Banning CNN

This is a winning strategy
Life Time has scrubbed all-news cable channels from the screens at its fitness centers, saying a growing number of customers think they don’t fit a healthy lifestyle.

The Chanhassen-based company this week dropped CNN, Fox News, MSNBC and CNBC from TVs in front of various workout machines.

While the screens were in view of all in fitness areas, audio could only be heard through earphones.

With a few exceptions, TV screens built into treadmills and other cardio machines also “currently do not have the ability to display these channels,” Life Time spokeswoman Natalie Bushaw said Thursday. However, a second phase in this viewing shift, to be completed by the end of February, will have all stations available, Bushaw added.

USA, A&E, Discovery, HGTV, the local over-the-air stations and ESPN are all that remain on the visual menu of distractions while sweating off the caloric consequences of the holidays.

Make California Mexico Again

Michael Walsh asserts that California lawmakers are moving towards seceding from the Union:

California Democrats—as radical a group of anti-Americans as you will find in this country, whether legal or “undocumented”—have again fired on Fort Sumter. And once again (don’t kid yourselves), the goal is de facto and, later, de jure, secession from the United States of America, as part of the Aztlan-inspired Reconquista of what Hispanic radicals consider lost territory.

Never mind that California has been a state since 1850, and fought on the Union side in the Civil War. Never mind that California was settled by hard-working New Englanders and Midwesterners, who transformed it from a wilderness into the most prosperous and, later, largest, state in the Union. Never mind that, since the early 20th century, California has been the pot of gold at the end of the American rainbow, where both winners and losers went to seek their fortunes. The Mexicans, who failed to settle the territory properly in the first place, now want it back.

California should be encouraged to secede, and the rest of the USA should deport all of those who sympathize with the California Democrats to live under a regime more to their ideological liking. The irony of Walsh’s remind that California “was settled by hard-working New Englanders and Midwesterners” is his refusal to acknowledge that it has been subsequently settled by Mexicans and dreamchasers seeking Silicon Valley fortune and Hollywood fame from around the USA.

Walsh also ignores that the territory was settled long before those “hard-working New Englanders and Midwesterners” arrived and ruined the place. The fact that he doesn’t regard those Indian and Mexican settlements as “proper” is irrelevant; if you’re going to assert the right of conquest to a territory, then you have to surrender that territory when it is subsequently invaded and conquered.

Immigration is invasion. It always has been. And if you’re dumb enough to believe otherwise, well, don’t cry when you lose your territory and your ability to rule yourself, because it is absolutely and inevitably going to happen. And, to be blunt, you deserve to lose it, because you refused to defend it. America is endangered and the USA is in its death throes because Americans were stupid enough to swallow their own bullshit when it was fed to them in a poisoned variant. The astonishing idiocy of Americans, who believed that invading foreigners would genuinely sacrifice the interests of themselves, their families, and their peoples in order to become imitation Americans will be marveled at by future historians. It may well prove to be the single stupidest, most self-destructive act by a powerful nation since Moctezuma allowed himself to be captured by Cortes as “a diplomatic gesture”.

Meanwhile, both Israel and Pakistan are proving their ability to do what is supposedly impossible for the Greatest Nation on Earth.

On Wednesday, the Pakistani government ordered 1.4 million Afghan refugees to leave the country in 30 days.

If the God-Emperor is going to save the Union and Make America Great Again, he is going to have to order the same for all post-1965 immigrants and their posterity. Anything short of that will prove insufficient and will most likely lead to war and the breakup of the USA within 15 years.

Not looking for any suspects

I’m always suspicious when a man supposedly turns on his family for no reason and commits murder-suicide in the absence of a separation or incipient divorce. It is more likely that some very bad people were covering their tracks for one reason or another. These days, when that man is a movie studio driver and his wife runs a pre-school day care, any such deaths should be treated as even more suspicious and thoroughly investigated.

Authorities believe a man shot and killed his wife and two children before turning the gun on himself in their Southern California home, where their bodies were found Friday. Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies went to the house in Santa Clarita early Friday after getting a call from someone concerned about the family, Lt. Rodney Moore said.

The husband and wife, their college-age daughter and pre-teen son were found shot to death in what appears to be a murder-suicide carried out by the man, Moore said.

Neighbors identified the victims as Michael Birnkrant, 51, his wife, Amy, 47 and their two children – Drew, 20, and Sean, 11.

Is that what the authorities really believe? It’s a bit ironic that Hollywood is always portraying southern police departments as being corrupt and unreliable when there are probably no police departments anywhere in the country more corrupt or inclined to look the other way when crimes are being committed than those located in southern California. Including the NYPD and the DCPD.

After all, if the authorities looked into the studio Birnkant drove for, and which executives, producers, and directors, they just might uncover more than they want to know.

(((Fake American History)))

Every single time. (((Journalists))) lie every single time. You simply have to assume that literally everything they assert to be fact is false until shown otherwise by more reliable sources.

As journalists write about immigration policy, we need to take care not to slip into these loaded phrases. For decades, “chain migration” was known as “family-based migration system,” which allows members of families to sponsor relatives.
– Jonathan Weisman, Deputy Washington Editor, The New York Times

A simple resort to Google NGram proves that Weisman, to no one’s surprise, is lying. Again. What is worse, he is lying in an attempt to complete the destruction of America, just like the melting pottists, the Communists, the Judeo-Christians, and the immigrationists. There is a reliable pattern here: those who hate America always portray a false version of its history.

He proposes a unification of American Judaism around the defense of self and of others even more vulnerable: the undocumented immigrants, refugees, Muslim Americans, and black activists who have been directly targeted, not just by the tolerated Alt Right, but by the Trump White House itself.

Translation: Uh oh, through absolutely no fault of our own, we seem to have somehow pissed off our hosts again. Whatever else he is, Weisman is an infiltrator and an anti-American. He has to go back.

Meanwhile, Israel is actively deporting all of its African immigrants. As it should.

Illegal African migrants found still living in Israel by April could face indefinite imprisonment if they don’t leave voluntarily. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to expel remaining “illegal infiltrators” from Africa. “We have expelled about 20,000 and now the mission is to get the rest out,” Netanyahu said on Wednesday in public remarks at a cabinet meeting that approved the scheme. Some 60,000 Africans, mostly from Eritrea and Sudan, entered Israel before it erected a fence along its border with Egypt in 2013.

What a pity that neither Americans nor Europeans have a single leader as willing to defend their nations in the way that Netanyahu is defending the Jewish nation.

Dame dame dame dame!

To be honest, I wasn’t too into this song at first; I regarded it as being a gimmick somewhat akin to Gimme Chocolate. But after seeing it live, my opinion changed completely, and it now makes total sense as one of their regular closing numbers. Live, it’s impossible not to get caught up in The One when the entire crowd starts jumping on the “Dame!” or to resist the frenetic energy of the Kamis.

It’s a little remarkable to see how the Kamis used to efface themselves in concert, and its good to see that they’re now getting their proper due. They know their job is first and foremost to support the girls, but even Leda now smiles a little at the crowd’s roar when they know a solo is approaching.

A lamentable failure to leap

DC comes under fire for taking a more practical approach to diversity by trying to develop new heroes instead of having them wear the old ones like a skinsuit:

Damage DC

Ethan “Elvis” Avery just wanted to serve his country. Instead, he’s been changed into a monster! Tasked as the government’s own living, breathing ticking time bomb, Ethan retains no control when the monster takes over. The beast is cheaper than a nuclear warhead and twice as  effective, and Ethan fights to rein in the damage he unleashes when it springs free for one hour a day. With everyone around him in danger, Ethan struggles to contain the DAMAGE he inflicts on the DC Universe.
Silencer DC

She’s one of the DC Universe’s deadliest assassins…and you’ve never heard of her. Super-strong, highly trained, armed with devastating and stealthy metahuman abilities, the Silencer is virtually invincible. Or at least she was. After decades as Leviathan’s chief assassin, Honor Guest put in her time and managed to get out with her skin intact. Now she lives a normal life with a normal family in a normal house on a normal street. But the past has come back to haunt her in the form of her old employer and a deadly new mission…and Talia Al Ghul won’t take no for an answer.

Sideways DC

During the events of DARK NIGHTS: METAL, high school junior Derek James accidentally fell  through a rift into the Dark Matter dimension! Now, as Sideways, he can create rifts in midair to leap through dimensions at will! But with that much power comes great liability—and tears are starting to form in the fabric of the space-time continuum…

The Terrifics DC

Bound together by fate, and united by the spirit of exploration and hope for tomorrow, the Terrifics are bound from the Dark Multiverse of Metal! When Mr. Terrific, Metamorpho, Plastic Man and Phantom Girl find themselves literally bound together by a tragic accident, our team of unlikely allies must rely on one another to make their way back home. But a startling revelation on their return trip brings them face to face with a new mystery: Where in the universe is Tom Strong?

Worst of all, all of the writing and art credits on these new books – which frankly sound pretty generic – are all men. But SJWs need not fear! The Great Converger, Mr. Brian Bendis, is here!

Quantum Mortis #1

We’re just about ready to proceed with our first print tests and we’ve already successfully constructed our first digital comic book, which is Quantum Mortis #1. We’re also very close to wrapping up the inkings on the first Alt★Hero and Avalon comics, so we should be in pretty good shape to hit our February time frame.

We probably won’t wait for the first print edition to come out before putting QM #1 up on Amazon; the question is whether to utilize KDP, Comixology, or both. KDP is a slam-dunk for us, so I’d be interested in hearing how many of you who read digital comics use one store versus the other. Amazon owns both of them, so the difference will ultimately be moot, but for now we have to decide between KDP + Comixology, KDP + KU, or just KDP. I don’t see much benefit to KU with a 24-page comic, but then, this is an experiment and there is only one way to learn, right?

The digital version looks pretty snappy, I have to say. We chose a slightly larger font to make sure it was legible, and the bright colors really pop off the tablet screen. We’re breaking more than a few of the “rules” of modern comics here, particularly as it relates to the “less text more detailed pictures”, but then, what is the point of following the lead of people who are presently engaged in falling from the cliff from which they have leaped? The amusing thing about the “rules” is that a Marvel executive has publicly declared that there simply aren’t any artists whose names are significant enough to sell a comic on their own.

As always, it is the stories that matter, not the trappings that permit them to be told. And after the stories comes the characters. Whether the medium is visual or textual, there are always technicians who insist that the technical details are the most important element in determining success. And, as always, their self-serving assertions are totally incorrect.

Of course, we anticipate Quantum Mortis will be warmly embraced by SJWs celebrating the fact that the attractive Detector Derin Hildreth – an actual woman – is a primary character. Are we not all about the diversity?

Money isn’t everything

But it helps, although a little less than one might assume. A study quantifies just how much money will help the average man improve his prospects:

Women are more likely to find men attractive if they think they have a bulging wallet, a new study has found – but for men it’s still all about the looks. The study suggests that women are four times as sensitive to salary when considering a male partner as men are when choosing a female partner. 

The study, published in Evolution and Human Behaviour, used photos of men and women alongside information on the subject’s annual salary to see how it influenced their attractiveness ratings on groups in America, China, and Europe.

John Speakman, one of the authors, said: ‘A man can move himself two points higher on the attractiveness scale we used if his salary increases by a factor of ten. For a female to achieve the same two-point effect her salary would need to increase by 10,000 times.’

What’s interesting is that two points on a ten point scale is LESS than the amount a woman increases her attractiveness simply by losing weight. And, of course, it demonstrates the utter foolishness of women attempting to use their careers to attract husbands. The female business executive is reluctant to marry any lower than a Senior Vice President, but the male SVP will usually prefer to marry the pretty young trainer at the gym.

Three authors weigh in on Worldcon

Jim Butcher, Larry Correia, and John Scalzi all have something to say about Worldcon’s decision to ban Jon Del Arroz from attending.

Jim Butcher is unimpressed

Don’t agree with Larry about everything, but when it comes to WorldCon and the Hugos, I think he’s got a point or two which are, based upon my experiences with WorldCon, difficult to refute.

The choices made by various folks involved with WorldCon have, over time, convinced me that there’s quite a few more less-than-nice people there than at other conventions. As I get older, my remaining time gets increasingly valuable. If I went to WorldCon, that’s a weekend I could have spent with some of the many wonderful people in my life, or with excellent and nerdy readers who don’t much care about politics and just want to do fun nerd things. Or I could have spent that time writing.

There’s probably a lot of perfectly wonderful people helping with WorldCon, and there’s certainly a lot of nice people attending. But it’s sort of hard to see them through the crowd of ugly-spirited jerks, and the nice people of WorldCon? They are completely inaudible over the noise the jerks are making.

So for the kind people at WorldCon, I hope you catch me at another con or signing sometime, and thank you so much to those of you who buy my work.

To the jerks, may you meet no one who displeases you, and I hope that your con goes exactly the way you want it to go.


Larry Correia hasn’t even been paying attention.

Wait… so how did WorldCon embarrass themselves now? They banned a dude because he’s got the wrong politics and he’s loud and annoying about it? Heh. These assholes have allowed stalkers, creepers, weirdos, sexual harassers, and pedophiles to attend, but at least those folks had the right politics and thus were not guilty of any dangerous wrongthink.

And now they are saying that they booted him because he said he said he was going to wear a body cam to protect himself from false allegations.

I can’t imagine why a conservative author would want to cover his ass at a con in enemy territory… oh wait.

A few years ago NK Jemison tweeted about how she heard that Larry Correia was horribly rude and racist to a poor Author of Color on a panel at GenCon! GASP. So immediately ten thousand social justice nitwits retweeted about my horrible racism.

Until I responded with Oh really? Which panel? Because every panel I was on at GenCon was recorded. Let’s go to the tape.

And that shut that nonsense right down.

If you are an author with the wrong politics, and you are at a con surrounded by social justice warriors who love to make up accusations, you would be a fool not to keep witnesses around.

Is Jon annoying? Eh, I’ve talked to him about his tactics for activism. We’ve got some disagreements. Different strokes for different folks.

But banning a guy for being annoying? Have you ever been to a scifi convention? ?

But they can’t come out and say he has the wrong politics and his activism bothers them, so instead, as usual they make up some crap about feeling “unsafe” and “harassment”. Which is funny, because with SJWs harassment is a one way street. And they can harass the shit out of anyone who disagrees with them. And if you don’t like it here is your official WorldCon wooden anus.

Personally, I wrote off WorldCon after they demonstrated they are an insular circle jerk. I proved my point about them a few years ago. None of this is surprising now.


And John Scalzi is at his projecting, posturing best. I’m sure we’re all surprised.

John Scalzi@scalzi
So a convention pulled an obnoxious twit’s attending membership and as a result a bunch of other obnoxious twits are boycotting the convention, and now I think every convention has an easy template for ridding itself of obnoxious twits.

John Scalzi@scalzi
His self-winding persecution complex doesn’t require me or anyone else, and I don’t give a shit what that sad little boy (or his equally sad party pals) does or thinks about anything.

Sure you don’t, Blobby. Now go eat another box of donuts while your career – and, thanks in part to you, your publisher – continues to spiral into the ground.