July 11, 2023
Katanji Brown is the Jim Crow of the Suprmee Court.
https://nypost.com/2023/07/09/liberal-supreme-court-justice-comes-out-in-favor-of-segregation/
She openly argues for segregation of the races.
In her dissent from the high court’s long-overdue ruling against racial preferences in college admissions, she cited an utterly bogus statistic.
"For high-risk Black newborns, having a Black physician more than doubles the likelihood that the baby will live,”she wrote in rationalizingHarvard’s bigotry against Asian American applicants.
Yet that black infant mortality number isobviousbunk.
If it were true, it would meanthousandsof black infants dying every year thanks to white doctors’ secret racism.
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According to the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Anthony Fauci suppressed evidence of a lab leak.
Fauci on numerous occasions prompted researchers to author a paper intended to "discredit” the theory that COVID-19 originated from a lab, the report states, citing internal emails. Additionally, one of the paper’s authors noted that the paper did not help "refute a lab origin” theory.
"Our main work over the last couple of weeks has been focused on trying to disprove any type of lab theory,” wrote Dr. Kristian G. Andersen, a professor at Scripps Research who was the author of a research paper that claimed "COVID-19 was not a laboratory construct or a purposely manipulated virus,” according to the report. That research, known as the "Proximal Origin” paper, was instigated by Fauci and senior staff at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to prevent "unnecessary harm … to China in particular,” the report reads.
Fauci is recountedby Andersen as suggesting that he write this paper to discredit the idea that COVID-19 leaked from a Chinese laboratory, with her saying "I remember hearing him saying that if you think this came from a lab, you should write this up a peer-reviewed paper,” referring to the Proximal Origin paper.
Fauci helped create and promote the biggest fraud in history, and he is responsible for the deaths of millions. He must be held to account as surely as Joseph Mengele.
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With apologies to J.J. Kale and Eric Clapton:
If you wanna hang out
you've got to feed the snout
Cocaine
If you want Biden's help
you gotta feed his whelp
Cocaine
Hunter likes
Hunter likes
Hunter likes
Cocaine
When Joe's making the news
he needs to find a ruse
Cocaine
Nobody knows whose it is
they hope the story will fizz
Cocaine
but
Hunter likes
Hunter likes
Hunter likes
Cocaine
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Man the junta has weaponized the DOJ!
Biden DOJ Indicts Whistleblower Prepared to Testify Against First Family
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So, where are the corpses?
Historical bird and terrestrial mammal extinction rates and causes
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In the fight against pro-information Russia Ukrainian secret services have asked the FBI and then Facebook/Meta to remove from Instagram the official Russian-language profile of the US Foreign Ministry ("State Department”).
The only miracle is that Putin has not yet won against these miserable idiots and messengers
Michael Shellenberger on Twitter
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July 10, 2023
So Joe hosts nose candy mountain
while the Hunter's nose flows like a fountain
the Big Guy knows best
and he speaks without jest
he knows there will be no accountin'
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Truth is eternal. It can be hidden, covered, but not destroyed.
It is like matter; it might turn to energy (aka go back to God) but it will eventually become matter again.
A lie is like a snowflake; temporary and it will be gone forever.
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85,000 MISSING CHILDREN?: "In February, The New York Times reported that even though HHS "checks on all minors by calling them a month after they begin living with their sponsors,” data obtained by the newspaper "showed that over the last two years, the agency could not reach more than 85,000 children.”
Biden Administration Official Unclear on Location of 85,000 Migrant Kids
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Chester McAteer observes:
Prejudice is stronger than all principles, though not always stronger than lust.
Tim adds:
Prejudice is a survival trait. It is the human way of coping with potential danger without adequate information. If you see a large man coming and you don't know him you have to rely on patterns that are defensive in nature and that have served you in the past. Probably you will go to the other side of the street or take other actions to protect yourself.
Jesse Jackson said that, that he would be relieved if he heard footsteps behind him and turned around to see it was a white person. Was Jackson just mindlessly prejudiced? No because he had a template from which he was operating, one based on experience and second-hand knowledge.
Now that doesn't mean blind prejudice doesn't exist, or that we should judge a book by it's cover, but it is a natural human characteristic. It goes back to the dawn of Man. "Diversity" is a modern idea, one that flies in the face of human instinct. We resist diversity because we cannot trust those who are too different from ourselves This is hard-wired into us. The trick is to suppress prejudice in everyday life while allowing it to continue to help out under key circumstances - ones where we may be in peril.
Years ago there were two girls who were murdered here in St. Louis. They had been students of my mothers, BtW. In this case these high school girls went onto the long-abandoned Chain of Rocks bridge with their male cousin to show them a poem they had written about acceptance and racial prejudice (ironically). It was night time. They passed a group of young black men on the bridge on their way to the graffiti (this bridge was used in Escape from New York, btw.) Well, the girls never made it home. These men raped them and tossed them off the bridge. They threw the male cousin off too but he survived the fall into the black waters of the Mississippi.
These girls, inculcated with modern thinking about prejudice and not wanting to be "bad people" in their own minds, thought it was safe to pass a group of men on a closed bridge at night. Prejudice should have put some fear in them but they were taught to suppress it completely. Can't be bad people and judge these men now can we?
Tolerance killed those girls. They should have been afraid, even if they men they passed had been white or Asian. You just can't go wandering about on the ruins of bridges at night and trust ANYONE you meet.
Prejudice is a powerful human trait indeed. And it is a good trait if kept in it's proper sphere. We have to make snap decisions on occasion about people based on appearances or behavior. Often our lives depend on it. Again, we need to restrain it in a civil and diverse society, but I don't believe anyone on Earth is free of prejudice nor should they be.
As for lust, it is indeed stronger than prejudice. In fact people have thrown their whole lives away over it. The urge to reproduce is probably the strongest urge we have, next to pure survival.
The story of Samson in the Bible is a great example; he KNEW Delilah was trying to trick him so the Phillistines could defeat him, but he ended up telling her his secret anyway. Just couldn't stop himself.
Now THAT is one hard-up guy!
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That man is a featherless biped cannot be denied.
That the possession of reason is his most characteristic and distinctive attribute beyond being featherless and bipedal is arguable.
The alternative is that post-natal malleability is more distinctive and more characteristic of Homo Sapiens as a species than reason.
Reason and malleability are competitors for the role of most species special attribute of humans.
From the time of Voltaire and Jefferson we have experienced the Enlightenment --- based on the idea that reason is man's most distinctive trait. The case for this idea goes all the way back to Aristotle, although there was never a mass movement of all humanity based on the reason special trait idea until the 17th Century, (or, if you like, the 16th Century for a scholarly quibble).
Anyhow, we are now in the 21st century, and since the dawn of that century we entered the Endarkenment which is based on post-natal malleability as the primary feature that separates Sapiens as a featherless biped from all others.
Education and culture took over around the year 2000 as the thing that makes man as a species special. No other species has this level of post-natal malleability.
The teachers unions know it, and have used this remarkable fact to change the world.
They have taken charge. They are at the wheel. They are driving the Sapiens Bus. Because man is mostly a piece of clay that can be formed like a Bonsai tree is formed. Human nature is up for grabs, and the progressive socialists in the teaching profession have grabbed it, and are bending it to their will.
A.H. the leader of 1939 Germany, was an early knower of the new reality defining humankind. He knew he could shape people like little Bonsai trees to be anything and do anything he wanted them to do.
Orwell, a fiction writer of the early 1930's also knew this fundamental shift in the defining feature and man. Man redefined is the central theme of his book "1984".
Aldous Huxley also reached for a similar idea, but missed the mark because his fiction "Brave New World" centered on the malleability of man through genetic engineering, which remains a possibility, but which so far has not actually occurred at a significant level.
One could make the case that "breeding" or animal husbandry has been applied to humans since the republic of ancient Rome, and this case is credible but not compelling. High society always had the intent to marry the best to the best, and thus to produce the even better. The nation that is great could be made greater yet, as the song goes.
Plato talks about this in his book The Republic.
Plato was an early science fiction writer, well he called it philosophy, but it was really love of possibilities and ideas not love of wisdom per se.
But there was much wisdom in Plato's play with ideas.
Sophia is a hard word to pin down. It could mean deep insight. It could mean the views of a deeply informed and experienced thinker.
Anyhow my information leads me to see that 2000 marked the transition from the Age of Enlightenment to the Age of Endarkenment, which we are now in, and are being manipulated based on the way, like little Bonsai trees, we were shaped to grow, and develop.
I was born in 1947, so I span the point of transition, so I am able to observe its occurance. Thucydides and Herodotus also were able to observe things that happened in their lifetimes. Big things. But not as big as the defining feature of the species itself.
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July 09, 2023
So now even Elon Musk is kissing the Chinese buttocks.
Tesla commits to promoting 'core socialist values' in pledge with Chinese auto companies
Tesla on Thursday reportedly agreed to promote "core socialist values" with over a dozen Chinese car manufacturers.
The Texas-based electric vehicle (EV) and clean energy company run by Elon Musk did so as part of a pledge to the Chinese auto industry, The Wall Street Journal reported.
The four-point pledge reportedly involved agreeing not to engage in "abnormal" pricing, to prioritize quality and not use false publicity. The plege promises to "take on the heavy responsibility of maintaining steady growth, strengthening confidence and preventing risk," according to the outlet.
The signing reportedly took place in Shanghai at a conference.
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Bud Lite has fallen from the top beer in America, nay, the world to number 14, out of the top ten.
Once the top-selling beer in the U.S., Bud Light is no longer on the list of the country's 10 most popular beers after it partnered with transgender activist and influencer Dylan Mulvaney.
Bud
Light dropped from the ninth most popular beer last year to its current
spot at 14, according to a new YouGov survey. It fell behind other
brands like Pabst Blue Ribbon, Miller Genuine Draft and Miller Lite.
Rounding out the top five most liked beers were Guinness, Heineken, Corona, Samuel Adams and Blue Moon.
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Not content with just letting a bunch of mentally ill people into it's ranks, the United States Army is now exempting them from physical fitness standards in it's quest to promote "gender affirming care" and make the whole military into a bunch of corporal Klingers.
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2023/07/06/army-exempts-trans-service-members-from-physical-fitness-standards-n562821
If diversity makes us stronger why are we reducing the fitness requirements for them?
Be all that you can be! And do it with less!
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Our society and culture are beset with people who believe themselves filled with wisdom, and due to this belief, think themselves destined to rule because they are made from finer clay.
Proverbs 26:12 says:
"Do you see a man wise in his own eyes?
There is more hope for a fool than for him."
I think true wisdom is best defined as cross-functiona
It's sort of a liberal arts degree of life.
I think a liberal arts degree should carry more status within the degree hierarchy because a liberal arts curriculum is the traditional course of study in Western education, including the study of history, literature, writing, philosophy, sociology, psychology, creative arts and more. It is designed to educate the whole mind, not just focus on a specialty to the exclusion of all others.
What I mean by wisdom being cross functional is that a truly wise person need not be credentialled at a high level in any specific category, they simply need a functional understanding of how science, religion, economics, ethics, the arts and natural laws intersect and work together to form a unified process of existence.
My grandfather was one of the wisest men I have ever known. He had very little formal schooling, but in the process of raising a family on a Mississippi farm during the Great Depression, being a God fearing man, honest to a fault, a voracious reader, and a rational thinker and an astute observer of nature and natural events, he was able to see the connection in all of those aspects of his life, and that gave him the ability to synthesize true wisdom and to give his children and their children the benefit of that wisdom.
So many people in positions of power today lack wisdom. While they may be highly educated - and even experienced - in some things, they simply lack the ability to make the important connections between their expertise and the other items I mentioned before.
Given the SCOTUS decisions of this term, and some lower court decisions that didn't go the way some would have preferred, there are many smart people saying very stupid things about what is constitutional and what is not. We have a cadre of the media screaming that government must be able to control speech, that compelling speech is necessary to protect LGBTQ "rights" (as if there are special rights for LGBTQ), that being able to discriminate based on race is constitutional and that the Supreme Court is under the control of the Legislative and Executive Branches.
I don't think these
people are stupid, I just understand that they are one dimensional. To
consider most issues facing a republic such as ours, and matters of
constitutional import, it takes multi-dimension
Reason born from wisdom also informs that just because a thing can be done, doesn't mean it should be done. Wisdom means that just because one discipline says something can be done, if another says not to do it - we must have the strength not to do it. If a scientific advance results in a moral conflict, the moral aspect must be considered, simply being told to "believe the science" is insufficient.
Abortion falls in this category, as does "gender affirming care". In order to proceed with either requires the denial there is a moral and ethical component that must be addressed in each and the only way to approve of either is to simply ignore those components.
Reason is impossible without wisdom and when reason is absent, emotions rule.
So much of what we hear out of Washington has been emotionally based. Because they really, really want something to be true is is true, even though whatever it is has no basis in natural or constitutional law.
For example, just last week on MSNBC, Karine Jean Pierre, aka the White House's Human Dust Mop, last week declared there is a constitutional right to receive preferential treatment based on one's race even though the language of the 14th Amendment prohibits such nonsense.
Whether Ms. Dust Mop believes it or is just supporting a Biden agenda, I think most reasoning people understand that racial preferences are most certainly NOT supported by the language, spirit, or traditions of the Constitution.
Similarly last week, the New York Times, allegedly a newspaper, came out as pro-censorship and anti-free speech. Of course they know about the First Amendment but they have a regime to protect and that regime needs to control speech to survive.
Also, specifically against the Constitution.
Proverbs 26:11 says:
"As a dog returns to his own vomit,
So a fool repeats his folly."
Seems there truly is less hope for these people than for fools.
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Just 4.2% of batches accounted for more than 75% of Serious Adverse Side Effects..
Most people received shots that had little or no risk, but sadly 4.2% of all doses were loaded with toxicity (too much mRNA, cDNA, other contaminants) and they account for >75% of the SAE variance.
Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH™ on Twitter
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This is a dated video that I hadn't watched before and it's interesting because in it Elon Musk explains why he's so concerned about unregulated, wide-open, for-profit AI and it's not because of a future Skynet or Terminator or Westworld scenario like I've been saying all along is not a realistic scenario. At about 16 minutes into the video, Musk explains that an AI may learn to write narratives "incredibly well and convincing" that will mislead people because the AI is self-learning and self-teaching which means it will fine tune its narrative to maximum effect and mislead many by impersonating a real person on social media and it will go undetected because it's learned how to avoid detection. And "it may influence public opinion in a way that's very bad."
That concern makes sense to me. I predict many will react to this maintaining that this AI may be the actual anti-Christ of Scripture. I do not agree with that conclusion but I can see that a future antichrist would use AI for his evil purposes.
Elon Musk's BRUTALLY Honest Interview With Tucker Carlson (2023)
Tim adds:
I went out to dinner last night and a guy at a table next to us was pontificating on Trump. He was worried Trump will be re-elected. But he was going on about how Trump is in big trouble over the documents business and he referenced that tape where Trump is supposedly colluding to subvert Federal investigators. I didn't bother to tell the dope that there was no underlying crime and that is why they went with the Espionage Act, since the Presidential Records Act says what Trump did was perfectly legal. But the point is that tape may well hyave been doctored, and it could indeed be a deep fake. We are going to reach a point where we don't know what is true or real with this rising AI technology. It will depend on who controls the machine, and we all know the Left is much more into this sort of thing than are we. Those who seek power will abuse it and those who can be trusted with power generally don't desire it.
Yes indeed. I am mindful of Rev. 13:15 "And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.” Notice it's an image, not the Beast himself. So the Antichrist may use computer-generated images to promote himself, but he's still a man, not a machine. On the other hand, perhaps the Dragon of Revelation refers to an AI? I know it's a symbol of Satan, but often the sumbolism in the Bible is multi-faceted. I don't know but it is clear that this technology will be abused at some point.
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"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
This is the very first amendment to the Constitution and with good reason; these are core rights that are sacrosanct. This amendment is crystal clear; our government may not abridge religious freedom or the right to speak your mind.
So how is it that the Biden Administration is appealing a recent court ruling spanking them for abridging free speech by colluding with Facebook and Twitter?
That was the question on my mind as I watched Fox News Sunday this morning, particularly when they came to the Wizard of Low Wattage, Juan Williams, who argued vociferously that this was a bad ruling and we must abridge free speech to fight a "terrible problem" of misinformation. (Reminds me of Bush's famous statement "we have to suspend capitalism to save it.")
How can anyone, but particularly a journalist whose livelihood is dependent on the First Amendment, make such an argument?
I smote my forehead and perhaps did some serious damage to my cranium listening to the fatuous Williams rant on about the need to suppress free speech.
I desperately wanted to be there so I could tear into the dimwit. My response would be:
First, correcting misinformation is YOUR job Mr. Williams. That is what journalism is supposedly about - getting the facts straight and presenting it to the public. If you believe something you read on a social network is false then write about it and correct the record. Why, pray tell, do you insist government suppress it?
Second, who says it's misinformation anyway? You? The government? We remember all too well how we were told the Hunter Biden laptop story was Russian misinformation, but now we know that was a lie coming from the same gatekeepers who are demanding the right to censor "misinformation". So too was the Trump Russian Collusion farce. And we now know, thanks to those "spreaders of misinformation" that indeed the Covid vaccine does little and is dangerous and the pandemic largely a coefficient of bad government policy (such as making nursing homes take in the Covid infected.)
In point of fact a free press is but a part of free speech, and we have First Amendment rights as much as do the media.
Facebook and Twitter are not publishing sites and are exempt from a number of laws that pertain to publishers. They are much harder to sue, for example. Copyright infringement is largely absent on these sites. That is because you are supposed to be able to say and do whatever you think; it's a conversation, and conversations are not rigorously monitored by government or anyone else.
And in fact the truth is revealed by free speech. Ideas and concepts are tested in the arena of free speech, and many times something everyone was sure about has been upended under such scrutiny.
Which is why the Left hates free speech; they don't want to put their ideas to the test because they know they will be found wanting. So they suppress speech in order to only allow an Official Truth (in Russian that is Pravda) and then they compel everyone to accept only their version of things.
We see challenges to "Truth" in many areas of life. For instance, it was always believed peptic ulcers were caused by stress and spicy food. Doctors treated them with bland diets and antacids. People suffered for years with ulcers.
Nobody gets ulcers anymore. Why not? Because one doctor refused to accept the orthodoxy. He was treated as a quack, a purveyor of misinformation, for arguing ulcers were caused by bacteria. Helicobacter pylori. Barry Marshall refused to accept conventional wisdom and now nobody suffers with ulcers - at least not for long.
Dr. Adkins, who famously developed the low carb diet that bears his name, was also so treated.
In fact we would still have stomach ulcers and obese carb-eaters were the rules the current junta wants to impose in place. These guys would have been banned from Facebook.
I would add that the First Amendment protects ALL speech, and that includes lies. There is no caveat that the protected speech be true. It is the job of the listener to discern if what he or she is hearing is true or not. We are free to call lies - and liars - out, but not to shut them up.
And the First Amendment also applies to foreigners. If Russians have their own point of view they are free to state it. Just being Russian, or Chinese, does not abrogate their rights.
(I find it odd that the Democrats - so desperate to bring in aliens of any and every stripe, are at the same time trying to stifle the free speech rights of foreign entities. If they are worried about damage done to our country by foreigners shouldn't they first start by securing our border? Far more damage has been done by letting millions of illegal aliens invade our country than by Russians promoting the Hunter Biden story.
Truth is not something that is to be monitored by self-appointed authorities. It is all of our business to discern what is true. It is none of THEIR business what we believe, or what we say.
Juan Williams would howl like a banshee if someone were to suggest keeping the news media honest. In fact, I seem to remember he howled when Trump kicked out a particularly nasty reporter from the press pool. "How dare he!" Mr. Williams bleated when Trump booted CNN's Jim Acosta for rude behavior - to other journalists. Trump did NOT kick CNN out, just this particular reporter, who had been shouting over everyone else and making a jackass of himself. CNN sued and Trump let the jerk back in.
I seem to remember Wiliams having a hissy fit over that. But he's fine with Biden Acostaing all of America.
If Mr. Williams is frightened of "misinformation" he is in a unique position to do something about it. He can report what he believes is the truth. I know that's a novel concept for a guy like Williams, but he is free to do so any time he likes. And he can start an organization to promote what he feels is the truth.
Sunshine is the best disinfectant. Or as the Washington Post used to say "Liberty dies in darkness". Misinformation is the price we pay for liberty. There will be lies, damned lies, and from the government statistics, and we should rebut and correct them as much as is practicable. But suppress them? That is throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
And in point of fact the REAL misinformation comes from our government which seeks power uber alles. Lies are power and Mr. Biden knows that better than most. For a lie to succeed the truth has to be suppressed.
Which is what this man, this fuzzy slipper wearing tyrant (and someone wanting to steal the First Amendment can well be labeled a tyrant) should not be allowed to get away with that. That is for Communists, military dictators, and apparently the current President of the United States.
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July 08, 2023
Yes it does and the judge in the case should dismiss with prejudice. Of course, in our modern era, no judge wants to be thought ill of by the media.
DOJ Misconduct Justifies The Dismissal Of Trump's Charges
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"The Biden administration has filed an emergency stay request to keep censoring Americans on social media."
"The government’s stay request thus clearly lays out that the government views its purported defense of "democracy” as trumping American citizens’ constitutionally protected rights."
U.S. Government Files Emergency Stay to Keep Censoring Americans on Social Media
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