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So, there’s good news and bad news

The good news about the not-vaccine: it will reportedly reduce your risk of dying from COVID-19. Probably. The bad news about the not-vaccine: it will reportedly increase your risk of dying from cancer.

There’s a secret layer of information in your cells called messenger RNA, that’s located between DNA and proteins, that serves as a critical link. Now, in a medical shocker to the whole world of vaccine philosophy, scientists at Sloan Kettering found that mRNA itself carries cancer CAUSING changes – changes that genetic tests don’t even analyze, flying completely under the radar of oncologists across the globe.

So now, it’s time for independent laboratories that are not vaccine manufacturers (or hired by them) to run diagnostic testing on the Covid vaccine series and find out if these are cancer-driving inoculations that, once the series is complete, will cause cancer tumors in the vaccinated masses who have all rushed out to get the jab out of fear and propaganda influence. Welcome to the world of experimental and dirty vaccines known as mRNA “technology.”

I have to admit, my sympathy for anyone experiencing unexpected adverse effects from the not-vaccine is pretty close to nonexistent. These aren’t infants being inoculated against their will and without their knowledge or ability to resist, after all. They are adults who one would quite reasonably expect to know better than to permit themselves to be injected with untested experimental substances on the word of people with literally billions of dollars to gain from selling the injections.

Of course, given the fact that the not-vaccine is being ruled out as a causal factor even when people literally keel over and die after being injected, we can expect that the cause of the increased number of chronic lympthocytic leukemia cases in five or ten years will remain a complete mystery to the medical and scientific communities.

Comments are not content

For the same reason that book reviews are not books. Ann Althouse turns off the comment section. Instapundit readers do not approve:

“Keep it the way it is” — that is, let comments flow into new posts unmoderated and deal with problems as they come up by deleting the trolls and the spam and so forth. I like the free flow too, but unlike the rest of you, I have to continually tend to the problems, and whenever I step away from the blog to go about my life in the material world, I have background static: I wonder what’s happening in the comments. Do I need to get in there and deal with a troll infestation? There was an open door to anyone in the world to make a mess of a place that I had bound myself to protect and that I had protected for 17 years.

I didn’t try to skew the poll by telling you about the burden it has become for me. I just wanted to see what you thought, and it’s nice to know that the majority of poll-takers were happy with the experience I had worked so hard to create. The behind-the-scenes work for me isn’t something that should concern you. Quite the opposite. The backstage labor isn’t part of the show. 

I was interested to see what people would say in the comments. That’s the up side of comments for me. I like to read what people have to say. I’m used to the sense of seeing the readers and feeling the camaraderie. But somewhere along the way in that thread that is now up over 600 comments — many of which are from me, responding to people — I could see that there is only one answer that gives me what I’m afraid I must take for myself. And that is the end of comments. 

I’ve chosen the least popular option — if you don’t count the “Something else,” which wasn’t any specific option at all. You can email me by clicking here. If you email me, you need to say if you don’t want to be quoted on the blog, because I may select quotes from the email to use in updates to the blog. But the freewheeling chattiness of the comments section is gone. I’m sad to lose it. 

In that long thread yesterday, a lot of people told me that they come to my blog not for me but for the comments. They seemed to think that argued in favor of my continuing to carry the burden of moderating the comments. It cut the other way. I didn’t plan for yesterday to be so momentous, but it was that argument — augmented with the threat that I would lose traffic, the all-important, precious traffic — that pushed me toward decisive action.

Althouse needn’t worry. A simple survey of the ratio of pageviews to comments demonstrates that only a tiny fraction of readers on any blog comment on it, which makes it particularly amusing to hear all the commenters talking about how the reason they go to a site is for the comments. That’s not true. There is a word for a site where people go just to read the comments, and that is Twitter. Except the reality is that they mostly go there to scream into the void, as most tweets are completely ignored by everyone else there.

The number of self-interested comments at Instapundit – nearly 700 – complaining about her decision are downright amusing. They appear to be mostly motivated by their sudden inability to force their Very Important Opinions on those who did not request them.

  • The point of blogging is to offer the service of commentary. Blogger’s who turn off comments are forgetting why people came in the first place.
  • she discontinued comments because they almost 100{3549d4179a0cbfd35266a886b325f66920645bb4445f165578a9e086cbc22d08} disagree with her. If a site wont let me or others comment, I dont go there. I read sites not only for what the owner says, but to gauge opinion.
  • Goodbye Althouse. No comments, no visit. The comments were the only attraction for me.
  • Not going to Ann any more. I read her and the comments. Without the comments then there is only her, which is not enough for me to go there.
  • Watch as her reader numbers decrease as her “community” becomes less interested in a one-sided interaction info/news resource that became just one more out of many. She could have easily chosen not to respond personally to comments that were always going to include voices that called her out for previous issues or disagreed with her current opinion. She is simply unwilling/unable to take that route, despite the simple fact that she herself knows and acknowledges that many of her readers come for the comments. For the interaction of other voices besides her own. Now she doesn’t have to deal with any criticism that she would ever have to respond to though. And really, that is the point. Is anyone supposed to have empathy for her situation? I do not feel any.
  • Without comments you have an echo chamber.
  • I went there FOR the comments. Went, past tense.
  • Bumner. At her site in particular, the comments were as informative and entertaining as her posts- which tended to be very short. I wonder what the metrics say when a site gives up comments? I know I don’t frequent many sites that don’t allow comments. And my activity notably drops way off on a site that had comments and then drops them.
  • The comments were always by far the best part of Althouse’s site. You didn’t miss much by skipping her posts and going straight to the comments. Hasn’t been much reason to go there for awhile, none now.
  • Getting rid of comments will disappear readers almost as fast as putting it behind a paywall.
The fact is that commenters are completely delusional about their impact on a blog. In addition to the pageviews/comments ratio, I’ve seen what has happened when I shut down the comments and was able to examine the resulting impact on the traffic, which was absolutely none at all. But that’s neither here nor there, as my position on comments has not changed since 2008, although my position on being a libertarian certainly has.
What people often forget is that the commenters on a blog make up a small fraction of the readers of that same blog. A few people may read blogs for their comments, but the vast majority do not, the self-inflated fantasies of some blog commenters notwithstanding. Moreoever, a blog’s commenters tend to be the most outspoken, fractious, and emotionally troubled portion of its readership. They inevitably cause problems; the notorious trolls are actually much less irritating than the revenant-stalkers who are so socially inept that they cannot refrain from showing up where they know they are not wanted. Add to this the emotionally incontinent fanboys who respond inappropriately to everything from criticism of the blogger to criticism from the blogger and you’ve basically got a worthless morass of wasted time in the making. It doesn’t help when people feed the trolls and revenants by responding to them either.
This is a real problem for many bloggers and I don’t blame those, like Ross Douthat, who have decided that it’s simply not worth the trouble trying to manage the unmanageable. Fortunately, it’s not a problem for me, for three reasons. First, as I have repeatedly stated, most people are idiots – functionally if not literally – and that applies to most commenters here. Until you demonstrate otherwise, rest assured that I hold you in all the intellectual regard you have merited to date, which is to say none. I therefore need not concern myself with your ramblings. Second, while I definitely do care what some people think, you almost certainly aren’t on that particular list. I might like you, I might find you amusing, I might even regard you as a positive mutation and a distinct step forward in the evolution of Man… but that doesn’t mean that I care what you think. Third, as a libertarian down to the bone, I don’t believe that it is possible to manage people for an extended period of time, so I’m not inclined to waste my time trying.
So, no one need be concerned that I’m going to ditch the comments. They are often useful, occasionally amusing, and always completely avoidable. I’ve even heard more than once from bloggers who envy the way in which substantive and intelligent discussions erupt here from time to time. 

Because they want Russia back

 Ron Paul asks “why is the Biden Administration pushing Ukraine to attack Russia?”

The unhinged US “experts” behind the 2014 coup against the elected Ukrainian president are back in power and they are determined to finish the job – even if it means World War III! The explicit US backing of Ukraine’s military ambitions in the region are a blank check to Kiev.

But it is a check that Kiev would be wise to avoid cashing. Back in 1956 the US government pumped endless propaganda into Hungary promising military backing for an uprising against its Soviet occupiers. When the Hungarians, believing Washington’s lies, did rise up they found themselves all alone and facing Soviet retaliation.

Despite the cruel US propaganda, at least Eisenhower was wise enough to realize that no one would benefit from a nuclear war over Budapest.

Why is it any of our business whether Crimea is part of Ukraine or part of Russia? Why is it any of our business if the Russian-speaking population of eastern Ukraine prefer being aligned with Russia?

Why, for that matter, are unproven allegations of Russian meddling in our elections a violation of the “rules-based international order” but an actual US-backed coup against an elected Ukrainian government is not?

We are seeing foreign policy made by Raytheon and the other US military contractors, through cut-outs in government like Austin and others. Feckless US foreign policy “experts” believe their own propaganda about Russia and are on the verge of taking us to war over it.

It seems as if Americans are sleepwalking through this dangerous minefield. Let us hope they soon wake up before we’re all blown up.

Because the Trotskyites who fled the Soviet Union after Stalin won the intra-communist power struggle and infested the United States now run the Biden administration and they have been seeking to use the US military to take their revenge ever since.

As Ron Paul assiduously avoids noticing, the third- and fourth-generation followers of Leon Trotsky who call themselves “neoconservatives” and include people such as Bill Kristol, Michael Ledeen, Ben Shapiro, and Doug Emhoff are entirely responsible for advocating these would-be wars on Syria, Russia, and Iran. It is not the defense contractors, who strongly tend to prefer Cold War-style arms buildups that don’t actually involve their overpriced products being put to the test.

Talent hates convergence

The Dark Herald explains why converged organizations are incapable of performing their core functions at Arkhaven.

There is an old adage in business; talent goes where the money is.

There will shortly be a new adage; talent avoids where the Woke is.

Google and Amazon became the powerhouses they are today because a generation ago (ouch) they were willing to spend big to get talent. And they got it. It says something about the level of people they were getting that one of the questions on Google’s employment application was, how many books have you written?  This was before internet publishing was a thing.

Unlike the Dickensian workhouse conditions for the Microserfs up north at Redmond, the googlers were treated like princes.  One of the big winners when the company finally went public was the company chef, not food service’s director you understand, but chef as in actual chef.  

Google was also very tolerant of their employee’s eccentricities, believing (not without reason) that a happy employee was a creative employee.  However, this opened the door to a certain kind of eccentricity; political activism.  Since Silicon Valley has its roots in Berkley’s Home Brew Computer Club, Leftism was built into their culture from the start. * Consequently, Google and Amazon were both happy to indulge these little hobbies of their junior employees.  

But then these corporate activists started making hiring decisions.  I remember a story one veteran told, when he applied, the interviewer sneeringly asked him, (citing the company’s Don’t be Evil mantra) how many innocent people had he killed?

The Woke will always find a reason to hire other Wokelings.  Diversity is usually a good excuse but there is always a way to justify hiring someone who is utterly unqualified for her job.  And those that are actually good at their jobs have to take up the slack for the useless dead weight. It used to be a “blonde with a great rack.” Now it’s a “three-hundred-pound, hippo with a purple mental-illness haircut.”  

The thing is the blonde was always cheerful, nice to everyone and pleasant to look at.  She at least made the work environment more enjoyable.  On the other hand, the whale with the purple hair is constantly shrieking and demanding submission to the SJW narrative from everyone that she comes in contact with. During working hours instead of doing her job, she is organizing witch hunts to get people fired. She and her comrades make life miserable at that company.

Here’s my big point:  Every top tier worker in that field will know about this and avoid that company like the plague in the future.  

If the Arkhaven blog isn’t on your list of day trips yet, it should be. 

Impact Day is on the way

The Project Asteroid Production Leader puts out a call for more volunteers.

Impact Day approaches!

The asteroid is picking up momentum and increasing in size. A few brave souls are needed to help us guide the asteroid toward its intended target.

We need the help of a few volunteers with Photoshop (and ideally Illustrator) and some experience using Photoshop. You’ll be expected to put in at least six hours work per week, but if you want to spend a little more time helping push back in the culture war then that’s great.

Some of the work is basic but time consuming, whereas other aspects are more technical. We value people with little experience but a strong drive to help more than people with little determination but a lot of skill. If you’d like to be part of helping take down the dinosaurs of comics publishing then contact us for more information.

Email voxday AT gmail DOT com if you’re willing and able, and I’ll forward your contact information to the project leader.

It wasn’t the apple cider

Has anyone actually seen Jordan Peterson and Hunter Biden in the same room at the same time?

President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden admitted during a CBS News interview that he smoked Parmesan cheese after mistaking it for crack cocaine during the height of his addiction.

Reporter Tracy Smith said, “You wake up some mornings — I shouldn’t even say some mornings because you slept 15 minutes at a time and be looking for crack and to smoke whatever was there?”

Biden said: “I spent more time on my hands and knees picking through rugs smoking anything that resembled crack cocaine. I probably smoked more Parmesan cheese than anyone – than anyone you know, Tracy.”

Smith said, “Because there would will be crumbs mixed in?”

Biden said, “Yeah, I went one time for 13 days without sleeping, and smoking crack, and drinking vodka exclusively throughout that entire time.

I wouldn’t have thought anyone could exceed the comedy potential of the Obama administration. But the fake Biden administration is clearing it effortlessly. 

Twitter fails the witch test

In case you weren’t already convinced that the big social media companies knowingly serve Satan:

Twitter temporarily suspended Georgia GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s account on Sunday after she tweeted an Easter message.

Rep. Greene tweeted a message on Easter morning: “He is Risen – Death could not hold him. Rejoice in the resurrection of Jesus Christ.”

Twitter suspended Greene shortly after she tweeted her Easter message.

No specific reason was given for the suspension.

“We have determined that you have violated the Twitter rules, so we’ve temporarily limited some of your account features,” Twitter said.

The name of Jesus Christ and the Good News of his resurrection is literally painful to them because they serve demons. This is why they seek to destroy the Good, the Beautiful, and the True in all things, because the mere reflection of God and His Creation in them causes them pain.

An ignition, undoubted

This may be a LARP, this may be disinformation, or it may be legitimate. Something is definitely happening, but that doesn’t mean that this information from 8kun is what is happening. I’m posting these three rumors in the order of least credible to most credible.

My team has forensic auditors, data analysts, and in-field investigators. We were contracted by a group of individuals to investigate the 2020 election, specifically election-related data anomalies. The contract has us posting this message to this board. In our current investigation, our in-field investigators have interviewed dozens of people who have had direct knowledge of the election. These people include election server IT specialists, election officials, and five governors. We have also interviewed people who have, in return for anonymity, described illegal activities they partook to destroy or alter ballots and election materials. We have travelled tens of thousands of miles across the entire country by vehicle, have sworn testimony from multiple government officials, and video/pictured evidence from those who were paid to hurt the election. We were told things as private investigators versus government officials because those we have interviewed are in fear for their lives every moment of every day. To summarize what we have collected; We have crowd-collected proof detailing how the election was rigged, how votes were altered/destroyed/stolen, international actions taken by foreign governments in collaboration with multiple U.S. Agencies and elected officials, and have just recently discovered the murder of three people who had publicly disclosed their desire to step forward with election proof. We also have audio and video proof of current White House cabinet and elected officials stating their knowledge and premeditation of their actions during the election. Our information is stored on multiple drives, copies held by selected teammates in the firm, and held in cloud-based independent servers. 

As per the contract we signed, dated Jan 24th, 2021, we are to make public the following action. Starting April 10th, no later than April 20th, this information will be public. It will be posted here, and among every outlet possible. The White House has until April 4th to come clean. The DOJ has until 12:00 noon tomorrow to come clean. The information we have will undoubtedly ignite civil war in the country. Considering there exists no credible authority to take this information to, our choices are limited. Unless those involved come clean by the dates posted above, we will have no choice. To Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.


Patrick Byrne relates some similar information:

Folks, I know you are tired of hearing, “trust the plan.“ I heard it for the last two years and now I am ashamed that I listened to it. But that said, I am not bullshitting you when I tell you: we have the goods. We really do. We have cracked the code, we have deciphered the hieroglyphics, We not only know how it all works, we really do have the proof. Mike Lindell is telling the truth.

If this were a Chess match, I would say that we have spotted the checkmate combination, we have our opponent dead to rights, we just must play out the dozen moves in front of us. But in an intellectual sense, our opponent is vanquished. Now that is not to say that our opponent may not jump up and knock over the table, or pull out a shotgun, or play some other trick. But if we just play out the next dozen moves, he is finished.

Similarly, we have what we need to show this happened as we cleaned. We are adding and filling in holes and buffing out, but we have it. The goons on the other side may piss and moan and knock the table over or walk away or do all kinds of things. But at this point, the one thing they cannot do is let us play this game out and escape our winning combination.


AC shares his thoughts on Mike Lindell’s latest video.

He has a world renown physicist/mathematician, who pulled all the data on total population from the census, voter registration, and votes cast, county by county, and graphed it all vs age in every county. First he shows voter registration and turnout was ridiculously high. Then he shows every dip on each graph matches perfectly, which implies rather than different groups having different turnouts randomly, as should be expected (did 90 year olds vote at the same percentage as 18 year olds, or 30 year olds?), somebody took total population at each age, and said registered voters would be one percentage at each age, and votes cast would be another percentage at each age, so every dip on each graph lines up perfectly. He then explains as a result, in every county, the percentage of 70 year olds, for example, was always the exact same percentage number in every county, and that was true for every age group in every single county, which could only happen if a computer churned out the numbers artificially according to a simple instruction. He then shows he can predict every county’s registered voters, and actual votes cast in each age group, in Ohio perfectly, using a specific mathematical formula (a sixth order polynomial algorythm), which assigns the percentages to each age group. So one equation, and it allows him to predict the registered voters, and the votes cast in every age group in every county, just by plugging the numbers in. So there was no randomness like you would expect naturally – it was all precalculated by computer. 

This implies, they may not have even begun with the votes cast, and swapped votes randomly as they went to alter the outcome. Rather, they sat down before the election and used a prediction of turnout and results by polling, and a mathematic equation, programmed into a computer which took the results as they happened and changed them. It simply produced the results we were to be given, which had been set by the elites before the election even began. The vote-swapping was the computers trying to adjust the live turnout to massage it into the precalculated results, as we watched.  Even crazier, is this would mean even down ticket races would have been affected by this, from House, to Governor, to state representative. So it is possible before the election, every single election outcome was pre-determined, and election night was about taking the live vote, as it happened, and having computers re-hash it piece by piece, minute by minute, into the final tally, which was set before the vote. But Trump got so many more votes than they predicted, the computer could not change the vote with the pre-set “adjustment equation,” which was only designed to flip an election where Trump won fewer votes. So they had to stop everything for three hours, and reset how Trump’s numbers would be massaged, to make him lose. 

Which is why Biden had to get more votes than any candidate in history by a massive margin, despite the fact nobody liked him, he never campaigned, and when he did nobody showed up. It is pretty shocking to see every graph line up perfectly, with no randomness to anything. It means as bad as we thought it was, it was even worse. 

MA on the national stage

It’s nice to see a former Minnehaha graduate doing well. At this point, it’s apparent that I’m no longer my high school’s most well-known alum. But I’m almost certainly still the most infamous… not that the academy is any more eager than my university is to acknowledge me as a graduate of their august halls.

He earned his first Division I offer in sixth grade, joined the varsity team at Minnehaha Academy in Minneapolis as a seventh grader, nabbed his first high-major offer a year later, and won three straight state titles in high school, missing out on a chance at an elusive four-peat after COVID-19 cut short his senior season. He won three gold medals with USA Basketball’s youth teams, and became the highest-rated recruit in Gonzaga history when he committed.

It’s a little surreal for those of us who remember Gonzaga as the ultimate Cinderella team to seriously credit the fact that they are serious contenders for the national championship. I’m not a big basketball fan, although I’ll never forget the 1983 championship when NC State upset Phi Slama Jama on the same night that my church team beat Elim Baptist, a team that had beaten us by 47 points during the season, for the Baptist League title. If I recall correctly, I even scored eight points, which may well have been a season high for me as a non-shooting shooting guard.

Anyhow, good luck to Gonzaga. Favorites or not, they’re still the sort of team you almost have to cheer for come March Madness, like Cleveland State, Richmond, and, of course, Bucknell.

Christian persecution… in London

Christians have been expecting active persecution in the West for at least the last 40 years. It may be minor, to date, but it has officially arrived under the guise of “health care”:

A Good Friday service at a Polish church was shut down by police for breaching Covid rules as worshippers were threatened with £200 fines.

Officers shut down the religious ceremony in Balham High Street, south London, at around 5pm yesterday, with footage showing an officer tell worshippers that the gathering is ‘unlawful’ and that they have to go home.

Meanwhile, just under five miles away at a crowded Parliament Square, thousands of protestors gathered at a Kill the Bill rally chanting, banging drums and waving placards before scuffles broke out with police.

The parish Parafia Chrystusa Krola — Christ the Believer — has issued a statement saying it believes police ‘brutally exceeded their powers’.

It urged those present at the ceremony to file a formal complaint to the Metropolitan Police, adding: ‘We asked the police authorities to explain the incident and we are waiting for their response.’

Bishop of Buckingham Rt Rev Alan Wilson also questioned breaking up the service, telling Channel 4 News that the Government needs to clarify its coronavirus guidelines for churches.

And people on social media have slammed the police’s ‘disgraceful’ handling of the situation, with some describing it as ‘deeply offensive’.

Official coronavirus guidance states communal worship or prayer can be attended by as many people as a place of worship can accommodate, as long as they are socially distanced. Masks should be worn, according to the government rules. 

The Catholic Archdiocese of Southwark said the intervention had occurred during the solemn liturgy, which would have taken just 30 minutes to complete.

It is increasingly likely that your faith will be tested during your lifetime. Be ready for the test by deciding if you will follow Jesus Christ or if you will follow Caesar when you are presented with the choice. It will be interesting to see if the Queen, who is the titular head of the Church of England, is willing to accept this overt persecution of Christians  – even if Roman Catholic Christians – in her name.

UPDATE: Apparently the persecution is even worse in Ireland.

It’s now a crime to go to Mass in Ireland, and an Irish priest has recently been fined for celebrating Mass, even though such a law is not in our Constitution or on any legal books. As for the Irish Church: It’s been hijacked, and the fake senior clergy, most of them closet gays, are ‘in bed’ with the anti-Christian Woke State.