Jun 192021
 

Biden gave Putin a list of high-priority targets for Russian hackers to take down. How did *anyone* think that was a good idea?

1: It comes off as weakness: “Please don’t attack us!” Thus inviting attack.

2: A list of stuff Biden thinks shoudl be off limits not only points out vulnerabilities, it’s the wrong frikken’ message. Instead of “please don’t attack these,” which implies that it’s ok to attack *other* entities, the message should be “we will respond in a way that seems good to us. Remember that you hare highly economically dependent upon things like pipelines. It sure would be a shame if the software controlling your pipelines causes an explosion. Again.”

 Posted by at 2:32 am
Jun 152021
 

What happens when you:

A) Defund the police

B) Decriminalize “small” thefts?

Let’s find out:

The Walgreens here will likely either close down or institute new security procedures, such as locking up pretty much anything worth stealing. If it was up to me, I’d recommend the former. Close the doors, box everything up, move out of town and leave behind nothing but posters showing this incident and quotes from local politicians about Proposition 47, which effectively made it legal to steal anything under $950.

 Posted by at 4:26 pm
Jun 052021
 

NYC shrink tells Yale audience she fantasizes about shooting white people in head

A New York City-based psychiatrist told an audience at the Yale School of Medicine in April that she had fantasies of “unloading a revolver into the head of any white person that got in my way.”

Dr. Aruna Khilanani spewed the race-hating virtual remarks … at the Ivy League institution’s Child Study Center on April 6.

“I had fantasies of unloading a revolver into the head of any white person that got in my way, burying their body and wiping my bloody hands as I walked away relatively guiltless with a bounce in my step. Like I did the world a f–king favor.”

There’s a lot of Really Interesting Opinions at that and other articles on the subject.

Her profile on the Independent Doctors of NY website seems, oddly, to have vanished. Fortunately, the internet never forgets, and archive.org has it archived from March and before:

Aruna Khilanani, MD, MA
Specialities: Psychiatry
Focus of Practice: Forensic Psychiatry, Grief, Self Esteem, Racial Identity
I am a female academic psychiatrist who has taught at Cornell NYPH, and run a process group for resident physicians at Harlem Hospital. I have a private practice in Morningside Heights of Manhattan, devoted to the treatment of mental illness, psychopharmacology, and psychotherapy. I am also a psychoanalyst. Here, I treat high functioning individuals who have jobs and significant relationships, but may struggle in certain areas that impact their personal or professional lives.

Also gives her address and phone number. Which I suspect will be changed soon, if not already. Now here’s the part that will shock, SHOCK, I SAY, you to your very core:

I completed a Masters of Humanities at the University of Chicago in critical theory, around issues of gender, race, sexuality, African American Studies, embodiment and class.

If you are one of those poor innocents who wonders why some people seem to be up in arms about “critical race theory” and are wondering why it should be excluded from government funding, programs and education… here’s why. CRT makes you racist, sometimes violently so.

Special Achievements/Awards:Arnold P. Gold Foundation: Gold Humanism Honor Society 2006
Golden Key Honors Society
Board Certifications:American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
Forensic Psychiatry (Psychiatry and Neurology)

Somebody might want to look into those. A humanist fantasizing about genocide? Seems an odd mix.

An aside: is “psychiatrist goes insane and turns into a villain” a wider trope than just Harleen Quinzel? Of course given “Doctor” Khilananis course of study it seems she was cuckoo for CRT puffs before she started, so this seems to be more a matter of a loon taking up psychiatry.

 Posted by at 1:11 pm
May 282021
 
[ shahd-n-froi-duh ]

noun

satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else’s misfortune.
Example:

Atlanta councilman Antonio Brown, who voted to defund police, has car stolen

An Atlanta mayoral candidate who voted to sequester $73 million from the city’s police department budget reportedly had his car stolen by a group of young thieves this week — and wound up thanking the cops for their help.

But wait! There’s More!

Brown — who is under indictment on several federal fraud charges related to alleged incidents that occurred years before he took city council office in 2019 — launched his mayoral run on the platform of “reimagining” public safety and policing in Atlanta

Who better for crime to happen to?

 Posted by at 10:33 am
May 262021
 

Military recruitment commercials, on one hand, say nothing about the actual capabilities of the militaries in question. On the other hand, they give insight into the mindsets of those who approved those commercials.  And thus, we have a bit of a problem in the US:

 

Wars are won in the will. Seems we don’t have the will. When Japan tried to take Hawaii from us, we opened up a can of nuclear whoopass on them, unleashing weapons the like of which had never been seen on this Earth. In a few years when China tries the same thing, will the US under President Harris just slink away and congratulate ourselves for our sensitivity?

 Posted by at 6:04 pm