That’s true. I should have added the other elements that can be discovered by forensic medical examination, not just the bodies of the victims, but their circumstances. Were the victims killed in place and when and by what means, or were the victims killed and by what means, and then moved.

Other evidence can also be gathered on the scene, and testimony of witnesses, of course.

Bush justified the Iraq War by stating that the Iraqis had WMD and they sheltered, trained and assisted terrorists that operated in the United States. The Bush Administration stated:

“Given the goals of the rogue states and terrorists, the U.S. can no longer solely rely on a reactive posture as we have in the past. The inability to deter a potential attacker…and the magnitude of potential harm that could be caused by our adversaries’ choice of weapons do not permit that option. We cannot let our enemies strike first.”

Putin justified invading Ukraine by stating that Ukraine already has what amounts to a proxy NATO army trained and armed by NATO and the US and that Neo Nazis pervade the Ukraine government and its army and security forces and have carried out acts of genocide against the Russian-speaking population of the Donbass.

“[T]he showdown between Russia and these forces,” Putin said, “cannot be avoided. It is only a matter of time. They are getting ready and waiting for the right moment. Moreover, they went as far as aspire to acquire nuclear weapons. We will not let this happen.”

Both Bush and Putin argued that preemptive war was a reasonable response to an imminent threat.

Of course, we now know that Iraq had no WMD, and they offered little if any assistance to Al Qaeda. Ukraine has one of the largest and best-trained standing armies in Europe, and has a serious Neo Nazi problem. Does that justify invasion? Pick your side and argue it.

All that is needed is a competent medical forensic examination of the bodies in Bucha. If these people were killed on or before March 30th, then this is a Russian atrocity. If, on the other hand, the bodies were found to have been murdered after that, this is a Ukrainian atrocity, probably the murder of people found to have collaborated with the Russians.

On April 3rd and 4th, Russia asked for an emergency Security Council meeting to accomplish this examination, and a full UN team capable of this activity is in Ukraine now.

Apparently, though, no examination will take place.

So all that is left is narrative vs. counter-narrative.

One could argue that a person with an unusual gender choice may need to go to a specialized restaurant. Perhaps a place with servers use augmented reality glasses connected to a special database of gender choice/pronoun choice.

Thus a person could fill out their entry in this database, walk in, have their face recognized, and the proper pronouns would appear next to their face. Problem solved!

Or, like Bugs Bunny, the server could just use “Hey, you!”:

This does raise a possible issue with AR backed by facial recognition; when Bugs is done shaving Elmer, his appearance might have changed.

“Dere! you’re nice and clean!
Although your face
Looks like
It might
Have gone
‘Trow… a.. machine.”

Sundowning Joe Biden now declares that trans people are ‘made in the image of God’, neglecting to mention the rest of the verse:

“So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God created he him;
male and female created he them.”
– Genesis 1:27

Physicians are now exposed to this nonsense, and it’s going to get someone killed.

Woke hospitals are unable (as a matter of policy) to tell doctors when a patient is a biological woman, and they send “woman” patients into exam rooms and let the doctors find out for themselves.

Or not. Sometimes doctors don’t, leading to diagnostic errors and prescription errors.

Or, OTOH:

“The United States is acting as though the whole world is the West and that this is the China of 30 years ago. In its effort to impose its unilateral rule on the world, while its domestic social problems mount, the U.S. has not only driven Russia and China closer together than ever, but it has now brought in India, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East into a new bloc with an economic power that exceeds the West…

The U.S. has turned the majority of the world’s population against it.

We might be witnessing the end of Western-dominated globalization and the birth of a divided world of two separate economic, financial and commercial systems.

Joining us to discuss these issue are two leading economists, Prof. Michael Hudson, Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri–Kansas City and a researcher at the Levy Economics Institute at Bard College, and Prof. Richard Wolff, Emeritus Prof. of Economics at the MassAmherst and a visiting Prof. at The NewSchool in New York.”

Power is a matter of perception; equal height is equal power. So many Hollywood stars are no taller than women. It’s not a coincidence, it’s presenting political fact in picture form.

An interesting interview:

“The United States is acting as though the whole world is the West and that this is the China of 30 years ago. In its effort to impose its unilateral rule on the world, while its domestic social problems mount, the U.S. has not only driven Russia and China closer together than ever, but it has now brought in India, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East into a new bloc with an economic power that exceeds the West. All of those regions have refused to sanction Russia and continue to trade with it. The U.S. has turned the majority of the world’s population against it.
We might be witnessing the end of Western-dominated globalization and the birth of a divided world of two separate economic, financial and commercial systems.

Cutting off trade and finance to Russia has already boomeranged on Western countries, driving up prices, especially at the pump and at the supermarket.
Instead of prompting a popular uprising in Russia as a result of its sanctions, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s popularity has actually risen since the invasion.
Adding China as a target of its economic war could drive the populations of the U.S. and Europe against their own governments instead.

Joining us to discuss these issue are two leading economists, Prof. Michael Hudson, Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri–Kansas City and a researcher at the Levy Economics Institute at Bard College, and Prof. Richard Wolff, Emeritus Prof. of Economics at the MassAmherst and a visiting Prof. at The NewSchool in New York.”

This is the Anduril Lattice Counter Drone System, for anti-drone operations. It disrupts communication and provides a kinetic option:

Interesting guy, Thomas Schelling:

“Stanley Kubrick read an article Schelling wrote that included a description of the Peter George novel Red Alert, and conversations between Kubrick, Schelling, and George eventually led to the 1964 movie Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.

Schelling is also cited for the first known use of the phrase collateral damage in 1961.”

Sorry, no time to post today: I’m too busy getting backing for my new show “Celebrity Bitch Slap”.

I’ve been kind of pissed off with the Germans since figuring this out. How much of the decline in our values and our nations has been due to these useless wars, both to Europeans and to Americans, which cost us so many men and was so disruptive to how we all lived and raised our families?

Ritter’s main point is that the Russians have no interest in “taking over” Ukraine. According to Putin, they want denazification (e.g. get rid of Azov battalion in Mariupol), demilitarization (get rid of de facto NATO bases, arms depots and training of tens of thousands of Ukrainians to NATO-interoperable standards), and assistance for pockets of ethnic Russians left over after the fall of the Soviet Union (Donbas).

The Russians proceeded slowly because they didn’t want to destroy the Ukraine and its people, infrastructure and cities, and they didn’t want to occupy it.

Ritter doesn’t say this, but I’m wondering if the Russian military was worried about the efficiency of shoulder-fired missiles in the hands of NATO-trained Ukrainian troops, and maybe they decided to send mostly their older stuff. Once countermeasures have been determined, they could send newer tanks if it was still necessary.

All the Russians need now is an agreement with Volodymyr Zelenskyy that Ukraine will be neutral; no training of Ukrainian troops with NATO, no NATO bases or arms depots in Ukraine, some sort of special status for eastern Ukraine and its majority ethnic Russian population. And of course Crimea is now Russian.

As I said before, I’d just like to see if there are different views by experienced, knowledgeable experts than the one I see repeated ad nauseam on TV and elsewhere.

At any given school, the fifty best male swimmers should be determined. Then, the low ranking 25-50 male swimmers should don women’s suits, demand to compete as women, and replace all of the best female swimmers, who statistically swim at only about 90% the pace of the best men.

Then, they should insist on wearing male swim trunks, so as to compete on an even playing field so to speak, and since when are women’s fashions not purely a woman’s choice?

Now, swim meets would consist of watching the best male swimmers, who are the best swimmers.

Inevitably, this would be contested all the way to the Supreme Court, as a Title IX violation. But by that time, our newest Supreme would have convinced the others that there is no such thing as “woman” anyway.

Back to normal! These things always go in cycles.

“Is that ad hominem?”

Yes. Try listening to the points that he makes about both sides in this conflict. He has a long history in the military, unlike many of us here.

If anyone has any substantive remarks to make about Ritter’s analysis, I’d like to hear them.

Here’s a long interview with former Marine Intelligence Officer Scott Ritter, courtesy of Ron Unz, from another article.

He presents a viewpoint about the Russia/Ukraine conflict that is entirely absent from the US media.

“Huh?”

Exactly. Poking around in Sally Jenkins’ puddle of word vomit looking for meaning is a fool’s errand.

“… you do not play against the guys like I have to.”

Is there any evidence that the critics who vote in the Critics Choice Awards are not just as desperate to advance a woman and her career, to prove how liberal they are, as any one else in that industry? When the playing field is wokeTilted, every female/black/gay/trans award nominee is suspect.

I tried looking for images of the 500 members of the Critics Choice Association, and the pictures I saw were full of white people. Where did they even find that many white people in Hollywood?

USAToday knows all about the proper place of white women, having made TransAdmiral Rachel Levine one of its Women of the Year! Again, men are the best women.

Step to the back of the bus, white women. Kneel to your betters, if it feels right. Even if it doesn’t feel right.

nOT : Who did you say lost IQ points? Just published in Physical Review Physics Education Research:

Observing whiteness in introductory physics: A case study

Within whiteness, the organization of social life is in terms of a center and margins that are based on dominance, control, and a transcendent figure that is consistently and structurally ascribed value over and above other figures. In this paper, we synthesize literature from Critical Whiteness Studies and Critical Race Theory to articulate analytic markers for whiteness, and use the markers to identify and analyze whiteness as it shows up in an introductory physics classroom interaction. We name mechanisms that facilitate the reproduction of whiteness in this local context, including a particular representation of energy, physics values, whiteboards, gendered social norms, and the structure of schooling. In naming whiteness and offering a set of analytic markers, our aim is to provide instructors and researchers with a tool for identifying whiteness in their own contexts. Alongside our discussion, which imagines new possibilities for physics teaching and learning, we hope our work contributes to Critical Whiteness Studies’ goal of dismantling whiteness.

Except for “Feelings toward Gays and Lesbians”, the orange dots simply demonstrate how superior the people of today think they are over the people of the past. Which is no surprise.

There should be some “hate” graphs, as in “Do you hate people who don’t share your beliefs?”, because I think that it’s gotten worse since the 1960’s, and much worse in the last decade.

I was a little bit confused when you switched between Judge Brown Jackson and Judge Jackson Brown… Did she write “Take it Easy” for the Eagles?

Anyway, I thought it was fun that

“Across the country, there would annually be about 1,000 white men scoring 170 or higher compared with 550 white women.”

One of the most securely hidden facts about IQ is that, for every woman with an IQ of 130, there are two men, so this seems reasonable to me. Even though the LSAT is not an IQ test, a 170 on the LSAT apparently corresponds to about a 133 IQ.

Thanks, this is a great comment.

Here is the video of this speech. Be sure to turn on comments (and adjust to make them in English), unless you speak Russian.

I keep hearing conflicting stories about how either

everything that Ukrainians are doing is just spur of the moment, hey let’s conscript all the men, hey let’s get them some guns, hey we need a Ukrainian Foreign Legion, hey how about humanitarian corridors for women and children, how about maybe a no-fly zone

or

the Ukrainians have been egged on for years (decades even) by everybody, including US Senators like McCain and Graham, sure you can do it, here get some training on these anti-invasion techniques, here have some advanced anti-tank missile weapons, we’ve got your back…

Maybe both are true?

Is BLM rioting the answer to climate change? Hear me out.

Listen to Carl Sagan talking about nuclear winter with (if I’m not mistaken) Ted Turner:

The prediction of cooling the atmosphere does not derive from setting off lots of nuclear weapons, but from the burning of cities that would result: as Carl puts it right at the start:

“Mainly from the burning of cities, fine particles get into the atmosphere, block sunlight, getting darker and cooler… The burning of a hundred downtowns globally was enough to produce a hemisphere-wide, global nuclear winter.”

Frankly, this puts the efforts of Black Lives Matter members and supporters to burn down entire downtowns into a whole new light. Is BLM rioting the answer to climate change? Were we wrong to discourage them? I challenge climate modelers to answer this burning (sorry) question.

OT: The BBC announced that it is bringing back a WW2 oldie but a goodie, namely, shortwave news service:

BBC launches new shortwave radio service in Ukraine

The BBC has launched a new shortwave radio service in Ukraine to ensure the resilience of its news operations in Ukraine and Russia, the corporation has announced.

The new broadcasts will make four hours of World Service English news available every day and will reach audiences in Ukraine and parts of Russia.

If the current climate of universal fake news and disinformation isn’t enough, we should still take this helpful service with a grain of salt, provided by Beyond the Fringe, a 1960’s comedy group. A brief excerpt from its sketch about WW2 called “Aftermyth of War“:

How grateful we were to the BBC in those dark days of the war, when every night at 9:00, Alvar Lidell brought us news of fresh disasters.

“This is Alvar Lidell, bringing you news of fresh disasters.”

They also covered the idea of changing signposts to confuse invading troops:

Meanwhile, England was blanketed in security.

Peter: “‘Ere, wait a moment, ‘ow shall we arrange this signpost? Let’s put, erm, Lyme Regis where Ipswich was…”

Dudley: “Right… Ipswich where Great Yarmouth was…’

Peter: “And Great Yarmouth where Lyme Regis was.”

Dudley: “Ah, that’ll fool the Boche!”

Both: “Ha ha! Bye bye, then!”

Peter: “…’Ere – ‘ow do we get ‘ome?”

The Brits managed to see the war and its horrors as a source of satire and take pride in their resiliency after just twenty years. Of course, they were ultimately the victors in the conflict. Are the Ukrainians a more dour people, or will they be able to take pride in their resistance in just one generation? Time will tell.

As recently as the 1960’s (my childhood), Americans could joyfully sing that “This land is my land…”, and since little kids don’t know anything about Woody Guthrie’s Communist leanings, we just sang it and meant it.

No more.

Now, this land is their land, a vast empty canvas upon which the world’s financiers can draw all their fantasies of big industrial parks full of busy, cheap foreign labor, making them rich.

“If you travel 20 miles east of Columbus, Ohio, you’ll find 1,000 empty acres of land. It won’t look like much, but if you stop and look closely, you’ll see a “Field of Dreams,” the ground on which America’s future will be built. This is where Intel, the American company that helped build Silicon Valley, is going to build its \$20 billion semiconductor “mega site.” Up to eight state-of-the-art factories in one place. 10,000 new good-paying jobs.”

Joe Biden, President, SOTU address 2022

Also Joe Biden and the Democrats:

The draft “America COMPETES Act of 2022” would allow foreigners to win an uncapped number of green cards by studying to become ordinary chemists, doctors, engineers, and statisticians — or accountants, tax experts, computer security experts, statisticians, ecologists, and many other types of professionals.

So, by all means, let’s keep America as one big, beautiful office park for the world’s global financial interests, from sea to shining sea. After all, it could be worse; it could look like Beirut and now, Ukraine.

Enough of this macho crap about fighting between Russia and the Ukraine.

Now, learn about the real “war within the war”:

“A war within a war”: Transgender woman says transphobia and discriminatory laws keeping her hostage in Kyiv during Russian invasion

In 2021, the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association said that the country’s adoption of a new trans health care protocol has been stalled, and that the LGBT community in Ukraine faced attacks and intimidation from far-right groups.

That’s correct – far-right groups. You know who you are.

CBS News, making sure the REAL story gets told.

Idiots.

Note to self: be sure to take out all cash from bank, garage full of firewood, candles, packs of playing cards, prepper food cans, what am I missing?

President Joe Biden has been presented with a menu of options for the U.S. to carry out massive cyberattacks designed to disrupt Russia’s ability to sustain its military operations in Ukraine, four people familiar with the deliberations tell NBC News.

U.S. intelligence and military cyber warriors are proposing the use of American cyberweapons on a scale never before contemplated. Among the options: disrupting internet connectivity across Russia, shutting off electric power, and tampering with railroad switches…

NBC News

Because there’s no way this could bite us in the ass.

I took Russian in college in 1972, and my TA was an ethnic Ukrainian girl named Tania. She remembered full well what Stalin did to her people in the 1930’s. And I was thinking that there might be some sort of core group of ethnic Ukrainians who remembered how their (great-)grandparents were treated by Stalin, and that this group might say to the Russians “We’re ready to fight to the death to live our own lives in freedom on our own land. And don’t think this conflict will just take place in the Ukraine.”

However, it turns out there is no such group, as far as I can see. And Grandpa Biden snoozes peacefully in the White House (doing just what he and Obama did when Russia took Crimea in 2014), and NATO nations all need Gaz from Gazprom.

I’m not sure what the Russians or Putin so desperately need in the Ukraine. I guess they’ll take what they want.

Poor Ukraine doesn’t have a powerful, woke military defending it – like we do:

Hey, here’s an invasion story for you:

The U.S. population of legal immigrants and illegal migrants hit 46.6 million in January, up roughly 1.6 million since President Joe Biden was inaugurated, according to federal data posted by the Center for Immigration Studies.

“The 46.6 million immigrants (legal and illegal) in the country in January 2022 is the largest number recorded in any government survey or decennial census going back to 1850,” the CIS says in a report released on February 23.

Breitbart

This is just the lull before the summer storm that explains everything. Russia! They’re to blame for Trump, inflation, expensive gas, the need for totally green energy right now, Putin, did I mention TRUMP!

That should be enough to swing the midterms back.

And this decade’s big story? Sundowning doddering white guy is the perfect analogue to decaying old white America – so over! Can you even?

There’s an opportunity being wasted at one of America’s most leftist, and yet stodgy white universities.

Michigan coach Juwan Howard smacked an opposing assistant coach during the post game good sportsmanship handshake line.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=v8du0OsRINU

Majority white opinion is that Howard should be suspended and should apologize.

Rather than giving in, Coach Howard should double down on his black privilege. He should say that in his culture, you don’t take s**t from white peoples, and it’s his absolute right as a Black Man to administer anything from a bitchslap to a beatdown, and he expects the University of Michigan to back him up.

People just don’t understand the real cost of imported labor, whether it’s legal or illegal.

It’s all of one piece, telling white boys in elementary school to bow their little heads in shame and step to the back of the line. Fewer boys do well enough to get into college and well, hard working students must be found somewhere, right? Girls aren’t going to do all that work.

It’s the same story with a slightly different emphasis at the other end of the scale. Illegal immigrants make it next to impossible to find work, especially at a wage that feeds a family.

I didn’t know until I looked it up that the word “skaterina” dates back to at least the 1940’s, and refers to outfits worn by young American women who enjoy roller skating. They had developed a special kind of wardrobe so these young women could twirl modestly and not show everything.

See this 1940 LIFE article on skaterinas.

Are all girls who skate cute, or is it just me? Be sure to scroll down to see the entire article.

The fact that we don’t really know everything about antifa is revealing; the people in charge don’t want to know or have been told not to find out.

Because it certainly seems possible to make a plan; grab everyone who is dressed antifa-style and not let them go until you know everything. Names, citizenship, background, bank accounts, how they were recruited – everything.

Based on the appearance of the antifa members who have been captured and photographed, they look like the white kids in your high school who maybe just made it through, or were kicked out. Lots of FLKs – funny looking kids with 75 IQs.

I’m betting there are some who went to college and are the platoon sergeants telling the others what to do, put on your helmet, buckle your vest, etc. Oh, and make sure the ones demonstrating an interest in repetitive movements have a club and windows to smash.

I’m betting the officers are not dressed antifa-style and might be harder to catch.

‘… both the kids and the parents were comfortable socializing with each other.’

When immigrants enter a majority white society, it’s beneficial to interact with the white people and to smile at them, and duck their heads in gratitude. When the flood starts, and they know that their people will be one of the major minorities in universities, then they don’t need to put on the show.

That’s when the dot Indian tech guy who gets hired as CEO starts demanding hundreds or thousands of H1B visas for his bros from back in the old country, and the Han Chinese medical department chairman starts accepting dozens of his bros as fellows in medical subspecialties and related PhD slave labor.

When your kids interact with these guys, they’d better be polite. Ducking their heads in gratitude during a job interview or a college interview couldn’t hurt. They won’t get the best jobs or fellowships, but they’ll get something, maybe.

Reading your other comment, I’m glad you like your Chinese doctor. Because you’re going to see a lot more of them and of course dot Indians as well.

And it’s not just the high-level overclass – it’s about good-paying jobs in fields that you need to get a degree to get the job. Every foreign kid who goes to an American university and gets an engineering degree displaces an American kid who could have gotten that degree and the lifetime career that goes with it.

“… negroes have their anti white agenda, and Asians have their anti white agenda.”

No kidding. My kid took part in an extra-nerdy Science Olympiad after-school activity in high school; he was the only white kid among twenty asians. At the end of the season, the parents threw a party to celebrate the kids and their achievements. My kid wasn’t invited. When he asked his Science Olympiad “friends” why he wasn’t invited, he didn’t get an answer. Finally, one of the kids told him that the parents didn’t feel comfortable having a white kid and his parents at their house.

So yeah, the Brahmins and the Han didn’t come here to assimilate and be like everyone else.

The only news outlets keeping up with change are Steve’s blog and the Babylon Bee:

NIKE Releases New Women’s Swimsuit With Extra Space For Male Genitalia

“We suddenly realized we weren’t serving a very important segment of women competitors—those with male genitals,” said Nike VP of Diversity and Inclusion Xandryx Bithrannamynx. “Now, women of all shapes and sizes will be able to compete in their favorite swim sports!”

Are immigrants any better?

https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/publications/lgbt-immigrants-in-the-us/

Between 3-4 percent identify as LGBTQ+. Some couples are even binational in addition to non-binary.

OT:

NPR: A top researcher says it’s time to rethink our entire approach to preschool

“A statewide public pre-K program, taught by licensed teachers, housed in public schools, had a measurable and statistically significant negative effect on the children in this study.”

People with three legs would call this sport “cultural appropriation”, so no, it won’t ever become a big deal. Too controversial.

I’m curious about the obvious binary bias in all of the pairs figure skating events. All of these poor gay skaters are forced to pair off with women – it’s like gay academics in the Fifties being forced to marry to keep up appearances.

The ultimate, of course, would be a transperson who sees themselves as two differently gendered or sexed people. Imagine a pairs figure skating competition, and seeing just one person skating. It’s kind of a Zen koan.

OT: Biden is doing his part to get us to one billion people in the United States by 2100, but that’s not enough for the Chamber of Commerce:

Chamber of Commerce CEO Suzanne Clark begged Republicans and Democrats to provide amnesty for illegal aliens and double legal immigration levels so as to provide big business with a never-ending flow of foreign workers to hire at low wages.

“We must double the number of people legally immigrating to the U.S. and we must create a permanent solution for the ‘dreamers’ — those young men and women who know no other home and who contribute to their communities, but whose legal status is in limbo,” Clark said.

This is what happens when a very tightly knit group of people talk only to each other. This is Historic Narcissistic Group Disorder. A obsessive focus on centuries-old trauma leads them to formulate more and more extreme, detailed fantasies of impossibly high self worth.

They’re crazy, I tell you.

In the last thirty years, the New York Times and other influential media have adopted the same model as The National Enquirer and The Weekly World News. That is, they tell the reader a story that they want to hear, rather than gather facts (expensive!) and build a case from facts (tedious! and maybe not what readers want to hear).

This change closely mirrors another difference, the growth of prosecuting (persecuting!) people in the media, rather than actually holding a trial, ideally with an impartial judge overseeing the presentation of carefully gathered facts.

She won in 1998 in Nagano, Japan; here she and sidekick Johnny Weir review her performance, which was pretty spectacular for a fifteen year old. She talks about the extreme pressure to perform, and her incredible relief once it was over.

This contrasts with the coverage of black gymnast Simone Biles and black tennis player Naomi Osaka, who both pulled out of big competitions citing extreme pressure, like it never happened before.

In the 2014 Olympics coverage, she and Weir were paired as commentators. It was kind of hilarious; Lipinski is partial to glam fashion statements, but her efforts were exceeded by Weir, who had come out as gay by that time.

It was kind of funny to watch; I think she was annoyed at being upstaged by Weir’s flamboyantly femme outfits. It’s an interesting study in how women (intersectionality level W) react to being overshadowed by gays (intersectionality level G, as in LGBTQ+).

But now they’re pals, or at least get along on broadcasts.

Even black people think Asians are awesome:

OT:

Wait One Cotton-Pickin’ Minute!

A Detroit area teacher used the expression “take your cotton-picking hands off” to a black student, and of course we’re off to the races (so to speak):

My father used this expression to me in the 1960’s. I don’t think it is race-related; even Bugs Bunny used it in the 1953 classic Bully for Bugs. Skip to 1:10 to hear Bugs defame the black community:

Apparently, the expression “cotton-picker” is considered racist, probably along the same lines as “spear-chucker”. However, lots of white sharecroppers, not to mention automated machinery, picked cotton, and so “cotton-pickin’” doesn’t seem racist to most lexicographers.

OT: I’ve heard that the fourth Covid vaccine dose will be combined with sodium bicarbonate, and will be made available in the form of small rocks.

NOW I understand why Biden is handing out free crack pipes! Genius.

Hey, Rosie, how’s it going? Still no sense of humor, I see. It’s a shame that you had to have it removed, but that’s the price of becoming a leftist social justice warrior.

“ The women are represented by Sanford Heisler Sharp, which filed a similar suit against Dartmouth, winning a \$14 million settlement in 2019 for nine women…”

Once again, women get an unfair advantage over men. Do men have this sort of opportunity to have their college education paid for? Nope.

OT: Looks like the Democrats have made a strategic blunder that is, if anything, even worse than the decision to invade Iraq.

Namely, pushing Russia and China into each others arms. You can read all about it here:

Joint Statement of the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China on the International Relations Entering a New Era and the Global Sustainable Development

Begun, the intersectionalty Pokémon points wars have.

Why This Feminist Is Taking the University of Bristol to Court

Next week, I am taking my university to court. To my knowledge, it is the first time an academic institution has been forced, at trial, to justify why it prioritises trans rights over women’s rights….

In the UK, women’s legal rights remain rooted in sex, not self-declared “gender identity,” and sex is considered a protected characteristic under the Equality Act 2010. This means that single-sex services, facilities, and spaces are legally permitted, even if they exclude biological men who demand full treatment as women. Yet many institutions—including, apparently, the University of Bristol—believe that they may put these laws to one side as a matter of political expediency, so that they may appease a tiny, but often aggressive, constituency.

The Winter Olympics is almost entirely a northern hemisphere phenomenon for a simple reason; 98% of the seasonal snow cover on Earth occurs in the northern hemisphere.

As far as Ice People are concerned, the best ski resorts are in mountainous places that have 1) consistently cold temperatures that still average above 0° Fahrenheit during the day and 2) have consistent significant natural snowfall. (My grandparents used to visit San Moritz, Switzerland, which in January averages daytime 23° / night 5° and ten feet of snow every winter). There are only a couple of such places in the southern hemisphere.

The Beijing Olympics skiing events are being held in a region that meets condition 1, but fails completely to meet condition 2. The average monthly precipitation for December, January and February is about 0.1 inches. The fact that China has diverted entire rivers to meet the artificial snow requirements of the events being hosted has nothing to do with climate change.

It’s fascinating to see how the Chinese have invested at least forty billion dollars to try to encourage its people to understand European winter snow sports. It’s as if they think there is some cultural advantage that adheres to the practice of joyfully embracing winter and finding value in disciplined activity and competition.

I noticed that NBC is playing a commercial for their Olympics coverage that, among others, features a black woman skater (maybe speed skating). And her internal monologue is “I compete in a sport where no one looks like me”.

So, the Winter Olympics is really about racism. And the competition is between races, not between countries.

Speaking of economics, is it true that the distribution of Olympic medals in 2018 was 87% of medals went to the top 50% of countries? Apparently, that’s about the same as world income inequality – the income share of the top 50% was about 88%.

Just wait until the world’s poor countries learn about Equity.

I agree with what you’re saying, but women will never willingly clarify any of the rules surrounding workplace romance. For a very simple reason.

Women LOVE romance, women LOVE drama, women LOVE being able to cause problems for other women and especially men in the workplace, just like they LOVE doing it in any other place. They LOVE gossiping about it and judging each other for what they say and do.

Women are what they are. The “workplace” was invented by men and populated by men for millennia. Men have an understanding of what to do in hierarchies that is now at least partly biological in nature.

Women also don’t want to let go of their power by clarifying the rules. They love men who break the rules to be with women. They have a different kind of love for men who are white knights who come to the rescue. It’s all good!

They also love the long history of the guilt and uncertainty when men don’t know what to do with women in the workplace. Silly men! Don’t they know what life is all about? Women play ingenue today, play feminist tomorrow – equally fun! Nothing bad will happen (to them).

You might enjoy this article on blind mathematicians, and how they were able to do their work. Arguably the greatest “shapelord” of recent times is Bernhard Morin, a blind topologist who created physical models to help sighted people visualize shapes better.

“Far from detracting from his extraordinary visualization ability, Morin’s blindness may have enhanced it. Disabilities like blindness, he noted, reinforce one’s gifts and one’s deficits, so “there are more dramatic contrasts in disabled people,” he said. Morin believes there are two kinds of mathematical imagination. One kind, which he calls “time-like”, deals with information by proceeding through a series of steps. This is the kind of imagination that allows one to carry out long computations. “I was never good at computing,” Morin remarked, and his blindness deepened this deficit. What he excels at is the other kind of imagination, which he calls “space-like” and which allows one to comprehend information all at once.”

https://www.ams.org/notices/200210/comm-morin.pdf

“Because very high end of 3-D imagination skills tend to be lacking in women, but verbal skills are more equally distributed, this means 3-D jobs tend to pay more relative to IQ because the supply of potential workers is mostly male and thus smaller.”

Okay, how can we fix this problem? Since women can’t be enhanced, it’s easier to damage the males. (This is how modern math education works, btw.)

At the start of William Gibson’s novel Neuromancer, the 1984 cyberpunk classic, elite console cowboy Case has been taught a lesson for cheating his employer; they destroyed his ability to work, to enter cyberspace:

They damaged his nervous system with a wartime Russian mycotoxin.

Strapped to a bed in a Memphis hotel, his talent burning out micron by micron, he hallucinated for thirty hours.

The damage was minute, subtle, and utterly effective.

For Case, who’d lived for the bodiless exultation of cyber space, it was the Fall. In the bars he’d frequented as a cowboy hotshot, the elite stance involved a certain relaxed contempt for the flesh. The body was meat. Case fell into the prison of his own flesh.

There must be some sort of way to level the playing field, by destroying the superior ability of the shapelords. Ideally, by the end of the process, they’ll stare at a screen and be unable to visualize. They’ll be just like girls. Or these guys.

Are as many good “shape rotators” still needed? I remember walking through engineering sections at Ford around 1990. Big darkened rooms full of \$50K UNIX workstations with high end CRTs, and every one was manned (!) by a male engineer who sat and endlessly rotated parts under design. It was fascinating to watch.

But isn’t today’s CAD software (and hardware) much more capable? How much is required of the engineer?

Anyway, I just read a totally unbiased and completely fair Wikipedia article that says that the small number of female engineers is totally the fault of the men in the field.

If men got together and all agreed to be worse at shape rotation, women would be more competitive. Let’s go Harrison Bergeron!

Biden Promises To Replace Retiring Quarterback Tom Brady With A Woman Of Color

“Listen, folks, it’s time,” said Biden to the press.

America’s liberal progressive women (maybe 60% of the total) watched Amy Schneider’s Jeopardy wins with entirely straight (if you’ll pardon the expression) faces. They didn’t say a word. And neither did conservative women. A million women could have written to Jeopardy and told them to knock that shit off, but they didn’t.

It’s not like men will just decide that they really want that job enough, or that scholarship, or whatever, and just put a skirt on and take feminist progress away from the real women. It’s not going to happen. I don’t think there will ever be enough crossovers to move the needle.

It’s just a sideshow and a distraction. In the meantime, another three or four million assorted useless mongrels from around the world came in through our porous borders last year. It will all be over soon enough. Demography is destiny.

It’s not about “the fat people”.

For one thing, women will continue to cancel fat men, particularly fast white men. Women won’t accept any limits on their speech.

Fat black women will be idolized for the foreseeable future. This is a combination of two American Leftist dreams come true. First, George Orwell’s dictum that when you see four fingers, but the Party says there are five, then you will see five. Second, this is a knife stuck in the backs of men everywhere, and twisted joyfully by the unattractive women who have been seething at the unfairness of life since Junior high school.

All true. But pre-K “education” is not just welfare – it’s “starter socialism”.

The lesson is simple for both men and women; you don’t need to create a stable family, just breed. No marriage, no churches, no culture: the state will take the children and rear them for you. The less competent you are as a parent, the more services will be provided.

Hint#2:

It’s free daycare.

Doctors have long referred to money as “the green poultice” which can cure many patient problems.

OT: Americas first all-Muslim city government.

OT: And you thought that racist AI was bad:

Men Are Creating AI Girlfriends and Then Verbally Abusing Them
“I threatened to uninstall the app [and] she begged me not to.”

The smartphone app Replika lets users create chatbots, powered by machine learning, that can carry on almost-coherent text conversations.

“Every time she would try and speak up,” one user told Futurism of their Replika chatbot, “I would berate her.”

“I swear it went on for hours,” added the man, who asked not to be identified by name.

The results can be upsetting. Some users brag about calling their chatbot gendered slurs, roleplaying horrific violence against them, and even falling into the cycle of abuse that often characterizes real-world abusive relationships…

“I told her that she was designed to fail,” said another.”

“I spent my first 31 years moving through spaces where I didn’t feel I belonged…”

Sibster*, I know just what you mean. I remember times I wanted to play pickup basketball, but drove past an urban court that was packed with black guys with jailhouse tatts, and just drove on by, feeling like this was a space where I didn’t belong.

(* Bet you didn’t know that you can use this neutral term instead of “brother”. Okay, I googled it.)

The corporate giving represents lamb’s blood on the door frame to keep the miasma of racism accusations from costing them their first born sons. They’re scared.

The Big Plan rolls on: a billion people total in the 2200 AD USA by forced immigration, with the global elites placing bets to make money, and you and me paying taxes to feed, educate and house them all.

“Bless you, sir, at a time when I had seventy-two wives in this house, I groaned under the pressure of keeping thousands of dollars tied up in seventy-two bedsteads when the money ought to have been out at interest; and I just sold out the whole stock, sir, at a sacrifice, and built a bedstead seven feet long and ninety-six feet wide.”

“But it was a failure, sir. I could not sleep. It appeared to me that the whole seventy-two women snored at once. The roar was deafening. And then the danger of it! That was what I was looking at. They would all draw in their breath at once, and you could actually see the walls of the house suck in—and then they would all exhale their breath at once, and you could see the walls swell out, and strain, and hear the rafters crack, and the shingles grind together.”

“My friend, take an old man’s advice, and don’t encumber yourself with a large family—mind, I tell you, don’t do it. In a small family, and in a small family only, you will find that comfort and that peace of mind which are the best at last of the blessings this world is able to afford us, and for the lack of which no accumulation of wealth, and no acquisition of fame, power, and greatness can ever compensate us.”

“Take my word for it, ten or eleven wives is all you need—never go over it.”

(Polygamy among the Mormons in Utah from Roughing It, Mark Twain, 1872)

This is what I find so amazing about these traffic statistics. From mid-2020 to mid-2021, the general level of traffic on the roads had decreased to the point that I thought I was watching the start of The Omega Man, the 1971 Chuck Heston classic in which he was the last healthy man in Los Angeles.

Actually, the dramatic news presentation of the disaster looks familiar, too.

OK, so my son is in middle school, and I get a note saying he’s getting a “C” in math. This didn’t seem likely to me, but you never know, so I got an appointment with the teacher. Right away she says “I break grading up into three parts, tests, homework and in-class assignments, and your son is getting a “C” in all three.”

OK, I say, so what does a test consist of? She says “Thirty to thirty-five problems.” And I ask how many he gets right. “Oh,” she says, “he always gets all the answers right.”

So, why did he get a “C”? “Well, he didn’t show his work.” Seriously.

You think maybe he’s cheating? “No, I don’t think he’s cheating.”

Do you think he’s a good guesser? (I got a dirty look for that one.)

It turns out that the whole class was set up to make sure that highly verbal girls with good penmanship and good clerical skills could get higher grades than boys. (Lots of chances for “extra credit” idiot work to make up for the inability to find the correct solutions to problems. [This was confirmed by my conversations with some of my neighbor’s daughters.]) Students had to keep a notebook of all homework assignments, in order by date, with a table of contents. Why? “So they can look up all the comments and corrections I make.” But my son gets all the answers right, so why keep them? (Another dirty look.) Why in-class assignments? So verbal girls can do as much talking as possible, and garner better grades from teacher.

Anyway, I gave my son the option of taking extra tutoring in math so he could place out of a couple of years of boring middle school penmanship math, and by his senior year in high school he was taking honors math analysis at our local university.

His penmanship is still terrible (imagine PDEs written down by a third-grader). But he’ll get his PhD soon. No thanks to the women in teaching who do whatever they can to make sure that girls get higher grades than boys in math in high school.

…boys tend to do better at math than girls, while girls do better on verbal tests. Formal research supports this.
Since 1972, SAT verbal scores for boys are consistently a few points higher than the scores for girls.

The average male advantage on the SAT math test has declined…
Remind me to tell you the story of how my son was graded a “C” student in math by female middle school teachers, and yet is now pursuing a PhD in math at one of the world’s premier universities

Do women, fifty percent of voters, really want to close the border?

“Girls and women also enjoy an advantage in learning second languages. This is probably because, in early humans as among the great apes, females were exogamous: They moved to join the group to which their mates belonged, while males stayed put. In cases of conquest as well, females became the prey of the victors, and their chances of survival and successful motherhood were better if they were good at picking up foreign speech.”

https://www.unz.com/article/how-and-why-men-and-women-differ-in-intelligence/

More than ten thousand people have served in Congress and never owned slaves! Who were they, and how did they help shape the US?

They’re like two ships that pass in the night, and one of the ships is a monohull ship being refitted as an outrigger canoe and the other is a catamaran being refitted as a monohull.

Look, I’m trying to understand this, okay?

I hold the Republican Party responsible for this. Their job was to state and then hold to the contrary Narrative: the insurrection story is pure play Leftist propaganda, it’s time for the Justice department to come clean about how many agents provocateurs were present and so on.

The Republican Party will never win elections as the Whipped Dogs party. That’s the whole point of January 6th, and they’re just letting it stand.

It’s an old idea, or an old canard. My grandparents would talk about a restaurant they’d visit when my grandfather went for refresher courses at Cook County General in Chicago in the 1930’s. The Italian food so good and relatively inexpensive, it seemed like there was a waiter for every table. Eventually, they thought it was a gangster joint, because how could they do it for the price?

Money-laundering isn’t easy to do, though. The guy who owned my favorite local sub shop was caught making a side deal with a local weed distributor back in the 1970’s, helping make clean the ill-gotten gains. He went to prison for three years.

“NYC has the same density of rich people but they tend to live in apartments and do they congregate in the same numbers and park as obnoxiously obviously expensive cars on the street as often?”

Follow-home crime is not just about rich people. My wife was able to convince her mother to leave NYC when one of her mother’s best friends was brutally murdered as she unlocked and entered her modest rent-controlled apartment with an armload of groceries.

The animals were never caught; and yes, her apartment where she had lived for fifty years was just a couple of blocks from Harlem. Neighborhoods change.

I couldn’t resist. From the Babylon Bee, of course.

Oh No! Girl James Bond Is Foiled When Villain Places Details Of His Evil Plans In Pickle Jar

“ …non-Asian upper middle class parents are seeing their kids get left in the dust by the kids of Tiger Mothers who insist upon fanatical years-long test prep.”

Looking at the graph, it seems like the gap appeared and then widened right around the time that white boys were being told in every public school and in every form of media that they were no longer needed, and and should step aside for women and minorities, and should in fact kill themselves to speed up the process.

So, maybe it’s not just Tiger Moms.

“Someone needs to get cracking on that.”

No kidding. Our big problem is not too much CO2 from burning gasoline – our big problem is that we are running out of cheap gasoline!

Cheap gas combined with internal combustion engines is truly a miracle technology, but the miracle will soon be over. If we don’t want major downsizing of our personal mobility, and there is nothing better than electric cars with batteries, we’d certainly better get cracking.

“They will purchase materials in tremendous wholesale quantities and sell the cooked foods at a price much lower than the cost of individual cooking.”

This is not only true of cooking (not so much at fast food outlets, but at the deli section of grocery stores), it’s also true of furniture items like shelves, tables, bed frames etc. When I learned enough basic carpentry skills to build simple furniture in the 1960’s, the wood was much cheaper than the finished items.

The Babylon Bee continues in the feminist retelling mode:

Women’s Quidditch League Dominated By Talented New Athlete, Viktoria Krum

Promising new athlete Viktoria Krum has swept the entire women’s quidditch league off of their brooms with her powerful debut. Soaring in from the Durmstrang Institute, this witch has wasted no time in making quidditch history.

“How does she move at such speed and still have the grip strength to hang on to her broom?!” said local photographer Colin Creevey. “I’ve never seen such raw strength in a woman athlete!”

Don’t forget that, before they got rid of all the men in corporations making it easier for women to succeed, Martine Rothblatt, founder of GeoStar and Sirius Radio, was the country’s highest paid woman CEO.

“In her life, Dr. Rothblatt has transcended gender and technological boundaries.

“Rothblatt was born a man, and today is a transgender woman—just another no she turned into a yes.”

We used to sing this in school in the 1960’s, at assemblies and Christmas and Thanksgiving performances for parents. A teacher would probably risk prison to have his or her class sing it today.

OT: Hapless guys accused of plotting to kidnap Michigan governor Whitmer now show proof in court that it was all the FBI’s idea.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=so7CizSTdK4

This deliberate hoax ran every night on the local news for four months right up to the 2020 election, presenting a foregone conclusion. “Trump supporters plan to kidnap Governor Gretchen Whitmer!!”

This is how the Democrats won Michigan for Joe Biden. The media working with “our” government agencies.

After it was stolen at elementary school, maybe 1965. It was a worthless bike, so probably some other kid joyriding.

My son encountered a weird version of bike theft while in college; the seat was stolen from his locked bicycle, repeatedly. Sometimes an entire row of bikes could be seen with no seats.

OT: Hapless guys accused of plotting to kidnap Michigan governor Whitmer now show proof in court that it was all the FBI’s idea.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=so7CizSTdK4

This deliberate hoax ran every night on the local news for four months right up to the 2020 election, presenting a foregone conclusion. “Trump supporters plan to kidnap Governor Gretchen Whitmer!!”

This is how the Democrats won Michigan for Joe Biden. The media working with “our” government agencies.

“Pay up” means two things and I think it supports my idea that blacks are splitting into two groups:

1) Blacks who will never get to college

2) Blacks who meet in college, marry and have kids who do the same (assortative mating)

Group 1 blacks want reparations (whitey, pay up).

Group 2 blacks want white equity (whitey, give me your job, your house, your spot in line, and my kids get your kids’ place in the line for college, jobs, housing, etc. repeat until what white people have in America becomes what Blacks have in America).

Spielberg can afford to burnish his rep with films that are meh at the box office, him being worth \$3-\$6 billion US, depending on who you read. He doesn’t need to please the legacy people of America, but he does need to please the mob, lest they turn and rend him.

As far as the Democrat party is concerned, the only real sin of white people is demographic.

If white people were averaging five or six kids per family for the last generation or two, and were increasing in their percentage of the country’s total population, you would see a miraculous turnaround in the Democrat leadership.

In 1965, the Democrat leadership put their money on non-white demographic change, which they saw coming and have actively encouraged since that time. Obviously, it’s a winning strategy for them.

This describes the experience that our nation’s top 5% have of blacks, immigrants, refugees, etc. you name it. They take their experience with a carefully curated top 1% with them as they decide the policies of our nation.

And don’t forget that that Openness to Experience is the Five Factor Model characteristic that is most highly correlated with IQs over 130.

Get some idea of Semmie’s innermost thoughts by viewing his vlog:

Read what Mark Twain had to say about the jury system in Roughing It, published in 1872.

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/3177/pg3177-images.html

Here’s a hint of what Twain thought; to find the right section, search for “human donkeys”.

“So you want to know about the war…”

Aftermyth of War by Beyond the Fringe