LATE MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY AND THE BASIC QUESTIONS: Fido, Rover and Spot teach us about “dogness.” But Instapunditeer Lee Dise explains when some philosophers said there’s no such thing as “dogs.” And look where that got us! It’s all in Lee’s Day 3 of LESSONS FROM HISTORY on HillFaith.
Archive for 2022
February 9, 2022
BECAUSE THEY’RE UP TO NO GOOD: Why Have 14 of 15 US Cabinet Agencies Bought Phone Unlocking Technology? Few Will Say.
INVESTIGATORS WITH THE U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service frequently work to thwart a variety of environmental offenses, from illegal deforestation to hunting without a license. While these are real crimes, they’re not typically associated with invasive phone hacking tools. But Fish and Wildlife agents are among the increasingly broad set of government employees who can now break into encrypted phones and siphon off mounds of data with technology purchased from the surveillance company Cellebrite.
Across the federal government, agencies that don’t use Cellebrite technology are increasingly the exception, not the rule. Federal purchasing records and Cellebrite securities documents reviewed by The Intercept show that all but one of the 15 U.S. Cabinet departments, along with several other federal agencies, have acquired Cellebrite products in recent years. The list includes many that would seem far removed from intelligence collection or law enforcement, like the departments of Agriculture, Education, Veterans Affairs, and Housing and Urban Development; the Social Security Administration; the U.S. Agency for International Development; and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Cellebrite itself boasted about its penetration of the executive branch ahead of becoming a publicly traded company in August. In a filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission, the company said that it had over 2,800 government customers in North America.
It’s for your own good, somehow.
MODERN MONETARY THEORY IS STUPID: Debate Over MMT Takes A Dumb But Surprising Turn.
DEPEND UPON IT, SIR; WHEN A MAN KNOWS THE MIDTERMS ARE IN NOVEMBER, IT CONCENTRATES HIS MIND WONDERFULLY: Fauci says ‘full-blown pandemic phase’ of COVID-19 coming to end.
Actually, it came to an end in the summer of 2020: Fauci resists Republican effort to turn testimony against protesters.
● After telling GOP to downsize convention due to COVID-19, N.C. governor marches in crowded protest.
● De Blasio: Large Group Protests Are Acceptable, Religious Observances Are Not.
Related: Fauci, AIDS, and the Anti-Gay Backlash.
THAT’S THE FAMOUS BLUES MUSICIAN, BLIND CALICO MOGGY: Blind cat mesmerizes social media with ‘cosmic moon’ eyes.
THE NEW LEFTY SPIN: “Donald Trump Promised He Wouldn’t Nominate a Black Woman to the Supreme Court.”
Well, there was a list, and there were no black women on the list. But if you made this sort of claim about a Democrat you’d get “insufficient context.”
Related: “Yes, and Biden would be in a very different position if he’d said nothing about choosing a black woman and had just done it. That’s the traditional way of adding diversity to the Court. You say you’re picking the very best person for the job and the person you chose is accorded the dignity of being called the best person and not merely the best within a constricted pool.”
I KNOW YOU WERE WONDERING: Dinosaurs swallowed prey whole and spat out their bones.
SURE, TELL ME YOU’RE “SURPRISED” AT THIS: Olympians in tears over poor living conditions, lack of food at Winter Games.
ONE WHERE NOTHING WORKS, INCLUDING HUMANS: Democrats live in an alternate universe.
WELL, THEY HAVE TO CHOOSE ONE, SCARING THE RUBES OR CLAIMING TO HAVE ENDED COVID: Biden Admin Asks For Recount On COVID Deaths.
THE FACT THIS NEEDS TO BE STATED IS MIND BOGGLING: Why “Anti-Work” Is Anti-Reality.
AND IF YOU’RE SURPRISED, YOU’VE BEEN ASLEEP FOR THIRTY YEARS: American Civil Liberties Union Files a Lawsuit to Stop Allowing Civil Liberties in Virginia.
SO, THEY’LL GET TO THE REST OF THE CHINESE COMPANIES LATER? U.S. Red Flags 33 Chinese Companies, Charges China-based Telecom Giant With Stealing Secrets.
SPEAKING OF DRUG PUSHERS, AND RACISTS, AND EVIL PEOPLE IN GENERAL: Biden Admin Giving $30 Million to Programs That Distribute Crack Pipes and ‘Advance Racial Equity’.
There is no justification for this that any sane human being can buy. None.
THAT’S ASSUMING THEY’RE CAPABLE OF FEELING SHAME: Media Covers Itself in Shame With Its Coverage of Canadian Freedom Convoy.
Like homeless drug addicts defecating by the side of an elementary school, I think they revel in rubbing your face in their self-degradation.
SO, THEY’LL GET TO THE OTHER BIDEN ADVISORS LATER? Report: Biden’s Top Science Advisor Resigns After Investigation Found He Humiliated, Degraded Subordinates.
OKAY. WHO IS GIVING FIDEL’S BYBLOW LSD? Trudeau accused of fueling anger after claiming anti-vax protesters are ‘waving swastikas’.
Fueling anger???? He should be accused of hallucinating. Or you know, bald faced lying.
February 8, 2022
PROJECT VERITAS: ESPN On-Air Talent Discuss Toxic Workplace Environment in Whistleblower’s Explosive Undercover Footage: ‘Just Blatantly Racist Sh*t’. “Undercover footage recorded at ESPN published by Project Veritas on Tuesday revealed what appears to be a workplace environment full of toxic racist tension.”
Why are lefty media outlets such cesspits of racism and sexism and abuse? Because they’re run by leftists.
CHANGE: Alberta caves to Canada trucker protests, ends vaccine passports.
A Canadian province has conceded to nationwide demonstrations by the nation’s truckers and will abolish vaccine passports immediately and end most COVID-related restrictions by month’s end.
Jason Kenney, the premier of Alberta, announced Tuesday evening that the passport requirement to enter businesses in the province will end at 11:59 p.m. local time and most other restrictions will be gone in three steps over the next three weeks.
“Now is the time to begin learning to live with COVID,” Mr. Kenney said in a televised address. “These restrictions have led to terrible division.”
He’s right. He may have needed a little encouragement to get there, but he’s right. Also, pressure works.
UPDATE:
NEW: Trudeau Is Heckled on Parliament Floor As He Attempts To Respond To Opposition Calls To End The Mandates 1/2… pic.twitter.com/l14agiHMGT
— Covid-1984 (@Orwells_Ghost_) February 8, 2022
A MAJOR SOURCE OF WHAT’S WRONG WITH MODERN SOCIETY: Women’s Tears Win in the Marketplace of Ideas.
Related: Signaling virtuous victimhood as indicators of Dark Triad personalities.
OPEN THREAD: Welcome to the Jungle.