Not rocked
Both GWPF and WUWT are excitedly noting an open letter from 26 FORMER employees of NASA, complaining about NASA's constant advocacy of mass-murdering Gaian pseudoscience. Many of the signers are scientists.

GWPF headlines "Climate Rebellion Rocks NASA."

Nope. If those same 26 were CURRENT employees, then we could truly say "Hansen, you have a problem."

But they're FORMER employees, who do not exist.

Unless your hand is DIRECTLY on the money valve RIGHT NOW, you do not exist.

Blessedly serious changes are happening in Canada now because their government has directly shut off the money valve.

As the old saying goes,

Bankruptcy talks. Bullshit walks.

Labels: Carbon Cult

  ¶ 5:29 PM

  Carbon? Nope, one strange month.
Satan dba "American media" is crowing this morning about March setting an all-time record in "all of the lower 48." One report says that only the state of Washington is cooler than normal. This supposedly proves that we MUST DESTROY OUR ECONOMY NOW!!!!!!!!!!!! WE MUST LET CHINA HAVE ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING NOW!!!!!!!!!!!! NATIONAL SUICIDE NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, let's look, using NCDC data.

These are Mar totals for the 9 main regions.











East of the Appalachians, where the People Who Count live, it's certainly an all-time month record and looks like part of a 3-year trend.

In the middle it was unusually warm but doesn't look like a trend.

West of the Rockies, nothing. Continues a pattern of cooling and de-extreming.

Well, we know that Satan dba "American Media" only knows NY and Florida, for obvious reasons... but at least they could look up Lower 48 in a dictionary. The term does not mean New York and Florida.

Something unusual is happening in the last few years, but it's not happening everywhere, and it's bringing different patterns to different places. The unusual phenomenon is not heat. It's a tendency for pressure zones to stick in place much longer than usual. Far as I can tell, nobody is even trying to find a cause for this

They're all too busy blaming Evil Carbon for a generalized heating, which isn't happening.

Labels: Carbon Cult

  ¶ 3:59 AM

  Hell of a way
Tennessee is attempting to open its schools to a little bit of real science, especially in the realms of climate and evolution.

Predictably, Satan dba "National Council of anti-Science Educators" is mobilizing its hordes of genocidal killer devils for an all-out assault on truth. They'll undoubtedly win, because the federal "courts" are loyal servants of the same evil anti-god.

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The good part: Satanic "education" doesn't work very well. As I noted in detail a few years ago, America and Russia have roughly the same degree of disbelief in Darwin's lies. Both places have been tortured by all-Darwin "education" for almost a century, yet both places remain unconverted, with only a quarter of the people believing the lies.

Most people have a pretty good sense of right and wrong. Smarty-pants kids are especially able to locate the truth outside of school, verifying that everything they hear inside the school is either wrong or distorted.

I was able to do that back in the '50s and '60s because I liked to read and browse libraries. In the few subjects I found interesting, I had a pretty good feel for the range of real knowledge; in each of those areas I knew that the school texts were either trivial or false. Since it was highly unlikely that the state curriculum was designed to annoy me personally by lying about the few things I found interesting while presenting valid info about everything else, I could safely assume that the whole mess was false or dubious.

Now the Web makes it vastly easier to find truth, or at least to acquire a broader perspective on the arguments within each discipline.

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The bad part: Jesus, such a monstrous waste of time, talent, money and lives. Kids spend most of their days hearing toxic shit. Some of them absorb the shit and become carriers of the toxin, while others decide to distrust absolutely everything they hear. Hell of a way to run a society.

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The most tragic waste is much deeper than the truth value of the facts. Every hour spent on teaching ANY facts is tragic. Kids don't need facts, they need skills. School should teach you how to make things, which includes making your own facts from direct observation of the world. Facts are sometimes useful as practice material for abstract skills such as logic or writing ... but those facts are disposable, like the dissected frogs, or wood lathed into useless lamps, or burned pies, or three-sleeved blouses, or melted circuit boards, left over from learning concrete skills. Skill-training wastes material, but fact-training wastes human lives.

Labels: Experiential education, Grand Blueprint

  ¶ 5:07 AM

  Proliferation shouldn't be a problem
Listening to a solidly informative and sane discussion of the 'problems' posed by Persia and North Korea.

One of the speakers, discussing proliferation, said "North Korea sells its missiles to the highest bidder."

Well? So let's be the highest bidder. Operate through several convincing Arab or Soviet-bloc middlemen. Buy everything that comes on the market; take it apart to examine the technology; then destroy it.

Zero problems. Would require some money, but would cost a whole fucking lot less than a war.

Labels: Turkey

  ¶ 7:30 AM

  Who are they trying to fool?
Britain's GCHQ, equivalent of Isramerica's NSA, is pretending that it needs more money to read everything.

GCHQ, the Government's listening post, have grown increasingly concerned that modern internet technology has left them unable to intercept calls which use new technology instead of traditional phone systems.

Systems known as Voice Over Internet Protocol, or VoIP, route telephone calls over the world wide web. Senior intelligence sources with detail knowledge of the problem said GCHQ had seen their access to telephone intercept information "eroded" by the use of the internet telephone services.

In the first place, spies never complain publicly that they are unable to read a certain type of communication. That simply tells the enemy which type to use.

Second, you can be 100% certain that GCHQ has access to all the net nodes in Britain. A call or message that doesn't pass through Britain will get missed, but that's not the complaint.

And if they really can't get access to all the calls, maybe they should hire some of the technical people from Murdoch's newspapers.

GCHQ has a long reputation for extreme cleverness in technology, spycraft and cryptology. They were at the very top of the spy game in WW2 and Cold War years.

If they're still smart, this complaint would be an attempt to steer "terrorists" toward Skype because GCHQ found that easier to monitor.

If they've declined to the same level of suicidal stupidity as the rest of the Western world, then this is just more evidence of raw incompetence.
  ¶ 3:24 AM

  Half-assed thought about young and old
This week is the one-year anniversary of removing trees and reclaiming a yard.

I was pondering my fairly recent switch to daily exercise and basically vegie food after a couple decades of (relatively) carnivorous diet and (relatively) sedentary habits.

The switch wasn't a Grand Plan or a Resolution. Rather, it was just one thing leading to another. Tree removal ---> opening up to the outside ---> moving around more ---> thinking more about plants and food.

The transition is visible in the pictures I make for this blog: since the tree-cutting, pix have grown much more outdoorsy and plant-y than before.

It may also correlate with a broader perspective on life resulting from the removal of television toxins a couple years earlier.

I've basically returned to my lifestyle of the '70s and '80s.

First thought: "Well, it's not really a return. Back in the '70s I was young and flexi...."

Wait. Important distinction. Young bodies and habits are flexible; young minds are ideologically rigid. Old bodies and habits are stiff and hard to move; old minds are more open to new understandings.

At least that's how it is for me so far, and I suspect it's fairly common if not universal.
  ¶ 7:10 AM

  It's all about status
Always fun to watch Satanists fighting. Especially instructive when the fight reveals their true motives.

It's never about "rights" or "morality" or "discrimination" or any of that atrocious tyrannical evil monstershit. Those are just weapons, avatars in the symbolic battle. Down deep it's always about status. Coolness. Hipness. Richness. Fame. Kardashianity.

This little fight shows it cleanly because the dispute itself involves nothing more than raw COOLNESS. Only indirectly about power or money; directly about status.

The new flare up was prompted by comments from Karen Crouse, widely respected golf reporter for the New York Times. She has written forcefully about the shame that hangs over the Masters tournament by dint of its association with Augusta, the Georgia club that over its 80-year history has never agreed to take any women members.

But it seems that in the New York Times's Manhattan offices, to write forcefully about the subject is one thing, to speak publicly about how you would boycott the event quite another.

On Thursday, golf.com published an interview with Crouse in which she said: "If it were left to me, which it seldom is in the power structure of writer versus editor, I'd probably not come cover this event again until there is a woman member. More and more, the lack of a woman member is just a blue elephant in the room."

When Associated Press contacted the New York Times's sports editor, Joe Sexton, for his reaction, he slapped Crouse down, saying her comments were "completely inappropriate and she has been spoken to."

Golf is absolutely nothing but status. It's not a real sport or real exercise, it's pure conspicuous consumption. Along with Havana cigars and Gulfstream jets, golf is a quantitative statement that you're able to burn billions of dollars for no possible purpose.

Crouse made the mistake of believing that his or her particular status point was still the most important. Nope. Friedanism is no longer at the top of Satan's official totem pole. It has been replaced by hoodies and Trayvon.

If a private golf club banned a member for wearing a hoodie, the NYTimes wouldn't have to jump into the fray at all; FBI would send an elite assassination team to take out all members of the club and all members of their families, yea unto the seventh times seventh times seventh times seventh generation, bomb the club's "compound" down to the liquid mantle of the earth, and wipe out all records and memories of the existence of the organization. FBI doesn't miss a detail when you commit heresy against this week's top Satan-status.

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Later: Another nice indication that hoodie be at the top of the pole now. Derbyshire spoke the absolute plain truth about hoodie at Takimag. Now Judas Review Online has issued a strict and official denial and abjuration of truth, vigorously stroking Satan's erect totem pole as always. Not surprising for JRO; they refuse truth every time it's offered. Still, rather neatly apposite on Good Friday.
  ¶ 4:29 AM

  Insulting the memory
News via MSNBC:

At least 100 people have now been sickened by an outbreak of salmonella possibly linked to sushi, government health officials said Friday. Nearly a quarter of them are from New York...

Sushi is an insult to all of humanity.

We've been working on this business of cooking for 200,000 years now. In the last 2000 we've been perfecting it, determining which foods must be cooked thoroughly, which are better when cooked, which are safe to eat raw. We've figured out dozens of different ways to cook food, and an infinity of variations and recipes. Along the way untold thousands, maybe millions, have died in the process of experimentation.

Now these fools have the gall to insult the memory of those noble sacrifices by eating raw fish just because it's cool and fashionable.



I don't expect intelligence from New Yorkers, but the other 3/4 of these cool people should have known better. I hope they get even cooler, as in sushi temperature. Only way to train them.

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Later: Another joyful sensuous pleasure from eating raw seafood!! You can end up with dozens of tiny squid spermatophores hooked to the inside of your mouth and digestive system, each busily squirting squid sperm. Squirt, squirt, squirt! Yummy!!
  ¶ 2:07 PM

  Censusing Grandpa
I couldn't resist checking out the 1940 census. Actually the most interesting part is the detailed maps of towns that I know. Seeing which additions were built at that time, which additions were platted but never built, where the streetcars ran, and how the roads have changed.

Tried to locate both sets of grandparents. One was easy, the other is a complete fail. I knew ... or thought I knew ... where both were living in 1940. Both were in small towns. Father's side in Okla, mother's side in Mich.

Father's father lived on a small semi-farm close to town, and a scan through the pages for that town found him quickly. Didn't expect any surprises, and didn't find any. The only new info was his income: school janitor, $1100 per year. That's about $18k in today's Bernanke counterfeit, which doesn't seem impressive. But inflation doesn't tell the whole story. In a very small town where you can grow your own crops and chickens, $1100 was pretty good. Well above the national median of $956, and the 'proprietors' of various 'retail establishments' in town had similar or lower incomes. Verifies the assumption I'd already made, that Grandpa was wise and responsible to grab and keep a gummint job. Only oil company employees and teachers earned much more than average. (The notion that teachers have always been underpaid is wildly untrue.)

Mother's father (who I barely knew) wasn't listed anywhere in the town where he supposedly lived. I know two approximate addresses from that era, and I'd seen both houses when we visited there in the 1960s. I've even found one of them on Google Street View and pinned down the address. The subdivision containing that house is present on the census map, but the census zone written on the map in that area isn't listed as a valid enumeration zone, and the written lists don't include the street.

Well, that side of the family is already packed with myths and mysteries. Many dates and names have already turned out to be wrong. Maybe this is yet another mystery. I'll look again later, to see if the census fills in the missing zone.

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August 2012: Checked again, through one of the newer non-gov't 1940 census sites. This listing includes the missing suburban enumeration zone, but it turns out that mother's father hadn't yet moved to the suburbs. Found him in the earlier in-city address after all. Maybe I simply overlooked it before, or maybe that part of town was also missing from the gov't site.

His job was listed as Engineer, and his income was $5000. That's about $80K now by strict inflation, but probably more like $150K in terms of relative rank. (Median * 5). So my mother's stories of a comparatively wealthy household, with a live-in maid, were probably accurate.

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Both grandfathers were barely educated, quitting school around 6th grade. Both ended up earning decent incomes in the Depression. Mother's father, who was trained as a steam engineer in the Navy, did much better monetarily ... but it didn't give him a happy life. Around that time he started drinking, and things fell apart quickly.
  ¶ 7:03 AM

  Drought? No, incompetence. 1
England is rationing water because of a "drought". Really? Drought? Let's take a look.

England is about the same area as Iowa, so the two should be comparable in terms of ability to store water, places available for reservoirs, etc.

Here's a century of rainfall for England, from this Met Office page.



Now here's a century of rainfall for Iowa, from this NCDC page.



Superimposing England (faint pink) on Iowa (dark blue) you can see that the overall range is very similar. In the last 20 years Iowa has a couple of wet peaks that go well beyond anything England ever gets, but the dry years appear to be the same range and the same quantity.



Supposedly the last two years are the "severe drought". England received about 700 mm in each of those years, which is about 27 inches in real units. In ANY American state, even the wet Eastern ones, you'd be slapped silly for calling 27 fucking inches a drought!

If 27 inches counted as a drought, then Iowa should have been in "severe drought" several times recently. Has it?

Iowa is long overdue for a major drought, and there are signs it could happen this year.

Elwynn Taylor, an Iowa State University Extension climatologist, said the state averages an extended dry spell every 19 years. Tree rings from the past eight centuries prove it, he said.

Nope.

Admittedly England has lots more people than Iowa, but England also has one huge advantage over Iowa. England has oceans. A few miles from London, essentially infinite supplies of salt water, just waiting to be desalinated.

Not a drought. Just a complete lack of engineering, plus privatized water systems. America escaped that particular disaster; for some reason we left water systems under municipal control, where they are still competent.

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Followup on same subject later.
  ¶ 6:16 AM

  Freedom will set you true
Ungrammatical, but it's more valid than the usually quoted converse.

You can know and speak truth every minute of your life, and it WILL NOT set you free. More often it will put you in jail.

Only a revolution or a collapse of the evil tyranny will set you free. Those events happen for all sorts of reasons, but never because anyone was speaking truth.

Now I'm encouraged to see that it doesn't always take complete collapse, just a partial collapse that forces the gov't to choose between the luxury of lying and the necessities of existence.

Talking, of course, about Canada. Via GWPF:

The number of bears along the western shore of Hudson Bay, believed to be among the most threatened bear subpopulations, stands at 1,013 and could be even higher, according to the results of an aerial survey released Wednesday by the Government of Nunavut. That’s 66 per cent higher than estimates by other researchers who forecasted the numbers would fall to as low as 610 because of warming temperatures that melt ice faster and ruin bears’ ability to hunt. The Hudson Bay region, which straddles Nunavut and Manitoba, is critical because it’s considered a bellwether for how polar bears are doing elsewhere in the Arctic.

The study shows that “the bear population is not in crisis as people believed,” said Drikus Gissing, Nunavut’s director of wildlife management. “There is no doom and gloom.”

Mr. Gissing added that the government isn’t dismissing concerns about climate change, but he said Nunavut wants to base bear-management practices on current information “and not predictions about what might happen.”

Gissing sounds like a man who enjoys his new freedom to speak the truth. Previous national gov'ts in Canada censored the truth rigorously, but the new Harper administration has firmly abandoned lies and tyranny.

Labels: Carbon Cult

  ¶ 4:50 AM

  How quickly knowledge disappears
The semi-humorous 'Feedback' column in the latest New Superstitionist contains a fine example of how old technology can be totally forgotten and misunderstood.

FINALLY, Allan Reese sends his application for membership of the Society for the Promotion of Numerate Proofreading (6 August 2011). He supports it with a story from London's Daily Telegraph on the 50th anniversary of the LEO I, the general-purpose business computer developed by J. Lyons & Co, which owned tea shops throughout the UK in the 1950s.

A factoid box in the article proclaims that the clock speed of the LEO was 0.5 MHz and that of an iPhone 4S model is 800 MHz. It goes on to explain that "the iPhone is faster by a factor of 16,000".

It is possible, though, that it is not just this number that is too high. Feedback and Allan both consider a speed of 0.5 MHz rather large for a system built with thermionic valves. We find the figure repeated dozens of times in very similar phrasing in numerous internet sites, such as the Wikipedia entry for LEO I. Could it be that a mistyped number has proliferated wildly thanks to LEO's successors?

Okay, I see the basic arithmetic error. Should be a factor of 1600. Fine.

But why in hell would you think 500 kilocycles is "rather large for a system using valves"?



500 KC was already super-easy for tubes in the 1920's. By the '50s, commonly available tubes were routinely generating precise waveforms at 800 megacycles, the same clock freq as the new Chinese-slave-built Apple iWhatevers.

Specifically, 800 MC was within the bandwidth of UHF TV channel 69, which was not even the top channel. Channel 83 was 896 MC. Many American homes had UHF converters or UHF televisions in the mid-1950s.

So: If the LEO computer kept its clock speed down to 500 KC, it most certainly wasn't because of frequency limitations of tubes. More likely because of near-zero memory to store results. Beyond a certain speed the output will be too fast to read or print.

The limitation of tubes was not speed but complexity. A super-simple calculator requires at least two dozen switching elements, and serious computers require millions of switching elements. Two dozen full-sized tubes is about the limit for a device you can keep in a house or office; it could be stretched to two hundred with miniature 'hearing-aid' tubes. Beyond that you're getting into rooms full of racks, requiring vast air conditioners. A million tubes would be completely impossible.

Polistra is showing a typical triode from the '30s, which could handle about 50 MC, the clock speed of a high-end PC in 1990.
  ¶ 5:30 PM

  Mitt the patent troll
I've been wondering why Misteromney is so interested in defeating Obama. After all, Obama is simply copying Romney's own agenda. Bail out Wall Street, no taxes for billionaires, insurance-monopoly health care, subsidize green shit, jobs to China....

Why do you want to stop your own excellent student? Why do you want to beat the politician who has learned everything from you?

Oh. That's exactly why, isn't it?

Misteromney is protecting his intellectual property. "If my ideas are going to ruin the country, then by God I'll be the one who does the ruining, not some young upstart apprentice destroyer!"

Salieri syndrome. I've been there, and I understand Mitt a little better now. Still hate him, but at least I can finally grasp one of his thoughts.

Labels: skill-estate

  ¶ 12:41 PM

  City grows a pair
Spokane city gov't starts down the road toward demolishing the Ridpath Hotel.

I have some attachment to the question, since I lived in the Ridpath for a month when I first moved here in 1990. At that time it was fraying around the edges, but it was still a pleasant place and a full-service hotel. Restaurants, laundry, maids, barber, magazine shop... all in one place. Downtown skywalks took you directly to banks and stores. If you didn't require lots of privacy, you could live a complete life without ever stepping outside!

Since then the Ridpath has gone downhill precipitously. By 2008 it had failed, and in true 2008 form, it was securitized to an uncoordinated set of 20 different owners. Not a condominium or shared partnership, just 20 feuding companies and people. It's not clear what any of these owners wanted to do with 1/20 of a vacant hotel, and they haven't even agreed to keep it safe or keep the doors locked against transients. Presumably each party hopes to hold out till the others give up, in order to get a big payoff from whatever finally happens.

Until now the city allowed that situation to fester. Now they've finally grown a pair, and they're taking physical steps to show that there won't be a payoff. Slapped a "Do not occupy" order on the whole place, and installed concrete barriers on the parking garage, which was the only functional business.

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Later thought: This is yet another case when Spokane mayors prove my father's rule about politics: "If you want Democrat policies, vote Republican. If you want Republican actions, vote Democrat." Repooflican Mayor Condon, elected last November, has proved the rule three times now. First he enforced Die-Versity Privilege in a case involving a cop who correctly restrained a crazy dude; Second, he enforced Disability "Rights" in a case involving a drunk cop who was trying to claim alcoholism as a "disease". (Amazingly the city council forced Condon to back down on that one.) This time Condon's Democrat action fits one of the few good Dem tendencies. He's keeping a short leash on rapacious property owners, while the previous supposedly Dem mayor had let the owners run wild.
  ¶ 12:18 PM

  Doesn't Like Stats
Noted on this morning's random walk..... a new sign on the screen door of a nice 1960-ish house. Not the usual store-bought sign; this was made with plastic marquee letters carefully glued to the door.



That's definitely a sigma. Can't be a lazy M or anything else. And the careful centering indicates that there aren't any missing letters.

Well, what do they mean? Is there a Sig Delt Something-or-other fraternity that has been annoying people? Unlikely. Spokane isn't a college town, and this neighborhood isn't near the only university that might have frats.

A mathy pun? "Totally no solicitors!" "Know some solicitors?" "I want different solicitors!" "No sequences of solicitors! One at a time, please!" Again, this isn't a college town, so nobody would bother to put math humor on their door.

Must mean "No solicitors selling statistics." If so, these are people after my own heart!

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Later correction 4/14: This morning I snuck up and took a closer look. Dammit, it's not a sigma after all. It's a vertical emoticon assembled from the punctuation parts of the marquee letters. Presumably means "Beware of Grumpy Old Farts! We're watching you!"

Labels: Blinded by Stats

  ¶ 10:12 AM

  Rain just as powerful as snow
In the previous entry I showed the March rainfall here, totalling 4.5 inches. I was thinking we were lucky that La Nina started late this year. The same amount of precip in December would have made about 60 inches of snow, and would have collapsed lots of roofs.

Turns out the liquid water has also collapsed one flat roof! An auto-repair business, constructed in the '80s when the builders really should have known better. Flat roofs in snow country are simply a terrible idea.

Presumably the owners failed to keep the drainage pipes clear, so that the water accumulated over a month.
  ¶ 6:28 AM

  Radar vs porn
After an unbelievably rainy March:



This morning's radar is better than porn:



Long-term forecasts claim that April, May and June will be on the dry side:


  ¶ 5:43 AM

  Random thought about lottery mania
There haven't been a lot of jumbo winners, so the sample is too small to draw any real conclusions. Still, you have to ask why none of them have even tried to make a big splash.

There are lots of deeply significant or ego-boosting things you could do with $100 million or $50 million. You could permanently fund an advocacy group or think-tank. You could buy a TV station or a news website or a small college, and run it to serve your own purposes.

Or consider the SuperPACs in this year's election. Each one exerts a huge influence with just a few million. When Comrade Bill Maher tossed ONE million to Obama's PAC, it made a big splash.

Surveys show most winners simply fritter the money away in a few years. Where's the ego value in that?
  ¶ 5:01 AM

  Symmetrical
Satan dba "American Media" is setting up a new civil-rights movement based on total falsehoods, devoted to killing George Zimmerman. (And by extension, all whites.) Nobody's even stopping to ask whether such a movement is needed, or whether the hoodie deserved what he got; the only question is the form and leaders of the movement.

I found myself thinking of a stronger question: Who among America's black leaders will speak for common sense and law? Where's Obama? Where's the Nixon-to-China thingamabob?

Well, the answer to that is easy. Obama knows his black constituents have figured out he's identical to Romney, just another Goldman slave. This new "movement" will be a perfectly timed distraction for his base, and for the idiot white commies who think we all hoodies now.

Will white working-class voters form a counter-movement? Will we actually have a civil war? Nope, because that won't serve the purposes of the Republican establishment. The Repoofs don't want to get into Al Sharpton's gunsights.

Besides, the white working-class voters have already been nicely distracted. American "exceptionalism" and stirring up war against Persia will keep their minds busy so they don't notice that Romney is identical to Obama, just another Goldman slave.

It's all so prettily symmetrical, all so perfectly evil.
  ¶ 5:30 PM

  Can't have it both ways.
I'm always grumbling about the idiotic notion of "rights endowed by the Creator". If these "rights" somehow enter us at birth, then where are they? Are they in the heart? The ribcage? The femur? Are the "rights" favored by the left, such as abortion and pornography, located in the left arm? "Rights" favored by the right, such as guns and religion, in the right arm?

Even if you take the religious crap out of it, treat it as a description of basic characteristics of humanity, the remaining idea is still untenable and dangerous.

Untenable because our basic characteristics include lots of fine qualities: altruism, intelligence, strategizing, and so on; but our basic characteristics do not include a contract with any government. Governments are not part of Nature. They are organizations developed by groups of humans, and we can develop them any way we want. Some groups of humans prefer harsh and unyielding governments, others prefer looser types. Sometimes a group changes its mind and overthrows one form to get another.

The concept is dangerous because "rights" have turned out to be a wonderful tool for the black-robed mass-murderers. Any time they want to slaughter babies or bomb Christians, they just invent a "right" and nobody has the fucking guts to tell them NO!

God said it, Harry Blackmun amended it, I believe it, that settles it!

What struck me just now: Most of the people who like to quote this "endowed by Creator" nonsense are also literalist Christians who reject any modification or addition to the Scriptures. They're the same people who say that Catholics and Mormons are "cults" because they add stuff to the Bible.

Okay then. This bizarre business about the Creator injecting capsules of "rights" into every baby is obviously an addition to Scripture, a statement about the intentions and actions of God which is not contained or implied in the Old or New Testaments.

How come this addition is OK but the Catholic and Mormon additions aren't?

Think, Christians. Do you really want to be adding something to scripture? Especially when the addition grants Harry Blackmun a tool to make baby-murder "legal"? Is this really what you want?

I don't have any problem with the idea of a Christian nation. If you want to have a Christian nation, by all means practice it. Kick the Muslims, Jews and atheists out, or at least require those groups to stay quiet. FACT: One-religion nations work, and multi-religion nations have decisively and finally failed. But please, don't do it halfway. Don't claim to have special permission from God, then allow satanic black-robed demons to misuse your special permission against you. Take charge or admit abject defeat. Pick one.
  ¶ 9:23 AM