Q. What do P’nut the squirrel and the Amish have in common?

A. They both came to the attention of bureaucrat thugs and were thwarted by them, the former fatally.

The latter, the good Amish communities, at no profit to themselves, but seeing it as their Christian duty (when was last you heard those words?), loaded 56 busses with themselves and tools and travelled the long ride to North Carolina to build small but sound temporary dwellings for North Carolina residents whose houses were demolished by Hurricane Helene.

North Carolina bureaucrats, like most bureaucrats , incapable of doing anything useful in this crisis, nonetheless sprang into action, by declaring the temporary homes “not up to code,” and booted the recipients of Amish charity out of those dwellings, though helpfully posting on their website, in wordy bureaucratese, justification of  their actions. Details may be found on this worthy website.

The Amish, who traditionally show little to no interest in politics and declining to vote in elections, this past election showed up in force to vote for Donald Trump, helping to push Pennsylvania into a Republican victory. Any wonder why?

The infantilizing of America

A professor [sic] at Georgetown University (formerly Catholic), after learning of the stress and upset her students were experiencing after Donald Trump’s re-election, decided to take action, sort of, which took the form of what you see below: a day long therapy session for her traumatized children.

Which begs the question, after these babies are handed their diplomas, what are they going to do with their lives? And since so many students at so many of our institutions of higher learning [interim sic] share the same emotional distress of their comrades at Georgetown, and with their minders reacting similarly, one wonders (in a different context from the phrase’s original intent), who will make the trains run on time?

We’re producing in this country a spoiled upper-class with zero capability. What’s to become of them? History teaches us a pampered and idle aristocracy eventually meets with an unpleasant end. Will that happen here?

h/t For What it’s Worth.

Is Trudeau next to be toppled?

He can’t be thrilled by headlines like this, even if it’s Fox News.

One of the advantages a  parliamentary system like Canada’s has over our constitutional federal republic is, an unpopular leader can be booted from office more quickly. If PM Trudeau were to lose a “no confidence” vote from the Canadian Parliament in Ottawa, out he goes. No putting up with four dreary years of a senile dolt in the White House.

‘Slowly became sex thing’

From the NY Post: the excellent columnist Rikki Schlott writes on how social media has contributed to the social ills of America.

I was probably about 9 or 10 years old when, on a summer night in a friend’s basement, a pal suggested we log onto a website called Omegle.

You can guess where this is going.

[W]e were . . . served up images of people cutting, adult men in dimly lit rooms telling us we were “cute” (we quickly hung up on them), and — a first for all of us — a guy masturbating.

Yuck. A marvel of our age, the Internet, concomitantly gives sexual perverts a convenient avenue on which to spread their filth.

Of course there are digital filters and the like available to block those god-awful souls, but they’re not foolproof and worse, more often than not block websites that are a far cry from being pornographic.

Ms Schlott continues:

That’s because, no matter how many parental controls and blockers you apply, filters are always porous enough to let the dark underbelly of the internet in through a laptop or cellphone screen.

Exactly. Read her entire column, it’s disturbing, but it illustrates and reminds us of our fallen nature. Matters might improve somewhat at least if laws against these gross-outs were toughened, so when busted and convicted of doing their thing publicly (including on the Internet), received long sentences. Counseling of course should be administered, but it doesn’t seem likely many of these lost souls will be cured of the perversions deep down inside of  them. At least they will least be off the streets.

And to end on a lighter note, the late Tom Lehrer offered his take on this dreary subject some time ago.

Tom Lehrer,”Smut”

https://g.co/kgs/r1QSp1E

This would not have happened before November 5th

From the New York Sun:

A co-host of  ABCs “The View, Sunny Hostin couldn’t look more unhappy while reading multiple on-air “legal notes”  regarding misconduct accusations againsat Gaetz, Pete Hegseth, and George Santos. The legal notes were designed to shield the “View”, a production of ABC News, from legal liability for comments Ms. Hostin and her co-hosts made about the three men.

Gee whiz, that was almost painful to watch, but as stated in this blog many times, there has been a sea change in the country with the victory of Donald Trump. What is most remarkable is, after many years–decades, even–all the alleged news people who used to have absolute impunity when pushing their left-wing agenda on us are finally running scared,

Bickerstaff posted a blog item on November 7th, in which proclaimined: “They don’t scare us anymore,” He had no idea however his audacious proclamation would become manifest so early on in American media. Things are looking bleak for them, indeed.

Dear Sunny, may your skies become cloudy all day.

“People living in tents”

Eight weeks after Hurricane Helene blasted through western North Carolina, conditions are third-world like with no relief in sight. FEMA, perhaps the worst run federal agency (though there are so many competing for that honor) spent all the money  allotted to them for the region, then ditched it long ago.

Major media has lost interest in this story and is nowhere to be seen even near the catastrophic mess (it might reflect poorly on the Biden administration during its closing days), save one and it should come as no surprise, Fox News.

Fox recently sent a reporter and camera crew to have a look at this all-but-ignored disaster. Have a look. It’s not pretty.