I love the way she gives herself over utterly to the backward falls:
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One thing that has been heartening since the inauguration is that money trumps ideology. Lots of people believe whatever, but to actually go and act on that requires someone to be paying their bills, and when that money is taken away, the ideologically-motivated behavior of individuals goes way down. And when that money is threatened, institutions back off or reverse course.
Like so much else in modern society, the passion for Leftism and social justice is largely fake. People are getting paid to do that for a living and role-playing their passionate engagement. Without that money, it’s just people ranting from their barstools and armchairs….
“Every shot fired by the Houthis will be looked upon, from this point forward, as being a shot fired from the weapons and leadership of IRAN,” Mr. Trump pledged. “IRAN will be held responsible, and suffer the consequences, and those consequences will be dire!”
I suppose that doesn’t have to be read as a threat of military action, but it sounds like one.
“Heartwarming” is a reasonable description of my feelings here.
WOW!! Townhall just posted an expose that CJ Roberts is involved with a highly secretive cabal of lawyers and judges including Brown Jackson and Boasberg. I’m not sure what to make of this, but it doesn’t look good for Roberts.
@physicsguy:highly secretive cabal of lawyers and judges
The American Inns of Court have been around for about 50 years, their English counterparts for hundreds. They’re hardly a “secretive cabal”, there’s over 350 of them. They have a search tool to find the nearest one to you.
I’m not sure what to make of this
Way oversold, trying to make it sound sinister. I hear Roberts is in another secretive cabal, limited to 9 only, and only a US President can make you one. And that group gets the final word in all law cases–for life!–and three of them are notorious Trump-haters!
Perhaps the “journalist Bad Kitty Unleashed” who blew the lid off the Inns of Court can get to work on that group next…
April Fools come early it seems
with news of Putin having gone to church to pray for DJT after an assassination attempt.
How exactly would one know what Putin prayed for?
There is a bridge on the Don that you can bid on Boned Looser.
Yessiree.
Further proof that the Donald is making Putin more than a bit nervous.
Excellent post at Zero Hedge, Barry. The charts make very clear that Democrat fiscal policy has driven the accumulated debt to astronomical levels and has made the wealthy richer, widening the gap between the rich and the poor. Democrat policies sound compassionate towards the less wealthy but in actual effect they hurt the poor and the middle class.
I find it hard to take reports of Putin’s personal piety seriously, given how he treats opponents and neighboring nations. It’s for show.
That’s good, but “Currently, former Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama receive daily intelligence briefings.”
Bill Clinton and Obama should not receive these, IMO. I would be fine with Bush’s being cancelled too, if necessary.
WRT the dancer. It must take enormous willpower to overcome the reflexive responses to such a fall.
I was distracted by the mens’ costumes, which looked like blue pajamas with white spats.
I also have trouble warming up to Balanchine’s “pure dance” pieces. Not much passion, and in this case an awkward sense of moving from pose to pose.
I honestly wanted to hear more of her personal story – the interview clips were tantalizing.
allegedly, this was what Witkoff was told, he’s a bit of an easy mark, see the Qataris
RE: NHIs and us Humans
The image/situation you want to keep in mind is that of the indigenous Indians when European settlers came to America, and disrupted everything–what happened to these native American’s health and population numbers, to their culture and civilization, to their material culture (a few examples now sitting in dusty museum exhibits), to their tribes, to their religious beliefs, to their alliances and governing structures, to the rivers, villages, lands, and hunting grounds they traditionally migrated to and lived on, occupied and used, to their economies, and to the animals and plants, to the Buffalo, and the ecosystem their relied on for the way of life and survival; to their AGENCY, and—in the end–the resultant number of Indians who are left, today, at the end of this process, and their condition.
I’ve often thought that, despite their great disadvantages in knowledge, material culture, and military power, if some of the Indian leaders had managed to enlarge their view of the world, to grasp a “big picture” view that encompassed what was happening to them, and recognize that—if they wanted themselves and their way of life to survive, at least somewhat intact–they had to, early on, comprehend the overwhelming nature of their impending peril, and to craft an effective response outside of just physical warfare, things might have turned out somewhat–maybe a lot better.
Then, in order to much more effectively fight this “invasion”–and to also contend with these arriving “aliens” on their own terms and on their own home ground—that some of their best had to–recognize this invasion for what it was, go to England, become highly literate, and educated in European’s knowledge, mindset, and legal system, to find some friends and allies, and to use the political and legal systems, both in England and in America, to mitigate some, maybe a lot, of the ultimate damage.
Assuming that NHIs are real and, are interacting with us humans, how should we think about, analyze, and deal with the situation, what questions should we ask, about a unique situation which will fundamentally change literally everything.
Here is such a “big picture” view.
I am half way though a lengthly Youtube video by Reed Summers (who has a new Youtube site called EMERGENCE) in which he takes an impressive, and a very broad and sober, considered, and analytical look at these questions, and lists and explores what are literally hundreds of very well thought out questions we humans should be asking and trying to get the answers to, if we don’t want to end up being the American Indians in this NHI scenario.*
Our Special Envoy to the Middle East has a lot on his plate, starting with what to do in Gaza.
@Snow on Pine:I’ve often thought that, despite their great disadvantages in knowledge, material culture, and military power, if some of the Indian leaders had managed to enlarge their view of the world, to grasp a “big picture” view that encompassed what was happening to them…
It might help to read some older history books that haven’t been whitewashed. The Indians were allying with Europeans against each other.
Snow on Pine wrote: “… the resultant number of Indians who are left …”
Here’s a data point: At first contact, in the early 1600s, there were roughly 10,000 to 20,000 people in the parent population from which my tribe, and at least four other tribes, descends. In the early 1900s, the base roll of my tribe had about 1100 names. Today, my (recent) enrollment number is in the 60000s. We are still here.
Poor Snow on Pine, the NHIs came and were wiped out by viruses and pathogens on the Earth, never to return (or by some auditory ear worm (Mars Attacks)). That’s as seriously as I can take his hobby horse.
Niketas
The European diseases had killed, according to some, up to 90% of the indiges in North and South America. Among other things, this upset polities and relationships. The Wampanoag, down by half due to small pox caught from shipwrecked French fishermen the year before welcomed the Pilgrims. Possibly it was because, in their weakened state, the untouched Narragansett were leaning on them and throwing in with these new guys looked like a good idea.
See the line up in the the Great Pequot War and King Phillip’s War. The English were one of a number of factions.
In the last big fight between the Commanche and the Texas Rangers, the latter were helped by a bunch of guys from tribes you never heard of because the Commanche had wiped them out.
So it went all across North America.
Besides, the English had better ways of doing things…new crops, tools, firearms, plows, and assimilating, if gradually, was inevitable.
RE: Are there Government/DOD Contingency plans for dealing with the situation if NHIs are unmistakably revealed, or announce themselves?
It’s a common thought/saying that the DOD “has contingency plans for every possible scenario,” but with regard to NHIs, do they have plans for this possibility?
I’ve referred, on an earlier thread, to the existence of Dr. Travis. S.Taylor’s 2006 book, ”An Introduction to Planetary Defense: A Study of Modern Warfare As Applied to Extraterrestrial Invasion,” and since Taylor has worked for DOD, it has occurred to me to wonder if this book was actually a “sanitized” civilian market version of a much more thorough and detailed classified concept paper Taylor did for DOD.
In the occasional science fiction story there is a whole, very well concealed government department dedicated to keeping tabs on NHIs, with teams on alert, ready to spring into action, if and when these NHIs reveal themselves (perhaps something like a small version of a less activist, pared down MIB).
(Of course, the Department of Energy actually does have it’s own small team, acronym NEST, on call to go to sites with their expertise and special detection equipment, and, from the air, to look for nuclear weapons or dangerous radioactive material.)
More often, though, the science fiction story has the DOD “UFO operation” consist of perhaps one lower level officer, stuck in a small, gloomy, filing cabinet filled basement office, the rest of the space almost all taken by a beat up, old GI metal desk (think something like Agent Muldur’s basement FBI office in the X-Files).
Of course, if there actually is a fully developed 80 year old Legacy UFO crash retrieval and reverse engineering program in existence, I’d assume that they’d also have fully developed contingency plans and some knowledgeable forces to implement them.
I don’t know, though, after some of the levels of incompetence, and what are in essence do-nothing, sham, ripoff oversight-free government organizations DOGE has discovered, perhaps there actually are no contingency plans anywhere within government, and the relevant officials just hope that the “NHI problem” will just magically disappear. *
@Snow on Pine:the relevant officials just hope that the “NHI problem” will just magically disappear.
Most likely, they don’t consider the possibility to be significant to bother about. Some people worry about asteroids, and though an asteroid strike is unlikely they have got government people thinking about them, but asteroids at least are known to exist….
they don’t have a good grasp on terrestrial threats, imagine something much more vast, the notion that there is something like unit from the classic dr who, or majestic 12, the conjecture, that stan friedman, foisted upon the world, is entertaining but implausible, then again seeing how much government funding is waste, it wouldn’t be crazy to consider someone would pretend to do some type of modeling, michael Mann to the white courtesy phone,
look how quickly the Telegraph and the Mail jumped to the Russian motive in the Heathrow fire, ignoring say the 50,000 Hamas sympathizers, that Airship One boasts of,
the scenario in the latter instance does resemble the story in Die Hard 2, where the hackers, remotely shut off at least some of the communications systems to the aircraft,
part of the Anti Americanism that swedes like Renny Harlin imbibe with their mothers milk,
if that BBC series Cobra was still on the air, thats the conclusion they would jump to
@miguel cervantes:thought you knew everything about the pyramids
Nobody thinks that everything is known about the pyramids, not even people who have spent their whole lives studying Ancient Egypt.
I clicked through the link, they didn’t “discover” anything. They took radar photos from “420 miles up” and inferred the “underground city” based on this image.
If it’s not a hoax, then it’s no different from the “mass graves” in Canada “discovered” with radar that oddly don’t yield any bones.
Usual legacy media “too good to check” garbage.
ICONIC! NCAA Champion salutes and then hugs President Trump in Philadelphia and crowd goes wild!
When the army took over control of the plains Indian Agencies after the Little Big Horn and implemented strict population counts, they discover the native population was a lot lower than they had believed.
it’s informed conjecture, unlike the black legend of the ‘mass graves’ one of those bogeyman that trudeau gave breath to,
I don’t see Carney as any better, but he offends me, not because he had any
relation to the Wandering Coma, his parents were fool enough,
@miguel cervantes:it’s informed conjecture, unlike the black legend of the ‘mass graves’
The “mass grave” people will be delighted to show you their maps of radar anomalies. Both are garbage.
I clicked through to the YouTube account linked in the article, and it’s all “ancient aliens” stuff…
The image they generated is probably real, but SAR can’t penetrate the ground surface. Its normal use is to map surfaces, not to detect deep structures. The software and calculations from that image that Khafre Project claims imply underground structures have not been made available for anyone else to review.
So they’re using a tool, for totally different purpose than which its intended, and then doing a bunch of calculations on the data that only they know what they are, and then are using AI to create 3d artist impressions of what they think it might be. Nothing has been “discovered”.
It’s just hype or clickbait, at this point.
As for the “Khafre Project” I can’t find a homepage, publications, CVs of the researchers, funding sources, anything besides clickbait articles about an “underground city” discovered under the pyramids.
I have heard rumors that a book has been published that addresses the many faults of universities today. Amongst those being the fraudulent courses included in a degree of study. For example, if a student is studying for a degree in ecology how many of those courses are STEM based? How many are required to be STEM based but are described in a university’s curriculum as “general”. In other words the cost of hiring a sceince faculty member is reduced by reducing the number of science courses “required” or “substituted” by some social type of course. I heard about it on Fox news several weeks ago, and apparently the woman who is the author was on the talk show circuit, but I missed everything! Will someone here help me find this book or author? Thank you
I saw an interview with Allegra Kent on a self-indulgent PBS broadcast 35 years ago. I shouldn’t remember it, but I do. I do not recall her having a chirpy girlvoice at all. Vaguely disturbing, that sort of failure of memory.
@Anne:In other words the cost of hiring a sceince faculty member is reduced by reducing the number of science courses “required” or “substituted” by some social type of course.
This would be dependent on the kind of college or university it is, but in general, you save money by not hiring faculty at all. Instead you hire academic staff, who are in many cases at-will employees sometimes cobbling together two or three teaching gigs. There are so many more STEM PhDs produced annually than there are faculty positions that it is really an employer’s market. Even the tiniest, most obscure college in the middle of nowhere can pick from hundreds of applicants for any teaching position whatever.
Instructional staff is not where universities are spending their salary money. Administrators, support staff, athletics. In every state, the big state university football coach is the highest paid state employee UNLESS the state university has a medical school and then the administrator of the medical school is.
Going to graduate school and getting a PhD with the expectation of being a college professor is almost like playing varsity football in high school and expecting to play in the NFL.
Snow On Pine,
Are you familiar with the story of Quanah Parker, last chief of the Comanche? He was able to bridge the gap between ancient and modern worlds and broker a favorable peace with the US Govt. His mother was Cynthia Anne Parker, captured as a child and later ‘rescued’. It was an enormous sensation at the time and rather tragic. There was some sentiment that she would be happier staying with the Comanche as she had grown up with the tribe and had 3 children. But her surviving Texas family insisted she be reunited with them. She and her small daughter did not live for more than a few years after separation from the tribe. But her son gained recognition and stability for his band of Comanche. The movie The Searchers is loosely based on her story but the real story is more complex and far more interesting. As usual!
@Molly Brown:. His mother was Cynthia Anne Parker, captured as a child and later ‘rescued’. It was an enormous sensation at the time and rather tragic.
It’s only fair to note that of the women captured by Indians, including a surviving relative of Cynthia Anne Parker, most of them had horrifying stories, and most of the rest of Cynthia Anne Parker’s family was murdered. She had little choice but to bond with her captors.
I would have quoted one of these other narratives here for balance, but they sound like October 7. They have not all been scrubbed from the Internet yet.
Once in a while, for reasons known only to them, they treated one at least as well as Indians treated their own women, which quite poorly even by the standards of the time. This is no longer PC to talk about, atrocities are only allowed to go one way these days.
Niketas, thanks for the insights.
I actually didn’t know — or buried? —
that Indians treated their own women poorly.
@ miguel > thanks for the link to Esolen’s analysis of the New Snow White.
I think he makes several valid points.
If you’ve heard anything about Disney’s new live-action Snow White remake, it’s probably that it’s woke, that star Rachel Zegler is a “DEI princess,” and that the movie caters to cringe left identitarianism. The long-in-the-works movie, most of which was shot in 2022, has been embroiled in online controversy for years, and most of the complaints were made by people who hadn’t seen the movie.
But I have. And the movie is indeed a trainwreck. The problem isn’t that it’s woke. It’s that it’s awful—and lamely, bluntly socialist.
The remake’s big idea was to twist the idea of the word “fair.” See, in earlier versions of Snow White, an evil queen asks a magic mirror, “Who is the fairest of them all?” It’s always the queen, until one day the mirror responds that it’s actually her stepdaughter, the Princess Snow White. The question, “who is the fairest,” in other words, has always been a question about beauty. But in the remake, there’s something else going on. The movie goes to great lengths to demonstrate that the queen isn’t fair because she’s not a socialist. I am not kidding.
One thing that has been heartening since the inauguration is that money trumps ideology. Lots of people believe whatever, but to actually go and act on that requires someone to be paying their bills, and when that money is taken away, the ideologically-motivated behavior of individuals goes way down. And when that money is threatened, institutions back off or reverse course.
Like so much else in modern society, the passion for Leftism and social justice is largely fake. People are getting paid to do that for a living and role-playing their passionate engagement. Without that money, it’s just people ranting from their barstools and armchairs….
I have no idea what to make of this.
https://archive.md/Lrztz
I suppose that doesn’t have to be read as a threat of military action, but it sounds like one.
“Heartwarming” is a reasonable description of my feelings here.
https://x.com/charlesornstein/status/1903178204191527061
Mike Plaiss:
I find both of your items heartwarming, along with news of Putin having gone to church to pray for DJT after an assassination attempt.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/putin-prayed-trump-assassination-attempt-022833118.html
WOW!! Townhall just posted an expose that CJ Roberts is involved with a highly secretive cabal of lawyers and judges including Brown Jackson and Boasberg. I’m not sure what to make of this, but it doesn’t look good for Roberts.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2025/03/22/chief-justice-john-roberts-caught-in-elitist-club-of-judges-and-lawyers-n2654245
@physicsguy:highly secretive cabal of lawyers and judges
The American Inns of Court have been around for about 50 years, their English counterparts for hundreds. They’re hardly a “secretive cabal”, there’s over 350 of them. They have a search tool to find the nearest one to you.
I’m not sure what to make of this
Way oversold, trying to make it sound sinister. I hear Roberts is in another secretive cabal, limited to 9 only, and only a US President can make you one. And that group gets the final word in all law cases–for life!–and three of them are notorious Trump-haters!
Perhaps the “journalist Bad Kitty Unleashed” who blew the lid off the Inns of Court can get to work on that group next…
April Fools come early it seems
How exactly would one know what Putin prayed for?
There is a bridge on the Don that you can bid on Boned Looser.
Yessiree.
Further proof that the Donald is making Putin more than a bit nervous.
+ Bonus
The economics of it all (in a nutshell).
AKA the ultimate ANTI-KRUGMAN.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/darkest-secret-behind-democrats-economic-policy
Excellent post at Zero Hedge, Barry. The charts make very clear that Democrat fiscal policy has driven the accumulated debt to astronomical levels and has made the wealthy richer, widening the gap between the rich and the poor. Democrat policies sound compassionate towards the less wealthy but in actual effect they hurt the poor and the middle class.
I find it hard to take reports of Putin’s personal piety seriously, given how he treats opponents and neighboring nations. It’s for show.
Trump revokes security clearances for Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden and others
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/mar/22/trump-revokes-security-clearances-kamala-harris-hillary-clinton-joe/
That’s good, but “Currently, former Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama receive daily intelligence briefings.”
Bill Clinton and Obama should not receive these, IMO. I would be fine with Bush’s being cancelled too, if necessary.
WRT the dancer. It must take enormous willpower to overcome the reflexive responses to such a fall.
I was distracted by the mens’ costumes, which looked like blue pajamas with white spats.
I also have trouble warming up to Balanchine’s “pure dance” pieces. Not much passion, and in this case an awkward sense of moving from pose to pose.
I honestly wanted to hear more of her personal story – the interview clips were tantalizing.
allegedly, this was what Witkoff was told, he’s a bit of an easy mark, see the Qataris
RE: NHIs and us Humans
The image/situation you want to keep in mind is that of the indigenous Indians when European settlers came to America, and disrupted everything–what happened to these native American’s health and population numbers, to their culture and civilization, to their material culture (a few examples now sitting in dusty museum exhibits), to their tribes, to their religious beliefs, to their alliances and governing structures, to the rivers, villages, lands, and hunting grounds they traditionally migrated to and lived on, occupied and used, to their economies, and to the animals and plants, to the Buffalo, and the ecosystem their relied on for the way of life and survival; to their AGENCY, and—in the end–the resultant number of Indians who are left, today, at the end of this process, and their condition.
I’ve often thought that, despite their great disadvantages in knowledge, material culture, and military power, if some of the Indian leaders had managed to enlarge their view of the world, to grasp a “big picture” view that encompassed what was happening to them, and recognize that—if they wanted themselves and their way of life to survive, at least somewhat intact–they had to, early on, comprehend the overwhelming nature of their impending peril, and to craft an effective response outside of just physical warfare, things might have turned out somewhat–maybe a lot better.
Then, in order to much more effectively fight this “invasion”–and to also contend with these arriving “aliens” on their own terms and on their own home ground—that some of their best had to–recognize this invasion for what it was, go to England, become highly literate, and educated in European’s knowledge, mindset, and legal system, to find some friends and allies, and to use the political and legal systems, both in England and in America, to mitigate some, maybe a lot, of the ultimate damage.
Assuming that NHIs are real and, are interacting with us humans, how should we think about, analyze, and deal with the situation, what questions should we ask, about a unique situation which will fundamentally change literally everything.
Here is such a “big picture” view.
I am half way though a lengthly Youtube video by Reed Summers (who has a new Youtube site called EMERGENCE) in which he takes an impressive, and a very broad and sober, considered, and analytical look at these questions, and lists and explores what are literally hundreds of very well thought out questions we humans should be asking and trying to get the answers to, if we don’t want to end up being the American Indians in this NHI scenario.*
* See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWFG1VsRA-E&t=2062s
Our Special Envoy to the Middle East has a lot on his plate, starting with what to do in Gaza.
@Snow on Pine:I’ve often thought that, despite their great disadvantages in knowledge, material culture, and military power, if some of the Indian leaders had managed to enlarge their view of the world, to grasp a “big picture” view that encompassed what was happening to them…
It might help to read some older history books that haven’t been whitewashed. The Indians were allying with Europeans against each other.
Snow on Pine wrote: “… the resultant number of Indians who are left …”
Here’s a data point: At first contact, in the early 1600s, there were roughly 10,000 to 20,000 people in the parent population from which my tribe, and at least four other tribes, descends. In the early 1900s, the base roll of my tribe had about 1100 names. Today, my (recent) enrollment number is in the 60000s. We are still here.
seriously
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14523663/convicted-synagogue-bomber-hassan-diab-living-canada-extradition-france.html
Poor Snow on Pine, the NHIs came and were wiped out by viruses and pathogens on the Earth, never to return (or by some auditory ear worm (Mars Attacks)). That’s as seriously as I can take his hobby horse.
Niketas
The European diseases had killed, according to some, up to 90% of the indiges in North and South America. Among other things, this upset polities and relationships. The Wampanoag, down by half due to small pox caught from shipwrecked French fishermen the year before welcomed the Pilgrims. Possibly it was because, in their weakened state, the untouched Narragansett were leaning on them and throwing in with these new guys looked like a good idea.
See the line up in the the Great Pequot War and King Phillip’s War. The English were one of a number of factions.
In the last big fight between the Commanche and the Texas Rangers, the latter were helped by a bunch of guys from tribes you never heard of because the Commanche had wiped them out.
So it went all across North America.
Besides, the English had better ways of doing things…new crops, tools, firearms, plows, and assimilating, if gradually, was inevitable.
RE: Are there Government/DOD Contingency plans for dealing with the situation if NHIs are unmistakably revealed, or announce themselves?
It’s a common thought/saying that the DOD “has contingency plans for every possible scenario,” but with regard to NHIs, do they have plans for this possibility?
I’ve referred, on an earlier thread, to the existence of Dr. Travis. S.Taylor’s 2006 book, ”An Introduction to Planetary Defense: A Study of Modern Warfare As Applied to Extraterrestrial Invasion,” and since Taylor has worked for DOD, it has occurred to me to wonder if this book was actually a “sanitized” civilian market version of a much more thorough and detailed classified concept paper Taylor did for DOD.
In the occasional science fiction story there is a whole, very well concealed government department dedicated to keeping tabs on NHIs, with teams on alert, ready to spring into action, if and when these NHIs reveal themselves (perhaps something like a small version of a less activist, pared down MIB).
(Of course, the Department of Energy actually does have it’s own small team, acronym NEST, on call to go to sites with their expertise and special detection equipment, and, from the air, to look for nuclear weapons or dangerous radioactive material.)
More often, though, the science fiction story has the DOD “UFO operation” consist of perhaps one lower level officer, stuck in a small, gloomy, filing cabinet filled basement office, the rest of the space almost all taken by a beat up, old GI metal desk (think something like Agent Muldur’s basement FBI office in the X-Files).
Of course, if there actually is a fully developed 80 year old Legacy UFO crash retrieval and reverse engineering program in existence, I’d assume that they’d also have fully developed contingency plans and some knowledgeable forces to implement them.
I don’t know, though, after some of the levels of incompetence, and what are in essence do-nothing, sham, ripoff oversight-free government organizations DOGE has discovered, perhaps there actually are no contingency plans anywhere within government, and the relevant officials just hope that the “NHI problem” will just magically disappear. *
* See https://www.dailywire.com/news/fmcs-slush-fund-abolished-by-trump?topStoryPosition=undefined
@Snow on Pine:the relevant officials just hope that the “NHI problem” will just magically disappear.
Most likely, they don’t consider the possibility to be significant to bother about. Some people worry about asteroids, and though an asteroid strike is unlikely they have got government people thinking about them, but asteroids at least are known to exist….
they don’t have a good grasp on terrestrial threats, imagine something much more vast, the notion that there is something like unit from the classic dr who, or majestic 12, the conjecture, that stan friedman, foisted upon the world, is entertaining but implausible, then again seeing how much government funding is waste, it wouldn’t be crazy to consider someone would pretend to do some type of modeling, michael Mann to the white courtesy phone,
look how quickly the Telegraph and the Mail jumped to the Russian motive in the Heathrow fire, ignoring say the 50,000 Hamas sympathizers, that Airship One boasts of,
the scenario in the latter instance does resemble the story in Die Hard 2, where the hackers, remotely shut off at least some of the communications systems to the aircraft,
part of the Anti Americanism that swedes like Renny Harlin imbibe with their mothers milk,
if that BBC series Cobra was still on the air, thats the conclusion they would jump to
interesting notes on the spectacle of the week
https://x.com/AnthonyEsolen/status/1903550476907413827
https://nypost.com/2025/03/23/world-news/vast-underground-city-found-below-egypts-giza-pyramids-scientists/
thought you knew everything about the pyramids,
a bit of perspective,
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/03/the-daily-chart-measly-measles.php
@miguel cervantes:thought you knew everything about the pyramids
Nobody thinks that everything is known about the pyramids, not even people who have spent their whole lives studying Ancient Egypt.
I clicked through the link, they didn’t “discover” anything. They took radar photos from “420 miles up” and inferred the “underground city” based on this image.
If it’s not a hoax, then it’s no different from the “mass graves” in Canada “discovered” with radar that oddly don’t yield any bones.
Usual legacy media “too good to check” garbage.
ICONIC! NCAA Champion salutes and then hugs President Trump in Philadelphia and crowd goes wild!
https://commoncts.blogspot.com/2025/03/iconic-ncaa-champion-salutes-and-then.html
When the army took over control of the plains Indian Agencies after the Little Big Horn and implemented strict population counts, they discover the native population was a lot lower than they had believed.
it’s informed conjecture, unlike the black legend of the ‘mass graves’ one of those bogeyman that trudeau gave breath to,
I don’t see Carney as any better, but he offends me, not because he had any
relation to the Wandering Coma, his parents were fool enough,
@miguel cervantes:it’s informed conjecture, unlike the black legend of the ‘mass graves’
The “mass grave” people will be delighted to show you their maps of radar anomalies. Both are garbage.
I clicked through to the YouTube account linked in the article, and it’s all “ancient aliens” stuff…
The image they generated is probably real, but SAR can’t penetrate the ground surface. Its normal use is to map surfaces, not to detect deep structures. The software and calculations from that image that Khafre Project claims imply underground structures have not been made available for anyone else to review.
So they’re using a tool, for totally different purpose than which its intended, and then doing a bunch of calculations on the data that only they know what they are, and then are using AI to create 3d artist impressions of what they think it might be. Nothing has been “discovered”.
It’s just hype or clickbait, at this point.
As for the “Khafre Project” I can’t find a homepage, publications, CVs of the researchers, funding sources, anything besides clickbait articles about an “underground city” discovered under the pyramids.
I have heard rumors that a book has been published that addresses the many faults of universities today. Amongst those being the fraudulent courses included in a degree of study. For example, if a student is studying for a degree in ecology how many of those courses are STEM based? How many are required to be STEM based but are described in a university’s curriculum as “general”. In other words the cost of hiring a sceince faculty member is reduced by reducing the number of science courses “required” or “substituted” by some social type of course. I heard about it on Fox news several weeks ago, and apparently the woman who is the author was on the talk show circuit, but I missed everything! Will someone here help me find this book or author? Thank you
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/03/righteous_attacks_bringing_the_left_to_heel.html
I saw an interview with Allegra Kent on a self-indulgent PBS broadcast 35 years ago. I shouldn’t remember it, but I do. I do not recall her having a chirpy girlvoice at all. Vaguely disturbing, that sort of failure of memory.
@Anne:In other words the cost of hiring a sceince faculty member is reduced by reducing the number of science courses “required” or “substituted” by some social type of course.
This would be dependent on the kind of college or university it is, but in general, you save money by not hiring faculty at all. Instead you hire academic staff, who are in many cases at-will employees sometimes cobbling together two or three teaching gigs. There are so many more STEM PhDs produced annually than there are faculty positions that it is really an employer’s market. Even the tiniest, most obscure college in the middle of nowhere can pick from hundreds of applicants for any teaching position whatever.
Instructional staff is not where universities are spending their salary money. Administrators, support staff, athletics. In every state, the big state university football coach is the highest paid state employee UNLESS the state university has a medical school and then the administrator of the medical school is.
Going to graduate school and getting a PhD with the expectation of being a college professor is almost like playing varsity football in high school and expecting to play in the NFL.
Snow On Pine,
Are you familiar with the story of Quanah Parker, last chief of the Comanche? He was able to bridge the gap between ancient and modern worlds and broker a favorable peace with the US Govt. His mother was Cynthia Anne Parker, captured as a child and later ‘rescued’. It was an enormous sensation at the time and rather tragic. There was some sentiment that she would be happier staying with the Comanche as she had grown up with the tribe and had 3 children. But her surviving Texas family insisted she be reunited with them. She and her small daughter did not live for more than a few years after separation from the tribe. But her son gained recognition and stability for his band of Comanche. The movie The Searchers is loosely based on her story but the real story is more complex and far more interesting. As usual!
@Molly Brown:. His mother was Cynthia Anne Parker, captured as a child and later ‘rescued’. It was an enormous sensation at the time and rather tragic.
It’s only fair to note that of the women captured by Indians, including a surviving relative of Cynthia Anne Parker, most of them had horrifying stories, and most of the rest of Cynthia Anne Parker’s family was murdered. She had little choice but to bond with her captors.
I would have quoted one of these other narratives here for balance, but they sound like October 7. They have not all been scrubbed from the Internet yet.
Once in a while, for reasons known only to them, they treated one at least as well as Indians treated their own women, which quite poorly even by the standards of the time. This is no longer PC to talk about, atrocities are only allowed to go one way these days.
Niketas, thanks for the insights.
I actually didn’t know — or buried? —
that Indians treated their own women poorly.
@ miguel > thanks for the link to Esolen’s analysis of the New Snow White.
I think he makes several valid points.
A writer at Reason makes several additonal important points about the New Snow White (h/t Andrea Widburg at American Thinker)
https://reason.com/2025/03/21/forget-woke-snow-white-disneys-remake-is-more-like-socialist-snow-white/
Andrea’s post:
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/03/disney_seems_to_have_leeched_the_essential_goodness_out_of_snow_white.html
Here is an interesting little rumination on monsters.*
* See https://thelawdogfiles.substack.com/p/monsters