Lets hope we don’t regret it this year.
But it is still very early in the Day.
Leap Year…reminds me of Lord Chesterfield’s story about how he persuaded Parliament to switch England from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar. In a letter to his son, he explained how he got this done:
“I consulted the best lawyers and the most skillful astronomers, and we cooked up a bill for that purpose. But then my difficulty began: I was to bring in this bill, which was necessarily composed of law jargon and astronomical calculations, to both which I am an utter stranger. However, it was absolutely necessary to make the House of Lords think that I knew something of the matter; and also to make them believe that they knew something of it themselves, which they do not. For my own part, I could just as soon have talked Celtic or Sclavonian to them as astronomy, and they would have understood me full as well: so I resolved to do better than speak to the purpose, and to please instead of informing them. I gave them, therefore, only an historical account of calendars, from the Egyptian down to the Gregorian, amusing them now and then with little episodes; but I was particularly attentive to the choice of my words, to the harmony and roundness of my periods, to my elocution, to my action. This succeeded, and ever will succeed; they thought I informed, because I pleased them; and many of them said that I had made the whole very clear to them; when, God knows, I had not even attempted it. Lord Macclesfield, who had the greatest share in forming the bill, and who is one of the greatest mathematicians and astronomers in Europe, spoke afterward with infinite knowledge, and all the clearness that so intricate a matter would admit of: but as his words, his periods, and his utterance, were not near so good as mine, the preference was most unanimously, though most unjustly, given to me.”
In 2017, Antifa and its anarcho-Marxist allies and a few small white supremacist groups engaged in violent activity at political rallies. However, the Department of Justice prosecuted only the white supremacists under the Anti-Riot Act of 1968. A federal court has finally called foul on this unconstitutional government bias.
The decision, by Judge Cormac J. Carney (a George W. Bush nominee), is in United States of America v. Rundo et al. The defendants, both self-avowed white supremacists, moved to dismiss the charges against them under the Anti-Riot Act because the government violated the equal protection clause when it failed to prosecute anarcho-Marxists for identical activity. Judge Carney concluded that the defendants were correct: The federal government selectively prosecuted the defendants based on favored versus disfavored ideas, which is unconstitutional.
Shhh about the “once every four years” thing.
Biden is going to claim that he got this extra day for us over GOP objections.
It’s in his “American Recovery Plan.”
Nobody read it, so if you keep quiet, nobody will know the truth.
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Wishing a happy 16th birthday to Tony Robbins.
His age explains how he’s been able to preserve his youthful enthusiasm all these years.
RE: Police takedowns
In observing a lot of police takedowns of suspects on YouTube, I’ve noticed how hard it usually is to control and takedown suspects.
As I understand it, Jiu-jitsu was specifically developed for Japanese police forces as a method to do just that—pressure points, locks, and holds designed to take control of a suspect.
If my understanding is correct, why aren’t policemen being taught and using these techniques?
Too rough? Might cause unnecessary injuries to suspects?
because the point is not equitable treatment of suspects, to protect the citizenry,
in fact the people must be kept unsafe, anxious paranoid, distrusting of their neighbor, but trusting strangers, the more iconoclastic the better, as long as they do not follow the old ways, many african and caribbean first generation immigrants had a strong work ethic, but this stew of relativism of license as well as shrinking economic opportunity in some circumstances makes them unable to function in society,
if you saw the kind of cult sci fi show, First Wave produced by Coppola, apres the Godfather, (you can’t find on any of the streaming platforms) it was loosely about Nostradamus and Aliens but writ large about a takeover of our institutions by those who meant no good will for us,
well yes, but that is only 10 years ago, of course Zimmerman that ill mannered Peruvian brute, how dare he defend his fiefdom, Frances Robles was the spinner of that yarn, she was a police reporter, who could never get the point of dispatches, along with other figures like Matt Guttman who is a big fish at the mouse that whimpered, interestingly stelter, who is rightly mocked as Tater, was one of the ones who noticed the fly in the soup,
“I can’t breathe!” is often repeatedly and loudly shouted at LEOs as they try to arrest/subdue/cuff suspects, as seen on YouTube.
It is the new magic incantantion enabling legal action in the future.
the point was to destroy a society attacking the nodes, you can’t do a frontal assault on the police, (well those lawyers who threw the molotov cocktails, did)but you wrap their interaction in a lilliputian web of inconvenience, so the only people who thrive are the binary Canadian mine sweeper (I wish I were making that up) the Admiral that would make Dame Edna Blush, Tyler Perry’s other brother in Chitown, even among the media, you have this crew, the Plane CEO who seems to have been cast from the comic relief of Airplane,
Well, what do people think?
Will Trump be able to get enough votes to become President in 2024, while- a number of States are, [in my view…illegally], removing him…aka OUTLAWING him…from the 2024 race for President, using the 14th Amendment as their reason?
What do you think?
So far their illegal bullshit has been aimed at primaries. These criminals are trying to keep Trump from being the GOP nominee. Only approved opposition you see.
Michael Rapaport hosts the Academy Awards and nails Hollywood to the wall about the hostages Hamas holds!
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Michael Rapaport calls out Hollywood for ignoring the hostages on ‘Eretz Nehederet’
The sketch was especially striking in the way it used clips of real stars attending recent awards shows to make it look as if Rapaport was actually hosting the awards.
Well OK, it’s a skit Rapaport put together for an Israeli comedy show.
But goddamn! I say, goddamn! He turns a flamethrower onto Hollywood. Only 3:23 long but worth ever second.
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I know you beautiful people are thinking of the hostages in Gaza all the time, you just won’t speak up about them. If Hamas would have attacked Israel and kidnapped all the dolphins, you’d be wearing dolphin helmets and throwing tuna at the podium.
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I’ll be curious to see if Rapaport has taken a flamethrower to his Hollywood career. Or maybe he sees things turning around. Or maybe he’s just that kind of hero.
Props.
David Foster,
Thank you for that excerpt on the speech to Parliament. I stumbled onto the unfortunate truth of Lord Chesterfield’s approach* years ago. To me the scientific method seems not only intuitive (trial and error), but also irrefutable once one knows of it. I wondered why people often ignored obvious facts that observation and reason show to be true?
Reading about historical scientific and philosophical debates taught me that people tend to side with the person who makes the most persuasive argument, facts be damned.
Facts and evidence matter, but what matter even more are personality, entertainment and a speaker’s ability to make the listener feel good about him or herself.
*I’m surprised Lord Chesterfield and his audience could not understand the science behind the Gregorian calendar, as opposed to the Julian. It’s really fairly simple and only requires basic, astronomical principles. The Earth rotates on its axis and also orbits the Sun, and the axis is tilted. Dividing its orbit by its period of rotation does not result in a rational number. Therefore we need to add a fudge factor so farmers don’t end up planting in winter or attempting to harvest in spring.
I was wondering if this sort of thing would ever happen.
Every J6 trial should have had this outcome. As should Trump’s cases. We are living under tyranny.
I’ve seen GOP and/or Trump PAC ads focusing on illegal immigrant crime. Those are likely very effective.
Inflation and difficulty in finding work sufficient to pay one’s bills due to Bidenomics would also be very effective to most voters.
Reminding people of the atrocity of Commander in Chief Biden’s deadly, catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan would also be very effective to most voters.
Keep hitting those things, over and over. Maybe 50% economy, 35% crime, especially illegal immigrant crime and repeat offenders released by ineffective DAs and 15% botched Afghanistan withdrawal. Resist Democrat attempts to force the GOP on defense. Ignore their attacks and claims and push a huge, offensive assault on those three issues.
“Was your life better under President Trump or President Biden?”
“Bari Weiss: What It Means to Choose Freedom
By Bari Weiss
February 29, 2024
I know she is respected for her principled stance, the apparent breaking of ranks, her courage in recognizing and then resisting the spirit of the age.
But despite understanding the validity of her points I find it extremely difficult to adopt a sympathetic mental stance toward her personally.
To some extent that applies to another of Neo’s featured favorites, Caroline Glick. Something in the latter’s whiny plaintiveness, a relentless ‘told you so’ tone of expectation that I find it impossible to sit through. I want to say, yeah I get your points when you finally amble around to them, and mostly already agree: but who the @#$% do you think you are talking to? And then I realize it’s not me in any case so I should suspend judgment and chill out.
With Weiss, I’ve never put my finger on it: so, once again into the breach, I began reading.
I got so far as the obligatory frigging promise of America social shit, and the passing allusion to the deaths of hundreds of thousands implied as a late payment on an entitlement, and an expiation and partial fulfilment of obligations yet incomplete and by implication, never effen ending; and, I gave up. Thank you very much, you are probably largely correct, now get lost.
Utter those four magic words, intone that insufferable piety, ” the promise of America” or some equivalent, and then I’m out and done.
It occurs to me that some people just cannot help themselves in reciting these kinds of things, and adopting that strategy as arch priestess of the hermeneutic: much like a female cousin I have. One, whose relentless insistence on framing every cross table familial reminiscence in a way that comports with her preferred dramatic narrative and outcome, makes me want to puke … despite her being a relatively well meaning and “good person”, such as well meaning and good persons are measured nowadays.
She was a library science professional if that explains anything. I’m still trying to figure out if it does.
DNW:
Perhaps it’s more about you and your cousin.
Because I see zero “whiny plaintiveness” in Glick. She is hard-hitting, and simply states what she believes to be the case. I hear no whining; just facts. And I think she can be forgiven for quite a bit of “I told you so” – because she did. As for “plaintiveness,” it means “expressions of suffering or woe.” I would think at this point that expressions of suffering and woe are quite appropriate for Israelis, and I don’t think her podcasts contain an inappropriate amount or degree of that.
The definition of whining is “the making of a long, high-pitched cry or sound.”
Therefore we need to add a fudge factor so farmers don’t end up planting in winter or attempting to harvest in spring.
Comic hyperbole, I know.
But even an illiterate farmer can tell where the sun rises and sets on the horizon near enough to plant. Well, maybe that does not apply to Ireland. Though as far as I know crops were grown there during the neolithic and bronze age.
Credit to whoever it was that mentioned Ceide Fields here first.
I had read about it but did not “share”.
Well i put caroline in a different category altogether she had her disagreements with netanyahu she joined a splinter party but who else are you going to go for the truth
“DNW:
Perhaps it’s more about you and your cousin.”
Yeah perhaps. The unrelenting, and dragged out monotone of the framing narrative, especially. How fairly that presentation template could be seen as applying to Glick is open I suppose to dispute.
‘Told you so’ and plaintive are contested not so much as descriptors, as being not lacking in justification. So I take that as a wash.
Perhaps whiny would have better been replaced by droning, but no doubt that would be found wanting too by some.
The point is not that she is wrong or bad, but that her presentation is … tedious.
And I would add often rambling, though others would say highly, perhaps necessarily, parenthetical.
To pick on another undeserving target, I’ll mention a traditional Catholic commentator I sometimes briefly click on in a knee jerk manner because I am interested in the issues announced on the preview window, even though I have at best only a marginal right to be.
I don’t think I have made it through more than one or two of his feeds or uploads, principally because he cannot get to the point. His presentations are so larded with propaedeutical and expository blather, I cannot sit through it long enough to listen through to the crux; and sampling is no guarantee of getting to the kernel of significant news.
He’s also so terrrified of YouTube cutting off his channel for some TOS violation, that he constantly employs the most elaborate euphemisms and talk-arounds, which no one else with an ounce of fortitude bothers with.
That is obviously not Glick’s failing
With him though, I wind up instantly asking myself, “Why did I click this, when I already knew better?”
It’s like unthinkingly pulling into the parking lot of Walmart for some utility item and then remembering the checkout lines and lethargic help just as you begin to exit the car.
RE: China’s death vans
If you want to see how really dark things actually are in today’s China, take a look at this linked video below, which explores how the CCP tries to frighten/warns Chinese citizens about the government’s roving execution vans, and what your last few minutes of life, strapped down to a table in one of these vans, would be like.*
its rod dreher if not who, I remember hearing one of Rush’s fill in from wisconsin, mark belling who was terminally soporific, do not drive or operate heavy machinery when listening but apparently he is some kind of firebrand in those circles,
Probably looking at way too much Youtube, but I did notice that when perps are caught, and the cops try to wrestle them into cuffs and, then, into the back of a squad car, these perps–mostly, it seems, female–have now developed a whole litany of excuses, which I’d imagine they think will get them some kind of more gentle/special treatment, or even allow them to avoid being arrested and taken to jail i.e.–“I can’t breathe,” I’m pregnant,” “I’ve got “closterphobia,” “I have small children,” “I have cancer,” I’ve just had surgery,” etc., etc.
isn’t it, I’ve read enough of Taibbi, to know what extraordinary lies are contained there in,
Re: Google Gemini AI
The ZeroHedge link above is a good start. Google really screwed the pooch on this one and did so publicly. Their stock is down 4.4% and Google CEO is upset:
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai wrote to employees in an internal memo, “I know that some of its responses have offended our users and shown bias — to be clear, that’s completely unacceptable and we got it wrong.”
Pichai’s memo doesn’t address the root issue. The problem isn’t that users were offended. The problem isn’t that Gemini has “shown bias,” although that phrase is a tell. The problem is that Gemini is biased, and that the rot goes to the heart of its code.
To Pichai, the problem seems to be that we’re offended because Gemini’s bias was shown — that we could see it.
The bad news is that the AIs from Big Tech are Woke and Gemini screamingly so. The good news is that we’ve been … er … graphically warned.
Re: Google Gemini AI, Part 2
Matt Walsh has a good rundown on Gemini. In particular he shows clips of Jen Gennai, who is a chirpy winsome Google gal with great teeth, though her brain has clearly been eaten away by the Woke zombie virus.
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Google Director of Responsible Innovation
Jen founded, and now leads, Google’s Responsible Innovation team, which operationalizes Google’s AI Principles to ensure that Google’s products have fair and ethical outcomes on individuals and society broadly. Her team works with product and engineering teams, leveraging a multidisciplinary group of experts in ethics, human rights, user research, and racial justice to validate that outputs align with our commitments to fairness, privacy, safety, societal benefit, and accountability to people.
She was a library science professional if that explains anything.
I would think so. It seems that librarians supported Woke and GloboHomo, before those terms were even invented.
Libraries are at the vanguard of grooming youth by distributing pornography to them. If you object, you’re called a book burner. Yet I wonder if Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn are available in these libraries.
I think that many leftists don’t even know they are leftists, any more than a fish knows that it’s wet.
This is my understanding of this event:
In the current, [impeachment hearings, of President Joe Biden], J. Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, admitted that: in a $5 million business deal (with a company that is supported by China’s Government), that [Joe Biden is “The Big Guy”, meaning Hunter Biden’s business partner, in that business deal].
Hunter Biden mentioned, “The Big Guy”, in an email to this Chinese company, when making this business deal.
In the hearing- Hunter Biden tried to [excuse Hunter’s including Joe Biden in that email], by saying, “I must have been drunk, or stoned, when I wrote that email”.
RIIIIIGHT.
It is my understanding that- it is illegal, or [highly immoral], for a President or his family, to use his Federal-Government positions, to make money or business deals, off of those Government positions.
Where are [the Democrats in The Federal Government], who were screaming,
“NO ONE is above the law!”, during Trump’s impeachment trials?
Where are [the Democrats in the press], who were screaming, “NO ONE is above the law!”, during Trump’s impeachment trials?
Well- if the Democrats, and the Democrat-supporting reporters in the press, don’t go after [Joe Biden, and Hunter Biden], as much as they, in courts, went after Donald Trump, in Trump’s impeachment trials, then:
If you are a Democratic Party’s President, THEN YOU ARE ABOVE THE LAW(!),
and,
if you are [the son or daughter] of a Democratic Party’s President, THEN YOU ARE ABOVE THE LAW!
Let us see if [the Democrats in the Federal Government], and [the Democrats-supporting reporters in the US], will hold President Joe Biden, and his son- Hunter Biden, to the same, high-legal standards, that they demanded from former President, Donald Trump.
Got my Library Science degree in the mid 1970s, and I was one of the few males and the only conservative in my class, and even back then, from what they said and their attitudes, my classmates were extremely liberal (perhaps, seeing the direction a strong wind was blowing in, there might have been other conservatives as well, but if there were, they just kept quiet about their views).
Went to the American Library Association conference in Chicago the year I graduated–for the first and only time–and my impression was that there was a very strong liberal/leftist influence even then.
Now, of course, things have moved much farther left, and we have things like libraries hosting “drag queen story hours.”
Obviously, if you want to influence what people know and think, having control over which books your local library chooses to buy and has on it’s shelves (you can always justify not stocking certain books by repeating the mantra that “you only have so much money to buy books,” so your “selection officers” have to choose a “representative sample” from among the available books), and which books and subjects it features in library displays also helps in achieving that goal.
P.S.–BTW, If you have kids, I recommend trying to find copies of the old classic stories for children which were published several decades ago, before they disappear–things like “Treasure Island,” “The Wind in the Willows,” “Huckleberry Finn,” or “The Wizard of Oz” (check Ebey)–so that you can avoid contemporary versions of these stories, which, in some cases, may have been censored, modified, or “updated” to meet today’s leftist standards.
I just watched the Eretz Nehederet (Israel’s version of Saturday Night Live) clip that huxley referenced. It’s brutal! Well worth your time. It perfectly skewers Hollywood celebrities’ lack of courage to stand up for causes that actually matter, like the plight of the Israeli hostages in Gaza.
Happy Birthday(s)…!
“NYC siblings born on separate Leap Days celebrate rare birthday together for the first time”—
https://nypost.com/2024/02/29/us-news/nyc-siblings-born-on-separate-leap-days-celebrate-rare-birthday-together-for-the-first-time/
Lets hope we don’t regret it this year.
But it is still very early in the Day.
Leap Year…reminds me of Lord Chesterfield’s story about how he persuaded Parliament to switch England from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar. In a letter to his son, he explained how he got this done:
“I consulted the best lawyers and the most skillful astronomers, and we cooked up a bill for that purpose. But then my difficulty began: I was to bring in this bill, which was necessarily composed of law jargon and astronomical calculations, to both which I am an utter stranger. However, it was absolutely necessary to make the House of Lords think that I knew something of the matter; and also to make them believe that they knew something of it themselves, which they do not. For my own part, I could just as soon have talked Celtic or Sclavonian to them as astronomy, and they would have understood me full as well: so I resolved to do better than speak to the purpose, and to please instead of informing them. I gave them, therefore, only an historical account of calendars, from the Egyptian down to the Gregorian, amusing them now and then with little episodes; but I was particularly attentive to the choice of my words, to the harmony and roundness of my periods, to my elocution, to my action. This succeeded, and ever will succeed; they thought I informed, because I pleased them; and many of them said that I had made the whole very clear to them; when, God knows, I had not even attempted it. Lord Macclesfield, who had the greatest share in forming the bill, and who is one of the greatest mathematicians and astronomers in Europe, spoke afterward with infinite knowledge, and all the clearness that so intricate a matter would admit of: but as his words, his periods, and his utterance, were not near so good as mine, the preference was most unanimously, though most unjustly, given to me.”
Ooo! I was wondering if this sort of thing would ever happen.
Shhh about the “once every four years” thing.
Biden is going to claim that he got this extra day for us over GOP objections.
It’s in his “American Recovery Plan.”
Nobody read it, so if you keep quiet, nobody will know the truth.
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Wishing a happy 16th birthday to Tony Robbins.
His age explains how he’s been able to preserve his youthful enthusiasm all these years.
RE: Police takedowns
In observing a lot of police takedowns of suspects on YouTube, I’ve noticed how hard it usually is to control and takedown suspects.
As I understand it, Jiu-jitsu was specifically developed for Japanese police forces as a method to do just that—pressure points, locks, and holds designed to take control of a suspect.
If my understanding is correct, why aren’t policemen being taught and using these techniques?
Too rough? Might cause unnecessary injuries to suspects?
because the point is not equitable treatment of suspects, to protect the citizenry,
in fact the people must be kept unsafe, anxious paranoid, distrusting of their neighbor, but trusting strangers, the more iconoclastic the better, as long as they do not follow the old ways, many african and caribbean first generation immigrants had a strong work ethic, but this stew of relativism of license as well as shrinking economic opportunity in some circumstances makes them unable to function in society,
if you saw the kind of cult sci fi show, First Wave produced by Coppola, apres the Godfather, (you can’t find on any of the streaming platforms) it was loosely about Nostradamus and Aliens but writ large about a takeover of our institutions by those who meant no good will for us,
well yes, but that is only 10 years ago, of course Zimmerman that ill mannered Peruvian brute, how dare he defend his fiefdom, Frances Robles was the spinner of that yarn, she was a police reporter, who could never get the point of dispatches, along with other figures like Matt Guttman who is a big fish at the mouse that whimpered, interestingly stelter, who is rightly mocked as Tater, was one of the ones who noticed the fly in the soup,
“I can’t breathe!” is often repeatedly and loudly shouted at LEOs as they try to arrest/subdue/cuff suspects, as seen on YouTube.
It is the new magic incantantion enabling legal action in the future.
the point was to destroy a society attacking the nodes, you can’t do a frontal assault on the police, (well those lawyers who threw the molotov cocktails, did)but you wrap their interaction in a lilliputian web of inconvenience, so the only people who thrive are the binary Canadian mine sweeper (I wish I were making that up) the Admiral that would make Dame Edna Blush, Tyler Perry’s other brother in Chitown, even among the media, you have this crew, the Plane CEO who seems to have been cast from the comic relief of Airplane,
Well, what do people think?
Will Trump be able to get enough votes to become President in 2024, while- a number of States are, [in my view…illegally], removing him…aka OUTLAWING him…from the 2024 race for President, using the 14th Amendment as their reason?
What do you think?
So far their illegal bullshit has been aimed at primaries. These criminals are trying to keep Trump from being the GOP nominee. Only approved opposition you see.
https://spinstrangenesscharm.wordpress.com/2024/02/28/rip-berkeley-free-speech-movement-1964-2024/#comments
This is the text of an impassioned speech delivered by a liberal-leaning Jewess, who once was a New York Times writer.
It is well-written, it is not short, and I’m glad I invested the time. — M J R
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Bari Weiss: What It Means to Choose Freedom
By Bari Weiss
February 29, 2024
https://www.thefp.com/p/bari-weiss-what-it-means-to-choose
Michael Rapaport hosts the Academy Awards and nails Hollywood to the wall about the hostages Hamas holds!
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Michael Rapaport calls out Hollywood for ignoring the hostages on ‘Eretz Nehederet’
The sketch was especially striking in the way it used clips of real stars attending recent awards shows to make it look as if Rapaport was actually hosting the awards.
https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-789498
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Well OK, it’s a skit Rapaport put together for an Israeli comedy show.
But goddamn! I say, goddamn! He turns a flamethrower onto Hollywood. Only 3:23 long but worth ever second.
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I know you beautiful people are thinking of the hostages in Gaza all the time, you just won’t speak up about them. If Hamas would have attacked Israel and kidnapped all the dolphins, you’d be wearing dolphin helmets and throwing tuna at the podium.
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I’ll be curious to see if Rapaport has taken a flamethrower to his Hollywood career. Or maybe he sees things turning around. Or maybe he’s just that kind of hero.
Props.
David Foster,
Thank you for that excerpt on the speech to Parliament. I stumbled onto the unfortunate truth of Lord Chesterfield’s approach* years ago. To me the scientific method seems not only intuitive (trial and error), but also irrefutable once one knows of it. I wondered why people often ignored obvious facts that observation and reason show to be true?
Reading about historical scientific and philosophical debates taught me that people tend to side with the person who makes the most persuasive argument, facts be damned.
Facts and evidence matter, but what matter even more are personality, entertainment and a speaker’s ability to make the listener feel good about him or herself.
*I’m surprised Lord Chesterfield and his audience could not understand the science behind the Gregorian calendar, as opposed to the Julian. It’s really fairly simple and only requires basic, astronomical principles. The Earth rotates on its axis and also orbits the Sun, and the axis is tilted. Dividing its orbit by its period of rotation does not result in a rational number. Therefore we need to add a fudge factor so farmers don’t end up planting in winter or attempting to harvest in spring.
I was wondering if this sort of thing would ever happen.
Every J6 trial should have had this outcome. As should Trump’s cases. We are living under tyranny.
I’ve seen GOP and/or Trump PAC ads focusing on illegal immigrant crime. Those are likely very effective.
Inflation and difficulty in finding work sufficient to pay one’s bills due to Bidenomics would also be very effective to most voters.
Reminding people of the atrocity of Commander in Chief Biden’s deadly, catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan would also be very effective to most voters.
Keep hitting those things, over and over. Maybe 50% economy, 35% crime, especially illegal immigrant crime and repeat offenders released by ineffective DAs and 15% botched Afghanistan withdrawal. Resist Democrat attempts to force the GOP on defense. Ignore their attacks and claims and push a huge, offensive assault on those three issues.
“Was your life better under President Trump or President Biden?”
I know she is respected for her principled stance, the apparent breaking of ranks, her courage in recognizing and then resisting the spirit of the age.
But despite understanding the validity of her points I find it extremely difficult to adopt a sympathetic mental stance toward her personally.
To some extent that applies to another of Neo’s featured favorites, Caroline Glick. Something in the latter’s whiny plaintiveness, a relentless ‘told you so’ tone of expectation that I find it impossible to sit through. I want to say, yeah I get your points when you finally amble around to them, and mostly already agree: but who the @#$% do you think you are talking to? And then I realize it’s not me in any case so I should suspend judgment and chill out.
With Weiss, I’ve never put my finger on it: so, once again into the breach, I began reading.
I got so far as the obligatory frigging promise of America social shit, and the passing allusion to the deaths of hundreds of thousands implied as a late payment on an entitlement, and an expiation and partial fulfilment of obligations yet incomplete and by implication, never effen ending; and, I gave up. Thank you very much, you are probably largely correct, now get lost.
Utter those four magic words, intone that insufferable piety, ” the promise of America” or some equivalent, and then I’m out and done.
It occurs to me that some people just cannot help themselves in reciting these kinds of things, and adopting that strategy as arch priestess of the hermeneutic: much like a female cousin I have. One, whose relentless insistence on framing every cross table familial reminiscence in a way that comports with her preferred dramatic narrative and outcome, makes me want to puke … despite her being a relatively well meaning and “good person”, such as well meaning and good persons are measured nowadays.
She was a library science professional if that explains anything. I’m still trying to figure out if it does.
DNW:
Perhaps it’s more about you and your cousin.
Because I see zero “whiny plaintiveness” in Glick. She is hard-hitting, and simply states what she believes to be the case. I hear no whining; just facts. And I think she can be forgiven for quite a bit of “I told you so” – because she did. As for “plaintiveness,” it means “expressions of suffering or woe.” I would think at this point that expressions of suffering and woe are quite appropriate for Israelis, and I don’t think her podcasts contain an inappropriate amount or degree of that.
The definition of whining is “the making of a long, high-pitched cry or sound.”
Comic hyperbole, I know.
But even an illiterate farmer can tell where the sun rises and sets on the horizon near enough to plant. Well, maybe that does not apply to Ireland. Though as far as I know crops were grown there during the neolithic and bronze age.
Credit to whoever it was that mentioned Ceide Fields here first.
I had read about it but did not “share”.
Well i put caroline in a different category altogether she had her disagreements with netanyahu she joined a splinter party but who else are you going to go for the truth
Yeah perhaps. The unrelenting, and dragged out monotone of the framing narrative, especially. How fairly that presentation template could be seen as applying to Glick is open I suppose to dispute.
‘Told you so’ and plaintive are contested not so much as descriptors, as being not lacking in justification. So I take that as a wash.
Perhaps whiny would have better been replaced by droning, but no doubt that would be found wanting too by some.
The point is not that she is wrong or bad, but that her presentation is … tedious.
And I would add often rambling, though others would say highly, perhaps necessarily, parenthetical.
To pick on another undeserving target, I’ll mention a traditional Catholic commentator I sometimes briefly click on in a knee jerk manner because I am interested in the issues announced on the preview window, even though I have at best only a marginal right to be.
I don’t think I have made it through more than one or two of his feeds or uploads, principally because he cannot get to the point. His presentations are so larded with propaedeutical and expository blather, I cannot sit through it long enough to listen through to the crux; and sampling is no guarantee of getting to the kernel of significant news.
He’s also so terrrified of YouTube cutting off his channel for some TOS violation, that he constantly employs the most elaborate euphemisms and talk-arounds, which no one else with an ounce of fortitude bothers with.
That is obviously not Glick’s failing
With him though, I wind up instantly asking myself, “Why did I click this, when I already knew better?”
It’s like unthinkingly pulling into the parking lot of Walmart for some utility item and then remembering the checkout lines and lethargic help just as you begin to exit the car.
RE: China’s death vans
If you want to see how really dark things actually are in today’s China, take a look at this linked video below, which explores how the CCP tries to frighten/warns Chinese citizens about the government’s roving execution vans, and what your last few minutes of life, strapped down to a table in one of these vans, would be like.*
* See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MI8cOvGX_Nw
its rod dreher if not who, I remember hearing one of Rush’s fill in from wisconsin, mark belling who was terminally soporific, do not drive or operate heavy machinery when listening but apparently he is some kind of firebrand in those circles,
Probably looking at way too much Youtube, but I did notice that when perps are caught, and the cops try to wrestle them into cuffs and, then, into the back of a squad car, these perps–mostly, it seems, female–have now developed a whole litany of excuses, which I’d imagine they think will get them some kind of more gentle/special treatment, or even allow them to avoid being arrested and taken to jail i.e.–“I can’t breathe,” I’m pregnant,” “I’ve got “closterphobia,” “I have small children,” “I have cancer,” I’ve just had surgery,” etc., etc.
that AI has gone totally Ultron
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/i-wrote-what-matt-taibbi-unloads-googles-ai-powered-libel-machine
miguel cervantes:
Wow, that’s disturbing.
isn’t it, I’ve read enough of Taibbi, to know what extraordinary lies are contained there in,
Re: Google Gemini AI
The ZeroHedge link above is a good start. Google really screwed the pooch on this one and did so publicly. Their stock is down 4.4% and Google CEO is upset:
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai wrote to employees in an internal memo, “I know that some of its responses have offended our users and shown bias — to be clear, that’s completely unacceptable and we got it wrong.”
Pichai’s memo doesn’t address the root issue. The problem isn’t that users were offended. The problem isn’t that Gemini has “shown bias,” although that phrase is a tell. The problem is that Gemini is biased, and that the rot goes to the heart of its code.
To Pichai, the problem seems to be that we’re offended because Gemini’s bias was shown — that we could see it.
https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2024/02/29/google-still-doesnt-get-it-n4926873
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The bad news is that the AIs from Big Tech are Woke and Gemini screamingly so. The good news is that we’ve been … er … graphically warned.
Re: Google Gemini AI, Part 2
Matt Walsh has a good rundown on Gemini. In particular he shows clips of Jen Gennai, who is a chirpy winsome Google gal with great teeth, though her brain has clearly been eaten away by the Woke zombie virus.
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Google Director of Responsible Innovation
Jen founded, and now leads, Google’s Responsible Innovation team, which operationalizes Google’s AI Principles to ensure that Google’s products have fair and ethical outcomes on individuals and society broadly. Her team works with product and engineering teams, leveraging a multidisciplinary group of experts in ethics, human rights, user research, and racial justice to validate that outputs align with our commitments to fairness, privacy, safety, societal benefit, and accountability to people.
https://blog.google/authors/jen-gennai/
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Holy smokes, Batman! It’s Alissa Heinerscheid, vice president of Budweiser, all over again. Except Jen is in a position of far greater impact.
It’s painful to listen to her jabbering away in pure Woke boilerplate, but for the adventurous, you can watch her here at the 7:46 mark
–Matt Walsh, “Our AI dystopian hell is here”
https://twitter.com/MattWalshShow/status/1760756960452821446
She was a library science professional if that explains anything.
I would think so. It seems that librarians supported Woke and GloboHomo, before those terms were even invented.
Libraries are at the vanguard of grooming youth by distributing pornography to them. If you object, you’re called a book burner. Yet I wonder if Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn are available in these libraries.
I think that many leftists don’t even know they are leftists, any more than a fish knows that it’s wet.
This is my understanding of this event:
In the current, [impeachment hearings, of President Joe Biden], J. Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, admitted that: in a $5 million business deal (with a company that is supported by China’s Government), that [Joe Biden is “The Big Guy”, meaning Hunter Biden’s business partner, in that business deal].
Hunter Biden mentioned, “The Big Guy”, in an email to this Chinese company, when making this business deal.
In the hearing- Hunter Biden tried to [excuse Hunter’s including Joe Biden in that email], by saying, “I must have been drunk, or stoned, when I wrote that email”.
RIIIIIGHT.
It is my understanding that- it is illegal, or [highly immoral], for a President or his family, to use his Federal-Government positions, to make money or business deals, off of those Government positions.
Where are [the Democrats in The Federal Government], who were screaming,
“NO ONE is above the law!”, during Trump’s impeachment trials?
Where are [the Democrats in the press], who were screaming, “NO ONE is above the law!”, during Trump’s impeachment trials?
Well- if the Democrats, and the Democrat-supporting reporters in the press, don’t go after [Joe Biden, and Hunter Biden], as much as they, in courts, went after Donald Trump, in Trump’s impeachment trials, then:
If you are a Democratic Party’s President, THEN YOU ARE ABOVE THE LAW(!),
and,
if you are [the son or daughter] of a Democratic Party’s President, THEN YOU ARE ABOVE THE LAW!
Let us see if [the Democrats in the Federal Government], and [the Democrats-supporting reporters in the US], will hold President Joe Biden, and his son- Hunter Biden, to the same, high-legal standards, that they demanded from former President, Donald Trump.
https://nypost.com/2024/02/29/us-news/hunter-biden-acknowledged-joe-was-the-big-guy-in-5m-china-deal/
Jordan Rivers–
Got my Library Science degree in the mid 1970s, and I was one of the few males and the only conservative in my class, and even back then, from what they said and their attitudes, my classmates were extremely liberal (perhaps, seeing the direction a strong wind was blowing in, there might have been other conservatives as well, but if there were, they just kept quiet about their views).
Went to the American Library Association conference in Chicago the year I graduated–for the first and only time–and my impression was that there was a very strong liberal/leftist influence even then.
Now, of course, things have moved much farther left, and we have things like libraries hosting “drag queen story hours.”
Obviously, if you want to influence what people know and think, having control over which books your local library chooses to buy and has on it’s shelves (you can always justify not stocking certain books by repeating the mantra that “you only have so much money to buy books,” so your “selection officers” have to choose a “representative sample” from among the available books), and which books and subjects it features in library displays also helps in achieving that goal.
P.S.–BTW, If you have kids, I recommend trying to find copies of the old classic stories for children which were published several decades ago, before they disappear–things like “Treasure Island,” “The Wind in the Willows,” “Huckleberry Finn,” or “The Wizard of Oz” (check Ebey)–so that you can avoid contemporary versions of these stories, which, in some cases, may have been censored, modified, or “updated” to meet today’s leftist standards.
I just watched the Eretz Nehederet (Israel’s version of Saturday Night Live) clip that huxley referenced. It’s brutal! Well worth your time. It perfectly skewers Hollywood celebrities’ lack of courage to stand up for causes that actually matter, like the plight of the Israeli hostages in Gaza.
https://youtu.be/u5esBxX5YoI?si=GBAvwlff-oDkcXhR
P.P.S.—At our apparent ages here, perhaps I should have said get these kids books for your grand or great grandchildren.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/john-fetterman-offer-support-hr2?utm_source=theblaze-dailyAM&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily-Newsletter__AM%202024-03-01&utm_term=ACTIVE%20LIST%20-%20TheBlaze%20Daily%20AM&tpcc=email
Just so’s you know the above link can be truncated at the ‘?’ and will work fine:
https://www.theblaze.com/news/john-fetterman-offer-support-hr2
The ‘?’ stuff is called the query string and it can include sensitive information, which can be hacked.
At our apparent ages here, perhaps I should have said get these kids books for your grand or great grandchildren.
Snow on Pine:
What are these things you call “books”? 🙂
The day that comes only once every four years: the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November. Yay!
Books, I dunno.
Grandma + Grandpa had a shelf for them.
send him back to the shop,
https://twitter.com/simonateba/status/1763652635129765894
also george galloway is back from the ether,