Stupidest question mark in history
Headline: "Attack on West Seattle Teen a Hate Crime?"

Seattle Police are investigating to determine if an attack on a 15-year-old West Seattle boy was racially motivated.

Shane McClellan's father says his son was walking home from a friend's house Tuesday around 2 a.m. when he was approached by three black males and an Asian or Pacific lslander male.

Asking him first for a light, they then attacked him, kicking and hitting him and threatening him with a gun, said McClellan.

"They started punching, knocked him down, kicking him, robbed him of everything, stole his coat, shoved him to the ground, stuck a gun in the back of his head," described McClellan. "I can't tell you what it's like to see and not even be able to recognize your son."McClellan says they also burned the back of Shane's neck with cigarette butts before taking out a belt and making the racially-charged comments.

"When they were beating with the belt [they said] that they hated white people, and that's what the whipping was for," said McClellan.

Shane said they told him they singled him out because that was what his ancestors did to theirs.

The teen was unconscious until about 7 a.m., said McClellan, and he then stumbled into the street and was helped to a hospital by a passerby.

Seattle Police have referred the case to their Bias Crimes Unit for review as a possible hate crime.

Investigating to determine? You have to ask if this is a "hate crime"? The attackers actually stated that they were attacking the white kid because they hate white people, and you have to INVESTIGATE?????

By God, we need a revolution or a mass secession.

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After cooling down a bit: The cops do have to investigate to see if this guy's story is correct. Undoubtedly a real and brutal beating, no way it could be self-imposed (unlike 100.00% of the "hate crime" accusations on college campuses.) But it's not clear from the article if the attack was witnessed, and he could be misidentifying the attackers to avoid retribution. However: if his descriptions are anywhere near correct, then this is unquestionably a "hate crime" by every definition. If the cops refuse to prosecute this as a "hate crime" after zealously and relentlessly prosecuting every vague and false accusation of an attack by whites, then it's time for a mass secession.

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Update 6/6: The initial report was somewhat misleading. There was no chance of misidentification at the time the news report was written, because an alert cop had already caught two of the brutal attackers within an hour after the attack.

When the officer returned to the site of the assault ... he found dried blood on the guardrails, an empty Four Loko brand energy beer can and fresh Marlboro Red cigarette butts, which he took into evidence.

As he was driving back to the precinct, the policeman saw a black man and a second man who appeared to be Filipino in their early 20s walking east in the 1600 block of Southwest Holden Street.

"I immediately noticed that the energy beer that both suspects possessed was the same brand, size and flavor as the empty can I located at the scene of the assault," Blake wrote in the report.

When Blake stopped the men he saw both had dried blood on their faces and/or hands, which were swabbed for DNA samples.

The two were arrested and (of course) released so they can continue to beat whites, which is the objectively observed goal of the entire government and "legal" system in this unfortunate land.
  ¶ 7:35 AM

  Unfortunately good analogy
One of the talkers on the WSJ feature on Fox this morning asked if the BP oil spill will be like Three Mile Island: an event that causes us to abandon an entire sector of our economy. He's probably right, and the analogy is more complete, more perfect than he meant.

In both cases the real accident ruined a single energy-producing installation but didn't damage the country in any way.

TMI killed exactly nobody. And in fact exactly zero Americans have been killed by nuclear plants altogether. The BP well killed the 11 men who were working on it, but nobody else.

Most importantly, in both cases the enemy-controlled Propaganda Factories, following the commands of their Communist masters, have stirred up a completely fraudulent and completely criminal panic in order to kill a large sector of America's economy.

With TMI, the Soviets unquestionably succeeded. With the BP well, the jury is still out.

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Sidenote: When I say Soviets in the context of TMI, I'm not just being speculative or paranoid as usual. I was an anti-nuke activist in those years and I know where we got our orders.
  ¶ 11:30 AM

  Self-explanatory Specter
Wanna throw around the word unprecedented? Well, here's one genuinely, truly and absolutely unprecedented event:

Sestak refused a bribe and reported the bribe to the press.

This happens occasionally in local or corporate situations, but it's never happened before in DC. Not once.

Sestak is thus a uniquely honorable man. Despite this, some filthy Republican shitheads have been trying to paint him as the criminal. I suspect the cable "news" channels have also been spreading this attitude to protect Obama, though I've basically stopped watching them. One caller to Rush today had obviously picked up this attitude, and (rather surprisingly) Rush took him to task, correctly defining Sestak as the honest side.

When Rush manages to say something good about a Democrat, no matter how grudgingly, it's also unprecedented.

But in the bigger picture, this small incident reveals something hugely corrupt about the entire system.

Both parties have been willing to sacrifice excellent candidates, willing to lose their own reputations and constituents, in order to keep Arlen Specter's cancerous ass on their own side.

Arlen Specter's cancerous ass is infinitely attractive and infinitely desirable to both political parties. Arlen Specter's cancerous ass is infinitely more important than the American people. This tells us everything we need to know about the parties.
  ¶ 11:48 AM

  Not my dream 2
Last night's dream: I was producing the Pakistani version of the Sally Jesse Raphael show, and trying to figure out how to make an interview with a transvestite seem interesting and titillating when he/she was clad in a burqa. First problem: how do you even show that he/she is a transvestite?

Where in the world did this come from? I've never been anywhere near TV production, never acquired the thought patterns of a talk show producer, haven't even watched Sally Jesse in at least 10 years.

(In fact, none of the cable channels available here carry any shows of that genre, which I used to enjoy watching. Why is a whole category missing, when other equally trashy categories are over-represented?)

As bemoaned before: Why can't I capture this level of originality in waking hours?
  ¶ 8:51 AM

  Gilded Age 2.0
Today's headline: Ford drops Mercury. Headlines of the last few years: GM drops Pontiac, Olds, Saturn. Chrysler drops basically everything.

Notice something? The middle has dropped out. What remains? Both ends of the scale. At the top, super-aggressive pimpmobiles like Escalade and Navigator, only affordable by black drug dealers. At the bottom, Ford and Chevy for the few remaining middle-class whites. (Poor whites can't afford new cars; Jews and rich whites don't let their chauffeurs drive American cars; so those groups are out of the equation.)

Mercury provides an especially good 'gravestone' for the start and end of America, the start and end of the middle class, the start and end of the period when ordinary honest people, black or white, could live an ordinary life and buy an American car.

Born in 1939; died in 2010.


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Personal note: Though Mercurys were common for a long time, they weren't common in my part of the world. I've owned two Fords (Maverick and Fiesta); I've driven innumerable Ford cars and trucks; I've ridden many times in Lincolns; but I can't remember being inside a Mercury, let alone driving one. No friends or relatives ever owned a Merc, at least while I was around.
  ¶ 6:34 AM

  Well, Rush was right.
I've been stupidly hoping that Comrade Obama would be more pragmatic than Comrades Bush and McCain. Nope, he's the same. I hoped that his earlier opening of more offshore territory, and his earlier encouragement of nuclear power, was genuine if only strategic. Nope, he's just as wildly fanatical as Comrades Bush and McCain. They all want to shut America down, hand the remaining property to China, and give Goldman Sachs the commission on both sides of the deal.

They've been running Operation Topkill for a long time. The "news" media keep our senses plugged with an endless flood of mud, then finally the concrete comes down to stop the wellspring of America.


We need a revolution or a mass secession.
  ¶ 10:03 AM

  Seen this before somewhere......
With great fanfare, the Repooflicans have announced their "America Speaking Out" program. A helium-loafered New York boy named Kevin rolled out a new website where loyal Wall Street Mafiosi can offer up fresh new ideas, like "Eliminate taxes on Wall Street!" or "Eliminate taxes on outsourcing!" or "Provide million-dollar subsidies for day traders!" or "Eliminate burdensome regulations on importing Dubai slave boys!" or "Eliminate taxes for me and my billionaire Life Partner!"

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Polistra has seen this before ... Ah! It was here:



In 1950 Henry J. Kaiser opened up a national contest to name his new compact car. Amazingly!!!! the winning entry just happened to be the same name that Henry J. Kaiser wanted in the first place, which was "Henry J". Isn't that a weird and unearthly coincidence?
  ¶ 7:17 AM

  They forgot to fix this one
An interesting primary in Idaho's 1st cong district. We've been hearing lots of ads and news here in Spokane because local TV stations serve that part of Idaho.

Raul Labrador, a state legislator, nicely defeated an establishment type named Vaughn Ward.

With 435 of 462 precincts reporting, Labrador collected 48.1 percent of the vote compared to 38.8 percent for Ward, who described the race as "a humbling experience."

Ward was an early front-runner in the primary race, built a six-to-one fundraising edge and was designated as one of the National Republican Congressional Committee's top 23 recruits in its "Young Guns" candidate development program.

"I called Raul Labrador and congratulated him on his victory and will support him in his effort to reclaim this seat for the GOP in November," he told The Associated Press.

Palin came to Idaho on Friday to raise money for Ward and give a jolt to undecided voters in the 19 western counties that make up only one of two congressional districts in the state.

Repooflicans still haven't learned anything. They continue to pour money into the Wall Street fancypants types, who continue to lose.

Note also that Labrador, with a Spanish name and a slight Spanish accent, won nicely in allegedly racist North Idaho, while the lily-white New York boy lost.

However: In the end this primary won't matter much because incumbent Walt Minnick is doing a damn good job. Though nominally Dem, he's more pro-American than almost all Repooflicans.
  ¶ 6:38 AM

  I tried to tell my mom this....
but she didn't believe it.

News item: Playing in the dirt may make you smarter

A new study finds that naturally occurring bacteria in soil could enhance learning. And as a side benefit, it appears to be a natural anti-anxiety drug, but without the side-effects.

In studies presented Monday at the 110th general meeting of the American Society for Microbiology in San Diego, mice exposed to Mycobacterium vaccae navigated a maze twice as fast, and with less anxiety, as control mice.

In a second experiment the bacteria were removed from the diet of the experimental mice and they were retested. While the mice ran the maze slower than they did when they were ingesting the bacteria, on average they were still faster than the controls.

"The learning that occurred was profound," said Dorothy Matthews of The Sage Colleges in Troy, New York, who conducted the research with her colleague Susan Jenks.

Matthews said it's interesting to speculate that creating learning environments in schools that include time outside where M. vaccae is present may decrease anxiety and improve the ability to learn new tasks.

(Actually my parents didn't object to my playing in the dirt. They wanted to have me outside as much as possible, which was eminently sane and sensible for both kids and adults. I just felt the need for a jokey caption.)
  ¶ 1:00 PM

  And speaking of prophecy....
Old friend DCS saw this coming.

From Reuters:

North Korea announced on Tuesday it was cutting all ties with South Korea in retaliation for Seoul imposing sanctions on Pyongyang for torpedoing one of its warships.

The move is the latest in mounting tension on the peninsula following the sinking in March of the Cheonan naval vessel, killing 46 South Korean sailors.

"The Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea .... formally declares that from now on it will put into force the resolute measures to totally freeze the inter-Korean relations, totally abrogate the agreement on non-aggression between the north and the south and completely halt the inter-Korean cooperation," the North's KCNA news agency reported.

It said all relations with the South Korean government would be severed and communications between the two states would be cut.

Since the government in America has been playing on Allah's team for many years, it will never never never never assist a mainly Christian country like South Korea.

Only God can help them.



  ¶ 7:55 AM

  Random automotive observations
A set of auto trivia points. Most of these are one-year exceptions to broad rules.

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1. What was the one year when you couldn't buy an American car with a floor shift?

1953.

From the very start of the automobile, gear levers were on the floor (with the major exception of the Model T, which had no lever at all; its clutch pedal served as the low-high selector as well). Column shifts began to appear in various forms around 1932 as aftermarket remote control devices. In 1938 Olds and Buick had the column lever in modern form, and by 1941 all major cars were on the tree. Only the tiny primitive Crosley kept a floor control. When Crosley died in 1952, no floor shifts were made in America for one year. Then in '54 the Corvette brought it back; other sporty cars joined in; finally in 1960 some 'family' cars had floor shifts again. The column shift started to disappear in the '70s as three-speed manuals and big families faded out. Its original purpose was to provide more passenger space in the front seat, which was really pointless. In the '30s and '40s, the typical front seat was too narrow to hold 3 people comfortably, regardless of lever location. By the time the typical car got wide enough for 3, the typical car was automatic anyway!

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2. What was the one year when you could get an American car with a 4-speed column shift?

1963.

Column 4-speeds were common in Europe through the '50s and '60s, but for some reason American makers didn't pick up on the concept... with one very rare exception. Ford offered its British 4-speed column shift on the Falcon and the Econoline van in '63. Almost nobody bought them.

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3. The newest Ford Fiesta will get 29 MPG in town, 40 MPG highway. Various commenters are cheering this development, a plain gasoline car running in the same league as hybrids, beaten only by roller skates like the Smart.

Well, why is 40 MPG so damn special and smug-worthy? Several compacts of the 1950s and 1960s got the same mileage, with a lower initial cost and vastly lower upkeep. Such as the Crosley mentioned above, or the Renault R8 that I owned and loved.



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4. When was the first use of the term "Sport-Utility" for a car?

1948, and yes, Crosley again.

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5. Suicide doors. In this case the gap during the uniform '50s was longer than one year. From the start of automobiles until about 1940, most four-door cars had the rear doors hinged at the back. GM pulled away from the pattern in 1940 with 'metropolitan sedans', with a shorter roof and front-hinged rear doors, but other manufacturers continued the clamshell arrangement through the '40s. The last high-volume suicide sedan was the '52 Studebaker. Chrysler limos and DeSoto taxis continued using an old-style body in '53 and '54. No suiciders at all in '55 and '56. Cadillac resumed in low quantities with its peculiar Eldorado Brougham in '57 and '58, then gave up. No suiciders at all in '59 and '60. Finally in '61 the clamshell came back in two different ways: the grand Lincoln Continental and Thunderbird, and passenger vans like the Chevy Greenbrier and Ford Econoline. Now it's widespread again. Most van-type SUVs have sliding rear doors that open from the front, and plenty of club coupes and club-cab pickups have small 'auxiliary' rear doors, often without external handles.

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6. Brand hierarchy. Among the big three, GM was the champion of brand identity and hierarchy for a long time; Ford and Chrysler were slow to pick up the concept. In 1930, GM had 9 brands, Chrysler had 4, and Ford had 2. You could argue that Ford didn't even have brands as such until 1939; the Lincoln division was pretty much a way to keep Henry's son Edsel respectably busy, and wasn't a 'profit center'. But the others finally did catch up. What was the one year when Ford had more brands than GM?

1960.

Ford had 6 names and GM had 5. Ford, Edsel, Comet, Mercury, Lincoln, Continental. This is a bit tricky, because the Edsel was cancelled early in 1960 and Comet was introduced late in 1960 as a nominally separate brand. Everyone understood that Comet was Mercury's compact, but it didn't become the Mercury Comet until 1961. Also, Continental didn't deserve brand status. It was just a slight trim variation on Lincoln. Nevertheless, it was officially a marque.

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7. Brand hierarchy again. What was the one year when Chrysler had more brands than GM?

1960 again!

Chrysler had 6 names and GM had 5. Valiant, Plymouth, Dodge, DeSoto, Chrysler, Imperial. Again this is a bit tricky, because Valiant was introduced in 1960 as a nominally separate brand. Everyone understood that Valiant was Plymouth's compact, but it didn't become the Plymouth Valiant until 1961.

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8. If you count the Jeep (and its station wagon and Jeepster relatives) as a passenger car, most of the gaps disappear. In addition, the complete hiatus of auto production in WW2 disappears. With Jeep in the mix, you can say that cars, four-cylinder cars, small cars, and floor-shifted cars were all built continuously in America from 1902 to now.

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9. As shown above, the late '50s were a low point for real variety, a time when most alternatives disappeared at least temporarily. The smallest range of sizes, smallest range of engine types, smallest range of body styles. You could say that The 1956 American Car was a four-door sedan on a 116" wheelbase with a V8 of about 260 cid and an automatic transmission, and you'd be very nearly correct. Simultaneously, 1956 was the high point for styling variety. You could instantly identify every brand from every angle, in dim light at a distance, solely by its silhouette. You didn't need to see details like taillights and grilles and side trim. This had never been true before, and after 1960 it was never true again.

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10. Another single-year exception. 1928 was the ONLY model year when you COULDN'T get a clashless transmission. In the first decade many cars used planetary systems and CVT pulleys. The Great Smith had true synchromesh in 1906. The astonishing 1905 Sturtevant had full automatic. After 1905 most cars moved to three-speed unsync'd crashboxes. Only the Ford T remained clashless through 1927, when the A finally fell in line with bad fashion. In 1929 Caddy got fully sync'd, then in '30 many makers answered with freewheeling. By '35 everyone was sync'd again. So 1928 was the one-year gap between the T and the Caddy.
  ¶ 10:13 PM

  Kudos to McClatchy News
McClatchy News employs the atrocious Helen Thomas, but they sometimes manage to tell the truth while all other "news" sources are insanely fixated on a shared lunatic lie.

Today they've done a splendid job on the BP oil spill.

All other Propaganda Factories from Fox to CNN are screaming about the UNPRECEDENTED UNPRECEDENTED UNPRECEDENTED UNPRECEDENTED WORST ECOLOGICAL DISASTER IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE!!! WE WILL NEVER SURVIVE THIS UNPRECEDENTED UNPRECEDENTED APOCALYPSE!! THIS IS THE END OF THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE!!!! UNPRECEDENTED!!!!!

Amid all this shouting and spewing and shitting, McClatchy calmly drops in with this story which happens to be plain old truth:

MEXICO CITY – The Ixtoc 1 oil spill in Mexico’s shallow Campeche Sound three decades ago serves as a distant mirror to today’s BP deepwater blowout, and marine scientists are still pondering what they learned from its aftereffects.

In terms of blowouts, Ixtoc 1 was a monster – until the ongoing BP leak, the largest accidental spill in history. Some 3.3 million barrels of oil gushed over nearly 10 months, spreading an oil slick as far north as Texas.

Surprisingly, Mexican scientists say that Campeche Sound itself recovered rather quickly, and a sizable shrimp industry returned to normal within two years.

Luis A. Soto, a deep-sea biologist, had earned his doctorate from the University of Miami a year before the June 3, 1979, blowout of Ixtoc 1 in 160 feet of water in the Campeche Sound, the shallow, oil-rich continental shelf off the Yucatan Peninsula.

Soto and other Mexican marine scientists feared the worst when they examined sea life in the sound once oil workers finally capped the blowout in March 1980.

In the months after Ixtoc 1 was capped, scientists trawled the waters of the sound for signs of biological distress.

“I found shrimp with tumor formations in the tissue, and crabs without the pincers. These were very serious effects,” Soto said.

(This is the only problem with the story. Metrology again: What's the baseline? Were you counting shrimp tumors and crab malformations before the spill? If not, how do you know these are unusual?)

Another Mexican marine biologist, Leonardo Lizarraga Partida, said the evaluation team began measuring oil content in the sediment, evaluating microorganisms in the water and checking on the biomass of shrimp species.

As the studies extended into a second year, scientists noticed how fast the marine environment recovered, helped by naturally occurring microbes that feasted on the oil and degraded it.

“We were really surprised,” Lizarraga said. “After two years, the conditions were really almost normal.”

At that time surprise was justified, the word "unprecedented" was justified, because the effects of a big spill were actually unknown.

At this point we should know better, because BY GOD, WE DO KNOW BETTER. ON ALL IMPORTANT QUESTIONS, THE FUCKING EXPERIMENTS HAVE ALREADY BEEN DONE AND WE ALREADY HAVE THE FUCKING DATA, YET WE STILL COMPLETELY IGNORE AND COMPLETELY VIOLATE ALL THE KNOWN DATA AND EVIDENCE.

Orwell understood this process. It's not insanity, it's not retardation, it sort of resembles a universal Alzheimers, but even a senile patient has occasional lucid intervals. Our political and cultural machines brutally crush all lucidity.

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  ¶ 5:13 PM

  Self-explanatory picture


A young ideilast pretosting at the Creatoin Musuem in Iwoa. I'm glad his or her edacution focused solely on hating Christains. He or she claerly didn't have any time to waste on superfloououos stuff liek speling or letering.

Lawrence Krauss would be proud of him or her.

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  ¶ 6:56 AM

  Outlasted
Comrade Obama just now in his speech to West Point:

"We are the United States. We have faced down Fascism and outlasted Communism."

Notice the difference? Notice the lie? Notice the total dismissal of Kennedy, Nixon and Reagan? For Comrade Barack NMN Obama, those guys didn't do anything to face down Communism, they just sat around and "outlasted" it.

Commie bastard.
  ¶ 7:54 AM

  Kruger-Rand
Gold is in the news this week, with the transparently silly Weiner complaint about Glenn Beck advertising gold. The complaint has no legal basis, since the same gold companies advertise on nearly all radio shows, left and right.

Thinking about this, I noticed an interesting parallel. In modern times, the gold-bug types are usually Libertarians or Randians. This political correlation is fairly new, but certainly strong.

Big-L Libertarians put the power of the Contract above all. They think the world can get along without governments if we'd only respect Contracts. Regulations should be replaced by lawsuits.

Horrible vision ... the ideal Randian heaven is Somalia, where no regulations ever interfere with raw bloody force. Even if you take it less literally, we're already on the way.

Since we're talking about people named Rand (ahem) let's look at Regulation vs Contract in medical practice.

Proper regulation would kick out bad doctors without hassling the good ones. Instead, we have the random threat of lawsuits. No matter how carefully you practice, you're equally likely to get hit. Result: Massive cost imposed on the whole profession, passed on to the customer, tremendous profit to lawyers and insurers, and the bad doctors keep on killing people.

And the Rand types misunderstand gold in a similar way. They see gold as a solid natural measure of wealth, a natural contract, while "fiat money" is airy and variable, an arbitrary product of government laws and regulations. Wrong again. Gold is no more natural than paper money. When gold was the most common tender, its value was controlled by governments just as paper money is now controlled by governments. Governments could pour more coins into the system or pull them out of circulation, just as they now do with paper money. Without a government guarantee of some kind, neither material has an intrinsic value.

Our problem is not paper money; our problem is that the Federal Reserve has been taken over in the last 20 years by servants of George Soros whose job is to kill America. The Soros servants could do this with gold or silver just as easily as with paper.
  ¶ 7:04 AM

  Happy Metrology Day!
World Metrology Day was yesterday.

Metrology teaches how to use, calibrate and interpret tools and methods of measurement. There has never been a University Department Of Metrology, which explains why it's still a clean and valid discipline. Nobody has the job title of Metrologist, but most technician-level workers, especially in medical areas, do a whole lot of metrology. For instance, an audiologist has to devise methods to detect fake hearing loss.

There's only one World-Famous Metrologist: Fanny Farmer, who taught cooks the value of the Level Cup and the Level Tablespoon.

I didn't realize there was a special day for the subject, but it's always been important in my life. For most of my career I did technician-type work in acoustics and related subjects. Metrology was a central part of my work: knowing the limits of your measuring tools, finding the baseline, knowing the appropriate standards, calibrating to the standards, making the necessary adjustments to the tool or the measurements.

My long experience with calibration is why I'm so ferociously enraged at the murderous "scientists" who run the Global Warming hoax. It's a crime against Nature and a crime against Humanity, but at base it's a crime against proper measurement. These evil monsters intentionally ignore all the standards of metrology. They use 'tools' like tree rings that have no definite relationship to temperature, they ignore obvious defects in their real thermometers, they toss numbers together without regard for precision, and when that fails they simply make up numbers to "prove" their "case". They do it for money and power, and they reap the respect of the ignorant elites who call this crime "science" because it helps the elites gain money money money money MONEY and power power power power POWER.




I've always 'celebrated' metrology, or more precisely the National Bureau of Standards, on New Year's Eve. Since 1971 I've had a tradition of listening to WWV on whatever short-wave receiver was available. At first it was the majestic 8-tube Philco that Polistra is using here. That radio could pick up anything and make it sound like a concert hall. More recently it's been little battery-powered Chinese crap. Either way, as long as I can hear that special high beep at Zero Hours Zero Minutes Coordinated Universal Time, it's Happy New Year!

(Graphical note: Regular WWV listeners will understand Happystar's slo-mo 'dance moves'.)

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Next morning: By a neat coincidence, the first OTR clip on my bedtime playlist last night was a Lum & Abner episode containing a tribute to metrology. Clip is here; the cautionary tale about calibration starts about 4 minutes into the clip.

Labels: Metrology

  ¶ 7:22 PM

  Insufficient paranoia as usual
I notice the President for Life theme is coming up again. The talking point heads of the "opposition" "party" always use this against the current president. The current president is always plotting to eliminate elections and hold power forever.

The Left was afraid Reagan and Bush Senior would be Pres for Life; the Right was afraid Clinton would be Pres for Life; the Left was WILDLY afraid Bush Junior would be Pres for Life; and now the Right is afraid Obama will be P for L.

Nonsense. A proper level of paranoia gives a simpler answer:

The Party doesn't have to pull such a crude and obvious trick. All they have to do is insure that every President serves the Party. Potentially rebellious or heterodox candidates are deleted or discredited before the election. When the discrediting fails (as it did with Reagan) more extreme measures have to be taken.

The P for L theme is a nice distraction to keep the team players on both "sides" from observing the real permanent agenda, which doesn't depend on one man's power.
  ¶ 1:16 PM

  The Triliteral Omission conspiracy
Texas is completing its schoolbook requirements, most of which are pretty good. For instance, they require WW2 history to include the thousands of Krauts and Italians who were interned, as opposed to the standard propaganda that focuses entirely on the Jap internment in order to play the race card.

In plain fact we rounded up everyone who seemed likely to be spies or saboteurs, and it worked. Of course we know better now. Under Bush and Obama we round up, strap down and disarm everyone who is likely to be pro-American, and give special high-class privileges and security clearances to enemy agents. This works very well for the enemy.

But Texas surrendered on one small idiotic point:

But Democrats showed more life than they had all day when Republican David Bradley tried to refer to the first black president as Barack Hussein Obama.

"The intent behind what you're doing, I think is pretty obvious," said Republican Bob Craig, urging Bradley to withdraw the suggestion.

"Please Mr. Bradley, don't use the middle name," said Democrat Lawrence Allen. "You know it's going to have a negative connotation in the press. Yes, it's his birth name, but you know the significance it will play in the press. We don't have to deal with it."

Finally Bradley relented. "To put an end to the whining I withdraw the motion," he said.

Well, fine. But that's not enough. In the name of equal rights, we have to apply this to everyone!

Presidents of the US, in modern censored form:

George Washington
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
James Madison
James Monroe
John Adams (known as John Adams to distinguish him from John Adams)
Andrew Jackson
Martin Buren
William Harrison
John Tyler
James Polk
Zachary Taylor
Millard Fillmore
Franklin Pierce
James Buchanan
Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Johnson
Ulysses Grant (also known as U Grant)
Rutherford Hayes
James Garfield
Chester Arthur
Stephen Cleveland
Benjamin Harrison
Stephen Cleveland
William McKinley
Theodore Roosevelt
William Taft
Thomas Wilson
Warren Harding
Calvin Coolidge
Herbert Hoover
Franklin Roosevelt (also known as FR)
Harry Truman
David Eisenhower
John Kennedy (also known as JK)
Lyndon Johnson (also known as LJ)
Richard Nixon
Gerald Ford
James Carter
Ronald Reagan
George Bush (also known as GB, to distinguish him from GB)
William Clinton
George Bush (also known as GB, to distinguish him from GB)
Barack Obama (also known as BO)

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The country itself must now be renamed "United America" or UA.

And other notable names and events must also be de-middled. Osama Laden, New City, Pope XVI, Martin King, J Hoover, T Pickens, e cummings, Vincent Gogh, World One, World Two.

Web addresses will be much easier to type. www.aol.com becomes www.com, www.amazon.com becomes www.com, and so on.

Organizations must also drop their middle names. ABA, AMA, AAA, ASA, all merge into AA. NBA, NSA, NEA, NRA, all merge into NA.

Universities, always on the vanguard of censorship, must de-middle. FSU, KSU, OSU, PSU ---> FU, KU, OU, PU. The universities without middle names will be happy to take over the resources of the formerly triliteral colleges, which were generally the less progressive ones anyway.
  ¶ 5:51 AM

  Unprepared
When your beliefs are somewhat outside the chalk lines of the usual idiotic corrupt game, you've got to be ready for the arena. Rand Paul clearly didn't do his homework, didn't get advice from someone like David Horowitz. When he walked into the arena with the Gramscian vultures, they ripped his liver out.

In this specific case, the way to prepare is to arm yourself with facts. When a Commie bulldyke vulture like Blitzer or Maddow starts skrawking about civil rights, hand it a laptop with the set of facts highlighted, and ask it to read the facts out loud. Sit back with your arms crossed and give it a choice of dead air or saying the facts in its own voice. Don't say anything more, don't answer any other questions, until the bulldyke vulture reads the facts out loud. The bulldyke vulture will most likely end the interview rather than read facts, since facts are Kryptonite to Commies. This will also be a win for you.

And what facts? A history of all the specific anti-discrimination laws and what happened to each "protected class" after the law. Show that the laws have never improved the lot of the "protected class", and in most cases have made their situation worse. This was, of course, the sole intended purpose of those laws. Stalin's greatest invention.

Even better for TV, include a set of timelines showing the economic progress of blacks, women, disabled people, etc. Then ask the Commie interviewer to point out the year when the relevant law was passed. The law's passage never marks the start of progress. Sometimes it's an indistinguishable location in a smooth upward curve that began long before the law; sometimes it starts a period of decline.

It's an easy case to make on a factual basis, but you can't say it in your own voice. You have to present it as neutral facts, with an invitation to look up the sources.
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  "Hikers"
All the Propaganda Factories are hugging and weeping this morning about the three "hikers" in Persia getting a visit from their mothers.

All the Propaganda Factories believe without question the government's claim that these three "hikers" are just innocent wanderers. How dare the Persians accuse them of spying!!!!

Ratshit. Plain old common sense tells you they're spies. Ordinary wanderers couldn't get into Iraq in the first place. It's a war zone. And ordinary wanderers, after getting into a war zone for some cheerful strolling, wouldn't cross the border into another supposedly hostile country.

Persia is right.

And our government, which hired the "hikers", knows this good and goddamn well.

It's a long-standing and reciprocal international practice when spies are caught: the government that sent the spies never admits it. I'm not bothered by that. I'm angry about the total complicity of our allegedly "free" "press" in this whole campaign.

In 2002, Comrade Bush got us into Iraq and Afghanistan with a set of false arguments. The brand-D propagandists have been complaining about the Iraq falsehoods ever since, while ignoring the Afghanistan lies and generating new counter-falsehoods in the process. Now Comrade Obama is running the same sort of campaign to ensnare us into a war with Persia, and neither side complains. Partly, I suppose, because it's a direct continuation of a campaign started by Comrade Bush, so both "parties" have separate reasons to support it.
  ¶ 7:02 AM