Apr 062021
 

Huh. Note the tone.

Capitol Suspect Struggled Before Attack, but Motive Remains Unclear

Poor little ragamuffin, he had him some hard times. I do wonder if the same authors cut the Atlanta massage parlor shooter the same slack. Or the Charlotteville car-attack guy.

Yeah, if you have a rough time, you may be due some sympathy. Seems maybe this guy might’ve had a bit of schizophrenia based on his paranoia. But the moment you murder someone, or join up with the likes of the NOIsies… sympathy deleted.

 Posted by at 11:48 am
Mar 232021
 

Let’s see how they twist this into more “white supremacist violence:”

Suspect in Colorado grocery store shooting charged with 10 counts of murder, police say

Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, the 21-year-old suspect in Monday’s massacre at the King Soopers supermarket in the Colorado city of Boulder, faces 10 counts of murder in the first degree, Boulder Police Chief Maris Herold said Tuesday.

Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa. You can’t get a more MAGA-riffic name than that.

It should be interesting to see the demographics of the victims. (UPDATE: see the end of the post) What I’ve seen so far all indicate a particular ethnic group. Will violence against that particular ethnic group be called out and denounced by the media and out Political Leaders?

UPDATE: A whole bunch of Twitter blue check marks outed themselves as racists… including President Harris’ niece.

UPDATE: This should be considered hearsay until it’s not (I trust “unnamed sources as much as anyone who heard “unnamed sources” claim that Trump colluded with the Russians):

UPDATE: the victims.

All the same ethnicity. Will the media wail about the rise in violence against that ethnicity?

 Posted by at 11:57 am
Mar 122021
 

About two weeks ago I made a post mocking some dweeb who thought it was cultural appropriation for white pagans to adopt non-white pagan deities and such. As part of my mockery that nonsense, I said this:

If I want to worship Odin *and* take on Aztec practices of sacrificing my neighbors to chop out their beating hearts and build towers of human skulls, who are you to tell me I’m wrong?

Well, guess what:

California’s proposed ethnic studies curriculum urges students to chant to the Aztec deity of human sacrifice.

The curriculum recommends that teachers lead their students in a series of indigenous songs, chants, and affirmations, including the “In Lak Ech Affirmation,” which appeals directly to the Aztec gods. Students first clap and chant to the god Tezkatlipoka—whom the Aztecs traditionally worshipped with human sacrifice and cannibalism—asking him for the power to be “warriors” for “social justice.” Next, the students chant to the gods Quetzalcoatl, Huitzilopochtli, and Xipe Totek, seeking “healing epistemologies” and “a revolutionary spirit.” Huitzilopochtli, in particular, is the Aztec deity of war and inspired hundreds of thousands of human sacrifices during Aztec rule.

In case you think that article is right wing propaganda… read the curriculum for yourself, right there on a California government website, right in front of Tezkatlipoka and everybody.

https://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/cr/cf/documents/dec2020esmcappendixb.docx

The whackos want to erase western civilization. This is what they want to replace it with:

Feeding the gods: Hundreds of skulls reveal massive scale of human sacrifice in Aztec capital

 Posted by at 9:50 pm
Mar 012021
 

It should prove interesting to see how this plays out given that there are multiple narratives at play here. In short, a Hasidic family was booted off of a Frontier Airlines flight due to Commie Cough Mask Requirements. According to the family, it was because their 18-month-old baby wouldn’t wear a mask (and those under two are not legally required to do so). According to Frontier, it’s because multiple adults refused to wear their masks (and they *are* legally required to do so). Were the people involved pretty much any other minority religious or ethnic group, the pile-on onto Frontier would be overpowering; the airline would most likely have used a firehose to spray out termination notices.

Narrative one:

Flight Staff Caught Making Anti-Semitic Celebration As Jewish Family Was Removed From Flight When Their 15-Month-Baby Couldn’t Keep The Face Mask On

Narrative two:

Frontier Airlines Defends Canceling Flight, Says ‘Several Adults’ Refused to Wear Masks

As we’ve seen over the past few years, people are seemingly incapable of waiting for the facts to come out before leaping on one side or the other. But in this case, I think we might not see the usual firestorm of the kind normally applied to situations such as this given that the “minorities” involved here are not politically advantageous minorities. Ilhan Omar, for example, seems unlikely to pop out of the woodwork to defend the family and demand that Frontier apologize.

 

Annnnnnd then there’s “overboard:”

‘This is Nazi Germany!’: Airline faces calls for boycott after Jewish family booted from flight over mask-less BABY

The comments in that one are spectacularly toxic.

 Posted by at 3:38 pm
Feb 272021
 

The subject of this video is one of the most cringe-inducing people I’ve yet seen. His appearance, mannerism, attire… sure, cringey. But what pushes it over the edge is his proclamation that pagan white people should not add into their practices deities and whatnot from non-white religious traditions. Hey, screw you, buddy. If I want to worship Odin *and*  take on Aztec practices of sacrificing my neighbors to chop out their beating hearts and build towers of human skulls, who are you to tell me I’m wrong?

 

But as the title of the post says, it’s the comments that makes it all worth while:

 

 

 Posted by at 2:32 pm
Feb 262021
 

The abuses of Popper

A powerful cadre of scientists and economists sold Karl Popper’s ‘falsification’ idea to the world. They have much to answer for

This long, rambling screed tries to make the argument that “falsification” is bad science.

I defy anyone who actually has done science to explain how science can be done *without* a focus on falsification. Note that the author here is not a scientist, but “is professor of science humanities and honorary professor in history.” Her arguments against falsification in science come from *philosophers,” not actual scientists. She seems to take issue with the whole notion of skepticism in science.

Bah.

 Posted by at 4:34 pm
Feb 142021
 

OK, so I’m not a Christian; certainly not a Catholic. Buuuuutttt… I’m not sure about whether the Catholic Church has this much sway over Evangelicals, who I understand to generally *not* actually be Catholics. And I’m not sure what Noted Hollywood Intellectual Sean Penn’s problem with satin is. Perhaps it’s not good enough for his silk-pampered caboose.

Perhaps the Vatican should impeach all those Rabbis and Imams and Lamas and such who express wrongthink? I’m sure that’ll go over a treat. You go get ’em, Spicoli!

 Posted by at 3:56 pm
Feb 012021
 

So, first there’s this:

Where some science guys discuss the idea that there *might* be a “preferred” direction for light in the universe, meaning that instead of the speed of light being “c” in every direction, in one direction is *might* be 0.5 c and in the 0ther, infinitely fast. if this was the case, people trying to measure the speed of light would not be able to figure that out since the only way to measure the speed of light is, essentially, to bounce a beam off of a distant mirror and measure the time.

All terribly interesting, but then the Institute for Creation “Research” got hold of the video and spent three months trying to come up with some propaganda based on it:

Teachable Minds and Scientific Discovery

The ICR author’s premise is that since these two guys discuss the possibility of directionality to the speed of light, then we can no longer assume that the speed of light is measurable. And thus the stars we’re seeing that are a billion light years away no longer present a problem for a world view that has concluded that the universe is a mere 6,000 years old… because that light could have zapped here more or less instantaneously.

Of course the idjit fails to mention that the whole idea of there being preferred directionality for lightspeed trashes his idea. If there was in fact a direction where the speed of light was infinitely fast and the universe was only 6,000 years old… then, yes, we could see distant stars far further than 6,000 light years away. BUT… only in that direction. The other direction where the speed of light was half of c? The furthest you could see *that* way would be 3,000 light years. You could see the nearer stars, and that’s it. The speed of light at an angle perpendicular to the direction of min/max speed would be right at ‘c’ presumably, and in that direction you could only see out to 6,000-ish light years. Most of the friggen’ Milky Way galaxy would be cut off from view. It’d be *dark* across most of the sky, with no other galaxies visible, and every year a few new stars would just seem to pop into existence as the radius of the visible universe expands by (in one direction) another half of a light year.

That’s not what happens, of course. The ICR author is either to dim to figure that out or not honest enough to mention it.

Now, as to the problem of calculating the speed of light in different directions.

In the video they use as an example sending messages from Earth to Mars and back. If ‘c’ was constant either way, or greatly different, the video shows that you wouldn’t be able to tell. But… I suspect they’re wrong. They are right *at* *any* *particular* *moment.* But do the experiment over the course of a year or so. Sometimes Earth would see Mars as it really is Right Now. Sometimes it would see it as it was some time in the past due to light speed lag. OK, so… watch the moons of Mars. Their orbital speed around Mars will seem to subtly change as the speed of light varies. In fact this very experiment was carried out in the late 1600’s; by watching the moons of Jupiter and how the timing of the eclipses seemed to slightly vary,  astronomer Ole Rømer was able to determine that the speed of light was finite, and got – for the time – a reasonably good estimate, about 26% short of the actual value. With modern equipment, the variation of the apparent speed of the moons of Mars or Jupiter of Saturn could be used to calculate “drift” in the speed of light based on where the moons *should* be at any instant given a fixed speed of light. Or am I wrong here?

 Posted by at 11:41 pm
Jan 162021
 

There were some nuts at the incident at the Capitol, make no mistake. Anyone who thought it was a good idea to smash windows and doors, for instance. And then there was Buffalo Guy. He’s a Q Anon conspiracy loon. Sadly he’s also a pretty well documented Trump supporter. But his whackadoodlery is *straight* out of the far left; the same people who screech and shriek about “Christians taking over the government” will bend over backwards – and then forwards – to *not* laugh when they hear this sort of nonsense out of a “Person of color.” The same people who thought that Nathan Phillips was a respectable “elder” for banging on his drum and chanting gibberish directly into the ear of a child will mock this guy for having beliefs that are fundamentally no better or worse. Me… I can point and laugh at both. Spout nonsense, get laughed at.

Here’s the thing, though. Buffalo Guy is one Jake Angeli, who has put himself out there as an actor. Is this all an act? Honestly seems more likely than he believes the line of BS he’s running here. But then… people really do believe that sort of thing. His Wikipedia page makes for entertaining and “losing faith in the rationality of mankind” reading.

 Posted by at 7:33 pm