Friday, September 14, 2012
I like Ike
Ike Obama, that is.Barack doesn't look much like Dwight David Eisenhower, but perhaps the Kansas side of his heritage is coming through. Just as Ike got us out of Truman's Korean mess and slowed down the world's biggest bully in 1956, so Obama has gotten us out of Bush's Iraq mess and appears to be slowing down the world's biggest bully in 2012.
Obama's careful pushback against the bully is bearing fruit, as parts of Israel's own government start to pull away from Madman Bibi.
Via RT.com:
Careful craftsmanship doesn't win points from either of our idiot "sides", but it sometimes avoids a major war. Good work. = = = = =Irrelevant sidenote: Obama and Ike share another connection. Obama is the first president since Ike to be seen smoking cigarettes in public. Apparently LBJ also smoked in office, but didn't make it public. (He had stopped after a heart attack in 1955, but started again on November 22.) Other post-Ike presidents have been seen with a cigar now and then, but mainly as a style statement, not real smoking. ¶ 11:15 AM
Obama's careful pushback against the bully is bearing fruit, as parts of Israel's own government start to pull away from Madman Bibi.
Via RT.com:
Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Dan Meridor has spoken out in disagreement with the Netanyahu government's position of setting a "red line" for Iran’s nuclear program. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly called on Israel's allies to give Iran an ultimatum, and has threatened to launch attacks on the country's nuclear facilities. Meridor, who also serves as Deputy of Intelligence and Atomic Energy, echoed Washington’s desire to apply a more diplomatic approach toward Tehran.
Careful craftsmanship doesn't win points from either of our idiot "sides", but it sometimes avoids a major war. Good work. = = = = =Irrelevant sidenote: Obama and Ike share another connection. Obama is the first president since Ike to be seen smoking cigarettes in public. Apparently LBJ also smoked in office, but didn't make it public. (He had stopped after a heart attack in 1955, but started again on November 22.) Other post-Ike presidents have been seen with a cigar now and then, but mainly as a style statement, not real smoking. ¶ 11:15 AM
Puzzled.
As we watch Chief Counterfeiter Bugsy cranking his massive QE press yet again to jack up profits for his gangster buddies in the Jew Casino, I wonder yet again....
Financiers are the sole power in the world. That's an obvious fact. Nobody else counts.
But not every financier is helped by Bugsy's counterfeit. Stock traders are jizzing all over the trading floor, but pension funds and insurance companies are hurting. They are required by laws and corporate charters to invest some part of their money in bonds and other low-risk accounts. In a non-gangster economy, those assets typically bring a low but measurable return, around 3 to 6 percent. With Bugsy's Jew gang running things, those assets bring exactly zero nominal interest, which means negative real return. Pensions are in serious trouble, and insurance companies are having to increase premiums quickly. There's a limit to how much you can charge, and I suspect that limit has already been passed in areas like health insurance.
Those institutions are huge, and they're part of the financial sector. In other words, they have a voice in government. Are they silent because of blackmail? Or are they complaining loudly? If the latter, why don't we see a response to the complaints? Is Congress blackmailed by the Jew Casino? Well, I don't really need to ask that last question. ¶ 4:35 AM
Financiers are the sole power in the world. That's an obvious fact. Nobody else counts.
But not every financier is helped by Bugsy's counterfeit. Stock traders are jizzing all over the trading floor, but pension funds and insurance companies are hurting. They are required by laws and corporate charters to invest some part of their money in bonds and other low-risk accounts. In a non-gangster economy, those assets typically bring a low but measurable return, around 3 to 6 percent. With Bugsy's Jew gang running things, those assets bring exactly zero nominal interest, which means negative real return. Pensions are in serious trouble, and insurance companies are having to increase premiums quickly. There's a limit to how much you can charge, and I suspect that limit has already been passed in areas like health insurance.
Those institutions are huge, and they're part of the financial sector. In other words, they have a voice in government. Are they silent because of blackmail? Or are they complaining loudly? If the latter, why don't we see a response to the complaints? Is Congress blackmailed by the Jew Casino? Well, I don't really need to ask that last question. ¶ 4:35 AM
Thursday, September 13, 2012
More sanity?
News item:
Always nice to see an open admission of where the "power" in wind "power" comes from.
More interestingly, this means the "developers" are fairly certain that Congress will actually do something good!
Bearing in mind Rahm Emanuel's amazing education reform, I wonder if we're starting to see a trend toward sanity. Are Western governments finally starting to realize that money is not infinite? Are they tired of bubbles? Nah, that's impossible. More likely China is preparing to cut off our credit. ¶ 3:02 AM
Wind tower maker Katana Summit says it will close its plants in Nebraska and Washington and layoff nearly 300 people.
The company said Wednesday its plants in Columbus, Neb., and Ephrata, Wash., will close around Nov. 1 unless a buyer can be found for the plants. ...
[CEO Kevin Strudthoff] says orders for the towers Katana Summit makes have nearly stopped for 2013 because wind power developers want to know if the tax credits that expire at the end of this year will be renewed.
Always nice to see an open admission of where the "power" in wind "power" comes from.
More interestingly, this means the "developers" are fairly certain that Congress will actually do something good!
Bearing in mind Rahm Emanuel's amazing education reform, I wonder if we're starting to see a trend toward sanity. Are Western governments finally starting to realize that money is not infinite? Are they tired of bubbles? Nah, that's impossible. More likely China is preparing to cut off our credit. ¶ 3:02 AM
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Just plain good
The most interesting and newsworthy event this year is Rahm Emanuel fighting the Satanic teachers union. Everything else is drearily predictable and robotic, the same old people doing and saying the same old things over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over. Everything else is well below Dog Bites Man; more like Dog Has Four Legs.
But this is fully surprising, pure information in the Shannon sense.
Consider: Rahm Emanuel has 100% perfect leftist credentials. He's solidly ideological, he's an Israeli-born Jew, he worked closely with Obama, and his sexual identity is, let's say with extreme charity, dubious. You simply can't beat that combination.
In the ancient past, politicians with perfect credentials and strong public support would occasionally do something good, take an action that simply helped the people of their city or state regardless of party labels.
These occasional events have gone extinct in the last 23 years, as real party differences disappeared and rigid but meaningless team positions guaranteed total paralysis.
Emanuel is going back to the ancient past. He's helping the people of Chicago! He's trying to force real reform on the school system.
Satan dba "Karen Lewis", head of Satan dba "Teachers Union", is striking to break Emanuel's reform efforts:
Normally Satan dba "Teachers Union" is the absolute core of the D team, and would follow a Pure Gold Democrat through a field of thorns, but not this time.
Vulture Romney would normally take any opportunity to knock a Pure Gold Democrat, but not this time.
All the expected team-based ratshit is absent in this situation, leaving a pure conflict of Good vs Evil. Even more amazingly, two politicians are on the side of Good.
We need more Imperial Mayors, more politicians who are willing to break through the paralytic plaque to do one thing that's Just Plain Good. ¶ 5:01 PM
But this is fully surprising, pure information in the Shannon sense.
Consider: Rahm Emanuel has 100% perfect leftist credentials. He's solidly ideological, he's an Israeli-born Jew, he worked closely with Obama, and his sexual identity is, let's say with extreme charity, dubious. You simply can't beat that combination.
In the ancient past, politicians with perfect credentials and strong public support would occasionally do something good, take an action that simply helped the people of their city or state regardless of party labels.
These occasional events have gone extinct in the last 23 years, as real party differences disappeared and rigid but meaningless team positions guaranteed total paralysis.
Emanuel is going back to the ancient past. He's helping the people of Chicago! He's trying to force real reform on the school system.
Satan dba "Karen Lewis", head of Satan dba "Teachers Union", is striking to break Emanuel's reform efforts:
The whole idea of an imperial mayoralty, where you can wave a magic wand and cut someone out and things happen, is untenable.... This guy has the nerve to stand up and say that education is the civil rights issue of our time.
Normally Satan dba "Teachers Union" is the absolute core of the D team, and would follow a Pure Gold Democrat through a field of thorns, but not this time.
Vulture Romney would normally take any opportunity to knock a Pure Gold Democrat, but not this time.
All the expected team-based ratshit is absent in this situation, leaving a pure conflict of Good vs Evil. Even more amazingly, two politicians are on the side of Good.
We need more Imperial Mayors, more politicians who are willing to break through the paralytic plaque to do one thing that's Just Plain Good. ¶ 5:01 PM
Wow!
By god, there's an INTERESTING and refreshing advertisement. A short spot for Nationwide Insurance, heard just now on local radio.
Nearly quoting: Across the nation, a tree falls ... [other disaster stuff] ... a ceiling collapses. Nationwide is there, because you're not just a priority. You're our ONLY priority. We put members first BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE SHAREHOLDERS.
BEAUTIFUL.
Indicates widespread recognition of a point that Polistra has been pushing for many years. Capitalism works ONLY when it serves customers. Capitalism fails miserably when it serves shareholders.
We aren't going to solve any of our problems until we close and confiscate the stock casinos.
Nearly quoting: Across the nation, a tree falls ... [other disaster stuff] ... a ceiling collapses. Nationwide is there, because you're not just a priority. You're our ONLY priority. We put members first BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE SHAREHOLDERS.
BEAUTIFUL.
Indicates widespread recognition of a point that Polistra has been pushing for many years. Capitalism works ONLY when it serves customers. Capitalism fails miserably when it serves shareholders.
We aren't going to solve any of our problems until we close and confiscate the stock casinos.
Labels: the broken circle
¶ 4:42 AM
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Isn't it odd?
Everyone knows the Federal gov't is a complete crime, a complete failure, a complete shambles, a suicidal poison tank.
Why, then, do so many people fight so hard to OWN the crime? Why do they intensely need to put their own name on the fraud? Why is it critically important that OUR TEAM gets all the credit for the failure? Why does MY FLAG need to fly over the shambles?
It's a mystery. ¶ 2:03 PM
Why, then, do so many people fight so hard to OWN the crime? Why do they intensely need to put their own name on the fraud? Why is it critically important that OUR TEAM gets all the credit for the failure? Why does MY FLAG need to fly over the shambles?
It's a mystery. ¶ 2:03 PM
Brrrrr.
Yesterday's wind brought in some serious cold, 38 degrees this morning. Most of the roofs are frosty. I had to turn on the heater for the first time.
Clover doesn't have heaters, so it huddles:
Why are roofs frosty when the temp is above freezing and the last 4 months were uniformly warmer than today? Shouldn't a roof be the warmest thing in the area instead of the coldest thing?
And why does clover place its leaves vertically for protection?
Maybe the same reason? Horizontal flat surfaces radiate their heat content upward, with an 'overshoot' that makes them temporarily colder than the air? Sounds plausible anyway.
Clover doesn't have heaters, so it huddles:
Why are roofs frosty when the temp is above freezing and the last 4 months were uniformly warmer than today? Shouldn't a roof be the warmest thing in the area instead of the coldest thing?
And why does clover place its leaves vertically for protection?
Maybe the same reason? Horizontal flat surfaces radiate their heat content upward, with an 'overshoot' that makes them temporarily colder than the air? Sounds plausible anyway.
Labels: Heimatkunde, Smarty-plants
¶ 6:42 AM
Pacts
During the Cold War, the world was divided between the Warsaw Pact and the NATO Pact, with some other Pacts adhering loosely to one side or the other.
Now we have two big Pacts again, and they're in the same general areas but not quite the same nations.
= = = = =
The more-or-less Western side (EU, UK, AUS, US) is firmly devoted to national suicide. Their governments are utterly delusional and totally insane. They act with remarkable efficiency to destroy their own people. They make nothing but imaginary counterfeit "money", to maximize the profits of Goldman Sachs.
These countries have a strong cultural bond. All are Post-Christian. All have replaced the biblical moral code with a vicious prissy-ass mincing-ass hatred of everything that works, a physical revulsion for everything that keeps civilization going, a screechy bloodthirsty compulsion to kill the entire human race.
We might call them the Suicide Pact, or the Wacked Pact.
= = = = =
The more-or-less Eastern side (Russia, China, Turkey, Korea, India) is firmly devoted to national success. Their governments are firmly grounded in reality, strictly sane, acting to advance their own economies and improve the situation of their OWN people. They make actual things.
These countries have no common cultural bond, and work together only when it serves each national interest. Their religious, ethnic and linguistic backgrounds are totally separate, but their moral codes are firm. They have no patience with Die-Versity or Tolerance.
We might call them the Fact Pact.
= = = = =
However: These two Pacts aren't really in competition. The Wacked Pact loves nothing more than submitting to members of the Fact Pact, while pretending that the submission is Exceptional or necessary to save the Free Market or some other bizarre shit.
Wacked countries give all their jobs to China, send all their money to banksters, and use all their soldiers to defend Israel.
China is unquestionably part of the Fact Pact. But which side is Israel on?
News item:
Yes indeed. Just as the banksters "show remorse" for their thievery by stealing even more trillions, Israel "shows gratitude" for our total submission by whipping us yet again. That's sane and rational behavior on their part, putting them firmly in the Fact Pact. What's insane is our continual rewarding of the banksters and our meek submission to Israel.
= = = = =
Bit later: Interesting correlation with this map of public debt. The Wacked Pact is EXACTLY the countries with the highest debt. The Fact Pact countries aren't the lowest, but all have moderate or low debt. [The lowest public debt belongs to primitive countries that don't have real governments.] Probably a two-part causation.... If you're insane, you'll run up huge debts, AND you'll delusionally believe the debts don't matter. If you're sane, you'll live more carefully, AND you'll have a realistic sense about the dangers of debt. ¶ 4:23 AM
Now we have two big Pacts again, and they're in the same general areas but not quite the same nations.
= = = = =
The more-or-less Western side (EU, UK, AUS, US) is firmly devoted to national suicide. Their governments are utterly delusional and totally insane. They act with remarkable efficiency to destroy their own people. They make nothing but imaginary counterfeit "money", to maximize the profits of Goldman Sachs.
These countries have a strong cultural bond. All are Post-Christian. All have replaced the biblical moral code with a vicious prissy-ass mincing-ass hatred of everything that works, a physical revulsion for everything that keeps civilization going, a screechy bloodthirsty compulsion to kill the entire human race.
We might call them the Suicide Pact, or the Wacked Pact.
= = = = =
The more-or-less Eastern side (Russia, China, Turkey, Korea, India) is firmly devoted to national success. Their governments are firmly grounded in reality, strictly sane, acting to advance their own economies and improve the situation of their OWN people. They make actual things.
These countries have no common cultural bond, and work together only when it serves each national interest. Their religious, ethnic and linguistic backgrounds are totally separate, but their moral codes are firm. They have no patience with Die-Versity or Tolerance.
We might call them the Fact Pact.
= = = = =
However: These two Pacts aren't really in competition. The Wacked Pact loves nothing more than submitting to members of the Fact Pact, while pretending that the submission is Exceptional or necessary to save the Free Market or some other bizarre shit.
Wacked countries give all their jobs to China, send all their money to banksters, and use all their soldiers to defend Israel.
China is unquestionably part of the Fact Pact. But which side is Israel on?
News item:
For now, environmental concerns have taken most of the shale gas potential off the table, keeping Europe dependent on imports. But Israel’s Mediterranean gas, combined with gas from Israel’s Mediterranean partner, Cyprus, have the potential to cost Russia its top-dog role as Europe’s chief source of natural gas.
Enter Gazprom Israel, a proposed subsidiary of Russian government-owned Gazprom, the world’s largest natural gas company. According to reports in the Israeli and Eurasian media, the Israeli government has agreed to give the Russians a stake in the Mediterranean find, and also to increase the amount of gas allowed to be exported — until recently, the Israeli government had reserved a 25-year supply for itself, to protect against future energy boycotts. With this deal, Russia would be cutting itself into any sales of Mediterranean gas to Europe or, possibly better from Russia’s point of view, it could persuade Israel to instead sell Mediterranean gas to Asian markets — a live option even without the advent of Gazprom Israel. Either way, Russia would retain the dominant role in Europe that underpins its national pride.
As for Israel, the benefit of aligning itself with Russia’s economic interests would be immense. Over the last half-century, Russia and Russian arms have been a mainstay of Arab nations and Muslim terrorists that sought Israel’s destruction.
Yes indeed. Just as the banksters "show remorse" for their thievery by stealing even more trillions, Israel "shows gratitude" for our total submission by whipping us yet again. That's sane and rational behavior on their part, putting them firmly in the Fact Pact. What's insane is our continual rewarding of the banksters and our meek submission to Israel.
= = = = =
Bit later: Interesting correlation with this map of public debt. The Wacked Pact is EXACTLY the countries with the highest debt. The Fact Pact countries aren't the lowest, but all have moderate or low debt. [The lowest public debt belongs to primitive countries that don't have real governments.] Probably a two-part causation.... If you're insane, you'll run up huge debts, AND you'll delusionally believe the debts don't matter. If you're sane, you'll live more carefully, AND you'll have a realistic sense about the dangers of debt. ¶ 4:23 AM
Monday, September 10, 2012
Ick! Fall is here!
Autumn has arrived. Windy day with an extreme amount of smoke from wildfires. So far none of the fires are close to Spokane, but the smoke makes you think otherwise.
I've exaggerated the wind somewhat for cartoonic purposes; actually it was gusting to 40 for a while, which is tree-thrashing but not quite branch-breaking.
But I didn't exaggerate the strange smoky light! Here's an actual inside photo with my new digital camera, which I clearly don't know how to use yet..... or else it's just a cheap camera that doesn't do closeups well.
Later: The same scene exactly 24 hours later, after the smoke is gone:
Autumn has arrived. Windy day with an extreme amount of smoke from wildfires. So far none of the fires are close to Spokane, but the smoke makes you think otherwise.
I've exaggerated the wind somewhat for cartoonic purposes; actually it was gusting to 40 for a while, which is tree-thrashing but not quite branch-breaking.
But I didn't exaggerate the strange smoky light! Here's an actual inside photo with my new digital camera, which I clearly don't know how to use yet..... or else it's just a cheap camera that doesn't do closeups well.
Later: The same scene exactly 24 hours later, after the smoke is gone:
Labels: Heimatkunde
¶ 5:38 PM
Trouble with 5's
For quite a while now I've been noticing an odd 'category error'. It may be a sign of senility, may result from damage during the few years of high blood pressure.
Or it may be a permanent short-circuit that I simply didn't start noticing until I got old. (Not bloody likely!)
Specifically, I sometimes have trouble counting money, but only when 5 is involved. Nickels or $5 bills trigger the error. Other combinations are fine.
It happened again this morning. This time I managed to replay the action and figure out exactly how it went wrong.
The bill at Safeway came to $13.61, and I had a bunch of ones fattening my wallet; so I decided to start with a $5 bill and do the rest in ones.
Pulled the 5, started counting ones. "Five, six,
At that point the Six changed roles.
It was meant to start a sequence: "6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14."
Instead, the 6 flipped semiconsciously to "Now I need 6 of these Ones to make 14."
So I obediently counted ones: "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6." Result: I tried to pay with $11. ¶ 8:14 AM
Or it may be a permanent short-circuit that I simply didn't start noticing until I got old. (Not bloody likely!)
Specifically, I sometimes have trouble counting money, but only when 5 is involved. Nickels or $5 bills trigger the error. Other combinations are fine.
It happened again this morning. This time I managed to replay the action and figure out exactly how it went wrong.
The bill at Safeway came to $13.61, and I had a bunch of ones fattening my wallet; so I decided to start with a $5 bill and do the rest in ones.
Pulled the 5, started counting ones. "Five, six,
At that point the Six changed roles.
It was meant to start a sequence: "6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14."
Instead, the 6 flipped semiconsciously to "Now I need 6 of these Ones to make 14."
So I obediently counted ones: "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6." Result: I tried to pay with $11. ¶ 8:14 AM
Sunday, September 09, 2012
What is this about?
A couple years ago there was a brief hoohaw in California when an anti-circumcision group got a referendum on the ballot. The referendum was soundly defeated, and the hoohaw went away.
Now a black-robed saboteur in Germany has ruled, without any legislative action, that circumcision is illegal. (It's a little surprising that the California hoohaw didn't involve a black-robed genocidist; normally they're the ones who create psychopathic insanity.)
In response to the saboteur, German Jews and Muslims are working together in protest. The Kraut government is apparently responding with a law to override the black-robed psychopath.
It's good to see that real democracy is still functional in Germany on some issues, even if it's absent on basic questions of energy and economics.
I still can't figure out why anyone would object to circumcision. It's clearly becoming a favorite cause among some leftist factions, but the, um, point of their objection is obscure. Something to do with "body integrity", whatever that means.According to Wiki, circumcision has never been common in Germany, which makes it more of an exclusively religious question than in America. So perhaps the black-robed saboteur is just an anti-religious bigot? I dunno, but it would be typical.
As with most other ancient religious recommendations, circumcision is just good public health practice. Even in a modern country with good medical care, you'll live longer and need less medical care when you obey Moses and Mohammed. ¶ 5:07 AM
Now a black-robed saboteur in Germany has ruled, without any legislative action, that circumcision is illegal. (It's a little surprising that the California hoohaw didn't involve a black-robed genocidist; normally they're the ones who create psychopathic insanity.)
In response to the saboteur, German Jews and Muslims are working together in protest. The Kraut government is apparently responding with a law to override the black-robed psychopath.
It's good to see that real democracy is still functional in Germany on some issues, even if it's absent on basic questions of energy and economics.
I still can't figure out why anyone would object to circumcision. It's clearly becoming a favorite cause among some leftist factions, but the, um, point of their objection is obscure. Something to do with "body integrity", whatever that means.According to Wiki, circumcision has never been common in Germany, which makes it more of an exclusively religious question than in America. So perhaps the black-robed saboteur is just an anti-religious bigot? I dunno, but it would be typical.
As with most other ancient religious recommendations, circumcision is just good public health practice. Even in a modern country with good medical care, you'll live longer and need less medical care when you obey Moses and Mohammed. ¶ 5:07 AM
Unheeded advice
This 1946 radio news program includes an interesting bit of accurate prophecy. The commentator is Tony Morse, who seems to have been a well-known Los Angeles broadcaster, but has been lost to history. Google doesn't find any references, presumably because he was not an orthodox Stalinist. (Non-Commies were effectively purged from radio and TV after the Soviet victory in the Army-McCarthy show trial of 1954.)
Morse discusses the placement of the UN Headquarters. At that time the organization had decided to put its offices somewhere in America, but hadn't picked New York. The expected Communist cities were eagerly competing for the location. Morse makes a different suggestion: The UN really should be in Moscow.It was already clear that Russia had a strong voice in the UN, though it hadn't yet become a pure Soviet device. Morse called the UN a "penetrating tool", and suggested that Russia needed to be penetrated by Western influence much more than America needed to be penetrated by Russian influence.
Very smart. Too bad they didn't take his advice. ¶ 3:14 AM
Morse discusses the placement of the UN Headquarters. At that time the organization had decided to put its offices somewhere in America, but hadn't picked New York. The expected Communist cities were eagerly competing for the location. Morse makes a different suggestion: The UN really should be in Moscow.It was already clear that Russia had a strong voice in the UN, though it hadn't yet become a pure Soviet device. Morse called the UN a "penetrating tool", and suggested that Russia needed to be penetrated by Western influence much more than America needed to be penetrated by Russian influence.
Very smart. Too bad they didn't take his advice. ¶ 3:14 AM
Saturday, September 08, 2012
Always look at the graph
One of my solid rules is Always look at the graph. Don't be fooled by statistics. Stats always eliminate the most important aspects of the situation, but a graph usually highlights the important bit.
This graph at Economic Populist genuinely shocked me. I hadn't seen the graph before, and I was fooled by stats. I'd often heard that the median income is 26K, so I assumed that 26K is also the 'typical' income. That's fairly decent; you can get by on 26K.
The real picture is absolutely terrible! We have a pure third-world economy. No other way to describe it. The most 'typical' income is around 7K, not 26K.
We're fucked.
This graph at Economic Populist genuinely shocked me. I hadn't seen the graph before, and I was fooled by stats. I'd often heard that the median income is 26K, so I assumed that 26K is also the 'typical' income. That's fairly decent; you can get by on 26K.
The real picture is absolutely terrible! We have a pure third-world economy. No other way to describe it. The most 'typical' income is around 7K, not 26K.
We're fucked.
Labels: Blinded by Stats
¶ 4:09 AM
Friday, September 07, 2012
Just curious
Putting this down as a marker, not really a prediction. Seems like this would fit a pattern, but I can't see how it would happen.....
= = = = =
It's been clear for two years that the Obama admin has allowed more domestic oil production than Bush did. Now Obama has verbally claimed the achievement in his convention speech, which forces Repooflicans to take note of the change.
I'm genuinely curious. How will they handle this? Will Repoofs rebrand themselves as the Environmentalist Party, just to have a talking point against those horrible Blood-For-Oil Democrats?
Leaving aside slogans and looking at facts, the Repoofs really are the Enviro Party. Note this graph of the marauding enemy army EPA over the years. It was a Repoof invention, and it grew most vigorously during Repoof admins. The biofuel mandate was purely Repoof. Subsidies for wind and solar "power" were implemented by Bush The Son. The ban on light bulbs was written by a Repoof congressman and signed by Bush The Son.None of this should be surprising, since environmentalism is purely for the rich. It enforces the esthetic value of "wilderness" that only the rich can enjoy; it subsidizes rich investors who "create" wind "power" projects to gather more subsidies; it tears down factories where poor people had decent jobs; it halts logging and construction where poor people had decent jobs; it makes electricity unaffordable to the poor while paying huge dividends to rich shareholders. Both parties have helped to create these advantages for the rich, but it was the rich man's party that did most of the evil work.
The R's would probably lose a handful of their idiot votebots by openly claiming the Enviro brand, but that has never stopped them. For 20 years they've been trying hard to attract Mexicans, Jews and blacks, despite the plain observable fact that Mexicans, Jews and blacks are physically incapable of voting for the letter R. This appeasement of the unappeasable has already destroyed the real differences between the parties, and lost a big chunk of white support for Rs.
So why not go all the way? ¶ 7:25 AM
= = = = =
It's been clear for two years that the Obama admin has allowed more domestic oil production than Bush did. Now Obama has verbally claimed the achievement in his convention speech, which forces Repooflicans to take note of the change.
I'm genuinely curious. How will they handle this? Will Repoofs rebrand themselves as the Environmentalist Party, just to have a talking point against those horrible Blood-For-Oil Democrats?
Leaving aside slogans and looking at facts, the Repoofs really are the Enviro Party. Note this graph of the marauding enemy army EPA over the years. It was a Repoof invention, and it grew most vigorously during Repoof admins. The biofuel mandate was purely Repoof. Subsidies for wind and solar "power" were implemented by Bush The Son. The ban on light bulbs was written by a Repoof congressman and signed by Bush The Son.None of this should be surprising, since environmentalism is purely for the rich. It enforces the esthetic value of "wilderness" that only the rich can enjoy; it subsidizes rich investors who "create" wind "power" projects to gather more subsidies; it tears down factories where poor people had decent jobs; it halts logging and construction where poor people had decent jobs; it makes electricity unaffordable to the poor while paying huge dividends to rich shareholders. Both parties have helped to create these advantages for the rich, but it was the rich man's party that did most of the evil work.
The R's would probably lose a handful of their idiot votebots by openly claiming the Enviro brand, but that has never stopped them. For 20 years they've been trying hard to attract Mexicans, Jews and blacks, despite the plain observable fact that Mexicans, Jews and blacks are physically incapable of voting for the letter R. This appeasement of the unappeasable has already destroyed the real differences between the parties, and lost a big chunk of white support for Rs.
So why not go all the way? ¶ 7:25 AM
More countermotions
In the broad realms of science, two wildly opposing trends.
= = = = =
Some areas are making huge discoveries with an open-minded attitude, constantly expanding and breaking the boundaries of knowledge. Geneticists explore previously unknown parts of the chromosome, gradually realizing that every part has a function, and these functions are dynamic and 'analog' instead of static and 'digital'. Bacteriologists are painting a new picture of bacteria as component parts of intelligent colonies, and finding bacteria in all sorts of places where life was previously thought impossible. Materials science constantly finds new ways to manipulate polymers, composites, and fibers, making previously unimagined devices possible.
= = = = =
Many other areas of science are locked into myth, superstition, and apocalyptic religious fervor. Climate. Quantum "physics". Cosmology. Psychology. Economics. In these areas, facts, logic and reality are ruthlessly squashed by legal and physical force, leaving bizarre fantasies and total falsehoods firmly in charge.
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This split in itself shouldn't be a problem. Every area of human endeavor has sane sections and dead-end wacked-out lunatic sections. Unfortunately, the dead-end parts have all the power and funding. When governments or educators look to science for solutions or answers, they exclusively consult the superstitious wackos; when governments want to pour money into science, they pour it into the myth-bound Inquisitors.= = = = =Later thought: Clearly there's a positive (bad) feedback loop. The presence of government power and funding is exactly why those dead-end areas remain locked in idiocy. When you have riches, power, glory and access to journalists, you'll fight hard to keep your share. You'll manipulate the media to insure that your views remain dominant, and you'll use every available means to shut out the competition. When these temptations are present, noble motives like the pursuit of knowledge, or practical motives like commercial usefulness, can't survive. ¶ 4:59 AM
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Some areas are making huge discoveries with an open-minded attitude, constantly expanding and breaking the boundaries of knowledge. Geneticists explore previously unknown parts of the chromosome, gradually realizing that every part has a function, and these functions are dynamic and 'analog' instead of static and 'digital'. Bacteriologists are painting a new picture of bacteria as component parts of intelligent colonies, and finding bacteria in all sorts of places where life was previously thought impossible. Materials science constantly finds new ways to manipulate polymers, composites, and fibers, making previously unimagined devices possible.
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Many other areas of science are locked into myth, superstition, and apocalyptic religious fervor. Climate. Quantum "physics". Cosmology. Psychology. Economics. In these areas, facts, logic and reality are ruthlessly squashed by legal and physical force, leaving bizarre fantasies and total falsehoods firmly in charge.
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This split in itself shouldn't be a problem. Every area of human endeavor has sane sections and dead-end wacked-out lunatic sections. Unfortunately, the dead-end parts have all the power and funding. When governments or educators look to science for solutions or answers, they exclusively consult the superstitious wackos; when governments want to pour money into science, they pour it into the myth-bound Inquisitors.= = = = =Later thought: Clearly there's a positive (bad) feedback loop. The presence of government power and funding is exactly why those dead-end areas remain locked in idiocy. When you have riches, power, glory and access to journalists, you'll fight hard to keep your share. You'll manipulate the media to insure that your views remain dominant, and you'll use every available means to shut out the competition. When these temptations are present, noble motives like the pursuit of knowledge, or practical motives like commercial usefulness, can't survive. ¶ 4:59 AM
Thursday, September 06, 2012
There's #3!
I noted two prominent new citizens of Hades a couple weeks ago:
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Now from UK Guardian, a delayed obit for a death on Aug. 26:
There's the third new Hadean!
Think about the last sentence in the obit. Sexual revolution will eradicate class systems.
What actually happened? We got a sexual revolution for damn sure. And it vastly increased the gulf between rich and poor.
Marx was replaced by Gramsci.
Satanism-feminism intentionally wrecked the division of labor that civilization had taken 5000 years to establish and maintain. Traditional gender roles leveraged the social mammal's natural drive for status to set up stable family arrangements, which enabled ORDINARY PEOPLE to prosper. Under the traditional Western system, being a Good Provider was a mark of status. This meant that males who lacked ripply muscles and impressive bravado could gain enough status to hold a good wife, by working hard and earning a steady living.
Satanism-feminism smashed the Good Provider arrangement, and females then reverted to their primitive simian status goals. Work no longer matters. Only the innate natural qualities of a male matter. Only the most muscular, attractive, brutal or RICH males are now able to hold a good wife.
When Betty Fried[m]an and Shulamith Firestone were breaking civilization, other New York Jews saw a profit opportunity. (Chaos is always a profit opportunity for a hedger.)
Since the law now required females to compete (badly) in the same economic realms as males, those economic realms had to dilute their standards and thus their value. Since males now realized there was no point in doing high-quality work, males didn't especially care about the loss of value in the job market. Families now had two degraded incomes and nihilistic expectations. This meant that each worker's income could be slashed beyond a simple halving, which in turn meant more profit for the executives and the shareholders, and more status and more wives for the super-rich.
The hellish Fried[m]an twins. Betty and Milton. Betty broke the males and forced the females into wage slavery; Milton showed capitalists how to enslave both sexes for maximum economic efficiency.
Okay, Milt. Relay time. Stick's in your hand. Go. ¶ 5:07 PM
Comrade Helen Gurley Brown joins Comrade Gore Vidal at the doorway. Gonna be hot times in the old hot town tonight!
In the traditional 3-strike pattern for new Hadean recruits, we now eagerly await #3.
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Now from UK Guardian, a delayed obit for a death on Aug. 26:
Shulamith Firestone was one of the early US radical women's liberationists who provided the theoretical foundation for a second wave of feminism. Along with Kate Millett's Sexual Politics, Betty Friedan's The Second Sex and Jill Johnston's Lesbian Nation, Firestone's The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution (1970) contributed to a theory of women's oppression and male supremacy that is as relevant today as it was at the time of publication. She has been found dead in her apartment in Manhattan, New York, at the age of 67. ...
Firestone's legacy is her challenge to the left in her refusal to accept that women's liberation should be shelved until after the revolution. "We shall need a sexual revolution much larger than – inclusive of – a socialist one to truly eradicate all class systems."
There's the third new Hadean!
Think about the last sentence in the obit. Sexual revolution will eradicate class systems.
What actually happened? We got a sexual revolution for damn sure. And it vastly increased the gulf between rich and poor.
Marx was replaced by Gramsci.
Satanism-feminism intentionally wrecked the division of labor that civilization had taken 5000 years to establish and maintain. Traditional gender roles leveraged the social mammal's natural drive for status to set up stable family arrangements, which enabled ORDINARY PEOPLE to prosper. Under the traditional Western system, being a Good Provider was a mark of status. This meant that males who lacked ripply muscles and impressive bravado could gain enough status to hold a good wife, by working hard and earning a steady living.
Satanism-feminism smashed the Good Provider arrangement, and females then reverted to their primitive simian status goals. Work no longer matters. Only the innate natural qualities of a male matter. Only the most muscular, attractive, brutal or RICH males are now able to hold a good wife.
When Betty Fried[m]an and Shulamith Firestone were breaking civilization, other New York Jews saw a profit opportunity. (Chaos is always a profit opportunity for a hedger.)
Since the law now required females to compete (badly) in the same economic realms as males, those economic realms had to dilute their standards and thus their value. Since males now realized there was no point in doing high-quality work, males didn't especially care about the loss of value in the job market. Families now had two degraded incomes and nihilistic expectations. This meant that each worker's income could be slashed beyond a simple halving, which in turn meant more profit for the executives and the shareholders, and more status and more wives for the super-rich.
The hellish Fried[m]an twins. Betty and Milton. Betty broke the males and forced the females into wage slavery; Milton showed capitalists how to enslave both sexes for maximum economic efficiency.
Okay, Milt. Relay time. Stick's in your hand. Go. ¶ 5:07 PM
Already knew that.....
I try not to pay attention to the idiotic partisan back-and-forth, but sometimes it breaks through. Vulture Romney says:
Well, I'm better off. As I noted yesterday, I've been pulling out of a stupid tailspin since 2008.
More relevant to the partisan stuff, I'm better off monetarily. This comes mostly from my own planning and frugality over many years. There's only one partial connection to the world of DC/NY politics and finance: I would have been even more better off** if Romney's Jew Mafia buddies hadn't stolen the interest from my bonds and savings.
Clearly then, I'm not people by Vulture Romney's logic.
No people are better off.
I'm better off.
Therefore I'm not people.
But then I already knew that. I'm not a Jew, so I'm just a loser, a taker, a moocher. A negative externality. Disposable, expendable. Not people.
Fuck off, you monstrous thief. I'll go with the "side" that respects ordinary people, even though both "sides" are equally murderous in empirical terms.= = = = =**Yeah, it's supposedly "bad grammar." Nope. Better isn't really an adjective in that sentence; rather, be-better-off is a three-word verb. ¶ 5:10 AM
"You've heard no one stand up and say that people are better off than they were four years ago. They really can't say that."
Well, I'm better off. As I noted yesterday, I've been pulling out of a stupid tailspin since 2008.
More relevant to the partisan stuff, I'm better off monetarily. This comes mostly from my own planning and frugality over many years. There's only one partial connection to the world of DC/NY politics and finance: I would have been even more better off** if Romney's Jew Mafia buddies hadn't stolen the interest from my bonds and savings.
Clearly then, I'm not people by Vulture Romney's logic.
No people are better off.
I'm better off.
Therefore I'm not people.
But then I already knew that. I'm not a Jew, so I'm just a loser, a taker, a moocher. A negative externality. Disposable, expendable. Not people.
Fuck off, you monstrous thief. I'll go with the "side" that respects ordinary people, even though both "sides" are equally murderous in empirical terms.= = = = =**Yeah, it's supposedly "bad grammar." Nope. Better isn't really an adjective in that sentence; rather, be-better-off is a three-word verb. ¶ 5:10 AM
Wednesday, September 05, 2012
Countermotions
An opposing pair of motions in the Anglosphere. Britain is moving closer to sanity in energy AND education, while Australia marches closer to Satan in both areas.
In Britain, Cameron has replaced part of his Cabinet:
I've previously noted Britain's absolutely remarkable push toward discipline and common sense in education.
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Meanwhile in Australia, Comrade Gillard doubles down HARD on the Carbon Crime, forcing many Aussies to freeze in winter.
And at the same time, Comrade Gillard roars backwards in education, pouring money into the worst schools and requiring teachers to have higher degrees in subject matter instead of requiring them to be good teachers. She's basically moving Australia into a pattern that America tried and rejected in the 1970's.
What an all-consuming fuckhead. ¶ 3:45 PM
In Britain, Cameron has replaced part of his Cabinet:
Owen Paterson, a member of Cameron's Conservative Party who was appointed Environment Secretary in the reshuffle, has hailed the potential economic benefits of shale gas...
John Hayes [is now] Energy Minister.... Hayes has been a vocal opponent of wind farms...
I've previously noted Britain's absolutely remarkable push toward discipline and common sense in education.
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Meanwhile in Australia, Comrade Gillard doubles down HARD on the Carbon Crime, forcing many Aussies to freeze in winter.
And at the same time, Comrade Gillard roars backwards in education, pouring money into the worst schools and requiring teachers to have higher degrees in subject matter instead of requiring them to be good teachers. She's basically moving Australia into a pattern that America tried and rejected in the 1970's.
What an all-consuming fuckhead. ¶ 3:45 PM
Looking back on a stupid period
It's starting to get cold, so I looked in the closet to find more long pants.
While ruffling through the closet I found no less than FOUR winter parkas. Two of them are familiar, but I'd completely forgotten about the other two. This means the newest winter parka was completely unnecessary! I bought Parka #4 in 2009 after Parka #3 got torn up in the desperate and losing fight against heavy snow and ice dams. Obviously I didn't even LOOK in the fucking closet, because Parkas #1 and #2 are perfectly usable though a bit grimy. It's not like I have dozens of closets and hundreds of clothes; this is the only closet in the house and it contains exactly 14 items right now.
I was seriously stupid in 2008-2009. The stupidity was clearly caused by high blood pressure. I wasn't paying attention to things. That's how I got whomped by a SUV in Oct 2008.
After that low point I started to make changes. In chronological order:
1. Stopped smoking pipe, which I had started in 2006.
2. Unplugged the TV.
3. Went to doctor, started pills for BP.
4. Cut down trees, re-created back yard and sense of pride.
5. Increased exercise.
6. Changed diet.
Each step has led to better health, more brainpower, less stupidity, better attitude.
The only negative is a loss of something like creative drive. The high pressure (or maybe the tobacco?) caused me to output more graphics work with more imagination. Deflating the arteries seems to have dulled the imagination.Dull is better than dead.
While ruffling through the closet I found no less than FOUR winter parkas. Two of them are familiar, but I'd completely forgotten about the other two. This means the newest winter parka was completely unnecessary! I bought Parka #4 in 2009 after Parka #3 got torn up in the desperate and losing fight against heavy snow and ice dams. Obviously I didn't even LOOK in the fucking closet, because Parkas #1 and #2 are perfectly usable though a bit grimy. It's not like I have dozens of closets and hundreds of clothes; this is the only closet in the house and it contains exactly 14 items right now.
I was seriously stupid in 2008-2009. The stupidity was clearly caused by high blood pressure. I wasn't paying attention to things. That's how I got whomped by a SUV in Oct 2008.
After that low point I started to make changes. In chronological order:
1. Stopped smoking pipe, which I had started in 2006.
2. Unplugged the TV.
3. Went to doctor, started pills for BP.
4. Cut down trees, re-created back yard and sense of pride.
5. Increased exercise.
6. Changed diet.
Each step has led to better health, more brainpower, less stupidity, better attitude.
The only negative is a loss of something like creative drive. The high pressure (or maybe the tobacco?) caused me to output more graphics work with more imagination. Deflating the arteries seems to have dulled the imagination.Dull is better than dead.
Labels: coot-proofing
¶ 6:42 AM
Or, you could......
Via Science Daily:
I've got a better idea.
(1) Don't manufacture biofuel. Then you won't need gasoline to power the combines that are cutting corn for biofuel, and you won't need fertilizer made from natural gas, and you won't need diesel to run the trucks and trains that haul the fertilizer to the fields and the corn to the biofuel plants, and you won't need electricity to power the biofuel refinery, and you won't need gas for the cars of the employees of the biofuel refinery, and you won't need to cut down tropical forests to clear more land for corn, and you won't need to starve millions of people and create riots and revolutions because you're forcing corn to go into biofuel instead of human stomachs.
(2) Feed the corn to the livestock directly. Then you won't need to handle DDGS, you won't need to spend energy building and running the special DDGS waste-to-energy plants, you won't need to hire specialists to run the DDGS waste-to-energy plants, and you won't need gas for the cars of the employees of the DDGS waste-to-energy plants.
I know these are radical ideas. Nobody has ever thought of feeding corn to humans and livestock directly, but I'm betting it just might work. Why not try it?
Needless to say, nothing will change. Biofuel will continue to waste food and starve people and waste energy and cause riots and revolutions, as long as the grass shall grow and as long as the rivers shall flow and as long as the Iowa caucus shall happen in January. Well, actually only the last part.
A by-product of biofuel manufacture can power microbial fuel cells to generate electricity cheaply and efficiently.... The work could help develop self-powered devices that would depollute waste water and be used to survey weather in extreme environments.
Distillers Dried Grain with Solubles (DDGS) is a waste product from bioethanol production that is commonly used as a low-cost animal feed. Researchers from the University of Surrey incorporated DDGS together with bacteria-inoculated sludge from a waste water treatment plant in their microbial fuel cell....
I've got a better idea.
(1) Don't manufacture biofuel. Then you won't need gasoline to power the combines that are cutting corn for biofuel, and you won't need fertilizer made from natural gas, and you won't need diesel to run the trucks and trains that haul the fertilizer to the fields and the corn to the biofuel plants, and you won't need electricity to power the biofuel refinery, and you won't need gas for the cars of the employees of the biofuel refinery, and you won't need to cut down tropical forests to clear more land for corn, and you won't need to starve millions of people and create riots and revolutions because you're forcing corn to go into biofuel instead of human stomachs.
(2) Feed the corn to the livestock directly. Then you won't need to handle DDGS, you won't need to spend energy building and running the special DDGS waste-to-energy plants, you won't need to hire specialists to run the DDGS waste-to-energy plants, and you won't need gas for the cars of the employees of the DDGS waste-to-energy plants.
I know these are radical ideas. Nobody has ever thought of feeding corn to humans and livestock directly, but I'm betting it just might work. Why not try it?
Needless to say, nothing will change. Biofuel will continue to waste food and starve people and waste energy and cause riots and revolutions, as long as the grass shall grow and as long as the rivers shall flow and as long as the Iowa caucus shall happen in January. Well, actually only the last part.
Labels: Carbon Cult
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