My wife’s father just got diagnosed with cancer. Bad. Bleeding, can’t keep food down, unable to talk already. Double plus ungood. If he goes – and I believe he will – it’ll be the second death (from cancer!) in my wife’s close family within a couple of months. Her uncle was the first. Please say …
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Jul 09 2021
Chiming In
I’ve been out of town, in Ohio. We’re in the process of looking for a house (both depressing, and something I’m getting better at). As a result, I’ve been largely out of touch with events and commentary. This morning is the first time I’ve had to just read. I’m reading Project Hail Mary, by Andy …
Jul 08 2021
Unsettling Connections
In my youth I loved the PBS show Connections, and subsequently Connections 2 and Connections 3, all hosted by James Burke. Thanks to prompts and an emphasis on education by my parents, plus a (cough) rather high IQ, I became someone who often could see disparate things and put them together into patterns to understand …
Jul 07 2021
Extrinsic Science Must Be Exposed and Eliminated
Through its use of intrinsic science, humanity advanced technologically. Long before Sir Francis Bacon, the scientific method was employed and exploited by those who engaged in the practice that had no formal name. Mathematics is the king of the sciences. All other sciences rely upon its intrinsic values to qualify and quantify their investigations and …
Jul 07 2021
Insight into the rules-based world order.
The term “rules-based world order” has surfaced in U.S. diplospeak in recent years. Whatever does it mean? [Russian Foreign Minister Sergey] Lavrov surveys the results of the recent G7, NATO and US-EU summits prior to Putin-Biden in Geneva: These meetings were carefully prepared in a way that leaves no doubt that the West wanted to …
Jul 06 2021
Thank you, Jesus.
Nikole Hannah-Jones, eminent scholar, departs the University of North Carolina to delight and inform the journalism students at Howard University.[1] Nothing says “scholar” in my book so much as bright red clown hair but that’s just me. The quality of her work, however, is beyond dispute. Fact, Jack. Well, ok. Sincere condolences to those future …
Jul 05 2021
Pearls of expression.
Corporations like Warner Music Group, Sony Music Group, and Comcast gave donations of $100 million each to social justice organizations like BLM just this month. I mean, we all know how underrepresented blacks are in the music industry. Apparently, the U.S. music industry had decided that promoting gangster culture, violence, drug use, and objectification of …
Jul 05 2021
Cartoon: Jab’s Witnesses and the Covid Cult
OK, the creative juices have been flowing, the cartoonist engaged and loving the idea, so here is my latest cartoon concept executed – again – wonderfully: —— —– I hope you like it. This was inspired by the news that multiple places are organizing door to door campaigns. E.g., in Michigan, Louisiana, Connecticut, Florida, etc. …
Jul 03 2021
The resolution carries…
Of all the scenes in the notable miniseries “John Adams” this strikes me as the most pivotal – among many, of course. These men were committing high treason and understood fully their fate if they did not succeed. Happy Birthday to my beloved America. —–
Jul 03 2021
Formerly Unconscionable Connections
News item: Former Police Officer Recounts Witnessing ‘Industrialized’ Organ Harvesting in China The following are questions our society would almost certainly have insisted be asked in another era. Have you asked what is the source of your life-saving organ? To what soul or grieving family may you direct thanks for it? If you asked, did …
Jul 03 2021
Our Happy Birthday Weekend
This is going to be a bittersweet year. Like “celebrating” your beloved relative’s birthday, shortly after they got the news that their cancer is back again. You will see the candles through a veil of tears, find your voice quivering, as you realize that this may well be the last time you will sing those …
Jul 02 2021
Reversing the Exodus
(This post is modified from its original appearance at GraniteGrok.) I am a Zionist Jew interested in the goings-on in Israel, my spiritual home, and thus subscribe to a variety of news sources. Some are on the Right, some are on the Left, some are a mix, a couple are wingnut, but I peruse them …
Jul 02 2021
The F-86 Sabre jet.
This is from an interesting article about air combat in Korea: As in the [case] of Spitfires during the Battle of Britain, F86s were fighting against heavy odds in Korea. Approximately 800 MiGs were based in Manchuria and China. The Soviet Union had supplied China with more sweptwing fighters than the United States had even …
Jul 01 2021
Steps to Returning to Normal
Last night, I took a new step on the Road to Normal. I went to my ham radio clubhouse, and just hung around for a while. I’d originally had some purpose in going – I needed to pick up a couple of coax cables, and also to run my Fundraising Committee monthly meeting. But, rather …
Jul 01 2021
Now we know.
The fed hasn’t started to end QE yet. In fact, it hasn’t even set a date to start the taper. All the fed’s money printers have done is admit that they have begun to discuss when to think about a time for the start of tapering $120b per month in asset purchases.[1] And that’s definite. …
Jun 30 2021
Quick Takes
—– “White Americans who have never had a racist thought in their lives are tired of being constantly accused of racism.” Agree. I try and want to live by those famous and noble words: —– —– I really want to. But, dammit, it’s getting harder and harder to do so when I see instance after …
Jun 30 2021
An Off-the-Wall Idea
Right now, Trump is getting large – even Yuge! – crowds wherever he appears in public. Many are hoping for another run in 2024. Now, I basically like Trump. He brought in a freshness of viewpoint to the Oval Office, and Washington itself. He certainly deserved to be returned to office again in 2020 – …
Jun 28 2021
Cartoon: Jabbed vs. Unjabbed
This should not need much introduction, whether on the subject matter or the source / inspiration of. —– —– And, as is my wont, reprising an older one: —– —– Which, really, defines the vast majority of the Left’s argument. Envy is one of the most corrosive of sins, whether in the Ten Commandments or …
Jun 26 2021
The Babbitt Family Should NOT Settle…
…unless that involves a COMPLETE public release of ALL information in the case. I do understand the natural tendency of families to want to just get things over. To ‘bring closure’ to the death. However, they should remember that Ashlii was with those protesters, because she believed that the integrity of the Republic was a …
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