Not a smart way to use your head

6/26/26: 8:00 PM Update:

Memo to Carville: If you hang around dogs, you stand the chance of getting fleas. (Carville is complaining about the wack-a-doodle faction in the Democrat party. But all the Dems sing from the same hymn book as the wack-a-doodles, so how do you distinguish them from each other? Is it Israel?)

💥NEW: James Carville: “I actually do think it's time for Democrats to talk the S word: ‘Schism’ ... there's just some sh*t that I can't be in the same tent with ... I'm done ... I don't want to be in a political party that denies the right of the state of Israel to exist.” pic.twitter.com/O5ATLyvXwV

— Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 (@JasonJournoDC) June 25, 2026

Update:

Is Carville a maniac, or just stupid? Perhaps both??? In any event, he is dangerous even if he is a moron.

Carville Speaks Up. Where Are Others? by Roger Simon

Jeffries and Schumer silent. Only Cajun Rages.

Read on Substack

6/6/26: The original post follows:

Ball bounces off outfielder's head, goes over the fence for a home-run.

Sounds like James Carville to me. Carville is endorsing a Nazi on the grounds that it will beat who they claim to be a Nazi---Trump.

My first inclination is to get mad at Carville. But the dude is going to keep the Nazi on the ballot, then let Carville run his crazy mouth.

Off his glove, off his head, and out!

One of the strangest home runs you've ever seen 🤯 pic.twitter.com/KaPpp1r9Cx

— MLB (@MLB) June 3, 2026

The Far Left Can Crush Republicans in Midterms if They Just Give Professional Republicans Everything They Want

CTH

Comment:

Sundance is purportedly taking the Carville line---Carville said basically for the Democrats to save their craziness until after the election. Then they would say "eat my dust".

Such as strategy could work in theory, but there's no guarantees of anything.

Back in 1980, in the Carter v Reagan election, Reagan responded to Carter's democrat trickiness with "there you go again". The trickiness is the attribution to Reagan an intent that he didn't have. So, it isn't any new strategy. In fact, they're already doing it with this Nazi stuff. Trump is no Nazi. They do this against all GOP opponents. It's as stale a strategy as is the smoke and mirrors policies that the Dems love to throw out there.

To beat them, the GOP needs to stick closely to the Reagan strategy. Don't buy into the hate. Reagan just gave a smile. Don't let them lie about you, as Carter tried in the debate. Reagan just said, "there you go again". If you get into the mud with them, they'll love it. Just say, it's "morning in America", and it'll be the Democrats that get smoked.

It isn't just some empty slogan, either. Things got much better under Reagan. By fall, conditions ought to be good enough to run on, and say what Reagan said---it's morning in America again.

The Dems need misery. Don't add to it. Dems need disarray. Don't add to it any more than what is already there. And be able to show that the disarray is slipping into the past. That's because it is TRUE. If we bring back the Democrats; it may be Happy Days Are Here Again for THEM, but not for America.

The Dems are about themselves and only themselves. Why join them? Win another for the Gipper.

Bose Einstein Condensates and the E-cat

6/26/26: Update:

Well, here's another blast from the past. Yours truly used to follow this, and I stopped following it. Therefore, I cannot offer any new thoughts on the subject.

But it is an old story. Not to be discrediting it for being old. Shoot, I'm old. What wrong with old? Sometimes "old" can be a cool thing. Like Cool Hand Luke. Luke said that sometimes nothing can be a pretty cool hand. If you think old means "nothing", but nothing can still be cool.

I reacted to this post because of one of the knocks against cold fusion back in the day. It went against all of what was known in nuclear physics. As if nothing new could be learned. The world is full of jackasses. As for me, I try not to exceed the limits of jackassery.

A thing is or it isn't. Cold fusion got discredited, and probably not for fair nor honest reasons.

It's worth investigating why there seemed to be these anomalous results from experiments. Instead it was discredited because of conventional wisdom that isn't exactly wisdom in my book. So there.

The original post of 7/18/2011 follows below:

Somebody else responded to my question to Andrea Rossi besides Rossi himself.  It was the observation that these condensates form at very low temperatures.  However, a little digging shows that it can be predicted that these condensates can form at very high temperatures too.  I cite the source here:

It has been predicted that a quasi-equilibrium system of bosons could undergo Bose-Einstein condensation even at relatively high temperatures, if the flow rate of energy pumped into the system exceeds a critical value. 

I found the link to this from the Wikipedia entry on Bose Einstein condensates, footnote number 10.  There is more to this, but I have shortened it because of a lack of time.  It should be easy enough to follow, though.

Update:

As I wrote before, the topic here is way above my pay scale, so I think I'll let it drop at this point.  It is interesting reading to a certain extent, but without the formal education to fully understand it, I feel a bit confused sometimes when I read this stuff.

I've been spending the last few hours reading over such topics as "spin" and "anti parallel" and so forth.  As best as I can determine, the theory offered to explain the e-cat's low energy nuclear reaction seems plausible. I'd rather not go much further than that.  That belongs in a discussion elsewhere.

Update:

Here's some information on Yeong E. Kim.  I'd say it looks pretty impressive.

Culinary type post

6/26/26:

Lot of Word Crimes here, eh?

Maybe food crimes, too... Now, the idea about cooking with the fewest calories is indeed an idea worth considering...

Update a little later...:

I've watched a few gourmets on TeeVee. Here's a video of one that you may enjoy: Justin Wilson. If Louisiana fare is not your thing, well I have another one I watched on PBS: (PBS! Yep.). He went by the moniker of Frugal Gourmet. If were to do gourmet videos, I'd make one thing plain. I'm no gourmet. The name? The Lazy Man "Gourmet". I cook for convenience. It may not be fine cuisine, but it is good enough to eat. Not trying to put on airs here. Just telling it the way it is.

May 3, 2018:

Fancy word for cooking, that is.

Been experimenting with my cooking lately.  Yesterday, I boiled an egg in water.  So what?  Well, the egg was cracked and out of the shell.  It was boiled in water, which is no calories.  The problem with this cooking technique was that the egg stuck on the aluminum foil.  So, I got some Pam, and sprayed it on the aluminum this morning.  Yep.  It worked good.  How was the boiled eggs?  Well, they tasted like, ahem, boiled eggs.

I don't know if that counts as a success.  What was the objective?  To cook without oil, and to use as little energy as possible.  This latter part was achieved by cooking on the lowest possible setting on the propane stove.  A small amount of water did reach boiling point, provided that, you cover the top with foil as well.  This traps all the heat, and allows boiling point to be reached.

The eggs were on for about twenty minutes.  They were fully cooked.

Eggs like this are pretty bland.  How do you fix them up to taste better?  I like cheese on my eggs, so the next time, I will add sharp cheddar to it.

Add some bacon bits, and maybe some tomato, and that's good eating.   At least it is by my standards.

Islamic communists took over the Democrat party

The commies are running on hatred for Trump, and nothing more. The left teaches hate, but projects their hate on the opposition. This is the kind of projection that Hitler used as a pretext to invade Poland in 1939. Hitler claimed that Poland was going to attack Germany. The commies say that the GOP wants to put people back into chains. The thing that makes it psychopathic kind of projection is that the left wants to put people in chains and knows very well that this is not the intention of the GOP. In other words, a damned lie.

Furthermore, the opposite ends of the "political spectrum" is not between the right v left. The only difference between communists and fascists is that the communists are globalists and the fascists are nationalist.

By the way, if nationalism defines fascism, then there could be no more countries anywhere. So what's the difference between the commies and the fascists? Nothing. In the end, it is only about power.

The real political spectrum is freedom vs tyranny. There is no freedom in fascism nor communism. The choice is clear.

Normie libs were so obsessed with “getting” Trump that they let their party get taken over by Islamic communists.

— Just Loki (@LokiJulianus) June 24, 2026

Have to call BS again

So I see this CFP link to a bullshit push poll from CBS

How many times will people be fooled by the bullshit media???

The "war" was a slaughter. It has been more ceasefire than war. The bullshit media wants to make an issue out of Trump's military strike against Iran.

If the poll is accurate, which it may not be, it is a damned shame that so many people listen to and let themselves be influenced by a bunch of commie bastard media types.

It is not in anybody's interests except the globalists, for Iran to have the bomb. Trump has mostly solved that problem, but we aren't out of the woods yet.

Thanks to crap like this, we may yet get a bad outcome.

The Shining Final Maze Scene -- Danny escapes from Jack

Some folks find this flick to be scary. It's not scary to me, but it is an unpleasant movie.

The following scene came to mind this morning. When a movie is being made, the idea is to make it believable. If it isn't believable, the movie isn't as good. Well, this scene just isn't believable to me.

To recap the scene briefly, the little boy's dad has gone insane. He's attempting to murder his family. The madman chases his son into the maze, but the little boy escapes. Frankly, I don't buy the scene. The kid isn't going to outwit his father.

I've seen the Steven King's version of this movie. Neither of them are very good in my opinion. Kubrick's magic didn't work in this flick.