Thursday, March 7. 2024
 Polar bears and coral reefs are doing just fine
"The WPATH Files prove that gender medicine is comprised of unregulated and pseudoscientific experiments on children, adolescents, and vulnerable adults. It will go down as one of the worst medical scandals in history."
AI is poised to destroy and replace search as Google defined it more than 20 years ago.
Wednesday, March 6. 2024
One thing I have is 6 weeks off. No work. But I have learned a few things.
I'd like to thank one commenter who shared a book lead for me to order it I have not read it yet. I have, over the past few days, read a few articles about my specific issue. It is, indeed, a strange one. 15 months, not 18 (which my brain keeps telling me) is the average period left for non-methylated versions of Glio Blastoma. Naturally that's an average. I have heard 18 and longer for a few people. Oddly it is not frightening at all, nor is it saddening. I don't know why. I did feel bad playing with my little dog today, as she wakes up for a bit a small wrestle with me each morning. I did feel a bit sad because I've lost two previous dogs, and I'm afraid I'll pass before my current one. That said, I do look forward to seeing them all again.
I read the news this AM. Quite a bit about politics and the Fed. Nikki Haley is seeing a relatively "larger" level of voting, but she is not winning at all, really (except DC). One article points out that her voting is in states which allow Democrats to vote on non-Democratic votes. However, she will likely end her ballots after Super Tuesday. A few Democrats, noting Biden's ultimately declining opportunities are hoping for alternatives to Trump, at which point Biden may beat Nikki. Or at least they feel Nikki is not as "bad" as Trump. While I favor none of the current political choices, I'd definitely say she'd be a mild improvement over Biden, but still hardly supportable, though she was when she worked under Trump. I felt bad for her when she jumped ship after 2020.
The Fed has a massive problem growing. Really at least two at this point. First, wages are still growing faster than inflation. Which does not mean inflation will fall. In fact, the bigger issue is the massive Jan 2024 growth (most in about 2 years) that nobody who is a "professional" was predicting (I had, mainly because it was overdue). The Fed is planning to reduce rates. That's a bad idea as inflation becomes a bit more troublesome. They should have had at least one more increase several months ago - that may have helped reduce inflation further without too much trouble. Sadly, they are pushing for lower rates for political Biden/Democrat support. A terrible idea. I had feared a potential decline in inflation if they had pushed too far and too fast. But they did less and slower. Not a bad idea, but they did not go far enough. Anyone with a basic understanding would know this already.
Interestingly, as the chemo and radiation has kicked in, I'm sleeping well still (lucky) and my interests have increased. Some things (like economics) had dropped off but for some reason I've been reading more lately and I do not know why. LOL but that's a good. I've done a ton of Roman History reading - it is rather reminding of how truly awful Democats are if you mix and match behaviors of misleading leaders and activists in the past with those in the current era. I've long felt it would come to play, and it has, though in a significantly different way than I'd originally expected. Biden, in particular, has moved far beyond the earlier eras in Rome I was comparing to (I thought Sulla vs Marius was likely - I have long since been proven Biden is moving several hundred years PAST that era with more authoritarian attempts and growth of government overspending). He is, in fact, rather frightening to me.
Anyway, I'm heading out to radiation yet again and hoping to find a massage to get the muscles feeling better. Hopefully soon. Hoped to be back in the gym, but felt off on Monday and Tuesday but getting back to feeling better now.
Tuesday, March 5. 2024
 Why Is It So Hard to Build an Airport?
How universities killed the academic - Flamboyant brilliance has been purged
Renault Award: Plastic Makers Lied About Recycling for Decades
Electric cars release MORE toxic emissions than gas-powered vehicles and are worse for the environment
AI model distinguishes male and female brains with over 90% accuracy
California: It is hard to understand how there can be a political movement in favor of more crime, but there you have it
WaPo Writer Makes It Official: Shoplifting Is Just Reparations
Mayorkas Accused Gov. Abbott Of ‘Trying To Wreak Havoc’
Justice Barrett Explains the Message Americans Should Take Away From the Trump Ballot Ruling
Democrats Jump at Chance to 'Revive Legislation' to Kick Trump Off of the Ballot
Gearing Up for ‘Biden’ Versus Trump: Not If, But When and How to Replace Biden
How Abortion Became ‘the Defund the Police of the GOP’
Monday, March 4. 2024
Dune Part 2: An Epic Story -- And Cinematic Experience
Mrs. BD loved it. I felt it was a little tedious
"... the endless diabolical sadness that is pants?"
Hooking Up
In Praise of Divorce
Frailty and loneliness
Abigail Shrier breaks down America’s teenage mental health crisis
The ‘feelings economy’ to engulf US workforce as universities fail students, business owners
Is that a school's job?
Google's Brave New Woke-AF World - When DEI merges with AI, the post-truth dystopia will become impossible to escape.
CDC Says You Can Treat COVID Like Any Other Respiratory Virus, Ends Five-Day Isolation Suggestion
'Very Bizarre': Scientists Expose Major Problems With Climate Change Data
For Socialists, It Doesn't Matter if Socialism "Works" - What Matters Is Power
The Backlash in Deep-Blue America ‘Why am I running as a Republican? Because I’ve seen up close the hypocrisy of the left and it’s unfathomable.’
Austin ‘at the brink of disaster’ as police staffing shortages set city back over 15 years
Preparing Canada’s Future as North Korea
More than 8 MILLION asylum seekers will soon live in the US - a 167% increase in five years as Biden's lax policies continue to allow flood of migrants across southern border
Why do Nigerians kill Christians?
Saturday, March 2. 2024
Thinking about Marshall McLuhan
CDC Downgrades COVID to Same Severity as the Flu… But Says You Must Keep Having Vaccines
More Evidence That COVID School Closures Wrecked Student Performance. California's poorly served public school students need more than a few more dollars diverted to tutoring programs. They need an escape hatch.
Thursday, February 29. 2024
Wednesday, February 28. 2024
Tuesday, February 27. 2024
I just caught up on his Sunday episode, having been occupied with a dying relative. Anyway, Scott has gotten woke. It's taken a while. Here's the youtube of his brief, brilliant Sunday episode.
A few quotes, more or less accurate:
Of course scientists lie.
Who believes you can take the temperature of the earth with a thermometer? Nobody.
Trump = dark, chaos, extreme.
Does anybody still think that the news is real?
Ukraine vs Russia is a fist fight between two gas stations.
When did the news become complete bs propaganda?
There are now 12 Trump/Russia hoaxes
The Democrat party is run by batshit crazy women
Getting cancelled opened his eyes, I think. Luckily for him, he can afford free speech. Can you?
 How a Special Diet Kept the Knights Templar Fighting Fit - Silent meals, a buddy system, and wine “in moderation.
Yeah but those life span stats are deceptive. There was huge child mortality in the past
Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them
Hmmm. Don't worry, be happy
Update On The Good And The Bad Settler Colonialists
Democrats Don’t Want Parents Involved In Childhood Education
A sociopathic therapist talks
Is there a therapy culture?
Antidepressant prescription rate among children aged 12-17 soared by 64% during pandemic - and more than DOUBLED among teen girls, data shows
Gen Z more likely to ditch work for a ‘mental health’ day — here’s why that concerns job experts
How Bad Therapy Hijacked Our Nation’s Schools - Forget the Pledge of Allegiance. Today’s teachers are more likely to start the school day with an ‘emotions check-in.’
Female Genital Mutilation Is Also A European Issue
The cult at The New York Times
Make Sure You're Not a 'Christian Nationalist'
Stuart on Christian Nationalism
Jordan Peterson, God, And Christianity
Former Boeing Employee Won't Fly on 737 Max Planes
Don't worry, be happy
Joe Biden’s welcome mat is out, and everyone is here to stay–especially those who will degrade our country.
I want legal immigrants. I know several. They have gratitude.
The Republican establishment begins to understand that lawfare endangers them, too
CIA Built "12 Secret Spy Bases" In Ukraine & Waged Shadow War For Last Decade, Bombshell NYT Report Confirms
No surprise
EUROPEAN FARMERS REVOLT: Tractors Break Through Barriers in Brussels – Agricultural Workers Surround EU Headquarters, Spray Liquid Manure at Police in Major Show of Force
The peasants are revolting
Monday, February 26. 2024
New brain stimulation technique shows promise for treating brain disorders
Skeptical here
How COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates May Have Backfired
I'm the psychiatrist who helped the 9/11 first responders overcome their trauma - here's what they taught me about resilience
Kite & Key Media: Past Drug Crises Were Overhyped, Fentanyl Isn't
Fentanyl Is Killing American Kids. Most Don’t Even Know They’re Taking It.
The Biden administration’s aggressive net-zero agenda jeopardizes our quality of life
Canadian serial killer 'cannibal' who murdered at least 26 women and fed them to his pigs is now eligible to apply for PAROLE
No death sentence?
Nate Silver calls to shut down Gemini after Google’s AI chatbot refuses to say if Hitler or Musk is worse
Musk is obviously worse
Professor denies Russia helped defeat Germany
I believe Russians killed more German military than the other allies.
What Will Anti-Trump Hysteria Look Like by the Time We Get to Election Day?
Fourteen Russian Hoaxes and What Explains Them
Why a Catholic Bishop Said This MSNBC Segment Was One of the Most Disturbing Things He's Ever Seen
Biden Botches Lincoln Quote, Brands Xi Leader of Russia, Gets Confused Without Handler
Doesn't matter politically
Venezuela Halts Deportation Flights From US
The MSM is Admitting That Ukraine Can't Beat Russia
Duh. Russia has been holding back
Should America Continue to Aid Ukraine?Two years on from Russia’s invasion, Elbridge Colby and Bret Stephens debate what U.S. policy should be.
Policeman of the world? Not gonna happen
60 Minutes goes to Sweden to make a heart warming special about diversity, but see a different situation, then this happens.
Saturday, February 24. 2024
Friday, February 23. 2024
I wanted to get rid of my possessions, because possessions stood between me and death.
Yeah, I do not want to leave a ton of unwanted stuff behind me to get rid of.
Duhigg recommends deep questions, which is often rude and disrespectful. Why would you confide in someone you do not know whether or not you can trust?
Lotsa gossips out there, too
There’s nothing wrong with the picture Network (1976)
Disney Exec Blames Woes on Racist, Sexist Fans
China is the majority shareholder of Disney Resorts
How to Deal with a Narcissist: Here are the Best Books from Experts in Psychology
Well, there are many varieties of narcissism, from wholesome to malignant
City Officials Warn Residents in Elyria Township, Ohio to Stockpile Supplies and Stay at Home During the Total Solar Eclipse in April
Chicago Sues Fossil Fuels Companies Or Something
Bye, Bye Boeing: Here Comes China’s Comac
Inevitable.
Columbia bans ‘offensive’ social media comments
That's offensive
Children of the Revolution - A coloring book teaches radical politics to public school kids.
Drug overdose deaths have devastating impact on friends, relatives, study finds
TGIF: Every Sperm Is Sacred, etc
Are frozen embryos really people?
Is an egg really a chicken?
An Enfeebled President
Embattled UPenn Law Prof. Amy Wax Appealing Hearing Board Sanctions Quietly Recommended Over The Summer
Insty has more details on that crazy story
Free Taxpayer Money for Illegal Aliens?
My ancestor immigrants never got free money, but you can't have people dying in the streets. Legal immigrants always have a plan.
Pocketbook concerns override racial resentment in the current political climate.
Israeli Rape Crisis Center Report: “Hamas’s attack on October 7 included brutal sexual assaults, carried out systematically and deliberately towards Israeli civilians”
Thursday, February 22. 2024
Scott Adams compared mail-in voting to mail-in drug testing.
That's not a great comparison, but I get his point. Ballot-harvesting has been a big deal in recent years. Nursing homes, subsidized housing, street people, etc.
Fighting fire with fire: Lara Trump Vows Largest-Ever Legal 'Ballot Harvesting' Operation If Elected RNC Co-Chair
Politics is ugly and corrupt. Nothing new about that.
Wednesday, February 21. 2024
2 passenger planes surpassed 800 mph on recent flights with strong winds. That's over 200 mph as fast as a typical plane ride.
Good fun for pilots
Ozempic Users Slash Snack Buying At Supermarkets, Survey Finds
An NHS trust has said that breast milk produced by trans women who were assigned male at birth is as good for babies as that produced by a mother who has given birth.
It's a mad, mad, mad, mad world
The Mainstream Media Are Dying of Self-Inflicted Wounds. Years of professional irresponsibility has consequences.
It’s taken just five years for Ursula von der Leyen to destroy Europe’s economy
European Central Bank: Go Green or Go Home
Coulter's Law
"We were live as a long line of migrants scaled a huge, steep mountain to cross illegally en masse into Jacumba, CA, an hour east of San Diego. All made it to the ground, and later told me they were from China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, & Africa."
Much more difficult to be a legal immigrant. I sure hope these law-breakers are nice people, with means of support, who can enhance our lives. I do need a new electrician
NY Times: Some Dems Are Getting 'Burned Out' by Their Unhinged Trump-Hating Drama
The Fix Is In: The $455M 'Poison Pill' in Trump Judgment
The Stalinist New York Attorney General Scores A Big Win Against Trump (For Now)
Politics of personal destruction can be effective
Donald Trump is Right about NATO
But is NATO obsolete anyway?
Tuesday, February 20. 2024
Friend shared this with me. I'm a long fan/reader of Franz Kafka. Visited a few of his offices and locations in Prague about 7 years ago. Prague itself was lovely and enjoyable, but Kafka is a fun portion in and of himself while in Prague.
Franz Kafka (1883-1924), who never married and had no children, was walking through a park one day in Berlin when he met a girl who was crying because she had lost her favourite doll. She and Kafka searched for the doll unsuccessfully.
Kafka told her to meet him there the next day and they would come back to look for her.
The next day, when they had not yet found the doll, Kafka gave the girl a letter "written" by the doll saying "please don't cry. I took a trip to see the world. I will write to you about my adventures."
Thus began a story which continued until the end of Kafka's life.
During their meetings, Kafka read the letters of the doll carefully written with adventures and conversations that the girl found adorable.
Finally, Kafka brought back the doll (he bought one) that had returned to Berlin.
"It doesn't look like my doll at all," said the girl.
Kafka handed her another letter in which the doll wrote: "my travels have changed me." The little girl hugged the new doll and brought the doll with her to her happy home.
A year later Kafka died.
Many years later, the now-adult girl found a letter inside the doll. In the tiny letter signed by Kafka it was written:
"Everything you love will probably be lost, but in the end, love will return in another way."
 The Horse Association of America was created to fight the rise of the tractor.
‘Holy Grail of Shark Science’ Caught on Camera Off US Coast – First Recording Ever of This Moment in a Great White’s Life
The world’s largest underground city housed more than 20,000 people.
Ancient Offerings Unearthed in Tuscany Reveal a Cultural Crossroads. These bronzes have been called the “find of the century," where the ailing set aside their differences to worship and heal.
Do not take financial advice from this lady
She is NY Mag's financial advice person
Gen Z are treating employers like bad dates: 93% ghost interviews and 87% have not even shown up for their first day of work
EVs: Biden Quietly Scraps Key Climate Policy After Realizing How Insane It Really Is
Alabama Supreme Court rules that frozen embryos are ‘children’
Stanford Medicine study identifies distinct brain organization patterns in women and men. Women’s and men’s brain patterns differ
I'm keeping some of this minimally. I've never supported Trump. Never voted for him. Also never hated him, even if I often had some disagreements. But I've had really hard political moments with many Democrats, who over the last 8 years have gone from just from me not supporting them. But moving more toward disliking them a little, while often to finding more Democrats who are just blatant liars, often evil, greedy awful human politicians in behavior for themselves. They would gain support from journalists who (due to my 38 years in media) may become liars and engagers of false claims and beliefs.
This does not mean Republicans are 'better'. I haven't been a Republican in over 20 years. I still dislike them, too - just not as much as Democrats.
Some citizens have dived deeply for misinformation and lies about both Republicans and Trump in particular. Most of that is often ignored or misrepresented publicly. It's really annoying as Democrats have become such truly awful politicians.
This was a good article, mainly because it has been consistent for 8 years if you do read honestly and fairly. I could find probably thousands of similar articles like this and how so much journalism and media has been awful in this approach. Hell, I saw it at my offices but couldn't say my POV publicly back then. At least not till I was let go.
The current attack on Trump's business in NYC is annoying. I did have one view - I've had to deal with a lot of other businesses like this in media for what the claims against Trump are in the current lawsuit. But his attack is 100% because politicians/attorneys have engaged their legal/political opportunities to push BS. I know because I pointed out similar legal conversations I had in business but avoiding this approach for real businesses doing the same damn thing. Because it happens way more than people care or deeply engage. Sometimes getting stuff done properly to continue a business is more important than going to court over claims. So why this time? Makes no sense to me except the hatred is just so heavy. It's similar to why our one former commenter's claims were idiotic when he'd claim he was "correct". He never was and I simply didn't enjoy his hatred and lies.
Morning review/update: Sleep is still difficult. About 4-5 hours a night. Brain is still active, and I know some things I write have to be reviewed or rewritten and smoothed a bit still. So sorry for occasional writing refinement from the typing. The odd part is the original is usually fine but the technology is making alterations I'm not noticing, and sometimes it's just poorly tech changed. So some upgrades may be needed in the morning, sigh...
Monday, February 19. 2024
Sunday, February 18. 2024
Mike Benz was in the business. Tucker interviews him, and lets him talk (a podcast). He is entirely credible, not paranoid, and gives the whole history. Well worth the listening.
If you connect in the middle of the podcast, go to the beginning. Yes, even the USA government wants to control media - or does. Does media control our reality? Of course.
Saturday, February 17. 2024
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