God's visions As Seen On TV
There are a lot of visionaries on Youtube, especially in the realms of black Pentecostals. For instance, and for instance.

One problem with these visions and dreams: They're based on TV. They assume along with Rachel Maddow and Brian Ross that Russia is the aggressor and invader and hacker and meddler and demon.

Even Alphia Hart, who was trying hard to remove bias from 'alternate religions', had the same problem back in the '50s. Long before TV had learned how to inject toxins directly, the Deepstate trance was already unavoidable.

This visionary is an exception to the rule. Her visions are direct unmediated observations and her warnings are direct Bible with no contamination from "news". (Must admit she's also easy to watch! If God looks like that, I'll go along.)

Interpreting a vision is like any other sort of measurement. You have to know your baseline and calibrate your instruments. You have to ground your circuits firmly and null out powerline noise and buzz from the computer and so on.

Spiritual metrology.

Later observation: The rapture visionaries are notably non-racial. The playlists made by black visionaries include a lot of whites and the playlists made by whites include a lot of blacks. They're interested in the message, not the messenger. But Youtube is, as always, relentlessly and aggressively racial. When you're looking at a black face, YT "knows" you want to see black faces and "Suggests For You" other black faces with similar subjects.

Labels: Aberree, Metrology

  ¶ 9:24 AM

  Rights to duties on cakes
Headline on toxic sludge from George Will:

Baking a Cake Is Not Constitutionally Protected Speech

I don't need to read the sludge. The headline is poison enough.

I'm terminally tired of idiots missing the OBVIOUS POINT. The cake is NOT THE ISSUE. The problem would be the same for WORDS AND SYMBOLS placed on any sort of product. Words on a poster, words on a statue, decals on a car, symbols on a flag.

The problem is that the artist or craftsman is FORCED BY GOVERNMENT to EXPRESS a belief that he doesn't share. If we had a "constitution" that "protected" "speech" "and" "religion", this would be the exact HEART of the need to protect speech and religion. Since we do not have a constitution, the issue is moot, but it's still worth discussing as a sort of sci-fi fantasy.

Most modern craftsmen aren't bothered by the set of beliefs involved in these cases, but everyone has some beliefs that are abhorrent, some words and symbols that would ruin the soul if FORCIBLY expressed. (Hint to activists: Ask the usual artist to make a cake or painting that says "I love Trump". If you survive the beating, sue.)

Turning the issue from "rights" to duties: The government has a duty to STAY THE FUCK OUT of religious matters. As soon as the government REQUIRES one religion, the government then has a duty to perform ALL the functions of that one religion.

Theocracy works efficiently in a small country where everybody belongs to the same religion. In that situation the moral codes of the religion prevent crime, encourage labor and frugality, and keep families together. Government has much less work to do.

In a big country with lots of denominations, the only practical approach is to STAY THE FUCK OUT of religion. Any sort of partial theocracy generates rebellion by the victims of the theocracy, which then requires a pogrom. And that's where we are right now. Sorosian theocracy, pogrom against non-Sorosians.

Labels: From rights to duties

  ¶ 3:02 AM

  Fuck. Soros wins another one
Last year I celebrated a win for the anti-Soros forces in little Macedonia.

I haven't been paying attention to news lately because of work and sanity. According to this article, Soros came roaring in shortly after the show of independence and destroyed the country.

So it's time to change the map in the wrong direction. I've added an arrow to emphasize the otherwise invisible Macedonia.

Labels: infinite evil

  ¶ 1:03 AM

  Dreams and kinesthesia
Random thought about the senses that are actually present in a dream.

Most of my dreams include exactly five situations:

1. Working on tech stuff in a team

2. Teaching tech stuff

3. Exploring interesting buildings and towns

4. Getting lost in unfriendly buildings and towns

5. Driving.


The first four obviously require sitting, standing, walking, and operating various things like soldering irons and doors... but those motions are only present by implication. I never feel the kinesthetic details of sitting, walking, etc. The only sensory input in those dreams is visual and aural, with an occasional smell.

Driving is the only fully kinesthetic activity. All of the muscle senses of steering, shifting, clutching, and braking are present. Some shifts are easy and some bump into the synchronizer; sometimes the brakes fail and the pedal goes to the floor. It's a TOTAL experience.

This sharp distinction is even more puzzling because I haven't driven a car for 20 years. The other physical activities (sitting, standing, soldering, etc) are still part of daily or near-daily life.

Is the dream-scripter using a simulator to maintain the skill of driving? Does it know that the other skills don't need refreshing?

Labels: Asked and unanswered, skill-estate

  ¶ 12:27 AM

  Moment of clarity
All the bizarre strings of the Mueller Russiagate lunacy are finally opening up to show the single underlying fact.

Russia was actually doing something. The something was not meddling in the election because the something was aimed equally at both parties. The something was plain old-fashioned LOBBYING to get the Magnitsky Act repealed. It didn't work. Both parties rejected the lobbying.

That's all.

If listening to a lobbyist and saying NO is a crime, then all politicians are criminals all the time. The latter clause is true anyway, but not because they accept or reject lobbying. Listening to a lobbyist is a big part of the PROPER DUTY AND PURPOSE of a politician.

Oddly enough, the rejection of this particular lobby makes both parties look a little bit better than usual. Both rejected a FOREIGN request, which should ideally be the AUTOMATIC response to ALL foreign requests.

It's too bad they don't reject similar requests from Saudi and Israel, which are FAR more numerous and UNIVERSALLY accepted.

If politicians had been doing the REST of their job, the Magnitsky Act wouldn't have passed in the first place because it's prima facie unconstitutional. Bill of attainder. Since all current laws are prima facie unconstitutional in one way or another, this law isn't unusual.

So finally: Russia wanted USA STRONG to remove an illegal law. Russia lobbied both parties to get it removed. Both parties rejected the request because both parties are committed to total criminality.

Granted, Russia's reasons for the lobby were venial and personal, but that doesn't change the USA STRONG side of the equation.

Labels: STRONG!

  ¶ 4:58 PM

  How to make it happen
Mediademon ABC has actually "suspended" Brian Ross for a false story.

Unlike all other purported historic firsts, this is truly a historic first. All previous firings have been for external crap like misbehavior in the office or telling false stories outside of the "news".

Why did Ross get "suspended" for this false story, while the rest of the "news" consists of nothing but false stories?

Because this false story caused share values to drop.

Share values are the entire universe. Nothing else counts. Customers are a luxury who can be tossed out when they interfere with Share Value. Employees, products, truth, legality, all are negative externalities. If any of the NEs get in the way of Share Value, they disappear.

If sane people were smart they'd catch on. The way to move Deepstate is to couple your desired change to Share Value.

Want abortions to decrease? Find a way for each abortion to drop the Dow.

Want wars to stop? Find a way for a war to break the NASDAQ.

As it stands, abortion and wars are GOOD for Share Value, so they continue.

Labels: modest proposal

  ¶ 4:12 PM

  I guess we're lucky to have an idiot for Antichrist ....
Antichrist Bergoglio does it again.

Question from another idiot:

During the Cold War, Pope Saint John Paul II said that the world policy of nuclear deterrence was judged as morally acceptable. Last month, you said to a conference on disarmament that the very possession of nuclear arms was to be condemned. What has changed in the world that led you to make this change? What role have the episodes and the threats between President Trump and Kim Jong Un had on your decision? What would you say to politicians that do not want to renounce their nuclear arsenals nor decrease them?

Reply from idiot Antichrist:

What has changed? Irrationality has changed (has increased). The encyclical Laudato Si comes to mind, the care of the created, of creation, from the time of John Paul II to all this many years have passed. How many? Do you have the date? (82) 82, 92, 2002, 2012…34 years. In the nuclear field, in 34 years it has gone beyond, beyond, beyond, beyond, and today we are at the limit.

What does beyond, beyond, beyond, beyond mean?



IN FUCKING FACT it means that the number of nuclear weapons has DECLINED from 60,000 in 1982 down to 10,000 now. In those 34 years the total has been divided by 6.

If Antichrist thinks 10k is the LIMIT of irrationality, then Antichrist should specify how much INCREASE is necessary to restore rationality. Back to 60k? More than 60k? Up to 60 trillion?

Fucking idiot.

= = = = =

Sidenote: Look at 1960 on this graph. In 1960 another Roman idiot campaigned on the "missile gap" which he claimed was in Russia's favor. IN FUCKING FACT, USA had about 20k warheads and Russia had about 1k. The "gap" was actually in our favor by a factor of 20. Similar Roman math.

Labels: Loughnerian Logic

  ¶ 10:07 AM

  Speaking of car-planes
American Radio History has added several issues of an Australian radio mag from the 20s. The viewpoint and the schematics aren't notably different from USA in that era. Both are different from England, because English electronics was WAY ahead of the colonies in clever and elegant circuitry.

The May 24 issue has a view of the year 2000. It goes wrong in all the usual ways because the author understands technology better than human nature; but this future view blows some of the technical laws as well.



1. Underground power main: Oops.

2. (gray) "The shower is just as cold." In fact the 2000 shower is MORE likely to be cold, because individual water heaters for each faucet were much more common in 1924. Now only a few expensive "green" houses use flash heaters.

3. (red) War was declared but "Certain Rays were brought into operation" and the warring countries immediately decided to arbitrate. We've got the Certain Rays now, but we don't use them to stop wars. We use them to create wars everywhere except Saudi and Israel. Author didn't anticipate the infinite evil of USA STRONG and Soros.

4. This year's wool clip was basically zero. Author neglected Graybill's Law, which was already perfectly well known in 1924. Well-known in fucking 1200 AD, for that matter. Australia is coal for China, nothing else.

5. Concentrated nutrition in pills. Perpetual idiotic dream of techies. Now we know for sure why it's idiotic. Digestion happens when the enzymes and bacteria WORK on the food. If the nutrients aren't contained in fibers and tissues, the enzymes and bacteria don't WORK and no nutrition reaches the bloodstream.

6. (brown) The car-plane. Natch. Takes our hero from Melbourne to his workplace in London in 45 minutes. Here the author didn't even consider the laws of electronics. In his London workplace he was able to send checks electronically to the rest of the world. Why couldn't he do the same in Melbourne?

7. (blue) In his London office he sends and receives electronic checks, which are robo-signed on paper in the various destinations. This is a BACKWARDS step from 1924 telegraphic communication. You could already send and receive money by Western Union without the need of signatures. The telegram carried a question that required a verbal pass-response. Now, after losing Western Union for several decades, we've returned to Western Union with "advanced" iPhone money transfer methods.

8. Finally, he flies back to Melbourne after working a half-day in London, accomplishing all the necessary work for the week. Forgot Parkinson's Law.

Labels: Alternate universe, skill-estate

  ¶ 1:33 AM

  Happy birthday to me
I'm 68 today.

If you ever catch me saying "I'm xx years YOUNG", you have permission to shoot me.

The people who choose that idiotic phrase always say it like this



which self-defeats the intended effect.

Old is old, young is young. Both have a purpose. Our crazy theories about equality are meant to kill Nature's purposes.

Labels: Grand Blueprint

  ¶ 12:37 AM

  Why not water?
Convective thought after a somewhat weird day:

Cars were designed to look like buggies at first. There has always been a strong tendency for cars to resemble the horse itself, whether designers were trying for the effect or not. Through the '50s cars tried HARD to look like airplanes. Modern sedans look like mice.

Why not boats? A few custom 'speedsters' in the 20s were intentionally boatlike on the back, but no car has EVER tried for the complete shape of a rowboat or dory. (The Amphicar went the other way, trying to make a boat look like a car.)

Polistra is checking out the idea:



Works rather well. The result is appropriately sized and proportioned for normal driving. Even if it's not built to be amphibious, it's a pretty shape.



The wheels would be mounted on struts, with sealed electric motors in the hubs. In the water, the struts hinge up so the wheels become fenders in the nautical sense. The propeller is a similar strut plus motor, steerable when extended.

If you live in a city like Wichita or Detroit** with a recreational river and lots of ramps leading down to the river, you could use the river as a shortcut.

Why do we STILL focus so heavily on the overcrowded airspace as a supposed relief from the overcrowded land roads?

= = = = =



**Especially! Why didn't Detroiters think of this? Lots of neighborhoods have garages in front and boatramps in back.



The car execs and car designers spent a lot of time partying on boats, and several of the major designers retired early and switched to planning yachts. They were constantly ... immersed ... in aquatic thinking along with alcoholic thinking. Why did they keep trying to make non-functional car-planes instead of usable car-boats?

= = = = =

Later: Unsurprisingly a Russian inventor got there first. Similar appearance, similar idea, including the wheels on struts.

Labels: Alternate universe

  ¶ 12:06 AM

  Self-contained answerquestions
I was grumpily roaring questions like "How come it's OK for Saudi to pay billions to politicians, who then obey Saudi orders, but it's not OK for politicians to TALK to Russia, which DOESN'T give us orders? How come it's OK for the Clinton Mafia to kill witnesses but not OK for the Trump mob to breathe or live?"

Realized the answer is in the question.

It's OK for Saudi to control us and kill 3000 Americans with jetliners BECAUSE Saudi controls us and kills us with jetliners.

It's not OK for politicians to talk with Russia BECAUSE Russia DOESN'T control and meddle and hack and attack us.

It's OK for the Clinton Mafia to kill everyone who threatens it BECAUSE the Clinton Mafia kills everyone who threatens it.

It's not OK for the Trump mob to exist and breathe BECAUSE the Trump mob DOESN'T kill everyone who threatens it.

Evil wins every time. Normal behavior is suicidal.

Labels: Askedanswered

  ¶ 10:49 AM

  Time for transparency
Following from this story about the end of a previous witch hunt....


Polistra thinks we need more transparency and consistency in our witch hunts.

When witch hunt mode is OFF, ordinary actions like curing disease, or talking to members of the opposite sex, or talking to politicians in other countries, are ORDINARY.

When witch hunt mode is ON, ordinary actions like curing disease, or talking to members of the opposite sex, or talking to politicians in other countries, are DEADLY SINS.

A simple device could display the current hunt mode and avoid unpleasant surprises. Media demon studios already have this device with a different text, so they could rig up the new version for their own use, and make it available for mounting on courtrooms and police cars.

Labels: defensible spaces, modest proposal

  ¶ 2:20 AM

  Unusual choice of font
You don't see Record Gothic on billboards often.

Labels: Zero Problems

  ¶ 6:30 PM

  Pluponent guilt
ZH notes that Germany has stopped subsidizing "green" cars like Tesla.

Three thoughts.

First, this is a rare move away from bankerism and toward populism.

Second, this is an even more unusual move away from environmentalism. The subsidy was part of Merkel's super-green policy of shutting down dirty polluting energy sources like nuclear and hydropower, and switching to super-super-clean lignite coal for electricity and diesel fuel for cars. Lignite and diesel are super-super-clean and super-super-green by definition. Because why? Just because. Don't ask questions.

Third: Germany felt guilty for following the supreme environmentalist in the 1930s, so it tried to expiate its guilt by becoming EVEN MORE ENVIRONMENTALIST than the founder of environmentalism. Because why? Just because. Don't ask questions.



Graphic sidenote: When I web-searched for the lignite-burning car on the right, I found plenty of images of the Tesla S. I couldn't match the left picture because 98% of the Tesla pics show the car way out in the middle of nowhere. Vast vistas of deserts and mountains. Exactly where you DON'T want to drive an electric car. The closest match I could find was this relatively open city vista, with a building typical of the first supreme environmentalist. Brutal then, brutal now.

Electrics have always been good for in-city use. To work and back, to shopping and back, recharge overnight at home. True in 1895, still true now. No change. Why aren't they advertised in their appropriate setting?

Labels: Carbon Cult, Pluponents

  ¶ 8:42 AM

  Social club to social media
As USA STRONG businesses continue to INTENTIONALLY REJECT HALF OF THEIR CUSTOMERS, it's worth remembering a time when the trend was reversed.

All the fashionable corporations are working FEROCIOUSLY HARD to eliminate the Wrong Sort Of Customer. They make it perfectly clear who is Welcome and who Need Not Apply.

USA STRONG corporations are ABLE to do this because they are no longer capitalist. They are debtist.

Capitalism means accumulating savings and workers and buildings and skills (various forms of CAPITAL) in order to sell a product or service at a profit.

Debtism means freedom from savings and workers and buildings and skills. The corporation simply borrows money at zero interest, then moves the money around to create a bright fireworks display which induces suckers to buy stocks. As more suckers buy stocks, the corporation is able to return the zero-interest loan and borrow more money at zero interest to create more shiny flashy blinks and pops.

= = = = =

The transition from the '20s to the '30s went the other way. The '20s were a time of debtism, not quite as extreme as now. Interest wasn't quite zero and companies were still making actual products.

After the crash debtism no longer functioned. Companies couldn't make money by stock manipulation. Customers were no longer living on margin and speculation. Companies had to figure out FAST how to make a profit by selling things to people who were living on real incomes.

At GM, Cadillac sales dropped by more than half. Cadillac didn't know what to do until Nicholas Dreystadt came up with a peculiar solution. Dreystadt had started his career at a Caddy dealer in Chicago, moved up to regional sales manager, then moved up to the national offices.

He had seen something interesting in Chicago. The black upper class loved Caddies, then as now. Cadillac dealers were more interested in eliminating The Wrong Sort Of Customer than making a profit. Rich blacks had to hire white "proxy buyers" if they wanted a Caddy.

Dreystadt proposed a strange new idea to GM management: Instead of trying to run an exclusive social club, RUN A FUCKING BUSINESS. Sell Caddies to anyone who could pay for them. Product out, money in.

Management was skeptical but let him try it. It worked. Caddy sales jumped back up and stayed up.

Was the black upper class large enough** to save Caddy? Of course. There has always been a black upper class, and it was strong in the 30s. I could see it in the 1940 census. Here's a discussion among historian types.

Was the black upper class larger then than now as a proportion of all blacks? I can't prove it numerically, but I suspect the answer is yes. Integration and globalism have made it far more difficult for a black entrepreneur to move up in the world.

** Bear in mind that we're talking about considerably smaller numbers than current Caddy sales. Adding black customers doubled sales from 10k to 20k.

Labels: skill-estate

  ¶ 8:36 AM

  Adding Spain to the non-Soros map
I'm going to add Spain to the countries that are moving AGAINST Soros. This is emotionally difficult since CataLUnya appears to be the "free spirit", but a closer look at the driving force behind independence shows lots of Sorosian fingerprints.

Spain responded harshly and self-destructively to the independence movement. Should have followed the Brexit model: remain calm and quiet, let the tantrum burn itself out. Despite the stupidity, the Spanish government is MORE independent from EU and Soros than the CataLUnyan movement.

Evidence:

Spain’s National Court has ruled that the Family Planning Federation (FPF), a subsidiary of Planned Parenthood International, can no longer be designated as a “public-service organization” in Spain. Under Spanish law, an organization qualified as a public-service organization receives numerous tax, economic, administrative and legal benefits.

Again this is tricky and marginal, but I'm scratching around to find some positive stuff. There hasn't been a new and definite move away from Soros in many months. Heroic Hungary continues to work powerfully and militantly. USA STRONG continues to break through all previously imagined boundaries of evil and wickedness.

= = = = =

Later: this turned out to be not just marginal but DIAMETRICALLY WRONG. The move against PP was a leftover. Spain has become the main Euro power center for Soros.

Labels: #DeplorableLivesMatter, Sorosia

  ¶ 1:04 AM

  Borodin puppets and plates
Trying to stand WAY back from the details of "news".

We have two competing witch-hunts underway.

The RUSSIAN_HACKING hunt started a year ago and spawned dozens of long-running "investigations", which continue to lead nowhere. Flynn and Manafort may be indicted for the usual nonsense about "lying to FBI", which means that FBI thinks they're white Christians.

The sexual harassment hunt started a month ago, and continues to bring down important media demons. We still don't know why the blackmail, which had been perfectly effective for DECADES, suddenly popped. We just hear names and names and names.

Whenever you see a loud flashy puppet show with no apparent purpose, you can be sure something meaningful and purposeful is happening behind the stage. Major tectonic plates are grinding and shifting. This is the American version of the old Soviet Borodin effect.

Are these two shows related? Or do they hide distinct and separate private quakes?

= = = = =

Back in '47, Ripley told how the Lancashire witch hunts of the 1600s ended. I can't find an online reference to the names given in Ripley's story, so I'll just summarize. True or not, it's an excellent fable.

An unlicensed healer named Margaret Saunders had been curing people for many years. She used a talisman containing mysterious letters, and chanted mysterious words while invoking the gods of healing. One day she failed to cure a baby of the ague, as happens sometimes with any licensed or unlicensed doctor. The dead baby's father cried Witch! and brought Saunders to trial.

The persecutor tried repeatedly to force Margaret to admit that the talisman came from Satan. She refused but wouldn't say how or where she got it. After the jury condemned her to death for witchcraft, the judge decided to interrogate Saunders because her story seemed familiar. It turned out that the judge and Saunders had met 30 years earlier, when Saunders was the daughter of an innkeeper and the judge was a young law student. Saunders had a baby who was ill. The law student couldn't pay his lodging bill. He wrote some random Greek letters on a piece of parchment and persuaded Margaret that it was a magic talisman with curative powers. She used it and her baby got well. The lodging bill was forgiven.

After that, she found that she could cure other kids with the talisman.

When the judge told the full story in court, Saunders was freed and the hunting fever was cured.

Broad moral: in natural processes like healing, "facts" and "evidence" are secondary. Trust and confidence are primary. Saunders was able to cure because she had faith in the talisman that had worked for her, even though the talisman was created as a cynical and arrogant fraud. Her faith induced a corresponding field of faith in the people who trusted her.

Specific moral: We can map this story onto the RUSSIAN_MEDDLING hunt nicely. Satan maps to Russia, the talisman maps to the DNC emails, and the witch is Assange. The witch refuses to say where he got the talisman, so the persecutors are free to claim the talisman is from RUSSIAN_INTERFERENCE. If the witch could admit that the talisman came from a cynical and venial human source (I still think it was Podesta himself) the fever would break.
  ¶ 4:51 AM

  O'Keefe = Shannon
O'Keefe does it again.

His purpose is simple, and the inside interviews are ACTUAL NEWS and ACTUAL INFORMATION.

News means something new. Information, both commonly and Shannonly, means data that you didn't already have in your memory, or data that you couldn't derive from experience. Surprising data.

O'Keefe is showing us repeatedly and consistently that the media demons KNOW GOOD AND GODDAMN WELL they're committing crimes. The insiders repeatedly and consistently tell his undercovers that the Russia story is nonsense, even while the SAME insiders keep "following" the story and "breaking" new "developments" every day.

This is information. Before O'Keefe, outsiders had to conclude that media demons were caught up in Groupthink or Mob Mentality, running with a story that they BELIEVED to be true.

Now we know they're premeditated genocidists. They KNOW the story is ratshit, and they are SOLELY running it to destroy a political opponent.

Even their partisanship has no ideology or principle. Trump has been Hillary since shortly after the election. He has been doing everything the monsters want. If they were actually working for a political party with an AGENDA, they would reward Trump for being Hillary. Instead, they punish him harder and harder for being THE WRONG PERSON.

Plain bigotry. Nothing more, nothing less, nothing else. Their real target is not Trump, it's the people who followed Trump. This is NOT surprising news. All media demons, whether "right" or "left", have been serving globalism since 1946. They have been exterminating every hint of opposition to globalism whether it comes with a "right" or "left" flavor.

Labels: #DeplorableLivesMatter, infinite evil

  ¶ 2:01 AM

  Monetize = civilize 4 (and se-lu 17)
Let's try to turn "rights" into DUTIES on another issue.

The army had not allowed "trans things" until Obama ordered the army to allow "trans things."

Three years later, Trump attempted to restore the status quo, which had been in place for 230 years with no complaints.

The black-robed demons illegally deleted Trump's order because he "violated" the "rights" of the "trans things".

= = = = =

This hyperlunacy runs contrary to all written laws and logic, and along with all other "rights" decisions, runs contrary to the basic laws of biology and physics. It's hard to imagine a more comprehensive form of lunacy and ruination.

1. "Trans things" do not exist. There is no "trans" gender. The people who are currently described as "trans" are impersonators who like to appear as the opposite sex.

2. Therefore you can't order an army to include or exclude this "gender" because it does not exist.

3. Even if the "trans" gender did exist, nobody has a "right" to be in the army. When conscription was used, most men were required to be in the army. Now that the army is voluntary, the army should be allowed to make its own decisions and selections.

4. All "rights", after they are "created" by a black-robed demon, exist since the start of the universe. Trump's order violated a PERMANENT "right" which has always existed. So the black-robed demons should have been enforcing this "right" every year since 1787. They did not recognize the "right" until Obama wrote an executive order, which isn't even the standard method of "creating" a "right".

5. If the former president was legally permitted to write an executive order admitting the trans things into the Army, then the latter president MUST be legally permitted to write an executive order restoring the previous condition, which the black-robes had never complained about until Obama wrote his order.

= = = = =

Now turn it around. Se-lu. Follow Nature, work with DUTIES instead of "rights". In this case loosening the ropes of thought leads me to a surprise....

1. The DUTY or purpose of an army is twofold. Like other defending animals and plants, it should always create an impressive and threatening display of potential force. If the display is convincing enough, attackers will stay away. When an attacker fails to observe the threat, or the threat wasn't strong enough, the army then needs to break and kill the attacker.

2. To fulfill this DUTY, an army needs a wide variety of weapons and a wide variety of human talents. For the break and kill side, it needs guns and bombs and ferocious Alpha males. For the display and threat side, it needs people who know how to create a convincing facade. And who's that? Yup. Trannies.

3. This is all perfectly simple and logical when expressed in terms of PURPOSE and DUTY. Nature tells us what to do. We know it works in Nature, and we know from long experience that it works in human armies. Smart generals and kings have always understood the need for disguise and deception, and have hired unlikely people (magicians and actors) to create the deceptions.

Labels: From rights to duties, se-lu

  ¶ 12:15 PM

  Monetize = civilize 3 (and se-lu 16)
The alien monsterblobs which dysrule the fucked former city of Spokane have accidentally done something that makes sense. It won't make a big difference, but it's a good move smartly implemented.

They passed a "Ban the box" ordinance, forbidding local employers from using a check-box question about criminal records as first-stage screening. Employers can ask the question, and consider its answer, during an interview.

Won't make much difference because Federal requirements remain in place for higher-level jobs. Employers who don't have to deal with Federal requirements (eg landscapers and small construction firms) are already loose about this question.

= = = = =

Well, let's stand back and look at the entire question from the opposite angle, using DUTIES instead of "rights". I can speak from personal experience here, which means that I understand the issue AND I'm likely to be biased.

= = =

The current setup using "rights":

Committing a crime is defined as "violating" someone else's "rights". "Rights" are arbitrary entities that appear magically when the screeches and grawks inside a black-robed demon's head instruct the black-robed demon to "create" a "right". After the "right" is "created", it has existed for all time. It was "given by God" at the start of the universe, and it was injected into your body as soon as you became a "person", which means several days after birth according to the "rights" defined by Harry Blackmun's demonic screeches and grawks.

After you commit a crime you are placed in an oven for a specified amount of time to bake and harden your criminality. When the timer dings you are pulled out of the oven, but you have lost some of your own "rights". In practice this means that you can't get certain kinds of jobs. There isn't a "right" to have certain kinds of jobs, but logic doesn't apply to "rights".

Despite the lunatic theory, the practical application works fairly well. A long criminal record indicates a permanent preference for doing things the criminal way. Employers don't want to hire people who are likely to steal money from the firm, or likely to use the job as a platform for crimes not authorized by the firm.

This doesn't work at all for one-time lawbreakers who violated a law in a futile attempt to gain status. Captivity trains them toward criminal culture, and the job limitation prevents them from regaining their dignity and utility through Makeforce.

= = = = =

Now the other way, duties instead of "rights". This is unfamiliar territory within modern thought patterns, so I'll try to loosen the ropes. Probably won't succeed. Here goes anyway.

= = =

Start with the PURPOSE AND DUTY of all living things.

Life is order and value.

Because we have life, we have a GOD-ASSIGNED DUTY to make more life and more order and more value. (Within the limits of our abilities and situations.) We have a complementary duty to avoid killing other life and creating disorder. (Again within limits; sometimes you have to kill or break in self-defense or family-defense.)

When we have broken or killed unnecessarily, Nature demands compensation. Nature is a diff amp or a balancing scale. Sometimes Nature does the compensating directly. When she fails, civilization must restore the null state.

For a breakage (ie theft or destruction) the obvious counter-duty is to restore order. Pay back the theft plus a carrying charge or friction charge. Repair the damage. Old English law strongly favored compensation over captivity. Null the imbalance and get on with life. You can't pay or repair when you're in jail.

For an unnecessary killing or injury, old laws applied compensation directly and literally and quickly. Slap for slap, punch for punch, eye for eye, limb for limb, life for life. It works.

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Now to the personal. In 1969 I was jailed for owning a small quantity of a plant that the government didn't like. Because I owned a disliked plant, my "rights" were "removed" and then partly "restored".

How does owning an unfashionable plant violate anyone else's "rights"? How does it violate the DUTY of life?

Simple answer. It doesn't.

You could argue that heavy use of this particular plant makes you overly calm and less willing to work, but the same argument applies to many fashionable products like alcohol. The same argument applies to some attitudes and thoughts and belief systems, which were formerly hard to define as "possession". Recent developments in AI and "smart houses" (snitchbots) are quickly bringing thoughts and attitudes into the realm of prosecutable "possession" and "sale".

Even though this type of crime makes no sense by EITHER standard, we constantly imprison people for owning an unfashionable product or an unfashionable attitude.

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How would you untie this tangled mess?

Perhaps by assigning civilization a DUTY toward low-status and unfashionable people.

When experience teaches you that proper non-criminal work gets you nowhere, you consider improper and criminal work. Often you get more status that way. I did.

If civilization takes pains to OPEN THE PATH toward desirable and productive work, and provides STATUS in return for desirable and productive work, the unfashionable youngster will quickly gain the pride and confidence and GOD-GIVEN JOY that necessarily arise from doing his GOD-ASSIGNED DUTY.

Labels: Emersonian justice, From rights to duties, Make or break, se-lu

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