- “Mandalay Misconceptions.” Over at TZP Bear Bussjaeger slams the professionally politically ignorant.
- And Scott Greenfield referees a Tuesday talk on guns.
- How to keep your “smart” devices from spying on you. (Better idea: don’t have them.)
- We’ve been telling the truth about the Southern Poverty Law Center for more than two decades. Now mainstream conservatives are beginning to get the message and to push back.
- A proposal for Islam.
- Alarmist stories to the contrary, your rescue dog will probably not eat you and we don’t need the government regulating animal rescue. So sez J.D. Tuccille (with a big amen from me).
- You’ve no doubt heard that Tom Petty died suddenly. A somewhat more influential musical figure, Tom Paley, also just departed this life.
- Okay, I recognize there might be one or two readers hereabouts who (gasp) don’t care about plate tectonics. But as the grownup rendition of a 10-year-old kid who tried to build her own seismograph (and as a person who cheers out-of-box thinking), I consider the development of that science one of the great stories of the 20th century.
- “An End to Blindness?” Not all implanted chips are bad news.
- Brilliantly protesting the protestors. 🙂
Brilliantly protesting the protestors. 🙂
Those signs are hilarious! 🙂
I’m still waiting for Petty’s death certificate. He died, then he was alive again. Then he was dead again.
Except if I understand the situation he was dead all along, and everything else was just Twitter getting out of hand, as usual.
Glad you enjoyed, RV. I thought even the ones I didn’t agree with were hilarious.
> then he was alive again
No, that was Chicago tune. 😉
> Except if I understand the situation he was dead all along
Effectively, probably. Last I read, official time of death was 8-something PM, PDT. The human body is an odd beast, and will hang on quite amazingly some times. And I suppose sometimes the docs help that hanging on so the family can get there. Or is that a TV trope?
True, jed. I read something about him being placed on life support when he first hit the hospital, even though he was found with no brain activity. Then the family quickly ordered him off life support; seems he may have had a DNR order. So that may have accounted for the confusion, too, if what I read was accurate.
Jed wrote: “And I suppose sometimes the docs help that hanging on so the family can get there. Or is that a TV trope?”
When my wife was dying in June, we kept her on the respirator until family got to the hospital to say goodbye to her and then we all prayed around her. Then the nurse removed her from the respirator and it took about two minutes for her to take her last breaths. My daughter and I held her hands to the end. Thankfully, she died peacefully. I imagine it was similar with what Tom Petty and his family went through.
I’m still reliving that moment though and it runs through my head often, the worst moment of my life…
I certainly have no intentions of attending anything that includes big crowds; but if I were, I’d certainly be thinking along these lines: http://www.activeresponsetraining.net/deep-concealment-options-for-the-non-permissive-environment
Getting rid of SS numbers? Great!
But hold on! They still have to identify us.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/end-of-the-social-security-number-a-white-house-official-thinks-so-1507069469
Very, very mixed feelings regarding the SS numbers.
*IF* they’re going to maintain a “Social Security” program (feh), and *IF* it’s going to be mandatory (double feh), and *IF* they’re going to force the tying of that to everyday activities that shouldn’t include the government, numbers that can be revoked are not a bad approach. The problem with the approach, as usual, is that they’re not subject to malicious revocation, and potential falsified re-issuance. So now the problem becomes “how do we positively identify people to (re-)issue numbers?”
Blockchain and DNA present a potential answer to this, but it won’t (or damned well shouldn’t) be palatable to anyone with remaining love of freedom left in their bones, and Gov’t won’t like it because they won’t be able to have complete control over the process.