Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for October 16, 2021

Playing in the fall leaves. !!

Lemont (Candorville) sometimes gets bashed when HE gives someone an FYI…

Lemont (Candorville) has experience with this issue. It usually doesn’t work out so well for him…

FYI… rules and mandate ARE NOT the same thing. So pls do not go around Karening!

I rarely sleep against a tree by the sidewalk.

Monty Python’s sketch with the Bruces: “Rule Six — there is NO Rule Six!”

The rules are that there are no mandates!

The mandates are that there are rules!

A mandate and a rule can mean (basically) the same thing.

However, a mandate does seem to imply more of an authoritarian and dictatorial nature.

Some (especially recent) mandates seem to go well beyond the authority intended or authorized for that mandate-maker.

And they seem to violate the rights and ignore the needs of many individuals and groups of people.

FYI: I don’t need a man date, I need a woman date. A girly-themed outing rather than something DH wants to do…

or a nap. Nap is good, too.

And mandates are definitely not laws, although there are those who seem to think so.

All “mandates” are “rules”, but not all “rules” are “mandates”.

Anyone can author a “rule” (although it seems that some “rules” can only be authored by beings with “thumbs”).

But for a “rule” to be a “mandate” requires that there be an authority to enforce it.

Anti-mandaters live by anti-madater mandates.

Nobody like a busy body.

A mandate requires some positive action. Not all rules are mandates. The woman is wrong. Saying, “No mandates” is making a rule but is no “mandate”.

Ah, a snooze in the leaves. Damp, cool and with bugs exploring your body, while you sleep. Heaven.

Japanese admiral, post-Pearl Harbor: “I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant, filling him with a terrible resolve.” (From this morning’s WSJ.) Ms. D sleeps resolutely.

Danae follows my views on the subject: the only rules are the ones I mandate.

Danae practices for her eventual Federal government career.

I think the term “mandate” has been misapplied in the context of masking and vaxxing. Government and non-government organizations cannot and do not mandate masking or vaxxing. However, they can, and often do, have rules denying entry or employment to those who could endanger others by being unmasked and/or unvaxxed in a particular. In other words, we can’t mandate you to protect yourself and your household, but we can set rules to protect others by keeping you away.

Not in Texas! Where free speech is tightly regulated, the right to life means you can freely get other people sick and maybe die, and people can do what they want as long as they don’t get pregnant.

Pedantic Karens are everywhere.

There outta be a law

When Danae gets a little older, she’ll be playing lead guitar and doing vocals in a Joan Jett tribute band.

Can you see Danae knockin’ out this one?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nO6YL09T8Fw

That mandate will cost you 600 to initiate

FYI (There’s one example that “good” taste bars me from using.)…https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FYI_(disambiguation)

More of a guideline than a rule.

A mandate is when two guys who aren’t gay go out to do “guy stuff.”

If someone is upset by someone else pointing out their name or making a harmless joke about it, they are in fact being a karen. Thin skin much ?

She’s seeking a writ of mandamus/ to confront the next ignoramus/ for she wisely foresees/ there’ll be plenty of these./ She’s a regular Nostradamus.

Heh, Danae just met her older self.

Danae’s MIND is made up.

Do not confuse her by pointing out Inconsistencies in her Logic.

The word doesn’t seem to have been common in the common man’s (person’s) commentary until Nixon’s campaigns for national office. He kept saying publicly that the people who elected him thereby gave him a mandate to enact the policies he espoused, which he had promised as part of his campaigns.

P