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Hollow words, hollow minds

17 Wednesday Jul 2019

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It’s funny that, after killing the meaning of “American,” the retards have done away with any context behind “racist.” “Your” elected cretins were at it again:

The Democrat-controlled House of Representatives passed a resolution on Tuesday night condemning President Donald Trump for his “racist comments” about four Democratic congresswomen of color.

The resolution passed largely along party lines — 235 Democrats joined by only four Republican supported the measure — following hours of back-and-forth and gamesmanship between Republicans and Democrats, which included a GOP objection to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s remarks about Trump and whether she would be allowed to keep speaking on the floor.

The four Republicans who voted for the resolution, which “strongly condemns President Donald Trump’s racist comments that have legitimized and increased fear and hatred of new Americans and people of color,” were Will Hurd of Texas, Fred Upton of Michigan, Susan Brooks of Indiana and Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania.

Brilliant! Why didn’t they ever think to call Trump (or any white man) a “racist” before now? Next, they’ll cleverly suggest he’s “worse than Hitler,” maybe literally so. Then, look for accusations that Orange Man is a Russian agent. These people are smart if nothing else.

Vox Day on the new, meaningless meanings:

Nations are not soil, they are blood and birth. Because nations are people, extended families that share genetics, language, religion, culture, and traditions.

If America is for everyone, if anyone can become American, then America does not exist. Which, of course, is the insidious objective of the entire exercise in redefining it.

Of course, the idiots in the House proved the opposite point with the chosen language of their pitiful condemnation. “New” Americans, “people of color” Americans, along with all the many hyphenated (explicitly noted or otherwise) Americans, are prima facie NOT “Americans.” This week’s TPC column will continue this pointless discussion with a few actionable recommendations that will never be acted upon.

The Mueller Report

18 Thursday Apr 2019

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Here, at last, is the great disappointment of the Democrats:

MUELLER’S “RUSSIA” REPORT

Read through ALL of that…

It was the 448-page version of what Barr released last month in his substantially shorter summary.

My summary (with future extrapolation):

  • Russians attempted interference in the US 2016 election (as the US attempts the same worldwide in numerous countries and their affairs)
  • There was no collusion between Trump and Russia
  • There probably was a collusion between Team Hillary and someone Russian
  • There was definitely collusion by and among the Deep State to rig the election and defeat (later, frame or bog down) Trump
  • There was no Obstruction of Justice by Trump
  • This whole case was BS from the start and now it’s over
  • The Deep State is desperate
  • They need not be … no sealed indictments, no GITMO, no treason trials
  • Little if anything will be accomplished for Americans – On with the More of the Same Show!
  • Trump will be reelected in 2020
  • More of the same … for maybe a decade or so longer. Then…

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I Condemn the “Church” for Condemning the #CovingtonBoys

21 Monday Jan 2019

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I knew the original story was complete bullshit the second I saw the headline. And, I knew it even without reading further – just the source was enough to tip me off. It was a HuffPo headline, one of the dozens my dumb phone gives unsolicited, courtesy of Google or Verizon or someone. They all come from leftists sources and can be roundly regarded as fake news. If they tell me the Pats won the Super Bowl, I then question if the Pats even played in it. I can’t stop their flowing either.

Anyway, the media narrative about the Catholic HS altercation in DC has fallen apart, with the young men from Kentucky now being revealed as the victims.

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Before they were accosted by Chief Crying Wolf, the Known Activitst, they were taunted by members of the New Black, Real Hebrew, Original Eygptians, Islamic, We-Was-Kangz, Dr.-King-is-Rolling-in-his-Grave, Malcontent, If-It’s-So-Bad-Then-Get-the-Hell-Back-to-Africa-Now Thugs. Other protest types probably attacked them too – it was DC on a weekend… The boys showed remarkable restraint, poise, and good-natured humor. Now, they come under attack from the pols, the media, neocons, and liberal terrorists worldwide (death threats, doxxing, etc.).

Why were they in DC in the first place? Well, the Diocese of Covington, KY put out a call for the Faithful to rally last weekend, in DC, in defense of Life, to oppose those 41 million annual baby murders (700K – 1M per year in the US). The boys responded, going – MAGA hats on heads – to the DC Pro-Life rally. And, the home Church is so proud of them…

Actually, the Diocese’s next public pronouncement was to condemn the boys (with similar condemnation from their school, local shithead politicians, other idiots, etc). I’m not making this up – a one, two website punch – see, here:

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Yeah, how’s that for Christian gratitude?

Now, some of you may recall hearing of this particular Diocese before. That’s right! Back in 2005, they paid a (then) record $120 Million settlement to the victims of their faggot, child-molesting “priests” and ensuing cover-up!

It makes sense, as it shows whom we’re dealing with here and that they’ve learned little-to-nothing in 14 years. Men, take your families and your money out of these “church” organizations. Christ has already departed.

**Note** I now hear the #CovBoys are gearing up the lawsuits. Let ’em fly, lads!

**Note** Pay careful attention to that first PJW link, the pictures especially. They’re not all funny memes. One can catch glimpses of the LGBTQP&C crowd’s current agenda at work. That agenda the media glorifies. Mostly white Christians in MAGA hats respecting the unborn? That the media sees as the real problem. Will. Not. End. Well.

The Corrosive BS of American Academia

21 Monday Jan 2019

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As seen and chronicled by an American academic, Prof. Christian Smith of Notre Dame’s School of Sociology:

I have had nearly enough bullshit. The manure has piled up so deep in the hallways, classrooms, and administration buildings of American higher education that I am not sure how much longer I can wade through it and retain my sanity and integrity.

Even worse, the accumulated effects of all the academic BS are contributing to this country’s disastrous political condition and, ultimately, putting at risk the very viability and character of decent civilization. What do I mean by BS?

BS is the university’s loss of capacity to grapple with life’s Big Questions, because of our crisis of faith in truth, reality, reason, evidence, argument, civility, and our common humanity.

BS is the farce of what are actually “fragmentversities” claiming to be universities, of hyperspecialization and academic disciplines unable to talk with each other about obvious shared concerns.

BS is the expectation that a good education can be provided by institutions modeled organizationally on factories, state bureaucracies, and shopping malls — that is, by enormous universities processing hordes of students as if they were livestock, numbers waiting in line, and shopping consumers.

BS is universities hijacked by the relentless pursuit of money and prestige, including chasing rankings that they know are deeply flawed, at the expense of genuine educational excellence (to be distinguished from the vacuous “excellence” peddled by recruitment and “advancement” offices in every run-of-the-mill university).

BS is the ideologically infused jargon deployed by various fields to stake out in-group self-importance and insulate them from accountability to those not fluent in such solipsistic language games.

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Read on and on about what BS is in higher “education.” Understand that, “the long-term corrosive effects on politics and culture can also be repaired only over the long term, if ever. There are no quick fixes here. So I do not speak in hyperbole by saying that our accumulated academic BS puts at risk decent civilization itself.”

Hope remains:

… We will need people with the capacity to retrieve and revitalize the best of higher education’s past and restructure it organizationally in ways that are most effective in the future.

History gives us some reason to hope that creative women and men will, over time, develop fruitful experiments and build new institutions that lead to a reblossoming of excellent higher education worthy of the name and help revitalize culture and political life. …

I’d like to help with the retrieval and revitalization. In addition to posts like this, a very few of you know of my ongoing covert work in this area. And, boy, does it need work.

Reviewing the New Cigar Warning Labels (With Added Warning)

19 Thursday Jul 2018

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The gullible American people and their Chicken Little politicritters love a good epidemic. One woman gets Zika? Epidemic. Someone run over by a texting driver? Epidemic. Banksters and pols loot 99% of the value out of the Dollar while squashing civil liberties? Epid … oops, nevermind that one…

I just read about the next great epidemic – Benzos! Valium reminds some doctor a lot of the opioid crisis! Crisis. Epidemic. Same thing. We’ll need a new law and some more regs! Maybe the FDA can get around to that once they cure another great epidemic – pregnant women smoking cigars…

Come August 10th, retail cigars (to include individual units) must be accompanied by one of the following six warning labels: herein, my review:

WARNING: Cigar smoking can cause cancers of the mouth and throat, even if you do not inhale.

A lie. See explanation below.

WARNING: Cigar smoking can cause lung cancer and heart disease.

A lie. See immediately below.

WARNING: Cigars are not a safe alternative to cigarettes.

Part lie, part category error. Cigars are safe (FDA studies say so). However, they’re not an alternative to cigarettes, at all, with next to nothing in common except the burning aspect. Cigarettes are paper wrapped chemicals, tar, and, maybe, a little cheap tobacco. Cigars are pure, 100%, natural, organic, Earth-friendly, environmentally responsible tobacco from the best fields. Not just a lie, an eco-lie (very bad).

WARNING: Tobacco smoke increases the risk of lung cancer and heart disease, even in nonsmokers.

Yet another lie.

WARNING: Cigar use while pregnant can harm you and your baby.
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SURGEON GENERAL WARNING: Tobacco Use Increases the Risk of Infertility, Stillbirth and Low Birth Weight.*

Now they involve the poor Surgeon General. This one is either a lie OR another false conflation. Again, it’s cigars, not cigarettes. And, women constitute something like 0.5% of all cigar smokers. Pregnant women are around, I’m guessing here, 0.000000%. Totally irrelevant and utterly stupid. I challenge the FDA to present one single case, ever, of any baby negatively affected by cigars. Scratch that. I challenge the FDA to pack up New Hampshire Avenue and just get the hell out of America and out our lives. I say they can’t do it. Let ’em prove me wrong!

WARNING: This product contains nicotine. Nicotine is an addictive chemical.

Believe it, or not, this one is not a complete lie. Rather, it’s a false syllogism of sorts, in reverse, kind of. Like this:

Major premise: Nicotine is bad.

Minor premise: Cigars contain nicotine.

Conclusion: Warrants a warning.

Again, again, again … cigars differ in many ways from cigarettes. Premium cigar makers do not add additional nicotine (or anything else) to the wrappers, binders, or fillers that constitute that lovely leafy goodness. Said leaf by itself does, in fact, contain a little nicotine. But, so do: tea leaves, eggplants, potatoes, peppers, cauliflower, and tomatoes.

Do these eggplant-IQ’d busybodies go around warning mums to be about the dangers of real eggplants? Could be; it’s a big CFR… Yet another government, elsewhere – the Royal Society for Public Health – just determined that scary, addictive nicotine is “no more dangerous than the caffeine in a cup of coffee.”

I get it, I get it. Warning labels on coffee come next…

With all these warnings floating around, I thought I might add one that isn’t based on complete BS. This:

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GOVERNMENT WARNING!

Government is the most dangerous non-natural thing in existence, possibly more destructive than a gamma-ray burst. Government is not a safe alternative to freedom.

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Take your labels and shove ’em.

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Feel free to post that by the cash register.

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At Last: A Flying ‘Car’ That Flies!

06 Wednesday Jun 2018

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Slowly. And it’s more of a (barely) flying kayak drone than a car. Anyway, you can certainly trust the Google guy who invented those murderous “autonomous” vehicles.

With a gentle touch on a sliding nob, Rachel used her hand to take off inside the Flyer from a dock on Lake Las Vegas, 25 miles from downtown. Using a simple Atari-esque joystick in her other hand, she began to carefully pilot the Flyer around, traveling between three and 10 feet above the lake. (Her speed was capped at 6 mph — experienced pilots can fly up to 20 mph).

As Rachel glided above the lake, Kitty Hawk’s mission control team monitored her flight from a small building nearby and provided guidance through speakers in her helmet. Five minutes later, Rachel returned to the dock, landing the Flyer like a pro.

She threw her arms up in celebration. We all cheered.

20 MPH, a 100 Mile range, and a video game controller. Call George Jetson. Tell him to leave the family behind (no passengers) and set aside plenty of extra time.

At least it kind of flies.

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Faster than a sickly snail, able to leap smaller sickly snails with a good running start. CNN.

When Ubers Fly…

08 Tuesday May 2018

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Here. We. Go. Again.

Uber announces a totally real flying car!

Uber has unveiled its “flying car” concept aircraft at its second annual Uber Elevate Summit, which showcases prototypes for its fleet of airborne taxis.

A “concept.” “Prototype.” Coming along in 2020. 2023. 2174. Never.

As my personal heuristic for this field involves “I’ll believe it when I fly it,” and Uber rides are notoriously driven by others, and this POS is an “autonomous” drone concept, then I will never really believe in it.

But you, Buck Rogers, you get that App warmed up…

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PC Wordplay

13 Friday Apr 2018

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Nothing is safe. The SJWs have invaded or conquered the AP Style Manual:

Stop saying offensive words.

That’s what the Associated Press (AP) is telling writers.

You see, the AP puts out a stylebook every year that includes universal guidelines for stylistic matters like punctuation, capitalization, and even word choice.

In a recent version, the AP encouraged writers to not use words such as “pro-life,” “migrant,” “refugee,” “Islamist,” and “terrorist.”

It’s completely ludicrous. Yet, sadly, it’s a sign of the times.

Writers aren’t all that fond of being bossed around and with good reason. Disrespect to the AP, following their suggestions, how would one espouse a pro-life opinion about migrants, not necessarily “refugees,” some of whom are Islamist terrorists??? Remember when liberals cared about free speech? Neither do I.

Newspeak, anyone? No thanks.

I have an older AP book (never felt the need to update annually). It sits pretty next to Black’s, Webster’s, Strunk and White, Brown’s, and Bartlett’s – all mostly unused.

Not that I have style, but I’ve always favored the HBB and Chicago guides. They also collect dust with a bunch of other books no one else is interested in.

One hopes for scant interest in the PC BS from the AP.

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Bigger and better, collects more dust. UC Press.

Fly Me Outrageous: More Lies About “Flying” Cars

24 Monday Apr 2017

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Here we go again. And this story isn’t even about a flying car. It’s a flying …. motorbike? Jet ski?

CLEARLAKE, Calif. — On a recent afternoon, an aerospace engineer working for a small Silicon Valley company called Kitty Hawk piloted a flying car above a scenic lake about 100 miles north of San Francisco.

Kitty Hawk’s flying car, if you insisted on calling it a “car,” looked like something Luke Skywalker would have built out of spare parts. It was an open-seated, 220-pound contraption with room for one person, powered by eight battery-powered propellers that howled as loudly as a speedboat.

The tech industry, as we are often told, is fond of disrupting things, and lately the automakers have been a big target. Cars that use artificial intelligence to drive themselves, for example, have been in development for a few years and can be spotted on roads in a number of cities. And now, coming onto the radar screen, are flying machines that do not exactly look like your father’s Buick with wings.

Silicon Valley is on the case. Problem solved. Now you too can zip around, 15 feet off the ground, at 15 MPH. Without passengers. Or luggage. Or protection from the elements. For about five minutes. Best to do it over water. Wear a helmet. And, as always, “now” means some indeterminate time in the future.

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Carlos Slim’s Blog.

I have to admit that this thing looks kind of cool, in a Daffy Duck in the 25th and 1/2 Century kind of way… (Remember his suit or wings or whatever?) And it is very impressive it actually works – slowly, lowly, and for a very short time.

The Bezos-Gates-Google-Apple, flying, toy drone, Duck Rogers go-cart! Coming to a dealer near you! Sometime. Sometime tomorrow… Next year. 2030. Maybe…

I’ll believe it when I fly it.

The Truth Is No Defense

27 Thursday Oct 2016

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More cultural news from Europe – none of it good.

It is now perfectly acceptable to indoctrinate native, presumably Christian school children in the wonder ways of Allah.

PUPILS at a primary school were forced to chant “Allahu Akhbar” and “there is no God but Allah”, an appalled father has claimed.

The father of the pupil at the girl’s primary school in German ski resort Garmisch-Partenkirchen discovered that his daughter had been forced to learn the Islamic prayer when he discovered a handout she had been given.

He claimed she had been “forced” by teachers to memorise the Islamic chants and forwarded the handout to Austrian news service unsertirol24.

Just to be clear, it is wrong to have a Christmas tree, nativity scene or any mention of Christianity at the same German schools as that would violate the wall of separation between sense and education.

Next semester I hear the school will expand the lessons to include sexual assault, knife skills, and creative sidewalk truck driving. Diversity in education benefits everyone. No price is too high to include everyone’s views and cultural observations. Well, not all of them, it seems. There is a price for honesty in observation.

Nearby in Austria a popular newspaper editor is charged with a hate crime after printing the truth about the recent invader …er… visitors from Syria and other non-Western countries.

On 25 October 2015, Christoph Biro wrote of the masses of migrants who were travelling through the Styrian countryside and remarked on the assaults and property damage committed by migrants, reports Kurier.

Calling the majority of the migrants “testosterone-driven Syrians”, Mr. Biro recounted the multiple reports of migrants carrying out, in his words, “extremely aggressive sexual assaults”.

He also detailed Afghan men had slashed the seats of the trains that were transporting them to Germany because they refused to sit where Christians had previously sat.

The commentary provoked a negative reaction at the time with 37 complaints lodged against Mr. Biro. He took four weeks off from his position at the time, claiming that he had lost perspective and proportion of the situation.

Just because your country is overrun with anti-Christian bigots, rapists, and terrorists doesn’t mean anyone really wants to know about it. Get with the 21st Century, man. Your readers want to know when the jihad affirmation tour is coming to their elementary schools.

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German school field trip exploring refugee benefits for commerce and transportation. Pamela Geller.

And he’s being criminally prosecuted will possible jail time at stake. Other people on the Old Continent have been imprisoned for similar truth speech.

At least America has the First Amendment. For now. And in legal theory. The SJWs do everything in their power to inflict all punishment short of incarceration. Free speech isn’t free and common sense isn’t common.

How much more of this do y’all want?