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A Short Eclipse Note
Interesting fact that nobody bothers to mention about solar eclipses. It feels about twenty degrees cooler during totality than it does half an hour before or after. This is a good thing during a Tennessee summer.
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Also saw eclipse
Anyway, the park consists of two areas, the Teton range of mountains which goes something like 20-40 miles (30-65km) and has a impressive vertical rise (up to 6000 feet or around 1800 meters) over the second part of the park, a very level valley which runs along the entire east side of the range. There are several lakes in the valley area including the fairly large Jackson Lake of which Colter Bay is a part.
We had scouted the Grand Tetons the day before. The authorities had done a relatively good job of managing the situation. There were five areas where visitors were encouraged to go (which in theory would handle a good portion of the visitors the park was expecting to receive) and everything in the park was scheduled to open at 6am this morning (Mountain Daylight Time). It still sounded like way too many people for too small a space, but I'm not seeing what the park could do better. I guess I'll hear how things went later in news or the local Yellowstone rumor mill.
I and some friends managed to find a vantage point near the marina located there to view both the Tetons with the bay in the foreground and the sky where the Sun would be situated during the eclipse. I'd say about 200-300 other people also found this spot, so it was a bit crowded.
We got lucky, the clouds completely vacated the area around 10am and there were no clouds to interfere with our viewing from start to finish of the full eclipse period (about 3 hours in length).
One interesting aspect was the changing of the sky behind the Tetons. My digital camera didn't do it justice since it automatically adjusted for light levels, but you could see the shadow approaching from the west behind the range and later the lifting of the shadow, providing a sort of weird false dawn near the end of the eclipse.
Prior to this expedition, I had prepared some observation tools. I didn't finish the ambitious scheme I vaguely outlined in this post (ran out of time and energy), but I did come up with a nice, simple projection method (small telescope projecting normal image into a box) by which I could count six sunspots on the Sun and partially melt the plastic frames on two very cheap eyepieces of a very cheap telescope that I acquired for this purpose (when the telescope was off-center, the sunlight going through the scope was brushing the edges of the eyepiece holders). Worth the price, but not a problem that I was aware of from reading up on this sort of telescope design. I didn't bother with it at later stages of the eclipse since I had also brought solar glasses and one could observe the total eclipse itself with the naked eye.
The final interesting aspect of this was the traffic. I have never witnessed heavy traffic so purposeful as today. We must have traveled 50 miles in heavy traffic (on single lane roads) that was at or above the speed limit aside from occasional burps. That is unheard of either in Yellowstone or Grand Tetons National Parks (we started our trip in the former around 4am). Usually some animal ambles onto the road or an RV putters along at 25 MPH, putting a halt to that. Not this time.
Yggdrasil
Race Bias #1 - "Blissful Ignorance"
I began the "Race Bias" series in 1995 in response to a post on the alt.politics.nationalism.white newsgroup to the effect that there was no discrimination in employment, university admissions, or otherwise, against European-Americans.
I was stunned that the regular posters to the group had no instant supply of material to post in reply.
Most regular posters and "lurkers" on the newsgroup, have some first-hand experience with anti-White race preferences. But very few of them are aware of just how pervasive these anti-White preferences have become. Unfortunately, the primary weakness of our defensive political movement is that a commanding plurality of _Whites_ are utterly unaware of it. They have no clue that the nice sounding phrase "Affirmative Action" means the systematic disfavor of Whites and race based preferences for non- whites.
Indeed, it is hard to imagine how a White can grow up in this society and not be aware of the legal and social impediments imposed on him, but a recent survey from the Washington Post found that 41% of Whites think "affirmative action" included benefits for white men. (Affirmative Action for White Guys? Washington Post, Oct. 22, 1995, p. C5.)
A Harte-Hanks Texas Poll conducted for media outlets by UT's Office of Survey Research and reported in the June 29, 1996 Austin American-Statesman (p A1) is consistent with the Washington Post results:
"A vastly lopsided percentage of Texans, eight of 10, oppose giving any consideration to race when admitting students to college. But when asked about affirmative action in general, respondents were more positive than not."
However, when asked "whether affirmative action for minorities and women "has had a positive effect on Texas," the response indicated that most had no clue what the words "affirmative action" really mean:
"Forty-seven percent of the 1,000 respondents either agreed or strongly agreed that affirmative action for minorities has had a positive effect, while 33 percent disagreed or strongly disagreed."
"When asked about affirmative action for women, 59 percent agreed it has had a positive effect on Texas and 23 percent disagreed. The higher percentage favoring affirmative action for women is not surprising, experts said, because women make up half of the population."
Of course, the issue is not whether "affirmative action has had a positive effect on _Texas_" - a proposition that asks the interviewees to speculate on the impact of race preferences on an inanimate parcel of real estate, but whether affirmative action hurts or harms the interviewee.
But the survey itself highlights one of the means by which large institutions hide the truth from Whites. By selecting the term "affirmative action," conjuring images of a little extra recruiting effort to overcome any "information deficit" that non- whites might have in the marketplace, most Whites are kept in the dark.
Only the minority of Whites who read newspapers will know the truth. Those who get their information from TV will be blissfully ignorant.
The problem is that nearly half of this nation's Whites lack the basic vocabulary and the rudimentary facts needed to defend themselves in the political process.
With this in mind, I produced the "Race Bias" series.
I am a firm believer that the people of the Euro-American nation need facts more than they need ideologies. With that in mind, the series has been reorganized and lengthened from the original 30 to a revised 42 posts.
Copy them and circulate them to others!
Yggdrasil-
(As a P.S., I am indebted to "American Renaissance" magazine for reporting the Washington Post survey [Volume 7, Number 4, April, 1996] Subscriptions to American Renaissance are $20.00 per year. Make checks payable to: American Renaissance, P. O. Box 1674 Louisville, KY 40201.)
http://www.whitenationalism.com/rb/rb-01.htm
Moderator Hall of Fame
So, I know you all have read the moderator guidelines and remember the very important "Concentrate more on promoting than on demoting." bit, yes? Well, I went looking for who the worst offenders were against that out of curiousity. I'm not sure it's really proper to shame them here though. You lot can leave your opinions on that here and us staff types will discuss it later.
What I absolutely can and will post are the badasses who have most excellent ratios of upmods to downmods. Without further ado, here's everyone with over a thousand upmods to their credit and a downmod percentage of less than 10%.
+--------------+-----------------+
| percent_down | nickname |
+--------------+-----------------+
| 0.0865 | VLM |
| 0.1188 | anubi |
| 0.1209 | AnonTechie |
| 0.2067 | tonyPick |
| 0.4737 | redneckmother |
| 0.5438 | Reziac |
| 0.6222 | CoolHand |
| 0.6494 | Bobs |
| 0.7171 | WillAdams |
| 0.8937 | McGruber |
| 1.1099 | GlennC |
| 1.1341 | fritsd |
| 1.2910 | maxwell demon |
| 1.3060 | pinchy |
| 1.3723 | HiThere |
| 1.4609 | monster |
| 1.8067 | DannyB |
| 1.8447 | J053 |
| 1.8601 | quacking duck |
| 2.2772 | deimtee |
| 2.4750 | mhajicek |
| 2.5053 | Unixnut |
| 2.6012 | dak664 |
| 2.6693 | zocalo |
| 2.8353 | Yog-Yogguth |
| 2.8932 | rts008 |
| 3.1125 | khchung |
| 3.2325 | The Archon V2.0 |
| 3.5069 | GungnirSniper |
| 3.5307 | canopic jug |
| 3.7419 | Freeman |
| 3.7582 | jelizondo |
| 4.3070 | turgid |
| 4.3096 | hubie |
| 4.5095 | bradley13 |
| 4.8469 | Scruffy Beard 2 |
| 4.9924 | Nerdfest |
| 5.1967 | Kymation |
| 6.1929 | Bloopie |
| 6.2708 | linkdude64 |
| 7.2055 | SpockLogic |
| 7.2575 | acid andy |
| 7.3139 | NotSanguine |
| 7.4517 | Ethanol-fueled |
| 8.5932 | KiloByte |
| 9.5238 | Hawkwind |
| 9.6141 | bart9h |
+--------------+-----------------+
Congrats to VLM. He is currently Da Man.
Well, Shit
So, yesterday I moved my car into The Roomie's parking space, moved my boat out of the yard and into mine, and mowed the yard. All was good and celebratory beer was drank.
Enter today. I go outside for a smoke and while enjoying it I think to myself, "Self, TR's going to be back from his customer service road trip today. You should jockey things back around before he gets home." This sounded like a fine and courteous idea, so I got up and proceeded towards said goal.
Unfortunately when I went to lift up the tongue of my boat trailer (Well balanced. Boat and trailer together weigh maybe 500lbs. Load on my arms maybe 50lbs.) that I'd moved easily the day before and wag it back over into the grass beside TR's boat. For some unknown reason, my back takes that specific moment to remind me that I started having birthdays beyond my 40th within the past few years; or, to put it more succinctly, it just shit right out on me.
Damned traitorous body parts. If it weren't for all the skills and wisdom you tend to pick up along the way, I'd say getting older sucked.
This has put me entirely not in the mood to bandy words with my peers and adversaries. My apologies to those who will likely never know how utterly wrong some comment of theirs is. To those in need of mocking, leave a note here and I'll get to you as soon as the pain's lessened enough to think through. See you lot in a week or so, I expect.
Stupid @Scaramucci!
Wow, @Scaramucci is the worst kind of loser -- a total fool. Threw the White House into complete chaos. Screw him, he's FIRED!
I decided to ban the transgenders!
I've been following with great interest and great concern the news about the murder of Dee Whigham, a known transgender. She was stabbed 119 times, and her throat was slashed. It's become clear to me that transgenders cannot defend themselves. How, then, can they defend our great country? After consultation with my Generals and military experts, please be advised that the United States Government will not accept or allow Transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military. Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail. God bless!
I killed it in Poland! Fantastic editorial in the WSJ!
Friends, I totally killed it with my performance in Warsaw! Terrific, terrific editorial in the WSJ! They say I'm like Pope Benedict XVI! The Pope who resigned. Said I'm defined. I haven't even been lifting and they said that. So chuffed! Read it on my blog➡️ 45.wh.gov/gSYLnz
@NPR condones liberal violence!
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So, NPR is calling for revolution. Interesting way to condone the violence while trying to sound "patriotic". Your implications are clear.
