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Vibrancy in Los Angeles

It’s always intriguing to observe how everyone who opposes racism and supports diversity eventually laments the inevitable result of replacing law-abiding, civic-minded Northern Europeans with people from literally every other culture in the world.

Los Angeles Realtor describes what LA has become Almost everyone she knows has recently been burglarized and attacked in their own homes. Some at gunpoint

“If you live in Los Angeles like I am, please watch this video. I need your help. This is affecting all of us and it’s becoming a real life issue

For the past couple of months, my best friend, my best friend’s mom, my doctor, 4 properties in my community, 3 plus clients, 2 other girlfriends that I have, they all have been burglarized. They have been attacked in their own homes.

In one of these cases, my friend actually left the property. Her kids were home with their nanny and someone broke in while they were in the property.

On top of that, this past Friday night around 10pm in front of my community, some of the residents trying to get in were stopped at the roundabout by someone and have been robbed at gunpoint. At gunpoint at 10pm and they stole literally everything that they had on, including watches, jewelry, anything that they had, personal belongings

— It shows that the crime is actually down around 30%. But from my experience, from the people that I talk to, that is definitely not accurate.

Of course, the police are still there to investigate hate crimes and prevent people from defending themselves. It’s increasingly obvious that not only are the police not a solution to the problem, they are an inherent part of the problem. Meanwhile, conservatives actually imagine that the problem is insufficient support for the police…

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Goodell’s Paradox

The NFL’s pursuit of “fairness” in potentially prioritizing win-loss records over division championships for playoff seeding has exposed how an even greater unfairness will be created if the league’s stupid proposal to devalue the divisions passes at the league owners’ meeting today.

The Commissioner wants the playoff tree to be reconfigured to tie seeding to record, without regard to whether a team won its division. The goal isn’t to promote equity when it comes to who’s at home and who’s on the road in the playoffs; the objective is to make late-season games more compelling by giving teams more to play for.

Whether that happens remains to be seen.

If the Commissioner gets his way on this (yes, the Lions proposed it, but the league office instigated it), it creates a separate issue as it relates to the scheduling formula.

Currently, every team plays: (1) six games against the three other teams in its division; (2) four games against all teams from another division in the conference, which rotates every year; (3) two games against the teams from the remaining divisions in the conference that finished in the same position the year before (first, second, third, fourth); (4) four games against all teams from a division in the other conference, which rotates every year; and (5) one game against a team from a division in the other conference that finished in the same position the year before.

By devaluing a division championship and emphasizing competition within the conference, the eight games every year that arise from an effort to ensure variety in schedule need to be reconsidered. Last year, the teams of the NFC North benefited from playing two of the weak divisions — the AFC South and NFC West. This year, it’ll be a much different story for the Lions, Vikings, Packers, and Bears; they play eight games against the teams of the AFC North and NFC East.

Likewise, the Rams have a very real chance at being in the No. 1 seed in 2025, given that they’ll play eight games against the teams of the AFC South and NFC South.

If a team’s record relative not to its division but to its conference will take on more importance in a playoff tree constructed based on total record, teams need to play more games in their conference. Ideally, every team would play one game against every other team in its conference — like college conferences did before they became too big to allow that.

If there is no value to divisions, or winning a division, then there is no reason to have the playoffs in the first place. Just do it like they do in soccer and award the conference championship to the team with the best record, and play the Super Bowl between the AFC and NFC champions.

But wait, that could be unfair to a team in one conference that had a better record than the best team in the other conference. So really, the playoffs should be eliminated altogether and the Super Bowl should be played between the teams with the two best records, regardless of conference.

Then again, isn’t that unfair to the team that finished with the best record? Why play the Super Bowl at all?

UPDATE: Another excellent suggestion that Roger Goodell should contemplate.

I just think there should be an equitable lottery of who should be the Super Bowl winner based on participation trophies.

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He Never Got His War

One of the more intellectually respectable neocons, Michael Ledeen, has died without ever seeing the US invasion of Iran for which he advocated for decades:

Michael A. Ledeen, a major American historian and intellectual, died after suffering a series of small strokes on Sunday at his daughter’s house in Texas. He was 83 years old. Ledeen was a vigorous participant in contributing to the demise of the communist Soviet Union and its Iron Curtain allies in Eastern Europe.

Ledeen served as a special advisor on terrorism to President Ronald Reagan’s secretary of state, Alexander Haig, and later worked as a consultant for the National Security Council. Writing for the Asia Times, author and journalist David P. Goldman argued that Ledeen’s “personal contribution to America’s victory in the Cold War is far greater than the public record shows.”

Leeden did not advocate military intervention in Iran. He was in the business of replicating Reagan’s anti-Soviet playbook for Iran’s clerical regime. 

Clown World just never stops lying. Ledeen had about as much to do with America’s victory in the Cold War as the average Zoomer born after the fall of the Soviet Union. And he was a rabid advocate of a US military empire in the Middle East; for all his subsequent denials, he stands condemned by his own words.

Scowcroft has managed to get one thing half right, even though he misdescribes it. He fears that if we attack Iraq “I think we could have an explosion in the Middle East. It could turn the whole region into a caldron and destroy the War on Terror.” One can only hope that we turn the region into a cauldron, and faster, please. If ever there were a region that richly deserved being cauldronized, it is the Middle East today. If we wage the war effectively, we will bring down the terror regimes in Iraq, Iran, and Syria, and either bring down the Saudi monarchy or force it to abandon its global assembly line to indoctrinate young terrorists. That’s our mission in the war against terror. – Michael Ledeen, August 6, 2002, National Review

He also took credit for the color revolution in Ukraine that resulted in Russia’s Special Military Operation that has led to the loss of 66,000 square kilometers of territory and over one million Ukrainian lives.

Michael Ledeen offers his own praise for the Orange Revolution by, um…taking credit for it:

The mild support we gave to the democratic forces in the Ukraine proved far more powerful than most of the experts expected. The revolutionaries required a bit of guidance in the methods of non-violent resistance, a bit of communications gear, and many words of encouragement. They did the rest. The same can and should be done elsewhere in the world (Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia, China, North Korea…)

Not to mention EUR 130 billion in military aid…

Ledeen ended every column with “Faster, Please” in imitation of Cato’s demand for war with Carthage, so the subsequent attempts to retroactively whitewash his warmongering are obviously false. While it is best to avoid unnecessarily speaking ill of the dead, we cannot allow his fellow neoclowns to establish the false narrative that Ledeen was anything but an Israel First warmonger who sought to make use of US military power in defense of a foreign nation.

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Scott Adams and the Adverse Effect

On the basis of his unfortunate announcement, it would appear that Scott Adams made the wrong choice after all.

Scott Adams, the creator of the ‘Dilbert’ comic strip, has revealed he has been diagnosed with prostate cancer that has metastasized to his bones. Adams, 67, brought up the diagnosis Monday during a stream on his Rumble account, while discussing former President Joe Biden’s similar prostate cancer diagnosis.

“I’ve decided that today’s the day that I’m going to take the opportunity, since a lot of you are here, to make an announcement of my own,” Adams said during his podcast. “Some of you have already guessed, so this won’t surprise you all. But I have the same cancer that Joe Biden has. But I’ve had it longer than he’s had it. Well, longer than he’s admitted having it,” Adams added. “So my life expectancy is maybe this summer. I expect to be checking out from this domain sometime this summer.”

Adams told viewers that he had been using a walker for months due to a tumor near his spine and was in near-constant pain, describing the condition as intolerable. “Every day is a nightmare, and evening is even worse,” he said.

It’s a genuine loss to the world. Remember, we’re talking about one of the five greatest cartoonists who ever lived here. And if you’ve been vaxxed, be sure to get checked out regularly and do not put off any remission checks.

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MAILVOX: Advice From the Terminated

In which a whistleblower discovers that no one cares about would-be heroes.

Advice from the Terminated

I once was terminated from a long-term white-collar job and refused to take the generous severance package they offered. Here’s some advice based on what I learned.

Only Do Real Whistleblowing

If your company is doing something unethical or even illegal and you feel you must inform others, never do so internally, trusting your managers to be appreciative or even just reasonable. Sadly, sometimes no good deed goes unpunished. Go external to have proper protection, especially if you have a reputation for being difficult (where your “not listening” means not always being compliant enough!).

“Help”, “Guidance” and “Protection” = Corrective Action

If you are being given “guidance” or “help” or even “protection” by your managers or HR person or Dean of Diversity – even if this is framed as “friendly concern” – consider that such actions can easily be characterized as discipline or corrective action later on. Especially if you are told you need to sign what you think is just something like an “incident report”, even when you think that your supervisor is supporting your actions – or even just acknowledge the reception of an email seemingly containing both praise and what could possibly be perceived as a subtle warning. I’d immediately start looking for a new job if you get one of these.

Your Excellent Reputation is Only as Good as Today

Years of past successes, impressive references, compliments about communication and social skills, professional accomplishments, glowing talent management evaluations, etc. can become irrelevant in a minute. If you are perceived by higher-ups as being insufficiently supportive of your organization’s direction or “problematic” in any way, watch out! And do not think for a minute that one manager will ever overturn the termination decision of another.

Just Shut the Hell Up

If you are involved in a meeting with higher-ups and you suspect that they are not open to concerns about how you are being treated unfairly do not try to persuade them at all. Just listen very carefully during the meeting, taking notes if that seems acceptable, and saying “Thank you”, and “I understand” a lot (maybe ask if you can record the meeting, as you truly don’t want to miss anything important – this, of course, will also serve to protect you). Later on, you can do more reflection and try to figure out what to do next. All of this is especially important if you are feeling frustrated or caught off guard by what happens. Unlike me, try not to show any lack of prudence or a dearth of absolutely impeccable manners and poise. Any weakness you show here might enable groups to create accounts about how they felt victimized by you.

You Can’t Afford to Think You are Smarter and More Clever Than Them

If it comes to legal manners, do not represent yourself, ever. Even if you are highly ethical, that won’t help and could even hurt: they know the legal game better than you ever could. And take heed: If the state is involved in the case, be aware of what ultimately will be made public and what won’t be made public. Also note that there is nothing Illegal about a company selectively choosing to enforce their own internal policies. Combine this with at-will employment, and this combination also will make getting any unemployment benefits that much more difficult.

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Joe Biden’s Cancer

Which of the six Bidens was belatedly diagnosed with late-stage cancer?

Medical experts have declared it ‘inconceivable’ that former President Joe Biden’s ‘aggressive’ form of prostate cancer was not caught earlier by doctors.

The office of the 82-year-old former commander-in-chief announced his diagnosis Sunday, stating that Biden was suffering from a highly aggressive form of prostate cancer.

His cancer was given a Gleason score of 9 and a Grade Group of 5, a devastating stage of the rapidly-spreading disease. The diagnosis came days after doctors found a ‘small nodule’ on his prostate.

But upon hearing the news, some of America’s top doctors questioned how a former president could be diagnosed with a late stage of prostate cancer – which can be detected early with routine bloodwork recommended for all men over the age of 50.

‘It is inconceivable that this was not being followed before he left the Presidency,’ wrote Dr. Howie Forman, a professor of radiology and biomedical imaging, public health management and economics at Yale.

I think Biden #1, the real Biden, died years ago. And while it’s possible that it’s a vaxx-related turbocancer that has simply progressed much faster than normal, I suspect this is just cleaning house now that the Six Bidens are no longer politically valid.

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The Fatal Kiss

I’ve been working a bit on the next Soulsigma album, which is going to be entitled BYRONICS and will consist entirely of songs based on the poetry of George Gordon Byron, better known as Lord Byron. And while I’m not playing any of the album songs publicly or putting them up on UATV now, I have been playing a few of the experiments that didn’t make the cut on the Darkstream.

THE FATAL KISS is a song based on EUTHANASIA, which is one of Byron’s less-known, but more intense poems. It is mordant, obviously, but for some reason, it reminds me of Plato and The Death of Socrates, in which the philosopher wonders why anyone should fear something akin to the best night of sleep one has ever known.

Then lonely be my latest hour,
Without regret, without a groan;
For thousands Death hath ceased to lower,
And pain been transient or unknown.
“Aye but to die, and go,” alas!
Where all have gone, and all must go!
To be the nothing that I was
Ere born to life and living woe!
Count o’er the joys thine hours have seen,
Count o’er thy days from anguish free,
And know, whatever thou hast been,
‘Tis something better not to be.

Now that is a wordsmith! In any event, a UATV subscriber requested this one be added to what is now a 46-song music library available for listening and downloading to subscribers.

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Space is Green

If Shaquille O’Neal is to be trusted, and to be honest, I trust the Big Aristotle more than I trust science these days, the Blue Origin “space flight” should have been named Greenscreen Origin:

Spade said that they had been discussing why Shaq had not been aboard the space capsule. I would assume the answer is “real estate,” but Shaq explained that the reason was because he doesn’t think it ever went to space.

“Let’s discuss it: was it real?” Shaq began. “Let me go first. I know Jeff loves Laura…”

That’s “Lauren,” Shaq.

“…He wouldn’t want anything to happen to her, so I think there was some green screen involvement there.”

Alright, that’s some good conjecture, but any evidence supporting this, DJ Diesel?

“Number two: their hair was luxurious in space,” he said. “Katy Perry’s hair didn’t move Laura’s…”

Lauren, Shaq.

“…hair didn’t move. Nobody’s hair ever moved. Then I saw when they landed, Jeff had the special key, but it was already open.

“So, I’m going to go Universal Studios green screen on this one.”

I couldn’t agree more. Now do the so-called “Moon landing” by Apollo 11 in 1969. They’re going to need a new term for those of us who no longer believe anything related to the mainstream narrative, whether it relates to events of the modern era or ancient and medieval history. Conspiracy theorist doesn’t even begin to cut it when everything is more or less fake, and at the very least, dumbed-down and rewritten in a form that retards can begin to comprehend.

I think I’d prefer to go with Omni-Narrational Skeptic. If you’ve got a mainstream narrative to sell, then I am immediately and intrinsically skeptical of it. Look what happened to the very simple term and concept of “Sigma male” and then apply that filter to every single concept or event described since the year 1700.

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Why Were They Even There?

I don’t care in the slightest about Eurovision, but in light of the “controversy” I’m astonished that the Eurovision people permitted Israel to compete at all.

Around 4,000 musicians, artist and music industry pros from five Nordic countries signed an open letter denouncing the Middle Eastern country’s entry in the 69th Eurovision song contest in Basel.

Those who signed the statement, including some previous Eurovision winners, dubbed Israel’s involvement in the competition as a bid to ‘whitewash and divert attention’ from the Israel’s bombardment on Gaza.

It argued that Israel ‘should not have the opportunity to polish its public image on the Eurovision stage and thus use this to cover up and continue its human rights violations.’

Elsewhere broadcasters in Spain, Ireland and Slovenia have called for a debate on Israel’s involvement. Last week, 70 former Eurovision contestants signed a letter calling on the organisers to ban Israel from the competition.

More than 53,000 people have been killed by Israel’s bombardment of the besieged territory, with all aid blocked from entering Gaza since March.

Israel should never have been permitted to compete in Eurovision in the first place. First and foremost, it’s not in Europe. Second, it makes zero sense for Israel to be permitted to participate when Russia is banned from participating. And third, there was zero chance that the Israeli competitor was going to be received well by the Eurovision audience.

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