Sunday, January 31, 2010
Thanking El Niño
Polistra is praying to the Christ Child, el Niño himself, thanking his meteorological namesake for Spokane's easiest winter in recorded history. The previous two winters were deadly and disastrous, probably the worst in the country. This year we're getting the easiest winter in the country, at least relative to local norms. Only 12 inches of snow so far, and none of it stayed on the ground. (Average at this point is 30 inches; last year at this point was 80 inches building finally to 100.) Temps in the 40s most days, only rarely dropping below freezing. Pretty much Seattle weather.
And where did the typical Spokane winter go this year? Oklahoma. ¶ 10:10 PM
Polistra is praying to the Christ Child, el Niño himself, thanking his meteorological namesake for Spokane's easiest winter in recorded history. The previous two winters were deadly and disastrous, probably the worst in the country. This year we're getting the easiest winter in the country, at least relative to local norms. Only 12 inches of snow so far, and none of it stayed on the ground. (Average at this point is 30 inches; last year at this point was 80 inches building finally to 100.) Temps in the 40s most days, only rarely dropping below freezing. Pretty much Seattle weather.
And where did the typical Spokane winter go this year? Oklahoma. ¶ 10:10 PM
Inescapable irrelevance
I've noticed in recent weeks that most of my incoming links are related to the top word on the sign in this picture, which is part of Episode 7 of Polistra's Dream.
The reason is obvious: all the pictures in this episode had titles containing the word Q*********, and there is apparently a very popular video game named Q********* 2. Yesterday I went to the trouble of changing these image titles from Q********** whatever.jpg to Measles whatever.jpg, and removed the word from the text of the episode as well, hoping to cut down the irrelevant noise.
Also a vaguely Golden-rulish consideration ... I get annoyed when Google hands me a batch of completely irrelevant stuff, so I don't want my blog to be the source of such annoyance for others.
Unfortunately, the change from Q********** to Measles actually made things worse! The Google connections are still present, and the searchers are even more determined to find the reference now that it's nowhere in the pictures or text!
It's like having a phone number similar to the local Pizza Hut. You keep getting calls ordering pizza, and no matter how hard you try, the callers will not be persuaded that you're not really Pizza Hut.
[Footnote: I've "censored" the word that means a disease-preventing lockdown. Not because it's dirty, but just to avoid creating a new irrelevant search target while discussing the removal of the old!] ¶ 7:09 AM
I've noticed in recent weeks that most of my incoming links are related to the top word on the sign in this picture, which is part of Episode 7 of Polistra's Dream.
The reason is obvious: all the pictures in this episode had titles containing the word Q*********, and there is apparently a very popular video game named Q********* 2. Yesterday I went to the trouble of changing these image titles from Q********** whatever.jpg to Measles whatever.jpg, and removed the word from the text of the episode as well, hoping to cut down the irrelevant noise.
Also a vaguely Golden-rulish consideration ... I get annoyed when Google hands me a batch of completely irrelevant stuff, so I don't want my blog to be the source of such annoyance for others.
Unfortunately, the change from Q********** to Measles actually made things worse! The Google connections are still present, and the searchers are even more determined to find the reference now that it's nowhere in the pictures or text!
It's like having a phone number similar to the local Pizza Hut. You keep getting calls ordering pizza, and no matter how hard you try, the callers will not be persuaded that you're not really Pizza Hut.
[Footnote: I've "censored" the word that means a disease-preventing lockdown. Not because it's dirty, but just to avoid creating a new irrelevant search target while discussing the removal of the old!] ¶ 7:09 AM
Saturday, January 30, 2010
LANDMARK
CBS News ran a feature on education tonight that finally broke out of the standard set of lies.
They stated ... for the first time ever on American mainstream media ... that MONEY DOES NOT IMPROVE EDUCATION.
This has been blazingly obvious from all available facts for 30 years. In fact the correlation is almost perfectly inverse: with only two exceptions, the states that spend more get worse results and the states that spend less get better results.
CBS also stated clearly that tenure and unions interfere with improving education. This fact is less absolute; it's only in the biggest cities, especially New York, that the unions are truly abusive and intractable. But it's still an important fact, and it's never been mentioned before in MSM reporting. ¶ 6:07 PM
CBS News ran a feature on education tonight that finally broke out of the standard set of lies.
They stated ... for the first time ever on American mainstream media ... that MONEY DOES NOT IMPROVE EDUCATION.
This has been blazingly obvious from all available facts for 30 years. In fact the correlation is almost perfectly inverse: with only two exceptions, the states that spend more get worse results and the states that spend less get better results.
CBS also stated clearly that tenure and unions interfere with improving education. This fact is less absolute; it's only in the biggest cities, especially New York, that the unions are truly abusive and intractable. But it's still an important fact, and it's never been mentioned before in MSM reporting. ¶ 6:07 PM
The Edwards soap opera
The enemy-controlled media are asking the usual unbreakably stupid questions about recent revelations on John Edwards.
"How could Elizabeth stay with John, knowing that he was lying and carrying on affairs? How could she openly defend him while he was betraying her?"
Here, let me explain it for you.
(1) John is a very good-looking and very rich man, and he was at the very top of the status ladder.
(2) Elizabeth is a woman.
QED.
Complete explanation. No mystery. ¶ 2:03 PM
"How could Elizabeth stay with John, knowing that he was lying and carrying on affairs? How could she openly defend him while he was betraying her?"
Here, let me explain it for you.
(1) John is a very good-looking and very rich man, and he was at the very top of the status ladder.
(2) Elizabeth is a woman.
QED.
Complete explanation. No mystery. ¶ 2:03 PM
Friday, January 29, 2010
See what happens?
This is truly amazing. While other newspapers continue to try all sorts of tricks to forestall their well-deserved death, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review went WAY out of the box, all the way into hyper-weird fantasy land, and increased its circulation by 15% instantly.
What was the wild unimaginable unthinkable science-fictionish gambit?
They told the truth. They stopped parroting standard bullshit.
Will other papers copy this bizarre beyond-the-known-universe weirdness? I doubt it. They'd rather walk on fire, sleep on nails, tear off their faces, than tell the truth.
(For what it's worth, the Tribune-Review has been a good paper for a long time. When I lived in PA in the '80s, that's the one paper I read daily. It was always interesting, balanced and well-edited; always paid attention to ordinary people.) ¶ 7:47 PM
What was the wild unimaginable unthinkable science-fictionish gambit?
They told the truth. They stopped parroting standard bullshit.
Good old-fashioned honest journalism by Pittsburghlive.com pointedly embarrasses Penn State and their pernicious professor, Michael Mann. Their editorial reviewing the “Climategate Analysis,” by Australian physicist, Dr. John P. Costella and now available from the non-profit Science & Public Policy Institute (scienceandpublicpolicy.org), has really caught the attention of Pennsylvanian readers.
Since running the editorial on Dr. Costella’s latest exposé, the Tribune-Review's circulation jumped 14.8 percent from 146,520 to 168,218 on the back of Costella’s story.
Will other papers copy this bizarre beyond-the-known-universe weirdness? I doubt it. They'd rather walk on fire, sleep on nails, tear off their faces, than tell the truth.
(For what it's worth, the Tribune-Review has been a good paper for a long time. When I lived in PA in the '80s, that's the one paper I read daily. It was always interesting, balanced and well-edited; always paid attention to ordinary people.) ¶ 7:47 PM
Also no surprise
Killer licensed by the Party, spends 36 years killing thousands of children. Not punished; gets rich; has special law passed to protect him from protests.
Unlicensed vigilante finally destroys the official killer.
The Party can't have unlicensed vigilantes running around, kills the unlicensed vigilante.
Just another wonderful day in Hank Paulson's wonderful Death Camp. All Modern Conveniences, Color TV, Vibrating Beds. Situated on the same territory that once held a nation called America. ¶ 1:03 PM
Unlicensed vigilante finally destroys the official killer.
The Party can't have unlicensed vigilantes running around, kills the unlicensed vigilante.
Just another wonderful day in Hank Paulson's wonderful Death Camp. All Modern Conveniences, Color TV, Vibrating Beds. Situated on the same territory that once held a nation called America. ¶ 1:03 PM
Real science
Since the "scientists" are no longer doing science, the police have to do it!
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By damn, a genuine and complete experiment, for a genuinely important purpose.
The deicer in question is an oily liquid that has been used for several years around here, ever since the government-funded terrorist organization EPA decided that plain old sand and salt were saving human lives.
As a pedestrian I've definitely observed that the deicer doesn't deice, and sometimes adds slippage. I haven't been driving since the changeover, so can't say how it feels from a driver's viewpoint.
Basalt sand, which has sharp edges, worked beautifully and saved not only lives but gasoline and labor. The street crews would distribute sand at the first snowfall, and the sand gave traction through several later snows before it had to be renewed. The terrorists at EPA kicked it out because the resulting dust in springtime may have bothered some asthma sufferers, and because it saved lives.
Salt worked beautifully against more serious ice, though it wasn't as durable as sand. The terrorists kicked it out because it may have washed into the river and made life slightly more difficult for the Royal Old-Growth Fish, and because it saved lives. ¶ 9:20 AM
After a recent car accident where an SUV slid off a roadway not long after de-icer was placed on the same stretch of road, Spokane County Sheriff’s deputies set out Friday to conduct skid tests to determine whether or not deicer makes roads slippery.
[They] shut down a stretch of East Wellesley for several hours for skid tests.
When doing a skid test investigators assign various surfaces what is called a 'Coefficient of Friction.' A 1.0 Coefficient of Friction would be sandpaper, 0.8 is dry pavement, 0.6 is wet pavement, 0.2 is snow and 0.1 is ice.
[Until Friday] no study to determine deicer’s friction coefficient has ever been conducted in the United States. ...
For nearly two hours a deputy drove at speeds up to 60 miles an hour and then slammed on his brakes, changing variables such as braking with and without anti-lock braking engaged and then doing brake tests at intervals after the deicer was applied.
One test was done just after deicer was applied and then the test was run every 15 minutes for the next hour and a half. .....
By the end of the brake testing deputies determined two things. First, deicer makes the road only slightly slicker than dry pavement. If a dry road has a 0.8 friction coefficient, than the deicer is about 0.7, roughly in-between dry and wet pavement on the scale.
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By damn, a genuine and complete experiment, for a genuinely important purpose.
The deicer in question is an oily liquid that has been used for several years around here, ever since the government-funded terrorist organization EPA decided that plain old sand and salt were saving human lives.
As a pedestrian I've definitely observed that the deicer doesn't deice, and sometimes adds slippage. I haven't been driving since the changeover, so can't say how it feels from a driver's viewpoint.
Basalt sand, which has sharp edges, worked beautifully and saved not only lives but gasoline and labor. The street crews would distribute sand at the first snowfall, and the sand gave traction through several later snows before it had to be renewed. The terrorists at EPA kicked it out because the resulting dust in springtime may have bothered some asthma sufferers, and because it saved lives.
Salt worked beautifully against more serious ice, though it wasn't as durable as sand. The terrorists kicked it out because it may have washed into the river and made life slightly more difficult for the Royal Old-Growth Fish, and because it saved lives. ¶ 9:20 AM
No surprise
More proof, which wasn't needed, that America and Osama have always been on the same side. After the Hadley revelations, other Western nations are starting to back away from the Carbon Cult. Not quite renouncing it, but making public statements of doubt. Only America remains firmly loyal to Gaia, firmly locked on the path of suicide.
As for the Sheikh's criticism of Bush the son, he's right in a formal sense. Bush the son played a cute game. He didn't sign the treaty, but allowed the EPA to proceed at full speed with regulations to kill all of our people.
Obama is actually continuing the same game. The Kyoto treaty and the newer Copenhagen version are still unsigned, though you wouldn't know it from Obama's verbiage. Meanwhile, our government-funded terrorist organization EPA continues to commit acts of war against our own population, which the Sheikh really should appreciate and applaud. Osama wants to breach our dams, Lisa Jackson is breaching our dams. Osama wants to destroy our industries, Lisa Jackson is destroying our industries. Osama wants to take Western civilization back to the Stone Age, Lisa Jackson is taking Western civilization back to the Stone Age.
The Sheikh is ungrateful to his best Jihadi! ¶ 7:06 AM
A new message said to be from al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden has blamed global warming on the US and other big industrial nations.
"All industrial nations, mainly the big ones, are responsible for the crisis of global warming," the latest tape says.
"This is a message to the whole world about those who are causing climate change, whether deliberately or not, and what we should do about that."
"Bush the son, and the [US] Congress before him, rejected this [Kyoto Protocol] agreement only to satisfy the big companies."
More proof, which wasn't needed, that America and Osama have always been on the same side. After the Hadley revelations, other Western nations are starting to back away from the Carbon Cult. Not quite renouncing it, but making public statements of doubt. Only America remains firmly loyal to Gaia, firmly locked on the path of suicide.
As for the Sheikh's criticism of Bush the son, he's right in a formal sense. Bush the son played a cute game. He didn't sign the treaty, but allowed the EPA to proceed at full speed with regulations to kill all of our people.
Obama is actually continuing the same game. The Kyoto treaty and the newer Copenhagen version are still unsigned, though you wouldn't know it from Obama's verbiage. Meanwhile, our government-funded terrorist organization EPA continues to commit acts of war against our own population, which the Sheikh really should appreciate and applaud. Osama wants to breach our dams, Lisa Jackson is breaching our dams. Osama wants to destroy our industries, Lisa Jackson is destroying our industries. Osama wants to take Western civilization back to the Stone Age, Lisa Jackson is taking Western civilization back to the Stone Age.
The Sheikh is ungrateful to his best Jihadi! ¶ 7:06 AM
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Bravo Cantwell!
The vote to confirm Bugsy Bernanke was worth watching because it was uncorrelated with party line, and uncorrelated with geography.
You can tell with perfect certainty who has taken bribes from Wall Street and who hasn't.
The most interesting of the unbribed members is Maria Cantwell of Wash, who is typically a quiet and loyal Dem vote. She also knows Wall Street from the inside.
She's pleading for a hard prohibition of derivatives, not a soft and easy-to-loophole regulation. "Fact is, you can make more money in derivatives than by doing IPOs or real investment." Therefore the only way to force investors into honesty is by absolutely outlawing the dishonest paths.
Won't happen, of course, because 70 members of the Upper Nuthouse have confessed to their own criminality this afternoon.
Still, it's wonderful to see a previously undramatic politician like Cantwell rebelling against the forces of darkness. ¶ 1:40 PM
You can tell with perfect certainty who has taken bribes from Wall Street and who hasn't.
The most interesting of the unbribed members is Maria Cantwell of Wash, who is typically a quiet and loyal Dem vote. She also knows Wall Street from the inside.
She's pleading for a hard prohibition of derivatives, not a soft and easy-to-loophole regulation. "Fact is, you can make more money in derivatives than by doing IPOs or real investment." Therefore the only way to force investors into honesty is by absolutely outlawing the dishonest paths.
Won't happen, of course, because 70 members of the Upper Nuthouse have confessed to their own criminality this afternoon.
Still, it's wonderful to see a previously undramatic politician like Cantwell rebelling against the forces of darkness. ¶ 1:40 PM
President McCain's first SOTU
No real surprises from President McCain last night.
All of the usual McCain points, designed to destroy the country as always. Fanatic obeisance to the Planet Goddess Gaia [pbuh], brief lip service to nuclear power. Open borders, free trade, donate the economy to Wall Street. Treat Mohammedan bombers like royalty, treat American citizens like rat turds. Fight more perpetual unwinnable wars in foreign countries with no benefit to America. Bipartisanship, deficit reduction, dislike of earmarks. Special barb directed at the Supreme Court for upholding the Constitution and overturning his precious campaign censorship. Finally, a real signature McCain move: a dumb little trick, freezing a whole 1% of the federal budget. Whoopie shit.
The only unusual thing is that President McCain had one of his fellow Senators, a young black guy named Obama, read the speech for him. Must be one of those bizarre ancient unconstitutional Senate rituals like proxy, filibuster, and quorum calls.
Funny, though.... seems like I had a dream or something in which this Obama character ran for Pres and defeated McCain. Guess I'm getting old. ¶ 6:20 AM
All of the usual McCain points, designed to destroy the country as always. Fanatic obeisance to the Planet Goddess Gaia [pbuh], brief lip service to nuclear power. Open borders, free trade, donate the economy to Wall Street. Treat Mohammedan bombers like royalty, treat American citizens like rat turds. Fight more perpetual unwinnable wars in foreign countries with no benefit to America. Bipartisanship, deficit reduction, dislike of earmarks. Special barb directed at the Supreme Court for upholding the Constitution and overturning his precious campaign censorship. Finally, a real signature McCain move: a dumb little trick, freezing a whole 1% of the federal budget. Whoopie shit.
The only unusual thing is that President McCain had one of his fellow Senators, a young black guy named Obama, read the speech for him. Must be one of those bizarre ancient unconstitutional Senate rituals like proxy, filibuster, and quorum calls.
Funny, though.... seems like I had a dream or something in which this Obama character ran for Pres and defeated McCain. Guess I'm getting old. ¶ 6:20 AM
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Populism, populism, populism?
Oregon approves a significant tax increase:
Excellent!
TV commentators this morning are calling this an anti-populist movement. Chuck Todd: "Everybody talks about populism, populism, populism, but this shows that other factors are now in play."
No, you fucking idiot.
Populism emphatically does not mean hatred of taxes.
"Zero tax" is the complete total solitary platform of the Republican Party, which wants to reshape the government of this unfortunate land into a more Haitian form so that billionaire Jew gangsters can own and run everything. (The Democratic Establishment wants the same goal but describes it less honestly.)
A Populist believes something quite different. A Populist believes that the government of America should serve the people of America, not the interests of Dubai, not the interests of China, not the interests of billionaire Jew gangsters. When the people of America are best served by decreasing taxes, you decrease taxes. When the people of America are best served by increasing taxes, you increase taxes. And the present situation falls into the latter category.
See how simple it is? You just need to understand that a number can go either up or down. ¶ 6:35 AM
Oregon voters have approved two measures raising taxes on businesses and the wealthy, averting budget cuts legislators said would have meant larger classes in the schools and less help for the poor and the elderly.
Voters in Tuesday's special election approved Measure 66, which raises rates on people earning well above six figures, and Measure 67, which increases business taxes.
Excellent!
TV commentators this morning are calling this an anti-populist movement. Chuck Todd: "Everybody talks about populism, populism, populism, but this shows that other factors are now in play."
No, you fucking idiot.
Populism emphatically does not mean hatred of taxes.
"Zero tax" is the complete total solitary platform of the Republican Party, which wants to reshape the government of this unfortunate land into a more Haitian form so that billionaire Jew gangsters can own and run everything. (The Democratic Establishment wants the same goal but describes it less honestly.)
A Populist believes something quite different. A Populist believes that the government of America should serve the people of America, not the interests of Dubai, not the interests of China, not the interests of billionaire Jew gangsters. When the people of America are best served by decreasing taxes, you decrease taxes. When the people of America are best served by increasing taxes, you increase taxes. And the present situation falls into the latter category.
See how simple it is? You just need to understand that a number can go either up or down. ¶ 6:35 AM
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Failing? No, succeeding magnificently.
This morning some commission has given the DC Government a grade of 'F' on bioterror prevention.
Nonsense. DHS is doing its assigned job very well. DHS has 3 basic missions in this area:
(1) Insure that American citizens are maximally vulnerable to all threats. Disarm them, demoralize them, disinform them, make them terrified to name the enemy.
(2) Insure that the Mohammedan enemy has maximal access to all important facilities. Guarantee infiltration of the Army, military research, nuclear facilities, etc.
(3) Insure that no American citizen gets a chance to expose the treason. When a wise guy gets too close, discredit him, arrest him, or "suicide" him.
How do we know these are its assigned duties? Because DHS has been accomplishing these missions from the start, and nobody has been fired, demoted or reprimanded.
(I should qualify that other branches of DHS appear to be operating for the people of America. When FEMA failed in Katrina, Heckuva Brownie was fired, indicating that disaster response is a straightforward duty, not a reverse duty.) ¶ 8:23 AM
"Nearly a decade after September 11, 2001, one year after our original report, and one month after the Christmas Day bombing attempt, the United States is failing to address several urgent threats, especially bioterrorism," said former Sen. Bob Graham, chairman of the commission.
"Each of the last three administrations has been slow to recognize and respond to the biothreat. But we no longer have the luxury of a slow learning curve, when we know al Qaeda is interested in bioweapons," Graham said.
Nonsense. DHS is doing its assigned job very well. DHS has 3 basic missions in this area:
(1) Insure that American citizens are maximally vulnerable to all threats. Disarm them, demoralize them, disinform them, make them terrified to name the enemy.
(2) Insure that the Mohammedan enemy has maximal access to all important facilities. Guarantee infiltration of the Army, military research, nuclear facilities, etc.
(3) Insure that no American citizen gets a chance to expose the treason. When a wise guy gets too close, discredit him, arrest him, or "suicide" him.
How do we know these are its assigned duties? Because DHS has been accomplishing these missions from the start, and nobody has been fired, demoted or reprimanded.
(I should qualify that other branches of DHS appear to be operating for the people of America. When FEMA failed in Katrina, Heckuva Brownie was fired, indicating that disaster response is a straightforward duty, not a reverse duty.) ¶ 8:23 AM
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Dream warning of space debris
Odd... during this afternoon's nap, I dreamed that I was hearing a warning about incoming space debris. The incoming stuff would be more plentiful and faster than the usual meteor shower, so a lot of it would reach the ground and it would do a lot of damage.
Astronomical matters are distant from my usual thoughts and interests, and the radio and TV were turned off during the nap, so I can't identify any obvious external source for this. The "report" mentioned that the debris was traveling at 117 MPH. The number 117 also lacks connections in any recent thinking, so it could be relevant to something or other!
Nearly all my dreams are (sometimes dull, sometimes clever) remixes of recognizable thoughts and experiences, so when a fresh "signal" like this one occurs, it's worth writing down. (4PM PST) ¶ 4:09 PM
Astronomical matters are distant from my usual thoughts and interests, and the radio and TV were turned off during the nap, so I can't identify any obvious external source for this. The "report" mentioned that the debris was traveling at 117 MPH. The number 117 also lacks connections in any recent thinking, so it could be relevant to something or other!
Nearly all my dreams are (sometimes dull, sometimes clever) remixes of recognizable thoughts and experiences, so when a fresh "signal" like this one occurs, it's worth writing down. (4PM PST) ¶ 4:09 PM
Saturday, January 23, 2010
What's wrong with this picture?
Polistra and Happystar as seen by a highly-paid Climate "Scientist":
What's wrong with this picture?
1. Gravity calculated as negative instead of positive. Nobody caught the switched sign.
2. Sea level rises to 2000 feet, engulfs Kansas. Physically impossible, but that doesn't matter; it's required by the model.
3. Polistra barefoot because leather shoes not allowed by Gaia-worshipping vegan "scientist".
4. Two suns required to achieve the temperature predicted by model. Extra sun added.
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Polistra and Happystar as seen by an unpaid graphic hobbyist:
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Here's the point: In the little hobby-style world of 3d graphics, we test things far more carefully than the trillion-dollar crimate industry.
When I make a product for sale, such as the Arcade Hotel that was the setting for Polistra's Dream, I have to find someone to test it before submitting to the store. The tester checks all relevant details, makes some pictures using the model, tells me what's wrong. [The tester is "paid" by receiving a free copy of the finished product.] Then I fix the problems and the store tests it again. On the rare occasions when a significant error slips through, you can be sure a customer will catch it; finally, if the artist won't respond to customers, other customers will hear about it publicly in the forums.
This is a strict and highly functional peer-review system. And it's applied to products that often bring in no money at all, products that have exactly zero consequence. Purely for fun, occasionally used in education and in TV commercials. No government makes draconian laws or starves its people in response to these graphic products.
Meanwhile, the Crimate Industry's graphic products bring in billions in grants and create a trillion-dollar market in carbon credits. Their wildly obvious and unchecked errors, intentional and unintentional, become the policy of ALL GOVERNMENTS IN THE WORLD.
And their errors do in fact impoverish nations and kill people by the millions. And killing millions, or more precisely 6.6 billion humans, is the open and explicit purpose of environmentalists like James Hansen of NASA.
No organization or ideology has ever amassed so much power. Not Christ, not Mohammed, not Marx, not the Roman Empire, not the British Empire. Maurice Strong and his acolytes are the most powerful and most evil force in human history. ¶ 6:49 AM
What's wrong with this picture?
1. Gravity calculated as negative instead of positive. Nobody caught the switched sign.
2. Sea level rises to 2000 feet, engulfs Kansas. Physically impossible, but that doesn't matter; it's required by the model.
3. Polistra barefoot because leather shoes not allowed by Gaia-worshipping vegan "scientist".
4. Two suns required to achieve the temperature predicted by model. Extra sun added.
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Polistra and Happystar as seen by an unpaid graphic hobbyist:
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Here's the point: In the little hobby-style world of 3d graphics, we test things far more carefully than the trillion-dollar crimate industry.
When I make a product for sale, such as the Arcade Hotel that was the setting for Polistra's Dream, I have to find someone to test it before submitting to the store. The tester checks all relevant details, makes some pictures using the model, tells me what's wrong. [The tester is "paid" by receiving a free copy of the finished product.] Then I fix the problems and the store tests it again. On the rare occasions when a significant error slips through, you can be sure a customer will catch it; finally, if the artist won't respond to customers, other customers will hear about it publicly in the forums.
This is a strict and highly functional peer-review system. And it's applied to products that often bring in no money at all, products that have exactly zero consequence. Purely for fun, occasionally used in education and in TV commercials. No government makes draconian laws or starves its people in response to these graphic products.
Meanwhile, the Crimate Industry's graphic products bring in billions in grants and create a trillion-dollar market in carbon credits. Their wildly obvious and unchecked errors, intentional and unintentional, become the policy of ALL GOVERNMENTS IN THE WORLD.
And their errors do in fact impoverish nations and kill people by the millions. And killing millions, or more precisely 6.6 billion humans, is the open and explicit purpose of environmentalists like James Hansen of NASA.
No organization or ideology has ever amassed so much power. Not Christ, not Mohammed, not Marx, not the Roman Empire, not the British Empire. Maurice Strong and his acolytes are the most powerful and most evil force in human history. ¶ 6:49 AM
Friday, January 22, 2010
Loony, loony, loony, fishy, fishy, fishy
Headline: "Oregon Plagued by Steelhead"
And why?
Because the Steelhead Trout is classified as Endangered by the government-funded terrorist organization EPA.
But wait! I thought the Endangered Species Act was supposed to recover endangered species, not kill them???? Shouldn't we be wonderfully happy that the Steelhead Trout has not only recovered but boomed????
No, we are not happy.
Why are we not happy?
Because the wonderfully numerous fish are not from the Royal Fish Family. These Common Vulgar Peasant Plebeian Steelheads, bred in Common Vulgar Peasant Hatcheries, are crowding out the Royal Aristocratic Wild Old-Growth Steelheads. Therefore we must spend tremendous resources to DESTROY the Plebeian Steelheads, who are not of Noble Blood. Only the Royal Aristocratic Wild Old-Growth Steelheads are protected.
If you can make any sense of this, you belong in an insane asylum. ¶ 11:01 AM
A thick run of early winter steelhead is returning to hatcheries on six of Oregon’s North Coast rivers through the end of January.
If anglers miss them the first time, fish managers plan to trap them, truck them downstream and “recycle” the fish for another run past anglers’ hooks.
“We have a pile of steelhead showing up in some of these rivers,” said Oregon Fish and Wildlife biologist Robert Bradley, noting that the run will be over by the end of the month.
“We really don’t want these fish spawning in the wild. We want them caught.”
And why?
Because the Steelhead Trout is classified as Endangered by the government-funded terrorist organization EPA.
But wait! I thought the Endangered Species Act was supposed to recover endangered species, not kill them???? Shouldn't we be wonderfully happy that the Steelhead Trout has not only recovered but boomed????
No, we are not happy.
Why are we not happy?
Because the wonderfully numerous fish are not from the Royal Fish Family. These Common Vulgar Peasant Plebeian Steelheads, bred in Common Vulgar Peasant Hatcheries, are crowding out the Royal Aristocratic Wild Old-Growth Steelheads. Therefore we must spend tremendous resources to DESTROY the Plebeian Steelheads, who are not of Noble Blood. Only the Royal Aristocratic Wild Old-Growth Steelheads are protected.
If you can make any sense of this, you belong in an insane asylum. ¶ 11:01 AM
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Where's the gratitude?
The partisan response to the Supreme decision kicking out much of McCain shows not just one but two of those agreed-on falsehoods.
Both "sides" agree that (Falsehood #1) corporations will now suddenly begin contributing to political candidates for the very first time in recorded history, and that (Falsehood #2) corporations are right-wing Neanderthal Nazi Fascists.
Brand-R loves the decision because their "right-wing friends" will suddenly be free to start contributing, and Brand-D hates it because their "right-wing enemies" will suddenly be free to start contributing.
How in the world can you begin to believe any of this crap?
Fact #1: 100% of our political action is already determined by big corporations. They can't gain more influence because they already have it all. Every single action taken by Clinton, Bush, and Obama is taken to please one or another set of corporations. Slightly different sets for different parties.
Fact #2: The vast majority of big companies are solid Commies. Firmly for the Carbon Cult, loudly for affirmative action, solidly pro-homosexual, loyally pro-abortion. (Smaller companies are more likely to be non-Communist or non-political.)
Well, where's the gratitude? You'd think the brand-D politicians would be ecstatic that their loudest and best supporters are now free to contribute somewhat more easily, with slightly less regulatory overhead.
As for me, I'm just grateful that the Magnum Opus of Soviet Mole McCain has been torn down. It won't matter much in the big picture, but anything that rips McCain is bound to be good for the country.
I'm also glad to see the Court agreeing with that old ancient obsolete document called the Constitution. This also doesn't matter much because we haven't been anywhere near the Constitution for a long long long time. Still, the Court's job description requires them to interpret, not rewrite... and they have now eliminated a law that obviously, transparently and brazenly violated the old dusty unused document, so they are doing their job properly for once.
Well, sort of. It still aggravates me no end that we pay and OBEY a set of 9 interpreters when only one of them (Thomas) is doing his job. Let's say you hire a set of 9 programmers. Only one of them writes code that passes through the compiler and runs every time; 4 of them write nothing but destructive viruses guaranteed to crash the system, and 4 of them occasionally write usable code. You'd keep the Thomas type who writes valid code, fire the 4 semi-competent ones, and prosecute the 4 virus-writers. ¶ 3:46 PM
Both "sides" agree that (Falsehood #1) corporations will now suddenly begin contributing to political candidates for the very first time in recorded history, and that (Falsehood #2) corporations are right-wing Neanderthal Nazi Fascists.
Brand-R loves the decision because their "right-wing friends" will suddenly be free to start contributing, and Brand-D hates it because their "right-wing enemies" will suddenly be free to start contributing.
How in the world can you begin to believe any of this crap?
Fact #1: 100% of our political action is already determined by big corporations. They can't gain more influence because they already have it all. Every single action taken by Clinton, Bush, and Obama is taken to please one or another set of corporations. Slightly different sets for different parties.
Fact #2: The vast majority of big companies are solid Commies. Firmly for the Carbon Cult, loudly for affirmative action, solidly pro-homosexual, loyally pro-abortion. (Smaller companies are more likely to be non-Communist or non-political.)
Well, where's the gratitude? You'd think the brand-D politicians would be ecstatic that their loudest and best supporters are now free to contribute somewhat more easily, with slightly less regulatory overhead.
As for me, I'm just grateful that the Magnum Opus of Soviet Mole McCain has been torn down. It won't matter much in the big picture, but anything that rips McCain is bound to be good for the country.
I'm also glad to see the Court agreeing with that old ancient obsolete document called the Constitution. This also doesn't matter much because we haven't been anywhere near the Constitution for a long long long time. Still, the Court's job description requires them to interpret, not rewrite... and they have now eliminated a law that obviously, transparently and brazenly violated the old dusty unused document, so they are doing their job properly for once.
Well, sort of. It still aggravates me no end that we pay and OBEY a set of 9 interpreters when only one of them (Thomas) is doing his job. Let's say you hire a set of 9 programmers. Only one of them writes code that passes through the compiler and runs every time; 4 of them write nothing but destructive viruses guaranteed to crash the system, and 4 of them occasionally write usable code. You'd keep the Thomas type who writes valid code, fire the 4 semi-competent ones, and prosecute the 4 virus-writers. ¶ 3:46 PM
0.1 Cheers for Volcker!
Obama has finally, a year late, proposed new rules on bankers.
From his speech, it sounds like a near-complete restoration of Glass-Steagall, which would be wonderful.
Unfortunately, this is only a suggestion of laws that could be written by the Lower and Upper Nuthouses. If Obama had been serious, he would have written an executive order.
Since this is just a proposal, we can be 100% certain that the final result will make life vastly easier for the Wall Street Mafia, while giving them even more trillions of dollars to fuck around with.
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Oops, end-of sentence preposition alert. To be understandable by conservatives, the last sentence should be recast:
Since this is just a proposal, we can be 100% certain that the final result will make life vastly easier for the Wall Street Mafia, while giving them even more trillions of dollars, around with which to fuck. ¶ 8:45 AM
From his speech, it sounds like a near-complete restoration of Glass-Steagall, which would be wonderful.
Unfortunately, this is only a suggestion of laws that could be written by the Lower and Upper Nuthouses. If Obama had been serious, he would have written an executive order.
Since this is just a proposal, we can be 100% certain that the final result will make life vastly easier for the Wall Street Mafia, while giving them even more trillions of dollars to fuck around with.
= = = = =
Oops, end-of sentence preposition alert. To be understandable by conservatives, the last sentence should be recast:
Since this is just a proposal, we can be 100% certain that the final result will make life vastly easier for the Wall Street Mafia, while giving them even more trillions of dollars, around with which to fuck. ¶ 8:45 AM
Drugging the world, breaking the circle
An article in New Superstitionist, titled "How the US exports its mental illnesses", describes the medicalization of culture but misses the main point in a typically leftist way.
Nasty stuff indeed. But this isn't really a case of imposing an American culture on the rest of the world. Focus on this: "prolonged, deep sadness was often considered to be a personal hardship that builds character." That may be a modern Jap view, but it was also the American view of melancholy before Freud took over our elite culture in the 1950's.
Thus the problem isn't shrinks and drugmakers conspiring to infect the rest of the world with an American view of mental problems.
Rather, the problem is shrinks and drugmakers conspiring to break up natural healing processes in America and in the rest of the world. Neither Americans nor Japs nor anyone else can be allowed to build character; all must pop pills.
Kirmayer's original article is interesting, objective and humble .... qualities that are rarely seen in public science writing these days. ¶ 7:51 AM
IN THIS age of globalisation, you would expect people to value and be sensitive about their local differences and diversity. And few areas could be more critical than different peoples' understanding of the human mind when it comes to mental health and illness.
Laurence Kirmayer, director of the division of social and transcultural psychiatry at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, had a front-row seat as GlaxoSmithKline launched its antidepressant Paxil in Japan in 2000. Kirmayer, an authority on the impact of cultural beliefs on mental illness, had been invited to a GSK-sponsored academic conference in Japan. It was only when he arrived that he realised the true agenda: the company wanted his knowledge to help it understand how cultural beliefs about illness can be changed.
The challenge GSK faced in the Japanese market was formidable. The nation did have a clinical diagnosis of depression - utsubyo - but it was nothing like the US version: it described an illness as devastating and as stigmatising as schizophrenia. Worse, at least for the sales prospects of antidepressants in Japan, it was rare. Most other states of melancholy were not considered illnesses in Japan. Indeed, the experience of prolonged, deep sadness was often considered to be a jibyo, a personal hardship that builds character. To make Paxil a hit, it would not be enough to corner the small market for people diagnosed with utsubyo. As Kirmayer realised, GSK intended to influence the Japanese understanding of sadness and depression at the deepest level.
"What I was witnessing was a multinational pharmaceutical corporation working hard to redefine narratives about mental health," Kirmayer said.
Nasty stuff indeed. But this isn't really a case of imposing an American culture on the rest of the world. Focus on this: "prolonged, deep sadness was often considered to be a personal hardship that builds character." That may be a modern Jap view, but it was also the American view of melancholy before Freud took over our elite culture in the 1950's.
Thus the problem isn't shrinks and drugmakers conspiring to infect the rest of the world with an American view of mental problems.
Rather, the problem is shrinks and drugmakers conspiring to break up natural healing processes in America and in the rest of the world. Neither Americans nor Japs nor anyone else can be allowed to build character; all must pop pills.
Kirmayer's original article is interesting, objective and humble .... qualities that are rarely seen in public science writing these days. ¶ 7:51 AM
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Brown echoes Medvedev
Clearly I hadn't been paying enough attention to Scott Brown... he struck me as more or less standard brand-R.
Nope, he's considerably better. Quoted by the O'Sullivan climate blog:
Pretty good. Nowhere near Inhofe's clarity and firmness, but sounds a lot like Russian pres Medvedev. ¶ 2:06 PM
Nope, he's considerably better. Quoted by the O'Sullivan climate blog:
Interviewer: Do you think that whole global warming thing is a big fraud?
Brown: It's interesting. I think the globe is always heating and cooling. It’s a natural way of ebb and flow. The thing that concerns me lately is some of the information I’ve heard about potential tampering with some of the information.
I just want to make sure if in fact . . . the earth is heating up, that we have accurate information, and it's unbiased by scientists with no agenda. Once that's done, then I think we can really move forward with a good plan.
Pretty good. Nowhere near Inhofe's clarity and firmness, but sounds a lot like Russian pres Medvedev. ¶ 2:06 PM
