Wēnaþ þā dysiġan þæt ǣlċ mann sīe blind swā hīe sind, and þæt nān mann ne mæġe ġesēon þæt hīe gesēon ne magon.
Friday, February 26, 2021
Conservative Legal Consequences
Wednesday, February 24, 2021
I have a better idea
Let's NOT post any of Murdoch's News Corps stories on social media platforms anywhere ..........
21-2-17 Google to pay Murdoch's News Corporation for stories: Google has agreed to pay Rupert Murdoch's News Corp for content from news sites across its media empire. News Corporation said it would be sharing its stories in exchange for "significant payments". Murdoch has long called for Google and other internet platforms to pay media companies for their output. Amid mounting pressure from lawmakers in Australia and elsewhere, Google last year said it would start to pay some publishers for stories.
Last week Facebook blocked all news content to Australians over the row, but reversed its decision this week after negotiations with the government. Following those talks, the law passed with new amendments which make it possible for Facebook and Google not to be subject to the code.
Tuesday, February 23, 2021
The Goddess does not like Texas
If its not cheaply-inadequate power-grids collapsing as an indirect result of AGW, its disasters due, presumably, to inadequate infrastructure ...
Texas train carrying fuel in flames after crossing collision: A goods train transporting petrol has burst into flames after colliding with a lorry at a level crossing in the US state of Texas, police say. According to local media reports, at least three sections of the train caught fire and some units had left the tracks.
Footage of the incident in the city of Cameron, in Milam County, showed thick black smoke streaming across the sky. Nearby homes had to be evacuated and at least one property was destroyed by fire, police said. The vehicle's driver and the people on board the train escaped unharmed and no injuries have been reported.
Kick the cook out of the kitchen
Scarcely surprising ...
China [the oven] has banned BBC World News [the cook] from broadcasting in the country, its television and radio regulator announced on Thursday. China has criticised the BBC for its reporting on coronavirus and the persecution of ethnic minority Uighurs.When Gender Turns Tragic
Gender-Biological-sex-reveal device explosion kills father-to-be:
Christopher Pekny, 28, was assembling the device in the town of Liberty when it exploded just before noon on Sunday. Police said the blast killed Mr Pekny and injured his brother Michael Pekny, 27, who was taken to hospital.
Biological-sex-reveal parties can include prediction games, with the "big reveal" being made with fireworks and coloured smoke grenades. Police have not specified what device caused Sunday's explosion. New York's state police department and its bomb disposal unit are investigating the incident. A spokesman for state police told the New York Times the device consisted of some kind of pipe, without giving further details.
The death is the latest in a string of catastrophes to be linked to
The dangers of gender reveal parties: A man from Michigan was killed earlier this month after he was struck by shrapnel from "a small cannon type device" fired during a baby shower, police said. Two other gender-reveal parties were blamed for sparking [deadly] wildfires in California in September 2020, and Arizona in April 2017. The El Dorado fire in California burned more than 19,000 acres, destroyed houses, and forced hundreds to flee their homes. The Sawmill fire in Arizona burned nearly 47,000 acres and caused more than $8 million in damage.
Monday, February 22, 2021
Crooks become very tired of LOSING
Sunday, February 21, 2021
Sick Country
Three people have been killed and two injured in a shooting at a gun outlet in the US state of Louisiana. The local sheriff said an "initial shooter" opened fire, striking two people, which prompted several others at the shop to fire their own weapons. The two people and the initial gunman were killed.
Wednesday, February 17, 2021
Back to Nothingness
Tuesday, February 16, 2021
Against excessive deference to Popper
Friday, February 12, 2021
Historian Heather Cox Richardson
Thursday, February 11, 2021
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Wednesday, February 10, 2021
Tuesday, February 9, 2021
Thursday, February 4, 2021
Superstition Kills
This is tragic and utterly pointless. All for a silly Abrahamic ritual. If believers feel they must inflict baptism on un-consenting babies, then dampen the poor little mites' heads with "holy" water.
"The Orthodox Church in Romania is facing growing pressure to change baptism rituals after a baby died following a ceremony which involves immersing infants three times in holy water. [Waterboarding newborns? How Christian!]The six-week-old suffered a cardiac arrest and was rushed to hospital on Monday but he died a few hours later, the autopsy revealing liquid in his lungs. Prosecutors have opened a manslaughter investigation against the priest in the north-eastern city of Suceava."
Duplicitous LIAR
"Her
"I was allowed [Allowed? By whom? By political advisors? By equally-demented, equally-nasty voters?] to believe things that weren't true," [Is this a permanent retraction of the conspiracy-theory untruths that she has happily perpetuated to attract attention and the worst of voters? Unlikely. If she's allowed to stay on committees where, by dint of venomous stupidity she does not belong, she will return to spewing LIES] she said. "And that is absolutely what I regret." [translation: I regret that promulgating LIES threatens to backfire, so I am demonstrating my lack of ideological consistency by changing LIE]
"Greene stopped short of an apology, and cast blame on the media." [Of course she did. Sociopaths don't apologize, sociopaths don't learn, sociopaths care only about rigging the system for their own benefit.]
"But she did not specifically apologise for past rhetoric, widely construed as racist and anti-Semitic." [Of course not. Although she can change LIE at will, deeply-held, visceral antagonisms are difficult to overcome --- even by those who wish to shed prejudice, which she almost certainly does not.]
Future Cannon Fodder
China promotes education drive to make boys more 'manly' [read, good little aggressive cannon fodder]
Wednesday, February 3, 2021
I should think so ...
Canada designates Proud Boys Arrogant Infants as terrorist organization beside Isis and al-Qaida: Move follows allegations that the rightwing wrong-wing group played a [key] role in the mob attack on the US Capitol on 21-1-6
“Canada will not tolerate ideological, religious or politically motivated acts of violence,” Blair said."
The
The terrorist designation does not necessarily make it a crime to be a member of these groups, but it does mean that the group’s assets could be seized or forfeited by Canadian authorities.