[AmericaDigest] Every so often in moving around Chico I wade hip-deep through the swamp of moonbats that any California college automatically generates around itself.
Down at the Saturday Farmers Market, there have been the inevitable moonbat card tables of their communist causes. One of them is staffed by insane people who want to convert others into their strange “Contrails are killing us” conspiracy church. They are easy to bypass.
Not so the “Stop the Republicans’ Power Grab” table manned by some of the worst socialist nomenklatura in town. Last Saturday they had one of their bipedal insects standing in front of the entrance willing to tell anyone how wonderful Gavin Newsom really is. He’d tell you this as the smoke sodden stench of a burned to the bone California blooms in the wind.
He stopped me and started to blather. I needed to buy a loaf of bread and some fresh peaches before spending an hour at the range and had no time for moonbats. I held up a hand in a brief pause in his blather, looked into his eyes, and said (I don’t know why),
This film and its trailers was very hard to find because of the translation of the title.
The way the reception by Russian audiences was described to me was outrage; that the Russian takeover was without a shot fired. Other reviews I have read was about praise for the director for keeping the film and its themes simple.
Anyway, the film is translatable, but even a Russian language review said the script was childish.
[Just The News] Proposed new regulation would transfer authority to decide claims from immigration judges to asylum officers while tripling potential appeal opportunities.
The Biden administration is proposing changes to the asylum process that critics contend would — in the name of administrative efficiency — circumvent current immigration law and sharply increase the numbers of illegal immigrants granted asylum, even as the U.S. is on track to receive more than two million illegal immigrants this year.
The Biden administration is proposing changes to the asylum process that critics contend would — in the name of administrative efficiency — circumvent current immigration law and sharply increase the numbers of illegal immigrants granted asylum, even as the U.S. is on track to receive more than two million illegal immigrants this year.
The changes are considered "a key step toward implementing the administration's blueprint for a fair, orderly, and humane immigration system," the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) said in a statement.
#1
Dictators have no need of a congress or a constitution. Loyal administration agencies who will dutifully respond to directives are all that is needed. The recent OSHA vaccination mandate is an example.
If the OSHA mandate is successful, there will likely be other OSHA 'health and safety' mandates. Can you possibly hazzard a guess as to which US Constitutional Ammendment might be targeted ?
From the article:
[MeaningInHistory] Now, every epidemiologist who can locate his own ass using the reliable both-hands method knows this methodology is fundamentally flawed, because the PCR test was never developed for this purpose and can’t give you the answers you’re looking for with real reliability.
You should absolutely NOT be testing anyone who is asymptomatic. What you end up with is a “casedemic”--which is good enough for government work if you can relabel it as an epi- or--even better--a pandemic. The same dynamic--counting every positive test result as an actual “case” of infection--is also at work when it comes to tabulating Covid deaths: dies with as opposed to dies from.
The bottom line is that we have had, for the better part of two years, an enormous number of people being hospitalized who probably should not have been hospitalized--or, at least, not for Covid. The reasons for this--which Zweig avoids discussing--are likely a witch’s brew of financial incentives enabled by the very dodgy use of a totally inappropriate test as a “diagnostic” tool. Read it all at the link
#3
Stress and pressure every day. Loss of prestige, money and power. Most people have tuned them out. Going about their lives as best as they can. Trying to be positive in a negative environment. The chicken little's of the world look in the mirror and practice their mantras. The only people they see are themselves. Obsessed with their own thoughts the wheels are falling off their segway.
#8
baboon - because he disagrees with your professed authoritarian position?
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09/14/2021 9:07 Comments ||
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#9
Baboon because he didn't bother to read the relevant Wiki article before setting off to proselytize on the subject wherein he knows (considerably less) than nothing.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike ||
09/14/2021 11:35 Comments ||
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#12
Well that didn't work.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike ||
09/14/2021 11:55 Comments ||
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#13
^Wikipedia is not cited in peer-reviewed publication because it is intended for laymen. Just like the article we're discussing is intended for laymen.
#14
Funny thing about wikipedia. Once, you could trust it for non-subjective stuff, like say, the physical sciences. Now that science has become Science™, not so much.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
09/14/2021 12:10 Comments ||
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#15
^So sorry, MM. I don't think you can find a reliably conservative source for science/or math - ideology & reality don't mix.
#16
I'm not looking for a conservative slant. I do understand that some people are. I'm looking for straight facts only. Interpretation should be up to the scholar. A teacher I had waaaaay back in high school said it best: "All a decent education does for you is teach you how to sift shit efficiently."
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
09/14/2021 12:57 Comments ||
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#17
And as for the term "conservative," that's now fully loaded and subjective too. To a "progressive," a "conservative" is just someone who refuses to believe the "truth." To a "conservative," the "truth" is just sh*t that "progressives" believe with incandescent religious fervor.
And never the twain shal meet...
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
09/14/2021 13:00 Comments ||
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#19
It looked like the summer 2021 wave of covid in the US had crested, but now it seems like we just had a short-lived & shallow dip and are entering another upswing. New variant? Effect of early vaccines wearing off?
#23
You didn't read what I said at all. I'm not surprised. Going way back I have found math junkies really don't take verbal skills seriously at all. Please quit diverting the argument or ignoring the parts you don't understand, don't have a serious answer to. That would be, us people who value words like to say, a sign of good will.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
09/14/2021 16:08 Comments ||
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#24
#17 And as for the term "conservative," that's now fully loaded and subjective too
#26
Would any of the people here who got past "My First Reader" like to point out exactly where in my comments above I said "I reject the whole wikipedia?"
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
09/14/2021 16:12 Comments ||
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#27
For some people it means
Um. that's subjectivity. Big word for a math savant to manage, but there it is.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
09/14/2021 16:13 Comments ||
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#28
"All a decent education does for you is teach you how to sift shit efficiently."
If you can shift shit efficiently - then you'll know which articles to trust. In any case - the one I was talking about is straightforward probability theory. Or, you can look it up in any college probability textbook.
I have found math junkies really don't take verbal skills seriously at all
I found that lit graduates have superior verbal skills and nothing to communicate.
p.s. There isn't a single lit graduate among my favorite authors.
#30
And there you have it, kids, the reason all computer programming languages suck. To be mathematically describable (and thus compileable) a computer language has to be so boringly explicit that it's basically an intellectual straitjacket. Really good programmers are the ones that can re-inject the inflection and nuance that language normalization and description boil off. That's why the best programs are impenetrable without * drum roll * good human comments.
Hopefully, we will get to clever and perceptive AIs that can sit and do back and forth with really smart programmers to do really great sh*t. None of it will be done by someone using a calculator like a vibrator.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
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#31
There isn't a single lit graduate among my favorite authors.
From a guy who considers anime to be literature. Low blow, but there it is.
Well, then, as Rick Masters said to Max Waxman in Live and Die in LA, "Your taste is in your ass."
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
09/14/2021 16:26 Comments ||
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#32
And I'm out on this thread now. I'm going to go read a book with no pictures in it...
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
09/14/2021 16:27 Comments ||
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#33
Anime is an art form that supersedes your "serious literature" the way electric light supersedes an oil lamp.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
09/14/2021 16:40 Comments ||
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#35
to look up something in the 2017 Physician's Desk Reference
And when I asked you to look at Brazil - to see that all your HCQ arguments are garbage, what did you do?
Look, I'm tired of arguing with your covid is a hoax, anti-masker, anti-vaxxer nonsense.
Newsflash, it's not a Democratic plot to enslave freedom-loving American people. As you'd all realized - if you just looked at the rest of the world.
p.s. IMO, vaccinated anti-vaxxer is more disgusting than a limousine liberal.
#38
#31 Great quote, great film. Don't engage the troll, he's bullshit down to the ground and it matters very little the which of the why you're on in this issue.
#39
And when I asked you to look at Brazil - to see that all your HCQ arguments are garbage, what did you do?
"Look at Brazil" isn't a solid cite. "Look at the 2017 Physician's Desk Reference" entry on Plaquenil" is a much more solid cite.
Look, I'm tired of arguing with your covid is a hoax,
Straw man argument
anti-masker,
Another straw man argument, I've tried not to waste energy with adherents of the Cult of the Mask. I think I want a plague doctor one myself...
anti-vaxxer nonsense.
Newsflash, it's not a Democratic plot to enslave freedom-loving American people. As you'd all realized - if you just looked at the rest of the world.
China is willing to cut down the rest of the world in order to get an alzheimer's ridden anti-industrialism extremist to be president. And heck, it worked.
p.s. IMO, vaccinated anti-vaxxer is more disgusting than a limousine liberal.
What about Alton Ochsner? Does he disgust you too?
(Also... if you think I don't think the virus exists why do you think I'm arguing with you about treatments?)
#40
Stupid F#ck want to argue about masks and vax while this site withhold data showing Israel is 40-50% vaxed in hospitals.
This site is deliberately stopping articles about vax failures. Maybe just because we are uncivil (we are).
#44
he worst I could say about this informative and incredibly useful site is you don't make it easy enough to donate.
Posted by: Cesare 2021-09-14 21:42
You are right. And I put my money where my mouth is.
The Warrenton Declaration on Medical Mandates, Biblical Ethics, & Authority was created in order to provide doctrinal clarity and coherence on issues of biblical authority and ethics related to medical mandates. The declaration seeks to equip local churches and their officers in providing transparency on where they stand and to assist individuals who are being mistreated in their churches with a well-ordered summary of belief in this regard.
#2
I have VZ grips on my pair of .38 Super 1911s. The rest of em are stock. My three inch barreled S&W M29 is much more comfortable to shoot because of a one piece Pachmayr grip.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
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#3
I've only added a Pachmayr to my wife's LC-9. Now if I had a nice 1911 or something that had...well, grips, that might be different but none of my pistols really have grip panels to be changed out.
#4
Brick, I found that there are grips available for one piece lowers in the form of grip sleeves. Bought one for my P97 and it improved the 'grip-ability'. Made the grip rounder. This stuff can be had throught the ruger.com store.
Posted by: ed in texas ||
09/14/2021 13:19 Comments ||
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#5
Pachmayr getting a lot of earned / deserved love here, but Hogue makes some worthwhile aftermarket grip products too.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
09/14/2021 13:53 Comments ||
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#6
the one on the LC-9 might be hogue. Can't remember and I'm not at home to check. The rest of my pistols don't need them. I have two Walther's, an H&K USP and a Springfield. Never had grip issues on them.
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