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Right Angle: Backstage (09-21-2021)

Scott struggles to get his foot in the door on this Backstage episode of Right Angle.

Right Angle: Backstage (09-21-2021)

Scott struggles to get his foot in the door on this Backstage episode of Right Angle. Your contribution made this show. Thanks.

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I’m very late posting here, getting caught up after returning home to North Carolina. Thank you folks for the kind words about our SL episode. As you could tell, Bill and I had a great time telling stories and my belly laughs were great medicine for today’s situation. All 4 of you (including Zo here) are a great team and it is always a valuable experience when my wife and I watch the shows.

Steve, re: the photos of the Haitian refugee roundup in Del Rio by the mounted Border Patrol officers…the still photos are frame grabs from videos. There is quite a lot of video of the incident out there, you might have to dig around for it. The video makes it pretty obvious that what was happening was a long way from what was being reported.

My particular favorite is when Norm Macdonald went on The View and talked about the Clintons having people killed and kept bringing it up and acted as though it were common knowledge. Another time he went on and had somebody call him on his phone during the show. He said in an interview later that he couldn’t stand them and just did this to mess with them.

I just saw that interview and it was a family member of some sort that interviewed him. It’s even funnier knowing he did it on purpose.

Scott — I had the same issue, after my knee’s went out I switched to walking 8 – 12 miles a day. The pain was in the top of my foot where the toe bones originate. Tried cortisosne injections — VERY painful without results. My solution was a size larger and wider shoe with an orthodic insert. Pain free for three years now

Riff on the “if you were 2000 years old, this wouldn’t seem so bad”:
“Hey, Harry. We’re gonna take the boat out to Krakatoa this weekend. Wanna come along?”
“Nah, I can’t. Gotta paint the hovel or the wife’s gonna explode…”

Doesn’t the sunrise over Mt. Vesuvius look great today. I have a feeling this will be a memorable day.

We could compare the totalitarian takeover here today with the several times in history when a real one took place and there were literal bodies in the streets. 1/6 was nothing like heady days of 1789 in France or a few different times in England. Various sieges and sackings of capitals and major cities or the simpler times of the Dutch Tulip bubble. Spain went through a fairly bad debt bubble too when the gold from the new world screwed up their economy like the fiat money supply is doing to us.
It will be a great segment to quote Solomon “there is nothing new under the sun.”

Wasn’t there another of those type of show on a few years ago? I wanted to watch, but it was on a subscription service I didn’t have.
Galavant! That was it! A satire of swashbucklers set in the middle ages.

Galavant was very funny. Had Carlton Lassiter from Psych as the king. And if you’ve never watched Psych, give it a chance.

I have a whip. A 10 foot, 18 strand red kangaroo hide bullwhip with swivel, a weighted butt and a 14 inch fall with a cracker on the end of the fall. It’s hanging on the wall directly behind where I sit.

It’s not that I think I’m Indiana Jones or some silly crap like that, I owned and used that kind of whip long before anyone ever heard of Indiana Jones.

I’ve used that sort of whip off and on since I was a kid on the farm. My dad taught me. Back in his day everyone from our background and part of the country knew how to use that sort of whip. Learning to use it was a painful process in the everyday life of a kid in that situation. Learning to use it will put some painful welts on you in the process, it’s just how that works. We used them on livestock. But it works exactly the same on humans.

From watching the video of those CBP guys and how they ride I’m pretty sure each and every one of them knows how to use a whip like that too, and probably has done so in an earlier life.

For you who may not be familiar with that particular tool, you don’t use it to slap or stroke the target with the whip body. That’s a different kind of whip, look up “sjambok” for that kind.

With a bullwhip, colloquially often referred to as a “blacksnake”, the whip tip when properly applied breaks the speed of sound. It makes a distinctive “crack” that sounds a lot like a gun going off. On thick hided livestock it raises a bloody weal or cut and hurts like hell. You don’t do that to your animals unless you absolutely have to so you use the “crack” to move them about. The sound of a gunshot going off a couple inches from an ear is usually enough to achieve the desired result with a recalcitrant animal without physically injuring it. Of course to do that you have to be fairly accurate.

It’s not just the effect on hide that hurts either. You are effectively, because of the construction of such a whip, wielding a very long lever that multiples the force of your own arm and upper body concentrating that force in a very small area where the cracker impacts …

One time when I was about 10 or so my Dad and I were working on a fence in a pasture. We had a hereford bull in that pasture. The bull came over to where we were working and started prancing, pacing and stopped, put his head down and pawed at the ground with a front hoof. That means “I’m about to kill you”, if you’re not familiar with bull behavior. This can be a good thing when the bull is facing a predator to protect his herd, it’s not such a good thing when he does that to a human being so …

I was staring transfixed at the bull. I heard a very fast “swish, CRACK!” and saw the whip stroke catch that bull square between the eyes. It knocked a two ton bull to his front knees and laid his forehead wide open. He stood up again, shook his head and wandered off like nothing had happened, never to menace us again.

My Dad said, “I bet he doesn’t try that again.” and we went back to work.

That’s why they call it a “bullwhip”.

When we finished we drove the bull into a pinch gate and sprayed some purple antiseptic stuff in the wound. He recovered without any problem and had a nice scar to remind him that people were not for goring or stomping. Concerning two or more tons of agile, amazingly strong beef — It’s a good idea to make sure it knows who’s boss.

The reason I’m telling you all this is because I would like to post here an open invitation. Any journalist who thinks those Haitians were being whipped is welcome to stop by any time and I would be more than happy to demonstrate on them what an actual whipping looks and feels like. After they sign a release form and understanding that the scar will be permanent and obvious.

Then they’ll know the difference between a CBP agent on horseback rounding up and moving Haitians in comparison to actually whipping them.

They’ll never take you up on it. The modern breed of “journalists” are long on opinion, expert on everything, and absolutely ignorant of any real knowledge.
You weren’t there, (neither were they) so you can have absolutely no knowledge of what (they imagine) rally happened.

That all is certainly true, but my offer still stands. Really, I don’t mind helping them out. Not even a little bit.

🙂

I used to ride with a split rein like they were using, hardly a whip. I still have that Bridle.

Me too, though I don’t have any bridles or riding gear laying around any more. I still have a real, no-shit bullwhip though.

Anything of any substance can be used to hit someone. A chair is a chair until it’s a cudgel. A baseball bat is a piece of sports gear until it’s used as a club. An axe is a woodworking tool until you use it to chop someone to bits. A screwdriver is a tool until it’s used as a stiletto. Etc.

You can slap a person with a split rein if you can reach him but that still doesn’t make a rein a whip. I used my belt as required for extreme disciplinary situations with my kids*. That doesn’t make a belt a whip either. A whip has a very specific mechanism that is used for a very particular function.

What I was responding to with my explanation of what a real whip is, how it’s made and used, is a reaction to several commentators on the news who actually used the term “bullwhip”.

There are no bullwhips visible in the video or the stills taken from the video. The reporter/cameraman who took the pictures said there were no whips and no one was being whipped or struck with reins while he was there.

No one was being whipped. That is a flat out lie.

(*A total of 3 times between two boys, one of them didn’t need a repetition of the lesson and one did. I hated doing that, kept track of how many times I had to do it, and still remember each event clearly to this day decades later. I wear wide belts, always, because over the years there have been many times there’s been a holster riding on my belt. The holster and the weight filling it are much more comfortable and secure on a wide belt than on a narrow one. So I would double that belt over when it needed to be used for disciplinary situations. That makes the belt create a satisfying, psychologically significant “smack” when it hits and you don’t need to hit really hard to get it to do that. I never left welts on my kids butt-cheeks and though I’m sure the experience wasn’t painless it wasn’t brutality either.)

Going on the record now, there is video of the border patrol on horseback. But it doesn’t support the chosen narrative and has not yet been published.

I guess there are still a majority of people, or at least “journalists” who think there are, that don’t realize that mainstream media writes fiction – bad fiction at that.

There is one version of the video that starts with Norm on Dennis Miller’s show. DM basically saying that laying into OJ for the better part of a year is what got Norm fired. The boss was friends with OJ.

“Man I am gonna tell you that is some bad luck …… when the one guy that would’ve died for you, kills you.”
~Norm

Stopping at 11:30 in for a request before I forget.
Palate cleanser topic for you gents. Favorite comic strips.
Far side / Calvin and Hobbes / Bloom Country way back when / others. Spend 20 minutes talking comics and then another 20 minutes talking cartoons. Give all of us a good chuckle for a week, please.

A single payer medical system is coming to a town near you. Get ready for the reality where all that is available is something between crappy service and zero service. Obama and Biden have single-handedly destroyed our nation.

Headline today: the agents involved in the “infamous whipping photo” have been placed on desk duty ‘pending the outcome of an investigation’.
1) Just what we need. Taking experienced agents out of the field and parking them on desk-duty for some political witch hunt when they’re most needed in the field.
2) Who else believes that they will be disciplined/fired for “optics” reasons?
Idiocy…

Do you mean the border patrol or the “there are no blacks in Texas so if someone did not have vax papers to get into a NY restaurant, they gotta be a white Trump MAGA moron?”
Not sure what you call a double two-fer, but sterotyping Texans, and then having a brain lock on whether you can call blacks bad names for not having the shot or excusing them because they’re black.

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