Laying down the audio law

I fully expect these two books by Lawdog to rapidly become our bestselling audiobooks because there is literally NOTHING better to listen to on a long car drive with the family. The vehicle was literally shaking with laughter for hours, and quotes from the two books were being  regularly dropped into conversation over the entire course of the conversation. We literally couldn’t sit down to eat without someone intoning in a high-pitched voice: “As God is my witness, I’ll never go hungry again!” Which was inevitably followed by shrieks of laughter.

Do you know how people often tell you something is funny, but when you actually watch it, or read it, or listen to it, you don’t see what the fuss was all about? Yeah, that’s not the case here. Both Lawdog books are reliably much funnier and more insightful than you’re expecting it can possibly be.

Both The Lawdog Files and The Lawdog Files: African Adventures are now available as high-quality DRM-free audiobooks at Arkhaven.

THE LAWDOG FILES

LawDog had the honor of representing law and order in the Texas town of Bugscuffle as a sheriff’s deputy, where he became notorious for, among other things, the famous Case of the Pink Gorilla Suit. In The LawDog Files, he chronicles his official encounters with everything from naked bikers, combative eco-warriors, suicidal drunks, respectful methheads, prison tattoo artists, and creepy children to six-foot chickens and lethal chihuahuas.

The LawDog Files range from the bittersweet to the explosively hilarious, as LawDog relates his unforgettable experiences in a laconic, self-deprecating manner that is funny in its own right. The audiobook is more than mere entertainment, it is an education in two English dialects, Police and Texas Country. And underlying the humor is an unmistakable sympathy for society’s less fortunate – and in most cases, significantly less intelligent – whose encounters with the law are an all-too-frequent affair. 4 hours, 29 minutes. $9.99

THE LAWDOG FILES: AFRICAN ADVENTURES

LawDog had the honor of representing law and order in the Texas town of Bugscuffle as a sheriff’s deputy, where he became notorious for, among other things, the famous Case of the Pink Gorilla Suit. But long before he first put on the deputy’s star, he grew up in Nigeria, where his experiences were equally unforgettable.

In The Lawdog Files: African Adventures, LawDog chronicles his encounters with everything from bush pilots, 15-foot pythons, pygmy mongooses, brigadier-captains, and Peace Corp hippies to the Nigerian space program. The Lawdog Files: African Adventures is every bit as hilarious as the previous volume, as LawDog relates his unforgettable experiences in a laconic, self-deprecating manner that is funny in its own right. Africa wins again, and again, and again, but so too does the reader in this sobering but hilarious collection of true tales from the Dark Continent. 4 hours, 11 minutes. $9.99.

Always hit back

The First Lady demonstrates to the defamed and the deplatformed the correct way to respond to a media attack:

Following last Saturday’s (Jan 19) Telegraph magazine cover story “The mystery of Melania”, we have been asked to make clear that the article contained a number of false statements which we accept should not have been published. Mrs Trump’s father was not a fearsome presence and did not control the family.  Mrs Trump did not leave her Design and Architecture course at University relating to the completion of an exam, as alleged in the article, but rather because she wanted to pursue a successful career as a professional model. Mrs Trump was not struggling in her modelling career before she met Mr Trump, and she did not advance in her career due to the assistance of Mr Trump.

We accept that Mrs Trump was a successful professional model in her own right before she met her husband and obtained her own modelling work without his assistance. Mrs Trump met Mr Trump in 1998, not in 1996 as stated in the article. The article also wrongly claimed that Mrs Trump’s mother, father and sister relocated to New York in 2005 to live in buildings owned by Mr Trump.  They did not. The claim that Mrs Trump cried on election night is also false.

We apologise unreservedly to The First Lady and her family for any embarrassment caused by our publication of these allegations.  As a mark of our regret we have agreed to pay Mrs Trump substantial damages as well as her legal costs.

Do your homework, review the law, and then hit them back hard. Neither the media companies nor the social media companies are protected by the law, and the fact that they are accustomed to getting away with making provably false claims and committing illegal acts does not mean that one has to permit them to do so.

Remember, the law is different in different jurisdictions, and the reach of the Internet will often allow you to take action in a jurisdiction that is considerably less favorable to the libelists and slanderers than the various US states.

A Christian stoic

I rather admire the philosophy expressed by Ben Watson, the New Orleans tight end, at the end of his career:

“I am not a great football player. I am not a Hall of Famer. But I learned that’s okay. I’m steady. I’m reliable. And I have other interests. I am a strong Christian. I am interested in lots of other issues in life. Then, I got to be known for some of the things I wrote, some of the things I said. God was working at that time. He can lift your name up and make you known. Or you’ve got a different role. It sucks sometimes. I would have loved to be running those slant-and-go’s for big yards, but it wasn’t my time. On the other hand, I was speaking on the things happening in the country. It opened doors for me in terms of helping people. I learned this from God: ‘Be faithful when your name is in lights. Be faithful when your name is not in lights.’

His ability to calmly reflect on his own limitations is especially impressive considering the level of disappointment he must still be feeling after being robbed of the chance to finish his career on the game’s ultimate stage.

The Greeks, the Romans, the English, and the old Americans all understood that sports played an important role in the formation of a man.

Red Scarves vs Yellow Vests

Smug dickhead says: “France has let itself go for too long.
We must reframe everything at a supra national level
Europe can force nations to do things they are not ready to do for fear of their people
“simply as that” the dickhead says
Europe must impose its will on the nations
Dickhead says he’s the organizer of red scarves
says “we must show these seditious they are not the will of the people”
they should go back to work if they even have a job (looks smug)
he says “we are the people”
their will (gilets jaunes) will be constrained by force if necessary (he seems certain of this)
in the end, the state will win, macron will win, EU will win

RT reporter: do you back macron 100{9f98116018ff6c328dc55792d496f6b718acbf13f64942fc915b733dd5f493cb} against gilets jaunes?

dickhead: macron let the fire spread, should have been much firmer, 2 months passed, repression was not enough (!!!)

RT: gilets jaunes leader Rodriguez lost an eye, uh…..

smug dickhead: look at venezuela, 27 dead in one day! France is way too gentle, not firm enough.

RT: (baffled)

smug dickhead: yeah we need a firmer stricter police power to help calm down this crowd (he uses a derogatory expression)

Must be that 115 IQ

Remember, Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe is only successful because he is so much more intelligent than you are. Although I have to admit, I do fight it a little remarkable that Mr. Tribe, who is just as American as any Son or Daughter of the American Revolution, somehow managed to become famous for being a “constitutional law scholar” despite obviously not knowing that the SENATE Majority Leader does not appoint members of the House of Representatives to House committees.

NO CONSPIRACY! Remember that. NO CONSPIRACY!

Go West on audio

Both books of Peter Grant’s very well-regarded Western series, The Ames Archives, are now available in high-quality, DRM-free MP4 format on the Arkhaven store.

BRINGS THE LIGHTNING

When the Civil War ends, where can a former Confederate soldier go to escape the long memories of neighbors who supported the winning side? Where can Johnny Reb go when he can’t go home?

He can go out west, where the land is hard, where there is danger on every side, and where no one cares for whom you fought – only how well you can do it. Walt Ames, a former cavalryman with the First Virginia, is headed west with little more than a rifle, a revolver, and a pocket full of looted Yankee gold. But in his way stand bushwhackers, bluecoats, con men, and the ever-restless Indians. 7 hours, 57 minutes. $11.99.

ROCKY MOUNTAIN RETRIBUTION

Ambushed on their way south, Walt and his men uncover a web of corruption and crime to rival anything in the big city. And rough justice, Western-style, sparks a private war between Walt and some of the most dangerous killers he’s ever encountered, a deadly war in which neither friends nor family are spared.

Across the mountains and valleys of the southern Rocky Mountains, Walt and his men hunt for the ruthless man at the center of the web. Retribution won’t be long delayed…and it cannot be denied. 8 hours, 40 minutes. $11.99.

Predicting the past

This is a useful exchange about linguistics that many TENS defenders really need to read and take to heart:

Q: When the weatherman makes a prediction, we call it a forecast. If a scientist makes an estimate about something in the past (ex. the cost of a candy bar in 1850), what do we call it?

A: A forecast is an extrapolation; it uses past and present observations to predict the future. To take a simple example, if I give you the series of data from successive years as 2,4,6,8 … you may reasonably extrapolate forwards to forecast that the next year’s number is 10. A hindcast (this is the term you are looking for) is also an extrapolation from a set of past observations to a time previous to those observations. For example, if I give you 15, 12, 9 for three years, you may reasonably extrapolate backwards to hindcast that in the previous two years the numbers were 21 and 18.

I would prefer the term “postdiction” to refer to what evolutionists commonly do when they are backtesting claims based on their TENS-flavored theories. This is, of course, in response to a gentleman who was insisting that the past can be predicted:

Vox, you can make predictions about history and past events that are not yet known but your theory predicts and such predictions have been made and found in the field of evolution. Ah I understand your confusion.  You are linking evolution to financial modeling.  The problem with that is that once you have a financial model and use it; the market adapts to that model such that it is no longer predictive because other people will copy the model so you cannot beat them. Genetecists not agreeing and being wrong about the gene mutation rate is not

To which I replied:

A prediction of a past event is not a prediction. Predictions do not concern the predictor’s present knowledge, they concern actual events taking place in the future. If I “predict” that the New York Yankees won a World Series game prior to 1950 – and I honestly don’t know since I don’t follow baseball – that does not make my statement a correct prediction if it turns out to be correct. Your core conception of “prediction” is false. Prediction is not based on knowledge of events, it is based on the timing of events. Look at the etymology of the word. “to say BEFORE”. That means before it HAPPENS, not before you happen to learn about it. What you are describing would be better described as postdiction.

Of course, TENS has proven to be a near-complete failure even as a postdictive model. The interesting thing is that outside the topic of evolution, atheists and other skeptics tend to abhor postdiction and regard it as being indicative of intellectual sleight-of-hand.

Remain embraces Leave

If the British Members of Parliament are foolish enough to force a second referendum on leaving the European Union on the British people, they’re going to be shocked by how many more people vote for Leave. As a result of their devious, anti-democratic machinations, even die-hard Remainers are publicly endorsing No Deal Brexit.

It’s time to end this one way or another. I’ve written about the dangers of a No Deal Brexit. I believe they are real, not some Project Fear construct. But we cannot continue with this paralysis.

There is nothing MPs will learn about Brexit in nine months, or nine weeks, or nine days that they do not know today. The time for more excuses, extensions and procedural sophistry is at an end.

Many MPs think that, by blocking all other avenues, voters will opt to stay, rather than risk No Deal. But they are dangerously deluded. If forced to choose between No Brexit or No Deal, most people will opt for No Deal. And I know this because I’m one of them.

MPs have had their chance. They’ve had their opportunity to set aside their petty differences and allegiances and vanities. And they have failed.

I was a committed Remainer. But this morning I’m now a hard-Brexiteer. I finally understand where the anger comes from.

I don’t think the treasonous MPs will be successful, in part because it is becoming obvious that the public is going to turn on them with a vengeance, in part because the Queen has made her position on the matter clear in her own subtle way. This is probably all political thud and blunder of no consequence whatsoever. But, until the act is successfully accomplished, it cannot be considered done and dusted.

DARKSTREAM: The Descent of TENS

This stream is little more than an hour-long distillation of things I’ve previously written to explain my skepticism regarding the theory of evolution by natural selection, or, more properly, the Theorum of Evolution by (probably) Natural Selection, Sexual Selection, Biased Mutation, Genetic Drift, and Gene Flow, but a number of the viewers apparently found it to be of interest.

My seven core reasons:

  1. The evidence doesn’t exist.
  2. The historical timelines that purportedly support it are constantly mutating.
  3. The theory is a complete failure as a predictive model.
  4. The theory is scientifically and technologically irrelevant. There are no evolutionary engineers.
  5. Theoretical epicycles are increasingly required to maintain its viability.
  6. The theory is a repeated failure as an explanatory model.
  7. There is a very long track record of scientific fraud surrounding it.

My favorite quote about the scientists working in the field of evolutionary is definitely this one:

Scientists usually do not use experimental data because such experiments can be difficult to conduct and because they are very time-consuming.