Sunday, August 9, 2026

111 Times

 If you go back far enough, you may remember Albert Gore, the Living Redwood, answer any question about his apocalyptic pronouncements with the line, "The science is settled". 

Of course, the science is never settled. We learn new things all the time.We also are taught things in our youth that may lie fallow for many years and then be proven useful. Photosynthesis, as an example. It proves CO2 is necessary for life to grow and that all the nonsense about greenhouse gases is a con.

Same with the Deep State Dwarf. A government slug if ever the was one, he went to work for the Feds the day he got his MD. He was the one who formulated "policy" when AIDS bnecame a big deal. Of course, we couldn't use the standard communicable disease procedures because it might alienate the homosexuals and they wouldn't bloc vote Democrat. And to question what diseases someone might have when they wanted to give blood would do the same. The blood supply would just have to take the hit.

40 years later, another "disease" showed up from out of the blue, although this one, when looked at, had the Dwarf's fingerprints all over it. Seems little Tony was into bio warfare on the side and the side was Red China. But the real thing was what used to be taught in schools. I had to take 2 semester of bio in undergrad school and one thing the guy pounded into our heads was you don't mess with DNA. And, when I saw how these "vaccines" were mRNA, I started doing my homework. Cellular organisms use messenger RNA (mRNA) to convey genetic information (using the nitrogenous bases of guanine, uracil, adenine, and cytosine, denoted by the letters G, U, A, and C) that directs synthesis of specific proteins, but the m didn't stand for messenger, as I learned, but modified.

In the immortal words of Bugs Bunny, "Yipe!". The Blonde did her own research and came to the same conclusion. There were other remedies, but  the Deep State Dwarf was having none of it. Doctors who disagreed were blacklisted (I thought the Lefties were against that). The so-called remedy Paxlovid won't tell you what's in it, how it works, or any other necessary info. The Dwarf demanded the whole country be locked down (the only good that did was to show parents what a lousy education their kids were getting), we should wear masks (though it was proven they'd do no good at all), and that we stand 6 feet apart (science said 13), . And the vain little weasel, when asked why we should go through all this, declared, "I am the science". And the Lefties believed him.

Now, he is faced with his deeds and pleads the 5th. 

111 times. 

I remember watching Frank Costello do the same and he didn't kill anywhere near the Dwarf's body count or steal anywhere near the Dwarf's billions. For a long time, Frank was the living incarnation of taking the 5th. Not anymore.

Now, as Fake News is outraged that his personal correspendence has been made public (they never had a problem when they did it to somebody they didn't like), his sins are catching up to him. His collaboration with the Reds could very easily be construed as treason. His financial collaborations almost certainly are illegal, and his knowledge of what the Clot Shot was doing to people may well be described as murder.

Thinking for oneself has never been popular in public education. The rise of the teacher unions has institutionalized that. Yet it's becoming quite clear that our very lives are dependent on it. 2 times Democrats ran for re-election by promising they wouldn't send Americans to Germany and once to Vietnam. Careful study of history tells us Abraham Lincoln could have avoided the Civil War and that the war was not about slavery.

In this age of instant communication, we can make our own determinations and act on them. And we must. The Left chose to go with the flow and paid the price. Without Ralph the Sheepdog, the sheep get slaughtered.

The intelligence really is artificial.

20 or so years ago, as I was earning my CS degree, I had the opportunity of take a course in the fledgling tech known as Artificial Intelligence. One semester later, I came to the conclusion AI was not ready for prime time. 2 decades have not changed that.

Better than a month ago, I tried to upgrade the cameras I use to make sure no varmints are in the yard when I let the pups out. The website kept kicking me back to help, rather than helping me. Artificial, indeed.

4 weeks ago, a wild storm blew through our neighborhood, blowing down a tree limb which blew down at least 3 utility poles. It also wiped out our phone, internet, and TV. Our lovely mayor was Therese on the spot and got the power back in just under a day. Getting the rest of our services back was a bit more of an adventure.

Over the years, I have, on occasion, complained abot the Little Girl From Guadalajara (or Gwalior) and the difficulties Diversity can inflict on our lives. The past few years, the Little Girls (and the Boys From Bombay) have grown in their jobs and you can get something done. When I called tech support (cell on another carrier) to remedy our issues, the Little Girl from AI couldn't wait to help. She wanted my passcode and told me it was wrong (twaren't as I later found out). She then ran some tests and said the gaterway was dead (tain't, I'm using it now) and she would send a new one. And send she did. Wrong configuration.

Nothing daunted, I followed Aunt Hillary's advice and persevered. Took me 4 days to talk to a human being. He was helpful and said the earliest somebody could come out was the following Monday. Guy came out and showed me the box on the utility pole the storm knocked out and said he'd report it. Next day, a couple of guys with a cherry-picker came out and wrapped what looks like a trash bag around.

Still there. Fed up, You-know-who said we ought to go to the store in town and talk to one of their human beings. Took an hour, but, after she called a few Members Only phone numbers, I found out the passcode was right and she'd get somebody out Friday (we're talking 10 days after the original storm). The guys came out and fixed everything inside of an hour.

It was the box on the side of the house (Blondie said they took the whole thing apart).

AI is based on the principle that, as you observe certain behaviors and their solutions, you can create rules to anticipate solutions to those problems. If you've heard about the data centers that are being built, they're for collecting data so rules can be formulated. No need for human beings. Those who remember Star Trek will recall Spock saying, "it's behavior is that of a computer being fed contradictory or insuffiecient data". This is what happens when AI can't be turned off.  It just goes round and round in a loop.

The Davos crowd and its adherents have been talking about how swell it would be if the human race was reduced by 7/8.Presumably the world would be run by AI

In such situations, I always go back to the old Greek proverb, "Be careful of that for which you wish. You may get it".

On Numbers & Nesting Dolls

 



Saturday, August 8, 2026

On Trusting the Science & Stumped

Even though the subject is repetitive, with little in the way of humor involved, I still feel enough anger over the incongruities, obfuscations and lies told to keep posting the cartoons/memes that have recently been catching my attention and resonating with regard to Fauci's involvement and the media's approach to Covid information.  These come from Powerline's The Week in Pictures Winner and Still Champion Edition:





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On A Totem & A Reckoning

 



As I read Glenn Reynolds' Substack tonight, on "Why Fauci Matters-- He's not just a powerful guy who acted in bad faith. He's a totem to a whole class of people who don't care about that", this quote stood out as an answer that fit my perspective, along with his view of Fauci as a totem:

"I think the answer is that Fauci, and Faucism, represented the apotheosis of what the managerial/academic/journo class desires: An excuse for sweeping power, based on (alleged) expertise, in which they could ride roughshod over those stupid proles and flyover people while preening about the allegedly superior moral and intellectual qualities that justify their rule.

Then it turned out that they were wrong about nearly everything and — as Fauci’s diaries demonstrate — knew it at the time, at least at the top."

On Blunders & Lies

 




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