You ride the bus to the below-minimum-wage ($2/hr) job you’ve been detailed to by the DFL’s Labor Bureau.
You pass through several “checkpoints” where Somalis with AKs come on board to collect “tolls”- and beat up anyone who doesn’t have enough.
At the entrance to your workplace, you must give money to Somali “children” (up to age 18) who demand “bakshish”. With more “toll takers” fingering their AKs meaningfully in the background.
And inside, the first thing on the agenda is a two-hour “sensitivity training class”. rather like an AA meeting.
You stand up, and say
“Hello, I am (your name) and I am a white supremacist racist.”
If you think these monsters are beaten, you are very, very wrong.
They’re just coiled up in their dens, waiting for the right moment to strike again.
There is a scene in one of the Lensman novels where the Eddorians are discussing the poor performance of their proxies against the Galactic Patrol. Then one of them (Gharlane?) suggests they back off on the military force, and focus their efforts on vice; “Corruption, drugs, debauchery…Ahhhhh!”
There are many bolts in Boskone’s quiver, Civilization must defend against all of them.
Kinnison became the most effective- and deadliest- of all Lensmen when he began thinking- and operating- like Nadreck of Palain Vii.
His destruction of Menjo Bleeko’s palace and its entire staff on Lonabar is a case in point. Note that that “staff” almost certainly included women, as secretaries or etc., but Kinnison did not hesitate to eradicate all life within that structure, to ensure that nobody ever found out what had really happened.
The difference between Kinnison and Nadreck was that while to Kinnison, the slaughter “griped him to the very soul of his being”, Nadreck simply would have considered any such emotional reaction irrelevant. It needed to be done, therefore it must be done.
In later years, as describe in David H. Kyle’s novels, Nadreck participated in Worsel’s eradication of the Overlords of Delgon to a far greater extent than either Kinnison or Tregonsee of Rigel IV. Not because he shared Worsel’s soul-burning hatred of the Delgonians; he didn’t. It was because he considered the Overlords a threat and an annoyance, and something there was no reason for the rest of existence to have to continue to put up with.
Next to Kinnison, Nadreck was the L2 no Boskonian ever wanted to be noticed by.
It was almost as bad as being “noticed” by the Red Lensman… or her daughters.
(Hell hath no fury like a pissed-off Kinnison woman.)
clear ether
eon
January 15, 2026 at 2:26 am
larryarnold
Back in the day, when my oldest daughter was still young enough we had to dress her, I got faster at it than my wife, which did not sit well.
One day she walked in and found out how I managed it. I had the daughter trained to sit on her dressing table with her hands on her head, out of the way while I buttoned, snapped, and so forth. (Before Velcro was really popular.)
Wife was outraged. “How could you do that to a child?”
Me: “Do what? She’s happy, I’m happy, we get finished and go play faster.”
Before Wife could come back, Daughter piped up: “Yes! Play faster.”
Actually duct tape can accomplish a variety of tasks and solve a myriad of problems as long as you don’t mind messy or pain. I’ve even seen it kept bedside.
To add injury to insult… the is a ‘Duck Tape’ brand. I guess when the males can’t make it to Lowes/Home Depot and have to send their significant others.
The intent was to tape a garbage bag under the kid’s armpits and pay someone to change it once a week…overruled…I think she guessed who’d end up changing it 🙂
I can still see the oldest at about age 7…he’d gotten into my webbing in the closet, taken out the respirator, and was wearing it with an apron and a pair of pink rubber kitchen gloves, changing his year old brother’s diaper…
Unfortunately, that was my job for over 45 years, dealing with hazardous materials and then hazardous individuals, both of them work online now. Good for them, I suppose, there were a lot of times I wished I could have called it in 🙂
January 15, 2026 at 5:05 pm
CuriousB
Off topic, but how long is it going to take before Trump pulls the trigger on the insurrection act in Minneapolis?
Off topic but similar…. where are the Provos in all this? Seems like a great way to stick it to the brits, AND save their young women. Inquiring minds want to know.
The Islamists were strong supporters of the Provos dating to the 1970s, with the latter often training in camps in Libya under Qaddafi’s reign. (That part of Patriot Games by Tom Clancy, both book and film, was absolutely accurate.)
As Claire Sterling related in The Terror Network (1981 and still the most useful book on the subject), the Provos plus Ilyich Ramirez Sanchez aka “Carlos” were essentially hired guns for the PLO, Black September, and etc., to an even greater degree than Renko Sikigun (Japanese Red Army) who carried out the Lod Airport attack on 30 May 1972. Mostly because they shared the Palestinian movement’s hatred of the West in general.
They still do. And the Provos never consider women, even Irish Catholic ones, as anything more than useful tools and playthings anyway.
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As long as it’s not IN the refrigerator.
That’s child abuse.
I’m not sure, but I think taping them to the outside is refrigerator abuse…..
MN with a D in the Oval Office 2029;
You ride the bus to the below-minimum-wage ($2/hr) job you’ve been detailed to by the DFL’s Labor Bureau.
You pass through several “checkpoints” where Somalis with AKs come on board to collect “tolls”- and beat up anyone who doesn’t have enough.
At the entrance to your workplace, you must give money to Somali “children” (up to age 18) who demand “bakshish”. With more “toll takers” fingering their AKs meaningfully in the background.
And inside, the first thing on the agenda is a two-hour “sensitivity training class”. rather like an AA meeting.
You stand up, and say
“Hello, I am (your name) and I am a white supremacist racist.”
If you think these monsters are beaten, you are very, very wrong.
They’re just coiled up in their dens, waiting for the right moment to strike again.
It is the nature of Boskone.
clear ether
eon
Very accurate.
There is a scene in one of the Lensman novels where the Eddorians are discussing the poor performance of their proxies against the Galactic Patrol. Then one of them (Gharlane?) suggests they back off on the military force, and focus their efforts on vice; “Corruption, drugs, debauchery…Ahhhhh!”
There are many bolts in Boskone’s quiver, Civilization must defend against all of them.
Zar Belk!
Boskone??? There’s a term I haven’t heard in a while. We need a few (hundred) Kimball Kinnisons right about now. Or Worsel, I liked Worsel!
Kinnison became the most effective- and deadliest- of all Lensmen when he began thinking- and operating- like Nadreck of Palain Vii.
His destruction of Menjo Bleeko’s palace and its entire staff on Lonabar is a case in point. Note that that “staff” almost certainly included women, as secretaries or etc., but Kinnison did not hesitate to eradicate all life within that structure, to ensure that nobody ever found out what had really happened.
The difference between Kinnison and Nadreck was that while to Kinnison, the slaughter “griped him to the very soul of his being”, Nadreck simply would have considered any such emotional reaction irrelevant. It needed to be done, therefore it must be done.
In later years, as describe in David H. Kyle’s novels, Nadreck participated in Worsel’s eradication of the Overlords of Delgon to a far greater extent than either Kinnison or Tregonsee of Rigel IV. Not because he shared Worsel’s soul-burning hatred of the Delgonians; he didn’t. It was because he considered the Overlords a threat and an annoyance, and something there was no reason for the rest of existence to have to continue to put up with.
Next to Kinnison, Nadreck was the L2 no Boskonian ever wanted to be noticed by.
It was almost as bad as being “noticed” by the Red Lensman… or her daughters.
(Hell hath no fury like a pissed-off Kinnison woman.)
clear ether
eon
Back in the day, when my oldest daughter was still young enough we had to dress her, I got faster at it than my wife, which did not sit well.
One day she walked in and found out how I managed it. I had the daughter trained to sit on her dressing table with her hands on her head, out of the way while I buttoned, snapped, and so forth. (Before Velcro was really popular.)
Wife was outraged. “How could you do that to a child?”
Me: “Do what? She’s happy, I’m happy, we get finished and go play faster.”
Before Wife could come back, Daughter piped up: “Yes! Play faster.”
Wife eventually forgave me.
Heh, nice. 🙂
Actually duct tape can accomplish a variety of tasks and solve a myriad of problems as long as you don’t mind messy or pain. I’ve even seen it kept bedside.
It’s right up there with baling wire and WD40.
And heavy-duty Zip-Ties!
Zar Belk!
The home handyman’s tool box only needs two things: duct tape and WD-40.
Duct tape if it moves and shouldn’t; WD-40 if it doesn’t move and should.
The only thing duct tape isn’t good for is taping ducts.
“Silence is golden; duct tape is silver.”
The first “Kevinism” I heard was: “Duct tape?” “Ah! Alabama Chrome!” Blew beer out the nose.
Thank you for not following the illiterate who call it “duck tape.”
To add injury to insult… the is a ‘Duck Tape’ brand. I guess when the males can’t make it to Lowes/Home Depot and have to send their significant others.
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Duck-Pro-1-88-in-x-60-yds-Silver-All-Purpose-Duct-Tape-242760/309334754
The intent was to tape a garbage bag under the kid’s armpits and pay someone to change it once a week…overruled…I think she guessed who’d end up changing it 🙂
I can still see the oldest at about age 7…he’d gotten into my webbing in the closet, taken out the respirator, and was wearing it with an apron and a pair of pink rubber kitchen gloves, changing his year old brother’s diaper…
Looks like your boy may have a good future in HAZMAT response!
Zar Belk!
Unfortunately, that was my job for over 45 years, dealing with hazardous materials and then hazardous individuals, both of them work online now. Good for them, I suppose, there were a lot of times I wished I could have called it in 🙂
Off topic, but how long is it going to take before Trump pulls the trigger on the insurrection act in Minneapolis?
Off topic but similar…. where are the Provos in all this? Seems like a great way to stick it to the brits, AND save their young women. Inquiring minds want to know.
The Islamists were strong supporters of the Provos dating to the 1970s, with the latter often training in camps in Libya under Qaddafi’s reign. (That part of Patriot Games by Tom Clancy, both book and film, was absolutely accurate.)
As Claire Sterling related in The Terror Network (1981 and still the most useful book on the subject), the Provos plus Ilyich Ramirez Sanchez aka “Carlos” were essentially hired guns for the PLO, Black September, and etc., to an even greater degree than Renko Sikigun (Japanese Red Army) who carried out the Lod Airport attack on 30 May 1972. Mostly because they shared the Palestinian movement’s hatred of the West in general.
They still do. And the Provos never consider women, even Irish Catholic ones, as anything more than useful tools and playthings anyway.
As a rule, leopards do not change their spots.
Neither do terrorist movements.
clear ether
eon