Tag: natural law = soviet law
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Reprint from 2014
Linked in previous, worth a reprint. The footnote at the end turned out to be especially permanent. I’ve made one important edit. In 2014 I was calling the modern elite Commies. I later learned more about the real Soviet system, and more about Stalin himself. These modern idiots are the exact opposite of real Communists…
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From an extremely different era 20
From an 1886 printers trade journal: Mahomet had said: The ink of the wise is worth more than the blood of the martyrs. Before 1990 it was possible to treat Mohammed as a source of wisdom. After Bush The Father declared war on Islam, the entire religion of Islam became our enemy, and we decided…
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Newtonian politics
The current spate of canceling academics for holding balanced and objective views is being compared to McCarthyism. In a general sense this is valid but it misses the important TIMELINE of the HUAC/McCarthy period. HUAC started its inquisition in 1947. ALL of Congress was on the same side. It wasn’t Joe McCarthy’s “indecency” vs the…
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Huge explanation
Tiffany’s recount of Nishad Singh’s testimony includes one huge explanatory fact. Sammy spent unspeakably huge amounts to buy endorsements. Michael Kives was the agent, a “one-stop shop” for other celebrities. Sammy paid 500 million to Kives. Kives then paid for the most important endorsement of all: Satan’s pet author Michael Lewis. Satan’s pet wrote the…
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The usual Shocked
From NewSuperstitionist: = = = = = START QUOTE: People’s likelihood of being vegetarian seems to be influenced by several gene variants, including some that are involved in fat metabolism. This hints that some people may find it easier to give up meat. An analysis of data in the UK Biobank has covered about 5300…
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Ohmari’s law
Sohrab Ahmari gets everything right. So far I haven’t heard one false note in his discussions. In this interview with Trish Wood he focuses on the standard Friedmanite lie that price is an automatic result of equal forces on two sides, like a drain trap. Nobody believes this brazenly delusional lie. Even the economists don’t…
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More reprint on the same subject
From 2017 as usual = = = = = START REPRINT: Similar to this item, here’s another strong piece of pre-Bergoglio Catholic thinking, based on a Ratzinger quote. He continues by noting “energies eroded to routine as entropy increases . . . the drowsy nausea . . . exasperated, vague waiting – but for what?”…
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If you really want…
If you really want to encourage families and civilization, you MUST force business to provide secure jobs. Secure employment and independent artisans (gig work) have always been the two poles of work. Most people are worker bees. Only a few are designed for the gig life. = = = = = START REPRINT: There is…
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Sailer atypically misses
Sailer on India: = = = = = START SAILER: Narendra Modi is fooling around, Elon Musk-style, with the idea of changing the name of his country to “Bharat” as an anti-colonial gesture. And the California legislature has, after much acrimony among Hindus, sent a bill to governor Gavin Newsom’s desk outlawing the ancient Hindu…
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More positive signs
Wolf picks up another sign of returning economic normalcy. Corporations have stopped fighting Powell, stopped betting on a “pivot” back to lunacy. They’ve settled into a future of NORMAL interest rates, offering long-term bonds in the 6% range. This will open more channels for loose cash to move away from IPO and SPAC and Bitcoin…
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It’s not the mechanism
More from the 1891 Inland Printer. Note the year. This is an editorial on the condition of the Government Printing Bureau. = = = = = START INLAND PRINTER: The bureau intended to gradually substitute steam presses for hand presses, but Congress failed to execute a contract. [SOUNDS FAMILIAR.] However, by working overtime the bureau…
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Learning requires stability.
In previous item about the history of stereotyping as it related to Kellogg’s Patent Insides, I was quoting a 1927 book by George Kubler. He understood how psychopathic chaos halts all learning and genuine innovation. = = = = = START QUOTE: Writing of books by hand continued to be the only method practiced throughout…
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Reprint on Russian tech
Reprint from 2015, linked in previous item. Keyloggers and Lysenko Interesting discussion at ArsTechnica about a clever keylogger bug that KGB implanted in the Selectric typewriters at the US Embassy. The bugs remained in place from 1976 to 1984, when someone finally spotted them. The commenters are more interesting than the article. A few showed…
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Bigger questions
This discussion on Reddit verifies a hardass fact of life. Men stop talking about our troubles because women use the information for blackmail. This is actually a special case of a broader rule. Both genders are vulnerable in other situations. Priests and Deepstate want to hear your troubles so they can use the information for…
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Words of another song
Mattingly at GetReligion is discussing the Anthony song. He quotes a religion prof: = = = = = START QUOTE: “The song was immediately politicized, even though there have always been country songs with singers lamenting the state of their lives and the state of America,” said David Watson, a theologian and country-music fan. He…
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