Why we can't have nice things

Ah, but some folks can. Or is it folx?

About Lying

4/20/24:



I wanted to put in this Braveheart video about deception in the context of betrayal and current events, but couldn't find the post I was looking for. So, I'll use this one.

The point to make is that nobody should be surprised at what happened on the foreign aid vote. This is what you can expect from these people.

In the Braveheart video, Robert the Bruce's father said "you let yourself be deceived". That's right. You cannot be lied to without your own permission. This doesn't excuse the betrayal, it only informs a person of a corrective that needs to be applied.











end update of 1/3/22 post

There was something on Ace of Spades HQ about some folks on CNN discussing the dishonesty in media. It was somehow connected to Brian Stelter, and of course, it drew some crticism at Ace.

Now I've heard a few things about Stelter, but since I don't watch TV, I don't know if I could honestly say that he's a liar. Generally speaking, though, after watching the media for years, I'd say on the whole that the media is dishonest.

It is a bit laughable for these people to claim to be objective and honest. If that claim is going to be made, then that alone is dishonest.

Anybody can have an opinion. You could go on TV all day long expressing your opinion, and I wouldn't care. But call it objective news is just plain dishonest. To turn around and claim that it isn't dishonest is just plain laughable.

You probably wouldn't get a peep from the conservative side if these people would just be honest about their opinions. It would be a good bet that 90% of those in media vote for Democrats. Ask them about it, and they'll hem and haw and say it is none of your business.

If people knew where you were coming from they might not be swayed as much as someone who claims that their reporting is straight down the line objective. There is the gullibility factor, and a factor that involves laziness. There are plenty of ways to inform yourself. It just so happens that to go on a place that is always trying to pull the wool over your eyes is not such a good choice to get information. I never watch CNN, but I've watched network news. I don't think they are objective. It seems more likely than not that CNN is no better than network news ( over the air), and might be worse. Stelter could be trying to pull the wool over people's eyes.

Stelter can have his opinions all day long, but his show is called "Reliable Sources". This may not be accurate. Just sayin'.

Suddenly the blues appear

There's a saying about "fighting the last war". That's what the "conservatives" may be doing. If you don't know the enemy, your chances are 50-50. If you don't know yourselves, nor your enemy, you will lose. I've got a bad feeling about things. But nobody pays attention here. Except maybe the enemies.

What a "nincowpoop"

I'd rather have the real cows, than have the fake meat.







The trouble with Bill Gates is that outside of his speciality area, which is programming computers, he's a freaking idget.

Limbaugh had his truths, so do I

If we are to go postmodern, then make the most of it! But I jest.

I don't know Limbaugh's List of Undeniable Truths. I just remember the name of his list. I thought up a few undeniable things of my own. I called them "truths" as a joke. For all I know, I'm just repeating his stuff. With not the intention, mind you. I'm no Joe Bribem and plagiarize em.

Here's one I was thinking of this morning. Everything that the liberals say is 180 degrees out of phase. If they say they want Democracy, then they don't. If they say they want Freedom, they don't. If they say that they want Rule of Law, they don't. If they say that they want sustainabililty, then they don't. If they say they want Peace, then they don't. Whatever they say is inverted.

An argument out there? Let's take "sustainability". What exactly do the Libs want to "sustain"? They sustain NOTHING. Not even the "environment", which they claim to love so much. The former Soviet Union was terrible at managing the environment. The Chi-coms are terrible about the environment. But the libs love them so. How then can they be for the environment?

The same argument can be applied across the board. The libs lie. Constantly and relentlessly. You cannot believe a word they say.

As for the environment that they say they love so much, how many of these liberal loonie leftists women can survive in the wild? I'd say that the worst of them, this NPR broad, could not survive 30 minutes in the wild.

She loves POC? I bet she lives in an all white gated community, like so many other libs.

The main thing to know about libs is that they are full of sheet, main. But you all know that. I'm not telling you anything new.

Something different? Nah!

Methinks I want something different today.



But instead of getting something different ( Helmholz Watson was looking for that in this quote video unquote of Brave New World), I find this:







What the f**k? I'm out of time now. Cya in awhile.

Brave New World: John Savage's riot over soma distribution

4/19/24:



It really is turning into a "Brave New World". Check out the video at 7:43, with the discussion between John and Mustafa Mond. This is the key to the whole story. John wishes to be free, but the "civilized" world has taken it all away from him.



end update of 8/4/23 post:

Brave New World that has such people in it.

This Caused Dr. Jordan Peterson to Change His Political Thinking

Contrast this with the view of Bongino's ( or my impression of it). Peterson says to "articulate" and Bongino says "cutesy" time is over.

What do I say? It isn't printable. Closer to Bongino than to Peterson.

Paul Sperry of Real Clear Investigation reports

Bongino recommends this article to read.



It's about the alleged whistleblower in the first Trump impeachment.



Testimony could be compelled from him from his apparent connection to certain events discussed in the article. His whistleblower protections may not suffice to shield him from scrutiny. Provided that he is indeed the whistleblower.

There..Are...Four...Lights!

4.19.24:

Now more than ever.



Originally posted 9.15.15,

reposted 11.19.17

The folks who believe in the Gramscian Theory believe that the media can make you see five lights ( which is false) and not say that there are only four lights ( which is the truth ).

The previous post made this post necessary yet for the fifth time.
You don't have to go along with what somebody in power tells you to be true when your own mind tells you what the truth really is.

Got that?????????????????????????????????????????????????


The fact that the left has captured all the high grounds of our society does not explain why Trump won.  Nor does it explain why Moore can win.

The truth can win, but only when the people insist upon it.



The original post follows:



Something's wrong with the video player, so I'm reposting this for the fourth time, but as a new post.

The internet service was unavailable for awhile as well.  No, I'm not claiming anything is happening as a punishment.

The term "Cultural Marxism" is now an antisemitic conspiracy theory

Thus sayest the cultural marxists.

Wikipedia used to have a detailed entry on the concept of Cultural Marxism.

Soon after Katherine Maher became CEO of Wikipedia, the page got deleted and is now called "far-right conspiracy theory". pic.twitter.com/5VusavrZ9i

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) April 18, 2024

History of humanity in a video generated with AI

I don't get it.

History of humanity in a video generated with AI. pic.twitter.com/dfHqeioV8W

— The Best (@ThebestFigen) April 18, 2024

Where's the outrage?

Sen Hawley seems to excuse the public, but really. How hard is it to find out the truth, if that is what you care about? You have NPR CEO calling truth a distraction. It's postmodernism in action, I'd say. So many "truths", it's hard to keep up with them all. Let's just call it what it really is--lying.

The liars are not held accountable. A large segment of people just don't care. Frankly, I don't see how this administration has made it this far. But there it is.

Here’s the truth. Mayorkas illegally paroled Laken Riley’s killer into the US. He had a criminal record. He then committed a crime against a child in New York. No prosecution. In fact, HE GOT A WORK PERMIT. And then he killed Laken. Mayorkas knew *all* this. He lied about it pic.twitter.com/hA6qXhI1JO

— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) April 18, 2024

Wages not keeping up with inflation

In any normal election cycle, Joe Biden would at least be getting a primary challenge. That's why LBJ dropped out in 1968--ostensibly because of opposition to the Vietnam War. There's no accountability--neither political, nor otherwise, especially on the Democrat side. Even more amazing that a whole lot of people just don't care.

Usual (median) weekly earnings adjusted for inflation at end of Q1 are down 2.9% from end of '20; the 19.1% increase in prices over that time has outpaced wage growth so that real median earnings have never returned to where they were at start of '21 and are now falling again: pic.twitter.com/jCjUV0gzAn

— E.J. Antoni, Ph.D. (@RealEJAntoni) April 18, 2024

Rage Against the Machine

Early nineties stuff here. I came to this song by remembering the phrase "Rage against the Machine". A google search discovers this band, and a search on ScrewYouTube finds this song.



So, what do I say about it now?



Contrast that against the last post. It is not that far away in time. It's what was happening in the underground back then, and what is happening NOW. Just speaking for myself, here. I never heard this before this morning. I was completely somewhere else while this scene was out there. Now the rage is out there in the main culture. It's a war. Always has been. When Pat Buchanan said the phrase "Culture War" at the 1992 GOP convention at the Astrodome, people pooh-poohed it. This sounds pretty real to me.

Goodness sakes

ach du lieber, but I'm not sure that it would be proper use. The song below, from a popular 80's sitcom, was actually a number one hit in Germany.

The song does have a certain charm.

You may not be interested in Skynet, but Skynet is interested in you

Rob Braxman calls it Skynet. It is getting harder to escape the all seeing eyes and ears of the surveillance network. And it will be powered by AI. Isn't that nice? /sarc

What the hell is wrong with people???

Politics Schmolitics 4-17-24

I refuse to be a cheerleader. He is still there. So are the rest of the chumps.

Wishful thinking, or is it real?

Colonization of Ceres

4/17/24:

News about Ceres from Behind the Black blog.

Comment upon the original post down below:

This one didn't have a speculation alert. What I wrote may not have been accurate. I don't seem to mind popping off from time to time. Thus, the need for a speculation alert.

It's pretty dated, in the sense that I don't know how much research I did in creating it. Nor did I include any information that would support that speculation, in some way.

What does it all mean? Without going back and re-inventing the wheel, I'm pretty much screwed with posts like this. It may have had merit, but without the means by which to evaluate it, it's hard to tell. Looks like I'm just popping off.

It's nothing but sloppiness. Drat it. I think the blog link above is probably a better source than this blog. It mentions lots of water of Ceres. There may be plenty of resources on Ceres. The problem is how to get there.

Update a little while later (after 9:56 am) : I clicked through all the links, and one of the links clicked from Behind the Black is no longer there. That's also a hazard on the web. Stuff has a way of disappearing. Why would that be??? Hint: The internet definitely has a dark side.

10:50 am

This link still works. It links to a video by Jeff Greason, which I believe to be important enough to keep fresh. The link still works, and the ideas are still valid. Perhaps even more valid today than ever.

Just one thing to say here: it's that you must stick to a strategy. If you give up too easily, you cannot succeed. If a tactic isn't feasible, then change tactics. But if the strategy is sound, then don't drop it because a tactic failed. Greason was at XCOR. By his own words, he meant to get to orbit cheaply as a tactic, not as a settlement strategy. XCOR was making a space plane. XCOR went bankrupt. This doesn't negate his good words on settlement strategy. "Island hopping" was his recommended settlement strategy. Making a space plane was a tactic to get to orbit. Not the same thing.

Greason is still working on tactics. I suppose there's a reason for that, but the island hopping strategy is sound. But that's my opinion.



2/6/14:

After looking at the previous post and the chart, it would seem to be a very great challenge.  There would be little room for cargo for a direct trip from Earth.  The only configuration that give a reasonable cargo capacity would be a nuclear thermal rocket.  Even then, there would have to be refueling capability on the planetoid that would allow a trip back to Earth.

A bigger rocket would help, but even a fully tricked out SLS with 260k pounds of heavy lift would only be able to put 100k lbs in orbit around Ceres.  That 100k lbs would have to include the nuclear core and rocket casing itself.  It would have to include a lander.

If you included the entire structure as just one piece, it would have to be about the size of an SIVB rocket stage that went to the moon during Apollo.

Life support would be an issue.  Total trip time is about 16 months.  You'd have to feed a crew and keep them alive for that long with only that much mass to work with.  Without total recycling, it would seem to be a stretch.

Ceres will have to wait.

Even Mars is a stretch at this time and for a long time to come.

The Karen society

The Kill Switch, if you misbehave.

Even your car.

History of the Earth, one second at a time...

...with each second covering about 1 million years of history.

Doing the math, one hour equals 3600 seconds. Multiply that by a million, and get 3.6 billion years. You need about 900 million more years, and that equals 900 seconds of the video.

It makes a boring as hell video. That's because nothing seems to be changing. But it is changing, albeit at a very, very slow rate.

The point of the exercise is to show that our presence upon the Earth is very very recent, and very very short.

How someone may make of this depends upon who you are, I suppose. Most folks won't stick around for long.

I did, because I have lots of time. Plus I am curious enough about it so that I can critique it a bit. It may need some refinements. It is an impossibly complex job as is, so the idea of critiquing may seem unfair and too demanding.

But I'd like to know certain things that aren't being emphatic enough in the narration. One thing to know is the composition of the atmosphere over time. The narrator does do some of this, but it could be more detailed, in my opinion.

Not to be too critical though. Here it is, just in case you have the time and the patience.

Incidentally, the second time thru this video, and I discovered a way to read along with wikpedia. Pause the video, and put the name of the period in the google search box. Wikipedia may be at the top of web pages. You can click on the Wikipedia pages to read along while the video plays.

My Country 'Tis of Thee

Daily update



Scarborough has a melt down.



You can fact check that rant out the wazoo. Shooting fish in a barrel. That'd be my assessment even before starting. His is not a serious argument.



I'm pretty sure his claims are way, way off. At the moment, I'm using my Android looking at his nonsense and wondering who would fall for this nonsense. He was allowed to filibuster for awhile as nobody challenged anything he said.

End daily update





In the old days, in the early sixties when the Cold War raged, the school children would be taught this song. I know, because I was a child back then. In addition, the school children recited the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag, and the Lord's Prayer.



These days are different.



Not intending to inspire hatred here. Just stating the facts.



Here's another fact. In those days, the country really was united. Today, the country is divided. Perhaps there is an explanation for this state of affairs?



I've read on the nets that children are being taught to be "triggered" over this or that. It seems that the flag was one of those things that seem to trigger some. Again, this is not to inspire hatred. It is just a statement of fact.



The current President of the United States has deigned to make those who are shouting "Death to America!" on our own shores, a protected class. Once again, this is not to inspire hatred. It is just a statement of fact.



And we are divided. Perhaps there is a reason why this is so. Just asking the question.

He ate 50 eggs

In the movie, that is. Not recommended to try this at home.

Watch that sped up video of bridge collision--what's the odds of an innocent explanation?

4/16/24:





FIB will launch an investigation


The ship struck the bridge in a manner in which the force would do the most damage, in my opinion. This is why I am suspicious. It couldn't have been random. The odds are against that happening.

The FIB has not distinguished itself in recent years. This may be considered snark, but it is a reasonable suspicion given their track record. No investigation will be allowed that will show the government in a bad light. It will be politically motivated. Consequently, it cannot be trusted to be accurate nor complete. It will be a white wash.






end update of the post of 3/27/24:



This reminds me of 2001, prior to the 9-11 attack. Two separate occasions when the 610 bridge over Houston Ship Channel was hit. Didn't happen before, and hasn't happened since ( to my knowledge).



I'd say definitely lower than 50-50 probably of an innocent explanation for this. The odds of it randomly turning that way right into the path of a collision? Nah!

LOGAN: Bridge Collapse Was An “Absolutely Brilliant Strategic Attack” https://t.co/E3o97Par7v #Push via @DailyNoahNews Comment: Sped up video looks suspicious to me.

— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) March 27, 2024

Why should anyone care what this dude says?

Maybe it is the plain hatefulness of these people that gets them the attention they seek ( Cheney and this guy). Should they be ignored? I wonder sometimes why anyone ( including me) even bothers to post this stuff.



People like this are just hateful. What else can you say?



The idea must be to get you to hate them, and then say you are the one to blame for the hate that they seek to arouse.



It is as if he says "please hate me". If you do, then he says you are a bad person for doing so.



If such were the case, he would be an object of pity. But it is hard to feel sorry for him. He is like a fire ant. Nasty little creatures. By the way, PETA wanted to arouse indignation for advertisements for killing fire ants. Imagine that. Sympathy should not be wasted on fire ants. He isn't significant enough to fear or dread, either. He is pitiful, but not sympathetic.



Better example in this video:

Adam Kinzinger Posts 'Emergency Video' Blaming Trump for Iran and LOL the Jokes Write Themselves (WATCH) https://t.co/0IMYcYDYCo Comment: Even if he joined the Democrat party, they wouldn't vote for him. The same goes for Liz Cheney.

— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) April 16, 2024

Starship's nosecone developments

Tax Day and politics schmolitics

Divide and rule. That's the essence of politics schmolitics.



The country is said to be badly divided. How to end the division? The premise is to avoid groupthink, and Ground News purports to do just that. But does it really? I think not.



A few paragraphs in will show their bias. So-called "right-wing" news outlets do not cover these stories. Ground News calls it a "blind spot". Could it be that it is not covered simply because the premises are not correct?



I believe that Washington is in a "blind spot". It is in the bubble of groupthink. One aspect of the groupthink is to employ the Marxist paradigm that Ground News uses for its "analysis". The analysis always favors the left. Anybody who subscribes to this model is already biased towards the left because it is THEIR model. To play on their home field is dumb for true conservatives. That's how you can spot a phony conservative. A phony conservative will subscribe to this model. You see that model all over the "conservative" media.



Therefore, almost everyone is in that bubble. Ronald Reagan was unique in that he was not. He did not trust it. I believe he was successful because he didn't let himself be ruled by that bubble.



I've been on that soap box for a long time. I was on it before anybody else was. Ground News is NOT the answer. You do not end the groupthink with Ground News. You will only succeed in sustaining it.



Ground News might be useful in that sense only. To show WHY you should avoid the Marxist Paradigm. It's intent is to steer you away from the truth, and keep alive the phony fires of Marxist Class Warfare. Marxist destroys the notion of merit, and makes the poor exchange of phony equality over quality. All society is brought down to nothing, as Marxism is good for Marxists and nobody else. Marxism does not serve the people, as they like to claim; but rather, they serve themselves first and foremost. Always and forever. It is like "Gorbasms" that Rush Limbaugh used to talk about--- always fake.

Tax Day reveals a major split in how Joe Biden and Donald Trump would govern https://t.co/uuQVwQ5Rml Comment: Ground News rates this a "center" and "highly factual". I would challenge that rating. I say it is biased towards the left.

— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) April 15, 2024

Fake uber alles

In the old days, we used glass. Milk came in glass jugs, and you had to take them back to get a new jug of milk. Cokes too. You could collect Coke bottles and send them back for their deposits. But we "advanced" to recycling, and it is a lie.



This is called progress.

Plastic recycling is a DIRTY LIE.

So why do so many green activists push it?

“I think they get a charge out of telling people what to do,” @JohnTierneyNYC tells me.

More than ever… recycling is garbage. pic.twitter.com/4SDWDw7aKx

— John Stossel (@JohnStossel) April 8, 2024

How NASA and SpaceX will land on the Moon

4/14/24:





It would appear obvious what part of the ship could be discarded after the tran-lunar injection burn. Is it worth it? In essence, it would be a completely different ship. That costs $$$$.

end update of 4/13/24 post:

How much of this rocket is really needed to land on the moon?

I still say that's a lot of mass that really isn't necessary for the mission. They won't need the raptor engines after getting into lunar orbit, and they won't be coming back in the Starship anyway. If you're going to use a separate thruster system to land on the surface, but not the raptors for the entire burn, then what useful purpose do they serve? It's not going to be reuable either.



The video does not say how the secondary thrusters will be powered. Only that a secondary system will be needed. The raptors are too powerful for the final landing maneuver. Questions, questions. Maybe SpaceX has the answers. But it isn't what's going to land on the Earth or Mars. So there's that.

Does Israel retaliate for missile attack?

Iran has just completed an unprecedented attack on Israel. Should the Israelis ignore that? Everybody has their price it has been said. What is the price for peace???

https://t.co/9KkFUiOhHQ Comment: Biden tells Iran "don't" attack. Iran attack. Now Biden tells Israel the same. What will happen?

— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) April 14, 2024