Jan 122021
 

A PBS executive made the mistake of speaking his mind in front of a hidden camera. And since his mind included such notions as burning down the White House if he didn’t get his way and sending ideological opponents to re-education camps, apparently even PBS thought that was a bit much and they’ve invited him to explore new career opportunities in the hospitality and food service industries. However, seems fair to wonder if he’ll score an even higher paying gig in Beijing Biden’s administration…

One could see this as a small,a  very tiny victory in the battle to try to root out the totalitarian whackjobs who have infested out media and culture. What will be more likely to occur is a further effort to deplatform and relegate to the digital ghetto the likes of Project Veritas.

 Posted by at 1:47 pm
Jan 122021
 

“Bliss” is a movie, if the trailer can be trusted, that takes place in a world that is apparently essentially a utopia. But people have gotten bored or at least used to the wonderfulness, so “brain box” simulations – essentially the Matrix – are created where life kinda sucks, so people will better appreciate reality.

The idea of a utopia that people dislike makes sense. Look at the world we have no: at no time in history have people had it anywhere near as good. And yet all of 2020 was a litany of bored millenials burning cities to the ground because they thought things were terrible and unjust. They were essentially bored with utopia. Thus it will likely always be.

Of course the problem is, and most likely will come up in the movie, that once you establish that the world you live in and fully accept is a simulation, then you can’t *ever* trust that you’re in the actually really real world.

 Posted by at 1:41 pm
Jan 112021
 

So, we get this article:

Danish proposal on translating sermons gets pushback from Church

It seems that there are sermons in Denmark that are not in Danish. Arabic, as the case seems to be. And that irritates some people, because it is not only exclusionary, it excludes the very people who allowed those sermonizers to come into Denmark in the first place. And so, not have a First Amendment, this law has been put forward.

OK, shrug, that’s for the Danes to deal with.

The line that stood out to me:

Blah, blah, blah said Precious Blood Sister Anna Mirijam Kaschner, general secretary and spokeswoman of the Nordic bishops’ conference.

“Precious Blood Sister?”

Ummm… I *can’t* be the only one to read that and suddenly get an image of an angry woman in power armor wielding a chainsaw sword in the service of the Emperor of Mankind, can I?

 Posted by at 10:09 pm
Jan 112021
 

Well, we’ll see:

Parler finds refuge with right-leaning webhosting service

Seems they’ve signed up with Epik, the webhosting service that Gab also uses. Useful, but I imagine if Parler successfully migrates everything to the same servers running Gab, both systems are gonna be *reeeeaaaaal* slow until a lot more hardware is brought up to speed. And of course if both of these social media darlings are run through the same web host, a single attack on Epik could knock them both out.

 Posted by at 9:58 pm
Jan 112021
 

Latin Phrases Patriots Should Know: Patriotic Latin Phrases and Their Translations

I guess this is an ok compilation article… has stuff like:

“De oppresso liber”: To liberate the oppressed, U.S. Army Green Berets

“Noli me tangere”: Don’t tread on me, U.S. Army 2nd Infantry Regiment

“Semper fidelis”: Always loyal, U.S. Marine Corps

“Mors ab alto”: Death from above, U.S. Air Force 7th Bomb Wing

“Si vis pacem, para bellum”: If you want peace, prepare for war

“Audentes fortuna juvat”: Fortune favors the bold

“Malo periculosam, libertatem quam quietam servitutem”: I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery

“Scientia potentia est”: Knowledge is power

Those are all ok, I suppose. But what I was really looking for was:

“Sic Gorgiamus Allos Subjectatos Nunc”: We Gladly Feast on Those Who Would Subdue Us

Yeah, yea, it’s not actually Latin, just something made to *sound* like Latin. May I remind you, 2+2=4 is racist, so…

Google Translate says the Latin should be “Non in die festo Parvam piamque dum lubenter eorum non proderunt domare Nobis,” Doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue.

 Posted by at 2:57 pm
Jan 102021
 

… showing the unruly, *terrifying* Domestic Terrorist Armed Insurrectionists Storming through the Capitol building. Just watch this, especially with the wise words of Our Betters in the media describing the truly horrific sight of people calmly walking between the ropes, and *brazenly,* *wantonly* and *fascistically* waving the US flag while in a US government building. The horror!

“See stunning video of rioters inside Capitol”

Sigh.

Once more, for those too dense to figure it out: yes, anyone who broke stuff or hurt/killed people needs to have the full force of law dropped on them. But once again I defy you to compare and contrast what we see and hear here, with masses of people who seem utterly uninterested in causing damage – and it’s not like they couldn’t have, had they wanted to – with the tens of thousands who swarmed our cities all this year burning cop cars and businesses, vandalizing memorials and pulling down statues. *THOSE* people were proclaimed as everything form someone with a valid point, to outright heroes. The folks in D.C.? they got the full Sandmann treatment.

I challenge you to imagine what this place would have looked like if these Dangerous Trumpists had had the same respect for law, order, history, property that your average Mostly Peaceful Protester had. I see a looooooooot of statues there that Antifa/BLM would have loved to have toppled.

 Posted by at 6:00 pm
Jan 102021
 

NASA will soon fire up the most powerful rocket ever built

So NASA is planning on a static fire of the core of the Space Launch System. OK, fine, if about a decade-plus behind schedule and maybe a couple dozen billion dollars over budget. But the article goes into WokeMath in order to ramp up the excitement:

during this first ignition, only the liquid fuel engines at the core of the rocket will be tested, without the solid fuel boosters that will one day help carry SLS into orbit.

When the SLS core test-fires, it will become the most powerful rocket ever ignited on Earth.

UMMMMM….

The core of the SLS has four RS-25 engines, thrust 418 klbf each, totaling 1,672,000 lbf. The Saturn V had five F-1 engines, each with a thrust of 1,522 klbf each for a total of 7,610,000 lbf.

I’m not sure I agree with LiveScience’s math. But then, 2+2=4 is racist, so maybe 1.672 is greater than 7.610 these days.

 Posted by at 12:16 pm