Car repair party!
less a party though than an extended gut wrenching nightmare, actually.
Partner and I spent most of the day putting new shocks on the replacement sploder. Lots of new words were coined, many of which meant “Ouch” or “get the hell out of there you recalcitrant bastard”
I half expected Ed to show, but at the rate we were going, I’m surprised we survived.
it was adequately annoying that we ended the day with a pizza and two mcD’s frappes each. I went to sleep around nine.
Now it’s quarter to four and I have to keep the dog company because it’s been storming and he’s freaking out.
The Oslo terrorist is a “Knight templar” and a mason.
Sorry, Masons don’t act like this. As always, a Mason or a Christian doing this is an abberation, while a muslim doing it is expected; several muslim groups were already claiming responsibility for this crap while it was still going on, but it turned out to be a garden variety idiot, not a muslim idiot.
Then part where he walked around and the morons just let themselves be slaughtered is what amuses me. I expect they were all showing their pacifist cred; better to be dead than to resist. Monkeys.
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Don’t be too quick to accept the Agency of Lies reports.
http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com/2011/07/23/norway-shooter-a-right-wing-fundamentalist-not-so-fast/
…I thought you were going to let me know? I never know if you’re doing side jobs on Saturday or what; otherwise I would have been there.
Oh well; life goes on.
Nice link, Pascal. Passing it on.
The dude also admired Obama:
http://www.teapartytribune.com/2011/07/23/norwegian-killer-admired-obama/
Radical Right-wing my ass.
I would say that he definately had not come from the East.
1. Standard reaction in the face of extreme threat is to freeze.
2. Requires indoctrination and training to get people to react to threats.
3. The first time it happened to me, I (and 2 other newbies) had to be kicked into action. Literally.
4. My sergeant was pointing and screaming, “The bad guys are over there, shoot, expletive deleted…”
5. Came to expect that from new guys.
6. That’s why 300 people burned to death in a night club fire in New England.
7. That’s why 30 people passively accepted being slaughtered at Virginia Tech in 2007. There were two creditable responses (a 70-something professor and a ROTC student (both were shot down, anyway)).
8. Was taught and taught, in turn, that doing something, anything was better than sitting and waiting.
9. Favorite daughter matriculated at Tech, shortly thereafter. Went over, in excruciating detail, courses of action in response to threat.
10. Was my duty to do so, though, in light of #3, was not optimistic that they would help.
11. The poor people on that island had little chance. God rest their souls.
V/R JWest
“1. Standard reaction in the face of extreme threat is to freeze.”
If this is true, it does not bode well for us when the economy tanks.
“1. Standard reaction in the face of extreme threat is to freeze.â€
I’ve never had a ‘Standard” moment in my life; I have run toward gunfire on a number of occasions.
I didn’t say I was smart, just not standard.
Somehow it strikes me that you’ld have made a good seargant, Og.
Thankfully, nobody will ever find that out.
1. You certainly are not standard.
2. If you were, would not have read your blog with such pleasure for so many years.
3. As far as what happens if tshtf, have no idea of the likely course of events or outcome.
4. Suspect folks in northern Indiana will be better off than those in my neck of the woods.
V/R JWest
lol.
Believe it or not, there are a powerful lot of “Non standard” people out there, just not in socialist shitholes like Oslo.
The shooter was dressed like a policeman. Most people are taught from a very young age “the policeman is your friend.” The poor bastards thought he was there to help them … until he shot them.
Regardless of their politics they were innocent victims.
Jenny
He’s no brother of mine. Or of any Mason’s, anymore.
Grand Lodge of Norway has a statement: http://www.frimurer.no/ordenen/15-aktuelt/1192-the-norwegian-order-of-freemasons-expressing-compassion-and-care
Maybe too much emphasis and attention goes to the particular variety of abstractions each of these guys embrace. Almost any abstraction seems about as worthy as another when it comes down to killing a lot of people for no obvious reason.
Good thing the guy wasn’t a chief executive of some nation wealthy enough to own heavier weaponry.
“Good thing the guy wasn’t a chief executive of some nation wealthy enough to own heavier weaponry”
Huh?
I don’t know what you’re doing over there, but you’re missing a lot of the point, Jules. Or I’m dramatically misunderstanding what you’re trying to say, one or the nother.
Could be both. I don’t have any axen to gore except my own nor any oxen to grind.
When I miss a point I usually figure it was a point worth missing. I don’t know anyone in Norway and couldn’t care less what abstraction whomever killed them used for a reason for killing them.
Getting downrange is a bad stroke of luck no matter who is uprange. But it’s always someone or a group of someones figured someone downrange needed killing.
Oh, hell, Jules, there’s ALWAYS someone as needs killing. Wells thought it was the Morlocs, but I spect it’s the eloi