Thursday, December 28, 2017

Liberal Dystopia - Californians Reap What They Sow

California is becoming a socialist dystopia. With massive homelessness, joblessness, and illegal immigration problems, Democrat Party policies are beginning to bear rotten fruit.

Vox Day comments on a story of people fleeing high tax states such as New York and California, which loses actual tax payers without a decrease in total population due to the continued influx of "immigrants", "migrants" and other invaders that generally will pay little or no taxes compared to the established Americans that departed, thus also threatening the funding of the massive spending these high tax Democrat states engage in.

It's amusing how people suddenly start talking very differently about the tax-paying abilities of immigrants when they realize that the state's tax revenue is actually going to depend on them.

The problem is that these so-called "blue state" idiots are going to vote for exactly the same thing they're fleeing now. - http://voxday.blogspot.com/2017/12/no-worries-theyve-got-immigrants.html

That's the problem. These loons escape the disaster of Democrat controlled governments by moving to "red states" like Texas, where they then proceed to once again vote for Democrats, eventually creating yet another Hell on earth.

Tuesday, December 26, 2017

Atheism and Truth

"Atheism only matters if it's false"

If atheism is true, does truth cease to be important? Look at in another way – if atheism is true, why bother living as if atheism is true?

Now, from one perspective, it would seem foolhardy and nonsensical to deny the importance of truth. For example, it is true that if you consume rat poison, you will die. It is likewise true that if you jump off a skyscraper, without anything like a parachute, you will die. Ignore or deny these truths at your peril. But these truths can be labeled as survival truths. There are certain truths, typically linked to behavior, that must be acknowledged in order to survive. Objective reality has a way of imposing itself on our beliefs.

But is atheism itself a survival truth? Of course not. One can live a happy, healthy, long life without acknowledging that atheism is true. Millions and millions have done it.

So we have a problem. If atheism is true, only survival truths are important. Atheism is not a survival truth. Thus, atheism is not important.- Atheism’s Slippery Relationship with the Truth

Stephen Baldwin on bitcoin: Cryptocurrencies have potential

Everyone loves a Brand New: "Trump can't win" montage

Don't forget this the next election when the lying, lamestream media lies again and tries to suppress your vote by telling you it's hopeless!

Trump Can't Win, One Year Anniversary Gloatfest

Well, it's over a year now, but these videos are still so fun and enjoyable!

Friday, December 22, 2017

Bitcoin Investors Will Be Crawling Back To Gold Says Agnico's Sean Boyd

Bitcoin may have taken a chunk out of gold demand but Sean Boyd, CEO of Agnico Eagle Mines (AEM), thinks the crypto craze will work to the yellow metal's advantage.

"I actually think you can build a much stronger case for gold in an environment where bitcoin is drawing this kind of investor interest," he said.

Boyd was speaking from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) where he will be ringing the closing bell for the company celebrating 60 years in business. The Canadian-based gold producer has operations in Canada, Finland and Mexico.

"I think gold has done exceptionally well given that we seem to be setting record highs in the stock market every week. [T]he market will turn at some point and it pays to be positioned properly in gold now, it will be hard to get positioned properly somewhere down the road."

"[Gold] Investors will come back when uncertainty creeps back into the market," he added.

Nothing Can Stop Bitcoin - John McAfee interview

Peter Schiff Debates on Bitcoin, Blockchain, Gold

Saturday, December 16, 2017

Cryptocurrency Christmas Shopping List 2017

A list of ideas for gifts revolving around cryptocurrencies that you could give to your friends and relatives (or just yourself) this Christmas.

1. Book: The Internet of Money

2. Hardware wallets (to store cryptocurrencies)

3. Hardware wallet accessories

4. Crypto related clothing (such as T-shirts)

5. Actual cryptocurrency

6. Artwork

7. Toys or dolls

8. CryptoKitties (digital cats)

9. 3d printed models based around cryptocurrency

10. A spacesuit

Swamp 2, People 0

Quote of the Day: No More

No more watching porn. After the string of suicides coming from that industry I am convinced there is something very sinister going on behind closed doors. Most of the people in the porn industry are just broken souls who have most likely been abused in the past and believe they are worth nothing more than their bodies.

Also I am starting to believe that watching these clips are not good for the human brain. Who knows maybe I’m just a prude. Society has become truly sick. - G. Jacinto

Thursday, December 14, 2017

Utopia Awaits

"If there is no God, everything is permitted" - Fyodor Dostoevsky

Biggest bubble in history? What you need to know about bitcoin - Bitcoin or Bitcon?

"Virtual currency bitcoin has officially become the largest bubble in history, eclipsing the notorious "Tulip Mania," the speculative bubble that shook the Dutch economy before it collapsed in 1637."

"Bitcoins value has surged by about 60 times in the last three years. That's faster than tulip bulbs in the 17th century, which at one point were worth ten years of a skilled craftsman's earnings. Back then prices were driven by greed or 'fear of missing out'. But as more people bought into the bulbs, quick profits, a flurry of sales collapsed the price, and left many with crippling debts. Bitcoin is being called the digital tulip of the 20th century, as the same pattern emerges. Fear of missing out and new investors piling in. Critics say the perceived value of the currency, like the tulip, is being conjured out of thin air. But the ever growing army of bitcoin believers say it's here to stay."

A lot of people like to call the rise of Bitcoin "Tulip Mania 2.0", comparing the proliferation of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin to the speculative bubble that developed around tulip bulbs in Holland in the 1600s. In this video, I'll be discussing the prices that Bitcoin might reach if it really does resemble the original "tulip mania". - Louis Thomas

Tulip Mania 2.0: If Bitcoin Price ACTUALLY Resembled Tulip Bulbs...

Quote of the Day: Immigrants

Immigrants may want to be Americans born abroad, but they can't be and they will never be. And more importantly, after having been invaded by four generations of 80 million+ immigrants who have literally degraded the culture, the society, the economy, and the average intelligence, Americans neither love nor want any more. - http://voxday.blogspot.com/2017/12/hes-getting-there.html

Wednesday, December 13, 2017

Naturalism and Mathematical Success

This essay takes up a question posed by the physicist Eugene Wigner in 1960, who was amazed at the success of mathematics in predicting the physical world. What accounts for this success? Wigner ultimately dubbed it a “miracle,” and R. C. Hamming, after an attempt to fill in some gaps left by Wigner, declared mathematics to be “unreasonably effective.” This paper looks at some evolutionary accounts to explain cognition, and expands some ideas of Mark Steiner. Specifically, it explores the role of aesthetics in theory formation and suggests that theism may well offer a better explanation of mathematical success than naturalism.- Does Mathematical Beauty Pose Problems for Naturalism?

Andreas Antonopoulos - Worse Than Useless

Tuesday, December 12, 2017

CNBC - Crypto News BitCoin Channel?

From the YouTube comments: You know, initially I thought Peter was completely wrong about Bitcoin in that it was the future. But the more I see people who have no clue about the purpose of cryptocurrencies get involved with Bitcoin, and the more I see how emotionally people are invested into it as opposed to thinking logically.... the more I see that Peter is 1 million percent right that this might be the biggest bubble ever.

Peter Schiff goes after bitcoin, again. He makes some good points, but is he ultimately right or wrong about cryptocurrency? Comparing its rise to the dot com bubble, he says "if bitcoin collapses, it doesn't mean, well fine, we'll just make money in another crypto currency, it's gonna be a watershed event. They're all gonna come collapsing down, and I know a lot of people are saying 'well, ya know when the dotcom bubble burst not all the companies went to zero, and there were some companies that came back'. Yes, real companies survived that were able to generate real earnings. Most of the companies never generated any earnings and never had the ability to generate earnings, but the ones that survived were the ones that could ultimately prove that they had viability as an enterprise. Well, unfortunately, none of the cryptocurrencies are going to be able to prove that. None of theses companies are Google or even Amazon or Ebay or any of the ones that survived. As far as I'm concerned, every one of these cyrptocurrencies is Pets.com"

Too bad Muhammad wasn’t born yet to dispute it

Jerusalem is the birthplace of Judaism and Christianity, but suddenly 1400 years ago, it became a Muslim holy land, O' Allah, your wisdom is overwhelming! - Linda Kloss

Still More Quotes of the Day

"The U.S. military—whatever it once was—has, for many years, simply been the president’s personal attack force to bomb, invade, occupy, and otherwise bring death and destruction to any country he deems necessary.
Fallen U.S. soldiers died unnecessarily, needlessly, senselessly, in vain, and for a lie. They died a pawn in service to the state. They died for the military/industrial complex. They died for a reckless, belligerent, and meddling U.S. foreign policy that is deeply flawed, and has been for over a hundred years."
Laurence Vance
"But the impulse to conserve for conservation's sake has taken on an unthinking, unsupported, unnecessary urgency. Extinction is the engine of evolution, the mechanism by which natural selection prunes the poorly adapted and allows the most hardy to flourish. Species constantly go extinct, and every species that is alive today will one day follow suit. There is no such thing as an 'endangered species,' except for all species. The only reason we should conserve biodiversity is for ourselves, to create a stable future for human beings. Yes, we have altered the environment and, in doing so, hurt other species. This seems artificial because we, unlike other life forms, use sentience and agriculture and industry. But we are a part of the biosphere just like every other creature, and our actions are just as volitional, their consequences just as natural. Conserving a species we have helped to kill off, but on which we are not directly dependent, serves to discharge our own guilt, but little else."
Alexander Pyron
"When the superiority of voluntary interactions is so patent, so heart-warming, and so overwhelming, why does the State with its soul-crushing compulsion still exist?"
Becky Akers
"The mainstream argument becomes a kabuki theater between the 'ignorantly destructive' populists/nationalists/individualists versus the more 'reasonable' and supposedly forward thinking socialists/globalists/multiculturalists. The truth is, sovereignty champions can be pro-individual liberty and also pro-community or pro-nation, as long as that community is voluntary."
Bob Livingston
"The non-aggression principle, fully extended, allows for managed borders of property.  Property implies discrimination by the property owner; in the case of his property borders, this means the visitor has a right to exit, but not a right to enter.  The property owner may exclude anyone from his property for any reason.
When it comes to 'borders,' the state has made the private property owner impotent in terms of gathering with his neighbors and agreeing to this completely libertarian principle.  The state removes from me my property rights.  The only means I have by which to exercise these rights is via the state – and this is the single argument against state-managed borders, that it is the state acting as the agent."
Bionic Mosquito
"Politics makes society uncivil and demented. In their lust to manipulate and control, the political class is willing to say and do anything to garner power and destroy alternatives. Their goal is not pluralism, tolerance, individual autonomy, or peaceful coexistence—their goal is totalitarian domination. They are reprobate and rabid in their hunger for power. Their methods enthusiastically involve deceiving, confusing, crippling, annoying, insulting, maligning, meddling, molesting, muckraking, impeding, burdening, exhausting, exasperating, extorting, damaging, demoralizing, threatening, frightening, terrorizing, and destroying. It’s complete incivility and depravity.
What should one expect to be the psychological result of such an environment?"
Trenton Fervor
"The fact is that the federal government has become too bloated, corrupt, and incompetent to really be accountable to the people. And sadly, there’s nothing we can do to fix it. However, it is equally true that a government closer to the people tends to be more responsive and responsible. We need to finally acknowledge that Washington has outlived its usefulness and a 'federal government' is a government too many. If Texas were to revoke the sovereignty that it loaned to the Union, then Texas could form a more transparent government, one that is more interested in protecting the freedom of its citizens than it is in stealing their money."
Ryan Thorson

Gender Equality...Tomorrow

Fast Food Inflation

...and inflation in general. Your dollars have been destroyed by the Federal Reserve!

Bitcoin vs. Gold Debate

Max Keiser vs Peter Schiff

Monday, December 11, 2017

Why the War on Christmas?

Every year, immediately after Thanksgiving, the War on Christmas begins. The sneering of the sick-minded, black-hearted (and small-manhooded) begins.
The colored lights, the festive kindness, the gay cheer that boldly defies the dark drear of winter, the singing of carols soaring starward, the love of family and friends, and, most of all the images of Saint Nicholas, the Star of Bethlehem, and the baby in the manger, all heap burning coals on the heads of our friends on the Left, and cause them pain.
Why does your friendly neighborhood Leftist war on Christmas? Why does he hate it so? Other writers, wiser than I, cannot answer:
No one quite knows the reason. It could be his head wasn’t screwed on just right. It could be, perhaps, that his shoes were too tight. But I think that the most likely reason of all, may have been that his heart was two sizes too small.
On the other hand, the good Dr. Seuss penned one of those Christmas books that somehow manages to mention Santa without mentioning Saint Nicholas, or Christ. So maybe he honestly did not know.
Why must a Leftist hate Christmas, then?  Let us look at it as a multiple choice question.
  • (1) A Leftist is rude.
  • (2) A Leftist is a killjoy.
  • (3) A Leftist is divisive.
  • (4) A Leftist hates America.
  • (5) A Leftist hates Christ.
  • (6) All of the above.
Let us ponder each possible answer:
First, the War on Christmas is waged to be rude.Read more: It’s Not Just the Décor. Why the Left Truly Hates Christmas

Friday, December 8, 2017

Quote of the Day: Feminism

The grand feminist experiment in sexual equality has failed, brutally. It failed faster than communism. It failed faster than civic nationalism. It failed faster than multiculturalism. Feminism is literally the dumbest, most destructive ideology that has ever been invented, which is no surprise because it was invented by the most neurotic women history has ever known. - Vox Day

President Donald Trump Is About To Start Kicking Ass

Alex Jones breaks down Donald Trump's Presidential timeline, shows how he's grown into his role as leader of the United States so far, and lays out how he's about to unleash the Americana beast.

Thursday, December 7, 2017

Black Students Want Segregation - Agree or Disagree

"I'm 100% okay with segregation in America, and I know MANY others would be okay with it too. Why can't everyone agree with the fact that people want their own race to survive and not go extinct? Everyone would be so much more comfortable if we re-segregated. Less"racism"!

The best option would be to separate the United states in certain areas. People that prefer to be with their own race in certain areas and an area for people that prefer to be "interracial" or "multicultural". Everyone shouldn't look at this so negatively. Honestly, it's a GOOD thing for us all! Everyone embraces their own culture. If you don't than you're lying to yourself.

Seriously, let's bring the segregation back for the betterment of us all!" - A.C. Coon

Students4Justice Is asking for this segregated place even though U of M is building a $10 million center for black students in the center of campus.

We all must ask ourselves what is going on in these American campuses. Why are all these minority groups clamoring for the old days at least some parts of it.

We have to realize what is truly going on today not only in the political realm but also within our society. - Black U of M Students Want Segregation

Tuesday, December 5, 2017

Keiser Report: Hyper-bitconization

From The Durham hotel in North Carolina, Max and Stacy debunk the myths of the top 1%. The fact is that they got there by erecting barriers to entry through government regulations barring new entrants from competing with them. In the second half, Max continues his smash interview with Jameson Lopp of BitGo.com; the two discuss the latest in bitcoin markets and hyper-bitcoinization.

Monday, December 4, 2017

The Decline of the West | Oswald Spengler

Western culture overcomes its fear of death with purposeful action. We see our Religion as requiring us to convert others, our Science as one of Forces moving objects, and our Painting as one of Perspective and Direction. This urge to change the world is inherent to the West and we call this urge: Will, Force and Deed.

Sunday, December 3, 2017

The Dark Night Of The Soul

Pandora’s Box gets thrown open and all that repressed negativity comes flying to the surface. The practitioner has just come face-to-face with what Carl Jung referred to as The Shadow and most folks find it overwhelming. If the person begins projecting their personal Shadow on the world around them, things can get damned scary. This is usually the time when the religious devotee starts examining the world and wondering why so many horrible things happen under the guidance of a supposed loving God.- Dealing With The Dark Night Of The Soul

A Complete Lie

You've heard of our greatest scientific theories: the theory of evolution, the Big Bang theory, the theory of gravity. You've also heard of the concept of a proof, and the claims that certain pieces of evidence prove the validities of these theories. Fossils, genetic inheritance, and DNA prove the theory of evolution. The Hubble expansion of the Universe, the evolution of stars, galaxies, and heavy elements, and the existence of the cosmic microwave background prove the Big Bang theory. And falling objects, GPS clocks, planetary motion, and the deflection of starlight prove the theory of gravity.

Except that's a complete lie. - Scientific Proof Is A Myth

The Sunday Jesus: Sons of the Devil

Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and I am here. I came not of my own accord, but he sent me. Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to hear my word. You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies. But because I tell the truth, you do not believe me. Which one of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me? Whoever is of God hears the words of God. The reason why you do not hear them is that you are not of God.” - John 8:42-47

Jason Callan Reporting: Arby's is buying Buffalo Wild Wings (fast food news)

Recent Reviews of SJWs Always Double Down


  • Great book. I especially enjoyed the portion explaining the fallacies with the given examples. Does tend to be a little dry at times, but a good read nevertheless.
  • Vox Day is an excellent author. Subject well researched and presented. I am learning a lot!
  • Five Stars. Eye opening. Well written.
  • If you have read the first installation in this series - SJWs Always Lie - you know what to expect. But perhaps you might think that you already know what is in this book. Well, yes and no. A lot of the stuff will be familiar to those who have followed the SJW wars, but the tactical and strategic details spelled out in the different chapters on how to identify, resist and deal with SJW infiltrators is worth the price. Even after participating, the section on the strategic thinking behind the Puppies' takedown of the Hugo Awards was an eye opener for me.
  • Knowing how SJW's infiltrate and destroy organizations from within is invaluable information in an age where virtue-signaling is more important that delivering products and services. - Keep your intellectual canon loaded

SJWs Always Double Down: Anticipating the Thought Police

Quote of the Day: Dreaming of Asking a White Girl Out on Christmas?

How long before the song “White Christmas” is banned for being too insensitive to minorities? How long before merely asking a girl on a date is deemed to be sexual harassment? - Laurence M. Vance

Saturday, December 2, 2017

Ed Feser vs Arif Ahmed: Proofs of the Existence of God

Ed Feser is a Catholic philosopher whose latest book ‘Five Proofs of the Existence of God’ presents five classical arguments that he believes present compelling evidence for theism.

He debates two of the arguments on the show with atheist Cambridge philosopher Arif Ahmed. They talk about whether modern atheists take such arguments seriously, and then dive deep into debating the Aristotelian Proof and the Rationalist Proof…

Unbelievable? with Justin Brierley

Immigrants Vote Democrat

The foreign-born vote overwhelmingly, by about 80 percent, for Democrats. They always have and they always will -- especially now that our immigration policies aggressively discriminate in favor of the poorest, least-educated, most unskilled people on Earth. They arrive in need of a LOT of government services. According to the Pew Research Center, 75 percent of Hispanic immigrants and 55 percent of Asian immigrants support bigger government, compared to just over 40 percent of the general public. Even third-generation Hispanics support bigger government by 58 percent. Polls show that immigrants are far more likely to support Obamacare and affirmative action than the general public, and are far less likely to support gun rights and capitalism. - YES, VIRGINIA, IMMIGRATION IS TURNING THE COUNTRY BLUE

Mr. and Mrs. Adam?



Should a Woman Take Her Husbands Name?
Question:
Is it wrong when in marriage the wife does not take her husband's last name; but is identified by her maiden name throughout their marriage?
Answer:
Yes, it is wrong for a woman to do this, as it is
nothing more than following the Women's Liberation philosophy. One major problem that surfaces, what shall the children's
last name be, the wife's or the husband's?
The cause of this new trend lies in rebellion against God's
Word, the Bible. You see, God instituted marriage with Adam and Eve
and set the principles for all mankind thereafter.
In Genesis 2:24, God states that,
"Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, a
nd shall
cleave unto his wife: and they shall be ONE FLESH."
 
,

Since this is impossible, physically, it is therefore referring
to the husband and wife being identified by ONE NAME. This is
further made clear by Genesis 2:23
,
"...she shall be called WOMAN because she was taken out of man."
Here, the Hebrew for "man" is "i
sh" (masculine) and the
Hebrew for woman" is "ish shah. The "ish" is taken from Adam's
name and the "shah" is the feminine in Hebrew. Therefore, being
Adam's wife she has taken Adam's name.
God further addresses them as Mr. and Mrs. Adam in Genesis 5:2
,
"
Male and female created he them;
and blessed them, and called

"Men Have Forgotten God": Warnings From The Past

Over half century ago , while I was still a child , I recall hearing a number of older people offer explanation for the great disaster that had befallen Russia : " Men have forgotten God ; That 's why all this happened " Since then I have spent well nigh fifty years working on the history of our revolution ; in the process I have read hundreds of books , collected hundreds of personal testimonies , and have already contributed eight volumes of my own toward the effort of clearing away the rubble left by that upheaval . But If I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible the main cause of the ruinous revolution that swallowed up to sixty million people , I could not put it more accurately than to repeat : " Men have forgotten God ; That 's why all this happened ..... Alexander Solzenitsyn's thoughts

Solzhenitsyn's Speech at Harvard

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Commencement Address at Harvard University—8 June 1978. {Russian audio with English-translation audio overlay.}

"Godly Men and an Old Earth" - Evangelicals Opposed to Young Earth Creationism

Down through history, learned Bible scholors and wise teachers taught the doctrine of an Old Earth. There has been an attempt by Young Earth organizations like Answers In Genesis to convince their followers that the Old Earth Doctrine is new. Nothing could be further from the truth. Ken Ham is deceitful in his attempt to convince his followers that the Old Earth doctrine was invented so "compromised Christians" could fit "thousands of years into the Bible" after Charles Darwin came up with the theory of evolution.

There is one major problem with this information being spread by the Young Earth teachers. Thomas Chalmers, an Old Earth believer, published his opinion regarding the Gap Doctrine in 1833 in the series, Bridgewater Treatise. Charles Darwin did not publish his theory of evolution, The Origin Of The Species, until 1859, 26 years later. This is another example of how Answers In Genesis alters facts in order to promote their Young Earth theory.-Answers In Genesis Exposed

Jason Callan Reporting: McDonald's is changing some of their sale items around (Fast Food News)

Transsexual Thor and Gay Hispanic Spider-man

...the comics industry can be considered something of a bellwether industry, at least when it comes to the culture war. Even before the university campuses descended into social justice lunacy, the two industry giants, Marvel and DC Comics, hired executives who promptly turned their companies into left-wing propaganda factories. 
 
The extent of the convergence cannot be exaggerated; it is literally worse than you can likely imagine. From a transsexual Thor to a gay Hispanic Spider-man, from tedious lecturing and hectoring to homosexual marrying and villains celebrating girl power with heroes in lieu of fighting them, the culture warriors in comics have insulted their fans, rejected their roots, besmirched their heroes, and befouled and be-fattened the formerly beautiful....You may quite reasonably ask yourself why any of this matters; after all, comics are a small and relatively unimportant market. But the comics of today are the movies of tomorrow. They are the seeds of tomorrow’s culture. - How the Left Laid Waste to Comics and Sci-Fi Publishing

Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.: The Southern Imagination

Guests: Eudora Welty, Walker Percy, Gordon Weaver, Jerry Ward, Dan Hise

Recorded on December 12, 1972

Thursday, November 30, 2017

Predatory Practices

Predatory Practices.

I don't know who came up with or whence it came from but quite frankly I don't care. It's a term generally used by populists and leftists looking to demonize or 'regulate' unfettered capitalism and the free-enterprise system. "Unfettered" capitalism. There's another good for nothing meaningless Marxist phrase.

It's a terrible way of thinking presupposing an all too popular belief among the left that businesses exist for profit strictly by exploiting and gouging.

To think this way is to not understand business and concepts like 'economies of scale' and the idea that prices generally tend to come down over time thanks to efficiencies in production and rising demand.

No company wants to keep prices up for its own sake. They try and follow price signals and go where the demand takes them. If they price themselves out they're out of business because of competitive forces.

Regulation aiming to cap and manage prices only worsen things since it generally slows down entrepreneurial process and natural competition by way of new entrants into a market.- http://friendlymisanthropist.blogspot.com/2017/11/phrases-i-hate_26.html

A Firing Line Debate: Resolved: That the Women's Movement Has Been Disastrous

Guests: Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington, Helen Alvare, Betty Friedan, Karen S. Burstein, Camille Paglia, Kathryn Kolbert

Recorded on December 7, 1994

Wednesday, November 29, 2017

Thank You For Not Breeding

"A short film by Nina Paley that explores the topic of human population growth and how it is affecting life on the planet. Using humor and some great clips featuring Les Knight of VHEMT.org, and Chris Korda of the Church of Euthanasia, Paley brings light to a topic that gets little attention in the traditional media." -from the YouTube video description.

Potoo Bird of Brazil

The Potoo bird of Brazil is nocturnal and hunts from a wooden perch. If it believes a threat is nearby it will freeze in place to avoid detection.

Do we have free will? Debate between Stephen Kershnar and John Keller

A debate between philosophers Stephen Kershnar and John Keller on October 22, 2015, at the University of Buffalo.

Q&A portion of Do we have free will? Debate between Stephen Kershnar and John Keller

1970 Pontiac GTO Judge

President of Coker Tires Wade Kawasaki stops by the garage to show Jay his 1970 Pontiac GTO Judge that was named after a popular character from the 60's Television show Laugh-In.

I'm posting this because I was randomly going through my blog and came across this old post: http://www.skepticaleye.com/2009/04/ponti-whacked.html. I featured an old GTO "The Judge" commercial in that post, and though I can't say I'm particular taken with that particular automobile, I do like old cars in general, and old muscle cars are really cool.

The one featured in the Jay Leno video above is a nice example of a near original. The car was in a garage for a couple of decades and only had 40-50,000 original miles. The interior is orignal, and in great condition, it just required a little cleaning. The body had no rust, so really, once the exterior and engine were restored, you have a Judge as it must have come from the factory when new.

More on Coker Tire:

Though Coker's products retain the appearance of the old tires by using the original, refurbished molds, or new molds built from original drawings, the tires are made with modern materials. Coker Tire was given manufacturing rights by the original tire brands, and also has acquired many different tire molds of the original obsolete tires they manufacture. Coker Tire also offers wheels for collector vehicles.- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coker_Tire

Tuesday, November 28, 2017

Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.: Bill Buckley and Firing Line Get Roasted with John Kenneth Galbraith, Harriet F. Pilpel, Henry Kissinger, Eugene J. McCarthy, Tom Wolfe, Jeff Greenfield

Recorded on January 14, 1986. Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the show, which first aired in 1966.

How the Grammys Became the R&B/Hip Hop Awards

The Grammys in New York took a weird turn this morning as the nominations were a shocker: Ed Sheeran’s best selling “Divide” did not get an Album of the Year nod, neither did albums by Lady Gaga or Kesha. Instead, the Grammys went mostly for R&B and rap: Jay Z, Bruno Mars, Kendrick Lamar and Childish Gambino, who is really the actor Donald Glover.-Grammy Awards Shocker for CBS as Top Pop Stars Ed Sheeran, Lady Gaga Snubbed, No Country Acts in Main Cateogories

"I don't see what the problem is. If the television advertisers are to be believed, white people like nothing better than advertisements featuring black people. Especially if those black people are implied to be having sex with white people."-Vox Day

Monday, November 27, 2017

Chesterton on Miracles

The historic case against miracles is also rather simple. It consists of calling miracles impossible, then saying that no one but a fool believes impossibilities: then declaring that there is no wise evidence on behalf of the miraculous. The whole trick is done by means of leaning alternately on the philosophical and historical objection. If we say miracles are theoretically possible, they say, “Yes, but there is no evidence for them.” When we take all the records of the human race and say, “Here is your evidence,” they say, “But these people were superstitious, they believed in impossible things."
--G.K. Chesterton

Hispanics Vote Left, What Else Is New?

Leftist challenger leads in Honduras presidential vote count

Look at the once great state of California. Since the mass invasion from south of the border, the state has become a left-wing Hell.

How To Design A Comic Book Page

"The ‘words & pictures’ that make up the comics language are often described as prose and illustration combined. A bad metaphor: poetry and graphic design seems more apt. Poetry for the rhythm and condensing; graphic design because cartooning is more about moving shapes around — designing — then it is about drawing."

Rap Sheets of Rappers

Rappers and Their Rap Sheets

The End of the Old World Order

The Church of Sweden has voted to adopt a controversial new handbook which says masculine references to God, such as “He” and “Lord” should be scrapped so as to be more “inclusive”

The following story is an interesting follow up to the last video I posted. Has Christianity gone to Hell?

Sofia Camnerin, the deputy chair of Sweden’s Equmenia Church, defended “inclusive language” in the church, stating that the need for it “is based on an awareness of different types of discrimination and inequality in our society.”

“Referring to God as ‘Lord’ consolidates [gender] hierarchies and the subordination of women in a white, Western feminist context,” she argued in a blog.- Church of Sweden Officially Drops Calling God ‘Lord’, ‘He’ to be More Inclusive

Below I've quoted Dr. Edward Feser on the issues of God's gender, which I think are relevant to the idiocy coming out of the Church of Sweden and many other converged "Christian" churches infected with SJW values.

Is God Male?

Being immaterial and incorporeal, God is not an animal, and thus he is not a rational animal or human being. And since he is not a human being, he is not literally either a man or a woman. He is sexless. Nevertheless, the traditional practice has been to characterize God in masculine terms...Some contemporary writers object to such usage, dismissing it as "sexist" and lacking in rational justification. Hence they often adopt the "politically correct" and clumsy practice of referring to God as "he/she/it". But in fact there are good philosophical reasons for the traditional usage.

Consider first of all that as we have seen, there is in God intellect and will, and these attributes are definitive of personality. Accordingly, God cannot appropriately be characterized in impersonal terms, as an "it". But then, why "he" and "him", rather than "she" and "her"?

The reason is that God's relationship to the world is much more like a paternal relationship than it is like a maternal relationship. biologically speaking, a father's role in procreation is active insofar as he impregnates, and a mother's role is passive insofar as she is impregnated. There is no change to a father's physiology as a consequence of impregnation, whereas there is a radical change in the mother's physiology. The mother becomes more physically dependent on the father, who must provide for his mate and for their unborn child-even if, unfortunately, some fathers do not do their duty in this regard. As that sad fact indicates, the father is in no way physically dependent on his mate or their child, which is why he can (even if he shouldn't) leave the scene. There is also a literal physiological connection between the child and its mother that doesn't exist between the child and its father, whi is literally more distant during the whole process of gestation.

Now, there are obvious analogies here to God's relationship to the world. God is active insofar as he creates the world, whereas the world is passive insofar as it is created by God. As pure actuality, God is entirely unchangeable, whereas the world is a mixture of actuality and potentiality that is continuously changing. The world depends entirely on God at every instant, whereas God in no way depends on the world. The world could not exist without God even though he could exist without it. God is also utterly distinct from the world rather than being identical to it (as in pantheism) or even continuous with it (as in panentheism).

So, given the key elements of classical theism...the most natural and least misleading way of characterizing God is in paternal and thus masculine terms. Maternal imagery would suggest that God is changeable or continuous with the world, which would in turn suggest a panentheist conception of God, or a pantheist conception, or a conception which in some other way is at odds with God's immutability, immateriality, eternity, and pure actuality. - Dr. Edward Feser, Five Proofs of the Existence of God

Saturday, November 25, 2017

Jordan Peterson: Advice for Hyper-Intellectual People

Famous Cardiac Surgeon's Stories of Near Death Experiences in Surgery

Dr. Lloyd Rudy, a pioneer of cardiac surgery, tells stories of two patients who came back to life after being declared dead, and what they told him.

https://youtu.be/JL1oDuvQR08

A Liverpudlian on the Brexit Vote

Liverpool born and bred I still cannot believe that MY City voted REMAIN. It is beyond me. Liverpool was once a magnificent (deep water) port where huge ships and liners left it to travel around the world to places like Hong Kong, America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Africa, Russia etc. - carrying people and importing, exporting goods. It was a hub of activity and then came EUROPE and everything went South, literally. Those who voted REMAIN do not know their history. History is being negated, slung into dark corners by the putrid PC brigade to decay, and become dust before being blown away by the winds of lies and oblivion. - Hannah Thompson

Taste Test French Survival Ration from 1996 (Rare**)

Here I'm opening a French survival ration from 1996. What a cool and fun ration to get to see and open. This particular ration set me back about $30 US. So I hope you all enjoyed checking this one out as much as I did. I really enjoy finding these cool hard to find things and even the everyday things and sharing them with you.

DANGER of a WorldView Driven by EMPATHY

Friday, November 24, 2017

Even More Quotes of the Day

"The lowliest, indigent, white redneck who lives in a rusted-out old school bus down by the river in Tennessee is 'privileged,' by definition, whereas the children of multimillionaire Barack Obama or multimillionaire Tiger Woods are 'not privileged.'  In fact, since they are black they are, by definition, 'oppressed' by the white redneck who lives in the rusted-out old school bus down by the river."
Tom DiLorenzo

"Everyone once took for granted that the goal was to seize the federal apparatus and impose their vision on the country.
How about just abandoning this crazy, inhumane task?
Why not admit the differences are irreconcilable, and simply go our separate ways?
Is this not obviously the most humane solution?
Or is there some expectation that somehow, down the road, we'll all be reconciled?
How?
To the contrary, it's only going to get worse.
Forcing these irreconcilable parties to continue along in this way is what normal people would call 'extremist.'
Radical decentralization and secession, on the other hand, are the obvious and necessary solution.
And you know it's the sensible solution, because no one is allowed to discuss it."
Tom Woods

"If the pro-gun control people want to blame someone besides the man in there pulling the trigger, the man who illegally got a weapon, maybe they should look in the mirror. Maybe they should consider their own complicity in making guns more difficult for law-abiding citizens to carry. Maybe they should look at their part in this war on guns and gun owners. Perhaps their derision played a part in seeing to it that no one in that church had the means to stop that killer."
Daisy Luther

"If the national anthem is of such importance, why do we not perform it in everything we do? Is breakfast, or the start of our workday, or going to a grocery store, or undergoing root-canal work at the dentist’s, to be preceded by this tune? Do we refrain from extending such collective foolishness into our daily lives because the numbers of persons are not sufficient to convert individuals into fungible components of a mob?"
Butler Shaffer

"National borders have never really been about how nations self-identify. They have always been about access to resources and the ability to impose taxes. Politics is about how, and on whom, those revenues are spent. The larger a country, the more people it can tax. The larger a government, the more professional politicians and civil servants it can employ."
Ivo Vegter

"Those who are determined to be ‘offended’ will discover a provocation somewhere. We cannot possibly adjust enough to please the fanatics, and it is degrading to make the attempt."
Christopher Hitchens

"If the flag is symbolic of government and that government lies at every turn, enslaves its people, steals from their labor, passes laws that are an execration to their Christian faith, takes from them their liberty, mandates the murder of 1 million babies a year, imports tens of thousands of immigrants to replace American workers and drive down wages, and that makes war on other countries that have not threatened us, why should any acknowledge its presence with more than a sneer?"
Bob Livingston

"The claim that 'diversity is America’s greatest strength' is the biggest of all lies.  The truth is that diversity is America’s greatest weakness.  We see this not only in America, but in countries like Germany, France, and Belgium, where far-left leaders have destroyed their once proud cultures with immigration policies that ignore the wants and needs of their own citizens.
As is always the case, when I use the term diversity, I am not referring to a person’s skin color, be he white, brown, yellow, or other.  Diversity is about a person’s cultural beliefs and practices.
The hard truth is that tribalism, which has been around since the dawn of civilization, is the underpinning of a civilized and peaceful society.  The reality that those on the Radical Left (and many in the RINO camp) refuse to accept is that people prefer to be around others who are culturally most like them and, the corollary, they have little desire to be in close proximity to those who are culturally different.
When those in power try to force tribes with different cultural values to live together, it tends to engender hatred and violence, which is why the government should remove itself from the social-experimentation business and let tribes live separately and in peace with other tribes."
Robert Ringer

“'Social justice' can only be achieved through voluntary interactions among individuals within a given social unit. Stealing from some and giving to others through a concept of forced redistribution only creates control and therefore injustice; an unjustly created permanent victim group and an unjustly created permanent dependent group.
That’s not social justice, that’s social control."
Garry Reed

"Stalemate in Korea? Perpetual trouble in Korea? Loss in Vietnam? Continual war in the Middle East and Afghanistan? Confrontation with Iran, Russia and China? Turmoil in Libya and Africa? Worldwide American commitments and possibilities for warfare? Where exactly are the just compensations to taxpayers for the vast takings devoted to the U.S. military establishment? Where is this mythical 'national security' that has been the object?"
Michael Rozeff

"To be blunt about it, in 1954 Armistice Day was hijacked by a militaristic US congress and renamed Veterans Day. Today few Americans understand the original purpose of Armistice Day, or even remember it. The message of peace seeking has been all but erased. Worst of all, Veterans Day has devolved into a hyper-nationalistic quasi-religious celebration of war and the putatively valiant warriors who wage it. We no longer have a national day to recognize or reflect upon international peace."
Arnold Oliver

MRE Pizza Tasting

Yep, another MRE video. I can't seem to get enough of these. I love cold pizza, but not sure this cold MRE pizza would make the grade.

Ok everyone this is the review of the first real MRE pizza on YouTube. This was such a cool item to get to check out. I hope you all enjoyed watching as much as did making the video. Thank you again Shawker71 and Sniip3r for hooking me up. So I had my son try it out he said it taste like pizza, a little sweet, and it needs more bacon he said. Overall he liked it though, and said he'd be happy to have that to eat in a ration. We also heated it up and it really brought the flavors out. it made the sauce taste better and the cheese had more flavor after heating also.- Oldsmokey

Eating Rudolph - Norwegian Reindeer Sausage

Santa doesn't waste anything. When his reindeer become too old, he makes them into delicious Christmas presents...

Bret Alan's Corner: Grope Plan

"If you plan to grope women and have liberals defend you, be a Democrat and grab 'em by the ass, not the pussy."

Thanksgiving MRE Review | Turkey Breast with Gravy and Potatoes Menu #18 From 2001

Awesome frozen for 15 years MRE Menu #18 Turkey Breast with Gravy and Potatoes. This was just like opening a true time capsule from 2001.

I stumbled on these MRE review videos quite by accident, sort of how I stumble on everything. There seem to be lots of YouTube channels dedicated to these, the best actually being Steve1989MREInfo. That guy reviews EVERYTHING, I mean, we're talking rations from World War II even. And he'll often even eat the "food" out of those ancient "MREs". I'll review Steve in detail soon (though that's soon in Skeptical Eye time, which might mean by next Thanksgiving).

Thursday, November 23, 2017

The Real First Thanksgiving

Whether we realize it or not, we all have an image of the first Thanksgiving that’s more or less a cartoon we were taught in grade school. In the autumn of 1621, a plucky group of black-clad, buckle-shoed Pilgrims and stoic yet friendly Indians feasted together after a successful autumn harvest, heralding a promising new friendship between their two peoples. The actual history of the first Thanksgiving is of course nothing like the grade-school story—it’s far more interesting and complex. While it undermines the bowdlerized, multicultural narrative of peaceful Indians and well-meaning Puritans living together in harmony, it also informs a radically more nuanced understanding of the world the Pilgrims found when they landed at Plymouth in December 1620. - The First Thanksgiving Was Nothing Like What You Were Taught

Were the native tribes really doing much of anything with America?

Serious question: were the native tribes really doing much of anything with America? Don't get me wrong, it's sad that so many died from disease, but they didn't even have basic metal working before outsiders showed up. The most advanced civilization in the Americas was still practicing human sacrifice and cannibalism. Is it really so wrong to have ended all that in favor of building a civilization with the industriousness to reach the moon? - Bret Alan

And let's not forget all the species Natives drove to extinction, so don't give me this "They're more in tune with nature" crap when they wiped out mammoths, mastadons, sabre-toothed cats, horses...


Paul Harvey - Pilgrims Thanksgiving

Wednesday, November 22, 2017

You almost never see DISABLED people in China

Does this say something about the superiority of Western, Christian culture and values over the East?

During the video, you'll see a visit to In-N-Out Burger. I thought I saw a "protein style" lettuce wrapped (without the bun) burger. That's the way to go. I'll post more on that subject later.

Pork Chili Recipe

Chili ingredients:
1 yellow onion
2 bulbs, garlic
Avocado oil
4 oz. fresh basil
15 Serrano peppers
3 lbs. cubed pork, ~ 1 cm sides
30 oz. canned whole tomatoes
12 oz. sun-dried tomatoes in olive oil
29 oz. frijoles pintos
29 oz. frijoles negros

 Purée peeled garlic & peeled onion in "processor".
Pour from processor into sauce pan & sauté them in avocado oil until onion starts to caramelize.
Don't clean processor.

Shred basil from stems into processor; add tomatoes and liquefy.
Add to sauce.
Divide pork into halves:
Brown half on gas grille; other half sauté in (another) pan.
Steam peppers on grille, drenched in olive oil, until skin bursts.
Slice open to expose seeds.
Fold both, all meat & peppers, into sauce, bring to simmer.
Add pinto beans; bring to simmer.
Add black beans, bring to simmer.
Simmer all night.

Paul Harvey News Nov 22, 1963 | The Death of JFK

A special edition of Paul Harvey News & Comment, broadcast on the early evening of Friday, November 22, 1963 on the ABC Radio Network. It is one of the few times Harvey had altered his famous "Good Day" sign off.

Still More Quotes of the Day

"Any segment of a population who finds that their values and governmental goals are not being pursued in their present country — who are forced to remain under that nation’s regime — are hostages. As humans, it is our inherited right to create governments, create confederacies, create coalitions, and it is our right to abrogate those things as well."
Joe Wolverton

"If ‘society’—whoever that’s supposed to be—were to push for any values, equality shouldn’t be among them. Equality only exists before the law. People are unique, and therefore naturally unequal. We’re not like ants or blades of grass. Equality is not only impossible, it’s not even desirable. A proper goal to strive for is freedom, which is possible and desirable."
Doug Casey

"I am not being facetious when I tell you 'don’t expect to live much longer.' We are ruled by mindless, insane, psychopaths who believe that the US is invulnerable. These dumbshits are likely to get us all blown off the face of the earth. If you are not concerned that the US government is picking a fight with Russia (and China, North Korea, and Iran as well), something is wrong with you."
Paul Craig Roberts

"Remember that Big Government is a masterpiece of corporate cynicism, propaganda perfection and people control. It was not created for the people, by the people nor of the people. It was created, or at least evolved, for the power and benefit of the elite and their politicians and bureaucrats."
Bob Livingston

"Governments have had a long history of claiming, 'If we don’t all stick together, we’ll be doomed.' However, historically, the aggressors, more often than not, have been the empires. The smaller a country, the more likely it is to mind its own business."
Jeff Thomas

"The Radical Left’s argument is that illegal immigrants do not commit any more crimes than legal citizens, which is irrelevant.  Just because some citizens in the United States are criminals is no reason to bring in more criminals."
Robert Ringer

"Without a doubt, the U.S. military establishment is the largest enterprise in the world. It’s also the recipient of the largest single government taking in the world. The language in the 5th Amendment is powerful. If there is to be a government and if it takes (taxes), then there must be just compensation for the force that has been employed in the taking. This is missing in this case, and it’s missing because the government is the judge. No operable check exists to constrain it from extending its takings far, far beyond what it provides in return. The 5th Amendment’s provision on takings by taxes is not enforced by the government, and there is no reason to expect that it would be. The government doesn’t face competition in the supply of defense. The election of nationalists and militarists like Trump certainly can’t rectify this situation. They get their kicks from beautiful weapons, from the power to threaten and browbeat, and from the unleashing of missiles and force. We who want peace are not compensated in the slightest from these aggressions and potential for aggressions."
Michael Rozeff

"If politics was really about the good of the people, it would matter what those people want. Governments make a show of democracy, but all people are really allowed to do is choose who they want to rule them. No national constitution anywhere in the world (except for St. Kitts and Nevis, and Ethiopia) permits secession. It would remove a part of the tax base, which threatens the prosperity of either the government’s corrupt cronies, or the ruling party’s constituents, or both."
Ivo Vegter

"The bottom line is that each of us is grossly ignorant about the world in which we live. Nothing’s wrong with that ignorance, but we are stupid if we believe that a politician can produce a better life than that which is obtained through peaceable, voluntary exchange with our fellow man anywhere on earth."
Walter Williams

Politics and the English Language, by George Orwell

How Atheists "Win" Debates

Tuesday, November 21, 2017

The Family Holiday Season Debates

Wendy McElroy on Bitcoin

The blockchain is an immutable, transparent ledger of every transaction that has occurred since the Genesis block. The distributed ledger is not only open to those who transact but also to anyone who takes the time to search it. No withholding can harm the user because nothing can be withheld. Bitcoin provides the same service as a competent and honest third party, as well as offering other advantages. It allows greater anonymity, with the individual user remaining in control; it enables micropayments and speedier transactions. Increasingly, however, users are joining exchanges that resemble traditional banks, including sharing customers’ personal data with the government. It is ironic. Bitcoin’s success as a substitute for trusted third parties seems to be leading it back into the embrace of the problem it was created to solve. - The Satoshi Revolution – Chapter 2: Satoshi’s White Paper Breaks Your Economic Chains (Part 5)

Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.: The Failure of Organized Religion with Philosopher Paul Weiss

As a philosopher, Weiss is mainly known for his metaphysical writings such as Being and Other Realities. His other philosophical works include books and articles on epistemology and cosmology. He even published eleven volumes under the title Philosophy in Process, detailing his continuing and sometimes daily reflections over the years 1955–1987. A seminal point of Weiss's philosophy is that Being consists of a plurality of individuals that are unified by universality, which gives a structure to all there is, but that is also irreducible in four distinct ways.[4] During his prime, Weiss maintained a style of philosophy that was considered by many to be out-of-date. In fact, Weiss opposed the philosophies of the analytics, the logical positivists and the Marxists. His was a philosophy on the grand scale-philosophical system-building in the style of Kant, Hegel, or Peirce.- Paul Weiss (philosopher)

Recorded on November 14, 1966

Monday, November 20, 2017

Sam Harris and Lawrence Krauss talk Science and Quantum Mechanics

Offering nihilism packaged as "hope" doesn't sell too well to the masses

"It's a great shame there's a lack of interest," said Jensen. "I say that as someone who believes in God and thinks that it is the most reasonable thing to believe. ... But I also think that the full and frank discussion of fundamental ideas is part of what a healthy culture promotes and enjoys. A Global Atheist Convention is to be welcomed, because every time people think about God and about the meaning of life is a time we more deeply consider the value and purpose of human life. It makes us better citizens."-Global Atheist Convention Called 'Reason To Hope' Cancelled Because No One Wants To Go

The Pseudo-Science of Atheists

Atheist Ronald De Sousa makes the outrageous claim that virtual particles that come from the quantum vacuum is an example of something coming into existence out of nothing. When a student corrected him about the quantum vacuum (that it' actually energy and NOT nothing), De Sousa completely dodged the correction and attacked religion instead! However, William Lane Craig explains that atheists (like De Sousa) resort to pseudo-science when the scientific evidence supports theism and not atheism. Contrary to the belief that science supports naturaism and atheism, that's been found to be incorrect.

Wednesday, November 15, 2017

24 Hour French MRE Menu 9 Beans w/ Sausage & Duck (Complete MRE Review of all 3 Meals)

3 in 1 Thanksgiving Pie

With rows of caramel apple, maple walnut and chocolate crumb on a brown sugar base.

Triple Topping Slab Pie Recipe

Are Chinese Watches Better Than Swiss Watches?

Better Burgers for Britian!

The rise of the burger from a scapegoat for the obesity crisis to the symbol of a dining revolution was fuelled by a combination of social media and recession-era economics, and it established a whole new class of restaurant: inspired by simple street food, led by untrained chefs and advertised via Twitter. The gourmet burger has certainly dented the dominance of the old fast-food giants. But it has also disrupted the entire restaurant food chain.- Ten years of posh burgers – how they changed Britain's dining habits

Sam Harris & Lawrence Krauss talk Nuclear Weapons & Donald Trump

Tuesday, November 14, 2017

Normal people perceive a loss due to theft far more acutely than they would the same loss due to accident or any other cause

This can only likely be true in a world where people don't come to this conclusion. If everyone is like "meh, whatever, he probably needed it more..." Then it almost certainly won't be true, because why limit your theft and parasitism at all? Just take whatever, no matter how feeble and transitory your desire for it. But if there is resistance and retaliation for parasitism and theft then it is much more likely to be true, because people are less likely to engage in them unless some more compelling value is on offer.-Eli Harmon

Additional reactions:

(And it's still only ever going to be true for liberals, who derive positive satisfaction from virtue signaling their cuckoldry. Normal people perceive a loss due to theft far more acutely than they would the same loss due to accident or any other cause, with good reason. A thief is a threat not only to this possession or that, but to the entire normative fabric upon which all good things depend.)

People who justify others theft of their stuff also tend to justify their political attempt to steal from you by that same logic that you won't miss your stuff as much as those in need who want your stuff. Solution: encourage the poor to feast on the wealth of rich liberals who will put up the least fight.

Someone should make a comic like this, but replace the guy with a stolen bike with a woman who's been raped. Then, perhaps, the absurdity of this reasoning would be more apparent.

Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.: The Warren Report: Fact or Fiction?

From December 1, 1966 with Kennedy assassination conspiracy theorist Mark Lane

The Nazi Roots of the American Left

Identity Politics

Monday, November 13, 2017

What advances has materialism (naturalism) made in the last decade?

Primate studies is based on a simple principle: Humans share 98% of our genes with the chimpanzee, and therefore the 100% chimpanzee can help us understand ourselves. Hmmm. As British rabbi Harvey Belovski has pointed out, we share perhaps 30% of our genes with a banana. So can the banana help us 30% toward understanding ourselves? Maybe the chimp and the banana would make a better pair than the chimp and the human. The chimp would certainly think so. Seriously, what have primate studies really shown us? As anthropologist Jonathan Marks says, despite the public interest in efforts to teach apes to communicate with humans, “Unfortunately, they have nothing to say.” If so, the trail ends here.

Then there was artificial intelligence (AI). Remember, this is supposed to be the “age of spiritual machines,” when computers are becoming indistinguishable from humans. In reality, the human mind works quite differently from a computer, and simply increasing computing power does not produce characteristic human qualities. AI enthusiast Kenneth Silber complains, “This is a disappointing state of affairs.” It sure is, if you are HAL or Deeper Blue. [No computer has become inherently smarter than its programmers, for the same reasons as characters in a novel do not have more insight than the author. ] Notice the pattern? Ominously, all three media-darling disciplines fail at the same point: precisely the point at which, if materialism were true, they should succeed: Evolutionary psychology can’t explain uniquely human qualities. The 100 percent chimpanzee has nothing to say to the 98 percent chimpanzee. And the human brain is not enough like a computer that AI studies are even particularly relevant, great as their future achievements may be.

The end of promissory materialism?

Jimmy Page | Full Address and Q&A at The Oxford Union

$4.99 Big Box Warehouse Rotisserie Chicken

I used to buy these all the time from my local Costco. Now, since I moved over a year ago, I have no Costco. A good thing? It would appear that perhaps these "chickens" are not so healthy after all. I mean, if it's true that the warehouse giant sells 60 million of these mass produced, factory farmed birds a year, there's got to be something unhealthy with them. Below, a comment on the video:

Wow. If ever there was a visual indication that something has gone wrong with the world, selling a cooked, bloated, chemically enhanced chicken for $5 is it. It's ridiculous to suggest this thing is healthy - with or without skin. They have to coat and inject these things with massive amounts of salt because the breeding process removes all actual taste from the meat. If you want to enjoy the delicious flavor of real meat, do NOT buy this crap.

I would get my Costco chicken home, rip off the legs, put those drums on a paper plate, and make my own coleslaw to go with it. That was my dinner many a night after work. Yeah it was a good deal, just like their $1.50 hot dog and soda, which I also would often buy, though if the stupid winding line at the Costco snack bar (is that what they call it?) was too long, I'd avoid the trouble of waiting and just go through a drive-thru. But price and convenience have proven fatal to our health.

Gobble, gobble, gobble? Isn't that turkey talk? I guess not:

Bart Ehrman's Personal Beliefs Interview

Sunday, November 12, 2017

False Assumptions

False assumption 1. The left isn't going anywhere.

In principle, it could. It could go to hell. It could go to prison. It could go back to the third world. It could go back to the kitchen. It could go back in the closet. All of these are options.

False Assumption 2: moderates will fight radicals.

Yeah. Just not seeing this. You have a few, new, moderate firebrands out there. But that's just not a message you can get people fired up about. Moderation is basically just status quo bias. That's not a terrible thing, normally. And if you have a status quo worth fighting for, maybe enough people will fight for it. But more and more are fed up with this one.

The moderates will get used to the new status quo we give them, and in time, come to defend it, as they have come to defend the status quo supplied by the left.

False Assumption 3: We have to find common ground and cooperate.

Nah. We can conflict too. And it's possible to win a conflict.

We're done cooperating with the left. They have never demonstrated consistency, honesty, good faith, reciprocity, or any other preconditions of durable, mutually-beneficial, cooperation; only malice, duplicity, treachery​, slander, parasitism, and lies.

We can cooperate through exchange WITHOUT common ground. But again, there are conditions, and the left won't meet those. They just want to get their way. And they want to get our stuff. And they don't care how or what they have to do or say to achieve that.

So no deals. No compromise. No concession. No mercy.-Eli Harmon

AR-15 Upgrades! Before You Buy That Little Cute Pink Pistol!

Larry King on JFK assassination theories

Charles Schulz Drawing Peanuts

Charles Monroe Schulz (1922 – 2000), nicknamed Sparky, was an American cartoonist best known for the comic strip Peanuts (which featured the characters Charlie Brown and Snoopy, among others). He is widely regarded as one of the most influential cartoonists of all time, cited as a major influence by many later cartoonists.

He insisted on doing the entire strip, daily and the larger, color Sunday strips, himself. Other famous cartoonists, such as Al Capp, had assistants, who would do things like the lettering, but Schulz would have none of it, he wanted Peanuts (a name he never liked, he wanted to call the strip simply "Charlie Brown") to be completely his own, even down to doing the lettering for the dialogue balloons himself as well. He did it for 50 years, and its success and cultural impact surely proves he was right.

PHILOSOPHY - Thomas Aquinas

Thomas Aquinas deserves to be remembered for reconciling faith with reason, thereby saving Western civilisation from turning its back on science and Greek and Roman wisdom.

Saturday, November 11, 2017

Atheist Fool John W. Loftus

"Being insulted by the pop atheist writer John Loftus is, to borrow Denis Healey’s famous line, like being savaged by a dead sheep. It is hard to imagine that a human being could be more devoid of argumentative or polemical skill." - Edward Feser

Quote: Coincidence

“Coincidence is the word we use when we can’t see the levers and pulleys.“ —Emma Bull

Friday, November 10, 2017

Thursday, November 9, 2017

Two Sides of the Same Coin

Communism and National Socialism, cut from the same cloth...

Scientism vs Real Science

Physicist Steven Weinberg- "One of the great achievements of science has been, if not to make it impossible for intelligent people to be religious, then at least to make it possible for them not to be religious."

Nanoscientist James Tour- "Only a rookie who knows nothing about science would say science takes away from faith.  If you really study science, it will bring you closer to God."

Wednesday, November 8, 2017

Quote: Scientific Truth

“Scientific truth is characterized by its precision and the certainty of its predictions. But science achieves these admirable qualities at the cost of remaining on the level of secondary concerns, leaving ultimate and decisive questions untouched.” - José Ortega y Gasset

The gift of near death: Lewis Brown Griggs

Why do so many of us focus on the story of our shortcomings? How can our uniqueness be recognized as the greatest gift we bring to one another? Through his lives and near deaths, Lewis Brown Griggs shares transformational perspectives on how our weaknesses can become our greatest strengths.

Near-Death Experiences in the ICU

Near-Death Experiences in the Intensive Care Unit -- Laurin Bellg

The Unremittingly Cynical Christopher Hitchens

Hitchens took on matters of profound importance, and he did it with a fierce passion. But when I think of the rhetoric he deployed, and the vehemence with which he deployed it, I can’t help but see him as a demagogue and a charlatan. One of his most oft-repeated quotes is “That which can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.” This is, from the perspective of both science and philosophy, a recipe for obscurantism and intellectual irresponsibility, and a disastrous idea for anyone with an interest in truth to take to heart. Its appeal is the same as much of Hitchens’ rhetoric: when invoked it provides the intoxicating pleasure of putting your foot down in an argument. It’s a flashy rhetorical gambit that says, “I need say no more.” Though happy to present himself as a champion of science, Hitchens was clearly ignorant of the philosophy of science and its most important developments in the twentieth century; otherwise, he would not have uttered a remark so redolent of verificationism. Popperians must shudder when they hear that quote.-The Cult of Christopher Hitchens

Quote of the Day: Psychological Bombardment

“This psychological bombardment is waged primarily via the mainstream media which assaults the viewer by the hour with images of violence, war, emotions and conflict. Because the human nervous system is hard wired to focus on immediate threats accompanied by depictions of violence, mainstream media viewers have their attention and mental resources funneled into the never-ending ‘crisis of the NOW’ from which they can never have the mental breathing room to apply logic, reason or historical context.” - Mike Adams

Scientism: An Interview with Dr. Edward Feser

...science cannot in principle provide a complete explanation of the phenomena it describes. Science explains things by tracing them down to ever deeper laws of nature. But what it cannot tell you is what a “law of nature” is in the first place and why it operates. It really is amazing how unreflectively atheists and advocates of scientism appeal to the notion of “laws,” given how deeply philosophically problematic the very notion is. Earlier generations of scientists were aware of the philosophical puzzles raised by the nature of scientific explanation, and some contemporary scientists (such as Paul Davies) are also sensitive to the puzzles raised by the very idea of a “law of nature” (which is actually a holdover from an idiosyncratic theology to which Descartes and Newton were committed, but which Aristotelian and Scholastic philosophers reject just as much as atheists do).

But most contemporary scientists tend not to have the general education that figures of the generation of Einstein, Schrödinger, and Heisenberg did. They don’t know philosophy well, and they also don’t know what they don’t know. This goes double for the more aggressively atheistic ones among them -- people like Lawrence Krauss, Peter Atkins, Richard Dawkins, and Jerry Coyne. Hence they repeatedly commit very crude philosophical mistakes but also refuse to listen or respond when these mistakes are pointed out to them.

Anyway, the main reason scientism has the following it does is probably that people are, quite rightly, impressed with the technological and predictive successes of modern science. The trouble is that this simply gives us no reason whatsoever to believe scientism -- that is to say, it gives us no reason to believe that science alone gives us knowledge. To draw that conclusion you need to assume that if something is real, then it will be susceptible of a precise mathematical description that will make strict prediction and technological application possible. Now that is itself a philosophical or metaphysical assumption, not a scientific one. But it is also an assumption that there is not only no reason to believe, but decisive reason to reject, as I argue in the book.

What the mathematically-oriented methods of modern physics do is to focus on those aspects of nature which can be strictly predicted and controlled and to ignore anything that doesn’t fit that method. As a result, physics tends brilliantly to uncover those aspects of reality that fit that method, and which can therefore be exploited technologically. But it simply does not follow that there are no other aspects of reality. To think otherwise is like the drunk’s fallacy of assuming that his lost car keys must be under the street lamp somewhere, because that is where the light is. - Read More:Scholasticism vs. Scientism: An Interview with Dr. Edward Feser

Tuesday, November 7, 2017

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Battle Of the PBS Stars

Fred Rogers! William F. Buckley Jr.! Julia Child! Carl Sagan! Sort of a live action MTV Deathmatch...

The Fred Rogers clone looks like a combo of Rogers and the insane, creepy, Burger King "King" character.

How to Protect Your Church from Violent Attacks

26 innocent people were killed yesterday in one of the deadliest church shootings to date. This can happen anywhere and is a dark reminder of the violent world we live in. As with the NYC terrorist attack we saw last week, these types of attacks are near impossible to predict, but they can, and should, be planned for.

We’ve talked before about what to do in the wake of violent attacks like this, which a majority of the time deals with massive physical and mental trauma afterwards. In addition to getting off the "X" and making decisions immediately to move to safety and cover; here is what I personally discussed with the church leadership where my family attends.

Concealed Carry – We have several guys that do have their concealed carry permits, but prefer not to carry, or leave their firearms inside their vehicles so that they don’t offend anyone. Although they are all good men, I don’t agree with that mindset. We identified a small group of guys that were willing to carry, practiced at the range regularly and carried in a low vis way as not to alarm anybody who is sensitive to the subject of guns. I personally carry a tourniquet, a concealed Glock 26 with spare magazine, a partially serrated Emerson knife, and handheld flashlight.

Medical – We identified several locations within the church to stage first aid and trauma supplies. Those are the main church office, kitchen and a few of the classrooms. This puts first aid and trauma gear close by almost every location within the church to deal with everything from a cut to traumatic bleeding.

Unattended doors – Our church has doors at both the front (main entrance) and rear. Once the service starts we lock the doors at the rear of the church, preventing any visitors from sneaking in through the back. This forces people to use the main front doors if coming in after the start of the service. Generally we have 1 or 2 guys walking the church during the service and keeping an eye on the front doors.

Use these basic considerations to start building a plan with the leadership of your local church in order to be prepared ahead of time for a violent attack. -From an email I received from Crate Club a monthly survival gear subscription service.

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