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Something to Think About

27 Monday Jan 2020

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As we inch ever closer to 2033 more and more people sense that something isn’t quite right. Some are already retreating.

Cheap housing, deep unease and intense resilience – all forces that are driving a clutch of Americans to swap city life for a fresh start off grid and far from civilisation.

Some are survivalists, among them high fliers who fear a looming, urban catastrophe and the mayhem that might follow.

Others want a greener, gentler life untainted by the malign forces of capitalism and uncertainty of mainstream politics.

Whichever camp, realtors say the new dropouts are not “crackpots” and often include affluent professionals whose run for the hills has boosted rural land values and started to change their property market.

They’re really preparing for almost certainly is certain. And, if you’re one of them, for God’s sake do not talk to the press about what you’re doing.

Also, I have some FP articles coming ASAP. Link to those soon. And, as I have hinted at previously, there could be a rebirth of sorts over at Freedom Prepper in 2020. Stay tuned.

Metaphors and the Uncomfortable

27 Monday Jan 2020

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1 Timothy, abortion, churchians, metaphors, Satan

She probably was using metaphorical rhetoric.

A Florida pastor and longtime spiritual adviser to President Donald Trump says she was speaking in metaphor when she recently prayed in a sermon for all “satanic pregnancies” to end in miscarriage.

In video of the Jan. 5 sermon, posted by the liberal advocacy group Right Wing Watch, televangelist pastor Paula White breathlessly calls on Jesus Christ to “command all satanic pregnancies to miscarry right now.”

“We declare that anything that’s been conceived in satanic wombs, that it will miscarry, it will not be able to carry forth any plan of destruction, any plan of harm,” White said before an auditorium of congregants.

As of Sunday morning, the clip, which was just under two minutes long, had been viewed more than 2.5 million times.

White’s words are largely being interpreted literally – that she wishes for evil women to have miscarriages – but she shared a rare response to the criticism in which she explained that she was speaking in metaphor, praying for evil plans to be foiled in her congregants’ lives.

Then again, given that most babies born to satanists are abused, sacrificed, or both, the literal might also be appropriate. At any rate, the weak protestations by the Nazi eugenics abortionists are a mere projection.

And, why is Trump courting advice from someone afoul of Paul’s fitness test for teaching or authority? Also a metaphor?

What Lies Will Come Out of This?

27 Monday Jan 2020

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empire's over, government, Iraq, lies, War

Assuming this latest embassy story isn’t a lie too.

Three rockets slammed into the US embassy in Iraq’s capital on Sunday in the first direct hit reported after months of close calls, as thousands kept up anti-government sit-ins across the country.

The attack marked a dangerous escalation in the spree of rocket attacks in recent months that have targeted the embassy or Iraqi military bases where American troops are deployed.

None of the attacks has been claimed but Washington has repeatedly blamed Iran-backed military factions in Iraq.

On Sunday, one rocket hit an embassy cafeteria at dinner time while two others landed nearby, a security source told AFP.

A senior Iraqi official told AFP at least one person was wounded, but it was not immediately clear how serious the injuries were and whether the person was an American national or an Iraqi staff member working at the mission.

The US embassy did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Yeah, I’d imagine not. Probably crafting the first of several tall tales while being admonished that the drones still haven’t been replaced and can be easily hit again (along with the embassy and the carriers). The empire’s over folks. Time to come home.

Oopsy – Racism at MSNBC

26 Sunday Jan 2020

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Alison Morris, MSNBC, news, racism

Alison Morris lets it slip.

MSNBC’s Sunday anchor Alison Morris made easily the worst reporting gaffe in 2020.

While interviewing sports journalists about the tragic and untimely death of Kobe Bryant, Morris somehow mixed up the “Los Angeles Lakers” with the “Los Angeles N*ggers.”

It’s almost too hard to believe, but it happened.

Not hard to believe at all. But hey, I suppose NBC-Universal can just get that Florida judge to explain that this also is no big deal, right? Y’all keep supporting the MSM.

PS: I didn’t know or follow Kobe, but I understand he was a helluva athlete and competitor. RIP.

The Unborn Have Never Had a Defender in the Whitehouse

26 Sunday Jan 2020

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abortion, law, March for Life, murder, Trump

Not since Roe. Still, in a campaign-friendly regulatory manner, Trump has done more than most.

President Donald Trump, seeking to court evangelical voters, addressed thousands of activists gathered Friday on the National Mall for the nation’s largest annual anti-abortion rally.

Trump, who this week revealed his “Pro-Life Voices for Trump” coalition for his 2020 reelection campaign, has strong ties to the anti-abortion community and is the first president to speak onstage at the event. Activists see him as a key ally in delivering policy priorities aimed at limiting abortion that he promised in 2016.

“On behalf of our marchers, I’d like to thank you for your stance and your record,” said Jeanne Mancini, president of March for Life, as she introduced the president.

Imagine that you observed your neighbor being murdered, and unable to intervene yourself, you called the police for help. And, all that they tell you is BS about elections, funding, and future potential legislative actions. You might say: “What about sending a man with a gun?!”

What about it, Trump? He could do three things to end child murder immediately in the US. First, declare that humans, no matter how young, are humans. Second, direct the DOJ to prosecute anyone who performs or facilitates child murder with federal criminal civil rights charges. Seek the death penalty in all cases. Third, to bypass the process and the wait, he could declare an emergency and halt the practice with the military. The first judge or elected rodent who squeaked about it could get the Soleimani treatment as an enemy combatant. Of course, this is the guy who, when cleared by the Senate on the fake charges against him, will do nothing to those who attempted the coup.

All the while, the children desperately need a defender, even if one fictional. I’m working on that.

Yale Puts the “Liberal” in Liberal Arts, Takes Away the Art

26 Sunday Jan 2020

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art, college, decline, education, Europhobia, Yale

Yalies, say goodbye to Art 101:

Yale will stop teaching a storied introductory survey course in art history, citing the impossibility of adequately covering the entire field — and its varied cultural backgrounds — in one course.

Decades old and once taught by famous Yale professors like Vincent Scully, “Introduction to Art History: Renaissance to the Present” was once touted to be one of Yale College’s quintessential classes. But this change is the latest response to student uneasiness over an idealized Western “canon” — a product of an overwhelmingly white, straight, European and male cadre of artists.

This spring, the final rendition of the course will seek to question the idea of Western art itself — a marked difference from the course’s focus at its inception. Art history department chair and the course’s instructor Tim Barringer told the News that he plans to demonstrate that a class about the history of art does not just mean Western art. Rather, when there are so many other regions, genres and traditions — all “equally deserving of study” — putting European art on a pedestal is “problematic,” he said.

It must be problematic to teach and showcase the masterpieces from a civilization you’re actively trying to destroy. Yale, which by the way, rates a solid “C” in ACTA’s 2019 “What Will They Learn” Guide, charges about $53,000 per year in tuition and fees. What a deal! Of course, if they keep this up and abolish composition and science (highly problematic, you know), then they may join Harvard with an “F.”

The art of the steal?

Is TBI TMI?

25 Saturday Jan 2020

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Iraq, lies, military, pentagon, TBI

No straight story ever emerges from Washington, at least as told or retold by the government. Pentagon says ~~no injuries 11 injuries~~ 34 injuries related to the Iranian missile strike in Iraq.

The Pentagon said on Friday that 34 service members had been diagnosed with traumatic brain injury following missile strikes by Iran on a base in Iraq earlier this month, a number higher than the military had previously announced.

President Donald Trump and other top officials initially said Iran’s attack had not killed or injured any U.S. service members.

Last week the U.S. military said 11 U.S. troops had been treated for concussion symptoms after the attack on the Ain al-Asad air base in western Iraq and this week said additional troops had been moved out of Iraq for potential injuries.

Still no word on the hardware lost. Or, any rational explanation for why our troops were there in the first place.

Pandemic Math

25 Saturday Jan 2020

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China, health, math, pandemic?, rats, virus

This virus, which the Chinese is rapidly spreading, is still statistically insignificant. In Wuhan, the epicenter of the outbreak, only .00011% of the people are infected (add more zeros for the national perspective). Only .00029% are severe cases. And only .000003% have died. Math.

Also, a happy first day of the Year of the Rat to the Chinese! At least they get to rotate critters every year. For those who have been to Washington, we know the US has the rat every year.

Space Force: To Idiocy and Beyond

24 Friday Jan 2020

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For the absolute love of God … this. We’re now Star Trek.

Apparently President Trump thought we hadn’t had enough Star Trek spinoffs for one year.

After literal years of anticipation, President Trump debuted a logo for the “Space Force” he’s been touting his entire presidency. It’s none of the adorable logos he asked Trump email subscribers to vote on about a year and a half ago, but instead a near-exact replica of the Starfleet Command logo from Star Trek.

I wonder what those 40K “people” are saying. Might they be wondering if some of the $6.5-21 Trillion the Pentagram has misplaced these past few decades has been building a fleet of cash-fueled rocket starships? Nah. Any brown people living on other planets had better take cover now. Beam me up, Scotty.

China is FastER

24 Friday Jan 2020

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China, hospital, pandemic?

I got the idea for the title from a billboard I saw once. Anyway, the Chinese do construction in a hurry. We’ve seen time-lapse footage of pre-fab skyscrapers going up faster than Americans could survey the site. Now, they’re building a large hospital the same way and in record time.

China announced Friday that it is swiftly building a 1,000-bed hospital dedicated to patients infected with a new virus that has killed 26 people, sickened hundreds and prompted unprecedented lockdowns of cities during the country’s most important holiday.

On the eve of the Lunar New Year, transportation was shut down in at least 13 cities home to more than 36 million people. The cities are Wuhan, where the illness has been concentrated, and 12 of its neighbors in central China’s Hubei province.

“To address the insufficiency of existing medical resources,” Wuhan is constructing a hospital modeled after the Xiaotangshan SARS hospital in Beijing, Wuhan authorities said in a Friday notice. The facility will be a prefabricated structure on a 25,000- square-meter (270,000-square-foot) lot, slated for completion Feb. 3.

Compare that to the pace in the US where it takes years or decades for permits, committee rulings, and “buy-in.” Also, still not sure what to make of the latest version of swine flu.