I THINK HE’S LIMPING UP TO EXPLAIN ONCE MORE? Six Blind Men and an Elephant.
Archive for 2023
March 28, 2023
BECAUSE IT’S SORTA KINDA LIKE MARS? WHAT IF THE ALIENS ARE ON VENUS? Why the hottest place on Earth is being used to understand aliens.
Somehow I don’t think they’ve thought this through.
NEWSOM’S DEADLY FOLLY: A Covid Postmortem for California. Though well positioned to weather the pandemic, California instead pursued disastrous restrictions and cracked down on dissent. It had one of the slowest economic recoveries of any state, and ranked dead last in providing in-classroom teaching to students. Now Governor Gavin Newsom, having squandered $40 billion to mitigate his calamitous lockdowns, is falsely claiming that the state suffered lower mortality than Florida. The reality: If California’s excess-mortality rate equaled Florida’s, 10,000 fewer Californians would have died.
I’M NOWHERE NEAR AS SHARP AS ONCE I WAS AND I SPOTTED THESE IN NEARLY NO TIME: Only the sharpest minds can find the hidden letter ‘Y’ in this optical illusion.
TUESDAY EVENING, NEAR THE MOON, IN THE WESTERN SKY JUST AFTER SUNSET: 5 planets will be visible in sky this week ‘like pearls on a necklace’.
YOU SEE, THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO MADE THIS CLEAR FROM THE BEGINNING: Parents have no rights to their children! Why, the nerve. Parents Bill of Rights Sets Democrat Hair Ablaze.
SO, HERE’S THE QUESTION, SUPPOSING CHINA IMPLODES FINANCIALLY: And their play money at last is revealed to be just that. How many of these people are we going to find were puppets stuffed full of Chinese money? AOC: Banning TikTok “Doesn’t Feel Right”.
WELL, SINCE SHE HAS NO AFRICAN ANCESTORS MORE RECENT THAN YOUR AVERAGE CAUCASIAN, PERHAPS THIS ALLOWS HER TO SAY SHE CAME FROM AFRICA? Kamala Goes To Africa To Do More Of Nothing.
YES, IT’S INFURIATING, BUT GIVEN ARAB MAINTENANCE, IT WON’T BE OPERATIONAL LONG: Taliban Tout Equipment Left Behind In Afghanistan.
SOME OF US STOOD AGAINST THE TIDE OF MADNESS: Pushback: One doctor’s experience gives us all a ray of hope.
I don’t know about this doctor, but for me, it was Heinlein’s words:
“What are the facts? Again and again and again – what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what “the stars foretell,” avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable “verdict of history” – what are the facts, and to how many decimal places? You pilot always into an unknown future; facts are your single clue. Get the facts!”
Please remember that. It’s the only thing that keeps sanity amid mass illusion.
OF COURSE IT’S IDIOTIC. IT’S CNN: Why “digital blackface” is not a thing.
OF COURSE IT ISN’T INCONCEIVABLE: Artificial intelligence ‘godfather’ on AI possibly wiping out humanity: ‘Not inconceivable’.
SF Writers have been conceiving of this since the 1921 premier of “Rossum’s Universal Robots.” I don’t remember when Martin Caidin’s The God Machine was published, but I read it as a kid in pre-history. However, being conceivable doesn’t make it logical, sane or likely. I mean, remember humans also conceived of “perfect communism.
THEY KEEP USING THAT WORD, TOLERANCE: JK Rowling slams ‘mob’ after trans critic Kellie-Jay Keen Minshull is doused with tomato juice.
I don’t think it means what they think it means.
OH. NANCY PELOSI. HOLLYWOOD… THIS EXPLAINS RATHER A LOT: Botox alters brain activity connected to emotions: study.
March 27, 2023
OPEN THREAD: Discourse boldly.
GOODER AND HARDER, MICHIGAN: Michigan Democrats just stripped away workers’ rights—with Biden’s approval.
SPACE LAUNCHES, HAMBURGER, YOU NAME IT: Inflation, high demand driving up launch prices.
WHY DOES THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION WANT BLACKS AND THE ELDERLY TO DIE? My New York Post column: Biden’s latest target in his war on appliances: air conditioning units.
FILM LADD: Dr. Who is Doomed (Video).
SUCKING IN THE SEVENTIES: The ‘Population Explosion’ Myth Blows Up.
The UK’s far-Left Guardian admitted Monday that “the long-feared ‘population bomb’ may not go off, according to the authors of a new report that estimates that human numbers will peak lower and sooner than previously forecast.” The Club of Rome study, which was “carried out by the Earth4All collective of leading environmental science and economic institutions, including the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Stockholm Resilience Centre and the BI Norwegian Business School,” predicts that “on current trends the world population will reach a high of 8.8 billion before the middle of the century, then decline rapidly.” This being the Guardian, it added: “The peak could come earlier still if governments take progressive steps to raise average incomes and education levels.”
It’s jarring to read this. Population explosion hysteria has been a staple of education for decades, and there are no doubt millions of people who still take the idea that soon there will be many more people on earth than can possibly be fed as axiomatic fact. Americans have so internalized this belief that people with large families are guilt-tripped on a routine basis. I myself can remember being inundated with this propaganda in public school at all levels, although of course, no one recognized it as propaganda in those palmy days, as far back as the early 1970s. The population explosion myth became the basis for many of the Left’s other favored agendas, including the “climate crisis,” the bug-eating plan, and even the sexual revolution, which was in large part made possible by the contraception and abortion that we were told had to be readily available in order to try to bring the world’s population under control.
The ’70s was awash in doomsday conspiracy theories, when “Progressives” were suddenly against progress.
In 1972, Sir John Maddox, editor of the British journal Nature, noted that though it had once been usual to see maniacs wearing sandwich boards that proclaimed the imminent end of the Earth, they had been replaced by a growing number of frenzied activists and politicized scientists making precisely the same claim. In the years since then, liberalism has seen recurring waves of such end-of-days hysteria. These waves have shared not only a common pattern but often the same cast of characters. Strangely, the promised despoliations are most likely to be presented as imminent when Republicans are in the White House. In each case, liberals have argued that the threat of catastrophe can be averted only through drastic actions in which the ordinary political mechanisms of democracy are suspended and power is turned over to a body of experts and supermen.
Back in the early 1970s, it was overpopulation that was about to destroy the Earth. In his 1968 book The Population Bomb, Paul Ehrlich, who has been involved in all three waves, warned that “the battle to feed all of humanity is over” on our crowded planet. He predicted mass starvation and called for compulsory sterilization to curb population growth, even comparing unplanned births with cancer: “A cancer is an uncontrolled multiplication of cells; the population explosion is an uncontrolled multiplication of people.” An advocate of abortion on demand, Ehrlich wanted to ban photos of large, happy families from newspapers and magazines, and he called for new, heavy taxes on baby carriages and the like. He proposed a federal Department of Population and Environment that would regulate both procreation and the economy. But the population bomb, fear of which peaked during Richard Nixon’s presidency, never detonated. Population in much of the world actually declined in the 1970s, and the green revolution, based on biologically modified foods, produced a sharp increase in crop productivity.
“Progressivism” — where time stands still:
WHY IS THE LEFT SUCH A CESSPIT OF VIOLENCE? Are You Ready for the “Trans Day of Vengeance?” Update: Joe Biden Makes Ice Cream Jokes.
NOT MENTIONED: INCREASED IMMIGRATION FROM PLACES WHERE TB IS MORE OF A PROBLEM. Tuberculosis Deaths Creep Upwards After Falling For Decades in Europe.
DEVELOPING: Staffer for U.S. Senator Rand Paul was stabbed multiple times with a knife “in broad daylight” in Washington DC.
— The Bloodstone™ 🎸 Dylan (@BS2KZ) March 27, 2023
UPDATE: Rand Paul staffer stabbed in brutal attack in Washington, DC.
HMM: Losing a spouse may shorten lives of men. This has been conventional wisdom for a long time, of course.