Saturday, July 12, 2025

TRANSCENDENTAL TUCKER CARLSON

 I have to admit I fail to grok why the rightish side of the uniparty now has a problem with Tucker Carlson simply because he utterly failed to tear the throat out of Ayatollah Khamenei in his recent interview or even failed to throw Putin to the ground and stomp on his head repeatedly during his recent interview. Yes I am at a loss to explain Tucker's manifest failures as a Delta Storm Trooper unleashed on the immortal enemies of all mankind.

When did we all decide that anyone who went and took the time and trouble and effort to interview the leaders of the Other Side™became himself the anti-Christ reborn let loose upon the face of the Earth? Seriously, watching the various columnists used by the Instapundit and many other formerly mostly sane people losing their marbles because Carlson got interviews with the bad guy leadership is amazing. It isn't his job to tear down the men he interviews oddly enough, that's the sort of thing we leave to the simps from Congress in their pointless oversight interrogations. On the gripping hand, those critters used to get away with the most vile attacks on their guests but are now running into people who literally don't give a rat's patoot about telling a Congresscritter that he/she is an idiot.

I don't put Tucker Carlson at quiet the same level as La Fallaci but he is still light years ahead of the entire rest of the dismal herd of people who talk to other people online or on TV. 

Read the link to what Steyn wrote about Oriana Fallaci. It is a magnificent tribute. It will also give you a most pointed idea of what enraging the EU can do to limiting your travel and work possibilities if they hate you as much as they hated her. Are people really less afraid of what Putin or the Ayatollah can do?

Thursday, July 10, 2025

WHY NOT RAILGUNS?

As you know, the USN finally gave up on developing and fielding a rail gun because after 15 years and $500 million they could not get anything close to a workable prototype much less an actual weapon. 

I know a man who could develop, test, produce and field a working naval rail gun in 5 years if the Government hired him AND got out of his way. So do you.


The problem with developing a railgun as a project is finding a man willing to devote everything he has to making it a reality and I suspect that the "Research $ Development" Team had other things on their mind than making a railgun a reality in the next 2 years. In other words, they got an acquisition team together and threw money at them and never expected a concrete result at the end of say, a 2 year period of performance and there were no penalties for failure because the money sure as Hell wasn't coming out of their pocket.

We've been down this route before and as usual it comes down to the simple fact that the man in charge and the men building it simply didn't want it bad enough. It's not like they were going to make enormous profits or anything motivational like that. It was a job that they were paid to come in and do every day with no expectation of any gain beyond continued employment. That is essentially what University research and military research boils down to these days. There's a reason that nobody is making tomorrow's weapons today anymore and it isn't because the concepts are not out there, it is just that going from concept to development and fielding is a barren field now because the key motivator is missing.

Nothing motivates like survival except greed and profit.

Wednesday, July 9, 2025

ON THE LAW

 I see that an Appellate Court unanimously found that Douglass Mackey was not guilty of the vile crime he was convicted of in a court in the sewer known as the eastern district of New York. After decades I still remember this as perhaps the best performance I have ever seen from an actor. If it fails to start up at 17:30 or a little after, please make it so. Listen to the whole thing if you like. As I said, it is very good. The part I mean for you to hear is about 'stealing a dime.'

Here are the words from Mackey on the case he found himself a victim of. 

The democrat purists will claim that it was nothing at all to do with our Constitutionally protected God given right to freedom of speech but you can read so you can easily see that they're lying, again. See, they'll claim it was a "conspiracy."


ON THE BORDERLINE

I sometimes screw up and leave my X thing in the "For You" instead of the "Following" mode when I check out and then I find myself exposed to the unbalanced 99% and that can be a little awkward because I usually think that the people/accounts I do follow are sane or at least amusingly unbalanced. This is just a minor bump in reality but I see that things are definitely going off the beam in both the wider world and in the more balanced one I peer into every day for just a little while to see what it going on out there. Right now people who should know better are going a little crazy.

I honestly don't know what made them think that anything associated with Epstein would ever see the light of day but a lot really thought that the high and mighty and the all-powerful movers and shakers were going to get indicted and charged and find themselves in court facing some sort of charges for giving money to what we once used to call, 'a financier.' Never even mind what services were rendered or if they were rendered just think of the naivety that would lead any right thinking American to think that this could or would ever happen.

I see that once again those people's counterparts are signing up apparently in droves for individual flying lessons in Russia and throwing themselves out of tall buildings. You see how that happens right? That is old school justice being meted out to those who failed. It used to be like that here too but mostly the untouchable here live forever but for them it becomes a sort of Hell on Earth because they fade away and all the influence and power they once had at their fingertips just slips away and they become the evil shadows of the magnificent malignant evil they once were. You know them, the Clintons, Soros, Obama and in fact, ALL of the old movers and shakers of the Democratic Establishment. The same thing happens on the right side but they have so much less far to fall and generally slip away entirely within a year of their downfall.

I am surprised that the old Government "Run Them Over with a Car" division has apparently ended that practice and other than Kennedy I don't think they moved into the "Kill them in a Plane Crash" division as practiced in your swankier African States and Pakistan. There haven't been all that many, "Body Guard Snapped and Killed Them All" for some time and the last couple of times I think that was just the top level in India and maybe in Thailand. Flying Lessons never really caught on here for some unknown reason but these days we can reliably count on the good old, "Dropped Dead of Suddenly" division to clear up most of the more malignant mouthy versions of demons on Earth.

The kind of effort put in for the Show Trials of the Century to nail obvious scumbags like Comey and Brennan and frankly everybody else that served in the Clinton, Obama, Biden or first Trump cabinet is just too horrible to think about, but we will. 100% obviously, it would all come to nought since there is not a single jury in the history of the world that would unanimously find any of the Top Level Scumbags guilty. It would be one hung jury after another of dashed hopes and the sudden slow dawning realization that Justice really is an impossibility at that level and won't happen this side of Hell.

I can live with all that.

People forget the simplest things these days. High on the list of things that must be kept in mind is that it really is not our job to punish the guilty in every case. Nobody thinks we got all the top Nazis or even levied justice on those that were unbelievably evil but that also applies to all the evil Japanese that escaped the war with their lives, if not unscathed. This is why a lot of people cling to the idea of an afterlife. The better people look forward to seeing all their loved ones again but there are some who live for hate. I don't want to be that kind of person.

It is just about impossible to watch the news but I find it can be quite damaging for me to keep going back and dipping into the wells of information that I have used up to this point because some of them take on all the aspects of the broadcast and cable news channels. I don't need that.

I am thankful that I have a blogroll of interesting places by interesting people who post interesting things and that each of them has a blogroll of perfectly good sites that I browse through from time to time. They make for amusing, insightful and interesting reading and offer up the food for thought I enjoy.

I have to admit, I am enjoying the budding Trade War™ as the tariffs always appear like a distant mirage and then they are suddenly right in front of us and then there they are back on the horizon. I don't think there has ever been a master who played the news cycle as precisely and beautifully as Donald Trump. He can with a brief comment take the entire days production of HATE NEWS ABOUT HIM and turn it off because he just shifted the ground/continent right out from under the feet of the news boffins. Remember Wag the Dog? They had to start a war to get the news under control but Trump can literally step out of his office, call some idiot an old idiot and that's it, that's the news.

I do sometimes wonder who was behind getting all of Western Europe's leaders to set about destroying their own countries. I think that madness is now far beyond anyone's ability to repair short of the really old methods and let's be honest, modern Europeans are nothing but twatwaffles at this point. There isn't a real man alive anywhere on the continent west of Vienna. It's like all the real patriots died in the World Wars or left. It's kind of a shame because I really enjoyed my visits there and walking in and around the things their ancestors left behind from centuries and millennia before they vanished. I'm not tempted to go back. Whoever is responsible for getting England, Ireland, France, Spain, Italy, Greece, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Holland to destroy themselves almost overnight should definitely be the entire focus of all those divisions I mentioned above. Somebody that evil really needs to be destroyed.

Sunday, July 6, 2025

STILL WORKING ON IT

 I am at the rewrite stage again. See, I'll bet nobody ever thought I drafted and edited copy before I published it but you are only right half the time. Of late, more editing is called for.



Thursday, July 3, 2025

ON THE IMBECILITY OF AI

 I really am convinced that AI today is essentially exactly like asking 46 Washington Post and 52 New York Times reporters to give you all the information that they have published about X. X is any topic at all. 

What kind of an idiot would place any value on that answer?

Tuesday, July 1, 2025

FOR THE DEVASTATION

The fountain was a gift to the people of St Albans. It took awhile to come about after the war because of the devastation the war caused to the area:

Most Vermont towns have a monument in memory of the soldiers who participated in the Civil War. Decades after the war, the upland hillsides of the state were littered with the cellar holes of long-gone farmhouses from farms that had been abandoned because all the family's sons had been killed in the Civil War.





It was a tribute for the sacrifices made in the War and sometimes whole months pass when I don't wonder what the country would be like if the War Between the States had not happened. Every time I go to Maine I look at the endless stone/rock walls lining the roads that outline a patch of dense forest and think that it was land that went back to nature after a century or two of backbreaking effort to make it a farm and that it likely went to ruin as a result of the Civil War. One way or another, the young men of Maine did not come back to the fields and fisheries, and Maine slipped slowly behind even as the Reconstruction raged throughout the South.

If you do go to or pass through St Albans, keep in mind that they roll up the sidewalks promptly at 1700 and not a second later. In the summer that means another 4 to 5 hours of daylight without a damned thing to do there except read a book. You'd have to bring your own.