September 13, 2026
Trump Turns Mandarin Chicken
Timothy Birdnow
Trump turns Mandarin Chicken.
We want money coming in here, and the jobs, but not at the expense of China crawling around in our country and putting cars on our streets which will let the Chicoms spy on us. Every Chinese car will probably have a camera on it transmitting data to them.
Hopefully this was just a throwaway line to make him look reasonable in the negotiations with Red China.
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GiggleGate Then and Now
Timothy Birdnow
Gigglegate has gone viral and the heat is now on AOC and whatshisface Mamdani for yoking it up on 911.
This is not new for Democrats. I would remind everyone of Bill Clinton, who, at the funeral for Ron Brown, was caught on camera in high form until he saw the camera then he quickly pulled his hand to his eye as if wiping away tears.
The Demo-Left really doesn't care about the things normal, decent people care about. They care about themselves. Why should AOC, who has shown she hates America, be respectful on the 25th anniversary of the murder of thousands of Americans (far more than the 3000 who died on that day - so many more have died from lingering effects.)
Would you buy a used car from these people? If not, why do you let them rule over you?
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Canada Looking to Join E.U.
Timothy Birdnow
The Canucks think it's bad how America charges them tariffs now - wait until they get entrapped in the web of regulations under the E.U.
My prediction is, if the next President stays the course, Canada will break up and there won't be a Canada in the next ten years or so. It's always been economically unviable and they are taking in huge numbers of aliens from the Third World. If they end trade with the U.S. and move toward the E.U. they will find themselves trapped in a byzantine bureaucracy and the cost of everything will rise. Quebec will secede, followed by Alberta. Eventually just Ontario and maybe Manitoba will be all that remains of Canada. The Atlantic Provinces will probably apply for annexation to the U.S., as will Alberta (we should take Alberta but not the Atlantic Provinces or any other piece of Canada except maybe the Yukon Territory - the rest will be solid Democrats and they will turn the U.S. into Canada Lite.)
So good luck to you Canyuk, yuk, yuk's; you don't have the economic power to be successful on your own without the U.S. And the E.U. won't give you squat. The E.U. is a taker and not a maker. It's why your parent country Britain voted to leave it.
Carney is attempting to make closer ties without actually joining, but you know that is exactly where they will go. There won't be a lot of choice if they are to make this work. I believe Carney knows it too but is not going to admit it so as not to anger rank-and-file Canadians.
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MSNOW Tries to Launch New Russian Collusion Hoax
Timothy Birdnow
I can attest to this. I've been arguing with idiots on Facebook and they are trying to recycle this bogus charge.
Apparently MessNOW (formerly MSNBC) "found" some obscure video fakes showing mostly minor celebrities calling Democrats demons and other over-the-top stuff and they are claiming Donald Trump made this stuff in the East Wing of the White House with Russian assistance to subvert the upcoming elections. Putin snuck down there with Trump and together they plotted this carefully crafted campaign to trick Democrats into voting Republican. Trump brought the hair gel and Putin the Vodka!
Oh, and Big Oil paid for the catering.
THAT is how stupid they think we are at MSNOW.
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Merz Pulling His Bundeszwang
Timothy Birdnow
In Germany Chancellor Merz is pulling his Bundeszwang, attempting to use federal power to overturn the election results in Saxony that saw the conservtive AFD win power.
Bundeszwang is the German word for Article 37 of Germany’s Basic Law, which means the Federal government can coerce ie. overrule the election. This provision in the constitution has never been used in the history of the post-war German republic.
These ruling class types will do anything to hold onto power, and if that means something unprecedented, a pure power grab, they will do it.
Meanwhile other Euroweenies have actually weighed in on this issue in defense of the AFD and the rights of the People to choose the government that rules over them. A number of them sent a letter to the U.N. over the matter.
The WEF types are seeing their empire start to dissolve and are in a panic about it. THEY wanted all the immigration, to replace the citizenry with compliant worker-drones and wanted to offer ease and leisure on the backs of immigrant Muslims. But the working class got the big glass shaft and the People did not want to go quietly into that good night while the elites got richer and eliter. That is why the Reform Party is doing so well in Britain, it's why Marine Le Pen is doing well in France and why the AFD is rising in Germany. Oh, and why MAGA exploded in America, overturning the carefully constructed open border policies and Agenda 21 stupidity both parties pursued until Trump.
I expected this to happen; the ruling class was going to try to veto elections when they didn't go their way. They succeeded in 2020, putting their boy in office in the U.S., for instance. Now Merz is going to try the direct approach, simply nullifying any laws passed by the AFD in Saxony.
Someone really needs to call for new elections in Germany to replace the Chancellor.
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The Importance of Second Amendment Rights
Timothy Birdnow
Herre is the feel good story of the day!
Normandy Mo. is next door to Ferguson and is home to the University of Missouri St. Louis (UMSL). The south side of Normandy is a slum, but the north side is a college town, and right down the roaf from downtown Ferguson.
The reason that homeowner had a weapon is that Missouri has zero regulations on firearms. You read that right; anyone can just go buy a gun (except a felon) and can either open carry or concealed carry as they please.
So the homeowner was armed and able to defend himself when this thug invaded his home. The Uzi-toting invader was said to be riddled with bullet holes and died in the hospital.
Mess ith the bull you get the horns.
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September 12, 2026
Never Admit
Timothy Birdnow
Sharia in Virginia.
What the HELL has happened to America? Never Forget is now Never Admit.
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Everybody But the American People Knew About Osama
Timothy Birdnow
What we had here was a failure to communicate...
CIA Bombshell Exposes Bush Was Warned About Bin Laden, Clinton Knew About Airplane Plot
I remember 911 when Bush was reading to those children; he looked stunned, he looked grave, but he didn't look surprised. I suspected we had some intel that this MIGHT happen. No details but just that it could happen. And the way the laws were set up we didn't have any real way to address a potential threat.
We knew Bush was briefed on an unspecified threat by Bin Laden, but it turns out Clinton had been likewise briefed and the CIA knew all along that Bin Laden was going to do something quite terrible.
Of course the twin towers were a prime target; Islamic terrorists had attacked it back during the Clinton era and we just barely foiled the plot then (using a truck bomb).
At any rate this was a failure of the intelligence community and so much of it stemmed from a wall of separation between agencies.
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Taxation without Copulation is Tyranny
Timothy Birdnow
The Ukraine is planning to legalize pornography and tax it to raise money for the war.
They really ae coming to the end of the line.
Taxation without copulation is tyranny!
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Ancient Chinese Secret: Border Computer Switcharoo
Timothy Birdnow
Somebody please explain to me how a Chinese national winds up working as a border officer at the U.S./Canadian border?
If this guy was taking out computer parts and replacing them it wasn't for no reason. He's a spy and should be charged with espionage.
But why was he there in the first place? It's insane we have foreigners working for the border patrol. That is like making an atheist Pope.
From the Gateway Pundit article:
"Terry "Jiajia” Liu, 39, of Calais, Maine, described himself as a native of Guangzhou, China. He worked as a CBP supervisor at the Calais Port of Entry, with duties stretching to the Ferry Point and Milltown crossings.
CBP officers are required to be U.S. citizens. According to The Maine Wire, Liu has posted images suggesting he voted in 2020. That does not answer the question every American should be asking: how did a man from Guangzhou end up with after-hours access to Homeland Security computers on the northern border?"
Seems this fellow voted, too.
So why was this guy stealing these parts and replacing them with cheaper ones? He claimed:
"Liu admitted to the FBI on September 9 that he used CBP parts in Newegg’s trade-in program for store credit. First he said he was trying to make the computers "more efficient.”'
Naturally he'll say that; he will get far less jail time if it was a crime of profit and not espionage. But I believe that about as much as I believe in the Tooth Fairy.
This is just the guy who got caught; how many others are out there and working on behalf of the People's Republic of China? This is what open borders and a policy that hires and promotes foreigners over Americans gets you.
The Romans did this same thing, hiring Germans to guard their borders from other Germans. We know how well that worked out. Rome died as a result.
Fools run this country, or did at any rate.
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You Can Cut Off Her Breasts but By God you had Better not Take Her to Church
Timothy Birdnow
But just one parent can approve the dousing of kids with sex hormones to change them into the opposite sex and there isn't anything the other parent can do about it.
This is in Maine.
So one father, not mother, may set the rules about how this kid is to be raised in terms of religious beliefs. But if she wants to cut off her breasts, or her teachers want that, in Maine it will happen and the mother will have no say, nor the father if he is the one who disagrees.
Cumberland County Judge Jennifer Nofsinger, who issued the ruling in 2024, is a lesbian who issued the order giving full control of the 13 year old girl's religious activity.
The Maine supreme court ruled in favor of the lower court, calling this ruling "in the child's best interest" and completely ignoring the First Amendment and multiple court rulings, including several from the U.S. Supreme Court.
Here is the salient point on this; the parents were never married. Emily Bickford and Matthew Bradeen had the baby out of wedlock and agreed to parent the child jointly. Under any normal circumstance the mother would be given preference ove the father but Miss Bickford was decent and gave him joint custody. For that she paid this price.
In a case like this the mother almost always gets first say.
The man apparently was one of THOSE kind; he and the mother fought over not just the child's baptism but her vaccinations; the mother did not want the child receiving the Covid vaccine, nor the vax for HPB. The father insisted on those.
But what really cheesed him off - and got the court's goat too -- was that she took the daughter to the church and then provided "no additional details". What does that even mean? He doesn't have fingers and access to a computer? He could have looked at their website. He could have visited the place. But somehow she was in the wrong for not giving a lot of details about the church?
And then she put him on speaker in front of the daughter, who wanted to get baptized, so that the kid could invite her dad to the ceremony. Oh, the horror! What evil is this woman trying to conjure up?
So now the courts have awarded full authority to the father over the kid's religious development, and cut the mother out SOLELY BECAUSE SHE IS A CHISTIAN. That is absolutely unacceptable and I hope the Supreme Court of the United States will hear this case. It's disgraceful this is happening in America.
If the little girl had wanted to transition to a boy and the mother had done it without input from the old man no doubt the courts would have ruled in her favor. But because she wants to save he child's soul she's now unfit.
Fair is foul and foul is fair. The Left has turned the values of this country inside-out.
Being a Christian used to be a good thing. Now it's considered unholy and evil. The Luciferians are now running America.
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Injectable Liver
Timothy Birdnow
But have they perfected the onions to go with them?
I, like Hannibal Lecter, will take mine with a fine Chianti'...
Actually this is a wonderful development; there is no help for a failing liver now. In fact one could say the liver is the wurst.
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Fake Consensus and Turncoats
Timothy Birdnow
I wrote this as a rebuttal to a Gang Greener in the wee hours of the morning and can't find his comment to which I responded. Oh well; it may be of some benefit to you anyway:
"The flip side of a manufactured consensus is "denial.” Questioning the faux consensus and in particular the flip of Dr. Muller is reasonable because the organization for which he works Berkeley Earth is an NGO whose funding increases by releasing climate alarmist data sets. It clearly has a vested interest and it's data is suspect as a result. Berkeley Earth received rather large funding fom the Department of Energy (even though they claim they don't take government money) and from certain private donations. Who do you suppose they actually ARE working for?
Much of their funding comes from he Leftist and activist Patrick J. McGovern Foundation.
https://philanthropywomen.org/philanthropy-women-funder-database/patrick-j-mcgovern-foundation/
The World Economic Forum loves them some P.J. McGovern, which is telling. And in fact they themselves promote all sorts of social activist ideas, and they make no bones about wanting to "change the world".
Muller changed his tune because he does not want to retire without the honor given to a man of his "stature". Judith Curry explains how this happens. https://judithcurry.com/2023/11/17/a-bad-recipe-for-science/
"century. Virtually all academic climate scientists are within the so-called 97 percent consensus regarding the existence of a human impact on warming of the Earth’s climate. Which scientists are ostracized and labeled as deniers? Independent thinkers, who are not supportive of the IPCC consensus, are suspect. Any criticism of the IPCC can lead to ostracism. Failure to advocate for CO2 mitigation policies leads to suspicion. Even a preference for nuclear power over wind and solar power will get you called a denier. The most reliable way to get labeled as a denier is to associate in any way with so-called enemies of the climate consensus and their preferred policies—petroleum companies, conservative think tanks, or even the "wrong” political party."
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Muller is nearing retirement age and doesn't want to be erased after a long and distinguished career. He was going to be canceled, now he will be feted, just as you have done here.
That is how your side rolls; fake data, corrupt payouts to make it appear we have an emergency, and bullying tactics to keep scientists in line.
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Mad Medicinemen
Timothy Birdnow
I know THAT'S right; I have medications whose sole purpose is to remind me to take other medications...
Doctors do things by the numbers; whatever your vial signs are, they try to get them in-line with the recommended "norm". I am always paranoid before a doctor visit; the guy might want a new med for me. I've gone so far as to lie to them about, say, blood sugar because I don't want them adding another medication to my list.
Case in point; my endocrinologist wants my blood sugar below seven and I may have trouble doing that sometimes. So she asks about my sugar and I tell her it's been fine because if she gets a hint it's been running a little higher she's going to add a medication. And then I usually get some terrible side effect - often constipation - and eventually I'll stop taking it. Then she'll want to try some other drug. The best thing a lot of times is just to leave me alone; there is usually a reason why my blood sugar is running high for that month (like it's my birthday or whatnot). But drugs are what doctors are about and so they add drugs and never get rid of them unless they know they are a problem. d
And there are too many cooks in the kitchen. I have a doctor for everything. To quote Comicus in History of the World "we got a (god) for everything. About the only thing we don't have one for is premature ejaculation, but I hear that's coming soon!" It's' like that with doctors. I swear, if I so much as cut wind they whisk me off to some specialist who then prescribes new medication. I'm too young to be this old and I think I got there by taking all these drugs in the first place; I'd probably be hale and hearty if I didn't take all this stuff. But I fear not taking it as I was inches from the Reaper 15 years ago and it no doubt saved my life. But it's just crazy how it all works.
That's not to say I lie to them often, or that I think they aren't doing me any good. I do. But sometimes it's just "for the love of all things holy stop already".
Anyway it's nice to have some science to back up what I've long thought. We've gone medicine mad.
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September 11, 2026
Only Juror to Dissent was sole Black on the Jury
Timothy Birdnow
I knew it.
So it was a bunch of crazy white women and one black fellow and it was HE who knew this was wrong and Clancey murdered her children and deserved to be punished.
There is lots of violence in the black community, but black people hold their families close - usually a lot closer than do whites. Black men are the antithesis of crazy white feminists who really are off their rockers. Black men know something like this when they see it.
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America Forgot
Timothy Birdnow
On this the 25th anniversary of 911 I would say "Never Forget!"
Sadly we pretty much have already. We are bringing in Muslims by the boat load and there are places in America under Sharia law - in Minnesota, in Texas, in Michigan. We forgot.
We've forgotten about Communism as well and now a lot of places are facing the unpleasant prospect of communists taking over the Democratic Party and joining forces with the Islamists to destroy America. What they couldn't do with bombs they are doing in the minds of the young and gullible.
I fear only God can save America now.
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Bribery or Refunds?
Timothy Birdnow
Democrats are furious at President Trump for offering a return of people's ow money just prior to an election. At the GOP Midterm Convention Mr. Trump said he would refund $5,ooo dollars to the American People.
The acrimony was swift and terrible from lthe mainstream media, with accusations of bribery and saying Trump cannot do this. But since when has the media ever cared about politicians, particularly Democrats, bribing the public? What are programs like Medicare, or Medicaid, or SNAP but ways to bribe the People?
Apparently the media has forgotten The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, Obama's "stimulus" which among other things Provided "relief" aka money to the poor and underprivileged, as well as money for things like healthcare and other goodies. How is this different from what Trump is doing? Yes, Obama had to get Congressional approval for the spending bill, but by law Mr. Trump does not have to do so; he's using surplus funds.
So what is Trump doing? He's refunding money taken from the People in the first place. Is it politically motivated? Sure. But Trump has gotten the budget deficit down and now he's giving the People back the money that should never have been taken from them in the first place.
It ain't bribery if it's money that rightfully belongs to someone else that you "borrowed".
Pajamas media has a list of media outlet heads exploding, and well they should; this could swing the midterms and they know it.
So suck on THAT liberals! Your usual tricks aren't working now. Normally you would attack, attack, attack and you are used to Republicans not offering anything of substance. Now they are offering enough money to buy a cheap used car (maybe) or at least catch up on a lot of overdue bills.
Trump is showing he's the best friend the working man has. Too bad the labor unions refuse to see it that way.
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Mr. Talarico Tally Me Banana!
Timothy Birdnow
Talarico is in trouble, even if the media won't admit it.
Yes, the crazy Social Democrat "minister" who thinks God is non-binary and wants open borderrs and can't define a woman isn't doing so well now that the public is starting to see who he truly is.
Taliman tally me banana Jimmy! In a recent interview on Fox he threw everything he's been saying and doing under a migrant bus, and that is proof he has internal polling showing he's in heap big doo-doo.
For instance, he long held that dudes in dresses should be allowed to play in women's sports. But he qualified this with weasel words about if it is safe and fair, which has never been part of his position. OH, and it's NEVER safe and fair Jimmy, old bean.
He said he wanted the borders wide open but then added a qualifier "with a strong lock". How do you have a strong lock and open borders? You can't obviously. That's like putting a masterlock padlock on your gate but leaving the gate wide open. It's only something you would say if you were lying to the public to trick them.
This guy knows the voters are getting wise to him, how radical he really is and how they would be fools to elect so radical a man in deep red Texas. There is no other reason why Talarico would start tossing his own beliefs under the bus.
Now, if Ken Paxton can just get enough money to get the word out he'll win. Sadly the GOP is still refusing to give him any money. Trump is, but the GOP refuses to help a guy who took out their buddy Conyn, the RINO.
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Clancey Lowers the Boom
Timothy Birdnow
Patrick Clancey, loving father of three murdered children who is in mourning, has to put up with this sort of crap.
Billy Bush, who was caught up in the "grab her by the P" scandal from when Trump was just a private citizen, had this to say on his podcast:
"…this weasel of a man, if he didn’t do it, he definitely did something. His dereliction of duty as a husband is over the top. His emotional abuse while his wife suffered is despicable. Whether he physically did it or not, he is very much involved… Set her free. Set her free. She has suffered enough.
So Clancey is "a weasel of a man" for being the victim here, is he? He sought treatment for his wife. He apparently was around a lot, which is why she had to manufacture a reason for him to leave so she could commit the murders. But it's Mr. Clancey who is the bad guy here?
And, as the article points out, Clancey has zero to do with what happens to his wife; he never said to throw her in a dungeon and toss away the key, did he?
I dare say Mr. Bush was looking in a mirror when he made his weasel crack.
At any rate Clancey is going to sue him and others who malign the poor grieving father and rightly so. This is something that should never happen in a civilized society. We are reverting to barbarism.
Oh, and I would like to add one thing; the Left has subtly altered what Mr. Trump said to Bush in his "locker-room talk". Trump did not say he went around grabbing women by their vaginas. He said when you are rich and powerful they will LET YOU grab them by their vaginas. That is a very different thing; he was discussing the amazing influence that wealth and power have over the ambitious women who use their sex appeal to make a good life for themselves, not saying he actually did it. HUGE difference.
Here is the actual quote:
"when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab them by the pussy”
Trump did admit to kissing women without permission, but nothing more. Yes, that isn't something a decent person should do (and one wonders if he wasn't just bragging to a guy he thought wanted to do some all-male dirty talk) but in the end this is quite different from what the media told us he said.
And it happened back in 2005. People mature and change. Trump had been divorced from 1999 to 2005 when he married Melania, so it was not about cheating on his wife, in all probability (He married Melania in January of that year, but he was probably discussing an earlier attempted tryst.)
Anyway I hope Mr. Clancey wins a huge judgment against Bush. We have got to stope this sort of thing. The poor man lost his wife, his children, and has asses like Bush badmouthing him with no evidence. That's how liberals roll, but it's not something that we should allow.
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The Truth is Out There
Timothy Birdnow
Here is a good article at American Thinker about how the modern relativism in society, the idea of "my truth" and the fluidity of reality is making it impossible for anyone to get a truly fair trial.
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A summons arrived for jury duty in a county circuit court within a state among the first thirteen. The envelope contained a form to return. After the boxes for "Full Name” came three boxes to indicate Gender: Male or Female or Other.
What is truth? Welcome to the ascendancy of post-modernist philosophy and its thorough skepticism toward any possibility of objective truth. The philosophical revolutions that have led us to gender stipulated as only emotionally determined and having no constancy is being foisted on ordinary people by strenuous, dictatorial proselytizers who see objective truth as fluidly inconstant and only a reflection of each moment’s changing culture, evolving language, and power structures. They viciously cancel and harass any who dare dispute them despite their argument resting on the assumption of no truth.
You can have your truth now only if it comports with their truth.
Amen, amen I say unto you! How can anyone sit in judgment over any other person when Truth is relative to the person alone? You cannot say someone violated the law if the accused doesn't recognize the law and we have no right to "speak another's truth".
What I am about to say will be scandalous to the modernists; Truth is absolute, and immutable. What is lacking is merely our understanding of it. The relativism is in our knowledge or lack thereof which makes getting to the heart of the matter difficult. The truth is there, we just can't always see it because we are flawed and limited and because the guilty party (or sometimes the accuser) will lie and will hide the truth. But there isn't a personal truth that differs from what others find - that is a lie straight from Hell.
This is rather like saying the sun moved around the earth before Galileo and Copernicus because everyone believed it did. It didn't; it always was the reverse. Nothing changed with Copernicus or Galileo or even Kepler, there was no "new truth" only new scientific understanding of the truth that was always there.
What really hurt us, and has been internalized into our culture, is the misunderstanding of philosophers over the meaning of quantum indeterminacy. I would argue the same holds true for even many physicists, including Niels Bohr.
It was discovered thatsubatomic particles could only be measured for position OR energy state, not both. This is the Heisenberg Indeterminacy Principle, so named because Heisenberg found that you could know the energy state o a subatomic particle or it's position in space but not both. The reason was a measurement problem; measure one aspect and you change the other.
When it was discovered that particles are in different places at once and only appear as particles when the wavefront collapses that led Bohr and others to postulate the "Copenhagen Interpretation" of quantum physics. There was the split-screen experiment when a single electron was fired at two slits with a detector behind each. I was found that the electron went through BOTH slits simultaneously.. At a conference in Copenhagen Bohr and some others postulated the idea that reality is actually a chain of events that happen simultaneously, which gives rise ultimately to two separate realities (and hence a new universe pops out of it, like another slice of cake at a birthday party). Thus the universe is endlessly dividing where both events occurred. Bohr did not postulate this just at the atomic level, but insisted it happened at the macro level as well aka where we are at.
And with the roll of the observer being so important to the collapse of the wavefront (why would looking at something have so dynamic an impact?) it meant reality was malleable and subject to change based on one's personal point of view.
This annoyed Edwin Schroedinger, who created his famous "cat in the box" thought experiment. Schroedinger wasn't trying to "explain" quantum indeterminacy so much as criticize it - he said if a cat was left in a box with a pill of poison that would break at a random time then the cat was both alive and dead until you opened the box - a complete absurdity. Schroedinger was in line with Einstein who famously stated "God does not play dice with the universe" over this. At any rate when asked to rebut Schroedinger, Bohr didn't dispute it but rather said "YEP!"
The Copenhagen Interpretation has dominated quantum physics ever since.
And, interestingly, at the same time the new neuroscience has biologists scrambling to find all the parts of the brain that control though and behavior. They have discovered quie a bit, and have been able to crudely reproduce some feelings with electrical stimulation of the brain. They also discovered something rather disturbing. Before you do something, say, take a drink of coffee, you have a rising brain wave called an action potential. Experiments have shown that rises BEFORE you are aware of any desire.
(What often remains forgotten is that there is a second brain wave that rises - a veto potential, as it were, that allows you to stop what you are about to do.)
At any rate neuroscientists are firmly convinced that free will is an illusion and that we are all slaves to our brains, which many of them argue are hard-wired and immutable.
Horsepoop sez I; we rewire our brains all the time, and sometimes consciously. Any great athlete knows that. There is a reason why you practice, and it's not just to strengthen your muscles but to acquire the skills which end up wired into your brain. You MAKE yourself a great athlete where before you were just good (or o.k.). And there was the work of Jeffrey Schwartz, a neurobiologist who worked with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder patients. He used Mindful Meditation from Yoga to help them rewire their brains to create a new neural pathway that bypassed the damaged one causing them their problems. It was hard but it worked. So, by an act of will you can remake your brain.
At any rate it's an odd dichotomy - that free will changes reality and yet there is no free will, only hard-wired gray matter entirely made so by environmental influences and thus we cannot understand another's "truth".
Two fundamental errors in thought and the philosophers have translated this into a new worldview that eschews reality altogether. In other words, we are our own gods.
Sounds a lot like an alien being from an old book I know who decided he wanted to be his own god and rebelled, and when he lost he came to Earth and tempted the only two people here with the same fundamental error.
So, to get bac to Law, American jurisprudence is based on the concept of Natural Law, that there is something in the Universe that is immutable and that compels us to a certain pattern of behavior. That law may not be written down but it is inherent in the fabric of reality and we have studied it, tried to understand it, and written it down to the best of our ability. Natural Law was the basis of the Ten Commandments and the other laws of the Bible (many of which are not wholly antiquated and we don't practice them for obvious reasons; we don't put a guy to death for mixing fabrics in a coat he sells you, for instance. But that law was important when textiles were very hard to make and precious and a lot of money was involved. Oh, and we could imprison someone for violating a consumer protection law, unlike in those days where the death penalty was the only real tool to be used.)
This relativism infects every part of society and the most dangerous aspect is in the Law,which is now becoming merely a suggestion box for jurists. People believe they can't know another person's "truth" and how can you condemn them for anything if you cannot say there is an actual right and wrong?
Nietzche forsaw all this and warned science would eventually fail because it would begin digging at it's own foundational beliefs, that the Universe is essentially knowable, that reason explains what we see, that truth is an absolute. He was right, and his rejection of those things led him into utter madness (that and neuro-syphilis).
At any rate someone needs to stand up for the concrete nature of truth, at least on the macro level. It may be that quantum reality is different (or more likely we just don't understand it) but the unverse works on averages and the average over the vast scale that is the human being those averages make for an immutable reality. I am mindful of the Tornado ina Junk Yard often used in the Evolution argument; Fred Hoyle argued that you won't get a nice new car if a tornado hit a junk yard. The parts are all there but it won't be assembled (and Hoyle was an atheist). The same holds true for Natural Law as opposed to this relativistic crap. We can confidently say there is a right and wrong even if there is some malleability at the quantum level. It's like a single bacterium that is unable to reporoduce; in large numbers it will kill you but one that cannot reproduce by mitosis will pass out of you harmlessly or get killed by an antibody.
So yes, there is a concrete reality we can deal with. And yes, we have a right and a duty to impose "our truth" on people who do bad things. The truth is out there.
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