Wicked Witch Melting

Not a stake to the heart, but just as good I suppose.

Supreme Court Justice Brett M Kavanaugh Sworn In During Private Ceremony

No more messing around.

Outstanding.

It's Official - Supreme Court Justice Brett M Kavanaugh Sworn In During Private Ceremony... https://t.co/8c6HnMdFZc via @thelastrefuge2

— Greg Meadows (@BootsandOilBlog) October 6, 2018

Brett Kavanaugh Confirmed to Supreme Court

Still don't care about the "assault" allegations.

Brett Kavanaugh Confirmed to Supreme Court Amid Sexual Assault Allegations https://t.co/yYhWRpOvky

— Greg Meadows (@BootsandOilBlog) October 6, 2018

Are we there yet?

There has been light blogging for a reason.  It won't be a policy here to join in the madness.

Hopefully, the madness ends this weekend, as promised.

Of course, there is also the hints of civil unrest.

Cross that bridge when you get to it. 

Reality hits you hard, bro

Blast from the past.

Kendra Morris "Banshee"

Very interesting sound to this, but I could not understand the lyrics.

Maybe my hearing is bad, who knows?

You may recognize this tune, or you may not.

From complexity to simplicity, if that is possible

Just listening to Barnhardt podcast, a couple thoughts occurred to me. 

The first one was of something she called the "divine office".  The thing that
caught my attention was that it isn't being taught anymore to Catholics.  Barnhardt
is Catholic, you see.  Now, the point here is that it reminds me of something
that happened to the nuclear industry in the USA.  There was the proven concept
of molten-salt reactor technology that almost died out completely, before it was
given away to the Chinese.  Not bought, but given away to the Chinese.

The only reason the technology survived was because a group of very determined
people didn't want the tech to die out when all the scientists died.  They kept
the tech alive, but the government wanted no part of it, and gave away the tech.

The attempt to explain the superiority of molten-salt tech is not the point here.

Just try to believe for the moment that this technology was and still is superior to what we
had then and now.  Our government, in all its wisdom, has suppressed this knowledge,
and as a consequence, we had the seventies' energy crisis, and the 9-11 attack.

You may doubt the significance of what I just wrote, but the fact remains that
this tech is superior, and it has been suppressed.  Once the suppression failed,
it was given away.  Now, foreign countries will develop the tech that we could
have had forty years ago.  There was no need for what happened.  It was the fault
of the government that these bad things happened.

That was the first thing I correlated Miss Barnhardt's talk to what I have written
about before on this blog.  Culture is dying out.  More properly, it is being
MURDERED in front of our very eyes.  Giving our tech away to the Chinese is like
committing suicide.  Murder or suicide, the results are the same. 

The second thing has to do with language.  She seems to be a big proponent of Latin.

She went over the Latin grammar and said how important it is to the Church.  But
the thing that caught my attention was how the Latin language is very precise
in its use of grammar.  It seems that it is impossible to have ambiguities in the
language, as opposed to English, which seems to permit it.  This, according to
Barnhardt.

The thing that I learned was that English simplified its grammar over the course
of its development into the language we speak today.  That, according to S.I.
Hayakawa, if memory serves.  What Hayakawa taught was semantics, which is the study
in the use of language.

What I got from Hayakawa was to simplify, simplify, simplify.  When you have a
concept to express, use the least complex words available.  This seems to clash
with what Barnhardt is saying.

Perhaps I am misunderstanding Barnhardt and misremembering Hayakawa.  However it
may be, this blog will simplify as opposed to "complexify", when discussing any
topic.  That will be the case regardless of topic.

Basically, the blog has been about what has gone wrong with our society in recent
history.  But this trend has been going a long time.  It probably won't be
turned around that easily, if at all.

If there is a common vein in these two ideas thus expressed, it is that knowledge can
die out within a few generations.  It is important that knowledge be preserved
from one generation to the next, and in perpetuity.

The Romans failed to do this.  The great library at Alexandria was destroyed, and
it took a millenia to restore the knowledge that was lost.

People seem to take for granted that progress is inevitable.  But that is not the
case in history.  Societies rise and fall.  Nothing is written in stone.  This is
true for us as it was for the Romans.

"Solid" plan for protecting your data

Not sure what the proposition is about from reading this, but it sounds good ( of course ).

The trick is to get it adopted, which may be a lot more complicated than the technology itself.  The tech part is easy, the human part is what's hard.

Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee reveals 'Solid' plan for users to take control of personal data https://t.co/0KOfBNPIlW via @AppleInsider

— Greg Meadows (@BootsandOilBlog) October 2, 2018

30k ft. Whatfinger view: 9.26.18

Updated

Link included on 10.1.18

( the only link on the page so far )


the original post ( with added link):

Some headlines from Whatfinger that caught my attention:

- Grassley will hold vote for Kavanaugh on Friday ( maybe )
- Gingrich says if Kavanaugh nomination fails, no con court in our lifetime
- Ford lie detector test results, therapist notes not submitted to Senate
- The four witnesses Ford named do not recall the event she claims happened
- Female attorney to question Ford
- Kavanaugh's calendars from 1982 show him out of town
- Judge Jeanine Pirro:  "Ford won't show"
- Judge Pirro on Rosenstein: "don't fire him, let's see the memos"
- Rosenstein to meet with POTUS on Thurs.
- Sarah Huckabee Sanders "dodges" Rosenstein questions
- Rep. Jim Jordan "Rosenstein needs to appear in front of Judiciary Committee"
- Sessions hired Rosenstein, not Trump
- Rosenstein hired Mueller to harass Trump
- Fusion GPS funded by Soros confirmed
- What role did Soros play in Kavanaugh circus?
- Kazakhstan begins chemical castration of pedophiles
- "Comedian" says cut off Kavanaugh's wing-wang

Watch "TRY TO REMEMBER - (Lyrics)" on YouTube

https://youtu.be/QEm67QbgEGY

September 2018 is in the history books.

It was a song I heard on the radio yesterday.

Juanita Broaddrick must have a Senate Hearing

Not really.  I can't back that up.  But the Dems aren't really interested in the women's issue, except for its politics with respect to Judge Kavanaugh nomination to Scotus.

Bill Clinton rape accuser Juanita Broaddrick (@atensnut) reacts to Dr. Ford's testimony, and says not ONE Democrat would read her deposition, including Sens. Feinstein, Schumer, & Durbin.

She tells @ericbolling her story...

Watch the full interview ==> https://t.co/b1QlO40SMO pic.twitter.com/mzzqgI4ZuF

— CRTV (@CRTV) September 30, 2018

Strzok plus Ford equals Kavanaugh Killer

Look at these associations.  One big happy family.

BOMBSHELL: Christine Blasey Ford’s brother worked with Peter Strzok's sister-in-law at Exelis Inc, a US Defense and Intelligence contractor.

•Jill Strzok is Peter Strzoks' sister-in-law
•Jill Strzok works with Thomas Blasey
•Thomas Blasey is Christine Ford's brother pic.twitter.com/KTFBM6TZxd

— Mike Tokes (@MikeTokes) September 29, 2018

Free Will and Mind Control - by Robert Ringer

Free Will and Mind Control - by Robert Ringer: Few disciplines are more difficult for modern man than silencing his noise machine.  It’s a machine that continuously floods the mind with thoughts of guilt, anger, the latest injustices he has suffered, and endless trivia.  It randomly engages in self-debate and senseless chatter, blocking out all attempts to bring forth a meaningful thought. Many people …

comment:

The circus going on in Washington DC at the moment is a good example of the distractions that Ringer is talking about.

Of course, there are endless numbers of things that can distract you.  This article caught my attention because I had the thought that either : events drive you, or you drive events.  If events are driving you, it is because you are probably distracted.  You are always reacting to events, as opposed to shaping them.

Anyway, that is my take.

Update:

Of course I understand that this thought can be applied to my off-grid project.  I spend way too much time on this junk.

The circus has sucked all the oxygen out of the room

It's friggin' nuts out there. 

Nothing to say about it until this thing blows over, if it ever does.

Even at 30k ft, it is too nuts for me.