Good riddance
News item:

NBC News’s chief medical correspondent and editor, Dr. Nancy Snyderman Thursday resigned ... six months after the public outrage that greeted her violating her quarantine order ... Snyderman on her return from Africa was asked to observe a voluntary 21-day quarantine at her New Jersey home, but after being caught buying takeout food outside her home, the state converted her voluntary quarantine to a mandatory quarantine inside her home. And as can be expected, NBC News was besieged with floods of comments and condemnation over Synderman’s violation of her quarantine order.

Snyderman is not only a satanic murderous arrogant aggressive bully, she's plain old dumb about medical matters. The former is, of course, expected; the latter is not.

Basic rule of logic: You should only judge other people's knowledge in areas you're deeply familiar with. After you observe ignorance in those specific areas, you're entitled to assume broad ignorance. I didn't have any reason to doubt Snyderman's medical knowledge until she ventured into a question of hearing. When Rush suddenly turned deaf, Snyderman declared as fact that it was a noise-related loss, common among radio announcers who always wear earphones to monitor output and receive orders from producers.

Nope. Hearing loss from chronic noise exposure happens chronically. It's insidious. Sudden and permanent hearing loss is caused either by a stroke-like event or by drugs. In Rush's case it turned out to be oxycodone.

Good riddance to Snyderman.
  ¶ 3:01 AM

  I don't get it.


I was preparing to build something in Poser. The workspace always looks like this before anything 'real' is inserted. Ground plane below, background color above.

Suddenly struck by a thought. This scene is what most people want out of life ... or what they claim to want, anyway.

Beach.

Blue above, tannish color below.

This is the goal of all life, according to everyone.

WHY? I don't get it. Can't begin to get it. There's NOTHING TO SEE. I walked on a beach once, about 25 years ago, when I was attending a conference in one of those beachy places. Difficult walking, polluted salty air, warm and wet, NOTHING TO FUCKING SEE, NOTHING TO SMELL, NOTHING TO HEAR. Tannish below, blue above, stripe of different blue between.

Sensory deprivation.

There must be something else involved in the experience, otherwise it wouldn't be so popular. But I sure as fuck can't see it.



Give me a sharp cold morning in a quiet old neighborhood full of houses. Plenty of stuff to see. Wildly different every day. Plants flowering and fading, snow melting or refreezing in intricate patterns revealing underlying heat, houses improving or deteriorating, lights in kitchens, bacon smell from kitchens, perfumy smell from bathroom exhaust vents, dark cry-of-help smell from wounded trees, dogs pooping and barking, squirrels wirewalking, cats stalking squirrels, birds dive-bombing cats, an occasional coyote or deer.

Why would you spend thousands to seek unchanging nothingness (ie death) when all of this constantly changing LIFE is available right outside your own fucking door? I don't get it.

I do get Carver:

Look about you. Take hold of the things that are here. Let them talk to you. Talk to them.


= = = = =

Later note: Figured it out. It's not just old neighborhoods, it's one specific thing. Bungalows. That's the key. When I can see true bungalows I'm contented. Living in a bungalow is ideal, but seeing them is necessary. When I lived in a place that had no bungalows in visual range, I had to drive or bike into bungalow territory every day to get a dose. My current house isn't a true bungalow ... no overhangs or porches ... but it has enough bungaloid features to be satisfactory, and there are correct bungalows on all sides.

Labels: Carver, Heimatkunde

  ¶ 3:48 AM

  Analog, if you will
BBC is interviewing some Kraut 'installation artist' who has created an organization based on his 'installations'. The project is called Dead Drops, using an old spycraft term for hidden-in-plain-sight document placements. These installations are simply USB sticks glued in various places, where anyone can plug their iPhone gadget and upload anything to the USB stick.

Interviewer said one hugely important thing to the 'artist'.

"This is sort of analog, if you will, isn't it?"

I'm pretty sure the BBC dude knows the technical meanings of analog and digital, which is why if you will. BBC creatures are evil but not uninformed. Nevertheless, the words have acquired a more philosophical meaning, creating a sharp line between two ways of living.



We understand now: Using a digital device invites Five Eyes to read your movements and gestures and thoughts. Using an analog device leaves you disconnected from Five Eyes.

Digital means you are contained within Big Transgendered Sibling. Analog means you are contained within your own body and soul.

Labels: Danbo, Language update

  ¶ 3:37 AM

  Do they really think this will work?????
Following up on earlier thoughts about the need for fake threats to run bad wars.


Latest output from the strange amateurish Lusitania-generator.

"Foreign Secretary interested in proposals to broadcast information on secret wealth of Putin's circle, as he warns Russia could be single greatest threat to Britain."

First: No reason to think this will have any effect on Russians. They know EU/US/UK is the pure absolute evil aggressor this time, and they also know that Putin is the most competent leader they've had in a lifetime. He's popular for good straightforward reasons.

Second: Even if we knew for sure that it would bother Russians, why announce the propaganda campaign in advance? Why tell everyone that THIS IS IN FACT A DUMB PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGN before you start?

= = = = =

Over the last year or so, these Lusitanians have been "rectifying" history and current events in three separate ways. First, they tried rewriting WW1 and WW2 with Russia as the aggressor instead of Germany. Second, they turned out a long series of "aggressions" by Putin in Ukraine and elsewhere. Each of these "attacks" quickly bumped into disproof or total lack of facts, and each quickly disappeared.

(Later sidenote: This is actually good. Now that people have more direct access to real information, warmongers can't get a war cranked up with just one Lusitania. It takes a dozen or more. Hard work!)

Third, a series of personal slams against Putin in Brit media, accusing him of every conceivable crime and "diagnosing" all sorts of diseases. Some of the "diagnoses" echo old-fashioned "diagnoses" of Our Official Enemy (ie hemiplegia as in Napoleon and Hitler), but so far they've missed the universal default "diagnosis". Our Official Enemy always has extreme body odor and unstoppable farts. He stinks and farts all the time. Stink stink stink. Fart fart fart. Ha ha ha. Farty Hitler. Farty Saddam. Farty Stalin. But not Farty Putin just yet, despite the obvious potential of his name. I'm sure they'll get around to it in a few days.

Big question: Do these monstrous juvenile propagandists actually think they're bothering Russians? Or are they doing it for local consumption?

Are they mindlessly locked into the Oppo-Research mode of Western politics, where you toss all sorts of nonsensical mud against The Horrible Otherpartyan without any connection to reality? If so, they're missing the boat. Oppo depends on a well-developed system of Symmetrical Scapegoating. Both parties always commit the same crimes, always maximally destructive to the nation and the world. Because the same evil actions are always "on the record" from the other party, you can always blame the other party for the resulting destruction while you safely continue to create more destruction. Your own partybots will mechanically go along with the daily switchbacks because they're phase-locked into My Party's TV Network. They never watch The Horrible Otherparty Network, so they don't know that the same accusations are being spewed by both networks with different names in the blanks.

Russia never developed Symmetrical Scapegoating. It's always been a one-party system with one-sided propaganda, which means the people have been able to calibrate their BS sensors consistently. If life is going badly, the current leader gets the blame.

So the trick isn't going to work. Why bother? I truly don't get it.

Labels: Metrology, Гром победы

  ¶ 12:33 PM

  Diluted food ---> Dilated eater?
Hypothesis after noticing yet one more product containing 80% of previous amount for the same price. Inflation by reduction.

Is this a major cause of the recent epidemic of obesity?

You get accustomed to cooking up one can and filling your belly with 10 ounces of Yummy Stuff. Your belly develops a template.

Suddenly you're only getting 8 ounces of Yummy Stuff! Negative delta! Unsatisfying! Still hungry!

What do you do? You don't open a second can and use 2 ounces from the second can to restore the template value of 10 ounces. You open and eat all of two cans. Now you're getting 16 ounces instead of 10.

A similar problem with toilet paper. As the rolls get narrower every few months, the length used per 'session' grows much faster. It's not a simple L * W = Constant. Each new width requires an essentially different pattern of folding and crumpling.
  ¶ 7:54 AM

  Not a contrast


This contrast on the BBC website slapped me in the face.

First thought: Classic example. Monstrous aristocratic superrich Applesatanfags vs normal humans. Applesatanfags can afford $10k watches, ordinary humans go without heat.

Second thought after reading the whole story: No, it's not really a classic example. This ordinary man is suffering, but he's not suffering all that much. His problem is not lack of heat, but a badly managed Housing Authority which failed to fix his central heating. He has a nice apartment and electric heaters. He should stop whining.

Similar stories pop up often. An oldster is supposedly working because SS doesn't cover expenses. On reading the whole story, turns out he could survive quite well but loves being around people, so he works as a WalMart greeter. Good for him, but we shouldn't be invited to spend our scarce sympathy on him.

The real suffering happens below the media's event horizon, happens to people who don't get interviewed. That's the real contrast. Stories the media feeds us, versus stories we never hear about until a pile of stuff gets run over.


Later: Amazingly, BBC redeemed itself with this clip on NYC homelessness, which has reached a historic maximum. Instead of interviewing the usual idiot economists, BBC let the real humans define their situation. At the end of the clip one "pile of stuff" conclusively sums up the condition of USA STRONG. Swap him with Janet Yellen and we might start to turn things around.

Labels: STRONG!

  ¶ 3:44 PM

  Borrow a cup of evil
We're accustomed to thinking that a language with missing words is missing something good.

Generally true. For instance, Inuktituktituktituk had to 'borrow' all sorts of words from English and French, for common things like chairs and tables.

Not always true. I just noticed that Portuguese had to borrow the English words 'bully' and 'bullying'.

Missing words = superior civilization.

Labels: Language update

  ¶ 8:11 AM

  Who you talkin to, Lewis?
Now that I've grown more familiar with Emerson, this feels like a good time to transcribe Schwellenbach's 1938 speech fully and exactly (except that I substituted 'nobody' for 'noone', which I can't stand.) In my previous partial transcription I wasn't sure which parts were Emerson.



Schwellenbach:

To the average American, the Nazi seizure of Austria demonstrates three things.

First, the futility of contracts or treaties with dictator nations. Nobody can deny that Friday's invasion was a direct violation of the Berchtesgaden agreement. There Hitler agreed with Schussnig on the independence of Austria. Certainly nobody can deny to an independent state the right to conduct a plebiscite on a question of fundamental policy. Yet Schussnig's announcement of a plebiscite resulted in the seizure of Austria and control by Hitler.

Second, it demonstrates that treaties signed at the point of a sword are worthless. This climaxes a series of violations of Versailles by Hitler. In no instance have the other signatories to Versailles even more than mildly protested.

Third and most important, it demonstrates the futility of war as an instrument for settling international controversies. Twenty years ago we were in the midst of a gigantic struggle to preserve democracy in the world. We gave our blood, our lives, our money and our resources. Twenty years later, we see the torch of world leadership being seized by the world's leading dictator.

We cannot deny the fact that Adolf Hitler today is Europe's leader. We tremble at what he will do next. We know what will become of religious liberty in Austria, both for the Jews and the Catholics. It just will not exist. We know what will happen to freedom of speech and of the press. They will be suppressed. Democratic processes for 7 million Austrians are extinct.

The probabilities are that he will press into Czechoslovakia, Romania, Hungary, and then on into the Ukraine.

Events are moving rapidly in Europe these days. The old Continental intrigue is too fast-moving for the average American to understand. England thought that by substituting the realistic actualities of Chamberlain for the idealism of Eden, she could stem the tide of the onslaught of the aggressive dictator. Just two weeks later she found she was too late. France has thought throughout the years that she could rely on the Steel Ring about Germany. She now faces its collapse. Even Mussolini looked with patronizing friendliness on his imitator. He now finds that the student has outgrown the master.

What does this all add up to, so far as America is concerned? Certainly disillusionment as to what can be accomplished by the instrument of war. We tried to preserve democracy in Europe once by going to war. We know now that that method does not work.

I have been saddened by the events of these last three days. So saddened that I took solace in the source from which I always find comfort when it seems that the going is too rough to withstand. I went to the essay of Emerson in which he says: "This law writes the law of cities and nations. It will not be balked of its end in the smallest iota. It is in vain to build or plot or combine against it. Things refuse to be mismanaged long. Though no checks to a new evil appear, the checks exist, and will appear. Nothing arbitrary, nothing artificial, can endure."

Of all forms of government yet conceived, democracy furnishes the most useful agencies for fighting arbitrary and artificial mismanagement.

What we must do is to protect and preserve democratic methods in America. No doubt we will be importuned again to spend our resources in a futile effort to correct conditions in Europe. The inevitable law of which Emerson speaks will take care of Europe.

What we must do is preserve Amerian democratic processes to care for our own. History shows that democracies have disappeared when they failed to care for their own. Futility has ever been the nemesis of democracies.

Never in the world's history has it been more necessary than it is necessary for democracy to work here and now. That we have an abundance of local problems, nobody can deny. Quarrels exist between labor and industry. This is the time when those quarrels should be submerged for the general good. America's position must be consolidated.

If the rest of the world wants to involve itself in a general brawl, that is its business. The successful advance of civilization depends on the maintenance of democratic institutions SOMEWHERE. That place should be here. Let us turn our hands to that task, so that no outside influences can turn us from it.

= = = = =

Ask yourself: Who is denying the right of a plebiscite? America. Who is violating treaties? America.

Schwellenbach's heartfelt plea at the end is addressed to the wrong nation now. In 2015 America is the aggressor and dictator, and Russia is the nation where democracy of some form must be preserved while America's new arbitrary and artificial Dark Age burns itself out, just as Hitler's and Stalin's separate Dark Ages burned out in the past.

Labels: Danbo, switchover, Гром победы

  ¶ 3:05 AM

  Thanks, Ralph 2
Predictably, a rally of 200 mutants turned out to defend Habitual Liar Dolezal against the latest set of claimed "threats".

The Rev. Todd Eklof of the Unitarian Universalist Church said he felt the need to organize the event to show that the Spokane community doesn’t agree with such racist behavior. He said he also wanted to comfort and support Dolezal. “The vast number of people are extremely disturbed when something like this happens,” he said. “It’s a way for the community to come together and say not here, not in our neighborhood. We can’t let this go unanswered.” Members of his church attended the rally, as did members of New Hope Baptist, St. Paul’s United Methodist, Bethany Presbyterian and All Saints Lutheran churches. The Peace and Justice Action League, the Center for Justice and many other groups were represented as well.

Drearily predictable. All the usual commie groups saying all the usual commie things. My bile started to rise yet again, and Emerson came to the rescue yet again.

As no man thoroughly understands a truth until he has first contended against it...

I've been there entirely too many times, though perhaps not in such an immediately obvious fraud. I've loudly defended people and causes that later turned out to be fake or not worth defending. Lusitanias created by government, or people who were generating sympathy for venal purposes.

Many of these fools will later become embarrassed by their enthusiasm, and will understand the truth. Some won't. Some will be as fucking obdurate as I was when young, and will require more paddlings before they catch onto reality.

Labels: Emersonian justice

  ¶ 5:27 PM

  Don't drill holes in your own shield!
Noted via RCR:

Otter Creek is implementing something radical — at least, by Church of Christ standards: Allowing musical instruments into one of its Sunday services. It's such a switch for the 1,800-member, traditionally a cappella congregation in Brentwood [Tennessee] that its leadership team spent months deciding a strategy and will take months more implementing it.

C of C has a distinct and coherent brand. It represents minimal austere Christianity, which is attractive to many people. Instrumentless singing is the most famous aspect of the brand, though it's not actually specified by scripture. Offkey a-capella signals C of C in the same way that white shirts and bicycles signal Mormonism or shrill arrogance signals Hinduism. When you see or hear the signal, you know who you're dealing with.

A theological brand is a fort. It forms a gathering place or sticking point for kindred souls. Now is NOT the time to be cutting windows in your distinct fort.

C of C is among the tiny handful of DECENTRALIZED religious groups that still have a faint 0.000000001% chance of holding off the infinite expansion of Satan. All the CENTRALIZED denominations have already surrendered. Some may idiotically believe that their surrender isn't total, but that's a delusion. Just wait a few weeks. Satan works FAST now.

  ¶ 3:34 AM

  Evil moon


NASTY-ASS full moon this week. I'd already noted its bizarre early effects. Now we have the horrible pile-of-stuff death of a worthy woman, and a wildly tragic and unnecessary suicide of a high-school kid.

I just woke from a fierce dream about fighting off three highly-detailed intruders.

This isn't a perigee moon; in fact it's the opposite. Apogee. Still, it's evil and I hope it goes away. Fast.

Later: More moon signs on this morning's walk. Dog running wildly down the middle of the street, dodging cars. Looked like he was pursued by demons. Sequelae of a HARD car crash by Driscoll Baptist ... almost IN the church. Looks like a car jumped the curb, narrowly missed the church, skidded into the parking lot, spewed hubcaps and taillights and other parts over a 100-foot radius, skidded back toward the street, knocked a streetsign into a weird Z-shape, then finally halted. Must have been a two-car collision somewhere in that mess. Makes me wonder if the crash is what triggered my intruder dream, but the distance is a little too far. Possibly this was a multi-stage crash, with the first part nearer my house. Nothing about it in Spokane-News website yet.
  ¶ 2:47 AM

  Wiggles
A couple of complementary wiggles among world leaders this week. One perfectly sane leader is showing signs of craziness on one subject, and one perfectly crazy leader is showing signs of sanity on one subject.

The former: Up till now, Erdogan of Turkey has been perfectly admirable. He's been running a real-value culture, a real-value economy, and an exemplary Zero Problems foreign policy. This week he seems to be blowing the second item. His own central bank (equiv Fed Reserve) has been letting interest rates move freely, which is the REAL VALUE way of doing things. Now Erdogan is trying to push rates toward zero (the Goldman way), shouting that anyone who wants to let rates remain natural is a traitor.

The latter: Up till now, Obama and Kerry have been perfectly insane in all aspects of foreign and domestic policy, following Bush lunacy verbatim and even expanding it in some places. This week Obama and Kerry are showing remarkable sanity on the question of Israel vs Persia. They are pulling away from the bizarre wacked-out shared lie that Israel (which has lots of nukes and a long criminal record of aggression) is the innocent victim while Persia (which has no nukes and no intention of acquiring nukes and no aggression since 700 AD) is the aggressor. Obama has been firmly resisting Netanyahu's bullying; nothing subtle or ambiguous at all. Kerry has continued negotiating with Persia, brushing Bibi away like a virulent mosquito.

Do these wiggles herald a landslide? Probably not, but the former is definitely a bad sign for Turkey and the latter is definitely a good sign for USA.

Labels: STRONG!, Turkey, Zero Problems

  ¶ 6:00 PM

  It's not just the anger
A haphazard thought....

I stopped listening to partisan political radio and all TV several years ago. For background noise while working, I listen solely to 'money-talk' radio.

The reason for this choice was simple. Partisan talk raises my blood pressure and stirs up adrenaline. Same effect from both sides. If I listen to the side that's somewhat closer to my feelings, I'll get uselessly angry because the 'good' side is missing all the important stuff, or not fighting hard enough against Those Horrible Otherpartyans. Listen to the side that's farther from my feelings, and I get directly angry at the Horrible Otherpartyans.

Anger is the sole purpose of those talkers, of course.

Money-talk is generally dull and numerical and non-partisan. Most of the talkers are on the R side but they don't spend a lot of time and energy on Today's Official Party Message. Their goal is to sell their own books and CDs, or to front for an 'adviser' service. They want to maximize the potential customers. Proper straightforward business.

I realized today that the POINTLESSNESS of political jabber is vastly more important than ANGER in this comparison.

When Rachel or Rush or Al instructs you to be ferociously angry at Those Horrible Otherpartyans because they are Otherpartyans, there is NO USEFUL OUTLET for your anger. Yeah, you can make nice decorative marks on ballots, but those marks don't move anything in the System or in your own life. Precisely zero consequence. Total waste. Or you could write sizzling letters to those Horrible Otherpartyans, which will only get you placed on the Terrorist Watchlist. Zero consequence to the System except that it's spending more money to monitor Terrorists (ie YOU), which is exactly what you didn't want.

But when Dave Ramsey or Bob Brinker or Clark Howard tells you how to get out of debt or buy I-bonds or find the best prices (respectively) ... You can actually do those things and they will actually change your life. Especially Dave's Get Out Of Debt advice. If you follow his broad precepts, your life WILL improve dramatically. Best of all, you will be in a more authoritative position versus the System. You won't have to work as hard, and you won't have to take demeaning jobs. You will have some degree of 'strike power'. There's nothing you can do in the political realm that actually increases your authority. You are not Michael Bloomberg and you are not Jamie Dimon, and there's no physical way to become Michael Bloomberg or Jamie Dimon. Those positions are filled. All other positions have zero power.

Labels: Zero Problems

  ¶ 3:13 AM

  Buried 2
Following up on the last few entries here, Polistra and Happystar decided to run their own version of the old Khrushchev vs Nixon routine.



= = = = =

Or in tabular form:

	USA STRONG	Russia
1959	American worker can buy piles of stuff.	Russian worker can't buy much.
2015	American worker is pile of stuff, ready for compaction.	Russian worker is human, ready to help other Russians.

= = = = =

Obviously this is unfair and overgeneralized in every direction, but the basic point stands.

2015 America is rigidly dependent on Government authority. If you try to help a less fortunate American, you will be run over by an army of Rights Activists aided by DOJ lawyers and SWAT teams. It's VASTLY safer to let Government authority do the helping, which means that only Favored Groups will be helped.

Labels: STRONG!, Гром победы

  ¶ 2:39 AM

  Thanks, Ralph.
Latest satanic monstrosity:

Spokane NAACP President Rachel Dolezal says she recently received 20 pages of hate mail, delivered to the organization's north Spokane PO Box with her name on it. Dolezal said she's scared but not backing down after the incident last Wednesday, where she claims she was picking up the mail like she always does, when she noticed a particularly large envelope with no return address. She'll never forget what she found inside. “I was immediately stuck by guns pointed towards me, you know the viewer, and no more hesitation in writing and also pictures of lynchings, pictures of me speaking at the Martin Luther King rally," she said.

Hmm. Dolezal. Name sounds familiar. Ah yes.

Five years ago:

= = = = =START REPRINT:

Polistra has been following the case of a racial instigator named Dolezal. Twice in recent months, Dolezal "found" (i.e. planted) nooses and graffiti around her house. Now the Commie group that employed her has fired her. Naturally enough, she's now accusing the Commie "human rights" group of racism and discrimination.

It's nice to see that even an outright Communist organization has finally grown weary of these Chatty Cathy dolls who squawk "RACIST!" every time you pull the string.

= = = = =END REPRINT.

Now the mediasatans are mindlessly echoing new accusations from the same liar whose previous lies were so obvious that even "human" "rights" groups couldn't keep her as a leader. Because she's the correct color, all crimes go down the Memory Hole.

Grrrr.....

No, wait a minute. Pause the Grrrr. Sloooow down.

Listen to Emerson. The specific stripes may follow late after the offense, but they follow because they accompany it. Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which concealed it. Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit, cannot be severed.

Okay. Now. What value is NAACP getting from a leader who is known in their own circles to be a habitual liar? They may be fooling the idiot mediasatans, but that's about all.

The parted water reunites behind your hand.


= = = = =

Three months later, June 10: Kudos to KXLY for finally doing some proper journalism and pinning down this serial faker!

A police report raises questions about reports of threatening hate mail sent to Spokane's NAACP president. Major Crimes detectives have concluded that the mail was never processed, despite showing up in the organization's post office box.

And it gets worse. Until now Dolezal has been avoiding journalistic and police scrutiny because she was a Person Of Colour, who is of course innately incapable of committing any crime by definition. But it turns out she is NOT in fact a Person Of Colour. She is a Honky Ofay who has been FAKING her Colour along with everything else. Now the cops and journalists are free to take her apart.

Labels: Emersonian justice

  ¶ 7:44 AM

  Living by math isn't ALL bad
Purely a grumpy note to myself, recorded here in the vain hope of making an impression on my stupid brain-like substance!

Why can't I remember to start a number sequence properly?

When I'm developing programs or graphic stuff, I'm careful to keep old versions. I'll generally move forward one number per day, copying the existing file to a new number and recording any substantial change in my worklog file. This always runs into two digits and rarely three digits. For instance, the 'batch converter' for recent courseware project ended up as SVG-Convert-83.py after a year of gradual improvement.

Even though I've been doing things this way for 20 fucking years, I still start with a single digit, requiring a multiple rename to keep the files properly alphabetical when I "surprisingly" hit 10. This just happened with the new converter, which is starting from a different premise aimed at becoming a full-fledged authoring system. I reached New-Pageformer-9.py and realized yet fucking again that I needed to go back and rename everything to New-Pageformer-01 etc.

Roof! Oh Roof! 0Roof!

Labels: coot-proofing, TMI

  ¶ 4:07 AM

  Meanwhile, under Atlas's boots.......
The Chosen continue to follow Alisa Rosenbaum's Atlasian guidance, counterfeiting trillions and trillions and trillions and trillions into their own pockets. No labor needed, no production needed, no resources needed. Janet prints it, we take it, that settles it.

At the other end of Atlas's new world:

Spokane Police are investigating an incident where a pedestrian was hit by a City of Spokane vehicle early Tuesday morning. Police said they received a report around 7:00 a.m. of a vehicle/pedestrian incident with injuries near the intersection of S. Geiger Blvd and S. Lewis st.

Authorities said preliminary investigation indicates a City of Spokane Wastewater Management vehicle was pulling into the area and ran over a pile of debris, blankets, clothing, cardboard, and other items near the side of the road.

Police said a female was sleeping in the pile of debris and was struck by the vehicle. The woman was transported to the hospital where she later died from her injuries. The Medical Examiner later identified her as Stephanie Meier (also known as Stephanie Bender).

Can't blame the city truck. The driver was simply following common sense. From the picture it's clear that the pile of stuff didn't look like an 'encampment' that might include a transient. It just looked like a pile of stuff.

But I can blame the national system that bloats the Chosen with infinite amounts of abstract wealth, while allowing Stephanie Meier to become a pile of stuff.

This is the result of rule by math. Living stuff and non-living stuff are identical in the minds of the Master Race. Just stuff, not part of our simulations and equations.

Labels: Blinded by Stats

  ¶ 2:24 AM

  Snowden! Don't do it that way!
Snowden reportedly wants to return to USA STRONG if he can get a guaranteed "fair trial".

Dumb. There's no such thing. He's focusing on the abstract instead of making highly specific concrete demands.

If he goes through the USA STRONG court system, he WILL be disappeared. Absolutely. Fed prisons are full of "white-collar" criminals, most of whom are either part of the Deep State or totally blackmailed by the Deep State. Super-easy to have a "heart attack" or a "previously undiagnosed congenital condition." Condolences to the survivors and all that.

In his place, I'd ask to be tried in a county court in a Western state with a basically honest government and lots of Mexican or Injun gangsters, and then held in the county jail or possibly a state reformatory. Someplace like Kansas or Wyoming or Alaska. No Feds would be allowed anywhere near the trial. Presumably he could use his tech skills to detect violations of the rule.

County judges in such states are genuinely fair, within limits of human nature, and distrust the Feds for a thousand excellent reasons.

But here's the most important part. In a county jail Snowden would have a sporting chance of protection against the Deep State. He's a prettyboy, which means his rectum would be a high-traffic zone for a little while. He'd have to tolerate that. But he's also the BEST SOURCE of criminally useful information and training who ever walked into a jail. Mexican or Injun gangsters have no loyalty to the Deep State. They would recognize and use his value and would ruthlessly protect his rectum from all comers, including Fed stingers and Fed snitches.

= = = = =

Later: Greenwald, who certainly knows, says this current story is nonsense. Snowden has always said he'd come home under the proper conditions, and no new effort is underway. Good. I'd rather see Snowden stay in a sane country on the other side of the world where his safety is assisted by plain old geography as well as the sane Russian government.
  ¶ 4:57 PM

  All is forgiven
The Weather Bureau has introduced new interactive graphs on their Local Observation page.



NEAT! PERFECT NERD TOY! I love it.

Later: Hmph. This must have been an experiment that accidentally got into the public website for a day or two. It's back to the regular static version.
  ¶ 3:58 PM

  Buried by Nabokov
Caution: The following sequence is sane and factual UP TO A POINT.

Old Nikita was right, but not necessarily the way he thought.

Russia WILL see the West buried. That's a clear and obvious fact.

But not because 1959 Russian Marxism has defeated 1959 American capitalism.

If America had kept the broad outlines of 1959 Capitalism AND 1959 Christianity, we wouldn't be anywhere near the absolute cesspit that we're in now.

As things now stand, Russia will calmly watch the West bury itself because Russia (and other major countries, now forming alliances with Russia) have moved back in the direction of NATURAL LAW, while US/UK/EU have roared away from NATURAL LAW in every aspect of culture and economics.

A major influence on our roaring was Soviet Agent Alisa Rosenbaum alias Ayn Rand. Rosenbaum was assigned to break down Ford-style capitalism that provided jobs and houses and futures for ordinary men and their wives and children; and to bring back Morgan-style capitalism that kept ordinary men debt-slaved to Morgan. This style of capitalism is guaranteed to self-destruct.

Rosenbaum was a solid and simple Darwinian. Her books are precisely and solely about short-term survival of the nastiest, with no room for self-limiting feedback to preserve the system that makes the nastiest rich and powerful. Atlas kills the Untermensch. Atlas wins. But who feeds Atlas now? Whoopsie!

I've sometimes been puzzled by Rosenbaum's alias. AYN is easy. When you look at Alisa in Cyrillic, you can see AYN. But RAND isn't visible in Rosenbaum no matter how you squint.

So... Her job was to forcibly EVOLVE Capitalism from its self-sustaining form into a self-burying form. Not Random mutation, mutation by Rand. Therefore it is Rand-om mutation after all. Instrumental singular.

This doesn't make sense even to me, and seems wildly unlikely. But it's a cute bilingual pun, the sort of thing that a writer like Nabokov or Rosenbaum might come up with.


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More serious followup here.

Labels: Natural law = Sharia law, STRONG!, Гром победы

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