Anybody seen Cousin Dave?

Can you see yourself making this mistake?

If you like picture books, you'll enjoy this Twitter account.

So I was looking through our February comments and found this stack which links, among other things, a lecture about how McNamara used low-IQ troops in Vietnam, and it called to mind the link the other day from Cosh about

…“27 Army,” a North Chinese unit full of “illiterate” and “primitive” recruits

which was dispatched to clean up Tienanmen square.

When men are especially cruel, they make dumb guys do the murder. We should probably bear that in mind as we see all these forces colliding in our streets this month.

I guess the Non-Erection Pact recently signed between von Ruboneoff representing the NSDAP (National Socialist Democrat American Party), and Minister Mazel Tov representing Anti-Fa, hasn't hit the news yet.

Oh, Yoda!

https://twitter.com/klara_sjo/status/1269370909422387208

Mazel Tov cocktails? I didn't know Manischewitz was flammable.

Are Muslims rioters allowed to use Mazel Tov cocktails?

We are truly becoming an illiterate nation.

Last week, someone on NextDoor warned his neighbors to beware of a large black snack that was loose in the neighborhood.

Dirty jokes and ringing doorbells.

https://youtu.be/JJTOSjmqlmg

Want.

> I didn't know Manischewitz
> was flammable.

Will be stealing from Coney while affirming no source, and not for the first time.

Minneapolis City Council set to announce their commitment to disbanding the city’s police department

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1269730571057614857

Anybody seen Cousin Dave?

Crid at June 6, 2020 10:27 PM

Anybody seen Cousin Dave?

Crid at June 6, 2020 10:27 PM

I believe Cousin Dave works at Redstone arsenal. I think there are ample reasons for his absence the last few months.

I hope those reasons are what I think they are, and he will return soon.

Minneapolis City Council set to announce their commitment to disbanding the city’s police department ~ Sixclaws at June 7, 2020 4:27 PM

And what, pray tell, will replace the police? A party-loyal paramilitary force?

> I believe Cousin Dave works at
> Redstone arsenal. I think there
> are ample reasons for his absence
> the last few months.

He's up to something...? We'll hope he turns up with an interesting story asap (Unless you want to give us more hints).


> what, pray tell, will replace
> the police?

There are quotes from Council members saying words to the effect of 'We don't know what we're going to do yet, but we're definitely going to do it.' Anything minor will be horror, anything major will be a bloodbath.

Lefty media are immobilizing themselves by the whims of milquetoast children:

Ms. Kingsbury, new editor at NYTimes, told staff “Anyone who sees any piece of Opinion journalism, headlines,social posts,photos—you name it—that gives you the slightest pause, please call or text me immediately.” It’s all about staff sensitivities now.

I can't imagine how they'll get the paper published on Tuesday, so you might want to pick up a copy of the Monday edition… Your great-grandchildren will be amused by the artifact.


The demonstrations overseas are so inane as to call to mind a favorite O'Rourke passage, and apologies for the rerun:

The Third World attitude toward the United States is also easy to understand if you think of it in terms of adolescence. The citizens of the Third World are in a teenage muddle about us--full of envy, imitation, anger and blind puppy love. I have been held at gunpoint by a Shi'ite youth in West Beirut who told me in one breath that America was "pig Satan devil" and that he planned to go to dental school in Dearborn as soon as he got his green card. In Ulundi, in Zululand, I talked to a young man who, as usual, blamed apartheid on the United States. However, he had just visited the U.S. with a church group and also told me, "Everything is so wonderful there. The race relations are so good. And everyone is rich." Just what part of America had he visited, I asked. "The South Side of Chicago," he said.

We are a beautiful twenty-year-old woman and they are a wildly infatuated thirteen-year-old boy. They think of us every moment of the day and we take no notice of them whatsoever. If they can't have a chance to love us, a chance to pester us will do--by becoming "Communists," for example. Anything for attention.

PJ O'Rourke
Give War a Chance
©1992, First Grove Press

This is a time of mass delusion. Many many people seem not to understand that for all of Western Civ's faults and challenges, lesser schemes have been tried and found wanting. I don't understand how so many could be so oblivious to the delicate forces and intricate histories which bring them history's best sustenance and comity.

OTOH....

“He's up to something...? We'll hope he turns up with an interesting story asap (Unless you want to give us more hints).”

All I am saying is this lockdown and the Covid rules might have done nefarious things to Cousin Dave’s ability to post and read the board, I believe he works on classified projects, mostly because a lot of people at Redstone do, and this is not stuff you can do from home, so not sure that he is even able to get to an unclassified computer system easily anymore.

At least I hope that is the case. It screwed a lot of stuff up. And the military is under some pretty absurd rules, which have extended to Civilian employees and contractors.

Glad to hear it's probably not a new missile array calibrated to the Wuhan Wet Market

"someone on NextDoor warned his neighbors to beware of a large black snack"

Was he a US Ranger, aka snake eater?

"Mazel tov cocktails" is evidence that not all of the media are run by Jews. A Jewish newswriter might not know it's "molotov cocktail", but I expect he'd know that wasn't right.