April 20, 2023
China is Free to Invade Taiwan
Courtesy of Nikki Grace
Tim adds:
The One China Policy was always a terrible idea. Nixon started it to open relations with China and split them away from the Soviet axis, but it was just long-term stupid. We should have recognized them as an independent country decades ago. Now an invasion of Taiwan is merely a sovereign nation asserting authority over a renegade province. We have no right or duty to invervene in any capacity. If we do the worled will see it as pure high-handedness on our part.
Dr. Lani Kass, retired DoD consultant:
US policy toward Taiwan has been deliberately ambiguous since 1979. We have a One China policy which recognises the PRC’s sovereignty over Taiwan. There’s no Taiwanese embassy in Washington or a US embassy in Taipei. Only 12 UN members recognise Taiwan’s independence and maintain a diplomatic relationship with it. The US isn’t one of them. Then we have the Taiwan Relations Act, under which we can sell defensive weapons to the island. There’s no treaty commitment. But, then, there’s no treaty with Ukraine either.
Tim adds:
The One China Policy was always a terrible idea. Nixon started it to open relations with China and split them away from the Soviet axis, but it was just long-term stupid. We should have recognized them as an independent country decades ago. Now an invasion of Taiwan is merely a sovereign nation asserting authority over a renegade province. We have no right or duty to invervene in any capacity. If we do the worled will see it as pure high-handedness on our part.
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The Blackness of the Hole Redux
Timothy Birdnow
Discussing black holes made me want to dust this one off. It's very long. From the archives:
This post is going to be rather wordy, and probably dreadfully dull, so those of you without true grit may want to turn back now. For you, the intrepid adventurer into the cosmos, I must warn that we will be discussing such thrilling topics as stellar evolution, subatomic physics, Newtonian gravitational physics, General Relativity, and the final destiny of the Universe. If this fails to send you fleeing from your computer in a panic, you may proceed-but at your own peril! Don`t say I didn`t warn you.
Our topic today will be black holes. No, I`m not speaking of the yawning chasm between Jesse Jackson`s jaws, nor the place my taxdollars go, nor even Ted Kennedy`s liver or the region enclosed by Cindy Sheehan`s cranium. I`m speaking about collapsed stars (and I don`t mean Madonna!)
I thought this might be a good time to explain this, since I`ve been discussing black holes in relations to Entropy, and many of you, my learned readers, may be a bit hazy on the whole concept.
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Discussing black holes made me want to dust this one off. It's very long. From the archives:
This post is going to be rather wordy, and probably dreadfully dull, so those of you without true grit may want to turn back now. For you, the intrepid adventurer into the cosmos, I must warn that we will be discussing such thrilling topics as stellar evolution, subatomic physics, Newtonian gravitational physics, General Relativity, and the final destiny of the Universe. If this fails to send you fleeing from your computer in a panic, you may proceed-but at your own peril! Don`t say I didn`t warn you.
Our topic today will be black holes. No, I`m not speaking of the yawning chasm between Jesse Jackson`s jaws, nor the place my taxdollars go, nor even Ted Kennedy`s liver or the region enclosed by Cindy Sheehan`s cranium. I`m speaking about collapsed stars (and I don`t mean Madonna!)
I thought this might be a good time to explain this, since I`ve been discussing black holes in relations to Entropy, and many of you, my learned readers, may be a bit hazy on the whole concept.
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Black Hole Formation Caught on Camera?
Carlos Velazquez
When a мassiʋe star expends its fuel, its core collapses into a dense oƄject and sends the rest of its gas outward in an eʋent called a supernoʋa. What’s left is мostly neutron stars or Ƅlack holes. And now, HuƄƄle seeмs to haʋe seen a supernoʋa Ƅlink out — suggesting it captured the мoмent when a Ƅlack hole took oʋer.
Tim adds:
Most stars simply exhaust their fuel and collapse into white dwarf stars, which burn hot for a million years entirely by granvitational contraction (there is no fuel left to fuse). Some stars, ones bigger than Chandrasekhar's Limit which is 1.44 times the mass of our sun - can become a neutron star, provided they don't burn off too much mass. If it drops below the limit it will be a white dwarf. But really big stars - five solar masses or more - can become black holes if everything works out right. (There is some suggestion that a star with double the mass of the Sun can collapse, but it's still hotly debated.) Some black holes formed during the Big Bang and can be any size though. But if we are talking about collapsers then we usually assume about five or more solar masses. Their formation is generally fairly rare but given the sheer volume of stars out there not uncommon. I would add most stars do not become neutron stars of black holes. Most just die, burned up. Or they supernova and blow off a bunch of mass. But either way it's a fascinating thing.
I wrote about black holes years ago at my old website. See it here.
When a мassiʋe star expends its fuel, its core collapses into a dense oƄject and sends the rest of its gas outward in an eʋent called a supernoʋa. What’s left is мostly neutron stars or Ƅlack holes. And now, HuƄƄle seeмs to haʋe seen a supernoʋa Ƅlink out — suggesting it captured the мoмent when a Ƅlack hole took oʋer.
Tim adds:
Most stars simply exhaust their fuel and collapse into white dwarf stars, which burn hot for a million years entirely by granvitational contraction (there is no fuel left to fuse). Some stars, ones bigger than Chandrasekhar's Limit which is 1.44 times the mass of our sun - can become a neutron star, provided they don't burn off too much mass. If it drops below the limit it will be a white dwarf. But really big stars - five solar masses or more - can become black holes if everything works out right. (There is some suggestion that a star with double the mass of the Sun can collapse, but it's still hotly debated.) Some black holes formed during the Big Bang and can be any size though. But if we are talking about collapsers then we usually assume about five or more solar masses. Their formation is generally fairly rare but given the sheer volume of stars out there not uncommon. I would add most stars do not become neutron stars of black holes. Most just die, burned up. Or they supernova and blow off a bunch of mass. But either way it's a fascinating thing.
I wrote about black holes years ago at my old website. See it here.
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The Porch Knocker Shooting
Timothy Birdnow
Some thoughts on the shooting of Ralph Yarl, the 16 year old black kid shot by a white man on the porch of the man's house in Kansas City.
First, the media keeps stressing Yarl's age. We've heard this tune before. They did it with Trayvon Martin, and they did it with Mike Brown. In both cases these were not just little kids but rather powerful men. The media is showing photos of Yarl that I suspect are probably a couple of years old and make him look younger than he probably looked to Andrew Lester, the 84 year old shooter. They did this with Martin in particular when "Whie Hispanic" George Zimmerman shot him while Martin was bashing his head against the ground. But the media presented a middle school photo of a cute kid, not the threatening thug that up-to-date photos suggested.
Second, how, pray tell, did this kid get the wrong house? Young people are usually really good at that. But this guy was not just on the porch knocking but was trying to open the door, from what I gather. To an elderly man that would be very frightening.
It makes me rather suspicious, to put it mildly.
Remember, almost all the information feeding these media accounts are coming from the boy's family and their attnorny, the race hustler Benjamin Crump. When Crump is involved you can bet you aren't getting a true picture of what happened. He's goes around the country finding cases like this to gin up racial hatred.
(If there was ever a guy who should be investigated it's Crump. I suspect he has all sorts of skeletons in his closet..)
The police were slow to press charges. Now why do you suppose that was? This while there were protests trying to force their hand.
No, the Kansas City Police are hardly a hotbed of racism.
Crump had the unmitigated gall to say this:
"Gun violence against unarmed Black individuals must stop. Our children should feel safe, not as though they are being hunted. "
???!!!
Now young black kids get shot every day and live in horribly unsafe environments, in Chicago, in St. Louis, in Kansas City, in L.A. and Baltimore and in a host of other Democrat-controlled cities. Crump says nothing about any of those. He cares nary a wit about the black kids killed by stray bullets in these towns, or those murdered for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. But he's outraged at an elderly white man shooting a black man who was trying to get into his house.
It was observed to me that the man was too old to have a gun. I countered that at his age he NEEDED a gun, more than ever, because he physically couldn't defend himself. A gun is the great equalizer.
I would add that no doubt this man moved into what had once been a safe neighborhood but was probably now getting dangerous, and he was skittish.
And so here a black kid, who may have looked much more ominous at the time, starts trying to get in his door and Mr. Crump says the kid is the one being hunted? What about elderly white men just trying to be left alone being hunted?
This kid ran away so Mr. Lester couldn't drag him into the house and claim the protections of castle doctrine. Missouri has that.
I smell a rat with this story. There were a number of black-on-white racial assaults in the last few days and suddenly we have this story break.
For example, we had a video surface of a mob attacking a terrified woman in downtown Chicago. I'm sorry but black violence is real, and a white man living alone in a working class neighborhood has reason to worry.
In a "Bonfire of the Vanities" style the AP described Yarl as an honor student (anyone who has ever read the story, or seen the movie, knows this is what they did with the kid who was hit and killed; he didn't cause trouble so he soon became an "honor student" in the media.)
This is the kicker here:
"When asked why attempted murder or hate crime charges weren't pursued against Lester, Thompson said his office chose the charges that held highest level of possible prison time for the shooter."
So being frightened is now a hate crime?
I guess any time you hurt a black person, even when they may well be getting ready to hurt you, you are guilty of a hate crime if you are white.
A writer named Colin Flaherty has written several excellent books about black-on-white crime, including "white girls bleed a lot" (a title gleened from an actual statement from a thug) and "Don't Make the Black Kids Angry". Flaherty has kept a database of black-on-white crimes over the years, crimes which get little or no media attention.
Ben Shapiro goes through a bit of this here.
The fact is we are moving into the political season and the Democrats need black anger to prevent them from voting for Donald Trump or some other Republican. So they are going to look for any and every incident they can gin up to enrage the black community and make them fear they are "being hunted". It is they doing the hunting though.
This story stinks to high heaven, in my opinion.
Some thoughts on the shooting of Ralph Yarl, the 16 year old black kid shot by a white man on the porch of the man's house in Kansas City.
First, the media keeps stressing Yarl's age. We've heard this tune before. They did it with Trayvon Martin, and they did it with Mike Brown. In both cases these were not just little kids but rather powerful men. The media is showing photos of Yarl that I suspect are probably a couple of years old and make him look younger than he probably looked to Andrew Lester, the 84 year old shooter. They did this with Martin in particular when "Whie Hispanic" George Zimmerman shot him while Martin was bashing his head against the ground. But the media presented a middle school photo of a cute kid, not the threatening thug that up-to-date photos suggested.
Second, how, pray tell, did this kid get the wrong house? Young people are usually really good at that. But this guy was not just on the porch knocking but was trying to open the door, from what I gather. To an elderly man that would be very frightening.
It makes me rather suspicious, to put it mildly.
Remember, almost all the information feeding these media accounts are coming from the boy's family and their attnorny, the race hustler Benjamin Crump. When Crump is involved you can bet you aren't getting a true picture of what happened. He's goes around the country finding cases like this to gin up racial hatred.
(If there was ever a guy who should be investigated it's Crump. I suspect he has all sorts of skeletons in his closet..)
The police were slow to press charges. Now why do you suppose that was? This while there were protests trying to force their hand.
No, the Kansas City Police are hardly a hotbed of racism.
Crump had the unmitigated gall to say this:
"Gun violence against unarmed Black individuals must stop. Our children should feel safe, not as though they are being hunted. "
???!!!
Now young black kids get shot every day and live in horribly unsafe environments, in Chicago, in St. Louis, in Kansas City, in L.A. and Baltimore and in a host of other Democrat-controlled cities. Crump says nothing about any of those. He cares nary a wit about the black kids killed by stray bullets in these towns, or those murdered for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. But he's outraged at an elderly white man shooting a black man who was trying to get into his house.
It was observed to me that the man was too old to have a gun. I countered that at his age he NEEDED a gun, more than ever, because he physically couldn't defend himself. A gun is the great equalizer.
I would add that no doubt this man moved into what had once been a safe neighborhood but was probably now getting dangerous, and he was skittish.
And so here a black kid, who may have looked much more ominous at the time, starts trying to get in his door and Mr. Crump says the kid is the one being hunted? What about elderly white men just trying to be left alone being hunted?
This kid ran away so Mr. Lester couldn't drag him into the house and claim the protections of castle doctrine. Missouri has that.
I smell a rat with this story. There were a number of black-on-white racial assaults in the last few days and suddenly we have this story break.
For example, we had a video surface of a mob attacking a terrified woman in downtown Chicago. I'm sorry but black violence is real, and a white man living alone in a working class neighborhood has reason to worry.
In a "Bonfire of the Vanities" style the AP described Yarl as an honor student (anyone who has ever read the story, or seen the movie, knows this is what they did with the kid who was hit and killed; he didn't cause trouble so he soon became an "honor student" in the media.)
This is the kicker here:
"When asked why attempted murder or hate crime charges weren't pursued against Lester, Thompson said his office chose the charges that held highest level of possible prison time for the shooter."
So being frightened is now a hate crime?
I guess any time you hurt a black person, even when they may well be getting ready to hurt you, you are guilty of a hate crime if you are white.
A writer named Colin Flaherty has written several excellent books about black-on-white crime, including "white girls bleed a lot" (a title gleened from an actual statement from a thug) and "Don't Make the Black Kids Angry". Flaherty has kept a database of black-on-white crimes over the years, crimes which get little or no media attention.
Ben Shapiro goes through a bit of this here.
The fact is we are moving into the political season and the Democrats need black anger to prevent them from voting for Donald Trump or some other Republican. So they are going to look for any and every incident they can gin up to enrage the black community and make them fear they are "being hunted". It is they doing the hunting though.
This story stinks to high heaven, in my opinion.
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April 19, 2023
Queer Theory
Timothy Birdnow
Makes a lot of good points:
The United States of Queer
From the article:
Makes a lot of good points:
The United States of Queer
From the article:
Because it exists solely to disrupt and problematize the "normal” and
break down categories until every Bacchanalian urge can be
intellectually justified as the mere rejection of some arbitrary and
unfair norm, Queer Theory rejects attempts to critique it from outside
its own intentionally unstable parameters.
[...]
Queer Theory’s applied activist iteration is being adopted by the Democratic Party as part of its evolving political platform. And this means that one of the two major political parties in this country has explicitly rejected classical liberalism, rejected the idea of universal truths, rejected the notion of individuality, rejected the idea of race neutrality, rejected the possibility of assimilation, and rejected the epistemological
That is, it is explicitly leftist and Marxian in its foundational belief in the oppressor / oppressed paradigm, which will necessarily begin being reflected in the social, political, cultural, and legal output of its intellectuals and activists. It is, in a very real and specific sense, alien and anti-American. To allow it purchase is to surrender the host body politic to the cancer that has invaded it.
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Queer Theory’s applied activist iteration is being adopted by the Democratic Party as part of its evolving political platform. And this means that one of the two major political parties in this country has explicitly rejected classical liberalism, rejected the idea of universal truths, rejected the notion of individuality, rejected the idea of race neutrality, rejected the possibility of assimilation, and rejected the epistemological
That is, it is explicitly leftist and Marxian in its foundational belief in the oppressor / oppressed paradigm, which will necessarily begin being reflected in the social, political, cultural, and legal output of its intellectuals and activists. It is, in a very real and specific sense, alien and anti-American. To allow it purchase is to surrender the host body politic to the cancer that has invaded it.
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Another Trans Sports Victory
James Doogue
Nuts! 8th Golf medal in Women's masters 50 - 54 age group.
"..in the men’s M50 category with his time he would have finished 14th."
ITALY: Trans-Identified Male Takes Home Eighth Women's Running Title At Indoor Masters Championship - Reduxx
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Nuts! 8th Golf medal in Women's masters 50 - 54 age group.
"..in the men’s M50 category with his time he would have finished 14th."
ITALY: Trans-Identified Male Takes Home Eighth Women's Running Title At Indoor Masters Championship - Reduxx
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April 18, 2023
Eruptions
Guy F. Beebe
There is a volcanic eruption going off in Russia, on the Kamchatka Peninsula. Shooting ash up to 65,000 feet? Makes this at LEAST a VE 5, which is going to have global impact on weather for at least a year. I think this one falls between Mount Saint Helens and Mount Pinatubo's eruptions. Both impacted climate, globally, for at least a year, and Pinatubo arguably made the next three years cooler.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanic_explosivity_index#Lists_of_notable_eruptions
I was a bit off, going off of memory, 20km high plumes start with VE5, but VE6 is in that range as well. The VE scale is based not JUST on plume height, but cubic kilometers of ejecta.
Also, I should say, "this one falls between Mount Saint Helens and Mount Pinatubo's eruptions."...s
Andrew Gray adds:
CNN / MSNBC - Evil Russian plot to stifle US satellite spying efforts in Ukraine and planned NATO air exercises scheduled shortly.....
Tim adds:
Yes, EEZ Russian plot to Keel American Capitalist dogs and Moose and Squirrel.
Wonder if this doesn't tie in with the unseasonably cold weather we've been getting the last few days?
There is a volcanic eruption going off in Russia, on the Kamchatka Peninsula. Shooting ash up to 65,000 feet? Makes this at LEAST a VE 5, which is going to have global impact on weather for at least a year. I think this one falls between Mount Saint Helens and Mount Pinatubo's eruptions. Both impacted climate, globally, for at least a year, and Pinatubo arguably made the next three years cooler.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanic_explosivity_index#Lists_of_notable_eruptions
I was a bit off, going off of memory, 20km high plumes start with VE5, but VE6 is in that range as well. The VE scale is based not JUST on plume height, but cubic kilometers of ejecta.
Also, I should say, "this one falls between Mount Saint Helens and Mount Pinatubo's eruptions."...s
Andrew Gray adds:
CNN / MSNBC - Evil Russian plot to stifle US satellite spying efforts in Ukraine and planned NATO air exercises scheduled shortly.....
Tim adds:
Yes, EEZ Russian plot to Keel American Capitalist dogs and Moose and Squirrel.
Wonder if this doesn't tie in with the unseasonably cold weather we've been getting the last few days?
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T-Ball Took Down a Nation
Michael Smith
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It all started with T-Ball.
Stay with me here, I think I may be on to something.
And as our alleged President says, "No joke. You think I’m kidding. I’m not.
If you track how we got to where we are today, it can all be traced back to the T-Ball fields spread across the fruited plains of America and spread like creeping black mold from there.
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At Least Live the Hide...
Mark Twain
The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.
The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.
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Biden's Slave Labor
Timothy Birdnow
Biden is the king of child sweat-shop labor.
As Migrant Children Put to Work U.S. Ignored Warnings
This is Biden's America; slave labor and abuse of children.
Biden is the king of child sweat-shop labor.
As Migrant Children Put to Work U.S. Ignored Warnings
This is Biden's America; slave labor and abuse of children.
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Graft and Corruption
Jerry S Rainforth
Graft & corruption.
The strategies included providing hundreds of millions of dollars for the creation of "culturally tailored” pro-vaccine materials and for training "trusted” and "influential messengers” to promote COVID-19 and flu vaccines to communities of color in every state.
Nass’ revelations showed these efforts went beyond advertising, fear campaigns, payments to patients and payments to trusted community actors and included, in some cases, direct financial incentives to healthcare providers.
Doctors in Kentucky, California Received Millions in Bonus Payments for Vaccinating Medicaid Patients Against COVID
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Graft & corruption.
The strategies included providing hundreds of millions of dollars for the creation of "culturally tailored” pro-vaccine materials and for training "trusted” and "influential messengers” to promote COVID-19 and flu vaccines to communities of color in every state.
Nass’ revelations showed these efforts went beyond advertising, fear campaigns, payments to patients and payments to trusted community actors and included, in some cases, direct financial incentives to healthcare providers.
Doctors in Kentucky, California Received Millions in Bonus Payments for Vaccinating Medicaid Patients Against COVID
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The Gods Themselves
Michael Smith
Tim adds:
The Progressive/Left believes that they are gods. That must be understood. Their belief is fundamentally no different than that of Lucifer in Isaiah "11Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee. 12How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! 13For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: 14I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. 15Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit." They believe they can control reality with an act of will. Theirs is monstrous hubris. Sadly more and more people are believing this lie,t hat reality is malleable based on human desires and human belief. We live in a time where reality itself is being democratized, where the majority rule even what is real. It was this belief that was central to Rousseau's thinking which sparked the socialist movement (and the Fascist) and it is still the fundamental belief espoused by the Left today. But men aren't gods and we do not control what is real. As Phillip K. Dick said, reality is that thing which, when you stop believing in it, won't go away. Natural Law is predicated on that simple proposition. The Left rejects Natural Law because it limits their godhead.
People's opposition to Biden's forced EV plan is the new "culture war" says the NYT. MSNBC says saying a man can't have a baby means there is a "war" on transgenders. The Washington Post claims people like Elon Musk and Jordan Peterson cutting down biased "journalists" who know nothing is a "threat". CNN says people are "coming for" women's right to electively abort a baby as a form of birth control.
The only thing "coming" for them is the truth.
They can't answer our questions.
The aren't interested in the truth.
The truth will out.
The question is this: by the time it does, will there be enough clear thinking people left to recognize it?
Tim adds:
The Progressive/Left believes that they are gods. That must be understood. Their belief is fundamentally no different than that of Lucifer in Isaiah "11Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee. 12How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! 13For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: 14I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. 15Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit." They believe they can control reality with an act of will. Theirs is monstrous hubris. Sadly more and more people are believing this lie,t hat reality is malleable based on human desires and human belief. We live in a time where reality itself is being democratized, where the majority rule even what is real. It was this belief that was central to Rousseau's thinking which sparked the socialist movement (and the Fascist) and it is still the fundamental belief espoused by the Left today. But men aren't gods and we do not control what is real. As Phillip K. Dick said, reality is that thing which, when you stop believing in it, won't go away. Natural Law is predicated on that simple proposition. The Left rejects Natural Law because it limits their godhead.
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Rights and Privileges
Timothy Birdnow
Amen. Any "right" that is contingent upon others, be it to allow it or obligating others to promote it, is no right at all. A right is something you have regardless of the popular will. If you need special group rights you don't have rights at all.
Chester McAteer
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Amen. Any "right" that is contingent upon others, be it to allow it or obligating others to promote it, is no right at all. A right is something you have regardless of the popular will. If you need special group rights you don't have rights at all.
Chester McAteer
We must all come to understand that as long as anyone depends on their minority status to determine their rights then the majority will only recognize a degree of rights based solely upon a specified set of what the majority considers allowable and therefore, contingent freedoms. In other words, the majority will always restrict the rights of the minority unless the minority can base their rights upon something other than the specific attributes and or definitions of that minority.
The government is not inclined to, nor does it obligate itself to ensure the Rights of any person in this country although it was created to protect the Rights of every individual. It is up to the individual to combatively insist and aggressively pursue his or her Rights, as individuals, before the government. It is People, first and foremost, that form the State Republics and it is the People who act voluntarily to form these cooperative alliances to be governed by consent alone. Without such voluntary consent we no longer have a Republic, nor a legitimate government to whom we are obligated to obey or, I might add, place our loyalty. America is not the government nor is the government America. The American Republic is the act of voluntary union under the social contract called the Constitution, without the power and enforcement of that social contract there is no Union of States.
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Overdoses, Mice, and StevieWonder Songs
Timothy Birdnow
I had a STRANGE day yesterday.
In the morning I had to take my wife to the retina specialist. She has a number of issues that require watching and and I had to get her to St. Louis University hospital in the morning.
This was largely uneventful, and I dropped her at home and went to drop off my taxes at the post-office and then went to Southwest Market to get us a couple of deli sandwiches. (Southwest is terrific; an old Italian deli with super service and big sandiches piled high with mean.) I wanted Cathy to have a nice lunch since she had kind of a rough morning.
So I bring home the sandwiches and we stick in the movie Mr. Bean's Holiday. After eating I went to take my mid-day medication.
But somehow the pill bottles got mixed around.
Since I had to switch to Walgreens I've had trouble; the bottles are poorly printed and it's tough to read them. I took two of what I thought was another medication but turned out to be Farxiga. I had already taken the maximum daily allowable dosage that morning.
Uhg. I went online and couldn't find out if I needed to go to the hospital or not, so I called my doctor's office and spoke with a nurse. She thought I'd be o.k. as long as my blood sugar didn't rise too high or drop too low; in both instances I was going to be in trouble, she said.
She also had me call poison control. They were wonderful, and the woman there told me I would probably be o.k. She called back after an hour to make sure I was doing well; I really thought that was nice.
At any rate I survived my overdosing. But I had to skip an afternoon nap lest I suddenly bottom out and go into a coma. And I had to drinka lot of extra water to avoid dehydration; Farxiga dries you out, a condition normally desirable for me as I like my water and am always retaining it. Makes breathing tough sometimes.
So I spent the afternoon trying to stay awake and drinking water and checking my blood sugar.
Oddly enough, my blood sugar rose - quite high. That is, apparently, a possible side effect of the overdose. The liver thinks it's in trouble and dumps sugar into the bloodstream. But it never got to really dangerous levels so I was fine.
And then came the mice.
Now, I had a mouse problem last year, and had pretty much resolved it. I had a long period with zero activity and was under the impression I had won the war. Then about a month or so ago I was in the basement doing laundry and saw a beam of light coming from the wall next to the basement door. The little love children had tunneled right through the cement holding the limestone blocks in place! And it was a BIG hole, big enough to fit my whole hand through! Rats could have gotten in through it. (I know they didn't or I wouldn't be having a mouse problem; rats hate mice and kill them when they find them.) So I plugged the hole and hoped that was the end of it.
It wasn't; I'd been catching mice since. But last night they went bananas. I guess the sudden onset of cold weather after the warm spring temperatures stirred 'em up. Suddenly my traps were going off everywhere. I must have about three pounds of mouse meat in the trash can in back! It was SNAP! SNAP! SNAP! all night long!
But the worst was that a mouse or two decided to colonize the piano. Every outbreak of mice has seen some of them do that. They get inside the piano and scratch, scratch, scratch, hollowing the piano out. I sweep up "pencil shavings" in large numbers as these little monsters whittle down the piano to sawdust!
I don't blame them; the piano is a veritable fortress from their perspecitve, a wonderful place to live.
I always keep a bowl of poison by the piano, as well as mulitiple glue traps and snap traps. That is the citadel. I guard that with everything.
Not that it has helped much; a bunch of the keys are dead since they chewed through the wires, and they also urinated on the keys so theya re all stained brown. It breaks my heart; they destroyed the piano, which belonged to my wife's mother and was a family heirloom. Oh, and it gave Cathy joy to play it (at least when I wasn't home; she was always shy about her piano playing.)
So anyway I had one in there hard at work last night, and I did the things I could; moved the piano out, shook it repeatedly, whacked it with a broom-handle, and pulled the keyboard cover out andin repeatedly. The little monster would stop just long enough for me to go sit down then resume his evil labors.
This went on for a couple of hours. So I sat in my chair, checking my blood sugar, drinking water, and popped up every few minutes to shake the piano.
Good times!
Eventually the little monster tired and quit. Maybe he ate some of the poison I thoughtfully provided for him and went to meet his maker. (Actually, as bad as this one was I suspect he went to meet that other fellow.) I hope so; I don't want another night of piano-shaking. It's exhausting.
At any rate I stayed up until midnight, dozing in my chair between piano shakes. Finally went to bed about midnight.
Now, Farxiga is known to give bad dreams, and I started having night terrors again, something that has not plagued me since I was a child. I know it's the drug. I didn't have a night terror or a nightmare last night, but a most unusual dream, certainly.
I was in a country valley with some people who were obviously moonshiners. A middle aged man and some twenty-somethings were there. I didn't know them but they were friendly with me and seemed to know me. At any rate, there was a police raid and my friends took to the hills - literally, climbing up the hill to the top of the ridge to flee in the opposite direction. I went with them.
The other side was a big valley that was largely grassland with a quarry in it. We began going down and saw cops stopping people on the road ahead. Switched direction and began walking down the gravel quarry road. The road kept getting narrower and narrower and eventually it was just a small ledge a couple of inches across. We were hanging on the edge of a cliff, a very crumbly edge. I realized there was no way to got off this.
At that moment one policeman arrived. It was Sean Hayes, the actir from the old t.v. show Will and Grace, who apparently moonlighted as a police officer raiding moonshiners. I appealed to him to get me out of the predicament I was in. He told me he would - but only provided I sing a Stevie Wonder song. My mind went blank; I couldn't think of a single Stevie Wonder song. He told me that until I sang one we were going to stay right where we were!
At that moment a mousetrap snapped and woke me from my musical predicament.
Don't ask me; I haven't the foggiest idea of what spurred so bizarre a dream.
At any rate it was a fitting end to a rather strange day. I was glad to wake up this morning. They told me that I would be fine by the end of last night, so hopefully things will get back to normal.
I had a STRANGE day yesterday.
In the morning I had to take my wife to the retina specialist. She has a number of issues that require watching and and I had to get her to St. Louis University hospital in the morning.
This was largely uneventful, and I dropped her at home and went to drop off my taxes at the post-office and then went to Southwest Market to get us a couple of deli sandwiches. (Southwest is terrific; an old Italian deli with super service and big sandiches piled high with mean.) I wanted Cathy to have a nice lunch since she had kind of a rough morning.
So I bring home the sandwiches and we stick in the movie Mr. Bean's Holiday. After eating I went to take my mid-day medication.
But somehow the pill bottles got mixed around.
Since I had to switch to Walgreens I've had trouble; the bottles are poorly printed and it's tough to read them. I took two of what I thought was another medication but turned out to be Farxiga. I had already taken the maximum daily allowable dosage that morning.
Uhg. I went online and couldn't find out if I needed to go to the hospital or not, so I called my doctor's office and spoke with a nurse. She thought I'd be o.k. as long as my blood sugar didn't rise too high or drop too low; in both instances I was going to be in trouble, she said.
She also had me call poison control. They were wonderful, and the woman there told me I would probably be o.k. She called back after an hour to make sure I was doing well; I really thought that was nice.
At any rate I survived my overdosing. But I had to skip an afternoon nap lest I suddenly bottom out and go into a coma. And I had to drinka lot of extra water to avoid dehydration; Farxiga dries you out, a condition normally desirable for me as I like my water and am always retaining it. Makes breathing tough sometimes.
So I spent the afternoon trying to stay awake and drinking water and checking my blood sugar.
Oddly enough, my blood sugar rose - quite high. That is, apparently, a possible side effect of the overdose. The liver thinks it's in trouble and dumps sugar into the bloodstream. But it never got to really dangerous levels so I was fine.
And then came the mice.
Now, I had a mouse problem last year, and had pretty much resolved it. I had a long period with zero activity and was under the impression I had won the war. Then about a month or so ago I was in the basement doing laundry and saw a beam of light coming from the wall next to the basement door. The little love children had tunneled right through the cement holding the limestone blocks in place! And it was a BIG hole, big enough to fit my whole hand through! Rats could have gotten in through it. (I know they didn't or I wouldn't be having a mouse problem; rats hate mice and kill them when they find them.) So I plugged the hole and hoped that was the end of it.
It wasn't; I'd been catching mice since. But last night they went bananas. I guess the sudden onset of cold weather after the warm spring temperatures stirred 'em up. Suddenly my traps were going off everywhere. I must have about three pounds of mouse meat in the trash can in back! It was SNAP! SNAP! SNAP! all night long!
But the worst was that a mouse or two decided to colonize the piano. Every outbreak of mice has seen some of them do that. They get inside the piano and scratch, scratch, scratch, hollowing the piano out. I sweep up "pencil shavings" in large numbers as these little monsters whittle down the piano to sawdust!
I don't blame them; the piano is a veritable fortress from their perspecitve, a wonderful place to live.
I always keep a bowl of poison by the piano, as well as mulitiple glue traps and snap traps. That is the citadel. I guard that with everything.
Not that it has helped much; a bunch of the keys are dead since they chewed through the wires, and they also urinated on the keys so theya re all stained brown. It breaks my heart; they destroyed the piano, which belonged to my wife's mother and was a family heirloom. Oh, and it gave Cathy joy to play it (at least when I wasn't home; she was always shy about her piano playing.)
So anyway I had one in there hard at work last night, and I did the things I could; moved the piano out, shook it repeatedly, whacked it with a broom-handle, and pulled the keyboard cover out andin repeatedly. The little monster would stop just long enough for me to go sit down then resume his evil labors.
This went on for a couple of hours. So I sat in my chair, checking my blood sugar, drinking water, and popped up every few minutes to shake the piano.
Good times!
Eventually the little monster tired and quit. Maybe he ate some of the poison I thoughtfully provided for him and went to meet his maker. (Actually, as bad as this one was I suspect he went to meet that other fellow.) I hope so; I don't want another night of piano-shaking. It's exhausting.
At any rate I stayed up until midnight, dozing in my chair between piano shakes. Finally went to bed about midnight.
Now, Farxiga is known to give bad dreams, and I started having night terrors again, something that has not plagued me since I was a child. I know it's the drug. I didn't have a night terror or a nightmare last night, but a most unusual dream, certainly.
I was in a country valley with some people who were obviously moonshiners. A middle aged man and some twenty-somethings were there. I didn't know them but they were friendly with me and seemed to know me. At any rate, there was a police raid and my friends took to the hills - literally, climbing up the hill to the top of the ridge to flee in the opposite direction. I went with them.
The other side was a big valley that was largely grassland with a quarry in it. We began going down and saw cops stopping people on the road ahead. Switched direction and began walking down the gravel quarry road. The road kept getting narrower and narrower and eventually it was just a small ledge a couple of inches across. We were hanging on the edge of a cliff, a very crumbly edge. I realized there was no way to got off this.
At that moment one policeman arrived. It was Sean Hayes, the actir from the old t.v. show Will and Grace, who apparently moonlighted as a police officer raiding moonshiners. I appealed to him to get me out of the predicament I was in. He told me he would - but only provided I sing a Stevie Wonder song. My mind went blank; I couldn't think of a single Stevie Wonder song. He told me that until I sang one we were going to stay right where we were!
At that moment a mousetrap snapped and woke me from my musical predicament.
Don't ask me; I haven't the foggiest idea of what spurred so bizarre a dream.
At any rate it was a fitting end to a rather strange day. I was glad to wake up this morning. They told me that I would be fine by the end of last night, so hopefully things will get back to normal.
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April 17, 2023
Space Energy!
John Lees
Apparently the UK dept. of energy has been looking into the idea of generating power using solar panels in space, and then beaming that energy down to earth.
I know that there will be some concerns about the idea of a high power microwave beam aimed back at some specific location here on earth.
What if the beam loses track and wipes out a neighbouring city?
Well, don't worry, they plan to control the aim of the beam using advanced self-learning AI...
(P.S. only half of this is satire. The first half is real. Imbeciles really are wasting our money on *seriously* contemplating this idiotic idea.)
Space Energy Initiative, Space-Based Energy solutions to address global energy challenges
spaceenergyinitiative.org.uk
Apparently the UK dept. of energy has been looking into the idea of generating power using solar panels in space, and then beaming that energy down to earth.
I know that there will be some concerns about the idea of a high power microwave beam aimed back at some specific location here on earth.
What if the beam loses track and wipes out a neighbouring city?
Well, don't worry, they plan to control the aim of the beam using advanced self-learning AI...
(P.S. only half of this is satire. The first half is real. Imbeciles really are wasting our money on *seriously* contemplating this idiotic idea.)
Space Energy Initiative, Space-Based Energy solutions to address global energy challenges
spaceenergyinitiative.org.uk
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That was then...
Willis Eschenbach
Webline of the day, from the Capo of the Biden Crime Family, "10% Joe". It's from a speech he gave in 2007 regarding leaving Afghanistan:
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"And you leave those billions of dollars of
weapons behind I promise they're going to be used against your
grandchild and mine some day"
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April 16, 2023
Double Standard
Joanne Moon-Yarwood
I find it strange the government could located the person that leaked the pentagon papers with little problem .But they never found the person that leaked the Roe Vs Wade decision ,how hard they tried .Guess they didn’t want too .I bet if it had been Justice Thomas they would have .
I find it strange the government could located the person that leaked the pentagon papers with little problem .But they never found the person that leaked the Roe Vs Wade decision ,how hard they tried .Guess they didn’t want too .I bet if it had been Justice Thomas they would have .
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The Heart of Darkness
Bill Weisberg
This is what is also happening in Los Angeles. Until the people of each city rise up and disband the teachers union and the other public unions, this rule of of the extreme left will continue to grow.
The Chicago Teachers Union Now Runs the Mayor’s Office
msn.com
This is what is also happening in Los Angeles. Until the people of each city rise up and disband the teachers union and the other public unions, this rule of of the extreme left will continue to grow.
The Chicago Teachers Union Now Runs the Mayor’s Office
msn.com
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Melting Antarctic Ice
Jim Church
Melting Antarctic ice was reported to be causing a dramatic slowdown in deep ocean currents, which "could have a disastrous effect on the climate”, parroted the world’s propagandizing and wolf-crying media.
But alas, facts are a happy accident wherever the likes of the BBC are concerned, the circulation of fear is their modus operandi and they’ll use any old junk science in order to press it onto a dutiful yet increasingly tired and crisis-weary public.
The latest legacy media fear-drive states that the less dense fresh water from the melting ice cap will interrupt the downwards movement of water towards the sea bottom which, in turn, will affect world oceanic currents. The activist-science blog the Conversation reported that "torrents of Antarctic meltwater are slowing the currents that drive our vital ocean ‘overturning’ – and threaten its collapse”. While the BBC themselves, clearly unsaddled by the burden of credibility, which was lost many moons ago, referred their intellectually undemanding readers to the movie The Day After Tomorrow — go science!
Worst still, this latest round of circle-drumming drivel is based on nothing but modeling — 35 million computer hours of modeling, no less, based on the IPCC’s "high emissions” scenario. But as recently reviewed by Dr. Judith Curry, this worst-case scenario has been dropped in many scientific circles on the grounds it is recognized as implausible –with global warming of barely 0.1C over the last two decades likely a factor in this rug-sweeping– yet still, Dr. Curry notes that extreme prophesies based on this scenario still routinely do the MSM rounds, and even remain in IPCC pages. "Rejecting these extreme scenarios has rendered obsolete much of the climate literature and assessments of the last decade,” points out Dr. Curry.
No, Antarctic Ice Isn't Melting Into Oblivion; + Shiveluch Erupts (Again) - Electroverse
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Tim adds:
Ridiculous stupidity. The primary ocean current in the Antarctic is the Antarcic Circumpolar Current, which encircles Antarctica. It's a very broad and deep cold water current that traps the cold water inside the Antarctic Circle, mostly. This meltwater (which isn't happening anyway) would hardly affect the world's oceans. If they were talking about the Arctic perhaps but it won't happen in the Antarctic.
Melting Antarctic ice was reported to be causing a dramatic slowdown in deep ocean currents, which "could have a disastrous effect on the climate”, parroted the world’s propagandizing and wolf-crying media.
But alas, facts are a happy accident wherever the likes of the BBC are concerned, the circulation of fear is their modus operandi and they’ll use any old junk science in order to press it onto a dutiful yet increasingly tired and crisis-weary public.
The latest legacy media fear-drive states that the less dense fresh water from the melting ice cap will interrupt the downwards movement of water towards the sea bottom which, in turn, will affect world oceanic currents. The activist-science blog the Conversation reported that "torrents of Antarctic meltwater are slowing the currents that drive our vital ocean ‘overturning’ – and threaten its collapse”. While the BBC themselves, clearly unsaddled by the burden of credibility, which was lost many moons ago, referred their intellectually undemanding readers to the movie The Day After Tomorrow — go science!
Worst still, this latest round of circle-drumming drivel is based on nothing but modeling — 35 million computer hours of modeling, no less, based on the IPCC’s "high emissions” scenario. But as recently reviewed by Dr. Judith Curry, this worst-case scenario has been dropped in many scientific circles on the grounds it is recognized as implausible –with global warming of barely 0.1C over the last two decades likely a factor in this rug-sweeping– yet still, Dr. Curry notes that extreme prophesies based on this scenario still routinely do the MSM rounds, and even remain in IPCC pages. "Rejecting these extreme scenarios has rendered obsolete much of the climate literature and assessments of the last decade,” points out Dr. Curry.
No, Antarctic Ice Isn't Melting Into Oblivion; + Shiveluch Erupts (Again) - Electroverse
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Tim adds:
Ridiculous stupidity. The primary ocean current in the Antarctic is the Antarcic Circumpolar Current, which encircles Antarctica. It's a very broad and deep cold water current that traps the cold water inside the Antarctic Circle, mostly. This meltwater (which isn't happening anyway) would hardly affect the world's oceans. If they were talking about the Arctic perhaps but it won't happen in the Antarctic.
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The Triumph of the Fabians
This from Tom Waeghe
"REMOULD IT NEARER TO THE HEART’S DESIRE – Avangelista
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"The gradual revolution of the Fabian Socialists is quickly becoming a reality in America.
The Fabian Society began in England in 1887 by a very small group of elitist socialist that sought to reform society gradually into one of socialism instead of through violent revolution. At first their purpose was to be an alternative in Britain for the more dominate Marxist Social-Democratic Federation, but their true goal was to accomplish socialism through a very gradual process using the voting booth and representative democracy as their instrument of change. In fact, one of their symbols is a Turtle with the motto: "When I Strike, I Strike Hard”. Another symbol is the Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing and the Globe on an Anvil being hammered into the Fabian model.
The Fabian Plan for gradual Socialist Revolution was as definitive as it possibly could be, to say it has been a conspiracy is simplistic in the extreme. It instituted a widespread educational program for its leadership and its minions, as time progressed, it opened schools, such as the London School of Economics, and the New School of Social Research.”
"REMOULD IT NEARER TO THE HEART’S DESIRE – Avangelista
avangelista.wordpress.com
"The gradual revolution of the Fabian Socialists is quickly becoming a reality in America.
The Fabian Society began in England in 1887 by a very small group of elitist socialist that sought to reform society gradually into one of socialism instead of through violent revolution. At first their purpose was to be an alternative in Britain for the more dominate Marxist Social-Democratic Federation, but their true goal was to accomplish socialism through a very gradual process using the voting booth and representative democracy as their instrument of change. In fact, one of their symbols is a Turtle with the motto: "When I Strike, I Strike Hard”. Another symbol is the Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing and the Globe on an Anvil being hammered into the Fabian model.
The Fabian Plan for gradual Socialist Revolution was as definitive as it possibly could be, to say it has been a conspiracy is simplistic in the extreme. It instituted a widespread educational program for its leadership and its minions, as time progressed, it opened schools, such as the London School of Economics, and the New School of Social Research.”
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