Inside the insurrection machine

Andy Ngo: "I Got Inside the Signal Chats Used by Far-Left Extremists in Minnesota—Here’s What I Saw".

In recent weeks, numerous Antifa-linked revolutionary anarchist collectives have promoted organizing guides that explicitly instruct extremists on how to carry out obstructionist campaigns. These materials consistently recommend the encrypted messaging app Signal as the primary tool for coordination. Alex Pretti and Renee Good, two militant leftist activists shot dead this month, may have been part of these groups.

Good stuff, on some very bad stuff, indeed.

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Young Mike Wallace, before he became a pimp for the Left, advertising "Golden Fluffo". It just seems so...right.

Btw, I stumbled across this commercial while watching an episode of an old police procedural called Code Red. Since we retired, Mrs. Paco and I have had a lot of fun discovering (in some cases, rediscovering) TV shows from the fifties and early sixties: Code THREE (Note: I had originally typed "Code Red"), One Step Beyond, Ben Casey, and some of the anthology series that were so popular back in the day, such as Four Star Theater and Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater. I really enjoy the anthology series because they feature stand-alone stories and some very well-known actors: Dick Powell, David Niven, Charles Boyer, Dan Duryea, Joan Crawford, Ida Lupino, Ronald Reagan, just to name a handful.

Intruder

We brought our Meyers lemon tree in for the winter, and Mrs. Paco was watering it when she found this thing skulking around the bottom of the pot...

The photo isn't very good (the old girl started trying to scurry away when I closed in on her with the camera), but I think you should be able to make out the red hourglass figure: the unmistakable sign of a black widow.

Normally when I see bugs and spiders in the house, I try to capture them and put them outside; however, I wasn't taking any changes with this one, so it was sent packing to spider heaven.

Worcestershire sauce

This stuff was under discussion here recently, so here's a video on its history and how it's manufactured.

Mrs. Paco uses it as one of the ingredients in the marinade she makes for my beef jerky (the others are, as I recall, soy sauce and pineapple juice, as well as salt and pepper).

Classical corner

In honor of Australian Day (which was yesterday, in Australia), here's a selection ("Spirit of the Wind") from Australian composer John Antil's ballet, Corroboree.

To our mates in Australia

Happy Australia Day! (I believe it is Monday over there, now).

Gregory at The mind is an unexplored country has prepared a list of interesting Australian facts for our edification. Here's a particularly fascinating datum: "91% of the country is covered by native vegetation. Too much of the remainder is covered by idiot politicians."

So, have fun driving your Utes around in the bush, and try not to fall into a billabong!

Sunday funnies

 

Minnesota Arrests Churchgoers For Interrupting Protest

So, you say you want a husky.

Or you could just stay in your car.

Yes, some of us never grow out of it.

More Soviet humor.

Fluffy's gone.

From Powerline's The Week in Pictures.