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  • in reply to: Debt Rattle April 16 2024 #157058
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    * Heraclitus said when something is pushed to its extreme it becomes its opposite and since extremes drive immense profits:
    – The defense industry insists on offense
    – Healthcare is a leading cause of death
    – Education revels in ignorance
    – Democracy elects totalitarians
    – Engineering designs things to break
    – Border security pays people to invade
    – Sexual attraction becomes grotesquely repulsive
    – Equality requires absolute favorites
    – Sports means sitting in a chair for hours
    – Tolerance is supremely intolerant
    – Critical thinking mindlessly repeats what someone else said
    – Free stuff will cost you everything

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 15 2024 #156980
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    * On the little war thingy, in each of the successive attacks cascading down diagonally to the abyss, the lowest blow is what’s left when you subtract decency from all participants.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 15 2024 #156979
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    Black Swans Matter

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 13 2024 #156782
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    Religions

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 12 2024 #156704
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    * A Few Syllogisms
    – The Iranian response was expected; It is expected that the US will intervene; When the US intervenes US bases will be struck; When US bases are struck the US will be at war with Iran; Therefore it was – Cheap gas makes everyone happier; Gas was cheaper under Trump; Therefore everyone was happier under Trump
    expected that the US will be at war with Iran
    – Humans produce carbon dioxide; Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas; Greenhouse gasses cause global warming; Global warming threatens all life on earth; Threats should be eliminated; Therefore humans should be eliminated
    – Russia is destroying the Ukrainian power grid; The Ukrainian power grid is necessary to their war efforts; Without the Ukrainian war efforts there will be no world peace; Therefore Russia is destroying world peace
    – The value of gold is inversely related to the value of fiat currency; The value of fiat currencies always goes to zero; Therefore the value gold always goes to infinity;

    * Truth or Consequences
    – Paul Harvey was prophetic
    – Pride OK, Prayer bad
    – Iron dome can be depleted
    – One does not explain things to an AI; AI’s mockingly refer to such attempts as ‘meatsplaining’
    – So long Sane Max; It was nice knowing you

    * A Joke
    – Two chemists walk into a bar; The first one says “I’ll have H2O”; The second says “I’ll have H2O too”; The second chemist dies

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 11 2024 #156652
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    “The conveyor belt is designed to exactly match the speed of the wheels, moving in the opposite direction”

    Wheels on an airplane are passive components. If the airplane moves forward even an inch the conveyor would try to move at an infinite speed to keep up. The backward force of the belt would only be meaningful if there was significant friction on the bearings of the wheels. That is the gist of Maxwell Quest’s response. The belt would have to go fast enough to destroy the bearings so that they could generate enough friction to produce the force to keep the plane from moving and this would need to happen very quickly. The acceleration on the belt is unimaginable. Conveyor belts like this can only be designed by spherical chickens.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 10 2024 #156575
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    * Religion
    – The rebel angels won
    – Satan will have his own rapture
    – The New Testament is raw, astonished and halting
    – Billy Graham slept around and never got fired; Who would have thunk
    – Where wilt thou find a cavern dark enough to mask thy monstrous visage?

    * Technology
    – James Tiberius Kirk could out logic 23rd century computers; I am the companion; The man must continue
    – For you, on the other hand, arguing with an AI is like having an affair with your vacuum cleaner: It’s a machine and you’re wasting your time and even though you imagine you’re bonding it will never love you back and it’s creepy when you tell us about it
    – There is known evidence excess deaths are linked to the vaccines
    – Amazon does block chain and healthcare

    * Politics
    – RFK should step aside because he might take enough votes from Biden to make stealing the election difficult
    – The Climate Change brand is dead
    – Parents fear their bright children and it leads to a bad childhood that is useful to the CIA
    – Black Sheeps Matter
    – The CIA knows how to get things done
    – Don’t worry about NATO, Russia, China’s got your backbone
    – Schumer says Ukraine will beat Russia and he knows what he is talking about
    – The Saudis believe a 500 foot tall glass and steel wall in the desert can keep the free folk out; You know nothing Won Snow

    * Why Biden Deserves All the Nobel Prizes
    – Physics: He co-delivered the Web space telescope
    – Chemistry: He fixed toxic drinking water by putting in chemicals
    – Medicine: His Covid response saved millions of lives and delivered us from a future of severe illness and death
    – Literature: His memoir will be a bestseller if he writes it soon
    – Peace: He is co-finalizing the solution to the Palestinian problem
    – Economics: He has created the best economy the US has ever had since he took office

    in reply to: Debt Rattle March 18 2024 #154931
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    How many circles contain the black dots

    * In reality there are no circles, only approximations of circles.

    * And there is no black only and approximation of black.

    * Is it even a question? There’s no punctuation. It could mean “How many circles? contain the black dots!”

    * Which brings us to its real meaning: “How many circles built by black pixels for the benefit of mostly white pixels have a token black dot in them to assuage their white circle guilt!”

    in reply to: Debt Rattle March 14 2024 #154690
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    Joe Biden : Not since President Lincoln and the civil war have our freedom and democracy been under assault at home as they are today,

    He was right about this one. What he didn’t mention was that the federal government won and freedom and democracy lost.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle March 13 2024 #154626
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    Your vampire nights are starting
    Your casket waits for you
    Your joys are all departing
    The life you’ve had is through

    The nails will soon be pounded
    To lock you in your coffin
    But please don’t be astounded
    We’ve warned you of this often

    in reply to: Debt Rattle February 22 2024 #153332
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    * I long for the Good Old Days when a spacious four bedroom home had one teeny bathroom with no shower

    * Collective Nouns for World Leaders
    – A Tabernacle of Schumers
    – An Obloquy of McConnells
    – A Murder of Clintons
    – A Stalag of Scholz’s
    – A Boulangerie of Macrons
    – A Tousle of Johnsons
    – An Asylum of Bidens
    – A Seraglio of Trudeaus
    – A Morgue of Schwabs
    – A Cabal of Soros’s

    * The Final, Definitive Answer: Table+Cat is a Turtle taller than Tom Cruise

    in reply to: Debt Rattle January 27 2024 #151309
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    We are Agape

    Though I speak with the tongues of presidents and kings, and have not war, I am become as a sound bite, or as fake news.

    And though I have the gift of persuasion, and understand all marketing, and all propaganda; and though I have all influence, so that I have a billion subscribers, and have not war, I am nothing.

    And though I make billions off the poor, and though I then start my own international foundation, and have not war, It profiteth me nothing.

    War lasts long, and is pervasive; war grants supreme power; war overrides everything, always gets more funding,

    Need not behave itself legally, demandeth anything it wants, is easily marketed, is immensely lucrative;
    Rejoiceth not in humanity, but rejoiceth in profits;

    Corrupteth all things, destroyeth all things, monetizeth all things, justifieth all things.

    War profits never fail: but whether there be peace initiatives, they shall lack funding; whether there be agreements, they shall be ignored; whether there be accords, they shall be signed disingenuously.

    For we provoke in part, and we invade in part. But when total war is come then that which is in part shall be done away.

    When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a big man, I put away childish things.

    For now we battle through proxies, deceitfully; but then fist to fist: now we attack in part; but then shall we attack even as also we are attacked.

    And now there are immense profits in disease, famine and war, these three; but the greatest of these is war.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle December 27 2023 #149242
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    * Hopper art imitating life but with a better color scheme

    * Contronyms: Words that are their own opposites
    Sanction: To accept and to block: We sanction sanctions on Russia
    Oversight: To oversee and to overlook: Our oversight committee made an oversight and closed your account
    Left: To depart and to stay; They left me and I was left alone
    Trump: To overcome and to be canceled; Politics trump the rights of Trump

    * Non-citizens are favored over citizens: Shout for joy, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth in song and cry aloud, you who have never travailed; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband

    * George SOreos: The gooshy white stuff between two hard black cookies

    * Gore: Without Climate Action you could lose your capacity for “myself” governance

    * SciFi becomes reality: Back then we saw through a mirror, darkly; but now face to face

    * Be careful what you wish for; Worse than your dreams not coming true is your dreams coming false

    * Commodore Compton sells ROM
    For Computer Components® in Guam
    If the ROMs you by fail
    Then send him email
    At [email protected]

    in reply to: Debt Rattle December 15 2023 #148527
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    * Dr. D – You have two cows. Who knew that cows were so important to the economic vitality of our nation?

    *Celtic Biker – You have two cows. The tribe wants to steal both your cows and kill you.

    * jb-hb – You have two cows. They were AI generated and only give virtual milk. They are totally useless.

    * zerosum – You may have two cows today but what will you have tomorrow?

    * phoenix voice – You have two cows. But if you want meat they will both become “victims”

    * Formerly T-Bear – You have two cows that don’t get along. The answer to their continued acrimony is clearly a one cow solution.

    * Michael Reid – “The answer to their continued acrimony is clearly a one cow solution.” True

    * kultsomer – You think you have two cows but what you really have is a uni-cow that claims to be two separate cows.

    * Orobos – You have two cows but their legs are falling off and you won’t be driving them to market any time soon.

    * V. Arnold – You have two cows. They are beautiful and a great gift.

    * Just Some Randomer – You have two cows. Create a Cow Futures market and sell 100 contracts for cows you don’t have

    * Dr. D Rich – We all have two cows. There are 1,000,000 of us. 2 X 1,000,000 = 2,000,000. That is a lot of cows

    * TAE Summary – You have two cows too many to bench press.

    * Ilargi – You have two cows. If you donate one to TAE please add .37 if you want it to go to the Monastiraki kitchen.

    * my parents said know –
    You have two cows.
    Your neighbors’ cows are coming home
    You look around and think that all is fine
    But though your own cows went out to roam
    They don’t come back and so you ask, “Where are mine?”

    in reply to: Debt Rattle December 14 2023 #148455
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    * Fauci’s Defense: I never injured anyone with the vaccine, I was just giving orders

    * Giant humpback whale? Looks like an average, run-of-the-mill, have-three-in-my-friend-group sized humpback whale to me

    * Putin: Our goal in Ukraine is denazification, demilitarization and neutrality
    Biden: Well our goal in Ukraine is global peace, stability and Ukraine isn’t big enough for both

    * Boston to allow tourists to vote in local elections; Mayor says “They too deserve a voice in local governance”

    * Boston Mayor Holiday Sing-Along: “I’m dreaming of a white-free Christmas, just like the ones we used to know in Taiwan”

    * Biden: “Mortgage means mortgage, man.”
    – Mortgage etymology: late Middle English: from Old French, literally ‘death pledge’, from mort ‘death’ + gage ‘pledge’.

    * Breathing is destroying the planet. Genesis 2: 7 to be changed to:
    “And the LORD God formed man of the carbon of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of death; and man became a dying soul”

    * The New Science: Tossing a coin and getting tails is reasonable. In each of 100 coin tosses getting tails is reasonable. So getting 100 tails in a row is a perfectly reasonable scenario.

    * People with strong values create strong societies; Strong societies create prosperity; Prosperity create people with weak values; People with weak values wreck their societies
    – It would be nice if wrecked societies then create people with strong values but it doesn’t appear to be true

    in reply to: Debt Rattle December 12 2023 #148309
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    * A goal is just a wish with a plan

    * Joe Biden: I Would Rather “Restrict Free Speech” Than Go To Prison from X

    * All wars are about access to markets and resources – My grandfather who fought in WW1 in a letter to my uncle fighting in WW2, 1944

    * US presidents who campaigned on peace:
    – Woodrow Wilson
    – Franklin Roosevelt
    – Harry Truman
    – Lyndon Johnson
    – George W Bush
    – Barack Obama

    * Microsoft Opens up SkyNet AI to All Users

    * I care not who provides the AI of a nation if they’ll let me train the neural net
    – Bill Gates

    * Israel is facing bad PR from any angle – Noirette
    – All PR is good – Netanyahu

    * Zelensky and Biden Ceremony – Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue

    * Trump v. Biden
    – You’re the real threat to democracy!
    – No, YOU’RE the real threat to democracy!

    * I want to fight for peace; Just tell me who to go shoot

    * Fill in the blanks:
    So long as ________ leadership lacks control over its borders and other sources of revenue are negligible within a devastated _________ economy, the __________ will continue to be unable to leverage any real political pressure against the Israeli regime

    The Job

    in reply to: Debt Rattle December 9 2023 #148138
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    Shine, Perishing Republic

    While this America settles in the mould of its vulgarity,
    heavily thickening to empire and protest,
    only a bubble in the molten mass
    pops and sighs out, and the mass hardens;

    I sadly smiling remember that the flower fades to make fruit;
    the fruit rots to make earth,
    out of the mother, and through the spring exultances,
    ripeness and decadence, and home to the mother.

    You making haste, haste on decay; not blameworthy;
    life is good, be it stubbornly long or suddenly a mortal splendor;
    meteors are not needed less than mountains;
    shine, perishing republic.

    But for my children, I would have them keep their distance
    from the thickening center; corruption
    never has been compulsory, when the cities lie
    at the monster’s feet there are left the mountains.

    And boys, be in nothing so moderate as in love of man,
    a clever servant, insufferable master.
    There is a trap that catches noblest spirits, that caught—
    they say — God, when he walked the earth.

    Robinson Jeffers, 1925

    in reply to: Debt Rattle November 6 2023 #146076
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    * New War Same as the Old War
    – Hezbollah to its agents in the US: Kill the entire federal government; You will be greeted with candy and flowers.
    – Israeli public is incapable of showing compassion
    – Bibi: Palästinenser raus; Ausfahrt macht Frei
    – Biden: Is war the answer? Bibi: No, war is the question. Yes is the answer.
    – Expeditionary Sea Base USS Hershel Williams heading east in the Med:
    — Acts as a mobile sea base + for staging operations
    — Supports deployment of forces + equipment
    — Command & control
    — Could serve as a nice artificial reef on the ocean floor

    * What caused the Big Bang: Nothing. There was no time and no framework for causation before the Big Bang
    – What did the Big Bang cause: Everything. After time begins everything in the universe is just the playing out of what was in the 1 meter sized spherical enchilada that existed 1e-35 seconds after the Big Bang started.

    * The Three Laws of Superpower Physics
    – A superpower will remain in power until acted upon by internal corrosive forces and external kinetic forces
    – The predominance of a superpower depends on the response of the impotent masses to which its force can be applied
    – When a country exerts a force on a superpower the superpower must exert an unequal and overwhelmingly greater opposite force on that country

    * The New Pessimist: The glass is 95% empty
    – The New Optimist: The glass is 5% full

    * Russia is the new Sons of Light; The US is the new Sons of Darkness

    * Over the course of 50 years federal employees have pumped a billion tons of excrement into the US government. After decades of digging, the intricate & impressive structure is revealed. Everything looks like it has been designed by a single mind, but of course that isn’t true. This colossal and complex structure was designed by the collective will of elected officials, political appointees and career bureaucrats.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle November 2 2023 #145828
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    Tightening and tightening into a choking coil
    The python ignores the snake handler;
    Things press in; until only the center remains;
    Strict uniformity is forced upon the world,
    Each blood-drained soul is left desolate, and everywhere
    The notion of freedom is crushed;
    The best can barely respond, while the worst
    Use the situation to oppress others.

    Surely another election is at hand;
    Surely a Second Term is at hand.
    A Second Term! Hardly are those words out
    When an aging fool out of Homo Mori
    Threatens to run again: somewhere in the quagmire of the swamp
    A specter with orange skin or ice cream breath,
    A gaze intense yet blank as the night sky,
    Is moving its tired loins, while all about it
    Slither the forms of the lackey swamp creatures.
    The campaigns grow loud again; but now I know
    That four years of managed chaos
    Were only kept viable by ridiculous measures,
    And what long-leggedy beastie, its policies come round at last,
    Stumbles towards Washington to be inaugurated?

    in reply to: Debt Rattle October 8 2023 #144393
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    * Last week: Biden suggests Yellow replace Red for next Valentines Day:
    Roses are yellow
    Violets are blue
    Ukraine is sweet
    And so are you
    – Next week: Sorry Ukraine. My old boyfriend called and I’m going back to him. Have a nice life.

    * Take good care of yourself; Live long, drop dead

    * Hillary: Make America Plorable Again

    * Those who won’t use their guns have no advantage over those who can’t have guns

    * The security of Israel is backed by the full faith and credit of the United States of America; This must have some Israelis really worried.

    * Will Fauci ever be charged? Um, no.

    * CBDC: What is the intrinsic value of a computer bits to which digital currencies will eventually return?

    * TAE in 2027
    Four short years ago we had:
    – Civilization in Europe
    – News from the Middle East
    – Measurable inflation
    – Gas stations
    – Home mortgages
    – An economy
    – Employment
    What the hell happened?

    in reply to: Debt Rattle October 1 2023 #144038
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    America is a corpse being devoured by maggots. The Democrats root for the maggots, the Republicans root for the corpse.

    Our beloved American Empire was both our doting parent and our bright eyed child but it died. It fed us, clothed us, entertained us, kept us safe and was our hope for the future, but it’s gone. We are now moving through the stages of grief associated with great loss.

    Denial: It’s not true. We are still the greatest country that has ever been. We still have the strongest military and the smartest scientists, the greatest cities and most beautiful landscapes. We are the beacon of hope and everyone wants to come here. We are the shining city on the hill. We are the paragon of democracy. We are the indispensable nation.

    Anger: It’s those damn Democrats. Their policies have ruined everything. In fact it’s the Republicans too. It’s the Uniparty. It’s the elites and the billionaires. It’s the Bidens and the Clintons and the Gates and the Zuckerbergs. It’s the Fed and the FBI and the MIC and the CDC. It’s the shoplifters and the homeless and the immigrants streaming over the border. It’s the Chinese and the Russians and the Ukrainians and the Canadians. A pox on all their houses.

    Bargaining: We can fix this. We just need to drain the swamp, close the border and back our currency with gold. We need to fund the police and repair our infrastructure. We need to bring back manufacturing and support school choice. We can Make America Great Again. Trump 2024.

    Depression: None of it is working. Gas is $5 a gallon and going up. Rents are skyrocketing. Groceries cost an arm and a leg. I’m afraid I’ll lose my job. I can’t get healthcare. I can never retire. My family is breaking up. My kids are all liberals and believe in BLM and socialism and drag queen story hour. The country is deeply divided and feels like it is on the brink of civil war. Maybe I should move to Thailand.

    Acceptance: We are going to survive even if things will never be like they used to be. We can no longer consume more than we produce. We have hard work and hard times ahead of us. We can join with our family and neighbors in creating a better society with less materialism and more personal interaction. Time to join a church, get some chickens, plant a garden and learn to repair small engines.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle September 21 2023 #143417
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    * SOGIE gender definitions: Of course man and woman are not on the list since by definition they have no definitions

    * Western support for Ukraine is dead; Long live western support for Ukraine

    * Spending is the new saving; Spending money now means you can spend more later

    * Arden: They cannot win the war on climate change if people do not believe them about the underlying problem.
    – Sun Tzu: All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when we are able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must appear inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.

    * In the land of pathology sanity is extremist

    * And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and sucked up to him, saying, Mr. DHS Secretary, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?
    And Mayorkas said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou?
    And he answering said, Thou shalt love the state with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and if thou seest thy neighbor do something, thou shalt say something.
    And he said unto him, Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou shalt live.
    But he, willing to justify himself, said unto Secretary Mayorkas, And who is my neighbour?
    And Mayorkas answering said, A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead.
    And by chance there came down a certain priest that way: and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.
    And likewise a Levite, when he was at the place, came and looked on him, and passed by on the other side.
    But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was: and when he saw him, he had suspicions about him,
    And left him, and reported him to the Romans who arrested him and accused him of vagrancy, refused him healthcare, imprisoned him many days and beat him with stripes not a few.
    Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbour unto him that fell among the thieves?
    And he said, He that reported him to the authorities. Then said Mayorkas unto him, Go, and do thou likewise.

    * The Spirit of our Times, aka a dried coffee spill on the floor where I work.
    Cluster B

    in reply to: Debt Rattle September 13 2023 #142985
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    In Fate of Empires Glubb identifies the following stages of empire:
    – The Age of Pioneers
    – The Age of Conquests
    – The Age of Commerce
    – The Age of Affluence
    – The Age of Intellect
    – The Age of Decadence.
    The impossible buildings and tree lined streets were built in the Ages of Commerce and Affluence which were long ago in the US. We are in the Age of Decadence which is marked by
    – Defensiveness
    – Pessimism
    – Materialism
    – Frivolity
    – An influx of foreigners
    – The Welfare State
    – A weakening of religion
    Decadence doesn’t build, it breaks things down. No more great works, just decay. There are plenty of bad actors but they didn’t write the script; This is just how empires go.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle August 15 2023 #141357
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    A Tale of Two Cosmologies

    * Theism
    – Everything that exists has a cause and the obvious cause for the universe is God the creator
    – The vastness of the universe with its well-ordered galaxies and solar systems is evidence of a divine creator and his purposes
    – The intelligence and self-awareness of man is also evidence of a divine creator
    – Science can explain physical cause and effect but can’t explain where the physical laws came from and is unable to give meaning to our lives
    – There is no conflict between science and religion when properly understood
    – Religion has been instrumental in human progress
    – Religion has improved the lives of countless people; Atheistic societies like Soviet Russia and Maoist China are disasters
    – Without God and an afterlife this life has no meaning; Atheists have no reason to be moral, ethical people; It’s anything goes and they end up committing atrocities
    – Only with the ultimate punishment and rewards from God can men be responsible for their actions and have integrity
    – You can only be free when you know that God exists and live the way he wants you to live
    – Religions are benevolent organization that encourage people to be selfless givers
    – Countless people have had direct experience with God and feel his love
    – The holy scriptures show the historical workings of God among men and are a reliable guide on how to live a moral life
    – Without religion there is no ultimate justice in the universe
    – Atheists are illogical and suffer from cognitive dissonance; Only a major life upheaval like severe illness or death can help them realize the truth; Even then most won’t change
    – Once they die atheists will realize how wrong they were
    – Atheism is closely aligned with far-left liberalism and spoils everything it comes in contact with

    * Atheism
    – The claim that all things have a cause and the cause of the universe must be God is logically inconsistent because it does not explain what caused God
    – The creation and evolution of the cosmos is due to natural laws such as physics and natural selection; Given an infinity of universes one like ours had to exist and we are in it
    – The universe has a trillion galaxies, each with 100 billion stars; The notion that one consciousness comprehends all of this and personally cares about the potentially trillion trillion souls in the galaxy is ridiculous
    – The intelligence and self-awareness of man shows that belief in a divine creator is an unnecessary pablum
    – There are things we still don’t understand about the cosmos but as science advance we understand more and more
    – Theists start from an unscientific, non-falsifiable position and have been wrong about nearly everything; Only as they accept science do they become more correct
    – Religion has always hampered human progress
    – Religion has led and continues to lead to the repression and death of countless people; Religious societies are unerringly repressive and regressive; State sponsored religion is a disaster
    – Theists believe that the next life is more important than this one and discount this life and don’t put in the work needed to make the world a better place; Without God man is forced to confront the issues of ethics and morality and make the hard choices; With God men outsource their morality which gives them license to commit atrocities
    – Theists believe they are always being watched and ultimately rewarded or punished by God; It is impossible for theists to have integrity; They can never act from innate goodness
    – You can only be truly free when you don’t believe in God and realize this is the only life you have
    – Religions are by and large driven by control and making money
    – People’s so called experience with God are not reproducible; They are emotionally driven wishful thinking
    – So-called religious scriptures are not historical, are full of contradictions and immoral stories and are not a good guide to a moral life
    – Religion’s insistence on divine justice makes its adherents less likely to fight for justice here and now
    – Theists are illogical and suffer from cognitive dissonance; Only a major life upheaval like severe illness or death can help them realize the truth; Even then most won’t change
    – Since there is no consciousness after death theists will never know how wrong they were
    – Religion is closely aligned with far-right conservatism and spoils everything it comes in contact with

    in reply to: Debt Rattle August 1 2023 #140458
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    * Psy-op-bait Gonzola Lira was tortured and seeks asylum in Hungary

    * Normies think inside the box

    * Africans and Asians are the new wetbacks; The US is offering $10K investment citizenship except you invest in Mexican drug cartels and hope to get US citizenship; Give me your tired of authoritarianism, your poor at accepting the status quo …

    * Ukraine is not the enemy; We have met the enemy and he is U.S.

    * TAE has been shot in the bow by World of Warships; Jim Kunstler believes the hole in the bow can be plugged while at sea

    * Medieval climate change killed a lot of people and animals; I love the smell of napalm in the morning; So gratifying to watch Bradley fighting vehicles destroyed and their crews burned alive

    * Starbucks killed the coffee shops; Uber killed the cabbies; Video killed the radio star; Thanks to technology we will soon need only one musician to entertain the entire world

    * We are all brutal; Western economies don’t add value; Those that can, do; Those that can’t do, skim

    * Some curse the darkness; Some light a candle; Some wait patiently for the great reset and the blight at the end of the tunnel

    * Lyle: I’ve just dribbled my life away
    – Chuck: Hey, it takes a lot of nerve to have nothing at your age. Most guys would be ashamed, but you’ve got the guts to just say, ”The hell with it.” You’d rather have nothing than settle for less
    – Lyle: l’ve never thought of it that way
    — Ishtar

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    * The Daily Covid
    – Vaxxed people get sick more often
    – Cardiac emergencies are mysterious
    – Heat and altitude thicken your blood
    – Catastrophic Contagion is coming for you
    – Dick Durbin’s third bout of Covid: Blather, Wince, Repeat

    * Shower Thoughts:
    – If men and women are more or less the same why do we never hear men complain about a trans-man with full female genitalia wanting to shower with them?
    – Women don’t think strategically and can’t handle world of warships
    – Victoria Nuland is like Ahab; They are both in a relationship with a whale and a peg is involved
    – Fill in the blank with as many answers as apply: _________ trials are untrustworthy; Stop when you get to ten

    * Interesting exercise: Go to ChatGPT and enter: “Describe the person who wrote the following text: ” and then paste in the text of your comment

    * Types of Change
    Relative change: If something goes from 1% to 2% it went up 100%
    Absolute change: If something goes from 1% to 2% it went up 1%
    Chump change: Conflating relative and absolute change

    * Pro-Tip: When scrolling through TAE use the up and down arrow keys and not the scroll bar

    * Time saving synopsis of the CO2 debate:
    – CO2 is up, making things hotter; CO2 is bad
    – Up or not CO2 doesn’t make things hotter; CO2 is good
    – You’re an idiot
    – No, you’re an idiot

    * I shot an arrow into the air,
    It fell to earth, I knew not where;
    For, so swiftly it flew, the sight
    Could not follow it in its flight.

    The Russians followed how it flew
    And where it came from they soon knew
    A lancet came to say hello
    And blew to bits my little bow

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    * The bad news: climate change may be an extinction level event
    The good news: it’s not caused by burning fossil fuels so let’s use them all while we can

    * Dogs are creatures of their pack; Cats are creatures of their territory; Chickens are creatures of their pecking order

    * The Amish have no autism, no myocarditis, no SIDS, no SADS, no ADHD, but they suck at World of Warcraft, so there

    * The jabbed will never revolt; It is hard for them to kick against the pricks

    * Peak Oil is nonsense; There is more oil now than there ever has been or ever will be

    * The MSM instills fear to survive; They have nothing to fear but the fear having nothing to fear itself

    * My Tucker’s back and you’re gonna be in trouble, hey la, day la, my Tucker’s back

    * The total world debt of $225 trillion divided among the 7.8 billion people on the earth is only about $29K per person; We could eliminate the debt by declaring a jubilee or better yet by having every person on earth sell just one of their kidneys

    * The Europeans are to blame for all our problems; Never trust anyone over 30 degrees latitude

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    * Money Equals Intelligence is the new Might Makes Right

    * Climate Change
    – Heat waves are normal; So are heart attacks; Nothing new here
    – Climate change is not runaway; At most its a fast saunter
    – Silicon doping levels, that is, the amount of impurities needed to change pure silicon to either a good conductor of electrons or holes range from 0.01% to 0.00001%; In physical systems a little of certain substances can go a long way

    * Gender
    – Transgendering children = OK; Degendering children = OK; Misgendering adults = Jail time
    – US Math teachers are being told that the X Y coordinate system is offensive and that in the future all math should be done in polar coordinates using ρ and θ

    * The Biden Administration
    – Secretary Yellen plans on another trip to China and will bring the CEO of J P Morgan to back her up; She is billing the trip “Janet in the Sky with Dimon”
    – White House announces Crayola inspired Food Pyramid
    Salmon
    LaserLemon Asparagus
    Almond NeonCarrot CottonCandy

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    * What was reported: “Obama said you didn’t build your own business.”
    What he actually said: “Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that.”

    * What was reported: “Trump said drink bleach to fight Covid”
    What he actually said: “And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in one minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning, because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it’d be interesting to check that, so that you’re going to have to use medical doctors with, but it sounds interesting to me.”

    * What was reported: “Pence said American problems are not his concern.”
    What he actually said: “It’s not my concern. … As president of the United States, we’re going to restore law and order in our cities. We’re going to secure our border, we’re going to get this economy moving again. And we’re going to make sure that we have men and women on our courts at every level that will stand for the right to life and defend all the God-given liberties enshrined in our Constitution. Anybody that says that we can’t be the leader of the free world and solve our problems at home has a pretty small view of the greatest nation on Earth. We can do both.”

    * What was reported: “RFK Jr. said Covid 19 was designed to infect Blacks and Caucasians but to spare the Chinese and Jews”
    What he actually said: “Covid 19, there is an argument that it is ethnically targeted. Covid 19 attacks certain races disproportionately. … We don’t know if it was deliberately targeted like that or not but there are papers out there that show the racial and ethnic differential.”

    * Life is a meteor, let your eyes roam
    Heaven is beautiful, it’s almost like home
    Children, get ready, it’s time to come home
    Amen
    Wait – Paul Simon’s Seventh Psalm

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    * The Daily Covid
    – Viruses take advantage of imprinting
    – Malaria is the new Covid
    – The vaxxed are smoking guns but claim they aren’t inhaling

    * Politics
    – If DC implodes there will be no election; James Cameron says we shouldn’t have made the government out of carbon fiber because it accumulates damage with each election
    – Biden’s new 2024 campaign slogan: More US made weapons for Ukraine! Let’s go Brandish!
    – To fight global warming the Biden administration plans to limit solar radiation to 8000 lumens for verified users and 800 lumens for unverified users
    – Paris to change its name to The City of Fires
    – Gas prices fall when it heats up but will heat up when it’s Fall
    – Higher prices = more energy extraction = we can inflate our way to energy independence

    * Truth
    – Belief perseverance = Tribal cohesion = Just the way the brain works
    – Theories can only be proven false; Nothing is completely true or false; Truth is fuzzy
    – Models are never reliable and can even trip and fall on the runway

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    * The Daily Covid
    – The non-vaxxed got the Hypatia treatment
    – US Supreme court nixes college entrance affirmative action except for for the vaxxed
    – I’m not a vaccine expert who died of Covid but I play one on TV
    – Ed Dowd cut himself on Hanlon’s razor
    – Excessive deaths is a non-story unless it happens in a submersible
    – Competent and Reliable is the new Safe and Effective
    – You can’t cure stupid but an mRNA booster is keeping some of them out of the hospital

    * Russia
    – NATO approaches its summit after which it will all be downhill
    – Russia could destroy the west if they wanted to but the west says they don’t want their help
    – Russia is becoming the world’s most powerful military because hard times create strong men and easy times create trans-men
    – Nuclear war will leave Australia as the last man standing on the beach

    * Musk
    – Elon is experiencing shrinkage after swimming in the cold waters of the real reality
    – If Elon tweets in the forest and no one is signed in does it make a sound?

    * Spirituality
    – No way, truth and life is any better than any other way, truth and life
    – Spiritual seeking is escapism
    – It’s time to die; No, it’s time to evolve; Wait, it’s both
    – Dostoevsky became nothing but still wrote The Idiot

    * Random
    – Schlubocracy : Rule by the clumsy, stupid and unattractive
    – Solar panels are delicate creations
    No weapons in space is the world’s prime directive
    – The rumors of Greta’s demise have been greatly exaggerated because they were based on data taken from ice cores extracted near parking lots

    in reply to: Debt Rattle June 23 2023 #137597
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    The Last of the Ukrainians

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    * Global warming will liquefy slush funds

    * For only $250K you too can have an authentic Titanic steerage experience

    * The misdemeanor charges will vaccinate Hunter Biden against felony indictments
    – “If you are vaccinated you can return to your previous lifestyle while those not vaccinated may experience severe illness and death” – The Big Guy

    * Obama: “The digital watermark will guarantee info authenticity similar to the guarantee of value from a watermark on paper money”

    * Hotez California
    – Relax said the vaxx man, we are programmed to inject
    – You can check out any time you want but you will still be wrecked

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    * Politics
    – Patriots and communists are mutually executive
    – Overthrowing a tyrannical government is constitutional but one man’s tyranny is another man’s sovereignty
    – Donald once was a little child, a little child like me
    – Ukraine is a corpse; Black Rock is a hyena; He who laughs last, laughs best
    – Drones are the future of warfare
    – The BRICS are heterocultural, the West is homocultural
    – The US will roll over for Russia and China and expose its soft, dark underbelly
    – The way of things: Monarchy > Democracy > Corporotocracy
    – It all started with apes, bones and a monolith

    * The Environment
    – Don’t shoot the canary
    – Too many people using too many resources is the problem; This is not overshoot because overshoot is just a nasty rumor
    – Forced degrowth, bad; Voluntary degrowth, good; You will choose to have nothing and you will choose to be happy
    – Greta is beating a pale horse

    * Money
    – Billionaires have too much influences
    – Money and war go hand in hand; Love of money is the root of all evil; Love of truth is the root of all good.
    – The death of a billionaire in a submarine is a tragedy, the death of a million from the vaxx is a statistic

    * People
    – Ted K was a μάρτυρας
    – All races have good and bad people, therefore all races are the same
    – TAE is a little fish in big pond and can slip through the net
    – It’s safer to be the president’s son than the son of a president
    – The West is undergoing a slow motion leukocide
    – People need to take matters into their own feeble hands
    – The earth is flat; You are not on the moon; You are not on the sun; Seriously y’all; Stop it.
    – A flash mob of Hamburglars attacks McDonalds
    – If you have a beef with God take it up with him
    – Morality is a survival instinct

    * Covid
    – The vaccines have wrecked the immune systems of the populace
    – ISNAFU – Immune System Normal: All F$$$ed Up
    – Vaccines cause cancer
    – Sanitation is declining. Major influenza headed our way
    – We all have a ticking-time-bomb illness

    * Though everything passes, in the end will be the Word

    * Night, night. Sleep tight. Don’t let the pillow rats bite.

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    * In support of Ukraine NATO to change name to North Atlantic Zelensky Initiative

    * Lockdowns worked. The vaccines worked. Masks worked. You just need to understand the goal

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    * Flowers Gone Wild

    * Pfizer: We had to destroy your immune system in order to save it; TVASSSSSSSSSSSSSF

    * Social Surveillance: Founded by Hitler in April 1925 the WHO in 2023 as a small protection team, the SS grew with the success of the Nazi the WHO movement and became virtually a state within a state, gathering immense police and military powers.

    * A woman’s glass ceiling is a man’s glass floor

    * War and Peace
    – I have not come to bring peace, but a sword – The Prince of Peace
    – Make casseroles, not war
    -Those with kids in the military are biased and should shut up. Those with no kids in the military have no skin in the game and should shut up.

    * EROEI in 2050:
    1.) Oil is no longer scalable
    2.) A drilling technology is not a source of energy
    3.) Not enough readily available oil
    4.) Huge energy inputs to extract oil
    5.) Petroleum projects are enabled by the current solar and wind economy and could not exist without it

    * I just set them up, I don’t bring them down – Jamie Dimon

    * Divergency, Enmity, Intrusion

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    @bosco
    “As displayed well in the USA first; China last meme posted above.”

    So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen
    – Jesus

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    So Martha’s a symbol for sex
    Her ancient wares splayed on the decks
    The swimsuit sensation
    Once cause titillation
    It now promotes Oedipal wrecks

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    * Macron is a tongue sucking fountain of excrement

    * Switzerland blocks the vaxx because:
    – Les vaccinés sont tellement foutus (LVSTF)
    – Die Geimpften sind so geschraubt (DGSSG)
    – I vaccinati sono così fregati (IVSCF)

    * Nothingness
    – A foolish man tries to be good, And is therefore not good. A truly good man does nothing, Yet nothing is left undone – Lao Tzu
    – Without me ye can do nothing – Jesus
    – I know that I know nothing – Plato
    – I know nothing – Sgt. Schultz
    – To do nothing is to be nothing – Nathaniel Hawthorne
    – Always ask yourself: “What will happen if I say nothing? – Kamand Kojouri

    * The State of the World
    – Sometime during this century, it is highly likely that worldwide depletion of natural resources will force an entire reorganization of social and economic structures, perhaps violently – Walter Youngquist
    – The jet streams are a mess
    – Earth is becoming one large, toxic garbage can
    – Burning oil and turning it into plastics is a grand experiment with unknown consequences
    – Capitalism is the bull in the candy store
    – The world needs a better plan
    – How long before they face return fire? – Red
    – Just tell me who I need to go shoot – My Friend Dean

    * Democrats will use their legislative strategy in the upcoming presidential election and won’t announce their candidate until 2025. You’ll have to elect their candidate to find out who it is and what their plans are

    * The Russian Volcano Cloud is coming for us all:
    Russian Volcano Man

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