Peak Stupid

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Jul 072020
 

At least, I’d *like* to believe that this is peak stupid, but let’s face it… there’s always a challenger ready and willing to rise to the occasion and be even stupider.

HUMOR (that’s scary in its accuracy) BONUS ROUND:

The video “Alternative Math” was posted to YouTube in 2017. it is clearly meant to be a satirical takedown of Trump/conservatives… yet, apart from some throwaway lines by some TV talking heads, the whole things shrieks “this is what you get when woketivists take over the media and academia.”

 

 Posted by at 10:02 am

Just Some Guy explains BLM

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Jul 062020
 

“Just Some Guy” is a YouTuber who mostly talks about comic books and similar pop culture topics. But here he gives a thoughtful and insightful explanation of what drives the BLM movement and ideology. *Very* interestingly, YouTube has decided that the video is terribly offensive and has thus put it behind an “Age Restricted Video” wall, which means you’re unlikely to find the video unless directly pointed towards it. *Extremely* interestingly, there’s nothing actually offensive in the video. No naughty words, no name calling, no white supremacy or any such, just a pretty good discussion of the topic in light of Eric Hoffer’s book “The true Believer.”

I think the problem that YouTube has is that Just Some Guy concludes that BLM isn’t a movement with a valid cause, but instead a religion that *needs* a devil, and that devil is “the white man.” And, worse, Just Some Guy is a *black* guy. That sort of apostasy cannot be countenanced.

 

 Posted by at 5:09 pm

Well, this *works*

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Jul 062020
 

Aerial news chopper footage of illegal fireworks going off over Los Angeles put to Vangelis’s score from “Blade Runner.”

A bit surprising to see that Los Angeles is – at least kinda-sorta-in-a-way – telling the anti-America woke brigade to go F off by setting off as many pyrotechnics as possible.

 Posted by at 12:27 am

A cult worth watching

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Jul 052020
 

I’ve mentioned the “Black Hebrew Israelites” before. It is a black supremacist religion no different from, say, the white supremacist “Christian Identity” schmucks, just with reversed color values. They believe that black folks are the *real* Hebrews, and that they are prophesied to eventually take over the world and enslave white people for all eternity. Nice folks. They came to prominence a year and a half ago when they kicked off the Covington Blood Libel. They have had themselves a little rally at Stone Mountain in Georgia. Interestingly, though, the news media has kinda passed on a lot of the details. For instance:

Predominantly Black armed protesters march through Confederate memorial park in Georgia

The article says that the armed protestors came to the park to call for the removal of the statue, and to stand up to white supremacists. But there is a half hour long video of the leader of this group. It’s an interesting watch:

Here he calls not just for the removal of the Stone Mountain carving, but for turning Texas into a black-only ethnostate. He calls for the killing of cops and white people in general. As a thought exercise, reverse the color values and imagine how the press would cover *that.*

He supports people arming themselves and defending themselves. That’s all good and proper, and something that I fully support and suggest that everyone do. But he’s also a religious whackaloon racial supremacist calling for a civil war.

2020 looks like it will continue to be interesting, and 2021 perhaps even more so.

 Posted by at 4:06 pm

“National Garden”

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Jul 042020
 

Trumps latest executive order:

Executive Order on Building and Rebuilding Monuments to American Heroes

In short, two things:

1) Rebuild statues torn down by the recent spate of crazed freaks

2) Build a “National Garden” of statues to honor some of the greatest Americans in  history.

As for the “National Garden,” a list of names was provided. Presumably this isn;t meant to indicate the total and complete set of statues; it would make sense for the Garden to contain space to add more over time.

The National Garden should be composed of statues, including statues of John Adams, Susan B. Anthony, Clara Barton, Daniel Boone, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Henry Clay, Davy Crockett, Frederick Douglass, Amelia Earhart, Benjamin Franklin, Billy Graham, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, Martin Luther King, Jr., Abraham Lincoln, Douglas MacArthur, Dolley Madison, James Madison, Christa McAuliffe, Audie Murphy, George S. Patton, Jr., Ronald Reagan, Jackie Robinson, Betsy Ross, Antonin Scalia, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Tubman, Booker T. Washington, George Washington, and Orville and Wilbur Wright.

It’s an ok list (a few are pretty “meh,” but nothing to get in a twist over), but I would make some suggestions for others:

Neil Armstrong/Buzz Aldrin/Michael Collins; Albert Einstein; Werner von Braun; Sam Clemens; Edgar Allen Poe; Robert Heinlein; Kelly Johnson; Tom Edison/Nikola Tesla; Henry Ford; H. P. Lovecraft (fight me, ya mooks); Fred Rogers; Sam Colt; Moses Browning; Alexander Bell; Bernie Goetz; Norman Rockwell; Andrew Carnegie; Sequoyah; Thomas Sowell; Lewis & Clark; William Tecumseh Sherman; Ulysses S. Grant; The Amazing Randi; Houdini; Richard Feynman; Carl Sagan; Isaac Asimov; Jonas Salk; Norman Borlaug; Hyman Rickover; Edward Teller.

Feel free to add to the list. I suspect that if this goes forward – and if the depraved doddering dementist wins in November, it certainly won’t – there will probably be some sort of way to make suggestions and/or vote on them.

 

Statues should depict historically significant Americans, as that term is defined in section 7 of this order, who have contributed positively to America throughout our history. Examples include: the Founding Fathers, those who fought for the abolition of slavery or participated in the underground railroad, heroes of the United States Armed Forces, recipients of the Congressional Medal of Honor or Presidential Medal of Freedom, scientists and inventors, entrepreneurs, civil rights leaders, missionaries and religious leaders, pioneers and explorers, police officers and firefighters killed or injured in the line of duty, labor leaders, advocates for the poor and disadvantaged, opponents of national socialism or international socialism, former Presidents of the United States and other elected officials, judges and justices, astronauts, authors, intellectuals, artists, and teachers. None will have lived perfect lives, but all will be worth honoring, remembering, and studying.

 Posted by at 5:21 pm

Disappearance of a blue hypergiant

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Jul 042020
 

One of the biggest and brightest types of stars known is the “blue hypergiant,” a young and extremely massive star. Dimensions and luminosity can be damned impressive, with individual stars visible across many millions of light years. Such stars have very short lifespans, just a few million years. They either promptly supernova, or transition to red supergiants and then supernova. The end state of such stars after going kerblooey is often a black hole.

So it’s kinda odd when such as star just up and vanishes.

A Massive Star Has Disappeared From a Distant Galaxy, And No One’s Sure Where It Went

Between 2001 and 2011, this star visible in a dwarf galaxy some 75 million years away was repeatedly observed. But in 2019, it was apparently utterly gone. Had it gone supernova it doubtless would have been noted. One suggestion is that it just slipped into black hole status without first going to the bother of exploding; this would seem to indicate that it must have been *reeeeaaaaalllllly* massive (on the order of 100 solar masses) in order to simply collapse under its own weight.

The universe is magnificent in it’s majesty, scope and potential for terror.

Woo!

 Posted by at 4:53 pm

Playing in the street. At night. UPDATED

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Jul 042020
 

Well this was pretty much  inevitable… two protestors struck by a car moving at high speed and flung a comically high distance up and out with resounding “thumps” both up and down. This was made possible not because the car was on the sidewalk, but because the protestors were on a darkened Seattle freeway at night.

Edit: original tweeted video seems to have been yanked.

 

The driver will of course have to answer a lot of questions. But as to whether the driver is at fault here? Dunno. Lots of possibilities:

  1. Driver saw what was up ahead and maliciously plowed into them
  2. Driver was drunk
  3. Driver simply didn’t see what was up ahead until too late to avoid (cars don’t exactly stop on a dime, especially when moving at freeway speeds).
  4. Driver saw what was coming at the last second and decided not to be Denny’d

My guess based on nothing is Number 3, with a dash of Number 2. But then I read THIS ARTICLE which indicates that the highway was already closed down and that the driver came onto the freeway by way of an *OFF* ramp. Considering that the car in question is a Jaguar and probably costs a fair chunk of change, my thinking transmogrifies into wondering if what we have is a car thief out joyriding.

But whatever the drivers story is, the dumber story is necessarily that of the protestors. What exactly did they plan to achieve by blockading a major high-speed freeway at night? This sort of thing is dumb and malicious enough when done during the day before slow-moving gridlocked or stoplighted vehicles. When done *literally* under the cover of darkness, it’s just…. stupid.

One can always hope that this sort of thing will *finally* lead to new laws, such as “intentionally blocking traffic is now a major felony with a minimum ten year sentence followed by stripping of citizenship and deportation to Somalia,” but I bet it won’t. Idiots and their enablers and co-conspirators will continue to falsely claim that protestors who block traffic are within their Constitutional rights to do so, and will thus be complicit in the injuries and deaths that will continue to mount.

Don’t play in the streets, kids.

UPDATE…

BUT WAIT! THERE’S MORE!!!

Man Who Drove Into Black Lives Matter Protesters In Seattle Is Identified

Not exactly what one might have in mind when assuming the incident was an attack by a white supremacist Trump supporter.

And then there’s this… left without comment.

 

 Posted by at 7:45 am

Arrested for defending herself

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Jul 032020
 

This is a pretty clear case of self defense. And she’s been arrested for it.

Sheriff: Couple arrested, charged in Orion Township parking lot altercation caught on video

In an era when insane “protestors” are attacking people in cars, having a whole family of crazy people screeching at you, surrounding you and then putting themselves in the path of your vehicle as you’re attempting to escape… yeah, drawing down makes a *lot* of sense.

 

 Posted by at 6:59 am
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