Tag: Henry Wallace
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Sounds good…
As I’ve observed a trillion times, England’s system works. It worked in 1776 and it still works. We replaced it with a system that was EXPLICITLY DESIGNED TO FAIL, solely to benefit the richest fuckheads and tax evaders. In the parliamentary system a PM is more like a foreman than a CEO. He is elevated…
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Not scary
Scare headline in Verge: The war against ‘woke’ could end US science as we know it YES! PLEASE! DO IT! MORE! MORE! MORE! US science as we know it is FUCKED and LOST and RUINED by 80 years of tenure and competitive Deepstate grants. China is winning for two reasons. 1. China doesn’t give the…
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This guy makes sense.
The Spokesman is running short features on the dozen Auditioners trying their hand at running for a major office. This one makes a lot of sense. Michael McGarr was an Air Force mechanic, then an air traffic controller, then a copy editor for most of his career, ending up at the Spokesman itself. Mechanic to…
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We could
Long quote from David Lilienthal’s magnificent little book on the TVA. = = = = = There is a grand cycle in nature. The lines of those majestic swinging arcs are nowhere more clearly seen than by following the course of electric power in the Tennessee Valley’s way of life. Water falls upon a mountain…
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It’s a mystery.
I’m sort of clinically fascinated by the incurable self-destructive stupidity of the Dems. Today’s news item is an “autopsy” or analysis of their failed elections. The DNC chairman assigned an aide to write it a year ago, then kept it secret until now. He only released it because CNN had already leaked it. (Bravo to…
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Gamers hate it
At this point it appears that the AI bubble is well on the way to popping. Altman has backed away from his video-sucking Sora because it simply wasn’t making any money. After six months its net income was only about two million. You can’t sustain a multi-trillion bubble with the same revenue stream as ONE…
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It’s “Earth” Hour!
I’ve missed this fake anti-holiday several times. Let’s go back to 2011 when I marked “Earth” Hour for the third time. I wouldn’t change a thing. = = = = = START UNCHANGED REPRINT: Polistra and Happystar continue their annual salute to Earth Hour, this time with a special emphasis on Edison’s light bulb. You…
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Used to be called 2
Via Nieman, a survey of journalists in Austria has one interesting conclusion. It’s correct for USA, but I don’t know Austria so can’t judge if it’s correct there. This paragraph is phrased in the alien language of journalists. It needs some translation into human thought patterns. = = = = = START QUOTE: Meanwhile, perceptions…
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Used to be called 1
Via Protos, the big digital betting casinos like Kalshi and Polymarket are making profits from bets on assassinations. Some of the bets are phrased indirectly, but everyone knows what it means. You win when a politician is killed. It appears that many of the bettors are politicians with an obvious motive. Before the Wall Street…
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Lilienthal on modularity
David Lilienthal’s magnificent book on the TVA and New Deal is a very small paperback, published in 1944 under paper rationing. I’ve scanned some important pages for my own reading convenience, as a sort of adaptation to my elderly eyes. Nobody else will read this, and nobody else is interested in learning from the ACTUAL…
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Copying the New Deal
Good is good no matter who does it. Bad is bad no matter who does it. In 2020 Trump did the evilest thing in 70 years, and the most widespread evil in all of human history. In his second term his admin is doing the standard American evil things like bombing foreign countries and enriching…
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More universal than gravity
Via Spokane newspaper: The Wash “state” “legislature” wants to impose an income tax on millionaires. Alien hyperdemon “Ferguson”, described as a “governor”, kicks out the proposal. The “legislators” pretend to be surprised, since the “governor” wears the same D label as the “legislators”. Three universal rules are pulling in the same direction. Manweller: It’s an…
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Why Hank?
Thinking as usual about Henry Ford. A few very old friends were allowed to call him Hank. I’ve called him Hank in the Hank vs Frank comparison. Wait. How did Henry shorten to Hank? Harry is the more obvious phonetic elision, and the many King Henrys were often called King Harry in literature and song.…
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Said it before, not quite the same
I’ve said this before in a somewhat different context. It’s doubly true now. Cybersecurity is simply a continuation of pre-computer Deepstate evil. Immediately after FDR died, Deepstate overthrew the government and took over again. It immediately started prosecuting everyone who had helped FDR save the country from Wall Street, and everyone who didn’t want to…
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