* Remember when you were a conspiracy theorist for thinking the Democrats were coming for your guns? (Ah, those were the days!)
* Edward Snowden appears to have discovered that he's just become a liability to Russia, and wants to come home. (Might not have been the best time to publish that book telling all those secrets. Not a winning move.)
* Finally, Trump is calling for an investigation into the well-known money-laundering schemes posing as art sales and book deals. (You didn't really think anyone would pay millions for what my cat coughed up, did you?)
* Imported Arabs are now voting in increasing numbers in Israel. (Looks like they've taken a page from our Democrats' playbook.)
* The State Bar of California has filed a petition to enroll this licensee (Michael Avenati) on interim inactive status, alleging that the licensee's conduct poses a substantial threat of harm to clients or the public. The petition involves a charge that the licensee engaged in a major misappropriation of client funds. (He robbed his own client.) (But, really, don't they all?)
* Andrew McCabe has enlisted much of the Obama administration as character witnesses on his behalf in his upcoming trial. (But who's going to vouch for their character?)
* Meanwhile, those 28 FBI agents are still lining up for the chance to testify against Hillary Clinton. (OUCH!) (Shoulda been nicer to 'em, eh?)
* Pennsylvania state Senator (who sits in Pennsylvania's Senate, not the nation's), Mike Folmer has resigned after being arrested for child porn. (RINO!)
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Global Warming!
Yes. As I've often said, I do listen to opposing viewpoints.
But I don't hold my beliefs for no reason. And here's a case in point:
He needs more than a fact-checker; he needs a logic tester. Why?
Pop quiz!
How many homes have you seen during your daily excursions that are entirely powered by solar?
None?
Then, might it not be a bit rash to proclaim that solar is making a big difference?
(This comes under what I like to call the 'just look around you' test, aka the 'reality check'.)
And all those wind farms? When was the last time you saw one? How many windmills were idle?
Thought so. Kinda hard to make a big difference that way.
And the claim that Exxon has proclaimed their belief in Global Warming? No. What they proclaimed was their belief that those papers had been written. They also proclaimed their belief that government can be used as a tool to trick the people into cutting their own throats.
As I've also said before, big oil would just love to have government force them to sell less product at higher prices. Who wouldn't?
By the way, do you know where the TSA came from? Government? WRONG! It came from the airlines themselves. BUT, since none of them wanted to be the bad-guy, frisking their own passengers, they leaned on the government to 'force' them to let the government frisk everybody for them.
Now the airlines can feign solidarity with us as we collectively curse that villainous government for making us take our shoes off. (Frankly, I'm not climbing into anything without an escape-route at my elbow unless everyone else has been cavity-searched.)
What about the military?
What about them? Their job is to plan for the worst, and hope for the best. Besides, nothing in that paper said anything about anthropomorphic global warming, but just 'climate change'.
And, while we're at it, 'climate change' believers keep changing the rules in the middle of the sentence. They point out that something bears witness to climate change, but chalk it up as a point in favor of the global warming argument. Then they note some point supporting global warming, but automatically appeal to it as support for anthropomorphic global warming, blurring the lines they crossed getting there from 'climate change'. Even the supposed scientific consensus that humans cause 'climate change', always, always glosses over the fact that those supposed changes come down to miniscule and highly localized effects, and never, NEVER takes into account all the recent evidence against their viewpoint. They prefer to just cover all that over with the claim that 'the scientists have covered everything, and they all agree'. But it just ain't so.
So some conservative chick agrees with him? Oh, man! This guy just stumbles over ALL the logical fallacies. There are (shocking as it may seem) LIBERALS who doubt the whole anthropomorphic global warming religion. Or do they think Michael Crichton was a Republican?
You have read his paper, Aliens Cause Global Warming, haven't you? So, does party affiliation really matter? Why would Joe even try to pull that one out of his hat? That's like saying there are women who disagree with feminism. Since when does party affiliation equate to meteorolgical expertise?
The fact is that Joe is no expert in logic, so I'll take Crichton's credentials over Joe's, and even most of the scientists in that 'consensus', too, for that matter.
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WOW!
Using almost the very same words I used when teaching this concept to my own children, Dr. Peterson corrects an all-too common misconception about meekness.
I've heard someone once described as "a modest man with much to be modest about." And I think that's just what Dr. Peterson is addressing here: It's no great feat for the timid to be pacifists, but for warriors to be pacifists (think Captain Moroni and General Lehi), that impresses.
Probably the only intelligent thing I ever heard Henry Kissinger say is that, "Modesty is only considered a virtue when an alternative is perceived."
By the way, I used the analogy of the gun and the holster instead of the sword and the sheath.
If you don't know about Jung's philosophy of integrating the shadow, you really need to study it.
Is this not the true meaning of 'putting off the natural man'?
I mean, we were given these bodies in order to grow beyond what we were without them.
You don't break a horse so you can walk everywhere.
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The Undead Vote! (again!)
How many is this now?
As you watch this, you should bear a few things in mind:
a) Denver (the entire area, including Boulder, Centennial, Aurora, even Colorado Springs, home of the Air Force Academy) falls just slightly to the right of Karl Marx. (One of the reasons we left.)
b) CBS is also not known as a bastion of conservative thought.
c) Notice the absence of any mention of whom the dead voted for. (I'd sure like to know!)
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Jacinda Ardern
New Zealand's Prime Minister has been an ardernt Hillary Clinton supporter, even going so far as to help HRC gain access to classified material through the unconstitutional Five Eyes agreement, thinking that this back-door approach would go unnoticed by the NSA. It didn't.
Never fear! True to their projecting nature, the leftists down under (as everywhere else) are even more guilty of the very things they would have us believe men like judge Kavanaugh are. So, when their skeletons come dancing out of the closet, there's just no putting them back in again.
Pity. I wanted to see the whole espionage and HRC support thing blow up in her face instead.
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Irish Slaves in America!
I'm sure I've mentioned this before, but I'd still love to get professor Henry Louis Gates' take on it.
I saw him on TV once, 'enlightening' fellow 'people of color' that their heritage is not part native American, as family legend supposedly told, but rather Irish, because ... you know ... da massa n da slave gal!
Truth is, they were Irish women, not Irish men, and they were just as much slaves as the Africans, but even cheaper. So, who 'da man' now?
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From My Playlist
Enigma is another one of those bands I learned of in Germany. Of course, back then, it wasn't Enigma, but its principle member, Romanian-born Michael Cretu. And this is noteworthy because Romania and Germany have a curious musical connection. Another one of my favorite German artists, Peter Maffay, for example, is also Romanian. (The Romanians, by the way, have the absolute best accent in German. What Sebastian Gorka does to English, the Romanians do to German.) (imho) (I know, right? You're like, wait, what? An accent in German? I thought German was an accent! But, no, we have accents in German just like we do in English, and some are better than others, and one of the worst, sad to say, is American.)
Cretu is one of those musical power-houses. He not only drove his own career, but those around him, too. He was the driving force behind his first wife's (Sandra) rise to stardom. (She'd say otherwise, I'm sure, but being Big In Japan doesn't mean you're big anywhere else.) I think she even had a hit here in the states while married to Michael, and it's primarily her voice you hear in Enigma's music whenever you hear a female voice.
Soon after returning to the states, I started hearing music from the band, Enigma, and thought it sounded awfully familiar, so I did a little research, and, sure enough, it turned out to be German. Naturally, I had to run right out and buy it. All of it.
And I still love it.
NO! Those weren't two girls kissing. The video was filmed in Malaga, Spain. That's what a Corsican nose looks like on a guy. They can be very feminine looking to Europeans. Yes, I know, Corsica is French, but the fact is that they are all Mediterranean, and, thus, part of their own, little genetic and cultural group, quite separate from whatever countries claim them. Perhaps you've heard of an 'olive complexion'. That's where it comes from.
By the way, that's NOT native American chanting; it's Taiwanese!
Here's the native American chanting.
Silent Warrior
Sadness
Don't worry; it's safe.
The Child In Us
And my favorite ...
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