Retarded or evil?

Maybe both!  There are the evil ones, who are at the top.  Then there are the retarded ones, those who uncritically follow evil.

Can you educate the retarded ones?  Can you redeem the evil ones?  Those who still have a mind need to make a choice, and soon.

An engine design that will "revolutionize" flight

An electric engine that is inaudible to humans. In other words, you cannot hear it. It is quiet. That's not all. For further details, see the video below.

Ellie in space: Starship heat shield update

Jet fuel from sea water

9/10/25:

You don't even need molten salt reactors for this tech. You could use what the Navy uses for flat tops. They've got ships that could be obtained for a cheap price, and it would have plenty of space to install a crap load of equipment.

It was at technology readiness level (TRL)- 6 in 2016. Why not further along today? Because something is wrong, obviously. I am more inclined to think that the techonology barrier is NOT the problem.

A nuclear powered flat top can produce a LOT of energy. Just sayin'.

11/16/16:



Molten salt reactor technology can enable this:





TRL of six:

It is possible because there is far more carbon dioxide in water than in the air:

The process does not require electrolysis in order to obtain hydrogen:

Keep in mind that molten salt technology is nearly 50 years old.  We could have had this decades ago.  Why don't we?  Because something is wrong.

Blogging standards

9/10/25:

Note: This was intended to be an aspiration type post to myself for a blog that did not have an audience at all in the beginning. Since then, it has grown a little, but the extent to that growth is indeterminate as far as I'm willing to research it. In other words, maybe all the audience I get now is bots. Nobody comments here.

I suspect that the post is out of date. I thought of removing it, but that would violate my standards of complete candor. Removing it would be denial, and that is what I try to avoid if at all possible.

Anyway, I don't review these standards very often at all. I notice it is getting attention as far as clicks go, therefore some commentary needs to be applied to this basic admission or mea culpa.

The tendency to be full of shit has affected everyone, even me, which bugs me a bit. It's a pandemic of bullshititis. Now, that's funny.

Update, 4/5/25:

This will be the new featured post. Overall, the blog is meant to be a personal resource. It is also open to anyone who'd like to research a topic that I've researched a bit. Not claiming to be an authority though. You could also use the chatbots, as I do, but this one is done by a human. For what that's worth.

Original post of 5/26/12 at the earliest:

1. Read this list before I make any more posts.  Each new post, review this list first in order to see if the new post adheres to these standards.
2. I won't talk out my ass.  If I do, I'll put a speculation alert in the body of the post.
3.  Whatever I do, I won't include my personal feelings in any of this stuff, it is supposed to be about the future, and how that future may unfold, not how I feel about it 
4. With respect to politics, I won't electioneer.  Sure, I'd like to see Dems lose, but if they don't, that is the way it is.  This country has been moving in the wrong direction for a long time, nothing I can do about that now. 
5.  Try to be professional.  This is a weak point because I tend to be sloppy and careless.  Try to be more careful and exact.  Always.
6. Don't let myself get caught up in the latest fad.  Fads don't have staying power or they wouldn't be fads.
7. Nobody reads blogs anyway.  Outside their own church, that is.  Write as if nobody is reading.  In case anybody is, that may be considered a plus, but don't count on it.  Don't write for popularity.  Write for accuracy.  Nobody's interested in accuracy.  That's why this blog will never be popular.
8. This world reminds me of the Simpsons.  Yeah but, remember the sense of humor.  That's cuz you're gonna need it.

Update:

Note on the above standards:  I don't adhere to them rigorously, but the conventions below, I do:

Throw in a few conventions with respect to links here:

1. Links to posts in this blog are in bold like this: Blogging standards
2. new! Google are in italics , like this Amazon link:  Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think  (It's not a google link, but it is italicized for this example --- maybe both will be italicized)  Look at it this way, if I mark a Google link with a different background color, the be aware that there will be more than one Google link.)
3. Links to pdf files are in green, like this:  The Microwave Thruster Concept

Political troubles in France

Comment:

So Macron's Prime Minister tries some austerity with budget cuts and tax increases, and the French people seem to reject that. Austerity doesn't include peaceable relations with Russia, you might notice. If France wants to go to war with Russia, they'll have to spend a lot of money too.

Private sector job growth isn't there

9/9/25:

To repeat, no American jobs were being created even with the faked data the Biden Administration was feeding us. Now the news is that South Korean Companies were refusing to hire Americans. At the same time, Biden was hailing the jobs "creation". All fake. What there was didn't benefit AMERICANS.

9/7/24:

Jobs are being "created" via government spending. Anti-growth policies require a big government, or there's no jobs at all.

And the illegals get the jobs that all the spending supports. [emphasis added]

More than half of last 12-months of job growth has come from gov't and the gov't-dominated healthcare sector; it's all tax-payer funded, and it's not at all sustainable: pic.twitter.com/io6ezAWa7g

— E.J. Antoni, Ph.D. (@RealEJAntoni) September 6, 2024

They Rarely Report the Revisions - Three Months of 2023 Job Gains Wiped Out After Updates

9/9/25:

Another huge downward revision in the jobs numbers. This time it is mainly 2024 data being revised hugely downward. In other words, the jobs growth reported during the last two years of the Biden Presidency was much much, much less than what was originally reported.

6/20/24:

They Rarely Report the Revisions - Three Months of 2023 Job Gains Wiped Out After Updates

Comment:

Potemkim Village up and down the line, as someone often says. Too many folks buy the bull, however. Especially the women and the old folks, who watch a lot of teevee.

Interesting idea?

Might need an X-planation...

Elon Musk should buy a couple of the biggest mainstream media networks and just have them tell the truth

If we had a real Republican Congress they would Restore the Smith Mundt Act

— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) September 7, 2025

Too many Benedict Arnolds waiting in the wings

A post about the Great Reset and Trump. Provocative title says that Trump may trigger Great Reset. Trump won't trigger anything. It will likely come from a betrayal and that betrayal could come from an apparent Trump supporter. Beware of betrayal, I say.

Not exactly George Jetson's ride

Behind the Black has a post about this gizmo. Seems like you see something like this every now and then. The thing is, there's always been something like this around, but hasn't ever caught on. Check out the James Bond flick "Thunderball".

 

 

 

No real basis for Trump opposition

 

Commies are trying to AstroTurf some real opposition through the use of fakery. DataRepublican has the receipts of what they've been up to.

250 tons to orbit

Expendable version of Starship. If you were to make the booster expendable too? It won't take 16 launches to get the fuel to the ship. Maybe five or six. But it probably won't be as big as the reusable version 4 anyway. Just don't need all that much hardware.

Football season has begun

 

Do football games have too much of an element of chance for anything to be a sure bet? One thing about the modern day, if you want to bet on NFL games, it is easy. Predicting outcomes, though, is not so easy.

So there's some back and forth about how the opening game for the Houston Texans and Los Angerles Rams will turn out. The majority think that the Rams will win. But there are those who think the Texans will win. What thinketh I?

You can research the most recent games, which would be preseason. Preseason games can tell you a few things, but the only way to see for sure is to let them play and see what happens. But if you want to predict that, you have to look at the most recent past. The next most recent to preseason is the post-season games of last year. Both teams lost their divisional round games, but the thinking is that the Rams performance was better. Maybe because they played the eventual champion, and the Texans played the runner up.

The Texans had a definite problem protecting the quarterback. That seems to indicate a mismatch between a team that can pressure the quarterback and a team that has trouble with protection. However, that was last year. This year? The Texans have made a lot of changes. This means that the mismatch MAY not materialize. On the other hand, it may well materialize. If it does, the Texans will probably lose this game. It's hard to see how they can win in a shootout with a team with a good quarterback and two good wideouts, even if the Texans do have a good defense.

That might be the thinking in this game. The odds are better that the mismatch will occur and the Rams will be able to pressure Stroud, which will cause the Texans offense to sputter. In that case, if the Texans cannot stop the Rams cold, the Rams are almost certain to win.

That would be the bet, but there's something called Murphy's Law. Indeed Murphy's Law may say the race may not always go to the swiftest, but that is the way to bet. If you are going to bet, the bet should be on the Rams until the Texans prove that they have solved their protection problem.

I'd prefer that the Texans win, and there's some hope that they can. Maybe you should just take the points, as the Rams are favored, and hope that they can beat the spread. As a bettor though, it is not the best bet. I'll take the points since I am not putting any money on it. I don't bet football games.

I'll update after the game. Are you ready for some football????

Update, 9/7/25, after the game:

I hope they're not talking playoffs in Houston.

  

Jobs in the news

There's discrimination against American workers.

Could it be an ongoing effort to exclude Americans for any jobs whatsoever?

BLS statistics showed no net jobs for YEARS for Americans. A lot of news is being made of the weak jobs report, but that might be hiding this discrimination. If the Big corporations aren't going to hire Americans, there's going to be weak jobs numbers, IF Trump stops immigration cold.

Another rat smellest I.

Whoa! Here's another one. It shows that it's still happening...

It gets even worse: native-born workers plunged by 561K, the biggest one month drop since August 2024.
Foreign-born workers increased by 50K, the first increase since March. https://t.co/jkii3N9Ny5 pic.twitter.com/SA9tE2FMI4

— zerohedge (@zerohedge) September 5, 2025

Is it part of a larger culture war against traditional Americans? Like Christians, for example?

BREAKING: DOJ finds the Biden regime’s HUD Dept targeted Christians by not promoting them because of their religious beliefs.

An employee was also ORDERED to remove posts celebrating Palm Sunday and Easter but lgbtq pride posts were allowed.

“Religious discrimination will not… pic.twitter.com/AoL9SaIIdQ

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) September 5, 2025

Wtf?

NFL opening weekend, and there's some sort of delay in Jacksonville. No news anywhere on that. Wasn't news supposedly about anything unusual and out of the ordinary? Or even something about superflouos redundancies?

Come to think of it, the Eagles-Cowboys' game was delayed for weather. Do they now delay games in the NFL for weather? Must be climate change. /snark

All the news print to fit

Topsy-turvy world, where senseless murder is not news. But fake news IS.

Comment:

Looks like your head needs to be on a swivel. Or just avoid crazy leftist run cities. I'm sure gun-control would've helped in this situation. /snark

Thoughts on Robert F Kennedy Jr Congressional Testimony

The conservative treehouse

Comment:

It's a long essay, but it stirred up some emotions in my neighboorhood. That means me. Anyway, I no longer trust the medical establishment. Hopefully RFK, Jr. can get this straightened out.

Hard to believe that there's people who believe in these creeps anymore.