Out hiking
Posting will resume this afternoon. Diane wanted to do a mid-week hike and I needed desperately to get out. The gyms are closed, you can’t go anywhere without being accosted for not wearing a mask, and the news is just too depressing.
In the mountains you can at least make believe you can still breathe free in America.
We should be back by 2 pm (Pacific). I will begin posting then.
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Posting will resume this afternoon. Diane wanted to do a mid-week hike and I needed desperately to get out. The gyms are closed, you can’t go anywhere without being accosted for not wearing a mask, and the news is just too depressing.
In the mountains you can at least make believe you can still breathe free in America.
We should be back by 2 pm (Pacific). I will begin posting then.
The support of my readers through the years has given me the freedom and ability to analyze objectively the ongoing renaissance in space, as well as the cultural changes -- for good or ill -- that are happening across America. Four years ago, just before the 2020 election I wrote that Joe Biden's mental health was suspect. Only in this year has the propaganda mainstream media decided to recognize that basic fact.
Fourteen years ago I wrote that SLS and Orion were a bad ideas, a waste of money, would be years behind schedule, and better replaced by commercial private enterprise. Even today NASA and Congress refuse to recognize this reality.
In 2020 when the world panicked over COVID I wrote that the panic was unnecessary, that the virus was apparently simply a variation of the flu, that masks were not simply pointless but if worn incorrectly were a health threat, that the lockdowns were a disaster and did nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Only in the past year have some of our so-called experts in the health field have begun to recognize these facts.
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Keep on hikin good sir. Tis a wonderful and necessary escape.
“OK, Karen! ?♀️”
Paul Joseph Watson
May 2020
https://youtu.be/aR3uA2eLgbk
8:33
(adult language & themes, therein)
wayne: Yup, it happens now on every hike, just like that woman in Watson’s video that yells at the bicyclist as he zips by for not social distancing.
I however do not like the new term “Karen.” Too vague. We already have a bunch of very good English words for these idiots: busybodies, nosy-parkers, meddlers. The first however is the best, as it clearly describes them in a very unflattering way.
Mr. Z.,
Yepper, not overly fond of the term ‘Karen’ myself, it’s apparently hip, edgy, and new, or something.
ref: “nosy parkers,” hmm,… not sure I’ve heard that one in actual conversation. (Sounds like something I would have heard in an old movie.) Is that maybe a Regional thing?
Q:
Any quaint Yiddish words come to mind ref busybodies & meddlers?
wayne: Gosh, I am sure there is a perfect Yiddish word for these busy-bodies, but I don’t speak Yiddish and my mother (who did) is long gone. Any other Yiddish speakers out there?
Here we go, sorta Yiddish…..
‘Kochleffel’
–derived from the German words for cooking [Koch] and spoon [Loeffel].
“A Kochleffel is a busybody—someone who stirs things and people up.”
“Kochleffel Syndrome
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/article-abstract/602703
(I can’t people these people have a sense of humor.)
“The Syndrome is widespread and relatively contagious and is transmitted by an as yet unidentified agent, usually by word of mouth. Its manifestations are protean and may mimic several other illnesses. Its most striking form is remarkably abrupt in onset and transforms the most charming person instantly into an excited, churning, and brewing creature with agitated behavior and delusions that curiously mimic those of paranoia. These delusions are so powerful that they force the patient to externalize them, preferably to someone of similar or higher status….”
(a variant of Trump Derangement Syndrome)