Waiting for the bus.
Then we pop up to the silly market with Anne and Kevin. Wendy and I walk back and have a lazy afternoon.
Life is good here in paradise. Free coffee at PCMR base. Wot no snow! Have to settle for sun, hiking, biking, kayaking and archery.
As they say you come for the winter but stay for the summer.
A few more EU jokes to help our BREXIT negotiators deal with this bureaucratic monster:
The Temple Salt lake.
–Why did Ikea stop opening stores in the Netherlands? – They couldn’t afford the free pencils anymore.
Germans make a lot of fun about the Dutch and people living in East Frisia, a German region closed to Netherlands. They depict the Dutch either as marijuana smokers, skinflint or slow drivers on motorways (typically with a caravan attached to their car). Germans particularly laugh at the Dutch accent (Read more in French).
Poland

On German people
– What is the name of this German who always hides my glasses?
-Alzheimer, grandpa!
A bit like in Ireland against England, Poles fought back in response to German jokes by inventing their own jokes. With the long historical struggle they had with their neighbor, and the sources for jokes they could find in Nazi regime, Polish people went to make jokes on Germans, depicting them as authoritarians, not good-looking and bad lovers (Read more in French).
Switzerland

Salt Lake Temple square
“Why is the Austrian flag ‘red-white-red’?
– So that they can’t raise it upside-down.
For linguistic reasons, Swiss-Germans frequently make fun of Austrians, depicting them as dumb, provincial and foolish (Read more in French).

On Belgian people
– Did you know the Belgian Ministry of Transport has introduced a new sign?
– It reads “End of Roundabout”.
Swiss living in the French-speaking area tend to vehicle the same jokes as French people about Belgians. It is interesting to notice that Swiss-French depict Belgians just as Swiss-Germans depict Austrians (Read more in French).
Italy

State Capitol building
It is urgent that we name our enemy (i.e. Islamic Jihad) and definitively identify what ideology inspires our enemy (i.e. Islamic law)
Once the truth is accepted that jihadis are inspired and sanctioned by their Islamic texts, it must logically become required that mosques, Islamic schools and groups have to immediately curtail any teaching that motivates sedition, violence, and hatred of unbelievers (i.e. remember how CAIR advised Muslims not to talk to the FBI).
After the July 7, 2005, London subway bombing by Muslim terrorists that killed 52 people, the British MI5 undertook its own highly sophisticated study, examining hundreds of cases. But the UK’s security agency discovered that terrorists are a wildly diverse lot. They worshipped at a variety of different mosques, for example.
Some terrorists were very religious Muslims and some barely practicing. Most were men, but some were women. There were young and old terrorists, highly educated as well as uneducated, some loners and some married with children.
So, according to MI5, the predictive power of every factor is very low — other than: Is a Muslim.
Don’t get me wrong I love it here in America and we have some awesome American friends. But how the hell does anything ever get done. Trying to organise anything with commercial organisations is an absolute nightmare. No one rings back. They haven’t a clue. They can’t make a decision, have rounder shoulders than the hunchback of Notre Dam. They have the organisational skill and enterprise of a blind and deaf sloth. Trump must be ripping his orange mane out, if my experiences are anything to go by.
These ditherers and clusterfucks seem to be using a croissant as a dildo. It just doesn’t do the job and makes a mess.
As if to make my point. A superb example of intelligence in action. A few of these drivers are obviously a beer short of a six-pack.
It really is time for some brown envelopes (that’s a pink slip in American)
Totem pole carved into a tree next to the Bear House on the ski slopes.
Out for a 09:00 bike ride. Scouting out a leisure bike ride from Boneyard to the hospital. Coffee at the hospital and then ride back to the Boneyard. Should make a good leisure ride and ends at a pub.
Then Bob picks us up for a “Death March” up to the Deer Valley Bear House. Straight up the ski run. A sure way for a coronary. I’d rather come down one. Reward ourselves with a beer on the deck at the “No Name Saloon”. Relaxing up there watching the world go by. As Bob would say “I wonder what the poor people are doing?”.
Time for a short speech.
– What do you call an Italian with his hands in his pocket?
– A mute
Italians don’t seem to have a peculiar national target for their jokes. They do have some jokes about French, German and English, but not to the same way as other countries have with their neighbors. On the other hand, Italians have a lot of jokes about themselves, their Moms, their FIAT and their policemen. Click on the link to see the now famous joke about an Italian who went to Malta. It’s worthwhile (Read more in French).
Austria

On German people
The Prime Ministers of Germany and Austria met to exchange notes.
– How are things in Germany? asked the Prime Minister of Austria.
Trout stream inside the Mall.
– Well, in Germany the situation is serious, he said, but not hopeless.
– In Austria the situation is hopeless, the Austrian Prime Minister replied, but not serious.
The Austrians have lots of jokes that emphasize how disorderly and happy-go-lucky they are compared to their Teutonic neighbors (Read more in French).
Czech Republic

On Slovak people
“The Slovak language has been invented by Stur has he was drunk and tried to translate Russian to Czech”
When Slovak and Czech people tell jokes, they actually tend to laugh at each other, but most of the cases, they tell the same jokes exactly. The jokes often insist on the few differences between their languages, since they have sometimes misunderstandings due to linguistic differences. The fact they both tell these jokes proves that they have the same humor and they understand perfectly the expressions used (Read more in French).
Slovakia

John Cleese on Political correctness and Islam.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z9CnkLAB1mw&feature=em-hot-vrecs
Free Deer valley concert. Picnic and wine.
Try pumping my bike tyres up. One explodes, I nearly die of fright.
In the evening it’s a free concert at Deer Valley with Bob and Marilyn. Picnic and beer on the lawn.
On Czech people
Down town Salt Lake
The Slovak man buys a Mercedes-Benz.
The Polskie man buys a BMW.
And the Czech man buys a Trabant.
Slovaks have many jokes about Czech people mainly dealing with backwardness, robberies and sexual deviance. Some jokes imply that Czech people are ignorant to the scientific and technological advances of other countries. Others imply that Czechs are heavy drinkers who choose to drink before they think in life or death situations (Read more in French).
Lithuania

Deer valley concert.
– Why is that in Estonia young mothers change their children’s nappy only once a day?
– Because there is a note written on the packet: up to 4 kg.
Lithuanians often make jokes about Estonians telling about how stupid and slow they are. Most of the jokes actually insist on the excessive slowness of Estonians. A scholar, Arvo Krikmann, even published a paper in which he analyzed the frequency of the supposed Estonian slowness in Baltic jokes (Read more in French).
Wendy having a 16 year old moment as she enjoys the free concert
UN elects Saudi Arabia to UN agency “dedicated to promotion of gender equality and empowerment of women”
The Geneva-based human rights group UN Watch condemned the U.N.’s election of Saudi Arabia, “the world’s most misogynistic regime,” to a 2018-2022 term on its Commission on the Status of Women, the U.N. agency “exclusively dedicated to the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women.”
“Electing Saudi Arabia to protect women’s rights is like making an arsonist into the town fire chief,” said Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch. “It’s absurd.”
Don’t mess with my harem.
In the afternoon I’m instructing archery with the NAC. As we only have one student and two instructors we have a fun afternoon shooting and trying different bows.
Happy Independence Day everyone – let’s hope our bed wetting politicians deliver and don’t sell us out.
Solitude resort.
Stop off to do a short hike up to the top of Jupiter Bowl but abandon play when we encounter snow on the trail.
Silver lake.
Have a picnic lunch at Solitude and stop off for coffee and a tour around the camping fair at Snowbird.
In the evening Wendy and I go to the TGIF with Bob.
The record-breaking heat that made 2016 the hottest year ever recorded has continued into 2017, pushing the world into “truly uncharted territory”, according to the World Meteorological Organisation.
The WMO’s assessment of the climate in 2016, published on Tuesday, reports unprecedented heat across the globe, exceptionally low ice at both poles and surging sea-level rise.
Global warming is largely being driven by emissions from human activities, but a strong El Niño – a natural climate cycle – added to the heat in 2016. The El Niño is now waning, but the extremes continue to be seen, with temperature records tumbling in the US in February and polar heatwaves pushing ice cover to new lows.
“Even without a strong El Niño in 2017, we are seeing other remarkable changes across the planet that are challenging the limits of our understanding of the climate system. We are now in truly uncharted territory,” said David Carlson, director of the WMO’s world climate research programme.
Awesome mountains.
Wendy and Anne get their weekly fix at the supermarket whilst I take a bike ride down to Quinns Junctions and back to the Boneyard. Just miss running over a snake.
I get a long chat with Jasper. Such a happy chap.
Wendy volunteers at the Christian Centre in the afternoon whilst I nip up to Campos for some coffee. Get a free coffee sat out on their deck enjoying the sunshine and watching the World go by.
Sharia is the problem
A stroll through the mountains.
Sharia is an inherently violent, totalitarian doctrine derived from the Koran and other sacred Islamic texts.
The authorities of Islam declare Sharia to be the true faith. They regard non-adherent Muslims as perverters of Islam and apostates, deserving death.
Many Muslims reject Sharia. But hundreds of millions adhere to Sharia and, thus, to its intolerance and jihad.
The sacred texts of Islam and authoritative renderings of Sharia make clear that jihad is “holy war” against infidels.
Supremacist mosques are multipurpose facilities, used for worship and recruiting and equipping jihadists.
It is not irrational to fear terrifying jihadism. Sharia is intolerant, hateful and requires infidels’ submission.
The Muslim Brotherhood seeks to “destroy Western civilization from within.” It and other Sharia-supremacist groups are enemies, not an ally.
Insistence on not offending Muslims restricts free expression and clear understanding, deterring people who “see something” from saying anything.
We face a global jihad movement that has no counterpart among returning veterans, Tea Party activists, etc.