QUANTUM THEORY AND THEOLOGY? At first glance, it’s easy to conclude there are no two less similar fields of thought and investigation than quantum theory and Christian theology. But first glances can fall short, as this new video on HillFaith from the Colson Center explains.
Archive for 2022
August 3, 2022
UNEXPECTEDLY! White House: Oh yeah, by the way, al-Qaeda’s back in Afghanistan. “Kirby’s trying and failing to explain away the inexplicable. Biden and his team want credit for taking out Zawahiri in Kabul — a legitimate tactical win — without accepting any accountability for the actions that not only allowed the head of AQ back into the capital of Afghanistan but that also allowed AQ’s Taliban allies and protectors to take over the country again. Getting Zawahiri was good, but the fact that he was operating openly in Kabul is a direct condemnation of the withdrawal Biden executed, especially in his decision to abandon Bagram and to cut off supplies to the Afghan military that we designed for reliance on American support. Biden’s abandonment of Afghanistan has turned the country back over to the terrorists we’ve fought for the past twenty years. Kirby may not like hearing this, but it’s the obvious lesson from their strike on Zawahiri.”
PRIVACY: Electric Car Drivers: Why You Might Not Be Pumped Over Privacy-Jolting Mileage Taxes. “The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, passed with bipartisan support last year, authorized the Department of Transportation to launch new pilot programs to test ways to collect necessary fees. These include a range of high-tech means such as accessing location data from third-party on-vehicle diagnostic devices, smart phone applications, telemetric data collected by automakers, motor vehicle data obtained by car insurance companies, data obtained from fueling stations, and ‘any other method that the Secretary [of Transportation] considers appropriate.'”
Previously: New Law Will Install Kill Switches In All New Cars.
The Feds will know where you are and have the ability to shut down your car remotely.
It’s a tyrant’s dream made real.
RAYMOND IBRAHIM: The Islamic Terrorist Blame Game.
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) recently published a video of the execution of about 20 Christian civilians in Nigeria. As with many other such ISIS-type videos, the terrorists stood behind their bound and kneeling victims before knocking them over and carving their heads off to cries of “Allahu Akbar.”
Before doing so, one of the masked Muslims said that the execution of these Christians was “to avenge the killing of the group’s leaders in the Middle East earlier in 2022.” This is apparently a reference to ISIS leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi—a man with a reputation for extreme brutality—who was killed last February during an airborne raid by U.S. and Kurdish forces in northwestern Syria.
The reader may be pondering how impoverished Christian civilians in Nigeria are connected to or responsible for the activities of U.S. and Kurdish forces in Syria. The fact is, Muslim terrorists are notorious for offering any number of pretexts — many of which border on the absurd — to justify their cowardly targeting and murdering of the Christian minorities in their midst.
Read the whole thing.
DON’T GET COCKY: Goodbye, Joe Manchin. Your Senate Career Is Over. “Manchin is not up for reelection until 2024, but considering the increasingly Republican landscape of his home state and his willingness to sabotage the livelihoods of the people who put him in office, it grows more and more likely that this will be the last time he is in office.”
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Wouldn’t You Like to Be a Prepper Too? (Shhhh, Just Don’t Tell Anyone). “Now that the commies have made no secret of their plan to cause worldwide food shortages in the name of environmentalism, I thought I’d throw out some ideas on how to not starve to death.”
SEGREGATION NOW, SEGREGATION TOMORROW, SEGREGATION FOREVER! Debate tournament banned White students from competing.
ENDORSED, SINCE THEY AREN’T “CIVIL SERVANTS,” BUT RATHER PARTISAN POLITICAL OPERATIVES: Scoop: 2024 GOP hopefuls back Trump’s plan to purge civil servants.
The “spoils system” at least promoted political accountability. And the notion that long-term civil servants possess a higher degree of skill due to their experience is not borne out by the results.
THE WHOLE #STOPASIANHATE CAMPAIGN COLLAPSED ONCE VIDEOS LIKE THIS DEMONSTRATED THAT THE ATTACKS WEREN’T COMING FROM MAGA-HATTED TRUMP SUPPORTERS: Four Kids Attack, Beat 70-Year-Old Asian Woman in San Francisco Complex.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: The Sports World Weeps—Dodgers Hall of Fame Broadcaster Vin Scully Passes Away at Age 94. “What I’ve missed most since Scully retired after sixty-seven years as the Dodgers broadcaster are his stories. He worked alone, filling three or four hours of air time with a seemingly endless supply of tales. He was, as many have noted, a verbal poet. His delivery was effortless as he would weave the in with the call of the game. He was, in essence, his own color commentator.”
AGAINST THE GREAT RESET: ‘The War on Capitalism.’
True capitalism has never been tried.
THAT’LL WORK: Biden Borrows the Nixon Playbook on Recessions.
When Fox News’s Peter Doocy asked White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre about the two-quarter decline, she shot back “that’s not the definition [of a recession]. That is not the definition.” Although it is not the only definition of the term, the two-quarter standard is in fact the most common rule of thumb to mark a recession. It appears in almost every mainstream economics textbook. It is also a common standard used by most developed countries, including the UK Treasury, the German Bundesbank, the French National Institute of Statistics and Economics, the Australian Parliament, and Canada’s balanced budget act of 2015.
By contrast, the White House prefers waiting on a recessionary determination by the business cycle timing committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), even going so far as to designate them the “official” arbiter of recessions. There is no such official designation in US law, as I documented recently in the Wall Street Journal. But more importantly, the NBER approach is fundamentally unsuitable for making real-time policy decisions. It is rigorous and respected as a historical indicator, but NBER’s determinations are retrospective by design. It often takes a year or more after the start of a recession for the NBER to release its findings, meaning it is functionally useless for the purposes that the Biden administration now claims.
Instead, Biden’s team wishes to exploit the NBER approach so they can buy time to limit the political fallout. . . .
Biden’s tactic comes straight from the playbook of the man who was president when he first took office as U.S. Senator from Delaware in 1973: Richard M. Nixon. The U.S. economy entered into a downturn around November 1973, and would not emerge from the recession until the spring of 1975. Over the next several months, Washington was abuzz with chatter about crossing the threshold into a multi-quarter decline. Nixon used his State of the Union address on January 30th to declare “there will be no recession in the United States of America,” depicting the previous fall’s turmoil as a temporary residual effect of the 1973 oil embargo following the Yom Kippur War in the Middle East.
When the specter of a two-quarter decline was raised, suggesting that the traditional definition of a recession would soon be met, Nixon’s team went to work by trying to change the definition. . . . This act of definitional evasion prompted a biting quip from Arthur Okun, former economic advisor to Lyndon Johnson, who said “when Administration spokesmen begin to split hairs about what a recession is, you can be sure there will be one.” . . .
There’s a lesson for the Biden administration in the Nixon episode, although it is different from the lesson they appear to have taken. The White House’s definitional wordsmithing could not overcome the onset of worsening economic realities in 1974, and its frequent appeals to the NBER determination could not run down the clock against a prolonged recession. Faced with similar risks today, Biden’s advisors may well be stumbling their way into a repeat of the 1970s economic malaise.
Could be, and are.
FRIENDSHORING: Companies Are Fleeing China for Friendlier Shores.
SHAKING THEIR GUNS IN THE TYRANT’S FACE: Gun buyers defy Pelosi and Democrats, sales top 1M a month for three straight years.
Churchill reference in the headline.
JOE’S FAVORITE ECONOMIST NO MORE: Joseph Simonson at the Washington Free Beacon explains why Mark Zandi may have just lost his title as President Joe Biden’s favorite economist.
THREE MURDERS BY AGE 83: Hans Bader looks at the case of the 83-year-old guy, Marceline Harvey, who, having already spent 30 years in prison for murdering one woman and 20 years for murdering a second woman, then goes through trans-gendering and commits murder number three, yes, of yet another woman.
Bader notes: “Harvey’s return to crime after being released is not unusual for offenders, according to a recent report by the U.S. Sentencing Commission. On February 10, it issued a 116-page report titled ‘Recidivism of Federal Violent Offenders Released in 2010.’
“Over an eight-year period, violent offenders returned to crime at a 63.8 percent rate. The median time to rearrest was 16 months for these violent offenders. So, most violent offenders released from prison committed more crimes. Even among those offenders over age 60, 25.1 percent of violent offenders were rearrested for committing new crimes.”
LINCOLN BROWN: Reuters Fact-Checkers, Simulated Periods, and Other Signs That the World Is Going to Hell. “I asked several reliable sources (aka, actual women) if they had ever wanted to experience the sensation of having a period. The doctor says I should be back to eating solid food within the week.”
DEMOCRACY AT WORK, EXACTLY AS DOBBS INTENDED: Kansans vote to uphold abortion rights in their state. “Kansas voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly struck down a proposed constitutional amendment that would remove language enshrining reproductive rights in their state, in a move widely seen as a victory for abortion rights activists. . . . A “yes” vote on the measure would remove from the state Constitution the right to an abortion and hand the issue back to the state legislature. A ‘no’ vote on the measure would make no changes, keeping abortion rights enshrined in the state Constitution.”
EVEN A FLATWORM IS SMART ENOUGH TO TURN AWAY FROM PAIN: As Crime Soars, Democratic Voters Turn on Left-Wing Prosecutors.
DEAL OF THE DAY: Polarized Sports Sunglasses. #CommissionEarned
SUPPLY CHAINS: Retailers Seeking More Warehouse Space to Stow Excess Inventory.
Warehouse owners say more retailers are looking to add storage capacity, both for goods now reaching their networks of stores and distribution centers and as they prepare to keep more inventory on hand long-term to guard against stock-outs.
Prologis Inc., the world’s biggest owner of warehouses by square footage, said in a recent market analysis that it expects an additional 800 million square feet of warehouse space to be needed beyond earlier projections to handle the excess inventories, about 300 million square feet of which has already been leased by tenants.
“We have specifically heard from customers who are looking at carrying more inventories and are leasing space,” said Chris Caton, managing director of global strategy and analytics at Prologis.
Just-in-time inventory worked fine when everything else was running smoothly, but those days are over.
WELL, OKAY THEN: MSNBC calls for new “energetic atheism” to combat Christian “theocracy.” Based on recent behavior, the Christians are less theocratic than the atheists.