So Very Nicely the Last Time* . . . . 0
Werner Herzog’s Bear comments on the New Isolationism. A snippet:
It might be tempting to be happy about this. But the retreat of America on Trumpist grounds does not mean an end to imperialism, but rather an amoral Realpolitik grounded in the fickle whims of our idiot king. It also means a global power vacuum and coming instability. Just look up the end of Pax Romana in the third century CE. It wasn’t pretty, and this shift won’t be either.
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*Learn about the last time.
Providence Lost Spurned
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Headline: Republican Congressman Says God Will ‘Take Care Of’ Climate Change
A man is climbing to his roof as floodwaters rise.
A fellow leaving the area in his Range Rover shouts as he passes by, “Do you want a ride? I have to go now before the water rises higher.” The man replies, “No, God will provide.”
Now the man is on his roof. Two fellows come by in a boat and ask if he wants to be picked up. He says, “No, God will provide.”
A little later, a helicopter flies over and, using a megaphone, a crewman asks if whether he wants the winch lowered. He says, “No, God will provide.”
By now, the house is immersed. As the waters rise, the man cries, “God, why have you forsaken me?!” A voice from the heavens replies, “What do you mean? I sent you a car, I sent you a boat, and I sent you a helicopter.
“Why did you ignore me?”
Twits on Twitter 0
Afterthought:
It’s really not difficult to recognize racist behavior in oneself or others. All one must do is open one’s eyes.