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Congress is Like a Train Wreck

31 Wednesday Jan 2018

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Congress, Donald Trump, government, train wreck

That’s always true in the figurative sense. And sometimes – times like today – it is literally so.

The Trump held forth last night before Congress on the State of the Onion.

CSPAN/YouTube.

He used triggering words like “America” and “American.” Naturally upset, some of the 535 criminals and idiots you’ve elected chose to retreat – to West Virginia. In route: a real train wreck:

Train carrying members of Congress — including House Speaker Paul Ryan — hits a truck

A train carrying members of Congress — including House Speaker Paul Ryan — to their legislative retreat in West Virginia hit a truck Wednesday, multiple sources told CNN.

An aide confirmed Ryan was on the train and is fine. Separately, a congressman on the train told CNN most of the staff and members on the train are OK.

“No serious injuries on the train,” another source said, adding there were only “bumps and bruises” for those on the train.

The Amtrak train left Union Station in Washington earlier Wednesday, and was carrying members of Congress, as well as their spouses, some family members and aides to the lawmakers. They are stopped on the tracks outside of Charlottesville, Virginia.

Rep. John Faso, a New York Republican, who was on the train that crashed, said he was able to see the truck that hit the train, and that he was told that injuries were expected from people in the truck, not the train.

“There was (what) looks like a tractor trailer carrying trash that was hit by the train,” Faso, who said he was in the third car of the train, told CNN.

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In other words a trainload of garbage hit a truckload of garbage. Sadly word comes the truck driver died. Another case of skunk drivers escaping unscathed with innocents in their wake.

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Reddit/Google.

Education Consternation

30 Tuesday Jan 2018

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college, culture, decline, education, high IQ, Vox Day

Vox Day on Christopher M. Langan’s thoughts on the current (and past) state of education and the plight of the “gifted.”

Chris Langan, who is a) a lot smarter than I am, b) definitely UHIQ, and c) may in fact qualify for an entirely different category of intelligence, rightly condemns the modern system of education as a massive waste. And worse, an institution literally designed to cripple the most intelligent students subjected to it.

Owing to the shape of a bell curve, the education system is geared to the mean. Unfortunately, that kind of education is virtually calculated to bore and alienate gifted minds. But instead of making exceptions where it would do the most good, the educational bureaucracy often prefers not to be bothered.

In my case, for example, much of the schooling to which I was subjected was probably worse than nothing. It consisted not of real education, but of repetition and oppressive socialization (entirely superfluous given the dose of oppression I was getting away from school). Had I been left alone, preferably with access to a good library and a minimal amount of high-quality instruction, I would at least have been free to learn without useless distractions and gratuitous indoctrination. But alas, no such luck.

While my own background is rather exceptional, it is far from unique. Many young people are affected by one or more of the same general problems experienced by my brothers and me. A rising number of families have severe financial problems, forcing educational concerns to take a back seat to food, shelter, and clothing on the list of priorities. Even in well-off families, children can be starved of parental guidance due to stress, distraction, or irresponsibility. If a mind is truly a terrible thing to waste, then the waste is proportional to mental potential; one might therefore expect that the education system would be quick to help extremely bright youngsters who have it rough at home. But if so, one would be wrong a good part of the time.

Let’s try to break the problem down a bit. The education system is subject to a psychometric paradox: on one hand, it relies by necessity on the standardized testing of intellectual achievement and potential, including general intelligence or IQ, while on the other hand, it is committed to a warm and fuzzy but scientifically counterfactual form of egalitarianism which attributes all intellectual differences to environmental factors rather than biology, implying that the so-called “gifted” are just pampered brats who, unless their parents can afford private schooling, should atone for their undeserved good fortune by staying behind and enriching the classroom environments of less privileged students.

This approach may appear admirable, but its effects on our educational and intellectual standards, and all that depends on them, have already proven to be overwhelmingly negative. This clearly betrays an ulterior motive, suggesting that it has more to do with social engineering than education. There is an obvious difference between saying that poor students have all of the human dignity and basic rights of better students, and saying that there are no inherent educationally and socially relevant differences among students. The first statement makes sense, while the second does not.

The gifted population accounts for a very large part of the world’s intellectual resources. As such, they can obviously be put to better use than smoothing the ruffled feathers of average or below-average students and their parents by decorating classroom environments which prevent the gifted from learning at their natural pace. The higher we go on the scale of intellectual brilliance – and we’re not necessarily talking just about IQ – the less support is offered by the education system, yet the more likely are conceptual syntheses and grand intellectual achievements of the kind seldom produced by any group of markedly less intelligent people. In some cases, the education system is discouraging or blocking such achievements, and thus cheating humanity of their benefits.

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Some schools, even of the government variety, do a very good job with actual knowledge installation and instruction. Other times, advanced students will learn regardless of the circumstances (really that happens at all times, though not always with visible “academic” results). But, in a system of “schools” which more resemble prisons than the old academy, it’s usually the kids with the most potential who suffer the most from the dumb-it-down/security complex.

It used to get better when the bright young adult reached college – for some it still does. But with our universities increasingly becoming overly-expensive extensions of the lower indoctrination program, hope fades there too. The example de jure: Duke University (or is it Duchess University??) continues the war on males in education.

And these are the overt issues, caused by a host of underlying problems in society, both political and cultural. If you have a child, especially a bright child,these are all things to consider carefully. Do that.

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More money! More testing! Sutori.

Fake it Till You Fake it More

27 Saturday Jan 2018

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blog, blogging, celebrities, culture, fakes, just pure trash..., perrinlovett.me, robots, social media

Two issues, one Times story (good one): one, people’s online personas are misappropriated for nefarious profits by our robot “friends;” two, real people pay for fake followers. The horrors of the socials scene:

The Times reviewed business and court records showing that Devumi has more than 200,000 customers, including reality television stars, professional athletes, comedians, TED speakers, pastors and models. In most cases, the records show, they purchased their own followers. In others, their employees, agents, public relations companies, family members or friends did the buying. For just pennies each — sometimes even less — Devumi offers Twitter followers, views on YouTube, plays on SoundCloud, the music-hosting site, and endorsements on LinkedIn, the professional-networking site.

The actor John Leguizamo has Devumi followers. So do Michael Dell, the computer billionaire, and Ray Lewis, the football commentator and former Ravens linebacker. Kathy Ireland, the onetime swimsuit model who today presides over a half-billion-dollar licensing empire, has hundreds of thousands of fake Devumi followers, as does Akbar Gbajabiamila, the host of the show “American Ninja Warrior.” Even a Twitter board member, Martha Lane Fox, has some.

At a time when Facebook, Twitter and Google are grappling with an epidemic of political manipulation and fake news, Devumi’s fake followers also serve as phantom foot soldiers in political battles online. Devumi’s customers include both avid supporters and fervent critics of President Trump, and both liberal cable pundits and a reporter at the alt-right bastion Breitbart. Randy Bryce, an ironworker seeking to unseat Representative Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, purchased Devumi followers in 2015, when he was a blogger and labor activist. Louise Linton, the wife of the Treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin, bought followers when she was trying to gain traction as an actress.

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NY Mag.

I tried carefully to craft a craziness no one would steal. You, some of you, might recall that, a few years back, I lost “perrinlovett.com” though lazy inattentiveness. Some pirate bought it for $30 and then offered to sell it back to me, once .me got rolling well, for $2,000-ish. Ha! Now they call trying to pay me to take it! I have my price.

But my followers do not. No fakes here or on YT or at FP. Here, of my massive three-man following, only one account is a fake I set up with a floating email. One is the real me – needs to monitor, etc. The other guy is in Russia I think.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to contact the click farm in Indones.

You’re Too Unstable to Adopt a Russian Child

26 Friday Jan 2018

Posted by perrinlovett in Legal/Political Columns, News and Notes, The Perrin Lovett Show

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Freedom Prepper, instability, The Perrin Lovett Show

The “why” and more prepper news that you can shake a bug out bag at.

Today’s Prepper News Weekly video:

Perrin Lovett/FPTV/YouTube.

More to come. Carry on…

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Are they sure? [Red] Star Tribune.

We’re Number Eight!

23 Tuesday Jan 2018

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America, decline, rankings, survey, world

Another survey finds the USA slipping a little. Have a gander:

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US News.

I find it interesting they only surveyed 80 countries. Honestly, they left off more than a few decent places and almost all of the sh@#holes… And I question their methodology – not merely for ranking the US so highly – but overall. For instance, for the US, they seem to think things would be better if only the $4 Trillion a year federal budget were a little bigger, if the government were a little bigger. They seem bothered by the electoral loss of someone who would have made it all bigger, someone who might have risked colluding in a coup to get elected. Odd.

May have more on this one tomorrow or this week. Some of my short list nations were absent (Haiti, et al…).

See what you think. And, Americans (and embedded aliens too), take pride: the US is still number one at slinging bombs and printing fiat!

Those Crazy Teens

22 Monday Jan 2018

Posted by perrinlovett in Legal/Political Columns

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culture, England, immigration, invasion, Sweden, teens, terrorism, War

As the times and the world seem to change around us, just remember that we too were once young and crazy. I’m sure you hacked the CIA or bombed a police station back when the hormones ran wild. Right?

British Teen (Actual Teenager [18]) Hacks CIA, DOJ

The hacks were carried out as part of a campaign of harassment against top US officials motivated by his political views, a court heard.

Gamble was just 15 when he posed as a telecoms worker and Brennan himself to gain information including passwords, contacts lists and sensitive documents about operations in Afghanistan and Iraq.

He then taunted the CIA on Twitter about his successes as a leading member of a collective called “Crackas With Attitude”, which supported the Free Palestine movement.

Prosecutor John Lloyd-Jones QC told the Old Bailey Gamble started the group.

Gamble told a journalist: “It all started by me getting more and more annoyed at how corrupt and cold-blooded the US Government is so I decided to do something about it.”

The court heard Gamble “felt particularly strongly” about US-backed Israeli violence against Palestinians, the shooting of black people by US police, racist violence by the KKK and the bombing of civilians in Iraq and Syria.

After Brennan, Gamble went on to carry out a series of similar attacks on other top security figures from his bedroom in Leics.

His victims included the secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson, to whom he sent a photo of his daughter and said he would “f*** her”, the court heard.

He may be on to something with the”corrupt” and “cold-blooded” parts. Sentencing, autism or not, for a later date.

And, in Sweden …

“Teens” Wage War on Formerly Peaceful Nation

In Malmo, Sweden, the third largest city, teens roam the streets with rifles as crime surges and attacks on police become more frequent.

Sweden is or was among the world’s safest, richest and best-run countries enjoying steady growth and rising employment. But it has been experiencing an unprecedented surge of bombings and sexual assaults.

In a country of 10 million people, more than 320 shootings and dozens of bombings were reported in 2017, along with more than 110 murders and 7,226 rapes — a 10% increase on 2016. More than 36% of young Swedish women say they feel unsafe at night.

The crime surges take place in the “areas of social exclusion”, the immigrant areas. In Malmo, where a fifth of the 340,000 inhabitants are under 18, children as young as 14 roam the streets with Kalashnikov assault rifles and bulletproof vests. The London Sunday Times tells us.

Women do not feel safe at night.

Sweden expects 2 million migrants in the next ten years in a country of 10 million.

One out of 8 Swedish women will be raped in their lifetime.

Related: “Teens” with Rifles, Bombs Frustrate Police, Locals

The world does love euphemisms, no?

“One out of 8 Swedish women will be raped in their lifetime.” One might expect a full-blown war in the same lifetime too. Or, at least at fight. Maybe? The Swedish government mulls sending in the cavalry in some attempt to restore civilization order.

Sweden will do whatever it takes, including sending in the army, to end a wave of gang violence that has seen a string of deadly shootings, Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said in Wednesday.

A nice, perhaps appropriate thought, but it seems a little late in coming. Usually the army tries in advance to preempt an invasion.

A few questions:

First, with the Brit hacker kid: why are they sentencing him? Why don’t they offer him a job with the CIA or MI6? He’s obviously more competent than what they have operating now. Probably more cost effective too.

Second, for the Swedes: Given that the army is needed now to deal with the existing plague of teens (some “teens” may be upwards of 35), why invite in 2 million more? Are they determined to make sure the other 7 women get raped too?

I’m sure the answer to the first would have something to do with embarrassment and revenge. The second answer may well be “ethnic foods.”

There might still be hope. Eastern Europe anyone?

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First? Or eighth? Voice of Europe.

So Much for Brady’s Amputated Hand or Whatever

21 Sunday Jan 2018

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Patriots win another AFC Championship.

So much for the “end of the Patriots era” jive, etc. …

Go Pats!

The Lack of a Budget

21 Sunday Jan 2018

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budget, Congress, Constitution, fools, law, money

In the days of old Congress used to pass annual budgets. This process generally started with a recommendation from the President. Next the proposed budget passed through the House, then the Senate. Finally, if he agreed with it, the President signed off on it.

That was then. Today, for more than a few years now, different appropriations have been cobbled together for this and that, rather than passed as a whole. Technically, this is permissible under Article I, Section 7 of the old Constitution. It’s my quibble that the old way was better, smoother. At any rate, at least it’s done. Until it’s not.

Last Friday/Saturday at midnight the Congress failed to agree on the latest stopgap spending bill. As such, “your” government has no budget for the coming fiscal year – running on empty.

A House-passed stopgap bill that would avoid a government shutdown fizzled out in the Senate late Friday night, leaving Congress negotiating frantically as the midnight deadline to fund the government passed.

The measure failed in a procedural vote by a 50 to 49 margin. Five Democrats — Joe Manchin of West Virginia, Joe Donnelly of Indiana, Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, Doug Jones of Alabama and Claire McCaskill of Missouri — had backed it. Four Republicans — Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Jeff Flake of Arizona, Rand Paul of Kentucky and Mike Lee of Utah — opposed it. So did Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for procedural reasons.

As nearly all Democrats and some Republicans opposed the measure that failed to work its way through Congress on Friday, lawmakers saw government funding lapse, at least temporarily. The proposal that failed in the Senate would have funded the government through Feb. 16 and reauthorized the popular Children’s Health Insurance Program for six years.

As far as I’m concerned, they could permanently shutter the whole operation forever. Fear not, they won’t. In fact, much (most?) of the government will operate pretty much as “normal” for the duration. Most people will notice no difference. I’m releasing a video for FP tomorrow about this and a few related matters. Watch it.

This last happened in 2013. Before that, it was a more pronounced shortage in 1995. We somehow survived those episodes. The sky will not fall. For now, just know that “your” elected representatives are a band of utterly incompetent fools. You should remember this come the next election. You probably won’t though I’ll drop a reminder.

Running on, running on empty
Running on, running blind
Running on, running into the sun
But I’m running behind

–Running on Empty, Jackson Browne, 1977.

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Mulling the Sequester

20 Saturday Jan 2018

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Ryan mentioned that by name (cue the eerie music…). Otherwise, it’s just a shutdown that could end early next week.

I’ll have a little more on that tomorrow. Today has kind of … spiralled.

Anyway, that’s what I have. Elect a government of idiots, expects idiocy.

Night!

-P

Videos: Prepper News and Music

19 Friday Jan 2018

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Freedom Prepper, music, news, The Perrin Lovett Show

So, here’s today’s Prepper News Weekly for FP:

Perrin Lovett/FPTV/YouTube.

And, since you’re here, and this tunes in my head, here’s a couple of takes on John Prine’s Paradise.

Prine

 

Johnny Cash (my favorite because he inverted the timber and land parts)

 

Buffett (live)

There are quiet a few more: Tom T. Hall (whom I used to speak to from time to time); Denver; etc.

Why? Just because. Now it’s in your heads too.

Happy Friday.

P

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