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Common Ground by maryh10000

Common Ground by Maryh10000

One of the main problems conservatives have in getting the word out about our actual beliefs is that the legacy media refuses to portray us fairly. And the media that do portray us fairly are automatically assumed to be lying by people who don’t actually know us. One of the problems with this is that certain groups are sure they have to stay with the left, because “everyone knows” that the right is worse. People run into actual racism or homophobia on the left,...

Tiny Helena Daily Update

The picture is from a week and a half ago. We won’t have new ones till we return on the 1st or so. That expression is because I called her name, while she was asleep (trying to get her to look at the camera.)

We had a phone call at about nine thirty from the veterinarian ICU nurse (and yes, again I passed out and slept since. Sorry to be so late letting you know.)

Tiny Helena is improving, still by tiny little bits. Improved enough she’d pulled out her catheter overnight, and also si...

Dominion Voting Machines, Insecure by Design – by Francis Turner

Dominion Voting Machines, Insecure by Design – by Francis Turner

Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice

Required reading for all Dominion engineers and product managers

I have, from time to time, been interested in the question of trust in voting machines and processes. That goes all the way back to the early 2000s and the sloppy Diebold machines in use then. At that time it was notable that Diebold, who also made (make?) ATMs, seemed to have invested a l...

Update On Itty Bitty Kitty

Picture of Helena on my knees from last week. She nestles there, past my laptop.

Okay, she’s not well YET (keep up the prayers.) but they put her on an anti-viral last night, and today she was sitting up and raising her head. Not for long. She doesn’t have the strength to do it for long, but for a little bit.

And therefore they’re now leaning to a type of neurological virus that’s literally imbibed with mother’s milk. Most cats who have it, have it dormant, hers just activated suddenl...

The Best Laid Plans

That picture above is Helena-kitten sleeping on my shoulder and effectively pinning my left arm down.

I’m hoping very much that’s not my last picture with her alive.

We were always going to board the older cats. They need meds, and we couldn’t leave them in the house alone. And we’re gong on a grand tour halfway across the country for a solid two weeks, before coming back home. But we were going to leave the two younger kittens in the house alone for three days with a ton of food (e...

Equal by Bill Reader

Equal – by Bill Reader

The Left does not use words the way that you use words. We say the same things. We mean different things.

If socioeconomically, white people are found to be doing better in one area or another, the Left will shout white supremacy. We understand that to be an accusation that we believe white people are intrinsically better. The Left simply regard it as a tautological statement—that is, if the system is resulting in more successful white people, it is a system which...

Bureaucrat In The Middle

America’s Healthcare is not the worst in the world, but that’s only because the rest of the world is further along on the road towards socialism and everything centralized.

Since 2008 and the increasing centralization of everything, ours has gotten halfway to as stupid as the rest of the world except Canada which outright kills people and China, where they come to your house and kill you if they feel like it.

Thursday we had a doctor’s appointment and both of us got prescriptions which...

A Poverty of Mind

There is on the left a peculiar blindness which in a way speaks very well of the people who have it, in another speaks very badly indeed, and in other ways makes you wonder if they’re aliens.

When faced with anything from disease to poverty to homelessness, they always come up with material causes. From the bizarre idea of the “Bee sting” that if you are poor you run into so many frustrating things that you can’t do anything to help yourself, to their very strange idea that poverty cause...

Book Promo and Vignettes by Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike

Book promo

If you wish to send us books for next week’s promo, please email to bookpimping at outlook dot com. If you feel a need to re-promo the same book do so no more than once every six months (unless you’re me or my relative. Deal.) One book per author per week. Amazon links only. Oh, yeah, by clicking through and buying (anything, actually) through one of the links below, you will at no cost to you be giving a portion of your purchase to support ATH through our associates number. A COMM...

Book Promo and Vignettes by Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike

Book promo

If you wish to send us books for next week’s promo, please email to bookpimping at outlook dot com. If you feel a need to re-promo the same book do so no more than once every six months (unless you’re me or my relative. Deal.) One book per author per week. Amazon links only. Oh, yeah, by clicking through and buying (anything, actually) through one of the links below, you will at no cost to you be giving a portion of your purchase to support ATH through our associates number. A COMM...