When Kamala Harris gives a speech, it sounds like she is trying to hit the word count requirement on a term paper. — Jesse Watters
STAND UP TO GOBBLE DEGOOK!
Tuesday, January 31, 2023
Babylon Wasp
There are politicians, like George Santos and AOC, whose decision making ability is affected by their youth and inexperience.
And there are others, like Joe Biden and Dianne Feinstein, whose mental faculties have been diminished with age.
Even our forefathers recognized minimum age limits for electability in our Constitution … but included no disqualifying upper age … probably because few then lived long enough for it to be a problem.
So, there is only one conclusion dear reader, we should consider only leaving our fate with those politicians who are at the peak of their reasoning ability … sometime around 57 and a half to 58.
STAND UP FOR AN OPTIMAL AGE!
Quotable Quote
The French really don’t care what you say just as long as you pronounce it correctly. — Fletcher
STAND UP FOR FRANCE!
Headlines
Ukraine wants to join European Union within 2 years, prime minister says
Erdogan suffers Turkey could accept Finland into NATO — without Sweden
DC suddenly realizes migrant crisis is a crisis, asks federal govt for help
California issues driver licenses to over 1M illegals since 2015
Drones repeatedly attack convoy in east Syria coming from Iraq
Boris Johnson says Putin threatened him with missile strike in call; Berlin rules out fighter jets for Kyiv
Virginia Republicans shoot down gun control measures
West worries time is on Russia’s side …
Germany’s Sholz doubles down on refusal of fighter jets for Ukraine
Carmakers face a crossroad as they work to fit auto dealers into EV plans
U.S. seeks tighter bail for FTX founder Bankman-Fried to prevent evidence tampering
China urges McCarthy not to repeat Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan …
STAND UP FOR AMERICA!
Monday, January 30, 2023
Artificial Stupidity (Update)
If this new helalded ChatGPT is as intelligent at composing answers as Automatic Spell Correct or Alexa … then I don’t think we should be all that worried about it taking over.
And, as we have seen, Big Tech putting their thumbs on the scales in searches, shadow banning, bot claiming, etc … what’s to stop OpenAI from doing the same with ChatGPT results? Be careful Pilgrim!
Afterward: See ChatGPL explanation
After Afterward — See: Powerline blog for validation of my concern.
Even more: Here is a example of ChatGPL’s intelligence … see: Another Powerline blog entry.
Still more: ChatGPT detector.
STAND UP FOR REAL INTELLIGENCE!
Today’s Poser
All you avid never-Trumpers … were he to be re-elected in 2024, would you have no choice but to slit your wrists?
STAND UP FOR SANITY!
Headlines
GOP national sales tax backfires as Dems see political gold
Iran says drone attack targets defense facility in Isfahan
Media, Big Tech take great pains to bury Pfizer ‘mutate’ video
7 shot in gun-controlled CA’s ‘fourth mass shooting in week’
Israel police seal off home of Jerusalem synagogue attacker
‘Fast track’ talks are underway between Ukraine and Western allies over missiles and planes
Nicholas’ brother on cops accused of beating, ‘I hope they die’
Memphis police disband unit that beat Tyre Nicholas
U.S. should pay $14 trillion in reparations to Black Americans, say authors Darity and Mullen
DHS Sec. Mayorkas has smuggled 100k ‘migrants’ into U.S. through hidden parole pathway
UK Army spied on COVID critics
STAND UP FOR AMERICA!
Sunday, January 29, 2023
Carnac
The answer: Mission creep
The question, What do you call the perv at the Capistrano monastery?
STAND UP TO CREEPY PERVS!
My Wordle Strategy
Being incurably lazy, I have stumbled on a strategy that seems as effective as the traditional hammer and tongs method. My first three entries are POINT, LUCKY and DREAM … which covers all the vowels and many key consonants … knowing S, H and W are likely left out. I almost always get the Wordle answer in 4.
Am I cheating … or just a plain slacker?
STAND UP FOR SHORTCUTS!
Dog Gone!
My daughter is earning money to send her daughters to camp by dog sitting … and since she has three cats, these canines spend a lot of time with us … and I have learned that there are few dogs that don’t have one problem or another. So far;
One dog suffered separation anxiety
One dog couldn’t stop barking
One dog really wasn’t housebroken like promised
One dog growled at women and ran away
One dog raced around the house
One dog was a face licker
One dog wouldn’t eat
Are there any good dogs anymore? And we have dozens more to go!
STAND UP FOR GOOD DOGS!
Obvious Truth
Don’t piss-off or run from the police. — Fletcher
A lesson too often ignored … at one’s peril!
Five against one is policing fun …
STAND UP FOR HUMANITY!
Headlines
Trump makes his first big move in New Hampshire
Sam Bankman-Fried tried to influence witness through Signal, DOJ alleges
Latest Twitter Files release reveals tool to track ‘Russian disinformation’ was a scam
Five Memphis police officers charged with murder in death of Tyre Nicholas
Palestinian gunman kills 6 near Jerusalem sunagogue
Tyre Nichol’s brutal beating by police shown on video
Jim Jorden sends four letters to officials calling for info and interviews in final warning before he sends subpoenas
Pritzker calls for AP course to teach ‘Black Queer American” history
Mass adoption of cryptocurrencies is on the horizon with sensible regulation
Tornado Alley is creeping into new territory
Ronna McDaniel wins re-election to fourth term as RNC chair
WHO urges stockpiling radiation needs …
STAND UP FOR AMERICA!
Saturday, January 28, 2023
Today’s Poser
Why did the San Francisco authorities not release the Paul Pelosi 911 call and police body-cam video until now … three months after the fact? Were they purposely trying to fan conspiracy theories? I know I was sucked in …
STAND UP FOR TRANSPARENCY!
Carnac
The answer: No there there
The question: What did the lisper thay when he that down at the birthday table and didn’t find hith portion of cake at hith place?
STAND UP FOR LISPERS!
Headlines
Kemp declares state of emergency in Georgia over ‘cop city’ protests
Intel’s horrible quarter reveals inventory glut, underused factories
Adam Schiff to run for Dianne Feinstein’s Senate seat
DeSantis calls for leadership change at RNC after ‘3 substandard election results’
Colorado baker loses appeal over transgender birthday cake
Big Oil poised to smash annual profit records — sparking outcry from campaigners and activists
Biden FCC nominee sits on a board that opposes anti-sex trafficking efforts
Analysis: Biden’s border projected to bring in 2.7M illegals
Capitol police officers to attend sentencing of man who maced Sicknick on Jan. 6
Zelensky demands more sanctions as Russia bombards Ukraine; explosions heard near nuclear plant
Treasury refuses to turn over Hunter Biden records to House Oversight Committee
‘Race against time’ before Europe engulfed in war … France, Italy supplying air defense systems …
STAND UP FOR AMERICA!
Friday, January 27, 2023
Deep Throat Redux (UPDATE)
President Nixon was brought down by the Watergate scandal reported primarily in the Washington Post by Woodward and Bernstein … greatly augmented by a secret source, Deep Throat, who kept feeding them inside information. Thirty years later we learned that Deep Throat was Mark Felt who Nixon had passed over to head the FBI. He clearly got his revenge.
Pilgrim, my spider senses tell me that President Biden’s myriad current problems are not accidental. Something tells me that many of his travails are not random events … there is another Deep Throat behind all these secrets … document discoveries, former FBI bigwig McGonigal’s arrest, suspicious Biden tax disclosures removals, more Hunter’s coconspirators, etc. Why weren’t those embarassing documents burned? Dan Bongino even avows Joe Biden is a foreign agent.
The question is: who is this Deep Throat? He/she is clearly wired into the Deep State or the Biden family … too much of what is being revealed could only be known to the progressive privileged.
So, who might our new Deep Throat be?
James Comey: in order to paper over his duplicity … maybe even get anther book out of it?
Bill Barr: now embarrassed by his u-turn on Trump … and also another book deal?
Christopher Wray: in a sudden realization of his incompetence as FBI director?
Merrick Garland: no, can’t be.
Barack Obama: in order to stop the metastasis before the scandal reaches him?
Adm. Mike Rogers: when he was head of the NSA, he told Trump he was being spyed on by the FBI.
Frank Biden: perhaps Joe’s younger brother is getting even for not being a full partner in the grift?
Stay tuned …
Afterward: Ron Klain?
After afterward: Best idea yet — Lt. Gen. Michael Flinn’s payback … he obviously knew all there was to know … probably why he was crucified by those in jeopardy. “Revenge is a dish best served cold.”
STAND UP FOR DEEP THROAT!
Pfizer Exposed
As revealed in a Project Veritas video, it seems Pfizer may be doing research to create new variants of the COVI.d-19 virus … which it then can create a new vaccines for. This seems a little like a dry cleaner splashing mud on people to get more business. See the story above …
And here is how this Pfizer exec reacts when confronted afterwards with his confession … an expansion of the ending of the first video above:
Pfizer calls this diabolical science “directed evolution” … although is sure sounds like gain-of-function research to create new variants … generating more vaccine revenue and more profits … a cash cow.
Mostly Cajun Pic
Imagine, if you will, what life would have been like under Trump’s second term …
STAND UP FOR AMERICA!
Headlines
Manpower will be crucial for Russia to mount a spring offensive
GDP raises 2.9% … more than expected …
VP Harris silence on classified docs scandal raises suspicion
Kyiv predicts attacks on Russian cities …
Rep. Auchincloss reads AI-generated speech on House floor
Smart phone shipments plunge to a low not seen since 2013 — the largest ever decline
Paul Pelosi attack body cam footage to be released due to court order
High-ranking Russian officials defecting …
Murphy administration bought 8 new SUVs — at a cost of $681k — with federal COVID funds
After tanks, fighter jets? Ukraine pushes NATO for more firepower, Russia launch’s multiple missile strikes
Facebook says they’ll allow Trump back on platform
Asteroid set to whiz past Earth … Closest ever recorded …
STAND UP FOR AMERICA!
Thursday, January 26, 2023
Deep Throat Redux?
President Nixon was brought down by the Watergate scandal reported primarily in the Washington Post by Woodward and Bernstein … greatly augmented by a secret source, Deep Throat, who kept feeding them inside information. Thirty years later we learned that Deep Throat was Mark Felt who Nixon had passed over to head the FBI. He clearly got his revenge.
Pilgrim, my spider senses tell me that President Biden’s myriad current problems are not accidental. Something tells me that many of his travails are not random events … there is another Deep Throat behind all these secrets … document discoveries, former FBI bigwig McGonigal’s arrest, suspicious Biden tax disclosures removals, more Hunter’s coconspirators, etc. Why weren’t those embarassing documents burned? Dan Bongino even avows Joe Biden is a foreign agent.
The question is: who is this Deep Throat? He/she is clearly wired into the Deep State or the Biden family … too much of what is being revealed could only be known to the progressive privileged.
So, who might our new Deep Throat be?
James Comey: in order to paper over his duplicity … maybe even get anther book out of it?
Bill Barr: now embarrassed by his u-turn on Trump … and also another book deal?
Christopher Wray: in a sudden realization of his incompetence as FBI director?
Merrick Garland: no, can’t be.
Barack Obama: in order to stop the metastasis before the scandal reaches him?
Adm. Mike Rogers: when he was head of the NSA, he told Trump he was being spyed on by the FBI.
Frank Biden: perhaps Joe’s younger brother is getting even for not being a full partner in the grift?
Stay tuned …
Afterward: Ron Klain?
After afterward: Best idea yet — Lt. Gen.Michael Flinn’s payback … he obviously knew all there was to know … probably why he was crucified by those in jeopardy. “Revenge is a dish best served cold.”
STAND UP FOR DEEP THROAT!
Obvious Truth
The NIH was criminally negligent in preparing for the COVID-19 pandemic … which it criminally helped create … and then was criminally inept in dealing with it. — Fletcher
Afterward: And these two bozos got criminally rich in the process.
STAND UP TO CRIMINALS!
Headlines
McCarthy names GOP members to run sweeping investigative panel
Inflation is cooling but prices on many items are going to stay high for months
Taxes heading higher in 2023 as Democrats allow Trump-era tax overhauls to phase out
McCarthy savages reporter for defending Schiff, Swalwell
Florida eyes banning TIKTOK at state universities
How Tesla price cuts could spur an EV pricing war
Today News Africa reporter tells Jean-Pierre she’s not a great fit for her job
Hawley introduces ‘PELOSI Act’ to ban Congress from trading stocks
Florida joins 19 states to challenge Biden’s new immigration program
Germany announces it will send 14 of its Leopard 2 battle tanks to Ukraine
Biden gives leftist groups hundreds of million dollars to fight deportations
Famed Australian Olympian and rugby player dies suddenly at 35
STAND UP FOR AMERICA!
Wednesday, January 25, 2023
Babylon Wasp
President Biden is limiting the number of Abrams battle tanks we send to Ukraine to 31 … saying we must keep the majority at home to repulse … along with F-16 fighter planes … the white extremists movement.
STAND UP FOR TANKS ALOT!
Apt Analogy
Viewing the nightly revelations of the Biden crime family corruption on Tucker CanSon’s FOXNews program is a lot like seeing big greasy rats scurrying through a sewer.
(Maybe why Biden supporters refuse to watch and castigate Tucker.)
STAND UP FOR REVELATIONS!
Headlines
7 killed in 2 shootings in coastal California community
North Korean-linked hackers behind $100 million crypto heist, FBI says
Ex-FBI official who spearheaded Trump-Russia probe indicted for allegedly violating sanctions on behalf of Russian oligarch
Poll: Trump takes lead over Biden
McCarthy hands detractors key posts to influence legislation
Egg prices rose 60% in 2022. One farm group claims it’s a ‘collusive scheme’ by suppliers
California Democrats introduce wealth tax which would also impact people who move out of state
UK expecting 65,000 boat migrants in 2023
A divided Texas confronts its power woes
Germany disappoints with no decision on tanks for Ukraine; Poland asks to send its own Leopard 2s
Energy Sec. Granholm: Biden will veto bill restricting Strategic Petroleum Reserve releases
ChatGPT can pass medical licensing exam and bar …
STAND UP FOR AMERICA!
Tuesday, January 24, 2023
Babylon Wasp
Donald Trump has pledged, were he to be re-elected, to convert the FBI into an agency to inspect and protect migrating Monarch butterflies.
Feckless Butterfly Inspectors
See::ABC News stort
STAND UP FOR BUTTERFLIES!
Oh Oh Canada!
Recently discovered photo of Justin Castreau responding to the Canadian truckers strike last year.
STAND UP FOR CANADA!
Headlines
Borrow the opposition’s playbook? House GOP weighs the ultimate ‘tit for tat’
FBI finds more classified documents in 13-hour search of Biden home
VP Harris: We gotta take this stuff seriously because you have been forced to take this stuff seriously
Brazil and Argentina discussing whether to combine currencies …
Daughter of No. 2 House Democrat arrested during clash with Boston cops
California mass shooting suspect found dead after traffic stop
Pelosi hired priests to exorcise home of evil spirits — surprisingly, she survived unscathed
DOJ considers other locations for [secret documents] search …
Germany ready to allow Poland to send Leopard tanks to Ukraine, foreign minister says
Jeff Zients reportedly will be Biden’s next chief of staff
Experts say Biden agreed to search of home because ‘there was probable cause of crimes’
Trump team struggles to muster support ahead of SC event …
STAND UP FOR AMERICA!
Monday, January 23, 2023
Woke Posers
Must we cleave our society to achieve racial harmony?
Why do our children really need to be educated in the fundamentals?
Must we all freeze to death to free the world of carbon?’
Aren’t borders unnecessary?
Should we allow our children to be groomed in order to prove our commitment to inclusion?
Must we deny our history to create an imagined utopia?
Should we render all our wealth “unto Caesar?”
Are all perversions good perversions?
Does government decide what words mean … or what and how we can communicate?
Must we bow to globalism and a non-elected world governance?
Is “science” always right … even if it is wrong?
Do elites deserve a different set of rules and a more lenient justice system?
Are hardened criminals our equals?
Who fact-checks the fact checkers?
Are our citizens’ worth to be measured by their “social scores?”
Does it take a village to raise our children?
STAND UP TO WOKENESS!
Tech Effects
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| Linotype machine |
Movable type, newsprint paper, Linorype machine, telegraph, telephone, rotary presses, radio, television, cable TV, internet, social media … each of these technical innovations had an impact on to dislocate our society … sometimes a profound effect.
And it always took a generation or two for the dislocations to be digested and normalized.
STAND Up FOR GOOD SOCIETAL CHANGE!
daily timewaster Pic
Gigantic iceberg off of Newfoundland’s “Iceberg Alley” … on its way to Al Gore’s frozen daiquiris …
STAND UP FOR DENIERS!
Headlines
DOJ search of Biden’s Delaware home results in more seized documents
Chinese pray for health in Lunar New Year as COVID death toll rises
Insider says Sen. Gillibrand could face primary challenge from AOC
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot suggests street vendors go cashless to avoid theft
Abbott [Labs] under criminal investigation over baby formula crisis
Sundance documentary looks into Brett Kavanaugh investigation
VP Harris attempts to explain how electricity works
WEF: Siemens chief calls for ‘billion people to stop eating meat’
DOJ reserves the right to not cooperate with certain House GOP requests
Ron Klain, Biden’s chief of staff, is reportedly expected to step down
CBP reports record 250K border encounters in December
MAFIA ousted by drug cartels, Eastern European gangsters …
STAND UP FOR AMERICA!
Sunday, January 22, 2023
Babylon Wasp
China, Iran and Russia now know so many of our unsecured state secrets that they have started sending us classification suggestions.
STAND UP FOR STATE SECRETS!
Payback
How can we payback those profiteers who are hysterical climate scare-mongers … like Al Gore, John Kerry or Krause Schwab?
I know! … make them only drive Teslas!
STAND UP TO SCARE-MONGERS!
Today’s Posers
Who is the more fabulous fabulist … George Santos or Joe Biden? And which is more consequential?
Afterward: Or Adam Schiff?
Afterward:
STAND UP TO FABULISTS!
Quotable Quote
Who is this fella Anon? He is the most prolific and annoying of the internet trolls! — Fletcher
STAND UP TO ANON!
Headlines
Santos leans on group with white nationalist ties
Feds seize almost $700 million of FTX assets in Sam Bankman-Fried criminal case
Revealed: DOJ worked with White House to conceal classified docs scandal
Trump warns GOP against cutting Social Security amid debt limit fight
Pence nabs top Hawley staffer
China says COVID outbreak has infected 80% of population
Sen. Manchin has steered millions of federal funds to groups linked to his wife
‘Strongly worded letter’ as 95% of rainwater washes into ocean in CA
White House announces additional sanctions against Russia’s Wagner Group
‘China cannot be out, China must be in’: France says it’s diverging with Washington on Beijing ties
Today marks 50th March for Life
NATO fracturing? [over] tank standoff
STAND UP FOR AMERICA!
Saturday, January 21, 2023
I Gotta Believe
I gotta believe that, if Microsoft, Apple, Cisco and other key internet players really wanted to stop hacking … they could do it.
Why don’t they?
Perhaps they themselves benefit revenue-wise from hacking …and/or our spooks don’t want them to button things up?
STAND UP TO HACKING!
Monty Python Reprise
Well over-the-top British humour. Don’t watch before you eat …
STAND UP FOR MR. CREOSOTE!
California Dreamin’
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| Powerline California annual rain chart |
Clearly California no longer can manage things … its water, its forests, its power grid, its crime rate its homeless population? What exactly are its politicians getting paid for?
And Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to run our whole country?
STAND UP TO GORGEOUS GAVIN!
Headlines
Judge sanctions Trump, Habba nearly $1 million for ‘completely frivolous’ Clinton suit
FAA says contractor unintentionally deleted files before outage disrupted thousands of flights
GOP source: Trump ‘probably’ making Twitter return
Morris: Wray alludes to FBI ‘collaboration’ with private sector
Florida nixes African American studies course, claims it ‘lacks educational value’
NATO to decide on battle tanks for Kyiv; Wagner Group might have 50,000 troops in Ukraine
DeSantis purges ESG from state retirement system: ‘Will not be tolerated here in Florida’
Alec Baldwin charged with involuntary manslaughter in fatal ‘Rust’ shooting
Nikki Haley dismisses Pompeo’s VP claims as ‘lies and gossip’
Legendary singer, songwriter David Crosby dies at 81
House Speaker McCarthy officially ends proxy voting
Biden blames climate change for CA storms
STAND UP FOR AMERICA!
Friday, January 20, 2023
More on Gravity
Pilgrim, I have written before on why I believe gravity has been getting stronger … see: Heavy Stuff.. being that dinosaurs disappeared at least once … reappeared … and finally disappeared again only to be replaced by much smaller land animals … tells me that it is axiomatic that increased gravity on Earth prevented their reappearance.
One of my speculations on why this has occurred involves Einstein’s statements that increased speed reduces distances and causes time to slow down. This coupled with the fact that our universe is expanding at an ever increasing rate leads me to my lemma:
Speed is measured by distance over time … so Einstein’s assertions influences both numerator and denominator equally … and thus the expanding universe does not affect speed. Not so acceleration which is distance over time squared. So … because time is squared … making a smaller time number exponentially smaller … acceleration gets much larger in an expanding universe..
Gravity is a measure of acceleration (32 feet per second square). Thus, I surmise the acceleration of an expanding universe results in increased gravity everywhere.
A physicist complains — gravity is a separate event from acceleration!
I respond — gravity is a measure of acceleration … and if acceleration is affected by the increasing speed of the expanding universe, is not gravity also so affected?
Now comes the zinger! If our gravity is increasing because of an accelerating universe, what happens when this expansion stops accelerating? Stops altogether? Starts constricting? Starts contracting with negative acceleration?
At what point would gravity deminish or even disappear?
Afterward: Really crazy idea … could Superman (or UFOs) defy gravity by decelerating at an almost infinite rate?
STAND UP FOR GRAVITY!
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