Not my hero

Nor theirs.

Congressional report on Snowden.

He may have been a Russian spy.

He was in any case a traitor.

It's good for you

Not Guinness.

Nature's Own sugar free 100% whole grain bread

Land O' Lakes Light Butter

Hellmann's Light Mayonnaise

I can't believe it's not butter, light

And whole grain and light taste a lot better than they used to.

Picked up a Cuisinart Velocity Ultra blender for under a hundred bucks at Bed, Bath, and Beyond the other day to make Hershey recipe sugar-free Mocha Frappes for the wife.

That thing just destroys ice.

Very effective.

Both cocoa and instant coffee are bitter, so make sure you use flat tablespoons and not heaping ones.

The wife likes 4 packets of Splenda in one iteration of the recipe.

The flap about deplorable supporters

Each side has them, actually.

Open question which is worse, the Dems pandering to the likes of #BLM and supporting the lie that American policing and society are bitterly anti-black or the GOP going squishy on David Duke.

But the Dems and their candidate are for inclusion - "stronger together" - while the GOP is for ethnic cleansing.

Pence fails the test on 'deplorable'

"The viciousness of these Jews is unbelievable.... they are the dominant and dangerous power that exists in the United States of America today." 

Those are the words of former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan David Duke.

We're not reaching way back here: this is from just three months ago when he lashed out at Jewish members of the media who he claimed were "absolutely zeroing in now on Donald Trump." 

Duke, who is publicly supporting Trump, has since declared that voting against Trump is "treason to your heritage."

Pence rejected his support but refused to agree he and those like him are deplorable.

Weird.

It really doesn't get too much more deplorable than that type of anti-Semitic rherotic. 

But when Trump's running mate was asked Monday night by CNN's Wolf Blitzer whether he would call it that, Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence refused. 

Instead, Pence offered a weak response: "We do not want his support and we don't want the support of people who think like him."

Weak?

When Blitzer pushed Pence on whether Duke would "fit into that category of deplorables," Pence remarked, "No," adding, "I'm not in the name-calling business..."

What?

Duke, who recently made robocalls urging voters to support Trump, was apparently pleased at this framing, and praised Pence: 

"It's good to see an individual like Pence and others start to reject this absolute controlled media." 

At this writing, Pence has not denounced even this new round of praise from the former Grand Wizard. 

(To Duke, "controlled" media is code for Jewish-run media.)

The whole story is worth reading.

But so is this, really.

‘American Psycho’ Author Bret Easton Ellis Reads Monologue Blasting SJWs, BLM Pandering, Political Correctness

Hill and The Duce, still tied

Polls at RCP all show them within very few points of each other, some with him ahead and some with her.

Proraso vs. VDH; Weishi vs. VDH.

Several days ago, the puck of VDH scented soap I had been using ran out, and since then I have been using a new, green tub of Proraso, bought some time back, as an experiment.

This morning, annoyed beyond further toleration at its inferior lubrication, I threw the Proraso in the trash.

As another experiment, I bought a puck of VDH unscented that I will use tomorrow.

Supposedly it differs only in lack of scent from the VDH scented, but, interestingly, the scented is white while the unscented is clear.

It may have been just the Proraso soap, but it seems to me the Weishi I just got in the mail from China is as mild as my Feather Popular.

In hopes it would be a little less mild, I bought at VDH at the local Giant Eagle.

Imagine my annoyance to discover it appeared identical in every respect to the Weishi 9306-F.

I had seen information on the web that the VDH razor is made in China and many people thought it similar to other types of Weishi, but I have seen nothing comparing it to the 9306-F, in particular.

I say it's the same razor.

I have already returned the VDH to the Big Bird for a full refund.

And I hope the Weishi will be more effective with the VDH soap than it has been with the Proraso.

Oh, the Proraso left a kind of dull soap scum to be seen on the razor as it dried on the rack, even though I rinse thoroughly after shaving.

The VDH scented did not.

Sweet fifteen

Marius sees Cosette sitting and chatting with Valjean on a bench on a street in Paris.

He is a handsome young man of 20 or so, and Hugo describes her as "sweet fifteen."

There is a moment when girls bloom in a twinkling, and become roses all at once.

Yesterday we left them children, today we find them disturbing."

A glimmer of Nabokov, perhaps.

Though at fifteen she is a shade too old to qualify as one of Humbert Humbert's nymphettes.

Marius falls in love with her, just from seeing her.

Reading Les Miserables.

Weishi 9306-F

Ordered it for 12 bucks, free shipping from China.

It came in the mail yesterday with 15 Dorco blades and a cleaning brush, all in a traveling case.

Reputedly the Merkur 180 and Feather Popular are about equally mild, but I find the Merkur a tad less mild and the Feather a tad too mild.

I am hoping the Weishi will be a bit more like the Merkur than the Feather.

This is not a long handled razor, and so is unlike the Popular and 180 in that respect.

We'll see how this goes.

Fact is, the arthritis in my fingers and thumbs makes me a bit unsteady, which is a reason to use a mild razor.

And it's also turning out to be a reason to use a butterfly rather than a 3-piece, it being simpler to change blades.

Update, 9/14.

Mild as the Feather, but heavier.

Nice shave.

I find I prefer the long handle.

Update 9/28.

It turns out there is a long handled version of this Weishi available.

But I doubt I will buy it.

When?

He thinks Jesus will come again very soon.

Romans, 13:11-14.

14, But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the desires of the flesh.

Obedience to authority

It appears he is writing to the Roman Christians of the Roman authorities.

In his time, the pagan Roman authorities.

Romans 13:1-7.

Why return good for evil from your enemy?

Romans,

12:20b, (Prov 25:21,22) "for by so doing you will heap burning coals upon his head".