I've been attempting to monitor the news today to check on events in Egypt (did you know that 17 people have been killed in renewed rioting)...Ukraine (fighting has intensified), the Middle East (ISIS is wanting to trade a female prisoner in Jordan for the remaining Japanese hostage...and I missed the broadcast but the name of the female ISIS hostage was leaked by the President's Chief of Staff) and elsewhere.
What do I find instead?
News about a freaking snow storm!
Who gives a shit!
Its gonna snow. You might even get to record "snow thunder" and put it on YouTube. If you're like the people I hang out with you'll get to test your preps and there was no hurry to rush to the grocery store to stock up...you have alternate heating if the electricity goes out...you're ready.
This happens every year but people act as if they're experiencing it for the first time...EVERY FUCKING YEAR!!!!!!
I won't even get into the declaration of a state of emergency and the ordering of people off the roads. If you're stupid enough to drive in snow drifts then you deserve the Darwin Award and should not be fined....just buried deep.
I don't know what's going on with the US.
Are we really this pussified that a simple snow storm causes people to lose their minds? If we are...and it sure seems like it...then there is no way we can win the future.
RANT OFF.
"This happens every year but people act as if they're experiencing it for the first time...EVERY FUCKING YEAR!!!!!!"
ReplyDeleteWinter again surprises road workers... as we say every year when we see a snow on the road.
You think that's bad... wait till it rains in SoCal... these people have no clue how to drive when teh roads are wet.
ReplyDeleteMark Steyn talked about the changes in America in a long ago article about how FEMA failed after Katrina. He pointed how an agency that was originally built to help Americans recover and survive a nuclear exchange with the USSR had instead become involved in a snow storm in New Hampshire. That slowly over the decades snow in New England had gone from a simple inconvenience in the way of life to literally a national emergency.
ReplyDeleteFEMA needed something to do after the USSR folded.
DeleteI live where it snows significantly every winter. Last winter FEMA actually released a bulletin before a minor storm telling people to have a shovel and rock salt. I don't think I could put into words how utterly stupid that sounded. What's next? Telling people to breath?
Perhaps as Mark Steyn would say it was done to be in compliance with the bureau of compliance.
Whoops, should say "Telling people to breathe?"
DeleteYou'd be surprised
DeleteI let my neighbour borrow mine once
And again a few weeks later
He got really shitty when I would let him use it the next year. We still don't talk....
Sol, I'm watching the ABC World News tonight while reading your blog. The lead story was the snow storm and their other breaking story (their words, not mine) was deflate gate!
ReplyDeleteNot ISIS or Ukraine or even what happened in Yemen last week. The biggest stories are snow and the air pressure in a football!
yeah its almost like someone is attempting to distract the American people from reality and having them focus on frivolity.
DeleteRight on. I grew up in Massachusetts and a foot or two of snow, several times, was a natural part of winter. But now it's a historic storm, a state of emergency?
ReplyDeleteBut let's remember, it's not real people shouting alarums, it's the bullshit psychotic press and media, looking to attract attention and sell advertising.
On the lack of foreign interest, who cares, and why should they. Only perverts like us get into it. Real people have a life. :-)
i have no idea. i believe all our open sources are compromised. its up to individuals to determine the truth for themselves...i would warn against preconceived notions though. it could cloud opinions and leave you open to propaganda campaigns.
ReplyDeleteSol, It is a combination of evolution of news to entertainment/tabloid/happy feel good programing; it is what the viewers and corporate sponsors/advertisers want. Also, today, sheeple are less reliant, cheap, lazy and want others to take care of them.
ReplyDeleteI am a troop leader for my daughter’s junior Girl Scout troop and some parents are hysterical about driving their daughter to a meeting on Wednesday evening, a day after the storm, but the girls know the scout motto: be prepared. They also know that there is no bad weather, just bad planning and attitude. They will be there since they will be there learning how to TIG weld at the meeting. Just get involved with the local youth and “make the world a better place” - that is from the GS law.
yeah that sounds right. news as entertainment instead of information. the dumbing down of society is in full effect and it appears that only a few of us are noticing.
DeleteAlso they are too cold, or too hot, and don't get wet or you'll die, and they won't walk a hundred yards if they can ride instead. And then guess what, when they get to be 50 or 60 they CAN'T walk anymore. Snow? Not possible. Give up on that generation, look onward.
DeleteGood for you, Bob. There is hope in youth, with help from people like you. And you will get more than you give, for sure.
Try Saker.
ReplyDeleteAs a denizen of the hard land of the Winter, I can assure you that most people know what they are doing in Winter, yet, surprisingly there's always some also asshats who forget snow and ice are slippery and wind up in the ditch OR that ice melts and find there trucks at the bottom of the lake after they tried to drive out to there icehouse whe it's been 40 degrees for a week.
ReplyDeleteOUr society has slowly been dumbed down to account for those not fast enough on the uptake OR who don't read the weather report OR don't pay attention OR are just too fucking dumb.
ON THE OTHER HAND: I experienced the Halloween blizzard of 1991. We got 30 inches over four days. It started as rain, turned into slush, then a couple of feet of snow, then the below zero freeze that turned that slush into frozen tundra. EVERYTHING stopped for 36 hours....nobody could drive anywhere. This is Minnesota, we know Winter, yet the size and massive nature of the Halloween Blizzard took everyone by surprise even though we are experienced. Some things are just so massive, you can't fathom the effects until it happens.
For example, Snow removal: you own a business with a two acre sized parking lot. Where do you put 100000 cubic feet of snow? Where does a Metropolitan area put several billion cubic feet of snow? Sometimes you can plow it to the side, but sometimes there is so much you need to remove it. It takes time.
Your rant is justified.
ReplyDeleteOh, but noooo....the ones who have extra provisions (i.e. "preppers") are the crazy ones /rolls eyes/
There is nothing sane about being stranded on the side of the road, in your business attire, during a snowstorm, and freezing to death. Id rather be "insane" and be prepared.
for all my life i never seen a naturally occuring ice or snow, except in my freezer.. maybe until global warning reached the tropics i will get to see snow on my yard.. but if there's snow in the tropics then the world already in the new Ice Age lol
ReplyDeleteGrew up in Michigan. So, my sympathy for someone whining about snow is zero.
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