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You have heard me talk about how “nation” means a people related by blood, history, language, and religion. But what if a people related by blood, history, and language change their religion? What would induce you to change your ancestral worship for a God you had never heard of until some strangers arrived?
Prof. Rachel Fulton Brown considers these questions on Unauthorized in Medieval History 101 Episode V: “Getting Medieval on the Song of Creation”. The episode study guide is here.
It’s always interesting to see the doublethink involved when the lifeless fruit of abortion-on-demand presents feminists with the paradox of women choosing to abort their little girls:
None of the 216 children born across 132 villages in one Indian state over the last three months were girls, authorities have revealed. Officials in Uttarkashi, Uttarakhand state have launched a probe over fears parents have been having sex-selective abortions.
India outlawed sex-selective abortion in 1994, but it’s still common practice to terminate female fetuses as they are seen as a financial burden, with families often needing to provide money for costly dowries, despite the fact they were outlawed in 1961.
Baby boys are favoured as they are seen as the main breadwinner and the birth of a son is seen as a cause for celebration and family pride. Ashish Chauhan, Uttarkashi’s district magistrate, said the rate was ‘suspicious and has highlighted female foeticide’ according to the ANI news agency.
Abortion is evil, period. As, of course, is feminism. The problem is there is no rational or practical way to balance both a) legal abortion on demand and b) a ban sex-selective abortions. The only correct solution is to ban all abortion.
The psychopath appears to have been trying to play some sort of get-out-of-jail card:
Jeffrey Epstein has reportedly been rushed to hospital after prison guards found the billionaire financier ‘blue in the face’ and sprawled out on the floor of his New York jail cell.
The 66-year-old, who is being held in custody ahead of his trial for sex trafficking, was said to be semi-conscious with neck injuries when he was found in Manhattan’s Metropolitan Correctional Center.
Two sources close to the investigation said that he may have tried to hang himself.
But as prison officials scrambled to establish the cause of Epstein’s injuries, a third source has claimed that his injuries were not serious. They suggested Epstein may be trying to get a transfer to an alternative jail, according to NBC News.
People successfully hang themselves in prison all the time. And psychopaths, are too narcissistic to kill themselves. I don’t buy it for one second. As for the idea that a four-time murderer tried, and failed, to kill him, leaving him semi-conscious, that’s too stupid to even contemplate seriously. Especially given the arms on the ex-cop, who looks like he could easily could rip out Epstein’s spinal column with his bare hands.
The only real question is if Epstein is trying to get to the hospital for some reason or if he is sending a message to someone outside.
Those who look on its face, die:
FBI Rocked By Public Suicide of TOP FBI Agent Who Investigated Clinton Foundation
FBI agents are mourning the death of one of the Bureau’s top financial crimes supervisors who reportedly shot and killed himself on a crowded nite-club dance floor, according to top FBI insiders.
Salvatore “Sal” Cincinelli, a former Wall Street broker who joined the FBI in 2010, died last week during a night out after an FBI training session, sources said.
Cincinelli was one a supervisory special agent who spearheaded many of the FBI’s high-profile and complex Wall Street investigations, including probing the finances of the Clinton Foundation. After leaving his Wall Street career, Cincinelli was first assigned to the New York field office (SDNY) and later promoted to HQ in Washington, DC. He was a native New Yorker as well.
“Very very bright guy,” one FBI insider said. “Such a young guy, it really gets you in the gut. He put in the hours too, was always working hard.”
Cincinelli was 41.
Cincinelli was reportedly out partying with FBI colleagues at the Container Bar, a trendy watering hole in Austin, TX. The group had been drinking and dancing, according to sources. Later in the evening Cincinelli reportedly turned the gun on himself on a crowded dance floor.
If this had happened while Obama was president, we’d assume that he’d been threatened. But given Trump, Q, and Russia Russia Russia, it might be that his corruption by the Clintons is about to come out.
Then again, the music might just have been really bad.
Robert Mueller’s appearance before the House Judiciary Committee appears to have gone rather poorly today:
A number of pundits this morning have been questioning former special counsel Robert Mueller’s performance at the hearing before the House Judiciary Committee.
Fox Business host Stuart Varney spoke with Judge Andrew Napolitano as the Mueller hearing got underway Wednesday. Napolitano said so far it shows Mueller “is a good Marine and he’s gonna follow the instructions from the Department of Justice and basically not talk about ongoing cases, not talk about the deliberations that led to the report, and not talk about anything outside the report.”
“Now, that’s bad news for both sides,” he added, saying Democrats want to go into his thinking while Republicans want to question him about the origins of the investigation.
At one point Varney remarked, “Forgive me for making almost a personal comment. Robert Mueller seems frail. He does not seem really sharp and in line with answering the questions. Yes or no is what he’s been giving.”
Napolitano agreed he didn’t seem as sharp as he has in previous hearings. Other pundits and political observers have expressed similar thoughts.
It sounds as if someone has been denied his adrenochrome as punishment for his failures. That, or the kuru is starting to set in.
UPDATE: It just keeps getting more interesting.
john jackson@pvtjokerus
Solomon just reported on Hannity that Mifsud has flipped and is stating that he was an intell asset and directed to target Papadopoulos.
I doubt he’s the only one who has flipped and is naming names.
Last year, Larry Correia fisked a condescending piece of… writing vomited by some screeching social justice simian who got offended because someone shared a meme on the Internet advising poor people to cook at home and instead of buying fast food. Two days later, someone edited Larry’s Wikipedia page so that the very first thing it said was that he was a White Supremacist Author. The page was also edited to say that Larry wanted his “worthless and self published fantasy dreck” nominated for a Hugo Award. “The funny thing was,” Larry told me when I spoke to him about the incident, “I was the one defending the intelligence and dignity of poor people of any ethnic background, and the rich white liberal was trying to say they were too dumb to boil water.”
Baen authors Tom Kratman, Sarah Hoyt, and John Ringo have also been targeted (the flaccid attempts against Ringo will go over about as well as the pantshittingly inept ones against Larry – that is to say they will be a fail), ostensibly for their refusal to act in accordance with the screeching social justice simian diktats and soothe their chafed labia by acknowledging that mayonnaise is a gender.
Reasons for the deletion range from petty to outright unhinged, claiming primary sources are insufficient and even questioning the military service of Mike Williamson and Tom Kratman! Apparently, even an article in Stars and Stripes about veterans forging successful careers in science fiction is insufficient evidence that an author is significant enough to warrant a Wikipedia page and Baen publishing – a giant in science fiction and fantasy that’s been in existence more than three decades – is apparently a “vanity press with little editorial/production standards that can’t even keep straight what year they awarded one of their fake awards.”
But really – like everything else they do – their efforts to destroy the reputations of their political enemies stem from their feelings of inadequacy compared with creators who not only produce literature people want to buy and read, but are infinitely more successful at their chosen art than these squealing mediocrities are at whatever it is that they choose as their so-called “professions” (often involving begging for money on Patreon and serving overpriced beverages at whatever hipster coffee house allows them to wear torn Che t-shirts and neckbeards as a uniform).
“To an extent, it’s like erasing historical figures,” Sarah Hoyt told me. “They try to erase us because our accomplishments make them feel theirs are tiny. It’s stompy-foot, fuck fuck games of people too stupid to excel at their supposed profession,” she added.
The conservatives, the Williamsons, Hoyts, and Ringos of the world, are endlessly surprised to discover that their enemies actually hate them, aren’t going to play fair, and aren’t going to heed dire warning #863,527 that someday, someone who almost certainly isn’t them, is going to do something about it.
There will come a time when normal people will have had enough.
I’ve been hearing those dire warnings to the Left from conservatives since the 1980s. I’ve learned not to pay any attention to them, and I’m pretty sure the Left has concluded that they have nothing to worry about on that score.
Sarah Hoyt adds: “IT’S HAPPENING MUCH FASTER THAN I EXPECTED.”
But it was always happening all along, she just didn’t want to have to actually do anything substantive about it. One commenter points out the obvious: There’s one guy actually doing something about it, and a bunch of the people named in the article have disavowed him, because he didn’t wait until now to fight back.
Exactly. So FFS, stop whining, stop crying, stop issuing dire warnings, and just use Infogalactic instead. If you’re a public figure, get your Verified page and use it to set the record straight. And relax, it’s not about me, I’m only one of literally hundreds of people who helped make it happen and help keep it going.
UPDATE: The gammas all butthurt about the fact that I don’t let them snark away snarkily about me on my personal blog, on my personal YouTube channel, or in my house are too self-centered and stupid to observe the obvious fact that the rules are very different for my personal sites than for the games, technologies, and public sites I design. If I don’t like you, that’s a perfectly legitimate reason to never permit you on my site or in my house. But my personal preferences are not a legitimate reason to deny anyone access to a site that purports to be for everyone.
No wonder the recent wave of deplatformings has suddenly come to an abrupt halt:
The U.S. Department of Justice opened a sweeping antitrust investigation of major technology companies and whether their online platforms have hurt competition, suppressed innovation or otherwise harmed consumers.
It said the probe will take into account “widespread concerns” about social media, search engines and online retail services. Its antitrust division is seeking information from the public, including those in the tech industry.
“Without the discipline of meaningful market-based competition, digital platforms may act in ways that are not responsive to consumer demands,” Makan Delrahim, the department’s chief antitrust officer, said in a statement. “The Department’s antitrust review will explore these important issues.”
The terse but momentous announcement follows months of concern in Congress and elsewhere over the sway of firms like Google, Facebook and Amazon. Lawmakers and Democratic presidential candidates have called for stricter regulation or even breakups of the big tech companies , which have drawn intense scrutiny following a series of scandals that compromised users’ privacy.
But if they’re left alone, or merely let off with a strict finger-wagging warning, they’ll double down on the deplatformings. Because that’s what converged organizations do.
The key thing is not letting them play it both ways on the publisher/not-publisher front. If they control content, then they must be liable for it. Only if they are completely content-neutral should they escape being held liable for it.
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I don’t think there can be much doubt any longer that the US military is going to lose its next major war:
You have no idea how bad the rot is within US Defense Contractors these days. I work as an engineer for a major [defense contractor] and I regularly hear Mandarin being spoken in our office by the Chinese-born people in one of our testing groups. It is rather insane.
Additionally, their English is terrible and their accents are more exaggerated, comical and less intelligible than those performed by Owen Benjamin in his various, hilarious Chinamen skits. I wouldn’t be surprised if their home nation had entire models of some of our vehicles based on these hiring and employment practices. It has certainly happened before with other companies and Defense projects.
I looked up one of these guys on LinkedIn and he did his undergrad and got his Masters in Beijing, but got his PhD at a US university. Probably paid for by the Chinese government. The Paperwork American mythos is so strong as to begar belief and all logic. Can you imagine a Chinese defense contractor allowing a single American-born individual within a few miles of their facilities, let alone through their doors? I certainly can’t.
Whoever writes The Decline and Fall of the United States of America in the wake of the final US collapse is going to have a very difficult time convincing future generations that the historical Americans were genuinely as stupid as they are being described.
The Deuce may have correctly anticipated the purpose of the Wired article that is purportedly about Google:
My guess is that they’re going to ask Google, purely out of journalistic interest of course, if they consider hosting an “alt-right” blog to be within their policies regarding hate speech.
Yes, there is a very good chance that this is the author’s attempt to utilize a weaponized media platform in order to induce Google to break its contract with me. That is exactly what Amanda Robb tried to do, unsuccessfully, with Amazon, and what she did somewhat more successfully with Indiegogo, much to the latter’s regret.
(In case you didn’t know, Indiegogo’s CEO, General Counsel, and Head of Trust & Safety have all already become casualties of Indiegogo’s ongoing encounter with the Dread Ilk. And it’s not over yet; there is at least one more skull we anticipate collecting by the time this comes to an end. In the metaphorical sense, the metaphorical sense, you understand.)
Al Letson: Why is Amazon distributing this book?
Amanda Robb: Well I asked Amazon, and someone from their PR department got back to me. He said it falls within their guidelines. He helpfully sent me a link to their guidelines so I click on them and it says their definition of offensive material is, and I’m quoting, “What we deem offensive is probably about what you would expect.”
Al Letson: That doesn’t make sense because I find this offensive and they don’t find it offensive.
Amanda Robb: Well it’s a very moveable goalpost, it turns out. Amazon changes what it thinks is offensive all the time.
Al Letson: I don’t know. That rule seems pretty flimsy.
Amanda Robb: Not only is Amazon distributing the digital version, it’s number one in its category on Amazon.
This tactic of weaponizing the media to leverage a platform in order to deny its services to a target has been used against many innocent individuals. Fortunately, our research has found that there are a number of legal remedies in various jurisdictions that are useful for holding parties who induce a breach of contract liable for their actions. Interestingly enough, being a self-employed, self-styled journalist is no defense against personal liability in these matters. I spoke with one of the leaders of the Legal Legion of Evil concerning this and we’re now actively looking into the optimal system, place, and method of systematically holding these attack SJWs accountable for their defamation and deplatforming campaigns.
So, if you’re a lawyer, you oppose the SJW weaponization of the media, and you’re potentially interested in joining the Disarm the Attack Media Now campaign, shoot me an email identifying the specific jurisdictions in which you are licensed to practice. We’re particularly interested in CA, WA, and the UK.
And apropos of absolutely nothing at all, if you are one of the many people that Amanda Robb contacted, please be sure to save and screenshot her approaches to you on Facebook, Linked In, email, or whatever.