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SJWs Attempt Convergence of the Hard Sciences

17 Monday Jul 2017

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Not content with gender and hoax “studies,” and having taken over the legal education, they now move on to the research sciences:

Academics and scholars must be mindful about using research done by only straight, white men, according to two scientists who argued that it oppresses diverse voices and bolsters the status of already privileged and established white male scholars.

Geographers Carrie Mott and Daniel Cockayne argued in a recent paper that doing so also perpetuates what they call “white heteromasculinism,” which they defined as a “system of oppression” that benefits only those who are “white, male, able-bodied, economically privileged, heterosexual, and cisgendered.” (Cisgendered describes people whose gender identity matches their birth sex.)

Mott, a professor at Rutgers University in New Jersey, and Cockayne, who teaches at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, argued that scholars or researchers disproportionately cite the work of white men, thereby unfairly adding credence to the body of knowledge they offer while ignoring the voices of other groups, like women and black male academics. Although citation seems like a mundane practice, the feminist professors argue that citing someone’s work has implications on his or her ability to be hired, get promoted and obtain tenured status, among others.

There is, of course and as noted in the article, a distinct lack of otherkin in the hard sciences. That’s not the point; this is all code for hating the “white, male, able-bodied, economically privileged, heterosexual, and cisgendered.” As for citations, if not for the foregoing evil white men, there would be next to nothing to cite. Fred Reed, two years ago, noted just a few of the accomplishments:

Euclidean geometry. Parabolic geometry. Hyperbolic geometry. Projective geometry. Differential geometry. Calculus: Limits, continuity, differentiation, integration. Physical chemistry. Organic chemistry. Biochemistry. Classical mechanics. The indeterminacy principle. The wave equation. The Parthenon. The Anabasis. Air conditioning. Number theory. Romanesque architecture. Gothic architecture. Information theory. Entropy. Enthalpy. Every symphony ever written. Pierre Auguste Renoir. The twelve-tone scale. The mathematics behind it, twelfth root of two and all that. S-p hybrid bonding orbitals. The Bohr-Sommerfeld atom. The purine-pyrimidine structure of the DNA ladder. Single-sideband radio. All other radio. Dentistry. The internal-combustion engine. Turbojets. Turbofans. Doppler beam-sharpening. Penicillin. Airplanes. Surgery. The mammogram. The Pill. The condom. Polio vaccine. The integrated circuit. The computer. Football. Computational fluid dynamics. Tensors. The Constitution. Euripides, Sophocles, Aristophanes, Aeschylus, Homer, Hesiod. Glass. Rubber. Nylon. Roads. Buildings. Elvis. Acetylcholinesterase inhibitors. (OK, that’s nerve gas, and maybe we didn’t really need it.) Silicone. The automobile. Really weird stuff, like clathrates, Buckyballs, and rotaxanes. The Bible. Bug spray. Diffie-Hellman, public-key cryptography, and RSA. Et cetera.

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Oppressive white heteromasculinism in action. Fred Reed/NASA/the Oppressors.

Rather than be thankful for the incredible groundwork, the SJWs attack the groundworkers. They always lie… I suppose it would be possible to live without the above-listed. People did so for thousands of years – in caves. Maybe that’s the final goal – regression to the Paleolithic.

“You’ve come a long way, baby. Now go back.”

Somebody Had Six Mass Extinctions and all I got was this Lousy Climate Hoax

11 Tuesday Jul 2017

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The Guardian reports that Earth’s sixth major Extinction is currently underway. We, having missed the opportunities to halt the last five, have only a limited time to act.

A “biological annihilation” of wildlife in recent decades means a sixth mass extinction in Earth’s history is under way and is more severe than previously feared, according to research.

Scientists analysed both common and rare species and found billions of regional or local populations have been lost. They blame human overpopulation and overconsumption for the crisis and warn that it threatens the survival of human civilisation, with just a short window of time in which to act.

The study, published in the peer-reviewed journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, eschews the normally sober tone of scientific papers and calls the massive loss of wildlife a “biological annihilation” that represents a “frightening assault on the foundations of human civilisation”.

Prof Gerardo Ceballos, at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, who led the work, said: “The situation has become so bad it would not be ethical not to use strong language.”

Previous studies have shown species are becoming extinct at a significantly faster rate than for millions of years before, but even so extinctions remain relatively rare giving the impression of a gradual loss of biodiversity. The new work instead takes a broader view, assessing many common species which are losing populations all over the world as their ranges shrink, but remain present elsewhere.

I remain somewhat skeptical of all this. Part of that is born of the knowledge that “we” have experienced this five other times. Then, we couldn’t do anything as we weren’t around to do it. Somehow things recovered. Nature.

They did not associate human blame with those previous events. Therefore, in the interests of general socialism and white guilt, I will, here:

Earth’s five previous mass extinctions

End-Ordovician, 443 million years ago

A time-travelling white man with an arsenal of atomic bombs caused a nuclear winter which begat an ice age.

Late Devonian, c 360 million years ago

Descendants of the time-traveler over fished the seas while simultaneously dumping crude oil into them.

Permian-Triassic, c 250 million years ago

Caveman fracking in Siberia killed off 95% of the bio-population. More support for “the Russians did it” theory.

Triassic-Jurassic, c 200 million years ago

An insidious plot by latter cave-dwellers to over-populate the world with their dinosaur pets. Aerosol cans and combustion engines played a large part.

Cretaceous-Tertiary, 65 million years ago

An even more insidious plot by the earliest humans to rid themselves of dino competition via over hunting. Paved the way for the current extinction project.

The other part of my “denial” comes from the constant “solution” always proposed by the hoaxers – in a word, “communism.” I was surprised this article didn’t cite some call for higher taxes or restrictions on the civilized. Maybe even they’re getting tired of craving what obviously never works.

Anyway, I was moved somewhat by the plight of the lions. I never knew they were once native to Greece.

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Guardian/PNAS.

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Maybe Not a Good Idea? Zombie Medicine

06 Tuesday Jun 2017

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I think, I hope, I know where these people are going with this concept – sold, here, as reanimating the dead. Maybe it’s extended CPR for the brain. Dunno.

The first attempts to bring people back from the dead are slated to start this year.
Bioquark, a Philadelphia-based company, announced in late 2016 that they believe brain death is not ‘irreversible’.

And now, CEO Ira Pastor has revealed they will soon be testing an unprecedented stem cell method on patients in an unidentified country in Latin America, confirming the details in the next few months.

To be declared officially dead in the majority of countries, you have to experience complete and irreversible loss of brain function, or ‘brain death’.

According to Pastor, Bioquark has developed a series of injections that can reboot the brain – and they plan to try it out on humans this year.

They have no plans to test on animals first.

Zombie, Inc.: “We’re going to make some zombies!”

India: “No. You’re taking your stuff and leaving our country. Now.”

I read this article with The Ramones’ Pet Sematary playing in my head:

I don’t want to be buried in a Pet Sematary,
I don’t want to live my life again.
I don’t want to be buried in a Pet Sematary,
I don’t want to live my life again.

No idea what to think about this, really. I just don’t get a warm, re-animated feeling from it. It will probably be a good, logical next-step life-saving procedure. That, or fodder for a good sci-fi novel…

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 “Fronkensteen.” Brooks / 20th Century Fox.

An Informative Chart for Earth Day

22 Saturday Apr 2017

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Happy Earth Day!

An older friend at a cigar shop insisted on watching the local and national news. On television. In my presence. I already knew it was Earth Day thanks to the wit and wisdom of this morning’s Dustin comic strip. What I didn’t know, the “news” filled me in on: thousands of communists, left-over hippies, stoners, and generally unemployed(able)-looking people gathered in Washington to rave about Earth Day, “science”, the horrors of civilization, and the clock running out on global warming (a farce they refer to as “settled science”).

Here’s a little real science, real facts, math and such, to cheer your Earth Day.

Climate change is real. It seems that the Earth’s conditions are in a continual state of flux. Over the past billion years or so we’ve had everything from a planet nearly frozen solid to a barren wasteland of a world where the only habitable parts (and barely habitable at that) were at the polls.

The static conditions the aforementioned hippies can recall from the four or five hours since their last hit are an anomaly. Pretty much all of recorded history is anomalous as well. Things change and will keep changing. There’s nothing we can do to stop it – or to cause it.

Here’s a little mathematical information courtesy of Wikipedia (a converged site, so you know it’s accurate):

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“Orders of Magnitude of Energy”. Wikipedia. 

The “J” stands for “Joules” – a measurement of energy. Think of it as one Watt produced in one second. Or not, your business. This particular part of Wiki’s chart begins in the middle of the Exa-Joule range and ends at the beginning of the Yotta-Joule category. That’s what the numbers relate to (i.e. 2.2×1023, etc.). “Exa” starts with a quintillion, 1,000,000,000,000,000,000; “Yotta” with a  septillion, 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. In other words, it’s the difference between a lot of something (in this case energy as measured in Joules) and a whole hell of a lot of it. Follow?

Now the events denoted on the chart: First, direct your attention to the sixth line down, “Total world annual energy consumption in 2010”. That’s not so long ago; it’s probably a really good estimate of how much juice … joules … we all use currently. Then, it was 5×1020 J or 500,000,000,000,000,000,000 J. And much (most) of that consumption did not involve the nasty stuff from tailpipes or coal plants that the Earth Day crew complains incessantly about.

Moving on down the list one sees the various levels of reserves currently known for different power sources. According to this information, which jives with what I’ve read elsewhere, we currently know about 79,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 potential Joules from oil alone. That means we could run, at 2010 energy consumption levels, for the next 158 years burning only oil.

Using all known fossil fuels we could last another 780 years.

“Fasting” Uranium-238, alone, would get us 4,400 of 2010-level power production and usage.

Harnessing the power of the sun, via solar energy that falls on Earth, annually, would give us 110,000 2010s.

In other words, we ARE NOT running out of fuel. There is no crisis in that regard.

The notion that men are somehow driving climate change is also absurd, a non issue. We don’t have that kind of power. Recall that each modern year we produce/use about 5×1020 J of power. In contrast, the meteor impact event which killed off the Dinos, 65,000,000 years ago, instantly produced 5×1023 J of energy. That was, in a single second, 1,000 times as powerful as we are in a whole year. That was an extinction level event mainly because the energy transfer was almost entirely kinetic. Ours is not.

Nature has also dwarfed us in the release of dreaded greenhouse gases: water (very scary) and CO2. Single volcanic eruptions have instantly produced more of these gases than we have throughout all our history.

It’s not on my chart, above, but the next incident is an average, ordinary solar flare, at 6×1025 J. That’s 120,000 times our annual effect (again, at once). Last I heard,  Helios Hyperion does not drive a giant SUV nor burn wood, oil, or coal. Yet and still the Sun’s antics are felt daily on this planet and others.

Other research, by non panicked scientists, shows a general warming/instability on Mars which mirrors that on Earth. There are no Martian SUVs or spray cans that we know of. God only knows what old Marvin is up to up there. The commonality is regional solar activity: the more there is, the warmer a planet gets – any planet.

There is no man-made global warming or climate change. Or, if there is, it is miniscule compared to what ordinarily and naturally occurs. Again, it’s something beyond our power.

And that leads me to what the Earth Day nuts are really after – power, political power. Mixed in with their sobs about nonexistent climate change one hears all the old themes: Income equality. Feminism. Trans-whatever rights. More immigration. Higher taxes. More abortions. Fewer guns. More regulations. Fewer Christians. “Pizza”. Even higher taxes. Fewer Caucasians. More weirdness. Debased education. Unsound money. Smaller toilets. Censorship. Collectivism. Controls on everything on Earth and beyond. To save us from drowning (when the ice caps melt), we must suffer the complete and utter dominion of their god, the government.

It’s important to do what one can to keep one’s immediate environment clean and happy. That’s the spirit that drives hunters, conservationists, and gardeners. Do what you can and don’t worry about the whole planet – it will continue to do exactly what it has always done regardless. Don’t waste energy, not a single Joule, on communism and its hoaxes.

Have a happy and sane Earth Day. (Heck, it’s almost over…)

The $10,000,000,000,000,000,000 Rock in Space

16 Monday Jan 2017

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I think that’s $10,000 Quadrillion.

I was going to write something about the arrest of Noor Salman. Noor Salman, widow of the June, 2016, Orlando terrorist attacker, Omar Mateen, was arrested today in connection with the attack. Make of that what you will.

Then I saw, read about rather, the rock. It’s an asteroid named Psyche. And NASA is setting out to explore it.

The 200km-wide asteroid is currently orbiting the sun between Mars and Jupiter.

It is made up of various precious metals such as iron, nickel and gold.

Experts believe the iron alone in the rock would be worth $10,000 quadrillion – enough to cause the world’s economy, worth $73.7 trillion, to promptly collapse altogether.

Lindy Elkins-Tanton, the lead scientist on the NASA mission and the director of Arizona State University’s School of Earth and Space Exploration, told Canada’s Global News: ““Even if we could grab a big metal piece and drag it back here … what would you do?

“Could you kind of sit on it and hide it and control the global resource — kind of like diamonds are controlled corporately — and protect your market?

“What if you decided you were going to bring it back and you were just going to solve the metal resource problems of humankind for all time?”

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Arizona State University.

So, why did I pick the one story over the other? Several reasons: First, I hate terrorism. At the same time I do not trust the government. You can kinda see the issues there if you look. And it’s old news. Important maybe, but dated – and I’m tired of that story. We’re sure to keep suffering fresh terrorism at any rate.

Most importantly, Noor and Omar are the past. They represent the same violent, idiocy that has plagued mankind since the days of the caveman. The asteroid represents the future. I know the thing has been around for a long time but it still points a way forward for humanity.

I do not buy the “crash the world economy” headlines – hyperbole and mere extreme example. Getting there will take 13 years and then what? As the story implies there isn’t much we could do with all that metal. Yet.

But we will need it sooner or later. Either from that giant rock or from another source.

No reason to bring it all back to earth either.

Sure, I’ll bet there are a few banksters who would love to corner the market on asteroid metals and crush the rest of us. To hell with them. They can join Omar in the dustbin. Their schemes have been and ever will be useless.

There is, however, a more worthy use of such abundant heavenly materials. Yesterday I wrote a review about the movie Passengers. The film involved the ever-so-attractive Jennifer Lawrence and some joker stranded on a big spaceship for a 120-year interstellar voyage.

That big ship was made of something. And the something had to come from somewhere. Yes, right now, we build our little ships from Earthly materials. But such a large vessel would have to be constructed in space. That means moving large amounts of material up there. And that material has other uses on this planet.

Fortunately, the Lord has given us Psyche and other giant mineral depositories along with the sketchy know-how to reach them. Eventually we could tow a big rock into intermediate orbit, say between us and the moon. Then we could set up a mining operation and an adjacent spaceship factory.

It’s cozy, if difficult. But we will do it someday – probably in the next 200 years or so. We can also expect to find gases and nuclear materials for propulsion out there too. Some day we will build and operate the big ships on big missions. And, as in the movie, they will be private property.

NASA is doing the groundwork, now, similar to Ferdinand and Isabella’s financing of Columbus. As the oceans are, today, the realm of free enterprise and private affairs, so space will be later.

When? No idea. But it is kind of cool to think about. In fact, it rocks… Get it? Rocks? Rock in space… eh….

Dawn of the Ice Age?

22 Saturday Oct 2016

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Let’s hope so.

While demented communists propose taxing us into poverty, then out of existence, over their global warming hoax, real scientists predict a 97% chance of a new ice age starting in around 6 years.

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Washington, D.C., 2042 A.D. PBS.

I’m all for it. To stay warm, we of the ice set can burn politicians, banksters, and climate hoaxers.

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Now, I’m off for a little “get with Jesus” meeting with my heavy bag stand-ins. Then! It’s the great Fall Festival at Top Shelf Cigars. Perdomo, Ashton, Gurkha and Olivia reps and much more. I may have pictures. Drop by, if you can.

To Boldly Go

01 Saturday Oct 2016

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Here’s a bit of good news about the West. And you thought I was forgetting to post this Saturday. I’ve haven’t been busy, just lazy.

Not so long ago NASA scrapped the Space Shuttle ending over 30 years of reusable space technology. The Shuttle was a marvel if it did end up being a money pit. It and the Moon landings were NASA’s crowning achievements. The future belongs to private space companies but it was nice for the government to provide a kickoff.

Many, myself included, saw the end of the Shuttle as part of the decline of America. I think we were wrong perhaps. They have one last kickoff and they’ve saved the best for last.

Forget Mars, rockets and nuclear drives. Meet the IXS Enterprise:

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VIDEO by The Cosmos News / YouTube.

That’s obviously not a real ship, just an artist’s rendering. The idea, a brainchild of NASA scientist Harold G. White, was launched in 2013; the real ship probably won’t until maybe 2113. But it will happen. This or something similar.

And it’s a superluminal ship. That means it will go faster than the speed of light by bending (bubbling) the time-space continuum. A working warp drive.

With hordes of primitives trying to drag us back to the stone age and a people who seem pleased with staring at electric garbage in a flat box, it’s nice that someone is thinking about the future.

Maybe in a 100 years or so we will be able to load up all the politicians, banksters, terrorists, and their apathetic idiot enablers and supporters and send them far, far away. Or, we can escape them. Or both.

Our kids, grand kids, great-grand kids or their children will witness this one day. We cannot be beaten back or down. We are the future.

Ahead, warp whatever…

Cigars Are Healthy: More Government Lies Debunked

26 Friday Aug 2016

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Two of my major themes here are that I: 1) hate government in all its evil lowliness, and; 2) I love cigars. Today I have greater reason to champion both of these worthy ideas.

The FDA is waging all out war on the premium cigar industry. Stupid law after draconian regulation threaten to disrupt if not kill the family of the leaf. It’s all part of the government’s larger war on freedom. They hate us, seeing us as little more than cattle to be milked of taxes until we die. Die will shall some day but not due to our cigars.

Cigars are bad, lies the state, because of children and health and safety and other BS – all of it dead wrong. It seems that the FDA has in its possession an in-house study which shows there are no significant health risks associated with smoking 1 – 2 cigars per day. The study was an amalgam of multiple independent medical studies conducted between 1965 and 2000.

The study noted that all examined types of cancers and maladies were in some way associated with cigars – they found that people will eventually die of something. Most people know that anyway. However, the increased risk associated with cigars is negligible, almost nonexistent; it looks to be an average increase of about 1%.

That’s it. One percent and cigars are bad. Most scientists and statisticians will tell you about something known as the margin of error in studies like this. It may be that cigars actually impart zero risk.

Of course the government spun its finding – when it finally released them – in the typical dishonest official way. (Seems to me they’ve been hiding this information). They summarized their findings, saying that cigar smoking is associated with death. They left out the contributing percentages which, again, are effectively nothing.

Here are some of the statistically insignificant findings (note all the single digits and zeros):

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Heartland Institute.

None of this should come as a surprise, especially to the cigar community. Government is a giant lie personified; it is pure Satanic evil from Hell.

As part of the new cigar regulations which took effect at the beginning of the month, cigars now come with warning labels, such as:

  • Cigar smoking can cause cancers of the mouth and throat, even if you do not inhale.
  • Cigar smoking can cause lung cancer and heart disease.
  • Cigars are not a safe alternative to cigarettes.

Lies, lies, and more lies. Government needs its own “Government Warning” label.

And even this study only looks at health risks (none) and not health benefits. Cigars were prescribed for decades as medical treatment for a variety of illnesses, from asthma to anxiety. Cigar smokers tend to be happier people. Now there’s more reason to be happy.

So it is that my love of cigars is well justified – now by medical science. Also vindicated once more is my atavistic hatred of the dread institution of the state. In coming posts I may explore ways to deconstruct the menace of government. For now, I’m going to enjoy a healthy cigar.

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Smoke on that, my friends.

By the way, I was serious:

GOVERNMENT WARNING: Government is a known leading cause of death, destruction, disinformation, theft, hatred, general misery and human suffering. To Hell with it.

Invasion of the Super-Bugs

11 Monday Jul 2016

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As from the beginning of a horror/zombie movie, scientists have positively identified a strain of E Coli bacteria which is resistant to the “last line of defense” antibiotics. Please read: A ‘slow catastrophe’ unfolds as the golden age of antibiotics comes to an end, Melissa Healy, LA Times, Science, July 11, 2016.

Ms. Healy and the LA Times did a wonderful job with this story. The Times science section impresses at times (get it….).

The devious little bacterium seems to have developed a new gene, “mcr-1”, which makes it resistant to colistin. Colistin is the “last line” drug given when other antibiotics are not effective. Now, for this particular bug, even that doesn’t work. It seems that the infection at issue in the case study was beaten off with a combination of other treatments. However, doctors and researchers are not overly optimistic about what this portends for the future of medicine. Some are downright pessimistic.

“It’s a slow catastrophe,” said Army Col. Emil Lesho, director of the Defense Department’s Multidrug-resistant Organism Repository and Surveillance Network.

The problem goes beyond treating infections. As bacterial resistance grows, Lesho said, “we’re all at risk of losing our access” to medical miracles we’ve come to take for granted: elective surgeries, joint replacements, organ transplants, cancer chemotherapies. These treatments give bacteria an opportunity to hitch a ride on a catheter or an unwashed hand and invade an already vulnerable patient.

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“It’s not apocalyptic until it is,” said Peter Pitts, president of the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest and former associate commissioner of the FDA. “Shame on us if we wait till bodies are in the street.”

Whoa, apocalyptic? Bodies in the street! This story made me think of several things:

First, we’ve been being warned for years now, by experts, about our overuse of antibiotics. Drugs given to patients who don’t need them. Drugs given to our cows, hogs, and chickens. And, so on. Maybe it’s not to late to heed the warnings. I haven’t had an antibiotic since I can’t remember when. Since I lost the weight and started working out, I don’t find myself seeing the doctor much at all.

Second, medical science has a history of outmaneuvering the bugs. The Times story included this chart:

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This isn’t the first time there’s been a gap between drugs. They’ll make a new one.

Third, the Times notes the high FDA regulatory costs of developing these new drugs. The drug companies prefer to concentrate on fields where the patient uses the medication for a lifetime. The return on the R&D (and regulatory compliance) isn’t worth the return for antibiotics. Another case of government getting in the way and potentially getting people killed. The author suggests the government might find some incentives (our taxes) to ease the process. Rather than more corporate welfare, I say get the state out-of-the-way. If the FDA had been around in 1928, we might still be waiting on basic penicillin.

Fourth thought – the government which makes it cost prohibitive to develop new miracle drugs is the very same government which is madly trying to bring as many “refugees”and other non-Westerners as possible into the country. Many of these folks, regardless of their intentions, carry diseases we haven’t had here in years. If they’re not going to curb the flow, maybe they could at the very least implement some better medical screenings.

Fifthly and finally, there is something you can do right now to circumvent the government, the scientists, and the culture. Get in shape. A healthy body does an unbelievably good job fighting off disease. Since I went “health nut” – and, yes, cigars are a component – I haven’t been sick once. It’s simple – drink water, sleep, exercise, and don’t eat as much and not as much junk. You can survive the apocalypse.

Odd little critters. BBC.

I’m not worried about these developments.We’re human beings. We can beat the bugs. We might even beat the government.

Mapping Out More Government

11 Wednesday May 2016

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The New York Times had an interesting piece about the growth of metropolitan super-regions, which are reshaping the country and the economy. The Times sees problems:

America is reorganizing itself around regional infrastructure lines and metropolitan clusters that ignore state and even national borders. The problem is, the political system hasn’t caught up.

America faces a two-part problem. It’s no secret that the country has fallen behind on infrastructure spending. But it’s not just a matter of how much is spent on catching up, but how and where it is spent. Advanced economies in Western Europe and Asia are reorienting themselves around robust urban clusters of advanced industry. Unfortunately, American policy making remains wedded to an antiquated political structure of 50 distinct states.

The New America. NYT.

Not to worry, those “antiquated” 50 states are not going anywhere. And, of course, there’s no chance of losing the Imperial Union. What the Times envisions is another layer of government – the megalopolis or regional level. Think of it as a bureaucracy of states, cities, counties, and the feds working together on transportation issues. At least that is where it will start. In reality it will just amount to a new tax jurisdiction adding more and more rules and regulations … to make our lives just a little better.

The existing cities and states are doing a terrific job as-is. 203 out of 229 of the largest cities and metro areas in the nation have experienced a rapid decline in middle class living since the turn of the century. Here is that map:

Financial Times.

The Gray Lady is giddy about the possibilities, particularly in curing the economic ills of rural areas. “Such [high speed rail] networks would just as easily help poor and rural areas, like Appalachia. Upgraded transportation corridors between New York, Washington and Atlanta could finally lift Appalachia’s isolated and stagnant towns stretching from New York to Alabama by facilitating investment in farms and vineyards, food processing and eco-tourism.”

People in West Virginia had better watch out tonight. American talking heads are always preaching trains. We’re only $450 Quadrillion away from Hyperlooping from Gotham to Smallville. In reality the small town locals will only experience higher taxes and a passing flock of carpetbaggers and maybe some “refugees”. Any “eco-tourism” will likely mean eco-traffic more than anything else. Ask anyone in Gatlinburg about that and the “tourons” as they call the tourist morons who clog the roads in their never-ending search for t-shirts and cheeseburgers.

Private enterprise will inevitably make good use of demographic and geographic shifts. Wonders can and will be accomplished at the local level or trans-local levels if the cities and states get out of the way. There’s no need to add any outside fees and rules. And the feds? Well, you ran off King George, put a man on the moon, turned the economy over to European banking criminals, and killed a helluva lot of folks. What more could we possible ask of you. Thank you and goodbye.

In better, brighter news, the CERN researchers have artificially accelerated nano-particles to speeds faster than the speed of light (hyperloop that!). In the near future we may have the ability to launch politician and bankster laden spacecraft away from Earth and into the nearest star. That would be worth whatever fee is involved. Let’s map that one out.