Saturday, April 1, 2023
Today's News in Pictures
Saturday, March 25, 2023
WokeTard Attack
Sunday, March 12, 2023
Against Globalista Rot: Artificial Stupidity
Monday, February 27, 2023
Don't Argue. Ask Questions
Handling
Contention
Do Not Refute as such; Do Not Mock; Avoid Negative Facial Expressions and Excessing Sighing; Be Friendly.
Only Ask Questions
EXAMPLE:
You are presented with the following as proof of another's conviction:
Overpopulation is a major cause of biodiversity loss and smaller human populations are necessary to preserve what is left
Authors
of Study:
Philip
Cafaro, Pernilla Hansson,Frank Götmark
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0006320722001999
Read the study, while asking yourself these questions (Note: For online investigative critical thinking; patience and more sleuthing required, as needed)
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On Specifics:
Who
are the authors of this study?
What
are their backgrounds?
Who
was involved in their education and training? (Is this a factor? Why or why
not?)
Would
you say that the study is all factually true or that some of
it is true (i.e., only to the extent of the study's inherent limitations, viz.,
it is one study among many studies)?
If
it only selects studies that support its preferred study's position (accepting
other studies with only minor deviations) is that properly scientific and/or
does that concern you?
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Note:
Are you going to quit reading at this point?
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What are the bona fides of the journal that published them?
Are
"bona fides," (whose bases for being bona fides, once being
closely examined) reliable?
What are this journal's published commitments to science, biology, bio-diversity and ethics?
Are
each of those clearly defined so as to remove presumptions as to what they
are actually supporting? For example, does "peer-reviewed science" mean
only "those who think like them" and exclude peers who disagree with
them who may have been excluded from the "peerage" groups:
academic/clinical/think tank institutions? [the consensual reality and culture
trance test]
Who
and what are the bona fides of the website on which the journal is featured and the article
has been published? Are we able to judge the degree of credibility from that
examination?
How do the images and text "flow" to produce a psychological effect upon those viewing its content?
Does
that overall effect promote a sense of comfortable credibility? Why or why not?
Where might that content of the study's subject matter fall on the objective/subjective scale? Or better yet, is it possible to rate any content in such a way? If possible, why; or if not possible, why not?
More Generally
How
do the parts of a presentation relate to the whole of its message to
viewers/readers? Namely, the holistic effect.
Is the message one that is embedded with coded language intended to steer the judgment and opinion of viewers/readers by appealing to their preferred socio-cultural biases? (More to the point, how closely do the values presented in the study align with those that are broadcast in the media?)
Does one need an advanced degree to truly grok what "the messenger" is conveying? Why or why not?
Is the analysis of how a message is related connected to the so-called B.S. detector? If so, how so?
Can you apply the above questions that are begging a deeper analysis to the following diametrically opposed stance?:
http://annavonreitz.com/bunnymath.pdf
Finally: Is it possible that the thesis of the above study is presented in such a way so as to be acceptably-geared to all empathizers with nature's bio-diversity in order to play on one's naturalistic sympathies (while tending to throw attitudes and concerns about humans as artificial and harmful)? In other words, "My God, who would be against the flourishing of our planet's flora and fauna except non-caring, greedy human exploiters?"
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| Grammar error: not "life"; "lives." OK? Approach others with loving care. |
Saturday, February 18, 2023
Are You a Conspiracy Therapist?
https://twitter.com/SenRandPaul/status/1626259237985824768?s=20
Institutions proudly herald those, such as this hapless dean, as part of the invasion of cowardly “bodysuits” into, within, and among their woke ranks.
Others (like the guy in the 22-minute video below) might just self-medicate to stop the overwhelming, helpless sense that something is terribly wrong on our planet.
https://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=265228
We
sometimes get a reprieve and second chance at life, bringing along with us the
ability to “seed grace” among fellow illusion-sufferers—those, like us,
who have been caught and lost within the simulacrum, in the worldly lies and seemingly endless dissimulation.
Will this dean of the JH School of Nursing receive enough grace from Sen. Rand Paul—or some other "grace-seeder"—in order to help her come to her senses? We can only pray to the Good Lord and wish and hope so.
Saturday, February 11, 2023
The Constitutional Crux
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| But doggone it, light a fire under them! |
Wednesday, February 8, 2023
Tribute to Elmore James
Is
the blues—as more than a few contend—all about "getting' drunk and losin'
yer baby"? Let's consider that for a few beats...
Elmore James is probably 99% on the second side of that blues equation; he's not much on memorializing gettin' drunk, as in hell-raising down at the local juke joint. Instead, losin' his baby is what he sings about; his drinkin' songs are geared toward gettin' some gal off his mind. Case in point: One More Drink.
Goodbye Baby stands tall as one of the top "losin' yer baby" songs. But note, he's the one ditchin' her!—a tune immortal!
Here's the one to play over and over for when that muddy shoe is on the other foot—that is, when she ditches you! Something Inside Me.
Perhaps his two most popular tunes are It Hurts Me Too and Dust My Broom. Classics: he's downhearted but he shakes out that broom in the morning in a kind of salute to another day! That's the blues—life goes on and somehow a wellspring of optimism rises (eventually) from out of the darkest of days.
And then there is the one that Stevie Ray Vaughn picked up on: The Sky Is Crying.
Finally, let's go out on Shake Your Money Maker that 'standard,' made popular by Magic Sam, Houndog Taylor, and a bunch of other bluesmen down through time.
In the end, Elmore James stands firm as the primal mover and shaker of that fallin' apart sound, and as a solid master and commander of the blues slide guitar. He came from a nobler generation that didn't glamorize gettin' your head tore up just to carouse in public with other dirty drunks. No, Elmore James was a gentleman—one bluesman who suffered more from wimmen than from whiskey.
Let that be a lesson to you youngin's out thar! But oh yes, blues is surely about getting' drunk and losin' yer baby. Maybe though, the former should mostly follow the latter; we're all subject to heartbreak but not all of us drink as an anti-dote to all and every old thing. (That in itself is a hard blues lesson to learn.)
For more on the blues, see The Blues Memoir of Stubby Knuckles (scroll to the bottom of the page).
For more on Elmore James (and a ton of other recording artists), I recommend goin to the place I snagged the bluesman’s portrait at the top of this page: From the Vaults

















































