Saturday [6 and 7]

7.  Housekeeping

Sub-subtitled “These pesky issues of the metabolism”:

10:03:  Was quite ok up till 10 a.m., though it’s surprisingly cold here in the NW today.  Unfortunately, the ole bod here doesn’t like it.  Dental issue started, which meant stomach soon after, which is the issue at this moment - stomach cramping.

With me, it can be so sudden, so debilitating, and then disappear so completely who knows when.  It’s like someone sticking pins in a voodoo doll.  So I could be conversing, say, with DR, posting at full bore.  Suddenly - zap.

Just as DR has had to “toodle pip”, so must I until the bod decides to behave itself again.  And at the risk of repetition, it requires no sympathy, we’re all in similar at this age, but it does explain my sudden absences … no, it ain’t no young floozy of 58 I have secreted away here.

Back as and when.  Some measures to take just now.

6.  American Thinker - nail, head

a.  I’d like to repost all of this article but there’s netiquette, so here’s part of it:

“July, it's an appropriate time to consider why the most extreme elements of the far Left have been able to take control of American institutions so quickly — despite polls showing that the overwhelming majority of citizens oppose the "woke" agenda almost in its entirety.

During the Fourth of July, the root cause of this national nightmare will be on display for all to see.

I'm speaking of the backyard barbecue.

The barbecue is the hermeneutical key to understanding the gradual breakdown of western society — not just in the U.S., but also in Australia, Canada, and many other countries. 

The truth is, normal, happy, well-adjusted people don't really care about politics — or care only when they are forced to by rioting mobs of looters in their cities.   

Normal people of any and all colors don't want to tell you their pronouns, chemically castrate their sons with puberty-blocking drugs, or defund the police.  They're neither oppressors nor oppressed. 

They just want to live their lives in peace, attend their kids' soccer or baseball games, and enjoy summer afternoons grilling.

Therein lies the problem: it turns out that, with a very few exceptions, the absolute worst people on the planet — the kind of people who were hall monitors in high school and enjoy creating and enforcing petty regulations on their fellows — go into politics. 

These are the entitled few who believe that rules and regulations are for other people, never for themselves — the grifters, tax cheats, and adulterers who run for office instead of working for a living.  These are the Bill Clintons and Gavin Newsoms of the world.

Now we have scientific data to back up this commonsense intuition. 

In a fascinating article on Substack, political scientist Richard Hanania provides a mountain of evidence for why, as he puts it, "everything is so liberal" — despite the fact that, statistically speaking, there are relatively few liberals and fewer still "woke" progressives.”

Read more: 

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/06/leftists_are_a_minorityso_why_do_they_keep_winning.html#ixzz6yDjfqzxk 

b.  On the other hand, at the same site, a total piece of bollox was posted by some clown praising “Juneteenth”, using patriotic rhetoric to praise Wokeness.  Diabolical.